{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts\nThis is a summary of the year 2008 in British music in terms of the charts. 21 singles occupied the number one position during the year, with 11 being new.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, January\nThe 6 January chart saw The X Factor winner Leon Jackson at number one in the Singles Chart for a third week with \"When You Believe\". Radiohead achieved their fifth number-one album at the start of the month with In Rainbows, an album released three months earlier on the group's website on a \"pay what you want\" policy. Nickelback climbed into the top ten with \"Rockstar\" and Soulja Boy Tell 'Em's \"Crank That\" climbed to number two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, January\nAmy Macdonald climbed to number one on 13 January with her debut album This Is the Life, six months after the album's release. Swedish DJ Basshunter went to number one with his UK debut single \"Now You're Gone\". Britney Spears climbed to number two with \"Piece of Me\", while Lupe Fiasco debuted in the top ten on downloads alone with \"Superstar\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, January\nLondon band Scouting for Girls climbed to number one on 20 January with their eponymous debut album Scouting for Girls, on the strength of the success of their singles \"She's So Lovely\" and \"Elvis Ain't Dead\". \"Chasing Cars\" by Snow Patrol overtook \"Amazing Grace\" by Judy Collins to become the second most charted single in the history of the UK charts with 68 weeks inside the top 75.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0003-0001", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, January\nBRIT School graduate Adele entered the top ten at number two on downloads alone with \"Chasing Pavements\", while Kanye West's latest single \"Homecoming\", featuring Chris Martin, peaked at number nine, and \"Be Mine! \", the fourth single from Robyn's eponymous top 20 album Robyn, climbed 13 places to its peak at number ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, January\nOn 27 January, Basshunter stayed at number one for a third week, holding off the heavily favoured Adele, who failed to climb from her download-only position of number two with a physical release of \"Chasing Pavements\". Nickelback's \"Rockstar\" reached a new peak of number three fourteen weeks after its initial debut, and Kelly Rowland climbed to number seven on downloads alone making a jump of 24 places with \"Work\". On the Albums Chart, Lupe Fiasco's album Lupe Fiasco's The Cool debuted at number seven, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand took the runner-up spot and a new peak behind Scouting for Girls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nOn 3 February, Adele's debut album 19 went in at number one. Nickelback's All the Right Reasons climbed seven places to number three, and Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine were new at number five with Scream Aim Fire. In the singles, Basshunter held on to the top spot for a fourth week, while Kelly Rowland climbed to number four. There were new entries for electropop band Hot Chip at number six with \"Ready for the Floor\" and indie group One Night Only with \"Just For Tonight\" at number nine. British singer/songwriter David Jordan made his top ten debut with \"Sun Goes Down\" at number ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nHawaiian singer/songwriter Jack Johnson's album Sleep Through the Static was new at the top on 10 February. There were new entries for Hot Chip at number four with Made in the Dark and Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains at number six. Basshunter made it five weeks as the number one single, seeing off tough competition from Nickelback (number two) and Adele (number three), while David Jordan climbed to number five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0006-0001", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nWet Wet Wet, who went to number one for fifteen weeks in 1994 with \"Love Is All Around\", scored their first top ten single in eleven years with \"Weightless\" at number ten, and soft rock band The Feeling also returned to the chart at number twelve with \"I Thought It Was Over\", the first single from their second album Join With Us.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nSoul singer Duffy, who came second in the BBC's Sound of 2008 poll, entered the chart at number one with her retro\u2013pop style second single \"Mercy\" on 17 February, pushing Basshunter down to number three. Dance act H \"Two\" O debuted in the chart with \"What's It Gonna Be\" at number seven, while Goldfrapp's \"A&E\" climbed into the top ten. United States pop rock band OneRepublic, who had success in 2007 with their debut single \"Apologize\", were new at number eleven with follow-up single \"Stop and Stare\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nThe 2008 BRIT Awards took place on 20 February at Earls Court in London. Winners included Foo Fighters, Kate Nash, Mika and Take That (see 2008 in British music#Music awards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, February\nOn 24 February, Duffy stayed at number one for a second week, while Nickelback were replaced by H \"Two\" O at number two. Kylie Minogue's \"Wow\" climbed into the top ten, as did OneRepublic's \"Stop & Stare\". After a successful performance at the BRIT Awards ceremony, Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse's \"Valerie\" climbed back into the top twenty, over thirty weeks after its original release. Ronson and Winehouse also saw an increase in sales of their albums, with Version and Back to Black both re-entering the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, March\nThree months after its initial release, the deluxe edition of Amy Winehouse's Grammy Award-winning second album Back to Black climbed to number one on 2 March, holding off Goldfrapp's fourth studio album Seventh Tree which entered the chart at number two. Duffy held on to the singles top spot for a third week, managing to keep H \"Two\" O, Nickelback and Kylie Minogue all from climbing up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, March\nLeona Lewis' double A-side Sport Relief charity single \"Better in Time/Footprints in the Sand\" peaked at number two on 16 March, earning Lewis her third consecutive UK top three hit. Dance duo Utah Saints climbed into the top ten with the remixed version of their 1992 hit \"Something Good\", while alternative rock band Panic! at the Disco entered the chart at #13 with \"Nine in the Afternoon\", the first single from their second album Pretty. Odd.. Duffy stayed on top of the albums for a second week with her debut Rockferry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, March\nOn 23 March, London hip hop sensation Estelle's single \"American Boy\", a collaboration with Kanye West, went to number one on download sales alone, ending Duffy's five-week-long reign at the top of the charts. Madonna returned to the chart with the Timbaland-produced \"4 Minutes\", featuring vocals from Justin Timberlake, at number seven. Girls Aloud scored their eighteenth UK top ten single with \"Can't Speak French\" which climbed to number nine, while their rivals the Sugababes missed out on the top ten with \"Denial\" peaking at number fifteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, March\nUS rapper Flo Rida's \"Low\" was denied the top spot on 30 March, as Estelle and Kanye West held on for a second week. House musician Sam Sparro climbed into the top ten with \"Black and Gold\", as did Chris Brown's \"With You\". Duffy's album Rockferry stayed at number one for a fourth week, seeing off competition from Panic! at the Disco, Foals and OneRepublic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, April\nIn April, Madonna and Justin Timberlake's \"4 Minutes\" climbed to number one, earning Madonna her thirteenth UK number one single. Mariah Carey and Usher both returned to the top ten with \"Touch My Body\" and \"Love in This Club\" respectively. Hip-hop star will.i.am's second solo single \"Heartbreaker\", featuring guest vocals from Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole, entered the top ten, along with British rapper Wiley's \"Wearing My Rolex\". New albums from R.E.M., The Kooks and Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner's side project The Last Shadow Puppets all topped the charts. Coldplay released their new single \"Violet Hill\" on their website as a free of charge download for one week, and it was subsequently downloaded two million times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, May\nNumber one albums in May were Madonna's Hard Candy, Scooter's Jumping All Over the World, Neil Diamond's Home Before Dark, and We Started Nothing by The Ting Tings, who also went to number one in the Singles Chart with their second single \"That's Not My Name\". Other new entries to the top ten included \"In My Arms\" by Kylie Minogue, Duffy's third single \"Warwick Avenue\", Coldplay's \"Violet Hill\", which was released commercially on 6 May, and Rihanna's \"Take a Bow\", which later climbed to number one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, June\nAfter it was featured in George Sampson's winning performance on Britain's Got Talent, Mint Royale's 2005 top 20 hit \"Singin' in the Rain\" reentered the Singles Chart in June at number one following strong download sales. Other additions to the top ten included American singer and songwriter Sara Bareilles and Australian teen Gabriella Cilmi, along with R&B singers Chris Brown (\"Forever\"), Jordin Sparks (\"No Air\"), and Ne-Yo, who climbed to number one with latest single \"Closer\" - his second UK number one single to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0016-0001", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, June\nJune was a big month for Coldplay, as they earned their first UK number one single with \"Viva la Vida\" and their album of the same name also went to number one, selling over 300,000 copies in its first week of release. Albums from Usher and Paul Weller also topped the charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, July\nIn July, Dizzee Rascal's project with Calvin Harris and Chrome - \"Dance wiv Me\" - claimed the top spot on download sales alone; the first UK number one single for all three artists. Basshunter returned to the top five with \"All I Ever Wanted\", while his debut UK album Now You're Gone \u2013 The Album topped the Album Chart for one week. Country rocker Kid Rock made his top ten debut with \"All Summer Long\", and McFly scored their fourteenth top ten single with \"One for the Radio\". Other new additions to the top ten included singles by The Ting Tings (\"Shut Up and Let Me Go\") and Madonna (\"Give It 2 Me\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, August\nOn 3 August, Kid Rock's \"All Summer Long\" replaced Dizzee Rascal's \"Dance wiv Me\" at number one. One week later, however, American singer\u2013songwriter Katy Perry's controversial debut UK single \"I Kissed a Girl\" claimed the top spot, after reaching number one in over twenty other countries. Elsewhere in August, Rihanna returned to the top ten with \"Disturbia\", and folk rock band Noah and the Whale made their top ten debut with \"5 Years Time\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0018-0001", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, August\nGirl group The Saturdays made their debut this month with \"If This Is Love\" entering at #8 - even bigger success was to follow for their debut album and follow up singles later in the year and into 2009. Other new additions to the top ten included singles by Scottish band Biffy Clyro (\"Mountains\") and Norwegian band Madcon (\"Beggin'\"). Following the success of Mamma Mia!, ABBA's greatest hits album returned to number one - 16 years after it was originally released. Pop rock band The Script's debut album Script, and The Verve's comeback LP Forth also topped the charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, September\n\"I Kissed A Girl\" remained at number 1 for the fifth week in a row and Forth from The Verve stayed at number 1 in the album chart. Pussycat Dolls came back (with 1 less member) and their new single \"When I Grow Up\" which charted at number 3 on downloads alone. Kings of Leon soar to the top of the UK singles chart on 14 September with \"Sex on Fire\". It remained at the top spot the following week. Ne-Yo's third album Year of the Gentleman enters at number 2 on 21 September. Dreamgirls actress and formed American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson enters at 15. On 28 September, Kings of Leon stay at number one for a third week. Their new album soars to the top of the album chart, with over 200,000 sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, October\nOn 5 October Pink made it to number 1 with her new single \"So What\". Sugababes made a comeback with \"Girls\" which got to number 3 on the singles chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, October\nOasis (Dig Out Your Soul), Boyzone (Back Again - No Matter What) and Keane (Perfect Symmetry) all had new albums, whilst, Kaiser Chiefs (Off with Their Heads) got to number 2 and Leon Jackson (Right Now) got to number 4 on 26 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, October\nOn 20 October, Girls Aloud scored their fourth number one with The Promise. It was the lead single from their fifth studio album \"Out of Control\" which would also go on to reach number one in the album chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, October\nAlso on 25 October the twelve finalists of the fifth series of The X Factor performed a new song for the Help for Heroes charity which Simon Cowell predicted will go straight to the top of the charts. It was released on download on 26 October and single on 27 October. Midweek sales revealed that this single had sold 100,500 copies on its first day - more than any single of 2008 so far has sold in a week, and more than twice the average weekly sale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0024-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, November\nThe X Factor Finalists reached number one on 2 November selling over 300,000 copies in its first week of release. On 9 November there were new entries by many well-known female artists including Christina Aguilera (\"Keeps Gettin' Better\"), Alesha Dixon (\"The Boy Does Nothing\"), Leona Lewis (\"Forgive Me\"), Britney Spears (\"Womanizer\") and Beyonc\u00e9 (\"If I Were a Boy\") which charted at 14, 8, 5, 4 and 2 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0025-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, November\nPink's new album Funhouse got the 1st No.1 album of November selling 112,000+, whilst there were new entries by Snow Patrol and Celine Dion, a week later Pink was knocked off the Album chart by Girls Aloud who scored their second number one album with Out of Control whilst there were greatest hits albums from Status Quo and Enrique Iglesias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0026-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, November\nBeyonc\u00e9 got her 4th No.1 with \"If I Were a Boy\" displacing charity single \"Hero\" after its three-week reign. The next week it was displaced by Take That's new song, who got their 11th No.1 single with \"Greatest Day\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0027-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, November\nThe deluxe version of Leona Lewis's debut album Spirit: The Deluxe Edition was released and shot straight to No.1 knocking off Il Divo's The Promise. Spirit: The Deluxe Edition was then knocked off by The Killers' 4th album Day & Age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0028-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, December\nLeona Lewis' version of the Snow Patrol track \"Run\" was released digitally and went to number one on 7 December with sales of over 130,000 copies. Lewis held the top spot the following week too, selling a further 85,034 copies of the single in its second week of release. Take That's fifth studio album The Circus went to number one with sales of over 432,000 copies in its first week of release, while Britney Spears' sixth studio LP - similarly entitled Circus - charted at number four. Many classic Christmas songs, including Wham! 's \"Last Christmas\" and \"Fairytale of New York\" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, returned to the chart throughout December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0029-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, December\nAlexandra Burke won the fifth series of The X Factor on 13 December, and released her debut single - a cover of Leonard Cohen's track \"Hallelujah\" - on 14 December. The single sold 576,000 copies in its first week of release, and was the Christmas number one single of 2008. The late Jeff Buckley's version of \"Hallelujah\" - originally recorded for his 1994 album Grace - charted at number two, following a campaign to raise Buckley's version higher in the chart than Burke's version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0029-0001", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Summary of UK Singles Chart activity, December\nElsewhere in the Christmas chart, Geraldine McQueen's Christmas single \"Once Upon a Christmas Song\" charted at number five, while James Morrison and Nelly Furtado's \"Broken Strings\" climbed to number six. \"Listen\", a song recorded by Beyonc\u00e9 for the 2006 movie Dreamgirls, returned to the top ten after Beyonc\u00e9 and Alexandra Burke performed the track together on the final of The X Factor. Take That's  The Circus was the Christmas number one album of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0030-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Year-end charts\nThe Year-End charts were dominated by American and British artists in 2008. Fifteen of the top forty singles were by British people (including featured singles), while twenty were by American artists. Just four other nationalities were represented in the Top Forty: Barbadian (three singles involving Rihanna), Australian, Swedish (both two singles) and Canadian (one Nickelback single). The top 40 albums shows a chart dominated by British acts, while also showing albums from varied international artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0031-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Year-end charts\nThe year's charts were dominated by Welsh singer Duffy, as her single \"Mercy\" reached #3 in the year-end charts, with her debut album effort, Rockferry attaining #1. Her single \"Warwick Avenue\" also charted at #30 in the year-end countdown. Other successful artists included Take That, Leona Lewis and Kings of Leon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199749-0032-0000", "contents": "2008 in British music charts, Year-end charts, Best-selling singles of 2008\nNote: the official list of best-selling singles of 2008 produced by the Official Chart Company and published in Music Week in the issue dated 17 January 2009 originally included \"Superstar\" by Lupe Fiasco at number 22. The following week (issue dated 24 January 2009) Music Week published a correction by the OCC to the effect that sales of \"Superstar\" had been overstated and it should have been placed at number 67, with all the original numbers 23 to 67 moving up one place. This has been reflected in the table above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199750-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in British radio\nThis is a list of events in British radio during 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199751-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in British television\nThis is a list of events that took place in 2008 related to British television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships\nThe year 2008 is the 7th year in the history of the Cage Rage Championships, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. In 2008 Cage Rage Championships held 9 events, Cage Rage Contenders 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage Contenders 8\nCage Rage Contenders 8 was an event held on February 2, 2008 at The Troxy in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage 25\nCage Rage 25 was an event held on March 8, 2008 at Wembley Arena in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage Contenders 9\nCage Rage Contenders 9 was an event held on April 12, 2008 at The Troxy in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage Contenders - Ireland vs. Belgium\nCage Rage Contenders - Ireland vs. Belgium was an event held on May 3, 2008 at National Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage 26\nCage Rage 26 was an event held on May 10, 2008 at NEC Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage Contenders 10\nCage Rage Contenders 10 was an event held on June 14, 2008 at The Troxy in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage 27\nCage Rage 27 was an event held on July 12, 2008 at Wembley Arena in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage 28\nCage Rage 28 was an event held on September 20, 2008 at The Troxy in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199754-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Rage Championships, Cage Rage UK - Fighting Hurts Final\nCage Rage UK - Fighting Hurts Final was an event held on November 1, 2008 at The Troxy in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199755-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Warriors\nThe year 2008 is the seventh year in the history of Cage Warriors, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. In 2008 Cage Rage Championships held 4 events beginning with, Cage Warriors: USA Battle Royale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199755-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Warriors, Cage Warriors: USA Battle Royale\nCage Warriors: USA Battle Royale was an event held on March 29, 2008 in Kissimmee, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199755-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Warriors, Cage Warriors: Enter the Rough House 6\nCage Warriors: Enter the Rough House 6 was an event held on April 19, 2008 in Nottingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199755-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Warriors, Cage Warriors: Enter the Rough House 7\nCage Warriors: Enter the Rough House 7 was an event held on July 12, 2008 in Nottingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199755-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cage Warriors, Cage Warriors: USA Unleashed\nCage Warriors: USA Unleashed was an event held on August 23, 2008 in Orlando, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199756-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cambodia\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199758-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Canadian literature\nThis is a summary of the year 2008 in Canadian literature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199758-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Canadian literature, Deaths\nThis Canadian history article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199759-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Canadian music\nThis is a summary of the year 2008 in the Canadian music industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199759-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Canadian music, Top hits on record, Top 10 albums\nThese are the top selling albums in Canada. These albums consist of Canadian sales only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199760-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Canadian television\nThis is a list of Canadian television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199761-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199762-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Chad\nThe following details notable events from the year 2008 in Chad. Chad is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199763-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199765-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Chinese football\nThese are the details relating to the 2008 Chinese football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199765-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Chinese football, Domestic competitions, 2008 China League Two, Play-offs\nGuangdong Sunray Cave won 4\u20131 on aggregate and promoted to China League One 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199765-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Chinese football, Domestic competitions, 2008 China League Two, Play-offs\nShenyang Dongjin 1\u20131 Three Gorges Kangtian on aggregate. Shenyang Dongjin won 4\u20133 on penalties and promoted to China League One 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199766-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Colombia\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199767-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Croatian television\nThis is a list of Croatian television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199767-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Croatian television, Deaths\nThis Croatian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199768-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Cyprus\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Republic of Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM\nThe year 2008 is the 1st year in the history of DREAM, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 DREAM held 7 events beginning with, Dream 1: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 1: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round\nDream 1: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round was an event held on March 15, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 65], "content_span": [66, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 2: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round\nDream 2: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round was an event held on April 29, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 66], "content_span": [67, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 3: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Quarterfinals\nDream 3: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Quarterfinals was an event held on May 11, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 65], "content_span": [66, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 4: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Quarterfinals\nDream 4: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Quarterfinals was an event held on June 15, 2008 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 66], "content_span": [67, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 5: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Final\nDream 5: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Final was an event held on July 21, 2008 at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Dream 6: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Final\nDream 6: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Final was an event held on September 23, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 58], "content_span": [59, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199769-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in DREAM, Fields Dynamite!! 2008\nFields Dynamite!! 2008 was an event held on December 31, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199770-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Danish television\nThis is a list of Danish television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep\nThe year 2008 is the 8th year in the history of Deep, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Deep held 27 events beginning with, Deep: 28 Impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Future King Tournament 2007\nDeep: Future King Tournament 2007 was an event held on January 14, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Kobudo Fight 2\nDeep: Kobudo Fight 2 was an event held on February 17, 2008 at Kobudo Martial Arts Communication Space Tiger Hall in Nagoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 34 Impact\nDeep: 34 Impact was an event held on February 22, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Tokyo\nDeep: clubDeep Tokyo was an event held on March 29, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round\nDeep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Opening Round was an event held on March 29, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Kobudo Fight 3\nDeep: Kobudo Fight 3 was an event held on April 20, 2008 at Kobudo Martial Arts Communication Space Tiger Hall in Nagoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 35 Impact\nDeep: 35 Impact was an event held on May 19, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Semifinal\nDeep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Semifinal was an event held on May 24, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 53], "content_span": [54, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Tokyo\nDeep: clubDeep Tokyo was an event held on May 24, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Toyama: Barbarian Festival 7\nDeep: clubDeep Toyama: Barbarian Festival 7 was an event held on June 1, 2008 at The Toyama Event Plaza in Toyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Glove 2\nDeep: Glove 2 was an event held on June 15, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Nagoya: MB3z Impact, All Stand Up\nDeep: clubDeep Nagoya: MB3z Impact, All Stand Up was an event held on June 29, 2008 at Zepp Nagoya in Nagoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 36 Impact\nDeep: 36 Impact was an event held on July 27, 2008 at Zepp Osaka in Osaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Finals\nDeep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Finals was an event held on August 2, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 50], "content_span": [51, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Gladiator\nDeep: Gladiator was an event held on August 16, 2008 at Momotaro Arena in Okayama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 37 Impact\nDeep: 37 Impact was an event held on August 17, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Kyoto\nDeep: clubDeep Kyoto was an event held on August 30, 2008 at Terrsa Hall in Kyoto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Kobudo Fight 4\nDeep: Kobudo Fight 4 was an event held on September 13, 2008 at Kobudo Martial Arts Communication Space Tiger Hall in Nagoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Glove 3\nDeep: Glove 3 was an event held on September 20, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Glove Amateur\nDeep: Glove Amateur was an event held on September 20, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: clubDeep Hamamatsu\nDeep: clubDeep Hamamatsu was an event held on September 28, 2008 at Act City in Hamamatsu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 38 Impact\nDeep: 38 Impact was an event held on October 23, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Kobudo Fight 5\nDeep: Kobudo Fight 5 was an event held on November 30, 2008 at Kobudo Martial Arts Communication Space Tiger Hall in Nagoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0024-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Double Impact\nDeep: Double Impact was an event held on December 6, 2008 at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0025-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: 39 Impact\nDeep: 39 Impact was an event held on December 10, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0026-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Protect Impact 2008\nDeep: Protect Impact 2008 was an event held on December 22, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199771-0027-0000", "contents": "2008 in Deep, Deep: Future King Tournament 2008\nDeep: Future King Tournament 2008 was an event held on December 28, 2008 at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199772-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Denmark\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199773-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Djibouti\nThe following lists events that happened in 2008 in Djibouti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199774-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Dutch television\nThis is a list of Dutch television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199775-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in East Timor\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in East Timor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199776-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ecuadorian football\nThe 2008 season is the 86th season of competitive football in Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199776-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ecuadorian football, National team, Women's U-20 team\nThe women's U-20 team participated in the South American Women's U-20 tournament in Brazil. They were drawn into Group A and finished third in the group; they failed to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat\nThe year 2008 is the 2nd year in the history of the Elite Xtreme Combat, a mixed martial arts promotion based in The United States. In 2008 Elite Xtreme Combat held 12 events beginning with, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series\nShoXC: Elite Challenger Series was an event held on January 25, 2008 at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, EliteXC: Street Certified\nEliteXC: Street Certified was an event held on February 16, 2008 at BankUnited Center in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series\nShoXC: Elite Challenger Series was an event held on March 21, 2008 at Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le\nStrikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le was an event held on March 29, 2008 at The HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series\nShoXC: Elite Challenger Series was an event held on April 5, 2008 at The Table Mountain Rancheria in Friant, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, EliteXC: Primetime\nEliteXC: Primetime was an event held on May 31, 2008 at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, EliteXC: Return of the King\nEliteXC: Return of the King was an event held on June 14, 2008 at Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Oahu, Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, EliteXC: Unfinished Business\nEliteXC: Unfinished Business was an event held on July 26, 2008 at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Hamman vs. Suganuma 2\nShoXC: Hamman vs. Suganuma 2 was an event held on August 15, 2008 at The Table Mountain Rancheria in Friant, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series\nShoXC: Elite Challenger Series was an event held on September 26, 2008 at Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, EliteXC: Heat\nEliteXC: Heat was an event held on October 4, 2008 at The BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199777-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in Elite Xtreme Combat, ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series\nShoXC: Elite Challenger Series was an event held on October 10, 2008 at The Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199779-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Estonia\nThis article lists events that occurred during 2008 in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199780-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Estonian football\nThe 2008 season is the 17th competitive football season in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199781-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199783-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Fighting Network Rings\nThe year 2008 is the 14th year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Fighting Network Rings held 4 events beginning with, Rings: The Outsider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199783-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Fighting Network Rings, Rings: The Outsider\nRings: The Outsider was an event held on March 30, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199783-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Fighting Network Rings, Rings: The Outsider 2\nRings: The Outsider 2 was an event held on July 19, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199783-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Fighting Network Rings, Rings: The Outsider 3\nRings: The Outsider 3 was an event held on October 19, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199783-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Fighting Network Rings, Rings: The Outsider 4\nRings: The Outsider 4 was an event held on December 20, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199785-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in France\nThis article lists events from the year 2008 in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 70]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199786-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in French television\nThis is a list of French television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199788-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in German television\nThis is a list of German television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199790-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ghana\n2008 in Ghana details events of note that happened in the Ghana in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199790-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ghana, National holidays\nHolidays in italics are \"special days\", while those in regular type are \"regular holidays\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199790-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ghana, National holidays\nIn addition, several other places observe local holidays, such as the foundation of their town. These are also \"special days.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199791-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Guinea\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199793-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Iceland\nThe following lists events that happened in 2008 in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199794-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in India\nEvents in the year 2008 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199795-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Indonesia, Sport\nThis Southeast Asian history-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199796-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Iran\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199797-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Iraqi football\nThe 2008 season was the 60th season of competitive football in Iraq, since the creation of the Iraq Football Association in 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199797-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Iraqi football, Arab Champions League\nIraq has 1 spot. The spot was given to the 3rd Placed team of the Iraqi Premier League 2007-08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199799-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Irish music\nThis is a summary of the year 2008 in the Irish music industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199799-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Irish music, Music awards, 2008 Meteor Awards\nThe 2008 Meteor Awards took place in the RDS Simmonscourt on Friday February 15, 2008. Below are the winners:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199799-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Irish music, Music awards, Choice Music Prize\nThe Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2007 was awarded at Vicar Street to Super Extra Bonus Party for the album Super Extra Bonus Party LP  on February 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199800-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199801-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent events related to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict which occurred during 2008 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199801-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 2008 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199801-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 2008 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199802-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Italian television\nThis is a list of Italian television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199805-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Japanese music\nThe following is an overview of the year 2008 in Japanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see 2008 in music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199805-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Japanese music, Best-sellers, Artists\nThe best-selling music artist in Japan in 2008 by value of sales, including sales of records and of DVDs and Blu-rays, according to Oricon, was Exile, with \u00a519.58 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199805-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Japanese music, Best-sellers, Albums\nThe following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2008, according to Oricon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199805-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Japanese music, Albums released\nThe following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2008 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199807-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jewels\nThe year 2008 is the 1st year in the history of Jewels, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Jewels held 1 event, Jewels 1st Ring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199807-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jewels, Jewels 1st Ring\nJewels 1st Ring was an event held on November 16, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199808-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jungle Fight\nThe year 2008 is the sixth year in the history of Jungle Fight, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Brazil. In 2008 Jungle Fight held 4 events beginning with, Jungle Fight 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199808-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jungle Fight, Jungle Fight 8\nJungle Fight 8 was an event held on April 6, 2008 at The Team Nogueira Training Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199808-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jungle Fight, Jungle Fight 9: Warriors\nJungle Fight 9: Warriors was an event held on May 31, 2008 at The Maracan\u00e3zinho Gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199808-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jungle Fight, Jungle Fight 10\nJungle Fight 10 was an event held on July 12, 2008 at Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199808-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Jungle Fight, Jungle Fight 11\nJungle Fight 11 was an event held on September 13, 2008 at The Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199809-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenya\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Kenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football\nThe following article is a summary of the 2008 football season in Kenya, the 45th competitive season in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, Premier League\nThe Premier League was sponsored by South African television channel SuperSport, meaning that it was broadcast live on TV after several years and offered financial benefits. Francis Ouma, with 15 goals, finished as the top scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, Premier League\n16 teams took part and Mathare United won its first league title. The season concluded on November 22, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, Premier League, Relegation\nMahakama and Mathare Youth were relegated from the league and were replaced by Nationwide League champions A.F.C. Leopards and Sofapaka, who were top in Zone A and Zone B respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, Nationwide League\nThe Nationwide League was played in 2 zones. Zonal winners were A.F.C. Leopards and Sofapaka, who gained promotion for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, Nationwide League, Zone B\nCoast Stars from Mombasa were relegated from the Premier League in 2007, but refused to join the Nationwide League. They were replaced by Malindi United. Shalimar of Naivasha were to compete in Zone A and had already played some games before pulling out of the league. They were replaced by Kisumu Black Stars which joined when the league was halfway done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, KFF Cup\nThe President's Cup was renamed to the KFF Cup. The tournament was won by Gor Mahia, who beat Provincial League side Posta Rangers in the final. Apart from Gor Mahia, all other Premier League teams skipped the tournament due to high costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, National team, World Cup qualifiers \u2013 CAF Second Round (Group 2)\nThe national team played in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers and reached the 3rd qualifying round. The qualifiers also doubled as the 2010 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 89], "content_span": [90, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, National team, 2008 CECAFA Cup\nKenya took part in the 2008 CECAFA Cup, which continued into 2009 due to postponements. They reached the final but were beaten 1-0 by Uganda. Shortly after the end of the tournament, Francis Kimanzi was sacked as the head coach due to disagreements with the Kenya Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199810-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Kenyan football, National team, Other matches\nThere were no other matches played by Kenya in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage\nThe year 2008 is the tenth year in the history of King of the Cage, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 King of the Cage held 26 events, KOTC: Hard Knocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Sub Zero\nKOTC: Sub Zero was an event held on January 12, 2008 at Lake of the Torches in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Premiere\nKOTC: Premiere was an event held on January 24, 2008 at San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Warlords\nKOTC: Warlords was an event held on February 9, 2008 at Ute Mountain Casino in Towaoc, Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Stand Off\nKOTC: Stand Off was an event held on February 22, 2008 at The Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant, MI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: All Wisconsin Fight Quest\nKOTC: All Wisconsin Fight Quest was an event held on March 15, 2008 at Lake of the Torches in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Protege\nKOTC: Protege was an event held on March 22, 2008 at The Avi Resort & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Tsunami II\nKOTC: Tsunami II was an event held on March 27, 2008 at The San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Twisted\nKOTC: Twisted was an event held on April 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Fight Nite @ The Shrine\nKOTC: Fight Nite @ The Shrine was an event held on April 19, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Opposing Force\nKOTC: Opposing Force was an event held on May 15, 2008 at The San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Reckless\nKOTC: Reckless was an event held on May 17, 2008 at The Harlow's Casino Resort in Greenville, Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Rising Stars\nKOTC: Rising Stars was an event held on May 24, 2008 at Kiowa Casino in Devol, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Smashing Machine\nKOTC: Smashing Machine was an event held on May 31, 2008 at Ute Mountain Casino in Towaoc, Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Settlement\nKOTC: Settlement was an event held on June 13, 2008 at The Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Badlands\nKOTC: Badlands was an event held on July 12, 2008 at The Isleta Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Rock Solid\nKOTC: Rock Solid was an event held on July 19, 2008 at The Lake of the Torches Casino in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Bio Hazard\nKOTC: Bio Hazard was an event held on August 14, 2008 at The San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Retribution\nKOTC: Retribution was an event held on August 30, 2008 at The Ute Mountain Casino in Cortez, Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Cage Masters\nKOTC: Cage Masters was an event held on October 4, 2008 at The Avi Resort and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Misconduct\nKOTC: Misconduct was an event held on October 16, 2008 at The San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Level One\nKOTC: Level One was an event held on October 18, 2008 at The Lake of the Torches Casino in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Frost Bite\nKOTC: Frost Bite was an event held on November 7, 2008 at The Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Bragging Rights\nKOTC: Bragging Rights was an event held on November 20, 2008 at The Ohio Expo Center Coliseum in Columbus, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0024-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Anticipation\nKOTC: Anticipation was an event held on November 26, 2008 at The Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0025-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Goodfellas\nKOTC: Goodfellas was an event held on December 6, 2008 at The Isleta Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199811-0026-0000", "contents": "2008 in King of the Cage, KOTC: Prowler\nKOTC: Prowler was an event held on December 11, 2008 at The San Manuel Casino in Highland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199812-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki\nThe year 2008 is the fifth year in the history of the Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Poland. In 2008, Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki held 4 events beginning with, KSW Elimination II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199812-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW Elimination 2\nKSW Elimination II was a mixed martial arts event held on March 29, 2008 at the Hala Stulecia in Warsaw, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199812-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW IX: Konfrontacja\nKSW IX: Konfrontacja was a mixed martial arts event on May 9, 2008 at the Hala Torwar in Warsaw, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199812-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW Extra\nKSW Extra was a mixed martial arts event held on September 13, 2008 at the Hala Centrum in Dabrowa G\u00f3rnicza, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199812-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, KSW 10: Dekalog\nKSW 10: Dekalog was a mixed martial arts event held on December 12, 2008 at the Hala Torwar in Warsaw, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199814-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199815-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Laos\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199816-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Latin music\nThis is a list of notable events in Latin music (i.e. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking music from Latin America, Latin Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199816-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Latin music, Best-selling records, Best-selling albums\nThe following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums in the United States in 2008, according to Billboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199816-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Latin music, Best-selling records, Best-performing songs\nThe following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2008, according to Billboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199817-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Lebanon\nThe following lists events that happened in 2008 in Lebanon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199818-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Libya\nThe following lists events that will happen in 2008 in Libya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 75]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199819-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Luxembourg\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global\nThe year 2008 is the 12th year in the history of M-1 Global, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia. In 2008 M-1 Global held 12 events beginning with, M-1: Slamm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1: Slamm\nM-1: Slamm was an event held on March 2, 2008 in Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 2: Russia\nM-1 Challenge 2: Russia was an event held on April 3, 2008 at The Ice Palace Saint Petersburg in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 MFC: Fedor Emelianenko Cup\nM-1 MFC: Fedor Emelianenko Cup was an event held on May 15, 2008 in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 3: Gran Canaria\nM-1 Challenge 3: Gran Canaria was an event held on May 31, 2008 in San Agustin, Gran Canaria, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 4: Battle on the Neva 2\nM-1 Challenge 4: Battle on the Neva 2 was an event held on June 27, 2008 at The Flying Dutchman in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 5: Japan\nM-1 Challenge 5: Japan was an event held on July 17, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 6: Korea\nM-1 Challenge 6: Korea was an event held on August 29, 2008 in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 7: UK\nM-1 Challenge 7: UK was an event held on September 27, 2008 at The Harvey Hadden Stadium in Nottingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 8: USA\nM-1 Challenge 8: USA was an event held on October 29, 2008 at The Harrah's Casino in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1: Staredown 2\nM-1: Staredown 2 was an event held on November 16, 2008 in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 9: Russia\nM-1 Challenge 9: Russia was an event held on November 21, 2008 at The Ice Palace Saint Petersburg in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199820-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in M-1 Global, M-1 Challenge 10: Finland\nM-1 Challenge 10: Finland was an event held on November 26, 2008 at The Toolo Sports Hall in Helsinki, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199822-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Malaysia\nThis article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 2008, together with the deaths of notable Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship\nThe year 2008 is the 7th year in the history of the Maximum Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Canada. In 2008 Maximum Fighting Championship held 5 events beginning with, MFC 15: Rags to Riches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC 15: Rags to Riches\nMFC 15: Rags to Riches was an event held on February 22, 2008 at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC 16: Anger Management\nMFC 16: Anger Management was an event held on May 9, 2008 at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC 17: Hostile Takeover\nMFC 17: Hostile Takeover was an event held on July 25, 2008 at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC 18: Famous\nMFC 18: Famous was an event held on September 26, 2008 at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199823-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Maximum Fighting Championship, MFC 19: Long Time Coming\nMFC 19: Long Time Coming was an event held on December 5, 2008 at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199824-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Mexico\nThis is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 72]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199825-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Monaco\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Namibia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Environment\nSerious flooding took place in northern Namibia in February and March 2008, with at least 42 dead and 65,000 displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Politics\nThe ruling party, SWAPO, and the new opposition party, Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) contested the first town council election in Omuthiya in the Oshikoto Region. On 24 April, a rally of 200 took place in Windhoek against the porting of the Chinese ship the An Yue Jiang at Walvis Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Politics\nIn May 2008, Ignatius Shixwameni, a former SWAPO and Congress of Democrats (CoD) member, who split from CoD in December 2007, forms the All People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Politics\nIn June 2008, the Democratic Party of Namibia was formed in \u01c1Karas Region. Though the CoD's Ben Ulenga criticized the party and others as \"tribal\", the DPN rejected the sentiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Economics, Labour\nThe 2008 Skorpion Zinc Strike was a worker's strike against the ownership of the Skorpion Zinc mine near the southern town of Rosh Pinah in \u01c1Karas Region. Lasting 19 days (10\u201329 May), the workers ended their strike when management agreed to a 12% raise in wages plus overtime and travel expenses. The workers had originally demanded a 14% raise in wages. The strike was supported by the National Union of Mineworkers, who accused Skorpion Zinc of practising racial discrimination and of negotiating in bad faith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Sport, Football (soccer)\nThe national men's football team began 2008 in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. After losing 1-5 to Morocco in their opening match, Namibia lost 0-1 to host Ghana and tied 1-1 with Guinea, finishing in last place in their group. Following the Africa Cup of Nations, Namibia lost 1-3 to Malawi in Windhoek on 26 March. In July, Namibia dropped 15 spots in the FIFA rankings to 146th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Sport, Football (soccer), World Cup qualifying\nNamibia was drawn into group 2 of the CAF First Group Round, alongside Kenya, Guinea and Zimbabwe. On 31 May, Namibia kicked off qualifiers at home against Kenya, defeating them on an 89th-minute goal by Costa Khaiseb. The Brave Warriors then traveled to Harare on 8 June, losing 0-2. Travelling back to Windhoek to face Guinea on 14 June, the Brave Warriors lost 1-2 on a 45th minute go-ahead goal by Pascal Feindouno. Playin in Conakry on 22 June, Namibia lost again, this time 0-4. After a two-month break, The Brave Warriors went to Nairobi on 5 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0007-0001", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, Sport, Football (soccer), World Cup qualifying\nThe squad lost on a 44th-minute penalty kick by Kenyan Jamal Mohammed. The last match in the first round was back in Windhoek at Sam Nujoma Stadium against neighbor Zimbabwe on 11 October. The squad jumped to a 4-0 lead before holding onto a 4-2 win, which included two goals by Wilko Risser. However, the match was meaningless for the Brave Warriors, as they had been eliminated from World Cup competition and finished in last place in the group of 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 63], "content_span": [64, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, COSAFA Cup\nThe 2008 Cosafa Cup was held in South Africa. The Namibian side won their group, group B, with a record of 2-0-1. In the quarterfinals, Namibia lost 0-1 to the South Africa Development XI team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199827-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Namibia, COSAFA Cup, Boxing\nThe University of Namibia hosted the 2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament from 20\u201330 March. At that tournament, the final round of qualifiers for boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Africa were determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199828-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Nepal\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Nepal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199828-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Nepal, Deaths\nEdmund Hillary - First person to reach top of Everest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199829-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199829-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\n2008 was the third and last year of the 48th Parliament, which was dissolved on 3 October. A general election was held on 8 November to elect the 49th Parliament, which saw the Fifth National Government elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199829-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in New Zealand, Events, October\nOn the 17th The Dominion Post Billboard  Heading Reads \"Market Madness\"There is also a graph on the Billboard showing the NZX taking a big dive . This was indicative of the worlds sharemarkets in turmil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199830-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in New Zealand television\nThis is a list of New Zealand television events and premieres which occurred, or are scheduled to occur, in 2008, the 48th year of continuous operation of television in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199831-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Nigeria\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 2008 to Nigeria and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199833-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in North Korea\nThe following lists events that happened in 2008 in North Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199833-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in North Korea, Census\nThe 2008 North Korea Census recorded the population of North Korea as 24,052,231 inhabitants (11,721,838 male and 12,330,393 female).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199835-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Norwegian football\nThe 2008 season was the 103rd season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199836-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2008 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199837-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Norwegian television\nThis is a list of Norwegian television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199839-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pakistani television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Pakistani television in 2008. Events listed include television show debuts, and finales; channel launches, and closures; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about changes of ownership of channels or stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship\nThe year 2008 is the 2nd year in the history of Palace Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 PFC held 10 events beginning with, PFC 6: No Retreat, No Surrender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 6: No Retreat, No Surrender\nPFC 6: No Retreat, No Surrender was an event held on January 17, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC: Olson vs. Alfonso\nPFC: Olson vs. Alfonso was an event held on February 29, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 7: Palace Fighting Championship 7\nPFC 7: Palace Fighting Championship 7 was an event held on March 20, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 7.5: New Blood\nPFC 7.5: New Blood was an event held on April 26, 2008 at the Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 8: A Night of Champions\nPFC 8: A Night of Champions was an event held on May 8, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 9: The Return\nPFC 9: The Return was an event held on July 7, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC: Bias vs. Blood\nPFC: Bias vs. Blood was an event held on August 21, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 10: Explosive\nPFC 10: Explosive was an event held on September 26, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC: Martinez vs. Lorenz\nPFC: Martinez vs. Lorenz was an event held on October 23, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199840-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 11: All In\nPFC 11: All In was an event held on November 20, 2008 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase\nThe year 2008 is the 16th year in the history of Pancrase, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Pancrase held 12 events beginning with Pancrase: Shining 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 1\nPancrase: Shining 1 was an event held on January 30, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: 2008 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations\nPancrase: 2008 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations was an event held on March 23, 2008 at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 66], "content_span": [67, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 2\nPancrase: Shining 2 was an event held on March 26, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 3\nPancrase: Shining 3 was an event held on April 27, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 4\nPancrase: Shining 4 was an event held on May 25, 2008 at Azelea Taisho Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 5\nPancrase: Shining 5 was an event held on June 1, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Real 2008\nPancrase: Real 2008 was an event held on June 29, 2008 at Tenkaichi Stadium in Okinawa, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 6\nPancrase: Shining 6 was an event held on August 27, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 7\nPancrase: Shining 7 was an event held on September 7, 2008  in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 8\nPancrase: Shining 8 was an event held on October 1, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 9\nPancrase: Shining 9 was an event held on October 26, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199841-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Shining 10\nPancrase: Shining 10 was an event held on December 7, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 2008 association football season in Paraguay. One of the most noticeable changes in the 2008 season is that the first division tournament will not longer have a single champion for the year; instead there will be two champions in the season, one being the winner of the Apertura tournament and the other being the winner of the Clausura tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football, First division results\nThe first division tournament was divided in two sections: the Apertura and the Clausura and had 12 teams participating in a two round all-play-all system. The team with the most points at the end of the two rounds was crowned as the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football, Relegation\nThe team with the worst average points over the last three years is automatically relegated to the second division league, and the second-worst team plays a playoff match against the second division runner-up. The winner of the playoff match plays in the first division the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football, Relegation, Promotion game\nThe promotion was played between 3 de Febrero and the second division runner-up General Caballero ZC. The first game ended with a 3-0 score favorable to 3 de Febrero, while the second finished 2-1 in favor of General Caballero. Since the aggregate score was 4-2 for 3 de Febrero, they remain in the first division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football, Paraguay national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Paraguay national football team in official competitions during 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199842-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Paraguayan football, Paraguay national team\nKEY:  F = Friendly match; WCQ2010 = 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199843-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Philippine television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 2008. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199843-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Philippine television, Networks, Stations changing network affiliation\nThe following is a list of television stations that have made or will make noteworthy network affiliation changes in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199843-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Philippine television, Networks, Rebranded\nThe following is a list of television stations that have made or will make noteworthy network rebranded in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199845-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Polish television\nThis is a list of Polish television related events from 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199846-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Portugal, Sports\nFootball (soccer) competitions: Primeira Liga, Liga de Honra, Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199847-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Portuguese television\nThis is a list of Portuguese television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199849-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Russia\nEvents from the year 2008 in the country of Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 66]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199850-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Russian football, Cups, 2008 Russian Super Cup\nRussian Super Cup 2008 was the 6th Russian Super Cup match, which was contested between the 2007 Russian Premier League champion, Zenit St. Petersburg, and the winner of 2006\u201307 Russian Cup, Lokomotiv Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199851-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Rwanda\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in Rwanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199853-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199854-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shark Fights\nThe year 2008 is the first year in the history of Shark Fights, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 Shark Fights held 2 events beginning with, Shark Fights 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199854-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shark Fights, Shark Fights 1\nShark Fights 1 was an event held on October 24, 2008 at the Amarillo National Center in Amarillo, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199854-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shark Fights, Shark Fights 2\nShark Fights 2 was an event held on December 13, 2008 at the Azteca Music Hall in Amarillo, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto\nThe year 2008 is the 20th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Shooto held 22 events beginning with, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 7\nShooto: Back To Our Roots 7 was an event held on January 26, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 4: Born in the Fighting\nShooto: Shooting Disco 4: Born in the Fighting was an event held on February 23, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig West 9\nShooto: Gig West 9 was an event held on March 15, 2008 at Azalea Taisho Hall in Osaka, Kansai, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Central 14\nShooto: Gig Central 14 was an event held on March 16, 2008 at Tokai TV Telepia Hall in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: 3/21 in Kitazawa Town Hall\nShooto: 3/21 in Kitazawa Town Hall was an event held on March 21, 2008 at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Torao 1\nShooto: Gig Torao 1 was an event held on March 23, 2008 at Fukuyama Industrial Exchange Center in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 8\nShooto: Back To Our Roots 8 was an event held on March 28, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooto Tradition 1\nShooto: Shooto Tradition 1 was an event held on May 3, 2008 at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Grapplingman 7\nShooto: Grapplingman 7 was an event held on May 18, 2008 at Hiroshima Industrial Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig North 2\nShooto: Gig North 2 was an event held on May 25, 2008 at Zepp Sapporo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 5: Earth, Wind and Fighter\nShooto: Shooting Disco 5: Earth, Wind and Fighter was an event held on June 21, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: 6/26 in Kitazawa Town Hall\nShooto: 6/26 in Kitazawa Town Hall was an event held on June 26, 2008 at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooto Tradition 2\nShooto: Shooto Tradition 2 was an event held on July 18, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Central 15\nShooto: Gig Central 15 was an event held on August 3, 2008 at Zepp Nagoya in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig West 10\nShooto: Gig West 10 was an event held on September 20, 2008 at Azalea Taisho Hall in Osaka, Kansai, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooto Tradition 3\nShooto: Shooto Tradition 3 was an event held on September 28, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 6: Glory Shines In You\nShooto: Shooting Disco 6: Glory Shines In You was an event held on October 5, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: 10/13 in Kitazawa Town Hall\nShooto: 10/13 in Kitazawa Town Hall was an event held on October 13, 2008 in Kitazawa, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Central 16\nShooto: Gig Central 16 was an event held on October 26, 2008 at Tokai TV Telepia Hall in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig North 3\nShooto: Gig North 3 was an event held on November 22, 2008 at Zepp Sapporo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooto Tradition 4\nShooto: Shooto Tradition 4 was an event held on November 29, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199855-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in Shooto, Shooto: The Rookie Tournament 2008 Final\nShooto: The Rookie Tournament 2008 Final was an event held on December 13, 2008 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199856-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Republic of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199857-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Somalia\nThis sets forth a timeline of the War in Somalia during 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199858-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199858-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in South Africa, Incumbents, Cabinet\nThe Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199859-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in South African television\nThis is a list of South African television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199861-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in South Korean football\nThis article shows the 2008 season of South Korean football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199862-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in South Korean music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2008 in music in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199863-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Spain\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199864-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Spanish television\nThis is a list of Spanish television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce\nThe year 2008 was the third year in the history of Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 Strikeforce held eight events, beginning with Strikeforce: Young Guns II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Young Guns II\nStrikeforce: Young Guns II was an event held on February 1, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: At The Dome\nStrikeforce: At The Dome was an event held on February 23, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le\nStrikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le was an event held on March 29, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson\nStrikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson was an event held on June 27, 2008, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Young Guns III\nStrikeforce: Young Guns III was an event held on September 13, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: At The Mansion II\nStrikeforce: At The Mansion II was an event held on September 20, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Payback\nStrikeforce: Payback was an event held on October 3, 2008 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199865-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Destruction\nStrikeforce: Destruction was an event held on November 21, 2008, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199867-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Swedish football\nThe 2008 season in Swedish football, starting January 2008 and ending December 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199868-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Swedish television\nThis is a list of Swedish television related events from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199869-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 2008 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 97 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199870-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Taiwanese football, League competitions, Intercity Football League\nThe 2008 season of Intercity Football League will start from August 23, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199870-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Taiwanese football, League competitions, Intercity Football League\nTaipei City (Tatung F.C. ), Tainan County, Yilan County, and Taipei County qualified for being the top 4 places in the 2007 season. Taiwan Power Company F.C., Bros, Chia Cheng Hsin, and Hualien County qualified through the qualification tournament held between July 19 and August 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199870-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Taiwanese football, Youth competitions, Highschool Football League\nThe 2008 season of Highschool Football League was held from March 29 and April 20, 2008. Chinese Taipei School Sport Federation replaced Chinese Taipei Football Association to become the main sponsor. Totally 17 teams participated in the competition. They were divided into two divisions, north and south, in the preliminary round. The best four teams of each division entered to the final round. Since 2008, the league regulations have forbidden players who have registered or played in the Enterprise Football League or other professional football leagues to participate in HFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199871-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Thailand\nThe year 2008 was the 227th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 63rd year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2551 in the Buddhist Era. Much of the year was spent under the 2008 Thai political crisis, which saw political protests leading to the dissolution of the ruling People's Power Party by the Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199873-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in UFC\nThe year 2008 is the 16th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 the UFC held 20 events beginning with, UFC 80: Rapid Fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199873-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in UFC, Debut UFC fighters\nThe following fighters fought their first UFC fight in 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199874-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ultimate Challenge MMA\nThe year 2008 is the first year in the history of Ultimate Challenge MMA, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. In 2008 Ultimate Challenge MMA held 1 event, UCMMA 1: Bad Breed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199874-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Ultimate Challenge MMA, UCMMA 1: Bad Breed\nUCMMA 1: Bad Breed was an event held on 6 December 2008 at The Troxy in London, England, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship\nThe year 2008 is the 7th year in the history of the Universal Reality Combat Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Philippines. In 2008 the URCC held 5 events beginning with, URCC 12: Supremacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC Cebu 2\nURCC Cebu 2 was an event held on March 1, 2008 at The Waterfront City Hotel in Cebu, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC 12: Supremacy\nURCC 12: Supremacy was an event held on July 5, 2008 at A. Venue Events Hall in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC Rouge Magazine's Black Tie Brawl 2008\nURCC Rouge Magazine's Black Tie Brawl 2008 was an event held on October 18, 2008 at The Hyatt Hotel Manila in Metro Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC Cebu 3: Nemesis\nURCC Cebu 3: Nemesis was an event held on November 15, 2008 at The Cebu International Convention Centre in Cebu, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199875-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC 13: Indestructible\nURCC 13: Indestructible was an event held on November 22, 2008 at The A-Venue Events Hall in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC\nThe year 2008 is the 8th year in the history of World Extreme Cagefighting, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2008 WEC held 6 events beginning with, WEC 32: Condit vs. Prater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 32: Condit vs. Prater\nWEC 32: Condit vs. Prater was an event held on February 13, 2008 at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 33: Marshall vs. Stann\nWEC 33: Marshall vs. Stann was an event held on March 26, 2008 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 34: Faber vs. Pulver\nWEC 34: Faber vs. Pulver was an event held on June 1, 2008 at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura\nWEC 35: Condit vs. Miura was an event held on August 3, 2008 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown\nWEC 36: Faber vs. Brown was an event held on November 5, 2008 at the  Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199876-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in WEC, WEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia\nWEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia was an event held on December 3, 2008 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199877-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 2008 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road\nThe year 2008 is the 1st year in the history of World Victory Road, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 World Victory Road held 6 events beginning with, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku Vanguard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku First Battle\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku First Battle was an event held on March 5, 2008 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 2\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 2 was an event held on May 18, 2008 at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 3\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 3 was an event held on June 8, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4 was an event held on September 24, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5 was an event held on September 28, 2008 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199878-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in World Victory Road, World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6\nWorld Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6 was an event held on November 1, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199879-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in Zimbabwe\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Republic of Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Events\nIn this year, 288 anime television programs were produced and home video sales of anime DVDs, Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs in Japan were worth 77.9 billion yen. Animation studio 8-Bit was founded in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Accolades\nAt the Mainichi Film Awards, The Sky Crawlers won the Animation Film Award and Ponyo won the \u014cfuji Nobur\u014d Award. Ponyo also won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year; the other nominees were Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend 2008, The Sky Crawlers, Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear and One Piece - The Movie: Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura. Internationally, La Maison en Petits Cubes won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Le Cristal d'Annecy at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Sword of the Stranger was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Ponyo and The Sky Crawlers were in competition for the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Releases, Films\nA list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Releases, Television series\nA list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Releases, Original net animations\nA list of original net animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199881-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in anime, Releases, Original video animations\nA list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199882-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in architecture\nThe year 2008 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199884-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year  2008 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199886-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 2008  throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199886-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in baseball, Champions, Major League Baseball\nClick on any series score to link to that series' page. Higher seed had home field advantage during Division Series and League Championship Series. The American League champion has home field advantage during the World Series as a result of the AL victory in the All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199886-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in baseball, Awards and honors\nNational LeagueP:  Carlos Zambrano (CHC)C:  Brian McCann (ATL)1B: Albert Pujols (STL)2B: Chase Utley (PHI)3B: David Wright (NYM)SS: Hanley Ram\u00edrez (FLO)OF: Ryan Braun (MIL)OF: Matt Holliday (COL)OF: Ryan Ludwick (STL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199886-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in baseball, Awards and honors\nNational LeagueP: Greg Maddux (SDP/LAD)C:  Yadier Molina (STL)1B: Adri\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez (SDP)2B: Brandon Phillips (CIN)3B: David Wright (NYM)SS: Jimmy Rollins (PHI)OF: Carlos Beltr\u00e1n (NYM)OF: Nate McLouth (PIT)OF: Shane Victorino (PHI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199887-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 2008  throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199887-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in basketball\nTournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199889-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in chess\nBelow is a list of events in chess during the year 2008, and a list of the top ten players during that year:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199889-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in chess, Titles awarded, Grandmaster\nIn 2008 FIDE awarded the title Grandmaster to the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199889-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in chess, Titles awarded, Woman Grandmaster\nIn 2008 FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199890-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in comics\nNotable events of 2008 in comics. See also List of years in comics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199891-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199891-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in country music, Top hits of the year\nThe following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs or Canada Country charts in 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199891-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in country music, Top new album releases\nThe following albums placed within the Top 50 on the Top Country Albums charts in 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199892-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in darts\nThis is a list of some of the major events and competitions in the sport of darts in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199892-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in darts, BDO, WDF Category 1 Events\nWDF ranking points awarded: Winner 150, Runner-up 100, Semi-Finalists 80, Quarter-Finalists 48, 9th to 16th place 24, 17th to 32nd place 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199892-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in darts, BDO, BDO International Grand Prix\nNew event consisting of five events televised by Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom. Tournament winners receive 15 Grand Prix points, runners-up 9, semi-finalists 6 and quarter-finalists 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199892-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in darts, BDO, BDO International Grand Prix\nAt the conclusion of the BDO International Grand Prix Series, the accumulated points won by players in each of the five tournaments from the highest to eighth position earned the following prizes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nThe Rock Band series of music video games supports downloadable songs for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii versions through the consoles' respective online services. Users can download songs on a track-by-track basis, with many of the tracks also offered as part of a \"song pack\" or complete album at a discounted rate. These packs are available for the Wii only on Rock Band 3. Most downloadable songs are playable within every game mode, including the Band World Tour career mode. All downloadable songs released before October 26, 2010 are cross-compatible between Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3, while those after only work with Rock Band 3. Certain songs deemed \"suitable for all ages\" by Harmonix are also available for use in Lego Rock Band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nThe Wii version of Rock Band does not support downloadable content, but Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 do, with DLC first made available in January 2009. Songs from the back catalogue of downloadable content were released for the Wii weekly in an effort by Harmonix to provide Wii players with every previously available song.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nFollowing the release of Rock Band 4 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, all previously purchased downloadable content for Rock Band 3 and earlier is forward compatible (with the exception of any downloadable content purchased for The Beatles: Rock Band) within the same system family at no additional cost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series\nOver 300 songs were released for Rock Band in 2008, including 9 full albums. Screaming for Vengeance by Judas Priest was the first available Rock Band album, released on April 22. The self-titled debut album by The Cars and Doolittle by Pixies were released in the succeeding months. Though developer Harmonix had previously announced that the album Who's Next by The Who would be among the first downloadable albums for Rock Band, this never came to fruition. Instead, a 12-song compilation pack titled \"The Best of the Who (Rock Band Edition)\" was released on July 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2008\nThe following songs have been released for the Rock Band games in the year 2008. All songs available in packs are also available as individual song downloads on the same date, unless otherwise noted. Dates listed are the initial release of songs on Xbox Live. Starting May 20, 2008, all downloadable songs are available in both the North American and European markets, unless noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2008\nSome songs released before Rock Band 3 have been retrofitted to include Rock Band 3 features, including backing vocals, and the ability to buy an additional pack for Pro Guitar/Bass charts without having to buy the \"RB3 Version\" of the song. Certain songs have been marked \"family friendly\" by Harmonix; such songs released before Rock Band 3's launch on October 26, 2010 can be played in Lego Rock Band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2008\nStarting October 26 (with The Doors), all new songs are only playable in Rock Band 3, due to a change in the file format. All songs released via downloadable content are playable in Rock Band 3, and support its new Pro Drum mode. Most songs released for Rock Band 3 include core features for keyboards, Pro Keyboards, and backing vocals in the core song, where they are appropriate. Additionally, some of these songs features charts for Pro Guitar and Bass that can also be purchased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199893-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, Promotions\nFollowing the release of Rock Band, Harmonix and EA began to form partnerships with different companies and bands to provide promotional content.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in film\nThe year 2008 involved many major movie events. The Dark Knight was the year's highest-grossing film, while Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, Evaluation of the year\n2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, Evaluation of the year\nThe entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as \"one of the biggest years ever for movies.\" It stated, \"2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to The Dark Knight. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's WALL-E becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of Cloverfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0002-0001", "contents": "2008 in film, Evaluation of the year\nMarvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up The Avengers with the blockbuster hit Iron Man and their respectable attempt at rebooting The Incredible Hulk. The games-to-film genre took a hit this year, with only Max Payne proving to be a worthy adaptation of the source material. We also saw the highly anticipated big-screen returns of iconic characters like Batman, James Bond, and Indiana Jones \u2013 some were more successful than others.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, Evaluation of the year\nThe film industry and review website IndieWire described 2008 as \"a stellar year for movies\" that \"gave us tons of unforgettable classics\" such as The Wrestler, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Che.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, Highest-grossing films\nThe top 10 films released in 2008 by worldwide gross are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, Highest-grossing films\nOn August 4, The Dark Knight reached a $400 million domestic gross in a record time of 18 days. The previous record was held by Shrek 2, which reached it in 43 days. On August 31, after 45 days in release, The Dark Knight reached $500 million domestically, becoming only the second film in history after Titanic to cross the half-billion-dollar domestic milestone, as well as the first film of the 2000s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0005-0001", "contents": "2008 in film, Highest-grossing films\nWorldwide, it grossed $997 million on its initial release, and an IMAX reissue in 2009 saw it become the fourth film to gross $1 billion at the global box office. For 2008, the top ten films consisted of three superhero films, three animated films, three action films and one musical film. Mamma Mia! became the highest-grossing film in UK history until it was surpassed by Avatar in 2010. In the domestic box office, 2008 came very close in passing 2007 as the highest-grossing year, falling short by just $30 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199894-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in film, 2008 films\nThe list of films released in 2008, arranged by country, are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199895-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2008. For video games, see 2008 in video gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf\nThis article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Men's professional golf\nFedEx Cup playoff events - see 2008 FedEx Cup Playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Men's professional golf\nFor a complete list of PGA Tour results see PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Men's professional golf\nFor a complete list of European Tour results see 2008 European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Women's professional golf\nLadies European Tour major (in addition to the Women's British Open)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Women's professional golf\nFor a complete list of Ladies European Tour results see Ladies European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Women's professional golf\nFor a complete list of LPGA Tour results, see 2008 LPGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Other\nBroadcaster Kelly Tilghman was suspended from The Golf Channel for two weeks in January after discussing Tiger Woods's dominance on the PGA Tour and saying that young players should \"lynch him in a back alley.\" The comment came during the final round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 19], "content_span": [20, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Table of results\nThis table summarises all the results referred to above in date order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199896-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in golf, Table of results\nThe following biennial events will next be played in 2009: Presidents Cup, Seve Trophy, Solheim Cup, Walker Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199897-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in hammer throw\nThis page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2008 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2008. The women had their final three days later, on August 20, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199898-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199899-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in hip hop music\nThis article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199900-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in home video\nThe following events occurred in the year 2008 in home video.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 80]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199900-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in home video, Film releases\nThe following movies, television shows, and miniseries were released on DVD, HD DVD, and/or Blu-ray Disc on the following dates in 2008 in United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199901-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199902-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199903-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in men's road cycling\nIn 2008, for the first time in ten years, two Grand Tours were won by one rider, the Spaniard Alberto Contador. Alessandro Ballan succeeded fellow Italian Paolo Bettini as World Champion, winning the road race in his home country, where Varese hosted the World Championships for the second time in history. Bettini and German sprinter Erik Zabel were among the most prominent riders to quit after this season, while Mario Cipollini made a brief comeback in the early months of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199903-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in men's road cycling\nDespite even tighter controls and warnings concerning doping, and the introduction of the blood passport by the UCI, several major races, including the Giro and Tour were faced with positive tests. In addition, the ongoing feud between the UCI and the race organizations almost came to a definite break in March, when the UCI threatened to suspend riders participating in ASO's Paris\u2013Nice. The cycling federation's ProTour seemed bankrupt halfway through the year when all remaining licensed teams announced their withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199903-0001-0001", "contents": "2008 in men's road cycling\nHowever, at the start of 2009, 16 teams saw their ProTour license renewed and two new teams joined the elite division of cycling. Cr\u00e9dit Agricole and Gerolsteiner stopped sponsorship of a team, and were not succeeded by new sponsors. Other than Gerolsteiner, many German companies who participated in cycling sponsorship in recent years withdrew their financial backing after this year's latest of doping cases related to German cycling. As a result, fewer professional teams and races, among them the Deutschland Tour, will be part of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199903-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in men's road cycling\nAmongst professional riders, Mark Cavendish was the most successful with 17 victories, including 4 in the Tour de France and two in the Giro d'Italia. His team, Team High Road (which got a new sponsor midway through the season, ever since going by the name Team Columbia), was by far the most successful with 77 victories. Alejandro Valverde was the most successful allround rider of the year based on the CQ ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199903-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in men's road cycling\nAfter the end of the season, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong announced his comeback to competitive road cycling for 2009, with the Astana Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199904-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in modern pentathlon\nThis article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199905-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 2008 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199905-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199906-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in music\nThis topic covers notable events and articles related to 2008 in music. This year was the peak of record sales in the United States, with sales declining year on year since then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199906-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in music, Hit records, United States\nSingles which have ranked within Top 10 within the Billboard Hot 100 Hits (excludes those that were #1 in the UK)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199906-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in music, Hit records, Australia\nAustralia Official Top 50 Hits \u2013 Singles which have ranked within Top 20", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Arthropoda, Insects\nFossil formicine ant, two species C. constrictus (Mayr, 1868) & C. intermedius Dlussky, 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Arthropoda, Insects\nA member of Platygastroidea; replacement name for Protelenomus Zhang (1989).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Fishes, Bony fish\nA basal member of Dipnomorpha. The type species is A. porosus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Fishes, Bony fish\nA basal member of Actinopterygii. Genus includes new species D. schaefferi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Amphibians\nJenkins, F. A., jr, Shubin, N. H., Gatesy, S. M., and Warren, A., 2008, Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl feeding: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, n. 4, p.\u00a0935-950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Newly named pseudosuchians\nA metriorhynchid crocodyliform. Originally described as a species of Dakosaurus, subsequently transferred to the separate genus Torvoneustes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Newly named pseudosuchians\nA member of Gavialoidea. Genus includes new species O. eoafricanus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Newly named pseudosuchians\nA sphagesaurid crocodyliform. Originally described as a species of Sphagesaurus, but subsequently transferred to the genus Caipirasuchus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named dinosaurs\n28 new dinosaur genera were erected in 2008. Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named dinosaurs\nA new genus for \"Iguanodon\" lakotaensis (Weishampel and Bjork, 1989).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named dinosaurs\nObjective junior synonym of Nedoceratops; possible junior synonym of Triceratops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nAn Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Columbidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Cathayornithidae Zhou, Jin et Zhang, 2006, Enantiornithes Walker, 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Certhioidea, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nBasal pygostylia, Sapeornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nAn Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Avisauridae Brett-Surman et Paul, 1985, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Primitive Confuciusornithidae Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Plotopteridae Howard, 1969, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Spheniscidae, when it became extinct it made room for Megadyptes antipodes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nDescribed in the Psittaciformes, Gerald Mayr, 2009 sees no reasons to place the species in Psittaciformes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nAn Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus and the type genus of the new family Pengornithidae Wang, O\u2019Connor, Zheng, Wang, Hu et Zhou, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0024-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Cathartidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0025-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nA Cuculidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0026-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nAn Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0027-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Archosaurs, Dinosaurs, Newly named birds\nBasal Aves, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0028-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Squamates, new taxa\nA \"booid\"-grade snake of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Itaboraiophis depressus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0029-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Squamates, new taxa\nA member of Anguimorpha, might be related to the Chinese crocodile lizard. The type species is Merkurosaurus ornatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0030-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Squamates, new taxa\nA snake related to members of the genus Ungaliophis. The type species is Paraungaliophis pricei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0031-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Squamates, new taxa\nA booid-grade snake of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Paulacoutophis perplexus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0032-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Squamates, new taxa\nA member of Mosasauroidea of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Vallecillosaurus donrobertoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0033-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Sauropterygians, New taxa\nNichollsia preoccupied by a genus of isopod, renamed in 2009 to Nichollssaura", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0034-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Delphinoidea belonging to the family Albireonidae, a species of Albireo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0035-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA multituberculate belonging to the family Pinheirodontidae. The type species is C. abadi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0036-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Protocetidae. The type species is Crenatocetus rayi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0037-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Canidae belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae, a species of Cynarctoides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0038-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Mustelidae belonging to the subfamily Lutrinae. The type species is D. dabba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0039-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Gelocidae belonging to the subfamily Pseudoceratinae. The type species is F. floridanus; genus also includes \"Pseudoceras\" klausi Frick (1937).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0040-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Brontotheriidae; a new genus for \"Telmatherium\" diploconus Osborn (1895)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0041-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Borhyaenidae. The type species is Fredszalaya hunteri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0042-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA rodent belonging to the family Zegdoumyidae, a species of Glibia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0043-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA rodent belonging to the family Heteromyidae, a species of Mioheteromys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0044-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nProbably a member of the family Adapidae. The type species is Namaia bogenfelsi. The generic name turned out to be preoccupied; Pickford and Uhen (2014) created a replacement name Notnamaia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0045-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Cimolesta belonging to the family Todralestidae. The type species is Namalestes gheerbranti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0046-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Brontotheriidae; a new genus for \"Metatitan\" progressus Granger and Gregory (1943).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0047-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Brontotheriidae; a new genus for \"Telmatherium\" altidens Osborn (1908).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0048-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA rodent belonging to the family Diamantomyidae. The type species is Prepomonomys bogenfelsi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0049-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA rodent belonging to the family Myophiomyidae. The type species is Silicamys cingulatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0050-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Synapsids, Mammal\nA member of Brontotheriidae. The type species is Wickia brevirhinus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199907-0051-0000", "contents": "2008 in paleontology, Footnotes, Complete author list\nAs science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199908-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in piracy\nThere were 49 ships reported pirate attacks in the first three months of 2008, up from 41 in that period of 2007. According to the ICC International Maritime Bureau, in those attacks: \"Seven crew members were taken hostage, six kidnapped, three killed and one missing \u2013 presumed dead.\" Up until mid-November 2008, more than 90 vessels had been attacked by pirates in the year. At the same time, with a more than 75 per cent increase since the previous year, pirates were holding 13 ships captive in the Somali ports of Eyl and Hobyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199909-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199909-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in poetry, Works published in English\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199909-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in poetry, Works published in English, New Zealand, Best New Zealand Poetry 2007\nThe year's guest editor, who chose 25 poems for inclusion, was Paula Green. The list appeared at the series website in February 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 85], "content_span": [86, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199909-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in poetry, Works published in English, United States, Poets in The Best American Poetry 2008\nThese poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008, with David Lehman, general editor, and Charles Wright, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ISBN\u00a00-7432-9973-6):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 97], "content_span": [98, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199909-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199910-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in politics\nThese are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199910-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in politics, Events, January\n<I'm not sure if this should be on the politics' page *January 25 - China's worst snowstorm since 1954 kills 133, delays traffic, and causes massive power outages in central and southern parts of the country./>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199911-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in professional wrestling\n2008 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199911-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in professional wrestling, Title changes, WWE\nRaw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, a women's championship, and a male tag team championship. ECW only had a world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199913-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199914-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in rock music\nThis article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199915-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in rugby league\n2008 was celebrated in Australia as the centenary of rugby league football, as in Australia it was in 1908 that the code broke away from rugby. The highlight of the year was the World Cup, which was held in Australia in October and November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199916-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in rugby union\nHere are the match results of the 2008 Rugby union season. Qualifiers for the 2011 Rugby World Cup began in the Caribbean, meanwhile the Six Nations Championship and the Tri Nations are set for another season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199917-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in science\nThe year 2008 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight\nThe year 2008 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including the first flyby of Mercury by a spacecraft since 1975, the discovery of water ice on Mars by the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in May, the first Chinese spacewalk in September, the launch of the first Indian Lunar probe in October, and the first successful flight of a privately developed orbital launch vehicle by SpaceX's Falcon 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Overview\nThe internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, 100\u00a0kilometres above sea level. The first recorded spaceflight launch of the year occurred on 11 January, when a Black Brant was launched on a suborbital trajectory from White Sands, with the LIDOS ultraviolet astronomy payload. This was followed by the first orbital launch of the year on 15 January, by a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL, with the Thuraya 3 communications satellite. The launch marked the return to flight for Sea Launch following the explosion of a Zenit-3SL on the launch pad the previous January during an attempt to launch the NSS-8 satellite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Overview\nFive carrier rockets made their maiden flights in 2008; the Ariane 5ES, Long March 3C, Zenit-3SLB, PSLV-XL, and the operational version of the Falcon 1, with an uprated Merlin-1C engine. These were all derived from existing systems. The Blue Sparrow and Sejjil missiles also conducted their maiden flights, and the ATK Launch Vehicle made its only flight, but was destroyed by range safety after it went off course. In November, the baseline Proton-M was retired in favour of the Enhanced variant, first launched in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Overview\nThe first Vietnamese and Venezuelan satellites, Vinasat-1 and Venesat-1 respectively, were launched in 2008, while a failed Iranian launch was reported to have been that country's first indigenous orbital launch attempt. In September, SpaceX conducted the first successful orbital launch of a privately developed and funded liquid-fuelled carrier rocket, when the fourth Falcon 1 launched RatSat, following previous failures in 2006, 2007, and August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Space exploration\nIndia launched its first Lunar probe, Chandraayan-1, on 22 October, with the spacecraft entering selenocentric orbit on 8 November. On 16 November, the Moon Impact Probe was released, and crashed into the Lunar surface. Although no other spacecraft were launched beyond geocentric orbit in 2008, several significant events occurred in interplanetary flights which had been launched in previous years. MESSENGER conducted flybys of Mercury in January and October, the first spacecraft to do so since Mariner 10 in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0004-0001", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Space exploration\nCassini continued to make flybys of the moons of Saturn, including several close passes of Enceladus, one at a distance of 25\u00a0kilometres. In September Rosetta flew past the asteroid 2867 \u0160teins. On 25 May, the Phoenix spacecraft landed in the Green Valley on Mars, where it discovered water ice. Phoenix exceeded its design life of 90 days, finally failing on 10 November. The Ulysses spacecraft, launched in 1990, was also retired in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Crewed spaceflight\nSeven crewed flights were launched in 2008, one by China, two by Russia and four by the United States. In April, Yi So-yeon became the first South Korean to fly in space, aboard Soyuz TMA-12. On the same flight, Sergey Volkov became the first second-generation cosmonaut. Yi returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-11, which nearly ended in disaster following a separation failure between the descent and service modules, resulting in a ballistic reentry. In September, China conducted its third crewed mission, Shenzhou 7, from which Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming conducted the first Chinese spacewalk. Soyuz TMA-13, launched in October, was the hundredth flight of the Soyuz programme to carry a crew at some point in its mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Crewed spaceflight\nAssembly of the International Space Station continued, with the delivery of the Columbus module by Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-122 in February. March saw the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle, an uncrewed European spacecraft which was used to resupply the space station. Also in March, Space Shuttle  Endeavour launched on STS-123 with the first component of the Japanese Experiment Module, the Experiment Logistics Module. STS-123 marked the final flight of the Spacelab programme, with a SpaceLab pallet used to carry the Canadian-built Dextre RMS extension. The second JEM component, the main pressurised module, was launched by STS-124, flown by  Discovery in May. In November, Endeavour launched on the STS-126 logistics flight, with the Leonardo MPLM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Launch failures\nOn 14 March, a Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage launched AMC-14. Several hours later, on 15 March, the Briz-M engine cut off prematurely during a burn, leaving the satellite in a medium Earth orbit. Following a small legal dispute, the satellite was sold, and raised to a geosynchronous orbit by its manoeuvring thrusters, at the expense of a large amount of its fuel and hence operational life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Launch failures\nOn 3 August, SpaceX launched the third Falcon 1. Due to residual thrust caused by the upgraded Merlin-1C engine which was being flown for the first time, the first stage recontacted the second during staging, resulting in the rocket failing to reach orbit. The Trailblazer, PreSat and NanoSail-D satellites were lost in the failure, as was a space burial capsule, containing the remains of several hundred people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper, actor James Doohan, writer and director John Meredyth Lucas and Apollo mission planner Mareta West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Launch failures\nOn 16 August, Iran launched a Safir, which though officially successful, was reported to have failed due to a second stage malfunction. The purpose of this launch is in doubt, as before the launch it was claimed that it would place the Omid into orbit, whilst following the launch, it was reported that a boilerplate payload had been launched. Other reports indicated that the launch was only a suborbital test of the rocket. If this was an orbital launch attempt, it was the first Iranian attempt to launch a satellite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Launch failures\nOn 22 August, the inaugural launch of the Alliant Techsystems ALV X-1 was terminated 27 seconds after launch from Wallops Flight Facility when it veered off course. Both hypersonic physics experiments on board were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Summary of launches\nIn total, sixty nine orbital launches were made in 2008, with sixty seven reaching orbit, and two outright failures if the Iranian launch in August is counted. This is an increase of one orbital launch attempt on 2007, with two more launches reaching orbit, which continues a trend of increasing launch rates seen since 2006. The final launch of the year was conducted on 25 December, by a Proton-M with three GLONASS navigation satellites for the Russian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Summary of launches\nSuborbital spaceflight in 2008 saw a number of sounding rocket and missile launches. On 21 February, a RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 was used as an anti-satellite weapon to destroy the USA-193 satellite. USA-193 was a US spy satellite which had failed immediately after launch in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Summary of launches, By country\nChina conducted twelve orbital launches of a planned fifteen. Europe had intended to conduct seven launches of Ariane 5 rockets, and the maiden flight of the Vega rocket, however payload delays pushed one of the Arianes into 2009, and the Vega was delayed due to development issues. India had originally scheduled five to seven launches, however only three of these were conducted, mostly due to delays with the launch of Chandraayan-1. Japan scheduled three launches for 2008, of which one was launched; an H-IIA with WINDS in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0013-0001", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Summary of launches, By country\nRussia and the former Soviet Union conducted twenty six launches, not including the international Sea and Land launch programmes, which conducted six. Fourteen launches were conducted by the United States, which had originally announced plans to launch many more, however technical issues with several rockets, particularly the Atlas V, Delta II and Falcon 1, caused a number of delays. The Atlas problems, combined with a series of delays to the launch of NRO L-26 on a Delta IV, resulted in just two of ten planned EELV launches being conducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199918-0013-0002", "contents": "2008 in spaceflight, Summary of launches, By country\nTwo of six planned Space Shuttle launches were also delayed to 2009, one due to problems with External Tank delivery, and another due to a major systems failure on the Hubble Space Telescope, which it was to have serviced. Israel was not reported to have scheduled, or conducted an orbital launch attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports\n2008 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\nThe following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events by month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n2/29 \u2013 IFL: Las Vegas (Start of 2008 IFL season)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n3/5 \u2013 World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 1 (Sengoku Raiden Championship's first event)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n4/11 YAMMA Pit Fighting 1 (YAMMA Pit Fighting's first and only event)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n5/16 \u2013 IFL: Connecticut (Last IFL event; 2008 Season nevercompletely finished)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n6/21 \u2013 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n12/13 \u2013 The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir Finale", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Mixed martial arts\n12/31 \u2013 Dynamite!! 2008 (Event featured ten DREAM MMA bouts and eight K-1 kickboxing bouts)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199919-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in sports, Tennis\nRafael Nadal claimed the World No. 1 ranking for the first time, on August 18, replacing Roger Federer", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199920-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in sumo\nThe following are the events in professional sumo during the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199921-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in swimming\n2008 in swimming documents the highlights of competitive international swimming during 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis\nThis page covers all the important events in the sport of tennis in 2008. Primarily, it provides the results of notable tournaments throughout the year on both the ATP and WTA Tours, the Davis Cup, the Fed Cup and the Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n1 \u2013 World No. 3 Jelena Jankovi\u0107 was forced to withdraw from her Hopman Cup tie against Tatiana Golovin, putting a question mark over whether she will be fit enough to play the Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n2 \u2013 Lindsay Davenport survived a second set scare to edge past Anabel Medina Garrigues, while Xavier Malisse and Mikhail Youzhny both won in the men's event in Chennai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n3 \u2013 Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko, Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107 and Stanislas Wawrinka all advanced into the Qatar Open semi-finals, while Rafael Nadal continued his run in Chennai. Over on the WTA, hometown wildcard Marina Erakovic stunned Vera Zvonareva in Auckland, while defending champion Dinara Safina wasted five match points to lose to Shahar Pe'er in Gold Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n4 \u2013 former world number one Martina Hingis was banned for two years when the verdict over her drugs case was reached. Hingis had dropped the bombshell in October that she had tested positive for cocaine, and retired immediately after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n5 \u2013 Li Na defeated Victoria Azarenka to win the Gold Coast, while three-time Grand Slam champion Lindsay Davenport won her third tournament since her comeback in Auckland. On the ATP, Micha\u00ebl Llodra beat Jarkko Nieminen to win Adelaide, Andy Murray won the Qatar Open and Rafael Nadal beat Carlos Moy\u00e0 to reach the Chennai final. United States team Serena Williams and Mardy Fish defeated Serbia to win the 2008 Hopman Cup. Finally, Venus Williams beat Maria Sharapova 6\u20134, 6\u20133 to win the JB Group Classic, an exhibition tournament, in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n6 \u2013 World No. 2 Rafael Nadal was thrashed 6\u20130, 6\u20131 by Mikhail Youzhny in the Chennai Open final. Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo announced her withdrawal from the following week's Medibank International tournament. Three time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten announced that he expected 2008 to be his final year of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n7 \u2013 Roger Federer withdrew from exhibition event the AAMI Kooyong Classic due to illness, while at the joint tournament in Sydney, Anna Chakvetadze, Elena Dementieva and defending men's champion James Blake all suffered shock defeats. Jelena Doki\u0107 won her first WTA main draw match in two years by defeating Martina M\u00fcller at Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n8 \u2013 The ITF, ATP, WTA and organisers of all four slams announced that they would come together and review their anti-corruption policies, in light of recent events. Former British police officers, Jeffrey Rees and Ben Gunn, who have helped stamp out corruption in cricket and horse racing, have been hired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n9 \u2013 Lleyton Hewitt suffered another blow in his preparations for the 2008 Australian Open, making a second early exit in as many weeks; this time in Sydney. Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1 earned a shock victory over third seeded Jelena Jankovi\u0107 on the women's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n10 \u2013 The women's final of the Medibank International took shape \u2013 Justine Henin defeated Ana Ivanovic in three sets, whilst Svetlana Kuznetsova completed a tight two set victory over Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n11 \u2013 The singles draws for the Australian Open were announced. WTA chief Larry Scott released a statement highlighting the threat of organised crime, in particular, the Russian mafia, in the corruption of the sport. Justine Henin defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to win the women's Medibank International tournament. Eleni Daniilidou won in Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n12 \u2013 Dmitry Tursunov won the Medibank International 7\u20136(3), 7\u20136(4); ending Chris Guccione's dream run. Philipp Kohlschreiber triumphed in Auckland, defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero; and Andy Roddick won the Kooyong Classic exhibition, taking down Marcos Baghdatis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n13 \u2013 World No. 1 Roger Federer announced that he would play an exhibition match against Pete Sampras, to follow up the three in Asia during November 2007; this time at Madison Square Gardens, New York City. Outside of tournament play, it was reported that the Australian Open could be at risk due to Chinese ambitions of their own Grand Slam, something that Roger Federer and Serena Williams have publicly spoken out against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n14 \u2013 The 2008 Australian Open begins, with the singles matches. Jelena Jankovi\u0107, the women's no. 3 seed, survived a first round scare against Tamira Paszek, saving five match points. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga sent men's no. 9 seed Andy Murray packing with a 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 0\u20136, 7\u20136 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n15 \u2013 After the ATP match-fixing scandal, the WTA Tour announced that several female tennis players had been approached about throwing tennis matches. Sofia Arvidsson caused the first big upset on the women's side, knocking out tenth seed Marion Bartoli. Gustavo Kuerten announces that he will officially retire after the French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n16 \u2013 Play at the Australian Open was disrupted for the second year in a row by crowd riots, between Cypriot and Greek supporters in the match between Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez and Konstantinos Economidis, forcing the police to intervene. Maria Sharapova beat former winner Lindsay Davenport in the women's second round. In men's second round action, Tommy Robredo lost easily to Mardy Fish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n18 \u2013 Taiwanese player Hsieh Su-wei reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career, having never made it past the first round before. Home favourite Casey Dellacqua stunned 2006 champion Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Andy Roddick lost in a five-set thriller, going down to Philipp Kohlschreiber 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20137, 8\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n19 \u2013 No. 2 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova was sent crashing out by Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, while No. 6 seed Anna Chakvetadze lost to Maria Kirilenko in two shocking upsets in the women's draw. Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt wowed the Australian crowds, both pulling out two thrilling five set wins. Federer beat Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 6\u20137, 7\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20131, 10\u20138, while Hewitt outlasted Marcos Baghdatis 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20135, 6\u20137, 6\u20133. Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez lost to Marin \u010cili\u0107 in four sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n20 \u2013 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reached his maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal with a win over eighth seed Richard Gasquet. Mikhail Youzhny upset fourth-seeded compatriot Nikolay Davydenko in an all-Russian clash. In the women's draw, the favourites all moved through with ease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n21 \u2013 The quarterfinal line-ups were set in both the men and women's draws, with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams being just a few of the eight players who moved through with wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n22 \u2013 Maria Sharapova snapped world No. 1 Justine Henin's 32-match winning streak with a crushing 6\u20134, 6\u20130 defeat, while Jelena Jankovi\u0107 stunned defending champion Serena Williams with a 6\u20133, 6\u20134 victory in the women's quarterfinals. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga continued his incredible run in the men's quarterfinals, beating Mikhail Youzhny to set up a meeting with No. 2 Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n23 \u2013 Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic set up a men's semifinal clash, while Ana Ivanovic beat Venus Williams for the first time, to go on to meet Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, who beat Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n24 \u2013 The women's final was set as Maria Sharapova beat Jelena Jankovi\u0107 6\u20133, 6\u20131; she will now meet Ana Ivanovic who came from losing the first eight games of the match to beat Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 0\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134. In the men's play, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reached his first Grand Slam final with a titanic upset over No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0024-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n25 \u2013 Sisters Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko won the women's doubles tournament by defeating Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Pe'er 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final. Novak Djokovic beat world number one Roger Federer in straight sets to advance to his second Grand Slam final, where he will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0025-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n26 \u2013 Maria Sharapova defeats Ana Ivanovic to win the 2008 Australian Open women's singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0026-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, January\n27 \u2013 Novak Djokovic defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the 2008 Australian Open men's singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0027-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, June\n7 \u2013 2007 finalist Ana Ivanovic beats Dinara Safina to win the French Open and with this win Ivanovic would become the new World No. 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0028-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, June\n8 \u2013 Three time defending champion Rafael Nadal thrashes Three time runner-up Roger Federer 6\u20131, 6\u20133, 6\u20130 in the French Open Final to finish the most lopsided match of their long and storied rivalry. This is the first time since 1999 that Federer has lost a set 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0029-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, July\nRafael Nadal dethrones five time defending champion Roger Federer 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20137(5), 6\u20137(8), 9\u20137 in what many consider the greatest match of the decade. Nadal won his first Wimbledon title in near darkness after over four hours of play and over 2 hours of rain delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0030-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, News, September\n8 - US Open: Roger Federer  wins the Men's Singles and Serena Williams wins the Women's Singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199922-0031-0000", "contents": "2008 in tennis, ITF, 2008 Hopman Cup\nThe Hopman Cup is the Official Mixed Team Competition of the ITF, played at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, in Perth, Australia. It is considered an exhibition competition as players do not gain ranking points for competing in the tournament. This year the USA's pairing of Mardy Fish and Serena Williams (who was replaced for the first group match by Meghann Shaughnessy) defeated Novak Djokovic and Jelena Jankovi\u0107 of Serbia in the final. This was the 20th edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199923-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nThe following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199923-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, May\nCobalt production operations resume at Katanga Mining's Luilu Metallurgical Plant after an extensive restoration program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199923-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, November\nKatanga Mining announced temporary suspension of mining and ore processing at the Kolwezi concentrator due to the depressed price of cobalt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199925-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Netherlands\nThis article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199927-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Philippines\n2008 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199927-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Philippines, National holidays\nHolidays in italics are \"special days\", while those in regular type are \"regular holidays\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199927-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in the Philippines, National holidays\nIn addition, several other places observe local holidays, such as the foundation of their town. These are also \"special days.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199928-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the United Arab Emirates\nEvents from the year 2008 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199930-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the United States\nEvents from the year 2008 in the United States of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199931-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the decathlon\nThis page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2008 in the men's decathlon. The main event during this season were the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the competition was held at the Beijing National Stadium on August 21 and August 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199932-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the environment\nThis is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 2008. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199933-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in the sport of athletics\nThis article contains an overview of the year 2008 in athletics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199934-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in track cycling, National Championships\n2008 Dutch National Track Championships French National Track Championships Australian National Track Championships British National Track Championships United States National Track Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199934-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in track cycling, Six-day events\nThe 2008 Six Days Track Cycling Events are multi-race competitions, each taking place over six days at various locations in mainland Europe. The riders challenge each other in track cycling disciplines including the madison, track time trials, sprints, and Derny motor-paced races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games\n2008 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games. New intellectual properties include Army of Two, Dead Space, iRacing, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet, Mirror's Edge, Race Driver: Grid, and Spore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Worldwide\nThe following are the best-selling games of 2008 in terms of worldwide retail sales. These games sold at least 5 million units worldwide in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Canada\nVideo game console sales in Canada (first seven months of 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Japan\nVideo game console sales of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 \u2013 December 28, 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Japan\nBest-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 \u2013 December 28, 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Japan\nBest-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 \u2013 December 21, 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, United States\nVideo game console sales in the US (first six months of 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, United States\nBest-selling video games of 2008 in the US (by platform)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, United States\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0In the IGN articles used as sources, IGN lists the titles as the \"Top 10 Sellers in 2008\"; however, the IGN articles were published on December 9\u201312, 2008, so the articles might not take into account November and December sales figures, as the NPD Group did not release November's console game sales figures until December 11, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, United States\nBest-selling console games of all time in the US (as of May 1, 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, United States\nNote: This list only includes games that were released after NPD started tracking video game sales data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Other\nBest-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (January\u2013July 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Hardware and software sales, Other\nBest-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (July\u2013September 2008)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199935-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 in video games, Critically acclaimed titles\nMetacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan\nThe invasion of Anjouan (code-named Operation Democracy in Comoros), on\u00a025 March 2008, was an amphibious assault led by the Comoros, backed by African Union (AU) forces, including troops from Sudan, Tanzania, Senegal, along with logistical support from Libya and France. The objective of the invasion was to topple Colonel Mohamed Bacar's leadership in Anjouan, an island in the Union of Comoros, when he refused to step down after a disputed 2007 election, in defiance of the federal government and the AU. The Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean has had a fractious history since independence from France in 1975, experiencing more than 20 coups or attempted coups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan\nThe invasion occurred on the early morning of 25\u00a0March 2008. The main towns were quickly overrun and the island was declared under the control of the invading forces the same day. Mohamed Bacar managed to escape to Mayotte on March 26 and requested political asylum. He was subsequently held in custody there by the French administration and brought to the island of R\u00e9union. On\u00a015 May France rejected Bacar's request for asylum but the French refugee office ruled that the ousted leader could not be extradited to the Comoros because of the risk of persecution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Tensions rise\nThe Comoran federal Government delayed the holding of an election on Anjouan due to alleged irregularities and intimidation, but Bacar nevertheless printed ballots and held an election in June, claiming  a landslide victory of 90 per cent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Military build-up\nIn March 2008, hundreds of the Comoran Government troops began assembling on Moh\u00e9li, which is closer to Anjouan than the larger island, Grande Comore. Sudan and Senegal provided a total of 750 troops, while Libya offered logistical support for the operation. In addition, 500 Tanzanian troops were due to arrive soon after. France, the former colonial power, also assisted the operation by airlifting AU troops to the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Military build-up\nVows of resistance from the self-declared President of Anjouan were met with stern words from the AU envoy, saying \"He will be overwhelmed...I am afraid to say that if he tries to do that, it will be the end of him physically, if necessary.\" In an interview with IRIN, Mohamed Bacar said: \"[National President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed] Sambi does not know anything concerning the military, but if I had to advise him I would say that it's not the solution. The first time [1997] the army came we kicked them out. The second time [May 2007] the army came we kicked them out. That means that if they try to come a third time we will kick them out.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Military build-up\nAnjouan promised to hold new elections in May 2008, which South African President Thabo Mbeki supported as a way to resolve the crisis. Mbeki once more tried to stop the invasion on 14\u00a0March but the AU disregarded his proposal and the invasion went ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nOn 3\u00a0March 2008, a fuel ship supplying the Comoros Army caught fire in the port of Comoros' capital, Moroni. The cause of the fire was unknown. On 11\u00a0March an armed incursion occurred on the islands where three members of the Anjouan Militia loyal to President Bacar were captured and taken to Moh\u00e9li for interrogation. Diplomacy continued with an intervention by South African President Mbeki who attempted to delay the planned AU invasion to the distinct displeasure of the Comorian Government. It is understood that Mbeki spoke to the head of the AU, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, by phone on 14\u00a0March to stall the attack, intended to depose Bacar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nDespite this intervention, a fishing boat with soldiers left Moheli for Anjouan on\u00a014 March. There were conflicting statements from both sides, with Comoran and AU military sources reporting that a fishing boat carrying around fifty soldiers from the Government of Comoros landed in southern Anjouan and attempted to capture a police station. In a later statement Comoran Chief of Staff Salim Mohamed revised the information and said a reconnaissance team of about 10 soldiers landed on 14\u00a0March in the south of Anjouan island and reached the southern town of Domoni. Two soldiers were wounded, a federal source said. \"The target of the operation was the Domoni police station in Anjouan so as to free political prisoners,\" said the source.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nThe troops then retreated back to Moh\u00e9li and returned to Anjouan on Sunday 16\u00a0March to rescue the two wounded soldiers. According to a military source one federal soldier suffered an arm injury and another had a minor foot injury. The same sources reported that during the course of the operation \"about twenty people\" in Domoni died as a result of the Comoran and AU bombardment of Anjouanese positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0008-0001", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nThese facts were disputed by the Anjouan administration which insisted that one of the two Comoran soldiers who had attacked Anjouanais positions in Domoni on 15\u00a0March had in fact died and that the police station was not captured. They stated that the Comoran and AU forces had been ambushed by Anjouanais forces during the early stages of their incursion at Domoni and had been forced to withdraw from what was a hopeless situation,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nContrary to its republican mission the National Army of Development (Comoran Army) devotes itself to taking innocent citizens as hostages whose only wrong is to be Anjouanese and not Sambist. In addition to the fishermen kidnapped at Marahare and Mromhouli, a second aggression [by] the National Army of Development dissident forces supported by the trawler provided by Iran failed. The elements of the [Anjouanese] Gendarmerie retaliated in self-defence, wounding two of the gangster attackers including one lethally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nFrance's role in the crisis was brought into question when, on 19\u00a0March a French police helicopter on an unauthorised, clandestine mission from the French-administered Comoro island of Mayotte crashed in the sea close to the city of Sima on Anjouan. Reports from officials in the Comoros said that no one was hurt in the crash. The helicopter was owned by France's Mayotte-based air and border police force. Critics allege the helicopter was involved in an attempt to bring Bacar into French exile, and that Bacar was only holding out so long because he was protected by the French. Lieutenant-Colonel Salimou Mohamed Amiri, Comoros Government Spokesman, declared:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nWe don't know what it was doing. You can imagine the rumors. The Government of Comoros did not allow them to come. They were not authorized ... The French said they sent other air and naval assets to pick up the crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Background, Pre-invasion incidents\nThe French military had already transported about 300 Tanzanian troops and 30 tons of freight to Grand Comore between 14\u00a0March and 16\u00a0March. According to reports a French diplomat said that France was ready to transport Senegalese troops as well, but had not yet done so. The diplomatic source said France remains \"favourable\" to dialogue but on condition that Bacar accepts the presence of African troops at the port and airport of Anjouan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Invasion\nOn the morning of 24\u00a0March 2008, five boats transporting approximately 1,500 AU soldiers left the port of Fomboni, capital of the island of Moh\u00e9li. Bacar and his troops vowed to fight until the last man was left standing, with an Anjouan lieutenant stating, \"We will fight until we die.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Invasion\nIt was reported that the runway at Ouani Airport close to Mutsamudu was blocked with baggage trolleys and the atmosphere was tense as the island braced itself for the impending assault. Before the telephone lines were cut an Anjouan government spokesperson was quoted as saying: \"They have decided to kill but we are not afraid. We are well prepared. Our forces are ready and it's going to work!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Invasion\nAbout 450 troops landed on the north side of the Anjouan Bay at dawn on 25\u00a0March. The first shots were heard around 5\u00a0a.m. (GMT+3) on the island, in the town of Ouani, near the airport and the presidential residence. The combined forces quickly advanced on the town of Ouani to secure the airfield. The BBC reported that the island's capital, airport, seaport and second city were all overrun by dawn, to scenes of jubilation from the local population. By mid-day, the presidential palace was deserted. But other journalists reported that the African forces had \"struggled to progress further under the automatic fire of Anjouan forces\" and in the afternoon \"clashes with heavy artillery continued to shake the town of Ouani.\" The army was reportedly looking for Bacar's hiding place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Invasion\nAfter the airport was secured the invasion force apparently split where part of it headed south-west to engage Anjouanais loyalists in the capital, Mutsumudu, and the remainder headed south-east capturing the port of Bambao M'Sanga and the second city of Domoni without resistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Invasion\nEarly reports indicated that the Bacar Government had fled to the interior of the island and were in hiding, however later uncorroborated reports from the Comoros Government on 25\u00a0March stated that Bacar had fled the island incognito seeking exile in Mayotte. There was no comment from the Bacar Government but the Comoran Government spokesperson said that the invasion troops had been told to look for him and were conducting house to house searches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nBacar managed to escape to Mayotte by speedboat and reports on 26\u00a0March confirmed his presence on the island and stated he had requested political asylum in France. The Associated Press reported from Paris that France was considering the request for political asylum but Comoran leaders demanded that France should return Bacar to the Comoros, and there have been anti-French protests calling for the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0018-0001", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nFrance stated that it was treating the asylum request as quickly as possible, but, on 27\u00a0March Bacar was moved to the French island of R\u00e9union, where he was charged and investigated for illegally entering French territory while carrying weapons, along with 23 of his followers. The case was rejected for procedural reasons, but Bacar and the 23 others remained in custody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nBy the end of March, several prominent supporters of Bacar had been arrested, including Caabi El-Yachroutu, a former Vice-President, Prime Minister and Interim President of Comoros. Three others were found in hiding near Domoni on 29\u00a0March including Mohamed Abdou Mmadi (a former Minister of Transport and spokesman for Bacar), Ibrahim Halidi (a former Prime Minister and advisor to Bacar), and Ahmed Abdallah Sourette (a former President of the Constitutional Court).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nOn 5\u00a0April 2008, Bacar was remanded in custody. Comoran President Sambi visited Anjouan in early April, marking his first visit to the island since May 2007. He said that he hoped that separatism in Anjouan would cease with the removal of Bacar from power, and he praised the African leaders who had provided assistance for the invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nContrary to previous reports that France was against the invasion, France gave its approval and helped to air-lift the AU troops to the island. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner stressed on 8\u00a0April that France had not supported Bacar or provided him with any protection, and that it had fully supported African Union intervention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0022-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nOn 18\u00a0April Bacar and with 21 of his close guards were released from prison and returned to house arrest at the R\u00e9union military airbase. On 23\u00a0April it was announced that the French Office of Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Office fran\u00e7ais de protection des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et apatrides; OFPRA) had granted asylum to two of Bacar's men and refused asylum for six of them; those whose requests were rejected were to be sent to a third country and not returned to the Comoros due to fears of persecution. OFPRA had yet to rule on the cases of Bacar or his other men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199937-0023-0000", "contents": "2008 invasion of Anjouan, Aftermath\nBacar's asylum request was rejected on 15\u00a0May 2008. France's Secretary of State for Overseas, Yves J\u00e9go, said France would support the Comoran Government's efforts. \"We will continue to act in consultation with the Comoros so that the law can be applied and Colonel Bacar can be tried.\" Presidential elections in Anjouan occurred on 15\u00a0June and 29\u00a0June 2008. The election was won by Moussa Toybou, who defeated Mohamed Djaanfari in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199938-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 national road cycling championships\nThe 2008 national road cycling championships begin in January in Australia and New Zealand. Most of the other national championships do not take place until June or July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199938-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 national road cycling championships, Jerseys\nThe winner of each national championship wears the national jersey in all their races for the next year in the respective discipline, apart from the World Championships. The jerseys tend to represent the countries' flag or use the colours from it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace\nIn 2008, two attempts were made by separate groups involved in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement to occupy \u02bbIolani Palace, the home of the last two monarchs of the Hawaiian Kingdom in downtown Honolulu in the U.S. state of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, April 30 occupation of \u02bbIolani Palace grounds\nAt around 9:00 a.m. on the morning of April 30, 2008, roughly seventy members of a group that described itself as the Hawaiian Kingdom Government blocked entrance to the grounds of \u02bbIolani Palace in a move to assert the group's purported status as the Hawaiian Kingdom's government. According to the group's leader, Mahealani Kahau, the group put up yellow \"No Trespassing\" signs at the entrances to the palace grounds to \"give awareness and notice to everyone that passes that the Hawaiian Kingdom Government has resumed its lawful status as the seat of government.\" Following negotiations between the group and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the state agency with jurisdiction over the palace, the gates were reopened at around 2:00 p.m. No one was arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, April 30 occupation of \u02bbIolani Palace grounds\nThe group returned to the palace grounds the following day, but did not block the palace entrances and instead peacefully occupied a portion of the palace's lawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, Statehood Day occupation\nOn August 15, 2008, independence proponents occupied \u02bbIolani Palace for four hours. The trespassing incident happened on Statehood Day 2008. On August 15, 2008, at 4:30 in the afternoon, 27 members of the so-called Kingdom of Hawaii Nation, a national-independence fringe faction, entered the grounds of \u02bbIolani Palace. The group was led by James Akahi, who claims descent from Kamehameha I and called himself \"Majesty Akahi Nui, King of Hawaii\". Fifteen to twenty members of the group wore red shirts with \"SECURITY\" printed in yellow on the backs while other members wore black. The purported mission of the group was to establish the palace as a new seat of government, undermine the State government, and declare the independence of Hawaii from the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, Statehood Day occupation\nSix to ten employees of the Friends of \u02bbIolani Palace, the nonprofit that administers the palace on behalf of the state, and the nonprofit's director, Kippen de Alba Chu, locked down the buildings and locked themselves inside the administrative building, located next to the palace. Facilities manager Noelani Ah Yuen attempted to stop the intruders from locking the east gate and was injured by the trespassers; she also withdrew into the administrative building. The group flew their flag and entered \u02bbIolani Barracks and Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, Statehood Day occupation\nDuring the trespassing incident, a city police officer refused to stop the trespassers because the palace grounds are state property and hence under the jurisdiction of the state police, the HDPS. Police chief Boisse Correa rejected claims his officers committed wrongdoing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199939-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 occupation of Iolani Palace, Statehood Day occupation\nSeven members of the group were arraigned on burglary charges. Charges against six were dismissed, and James Akahi was acquitted of felony burglary charges, but convicted of simple trespass and fined. Two group members were tried for assaulting an employee of the palace and acquitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence\nWidespread protests and riots in Serbia and North Kosovo followed the proclamation of independence by the Republic of Kosovo on February 17, 2008. Protests were also held by Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest\nOn February 21, a very large demonstration called Kosovo is Serbia (\u041a\u043e\u0441\u043e\u0432\u043e \u0458\u0435 \u0421\u0440\u0431\u0438\u0458\u0430, Kosovo je Srbija) was held in Belgrade in front of the Parliament organized by the Serbian government, with up to hundreds of thousands people attending it. Speakers at the protest were: Prime Minister Vojislav Ko\u0161tunica, opposition leader Tomislav Nikoli\u0107, Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, Montenegro opposition leader Andrija Mandi\u0107, Montenegro opposition politician Predrag Popovi\u0107, basketball player Dejan Bodiroga, filmmaker Emir Kusturica, tennis player Novak Djokovic (via link), actors Ivana \u017digon, Nenad Jezdi\u0107 and Nata\u0161a Tapu\u0161kovi\u0107, and Yugoslav crown prince Alexander Kara\u0111or\u0111evi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest\nAfter the protest, people went to the Temple of Saint Sava for a religious service, where a speech was held by acting head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Archbishop Amfilohije Risto Radovi\u0107 of Montenegro and the Littoral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest\nThe president of Serbia and commander-in-chief of Serbian Armed Forces, Boris Tadic (Democratic Party), did not attend. The rally was not supported by the Liberal Democratic Party nor by the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, both of which are represented in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest, Attacks on diplomatic missions and businesses\nThe protest was peaceful until participants arrived at the US, Slovenian and Croatian embassies, where a group of about 1000 riotersseparated themselves and started attacking the embassies. They burned the US embassy, entered and destroyed the interior and exterior of the Slovenian embassy and caused minor damage to the Croatian embassy. The security cameras in the Slovenian embassy also filmed the action outside the embassy where Serbian police didn't try to stop the protesters from entering the embassy, instead they moved away, which caused protests in Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 137], "content_span": [138, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0004-0001", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest, Attacks on diplomatic missions and businesses\nEmergency services were able to put the fire out in embassies after protesters dissipated. At around 21:00 UTC, American news service CNN reported that \"charred remains\" of an individual had been found inside the burnt-out offices. Flags of United States, Croatia, Slovenia and European Union were also burnt. In response, a group of around fifty Croatian protesters burnt the Serbian flag in central Zagreb, after which the police arrested 44 of them. Police guarded the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on February 22. Other foreign embassies damaged in the course of the protest included those of Belgium, Germany and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 137], "content_span": [138, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0004-0002", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest, Attacks on diplomatic missions and businesses\nIn Belgrade and Novi Sad, McDonald's shops were damaged by protesters. According to Serbian sources, the violent protesters were ad hoc football fans. 54 policemen and 34 citizens were injured. A Dutch journalist suffered broken ribs. Serbian politicians condemned the violence. The total damage from the violence was estimated at over 8 million Serbian dinars ($US 143,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 137], "content_span": [138, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0004-0003", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest, Attacks on diplomatic missions and businesses\nThe United Nations Security Council responded to these incidents by issuing a unanimous statement that, \"The members of the Security Council condemn in the strongest terms the mob attacks against embassies in Belgrade, which have resulted in damage to embassy premises and have endangered diplomatic personnel,\" noting that the 1961 Vienna Convention requires host states to protect embassies. In response to the attacks, the German embassy announced that it would temporarily stop granting visas to Serbian citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 137], "content_span": [138, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0004-0004", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, Kosovo is Serbia protest, Attacks on diplomatic missions and businesses\nAlso on February 21, Serbian army reservists from Kur\u0161umlija took their protest into Kosovo, during which time they attacked the Kosovo Police Service with stones. An explosive was set off in the Kosovo Serb enclave of Kosovska Mitrovica near a United Nations-run courthouse. During the rally there were people who carried portraits of ICTY-fugitive former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karad\u017ei\u0107 and the blue-red flag of the far-right Orthodox organization Obraz. In Kraljevo, Obraz was responsible for the vandalization of an Evangelical church. In Valjevo, a Slovenian firm Sava Osiguranje was set on fire, most likely by protesting youths. The Radio Television of Serbia took American films and sitcoms off the air, replacing them with content from Spain and Russia, who have been against Kosovo's independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 137], "content_span": [138, 950]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 22\nThe Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration warned against travelling to Belgrade, resulting in the cancellation of an Adriatic League basketball match between Zagreb's KK Cibona and Belgrade's KK Partizan. A concert by the Croatian band Hladno pivo scheduled for February 29 was similarly cancelled. Also on February 22, the United States embassy in Serbia ordered the temporary evacuation of all non-essential personnel, after the protests and attacks on the embassy. Rian Harris, a U.S. embassy spokeswoman, explained the evacuation to AFP saying that \"Dependents are being temporarily ordered to depart Belgrade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0005-0001", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 22\nWe do not have confidence that Serbian authorities can provide security for our staff members.\" Slovenia also closed its own embassy, recommending its citizens not to travel to Serbia. The European Union froze talks with Serbia on the Stabilization and Association Agreement, the country's next step in EU-integration. Meanwhile, nationalist organizations were reportedly spreading leaflets urging citizens to boycott banks and goods coming from the countries that support the independence of Kosovo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 23\nThe American embassy drew down staffing in Belgrade with a convoy headed to Croatia. By this time, Serbian authorities reported that 200 rioters from the Belgrade protest had been arrested. The Kosovo-Serbia border crossings had also been normalized. The Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina again expressed criticism of prime minister Ko\u0161tunica and his handling of the events since Kosovo's declaration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 26\nSerbia's National Security Council met to discuss how police had failed to stop the mob from attacking the embassy on the 21st.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 26\nThe United States raised its travel alert for Serbia to a travel warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 26\nZoran Vujovi\u0107, the protester who died during the attack on the U.S. embassy, was buried in Novi Sad on February 26. Several thousand people attended the funeral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 27\nHuman Rights Watch said that \"Serbia's government should act quickly to reduce the dangerously hostile climate for human rights groups\" since the Kosovo declaration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 28\nThe largest protest in Valjevo drew a crowd of several thousand people on February 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia, February 29\nOn February 29, Serbian police charged 80 people in connection with the embassy attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Bosnia and Herzegovina\nProtests were held in Republika Srpska, the Serb-inhabited entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the 26th, about 10,000 protested in Banja Luka; a small group of them later approached the U.S. embassy branch office, damaging shopfronts and stoning police who blocked their path. Eventually, they were dispersed by tear gas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 80], "content_span": [81, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Montenegro\nOn October 9, 2008, Montenegro recognized Kosovo's independence. This move by the Montenegrin government, opposed by many in the country, led to a protest rally in Podgorica on October 13 attended by over 20,000 people. The rally, held in front of the Parliament of Montenegro building, was organized by the Serb List, Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, People's Party, Democratic Serb Party of Montenegro, and other opposition parties. It was backed by Movement for Changes and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovi\u0107 was announced as speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0014-0001", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Montenegro\nDemonstrators demanded that the Montenegrin government and Prime Minister Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 rescind their recognition of Kosovo. They waved Serbian flags, chanting \"Kosovo is Serbia\" and other slogans against the prime minister and his cabinet, calling them ustashas and shiptars. At the end of the rally, riots broke out and small groups attacked riot police in front of the parliament building. The rioters were eventually driven back by police, and 28 people were arrested and 34 were injured. The pro-Serbian opposition planned a second protest on 16 October, but the Montenegrin police said that no protests from the opposition would be accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199940-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence, Diaspora\nProtests were also held in diaspora communities, such as in London (23 February), Vienna (24 February), and by Serbian students in Brussels on 28 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199941-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 protests in Burkina Faso\nThe 2008 Burkina Faso protests was rioting and violent mass demonstrations against food prices hikes in Burkina Faso in 2008, leading to the deaths of 3 demonstrators, who stormed government buildings amid drought and violence with troops. 7 days of protests and violent resistant explosions occurred in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso, where demonstrators clashed with government troops demanding an end to inflation and the decrease of food prices as part of the 2007-2008 world food price crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199941-0000-0001", "contents": "2008 protests in Burkina Faso\nProtesters were also angry about low wages and unemployment skyrocketing, but euro win demands was an end to price rises, which led to the withdrawal of the plan set by president Blaise Compaore. A wave of student protests rocked the country as countrywide anti-government sentiment for the next couple of months was taking place. Protesters attacked buildings and set fire to cars, being close to killed by the military as they fired into the air to quell protesters. The unrest was eventually crushed, leading to the deaths of 3 protesters. No concessions were made apart from price decreases. However, 2 months of general strikes and nonviolent protests occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199942-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada\nThe table below lists the decisions (known as reasons) delivered from the bench by the Supreme Court of Canada during 2008. The table illustrates what reasons were filed by each justice in each case, and which justices joined each reason. This list, however, does not include reasons on motions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia\nOn 1 July 2008, a riot broke out in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital city. The riot was sparked by allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative election which occurred three days earlier. While initially a peaceful protest, the riot resulted in Mongolia's first state of emergency which lasted four days, and a military presence (lasting two of those days) was brought into the city to quell the riot. Five people were killed by the police, and the headquarters of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (who had won the election) was set on fire. Additional suggested causes for the riot include a change to the electoral system which was not well understood, and an increased division between Mongolia's rich and poor population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Background\nIn 2005 Nambariin Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (known as the MPRP and the former communist party) had been elected president, having defeating the Motherland-Democracy Coalition (known as the MDC, a coalition between the larger Democratic Party, the Mongolian New Democratic Socialist Party, and the Civil Will Party). In the 2004 legislative election the MPRP lost 36 of its 72 seats in the State Great Khural (35 of them to the MDC). Following the election the MPRP formed a coalition government with the MDC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0001-0001", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Background\nIn 2005 and 2006 five Democratic Party members changed parties; four members crossed the floor to the MPRP, whilst the Deputy Chairman (Lamjaviin Gundalai) began a new party (the People's Party), having blamed the Prime Minister for \"slow economic growth\". In early 2006 the MPRP was able to reform a government without the MDC coalition (with the four new members who had crossed the floor). In 2007 a new chairman of the MPRP was elected who sought to \"uproot corruption and bureaucracy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Background\nBefore the 2008 election G\u00fcndalai returned to the Democratic Party, and most members of the People's Party ran as Democrats. Key issues in the upcoming election were updating the large agriculture industry and the increase in the mining industry. The MPRP supported a government controlled mineral resources, whilst the Democratic Party advocated private investment. Prior to the election more than 116,000 were listed twice (under different addresses), the General Election Committee affirmed it would be fixed prior to election day. The election saw a turnout of 74% and was stated to be \"largely free and fair\" by international observers. Early results saw the MPRP having taken 47 seats to the Democratic Party's 27 and the MPRP declared victory. The Democratic Party claimed the election had been fixed by the MPRP with some people voting twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 884]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Protests\nOn 1 July a peaceful gathering started in Sukhbaatar Square organized by the leaders of some of the smaller parties that took part in the election. Eventually a large crowd gathered, mainly of young men, surrounding the adjacent MPRP office. The group started throwing rocks at the building and began advancing on it. Police responded with tear gas and non-lethal weapons. In the evening fires were started and looting began. Both the MPRP headquarters and the Central Cultural Palace Building (which houses the National Art Gallery of Mongolia) were set fire by the crowd, estimated to be in the thousands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0003-0001", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Protests\nArt from the gallery (more than 1,000 pieces) were either \"destroyed, damaged or looted\". In search for weapons a police station was attacked. Looting continued through the night, despite a 10:00 pm \u2013 8:00 am curfew being set in place. Bricks were thrown at a fire engine, and violence in the streets erupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Protests\n\u2013 Tsend Munkhorgil, Deputy Minister, Ministry of. Justice and Home Affairs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Protests\nA four-day state of emergency, the first in Mongolia's history was declared at by the Mongolian President, effective 11:30\u00a0p.m. on 1 July. The state of emergency placed and a ban on the sale of alcohol, authorized police to use force to stop the protesters, and prevented television broadcasts outside of those made by state-run stations. The crowds got smaller after the state of emergency was enacted, and the police were able to use additional force to stop the looting. By 2 July the military was brought into Ulaanbaatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Protests\nThe President upheld the fairness of the elections, and promised investigations into the election as required. He also called an emergency national security meeting with the country's prime minister and opposition party leaders. The meeting was broadcast live on privately run Eagle Television, prime minister Sanjaagiin Bayar blamed Democratic Party leader Elbegdorj for \"misleading people and inciting violence\", echoing claims that he had made earlier that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Aftermath\nBy 3 July, the situation had stabilised, with fewer troops patrolling the streets. Five people were killed in the riots, and over 300 people were injured, both civilian and police. Over 700 arrests were made during the riots, on 7 July more than 200 people were still incarcerated. Allegations of torture of prisoners were brought forward, including one person who was erroneously arrested while trying to preserve a piece of art.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199943-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 riot in Mongolia, Aftermath\nSome commentators and analysts suggested the problems may have been exacerbated by a growing rich/poor divide. Luvsandendev Sumati, from the polling organisation Sant Maral Foundation is reported as saying that \"the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar have a lot of poor and frustrated youngsters who would use any pretext to get to streets and participate in any turmoil\". A change from a first-past-the-post election process may have led to a misunderstanding over how a winner is selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199944-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 student protests in Chile\nThe 2008 student protests in Chile were a series of protests and other manifestations by citizens of dissatisfaction against the state of education in Chile. The protest were the largest student protest in Chile after the 2006 student protest. Both secondary and university students participated. On April 24 about 500 students were detained in the cities of Santiago, Valpara\u00edso, Concepci\u00f3n, Temuco and Valdivia by police in relation to the protests. On May 28 more than 300 students in Santiago and Antofagasta were detained by police in relation to the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption\nThe 2008 submarine cable disruptions were three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from 23 January to 4 February 2008, causing internet disruptions and slowdowns for users in the Middle East and India. The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption\nIn late February there was another outage, this time affecting a fiber optic connection between Singapore and Jakarta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption\nOn 19 December, FLAG FEA, GO-1, SEA-ME-WE 3, and SEA-ME-WE 4 were all cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 23 January\nAlthough it was not reported at the time, there was a cut off of FALCON on 23 January. The FALCON cable system connects several countries in the Persian Gulf and India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January\nOn 30 January 2008, news agencies reported Internet services were widely disrupted in the Middle East and in the Indian subcontinent following damage to the SEA-ME-WE 4 and FLAG Telecom cables in the Mediterranean Sea. The damage to the two systems occurred separately several kilometers apart near Alexandria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January\nWhile the respective contributions of the two cable systems to this blackout is unclear, network outage graphs show anomalies at 0430 UTC and again at 0800 UTC. The cause of the damage to SEA-ME-WE 4 or FLAG has not been declared by either cable operator. A number of sources speculated these were caused by a dragging ship anchor near Alexandria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0005-0001", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January\nThe Egyptian Maritime Transport Ministry reviewed one day of complete video footage beginning 12 hours before and through 12 hours after the service disruption, concluding the cause of damage was not surface craft as no ships were traced sailing through the area of the alleged wire damage. The Kuwaitis also do not directly charge seafaring vessels, instead referring to \"weather conditions and maritime traffic.\" The Economist reported that an earthquake may have caused the cable to fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January, Effects\nDisruptions of 70 percent in Egypt and 60 percent in India were reported, along with problems in Afghanistan-AWCC, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January, Effects\n1.7 million Internet users in the UAE were affected by the Internet disruption. Mahesh Jaishanker, an executive director for Du, said, \u201cThe submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3\u00a0km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SEA-ME-WE 4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.\u201d A router for a university in Tehran was not responding, causing some reports of a total loss of connectivity for Iran. However, the Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi reported that \"everything was fine.\" Additional reports and analysis showed that while Iran was affected, it \"fared much better\" than many other countries in the same geographic area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 30 January, Effects\nOn 1 February 2008, VSNL, a leading communications solutions provider in India, confirmed that the company restored a majority of its IP connectivity into the MENA region within 24 hours of the Egypt cable breakdown. Services were largely restored within 24 hours of the cable cut by diverting traffic through the TIC and SEA-ME-WE 3 cables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 1 February\nTwo days after the initial break, it was reported that the FALCON cable was cut between Muscat, Oman and Dubai, UAE. This cut was between different landing points than the 23 January cut, FLAG Telecom issued a press release later, stating the \"FALCON cable is reported cut at 0559 hrs GMT on 1 February 2008. Location of cut is at 56\u00a0km from Dubai, UAE on segment between UAE and Oman\". This cut was caused by an abandoned anchor weighing 5-6 tonnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 3 February\nOn 3 February 2008, Qtel reported that a cable called DOHA-HALOUL connecting Qatar to the United Arab Emirates had been damaged, causing disruptions in already damaged Middle Eastern communication networks. It became the fourth cable to be damaged in 5 days. The location of the break was between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das. The problem was said to be related to the power system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 4 February\nOn 4 February 2008 the Khaleej Times reported that SEA-ME-WE 4 had also been damaged at another location, near Penang, Malaysia. The date of this damage was not given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 19 December\nOn 19 December 2008 France Telecom issued a press release stating that the FLAG Telecom, SEA-ME-WE 4, and SEA-ME-WE 3 cables, linking Alexandria, Egypt, Sicily, and Malta, had been cut by either bad weather conditions or a ship's anchor, resulting in substantial slowdowns in communication traffic, with Egypt experiencing an overall 80% reduction in Internet capacity. France Telecom expects SEA-ME-WE 4 will be repaired first, then SEA-ME-WE 3, then FLAG, and that repairs should be concluded by 31 December. The break disrupted 75% of communication between the Middle East and Asia and the rest of the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0012-0001", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cables damaged, 19 December\nThe breaks caused companies including Vodafone, Verizon Communications, Portugal Telecom, GO and France Telecom to experience disruption in their systems and forced them to reroute communications through different means. Others, such as AT&T, also received reports of service disruption. The rerouting of these communications caused large slowdowns in some areas. Interoute director Jonathan Wright stated that \"You can reroute the data through other cables, but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks, so Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted.\" The GO-1 cable connecting Malta and Sicily was also cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cause of cable breaks, Anchors\nThese disruptions are attributed by some officials to accidents involving ships' anchors, but reviews of surveillance footage of the area by Egyptian authorities revealed no ships in the area. However, FLAG Telecom indicated that the cut to the Falcon cable between the United Arab Emirates and Oman was caused by an abandoned anchor weighing five to six tons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cause of cable breaks, Anchors\nIn mid April two ships were impounded in connection with the FLAG Telecom outages near Dubai. They were charged with improperly dropping anchor in the area of the cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cause of cable breaks, Anchors\nThe 19 December breaks were reported to be caused either by bad weather or a ship's anchor, though the bad weather was just a possibility and the anchor a much more likely occurrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cause of cable breaks, Common occurrence\nAccording to Stephen Beckert, a senior analyst at TeleGeography, the events are far less exceptional than they seem because cable cuts happen all the time. Beckert argues that \"only the first two cuts had any serious impact on the Internet,\" and this drew public attention to other cable cuts that would not normally have been newsworthy. According to Beckert, cable cuts happen \"on average once every three days.\" He further noted that there are 25 large ships that do nothing but fix cable cuts and bends, and that such cuts are usually the result of cables rubbing against rocks on the sea floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Cause of cable breaks, Common occurrence\nAccording to Global Marine Systems, \"Undersea cable damage is hardly rare\u2014indeed, more than 50 repair operations were mounted in the Atlantic alone last year\". While a cut in a cable crossing the Atlantic has \"no significant effect\" due to the many alternate cables, only a handful of Internet cables serve the Middle East. These disruptions are only noticeable because of the small number of cables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0018-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Conspiracy theories\nSince Israel and Iraq were not affected by the communications blackout, conspiracy theories have begun to spread throughout the Internet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0019-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Conspiracy theories\nOn 6 February, theories that the disruption in these cables was related to an economic confrontation between the United States and Iran appeared in an opinion piece on Dow Jones Marketwatch. This article points out that the disruption or damage to these cables preceded the intended launch of the Iranian oil bourse on Kish Island between 1 and 11 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0019-0001", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Conspiracy theories\nThe launch of this bourse, which was intended to broker sales of oil denominated in euros (sometimes called \"petroeuros\") had been interpreted by some as an attempt by Iran to inflict additional damage to the value of the dollar by reducing the volume of oil which is traded in \"petrodollars\". Given the potential economic damage of euro-denominated oil sales in the context of on-going dollar inflation, as well as the large number of cables which appear to have been disrupted or damaged, Marketwatch's John Dvorak has written that the U.S. can expect to be blamed for the disruptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0020-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Conspiracy theories\nAccording to this sabotage theory, the damaged cables and the resulting Internet disruptions would destroy confidence in the ability of the Iranian Oil Bourse to execute trades, thereby thwarting the establishment of an alternative to dollar-denominated oil sales. In fact, Iran suffered very little from the outages, which primarily affected America's allies in the region (see 'Effects' above). Bloggers have also suggested that the cable disruptions were a cover for NSA installing taps on the lines for eavesdropping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199945-0021-0000", "contents": "2008 submarine cable disruption, Conspiracy theories\nOn Monday, 18 February, the International Telecommunication Union said that the damage could have been an act of sabotage. The UN agency's head of development, Sami al-Murshed was quoted, \"We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago.\" This was subsequently shown false, as on April 18, two ships parked in a restricted area during a storm, cutting the cables with their anchors. One sailor from each vessel was detained, as were both vessels. The vessels were subsequently released after restitution for the damaged cables was secured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal\nThere was a series of cannabis scandals in professional sumo beginning in August 2008. Four sekitori ranked wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d, Roh\u014d, Hakurozan and Wakakirin, were dismissed from professional sumo, and the chairman of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, resigned his post to take the blame. It was the first case in which active wrestlers have been dismissed from sumo. After that, the JSA added rules that any retirement package for dismissed members would be reduced or denied, and that those who use illegal drugs would be dismissed without benefits. Many Japanese news and some English news, such as BBC News and The Daily Telegraph, reported on the scandal. According to The Japan Times, it was the largest sports scandal of drugs that Japan had ever seen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Background\nSince 2007, scandals and allegations about professional sumo have occasionally occurred. In February 2007, the Japanese magazine Sh\u016bkan Gendai reported allegations of yaocho (match fixing). The JSA sued the magazine for $4 million. In June 2007, a 17-years-old wrestler Takashi Saito died as a result of hazing at the Tokitsukaze stable. His stablemaster Futatsury\u016b and three other wrestlers were arrested in February 2008, and his coach was sentenced to six years in prison in 2009. In August 2008, Asash\u014dry\u016b, the yokozuna ranked Mongolian wrestler, was suspended from the next two tournaments due to faking injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0001-0001", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Background\nIt was the first case that yokozuna received such a punishment. On July 25, 2008 Asash\u014dry\u016b played in a charity soccer event in Mongolia  despite having submitted a medical report about his injuries before. His injuries were regarded as having been faked in order to avoid the summer regional tour, and so the JSA decided to suspend him from the next two tournaments and cut his salary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Background\nAccording to the Japan Today, the chairman of the JSA Kitanoumi was often censured seriously by the media for his irresponsible reaction in these cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nOn August 18, 2008, Wakanoh\u014d Toshinori was arrested for possession of cannabis. He became the first active sekitori to be arrested. In other words, it was the first case that a sumo wrestler of the top two division was arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nOn June 24, 2008, a woman found a dropped wallet at Kinshi, Sumida, Tokyo and turned it into the police box. Police found his alien registration card and a Russian made cigarette containing 0.368 gram of dried plants including cannabis component. On August 19, police also searched the Magaki stable and his apartment, and found a pipe and a cigarette in his private room at the stable, and two pipes and a bag with a little of cannabis at the apartment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0004-0001", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nOn August 21, the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) held a meeting of the board of directors and decided to dismiss him. In addition, Magaki stablemaster, who was his coach, became the first director of the JSA to resign. Tsuneo Suzuki, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, told the JSA to swiftly appoint external directors. On August 26, he told police that he had bought the drug and pipes for 20,000 yen from two African and Russian men at a disco in Roppongi, Tokyo in June. On September 8 Wakanoh\u014d was released, and on September 12 the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office decided to suspend an indictment, probably because he was a minor at that time, had not been arrested before, and had only a small amount of cannabis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nOn September 11, he filed a suit against the JSA for dismissing him and applied for provisional disposition, insisting that his penalty was much heavier than previous cases of misconduct in sumo. On September 29, he hold a press conference and claimed that \"I was forcibly handed money to fight unfair bouts.\" He also insists that other wrestlers and coaches were smoking cannabis but they were not being punished. According to Doreen Simmons, a sumo commentator for NHK, it would seem that nobody expect such turn of events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0005-0001", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nWakanoh\u014d's lawyer said that he did not know about it until the day before and he was sorry that he couldn't stop it. Simmons also said, \"It looks to me as if Wakanoho has nothing to lose and is looking to get 10 million yen in damages out of the JSA.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakanoh\u014d\nThe trial started on October 27, and on October 30 Tokyo District Court rejected his application. He made an immediate appeal against the sentence, but Tokyo High Court also dismissed it on December 9. He withdrew a suit and decided to go back to Russia in February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Roh\u014d and Hakurozan\nOn September 2, 2008, the JSA published that the unannounced drug test by urinalysis for sekitori, 69 wrestlers in the sport's top two divisions, showed that Roh\u014d Yukio and Hakurozan Y\u016bta, brothers from Russia, were positive for cannabis. On September 8, the JSA decided to dismiss them, because the more detailed tests by Mitsubishi Chemical Medience, which has the only WADA accredited laboratory in Japan, showed that their result was much higher than WADA standard value of cannabis. Their stablemasters also lost their positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0007-0001", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Roh\u014d and Hakurozan\nKitanoumi Toshimitsu, the coach of Hakurozan, resigned his post as chairman of the JSA to accept responsibility, and \u014ctake stablemaster, the coach of Roh\u014d, was demoted from the committee member to toshiyori, the lowest rank of stablemasters. Musashigawa, the former sumo wrestler of the highest rank yokozuna and the stablemaster of Musashigawa stable, replaced Kitanoumi as the JSA's chairman. On the other hand, Roh\u014d and Hakurozan denied using cannabis, and police couldn't find any evidence during a domiciliary search.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Roh\u014d and Hakurozan\nThey also filed a suit against the JSA for dismissing them, and the trial began on February 6, 2009. On April 19, 2010, the Tokyo District Court rejected their claim, and in November the Tokyo High Court also rejected it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Roh\u014d and Hakurozan\nIn addition, they claimed 100 million yen compensation for the inappropriate process of drug tests and dismiss, but Tokyo District Court also rejected it on December 10, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakakirin\nOn January 30, 2009, Wakakirin Shinichi was arrested for possession of cannabis. He was the first Japanese wrestler in these scandals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakakirin\nWhen the JSA tested wrestlers of the top two division without prior notice on September 2, 2008, he was tested three times, and the first and second tests showed inconclusive results, but the result of the third check was negative. On January 30, 2009, when police searched the office of a CD shop in Roppongi to investigate another case, he tried to hide cannabis by wrapping it in paper. He admitted his guilt. On February 2, he was dismissed and his coach, Oguruma stablemaster, was demoted to the lowest rank toshiyori.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199946-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 sumo cannabis scandal, Scandals of four wrestlers, Wakakirin\nOn April 22, 2009, Yokohama District Court gave him 10 months' imprisonment with a three years' stay of execution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199947-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States\nThe 2008 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2008, and concluded October 4, 2009. The table illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199947-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2008 term membership and statistics\nThis was the fourth term of Chief Justice Roberts' tenure and the third and last full term with the same membership, as Justice Souter retired after the term finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 97], "content_span": [98, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States\nThe Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine per curiam opinions during its 2008 term, which began on October 6, 2008 and concluded October 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States\nBecause per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Court membership\nAssociate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 89], "content_span": [90, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Moore v. United States\n555 U.S. 1 Decided Decided October 14, 2008. Eighth Circuit reversed and remanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 95], "content_span": [96, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party\n555 U.S. 5 Decided October 14, 2008. Application for stay granted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 105], "content_span": [106, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party\nThe Court vacated the temporary restraining order entered by the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 105], "content_span": [106, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Hedgpeth v. Pulido\n555 U.S. 57 Decided December 2, 2008. Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 91], "content_span": [92, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Spears v. United States\n555 U.S. 261 Decided January 21, 2009. Eighth Circuit reversed and remanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 96], "content_span": [97, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Spears v. United States\nKennedy noted without separate opinion that he would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari and set the case for oral argument. Thomas dissented without separate opinion. Roberts filed a dissent, joined by Alito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 96], "content_span": [97, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Nelson v. United States\n555 U.S. 350 Decided January 26, 2009. Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 96], "content_span": [97, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Nelson v. United States\nBreyer filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, joined by Alito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 96], "content_span": [97, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, CSX Transp., Inc. v. Hensley\n556 U.S. 838 Decided June 1, 2009. Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Division, reversed and remanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 101], "content_span": [102, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199948-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler LLC\n556 U.S. 960 Decided June 9, 2009. Application for stay denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 123], "content_span": [124, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia\nThe 2008 unrest in Bolivia began with protests against President Evo Morales and calls for greater autonomy for the country's eastern departments. Demonstrators escalated the protests by seizing natural gas infrastructure and government buildings. Violence between supporters of Morales and opponents resulted in at least 30 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Protests begin\nOn August 19, the eastern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija, and Chuquisaca called strikes and protests in opposition to central government plans to divert part of the national direct tax on hydrocarbons towards its Renta Dignidad pension plan. Brief clashes occurred in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra, capital of Santa Cruz, between police and armed youths enforcing the strike. In Tarija protesters seized and occupied government buildings. In response to the unrest Morales ordered the Bolivian Army to protect oil and gas infrastructure in the five departments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Protests begin\nThe governors of the departments warned on September 3, 2008 that if the government didn't change its course that the protests could lead to a cut-off of natural gas exports to Argentina and Brazil. They also threatened setting up roadblocks in the five departments in addition to road blocks set up on roads leading to Argentina and Paraguay. The governors also demanded government troops withdraw from Trinidad, the capital of Beni department, following clashes between MPs and protesters trying to seize facilities of the National Tax Service in the city. President Morales accused the governors of launching a \"civil coup\" against his government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Violence escalates\nProtesters caused the explosion of a natural gas pipeline on September 10, 2008 according to the head of Bolivia's state energy company. He called the attack a \"terrorist attack\" and said it result in 10% cut in exports to Brazil. President Morales sent additional troops to the region following the attack. The next day clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of the government in the northeastern town of Cobija, capital of Pando department, resulting in 20 deaths. Morales said his government would be patient with the unrest but warned that \"patience has its limits, really.\" A spokesman for Morales said the unrest was opening the way to \"a sort of civil war.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Violence escalates\nThe leader of the national opposition, Jorge Quiroga, accused the central government of organizing militias to retake the city of Cobija. Central government work had also ceased while American Airlines was suspending flights to the airport. Peasant supporters of Morales were also threatening to encircle Santa Cruz. Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez warned that if Morales was overthrown or killed Venezuela would give a \"green light\" to conduct military operations in Bolivia. Bolivia's army said it rejected \"external intervention of any nature\" in response to Ch\u00e1vez. Morales ruled out the use of force against protesters, calling for talks with opposition leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Violence escalates\nThe Governor of Tarija department, Mario Coss\u00edo, went to La Paz on September 12, 2008 to hold negotiations representing three other opposition governors who had rejected talks with the central government. Morales said he was open to dialogue not only with the governors but with mayors and different social sectors. Before the meeting Mario Cossio called for dialogue saying \"The first task is to pacify the country, and we hope to agree with President Morales on that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0005-0001", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Violence escalates\nOur presence has to do with that clear will to lay the foundations and hopefully launch a process of dialogue that ends in a great agreement for national reconciliation.\" Vice President \u00c1lvaro Garc\u00eda declared a day of national mourning for 20 people killed in Pando most of whom were pro-Morales farmers shot dead by people the government claims were associated with the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nBolivian authorities declared a state of emergency in Pando which began at midnight on September 12, 2008. During the state of emergency, constitutional guarantees are suspended, private vehicles without authorization are banned from the streets, groups are not allowed to meet; bars, restaurants and discos must close at midnight, and residents are prohibited from carrying firearms. Morales said martial law was not needed anywhere else in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nFollowing the declaration of a state of emergency, Bolivian troops took control of the airport in Pando's capital, Cobija, and prepared to retake the city. Morales accused the governor of Pando of orchestrating \"a massacre\" of farmers supporting Morales. Pando Governor Leopoldo Fern\u00e1ndez rejected the accusation, saying \"They've accused me of using hit men, when everyone knows those socialist peasants, those fake peasants, were armed.\" In a speech in Cochabamba, Morales condemned the opposition governors, saying they were \"conspiring against us with a fascist, racist coup,\" and said they were \"the enemies of all Bolivians.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0007-0001", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nWhile promising to adopt a constitution opposed by the governors Morales said Bolivia's \"democratic revolution\" had to be seen through saying \"We have always cried 'fatherland or death'. If we don't emerge victorious, we have to die for the country and the Bolivian people.\" Morales also said he would not hesitate to extend the state of emergency to other opposition-controlled departments. Rub\u00e9n Costas, the governor of Santa Cruz, belittled the chances of a breakthrough in talks adding that \"if there is just one more death or person wounded, any possibility of dialogue will be broken.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nOpposition protest leader and pro-autonomy businessman Branko Marinkovic announced on September 14, 2008 that the demonstrators he led would be removing their road blocks as \"a sign of good will\" to allow dialogue to prosper and calling on the government to end \"repression and genocide in the department of Pando.\" Troops who had landed at Cobija also began patrolling the streets before dawn and began uncovering more dead bodies from the September 11 clash in Pando between Morales supporters and opposition protesters. Alfredo Rada, government minister for Pando, referring to casualty figures, said \"We are nearing the 30 mark.\" An aide to the opposition governor in Pando denied the army was in control of the departmental capital. Troops were also hunting for Pando governor Fern\u00e1ndez with orders to arrest him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nA spokesman for Morales said blockades remained on the highway and said \"an armed group\" had set fire to the town hall in Filadelfia, a municipality near Cobija. The Pando government spokesman said the citizens of Cobija did not want the Army to enter the city, and that they were not going to follow martial law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nBolivia's army arrested as many as 10 people for alleged involvement in the deadly clashes. Leopoldo Fern\u00e1ndez was also taken into custody by the armed forces on September 16, to be flown to La Paz to face accusations that he hired hitmen to fire on pro-government supporters. He was charged with committing genocide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nThe U.S. began evacuating Peace Corps volunteers from Bolivia and organized at least two evacuation flights in response. In spite of the arrest, opposition governors agreed to talks, conditioned on anti-Morales protesters ending occupations of government buildings. Matters up for discussion include the opposition drive for more autonomy for their provinces and a larger share of state energy revenue. Talks were expected to begin on Thursday. The army also professed its support for Morales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nMorales appointed Navy Rear Admiral Landelino Bandeiras as the replacement for the governor of Pando September 20, 2008. Difficulties were reported in the peace talks by presidential spokesman Ivan Canelas, who said the position of the opposition governors could hinder peace talks and condemned the \"lack of political will of these authorities to backup the efforts being made by the central government to preserve peace and national unity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nSupporters of Morales have threatened to storm the city of Santa Cruz if the talks should fail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Pando state of emergency\nOn September 25, 2008, Morales rejected autonomy proposals by the Eastern provinces, putting the talks on hold. On October 20, 2008, Morales and the opposition agreed to hold the referendum on January 25, 2009 and early elections in December 2009; Morales in turn promised he would not run again in 2014 after his likely reelection in 2009, despite being allowed to do so under the new constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Diplomatic response\nAccusing the United States of supporting the opposition governors and attempting to overthrow his government, Morales declared the United States Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg persona non grata, and ordered him to leave the country. The U.S. responded by expelling Bolivia's ambassador in Washington. U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack expressed regret at the diplomatic fallout saying it will \"prejudice the interests of both countries, undermine the ongoing fight against drug trafficking and will have serious regional implications.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0015-0001", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Diplomatic response\nPresident Morales said he does not want to break diplomatic ties with the U.S. but said the actions of the ambassador were \"very serious\", claiming he met with provincial leaders and instigated the unrest. Before his departure the American ambassador warned Bolivia that it would face \"serious consequences\" and had \"not correctly evaluated\" the retaliation from Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0016-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Diplomatic response\nVenezuela's President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez ordered the U.S. ambassador in Caracas Patrick Duddy to also leave saying it was in part out of solidarity with Bolivia. Ch\u00e1vez also said he was recalling Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S. until a new government takes office. Ch\u00e1vez accused the United States of being involved in the unrest saying \"The U.S. is behind the plan against Bolivia, behind the terrorism.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199949-0017-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Bolivia, Diplomatic response\nState Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the expulsions by Bolivia and Venezuela reflect \"the weakness and desperation of these leaders as they face internal challenges.\" Morales responded that the act was \"not of weakness, but of dignity,\" and was about freeing Bolivia from \"the American Empire.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo\nThe 2008 unrest in Kosovo followed Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17, 2008. Some Kosovo Serbs opposed to secession boycotted the move by refusing to follow orders from the central government in Pristina and attempted to seize infrastructure and border posts in Serb-populated regions. There were also sporadic instances of violence against international institutions and governmental institutions, predominantly in North Kosovo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo\nTensions in the North intensified when Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica seized a UN courthouse on March 14, 2008. UN police and NATO forces responded on March 17, and attacks by Serb protesters left one UN police officer dead and as many as 150 people wounded. On June 28, Kosovo Serbs formed the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija to coordinate resistance to the Kosovar Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Boycott of Kosovo government\nKosovo Serbs said they intended to form parallel institutions and assert control over infrastructure and institutions in their area in response to Kosovo's declaration of independence; after the local elections in May, Kosovo Serb leaders announced the intention to establish a Kosovo Serb Assembly. The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo said they would not be in contact with Kosovo's Albanian government, EULEX, or any country which recognizes Kosovo's independence, threatening to sanction any clergy who do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Boycott of Kosovo government\nA Serb minister said Serbia planned to have its \"own police\" in Serb areas as part of an action plan to maintain Serbia's presence in Kosovo. In North Kosovo some Serb members of Kosovo security forces stopped taking orders from the government in Pristina and claimed command from the UNMIK. In the eastern Gjilan region around 100 Serb officers were suspended from the Kosovo Police Service. Stanko Jakovljevi\u0107, Serb mayor of \u0160trpce, a Serb enclave in the south, said Serb police \"will do today what Serbs ... did in northern Kosovo. They will only recognise orders from international police.\" In central Kosovo 126 Serb police officers withdrew from the Kosovo Police Service refusing to take commands from the central government. Members of the Kosovo Police Service said Serb officers were being intimidated to leave the police force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Boycott of Kosovo government\nOn March 3, 2008, Serb railway workers declared they no longer worked for Kosovo after blocking the passage of freight trains from central to northern Kosovo. The head of Serbia's state railroad company Serbian Railways said Serbia was \"taking over its responsibilities after nine years\" and that the northern part of the railway would be integrated into Serbia's railway system. On March 5, 2008 UNMIK forces said they reclaimed the railway after blocking the entry of Serbian trains into Northern Kosovo warning that any movement of trains south would \"not be tolerated\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0004-0001", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Boycott of Kosovo government\nThe next day UNMIK officials met with officials from Serbian Railways in Belgrade to discuss the company's demands to run railways in northern Kosovo. The Managing Director of Serbian Railways Milanko \u0160aran\u010di\u0107 said there was no chance of UNMIK running traffic in the north of Kosovo as employees of Serbian Railways terminated their contracts with UNMIK railways. He also said that the company had begun checking lines in the north, as \u201cUNMIK has not maintained the lines properly for nine years.\u201c", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Boycott of Kosovo government\nSerb protestors blocked Albanians from working at the courts in North Kosovska Mitrovica, and Serb judges and court employees demanded that they be allowed to work at the courts instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on Kosovo border posts\nOn Tuesday February 19, 2008 2,000 Serb protestors, some driving bulldozers, set two border posts on fire along the Kosovo\u2013Serbia border. The destruction of the border posts was sparked by reports that Kosovo Albanian customs officials were planning to man the borders. UN peacekeepers stationed at the checkpoints were forced to abandon the posts until they were reopened the following day. Attacks at the Mutivoda crossing point on Monday February 25, 2008 by 100 Serbs injured 19 members of the Kosovo Police Service and forced the post to be closed until the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions\nThe day after Kosovo's declaration of independence two bombs in the flashpoint town of Kosovska Mitrovica damaged several UN vehicles, though there were no injuries. After several attacks in northern Kosovska Mitrovica an advance team of the EU administrative force withdrew over security concerns. On March 3, 2008, a UN office in northern Kosovska Mitrovica was hit by two sniper bullets, with no injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 84], "content_span": [85, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions\nOn March 28, 2008, a police checkpoint in northern Kosovo manned by Serb officers came under fire apparently from a semi-automatic weapon fired from the ethnic Albanian village of Ko\u0161utovo, north of Kosovska Mitrovica, and the officers returned fire. No injuries were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 84], "content_span": [85, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions\nOn June 26, 2008, in the village of Borivojce near the eastern town of Kosovska Kamenica members of the local Serb and Roma community barricaded a road to protest the construction of a mosque authorized by the local government. According to a police statement Serb inhabitants put rocks on the road. Around 100 Albanians on the other side of the barricade started to remove the rocks and then threw stones at them. The police statement say the police then intervened to separate the groups, and that a Kosovo Serb and a police officer were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 84], "content_span": [85, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions, Seizure of UN courthouse in Kosovska Mitrovica\nOn March 14, 2008, after staging rallies for several weeks that prevented ethnic Albanian court employees from entering a UN courthouse in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, hundreds of Kosovo Serbs broke into the building in the Serb-dominated part of the city, forcing UN police to retreat. UN officials' negotiations with the Serbs to end the occupation were unsuccessful, and on March 17 UN police with the assistance of NATO-led KFOR forces entered the courthouse in a pre-dawn raid. When they arrived they were pelted with stones by around 100 Serbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 132], "content_span": [133, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0010-0001", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions, Seizure of UN courthouse in Kosovska Mitrovica\nWhen they came out after arresting 53 of the protesters inside the courthouse they were attacked with gunfire, grenades and rocks by several hundred protesters who had massed outside. About half of the protesters who had been arrested were freed by fellow protesters during the clashes with the rest being released by the UN after questioning. The clashes lasted until around noon. One Ukrainian police officer was killed, 70 Serbs and 61 UN and NATO peacekeepers were wounded, and one UN vehicle and one NATO truck were set ablaze. Among the wounded international troops were 27 Polish and 14 Ukrainian police officers and 20 French soldiers. UN police withdrew from northern Kosovska Mitrovica, leaving the area under the control of the NATO forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 132], "content_span": [133, 884]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199950-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 unrest in Kosovo, Attacks on the international presence and Kosovo institutions, Seizure of UN courthouse in Kosovska Mitrovica\nGen. John Craddock, NATO's top commander, said that after speaking with NATO commanders in Kosovo that NATO did not feel it necessary to send reinforcements to Kosovo. On 19 March, UN police began to patrol parts of north Kosovska Mitrovica again together with local Kosovo police, while the NATO peacekeepers still remained in overall control of security at the courthouse and generally in the north of Kosovo. A gradual transition to civilian control was planned over the next days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 132], "content_span": [133, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States\nPope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States took place from April 15, 2008 to April 20, 2008. It was his only visit to the United States. It was officially titled the \"Apostolic Visit to the United States of America and to the Seat of the United Nations\". It was the sixth official papal visit to the United States since the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1984. In addition to his 1979 visit, Pope John Paul II visited the United States in 1987, 1993, 1995, and 1999. Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States\nThe Pope's visit included meetings with President George W. Bush, an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, a visit to Ground Zero, and Masses at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. and Yankee Stadium in New York City, among other activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Preparation\nThe visit was announced on November 12, 2007 by Archbishop Pietro Sambi to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0003-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 15 (Washington)\nThe Pope arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on April 15, 2008, greeted by President Bush and cheering crowds. This was the first time any president had gone to the base to greet a foreign dignitary, as presidents customarily wait for visitors at the White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0004-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 16 (Washington)\nThe Pope was formally received at the White House on April 16. Over 9,000 people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House, including thousands of members of the public who got free tickets in a lottery-type drawing, and another 4,000 without tickets to the ceremony lined the streets around the White House to see his motorcade. The crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to the Pope, who turned 81 years old that day. The Pope addressed the crowd in English, saying he had \"great respect for this vast pluralistic society\" and ended by saying \"God bless America\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0004-0001", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 16 (Washington)\nIn his speech, Bush said the visit was a reminder to Americans to \"distinguish between simple right and wrong\", saying, \"We need your message to reject this dictatorship of relativism and embrace a culture of justice and truth.\" He told the Pope that in America, \"you'll find a nation that welcomes the role of religion in the public square... [I]n a world where some evoke the name of God to justify acts of terror and murder and hate, we need your message that God is love. And embracing this love is the surest way to save man from falling prey to the teaching of fanaticism and terrorism.\" After the ceremony, Bush and the Pope met in the Oval Office, where Bush presented him with a birthday cake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0005-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 16 (Washington)\nDuring their private meeting in the Oval Office, the Pope expressed his concerns to Bush about the Iraq War and illegal immigration in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0006-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 16 (Washington)\nAfterwards, the Pope went to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where he addressed American bishops. Bush hosted a state dinner at the White House later that evening for visiting cardinals, bishops and various dignitaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0007-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 17 (Washington)\nThe Pope celebrated Mass at the newly built Nationals Park in Washington, home to the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team. 46,000 people attended the Mass at the stadium, which has an official seating capacity of about 41,000. 200,000 requests for tickets, which were free, had been submitted prior to the mass. Those in attendance included 14 cardinals, 250 bishops, and 1,300 priests. The altar was set up in the outfield and live video of the Mass was shown on the scoreboard. In his homily, the Pope urged American Catholics to \"foster healing and reconciliation\" in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0008-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 17 (Washington)\nAfter the Mass, he went to the Catholic University of America to address representatives from American Catholic universities, diocesan schools, and others about the role of the Church in education. After that, he went to the university's Pope John Paul II Cultural Center to meet privately with about 200 representatives of Judaism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism to promote interfaith dialogue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0009-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 18 (New York)\nThe Pope addressed the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York. He praised the UN as a defender of human rights, but cautioned that it must be acknowledged that human rights come from God.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0010-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 18 (New York)\nHe made a historic visit to a Jewish synagogue in New York, the first visit by any Pope to a Jewish place of worship in America. The visit fell on the eve of Passover. He said he found it \"moving to recall that Jesus as a young boy heard the words of Scripture and prayed in a place such as this.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0011-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 19 (New York)\nThe Pope visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where he celebrated Mass. In his homily, he spoke of the child sex abuse scandal and called for healing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0012-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 19 (New York)\nHe met with disabled children and their families then led a youth rally of over 20,000 teenagers and young adults at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0013-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 20 (New York)\nThe Pope visited Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers which were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. He prayed for the victims of the 9/11 attacks and met with a small group of relatives of the victims as well as a handful of first responders and survivors. He blessed the site, lit a candle, and gave a prayer for the dead. He prayed for \"eternal light and peace\" for those killed and for healing for their families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0014-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 20 (New York)\nThe Pope said Mass to a crowd of nearly 60,000 at Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees. Over 200,000 had requested tickets, which were free, for the event. The New York Times said the crowd \"roared with all the sustained excitement of spectators at a pennant-clinching game.\" The altar was set up on second base. In his homily, he said the unwavering truth of the Catholic Church's message guarantees respect for the dignity of all human life, \"including the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother's womb.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0014-0001", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 20 (New York)\nThe Mass marked the third time a Pope had visited the stadium, a record for any venue in the United States. (Pope Paul VI celebrated Mass at the stadium in 1965, and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass there in 1979.) MLB changed the Yankees schedule to accommodate the Mass, resulting in the Yankees playing 18 of their 20 games in April on the road, the most in one month in MLB history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199951-0015-0000", "contents": "2008 visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, Visit, April 20 (New York)\nVice President Dick Cheney hosted a farewell ceremony for the Pope at John F. Kennedy International Airport attended by 3,000 people. After a final speech, he boarded a specially chartered Alitalia plane with the callsign \"Shepherd One\" and touched down at Rome's Ciampino International Airport at 10:40 AM local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199952-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 \u00darvalsdeild\nThe 2008 season of \u00darvalsdeild was the 97th season of top-tier football in Iceland. The league, also known as Landsbankadeild for sponsoring reasons, has been expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199952-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 \u00darvalsdeild, Promotion and relegation\nV\u00edkingur Reykjav\u00edk were relegated from \u00darvalsdeild after finishing in 10th place the previous season. Their place was taken by 1. deild champions UMF Grindav\u00edk. Due to expansion from 10 to 12 teams, 2nd placed \u00der\u00f3ttur Reykjav\u00edk and 3rd placed Fj\u00f6lnir Reykjav\u00edk were also promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199952-0002-0000", "contents": "2008 \u00darvalsdeild, Results\nEach team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199953-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 \u00ddokary Liga\nThe 2008 Turkmenistan Higher League (\u00ddokary Liga) season was the 16th season of the Turkmenistan League, Turkmenistan's premier football league. It began on 12 April 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199954-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup\nThe 2008 Istanbul Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 4th edition of the Istanbul Cup, and was part of the Tier III Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. It took place  in Istanbul, Turkey, from 19 May through 24 May 2008. Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska won the singles title and earned $30,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199954-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup, Finals, Doubles\nJill Craybas /  Olga Govortsova defeated  Marina Erakovic /  Polona Hercog, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199955-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup \u2013 Doubles\nAgnieszka Radwa\u0144ska and Urszula Radwa\u0144ska were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199955-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup \u2013 Doubles\nJill Craybas and Olga Govortsova won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20132, against Marina Erakovic and Polona Hercog.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199956-0000-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup \u2013 Singles\nElena Dementieva was the defending champion, but Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska defeated her 6\u20133, 6\u20132, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199956-0001-0000", "contents": "2008 \u0130stanbul Cup \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top two seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199957-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FC Kaiserslautern season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 German football season, 1. FC Kaiserslautern competed in the 2. Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199957-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FC Kaiserslautern season, Season summary\nAlthough Kaiserslautern's form improved, 7th place was still too far away from promotion for the board's liking, and manager Milan \u0160a\u0161i\u0107 departed in early May, days after a 1\u20135 defeat to Hansa Rostock. 1. FC Kaiserslautern II manager Alois Schwartz acted as caretaker for the remainder of the season. Marco Kurz was hired as his permanent replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199957-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FC Kaiserslautern season, Kit\nThe kit was manufactured by Italian company Kapppa and sponsored by Frankfurt-based financial advisors Deutsche Verm\u00f6gensberatung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 40], "content_span": [41, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199957-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FC Kaiserslautern season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199957-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FC Kaiserslautern season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199958-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 1. FSV Mainz 05 season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 104th season in the existence of 1. FSV Mainz 05 and the club's second consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, 1. FSV Mainz 05 participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal. The season covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga\nThe 2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga was the 35th season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of Germany's football league. The season began on 15 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga\nSC Freiburg were the first team to win promotion to Bundesliga 2009\u201310 after securing the 2. Bundesliga championship on 10 May 2009. 1. FSV Mainz 05 were also directly promoted as runners-up after a 4\u20130 home victory over Rot-Wei\u00df Oberhausen. 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg defeated Bundesliga sides Energie Cottbus in a two-legged playoff for one spot in 2009\u201310 Bundesliga and thus earned promotion as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga, Changes from 2007\u201308\nStarting with the 2008\u201309 season, only two teams are promoted automatically. Two-leg relegation playoffs between the third last team of the Bundesliga and the third team of the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the regular season will be reintroduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga, Changes from 2007\u201308\nLikewise, instead of formerly four teams only the two bottom teams are relegated to the new 3. Liga automatically. The third last team plays a two-leg playoff against the third team of the third tier over the remaining place in the 2. Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga, Teams, Movement between Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga\nBorussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and 1. FC K\u00f6ln were promoted to Bundesliga after finishing 1st through third in 2. Bundesliga in 2007\u201308. They were replaced by 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg, Hansa Rostock and MSV Duisburg, which were relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 Bundesliga season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga, Teams, Movement between 2. Bundesliga and third-level divisions\nKickers Offenbach, Erzgebirge Aue, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and SC Paderborn 07 were relegated to the newly formed 3. Liga following the 2007\u201308 season due to finishing 15th through 18th. They were replaced by the champions and runners-up of both divisions of the 2007\u201308 Regionalliga. Rot Weiss Ahlen and Rot-Weiss Oberhausen earned promotion in the Regionalliga Nord while FSV Frankfurt and FC Ingolstadt 04 were promoted from the Regionalliga S\u00fcd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 86], "content_span": [87, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199959-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Bundesliga, Relegation play-offs\nVfL Osnabr\u00fcck as 16th-placed team had to face third-placed 3. Liga team SC Paderborn 07 for a two-legged playoff. Paderborn won both matches on an aggregated score of 2\u20130 and thus secured promotion to 2. Bundesliga 2009\u201310, while Osnabr\u00fcck were relegated to 3. Liga 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199960-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 2. Frauen-Bundesliga\nThe 2nd Fu\u00dfball-Bundesliga (women) 2008\u201309 is the 5th season of the 2. Fu\u00dfball-Bundesliga (women), Germany's second football league. It began on 7 September 2008 and will end on 24 May 2009. After the last season the women's section of TuS K\u00f6ln rrh. passed their license for the league to Bayer 04 Leverkusen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199961-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 3. Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 3. Liga was the inaugural season for the newly formed tier III of the German football league system. The inaugural game was played on 25 July 2008 between FC Rot-Wei\u00df Erfurt and Dynamo Dresden, ending with a 1\u20130 win for Dresden. The last games were played on 23 May 2009. 1. FC Union Berlin were the inaugural champions, securing first place on 10 May 2009. Runners-up Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf were also promoted. Third-placed team SC Paderborn 07 played a relegation/promotion play-off against the 16th-placed team from 2. Bundesliga, VfL Osnabr\u00fcck, winning both games and earning promotion. Kickers Emden, VfR Aalen, and Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated to the Regionalliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199961-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 3. Liga, Qualified teams\nThe following teams were relegated to 3. Liga from 2007\u201308 2. Bundesliga:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199962-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A Group\nThe 2008\u201309 A Group was the 85th season of the Bulgarian national top football division, and the 61st of A Group as the top tier football league in the country. It began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 13 June 2009. CSKA Sofia were the defending champions, but they were unable to retain it and Levski Sofia won the title, which was their 26th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199962-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A Group, Promotion and relegation\nThree teams were promoted from the 2007-08 B Group. These include the champions of the East and West B Groups, as well as the promotion playoff winner, decided through a one match between the runners-up of the two B Groups. The promoted teams were Lokomotiv Mezdra, Sliven, and Minyor Pernik. Lokomotiv Mezdra made their debut in the top tier of Bulgarian football, Sliven return after a fifteen-year absence, while Minyor Pernik return to the top tier after a seven-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199962-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A Group, Top scorers\n1. Saidhodzha scored 7 goals for Botev Plovdiv and 7 for CSKA Sofia (he was transferred during the winter break)2. Fern\u00e1ndez scored 4 goals for Cherno More Varna and 5 for Chernomorets Burgas (he was transferred during the winter break)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199962-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A Group, Annual awards, Team of the season\nThe team have been voted by selected media representatives (Note: First team members are denoted in bold).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League\nThe 2008\u201309 A-League was the 32nd season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the fourth season of the A-League competition since its establishment in 2004. Two new clubs, North Queensland Thunder and Gold Coast Galaxy had received tentative licences from the FFA but these were revoked for the 2008\u201309 season on 12 March 2008. Expansion plans are on hold until the 2009\u201310 season. Based on their 2007\u201308 performances, the Central Coast Mariners and the Newcastle Jets competed in the 2009 AFC Champions League for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Clubs, Foreign players\nThe following do not fill a Visa position:1Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian Residency (and New Zealand Residency, in the case of Wellington Phoenix);2Australian residents (and New Zealand residents, in the case of Wellington Phoenix) who have chosen to represent another national team;3Injury Replacement Players, or National Team Replacement Players;4Guest Players (eligible to play a maximum of ten games)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Pre-season Challenge Cup\nAll A-League clubs played the pre-season cup competition held in July and August, and were drawn into two groups. Group A consisted of Adelaide United, Melbourne Victory, Newcastle Jets and Perth Glory. Group B was Central Coast Mariners, Queensland Roar, Sydney FC and Wellington Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Pre-season Challenge Cup\nThe winner of each group, Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix, met in Wellington on 6 August 2008 for the Pre-Season Cup Final. With the score at 0\u20130 after 90 minutes, the game went to penalties, Melbourne Victory eventually prevailing 8\u20137, thus becoming the first team in A-League history to claim all three available trophies, after winning the Premiership and Championship in the 2006\u201307 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Regular season\nThe 2008\u201309 A-League season was played over 21 rounds, followed by a finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Statistics, Attendance\nThese are the attendance records of each of the teams at the end of the home and away season. The table does not include finals series attendances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199963-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A-League, Statistics, Attendance\n* Adelaide United played a one off match at the Adelaide Oval against Sydney FC in their Round 18 match. This is why Adelaide United's highest single attendance exceeds the capacity of Hindmarsh Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Milan played its 75th Serie A season in the club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season, Squad, First team\nAs of December 21, 2008. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season, Squad, List of 2008\u201309 transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season, Squad, List of 2008\u201309 transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season, Squad, List of 2008\u201309 transfers, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199964-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.C. Milan season, Player seasonal records\nCompetitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made. Updated to games played May 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199965-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.S. Roma season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Associazione Sportiva Roma's 76th season in Serie A. The club competed in four competitions; domestically, Roma finished a disappointing 6th, after three consecutive second-place finishes. They began the season by losing the Supercoppa Italiana to Inter, who also eliminated Roma in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199965-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A.S. Roma season\nHaving finished 2nd the previous season, Roma qualified automatically to the group stage of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League. Roma managed to finish top of their group, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by English club Arsenal in a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China was an A1 Grand Prix race, held at Chengdu Goldenport Circuit, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China\nAll proceeds from this race were donated to the Sichuan Earthquake Relief Fund, following the earthquake which devastated the region in May 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Drivers\nAfter missing the first race due to a lack of cars, A1 Teams Great Britain, India and Mexico took part in this race. Both A1 Team Pakistan and A1 Team Germany will not make their season debut until the fourth round at Taupo. Team Pakistan require more changes to their chassis to render it suitable for their lead driver Adam Khan, while Team Germany is undergoing management restructuring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Drivers\nThe status of A1 Team Canada was not announced, but they were removed from the race's drivers list on the A1GP website front page, and did not make an appearance. Their status for future events is still unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Drivers\n\u2191 Karthikeyan and Andretti were granted special dispensation to participate in the rookie session as neither team had completed as many testing miles as the other teams with the new car. Karthikeyan (F1) and Andretti (IRL ICS) are veteran drivers in one of the four series (F1, GP2, FN, IRL-ICS) which their drivers may not compete as A1GP rookies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Qualifying\nDue to a delay in recovering the  Italian car after spinning into a gravel trap during the first qualifying session, the second qualifying session was cancelled, meaning all times from Q1 set the field for Q1, with  Ireland taking their first ever pole position, ahead of  The Netherlands and  Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Qualifying\nQ4 was stopped briefly after a spin for  France. The session was resumed with teams able to make a run in time. Danny Watts for  Great Britain took pole ahead of  Ireland and  Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Sprint Race\nFor safety reasons, a pit stop was not required for the Sprint Race. In lap 2,  Brazil is slowing and the Safety car is on while Felipe Guimar\u00e3es reach the pits. In the same lap 2,  China spun and lost some positions but finally catch up and pass  Korea on lap 7. when the Safety car is out, the order was  Ireland,  Netherlands,  Great Britain,  Switzerland,  South Africa,  Portugal,  New Zealand and  France. Those positions remain until the end of the race with the fastest lap for  Adam Carroll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199966-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China, Feature Race\nThe second pit-stop window for the Feature Race was set for Laps 24\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199967-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain\nThe 2008-09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain was an A1 Grand Prix race  at Brands Hatch, England. It was set to be the penultimate round of the 2008-09 A1 Grand Prix season, but became the season finale, due to the cancellation of the Mexican round due to the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Ultimately, it would be the last race for A1GP as bankruptcy followed later in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199967-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain\nA1 Team Ireland became the fourth A1 Grand Prix champions, with a double pole position, and double victory, to take Ireland's first international motor racing championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199967-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain, Title Battle\nWith the British round now becoming the season finale, this left the championship in a three-way battle for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199967-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain, Title Battle\nSwitzerland lead going into the event with 88 points, with four points to drop; followed by Ireland with 86, and Portugal with 82. The Netherlands are currently too far behind to win the title with 66 points, as even though 27 points are on offer for maximum score, the team has to drop 6 points from their worst event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199967-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain, Title Battle\nAlso, even if all the teams finish equal of points, the tie-breaker rules would come into play. Currently Switzerland would win the title with four wins, to Ireland's three, and Portugal's one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia was an A1 Grand Prix race held at Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia, Pre-race\nBecause Great Britain, India and Mexico had only joined the season at the Chinese round, they were permitted to take part in a special practice session on November 20. In the wet conditions, Narain Karthikeyan was the fastest driver just in front of Danny Watts. Dav\u00edd Garza P\u00e9rez was the slowest with 3 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia, Qualifying\nThe qualifying sessions were the first to utilise the new \"joker\" Qualifying lap rule \u2013 where the driver has PowerBoost available for use over an entire qualifying lap, to be used in any session at the team's discretion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia, Sprint Race\nFollowing a major crash at the first start, involving  USA,  Brazil and  India, and the pack slowed down after it seemed to have accelerated off, the race was delayed 30 minutes for track cleanup, and reduced to 11 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia, Sprint Race\nThis Sprint Race was the first this season to utilise the new Sprint Race pit-stop rule, the windows always set for Laps 4\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199968-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia, Feature Race\nThe second pit stop window was set for Laps 20\u201328. Switzerland were sent to the back of the grid for having a brake cooler in too long before the start, and a pit crew violation during the Sprint Race pit-stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held at Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands. It was originally set to be the second race of the 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, but a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis forced the race at Mugello to be moved from the season opener. The same build delay meant that only seventeen of the twenty-three A1 teams participated in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands\nThis was the first race for  A1 Team Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo),  A1 Team Monaco (Clivio Piccione), and the new \"Powered by Ferrari\" A1GP car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Drivers and teams\nOn 26 September, an article on the official A1GP website, detailed that a full grid of cars would not be on track at Zandvoort for the race weekend, due to the build schedule delay. It was subsequently confirmed that a maximum of eighteen teams will be racing \u2013  Canada,  Germany (Michael Ammerm\u00fcller),  Great Britain (Danny Watts),  India (Narain Karthikeyan) and  Mexico (Dav\u00edd Garza P\u00e9rez) will thus make their season debut at the second round in China. Germany (Michael Ammerm\u00fcller) did not, in fact, debut until round 5 in South Africa, while  Canada did not appear all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Drivers and teams\nSubsequently,  Team Pakistan revealed that technical issues with their car were compromising the safety of their driver, Adam Khan \u2013 and thus, they too delayed the start of their season, leaving 17 teams to race. Like  Canada,  Pakistan did not appear all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Drivers and teams\nAs several teams were still arriving as of Saturday morning, and were unable to shake down their cars before the start of the planned sessions, rookie sessions were not held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Qualifying\nAs some teams had only arrived on Saturday morning, the qualifying format was changed for Zandvoort. In place of the usual four fifteen-minute, single-lap sessions, teams were given a one-hour session in which they could complete as many laps as they wished. Those times would set the grid for the Sprint race, while the results from the Sprint race would determine the grid for the Feature race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Qualifying\nThe pole position time, set by  the Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen) was four seconds quicker than the fastest lap set the previous year in the Lola/Zytek cars. Bleekemolen lined up on pole, 0.316s ahead of  Earl Bamber and 0.338s ahead of  Adam Carroll in third. Both  Felipe Guimar\u00e3es and  Ho-Pin Tung failed to set a time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Sprint Race\nOwing to the treacherous conditions, the 12-lap Sprint Race was started behind the Safety Car. The newly introduced mandatory Sprint race pit-stop was removed for this race, to help the teams to conserve equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Sprint Race\nOn Lap 2, the Safety Car pulled in, and the cars were released. On Lap 3,  Adam Carroll spun at the final corner and was hit by  Clivio Piccione, forcing both of their retirements. On Lap 3,  Satrio Hermanto also retired after a spin. On Lap 5,  Hwang Jin-Woo retired, after colliding with  John Martin heading into the first corner. Martin managed to continue. On Lap 7,  Earl Bamber passed  Jeroen Bleekemolen for the lead, after a failed passing attempt led to Bleekemolen running wide and allowing Bamber to pass. On Lap 9,  Fairuz Fauzy passed  Bamber for the lead, and then began to build up a lead over the New Zealander. On Lap 11,  Ho-Pin Tung spun out of fifth place. On Lap 11,  Felipe Guimar\u00e3es also spun out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Sprint Race\nThe race was red-flagged on Lap 12, because of the treacherous conditions. Fauzy won ahead of  Bamber, and  Lo\u00efc Duval. Duval also set fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Sprint Race\nRace stopped after 12 laps because of the terrible conditions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nKorea (Hwang Jin-Woo) were sent to the back of the grid for attempting to overtake under a yellow flag, and causing an avoidable collision in the Sprint race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nThe second pit-stop window was set to be between Laps 24 and 32. As conditions hadn't improved since earlier, the race was started behind the Safety Car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nThe Safety Car pulled in at the end of Lap 2, to get the race underway. On Lap 5,  Neel Jani pulled into the pits and retires, while  Adam Carroll spun out at Turn 6. On Lap 6,  Fabio Onidi spun and collected  Adrian Zaugg, putting both out of the race. After the first set of pit-stops,  France (Lo\u00efc Duval) led from  New Zealand (Earl Bamber) and  Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nA lot of action took place on Laps 16\u201317:  Jeroen Bleekemolen pulled into the pits with a steering wheel problem;  Indonesia (Satrio Hermanto) crashed out;  Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) spun and rejoined; and  Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque) spun and crashed in the final turn. The Safety Car was deployed while the wrecks were cleared. At this point, all remaining cars in the race were guaranteed points-finishes, which means  Monaco (Clivio Piccione) and  Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) would score on their debut, and  Lebanon (Daniel Morad) would score their first ever points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nOn Lap 24,  Daniel Morad did a 360-spin and continues, losing a place to  John Martin. Meanwhile,  Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen) were having gearshifting problems and lost a place to  USA (Charlie Kimball). On Lap 31,  Charlie Kimball retired after running off the track, but not before setting the fastest lap of the race. France (Lo\u00efc Duval) still led after the second round of pit-stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nOn Lap 33, the Safety Car was deployed after  Morad lost control and spun into the back of  Ho-Pin Tung, sending both cars into the tyre wall at Tarzan corner. At this stage, the race had nearly reached the 69-minute time limit. Two laps later the time expired, and  France (Lo\u00efc Duval) took the chequered flag behind the safety car, ahead of  Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy), and  New Zealand (Earl Bamber).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nBrazil (Felipe Guimar\u00e3es) joined the race late on, after being unable to make the start, as they were unable to repair the damage from their accident in the Sprint race in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, Feature Race\nScheduled for 45 laps but stopped earlier because of time limit", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199969-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands, After race\nAt the first practice session,  Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) was warned due to their political insistence which the team put on the car: Dokdo is a territory of Korea. However, they kept running the car with same insistence written in not English but Korean (Hangul) during the race weekend. As a result, the team received a penalty of fine after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand was an A1 Grand Prix race held at Taupo Motorsport Park, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Pre-race\nThe A1 Team Portugal\u2019s sports director, Pedro Chaves has tested the A1GP car at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve (Portugal) for promotional purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Qualifying\nThe PowerBoost joker-style qualifying lap was not used for qualifying, with further review being made to determine its use in the following race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Qualifying\nIt is the first time in A1GP history that the front row for both the Sprint and the Feature race has been the same since the introduction of the double qualifying sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Sprint Race\nFor safety concerns, regarding the \"S\" bend near the end of the lap, the Sprint Race featured a standing start, rather than the traditional rolling start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Sprint Race\n* 25 second penalty added to time, for causing an avoidable collision", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199970-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, New Zealand, Feature Race\n* 25 second penalty added to time \u2013 USA for passing the white line at the end of the pit lane, Brazil for causing an avoidable collision", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199971-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal\nThe 2008\u201309 Vodafone A1GP Algarve, Portugal was an A1 Grand Prix race held at Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve, Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199971-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal, Sprint Race\n\u2020 Switzerland assessed penalty for pitting outside of pit-stop window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199971-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal, Feature Race\n\u2020 \u2013 Ireland were given a 25-second penalty post-race for passing Australia under the safety car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199972-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa was an A1 Grand Prix race which was held at Kyalami, South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199972-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa, Pre-race\nA1 Team Korea failed to participate the race as the organiser of the series could not supply electrical units and fuel tank due to mistake of the transportation from New Zealand. The team had planned the debut of 2008 Macau Grand Prix winner Keisuke Kunimoto (Lee Gyeong-Woo), a Japanese driver of Korean descent, as rookie driver on the weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199972-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa, Post-race\nFollowing the race, the team principals of both Ireland and Malaysia issued statements regarding the on-track incident on the first lap of the Feature Race, which resulted in Ireland spinning out into retirement, and subsequently losing the championship lead to Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199972-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa, Post-race\nFrankly, I'm disgusted. We're pushing to win a championship and it's not the only time that this driver has caused incidents, doing the same thing to New Zealand later in the race. That's cost us the championship points lead that we fought so hard to create. We were on course to consolidate our points lead today but for a piece of poor driving. A1 Team Malaysia is one of the very best in A1GP, but today their driver has cost us dearly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199972-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa, Post-race\nIt's understandable that A1 Team Ireland was feeling emotional and frustrated after this incident, considering also that they lost the lead in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport. However, to blame Fairuz for the incident is unfair and we think the Irish team should stick to trying to win races rather than blaming others for their misfortune. A1 Team Ireland is a highly respected team, but on this occasion their comments are ill-judged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season\nThe 2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season was the fourth and final season of the A1 Grand Prix formula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season\nFerrari supplied the engines for all entrants and advised on aspects of the chassis, based on its championship-winning F2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season\nA1 Team Ireland became the fourth A1GP champions, after a title battle which went down to the final round in Great Britain. Ireland won with 112 points, with team driver Adam Carroll taking five victories at Chengdu, Sepang, Taupo and the series finale at Brands Hatch during the shortened 14 race season. Three rounds were cancelled for various reasons. The following season was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season\nA1 Team Switzerland finished the season in second place with 95 points and four wins by its driver Neel Jani. Third by just three points was A1 Team Portugal, whose driver Filipe Albuquerque took one race win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season\nDutch pairing Jeroen Bleekemolen and Robert Doornbos each took a win to take A1 Team Netherlands to fourth position in the team standings with Fairuz Fauzy and Lo\u00efc Duval taking the remaining wins for A1 Team Malaysia and A1 Team France respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Teams\nDuring the 2007\u201308 Shanghai race weekend, it was announced at an official ceremony that Korea would be participating in the 2008\u201309 season. Jung-Yong Kim of Omnibus Investment is the seat holder, with Good EMG supporting the project. Carlin Motorsport ran the racing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Teams\nOn 29 August 2008, it was announced that A1 Team Monaco would competing in season four. The joint seat holders were Hubertus Bahlsen, and former F3 and GP2 driver Clivio Piccione, who took on the driving duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Teams\nTwo teams appeared in A1GP documentation throughout the season but did not race. Wade Cherwayko's A1 Team Canada appeared on paper but the team did not show for any races and Adam Khan tested the A1 Team Pakistan car on a number of occasions but did not travel to any races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Teams\nThe 21 teams that started a race in the 2008\u201309 championship were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, New \"Powered by Ferrari\" car\nOn 11 October 2007, A1GP and Ferrari announced a six-year collaboration on the new generation of A1GP cars. The new \"Powered by Ferrari\" car is a modification of the Formula One Ferrari F2004 chassis with a V8 Ferrari engine producing 600 bhp. The car was officially revealed in Southern England, and driven for the first time by John Watson in an inaugural event in May 2008. Michelin supplied the tyres for the new car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, New \"Powered by Ferrari\" car\nThe car was developed and tested over more than 5600 kilometres at Mugello Circuit, Fiorano Circuit, Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Circuito Guadix, Silverstone Circuit, Donington Park, Circuit Paul Ricard and Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. Andrea Bertolini was the main test driver, but testing was carried out by Marc Gen\u00e9, Patrick Friesacher, Jonny Kane and Danny Watts during the sessions at Silverstone Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Off-season tests and car presentations\nOn August 2\u20133, 2008, the first press and public presentation of the A1GP Powered by Ferrari car was held on the TT Circuit Assen with former A1 Team Netherlands driver, Renger van der Zande. Two weeks after, the car was presented in Rotterdam during the Bavaria City Racing Festival. The A1 Team Netherlands car was driven by Carlo van Dam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Off-season tests and car presentations\nPre -season tests of the new 'powered by Ferrari' car took place on consecutive weekends in September at Donington Park, Mugello and Snetterton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Rule changes\nA number of rules were changed for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Rule changes\nAn update to the sporting regulations means that technical details of the fastest lap in any session (practice or qualifying) will be made available to all teams after the session ends. This is to allow slower or weaker teams to learn how they can improve their own lap times, making the \"field spread\" that much smaller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Rule changes\nSeveral detailed changes to the Friday \"rookie sessions\" were released on 1 September 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nThe season started at the Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands on 5 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nOn 21 August 2008, the Italy race at Mugello was moved back following a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis, and Zandvoort was named as the first race of the season. A replacement date was not announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nFurther timetable changes were announced on 26 August 2008. The Chinese round was confirmed to be held at Chengdu Goldenport Circuit, and swapped places in the calendar with the Indonesian round at Jakarta. Subsequent to that, the Indonesian race was moved back further, to 8 February due to track construction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nOn 9 September 2008, Brands Hatch was confirmed as hosting the race in Great Britain at the end of the season. It was also announced that as a replacement date for the Mugello race could not be found, the race was removed from the season's schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nAccording to a revised international FIA calendar issued on 19 December, the A1GP season finale is to be held at Interlagos on the weekend of 15\u201317 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nRound 5 at Lippo Village, Indonesia was cancelled on January 16 due to the circuit missing a construction deadline, mainly caused by a heavy rain season. The Mexican round was also moved back by one week, so as to avoid clashing with a Radiohead music concert, which was to take place in the baseball stadium inside the circuit at the original date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nOn February 17, 2009, the A1GP Gauteng official preview reported that the Mexico City round was no longer to take place on the weekend of March 20\u201322 and a replacement date was being sought. eTicket.com.mx advertised the event as it should take place on the weekend of the 22\u201324 May, and was confirmed on March 31, 2009, subject to the FIA-stipulated changes to the Peraltada corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nOn the 5th of March, the proposed Interlagos race was removed from the circuit's official calendar, presumably signalling an end to A1GP's plans to run a race meeting there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199973-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 A1 Grand Prix season, Season calendar\nOn April 29, 2009, it was confirmed that the Mexican round was cancelled due to an outbreak of swine flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199974-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AAHA season\nThe 2008-09 All-American Hockey Association season was the first season of the All-American Hockey Association. Five teams participated in the regular season, and the Chi-Town Shooters were the league champions. The Detroit Dragons folded mid-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League\nThe ABA NLB League 2008\u201309 season was the 8th season of the Liga ABA. This season saw a return to the competition system in use in 2003\u201304, when the Final Four Tournament was played at the end of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League\nA total of 14 teams from Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia participated in the NLB League season: Union Olimpija, Helios, Krka, Cibona, Zagreb, Zadar, Split, Bosna, Crvena zvezda, Partizan, FMP \u017deleznik, Hemofarm, Vojvodina, Budu\u0107nost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League\nThere were 26 round played in the regular part of the season. The best four teams later qualified for the Final Four Tournament, which was played in Belgrade between April 16 and April 18 (Partizan, Cibona, Hemofarm, Crvena zvezda).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League, Regular season, League table\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League, Regular season, Incident\nOn Tuesday, 20 January 2009 around 10:40pm at the Split Airport, Red Star Belgrade players were attacked by a group of 20 Croatian hooligans, members of Torcida Split hooligan firm, and supporters of KK Split. The attack occurred inside the airport building as the players and club staff were checking-in for the charter flight back to Belgrade after beating KK Split 62-67 earlier that night in Gripe Hall. The hooligans entered the airport building, stormed the main hall, and attacked the Red Star group with sticks, glass bottles, and rocks, before escaping out of the building using another entrance. The attack did not appear to be organized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League, Regular season, Incident\nNo serious injuries were reported except for Red Star's American shooting guard Andre Owens who got a laceration on his knee as he jumped over the check-in counter to avoid the charging hooligans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199975-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA NLB League, Regular season, Incident\nIn a press release prompted by the incident, KK Split's management distanced themselves form the behaviour of their fans, expressing regret over the incident. Club president Dino Ra\u0111a also publicly apologized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199976-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA season\nThe 2008-2009 ABA season was the eighth season of the American Basketball Association that lasted from November 2008 and ended with the championship game in March 2009 between the Kentucky Bisons and the Maywood Buzz. The Kentucky Bisons won their first title after defeating the Buzz, 127\u2013120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199976-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA season\nThe 2008\u20132009 season was scheduled to host over 50 teams, but travelling costs doomed most teams and resulted in many franchises folding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199976-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ABA season, Regular season standings\nThe following are the final regular season standings of the 2008\u20132009 season. Some teams folded during the regular season and did not complete all of their scheduled games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199977-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ACB season\nThe 2008\u201309 ACB season is the 26th season of the Liga ACB. The 272-game regular season (16 home games for each of the 17 teams) began on Saturday, October 4, 2008, and ended on Sunday, May 10, 2009. The top four teams earned berths in the Euroleague competition for 2009\u201310, the international basketball competition for European professional teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199978-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ACF Fiorentina season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was ACF Fiorentina's 83rd season in Italian football and their 71st season in the first-tier of Italian football, Serie A. Having finished fourth the previous season, La Viola earned qualification to the UEFA Champions League for the first time in eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199978-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ACF Fiorentina season, Players, Squad information\nAs of 26 July 2008Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season\nAEK Athens F.C. competed for the 50th consecutive season in the Greek topflight. They started their European campaign in the UEFA Cup Second qualifying round after finishing second in last season's play\u2013offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Overview\nAfter the end of an indifferent season, the team initially finished in first place in the league, but after the court case between Apollon Kalamaria and Olympiacos for the illegal use of a player in the 1-0 Apollon Kalamaria win earlier in the season, Olympiacos were awarded the 3 points in a court hearing, thus finishing 2 points ahead of AEK. AEK then finished 2nd in the national playoffs which saw them qualify for the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Overview\nThe club sold 18,200 season tickets. The new season started nervously, since the team was constantly under-performing during friendly games. The apparent nervousness reached a new high, when the team was defeated at home by underdogs Omonia at the first leg of the UEFA Cup Second qualifying round, followed by the chairman Demis Nikolaidis' resignation announcement for the end of the season, and Rivaldo's sudden intention to leave the club in order to join FC Bunyodkor from Uzbekistan. AEK was eventually eliminated from the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Overview\nDespite the disappointment, the team responded surprisingly well and put an assertive performance against fierce rivals Panathinaikos by beating them 2-1 at home during matchday 1, but poor performances and results from then on left AEK in a difficult situation. Head coach Giorgos Donis was eager to leave the club, but president Demis Nikolaidis did not allow him to leave. Nevertheless, Nikolaidis left due to these disappointing results and after a controversy with the club's supporters Original 21, leaving the presidency to member of the D.C., Nikos Koulis and Takis Kanellopoulos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Overview\nHowever, the series of disappointing results continued, bringing anger and insecure situations for everyone in the team. The first to be hit by this wave of disappointment and with the council of the team upset, was the coach Giorgos Donis, who was asked to leave the team. On November 21, 2008, AEK hired Du\u0161an Bajevi\u0107 as head coach for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Overview\nOn 2 May 2009, AEK participated in the Greek Cup final at Athens Olympic Stadium inan effort to obtain the Greek Cup title for 14th time. However the result did not go in their favour after losing 14-15 on penalties vs their arch rival Olympiacos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Players, Squad statistics\nNOTE: The players are the ones that have been announced by the AEK Athens' press release. No edits should be made unless a player arrival or exit is announced. Updated 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199979-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AEK Athens F.C. season, Manager stats\nOnly competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shootouts are not counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199980-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AFC Ajax season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season AFC Ajax participated in the Eredivisie, the KNVB Cup and the UEFA Cup. The first training took place on Monday July 14, 2008. The traditional AFC Ajax Open Day was on Tuesday August 5, 2008, followed by a testimonial match for the retired former Ajax defender Jaap Stam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199980-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AFC Ajax season, Pre-season\nThe first training for the 2008\u201309 season was held on July 14, 2008. In preparation for the new season Ajax organized a training camp in De Lutte, Netherlands at the De Thij Sportpark. During the pre-season, the squad from manager Marco van Basten played friendly matches against VV Noordwijk, CVV Germanicus and Excelsior '31 before traveling to the United Kingdom to play against Cardiff City and Sunderland, then traveling to Spain to play Real Murcia. They then returned to Amsterdam to play Arsenal and Internazionale in the annual Amsterdam Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199980-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AFC Ajax season, Transfers for 2008-09, Summer transfer window\nFor a list of all Dutch football transfers in the summer window (1 July 2008 to 1 September 2008) please see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199980-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AFC Ajax season, Transfers for 2008-09, Winter transfer window\nFor a list of all Dutch football transfers in the winter window (1 January 2009 to 1 February 2009) please see List of Dutch football transfers winter 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 AHL season was the 73rd season of the American Hockey League. 29 teams each played 80 games in the regular season, which ran from October 8 until April 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Team and NHL affiliation changes\nThe Iowa Stars are renamed and are now called the Iowa Chops, and the Anaheim Ducks have replaced the Dallas Stars as the team's NHL affiliate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Team and NHL affiliation changes\nThe Dallas Stars have no AHL affiliate this year, with the Texas Stars (based in Austin) to become their affiliate for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Team and NHL affiliation changes\nOn April 28, 2009, it was announced that two teams would be relocated for the 2009\u201310 season: the Quad City Flames would move to Abbotsford, BC, and the Philadelphia Phantoms would relocate to Glens Falls, NY.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Standings\nBlue indicates team has clinched division. Green indicates team has clinched a playoff spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, Calder Cup playoffs\nIn each division, the fourth-place team will play the first-place team in the division semifinals, while the second-place team plays the third-place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\nThe 22nd AHL All-Star Classic was played in Worcester, Massachusetts, on January 26, 2009, with the PlanetUSA All-Stars defeating the Canadian All-Stars 14\u201311 after scoring nine goals in the third period to come back from an 8\u20135 deficit. Corey Locke scored four goals for the Canadian All-Stars, while Jeff Taffe had a hat-trick for the PlanetUSA All-Stars. The host club was the Worcester Sharks. The 2009 event in Worcester marked the fourth time since 1995 that the AHL All-Star Classic took place in New England. The AHL All-Star Game was last held in Massachusetts in 1959 at the Eastern States Coliseum in West Springfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\n#15 F Martins Karsums (Providence Bruins) #16 F Ryan Vesce (Worcester Sharks) #17 F Chris Bourque (Hershey Bears) #5 D Jakub Kindl (Grand Rapids Griffins) #7 D Yannick Weber (Hamilton Bulldogs) #35 G Cory Schneider (Manitoba Moose)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\n#9 F Mike Santorelli (Milwaukee Admirals) #12 F Alexandre Giroux (Hershey Bears) #14 F Chris Minard (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins) #3 D Johnny Boychuk (Providence Bruins) #77 D Derek Joslin (Worcester Sharks) #29 G Mike Brodeur (Rochester Americans)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\n#4 D Rory Fitzpatrick (Rochester Americans, captain) #6 D Ben Lovejoy (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins) #8 F Jared Ross (Philadelphia Phantoms\u2020) #11 F Keith Aucoin (Hershey Bears) #12 F Ryan Potulny (Springfield Falcons) #14 F Michael Ryan (Albany River Rats) #18 F Brian Salcido (Iowa Chops\u2020) #20 F Petri Kontiola (Rockford Icehogs) #21 F Joe Motzko (Chicago Wolves) #22 F Jeff Taffe (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins) #26 D Jaime Sifers (Toronto Marlies) #31 G Jeff Frazee (Lowell Devils) #40 D Mattias Karlsson (Binghamton Senators) #42 F Artem Anisimov (Hartford Wolf Pack\u2020) #44 D Jonas Junland (Peoria Rivermen) #86 G Daniel Larsson (Grand Rapids Griffins) #10 F Tim Kennedy (Portland Pirates**) #18 F Drew Miller (Iowa Chops*) #19 F Nathan Gerbe (Portland Pirates**) #21 D Bobby Sanguinetti (Hartford Wolf Pack**) #90 F Nikita Filatov (Syracuse Crunch*)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 893]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\n#2 D Andrew MacDonald (Bridgeport Sound Tigers) #6 D Cody Franson (Milwaukee Admirals) #7 D Brett Palin (Quad City Flames) #16 F Cal O'Reilly (Milwaukee Admirals) #20 D Bryan Helmer (Hershey Bears, captain) #24 F Derek MacKenzie (Syracuse Crunch\u2020) #25 F Mark Mancari (Portland Pirates) #26 F Brandon Segal (Norfolk Admirals\u2020) #30 G Tyler Weiman (Lake Erie Monsters\u2020) #33 G Barry Brust (Houston Aeros) #37 F Mike Iggulden (Bridgeport Sound Tigers) #48 D Kyle Cumiskey (Lake Erie Monsters) #62 F Teddy Purcell (Manchester Monarchs) #75 D Danny Syvret (Philadelphia Phantoms\u2020) #84 F Corey Locke (Houston Aeros) #97 F Brett MacLean (San Antonio Rampage) #1 G Brian Elliott (Binghamton Senators*) #10 F Jason Krog (Manitoba Moose**) #19 F Claude Giroux (Philadelphia Phantoms*) #24 F Steve Downie (Norfolk Admirals*) #39 F Martin St. Pierre (Providence Bruins*)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 893]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199981-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AHL season, All Star Classic\n* indicates player was called up to his NHL team. * * indicates player was named to All-Star team, but missed game due to injury. \u2020 indicates player was named as a replacement due to callups or injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199982-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AL-Bank Ligaen season\nThe 2008\u201309 AL-Bank Ligaen season was the 52nd season of ice hockey in Denmark. Ten teams participated in the league, and S\u00f8nderjyskE Ishockey won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was APOEL's 69th season in the Cypriot First Division and 81st year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season\nThe first training session for the season took take place at the training ground at GSP Stadium on 11 June 2008. APOEL left on 20 June 2008 for Obertraun in Austria to perform the main stage of their pre-season training and returned to Cyprus on 7 July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season\nThe team finished 2nd in the league in the previous season so the club participated in the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season\nOn 30 October 2008, Kyriakos Zivanaris (the chairman of APOEL since 2006) resigned and he was replaced by Phivos Erotokritou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season\nThe team won their 20th championship two rounds before the end after an away draw against Anorthosis on 25 April 2009. The draw also put an end to a 16-game winning streak that started on 21 December 2008 on the away game against Doxa Katokopias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season, Current squad\nFor recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2008. Also, see List of Cypriot football transfers winter 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season, Preseason friendlies\nAPOEL left on 20 June 2008 for Obertraun in Austria, to perform the main stage of their pre-season training. The team returned to Cyprus on7 July 2008. During the pre-season training stage in Austria, APOEL played four friendly matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season, Competitions, Marfin Laiki League, Playoffs table\nThe first 12 teams are divided into 3 groups. Points are carried over from the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199983-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 APOEL F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup, Second qualifying round\nAPOEL 5\u20135 Red Star Belgrade on aggregate. APOEL won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was AS Monaco FC's 52nd season in Ligue 1. They finished eleventh in Ligue 1, and were knocked out of the Coupe de la Ligue by Grenoble Foot, in the Quarterfinal, and the Coupe de France by Paris Saint-Germain at the Third Round stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199984-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AS Monaco FC season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 AWIHL season was the second season of the Australian Women's Ice Hockey League. It ran from 11 October 2008 until 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Regular season\nThe regular season begins on 11 October 2008 and will run through to 1 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; GDF = Goal Differential; PTS = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Standings\nWin = 2 ptsTie = 1 ptLoss = 0 pts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 65]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: T = Ties; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199985-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AWIHL season, Playoffs\nThe finals series was hosted in Newcastle, New South Wales at Hunter Ice Skating Stadium over the weekend of 14\u201315 February 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199986-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZ Alkmaar season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 Dutch football season, AZ Alkmaar competed in the Eredivisie, playing their 42nd season of competitive football (Alkmaar '54 and FC Zaanstreek had merged to form AZ in May 1967).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199986-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZ Alkmaar season, Season summary\nThe club won its first Eredivisie title since 1981 and remains the second top flight title in its history to this day. The club secured 80 points in the 34 games under Louis van Gaal and finished 11 points ahead of second placed FC Twente. AZ were knocked out of the KNVB Cup in the quarterfinals suffering a 2-1 home loss to NAC Breda, although they did secure a notable 1-0 (aet) win over PSV Eindhoven in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199986-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZ Alkmaar season, Season summary\nvan Gaal left the club at the end of the season to join FC Bayern Munich and was succeeded by Ronald Koeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199986-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZ Alkmaar season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199986-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZ Alkmaar season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199987-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZAL PFC season\nThe Olimpik Baku 2008\u201309 season was Olimpik Baku's fourth Azerbaijan Premier League season and their third season with Asgar Abdullayev as manager. They participated in the 2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League as well as the 2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup, finishing the league in 6th place, being knocked out of the Cup at the Quarterfinal stage by Gabala and going out of the UEFA Cup at the 1st Qualifying Round stage after defeat to Vojvodina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199987-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZAL PFC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199987-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZAL PFC season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199987-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZAL PFC season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199987-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AZAL PFC season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00199988-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AaB Fodbold season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 Danish football season, AaB Fodbold competed in the Danish Superliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199988-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AaB Fodbold season, Season summary\nBruce Rioch managed to guide AaB to the Champions League group stage, but was sacked after only two wins from the first 10 league games and a single point won from their first three Champions League games, with the team 11th in the Superliga. Interim manager Allan Kuhn went undefeated in his seven league games and three Champions League games, seeing the club rise to 6th and qualify for the UEFA Cup knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199988-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 AaB Fodbold season, Season summary\nHowever, sporting director Lynge Jakobsen was wary of promoting Kuhn from assistant coach to head coach and instead opted to appoint Magnus Pehrsson as permanent head coach. Although Pehrsson only won 3 of his 16 league matches in charge, resulting in a final 7th-place finish (their lowest in 11 years), he achieved famous victories against Deportivo and Manchester City to take AaB to the round of 16 before elimination at the hands of the Mancunian team on penalties. He also took the team to the Danish Cup final; although they were defeated by F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen's title victory saw AaB qualify for the second qualifying round of the inaugural season of the UEFA Europe League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 734]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00199988-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 AaB Fodbold season, Results, UEFA Cup, Round of 16\nManchester City 2\u20132 Aalborg BK on aggregate. Manchester City won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen competed in the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season\nRichie Byrne, Barry Nicholson, Steve Lovell, Derek Soutar, Dave Bus, Jonathan Smith, Greg Kelly, Alan Maybury, Jackie McNamara and Dan Smith all left the club, mostly on Bosman transfers, and Josh Walker returned down South to Middlesbrough. On 5 July 2008, Karim Touzani returned to his native homeland of Netherlands to sign for Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season\nThe club brought in several players; Bertrand Bossu, Sammy Stewart, Gary McDonald, Mark Kerr, Charlie Mulgrew were all given two-year contracts by the club. Tommy Wright signed from Darlington, he cost \u00a3100,000 and was given a three-year contract. The club signed Jared Hodgkiss on loan from West Bromwich Albion for the first half of the season, and in January signed Manchester City youngster Javan Vidal until the end of the season. On transfer deadline day, the club signed Sone Aluko from Birmingham City for an undisclosed fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nAberdeen kicked off their pre-season campaign with a 2\u20130 loss at home to English and European champions, Manchester United. The game marked the 25th anniversary of Aberdeen's 2\u20131 victory over Real Madrid in the 1982\u201382 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in Gothenburg. Goals from Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney ensured that Sir Alex Ferguson won on his return to Pittodrie. Three days later the Dons faced 'local rivals' Dundee, The game finished 0\u20130. The worst result of the pre-season came next, a 4\u20130 defeat by Peterhead, however Aberdeen recorded their first win of pre-season against Brechin City three days later, Derek Young getting the only goal; and the first of pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nAberdeen opened their tour of the Netherlands with a 5\u20130 win over Jimmy Calderwood's son Scott's DZC 68. Chris Maguire scored a hat-trick, Lee Miller and Jamie Smith were also on the scoresheet against the minnows. New signing Gary McDonald scored his first goal for the Dons against FC Zwolle, however two late goals meant that Aberdeen would suffer their first and only defeat of the Dutch tour. The next game saw Aberdeen play top-tier team Vitesse Arnhem, which they won 1\u20130 thanks to an Andrew Considine goal twenty minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nAberdeen had been due to play Go Ahead Eagles but the game was scrapped due to police fears of crowd trouble. Instead a game was arranged against minnows SV Rietvogels, in which the Dons scored 10 goals. Captain Scott Severin scored an early goal, the lead was soon doubled by youngster Peter Pawlett, Other goalscorers included Chris Maguire, Jeffrey de Visscher and Michael Paton; trialist Dyon Camero scored four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nAberdeen followed up their pre-season tour of the Netherlands with a win against Highland league team Inverurie Loco Works at Harlaw Park. Manager Jimmy Calderwood fielded a young team and for the first time Zander Diamond led the team out as captain. Within 17 minutes Aberdeen were 1\u20130 ahead; U-19 player Michael Paton scored his second goal in as many games, Summer signing, Sammy Stewart scored his first goal for the club; 11 minutes from time, to make it 2\u20130 and that was the final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, August\nAberdeen began their SPL campaign with a 2\u20130 loss at home to North 'rivals' Inverness Caledonian Thistle through goals from Andrew Barrowman and Roy McBain. It was the first time that Aberdeen had been beaten by Inverness, having played them 17 times previously. The Dons travelled to Motherwell for their second game, The match was goalless until four minutes from time, when summer signing Charlie Mulgrew scored from a free-kick, to give Aberdeen their first win. Aberdeen then hosted Glasgow rivals Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, August\nVeteran Scotland defender David Weir opened the scoring for the visitors, Derek Young followed up after Lee Miller's shot was blocked by rangers keeper Allan McGregor; to score Aberdeen's first goal of the new season at Pittodrie. The match ended 1\u20131, but aberdeen were fortunate as DaMarcus Beasley seemed to have won it for Rangers in stoppage time; his goal was disallowed for offside he was however clearly onside. Aberdeen then travelled to Paisley to play St Mirren. A mistake by the St Mirren defence allowed Darren Mackie to score a goal just before half-time, which proved to be the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, September\nSeptember, and Aberdeen's first match was a home tie against SPL newcomers Hamilton Academical. The game saw the second debut of Sone Aluko, following his return. Aberdeen took the lead in the 7th minute, summer signing Gary McDonald scored the goal, with Hamilton goalkeeper Tomas Cerny only able to push the ball onto the post and into the net. Hamilton equalised after 34 minutes, David Graham the scorer. A defensive mistake by the Aberdeen defence allowed Hamilton's James McCarthy to score what turned out to be the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, September\nAluko hit the bar with a late free-kick, the defeat meant that Aberdeen were still to win at home. Another home defeat followed the week after, Tommy Wright was given his first league start by manager Jimmy Calderwood and it was his handball which allowed Francesco Sandaza to score the only goal from the penalty spot. Aberdeen ended the month with a trip to reigning Champions Celtic. A defensive mistake allowed Dutchman Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to score the opening goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0007-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, September\nAberdeen equalised early in the second half; Charlie Mulgrew claimed his second goal of the SPL campaign, He scored his third as well minutes later, when he curled a free-kick from the edge of the box, to make the score 2\u20131 to Aberdeen. Celtic equalised eleven minutes from time when Scott McDonald headed the ball into the net, Vennegoor of Hesselink scored an injury time winner making the score 3\u20132. This left Aberdeen eleventh in the league table, they had not gained a single point throughout the month of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, October\nHibernian came to Pittodrie for Aberdeen's first match in October. A defensive slip by Lee Mair allowed Hibernian striker Derek Riordan to open the scoring after 33 minutes, Lee Miller equalised 8 minutes later from the penalty spot after being fouled by Sol Bamba. Hibernian regained the lead from the penalty spot after Mulgrew, who was red-carded, handled the ball on the line. The ball was directed towards goal by Hibernian striker Steven Fletcher, he was clearly offside but it was not given, so Riordan converted to score his second of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, October\nAberdeen then traveled to Falkirk after an International break. Lee Miller headed the only goal to give Aberdeen their first victory in six games, and lift the Dons' off the bottom of the table. Lee Bullen was sent off for Falkirk late on, after a challenge on Scott Severin. Aberdeen then travelled to Edinburgh for the first time in the season to play Heart of Midlothian. It started well for the Dons', Darren Mackie profited from a defensive error and scored the first goal of the game. Hearts however, shortly after, equalised through wing-back Lee Wallace. In the dying minutes, Hearts looked to have been awarded a penalty by referee Steve Conroy, Jamie Langfield appeared to have tripped Michael Stewart in the penalty area, But after consulting with his assistant, the referee reversed his decision and the match finished 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nAberdeen started November with a home-tie against high-flyers Kilmarnock. A goal by Sone Aluko handed Aberdeen their first home win of the season, and more importantly, all three points. The following week Aberdeen travelled to Dundee to face Dundee United for the second New Firm Derby of the season. It got off to another bad start for the Dons, Francisco Sandaza scored the opening goal in the opening 8 minutes, Northern-Irish striker Warren Feeney doubled the 'tangerine's' advantage on 14 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nAberdeen pulled a goal back through Darren Mackie, but it proved to only be a consolation goal, as the Dons' lost the derby 2\u20131, although they had a goal disallowed for offside. The Dons' then hosted St Mirren in a midweek match at Pittodrie. Both the goals in the 2\u20130 win were scored in the last 10 minutes, First defender Andrew Considine finished well after good work by Mark Kerr then Englishman Sone Aluko was put clean-through on goal to score the second. The win propelled Aberdeen up to fourth in the league for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nAberdeen then played Hibernian in their second trip to the capital. The Dons opened the scoring just before half-time when Darren Mackie pounced on Rob Jones' error to head the visitors in front, four minutes before half-time. Aberdeen doubled their lead eight minutes after the break when Sone Aluko flighted in a corner and Zander Diamond headed in his first goal of the season and put the Dons' 2\u20130 up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nThree points turned into one point as Rob Jones made amends for his first half error and pulled one back for Hibs with a header in the 62nd minute, and with virtually the last kick of the game Steven Fletcher scrambled in a goal. Aberdeen then travelled to Glasgow to play Rangers at Ibrox. Aberdeen dominated the first half and it took a good save from Rangers' keeper Allan McGregor to prevent Derek Young from scoring the opening goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nThe Dons' continued to hold the upper hand until Jean-Claude Darcheville bundled the ball over the line to put Rangers 1\u20130 up. Zander Diamond was unlucky not to level when his header was cleared off the line by Pedro Mendes. Seconds later Rangers had the ball in the net again, this time through Kris Boyd. The game finished 2\u20130 to Rangers. Aberdeen then hosted Motherwell at Pittodrie. Motherwell keeper Graeme Smith pulled off a fantastic save to prevent Darren Mackie from opening the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0009-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, November\nHowever, on the hour mark, just seconds after coming on as a second-half substitute Gary McDonald headed the Dons' in front after fine work from Sone Aluko. It was 2\u20130 eight six minutes later, when Jeffrey de Visscher whipped in a cross, only for Darren Mackie to be hauled down by Motherwell defender Paul Quinn. Referee Chris Boyle showed a red card to Quinn for his last man challenge, and awarded a penalty to the Dons', which Lee Miller happily dispatched. The game finished 2\u20130 and moved the Dons' up to fifth in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, December\nAberdeen's opening game in December was against Kilmarnock, however the game was postponed due to a frozen pitch at Rugby Park. Next the Dons welcomed Falkirk to Pittodrie. Lee Miller got his fifth and sixth goals of the season in the opening half, of home side dominance. The second half was less great, ex-Aberdeen player Steve Lovell got a late consolation goal, but it was too little too late, as the Dons ran out 2\u20131 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, December\nA trip up North to the Caledonian Stadium to play North 'rivals', Inverness C.T. Aberdeen got off to the best of starts when Charlie Mulgrew fired a free-kick passed ex-Don Ryan Esson in only the sixth minute. Gary McDonald doubled the lead when he capitalized on Dougie Imrie's mistake to double the Dons' lead. Five minutes later, Darren Mackie made it three, as he scored his fifth goal of the campaign, with a clinical chip, over the advancing Esson. Aberdeen ran out 3\u20130 winners leaving them 5th placed in the table. Hearts were visitors to Pittodrie the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, December\nOn form striker Lee Miller scored the only goal of the game in front of a packed Pittodrie. Miller, met Severin's free-kick and scored with a brilliant volley, towards the end of the first half. In a pulsating game, Aberdeen ran out 1\u20130 winners, and Hearts had Marius \u017dali\u016bkas and Lee Wallace sent off. As Aberdeen finished 2008 on a high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, January\nAberdeen's opening game of 2009 resulted in a disappointing 2\u20130 defeat away to Hamilton Academical. Simon Mensing converted a penalty to put Hamilton 1\u20130 up, and Richard Offiong completed the scoring. However, Offiong was later sent off following two bookable offences. On Tuesday 13th, Aberdeen traveled to Ayr, to play December's postponement against Kilmarnock. Killie took the lead when the ball fell nicely to Allan Russell who finished well. Aberdeen equalised on the half-hour, when Lee Miller met Mulgrew's corner fantastically, scoring with a back-heel volley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, January\nAnd it was Miller who grabbed the winner, when he met Mackie's cross with a diving header. Aberdeen won the game 2\u20131 and that moved Aberdeen up to fourth. Aberdeen were to host both sides of the Old Firm in the space of two weeks, up first were Celtic, a team who Aberdeen have never beaten at Pittodrie since 2002. The game turned out to be a classic. Stuart Duff crossed the ball for Gary McDonald to open the scoring with a looping header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0011-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, January\nCeltic were back on level terms within a minute, as a cut-back by Aiden McGeady found Scott Brown unmarked to score the equaliser. Duff then got on the score-sheet himself, with a well taken volley. After immense pressure from Celtic in the second half, Scott McDonald pulled Celtic back on level terms again when he headed in Barry Robson's cross. However, Aberdeen were not to be denied the win, as Zander Diamond headed in two Charlie Mulgrew free-kicks in the space of two minutes to give the Dons' a 4\u20132 win against the reigning champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0011-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, SPL, January\nThe crowd were left chanting for five. The following week, a packed Pittodrie watched Aberdeen take on the second half of the Old Firm, Rangers. A dull game saw very little chances until in the 80th minute Nacho Novo found space at the back post, but his shot rebounded off of the post. Darren Mackie and Charlie Mulgrew went close for Aberdeen, but both defences stayed firm as the sides settled for a 0\u20130 draw. Aberdeen then travelled to Falkirk. Once again a dull away performance saw Michael Higdon score the only goal as the Bairns' won 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Scottish Cup\nAberdeen started their Scottish Cup with a 2\u20131 win against Second Division side Alloa Athletic. A cool Sone Aluko provided the Dons' with the class they needed to scrape past a spirited Alloa side. On form striker Lee Miller opened the scoring after he deflected Chris Maguire's shot. Alloa midfielder Andy Scott scored from the penalty spot to equalise for the hosts. Aluko raced clear and chipped the ball over the advancing keeper Raymond Jellema in the 56th minute. Alloa pushed forward for much of the last half-hour, but Aberdeen survived to progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Scottish Cup\nIn the fifth-round, Aberdeen were then drawn at home against another Second Division team, East Fife. The game ended in a comfortable 5\u20130 victory, with the East Fife goalkeeper sent off in the first three minutes. Goals from Tommy Wright, Javan Vidal, Sone Aluko and a late chris Maguire double sealed the win for Aberdeen, earning them an away tie at Dunfermline Athletic. Sone Aluko looked to have put Aberdeen through to a semi-final when he finished neatly midway through the second half. However Nick Phinn scored with just five minutes remaining, to force a reply at Pittodrie. The replay proved to be a night to forget. A highly disappointing display saw 120 minutes of no goals, and very little activity. Dunfermline eventually won the game on penalties, Scott Severin and Richard Foster were the only players to have missed which sent the Dons' out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 909]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Review, Scottish League Cup\nAberdeen travelled to Ayr to play Second Division Ayr United in the second round of the League Cup, Chris Maguire scored the only goal of the game after 40 minutes to secure Aberdeen's place in the third round. In the third round of the league cup, Aberdeen were drawn away against fellow SPL club Kilmarnock. The hosts took the lead in the first minute, Conor Sammon opened the scoring only for Gary McDonald to equalise for the visitors. Kilmarnock were back in front five minutes later through David Fernandez, Mehdi Taouil extended the home side's advantage with a penalty. Lee Miller pulled a goal back from the penalty spot, after Darren Mackie was fouled. However, Conor Sammon scored his second of the evening. The match finished 4\u20132 to Kilmarnock, Aberdeen were out of the League Cup at the third round stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 876]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199989-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aberdeen F.C. season, Squad, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season was the club's fourth A-League season since the inception in the Australian football league since it first started in 2005. The club competed in the 2008\u201309 A-League, 2008 AFC Champions League and 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nFor the 2008\u201309 season, Adelaide United made some significant signings to strengthen the squad, most notably striker Cristiano from Willem II for two years on a free transfer. Another key signing to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Richie Alagich was Alem\u00e3o formerly of CA Juventus. Sa\u0161a Ognenovski joined the club from Queensland Roar to help shore up the defence, midfielder Paul Reid joined from Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., while promising youngsters Scott Jamieson, Daniel Mullen, Mark Birighitti and Robert Younis also signed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nBobby Petta, Shaun Ontong, Milan Susak, Dez Giraldi and Robert Bajic were all released, Bruce Djite was sold for an A-League record of A$850,000 to Genclerbirligi, whilst Nathan Burns also transferred to pursue his European dreams, joining Greek first division outfit AEK Athens for A$500,000. Kristian Sarkies, Lucas Pantelis and Fabian Barbiero all had their contracts renewed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nThis season, Adelaide United passed the one millionth spectator milestone of total crowds since the inception of the A-League. They reached this achievement when their 7,052nd fan passed through the gate, for the Round 3 match against Wellington. Adelaide United are only the third A-League club to do so thus far, the other two being Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nThe round 18 A-League match against Sydney FC at the Adelaide Oval saw $23,002 donated to the Starlight Foundation as $1 from every ticket sold for the match went to the charity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nBy the end of round 27, Adelaide had drawn level for first, equalling Melbourne's 38 points on the ladder, having needed to win 2\u20130 against the Central Coast Mariners away to win the premiership and only securing a 1\u20130 win. Adelaide was pushed down to second because of goal difference. The Reds, along with Melbourne, the Queensland Roar and Central Coast, proceeded to the finals where they lost 1\u20130 against Melbourne Victory in the grand final at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nAn early highlight for the season was Adelaide's run to the final of the AFC Champions League against Gamba Osaka. Because of this performance, Adelaide participated in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup. They played in the play-off round against Waitakere United on 11 December, defeating them 2\u20131. The Reds' next game was played against AFC Champions League rivals, Gamba Osaka, in the quarterfinal round on 14 December in Toyota, Japan. This match, despite Adelaide's grown skill since their first meeting with ACL champions, was won by Gamba Osaka 0\u20131. Adelaide's last appearance in the Club World Cup was against Al Ahly, from Egypt, to determine the fifth-placed club. The match was played on 18 December, and Adelaide defeated Al-Ahly 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season\nThis season also saw the introduction of the Adelaide United W-League team and the A-League National Youth League team. Former Adelaide player Richie Alagich, along with Michael Barnett and former Socceroos Tony Vidmar and Joe Mullen joined the coaching staff of these teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season, Players, Squad information, First Team roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season, Players, Squad information, Youth Team roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199990-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United FC season, Statistics, Squad statistics\n1 \u2013 does not include own goal(s)* \u2013 player(s) who competed in the ACL but not in the 2008\u201309 A-League season or the CWC** \u2013 player(s) who competed in the CWC but not in the 2008\u201309 A-League season or the ACL", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199991-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Adelaide United Women's first season in the W-League and first overall season in the top flight Australian soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199991-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Adelaide United W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199992-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Africa Cup\nThe 2008-2009 Africa Cup is the ninth edition of highest level rugby union tournament in Africa. The competition involves twelve teams that are divided into two zones (North and South). Each zone is then divided into two pools of three. Each pool winner then qualifies for a semi-final; the semi-final winners then play each other in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199992-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Africa Cup, Format\nThe tournament will be used as the first stage of qualification for Rugby World Cup 2011. The top two teams will progress in the World Cup and qualify for the 2009 Africa Cup, which will be the main tournament for the African qualifiers. Swaziland, Nigeria and Botswana have been added to the qualification process as they possess an IRB ranking. A two-legged playoff between the two lowest ranked teams from the south (Botswana and Swaziland) and the two lowest ranked teams from the north (Cameroon and Nigeria) will begin the tournament to take the competition numbers from 14 to 12 to make the group stage four groups of three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199992-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Africa Cup, Pool Stage\nPool winners qualify for the semi-finals. Top teams also progress to second stage of world cup qualification, in the 2009 Africa Cup. Pools determined through world rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199992-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Africa Cup, Pool Stage\nBonus point system: 4 points for a win, 2 for a draw, 0 for a loss, 1 point for scoring four tries in a game, 1 point for losing by seven or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199992-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Africa Cup, Semifinals\nSemi finals and final of this edition of the Africa Cup are to take place in 2009 doubling as the final leg of African Rugby World Cup qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199993-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Airdrie United F.C. season\nIn association football, season 2008\u201309 was Airdrie United's seventh competitive season. They competed in the First Division, Challenge Cup, League Cup, and the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199993-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Airdrie United F.C. season, Summary\nAirdrie United finished ninth in the First Division, entering the play-offs losing 3\u20132 to Ayr United on aggregate. Despite losing in the play off, they regained their first division status due to Livingston's forced relegation due to going into administration. They reached the fifth round of the Scottish Cup, the third round of the League Cup, and clinched the Challenge Cup beating Ross County in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199994-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al Wasl FC season\nThis is a list of Al Wasl SC football transfers for the 2008-09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199995-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Hilal FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 Al-Hilal FC season was Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club's 52nd in existence and 33rd consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi Arabian football. Along with Pro League, the club participated in the AFC Champions League, Crown Prince Cup, and the King Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199995-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Hilal FC season, Players, Squad information\nPlayers and squad numbers. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199996-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Nassr FC season\nIn this article, the results of Al Nassr Club of Saudi Arabia in 2008-2009 season is summarized", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199996-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Nassr FC season, Current first team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199996-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Nassr FC season, Gulf Club Champions Cup, Semi Final\nAl-Nasr Game against Al-Ahli was supposed to be the semi final. However, FIFA suspended the Kuwait Football Association and Kuwaiti National Teams and clubs were suspended from all international matches and activities because of the government interference in the affairs of the football federation. Therefore, the other semi final between Al Qadisiya and Al Salmiya (both from Kuwait) has been canceled and Al-Nasr and Al-Ahli match was considered as the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season\nThis is a list of Al-Zawraa's results at the Iraqi Premier League 2008-09 and AFC Cup 2009. The club is competing in the Iraqi Premier League and AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Financial problems\nBefore the start of the 2008-09 season, The Iraq Football Association announced that they are no longer able to afford financing the Iraqi clubs and hence each club had to get an official sponsor. Since the Iraqi clubs are based on institutions, military bases and ministries, Al-Zawraa's official sponsor is Ministry of Transport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Financial problems\nThe Problem began when Amer Abdul-Jabbar, the Minister of Transport offered financing the club but in exchange of changing the club's name From Al-Zawraa to Transport. But when Al-Zawraa fans heard this news, 8 million Iraqis announced their Civil disobedience if they change Al-Zawraa name. Even the Iraq Football Association refused the idea of changing Al-Zawraa's name. Salam Hashim the current President of the club made a middle Solution to change Al-Zawraa name from Al-Zawra to Al-Zawraa Transport, both the fans and the Minister of Transport refused the idea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Withdrawal threats\nIn the middle of the 2008-09 season, Salam Hashim announced that Al-Zawraa will withdraw from the Iraqi League and the AFC Cup if no one give Al-Zawraa a helping hand, but the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki reacted and gave Al-Zawraa 10 Million Iraqi Dinars for their camping in the Iraqi League and the AFC Cup, he promised monthly finance backing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Transfer problems\nAt the beginning of the season. Al-Zawraa had to sell their key players like top scorer Abdul-Salam Abood, the Defensive Midfielder Mohannad Nassir and the main goalkeeper Ahmad Ali Jaber due to financial problems. They bought only young players and using some from Al-Zawraa's youth team. But in a brave act from the Iraq national football team\u2019s goalkeeper Mohammed Gassid who moved to Al-Zawraa for a cheap salary saying he doesn\u2019t care about the money and he loves Al-Zawraa and playing for Al-Zawraa is like a dream to him. Similar act happened from Haidar Sabah who preferred to come back to Al-Zawraa instead of extending his contract with Arbil FC, the richest team in Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Transfer problems\nBefore the winter transfers period, the 34-year-old striker and the son of the club Hesham Mohammed promised that he will come back to Al-Zawraa and try to help them with his experience. Hesham is famous in wearing number 8 and when he asked what is the number he will pick, he answered that Haidar Sabah earned this number and he will choose another number, thinking of picking number 88. In the winter transfers period he fulfilled his promise and signed for Al-Zawraa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Banning the whole team\nBefore the end of the season, Al-Zawra\u2019s President Salam Hashim banned 25 players for playing for Al-Zawra. The story began when 15 players asked for their wages, complaining that they didn\u2019t receive any money in the last three months. But Salam Hashim blamed the Ministry of Transport for not supporting Al-Zawra and he told the players that he doesn\u2019t have any money in the moment and he will give them next season, the players refused to play giving the reason that they are human and they need to eat and to pay for their houses rent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Al-Zawraa\u2019s massive problems, Banning the whole team\nThe rest of the team stood up solidarity with the team, which made Salam Hashim banning the whole team. Al-Zawra had 4 postponed matches and if Al-Zawra win them all Al-Zawra would reach the second place in Group B which it will makes them the play the decisive 3rd-4th place match. The Team played the postponed matches with the u-16 team with Ahmad Salam Hashim the son of Salam Hashim being the Captain of the team. Al-Zawra lost three matches and draw one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, 2008-09 squad and starting lineup\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Iraqi Premier League\nThe 2008-09 season is the 35th edition of the Iraqi Premier League, it starts on 1 November 2008 and is scheduled to end on 10 May 2009. 28 teams from all over the country are competing for the title. Arbil FC are the defending champion and Al-Zawraa are the runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, Iraqi Premier League\nThe IFA decided to cancel the old group system, which was used from 2004 until 2008. This time, the 28 teams will be divided into two groups with each 14 teams. There will be a northern and southern group, with the clubs from the capital Baghdad being drawn into either one of these groups. After playing home and away games, the two group winners are going to play for the League Title in a final. The two runners-up are playing for the third place and a spot at the 2009-10 Arab Champions League. The league champions and runner-up will qualify for the 2010 AFC Cup. Furthermore, it was announced that this will be the last season featuring groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, AFC Cup\nIraq was excluded from the AFC Champions League due to not fulfilling the AFC demand of having a fully professional league. Hence, the Iraqi clubs relegated to the AFC Cup with having 2 seats to participate in. The 2007-08 Iraqi Premier League's Champion and runners-up will participate this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199997-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Al-Zawraa SC season, AFC Cup\nAl-Zawraa as runner-up in the previous season will take part in the AFC Cup for the first time in their history alongside Arbil FC as last season champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199998-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\", \"Bama\" or \"The Tide\") represented the University of Alabama in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The head coach was Mark Gottfried, who was in his eleventh year until his resignation January 26th 2009. Philip Pearson would be the interim for the remainder of the season. The team played its home games at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and was a member of the Southeastern Conference. This was the 96th season of basketball in the school's history. The Crimson Tide finished the season 18\u201314, 7\u20139 in SEC play, lost in the quarterfinals of the 2009 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament and were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00199999-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Alabama\u2013Huntsville Chargers men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Alabama\u2013Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team represented the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The Chargers were coached by Danton Cole who was in his second season as head coach. The Chargers played their home games in the Von Braun Center and were members of the College Hockey America conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200000-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Alaska Aces season\nThe 2008\u201309 Alaska Aces season is the 23rd season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup\n2008\u201309 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb) was the fifty-seventh season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on September 24, 2008 with the First Preliminary Round and ended on May 6, 2009 with the Final. The winners of the competition qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Vllaznia were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup\nThe rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Preliminary Tournament\nIn order to reduce the number of participating teams for the First Round to 32, a preliminary tournament was played. Only teams from the Kategoria e Dyt\u00eb (III) were allowed to enter. Each Kategoria e Dyt\u00eb group played its own tournament. In contrast to the main tournament, the preliminary tournament was held as a single-leg knock-out competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, First round\nAll twenty-eight teams of the 2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore and Kategoria e Par\u00eb entered in this round. First legs were played on October 29, 2008 and the second legs were played on November 12, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round. First legs were played on December 3, 2008 and the second legs were played on December 17, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Quarterfinals\nFirst legs were played on February 25, 2009 and the second legs were played on March 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Quarterfinals\n1Dinamo Tirana were excluded from the Cup because they fielded Elis Bakaj although he previously played in the Cup for Partizani. Second leg's 0\u20130 score was annulled and Vllaznia were awarded a 2\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Quarterfinals\nTwo-legged results of Flamurtari\u2013Partizani match (1\u20130; 0\u20131 aet, p. 4\u20135) were cancelled due to both teams fielding players that previously played in the Cup for other teams. Flamurtari's Eriol Merxha played for Elbasani while Partizani's Genti Gjondedaj and Engert Bakalli played for Teuta and Elbasani, respectively. The match was one-legged, played on Stadiumi Niko Dovana, Durr\u00ebs on April 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200001-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albanian Cup, Semifinals\nFirst legs were played on April 15, 2009 and the second legs were played on April 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200002-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albany Great Danes men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Albany Great Danes men's basketball team represented the University at Albany, SUNY during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Great Danes, led by eighth year head coach Will Brown, played their home games at SEFCU Arena as members of the America East Conference. They finished the season 15\u201316, 6\u201310 in America East play to finish in seventh place. As the seventh seed in the 2009 America East Tournament, they upset second seed Vermont in the first round before losing to sixth seed UMBC in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200002-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Albany Great Danes men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Great Danes finished the 2007\u201308 season 15\u201315, 10\u20136 in America East play to finish in a tie for second place. As the No. 3 seed in the 2008 America East Tournament, they were defeated in the quarterfinals by Boston University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200003-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aldershot Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season of Aldershot Town Football Club was the 17th year of football played by the club and the first season in Football League Two, the highest level achieved by the club up to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200003-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aldershot Town F.C. season, Team kit\nThe team kit for the 2008\u201309 season is produced by Carbrini Sportswear. The home shirt will be primarily Red with blue panels with the away shirt being yellow. On 6 December 2008 the blue third kit was launched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200003-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aldershot Town F.C. season, Match results, Football League Cup\nThis was Aldershot Town's first ever season playing in the Football League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200003-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aldershot Town F.C. season, Match results, Hampshire Senior Cup\nThe Hampshire Senior Cup squad from Aldershot Town was composed of reserve team players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200003-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aldershot Town F.C. season, Events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200004-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Championnat National\nThe 2008\u201309 Algerian Championnat National was the forty-fifth season of the Algerian Championnat National since its establishment in 1962. A total of 17 teams contested the league, with MC Alger as the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200004-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Championnat National\nOn May 29, 2009, ES S\u00e9tif were crowned champions with two games remaining after beating USM El Harrach 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200005-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Championnat National 2\nThe Algerian Championnat National 2 season 2008\u201309 is the fifteenth season of the league under its current title and seventeenth season under its current league division format. It started on 21 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200005-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Championnat National 2, League table\nA total of 17 teams contested the division, including 14 sides remaining in the division from the previous season and three relegated from the Algerian Championnat National, and one promoted from the Inter-R\u00e9gions Ligue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200006-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Algerian Cup was the 45th edition of the Algerian Cup. CR Belouizdad won the Cup by defeating CA Bordj Bou Arreridj 2-1 on penalties in the final, after the game ended 0-0. It was the sixth time that CR Belouizdad won the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200007-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Women's Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Algerian Women's Championship was the tenth season of the Algerian Women's Championship, the Algerian national women's association football competition. It was also the first one under its new national format. ASE Alger Centre wons the championship for the seventh consecutive time and for the heith time of its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200008-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Algerian Women's Volleyball League\nThe 2008/09 season of the Algerian Women's Volleyball League  was the 47th annual season of the country's highest volleyball level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200009-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200009-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship\nOn 15 February 2009, Blarney won the championship following a 2\u201314 to 1\u201312 defeat of Cappataggle in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200010-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship was the sixth staging of the All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200010-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship\nOn 15 February 2009, Dripsey won the championship following a 2\u201315 to 0\u201318 defeat of Tullogher-Rosbercon in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200011-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the 39th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970-71. The championship began on 19 October 2008 and ended on 17 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200011-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nSt. Vincent's were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being beaten by Kilmacud Crokes in a semi-final replay of the 2008 Dublin County Championship. There were no representative clubs from Waterford or Wexford due to a delay in the completion of their county championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200011-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nOn 17 March 2009, Kilmacud Crokes won the championship following a 1-09 to 0-07 defeat of Crossmaglen Rangers in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. It was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200011-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nKilmacud's Mark Vaughan was the championship's top scorer with 2-32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 39th since the establishment of the competition by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970\u201371. The first matches of the season were played on 12 October 2008 and the championship ended on 17 March 2009. Portumna went into the 2008 championship as defending champions, having won their second All-Ireland title the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe championship culminated with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin. The match was contested by Portumna and De La Salle. It was their first meeting in the final. Portumna won the game by 2\u201324 to 1\u20138. It was their second All-Ireland title in succession and an unprecedented third in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nThe 2008\u201309 club championship was played on a straight knock-out basis. Each of the sixteen participating counties enter their respective club champions. The format of the competition was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nSixteen county club champions participated in the 2008\u201309 championship. These counties were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nThe Leinster, Munster and Ulster championships were played as usual on a straight knock-out basis. The three respective champions from these provinces advanced directly to the All-Ireland semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200012-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The Munster champions played the Ulster champions while the Leinster champions played the champions of Galway. The Galway club champions enter the competition at this stage due to the absence of a provincial club championship in Connacht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200013-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 American Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 American Eagles men's basketball team represented American University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by head coach Jeff Jones, played their home games at Bender Arena and were members of the Patriot League. They finished the season 24\u20138, 13\u20131 in Patriot League play to finish first in the conference regular season standings. They were champions of the Patriot League Tournament to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament \u2013 the school's second straight appearance \u2013 where they lost in the first round to Villanova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200014-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Amiens SC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Amiens SC's compete in Ligue 2 where they finished in 18th position with 43 points and were relegated to the Championnat National.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season was the 16th season of operation (15th season of play) for the National Hockey League franchise. The Ducks first game of the season was an away game, held on October 9, 2008, against the San Jose Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season, Schedule and results, Post-season\nThe Anaheim Ducks ended the 2008\u201309 regular season as the Western Conference's eighth seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season, Standings, Divisional standings\nNote: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season, Standings, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Ducks. Stats reflect time with Ducks only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200015-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anaheim Ducks season, Draft picks\nThe Ducks' picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200016-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Angola Basketball Cup, 2009 Angola Men's Basketball Cup\nThe 2009 Men's Basketball Cup was contested by 13 teams and won by Primeiro de Agosto, thus defending its title. The 2-leg final was played on April 14 and 17, with a playoff match played on April 18 after both teams were tied with a win each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200016-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Angola Basketball Cup, 2009 Angola Women's Basketball Cup\nThe 2009 Women's Basketball Cup was contested by four teams, with the 2-leg cup final, decided by playoff at the best of three games. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200017-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Angola Basketball Super Cup\nThe 2009 Angola Basketball Super Cup (16th edition) was contested by Primeiro de Agosto, as the 2008 league champion and ASA, the 2008 cup runner-up. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner, making it its eighth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200017-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Angola Basketball Super Cup\nThe 2009 Women's Super Cup (14th edition) was contested by Primeiro de Agosto, as the 2008 women's league champion and Maculusso, the 2008 cup runner-up. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner, making it its third title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season (started 19 June 2008) is Anorthosis' 60th consecutive season in the Cypriot First Division. The team finished 1st in the league in the previous season so it will represent Cyprus in the Champions League. The first training session for the season took take place at the training ground at Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium on June 18, 2008. On August 27, 2008, they became the first Cypriot football club to reach the group stages of the Champions League, defeating Olympiacos of Greece in the third qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season\nIn December 2008, Andreas Panteli, the chairman of the company since 2004, resigned and he was replaced by Chris Georgiades. Manager Temuri Ketsbaia left the club by mutual consent in April 2009 and was replaced by Michalis Pamboris as caretaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 287]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers, Summer\nInNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers, Summer\nOutNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Current squad, Foreign players\nTeams in the Cypriot First Division can register up to eighteen non-EU nationals and players with European ancestry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Competitions, Marfin Laiki League, Playoffs table\nThe first 12 teams are divided into three groups. Points are carried over from the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200018-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season, Matches, Pre-season and friendlies\nAnorthosis left on 25 June for Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Golden Tulip Victoria athletic centre to perform most of their pre-season training. The team returned on9 July. While in Netherlands Anorthosis played four friendly matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200019-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arab Champions League\nThe 6th edition of Arab Champions League, The 2008\u20132009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 35 clubs, The Algerian club ES S\u00e9tif entered automatically as 2007\u201308 champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200019-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arab Champions League, Round 32\n32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200019-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arab Champions League, Round 16\n16 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200019-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arab Champions League, Quarter finals\n8 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200019-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arab Champions League, Semi finals\n4 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2008-09 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season was the 118th season of top-flight professional football in Argentina and the nineteenth season in which the Apertura and Clausura system is used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nBoca Juniors won the Apertura championship for their 29th national title after a three team playoff with Tigre and San Lorenzo. The Clausura championship was won by V\u00e9lez S\u00e1rsfield for their 7th national title. Gimnasia y Esgrima (J) and San Mart\u00edn (T) were relegated to the Primera B Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Format\nThe format for the 2008-09 season remained unchanged. The season was split into two tournaments called Apertura and Clausura. Each tournament was contested by the same 20 teams in a single round-robin format. The champions of each tournament is determined by points. If the tops teams would be tied at points at the end of each tournament, a playoff would be held at a neutral site. Relegation was determined at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Club information, Promotion and relegation\nOlimpo and San Mart\u00edn (SJ) were relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season. They were replaced by Godoy Cruz and San Mart\u00edn (T), both of whom were promoted from the Primera B Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Club information, Promotion and relegation\nGimnasia y Esgrima (J) and Racing played the relegation/promotion playoffs against Uni\u00f3n and Belgrano, respectively. Both Gimnasia and Esgrima (J) and Racing won their playoff matches and retained their status in top-flight football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura (English: Opening Tournament) was played between August 6 to December 14, 2008. The champions earned a spot in the 2009 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura, Championship playoff\nSince San Lorenzo, Tigre and Boca Juniors ended the tournament with the same number of points, a three-way playoff was played to determine the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Torneo Clausura (English: Closing Tournament) began on February 6, 2009 and ended on July 5, 2009. The champions earned a spot in the 2010 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation\nRelegation from the Primera Division was determined on the basis of performance over the last three seasons. Every club had its points earned divided by the number of matches played and an average (Spanish: promedio) was determined. The clubs who finished in 17th and 18th played a relegation play-off against the 3rd and 4th placed clubs in Primera B Nacional. The clubs who finished in 19th and 20th were directly relegated to Primera B Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation, Relegation/promotion playoffs\nGimnasia y Esgrima (LP) remained in the Argentine First Division after a 3\u20133 aggregate tie by virtue of a \"sports advantage\". In case of a tie in goals, the team from the First Division gets to stay in it. Rosario Central won 2\u20131 and stayed in the Argentine First Division, while Belgrano does not get promoted and remains in Argentine Nacional B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, International qualification, Copa Libertadores\nThe Apertura champions qualified for the 2009 Copa Libertadores and the Clausura champions qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores. The last two Argentina spots for the 2009 Copa Libertadores were determined by the sum of all points obtained in the past three tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200020-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, International qualification, Copa Sudamericana\nQualification for the 2009 Copa Sudamericana was determined from an aggregate table of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The top four teams in the aggregate table qualified; Boca Juniors and River Plate were invited every year till this season, regardless of their standings in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200021-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season\nThe 2008-09 season was the 95th season in Aris Thessaloniki F.C. 's existence. The club finished 6th in the Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200021-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season\nAris Thessaloniki was eliminated on penalties in the fifth round of Greek Football Cup by PAOK. On the UEFA Cup, the croatian Slaven Koprivnica elminated Aris Thessaloniki in the Second qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200021-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season\nDu\u0161an Bajevi\u0107 removed from manager's position in July. Quique Hern\u00e1ndez came after him. In January, Quique Hern\u00e1ndez replaced by Iomar Mazinho and his assistant Donato Gama", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200021-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season\nAris Thessaloniki hired Giorgos Koltsidas as technical director after his retirement as player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200021-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aris Thessaloniki F.C. season, Squad statistics, Clean sheets\nIf a goalkeeper was substituted and he did not conceded a goal while he was in the game but the team conceded a goal after him, the goalkeeper would not claim the clean sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200022-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball team represented Arizona State University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Sun Devils played their home games at the Wells Fargo Arena and are members of the Pacific-10 Conference. The Sun Devils finished with 25\u201310, 11\u20137 in Pac-10 play and lost the championship game of the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament to USC. They earned a trip to the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, where they lost to Syracuse in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200023-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team will represent Arizona State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Sun Devils were coached by Charli Turner Thorne. The Sun Devils are a member of the Pacific-10 Conference and attempted to win the NCAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200023-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team, Regular season, Pacific-10 Tournament\nLauren Lacey had 14 points and Danielle Orsillo 17 points and seven rebounds for the Sun Devils. With less than 4 minutes remaining, Arizona State was behind by three points but was unable to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 95], "content_span": [96, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200024-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Arizona during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by first year head coach Russ Pennell, played their home games at the McKale Center and are members of the Pacific-10 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200025-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team  represented the University of Arkansas in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The head coach was John Pelphrey, serving for his second year. The team played its home games in Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200025-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team, 2008\u201309 Roster\nEntering the year, the Razorbacks pulled in the 24th best recruiting class of 2008, including ESPNU 100 recruit Rotnei Clarke. Clarke was ranked the sixth-best incoming point guard in the nation by ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200025-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team, 2008\u201309 Roster\nFormer Razorbacks football star receiver Marcus Monk returned with a sixth year of eligibility to play basketball for the Hogs. Intending to play both, Monk played 10 games for Stan Heath his freshman year before focusing only on football. Although picked in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, Monk never signed and remained an amateur athlete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200025-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team, 2008\u201309 Roster\nMonk returned to the University shortly after the departure of Montrell McDonald. McDonald left the team on his own accord after the South Alabama game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200026-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Armenian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Armenian Hockey League season was the eighth season of the Armenian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Armenia. Five teams participated in the league, and Urartu Yerevan won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200027-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arsenal F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Arsenal Football Club's 17th consecutive season in the Premier League. This season Arsenal participated in the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200027-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arsenal F.C. season, Players, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 24 MaySource: Match reports in Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200027-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Arsenal F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nThis remains the last season Arsenal have advanced past the Round of 16 in the Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200028-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Asia League Ice Hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Asia League Ice Hockey season was the sixth season of Asia League Ice Hockey. Seven teams participated in the league, and the Nippon Paper Cranes won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Aston Villa's 134th professional season; their 98th season in the top-flight and their 21st consecutive season in the top flight of English football, the Premier League. They were managed by Martin O'Neill \u2013 in his third season since replacing David O'Leary. The 2008\u201309 season was the first spell in European competition for O'Neill, and the first for Villa, in 6 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe club's first summer signing was the permanent capture of on-loan West Brom centre-back, Curtis Davies, in July, while their first sale was made in May, as Luke Moore completed a move to West Brom in an initial \u00a33\u00a0million deal, after he had spent the second half of the 2007\u201308 season there on loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe fixtures for the 2008\u201309 season were announced on Monday 16 June 2008, with Aston Villa beginning at home against Manchester City and finishing the season at home to Newcastle. Due to Birmingham's relegation at the end of the 2007\u201308 season, there was no Second City derby, however they faced local rivals West Brom on 20 September 2008 at The Hawthorns and on 10 January 2009 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season\nIn December 2008, Everton player and boyhood Villa fan, Joleon Lescott put two past Villa and still lost the match following Ashley Young's \"brilliant\" equalizer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season\nAfter 25 games, having qualified for the UEFA Cup as joint winners of the Intertoto Cup, the club were third in the table on 51 points, 2 points above Chelsea on level games and 7 points above Arsenal in 5th place and on course for a place in the Champions League for the first time since 1983. O'Neill decided to prioritise Champions League qualification above all else, fielding a virtual reserve side for a UEFA Cup game against CSKA Moscow which was subsequently lost. Following this, Villa failed to win any of the next 8 league games and improving form for Arsenal & Chelsea meant that Villa failed to reach the top 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, Other players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Players, Trialists\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Transfers, Summer\nDefender Curtis Davies signed a permanent deal at Aston Villa after a loan spell. English midfielder Steve Sidwell joined from Chelsea on 10 July 2008. On 26 July 2008, former USA shot-stopper Brad Friedel signed from Blackburn Rovers for an undisclosed fee, thought to be \u00a32million. On 7 August 2008 Aston Villa completed the signing of Nicky Shorey on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Also on 7 August 2008, Aston Villa completed the signing of Luke Young in a deal that could reach \u00a36 million, on a three-year contract. On 12 August 2008, Aston Villa signed Carlos Cu\u00e9llar in a deal worth \u00a37.8 million on a four-year contract. Villa's offer had triggered a release clause in Cu\u00e9llar's contract with Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Transfers, Summer\nLuke Moore made his loan move to West Bromwich Albion a permanent deal  Defender Olof Mellberg left the club to sign for Italian giants Juventus after seven years at Aston Villa. Thomas S\u00f8rensen was also released at the end of his contract after 5 years of service, Stoke City eventually signed the Denmark international on a free transfer. Twins Damian and Yago Bellon left Villa after 2 years with the club, as Damian signed for FC Vaduz in Liechtenstein, whilst Yago joined Swiss side FC St. Gallen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Transfers, Summer\nElsewhere, Irish youngster Danny Earls joined American USL team Rochester Rhinos, and defender Erik Lund returned home to join IFK G\u00f6teborg in Sweden. Lund was the only released youngster who played for the first-team during his time with the club, coming on as a substitute in a pre-season victory over Walsall in August 2007. Shaun Maloney was the last to leave the club in the summer transfer window, returning to Celtic after a frustrating spell under Martin O'Neill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200029-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Aston Villa F.C. season, Transfers, Winter\nOn 2 January 2009, Wayne Routledge signed a 3+1\u20442-year deal with Queens Park Rangers, following a loan spell at fellow Championship club Cardiff City. Villa confirmed their first signing of the window four days later, in the form of 17-year-old Dutch defender Arsenio Halfhuid from SBV Excelsior, who signed for an undisclosed fee. On 23 January 2009, Emile Heskey followed, signing for \u00a33.5 million from Wigan Athletic. Young winger Zolt\u00e1n Stieber was the final player to leave Villa Park during January, as he signed for TuS Koblenz for an undisclosed fee, after failing to break into the first-team. Swiss U17 goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist also signed from FC Basel during this month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, January 2009\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, January 2009\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, January 2009\nOut on loan:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200030-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atalanta B.C. season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nOut on loan:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200031-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Athletic Bilbao season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 108th season in Athletic Bilbao's history and their 78th consecutive season in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200032-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Hawks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Atlanta Hawks season was the team's 59th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the 41st in Atlanta. It ended on Monday, May 11, 2009, with a loss at home to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the playoffs in a sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200032-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Hawks season, Draft picks\nThe Hawks did not have any draft picks in the 2008 NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season was the tenth season of the franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Thrashers attempted to make the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2006\u201307 season, but failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Schedule and results, Record vs. Opponents\nNotes: * denotes division winner; teams in bold are in the Southeast Division; teams in italics qualified for the playoffs; points refer to the points achieved by the team whom the Thrashers played against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Schedule and results, Record vs. Opponents\n= Member of the Atlantic Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Southeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Central Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Playoffs\nThe Atlanta Thrashers failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Thrashers. Stats reflect season totals. \u2021Traded mid-seasonunderline/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200033-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlanta Thrashers season, Draft picks\nAtlanta's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season marked the 33rd season of Atlantic 10 Conference basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Preseason\nXavier University was seen as the favourite to win the league by coaches and media in the preseason poll after having won the regular season the two previous years and also reaching the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Preseason\nNo A-10 side was in either the AP Poll or the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' poll top 25, Xavier dropping out from last season in 26th and 30th place respectively after losing 3 starters in the offseason, the university was in the lesser Sporting News Top 40 at 19th along with Saint Joseph's at 32nd and Temple at 38th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Preseason\nThe Musketeers' Derrick Brown along with the Owl's Dionte Christmas were named to the John R. Wooden Award preseason top 50 candidate list in November. Brown was also named to the Naismith Award watch list on December 18. Another individual award, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award selected Christmas and Jimmy Baron of Rhode Island on their 30-man preseason candidate list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Preseason\nIt was speculated if Christmas would be the first player in league history to lead the A-10 in scoring three seasons in a row whilst Ahmad Nivins of Saint Joseph's and Chris Lowe of Massachusetts also aimed to lead the conference for the third time, in field goal percentage and assists respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nXavier captured its third consecutive Atlantic 10 regular season crown with a 12-4 recordin Conference play, it had been undefeated in conference play until four late-season losses to Duquesne, Dayton, Charlotte, and Richmond. The last A-10 program to enter the tournament as #1 seed thrice in a row was Temple in 1998-00. It moved the university into the top 25 in the national rankings (see below) of both the AP Poll (17th) and the ESPN/USA Today poll (18th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn individual records, Temple's Dionte Christmas entered tournament play tied with Player of the Year Ahmad Nivins at 19.2 ppg in his quest to lead the conference in scoring for a record third consecutive time. Nivins' 62.5% put him in the driving seat to equal Alexander Koul's record in 1995-97 as the only players in A-10 history to lead the league in field goal percentage three consecutive years. They would both achieve these feats in post-season, Christmas with 19.5 ppg and Nivins with 61.2%, Massachusetts' Chris Lowe finished second in his similar pursuit of assists leading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Atlantic 10 Tournament\nAll the games were held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 90], "content_span": [91, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200034-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards & honors, Weekly awards\nAtlantic 10 Players of the WeekThroughout the conference season, the Atlantic 10 offices name a player and rookie of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 97], "content_span": [98, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season was the 56th season for the league. North Carolina won the regular season crown while Duke won the ACC Tournament championship. The season saw Tyler Hansbrough set conference records in points (finishing with 2,872 for his career) and free throws made (982), while Miami's Jack McClinton ended his career as the conference's all time three-point marksman (.440 3-point FG%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nOn October 26, for the second-straight year North Carolina was the unanimous choice to finish first atop the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball race in voting by 40 media members at the league's annual Basketball Media Day. Duke was picked for second, while Wake Forest was voted third. Miami was fourth, followed by Clemson (fifth) and Virginia Tech (sixth).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nTyler Hansbrough was selected as pre-season ACC Player of the Year. Hansbrough averaged 22.6 points and 10.2 rebounds during the 2008\u201309 while earning first-team All-America honors for a third-straight year and consensus National Player of the Year honors. Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu was the media's choice for the ACC pre-season Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nHansbrough and Boston College's Tyrese Rice were unanimous selections for the pre-season All-ACC team. Also named to the pre-season team were Miami's Jack McClinton, North Carolina's Ty Lawson and Gerald Henderson from Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nOn November 13, the Los Angeles Athletic Club released their annual pre-season John R. Wooden Award watch list. The list is composed of 50 student athletes who, based on 2007-08's individual performance and team records, are the early frontrunners for college basketball's most coveted trophy. These top 50 candidates are returning players. Transfers, freshmen, and medical red-shirts are not eligible for this preseason list, but will be evaluated and considered for both the Midseason Top 30 list and the National Ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nThe ACC was represented by Boston College's Tyrese Rice, Duke's Gerald Henderson and Kyle Singler, Miami's Jack McClinton, North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson and Wake Forest's James Johnson. In the 2007\u201308 season, North Carolina's Hansbrough became the 12th ACC Player to earn Wooden National Player of the Year Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nNovemberIn November, nine ACC teams participated in eight regular season tournaments across the United States. Four ACC teams claimed championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn November 11, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski moved into fifth place on the NCAA's all-time win list with his 805th career victory, a 97\u201354 win over Georgia Southern. On November 16, Virginia's Sylven Landesberg has 28 points, eight rebounds and eight assists as the Cavaliers beat VMI 107- 97. Landesberg's 28 points tied the second-highest total by an ACC freshman in his college debut. On November 21, With Maryland's 89\u201374 overtime win over Vermont, Gary Williams became only the third coach in league history to reach 400 career victories while coaching in the ACC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn November 21, Virginia's Sylven Landesberg netted a game-high 22 points in the Cavaliers' 68\u201366 win over Radford and became only the second freshman in ACC history to score 20 points in each of his first three games. Georgia Tech's Kenny Anderson scored 20 or more points in each of his first six games as a freshman in 1989\u201390. On November 30, Ty Lawson had 22 points as No. 1 North Carolina beat UNC-Asheville 116\u201348. The 68-point win margin was the largest in the ACC since a 75-point Maryland win over North Texas State (132\u201357) on Dec. 23, 1998, and tied for the seventh largest margin ever in ACC history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nDecemberOn Wednesday, December 3, The ACC won its 10th-straight ACC\u2013Big Ten Challenge by winning six of the eleven matchups. The series was highlighted by the 98\u201363 victory of No. 1 North Carolina over No. 12 Michigan State at Ford Field in what was dubbed as \"Basketbowl II\". On December 23, Boston College's Corey Raji was a perfect 12-for-12 from the field and scored a career-high 26 points in a 99\u201361 win over Maine. Raji's performance tied him for the second-best single game performance in ACC history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nUNC's Brad Daugherty holds the ACC single-game field proficiency mark making all 13 of his shots versus UCLA back on Nov. 24, 1985. On December 30, NC State sophomore Tracy Smith came off the bench to score a career-high 31 points in the Wolfpack's 88\u201368 win over visiting Towson. Smith's 31 points set a school record and tied for the third-highest point total by a non-starter in ACC history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nJanuaryOn January 3, Jeff Teague had a game-high 30 points and James Johnson adds 22 points and 15 rebounds as sixth ranked Wake Forest snapped the nation's longest home court winning streak at 53 with a 94\u201387 win at BYU before a crowd of 26,096. On January 19, 16\u20130 Wake Forest took over the No. 1 spot in the AP poll and became the second ACC team to be ranked No. 1 in both the writers and coaches' polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nWith the Deacons assuming the top spot in his 46th game as a head coach, Dino Gaudio became the third-fastest ACC head coach to have his team voted #1. On January 26, 18\u20131 Duke became the third ACC team this season to be ranked No. 1 in the AP poll, marking the second time in ACC annals and the fourth time in AP poll history that three different teams from the same conference have been ranked No. 1 in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn January 31, In only the second-ever meeting between brothers in an ACC game, the Aminu brothers (Alade and Al-Farouq) combine for 27 points and 24 rebounds as Georgia Tech upsets No. 4 Wake Forest 76\u201374 in Atlanta. Al-Farouq had 17 points, 11 rebounds and five steals for the Deacons while Alade had 10 points, 13 rebounds for the Jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nFebruaryOn February 5, midway through the 2009 college basketball season, the Los Angeles Athletic Club's John R. Wooden Award Committee selected the top 30 candidates for the John R. Wooden Award, the nation's most coveted college basketball honor. The list is composed of the players who will compete for this season's player of the year award, the midseason list is based on individual player performance and team records during the first half of the season. The ACC was represent by North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Duke's Gerald Henderson, Kyle Singler and Wake Forest's Jeff Teague. Teague was one of nine players who were selected for the midseason list who were not selected in the preseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn February 15, Ty Lawson had 21 points and four assists and Wayne Ellington added 15 points and 10 rebounds in North Carolina's 69\u201365 win at Miami. With the win, UNC's Roy Williams' became the winningest coach through his first 200 gamesat an ACC school. On February 21, Greivis Vasquez posted Maryland's first triple-double since 1987 as the Terps overcame a 16-point second-half deficit to beat No. 3 North Carolina 88\u201385 in overtime, ending the Tar Heels' 10-game win streak. In posting Maryland's third ever triple double, Vasquez had a career-high 35 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Vasquez's 35 points set a record for the most ever by an ACC player recording a triple-double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn February 22, In North Carolina's 104\u201374 win over Georgia Tech, the Tar Heels' Tyler Hansbrough made all eight of his free throws and became the NCAA career leader in free throws made with 907. Hansbrough broke Wake Forest's Dickie Hemric's record set in 1955 with his 906th free throw with 14:54 to play in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nMarchOn March 7, Miami's Jack McClinton was a perfect 16-for-16 from the free throw line and scored a game-high 24 points asthe Hurricanes overcame a nine-point halftime deficit en route to a 72\u201364 win over visiting NC State. McClinton's 16-for-16 effort tied for the fourth-best single-game mark in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, ACC Tournament\nThe third-seeded Duke Blue Devils defeated fourth-seeded Florida State 79\u201369 in the title ACC Championship game on Sunday, March 15, giving Duke its ninth ACC crown in 12 years. Duke also tied North Carolina for most tournament championships with 17. Duke's Jon Scheyer was named the tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nTy Lawson was the South regional MVP and he was joined on the All-regional team by teammates Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 86], "content_span": [87, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nThe first-seeded North Carolina Tarheels defeated third-seeded Michigan State 89\u201372 in the title NCAA Championship game on Monday, April 6, giving North Carolina its second NCAA crown in four years. It was North Carolina's fifth national championship. North Carolina's Wayne Ellington was named the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 86], "content_span": [87, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards and honors, Weekly awards\nACC Players of the WeekThroughout the conference season, the ACC offices name a player and rookie of the week. The MVP of the ACC Tournament is the automatic winner of the final ACC player of the week of each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards and honors, Season awards\nHonorable Mention: Wayne Ellington \u2013 North Carolina, K.C. Rivers \u2013 Clemson, Sylven Landesberg \u2013 Virginia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards and honors, Season awards\n1 \u2013 Denotes unanimous selectionHonorable Mention: Chris Singleton \u2013 Florida State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards and honors, Season awards\nHonorable Mention: Ty Lawson \u2013 North Carolina, Gani Lawal \u2013 Georgia Tech, Courtney Fells \u2013 NC State, Gerald Henderson \u2013 Duke", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, Conference awards and honors, Season awards\nAll-ACC Academic teamTo be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career. Four players \u2013 McClinton, Paulus, Duke's Brian Zoubek and Virginia's Jerome Meyinsse \u2013 are repeaters from previous league all-academic teams. McClinton and Paulus were named to the team for the third time in their careers, while Zoubek and Meyinsse are two-time selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, National awards and honors, NABC\nOn March 5, the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced their Division I All\u2010District teams, recognizing the nation's best men's collegiate basketball student-athletes. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, 240 student-athletes, from 24 districts were chosen. The selection on this list are then eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams to be announced at the 2009 NABC Convention in Detroit. The following list represents the ACC players chosen to the list. All ACC schools are within District 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 91], "content_span": [92, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, National awards and honors, USBWA\nOn March 10, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2008\u201309 Men's All-District Teams, based on voting from its national membership. There are nine regions from coast to coast and a player and coach of the year are selected in each. The following is each ACC player selected within their respective regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, National awards and honors, CoSIDA\nOn February 5, 2009, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and ESPN The Magazine selected their Academic All-Americans from throughout college basketball. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games at the position listed on the nomination form (where applicable). No student-athlete is eligible until he has completed one full calendar year at his current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 93], "content_span": [94, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, National awards and honors, CoSIDA\nIn the cases of transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergrad and in grad school. The ACC had two players selected from District III as first-team Academic All-District selections: Greg Paulus and Brian Zoubek, both from Duke. Greg Paulus was also selected overall by the CoSIDA as a third-team Academic All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 93], "content_span": [94, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200035-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, National awards and honors, All-American\nTo earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: theAssociated Press, the USBWA, The Sporting News and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 99], "content_span": [100, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200036-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Atl\u00e9tico Madrid return to the UEFA Champions League after an eleven-year absence. The team marked the return with an impressive group stage performance, only denied winning the group by a late penalty for Liverpool at Anfield. In the round of 16, Atl\u00e9tico went out on away goals to Porto, being denied entry to the last eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200036-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid season\nIn the league, Atl\u00e9tico repeated the 4th place of 2007\u201308, improving on the previous season by three points. Uruguayan striker Diego Forl\u00e1n had a tremendous season, scoring 32 league goals, the highest amount of La Liga goals for a single player in a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200037-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team represented Auburn University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The team's head coach was Jeff Lebo, who was in his fifth season at Auburn. The team played their home games at Beard\u2013Eaves\u2013Memorial Coliseum in Auburn, Alabama. They finished the season 24\u201312, 10\u20136 in SEC play. They defeated Florida to advance to the semifinals of the SEC Tournament where they lost to Tennessee. They received an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament, where they defeated UT Martin and Tulsa to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to  Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200038-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Auburn Tigers women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Auburn Tigers women's basketball team represented Auburn University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Tigers were coached by Nell Fortner. The Tigers were a member of the Southeast Conference and won the regular season SEC title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200039-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian Athletics Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 Australian Athletics Championships was the 87th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Australia. It was held from 19\u201321 March 2009 at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane. It served as a selection meeting for Australia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200039-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian Athletics Championships\nSome long-distance events were staged separately. The 10,000 metres event took place at the Zatopek 10K on 11 December 2008 at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, the men's 5000 metres was contested at the Melbourne Track Classic on 5 March 2009 at the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne and the women's 5000 metres was held at the Sydney Track Classic on 28 February 2009 at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre in Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200040-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 Australian Figure Skating Championships was held in Brisbane from 16 through 23 August 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, ice dancing, and synchronized skating across many levels, including senior, junior, novice, adult, and the pre-novice disciplines of primary and intermediate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season\nThe Australian bushfire season ran from late December 2008 to April/May 2009. Above average rainfalls in December, particularly in Victoria, delayed the start of the season, but by January 2009, conditions throughout South eastern Australia worsened with the onset of one of the region's worst heat waves. On 7 February, extreme bushfire conditions precipitated major bushfires throughout Victoria, involving several large fire complexes, which continued to burn across the state for around one month. 173 people lost their lives in these fires and 414 were injured. 3,500+ buildings were destroyed, including 2,029 houses, and 7,562 people displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season\nLate 2008 had relatively few bushfires. Victoria in particular experienced higher than average rainfall in December, decreasing the fire danger in many regions of the state. Initial observations in October 2008 predicted an above average fire potential across Australia's coastal regions and a below average potential in Central Australia, where drought has reduced the available fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season\nIn late January and early February, the effects of the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave increased temperatures across south-eastern Australia, particularly in Victoria and South Australia, where several locations broke all time temperature records. Various days of high wind speed, combined with the hot dry conditions, created extreme bushfire conditions between 25 January and 7 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Predictions and assessments\nIn October 2008, fire potential in Australia was assessed as being above average around the coast of the continent and below average inland. La Ni\u00f1a conditions were observed during the latter portion of 2007 and early 2008. However, throughout the year the majority of the continent, except for far north Queensland and the northern Northern Territory, experienced much lower than normal rainfall. Central Australia had experienced below average rainfall for several years, reducing fuel and thus reducing the overall fire potential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, September\u2013November\nIn September, a lightning strike started a fire on the western side of Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Strong winds initially made containing the fire difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, December\nIn Western Australia, bushfires were started by lightning strikes in the Cape Le Grand National Park, west of Esperance, on Friday, 19 December. Authorities maintained contact with 280 campers in the national park over the weekend and gave them the choice of leaving or staying. By Monday the 22nd, visitors to the park were unable to gain access; over 200 campers were relocated, while 75 campers decided to stay in the park. Crews from other regions of Western Australia were called in to assist local authorities over the weekend of 20\u201321 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nIn late January, Victoria and South Australia experienced extreme fire conditions with temperatures in the low to mid 40s\u00b0C (104\u00a0\u00b0F) in Melbourne and Adelaide, higher in the northern parts of the states, and increasing wind speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nThe fires in late January were precipitated by the accompanying 2009 Southern Australia heat wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn 4 January, small fires in Koondrook, near Kerang, Victoria, burnt areas of River Red Gum forest along the Murray River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn 28 January, multiple fires started throughout Victoria, the largest in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula, which burnt 4 hectares (9.9 acres) of land alongside the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, threatening neighbouring houses. Authorities closed the freeway in both directions during the afternoon. The fire was contained by 6 pm with minimal property damage. The same day, a fire also burnt near Mount Disappointment, where smoke posed a danger to road users in the Clonbinane area, and a grass fire 8 kilometres (5.0\u00a0mi) south of Winchelsea in Wurdiboluc, that burnt 20 hectares (49 acres).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn the night of 28 January, CFA fire crews dealt with a small fire near Delburn in Gippsland which had burnt 30\u00a0ha (74 acres) of land, and on the afternoon of 29 January, attended two more fires in the same area, one of which threatened a local pine plantation. Also on 29 January, the CFA attended, and soon controlled, two small grass fires near the city of Sale, which were thought to have been deliberately lit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nLate on 29 January and into the following morning, the two fires at Delburn had joined, and were being fought by over 500 personnel; the fires had burnt 10\u00a0km2 1,000\u00a0ha (2,500 acres) in the area near Boolarra and Darlimurra, south of the city of Morwell. Also, a fire in Branxholme, near Hamilton, started, threatening homes in Branxholme, and Byaduk. After burning 603 hectares (1,490 acres) the fire was contained and later controlled the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nBy 30 January, the Delburn fire had spotted east towards Yinnar and Boolarra, and south towards Mirboo North. 15 different 'urgent threat' messages were delivered to Darlimurla, Yinnar, Boolarra and Mirboo North residents. Almost thirty homes were destroyed in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn the evening of 31 January, fire crews focused on containing the fire's northern flank, which was within 2\u00a0km of the main power transmission lines supplying electricity to Melbourne from the Latrobe Valley; the fires also threatened the Hazelwood Power Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nBy 1 February, containment lines had been established around the Boolarra fires, although it was not yet under control. The fire had burned through 65\u00a0km2 6,500\u00a0ha (16,000 acres) and destroyed 29 houses, along with various outbuildings and also livestock. On 3 February, authorities had divided the fires into six sectors, five of which were classified as contained, and only one, near Mirboo North, remained uncontained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn 2 February, twenty-three new fires were lit \u2013 mostly due to lightning strikes \u2013 including three in the Bunyip State Park, and further fires near Drouin West and Leongatha. However, increased humidity helped contain the fires, according to a DSE duty officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nPolice believed that the fires that formed the Delburn/Boolarra complex were deliberately lit, and offered a A$100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspected arsonists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nIn the wake of the Gippsland fires, Bruce Esplin, the Victorian Emergency Services Commissioner, proposed a review of building regulations applicable in certain fire-prone areas, saying that \"I believe that with the changes and the frequency and the severity of the bushfires we're experiencing, I think the community is going to have a rethink about where we build or if you build in a place like that\". Also following those fires, Bob Cameron, the Victorian Minister for Emergency Services, announced that the Victorian government was considering ways to tackle arsonists, including the potential for a register of arsonists accessible to police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nA bushfire near Port Lincoln in South Australia destroyed two houses and several other buildings on 13 January. The fire was brought under control by midday on the 14th. The fire was driven by high temperatures (43 degrees Celsius; 109 degrees Fahrenheit) and strong north-westerly winds. A total of 260 hectares (640 acres) was burned by the fire, brought under control thanks to milder conditions on 14 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nIn the Blue Mountains, three bushfires burning on privately owned land were in the process of being contained. Authorities want to ensure that the fires don't enter a nearby national park where they could potentially spread throughout the Blue Mountains National Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn 1 February 2009 the New South Wales Rural Fire Service declared a Section 44 for 2 bushfires burning near Tumut, New South Wales and one near Cabramurra, New South Wales after being started by dry thunderstorm overnight on 31 January 2009. The Meadow Creek fire was contained after burning 50 hectares of bushland in the Minjary National Park approximately 8 kilometres northwest of Tumut. The Mill Creek fire was burning uncontained which has burnt approximately 20 hectares of bushland approximately fourteen kilometres south east of Tumut. Happy Valley fire is burning in a steep gorge within the Kosciuszko National Park approximately kilometre from Cabramurra and has burnt 60 hectares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, January\nOn 16 January 2009 a fire broke out around Bridgetown in the South West and destroyed at least three properties in the area. At the same time a fire that started in Two Rocks north of Perth burned over 8,000 hectares of bushland in and around Yanchep National Park. Also on 16 January, a fire burned 40 hectares of parkland in Kings Park, the most visited tourist attraction in the centre of Perth. The fire is suspected to have been deliberately lit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 2 February 2009 a lightning strike from a thunderstorm in the area started a bushfire approximately ten kilometres from Barmedman, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service declared a Section 44 for the bushfire at 3am AEDT 3 February 2009. The fire burnt on private property and burnt approximately 320 hectares of scrub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 7 February, Victoria experienced one of the worst fire day conditions on record. Several locations recorded the highest temperatures since records began over 150 years ago, including Melbourne which recorded a temperature of 46.4\u00a0\u00b0C, the hottest ever recorded in an Australian capital city. The dry conditions and high temperatures were paired with strong wind gusts of 100\u2013120\u00a0km/h and by mid afternoon hundreds of fires were burning throughout the state. Small spot and grass fires burnt in various locations throughout the Greater Melbourne area, with many outlying suburbs/towns being affected by fires, particularly to the east and northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\n173 people died and 414 were injured. 3,500+ buildings were destroyed including 2,029 houses. 7,562 people were displaced. Areas most affected included Kinglake, Marysville and surrounding areas, many areas in Western Victoria and towns south and southeast of Morwell in West Gippsland. The fires burnt 450,000+ hectares of land across Victoria in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 12 February, a small fire ignited near the Main Yarra Trail in the Yarra Flats Park, on the western banks of the Yarra River and south of the Banksia Street Bridge, well within the Greater Melbourne area. The fire burnt between 3\u20135 hectares of grassland. Smoke from the fires carried north-west over Heidelberg and the northern suburbs of Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 15 February, Ferny Creek, Sherbrooke, Kallista, Tecoma and Belgrave residents were warned by the CFA to remain alert due to a 5-hectare fire in the Belgrave / Tecoma area. This was quickly contained without homes being threatened, though residents in those areas were warned of possible ember attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 23 February, precipitated by erratic wind conditions and high temperatures, new fires were ignited at various locations around Victoria. New major fires included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, February\nOn 23 February fire broke out near Mundijong, which threatened 40 houses and burnt 18 hectares. It was contained in five hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, March\nOn 2 March, in anticipation and to create awareness of the extreme bushfire weather conditions predicted for the following days, many residents around Victoria received an SMS messages warning of the extreme fire danger conditions, from Victoria Police to Victorians with mobile phones as a technology trial. The message that read: Msg from Vic Police:Extreme weather in Vic expected Mon night & Tues. High wind & fire risk. Listen to local ACB Radio for emergency updates. Do not reply to this. The message was sent to around 3\u20135 million phones throughout Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, March\nOn 3 March, despite early rain across several parts of the state and the temperature predictions were downgraded from mid 30s to high 20s, however the wind conditions remained as predicted. Several new fires began around the state, the majority of which were small and able to be contained or extinguished quickly. A fire began near Dereel began sometime around 2-3pm and the CFA subsequently released an urgent threat message for communities in the immediate area as the fire has been fanned by strong northerly winds. The fire rating index was 170 as of 5pm. Emergency services received more than 300 calls, 56% of which were for fallen trees. Over 10,000 residents, particularly in southwestern and southeastern Victoria, lost power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, March\nFrom 4\u20136 March, favourable conditions including cooler temperatures and rain, enabled fire crews to contain and control many of the fires, including the major fires that started on 7 February. By mid March, many of the fires were extinguished completely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, March\nOn Sunday 22 March, lightning sparked several small fires in Victoria's east, mostly centred around Cann River. These are in mostly remote sections of forest and currently pose no threat to any communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200041-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian bushfire season, Timeline, March\nOn 17 March, an estimated 20 hectares fire, the cause of the fire hasn't been confirmed, occurred in the Dunsborough-Yallingup area, threatening homes and closing roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season\nThe 2008\u201309 Australian cricket season consists of international matches played by the Australian cricket team in Australia as well as Australian domestic cricket matches under the auspices of Cricket Australia. The season lasted from October 2008 to March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season, Australian Cricket Team\nNew Zealand and South Africa both toured Australia, playing Tests and ODI series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season, Sheffield Shield\nThe Sheffield Shield opened on 10 October 2008. The season marked the return of the original name of the first-class competition, after being called \"Pura Cup\" since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season, Sheffield Shield\nThe final was a drawn match between Victoria and Queensland at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. Victoria won the cup by virtue of finishing at the top of the points table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season, One Day Domestic\nThe Ford Ranger One Day Cup was won by Queensland, beating Victoria in the final on 22 February 2009 at the MCG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200042-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian cricket season, Twenty20 Domestic\nThe KFC Twenty20 Big Bash opened on 26 December 2008. New South Wales defeated Victoria in the final at ANZ Stadium, Sydney on 24 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season\nThe 2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season was a near average tropical cyclone season. It officially started on 1 November 2008, and officially ended on 30 April 2009. This season was also the first time that the BoM implemented a \"tropical cyclone year.\" The regional tropical cyclone operational plan defines a \"tropical cyclone year\" separately from a \"tropical cyclone season\"; the \"tropical cyclone year\" began on 1 July 2008 and ended on 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season\nThe scope of the Australian region is limited to all areas south of the equator, east of 90\u00b0E and west of 160\u00b0E. This area includes Australia, Papua New Guinea, western parts of the Solomon Islands, East Timor and southern parts of Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season\nTropical cyclones in this area are monitored by five Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs): the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Perth, Darwin, and Brisbane; TCWC Jakarta in Indonesia; and TCWC Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issues unofficial warnings for the region, designating tropical depressions with the \"S\" suffix when they form west of 135\u00b0E, and the \"P\" suffix when they form east of 135\u00b0E.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts, Bureau of Meteorology\nIn October 2008 ahead of the season starting on 1 November, the tropical cyclone warning centres in Perth, Darwin and Brisbane issued a seasonal outlook for their area of responsibility, which urged people to prepare for possible tropical cyclones. Within each outlook factors such as the high values of the Southern Oscillation Index, near average sea surface temperatures and the neutral El Ni\u00f1o\u2013Southern Oscillation conditions were taken into account. TCWC Perth predicted within their seasonal outlook that the North-Western subregion between 105\u00b0E and 130\u00b0E would see an early start to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts, Bureau of Meteorology\nThey also predicted that between 5 - 7 tropical cyclones would occur in the region during the season compared to an average of about 5 and that there was a likelihood of two tropical cyclones and one severe tropical cyclone impacting Western Australia. TCWC Darwin predicted that there might be an early start to the season within the Timor Sea and slightly above average numbers of tropical cyclones around northern Australia. They also noted that there was an even chance of having a severe tropical cyclone in the region during the season. Within their outlook TCWC Brisbane predicted that there would be a high amount of activity within the Australian Monsoon, and that the chances of a repeat of the widespread flooding rains were not great due to their being no well-established La Nina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts, Others\nDuring September 2008, the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and its partners issued a tropical cyclone outlook, for the South Pacific region between 135\u00b0E and 120\u00b0W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts, Others\nOn 26 September 2008 the New Zealand National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research issued a seasonal forecast for the whole of the southern Pacific Ocean to the east of 150\u00b0E. They predicted that the 2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season would see an average risk of cyclones forming, which meant that 8-10 tropical cyclones with wind speeds greater than 35\u00a0knots would form east of 150\u00b0E.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 01U (Bernard)\nEarly on 21 November, the remnant disturbance of Moderate Tropical Storm Bernard moved into TCWC Perth's area of responsibility and was re-designated as Tropical Low 01U. Over the next couple of days, the disturbance remained weak as it moved towards the west. The tropical low then dissipated on the same day as it battered hostile conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Anika\nDuring 17 November TCWC Perth and TCWC Jakarta reported that Tropical Low 02U had developed within the monsoon trough about 925\u00a0km (575\u00a0mi) to the northeast of the Cocos Islands. During the next day the low quickly developed further as it was steered on a south-easterly course by an area of persisting north-westerly steering winds. TCWC Perth, TCWC Jakarta and the JTWC then reported early on 19 November that the low had developed into a weak tropical cyclone with Perth naming it Anika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Anika\nOn 20 November, Anika reached its peak intensity as a Category 2 cyclone with winds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph) and a pressure of 984\u00a0hPa. The intensification was the result of deep convection wrapping around the center of circulation and Dvorak Technique intensity estimates reaching T3.5. Cyclone Anika passed to the north of the Cocos Islands, and cyclone warnings were cancelled later that day. Later that day, it weakened to a Category 1 cyclone. As the storm tracked over cooler waters, it continued to weaken. By 21 November, the storm weakened to a tropical low due to increasing wind shear. The next day, the Anika dissipated over open waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Billy\nOn 17 December, a tropical low formed in the Arafura Sea north-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory. It moved into the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and was very slow moving. On the night of 18 December it intensified into a Category 1 cyclone and was named Billy. On 20 December, Billy made landfall as a Category 2 cyclone approximately 65 kilometres north of Wyndham. After then, it weakened to a tropical low and moved slowly towards the southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Billy\nIt then moved off the coast just north of Kuri Bay and redeveloped into a tropical cyclone on 22 December as the storm turned to the north-north east. Late on 24 December, Billy began to rapidly intensify and reached Category 4 strength early on 25 December and became a typical annular cyclone. Later that same day, Billy weakened into a category 3 cyclone as it replaced its eyewall and TCWC Perth issued their final tropical cyclone advisory as the system was moving away from land. Billy weakened into a category 1 cyclone on 27 December and weakened into a tropical low on 28 December. Later that day, TCWC Perth issued their final advisory, as the system continued to weaken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Billy\nTwo remote indigenous communities, Kalumburu and Oombulgurri were cut off by flood waters with roads and the airstrips closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 04U\nOn 20 December, an area of low pressure, associated with developing convection, formed about 1000\u00a0km (560\u00a0mi) east of Darwin in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The next day, the Bureau of Meteorology in Darwin designated the system as a tropical low. Banding features developed along the southern portion of the system and further development was anticipated as the low was located underneath an anticyclone. Around 5:26\u00a0a.m. local time on 23 December, the low made landfall near Port Roper, preventing further development of the storm. About 36\u00a0hours after landfall, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued their final advisory on the system as it dissipated over land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 05U\nOn 23 December, TCWC Brisbane noted that a weak tropical low had formed within the Solomon Sea, about 1330\u00a0kilometres to the north east of Cairns. Over the next few days the low moved towards the south west into the Coral Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Charlotte\nOn 8 January, TCWC Darwin identified a Tropical Low in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. The next day TCWC Brisbane begin to issue advisories on the low and issued Cyclone Watches for coastal communities between Aurukun on the Cape York Peninsula and the Northern Territory/Queensland border. On 11 January, the Tropical Low developed into Tropical Cyclone Charlotte, and on 12 January at 4:00am (AEST), crossed the coast near the Gilbert River Mouth with wind gusts of 120\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Charlotte\nHeavy rains, estimated at over 150\u00a0mm (5.9\u00a0in), from Tropical Cyclone Charlotte flooded at least 100 homes in low-lying areas on Cape York including Babinda, Mount Sophia and at Normanton. The rains also caused mudslides which, as described by an affected home-owner \"...it's just mud, mud everywhere\". The main road to Karumba was also cut off by flood waters. Damages caused by the storm were estimated to be at $15\u00a0million (USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 07U (05F)\nOn 11 January a tropical low formed in the Coral Sea. The winds peaked at 35 miles per hour (56\u00a0km/h). The low exited the basin and intensified into Tropical Depression 05F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dominic\nOn 22 January, TCWC Perth noted that Tropical Low 08U had formed overland, to the north of Broome in North-West Australia. JTWC had upgrade this system become a significant tropical cyclone as \"good\". On 25 January at 11:15am (AWDT), TCWC Perth issued a Tropical Cyclone Warning for coastal areas from Wickham to Exmouth. Later that day, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert as a tropical cyclone was likely to form within the following 48\u00a0hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dominic\nTCWC Perth begun issuing advisories for the developing tropical low and issued a tropical cyclone warning along the far western coastline of the Western Australia region. On 26 January, the system became Tropical Cyclone Dominic. Further intensification followed and Dominic was upgraded to a Category 2 cyclone several hours later. Morning of 27 January, Dominic made landfall just after 7am (AWDT) near Onslow. Later that day Dominic weakened to a Category 1 cyclone before weakening into a tropical low during the day. JTWC issued its last advisory on this system on 27 January as it continued to weaken inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dominic\nThe formation of Dominic in an area that produces significant amounts of oil resulted in numerous evacuations of offshore oil platforms. The platforms remained closed for several days until the storm dissipated, resulting in a loss of roughly 200,000 barrels (32,000\u00a0m3) per day, increasing global gasoline prices. A red alert was declared for Onslow in preparations for the landfall of Dominic. A crane worker was killed in Port Hedland while dismantling a crane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dominic\nIn Onslow, the roof of the local library was blown off, resulting in flooding within the building. A nearby hospital also sustained flood damage. Several trees and power lines were downed by high winds and some roads were flooded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dominic\nFollowing the storm, the shires of Ashburton, Carnarvon, Upper Gascoyne, Murchison, Yalgoo, Moora, Northam, York, Quairading and Beverley were eligible for disaster assistance from the Australian Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ellie\nEarly on 30 January, the TCWC in Brisbane noted that a Tropical Low, had formed within a monsoon trough. Later that day the JTWC, reported that multi spectral imagery had shown a developing low level circulation center with deep convection located over the western quadrant of the Low level circulation centre. Late the next day the Bureau of Meteorology reported that the low had intensified into a tropical cyclone and assigned the name of Ellie to the cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ellie\nThey also reported that Ellie had reached its peak winds of 80\u00a0km/h, (50\u00a0mph), which made Ellie a Category one cyclone on the Australian Tropical Cyclone Intensity Scale. Later that day the Joint Typhoon Warning Center initiated issuing warnings on Ellie designating it as Tropical Cyclone 12P and also reported peak wind speeds of 75\u00a0km/h, (45\u00a0mph) which made Ellie equivalent to a Tropical Storm on the Saffir\u2013Simpson Hurricane Scale. Ellie made landfall near Mission Beach at about Midnight AEST, 2 February (1400\u00a0UTC), as a Category 1 system and weakened into a Tropical Low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0019-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ellie\nTCWC Brisbane was expecting Tropical Low ex-Ellie to move back over the Coral Sea within 24 to 36 hours after Ellie made landfall and possibly reintensify into a tropical cyclone. However, this did not happen. The low that had been Ellie redeveloped within the south eastern Gulf of Carpentaria. Torrential rain from the remnants of Ellie flooded areas in Northern Queensland, causing about A$110 million (US$69.5\u00a0million) in damages. In Ingham, between Cairns and Townsville, some 50 homes were flooded, with 32 people evacuated to emergency accommodation at a local high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Freddy\nOn 2 February, TCWC Perth noted that a Tropical Low had developed in the monsoon trough, which was located over the Kimberly region. On 3 February, at 03:45 WDT TCWC Perth issued a cyclone watch for the area between Kalumburu and Broome as the storm continued to move west winds intensified to 75\u00a0km/h and warning that the storm may develop into a cyclone later in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Freddy\nThe system was located 500\u00a0km north west of Port Hedland on 5 February and was forecasted to continue moving westward into the Indian Ocean and strengthen into a cyclone although it was not expected to affect the West Australian coast line. On 6 February at 1200Z, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center identified the system as Tropical Cyclone 14S. Freddy tracked slowly south westward and steadily weakened as it was affected by more wind shear and cooler waters. The JTWC issued its final advisory on 9 February, as the system had dissipated. The outer bands of Freddy produced heavy rains in Indonesia. A landslide triggered by these rains killed two people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 13U (Innis)\nOn 18 February, the extratropical remnants of Cyclone Innis briefly curved into the Australian Region, as a result the remnants were designated as Tropical Low 13U by TCWC Brisbane. However, as Innis was expected to recurve into the South Pacific within 24 hours primary warning responsibility remained with TCWC Wellington. Later that day Innis recurved into the south Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 14U\nOn 25 February, TCWC Darwin reported that a Tropical Low had developed within the monsoon trough west of Darwin, Northern Territory. JTWC forecasted the chance of this system becoming a tropical cyclone as \"fair\". The next early morning TCWC Perth begun issuing tropical cyclone advisories on the developing low, issuing a cyclone watch for the Pilbara coastal areas. On 26 February, JTWC upgraded the system's chances to \"good\" and issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. The low made landfall over Port Hedland without becoming a tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 14U\nThe tropical low dropped upwards of 112\u00a0mm (4.4\u00a0in) of rain along the Pilbara coast, causing minor flooding. Flood warnings and watches were issued for areas around several rivers, due to the rains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low Gabrielle\nGabrielle formed out of a low pressure system that quickly developed. It begin to move south east and soon weakened into a tropical low. It slowly tracked south and south westwardly, it slowly reintensified and gained tropical cyclone status. As an anticyclone possibly forming to the south of the system. This might have allowed the storm to strengthen a bit before dissipating over cooler waters later in the week, but it then unexpectedly turned the west and dissipated on 5 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low Gabrielle\nBureau of Meteorology in Perth noted that in post-analysis determined that Gabrielle did not meet the minimum requirements of a tropical cyclone by the Australian definition. Gales were observed in one quadrant or another throughout most of Gabrielle's life but at no one time did they extend more than halfway around the low level circulation center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish\nOn 4 March, a weak Tropical Low developed in an active trough located over the north western Coral Sea slowly moving south east. The low began to intensify despite its proximity to land. At 11pm EST (1100 UTC), the Tropical Low developed into Tropical Cyclone Hamish and convective band begin to develop. The next day, the cyclone strengthened into a Category 2 cyclone, and by the 11pm advisory, had strengthen further to a Category 3 Severe Tropical Cyclone and a defined eye showed on the satellite. Later that day it begin to affect the north eastern parts of Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0026-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish\nOn 7 March, Hamish was located approximately 230 kilometres from Cairns with the Bureau of Meteorology expecting Hamish to intensify into a Category 4 with the cyclone expecting to brush through near Mackay on Sunday night or Monday morning. during that day Hamish had intensified to a Category 4 cyclone. Later that day the storm intensified into a Category 5 cyclone, the first since Cyclone George, during its closest approach to Hayman Island. During 8 March, Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish weakened to a Category 4 cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0026-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish\nThe cyclone was forecasted to make landfall near Bundaberg however the Bureau of Meteorology then expected Hamish not to make landfall and to continue to move in a south easterly direction and slowly weaken. A trawler caught in rough seas produced by the storm sent out a distress signal as it was overcome by the storm. Rescue attempts to retrieve the three crew members were hampered by Hamish and were called off but expected to resume of 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0026-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish\nOn 10 March 11am EST (0100 UTC) Hamish had weakened to a Category 3 cyclone with the Bureau of Meteorology is expected that Hamish slow and continue to weaken. On 11 March 7am EST (2100 UTC) the Hamish weakened further to a Category 2 cyclone with the Bureau of Meteorology expected Hamish to continually be slow moving and weaken, with the cyclone beginning to move in a north west direction later in the day. The storm continued to weaken and BoM downgraded it to a tropical low later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa\nOn 12 March, TCWC Darwin identified that a weak tropical low had formed in the Arafura Sea. On 17 March, TCWC Perth began issuing shipping warnings for the developing tropical low. The low developed into Tropical Cyclone Ilsa late on 17 March. Ilsa became a Category 3 Severe Tropical Cyclone on the evening of 19 March and continued to intensify, despite predictions that Ilsa would weaken. Ilsa quickly strengthened the next morning to a Category 4 cyclone, despite predictions that the cyclone would weaken before reaching that intensity. Steady weakening began soon after; Ilsa was downgraded to a Category 3 cyclone on 20 March, and to Category 1 on 23 March. On 24 March, the cyclone was downgraded to a tropical low and advisories were discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 19U\nOn 19 March, TCWC Brisbane identified that a weak tropical low had formed in the Coral Sea near 13S, 153E. Conditions remained unfavourable for development and the storm rapidly dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 19U\nForming in the same area as Cyclone Hamish did earlier in March, officials along the Sunshine Coast feared that it could track towards the disaster zones along the Queensland coast. The storm could hinder clean-up efforts of the large oil spill caused by Hamish. Another fear was that residents would panic upon hearing of another approaching cyclone, leading to unnecessary evacuations. Up to 68\u00a0mm (2.6\u00a0in) of rain fell in South Johnstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Jasper\nEarly on 23 March the BoM started to monitor Tropical Low 20U that had developed within the monsoon trough, about 900\u00a0km (560\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Mackay in Queensland, Australia. The system subsequently moved southeastwards away from the Queensland coast, before it was named Jasper by the BoM later that day, after it had developed into a category 1 tropical cyclone. During the next day as the system approached 160\u00b0E and the South Pacific Basin, the JTWC initiated advisories on the system and assigned it the designation Tropical Cyclone 23P. As the system moved out of the basin the BoM reported that Jasper had peaked as a category 2 tropical cyclone with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 22U (15F)\nEarly on 11 April, Tropical Disturbance 15F moved into TCWC Brisbane's area of responsibility and was re-designated as Tropical Low 22U. Over the next couple of days, the disturbance remained weak as it moved towards the southern tip of Papua New Guinea. The tropical low then dissipated on 13 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Kirrily\nOn 18 April, TCWC Darwin and TCWC Jakarta reported that a weak tropical low had developed within the Arafura Sea near the Tanimbar Islands. Over the next week, the low remained weak as it moved towards the eastwards, before it turned towards the northwest during 25 April. JTWC reported the system's chances forming into a significant Tropical Cyclone within 24 hours as \"poor\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0032-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Kirrily\nLater on 26 April, JTWC upgraded the low's chances of forming from \"poor\" to \"fair\" and later in afternoon the low strengthened with JTWC upgrading the low from \"fair\" to \"good\" and issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Joint Typhoon Warning Center designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 27S later on 27 April. In the afternoon, TCWC Darwin upgraded 23U to a Category 1 tropical cyclone and designated it as Tropical Cyclone Kirrily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0032-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Kirrily\nLater that day, as it made landfall over Aru Islands, the low weakened slightly and JTWC downgraded Kirrily to tropical depression, and TCWC Darwin downgraded Kirrily to a tropical low. In the afternoon of the 27th, the JTWC again upgraded Kirrily into tropical storm. During 28 April the JTWC issued their final warning on Kirrily before the BoM downgraded the storm to a tropical low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200043-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low 24U\nOn 10 May, TCWC Perth started monitoring on a tropical low over 07S 98E. The system meandered for several days, until it was last mentioned in TCWC Perth's outlooks on 18 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup\nThe Austrian Cup 2008\u201309 (German: \u00d6FB-Cup, also Stiegl-Cup for sponsoring purposes) was the seventy-fifth season of Austria's nationwide football cup competition. It started on July 18, 2008 with the first game of the Preliminary Round. The final was held at the Pappelstadion, Mattersburg on 16 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup\nThe competition was won by Austria Vienna after beating Trenkwalder Admira 3\u20131 after extra time. It was the 27th Austrian Cup title for the team from Vienna, who also qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, Preliminary round\nThe Preliminary Round involved 58 amateur clubs from all regional federations, divided into smaller groups according to the Austrian federal states. Twenty-nine games were played between July 18 and August 3, 2008, with the winners advancing to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, First round\nIn this round entered, together with the winners from the previous round, all twenty-two clubs from the Bundesliga and the First League, as well as the nine regional cup winners. The draw for this round was conducted on August 4, 2008. The games were played on August 14 \u2013 17, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, Second round\nThe draw of the Second Round was conducted on August 19, 2008. The games were played on September 12 and 13, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, Third round\nThe winners of last year's competition, SV Horn, entered in this round. The draw for this round was conducted on September 14, 2008. The games were played on October 28 and 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe draw for this round was conducted on November 9, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200044-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Cup, Semifinals\nThe draw for this round was conducted on 8 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200045-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football Bundesliga\nThe Austrian Football Bundesliga 2008\u201309 was the 97th season of top-tier football in Austria. The competition is officially called tipp3-Bundesliga powered by T-Mobile, named after the Austrian betting company tipp3 and the Austrian branch of German mobile phone company T-Mobile. The season started on 8 July 2008 with Sturm Graz beating defending champions Rapid Vienna by 3\u20131. The 36th and last round of matches took place on 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200045-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football Bundesliga, Team changes from last season\nFu\u00dfballclub Wacker Innsbruck were relegated after finishing the 2007\u201308 season in 10th and last place. They were replaced by First League champions Kapfenberger SV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200045-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football Bundesliga, Results\nTeams played each other four times in the league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away), and then did the same in the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200046-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football First League\nThe 2008\u201309 Austrian Football First League was the 35th season of second-level football in Austria, since its introduction in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200046-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football First League\nSC Wiener Neustadt, which bought the league license of SC Schwanenstadt along with most of their players at the end of the 2007\u201308 season due to the latter's insolvency, won the First League championship and were promoted to the 2009\u201310 Bundesliga. Three teams were relegated to the Regional Leagues. SV Gr\u00f6dig and 1. FC V\u00f6cklabruck sealed their fate based upon competitive criteria, while DSV Leoben did not apply for a professional license and thus were automatically demoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200046-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football First League, Schedule\nEvery team played each other three times. The season started on 11 July 2008 and finished on 29 May 2009. Between 29 November 2008 and 6 March 2009, no matches were played due to winter break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200046-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Football First League, Schedule\nFC Wacker Innsbruck had been relegated from the 2007\u201308 Austrian Football Bundesliga. The teams promoted from the Regional Leagues had been SV Gr\u00f6dig (West), 1. FC V\u00f6cklabruck (Central) and SKN St. P\u00f6lten (East).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200047-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Austrian Hockey League season was the 79th season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. 10 teams participated in the league, and EC KAC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200048-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Austrian National League season\nThe 2008-09 Austrian National League season was contested by eight teams, and saw EHC Lustenau win the championship. All eight teams that participated in the regular season qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200049-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ayr United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the 99th season of competitive football by Ayr United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200050-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azadegan League\nThe 2008\u201309 Azadegan League was the 18th season of the Azadegan League and eight as the second highest division since its establishment in 1991. The season featured 22 teams from the 2007\u201308 Azadegan League, two new teams relegated from the 2007\u201308 Persian Gulf Cup: Sanat Naft and Shirin Faraz and four new teams promoted from the 2007\u201308 2nd Division: Aluminium Hormozgan as champions and Mehrkam Pars, Payam Mokhaberat and Petroshimi Tabriz. Sanaye Arak changed their name into Aluminium Arak. The league started on 23 October 2008 and ended on 8 June 2009. Steel Azin and Tractor Sazi won the Azadegan League title for the first time in their history. Steel Azin, Tractor Sazi and Shahin Bushehr promoted to the Persian Gulf Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200050-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azadegan League, Attendances, Average home attendances\nUpdated to games played on 8 June 2009Source: Notes:Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendancesSanat Naft and Shirin Faraz played last season in Persian Gulf CupAluminium Hormozgan, Mehrkam Pars, Payam Mokhaberat and Petroshimi Tabriz played last season in Iran 2nd Division  Sanaye Arak changed their name into Aluminium Arak", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200051-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup\nThe Azerbaijan Cup 2008\u201309 was the 17th season of the annual cup competition in Azerbaijan. It started on 17 September 2008 with two games of Preliminary Round and ended on 23 May 2009 with the Final held at Tofik Bakhramov Stadium in Baku. Khazar Lenkoran were the defending champions. Eighteen teams compete in this year's competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200051-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup, Preliminary round\nFour lower division teams, qualified for this competition due to unknown reasons, played out two participants who would join the fourteen teams of the Azerbaijan Premier League in the next round. The games were played on September 17 (first legs) and September 24, 2008 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200051-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup, Round of 16\nThe two winners from the Preliminary Round joined fourteen Premier League teams in this round. The first legs were played on October 29 and 30, 2008. The second legs were played on November 5 and 6, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200051-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on February 25 while the second legs were played on March 11 and 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200051-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on April 29, 2009. The second legs were played on May 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200052-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Azerbaijan First Division  is the second-level of football in Azerbaijan. The season is started on 6 September 2009 with eight teams participating in the league. NBC Salyan were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200052-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan First Division\nABN B\u00e4rd\u00e4 won the league, with Shahdag finishing as runners up. Both teams were due to be promoted to the Azerbaijan Premier League, but due to the AFFA's license policy, neither teams were.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200052-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan First Division, Schedule\nEach team played each other four times, twice at home and twice away, with the season started on 6 September 2008 and finished on 16 May 2009. There were no games between 7 December 2008 and 15 February 2009, due to the annual winter break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200053-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 17th season of Azerbaijan Premier League, the Azerbaijani professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. Inter Baku were the defending champions, having won the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200053-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League, Teams\nFK G\u00e4ncl\u00e4rbirliyi Sumqayit and ABN B\u00e4rd\u00e4 were relegated after finishing the previous season in 13th and 14th place, respectively. They were replaced by the champions of the two groups in the Azerbaijan First Division, Bak\u0131l\u0131 Baku and MOIK Baku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200053-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League, Teams\nOn 8 July 2008, FK Masall\u0131 withdrew their participation from the league, citing competitional and financial problems as reasons. Although it was unclear as of 21 July if the Azerbaijan Football Federation would be naming a substitute or if the championship would start with just 13 teams, shortly thereafter AFFA named FK NBC Salyan to replace Masall\u0131 in top league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200053-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League, Teams\nOn 31 October 2008, FK NBC Salyan changed their name to FK Mughan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200053-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Premier League, Teams, Stadia and locations\n1Karabakh played their home matches at Surakhani Stadium in Baku before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200054-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B Group\nThe 2008\u201309 B Group was the 54th season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. The season started on 16 August 2008 and finished on 17 June 2009 with the A Group promotion play-off between the runners-up from both divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200054-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B Group, Stadia, Locations and Results, West B Group, Teams Competing\n1FC Bansko replaced FC Pirin Blagoevgrad, last season's winners of the South-West group, when it merged with another club from Blagoevgrad, which is playing the A PFG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200054-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B Group, Stadia, Locations and Results, East B Group, Teams Competing\n1No second team from North-Eastern V group was promoted because the winners, Dobrudzha Dobrich, and Ariston Ruse, team that should have replaced it, refused to participate and will play in this season's V Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200055-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B.League\nThe 2008\u201309 B.League season was the second season of B.League. The season started on 13 September 2008 and concluded on 17 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200055-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B.League\nAbahani Ltd. were the defending champions, and they successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200055-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B.League, League System\n11 teams participated in the league just like the previous year. Season started on 13 September, 2008 and ended in March 2009. Each team will play each other home & away twice. There is no promotion or relegation system. Teams participating in the league is not allowed to participate in the local league. As the clubs do not have their own stadium. Bangladesh Football Federation will distribute stadiums located in & nearby outside Dhaka. Each team will play 1 match a week. Matches will be on Friday & Saturday. Each team will have a 23-member squad which is already announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200055-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 B.League, League System\nWinner of a match will receive 2 points, lost 0 points & if drawn, 1 point. There is no limitation for foreign player registration. But each team can play 3 foreigners at a time. The league winner will receive a large amount of prize money. The amount is not announced yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200055-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 B.League, Teams\n12 teams were added to the league, with Fakirerpool Young Men's Club earning promotion by winning the 2007\u201308 Dhaka League, however the club was not invited to enter and the season started with 11 teams like the inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200056-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BAI Basket\nThe 2008\u201309 Season of BAI Basket (31st edition) ran from November 20, 2008 through May 16, 2009, with 12 teams playing in three different stages: in stage one (regular season) teams played a double round robin system. In stage two, the six best teams played a single round robin tournament in serie A and the last six did the same for the consolation group, serie B. Finally, in stage three (final four) the best four teams from serie A played in a round robin at four rounds for the title. The winners of the regular season and of the serie A are awarded a bonus point for the serie A and the final four, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200056-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BAI Basket, Regular Season (November 20, 2008 - March 09, 2009\nThe home team is listed on the left-hand column. The rightmost column and the bottom row list the teams' home and away records respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 70], "content_span": [71, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200056-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BAI Basket, Group Stage (March 20 \u2013 April 3, 2009)\nThe home team is listed on the left-hand column. The rightmost column and the bottom row list the teams' home and away records respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200057-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BIBL season\nThe 2008-09 season is the first season of the Balkan International Basketball League. Ten teams from the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia are competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200057-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BIBL season, Format, Regular season\nIn the regular season the teams will be divided into two groups, each containing five teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away. The top 4 teams in each group advance to the playoffs. Games will be played from October 7, 2008 to February 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200057-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BIBL season, Format, Quarterfinals\nThe top four teams in each group advance for the quarterfinals. The winner of Group A/Group B will play with the fourth placed team in Group B/Group A and the second placed team in Group A/Group B will play with the third in Group B/Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200057-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BIBL season, Format, Final four\nThe four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200057-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BIBL season, Quarterfinals\nFirst legs were on 25 and 26 February and 6 March, second legs were held on March 3, 4 and 10th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200058-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 BYU Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 BYU Cougars men's basketball team represented Brigham Young University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Dave Rose's fourth season at BYU. The Cougars competed in the Mountain West Conference and played their home games at the Marriott Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200059-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bahrain Classification Soccer League\nThis season, Bahraini Premier League will be known as the Bahrain Classification Soccer League 2008\u201309 and will consist of 19 teams which will play each other once. The top 10 teams will join the new Premier League in 2009\u201310 and the bottom 9 teams will form a new Division 2 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200059-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bahrain Classification Soccer League\nThe top two sides enter the 2009 Gulf Club Champions Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200059-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bahrain Classification Soccer League, Final league table, End of season playoff\nAl Hadd and Al Hala went into an end of season play-off to determine which side would stay in the Premier League for the following season. Al Hala won the game 1-0 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200060-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team was an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Mid-American Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200060-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200061-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Baltic Basketball League\nBaltic Basketball League 2008\u201309 was the fifth edition of Baltic Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200062-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangalore Super Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Bangalore Super Division was the eighth season of the Bangalore Super Division, the third tier of the Indian football system and the top tier of the Karnataka football system. It began on 19 February 2009 and concluded on 9 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200062-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangalore Super Division\nA total of 15 teams competed in the league. HASC emerged as champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200063-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladesh women's Tri-Nation Series\nThe 2008\u201309 Bangladesh women's Tri-Nation series was a cricket tournament that was held from 6 to 17 February 2009 in Bangladesh. It was a tri-nation series featuring Bangladesh women, Pakistan women and Sri Lanka women, with the second, third and the final matches played as Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs). As Bangladesh women had not received ODI status when the tournament was being held, the matches involving Bangladesh women were not played with WODI status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200063-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladesh women's Tri-Nation Series\nThe WODI fixtures were originally the part of Pakistan and Sri Lanka's preparation for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup. Grameenphone, the country's leading mobile phone operator, earned the right to sponsor the women's tri-nation series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200063-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladesh women's Tri-Nation Series\nThe hosts started their campaign disappointingly as they lost the inaugural match of the series by 7 wickets against Pakistan women. Sri Lanka women were the first team to qualify for the final, after they beat Pakistan women by 115 runs and won their three consecutive matches in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200063-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladesh women's Tri-Nation Series\nBangladesh women won their only match of the tournament, on 13 February 2009 by 6 wickets, when they bowled out Sri Lanka women for just 67 runs, to keep the final hopes alive. However, in the following match, Pakistan women restricted Bangladesh to 94 runs in the first innings, and beat the hosts by 9 wickets to reach the final. Sri Lanka women won by 6 wickets in the final match against Pakistan, and was crowned as the champions of the tri-nation series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200064-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladeshi cricket season\nThe 2008\u201309 Bangladeshi cricket season featured Test series between Bangladesh and New Zealand, and between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200064-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bangladeshi cricket season, Test series\nNew Zealand played two Test matches and three One Day Internationals in Bangladesh in October 2008, winning one Test and two ODIs. The other Test was drawn, and Bangladesh won the remaining ODI. Sri Lanka also played two Tests in Bangladesh in December 2008 and January 2009, winning both. They were also involved in a triangular ODI tournament with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200065-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barako Bull Energy Boosters season\nThe 2008\u201309 Barako Bull Energy Boosters season is the 9th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200066-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barangay Ginebra Kings season\nThe 2008\u201309 Barangay Ginebra Kings season was the 30th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The head coach for the season was Jong Uichico, and Eric Menk, David Noel, Ronald Tubid, Jayjay Helterbrand, and Paul Artadi played the starting lineup. The Kings finished third in the Philippine Cup. The Kings also added Junjun Cabatu as afree agent\u2013before playing for the Kings, he played for the Alaska Aces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200066-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barangay Ginebra Kings season, Statistics, Philippine Cup\nPlayer Stats as of January 29, 2008. 5:30 p.m. PHI Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200067-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnet F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Barnet competed in Football League Two, alongside the FA Cup, Football League Cup and Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200067-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnet F.C. season, Season summary\nThe 2008\u201309 season started poorly, and by late September only the three teams that had been docked points prior to the start of the season had lower league positions. After a run of thirteen games without a win in any competition Paul Fairclough announced his resignation to take up a role as director and leaving the first team duties to his assistant Ian Hendon. Fairclough would take over one last game which resulted in a 2\u20130 win against another relegation threatened side AFC Bournemouth. Results improved, and before the end of the season Hendon was made permanent boss on a 2-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season of Barnsley Football Club saw the club participate in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, Preparation for 2008\u201309\nThe first signing for the new season was announced on 25 June; Canadian international striker Iain Hume in a \u00a31.2 million switch from relegated Leicester City , the club's first seven-figure signing since 1999. On 27 June Barnsley again dipped into the transfer market to sign Argentine defensive midfielder Hugo Colace from Newell's Old Boys and French left winger come left-back Mounir El Haimour from Swiss side Neuch\u00e2tel Xamax. On 2 July, a transfer was secured for experienced central defender Darren Moore of Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, Preparation for 2008\u201309\nThe final pre-season transfer came on 8 August with a season-long loan deal for former Dutch U21 star Maceo Rigters from Blackburn Rovers. On 26 January 2009, it was confirmed that Daniel Bogdanovic had signed for Barnsley for an undisclosed fee, signing a deal until 2010. Michael Mifsud joined Barnsley on loan until the end of the season on 2 February 2009 on the same day as Andranik Teymourian and Adam Hammill joining fellow Malta teammate Daniel Bogdanovic at Oakwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Overview\nBarnsley had a poor start to their 2008\u201309 season, winning only two of their first ten league matches and going for a run of five games without scoring a goal. The Reds clinched the loan signing of Derby winger Gary Teale for a month on 15 August, covering for the midfield injuries of Mounir El Haimour, Jamal Campbell-Ryce and the failure to gain international clearance for Hugo Colace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Overview\nThe team received a boost the following month when Colace's work permit was finally granted, along with the return to fitness of both Heinz Muller and Anderson, who had been out injured for seven months. The club also made history in their away game at Ipswich Town on 30 September when they fielded striker Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who became the Football League's youngest ever player at 15 years and 45 days; beating a record which had stood since 1929.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Overview\nThe tykes achieved their second league win of the season as they came from behind with ten men to beat Doncaster Rovers 4\u20131 at Oakwell in a thrilling second half display. However, the disappointing away form continued with a 3\u20130 defeat to Crystal Palace. Fortunately, the following Tuesday, the Reds defeated Sheffield Wednesday for the first time in eight years by prevailing 2\u20131. A 0\u20130 draw with Bristol City was next, then the month was capped off in fine style with a 1\u20130 win over Doncaster Rovers at the Keepmoat Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Overview\nThe Reds began November as they had ended October, with an away win. This time Charlton yielded to the Reds. The next game, at home to Sheffield Utd was to bring mountains of controversy. The main talking point of the game was the injury to Barnsley striker Iain Hume who suffered a fractured skull and internal bleeding after being elbowed by Chris Morgan. Barnsley are pondering whether to pursue legal action against Morgan for the challenge which could have ended Hume's life as well as his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Overview\nBarnsley defeated Watford, again coming from behind to win, before losing late on to play off candidates Preston North End F.C.. Despite this, on the live sky game, and almost blowing a 3\u20130 lead, Burnley were beaten at Oakwell. 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley's new season got off to a flying start with Iain Hume scoring his first Barnsley goal just five minutes into his debut. However, two goals in as many minutes from Fitz Hall resulted in a defeat despite a battling performance from the side. Marciano van Homoet was dismissed late on for a crude challenge on Dani Parejo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nTwo penalties from Michael O'Connor and Anthony Elding were enough to see Crewe through to Round Two despite a possession barrage from the Reds throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe visitors put themselves in front after ten minutes here, with a strike from Freddy Eastwood. Captain Brian Howard managed an equaliser just before the break, but a second half goal from Julian Gray proved decisive. Iain Hume was sent off late on for the hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoals from Kevin Phillips and Garry O'Connor were enough to see Birmingham to a 2\u20130 win at St Andrews despite a gallant performance from the Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nIt took seventy-one minutes, but a stunning strike from Iain Hume and a Stephen Foster header were enough to secure Barnsley's first win of the season against struggling Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA single goal by Steve Kabba in the 86th minute sunk the Reds who had the best of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAnother disappointing result for Barnsley as Cardiff left Oakwell with all three points. Peter Whittingham scored the only goal of the game following a defensive error by Darren Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAnother goalless performance from the Reds should have reaped reward when Iain Hume rounded the keeper, only to shoot into the side netting. This game marked the return to fitness of Heinz Muller and Anderson, as well as being Brian Howard's last game in a Barnsley shirt before his move to Sheffield United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoalless again after another frustrating day for the reds. Jon Macken missed a penalty kick in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoals from Jon Stead, Owen Garvan and Iv\u00e1n Campo heaped the pressure upon Barnsley manager Simon Davey. The main talking point of the match, however, was Reuben Noble-Lazarus who came off the bench to become the Football League's youngest ever player at 15 years and 45 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley found themselves a goal down early on in this derby match thanks to a penalty from Brian Stock and down to ten men as Darren Moore was sent off early in the second half. However, a headed goal from Stephen Foster and a spectacular individual effort from Jamal Campbell-Ryce, as well as further strikes from substitute Jon Macken and Iain Hume, ended their five game goal drought and made this their second win of the season. The result also equalled the Red's best result under manager Simon Davey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAnother poor away performance from the Reds saw Crystal Palace ease to victory in this encounter with a first-half penalty from Ben Watson, who scored another in the second half before Shefki Kuqi made it three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA second home derby win of the season gave the fans something to smile about here, with Iain Hume putting his side in front after just four minutes. The Reds cause was helped with the sending off of Tony McMahon thirty minutes later, and a second-half penalty which Jamal Campbell-Ryce slotted home rendering Leon Clarke's subsequent penalty a mere consolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA game the Reds should have won turned into a 0\u20130 draw. Jon Macken and Iain Hume should both have scored but were denied by Adriano Basso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley completed the early season double over Donny after a 1\u20130 win at the Keepmoat Stadium. A 42nd-minute goal from Jon Macken was enough to give the Reds all three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA second successive away win for the Reds sees them rise significantly in the table. Jon Macken open the scoring within ten minutes of play, and then scored his second on the fifteen-minute mark before Darren Moore made it three with a headed goal before half-time. Mark Hudson pulled one back for his team in the second half, but ultimately this was a deserved win for Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe Reds' good run came to an end at the hands of South Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United in a bad-tempered derby. James Beattie gave the Blades the lead before Ugo Ehiogu and Anderson de Silva both saw red for a tangle between the two. Beattie made it two after a controversial penalty award by the linesman, following referee Andy D'Urso's hesitation to award. Kayode Odejayi pulled one back for Barnsley, but it was too little too late. The game was marred by a serious, life-threatening injury to Barnsley striker Iain Hume. Hume suffered a fractured skull and internal bleeding after a shocking elbow by former Barnsley captain Chris Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley came from behind to win the game against Watford. The away side took the lead through Tommy Smith, but the Reds staged a fine fightback when Miguel Mostto slammed in, and two minutes later Stephen Foster marked his first game as Club captain with a scrambled effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley were beaten late on again. Richard Chaplow put Preston ahead but Jamal Campbell-Ryce responded with a shot from 20 yards. Preston weren't to be denied however and Sean St Ledger won it in the 88th minute with a deflected shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nIn the live Sky game the Reds defeated Burnley, but made it more difficult than it should've been. Jon Macken put the Reds in front after eighteen minutes. The Reds made a lightning start to the second half with Simon Whaley deflecting in Jamal Campbell-Ryce's shot. Diego Le\u00f3n made it three minutes later. Burnley substitute Martin Paterson made it a nervy last 20 minutes with two goals in four minutes. Reds keeper Heinz Muller made two fine stops to preserve the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nIn a tight contest, a first half goal from Joe Garner was all that separated the two sides here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAfter a delayed kick-off Barnsley were unable to take any points from high-flying Reading, who won the match courtesy of a second-half goal from Brynjar Gunnarsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAfter a goalless first half, a strike from Jon Macken and a penalty from Jamal Campbell-Ryce had the reds looking comfortable until Jason Scotland pulled one back before grabbing the equaliser fifteen seconds from the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley were unable to pick up any points against high-flying Wolverhampton Wanderers. An early own goal from Bobby Hassell put the home side in front, and then Kevin Foley's late strike sealed the win for the Championship leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nHalf an hour into this match, Simon Walton was shown a red card for a professional foul and Plymouth found themselves down to ten men. Barnsley subsequently went in front when Jon Macken nodded home after Anderson headed down from a Diego Le\u00f3n free kick, which was followed by a late penalty from Jamal Campbell-Ryce when Leon was brought down in the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe Reds completed their second league double of the season with a fine win at Burnley. Jamie Cureton put the Reds in front with his first goal for the club before Chris McCann struck to equalise. With 20 minutes left, McCann diverted Jamal Campbell-Ryce's shot into his own net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nJamie Cureton gave the Reds an early lead with a delightful chip and after Anderson de Silva hit the bar for Barnsley, Ross Wallace equalised after a dubious free-kick award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoals from H\u00e9rita Ilunga, a penalty from Mark Noble and Carlton Cole saw off the Reds who failed to re-create the antics of last season's FA Cup as they crashed out in the Third Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA late header by David McGoldrick gave Southampton the win after the Reds dominated the majority of the game with chances from Jamie Cureton and Maceo Rigters going awry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoals from Wes Hoolahan, returning from Barnsley Jamie Cureton, a penalty from Sammy Clingan and Darel Russell sunk the Reds as they crashed to a sickening defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley lost again as two early goals from Jon Stead gave the Reds a massive uphill task but debutant Daniel Bogdanovic gave them some hope early in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAnother defeat at Ashton Gate as goals from Gavin Williams and ex-Red Michael McIndoe gave City a comfortable win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA sensational goal by Jamal Campbell-Ryce gave Barnsley a historic double over Sheff Wed after the earlier win in October. The real hero though, was Bobby Hassell who made an unbelievable goal-line clearance in the dying moments to send the four thousand Reds fans home delighted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAn appalling game at Oakwell ended 0\u20130 which left both sides in relegation mire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe Reds took the lead with a goal created in Malta, Michael Mifsud crossing for countryman Daniel Bogdanovic to glance home. Damien Delaney equalised for QPR but Anderson de Silva smashed home just before half time to seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe Reds recent poor form against Cardiff continued as Joe Ledley and Michael Chopra fired the Bluebirds into a 2\u20130 lead before half time. The Reds pulled one back through Jon Macken three minutes before Andranik was sent off. Peter Whittingham sealed the points for Cardiff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA dull game lit up in the last ten minutes when Michael Mifsud put the Reds in front with his first goal for the club. But just three minutes later Martin Taylor equalised through hesitant defending from a free-kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA solitary goal on 70 minutes by Wednesday loanee Wade Small piled the pressure on Simon Davey as the Reds sunk into the bottom three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nPalace took the lead through Shefki Kuqi early on but goals from Jamal Campbell-Ryce, an own goal by Palace youngster Lee Hills and Michael Mifsud gave the Reds a vital three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe Reds dominated much of the game against Derby but were left frustrated as they missed numerous chances to take all three points at Pride Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nAfter a goalless first half Jamal Campbell-Ryce gave the reds the lead in this battle between two strugglers. However, celebrations turned to frustrations when Campbell-Ryce missed from the penalty spot. Robert Earnshaw scored the equalizer for Forest not long after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nBarnsley looked on course to take a point from this South Yorkshire derby, yet in the last ten minutes quick fire goals from John-Joe O'Toole and Arturo Lupoli put the blades 2\u20130 up. Jamal Campbell-Ryce then missed a penalty for Barnsley in the closing minutes, meaning that an injury time Daniel Bogdanovic strike proved to be a mere consolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nFurther late disappointment at Vicarage Road, as Jon Macken gave the reads the lead on 67 minutes, only for Tommy Smith to equalize for Watford with two minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nGoals from Ashley Williams, Jordi Gomez and Jason Scotland gave Swansea a comfortable win at Oakwell. Daniel Bogdanovic scored a late consolation from the penalty spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nA Strong performance from the reds saw them take a crucial point against promotion chasing Reading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nThe reds looked like securing a vital win as Daniel Bogdanovic gave them the lead after just nine minutes. But in the final moments of the game the referee awarded a controversial penalty for a disputed handball against Rob Kozluk. Elliot Ward scored to snatch a point for Coventry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nIn their final home game of the season, Jon Macken sent the Reds on their way to a vital three points in their fight against relegation, but with six minutes remaining, Kyle Reid struck an equalizer for Wolves, earning the visitors the required point to confirm their status as the champions of the 2008/09 Coca-Cola championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200068-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barnsley F.C. season, 2008\u201309 Season, Short match reports\nKnowing they needed only a point to secure their championship status, Barnsley fell behind at Plymouth courtesy of Gary Sawyer's header in the twelfth minute. Nonetheless, on-loan Liverpool winger Adam Hammill struck his first Red's goal to level the score ten minutes from half-time. Jamal Campbell-Ryce struck what proved to be the winner two minutes into the second half, to confirm a fourth straight season in the Coca-Cola championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200069-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barys Astana season\nThe 2008\u201309 Barys Astana season was the Kontinental Hockey League franchise's 1st season and the last season of play at the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, in parallel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200069-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barys Astana season\nIn 2008, Barys applied to join the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League. The league's authorities allowed Barys in, making it the first Kazakh team into the new league. The team won its first game in the KHL on September 3, 2008 abroad, defeating Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk 2-1 in the shootouts. They registered their first home game eleven days later by beating defending Russian champions Salavat Yulaev Ufa 3-2, this time again in shootout. The team finished its first season with a 15th place overall in the league (5th out of 6 in the highly competitive Chernyshev division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200069-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barys Astana season\nThe team made the playoffs and faced Ak Bars Kazan in the first round (2nd overall in the league); Kazan swept Astana three games to nothing to advance to the second round. Kevin Dallman finished the season as the league's fifth best scorer with a 28 goals and 30 assists (58 points) record; he also finished as the league's leader for shots on goal with 217. Konstantin Glazachev finished 9th overall in the league in scoring with 52 points (28 goals and 24 assists). Meanwhile, the team secured a second straight  Kazakhstan Hockey Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200069-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barys Astana season, Schedule and results, Kontinental Hockey League, Regular season\nWin (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 92], "content_span": [93, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200069-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Barys Astana season, Schedule and results, Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, Final Round\nWin (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 94], "content_span": [95, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200070-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Basketball Bundesliga\nThe Basketball Bundesliga 2008\u201309 was the 43rd season of the Basketball Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200071-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Basketball League Belgium Division I\nThe 2008\u201309 Basketball League Belgium Division I, for sponsorship reasons named 2008\u201309 Ethias League, was the 81st season of the Basketball League Belgium, the highest professional basketball league in Belgium. Spirou Charleroi won the 2009 national title, their second straight and eight total title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200072-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Basketball League of Serbia\nThe 2008\u201309 Basketball League of Serbia season was the 3rd season of the highest professional basketball league in Serbia. It was also 65th national championship played by Serbian clubs inclusive of nation's previous incarnations as Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200072-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Basketball League of Serbia, Regular season, Super League standings & results, Group B\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, D=Points difference, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season\nThe 2008-2009 Bavarian ice hockey season started on 17 October 2008 with the first round in the Bayernliga and finished on 22 March 2009 with the second Bayernliga final, with the ERV Schweinfurt taking out the title for a third time, having previously won it in 1990 and 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season\nTwo clubs finished the season with only one loss to their name, the Bezirksliga and Landesliga champions TSV Schliersee and EHC Bayreuth, while the TSV Trostberg II was the only team not to record a win, having now not won a league game since January 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Champions\nThe three levels of the Bavarian league system were won by the following teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bayernliga, Group phase: Final table, Championship round\nThe eight teams qualified for this round were split into two groups; Group A consisted of the teams having finished 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th in the main round. Group B consisted of the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th team. The top two teams of each group qualified for the play-off semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 92], "content_span": [93, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bayernliga, Group phase: Final table, Relegation round\nThe eight teams qualified for this round were also split into two groups. Group A consisted of the teams having finished 9th, 12th, 13th and 16th in the main round. Group B consisted of the 10th, 11th, 14th and 15th team. The bottom two teams of each group had to enter the play-downs while the top two teams were qualified for next seasons Bayernliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bayernliga, Play-Offs\nThe semi-finals and the final are played in a best-of-three modus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Landesliga\nThe four regional divisions played out a home-and-away round to determine the four clubs from each league who enter the sixteen team promotion round. Split into two groups of eight, the top team of each division gains promotion to the Bayernliga. Should one or more teams from this league move up to the Oberliga without a Bavarian team being relegated from there, additional clubs from that round may gain promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Landesliga\nThe remaining sixteen clubs played out a relegation round with the last two team in each of the two groups being relegated to the Bezirksliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Landesliga, Promotion round\nTop team in each division promoted to the Bayernliga. The second placed teams may have a promotion chance if a Bavarian team is promoted from the Bayernliga to the Oberliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Landesliga, Promotion round, Finals\nThe two division winners will play a two match series to determine the Landesliga champions while the two division runners-up will play for third place, which could also determine who will be pro moted if a third team was to move up to the Bayernliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Landesliga, Relegation round\nThe two bottom teams in each division are relegated to the Bezirksliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bezirksliga\nThe four regional division played out a home-and-away round to determined the league winner. The four league champions are promoted to the Landesliga and also are qualified for the Bezirksliga championship round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bezirksliga, Main round\nFirst placed team enters championship round and is promoted to Landesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200073-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bavarian ice hockey season, Bezirksliga, Championship round\nThe Bezirksliga championship was decided in a home-and-away round with the club with the best aggregate score taking out the series. All four teams are already promoted to the Landesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system in the state of Bavaria at the time, was the 64th season of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Overview\nThe league champions, SpVgg Weiden, were directly promoted to the Regionalliga S\u00fcd. It was Weiden's third Bayernliga title after 1953\u201354 and 1964\u201365 and their first promotion to Regionalliga level since the latter championship took them up for a season in 1965\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Overview\nThe bottom three clubs were directly relegated from the league while 15th placed SV Seligenporten had to enter the relegation round with the Landesliga runners-up where it successfully defended its league place. Of the relegated clubs W\u00fcrzburger FV and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 made an immediate return to the Bayernliga in the following season while W\u00fcrzburger Kickers bypassed the league in 2012, earning promotion from the tier six Landesliga Bayern-Nord to the new tier four Regionalliga Bayern without playing in the Bayernliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Overview\nThomas Karg of VfL Frohnlach was the league's top scorer with 24 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Table\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw seven new clubs in the league, FSV Erlangen-Bruck, FC Ingolstadt 04 II, VfL Frohnlach, TSV Buchbach, TSV Rain am Lech, SV Seligenporten and W\u00fcrzburger Kickers, all promoted from the Landesliga Bayern, while no club had been relegated from the Regionalliga S\u00fcd to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Table\nFor Erlangen-Bruck, Ingolstadt, Buchbach, Rain and Seligenporten it was their first-ever season in the league while Frohnlach had last played in the Bayernliga in 2007 and W\u00fcrzburg in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200074-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bayernliga, Bayernliga promotion round\nThe 15th placed Bayernliga team had to face the runners-up of the three Landesligas for one more place in the Bayernliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200075-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Baylor Bears basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Baylor Bears men's basketball team represented Baylor University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Scott Drew, who served his sixth year. Baylor played its home games in the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas. The  team finished the season as runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup\n2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup was the eighteenth season of the Belarusian annual cup competition. Contrary to the league season, it was conducted in a fall-spring rhythm. The first games were played on 30 July 2008. Winners of the Cup qualified for the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, Preliminary round\nA preliminary round was held in order to reduce the number of teams in the First Round to 32. The matches were played on 30 July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, First round\nAll fourteen teams of the First League and most of Second League teams plus three more amateur teams started in this round. They were joined by three winners of Preliminary Round. The games were played on July 30, except two games with Preliminary Round winners, which were held on August 3 and August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, Round of 32\nSixteen winners of the First Round were paired against the sixteen teams of the Premier League. The games were played on 3, 4 and 7 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, Round of 16\nThe games were played as two-legged ties. The first legs were played on October 11, 12, 29 and November 4, 2008. The second legs were played on November 2 and 20, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on March 15, 2009. The second legs were played on March 21, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200076-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 9 April 2009. The second legs were played on 22 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200077-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belarusian Extraliga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Belarusian Extraliga season was the 17th season of the Belarusian Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Belarus. 14 teams participated in the league, and HK Yunost Minsk won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup\nThe Belgian Cup 2008\u201309 was the 54th season of the main knockout football competition in Belgium. It is commonly named Cofidis Cup, after its sponsor Cofidis. It was won by Genk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results\nIn the first two rounds, teams from the provincial leagues and promotion division played each other. In the third round, teams from the third division joined in. Round four was the starting point for the teams from the second division. After the fifth round, only 14 teams remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results, Round 6\nTeams from the Jupiler Pro League entered the competition at this stage. Teams from the first division were seeded and couldn't meet each other, except for the newly promoted teams, Kortrijk and Tubize, who did not belong to this seeded group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results, Round 6\nApart from the 18 teams directly qualified, 14 other teams had qualified through winning in the fifth round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results, Round 7\nThe draw for the seventh round and the quarterfinals was made on November 21, 2008. The match between Cercle Brugge and Charleroi was postponed from January 13 to January 21 due to insufficient pitch conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results, Quarter-finals, Second legs\nThe matches Kortrijk \u2013 KV Mechelen and Roeselare \u2013 Cercle Brugge were postponed to 17 February due to insufficient pitch conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200078-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Cup, Results, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were also two-legged. The draw was made on February 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200079-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Elite League\nThe 2012-2013 Belgian Elite League was the 72nd season of the Belgian Elite League, the top flight men's rugby union league in Belgium. Kituro RC won the championship playoffs, while Dendermondse RC were relegated. In total 8 teams participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Belgian First Division (also known as Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons) was the 106th season of top-tier football in Belgium. The regular season began on 16 August 2008 and ended on 16 May 2009. Standard Li\u00e8ge were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division\nOn 19 April 2009, Mons were relegated after Dender beat Roeselare 3\u20131 and made it mathematically impossible for Mons to climb into 16th position or higher. Tubize were relegated on 3 May 2009 after a 1\u20131 draw at home to Anderlecht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 champions were decided in a playoff because Standard and Anderlecht finished the regular season equal on points and number of wins. Standard won the playoff by 2\u20131 on aggregate and thereby retained the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division, Participating teams\nThe league consisted of 18 teams, the best 16 teams from last season and two promoted teams from the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division, Participating teams\nThe number of participants was reduced to 16 teams the season after, hence relegation was increased from two to three or four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division, Participating teams, Team changes from the previous season\nSint-Truidense and Brussels were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the previous season after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Second Division champions Kortrijk and promotion playoff winners Tubize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division, League standings, Championship playoff\nSince Anderlecht and Standard were tied on both points and wins, a two-legged playoff was played in order to determine the league champions. Standard won the playoff 2\u20131 on aggregate and were crowned champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200080-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian First Division, League standings, Positions by matchday\nNote: The classification was made after the weekend of each matchday, so postponed matches were only processed at the time they were played to represent the real evolution in standings. These postponed matches are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200081-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Belgian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Belgian Hockey League season was the 89th season of the Belgian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Belgium. Six teams participated in the league, and HYC Herentals won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Be\u015fikta\u015f' 105th football season. Also it was the 50th year of the S\u00fcper Lig. Be\u015fikta\u015f won the domestic double of the league title and cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Players, First-team squad\n* Also holds  German citizenship. * * Also holds  Australian citizenship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Players, Transfers in\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Players, Transfers in, Transfers out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Players, Transfers in, Loans out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, Turkish Cup\nAfter finishing in the top four of the previous season's S\u00fcper Lig, Be\u015fikta\u015f qualified for the group stages. Be\u015fikta\u015f was placed in Group A, along with Antalyaspor, Gaziantepspor, Trabzonspor and Gaziantep B.B.. Be\u015fikta\u015f finished first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200083-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K. season, UEFA Cup\nAfter finishing third in the previous season's S\u00fcper Lig, Be\u015fikta\u015f qualified for the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, but was eliminated in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200084-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon IBU Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Biathlon IBU Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 29 November 2008 in Idre, Sweden, and ended on 14 March 2009 in Ridnaun-Val Ridanna, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200084-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon IBU Cup, Calendar\nBelow is the World Cup calendar for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200085-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 2 December 2008 in \u00d6stersund, Sweden and ends on 29 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200085-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup, Calendar\nBelow is the World Cup calendar for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200086-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Individual Men\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Men will start at Wednesday, December 3, 2008, in \u00d6stersund and will finish Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in Vancouver at the pre-olympic Biathlon event. Defending titlist is Vincent Defrasne of France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200086-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Individual Men, Competition format\nThe 20 kilometres (12\u00a0mi) individual race is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200087-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Individual Women\nThe 2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup/Individual Women started at Thursday December 4, 2008 in \u00d6stersund and finished Wednesday March 11, 2009 in Vancouver at the pre-Olympic biathlon event. The defending titlist was Martina Beck of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200087-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Individual Women, Competition format\nThe format consists of a 15 kilometre (9.3\u00a0mi) individual race and is the oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over five laps. The biathlete shoots four times at any shooting lane, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200088-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Mass start Men\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Men will start on January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish on March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. The defending titlist is Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200088-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Mass start Men, Competition format\nIn the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time; the first across the finish line wins. In this 15 kilometres (9.3\u00a0mi) competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race). The rest of the shooting bouts are at the lane of the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, shoot at lane five). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200089-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Mass start Women\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Women will start at Sunday January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish Sunday March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200089-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Mass start Women, Competition format\nIn the mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins. In this 12.5 kilometres (7.8\u00a0mi) competition, the distance is skied over five laps; there are four bouts of shooting (two prone, two standing, in that order) with the first shooting bout being at the lane corresponding to your bib (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race.) with rest of the shooting bouts being at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the lane in fifth place, you shoot at lane five.). As in sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line (half that of the Pursuit as here all contestants start simultaneously).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200091-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Men\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit  Men started at Sunday December 7, 2008 in \u00d6stersund and will finish Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200091-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Men, Competition format\nIn a pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. The distance is 12.5 kilometres (7.8\u00a0mi), skied over five laps; there are four shooting bouts (two prone, two standing, in that order), and each miss means a penalty loop of 150 m. To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200092-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Women\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Pursuit Women is a biathlon competition for women. It started on Sunday December 7, 2008 in \u00d6stersund and is scheduled to finish on Saturday March 28, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist is Sandrine Bailly of France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200092-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Women, Competition format\nThis is a pursuit competition. The biathletes' starts are separated by their time differences from a previous race, most commonly a sprint race. The contestants ski a distance of 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) over five laps. On four of the laps, the contestants shoot at targets; each miss requires the contestant to ski a penalty loop of 150 metres (490\u00a0ft). There are two prone shooting bouts and two standing bouts, in that order. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200092-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Women, Competition format\nTo prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding of the skiing loops, and overcapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The biathletes shoot (on a first-come, first-served basis) at the lane corresponding to the position they arrived for all shooting bouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200092-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Pursuit Women, Competition format\nPoints are awarded for each event, according to each contestant's finish. When all events are completed. the contestant with the highest number of points is declared the season winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200093-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Men\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Relay Men started on December 14, 2008 in Hochfilzen and will end on March 15, 2009 in Vancouver. Defending titlist is the Norwegian team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200093-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Men, Competition format\nThe relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 kilometres (4.7\u00a0mi), each leg skied over three laps, with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually one at a time from spare round holders or bullets deposited by the competitor into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each missed target remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200093-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Men, Competition format\nThe first-leg participants start all at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team must touch the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid changeover. On the first shooting stage of the first leg, the participant must shoot in the lane corresponding to their bib number (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race. ), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shoots at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the range in 5th place, you shoot at lane five. ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200094-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Women\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Relay Women started on December 14, 2008 in Hochfilzen and will end on March 14, 2009 in Vancouver. Defending titlist is the German team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200094-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Women, Competition format\nThe relay teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 kilometres (4.7\u00a0mi), each leg skied over three laps, with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be single-loaded manually one at a time from spare round holders or bullets deposited by the competitor into trays or onto the mat at the firing line. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each missed target remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200094-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Relay Women, Competition format\nThe first-leg participants start all at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team must touch the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid changeover. On the first shooting stage of the first leg, the participant must shoot in the lane corresponding to their bib number (Bib #10 shoots at lane #10 regardless of position in race. ), then for the remainder of the relay, the relay team shoots at the lane in the position they arrived (Arrive at the range in 5th place, you shoot at lane five. ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200095-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Men\nThe 2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Men started on Saturday 6 December, 2008 in \u00d6stersund and finished on Thursday 26 March, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The defending titlist was Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200095-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Men\nThe small crystal globe winner for the category was Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200095-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Men, Competition format\nThe 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 metres (490\u00a0ft). Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200096-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Women\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Sprint Women will start at Saturday December 6, 2008 in \u00d6stersund and will finish Thursday March 26, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200096-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 Sprint Women, Competition format\nThe 7.5 kilometres (4.7\u00a0mi) sprint race is the third oldest biathlon event; the distance is skied over three laps. The biathlete shoots two times at any shooting lane, first prone, then standing, totalling 10 targets. For each missed target the biathlete has to complete a penalty lap of around 150 metres. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200097-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 1\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup - World Cup 1 was the opening event of the season and has been held in \u00d6stersund, Sweden. From Wednesday December 3 until Sunday December 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200098-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 2\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 2 is the second event of the season and will be held in Hochfilzen, Austria. From Friday December 12 until Sunday December 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200099-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 3\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 3 was the second event of the season that was held in Hochfilzen, Austria. This leg was originally planned to be held in Pokljuka, Slovenia but was set to Hochfilzen due to unfinished reconstructions. From Thursday December 18 until Sunday December 21, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200100-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 4\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 4 has been held in Oberhof, Germany. From Wednesday January 7 until Sunday January 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200101-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 5\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 5 was scheduled to be held in Ruhpolding, Germany. From Wednesday January 14 until Sunday January 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200102-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 6\nThe 2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 6 was held in Rasen-Antholz, Italy, from Thursday January 22 until Sunday January 25, 2009. After this leg the biathletes traveled to Pyeongchang, South Korea for the Biathlon World Championships 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200103-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 7\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/World Cup 7 was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from March 11\u201315, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200104-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 8\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup - World Cup 8 was the eighth event of the World Cup season and was held in Trondheim, Norway, from Thursday March 19 until Sunday March 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200105-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Biathlon World Cup \u2013 World Cup 9\nThe 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup - World Cup 9 was the nine event of the World Cup season and was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from Thursday March 26 until Sunday March 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200106-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season marks the 13th season of Big 12 Conference basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200106-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, In-season honors\nThroughout the conference regular season, the Big 12 offices name a player of the week each Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season was the 30th in conference history, and involved its 16 full-time member schools. Leading up to, during, and following the season, it has been widely regarded as one of the most successful seasons in Big East Conference history, fielding multiple teams that received national recognition and achieved high levels of success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season\nLouisville won the outright championship with a 16-2 record (1st). They were also champions of the Big East tournament (1st).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, Rankings\nThe Big East set a record when it placed seven teams in the preseason Associated Press poll. It set another record by placing eight teams in the December 1st ranking, and broke that record when the ninth team entered the AP Top 25 on January 5. Connecticut and North Carolina were the only two teams that did not vacate the top 5 in the AP poll all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nFor the first time ever, all 16 teams in the conference would have the chance to participate in the Big East Tournament. Under this new format, the teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first round games, while teams 5 through 8 received a bye to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received a bye to the quarterfinals. The five-round tournament spanned five consecutive days, from Tuesday, March 10, 2009, through Saturday, March 14, 2009. A low-seeded team could have theoretically played all five days if it won its games in the first four rounds, but this did not turn out to be the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\n1\u20134 Seeding:(1) Louisville, (2) Pittsburgh, (3) Connecticut, (4) Villanova5\u20138 Seeding:(5) Marquette, (6) Syracuse, (7) West Virginia, (8) Providence9\u201316 Seeding and First Round Matchups:(16) DePaul def. (9) Cincinnati(10) Notre Dame def. (15) Rutgers(11) Seton Hall def. (14) South Florida(13) St. John's def. (12) Georgetown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nSecond Round Matchups:(5) Marquette def. (13) St. John's(6) Syracuse def. (11) Seton Hall(7) West Virginia def. (10) Notre Dame(8) Providence def. (16) DePaul", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nQuarterfinals Matchups:(1) Louisville def. (8) Providence(7) West Virginia def. (2) Pittsburgh(6) Syracuse def. (3) Connecticut (6 OT)(4) Villanova def. (5) Marquette", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nSemifinals Matchups:(1) Louisville def. (4) Villanova(6) Syracuse def. (7) West Virginia (OT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nThe most notable game of the tournament was the third round matchup between Connecticut and Syracuse. A back-and-forth thriller between two rivals, this game lasted nearly four hours and finally ended after six overtimes, at 1:22\u00a0a.m. the following day. The game was tied at 71\u201371 with a second left in regulation, when Syracuse inbounded a pass the full length of the court. Guard, Eric Devendorf, sunk a 3-point shot as the clock appeared to run out, seemingly giving Syracuse the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nAfter a thorough review by officials using frame-by-frame slow motion, it became apparent that the ball was not completely off of Devendorf's fingertips as the clock changed from 0.1 to 0.0\u00a0seconds. The game headed to overtime. During overtime, UConn took a lead and maintained it, until Syracuse finally tied the score to force another overtime. This pattern continued for five overtimes, where in each one, UConn took and maintained a lead, only to have Syracuse tie the score before time ran out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nIn the sixth and final overtime, Syracuse came out and took a large lead (their first since regulation) that eventually proved insurmountable for UConn, and won the game, 127\u2013117. The game produced a few records when it came to duration, including longest Big East game in history. A.J. Price of Connecticut, and Jonny Flynn and Eric Devendorf of Syracuse, each played over 60\u00a0minutes, with another three Connecticut players and one Syracuse player playing over 50\u00a0minutes. Between the two teams, nine players had double-figure point totals, and five UConn players had double-figure rebound totals. With over 100 points scored in the overtime periods alone, this game was dubbed an \"Instant Classic\" and was given the title \"The Game That Wouldn't End.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big East Tournament\nIn the following round, Syracuse again found itself in overtime, this time against West Virginia. Syracuse came out the winner, but would lose the following night to Louisville. This was Louisville's first Big East Tournament Championship. Jonny Flynn was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, becoming only the 4th player in the 30 year history of the tournament to win the award while playing on the losing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nThe Big East posted a very strong showing in the NCAA Tournament. Though Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Providence were unable to secure at-large bids, seven conference teams were undisputedly deserving and were selected. The Big Ten and the Atlantic Coast Conference also sent seven teams each, which was one short of the record of eight that the Big East sent in 2006 and 2008. The conference set a record by earning three #1 seeds among the four available. Connecticut, Louisville, and Pittsburgh were all the top seeds in their regions, with North Carolina being the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 80], "content_span": [81, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nThe conference set another record by having five teams make it to the Sweet-16, and then an additional record by having four teams make it to the Elite Eight. Connecticut and Villanova each advanced to the Final Four. This was Villanova's fourth Final Four appearance (though one was vacated for violations) and first since 1985. This was UConn's third Final Four appearance, with all coming since 1999, and all happening to come from the West region. The conference finished with a combined record of 17\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 80], "content_span": [81, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, National Invitation Tournament\nIn the 72nd annual National Invitation Tournament, there were three Big East teams among the field of 32: Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Providence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, College Basketball Invitational\nIn the 16-team College Basketball Invitational, the lone Big East representative was St. John's. The team earned a 4-seed in the East region, and lost their opening round game to top-seeded Richmond 75\u201369.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 96], "content_span": [97, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors\nThe following players were honored with postseason awards after having been voted for by Big East Conference coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200107-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big East Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors\nThe following players were selected to the 2009 Associated Press All-America teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Big Ten Conference members that began in 1904. It was the 104th season of Big Ten Conference basketball play. Although during the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season there were no Big Ten players named to any All-American teams, no coaches given any national coaching honors, and no teams that won any major preconference tournament, the season was successful for other reasons. The conference had an overall 14\u20138 record in postseason play with one team reaching for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game and another winning the championship of the 2009 National Invitation Tournament (NIT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season\nThe season marked the second year that all regular season and Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament games were nationally televised. It was the first season that eight member teams achieved 20 wins. During the season, the conference achieved a .781 winning percentage against non-conference opponents, which is the highest percentage since 1998\u201399.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season\nMichigan State was the regular season champion winning the league four games. Purdue and Illinois tied for second place. Michigan State's Kalin Lucas was named Big Ten Player of the Year. Michigan State's Tom Izzo was named Coach of the Year by the coaches while Penn State's Ed Dechellis was named Coach of the Year by the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season\nPurdue won the Big Ten Tournament by defeating Ohio State in the championship. As a result of its win, Purdue received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. In total, seven teams received bids to the NCAA Tournament: Michigan State, Purdue, Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. By placing 7 of its 11 teams in the tournament, it had 64% of its teams in the tournament, which outpaced all other conferences. Both Michigan State and Purdue advanced to the second weekend's Sweet Sixteen round, where Purdue lost to Connecticut. Michigan State advanced to the championship game where it lost to North Carolina 89\u201372.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season\nThe Big Ten also had two entrants in the 2009 NIT: Penn State and Northwestern with Penn State winning the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Preseason, All-Big Ten players\nOn October 26, the Big Ten media selected Purdue as the preseason top team. It selected Michigan State and Wisconsin as second and third respectively. However, the November 10 national AP Poll and Coaches' Poll ranked Michigan State as the highest among Big Ten teams with Purdue second and Wisconsin third in their respective preseason  2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Preseason, All-Big Ten players\nThe media also made preseason All-Big Ten player selections: Manny Harris, sophomore guard from Michigan, Raymar Morgan, junior forward from Michigan State, Marcus Landry, senior forward from Wisconsin, E'Twaun Moore, sophomore guard from Purdue, and Robbie Hummel, sophomore forward from Purdue, who was named Preseason Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Preseason, All-Big Ten players\nThe Los Angeles Athletic Club released its annual preseason John R. Wooden Award watch list on November 13. The list was composed of 50 student athletes who, based on 2007\u201308's individual performance and team records, were the early frontrunners for college basketball's most coveted trophy. These top 50 candidates were returning players. Transfers, freshmen, and medical red-shirts were not eligible for this preseason list, but were evaluated and considered for both the Midseason Top 30 list and the National Ballot. The Big Ten was represented by Purdue's Hummel, Wisconsin's Landry and Michigan State's Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Preseason, All-Big Ten players\nOn December 18, the Atlanta Tipoff Club released its annual early season Naismith College Player of the Year award watch list. The top-50 list included Hummel, Moore and Morgan. The watch list does not include incoming freshmen, although those student-athletes were considered in the February 2009 mid season vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nThe Big Ten began the season anticipating competitive schedules since the conference had scheduled appearances against thirteen of the teams appearing in both of the major pre-season rankings. The conference opened its first week with a 14\u20130 record, while holding all 14\u00a0opponents to 65 points or less. By the end of the second week of the season the Big Ten found itself with the best non-conference record in the nation at 35\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nThey became the first power conference (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-10 or SEC) to have a road win against another of the conferences when Illinois bested Vanderbilt on November 20. On the same date, Michigan achieved the conference's first victory against a top five opponent since Michigan State upended Texas on December 22, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nBig Ten teams did not win any of the larger preconference tournaments: Purdue lost in overtime of the November 28 championship game of the 16-team 2008 NIT Season Tip-Off tournament, Michigan placed second in the 16-team 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer tournament on November 21, and Wisconsin was runner up in the 8-team Paradise Jam Tournament on November 24. Minnesota, was successful in the 4-team National Association of Basketball Coaches Classic with a win over Georgia State Panthers in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nOn Wednesday, December 3, The Big Ten lost to the Atlantic Coast Conference  for the 10th consecutive year in the ACC\u2013Big Ten Challenge. The final margin was 6\u20135. By the end of the fourth week of the season in early December, the Big Ten had the highest percentage of teams receiving votes in the Associated Press National Rankings and had the highest non-conference strength of schedule in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI). Minnesota's 8\u20130 start was Tubby Smith's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nAfter five weeks, the Big Ten had the maintained its AP rankings leadership, but also took over the overall leadership in the RPI ratings. The conference's 82\u201319 record included only losses to teams that had advanced to the post-season the year before. Michigan State's win against Texas gave the Big Ten half of the nation's first six victories over top five teams. National Invitation Tournament defending champion, Ohio State's eighth victory gave them the nation's longest win streak at thirteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nEntering conference play, at 12\u20130 Minnesota remained one of the nine unbeaten teams in the nation, which was its best start since 1948\u201349. The conference had one of three winning conference records on the road against non-conference opponents at 10\u20138 and with 5 of its 11 teams ranked in the AP poll, it had the highest percentage of its teams ranked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nFor the first time since freshmen became eligible in 1974, Indiana started four freshmen in a conference opener on January 3 against Iowa. On January 11, Minnesota tied an NCAA record and set a conference record by making all nine of its three-point field goals. Illinois' January 14 victory over Michigan made it the thirteenth team in NCAA Division I history and second (after Indiana) in the Big Ten to achieve 1600 wins. On January 21, Northwestern snapped the third-longest home-court winning streak in the nation when it stopped Michigan State from earning its 29th straight home victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nJohn Beilein recorded his 500th win as head coach of a four-year school and 575th win overall on January 24 against Northwestern. As January ended, the conference enjoyed its fourth consecutive week as the leader in the RPI strength of schedule. On January 31, Matt Roth became the first Indiana Hoosier, first Big Ten freshman and third Big Ten player to record nine three-point shots in a single game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season\nAt the midpoint of the conference schedule at the beginning of February, the Big Ten had the highest Sagarin Rating central mean score. Previously, Michigan State had never won its first five conference road games since joining the Big Ten for the 1950\u201351 season, but during the season, they were one of the last two teams to be undefeated on the road at 7\u20130. Tubby Smith became the third coach in NCAA history to record 20\u00a0wins during 16\u00a0consecutive seasons. Through its 166th contest, the Big Ten, which had led the nation in average attendance for the prior 32 years, surpassed two million in attendance for the sixteenth consecutive season and eighteenth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, Attendance\nThe big ten concluded the season with the highest attendance in the nation for the 33rd straight season with an average attendance of 12,519 fans per game/session, including regular-season games and conference tournament sessions. This surpassed the SEC, which was second with an 11,625 average. The Big Ten held seven of the top 25 places among individual institutions, while no other conference had more than four individual schools among the top 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, Preconference schedules, Tournaments\nNo Big Ten teams won any major early conference tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 104], "content_span": [105, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, In-season honors\nThroughout the conference regular season, the Big Ten offices named a player of the week each Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, In-season honors\nOn February 5, the Big Ten became one of six conferences to have multiple players selected as John R. Wooden Award 2008\u201309 Midseason Top 30 Candidates. Both Manny Harris and Kalin Lucas were chosen. On February 24, Hummel became the only Big Ten player included in the Naismith midseason Top 30. On February 26, Turner became the only Big Ten player selected by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association as a Top 15 finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, Conference honors\nTwo sets of conference award winners were recognized by the Big Ten - one selected by league coaches and one selected by the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 85], "content_span": [86, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Regular season, All-Big Ten Academic team\nThe Big Ten Conference had 40 men's basketball letterwinners who were in at least their second academic year at their institution and who maintained a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher during the winter semester to earn Big Ten Academic All-Conference honors. Northwestern's Sterling Williams who was a graduate student with a Communication Studies major had a perfect Winter GPA. These student-athletes were eligible to be named Distinguished Scholar Awardees if they maintained a 3.7 GPA for the entire academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, National awards\nOn March 22, the Big Ten had no players among the four finalists named for the Naismith award to be announced on April 5. On March 12, Lucas was among the 25 finalists for the Wooden Award to be named on April 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, NABC\nThe National Association of Basketball Coaches announced their Division I All-District teams on March 5, recognizing the nation's best men's collegiate basketball student-athletes. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, 240 student-athletes, from 24 districts were chosen. The selection on this list were then eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams announced at the 2009 NABC Convention in Detroit. The following list represented the Big Ten players chosen to the list. All Big Ten schools are within District 7 for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, USBWA\nOn March 10, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2008\u201309 Men's All-District Teams, based on voting from its national membership. There were nine regions from coast to coast and a player and coach of the year were selected in each. The following enumerates all the Big Ten players selected within their respective regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, Academic honors, CoSIDA\nOn February 5, 2009, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and ESPN the Magazine selected their Academic All-Americans from throughout college basketball. CoSIDA has selected Academic All American teams since 1952. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games at the position listed on the nomination form (where applicable).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 101], "content_span": [102, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, Academic honors, CoSIDA\nNo student-athlete is eligible until he has completed one full calendar year at his current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility. In the cases of transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergrad and in grad school. Penn State's Danny Morrissey was a District 2 first-team 2009 Academic All-District Men's Basketball Team selection. On February 25, 2009, the Big Ten had no Academic All America Men's Basketball Team selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 101], "content_span": [102, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, Academic honors, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award\nAt the conclusion of the 2008\u201309 academic year, the inaugural class of Big Ten Distinguished Scholars were recognized for having attained a 3.7 GPA for the academic year while earning varsity letters. Brett Finkelmeier, IND, Jamal Abu-Shamala, MINN, Sterling Williams, NU, and Mark Wohlford, PUR represented men's basketball as awardees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 130], "content_span": [131, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, Summer play\nBattle, Hummel, and Turner were selected to represent the United States in the 2009 World University Games July 2\u201311 in Belgrade, Serbia. John Shurna was named to the United States' team for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship held July 2\u201312 in Auckland, New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 89], "content_span": [90, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, NBA Draft\nDuring the 2009 NBA Draft, Mullens was chosen in the first round with the 24th overall selection by the Dallas Mavericks and Suton was selected by the Utah Jazz in the second round with the 50th overall selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 87], "content_span": [88, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, National awards & honors, Coaching honors\nWisconsin head basketball coach, Bo Ryan, was chosen to be the head coach for the 2009 World University Games Team by USA Basketball. Purdue head basketball coach, Matt Painter, was chosen to be one of two assistant coaches for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship Team by USA Basketball. Painter was one of ten finalists for the 2009 Henry Iba Award as named by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. Forbes named Ryan and Tom Izzo as two of the top ten coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Statistical leaders\nEight of the eleven member Big Ten institutions will return at least 75 percent of their offensive production during the 2009\u201310 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, unless underclassmen declare for the 2009 NBA Draft. Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State will return 90 percent of their total offensive production. The Buckeyes could return 100 percent of their scoring contingent next season. All five first-team All-Conference honorees were sophomores and are all projected to return as juniors. Overall, the Big Ten could return 80.5 percent of its offensive production from 2008 to 2009, and no team should lose more than half of its total scoring unit next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Statistical leaders\nPlayers must have played in 75% of team's games to be eligible. (NCAA-wide ranking) in parenthesis for top 40 performers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Big Ten Tournament\n#3 Purdue defeated #5 Ohio State in the 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament championship game by a 65\u201361 margin. The All-Big Ten Tournament team honorees were Boilermakers Robbie Hummel (Most Outstanding Player), JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore, Buckeye Evan Turner and Mike Davis of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nGoran Suton was the Midwest regional most outstanding player. He was joined by teammates Kalin Lucas and Travis Walton on the NCAA Tournament All-Midwest Regional team. Michigan State became the first team to play in the Final Four in their home state since Duke in 1994 and the first Big Ten team since Purdue in 1980. They were also the team with the second shortest trip (92 miles (148\u00a0km)) to the Final Four since it was bracketed in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, National Invitation Tournament\nJamelle Cornley was the most outstanding player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 94], "content_span": [95, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, Other tournaments\nThe Big Ten did not have any entrants in the other post season tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 81], "content_span": [82, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, 2009 NBA Draft\nSeveral All Big Ten players who completed their eligibility were not drafted. Among those, Marcus Landry made it to the NBA the following season nonetheless. The following players were selected in the 2009 NBA Draft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, 2009 NBA Draft\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Goran Suton was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200108-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Postseason, 2009 NBA Draft, Draft-day trades\nThe following trades involving drafted players were made on the day of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200109-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team represented Binghamton University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bearcats, led by second-year head coach Kevin Broadus, played their home games at the Binghamton University Events Center in Vestal, New York as members of the America East Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200109-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe team finished with a record of 23\u20139, which tied a school record for wins in a season, and finished tied for first in America East play with a 13\u20133 conference record. The Bearcats clinched a share of their first America East regular season title and earned the top seed in the America East Tournament. The Bearcats defeated 9th\u2013seeded Hartford and 4th\u2013seeded New Hampshire, before punching their ticket to their first NCAA Tournament by beating 6th\u2013seed UMBC in front of a sold-out Events Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200109-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe Bearcats were given the #15 seed in the East Region, where they were slated to face off against the 3\u2013time national champion Duke. The game was nationally televised by CBS as the late night headliner, but the Bearcats historic season came to an end, as they lost 86\u201362. Head coach Kevin Broadus was named the conference's coach of the year for his efforts in the Bearcats run to the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200109-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Binghamton Bearcats men's basketball team, Previous season\nIn Kevin Broadus' first season as Binghamton head coach, the Bearcats showed signs of improvements that they previously had not under the leadership of Al Walker. The team finished 14\u201316, tied for fourth in the America East with a 9\u20137 conference record, a 3\u2013game improvement from the previous season. The Bearcats earned the fifth seed in the 2009 America East Men's Basketball Tournament, where they lost to fourth\u2013seeded Vermont in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Birmingham City Football Club's 106th in the English football league system and their 47th in the second tier of English football. The team finished in second place in the Football League Championship to win promotion to the Premier League for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nThe kits were again manufactured by Umbro and bore the name of sponsors F&C Investments. The home shirt was royal blue with white sleeve trim, shorts were royal blue and socks were white. The away shirt was in a \"penguin\" style, white with a broad red central front panel, and was worn with white shorts and red socks. McLeish appointed former Celtic head physiotherapist Tim Williamson, Norwich City physio Peter Shaw, and British Olympic Association sports scientist Ben Rosenblatt to his backroom staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nWith club captain Damien Johnson awaiting surgery on a back problem expected to keep him out for at least two months, Lee Carsley, who joined Birmingham when his contract at Everton expired, was appointed team captain in his absence. The first team's relegation from the Premier League made the reserve team ineligible for the Premier Reserve League, and the club decided not to enter any other reserve league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nWhen the players returned for pre-season training, Franck Queudrue and Olivier Kapo failed to arrive. Queudrue claimed that he had mistaken the date, and Kapo was still in France receiving treatment on a hand injury. The club later announced that Queudrue could leave on a free transfer, and Kapo was fined. After a delay caused by Birmingham's insistence that he could only leave once the fine was paid, Kapo completed a move back to the Premier League with Wigan Athletic, where he was reunited with former Birmingham manager Steve Bruce. Young goalkeeper Artur Krysiak joined York City on loan for a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nOn 9 July, Kevin Phillips signed a two-year contract with the club. Phillips had scored 24 goals for West Bromwich Albion the previous season, helping his club to promotion to the Premier League, but turned down their offer of a one-year deal in favour of a two-year contract in the Championship. Forward Marcus Bent joined from Charlton Athletic for a fee reportedly in excess of \u00a31\u00a0million; he was on the verge of signing for Cardiff City, but changed his mind at the last minute. Birmingham also made two loan signings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nAZ Alkmaar's Netherlands under-21 international midfielder Kemy Agustien joined for the season, and Ghana senior international and former Arsenal winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie signed from Spartak Moscow, initially until January 2009. In each case there was a possibility of making the loan permanent. Attempts to sign Celtic defender Bobo Bald\u00e9 fell through because of the player's wage demands, and after Derby County midfielder Stephen Pearson's medical revealed a groin problem, he refused Birmingham's offer of a loan deal instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nOn the field, a different eleven played each half of a 2\u20132 draw with Hereford United in a behind-closed-doors training match, before Birmingham embarked on a three-match tour of Austria. They began with a 7\u20130 defeat of local team Kirchberg, with two goals each from Gary McSheffrey and Phillips and one from Liam Ridgewell, Garry O'Connor, and David Murphy, who converted a corner taken by the 16-year-old Jordon Mutch. O'Connor, McSheffrey and Mehdi Nafti scored as a Birmingham team including trialists Zola Matumona and Yamoudou Camara beat Czech side Viktoria Plze\u0148 3\u20131 in the second tour match. The 16-year-old Jordon Mutch played the full 90 minutes and was involved in the build-up to the first two goals. O'Connor's goalscoring form continued, and James McFadden's alert reaction to a goalkeeping error gave Birmingham a third win out of three against N\u00fcrnberg, newly relegated from the Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 954]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Pre-season\nBack in England, first-half goals from Cameron Jerome and Martin Taylor saw off the challenge of the lengthy trip to League Two side Gillingham with the aid of Maik Taylor's goalkeeping, and the next day, yet another O'Connor goal gave the other half of Birmingham's squad a 1\u20130 win at Forest Green Rovers of the Conference. A late Kevin Phillips goal secured a 3\u20132 win at Leicester City, before the only pre-season game at St Andrew's, against Fulham, was the only one that Birmingham failed to win. After the kickoff was delayed because of crowd congestion, Simon Davies gave the visitors a first-half lead, equalised by Sebastian Larsson after 77 minutes. A hamstring injury sustained by Radhi Ja\u00efdi proved less serious than first appeared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, August\u2013September\nThe new season opened on a wet and windy 9 August with the visit of Sheffield United. The game was heading for a goalless draw when substitute Kevin Phillips controlled O'Connor's headed pass, turned and scored into the bottom corner of the net in the third minute of stoppage time. It was Birmingham's first shot on target. Phillips repeated his late winner in less dramatic fashion away at former club Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, August\u2013September\nThe home side took the lead just before the interval after defensive midfielder Nafti had gone off with a torn hamstring, but O'Connor equalised soon after the break, then, within a minute of coming off the bench, Phillips was first to react to Bent's header rebounding from the crossbar. O'Connor and Phillips\u00a0\u2013 this time starting the game\u00a0\u2013 gave Birmingham their third win in as many games, at home to Barnsley. The unbeaten start continued with a 1\u20131 draw at Norwich City. Larsson took the lead against the run of play\u00a0\u2013 centre-half Martin Taylor was the pick of Birmingham's players in the first half\u00a0\u2013 but Darel Russell equalised just after half-time, and both McSheffrey and Phillips missed late chances to steal all three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, August\u2013September\nWhen the league resumed after the international break, Artur Krysiak was on the bench while regular reserve goalkeeper Colin Doyle recovered from a knee operation. Nafti was sent off after 24 minutes for a two-footed lunge on James Coppinger, and at half-time, McLeish replaced Phillips with Marcus Bent to play as a lone striker; 35 seconds later, Birmingham had the lead, after Liam Ridgewell's long free kick was headed on by Bent and Cameron Jerome volleyed past the goalkeeper. Maik Taylor produced a fine save near the end to turn Darren Byfield's powerful 30-yard (27\u00a0m) shot onto the post. At half-time, a clock was unveiled in memory of Birmingham and England full-back Jeff Hall, who died of polio in 1959 aged just 29, and whose death helped to kick-start widespread public acceptance in Britain of the need for vaccination. Hall's teammates Gil Merrick and Alex Govan performed the unveiling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 976]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, August\u2013September\nA Louis Carey own goal and Jerome's second goal in four days gave Birmingham another three points at Bristol City, but their unbeaten start to the Championship campaign finally ended on 20 September at home to Blackpool. After Gary Taylor-Fletcher's goal, Birmingham threw everyone forward but without success. Normal service resumed at Cardiff City, where first league goals of the season for James McFadden and Quincy Owusu-Abeyie secured the win, and Quincy's second league goal was nearly enough at Derby County, but Steve Davies tied the scores in the 87th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, August\u2013September\nMcLeish had said he hoped to bring in loan signings, but would not bring in players \"just to make up the numbers\". He was unwilling to take trialist Nigel Quashie on loan until the player had proved his fitness, and although an agreement had been made with Tottenham Hotspur to take Kevin-Prince Boateng on loan, McLeish was unable to meet the player face-to-face to assess his interest in joining the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nIn stoppage time of a first half described in the Sunday People as \"marginally more exciting than root-canal dental treatment\", at home to Queens Park Rangers, Phillips tapped in an O'Connor cutback for a win that took Birmingham top of the table. Phillips made it clear afterwards that he wanted to be in the starting eleven: \"I want to start games. I'm disappointed I haven't started as many as I wanted. All I can do is score and make it as hard as possible for him [McLeish] to leave me out.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nAfter the international break, Birmingham had much the worse of the visit to Burnley, but they managed to draw when McFadden's shot was parried to Jerome who scored from close range. Martin Taylor replaced Ja\u00efdi at centre-back because of a thigh injury sustained on international duty, and Murphy injured a knee during the match, while both Damien Johnson and Kelly returned to training, and Quashie joined on loan for a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nFranck Queudrue made his first start of the season at home to Crystal Palace. After twice hitting the woodwork, O'Connor scored the game's only goal when Juli\u00e1n Speroni parried Phillips' 94th-minute cross to his feet. In the midweek match, at home to Sheffield Wednesday, O'Connor scored twice and Wednesday's Etienne Esajas once in a four-minute spell before Phillips made the final score 3\u20131 from Queudrue's \"inch-perfect\" through ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nO'Connor was injured in the warm-up, and Stuart Parnaby went off after 10 minutes of the match against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, giving teenage right-back Jared Wilson what would be his only competitive first-team appearance for Birmingham. Mikele Leigertwood was sent off in the first half, but despite the numerical disadvantage, Samuel Di Carmine's 25-yard (23\u00a0m) shot in the 54th minute decided the match in QPR's favour\u00a0\u2013 Birmingham's first away defeat in the league\u00a0\u2013 after Phillips' stoppage-time \"equaliser\" was disallowed for offside. By the end of the match, the rain had turned to heavy wet snow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nFormer Birmingham record signing Clinton Morrison gave Coventry City a 1\u20130 win at St Andrew's. Again, a late equaliser was denied when the assistant referee ruled that Keiren Westwood saved from Queudrue before the ball crossed the line. Martin Taylor replaced Queudrue in defence and loanee Nicky Hunt kept his place at right back as James McFadden's goal earned Birmingham a point at Nottingham Forest. Queudrue returned from illness to score the winning goal at home to Charlton Athletic; Quashie was sent off for two yellow cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, October\u2013November\nSecond-half substitute Phillips scored twice at Swansea City to give Birmingham consecutive 3\u20132 wins, and, restored to the starting eleven in place of Quincy, scored again as Birmingham beat Ipswich Town. In an end-to-end match at league leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers in foggy conditions, McFadden had a goal disallowed for offside, the ball deflected off Ridgewell's shoulder against the post with Taylor beaten, Bent's lob was cleared off the line, and the left-footed midfielder Mehdi Nafti replaced the injured Hunt at right back, all before half-time. In the second half, goals from Jerome\u00a0\u2013 only three minutes after coming on\u00a0\u2013 and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and some last-ditch defending meant the points were shared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, December\nAccording to the Guardian's reporter, \"the early defending was so slack as to suggest salaries should be chopped rather than capped\", as Birmingham led Watford 2\u20131 after 18 minutes. The visitors began the second half well\u2014first Ja\u00efdi headed clear from under the crossbar, then Leigh Bromby struck the bar with Taylor beaten\u2014and in the last few minutes of the match Jerome scored Birmingham's third, Ross Jenkins's first league goal made the score 2\u20133, and the three points were confirmed only when the referee signalled time moments before Ja\u00efdi's apparent handball in the penalty area. Lee Carsley's first goal for the club secured a win under Plymouth Argyle's dim floodlights, before an attacking game at Preston North End remained goalless until stoppage time, when Ridgewell failed to deal with a cross and Jon Parkin shot home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, December\nApart from \"a moment of individual brilliance\" as Phillips \"nipped in to steal the loose ball and after nutmegging Ivar Ingimarsson advanced unchallenged to the edge of the area and lashed in a stinging low drive\", Reading were in complete control as they replaced Birmingham in second place in the table with a 3\u20131 win at St Andrew's. At Ipswich Town on Boxing Day, McFadden converted Birmingham's first penalty of the season, awarded when Kemy Agustien's cross was handled, and Agustien himself came close to extending the lead with a powerful shot. In the last match of 2008, David Murphy was sent off for two yellow cards as Swansea City earned a goalless draw at St Andrew's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, April\u2013May\n6 April \u2013 The teams in the Championship had a 2-week break because of the World Cup Qualifiers that were to be played. On the return, Blues were to play Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 1st v 2nd place top-of-the-table game. After having Lee Carsley sent off in the 37th minute for a late tackle on Chris Iwelumo that saw him stretchered off, Blues went on to score through Cameron Jerome's third goal in as many games on the stroke of half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, April\u2013May\nStriker Garry O'Connor came on to replace him and scored in the 69th minute to send Blues 2\u20130 up, and just two points behind Wolves in the Championship table and to distance themselves from 3rd place. It was the biggest attendance of the season at 25,935 and was also shown live on Sky Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, April\u2013May\n9 April \u2013 Defender Ulises de la Cruz leaves Birmingham City to return to Ecuador after decided not to extend his contract. He made one appearance for Birmingham, coming off the bench against Doncaster Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, April\u2013May\n13 April \u2013 Birmingham were held 1\u20131 at home to Plymouth but were forced to play the majority of the game with ten men after Maik Taylor was sent off. It kept them unbeaten in eight games, winning four of them. Manager Alex McLeish said he will be appealing to the FA about the red card as it was wrongly given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, The Championship, April\u2013May\n14 April \u2013 Liam Ridgewell had an operation on his broken left leg that went successfully. He was injured in the first half in the home game against Plymouth and was stretchered off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, FA Cup\nAs do all Premier League teams, Birmingham entered the FA Cup at the third round, in which they were drawn at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. The tie was postponed from the scheduled date because of a frozen pitch, which provoked the club into a decision to install undersoil heating. Wolves took a deserved first-half lead, but their second, soon after the interval, was courtesy of referee Howard Webb inadvertently diverted Ja\u00efdi's pass to Wolves' Andy Keogh, who broke forward and Sam Vokes scored. Webb refused a penalty appeal for Richard Stearman's apparent foul on Marcus Bent, and Jerome struck the crossbar with a powerful shot from distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200110-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Birmingham City F.C. season, Football League Cup\nBirmingham were drawn to play League Two club Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park in the first round of the League Cup. They won comfortably, with goals from Mehdi Nafti\u00a0\u2013 his first for the club\u00a0\u2013 Sebastian Larsson, Cameron Jerome and debutant Quincy Owusu-Abeyie. They were eliminated by fellow Championship club Southampton at St Mary's by two goals to nil. Midfielder Jordon Mutch made his debut as a half-time replacement for Gary McSheffrey to become, at 16 years 268 days, Birmingham's second-youngest debutant of all time, after Trevor Francis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200111-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Blackburn Rovers' 121st season as a professional club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200111-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\nThe close season saw the departure of manager Mark Hughes to Manchester City. He was replaced by Paul Ince, although after a poor start to the campaign, Ince was sacked and succeeded by Sam Allardyce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200111-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season, First-team squad\nThis squad consists of all players issued with a squad number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200112-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 101st season (98th consecutive) in the Football League. It was also their second consecutive season in the Championship, the second tier of English football. They finished sixteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200112-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackpool F.C. season\nD. J. Campbell, on loan from Leicester City, was the club's top scorer, with nine goals overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200112-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackpool F.C. season\nSimon Grayson resigned as manager on 23 December, to become the new manager of Leeds United. His assistant, Tony Parkes, took over as caretaker manager (his seventh such appointment), until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200112-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackpool F.C. season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200112-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Blackpool F.C. season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200113-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bobsleigh World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 24 November 2008 in Winterberg and ended on 14 February 2009 in Park City, Utah. The World Cup was organised by the FIBT who also run world cups and championships in skeleton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200113-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bobsleigh World Cup, Calendar, Schedule update\nOn the 14 November 2008, on FIBT website it was announced that the competition at the bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo was cancelled to technical issues and the competition for 5\u201311 January 2009 was moved to the K\u00f6nigssee track in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Bolton Wanderers 10th season in the Premier League, and their eighth consecutive season in the top division of English football and covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. As they failed to win the 2008\u201309 Premier League title it was the 70th time that they have competed at the top level without winning the title, the most of any club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season\nThe team kit for the 2008\u201309 season was produced by Reebok who were also the shirt sponsor. Unlike previous seasons, the new kit did not debut in the final home game of the 07\u201308 season. The new home kit is predominantly white with a blue upper third going over the shoulders. The new away kit is predominantly yellow with the same style over the shoulders, this time green. Due to no other club playing in a kit similar to the away design, no third choice kit was needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Pre-season\nBolton signed Fabrice Muamba from relegated Birmingham City for \u00a35m and broke the club transfer fee record to sign Johan Elmander from Toulouse FC for \u00a38.2m in a deal which saw Daniel Braaten move the other way as a makeweight. Riga Mustapha and Danny Shittu were also signed for undisclosed figures. Both Iv\u00e1n Campo and Stelios Giannakopoulos did not have their contracts renewed, leading Campo to write a public letter to Bolton fans on a website, expressing his regret at not being able to say goodbye to them. He would later join Ipswich Town whilst Stelios joined Hull City. Andranik Teymourian also left on a free, joining Fulham, Abdoulaye M\u00e9\u00eft\u00e9 joined recently promoted West Bromwich Albion for \u00a32m and El Hadji Diouf made good his promise that he would leave the club by joining Sunderland for \u00a32.6m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Pre-season\nBolton kicked off their pre-season programme by drawing 0\u20130 at local rivals Rochdale. Their next pre-season friendly, away to Tranmere Rovers was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. A convincing 5\u20130 defeat of Doncaster Rovers by a mostly first team squad was followed the next day by a mostly reserve squad beating local team Chorley 2\u20130. Pre -season was completed by a mini-tour of Greece, drawing 1\u20131 against previous UEFA Cup opponents Aris Thessaloniki before losing to AEK Athens 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nBolton got off to a winning start in the league opener at the Reebok Stadium against newly promoted Stoke City on 16 August, Gretar Steinsson and Kevin Davies scoring before Johan Elmander scored a debut goal in a 3\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nA week later Bolton travelled to Newcastle United but left with a 1\u20130 defeat. This was followed four days later by a home 2\u20131 Carling Cup defeat to League One side Northampton Town, a result not helped by the sending off of Gary Cahill. Bolton's first goalless draw of the season followed when West Bromwich Albion visited The Reebok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nAfter an international break, Bolton returned to action by facing Fulham at Craven Cottage but performed poorly in another 2\u20131 defeat, Kevin Davies scoring late on. Davies scored again a week later when Arsenal visited the Reebok Stadium but it was not enough in a 3\u20131 defeat. A third consecutive defeat came at Premier League champions Manchester United, a converted penalty, given in controversial circumstances, one of the goals in a 2\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nBolton's second victory of the season came in the live game at West Ham on 4 October, Gary Cahill and a thirty five-yard free kick from Matthew Taylor adding to Kevin Davies' fourth goal of the season. A week later the local derby against Blackburn brought Bolton their second goalless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nThe first reported murmurings of discontent amongst the fans against the manager followed a 2\u20130 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in Harry Redknapp's first game in charge of the home team on 26 October. and the team were jeered off after a last minute goal consigned them to another defeat on 29 October, 1\u20130 at home to Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nThe pressure was eased somewhat with a 2\u20130 derby victory over Manchester City on 2 November, a Richard Dunne own-goal adding to Ricardo Gardner's first league goal in six years. The match marked Jussi J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen's 400th game for the club. A second successive win followed the week after, 1\u20130 away at Hull City and although a 2\u20130 followed at home to Liverpool, two more victories away at Middlesbrough and Sunderland brought the manager his first manager of the month award in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nWinning the award seemed to have a detrimental effect on the team as two successive defeats followed to high flying Chelsea and Aston Villa. The club's only victory of the month, 2\u20131 at home to Portsmouth was followed by two more defeats, a Boxing Day loss away to Liverpool and two days later at home to local rivals Wigan Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nThe New Year commenced with an early FA Cup defeat away to Sunderland. A week later Bolton held out for 84 minutes before losing 1\u20130 away at Arsenal. Another conceded late goal at home to Manchester United, this time in the 90th minute, made it four losses in a row but the run halted in the next game, a 2\u20132 draw away at Blackburn Rovers, now managed by former Bolton manager Sam Allardyce, although Bolton had been two goals up with half an hour left. A similar fate almost befell the team in the next home game against Tottenham Hotspur, Darren Bent scoring twice in two minutes to cancel out early goals from S\u00e9bastien Puygrenier and Kevin Davies. However, a late Davies goal gave Bolton their first win in more than a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nThe January transfer window saw three new players arrive and one player leave. Kevin Nolan, the team captain for three years, was sold to Newcastle United for \u00a34,000,000. Kevin Davies replaced him as captain. Mark Davies arrived from Wolves for \u00a31,200,000 and two loan signings, Puygrenier and Ariza Makukula arrived from Zenit St. Petersburg and Benfica respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nDue to international fixtures and the club's early departure from the FA Cup, only two games were played in February, a 3\u20130 away defeat to Everton and a 2\u20131 victory over West Ham, Bolton completing a double over the London side. Kevin Davies' goal in this game gave him his best ever goal haul for the season in league games in the top flight. He would go on to score twice more and finished the season as the club's leading marksman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nMarch saw four points collected, through a 1\u20130 victory over Newcastle United and a 1\u20131 draw at West Bromwich. These results bookended two successive defeats, a 2\u20130 away defeat to Stoke City and a 3\u20131 reverse to Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200114-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season, Premier League\nIn April, a 4\u20131 win over Middlesbrough at the Reebok Stadium at the very beginning of the month would prove to be Bolton's last victory of the season. The week after, a visit to Chelsea saw Bolton recover from four goals down to almost snatch a draw, an injury time shot by Gary Cahill being cleared off the Chelsea line. A 1\u20130 result at Portsmouth was then followed by four successive draws stretching into May, Aston Villa, Sunderland and Hull City taking points at the Reebok whilst a local derby at Wigan Athletic. The season finished with a 1\u20130 derby defeat at Manchester City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200115-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Borussia Dortmund season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 German football season, Borussia Dortmund competed in the Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200115-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Borussia Dortmund season, Season summary\nIn J\u00fcrgen Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund, they rose to 6th in the final table, but were 2 points shy of qualifying for the revamped UEFA Europa League. Notably, they were one of only two teams to go the league season unbeaten at home (the other being champions Wolfsburg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200115-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Borussia Dortmund season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200115-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Borussia Dortmund season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup\n2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup was the fourteenth season of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's annual football cup, and a ninth season of the unified competition. The competition started on September 24, 2008 with the First Round and got concluded on May 28, 2009 with the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, First round\nThirty-two teams entered in the First Round. The draw was held on September 11 while the matches were played on September 24, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, Second round\nThe draw for the Second Round was conducted on September 23, 2008. The matches were played on October 1 (first legs) and October 8, 2008 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe draw for the Quarterfinals was conducted on October 21, 2008. The matches were played on October 29 (first legs) and November 12, 2008 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, Semifinals\nThe matches were played on March 25 (first legs) and April 15, 2009 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200116-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, Final, Second leg\nSlavija 2\u20132 Sloboda on aggregate. Slavija won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season\nThe 2008\u201309 NHL season Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 85th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Their regular season began on the road on October 9, 2008, in Denver versus the Colorado Avalanche and concluded on April 12, 2009, against the New York Islanders. The Bruins looked to improve upon the accomplishments of the 2007\u201308 season, which included Boston's return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since the 2003\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season\nMarc Savard again led the team in scoring for the regular season, his 88 points good for ninth in the league. Tim Thomas led all goaltenders in both save percentage and goals against at season's end, while sophomore sensation David Krejci led the league in plus-minus, narrowly beating out rookie teammate Blake Wheeler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season\nThe Bruins claimed their first division title since 2004 and clinched top seed in the East for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events\n\"I\u2019m not big on going out there and making those big declarations, or comments, but I think we can go as far as we believe we can go.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events\nArguably the two biggest events to occur during the Bruins' off-season were the acquisition of Montreal Canadiens forward Michael Ryder, a noted 30-goal scorer, and Blake Wheeler, a promising 21-year-old from the University of Minnesota. Twelve-year veteran Stephane Yelle was another strong addition to the roster. Added to a line-up featuring young stars such as Phil Kessel and Milan Lucic, the return of Patrice Bergeron, the improved goaltending of veteran Tim Thomas and coming off the back of an impressive post-season, expectations were high for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, Preseason\nThe Bruins pre-season saw the team compete in eight games over a two-week period. The team played two games each against the Montreal Canadiens, the New York Islanders, the Washington Capitals and the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Detroit Red Wings. Boston maintained a 3\u20134\u20131 record through the pre-season with victories against the Canadiens, Capitals and Red Wings, including an impressive 8\u20133 victory over arch-rivals Montreal in their first match-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, October\nOn October 9, the Bruins opened their regular season against the Colorado Avalanche, at the Pepsi Center. The Bruins notched a 5\u20134 victory and celebrated the return of centre Patrice Bergeron, playing his first NHL game in almost a year, while Blake Wheeler scored his first NHL goal on debut. The team would go on to lose its next two games, including a shootout loss to their rivals, the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, October\nThe Bruins home opener took place on October 20, with the team suffering another shootout defeat, this time to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Boston secured its first home victory of the season on October 25, against the Atlanta Thrashers in what proved to be a memorable game, with the teams switching ends at the first stoppage in play after the 10-minute mark of the period due to incorrect markings on the West End (visitors bench side) of the TD Banknorth Garden ice. Winger Milan Lucic recorded his first NHL hat trick in the game, also adding an assist in the 5\u20134 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, October\nOn October 27, in Edmonton in overtime and October 28 in Vancouver, Tim Thomas became the first Boston goaltender with consecutive shutouts since April 3\u20135, 1999 (Byron Dafoe), and only the second goaltender in NHL history to record consecutive 1\u20130 shutouts on the road (Florida's Craig Anderson, March 2\u20134, 2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, October\nThe Bruins ended October with a loss to the Calgary Flames on the road, and finished the month with a 5\u20133\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, November\u2013December\nThe Bruins opened the month of November with a 5\u20131 victory at home, in what proved to be a particularly physical match against the Dallas Stars. The game would prove a turning point for the team, with many players citing it as the catalyst that would see the team go on to win their next 12 games at home. One of those wins was a convincing 6\u20131 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on November 13. This would spark a winning streak against the Canadiens similar to that of the streak that Montreal had against the Bruins in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, November\u2013December\nOn November 6, in a 5\u20132 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Blake Wheeler recorded his first NHL hat trick, while Captain Zdeno Chara celebrated his 700th NHL game. In the return leg, on November 17, Matt Hunwick scored his first NHL goal as the Bruins once again defeated the Maple Leafs. Two days later, Marc Savard would secure his 600th NHL point with a goal and three assists in the Bruins' 7\u20134 win against the Buffalo Sabres. On December 18, centre David Krejci recorded his first NHL hat trick in an 8\u20135 win against Toronto. Phil Kessel also scored two goals in the match, his second bringing up his 100th career point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, November\u2013December\nBoston finished the month of November with an 11\u20131\u20131 record, including an 8\u20130\u20130 record at home. They would carry that form through the month of December, finishing with a remarkable 12\u20131\u20130 record and remaining undefeated at TD Garden (4\u20130\u20130). Phil Kessel maintained an 18-game point streak from November 13 to December 21, the longest such streak overall for the season and equalling Ed Olczyk's record for the longest point streak by an American-born player in NHL history. The biggest concern during this period was the loss of forward Patrice Bergeron, the young centre sustaining his second concussion in 14 months, after a heavy collision with the Carolina Hurricanes' Dennis Seidenberg. Bergeron would go on to miss the next 15 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, January\nBoston would begin 2009 in the same manner with which they ended 2008 \u2013 with a victory over the defending Eastern Conference champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins. The victory, their 10th in a row and 14th-straight at home, secured the team's longest streak since March 9\u201328, 1973, and catapulted the Bruins to the top spot in the NHL with 62 points, one more than the San Jose Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, January\nFrom January 12 to 29, forward Phil Kessel was sidelined with mononucleosis. On January 13, Marco Sturm was lost for the season after undergoing surgery for an injury incurred on December 18 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. On January 27, Patrice Bergeron would make his second return from concussion in as many seasons, tallying an assist in the Bruins 3\u20132 overtime victory against the Washington Capitals. On January 31, Tuukka Rask, recalled from the Providence Bruins, played his first game with the Bruins for the season and recorded his first NHL shutout, stopping all 35 shots in a 1\u20130 victory against the New York Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, January, All-Star weekend\nThree Bruins were assigned to the Eastern Conference for the 57th National Hockey League All-Star Game, with Zdeno Chara, Marc Savard and Tim Thomas all representing Boston as reserves. Coach Claude Julien was also named as head coach ahead of Montreal counterpart, Guy Carbonneau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, January, All-Star weekend\nOver the course of the weekend, Blake Wheeler was named MVP of the YoungStars game with a four-goal performance, Zdeno Chara recorded the hardest ever shot (105.4\u00a0mph) in the SuperSkills Competition, while Chara, Savard and Thomas celebrated victory in the All-Star Game, with Savard tallying three assists while Thomas was awarded the win for his efforts in both the overtime and shootout periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, March\nOn March 4, the Bruins acquired defenseman Steve Montador from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Petteri Nokelainen. Later that day, the club announced the acquisition of forward Mark Recchi and a second round draft pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for defenseman Matt Lashoff and forward Martins Karsums. Three days later, on March 7, Recchi scored a pair of goals in his second outing for the Bruins, against the Chicago Blackhawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, March\nThe Bruins secured their second successive playoff berth on March 21, when the Florida Panthers lost to the Columbus Blue Jackets. The following night, they secured the Northeast Division title with a 4\u20131 victory against Eastern rivals the New Jersey Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Season events, April\nOn April 2, against the Ottawa Senators, Boston recorded their 50th win for the season, the eighth time in franchise history and first since 1992\u201393 that the mark had been achieved. Prior to the match, David Krejci was the recipient of NESN's Seventh Player Award, the annual award presented to the Bruin who went above and beyond the call of duty and exceed the expectations of Bruins fans during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Standings, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Standings, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nThe Bruins allowed only 190 goals (excluding 6 shootout goals), the fewest among all 30 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/Shootout Loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe Bruins clinched a playoff spot for the second consecutive season, securing top seed in the Eastern Conference in the process and gaining home-ice advantage through the first three rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nBoston played the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs. Boston had previously lost to Montreal in three consecutive playoff appearances, and had not won a playoff series overall in the previous ten seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nThe Bruins won the first game of the series 4\u20132, with goals from Phil Kessel, David Krejci and a powerplay winner from Zdeno Chara. In Game 2, Marc Savard had two goals and an assist, while Chuck Kobasew, Shane Hnidy \u2013 named as a replacement for the injured Matt Hunwick \u2013 and Michael Ryder also scored as the Bruins won 5\u20131. Milan Lucic was suspended for Game 3 after receiving a match penalty in the closing stages of game two for striking Montreal's Maxim Lapierre in the head with his stick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nBoston then travelled to Montreal for Game 3, where they secured another 4\u20132 victory with goals by Kessel, Ryder, Kobasew and Shawn Thornton. They completed the sweep by winning Game 4, Michael Ryder posting two goals and an assist in the 4\u20131 victory as the Bruins advanced to the semi-finals for the first time since the 1998\u201399 season. This marked only the third time that Boston had swept Montreal in the playoffs in history, and the first time since 1992. The only time Boston swept Montreal in the playoffs and closed out the series in Montreal was in 1929, and that season, Boston went on to win the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Semifinals\nBoston faced the Carolina Hurricanes, a franchise which carried the legacy of Boston's longtime rival the Hartford Whalers. Prior to the Bruins' first-round sweep of Montreal, their most recent playoff series victory had been against Carolina in April 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Semifinals\nThe Bruins extended their 5-game winning streak with a 4\u20131 victory in Game 1, but Carolina stormed back on the strength of an aggressive forecheck and excellent goaltending from Cam Ward. Ward's shutout in Game 2, and Jussi Jokinen's game-winning goals in the next two matches, pushed the Bruins to the brink of elimination. Boston recovered for consecutive wins to push the series to a pivotal seventh game, but the Hurricanes prevailed in overtime of the final contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Semifinals\nThe series-winning goal was scored by Scott Walker, who earlier in the series had avoided punishment for an undefended punch to the face of former Hurricane Aaron Ward. Walker had been due for an automatic suspension, but that penalty was overturned by the NHL after a brief meeting in which he claimed to have thought Ward was prepared to fight. Ward disputed that account and publicly reprimanded the NHL for failing to follow through with a full investigation. In addition, Walker's wife received a diagnosis of cervical cancer midway through the series, lending an additional element of personal drama to his performance. After the series, Walker took public responsibility for striking Ward and expressed relief that his wife's cancer was treatable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GPI = Games Played In; MIN = Minutes played; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/Shootout Losses; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; SV% = Save Percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Awards and records, Milestones\nThe Bruins' 5\u20131 win against the Carolina Hurricanes, on February 17, 2009, was the 200th NHL winning game coached, for current Bruins coach Claude Julien. The Bruins' 5\u20134 overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens, on April 9, 2009, was the 400th NHL game coached, for current Bruins coach Claude Julien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Awards and records, Awards\nOn April 4, prior to the game against the New York Rangers, the team announced its award winners for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Draft picks\nBoston's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200117-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Bruins season, Affiliates\nJohnny Boychuk was selected as a starter for Team Canada in the 2009 AHL All Star Classic. Martins Karsums was selected as a reserve for the PlanetUSA team. Both players were under two-way NHL contracts and played games with Boston during the season. In the game, Karsums, named as a late starter, scored two goals and three assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season\nThe 2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season was the 63rd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They started the season as the defending NBA champions, where they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, winning their seventeenth NBA championship, as well as marking their ninth series victory over the Lakers in the NBA Finals. The Celtics started the season 27\u20132, which surpassed a mark set by the 1966\u201367 Philadelphia 76ers for the best two-loss start in NBA history. This run also included a 19-game winning streak, which improved a Celtics franchise record set in 1981\u201382. However, the Celtics lost seven out of the following nine games, and eventually finished with a 62\u201320 record. The Celtics had the fifth best team offensive rating in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season\nThe team's star power forward Kevin Garnett suffered a season-ending injury in February. Without Garnett, they lost to the Orlando Magic in the Conference Semifinals in seven games, eliminating them from the playoffs. The Magic would go on to the NBA Finals, their second NBA Finals appearance, only to lose to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, NBA Draft 2008\nOn June 26, the Celtics selected shooting guard J. R. Giddens with the 30th and center Semih Erden with the 60th overall picks in the 2008 NBA draft, and traded cash considerations in exchange for small forward Bill Walker, who had been selected by the Washington Wizards with the 47th overall pick. Giddens had worked out with the Celtics before the draft for three days, and received praises from head coach Doc Rivers, who thought he could fight for minutes on the team right away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, NBA Draft 2008\nHe was already familiar with future teammates Leon Powe and Kendrick Perkins, who were his teammates at the 2003 McDonald's High School All-American Game. Walker was considered a lottery pick, but suffered the third knee injury in his career during a workout at the Golden State Warriors facility on June 15. However, he remained in the draft despite the injury, and was expected to have minor surgery in July that would keep him out for three to four weeks. Erden was not expected to join the roster this season, and was seen by general manager Danny Ainge as their first-round pick in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nThe Celtics headed into the off-season with several free agents and tried to gather a group to repeat as the NBA Champions, with a key decision on unrestricted free agent James Posey, who, in a widely anticipated move, opted out of the second and final year of his contract with the Celtics on June 30, but stated that he wanted to return to the Celtics on a new contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nP.J. Brown, who made key contributions during the 2008 NBA Playoffs, was leaning towards retirement, and the status of restricted free agent Tony Allen remained uncertain after the first-round selection of J. R. Giddens, who was seen as a possible replacement. Later it was revealed that the Celtics did not extend a qualifying offer to Allen, making him an unrestricted free agent. The Celtics also hoped to keep unrestricted free agent Eddie House, and decisions were to be made on unrestricted free agents Sam Cassell and Scot Pollard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nThe Celtics were interested in small forward Corey Maggette as a replacement for James Posey, but Maggette signed with the Golden State Warriors on a much higher contract than the Celtics were able to offer, which added to the urgency to re-sign Posey. On July 11, the Celtics addressed their need for a backup center by signing Patrick O'Bryant to a 2-year, $3 million contract, after he had an impressive workout with the team a week earlier, and consequently ruled out the return of Scot Pollard and P.J. Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nEventually, James Posey signed with the New Orleans Hornets on July 16, since the Celtics were reluctant to offer him more than a three-year deal at the mid-level exception. Compensating for the loss of Posey, the Celtics re-signed Tony Allen to a 2-year, $5 million contract, and were also able to re-sign Eddie House to a 2-year, $5.6 million contract, using the mid-level exception only on House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nOn August 22, the Celtics signed small forward Darius Miles, who was forced to sit out the previous two seasons due to microfracture surgery on his right knee and thought to have a career-ending injury, to a non-guaranteed contract, and expected him to fight for a roster spot at training camp. He worked out twice with the team and impressed with his health and attitude, but would sit out the first ten games of the regular season for violating the league's substance abuse policy if he made the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200118-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston Celtics season, Summary, Free agency\nThis signing ultimately put the roster up to the league maximum of 15 players, of which 14 players had fully guaranteed contracts. On September 29, the first day of training camp, Sam Cassell re-signed with the team, which put the roster one player over the maximum. On October 20, Miles was waived, a move which finalized the roster for the start of the season. On February 27, Stephon Marbury signed with the Celtics. In the following season he was offered a one year contract for the veteran's minimum for $1.3 million but declined the contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200119-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team represented Boston College in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. In 2007\u201308, they went 14\u201317 (4\u201312 ACC). The Eagles were led by twelfth-year head coach Al Skinner, played their games at the Conte Forum, and were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-2009 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey team represented Boston College in the 2008-2009 college hockey season. The team was coached by Jerry York, '67, his fifteenth season behind the bench at Boston College. The Eagles played their home games at Kelley Rink on the campus of Boston College, and competed in Hockey East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season\nBoston College entered the season as defending National Champions after defeating Notre Dame in the 2008 NCAA Tournament Championship game for the program's third National Championship. The Eagles raised their 2008 title banner to the rafters of Kelley Rink in their home opener against Wisconsin on October 10, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-09 season was a generally poor one for the Eagles, as the team did not make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002, and failed to defend both their Hockey East Tournament and Beanpot titles from the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season\nSenior Brock Bradford captained the 2008-09 team after missing most of the 2007-08 season with an arm injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Recruiting\nBoston College added nine freshmen for the 2008-2009 season, including three defensemen, five forwards, and one goalie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200120-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Schedule, 2008\u20132009 regular season\nAll times Eastern* = Hockey East Conference PlayBeanpot = 57th Annual Beanpot Tournament in Boston", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200121-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Botola\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Botola, the first division of Moroccan football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200122-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball team was the 93rd collegiate basketball team fielded by Bowling Green State University and played their home games at Anderson Arena on the BGSU campus. The team looked to improve on their record after finishing 13\u201317 (7\u20139 MAC) placing 5th in the East Division (9th overall) and falling to rival Toledo in the MAC Tournament first round in coach Louis Orr's first season as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey team represented Bowling Green State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. Their regular season began on October 10, 2008, against RIT and concluded on February 28, 2009, against Western Michigan. Despite finishing last in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, Bowling Green advanced to the 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament where they were eliminated two games to none by Ohio State in the opening round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Pre-season\nIn May 2008, assistant coach and former Falcon player, Doug Schueller, left the team to become the head coach of the ice hockey team at Saint John's (MN), becoming the 22nd head coach in the Johnnies' history. and was replaced by another former Falcons player and graduate assistant, Dennis Williams, in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Pre-season\nOnce again in August, the hockey team lost another assistant coach, when Todd Reirden took a position as assistant coach with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League under former Bowling Green teammate Dan Bylsma and was replaced with Frank Novock who was an assistant with Wayne State University's ice hockey program before it was disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Pre-season\nA month before the season, Paluch named senior defenseman Tim Maxwell and junior defenseman Kyle Page as co-captains for the upcoming season. At the CCHA media day, the Falcons were voted to finish ninth by the league's coaches with 56 points and seventh by the league's media partners with 444 points. Also at the media day, sophomore forward Jacob Cepis was named an honorable mention to the preseason all-conference team. The Falcons entered the season returning 21 letter winners, while losing six including Buffalo Sabres prospect, Derek Whitmore who scored 102 points during his four-year career with Bowling Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\u00b0 Denotes 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament first round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200123-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bowling Green Falcons men's ice hockey season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time on ice; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 106th season in Bradford City A.F.C. 's history, their 94th in The Football League and 96th in the league system of English football. Their 10th-place finish in 2007\u201308 meant it would be their second successive season in League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThis article covers a period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Background\nStuart McCall had been appointed Bradford City's new manager ahead of the club's 2007\u201308 League Two campaign. He had targeted promotion during his first season, but the club were in the bottom half of the league until after the New Year and could only finish tenth, 16 points outside the play-off spots. McCall released 13 players at the end of the season, and also lost his captain, David Wetherall, who decided to retire, and Luke Medley, who turned down a new contract in favour of a return to his home in London. McCall added four new signings: keeper Jonathan McLaughlin, midfielder Chris Brandon, Paul Arnison and defender Graeme Lee during June as he attempted to build a team to win promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nCity returned to pre-season training on 1 July 2008 with a fifth new player, after Tranmere midfielder Paul McLaren signed a two-year deal. Two weeks after pre-season training started, City played their first friendly when they lost 3\u20131 to Farsley Celtic, the only City goal coming from a Barry Conlon penalty. City's side included several trialists, including goalkeeper Nick Colgan, Korey Nix (brother of City midfielder Kyle) and Rory Boulding. Rory's elder brother Michael, who had also been training with City, was unable to play because of an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nThe second pre-season came three days later, when City defeated Bradford rivals Bradford Park Avenue 3\u20131, selecting a squad which included a number of youth team players. City's third friendly was a 2\u20131 defeat by another West Yorkshire non-league side, Guiseley, who featured former Bradford player David Brown on trial. City embarked on a short tour of Scotland, where they defeated Dundee 1\u20130 but lost 4\u20130 to Motherwell. During the tour, the club signed brothers Michael and Rory Boulding on free transfers. Upon their return to England, City lost their next friendly 2\u20131 to Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nFollowing his form in several trial games, including a string of saves against Burnley, goalkeeper Rhys Evans, who had played on loan the previous season with City, became City's latest signing on 1 August 2008. Three days later, City's next friendly resulted in a 1\u20130 victory against League One side Oldham Athletic. The final pre-season friendly was played behind closed doors, when City lost 2\u20130 to Sheffield Wednesday with a team made up of juniors and reserve players. A day before the start of the season, McCall signed defender TJ Moncur on loan from Fulham as cover at right back. The agreement gave Bradford the option to sign Moncur, who had also played seven games on loan the previous season, on a permanent contract once the loan finished on 3 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, August\nCity started the season with a 2\u20131 victory at home to Notts County. Striker Peter Thorne, who had been Bradford's top goalscorer in the 2007\u201308 season and scored a hat-trick in the corresponding fixture, scored both Bradford's goals. City again lost at the first round stage of the League Cup for the third successive season, this time 4\u20130 to West Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield Town. Thorne, who had been rested to the substitutes' bench for the defeat at Huddersfield, returned for City's second league game when he scored both goals in a 2\u20130 victory at Macclesfield Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, August\nCity maintained their unbeaten start to the season with a 2\u20130 victory against Rochdale on 23 August 2008. It was the first time since the 2001\u201302 season that City had won their first three games of the season. Michael Boulding opened the scoring with his first City goal before Thorne added his fifth of the campaign. McCall stated he wanted to sign one more player before the August transfer deadline, before bringing in South African midfielder Dean Furman from his former side Rangers on loan until January. City's winning start to the league season came to an end with a defeat by Aldershot Town\u2014the first time the two sides had met. City had taken the lead with Paul McLaren's first goal for the club, but Peter Thorne missed a penalty as City lost 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nCity suffered a second successive defeat when they were knocked out of another cup by a rival West Yorkshire side from League One. This time it was Leeds United, who won 2\u20131, in the Football League Trophy in front of 20,128\u00a0fans\u2014one of the highest crowds for the tournament. Barry Conlon scored City's goal. After two successive defeats, City returned to winning ways by defeating Port Vale 2\u20130 on 6 September, with goals from Bullock and Thorne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nThe game marked the first contest between managers Stuart McCall and Lee Sinnott since McCall was appointed City manager in May 2007, when Sinnott was also in line for the job following his form at Farsley Celtic. Thorne scored another two, as did Michael Boulding, when City added their fifth win from six league games with a 4\u20131 victory over Exeter City (despite being 1\u20130 behind at half-time) to go top of the league. City lost their unbeaten home start to the season the following week when they lost 3\u20131 to Bournemouth, managed by former City player Jimmy Quinn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nJoe Colbeck scored City's goal, his first of the season. City suffered a second successive defeat a week later against another promotion favourite, Shrewsbury Town, 2\u20130. The game was marred by an injury to TJ Moncur, who collapsed after less than ten minutes after a clash of heads with Graeme Lee and had to be taken to hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, October\nCity went a third game without victory with a 1\u20131 draw with Luton Town. City had been reduced to ten men when Paul Heckingbottom was sent off, but just four minutes later Barry Conlon, who had come on as a substitute only a minute earlier, gave City the lead, only for Luton to equalise seven minutes later. City recorded their first victory in four games by defeating Accrington Stanley on 11 October, despite trailing by two goals with ten minutes to go. Goals by Conlon, Michael Boulding and Thorne gave City a 3\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, October\nThe roles were reversed a week later when City led Gillingham 2\u20130 at half-time with goals from Thorne and Colbeck; but, despite Gillingham being reduced to ten men when Mark Bentley was sent off, the game finished 2\u20132. Only two days later, City again fell to a late goal when they lost to Darlington 2\u20131, with Omar Daley scoring his first goal of the season. After recording just one victory in six matches, McCall said he wanted to bring in some loan transfers and signed Tom Clarke from Huddersfield on 23 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0006-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, October\nHe made his debut the following day as a first-half substitute against Grimsby Town after fellow defender Matthew Clarke was sent off. City were leading 1\u20130 at the time through an Omar Daley, and, despite being reduced to ten men, extended their advantage through former Grimsby striker Michael Boulding and a first club goal for Graeme Lee, eventually winning 3\u20131. Colbeck was injured during the victory over Grimsby, and so McCall signed midfielder Nicky Law, who had played ten games for City the previous season, as cover on another loan deal. The month ended with a 1\u20130 against fellow promotion hopefuls Bury, with Barry Conlon again coming on as substitute to score the only goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, November\nAt the start of November, City extended their unbeaten run to three games, but were unable to defeat Barnet despite being ahead three times. Barry Conlon scored two of the goals in just his fourth league start of the season, with Peter Thorne scoring City's other goal in a 3\u20133 draw. The first round of the FA Cup saw City drawn against Milton Keynes Dons, who had won promotion to League One the previous season. However, City pulled off an upset with a 2\u20131 victory at stadium:mk with goals from Daley and Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, November\nThe following week's return to league action saw City against Wycombe Wanderers, who were second in the league and had the only remaining undefeated league record in the country. A second half goal from Lewis Hunt gave Wycombe a 1\u20130 victory. Full back Luke O'Brien scored his first senior goal in City's next league game as City defeated Rotherham United 2\u20130 in their first game at the Don Valley Stadium, Rotherham's temporary home. Nicky Law's first goal of his second spell completed the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0007-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, November\nA second half penalty from Conlon three days later against Chesterfield gave City back-to-back victories and their second 3\u20132 of the season after being 2\u20130 down. First half goals from Graeme Lee and Michael Boulding had started the comeback in the first half before Chesterfield were reduced to ten men when Alan Goodall was sent off for committing the foul which led to Conlon's penalty. Winger Omar Daley was injured in the game, becoming the latest midfielder to be sidelined. As a result, McCall brought into another loan transfer two days later by signing Steve Jones from Burnley for one month. Jones made his debut the following weekend as City lost 2\u20131 in the FA Cup second round to League One's Leyton Orient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, December\nAt the start of December, Chilean striker Willy Topp was released from his contract six months early to let him find a new club. He played only two games during the 2008\u201309 season, both as substitute. The following day, Tom Clarke followed him out of the club, after he was recalled from his loan spell by Huddersfield caretaker manager Gerry Murphy. The first game of the month saw City extend their unbeaten run to three games with a 1\u20131 draw against Dagenham & Redbridge, in a game in which opposition manager John Still said they had dominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, December\nCity's unbeaten run was ended at Brentford the following week in a 2\u20131 defeat, with all three goals coming in the final two minutes. City's goal came from Michael Boulding, who scored for the third successive game. City failed to win for a third successive game when they drew 0\u20130 with Chester City. Another 0\u20130 draw followed as City's run without victory extended to four games in the first game of the festive period at Lincoln City. Bradford ended their run of four games without a victory by defeating Morecambe 4\u20130 in the final game of the season to return to the automatic promotion spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, January\nAt the start of the New Year, TJ Moncur's loan spell was cancelled and he returned to Fulham. The following day, City brought in another player on loan, with Chris O'Grady signing from Oldham Athletic for one month. City kept their fourth successive clean sheet the following day in the first game of 2009, but were again involved in a goalless draw, this time with fellow promotion-chasing side Shrewsbury Town. City's activity in the loan market continued, with Nicky Law extending his loan until the end of the season, while midfielder Luke Sharry was loaned out to Conference National side Barrow. Furman also extended his loan to the end of the season and Jones for another month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, January\nCity's next scheduled game was postponed because of a frozen pitch, before they extended their unbeaten run to five games the following week with their fourth draw during that run. A second half goal from Conlon gave City a 1\u20131 draw with Accrington Stanley. The run was extended to three successive draws against Luton Town, although City were losing 2\u20130 at half-time before they recovered to 2\u20132. A late goal from Luton's Asa Hall looked to have given Luton the win, before Conlon scored for a second successive game, this time from a penalty, to give City a 3\u20133 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, January\nTwo days after the game, City again moved into the loan market by taking Pakistani international defender Zesh Rehman for the rest of the season from Championship side QPR. Leaving the club on loan was another central defender, Mark Bower, who was signed by Luton Town for one month to cover injuries and suspensions. Rehman was given his debut the following day as City's run without defeat came to an end with a 1\u20130 loss to top three side Bury to drop out of the top seven for the first time in the season. However, City made amends in their final game of the month by recording their first victory of the calendar year, 2\u20130 against a Grimsby side which had been reduced to ten men. City's goals came from loan players Law and Jones, whose goal was his first for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, February\nThe January transfer window closed two days later than traditionally, with City extending Jones' loan until the end of the season but deciding to allow O'Grady to return to Oldham. City had been due to play Darlington live on television the same day, but the game was postponed because of snow. When City returned to action, they recorded their first back-to-back victories since November with a 2\u20130 victory against fellow promotion-chasing Gillingham. It was followed up by a third successive victory without conceding, with a 1\u20130 victory against second placed Wycombe a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, February\nJones scored for the second successive home game. The sequence of wins came to an end with the rearranged game with Darlington, which ended in a 0\u20130 draw. City's four games without defeat or conceding came to an end with a 4\u20131 defeat by Barnet, who were third from bottom in the table and without a home win in four months. It was followed up by another away defeat, this time 3\u20131 at Notts County, which saw City drop out of the play-off spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, March\nCity ended their three-run game without a defeat and returned to the play-off spots three days later by defeating Macclesfield Town 1\u20130 with a goal from Dean Furman. Four days later, City recorded their highest victory of the season with a 5\u20130 victory against Aldershot Town. Peter Thorne scored two goals, with Dean Furman, Barry Conlon and a last minute own goal completing City's scoring. When City returned to the road three days later, they recorded a third consecutive away defeat, this time 3\u20130 to fellow promotion-contenders Rochdale, with all three goals coming in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, March\nThe following day, Northern Ireland international winger Keith Gillespie joined City for the rest of the season after he impressed Stuart McCall during two weeks training with the club. After another defeat, the fourth successive away from home, this time 1\u20130 to another side chasing promotion, Exeter City, Bradford once again dropped out of the play-off places. Conlon and Clarke were disciplined by the club and missed the game with Exeter because of a non-footballing matter. When City suffered their fifth successive away defeat, this time 4\u20131 to Bournemouth, only three days later, Stuart McCall threatened to resign if the side missed out on a play-off place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, March\nAlthough Conlon played in the defeat by Bournemouth, he was sent on loan to Grimsby at the end of the week, with fellow striker Paul Mullin arriving as his replacement from Accrington Stanley on a similar deal to the end of the season. The following day, a 1\u20130 defeat by Port Vale was City's fourth loss in 11 games. McCall opted not to bring in any more new players by the transfer deadline, but defender Simon Ainge was allowed to move on loan to Cambridge United. City's run without a victory was extended to five with a goalless draw away at Chester, who had themselves not won in their previous 17\u00a0games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200124-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, April\nCity started April by extending their number of games without a win to six with a 1\u20131 draw at home with league leaders Brentford. City's goal came in the final minute from Peter Thorne to rescue one point. Despite taking the lead in their subsequent game through Matt Clarke's header, City's run of form continued with a 2\u20131 defeat by Morecambe. City also had a goal from Thorne ruled out which would have given them a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Brentford competed in Football League Two. The club finished the season as champions to win promotion to Football League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Brentford's second consecutive campaign in League Two, after relegation to the fourth tier for the first time in 9 years at the end of the 2006\u201307 season. Manager Andy Scott, who was beginning his first full season in the job, had signed a new five-year contract in April 2008. Despite working with a \"mediocre budget\", he brought in 12 new players \u2013 8 on permanent deals and four on loan. The pick of the signings were new forward Charlie MacDonald for an undisclosed fee from Southend United, central midfielder Marcus Bean from Blackpool on a free transfer and the re-signing on loan of goalkeeper Ben Hamer and central defender Alan Bennett from Reading until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe season began with consecutive defeats in the league and League Cup to Bury and Swansea City respectively, before an unbeaten run of 12 league matches put Brentford in the automatic promotion places. Midfielder Glenn Poole continued his good form from the previous season by scoring seven goals during the run. Two defeats in a row dropped the Bees to 9th in early November, before another unbeaten run put the club back in the automatic promotion places by 20 December. Brentford moved into second position after a 2\u20130 victory over Bournemouth on Boxing Day and consistently good results kept the club on the tail of leaders Wycombe Wanderers through January and early February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nA 1\u20131 draw with Accrington Stanley on 10 February moved the Bees moved into top spot and consistently good results, aided by the goalscoring of January loan acquisition Jordan Rhodes, kept the club at the summit into mid-March. Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers faced off at Griffin Park on 14 March in front of a season-high crowd of 10,642 and the match yielded a 3\u20133 draw, with Aston Villa loanee Sam Williams \"smashing in\" late in proceedings to salvage a point for the Bees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThree days later, a home defeat to Chesterfield was Brentford's first loss for six weeks, but the club remained at the top of the table. Despite season-ending injuries to Jordan Rhodes, Nathan Elder, top scorer Charlie MacDonald and captain Kevin O'Connor, manager Andy Scott strengthened the squad with a new front line of loanees Billy Clarke and Damian Spencer. Central defender Darren Powell, who had played alongside Scott in Brentford's previous fourth-tier championship triumph a decade earlier, returned to the club on a short-term contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200125-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThree draws in a row in late March and early April kept Brentford top, before a first win for over a month was achieved in \"The Battle of Bournemouth\" on 13 April, during which Darren Powell was sent off for fighting with teammate Karleigh Osborne. Despite missing the chance to clinch promotion after a comprehensive defeat to play-off challengers Dagenham & Redbridge on 21 April, promotion and the League Two title were sealed with a 3\u20131 away win over Darlington in the penultimate match of the season. Captain Kevin O'Connor and stand-in skipper Alan Bennett held the League Two championship trophy aloft after a 2\u20130 win over Luton Town at Griffin Park on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200126-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Brighton & Hove Albion's 107th year in existence and third consecutive season in League One. Along with competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the Football League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200126-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season\nThis was manager Micky Adams' first season in his second spell at the club, having previously managed Brighton from 1999 to 2001. Adams was sacked on 21 February 2009, after a poor run of form left the side in the relegation zone. Former Yeovil Town manager Russell Slade took over the reins on 6 March, and guided the side to safety on the final day of the season, after the Seagulls had been eight points adrift with six games to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200126-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. season, Competitions, League One, Results Summary\nLast updated: 31 January 2009. Source: BHAFC League One Results", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200127-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol City F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Bristol City F.C. competed in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200127-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol City F.C. season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200127-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol City F.C. season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200128-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol Rovers F.C. season\nDuring 2008 and 2009, Bristol Rovers Football Club participated in League One, The 2008\u201309 season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. It marks the 126th year of football played by Bristol Rovers F.C. and their 82nd season in The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200128-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol Rovers F.C. season, Chronological list of events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2007\u201308 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200128-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol Rovers F.C. season, Team kit\nThe team kit for the 2008\u201309 season is produced by Erre\u00e0. The main shirt sponsor is Cowlin Construction, a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty, and the secondary shirt sponsor is Blackthorn Cider. The home shirt features the traditional blue and white quarters in a lighter shade of blue from the previous season to match the colour of the sponsor's logo, and the away kit is green with black trim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200128-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bristol Rovers F.C. season, Squad, Transfers, In\nSeven players have been added to the Bristol Rovers squad since 1 July 2008, in addition to Jeff Hughes who signed at the end of the previous season. Four players were signed from other clubs \u2013 Darryl Duffy, who was signed from Swansea City for a fee in the region of \u00a3100,000, Ben Hunt, who was signed for free after having been released by West Ham United, Jo Kuffour who was signed from AFC Bournemouth and Liam Harwood who was signed from Carshalton Athletic. Three Bristol Rovers youth players were also awarded their first professional contracts by the club \u2013 Ben Swallow, James Tyrell and Joe White, who is the son of former Rovers player Steve White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season\nThe 2008\u20132009 season was the 22nd campaign in the history of the British Basketball League (BBL), which commenced on 14 September 2008 with the Cup Winners' Cup. The regular season began a week later with 12 teams competing, though a line-up change saw the Birmingham Panthers withdraw and fold during close season and the inclusion of Worthing Thunder from the English Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season\nNewcastle Eagles continued their dominance of Britain's basketball scene, scooping up the League title, the Play-off crown and the BBL Trophy, beating rivals Guildford Heat 71-83 at the Guildford Spectrum. After a promising rookie season for Everton Tigers in 2007\u201308, the Merseyside team came of age in their sophomore year, finishing as runners-up in the League and the Play-offs whilst entering the record books for their 103-49 win in the BBL Cup Final against Plymouth Raiders, the biggest winning margin (54 points) in BBL history and lowest ever score conceded in a Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season\nThis season also saw the return of the BBL All-Star game, which was played as a warm-up to the Play-off Grand Final. Two select-teams \u2013 the British All-Stars and the Rest of the World All-Stars \u2013 were pitted together using a selection of players from across the League, with the Rest of the World team narrowly winning 117-124.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season, Cup Winners' Cup\nThe Cup Winners' Cup was contested between the winners of the BBL Cup and BBL Trophy from the previous season. Guildford were winners of the Trophy and Milton Keynes were winners of the Cup. The tournament was played over two-legs \u2013 one at each home arena \u2013 and the winner decided by a total aggregate score from both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season, BBL Cup\nOf the 12 competing teams in this season's BBL Cup, eight entered into the First Round while the top-four ranked teams from last season's Championship \u2013 Guildford Heat, Milton Keynes Lions, Newcastle Eagles and Plymouth Raiders \u2013 received byes into the Quarter-finals, where they would also receive home-court advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200129-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Basketball League season, BBL Trophy\nThe First Round of the BBL Trophy uses its usually round-robin format with the 12 competing teams divided into four regionalised groups with the winner of each group then advancing to a two-legged Semi-final encounter and progress to the Final being determined by a total aggregate score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings\nThe 2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings were a series of bombs that targeted gas pipelines owned by EnCana near the towns of Dawson Creek and Tomslake, British Columbia. The first blast occurred on October 12, 2008 and the second overnight between October 15 and October 16. The third was discovered on October 31 and a fourth was reported on January 5, 2009. The attacks brought to question the safety of the energy installations in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn October 31, 2008 letters were sent to local media outlets warning oil and gas companies to leave the area saying: \"We will no longer negotiate with terrorists which you are as you keep endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells in our home lands\". The Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned the companies; however no further action was taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn October 12 an explosion occurred on a sour gas pipeline to the east of Dawson Creek British Columbia. The explosion left a 2.5 meter and 2 meter deep crater but did not rupture the pipeline. Had the explosion ruptured the pipeline, toxic gases would most likely have been released. The RCMP sent a specialized team to investigate the explosion four days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn October 16 a second blast hit a natural gas pipeline. Workers discovered the blast site at approximately 10:00 a.m. MT off of British Columbia Highway 2. This explosion also did not rupture the pipeline but left a crater in the ground. Following the explosion the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) were called in to assist in the investigation of the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nThe following day RCMP called a press conference to state that they believe the public is safe despite admitting that it would be very difficult to protect the large expanse of pipeline in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn October 24 police arrested a person in Alberta they believe may have had something to do with the blasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn October 31, a third bomb detonated at a natural gas wellhead in the region of Dawson Creek (12 kilometers northwest of Tomslake). Encana reported minimal damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Timeline\nOn January 5, 2009 a fourth blast destroyed a metering shed near the community of Tomslake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Investigation\nThe RCMP has been quick to try to convince the public that they believe this is not an act of terrorism and simply an act of sabotage by one person or group. On October 17 RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields released the following statement: \"We believe someone or a group of people have set two deliberate explosions that were intended to rupture and blow up a natural-gas pipeline\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200130-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 British Columbia pipeline bombings, Investigation\nIt has also been suggested that the bombings may be associated with the growing annoyance amongst the agricultural community of having pipelines crisscrossing the land. Wiebo Ludwig was arrested in connection with the pipeline bombings on January 8, 2010. He was previously convicted in 2001 of similar bombings which targeted oil and gas pipelines. After an extensive search of his farm by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he was released without charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200131-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team represents the University at Buffalo in the 2008-09 college basketball season. This is head coach Reggie Witherspoon's tenth season at Buffalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe 2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season was the 39th season of operation for the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League, their 38th season of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Pre-season\nIn their second pre-season game, the Sabres played the Montreal Canadiens in Roberval, Quebec, the 2008 winner of the Kraft Hockeyville contest. In their newly renovated arena, Roberval hosted the preseason game on Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Montreal scored the first three goals, then held off Buffalo for a 3\u20132 win in at Benoit-Levesque Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Playoffs\nThe Buffalo Sabres failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Sabres. Stats reflect time with Sabres only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Sabres only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Draft picks\nBuffalo's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200132-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Buffalo Sabres season, Farm teams\nOn June 11, the Buffalo Sabres signed a three-year deal with the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League, ending a 29-year affiliation with the Rochester Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup was the 27th official Bulgarian annual football tournament. The competition started on October 15, 2008 with the Preliminary Round and ended on May 26, 2009. The defending champions were Litex Lovech, who successfully defended their title against Pirin Blagoevgrad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, Preliminary round\nIn this round entered 4 winners from the regional competitions as well as 3 teams from B PFG (second level) decided by random draw. There should have been 4 teams selected from B PFG, but since this year's league features only 31 team, 3 teams were chosen. The matches were played on October 15, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, Preliminary round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, First round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round together with the remaining 28 teams from B PFG. The matches were played on October 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, Second round\nThis round featured winners from the First Round and all 16 teams from A PFG. The matches were played on November 11, 12, 13 and 26, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200133-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, Third round\nIn this round entered winners from the Second Round. The matches were played on December 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200134-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bulgarian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 57th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria. Four teams participated in the league, and HK Slavia Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga\nThe 2008\u201309 Bundesliga was the 46th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season began on 15 August 2008 with a 2\u20132 draw between defending champions Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV and ended with the last matches on 23 May 2009. VfL Wolfsburg secured their first national title in the last match after a 5\u20131 win at home against Werder Bremen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Changes from 2007\u201308, Structural changes\nStarting with the 2008\u201309 season, two-legged relegation playoffs between the third last team of the Bundesliga and the third team of the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the regular season were re-introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Changes from 2007\u201308, Structural changes\nDue to the restructuring of European competitions, the third-placed team qualified for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Champions League, entering in a separate qualifying round for non-champions. The fourth-placed team and the winner of the 2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal qualified for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League play-off round; the fifth-placed team qualified for the third qualifying round. The sixth-placed team did not qualify for any European competitions because the UEFA Intertoto Cup will not be continued after its final edition in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Changes from 2007\u201308, Promotion and relegation\n1. FC N\u00fcrnberg, Hansa Rostock and MSV Duisburg finished the 2007\u201308 season in 16th through 18th place, respectively, and therefore were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. They were replaced by the top three teams of 2007\u201308 2. Bundesliga: Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, 1899 Hoffenheim and 1. FC K\u00f6ln, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Relegation play-offs\nEnergie Cottbus, as the 16th-placed team, faced third-placed 2. Bundesliga team 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg for a two-legged playoff. N\u00fcrnberg won both matches on an aggregated score of 5\u20130 and thus secured promotion to the 2009\u201310 Bundesliga, while Cottbus were relegated to the 2009\u201310 2. Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Relegation play-offs\nAfter Energie were relegated, no teams from the former East Germany played in the Bundesliga until RB Leipzig earned promotion to the Bundesliga for 2016\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers:  Diego Benaglio (31); Andr\u00e9 Lenz (5)Defenders:  Andrea Barzagli (34); Marcel Sch\u00e4fer (34); Alexander Madlung (24 / 3);  Jan \u0160im\u016fnek (17);  Peter Pekar\u00edk (16);  Cristian Zaccardo (14 / 1);  Ricardo Costa (11 / 3);  Rodrigo Alvim (2); Daniel Reiche (1);  Sergei Karimov (1)Midfielders: Christian Gentner (34 / 4);  Josu\u00e9 (captain; 33);  Zvjezdan Misimovi\u0107 (33 / 6);  Ashkan Dejagah (27 / 3);  Makoto Hasebe (25); Sascha Riether (28 / 2); Sebastian Schindzielorz (6);  Jonathan Santana (6)Forwards:  Edin D\u017eeko (33 / 26);  Grafite (25 / 28);  Caiuby (9 / 1);  Yoshito \u014ckubo (9); Alexander Esswein (4)(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league match:  Marwin Hitz; Patrick Platins; Kevin Wolze", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200135-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nTransferred out during the season: Bernd Korzynietz (loan return to Arminia Bielefeld);  Jacek Krzyn\u00f3wek (to Hannover 96);  Vlad Munteanu (on loan to Arminia Bielefeld);  Mahir Sa\u011fl\u0131k (on loan to Karlsruher SC);  Jonathan Santana (on loan to San Lorenzo de Almagro)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200136-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Burger King Whoppers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Burger King Whoppers season is the 7th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The team were previously known as Air21 Express in the Philippine Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200136-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Burger King Whoppers season, Philippine Cup, Statistics\nPlayer Stats as of November 29, 2008. 10:00\u00a0p.m. PHI Time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200137-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Burnley F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Burnley's 9th season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Owen Coyle \u2013 his second season since he replaced Steve Cotterill on 8 November 2007. Burnley finished fifth in the league but was able to return to the top flight of British Football, The Premier League through the Football League Championship playoffs. It was the first time the club was in the top division of English Football for 33 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200137-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Burnley F.C. season, First-team squad, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200138-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Butler University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Brad Stevens, serving his 2nd year. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Hinkle Fieldhouse, which has a capacity of approximately 10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200138-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe Bulldogs won the 2009 Horizon League Men's Basketball Regular Season Championship and received an at-large bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning a 9 seed in the South Region. They fell to 8 seed LSU .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season\nFor the 2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, F.C. Motagua played in three competitions, the Apertura tournament, the Clausura, and they were also invited to the 2008 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Apertura\nThe 2008\u201309 Apertura Motagua season was the fifty-third season of the Motagua professional football lifetime. Motagua were looking for the 12th championship. They also attended the 2008 Copa Sudamericana because of Deportivo Saprissa's withdrawal due to the match-day fixtures collide with CONCACAF Champions League's. For this season Motagua were full with families. Miguel Castillo and Fernando Castillo are brothers, Eleazar Padilla and Esdras Padilla are brothers, Rub\u00e9n Antonio Rivera and Jos\u00e9 Carlos Rivera are brothers, V\u00edctor Bern\u00e1rdez, Jefferson Bern\u00e1rdez and Oscar Bern\u00e1rdez are cousins, Shannon Welcome and Georgie Welcome are cousins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Apertura\nJaime de la Pava replaced Ram\u00f3n Maradiaga after he left to coach Guatemala national football team. Edmilson da Silva Melo was cut off the team since he received an injury that would leave him out for the rest of the tournament. On 11 September Luis Rodas and Roy Posas were cut off the team due to indecent behavior under the influence of alcohol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Apertura, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Apertura, Squad, Transfer in\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Apertura, Squad, Transfer out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Clausura\nThe 2008-09 Clausura F.C. Motagua season was the fifty-fourth season of the Motagua professional football lifetime. Motagua were looking for the 12th league championship. After finishing in semifinals they were looking to become champions next year by signing big names such as Amado Guevara, Ram\u00f3n N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Marvin S\u00e1nchez, Banny Lozano, Javier Portillo, Leonardo Isaula, bringing back Osman Chavez and signing the internationals Mario Jardel, Guillermo Santo and Alberto Blanco. Also they will be losing important starting players, Victor Bernardez, Miguel Castillo and Fernando Castillo. The club's idol, Amado Guevara, joined on a loan because of MLS break. In order to sign more foreign players, Motagua wanted to naturalize \u00d3scar Torlacoff and/or not enroll Nilberto da Silva because of his injury that leaves him off for half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Clausura, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, Clausura, Squad, Transfer out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200139-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 C.D. Motagua season, 2008 Copa Sudamericana\nOn June 2008 CONMEBOL announced the participation of F.C. Motagua in the 2008 Copa Sudamericana as invitee. At that time Motagua was the Central American team with the best performance achieved at the 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup and were not taking part in the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200140-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CE Lleida B\u00e0squet season\nThe 2008\u201309 Plus Pujol Lleida season is their 6th season in the Adecco LEB Oro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200141-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEBL\nThe Central European Basketball League, or CEBL for short, was a basketball tournament with Central European basketball teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200141-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEBL\nIn the 2008/2009 inaugural season, teams from the following five countries participated: Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200141-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEBL\nAfter the group rounds, Final Four was held in Timi\u0219oara, Romania. In the final match, Albacomp Fehervar won against BCM Elba Timi\u0219oara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200142-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERH European League\nThe 2008\u201309 CERH European League was the 44th edition of the CERH European League organized by CERH. Its Final Eight was held in May 2009 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200142-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERH European League, Group stage\nIn each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a home-and-away round-robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200142-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERH European League, Group stage\nThe group winners and runners-up advanced to the Final Eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200142-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERH European League, Final Eight\nThe Final Eight was played at PalaBassano, in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200142-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERH European League, Final Eight\nReus Deportiu finally conquered its seventh title, 37 years after their last win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200143-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERS Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 CERS Cup was the 29th season of the CERS Cup, Europe's second club roller hockey competition organized by CERH. 27 teams from eight national associations qualified for the competition as a result of their respective national league placing in the previous season. Following a preliminary phase and two knockout rounds, Matar\u00f3 won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200143-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CERS Cup, Knockout stage\nThe knockout stage consisted in double-legged series for the round of 16 and the quarterfinals, where the four winners would join the Final Four, that was played in Lloret de Mar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200144-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Challenge Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 CEV Challenge Cup was the 29th edition of the European Challenge Cup volleyball club tournament, the former CEV Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200144-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Challenge Cup\nThe Turkish club Arkas \u0130zmir beat Polish club Jastrz\u0119bski W\u0119giel in the final and achieved its first CEV Challenge Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200145-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Champions League\nThe CEV Champions League is the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200145-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Champions League, Teams of the 2008\u20132009\nThe number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200145-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Champions League, Main Phase\n24 teams will be drawn to 6 pools of 4 teams each. The 1st \u2013 2nd ranked and four with best score  3rd teams ranked will qualify for the Play-off 1/8 finals. The 2 remaining 3rd ranked  teams and the two 4th ranked teams with the best score move to CEV Cup. The remaining 4th ranked teams are eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200145-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Champions League, Final four\nO2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, 4 & 5 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200146-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 CEV Cup was the 37th edition of the European CEV Cup volleyball club tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200146-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Cup\nLokomotiv-Belogorie Belgorod beat Panathinaikos Athens in the finale. Colombian Liberman Agamez was chosen the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200146-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Cup, Main phase, 16th Finals\nThe 16 winning teams from the 1/16 Finals will compete in the 1/8 Finals playing Home & Away matches. The losers of the 1/16 Final matches will qualify for the 3rd round in Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200147-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CEV Women's Champions League\nThe Women's CEV Champions League is an international volleyball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200148-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 CHL season was the 17th season of the Central Hockey League (CHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200148-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CHL season, League business\nThe Rapid City Rush were added and two teams were created, the Austin Ice Bats and Youngstown SteelHounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200148-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CHL season, Regular season, Conference standings\nNote: y - clinched conference title; x - clinched playoff spot; e - eliminated from playoff contention", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 CJHL season is the 48th season of the Central Junior A Hockey League (CJHL). The eleven teams of the CJHL played 60-game schedules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season\nIn March 2009, the top teams of the league played down for the Bogart Cup, the CJHL championship. The winner of the Bogart Cup competed in the Eastern Canadian Junior \"A\" championship, the Fred Page Cup. If successful against the winners of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League and Maritime Hockey League, the champion would then move on to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League championship, the 2009 Royal Bank Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season, Final standings\n(x-) denotes berth into playoffs, (y-) denotes elimination from playoffs, (z-) clinched division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season, Fred Page Cup Championship\nHosted by the Dieppe Commandos in Moncton, New Brunswick. Pembroke finished in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200149-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CJHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League\nThe 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League was the first edition of the CONCACAF club football championship modelled after the UEFA Champions League, replacing the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, and overall the 44th edition of the premier football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The championship began on August 26, 2008, and it concluded May 12, 2009. Atlante of Mexico won the championship after defeating Cruz Azul, also from Mexico on aggregate at the Final. They represented CONCACAF in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification\n24 teams from 13 nations participated in the 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League from the North American, Central American, and Caribbean zones. Nine of the teams came from North America, twelve from Central America, and three from the Caribbean. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008-09 competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification\n1 New England were both the 2007 U.S. Open Cup winners and the 2007 MLS Cup runners-up, so Chivas USA  claimed USA4 as the 2007 MLS Supporters' Shield runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification\n2 Saprissa were both the 2007 Invierno and 2008 Verano winners, so Alajuelense has claimed CRC2 as the 2008 Verano runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification\n3 Luis \u00c1ngel Firpo were both the 2007 Apertura and 2008 Clausura winners, so Isidro Metap\u00e1n has claimed SLV2 as the 2008 Clausura runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification\n4 San Francisco were both the 2007 Clausura and 2008 Apertura winners, so Tauro has claimed PAN2 as the 2008 Apertura runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Format\nThere was a two-legged Preliminary Round for 16 clubs, with the eight winners advancing to the Group Stage. They were joined by the other eight teams who were seeded directly into the Group Stage. The clubs involved in the Group Stage were placed into four groups of four with each team playing the others in its group in both home and away matches. The top two teams from each group will advance to the Knockout Rounds, which will consist of two-legged ties. The Final Round, to be held in late April 2009, were also two-legged. Also, unlike the previously contested CONCACAF Champions' Cup, the away goals rule is used in the CONCACAF Champions League, but does not apply after a tie goes into extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Preliminary round\nThe draw for the Preliminary Round was held on 11 June 2008 in New York City. The first legs of the Preliminary Round were played  26\u201328 August 2008, while the second legs were played 2\u20134 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Preliminary round\nThe effects of Hurricane Gustav led to the cancellation of the first leg of the Harbour View - UNAM tie, and as a result the tie was contested as a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Group stage\nThe Group Stage draw was held on 11 June 2008 in New York City and was unveiled on 16 June 2008. Winners and runners-up of each group advance to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Championship round\nThe draw for the Championship Round was held on 10 December 2008. In each round, teams will play their opponent once at home and once away. The four group winners from the Group Stage will play the second leg at home in the Quarterfinals. The order of the home and away matches for the Semifinals and Finals were determined at the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Championship round\nIn all rounds, if two teams are tied after both legs then two 15-minute halves of extra time are played. If the two teams are still tied on total goals after extra time a penalty shootout determines the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Championship round, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs of the Quarterfinals were played from 24 February 2009 to 26 February 2009, while the second legs were played from 3 March 2009 to 5 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Championship round, Semifinals\nThe first legs of the Semifinals were played on 17 March and 18 March 2009, while the second legs were played on 7 April and 8 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200150-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League, Championship round, Final\nThe two-legged Final was played on 22 April and 12 May 2009. The second leg was originally scheduled for 29 April, but was postponed until 12 May by CONCACAF due to concerns over an outbreak of Swine Flu in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200151-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round\nThe 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round began on 24 February 2009. The draw for the Championship Round was held on 10 December 2008. In each round, teams will play their opponent once at home and once away. The four group winners from the Group Stage will play the second leg at home in the Quarterfinals. The order of the home and away matches for the Semifinals and Finals were determined in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200151-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round\nIn all rounds, if two teams are tied after both legs the team with the most away goals is the winner. If the two teams are also tied in away goals, then two fifteen-minute halves of extra time are played. If the two teams are still tied in total goals after extra time, a penalty shootout determines the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200151-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs of the Quarterfinals were played from 24 February 2009 to 26 February 2009, while the second legs were played from 3 March 2009 to 5 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200151-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round, Semifinals\nThe first legs of the Semifinals were played on 17 March and 18 March 2009, while the second legs were played on 7 April and 8 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200151-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round, Final\nThe two-legged final was played on 22 April and 12 May 2009. The second leg was originally scheduled for 29 April, but was postponed until 12 May by CONCACAF due to concerns over an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 59], "content_span": [60, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200152-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage\nThe 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage took place between 16 September 2008 and 26 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200152-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage, Tie-breaking criteria\nIf two teams are tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria shall be applied, in order, to determine the ranking of teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200153-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round\nThe 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round took place between 26 August 2008 and 4 September 2008. The eight winners advanced to the Group Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200154-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CWHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 CWHL season is the second season of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). The Montreal Stars repeated as regular season champions, winning 25 of 30 games, and won CWHL Championship. Caroline Ouellette was voted the league's regular-season Most Valuable Player. Jayna Hefford won the Angela James Bowl with 69 points and was also voted the CWHL Top Forward. Becky Kellar was voted the CWHL Top Defender, Kim St-Pierre was voted the CWHL Top Goaltender, and Laura Hosier was voted the CWHL Outstanding Rookie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200154-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CWHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime Losses, SOL = Shootout Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200154-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 CWHL season, Clarkson Cup\nMontreal Stars won the Clarkson Cup by defeating  3\u20131 the Minnesota Whitecaps (WWHL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200155-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cal State Northridge Matadors men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Cal State Northridge Matadors men's basketball team represented California State University, Northridge in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Matadors, led by head coach Bobby Braswell, played their home games at the Matadome in Northridge, California as members of the Big West Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season\nThe 2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season was the 29th season for the Calgary Flames, and the 37th for the Flames franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flames finished second in the Northwest Division, and qualified for the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the fifth seed in the Western Conference, their fifth consecutive appearance in the post season. Their season ended when they were defeated by the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season\nThe year began with the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, which saw the Flames select forward Greg Nemisz with their first round selection. The Flames made several trades during the draft, acquiring forward Mike Cammalleri from the Los Angeles Kings as part of a three-way trade that saw Calgary deal the 17th overall pick to the Anaheim Ducks. They then sent Alex Tanguay to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for the 25th overall pick, with each team adding lower round picks to the deal. The Flames signed forward Todd Bertuzzi during the off-season, a move that generated controversy amongst a fan base with which he had been previously unpopular. Calgary was also active at the trade deadline, making three deals, including a significant trade to add Olli Jokinen from the Phoenix Coyotes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season\nJarome Iginla surpassed Theoren Fleury's franchise record of 830 points during the season, scoring his 831st point on the same night he recorded his 400th goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning as part of his second career five-point game. Iginla also scored his 400th career assist during the season, and scored his first all-star goal in his fifth appearance at the 2009 All-Star Game in Montreal. Eight players made their NHL debuts with the Flames in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nThe Flames began the season with five games against divisional opposition. Despite holding leads in four of those games, Calgary won only one game, lost three in regulation, and a fourth in overtime. Goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff became the focus of the team's early struggles, as his play was argued to be a major cause of the Flames' inability to hold a lead. Calgary rebounded with a six-game winning streak, during which Kiprusoff allowed only nine goals on 152 shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nThe team again struggled to win games at the start of November, losing five games in seven, including a pair of 6\u20131 losses to the Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks that led head coach Mike Keenan to cancel a planned mini-vacation for the players. The cancellation appeared to be a turning point in the season, as the Flames recorded a mark of 15\u20134\u20133 following the loss, including a dominating 5\u20132 victory over the Sharks at home. The Flames again beat the Sharks, 3\u20132 in San Jose, on January 15, to end the Sharks streak of 31 games without a home loss in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nRookie Brett Sutter became the 8th member of the Sutter family to play in the NHL on December 23 when he made his debut against the Anaheim Ducks. The son of general manager Darryl Sutter, Brett scored a goal in his first game to help the Flames enter the Christmas break with a one-point lead on the Vancouver Canucks in the Northwest Division. Calgary expanded on that lead to five points after both Jarome Iginla and Mike Cammalleri posted career-high five-point nights in a 6\u20134 win over the Edmonton Oilers on New Year's Eve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nThe Flames lost one of their original owners early in the new year as Daryl \"Doc\" Seaman died January 11, 2009. Seaman had been one of the original group of six owners who brought the team to Calgary in 1980 and remained with the ownership group until his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nIginla reached numerous personal milestones throughout the season. He recorded his 400th career assist in an early season game against Colorado. He represented the Flames at the 2009 All-Star Game, his fifth appearance, and recorded his first All-Star goal. On March 1, Iginla surpassed Theoren Fleury's franchise record of 830 career points as part of another five-point night against Tampa Bay, a game where he also scored his 400th career goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nInjuries became a serious concern for the Flames entering March, as Mark Giordano (shoulder surgery), Rene Bourque (high ankle sprain), Todd Bertuzzi (knee surgery), Brandon Prust (concussion) and Daymond Langkow (hand) were all on injured reserve to start the month. Looking to improve the team, Sutter completed two significant deals at the March 4 trade deadline, acquiring defenceman Jordan Leopold from the Colorado Avalanche and centre Olli Jokinen from the Phoenix Coyotes. The deals paid immediate dividends, as Jokinen scored twice and Leopold once in a 5\u20131 victory the next night against the Philadelphia Flyers allowing the Northwest Division leading Flames to move ten points ahead of the second place Canucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nThe Tim Hortons Brier took over the Saddledome in early March, forcing the Flames on a season long, seven-game road trip, during which the team struggled to a 3\u20134 record that saw them suffer lopsided losses to the Carolina Hurricanes, Atlanta Thrashers and Toronto Maple Leafs; the Flames surrendered 27 goals in the final five games of the trip. Consequently, the Flames saw their lead for the division shrink to five points barely a week after the victory in Philadelphia. Calgary's lead fell to one point following consecutive shutout losses to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Columbus Blue Jackets in late March. The Flames and Canucks ended the season in a battle for top spot, as both teams repeatedly took over the division lead heading into the final week of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nInjuries continued to batter the Flames towards the end of the regular season, as defencemen Robyn Regehr (MCL) and Cory Sarich (broken foot) were both lost in early April. The injuries led the Flames to call up rookies Matt Pelech and John Negrin, the latter of whom had just finished his junior season and had never played a professional game, to make their NHL debuts against the Minnesota Wild. The Flames were forced to play their final games of the regular season with as few as 15 skaters, below the normal 18, as the team lacked available salary cap space to call up replacements without sending other players down to their minor league affiliate in Quad City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nCalgary's late season collapse ended with Vancouver winning the Northwest Division in the final weekend of the regular season following consecutive victories by the Canucks over the Flames, Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche while the Flames lost against Vancouver and Edmonton. As a result, the Flames finished the regular season second in the Northwest Division, and fifth in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season\nThe Flames finished the regular season having allowed the most shorthanded goals in the League, with 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Playoffs\nThe Flames qualified for the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the fifth seed in the Western Conference, and faced the fourth seeded Chicago Blackhawks in the first round. The two teams met four times in the regular season, all of which resulted in Chicago victories. It was the fourth time the two teams met in the playoffs. Calgary defeated Chicago in 1981 and 1989, while Chicago prevailed in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Playoffs\nThe Western Conference quarter-final series opened in Chicago; the first Blackhawk playoff games in seven years. The Flames dropped the first two games, each by identical 3\u20132 scores. In both games, they played strong to start the games, earning 1\u20130 and 2\u20130 leads respectively before conceding the advantage. The Flames lost the first game after just 12 seconds of overtime. An angry Flames team returned to Calgary for games three and four, promising to improve their play. They won game three, 4\u20132, on the strength of Kiprusoff's 36-save performance in goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Playoffs\nThe first three games of the series were physically intense and occasionally violent, prompting the league to warn both teams to tone down both the verbal attacks they were exchanging as well as to remain within the rules when engaging in scrums after the play ended. TSN commentator Pierre McGuire, stationed between each team's benches, insisted that Iginla in particular had taken more verbal abuse than he had ever seen. A \"fired up\" Iginla responded with two goals and an assist in game four as the Flames tied the series with a 6\u20134 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Playoffs\nIginla and the Flames were unable to maintain their momentum when the series returned to Chicago for game five. Iginla recorded only one shot, while Miikka Kiprusoff was pulled early in the second period as the Blackhawks easily won the game 5\u20131. Forward Andre Roy missed the fifth game after being suspended and fined $2,500 after he initiated contact with Chicago's Aaron Johnson during the warm-up prior to game four. The Flames' season came to an end in the sixth game as Nikolai Khabibulin's 43-save performance led the Hawks to a 4\u20131 win over the Flames. It was the first time Chicago had won a playoff series since they last defeated the Flames in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Playoffs\nThe Flames revealed the true extent of their injury situation following the loss, noting that Dion Phaneuf, who missed game six, was playing with broken ribs, while Cory Sarich was playing on a fractured ankle. With Rhett Warrener, Mark Giordano and Robyn Regehr all sidelined for the entire series, the Flames had five defencemen either out or playing hurt the entire series. In addition, Craig Conroy, Rene Bourque and Daymond Langkow were all playing despite various ailments. In spite of the Flames' injury situation, the team's fourth consecutive first round defeat led to new demands that head coach Mike Keenan be replaced as the team's head coach. Keenan was fired on May 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Flames. Stats reflect time with the Flames only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Awards and records\nSeveral players made their NHL debuts with the Flames in 2008\u201309. Adam Pardy began the season with the Flames, while Warren Peters, Brett Sutter, David Van der Gulik, Kris Chucko, John Negrin and Matt Pelech were each recalled from the Quad City Flames during the season. The latter two made their debuts on the same night, April 3, after the Flames lost three defencemen in previous games. 2007 first round pick Mikael Backlund played one game with the Flames after leaving his Swedish team before being sent to the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Transactions\nThe Flames made two trades at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, sending forward Alex Tanguay to Montreal and acquiring Mike Cammalleri from Los Angeles in two separate deals. Calgary sent the 17th overall selection in the draft to the Kings, and received the 25th overall pick from the Canadiens as part of the trades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Transactions\nTodd Bertuzzi was signed by the Flames as a free agent on July 8, 2009. The controversial forward best known for his attack on Steve Moore in 2003\u201304, had previously been extremely unpopular with Flames fans. Bertuzzi, who had previously been booed by Calgary fans every time he touched the puck was greeted with loud cheers when he was introduced before the Flames' first exhibition game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Transactions\nThe trade deadline on March 4 saw the Flames emerge as one of the most active teams on the day, completing three trades. Calgary acquired defenceman Jordan Leopold from Colorado for Lawrence Nycholat, who was picked up on waivers from Vancouver one day prior and never played with Calgary, minor leaguer Ryan Wilson and a draft pick. general manager Darryl Sutter then completed what was considered the biggest deal of the day, acquiring Olli Jokinen and a third round pick from the Coyotes in exchange for Matthew Lombardi, Brandon Prust and a first round pick. The Flames then ended the day with a minor move, sending minor-league goaltender Kevin Lalande to Columbus for a fourth round pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Draft picks\nThe Flames entered the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa with the 17th overall selection. They dealt that pick to Los Angeles, and acquired the 25th overall selection from Montreal. With that pick, the Flames selected centre Greg Nemisz from the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires. Listed at six-foot-three and 197 pounds, Nemisz is described as being a potential power forward who is not afraid of working hard. Calgary drafted six other players, led by second-round selection Mitch Wahl, whom the Flames project to be a potential top-six forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Farm teams, Quad City Flames\nThe Quad City Flames entered their second season in the American Hockey League (AHL) in 2008\u201309. The team was dogged throughout the season by rumours that the franchise would relocate to Abbotsford, British Columbia in 2009\u201310. The owners in Quad Cities acknowledged that the Flames had been considering a change, but expected the franchise would remain in Moline, Illinois. Despite these assurances, Calgary confirmed on March 11 that they had reached an agreement with the owners in Quad Cities to end their affiliation agreement after only two seasons, and announced their intent to move into Abbotsford. The proposed relocation was approved by the AHL board of governors on April 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Farm teams, Quad City Flames\nOn the ice, Quad City finished with a 36\u201331\u20136\u20137 record, fifth in the West Division, and one point shy of making the playoffs. Quad City played its final game on April 11, 2009 with a 5\u20133 win over the Iowa Chops. Kyle Greentree led the team in scoring, with a franchise high 76 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Farm teams, Las Vegas Wranglers\nThe Las Vegas Wranglers remained Calgary's ECHL affiliate for the sixth season, where they finished 2nd in the Pacific division with a 34\u201331\u20132\u20136 record. In the Kelly Cup playoffs, the Wranlgers defeated the Bakersfield Condors and Stockton Thunder in seven games each to reach the National Conference finals. The season came to an end against the Alaska Aces, who eliminated Las Vegas in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200156-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Calgary Flames season, Farm teams, Las Vegas Wranglers\nAs part of their affiliation agreement with Las Vegas, the Flames assigned four players to the Wranglers to begin the season: Gord Baldwin, Hugo Carpentier, Kevin Lalande and Dan Spang. Lalande led the team amongst goaltenders with 21 games played, recording a record of 9\u20138\u20130\u20133, while Glen Fisher led the team with 11 wins. Dan Riedel, acquired from the Dayton Bombers during the season led the team with 23 goals and 57 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200157-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 California Golden Bears men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 California Golden Bears men's basketball team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Mike Montgomery's first season at California. The Golden Bears played their home games at Haas Pavilion and participated in the Pacific-10 Conference. The Golden Bears finished the season 22\u201311, 11\u20137 in Pac-10 play to finish in third place. They lost to USC in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 tournament. They received an at\u2013large bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning a 7 seed in the West Region. They were beaten by 10 seed Maryland in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 97th season in the history of Cambridge United, and the club's fourth consecutive season in the Conference National. After finishing as runners-up and losing in the play-off final during the 2007\u201308 season, the club were optimistic of a return to the Football League either as champions or through the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe club appointed little-known manager Gary Brabin to guide them through the season, who joined from Southport with relatively little managerial experience. He replaced the successful Jimmy Quinn who parted company with the club by mutual consent after lengthy talks with chairman Phillip Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe club enjoyed a successful season, although they were not close to catching eventual champions Burton Albion for much of the season. However, in the final months some excellent form, together with the departure of Burton's manager Nigel Clough, saw the gap close and Cambridge could have won the title and promotion on the final day of the season had they beaten rather than drawn at home to Altrincham. As it was they finished runners-up for the second successive season and despite a memorable play-off campaign, which included beating Stevenage Borough 3\u20130 after extra time in the second leg at the Abbey Stadium to overturn a first-leg deficit, Cambridge lost the play-off final to Torquay United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Background\nCambridge United were founded in 1912 as Abbey United, named after the Abbey district of Cambridge. For many years they played amateur football until their election to the Football League in 1970. The early 1990s was Cambridge's most successful period; managed by John Beck the club won the first ever play-off final at Wembley Stadium and gained promotion from the Fourth Division before reaching two successive FA Cup quarter finals in 1990 and 1991 and winning the Third Division in 1991. The club reached the play-offs in 1992 but failed in their bid to become founder members of the Premier League. This was the club's highest final league placing to date and since then it has been in almost constant decline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Background\nThe following season the club sacked Beck and were relegated from the First Division. Further relegation followed two seasons later. United returned to Division Two but were relegated in 2002. In 2005, after 35 years in the Football League, Cambridge United were relegated into the Football Conference. This brought with it financial difficulties and the club filed for administration, coming out of it three months later after the intervention of sports minister Richard Caborn, but not before selling their Abbey Stadium home to keep the club afloat and closing the youth system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Background\nThe club's first season in the Conference National was one of stabilisation, followed by a close shave with relegation. Under the stewardship of Jimmy Quinn, the club recovered in the previous season to finish in the play-off final. However, after despite losing the 1\u20130 to Exeter City, the club were hoping to build on this relative success under the new management of Gary Brabin following Quinn's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Team kit\nThe team kit for the season was produced by Vandanel for the second season. The same kit was used as in the previous season, with a white and black away shirt, and amber and black striped home shirt. As for previous seasons, the kit had two different sponsors - local company Global Self Drive at home and Kershaw away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Team kit\nA special edition play-off final shirt was also released and worn for that match. Produced by Vandanel, the shirt was all amber with limited black trim and sponsored by Kershaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Team, First team squad\nThis table shows the squad as it stood at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Team, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200158-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cambridge United F.C. season, Team, Top scorers\nIncludes matched in the Conference National, FA Cup and FA Trophy. Where total goals are equal, the list is sorted in favour of league goals, and then alphabetical order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Portuguese Futsal First Division was the 19th season of top-tier futsal in Portugal and it was won by Benfica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Quarterfinals\n1st Matches16/5/2009Sporting C.P. - A.R. Freixieiro 4-3 (1-1)F.C. Alpendorada - C.F. Belenenses 4-7 (1-2)AD Fund\u00e3o - Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes 5-1 (2-0)Instituto D. Jo\u00e3o V - S.L. Benfica 1-4 (1-3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Quarterfinals\n2nd Matches23/5/2009A.R. Freixieiro - Sporting C.P. 7-6 (0-1)C.F. Belenenses - F.C. Alpendorada 5-2 (1-1)Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes - AD Fund\u00e3o 6-4 (3-1)S.L. Benfica - Instituto D. Jo\u00e3o V 4-2 (3-1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Quarterfinals\n3rd Matches - If necessary24/5/2009A.R. Freixieiro - Sporting C.P. 4-3 (3-0)Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes - AD Fund\u00e3o 5-3 (2-3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Semifinals\n1st Matches6/6/2009A.R. Freixieiro - S.L. Benfica 9-10 ap; 4-4 (4-2)C.F. Belenenses - Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes 7-4 a2ndet; 4-4 a1stet; 3-3 (2-0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Semifinals\n2nd Matches13/6/2009S.L. Benfica - A.R. Freixieiro 4-3 (2-2)Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes - C.F. Belenenses 3-2 a2ndet; 2-2 a1stet; 2-2 (1-1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200159-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campeonato Nacional da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o de Futsal, Title Playoffs, Semifinals\n3rd Matches - If necessary14/6/2009Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jorge Antunes - C.F. Belenenses 3-4 (1-2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio\nThe 2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio season was the twenty-fourth since its establishment. The season began with the first regular season games on 12 September 2008 and ended with the play-off final on 29 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Venues\nThe teams do not have grounds of their own due to restricted space in San Marino. Each match was randomly assigned to one of the following grounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Regular season, Results\nAll teams play twice against the teams within their own group and once against the teams from the other group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Play-off\nThe playoff was held in a double-eliminination format. Both group winners earned a bye in the first and second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Play-off, Third Round\nThe matches were played on 15 and 16 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Play-off, Fourth Round\nThe matches were played on 19 and 20 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Play-off, Semifinal\nThe match was played on 25 May 2009 at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200160-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio, Play-off, Final\nThe final was played on 29 May 2009 at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle. The winners qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200161-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canadian network television schedule\nThe 2008\u201309 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English and French broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Canberra United's first season of football (soccer) in Australia, and competed in the 2008\u201309 W-League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season, Season\nThe first announcement of the club came in July 2008, coinciding with the establishment of the new W-League. The formation of the new club presented a unique situation in the league, that it was not associated with an established A-League side. In August, Canberra appointed Matildas assistant coach Robbie Hooker as coach for the inaugural season, and ACT Senator Kate Lundy as club chair. United also announced its first key signing in local Canberran and Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season, Season\nHooker made a number of key signings in the first registration window, also securing Caitlin Munoz, Amy Chapman, Grace Gill-McGrath, Hayley Crawford, Rhian Davies, Thea Slatyer for the inaugural season. The squad was further expanded in the lead up to the first round, signing on a number of players from the ACT and Southern NSW, and also signing Sasha McDonnell and Kara Mowbray from Queensland. The final squad presented significant strength on paper, boasting eight full internationals and a further four Young Matildas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season, Season\nUnited started the season steadily, alternating losses and wins in the opening rounds - including a win over eventual Premiers Queensland Roar. Scoring came with some difficulty for the side, with four goals in their opening first five matches. Influencing this record was an injury to striker Caitlin Munoz in Round 1, keeping her sidelined for a number of weeks. Munoz's return to the side in Round 6 immediately lifted the scoring rate, contributing four goals in the last five rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season, Season\nDespite early losses, Canberra were unbeaten in the last seven rounds of the competition, achieving a third placed finish with a record of four wins, four draws and two losses. Canberra's strength throughout the season has been in defence, drawn from a number of experienced players. In front of a dependable Williams in goal, a defensive backline led by Thea Slatyer and captain Ellie Brush frustrated opposition and ensured the second-best defensive record in the competition, bettered only by Premiers Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200162-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Canberra United W-League season, Season\nUnited won their away semi-final against Newcastle Jets, and progressed to the inaugural final, where they were defeated by Queensland Roar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Cardiff City's sixth consecutive year playing in the Football League Championship and their 82nd season playing in The Football League. It was also the club's final season playing at Ninian Park, their home ground since they had entered The Football League in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, Pre-season\nCardiff began their pre-season schedule with matches against Welsh sides Merthyr Tydfil and Carmarthen Town, with squads made up of first team players and youth players. Goals from Steve Thompson, Jon Brown and youth player Sol Taylor saw a 3\u20131 win over Merthyr and a hat-trick from Paul Parry along with one from Rhys Kelleher and an own goal saw the other match end in a 5\u20130 win for Cardiff. Several days later, Cardiff flew out to Portugal to take part in the Algarve Cup, along with Middlesbrough, Celtic and Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es. Before the tournament they played a warm-up match against Portuguese side Vitoria de Setubal which ended in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, Pre-season\nTheir Algarve Cup tournament began with a match against Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es, coming away with a 2\u20130 win with both goals being scored by summer signing Ross McCormack. In the second and final game of the tournament they overcame Scottish Premier League champions Celtic 1\u20130 with Joe Ledley scoring the only goal as Cardiff came away as the tournament winners. Returning to Britain, they played out a 1\u20131 draw with Swindon Town followed by a 0\u20130 draw with Dutch side Ajax in their first home pre-season tie. They finished their pre-season schedule with a friendly against Chasetown with a team made up of senior and youth players. The match finished 2\u20132 with goals from Paul Parry and trialist Wilson Oruma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nCardiff opened their season with a home tie against Southampton, the first time they had been handed a home tie on the opening day of the season for eleven years, and went on to win 2\u20131 after a last minute winner by Roger Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nPropelled by the goals of summer signing Ross McCormack, Cardiff did not suffer a defeat until their ninth league game of the season when they lost 2\u20131 to Birmingham City, but they bounced back quickly with a 2\u20131 win over Coventry City three days later and the sides form through October, three wins and two draws, saw manager Dave Jones awarded the manager of the month award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nA slump in form saw three defeats in the next four games but despite the loss of form the side remained in the play-off zone. During the poor spell, former player Michael Chopra returned on loan just over a year after leaving the club in a club record \u00a35m sale to Sunderland, converting a penalty on his debut in a 2\u20131 win over Crytsal Palace on 15 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nOn 22 November, the second South Wales derby of the season took place, after an earlier meeting in the League Cup, with the match ending in a 2\u20132 draw with both sides being reduced to ten men due to red cards for Stephen McPhail and Darren Pratley. The match was the second of what would become a three-month unbeaten spell which took the side through to the end of February without defeat until they lost 1\u20130 to Southampton, a run which saw Cardiff rise to 4th place in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nThe following game saw Cardiff win 3\u20131 against Barnsley, the first time in the season they had scored more than two goals in a single game. They went on to win 3 of their 6 matches in March before meeting local rivals Swansea City for the third time during the season on 5 April. The match ended in a 2\u20132 draw but was overshadowed by referee Mike Dean being struck by a coin thrown from the crowd. The incident was condemned by chairman Peter Ridsdale and manager Dave Jones after the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League\nThree consecutive wins for the side meant that with 4 games remaining they needed two points to secure a play-off place but they only managed one point during the final four games, in a 2\u20132 draw with Charlton Athletic, which would lead to them finishing in seventh place, missing out on a play-off spot to Preston North End on goals scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, Final league standings, Player presentations\nAs part of the celebrations of the club's final year at Ninian Park former players and staff of the club were presented to the crowd at half-time during various home matches throughout the season. At the end of the season all the players were invited back for the final game at the ground against Ipswich Town. The date, opponent and people presented were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nCardiff began their League cup campaign away to League Two side Bournemouth, coming away with a 2\u20131 win with both goals scored by Paul Parry in the opening twelve minutes of the match. After coming through the second round with a 2\u20131 home win over Milton Keynes Dons, Cardiff were handed a third round tie against local rivals Swansea City in the first South Wales derby to take place in nine years. A heated encounter saw Swansea come away with a 1\u20130 after a deflected free-kick, with Cardiff being reduced to ten men after Stephen McPhail saw red for two bookable offences. After the match fans from both clubs clashed with police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nEntering the competition in the third round, Cardiff's first match in the FA Cup came up against fellow Championship side Reading, with goals from Ross McCormack and Joe Ledley putting Cardiff through to the next round with a 2\u20130 win. In the fourth round Cardiff were handed a lucrative home tie against Premier League side Arsenal. The match, taking place in a packed Ninian Park, finished in a 0\u20130 draw. The replay, which was originally set to be played on 3 February but was postponed due to heavy snowfall, took place on 16 February, ending in a 4\u20130 win for Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200163-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cardiff City F.C. season, Squad at end of season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200164-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carleton Ravens men's basketball season\nThe 2008-09 Carleton University Ravens men's basketball season began on August 28, 2007 with exhibition games against NCAA Division I teams, and with regular season games beginning on November 7. The season ended when the Ravens hosted the national championships at Scotiabank Place for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200165-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carlisle United F.C. season\nFor the 2008\u201309 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season\nThe 2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season was the franchise's 37th season, 30th season in the National Hockey League and 12th as the Hurricanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Regular season\nThe Hurricanes finished the regular season having tied the Montreal Canadiens for the most power-play opportunities, with 374.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Regular season, Divisional standings\n2 points for a win, 1 for an OT or shootout loss, 0 for a loss in regulation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Schedule and results\nWin (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Schedule and results, Record vs. opponents\nNotes: * denotes division winner; teams in bold are in the Southeast Division; teams in italics qualified for the playoffs; points refer to the points achieved by the team whom the Hurricanes played against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Schedule and results, Record vs. opponents\n= Member of the Atlantic Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Southeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Central Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Playoffs\nThe Carolina Hurricanes ended the 2008\u201309 regular season as the Eastern Conference's sixth seed, and got swept by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Hurricanes. Stats reflect season totals. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, News\nOn June 14, the Hurricanes agreed to an extension of their lease at the RBC Center by five years through to 2023-24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Draft picks\nThe 2008 NHL Entry Draft was in Ottawa, Ontario. The Hurricanes had the 14th overall pick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200166-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Carolina Hurricanes season, Farm teams, American Hockey League\nThe Albany River Rats are the Hurricanes American Hockey League affiliate for the 2008\u201309 AHL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 120th season of competitive football by Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, Overview\nCeltic went into the 2008\u201309 season defending their Scottish Premier League title, which they won for the third consecutive time in 2007\u201308.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, Overview\nThey also entered the UEFA Champions League directly at the group stage, as well as taking part in the two domestic cup competitions, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, Overview\nTo prepare for the Season, Celtic took part in two Pre-Season Tournaments; the Algarve Challenge Cup in Faro, Portugal, where they finished bottom, having faced Middlesbrough and Cardiff City, and the Feyenoord Jubilee Tournament in Rotterdam, where they finished second, having faced Tottenham Hotspur and host club Feyenoord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, League campaign\nThe Championship flag was unfurled before Celtic's first League game, against St Mirren at Celtic Park on 10 August by Rosemary Burns, the widow of former Celtic player Tommy Burns, who had died of skin cancer at the end of season 2007\u201308. Celtic won the game 1\u20130, through a Barry Robson penalty, getting their Campaign off to a winning start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, League campaign\nCeltic finished second in the SPL table at the end of the season, eventually finishing four points behind champions Rangers. This was despite at one point having built up a seven-point lead over Rangers. This lead was squandered though, Celtic dropping points to Dundee United, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Motherwell, Rangers themselves, and on two occasions to both Hibernian and Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, League campaign\nOne day after the final league game of the season, a 0\u20130 draw with Hearts at Celtic Park, it was announced that Gordon Strachan would leave as manager of Celtic with immediate effect. This brought to an end Strachan's four-year spell as manager, during which he guided the club to three SPL titles, one Scottish Cup and two Scottish League Cups. He also guided the club twice into the last 16 of the Champions League, losing out to A.C. Milan and Barcelona respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, European campaign\nCeltic, as Scottish champions, qualified directly for the UEFA Champions League, where they were the sole Scottish side as Rangers were knocked out in the second qualifying round by FBK Kaunas, meaning Celtic received all the TV money allocated to Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, European campaign\nCeltic were in Pot 3 for the group stage draw, which took place in Monaco on 28 August. They were drawn with Manchester United, Villarreal and Aalborg. The first game, a home tie against Aalborg, finished in a goalless draw. The next game, away to Villarreal ended in a 1\u20130 defeat, which was followed by a 3\u20130 defeat away to Manchester United. Next up, at home, Celtic drew 1\u20131 with Manchester United, with Scott McDonald putting Celtic in the lead in the 13th minute, only for Ryan Giggs to equalise for Manchester United in the 84th minute. A disappointing 2\u20131 defeat to Aalborg in Denmark saw Celtic's European aspirations end, despite having taken the lead through Barry Robson. Nonetheless, Celtic rallied to end their campaign on a high with a 2\u20130 victory over Villarreal at Celtic Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, Domestic cups\nCeltic entered the Scottish League Cup at the third round proper (the last 16 stage) and the Scottish Cup at the fourth round proper (the Round of 32). The club beat Livingston 4\u20130 in the third round of the League Cup on 23 September, and travelled to Kilmarnock on 28 October, beating them 3\u20131 and qualifying for the semi-finals, where they faced Dundee United at Hampden Park on 28 January. After a 0\u20130 draw in extra time, Celtic won a penalty shoot-out 11\u201310 to set up a final against Rangers on 15 March. The team won the 2009 Scottish League Cup Final 2\u20130 aet at Hampden, with Darren O'Dea and Aiden McGeady getting the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, The campaign, Domestic cups\nThe fourth round of the Scottish Cup took place on 10 January, with Celtic beating Dundee at Celtic Park. In the fifth round, Celtic hosted Queen's Park on 7 February, beating them 2\u20131. In the quarter-finals, Celtic lost 1\u20130 at St Mirren on 7 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200167-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic F.C. season, Player statistics, Appearances and goals\nList of squad players, including number of appearances by competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200168-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic League\nThe 2008\u201309 Celtic League (known as the 2008\u201309 Magners League for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth Celtic League season and the third with Magners as title sponsor. The season began in September 2008 and ended in May 2009. Ten teams played each other on a home-and-away basis, with teams earning four points for a win, and a bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match. Losing teams also earned a bonus point if they lost by seven points or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200168-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic League\nThe ten competing teams consisted of the four Irish provinces, Munster, Leinster, Connacht and Ulster; two Scottish regions, Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors; and four Welsh regions, Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets. The Scarlets were originally known as the \"Llanelli Scarlets\", but renamed themselves at the start of the season, in order to reflect their regional identity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200168-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic League\nMunster were crowned champions on 30 April 2009 after the Ospreys beat the Newport Gwent Dragons 27\u201318 but failed to claim a bonus point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200168-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic League, Leading scorers\nNote: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-IRB nationalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200168-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Celtic League, Broadcast rights\nTelevision rights for the league are split between three broadcasters, BBC Wales, S4C and Setanta Sports. BBC Wales and S4C continues to cover the Pro12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Central Coast Mariners Football Club's 4th season since the inception of the A-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season\nCentral Coast's A-League season commenced on 15 August 2008. After losing in the Grand Final in the previous season, they again made the finals series after finishing fourth, only to be eliminated by Queensland Roar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season\nThe Mariners also competed in the Pre-Season Cup, where they were eliminated in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season\nIn Asia, the Mariners lost in the Champions League group stage, drawing two games and losing four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season, Players, 2008\u201309 A-League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season, Players, 2009 AFC Champions League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season, Players, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season, Statistics, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200169-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners FC season, Awards\nThe Mariners Medal dinner was held in early March 2009, in Tumbi Umbi:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200170-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the Central Coast Mariners' first season of soccer in Australia's new women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200170-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Central Coast Mariners W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the first season that Chamois Niortais returned to the Championnat National following their relegation from Ligue 2 at the end of the previous campaign. Denis Troch was hired as the new head coach, replacing Samuel Michel. Niort won only 9 of their 38 league matches and their total of 41 points saw the team finish 17th in the Championnat National, which meant relegation to the Championnat de France amateur for the first time in the club's history in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season, Appearances and goals\nStriker Romain Jacuzzi made the most league appearances for Niort during the 2008\u201309 season, missing only two matches. He was also the club's top goalscorer with 11 in all competitions. Midfielders Ronan Biger and Mat\u00edas P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda, defenders Yannick Fischer and Mamadou Camara and forward Arnaud Gonzalez were also among the players to make over 30 first-team appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season, Coupe de France\nNiort joined the 2008\u201309 Coupe de France in the fifth round, along with the other clubs in the Championnat National. The team's first game in the cup was a 1\u20130 win against Division d'Honneur side US Chauvigny thanks to an injury time goal from midfielder Johan Gastien. In the sixth round, Niort were drawn away at Championnat de France amateur 2 club ESA Brive. They took a second-half lead through Romain Jacuzzi, but the home side equalised from a penalty kick from striker Oussama Belfoul. Jacuzzi was on target again in the seventh round, scoring Niort's first in a 2\u20131 win away at Les Herbiers VF before Argentine midfielder Mat\u00edas P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda netted the winning goal three minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season, Coupe de France\nNiort were handed a fourth consecutive away tie in the eighth round, being drawn to play away at Championnat de France amateur side Quimper on 13 December 2008. Following a goalless draw after extra time, during which defender Damien Da Silva was given a straight red card, Niort progressed 4\u20131 in a penalty shoot-out in which goalkeeper K\u00e9vin Aubeneau saved two spot kicks. In the round of 64, the team was drawn at home to Ligue 2 outfit US Boulogne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season, Coupe de France\nNiort scored first through Ronan Biger, but Congolese midfielder Christian Kinkela equalised for the visitors in the 86th minute to take the tie to extra time. Despite having defender \u00c9ric Cubilier sent off for a second bookable offence, Boulogne took the lead thanks to a Gr\u00e9gory Thil penalty following a foul by Mamadou Camara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200171-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chamois Niortais F.C. season, Coupe de la Ligue\nAs one of the teams relegated from Ligue 2 at the end of the 2007\u201308 season, Niort were eligible to contest the Coupe de la Ligue and entered the competition in the first round. The team was drawn to play Cr\u00e9teil away at the Stade Dominique Duvauchelle on 19 August 2008. Despite leading at half time through a goal from young midfielder Yvan Kibundu, Niort were defeated 1\u20132 thanks to late goals from the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200172-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat National\nThe 2008\u201309 Championnat National was the 16th edition of the 3rd division league. Play commenced on 1 August 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009. Vannes OC, Tours FC, and N\u00eemes Olympique were promoted to Ligue 2, replacing Chamois Niortais, FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin, and FC Gueugnon who were relegated from Ligue 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200172-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat National\nVillemomble Sports, Pau FC, FC Martigues and SO Romorantin were relegated to the CFA, and promoted from the CFA were Pacy Vall\u00e9e-d'Eure from Group A, Croix de Savoie Gaillard from Group B, SO Cassis Carnoux from Group C, and Aviron Bayonnais FC from Group D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200172-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat National, Participating teams\nAs usual, there will be 20 teams competing in the Championnat National in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200173-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat de France Amateur\nThe 2008\u201309 Championnat de France Amateurs season was the 11th edition of the competition since its establishment. The competition officially began 9 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. The competition consists of 72 clubs spread into four parallel groups of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200173-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat de France Amateur\nIt is open to reserve teams in France and amateur clubs in France, although only the amateur clubs are eligible for promotion to the Championnat National. The highest-placed amateur team in each pool are promoted, replaced by the four lowest-placed in the Championnat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200173-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat de France Amateur, Standings\nNote: Unlike the higher leagues, a win in the CFA is worth 4 points, with 2 points for a draw and 1 for a defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200173-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Championnat de France Amateur, Playoffs\nThe Championnat de France Amateurs playoffs are designated for only the professional clubs B teams playing in the league. The best finishing professional reserve club in each group will advance to the playoffs where they will face each other at a site to be determined. The semi-final opponents are determined by the best finishing place. The best finishing reserve club will be awarded the 1st seed, while the worst finishing reserve club of the four will be awarded the 4th seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League\nThe 2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League was the only season of the Champions Hockey League (2008\u201309), an IIHF-organized ice hockey tournament for the best club teams in Europe. The season was played with 12 teams from seven countries (two teams each from Russia, Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland,one team each from Switzerland, Germany and Slovakia and a 12th team from one of these three countries, determined in a qualification tournament). Every participating team was guaranteed an appearance fee of 300,000 euro and the winner received 1,000,000 euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League\nPrize money was also be awarded for winning group stage matches (50,000 euro), for the semi-final appearance (200,000 euro) and for the other finalist (500,000 euro). In total, 10 million euros were distributed, the largest prize sum ever in a European hockey club competition. The ZSC Lions from Switzerland won the competition by beating Russia's Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League\nIn December 2013, the IIHF officially announced that they had launched a new tournament with the same name, born out of the European Trophy, starting in the 2014\u201315 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Participating teams\nThe 2008\u201309 edition of the Champions Hockey League is played with twelve teams from Europe's top seven hockey leagues. Ten teams qualified directly for the group stage due to their performances in the domestic leagues. The field was completed with the winner of last season's Champions Cup and one team from the qualifying tournament. The tables below lists these teams together with the reasons for qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Participating teams, Directly qualified for group stage\nNote: Because the Swedish regular-season winner (HV71) also won the play-offs, Link\u00f6pings HC as the runner-up of the regular-season will participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Participating teams, Participating in qualifying tournament\nNote: Because the Slovak regular-season winner (Slovan Bratislava) also won the play-offs, HC Ko\u0161ice as the runner-up of the regular-season can participate in the qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Qualifying tournament\nThree teams played a qualifying tournament on 12\u201314 September in Nuremberg, Germany. A win was awarded 3 points, 0 points for a loss. SC Bern won the tournament and qualified as the second team from Switzerland for the group stage of the Champions Hockey League. Bern's Ramzi Abid was the top scorer of the tournament with 3 goals and 1 assist. The matches were attended by an average of 3,426 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage took place on Friday, 25 April 2008 in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. The twelve teams were drawn into groups of three. Each group played a double round-robin. If the games were decided after 60 minutes, the winner was awarded 3 points and the loser 0 points. In case of a tie, both teams got 1 point and a penalty shoot-out was staged with the winner being awarded a second point. The best team of each group \u2013 the two Russian teams Ufa and Magnitogorsk, Espoo from Finland and the ZSC Lions from Switzerland \u2013 advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Group stage, Group A\nEisb\u00e4ren Berlin played their two home games at the new O2 World in Berlin in front of 13,000 and 13,500 spectators, respectively, a Champions Hockey League record. Magnitogorsk qualified for the semi-finals on gameday 5 after winning their first three games. Metallurg's Jan Marek was the top scorer in group A with 2 goals and 5 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Group stage, Group B\nEspoo won all 4 of their games and qualified for the semi-final after gameday 5. The top scorer in group B was Bern's Christian Dub\u00e9 with 5 goals (and 0 assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Group stage, Group C\nSalavat Yulaev was the first team of the 2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League to qualify for the semi-finals after winning their first three games. The top scorer in group C was Ufa's Alexander Radulov with 1 goal and 4 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Group stage, Group D\nThe winner of group D was not decided until the final game in Prague between Slavia and the ZSC Lions. In front of 8,137 spectators, the Lions won the game 5\u20131 after scoring 4 goals in the last period. The group's top scorer (and the leading scorer after all group stage games) was Adrian Wichser from ZSC with 9 assists (and 0 goals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were played as two-legged matches. If a game was tied after 60 minutes, it would have been counted as a tie, without a penalty shoot-out taking place. Only if after two games the teams were level on points (i.e. one win each or two ties), a penalty shoot-out was staged to determine the series winner Home ice advantage of the second game went to the teams with the better records in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Semi-finals, First Semi-final\nBecause both teams from Russia qualified for the semi-finals, they had to play against each other according to the tournament regulations. Salavat Yulaev won the first game in Magnitogorsk with goaltender Alexandr Eremenko stopping 36 shots. The second game in Ufa, however, was won by Metallurg. Therefore, a penalty shoot-out was staged to determine the series winner, which was won 2\u20130 by Magnitogorsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Semi-finals, Second Semi-final\nBecause the Hallenstadion in Z\u00fcrich, the home arena of the ZSC Lions, was not available on the semi-final dates, the Lions were forced to play their home game at the Diners Club Arena in Rapperswil-Jona, about 25\u00a0km away from Zurich. The ZSC Lions won both their \"home\" game and the game in Espoo, where they were accompanied by about 600 fans from Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Finals\nThe final was also played as a two-legged match. Home ice advantage of the second game went to the ZSC Lions which had the better record in the group stage. As in the semi-finals, the Lions were forced to play their home game in Rapperswil in an arena with only half the capacity of the Hallenstadion in Z\u00fcrich. The game in the Diners Club Arena was sold out within 30 minutes, leaving many fans without a ticket for the most important game in their club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Finals\nThe ZSC Lions became the first-ever Swiss team to win a major European club competition by winning the Champions Hockey League. After a 2\u20132 draw in Magnitogorsk, the ZSC Lions won the return game against Metallurg Magnitogorsk 5\u20130 to dethrone the 2008 European club champion. ZSC goaltender Ari Sulander was named Champions Hockey League MVP and was the first to hoist the Silver Stone Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 5 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200174-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League, Statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200175-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlotte Bobcats season\nThe 2008\u201309 Charlotte Bobcats season was the 19th season of the NBA basketball in Charlotte in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and their 5th as the Charlotte Bobcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200175-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlotte Bobcats season\nThe previous season, Charlotte finished 32\u201350 under coach Sam Vincent, and did not qualify for the playoffs. In response to the dismal season, co-owner and basketball operations chief Michael Jordan fired Vincent and brought in veteran coach Larry Brown. True to his reputation for turning teams around, Brown kept the young team in playoff contention well into April. They ultimately finished four games short of the first playoff appearance in their current incarnation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200175-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlotte Bobcats season, Offseason, Staff changes\nMichael Jordan fired coach Sam Vincent on April 27, 2008 and subsequently signed legendary coach Larry Brown 2 days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200176-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlton Athletic F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Charlton Athletic competed in the Football League Championship. It was their second consecutive season at this level since relegation from the Premier League at the end of the 2006\u201307 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200176-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlton Athletic F.C. season, Season summary\nCharlton were tipped to make a strong challenge for promotion, but it all went wrong for the Addicks and by the time manager Alan Pardew was sacked in November the club was in serious danger of a second relegation in three seasons. He was replaced with former Colchester United manager Phil Parkinson, but he was unable to save Charlton from falling into English football's third tier for the first time since 1981, coming in last place, 12 points adrift of safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200176-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlton Athletic F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200176-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Charlton Athletic F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Chelsea Football Club's 95th competitive season, 17th consecutive season in the Premier League and 103rd year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter again finishing second to Manchester United in the Premier League the previous season, Chelsea sacked their manager Avram Grant, replacing him with the Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari, who had managed the Portugal national team at UEFA Euro 2008 that lost in the quarter finals to Germany. The first few months of his management went according to plan, as Scolari's narrow 4\u20131\u20134\u20131 formation, using Ashley Cole and new arrival Jos\u00e9 Bosingwa as wing-backs, initially took the league by storm, leaving Chelsea top ahead of Liverpool after 13 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Season summary\nBy the end of November, however, Scolari's Chelsea began to lose their form due to exhaustion. They suffered a 3\u20131 defeat away to Roma in the Champions League and being eliminated from the League Cup at Stamford Bridge by Championship side Burnley on penalties. In the league, they had a 0\u20130 draw at home to Newcastle United, (who were later to be relegated). Chelsea lost a home league game for the first time since 2004 (and 86 matches) when they lost to Liverpool, and a second home league defeat to rivals Arsenal dropped Chelsea to second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Season summary\nChelsea qualified for the knock-out stages of the Champions League with a 2\u20131 victory against Romanian champions CFR Cluj at Stamford Bridge in the final match of the group. During the winter months, they drew against West Ham United, Fulham, Hull City and League One's Southend United in the FA Cup. Chelsea suffered defeats away to Manchester United and Liverpool, which left them in fourth place during February which would mean a Champions League place would not be certain. Long-term injuries to Michael Essien and Joe Cole marked the period while Didier Drogba was not included frequently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Season summary\nChelsea sacked Scolari, replacing him with Russia national team manager Guus Hiddink for the remainder of the season. Hiddink's regenerative effect was immediate, with four-straight league wins, including a vital 1\u20130 victory away to Aston Villa in his first game in charge, moving Chelsea into the top three. Eleven wins in the team's last 13 league games, marked by a 4\u20131 victory over Arsenal away at the Emirates Stadium, finally secured third place in the league, and Champions League football for a seventh consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Season summary\nAlthough Chelsea's title challenge was already realistically over when he arrived, Hiddink led Chelsea to their fifth Champions League semi-final, knocking out Juventus and Liverpool before they were eliminated by Barcelona on away goals in the semi-final, with the performance of second leg referee Tom Henning \u00d8vreb\u00f8 proving particularly controversial. Despite the Champions League exit, the season culminated in a trip to Wembley Stadium, with Chelsea's final game of 2008\u201309 contested against Everton in the 2009 FA Cup Final. Chelsea won 2\u20131, winning the FA Cup for the fifth time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Squad, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Squad, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Squad, UEFA Champions League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Statistics, Top scorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200177-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chelsea F.C. season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\n*  = 1 suspension withdrawn ** = 2 suspensions withdrawn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200178-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cheltenham Town F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Cheltenham Town F.C. competed in Football League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200178-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cheltenham Town F.C. season, Season summary\nA 4\u20131 defeat at Hartlepool United saw manager Keith Downing depart by mutual consent in September. His replacement was Martin Allen, the son of former Robins manager Dennis. Allen was unable to improve results enough for Cheltenham to escape the drop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200178-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cheltenham Town F.C. season, Kit\nItalian company Erre\u00e0 continued as Cheltenham's kit manufacturers, while Cheltenham-based plumbing company Mira Showers began sponsoring the kits. For the first time in 15 years, Cheltenham wore kits with no stripes, with Erre\u00e0 instead opting for a plain red design with asymmetric white trim. The away kit was yellow with red piping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 40], "content_span": [41, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200178-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cheltenham Town F.C. season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200178-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cheltenham Town F.C. season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200179-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chester City F.C. season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, Chester City F.C. competed in Football League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200179-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chester City F.C. season, Season summary\nIn 2007\u201308, Chester finished the season in 22nd place, only one spot above the relegation zone, on just 47 points from the 46 matches. Chester began the 2008\u201309 season with a squad of only 22 players and a transfer embargo, including youth team players given professional contracts just prior to the season. However, at the start of the campaign it seemed unlikely for City to get relegated, as Rotherham United and A.F.C. Bournemouth had both been deducted 17 points for rules violations before the start of the season, and Luton Town faced a 30-point penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200179-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chester City F.C. season, Season summary\nA poor start to 2008\u201309 saw Davies sacked in November 2008 with the club out of all cup competitions and struggling in League Two. Mark Wright returned for his third spell as manager on a non-contract basis. Beset by an ongoing transfer embargo, Chester continued to struggle throughout the remainder of the campaign, and a 2\u20131 home defeat by Darlington on the final day of the season sealed Chester's demise and a return to non-league football after five years back in The Football League. Two weeks after the final match the club entered administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season was the 83rd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on September 25, 1926. Prior to the start of the season, the Blackhawks announced that 20-year-old center Jonathan Toews would serve as the team's captain for the 2008\u201309 season, thus making him the 3rd-youngest player to earn that distinction in the NHL. Their regular season began on October 10, 2008, against the New York Rangers and concluded on April 12, 2009, against the rival Detroit Red Wings. The Blackhawks played in the Winter Classic, an outdoor game, against the Red Wings at Wrigley Field on January 1, 2009. The team succeeded in making the 2008\u201309 playoffs with a 3\u20131 win over Nashville on April 3 after missing the 2007\u201308 playoffs by three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Pre-season\nThe Chicago Blackhawks had a busy offseason following the 2007\u201308 regular season. In late April, a few weeks after the season concluded, the Blackhawks announced that they were entering a three-year partnership with WGN (720 AM); they previously aired games on WSCR (670 AM). This coincided with a previous announcement that the team would air up to twenty games on WGN's TV affiliate. The club also brought back announcer Pat Foley to do the play-by-play announcing for all television broadcasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Pre-season\nThe Blackhawks made a \"huge splash\" on the first day of free agency by signing defenseman Brian Campbell and goaltender Cristobal Huet. Campbell's $57.12 million contract was the largest in team history. Along with Campbell and Huet, the Blackhawks signed three other free agents, while losing three to other teams. Long-time Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman joined the organization in late July as Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations. The Hawks also added Rockford IceHogs head coach Mike Haviland as an assistant coach, and signed former Colorado Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville as a scout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Pre-season\nOn July 16, 2008, the NHL announced that the Blackhawks would host the second outdoor NHL Winter Classic on January 1, 2009, at Wrigley Field against the rival Detroit Red Wings. The game will be the 701st meeting between the two clubs, and the Blackhawks will wear uniforms similar to those they wore during the 1936\u201337 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Pre-season\nThe team also announced that they intended to retire jersey number #3 in honor of defensemen Pierre Pilote and Keith Magnuson. Hockey Hall of Famer Pilote spent thirteen seasons with the Hawks, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman on three occasions. Magnuson accumulated over 1,400 penalty minutes in eleven years with the team. Magnuson was the president of the Blackhawks Alumni Association before he died in an automobile accident in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Season events\nThe Chicago Blackhawks opened the season against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on October 10, 2008. After winning only one of their first four games, the Blackhawks fired head coach Denis Savard. Shortly afterwards, they promoted scout Joel Quenneville as his replacement. In 147 games as coach, Savard posted a 65\u201366\u201316 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Season events\nIn December, an anonymous Blackhawks fan submitted an email to Mike Ross of XM Radio's NHL Home Ice, which revealed that the team had interrupted their travel schedule to attend the wake of general manager Dale Tallon's father. The team voted to delay their flight to Chicago during a six-game road trip in order to travel to the wake, which was in Northern Canada. The team reached the wake on two buses, and surprised Tallon, who was unaware of the team's plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Season events\nRoss was shocked that no media outlets had initially reported the story, and commented, \"Its amazing that such a good story can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all over papers and the television.\" The story eventually garnered much attention from various media outlets in the following week, including ESPN, Yahoo! Sports and Deadspin. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann commended the team's actions, by naming them the \"best persons in the world\" for the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Season events\nOn December 28, 2008, the Blackhawks set a franchise record nine consecutive wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Division standings, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Blackhawks. Stats reflect time with the Blackhawks only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200180-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Blackhawks season, Draft picks\nThe 2008 NHL Entry Draft was hosted at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on June 20 and 21. With the eleventh pick in the first round, the Blackhawks selected Kyle Beach from the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League. The Blackhawks drafted seven players (five defensemen and two forwards) in five of the seven rounds. All of the prospects were returned to their junior or professional league by the end of training camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season\nThe 2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season is the 43rd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season\nIn the playoffs, the Bulls lost to the defending NBA champions, the Boston Celtics, in seven games in the First Round. The defending champion Celtics were also taken to a seven game series the prior season in the first round against the Atlanta Hawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season, Offseason\nThe Bulls re-signed Luol Deng to a 6-year $71 million contract on July 30, 2008. Ben Gordon signed a 1-year contract on October 2, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season, Regular season\nThe Bulls were having a meager year floating under .500 and on February 18, 2009 they made their first of several trades sending Andr\u00e9s Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, Michael Ruffin to the Sacramento Kings for Brad Miller and John Salmons. Then on February 19, 2009, the NBA trade deadline, the Bulls traded Larry Hughes to the New York Knicks for Tim Thomas, Jerome James, and Anthony Roberson. Later that day the Bulls made the third trade in a span of less than 24 hours sending swingman Thabo Sefolosha to the Oklahoma City Thunder for a 2009 first round pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season, Regular season\nThe trades brought a late-season push for the Bulls, which finally clinched a playoff berth on April 10, 2009, their fourth in the last five years. Then on April 13, 2009 they clinched the 7th place in the east by beating the Detroit Pistons and remained .5 game ahead of Philadelphia 76ers for the 6th spot with one game remaining. The Bulls though lost their last game to Toronto and the 76ers beat Cleveland, who did not play most of its best players. The Bulls finished 7th even though they tied Philadelphia at 41-41. The Bulls got matched up with a Garnett-less Boston in the first round of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season, Playoffs\nThe Bulls-Celtics series became the first playoff series in NBA history to have 4 games go into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200181-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chicago Bulls season, Transactions, Draft picks\nThe Bulls beat the odds and won the NBA Draft Lottery on May 20, 2008. The Bulls vaulted from the ninth spot to win the NBA Draft Lottery in Secaucus, NJ, and obtain the first pick in the June 26 NBA Draft. Chicago had a 1.7 percent chance of winning and were represented by Executive Vice President, Business Operations Steve Schanwald. The Heat had the best odds of securing the top selection and will pick second followed by the Timberwolves and Sonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200182-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chinese Basketball Association season\nThe 2008\u201309 CBA season was the 14th CBA season. Guangdong Southern Tigers defended their CBA title after defeating Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the Finals, four games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200182-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chinese Basketball Association season\nTianjin Ronggang were promoted to the CBA after the team owners voted in favor of them over two other candidates, Qingdao DoubleStar and  Guangdong Fengl\u00fc. Qingdao later replaced Beijing Aoshen for their place in the CBA, when the latter failed to submit relevant files on time and lost their qualification for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200182-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chinese Basketball Association season\nForeign players of each team could play unlimited time each game, except only 5 quarters collectively when facing Bayi Rockets. The two newly promoted teams and the bottom two teams of the last season could each have one extra Asian foreign players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200182-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Chinese Basketball Association season, Playoffs\nTeams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in regular season, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. Home court advantage belongs to the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying the home advantage are shown in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200183-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Fifth Third Arena, which has a capacity of 13,176. They are members of the Big East Conference. The Bearcats finished the season 18\u201314, 8\u201310 in Big East play and were upset in the first round of the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament by the 16th seed DePaul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team represented Clemson University. The head coach was Oliver Purnell. The team played its home games in Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson, South Carolina. All games were produced and broadcast locally by the Clemson Tigers Sports Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-season\nOn Tuesday, October 21, 2008, the NCAA suspended Freshman Catalin Baciu for the first five games of the season for his participation with a Romanian professional basketball team. The term of the suspension equals the number of games Baciu played as a 15-year-old for U Mobitelco Cluj, a club team that plays in Romania's top pro division, Divizia A. Although Baciu was not paid for his participation, NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from playing on a professional team, regardless of whether they are employed. He played for a total of four minutes in his five games with U Mobitelco Cluj.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-season\nOn Sunday, October 26, 2008, members of the ACC media were polled and picked Clemson to finish fifth in the conference behind North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest and Miami respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Sunday, November 16, 2008, The Tigers won the inaugural Charleston Classic 8-team tournament in Charleston, SC. This marks the 25th time in school history Clemson has won a regular season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Saturday, November 22, 2008, Clemson beat Charlotte 71\u201370 at Halton Arena, marking the first time ever a current member of the Atlantic Coast Conference has played at Charlotte. (Miami played during there during their time as a member of the Big East).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Wednesday, January 21, 2009, Clemson lost to North Carolina 94\u201370. This extended the NCAA record for the longest road losing streak against one opponent to 54 games. This also ended Clemson's streak of not losing back-to-back ACC games that dated back to the 2006\u201307 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Sunday, January 25, 2009, with a 73\u201359 victory over Georgia Tech, Senior guard K. C. Rivers broke the team record for most career wins as a player with 85. The previous record of 84 was co-held Cliff Hammonds and Elden Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Monday, February 2, 2009, EA Sports announced that Littlejohn Coliseum was one of the Top-15 toughest places to play in College Basketball. Through an online poll, Fans determined 15 finalists, whose home courts were judged to be the most difficult for opposing teams to play in. These results will form an integral part of a new game mode in the EA SPORTS NCAA Basketball videogame franchise for 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Clemson defeated No. 3 Duke in Littlejohn Coliseum by a score of 74\u201347. With the win, Clemson snapped a 22-game regular season losing streak to the Blue Devils dating back to January 7, 1997. The win was also Clemson's first win over a top-5 team since a victory over No. 5 Virginia in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 27-point victory was Clemson's largest margin of victory against a top 25 team in history. The previous best was a 22-point victory margin on two occasions. Clemson defeated a fourth-ranked NC State team led by David Thompson at Clemson 92\u201370 on Feb 22, 1975 at Clemson, and defeated a 13th ranked Maryland team by 22 points, 93\u201371 on January 19, 1977, at Clemson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe defeat was also the worst suffered by Duke since the NCAA Championship game of 1990, a 103\u201373 victory by UNLV on April 2, 1990. The 27-point margin was the largest for Duke in an ACC regular season game since January 18, 1984, when Wake Forest defeated Duke at Winston-Salem, 97\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nClemson's 10-point win over Boston College in Boston on Feb 10 was just the third ACC road win over an ACC team that finished the year with a winning record in the last 22 years. Boston College finished the ACC regular season with a 9\u20137 record and went to the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn Tuesday, February 17, the EA Sports Tour visited Littlejohn Coliseum as Clemson hosted Maryland. Along with judging the game day atmosphere, the tour handed out video games, T-shirts and hosted an NCAA Basketball 09 tournament leading up to the game. After their visit, Novell Thomas, the producer of the NCAA Basketball game, wrote that \"Hands down, Clemson just set the bar for all hosts of the EA SPORTS Toughest Places to Play, tour.\" The 29-point victory was the largest margin of victory in Clemson history over Maryland, and tied for the largest margin of victory for a Clemson team against an ACC team that advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Clemson defeated Florida State in 1997\u201398 by 29 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Tigers finished the season at 9\u20137, which gave them back-to-back winning seasons in the conference for the first time since the 1965\u201366 and 1966\u201367 teams did it. It is also Clemson's eleventh winning season in the conference since 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nClemson defeated five NCAA tournament teams during the regular season in Duke, Maryland, Boston College, Temple and Illinois. It is the most wins over NCAA Tournament teams in the regular season for the Clemson program since 1997\u201398.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nClemson finished the regular season with a 14\u20130 record against non-conference teams, one of just eight Division I teams with a perfect non-conference record. The others were Pittsburgh, UConn, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Minnesota, Illinois State and Stanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Tigers won seven regular season ACC games by double digits, the most regular season league wins by 10 points or more in Clemson history. Statistically, Clemson finished the year with a +10.3 average margin of victory, third best in school history. Clemson's .688 free throw percentage was the third best for the program in the last 22 years. Clemson's .374 three-point percentage was the fourth best in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Postseason, ACC tournament\nClemson entered the ACC Tournament as the No. 5 seed with a 9\u20137 record in the ACC Regular Season. The Tigers lost their opening game to No. 12 seed Georgia Tech 86\u201381 dropping their record to 3\u20138 all-time in the opening round of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Postseason, NCAA tournament\nClemson was selected for the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, joining Duke and North Carolina as the only ACC schools to make the tournament each of the last two years. It was just the third time in Clemson history that Clemson has gone to the NCAAs in consecutive years. The Tigers opened the tournament in Kansas City, Missouri, as the No. 7 seed in the South Region. Down by double digits against #10-seed Michigan in the first round, the Tigers went on a 14\u20130 run to make it 58\u201357 with just over a minute left. Clemson had a chance to tie the game with 13 seconds left, but K. C. Rivers' contested 3-pointer at the buzzer fell short. The 59\u201362 loss dropped Oliver Purnell to 0\u20135 all-time in NCAA Tournament games as a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Final season notes, Team notes\nClemson finished the season with a 23\u20139 record for a .719 winning percentage. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Clemson has improved its winning percentage from the previous year. Head Coach Oliver Purnell joins former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins as the only coaches in ACC history to take a program to a better winning percentage in five consecutive years. Cremins did it from 1980\u201381 through the 1986\u201387 season. The team finished the year with 23 wins, tied for the fifth highest total in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Final season notes, Team notes\nThe .719 winning percentage ranks in a tie for fourth best in school history and the best since the 1989\u201390 team was 24\u20138 for a .750 winning percentage. The 23 victories gave Clemson at least 20 wins for the third straight year, a first in Clemson history. Clemson has 72 wins over the last three years, third among ACC teams behind North Carolina and Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Final season notes, Team notes\nClemson finished the year ranked 24th in the final Associated Press poll. It marks the second consecutive year Clemson has been ranked in the final AP poll, the first time in history Clemson has finished in the top 25 in any poll in consecutive years. Clemson was ranked in the AP poll for 14 consecutive weeks and in the USA Today poll for 13 consecutive weeks, the second longest streak of weeks in the top 25 in the same season in Clemson history and most since 1996\u201397 team was ranked in all 19 polls. Clemson reached a high ranking of No. 9 in the USA Today poll on Feb 9, the highest ranking for the program since the 1997\u201398 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Final season notes, Team notes\nClemson won 10 games away from home, including seven on the opponent's home court. The 10 wins away from home were the most since the 1996\u201397 team won a record 11. The seven road wins were the most since the 1986\u201387 team won eight on the opponent's home court. The Tigers posted a 4\u20134 ACC road record this year, the most ACC road wins in a season for the Clemson program since 1996\u201397.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200184-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clemson Tigers men's basketball team, Final season notes, Individual notes\nClemson's senior class of K.C. Rivers, Raymond Sykes and Jesse Yanutola finished their careers with 91 victories, a Clemson record for a four-year class. The previous record was 84. The class also had a record 33 ACC regular season wins and 12 ACC road wins. The .679 winning percentage is second best in Clemson history behind the seniors of 1979\u201380.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season was the 39th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They finished the regular season with 66 wins and 16 losses, easily surpassing the previous franchise best of 57\u201325 from the 1988\u201389 and 1991\u201392 seasons. The Cavaliers had the fourth best team offensive rating in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nIn the playoffs, the Cavaliers swept the Detroit Pistons in the First Round in four games, swept the Atlanta Hawks in the Semifinals in four games, before losing to the Orlando Magic in the Conference Finals in six games, despite the Cavaliers being heavily favored to the beat the Magic. The Magic would go on to lose to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals in five games. Prior to their elimination by the Magic, many had expected the Cavs to appear in the Finals, which would\u2019ve also been LeBron James and Kobe Bryant\u2019s first head-to-head meeting in the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason\nOn June 26, 2008, the Cavaliers acquired the draft rights to forward Darnell Jackson from the Miami Heat in exchange for the lower of the Cavaliers two second-round picks in the 2009 NBA Draft. In addition, Cleveland purchased the rights to center Sasha Kaun from the Seattle SuperSonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason\nOn August 4, 2008, the Cavaliers signed Tarence Kinsey to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason\nOn August 13, 2008, the Cavaliers traded Damon Jones and Joe Smith to the Milwaukee Bucks for Maurice Williams as part of a three-team, a six-player deal among the Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason\nOn September 5, 2008, the Cavaliers signed Lorenzen Wright to a one-year contract. Second year swingman Gabe Skinner waived to make room for the acquisition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200185-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Transactions, Free agents\nMarch 5, 2009: Acquired Joe Smith from Oklahoma City Thunder", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team represents Cleveland State University in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by third-year head coach Gary Waters. In 2007\u201308, the Vikings finished 21\u201313 (12\u20136 in the Horizon League). Cleveland State had their first winning season since the 2000\u20132001 season when they finished 19\u201313 overall and 9\u20135 in conference play. They made their first NCAA tournament appearance since their run to the Sweet Sixteen in 1986. It was the 78th season of Cleveland State basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Preseason\nCleveland State started the preseason by playing games in Barcelona, Spain. It was also announced that Cleveland State would once again be participating in the ESPNU Bracketbuster games. Cleveland State also made several changes to the schedule. Cleveland State added Syracuse to the schedule, along with moving the former season-opening game against John Carroll to November 10, 2008, from November 14, 2008, and making it the only exhibition game of the year. Next they moved the Oakland game originally scheduled for December 16, 2008, to November 15, 2008, where it will be the season opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Preseason\nThey also moved the site of the three-game CBE Classic from Ft. Myers, Florida (Florida Gulf Coast), to Miami, Florida (Florida International). That meant that Cleveland State will now play Florida International, Toledo, and Tennessee Tech from November 24, 2008 to November 26, 2008. Lastly Cleveland State added La Roche College and Notre Dame College to the schedule, which completed the home scheduling for the year. Cleveland State will play nine teams that made the postseason in total this year. Cleveland State also has no less than 15 home games this year, with 14 of them being regular-season contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Preseason\nThe preseason Horizon League Coaches' Poll picked the Vikings to finish first. J'Nathan Bullock and Cedric Jackson were named to the preseason all-Horizon League first team. On October 27, 2008, Cleveland State announced that head coach Gary Waters was given a contract extension through the 2012\u201313 season. Also on October 27, 2008, Cleveland State received its first votes of the year, with two points in the AP Top 25 poll, with a ranking of T-50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Regular season\nCleveland State participated in the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic from November 24 \u2013 November 26. They won the tournament defeating Saint Leo, Toledo, and Florida International. On December 15, Cleveland State defeated #11 Syracuse at the Carrier Dome, marking the third time that the Vikings defeated a ranked opponent, and the first time it happened on the road. On February 18, 2009 Cleveland State posted its first back-to-back 20 win seasons since 1988. From 1984\u20131988 Cleveland State won 20 games or more each season. The February 28, 2009 contest against Butler start time was changed from a 2:00\u00a0p.m. start to a 12:00\u00a0p.m. start to accommodate an ESPN2 broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Postseason\nAfter clinching a #3 seed in the Horizon League tournament, the Vikings went on to defeat Detroit Mercy, Illinois Chicago, Wisconsin Green Bay, and Butler on the way to their first Horizon League tournament championship, and second tournament championship in school history. On March 15, 2009 it was announced Cleveland State would face Wake Forest in the NCAA Tournament. The Vikings received a #13 seed. On March 20, 2009 Cleveland State defeated Wake Forest 84\u201369 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Cleveland State was eliminated in the second round by losing to Arizona 71\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200186-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Squad\nAs of August 2, 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Statistics, International players\nThe following is a list of all squad members who have played for their national sides during the 2008\u201309 season. Players in bold were in the starting XI for their national side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Statistics, Starting 11\nLast updated: 2 Aug 2009Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Primera Divisi\u00f3n Uruguaya, Clausura's table\nVilla Espa\u00f1ola was relegated due to financial issues after the Apertura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Copa Libertadores, Round of 16, Second leg\nSan Luis withdrew from the tournament over the H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Copa Libertadores, Quarterfinals, Second leg\nNacional 1\u20131 Palmeiras on aggregate. Nacional won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200187-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Club Nacional de Football season, Records, Comeback\nNacional have conceded the first goal in a match 17 times this season in the Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the Liguille Pre-Libertadores and the Copa Libertadores,\u00a0 recorded 4 wins,\u00a05 draws and 8 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200188-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clyde F.C. season\nSeason 2008\u201309 saw Clyde compete in their ninth consecutive season in the Scottish First Division. They finished bottom of the league, and were relegated to the Scottish Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200188-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Clyde F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200189-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coca-Cola Tigers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Coca-Cola Tigers season was the 7th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Colchester United's 67th season in their history and first season back in the third tier of English football following relegation, League One. Alongside competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, the League Cup and the Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season\nColchester returned to League One following relegation from the Championship last season. It was also their first season in their new home the Colchester Community Stadium after moving from Layer Road over the summer. It took them until October to register their first home victory by beating Carlisle United 5\u20130, but by this time the club had already seen managerial changes. After a poor start to the season in which the U's found themselves sporadically in the relegation zone, Geraint Williams was sacked and Paul Lambert was brought in as his replacement in early October. Colchester had a good mid-season run from November through January but had to settle for a mid-table finish come the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season\nColchester were eliminated from the FA Cup at the first round stage by Leyton Orient, while rivals Ipswich Town beat the U's at Portman Road in the second round of the League Cup. They made the area semi-final of the Football League Trophy where they lost out to Luton Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nFollowing relegation from the Championship, Colchester experienced a summer of great change. Club stalwart Karl Duguid left the club to remain in the Championship with Plymouth Argyle, while top scorer Kevin Lisbie joined neighbours Ipswich Town for \u00a3600,000. To replace him, Geraint Williams once again broke the club's transfer record, signing Cheltenham Town forward Steven Gillespie for \u00a3400,000. Construction on the Colchester Community Stadium had completed and the moving process from Layer Road was underway during the summer months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nThe first event to be held at the new stadium was a ramp-up exhibition game against Spanish side Athletic Bilbao on 4 August. Scott Vernon had the honour of scoring Colchester's first goal at their new home as 5,610 witnessed the 2\u20131 defeat for the U's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nThe first ever league fixture came on 16 August when Colchester were held to a 0\u20130 draw against Huddersfield Town. Mark Yeates was the first competitive goalscorer at the Community Stadium, scoring both goals in a 2\u20132 draw with Oldham Athletic on 30 August. United couldn't find a win at home, and following a 3\u20130 defeat at the Stadium by Milton Keynes Dons, Williams was relieved of his duties with a record of one league win from six games and the club in the bottom four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nAssistant manager Kit Symons took charge for four games before Paul Lambert was unveiled as the new Colchester manager in early October. They earned their first home victory of the season on 25 October, a resounding 5\u20130 win over Carlisle United. Lambert brought in numerous loan players, including Marc Tierney and Jimmy Walker while also signing Alan Maybury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nIn December, long-serving Chief Executive Marie Partner left the club as Robbie Cowling shuffled his boardroom, bringing in Steve Bradshaw to the position. Partner had spent over 21 years with the club. Cowling would soon buy out all remaining shares in the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nThe club earned back-to-back wins for the first time in 19 months as they beat Yeovil Town and Northampton Town to set up a run across the New Year of nine games unbeaten. A run of ten wins and four draws from 18 games eventually earned Lambert the January League One Manager of the Month award as the U's rose to seven points off the play-off positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nLambert made further late season loan signings by bringing in Karl Hawley, Neal Trotman and Ashley Vincent. However, with the play-offs on the horizon, Colchester's form took a downturn as they lost six of the remaining nine home games, including consecutive defeats in the final four home games. A club record attendance was set on 4 April, when 9,599 witnessed a 1\u20130 win for Leeds United at the Community Stadium. This was the highest attendance for a home league game since 20 April 1974 in a 2\u20130 defeat by Gillingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nColchester ended the season in 12th position, 13 points off a play-off place. They had endured their worst-ever home season, suffering twelve defeats, while they also enjoyed their best-ever away season, registering eleven victories on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nIn the cup competitions, Colchester returned to the Football League Trophy by reaching the southern section semi-final, where they were eliminated by eventual winners Luton Town. They were beaten by Ipswich Town 2\u20131 in the second round of the League Cup at Portman Road, while Leyton Orient won in the first round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200190-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts\nPlayers making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200191-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 College Hockey America women's ice hockey season\nIn the 2008-09 season, Syracuse University joined the conference. The Mercyhurst Lakers were both the CHA regular-season and tournament champions. The Lakers were 16-0-0 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200191-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 College Hockey America women's ice hockey season, Schools, Niagara\nMargot Page would be in her final year as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200191-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 College Hockey America women's ice hockey season, Postseason, CHA Tournament\nThe Mercyhurst Lakers were the CHA tournament champions. In the semifinals, the Lakers disposed of  Niagara by an 8-2 mark. In the final, the Lakers defeated Wayne State by a 6-1 score. The tournament was played in Erie, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 84], "content_span": [85, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season\nThe 2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season was the franchise's 37th season, 30th in the National Hockey League, and 14th as the Colorado Avalanche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season\nThe team finished last place in its division and conference for the first time since 1991-92 (when they were still the Quebec Nordiques) and did not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Regular season\nThe Avalanche struggled offensively, finishing 30th overall in scoring with just 192 goals (excluding 7 shootout-winning goals). They were also shut out a league-high 12 times, tied with the Los Angeles Kings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Playoffs\nThe Colorado Avalanche failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Avalanche. Stats reflect time with the Avalanche only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Draft picks\nColorado's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa \u2022 Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Farm teams, Lake Erie Monsters\nThe Avalanche's American Hockey League affiliate was the Lake Erie Monsters, based in Cleveland, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200192-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Colorado Avalanche season, Farm teams, Johnstown Chiefs\nThe Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL were the Avalanche's second-tier affiliate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season\nThe 2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season was the ninth National Hockey League (NHL) season in Columbus, Ohio. On April 8, 2009, the Blue Jackets clinched a playoff berth after a shootout victory against the Chicago Blackhawks, the first berth in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Preseason\nThe Jackets selected Russian forward Nikita Filatov with the sixth overall pick at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Filatov made an immediate impact with Columbus, scoring a goal in his NHL debut against the Nashville Predators. Columbus was rather aggressive in free agency, signing proven forward Kristian Huselius, and solidifying the defensive core with veteran Mike Commodore. General Manager Scott Howson also engineered two key pre-season trades, trading a draft pick to the Philadelphia Flyers for R. J. Umberger, and trading stars Nikolay Zherdev and Dan Fritsche to the New York Rangers in exchange for defensemen Fedor Tyutin and Christian Backman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Regular season\nRookie goaltender Steve Mason, who missed the first month of the season following knee surgery, led the Blue Jackets into playoff contention at the All-Star break. Recalled from the American Hockey League's Syracuse Crunch following Pascal Leclaire's injury, Mason was named the Rookie of the Month by the NHL for November after recording five wins in eight decisions, including two shutouts. He again won Rookie of the Month honors in December, and was named to the YoungStars team at the 2009 All-Star Game in Montreal, though he declined to play after suffering back spasms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Regular season\nCaptain Rick Nash was the team's representative at the All-Star Game, his fourth appearance at the game. Rookie Nikita Filatov scored his first career hat trick on January 10, 2009, in a 4\u20132 win against the Minnesota Wild. Filatov's achievement marked the first hat trick by a Blue Jackets rookie. On the eve of the NHL trade deadline, Columbus traded recently oft-injured goaltender Pascal Leclaire and a draft pick to the Ottawa Senators for forward Antoine Vermette. Vermette made an instant impact with the club, racking up seven points in his first six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Regular season\nThe Blue Jackets struggled on the power play, finishing 30th in power-play goals (41) and power-play percentage (12.73%). They also had the most shutouts of any team in the league, with 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Playoffs\nThe Blue Jackets have reached the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Blue Jackets. Stats reflect time with the Blue Jackets only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonItalics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Draft picks\nThe Blue Jackets entered the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa with the sixth overall selection. Columbus drafted Russian forward Nikita Filatov with the pick. Filatov started the season with the Jackets' American Hockey League affiliate, scoring two goals in two games for the Syracuse Crunch before being recalled to the NHL. Filatov made his NHL debut on October 17, scoring a goal against the Nashville Predators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200193-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Columbus Blue Jackets season, Farm teams, ECHL\nJohnstown Chiefs: GM Scott Howson announced on August 22, 2008 that the Blue Jackets reached an agreement with the Johnstown Chiefs to serve as the club's ECHL affiliate for the 2008\u201309 season, replacing the Elmira Jackals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200194-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Combined Counties Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Combined Counties Football League season was the 31st in the history of the Combined Counties Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200194-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Combined Counties Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured three new teams in a league of 22 teams after the promotion of Merstham to the Isthmian League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200194-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Combined Counties Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured two new teams in a league of 18 teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup\nThe Conference League Cup 2008\u201309, known as the Setanta Shield 2008\u201309 for sponsorship reasons, is the second season of the Conference League Cup competition after its resurrection by Conference sponsors Blue Square and competition sponsors Setanta. With the entrance of all Conference teams from every division, there will be 68 entries into the tournament. The total prize money is \u00a3200,000. Teams in the Conference's two regional divisions enter in the first round, are joined by the six lowest-ranked Conference National teams in the second with the competition completed by the final eighteen clubs for the third round. The tournament was abolished upon the completion of this edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, First round\nThe First Round was contested by all 44 teams from the Northern and Southern Divisions, which were divided into a Northern and Southern section. Matches were played in the week commencing 8 September 2008, with the exceptions of the Alfreton Town versus Stafford Rangers and Redditch United versus Solihull Moors games, which were played on 16 September and 23 September respectively, after both fixtures were postponed due to waterlogged pitches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Second round\nThe Second Round was contested by the remaining 22 teams from the Northern and Southern Divisions and the six lowest-ranking teams from Conference National. It was divided into a Northern and Southern section. Matches will be played in the week commencing 6 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Third round\nThe Third Round was contested by the remaining 14 teams from the previous fixtures with the addition of the 18 highest-ranked teams from the Conference National. Unlike previous rounds, the draw was not officially divided into a Northern and Southern section although some geographical grouping occurred in the draw. Matches will be played in the week commencing 3 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Fourth round\nThe Fourth Round was contested by the remaining 16 teams from across the three divisions. Unlike the previous round the draw was officially divided into a Northern and Southern section. Matches will be played in the week commencing 2 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 9 December 2008. Ties were to be played w/c 12 January 2009 but due to postponements two games were played in January, February and March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Semi-finals\nDue to the weather disrupted winter, the semi-finals were delayed and eventually played on 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200195-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Conference League Cup, Final\nThe 2009 Conference League Cup Final took place on 9 April 2009 and was contested by Forest Green Rovers and AFC Telford United at The New Lawn, the home of Forest Green. Rovers had the best of the game but they lacked a cutting edge to see off Telford and ultimately they went on to lose in a penalty shoot-out. Telford goalkeeper Ryan Young saved penalties from Andrew Mangan, Conal Platt, and Paul Lloyd, whilst Jon Adams, Mark Danks, and Gavin Cowan were all successful from the spot for United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u20132009 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2008\u20132009 NCAA Division I basketball season. Coached by Jim Calhoun, the Huskies played their home games at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and on campus at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut. The Huskies were members of the Big East Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe Huskies finished the season 31\u20135, 15\u20133 in Big East play to finish in a tie for second place. They lost to Syracuse in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, the Huskies received a No. 1 seed in the West Region and advanced to their third Final Four with wins over Chattanooga, Texas A&M, No. 17 Purdue, and No. 9 Missouri. In the Final Four at Ford Field, they lost to No. 8 Michigan State 73\u201382.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Roster\nListed are the student athletes who are members of the 2008\u20132009 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Huskies' season began with the team ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll. behind the University of North Carolina. Off to a quick start, UConn opened with a string of eleven straight victories over non-conference opponents, including a sweep of the Paradise Jam Tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands. During this stretch, the Huskies faced three teams that were ranked in the Top 25, including No. 8 Gonzaga in an overtime thriller in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe first Big East Conference game of the season came at home against Georgetown, which the Huskies lost 74\u201363. This was the start of a 19-game stretch where 18 of the games were against conference opponents, and where their opponents were ranked in nine of the games. After this first loss, the Huskies went on to win 13 straight, staying comfortably atop the Big East Conference standings. Among these was a 68\u201351 victory at No. 7 Louisville\u2014 the eventual outright Big East Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Huskies reached No. 1 in the rankings on February 2, 2009, and held it for three weeks. During this span junior guard Jerome Dyson, one of the team's biggest scoring threats and its best guard defender, injured his knee. He would not be able to play for the rest of the season. The team spent the final few weeks of the regular season adjusting to their smaller rotation. A 76\u201368 loss at home to No. 4 Pittsburgh knocked them from the top spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Regular season\nThey would win their next three games, including at No. 8 Marquette, which was Coach Jim Calhoun's 800th career victory in Division I basketball. After one week at No. 2, UConn was again No. 1 in the polls, until a loss at No. 3 Pittsburgh to finish the regular season once again bumped the Huskies from the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Huskies finished the regular season with 27 wins and 3 losses, with a conference record of 15\u20133. The team was not ranked out of the top 5 in the AP Poll at any point in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Post-season\nIn the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament, UConn took on Syracuse. The game would prove to be a historic event, as it took a Big East record six overtimes before Syracuse ultimately triumphed, 127\u2013117. The contest is tied as the second longest in NCAA Division I history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Post-season\nThe Huskies earned the No. 1 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament. They began play in Philadelphia, PA, where they had two blowout victories against Chattanooga and Texas A&M. They moved on to Glendale, AZ for the West regionals, first defeating Purdue 72\u201360, then outlasting a pressing Missouri squad in the Elite Eight, 82\u201375.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Post-season\nThe following weekend the Huskies were in Detroit, MI for a Final Four matchup against the Midwest's No. 2 seed, Michigan State. The game was close throughout, until the Spartans began to take control near the ten-minute mark of the second half. UConn would make one last run and cut the deficit to three late in the game, but Michigan State made key free throws and held on to win, 82\u201373. UConn's final record was 31 wins and 5 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200196-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team, Postseason awards\nBig East Co-Players of the Year:Hasheem Thabeetwith DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh, Center, So.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2008\u20132009 NCAA Division I basketball season. Coached by Geno Auriemma, the Huskies played their home games at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and on campus at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut, and are a member of the Big East Conference. They enjoyed an undefeated season and won their sixth NCAA championship by defeating the Louisville Cardinals, 76\u201354.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Pre-season\nBoth major pre-season polls ranked the Huskies number 1, each just one vote shy of unanimous. The AP Top 25 poll included all but one vote for Connecticut, with a single vote for Stanford, and the ESPN/USA Today Poll had all but one vote for Connecticut, with a single vote for Tennessee. The team returned much of the previous year's team. Of the departing seniors, only Brittany Hunter started more than half the team's game, although Mel Thomas failed to reach that mark due to a career-ending injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Pre-season\nThe Huskies started with a pair of triple digit scoring pre-season games. The first game was against Division II Stonehill College in nearby North Easton, Massachusetts. It was the first chance for fans to see freshman Caroline Doty, Tiffany Hayes, and Heather Buck in action. Caroline and Tiffany both scored in double digits, and Heather had three rebounds and a blocked shot. The final score was in favor of UConn, 100\u201349. The second pre-season game was even more lopsided, with UConn prevailing over Team SRP 103\u201337.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Non conference opener\nThe regular season opening game was against Georgia Tech, a team unranked in the pre-season. The game would be tied at halftime, with Connecticut pulling ahead late to win by eleven points 82\u201371. Connecticut would win their next three games easily, beating San Diego State and Rhode Island at home, and BYU in Utah, each win by at least 45 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 90], "content_span": [91, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Non conference opener\nThe following game would bring #4 ranked Oklahoma to Connecticut. Characterized as a \"significant test\" by ESPN's Graham Hays, Connecticut would win easily by 32 points, 106\u201372. UConn would then play nearby Holy Cross, winning easily 96\u201337. In this game Caroline Doty would hit her tenth consecutive three-point goal, a UConn school record, and four off the national record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 90], "content_span": [91, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Non conference opener\nOn December 14, the Huskies competed in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden and defeated Penn State by a score of 77\u201363. From December 18 to the 21, the Huskies competed in the Caribbean Classic held in Canc\u00fan, Mexico. The Huskies were undefeated at the tournament. After returning from Mexico, the Huskies traveled to South Carolina for their fifth consecutive road game. The team shot 57% from the field, and held their opponents to under 40%. Tina Charles has 21 points and 14 rebounds, helping lead the Huskies to their eleventh victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 90], "content_span": [91, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Non conference opener\nConnecticut hosted Hartford on New year's Eve. The Hartford Hawks, coached by former UConn star Jen Rizzotti, were no match, falling behind by 33 at halftime. Renee Montgomery hit 9 of 11 in the first half, and did not return in the second half after taking an elbow to the mouth. LSU came to Connecticut for the first game of the new year. Both teams had been to the prior Final Four, each losing in the semi-final round. However, LSU had graduated five seniors, so the Lady Tigers were not expected to be as strong as the previous year's team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 90], "content_span": [91, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Non conference opener\nThe pollsters concurred, not giving LSU a single vote for a top 25 position in either of the two major polls. LSU played stronger than their ranking, losing by 13 for the third closest match of the season to that date. Renee Montgomery's six assists, brought her to 1500 points and 500 assists for her career, a mark reach by only two other UConn players, Diana Taurasi and Jen Rizzotti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 90], "content_span": [91, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe Big East opening game would be against South Florida USF would go on to win the WNIT this season, but UConn was far too strong on this day. USF was one of the nation's best scoring team, scoring over 100 on five occasions, including 126 against Grambling State. UConn decided to work on defense, and held USF to just over 25% from the field. USF scored only 11 points in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe next game would be against West Virginia, in West Virginia, the home of UConn senior Renee Montgomery. In her first game in West Virginia, two years prior, she scored seven points. This time she would lead the team in points (28), assists(5), and steals(2) to lead UConn to a 30-point victory in front of her home town crowd. Three days later, UConn would play at home against DePaul. UConn built a 15-point lead by halftime against the unranked team, but despite falling another ten points behind, DePaul would play them even in the second half. The final score was 77\u201362, in favor of UConn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nMaya Moore entered the game on 17 January 2009 against Syracuse 29 points shy of 1,000 for her career. She would score 40 to easily surpass that mark, reaching the plateau faster than any other female in UConn history. However, the game would also be notable for a season-ending injury to starter Caroline Doty, reported at the time to be a knee injury. Doty would score 17 points before halftime, but just before halftime, she injured her knee during a fast break. It was the same knee she injured in 2007. Moore's forty points is only the second forty-point performance in UConn women's history; the other is Nykesha Sales' 46 against Stamford in 1997. UConn would win the game 107\u201353.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe following game was a highly anticipated showdown between the #1- and #2-ranked teams in the nation. Both Connecticut and North Carolina entered the game 17\u20130 on the season. Connecticut had the higher ranking, but would need to replace starter Carolyn Doty. Her knee injury in the prior game would turn out to be a season-ending ACL tear. The result would be anticlimactic, as UConn reached a double-digit lead early in the game, extended to a 46\u201330 halftime lead, and finished with a 30-point victory, 88\u201358. The five starters, including Lorin Dixon in her first start of the season, would each score in double digits, led by Renee Montgomery with 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe next game against Cincinnati would be even more lopsided. UConn outscored the Bearcats in the first half 39\u20137. The seven points allowed in the first half were only one point off the school record of six in a half. While Cincinnati would outscore the Huskies in the second half 27\u201326, the outcome was not in doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe 26 January game against Louisville would pit UConn against the team they beat by only six in the previous year's Big East Tournament title game. Louisville was ranked 10th in the nation, and still had Angel McCoughtry, winner of the Big East Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year in 2007. Angle would live up to her reputation with 24 points and 14 rebounds, but it wasn't enough, as Maye Moore scored 27 to lead UConn to a 93\u201365 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe next game was against unranked Georgetown. UConn would win by 19, with five players scoring in double digits, but the game was surprisingly close, given that the average margin of victory for UConn was 34 at that point. The following game was against Rutgers, a team that has often given UConn a strong challenge, winning half of the last ten meetings. Rutgers would stay close in the first half, entering the half down only six 34\u201328, but UConn would pull away in the second half behind a double-double by Moore (24 points, 10 rebounds).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nMarquette would endure another double-double by Moore (22 points, 10 rebounds), in their 83\u201349 loss to UConn on 7 February. The following game against unranked St. John's on 11 February, started as if it would be another rout. UConn led by 15 at halftime, and increased the lead to 20. The St. John's team responded and cut the lead to seven, before UConn regrouped and finished with a 13-point victory, 77\u201364. Maya would contribute another double-double (20 points, 10 rebounds), while Renee Montgomery and Tina Charles each scored 21 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe next game would be the last game of the season at Gampel Arena. The game itself would be anticlimactic, as UConn easily beat Pittsburgh 95\u201342. The highlight of the evening would be the induction into the Huskies of Honor for Renee Montgomery, kept a secret from her until the announcement. One of her first reactions, after the shock of the announcement, was the regret that her parents wouldn't see it, but seconds later, her parents would walk onto the floor. They had been in town, but shared the secret. Renee is the first active player at UConn to be so honored. She would go on to score a team high 20 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nOn the 18th of February, Connecticut played Providence in Providence. The Huskies scored the first eleven points, and never trailed. The Huskies started the second half in even more impressive fashion, scoring the first 25 points of the half. UConn would win easily 75\u201339.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nThe following game was against Notre Dame, ranked 24th at the time. The Notre Dame Irish would give Connecticut their toughest match of the year. The Irish lead most of the first half. Although UConn would go to the half with a three-point lead, Notre Dame outscored UConn in the initial minutes of the second half, with a lead of 43\u201341 at one time. Prior to this game the Huskies had trailed for only a combined 27 minutes all season. Connecticut would retake the lead, and finished the game with a ten-point margin, the closest game of the season to that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nOn the 24th of February, UConn hosted Villanova. Tina Charles had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead UConn to the win 74\u201347. Four days later, Seton Hall came to Hartford, for the last regular season game of the year. As a surprise for the departing seniors, Maya Moore and Kaili McLaren sang the national anthem. Moore then went on to score 18 points, to help lead UConn to an 81\u201350 win, and guarantee a share of the Big East regular-season title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Beginning of  conference play\nOn 2 March 2009, UConn played its last regular season game against rival Rutgers. UConn moved out to a 16-point halftime lead 36\u201320, but Rutgers outscored UConn in the second half to make the final score ten points, tied for closest result of the season. The win leaves the Huskies still undefeated on the season, now 30\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Big East Tournament\nConnecticut opened the Big East Tournament against South Florida, a team it had beaten by 46 points earlier in the season. This game would be closer, but not by much. Kalana Greene led the Huskies with a season-high 20 points, scoring 18 points before halftime, and leading the Huskies to a 47\u201310 halftime lead. USF would match the UConn production in the second half, but the 37 point margin held. The final score was 79\u201342.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 88], "content_span": [89, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Big East Tournament\nThe second tournament game was against Villanova, a team UConn had beaten by 27 points less than two weeks earlier. However, the game was tied at 25 apiece, with under six minutes to go in the first half. Maya Moore then helped lead the team on a 23\u20132 run to put the game out of reach. The Huskies won 72\u201342.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 88], "content_span": [89, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200197-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, Regular season, Big East Tournament\nThe final game, on 10 March, for the Big East Tournament Championship, was against Louisville, ranked #7 in the country. The Cardinals who would go on to play in the Finals of the NCAA tournament, were no match for UConn on this day. Maya Moore left the game with eight minutes to go, having scored 28 points. At that time the Louisville team had scored 27. UConn would win the game in convincing fashion, 75\u201336.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 88], "content_span": [89, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200198-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa America (indoor)\nThe 2008-09 Copa America was an indoor soccer tournament that included teams from 3 countries and 3 professional leagues. Each team was supposed to have played 10 games, with the three group winners plus a wild card team to qualify for a final 4 weekend to decide the title. Due to economic issues, the cup was cut short with teams playing an unequal number of games. The two group leaders with the most wins and points, the Saskatoon Accelerators and Monterrey La Raza, were selected to play in the championship of the now shortened Copa America competition. With the exception of the games involving the Monterrey La Raza of the NISL, all other games in the competition doubled as PASL-Pro regular season matches, CMISL regular season matches, or United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200199-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Chile\nThe Copa Chile 2008 was the 29th edition of the tournament. It began on July 6, 2008, and ended on February 17, 2009. The winner of Copa Chile 2008 is eligible to play a berth in the Copa Sudamericana 2009. In the final Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n defeated the third division team Deportes Ovalle 2\u20131, thereby claiming their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200200-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Federaci\u00f3n de Espa\u00f1a\nThe Copa Federaci\u00f3n de Espa\u00f1a 2008\u201309 was the 16th staging of the Copa Federaci\u00f3n de Espa\u00f1a, a knockout competition for Spanish football clubs in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B and Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200200-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Federaci\u00f3n de Espa\u00f1a\nThe competition began on 2 August 2008 and ended with the finals on 2 April and 15 April 2009, where Real Ja\u00e9n became champion after defeating Rayo Vallecano B 4-1 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200201-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Indonesia\nThe 2008\u201309 Copa Indonesia was the fourth edition of Piala Indonesia, the nationwide football cup tournament in Indonesia, involving clubs from Indonesia Super League, Premier Division and First Division. Sriwijaya FC was the tournament's defending champions. The winner of the tournament qualified to play for 2010 AFC Champions League qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200201-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Indonesia\nSriwijaya became champions for the second year in a row after a 4-0 victory over Persipura Jayapura in the final match at Jakabaring Stadium, Palembang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200201-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa Indonesia, First round\nSriwijaya, Persipura Jayapura, Persija Jakarta and Pelita Jaya received byes to third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey\nThe 2008\u201309 Copa del Rey was the 107th staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The competition started on 23 August 2008 and concluded on 13 May 2009 with the final, held at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, in which Barcelona lifted the trophy for the 25th time in their history with a 4\u20131 victory over Athletic Bilbao, who qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League. The defending cup holders were Valencia, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Qualified teams\nThe following teams competed in the 2008\u201309 Copa del Rey:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Qualified teams\n21 teams of 2007\u201308 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n (Sevilla Atl\u00e9tico are excluded for being a reserve team of Sevilla):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Qualified teams\n24 teams of 2007\u201308 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. Teams that qualified are the top five teams of each of the 4 groups (excluding reserve teams) and the four with the highest number of points out of the remaining non-reserve teams (*):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Qualified teams\n18 teams of Tercera Divisi\u00f3n 2007\u201308. Teams that qualified are the champions of each of the 18 groups (or at least the ones with the highest number of points within their group since reserve teams are excluded):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, First round\nThe matches were played on 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Second round\nThe matches were played on 3, 4 and 11 September 2008. Albacete received a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Third round\nThe matches were played on 8 and 9 October 2008. Real Murcia received a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Round of 32\nThe first leg matches were played on 28, 29 and 30 October while the second legs were played on 11, 12 and 13 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Round of 16\nThe first leg matches were played on 6, 7 and 8 January while the second legs were played on 14 and 15 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200202-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Copa del Rey, Quarter-finals, Second legs\nSevilla 4\u20134 Valencia on aggregate. Sevilla won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia\nThe 2008\u201309 Coppa Italia was the 62nd season of the tournament. The competition started on 9 August 2008 and ended on 13 May 2009. The radically different format used in the 2007\u201308 Coppa was abandoned, with the new format more closely resembling earlier editions of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia\nThe final was played between Lazio and Sampdoria. The match ended with Lazio winning 6\u20135 on penalties. The first 90 minutes ended in a 1\u20131 draw, and no goals were scored in extra time. It was Lazio's fifth Coppa Italia title, and first since the 2003\u201304 edition. With the win, Lazio earned a spot in the play-off round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia, Format\nIn the previous year, the number of teams participating was reduced to only 42: the teams in Serie A and Serie B. For 2008\u201309, that number was expanded to 78 with the addition of 18 clubs from Lega Pro Prima Divisione (formerly Serie C1), nine clubs from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (formerly Serie C2) and nine clubs from Serie D. Also, except for the semifinals, all rounds were one-leg fixtures. The one-game final played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, which was first adopted in 2007\u201308, remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia, Format\nThroughout the tournament, home stadium advantage was given to the projected higher seed (i.e., assuming no upsets). In the two-leg semifinals, the projected higher seed played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia, Participating teams\nDue to financial problems and other sanctions, the list of 78 teams was filled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200203-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Italia, Bracket, Elimination rounds, Section 8\n1 The match was played and Cremonese won by a score of 1\u20130, but were later disqualified for using a player who should have been under suspension. Reggiana was awarded a 3\u20130 victory as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200204-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Titano\nCoppa Titano 2008\u201309 was the forty-ninth season of San Marino's oldest football competition. It began on 2 October 2008 with the first games of the Group Stage and ended on 4 May 2009 with the Final held at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle. Murata were the defending champions. The winners of the competition earned a place in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200204-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Titano, Competition format\nThe competition consisted of two stages, the Group Stage and the Elimination Rounds. The Group Stage consisted of three groups with five teams each. Every team played two games (once home and once away) against every other team of its group. The top two teams from each group, as well as the two best third-placed teams, qualified for the Elimination Rounds. The Elimination Rounds were a single-game elimination tournament. Games in the Elimination Rounds were decided by extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200204-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Titano, Group stage, Deciding match\nBecause Murata and La Fiorita had the same number of points and identical goal difference, they played a deciding match in order to determine the second quarterfinal participant from Group A. The match was played on April 22, 2009 at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200204-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coppa Titano, Elimination rounds, Final\nThe match was played on 4 May 2009 at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200205-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was coach Steve Donahue's 8th season at Cornell. The Big Red compete in the Ivy League and played their home games at Newman Arena. They went 11\u20133 in Ivy League play to win the championship and received the league's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They received a 14 seed in the West region. They were beaten by No. 3 seed Missouri in the first round to finish their season at 21\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200206-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey team represented Cornell University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's hockey season. Doug Derraugh was in his fourth season as head coach. He is assisted by Danielle Bilodeau and Kim Insalaco. The seniors on the team are Emma Chipman, Brianne Gilbert and Steph Ulrich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200207-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornwall League 1\nThe Cornwall League 1 2008\u201309 was a full season of rugby union within Cornwall League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200207-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornwall League 1, Team Changes\nStithians as Champions, were promoted to the Tribute Cornwall/Devon League for season 2009-10. With an increase from 12 to 16 teams in the aforementioned league, St Austell and Liskeard-Looe were also promoted. The two Cornwall leagues will combine for next season and Camborne School of Mines, Illogan Park, Lankelly-Fowey, Redruth Albany, St Agnes, St Day and Veor will join the remaining teams for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200207-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornwall League 1, Table\nIllogan Park withdrew at the start of the season after 14 players left the club", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200208-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornwall League 2\nThe Cornwall League 2 2008\u201309 was a full season of rugby union within Cornwall League 2. This was the last time Cornwall League 2 ran until the 2011-12 season, due to restructuring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200208-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cornwall League 2, Team Changes\nThe number of teams in the Cornwall/Devon League increased from 12 teams to 16 for the following 2009-10 season, therefore the two Cornwall Leagues combined to form a single division of 12 teams, in Cornwall League 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France\nThe 2008\u201309 Coupe de France was the 92nd season of the French most prestigious cup competition and was open to all clubs in French football, as well as seven teams from overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and R\u00e9union). The final was held on 9 May 2009 at the Stade de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France\nGuingamp claimed their first Coupe de France after defeating Rennes 2\u20131 after two second-half goals from Eduardo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Calendar\nOn 8 July 2008, French Football Federation (FFF) announced the calendar for the Coupe de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Seventh Round\nThe draw for the seventh round of Coupe de France was conducted on 5 November 2008 in Lyon by former Lyon players Bernard Lacombe and Jean Djorkaeff, the latter who currently serves as the president of the Coupe de France Commission. The overseas region draw was conducted in Paris the same day, by Olympic medalists Pascal Gentil and Gr\u00e9gory Baug\u00e9. The matches were played on 21, 22 and 23 November 2008. The matches that were postponed were played on 30 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Eighth Round\nThe draw for the eighth round was conducted on 25 November 2008 at the offices of the FFF in Paris. The drawers were current France under-17 coach Philippe Bergeroo and St\u00e9phane Guivarc'h, member of the French squad that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The overseas region draw was conducted in Paris as well, by Bernard Diom\u00e8de, who was also a member of the France squad that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The following matches were played on 12, 13 and 14 December 2008. The matches that were postponed were played on 20 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Round of 64\nThe Round of 64 matches were played on 2, 3 and 4 January 2009. The draw was conducted on 15 December 2008 in Metz by former Nancy greats Olivier Rouyer and Bernard Z\u00e9nier, former wheelchair fencing champion Yvon Pacault, and Anne Sophie Mathis, who is the current WBC Super-lightweight world champion. The matches that were postponed were played on 10 and 24 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Round of 32\nThe Round of 32 matches were played on 23, 24, 25 and 28 January. The draw was conducted on 4 January in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, at the headquarters of Eurosport by Chlo\u00e9 Mortaud, the recently crowned Miss France and 2008 Summer Olympics bronze medalist Teddy Riner. The Guingamp \u2013 Brest match was rescheduled to 20 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Round of 16\nThe Round of 16 matches were played on 3 and 4 March. The draw was conducted on 25 January 2009 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris at the headquarters of Eurosport by French journalist and television host Michel Drucker and former player and manager Michel Hidalgo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Quarter-finals\nThe quarterfinal matches were played on 17 and 18 March. The draw was conducted on 8 March 2009 in Versailles, Paris at the Galaxy Foot Salon by French female volleyball player Victoria Rava and French female sprinter Muriel Hurtis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Semi-finals\nThe semifinal matches were played on 21 and 22 April. The draw was conducted on 22 March 2009 by current France international Samir Nasri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Miscellaneous\nRC Saint-Andr\u00e9 were awarded the \"Petit Poucet\" Plaque for achieving the best performance in the Coupe de France by an amateur club. Saint-Andr\u00e9, who play Championnat de District Level 3 managed to reach the 6th round by eliminating Promotion Ligue side Etoile Chapelaine in the 1st Round, three d'Honneur R\u00e9gionale sides (FC Nogentais, Chaumont PTT, FCO St. Julien) in the 2nd Round, 3rd Round, and 4th Round, respectively. They defeated another Promotion Ligue side in Bagneux Clesles, before suffering elimination to Foyer Barsequanais in the 6th Round. Their exploits allowed the club to accumulate 30 points and thus defeat FCE Schirrhein (29 points), who were eliminated by Ligue 1 club Toulouse after making it all the way to the Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200209-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de France, Media coverage\nIn France, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions were the free to air broadcasters while Eurosport were the subscription broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200210-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue\nThe 2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue began on 19 August 2008, and its final was held on 25 April 2009 at the Stade de France. The former defending champions, Paris Saint-Germain, were initially barred from participating in the cup after a group of PSG supporters unfurled an offensive banner during last year's final. After PSG appealed the ban, however, the Tribunal Administratif de Paris judge vacated the ruling allowing PSG to defend their Coupe de la Ligue title. Due to this, a new draw was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200210-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue\nFrench Football Federation (FFF) president Jean-Pierre Escalettes vowed to get the second ruling overturned, stating, \"I won't give up,\" and, \"I can't allow acts like this to go unpunished,\" but was unsuccessful. The winners of the Coupe de la Ligue qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200210-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue\nLigue 1 club Bordeaux won the competition by defeating Ligue 2 club Vannes by a score of 4\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200210-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue, Calendar\nOn 16 July, the Ligue de Football Professionnel announced the calendar for the Coupe de la Ligue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200210-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue, Calendar\nNote: Due to Paris Saint-Germain's re-entry into the tournament, the draw was redone with different dates attached to the matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200211-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coventry City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Coventry City's 89th season in The Football League and their 8th consecutive season in the Football League Championship. Along with competing in the Championship, the club also participated in the FA Cup and Football League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200211-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Coventry City F.C. season, Review and events, Monthly events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008-09 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200212-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cowdenbeath F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season Cowdenbeath competed in the Scottish Third Division, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup and the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200212-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cowdenbeath F.C. season, Summary\nCowdenbeath finished second in the Third Division, entering the play-offs losing 5\u20134 on penalties to Stenhousemuir. Following Livingston's demotion after going into Administration, Cowdenbeath were promoted to the Second Division. They reached the second round of the Scottish Cup, the second round of the League Cup and were eliminated in the Quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200212-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cowdenbeath F.C. season, Summary, Management\nFor season 2008\u201309 Cowdenbeath were managed by Danny Lennon, following the sacking of Brian Welsh in the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season\nThis article details Crewe Alexandra's 2008\u201309 season in League One, their 85th competitive season in the English Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season, Events\nThis will be a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season, Events\n9 August 2009- season begins with a 2\u20131 loss at home to Brighton. 26 August 2009- Crewe progress into the third round of the League\u00a0Cup with wins over Barnsley and then Bristol City, and are drawn to face Liverpool at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season, Players, Squad information\nAppearances (starts and substitute appearances) and goals include those in the League One (and playoffs), FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season, Players, Squad stats, Disciplinary record\nSource:Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200213-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season, Players, Players in and out, Out\nEU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League (officially known as the T-Com Prva HNL for sponsorship reasons) was the eighteenth season of the Croatian First Football League, the national championship for men's association football teams in Croatia, since its establishment in 1992. It started on 27 July 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. Dinamo Zagreb were the defending champions, having won their twelfth championship title the previous season, and they defended the title again, after a win against Slaven Belupo on 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, Promotion and relegation\nMe\u0111imurje were automatically relegated to Druga HNL as they finished last in the previous season, while Croatia Sesvete were automatically promoted from Druga HNL after winning the 2007\u201308 title. In a two-legged playoff between Inter Zapre\u0161i\u0107 and Hrvatski dragovoljac, the former kept their Prva HNL status by beating Hrvatski dragovoljac with 2\u20130 on aggregate (2\u20130, 0\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, League expansion\nIn June 2007 Igor \u0160timac, president of Association of Prva HNL clubs, proposed a future expansion of Prva HNL from 12 to 16 clubs, starting from 2008\u201309 season. However, although a majority of club representatives supported that proposal, no strict agreement or final decision was made. On HNS meeting in late August 2007 it was decided to postpone the decision for late 2007 or even 2008 and that the expansion would not be possible before the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, League expansion\nFor more than a year nothing explicit was stated on that matter. Finally, on a regular HNS meeting in February 2009 HNS Secretary Zorislav Srebri\u0107 stated that club licensing would decide whether the 2009\u201310 season would feature 12 or 16 teams. Theoretically, if only 15 teams obtained Prva HNL license, league would have featured 12 teams. The deadline for submitting the license was 1 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, League expansion\nOn 8 May 2009 HNS declared that all 19 clubs that applied for the license were awarded with it and would be in possibility to enter the league in 2009\u201310, now expanded to 16 clubs. Also, on 26 May 2009 HNS received official confirmations from all 19 clubs in which they expressed their will to compete in next year's Prva HNL, what means that none of the clubs would withdraw from the league. However, despite their guarantee to compete in Prva HNL, Slavonac eventually withdrew although they finished fourth and earned direct access to 2009\u201310 Prva HNL. Their place was taken by Me\u0111imurje while sixth-placed Hrvatski Dragovoljac competed in a relegation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, Stadiums and locations\nAfter the death of Hrvoje \u0106usti\u0107 during a game played at Zadar's Stanovi Stadium in March 2008, it was decided that the stadia for the 2008\u201309 season would have to pass a closer inspection to be deemed fit for first-league football. Since only 9 stadia managed to meet the requirements and obtain first-league license from the Croatian Football Federation, it was announced in May 2008 that some of the teams (Cibalia, Croatia Sesvete, Zadar and NK Zagreb) would have to share stadia and temporarily play their home games at other venues. Just before Round 1 kicked off, Cibalia managed to bring their stadium to standard, and in August, just before round 5, Zadar secured the licence to play their games at Stanovi Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, League table, Relegation play-off\nDue to the expansion of Prva HNL to 16 clubs in the 2009\u201310 season, four clubs from 2008\u201309 Druga HNL were automatically promoted. Those should have been top four clubs, but since Slavonac withdrew their direct access spot was taken by fifth-placed Me\u0111imurje. Therefore, the 12th placed Croatia Sesvete played a two-legged relegation play-off against the 6th placed team of Druga HNL, Hrvatski Dragovoljac. Croatia Sesvete won 2\u20131 on aggregate and thereby earned a spot in the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200214-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian First Football League, Results\nThe schedule consisted of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200215-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup was the eighteenth season of Croatia's football knockout competition. Dinamo Zagreb were the defending champions since they won the last year's cup by defeating Hajduk Split 3\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200215-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup, First round\nThe matches were played on 23 and 24 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200215-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup, First round\n1Due to financial difficulties, Kamen Ingrad ceased competing on a senior professional level, and therefore withdrew from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200215-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw was held on 30 October. First legs were held on 12 November and second legs on 26 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200215-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Football Cup, Final, Second leg\n3\u20133 on aggregate. Dinamo Zagreb won 4\u20133 in penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200216-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Ice Hockey League season\nThe Croatian Hockey League Season for 2008-2009 was the 18th such season. It was won by KHL Medve\u0161\u010dak, making it the team's twelfth championship in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200216-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Ice Hockey League season, Playoffs, semifinal\nMedvescak defeated Sisak in the semifinal series 2-0, in a best of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200216-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Ice Hockey League season, Playoffs, semifinal\nMladost defeated Zagreb in the semifinal series 2-0, in a best of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200216-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Ice Hockey League season, Playoffs, final\nMedvescak beat Mladost 2-0, in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200217-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Premier League (handball)\nThe 2008-09 Dukat Premijer Liga season is the eighteenth since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200218-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Second Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Druga HNL (also known as 2. HNL) season was the 18th season of Croatia's second level football since its establishment in 1992. Croatia Sesvete were league champions and were promoted to Prva HNL at the end of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200218-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Second Football League\nThe league featured 16 clubs, playing in a double round robin league system. The season started on 23 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200218-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Second Football League, Changes from last season\nThe following clubs have been promoted or relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200218-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Second Football League, Changes from last season, Notes\nIn a two-legged promotion/relegation playoff between Inter Zapre\u0161i\u0107 (as 11th placed 1. HNL team) and Hrvatski Dragovoljac (as 2. HNL runners-up), the former kept their Prva HNL status by beating Hrvatski Dragovoljac with 2\u20130 on aggregate (2\u20130, 0\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200218-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Croatian Second Football League, Top goalscorers\nThe top scorers in the 2008\u201309 Druga HNL season were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200219-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crystal Palace F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Crystal Palace Football Club's 4th consecutive season in the Championship, after their play-off defeat in the previous campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200219-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Crystal Palace F.C. season, Matches, Preseason, Errea South West Challenge Cup\nCrystal Palace finished second in their group with three points and thus qualified for the semifinal stage. However, with the squad heavily depleted through injury, Palace opted to give their semifinal place to third-placed team Torquay United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200220-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cuban National Series\nThe 48th Cuban National Series was won by La Habana over Villa Clara. Ciego de \u00c1vila, who had the best regular season record, lost in the semifinals. Defending champion Santiago de Cuba were ousted in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200221-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 71st season of the Romanian football knockout tournament. It began on 30 July 2008 and the final was played on 13 June 2009. CFR Cluj were the defending champions and succeeded in keeping the cup for one more year at Cluj-Napoca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200221-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Round of 32\nIn this round entered the 14 winners of the Phase V and the 18 teams from the 2008\u201309 Liga I season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200221-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Round of 32\nThe matches were played on October 14, 15 and 16, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200221-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Quarterfinals\nThe matches were played on 14 and 15 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200221-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Semi-finals\nThe matches were played on 28 and 29 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200222-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen\nThe 2008\u20132009 Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen takes place between 1 November 2008 and 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200223-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cyclo-cross Superprestige\nThe 2008\u20132009 Cyclo-cross Superprestige events and season-long competition takes place between 12 October 2008 and 12 February 2009. Eight events are organised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200223-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cyclo-cross Superprestige, Season standings\nIn each race, the top 15 riders gain points, going from 15 points for the winner decreasing by one point per position to 1 point for the rider finishing in 15th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200224-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cymru Alliance\nThe 2008\u201309 Cymru Alliance was the nineteenth season of the Cymru Alliance after its establishment in 1990. The league was won by Bala Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup was the 67th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 28 clubs entered the competition. It began on 23 September 2008 with the first round and concluded on 10 May 2009 with the final which was held at GSP Stadium. APOP Kinyras won their 1st Cypriot Cup trophy after beating AEL 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIn the 2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division and the Cypriot Second Division. Teams from the two lower divisions (Third and Fourth) competed in a separate cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe competition consisted of five rounds. All rounds, except the final, were played in a two-legged format, each team playing a home and an away match against their opponent. The team which scored more goals on aggregate, was qualifying to the next round. If the two teams scored the same number of goals on aggregate, then the team which scored more goals away from home was advancing to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIf both teams had scored the same number of home and away goals, then extra time was following after the end of the second leg match. If during the extra thirty minutes both teams had managed to score, but they had scored the same number of goals, then the team who scored the away goals was advancing to the next round (i.e. the team which was playing away). If there weren't scored any goals during extra time, the qualifying team was determined by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe cup winner secured a place in the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, First round\nIn the first round participated all the teams of the Cypriot Second Division and 10 of 14 teams of the Cypriot First Division. The four first division teams which were qualified for 2007\u201308 Cypriot Cup's semifinals (APOEL, Anorthosis, Apollon, Omonia) did not participated in this round. The Cypriot First Division teams were not drawn together and played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, First round\nThe draw for the First Round took place on September 10, 2008. The first legs were played on September 23, 24 and October 1, 2008. The second legs were played on October 4 and 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Second round\nTeams that qualified for last year's semifinals entered in this round, along with the 12 winners of the previous round. The draw for the second round took place on December 29, 2008. The first legs were played on January 14 and 21, 2009. The second legs were played on January 28 and February 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarterfinals took place on February 5, 2009 at the Hilton Park hotel in Nicosia. The first legs were played on February 25 and March 4, 2009. The second legs were played on March 11 and 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200225-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semifinals took place at the Hilton Park hotel in Nicosia on March 20, 2009. The first legs were played on April 15, 2009. The second legs were played on May 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions was the 1st edition of the Cypriot Cup for lower divisions. A total of 19 clubs entered the competition. It began on 11 October 2008 with the first round and concluded on 29 March 2009 with the final which was held at Dasaki Stadium. Elpida won their 1st cup trophy after beating Digenis 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, Format\nOnly teams from the Cypriot Third Division and Cypriot Fourth Division could participate. Participation was not compulsory. 19 of 28 participated that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, Format\nThe competition consisted of five rounds. In the first and in the second round each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay at the ground of the team who were away for the first game. If the rematch was also drawn, then extra time was following and if the match remained drawn after extra time the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, Format\nThe next two rounds were played in a two-legged format, each team playing a home and an away match against their opponent. The team which scored more goals on aggregate, was qualifying to the next round. If the two teams scored the same number of goals on aggregate, then the team which scored more goals away from home was advancing to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, Format\nIf both teams had scored the same number of home and away goals, then extra time was following after the end of the second leg match. If during the extra thirty minutes both teams had managed to score, but they had scored the same number of goals, then the team who scored the away goals was advancing to the next round (i.e. the team which was playing away). If there weren't scored any goals during extra time, the qualifying team was determined by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, First round\n13 out of the 19 teams were drawn to qualify directly to the second round, without needing to play any match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200226-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Cup for lower divisions, Second round\nIn the second round participated the winners of the first round ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division was the seventy season of top-tier football on Cyprus. It started on 30 August 2008 and ended on 10 May 2009. The defending champions were Anorthosis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division\nAPOEL won the championship three matchweeks before the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division\nThis year, for the second time, the championship also featured a group stage play-off system. Teams were divided into 3 groups: 1st\u20134th, 5th\u20138th and 9th\u201312th. Points from the main part of the season still counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division. Each team played against every other team twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 26 matches. After these matches, the two teams with the worst records were relegated to the 2009\u201310 Cypriot Second Division. The remaining twelve teams were divided into three groups: 1st-4th, 5th-8th and 9th-12th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division, Format\nThe teams ranked first through fourth played out the champion and the participants for the European competitions. Teams ranked ninth through 12th determined the third relegated club, while the remaining four teams played a placement round. Every team played twice against its group opponents. Regular season records are carried over without any modifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division, Format\nThe champions ensured their participation in the 2009\u201310 UEFA Champions League and the runners-up and the third team in the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200227-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot First Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200228-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Fourth Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot Fourth Division was the 24th season of the Cypriot fourth-level football league. Achyronas Liopetriou won their 3rd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200228-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Fourth Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 2008\u201309 Cypriot Fourth Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first three teams were promoted to the 2009\u201310 Cypriot Third Division and the last three teams were relegated to regional leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200228-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Fourth Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200229-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Second Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot Second Division was the 54th season of the Cypriot second-level football league. Ermis won their 3rd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200229-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Second Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 2008\u201309 Cypriot Second Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first three teams were promoted to 2009\u201310 Cypriot First Division and the last three teams were relegated to the 2009\u201310 Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200230-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Third Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Cypriot Third Division was the 38th season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Akritas Chlorakas won their 2nd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200230-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Third Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 2008\u201309 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first three teams were promoted to the 2009\u201310 Cypriot Second Division and the last three teams were relegated to the 2009\u201310 Cypriot Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200230-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Cypriot Third Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200231-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech 1. Liga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Czech 1.liga season was the 16th season of the Czech 1.liga, the second level of ice hockey in the Czech Republic. 16 teams participated in the league, and HC Slovan Ustecti Lvi won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200232-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech 2. Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 Czech 2. Liga was the 16th season of the 2. \u010desk\u00e1 fotbalov\u00e1 liga, the second tier of the Czech football league. Bohemians 1905 were promoted to the Czech First League as winners of the league. Second placed \u010c\u00e1slav decided not to promote and sold their license to Slov\u00e1cko, who were promoted in their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200233-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Czech Cup was the sixteenth edition of the annual football knock-out tournament of the Czech Republic. It began on 20 July 2008 with the preliminary round. The final was held on 27 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200233-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 8 and 9 April 2009. The second legs were played on 22 and 23 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200233-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 6 and 7 May 2009. The second legs were played on 13 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200234-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech Extraliga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Czech Extraliga season was the 16th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200235-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech First League\nThe 2008\u201309 Czech First League, known as the Gambrinus liga for sponsorship reasons, was the sixteenth season of Czech Republic's top-tier of football. It began on 2 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. Slavia Prague were the defending champions. Slavia secured their 17th title overall after a 3\u20131 win away against Viktoria \u017di\u017ekov in 28th round. They were the first club to defend Czech title since the 2000\u201301 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200235-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech First League, Promotion and relegation\nMost and Bohemians 1905 were relegated to the second division after finishing last and second to last, respectively, in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200235-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Czech First League, Promotion and relegation\nFK Bohemians Prague (St\u0159\u00ed\u017ekov) (as champions) and 1. FK P\u0159\u00edbram (as runners-up) were promoted from the second division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season\nThe 2008\u201309 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 15th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (English: German Ice Hockey Leagie). 16 Teams played after the 2. Bundesliga Champion, the Kassel Huskies received the license to play in the DEL. After 52 rounds and the play-off's, the Eisb\u00e4ren Berlin won its 4th German Championship in the last five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Teams\nIn accordance to the cooperation contract between the DEL and the German Ice Hockey Federation, and after concluding that necessary reforms where not done in the 2. Bundesliga, a decision was made not to have playdowns and no teams were relegated. However, after ensuring compliance with the DEL regulations, the 2. Bundesliga Champions, the Kassel Huskies, were allowed to enter the league on July 4, 2008, expanding the league to 16 teams. This is also the first season where the Eisb\u00e4ren Berlin played in the brand new O2 World arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Teams\nThe number of regular seasons rounds was reduced to 52 from 56 in the previous season. The 6-best placed teams qualified for the playoffs, the teams in 7-10th position where to play a qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Teams\nThe average team budget was estimate at Euro \u20ac 5.24 million, raising the league total to Euro \u20ac 84.3 million from Euro \u20ac 78.7, mainly due to the addition of 1 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Playoffs, Playoff qualifications\nThe playoff qualifications were played between March 5 and 11, 2009 in the Best-of-five mode.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinals were played in the Best-of-seven mode starting March 13 until March 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were played in the Best-of-five mode, from March 29 to April 7, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Playoffs, Finale\nThe finals were played in the Best-of-five mode, from April 9, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200236-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DEL season, Playoffs, Finale\nThe Eisb\u00e4ren Berlin won the title for the 4th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal\nThe 2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal was the 66th season of the annual German football cup competition. The competition began with the first round on 7 August 2008, and ended with Werder Bremen defeating Bayer Leverkusen, who for their part eliminated defending champions Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals, in the final at the Olympiastadion, Berlin on 30 May 2009. The winners of the 2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal would qualify to the fourth qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal\nDue to a decision made in 2006, reserve teams from professional clubs are no longer allowed to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal, Draw\nThe draws for the different rounds were conducted as following: For the first round, the participating teams were split into two pots. The first pot contained all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the teams which were promoted from the Regionalligen and the bottom four teams of the Second Bundesliga. Every team from this pot was drawn to a team from the second pot, which contained all remaining professional teams. The teams from the first pot were set as the home team in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal, Draw\nThe two-pot scenario was also applied for the second round, with the remaining amateur teams in the first pot and the remaining professional teams in the other pot. Once one pot was empty, the remaining pairings were drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts. For the remaining rounds, the draw was conducted from just one pot. Any remaining amateur team were assigned as the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team served as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal, Matches, First round\nThe draw for the first round was held on 6 July 2008. Matches were played between 7 and 10 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal, Matches, Second round\nThe draw for the second round was conducted on 24 August 2008. The games were played on 23 and 24 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200237-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal, Matches, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 was conducted on 5 October 2008. The games were played on 27 and 28 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200238-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal Frauen\nThe DFB-Pokal 2008\u201309 was the 29th season of the competition. The first round began on 30 August 2008. In the final, held on 30 May 2009 in Berlin FCR 2001 Duisburg defeated Turbine Potsdam 7\u20130, marking the highest margin by which a Frauen DFB-Pokal final was ever decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200238-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal Frauen, 1st round\nThe top six clubs from last year's Bundesliga season were automatically qualified for the second round of the cup. These were 1. FFC Frankfurt, Turbine Potsdam, FCR 2001 Duisburg, Bayern Munich, SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, and VfL Wolfsburg. The other clubs from the Bundesliga all won their first round match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200238-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal Frauen, 2nd round\nIn the second round Bayern Munich defeated title holder 1. FFC Frankfurt who was for the first time since 1998 not present in the DFB-Pokal final. The other match between clubs from the Bundesliga was won by SG Essen-Sch\u00f6nebeck against HSV Borussia Friedenstal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200239-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 2nd season in the Football League played by Dagenham & Redbridge F.C., an English football club based in Dagenham, Greater London. It was their second consecutive season in Football League Two after promotion from the Football Conference in 2007. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200239-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. season, Match results\nLeague positions are sourced from Statto, while the remaining contents of each table are sourced from the references in the \"Ref\" column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200240-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Mavericks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Dallas Mavericks season is the 29th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The season marked by the arrival of former NBA Coach of the Year, Rick Carlisle who hired on May 9, 2008 following Avery Johnson was fired after the 2008 NBA Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200240-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Mavericks season\nFinishing at 50\u201332 as the number 6 seed, the Mavericks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in the opening round. They were, however, unable to defeat the Carmelo Anthony-led Denver Nuggets in the next round. The Nuggets would go on to the Conference Finals, where they lost to the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season\nThe 2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season was the 42nd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on June 5, 1967. The Stars attempted to win the Stanley Cup for the second time in franchise history but the Stars would end the season missing the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Regular season\nThe Stars finished the regular season having scored the fewest shorthanded goals in the NHL, with just two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Regular season\nOn February 6, 2009, the Stars defeated the New York Rangers at home by a score of 10\u20132. It was the first time that the Stars had scored 10 goals in a game since they defeated the San Jose Sharks at home by a score of 10\u20133 on November 28, 1992, when the franchise was still based in Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Regular season\nOn April 4, 2009, Trevor Daley scored just 16 seconds into the overtime period to give the Stars a 5\u20134 home win over the St. Louis Blues. It would prove to be the fastest overtime goal scored during the 2008\u201309 regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Regular season, Divisional standings\nNote: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Playoffs\nThe Dallas Stars failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL playoffs. for the first time since 2002", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Stars. Stats reflect player's season totals. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Draft picks\nThe Stars' picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200241-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dallas Stars season, Farm teams\nIn 2008, the Stars ended their affiliation with the American Hockey League (AHL)'s Iowa Stars as their primary minor league affiliate, expecting to announce the formation of a new minor league expansion team, the Texas Stars, at the beginning of the 2009\u201310 season. The Texas Stars will be based in Cedar Park, Texas, just three hours driving time from the metroplex. The Stars' minor league contract players are currently dispersed among four different teams in the AHL and ECHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200242-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 1st Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Danish 1st Division season is the 13th season of the Danish 1st Division league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200242-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 1st Division\nThe division-champion and runner-up will be promoted to the 2009\u201310 Danish Superliga. The teams in the 14th, 15th and 16th places will be divided between 2nd Division East and West, based on location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200242-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 1st Division\nOn February 3, K\u00f8ge Boldklub declared bankruptcy. As a result, they were docked three points and were suspended from the tournament. Furthermore, they will be relegated two levels in addition to the one they have clinched at the moment, making them participate in Sj\u00e6llandsserien from the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200242-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 1st Division\nOn February 14, however, it was announced that First Division clubs K\u00f8ge Boldklub and Herf\u00f8lge Boldklub intended to merge their first teams to form HB K\u00f8ge, and on March 14, the club was approved by the Danish FA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200243-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 2nd Divisions\nThe 2008-09 season in Danish 2nd Division will be divided in two groups. The two winners will be promoted to the 2009\u201310 Danish 1st Division, together with the winner of a promotion game between the two runners-up. Second squad teams are ineligible for promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200243-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 2nd Divisions, Play-offs, Promotion game\nThe two runners-up will play promotion game on home and away basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200243-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish 2nd Divisions, Play-offs, Relegation game\nThe two teams placed 15th in each group will play relegation game on home and away basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Danish Cup was the 55th season of only Danish football cup competition. It was the first time since 2004 that the cup had a sponsor name: the daily newspaper Ekstra Bladet has signed a 3-year contract with the Danish Football Association (DBU), making the official name Ekstra Bladet Cup 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup\nThe competition started in August 2008 with the First Round and concluded on May 21, 2009 with the Final, held at Parken Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, First round\nIn this round entered 96 teams. These include 55 teams from lower divisions, who have qualified through preliminary cups held by the regional associations, 25 teams from Second Divisions 2007\u201308 and all 16 teams from First Division 2007\u201308.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, First round\nThe draw for the First Round was held at Ekstra Bladet's premises at The City Hall Square in Copenhagen. The matches were played around August 13, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, First round, West group\nThe west group consisted of 46 teams. These were split into 5 minor groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Second round\nThe winners from the First Round progressed to the Second Round. Eight additional teams, placed fifth to twelfth in the 2007\u201308 Superliga, contested in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Second round\nThe draw for the Second Round was held at Ekstra Bladet's premises at The City Hall Square in Copenhagen. The matches were played on August 23 and 24, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Third round\nThe winners from the Second Round progressed to the Third Round. Four additional teams, placed first to fourth in the 2007\u201308 Superliga, contested in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Third round\nThe draw for this round was held at Ekstra Bladet's premises at The City Hall Square in Copenhagen. The matches were played between September 26 and 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Fourth round\nThe winners from the Third Round progressed to the Fourth Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Fourth round\nThe draw for this was held at Ekstra Bladet's premises at The City Hall Square in Copenhagen. The matches were played around October 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Fifth round\nThe draw for the Fifth Round was held at Ekstra Bladet's premises at The City Hall Square in Copenhagen. The matches were played on November 12, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Semifinals\nThe semifinals will be played on home and away basis. The first legs were played on April 15 and 16 and second on April 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200244-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Cup, Final\nThe final was held at Parken Stadium on 21 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200245-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Superliga\nThe 2008\u201309 Danish Superliga was the 19th season of Danish Superliga league championship, which determines the winners of the Danish football championship, governed by the Danish Football Association. The season started on 19 July 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. The defending champions were Aalborg BK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200245-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Superliga\nThe Danish champions qualified for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Champions League qualifying round. Runners-up and 3rd placed team qualified for 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. 11th and 12th placed teams were relegated to the 1st Division. The 1st Division champions and runners-up were promoted to the Superliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200245-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Superliga, Promotion and relegation\nThe following teams were promoted to Superliga after the end of the 2007\u201308 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200245-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Danish Superliga, Promotion and relegation\nThe following teams were relegated from Superliga after the end of the 2007\u201308 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200246-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team represented Davidson College in NCAA men's Division I competition. The Wildcats had emerged in recent years as a legitimate national power despite being a mid-major school with one of the smallest student bodies in the NCAA Division I. The team was given high expectations after advancing to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200246-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team\nThis season was highlighted by the individual performance of Stephen Curry, who was the nation's leading scorer after making the switch from Shooting Guard to Point Guard positions. He averaged 28.6 Points per Game and 5.6 Assists per Game. Stephen this season also took the title of all-time leading career point-scorer from former All-American John Gerdy. A few months after the season, Stephen announced his entry into the 2009 NBA Draft, ending his Davidson career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200246-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe season was ended on a disappointing note, as the Wildcats unexpectedly lost to College of Charleston in the SoCon Tournament semifinals, resulting in their omission from the NCAA Basketball Tournament Field. The Wildcats then beat the South Carolina Gamecocks in the NIT tournament before losing in the Round of 16 to Saint Mary's and their star Point Guard Patty Mills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200246-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200247-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dayton Flyers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Dayton Flyers men's basketball team represented the University of Dayton during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Flyers, led by sixth year head coach Brian Gregory, played their home games at the University of Dayton Arena and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 27\u20138, 11\u20135 in A-10 play for a tie for second-place. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated West Virginia in the round of 64 before losing in the round of 32 to defending national champion Kansas. The Flyers first round win was the program's first in the NCAA Tournament since 1990, when they defeated Illinois in the round of 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200247-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dayton Flyers men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe 2007\u201308 Dayton Flyers finished the season with an overall record of 23\u201311, with a record of 8\u20138 in the Atlantic 10 regular season for a tie for a fifth-place finish. They received an at-large bid to the 2008 National Invitation Tournament where they beat Cleveland State and Illinois State in the first and second rounds before falling to eventual champion Ohio State in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season will be Debreceni VSC - TEVA's 16th competitive season, 16th consecutive season in the Soproni Liga and 106th year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season, Team kit\nThe team kits for the 2008-09 season are produced by Adidas and the shirt sponsor is TEVA and Ave-\u00c1sv\u00e1nyv\u00edz. The home kit is red colour and the away kit is white colour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season, Statistics, Top scorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200248-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Debreceni VSC season, Hungarian Cup, Round 5, Second leg\nFC Feh\u00e9rv\u00e1r 2\u20132 Debrecen on aggregate. Debrecen won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200249-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Denver Nuggets season\nThe 2008\u201309 Denver Nuggets season was the 42nd season of the franchise, 33rd in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They finished the regular season with 54 wins and 28 losses, the franchise's best record since 1987\u201388. In the playoffs, the Nuggets defeated New Orleans Hornets in five games in the first round; this series included a notable 58-point bludgeoning of the Hornets in Game 4. The Nuggets then defeated the Dallas Mavericks in five games in the Western Conference Semifinals to reach the Conference Finals for the first time since 1985, ending their streak of five straight first-round exits. However, the Nuggets lost to the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, ending their playoff run. This was the second straight year the Nuggets had their season ended by the Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200249-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Denver Nuggets season\nAs of May 2021 the Nuggets' six-game loss to the Lakers in the 2009 Western Conference Finals was tied closest the team has ever come to reaching the NBA Finals, after they made it to the conference finals in 2020 but were once again beat by the Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200249-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Denver Nuggets season, Key dates\nDuring the first week of the season, superstar guard Allen Iverson was traded in a blockbuster deal to the Detroit Pistons for Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb. McDyess was released soon after the trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200249-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Denver Nuggets season, Draft picks\nThe Denver Nuggets had no draft picks in the 2008 NBA draft, but did acquire the draft rights of Sonny Weems from the Chicago Bulls. Weems was the 39th pick of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200250-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a's 38th season in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football. The season covered the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200250-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200250-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a season, Players, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200250-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a season, Season results, UEFA Cup, First round\n2\u20132 on aggregate. Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a won 3\u20132 on penalties", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Derby County's 110th season in the Football League. It is their 41st season in the second division of English football and their first season in the second tier since the 2006\u201307 season. They were relegated from the FA Premier League in the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season\nDespite relegation from the Premier League the previous season hopes had been high of an immediate return, especially after manager Paul Jewell's summer reconstruction of the squad seeing 16 players come in and 12 leave. However, things did not go to plan and the club spent the majority of the season in the lower reaches of the table. They were bottom of the league going into the August international break, after a 2\u20130 defeat away to Barnsley left the club with a single point from the first four games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season\nA 2\u20131 win over Sheffield United was the club's first league win in almost a year, bringing to an end of a 38-game winless sequence, and a run of just one defeat in 11, with 5 wins, lifted the club to the season high of ninth. Form soon dipped again and, after a run of just two wins in 11 matches which left the club 18th in the table, Jewell quit as manager on 28 December 2008 after just over a year in the job. He left with a record of just 13 wins in 58 matches, though he did take the club to their first major cup semi-final in over 30 years when the club reached the League Cup semi-final, where they lost 4\u20133 on aggregate to eventual winners Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season\nHis replacement was Nigel Clough, manager of non-league Burton Albion and son of the club's former manager Brian. Despite overseeing two defeats in his first two games, Clough soon turned the club's form around, taking them to the 5th round of the FA Cup and just three defeats in 13 matches, a run which included four consecutive wins. A run of three consecutive defeats in mid April meant that survival was not guaranteed until the penultimate game of the season when Player of the Year Rob Hulse scored the winner in a 1\u20130 win over Charlton Athletic at Pride Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nFollowing the final day of the 2007\u201308 season, Jewell publicly announced his displeasure with the current squad, promising drastic changes. Within four weeks of the close of the season Derby confirmed five new signings, namely Plymouth defender Paul Connolly, Doncaster midfielder Paul Green, Watford F.C. defender Jordan Stewart and Nottingham Forest winger Kris Commons on frees. Watford's Nathan Ellington joined on a season-long loan (with a view to a permanent deal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nIn addition to these, the club signed out of contract Tranmere youngster Steve Davies on 12 June 2008 on a Bosman (although as he is under 24, a tribunal fee was set at \u00a3275k, with an additional \u00a3450k based on appearances and promotion). West Bromwich Albion's Martin Albrechtsen joined for free on 30 June 2008, and Stockport striker Liam Dickinson signed for \u00a3750k on 1 July 2008. Sheffield United striker Rob Hulse followed for \u00a31.75m on 21 July 2008, the same day a season long loan deal for FC Porto and Poland international midfielder Przemyslaw Kazmierczak was finalised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nOn 7 August, just two days before the start of the new season, the club completed its eleventh and twelfth signings of pre-season, in the shape of Swiss-born Serbian U-19 international Aleksandar Prijovi\u0107, who rejected a new deal with Parma to join the club, for free and Latvian international midfielder Andrejs Perep\u013cotkins on a season long loan from Skonto FC R\u012bga after impressing on trial at the club. Finally, on 19 August the club signed Dutch attacking midfielder Nacer Barazite on loan until 31 December 2008 from Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nThese thirteen signings all came in addition to Australian midfielder Ruben Zadkovich, who was signed in March. There were also unsuccessful attempts to sign Swansea midfielder Ferrie Bodde and Wigan's Marlon King on a season-long loan. Trials were also given to former Reading winger John Oster (who rejected the offer of a contract), Nigerian midfielder Richard Eromoigbe (whom the club decided not to sign), Australian defender Daniel Piorkowski (who eventually joined Walsall) and French midfielder Julien Sabl\u00e9. (who, as with Eromoigbe, the club declined to sign)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nFour players were initially allowed to leave the club, with the contracts of Michael Johnson, Lee Holmes and Marc Edworthy not being renewed following their completion, and Ben Hinchcliffe's contract being terminated. Andy Todd was told he could leave on a free transfer but is still currently with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nPlayers moving out for fees were Kenny Miller, who rejoined Rangers for \u00a32m; club record signing Rob Earnshaw for \u00a32.65m to rivals Nottingham Forest less than a year after joining the club; David Jones, who joined Wolves for \u00a31.2m; Craig Fagan, who returned to Hull City for \u00a3750k and Darren Moore, who signed for Barnsley on a free. Stephen Pearson was expected to move to Birmingham but the move fell through due to Birmingham's unwillingness to sign the player while injured and Pearson rejecting a loan move. Stephen Bywater was the subject of an accepted \u00a3200k bid from Tottenham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nHowever, despite taking a medical, Tottenham decided not to sign Bywater. Shortly after the start of the season, these players were joined by Eddie Lewis, whose contract was terminated by mutual consent and Benny Feilhaber who joined Danish side AGF Aarhus on a free. Another, unwanted, departure came with the news of club captain Alan Stubbs' retirement through injury on 20 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nThe first game of the new Championship season saw nine of Jewell's summer signings make their debuts (seven starting and two as substitutes), but lost 1\u20130 to Doncaster. This stretched the club's winless run to 33 matches and saw Jewell express disappointment with his players failing to cope with the pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nJewell finally got his first win as Derby manager (not counting an FA Cup third round penalties victory against Sheff Wednesday in January 2008) three days later as Derby beat Lincoln 3\u20131 in the League Cup first round, with Nathan Ellington getting his first goals for the club with a hattrick. A 1\u20131 draw with Bristol Rovers four days later saw the club break the league record for longest winless streak, stretching it to 34 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nOn 14 August 2008 the club finally announced the extent of the club's debt after several months of speculation. The club's new chairman, Andrew Appleby, announced that upon arrival at the club in January 2008, Derby were \u00a331m in debt. This had been reduced by \u00a36m to \u00a325m in the first six months of the new boards tenure, with the aim to reduce it by a further \u00a310m by August 2009, leaving Derby with only the \u00a315m mortgage on the Pride Park Stadium to repay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nIt was also announced that \u00a310.4m of the 2008\u201309 season's \u00a311.5m parachute payment has already been spent on players bought the previous summer. These players (such as Kenny Miller and Claude Davis) had still not completely been paid for, with Chairman of Football Adam Pearson stating that \"We\u2019ve (Derby County) still got to find \u00a33m this month for Claude Davis, Kenny Miller, David Jones and Benny Feilhaber \u2013 so that's another significant investment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0007-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nHe added that \"At the minute, the wages are circa \u00a32.5m more than where I\u2019d like them to be on an annual basis, so that needs taking care of.\" This was followed by a mixed series of results, with two more league defeats (1\u20130 at home to Southampton and 2\u20130 away to Barnsley, both clubs previously without a win) leaving the club bottom of the table going into the two-week international break, sandwiching a 1\u20130 win away to in-form Preston North End in the League Cup second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, August\nOn 29 August 2008 Mears caused controversy when he flew to France to go on trial with Olympic Marseille without the express permission of Derby manager Paul Jewell. Jewell responded, saying that Mears will never play for the club again whilst he is in charge. Following the trial, the clubs agreed that Mears would go on loan to Marseille for the duration of the 2008\u201309 season, for a loan fee of \u00a3160,000, with the French club having the option to buy him for \u00a31.5m at the end of the loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, September\nFollowing the two-week break for international fixtures, Derby's next match was against Sheffield United. The game generated much media coverage as it was approaching a year since Derby's last league win, a run which saw the club break the English league record for most matches without a win. On 13 September 2008, four days short of the anniversary of the 1\u20130 win over Newcastle, Rob Hulse scored against his former club as Derby ran out 2\u20131 winners, earning Paul Jewell his first league win as Derby boss at his 27th attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, September\nThe win sparked an upturn in the club's fortunes and Derby went the whole of September undefeated, including the club's first away win in 18 months with a 2\u20130 success away to Q.P.R. and a draw at home to league leaders Birmingham City. The form of defender Martin Albrechtsen saw him nominated for the Championship Player of the Month award, though he lost out to Reading's Kevin Doyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, October\nDerby's undefeated run was stretched to six games after a 2\u20131 win away to Norwich City, which saw Nathan Ellington get his first league goal for the club with an 85th-minute winner. The win meant that Derby had earned more points in six matches than in the whole of the previous season and put them within two points of a play-off place going into the international break. Returning from the international break, The Rams continued their run, taking it to seven games, by beating Plymouth Argyle 2\u20131 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, October\nA 3\u20132 defeat away to Blackpool ended the club's unbeaten streak, but the Rams recovered to earn a point at Coventry City and beat Norwich for the second time in a month, winning 3\u20131 at home with a performance Paul Jewell described as \"Our best yet\". Rob Hulse's form during October saw him awarded the Championship Player of the Month award, after he scored four goals in five games, while Paul Jewell earned his first Championship Manager of the Month nomination as Derby boss, though he eventually lost out to Cardiff's Dave Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, November\nNovember started with the return of the East Midlands derby against Nottingham Forest to the fixture list, following a three-year absence. The match ended as a 1\u20131 draw after referee Stuart Attwell disallowed two Derby goals in the final few minutes. Atwell also booked eight players and issued a straight red card to Forest midfielder Lewis McGugan. Jewell was especially vocal in his dismay at Attwell's performance, accusing the 25-year-old official of 'losing control' of the game and 'robbing' the Rams of a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, November\nThe press furore around his display saw Attwell called in for a meeting with Referee's Chief Keith Hackett and was consequently axed from the following week's fixture list. Days after the game Derby manager Paul Jewell said that a member of the Football Association had contacted him and told him that the second goal should have stood. The Attwell controversy overshadowed Derby's run of only one defeat in 11 and their retention of the Brian Clough Trophy. It also stretched Derby's unbeaten streak against Forest to five, having lost just once to their rivals in the last 11 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0011-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, November\nFollowing the Forest game however, Derby's form began to stutter \u2013 despite two wins over League One clubs Brighton & Hove Albion (4\u20131) and Leeds United (2\u20131) in the League Cup, taking Derby to their first quarter-final in the competition since 1989, Derby won just one of their next four league games, a 3\u20130 win over Sheffield Wednesday that gave them their biggest league win since a 5\u20131 win over Colchester United in May 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0011-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, November\nThe club's dip in form saw Jewell making vocal his desire to bring fresh legs and impetus into a squad being hit by injuries and a busy fixture list, whilst assistant manager Chris Hutchings called for greater 'consistency'. Despite the club's disappointing form they remained in contention for the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0011-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, November\nThe last week of November proved to be a busy one as the club signed former Southampton defender Darren Powell on a free transfer and brought in West Ham United youngster James Tomkins and Charlton Athletic's Luke Varney in on loan, with Andy Todd, Liam Dickinson, Jay McEveley and Mitchell Hanson going out on loan to Northampton, Blackpool, Charlton and Notts County respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, December\nDespite these changes the club's poor form carried into December, where defeats by Crystal Palace and Wolves saw the club drop to 18th in the league and claims within the media that Jewell's position as manager was under threat, rumours denied by the club itself. Away from the league, a 1\u20130 win away to Stoke City in the League Cup saw the club reach the semi-final of a major cup competition for the first time since the 1976 FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United, who, ironically, the club drew to face this time around too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, December\nThe league form continued to worsen, with defeats against Preston and Ipswich leaving the club just five points clear of relegation and, with pressure from supporters and the media increasing, Paul Jewell resigned as manager on 28 December, with assistant manager Chris Hutchings taking over as caretaker manager. His first move was to recall Liam Dickinson from his loan spell at Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nThe resignation of Paul Jewell saw a raft of names being linked with Derby County, including former manager Billy Davies, Paul Ince, Nigel Clough, Dean Saunders, Aidy Boothroyd and Alan Curbishley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nOn the pitch Hutchings first game in charge saw The Rams go 2\u20130 down in the first 20 minutes away to non-league Forest Green in the FA Cup Third Round before eventually winning 4\u20133, earning the club a draw with local rivals Nottingham Forest in the 4th Round. The club made its first foray into the January transfer window on 5 January 2009 with the signing of Middlesbrough defender Seb Hines on a monthlong loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nThe same day Adam Pearson announced that a shortlist of managerial candidates had been written up, with suggestions it contained caretaker manager Chris Hutchings, Burton Albion's Nigel Clough, Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson and former Derby player Dean Saunders, manager of Wrexham, with Clough as the 'top target'. The same day saw Clough officially approached about the position and he was announced as Derby's new manager on 6 January 2008, bringing his backroom staff of Gary Crosby, Andy Garner and Martin Taylor with him from Burton Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nClough was introduced to the Derby support on 7 January, prior to the kick off of the League Cup Semi-Final First Leg against Manchester United. The match presided over by Academy Manager David Lowe as a result of Chris Hutchings leaving the club following Clough's appointment and Kris Commons's 30th minute 25-yard strike was enough to give the Rams a 1\u20130 lead to take into the second leg. The win was their second against Premier League opposition in the competition and put the club in the strange position of beating more Premier League teams in the 2008/09 season than the previous campaign when they had actually been in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nClough's first game in charge was due to be Cardiff City away in the Championship, but it was called off due to a frozen pitch. Clough also announced his intention to cut the squad as he felt it had 'too many players', with his first move being to cancel Latvian winger Andrejs Pereplotkins' loan, release defender Darren Powell when two-month contract expired and loan out Aleksandar Prijovi\u0107, Giles Barnes, Lewis Price and Claude Davis out to Yeovil Town, Fulham, Luton Town and Crystal Palace respectively. He also cancelled the contract of Guinean left back Mo Camara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nClough's first game in charge was a home game against Q.P.R. which ended in a 2\u20130 defeat and saw Derby drop to 20th in the table and followed it up with a 4\u20132 defeat away to Manchester United in the second leg of the League Cup Semi Final which saw Derby knocked out of the competition 4\u20133 on aggregate. Derby's second cup match in three days saw them draw 1\u20131 with rivals Nottingham Forest at Pride Park in the FA Cup Fourth Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, January\nHis second league match, away to Birmingham City ended in a 1\u20130 defeat which saw the club drop into the bottom three for the first time since August. Clough's first win came with a 2\u20131 victory over Coventry City, which saw the club leap to 18th in the table. The match was watched from the stands by Clough's first signing, Chris Porter, who signed for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around \u00a3400k from Motherwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, February\nClough earned his first away win as Derby manager with a 3\u20132 win away at Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup 4th Round replay on 4 February 2009 to book an FA Cup 5th Round tie at home to Manchester United. The win was Derby's first win at the City Ground since October 1971, when the club was managed by Nigel's father Brian, and saw the club come from being 2\u20130 down after 15 minutes to get the win, earning the Rams the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, February\nA 3\u20130 win away at Plymouth Argyle the weekend after was Derby's biggest away win for seven years and saw the club leap up to 16th in the table. The Rams three match winning streak was ended when Man Utd knocked them out of a cup competition for the second time in a month as they ran out 4\u20131 winners in the FA Cup Fifth Round. The Rams returned to winning ways with a 4\u20131 victory over Blackpool and a 3\u20131 win away at Nottingham Forest, their second win at their rivals ground in a month, before a 2\u20131 defeat away to Doncaster Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, March\nThe first game of March saw Chris Porter grab his first goals for the club since his move from Motherwell in a 2\u20132 draw at home to Swansea City, a match in which The Rams threw away a 2\u20130 lead, leaving them just 5 points clear of the relegation zone, though still with games in hand on the majority of their relegation rivals due to the club's various cup successes. Despite only drawing, Clough declared the performance \"the best since we have been here. \"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, March\nAway from the pitch, the same week saw the club take Blackburn Rovers youngster Josh O'Keefe on trial, with a view to a permanent move in the summer when his contract expired., Jordan Stewart's 25-yard strike in the October 2008 win over Sheffield Wednesday nominated for the Football League Mitre Goal of the Year 2008 award and key players Miles Addison and Paul Green seasons ended by injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0019-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, March\nDespite these setbacks, the Rams returned to winning ways with a 2\u20131 victory over play off chasing Bristol City, with Chris Porter scoring his third for the club after just 52 seconds and Rob Hulse grabbing his 15th of the campaign to seal the win just 2 minutes after Bristol City had equalised. The result meant the club had taken 16 points from the last 21 available and took the club to 15th in the table, eight points clear of the relegation places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0019-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, March\nIn an attempt to soften the blow of losing Green and Addison, midfielders John Eustace and Barry Bannan were brought in on loan from Watford and Aston Villa respectively. As Clough stated he felt the club had too many strikers, strikers Liam Dickinson (Leeds United), Aleksandar Prijovi\u0107 (Northampton Town) and Paris Simmons (Lincoln City) and Luke Varney (Sheffield Wednesday) were sent out on loan, though Simmons returned after just 4 days due to an ankle injury. The new signings could not help the Rams record a win in the months remaining fixtures, with draws against Southampton and Barnsley sandwiching a 2\u20134 defeat away to playoff chasing Sheff Utd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, April\nApril proved to be a difficult month for the Rams, with 4 of the first six matches of the month coming against clubs in the Top 6. Three ended in defeat \u2013 4\u20131 away to Cardiff City, 3\u20132 at home to Wolves and 2\u20130 at home to Reading. The club did earn a point at home to Burnley, thanks to Paul Connolly's 93rd-minute equaliser in a 1\u20131 draw, but a defeat away at midtable Crystal Palace meant that only a 1\u20130 victory at Sheffield Wednesday gave Derby three points. It meant a run of only one win in 9 games, but the victory at Hillsborough did take the club over the 50 points marker set by Clough as the target for survival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, April\nThe last home game of the season against Charlton Athletic saw Hulse presented with the Jack Stamps Trophy for Player of the Season by 1997 winner Chris Powell. He celebrated by hitting his 18th goal of the season as Derby won 1\u20130 to guarantee their Championship survival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, April\nWith safety assured, Clough began to restructure the squad and backroom staff ahead of the 2009\u201310 season. In terms of backroom staff, Clough announced his intention to restructure the academy, appointing former Derby players Darren Wassall and Michael Forsyth and Wolves Academy director John Perkins to the backroom staff, to replace the departed Phil Cannon, David Lowe and Brian Burrows. In terms of playing staff it was announced that Andy Todd and Paris Simmons would not have their contracts extended, with loanees Przemyslaw Kazmierczak, Nacer Barazite and Barry Bannan returning to their clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Review, May\nThe season ended with an experimental line-up, featuring Rob Hulse at centre-half and Stephen Pearson at left back, losing 3\u20131 away to Watford to finish 18th in the Championship, the club's lowest league finish for three years, eight points clear of the relegation zone. The day after the match, Clough announced his intention to cut the playing staff by up to 17 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200251-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Derby County F.C. season, Results, Pre season\nA proposed friendly away to Lincoln City, due to take place on 26 July 2008, was cancelled by mutual consent when the two clubs drew each other in the first round of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200252-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Pistons season\nThe 2008\u201309 Detroit Pistons season was the 68th season of the franchise, the 61st in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the 52nd in the Detroit area. The season was the first under new head coach Michael Curry, who took over for Flip Saunders who was fired at the conclusion of the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200252-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Pistons season\nIn the playoffs, the Pistons were swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200252-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Pistons season\nDuring the season, the Pistons traded Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess, and Cheikh Samb to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for Allen Iverson. McDyess was waived by the Nuggets and was re-signed by the Pistons. It was their first losing season since the 2000\u201301 NBA season, and the first time they didn't reach the Eastern Conference Finals since the 2002-03 NBA season. The 2008\u201309 season was also the last time the Pistons qualified for the playoffs, until the 2015\u201316 season. Following the season, Rasheed Wallace signed as a free agent with the Boston Celtics, and Iverson left to sign with the Memphis Grizzlies and Curry was fired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200252-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Pistons season, Draft picks\nOn the day of the draft, the Pistons traded D. J. White to the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for the rights to Seattle's number 32 and number 46 picks. The picks were used to select Walter Sharpe from Alabama\u2013Birmingham and Trent Plaisted from Brigham Young, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season\nThe 2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season was the 83rd season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on September 25, 1926. The Detroit Red Wings attempted to defend their Stanley Cup title, but they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games in the Stanley Cup Finals, the team they defeated in the finals the previous season. The Red Wings roster featured former Penguin Marian Hossa, who signed a one-year contract with Detroit during the summer of 2008, as well as former Penguins backup Ty Conklin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season\nThey won 51 games during the regular season, the fourth consecutive season of 50 or more victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJune 9: Dominik Hasek announced his retirement from the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJune 10: Detroit signed head coach Mike Babcock to three-year contract extension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJune 11: Assistant coach Todd McLellan signed with the San Jose Sharks as their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJune 30: The Detroit Red Wings re-signed defenseman Andreas Lilja to a two-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJuly 1: Brad Stuart re-signed with the Detroit Red Wings. It is a four-year deal worth $3.75\u00a0million per season, and a no-trade clause for the first two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJuly 2: Marian Hossa signed a one-year, $7.45\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJuly 15: Dallas Drake announced his retirement from the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJuly 23: Ryan Oulahen re-signed with the Detroit Red Wings with a one-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Off-season\nJuly 30: Valtteri Filppula re-signed on a five-year, $15\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Regular season\nExcluding six shootout-winning goals, the Red Wings scored 289 goals during the regular season, the most of all 30 teams in the NHL. They also scored the most power-play goals, with 90, and had the best power-play percentage, at 25.50% (90 for 353).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Playoffs\nDetroit had not missed the post-season since 1989\u201390. The 2008\u201309 season was their 18th consecutive playoff season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Playoffs\nDuring the Finals, Head Coach Mike Babcock joined Mike Keenan as the only coaches in NHL history to coach in Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals on two different teams, having been with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2003. When the Red Wings lost Game 7, Babcock had the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first coach in NHL history to lose a Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals on two different teams, as his Ducks lost to the New Jersey Devils in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime Losses; GA = Goals against; GAA= Goals Against Average; SA= Shots Against; SV= Saves; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO= Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Draft picks\nDetroit's selections at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200253-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Detroit Red Wings season, Farm teams\nThe Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League (AHL) remain the minor league affiliate of the Red Wings for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season was the first season of the franchise in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). This was also inaugural season for the league. Dinamo Riga played most of their home games in Arena Riga, however some matches were held in other locations. Dinamo Riga were playing in Kharlamov division along with Avangard Omsk, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, HC Lada Togliatti, HC Sibir Novosibirsk and Amur Khabarovsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Pre-season\nAs it is the first season for the franchise, Dinamo Riga had to gather their roster from nothing. Most of the team players are members of Latvia national team. First players for the team were announced on April 25. First foreign player to join the team was Czech Filip Nov\u00e1k on June 26. The team roster was completed, when the last two legionaries Duvie Westcott and Mark Hartigan joined the team on July 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Pre-season\nDinamo Riga started their pre-season training camp on July 15. The camp continued till July 28 and took place in Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, Slovakia. The first game in franchise history was held on July 25, when Dinamo Riga defeated MHk 32 Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 in a shootout after a 1-1 in regular time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Pre-season\nOn August 2 Dinamo played their first home game, when they won against Amur Khabarovsk in Riga. Then at the \"Inbox.lv hall\" in Riga, Dinamo won the Inbox.lv tournament, in which they defeated Dinamo Minsk and Barys Astana. In August the team also participated in the Tampere Cup (Tampere) and the Governor's Cup (Mytishchi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Regular season\nDinamo Riga will play 56 games in regular season. The season will begin on September 2, 2008, it is coming to close on February 26, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200254-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dinamo Riga season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTW = Overtime/Shootout Wins; OTL = Overtime/Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200255-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nThe 2008-09 D1 F\u00e9minine was the 35th edition of the league since its re-establishment by the French Football Federation. The league began on 23 August 2008 and is slated to end on 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200256-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Division 1 season (Swedish ice hockey)\n2008\u201309 was the 10th season that Division 1 functioned as the third-level of ice hockey in Sweden, below the second-level HockeyAllsvenskan and the top-level Elitserien (now the SHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200256-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Division 1 season (Swedish ice hockey), Format\nThe 55 participating teams played the first half of the season in six groups divided geographically. The successful teams then moved into three new groups (the Allettan groups), while the remaining teams played in a continuation of their smaller existing groups. The teams with the worst records in these continuation groups were then forced to defend their places in Division 1 against challengers from Division 2 (see \"relegation tournament\" below) in a round-robin tournament called Kvalserien till Division 1. Meanwhile, the successful teams from the Allettan groups along with the group winners of the continuation groups played a playoff to determine who would have a chance to compete for promotion to the second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan in Kvalserien till HockeyAllsvenskan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200257-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Divisi\u00f3n de Honor B de Balonmano\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Divisi\u00f3n de Honor B de Balonmano is the 15th season of second-tier handball in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200259-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Divisi\u00f3n de Honor de Futsal, Championship playoffs, Matches, Quarter-finals\n(6) Tien21 P. Millenium Pinto vs. (3) FC Barcelona Mobicat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200260-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Divisi\u00f3n de Plata de Futsal\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Divisi\u00f3n de Plata is the 16th season of second-tier futsal in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season will be the club's 33rd season in the Swedish elite league Elitserien. The signing of David Schneider during late July 2008 is the first American player in the club's history to play for the club. The regular season started on home ice on September 18, 2008 against Lule\u00e5 HF and will be concluded on February 28, 2009 away against Fr\u00f6lunda HC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season, Offseason\nMarch 20: Team captain Jimmie \u00d6lvestad re-signed a one-year contract with Djurg\u00e5rden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season, Offseason\nApril 15: Former assistant coaches Mikael Johansson and Tomas Mont\u00e9n signed a two-year contract as the new coaches of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Standings\ny - clinched semi-final spot for championship, x - clinched semi-final spot for 5th place,  z - play for 9th place", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Game log\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime win (2 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200261-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF Hockey season, Regular season, Standings\nx \u2013 clinched playoff spot; y \u2013 clinched regular season league title; e \u2013 eliminated from playoff contention; r \u2013 play in relegation series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200262-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Doncaster Rovers F.C. competed in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200262-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season, Season summary\nDoncaster endured a tough start to life in the second tier of English football and stood bottom of the league after 24 games with only 4 league wins. However, Doncaster went on an eight-match unbeaten run that lifted them to mid-table, and finished the season in a secure 14th place, above more fancied sides like Crystal Palace and Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200262-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200262-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Drake University in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team, which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), is led by first-year head coach Mark Phelps. In 2007\u201308, the Bulldogs finished 28\u20135 (15\u20133 in the MVC). Drake will try to improve upon their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Preseason\nOn April 21, 2008 Mark Phelps was named the head men's basketball coach at Drake University, succeeding Keno Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Preseason\nPhelps will inherit a team that loses three starters\u2014point guard Adam Emmenecker, shooting guard Leonard Houston, and small forward Klayton Korver. Emmenecker was one of the most compelling individual stories in the 2007\u201308 college season, going from three-year walk-on to MVC Player of the Year. Houston was a second-team all-MVC selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Preseason\nReturning starters are shooting guard Josh Young and power forward Jonathan \"Bucky\" Cox. Young, the team's leading scorer in 2007\u201308, joined Emmenecker on the all-MVC first team. Cox was the team's leading rebounder and joined Houston on the all-MVC second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Regular season\nDrake will host the Drake Iowa Realty Tournament on December 5\u20137, 2008Drake will host the Drake Invitational on December 12\u201313, 2008. North Dakota State, Stephen F. Austin, and Texas-Pan American will be the participating schools. The January 28, 2009 game against Evansville was rescheduled as Evansville's plane was unable to take off due to weather. The game was scheduled to start at 7:05\u00a0p.m. CST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200263-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team, Player statistics\nNote: GP= Games played; MPG= Minutes per Game; SPG= Steals per Game; RPG = Rebounds per Game; APG. = Assists per Game; BPG = Blocks per Game; PPG = Points per Game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200264-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 8th year head coach Bruiser Flint, played their home games at the Daskalakis Athletic Center and were members of the Colonial Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Mike Krzyzewski, who served for his 29th year. The team played its home games in Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The Blue Devils captured the ACC Championship by defeating Florida State in the championship game in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season\nThe 2007\u201308 Duke Blue Devils finished the season 28\u20136 (13\u20133), placed second in the ACC regular season standings, and lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Earlier in the season, the squad reached as high as #2 in the Coaches' Poll with only one loss. Some late season losses caused them to finish the regular season ranked #9 in the country and #2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke then lost in the semifinals in the ACC Tournament to the Clemson Tigers. Duke was given a #2 seed in the NCAA tournament. After narrowly defeating #15 Belmont, Duke lost 73\u201367 to the #7 West Virginia Mountaineers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Recruiting\nOn September 26, 2007, forward Olek Czyz committed to Duke University. Czyz is a 6\u20137 Poland native who has spent the last three years in Reno, Nevada. Both Scout and Rivals.com listed him as the 27th best power forward in the nation. However, Scout.com had him 80th overall, while Rivals.com had him back at 102nd. As a junior at Reno High School, Czyz averaged 18.7 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, leading Reno to a 24\u20136 record. In his sophomore year, Olek had a ten-point and six rebound average, while leading his team to a state championship. Other schools to make offers to Czyz were Arizona State, Colorado State, Florida, Kentucky, Louisville, Nevada, Pepperdine, and Washington State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Recruiting\nOn the first day of November, the Blue Devils received a commitment from Elliot Williams. The 6\u20134 shooting guard from Memphis, Tennessee was listed as the number 3 shooting guard in the country by Rivals.com, while Scout.com had him as the number 4 shooting guard and the number 14 overall prospect in the country. Williams spent high school at St. George\u2019s where he averaged 25 points, seven rebounds, and six assists per game. In his junior year, Elliot averaged 22 points and six rebounds per contest, while leading his team to a state championship. Williams turned down offers from Clemson, Memphis, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Recruiting\nPower forward Miles Plumlee, a 6\u201310 native of Warsaw, Indiana, who attended high school in Arden, North Carolina, committed to the Blue Devils on May 1, 2008. Miles, who is the older brother of 2009 commitment Mason Plumlee, had signed a letter of intent to Stanford University, but after head coach Trent Johnson took the coaching job at Louisiana State, Plumlee requested and was granted a release. Plumlee is rated as the 17th best power forward of the 2008 recruiting class by Scouts.com, while Rivals has him ranked 29th at forward and 101st overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Offseason changes\nThe only senior Duke lost from their 2007\u201308 squad was DeMarcus Nelson who graduated. Nelson was projected to go somewhere in the late second round in the 2008 NBA Draft, but instead went undrafted. On September 9, 2008, Nelson was signed by the Golden State Warriors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Offseason changes\nJoe Alleva, the Duke Athletics Director, interviewed for the athletics director job at Louisiana State on April 1, and was offered for the position on April 3. After 10 years as Duke's athletics director, Alleva took the job and is scheduled to start on July 1. At Duke a twelve-person committee, assembled by Duke President, Richard H. Brodhead, searched for a new athletics director. Joe Alleva said in an interview that he would do anything to help in the search. On May 30, Brodhead announced that the Duke had hired former Notre Dame athletics director Kevin White. Coach Mike Krzyzewski said the White \"is one of the most respected people in intercollegiate athletics\" and brings \" wealth of experience and is someone who people admire\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Offseason changes\nDuke forward Taylor King decided to transfer to Villanova University in April 2008. As a freshman at Duke, King played in all 34 games, averaging 5.9 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. He had 43 three-pointers that season, putting him eighth all-time against Duke freshmen. When announcing his transfer, King told reporters \"Nothing against Duke, but it's time for a change. I needed to explore other places. Villanova is a true family atmosphere where everyone's got each other's back.\" Per NCAA regulations, King will have to sit out a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Offseason changes\nOn April 26, associate head coach Johnny Dawkins announced that he would be leaving the Blue Devils, to take over the head coaching spot at Stanford. Dawkins was a member of the 1986 Duke team that lost in the finals to Louisville. After nine seasons in the NBA, Dawkins was hired as an assistant coach during the 1998\u201399 season. Two years later he was promoted to associate head coach, a job he's held for nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200265-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Pre-season, Offseason changes\nIt was announced on May 5, that Nate James would replace Johnny Dawkins as an assistant coach. James was a captain on the 2000-01 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team that won a national championship. After turning pro, James played in the Philippines, France, Hungary, Japan and the Netherlands. In 2004, James participated in the training camp of the Philadelphia 76ers, but did not make it onto the team. During the winter of 2007\u20132008, he was hired to oversee operations at the Duke's new practice facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200266-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team represented Duke University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Blue Devils were coached by Joanne P. McCallie, (also known as Coach P) and the Blue Devils played their home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The Blue Devils are a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Blue Devils reached the 25-win mark for the 11th straight season, collected their 12th straight 10-win ACC season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200266-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team\nMcCallie guided Duke to a 14-0 record at home in Cameron Indoor Stadium marking only the second time in school history the Blue Devils have gone undefeated at home. Duke was also a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in school history and the third time out of the last four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200266-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team, Awards and honors, Team awards\nTeam awards were voted on by team members and staff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200266-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team, Team players drafted into the WNBA\nApril 23: Carrem Gay has signed a training camp contract with the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA. Gay, who is from New York, N.Y., averaged 6.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals for the Blue Devils in 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200267-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duleep Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Duleep Trophy was the 48th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200267-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Duleep Trophy\nWest Zone won the title, defeating South Zone in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200268-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dumbarton F.C. season\nSeason 2008\u201309 was the 125th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 103rd time, the Scottish Cup for the 114th time, the Scottish League Cup for the 62nd time and the Scottish Challenge Cup for the 18th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200268-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dumbarton F.C. season, Overview\nJim Chapman's first full season in charge began with a large intake of new playing staff. A slow start however was to be replaced by an unbeaten run of 8 games which saw Dumbarton rise to 2nd place by the beginning of November. Mixed results in December through February meant that Dumbarton fell to 4th place, but still in with a playoff chance. However it was to be a final surge which saw 7 wins taken from the last 8 games which pushed Dumbarton to the Third Division title. Indeed that run brought about Dumbarton's record number of consecutive 'shut-outs' - 7 in all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200268-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dumbarton F.C. season, Overview\nIn the Scottish Cup, a second round victory over Highland League opponents Fraserburgh was followed by a close encounter with First Division Ross County, which was only decided by the odd goal in three and that after a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200268-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dumbarton F.C. season, Overview\nIn the League Cup, Dumbarton defeated Annan Athletic on penalties, but were to be overwhelmed by Premier Division St Mirren in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200268-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dumbarton F.C. season, Overview\nFinally, it was yet another League Challenge Cup first round exit, to Airdrie United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200269-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Dundee compete in the Scottish First Division after coming 2nd place the season prior. Dundee finished in 4th position with 50 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009 and is the club's one hundredth season, having been founded as Dundee Hibernian in 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Review and events\nThe pre-season period began with a number of new signings at the club. Dundee midfielder Scott Robertson was one of three players to agree pre-contract deals in June and he was followed by fellow player Paul Dixon shortly afterwards. Willo Flood returned on a second successive season-long loan and fellow Cardiff City player Warren Feeney followed on a similar deal, with Spanish striker Francisco Sandaza and Irish forward Roy O'Donovan (loan) the final signings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Review and events\nA number of players who were out of contract left the club following the end of the 2007\u201308 season, including Christian Kalvenes who moved to Burnley, and Mark Kerr, who followed Lee Mair, Stuart Duff and Lee Miller in recent years by signing for New Firm rivals Aberdeen. Last season's top scorer Noel Hunt left in July to join his brother Stephen at English side Reading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Review and events\nChairman Eddie Thompson died of prostate cancer on 15 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Review and events, Chronological list of events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nDundee United have played a total of 44 competitive matches during the 2008\u201309 season, as well as six first team pre-season friendlies. The team finished fifth in the Scottish Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nIn the cup competitions, United lost to Celtic in the League Cup semi-final, while they were beaten by Hamilton Academical in the Scottish Cup fifth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Friendlies\nThe club began pre-season by winning the Keyline Cup in Oban on 12 July before embarking on a short trip to Dublin where they played two friendlies against local sides. Upon returning to Scotland, United beat Raith Rovers 4-0 and fellow Fife side Dunfermline Athletic 3-2 before a match against Barcelona for the second year running. The friendlies culminated in a win at Plymouth Argyle where United faced former Terror Paul Sturrock. United also sent sides to play in victories against Cowdenbeath, Arbroath, Forres Mechanics, Dundee North End and Blairgowrie. A final friendly was planned against Lochee United but was postponed due to heavy rain. In April, the club racked up an 8\u20130 win at Brora Rangers to mark the opening of the ground's new floodlights, with Andis Shala scoring a hat-trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Premier League\nUnited began the season with a televised match away to promoted Hamilton Academical, which \u2013 despite taking the lead \u2013 they lost 3\u20131. Subsequent 1\u20131 draws at home to Celtic \u2013 another televised match in which Francisco Sandaza scored his first goal \u2013 and away to Motherwell produced the first points of the season but a home defeat to Kilmarnock and narrow defeat away to Hibernian left United bottom of the league after five matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Premier League\nUnited's third televised match of the season saw them pick up their first league win at Aberdeen and was the first of four successive league victories, preceding home triumphs against Hearts, Inverness CT and St Mirren. The run of victories saw first league goals for summer signings Scott Robertson and Roy O'Donovan, with three clean sheets for goalkeeper Lukasz Zaluska. The St Mirren match was played three weeks after the Inverness match following the death of chairman Eddie Thompson, which led to the match against Rangers being postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Premier League\nAs the St Mirren match was the first match following the death of the chairman, prices were reduced to just \u00a35, prompting over 11,000 fans to attend and pay their respects with a minute's silence. United failed to make it five league wins in a row when they drew 0\u20130 at Falkirk but kept their unbeaten run going with an exciting 3\u20133 draw against Rangers at Ibrox and got back to winning ways with home wins over Aberdeen and Hibernian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0008-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Premier League\nA second successive 2\u20130 defeat to Kilmarnock \u2013 this time away from home \u2013 preceded a 1\u20131 draw at home to Hamilton, before wins at St Mirren and Inverness brought United back-to-back away victories for the first time since April 2007. United were involved in another high scoring match against Rangers in a 2\u20132 draw at Tannadice and followed it up by holding Hearts to a 0\u20130 draw at Tynecastle, closing 2008 with a home win against Falkirk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Cup\nUnited beat East Stirlingshire 4\u20130 at Ochilview Park in the Scottish Cup fourth round, with goals from Prince Buaben, Darren Dods, Jon Daly and Johnny Russell. Shortly before the match, United were drawn away to Hamilton Academical in the fifth round, where they were narrowly beaten 2\u20131, despite leading at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, League Cup\nLast season's runners-up United began their League Cup campaign away to Cowdenbeath, where a hat-trick from Jon Daly helped them to a 5\u20131 win. In the third round, Airdrie United \u2013 who United faced in the second round of last year's competition \u2013 were beaten 2\u20130, before a quarter-final win at home to Dunfermline Athletic. United faced Celtic in the semi-finals in late January where they lost11-10 on penalties, a record for a Scottish cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Player stats\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season so far, United have used 26 different players on the pitch. \u0141ukasz Za\u0142uska is the only player to have played every minute this season. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Player stats, Stats\nFrancisco Sandaza was the top scorer with ten goals, with the team totalling 58 goals. During the 2008\u201309 season, fifteen United players received at least one caution. In total, the team received 60 yellow cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Transfers, In\nUnited signed eleven players during the season. Midfielder Scott Robertson agreed a pre-contract move from rivals Dundee on 3 June and two players agreed similar moves on 17 June, with Northern Irish goalkeeper Michael McGovern agreeing to move from Celtic and German striker Andis Shala arriving from VfR Mannheim. Less than a week later, United signed a second player from Dundee when Scotland under-21 defender Paul Dixon arrived for around \u00a325,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Transfers, In\nWillo Flood returned for a second successive season-long loan when terms were agreed with Cardiff City again on 1 July and Cardiff colleague Warren Feeney followed in a similar deal a week later. Shortly afterwards, Spanish striker Francisco Sandaza arrived on a three-year contract from Valencia Mestalla. In August, Craig Levein's pursuit of Roy O'Donovan ended with a season-long deal for the Sunderland striker, although he was recalled in January, as was Willo Flood, ahead of his transfer to Celtic. On transfer deadline day, Paul Caddis moved from Celtic Park until the end of the season, with Australian midfielder James Wesolowski joining on a similar deal from Leicester City although his spell was cut short by injury. Youngster Jennison Myrie-Williams joined in June following his release from Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe club sold only one player during the season, with Noel Hunt joining his brother Stephen at English side Reading for around \u00a3600,000. Young striker Kevin Smith moved on loan to Raith Rovers until January, with fellow youngsters Johnny Russell and John Gibson moving to Forfar Athletic on similar temporary deals. Young left back Sean Fleming followed suit shortly afterwards when he joined Peterhead for four months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nGibson's loan was subsequently extended until the end of the season, with young first team squad member Keith Watson joining him on a short-term loan, shortly afterwards Marco Andreoni undertook a similar deal with Albion Rovers. Sean Fleming moved back out on loan, joining Andreoni at Albion while young midfielder Ryan McCord moved short-term to Stirling Albion and Gordon Pope headed to Montrose. Kevin Smith went back to Raith after returning to Tannadice for a few weeks, with Johnny Russell returning to Forfar in similar fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0014-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nTowards the end of February, midfielder Greg Cameron moved on loan to Irish outfit Shamrock Rovers, managed by former United player Michael O'Neill and Fraser Milligan departed to Montrose on a similar deal shortly afterwards. Youth goalkeeper Gibson signed a one-year deal with Dundee on his return to Tannadice. Similarly, Fleming, Pope and Milligan all penned two-year deals with Montrose at the end of May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Playing kit\nThe jerseys were sponsored for the first time by JD Sports' Carbrini Sportswear label, with the firm also sponsoring the shorts. Kitmaker Hummel supplied their last strip after the club announced in March 2009 that Nike would begin a four-year deal for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200270-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dundee United F.C. season, Playing kit\nThe club has no third strip, with the last third strip used in the 2002\u201303 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season will be Dunfermline Athletic's 2nd season in the Scottish First Division after being relegated from the Scottish Premier League in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Review and Events, Chronological list of events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Stats, Goalscorers\nFourteen players have scored for the Pars first team during the 2008\u201309 season, with 33 goals being scored in total in all competitions. The top goalscorer so far is Andy Kirk with 9 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Stats, Discipline\nSo far during the 2008\u201309 season, two Pars players have been sent off and fourteen have received at least one caution. In total, the team have received two red card and thirty three yellow cards, with Scott Wilson having received the most number of cards (nine cautions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Transfers, In\nThe Pars brought in 5 players in the close season. Midfielder Steven Bell agreed a pre-contract move in January 2008 from relegated side Stirling Albion. Bell, along with Graeme Holmes who signed from Airdrie United and Austin McCann from Notts County officially signed for the club on 2008-05-19. Striker Graham Bayne signed from Inverness CT for \u00a330,000 in late June, with former Rangers keeper Calum Reidford joining in July after a successful trial with the club. German striker Joseph Laumann also joined the Pars on trial in July, but was not offered a contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Transfers, In\nNorthern Ireland international Andy Kirk was brought back to Scotland by manager Jim McIntyre from Yeovil Town at the beginning of August for an undisclosed amount and Midfielder Simon Wiles was brought in on a one-year-deal from Blackpool after impressing during a trial. Ross Campbell was brought in on a months loan from Scottish Premier League side Hibernian on 2008-09-19. Rangers Reserve striker Rory Loy signed halfway through December on a months loan until 2009-01-26. In January, the Pars brought Hearts young striker Jamie Mole on loan for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200271-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dunfermline Athletic F.C. season, Transfers, Out\n6 of the Pars first team players from the 2007\u201308 season left the club in the summer on free transfers. Stephen Simmons, Darren Young, Stevie Crawford and Aaron Labonte all became free agents when their contracts ran out, while Scott Morrison and Mark Burchill signed pre-contracts with Ross County and Rotherham respectively. Young goalkeeper Sean Murdoch opted to join recently promoted side Hamilton Academical (with whom he'd previously been on loan) and at the start of September, Centre-back Sol Bamba joining SPL side Hibernian for an undisclosed sum. September also saw young defender Greg Ross join Second Division side Cowdenbeath on a months loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200272-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dynamo Dresden season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Dynamo Dresden return to national football, in the inaugural season of the 3. Liga. A new coach was appointed, veteran Eduard Geyer was replaced by Ruud Kaiser, a Dutchman with a good record in youth football. The squad saw many changes too, with several experienced players leaving or retiring and a number of new players brought on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200272-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dynamo Dresden season\nDynamo had the honour of playing the first match in 3. Liga history \u2013 a 1\u20130 win over Rot-Weiss Erfurt, with debutant Halil Savran scoring the new competition's first goal. Despite this, though, it was a largely disappointing season for the club \u2013 they spent much of the season in the bottom half of the table, before relatively decent end to the season saw them finish in tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200272-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dynamo Dresden season\nDynamo's reserve team had a very successful season. Coached by Dynamo's former Bundesliga player Matthias Maucksch, they won the Landesliga Sachsen (and promotion to the NOFV-Oberliga S\u00fcd and the Saxony Cup, a competition which the first-team were eliminated from in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200272-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Dynamo Dresden season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 ECHL season was the 21st of the ECHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 69]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, League business, Team changes\nThe league welcomed one new franchise, the Ontario Reign, which relocated from Beaumont, Texas and played at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, League business, Team changes\nTwo teams, the Columbia Inferno and the Myrtle Beach Thunderboltz, voluntarily suspended operations for the season with plans on returning in the 2009\u201310 season. The Myrtle Beach franchise was originally planning to return to operations, but their arena had not been completed in time for the Board of Governors Meeting during the All-Star Break. The league announced that they were immediately terminating the Pensacola Ice Pilots franchise, because the team's owners did not intend on fielding a team for the 2008\u201309 season or any season after that. The team was a founding member of the ECHL as the Nashville Knights and moved to Pensacola, Florida, after the 1995\u201396 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, League business, Realignment\nOn June 23, the ECHL announced the new divisional alignment of its 23 franchises. The league saw three teams vacate the South Division of the American Conference shrinking the division from nine to six teams and added a franchise to the Pacific Division of the National Conference increasing the division total from four teams to five. There will be thirteen teams in the American Conference, which stretches from New York south to Florida and from Mississippi east to New Jersey, and ten teams in the National Conference which stretches from Alaska south to Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, Teams suspend operations in mid-season\nOn December 2, the Augusta Lynx suspended operations and voluntarily relinquished their membership to the league, in effect becoming the first team in the league's 21-year history to suspend midseason. Lynx owners stated that financial troubles and failed attempts to find additional investors were causes for the team to suspend operations. Dan Troutman, one of the team's owners, stated that he had asked the league to take over operations so the team could finish the season, but the move was voted down by the league's Board of Governors. The owners had also stated that attendance issues, in which Augusta has ranked no higher than 20th in the league the past three seasons, as the major reason for their financial problems as the team was successful in sponsorship issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, Teams suspend operations in mid-season\nOn December 22, the Fresno Falcons became the second team in twenty days to cease operations, as the league's Board of Governors voted unanimously to terminate the franchise after Fresno's ownership notified the league that they were unable to continue the membership for financial reasons. Fresno Hockey Club, LLC., the team's ownership group, cited \"overwhelming financial issues due to declining attendance and dwindling corporate sponsorships\" as reasons the team did not continue to operate for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, Teams suspend operations in mid-season\nThis move came less than a year after the team signed a 20-year lease with Selland Arena (starting with the 2008\u201309 season) and an agreement with the city of Fresno in which the city invested $5 million into upgrades for hockey at Selland Arena, as long as the team would not be sold or moved without the direct approval from the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, Teams suspend operations in mid-season\nA clause in the agreement, stated that the city could take over the team as a government agency if owners were unable to continue operations; however, the option was declined after it was determined that the hockey club would finish the season $500,000 under expenses. City officials had expressed interest in bringing the franchise back as early as the 2009\u201310 season, although ECHL Commissioner was less enthusiastic stating that \"a great deal of damage had been done\" and that the league would give a new ownership \"nine to ten months of lead time to create a solid foundation.\" At the time of their folding, the Falcons were in first place of the Pacific Division and had the fifth best record in the ECHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, League standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L= Losses; OTL = Overtime losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PTS = Points; PCT = Winning percentage; Green shade = Clinched playoff spot; Blue shade = Clinched division; Red shade = team is eliminated from playoffs; (z) = Clinched home-ice advantage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, League standings\n* Augusta folded on December 3, 2008. Fresno folded on December 22, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, League standings\n\u2020 Percentage of points earned is used to determine playoff seedings in the Southern Division due to unbalanced schedules, as Gwinnett played one more game than the other teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Regular season, League standings\n\u2020 Percentage of points earned is used to determine playoff seedings in the Pacific Division due to unbalanced schedules, as Ontario and Las Vegas played one more game than Bakersfield and Stockton after the schedule was adjusted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, All Star Classic\nThe ECHL All-Star Game was played in Reading, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 2009, hosted by the Reading Royals. The American Conference defeated the National Conference 11\u20135, with Matthew Ford of Charlotte and Florida's Kevin Baker both scoring hat tricks to overcome a 3\u20131 deficit after the first period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, All Star Classic\n* Fresno's termination was announced on December 22, 2008, after ECHL All-Star voting had ended. As such, these players were voted as representatives of Fresno. Fallon's case is unique because he had moved to the American Conference. MacAulay joined head coach Matt Thomas at Stockton, in the National Conference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Playoff format\nOn June 23, the league announced its new playoff format for the 2008\u201309 season. The playoffs would feature a total of sixteen teams (eight from each conference) and four rounds of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Playoff format\nAs it was originally announced, the top four finishers in each division were seeded based on regular season point totals. The Division Semifinals had the first seed meeting the fourth seed and the second seed meeting the third seed in a best-of-seven series. The winners of the Division Semifinals advanced to the Division Finals, a best-of-seven series. The Division Finals winners advanced to a best-of-seven Conference Finals series. The winner of the American Conference and the winner of the National Conference met in the Kelly Cup Finals, a best-of-seven game series. Home-ice advantage was determined by regular season points. This format is similar to that used by the American Hockey League for the 2009 Calder Cup playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, Playoff format\nAt the Mid-Season Board of Governors Meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania, during All-Star Game, two changes were announced for the playoff format due to Augusta and Fresno folding mid-season. In the National Conference, instead of the top four teams in each division making the playoffs, the top eight teams (of the nine in the conference) made the playoffs; the fourth seed in the Pacific Division playoffs was determined by the team with the better record between fourth place in the Pacific Division and fifth place in the Western Division. All seeding in the National Conference and in the American Conference's Southern Division used percentage of points won because of an unbalanced number of games played caused by rescheduling (Points divided by Games Played, then divided by two).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, ECHL awards, All-ECHL Teams\nBryan Ewing and Jean Philippe Lamoureux were named to both All-ECHL and ECHL All-Rookie Teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200273-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ECHL season, ECHL awards, All-ECHL Teams, All-Rookie Team\nThe Wheeling Nailers set a league record with four rookies being named to the ECHL All-Rookie Team, surpassing the previous record of two which had occurred on six separate occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200274-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EDF Energy Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Anglo-Welsh Cup, known as the EDF Energy Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 38th season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the fourth to follow the recently adopted Anglo-Welsh format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200274-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EDF Energy Cup\nAs in the previous two years, the competition is contested between the twelve teams of the Guinness Premiership and the four Welsh regions from the Celtic League. The sixteen teams are arranged into four pools, with one Welsh and three English teams in each. Teams are randomly drawn into groups, as opposed to previous years when English sides were grouped according to proximity to one another. Each team plays the other team from their group only once, meaning that two teams in each group face two away games, whereas the other two teams have two home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200274-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EDF Energy Cup, Group stage\nThe winner of each pool advances to the semi-finals, at which stage a draw takes place to determine the teams that will play each other. The winners of the semi-final advance to the final to determine the competition winner; no \"third place final\" is played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200275-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Champions League\nThe Champions League 2008\u201309 is the season of EHF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200276-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Cup\nIn the 2008\u201309 EHF Cup season, VfL Gummersbach won the Europe's club handball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200276-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 28\u201329 March and the second legs were played on 4\u20135 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200276-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Cup, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 25 April and the second legs on 1\u20133 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200277-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League\nThe EHF Women's Champions League 2008/09 was the 16th edition of the EHF Women's Champions League, a handball competition for top women's clubs of Europe managed by the European Handball Federation. It was won by Danish club Viborg HK who defeated Hungarian Gy\u0151ri Audi ETO KC at the finals with an aggregate score of 50\u201349. It was the second title for Viborg and the fifth for a Danish team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200277-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League\nGerman international Grit Jurack was the tournament's top scorer with 113 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200277-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League, Group Matches\nTop 2 teams from each group advance to the Main Round, while the third placed team from each group will compete in the Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200277-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League, Main Round\nThe draw for the Main Round took place on 20 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200277-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League, Final round\nThe semi-finals and finals are played in two legs of home and away matches. Viborg and Gy\u0151ri had home court advantage for the second leg of the semifinals as winners of their respective groups. Also, there was no need to perform a draw to decide home and away rights for the finals. According to EHF regulations, Viborg would get home court for the first match because they played a final in the last three years (2005/06).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200278-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EIHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 EIHL season was the sixth season of the Elite Ice Hockey League. It began in September 2008, and ran through to April 2009. The ten clubs in the League competed for 4 different competitions: the Elite League, the Play-Offs, the Challenge Cup, and the Knockout Cup. The winners of the regular season will compete in the 2009\u20132010 Champions Hockey League. For this season, the Coventry Blaze represented Great Britain in the Continental Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200278-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EIHL season, Charity Shield\nThe season began on September 3, 2008, with a \"Charity Shield\" game between the 2007\u201308 league champions and Knockout Cup winning Coventry Blaze and the playoff champions Sheffield Steelers at the SkyDome. The Blaze narrowly beat the Steelers 5\u20134 in sudden death overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200278-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EIHL season, Challenge Cup\nFor the preliminary round, teams were divided into two groups of five with teams playing each of their opponents once with two homes games and two away games. The home and away games for each club were determined by a random draw. The top two in each group advanced to the semi finals of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200278-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EIHL season, All-star game\nOn February 19th, 2009, the SkyDome in Coventry staged the 2009 EIHL All-Star Game. This game was played out between the North All-Stars and the South All-Stars. Dave Matsos of the Sheffield Steelers was chosen to coach the North, while Paul Thompson of the Coventry Blaze was chosen to coach the South. The rosters for each team consisted of players representing all 10 Elite League clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200279-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ES S\u00e9tif season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was ES S\u00e9tif's 39th season in the Algerian top flight. They competed in National 1, the CAF Confederation Cup and the Algerian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200279-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ES S\u00e9tif season, Squad list\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on 1 September 2008.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200279-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ES S\u00e9tif season, Squad information, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200280-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East Bengal FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was East Bengal's 2nd season in the I-League and 89th season in existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200280-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East Bengal FC season, Competitions, Calcutta Football League\nEast Bengal finished the 2008 Calcutta Premier Division in 3rd place with 25 points from 14 matches behind champions Mohun Bagan and runners-up Mohammedan Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200280-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East Bengal FC season, Competitions, Federation Cup\nEast Bengal started the Federation Cup campaign as defending champions and was allotted into Group C alongside JCT, New Delhi Heroes and Sporting Club de Goa. East Bengal won all the group matches and reached the semi-finals where they lost to their arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in the penalty shoot-out after the game ended 1\u20131 in regulation time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200281-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East Midlands Counties Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 East Midlands Counties Football League season was the first in the history of East Midlands Counties Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200281-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East Midlands Counties Football League, League\nThe league was formed by the clubs joined from three local leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200282-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East of Scotland Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 East of Scotland Football League was the 80th season of the East of Scotland Football League. Whitehill Welfare were the defending champions. The league was split into two separate divisions, the Premier Division and the First Division, each featuring twelve teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200282-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 East of Scotland Football League\nThis season saw Edinburgh Athletic amalgamate with Leith Athletic who took the former's place in the league, and the departure of Annan Athletic who left to join the Scottish Football League. Gretna 2008 was elected in their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200283-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eastern Counties Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Eastern Counties Football League season was the 67th in the history of Eastern Counties Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200283-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eastern Counties Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200283-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eastern Counties Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200284-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball team represented Eastern Michigan University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by 4th year head coach Charles E. Ramsey, played their home games at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center and were members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 8\u201324, 6\u201310 in MAC play. They team finished 4th in the MAC West. They were knocked out in the 1st round of the MAC Tournament by Central Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza\nThis is a list of division winners and playoff matches in the regionally organized Eccellenza 2008\u20132009, which is the 6th level of Italian football. A total of 36 teams are promoted to Serie D for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza\nThe first-placed team from each of the 28 divisions is promoted directly. The seven winners of the national playoffs are also promoted. Finally, the 36th spot is reserved for the winner of the Coppa Italia Dilettanti. This year, the winner was Virtus Casarano, which also won direct promotion as divisional winner in the region of Apuglia, thus Castel Rigone of Eccellenza Umbria won promotion as Coppa Italia Dilettanti runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza\nIn addition, L'Aquila were handed special promotion from the Federation as they were unable to play the two remaining matches following a massive earthquake in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Division winners\nThis is the list of final division winners in the regular season phase:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs\nThe following regional committees did not organize playoffs and instead directly admitted league runners-up to the national phase:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Abruzzo\nDifferently than with other regions, the Abruzzo phase involved teams from 3rd to 6th place, due to second-placed L'Aquila being promoted by deliberation of the Lega Nazionale Dilettantistica (\"Amateur National League\"), as the team was declared unable to complete the season due to the massive earthquake that struck the city in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Abruzzo\nGame held on May 23, 2009 in Celano (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Basilicata\nGame held on May 16, 2009 in Picerno (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Marche\nGame held on May 17, 2009 in Ancona (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Sardinia\nGame held on May 17, 2009 in Terralba (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Sicily A\nGames held on April 19, 2009 in Mazara del Vallo and Alcamo (neutral fields)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Sicily A\nGame held on April 26, 2009 in Campobello di Mazara (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Sicily B\nGames held on April 19, 2009 in Belpasso and Caltanissetta (neutral fields)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Sicily B\nGame held on April 26, 2009 in Mazara del Vallo (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Umbria\nUmbria admitted teams from 3rd to 6th place into playoffs, due to league runners-up Castel Rigone being promoted directly into Serie D as Coppa Italia Dilettanti finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, Regional playoffs, Umbria\nGame held on May 17, 2009 in Ponte San Giovanni (neutral field)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, National playoffs\nNational playoffs involve 28 teams and assign 7 promotion spots. They are divided in two different rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200285-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eccellenza, National playoffs, Second round\nPlayed on June 7 and 14, 2009; Match #5 played on June 14 and 21, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season was the team's 37th season of play, 30th as a member of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nonetheless, the Oilers celebrated their 30th anniversary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season, Schedule and results\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season, Playoffs\nThe Oilers were in the thick of the playoff race all the way until March 20th. However, they struggled down the stretch finishing 3-8-0 and missing the postseason by a total of six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Oilers. Stats reflect time with Oilers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Oilers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200286-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Edmonton Oilers season, Transactions\nThe Oilers have been involved in the following transactions during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200287-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Divisie\nEerste Divisie 2008\u201309 began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion playoffs. Sixteen clubs remained in the Eerste Divisie, whilst Excelsior and VVV-Venlo were relegated from the 2007\u201308 Eredivisie. VVV-Venlo won the league title and were promoted to the Eredivisie, the highest tier of football in the Netherlands, while eight other teams competed in a playoff with two Eredivisie sides for two Eredivisie places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200287-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Divisie, Standings, Period winners\nThe competition is divided into six periods (Dutch: periode) of six matches each. The winner of each period (Dutch: periodekampioen) qualifies for the playoffs at the end of the season. If the winner of a period has already won a prior period in the season, the second placed team in the period is awarded the playoff slot. If the second placed team has also won a prior period, no winner is called, and the playoff slot is decided by league standing at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200287-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Divisie, Standings, Best Top Ranking Teams\nExcelsior, Telstar, FC Zwolle, TOP Oss and Dordrecht were awarded play-off spot as their performance in the six periods, along with RKC Waalwijk and Cambuur, the two best placed team in Eerste Divisie who did not get a play-off spot via period route. As VVV-Venlo, one of the period winners, promoted as Eerste Divisie champions, MVV replaced them as the best placed team who did not qualify for play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200287-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Divisie, Playoffs\nPlease note that the following teams: Roda JC & De Graafschap joined the Eerste Divisie-teams for the playoffs, after finishing 16th and 17th in the Eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200287-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Divisie, Playoffs, Round 3 (best of 3)\nThe 2 winners of Round 3 will play in Eredivisie 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200288-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eerste Klasse\n2008\u201309 Eerste Klasse was a Dutch association football season of the Eerste Klasse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League was the fifty-second season of the Egyptian Premier League since its establishment in 1948. The league is composed of sixteen teams. Al Ahly SC became the defending champions for the fourth year in a row and the thirty-third time in the league's history. This season began on 8 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League, Special matches\nIn Egypt, the most anticipated matches are among the \"triangle of power\": Al Ahly SC, Zamalek SC, and Ismaily SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League, Special matches\nAl Ahly versus Zamalek SC is one of the top derbies in the region, referred to as the \"Egyptian Derby,\" the \"Cairo Derby,\" or \"Africa's Derby.\" It is a match between two successful clubs, as they have 13 Champions League titles distributed among them, five for Zamalek SC and eight for Al Ahly SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League, Special matches\nThe Cairo\u2013Ismailia rivalry is another challenging competition in Egyptian football, as Cairo-based clubs Al Ahly SC and Zamalek SC have mixed relations with the city of Ismailia, home to the Ismaily Sports Club, the third most decorated team in Egypt. The Zamalek SC\u2013Ismaily SC games are usually peaceful as the clubs' boards and fans have had traditionally good relations with each other, while the relationship between Al Ahly SC and Ismaily SC fans have typically not been well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League, Special matches\nThe reason for the conflict between Al Ahly SC and Ismaily SC fans is not clear, but possibly stems back to the 1967 Six-Day War. Israeli troops forced the people of Ismailia and most of the people living on the Suez Canal to evacuate and leave their homes, going westwards towards the inside of Egypt. Ismaily SC asked Al Ahly SC to host them, but the team refused. This spoiled the relationship between the clubs. During Al Ahly SC's reconstruction period in 2004, Al Ahly SC signed a group of former Ismaily SC players including Mohamed Barakat, Islam El-Shater, and Emad El Nahhas, further destroying the relationship between fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200289-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Premier League, Stadiums\nCairo International Stadium is home to Cairo teams Al Ahly and Zamalek. Ismailia Stadium is home to Ismaily SC. The Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria (capacity: 80,000) is currently mainly used for international competition, as it was constructed as part of Egypt's bid to land the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200290-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Egyptian Second Division\nEgyptian Second Division 2008\u201309 is the 2008\u201309 season of the Egyptian Second Division competition. A total of 48 teams are divided into 3 groups based on geographical distribution. The top team of each group promotes to the highest Egyptian football level; Egyptian Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200291-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eintracht Frankfurt season\nEintracht Frankfurt started the 2008\u201309 season competing in the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200291-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eintracht Frankfurt season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200291-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eintracht Frankfurt season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200291-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eintracht Frankfurt season, Players, Eintracht Frankfurt II\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200291-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eintracht Frankfurt season, Results\nNOTE: scores are written Eintracht firstNOTE: fixtures marked with a * are not scheduled yet definitely", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa\nThe 2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa was the seventy-fifth season of top-tier football in Poland. It began on 8 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. The season was originally scheduled to start on 25 July 2008. However, the first two rounds of games were postponed because of legal uncertainties about the number of teams in the competition following an association-wide corruption scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa\nWis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w won the league for the second time in a row and for the 12th time in their history after defeating \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw 2\u20130 in the final match of the season. Legia Warsaw finished as runners-up and qualified for the second qualifying round of 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League. Lech Pozna\u0144 finished third and qualified for the third qualifying round of the Europa League after winning the Polish Cup. Polonia Warsaw also managed to earn a spot in Europe by finishing fourth, thereby qualifying for the first qualifying round of the Europa League. Pawe\u0142 Bro\u017cek of Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w and Takesure Chinyama of Legia Warsaw finished as joint topscorers with 19 goals in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa\nOn the bottom end of the table, relegation was once again subject to several non-competitive events. On competitive criteria, G\u00f3rnik Zabrze and Cracovia would have been relegated to the I Liga, while Arka Gdynia would have had to compete in the relegation play-offs. However, \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a were denied a license for the 2009\u201310 season and thus were automatically relegated. The club appealed the decision without any success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa\nSince \u0141KS city rivals Widzew were also denied of promoting from the First League and appealed against this decision, thus creating uncertainties about the First League play-off participant, the Polish FA decided in June to postpone the relegation play-offs to an unknown date before eventually cancelling the matches completely. (see below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa, Team changes from last season\nDue to the corruption scandal several teams from last season have been punished with relegation. Those teams include Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin, Korona Kielce and Zag\u0142\u0119bie Sosnowiec. Lubin and Kielce were relegated to the First League while Sosnowiec were demoted an additional level to the Second League because they also finished the season in 16th and last place, a regular demotion spot. Widzew \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, who ended the season in 15th place, originally were going to be penalized as well. However, the club successfully appealed the decision in front of the Polish Olympic Committee, so they were assigned to the First League as a regularly demoted club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa, Team changes from last season\nPromotion to this year's Ekstraklasa was earned by Polish First League champions Lechia Gda\u0144sk, runners-up \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw, 3rd placed Piast Gliwice and 4th placed Arka Gdynia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa, Team changes from last season\nDyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski has been sold to an owner of First League club Polonia Warsaw. The two clubs merged, with Grodzisk's players and Ekstraklasa license transferred to Polonia. The merger concluded a series of negotiations between Grodzisk and other clubs. The initially planned merger with \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw was eventually denied by the latter after several months of discussions. Grodzisk chairman Zbigniew Drzyma\u0142a then started conversations with Pogo\u0144 Szczecin, which were quickly stopped without an agreement as well, before eventually coming to an agreement with Polonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200292-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa, Relegation play-offs\nThe relegation play-offs were cancelled after a series of appeals over the question in which division both \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and First League 2008\u201309 champions Widzew \u0141\u00f3d\u017a will play in the 2009-10 season. Originally, Arka Gdynia as 14th-placed team (sports court decisions excluded) of the Ekstraklasa and Korona Kielce as 3rd-placed team of the First League were scheduled to play in a two-legged play-off for a spot in Ekstraklasa 2009\u201310. However, the Polish FA were forced to postpone the series to an unknown later date due to the appeals and, after the issues could not be settled in time, eventually decided not to hold any matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200293-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elite One\nIn the 2008\u201309 Elite One season, 14 teams competed. Tiko United won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200294-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elite Women's Hockey League\nThe 2008\u201309 Elite Women's Hockey League season was the fifth season of the Elite Women's Hockey League, a multi-national women's ice hockey league. HC Slavia Praha of the Czech Republic won the league title for the second time in a row before announcing its withdrawal from next year's competition for financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200295-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien (bandy)\nElitserien is the top-tier of bandy in Sweden since 2007. The second season was played October\u2013March 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200295-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien (bandy), League table\nEach team meet every other team twice during the season, so 26 rounds are played all in all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200295-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien (bandy), League table\nThe top eight teams went on to the quarter-finals in the play-off for the Swedish championship. Teams eleven and twelve had to play a qualifying round against teams from Allsvenskan to stay in Elitserien, while teams 13 and 14 were relegated without the possibility to re-qualify for Elitserien until next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200295-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien (bandy), League table, Knock-out stage\nA best-of-three playoff were used in the quarter-finals and best-of-five in the semi-finals. The crucial final for the Swedish Championship was played at Studenternas IP in Uppsala on 21 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200296-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien (men's handball)\nThe 2008\u201309 Elitserien was the 75th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 14 teams competed in the league. The eight highest placed teams qualified for the playoffs, whereas teams 11\u201312 had to play relegation playoffs against teams from the second division, and teams 13\u201314 were relegated automatically. IK S\u00e4vehof won the regular season, but Alings\u00e5s HK won the playoffs and claimed their first Swedish title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season\nThe 2008\u201309 Elitserien season was the 34th season of Elitserien. It began on September 15, 2008, with the regular season ending February 28, 2009. The playoffs of the 85th Swedish Championship ended on April 8, with F\u00e4rjestads BK taking the championship. The season started earlier than previous seasons due to the 2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships in Switzerland had been scheduled earlier than normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, League business\nThe match start time for Saturday matches was changed to start at 16:00 local time (UTC+1) instead of 15:00 as in previous seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season\nDjurg\u00e5rdens IF changed their arena for home matches from Stockholm Globe Arena to Hovet. Also, R\u00f6gle BK changed to a new arena, Lindab Arena in \u00c4ngelholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season\nThe first goal of the season was scored by Lars Eller of Fr\u00f6lunda HC in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping against HV71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season\nIn the end of the regular season, Peter Forsberg played three games for Modo Hockey, totalling 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season\nThe top team: F\u00e4rjestads BK, Link\u00f6pings HC, Fr\u00f6lunda HC, HV71, Lule\u00e5 HF, Skellefte\u00e5 AIK, Bryn\u00e4s IF, and Timr\u00e5 IK advanced to the playoffs. Whereas the bottom two teams advanced to the 2008-09 Kvalserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season, Final standings\nGP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season, Final standings\nx \u2013 clinched playoff spot; y \u2013 clinched regular season league title; e \u2013 eliminated from playoff contention; r \u2013 play in relegation series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Regular season, Statistical leaders, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points, +/\u2013 = Plus/Minus, PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Playoffs\nAfter the regular season, the standard of 8 teams qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200297-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Elitserien season, Playoffs, Playoff bracket\nIn the first round, the highest remaining seed chose which of the four lowest remaining seeds to be matched against. In the second round, the highest remaining seed was matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team was awarded home ice advantage. Each best-of-seven series followed a 1\u20131\u20131\u20132\u20131\u20131 format: the higher-seeded team played at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team was at home for game 1, 3 and 6 (if necessary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200298-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 England Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 English Hockey League season took place from September 2008 until March 2009. The league was sponsored by Slazenger and the men's title was won by East Grinstead with the women's title going to Bowdon Hightown. There were no play offs during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200298-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 England Hockey League season\nThe Men's Cup was won by Reading and the Women's Cup was won by Bowdon Hightown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200298-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 England Hockey League season, Men's Cup, Final\n(Held at the Highfields Hockey Centre, Nottingham on 17 May)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season (started 9 July 2008) is Enosis' 40th consecutive season in the Cypriot First Division. The team finished 6th in the league in the previous season. The first training session for the season took place at the training ground at Paralimni Municipal Stadium on 9 July 2008. Manager Marios Constantinou resigned the club on December 2008 due to the club's consecutive bad results of the team in the Cypriot First Division, and was replaced by Eduard Eranosyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad\nLast Update: 31 December 2008Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers 2008/09\nInNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad, Transfers 2008/09\nOutNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad, Winter Period\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad, Winter Period\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Current squad, Foreign players\nTeams in the Cypriot First Division can register up to eighteen non-EU nationals and players with European ancestry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200299-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Enosis Neon Paralimni F.C. season, Pre-season matches and friendlies\nEnosis left on 23 July for Pravets, Bulgaria to perform most of their pre-season training. The team returned on4 August. While in Bulgaria Enosis played three friendly matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie\nThe Eredivisie 2008\u201309 is the 53rd season of Eredivisie since its establishment in 1955. PSV were the reigning champions. The season began on 29 August 2008 with a game between Vitesse Arnhem and FC Groningen and ended on 10 May 2009. A total of 18 teams take part in the league, consisting of 16 who competed in the previous season and two promoted from the Eerste Divisie. The teams promoted from the Eerste Divisie at the end of the previous season were champions FC Volendam, and play-off winners ADO Den Haag. AZ clinched their second title, their first coming in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie, Play-offs, European competition (best of 3)\nContrary to the play-offs of previous years, only teams placed 6th through 9th compete in a play-off tournament for one spot in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie, Play-offs, Relegation\nThe 16th and 17th placed teams, along with the teams from Eerste Divisie, participate in a play-off for two spots in 2009\u201310 Eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie, Play-offs, Relegation, Round 3 (best of 3)\nRKC Waalwijk and Roda JC will play in Eredivisie 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie, Television rights\nThe Dutch public broadcaster NOS broadcast the match highlights after beating rival broadcaster RTL for the contract. The new pay-per-view channel Eredivisie Live broadcast the live matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200300-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie, Television rights\nIn Australia the Eredivisie was broadcast live and exclusive by Setanta Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200301-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (basketball)\nThe 2008\u201309 Eredivisie season was the 48th season of the Eredivisie in basketball, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. MyGuide Amsterdam won their 7th national title on 31 May 2009, after defeating EiffelTowers Den Bosch in Game 7 of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200302-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe 2008\u201309 Eredivisie was the 49th season of the Eredivisie, the highest level of ice hockey competition in the Netherlands. The season started in November, following the completion of the league cup, won by the Tilburg Trappers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200302-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nWith the addition of the Utrecht Dragons and the Groningen Grizzlies, ten teams participated (a record for the Eredivisie). The season consisted of 24 games. The Utrecht Dragons fared poorly in their first and only season, folding its professional team at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200302-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe top eight teams qualified for the playoffs. In the best-of-three quarterfinals, Tilburg beat Eindhoven 2-0, The Hague beat Amsterdam 2-0, Geleen beat Groningen 2-0, and Nijmegen beat Heerenveen 2-1. In the best-of-five semifinals, Tilburg beat Nijmegen 3-2 and The Hague beat Geleen 3-0. HYS The Hague won its first national championship since 1969 by beating Tilburg in the best-of-five finals 3 games to 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200303-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (women)\nThe 2008\u201309 Eredivisie Vrouwen was the second season of the Netherlands women's professional football league. The league took place from 21 August 2008 to 31 May 2009 with seven teams. AZ successfully defended the title and became champions for a second year running. The 84 matches of the season had a 56,365 total attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200303-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (women), Teams\nOn 15 April 2008, Roda JC was confirmed as the league's seventh team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200303-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eredivisie (women), Format\nThe season was played in a quadruple round-robin format, where all seven participating teams played each other four times (twice away and twice at home), a total of 24 matches each. The champion qualified to the newly created UEFA Women's Champions League. There was no relegation system in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200304-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ergotelis F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Ergotelis' 79th season in existence, 4th season in the Super League Greece, and the third consecutive since the club's latest promotion from the Football League. Ergotelis also participated in the Greek cup, entering the competition in the Fourth Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200304-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ergotelis F.C. season, Players, Out of team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200305-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eski\u015fehirspor season\nFollowing are the results of the 2008\u201309 Eski\u015fehirspor season. Eski\u015fehirspor is a football club in Eski\u015fehir, Turkey. Also known as K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131 \u015eim\u015fekler (Red Lightnings) or The Star of Anatolia. The club was founded in 1965 and started a football revolution in Anatolia. Eski\u015fehirspor started a long term stay in the first league in Turkey when they were founded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200306-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Essex Senior Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Essex Senior Football League season was the 38th in the history of Essex Senior Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200306-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Essex Senior Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 15 clubs which competed in the league last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200307-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Esteghlal F.C. season\nThis is a list of Esteghlal F.C. 's results at the 2008\u201309 IPL, 2009 ACL, Super Cup 2008 and 2008\u201309 Hazfi Cup. The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup. Iranian Super Cup and Asian Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200308-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Estonian Cup\nEstonian Cup 2008\u201309 was the twenty-second season of the Estonian football knockout tournament. Winners of the cup qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009\u201310. The defending champions were Flora Tallinn, who successfully defended their title this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200308-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Estonian Cup, Third round\n1Vaprus were disqualified from the competition because of the use of an ineligible player in their game against Ganvix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200309-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ethiopian Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Ethiopian Premier League is the season of the Ethiopian Premier League since its establishment in 1944. A total of 16 teams are contesting the league, with Saint-George SA the defending champions for the twenty-second time in total. The Ethiopian season began on 22 November 2008 and finished on .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200310-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Etisalat Emirates Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Etisalat Emirates Cup was the 1st staging of the Etisalat Emirates Cup, started on October 10, 2008 and finished on April 3, 2009. The competition was won by Al Ain defeating Al Wahda in the final 1\u20130. 12 clubs were drawn into 3 groups of 4 teams. The winners and the best runner up qualified for the semi final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200311-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey League\nThe 2008\u201309 Euro Hockey League was the second season of the Euro Hockey League, Europe's premier club field hockey tournament organised by the EHF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200311-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey League\nThe final was played between UHC Hamburg and Bloemendaal at the Hazelaarweg Stadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Bloemendaal beat UHC Hamburg, the defending champions, 5\u20134 to win their first Euro Hockey League title. Rotterdam took the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200311-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey League, Round one\nPools A, B, C and D were played in Amstelveen, the Netherlands between 24 and 26 October 2008 and the other four pools were played in Lille, France. If a game was won, the winning team received 5 points. A draw resulted in both teams receiving 2 points. A loss gave the losing team 1 point unless the losing team lost by 3 or more goals, then they received 0 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200311-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey League, Knockout stage\nThe Round of 16 and the quarterfinals were played in Hamburg, Germany between 10 and 13 April 2009 and the semifinals, third place match and the final were played in Rotterdam, the Netherlands between 30 and 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200312-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey Tour\nEuro Hockey Tour 2008\u201309 is the 13th edition of Euro Hockey Tour. There are only four teams: Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden are competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200312-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euro Hockey Tour, Format\nThe tournament consists of four stages: Ceska Pojistovna Cup in Czech Republic, Karjala Tournament in Finland, Channel One Cup in Russia and LG Hockey Games in Sweden. The intervals between stages are usually from 1 month to 3 months. In each phase teams played six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200313-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EuroCup Women\nThe EuroCup Women is an international basketball club competition for women's clubs throughout Europe. The 2008-2009 season involved 58 competing teams from 28 different countries. The Turkish team Galatasaray SK became the champion, defeating Cras Basket Taranto in the finals. Trailing by 12 points after the first leg in Italy, Galatasaray returned to Istanbul and won 82-61 for a 137-128 victory on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200314-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 EuroLeague Women\nThe 2008-09 season was the 13th edition of Europe's premier basketball tournament for women since it was rebranded to its current format. It was won once again for the third time in a row by Spartak Moscow after defeating 2003 champions UMMC Ekaterinburg and first time finalists Perfumer\u00edas Avenida Salamanca in the final four, which took place in the latter's court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball\n2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball was the seventh edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the EuroCup, and the first to be contested under the Eurocup name. From the inception of the competition in 2002, it had been known as the ULEB Cup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one tier below the EuroLeague level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball\nDuring this season, there were 48 teams, from 22 countries. After the preliminary rounds, there were 32 teams left for the regular season, with the 16 eliminated teams being relegated down and parachuting into Europe's third-tier transnational competition, the EuroChallenge. Lithuanian club Lietuvos Rytas of Vilnius, won the tournament and promotion to the top level EuroLeague for the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format\nThe competition format was also revamped. A total of 48 clubs participated, down from 54 in the previous year's competition. The competition was jointly organized by Euroleague Basketball Company and FIBA Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, First preliminary round\nSixteen teams competed in the first preliminary round, which was organised by FIBA Europe. These teams were paired in two-legged matches, with winners decided on aggregate score. The eight winners advanced to the second preliminary round, and the eight losers parachuted into the third-tier European competition, the EuroChallenge. The matches were played from October 14 through October 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, First preliminary round\nDue to a decision of the Italian Basketball Federation to revoke Capo d'Orlando's first division license, followed by an Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) tribunal rejected appeal by the club, Capo d'Orlando lost the right to participate in European competitions. As a result, Benetton Treviso automatically qualified to the group stage, while Benetton Fribourg advanced to the second qualification round where they met Kalise Gran Canaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, Second preliminary round\nThe second preliminary round, also organised by FIBA Europe, also featured 16 teams, with the eight winners from the first preliminary round joined by eight automatic qualifiers to that phase. As in the first preliminary round, matches were two-legged and decided on aggregate score, with the winners advancing to the Eurocup regular season and the losers parachuting into the EuroChallenge. Matches were played from November 4 to November 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, Regular season\nThirty-two teams\u201424 automatic qualifiers and the eight survivors of the second preliminary round\u2014entered the Regular Season. From this point onward, the competition is organised by Euroleague Basketball Company. The teams were divided into eight groups of four teams each, with each group playing a double round-robin schedule. The first and second-place teams in each group advanced to the Last 16. Regular Season matches were held from November 25, 2008 until January 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, Last 16\nFor the first time in the history of the competition, a second group phase was played. The survivors of the Regular Season were divided into four-team groups, each playing a double round-robin schedule. This phase has a direct analogue in the top-tier EuroLeague, which conducts an identical group phase, the Top 16, at the same stage of the competition. As in the EuroLeague Top 16, the first- and second-place teams in each group advance to the next phase. However, unlike the EuroLeague, which conducts a separate quarterfinal round before its Final Four, the Eurocup sent its surviving teams into a single knockout tournament, the Final Eight. Last 16 matches were played from January 27 to March 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, Final eight\nLike the Euroleague Final Four, this was a knockout tournament, conducted in one-off matches, held at a single site. The semifinal losers played a single match for third place, and the semifinal winners played a single match for the Eurocup title and an automatic place in the 2009-10 Euroleague. This phase was carried over from the prior ULEB Cup format. Matches were played from April 9 through April 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Format, Final eight\nThis was the last season for the Final Eight format. From 2009\u201310 onward, a quarterfinal round has been introduced, consisting of two-legged ties between a group winner and the runner-up from a separate group, with the winner of each tie determined on aggregate score. The quarterfinal winners will advance to the Eurocup Finals, with one-off semifinals followed by a one-off final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Preliminary rounds\nSixteen teams participated in the first preliminary round, and after the first preliminary round matches, sixteen teams played in a second preliminary round, with the top eight teams from the first preliminary round. Teams that were eliminated from the first or second preliminary round games competed in the EuroChallenge 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200315-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball, Final eight\nThe Final Eight was the last stage of EuroCup 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague\nThe 2008\u201309 Euroleague was the 9th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 52nd season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season, which featured 24 teams from 13 different countries, culminated in the 2008\u201309 Euroleague Final Four at the new O2 World arena in Berlin, Germany. It was won by Panathinaikos, who defeated in the final, the defending champions, CSKA Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague\nWhile the general structure of the competition was identical to that used in recent seasons, changes were made to the format for two of its phases, the Regular Season and Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nThe first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round. This was the first year for this particular format; previously, the competing teams were split into three groups of eight teams each, with the top five teams in each group plus the best sixth-place team advancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nIf two or more clubs finished level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nGames were played from October 22, 2008 to January 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nThe surviving teams were then divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round-robin system was adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season. Games began on January 28 and ended March 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nIn the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group played second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-five playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four. This was the first season in which the quarterfinals were best-of-five; previously, they had been best-of-three. The quarterfinal matches were played from March 24 until April 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Format\nThe culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams played a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers played in a third-place playoff. The team which was victorious in the Final (Panathinaikos) would be Euroleague champion. The Final Four semifinals were played May 1, with the third-place game and final on May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Regular season\nThe regular season began on October 20, 2008 and concluded on January 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Top 16\nThe Top 16 stage was played from January 28 to March 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Top 16\nThe draw was conducted on January 19 at Euroleague Basketball Company headquarters in Barcelona. The group winners in the Regular Season were drawn from one pot, the runners-up from one pot, the teams in 3rd place from one pot and those in 4th place from one pot. Teams that played in the same group in the Regular Season could not meet again in the Top 16. Also, teams from the same country could not be drawn into the same pool unless it was necessary to prevent teams from the same Regular Season group from being drawn together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Top 16, Group F\n* FC Barcelona wins the group over Real Madrid by the head-to-head point differential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Quarterfinals\nTeam 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200316-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Euroleague, Final four\nThe Final Four was played on May 1 and on May 3. Semifinal games were played on Friday, while the third-place playoff and Final were played on Sunday. The event was hosted at the O2 World in Berlin. It was the first time the event was held in Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200317-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Badminton Circuit season\nThe 2008-09 European Badminton Circuit season started in May 2008 and ended in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200317-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Badminton Circuit season, Results, Performance by countries\nTabulated below are the Circuit performances based on countries. Only countries who have won a title are listed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200318-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup was the 13th season of the European Challenge Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from six nations in European rugby. It started in October 2008 and ended with the final at the Twickenham Stoop in London on 22 May 2009, in which Northampton Saints defeated Bourgoin 15\u20133. With the win, the Saints not only claimed the trophy, but also won a berth in the 2009\u201310 Heineken Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200318-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup, Teams\nSeven French teams competed instead of the normal eight, as a French team, Toulouse, progressed farther in the previous year's Heineken Cup than any English or Italian team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200318-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup, Teams\nOther nations had their usual number of participants: England six, Italy four, Ireland one, Spain one and Romania one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200318-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup, Pool stage\nThe draw for the pool stages took place on 23 June 2008. The draw was conducted using the ERC European Ranking system which was based on the qualified teams' performances and participation in the Heineken Cup and knock-out stages of the European Challenge Cup over the past four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200318-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup, Knockout stage\nUnlike the Heineken Cup, the Challenge Cup did not conduct a semi-final draw at the time (such a draw would be instituted for the 2009\u201310 edition). The top half of the draw matched the 1 and 8 seeds in one quarter-final, and the 4 and 5 seeds in the other, and the bottom half matched 2 against 7 and 3 against 6; the higher (lower-numbered) seeds all play at home. The knockout stage was not reseeded after the quarter-finals. Home advantage for the semi-finals was awarded to the highest remaining seed in each half of the draw. Home advantage in the final went to the top remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200319-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup pool stage\nThe 2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup pool stage was the opening stage of the 13th season of the European Challenge Cup, the second-tier competition for European rugby union clubs. It began on 9 October 2008 when RC Toulon hosted Northampton Saints and ended with two games on 25 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200319-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup pool stage\nTwenty teams participated in this phase of the competition; they were divided into five pools of four teams each, with each team playing the others home and away. Competition points were earned using the standard bonus point system. The five pool winners and the best three runners-up advanced to the knockout stage. These teams then competed in a single-elimination tournament that ended with the final at the Twickenham Stoop in London on 22 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200319-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 European Challenge Cup pool stage, Results\nThe draw for the pool stages took place on 23 June 2008. The draw was conducted using the ERC European Ranking system which was based on the qualified teams' performances and participation in the Heineken Cup and knock-out stages of the European Challenge Cup over the past four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200320-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Everton F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 Everton F.C. season was Everton's 17th season in the Premier League, and their 55th consecutive season in the top division of English football. The club's kit was provided by Umbro, and the sponsor was Chang beer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200320-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Everton F.C. season, Review and events, Monthly events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section. However it does summarise the transfers made by Everton in the summer. It also includes Cup Draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200321-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 F.C. Copenhagen season\nThis article shows statistics of individual players for the football club F.C. Copenhagen. It also lists all matches that F.C. Copenhagen played in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200321-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 F.C. Copenhagen season, Players, Squad information\nThis section show the squad as currently, considering all players who are confirmedly moved in and out (see section Players in / out).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200321-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 F.C. Copenhagen season, Club, Other information\nUpdated to match played 17 JuneSource:\u00a0F.C. Copenhagen and Parken Stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200321-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 F.C. Copenhagen season, Matches, Competitive\nLast updated: 31 MaySource: 1F.C. Copenhagen goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of F.C. Copenhagen.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200321-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 F.C. Copenhagen season, Matches, Friendlies\nLast updated: 26 MarchSource: 1F.C. Copenhagen goals come first.Country's flag depict country of foreign team to that of F.C. Copenhagen.2 TV: TV3+Ground: H = Home; A = Away; N = Neutral; HR = Home replacement; AR = Away replacement; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 FA Cup (known as The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON for sponsorship reasons) was the 128th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; the FA Cup. A record 762 clubs were accepted for the competition; one club, South Normanton Athletic, folded before the fixtures were released, leaving 761 clubs to appear in the draw. Two more clubs, Brierley Hill & Withymoor and Stapenhill, folded after the draws for the early rounds were made, giving their opponents a walk-over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup\nThe competition started on 16 August 2008 with the Extra Preliminary Round and concluded on 30 May 2009 with the Final, held at Wembley Stadium. Because winners Chelsea qualified for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Champions League by finishing 3rd in the 2008\u201309 Premier League, losing finalists Everton qualified for the play-off round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup\nBecause Everton also happened to qualify for a Europa League berth by finishing 5th in the Premier League, that berth was awarded to the 6th place team (Aston Villa), whose berth (which was available because 2009\u201310 Football League Cup winners Manchester United qualified for the Champions League as Premier League winners) was in turn awarded to the 7th place team (Fulham).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup\nThis season's competition saw the beginning of a new television contract for the tournament, with ITV and Setanta Sports taking over the domestic rights from the BBC and Sky Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Qualifying rounds\nAll of the teams that entered the competition, but were not members of the Premier League or The Football League, had to compete in the qualifying rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, First round proper\nAll of the 24 League One and 24 League Two teams entered at this round, along with the winners of the previous round, the fourth qualifying round. These 32 winners came from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe draw took place on 26 October 2008. The matches were played between 7 and 9 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, First round proper\n\u2021 \u2013 Grays' replay with Carlisle was abandoned the first time it was played after 20 minutes because of floodlight failure with Grays leading 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, First round proper\nBlyth Spartans, Droylsden and Histon beat teams from two levels higher. Kettering Town were the fourth non-league team to beat a league club. Curzon Ashton were the only club to beat a team from four levels higher, beating Exeter City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe draw was held on 9 November 2008 and involved the 40 winning teams from the previous round. These were from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe draw was conducted by Lawrie Sanchez and Ray Parlour. Matches in the Second Round Proper were played over the weekend of 29 November 2008, with the exception of the match between Crewe Alexandra and Carlisle United, which was played on 2 December, due to the abandonment of the first-round game between Carlisle United and Grays Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Second round proper\n\u2021 \u2013 Droylsden's first visit to Chesterfield was abandoned at half time due to fog. The first replay, two weeks later, was then abandoned after 70 minutes due to floodlight failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Second round proper\n6 non-league clubs beat league clubs: Leeds United lost to Histon, while League Two clubs lost to Eastwood Town, Blyth Spartans, Barrow, Forest Green Rovers and Kettering Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe draw was held on 30 November 2008. The draw was carried out by Sir Trevor Brooking and Ray Clemence at Soho Square. The 20 Premier League and 24 Championship teams enter at this stage, along with the 20 winners from the previous round. These 20 teams came from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe matches were played between 2 and 5 January 2009, with the exception of the ties between Birmingham City and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Histon and Swansea City, Cheltenham Town and Doncaster Rovers, and Leyton Orient and Sheffield United, which were postponed until 13 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Third round proper\nTorquay United were the only team to beat a team from 3 levels higher, while Hartlepool United were the only team to beat a team from 2 levels higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Fourth round proper\nThe draw was held on 4 January 2009. It comprised teams from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Fourth round proper\nThe draw was conducted by Roberto Di Matteo and Dave Beasant. Most of the matches were played on the weekend of 24 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Fourth round proper\nA technical error during ITV's broadcast of the Everton\u2013Liverpool replay meant that millions of viewers missed Dan Gosling's winner for Everton late in extra time. Coverage of the match was temporarily interrupted by advertisements, only for viewers to see Everton's players celebrating upon the restoration of the feed. ITV received thousands of complaints about the mistake, with many viewers questioning ITV's ability to broadcast live football, especially given their \u00a3275\u00a0million contract with The Football Association. ITV has subsequently apologised for the error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Fifth round proper\nThe draw was held on 25 January 2009. It comprised ten teams from the Premier League and six from the Championship, and was conducted by Gary Mabbutt and Gary Pallister. The Fifth Round matches were played on the weekend of 14 February 2009, with the exception of the tie between Arsenal and Burnley, after Arsenal's Fourth Round replay with Cardiff City was postponed due to snow. The match was played on 8 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Sixth round proper\nThe draw was held on 15 February 2009. It comprised seven teams from the Premier League and Coventry City from the Championship. It was conducted by Frank McLintock and Graeme Souness. The matches were played on the weekend of 7 March 2009, with the exception of the tie between Arsenal and Hull City, which was played on 17 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw was held on 8 March 2009, and was conducted by Bob Wilson and Joe Royle. The semi-final matches were played at Wembley Stadium, on the weekend of 18 April 2009. Unlike the previous rounds, replays were not held if a match ended as a draw; if necessary, extra time was added and a penalty shoot-out was held immediately after the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200322-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup, Media coverage\nIn the United Kingdom, ITV regained the free to air broadcasting rights from the BBC who held on to it after seven seasons while Setanta Sports took over the subscription broadcasting rights from Sky Sports who held on to it for 20 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe 2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds opened the 128th season of competition in England for 'The Football Association Challenge Cup' (FA Cup), the world's oldest association football single knockout competition. A new record 762 clubs were accepted for the competition, up 33 from the previous season's 729 \u2013 completing a significant increase of 75 teams (11%) from the 687 clubs just two seasons earlier. South Normanton Athletic folded before the fixtures were released, leaving 761 clubs to appear in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down (Levels 5 through 10) in the English football pyramid meant that the competition started with six rounds of preliminary (2) and qualifying (4) knockouts for these non-League teams. The 32 winning teams from Fourth qualifying round progressed to the First Round Proper, where League teams tiered at Levels 3 and 4 entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Calendar\nThe calendar for the 2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by The FA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Extra preliminary round\nThe draw for the Extra preliminary round was announced on The FA's website on Tuesday, 1 July. 406 clubs from Level 9 and Level 10 of English football, entered at this stage of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nMatches in the Preliminary round were played on the weekend of Saturday, 30 August 2008, with replays played on 2 September and 3 September 2008. The draw for the round was announced on The FA's website on Tuesday, 1 July. A total of 332 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 203 winners from the Extra preliminary round and 129 entering at this stage from the six leagues at Level 8 of English football. The round featured 52 clubs from Level 10 still in the competition, being the lowest ranked clubs in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nMatches in the First qualifying round were played on the weekend of Saturday, 13 September 2008. Replays were played on 16 and 17 September 2008. The draw for the round was announced on The FA's website on Tuesday, 1 July. A total of 232 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 166 winners from the Preliminary round and 66 entering at this stage from the top division of the three leagues at Level 7 of English football. The round featured 14 clubs from Level 10 still in the competition, being the lowest ranked clubs in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nMatches in the Second qualifying round were played on the weekend of Saturday, 27 September 2008. A total of 160 clubs took part in this stage of the competition, including the 116 winners from the First qualifying round and 44 Level 6 clubs, from Conference North and Conference South, entering at this stage. Southam United from Level 10 of English football was the lowest-ranked club to qualify for this round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round\nMatches in the Third qualifying round will be played on the weekend of Saturday, 11 October 2008. The draw for the round was announced on The FA's website on Monday, 29 September. A total of 80 clubs took part, all having progressed from the Second qualifying round. Six clubs from Level 9 of English football were the lowest-ranked to qualify for this round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Fourth qualifying round\nMatches in the Fourth qualifying round were played on the weekend of Saturday, 25 October 2008. A total of 64 clubs took part, 40 having progressed from the Third qualifying round and 24 clubs from Conference Premier, forming Level 5 of English football, entering at this stage. Leiston from Level 9 of English football was the lowest-ranked club to qualify for this round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200323-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Cup qualifying rounds, Competition proper\nSee 2008\u201309 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200324-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Trophy\nThe FA Trophy 2008\u201309 was the fortieth season of the FA Trophy, the Football Association's cup competition for teams at levels 5\u20138 of the English football league system. The number of team entries for this season was 263.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200324-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Trophy, First round\nThis round is the first in which Conference Premier teams join those from lower reaches of the National League System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200325-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Women's Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 FA Women's Premier League season was the 17th season of the FA Women's Premier League. England's highest national league at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup was the 57th FA Youth Cup. A record 474 clubs participated in the competition. The competition started in September 2008 with the preliminary round and concluded with the final on 22 and 26 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup\nArsenal knocked out holders Manchester City en route to the final, where they beat 2006 and 2007 winners Liverpool 6\u20132 on aggregate to lift the FA Youth Cup for the 7th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup, Calendar\nQualifying ties played in the week commencing; proper ties played by the closing date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup, First round\nThe League One and League Two teams will enter at this round except Notts County which did not apply, along with the winners of the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup, Second round\nThe winners from the first round matches will progress to second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200326-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FA Youth Cup, Third round\nThe 20 Premier League and 24 Championship teams enter at this stage, along with the winners of the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200327-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Arge\u0219 Pite\u0219ti season\nThe 2008\u201309 FC Arge\u0219 Pite\u0219ti season was the 44th season of FC Arge\u0219 Pite\u0219ti in the Liga I, the top division in Romanian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200327-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Arge\u0219 Pite\u0219ti season\nThe team finished the league in 10th position but was relegated due to allegations of referee bribery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200328-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Barcelona season\nIn 2008\u201309, FC Barcelona started a new era with a new manager, former captain and Barcelona B coach Pep Guardiola, who led the team to the first treble in Spanish football history and first one to win sextuple in the club football history. After selling off high-profiled players such as Deco and Ronaldinho, Barcelona played scintillating football throughout the season, winning the Copa del Rey, La Liga, and the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200328-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Barcelona season, Players, Disciplinary record\nSource: Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200328-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Barcelona season, Competitions, Overall\nAs in nine out of the last ten seasons, Barcelona was present in all major competitions. First division and Copa del Rey in Spain and UEFA Champions League in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season\nThe 2008\u201309 FC Basel season began off with various pre-season matches against Swiss lower league teams, as well as against German Bundesliga, UkrainianVyscha Liha and Polish Ekstraklasa clubs. Basel's objectives for the year were to regain their Swiss Super League and Swiss Cup titles, as well as qualify for the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Overview\nAfter last season, where Basel dominated on the domestic front, winning both the Swiss Super League and Swiss Cup, and reaching the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. This season they will have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League. To prepare for the 2008\u201309 season, FCB added defenders Behrang Safari from Malm\u00f6 FF and David Abraham from Gimn\u00e0stic de Tarragona and midfielders Jurgen Gjasula and Marcos Gelabert from FC St. Gallen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Overview\nIn the other direction, fans' favourite Daniel Majstorovi\u0107 left the club for AEK Athens, while K\u014dji Nakata returned to Japan with Kashima Antlers; Vratislav Lokvenc and David Degen's respective loan deals were not re-newed. Prior to the start of the domestic season, Ivan Ergi\u0107 resigned from the position as club captain and Franco Costanzo was unveiled as the new captain one day before the season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nBasel were the defending champions and the club's priority aim for this season was to win the domestic league championship again. Basel played their opening game of the season in Bern on 18 July 2008 against Young Boys, which they won 2\u20131 through goals by substitutes Marko Perovi\u0107 and Benjamin Huggel after Eudis had put the home side ahead. With four wins and one draw, FC Aarau had the best start to the season and were in first place in the table for the first five match days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nBasel then took the lead in the table after a 4\u20131 away win against Z\u00fcrich. In the following weeks, Basel were able to maintain their lead, before Zurich took first place for the first time that season thanks to the better goal difference. On the 15th matchday the top match between FCB and FCZ was played and ended with a 1\u20131 draw and so Basel could maintain its championship lead. On the next match day, however, Basel lost 2\u20130 against Xamax and since Zurich beat FC Sion 1\u20130, there was another change to first place. In the last game of the year there was an unexpected result when the bottom of the table Luzern beat Basel 5\u20131. As a result of this, Zurich were four points ahead of Basel and ten points ahead of third-placed YB winter champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nIn the first round after the winter break, the table leaders played 2\u20132 in the Zurich city derby against Grasshopper Club, but were still able to build their lead over Basel to five points, as the table runner-up lost 3\u20132 away against YB. However, this lead was reduced to two points on matchday 21 after FCB won the top game against FCZ 2\u20131. On the 23rd matchday Zurich were long behind in the game against Luzern, but equalized five minutes before the end and were able to turn the game into a 3\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nIn the following round, the YB were defeated 1\u20133 in Vaduz and thus lost the connection to the top of the table. On the 25th matchday, FCB took the lead in the table. Zurich lost 4\u20132 in Bern, while Basel beat Vaduz 5\u20130 at home in the St. Jakob-Park. On the next match day, FCZ regained the top of the table after a 2-1 win against Aarau and because FCB only played 1-1 in Bellinzona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nFCB won 3-2 in against Xamax and benefited from the fact that FCT could only draw against Sion and thus FCB took the lead in the table. On matchday 29, the leaders FCB did not get beyond a draw against Bellinzona and because FCZ won their game in Aarau 3-0, they were able to move up to first place. On matchday 32, none of the first three teams won their game: FCZ did not get more than 1-1 against Luzern, but was able to extend their lead to four points because FCB lost 3-1 in Aarau, contrary to all expectations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0004-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Domestic league\nThe following round, the top match between FCZ and FCB took place, which Basel won 3-1 and thus they moved within one point to Zurich. Basel lost 4-1 GC, Zurich won 1-0 in Bellinzona and won the championship. The play-off slot went to Luzern, who lost 5-2 in Bern, while Sion won 5-1 in Vaduz and thus were able to secure their place in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Swiss Cup was the 84th season of Switzerland's annual cup competition. It began on 20 September with the first games of Round 1 and ended on 20 May 2009 with the Final held at Stade de Suisse, Berne. The winners earned a place in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League. FC Basel were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nNine Super League teams (FC Vaduz are from Liechtenstein and thus play in the Liechtenstein Cup 2008\u201309) and all sixteen Challenge League clubs entered this year's competition, as well as thirteen teams from 1. Liga and 26 teams from lower leagues. Teams from both the Super League and Challenge League were seeded in the first round and the teams from the Super League were seeded in the second round. In the first three rounds, the home advantage was granted to the team from the lower league, if applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nBasel were drawn against third tier FC Sch\u00f6tz. Basel head coach Christian Gross gave most of his regular a rest, including goalkeeper and captain Franco Costanzo and played with a reserve team. Marco Streller returned into the team after a groin operation. Basel controlled the game, but in the first half did not create many chances and so the goalless score at half-time was a good achievement for the lower classed team. Basel played with more speed and higher pressure after the break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nThey created chances but it wasn't until the 79th minute before they scored, Orhan Mustafi pushed in his shot from the 5 yard box after a cross from Eduardo Rubio. Sch\u00f6tz then reacted and had three chances to equalise, but two shots went well wide and reserve keeper Oliver St\u00f6ckli saved the other. Basel's 1\u20130 win was well deserved but hard earned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nIn the second round Basel were drawn against third tier FC Bulle. The game at the Stade de Bouleyres was played on 17 October in front of 4,600 spectators. Basel started the game concentrated and put the hosts under pressure from the beginning. After a few chances, in the 14th minute Marko Perovi\u0107 put in a hard cross so close to the near post that goalkeeper Chassot couldn't help but knock the ball over the goal line. After taking the lead, Basel kept up the pressure and Eduardo Rubio doubled up two minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nFCB then controlled the game without trying too hard, the outsiders tried to react and created a few chances. Suddenly this worked out and Barnabo pulled a goal back in the 27th minute after a very good solo dribbling and good long-range shot. Then, in the second half Basel increased the tempo. Reto Zanni on the right wing with a good cross to Marco Streller, who pushed the ball in, played were 57 minutes. Bulle showed a reaction, but their goal a few minutes later was an off-side effort and disallowed. Basel had a few more chances and, in the overtime, Jurgen Gjasula scored the last goal of the match to make it 4\u20131 for the favourites. A fair result for the higher classed team, but a good performance from the underdogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nIn round three, played on 22 November, FCB was drawn against second tier FC Thun, who hosted the game in the Stadion Lachen in front of 3,550 spectators. Basel took control of the game from the very first moment and youngster Eren Derdiyok put the guests one goal in advance after 22 minutes and he doubled this up eight minutes later. After the hour Derdiyok completed his hat-trick. Soon after the third goal head coach Christian Gross substituted his goal scorer out, replacing him with Orhan Mustafi. Gross also brought in Jurgen Gjasula and it was he that scored the final goal of the game to give the visitors a deserved 4\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nThe quarter-finals were played in Spring 2009. In the round of the last eight FCZ were matched at home in the Letzigrund against FCB on Wednesday 18 March. The match saw both teams have a good start, they neutralized each other before the penalty box. Z\u00fcrich took control of the match before half time. In the 23rd minute good positional play by Adrian Nik\u00e7i, who outwitted the defense, but then only hit the post. Basel created the better chances after the break. In the 48th minute Andrea Guatelli safely parried a shot from 15 meters from Ivan Ergi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nIn the 51st minute a header from Marco Streller was also held by the keeper. After a foul on Streller in the 66th minute referee Cyril Zimmermann awarded a penalty for Basel, which Benjamin Huggel converted on the top right-hand corner. Basel controlled the game, leaving FCZ with only one further goal chance. After a foul by Huggel with 5 minutes left to play, Almen Abdi took the free kick from about 18 meters, centrally in front of the goal, but he shoots far over it. Then, free kick for Basel from a good central position, Carlitos places the free kick on the crossbar. Game over, one goal was enough, 1\u20130 for FCB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nThe semi-final between Young Boys and FCB took place on Thursday 16 April. Both teams started enthusiastically in the with 31,120 spectators sold-out Stade de Suisse. After a few minutes, Thomas H\u00e4berli had a possibility with his head, but he was offside. YB put on the pressure mainly on the right through Carlos Varela and Christian Schwegler. However, the decisive last pass was always imprecise, so that no great chances arose. Before the break, two scenes occurred in front of both goals. Scott Chipperfields shot was thwarted by Marco W\u00f6lfli with a good save (38).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nOn the other side, H\u00e4berli was held back briefly, referee Bertolini decided on penalty. But Basel's goalkeeper and captain Franco Costanzo saved the penalty kicked by Mario Raimondi (45). The course of the game hardly changed after the break. YB had a lot of possession, but the guests were also often in front of the goal. In the 30-minute \"extra time\", YB looked fresher, but no goals fell. It came to a penalty shoot-out. Here YB goalie Marco W\u00f6lfli became the hero. He saved Huggel, David Abraham and Jurgen Gjasula's penalties. Gilles Yapi Yapo, Felix Bastians and Marco Schneuwly all scored for YB and they reached the Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Swiss Cup\nBasel's aim for the Swiss Cup was to retain the title and this was not achieved, but the qualification for the semi-final was a good result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel entered the Champions League in the Second Qualifying Round and were drawn against IFK G\u00f6teborg of Sweden. The first leg was on 30 July 2008 at Ullevi. After the first 90 minutes it was advantage for FC Basel 1893 because the Swiss champions scored an away goal in holding IFK G\u00f6teborg to a 1-1 draw in Sweden. Benjamin Huggel scored for Basel, breaking the deadlock after 26 minutes, as he struck with a back-post header following J\u00fcrgen Gjasula's corner. However, the lead was only short as Jakob Johansson set up Thomas Olsson to restore parity just six minutes later. IFK were then played forwards but could not find a second goal. Likewise Basel had nothing to show for their late pressure as David Abraham, Gjasula and Huggel failed to net the ball with their chances, the end score remained 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe second leg took place on 6 August at St. Jakob-Park. G\u00f6teborg started into the game fastest and having come close to scoring within a few seconds, they soon had the goal that they needed to remain in the fixture as in the 19th minute Pontus Wernbloom finished off a fast counterattack. This shook Basel to life and Benjamin Huggel, the man who put them ahead last week in Gothenburg, managed the same feat again as he headed in a J\u00fcrgen Gjasula corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe only player who was added to Basel's starting lineup compared to the first leg was Valentin Stocker and he nearly scored the home team\u2019s second, but G\u00f6teborg's goalkeeper Kim Christensen was able to smother the effort. Although after the interval Basel maintained the pressure, it was G\u00f6teborg that scored the second goal and this again came following a quicky played break. It was finished off by Robin S\u00f6der after Basel goalkeeper and captain Franco Costanzo could only knock the first attempt to the side. Now Basel required two goals to overturn G\u00f6teborg's away-goals advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0013-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThey achieved the first with 19 minutes left to play as Scott Chipperfield stretched himself to put home an Eren Derdiyok cross. The home supporters sensed the chance as Basel were awarded a penalty for a handball with just six minutes left to play. Ivan Ergi\u0107 made no mistakes with the spot kick and it was he who, in the added injury time, out played two G\u00f6teborg defenders to settle the match 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel then faced Vit\u00f3ria SC of the Portuguese Liga in the third qualifying round at Est\u00e1dio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimar\u00e3es. Having already played five league games and the first two qualifiers, Basel had quickly found their rhythm and attempted to force the pace from the very beginning, both Valentin Stocker and Ivan Ergi\u0107 went close to goal in the opening minutes of the first half. Stocker had had the first chance at goal after eight minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nWith a neat pass coming from Basel's Portuguese midfielder Carlitos who set up the chance for his team-mate, but Stocker fired left footed just beyond the post. Ergi\u0107 also had a good chance, but this also went wide. Basel played neatly and waited for counterattack opportunities, this although they nearly got caught out twice in quick succession. First Marquinho volleyed just off-target after 30 minutes and minutes later he sent a fine header towards the goal but this drew a comfortable save from goalkeeper Franco Constanzo. Basel pushed forward. Stocker had a good chance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0014-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nCarlitos also tried his luck with a good shot from long range and Ergi\u0107 produced a fine header after a corner, which was shortly before half-time. As the second half got underway, Eren Derdiyok came very close to scoring for Basel with a left-foot shot. Stocker also had another good chance. Then, at the other end, a number of Guimar\u00e3es strikers were unable to finish off a fine right-wing cross and eventually the ball was cleared. The main conclusion, however, is that the home team were unable to outwit the stubborn and hard Basel defence, not even after coach Manuel Cajuda brought in two new strikers in an attempt to strengthen the attacking force in the second half. The game ended goalless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe second leg was played on 27 August at St. Jakob-Park. Basel immediately took the initiative and pushed forwards. As an early fine passing move unlocked the Guimar\u00e3es defence, Ivan Ergi\u0107's final pass found Valentin Stocker, who put the hosts one up after 11 minutes. However, the Portuguese team were soon back on level terms. Not even four minutes later they achieved a potentially decisive away goal as Fajardo put home from the penalty spot, following Fran\u00e7ois Marque's foul on Jo\u00e3o Alves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel created good opportunities through Marcos Gelabert and Eren Derdiyok and even if they had more possession and even if they were the stronger attacking team for the rest of the half, their efforts were all in vain because the hard-working Guimar\u00e3es defence held tight. After the restart Manuel Cajuda's team came out as the more adventurous side. First Yves Desmarets was well-placed and he sent a hard shot narrowly wide of goalkeeper Franco Costanzo's left-hand post. The Basel defence caused further concern just a few moments and let Jo\u00e3o Alves free and he directed a dangerous header on target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0015-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nRealising their danger, Basel then woke up and increased the pressure in their game on Guimar\u00e3es. Stocker shot was close and Derdiyok\u2019s shot went wide. Their forcing tempo then paid off as Stocker pushed a fine pass to his striker partner Derdiyok and he fired his shot low, beyond Nilson. Because they were a goal behind, at the end it was then Guimar\u00e3es who were forced to do the pressing and they fought hard. But as they equalised for a second time, through substitute Roberto Calmon F\u00e9lix with just three minutes left, he was ruled offside by referee Pieter Vink and his linesman. FCB held on to their 2\u20131 lead and secured their qualification to the tournament's group stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel's hopes for their international season dropped somewhat because they were drawn into a strong Group C alongside Barcelona, Sporting CP and Shakhtar Donetsk. Bar\u00e7a were one of the favorites to win the trophy and Basel had bad remeberences of the Sporting team, who had knocked them out of the 2007\u201308 UEFA Cup knockout stage this year in February. As third opponents Shakhtar had won the Ukrainian double (league and Cup) the previous season. Nevethless coach Christian Gross stated that remaining in Europe over the winter break was their aim. This meant at least third position in the group, which would see then continue in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel played their opening game of the group stage at St. Jakob-Park on 16 September against Shakhtar. Being urged on by the loud vocal chants from the supporters massed behind captain Franco Costanzo's goal, Basel pressed forward promisingly from the start. Striker Eren Derdiyok, returning first time after suffering a thigh injury, almost turned the early pressure positive, but he hit an early header just wide. Shakhtar's coach Mircea Lucescu had promised his team would out to play for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nAfter Basel's early enthusiasm had worn off, the visitors became the more menacing and J\u00e1dson, one of five Brazilians in the starting eleven, proved a constant concern for the Basel defence. On 16 minutes the playmaker rushed down the right and supplied a cross, which Luiz Adriano narrowly failed to turn goalwards. Although it was the quick passing moves which threatened to open up the home defence more than once, it was to be that the set-pieces that would ultimately prove their undoing. Fernandinho sent one long-range effort fly over the bar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0017-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel central defender Fran\u00e7ois Marque with a clumsy challenge on Luiz Adriano about thirty metres out, allowed the deep-lying playmaker Fernandinho another chance. His wonderful kick was still rising upwards as it passed keeper Costanzo for the first goal. Basel's game was only occasional as Shakhtar dominated the first half. They were rewarded for the efforts with the second goal in the added time of the half. Right back Reto Zanni committed a handball and J\u00e1dson struck a hard free-kick which was missed by everybody as in arced in to the right-hand corner of Costanzo's net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0017-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel coach Christian Gross reacted to the team\u2019s problems at half-time and took out Derdiyok and Valentin Stocker. Their replacements Orhan Mustafi and Eduardo made an immediate impact. After just four minutes in the second half Mustafi forced Shakhtar keeper Andriy Pyatov to his first save with an angled drive. Then Carlitos's smart pass gave Eduardo his first chance, but he shot wide of Pyatov's right-hand post. Because of their two-goal lead, Shakhtar controlled the game and were less adventurous than they had been before. Yet the Ukrainian champions nearly hit a third after 66 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0017-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel left-back Ronny Hodel was over welmed speed of the break and Luiz Adriano ran clear of him into the open space and passed to Brand\u00e3o in the box. Costanzo saved the Brazilian's first effort and then reacted superbly to fiercely-struck follow-up from Vyacheslav Shevchuk on to a post. David Abraham scored a late consolation goal for the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nSporting Clube de Portugal were the opponents on Matchday 2, played in the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade on 1 October. The home team started well, played forwards and Derlei proved he was a dangerous striker. But Basel were soon in the game, J\u00fcrgen Gjasula made space for himself, but hus early shot but failed to be dangerous for Rui Patr\u00edcio. Not long afterwards Tonel was forced to make a desperate clearance so that Marco Streller did not have a clear run at goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe hosts were putting more pressure on, but it was Basel that had the first clear-cut chance through defender David Abraham. The Argentinian centre-back was given plenty of time and space to take on Streller's pass, but his shot went wide. Derlei had the next chance but he failed to control the ball. Sporting had two more good chances before half-time, through Leandro Romagnoli and F\u00e1bio Rochemback. After 49 minutes Derlei almost broke the deadlock, but he headed Jo\u00e3o Moutinho's acrobatic overhead cross against the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0018-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBut, ten minutes after half time the Basel defenders beat themselves with a bizarre own-goal. Abraham attempted to clear under pressure struck the ball hard, but it hit Reto Zanni  and looped back behind goalkeeper Franco Costanzo into the net. Two minutes later Romagnoli almost increased the lead, but the keeper fisted his powerful shot into the out. Basel reacted, but Benjamin Huggel was denied the equaliser as Rui Patr\u00edcio made a sprawling save. The goalie was then forced by Gjasula's free-kick to tip the ball over the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0018-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nIn the last minutes Sporting exploited the extra space that the forward moving visitors were leaving behond them. First Derlei was unkucky with a header, again being denied by the post. He then had an effort ruled out for offside by Italian  referee Nicola Rizzoli and his linesman, but he found his efforts rewarded as he netted the 86th minute. Despite defending well and causing a few scares at the other end of the park, Basel were defeated 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nIn advance to game on matchday 3 at St. Jakob-Park against Barcelona on 22 October, it was suggested that Basel were the more ambitious side, because head coach Christian Gross lined up both Marco Streller and Eren Derdiyok in the attack. Gross had said he had trimmed his defence and would not like to see his side go one down in the opening stage. On the other side Josep Guardiola put his stars Samuel Eto'o, Andr\u00e9s Iniesta and Thierry Henry on the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThese suggestions were soon disproved as Lionel Messi played a double pass with Dani Alves and ran on to the Brazilian's chipped return pass to tip the ball in from edge of the six-yard box. The home side recovered from that crushing blow, but suddenly found themselves two goals behind. Xavi passed to Sergio Busquets on the right and the midfielder drove the ball between goalkeeper Franco Costanzo\u2019s legs. The Basel keeper then denied Xavi's effort a few minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0019-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBut Bar\u00e7a continued their pressing and scored as Bojan Krki\u0107 created himself space and hammered his shot into the lower left corner after 22 minutes. The Basel defence blocked a further Krki\u0107 shot and keeper Costanzo reacted well as Alves's followed-up. Basel could have been four down before the first half-hour had been played. Head coach Gross took out Eduardo Rubio after the break, he brought Valentin Stocker, but within 60 seconds of the restart Costanzo was beaten again as Krki\u0107 finished off a quick played counterattack with his hard shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0019-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nOnly two minutes later, Alexander Hleb and Messi combined to supply Xavi who netted the fifth. At the other end, Streller eventually had a shot at V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s's goal as he outran Carles Puyol and hammered a good right foot shot, but it was swept away. Basel created another few chances through Derdiyok, Stocker and Streller but couldn\u2019t realise and ended up with this nasty 0\u20135 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe return game against Barcelona in the Camp Nou was on 4 November in front of 49,000 spectators. Basel played a good match right from the very beginning, they played with discipline and intelligence against a Barcelona side who played with real tempo. Home team coach Josep Guardiola left Lionel Messi, Xavi and Samuel Eto'o on the bench and, therefore, much was expected from Andr\u00e9s Iniesta and, luckily for Bar\u00e7a he was on form on the day, ready to run and with a good eye. He linked-up well with Thierry Henry and created two good chances for the Frenchman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe first of which was arched narrowly beyond keeper Franco Costanzo's left-hand post. Then Iniesta himself had the next chance and he produced a low drive, but the keeper matched the chance. Costanzo and central defender Fran\u00e7ois Marque both played a very good game. Bar\u00e7a missed another good opportunity to take the lead before half-time, as Sylvinho delivered a great free-kick which Henry met with a header in towards the top corner of the goal but Costanzo matched this chance too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0020-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nAgain, after the break the Argentinian keeper confirmed his credits as Henry passed the ball into space in front of Bojan Krki\u0107, who was able to run clear, but Costanzo was able to block the chance with his feet. Guardiola was very unhappy with his team and so brought on Xavi and Messi and they rewarded him within two minutes. Messi caught a loose ball and burst forward, played a one-two with Henry and slotted the ball home into the bottom corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0020-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThis was Messi\u2019s fourth Champions League goal in as many matches  Xavi also made an impact, he forced yet another fine save from Costanzo with a fine free-kick. Iniesta was forced out with an injury to his right thigh in the 67th minute. Gerard Piqu\u00e9 also played two good set-pieces, but instead the second goal of the match came at the other end. Carlitos swang in a right-wing cross directly to Eren Derdiyok who smashed a great volley past Victor Vald\u00e9s to the 1\u20131 end score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe return game against Shakhtar Donetsk in the stadium RSK Olimpiyskyi was on 26 November. Due to the absence of centre-back Dmytro Chygrynskiy and right-winger Ilsinho through injury, plus suspended striker Brand\u00e3o, home coach Mircea Lucescu had to make changes in his team. Luiz Adriano played as middle striker and he was aided by Willian, J\u00e1dson and Fernandinho. That latter pair combined well and they nearly opened the scoring during the first five minutes. First, Jadson swept a ball wide, then Fernandinho's attempt was pushed over the bar by goalkeeper and captain Franco Costanzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nBasel had trouble starting into the game, finding it difficult to get a hold on the pitch, that was soggy and heavy following the heavy rain earlier in the day. Striker Eren Derdiyok didn\u2019t see much of the ball in the early minutes. Nevertheless, Costanzo had to remain concentrated and he dealt well following a fierce free-kick by Darijo Srna. Willian then took a shot that went wide. After about the half-hour, Basel seemed to have sorted their problems out and were into the game. Then Shakhtar struck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0021-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nTom\u00e1\u0161 H\u00fcbschman sent in a cross from the left, which Oleksiy Gai controlled the ball and played back to Jadson, who rushed into the box to push the ball home. Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov proved himself saving an Eduardo effort just before half-time. Both teams started fast into the second half, Valentin Stocker had his shot blocked on the line and at the other end Fernandinho also had his effort cleared off the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0021-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nFive minutes into the second half, Willian doubled the score, coming from the left-hand touchline, swerved around several defenders before arching the ball inside the far post, despite Costanzo's desperate dive. The visitors replied and pushed and worried the Shakhtar defence, but suddenly were three down. A quick played counterattack, William sent Srna down the left and his cross was pushed home at the far post by Jadson. The Brazilian completed his hat-trick seven minutes later, Willian crossed from the left Jadson finished off nicely. Ukrainian international Yevhen Seleznyov with a left-footed shot from just inside the box in the 75th minute gave the game its final 50 score line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nMatchday 6 in the St. Jakob-Park on 9 December against Sporting CP was Basel\u2019s last game in their journey through European competition for this season. Indeed, it was the home team who enjoyed the greater share of possession in a lively opening to the game. But it was Sporting striker Derlei who had the first chance and he should have done better with his early shot across goal at the end of a swift counterattack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nWhile Basel continued to play neatly, but that without carrying out much threat to the Sporting goal, the speed with which the visitors could turn defence into attack was menacing. A measured ball found Yannick Djal\u00f3 racing clear, and though his cross was met by a powerful header from the again unmarked Derlei, Franco Costanzo parried this. Jo\u00e3o Moutinho then flashed a shot just over, and Sporting finally made the breakthrough on 19 minutes. Marat Izmailov's low cross from the right hand side was turned in from point-blank range by the very quickly onrushing Djal\u00f3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThe early goal and torrential that rain fell during the entire match, failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the Basel fans, who could have been celebrating only a third goal in the section for their side when F\u00e1bio Rochemback lost possession to present Benjamin Huggel with a shooting chance, but the midfielder sent a fierce shot just wide of the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nIvan Ergi\u0107 did find the target soon after, but his drive lacked sufficient power to trouble goalkeeper Tiago, while Djal\u00f3 may have scored a second, had his stand foot not slipped after he had cleverly created space inside the box. The half-time introduction of Valentin Stocker gave Basel increased power down the left wing and, seconds after the restart, an early cross from him led to Marco Streller shooting disappointingly wide of the goal. Huggel again tested goalkeeper Tiago as the hosts sought for the equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nSporting were clearly content to let the waves of pressure break on their back four, and play their counterattacks with pace. Djal\u00f3 tried a number of stepovers, as he tried to tease center back Beg Ferati on the left, but despite getting round the Basel defender, his cross saw the diminutive Moutinho comfortably outmuscled by Basel's other center back Fran\u00e7ois Marque. Less entertaining, but equally as effective, Stocker's direct approach won a corner, which he took himself, but the high soaring Ergi\u0107 headed over the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0022-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nHowever, Djal\u00f3 should have done better, but he miscued his shot when Marco Caneira's cross found him with lots of space just inside the penalty box. Fabien Frei eventually brought a real good save out of Tiago with a low drive 16 minutes from time, while Stocker forced the goalkeeper into two fine stops in quick succession. The final score 0\u20131 meant the end of Basel's journey through the European competition for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, The campaign, Champions League\nThis meant that Basel's aim for the Europian competition was not achieved, their hopes had been greater than their results. Basel were knocked out of the competition with just one point. However, at the end of the season, if one considers, that even although Sporting Clube de Portugal were eliminated in the first knock out round, as group winners Barcelona continued and eventually won the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League and that Shakhtar Donetsk continued in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup and eventually won that competition, Basel's exploit in the group stage can still be considered as good work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Players, First team squad\nAs of 30 June 2009, accounting for official transfers:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Players, Starting 11\nLast updated: 20 November 2008Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Players, Overall\nBasel participated in the following major competitions: the Swiss Super League, the Swiss Cup and the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200329-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Basel season, Results and fixtures, Friendly matches, Uhrencup\nThe Uhrencup is a club football tournament, held annually in Grenchen. It is Europe's most traditional club football tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season\nThe 2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season is the first season they participated in the 3. Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season, Review, July\u2013September\nOn 27 July, Bayern Munich II opened up their season with a 2\u20131 victory against Union Berlin. Thomas M\u00fcller and Mehmet Ekici scored for Bayern II and Shergo Biran scored for Union Berlin. Bayern II finished the matchday tied for fifth with VfR Aalen. On matchday two, on 2 August, Bayern II and Borussia Wuppertal finished in a 2\u20132 draw. Deniz Y\u0131lmaz and Mehmet Ekici scored for Bayern II and Marcel Reichwein and Tobias Damm scored for Borussia Wuppertal. Bayern II finished the matchday in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season, Review, July\u2013September\nOn matchday three, on 16 August, Bayern II defeated Dynamo Dresden 1\u20130 with a goal from Daniel Sikorski. Bayern II finished the matchday in third place. On matchday four, on 23 August, Bayern II defeated Eintracht Braunschweig 1\u20130 with a goal from Mehmet Ekici. Bayern II finished the matchday in first place. On matchday five, on 29 August, Bayern II defeated Carl Zeiss Jena 2\u20131. Deniz Y\u0131lmaz and Thomas M\u00fcller scored for Bayern II and Salvatore Amirante scored for Carl Zeiss Jena. Bayern II finished the matchday in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season, Review, July\u2013September\nThe match between Bayern II and VfR Aalen on matchday six, on 13 September, finished in a goalless draw. Bayern II finished the matchday in second place. Bayern II had their second consecutive draw after a 1\u20131 draw against Werder Bremen II on matchday seven, on 19 September. Bayern II finished the matchday in third place. Bayern II loss of their first match of the season after losing to SC Paderborn 07 2\u20131 on matchday eight, on 27 September. Frank L\u00f6ning scored two goals for Paderborn and Daniel Sikorski scored for Bayern II. Bayern II finished the matchday in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season, Review, October\u2013December\nBayern II drew all four of their matches in October. The first match, on matchday nine, on 5 October, against Stuttgarter Kickers, finished in a 3\u20133 draw. Bayern II got two goals from Deniz Y\u0131lmaz and a goal from Toni Kroos and Stuttgarter Kickers got a goal each from Michael Sch\u00fcrg, Benedikt Deigendesch, and Angelo Vaccaro. Bayern II finished the matchday in seventh place. The second match, against Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf, on matchday 10, on 18 October, finished in a 1\u20131 draw. Thomas M\u00fcller scored for Bayern II and Ranisav Jovanovi\u0107 scored for Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200330-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich II season, Review, October\u2013December\nBayern II finished the matchday in sixth place. In the third match against SpVgg Unterhaching, on matchday 11, on 26 October, finished in a goalless draw. Bayern II finished the matchday in seventh place. In the final match in October, on matchday 12, on 29 October, Bayern and SV Sandhausen finished in a 3\u20133 draw. Bayern II got two goals from Thomas M\u00fcller and a goal from Daniel Sikorski. Alf Mintzel, Sreto Risti\u0107, and Roberto Pinto scored for Sandhausen. Bayern II player Oliver Stierle was sent\u2013off. Bayern II finished the matchday in seventh place. Bayern II started November with a 2\u20132 draw against Jahn Regensburg on 2 November. Bayern II got goals from Thomas M\u00fcller and Daniel Sikorski. Jahn Regensburg got goals from Nico Beigang and Andreas Sch\u00e4ffer. Bayern II finished the matchday in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season\nFC Bayern Munich made few squad changes for the 2008\u201309 season. With captain Oliver Kahn retiring and coach Ottmar Hitzfeld leaving to coach the Swiss national team, the team leaders had to be replaced. J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann was appointed as new coach as announced in December 2007. In August 2008, Klinsmann announced that Mark van Bommel would succeed Kahn as captain. Klinsmann was sacked in April 2009 when the club officials saw the club's minimum aim, qualification for the Champions League, in jeopardy after a string of games in which Bayern underperformed. Jupp Heynckes was appointed as caretaker manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, Preseason\nWith Ottmar Hitzfeld not available for another season, Bayern announced in December 2007 that they had signed former Bayern player and recent manager of the German national team J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann as head coach for the 2008\u201309 season. Oliver Kahn had, even before the 2007\u201308 season, announced that this would be his last season as a player. He was replaced by former reserve goalkeeper Michael Rensing, whose spot was taken by the newly signed Hans-J\u00f6rg Butt. Second reserve goalkeeper Bernd Dreher had also retired and was replaced by the amateur Thomas Kraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, Preseason\nReserve strikers Jan Schlaudraff (to Hannover 96) and Sandro Wagner (to MSV Duisburg) left the club, but found no replacements. After being loaned out for two seasons, midfielder Julio dos Santos left the club for good. The only field player added to the squad was Tim Borowski, who came from Werder Bremen. All changes were made before UEFA Euro 2008. After the tournament, Bayern announced that they would make no further squad changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, Preseason\nTraining for the 2008\u201309 season began on 30 June 2008. Several players were still on vacation due to Euro 2008, while Franck Rib\u00e9ry was missing due to injury. After a 45-minute in-training test against their own amateurs, the first official test was won at SV Lippstadt 7\u20131. Further tests on 19 July in N\u00f6rdlingen and 20 July in Amberg were won 8\u20130 and 11\u20131. The T-Home Supercup against Borussia Dortmund marked the first loss of the season (1\u20132). After a goalless draw at 1. FC K\u00f6ln on 26 July Bayern travelled to Japan for a guestplay at Urawa Red Diamonds, beating the hosts 4\u20132. On 5 August, Bayern hosted Internazionale in the Franz Beckenbauer Cup for the final test before the regular season, losing 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, August\nOn 8 August, Klinsmann announced that Mark van Bommel would succeed Oliver Kahn as captain. Two days later, in the first cup match, third league club Rot-Wei\u00df Erfurt provided unexpected difficulties for the Bayern as the club went to catch up on a Bayern lead three times, before having to concede to Bayern's fourth goal. In the opening game of the Bundesliga season, Bayern hosted Hamburger SV. As Hamburg caught up from two goals behind, the game finished 2\u20132, leaving Hamburg yet unbeaten at the Allianz Arena. After another draw at Dortmund, the succeeding week brought two squad changes for Munich, as Marcell Jansen left the club for Hamburg while Massimo Oddo was loaned out from Milan. The first league victory followed against Berlin, 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, September\nVictories at 1. FC K\u00f6ln in the Bundesliga and Steaua Bucure\u0219ti in the Champions League were followed up with a 2\u20135 loss at home against rival Werder Bremen and another away at Hannover 96 (0\u20131) on 27 September. Three days later, Bayern were held to 1\u20131 draw at home by Lyon in Champions League group play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, October\nOn 4 October, Bayern drew level with VfL Bochum, despite leading 3\u20131 with just seven minutes left in regulation; goals in the 84th and 85th minutes, however, saw Marcel Koller's men leave the Allianz with a point. A few days later, Bayern lost a friendly at FC Ingolstadt but proceeded to win all other games in the month, including the Champions League home game against Fiorentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, November\nAfter a victory at home against Arminia Bielefeld Bayern drew level in the Champions League at Fiorentina on 1 November. The following victory against Steaua Bucure\u0219ti on 25 November qualified Bayern for the single elimination stage. In the Bundesliga, away matches at Schalke 04 and Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach followed; while Bayern defeated rival Schalke, the club drew at M\u00f6nchengladbach, for the third time this season not winning against them, despite having led by two goals. The games at home against Energie Cottbus and away at Bayer Leverkusen were also won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, December / January\nOn the 16th Bundesliga matchday, Bayern defeated Bundesliga leaders 1899 Hoffenheim, thus coming very close to the top of the standings. The final match of the Champions League group stage was also won at Lyon, completing Bayern's best performance in the group stage. A draw at VfB Stuttgart was Bayern's final game before the winter break. Coincidentally Stuttgart was also Bayern's first opponent after the break. While Bayern won this cup game 5\u20131 away, the first league match was lost at Hamburger SV, 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, February\nAfter winning at home against Borussia Dortmund, Bayern lost their next two games at Hertha BSC, that thereby took the lead in the league, and at home against newly promoted 1. FC K\u00f6ln. A 5\u20130 victory in the Champions League at Sporting CP was the final game of the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, March\nAfter a draw in the league at Werder Bremen, Bayern was eliminated from the DFB-Pokal by Bayer Leverkusen. Munich won all other games in the month, including a 7\u20131 in the second leg against Sporting CP, thus achieving a record aggregate of 12\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, April\nAfter 5\u20131 defeat in the league at VfL Wolfsburg, a direct rival for the championship, Bayern suffered another severe loss (4\u20130) at the hands of Barcelona. Bayern held Barcelona to a draw in the second leg a week later but was eliminated from the competition nevertheless. In the Bundesliga, Munich managed to win against underdogs Eintracht Frankfurt and Arminia Bielefeld, but a home defeat at the hands of Schalke 04 led to the dismissal of coach J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann. The club appointed Jupp Heynckes as caretaker coach and Hermann Gerland as assistant caretaker coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Course of the season, May\nBayern won its first three games under Heynckes as coach, defeating Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, Energie Cottbus and Bayer Leverkusen. A draw at 1899 Hoffenheim led to a delicate situation before the last game, where second-place Bayern hosted third-place VfB Stuttgart. While the winner of the match would be qualified for the Champions League, and even win the championship if VfL Wolfsburg lost, the loser would likely fall to fourth position, outside of the Champions League spots. As fourth-place Hertha BSC lost and Wolfsburg won, the game eventually just decided that Bayern would go to the Champions League directly while Stuttgart would go to the qualification. The season concluded with four friendly games at Kaufbeuren, Eichst\u00e4tt, 1. FC Magdeburg, and Fortuna Sittard, all won by Munich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Bundesliga\nBayern hosted Hamburger SV in the opener of the 46th Bundesliga season on 15 August 2008. On the last day of play, on 23 May 2009, Bayern defeated VfB Stuttgart to finish second in the league. The second place qualified Bayern for the 2009\u201310 Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, DFB-Pokal\nIn the first round of the DFB-Pokal, Bayern faced Rot-Wei\u00df Erfurt. The east Germans from the third tier were able to equalize three times before finally succumbing to Bayern. A victory at home against second-tier 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg followed. In the third round, Bayern managed one of their best performances of the season, winning 5\u20131 at VfB Stuttgart, but they lost in the next round to Bayer Leverkusen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Champions League\nBayern's Champions League season started on 17 September at Steaua Bucure\u0219ti. The other group rivals were Lyon and Fiorentina. They finished the group stage undefeated in first place and eliminated Sporting CP via a record aggregate margin in the first knockout round, but then fell to Barcelona in the quarter-final. Club officials spoke of a \"massive humiliation\" and being \"taken apart\" after the 0\u20134 in the first leg which Bayern played without its top defender Philipp Lahm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Friendly, T-Home-Supercup\nThe League Cup was not held this season. Instead Bayern and Dortmund played out the unofficial T-Home-Supercup with Bayern losing 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Friendly, Franz Beckenbauer Cup\nBayer invited Internazionale for the Franz Beckenbauer Cup 2009, but lost 0\u20131 to the guests from Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Players, Squad information\nThese stats are as 25 May 2009, the final day of the 2008\u201309 Bundesliga season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200331-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Bayern Munich season, Players, Transfers out\nEU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti's 60th consecutive season in Liga I. In this season, Dinamo competed in Liga I, Cupa Rom\u00e2niei and UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nIn the summer of 2008, Mircea Rednic returned as coach having the mission to win the title and qualify Dinamo to the UEFA Champions League Group Stage. The first half of the season found Dinamo playing some modest games against the other title contenders like Rapid Bucharest, CFR Cluj or Unirea Urziceni but in the same time they managed to beat direct rivals for the title, FC Timi\u015foara 3\u20130 away. Dinamo ended the first half of the season in first place after Unirea Urziceni lost the last game against Steaua Bucharest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe second half of the season started in a promising way for the Red Dogs. Dinamo managed to beat Rapid with 3\u20130 at home even though Rapid was considered to be in top form and later eliminated them from the Cup with a similar 4\u20132 victory in Pite\u015fti. The last three games of the season were against Unirea Urziceni away, FC Bra\u0219ov home and FC Arge\u015f away and were 3 defeats in a row, sending the club in third position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nGoalkeepers: Emilian Dolha (5/0), Bogdan Lobon\u0163 (25/0), Florin Matache (4/0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nDefenders: George Blay (17/0), Zie Diabat\u00e9 (8/0), Lucian Goian (20/0), Drago\u015f Grigore (2/0), Sergiu Homei (10/0), Silviu Izvoranu (17/0), J\u00falio C\u00e9sar (10/0), Cosmin Mo\u0163i (21/0), Nicolae Mu\u015fat (1/0), Cristian Pulhac (10/0), Adrian Scarlatache (12/0), Bruno Sim\u00e3o (10/0), Gabriel Tama\u015f (22/0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nMidfielders: Anoh Attoukora (1/0), Papa Malick Ba (9/0), Gabriel Bo\u015ftin\u0103 (26/0), Gualberto Campos (2/0), Adrian Cristea (32/4), Mourtala Diakit\u00e9 (6/0), Nicolae Mitea (12/0), Ousmane N'Doye (12/3), Adrian Ropotan (15/0), Thiago (6/0), Gabriel Torje (30/3), Vojislav Vranjkovi\u0107 (4/0), Z\u00e9 Kalanga (10/0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200332-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nForwards: Florin Bratu (10/7), Andrei Cristea (8/2), Ionel D\u0103nciulescu (34/12), Jean-Philippe Mendy (1/0), Osvaldo Miranda (16/2), Marius Niculae (24/12), Claudiu Niculescu (14/5), Ianis Zicu (9/3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200333-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dynamo Kyiv season\nFollowing are the results of the 2008\u201309 FC Dynamo Kyiv season. FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian: \u0424\u041a \"\u0414\u0438\u043d\u0430\u043c\u043e\" \u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432) is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football. Dynamo Kyiv has won thirteen league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, and played three times in the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200333-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Dynamo Kyiv season, Squad, First-team squad\nUpdated 7 September 2008Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200334-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Girondins de Bordeaux season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 119th season in the existence of FC Girondins de Bordeaux and the club's 18th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Bordeaux participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue, the Troph\u00e9e des Champions, the UEFA Champions League, and the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200334-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Girondins de Bordeaux season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200334-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Girondins de Bordeaux season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200334-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Girondins de Bordeaux season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe group stage draw was held on 28 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season\nThe Inter Baku 2008\u201309 season was Inter Baku's eighth Azerbaijan Premier League season, and their third season under manager Valentin Khodukin. They finished 2nd in the league one point behind champions Baku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200335-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Inter Baku season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200336-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season\nThe 2008-09 season was FC Kremin Kremenchuk's 3rd consecutive season in the Second League Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200336-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season, Players, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 2008-10-07Source: Competitive MatchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200336-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season, Team kit\nThe team kits are produced by Puma AG and the shirt sponsor is KremenchukMiaso . The home and away kit was retained from previous seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200336-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season, Ukrainian Second League\nKremin's third consecutive season in Druha Liha began on 20 July 2008 and ended on 13 June 2009. Kremin finished 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200336-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Kremin Kremenchuk season, Ukrainian Cup, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 29 September 2009Source: Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200337-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia season, League squad\nGoalkeepers: Stanislav Bohush (1), Dmytro Bezotosnyi (2 / -3), Volodymyr Zhuk (13 / -15), Vitaliy Postranskyi (15 / -12). Defenders: Vitaliy Vernydub (29 / 1), Volodymyr Polyovyi (28), Yan Tsiharow (26), Artsyom Chelyadzinski (15 / 1), Dmytro Nevmyvaka (29 / 4), Yevhen Opanasenko (10), Dragan Peri\u0161i\u0107 (9 / 1), Nikola Vasiljevi\u0107 (5), Andriy Nesterov (3), Dmytro Vorobei (2). Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko (29), Oleksiy Hodin (26 / 6), Volodymyr Arzhanov (26 / 3), Serhiy Kryvtsov (17), Serhiy Rudyka (16), Yevhen Pisotskyi (12), Mindaugas Kalonas (11 / 1), Adolphe Teikeu (10 / 1), Artem Semenenko (2), Anton Hai (1), Zadoya (1). Forwards: Serhiy Silyuk (24 / 5), Michael Alozie (21 / 3), Taras Lazarovych (11), Artur Kaskov (4 / 2), Taras Kabanov (4), Kryvyi (3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200337-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia season, League squad\nTransferred out during the season: Artsyom Chelyadzinski (Tobol), Stanislav Bohush (Dynamo Kyiv).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200338-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Porto season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 Portuguese football season, FC Porto competed in the Primeira Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200338-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Porto season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200338-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Porto season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Schalke 04's 41st season in the Bundesliga. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club played during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Squad statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 16 September 2008Source: Competitive matches at Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Competitions, Overall\nAs in the last two seasons, Schalke 04 was present in all major competitions, including the First division and the DFB Cup in Germany but they failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\n19' R. Garc\u00eda\u00a029'\u00a0\u00a076' L\u00f3pez\u00a035' Heitinga\u00a082' Rodr\u00edguez\u00a088' Pern\u00eda\u00a090+1' L. Garc\u00eda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\n22' Ag\u00fcero\u00a052' Pern\u00eda\u00a054' Forl\u00e1n\u00a054' Forl\u00e1n\u00a065' Rodr\u00edguez\u00a082' L. Garc\u00eda\u00a086' Rodr\u00edguez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\n34' Ernst\u00a045+3' Jones\u00a055' Alt\u0131ntop\u00a086' Pander\u00a090' Rafinha", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\n16' Hajnal\u00a019' Suboti\u0107\u00a067' Suboti\u0107\u00a070' \u00a089' Frei\u00a085' Hummels", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\n20' Farf\u00e1n\u00a027' Rafinha\u00a039' Rafinha\u00a054' Westermann\u00a069'\u00a0\u00a073' Pander\u00a076' Ernst", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200339-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Schalke 04 season, Matches, Competitive\nLast updated: 2008-11-29Source: 1Schalke 04 goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different to that of Schalke 04.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200340-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season\nDuring the 2004\u201305 Ukrainian football season, FC Shakhtar Donetsk competed in the Ukrainian Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200340-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season, Season summary\nThough Shakhtar failed to retain the league or cup, they made up for it by becoming the first Ukrainian team to win the UEFA Cup, defeating Werder Bremen in the final after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200340-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season, Season summary\nThis season was the last played at RSC Olimpiyskiy. From the 2009\u201310 season onwards, Shakhtar played in the Donbass Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200340-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season, Season summary\nOn 28 May 2008, Shakhtar Donetsk announced the signing of Marcelo Moreno from Cruzeiro on a five-year contract. On the same day, Shakhtar also announced the signing of Oleksandr Chyzhov from Vorskla Poltava.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200340-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Shakhtar Donetsk season, Season summary\nIn January 2009, Shakhtar Donetsk sold Brand\u00e3o to Marseille for a fee of \u20ac6,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200341-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Steaua Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 61st season in the existence of FC Steaua Bucure\u0219ti and the club's 61st consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, Steaua Bucure\u0219ti participated in this season's edition of the Cupa Rom\u00e2niei and the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200341-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Steaua Bucure\u0219ti season, Statistics, Starting XI\nSource: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200342-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Vaslui season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is FC Vaslui's 7th season of its existence, and its 4th in a row, in Liga I. Because it finished 7th, FC Vaslui played on UEFA Intertoto Cup in the third round. FC Vaslui passed by Neftchi Baku, and it qualified for the 3rd preliminary round of UEFA Cup. In the play-off, it was eliminated by Slavia Prague, because of the away goal rule, being the only Romanian team, who was eliminated, without losing in UEFA Cup that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200342-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Vaslui season\nIn the championship, they started perfectly, after a 1\u20130 win against FC Steaua Bucure\u0219ti and a 3\u20131 win against arch rivals Poli Ia\u015fi. But because of the injuries, the team results began to be poor. After a 1\u20131 draw with Gaz Metan Media\u015f, Viorel Hizo was dismissed, and Viorel Moldovan was named the new coach. The team entered in the winter break, on the 9th place. In the winter break, Adrian Porumboiu spent over 3 million \u20ac, for new signings, being the only Romanian team, who were not affected by the Global Economical Crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200342-0000-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Vaslui season\nWith Moldovan, the team reached the semi-finals of Romanian Cup, but after a 1\u20134 loss against Gloria Buz\u0103u, Moldovan was also sacked, and as a manager, was named the assistant Dulca. With Dulca as a coach, FC Vaslui resurrected, and saved its season, in the last 2 games, after a 1\u20130 win against FC Rapid Bucure\u0219ti, and also a 1\u20130 win against Universitatea Craiova in front of 25.000 fans on Ion Oblemencu. The team finished 5th, and qualified in the 3rd round of UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200343-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Z\u00fcrich season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 Swiss football season, FC Z\u00fcrich competed in the Swiss Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200343-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Z\u00fcrich season, Season summary\nFC Z\u00fcrich managed to reclaim the Swiss league title (their last as of 2016), but were knocked out of the Swiss Cup in the quarter-finals. The club were knocked out of the UEFA Cup in the first round by Italian giants AC Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200343-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Z\u00fcrich season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200343-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FC Z\u00fcrich season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200344-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FFHG Division 1 season\nThe 2008-09 FFHG Division 1 season was contested by 14 teams, and saw the Rapaces de Gap win the championship. They were promoted to the Ligue Magnus as result. The Chiefs de Deuil-Garges and the Jets de Viry-Essonne were relegated to FFHG Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200345-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA Americas League\nThe 2008\u201309 FIBA Americas League was the second edition of the first-tier and most important professional international club basketball competition in the regions of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, with the winner of the competition being crowned as the best team and champion of all of those regions. It began on December 4. The first stage was a round robin phase, with four teams in each group. Each of the groups were played in different cities, (Arecibo, Mar del Plata, Sunchales, and Xalapa). The first team from each group advanced to the Final 4 round-robin stage that took place in the city of Xalapa, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200345-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA Americas League, Group stage, Group A (Arecibo)\nMinas T\u00eanis Clube advanced due to a better goal average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge\nThe 2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge was the sixth edition of Europe's third-tier level transnational men's professional club basketball FIBA EuroChallenge Tournament, and the first under the FIBA EuroChallenge name, organized by FIBA Europe. A total number of 32 teams participated in the regular season and a total of 40 teams competed including the qualifying rounds. Virtus Bologna won its first EuroChallenge title after defeating Cholet in the Final of the Final Four, which was hosted in Bologna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge, Format\nIn all there are 40 teams from 21 countries, plus sixteen teams from the 2008\u201309 Eurocup Basketball first preliminary round and second preliminary round. The competition is jointly run by FIBA Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge, Teams\nThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: title holders;):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge, Qualifying rounds\nThirty-two teams will participate in the first round and sixteen in the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge, Regular season, Group E\n*Due to the war situation in Gaza Strip, Olympia refused to travel to Israel and Hapoel Jerusalim were declared winners by forfeit (20-0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200346-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge, Final Four\nThe Final Four will be the last stage of EuroChallenge 2008\u201309. The event will take place at the Futurshow Station, in Bologna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200347-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge First qualifying round\n2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge First Qualifying Round are the first qualifying round for the 2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge season,  There are only 32 teams, who will play two games. The Winners go to the second qualifying round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200348-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe 43rd World Cup season began in late October 2008 in S\u00f6lden, Austria, and concluded in mid-March 2009, at the World Cup finals in \u00c5re, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200348-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nAksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the overall title by two points over Benjamin Raich of Austria. Svindal returned from a season-ending injury in December 2007, and also took the season title in super-G. Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. repeated as women's overall champion, taking the title by a substantial 384 points over Maria Riesch of Germany. Vonn also repeated as the season downhill champion, and added the season title in super-G.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200348-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nBeing an odd-numbered year, a break in the World Cup schedule was for the biennial World Championships. The 2009 World Championships were held 2\u201315 February in Val-d'Is\u00e8re, Savoie, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200348-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nNo pre-Olympic World Cup alpine events were run at Whistler Mountain, Canada, during the 2009 season. In late February 2008, a women's downhill and super-combined were run on Franz's Run, the women's Olympic course. The most recent men's World Cup events on the Dave Murray Downhill course were held in late February 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200348-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe World Cup races in North America were switched to the early part of the season in the fall of 1995, and the men's speed events at Whistler were canceled three consecutive years (December 1996\u201398) due to weather issues, which prompted the switch to Lake Louise in Alberta in December 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was a multi-race tournament over the season for cross-country skiers. It was the 28th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and ladies. The season began on 22 November 2008 with 15\u00a0km freestyle races for women in G\u00e4llivare, won by Charlotte Kalla of Sweden. The World Cup is organised by the FIS who also run world cups and championships in ski jumping, snowboarding and alpine skiing amongst others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, Calendar\nBoth men's and women's events tend to be held at the same resorts over a 2 or 3 day period. Listed below is a list of races which equates with the points table further down this page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, Calendar\nThe Tour de Ski is a series of events which count towards the World Cup. This starts with the meet at Oberhof and concludes at Val di Fiemme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, World Cup points\nThe table shows the number of points won in the 2008\u201309 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, World Cup points\nA skier's best results in all distance races and sprint races counts towards the overall World Cup totals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, World Cup points\nAll distance races, included individual stages in Tour de Ski and in World Cup Final (which counts as 50% of a normal race), count towards the distance standings. All sprint races, including the sprint races during the Tour de Ski and the first race of the World Cup Final (which counts as 50% of a normal race), count towards the sprint standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200349-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, World Cup points\nThe Nations Cup ranking is calculated by adding each country's individual competitors' scores and scores from team events. Relay events count double (see World Cup final positions), with only one team counting towards the total, while in team sprint events two teams contribute towards the total, with the usual World Cup points (100 to winning team, etc.) awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200350-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup\nThe 2008/09 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup was the thirtieth World Cup season in freestyle skiing organised by International Ski Federation. The season started on 18 December 2008 and ended on 20 March 2009. This season included four disciplines: moguls, ski cross, aerials and halfpipe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200350-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup\nDual mogul counted together with moguls ranking and for moguls title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200351-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup\nThe 2008/09 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup was the 26th world cup season, a combination of ski jumping and cross-country skiing organized by FIS. It began in Kuusamo on 29 November 2008. Anssi Koivuranta from Finland became overall winner. Hannu Manninen retired before the season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200351-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup, Changes\nThis World Cup is the first season with a new system. Instead of a sprint (1x jump and 7,5\u00a0km cross country skiing race) and Gundersen (2x jumps and 1x 15\u00a0km cross country skiing race), there is now a combined competition with a single jump and a single 10\u00a0km cross country skiing race. The Masstart is unchanged. The Relay is now 5\u00a0km Cross country and one jump for every jumper in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200352-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Flying World Cup\nThe 2008/09 FIS Ski Flying World Cup was the 12th official World Cup season in ski flying awarded with small crystal globe as the subdiscipline of FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. Competition with small globe award returned this season after eight years long break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200353-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup\nThe 2008/09 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup was the 18th in a row (16th official) Continental Cup winter season and the 7th summer season in ski jumping for men. This was also the 5th winter and the 1st summer season for ladies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200353-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup\nOther competitive circuits this season included the World Cup and Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200353-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, Europa Cup vs. Continental Cup\nThis was originally last Europa Cup season and is also recognized as the first Continental Cup season by International Ski Federation although under this name began its first official season in 1993/94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup\nThe 2008/09 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 30th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 12th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began on 29\u00a0November\u00a02008 at the Rukatunturi ski jumping hill in Kuusamo, Finland, and finished on 22\u00a0March\u00a02009 at Planica, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup\nThe overall winner of the 2008/09 World Cup was Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria, who won 13 of the 27 individual competitions, breaking Janne Ahonen's single-season record of 12 wins in a season. Schlierenzauer's 20 podiums in a single season is also a new record. Early leader Simon Ammann of Switzerland finished second in the overall standings, while Four Hills champion Wolfgang Loitzl of Austria finished third. Harri Olli of Finland finished fourth in the overall standings after a late-season run that gave him the first three World Cup wins of his career. Russia's Dimitry Vassiliev rounded out the top five, while defending champion Thomas Morgenstern of Austria finished in a, by his standards, disappointing 7th place overall, failing to win a single individual competition this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup\nThe Nations Cup, which is determined by adding all points gained by the participants of a country, in both individual and team competitions, was won overwhelmingly by Austria with 7331 points, more than three thousand points ahead of second-placed Finland (4270 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup\nLower competitive circuits this season included the Continental Cup and Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Individual World Cup, Sapporo\nHS134 Mt. Okura Ski Jump Stadium, Japan1 February 2009Competition cancelled due to strong winds and heavy snow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Individual World Cup, Nordic Ski World Championship\nThe Nordic Ski World Championship was held between 18 February and 1 March 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic. It does not count in the World Cup standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Team World Cup, FIS Team Tour\nThe FIS Team Tour was held between 7 February and 15 February 2009. The results of this competition is determined by adding the overall points totals gained in the team competitions at Willingen and Oberstdorf, and also adding the two best individual scores for each nation in the individual events at Willingen, Klingenthal and Oberstdorf to the final combined score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200354-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Team World Cup, FIS Team Tour\nNorway won the Team Tour, with an overall score of 4083.8 points. Austria finished second with 4032.2 points, while Finland took third place with a combined score of 3960.4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200355-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FIS Snowboard World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 FIS Snowboard World Cup is a multi race tournament over a season for snowboarding. The season began on September 6, 2008, and finished on 22 March 2009. The World Cup is organized by the FIS who also runs world cups and championships in cross-country skiing, ski jumping, nordic combined, alpine skiing and freestyle skiing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season\nThe FK Baku 2008-09 season was Baku's 11th Azerbaijan Premier League season, and was their second season with Gjoko Had\u017eievski as their manager, having replaced Boyukagha Hajiyev in July 2007. They finished the season in 1st place in the league and were knocked out of the Azerbaijan Cup at the Semi-final stage by Qaraba\u011f.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200356-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Baku season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season\nDuring the 2008-09 football season, Dinamo will play its 58th Kategoria Superiore season in the club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season, Squad, First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season, Squad, List of 2008-09 transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season, Squad, List of 2008-09 transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season, Matches\nA = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200357-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Dinamo Tirana season, Player seasonal records\nCompetitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made. Updated to games played May 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season\nThe Khazar Lankaran 2008\u201309 season is Khazar Lankaran's fourth Azerbaijan Premier League season. Khazar started the season under the management of Rasim Kara, however he was replaced by Igor Ponomaryov during the season. Khazar finished the season in 4th place and were knocked out of the Azerbaijan Cup at the quarterfinal stage by Baku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200358-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Khazar Lankaran season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200359-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizan season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was FK Partizan's 3rd season in Serbian SuperLiga. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club played during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200359-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizan season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, Partizani Tirana was again relegated from the Kategoria Superiore after eight seasons playing in that competition, after a loss in the relegation play-out against Kastrioti Kruj\u00eb, in a game that was marred by poor refereeing decisions as well as violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200360-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Partizani Tirana season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season\nThe Qaraba\u011f 2008-09 season was Qaraba\u011f's sixteenth Azerbaijan Premier League season, and their first season under Gurban Gurbanov. They finished the season in 5th place, and won the Azerbaijan Cup defeating Inter Baku in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200361-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Qaraba\u011f season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200362-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Vojvodina season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was FK Vojvodina's 3rd season in Serbian SuperLiga. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club played during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200362-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 FK Vojvodina season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200363-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Falkirk F.C. season\nFalkirk competed in the Scottish Premier League, the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup in 2008\u201309. Although they slipped from a final league position of seventh to tenth, they performed well in both cups, reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup and finishing as runners-up in the Scottish Cup, losing 1\u20130 to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200363-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Falkirk F.C. season, Squad, First team Squad\nAs of 2 February 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200364-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fencing World Cup\nThe 38th FIE Fencing World Cup began on October 2008 and concluded on October 2009 at the 2009 World Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200365-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fenerbah\u00e7e S.K. season\nThe 2008\u201309 Fenerbah\u00e7e S.K. season was the club's 51st consecutive season in the S\u00fcper Lig and their 101st year in existence. They also competed in the UEFA Champions League, starting the competition in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200365-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fenerbah\u00e7e S.K. season, Team squad, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200366-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Feyenoord season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the first season under new coach Gertjan Verbeek. On 14 January 2009, the bigger part of the players group declared they did not have any confidence in Gertjan Verbeek. Although the board and the supporters completely backed up Verbeek, the choice was made to sack the trainer because of financial considerations. The rest of the season Leon Vlemmings, who was Verbeek's assistant from the start of the season, was the manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200366-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Feyenoord season, Transfers\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200366-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Feyenoord season, Transfers\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200367-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina\nThe 2008\u201309 First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina season was the ninth since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200368-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First League of the Republika Srpska\nThe 2008\u201309 First League of the Republika Srpska season was the fourteenth since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200369-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First Women's Banca Intesa League\nThe 2008\u201309 First Women's Banca Intesa League is the 3rd season of the First Women's Basketball League of Serbia, the highest professional basketball league in Serbia. It is also 65th national championship played by Serbian clubs inclusive of nation's previous incarnations as Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200369-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First Women's Banca Intesa League\nThe first part of the season consists of 12 teams and 132-game regular season began on 11 October 2008 and will end on 14 March 2009. The second part of the season is the Play Off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200369-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First Women's Banca Intesa League, Regular season\nThe League part of the season was played with 12 teams and play a dual circuit system, each with each one game at home and away. The four best teams at the end of the regular season were placed in the Play Off. The regular season began on 11 October 2008 and it will end on 14 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200369-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 First Women's Banca Intesa League, Play Off\nPlay Off is played according to the cup system. Champion is received after the final was played. In all parts of Play Off was played on 2 wins. Play Off is played from 24 March to 9 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200370-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Gators men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Florida Gators men's basketball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of basketball during the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The Gators competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by head coach Billy Donovan, and played their home games in the O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The Gators were looking to build on their 24\u201312 record from the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200370-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Gators men's basketball team, Preseason\nEntering the season, the Gators had to overcome the loss of Marreese Speights, who after his sophomore season, left for the 2008 NBA Draft. Speights was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers. To help replace his presence on the court, the Gators welcomed six freshmen to the team. The Gators won their two preseason games against Rollins and Warner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200370-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Gators men's basketball team, Roster, Coaches\nAfter the season, assistant coach Shaka Smart left to become head coach of the VCU Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season was the 16th season for the franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). The 2008\u201309 season was also the eighth consecutive season in which the Panthers did not make the Stanley Cup playoffs, finishing level on points with the qualifying Montreal Canadiens, but suffering from an inferior head-to-head record (1\u20133), the decisive tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season\nOn June 14, 2008, the Panthers named Peter DeBoer head coach and signed him to a multi-year contract. Former head coach Jacques Martin had resigned from the position but retained his position as general manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Preseason\nThe Florida Panthers played seven preseason exhibition games before the start of the regular season. The team went on a road trip across North America to play six games on six consecutive nights, winning only the first two games. The trip included the first-ever NHL game played on Prince Edward Island, against the New York Islanders. After one final preseason game at home, the Panthers finished the preseason with a 3\u20132\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Schedule and results\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Playoffs\nThe Panthers failed to make the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season. They last made the playoffs in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Panthers. Stats reflect time with Panthers only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Draft picks\nFlorida's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa \u2022 Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200371-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida Panthers season, Farm teams\nThe Florida Panthers maintain affiliations with two minor league teams, the Rochester Americans and the Florida Everblades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200372-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team represented Florida State University in the 2008\u20132009 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Seminoles were coached by Leonard Hamilton and played their home games at the Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles were a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200372-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team\nThe Seminoles finished the season 25\u201310, 10\u20136 in ACC play. They lost in the quarterfinals of the 2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. They received and at\u2013large bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning the No. 5 seed in the East Region, where they lost to No. 12 seed Wisconsin in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference\nThe 2008\u201309 Football Conference season was the fifth season with the Conference consisting of three divisions, and the thirtieth season overall. The Conference covers the top two levels of Non-League football in England. The Conference Premier is the fifth highest level of the overall pyramid, whilst the Conference North and Conference South exist at the sixth level. The top team and the winner of the playoff of the National division were promoted to Football League Two, while the bottom four were relegated to the North or South divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference\nThe champions of the North and South divisions were promoted to the National division, alongside the play-off winners from each division. The bottom three in each of the North and South divisions were relegated to the premier divisions of the Northern Premier League, Isthmian League or Southern League. For sponsorship reasons, the Conference Premier is frequently referred to as the Blue Square Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference Premier\nA total of 24 teams contested the division, including 18 sides from last season, two relegated from the Football League Two, two promoted from the Conference North and two promoted from the Conference South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference Premier, Promotion and relegation\nEastbourne, Mansfield, Lewes and Wrexham appear in the Conference Premier for the first time, whilst Barrow return to the league after ten years. Kettering have three times been runners-up at this level and return to the league after an absence of five years. Altrincham remain in the Conference after a third consecutive reprieve from relegation, following Halifax Town's demotion for financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference Premier, Promotion and relegation\nWoking's relegation ended the tenure of the Football Conference's longest serving club, completing seventeen seasons in the top-flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference North\nA total of 22 teams contested the division, including 16 sides from last season, three relegated from the Conference Premier, two promoted from the Northern Premier League and one promoted from the Southern Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference North, Promotion and relegation\nDroylsden and Farsley are returned having spent just one season in the higher league. Fleetwood reached a new high eleven seasons after being re-formed following the bankruptcy of the original Fleetwood Town. Both Boston United and Nuneaton Borough were expelled from the league for financial reasons before the season, resulting in Vauxhall Motors relegation and Redditch United's transfer to the Conference South being cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference South\nA total of 22 teams contested the division, including 18 sides from last season, one transferred from the Conference North, two promoted from the Isthmian League and one promoted from the Southern Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200373-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Conference, Conference South, Promotion and relegation\nNo teams were relegated to the Conference South from the Conference Premier, so Worcester City were transferred in from the Conference North. The expulsion of two teams from the Conference North for financial reasons cancelled Redditch United's transfer between the two, and allowed Dorchester Town to remain in the Conference South. All the four new teams never played in Conference South before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200374-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Football League (known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 110th completed season of the Football League. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200374-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League\nThe Football League is contested through three Divisions: the Championship, League One and League Two. The winner and the runner up of the League Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League and they will are joined by the winner of the Championship playoff. The bottom two teams in League Two are relegated to the Conference Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200374-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League, Promotion and relegation\nAs a consequence of results in the 2008\u201309 English football season, the following promotions and relegations involving teams within, or entering or exiting the Football League occurred. These changes take effect for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200375-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Football League Championship (known as the Coca-Cola Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the sixth season of the league under its current title and seventeenth season under its current league division format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200375-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Championship\nWolverhampton Wanderers won the division to return to the Premier League after a five-year absence. They secured the Championship title on 25 April, one week after having confirmed their promotion with a victory over QPR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200375-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Championship\nBirmingham City were promoted at the first attempt following their relegation. They secured their return to the top flight on the final day of the season by winning at promotion rivals Reading 2\u20131. Norwich City, Southampton and Charlton Athletic were relegated;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200375-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Championship\nBurnley won the play-offs to reach the Premier League for the first time after a 1\u20130 win in the play-off final against Sheffield United, who had been in with a chance of automatic promotion on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200375-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Championship, Events, Southampton administration\nOn 23 April 2009, The Football League announced that Southampton had been placed into administration. The ruling occurred after the deadline for immediate points deduction application, so the ten-point deduction would have to await whether or not Southampton, in 22nd place at the time of the announcement, were relegated. If they had finished above the relegation zone, then the points would have been deducted from their total for the current year to thereby relegate them. However, since their relegation was confirmed following their penultimate match, their point penalty would be applied the next season in League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Football League Cup (known as the Carling Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 49th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for the top 92 football clubs played in English football league system. The winners qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup\nManchester United won the competition by defeating holders Tottenham Hotspur on penalties in the final on 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, First round\nThe draw for the First Round took place on 13 June 2008, with matches being played two months later in the week beginning 11 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, First round\nThe 72 Football League clubs competed from the First Round, which was divided into North and South sections. Each section was divided equally into a pot of seeded clubs and a pot of unseeded clubs. Clubs' rankings depend upon their finishing position in the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Second round\nTwelve Premier League teams \u2013 including the eleven that were not involved in European competitions \u2013 entered at this stage, along with the winners from the First Round. The draw for the Second Round took place on 13 August 2008, and the matches were played in the week beginning 25 August 2008, with the exception of Manchester City's game against Brighton & Hove Albion, which was played on 24 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Third round\nEight teams involved in European competition entered at this stage along with the winners from the Second Round. Since nine English teams qualified for European competition in 2008, it was initially unclear precisely which eight teams would automatically enter the third round. Either Aston Villa, who had entered into European competition via the UEFA Intertoto Cup, or Manchester City, who qualified for the UEFA Cup via the UEFA Fair Play ranking would enter in the Third Round with the other entering in the Second Round instead. On 29 July 2008, it was announced that Aston Villa would enter the 2008\u201309 Carling Cup at the Third Round stage after reaching the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Third round\nThe draw for the Third Round was held on 30 August 2008, and the matches were played on Tuesday, 23 September and Wednesday, 24 September 2008, with the exception of the match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Derby County, which was played on 4 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Fourth round\nThe Fourth Round draw took place on Saturday, 27 September, and the matches were played in the week commencing 10 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Fifth round\nThe Fifth Round draw took place on Saturday, 15 November and the matches were played week in the commencing 1 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-final draw took place on Saturday, 6 December 2008. The first leg matches were played on Tuesday, 6 January 2009 and Wednesday, 7 January 2009, while the second legs were played on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 and Wednesday, 21 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Final\nThe final was played at Wembley Stadium, London, on Sunday, 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200376-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Cup, Top scorers\nThe top scorers in the 2008\u201309 Football League Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200377-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League One\nThe Football League 2008\u201309 (named Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons), was the seventeenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200377-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League One\nThe Football League is contested through three Divisions. The second division of these is League One. The winner and the runner up of League One will be automatically promoted to the Football League Championship and they will be joined by the winner of the League One playoff. The bottom four teams in the league will be relegated to the third division, League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200377-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League One\nLeicester City played at this level for the first time in their history having spent all their time in the top two divisions. In the opposite direction, Hereford United made their first appearance in the third tier since 1978, after many seasons in non-league and lower-league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200377-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League One, Key events\n30 April 2009 \u2013 Stockport County are docked 10 points by the FA for entering administration", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, known as the 2008\u201309 Johnstone's Paint Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is the 25th Football League Trophy, a knockout competition for English football clubs in Leagues One and Two, the third and fourth tiers of English football. Luton Town won the competition, beating Scunthorpe United 3\u20132 after extra time in the final. However, Luton were unable to defend their trophy as they were relegated from the Football League at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy\nThe format was the same as that which had been used since 1996, with four first round regions; North-West, North-East, South-West and South-East and a two-region format from the second round; North and South. The resulting regional winners then meet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, First round\nThe First Round draw was conducted on 16 August 2008. The teams to be granted byes to the Second Round were drawn first, with the remaining teams drawn for the First Round ties. The First Round matches were played in the week commencing 1 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, First round, First round byes, Northern section\nBury, Carlisle United, Chester City,  Darlington, Lincoln City, Rochdale, Rotherham United, Huddersfield Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, First round, First round byes, Southern section\nCheltenham Town, Gillingham, Hereford United, Luton Town, Milton Keynes Dons, Peterborough United, Walsall, Wycombe Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, Second round\nThe Second Round draw was conducted on 6 September 2008, with matches played in the week commencing 6 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, Area quarter-finals\nThe draw for the area quarter-finals was conducted on 11 October 2008. The matches were played in the week commencing 3 November 2008, with the exception of the match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Swindon Town, which was played on 12 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, Area semi-finals\nThe draw for the area semi-finals was conducted on 8 November 2008, and matches were played in the week commencing 15 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, Area finals\nThe area finals, which serve as the semi-finals for the entire competition, are contested over two legs, home and away. The first legs were played on 20 January 2009; the second legs were played on 17 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200378-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Trophy, Area finals, Southern Section\nBrighton & Hove Albion 1\u20131 Luton Town on aggregate. Luton Town won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200379-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Two\nThe Football League 2008\u201309, known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons, is the 17th\u00a0season under its current league division format. It began in August 2008 and concluded in May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200379-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Two\nThe Football League is contested through three Divisions. The third division of these is League Two. The winner, runner up and third-placed team of League Two will be automatically promoted to Football League One and they will be joined by the winner of the League Two playoff. The bottom two teams in the league will be relegated from the Football League to the Conference National for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200379-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Two\nBefore the season started, Luton Town, Rotherham United and AFC Bournemouth were all docked points for the League Two season for, in all cases, financial problems and additionally, in the case of Luton, for criminal matters regarding transfers of players. Bournemouth and Rotherham both started on \u221217\u00a0points while Luton had to begin on \u221230\u00a0points. On 25 January, Darlington were docked ten points after going into administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200379-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Two, Key events\n25 February 2009 \u2013 Darlington are docked 10 points by the FA for entering administration", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200379-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football League Two, Key events\n2 May 2009 \u2013 Brentford crowned Champions of League 2 after 3\u20131 win at Darlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200380-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Superleague of Kosovo\nRaiffeisen Superliga 2008\u201309 was the sixty-third season of top-tier football in Kosovo. It was scheduled to begin on 30 August 2008. The season ended with the 30th round played on 20 June 2009. Prishtina were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200380-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Superleague of Kosovo, Promotion and relegation\nKF Fush\u00eb Kosova (after relegation play-offs), Shqiponja and KEK were relegated at the end of Raiffeisen Superliga 2007\u201308 due to finishing 14th through 16th, respectively. Istogu, Ferizaj and Ulpiana were promoted at the end of Liga e Par\u00eb 2007\u201308 due to finishing 1st through 3rd, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200380-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Football Superleague of Kosovo, Teams\nSixteen teams of Football Superleague of Kosovo season 2008\u201309 and their position at the end of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200381-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ford Ranger One Day Cup season\nThe 2008\u201309 Ford Ranger One Day Cup is the 39th season of official List A domestic cricket in Australia. The season began on 8 October 2008 when Western Australia played,  New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200381-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ford Ranger One Day Cup season\nThe final between the Victorian Bushrangers and the Queensland Bulls was played at the MCG on 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200381-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ford Ranger One Day Cup season, Points Table\nThe top two teams after each round was played competed in the Ford Ranger One Day Cup final. The match was contested at the home ground of the side that finished first. (For an explanation of how points are rewarded, see Ford Ranger One Day Cup \u2013 Points system).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200382-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Four Hills Tournament\nThe 2008\u201309 Four Hills Tournament was held at the four traditional venues of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, located in Germany and Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200382-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Four Hills Tournament\nThe tournament was won by Austria's Wolfgang Loitzl, who previously had not won a single World Cup event in his career. Loitzl won the last three competitions at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen to claim the overall victory, and became the first Austrian to win the Four Hills since Andreas Widh\u00f6lzl in 1999\u20132000. The opening event at Oberstdorf was won by Switzerland' s Simon Ammann, who was the overall World Cup leader at the time of the competition. Ammann also finished second overall in the Four Hills. Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer finished third overall, while Martin Schmitt of Germany and Dimitry Vassiliev of Russia rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200383-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Frauen-Bundesliga\nThe Frauen-Bundesliga 2008\u20132009 is the 19th season of the Frauen-Bundesliga, Germany's premier women's football league. It began on 7 September 2008 and ended on 7 June 2009. Turbine Potsdam won the championship with Bayern Munich coming in second by single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season\nThe 2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season was the club's 29th season in the Swedish elite league Elitserien. The regular season began on 15 September 2008 against rival team HV71, and concluded on 28 February 2009 against Djurg\u00e5rdens IF. Fr\u00f6lunda looked to improve upon their progress in the 2007\u201308 season after being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by F\u00e4rjestad BK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season\nNiklas Andersson was named captain of the team after Jonas Johnson retired. Ronnie Sundin continued serving as alternate captain; Tomi Kallio and Riku Hahl were named alternate captains after Jonas Esbj\u00f6rs had retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Standings\ny - clinched semi-final spot for championship, x - clinched semi-final spot for 5th place,  z - play for 9th place", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Game log\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime win (2 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Pre-season, Exhibition game against Ottawa\nOn 2 October 2008, Fr\u00f6lunda play an exhibition game against the Ottawa Senators. The game was played two days prior to the 2008\u201309 NHL season premier between Ottawa and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stockholm Globe Arena. Ottawa's captain Daniel Alfredsson is a native of Gothenburg and Fr\u00f6lunda is the only other professional team he has represented. Prior to the game Alfredsson was honoured with a decorated pillar in Scandinavium. Fr\u00f6lunda lost the game by a score of 1\u20134, with Oscar Hedman scoring their only goal. Alfredsson scored the second goal for the Senators, Chris Kelly, Alexandre Picard and Jason Spezza scored the Senators' other three goals in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Regular season, Standings\nx \u2013 clinched playoff spot; y \u2013 clinched regular season league title; e \u2013 eliminated from playoff contention; r \u2013 play in relegation series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Regular season, Game log\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime win (2 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime loss (1 point)\u00a0\u00a0Tie (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200384-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fr\u00f6lunda HC season, Drafted players\nFr\u00f6lunda HC players picked at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 Fulham season was the club's 111th professional season and their eighth consecutive season in the top flight of English football, the Premier League, since their return in 2001. They were managed by Roy Hodgson in his first full season as Fulham manager. They played in the Premier League by virtue of staying up on goal difference from Reading on the last day of the previous campaign and were hoping to improve on their placing of 17th. They eventually finished in seventh place in the Premier League table with 53 points, an improvement of ten places and 18 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season\nTheir league position secured a place in the newly formed UEFA Europa League for the 2009\u201310 season as well as their highest League finish in their history. The club received a number of additional awards from the Premier League, namely the Fair Play Award, the Behaviour of the Public Award and the Barclays Spirit Award for manager Roy Hodgson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season\nSome of the most notable results of the season came against clubs who finished in the top four in the table. The club beat Manchester United and Arsenal at home and managed a draw at home against Chelsea. In other competitions, Fulham reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup before losing to league champions Manchester United. In the Football League Cup, they defeated Leicester City in the second round but were knocked out by Burnley in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Pre-season\nRoy Hodgson added to the team in the summer with signings including goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer from Middlesbrough and strikers Bobby Zamora from West Ham United and Andy Johnson who arrived from Everton for a club record \u00a310.5\u00a0million (though Steve Marlet had cost more when including agents fees in 2001). Club captain Brian McBride decided to return to United States, where he eventually signed with Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire. Olivier Dacourt joined Fulham during the winter transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Pre-season\nFulham also put out teams in away matches consisting of first and reserve team players against Walton Casuals (won 3\u20131), Staines Town (lost 2\u20130), Banstead (won 3\u20130), Carshalton (won 2\u20130), Crystal Palace (drew 0\u20130) and Kingstonian (won ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Premier League\nFulham started the season playing away at the KC Stadium against newly promoted Hull City. Seol Ki-hyeon gave Fulham the lead in the eighth minute. Their lead lasted less than 15\u00a0minutes because Geovanni equalised in the 22nd minute. Caleb Folan completed the Hull turn-around ten\u00a0minutes from the end of normal time, capping a 2\u20131 victory for the home team. However, the following week the team gained their first victory of the season with a win against much-fancied Arsenal for only the second time in 43 years. The only goal of the game came from Brede Hangeland midway through the first half who scored directly from a Jimmy Bullard cross, from a couple of yards. A slightly off-colour Arsenal played their usual passing game but could not break Fulham down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Premier League\nThe team did not have another Premier League game to play until 13 September due to Manchester United's participation in the UEFA Super Cup, as well as the break from league football at the beginning of September for international World Cup qualifying matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Premier League\nOn 17 May 2009, the club confirmed their highest ever league finish with a 1\u20130 victory over relegation-threatened Newcastle United at St James' Park. The victory kept them in seventh place in the table, with eighth being the lowest they could finish, bettering the ninth-place finish in 2004. Kamara scored in the 41st minute of a tense game which was full of chances for both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe club entered the FA Cup in the third round, with an away match against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on 3 January 2009. Fulham took the lead through Andrew Johnson from a Danny Murphy through-ball in the 12th minute but were pegged back by a 25-yard goal from Tommy Spurr after 21\u00a0minutes. The game remained 1\u20131 until the 88th minute, when Andy Johnson scored his second of the game which turned out to be the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nFulham next faced one of only two non-league sides left in the competition, Kettering Town. After a positive opening from the underdogs Kettering, Fulham took the lead in the 12th minute, Simon Davies scoring a volley from 15\u00a0yards from a Clint Dempsey cross. But the lead only lasted until the 36th minute as the lively Craig Westcarr scored a deflected freekick. Kettering continued to press after the break and with the additions of Danny Murphy and Bobby Zamora, they regained the lead in the 77th minute with Murphy scoring the goal. Kettering, however, were not finished and 9\u00a0minutes later, Westcarr scored a penalty after a trip from Brede Hangeland. With Kettering planning a trip to London, Andy Johnson and Zamora scored two late goals to seal the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the fifth round, Fulham were drawn away again to Championship side Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium. Roy Hodgson made three changes from Fulham's last Premier League match against Wigan, with Dempsey and Paintsil rested after playing abroad in midweek for their countries. to be replaced by Gera and Stoor while Zamora also dropped to the bench in favour of Nevland. Swansea created some clear-cut opportunities in the early stages, with Mark Gower, Alan Tate and Lloyd Dyer testing Mark Schwarzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nFulham, however, found the breakthrough a minute before half-time with a slice of luck as Paul Konchesky's corner was deflected in off Swansea defender Garry Monk. Swansea continued to dominate and equalised in the 52nd minute when Jason Scotland scored, evading a challenge before firing the ball low past Schwarzer. With both sides playing attractive passing football the sides could not be separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nFulham and Swansea both went into the hat for the quarter-finals and were given the prospect of a tie with defending Premier League and Champions League champions Manchester United. They first had to get through the fifth round replay, which took place on 24 February 2009 at Craven Cottage. It was Fulham's second game in three days but Roy Hodgson put out a strong side with the only changes being Nevland replacing Johnson up front and Dacourt making his first start for the club in place of Danny Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, FA Cup\nJason Scotland scored just after half-time following an even first half, knocking the ball in from 15\u00a0yards. Fulham, however, did not give up, Zamora coming close on several occasions before they equalised through Dempsey in the 67th minute. Four minutes later, they turned the game around when Zamora scored his second goal in as many games. The home side held on to secure victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Football League Cup\nFulham entered the Football League Cup at the second round stage after receiving the bye awarded to Premier League clubs in the first round. They faced a Leicester City side finding their feet in League One after relegation the previous season. Fulham took the lead in the 31st minute through one of their new signings, Hungarian international Zolt\u00e1n Gera, but Leicester turned the game around in the early stages of the second half. Veteran Paul Dickov drew them level on 46\u00a0minutes and just two minutes later Andy King completed the turnaround.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Football League Cup\nThe match remained 2\u20131 until the 83rd minute when Jimmy Bullard levelled the score. But this was not the end of the scoring and with the game seemingly heading for extra-time, Danny Murphy scored the winner for Fulham in the second minute of stoppage time to win the encounter and send Fulham through to the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Football League Cup\nIn the third round, a Fulham side featuring the attacking talents of Johnson, Gera and Dempsey lost 1\u20130 to a Burnley side who had been performing well and sitting in the play-off positions in the Championship. With the match seemingly heading for extra-time, Jay Rodriguez won the match in the 88th minute. He collected a Chris Eagles through ball just inside the area and then slotted the ball past Pascal Zuberb\u00fchler. Fulham were therefore knocked out of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nElliot Omozusi received Jimmy Bullard's squad number 21, when Bullard left the club. Giles Barnes wore number 7 while Seol Ki-hyeon was out on loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nStatistics correct as of final match against Everton, played 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Transfers, Summer\nMark Schwarzer arrived on a free transfer from Middlesbrough when his contract expired and fellow goalkeeper David Stockdale came from Darlington. Despite the promotion of West Bromwich Albion to the Premier League, Zolt\u00e1n Gera rejected \"the best contract the club could [offer]\" and signed with Fulham. The club also signed Andranik Teymourian from Bolton Wanderers on 12 June 2008. Toni Kallio signed a permanent contract after a loan spell during the second half of the previous season. On 15 July 2008, Bobby Zamora and John Pantsil signed on a joint-deal from West Ham United. On 30 July 2008, Sweden international Fredrik Stoor signed a deal with the team, moving on from Rosenborg. Andy Johnson was bought from Everton for a fee of around \u00a310.5\u00a0million, Fulham's second highest transfer fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 844]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Transfers, Summer\nFulham released ten players, including Carlos Bocanegra, Philippe Christanval and goalkeeper Tony Warner. Paul Stalteri returned to Tottenham Hotspur after a loan spell and Brian McBride returned to the United States to play for the Chicago Fire. Norwich City took two of Fulham's players, Dejan Stefanovi\u0107 permanently and Elliot Omozusi on loan for the season. Two goalkeepers also left the club, as Ricardo Batista left for Sporting CP and veteran Kasey Keller was released. David Healy moved to Sunderland, Steven Davis made a permanent switch to Rangers and Moritz Volz and Hameur Bouazza both went out on loan. Alexey Smertin had his contract with Fulham terminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Transfers, Winter\nThe first departures of the winter transfer window happened in December when Lee Cook returned to his former club Queens Park Rangers on a permanent deal, having spent several months back there on loan. He had not made any first-team appearances for Fulham since signing in the summer 2007 transfer window. Gabriel Zakuani also moved to Peterborough United following a successful loan spell. Midfielder Jimmy Bullard also left the club on 23 January 2009, signing for Hull City in a \u00a35\u00a0million deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Transfers, Winter\nHe had been a target for Bolton Wanderers but they decided not to pursue their interest in him. Adrian Leijer and Andranik Teymourian moved on loan to Norwich City and Barnsley respectively, with Elliot Omozusi returning from Norwich. Leon Andreasen signed for German side Hannover 96 on loan. TJ Moncur left the club to sign for League Two side Wycombe Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Transfers, Winter\nGiles Barnes was Fulham's first signing during the winter transfer window, moving on loan from Derby County until the end of the season. He was also joined on transfer deadline day by former Leeds United player Olivier Dacourt, who also signed on loan from Inter Milan. Julian Gray made his loan signing from Coventry City a permanent deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200385-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Fulham F.C. season, Club, Other information\nUpdated to match played 7 AugustSource:\u00a0Fulham F.C. and Craven Cottage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200386-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GET-ligaen season\nThe 2008\u201309 GET-ligaen season began on 18 September 2008 and ended 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 110]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200386-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GET-ligaen season, Promotion/Relegation\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTW = Overtime Wins; OTL = Overtime Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = PointsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 GMHL season was the third season of the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMHL). The fifteen teams of the GMHL played 43-game schedules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season\nIn February 2009, the top teams of the league played down for the Russell Cup, emblematic of the grand championship of the GMHL. Since the GMHL is independent from Hockey Canada and the Canadian Junior Hockey League, this is where the GMHL's season ended. The South Muskoka Shield won their first Russell Cup beating the Deseronto Storm 4-games-to-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Changes\nWith fifteen team starting the season, the league was split into a Northern Division (8 teams) and Southern Division (7 teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Final standings\nTamworth and Ville-Marie folded for the remainder of the season. Their remaining games are scored as 3-0 forfeit victories to their opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Torpedo UST-Kamenogorsk exhibition series\nIn late December 2008 and early January 2009, the teams of the GMHL played a series of exhibition games against the Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk Under-18 team of Oskemen, Kazakhstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200387-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GMHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series\nThe 2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series season was the second season of the GP2 Asia Series. It began on 18 October 2008 and ended on 26 April 2009 and consisted of twelve races at six events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series\nAll teams from the 2008 GP2 Series season except for Racing Engineering took part in the competition, with the thirteenth slot being filled by Qi-Meritus Mahara. The reigning champion Romain Grosjean did not defend his title. Kamui Kobayashi clinched the title with a fourth place at the penultimate race in Bahrain. 8 different winners were in 12 races: Kamui Kobayashi become champion, after Japanese won in two consecutive feature races at Dubai Autodrome, and at Bahrain International Circuit. Diego Nunes won the last two feature races at Sepang International Circuit, and at Bahrain International Circuit. Rold\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez wins in first race of the season. Nico H\u00fclkenberg, Luiz Razia, Vitaly Petrov, Davide Valsecchi, and Sergio P\u00e9rez each other won one race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series, Entry list\n* \u2013 team was known as BCN Competici\u00f3n at round one in Shanghai, before Tiago Monteiro bought over the team's assets and renamed it as Ocean Racing Technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series, Calendar\nOn 12 July, GP2 Series organisers announced a provisional calendar for their second season. Unlike the first season of the GP2 Asia Series, this season will start prior to the new year, and be expanded to six events from the previous five. The Indonesian round has been dropped, while Bahrain earns a second event and Shanghai earns its first GP2 races. Shanghai will also host the official GP2 Asia Series test session prior to the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series, Calendar\nThe sprint race of the second round of the championship \u2013 at the Dubai Autodrome \u2013 was cancelled due to flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series, Calendar\nOn 17 December, an alteration was made to the calendar, with the Losail International Circuit in Qatar replacing the February meeting in Dubai. The meeting was also moved to February 12\u201314 because the original date on the calendar was unsuitable, due to MotoGP testing. This event will also introduce night racing to GP2, following the circuit's lead with MotoGP and its support classes and also Formula One's night race in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200388-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 GP2 Asia Series, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 6 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season\nThe Gabala FC 2008\u201309 season was Gabala's third Azerbaijan Premier League season, and their third season under manager Ramiz Mammadov. They finished 10th in the Premier League, whilst being knocked out at the Semifinal stage of the 2008\u201309 Azerbaijan Cup by Inter Baku. Their kit was supplied by Erre\u00e0 and their main sponsor was Hyundai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200389-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gabala FC season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200390-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Galatasaray's 105th in existence and the 51st consecutive season in the S\u00fcper Lig. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200390-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Galatasaray S.K. season, Current squad\nAs of March 10, 2009; according to the official website. . Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200391-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball Season\nGalatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball 2008\u20132009 season is the 2008\u20132009 basketball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray SK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200391-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball Season, Squad changes for the 2008\u20132009 season\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 91], "content_span": [92, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200391-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball Season, Squad changes for the 2008\u20132009 season\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 91], "content_span": [92, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200392-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gamma Ethniki\nThe 2008\u201309 Gamma Ethniki was the 26th season since the official establishment of the third tier of Greek football in 1983. It started on September 14, 2008 and finished on May 3, 2009. 36 teams contest the league, divided into two groups of 18 clubs each, using certain geographical criteria. 23 of the participant clubs have contested in the 2007-08 season, 3 of them have been relegated from Beta Ethniki, while 10 of them have been promoted from Delta Ethniki. Last season's champions of North Group were Kavala, and Diagoras of South Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200392-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gamma Ethniki, Participant clubs\nFollowing clubs secured a place in Gamma Ethniki by avoiding relegation or by failing to win promotion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200392-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gamma Ethniki, Participant clubs\nFollowing clubs were promoted to Gamma Ethniki as champions of their respective Delta Ethniki groups:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200392-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gamma Ethniki, Participant clubs, Separation into groups\nThe afore mentioned clubs were divided into two groups depending on their geographical origin. Most of the clubs that come from the southern part of the country (including Attica, Peloponnesus, Crete, the Aegean Islands and half Sterea Ellada) will enter South Group 1, while clubs from Central and Northern Greece (including Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus, Thessaly, the Ionian Islands and part of Sterea Ellada) will take part in North Group 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200393-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Genoa C.F.C. season\nGenoa C.F.C. enjoyed its best season in recent history and finished fifth in Serie A. Topscorer Diego Milito hit the back of the net 24 times, and earned a move to Inter prior to the 2009-10 season. The ex-player and 29-year-old Argentinian Milito, arrived from relegated Spanish side Real Zaragoza, and the returnee performed his best season yet. Thanks to his goals and Thiago Motta's midfield display, Genoa finished in the top 5, and nearly pipped Fiorentina to the final Champions League spot. Motta was also sold to Inter in the summer, which left a huge fold in the Genoa squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200394-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 George Mason Patriots men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 George Mason Patriots men's basketball team began its 43rd season of collegiate play on November 15, 2008 versus the University of Vermont. The players were looking to continue the success from their 2007\u20132008 season where they won the 2008 Colonial Athletic Association tournament championship game and advanced to the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The 2008\u201309 Patriots had a    13 \u2013 5 regular season record and were runners-up in the 2009 Colonial Athletic Association tournament. The team reached the 2009 National Invitation Tournament, but they lost in overtime to eventual tournament champion Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200394-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 George Mason Patriots men's basketball team, Recruiting\nThe following is a list of players signed for the 2009\u201310 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 2008\u20132009 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Hoyas were coached by John Thompson III and played their home games at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. The Hoyas were members of the original Big East Conference. They finished the season 16-15, 7-11 in Big East play. They lost to St. John's in the first round of the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament. They received an at\u2013large bid to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament, earning a 6 seed in one of the NIT's regions, and lost to Baylor in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season\nComing off a 2007-08 season which saw a second consecutive Big East Conference regular-season championship, a second straight appearance in the Big East Tournament final, a third straight NCAA Tournament appearance, and a postseason No. 12 national ranking for Georgetown, the Hoyas were expected to have another impressive season even though only one scholarship senior, Jessie Sapp, returned for 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season\nAlthough four-year starter and point guard Jonathan Wallace had graduated in 2008, sophomore guard Chris Wright, recovered from a broken foot that caused him to miss much of the 2007-08 campaign, was expected to fill in ably as his successor, and the Hoyas placed great confidence in freshman center Greg Monroe as the next \"big man\" who could replace center Roy Hibbert, who also had graduated in 2008. Although guard Jeremiah Rivers had transferred to Indiana during the offseason, sophomore guard Austin Freeman returned after a very promising freshman year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season\nAt forward, Patrick Ewing, Jr., had departed through graduation, but junior DaJuan Summers returned and, although forward Vernon Macklin had transferred to Florida after the previous season in search of greater playing time, sophomore forward Julian Vaughn joined the Hoyas after playing for a season at Florida State. Freshman center Henry Sims also joined the team to come off the bench behind Monroe. The Hoyas entered the season with a No. 22 ranking in the preseason Associated Press Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nThe season began well enough with Georgetown displaying a strong defense in wins over Jacksonville and Drexel and Monroe showing his expected defensive prowess and making the first Georgetown score, rebound, and blocked shot of the year. He scored 14 points, grabbed seven rebounds, and blocked three shots against Jacksonville and contributed 20 points, eight rebounds, four assists, three steals, and three blocked shots against Drexel, a game in which he shot 7-for-9 (77.8 percent) from the field. Chris Wright had 16 points, five rebounds, and four assists against Jacksonville and 11 points, seven assists, and five rebounds in the Drexel game, while Summers and Sapp each scored 13 points against Jacksonville. Summers finished with 10 against Drexel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nMoving up to No. 21 in the AP Poll, the Hoyas next traveled to Lake Buena Vista, Florida, to play in the Old Spice Classic. They met Wichita State in the first round in a game in which the Shockers outrebounded the Hoyas 17-6 but shot only 27.9 percent from the field, and Georgetown went 8-for-8 in free throws in the final minute to preserve a 58-50 victory, with Austin Freeman scoring a game-high 18 points, DaJuan Summers 14, and Greg Monroe 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nIn the semifinal the following day, the Hoyas faced No. 12 Tennessee, their first ranked opponent of the season. Four Hoyas \u2013 Chris Wright with 18 points, DaJuan Summers with 17, Greg Monroe with 15, and Austin Freeman with 12 \u2013 scored in double figures as Georgetown shot 53 percent from the field. But Georgetown also committed 20 turnovers, including 10 in the first 15 minutes, and had an uncharacteristically porous defense, allowing the Volunteers also to shoot 53 percent from the field, and Tennessee had a 39-37 advantage at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nEarly in the second half, the Hoyas went on a 23-10 run to pull ahead, 65-57, but the Volunteers then responded with a 10-1 run of their own to take a 67-66 lead, followed by an 8-3 run to give Tennessee a 75-69 advantage. With some starters in early foul trouble on both sides, both teams\u2032 benches saw significant playing time, and that worked to Tennessee's advantage, with the Volunteers\u2032 bench outscoring the Hoyas\u2032 bench 37-12. Tennessee handed the Hoyas their first defeat, 90-78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0003-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nGeorgetown thus met Maryland two days later in the third-place game, only the third meeting between the cross-town rivals since 1980, the first since the 2001 NCAA Tournament, and the first during the regular season since 1993. Freeman scored 18 points, Summers contributed 14, Monroe had 12, and Jessie Sapp scored 10 as the Hoyas made 10 of their first 14 shots, shot 53.1 percent from the field, and held the Terrapins to 36.1 percent shooting. Georgetown led by as many as 21 points in the first half, by 38-20 at halftime, by 61-33 with 13 minutes left in the second half, and by 73-38 with 7\u00bd minutes to play on the way to an easy 75-48 victory to secure third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nWith a record of 4-1 and ranked No. 20, the Hoyas returned to the Verizon Center for a five-game homestand. In the first two, they easily defeated American and Savannah State, the latter coached by former Georgetown player Horace Broadnax. Chris Wright scored a career-high 22 points and DaJuan Summers and Jessie Sapp had 14 points each against American in a game in which American scored only 12 points in the first half, the lowest score by a Georgetown opponent in the first half since John Thompson III took over as the Hoyas\u2032 head coach in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nIn the Savannah State game two days later, Georgetown, by then ranked No. 19, scored 100 points for the second time in John Thompson III's tenure and had a 62-point margin of victory that was its biggest since a 112-39 defeat of the University of the District of Columbia on December 16, 1989. Freeman, Sapp, and Summers had 14 points each, Monroe had 13, and freshman guard Jason Clark came off the bench to score 10 against Savannah State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nIn the third game of the homestand, Georgetown faced No. 17 Memphis. Summers led the team with 21 points, Austin Freeman scored 18, Chris Wright added 14 points and played an excellent defensive game against Tigers point guard Tyreke Evans, and Greg Monroe had 13 points and six rebounds. It was a tight game, with Memphis leading 38-37 at the half, and for six of the last 6\u00bd minutes of the second half neither team led by more than one point, Freeman finally putting the Hoyas ahead 66-64 with a free throw with 31 seconds left in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nThe Tigers scored to tie the game at 66-66 and force overtime, but thereafter shot 1-for-9 from the field while the Hoyas outscored Memphis 13-4 during overtime for a 79-70 upset victory. Although Memphis outrebounded Georgetown 53-36, the Tigers shot only 35 percent from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Non-conference schedule\nThe win stretched Georgetown's home winning streak to 26 games, which the Hoyas then extended to 28 straight as the homestand concluded with victories over Mount St. Mary's \u2013 the first meeting of the schools since January 1962, with Chris Wright scoring a game-high 19 points, DaJuan Summers adding 13, and Jessie Sapp grabbing a career-high nine rebounds \u2013 and Florida International. In the Florida International game, the first game between the schools since December 1989, the Hoyas held the Golden Panthers to a total of 38 points, the lowest scoring total in Florida International's history. On the Georgetown side, Austin Freeman scored 17 points, Chris Wright had 14, and DaJuan Summers added 13, while Greg Monroe had 10 points, six rebounds, and five steals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nRanked No. 11, with a record of 9-1 and the winners of six straight games, the Hoyas closed out 2008 by opening their Big East Conference schedule with a visit to No. 2 Connecticut, which had won seven straight games against ranked opponents. Georgetown began the game with an 18-3 run against the veteran Huskies, and led 36-27 at halftime. Thirteen seconds into the second half, Greg Monroe hit a three-pointer to stretch the lead to 39-27, but Connecticut then went on a 13-1 run to close to a 40-37 deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nWith Georgetown clinging to a 42-39 lead with 13:19 left to play, Austin Freeman sparked Georgetown's offense, scoring seven of the first nine points of a 14-6 Georgetown run that gave the Hoyas a 56-45 advantage with 9:46 remaining. Connecticut never got closer than nine points the rest of the way, and Georgetown led by as many as 17 points in pulling off a 74-63 upset victory. In the second half, the Hoyas made 18 straight free throws and finished 18-for-21 (85.7 percent) from the free-throw line. DaJuan Summers had 18 points, Chris Wright and Greg Monroe scored 16 points each, and Freeman added 13. It was Georgetown's eighth straight win in a Big East season opener, five of them under John Thompson III. The Hoyas\u2032 winning streak grew to seven, and their record improved to 10-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 889]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nAt the time Georgetown upset Connecticut, the Big East boasted seven ranked teams, and the relatively young and inexperienced Hoyas faced a challenging conference schedule as a result. Connecticut was the first of three ranked teams the Hoyas faced to open their conference schedule, leading John Thompson III to note in a postgame interview, \"The commissioner isn't handing out trophies tonight and it doesn't get easier.\" With that in mind, the Hoyas began 2009 by hosting No. 3 Pittsburgh in their next game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nAlthough DaJuan Summers scored 22 points and Greg Monroe added 15, the undefeated Panthers used their depth to dominate Georgetown, outrebounding the Hoyas 46-21 and outscoring them from the paint 48-22, while Pittsburgh's bench outscored Georgetown's 14-2. Leading 33-30 at halftime, the Panthers shot 53 percent from the field in the second half and pulled out to a 55-44 lead with 7:47 left in the game. Pittsburgh sophomore forward DeJuan Blair had a double-double (20 points and 17 rebounds), and Pittsburgh won 70-54. The loss ended Georgetown's 29-game home winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe following day, the Hoyas left for South Bend, Indiana, for a January 5 game at No. 13 Notre Dame \u2013 winners of 43 straight home games \u2013 by which time Georgetown had climbed to No. 9 in the AP Poll. Greg Monroe led the Hoyas with a double-double (21 points and 10 rebounds) and Chris Wright scored 13, while DaJuan Summers contributed 11, his second-lowest scoring performance of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nNotre Dame junior forward Luke Harangody, meanwhile, led the Fighting Irish, scoring the last 13 Notre Dame points of the first half to give Notre Dame a 39-28 lead at halftime and, despite sitting with four fouls with 15:17 left to play and Notre Dame leading by six, reentered the game less than four minutes later and scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds before time expired. Georgetown battled back to a 71-67 deficit with 13 seconds left, but the Fighting Irish upset the Hoyas 73-67 to extend their home winning streak to 44 and hand Georgetown consecutive losses for the first time since January 2007. Harangody finished with a double-double (31 points and 11 rebounds).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nGeorgetown returned to the Verizon Center for a two-game homestand that began with a come-from-behind win over Providence in which Greg Monroe had a double-double (13 points and 10 rebounds) along with eight assists and five steals, Austin Freeman scored 18 points, Chris Wright had 16, and Jason Clark contributed 10. The Hoyas dropped to No. 13 in the AP Poll by the time they met another ranked opponent, No. 8 Syracuse, winners of seven straight, in their next game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe underdog Hoyas rose to the occasion with their best three-point-shooting performance of the season, scoring on 12 out of 21 shots (57.1 percent) from three-point range. Opening with a 10-2 lead, Georgetown scored 14 straight points halfway through the first half as part of a 21-4 run that saw the Hoyas make 11 straight shots over nine minutes and stake themselves to a 37-18 lead with 4:25 left. With a four-point play, Austin Freeman gave the Hoyas a 47-26 lead with two minutes left, and Georgetown went into the locker room at halftime with a 50-32 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe Orange rallied to begin the second half with eight unanswered points, and closed to a 53-45 deficit with 15:43 left to play, but DaJuan Summers hit a three-pointer 11 seconds later to stretch the lead to 56-45. Georgetown led by double digits for the rest of the game on the way to an 88-74 upset victory, dealing Syracuse its first conference loss of the season. DaJuan Summers had a game-high 21 points, while Austin Freeman shot 4-for-5 in three-pointers and scored 19 and Greg Monroe had 10 points and six rebounds. The 88 points were the most a Georgetown team had scored against a Big East opponent since John Thompson III's arrival in 2004, and the Hoya bench played a major role, scoring 29 points, including a career-high 12 points by Jason Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThree days later, Georgetown played its last nonconference game of the season, taking on yet another ranked opponent, no less than No. 2 Duke, in a visit to Durham, North Carolina. Duke entered the game having won seven straight games and riding a 67-game winning streak on its home court against non-Atlantic Coast Conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe game was tied 29-29 with 4:39 remaining in the first half, but Duke reeled off 11 straight points while holding Georgetown scoreless and led 40-29 at halftime; the Hoyas went into the locker room without having scored a field goal in the last 7\u00bd minutes of the half. The Blue Devils pulled ahead to a 15-point lead early in the second half, but Georgetown responded with a 13-2 run and closed to 46-42 with 15:33 left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nBut when Henry Sims was called for a blocking foul with 15:08 left, Greg Monroe objected so strongly from the bench that he was called for a technical foul, his fourth foul of the game. The momentum shifted back in Duke's favor, and the Blue Devils went on a 15-3 run to take a 61-45 lead with 10:43 left in the game. The Hoyas battled back to a 72-67 deficit with 38 seconds remaining, but Duke hit four free throws in the game's last 30 seconds to clinch a 76-67 victory. In a losing cause, DaJuan Summers led the Hoyas with 21 points and seven rebounds, while Austin Freeman scored 15 and Monroe contributed 12 points and six rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nGeorgetown emerged from the Duke game with a respectable 12-4 record against a tough schedule, including 3-2 in the Big East and 3-4 against ranked opponents, and even climbed to No. 12 in the AP Poll. But then the Hoyas\u2032 season took a marked downturn, as the Duke setback was only the beginning of what turned out to be a five-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nReturning to conference play in their next game, against West Virginia, the Hoyas suffered a surprisingly one-sided loss in which the Mountaineers outshot, outrebounded, and out-defended Georgetown, especially in the second half: The Hoyas shot only 39.2 percent from the field overall \u2013 2-for-16 (12.5 percent) from three-point range \u2013 and only 33 percent after halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0011-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe Hoyas\u2032 shooting woes continued as they were upset again three days later at Seton Hall, which broke a six-game losing streak and won its first conference game of the season despite failing to make a single three-point shot for the first time since December 1991; Georgetown meanwhile shot a season-low 32.7 percent against the Pirates overall and went 3-for-22 (13.6 percent) in three-pointers, meaning the Hoyas had gone a combined 5-for-38 (13.2 percent) in three-pointers against West Virginia and Seton Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0011-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nA fourth loss in a row ensued at Cincinnati in a game in which Georgetown shot 40 percent from the field but only 5-for-17 (29.4 percent) from three-point range while allowing the Bearcats to shoot 45.8 percent from the field. DaJuan Summers had 12 points each against West Virginia and Seton Hall, but sat out the second half of the game against the Bearcats with seven points after twisting his ankle, although he remained Georgetown's leading scorer for the season with 16.1 points per game through the end of the Cincinnati game. Chris Wright scored 13 points against West Virginia, 11 against Seton Hall, and 15 against Cincinnati. Greg Monroe contributed 11 points against West Virginia and 17 against Seton Hall, and 10 points and eight rebounds against Cincinnati, while Austin Freeman had 14 points and six rebounds against Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 942]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe fifth consecutive loss came on January 31 in a visit to No. 8 Marquette, a team undefeated in its seven conference games entering the Georgetown game. DaJuan Summers returned to action despite injuring his ankle in the Cincinnati game and tied his season high with 22 points, also pulling down seven rebounds, and Georgetown led by as many as seven points early in the first half. Marquette closed the gap, and the game was tied at 42-42 at halftime and 52-52 with 14:31 left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nBut then the Golden Eagles, led by senior guard Jerel McNeal, who scored 26 points, junior forward Lazar Hayward, who had 23, and senior guard/forward Wesley Matthews, who scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half, went on a decisive 12-2 run and took a 10-point lead with 11:03 remaining. Trailing by as many as 16 points after that, the Hoyas managed to close to an eight-point deficit with 1:03 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0012-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nHowever, Marquette went 6-for-8 from the free-throw line in the final minute \u2013 part of a 30-for-38 (78.9 percent) free-throw effort for the Golden Eagles during the game, compared to 8-for-13 (61.5 percent) for the Hoyas \u2013 to close out a 94-82 victory and drop Georgetown to 12-8 for the season and 3-6 in the conference, despite 19 points from Chris Wright, 13 from Greg Monroe, and 12 from Austin Freeman to go along with Summers\u2032 performance. Plunging from No. 12 to No. 25 in the AP Poll after the loss to Seton Hall, Georgetown dropped out of the Top 25 entirely after losing to Marquette, not to return until the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nAfter enduring their longest losing streak since 2005, the Hoyas staggered back to the Verizon Center to beat Rutgers in a game in which Jessie Sapp came out of his month-and-a-half-long slump to score 11 points, while Greg Monroe contributed 10 and Georgetown preserved a home winning streak against the Scarlet Knights that dated back to January 2000. But an overtime home loss to Cincinnati ensued despite 13 points, six rebounds, and five steals by Greg Monroe and 10 points from Austin Freeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nGeorgetown traveled to the Carrier Dome a week later for a rematch with No. 22 Syracuse, which had lost five of its last seven games. The Orange led 33-32 at halftime but scored the first nine points after the intermission and pulled ahead to 66-50 with 8:11 left in the second half before the Hoyas rallied to tie the game at 83-83 at the end of regulation. In overtime, the Hoyas pulled ahead 89-88 with 2:13 remaining, but Syracuse then scored a three-pointer and two free throws to take a 93-89 lead and ultimately prevailed, 98-94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0013-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nBefore fouling out in overtime, Chris Wright scored 25 points, while Austin Freeman had 19 points, DaJuan Summers added 17, and Greg Monroe had a double-double (16 points and 11 rebounds). Sophomore guard/forward Nikita Mescheriakov started at guard in this game \u2013 and for the rest of the season \u2013 in place of the slumping Jessie Sapp, who was relegated to the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nLosers of seven of their last eight games, the Hoyas had an easy win at South Florida, with Chris Wright scoring 17 points, Jessie Sapp adding 10, and Greg Monroe getting another double-double (12 points and 10 rebounds), before three straight games against ranked opponents. The first two \u2013 a rematch with No. 11 Marquette and a meeting with No. 6 Louisville \u2013 were at the Verizon Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nAgainst Marquette, on a day when Georgetown celebrated the 25th anniversary of its 1984 national championship, the Hoyas shot 51 percent from the field, with Chris Wright scoring 17 points, Austin Freeman 16, and Greg Monroe 13, while DaJuan Summers, the team's leading scorer for the season, scored 12 before fouling out with 2:47 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0014-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nWith both teams shooting 60 percent from the field during the game's first 12 minutes, Marquette pulled out to a six-point lead and later to a seven-point lead, but each time the Hoyas closed the gap, and Georgetown twice led by three points in the half's final three minutes before the teams went into the locker room at halftime with the game tied 44-44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0014-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nIn the second half, however, the Golden Eagles committed only one turnover, allowed Georgetown only one three-pointer, and gave up only two offensive rebounds, and Marquette took the lead for good with 7:58 to play on the way to a 78-72 victory. Two days later against Louisville, Georgetown forced the veteran Cardinals to commit 16 turnovers, but Louisville opened by shooting 9-for-9 from the field \u2013 not missing for the first 10:59 of the game, by which time the Cardinals led 26-13 \u2013 and hit its first seven three-pointers, not missing one until the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0014-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nAfter their 9-for-9 start, the Cardinals shot only 15-for-35 (42.9 percent) the rest of the game, but they nonetheless led 41-24 with three minutes to play in the first half and 41-31 at halftime, and in the second half they forced Georgetown to commit 14 turnovers and held the Hoyas to only 31 percent shooting from the field to preserve a 76-58 victory. Although Chris Wright scored 12 points and Greg Monroe 10 during the game, the Hoyas never got closer than eight points during the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nSix weeks earlier, Georgetown had been ranked No. 9 in the country, but the Louisville loss gave them their ninth defeat in 11 games and dropped them to 12th place in the 16-team Big East. Their demanding schedule continued with a visit to No. 12 Villanova on February 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nBoth teams had strong defensive efforts, but Georgetown's defense was the better of the two: The Hoyas held the Wildcats to season lows in points (54), field goals (15), and shooting percentage from the field (33.3), as well as to 3-for-16 (18.8 percent) three-point shooting, and forced Villanova to commit a season-high 20 turnovers. For its part, Villanova forced Georgetown into a season-high 25 turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0015-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe game stayed close until Georgetown finally pulled ahead over a 6:52 stretch late in the first half and early in the second during which the Hoyas made nine straight field goals and took a 40-32 lead with 17:21 left to play. Villanova closed to a two-point deficit three times, the last time at 52-50 with 5:02 remaining. Then both teams slumped on offense, with Villanova failing to score a field goal on eight straight possessions and committing three turnovers and Georgetown missing five straight shots from the field and committing two turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0015-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe Wildcats closed to 52-51 on a free throw by sophomore guard Corey Stokes with 1:15 left to play, but Chris Wright scored on a layup and two free throws to give Georgetown a decisive 56-51 lead with 10 seconds remaining. DaJuan Summers scored 16 points, Wright had 13, and sophomore guard/forward Nikita Mescheriakov, starting in place of Jessie Sapp, contributed a career-high 11 points as Georgetown upset Villanova 56-54, the Hoyas' fifth straight win over the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nGeorgetown finished its regular season with an overtime loss at St. John's \u2013 the first overtime game in the 91 meetings between the schools \u2013 in which the Hoyas blew a 45-30 lead, breaking a five-game Hoya winning streak against the Red Storm, and a low-scoring win at the Verizon Center against DePaul that dealt the Blue Demons their 18th straight defeat and gave them a winless Big East season. Greg Monroe had 18 points against St. John's, while DaJuan Summers scored 10 points against St. John's and 15 in the DePaul game. Austin Freeman sat out the St. John's game with a hip injury, but started the DePaul game and scored two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Regular season, Conference schedule\nThe Hoyas finished the regular season with a record of 16-13 overall and 7-11 in the Big East, tied with Seton Hall for 11th place. It was their first losing record in the conference since the 2003-04 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 97], "content_span": [98, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Big East Tournament\nSeeded 12th in the 2009 Big East Tournament, Georgetown needed to win the tournament championship in order to make the 2009 NCAA Tournament. In the first round, the Hoyas faced the No. 13 seed, St. John's, which had not won a Big East Tournament game since 2003 and had only qualified for the tournament once in the previous five years. St. John's led 30-28 at halftime and extended its lead to 46-37 in the second half before the Hoyas went on a 12-0 run to take the lead, 49-46, with 6:05 left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Big East Tournament\nThe Red Storm took back the lead for good at 53-52 with 3:42 remaining, shooting 6-for-7 from the free-throw line the rest of the way \u2013 part of a 24-for-29 (82.8 percent) St. John's free-throw-shooting effort \u2013 to secure a 64-59 win and advance to the next round. Chris Wright scored 14 points and Greg Monroe 13, but the Hoyas exited the tournament in the first round for the first time since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, National Invitation Tournament\nWith a 16-14 record, Georgetown missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2004-05 season and accepted an invitation to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament, its first NIT appearance since 2005. Seeded sixth in one of the NIT's four regions, the Hoyas faced the region's No. 3 seed, Baylor, in the first round on Baylor's home court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, National Invitation Tournament\nThe Hoyas shot 16-for-21 (76.2 percent) from the field in the first half to take a 44-34 lead at halftime, but the Bears opened the second half with a 13-2 run that gave them a 47-46 lead with 16:24 left to play. Georgetown retook the lead and stretched it to as many as five points, but Baylor junior guard Tweety Carter hit a three-pointer with 4:29 to play that gave the Bears the lead for good at 70-67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0019-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, National Invitation Tournament\nThe Bears were clinging to a 72-69 lead with 11 seconds left when Chris Wright missed a three-pointer and Baylor sophomore guard LaceDarius Dunn grabbed the rebound, took a foul, and made two free throws to give Baylor a 74-69 advantage. DaJuan Summers sank a three-pointer with four seconds remaining to close to 74-72, and, after Carter missed the front half of a one-and-one, attempted his final shot as a Hoya, a long-distance heave that missed. Baylor won a postseason game for the first time since 1950, and Georgetown's disappointing season ended with a 16-15 record and the Hoyas exiting the NIT in the first round for the first time since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Wrap-up\nFor the season, DaJuan Summers led the Hoyas in scoring, shooting 47.4 percent from the field and finishing with 13.6 points per game, while Greg Monroe finished the year with the team's highest field goal percentage (57.2 percent) and averaged 12.7 points per game. Chris Wright and Austin Freeman both shot 48.2 percent, with Wright averaging 12.5 points per game and Freeman 11.4 points. Jessie Sapp slumped during the season, shooting only 34.7 percent from the field and averaging only 6.5 points per game. Freeman missed one game, while the rest of them appeared in all 31 games during the season. Monroe was selected as the Big East Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Wrap-up\nSapp graduated in 2009, completing a 135-game collegiate career in which he had started 92 times, averaging 7.1 points per game on 41.6 percent shooting from the field. Reserve forward Bryon Jansen also graduated. Summers announced in March that he would leave the team, choosing to forego his senior year of college to enter the 2009 National Basketball Association draft; the Detroit Pistons selected him as the 35th pick overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Wrap-up\nSophomore reserve guard/forward Omar Wattad announced in April that he would not return to Georgetown for his junior year, and decided at the beginning of May to transfer to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Wattad became the eighth Hoya in four seasons to leave Georgetown before his college eligibility expired, the others being Summers, Jeff Green, who also entered the NBA draft after his junior year, and Vernon Macklin, Jeremiah Rivers, Octavius Spann, Marc Egerson, and Josh Thornton, all of whom transferred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Wrap-up\nThe 2008-2009 Hoyas were a relatively young and inexperienced team with only one scholarship senior that played in a conference that boasted as many as seven ranked teams, and they had 12 games against ranked opponents during the season, winning only four of them. Georgetown fell precipitously from the Top Ten early in January to a 16-15 record by the end of the season, with losses in 12 of their final 16 games and first-round exits from both the Big East Tournament and the NIT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200395-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap, Wrap-up\nAfter the Hoyas defeated DePaul in the last game of the regular season and reporters asked Blue Demons head coach Jerry Wainwright about his thoughts on why the 2008-2009 Georgetown team had fallen so far so fast, he replied that the Hoyas \"started with a bang and, I think, youth caught up with them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200396-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team played basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. In 2007-08, they went 11-10 (4-4 ACC). Georgia Institute of Technology's basketball program is one of the most popular and successful college basketball programs in the nation. The Yellow Jackets have been to 2 NCAA Final Fours and have won 3 ACC Championships in the past 25 years. The program is most well known for its famous alumni, such as Chris Bosh, Stephon Marbury, Kenny Anderson, John Salley, Mark Price, and Jarrett Jack. Bobby Cremins built the Georgia Tech basketball program from the basement up and passed the torch to current head coach Paul Hewitt. Hewitt's teams feed off pressure defense and fast-paced transition offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200397-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgian Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Georgian Cup (also known as the David Kipiani Cup) was the sixty-fifth season overall and nineteenth since independence of the Georgian annual football tournament. The competition began on 30 August 2008 and ended with the Final held on 30 May 2009. The defending champions are Zestafoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200397-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgian Cup, Round of 32\nThe first legs were played on 1 August and the second legs were played on 4 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200397-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgian Cup, Round of 16\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as three teams that finished first, second and third in last year's Umaglesi Liga: Dinamo Tbilisi, WIT Georgia and Zestafoni. The first legs were played on August 30 and 31 and the second legs were played on September 16 and 17, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200397-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgian Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe matches were played on 12 November (first legs) and 26 November 2008 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200397-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Georgian Cup, Semifinals\nThe matches were played on 14 April (first legs) and 29 April 2009 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200398-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gillingham F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the seventy-seventh season in which football club Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League, and the fifty-ninth since the club's return to the League in 1950. Gillingham finished the season in fifth place in Football League Two, gaining promotion to League One through play-off victories over Rochdale (over two legs) and Shrewsbury Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200398-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gillingham F.C. season\nThe club also reached the third round of the FA Cup, before being defeated by Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200398-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gillingham F.C. season, Football League\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200398-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gillingham F.C. season, FA Cup\nAs a League Two club, Gillingham entered the FA Cup at the first round stage. Bury were defeated by a second-half Andy Barcham goal at Gigg Lane, earning Gillingham a second round tie against Stockport County of League One. The first game ended goalless at the Priestfield Stadium, before the Gills came from behind to win 2\u20131 at Edgeley Park. Premier League side Aston Villa proved too strong for Gillingham in the third round, eventually winning 2\u20131 in a televised fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200398-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gillingham F.C. season, Squad statistics\nGillingham used a total of 28 players during the course of the season, although none played in all 55 competitive matches. John Nutter made the most appearances during the season, with Gillingham's 4\u20134 draw with Aldershot Town being the only game he did not take part in (he was an unused substitute). Simeon Jackson finished as the club's top goalscorer, finding the net on 21 occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season\nThe 2008-09 season saw Glasgow Warriors compete in the competitions: the Magners Celtic League and the European Champions Cup, the Heineken Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Team, Squad\nProps Ed Kalman Moray Low Kevin Tkachuk Justin Va'a Jon Welsh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Team, Squad\nLocks Tim Barker Richie Gray Alastair Kellock Opeta Palepoi Dan Turner", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Team, Squad\nLoose Forwards John Barclay Johnnie Beattie Kelly Brown James Eddie Donnie Macfadyen Steve Swindall Richie Vernon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Team, Squad\nBack Three Thom Evans Lome Fa'atau Hefin O'Hare Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda N\u00fa\u00f1ez Piossek Bernardo Stortoni Colin Shaw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Team, Squad, Back up players\nOther players used by Glasgow Warriors over the course of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Player statistics\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Glasgow have used 36 different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and points scored by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Pre-season and friendlies, Match 1\nCastres: Replacements: Glasgow Warriors: Colin Shaw; Lome Fa'atau, Hefin O'Hare, Daryl Gibson, Chris Kinloch (Edinburgh Accies); Colin Gregor, Sam Pinder;Justin Va'a, Eric Milligan, Ed Kalman, Al Kellock [Capt], Opeta Palepoi, Dan Turner, Calum Forrester, Richie VernonReplacements (all used): Kevin Tkachuk, Pat MacArthur (Ayr), Jon Welsh, Greg Francis (Glasgow Hawks), Johnnie Beattie, Mark McMillan,Ruaridh Jackson, Andrew Henderson, Max Evans, David Whiteford (Melrose)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Pre-season and friendlies, Match 2\nBeziers: Replacements Glasgow Warriors: Colin Shaw; Thom Evans, Hefin O'Hare, Andy Henderson, Chris Kinloch; Colin Gregor, Mark McMillan; Kevin Tkachuk, Dougie Hall, Moray Low, Opeta Palepoi, Alastair Kellock (Captain), Dan Turner, Calum Forrester, Richie VernonReplacements (all used): Eric Milligan, Pat Macarthur, Jon Welsh, Justin Va'a, Johnnie Beattie, Kelly Brown, Sam Pinder, Ruaridh Jackson, Max Evans, Lome Fa'atau, David Whiteford", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Pre-season and friendlies, Match 2\nWinning both matches against the French opposition meant that Glasgow Warriors won the 2008 XV Challenge Vacquerin trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Pre-season and friendlies, Match 3\nGlasgow Warriors: R Jackson; L Fa'atau, M Evans, A Henderson, T Evans; D Parks, M McMillan; E Kalman, D Hall, M Low, O Palepoi, D Turner, K Brown, R Vernon, J BarclayReplacements: A Kellock for Palepoi 25mins, J Beattie for Vernon 40, E Milligan for Hall, C Gregor for McMillan, both 52, G Strain for Kalman 58, D Gibson for Henderson, C Forrester for Brown, R Gray for Turner, H O'Hare for Fa'atau, McMillan for Parks, all 64, Vernon for Barclay 71, Kalman for Low 75Bristol: L Arscott; T Arscott, J Fatialofa, K Maggs, A Elliot; A Jarvis, G Beveridge; A Clarke, D Blaney, J Hobson, R Winters, R Sidoli, A Blowers, D Ward-Smith, J El-AbdReplacements: N Budgett for Winters, M Sambucetti for Sidol, R Pennycook for Blowers, all 63, V Lilo for Fatialofa 65", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Pre-season and friendlies, Match 4\nGloucester: O Morgan; I Balshaw, M Tindall (capt), A Allen, L Vainikolo, R Lamb, G Cooper; N Wood, A Titterrell, C Nieto, W James, A Brown, P Buxton, L Narraway, Andy HazellReplacements: O Azam, D Young, M Bortolami, A Strokosch, R Lawson, W Walker, M Watkins, J Simpson-DanielGlasgow Warriors: Kevin Tkachuk, Dougie Hall, Moray Low, Alastair Kellock, Dan Turner, Kelly Brown, John Barclay, Richie Vernon,Mark McMillan, Dan Parks, Thom Evans, Graeme Morrison, Max Evans, Lome Fa'atau, Bernardo StortoniReplacements: Eric Milligan, Justin Va'a, Ed Kalman, Tim Barker, Andrew Henderson, Ruaridh Jackson, Steve Swindall, Calum Forrester,Colin Gregor, Hefin O'Hare", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Magners Celtic League, League Table\nUnder the standard bonus point system, points are awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Magners Celtic League, Results\nThe all-Welsh fixtures were played mid-week to allow their teams to compete in the Anglo-Welsh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitions, Magners Celtic League, Results\nEdinburgh Rugby won the 1872 Cup with an aggregate score of 59 - 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitive debuts this season\nA player's nationality shown is taken from the nationality at the highest honour for the national side obtained; or if never capped internationally their place of birth. Senior caps take precedence over junior caps or place of birth; junior caps take precedence over place of birth. A player's nationality at debut may be different from the nationality shown. Combination sides like the British and Irish Lions or Pacific Islanders are not national sides, or nationalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitive debuts this season\nPlayers in BOLD font have been capped by their senior international XV side as nationality shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitive debuts this season\nPlayers in Italic font have capped either by their international 7s side; or by the international XV 'A' side as nationality shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitive debuts this season\nPlayers in normal font have not been capped at senior level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200399-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Glasgow Warriors season, Competitive debuts this season\nA position in parentheses indicates that the player debuted as a substitute. A player may have made a prior debut for Glasgow Warriors in a non-competitive match, 'A' match or 7s match; these matches are not listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200400-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Golden State Warriors season\nThe 2008\u201309 Golden State Warriors season was the 63rd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 47th in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200401-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gozo First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Gozo First Division, also known as the ONVOL First Division due to sponsorship reasons, was the 61st season of the Gozitan First Division, which saw Sannat Lions declared champions for the first time in 19 years. The league started on 17 September 2008 with a match between Sannat Lions and SK Victoria Wanderers where the Victoria-based side won 3\u20130, with Ige Adesina being the first scorer of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200401-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gozo First Division, Results, Matches 1\u201312\nTeams play each other twice, once assigned as home and once away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200401-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Gozo First Division, Relegation play-off\nA play-off match took place between the sixth-placed team in this division, Ker\u010bem Ajax, and the second-placed team from the Second Division, Xag\u0127ra United, for a place in the 2009\u201310 GFL First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final\nThe 2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was the senior and junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2008\u201309 season. It was the culminating competition of the 2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition, and the 2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, a junior-level international competition. The junior and senior finals were hosted together for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final\nSkaters had earned points towards qualifying for the senior Grand Prix Final at the 2008 Skate America, the 2008 Skate Canada International, the 2008 Cup of China, the 2008 Troph\u00e9e Eric Bompard, the 2008 Cup of Russia, and the 2008 NHK Trophy. Skaters had earned points towards qualifying for the junior Grand Prix Final at each of the eight Junior Grand Prix events. The six highest ranking skaters/teams from the Grand Prix series and the eight highest ranking skaters/teams from the Junior Grand Prix met at the Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final\nHosted by the Korea Skating Union, the Grand Prix Final was held in Goyang, South Korea from December 10 to 14, 2008. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final\nUnlike the other events in both series, there was no compulsory dance portion of the competition. Ice dancers were ranked in the original dance starting order in reverse order of their qualification to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Qualifiers, Senior-level qualifiers\nThe following skaters qualified for the Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200402-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Qualifiers, Junior-level qualifiers\nThe following skaters qualified for the 2008\u201309 Junior Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200403-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Basket League\nThe 2008\u201309 Greek Basket League season was the 69th season of the Greek Basket League, the highest tier professional basketball league in Greece. The 182-game regular season (26 games for each of the 14 teams) began on Saturday, October 4, 2008, and ended on Sunday, May 10, 2009. The playoffs ended on June 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200403-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Basket League, Regular season, Standings\nPts=Points, Pld=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, D=Points difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200403-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Basket League, Playoffs\nThis is the outlook for the 2009 \u03911 playoffs. Teams in bold advance to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200404-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Football Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Greek Football Cup was the 67th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition started on 30 August 2008 with the First Round and concluded on 2 May 2009 with the Final, held at Olympic Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200404-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Football Cup\nOlympiacos claimed that season's Greek Cup with a 15\u201314 victory on penalties over AEK Athens after a 4\u20134 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200404-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greek Football Cup, Final\nThe 65th Greek Cup Final was played at Olympic Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200405-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greenock Morton F.C. season\nSeason 2008\u201309 saw Greenock Morton compete in their second consecutive season in the First Division. They finished sixth in the league, a rise from the previous season's avoidance of the relegation play-off by one goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200405-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Greenock Morton F.C. season, Squad (that played for first team)\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Grimsby Town's 5th season in League Two. The club were still managed by Alan Buckley until September, when he was dismissed after poor pre-season and poor start to the club's League campaign. Mike Newell was given the job on a permanent basis after assistant manager Stuart Watkiss briefly took control of first-team affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Matches, Pre-season and friendlies\nThe Mariners struggled to gel in pre-season, and it became clear the club would struggle in the league. Manager Alan Buckley included utilised his first team squad in the games against Corby, Oldham and Gainsborough, while a weakened side took a 5\u20131 drubbing by Eastwood Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Matches, Lincolnshire Cup\nA late strike from Peter Bore gave a youth dominated Grimsby side the win against Lincoln City in the semi finals, only to see another youthful side get be well beaten, in the next round by Scunthorpe United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, League table\nBrentford made a return to League One as champions, the second club to win the fourth tier three times since Doncaster Rovers. Exeter won their second successive promotion, and on the final day of the season managed to pip Wycombe Wanderers for the runners-up spot. Wycombe themselves managed the final automatic promotion spot by virtue of a single goal over Bury. The play-offs were won by Gillingham, who made an immediate return to League One after the previous season's relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, League table\nSeveral teams suffered heavy points deductions during the season. Rotherham were docked 17 points at the start of the season and Darlington 10 points later on. Without these penalties they would have both qualified for the play-offs, but instead managed only mid table. Bournemouth also suffered a 17-point deduction pre-season, and halfway through it looked to be enough to cost them their League status; however, a fightback under new manager Eddie Howe saw them climb to safety and secure survival with a game to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, League table\nLuton suffered the heaviest deduction however, and the loss of 30 points proved too much for them to survive. They suffered their third successive relegation and dropped out of the league, making them only the third English team to suffer three successive relegations, and the first to drop from the second tier to the Conference in successive years. The other relegated team was Chester City, who were statistically the worst team in the division and returned to the Conference after only five years. Grimsby would also have suffered relegation, if not for Luton's points deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Squad overview\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200406-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Squad overview, Most frequent starting line-up\nMost frequent starting line-up uses the team's most used formation: 4-4-2. The players used are those who have played the most games in each respective position, not necessarily who have played most games out of all the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200407-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guam Men's Soccer League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 19:51, 2 January 2020 (expand templates per Fb team TfD outcome and Fb competition TfD outcome and Fb cl TfD outcome and Fb rbr TfD outcome). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200408-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guatemalan Liga Nacional\nThe league season of the Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol de Guatemala is divided into two tournaments, the Apertura, which is played from August to December, and the Clausura which is played from January to May. The first six clubs in the standings at the end of each competition participate in the playoffs (a two-leg knock-out phase) to determine the champion: the first and second place teams qualify directly to the semi-finals, while the other two have to play in the quarter-finals. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments participate in the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200408-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guatemalan Liga Nacional, Torneo Apertura, Results\nColors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200408-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guatemalan Liga Nacional, Torneo Apertura, Apertura Tournament Champion\nComunicaciones as tournament champion has qualified to the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200408-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guatemalan Liga Nacional, Torneo Clausura, Results\nColors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200408-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guatemalan Liga Nacional, Torneo Clausura, Clausura Tournament Champion\nJalapa as tournament champion has qualified to the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, the Guildford Flames participated in the semi-professional English Premier Ice Hockey League. It was the 17th year of Ice Hockey played by the Guildford Flames and the second season under Paul Dixon as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season\nDuring the summer Dixon worked to improve the defensive line by shipping out Dominic Hopkins and Ben Johnson, replacing them with 17-year-old Steven Lee who had already played two seasons with Elite League side Hull, and bringing toughness to the team in the form of Mark Williams from Romford. Other departures included fringe player Ben Duggan who was replaced by Matt Hepburn from the juniors. The main talking point over the summer was the departure of long time top goal scorer Jozef Kohut, leaving the team with what many believed was a weak offence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season\nAfter an indifferent start to the season with 3 wins and 3 losses, it was announced on 9 October that the Flames would travel to Slovakia and take part in an exhibition against Extraliga side Poprad in a game opened by the Queen during her state visit to the country. After a poor run of results in November and a multiple game ban for import Vaclav Zavoral, the decision was taken to sign Czech Martin Bouz. A surprise departure was the main feature of January with Mark Williams leaving to pursue work commitments and to play closer to home with the Romford Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season, End of Season Awards\nThe traditional End of Season Awards dinner was held on Monday 30 March 2009. The following awards were given out:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season, End of Season Awards\nThe GIHSC (Guildford Ice Hockey Supporters Club) Voted the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200409-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Guildford Flames season, End of Season Awards\nSupporters British Player of the year \u2013 #8 Rob Lamey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200410-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HEBA Greek All Star Game\nThe 2008\u201309 HEBA Greek All Star Game marked the 17th HEBA Greek All Star Game of the HEBA A1 Division. The game was held on March 15, 2009, at Xanthi Arena in Xanthi, Greece. The Greek All Stars beat The Rest of the World All Stars by a score of 127-93. Ioannis Bourousis was named the MVP of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200410-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HEBA Greek All Star Game, Slam Dunk Nail Guns Contest\nWill Daniels won the slam dunk contest and broke the backboard with one of his dunks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200410-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HEBA Greek All Star Game, Hopes Greek All Star Game\nThe Greek Hopes All Star Game is played between Greek pro players that are ages 21 and under and come from the north and the south regions of the country. The game marked the 7th Hopes All Star game. The game was held on March 14, 2009, at Xanthi Arena in Xanthi, Greece. The North beat The South by a score of 65-53. Kostas Papanikolaou was named the MVP of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200410-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HEBA Greek All Star Game, Hopes Triple Shootout Contest\nDimitris Karadolamis won the Hopes ages 22 and under 3 point shootout contest and advanced to the senior 3 point competition, which he also won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200411-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HNK Hajduk Split season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 98th season in Hajduk Split\u2019s history and their eighteenth in the Prva HNL. Their 5th place finish in the 2007\u201308 season meant it was their 18th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200411-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HNK Hajduk Split season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200411-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HNK Hajduk Split season, Player seasonal records\nCompetitive matches only. Updated to games played 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200412-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HNK Rijeka season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 63rd season in Rijeka's history. It was their 18th season in the Prva HNL and 35th successive top tier season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200412-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HNK Rijeka season, Matches, Squad statistics\nCompetitive matches only. Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season\nThe 2008\u201309 HV71 season saw HV71's attempt to defend their Swedish Championship title and win the regular season for a second consecutive season. It was the 25th season in the Swedish elite league Elitserien for the club. The club ended fourth after the regular season and managed to go to the finals but was beaten by F\u00e4rjestads BK who won the Swedish Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season\nHV71 started the season in the beginning of August playing in the Nordic Trophy, finishing in fifth place, and continued to play in an exhibition game against Malm\u00f6 Redhawks. HV71 opened the Elitserien regular season against Fr\u00f6lunda HC on September 15, winning the game 6-2. During the first 16 regular season games HV71 never scored the first goal in any of the matches. After the end of the regular season, HV71 ended as the fourth ranked team in the Elitserien regular season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season\nDuring the season, HV71 played in the inaugural season of the Champions Hockey League. The first group stage match was played in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping on October 8 against the Swiss team SC Bern. HV71 won the game with a score of 6-2. The group stage matches were played in October to beginning of December 2008. HV71 finished second in group B and did not qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nApril 28: Defenceman Per Gustafsson and winger Johan Lindstr\u00f6m re-signed with HV71. Both agreed to a one-year extension. Defenceman Lance Ward and centre Jari Kauppila left for play in Germany and Finland respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nMay 5: Centre Yared Hagos signed a one-year contract with HV71 as their first new signing for the season 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nMay 8: Defenceman Johan \u00c5kerman left and signed with the Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslav.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nMay 9: HV71 signed defenceman Nicholas Angell to a one-year contract. Due to Swedish tax laws Angell will join the club in October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nMay 19: HV71 signed youth players Henrik Eriksson, Simon \u00d6nerud, David Ullstr\u00f6m and youth goaltender Christoffer Bengtsberg to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nJune 19: HV71 signed right winger Kim Staal to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nJune 21: Left winger Mattias Tedenby drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nJuly 1: Wingers Per Ledin and Andreas J\u00e4mtin used their NHL out-clauses and signed with the Colorado Avalanche and New York Rangers, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nJuly 8: HV71 signed winger Teemu Laine to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Off-season\nJuly 22: HV71 re-signed winger David Fredriksson to a one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Pre-season\nHV71 began the pre-season playing in the Swedish-Finnish tournament Nordic Trophy, a total of nine games plus two playoff games, from August 7 to September 6, 2008. HV71 ended the tournament as the fifth placed team after defeating F\u00e4rjestads BK in the last playoff game. Before the regular Elitserien season started HV71 played against the HockeyAllsvenskan team Malm\u00f6 Redhawks in Malm\u00f6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Standings\ny - clinched semi-final spot for championship, x - clinched semi-final spot for 5th place,  z - play for 9th place", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Pre-season, Nordic Trophy, Playoffs\nHV71 ended the 2008 Nordic Trophy regular round as the eight seed. The played in the semi-final for the fifth place game against K\u00e4rp\u00e4t. With a win over the Finnish team, HV71 played and won against F\u00e4rjestads BK and clinched a final Nordic Trophy ranking as the fifth placed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Regular season, Standings\nx \u2013 clinched playoff spot; y \u2013 clinched regular season league title; e \u2013 eliminated from playoff contention; r \u2013 play in relegation series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Regular season, Game log\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime win (2 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime loss (1 point)\u00a0\u00a0Tie (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Playoffs\nHV71 ended the 2008\u201309 regular season as the fourth placed team and was paired with the last playoff team, the eighth seed, Timr\u00e5 IK, after the 1st through 3rd seeded teams picked their opponents for the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTW = Overtime Wins; OTL = Overtime Losses GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Champions Hockey League\nHV71 played in group B in the 2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League. The group's matches were played between October 8 and December 3, 2008. HV71 finished on second place and did not qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Champions Hockey League, Group B standings\nx - clinched playoff spot, e - eliminated from playoff contention", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Champions Hockey League, Game log\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (3 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime win (2 point)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime loss (1 point)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200413-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HV71 season, Transactions\n1 Left HV71 after 38 games in season 2008\u201309. 2 Contracted in late January for the remainder of season 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200414-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamburger SV season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 German football season, Hamburger SV competed in the Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200414-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamburger SV season, Season summary\nHamburg finished fifth, eight points off first. They also made it to the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal and the UEFA Cup, but were beaten by Werder Bremen in both competitions, on penalties and away goals respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200414-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamburger SV season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200414-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamburger SV season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200414-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamburger SV season, Competitions, UEFA Cup, Semi-finals\nWerder Bremen 3\u20133 Hamburg on aggregate. Werder Bremen won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200415-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamilton Academical F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 122nd season of competitive football by Hamilton Academical and the first back in the top-flight of Scottish football following promotion from the Scottish Football League at the end of the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200415-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamilton Academical F.C. season, Competitions, Scottish Cup\nHamilton Academical entered the Scottish Cup at the fourth round where they faced Ross County on 10 January 2009. After a 1\u20130 win courtesy of a goal from defender Chris Swailes, the club progressed to the quarter-finals and were drawn against Rangers at Ibrox. On 8 March 2009, the club were eliminated from the competition by eventual champion Rangers, following to a 5\u20131 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200415-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hamilton Academical F.C. season, Competitions, Scottish League Cup\nThe Accies entered the Scottish League Cup at the second round and were again knocked out in the same stage and by the same opponents as the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200416-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hartlepool United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Hartlepool United's 100th year in existence and their second consecutive season in League One. Along with competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200416-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hartlepool United F.C. season, Players, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200417-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-09 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represented Harvard University. Led by Katey Stone, the Crimson went on a 12-game winning streak versus ECAC Hockey opponents. The Crimson would win the ECAC regular-season conference title for the second straight year. In addition, the Crimson would win the Ivy League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200417-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season, Player stats\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; GW = Game Winning Goals; PPL = Power Play Goals; SHG = Short Handed Goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200418-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hazfi Cup\nThe Hazfi Cup 2008\u201309 is the 22nd staging of Iran's football knockout competition. Esteghlal is the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200418-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hazfi Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 112th season of competitive football by Heart of Midlothian, and their 26th consecutive season in the top level of Scottish football, competing in the Scottish Premier League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview\nHearts began the campaign with a new manager, Csaba L\u00e1szl\u00f3, at the helm. In Laszlo's first game in charge Hearts drew 1\u20131 with Northern Irish side Glentoran (losing 6\u20135 on penalties.) Two days later Hearts travelled to Dunfermline where they lost 1\u20130. On the same day Hearts set out on their 10-day pre-season tour of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nThe club began the season with a home win against Motherwell and had a good run in the early stages of the campaign, climbing as high as second in the table in late September. The good start looked under threat when it was revealed that players wages had not been paid, although the problem was blamed on a \"technical hitch\" with wages to be paid on Friday 26 September. However, in April 2009 the club was able to announce a \u00a36\u00a0million reduction in their debt level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nAfter a run of poor results in October, the club set off on a run of five league wins in a row starting with a 1\u20130 away win over St Mirren and culminating in a 2\u20131 home win over Rangers that left them third in the table. However Hearts' strike force had only managed to score 2 goals in 19 games and was looking ineffective. After a 1\u20131 draw at Celtic Park, there followed a draw at home against Dundee United, a defeat at Pittodrie and a goalless draw against Hibernian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nHearts boosted their chances of a third-place finish and qualification for the Europa League with a 2\u20131 win over 5th-placed Aberdeen, Christian Nade cancelled out Darren Mackie's opener on the stroke of half time before Andy Driver scored the winner in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nOn 28 February Hearts beat fellow 3rd place hopefuls, Dundee Utd 1\u20130 at Tannadice with Michael Stewart's second half strike. This moved them 5 points clear in 3rd place, following which Hearts then defeated Motherwell 2\u20131 at Tynecastle with a last minute goal from Ruben Palazuelos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nHearts visited Easter Road on 14 March and lost 1\u20130 through Steven Fletcher's goal. Hearts then took themselves to Ibrox where they found themselves 2\u20130 down at half time but a spirited second half changed the course of the match with Christos Karipidis and Ruben Palazuelos both netting to make it 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nHearts then followed their success with a terrific 3\u20131 over Kilmarnock at Tynecastle. Hearts lost an early goal from Danny Invincible but a Calum Elliot brace and a Bruno Aguiar strike made Hearts comfortable winners, securing a top six finish, which they failed to achieve the previous season, the only time in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, League campaign\nAfter success against Kilmarnock, Hearts faced Celtic in the second last game before the split. Hearts lost a goal inside the 1st minute from Venegoor of Hessilink but equalised before half time from an outstanding freekick from Bruno Aguiar, gaining Hearts another point from the Old Firm. This left only an away game at Falkirk before the league table split. Despite a 2\u20130 loss to Rangers and a 1\u20130 loss to Hibs, Hearts beat Dundee United 3\u20130 to finish in third place in Csaba Lazlo's debut season. Their final game, a 0\u20130 draw with Celtic, ensured that the Glasgow club missed out on the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, Domestic cups\nHearts entered the Scottish League Cup at the second round and were given a tough game by First Division side Airdrie United, being defeated on penalties after a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview, Domestic cups\nThe club entered the Scottish Cup in the Fourth Round where they faced Edinburgh derby rivals Hibernian at Easter Road. Hearts won the game 2\u20130 with goals from Christian Nad\u00e9 and Gary Glen to set up a Fifth Round tie with Falkirk. They were then eliminated by Falkirk following a 1\u20130 home defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Transfers\nLazslo's first signing came on 20 July 2008 when he signed Ugandan international, David Obua. On 11 August 2008, Mike Tullberg signed a one-year loan deal with Hearts, becoming Laszlo's second signing, but his career in Edinburgh was set back by recurring injury problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200419-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Transfers\nDuring the January transfer window the club lost Christophe Berra to Wolverhampton Wanderers in a deal worth around \u00a32.5\u00a0million. Robbie Neilson was handed the captain's armband following Berra's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Heineken Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Heineken Cup, the annual rugby union European club competition for clubs from the top six nations in European rugby. It started in October 2008 and ended on 23 May 2009 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. Irish side Leinster became the champions, defeating Leicester Tigers 19\u201316 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Teams\nSeven French teams competed, as a French team, Toulouse, progressed further in the previous year's tournament than any English or Italian team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Teams\nFour Welsh teams competed, as Italy forfeited its place in the Italo-Celtic playoff and a Welsh team were the highest-placed team in the previous year's Celtic league not to qualify otherwise. Other nations had their usual number of participants: England six, Ireland three, Italy two and Scotland two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Seeding\nThe seeding system for participating teams changed from previous editions of the Heineken Cup. Previously, each participating nation would seed one of their teams and these six teams would be drawn in different groups at the group stage. Starting with the 2008\u201309 edition, the 24 competing teams were ranked based on past Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup performance, with each group receiving one team from each quartile, or Tier. The requirement to have only one team per country in each group however, still applied (with the exception of the inclusion of the seventh French team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Seeding\nThe brackets show each team's European Rugby Club Ranking before the start of the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Pool stage\nThe draw for the pool stages took place on 17 June 2008 in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200420-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, Knockout stage\nThe draw for the quarter-finals took place on 27 January at Murrayfield Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200421-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup pool stage\nThe pool stage of the 2008\u201309 Heineken Cup began on 10 October 2008, with the final match played on 25 January 2009. This was the first year for which qualified teams were seeded for the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200421-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup pool stage, Ranking system\nThe 24 teams were ranked according to previous progress in the Heineken Cup, with teams from the same tier and same country being placed in separate pools. The brackets show each team's ERC Ranking before the start of the 2008-2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200421-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup pool stage, Ranking system\nThe draw for the pool stage took place on 17 June 2008 in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200421-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup pool stage, Pool stage\nThe draw for the pool stages took place on 17 June 2008 in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200421-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Heineken Cup pool stage, Seeding and runners-up\nThe winners of each of the six pools are seeded 1 to 6 first by points, then tries scored, and finally score difference. The runners-up are similarly sorted, and the best two are seeded seven and eight and progress to the quarter-finals alongside the six winners. The top four seeds are given home matches in the quarter-finals, with seed 1 playing seed 8, seed 2 playing seed 7 etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200422-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hellenic Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Hellenic Football League season was the 56th in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200422-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division\nPremier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200422-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hellenic Football League, Division One East\nDivision One East featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200422-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hellenic Football League, Division One West\nDivision One West featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200423-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hereford United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u20132009 season was Hereford United's 28th season in the Football League and they competed in League One, the third tier of English football. Hereford's previous season at this level was the 1977\u201378 season when they finished 23rd \u2013 despite having won the same division just two years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200423-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hereford United F.C. season\nHereford reached League One on the back of two promotions in three seasons, having won the Conference play-offs in 2005\u201306, and finished third in League Two in 2007\u201308. Graham Turner was voted League Two Manager of the Year by the League Managers Association for the latter achievement and entered his 14th season at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200423-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hereford United F.C. season\nHereford struggled in League One, and after the first 15 matches they were bottom with 9 points. For the vast majority of the season the Bulls were in the relegation zone and were relegated on 18 April after a sixth consecutive defeat \u2013 their worst form of the season. Hereford did manage to achieve the double over both Cheltenham Town and Carlisle United. Their two other notable results were a 5\u20130 home win over Oldham Athletic, and a 2\u20130 home win over Leeds United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200423-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hereford United F.C. season\nThe top goalscorer of the season is Steve Guinan with 15 goals, all scored in the league. Guinan is the club's longest serving player with 68 goals in 176 appearances. In a cumulative four and a half season spell, he has featured for the club in the Football League, Conference, Play-offs, FA Cup, Football League Cup, Football League Trophy and FA Trophy during his three spells with the club \u2013 having been signed twice and loaned once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200423-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hereford United F.C. season\nGraham Turner stepped down as manager following confirmation of relegation and appointed John Trewick, first team coach for the last 5 seasons, as the new manager for the remaining two matches of the season and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season of Hertha BSC began on 17 July 2008 with a UEFA Cup first round qualifying march against Nistru Otaci from Moldova and ended on 23 May 2009, the last matchday of the Bundesliga, with a match against Karlsruher SC. Hertha were eliminated in the second round of the DFB Pokal, and the group phase the UEFA Cup. They finished fourth in the Bundesliga, qualifying for the UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200424-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200425-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hessenliga\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Hessenliga was the first season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system after the introduction of the 3. Fu\u00dfball-Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200425-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hessenliga\nSC Waldgirmes, champions of the Hessenliga, did not meet the licensing criteria for the Fu\u00dfball-Regionalliga. In their place, the Bavarian team FC Bayern Alzenau were promoted to the 2009\u201310 Regionalliga S\u00fcd. SV Buchonia Flieden, Borussia Fulda, KSV Hessen Kassel II and FSC Lohfelden were relegated to their respective Verbandsligen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200425-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hessenliga\n1. FC Schwalmstadt and SVA Bad Hersfeld from the Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord, VfB Marburg from the Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte and FSV Frankfurt II from the Verbandsliga Hessen-S\u00fcd were promoted to the 2009\u201310 Hessenliga. Joining them in the Hessenliga next season are Viktoria Aschaffenburg, having been relegated from the Regionalliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season\nSeason 2008\u201309 for Hibernian was their tenth consecutive season of play in the Scottish Premier League. The SPL season began on 9 August 2008 with a 1\u20130 defeat at Kilmarnock. The team were eliminated from each cup competition at the first hurdle, due to defeats by IF Elfsborg in the last Intertoto Cup, Greenock Morton in the Scottish League Cup and Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts in the Scottish Cup. The team was inconsistent in the league, and only squeezed into the top six by a single point ahead of Motherwell. This led to the resignation of manager Mixu Paatelainen at the end of the season. One bright spot for the club was the performance of the under\u201319 team, which won the Scottish league & cup double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Pre-season\nHibs manager Mixu Paatelainen announced during May 2008 that the Hibs players would only have four weeks off after the end of the 2007\u201308 season, giving them two weeks to prepare for the first Intertoto Cup game. Hibs entered the last Intertoto Cup competition at the second round stage. They were drawn to play IF Elfsborg, who defeated Hibs 4\u20130 on aggregate, 2\u20130 at both Easter Road and the Bor\u00e5s Arena. Hibs lost a glamour friendly 6\u20130 against Barcelona at Murrayfield Stadium on 24 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Pre-season\nHibs then also lost a friendly to Third Division club Cowdenbeath. This prompted media speculation that Mixu Paatelainen would resign from his position as manager, which was denied. Hibs then suffered another heavy defeat, 3\u20130 to First Division club Clyde, before finally scoring their first goal of the season in a 3\u20132 defeat to Premier League club Middlesbrough. Hibs completed their programme of friendlies with a 1\u20130 defeat against Wigan Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, League season\nHaving suffered through a very poor pre-season, Hibs were under pressure to get off to a good start in the Scottish Premier League, but they lost their first game 1\u20130 at Kilmarnock. The team then bounced back with an entertaining 3\u20132 win at Easter Road against Falkirk, but drew with Inverness Caledonian Thistle and lost 1\u20130 at home to Motherwell. The Scotland on Sunday reported after the latter result that Hibs' \"lack of quality\" was the reason for their poor results. Hibs bounced back to record back to back wins over Dundee United (2\u20131) and Hamiton (1\u20130). However, in their next game, Hibs lost 3\u20130 at home to Rangers. The team then travelled to Pittodrie to face Aberdeen where the Hibees won 2\u20131 with two goals from Riordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, League season\nAn international break followed as Scotland drew 0\u20130 with Norway. The next game back was the first Edinburgh derby of the season, played at Easter Road. Steven Fletcher gave Hibs an early lead and it looked as though they would go on to score more. However, the game went on to be a tight affair and Hearts equalised from a Bruno Aguiar free-kick. The game finished 1\u20131 after both teams missed chance after chance to take the bragging rights of Edinburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, League season\nThe draw in the derby started a run of six games without a win for Hibs, including defeats by Celtic (4\u20132), Inverness (2\u20131) and Dundee United (2\u20130). In the last game of the run, Hibs came from 2\u20130 to draw 2\u20132 with Aberdeen. The winless run was ended emphatically when Hibs won 4\u20131 at Motherwell. Hibs then built on that win by drawing at Falkirk and beating Celtic and Hamilton Academical at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, League season\nAfter that, however, Hibs went on another very poor run of results, winning only one win of their next nine league matches. Put together with the early exit from the Scottish Cup, this run of form increased the pressure on manager Mixu Paatelainen. This pressure was eased somewhat by league wins against Hamilton and Hearts, which was a first Edinburgh derby win for Paatelainen as Hibs manager. Despite Hibs failing to win any of their last four games before the split, Motherwell's 2\u20130 defeat by St Mirren meant that Hibs squeezed into the top six by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, League season\nA home defeat by Dundee United in the first game after the split effectively ended Hibs' chances of qualifying for the Europa League. The team then enjoyed some unexpectedly good results, winning the last derby of the season at Tynecastle, and holding both halves of the Old Firm to draws at Easter Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish League Cup\nHaving failed to qualify for European competition in the previous season, Hibs entered the Scottish League Cup in the second round. They were drawn at home to First Division club Morton, but suffered a shock 4\u20133 defeat after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish League Cup\nTwo decisions by referee Iain Brines during the second period of extra time were perceived to be wrong by Mixu Paatelainen. The first decision was to award Morton a penalty kick for handball by Dean Shiels, which led to their third goal. The second decision was to award a direct free kick against Chris Hogg, which led to the fourth and winning Morton goal. The incident involving Hogg caused him to suffer from headaches, which eventually forced Hogg to stop playing for nearly a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish League Cup\nPaatelainen threw a towel to the ground in disgust at the referee's decisions, which prompted Brines to send the Hibs manager to the stands. The SFA subsequently banned Paatelainen from the technical area for four SPL matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nHibs were drawn at home to Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup. Hearts won the game 2\u20130 to extend Hibs' drought in the competition another year. Steven Fletcher was sent off by referee Craig Thomson for a lunging tackle on Hearts captain Christophe Berra during the first half while the match was still goalless. Hibs manager Mixu Paatelainen was critical of the referee's decision, and stated his belief that Hibs were the better side until the sending off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers\nThere was expected to be something of a clear-out of players during the 2008 summer transfer window because manager Mixu Paatelainen stated that he wanted to reduce the size of the first team squad from 32 players to around 25 players. Paatelainen began this process by releasing four players who had been out on loan during the 2007\u201308 season. He also released left-back Abderraouf Zarabi, who had only been signed a few months previously. Key midfielder Guillaume Beuzelin signed for Coventry City under freedom of contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers\nRight-back David van Zanten signed for Hibs, having made a pre-contract agreement to sign when his contract with St Mirren expired. Fabi\u00e1n Yantorno was given access to Hibs' medical facilities with a view to him signing when he recovered from a long-term injury sustained whilst playing for Gretna, and he signed for Hibs in August. Former Nantes youth player Steven Thicot and former Chelsea player Joe Keenan were taken on trial and signed on in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers\nHibs then trimmed their squad on the final day of the summer transfer window by releasing Martin Canning, Brian Kerr and Zibi Malkowski, but they brought in Dunfermline central defender Souleymane Bamba. Mixu Paatelainen was quoted as expecting a \"busy day\", which was highlighted when Derek Riordan completed a much-anticipated return from Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers\nOn 13 November, Hibs announced that they had signed Jonatan Johansson to a pre-contract agreement. Johansson was included in the squad from the start of January 2009, and made his debut in the Edinburgh derby played on 3 January. Former Dundee United goalkeeper Grzegorz Szamotulski signed a deal with Hibs until the end of the season. Thierry Gathuessi and Filipe Morais, who had both been signed by John Collins in the summer of 2007 but fell out of favour under Mixu Paatelainen, were released on 8 January and both signed deals with Inverness Caledonian Thistle until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200426-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hibernian F.C. season, Player stats\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Hibs used 30 different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200427-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Highland Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Highland Football League was won by Cove Rangers. Fort William finished bottom with the lowest points tally in the history of the league (1 point).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200428-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HockeyAllsvenskan season\nThe 2008\u201309 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the fourth season of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the second level of ice hockey in Sweden. 16 teams participated in the league, and the top four qualified for the Kvalserien, with the opportunity to be promoted to the Elitserien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200428-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 HockeyAllsvenskan season\nDue to the league reducing the number of teams from 16 to 14 teams for the 2009\u201310 season, the worst team (Mariestad) was relegated to Division 1 while the other two worst teams, ranked 14\u201315 (Huddinge and Nybro) had to play in the relegation round for survival in HockeyAllsvenskan. In the relegation round, only the best team (\u00d6rebro) qualified for the following HockeyAllsvenskan season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional\nThe 2017\u201318 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 43rd Honduran Liga Nacional edition since its establishment in 1965. For this season, the system format remained the same as the previous season. The tournament ran from 26 July 2008 to 24 May 2009. The season was divided into two halves (Apertura and Clausura), each crowning one champion. C.D. Marath\u00f3n and Club Deportivo Olimpia won one tournament each and qualified to the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League. Additionally, Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a also qualified with the best non-champion record as Belizean teams failed the CONCACAF stadium requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, 2008\u201309 teams\nA total of 10 teams competed in the tournament, including 9 sides from the 2007\u201308 season plus C.D. Real Juventud, promoted from the 2007\u201308 Liga de Ascenso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nIn the 2007\u201308 season, C.D. Platense suffered great adversity avoiding relegation in their last match. Their manager Nah\u00fam Espinoza is the mastermind for which the 'dogfish' have changed their form of play and have transformed into a dangerous team aiming for great things. A key benchmarks for Platense is midfielder Carlos Mej\u00eda, with his talent will try to carry the team on a good path and hopefully a fight for the title. Platense has not fallen behind in signing new players for this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nNew arrivals include Edilson Pereira, who played previously with Deportes Savio, Willian Veloso, who has shown in preseason matches to be a prominent goalscorer, and Evandro Ferreira, with his speed will try to unbalance the opposing defenses. To add to this is the experience of Walter L\u00f3pez, who will be in charge of creating plays and give dynamism to the goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nDespite C.D. Victoria's manager Javier Padilla insisting the main objective is save their position, the fans think the opposite because they know they have a good lineup to aspire for more. The fans think of nothing more than to lift another trophy, considering that Victoria maintains the fundamental parts of the team from the previous tournaments. They have reinforced the squad with talented and nationally experienced players like Jos\u00e9 Pineda, Juan C\u00e1rcamo, and Carlos Discua. They also signed the Uruguayans Richard P\u00e9rez and Mauricio Webber and have promoted from their reserves forwards Erick Ayala and V\u00edctor Maldonado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nWith their current squad, Victoria can reach at the least the playoff round to satisfy their fans, who expected something more dignified in the previous tournament but finished in sixth place despite the strong investment from their patroness. The team had a good preseason and aims to bring honor to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nRecently promoted C.D. Real Juventud have prepared for one goal: to maintain the position in the league. Since their establishment on 30 May 30 1965, the team never had the opportunity to be able to ascend and play in the Liga Nacional but they now find the opportunity to assemble their own history. Their manager Emilio Umanzor have stated in addition to staying in the league, the team will try to classify as one of the best four in the league and not playing a relegation battle like the majority of the sporting people and press have insisted. Real Juventud arrives with great expectations for the Apertura tournament. Real Juventud will fall upon the success of their Liga de Ascenso campaign and aim for decent position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nA team with the squad and budget of Deportes Savio obviously won't compete for the title. This does not stop them from causing harm to other clubs with greater aspirations. They will be playing their home matches on an unfamiliar field: Estadio Roberto Mart\u00ednez \u00c1vila in Siguatepeque, since their stadium is being remodeled. A key loss for the team is the Brazilian Edilson Pereira who signed with Platense. On the other hand, important arrivals include goalie Hugo Caballero, the midfielders Marco Mej\u00eda and Elmer Mar\u00edn, and forward \u00c9dgar N\u00fa\u00f1ez. Deportes Savio will seek to grab points early on to avoid suffering like the previous tournament and with that seek, maybe not the playoff rounds, but their permanency in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Scouting reports\nC.D.S. Vida will participate in the tournament with a modest team filled with prospects that intend to shine in the league. The directive administration will wage at their inferior categories that they intend to remain in the league. The challenges their manager Alberto Romero faces are difficult because he must erase the frustration from the fans and support the team's president character, who at the moment of saying things says it first and then thinks. The team president and manager have clashed before with Romero threatening to quit the team due to some unilateral decision but soon was resolved. Vida had a good preseason with many matches in the United States and Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura, Squads\nThe 2008\u201309 Clausura was the second part of the 2008\u201309 season of the Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol de Honduras, the first division national football league in Honduras. The season started on 10 January 2009 and finished on 24 May 2009. It followed the 2008\u201309 Apertura season. The winner will compete in the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Clausura, Regular season, Standings\nOn 2 May, Honduras was awarded a 3rd spot in the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League due to lack of adequate stadia in Belize. The 3rd spot would go to the short tournament runner-up with the highest overall season points total. Because of Real C.D. Espana's overall season point total of 68 being highest in the league, they clinch a spot in the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League. Already a runner-up from Apertura 2008, it is guaranteed that the Clausura 2009 runner-up would not have a higher overall season point total than Real Espana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200429-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional, Clausura, Postseason, Final\nMarathon is classified as HON1 for the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League, due to their tiebreaker over Olimpia (higher goal differential since both teams had a total of 66 points). Olimpia gets HON2. Real Espana gets HON3, being the only runner-up to short tournaments in the 2008\u20132009 Honduran National Football League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200430-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso\nThe 2008\u201309 Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso was the 42nd season of the Second level in Honduran football and the 7th under the name Liga Nacional de Ascenso. Under the management of Javier Padilla, Atl\u00e9tico Gualala F.C. won the tournament after defeating C.D. Necaxa in the promotion series and obtained promotion to the 2009\u201310 Honduran Liga Nacional. They later however, merged with C.D. Real Juventud, who had been relegated from the top level, and play in 2009\u201310 as Real Juventud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200431-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup\n2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup (officially named Sheffield United F.A. Cup due to sponsorship from Chengdu Blades F.C. Ltd, Chinese: \u932b\u83f2\u806f\u8db3\u7e3d\u76c3) was the 35th season of Hong Kong FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200431-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup\nNT Realty Wofoo Tai Po won the title, and qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup as TSW Pegasus won the 2008\u201309 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield but was not eligible to compete in Asian competitions as not a full member of the Hong Kong Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200431-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup, Scorers\nThe scorers in the 2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200432-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League\nThe 2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League season, known as Coolpoint Ventilation First Division (Chinese: \u5feb\u610f\u7a7a\u8abf\u7532\u7d44\u806f\u8cfd) for sponsorship reasons, was the 97th since its establishment in 1908. It began on 6 September 2008 and ended on 10 May 2009. The unveiling match was contested by the defending champions South China, and the runners-up of last season Citizen. They made a 1\u20131 draw, scored by Sandro of Citizen and Detinho of South China, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200432-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League\nThree new teams joined the league as competition members, including Fourway, TSW Pegasus and Xiangxue Eisiti. The league consisted of 13 teams, the most since the 1979\u201380 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200432-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League, Stadia\nMong Kok Stadium and Hong Kong Stadium are the primary venue for the majority of the games. Some other stadiums also will be used, including Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground, Tai Po Sports Ground and Yuen Long Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200432-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League, Stadia\nNT Realty Wofoo Tai Po has successfully applied to use Tai Po Sports Ground for their 12 home games. TSW Pegasus also applied to use Yuen Long Stadium as their home ground, but the stadium's facilities and grass turf conditions could not be modified in time for this season. However, South China AA agreed to play away at Yuen Long Stadium on 5 October 2008. HKFA chairman Leung Hung Tak later claimed that three home games will be played at Yuen Long Stadium for TSW Pegasus this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200432-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League, Stadia\nXiangxue Eisiti had suggested using a stadium in Shenzhen for their home games. But due to the poor quality of the facility, the HKFA deemed it unsuitable for the First Division. Its home games will now be staged either at Mong Kok Stadium or Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200433-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong League Cup\nHong Kong League Cup 2008\u201309 is the 9th Hong Kong League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200433-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong League Cup\nAll teams of Hong Kong First Division League 2008\u201309 will play in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200433-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong League Cup, Scorers\nThe scorers in the 2008\u201309 Hong Kong League Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200434-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong Second Division League\n2008\u201309 Hong Kong Second Division League is the 95th season of a football league in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Second Division League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200435-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield\nHong Kong Senior Challenge Shield 2008\u201309, officially named as Eisiti Senior Shield (Chinese: \u4e0a\u6e05\u98f2\u9ad8\u7d1a\u7d44\u9280\u724c) due to the competition's sponsorship by Xiangxue Pharmaceutical, was the 107th season of one of the Asian oldest football knockout competition, Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield. It was a knockout competition for all the teams of Hong Kong First Division League. The winner would qualify for AFC Cup 2010, if it was a full member of The Hong Kong Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200435-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield\nThe final match was held in Hong Kong Stadium on 21 December 2008. The tournament was won by TSW Pegasus, who beat Convoy Sun Hei 3\u20130 in the final, thanks to two goals from Guy Junior Ondoua and one from Beto. Since TSW Pegasus was not a full member of the Hong Kong Football Association, the AFC Cup 2010 qualification of it was not confirmed before the final of 2008\u201309 Hong Kong FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200435-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield, Scorers\nThe scorers in the 2008\u201309 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200436-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hong Kong Third Division League\n2008\u201309 Hong Kong Third Division League is the 7th season since the establishment of Hong Kong Third Division \"District\" League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200437-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hoofdklasse\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Hoofdklasse was competed in six leagues: three Saturday leagues, and three Sunday leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200438-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Horizon League men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Horizon League men's basketball season marks the 29th season of Horizon League basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200438-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Horizon League men's basketball season, Conference awards & honors, Weekly awards\nHL Players of the WeekThroughout the conference season, the HL offices name a player of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200438-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Horizon League men's basketball season, Conference awards & honors, Tournament honors\nCedric Jackson of Cleveland State was named the tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 93], "content_span": [94, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200439-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Houston Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Houston Cougars men's basketball team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 2008\u201309 season. It was their 64th year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Tom Penders, who was serving in his 5th year in that position. The team played its home games at Hofheinz Pavilion on-campus in Houston, Texas. The Cougars played in the first game of the NCAA Division I season in the 2K Sports College Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200439-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Houston Cougars men's basketball team, Pre-season\nThe 2007\u201308 Cougars finished with a 24\u201310 record, and were invited to compete in the inaugural College Basketball Invitational (CBI). Houston defeated Nevada and Valparaiso, but was defeated in the semifinals by Conference USA rival Tulsa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200440-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Houston Cougars women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Houston Cougars women's basketball team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 2008-09 season. It was their 65th year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Joe Curl, who served in his 11th year in that position. The team played its home games at Hofheinz Pavilion on-campus in Houston, Texas. The team finished the season with 19 wins. The Cougars were 12-2 at home, 6-6 on the road, and 1-2 in neutral site games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200440-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Houston Cougars women's basketball team, Schedule, Conference USA tournament\nMarch 6:Despite Courtney Taylor's team-high 19 points and nine rebounds, the University of Houston women's basketball team could not overcome a sluggish first half Friday, falling to UCF 79-66 in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Championship at Fogelman Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200441-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Houston Rockets season\nThe 2008\u201309 Houston Rockets season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite a season-ending knee injury to Tracy McGrady, the Rockets breezed past the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round, but could not defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round. Dikembe Mutombo, who entered his 18th and final season, was injured in Game 2 of the first round and announced his retirement, ending his 18-year NBA career. Besides losing Mutombo, Yao Ming missed most of the second round due to a foot injury that required off-season surgery. Before the season, the team acquired Ron Artest (now Metta World Peace), who was known for his violent temper. Following the season, Artest signed as a free agent with the Lakers. The Rockets would not return to the postseason until 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nHuddersfield Town's 2008\u201309 campaign was the club's centenary season. The season did not end in promotion and if things had been left alone, relegation may have been a possibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nAfter the disastrous start under Stan Ternent, Gerry Murphy led a recovery which continued under the new management team of Lee Clark, Terry McDermott, Derek Fazackerley and Steve Black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nThey eventually finished in 9th place, but the season was noted mainly for it being the first time in 78 years that Town had completed the double over local rivals Leeds United, as well as for the retirement of local legend Andy Booth, who made 457 appearances over 2 spells at the club, scoring 150 goals, putting him in the top 5 of both appearances and goals in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 6 May 2008, following the mixed season, new manager Stan Ternent released nine players from the club. They were Chris Brandon, Danny Schofield (who had already announced his plans to leave), Frank Sinclair, Matty Young, Aaron Hardy, Danny Racchi, Lucas Akins, Mitchell Bailey and Luke Malcher. Matt Glennon, Joe Skarz and James Berrett were offered new deals, while captain Rob Page had signed a pre-contract agreement with League 2 side Chesterfield, much to the disappointment of Ternent, who hadn't had chance to offer him a new contract at the Galpharm Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nThe following day, Danny Schofield agreed a pre-contract agreement with fellow League 1 side Yeovil Town. On that same day, Matt Glennon signed a two-year contract with an optional third year and then Joe Skarz put pen to paper on his new three-year contract, the day after that. Recently called-up Ireland U-21 international James Berrett signed his new two-year deal on 13 May. On 30 May, Chris Brandon completed a move to his hometown club Bradford City. On 1 July, Frank Sinclair re-joined ex-Town manager Peter Jackson at Lincoln City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 7 July, Matty Young joined Conference North side Harrogate Town. Aaron Hardy joined him there on 26 July. On 22 July, Lucas Akins made a surprise move to newly promoted Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academical. 6 days later, Danny Racchi joined Bury. Mitchell Bailey joined Conference North side Hyde United on 7 August. On 11 August, central defender David Mirfin joined fellow League 1 side Scunthorpe United in a deal worth \u00a3150,000. Young defender Shane Killock joined Conference North side Harrogate Town on a month's loan on 1 September. He returned to Town on 7 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nHe was loaned out to Oxford United on 2 January 2009. He signed a permanent deal at the Kassam Stadium on 3 February. Sierra Leonean international Malvin Kamara joined Football League Two side Grimsby Town on a month's loan on 24 September. He returned to the Galpharm on 25 October. On 23 October, Tom Clarke moved across West Yorkshire to Bradford City on a month's loan. The loan was extended, but he was recalled by Town on 3 December. On 27 November, Town sent 3 players out on loan just before the end of the transfer deadline window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nMichael Flynn joined League 2 side Darlington and young duo Simon Eastwood and Tom Denton joined Conference National side Woking. Flynn returned to the Terriers on 29 December, Denton returned in January and Eastwood returned following an injury to Matt Glennon. Meanwhile, striker Luke Beckett left the club and joined Conference North side Gainsborough Trinity until the end of the season. Luke Malcher joined Harrogate Town on 11 December. Young striker Daniel Broadbent joined Rushden & Diamonds on loan on 15 January, he returned to the Galpharm on 16 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\n3 days later, he joined Town's new signing, Lee Novak, on loan at Gateshead, before returning on 19 March. On 24 March, he joined Harrogate Town on loan. Ex-captain Jon Worthington joined fellow League 1 side Yeovil Town on 30 January on a month's loan, which was extended, before he returned on 26 March. Keigan Parker joined fellow League 1 side Hartlepool United on loan on 2 March. Tom Denton joined his previous club Wakefield on loan on 6 March. He was joined there by fellow youngster Dan Codman on 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0004-0006", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nStriker Phil Jevons joined League Two side Bury on a month's loan on 23 March. Joe Skarz joined Keigan Parker on loan at Hartlepool United on 26 March, as the loan window closed. David Unsworth, signed by Ternent at the start of the season was released from his contract on 30 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 27 May, Stan Ternent made his first signing as Huddersfield Town manager. He signed Scottish striker Keigan Parker on a free transfer from Championship side Blackpool. On 5 June, Irish international Jim Goodwin joined Town on a 3-year deal from recently relegated Scunthorpe United. On 13 June, Huddersfield were drawn at home to rivals Bradford City in the first round of the League Cup. 3 days later, the new Football League fixtures were announced, Town's first game would be a home tie against recently promoted Stockport County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 2 July, Town signed the ex-Scunthorpe United defender Andy Butler on a 3-year deal. Two days later, Chris Lucketti was brought back to Huddersfield from Sheffield United on a two-year contract, 7 years after leaving the Galpharm Stadium. On 23 July, Ternent made his fifth signing by bringing in Welshman Michael Flynn from Blackpool. Six days later, Gary Roberts joined from Ipswich Town for \u00a3250,000. On 8 August, just one day before the new season began, ex-Everton & West Ham United defender David Unsworth signed from Burnley, becoming Stan Ternent's 7th signing since becoming manager at the Galpharm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nAlso that day, Town were given a bye into the second round of the Football League Trophy. On 15 August, young striker Tom Denton was signed for \u00a360,000 from Wakefield. Stan Ternent signed attacking midfielder Ian Craney for an undisclosed fee from Football League Two side Accrington Stanley on 18 August. The following day, striker Liam Dickinson was signed on loan from Championship side Derby County. That loan was extended by another month on 22 September. He eventually stayed until 17 November, when the 93-day limit expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0005-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nStan Ternent also revealed on 5 September, that Town had failed to capture 3 strikers during the summer. They failed on bid of \u00a3850,000 for Town hero Jon Stead, who joined Ipswich Town in September, a \u00a3400,000 bid for Colchester United's Clive Platt and a \u00a3600,000 bid for Ipswich Town's Alan Lee, who subsequently moved to Championship side Crystal Palace. On 17 October, Town signed Steve Jones on loan from Burnley as cover for Andy Booth, who is out until the New Year with a back injury. He returned to Turf Moor on 26 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0005-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 20 January, Lee Clark made his first signing as manager by signing German left-back Dominik Werling on a free transfer. On 23 January, manager Clark made a double signing with the capture of winger Anthony Pilkington from Stockport County and striker Lionel Ainsworth from Watford. As the transfer deadline closed, Clark made three more signings, Lee Novak from Gateshead, who was then immediately sent back to Gateshead for the rest of the season. Jonathan T\u00e9hou\u00e9 was signed on a free transfer from Turkish side Konyaspor. On 13 February, 11 days after the deal was originally agreed, Polish striker Lukas Jutkiewicz joined Town on loan from Premier League side Everton until the end of the season. Young Liverpool defender Martin Kelly was brought in on loan on 26 March, as the loan window shut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nAfter a disappointing opening to the season with a 1\u20131 draw against Stockport County, Town trounced neighbours Bradford City, on 12 August, 4\u20130 in the first round of the League Cup, with new signing Gary Roberts scoring a brace. Huddersfield were drawn at home to Championship side Sheffield United in the second round. They narrowly lost the tie by 2 goals to 1. Michael Flynn gave Town the lead with a deflected shot after 34 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nBut, 2 goals in the last 10 minutes from the Blades from Darius Henderson and Kyle Naughton sent Town crashing out in the cruelest of fashions. On 6 September, Town were drawn away to League Two side Darlington in the second round of the Football League Trophy North-East section. They lost that match 1\u20130 on 7 October. In the FA Cup 1st round, Town were given a home tie against League Two side Port Vale. That match took place on 8 November and saw Town let a 3\u20131 lead slip to lose 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 4 November, Stan Ternent left the Galpharm Stadium after just over 6 months in charge of the Terriers. To date, that is the shortest reign of any manager, with the exception of John Haselden and all the caretaker managers, in the club's 100-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 15 November, Murphy was in charge of his first league game in his 3rd spell as caretaker manager with a trip to Elland Road to play high-flyers and rivals Leeds United. Despite falling behind to a Robert Snodgrass goal in the 4th minute, Town scored a goal 27 seconds into the second half through Joe Skarz and then in the second minute of added time, Michael Collins scored to give Town a 2\u20131 win, which was also their first win at Elland Road since Boxing Day  1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nOn 10 December, after weeks of speculation, compensation was agreed with Norwich City for their assistant manager Lee Clark to be appointed as manager, with Derek Fazackerley as his new first team coach. They signed the contracts the following day and Clark officially took over on 15 December. The following week, Terry McDermott became the new assistant manager. Clark's first match was a home game against Hereford United on 20 December, which Town won 2\u20130. Clark's initial reign went well, winning 8 out of 9 matches soon after taking over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nHowever, immediately after a 1\u20130 win over local rivals Leeds United once again, scoring in the first half and managing to keep the Whites out of the net under constant pressure, which once again placed them above Leeds in the table, disaster struck and a bad spell resulted in 8 consecutive games without a win, conceding 3 vital last minute goals 3 weeks in succession. The gap between Town and the playoffs widened, and a late bounce back was only enough to place them 9th in the table by the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200442-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Hull City's first ever season in the English top flight and, by extension, the Premier League. Home games were played at the KC Stadium, which has a capacity of 25,404. On Friday 6 June 2008 Hull City announced they had sold out all 20,500 season tickets. Hull City's first ever top-flight fixture was a home game against Fulham, which they won 2\u20131. City finished the season in 17th place in the table, successfully avoiding relegation by the narrow margin of one point over Newcastle United. In the FA Cup, Hull reached the quarterfinals stage for the first time in 38 years, where they were knocked out by Arsenal with a controversial offside goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 705]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Pre-season, Pre-season training\nHull were one of the first Premier League clubs to start pre-season training. Between 4 and 11 July Hull trained in Bormio, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League\nHull's first season in the top tier of English Football in their 104-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nHull's Premier League opener was at home to Fulham. Hull started rather poorly and went behind after eight minutes from a Seol Ki-Hyeon header. Hull's comeback came when Geovanni scored from a shot from outside the box, the goal was Hull's first Premier League goal and Geovanni's first as a Hull player. In the second half Hull scored the winner from substitute Caleb Folan's shot when he slotted the ball into the net from Craig Fagan's low cross. Hull won the game putting them joint top of the league, joint second on goal difference and 3rd on alphabetical order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nHull's second game was against Blackburn Rovers away. The home team scored first when Jason Roberts scored in the 39th minute. Hull came back to get a draw; before halftime Australian Richard Garcia scored with a header from a Craig Fagan cross. There followed a home game against Wigan which turned out to be a heavy 0\u20135 defeat. Sam Ricketts turned a corner from Kevin Kilbane in to his own net after 5 minutes to open the scoring. Antonio Valencia scored after 13 minutes and provided the cross for Amr Zaki to stroke home in the second half. Five minutes later Emile Heskey scored from a poor clearance by Wayne Brown. Nine minutes from time Amr Zaki drove in off the crossbar to inflict the first defeat of the season on Hull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nAn away game at managerless Newcastle United followed. Nicky Butt's foul on P\u00e9ter Halmosi resulted in a penalty which allowed Marlon King to open the scoring for City. He slotted home a second 10 minutes into the second half. Newcastle tried to get back into the match and a Charles N'Zogbia shot rebounded off the post to Xisco who pulled a goal back. As full-time approached, Danny Guthrie was sent off for a foul on Craig Fagan, which broke Fagan's leg and caused him to miss several weeks of football while injured. City secured a deserved 1\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nA home game against Everton followed in which City took the lead from a Dean Marney corner which was headed home by Michael Turner. Early in the second half another Dean Marney corner was turned in by Phil Neville for an own goal. Everton pulled one back when a Tim Cahill shot bounced in off the crossbar. They drew level minutes later when Leon Osman scored from close range to secure a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nA trip to Arsenal provided a test for the City but they withstood the pressure during the first half. Following the restart the home team were soon in front when a Cesc F\u00e0bregas shot found the net after coming off Paul McShane. City responded with a 25-yard (23\u00a0m) shot by Geovanni quickly followed by a Daniel Cousin header from an Andy Dawson corner. Arsenal's William Gallas hit the crossbar and Boaz Myhill saved a late shot from Cesc F\u00e0bregas to give the visitors a 1\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nA further away game at Tottenham Hotspur followed. City raced into the lead with a  30-yard (27\u00a0m) free kick by Geovanni after just nine minutes. Tottenham's Gareth Bale and Jonathan Woodgate hit the post, as did Dean Marney before half time. Neither side managed to score in the second half giving City a 0\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nAfter a break for internationals a home game against West Ham United was next up. City's Marlon King created the first opportunity with a cross to Daniel Cousin who volleyed just passed the post. At the other end Carlton Cole shot straight at Boaz Myhill. Dean Marney came close twice for City before H\u00e9rita Ilunga headed wide, Valon Behrami shot passed the post and Craig Bellamy shot over the crossbar. Missed chances left the game goalless at half time. Soon after the restart a corner by Andy Dawson was headed home by Michael Turner to break the deadlock. Almost immediately Carlton Cole nearly levelled but his shot came off the crossbar. Kamil Zayatte almost had a second for Hull but shot over the bar leaving Hull with a 1\u20130 victory over the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nAn away match at West Bromwich Albion was the next action by the Tigers. Albion opened the stronger, with Ishmael Miller being blocked by Andy Dawson who picked up an injury which saw him being substituted for Sam Ricketts after only 10 minutes. Albion's Borja Valero had a shot that was saved by Boaz Myhill, Jonas Olsson hitting the rebound off the crossbar for Roman Bedn\u00e1\u0159 to miss the second rebound. On a break City gained a corner but Kamil Zayatte headed wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nA Daniel Cousin shot was deflected and Scott Carson scooped the ball off the line to leave the game goalless at half time. Soon after the restart City gained a corner and Kamil Zayatte volleyed home. Albion's Ryan Donk and James Morrison had shots saved before Marlon King put the ball in the area for a diving Geovanni to head in. Minutes later Marlon King was also on the score sheet after slotting in to the corner of the net, leaving it another away victory of 0\u20133 for City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nA mid-week home game against leaders Chelsea followed, with a record crowd at the KC Stadium. Chelsea were soon in the lead when Frank Lampard lobbed in. Both teams missed opportunities the nearest being Daniel Cousin hitting the post for City. Soon after the break indecision in the City defence allowed Nicolas Anelka to run in and slot home. After missing several attempts Florent Malouda finally scored from six-yards from a Ricardo Carvalho cross. City lost 0\u20133 in a match which could easily have been a much heavier defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013December\nThen on 1 November the Tigers travelled to Old Trafford to play Manchester United away from home. The match was gripping, and after 3 minutes United scored only to be brought back to earth by the Tigers free kick headed in by Daniel Cousin. United went on to score a further 3 goals, but after half time the Tigers looked back on track and regained 2 goals in the final few minutes thanks to Bernard Mendy and Giovanni. The final score 4\u20133 to Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, Records\nAppearances Michael Turner \u2013 38(Turner was one of only two outfield players in the Premier League to play every minute of every game)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Premier League, Records\nAttendanceAverage: 24,816Highest: 24,945 vs. Manchester UnitedLowest: 24,282 vs. Wigan Athletic", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Awards\nMichael Turner was once again named as player of the year, as well as players' player of the year, Hull City Official Supporters Club's player of the year, and CITY Magazine player of the year. Ian Ashbee came second and Geovanni came third, with Geovanni's goal against Arsenal being voted goal of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, Kits\nFor the 2008\u201309 season Hull used the most common black and amber stripes as their home kit. They used a flint coloured shirt as their away shirt. As the flint away kit clashed with Newcastle United's black and white home kit, Hull had to borrow white shorts and socks from their opponents. The teams met again in the FA Cup so to avoid a similar incident, Hull wore the previous season's all-white away kit in the replay at St James' Park. The goalkeeper kit was light blue, a similar colour had been used as an away shirt in previous seasons. Hull's kit was produced by Umbro and the home shirt had Karoo printed on the front as the sponsor, as did the goalkeeper's shirt; the away and third shirts however had Kingston Communications as the sponsor on the front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nHull entered the FA Cup at the third round stage and were handed a home tie against Newcastle United. The match took place on 3 January 2009 at the KC Stadium and although both sides had chances, neither were able to break the dead-lock. A replay at St James' Park took place on 14 January 2009. Newcastle had the better of the first-half. After 21 minutes, Nicky Butt headed a free kick onto the crossbar and later, after a clash of Hull defenders, Michael Owen shot high with only Matt Duke to beat. After half-time, Owen had a low shot low turned round the post by Duke, while Charles N'Zogbia had a shot blocked by Zayatte. Cousin broke the dead-lock on 81 minutes by turning in a Garcia cross. Newcastle had opportunities to equalise but failed to find the target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nHull's 0\u20131 win at Newcastle put them in the draw for the fourth round and they were given another home match this time against Football League One team Millwall. The match took place on 24 January 2009 at the KC Stadium. Hull fielded a changed team which saw goalkeeper Tony Warner getting a debut. Turner put Hull in the lead with a header following a Dawson free kick. Millwall failed to make the most of their opportunities and Hull sealed the match with a late strike by Ashbee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nHull entered the fifth round for the first time since 1989 and were given an away tie with local team Sheffield United. The local derby match took place on 14 February 2009 at Bramall Lane. Sheffield were quickly on the score sheet with a header by Greg Halford from a cross by David Cotterill. Hull responded before half time when Kamil Zayatte headed in an Andy Dawson centre. There were opportunities for both sides in the second half but no one was able to break the 1\u20131 dead-lock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nThe fifth round replay took place on 26 February at the KC stadium. Hull took the lead when a header from United defender Kyle Naughton bounced off his own crossbar and crossed the line for an own-goal. United levelled soon after with a Billy Sharp shot. City sealed the match early in the second half when P\u00e9ter Halmosi shot in from a Nick Barmby cross. Hull's 2\u20131 win gave them a place in the last eight for the first time in 38 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nA quarter-final game against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on 17 March 2009 was the prize for getting to this stage in the competition. Hull started the best and after 13 minutes took the lead when a Nick Barmby shot from an Andy Dawson cross was deflected into the Arsenal net. A Geovanni free kick was pushed over by Cesc F\u00e0bregas followed by a Nick Barmby goal being disallowed for offside. Kamil Zayatte also came close with a header before Arsenal started to reply before the break with an Andrey Arshavin shot blocked by Sam Ricketts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, FA Cup, Summary\nFollowing the break Arsenal continued to apply pressure with Abou Diaby heading wide and then Andrei Arshavin being blocked by Sam Ricketts. A Robin van Persie header was blocked on the line by Andy Dawson and Alex Song shot the rebound wide. Following sustained pressure, Hull were pegged back by Robin van Persie after 74 minutes. Hull almost regained the lead from a Geovanni shot which went wide, but Samir Nasri lofted a free-kick into the area which keeper Boaz Myhill failed to hold and William Gallas headed home the winner from what looked like an offside position. Hull could not respond and lost the match 1\u20132 on the night with Arsenal going on to play Chelsea in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200443-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hull City A.F.C. season, League Cup, Summary\nOn Wednesday 13 August the draw for the League Cup second round was made. Hull were seeded so they couldn't get another Premier League side. Hull City were drawn away to Swansea. The game took place on 27 August. Hull scored first with a Dean Windass goal in the 11th minute. Gorka Pintado equalised for Swansea in the 63rd minute, then he missed a penalty in extra time. The game went to added time. Swansea scored a penalty 14 minutes into added time, taking Hull out of the League Cup in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 75th competitive season. The Hyderabad cricket team is senior men's domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad, India, run by the Hyderabad Cricket Association. They represent the region of Telangana in the state of Andhra Pradesh in domestic competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nKanwaljit Singh replaced Vivek Jaisimha as the Hyderabad coach ahead of the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nLaxman and Ojha got selected to the Rest of India squad for the 2008 Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nArjun Yadav got picked to the India Blue squad while Ojha and Abhinav got picked to the India Green squad for the 2008-09 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, a List-A cricket tournament in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nLaxman, Ojha, Arjun Yadav and Pai got selected to the South Zone squad for the 2008-09 Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India. Ojha later withdrew from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nPai, Ravi Teja, Shoaib Ahmed and Arjun Yadav got selected to the South Zone squad for the 2008-09 Deodhar Trophy, a List-A cricket competition in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads\nThe local franchise, Deccan Chargers signed Suman, Abhinav and Shoaib Ahmed while retained Laxman, Ojha, Ravi Teja, Sarvesh and Arjun Yadav for the 2009 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji Trophy\nThe Hyderabad team, led by V. V. S. Laxman, began their campaign in the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India, with a draw against the Orissa at Cuttack on 3 November 2008. Pragyan Ojha was ruled out due to shoulder injury ahead of the match against the Delhi. Laxman was ruled out due to heal injury ahead of their match against the Mumbai and Arjun Yadav led the team in the absence of Laxman. They finished sixth in Group A of the Super League and failed to qualify for the knockout stage with no wins, three losses and four draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Vijay Hazare Trophy\nThe Hyderabad team, led by Arjun Yadav, began their campaign in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List-A cricket tournament in India, with a win against the Kerala at Visakhapatnam on 15 February 2009. Robert Fernandez's 83 supported by half-century from Sreekumar Nair helped the Kerala post a competitive total of 247 though they lost five wickets in last ten overs but injury to S. Sreesanth and the half-centuries from Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Anoop Pai and Syed Quadri helped the Hyderabad chase the target with four wickets to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Vijay Hazare Trophy\nIn the second match, steady opening partnership between Robin Uthappa and C. M. Gautam and the half-centuries from Manish Pandey and Deepak Chougule helped the Karnataka survive the late collapse off Shoaib Ahmed and post 269 in 50 overs. The Hyderabad started the chase strongly with Tirumalasetti Suman scoring 93 off 86 balls but the seven-wickets between Sunil Joshi and K. P. Appanna in the middle helped the Karnataka defeat the Hyderabad by 50 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Vijay Hazare Trophy\nThe Hyderabad suffered second loss in three matches as the centuries from Subramaniam Badrinath and Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan helped the Tamil Nadu post 342 in 50 overs and the early collapse from the Hyderabad top-order led to a 92-run defeat as Shoaib Ahmed's second five-wicket haul in last two matches went in vain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0008-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Vijay Hazare Trophy\nThe Hyderabad won their second match in this tournament as the collective batting effort from the batsmen with the half-century form Ravi Teja helped the Hyderabad post 261 in 50 overs while the three-wicket hauls from Shoaib Ahmed and Mungala Arjun restricted Goa to 155 and ensure a 105-run win for the Hyderabad. In the final zonal match, the Andhra were troubled by Shoaib Ahmed as his seven-wicket haul helped the Hyderabad bowl out the Andhra for 130 while an unbeaten half-century from Ravi Teja ensured a six-wicket win for the Hyderabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200444-0008-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Hyderabad C.A. season, Vijay Hazare Trophy\nThis win helped the Hyderabad finish inside top-2 in the South Zone to advance to the knockout stage with three wins and two losses. They were eliminated in the quarter-final where lost to the Baroda by seven wickets. The Hyderabad were bowled out for 167 with the help of four-wicket haul from Ikram Zampawala and the three-wicket haul from Swapnil Singh while the half-centuries from Shailesh Solanki, Azhar Bilakhia and Rakesh Solanki helped the Baroda chase the target in 31 overs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200445-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 H\u00e9rcules CF season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the 90th in the H\u00e9rcules CF's existence and the club's fourth consecutive season in the second division of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200445-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 H\u00e9rcules CF season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200446-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I liga\nThe 2008\u201309 I liga was the 61st season of the second tier domestic division in the Polish football league system since its establishment in 1949 and the 1st season of the Polish I liga under its current title (new name). Formerly, the league was known as the II liga (while the current II liga was known as the III liga). The league was operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200446-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I liga\nThe league was contested by 18 teams who competing for promotion to the 2009\u201310 Ekstraklasa. The regular season was played in a round-robin tournament. The champions and runners-up will receive automatic promotion. At the other end, the bottom four teams face automatic demotion to the II liga, while the fate of the 13th and 14th-place finishers will be decided by playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200446-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I liga\nThe season began on 26 July 2008, and concluded on 5 June 2009. After the 19th matchday the league will be on winter break between 16 November 2008 and 13 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200446-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I liga, Changes from last season, Ekstraklasa & I liga\nRelegated from 2007\u201308 Ekstraklasa (former I liga) to I liga (former II liga)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200446-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I liga, Changes from last season, I liga & II liga\nPromoted from 2007\u201308 third tier (former III liga) to I liga (former II liga)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League\nThe I-League 2008\u20132009 season began on 26 September 2008 and finished on 16 April 2009 with a break in December for the Federation Cup and Durand Cup. Most games this season were played on Saturday's and Sunday's to attract larger crowds. After a successful first season for the I League, the second season featured 12 teams from four cities \u2013 again this would be expanded in the 2009\u201310 season to 14 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League\nThe champion in the I-League qualified for the AFC Champions League 2010 qualifying playoffs in 2010, while the bottom two teams were relegated to I-League 2nd Division for the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League, Gallery\nAbhishek Yadav of Mumbai FC and Samir Naik of Dempo SC during I-League match at Fatorda Stadium Goa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League, Gallery\nSayed Rahim Nabi of East Bengal and Daniel of Chirag United SC during at [ [2008\u201309 I-League] at Salt Lake Stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League, Gallery\nI League Daniel of Chirag United SC takes a freekick against Mahindra United at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League, Gallery\nWilton Gomes of Sporting Clube de Goa tackles Lester Fernandes of Vasco SC during I-League 2008-09 match at Fatorda Stadium Goa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200447-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 I-League, Gallery\nBaljit Saini of JCT FC against Dempo SC during I-League 2008-09 at Guru Nanak Stadium Ludhiana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200448-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 IFA Championship (known as the Ladbrokes.com Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the first season of a major overhaul of the league system in Northern Ireland. The 2008\u201309 Championship consisted of one division of 17 clubs, with the clubs having intermediate status. The Championship served as the second tier of Northern Irish football for this season. With no promotion from the IFA Interim Intermediate League this season, from next season the division would be reduced to 14 clubs, with the newly introduced Championship 2 having 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200448-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Championship\nPortadown were the champions, achieving promotion back to the top flight after only one season of absence. Donegal Celtic finished as runners-up but lost out on promotion as they were defeated on the away goals rule by Dungannon Swifts, when the Promotion/Relegation play-off finished 2\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200448-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Championship\nThe bottom 3 clubs (Tobermore United, Dergview and Killymoon Rangers) were relegated to the newly introduced Championship 2 for next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200448-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Championship, Interim Intermediate League\nFrom next season, the IFA Championship would consist of two divisions, Championships 1 and 2. The IFA Interim Intermediate League was introduced as a temporary league for the 2008\u201309 season only, consisting of the former members of the IFA Intermediate League (dissolved in 2008) who did not meet the criteria for the new Championship 2; it consisted of 12 clubs. Members of the Interim League had one year to make improvements in order to gain entry to Championship 2 for next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200448-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Championship, Interim Intermediate League\n10 of the 12 clubs managed to meet the criteria, along with Sport & Leisure Swifts and Knockbreda who both achieved intermediate status, with only Brantwood and Oxford United Stars failing to do so. Harland & Wolff Welders were the champions. There was no promotion from the Interim League which meant that Championship 1 would be reduced to 14 clubs, with Championship 2 having 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership\nThe 2008\u201309 IFA Premiership (known as the JJB Sports Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the first season after a major overhaul of the league system in Northern Ireland, and the 108th season of Irish league football overall. It was scheduled to begin on 9 August 2008. However, the start of the league was delayed by a week due to a referees' strike. The season eventually began on 16 August 2008, and concluded on 2 May 2009. Linfield were the defending champions, but narrowly fell short of retaining the title as rivals Glentoran pipped them by a single point to win their 23rd league title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nThe league was reduced from sixteen to twelve teams as a result of the league system in Northern Ireland being restructured by the IFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFive of last season's sixteen Premier League teams failed to gain a place in the new twelve-team Premiership, and one new team - Bangor - gained entry from the IFA Intermediate League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nOf the five teams who missed out, three - Armagh City, Larne and Limavady United failed to obtain the necessary domestic licence. Portadown obtained a licence, but was controversially excluded because a club official missed a deadline for submitting an application form by several minutes. Finally, Donegal Celtic obtained a licence, but was ranked thirteenth in the entry list, and thus missed out by one place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Results, Matches 1\u201322\nDuring matches 1\u201322 each team played every other team twice (home and away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Results, Matches 23\u201333\nDuring matches 23\u201333 each team played every other team for the third time (either at home, or away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Results, Matches 34\u201338\nDuring matches 34\u201338 each team played every other team in their half of the table once (either at home or away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Promotion/relegation play-off\nThe relegation/promotion system was slightly modified because Bangor, who withdrew from the next IFA Premiership season, eventually finished 11th. It meant that last placed Dungannon Swifts played a two-legged match against Donegal Celtic, runners-up of the 2008\u201309 IFA Championship, for one spot in the 2009\u201310 IFA Premiership. The score was 2\u20132 on aggregate, but Dungannon Swifts secured their spot in the following IFA Premiership season by winning on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200449-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IFA Premiership, Promotion/relegation play-off\n2\u20132 on aggregate. Dungannon Swifts won on away goals rule and remained in the IFA Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200450-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 International Hockey League season was the 18th season of the International Hockey League (Colonial Hockey League before 1997, United Hockey League before 2007), a North American minor professional league. Six teams participated in the regular season and the Fort Wayne Komets won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200451-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IIHF Continental Cup\nThe Continental Cup 2008\u201309 was the 12th edition of the IIHF Continental Cup. The season started on September 19, 2008, and finished on January 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200451-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IIHF Continental Cup\nThe tournament was won by MHC Martin, who led the final group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200451-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IIHF Continental Cup\nThe points system used in this tournament was: the winner in regular time won 3 points, the loser 0 points; in case of a tie, an overtime and a penalty shootout is played, the winner in penalty shootouts or overtime won 2 points and the loser won 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200451-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IIHF Continental Cup, First Group Stage, Group C standings\nHK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs, Keramin Minsk, HDK Stavbar Maribor, Gornyak Rudny, HC Bolzano, Coventry Blaze    \u00a0:  bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200452-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup was the fifth holding of the IIHF European Women Champions Cup (EWCC). Russian team SKIF Nizhny Novgorod of the Russian Women's Hockey League won the tournament for the first time, ending the four-year championship reign of Swedish team AIK Hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series\nThe 2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series was the tenth of an annual IRB Sevens World Series of rugby union sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999\u20132000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series\nSouth Africa clinched the 2008\u201309 World Series, its first Series title. The defending series champions New Zealand finished fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series\nSevens is traditionally played in a two-day tournament format. However, the most famous event, the Hong Kong Sevens, is played over three days, largely because it involves 24 teams instead of the normal 16. Starting in 2008\u201309, the Australia leg (which involves the normal 16 teams) was spread out over a three-day period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Tournaments\nThe series' tournaments are identical to 2007\u20132008 and span the globe:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Tournaments\nThe 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens was not a part of the 2008-09 series. Unlike the 2005 edition held in Hong Kong, the 2009 edition did not replace one of the 2008-09 series events. The World Cup was held in Dubai from March 5\u20137, 2009 and won by Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Core teams\nPrior to the season, the IRB announced the 12 \"core teams\" that would receive guaranteed berths in each event in the 2008\u201309 series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Core teams\nThe one new core team was the USA, which replaced its neighbor Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Points schedule\nThe season championship is determined by points earned in each tournament. For most events, points are awarded on the following schedule:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Points schedule\nPoints are awarded on a different schedule for the Hong Kong Sevens:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Tournament structure\nIn all tournaments except Hong Kong, 16 teams participate. Due to its place as the sports most prestigious annual event, the Hong Kong tournament has 24 teams. In each tournament, the teams are divided into pools of four teams, who play a round-robin within the pool. Points are awarded in each pool on a different schedule from most rugby tournaments\u20133 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head result between the tied teams, followed by difference in points scored during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Tournament structure\nFour trophies are awarded in each tournament, except for Hong Kong. In descending order of prestige, they are the Cup, whose winner is the overall tournament champion, Plate, Bowl and Shield. In Hong Kong, the Shield is not awarded. Each trophy is awarded at the end of a knockout tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200453-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IRB Sevens World Series, Tournament structure\nIn a 16 team tournament, the top two teams in each pool advance to the Cup competition. The four quarterfinal losers drop into the bracket for the Plate. The Bowl is contested by the third-place finishers in each pool, while the Shield is contested by the last-place teams from each pool. In Hong Kong, the six pool winners, plus the two highest-finishing second-place teams, advance to the Cup. The Plate participants are the eight highest-ranked teams remaining, while the lowest eight drop to the Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200454-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISAF Sailing World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 ISAF Sailing World Cup was a series of sailing regattas staged during 2008\u201309 season. The series featured boats which feature at the Olympics and Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating\nThe 2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating was a series of six international invitational competitions in the 2008\u201309 season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. At each event, skaters earned points based on their placements and the top six scoring skaters or teams at the end of the series qualified for the 2008\u201309 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, held in Goyang, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating\nThe Grand Prix series set the stage for the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships, the 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships, as well as each country's national championships. The Grand Prix series began on October 23, 2008 and ended on December 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating\nThe Grand Prix was organized by the International Skating Union. Skaters competed for prize money and for a chance to compete in the Grand Prix Final. The corresponding series for Junior-level skaters was the 2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying\nSkaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2008 were eligible to compete on the senior Grand Prix circuit. The top six skaters from the 2008 World Championships were seeded and were guaranteed two events. Skaters who placed 7th through 12th were also given two events, though they were not considered seeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying\nSkaters/teams who medaled at the 2007\u201308 Junior Grand Prix Final or the 2008 World Junior Championships were guaranteed one event. Skaters who medaled at both the Junior Grand Prix Final and the World Junior Championships were guaranteed only one event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying\nThe host country was allowed to send three skaters/teams of their choosing in each discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying\nThe spots remaining were filled from the top 75 skaters/teams in the 2007\u201308 Season's Best list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points\nAfter the final event, the 2008 NHK Trophy, the six skaters/teams with the most points advanced to the Grand Prix Final. The qualification point system is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points\nThere were seven tie-breakers in cases of a tie in overall points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points\nIf a tie remained, it was considered unbreakable and the tied skaters all qualified for the Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200455-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Prize money\nThe total prize money was $180,000 per event in the series and $272,000 for the Final. All amounts are in U.S. dollars. Pairs and dance teams split the money. The breakdown was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix\nThe 2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the 12th season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2008\u201309 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level skaters. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix\nSkaters earned points towards qualification at each of the eight Junior Grand Prix events. The top eight skaters/teams in the series from each discipline met at the Junior Grand Prix Final. For the first time, the Junior Grand Prix Final was held concurrently with the senior Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Competitions\nThe locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2008\u201309 season, the series was composed of the following events:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Competitions\nFor the first time, the Junior Grand Prix Final was held in conjunction with the Grand Prix Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nSkaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2008 but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit. Unlike the senior ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, skaters for the Junior Grand Prix are entered by their national federations rather than seeded by the ISU. The number of entries allotted to each ISU member federation is determined by their skaters' placements at the previous season's World Junior Figure Skating Championships in each respective discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nFor the 2008\u201309 season, in singles, the five best placed member nations at the 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were allowed to enter two skaters in all eight events. Member nations who placed sixth through tenth were allowed to enter one skater in all eight events. Member nations with a skater who had qualified for the free skate at Junior Worlds were allowed to enter one skater in seven of the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nMember nations who did not qualify for the free skate but placed 25th through 30th in the short program were allowed to enter one skater in six of the events. All other nations were allowed to enter one skater in five of the events. There were provisions for additional entries per member country if another country did not use all of its allotted entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nIn pairs, member nations were allowed to enter up to three teams per event. The host nation was allowed to enter as many pair teams as it wanted. Pairs was contested at four events out of eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nIn ice dance, member nations were allowed to enter one dance team per event. Member nations who placed in the top five at the 2008 World Junior Championships were allowed to enter a second dance team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThe host country was allowed to enter up to three skaters/teams in singles and dance in their event, and there was no limit to the number of pairs teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThe general spots allowance for the 2008\u201309 Junior Grand Prix events was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Qualifying\nAll other member nations had one entry per discipline in five of the eight events in singles, and one entry in all eight events for ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the Junior Grand Prix events in the 2008\u20132009 season was $22,500. Pairs and dance teams split the money. Everything is in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the Junior Grand Prix Final in the 2008\u20132009 season was $105,000. Pairs and dance teams split the money. Everything is in US dollars. The breakdown is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix Final qualifiers\nThe following skaters have qualified for the 2008\u20132009 Junior Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200456-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Medals table\nThe following is the table of total medals earned by each country on the 2008\u20132009 Junior Grand Prix. It can be sorted by country name, number of gold medals, number of silver medals, number of bronze medals, and total medals overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200457-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for short track speed skating. The season began on 18 October 2008 and ended on 15 February 2009. The World Cup was organised by the ISU who also ran world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200458-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2008\u20132009, was a series of  international speed skating competitions which ran the entire season. The season started on 7 November 2008 in Berlin, Germany, and ended on 7 March 2009 in Salt Lake City, United States. In total, nine competition weekends were held at eight different locations, twelve cups were contested (six for men, and six for women), and 84 races took place. The World Cup is organized by the International Skating Union (ISU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200458-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Calendar\nNote: the men's 5000 and 10000 metres were contested as one cup, and the women's 3000 and 5000 metres were contested as one cup, as indicated by the color coding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200458-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, World records, Men\nAt the World Cup stop in Salt Lake City on 6 March 2009, Shani Davis of the United States set a new world record on the men's 1500 metres with a time of 1:41.80. The next day, Davis' countryman Trevor Marsicano first set a new world record on the 1000 metres distance with a time of 1:06.88, after which Davis improved it further, with a time of 1:06.42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200459-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe 100 metres distance for men in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over four races on four occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion involving the distance taking place in Changchun, China, on 6\u20137 December 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200459-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nY\u016bya Oikawa of Japan won the cup, while Yu Fengtong of China came second, and the defending champion, Lee Kang-seok of South Korea, had to settle for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200459-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200460-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1000 metres\nThe 1000 metres distance for men in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 10 races on seven occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200460-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1000 metres\nShani Davis of the United States defended his title from the previous season, while Denny Morrison of Canada repeated his second place, and Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200460-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1000 metres\nOn the last competition weekend of the season, Davis set a new world record of 1:06.42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200461-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe 1500 metres distance for men in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200461-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nShani Davis of the United States defended his title from the previous season, while fellow American Trevor Marsicano came second, and H\u00e5vard B\u00f8kko of Norway came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200461-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nOn the last competition weekend of the season, Davis set a new world record of 1:41.80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200461-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 7 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 72], "content_span": [73, 122]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200462-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 500 metres\nYu Fengtong of China won the cup, while Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan came second, and Tucker Fredricks of the United States came third. Defending champion Jeremy Wotherspoon of Canada suffered an arm injury in race 2 of the first occasion, which stopped him from participating in the rest of the World Cup season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200462-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 500 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200463-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 5000 and 10000 metres\nThe 5000 and 10000 metres distances for men in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup were contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200463-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 5000 and 10000 metres\nSven Kramer of the Netherlands won the cup, while the defending champion, H\u00e5vard B\u00f8kko of Norway, came second, and Bob de Jong of the Netherlands came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200463-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's 5000 and 10000 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 82], "content_span": [83, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200464-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nThe men's team pursuit in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over three races on three occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the last occasion involving the event taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 30 January \u2013 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200464-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nCanada won the cup, while Italy came second, and Japan came third. The defending champions, the Netherlands, ended up in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200464-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Men's team pursuit, Final standings\nStandings as of 1 February 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200465-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe 100 metres distance for women in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over four races on four occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion involving the distance taking place in Changchun, China, on 6\u20137 December 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200465-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nJenny Wolf of Germany successfully defended her title, while Thijsje Oenema of the Netherlands came second, and Xing Aihua of China came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200465-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 73], "content_span": [74, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200466-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1000 metres\nThe 1000 metres distance for women in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 10 races on seven occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200466-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1000 metres\nChristine Nesbitt of Canada won the cup, while fellow Canadian Kristina Groves came second, and Laurine van Riessen of the Netherlands came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200466-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1000 metres\nDefending champion Anni Friesinger of Germany was injured in bicycle accident in the summer of 2008, leading to an operation to her right knee. Having recovered, she made a strong return to the World Cup towards the end of the season, and finished in eighth place after winning the last two races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200466-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1000 metres, Finals standings\nStandings as of 7 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200467-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe 1500 metres distance for women in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200467-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nKristina Groves of Canada successfully defended her title from the previous season, while Daniela Ansch\u00fctz-Thoms of Germany came second, and Christine Nesbitt of Canada, the previous season's runner-up, came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200467-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 74], "content_span": [75, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200468-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 3000 and 5000 metres\nThe 3000 and 5000 metres distances for women in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup were contested over six races on six occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200468-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 3000 and 5000 metres\nMartina S\u00e1bl\u00edkov\u00e1 of the Czech Republic successfully defended her title from the previous season, while Daniela Ansch\u00fctz-Thoms of Germany came second, and Kristina Groves of Canada came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200468-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 3000 and 5000 metres, Final standings\nStandings as of 7 March 2009 (end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 83], "content_span": [84, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200469-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 500 metres\nThe 500 metres distance for women in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 13 races on seven occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6\u20137 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200469-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's 500 metres\nJenny Wolf of Germany successfully defended her title, while Margot Boer of the Netherlands came second. Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea repeated her third place from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 240]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200470-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe women's team pursuit in the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over three races on three occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7\u20139 November 2008, and the last occasion involving the event taking place in Erfurt, Germany, on 30 January \u2013 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200470-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe Czech Republic won the cup, while the United States came second, and the Netherlands came third. The defending champions, Canada, ended up in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 218]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200471-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 1\nThe first competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Sportforum Hohensch\u00f6nhausen in Berlin, Germany, from Friday, 7 November, until Sunday, 9 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200472-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 2\nThe second competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Friday, 14 November, until Sunday, 16 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200473-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 3\nThe third competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held at the Krylatskoye ice rink in Moscow, Russia, from Saturday, 22 November, until Sunday, 23 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200474-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 4\nThe fourth competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a two-day event focusing on the shorter distances, held at the Jilin Provincial Speed Skating Rink in Changchun, China, from Saturday, 6 December, until Sunday, 7 December 2008. It was the first World Cup competition at this rink, which was also used during the 2007 Asian Winter Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200475-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 5\nThe fifth competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a two-day event focusing on the shorter distances, held at the M-Wave arena in Nagano, Japan, from Saturday, 13 December, until Sunday, 14 December 2008. It was the second and last World Cup in Asia of this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200476-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 6\nThe sixth competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a two-day event focusing on the shorter distances, held at the Kometa Ice Rink in Kolomna, Russia, from Saturday, 24 January, until Sunday, 25 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200477-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 7\nThe seventh competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Halle in Erfurt, Germany, from Friday, 30 January, until Sunday, 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200478-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 8\nThe eighth competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a two-day event focusing on allround-events, held in Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands, from Saturday, 14 February, until Sunday, 15 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200478-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 8, Schedule of events\nThe timeschedule of the event is not yet communicated but the distances are already announced:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200479-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 9\nThe ninth and final competition weekend of the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a three-day event with races in all cups except the team pursuits, held at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, United States, from Friday, March 6, until Sunday, March 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200479-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup \u2013 World Cup 9\nAmerican Shani Davis set new world records for the 1000 and 1500 meters distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200480-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU World Standings\nThe 2008\u201309 ISU World Standings, are the World Standings published by the International Skating Union (ISU) during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200480-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU World Standings\nThe 2008\u201309 ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, are taking into account results of the 2006\u201307, 2007\u201308 and 2008\u201309 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200480-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 ISU World Standings, World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, Season-end standings\nThe remainder of this section is a complete list, by discipline, published by the ISU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 106], "content_span": [107, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200481-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IUPUI Jaguars men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 IUPUI Jaguars men's basketball team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball team representing Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200481-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 IUPUI Jaguars men's basketball team\nIUPUI was picked to finish fourth in The Summit League's preseason poll. Oral Roberts was voted to finish first and North Dakota State second. Senior guard Gary Patterson was named to the Preseason All-League Second Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200482-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Icelandic Hockey League season\nThe 2008-09 Icelandic Hockey League season was the 18th season of the Icelandic Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Iceland. Three teams participated in the league, and Skautafelag Reykjavikur won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200483-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), the Vandals were led by first-year head coach Don Verlin and played their home games on campus at Cowan Spectrum in Moscow, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200483-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe Vandals were 16\u201314 overall in the regular season and 9\u20137 in conference play, tied for third in the standings. They met sixth-seed Louisiana Tech in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament in Reno and lost by eight points. Invited to the inaugural edition of the 16-team CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT), Idaho advanced to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200483-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nVerlin was hired in March; he was previously an assistant at Utah State under Stew Morrill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200484-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bruce Weber's sixth season at Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200485-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by second year head coach Tim Jankovich, played their home games at Doug Collins Court at Redbird Arena and were a member of the Missouri Valley Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200485-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe Redbirds finished the season 24\u201310, 11\u20137 in conference play to finish in third place. They were the number three seed for the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. They won their quarterfinal game versus the University of Evansville and semifinal game versus Creighton University but lost their final game versus the University of Northern Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200485-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe Redbirds received an at-large bid to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament and were assigned the number five seed in the San Diego State University regional. They were defeated by Kansas State University in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200486-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. The head coach was Tom Crean. The team played its home games in the Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200486-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Big Ten Network included the team in a two-and-a-half-hour special that featured Midnight Madness events from several Big Ten campuses on October 17, 2008; the Indiana event to kick off the season was called \"Hoosier Hysteria\". The Hoosiers defeated the Northwestern St. Demons on November 14 in Head Coach Tom Crean's opening game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200486-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nIn November 2008, the NCAA imposed a three-year probation on the Indiana men's basketball program and upheld the school's self-imposed sanctions stemming from the actions of former head coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff. School athletic director Rick Greenspan resigned. There was no ban for the program in television, scholarships or post-season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200486-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Schedule and Results\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the worst in the history of Indiana Basketball and finished with the fewest wins (6) since 1915\u201316. Their 1\u201317 conference record was the worst since the conference went to an 18-game schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200487-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Pacers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's 42nd season as a franchise and 33rd season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200487-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Pacers season, Offseason\nOn July 9 the Pacers officially announced they had made two trades, the most notable being the trade of former All Star forward Jermaine O'Neal in exchange for Toronto Raptors players T. J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic, Maceo Baston and Roy Hibbert who was the 17th pick on the 2008 NBA draft. The Raptors also received Nathan Jawai who was the 41st pick in the draft. Also in a trade with the Portland Trail Blazers, the Pacers acquired Jarrett Jack, Josh McRoberts and Brandon Rush who was the 13th pick in the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200487-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indiana Pacers season, Offseason\nThe Pacers traded away Ike Diogu and Jerryd Bayless who was the 11th pick in the draft. With the Pacers missing the playoffs for the last two seasons and reaching just the first round before that, a change was needed in Indianapolis. Having been with the Pacers for the past eight years, O'Neal's tenure was marred by numerous injuries which saw him miss 40 games last season and 31 during the 2005\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200488-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League\nThe 2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League was the first edition of the Indonesia Super League, which replaced the Premier Division as the top-tier football competition in the country. The league is sponsored by Djarum and is officially called Djarum Super Liga Indonesia (SLI) or Djarum Indonesia Super League (ISL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200488-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League\nPersipura Jayapura clinched the title after winning a match 3\u20131 against Persija Jakarta on 17 May 2009. This is their first Indonesia Super League title and second title, counting the Premier Division era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200488-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League, Season statistics, Top goalscorers\nThis is a list of top scorers of the 2008-09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200489-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League U-21\nThe 2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League U-21 season will be the first edition of Indonesia Super League U-21 (ISL U-21), a companion competition Indonesian super league that are intended for footballers under the age of twenty-one years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200489-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League U-21\nDjarum, an Indonesian tobacco company will continue its participation as the competition's main sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200489-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League U-21, Format\nThe competition is divided into three acts consist of two round the group and knockout round. The first round is divided into three groups each containing six clubs, two top teams of each group advanced to the second round. The second half consisted of two groups containing three teams in each group intended, the two best teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. The winner advanced to the final semi-final, while two teams who defeated third-ranked fight. Final winner becomes the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Football Club Internazionale Milano's 100th in existence and 93th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. This was the first season for new Inter manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season, Season overview\nAfter Roberto Mancini's departure, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho became the new coach of Inter. The Portuguese manager won a trophy at his debut, Supercoppa Italiana, defeating Roma on penalties. He planned a 4\u20133\u20133 formation, with the new arrivals Amantino Mancini and Quaresma as wingers beside Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season, Season overview\nAs the 4\u20133\u20133 soon failed, Mourino reviewed his ideas switching in a 4\u20133\u20131\u20132 like the predecessor: Stankovi\u0107 acted as playmaker, behind Ibrahimovi\u0107 and his offensive partner (Adriano, rarely Cruz or Crespo, then Balotelli). The quality of playing is immediately awake, and Inter came on the prints of previous season winning again the Scudetto (fourth in row), 10 points clear Juventus and Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season, Players, Squad information, From youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nPlayers Used: Internazionale has used a total of \u2013 different players in all competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200490-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inter Milan season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total appearances are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200491-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. season\nInverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. in their 15th season in Scottish football competing in the Scottish Premier League, Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup in season 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200492-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented The University of Iowa in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The team was led by head coach Todd Lickliter. The team played their home games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which the team has done since 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200493-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Hawkeyes finished the season with a record of 21\u201311, 13\u20135 in Big Ten, and finished the regular season tied for second place in the Big Ten. They advanced to the semifinals of the Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament where they lost to Ohio State. They received at-large bid of the NCAA Women's Tournament where they lost in the first round, to Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200494-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represents Iowa State University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Greg McDermott, who was in his 3rd season. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa and competed in the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200494-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Cyclones finished 14-18, 4-12 in Big 12 play to finish 11th the regular season conference standings. They lost to Texas A&M in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200495-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones women's basketball team represented Iowa State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. A member of the Big 12 Conference in the North Division, Iowa State played home games at the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Under 14th year head coach Bill Fennelly, Iowa State finished the season 27\u20139, including an 11\u20135 record in Big 12 play for a third place tie in conference standings, with a no. 11 ranking in the final Coaches Poll. In the 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Iowa State advanced to the Elite Eight round for the second time in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200495-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iowa State Cyclones women's basketball team, Previous season\nIowa State finished the 2007\u201308 season 21\u201313 , including 7\u20139 in Big 12 games for a seventh place tie in the Big 12 standings. In the 2008 Big 12 Tournament, Iowa State advanced to the semifinal round. Iowa State received an at-large bid to the 2008 NCAA Tournament, in which they made the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Ipswich Town competed in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary\nIpswich Town had an average season in the Championship, finishing in ninth place, eight points away from the playoffs. Manager Jim Magilton was sacked in April after three seasons in charge of Ipswich and was replaced by former Sunderland boss Roy Keane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Kit\nIpswich Town retained the previous season's home kit, manufactured by English company Mitre, although Marcus Evans became the new kit sponsor. An all-red strip with black trimmings was Town's away kit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200496-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Pre-season\nIpswich's preparations for the 2008\u201309 season included a pre-season training camp in Northern Ireland, including friendlies against Belfast based sides Cliftonville, Donegal Celtic and Glentoran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200497-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraklis F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Iraklis 28th consecutive (and 49th in total) season in the Super League Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200498-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iran 2nd Division\nThe following is the standings of the 2008\u201309 Iran 2nd Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200498-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iran 2nd Division, Second round, Group A\nOn August 30, 2009 Iranjavan bought Moghavemat Mersad Football Club for a reported price of around $480,000 so Iranjavan Promoted Azadegan League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200499-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iran Futsal's 1st Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Iranian Futsal 1st Division will be divided into two phases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200499-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iran Futsal's 1st Division\nThe league will also be composed of 18 teams divided into two divisions of 9 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 18 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200500-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iranian Basketball Super League\nThe following is the final results of the Iran Super League 2008/09 basketball season, Persian Gulf Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200501-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iranian Futsal Super League\nThe following is the standings of the Futsal Super League's 2008/09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200502-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iranian Volleyball Super League\nThe following is the final results of the Iranian Volleyball Super League (Innovation and Flourishing Cup) 2008/09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200503-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraq Division One\nThe Iraq Division 1 of 2008\u201309 The season began on December 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200503-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraq Division One, Format and teams\nOn December 4, 2009, the Iraq Football Federation met and decided that the qualifying league will be played on one stage. Six clubs will play in Baghdad for the period from December 8 to 15, with five rounds, with three matches each day, with a break for the next day. Two of these teams will qualify for the 2009\u201310 Iraqi Premier League next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200503-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraq Division One, Format and teams\nThe matches are to be played on five stadiums: Al-Shorta Stadium, Al-Zawraa Stadium, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Stadium, Al Karkh Stadium and Al Naft Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200503-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraq Division One, Final stage\nThe final stage will be one group, each team plays five game with other teams. The top two teams from group to the 2009\u201310 Iraqi Premier League next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200504-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraqi Premier Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Iraqi Premier Division was the 35th edition of the competition. The name of the league was changed from Iraqi Premier League to Iraqi Premier Division. It started on 1 November 2008 and ended on 16 July 2009. 27 teams from all over the country competed for the title. Erbil won the title by defeating Al-Najaf in the final via penalty shootout after a goalless draw. It was Erbil's third league title in a row. The two teams would have qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup, but were disqualified due to FIFA's suspension of the Iraq Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200504-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Iraqi Premier Division\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the only season in history where none of the four Baghdad Derby clubs (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Shorta, Al-Talaba and Al-Zawraa) finished in the top four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Irish Cup was the 129th edition of Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition. The competition began on 25 October 2008 with the first round and ended on 9 May 2009 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup\nLinfield were the defending champions, winning their third consecutive Irish Cup the previous season after a 2\u20131 win over Coleraine in the 2008 final. This season they reached the semi-finals, but were defeated by Cliftonville. Crusaders went on to lift the trophy, beating Cliftonville 1\u20130 in the final. In doing so, they earned a place in the second qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup, First round\nThe matches were played on 25 October and 1 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup, Third round\nIn this round entered winners from the Second Round as well as all 17 teams from IFA Championship. The games were played on 13 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup, Fourth round\nIn this round entered winners from the Third Round as well as all 12 teams from IFA Premiership. The games were played on 17 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200505-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Cup, Fifth round\nIn this round entered the sixteen winners from the Fourth Round. The matches were played on 14 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200506-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Ice Hockey League season\nThe 2008-09 Irish Ice Hockey League season was the second season of the Irish Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Ireland. Six teams participated in the league, and the Dundalk Bulls won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200506-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish Ice Hockey League season, Playoffs\nThe league was cancelled mid-season, and the Dundalk Bulls were named champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Irish League Cup (known as the Co-operative Insurance Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd edition of Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition. The tournament started on 26 August 2008 with the qualifying round and ended on 28 February 2009 with the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup\nLinfield were the defending champions after their ninth League Cup win last season; a 3\u20132 victory over Crusaders in the previous final. This season Linfield went out at the quarter-final stage to eventual winners Portadown, who defeated Newry City 1\u20130 in the final. This was Portadown's second League Cup win, and first one since 1995\u201396. This was also only the second time in twelve years that the cup had not been won by one of Belfast's Big Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup\nThe competition was expanded this season and the format was also changed due to a re-structuring of the league system. 29 clubs were now eligible to take part in the competition; the 12 members of the IFA Premiership and the 17 members of the IFA Championship, with the Premiership clubs entering in the third round. The group stage format used in previous seasons was dropped in favour of home and away two-legged aggregate score ties with an away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup, Qualifying round\nThe qualifying round was held in order to reduce the number of teams competing in the First Round to 16. The match was played on 26 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup, First round\nIn this round entered the winners from the previous round, Glebe Rangers, as well as the remaining 15 teams from the IFA Championship. The first legs were played on 29 and 30 August 2008. The second legs were played on 2, 3 and 9 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered the eight winners from the previous round. The first legs were played on 20 September 2008. The second legs were played on 23, 24 September and 1 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup, Third round\nIn this round entered the four winners from the previous round, together with the 12 members of the IFA Premiership. The first legs were played on 21, 22, 28 and 29 October 2008. The second legs were played on 4, 5, 11 and 12 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200507-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Irish League Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 2 and 3 December 2008. The second legs were played on 16 and 17 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200508-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isle of Man League\nThe 2008\u201309 Isle of Man League was the 100th season of Football league on the Isle of Man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200508-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isle of Man League\nThere were two tiers of men's football, consisting 27 clubs, the Sure Mobile Premier League and the CFS Division Two. There were six senior cup competitions \u2013 the Manx FA Cup, Railway Cup, Hospital Cup, Woods Cup, Paul Henry Gold Cup and the Charity Shield. Each club had a reserve team in the Isle of Man Football Combination, and they compete in the Junior Cup. There was also the Cowell Cup, an annual Under-19 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u200e, Gvia HaMedina) was the 70th season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 55th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup\nThe competition was won by Beitar Jerusalem who had beaten Maccabi Haifa 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup\nAs Beitar Jerusalem wasn't eligible for participating in UEFA competitions, and as runners-up Maccabi Haifa already qualified to 2009\u201310 UEFA Champions League, all Europa League spots were awarded to teams according to their league positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup, Results, Fifth Round\nGames were played on October 7, 8 and November 3, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup, Results, Eighth Round\nGames were played on January 13, 20 and 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200509-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israel State Cup, Results, Round of 16 to the Final\nGames were played from March 10 to May 26, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200510-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball State Cup\nThe 2008-09 Israeli Basketball State Cup was the 49th edition of the Israeli Basketball State Cup, organized by the Israel Basketball Association. 26 teams took part in the competition. The semifinals and finals were played at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200510-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball State Cup\nHapoel Holon defeated Maccabi Haifa 69-68 in the final, Brian Tolbert hitting a three point buzzer beater to win the match. It was Hapoel Holon's 1st Israeli State Cup, after losing 5 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200510-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball State Cup, Preliminary round\n4 Liga Leumit teams have been drawn to play a preliminary round to earn a spot in the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200510-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball State Cup, Main draw\nFollowing IBA's rules, the current champions, Hapoel Holon, and the cup holders, Hapoel Jerusalem, have been drawn straight into the quarterfinals, into different halves of the draw. Two other random teams, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Afula, have been drawn straight into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League\nThe Israeli Basketball Super League (BSL) 2008-2009 season was the 55th season of the top basketball league in Israel. The season began on 26 October 2008 and ended on 21 May 2009. Maccabi Tel Aviv won its 48th league title, defeating Maccabi Haifa Heat 85-72 in the final. The defending champion was Hapoel Holon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League\nEach out of the 12 participating teams played 22 regular league games, one home game and one away game against each other team. The top eight teams qualified to the playoff, where they played best-of-5 series decided by the rankings at the end of the regular season (first against eighth, second against seventh and so on).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League\nThe four last ranked team competed in a best-of-5 series relegation playoff, whereElitzur Kiryat Ata and Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel lost and were relegated to Liga Leumit. They will be replaced by Maccabi Elitzur Netanya and Hapoel Afula, who qualified from Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League, Regular season\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League, Playoff\nThe higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5 (if necessary). The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4 (if necessary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League, Relegation Playoff\nThe higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5 (if necessary). The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4 (if necessary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League, Relegation Playoff\nElitzur Kiryat Ata and Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel were relegated to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200511-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Basketball Super League, Awards\nThe 2008\u20132009 Basketball Super League Season Awards were granted during the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Gala Dinner on May 16 to the players who stood out the most during the regular season and the playoff. The MVP awards for the best player and coach of the season were given before the final game had been played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200512-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Futsal League\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Israeli Futsal League was the 3rd season of top-tier futsal under the Israel Football Association and 9th overall. The regular season started on 16 December 2008 and was concluded on 31 March 2009. The championship playoffs began on 7 April 2009 with semi-finals series and concluded with the championship final series from 6\u201314 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200512-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Futsal League\nHapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion were the defending champions but lost the title by losing to Yanshufei Agudat Sport Tel Aviv on goal difference in the 2008\u201309 Championship Final series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200513-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Israeli Hockey League season was the 18th season of Israel's hockey league. HC Herzliya won their first Israeli championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200514-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Noar Leumit League\nThe 2008\u201309 Israeli Noar Leumit League was the 13th season since its introduction in 1994. It is the top-tier football in Israel for teenagers between the ages 18\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200514-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Noar Leumit League\nMaccabi Haifa won the title, whilst Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Be'er Sheva were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League season began on 30 August 2008, and ended on 1 June 2009. Beitar Jerusalem were the defending champions, having won their 6th league title the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League\nTwo teams from Liga Leumit were promoted at the end of the previous season: Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan and Hapoel Petah Tikva. The two teams relegated were Hapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Herzliya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League\nAt a 24 June 2008 IFA administration meeting it was decided that the league would be expanded to 16 clubs for the following season. Due to the expansion, only one team was relegated directly to Liga Leumit, while five clubs were promoted. The eleventh-ranked team played in a play-off match against the sixth-ranked team from Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League\nMaccabi Haifa clinched their 11th title after a 0\u20132 win against Maccabi Netanya on 23 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Teams\nTwelve teams took part in the 2008-09 Israeli Premier League season, including ten teams from the 2007-08 season, as well as two teams which were promoted from the 2007-08 Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Teams\nHakoah Amidar Ramat Gan were promoted as champions of the 2007-08 Liga Leumit. Hapoel Petah Tikva were promoted as runners up. They both returned to the top flight after an absence of one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Teams\nHapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Herzliya were relegated after finishing in the bottom two places in the 2007-08 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Results\nThe schedule consisted of three rounds. During first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Results, Third round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200515-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Premier League, Relegation playoff\nHakoah Ramat Gan, as the 11th-placed team, faced the 6th-placed Liga Leumit team Maccabi Ahi Nazareth in a two-legged playoff. Hakoah Ramat Gan lost both games and were relegated to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200516-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Women's Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Israeli Women's Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd\u200e, Gvia HaMedina Nashim) was the 11th season of Israel's women's nationwide football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200516-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Israeli Women's Cup\nThe competition was won, for the 7th consecutive time, by Maccabi Holon who had beaten ASA Tel Aviv University 4\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 94th season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season, and five new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Premier Division\nDover Athletic became champions five games before the end of the season and were promoted to the Conference South along with play-off winners Staines Town. Harlow Town, Heybridge Swifts and Ramsgate were relegated to the Division One sections, while Margate, who also finished in the relegation zone, were reprieved due to the demotion of clubs higher up the pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Division One North\nDivision One North consisted of 22 clubs, including 15 clubs from the previous season, and seven new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Division One North\nAveley won the division and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Waltham Abbey. Witham Town and Hillingdon Borough finished in the bottom two places and left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Division One South\nDivision One South consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season, and five new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, Division One South\nKingstonian won the division and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Cray Wanderers. Crowborough Athletic finished bottom of the table and returned to the Sussex County League after only one season in the Isthmian League. Chipstead were reprieved from relegation due to the demotion of clubs higher up the pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, League Cup\nThe Isthmian League Cup 2008\u201309 was the 35th season of the Isthmian League Cup, the league cup competition of the Isthmian League. Sixty-six clubs took part. The competition commenced on 18 November 2008 and finished on 8 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, League Cup, Fixtures and results\nFixtures are listed in alphabetical order, not that which they were drawn in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, League Cup, Fixtures and results, First round\nFour clubs from division Ones participated in the First Round, while all other clubs received a bye to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, League Cup, Fixtures and results, Second round\nThe two clubs to have made it through the First Round were entered into the draw with every other Isthmian League club, making sixty-four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200517-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Isthmian League, League Cup, Fixtures and results, Second round\n\u2021 - Waltham Forest removed from competition, Witham Town reinstalled", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200518-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Italian Women's Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Coppa Italia di calcio femminile was the 37th edition of the Italian women's football national cup. ASDCF Bardolino defeated defending champion Torres CF in a rematch of the previous edition's final to win its third title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200519-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ivy League men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 55th season of basketball. Cornell University won the league title for the second year in a row and was the recipient of the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Alex Barnett of Dartmouth College was the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200519-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ivy League men's basketball season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Harvard's Jeremy Lin was the only NCAA Division I men's college basketball player who ranked in the top ten in his conference for scoring (17.8), rebounding (5.5), assists (4.3), steals (2.4), blocked shots (0.6), field goal percentage (0.502), free throw percentage (0.744), and 3 point shot percentage (0.400).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200520-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 JS Kabylie season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was JS Kabylie's 44th season in the Algerian top flight, They competed in National 1, the Algerian Cup, the CAF Confederation Cup and the Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200520-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 JS Kabylie season, Squad list\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on 18 November 2008.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200520-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 JS Kabylie season, Squad information, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200521-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships were the 77th edition of the event. It took place between December 25 and 27, 2008 at the Big Hat arena in Nagano. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level for the title of national champion of Japan. In addition, the event will also be used to choose the Japanese teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 Four Continents Championships. The Japanese team to the 2009 World Junior Championships was chosen at the Japanese Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200521-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships, Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were the Japanese National Championships for the Junior level for the 2008\u201309 season. They took place in Nagoya from November 23 through 24, 2008. The results of this competition were used to choose the Japanese team to the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200521-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships, Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships\nThe following skaters placed high enough at Novice Nationals and so were invited to compete at Junior Nationals: Sei Kawahara (1st in novice, 11th in junior) and Hiroaki Sato (2nd in novice, 27th in junior) for the men; and Miu Sato (1st in novice, 25th in junior), Mao Watanabe (2nd in novice, 30th in junior), Karen Kemanai (3rd in novice, 7th in junior), and Risa Shoji (4th in novice, 29th in junior) for the ladies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 85], "content_span": [86, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200521-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships, International team selections\nFollowing the Japanese Championships, the team to the 2009 World Championships, 2009 Four Continents Championships, 2009 Winter Universiade were announced as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200521-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Japan Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, World Junior Championships\nFollowing the Japanese Junior Championships, the team to the 2009 World Junior Championships was announced as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 101], "content_span": [102, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 version of the Jordan FA Cup was the 29th edition to be played. It is the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup\nAl-Faisaly (Amman) went into this edition as the winner from 2007\u201308 and the club with the most wins, 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup, Round of 16\n16 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup, Quarter-Finals\n8 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200522-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan FA Cup, Semi-Finals\n4 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200523-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Jordan League\nThe 2008\u201309 Jordan League is the 57th season of the top-flight football in Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Juventus Football Club's 111th in existence and 2nd consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Season review\nAt various points in the season, Juventus looked as though they could challenge rivals Internazionale's stronghold over Serie A, most notably in November 2008 following five successive wins, in late January 2009 after a seven-game unbeaten streak and again in March 2009 after another series of seven games without losing, which included impressive 4\u20131 successes over Bologna and Roma. Coach Claudio Ranieri, however, seemed to encounter serious problems in motivating his troops with his constant belittling of Juventus' title chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a club record run of seven consecutive league games without a win in April and May, Ranieri was sacked in only his second season at Juventus. This barren run of results also included a 2\u20131 loss at home to Lazio in the Coppa Italia semi-finals, meaning the Turin side were once more denied the chance to compete for silverware. Juventus legend and former centre back Ciro Ferrara, who was the director of the Youth Sector at that time, was appointed the caretaker manager for the remaining two matches. The wins over Siena and Lazio ensured a second-place finish over AC Milan (based on head-to-head record) after the Rossoneri failed to take advantage of Juve's winless streak and lost 3\u20132 away at Roma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Season review\nIn Europe, Juventus began brightly, going unbeaten in their six group games and topping their group. These positive performances saw the Italians beat Spanish champions Real Madrid both home and away. Alessandro Del Piero, who scored a brace at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u just four days before celebrating his 34th birthday, earned himself a standing ovation from the notoriously hostile Madrid crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Season review\nThe knockout stages were much less rejoicing for the Bianconeri. They were knocked out by English club Chelsea who had just changed their manager. Despite battling with ten men in the second leg, Juventus drew the game 2\u20132, meaning they were eliminated after the 1\u20130 loss in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Season review\nOn 5 June 2009, it was confirmed that Ferrara had been appointed as the full-time manager on a two-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Players, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Players, UEFA Champions League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nDisciplinary records for all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200524-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Juventus F.C. season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 2009-05-31Source: Match reports in Match ResultsOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200525-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KBL season\nThe 2008\u201309 Dongbu Promy Professional Basketball season was the 13th season of the Korean Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200526-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KF Tirana season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Klubi i Futbollit Tirana's 70th competitive season, 70th consecutive season in the Kategoria Superiore and 88th year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200526-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KF Tirana season, Season overview\nIn October 2008, Tirana won the inaugural Ta\u00e7i Oil Cup by beating then-FIFA Club World Cup winners Milan 2\u20131 with goals scored by Daniel Xhafaj and Muzaka. Later on 10 December, manager Blaz Sliskovic was sacked by president Refik Halili after collecting only one win in the last seven league matches. He was replaced by club legend Agustin Kola who led the team until May of the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200526-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KF Tirana season, Season overview\nTirana won their 24th championship in history on 23 May 2009 by winning 2\u20131 at home against Vllaznia Shkod\u00ebr in the final matchday. In cup, the team reached the final once again, this time losing to Flamurtari Vlor\u00eb at Niko Dovana Stadium. The leading figure of Tirana in this season was the striker Migen Memelli brought on loan from Sweden's GAIS, who scored an impressive 22 league goals and won the Golden Boot for the first time in his career. Memelli with Tirana also set the record for the fastest goal ever scored in the Kategoria Superiore when he netted inside 7 seconds in the 2\u20131 win at Flamurtari Vlor\u00eb on 5 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200526-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KF Tirana season, Current squad\nAs of May 2009 players in bold have a least one cap for an international teamNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200526-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KF Tirana season, Transfers, Starting 11\nLast updated: June 1, 2009Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200527-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash\nThe 2008\u201309 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash was the 4th season of the official Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. Six teams representing six states in Australia participated in the competition. The competition began on 26 December 2008 when the Queensland Bulls took on the New South Wales Blues at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Gabba).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200527-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash\nThis season comprised 15 regular matches, a preliminary final and a final, the same as was in the 2007\u201308 season except with the addition of the preliminary final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200527-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, Table\nTeams received 2 points for a win, 1 for a tie or no result, and 0 for a loss. The teams ranked two and three played each other at the home venue of the team ranked two, for the right to play the first placed team in a final at the venue of  the first placed team. In the event of several teams finishing with the same number of points, standings were determined by most wins, then most wins among the teams concerned, then net run rate (NRR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200527-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, Table\nThe two teams that made the final have qualified for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 KHL season was the inaugural season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It started on September 2, 2008, and finished on April 12, 2009. 24 teams each played 56 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, NHL player transfer\nKHL teams signed several players from the NHL, including Jarom\u00edr J\u00e1gr, Alexander Radulov, Ray Emery, Sergei Brylin, Ladislav Nagy, Jozef St\u00fcmpel, Marcel Hossa, Ben Clymer, Alexei Zhitnik, Bryan Berard and Chris Simon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, NHL player transfer, Dispute\nA dispute between the two leagues over some of these signings was supposed to have been resolved by an agreement signed on July 10, whereby each league would honor the contracts of the other, but the signing of Alexander Radulov was made public one day after the agreement (though it was actually signed two days prior to the agreement taking effect), leading to an investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, Finances, Ownership\nOn a deal dated October 30, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works bought 11.76% of the KHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, Finances, Economic trouble\nMetallurg Novokuznetsk has so far experienced difficulty financing its operations, largely due to the global financial crisis of 2008. Team sponsor Evraz Group is rumoured to be cutting funding. There is a possibility the team will cease operations by New Years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, Finances, Economic trouble\nHC MVD has experienced delays in paying players, while Khimik Voskresensk has run itself into debt. Metallurg Magnitogorsk has been forced to cut staff expenditures by 30%. Avangard Omsk owner Roman Abramovich has promised to continue financial support so long as the team maintains good results. Other teams experiencing financial limitations are  Vityaz Chekhov, Atlant Moscow Oblast, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, HC CSKA Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, Finances, Economic trouble\nAs far as the league is concerned it has devised a \"crisis package\" for dealing with the economic turmoil. Cuts will be made to non-salary expenditures, such as pre-game activity, training camps, and elimination of pre-season tournaments. Mid -level player salaries may also be rolled back. Divisional re-alignment will also take place for the 2009\u201310 season to cut down on travel costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, League business, Inaugural All-Star Game\nThe inaugural KHL All-Star Game took place on January 10, 2009. Each team consisted of ten forwards, five defensemen, and two goaltenders. The starting rosters were voted upon on the KHL.ru website and decided by December 22. The secondary lines and goaltenders were to be voted upon by the media, and announced December 26, with the following players and reserves announced by January 8. The game took place in Moscow's Red Square, with Team J\u00e1gr (International All-Stars) defeating Team Yashin (Russian All-Stars) 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 60], "content_span": [61, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Regular season, Death of Alexei Cherepanov\nOn October 13, 2008 during a match between Avangard Omsk and Vityaz Chekhov, forward Alexei Cherepanov died due to a heart condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Regular season, Death of Alexei Cherepanov\nOn December 29, 2008, Russian investigators revealed that he suffered from myocarditis, a condition where not enough blood gets to the heart, and that he should not have been playing professional hockey. The federal Investigative Committee also announced that a chemical analysis of Cherepanov's blood and urine samples allowed experts to conclude \"that for several months Alexei Cherepanov engaged in doping\". Official sources have stated the banned substance taken was nikethamide, a stimulant, and that it had been taken 3 hours prior to the game in which he died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Regular season, Death of Alexei Cherepanov\nOmsk club director Mikhail Denisov has since been fired, whereas the league Disciplinary Committee has since removed Omsk's doctors from that role with the club, and has suspended Avangard general manager Anatoly Bardin and team president Konstantin Potapov. The KHL Disciplinary Committee met on this matter on January 5, and also suspended Chekhov's team president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Playoffs, Playoff leaders, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Playoffs, Playoff leaders, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 66], "content_span": [67, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200528-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KHL season, Awards, KHL Awards\nOn 15 May 2009, the KHL held their first award ceremony. A total of 23 different awards were handed out to teams, players, officials and media. The most important trophies are listed in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200529-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KK Partizan season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, Partizan Belgrade will compete in the Basketball League of Serbia, Radivoj Kora\u0107 Cup, Adriatic League and Euroleague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200529-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KK Partizan season, Basketball League of Serbia, Group A\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, D=Points difference, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200530-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KML season\nThe 2008\u201309 SEB Korvpalli Meistriliiga is the 18th season of the Estonian basketball league and the fifth under the title sponsorship of SEB. Including the competition's previous incarnations, this is the 84th season of the Estonian men's basketball league. T\u00dc/Rock came into the season as defending champions of the 2007\u201308 KML season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200530-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KML season\nThe season started on 15 October 2008 and concluded on 1 June 2009 with Kalev/Cramo defeating T\u00dc/Rock 4 games to 2 in the 2009 KML Finals to win their 3rd Estonian League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200530-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KML season, Regular season, League table\nUpdated to match(es) played on 1 June 2009. Source:  (2008/2009)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200530-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KML season, Playoffs\nThe playoffs began on 23 April 2009 and ended on 1 June 2009. The tournament concluded with Kalev/Cramo defeating T\u00dc/Rock 4 games to 2 in the 2009 KML Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200530-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KML season, Individual statistics\nPlayers qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 KNVB Cup was the 91st season of the Dutch national football knockout tournament. The defending champions were Feyenoord. The competition started on 30 August 2008 and ended with sc Heerenveen winning the Final in Rotterdam on 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Clubs\n1Note: First numbers denote Rd1 winners; second numbers denote Rd2 entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Results\nThe first and second round draw was made on July 8, 2008 in Zeist, KNVB headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Results, First round\nThe First Round featured 48 amateur teams: 35 Hoofdklasse clubs, 12 clubs from the 4th or lower levels and 2 reserve teams. 24 of the Hoofdklasse clubs qualified for the competition through their league performance during the previous season (top 4 of each Hoofdklasse), while the other half of the teams competing in the First Round secured their place through the 2007\u201308 KNVB District Cups. The matches were played on August 30 and 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Results, Second round\nThe 24 winners from the First Round, together with 2 youth teams (winners of youth league and cup) and all clubs from both the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie qualified for the Second Round. The matches were played on September 23, 24 and 25, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Results, Third round\nThe winners the Second Round matches progressed to the Third Round. The matches were played on November 11, 12 and 13, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200531-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 KNVB Cup, Results, Fourth round\nThe Fourth Round was played on January 20, 21 and 28, 2009. With Feyenoord losing to Heerenveen 3-0, it marked the first time in 27 years and the third time ever in the KNVB Cup where any of the Big Three teams failed to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, the Jayhawks' 111th basketball season. The head coach was Bill Self, serving his 6th year. The team played its home games in Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, and were the defending National Champions. The AP poll released on January 26, 2009, had the Jayhawks unranked, which was the last poll in which the Jayhawks were not ranked until February 8, 2021. The following week, Kansas entered the rankings at number 21, beginning what is the longest streak in Men\u2019s Basketball history with 223 consecutive polls being ranked and achieved that record on November 30, 2020. They are 2 ahead of UCLA\u2019s 221 straight weeks that was done from 1967-1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nThe 2007\u201308 Jayhawks finished the season 37\u20133 overall with a 13\u20133 mark in conference play. They won the Big 12 regular season men's basketball championship, which they shared with the Texas Longhorns. In post season play, the Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament championship and received a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The team went on to win the national championship, 75\u201368, in overtime vs. the Memphis Tigers. The Jayhawks finished the season #1 in the final Coaches Poll after the tournament and were ranked 5th in the final AP Poll before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nThe team raised a temporary NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship banner to the rafters in an official ceremony to celebrate its 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament victory during Late Night in the Phog event. The official championship and final four banners were raised during the November 18 game against Florida Gulf Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nThe Jayhawks lost five scholarship seniors from their national title team in addition to three underclassmen (Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers, and Darrell Arthur) who opted to enter the NBA draft and eventually signed with agents. Returning from the national championship team are stars Sherron Collins, point guard, and Cole Aldrich, center. Other players returning are: seniors Matt Kleinmann and Brennan Bechard, and sophomores Brady Morningstar, Chase Buford, Tyrel Reed, and Connor Teahan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Pre-Season, Recruiting\nCoach Self signed seven recruits for the 2008\u201309 season. The class was led by New Jersey twins Marcus and Markieff Morris who both played the power forward position. Another signee from New Jersey was Quintrell Thomas, who also played the power forward position. Travis Releford, a Kansas City product was the first signee for the Jayhawks and was in the mix for departed star Brandon Rush's spot in the starting rotation. Coach Self also managed to lure point guard Tyshawn Taylor to Lawrence, after he was released from his letter of intent to play for Marquette. The Jayhawks also signed junior college transfers Tyrone Appleton and Mario Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200532-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Season summary\nKansas finished the regular season 25\u20136 (14\u20132). After being picked to tie for 3rd in the conference in preseason, the Jayhawks defied expectations and won their 5th straight Big 12 conference championship and 52nd overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200533-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Kansas State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The Wildcats, led by second-year head coach Frank Martin, played their home games at Bramlage Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200533-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team, Pre-season\nThe 2007\u201308 season was a successful one for the Wildcats. They returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1996. 2007\u201308 was also the first season for head coach Frank Martin. Michael Beasley and Bill Walker led the team in scoring and nearly every other offensive category. They were also both drafted, marking the first time since 1990 that a Wildcat was drafted (Steve Henson was the last). It was also the first time since 1982 that more than one Wildcat was drafted (Tyrone Adams, Randy Reed and Ed Nealy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200533-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team, Regular season\nKansas State became just the second school in Big 12 history (after Iowa State in 2004\u201305) to rally from an 0\u20134 start to get back to at least .500 in conference play. The previous best finish after such a start came in 1983\u201384 when K-State finished Big Eight play with a 5\u20139 mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200533-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Wildcats finished the conference season in a tie for fourth place with a 9\u20137 record in the Big 12 and a 21\u201310 record overall. They earned the number four seed in the 2009 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament. 2008\u201309 marks the third consecutive year that the team earned one of the top 4 spots in the tournament, and thus received a first round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200534-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Karnataka State Film Awards\nThe Karnataka State Film Awards 2008\u201309, presented by Government of Karnataka, to felicitate the best of Kannada Cinema released in the year 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200534-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Karnataka State Film Awards, Jury\nThe awardees were chosen by a jury headed by veteran director H. R. Bhargava from the 73 films shortlisted. The panel consisted of nine-member team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore\nThe 2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore was the 73rd season of top-tier football in Albania and the eleventh season under the name Kategoria Superiore. The season began on 24 August 2008 and ended on 23 May 2009. The defending champions were Dinamo Tirana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore\nKF Tirana won their 24th national league title and qualified for the UEFA Champions League; Vllaznia, Dinamo Tirana and 2008\u201309 Albanian Cup winners Flamurtari gained access to the UEFA Europa League. On the bottom end of the table, Lushnja and Elbasani were directly relegated. Bylis and Partizani had to face teams from the Kategoria e Par\u00eb in relegation matches. Both teams lost and thus were demoted as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore, Promotion and relegation\nBes\u00eblidhja and Sk\u00ebnderbeu were directly relegated to the Kategoria e Par\u00eb after finishing 11th and 12th in the previous year's standings. They were replaced by Kategoria e Par\u00eb champions Bylis and runners-up Apolonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore, Promotion and relegation\n9th placed Teuta and 10th placed Kastrioti had to compete in single-match relegation play-offs. Kastrioti were relegated in the process by losing on penalties against the 3rd placed team from Kategoria e Par\u00eb, Lushnja. On the other hand, Teuta saved their place in Albania's top league by beating Burreli, who had finished in 4th place in the Kategoria e Par\u00eb, with 2\u20131 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore, Results\nThe schedule consisted of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200535-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria Superiore, Relegation playoffs\nBylis as 9th-placed team (against the 4th-placed team of the Kategoria e Par\u00eb, Gramozi) and 10th-placed Partizani (against 3rd-placed Kategoria e Par\u00eb team Kastrioti) both competed in relegation play-off games after the end of the season. Superiore sides Partizani and Bylis lost their matches and were thus relegated to the Kategoria e Par\u00eb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200536-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kategoria e Par\u00eb\nThe 2008\u201309 Kategoria e Par\u00eb was the 62nd season of a second-tier association football league in Albania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200537-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kazakhstan Hockey Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Kazakhstan Hockey Championship was the 17th season of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, the top level of ice hockey in Kazakhstan. Eight teams participated in the league, and Barys Astana won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200538-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kent Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Kent Football League season was the 43rd in the history of Kent Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200538-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kent Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 16 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200539-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball team represented Kent State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The team was coached by Geno Ford and played their home games in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. They are members of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 19\u201315, 10\u20136 in MAC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200540-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the college basketball season of 2008\u20132009. The team's head coach was Billy Gillispie, who was in his second and final year as coach. The Wildcats played their home games at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. The team's season started with a controversial early Midnight Madness event on October 10, 2008 which is not the traditional date for celebration that coincides with the first day of NCAA-sanctioned regular practice sessions that occurred on October 17, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200540-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nOn March 15, 2009, the Wildcats accepted a bid to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament, ending a streak of 17 consecutive appearances in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship dating back to 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200540-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, Class of 2009 signees\nThe signees who formed the 2009-10 recruiting classes are considered one of the best all-time recruiting classes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200541-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kilmarnock F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Kilmarnock's tenth consecutive season in the Scottish Premier League, having competed in it since its inauguration in 1998\u201399. Kilmarnock also competed in the Scottish Cup and the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200541-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kilmarnock F.C. season, Summary, Season\nKilmarnock finished eighth in the Scottish Premier League with 44 points. They reached the Quarter-Final of the League Cup, losing to Celtic and the fourth round of the Scottish Cup, losing to Inverness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200542-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Korisliiga season\nThe Korisliiga is the premier basketball league in Finland. The 2008-09 season was the 69th Finnish club basketball season. It began on October 3, 2008 and ended on May 16, 2009. Namika Lahti won the Final series by 3-0 against Joensuun Kataja. Antti Nikkil\u00e4 won the MVP Award and Vesa M\u00e4k\u00e4l\u00e4inen won the Finals MVP Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200543-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kuwait Federation Cup\nThe 2nd Kuwaiti Federation Cup started on September 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200543-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kuwait Federation Cup\nThe Second Federation Cup is one of four competitions in the Kuwaiti 2008/2009 season. 14 clubs are taking part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200543-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kuwait Federation Cup\nThey were divided into two groups of seven, and the winner and runner-up of each group will advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200543-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kuwait Federation Cup\nThe cup is used as a curtain raiser to the Kuwaiti Premier League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200544-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Kuwaiti Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Kuwaiti Premier League season was the 47th since its establishment. The first matches of the season started on Saturday 4 October 2008. The league has also been extended so that clubs will play each other three times this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200545-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Oro season\nThe 2008\u201309 LEB season is the 13th season of the Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto. The 612-game regular season (34 games for each of the 18 teams) began on Thursday, September 18, 2008, and will end on Friday, May 15, 2009. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to ACB. The teams between 2nd and 9th position will play a best of 3 games play off to see who plays the Final Four. Two bottom teams will be relegated to LEB Plata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200545-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Oro season, LEB Oro Regular season\n1 CB Villa de Los Barrios relegated due economic problems. 2 Plus Pujol Lleida relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems. 3 CB Vic relegated due economic problems and sold its berth to CB Sant Josep Girona. 4 Gand\u00eda B\u00e0squet relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200545-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Oro season, LEB Oro playoffs, Quarterfinals\nEach quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between teams in the 2-9 positions, with the best-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on May 19, 2009, and all second games were played on May 22. The deciding third games were played on May 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200545-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Oro season, LEB Oro playoffs, Final Four\nThe Final Four is the last phase of the LEB Oro season, and is held over a weekend in Fuenlabrada. The semifinal games are played on May 30. The championship final is played on May 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season\nThe 2008\u201309 LEB Plata season was the 9th  season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto and third division in Spain. It is also named Adecco Plata for sponsorship reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Competition format\n16 teams play the regular season. This is a round robin, where each team will play twice against every rival. The champion of the Regular Season is promoted to LEB Oro and the eight next teams enter the play-offs, where the winner is promoted too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Competition format\nThe last two qualified teams were relegated to LEB Bronce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Competition format\nIf two or more teams have got the same number of winning games, the criteria of tie-breaking are these:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Copa LEB Plata\nAt the half of the first round, the two first teams in the table play the Copa LEB Plata at home of the winner of the first half season. The Champion of this Cup will play the play-offs as first qualified if finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Copa LEB Plata\nFaymasa Palencia was the champion after defeating Torrons Vicens L'Hospitalet by 69\u201365.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200546-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEB Plata season, Playoffs\nTeams qualified from 2nd to 9th will play the promotion play-off. If the winner of Copa LEB Plata is qualified between 2nd and 5th at the final of the Regular Season, it will join the play-offs as 2nd qualified. A best-of-five series and a Final Four hosted at Fuenlabrada (with re-seeding) decided who promotes to LEB Oro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200547-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEN Cup\nThe LEN Cup 2008\u201309 was the 17th edition of this water polo competition, and was won by Szeged Beton VSE. It was the first time a Hungarian club won the competition since \u00dajpesti TE's 3rd title in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200548-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEN Euroleague\nThe LEN Euroleague 2008\u201309 was the 46th edition of Europe's premier club water polo competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200548-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LEN Euroleague, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 4 April, and the second legs were played on 22 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200549-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LNAH season\nThe 2008\u201309 LNAH season was the 13th season of the Ligue Nord-Am\u00e9ricaine de Hockey (before 2004 the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League), a minor professional league in the Canadian province of Quebec. Nine teams participated in the regular season, and Lois Jeans de Pont-Rouge won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200550-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LNBP season\nThe 2008\u201309 LNBP was the 9th season of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, one of the professional basketball leagues of Mexico. It started on September 4, 2008, and ended on March 18, 2009. The league title was won by Halcones UV Xalapa, which defeated Soles de Mexicali in the championship series, 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200550-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LNBP season, Format\n24 teams participate. The teams are divided in two groups of 12 teams each, called Zonas (zones): Zona Norte (North) and Zona Sur (South). The first 8 teams in each group qualify for the playoffs. The group playoffs have quarterfinals (best-of-5), semifinals (best-of-7) and finals (best-of-7). The winner of each group series qualify for the championship series (best-of-7), named Final de Finales (Final of Finals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200550-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LNBP season, All-Star Game\nThe 2008 LNBP All-Star Game was played in Mexico City at the Gimnasio Ol\u00edmpico Juan de la Barrera on December 16, 2008. The game was played between Zona Norte and Zona Sur. Zona Sur won, 123\u2013122.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200551-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 LSU Tigers basketball team\nThe 2008-09 LSU Tigers men's basketball team represented Louisiana State University in the sport of basketball during the 2008-09 college basketball season. The Tigers competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by 1st year head coach Trent Johnson, and played their home games at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on the university's Baton Rouge, Louisiana campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th since its establishment. Real Madrid were the defending champions, having won their 31st La Liga title in the previous season. The campaign began on 30 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. A total of 20 teams contested the league, 17 of which already contested in the 2007\u201308 season, and three of which were promoted from the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. A new match ball \u2013 the Nike T90 Omni \u2013 served as the official ball for all matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga\nOn 16 May 2009, after Villarreal's 3\u20132 victory over Real Madrid, Barcelona were declared champions, their 19th La Liga title, with three matches to play. Lionel Messi received the inaugural LaLiga Award for Best Player from the Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol Profesional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Promotion and relegation\nReal Zaragoza, Real Murcia and Levante were relegated to the 2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n after finishing in the bottom three spots of the table at the end of the 2007\u201308 La Liga. Zaragoza were relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n after five seasons of continuous membership in the top football league of Spain; Levante returned in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n after two-year tenured in La Liga; and Murcia made their immediate return to the second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Promotion and relegation\nThe three relegated teams were replaced by three 2007\u201308 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n sides. Champions Numancia, who ended their second-level status after three years, runners-up M\u00e1laga, who returned to the top flight after two season in the second level, and Sporting de Gij\u00f3n returned to the highest Spanish league after ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Awards, LaLiga Awards\nFor the first time in La Liga's history, its governing body, the Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol Profesional, honoured the competition's best players and coach with the LaLiga Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Awards, Pichichi Trophy\nThe Pichichi Trophy is awarded to the player who scores the most goals in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Awards, Zamora Trophy\nThe Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with least goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper must play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200552-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 La Liga, Scoring, Hat-tricks\n4 Player scored four goals(H) - Home\u00a0; (A) - Away", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200553-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Latvian Hockey League season\nThe 2008-09 Latvian Hockey League season was the 18th season of the Latvian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Latvia. Eight teams participated in the league, and HK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup\nThe 2009 version of the Lebanese FA Cup is the 37th edition to be played. It is the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Lebanon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup\nAl-Mabarrah went into this edition as the holders. Al Ansar holds the most wins with 11 titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup, Round 1\n18 teams play a knockout tie. 8 clubs advance to the next round, 1 club gets a bye to the 3rd round. Ties played over 11 to 15 October 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup, Round 2\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played on 21 October 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup, Round 3\n16 teams play a knockout tie. 8 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 26 & 28 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup, Quarter finals\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the semi finals. Ties played on 1 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200554-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese FA Cup, Semi finals\n4 teams play a knockout tie. 2 clubs advance to the Final Ties played on 24 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200555-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League is the 48th season of Lebanon's football league. The league kicked off on October 11, 2008, Safa SC defeated Salam Zgharta at the opener. In that game, Mohammad Kassas scored the first goal of the season for Safa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200555-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League\nAl Ahed is the defending champion. Salam Zgharta and Shahab Al-Ghazieh promoted from the second division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200555-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League\nPrior to the start, Tripoli SC announced its withdrawal due to several problems. Lebanese Football Federation confirmed the withdrawal on October 9, the league is going to resume with 11 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200555-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League\nDue to the restructuring of Asian competitions, Lebanese teams were entered into the AFC Cup. The Arab Champions League on the other hand would not be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200555-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Premier League, Teams\nAl-Irshad and Al-Ahli Sidon were relegated to the second level of Lebanese football after ending the 2007\u201308 season in the bottom two places. Promoted from the second level were Salam Zgharta and Shabab Al-Ghazieh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200556-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Second Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Lebanese Second Division was the 75th season of the second-highest level of Soccer in Lebanon. This season once again featured 14 Clubs just like the season before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200556-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Second Division, Overview\nIn the 2007\u201308 Premier League, both Al-Irshad(finished 11th) and Al-Ahli Sidon (finished last) were relegated. They joined the Second Division along with Al-Riyadah and Al-Khoyol who were promoted to the Second Division from the Third Division in the 2007\u201308 season. Unlike the previous 3 seasons, no clubs pulled out before the season even started, a bonus for the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200556-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Second Division, Overview\nThe 2-Group Round-Robin format was once again used in order to determine the 4 clubs to qualify for the promotion play-off group. The winner of the group would be automatically promoted to the Premier League for the 2009\u201310 Season. The runners-up would also be promoted to the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200557-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lebanese Women's Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Lebanese Women's Football League was the 2nd edition of the Lebanese Women's Football League since its inception in 2008. Defending champions Sadaka won their second title, with a 2\u20130 victory over Homenmen in the final matchday of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Leeds United F.C. 's second consecutive season in the third tier of English football and for the second year running saw them finish in the play-offs in League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season\nThe season began with Gary McAllister still managing Leeds, and they appeared to be in automatic promotion contention after a promising start. However, a humiliating FA Cup exit to Football Conference side Histon saw the team's form completely collapse, and with any hope of automatic promotion having all but ended even before Christmas Day, McAllister was sacked. He was replaced by Simon Grayson, and after a nervy first few games, Grayson lifted the side from eighth to fourth, resulting in a place in the play-offs. During this time, the club recorded eleven consecutive home wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season\nAlthough to the heartbreak of Leeds fans, the club failed in the play-offs again, being defeated by Millwall in the semi-finals. During the season, Jermaine Beckford scored 34 goals in all competitions \u2013 the highest in the country. Once again, the club received the highest attendance outside the Premier League on three occasions; the largest in the play-off semi final, recording a crowd of over 37,000. Off the pitch, the club made a profit for the first time in years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order (starting from 26 May 2008 and ending on 14 May 2009). This list does not include transfers or new contracts, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the matches section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Players, Squad information\nAppearances (starts and substitute appearances) and goals include those in The Premiership, The Championship (and playoffs), League One (and playoffs), FA Cup, League Cup, Football League Trophy, and UEFA Cup. 1Player first came to the club on loan and was transferred the following year. 2Player is at the club on loanSquad includes players registered with the club on the last day of the season (14 May 2009) only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Players, Captains\nLast updated: 15 May 2009Source: Competitive match reports. Competitive matches onlyMatches started as captain onlyCountry: FIFA nationality; No. : Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Players, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 7 May 2009Source: Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Awards, Internal Awards, Official Player of the Year Awards\nThe results of the 2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. Player of the Year Awards were announced at a dinner on 14 April 2008 at Elland Road .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 93], "content_span": [94, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Awards, Internal Awards, Official Goal of the Month\n1Winning goal was the player's third goal in the match. 2Winning goal was the player's first goal in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Awards, External Awards, League One Team of the Week\nThe following Leeds players have been selected in the official League One team of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Transfers, In\n1As the player was under the age of 23 at the time of the transfer, an undisclosed compensation package was due to the player's former club. 2Although intended to be undisclosed, it was revealed on Yorkshire Radio on 18 April 2009 that the compensation paid to the player's former club was \u00a335,000. 3Although intended to be undisclosed, chairman Ken Bates revealed on Yorkshire Radio on 19 May 2009 that the compensation paid to the player's former club was \u00a3300,000. 4Player originally joined the club on a non-contract basis, but signed a one-year contract lasting until 2009 several weeks after. 5Player joined the club on a non-contract basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Transfers, Out\n1Player was at the club on a non-contract, pay-as-you-play deal which include a clause in which either party could cancel the agreement with 7 days notice. The player was the party that triggered the clause, resulting in his release from the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Transfers, New Contracts\n1Automatically extended until 2012 if the club is promoted to The Championship. 2Player's first contract included an appearance related clause which was automatically triggered in March, resulting in a one-year contract extension commencing in June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Club, Non-playing staff\nLast updated: 5 May 2009Source: Leeds United F.C. Official Handbook", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Club, Former staff\nDate = Date the staff member left the club. Reason = Reason for departure from the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200558-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leeds United F.C. season, Competitions, League One, Play-offs\nLast updated: 15 May 2009. Source: Competitive Matches1Scunthorpe beat MK Dons 7\u20136 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A\nThe 2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A season, known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons, was the 87th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the top tier professional basketball league division of the Italian basketball league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A\nThe regular season ran from September 30, 2007 to April 27, 2008, 16 teams played each other team in home and away matches. At the end of the regular season, the top 8 teams advanced to the championship play-off whilst the lowest ranked teams, GMAC Bologna and Snaidero Udine, were relegated to the Legadue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A\nThe original number of teams was 18, but on September 20, 2008 the Federal Council of the Italian Basketball Federation (FIP) discovered administrative irregularities committed by Basket Napoli and UPEA Capo d'Orlando and decided to deny them professional licenses. The council also chose not to substitute them with any teams from LegADue, and at the same time decided to permanently reduce the number of teams in the top flight to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A\nMontepaschi Siena swept virtually all before them domestically, winning the SuperCoppa Italiana before the season and the Coppa Italia at midseason, losing in the league only once (at Fortitudo Bologna), and going unbeaten through the playoffs to claim their third straight title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A, Supercoppa Italiana\nThe Italian Supercup is played as a single match before the start of the season between the previous year's Serie A champion and Coppa Italia winner (if a club wins both, the match instead pits the top two teams from the previous season's league). This season, the game, played September 30 in Siena, pitted two-time defending league champion Montepaschi Siena against Coppa Italia winner Air Avellino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A, Standings\nFollowing the season, the owner of Fortitudo (GMAC) Bologna failed to make required payments to remain in the Italian professional ranks, and the club were further relegated to the country's third level, the nominally amateur Serie A Dilettanti. An appeal was unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A, Coppa Italia\nThe top eight teams at the halfway point of the regular season (15 rounds) competed in the Italian Cup, seeded according to their league placement at that time. The cup tournament was held at Futurshow Station in Casalecchio di Reno from February 19 to February 22, 2009, with top seed Montepaschi Siena winning the cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200559-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Basket Serie A, Playoffs\nThe playoffs, which began on May 18, featured the top eight teams from regular-season play, seeded by league position. The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were best-of-five, while the final expanded for the first time from its traditional best-of-five format to best-of-seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione\nThe 2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season is the thirty-first since its renaming to Serie C1 in 1978, and the first edition since the renaming from Serie C1 to Lega Pro. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 2008 to May 2009, and the playoff phase from May to June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione\nThe league was composed of 36 teams divided into two divisions of 18 teams each, whose teams was divided mainly according to geographical principles. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 34 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione\nTeams finishing first in the regular season, plus one team winning the playoff round from each division, were promoted to Serie B; teams finishing last in the regular season, plus two relegation playoff losers from each division was relegated to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. In all, four teams was promoted to Serie B, and six teams were relegated to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Start of season\nThe league was to feature four teams relegated from Serie B in 2007\u201308; Avellino, Ravenna, Spezia, and Cesena. Two vacancies were created with the re-admission of Avellino to Serie B, and the bankruptcy of Spezia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Start of season\nIt featured six teams promoted from 2007\u201308 Serie C2: Pergocrema, Reggiana, Benevento, Lumezzane, Portosummaga, and Marcianise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Start of season\nThe remaining 26 teams were to come from the teams that played in 2007\u201308 Serie C1 that were neither promoted nor relegated. Of those, Lucchese (8th in Girone B), and Massese (13th in Girone B) were also banned creating two more vacancies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Start of season\nThree of the four vacancies were filled by Virtus Lanciano, Pro Patria and Lecco which had lost in last year's Serie C1 relegation playoffs and were destined to play in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione. The fourth vacancy was filled by SPAL, which lost in last year's Serie C2 promotional playoffs and was thus destined to remain there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Promotions\nCesena won direct promotion to Serie B for the 2009\u201310 season by finishing first in Girone A. Just one year ago Cesena was directly relegated from the same Serie B for finishing in last place. Gallipoli also won direct promotion to Serie B by being crowned champions in Girone B. It was Gallipoli's third consecutive year in Lega Pro Prima Divisione/C1 after winning promotion from Serie C2 in 2005\u201306.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Relegations\nLegnano and Potenza were the first two teams relegated by finishing last in their respective divisions. Both teams had been in Prima Divisione/C1 for two consecutive years after winning promotion from 2006\u201307 Serie C2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Relegations\nFour teams were relegated by losing in the relegation playoffs. Pro Sesto was relegated after 4 seasons in Prima Divisione/C1, winning promotion from C2 in 2004\u201305. Pro Sesto was forced to play in the playouts two other times, winning one and losing the other in 2006, but asked to remain in C1 to fill vacancies. Sambenedettese also lost in the Girone A playouts after 7 seasons in Prima Divisione/C1, winning promotion from C2 in 2001\u201302.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Events, Relegations\nIn Girone B, Pistoiese and Juve Stabia lost in the relegation playoffs. Pistoiese had been in 2001\u201302 Serie B, and after being relegated that year, spent the next 7 years in Prima Divisione/C1. Juve Stabia was promoted from C2 2004\u201305, spending the next four seasons in C1/Lega Pro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200560-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Teams\nOn 14 August 2008 the following clubs were confirmed to be competing in the division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione\nThe 2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season was the thirty-first football (soccer) league season of Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the first since the renaming from Serie C2 to Lega Pro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione\nIt was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 2008 to May 2009, and the playoff phase from May to June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione\nIt was composed of 54 teams divided into three divisions of 18 teams each, whose teams were divided geographically. Teams only played other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 34 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione\nTeams finishing first in the regular season, plus one team winning the playoff round from each division were promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione; teams finishing last in the regular season, plus two relegation playoff losers from each division were relegated to Serie D.  In all, six teams were promoted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione, and nine teams were relegated to Serie D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Start of season\nThe league was to feature six teams relegated from Serie C1 in 2007\u201308; Lecco, Manfredonia, Pro Patria, Lanciano, Martina, and Sangiovannese. Four vacancies were created with the re-admission of Pro Patria, Lanciano, and Lecco to Lega Pro Prima Divisione in 2008-09, and the non-admission of Martina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Start of season\nIt featured nine teams promoted from 2007\u201308 Serie D; Alessandria, Aversa Normanna, Como, Figline, Fortitudo Cosenza, Giacomense, Isola Liri, Itala San Marco, and Sangiustese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Start of season\nThe remaining 39 teams were to come from the group of teams that played in 2007\u201308 Serie C2 that were neither relegated nor promoted. Of those, Nuorese (9th in Girone A), Sassari Torres (13th in Girone A), Teramo (8th in Girone B), and Castelnuovo (15th in Girone B) were banned or failed to register, creating four more vacancies. A fifth vacancy from this group was created when SPAL, which lost in last year's promotional play-offs, was admitted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione anyway to fill a vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Start of season\nIn all, nine vacancies were created. They were filled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Start of season\nConsidering all changes, the final team list includes only 2 teams that played in Serie C1 last year, 38 teams that played in Serie C2, and 14 teams that played in Serie D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Events, Promotions\nTwo of the three division champions were playing in Serie D in 2007\u201308. Figline and Cosenza won direct promotion to Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2009\u201310 season by winning Girone B and Girone C respectively. The year before they had been division champions in their respective Serie D divisions, and have thus both been promoted twice in consecutive years. Varese won direct promotion by winning Girone A.  Varese played in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione/C2 for three years after winning promotion from Serie D in the 2005\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200561-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, Teams\nOn August 14, 2008 the following clubs were confirmed to be competing in the division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200562-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Legia Warsaw season\nDuring the 2008-09 Season, Legia Warsaw participated in the Polish first division, the Ekstraklasa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200562-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Legia Warsaw season, Squad\nAs of 18 February 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Leicester City F.C. 's 104th season in the English football league system and their first and, to date, only season in the third tier of English football, after being relegated to League One the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season\nUnder the stewardship of new manager Nigel Pearson (who managed to become the first Leicester manager in five years to last an entire season), Leicester comfortably took the League One title to earn instant promotion back to the Championship, which included a club record run of 23 games league unbeaten between 1 November and 7 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season\nLeicester also broke club records for the most points ever gained in a season (96), the most league wins ever gained in a season (27) and the fewest league defeats in a season (4), the latter record especially impressive considering the amount of league seasons Leicester have had to play fewer than 46 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season\nMatty Fryatt also became the first Leicester player to score over 30 goals in one season since legendary striker Arthur Rowley, 52 years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Players, 2008-09 squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Kit and sponsorship\nLeicester City retained the previous season's home kit. A yellow away kit and a black third kit were also used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Kit and sponsorship\nThe kits were produced by German company Jako and sponsored by British company Topps Tiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Pre-Season Friendlies\nThe Leicester City players reported back for Pre-Season  on 1 July 2008. They played the following Friendlies:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Results, Football League One\n1 - Match postponed due to International call-ups. 2 - In some match reports, this goal is mistakenly awarded to Mark Davies", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, Awards, Club awards\nAt the end of the season, Leicester's annual award ceremony including categories voted for by the players and backroom staff, the supporters and the supporters club, saw the following players recognised for their achievements for the club throughout the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200563-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leicester City F.C. season, League One statistics, Club standings\nLast updated: 2 May 2009. Source: LCFC League One Results", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200564-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leinster Rugby season\nThe 2008\u201309 Leinster Rugby season was Leinster's eighth competing in the Celtic League alongside which they competed in the 2008\u201309 Heineken Cup. Though Leinster were ultimately to lose their Celtic League crown to rivals Munster, they were to cap a great year for Irish rugby with their victory over the Leicester Tigers in the Heineken Cup Final at Murrayfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200564-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leinster Rugby season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200564-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leinster Rugby season, Match Attendance\nLeinster's average Celtic League attendance was 14,728, up 415 on the 2007-08 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200564-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Leinster Rugby season, Match Attendance\nLeinster's Heineken Cup semi final against Munster, held in Croke Park set the record for the highest attendance in club rugby history at over 82,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup\nThe 2008-09 Libyan Cup is the 19th edition of the competition since its inception in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Rules\n45 teams will be entering the competition, composed of 5 sides from the Libyan Third Division, and 40 sides from the Libyan Second Division. 26 were drawn into the First Round, while the other 18 were automatically drawn into the Second Round. The sides participating in the First Round were drawn into regional groups. The Second Round will consist of 32 sides, 18 in the Eastern Section, and 14 in the Western Section. 16 sides from the Second Round will go through to the Round of 32, where they will be joined by the 16 sides in the Libyan Premier League. All ties this season will be one-off ties, compared to previous seasons, where the later rounds were two-legged affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Rules\nIf any of the matches end in a draw, then the tie(s) will be settled by a penalty shootout. This stands until the semi-final stage, where the tie(s) will be settled by two 15-minute halves of extra time, then followed by a penalty shootout if the scores remain level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Round of 32\nThe draw was made on March 26, 2009 at 22:00 EET. Matches will be settled by a penalty shootout immediately after the match should a tie end in a draw. The stadia were selected by the Libyan Football Federation. The ties will be played between May 1, 2009 and May 6, 2009. If ties are won by the team playing at home, then this team will play away from home against their next opponents in the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Round of 16\nThe draw was made on May 23, 2009 at 22:00 EET. Matches will be settled by a penalty shootout immediately after the match should a tie end in a draw. The stadia were selected by the Libyan Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw was made on June 22, 2009 at the LFF headquarters in Tripoli. The ties will be played over three days commencing June 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200565-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Cup, Semifinals\nThe draw was made on June 30. The ties will be played over July 5 and July 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200566-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Division I Basketball League\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Libyan Division I Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League season was the forty-first edition of the competition since its establishment in 1963. Al Ittihad were the defending champions, having won their fourteenth Libyan Premier League title with just one round of matches to spare in the previous season. The campaign began on Friday October 17, 2008, delayed due to Libya's World Cup qualifiers, and, depending on the Libyan Cup, is scheduled to finish on June 26, 2009. A total of 16 teams contested the league, including 13 who competed in the previous season and three promoted from the Libyan Second Division. (see 2007\u201308 Libyan Second Division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League\nThe first goal of the season was scored by newly promoted Wefaq Sabratha's Stefan de Paul against 2003-04 champions Al Olomby in the thirty-second minute of the game on the opening day of the season on October 17. Atef Hussein of Al Olomby scored the first hat-trick of the season against Al Sweahly on December 16, netting two in the final six minutes to help his side to a 3\u20133 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League\nThe season paused for its usual mid-season break. However, this season's break was extended due to the national team's participation in the 2009 African Championship of Nations, and participation (at club level) in Africa's continental competitions. The season continued on March 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League\nWahda Tripoli were the first club to be relegated following a 4\u20131 defeat to Ahly Benghazi on May 28, 2009.Wefaq Sabratha's relegation was also confirmed on June 18, 2009 despite defeating Jazeera 4\u20131, as other results went against them. Jazeera's defeat also meant that they would not be remaining in the division for next season. Aman al Aam were relegated on the final day of the season. Although they defeated Khaleej Sirte 2\u20130, they needed Hilal Benghazi to lose to Sweahly to stay up on head-to-head record. Hilal secured a 0\u20130 draw, ensuring their survival by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League\nIttihad Tripoli won the title on June 19, 2009 after defeating Sweahly 2\u20131 to gain an unassailable lead over second-placed Ahly Benghazi. This was Ittihad's 5th league title in succession, and their 15th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League, Team summary\n1 As the 28 March Stadium was not re-opened until October 22, 2008, Benghazi clubs played at stadia selected by the Libyan Football Federation. Some fixtures were also re-arranged so that these clubs played away from home for rounds 1 & 2. 2 Due to Al Jazeera's ban from their Zuwara Stadium, the club will play their remaining home games at 9 July Stadium for the remainder of the season. 3 Wefaq Sabratha's used the Ajaylat Stadium from rounds 1-8 as their own Sabratha Stadium was undergoing maintenance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200567-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Premier League, Team summary\nNB: The newly constructed Benina Stadium will be used to host matches held in Benghazi, as the 28 March Stadium is undergoing maintenance. The 28 March Stadium will not be in use for the rest of this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division\nThe 2008\u201309 edition of the Libyan Second Division began on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. 45 clubs (shown below in their respective groups) will attempt to win promotion to the Libyan Premier League for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, System\nThe clubs are sorted by their geographical location in Libya. Groups A & B contain 23 teams that hail from Tripoli, Misrata, Zawiya and Sabha. Groups C & D contain 22 teams that hail from Benghazi, Sirte, Jabal al Akhdar and Al Butnan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, System\nThe top two in each group progress to the Final Qualification stage, making 8 teams. These eight teams will be placed in one group, and will play each other, home and away, to determine the two clubs that win promotion to the Libyan Premier League for the 2009-10 season. The club that finishes top of the Final Qualification group claims the Libyan Second Division title for the 2008-09 season. Any bookings, sendings-off or other punishments will be carried forward to the Final Qualification stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, System\nThe two clubs that finish bottom of their respective groups are directly relegated to the Libyan Third Division for the 2009-10 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, System\nIf two or more teams are tied for a particular position, the tie-breaker is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, Participating clubs, Group B\n1(Al Shabab al Wahdawi withdrew from the competition at the mid-season break, and therefore had all matches cancelled)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, Championship Stage\nThe top two teams in each group will qualify to this stage of the competition, making 8 teams. These 8 teams will play each other home and away, and the top two sides at the end of these 14 matches will be promoted to the Libyan Premier League for the 2009\u201310 season. The top team will be crowned champions for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200568-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division, Championship Stage\nThe draw for the Championship Stage will take place on May 27, 2009, at 11:00 EET", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200569-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division \u2013 Championship Stage\nThe Championship Stage of the 2008\u201309 Libyan second division football competition will consist of a mini league of 8 teams, who play each other twice to decide the two clubs who will be promoted to the Libyan Premier League for the 2009\u201310 season. The top two teams in each group of the regular season will compete in this stage of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200569-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division \u2013 Championship Stage\nThe draw for the Championship Stage took place on May 27, 2009, at 11:00 EET", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200569-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Second Division \u2013 Championship Stage, Fixtures and results, Round 1\nFixtures announced May 27, 2009All other fixture dates announced on June 1, 2009, times TBC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200570-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Third Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Libyan Third Division sees the clubs in the Northern, Eastern and Southern sections play for places in the Libyan Second Division for the 2009-2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200570-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Third Division, Playoffs\nThe top team in each regional group qualify to the final stage. The eight teams are split up into two groups of four teams; the first group is made up of the champions of the Tripoli, Zawiya, Misrata and Sabha regions, and the second group is made up of the champions of the Benghazi, Sirte, Jabal al Akhdar and Butnan regions. The four teams in each group will play each other once. The top team in each group wins promotion to the Libyan Second Division for the 2009\u201310 season. These two teams will then play a play-off match to decide winner of the Libyan Third Division for the 2009-10 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200571-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Trophy\nThe 2008-09 Libyan Trophy, known as the Libyana Cup for sponsorship reasons, will be contested between the sixteen sides currently playing the 2008-09 Libyan Premier League. It is the second edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200571-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Trophy, Rules\nThis is a competition aimed at under-21 players. However, each club is permitted to enter three members of its senior side, as long as they are not foreign players. The 16 clubs will be split into three groups, depending on their geographic location. The sides in each group will play each other once. The winner of each group will enter a Championship Group. The three sides in this group will play each other home and away to determine the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200571-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Trophy, Draw\nThe draw was made by the Libyan Football Federation on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in Benghazi. The 16 sides in the Libyan Premier League for the 2008-09 season were drawn into three groups, two of 5 and one group of 6. They were sorted according to geographic location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200571-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Libyan Trophy, Final stage\nKhaleej Sirte, Aman al Aam and Ittihad Tripoli qualified from the groups", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup was the sixty-fourth season of Liechtenstein's annual cup competition. Seven clubs competed with a total of eighteen teams for one spot in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Defending champions were FC Vaduz, who have won the cup continuously since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup, First round\nThe First Round featured fourteen teams. The only first team of a club that had to compete in this round was FC Triesen, while the other two teams eligible for the first round, FC Triesenberg and FC Schaan, received a bye. The games were played on August 26 \u2013 28, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup, Second round\nThe six winners of the First Round, along with the two teams who had received a bye, competed in the Second Round. The first teams of FC Balzers, USV Eschen/Mauren, FC Ruggell and FC Vaduz were all given a bye in this round. The games were played on September 17 and 19, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe four winners of the Second Round, along with the four teams who had received a bye, competed in the Quarterfinals. The games were played on October 21, 22, 28 and 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup, Semifinals\nThe four winners of the Quarterfinals competed in the Semifinals. The games were played on April 28 and 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200572-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liechtenstein Cup, Final\nThe Final was played on May 21, 2009 at Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200573-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga ABF\nThe Liga ABF 2008\u201309 was the 52nd season of women's handball top flight in Spain since its establishment, running from 13 September 2008. to 23 May 2009. SD Itxako won the championship for the first time with a seven points advantage over Balonmano Sagunto. CBF Elda, Bera Bera, Mar Alicante and CB Elche followed in European positions, while CB Zuazo and CBF Mon\u00f3var were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Alef season was the last season of Liga Alef as the fourth tier of the Israeli football league system. Third tier, Liga Artzit, was scrapped, while the Premier League and Liga Leumit were expanded to 16 clubs each, making Liga Alef the third tier, as well as expanding the two regional divisions to 16 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef\nThe season saw Ahva Arraba (champions of the North Division) and Maccabi Be'er Sheva (champions of the South Division) winning the title and promotion to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef\nAt the bottom, the bottom clubs in each division, Maccabi Ironi Shlomi/Nahariya, Beitar Ihud Mashhad (from North division), Ironi Ramla and Hapoel Masos/Segev Shalom (from South division) were all automatically relegated to Liga Bet, whilst the two clubs which were ranked in 12th place in each division, Maccabi Kafr Qara and Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda entered a promotion/relegation play-offs, and both remained in Liga Alef after winning the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef, Changes from last season, Format changes\nAt the end of the season no relegation play-offs were held. The two bottom clubs were relegated automatically, while the third from bottom club was safe from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 59], "content_span": [60, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef, Relegation play-offs, North play-off\nThe 12th-placed team, Maccabi Kafr Qara, faced the Liga Bet promotion playoff winner Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef, Relegation play-offs, South play-off\nThe 12th-placed team, Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda, faced the Liga Bet promotion playoff winner Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200574-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Alef, Relegation play-offs, South play-off\nHapoel Nahlat Yehuda remained in Liga Alef; Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva was promoted after Hapoel Umm al-Fahm (which relegated from Liga Artzit to Liga Alef) folded during the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Artzit season started on 5 September 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit\nTwo teams from Liga Alef were promoted at the end of the previous season: Hapoel Umm al-Fahm and Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam along with two teams relegated from Liga Leumit: Hapoel Nazareth Illit and Hapoel Rishon LeZion. The two teams relegated to Liga Alef were Hapoel Kfar Shalem and Maccabi HaShikma/Ramat Hen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit\nIt was scheduled to be the last season before the league closing, as the top two divisions are both expanded to 16 clubs. As a result of the restructuring, the top seven clubs were promoted to Liga Leumit, whilst the eight-placed club played in a play-off against the 11th-placed club in Liga Leumit for a place in that division. The losers of that match and the bottom four clubs in Liga Artzit were relegated to Liga Alef, which has regain its status as the third tier of Israeli football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit, Results\nThe schedule consisted of three rounds. During first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit, Results, Third round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200575-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Artzit, Promotion playoff\nMaccabi Kafr Kanna as the 8th-placed team faced the 11th-placed Liga Leumit team Ironi Ramat HaSharon for a two-legged playoff, Maccabi Kafr Kanna lost both games and were relegated to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Bet season was the last season of Liga Bet as the fifth tier of the Israeli football league system. The third tier, Liga Artzit was scrapped at the end of the season, making Liga Bet the fourth tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet\nThe season saw Maccabi Ironi Jatt (champions of the North A division), Maccabi Umm al-Fahm (champions of the North B division), Shimshon Bnei Tayibe (champions of the South A division) and Hapoel Tzafririm Holon (champions of the South B division) winning the title and promotion to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet\nThe runners-up in each division entered a promotion/relegation play-offs, which saw a change of format, as this time, the North runners-up faced each other, as well as the South runners-up, with the winner of each match faced the clubs ranked 12th in Liga Alef North and South divisions respectively, for a decisive matches. Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel lost to Maccabi Kafr Qara of Liga Alef North and Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva lost to Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda of Liga Alef South. However, Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva was eventually promoted to Liga Alef after a vacancy was created in the South division, since Hapoel Umm al-Fahm folded during the summer break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet\nAt the bottom, Bnei Abu Snan, Beitar Kafr Kanna (from North A division), Hapoel Deir el-Asad, Maccabi Sha'ab (from North B division), Hapoel Hod HaSharon, Maccabi Or Yehuda (from South A division), Hapoel F.C. Hevel Modi'in and Hapoel Jaljulia (from South B division) were all automatically relegated to Liga Gimel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, North play-off\nLiga Bet North A and North B runners-up, Hapoel Ahva Haifa and Hapoel Daliyat al-Karmel faced each other. The winner advanced to the decisive play-off match against the 12th placed club in Liga Alef North, Maccabi Kafr Qara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, North play-off\nHapoel Daliyat al-Karmel qualified for the decisive play-off match against Maccabi Kafr Qara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, South play-off\nLiga Bet South A and South B runners-up, Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva and Maccabi Sderot faced each other. The winner advanced to the decisive play-off match against the 12th placed club in Liga Alef North, Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, South play-off\nMaccabi Amishav Petah Tikva qualified for the decisive play-off match against Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200576-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, South play-off\nHapoel Nahlat Yehuda remained in Liga Alef; Maccabi Amishav Petah Tikva was promoted after Hapoel Umm al-Fahm (which relegated from Liga Artzit to Liga Alef) folded during the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200577-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto was the 46th edition of the Spanish premier championship for women's basketball teams. Ros Casares Valencia defeated Perfumer\u00edas Avenida in the final to win its third title in a row, an overall sixth. Rivas Ec\u00f3polis also qualified for the FIBA Euroleague along with Ros Casares and Avenida, while Feve San Jos\u00e9, Espanyol Olesa and EBE Puig d'en Valls qualified for the FIBA Eurocup. On the other hand, Mann Filter Zaragoza and Extrugasa Cortegada were relegated as the two bottom teams. However, Feve San Jos\u00e9 was disbanded following the end of the season and Espanyol Olesa renounced to its Eurocup place for financial reasons, so Mann Filter Zaragoza was spared from relegation and invited to the Eurocup along with CB Islas Canarias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200577-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, Championship Play-offs, Semifinals\nRivas Ec\u00f3polis qualifies for the FIBA Euroleague. Feve San Jos\u00e9 qualifies for the FIBA Eurocup. However, Feve San Jos\u00e9 later disappeared and was replaced by CB Islas Canarias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200577-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, FIBA Eurocup Play-Offs\nEspanyol Olesa and EBE Puig d'en Valls qualify for the FIBA Eurocup. However, Espanyol Olesa later renounced and was replaced by Mann Filter Zaragoza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200578-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Gimel\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Gimel season saw 83 clubs competing in 6 regional divisions for promotion to Liga Bet. This was the last season that Liga Gimel was the sixth tier in the Israeli football league system, a position it held since 1998\u201399.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200578-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Gimel\nAt the end of the season, due to the league system restructuring, two clubs from each division were promoted to Liga Bet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200578-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Gimel, Upper Galilee Division\nHapoel Jatt Yanuh HaGlilit, Hapoel Hatzor and Maccabi Kafr Yasif all registered to play in the division, but withdrew before playing a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200578-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Gimel, Jezreel Division\nHapoel Muawiya registered to play in the division, but withdrew before playing a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200578-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Gimel, Central Division, Promotion Play-offs\nAs F.C. Kiryat Gat, Hapoel Rahat and Bnei Yichalel Rehovot finished level on points, the three clubs played a promotion play-offs to determine the league winner and the promoting clubs to Liga Bet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200579-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga I\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga I was the ninety-first season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 26 July 2008 and ended on 10 June 2009. CFR Cluj were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200579-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga I, Teams, Promoted\nTeams promoted from Liga II at the beginning of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200579-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga I, Teams, Relegated\nTeams relegated to Liga II at the end of season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200579-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga I, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers: Giedrius Arlauskis  (30 / 0); C\u0103t\u0103lin Grigore (2 / 0); Daniel Tudor (2 / 0). Defenders: Valeriu Bordeanu (30 / 0); Pablo Brand\u00e1n  (26 / 1); George Galamaz (32 / 4); Ersin Mehmedovi\u0107  (18 / 0); Bruno Fernandes  (19 / 0); Epaminonda Nicu (30 / 0). Midfielders: Iulian Apostol (28 / 2); Tiberiu B\u0103lan (25 / 4); George B\u00e2rl\u0103deanu (2 / 0); Jacob Burns  (10 / 0); Sorin Frunz\u0103 (25 / 1); R\u0103zvan P\u0103dure\u021bu (31 / 3); Ricardo Vilana  (20 / 1); Dinu Todoran (22 / 2); Dacian Varga (14 / 4). Forwards: Bogdan Aldea (1 / 0); Marius Bila\u0219co (27 / 8); Cristian D\u0103n\u0103lache (20 / 3); Bogdan Mara (17 / 5); Marius Onofra\u0219 (22 / 8); Raul Rusescu (23 / 5). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200580-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga I (women's football)\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Liga I Feminin was the 19th season of Romania's premier women's football league. CFF Clujana won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200581-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga II\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga II was the 69th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 16 August 2008 and lasted until 13 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200581-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga II\nThe format has been maintained to two series, each of them consisting of 18 teams. At the end of the season, the top two teams of the series promoted to Liga I and the bottom fourth places from both series relegated to Liga III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200581-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga II, Team changes, Note (**)\nUnirea S\u00e2nnicolau Mare was absorbed by newly founded FCM T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219, as a result of a merge. Unirea S\u00e2nnicolau Mare was refounded in the lower leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200581-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga II, Team changes, Note (**)\nFCM C\u00e2mpina was absorbed by Dun\u0103rea Gala\u021bi, as a result of a merge. Dun\u0103rea Gala\u021bi continued in the second tier on the place of C\u00e2mpina and FCM C\u00e2mpina was dissolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200581-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga II, Team changes, Renamed teams\nLuceaf\u0103rul-Lotus B\u0103ile Felix was moved from B\u0103ile Felix to Bac\u0103u and renamed/ re-founded as \u0218tiin\u021ba Bac\u0103u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200582-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga III\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga III season was the 53rd season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200582-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga III\nThe winners of each division got promoted to the 2009\u201310 Liga II season. There were also two playoff tournaments held at neutral venues involving the second placed teams, one with those from series 1, 2 and 3, the other with those from series 4, 5, and 6. The winners of the playoffs also got promoted to the 2009\u201310 Liga II season. The bottom three from each division were relegated at the end of the season to the Liga IV. From the 15th placed teams, another three were relegated. To determine these teams, separate standings were computed, using only the games played against clubs ranked 1st through 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200583-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga IV was the 67th season of the Liga IV, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The champions of each county association play against one from a neighboring county in a play-off match played on a neutral venue. The winners of the play-off matches promoted to Liga III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200583-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV, 2008\u20132009 Promotion Play-Off\nThe matches was scheduled to be played on 17 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200584-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV Bac\u0103u\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga IV Bac\u0103u was the 41st season of Liga IV Bac\u0103u, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 10 August 2008 and ended in 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200585-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV Cara\u0219-Severin\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga IV Cara\u0219-Severin (known as Liga IV Complet Construct Cara\u0219-Severin for sponsorship reasons) was the 41st season of the Liga IV Cara\u0219-Severin, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 23 August 2008 and ended on 6 June 2009.Berzobis Berzovia crowned as county champion and qualify to the promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200585-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV Cara\u0219-Severin, Promotion play-off\nChampions of Liga IV \u2013 Cara\u0219-Severin County face champions of Liga IV \u2013 Alba County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200586-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga IV Suceava\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga IV Suceava was the 41st season of the Liga IV Suceava, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 23 August 2008 and ended on 6 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (also known as Liga Esia for sponsorship reasons) was the 14th season of the Liga Indonesia Premier Division. It was the first season for the Liga Indonesia Premier Division as the second tier of the Indonesian football pyramid, following the creation of the Indonesia Super League as the first tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Changes from 2007\u201308 season\nThe Football Association of Indonesia's decision to create a new Indonesia Super League relegated the Liga Indonesia Premier Division to the second tier of Indonesian football for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Changes from 2007\u201308 season\nFor the 2007 season, teams were allocated to one of two groups (with 15 and 14 teams respectively) in the first round. The top four in each group advanced to the second round, or quarter final. The eight teams in the second round were divided into two groups of four, the top two teams in each group advancing to the semifinal in a knock-out system. Champions, runners-up, and 3rd-place teams were promoted to the  Indonesia Super League, while the 4th-place team faced the 15th-place team from the Indonesia Super League in a promotion/relegation play-off match. The 14th and 15th-place teams in the first round from each group were relegated to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nTwenty-nine teams took part. The season began on 4 August 2008 and the last games were played on 29 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nThe top four from group 1 in the first round were Persisam Samarinda, PSPS Pekanbaru, Mitra Kukar, and Persikabo Bogor, and from group 2 Persema Malang, Persebaya Surabaya, Persiba Bantul, and Persigo Gorontalo. The group winners\u00a0\u2013 Persisam Samarinda and Persema Malang\u00a0\u2013 hosted the quarter finals, both advancing to the semifinal, again as group winners. In the semifinal Persisam Samarinda beat PSPS Pekanbaru and Persema Malang beat Persebaya Surabaya. The championship was won by Persisam Samarinda with a 1\u20130 victory over Persema Malang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nPersisam Samarinda, Persema Malang, and PSPS Pekanbaru were automatically promoted to the Indonesia Super League. The promotion/relegation playoff was won by Persebaya Surabaya, who beat Indonesia Super League 15th-place team PSMS Medan in a penalty shoot-out to also win promotion. Persibat Batang, PSP Padang, and Persekabpas Pasuruan were relegated to the Liga Indonesia First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nOn 12 November 2008, in their match away to Persibom Bolaang Mongondow at Gelora Ambang Stadium, Kotamobagu, PSIR Rembang players attacked and injured the referee. The incident began when referee Muzair awarded a penalty to Persibom. Angered by the decision, PSIR players punched and kicked the referee, knocking him to the ground and trampling on him; the bruised official had to be rushed to hospital. A similar fate almost befell his replacement, Jusman R.A. He was chased and stripped naked on the field of play after showing a red card to a PSIR player who committed a bad challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nThe match ended 1\u20130 for Persibom. PSIR were suspended for two years as a result, but on appeal on 1 December 2008 the suspension was lifted, and their next match was rescheduled. The day after the incident PSIR players Yongki Rantung, Tadis Suryanto and Stevie Kusoi were banned from football for life. Five days later Stanley Mamuaya also received a life ban, and fellow players Stanley Katuuk, Gery Mandagi, and M Orah were banned from football for two years. Muzair Usman, Jusman R.A and match inspector Sukarno Wahid subsequently received a reward from PSSI in recognition of their justice, bravery and loyalty, which was considered to have promoted the image of football in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Season overview\nOn 7 March 2009, during a match between Persela Lamongan and PKT Bontang at Mulawarman Stadium, Jumadi Abdi was hospitalized after colliding with Persela's Deny Tarkas. Abdi suffered an injury to the stomach and had surgery on his intestines, but died eight days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Groups\nThe competition was divided into two groups, based on geography. Group 1 or West Group was for clubs from Sumatera,  Kalimantan and the Western part of Java, while Group 2 or East Group was for clubs from the Eastern part of Java and Eastern Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Promotion/relegation playoff\nThe promotion/relegation play-off match was held in SIliwangi Stadium, Bandung, on 30 June 2009. Persebaya Surabaya, the 4th-place team in the Liga Indonesia Premier Division played PSMS Medan, the 15th-place team in the Indonesia Super League. The winner would play in the Indonesia Super League the following season, while the loser would play in the Liga Indonesia Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200587-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Awards, Top scorers\nThis a list of top scorers in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Leumit season began on 29 August 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit\nTwo teams from Liga Artzit were promoted at the end of the previous season: Hapoel Jerusalem and Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata along with two teams relegated from Israeli Premier League: Maccabi Herzliya and Hapoel Kfar Saba. The two teams relegated to Liga Artzit were Hapoel Nazareth Illit and Hapoel Rishon LeZion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit\nDue to an expected league expansion, at the end of the season five clubs were automatically promoted to the Israeli Premier League, whilst the sixth-placed club in Liga Leumit played in a play-off match against the 11th-placed team in the Premier League. Only one team relegated automatically, and one team played in a play-off match against a team from Liga Artzit (which ceased to exist, with the regionalised Liga Alef becoming the third tier).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit, Stadia\n1Currently undergoing construction work to convert it to a 5,000-seat stadium. In the meanwhile they play at the Nahariya Municipal Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit, Results\nThe schedule consisted of three rounds. During first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit, Results, Third round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit, Promotion/Relegation playoff, Promotion playoff\nMaccabi Ahi Nazareth as the 6th-placed team faced the 11th-placed Israeli Premier League team Hakoah Ramat Gan for a two-legged playoff. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth won both games and were promoted to the Israeli Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200588-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Leumit, Promotion/Relegation playoff, Relegation playoff\nIroni Ramat HaSharon as the 11th-placed team faced the 8th-placed Liga Artzit team Maccabi Kafr Kanna for a two-legged playoff, Ironi Ramat HaSharon won both games and will continue playing in Liga Leumit next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200589-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo season\nThe 2008\u201309 Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo season was the 35th season of the Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo, the top level of ice hockey in Spain. Seven teams participated in the league, and FC Barcelona won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season was split in two tournaments Apertura and Clausura. Liga Premier was the third-tier football league of Mexico. The season was played between 8 August 2008 and 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season\nAs of this season, the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico was divided into different branches: the Liga Premier de Ascenso for the more developed teams that have aspirations for promotion to Liga de Ascenso and the Liga de Nuevos Talentos for those clubs with less infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season, Torneo Apertura, Inter\u2013groups matches\nIn the Apertura 2008 and Clausura 2009 tournaments, the league determined the celebration of two weeks of matches between teams belonging to different groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season, Torneo Clausura\nIn the final part of the Clausura 2009 tournament, the regular season and the start of the playoffs were affected by the 2009 swine flu pandemic, so some games were canceled and the coefficient of points/games played had to be used to determine the final positions of the classification table. In addition, some games were played behind closed doors, however, the season could end in the usual way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season, Torneo Clausura, Inter\u2013groups matches\nIn the Apertura 2008 and Clausura 2009 tournaments, the league determined the celebration of two weeks of matches between teams belonging to different groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200590-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga Premier de Ascenso season, Promotion Final\nThe Promotion Final is a series of matches played by the champions of the tournaments Apertura and Clausura, the game is played to determine the winning team of the promotion to Liga de Ascenso. The first leg was played on 27 May 2009, and the second leg was played on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200591-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga de Honra\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga de Honra season is the 19th season of the competition and the 75th season of recognised second-tier football in Portugal. Trofense are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200592-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga de Nuevos Talentos season\nThe 2008\u201309 Liga de Nuevos Talentos season was split in two tournaments Apertura and Clausura. Liga de Nuevos Talentos was the fourth-tier football league of Mexico. The season was played between 29 August 2008 and 23 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200592-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga de Nuevos Talentos season\nAs of this season, the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico was divided into different branches: the Liga Premier de Ascenso for the more developed teams that have aspirations for promotion to Liga de Ascenso and the Liga de Nuevos Talentos for those clubs with less infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200592-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga de Nuevos Talentos season, Relegation Table\nLast updated: 18 April 2009 Source: P = Position; G = Games played; Pts = Points; Pts/G = Ratio of points to games played", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200592-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liga de Nuevos Talentos season, Promotion Final\nThe Promotion Final is a series of matches played by the champions of the tournaments Apertura and Clausura, the game was played to determine the winning team of the promotion to Liga Premier de Ascenso. The first leg was played on 20 May 2009, and the second leg was played on 23 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200593-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligat Nashim\nThe 2008\u201309 Ligat Nashim was the 11th season of women's league football under the Israeli Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200593-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligat Nashim\nThe league was won by Maccabi Holon, its sixth consecutive title. By winning, Maccabi Holon qualified to 2009\u201310 UEFA Women's Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200594-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 1\nThe 2008\u201309 Ligue 1 season was the 71st since its establishment. Bordeaux became champions for the sixth time on the last weekend of the season. The fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008. The season began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. A total of 20 teams contested the league, consisting of 17 who competed the previous season and three that were promoted from France's second division Ligue 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200594-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 1\nBordeaux consecutively won their last 11 league games of the season and clinched the title on 30 May 2009 after the 1\u20130 victory against Caen. This was Bordeaux's sixth title and their first since the 1998\u201399 season. Bordeaux's title victory ended a historic run for Lyon, who had won seven consecutive titles beginning with the 2001\u201302 season. Le Havre, Nantes and Caen were relegated to Ligue 2. Both Le Havre and Nantes were promoted from Ligue 2 last season. Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille all secured European football for the 2009\u201310 season through their league position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200594-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 1, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nRC Lens, RC Strasbourg and FC Metz were relegated to the 2008\u201309 Ligue 2 after finishing in the bottom three spots of the table at the end of the 2007\u201308 season. Lens were relegated to the Ligue 2 after 17 seasons of continuous membership in the top football league of France, while Strasbourg and Metz made their immediate return to the second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200594-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 1, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nThe three relegated teams were replaced by three 2007\u201308 Ligue 2 sides. Champions Le Havre, who terminated their second-level status after five years, runners-up FC Nantes, who returned to the top flight after one season in second level and Grenoble Foot 38 returned to highest French league for first time after 35 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200594-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 1, Awards, Annual awards\nHere are shown the nominees for Ligue 1 annual awards. The winners, displayed in bold, were determined at the annual UNFP Awards on 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2\nThe Ligue 2 season 2008\u201309 was the sixty-seventh edition since its establishment, and began on 1 August 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009. The fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2, Stats, Top goalscorers\nGr\u00e9gory Thil wins the Ligue 2 Troph\u00e9e du Meilleur Buteur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2, Stats, Assists Table\nPaul Alo'o wins the Ligue 2 Troph\u00e9e du Meilleur Passeur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2, Awards, Player of the Year\nThe nominees for Ligue 2 Player of the Year. The winner will be determine at the annual UNFP Awards on May 24. The winner will be displayed in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2, Awards, Keeper of the Year\nThe nominees for the Ligue 2 Goalkeeper of the Year. The winner will be displayed in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200595-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue 2, Awards, Manager of the Year\nThe nominees for Manager of the Year. The winner will be displayed in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200596-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ligue Magnus season\nThe 2008\u201309 Ligue Magnus season was the 88th season of the Ligue Magnus, the top level of ice hockey in France. 14 teams participated in the league, and Br\u00fbleurs de Loups de Grenoble won their sixth league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup\nThe Lithuanian Football Cup 2008\u201309 was the 20th season of the Lithuanian annual football tournament. The competition started on May 7, 2008 with the First Round games and ended on May 16, 2009 with the Final. The defending champions were Kaunas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, First round\nIn this round entered 38 teams from Lithuanian third, fourth and fifth division. The games were played on May 7 \u2013 11, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Second round\nThis round featured 19 winners from the previous round and 5 teams from the Lithuanian second division (LFF I lyga). The matches were played on June 1 \u2013 6, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Third round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as 4 other LFF I lyga teams. The games were played on July 2 \u2013 9, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Fourth round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round together with 2 remaining LFF I lyga teams and 6 lowest-placed 2007 LFF Lyga teams. 2 out of 6 2007 LFF Lyga were relegated to the Lithuanian second division while the rest remained in A lyga. The games were played on August 20 \u2013 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Fifth round\nThis round featured winners from the previous round. The games were played on September 12 \u2013 17, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Quarterfinals\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round and teams placed first to fourth in 2007 LFF Lyga. The games were played on October 1, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200597-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Football Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on April 8, 2009. The second legs were played on April 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200598-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Lithuanian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Lithuanian Hockey League season was the 18th season of the Lithuanian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Lithuania. Four teams participated in Group A of the league, and SC Energija won the championship. Group B, which consisted of six teams, was won by LRK Kedainiai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 117th season of competitive football played by Liverpool. It began on 1 July 2008 and concluded on 20 June 2009, with competitive matches played between August and May. Having finished the previous Premier League season in fourth place behind Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, Liverpool improved to end the 2008\u201309 campaign in second place, four points behind Manchester United, with a record of 25 wins, 11 draws and two defeats. Liverpool made little progress in the domestic cup competitions and were eliminated in the fourth round of both the FA Cup and League Cup by Everton and Tottenham Hotspur respectively. They were defeated in the quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League by Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool acquired eight players in the transfer market, including Philipp Degen, Andrea Dossena and Diego Cavalieri who arrived in early July. They were supplemented by striker Robbie Keane from Tottenham and midfielder Albert Riera in August. A total of eight players departed including John Arne Riise, Steve Finnan, Harry Kewell, goalkeeper Scott Carson and striker Peter Crouch who were all transferred in the summer transfer window. Six months after arriving at Liverpool, Keane was sold back to Tottenham in the winter transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool began the season in good form; they won eight of their first ten matches before suffering a defeat against Tottenham. They picked up their form after this and a 5\u20131 victory over Newcastle United at the end of 2008 ensured that they would be top of the league going into the New Year. Three successive draws at the turn of the year meant that Manchester United caught Liverpool and a 2\u20130 defeat by Middlesbrough at the end of February dented their hopes of winning the league. Liverpool then won ten of their final eleven matches, including a 4\u20131 victory over Manchester United. The run was not enough to overhaul United and Liverpool finished four points behind in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season\nTwenty-six different players represented the club in four competitions, and there were 16 different goalscorers. Liverpool's top goalscorer was Steven Gerrard, who scored 24 goals in 44 matches. Defender Jamie Carragher made the most appearances during the season with 54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Background\nLiverpool did not win any trophies in the 2007\u201308 season. Despite new signing Fernando Torres scoring 33 goals in all competitions, including 24 in the Premier League, the team finished in fourth place, 11 points behind eventual winners Manchester United. They fared little better in the cup competitions, exiting the FA Cup in the fifth round by losing 2\u20131 to Championship club Barnsley at Anfield. A 2\u20130 defeat against Chelsea resulted in Liverpool's exit from the League Cup in the quarter-finals. Liverpool fared better in European competition, reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. For the fourth consecutive year in the competition, they faced Chelsea, but lost the tie 4\u20133 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Background\nLiverpool made a number of additions to their squad during the pre-season. Defenders Philipp Degen and Andrea Dossena were the first to arrive from Borussia Dortmund and Udinese respectively. Goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri was signed from Brazilian club Palmeiras as backup to Pepe Reina, while French striker David N'Gog joined from Paris Saint-Germain. The biggest signing of the summer transfer window was the purchase of striker Robbie Keane from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of \u00a319.3\u00a0million. Midfielder Albert Riera joined from Spanish club Espanyol at the end of the summer transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Background\nAt the end of the 2007\u201308 season, Liverpool sold a number of players. Defender John Arne Riise was sold to Serie A club Roma after seven years at the club. Forward Anthony Le Tallec was sold to French club Le Mans, while midfielder Harry Kewell joined Turkish club Galatasaray on a free transfer. Later in July, striker Peter Crouch joined his former club, Portsmouth, for \u00a311\u00a0million and goalkeeper Scott Carson was sold to West Bromwich Albion. Defender Steve Finnan and midfielder Danny Guthrie left in August to join Espanyol and Newcastle United respectively. During the January transfer window, striker Robbie Keane returned to Tottenham after only six months at Liverpool. Sebasti\u00e1n Leto joined Olympiacos on a two-year loan after his application for a work permit was rejected, while striker Andriy Voronin was loaned to Hertha BSC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Background\nManchester United were the pre-season favourites to retain their league title with Chelsea considered their main challengers. Liverpool were expected to struggle initially while their new signings adapted to the squad. The Guardian's Paul Doyle opined, \"If they are to sustain a challenge for the title beyond Christmas, Liverpool will have to develop the offensive diversity and unpredictability to turn last season's costly draws against smaller teams into victories.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League\nA total of 20 teams competed in the Premier League in the 2008\u201309 season. Each team played 38 matches; two against every other team and one match at each club's stadium. Three points were awarded for each win, one point per draw, and none for defeats. At the end of the season the top two teams qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League; teams in third and fourth needed to play a qualifier. The provisional fixture list was released on 16 June 2008, but was subject to change in the event of clashes with other competitions, international football, inclement weather, or matches being selected for television coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nLiverpool travelled to Sunderland on the opening weekend of the season. The match was goalless until the 83rd minute when striker Fernando Torres scored from 25 yards (23\u00a0m) to secure a 1\u20130 victory. The following weekend, Liverpool hosted Middlesbrough at Anfield. The visitors went ahead in the 70th minute when Mido scored. They appeared to be heading for victory, until the 86th minute when Jamie Carragher's shot deflected off Middlesbrough defender Emanuel Pogatetz into the Middlesbrough goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nIn the sixth minute of stoppage time, Steven Gerrard scored from the edge of the penalty area to secure a 2\u20131 victory for Liverpool. A trip to Villa Park to face Aston Villa was next for Liverpool. Torres was forced off with an injury within the first half-hour and both sides failed to capitalise on chances to win, as the match finished 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nDue to international fixtures, Liverpool did not play another game for two weeks. On the resumption of club football, they faced reigning champions Manchester United at home. Liverpool started without Gerrard and Torres, who were substitutes following their return from injury. The visitors took the lead in the third minute when Carlos Tevez scored. An own goal by United defender Wes Brown levelled the score in the 27th minute. Liverpool took control of the match following their equaliser, but it was not until the 71st minute that they asserted their dominance, when substitute Ryan Babel scored. United's misery was compounded when defender Nemanja Vidi\u0107 was sent off in the 90th minute for a second bookable offence. The win marked the first time, Liverpool manager Rafael Ben\u00edtez had beaten United in the League since his arrival in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nThe following weekend, Stoke City were the visitors to Anfield. Liverpool appeared to have taken the lead in the second minute when Gerrard scored from a free kick, but the goal was ruled out for offside. Despite a number of chances, neither side was able to score and the match finished 0\u20130. Ben\u00edtez was adamant Gerrard's goal should not have been disallowed stating: \"Nobody knows why the effort was ruled out.\" Liverpool's next match was against local rivals Everton in the Merseyside derby. Following a goalless first half, Torres scored twice in three minutes to secure a 2\u20130 win. Torres was confident Liverpool could challenge for the title following the victory: \"We know if we can stay near the top of the table in January or February we can win it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nManchester City were the opposition the following week, as Liverpool travelled to their home ground, the City of Manchester Stadium. They were losing 2\u20130 at half-time after goals by Stephen Ireland and Javier Garrido. However, Liverpool improved in the second half and two goals from Torres levelled the score. A draw appeared likely until Dirk Kuyt scored in the 90th minute to give Liverpool a 3\u20132 victory. The following weekend, Liverpool faced Wigan Athletic at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nLiverpool went behind when Wigan striker Amr Zaki opened the scoring, Kuyt equalised in the 37th minute, before Zaki scored again in the 45th minute. Liverpool struggled to find an equaliser until the 80th minute when Riera scored. Kuyt scored again in the 85th minute, to secure a 3\u20132 victory for Liverpool. The following weekend, they travelled to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0012-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, August\u2013October\nA Xabi Alonso goal in the 10th minute was enough to secure victory for Liverpool, as they won the match 1\u20130, becoming the first team since February 2004 to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League. Three days later, a Gerrard penalty in the 76th minute secured a 1\u20130 home victory over Portsmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, November\u2013December\nThe following weekend, Liverpool faced Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane. They took the lead in the 3rd minute, when Kuyt scored. However, an own goal by Carragher and a last-minute goal from Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko meant Liverpool suffered their first defeat of the season in the Premier League. Liverpool rebounded the following week as they beat West Bromwich Albion 3\u20130 at Anfield, courtesy of two goals from Keane and one from \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa. They faced Bolton Wanderers the following weekend, at the Reebok Stadium, with goals from Kuyt and Gerrard securing a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, November\u2013December\nLiverpool hosted Fulham at Anfield the following weekend. They were without injured captain Gerrard for the match, but welcomed back Torres from injury. However, his return did not have the desired impact, as Liverpool failed to score, drawing 0\u20130. After the match, manager Ben\u00edtez lamented his side's performance: \"It was a bad day, we did not have enough energy and we did not pass the ball well enough.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, November\u2013December\nWest Ham United were the next opposition, and the match at Anfield finished with the same scoreline. Despite their inability to convert their chances, Liverpool moved to the top of the table following the draw. Liverpool travelled to Ewood Park to face Blackburn Rovers in their next match and returned to winning ways with a 3\u20131 victory. Goals from Alonso, Yossi Benayoun and Gerrard secured victory for Liverpool. Liverpool hosted Hull City in their next match, but they fell behind to a goal from defender Paul McShane and an own goal by Carragher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, November\u2013December\nLiverpool recovered through two goals from Gerrard, but were unable to score any further goals, with the match finishing 2\u20132. Writing in The Observer, Duncan Castles stated the result was \"no way to win a title\", ridiculing Ben\u00edtez's claim that the title was 80 per cent Liverpool's if they were top at Christmas. Liverpool travelled to the Emirates Stadium to face Arsenal the following weekend. Arsenal striker Robin van Persie opened the scoring in the 24th minute, but Keane equalised in the 42nd minute. Despite Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor being sent off in the 62nd minute, Liverpool were unable to score a winning goal and the match finished 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, November\u2013December\nLiverpool faced Bolton Wanderers at Anfield on Boxing Day. A first half goal by Riera and two in the second half by Keane secured a 3\u20130 victory. Two days later, Liverpool travelled to St James' Park to face Newcastle United. Two goals from Gerrard, and one each from Sami Hyypi\u00e4, Babel and a penalty from Alonso, gave Liverpool a 5\u20131 victory. The result meant Liverpool had a four-point lead at the top of the table going into the New Year. Following the match, captain Gerrard was arrested over an incident in a bar where it was alleged that he punched a man over a row about music. He was subsequently cleared of the charges in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, January\u2013February\nOn 10 January 2009, Liverpool faced Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium. In his pre-match press conference, manager Ben\u00edtez attacked Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson over observations he had made about upcoming fixtures. Liverpool subsequently drew the match 0\u20130 with Stoke City. Ben\u00edtez was content with the result: \"It is a game we could win but we could also have lost too, and it was important not to lose. When we play against 10 men and an organised team it is not easy.\" Nine days later, Liverpool faced local rivals Everton at Anfield. Gerrard scored from 25 yards (23\u00a0m) in the 68th minute to give Liverpool the lead. However, they were unable to hold onto the lead as Everton midfielder Tim Cahill scored in the 87th minute to level the score at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, January\u2013February\nLiverpool's next match was against Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium. Midfielder Benayoun gave Liverpool the lead in the 41st minute but as in the two previous matches, they were unable to hold onto the lead. Midfielder Lucas conceded a penalty for a foul on Jason Koumas, which was converted by striker Mido on his debut in the 83rd minute to level the score at 1\u20131. The result saw Liverpool drop to third in the table. Liverpool faced Chelsea in their next match at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, January\u2013February\nChelsea midfielder Frank Lampard was sent off in the 60th minute for a foul on Alonso, but Liverpool struggled to make their numerical advantage count. It was not until the 89th minute that they did so, when Torres headed in a cross from F\u00e1bio Aur\u00e9lio. Torres scored again a minute later to give Liverpool a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, January\u2013February\nLiverpool travelled to Fratton Park for their next match against Portsmouth. They fell behind in the 62nd minute when David Nugent scored. Aurelio levelled the score with a free kick before Hermann Hrei\u00f0arsson gave Portsmouth the lead again. Kuyt equalised with five minutes remaining before Torres scored 'a dramatic late header' to secure a 3\u20132 win for Liverpool. Liverpool hosted Manchester City when club football resumed after the international break. A 'poor Liverpool' drew the match 1\u20131 to fall further behind leaders Manchester United after they had beaten Blackburn. Liverpool faced Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium the following weekend. Their 'title ambitions were dealt a severe blow' as Middlesbrough won the match 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nSunderland were the next opposition in a midweek match at Anfield. Goals from N'Gog and Benayoun secured a 2\u20130 victory for Liverpool. Following the resumption of club football after the international break, Liverpool travelled to Old Trafford to face league leaders Manchester United. Liverpool were trailing United, who had a game in hand, by seven points as they went into the match. Liverpool went behind to a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty, before Gerrard and Torres scored to give them a 2\u20131 lead at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nFurther goals from Aurelio and Dossena secured a 4\u20131 victory for Liverpool, reducing their deficit to United to four points. Liverpool hosted Aston Villa the following weekend. A win was imperative after rivals Manchester United lost to Fulham. A Gerrard hat-trick with goals from Kuyt and Riera secured a 5\u20130 win, as they moved to one point behind United. Manager Benitez was confident Liverpool could keep the pressure on United: \"Clearly we have confidence and the team is playing well. But we must just wait to see what happens next to United, while we must keep going and keep the team playing at this level.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nLiverpool travelled to Craven Cottage to face Fulham in their next match. They struggled to break down the Fulham defence, with Dossena and Alonso hitting the crossbar, while Torres hit the post with a shot. However, Benayoun secured a 1\u20130 victory with a 'dramatic injury-time winner.' The following weekend Liverpool hosted Blackburn Rovers. A 4\u20130 victory was secured courtesy of two goals from Torres and one from Daniel Agger and N'Gog. Ten days later, Liverpool faced Arsenal at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nThey went behind to a goal from Andrey Arshavin in the first half, but goals from Torres and Benayoun early in the second half gave them a 2\u20131 lead. Arshavin scored two goals in three minutes before Torres scored again to level the score at 3\u20133. Arshavin scored his fourth goal in the last minute, but Benayoun scored in the fifth minute of stoppage time to secure a 4\u20134 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nLiverpool travelled to the KC Stadium four days later to face Hull City. Two goals from Kuyt and one from Babel secured a 3\u20131 victory. Newcastle United were the opposition the following weekend at Anfield. Goals from Benayoun, Kuyt and Lucas secured a 3\u20130 victory for Liverpool. Their next match was against West Ham United at the Upton Park. Two goals from Gerrard and one from Babel secured a 3\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nThe victory put Liverpool ahead of rivals Manchester United at the top of the table, but United had two games in hands over their rivals, including the Manchester derby against Manchester City. Captain Steven Gerrard was hopeful United would slip up in one of the games: \"They have a tough game against Manchester City, who have come into form recently, and it's a derby match, which are never easy. We hope Manchester City can do us a favour.\" Liverpool's next match was a 2\u20130 victory against West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0021-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Premier League, March\u2013May\nGoals from Gerrard and Kuyt won the match, but they were not enough to sustain their title challenge. United's draw against Arsenal the previous day meant they finished the season as champions. Liverpool's final match of the season was against Tottenham, a 3\u20131 victory with goals from Torres, an Alan Hutton own goal and Benayoun. The match marked defender Sami Hyypi\u00e4's 464th and final appearance for Liverpool and confirmed their second-place finish in the league with 86 points, four points behind United's total of 90.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, FA Cup\nLiverpool entered the competition in the third round, by virtue of their Premier League status. Their opening match was away against Preston North End. A goal from Riera in the first half and a last minute goal by striker Fernando Torres secured a 2\u20130 victory for Liverpool at Deepdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, FA Cup\nLiverpool were drawn against local rivals Everton at home in the fourth round. A Joleon Lescott goal in the first half gave Everton the lead, which they held until the 54th minute when Gerrard equalised. Neither club was able to score a winning goal and the match finished 1\u20131. The tie was replayed at Goodison Park on 4 February 2009. No goals were scored during 90 minutes, so the match went to extra time. With two minutes remaining, Everton midfielder Dan Gosling scored to secure a 1\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, League Cup\nThe League Cup is a cup competition open to clubs in the Premier League and Football League. Like the FA Cup it is played on a knockout basis, with the exception of the second round and semi-finals, which are contested over a two-legged tie. Together with the other clubs playing in European competitions, Liverpool entered the League Cup in the third round. They were drawn to face Crewe Alexandra on 30 August 2008. Ben\u00edtez fielded a relatively young team for the tie, which took the lead in the 15th minute when Agger scored. Crewe equalised ten minutes later when Michael O'Connor scored. A goal by Lucas in the second half secured a 2\u20131 victory for Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, League Cup\nLiverpool faced Tottenham Hotspur in the fourth round. They fell behind in the 38th minute when Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko scored. Tottenham extended their lead four minutes later courtesy of a Fraizer Campbell goal. A further goal before half-time for Campbell, gave Tottenham a 3\u20130 lead. Damien Plessis pulled a goal back for Liverpool early in the second half, but three minutes later Pavlyuchenko scored again to extend Tottenham's lead. A Hyypi\u00e4 goal in the 63rd minute was the final goal of the match, which Liverpool lost 4\u20132, exiting the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, UEFA Champions League\nAs Liverpool had finished fourth in the league the previous season, they needed to play a qualifying round against Standard Li\u00e8ge to ensure progression into the group stages. A 0\u20130 draw in the first leg meant the tie hinged on the result of the second leg at Anfield. With the match goalless in extra time, Kuyt scored to give Liverpool a 1\u20130 victory. Liverpool were drawn in Group D along with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, Marseille and PSV Eindhoven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, UEFA Champions League\nLiverpool's first match in the group was away to Marseille. Two goals by Gerrard gave Liverpool a 2\u20131 victory over the French team. The next match at Anfield against PSV resulted in a 3\u20131 victory for Liverpool, with Keane scoring his first goal for the club. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid were the opponents in the third matchday at the Vicente Calder\u00f3n Stadium. Keane scored again, but a goal for Atl\u00e9tico by Sim\u00e3o meant the match finished 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0027-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, UEFA Champions League\nThe score in the reverse fixture at Anfield was the same, with Gerrard scoring a penalty in the 95th minute after Maxi Rodr\u00edguez had given Atl\u00e9tico the lead. Liverpool faced Marseille in the fifth match of the group stage and secured progression to the knockout phase, after winning 1\u20130 thanks to a Gerrard goal. Liverpool's last match was at the Philips Stadion against PSV, which they won 3\u20131. They finished top of the group with 14 points after 4 wins and 2 draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, UEFA Champions League\nLiverpool were drawn against Spanish team Real Madrid in the knockout phase. They won the first leg 0\u20131 at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u thanks to a Benayoun goal. Fernando Torres opened the scoring for Liverpool in the second leg at Anfield, before two penalties from Gerrard and a goal from Dossena secured a 4\u20130 victory and a 5\u20130 aggregate win. Chelsea were the opposition in the quarter-finals, marking the fifth consecutive season that the two sides had met in the competition. Liverpool took the lead in the first leg at Anfield when Torres scored in the sixth minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, UEFA Champions League\nHowever, two goals from defender Branislav Ivanovi\u0107 and one from striker Didier Drogba secured a 3\u20131 victory for Chelsea. Liverpool scored two goals in the first half through Aur\u00e9lio and Alonso to level the tie at 3\u20133. Drogba, defender Alex and midfielder Frank Lampard scored to give Chelsea a 3\u20132 and a three-goal advantage in the tie midway through the second half. However, Liverpool scored two late goals through Lucas and Kuyt to take a 4\u20133 lead in the match, with one more goal sufficient to progress to the semi-finals courtesy of the away goals rule. A further goal by Lampard in the 89th minute ended any hopes of a comeback as the match was drawn 4\u20134, with Chelsea winning the tie 7\u20135 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Squad statistics\nLiverpool used a total of 28 players during the season, with 18 different goalscorers. The team played in a 4\u20132\u20133\u20131 formation throughout the season. Carragher featured in 54 matches, the most of any Liverpool player during the campaign. Along with Reina and Kuyt, he appeared in every Premier League match. Gerrard was the top goalscorer with 24 goals. Lucas was the only player to be sent off during the season\u2014he was shown a red card during Liverpool's replay of their fourth round FA Cup tie with Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Awards\nLiverpool's performance during the season resulted in the club's personnel winning a number of awards. Ben\u00edtez was named Premier League Manager of the Month twice in October and March, while Gerrard was named Premier League Player of the Month for March. Gerrard was named Football Writer's Association Footballer of the Year for the first time and he was also named as the Professional Footballer's Association (PFA) Fans' Player of the Year. Gerrard was nominated for the PFA Players' Player of the Year, but the award went to Manchester United's Ryan Giggs instead. Gerrard and teammate Fernando Torres were named in the PFA Team of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200599-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Liverpool F.C. season, Awards\nGerrard and Torres were nominated for the Ballon d'Or at the end of 2009, but they ranked 10th and 11th respectively behind winner Lionel Messi of Barcelona. Both players were also nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year, but finished eighth and sixth respectively behind winner Messi. Gerrard and Torres were named in the FIFPro World XI for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200600-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Livingston F.C. season\nSeason 2008-09 saw Livingston compete in the First Division. They also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200600-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Livingston F.C. season, Overview\nLivingston started the season brightly with manager Roberto Landi winning manager of the month for August. However their form dipped there after and a series of managers and financial problems saw them finish seventh in the League to confirm their place in the First Division. However at the start of the next season the club went into administration and were relegated to the Scottish Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200600-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Livingston F.C. season, Overview, Managers\nLivingston had a total of three managers over the season. They started under Roberto Landi who was sacked on 1 December after only five months in charge with Paul Hegarty being appointed as manager on 5 December. On 25 April only four months into his 18-month contract Hegarty was suspended by the club over a private matter. David Hay took over as interim manager for the last two games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200601-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Logan Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Logan Cup was a first-class cricket competition held in Zimbabwe from 26 March 2009 \u2013 8 May 2009. It was won by Easterns, who remained unbeaten in the competition, and topped the table with 93 points, winning five of their six matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200602-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Longwood Lancers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Longwood Lancers men's basketball team represented Longwood University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by sixth-year head coach Mike Gillian, and played their home games at Willett Hall as a Division I independent school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200602-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Longwood Lancers men's basketball team, Last season\nThe Lancers had a record of 9\u201322 in their first season as a full member of Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200603-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Clippers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Los Angeles Clippers season was the 39th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This season marks the team's 25th season in the city of Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season\nThe 2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season was the 42nd season (41st season of play) for the National Hockey League franchise. The Kings showed improvement while fielding the youngest team in the league (in terms of average age per player), but came up short of breaking a playoff drought that stretches back to the 2001\u201302 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season\nDespite a tough schedule that saw them play 17 of their final 24 games away from the Staples Center, the Kings managed to stay in the playoff hunt for much of the year. They played in 43 games decided by one goal, and their record in these games was 20\u201312\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season\nAlexander Frolov led the team in goals with 32, his fifth-consecutive season with at least 20 or more goals. The last King to post five consecutive season with over 20 goals was Luc Robitaille in the 1993\u201394 season. Moreover, defenseman Sean O'Donnell reached a milestone by playing in his 1,000th career NHL game on March 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Pre-season\nOn June 10, the Kings fired Head Coach Marc Crawford after failing to make the post-season in back-to-back seasons. Crawford posted a 59\u201384\u201321 record during his tenure. He was replaced on July 17 by Terry Murray, who takes over his fourth NHL team. Murray had previously coached the Washington Capitals, Florida Panthers and Philadelphia Flyers, where he led the latter to the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals. Entering the season, Murray's career record is 360\u2013288\u201389.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nThe Kings made great strides in the 2008\u201309 season. They went from 30th in the NHL a year prior in penalty killing to seventh-best in the league, with an 82.9% rating. They had the League's fourth-best faceoff win percentage and allowed the fourth-fewest shots on goal. Five players played in all 82 regular games: Anze Kopitar, Michal Handzus, Matt Greene, Sean O'Donnell and rookie Wayne Simmonds. Several surprises also emerged during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nKyle Quincey was acquired via waivers shortly after season started from the Detroit Red Wings, necessitated by an injury to defenseman Jack Johnson. Quincey went on to finish second in the team in assists and averaged over 20 minutes of ice time per game. Drew Doughty, the second overall pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, immediately contributed to the team, leading the Kings in ice time and was second in blocked shots. He finished in the top ten in the NHL in several categories, and was considered a strong Calder Memorial Trophy candidate for Rookie of the Year honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nAnother surprise was Jonathan Quick, who emerged as the team's number one goaltender. Quick was thrust into the line-up following the trade of Jason LaBarbera in mid-season to the Vancouver Canucks and due to an injury to Erik Ersberg. All Quick lead the team in every goaltending category, posting the third highest win total for a rookie in Kings history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nHe finished third in the league among rookie netminder in goals against average, and played in 22 of the final 27 and 41 of the final 52 Kings games  He had a 1.76 goals-against average (16 GA in 546:03) and .942 save percentage (258 saves in 274 shots) in nine straight appearances from March 22 to April 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nThe Kings finished the regular season having been shut out 12 times, tying the Colorado Avalanche for the most times shut out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nThe Western Conference remained a tight race throughout the season, and the Kings were not officially eliminated from the playoffs until two weeks remained in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season, Divisional standings\nNote: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Playoffs\nThe Los Angeles Kings failed to qualify for the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Kings. Stats reflect time with the Kings only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Draft picks\nLA 's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200604-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Kings season, Farm teams\nThe Kings have one American Hockey League affiliate in the Manchester Monarchs. They also have two ECHL affiliates in the Ontario Reign and Reading Royals. All three are owned in part by the Kings' parent company Anschutz Entertainment Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season was the franchise's 61st season, 60th in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 49th in Los Angeles. The Lakers won their division for the 31st time and appeared in the Western Conference Finals for the 39th time. With 65 wins, they recorded the third most wins in franchise history, the most since 1999\u20132000, and improved on their 2007\u201308 record by eight wins. The Lakers sold out all 41 home games for the season, led the NBA in money earned from overall ticket sales, and had the 5th highest increase in gate receipts from the previous season. The Lakers had the third best team offensive rating in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season\nIn the playoffs, the Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz in five games in the First Round, then defeated the Houston Rockets in a hard-fought seven games in the Semifinals, and on May 29, the Lakers defeated the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals to advance to the NBA Finals for the second consecutive year and 30th time in franchise history, extending their NBA record for most Finals appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season\nOn June 14, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic 4\u20131 in the best of seven series to become the 2009 NBA champions, winning their first championship in seven years and the 15th overall in franchise history. Kobe Bryant was awarded the 2009 NBA Finals MVP. Following the season, Trevor Ariza signed as a free agent with the Houston Rockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season\nOn July 15, 2009, the Los Angeles Lakers won the 2009 ESPY Awards for Best Team and Best Coach/Manager for Phil Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Injuries\nFollowing the 2007\u201308 NBA season, the Lakers faced two key injuries in the offseason. Andrew Bynum, who missed the second half of the season and playoffs was rehabilitating and working on conditioning. Trevor Ariza, who also missed the second half of the season, but later returned in the playoffs also had to work back into shape. Both players played on opening day. During the 2007\u201308 season, Kobe Bryant suffered a tear in his right pinkie finger. At the time, Bryant decided to forgo surgery and play out the rest of the season and participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He eventually chose to not to have surgery and let the hand heal naturally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Departures\nThe most notable departure was last year's backup power forward Ronny Turiaf to the Golden State Warriors. As a restricted free agent, the Lakers were allowed to match any offer that another team gave Turiaf. The Lakers chose not to match the 4 year $17 million offer the Warriors gave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Departures\nIra Newble, who the Lakers picked up midway through the 2007\u201308 season, was not re-signed and remained a free agent for the rest of the season. Coby Karl was also cut from the roster with Sun Yue replacing him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Signings\nSasha Vujacic was the first member of the Lakers to sign a contract with the team in the offseason. Still, contract negotiations dragged on longer than usual because he wasn\u2019t signed to a tender offer from another team as a restricted free agent. Vujacic considered playing in Europe, but ultimately signed a 3-year contract worth $15 million with the Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Signings\nAndrew Bynum, who is signed for the 2008\u201309 season, signed a 4-year contract extension for $57.4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Signings\nDJ Mbenga re-signed with the team for one year for approximately $850,000. Josh Powell was also signed to a one-year contract to replace the departed Ronny TuriafThe Lakers 2007 NBA draft pick Sun Yue, spent the entire 07-08 season playing for the Beijing Olympians in the ABA. He also played for China in the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the offseason the Lakers signed him to a 2-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Signings\nJoe Crawford, C.J. Giles, Brandon Heath, and Dwayne Mitchell signed to the Lakers roster during the offseason but were all released before the season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Offseason, Draft picks\nDue to the midseason trade for Pau Gasol in February 2008, the Lakers only had a second round draft pick in 2008. With it they selected Joe Crawford from Kentucky. He signed with the Lakers on August 27, 2008, but was waived October 22, during the 2008\u201309 pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Trades\nOn February 7, Vladimir Radmanovi\u0107 was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats in return for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown. The deal was made largely to save money to be able to resign players during the off-season, notably Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Trades\nOn February 18, backup center Chris Mihm was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for a conditional second round draft pick in 2013. The trade saves the Lakers approximately $2 million in salary and luxury tax money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nWhen the Lakers made it all the way to the 2008 NBA Finals without starter Andrew Bynum, they were seen as the favorites from the Western Conference to return there in 2009. The team's original starting lineup was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nC \u2013 Andrew BynumPF \u2013 Pau GasolSF \u2013 Vladimir Radmanovi\u0107SG \u2013 Kobe BryantPG \u2013 Derek Fisher", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nHaving Radmanovi\u0107 start at SF instead of Lamar Odom was seen as a way to space out the offense since two 7-footers, Bynum and Gasol, were in the starting lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nWith Bynum starting and swingman Trevor Ariza healthy, the team started off the season with a 7-0 record. A week later they tied the record for best start in franchise history. They were unable to break the record the next game, losing to the Sacramento Kings on the road. After peaking at a 21-3 record the Lakers played 4 games in 5 days on the road. They finished the road trip with a sub-par 2-2 record and were facing a rematch of last year's finals against the Boston Celtics on Christmas Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nUnder the national spotlight the two teams kept the game close well into the fourth quarter, where the Lakers finally pulled away in the last 2:48 of the game. Phil Jackson earned his 1,000th career win in the game. The Lakers went to win 10 of 11 games, before losing back to back against the San Antonio Spurs and the Orlando Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nThe losses revealed how injuries to role players Luke Walton and Jordan Farmar could affect the Lakers. Jackson eventually benched the under-performing Radmanovi\u0107 and was replaced by Walton in the starting lineup. Walton was chosen as starter because of his good passing skills and Jackson wanted to emphasize ball movement in the offense. Andrew Bynum was also criticized for his poor play, including a one rebound performance against the Houston Rockets on January 13. Bynum responded by going five straight games with a double-double including a career best 42 points against the Los Angeles Clippers. Around the same time Kobe Bryant also recorded two triple-doubles for the first and second time in his career since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nOn January 31, against the Memphis Grizzlies, Bynum left the game with an injured right knee after he was hit by Bryant driving to the basket. An MRI scan revealed he had a tear of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee and was expected to miss 8\u201312 weeks. To adjust to the injury Pau Gasol moved from power forward to center to replace Bynum and Lamar Odom was put into the starting lineup as power forward to replace Gasol. On February 7 the Lakers traded Vladimir Radmanovi\u0107 to the Charlotte Bobcats for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown. Radmanovi\u0107 saw his role decrease drastically with the Lakers when he was taken out of the starting lineup, often coming in behind Walton and Trevor Ariza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nIn a road game against the New York Knicks on February 2, Bryant scored 61 points on 61% shooting in a 126\u2013117 win. Bryant's scoring outburst set a record for the most points ever scored at the historic Madison Square Garden, breaking Bernard King's record. Bryant's performance was also the highest single game point total of the 2008\u20132009 season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nAside from the team record, another result of the team's success was Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Phil Jackson being selected to play and coach in the 2009 NBA All-Star Game. Bryant was named the All-Star MVP along with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. After the All-Star break, the Lakers won 17 of 19 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nAfter playing 27 of their first 46 games at home (a league high) the Lakers were on the road for 22 of 31 games; which started with a six-game road trip and ended with a seven-game road trip. The Lakers won the first six games on the road, including wins against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers (Cleveland's first of two home losses during the regular season). After the All-Star break, the Lakers won six straight games, but then went 2-5 including going 0-3 on the road. The Lakers redeemed themselves by winning two road games in two days; including a win against the Houston Rockets who were on a 12-game home winning streak and their Western rivals (and second seeded team in the West) the San Antonio Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nIn March, after recommending Phil Jackson to, Luke Walton was moved to the bench and was replaced with Trevor Ariza. Jackson hoped he can spark the bench activity which dwindled throughout the year. The change caused a surge in Ariza's production and allowed Walton to play less minutes against opposing teams' starting players. The Lakers were dealing with giving up leads in games and receiving inconsistent production from the reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Season summary\nAfter spending the entire season with the best record in the Western Conference the Lakers clinched the top record in the Western Conference on March 27. Since then they were in a race with the Cleveland Cavaliers to finish with the best record in the league and secure home court advantage throughout the playoffs. With a loss to the Sixers on March 17, the Lakers fell to second place overall. They eventually conceded the best regular-season record to Cleveland and clinched the #2 record in the league in April. On April 9, Bynum returned to the Lakers after missing 31 games. His first game back he started and scored 16 points off of 7-11 shooting and grabbed 7 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Utah Jazz\nThe Lakers went 65\u201317, and clinched the Pacific Division and home court advantage throughout the Western Conference playoffs. In the first round, the Lakers faced the eight-seeded Utah Jazz. The Lakers won Games 1 and 2 at the Staples, but lost Game 3 in Salt Lake City, following a game winner from Deron Williams. All three games saw the Lakers give up big leads, though they were able to still hold the series edge. After a 5-24 performance in Game 3, Kobe Bryant scored 38 points in Game 4 on 16 of 24 shooting in a road win. The Lakers won the series in Game 5 with a 107-96 win at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Houston Rockets\nIn the second round the Lakers faced the Houston Rockets. In Game 1, the Lakers fell behind in the first quarter and never got into a rhythm. As a result, they lost their first home game of the postseason. The Lakers rebounded in Game 2 behind Bryant's 40 point performance and a double double by Gasol and tied the series up at 1 win each. The game was very intense and physical as Derek Fisher of the Lakers and Ron Artest got ejected and technical fouls were assessed to Bryant, Artest, Luis Scola, Luke Walton and Lamar Odom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Houston Rockets\nThe series moved to Houston for Game 3 which the Lakers won 108-94 to retake home court advantage in the series. The Lakers went on to lose Game 4 87-99, despite Rockets center Yao Ming missing the game (and rest of the series) with a broken foot. In Game 5 the Lakers blew out the Rockets by 40 points, tying the Rockets worst loss in franchise history. Game 6 in Houston was a decisive 95-80 Rockets win. The Rockets jumped out to a 17-1 lead to start the game and were up at half time by 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0025-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Houston Rockets\nGame 6 was the most watched basketball game ever on ESPN. The final game of the series was played in Los Angeles on May 17. The Lakers routed the Rockets and won the game 89-70. With 2:30 left in the game the Lakers were up 89-58 and Bryant sat out for most of the 4th quarter. Kobe Bryant scored 14 points his lowest amount of playoff points. In each game of the series the team that led at the first quarter won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Denver Nuggets\nIn the third round the Lakers faced the Denver Nuggets. In Game 1, the Lakers fell behind in the first quarter by up to 13 points. In the second quarter the Lakers found their rhythm and took a 55-54 lead at halftime. In the fourth quarter the game was close and Kobe Bryant scored 18 of his 40 points in that quarter to lead the Lakers to a 105-103 to take a 1-0 series lead. In Game 2, the Lakers took a 41-27 lead in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0026-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Denver Nuggets\nIn the final minutes of the second quarter the Nuggets went on a 14-2 run to get themselves within 1. Ever since that the game was close. The Nuggets were able to get a win at Staples Center 106-103 which gave the Lakers their second home loss of the postseason. In Game 3, there was another close game which the winner was not decided until the Lakers pulled away at 12 seconds when Bryant made 2 free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0026-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Denver Nuggets\nThe Lakers stole home court advantage back from the Nuggets with a 41-point performance from Kobe Bryant (13 of them in the 4th quarter). The Lakers were able to stop Denver's 16 home game winning streak by defeating the Nuggets 103-97 to take a 2-1 series lead. The Denver Nuggets would even the series by defeating the Lakers 120-101, thanks in part to 49 free throw attempts. The Lakers 120 points were the most the franchise has ever given up on the postseason, and they also allowed Denver to score 43 points in the 4th quarter. The Lakers defeated the Nuggets at Staples Center 103-94 in Game 5. Game 6 was a blowout in which the Lakers defeated the Nuggets 119-92 to advance to its franchise's 30th NBA Finals appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Orlando Magic\nWhile the Lakers were making their NBA record 30th Finals appearance, the Magic were entering only their second in franchise history. The Lakers had home court advantage due to having the better regular season record. The Lakers earned a blowout win in Game 1, defeating the Magic by 25 points. Game 2 was a tighter contest, with Magic guard Courtney Lee missing a game winning lay-up off an inbounds lob at the end of regulation. Instead, the game went into overtime and the Lakers prevailed. The series switched to Orlando for games 3, 4, and 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0027-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Orlando Magic\nIn Game 3 the Magic shot 75% in the first half and 62.5% in the game, both NBA Finals records, to win by 4 and bring the series to 2-1. Game 4 was another close game. Derek Fisher hit two key 3-pointers, one with 4.6 seconds left in regulation to tie the game, and the other with 31.3 seconds to go in overtime. The Lakers moved within one win of their 15th championship by beating the Orlando Magic 99-91 to open a 3-1 series lead. The Lakers defeated the Magic in Game 5 to clinch their 15th NBA Championship with a 99-86 win, winning two consecutive games in Orlando.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200605-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Los Angeles Lakers season, Post season, Orlando Magic\nFans celebrate with their 2009 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200606-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team  represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ragin' Cajuns, led by fifth-year head coach Robert Lee, played their home games at the Cajundome and were members of the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 10\u201320, 7\u201311 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place in the Western Divisional standings. They competed in the 2009 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament where they lost in the Quarterfinals to FIU. They were not invited to any other post-season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200607-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Ragin' Cajuns were led by second-year head coach Errol Rogers; they played their double-header home games at the Cajundome with other games at the Earl K. Long Gymnasium, which is located on campus. They were members in the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 4\u201327, 0\u201318 in Sun Belt play to finish dead-last (seventh place) in the West Division. They were eliminated in the first round of the Sun Belt Women's Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200607-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Ragin' Cajuns finished the 2007\u201308 season 8\u201322, 4\u201314 in Sun Belt play to finish in dead-last (seventh place) in the West Division. They made it to the 2007 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, losing in the first round game by a low score of 40-49 to the South Alabama Jaguars. They were not invited to any other postseason tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 82], "content_span": [83, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Louisville's 95th season of intercollegiate competition. The Cardinals competed in the Big East Conference and were coached by Rick Pitino, who was in his eighth season. The team played its home games at Freedom Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team\nThe Cardinals finished the season 31\u20136, 16\u20132 and were regular season Big East Champions (their 1st). They defeated Syracuse 76\u201366 to win the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament (their 1st). They received an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning the overall #1 seed and were placed in the Midwest Region. They were upset by #2 seed Michigan State in the Midwest Regional final, 64\u201352.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team, Preseason\nAfter an elite eight appearance in the 2008 tournament, Louisville entered the 2008\u201309 season ranked third in both the AP and Coaches polls in part due to a strong recruiting class. The incoming freshman class is ranked fifth overall by Scouts.com, led by number one ranked center Samardo Samuels. Louisville has been picked by many analysts to be a potential Final Four contender, including Sports Illustrated and Dick Vitale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team, Regular season\nDespite the #3 preseason ranking, Louisville struggled in the non-conference losing to three unranked opponents. After beating Kentucky on an Edgar Sosa buzzer-beating three pointer, Louisville entered Big East play ranked #21. After beating South Florida easily, Louisville beat three straight ranked teams in close games: #17 Villanova, #12 Notre Dame in overtime, and previously unbeaten #1 Pittsburgh. Louisville would continue strong play, going undefeated in January and winning its first eight conference games before losing to #1 Connecticut on February 2. After beating St. John's, Louisville lost by their most lopsided margin since joining the Big East, a 33-point drubbing by Notre Dame. After that game, Louisville won its final seven regular season games to win the school's first ever regular season Big East championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 904]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team, Big East Tournament\nBy virtue of their outright regular-season title, Louisville received a double-bye in the Big East Tournament and played their first game in the tournament quarterfinals. In the tournament, Louisville beat Providence 73\u201355 in the quarterfinals and #10 Villanova 69\u201355 in the semifinals to advance to the school's first ever Big East Tournament championship game in four seasons in the conference. In the finals, Louisville won its first Big East Tournament Championship, defeating #18 Syracuse 76\u201366. Due to losses in the early conference tournament rounds by several teams above them, the Cardinals finished #1 in the final regular season AP and coaches' polls\u2014the first time in school history they have been ranked #1 in either poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200608-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team, NCAA tournament\nLouisville was awarded the top seed in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Region, as well as the overall #1 seed in the tournament. This is Louisville's second ever 1-seed. The Cardinals beat Morehead St. and Siena in the first two tournament rounds, advancing to face Arizona in the Sweet 16 on March 27. After beating Arizona by 39 points, Louisville faced Michigan St. in the Elite Eight and lost 64\u201352.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200609-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team represented the University of Louisville in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Cardinals were coached by Jeff Walz, and the Cardinals played their home games at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The Lady Cardinals are a member of the Big East Conference and advanced to the NCAA championship match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200610-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luge World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Luge World Cup was a multi race competition over a season for luge. The season started on 29 November 2008 and ended on 21 February 2009. The World Cup was organised by the FIL and sponsored by Viessmann. These cups served as qualifiers for the 2010 Winter Olympics luge events in Vancouver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 123rd season in the history of Luton Town Football Club. The team's 24th-place finish in League One in 2007\u201308 meant the club competed in League Two. The club was docked 30 points at the start of the season; 10 by The Football Association for irregular matters involving player transfers, and 20 by the Football League for breaking rules on exiting administration. As a result, the club finished bottom of the league and was relegated to the Conference Premier. The season was not, however, without success \u2013 Luton beat Scunthorpe United 3\u20132 at Wembley to win the Football League Trophy for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season\nThis article covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nKevin Blackwell's Luton team had a woeful 2007\u201308 season, due in no small part to the chaos behind the scenes at the club. Chairman David Pinkney, who had only months before taken over the club promising success, took the club into administration on 22 November 2007, stating he would fund the club's overheads. The club had ten points deducted as punishment. Meanwhile, an FA probe on transfer irregularities dragged on, described by Pinkney as \"a storm in a teacup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nOn 12 January, Kevin Blackwell and his assistants Sam Ellis and John Carver announced their intention to resign from the club on 9 February. This came after the administrator had sold captain Chris Coyne to Colchester United and midfielder David Edwards to Wolverhampton Wanderers for \u00a3350,000 and \u00a3675,000 respectively. Blackwell had managed to guide his team to an FA Cup replay against Liverpool at Anfield, which assisted financially, but failed to prevent further sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nOn the same day as the replay at Anfield, 15 January, the administrator awarded \"preferred bidder\" status to Luton Town Football Club 2020, a consortium fronted by broadcaster and Luton Town supporter Nick Owen. 2020 loaned money to the club to keep them operating and, in return, were granted exclusive negotiation rights until the end of February 2008. Blackwell and his assistants were all sacked by the administrator on the same day, following a 5\u20130 defeat to Liverpool, to be replaced by former player Mick Harford, with Warren Neill installed as his assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nOn 26 February, the 2020 consortium had their bid for the club conditionally accepted by the administrator. This meant that they were now custodians of the club until the end of the season, and that the Football League would have to negotiate terms to return the Golden Share to Luton Town for the 2008\u201309 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nLuton were relegated to League Two following a 2\u20131 home defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion on 12 April. The defeat left the Hatters rooted to the bottom of the table on 33 points, three points behind fellow strugglers Port Vale, who were also relegated on the same day. Luton lost all of their remaining league games and finished the season in bottom place and 17 points adrift of safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Background\nOn 3 June, the FA's probe finally finished, and Luton were found guilty of 15 misconduct charges. The club was handed a ten-point deduction for the 2008\u201309 campaign, and a \u00a350,000 fine. However, the situation soon went from bad to worse as, since the club had violated Football League rules by leaving administration without having made a Company Voluntary Arrangement with its creditors, the Football League only offered to return the Golden Share (that would allow the club to compete) to Luton on the condition that they play with a further twenty-point deduction. Luton appealed against the decision, but their appeal was thrown out. As a result, Luton Town began the 2008\u201309 season with an unprecedented \u221230 points, and facing a mighty fight merely to avoid relegation from the Football League for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 878]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nFollowing the player sales in the previous season, Luton manager Mick Harford needed to practically rebuild his squad from scratch. A Football League-enforced transfer embargo that was in place until 48 hours before their first game of the season handicapped Harford further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nOnce the embargo was lifted on 8 August, the club signed nine players: former player Kevin Nicholls returned from a spell at Preston North End to captain the team; Claude Gnakpa joined from Peterborough United; Asa Hall signed from Birmingham City; George Pilkington arrived from Port Vale, and many others were signed including Michael Spillane and Chris Martin, both on season-long loans from Norwich City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, August and September\nLuton made an indifferent start to the season, beating Plymouth Argyle in the League Cup, before going down 5\u20131 in the next round at Reading. By the end of September, Luton had reached \u221219 points in the league. This included an opening day home defeat to Port Vale, but narrow away victories over both Gillingham and Exeter City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, October\nLuton's form soon slumped \u2013 after a draw away at Bradford City and a penalty shootout win over Brentford in the Football League Trophy, they lost two home games in a row. First Darlington inflicted defeat with a last minute winner in front of the Oak Road, then Luton were beaten 2\u20131 at home by Accrington Stanley in the first ever meeting between the two clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, October\nMeanwhile, manager Mick Harford continued to try to regenerate the squad \u2013 Irish winger Garreth O'Connor was drafted in from free agency, as was former Coventry City forward Wayne Andrews. A spate of injuries did not help matters \u2013 talismanic captain Nicholls had not played since August, forward Sam Parkin was struggling with a recurring ankle injury, and defender Pilkington was out after becoming injured in early September. Harford introduced several younger players into the squad, including 16-year-old left-back Jake Howells from the youth team, 19-year-old Harry Worley on loan from Leicester City and 20-year-old striker Tom Craddock on loan from Middlesbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, October\nCraddock made a big impact in his second game \u2013 scoring two goals in a 2\u20132 draw at Grimsby Town. Craddock earnt and scored a penalty after Grimsby had taken an early lead, and then, deep into injury time, crashed the ball into the far corner from long range to secure a vital point for Luton. Luton Town history was made in this game as striker Jordan Patrick pulled on the number 29 shirt to become the club's youngest ever player \u2013 at 16 years and 7 days, Patrick came off the bench to set up Craddock's equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, October\nCraddock scored again in a 2\u20131 win against Bury to quickly establish himself in the team. Parkin, one of the club's highest earners, returned from injury during this game, but failed to score. He was sent out on loan to Leyton Orient days later, with a view to a permanent deal. Three days later, a Tuesday night game against AFC Bournemouth at Kenilworth Road was abandoned after only eight minutes due to bad weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, November\nLuton's form was interrupted \u2013 a 3\u20130 annihilation followed that Saturday at Shrewsbury Town, putting a dent into Luton's charge for safety. A win in the Football League Trophy, against League One club Walsall, was the exception rather than the rule. Ahead of the next game, at home against Dagenham & Redbridge, Luton were boosted by the news that Craddock had extended his loan from Middlesbrough by a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, November\nHowever, when Craddock injured his groin only days later, Luton were forced to bring in another striker \u2013 former Queens Park Rangers player Kevin Gallen was signed on loan for a month from MK Dons. Results did not improve, with consecutive losses to Rochdale and Brentford. An exit from the FA Cup followed, as Southend comfortably beat Luton 3\u20131 at Roots Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, December\nDecember saw a revival in fortunes, as the Hatters went the entire month unbeaten. After a thrilling 3\u20133 draw at Kenilworth Road in the rescheduled game against Bournemouth, Luton beat Barnet 3\u20131. A 0\u20130 draw at top-of-the-table Wycombe Wanderers followed a week later, before Luton beat Colchester United in the Football League Trophy to earn a place in the Southern Area Final against Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, December\nCraddock extended his loan from Middlesbrough by another month soon after. Luton's unbeaten run continued on Boxing Day; Ian Roper's goal six minutes into injury time sealing a point at Chesterfield. Two days later came a home win against Lincoln City, Roper scoring again after Martin had put Luton 2\u20130 ahead \u2013 the match finished 3\u20132. Luton were now only one point away from cancelling out their 30-point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, January\nWinger Ian Henderson, available as a free agent, signed on New Year's Day and Gallen's loan was also extended. To make room on the wage bill, O'Connor and Kevin Watson both left after short careers as Luton players. The club then had a bad run of results, including a 5\u20131 defeat at Darlington. Before the Darlington game, Luton signed Colchester United forward Akanni-Sunday Wasiu on loan for a month, while extending goalkeeper Conrad Logan's stay for a further month and signing Gallen on a permanent deal. Andrews was released soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, January\nIn the first leg of the Football League Trophy Southern Area Final on 20 January, Luton travelled to Brighton & Hove Albion and battled to a 0\u20130 draw, giving them a slight advantage for the second leg at Kenilworth Road. A controversial 3\u20133 draw with Bradford City saw both teams' managers, Mick Harford and Stuart McCall, and Luton captain Nicholls all set dates for FA hearings following a bizarre refereeing performance from Trevor Kettle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, January\nCraddock signed an \u00a380,000 permanent deal on 27 January, with Drew Talbot leaving for Chesterfield on loan to make room on the wage budget. Luton's poor run of league form continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, February\nA series of postponements due to adverse weather meant the club did not play for another two weeks and, when they did, they lost 2\u20131 to Dagenham & Redbridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, February\n17 February saw Brighton & Hove Albion return for the second leg of the Football League Trophy Southern Area Final. Luton took the lead after 59 seconds through Craddock, following a defensive mix-up. Brighton equalised with a Nicky Forster goal before David Livermore was sent off for a dangerous tackle on Spillane. Neither club made a breakthrough in the remainder of the match, which went to a penalty shoot-out. Luton's on-loan goalkeeper from Derby County, Lewis Price, saved from Jason Jarrett and Chris Birchall to take Luton into the final against Scunthorpe United on 5 April at Wembley Stadium. This appeared to have given Luton something of a confidence boost as they then went four games unbeaten in the league. Craddock scored again against Shrewsbury Town as Luton won 3\u20131, and carried on his scoring form over the next month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, March\nThe next major game was on 17 March against relegation rivals Grimsby Town. Grimsby boss Mike Newell, formerly manager of Luton Town, was suing the club for unfair dismissal. Newell received an angry reception, which turned to jeers when Hall scored a last minute winner to give Luton the three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, March\nMacclesfield Town then visited Kenilworth Road, and a Craddock penalty was enough to secure a 1\u20130 victory for Luton \u2013 the first time the club had secured two straight wins all season. Meanwhile, the club announced they had sold out their allocated 30,000 tickets for the Football League Trophy final almost immediately, and were given another 8,500 which went just as fast \u2013 setting a record for the most fans at Wembley Stadium from one club. However, Luton were told they would not be given any more due to \"segregation issues\". As a result, the final saw 40,000 Wembley seats empty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, March\n26 March, loan deadline day, saw Luton bring in experienced midfielder David Livermore from Brighton & Hove Albion on a month's loan. Meanwhile, young striker Ryan Charles moved to Kettering Town on loan, also for a month. Two days later the Hatters travelled to Morecambe, unbeaten in twelve games. Goals from Martin and Gallen saw Luton beat Morecambe 2\u20131 and, in doing so, managed three straight wins for the first time since the 2004\u201305 League One winning season. Luton were now only eight points behind Chester City and with a game in hand. The match that Tuesday against Rotherham United, Luton's game in hand, could not have been more vital, but the Hatters ended up being defeated 4\u20132 and suffered a severe blow to their hopes of escaping relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, March\nThe FA hearings from the Bradford City game in January rolled around for Nicholls, Mick Harford and the club on 23 March \u2013 Harford was fined a total of \u00a31,000, the club \u00a32,000, and Nicholls \u00a31,000. Nicholls was also handed a five-match ban to begin on 7 April \u2013 however, the club lodged an appeal against the ban on 31 March, delaying its effect until after the appeal was heard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nApril began with the news that the club had won their case against former manager Mike Newell. Newell claimed that in his contract he had been entitled to 10% of any profit on players sold. However, his claim for \u00a3400,000 in unpaid transfer money was not upheld by a Football League panel on 31 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\n5 April finally came, and Luton faced Scunthorpe United at Wembley Stadium in the Football League Trophy final as 40,000 Luton supporters converged on Wembley, dwarfing Scunthorpe's support of 13,000. Brian Mawhinney, Chairman of the Football League, was roundly booed by the Luton support before the game, in protest at the huge point deductions imposed at the start of the season. When the game got going, however, it was Scunthorpe who drew first blood in a pulsating match. Gary Hooper put Scunthorpe ahead early on with a low shot past Dean Brill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0024-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nCraddock set up Martin with a superb cross a few minutes later, and Martin chested the ball down to shoot into the far corner to make it 1\u20131. In the second half, Craddock scored a half-volley from the edge of the box to make it 2\u20131, but Grant McCann forced extra time with a spectacular strike with only minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0024-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nCraddock was substituted and replaced by French defender Gnakpa, played in an unusually forward role by Mick Harford \u2013 it was a gamble which paid off, as Gnakpa ran onto a long ball from Keith Keane and got a touch that carried the ball over Joe Murphy and into the net, sending the supporters wild. Luton clung on, with man-of-the-match captain Nicholls at the centre of the game, and held on to win the match 3\u20132 and bring the Football League Trophy to Luton for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nOnly eight days later, Luton lost their League status \u2013 Lincoln City dealt another blow, as Luton were held to a 0\u20130 draw, and the final nail in the coffin came two days later as, on 13 April 2009, Luton Town were finally relegated from The Football League after a spell of 89 years. Chesterfield held Luton to a draw and, coupled with former Luton manager Mike Newell's Grimsby Town side winning, this meant the club's survival in the league became mathematically impossible to achieve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nI found out at five to five. I looked at the clock in the dressing room and said to the players: \"Remember this time \u2013 five to five, on 13 April. This is the rebirth of Luton Town Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nRelegation opened the question of whether Luton would be allowed to enter the Football League Trophy during the 2009\u201310 season. Luton soon submitted an application to the Football League, asking for special dispensation to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\nA Rossi Jarvis goal saved a point at Barnet on 18 April. Nicholls was sent off late on for collecting two yellow cards, and Brill saved a penalty from former Hatter Paul Furlong. Wycombe Wanderers then came to Kenilworth Road, but despite Luton forcing pressure on the promotion contenders, Wycombe managed a goal on the break following an error by Sol Davis and Luton failed to find an equaliser. Luton's last home game in the Football League was a 1\u20131 draw with promotion chasers Rochdale, with Craddock scoring a penalty before Adam Rundle rescued a point for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, April\n27 April saw the appeal against the Nicholls ban heard at the FA, and the decision was upheld, meaning that Nicholls would miss the match against Brentford on 2 May, as well as the first four games of the 2009\u201310 season. Two days later, long-serving club secretary Cherry Newbury, an employee since 1978, finally left by mutual consent after a period of suspension on full pay starting in January. Newbury had been secretary since 1994, and was implicated as the employee who drew The Football Association's attention to former directors paying agents through the club's holding company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, May and June\nLuton Town bowed out of the Football League after 89 years with a 2\u20130 defeat at champions Brentford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, May and June\nThe first signing of the summer for Luton's time in non-League football was announced on 26 May, as lifelong Luton Town supporter Andy Burgess signed a two-year contract, joining from Rushden & Diamonds on a free transfer. The next day saw five players released \u2013 Parkin, Dean Morgan, Paul McVeigh, Davis and Brill all left as their contracts had ended. Adam Newton signed a two-year contract on 28 May following his release from Brentford, as regeneration of the squad continued. Gallen signed a new one-year deal the same day. Young defender Howells signed his first professional deal on 2 June. Three days later, Liam Hatch arrived on loan from Peterborough United for the 2009\u201310 season. Central defender Alan White rejoined Luton on 8 June, nine years after leaving in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200611-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luton Town F.C. season, Review, May and June\nOn 15 June, the request to defend the Football League Trophy title was turned down. Experienced goalkeeper Mark Tyler signed a two-year deal two years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup is the eighty-fourth season of Luxembourg's annual cup competition. It began on 3 September 2008 with Round 1 and ended on 30 May 2009 with the Final held at a neutral venue. The winners of the competition will qualify for the second qualifying round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League. CS Grevenmacher are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 1\nFifty-two teams from Division 2 (IV) and Division 3 (V) entered in this round. Forty of them competed in matches, with the other twelve teams were awarded a bye. The games were played on September 3, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 1\nBye : US Boevange, CS Bourscheid, FC Brouch, Vinesca Ehnen, Excelsior Grevels, FC Kopstal, AS Luxembourg-Porto, Marisca Mersch, US Moutfort, US Reisdorf, R\u00e9sidence Walferdange, Yellow Boys Weiler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 2\nThe winners of Round 1 competed in this round. The games were played on September 28, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 3\nThe winners of Round 2 competed in this round, as well as twenty-eight teams from Division 1 (III), which entered the competition in this round. The games were played on November 2, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 4\nTwenty-two winners of Round 3 competed in this round, as well as fourteen teams from the Division of Honour (II), which entered the competition in this round. The games were played on December 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 5\nEighteen winners of Round 4 competed in this round, as well as fourteen teams from the National Division, which entered the competition in this round. The games were played on February 21, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200612-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg Cup, Round 6\nThe winners of Round 5 competed in this round. The games were played on April 10 and 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200613-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division (also known as BGL Ligue due to sponsorship reasons) was the 95th season of top-tier football in Luxembourg. It started on 2 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200613-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division\nF91 Dudelange successfully defended their title and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Runners-up FC Differdange 03 and third-placed CS Grevenmacher, as well as domestic cup winners UN K\u00e4erjeng 97, will participate in the UEFA Europa League. SC Steinfort and Avenir Beggen were directly relegated while US Rumelange retained their National Division status via relegation play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200613-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFC Victoria Rosport and CS P\u00e9tange were relegated to the Division of Honour after finishing 13th and 14th in 2007\u201308. They were replaced by Division of Honour 2007\u201308 champions US Rumelange and runners-up CS Fola Esch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200613-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFC Wiltz 71 as 12th-placed team had to compete in a single play-off match against 3rd-placed Division of Honour sides SC Steinfort. Steinfort won the match, 2\u20130, and thus gained promotion to the National Division while Wiltz were relegated as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200613-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Luxembourg National Division, Relegation play-offs\n12th placed US Rumelange competed in a relegation play-offs match against the third placed team of Luxembourg Division of Honour, FC Erpeldange 72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200614-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 MJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's (MJHL) 92nd season of operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200615-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 MOL Liga season\nThe 2008\u20132009 MOL Liga Season was the first season played, of this international ice hockey. Six teams from Hungary and two from Romania participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200615-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 MOL Liga season, Teams\nAlba Vol\u00e1n Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r II Budapest Stars Duna\u00fajv\u00e1rosi Ac\u00e9lbik\u00e1k Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC HC Cs\u00edkszereda Progym Hargita Gy\u00f6ngye Miskolci JJSE SC Miercurea Ciuc Steaua Bucure\u0219ti \u00dajpesti TE", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200616-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 MTN Domestic Championship\nThe MTN Domestic Championship is the premier List A cricket championship in South Africa. This was the 28th time the championship was contested. Each team plays each other twice in a home and away leg. The top four teams progress to the semi-finals, with the winners of the semi-finals going through to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200616-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 MTN Domestic Championship\nThe series starts on 14 October 2008 and plays through until the final on 17 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200617-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Maccabi Haifa's 51st season in Israeli Premier League, and their 27th consecutive season in the top division of Israeli football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200617-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maccabi Haifa F.C. season\nThe season was a great success for the club winning the league and coming extremely close to winning the State Cup to go with it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200618-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian First Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Macedonian First League was the 17th season  of the Macedonian First Football League, the highest football league of Macedonia. It began on 3 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. Rabotnichki were the defending champions, having won their third title the previous year. Bashkimi withdrew from the championship due to financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200618-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian First Football League, Promotion and relegation\n1 Bashkimi was withdraw from the First League due to financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200618-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian First Football League, Results\nThe schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 20 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 30 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200619-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup was the 17th season of Macedonia's football knockout competition. FK Rabotnichki defended their title, having won their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200619-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup, First round\nThe draw was held on 21 June 2008 in Skopje. Matches were played on 17 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200619-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup, Second round\nThe draw was held on 22 September 2008 in Skopje. The first legs were played on 22 October 2008 and second on 29 and 30 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200619-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe draw was held on 6 November 2008 in Skopje. The first legs were played on 26 November 2008 and the second were played on 7 and 10 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200619-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Football Cup, Semi-finals\nThe draw was held on 25 December 2008 in Skopje. The first legs were played on 8 April 2009 and the second were played on 6 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200620-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Macedonian Second Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Macedonian Second Football League was the seventeenth season since its establishment. It began on 2 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200621-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Magyar Kupa\nThe 2008\u201309 Magyar Kupa was the sixty-ninth season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup competition. It started with the first games of Round 1 on 2 August 2008 and ended with the Final held on 26 May 2009. The winners earned a place in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Debreceni VSC were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200621-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Magyar Kupa, Round 5\nThe first legs were played between 8 and 10 October 2008. The second legs were played on 21 and 22 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200621-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Magyar Kupa, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 10 and 11 March 2009 and the second legs were played on 17 and 18 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200621-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Magyar Kupa, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 14 and 15 April 2009 and the second legs were played on 21 and 22 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200622-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-09 season was the 11th season for the Black Bears. The Black Bears had an overall record of 5 wins, 23 losses and 5 ties. Their Hockey East conference record was 4 wins, 15 losses and 2 ties. Jennie Gallo led the team in goals for the second consecutive year. Myriam Croussette led all freshman in scoring and Jenna Ouellette led the team with five power play goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200623-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division was the 44th season of the Highest-Level of Professional Soccer in Mali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200623-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division, Overview\nThough the competition's structure has varied over time, the size of the league remained the same from the previous season. The championship was once again contested by fourteen teams between December 2008 and September 2009. The league was conducted over 26 rounds as well with all teams playing against each other twice on a home and away basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200623-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division, Overview\nThe structure by which promoted clubs are chosen has changed over time, but as of 2008, the two promoted teams are chosen from regional league tournaments. One club comes from Malian Groupe B league soccer tournament (for teams near Bamako and the west) and the other is the Malian Groupe A league which is a tournament for clubs outside Bamako. Al Farouk were promoted from Group A and Jeanne d'Arc FC were promoted from Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200623-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division, Overview\nThe season featured 183 matches, a total of 421 goals were scored, more than last season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200623-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Malian Premi\u00e8re Division, Overview\nDjoliba AC qualified into the 2010 CAF Champions League while CO Bamako qualified into the 2010 CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy was the 71st season since its establishment. It features 20 teams from Maltese Premier League and First Division. The competition started on 25 October 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009 with the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy\nBirkirkara were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Valletta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy, Results\nWhen the draw was conducted four teams received a bye to the Quarterfinals. Birkirkara received a bye because they won the 2007\u201308 Maltese FA Trophy. Other three teams qualifying directly to the Quarterfinals are Valletta, Marsaxlokk and Sliema Wanderers, for being (except Birkirkara) three best-placed teams in last year's Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy, Results, First Round\nIn the First Round entered Premier League teams placed 4th to 10th and 10 First Division teams. The matches were played on 25, 26 October, 1 and 2 November  2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy, Results, Second Round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round. The matches were played on 8 and 9 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy, Results, Quarterfinals\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round and four teams that had received a bye. The matches were played on 7 February 2009. All 8 teams from this round were from the Premier League. Marsaxlokk, Birkirkara, Valletta and Sliema won their ties and advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200624-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese FA Trophy, Results, Semifinals\nThe matches were played on 7 and 8 March 2009. Holders Birkirkara met the same team they met the previous year, Valletta. But this time they lost and it was Valletta who reached the final. In the other semifinal Sliema beat Marsaxlokk 4\u20133 on penalties after the match finished in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200625-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese First Division\nThe Maltese First Division 2008\u201309 season (known as BOV First Division 2008\u201309 for sponsorship reasons) started in October 2008 and ended in May 2009. Pieta Hotspurs and Mqabba were relegated from the Premier League. The promoted teams were San Gwann and Rabat Ajax. Dingli Swallows and Vittoriosa Stars finished the league as joint first with the same number of points. Both were promoted but a decider had to be played to decide who the champions would be. The decider was won by Dingli by the score of 2\u20131. At the other end Rabat Ajax and Senglea Athletics were relegated to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200625-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese First Division, Teams\nThese teams will contest the Maltese First Division 2008-09 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200626-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese First Division knock-out\nThe First Division Knock-Out 2008-09 is a group and knock-out competition for football teams from the Maltese First Division. This year's format differs from the previous 2 years in that the simple knock-out has been replaced by two groups, the top two from each qualifying for the semi-finals. The competition started on 13 September 2008 and finished on 10 May 2009, with the final. The final was contested between First Division champions Dingli and St. Patrick. St. Patrick won 2-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200627-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Premier League\nThe Maltese Premier League 2008\u201309 was the 94th season of the Maltese Premier League, the top-tier Association Football competition in Malta. It began on 23 August 2008 with a scoreless draw between Floriana and Hamrun Spartans; and ended on 24 May 2009. The first goal in the season was scored by Ivan, who played for Qormi. Hibernians were crowned champions on 23 May 2009, surpassing rivals Valletta by two points and winning their tenth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200627-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Premier League, Competition modus\nIn the First Round, every team played each opponent twice, once home and once away, for a total of 18 games. The league was then split in two pools. Earned points were halved. Teams that finished in positions 1\u20136 compete in the \"Championship Pool\" and teams finishing in positions 7\u201310 play in the \"Relegation Pool\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200627-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Premier League, Second round, Relegation Pool, Deciding game\nBecause Tarxien Rainbows, Msida Saint-Joseph and Hamrun Spartans were tied on points after all matches played, their head-to head results in Relegation Pool were decisive. Hamrun Spartans had the fewest points in those matches and were therefore immediately relegated. However, Tarxien Rainbows and Msida Saint-Joseph were equal on points in their two matches and they played a decision game to determine the second relegated team. The match was played on 8 May 2009 at Hibernians Ground. However, in the wake of a corruption scandal, both Hamrun Spartans and Msida Saint-Joseph were returned to the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200628-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Second Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Maltese Second Division season, also known as the 2008\u201309 BOV 2nd Division  due to sponsorship reason) started on 27 September 2008 and ended on 10 May 2009. Mellieha and Marsa were relegated from the First Division. The promoted teams were Gozo FC and Zebbug Rangers. Zebbug had to start the season with a five point deduction due to incidents which occurred the previous season. The 2008\u201309 Maltese Second Division was won by Balzan Youths. The runners-up were Melita, who finished 2 points off Lija Athletic. Mgarr United and Marsa were relegated to the Third Division. This was the third straight relegation for Marsa, who 3 years previously were competing in the Premier League and now have to compete in the Third Division. Naxxar Lions were also relegated as they lost in the promotion-relegation play-offs to Santa Lucia. The play-offs were won by Zurrieq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200629-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Second and Third Division Knock-Out\nThe 2008\u201309 Second and Third Division Knock-Out (known as quick Keno Second and Third Division Knock-Out for sponsorship reasons) was a knockout tournament for Maltese football clubs playing in the Second and Third Division. The winners were Melita which successfully defended this title from their win in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200630-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Third Division\nThe Maltese Third Division 2008\u201309 (known as the BOV 3rd Division 2008\u201309 due to sponsorship reasons) is the 9th season of the Maltese Third Division. It started in September 2008 and ended in late May 2009, with the promotion play-off finals. This division is divided into two sections: Section A, with ten teams and Section B, with nine. The winners from both sections will face each other in a play-off where the winner is crowned as champion of this division, but both teams will still be given promotion to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200630-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Third Division\nGharghur were the winners of Section A, while Gzira United were the winners of Section B. Gzira United finished the season as overall champions after they beat Gharghur 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200630-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maltese Third Division\nZurrieq were also promoted after winning the promotion play-offs, beating Santa Lucia on penalties in the final. Santa Lucia beat Naxxar Lions in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Manchester City Football Club's seventh consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its twelfth season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it was the team's 117th season playing in a division of English football, the majority of which have been spent in the top-flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Changes in ownership\nThe club started the season under the private ownership of UK Sports Investments Limited (UKSIL), a company controlled by former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, but it was announced on the morning of Monday 1 September 2008 (the last day of the summer transfer window) that Abu Dhabi-based Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited (ADUG) had completed a takeover of Manchester City in a deal worth a reported \u00a3200\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Changes in ownership\nThis transaction made Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan the new owner of the club, although initially he kept a very low profile and Dr. Sulaiman Al-Fahim, who was the board member of ADUG that had presided over the signing of the deal at the Emirates Palace Hotel, was widely believed to be the new owner and potential chairman of the club. However, before the takeover was finally completed, wealthy backer Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan became more prominent and it was eventually made clear that Al-Fahim would not be joining the board at Manchester City, with Khaldoon Al Mubarak being appointed as the club's new chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Changes in ownership\nThe last-minute takeover of the club on transfer \"deadline-day\" was further capped, mere minutes before the summer transfer window closed, with the news that the club had beaten Chelsea to the signing of Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record transfer fee of \u00a332.5\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Kit, Kit information\nFor this season the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits continued to be the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook, while the team kits were produced by the previous season's supplier, Le Coq Sportif. The home and away kits were unveiled by the club on 27 June 2008, with the new away kit representing a more modern rendition of the club's highly popular red and black striped shirts and black shorts that had first been introduced as a club kit by Malcolm Allison back in 1968 in imitation of A.C. Milan's classic colors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Kit, Kit information\nA striking new \"blaze orange\"/navy third kit completed the collection of kits, while the team's main home strip shed the previous season's thin white vertical stripes from the shirts and returned to the solid sky blue shirts that are more traditionally associated with the team. As well as all three of the team kits being new this season, the previous season's two-tone green goalkeeper strip was also replaced with two new strips for the goalkeepers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Kit, Kit information\nThe main goalkeeper strip, intended primarily for use with the home team colours, sported an all gold shirt trimmed with black on the shoulders and sides with matching all black shorts and socks, whilst the second mint-green strip, with the shirts similarly trimmed in black, was introduced to supplement it on both home and away fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Historical league performance\nPrior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart \u2013 which commences with the last season (1991\u201392) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Competitive games, Premier League, Results summary\nLast updated: 24 May 2009 (end of season). Source: Premier League results 2008\u201309", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Competitive games, Premier League, Points breakdown\nPoints against \"Big Four\" teams: 4 Points against promoted teams: 10", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Competitive games, Premier League, Biggest & smallest\nBiggest home win: 6\u20130 vs. Portsmouth, 21 September 2008 Biggest home defeats: 1\u20133 vs. Chelsea, 13 September 2008 & vs. Fulham, 12 April 2009 Biggest away win: 0\u20133 vs. Sunderland, 31 August 2008 Biggest away defeats: 4\u20132 vs. Aston Villa, 17 August 2008 000000002\u20130 vs. Middlesbrough, 29 October 2008 & vs. Bolton Wanderers, 2 November 2008 000000000& vs. Portsmouth, 14 February 2009 & vs. Arsenal, 4 April 2009 000000000& vs. Manchester United, 10 May 2009 Biggest home attendance: 47,331 vs. Chelsea, 13 September 2008 Smallest home attendance: 36,635 vs. West Ham United, 24 August 2008 Biggest away attendance: 75,464 vs. Manchester United, 10 May 2009 Smallest away attendance: 18,214 vs. Wigan Athletic, 28 September 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Playing statistics, Starting XI\nSource: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Playing statistics, Starting XI\nLast updated: 21 August 2011Source: Appearance and Starting Formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used Starting Formation. Sorted by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Playing statistics, Starting XI\nAppearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games onlyApps. numbers denote: \"Total no. of games played (No. of games played as a substitute)\"Red card numbers denote: \"No. of second yellow cards / No. of straight red cards\"Yellow and red cards for the 2 domestic cups only accounted for in the TOTALS columns*** indicates 3-match ban for violent conduct towards Rory Delap in PL game against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on 31 January 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Playing statistics, Starting XI\nInformation current as of 24 May 2009 (end of season)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Playing statistics, Starting XI\nLast updated: 28 January 2011. Source: (for players and positions) 00(for squad numbers) 00(for actual stats.) All match Reports in Competitive games section above", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Goal scorers, League Cup and FA Cup\nInformation current as of 24 May 2009 (end of season)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200631-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester City F.C. season, Awards, Thomas Cook Player of the Month awards\nAwarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200632-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester Phoenix season, Roster\n4\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Boothroyd\u00a0\u20225\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Smith\u00a0\u20227\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dunn\u00a0\u202213\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Garbutt\u00a0\u202217\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Parrish\u00a0\u202281\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Graham\u00a0\u2022", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200632-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester Phoenix season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Total Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Manchester United's 17th season in the Premier League, and their 34th consecutive season in the top division of English football. After winning a third consecutive Premier League title for the second time to equal Liverpool's record of 18 league titles, the team aimed to become the first team to retain the European Cup since Milan in 1990. However, they were beaten 2\u20130 by Barcelona in the final at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 27 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season\nUnited started their season in August 2008 by winning the Community Shield. In December 2008, the club became the first English side to win the FIFA Club World Cup when they beat LDU Quito 1\u20130 in the final. Two months later, on 1 March 2009, the club added the 2008\u201309 League Cup to their trophy cabinet with a 4\u20131 penalty shootout win over Tottenham Hotspur after a goalless 120 minutes in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season\nUnited secured the Premier League title with a goalless draw at home to Arsenal on 16 May 2009. This made them the first team to win three consecutive English top flight titles on two occasions, having also done so between 1999 and 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season\nThis was the final season where Cristiano Ronaldo was on the Manchester United roster until the 2021-22 season, as he was sold for an at-the-time record-breaking transfer to Real Madrid following the end of this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies\nAfter losing assistant manager Carlos Queiroz to the Portugal national team, Manchester United began their pre-season schedule on 12 July 2008 with a trip up to Pittodrie Stadium to play against Sir Alex Ferguson's former team, Aberdeen. The fixture was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Dons winning the European Cup Winners' Cup, for which Ferguson himself was the manager. Manchester United won the match 2\u20130, with a penalty from Michael Carrick and a header from Wayne Rooney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies\nThe team then left for South Africa to play in the 2008 Vodacom Challenge. The tournament began with United drawing 1\u20131 with Kaizer Chiefs in Cape Town, before moving on to Durban to play against Orlando Pirates three days later; they won the match 1\u20130. On 24 July, the Kaizer Chiefs beat the Orlando Pirates in Port Elizabeth and were rewarded with a further fixture against Manchester United in Pretoria on 26 July. United won the match 4\u20130 to take the Vodacom Challenge, with goals from Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, Tom Cleverley and Fraizer Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies\nEn route back from South Africa, United stopped off in Abuja, Nigeria, on 27 July, where they achieved a 2\u20131 friendly win over Portsmouth, with goals from Eagles and Tevez. Coincidentally, this was a \"dress rehearsal\" for the Community Shield on 10 August. It was also United's first trip to Nigeria, the location of the club's fourth-largest fan base, with 13.6\u00a0million supporters. Upon their return from Africa, the Manchester United team was involved in Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r's testimonial on 2 August 2008. The match, played at Old Trafford against RCD Espanyol, was won by United 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies\nThe winner was scored in the 82nd minute by Fraizer Campbell. This match was followed by two more friendlies; first, a 2\u20130 win over Peterborough United, managed by Sir Alex's son and former United player Darren, on 4 August at London Road Stadium, and then a 0\u20130 draw against Italian giants Juventus at Old Trafford on 6 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Community Shield\nThe Red Devils retained the 2008 FA Community Shield 3\u20131 on penalties against 2007\u201308 FA Cup winners Portsmouth after the match finished 0\u20130 after 90 minutes on 10 August. It was United's second game against Portsmouth in the space of two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Super Cup\nAt the end of August, after the start of the Premier League season, United, as the winners of the 2007\u201308 UEFA Champions League, travelled to Monaco for the 2008 UEFA Super Cup against UEFA Cup winners Zenit St. Petersburg. However, they went 2\u20130 down in the first hour of the game, and a Nemanja Vidi\u0107 goal was not enough to save them from defeat. A Paul Scholes handball in the 90th minute resulted in his second yellow card of the game, meaning that he would miss the Red Devils' opening UEFA Champions League match against Villarreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nManchester United kicked off their defence of the Premier League title on 17 August 2008, playing against Newcastle United at Old Trafford. Newcastle got the first goal of the game through an Obafemi Martins header, but United hit straight back through Darren Fletcher two minutes later. Alex Ferguson handed debuts to both Rodrigo Possebon and Rafael during the game. This was followed up by a narrow 1\u20130 win over Portsmouth on 25 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nPapa Bouba Diop went close for Portsmouth after just 12 seconds, before United opened the scoring in the 32nd minute, Darren Fletcher's scuffed shot deflecting off Sol Campbell before being turned into the roof of the net by Sylvain Distin. United dominated most of the match, with Portsmouth rarely testing Edwin van der Sar in the United goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nOn 13 September, United travelled to Anfield to play Liverpool, who handed them their first loss of the Premier League season. United got off to a strong start with Carlos Tevez scoring in the third minute, but an own goal by Wes Brown in the 27th minute and a goal by Liverpool winger Ryan Babel in the 77th sealed United's fate. The game saw the debut of Dimitar Berbatov, who had signed from Tottenham Hotspur on 1 September; the Bulgarian marked his first appearance by providing the assist for Tevez's goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe defeat was United's first against Liverpool in the Premier League since 2004. Following the loss at Anfield, United faced the daunting task of travelling to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea. As in the previous game, United opened the scoring, with Park Ji-sung scoring in the 18th minute after Chelsea's Petr \u010cech parried Berbatov's shot into the Korean's path. United held on until the 80th minute, when Mikel John Obi's free kick found the head of Salomon Kalou, who headed in the equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited gave their league season a kick-start with a 2\u20130 win over Bolton Wanderers on 27 September. Bolton took the game to United early on in the first half, but the tide began to slowly shift back into United's favour; only the heroics of Bolton goalkeeper Jussi J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen kept the visitors in the game going into half-time, although Fabrice Muamba did shoot wide from eight yards out just before the whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe United breakthrough came 15 minutes into the second half, when referee Rob Styles awarded the home side a penalty, despite Jlloyd Samuel's challenge on Cristiano Ronaldo appearing to have been a fair one; Ronaldo converted the penalty himself. In the 71st minute, Paul Scholes came on for Anderson to make his 400th Premier League appearance, while Carlos Tevez was replaced by Wayne Rooney. Not long afterwards, Rooney doubled the Reds' lead and secured the win with an unstoppable shot after being played in by a Ronaldo back-heel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe Red Devils then made the short trip up to Ewood Park the following weekend to take on Blackburn Rovers. Wayne Rooney declared himself fit after having picked up a knock against Aalborg BK in midweek, and was the orchestrator of most of United's attacks, including the one that led to the opening goal. Rooney took the return pass from his own short corner before swinging the ball into the Blackburn penalty area, where it was met by the head of Wes Brown and passed between the upright and the player who was supposed to be guarding it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe Blackburn players believed that the goal should not have been allowed to stand, as Nemanja Vidi\u0107 impeded goalkeeper Jason Brown from getting to the ball, but referee Steve Bennett allowed it to stand. Rooney himself scored United's second goal halfway through the second half, latching on to Cristiano Ronaldo's pull-back and curling it past Brown from 12 yards. Carlos Tevez hit the post with a late strike, but the score remained at 2\u20130 at full-time, pushing United up the table to sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nAfter a week off for international duty, United returned to action on 18 October with a home match against West Bromwich Albion. The Baggies started off in a disciplined fashion, but were unable to prevent the in-form Wayne Rooney from putting the ball in the back of the net after 21 minutes. However, the goal was ruled out by referee Mark Halsey after he deemed Rooney to have pushed a West Brom defender to the floor before shooting past Scott Carson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nNeither team found the back of the net again before half-time, but Rooney soon scored a legal goal ten minutes into the second half, picking up a long through pass from Berbatov out on the left wing before cutting back into the penalty area and firing a near-post shot through Ryan Donk's legs and past the goalkeeper. The home side then scored two goals in quick succession, Ronaldo shooting through Carson's legs for the first before Berbatov stabbed home his first League goal for United following a cross from substitute Nani. Nani himself then added a fourth goal for the Red Devils in the 90th minute, celebrating in his usual flamboyant style. The win propelled United up to 4th place in the Premier League table, the first time they had been in the top four that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nA trip to Goodison Park to play Everton followed on 25 October, with Alex Ferguson preferring to stick with Rooney and Berbatov up front, leaving Tevez on the bench. United had the run of the play in the first half, and after Darren Fletcher scored from a late run into the box in the 22nd minute, they began to treat the match as somewhat of an exhibition, with Everton hardly able to get a look in. However, United were unable to add to their tally and Everton came back with added resolve after the interval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited were rocked by Everton's new-found physicality, and the Liverpudlians equalised in the 66th minute through Marouane Fellaini, who headed home Phil Neville's cross after an uncharacteristic lapse in concentration from Rio Ferdinand. Ferdinand was again at fault a minute later, but Edwin van der Sar saved his blushes by saving from Yakubu in a one-on-one situation. Wayne Rooney was booked later for inciting the fans, and he was immediately substituted. The match finished at 1\u20131, a result that United will look on as two points dropped, but deserved for not having killed the game off earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nOn 29 October, United hosted West Ham United. Unlike other opposing teams that season, the Hammers struggled to cope with the tempo set by the home side from the word \"go\", and Dimitar Berbatov almost opened the scoring after just two minutes, only to see his shot deflected over by Matthew Upson. The scoresheet did not remain blank for much longer, however, as Nani received the ball on the left wing after United had spent a prolonged spell inside the West Ham box, before crossing for Ronaldo who scored with a left-footed shot to the far post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nRonaldo doubled his tally 15 minutes later, although he would have found it more difficult to miss the target after Berbatov got past James Collins with a wonderful piece of skill on the goal line. United continued to threaten Robert Green in the West Ham goal, but they did not add to their tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited went into their 1 November match at home to Premier League newcomers Hull City two points behind their visitors in the league table, a position they would not have expected to find themselves in at the start of the season. Nevertheless, the Red Devils took the game to the Tigers from the kick-off, with Ronaldo opening the scoring after just three minutes. Laying the ball off to Dimitar Berbatov, the Portuguese controlled the Bulgarian's return ball 12 yards from goal before sweeping the ball in off the post with his left foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nHull equalised in the 23rd minute, but Michael Carrick restored United's lead on the half-hour, also shooting in off the post with his left foot. Ronaldo extended the lead just before half-time, heading in from Nani's corner. The story after half-time was much the same, as Nemanja Vidi\u0107 added a fourth from a corner that never should have reached him. However, Hull responded through Bernard Mendy, whose lob over Edwin van der Sar crossed the line before Vidi\u0107 could hook it away. They opened the game up again in the 82nd minute, with Geovanni converting a penalty awarded after Rio Ferdinand brought Mendy down, but their response came too late and the match finished 4\u20133 to United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nManchester United travelled to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium the following weekend for a lunchtime kick-off. The match started at a high tempo, with United's players harassing the Arsenal contingent at every opportunity. Such harassment led to the first chance of the game, when Manuel Almunia was forced into handling Mika\u00ebl Silvestre's underhit backpass with Wayne Rooney bearing down on him. However, the resulting indirect free kick was cleared and Michael Carrick hit the rebound wide. It was Arsenal who opened the scoring, though, with Samir Nasri's 22nd-minute shot deflecting off Gary Neville and past Van der Sar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nNasri scored again just after half-time, almost bursting the net after being played in by Cesc F\u00e0bregas, while United never really looked like threatening the Arsenal goal. Towards the end of the game, Michael Carrick accidentally caught Manuel Almunia with his boot as the Spanish goalkeeper bravely dropped on a loose ball, resulting in Almunia requiring several minutes of treatment. He attempted to carry on, but was soon replaced by \u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski. Rafael pulled a goal back for United in the final minute, but it was too little, too late for the Red Devils who swapped places with Arsenal in the league table, dropping back to fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe club's next fixture was a home game against Stoke City on 15 November, the 50th anniversary of Alex Ferguson's first appearance in professional football for Queen's Park. Despite being without the injured Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney, United took the lead just three minutes into the match, with Cristiano Ronaldo hitting a dipping and swerving free kick past Thomas S\u00f8rensen in the middle of the Stoke goal for his 100th goal for Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited's second goal came in stoppage time at the end of the first half; Michael Carrick ghosted through the Stoke City defence and, with four defenders in close proximity, hit a powerful left-footed shot into the top corner of the net. Just minutes into the second half, United scored their third goal after Dimitar Berbatov controlled Carlos Tevez's cross with the outside of his foot before volleying home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0018-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nIn the 84th minute, Danny Welbeck picked up the ball on the edge of the centre circle in Stoke's half, played a one-two with Manucho and unleashed a swerving shot from 30 yards for his first Manchester United goal in his Premier League debut for the club. Five minutes later, Ronaldo scored from another free kick to round off a 5\u20130 victory for the home side. The result moved United up to third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited then travelled to Villa Park to play Aston Villa on 22 November. The tie ended a scoreless draw, the first time the Reds had failed to score a goal in a Premier League game since November 2007. United's next match took them crosstown to City of Manchester Stadium to play Manchester City on 30 November. The lone goal of the match came to United when a Michael Carrick shot rebounded off City keeper Joe Hart and was put in the back of the net by Wayne Rooney, giving him his 100th club goal and his 83rd at United. With the victory United increased their win total in the Manchester derby to 60 as compared to City's 41. Six days later, United faced Sunderland at home, with United winning thanks to Nemanja Vidi\u0107's goal in the first minute of second half stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited's next match was against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on 13 December. Despite chances for both sides, Spurs keeper Heurelho Gomes and Edwin van der Sar kept clean sheets for both sides. United then closed out the year with 1\u20130 wins over Stoke City at Britannia Stadium on 26 December and at home against Middlesbrough three days later, with Carlos Tevez scoring against Stoke and Dimitar Berbatov scoring against Boro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited started 2009 with a crucial 3\u20130 win over Chelsea, putting them 1 point behind Chelsea and 5 points behind Liverpool, but they did have two games in hand. Ferguson surprised the crowd by starting Ryan Giggs ahead of Michael Carrick in central midfield, and the move paid off as Giggs was instrumental in the win. Both teams attacked in the first half, but forced few saves from either goalkeeper for the opening 30 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nIn the 45th minute Wayne Rooney nudged the ball onto the pitch from a corner kick, before sauntering off, allowing Ryan Giggs to stroll casually over as if he was supposed to take the corner all along. Then, as Chelsea's players arranged themselves, presuming the ball to be out of play, Giggs crossed to Ronaldo who headed the ball home. However, the goal was disallowed. United retook the corner and scored through Berbatov's flick-on to Vidi\u0107 who headed it in. Rooney stabbed the ball into the net after 63 minutes from a Patrice Evra cross and a Ronaldo backheel, while Berbatov completed the rout in the 86th minute from a cross from a Ronaldo free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nFollowing the win over Chelsea, United's next game was at home to Wigan. Rooney scored from less than six yards after just 54 seconds on a cross from Ronaldo, but hobbled off with a hamstring injury just a few minutes later. Tevez, who replaced Rooney, had a good chance after 20 minutes, rounding Chris Kirkland in the Wigan net, but his touch was too heavy and he failed to convert the chance. Wigan improved after the disastrous start, but neither side could find a goal and the match ended 1\u20130 to United. With this result, United climbed to 2nd (their highest position of the season so far) above Chelsea. They remained 2 points behind Liverpool, but having played one game fewer than the Merseysiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe Reds then travelled the short distance to Bolton's Reebok Stadium on 17 January. Both sides remained scoreless after 89 minutes, with Bolton keeper Jussi J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen making several terrific saves and Van der Sar challenged by a Fabrice Muamba long-range shot. Finally, Berbatov headed in a Tevez cross in the 90th minute. With the win, United extended their clean sheet record to 10, tying a record set by Chelsea in the 2004\u201305 season. Also with the victory, United gained three points, enough to reach the top spot of the Premier League table. This was the first time United had returned to the top spot since winning the 2007\u201308 Premier League title on 11 May 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nAfter a week off for domestic cup involvements, United returned to league action on 27 January with an away fixture at West Bromwich Albion. Despite having several players out through injury, Alex Ferguson was able to name a fairly strong starting XI, including a fit-again Rio Ferdinand, starting his first match since the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup Final in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0024-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nBoth sides started the match in an attacking mindset, with United posing the slightly greater threat, and it was they who opened the scoring in the 22nd minute through Dimitar Berbatov; the Bulgarian exchanged passes with Michael Carrick before firing across Scott Carson into the far corner of the West Brom goal. Shortly before half-time, the Baggies were reduced to ten men when Paul Robinson was shown a straight red card for an innocuous-looking foul on Park Ji-sung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0024-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nTheir misery was compounded with almost the last kick of the half as Carson failed to hang on to a Ryan Giggs free kick, dropping the ball at the feet of Carlos Tevez, who lashed it home with his left foot. Nemanja Vidi\u0107 added a third on the hour mark with a header from Giggs' corner, before Giggs set up another for Cristiano Ronaldo five minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0024-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nRonaldo completed the scoring in the 73rd minute, shooting through Carson's legs after being put through by Berbatov, despite the West Brom players' protests that both Berbatov and Ronaldo had been offside during the build-up to the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0024-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe win took United three points clear of Liverpool, who were not to play until the following day, but the fact that they kept a clean sheet meant that they set a new Premier League record for consecutive clean sheets \u2013 with 11 \u2013 while Edwin van der Sar had not conceded in 1,032 minutes of football, surpassing Petr \u010cech's record of 1,025 minutes, set during the 2003\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nAfter setting the Premier League clean sheet record against West Brom, Edwin van der Sar went into the following game against Everton knowing that if he kept the Toffees off the scoresheet for 72 minutes, he would also set a new clean sheet record for the entire English league \u2013 the previous record, set by Steve Death of Reading in 1979, stood at 1,104 minutes. In the end, he continued his flawless record for the entire 90 minutes as United recorded another 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe first half was largely dominated by United, who saw strikes from Park Ji-sung and Carlos Tevez stopped by goalkeeper Tim Howard, while Cristiano Ronaldo hit the inside of the post with Howard beaten. The breakthrough came at the end of the first half, as Michael Carrick made his way into the box before being tripped by Mikel Arteta. Carrick attempted to stay on his feet, but when United were unable to gain an advantage, referee Mark Halsey pointed to the penalty spot; Ronaldo converted the resulting penalty kick to open the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0025-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nDuring the second half, Carrick looked to have won another penalty for United when he was knocked to the ground by Joleon Lescott, but Halsey turned away the Red Devils' appeals. Van der Sar was forced into a save from a 30-yard free kick by Arteta on the hour mark, but the shot never looked to be seriously troubling the goalkeeper. United continued to hold on for another 1\u20130 win to take them five points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea, who were to play each other the following day. Liverpool won the match 2\u20130 with two late goals from Fernando Torres, which closed the gap between themselves and United to two points, although they had now played one more match than United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nLiverpool returned to the top of the table with a 3\u20132 away win over Portsmouth on 7 February, but they remained there for less than 24 hours as United recorded a 1\u20130 away win over West Ham to restore their two-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0026-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nWest Ham came into the game off the back of a six-game unbeaten run, and it was they who had the better of the early chances; first, Lucas Neill had a shot from the edge of the area stopped by Edwin van der Sar, who then denied Carlton Cole as the English striker attempted to chip him from just inside the box. United settled into their characteristic passing rhythm, but the two sides went into half-time still at 0\u20130. Halfway through the second half, Ryan Giggs picked up a pass from Paul Scholes out on the left wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0026-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nHe then took the ball round a sliding Carlton Cole and cut into the box, before curling a shot through a narrow gap and past Robert Green's outstretched left hand for the first goal of the game. The goal meant that Giggs maintained his record of having scored in every season of the Premier League since its inception. Cristiano Ronaldo was denied a penalty in the dying minutes of the game after he was tripped by Lucas Neill, and then he smashed a free kick into the chest of Scott Parker, but there were no further goals and United returned to the top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nAs a result of their qualification for the 2008 UEFA Super Cup, United's home fixture against Fulham, which was originally scheduled for the weekend of 30/31 August 2008, was eventually played on 18 February 2009. United went into the match, their game in hand over second-placed Liverpool, two points ahead of the Merseysiders and could extend their lead to five points with a win over Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0027-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nWith this in mind, the Red Devils started well, and opened the scoring in the 12th minute through Paul Scholes; Michael Carrick picked out Scholes just outside the area with a pinpoint corner, and the veteran midfielder volleyed the ball goalwards. Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer got down to stop the shot, but the spin and pace on the ball took it over the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0027-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nCarlos Tevez had a goal ruled out for offside shortly after, before a Dimitar Berbatov strike was blocked on the line by Aaron Hughes, but the Bulgarian did end up doubling United's tally shortly before the half-hour, stealing in ahead of Schwarzer to convert John O'Shea's square cross. Berbatov had the ball in the net again on the stroke of half-time, but he was deemed to have been offside in the build-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0027-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nWayne Rooney, returning from a seven-game absence due to a hamstring injury, was introduced on the hour, and scored with his first touch, poking home Park Ji-sung's misdirected shot across goal. Bobby Zamora came close to ending United's run of clean sheets in the closing stages, but his shot went narrowly wide and United held on to win 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe following weekend presented United with an opportunity to stretch their lead over Liverpool to eight points, as United played against Blackburn Rovers on the Saturday, while Liverpool would not play Manchester City until the Sunday. With one eye on the Champions League round of 16 tie against Internazionale the following Tuesday, Alex Ferguson rested Edwin van der Sar and Nemanja Vidi\u0107, and played Tomasz Kuszczak and Jonny Evans in their stead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nDespite the defensive shake-up, United had the better of the early chances, with both Scholes and Ronaldo going close before Nani put Wayne Rooney through for the first goal in the 23rd minute. The Portuguese winger curled a through-pass round the back of the Blackburn defence, and although Ryan Nelsen got a toe to the ball, it was not enough to take it away from Rooney, who poked it past Paul Robinson in the Blackburn goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0028-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nHowever, the lead only lasted nine minutes, as Blackburn became the first team in more than 22 hours of football (1,334 minutes) to breach the Manchester United defence; after catching Nani in possession, Andr\u00e9 Ooijer played a through ball to Roque Santa Cruz, who took the ball round the sliding Rio Ferdinand and Tomasz Kuszczak and shot home from a narrowing angle. Jonny Evans looked to have restored United's lead on the stroke of half-time, but his header was ruled out after the referee deemed Cristiano Ronaldo to have impeded Ryan Nelsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0028-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nNelsen himself almost gave Blackburn the lead shortly after the break, but his effort came back off the post, and the follow-up strike from El Hadji Diouf was saved by Kuszczak. In the end, though, it was United who regained the lead in the 60th minute; the Red Devils were awarded a free kick wide to the left of the penalty area, and, as usual, Cristiano Ronaldo stepped up to take it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0028-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nDespite it looking like the angle was too narrow to strike at goal, the FIFA World Player of the Year hit a characteristic dipping shot over the wall and over the head of Paul Robinson to make the score 2\u20131. The scoreline remained the same for the next half-hour, and although it looked like Morten Gamst Pedersen may have been pulled back by Rafael in the penalty area late in the game, the referee deemed it not to be a foul and United held on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited's next game was played away against Newcastle United. Van der Sar was back in goal, having missed the previous two games (the League game against Blackburn and the League Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur). However, his clean sheet record finally came to an end after just 9 minutes as Peter L\u00f8venkrands opened the scoring for Newcastle. Obafemi Martins should have put Newcastle 2\u20130 up, but he slid his shot wide and was made to pay as Wayne Rooney slotted home midway through the first half, which ended 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0029-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe game was slightly marred by two questionable challenges, late in the first half, by Newcastle's Steven Taylor, who first appeared to hit Cristiano Ronaldo with his arm and then, moments later, slid a dangerous tackle in on Michael Carrick. However, despite some anger from players such as Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney, Taylor only received a single yellow card. The second half started brightly, and Dimitar Berbatov scored what proved to be the winner just before the hour mark after Taylor mis-hit a back-pass. Neither team could manage another goal and the game ended 2\u20131 to Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe Reds' next Premier League encounter saw the visit of Liverpool to Old Trafford which brought the two main title contenders head-to-head. United started the match brightly and took the lead on 23 minutes when Park Ji-sung was brought down in the penalty area by Pepe Reina and referee Alan Wiley pointed to the spot, where Cristiano Ronaldo converted the penalty kick to Reina's right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0030-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe lead only lasted five minutes, however, as Nemanja Vidi\u0107 failed to deal with a long ball from Liverpool's Martin \u0160krtel and Fernando Torres punished his error with a cool finish past United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar. The match went from bad to worse for the hosts just before the break when Patrice Evra tripped Steven Gerrard in the penalty area and Gerrard scored the resulting spot kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0030-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nAfter the break, United drove at Liverpool in an attempt to find an equaliser, but Vidi\u0107 was sent off after hauling down Gerrard on the edge of the penalty area and F\u00e1bio Aur\u00e9lio scored the free kick to give Liverpool a 3\u20131 lead. In injury time, Andrea Dossena compounded United's misery by chipping Van der Sar to score Liverpool's fourth and close the gap at the top of the table to four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited suffered a further setback when they lost their next League encounter against Fulham 2\u20130 at Craven Cottage, seeing the team's lead in the league cut to only a point. Paul Scholes was sent off in the 18th minute for handling the ball on the goal-line and Danny Murphy scored the resulting penalty. Despite strong pressure from United in the second half, following an unconvincing first-half display, Zolt\u00e1n Gera scored a second goal for Fulham to seal the match. Wayne Rooney was also dismissed for two bookable offences and would subsequently miss the next match. This was the first time since 2005 that United had lost two consecutive league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nOn 5 April, after an international break, United defeated Aston Villa 3\u20132 at home. Cristiano Ronaldo scored an early first-half goal to give United the lead, only for John Carew and Gabriel Agbonlahor to put Villa 2\u20131 in front. With United looking to avoid a third-straight Premier League defeat for the first time in four years, Ronaldo scored an equaliser on 80 minutes to set up a frantic finale to the match. A late injury time winner by debutant Federico Macheda won the match for United and took them back to the top of the League after Liverpool had briefly led, having beaten Fulham 1\u20130 the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe Reds' next game was away to a struggling Sunderland, which they won 2\u20131 thanks to another Federico Macheda goal. United took the lead through Paul Scholes' looping header from Wayne Rooney's cross on 19 minutes but Sunderland equalised on 55 minutes through Kenwyne Jones' bundled finish. United had created a few good chances to double their lead before Sunderland's goal, with Scholes and Rooney both shooting narrowly wide. However, with Sunderland trying to hold-on to a precious point, Macheda was introduced and within seconds had put United ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0033-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nMichael Carrick had taken a shot which looked to be going wide, but Macheda was in the box, alongside other players, and he flicked his left foot towards the ball, directing it into Craig Gordon's bottom corner to give United the win and put them back to the top of the table again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nLiverpool's 4\u20134 draw with Arsenal on 22 April returned the Merseysiders to the top of the table, but only on goal difference, with United having two games in hand on their rivals. United had the chance, 24 hours later, to retake top spot with a home game against Portsmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited \u2013 who picked a team containing nine changes from the one that lost to Everton in the FA Cup semi-final \u2013 did not start very well and Portsmouth took the early possession, but following a good through-ball from Anderson, Ryan Giggs crossed for Wayne Rooney to score past England goalkeeper, David James to put United 1\u20130 up after just nine minutes. The remainder of the first half saw United squander a number of chances, the best of which being a goal-line clearance from a John O'Shea header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0034-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nPortsmouth improved in the second half, although Edwin van der Sar was rarely troubled. It took until the 82nd minute for substitute Michael Carrick to score from a perfect through-ball from Paul Scholes, who was playing his 600th game for United. The second goal effectively killed the game and United finished comfortable 2\u20130 winners, taking them three points ahead of Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited welcomed the visit of Tottenham Hotspur to Old Trafford for their next game, knowing that they had slipped down to second in the league on goal difference after Liverpool had beaten Hull City earlier in the day. What the Reds didn't welcome, however, was being 2\u20130 down at half-time, with Darren Bent and Luka Modri\u0107 having taken advantage of two showings of poor defending by United. Bent scored from close range just before the half-hour mark, finishing off a Vedran \u0106orluka cross, having got the better of Rio Ferdinand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0035-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nWithin two minutes, Modri\u0107 had doubled Spurs' lead, scoring close in after Aaron Lennon's cross had beaten Ferdinand. After an uncharacteristically tame first half from United's perspective, they started the second better, with Carlos Tevez replacing Nani during the interval. United got a goal back twelve minutes after the restart, via a controversial penalty. Michael Carrick was fed through into the box, only to be brought down by Heurelho Gomes. Replays showed that Gomes actually touched the ball but despite the keeper's protests, referee Howard Webb pointed to the spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0035-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nCristiano Ronaldo stepped up and dispatched the penalty down the centre of the goal. Ten minutes later, Wayne Rooney equalised in a less debatable fashion, hitting in a shot at Gomes' near post after Dimitar Berbatov and Rafael had combined well. Only one minute after equalising, United were ahead. Rooney created some space down the left wing and crossed the ball in to find Ronaldo's diving header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0035-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nThe comeback looked to be complete three minutes later when United went 4\u20132 up, with Rooney's shot only just crossing the line despite Jonathan Woodgate trying his best to keep it out with his torso. The Reds' onslaught had stunned Tottenham and to add insult to injury, ex-Spurs player Berbatov scored United's fifth eight minutes after Rooney's second. The Bulgarian's initial header was saved by Gomes but he followed it up and poked the ball in with his boot. A very important comeback, shadowing United's 5\u20133 turnaround against the same team in 2001, put them three points ahead of Liverpool with five games left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nMiddlesbrough were up next for United, at the Riverside. A usually tricky game for the Reds ended with a comfortable 2\u20130 away win, thanks to goals either side of half-time. Ryan Giggs opened the scoring with his first goal since being named as PFA Player of the Year, and his 98th Premier League goal in total. Giggs received the ball from Nemanja Vidi\u0107, steadied himself, and slotted it past Brad Jones' left hand from the edge of the area with 25 minutes played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited created a handful of chances in the remainder of the first half but none worried Boro's Australian goalkeeper. Park Ji-sung doubled the Reds' lead though shortly after half-time. Giggs and Federico Macheda combined with a one-two before Wayne Rooney threaded a pass through the Boro defence to find Park superbly. Park then settled the game with a decisive strike low into the bottom corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nIt was derby day next up for United as Manchester City made the short trip to Old Trafford. Again, Liverpool were top of the table on goal difference with United having two games in hand. The match was slow and had few shots on target from either side, although United ran out 2\u20130 winners, with both goals coming in the first half. Cristiano Ronaldo got United's first with a deflected free kick after City's Stephen Ireland had fouled Dimitar Berbatov 25 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0037-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nOn the stroke of half-time, Carlos Tevez got United's second, hitting the post on the way, after Berbatov had brilliantly controlled Darren Fletcher's long ball before setting-up Tevez just outside the box. This was Tevez's first league goal of the season at Old Trafford. The second half was fairly forgettable, with few points of note. Robinho blazed well wide from a good position for City, while Tevez hit the post from a matter of inches late on. The only other talking point was the angry reaction of Ronaldo to being substituted with over half an hour to play. The result left United needing just four points from their last three games to win a third consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited gained three of those points away to Wigan three days later, when Michael Carrick's left-footed shot found the back of the net in the eighty-sixth minute. Wigan had almost gone in front within 90 seconds of the start, when Antonio Valencia was clean through, but shot wide of the goal. United then missed two chances in a minute when both Carrick and Wayne Rooney could not get the ball on target. Hugo Rodallega opened the scoring for Wigan in the 28th minute when he hit a shot past Edwin van der Sar at the near post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0038-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nBy half time, United had not managed a single shot on target, despite heavily dominating the possession. Carlos Tevez was brought on for Anderson early in the second half and did not disappoint, scoring a goal with a back-heeled deflected shot from Michael Carrick just three minutes after coming on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0038-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nNot satisfied with a draw, United continued to press and Carrick's late shot through traffic put the Red Devils within one point of sealing the Premier League title, being now six points clear of second-placed Liverpool with two games to go, although the Merseysiders had a better goal difference and both teams now having the same number of matches left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nOn 16 May, United successfully defended their Premier League title for the second year running with a 0\u20130 draw at home to Arsenal. Arsenal took the game to United, although fighting only for pride as their league position was already secured, and if it were not for some good defending by United, they could have taken the lead. Wayne Rooney could have put United ahead, but his first-half header went wide of \u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski's post. The Reds had a well-worked Park Ji-sung goal disallowed for an incorrect offside later in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0039-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nPark had slotted the ball into an empty net after playing a one-two with Cristiano Ronaldo, but Ronaldo was judged to have been ahead of the last defender when Park played the ball through. When the final whistle blew, the United players, manager and backroom staff celebrated jubilantly, having been crowned champions of England for the 18th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Premier League\nUnited's final game of the Premier League, played on 24 May, was away to Hull. It did not matter if United lost, as they had already been crowned champions of England just less than a week earlier. Hull escaped relegation thanks to Newcastle's loss at Aston Villa and Middlesbrough's defeat to West Ham. Darron Gibson's 20-yard shot was enough to give United victory in a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nManchester United entered the FA Cup at the Third Round stage, and were paired with Southampton at the draw on 30 November 2008. The match was played at St Mary's Stadium on 4 January 2009. The draw for the Fourth Round was held immediately before the match, and United were given the prospect of a home draw against Tottenham Hotspur should they overcome Southampton. As it turned out, United ran out 3\u20130 winners, Danny Welbeck opening the scoring in the 20th minute of his FA Cup debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0041-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nSouthampton then gave themselves little chance of getting back into the game when their 19-year-old striker Matthew Paterson was sent off eight minutes before half-time for a high challenge on Nemanja Vidi\u0107. Shortly after the interval, United were awarded a free kick, from which David McGoldrick was adjudged to have handled the ball in the wall. Match referee Mike Riley immediately awarded a penalty, which Nani converted to double United's lead. The Red Devils then continued to dominate the match, introducing Rodrigo Possebon, Darron Gibson and Wayne Rooney halfway through the half. The latter two then combined with nine minutes left, with Rooney cutting the ball back for Gibson to smash the ball into the back of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Fourth Round was played at Old Trafford on 24 January 2009. Due to United's defensive injury crisis, Alex Ferguson had to call young defenders F\u00e1bio, Richard Eckersley and James Chester into the first team squad for the match, with F\u00e1bio starting at left back. The ramshackle nature of the United defence showed as Tottenham took an early lead through a glancing header from Roman Pavlyuchenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0042-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nHowever, United soon took the initiative back as Carlos Tevez rattled the bar before forcing Spurs 'keeper Ben Alnwick into a reflex save, while Danny Welbeck was only denied by a last-ditch block from Chris Gunter after dancing past three defenders. The score was turned on its head shortly after the half-hour mark, when the home side hit a two-goal salvo in as many minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0042-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the 35th minute, Michael Carrick pulled the ball back to Paul Scholes on the edge of the box from a corner, and the midfielder's shot was deflected off Tom Huddlestone past a flat-footed Ben Alnwick. Then, a minute later, Carrick was the provider for United's second goal as he played Berbatov through the middle and the Bulgarian fired past Alnwick from the edge of the area. Early in the second half, United lost F\u00e1bio to injury and he was replaced by fellow debutant Richard Eckersley. United continued to apply pressure to the Spurs defence, but there were no further goals and the Red Devils advanced to the Fifth Round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Fifth Round draw was held on 25 January 2009, and United were drawn against either Derby County or Nottingham Forest. The replay between Derby and Forest was played on 4 February, and ended with Derby winning 3\u20132 to set up a third cup clash between Derby and United in the space of two months. United dominated the match, which was played on 15 February, from the kick-off, as the Derby goal was peppered with shots from the outset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0043-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nTheir reward for their dominance came shortly before the half-hour; the ball was worked across the face of the penalty area to Nani, who cut back inside and curled a shot past Stephen Bywater for the opening goal. United doubled their lead shortly before half-time, when they were awarded a free kick within the shooting range of Cristiano Ronaldo; the United winger crashed the free kick into the defensive wall, and the ball ricocheted to Darron Gibson \u2013 who had broken from the wall \u2013 and the Irish international fired a low shot into the bottom corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0043-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe scoring continued after the break, Ronaldo heading home Ryan Giggs' right-sided corner kick three minutes into the second half. John O'Shea and Danny Welbeck were brought on for Patrice Evra and Park Ji-sung in the 55th minute. However, no sooner than the substitution had been made, Derby had pulled a goal back; Miles Addison headed home a Kris Commons cross after a quickly taken free kick by Robbie Savage. Despite a late resurgence from Derby, it was United who had the last word, as Danny Welbeck rounded off some neat interplay between Ryan Giggs and Darren Fletcher with a curling shot past Bywater to make the final score 4\u20131 to United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nImmediately after the match against Derby, the Sixth Round draw handed United an away tie with Swansea City or Fulham. The replay between Swansea and Fulham was played on 24 February, with Fulham coming back from a goal down to win 2\u20131 and set United up with a trip to Craven Cottage on 7 March. United ran out comfortable 4\u20130 winners in the Six Round Proper at Fulham. Two first-half goals from Carlos Tevez followed by second-half goals from Wayne Rooney and Park Ji-sung ensured that United qualified for a record twenty-sixth FA Cup semi-final appearance. United drew Everton in the semi-finals to be played at Wembley Stadium on 19 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nUnited fell at the semi-final stage of the FA Cup for the first time under Alex Ferguson as they lost on penalties to Everton following a 0\u20130 draw. Ferguson came in for some criticism in the press following a team selection shorn of many first-team regulars \u2013 a situation he later blamed on the poor state of the Wembley pitch. After a fairly forgettable game, albeit one which United dominated without creating too many goalscoring opportunities, Dimitar Berbatov and Rio Ferdinand both had their penalties saved by former United goalkeeper, Tim Howard. Despite a penalty miss from Tim Cahill, Everton ran out 4\u20132 winners on penalties and United's quest for five trophies was at an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe draw for the League Cup's Third Round paired Manchester United with Middlesbrough. The match was played at Old Trafford on 23 September 2008, and resulted in a 3\u20131 win for the home side, who gave debuts to three young players;Ben Amos, Danny Welbeck and Manucho. In his first start for the club since returning from injury, Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 25th minute, heading home Ryan Giggs' corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0046-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nAdam Johnson equalised for Middlesbrough ten minutes into the second half, but in the 66th minute, Emanuel Pogatetz was sent off for a serious foul on Rodrigo Possebon, which left the Brazilian requiring lengthy treatment before being replaced by Darron Gibson. The disparity in the teams' numbers meant that another United goal was practically inevitable, and it came in the 79th minute via Ryan Giggs. The Welshman's goal lifted him into 10th in the club's all-time list of goalscorers. Because of Possebon's injury, a total of nine minutes of injury time were played, and, in the fifth of the nine, Nani added a third goal for United, securing their passage into the Fourth Round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe Fourth Round draw paired United with Queens Park Rangers, with the match to be played at Old Trafford on 11 November 2008. Alex Ferguson rested many of his first choice players for the match, while Rodrigo Possebon also made his return to first team action following his injury in the previous round. United had the majority of the possession during the game, but misplaced passes from midfield let them down at the final hurdle on occasion. Park Ji-sung nearly scored the opening goal on the hour mark, but his 30-yard effort rattled the woodwork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0047-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nIt took until the 73rd minute for QPR to have their first attempt on goal, but it amounted to nothing and, minutes later, Danny Welbeck was brought down in the box by Peter Ramage. Carlos Tevez stepped up to take the penalty, sending goalkeeper Radek \u010cern\u00fd the wrong way to open the scoring. QPR's Samuel Di Carmine had a goal correctly ruled out for offside in the closing stages and United managed to hang on and progress to the last eight of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe draw for the Fifth Round of the League Cup took place on 15 November 2008, and United were drawn at home to Blackburn Rovers, with the match to be played on 3 December 2008. As usual, Alex Ferguson rested many of his bigger names, opting for a mixture of youth and experience for the game. The match started on a fairly even keel, with Blackburn defender Stephen Warnock testing goalkeeper Ben Foster early on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0048-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe match soon swung back the other way, but it took until the 35th minute for United to get on the scoresheet; Ryan Giggs sent over a cross, and Carlos Tevez beat Aaron Mokoena to the ball to head home. Tevez then linked up with Nani for the Portuguese winger to blast the ball past Paul Robinson for United's second in the 40th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0048-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nBlackburn pulled a goal back shortly after half-time through Benni McCarthy, only for Tevez to double his personal tally from the penalty spot after he had been brought down by Andr\u00e9 Ooijer in the box in the 50th minute. Tevez's hat-trick came in the 54th minute, as he rounded off a brilliant team goal, orchestrated by Ryan Giggs and Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0048-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nBlackburn attempted to make a proper game of it as the match entered its final ten minutes, pulling two goals back through Matt Derbyshire and another one from Benni McCarthy, but a fourth goal for Tevez sealed a 5\u20133 win for United in the fourth minute of injury time, as he lashed the ball past Paul Robinson from the edge of the penalty area and sent the Red Devils into the League Cup semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe semi-final draw, held on 6 December 2008, paired United with Championship side Derby County. As Derby were drawn out of the hat first, they were awarded the opportunity to play the first leg at their Pride Park home. The first leg was played on 7 January 2009, and Alex Ferguson continued his policy of selecting weakened sides in the League Cup, playing Tomasz Kuszczak in goal, Darron Gibson on the right of midfield and Danny Welbeck up front with Carlos Tevez, while Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney were on the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0049-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nDespite there being a gulf of 35 league places between the two sides at the start of play, it was Derby who looked more up for the game having two shots blocked at short range in the opening stages, before Kris Commons opened the scoring on the half-hour with a venomous strike from 25 yards. Unhappy at being a goal down, Ferguson turned to his big guns, Rooney and Ronaldo, just after the hour mark, and the latter hit a free kick just past the post in the closing stages. Rob Hulse almost doubled his team's lead shortly before the final whistle, but he could only turn the ball over the bar as it came to him off Kuszczak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe second leg was played at Old Trafford two weeks after the first on 20 January 2009. Ferguson kept faith with much of the same team that had lost the first leg, with the exceptions of Ben Foster coming in for Kuszczak in goal, Gary Neville stepping in for Nemanja Vidi\u0107 at centre back and Ryan Giggs in place of Paul Scholes in midfield. The first chance of the game fell to Derby's Kris Commons, who drove the ball just wide from long range, but it was Nani who opened the scoring for United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0050-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nThe Portuguese winger picked up the ball just inside the Derby half, pressed on towards the penalty area and hit a dipping effort past Roy Carroll into the far side of the goal. A second goal came six minutes later, John O'Shea slotting home after being given plenty of time by a poorly-executed offside trap. The score reached 3\u20130 just after the half-hour mark, as Carlos Tevez nodded home from close range after Derby's defence failed to deal with a cross from Rafael.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0050-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nUnited looked to have taken their foot off the gas after the half-time break, and rarely threatened the Derby goal. They used up the third of their substitutions midway through the half, so they were unable to replace Jonny Evans when he picked up an injury later on; that injury subsequently looked to be a contributory factor when Evans felled Paul Green in the penalty area, allowing Giles Barnes to pull a goal back for the Rams from the spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0050-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup\nSubstitute Cristiano Ronaldo restored the Red Devils' three-goal lead with a penalty of his own after Carroll had tripped Tevez in the final minute, but Barnes had the final say in the game, pulling off a spectacular free kick to make the final score 4\u20132 to United on the night, and 4\u20133 on aggregate. The result sent United through to the final, where they would meet Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on 1 March 2009, after the London side beat Burnley 6\u20134 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup, Final\nThe final was played at Wembley Stadium on 1 March. United continued with the policy of playing a mixture of younger, more inexperienced players in the League Cup with older, more experienced ones. Wayne Rooney, who had been expected to play, was not in the squad, having been sidelined by a virus and Dimitar Berbatov was not selected to play against his former team. Edwin van der Sar, who had not played any part in the run up to the Final, was again rested and Ben Foster was selected in goal, ahead of Tomasz Kuszczak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup, Final\nThe game was played at a good tempo and both teams had several chances to score. United started better with both Darron Gibson and Rio Ferdinand going close to opening the scoring, before Spurs got back into the match, forcing Foster into the first real save of the game. Early in the second half, Danny Welbeck was replaced by Anderson and he helped United take control of the second half, Carlos Tevez just shooting wide after a mis-hit shot from Jonny Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0052-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup, Final\nHowever, Tottenham were not out of the game and Aaron Lennon brought another good save from Foster just a few minutes after Cristiano Ronaldo was harshly booked for diving in the penalty area. A shot, three minutes into stoppage time from Ronaldo then smashed off the inside of the post, but came out and the game ended 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup, Final\nExtra time was a more quiet affair with few really good chances, although Darren Bent brought yet another good save from Foster and Patrice Evra shot narrowly over with a couple of minutes to go. However, extra time also ended 0\u20130 and the game went to penalties \u2013 for only the second time in League Cup Final history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, League Cup, Final\nUnited won the coin toss and selected the penalties to be taken at the end where their fans were situated, and also took the first penalty. Ryan Giggs scored the first \u2013 though only just \u2013 hitting in off the upright. Spurs' Jamie O'Hara saw his penalty saved by Foster. Carlos Tevez scored his penalty to give United a 2\u20130 lead, followed by a successful penalty from Vedran \u0106orluka for Spurs. Cristiano Ronaldo then slotted his penalty home, past Heurelho Gomes before David Bentley sent his penalty wide of the goal. This left Anderson to score the winning penalty, which he duly did and United won their third League Cup Final. Ben Foster won the Man of the Match award \u2013 the first goalkeeper since Liverpool's Jerzy Dudek in 2003 to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nAs the tournament's defending champions, Manchester United automatically qualified for the Champions League group stage as top seeds. This meant that they would avoid other heavyweights such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Inter Milan in the group stage. The draw was held on 28 August 2008 and United were drawn with two familiar sides, Villarreal (whom they had drawn in 2005\u201306) and Celtic (2006\u201307), and a new face in Danish side Aalborg BK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nManchester United began their defence of the Champions League title at home to Villarreal, who set out their stall in a defensive manner, managing to hold the European champions to a third consecutive goalless draw between the two teams. Both teams put out weakened lineups, but it was to United that the first chance of the game fell. Owen Hargreaves' corner eluded everyone in the box, including the goalkeeper, but Rio Ferdinand could only scuff the ball across goal as he stabbed at it with his right foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0056-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nCarlos Tevez then had a 25-yard shot saved by Villarreal goalkeeper Diego L\u00f3pez, while Park Ji-sung had two penalty claims turned down by German referee Wolfgang Stark. Twenty minutes into the second half, after Guillermo Franco had hit the inside of the post with a cheeky back-heel, Cristiano Ronaldo made his long-awaited return from injury to rapturous applause from the Old Trafford crowd. Ronaldo's arrival seemed to give the United team extra impetus, as within minutes he sent Wayne Rooney on a breakaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0056-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe England international squared the ball to Carlos Tevez, but the Argentine was quickly closed down by Diego L\u00f3pez and the chance was missed. The last two decent chances of the game fell to United; first to Ronaldo, who headed just wide from Nani's left-wing cross, and then to Jonny Evans, who headed against the foot of the post after Ronaldo crossed in from the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nUnited got their first win of the Champions League season on 30 September 2008, when they visited Aalborg BK. The Red Devils were soon on the attack and Dimitar Berbatov could have got his name on the scoresheet after just six minutes, but he missed the target after Cristiano Ronaldo had charged down goalkeeper Karim Zaza's clearance. Paul Scholes was injured in the 15th minute and was replaced by Ryan Giggs, who immediately played in Wayne Rooney for the first goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0057-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe score remained at 1\u20130 until ten minutes after half-time, when Berbatov finally put the ball in the back of the net after pouncing on a mistake by Thomas Augustinussen. Tevez was brought on in the 59th minute after Rooney took a knock on his ankle, and introduced fresh attacking impetus to the United front line; he had a goal ruled out for unintentional use of the arm, before breaking into the box only for his square ball to Ronaldo to be wasted by the Portuguese international. Berbatov put the result beyond doubt in the 79th minute when he acrobatically volleyed Ronaldo's right wing cross into the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nA home win over fellow Britons Celtic followed on 21 October, all but securing United's progression to the knockout phase of the competition. Celtic were the first to threaten either goal, Aiden McGeady's 20-yard strike being stopped low by Edwin van der Sar after 11 minutes, but United went ahead on the half-hour via a contentious goal from Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian had appeared to be in an offside position when John O'Shea prodded Nani's corner through to him, but it was not spotted by either the referee or his assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0058-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThere were similar complaints about Berbatov's second goal six minutes after half-time, but again they went unheeded. Berbatov had been standing in an offside position when Ronaldo struck a long-range free kick, and after Artur Boruc was only able to palm it into the middle of the goal area, United's \u00a330\u00a0million man was on hand to put it into the back of the net. United themselves were the next to question the linesman's decision after a seemingly legitimate Rooney goal was ruled out for offside, but Rooney had the ball in the net in the 76th minute to make it 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe return game against Celtic was played two weeks later on 5 November. The opening exchanges were played at great pace, with Ryan Giggs partnering Carlos Tevez up front, but it was Celtic who got the first goal, as Scott McDonald lobbed Ben Foster (who was making his Champions League debut) from 14 yards. United continued to press at the Celtic back line, but a combination of misplaced final balls and staunch defending by the Scots kept the Reds (who were playing in blue) off the scoresheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0059-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nDimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney entered the game during the second half, but when United finally got their equaliser, it was neither the Bulgarian nor the Englishman who scored it. Cristiano Ronaldo hit a swerving shot from 25 yards, but it was too hot for goalkeeper Artur Boruc to handle and Ryan Giggs was on hand to head in from close range. Berbatov almost won the game for United in the final moments, but his shot on the turn went fractionally past the post and the match finished at 1\u20131. The result meant that United needed just a point from their final two matches to qualify for the knockout phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThis required point was gained with another goalless draw away to Villarreal. United were the first to settle, Anderson testing Diego L\u00f3pez in the Villarreal goal early on, before Wayne Rooney had the ball in the net in the eighth minute, only for his effort to be ruled out for offside. Shortly before half-time, an effort from Cristiano Ronaldo was tipped onto the crossbar by the fingertips of L\u00f3pez, leaving the woodwork rattling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0060-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThere were few chances in the second half, the major incident being the sending-off of Joan Capdevila for raising his studs when going into a challenge on Ronaldo. Nevertheless, a 0\u20130 draw \u2013 the fourth consecutive such result between these two teams \u2013 was enough to ensure that both qualified for the knockout phase. United remained top of the table on goal difference, needing only to better Villarreal's result on Matchday 6 to secure top spot in the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe final match in the group was played on 10 December 2008, with a depleted United side facing Aalborg at Old Trafford. Despite players being rested in preparation for the league game against Tottenham Hotspur the following Saturday, United wasted no time in getting on the scoresheet. After just two minutes, Giggs picked up the ball 25 yards from goal, before lobbing the ball over the defensive line with the outside of his left foot to find Carlos Tevez just onside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0061-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe Argentine then placed the ball past Aalborg's goalkeeper, Karim Zaza, with the outside of his right foot to score the quickest Champions League goal of the season to date. However, a few minutes later, Tevez missed a simpler chance to double both his and United's tally when he side-footed the ball the wrong side of the left-hand post. From that point on, it looked like United had dropped down a gear, a point that was emphasised when Aalborg not only equalised, but went ahead before half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0061-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nFirst, Michael Jakobsen beat Tomasz Kuszczak with a glancing header from Anders Due's 31st-minute free kick, and then Jeppe Curth directed a perfect header past the Polish goalkeeper, again from Due's delivery. Paul Scholes and Park Ji-sung replaced Ryan Giggs and Darron Gibson at half time, and United equalised seven minutes later, Wayne Rooney toe-poking the ball through Zaza's legs from just inside the penalty area. Rooney very nearly set up a goal for Gary Neville in the 69th minute, but his shot was blocked by Zaza, much to the United captain's disgust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0061-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nUnited continued to make chances, but they were unable to find the net. Nevertheless, in conjunction with Celtic's 2\u20130 win over Villarreal, the result meant that United finished on top of Group E, and also extended the club's unbeaten run in the Champions League to 19 games, equalling the previous record, set by Bayern Munich and Ajax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe draw for the Champions League round of 16 was made in Nyon, Switzerland, on 19 December 2008. United, as group winners could have faced teams such as Real Madrid and Juventus, as both finished second in their respective groups, but were ultimately paired with Inter Milan, managed by former Chelsea manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0063-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe first leg of the tie was played on 24 February 2009, with the major talking point being the fitness of United defenders Jonny Evans and John O'Shea. The two were pronounced fit an hour before kick-off, but, despite defence being the hot topic before the game, it was the United attack that did most of the talking during the first half. Cristiano Ronaldo tested Inter goalkeeper J\u00falio C\u00e9sar with a free kick before forcing the Brazilian into a save from a powerful header in the opening few minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0063-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nUnited continued to press throughout the half, and Ryan Giggs nearly opened the scoring midway through, but he could only hit the ball straight at J\u00falio C\u00e9sar after a sublime turn away from Nelson Rivas. Inter themselves went close shortly before half-time, but Adriano was unable to beat Edwin van der Sar after being played in by Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0063-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nInter came out stronger in the second half, and looked much more of a threat through Esteban Cambiasso, but United continued to search for that elusive away goal to take back to Old Trafford, and almost got it through Park Ji-sung, whose outstretched legs just missed Ronaldo's low pass across the face of goal. Giggs then tricked his way through the Inter defence on the edge of the area, only to be denied by Iv\u00e1n C\u00f3rdoba's lunging block, before Wayne Rooney \u2013 thrown on as an 83rd-minute substitute \u2013 was denied by the legs of J\u00falio C\u00e9sar. Finally, in the dying seconds of the game, Ronaldo was felled by C\u00f3rdoba on the edge of the area, well within his striking range; he stepped up to take the resulting free kick himself, but it was easily saved by J\u00falio C\u00e9sar, and the match finished as a goalless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0064-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe second leg was a tight affair at Old Trafford with United knowing conceding an away goal could prove costly and Inter knowing that a score-draw would be enough to send them through. Sir Alex Ferguson had won only 1 of the previous 13 meetings against sides managed by Inter manager, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho, a statistic that the media focused on heavily in the buildup to the game. However, United nerves were settled early as Nemanja Vidi\u0107 headed in a Ryan Giggs corner after just four minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0064-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThis led to a dominant period of play for United in terms of possession, although Inter had chances to score \u2013 Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 heading against the crossbar and shooting wide from a tight angle. United also missed chances to go further ahead, John O'Shea shooting too close to J\u00falio C\u00e9sar when put through. Nerves were playing a part as Inter grew into the game and it was the Italians who started strongly in the second half, only for Cristiano Ronaldo to head in from a Wayne Rooney centre, four minutes into the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0064-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nInter had chances to score in the second half, Adriano missing an excellent chance as he shot against the inside of the upright, and Ibrahimovi\u0107 heading wide from close range. United also missed chances to score a third with Giggs and Berbatov both going close, but the scoring had come to an end and United ran out 2\u20130 winners on the night and on aggregate. The draw for the quarter- and semi-finals took place on 20 March 2009 and paired United with Porto in the quarter-final, with the home leg first. United were also put in the same side of the draw as Arsenal and Villarreal, meaning they will play either of the teams should they beat Porto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0065-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nBeating Porto began to look problematic from as early as the fourth minute of the first leg at Old Trafford when Cristian Rodr\u00edguez scored for the visitors. This game was played just two days after a dramatic late win for United over Aston Villa in the league, which may have contributed to a lethargic performance from the home team. An awful back pass fifteen minutes into the match gave Wayne Rooney the chance to equalise for United, which he duly did, but the poor performance from United continued, with Porto putting United under regular pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0065-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nDespite this, United created a number of chances throughout the game and finally took one on 85 minutes when a Rooney flick was buried by Carlos Tevez. This goal looked to have given United an important win but Mariano Gonz\u00e1lez scored in the 89th minute to give Porto two away goals and a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0066-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nUnited started the game at the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o in impressive fashion and scored an away goal of their own after just six minutes when a powerful strike from just short of 40 yards from Cristiano Ronaldo flew past goalkeeper Helton and into the top corner. United continued to press in the first 20 minutes and began to dominate the game, although Porto came back into the match as the first half progressed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0066-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nCristian S\u0103punaru forced a good save from Edwin van der Sar and Bruno Alves headed wide from a free kick before Nemanja Vidi\u0107 missed a glorious chance just before half time, managing to shoot over from four yards out following a corner. The second half began well for both sides, with Dimitar Berbatov shooting at the keeper for United, while Raul Meireles shot over and Hulk saw his free-kick saved by van der Sar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0066-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nLate on, Lisandro L\u00f3pez saw his effort saved by Van der Sar and Ronaldo saw his low shot well saved by Helton, but there were to be no more goals for either side and United became the first English team to beat Porto in the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o, winning the tie 3\u20132 on aggregate. Their semi-final against Arsenal meant that there was a guarantee of an English team in the Champions League Final for the fifth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0067-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nManchester United's semi-final first leg was at home to Arsenal. United started well, with Wayne Rooney forcing Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia into a save within the first two minutes. Further chances for Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez followed, before John O'Shea scored after 17 minutes after a corner. United continued to dominate the first half-hour with Almunia again saving Arsenal from going further behind \u2013 the best chance being a close-range header from Ronaldo. United's performance in the second half was not as good. Arsenal passed the ball around well, keeping possession but failing to seriously penetrate United's defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0067-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nUnited hit on the break a number of times, Ronaldo hitting a shot from over 30 yards that cannoned off the crossbar, and substitute Ryan Giggs, making his 800th appearance for United (and his first since becoming PFA Player of the Year) had a goal ruled out for offside. The second goal never came and Arsenal had the last real chance, a header over the crossbar from Nicklas Bendtner. United held on to win 1\u20130, with the second leg at the Emirates Stadium six days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0068-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nUnited were 3\u20130 up on aggregate after just 11 minutes at the Emirates, meaning that Arsenal needed four goals to make the final. It was the Gunners who started better and dominated the early possession, but with United's first attack, Cristiano Ronaldo put in a deep cross. Defender Kieran Gibbs slipped at the vital moment and Park Ji-sung slotted the ball into the net after just eight minutes. Three minutes later, a 40-yard free kick from Ronaldo beat Manuel Almunia to give United a 2\u20130 lead on the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0068-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nNeeding a four-goal swing, Arsenal dominated possession but were unable to break United down. Just after the hour mark, a breakaway from United saw Ronaldo score his second and United's third less than 15 seconds after Arsenal had taken a corner at the other end. With 15 minutes to go, Darren Fletcher was sent-off by referee Roberto Rosetti for bringing down Cesc F\u00e0bregas in the penalty area, despite replays showing that Fletcher made contact with the ball first. This red card meant that he would miss the final if United advanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0068-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe resulting penalty was slotted home by Robin van Persie, but Arsenal \u2013 needing four more goals to make the final \u2013 could not find momentum from the goal and the match ended 3\u20131, with a 4\u20131 aggregate win for United, who became the first team since Juventus in 1997 to reach the Champions League final the season after winning the tournament, and the first team to reach consecutive finals since Valencia in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0069-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nOn 27 May, United lost to Barcelona 2\u20130 in the final following goals from Samuel Eto'o after 10 minutes (the Catalans' first attempt on goal) and Lionel Messi 20 minutes from time. United performed poorly throughout, with the exception of the first ten minutes and Sir Alex Ferguson admitted after the game that Barcelona had been the better side in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0070-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nAs winners of the 2007\u201308 UEFA Champions League, Manchester United earned the right to compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, alongside the champions from each of FIFA's five other continental confederations. The way the competition is organised meant that United were entered at the semi-final stage, where they would play either Japan's Gamba Osaka or the winner of a play-off between Adelaide United of Australia and Waitakere United of New Zealand. Adelaide United beat Waitakere United in the play-off, but lost to Gamba Osaka in the quarter-finals, meaning that Manchester United would face Gamba Osaka at the International Stadium of Yokohama on 18 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0071-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nBulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov was ruled out of the semi-final match with a viral infection the day before the game, but Sir Alex Ferguson was able to name his veteran trio of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville in the starting XI. The match started fairly evenly; although United had most of the ball, Gamba Osaka were able to counter-attack quickly. The first goal did end up going United's way, however, as Giggs picked out Nemanja Vidi\u0107 from a corner kick for the Serbian to head into the back of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0071-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nUnited then went 2\u20130 up on the stroke of half-time, Giggs delivering another right-sided corner, this time for Cristiano Ronaldo to nod in. Darren Fletcher and Wayne Rooney were introduced in place of Paul Scholes and Carlos Tevez halfway through the second half. However, Gamba pulled a goal back almost immediately in the 74th minute, only for Rooney to restore United's two-goal lead a minute later. Fletcher then made it 4\u20131 in the 78th, before Rooney doubled his personal tally in the 79th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0071-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nFive minutes from full-time, though, Gary Neville handled the ball inside the box and the referee awarded Gamba a penalty kick, which Yasuhito End\u014d converted. Finally, in the first minute of injury time at the end of the game, Hideo Hashimoto scored another consolation goal to make the score 5\u20133. The result meant that United were through to the final of the competition, in which they would face LDU Quito of Ecuador on 21 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0072-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nLike the semi-final, the final was played at the International Stadium in Yokohama. Dimitar Berbatov was unable to fully recover from his virus, but was named on the bench for United, while Wayne Rooney was rewarded for his semi-final brace with a place in the starting line-up, meaning that the trio of Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez all started the match. Meanwhile, captain Gary Neville was left out in place of Rafael, meaning that Rio Ferdinand captained the side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0072-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nThe match started very much in United's favour, but they were unable to convert their dominance into goals, LDU goalkeeper Jos\u00e9 Francisco Cevallos keeping the Reds' strikers at bay. Shortly after the break, Vidi\u0107 was involved in an altercation with LDU midfielder Claudio Bieler; Bieler first committed a foul on Vidi\u0107, but while the two were grounded, Vidi\u0107 lashed out at Bieler with an elbow. The Argentine rolled across the turf clutching his face, to which the Uzbek referee, Ravshan Irmatov, responded with a straight red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0072-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Club World Cup\nIn order to restore numbers in defence, Alex Ferguson withdrew Carlos Tevez and introduced Jonny Evans. The numerical advantage gave LDU extra confidence, and they looked like they might be the ones to open the scoring. However, with 17 minutes to go, Cristiano Ronaldo picked the ball up on the edge of the penalty area and laid it off to Wayne Rooney on the left side of the box, who then placed the ball past Cevallos into the far corner of the net. LDU came close to an equaliser in the final minute, Dami\u00e1n Manso hitting a long-range shot that forced Edwin van der Sar into a save at full-stretch. Despite LDU's late rally, United held on for a 1\u20130 win and their first Club World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0073-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Transfers\nUnited's first departure of the 2008\u201309 season was Chris Eagles, who signed for Burnley for an undisclosed fee on 29 July. On 20 August, Mika\u00ebl Silvestre departed for Arsenal (also for an undisclosed fee). Eight days later, United released Dong Fangzhuo, and on the same day that Dong departed (28 August), Louis Saha signed for Everton for an undisclosed fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0074-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Transfers\nUnited's three summer arrivals were Brazilian twins Rafael and F\u00e1bio, who joined from Brazilian club Fluminense for an undisclosed fee, and striker Dimitar Berbatov, who became the first Bulgarian to sign for Manchester United when he arrived from Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the summer transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200633-0075-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Manchester United F.C. season, Transfers\nUnited's other two arrivals came during the winter transfer window. Zoran To\u0161i\u0107 and Ritchie De Laet arrived respectively from Partizan and Stoke City in early January. United also struck a deal to sign Adem Ljaji\u0107 from Partizan, with the youngster due to join in January 2010, but the transfer was cancelled in December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200634-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Marist Red Foxes women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Marist Red Foxes women's basketball team represented Marist College during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Red Foxes, led by seventh year head coach Brian Giorgis, play their home games at the McCann Center and were members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. They finished the season 29\u20134, 16\u20132 in MAAC play to finish in first place and win the MAAC regular season title for the sixth consecutive time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200634-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Marist Red Foxes women's basketball team\nIn the MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament, they defeated #9 seed Loyola (MD) in the quarterfinals, #5 seed Iona in the semifinals, and #2 seed Canisius in the championship game to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Tournament. It was their fourth consecutive MAAC Tournament championship. As a #12 seed, they were defeated by #5 seed Virginia 61\u201368 in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200635-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team represented Marquette University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Buzz Williams, who served his first season as head coach, and second with Marquette. The team played its home games at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Key contributors included seniors Dominic James, Jerel McNeal, and Wesley Matthews, and juniors Lazar Hayward, Maurice Acker and Jimmy Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u20132009 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team represented the University of Maryland in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I competition as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Terrapins qualified for the NCAA tournament for just the second time since the 2003\u201304 season. Maryland advanced to the second round before being eliminated by second-seeded Memphis. This exceeded expectations for the team, which had been described as a team that was small in stature without any highly touted athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nDuring the season, head coach Gary Williams came under fire for his alleged failure to find consistent success since Maryland won the national championship in 2002. At one point, he and an athletics department official argued publicly over the failure to secure recruit Tyree Evans and the transfer of Gus Gilchrist, two highly touted local players. Athletic director Deborah Yow responded to the situation by vowing support for Williams and ensured her intent to honor his current contract. Soon after, The Washington Post published a three-part feature on Maryland basketball that was critical of Gary Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nEarly in the season, a lightly regarded Maryland team convincingly upset over fifth-ranked (and eventual national championship runners-up) Michigan State, 80\u201362, in the Old Spice Classic. Shortly thereafter, they defeated Michigan in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. They then extended their winning streak to seven and appeared destined to win out in their non-conference schedule, which would have weighed heavily in their favor for an NCAA tournament bid. However, in their final out-of-conference game, they suffered an upset against Morgan State, 66\u201365.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nAfter a 2\u20132 start to their conference schedule, which included an overtime loss to Florida State, second-ranked Duke routed the Terrapins, 85\u201344, in what was Maryland's worst-ever ACC loss. Late in the season, Maryland recovered to \"stun\" third-ranked North Carolina in overtime, and point guard Greivis Vasquez recorded the first triple-double by a Terrapin since 1987. Maryland then lost closely contested games against seventh-ranked Duke and tenth-ranked Wake Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nMaryland entered the ACC tournament needing a significant run to salvage hopes for a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Terrapins won in the first round against NC State and advanced to the quarterfinals, where they won a convincing victory over Wake Forest, 75\u201364. In the semifinals, they lost a hard-fought game against eventual conference champions, Duke, who had enjoyed a bye in the first game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nHaving exceeded expectations in the ACC tournament, Maryland was awarded a bid to the NCAA tournament with a seed ranking of ten. In the first round, they played seventh-seeded California, where, after a near stalemate in the first half, Maryland pulled away in the second to win, 84\u201371. They then faced second-seeded Memphis, which held a 26-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nBefore the game, Memphis reserve forward Pierre Henderson-Niles said about Maryland, \"We really ain't talked too much about Maryland. We watched a little film on 'em one time, and I know they got a good player\u2014I don't know his name\u2014but he good or whatever, so we just going to try to do what we do and stop him. I ain't never seen them; I know they got one good player, Sanchez or something like that, whatever his name is.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nGreivis Vasquez, the outspoken Maryland point guard to whom Henderson-Niles referred, said in response, \"[Memphis would] have a losing record in the [Atlantic Coast Conference]\u2014probably win all of their games outside the league, losing record in the league. The ACC is too tough. You can't just win games night in and night out because you\u2019re so athletic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Season recap\nMemphis accumulated a 14\u20130 run in the first half. Maryland, unable to ever significantly close the gap, eventually lost, 89\u201370. After the game, Vasquez rescinded his earlier remarks and conceded that Memphis might have finished .500 in the ACC. He said, \"They'll never play in the ACC, so we'll never know. But they proved me wrong. They're such a good team. I give them credit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200636-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200637-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 McGill Martlets women's ice hockey season\nThe McGill Martlets represented McGill University in the 2008-09 Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's hockey season. The Martlets posted an unblemished 33-0 record against CIS opponents to go undefeated for the second straight season en route to capturing another CIS banner. Catherine Ward, Chantal Gauvin and goaltender Kalie Townsend were the only graduating players from the Martlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200637-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 McGill Martlets women's ice hockey season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe Martlets participated in the Theresa Humes Tournament at Concordia University from January 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200637-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 McGill Martlets women's ice hockey season, Player stats\nRebecca Martindale, a 21-year-old education senior, posted a career-best 18 goals, 16 assists (34 points) in 42 games. Martindale doubled her points output from the previous season (42 games, 8 goals, 12 assists, 20 points). Chantal Gauvin, scored once and added 13 assists. She finished her McGill career with 7 goals, 29 assists and 36 points in 143 career contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200638-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Meistriliiga (ice hockey) season\nThe 2008\u201309 Meistriliiga season was the 19th season of the Meistriliiga, the top level of ice hockey in Estonia. Five teams participated in the league, and HK Stars Tallinn won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season\nThe 2008-09 Hyundai A-League season was Melbourne Victory's fourth season. They finished top of the table at the end of the regular season and defeated Adelaide United in the Grand Final to take their second A-League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nThe 2008\u201309 season brought the start of the A-League Youth League and the introduction of the W-League with Melbourne fielding teams in both competitions. Melbourne actively recruited, bringing in Socceroo Michael Thwaite on a one-year loan, Costa Rican World Cup player Jos\u00e9 Luis L\u00f3pez, as well as Ney Fabiano from Asian Champions League rivals Chonburi FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nMelbourne's season got off to an optimal start, winning the Pre-Season Challenge Cup. A 0\u20130 draw resulted in a penalty shoot-out, with Victory winning 8\u20137 on penalties against Wellington Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nAfter winning the pre-season cup, the Victory were held to a 0\u20130 draw away against Sydney FC. They reinforced their premiership favouritism by coasting to 4\u20132 and 5\u20130 victories against Wellington Phoenix and the Newcastle Jets respectively. Despite this, they succumbed 0\u20132 to an undermanned Sydney side at the Telstra Dome in front of 31,564 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nOn 6 December 2008, Melbourne Victory became the first A-League club to amass total crowd figures of 1,000,000 after their away match against Perth Glory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nOn 24 January 2009, Melbourne Victory won its final game of the season against Wellington Phoenix. The 2\u20130 win in front of 28,905 fans placed Victory ahead of Adelaide United on goals scored for the premiership title, a margin United failed to achieve in its 1\u20130 win over the Central Coast Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nThe Victory kicked off their finals campaign on 7 February 2009 in the major semi-final first leg against bitter rival Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium, a game which was won courtesy of goals from Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez and Danny Allsopp. In the second leg Melbourne defeated Adelaide United 4\u20130 with goals from Archie Thompson, Hernandez, Allsopp and Tom Pondeljak, granting Melbourne passage to the Grand Final on a 6\u20130 aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Season summary\nAdelaide then defeated Queensland Roar to set up a rematch with Melbourne in the Grand Final, which the Victory won 1\u20130 with Tom Pondeljak scoring in the 59th minute to regain the A-League Championship and becoming the first A-League team to win their second championship, a feat since achieved by Sydney FC and Brisbane Roar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Players, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200639-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory FC season, Players, Transfers\n* Steve Mautone is the current Melbourne Victory Goalkeeping coach and was named as the third choice goalkeeper for the AFC Champions League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200640-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the Melbourne Victory's first season of football (soccer) in Australia's new women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200640-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200640-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Melbourne Victory W-League season, Milestones\nFirst game = 2\u20130 win home V Central Coast MarinersLargest win = 3\u20130 win home V Perth Glory & away V Adelaide UnitedLargest loss = 3\u20131 loss home V Brisbane Roar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200641-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Memphis Grizzlies season\nThe 2008\u201309 Memphis Grizzlies season was their 14th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Memphis Grizzlies finished 2 games ahead of their 2007\u201308 output, and finished 12th in the Western Conference as opposed to 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200642-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Memphis in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season, the 88th season of Tiger basketball. The Tigers were coached by ninth-year head coach John Calipari, and they played their home games at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200643-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey team represented Mercyhurst College in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. The Lakers were coached by Michael Sisti and had a 16-0 record in their conference. Assisting Sisti were Paul Colontino and Louis Goulet. Mike Folga was the Head Equipment Manager. The Lakers qualified for the Frozen Four and were finalists in the 2009 NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship. The Lakers went 16-0 in conference play last season en route to their seventh-straight CHA Title. From 2002 to 2009, the Lakers were 74-3-5 in the regular season against CHA competition and 14-0 in the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200643-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey season, Postseason\nVicki Bendus recorded four assists in the postseason. She assisted twice in the CHA quarterfinal victory over Niagara March 6. Meghan Corbett registered the game-winning goal in CHA final against Wayne State on March 7, after netting one goal in CHA semifinal March 6 vs. Niagara", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200643-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey season, Postseason\nOn March 14, Bendus and Bailey Bram both got the helper on Kelley Steadman\u2019s goal in NCAA quarterfinal win over No. 7 St. Lawrence. During the postseason, Meghan Corbett tallied three postseason goals, including a second period marker in national semifinal victory over No. 2 Minnesota March 20 In that game, Bram scored a first-period goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (also Mersin \u0130dman Yurdu, Mersin \u0130Y, or M\u0130Y) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 2008\u201309. The team participated in TFF Second League for 4th time in the league's 7th season. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu has finished 2007\u201308 TFF Second League Promotion Group at 2nd place and directly promoted to 2009\u201310 TFF First League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nH\u00fcseyin \u00c7al\u0131\u015fkan was club president at the start of the season. On 24 September 2008, Ali Kahramanl\u0131 was elected president. Ercan Albay managed the team during the season. Erdal Sezek and Sami \u0130zcican were most appeared (36) players, while Zafer Biryol was the top goalscorer with 16 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation\nMersin idmanyurdu participated in 2008\u201309 TFF Second League (the league has been played under the name of \"Second League Category B\" between 2001\u201302 and 2005\u201306; \"TFF League B\" in 2006\u201307; and \"TFF Second League\" since 2007\u201308. Also sponsor names have been included in various seasons.). League was played by 54 teams in three stages. League was started on 31 August 2008. In the first stage teams fought in regionally specified five ranking groups (10 teams in Group 5, 11 teams in 1,2,3, and 4th Groups) for top two rankings to be qualified for Promotion Group in the next stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation\nIn the second stage 10 teams fought for promotion to 2009\u201310 TFF First League. Champions and runners-up directly were promoted. Remaining (8 in Group 5; 9 in other groups) teams played in Classification Groups. Classification group winners were qualified to promotion play-offs, while bottom two teams relegated to 2009\u201310 TFF Third League. In the third stage, the third team to be promoted was determined in promotion-play-offs played in one-leg elimination system in a neutral venue. Play-offs were played by 8 teams (three from promotion group, 5 from each classification groups) in Ankara Cebeci \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc Stadium between 26\u201331 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu took place in 2008\u201309 TFF Second League Ranking Group 3 in the first stage and finished 2nd. In Promotion Group, team finished at 2nd again and gained direct promotion to 2009\u201310 TFF First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation, Results summary\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) 2008\u201309 TFF Second League season league summary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation, Ranking group league table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in 2008\u201309 TFF Second League Ranking Group 3 is shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 101], "content_span": [102, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation, Ranking group games\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) 2008\u201309 TFF Second League season first half game reports in Ranking Group 2 is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation, Promotion group league table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in 2008\u201309 TFF Second League Promotion Group season is shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 103], "content_span": [104, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 TFF Second League participation, Promotion group games\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) 2008\u201309 TFF Second League season first half game reports in Promotion Group is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 Turkish Cup participation\nM\u0130Y did not participate in 2008\u201309 Turkish Cup due to eligibility rules. 47th Turkish Cup (played as Fortis T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 for sponsorship purposes) was played by 54 teams in three stages. Top four teams in previous year's TFF Second League groups were eligible to play. M\u0130Y had finished 2007\u201308 season in 6th place was not eligible to play in the Cup. In the first stage two qualification rounds were played in one-leg elimination system. In the second stage (Group Stage) 20 teams played in four groups, 5 teams in each, in a one-leg round-robin system. Top two teams in each group played in knock-out stage. Be\u015fikta\u015f won the cup for the 8th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, Management, Club management\nH\u00fcseyin \u00c7al\u0131\u015fkan was club president at the start of the season. Ali Kahramanl\u0131, a businessman, was elected president in the club congress held on 24 September 2008 after fourth round in the first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, Management, Coaching team\nErcan Albay managed the team during the season. He was commonly mentioned with Adana sides who were main rivals of the fans, so he met with reaction, but he come down to the history of the club by the promotion to upper league in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 2008\u201309 squad\nAppearances, goals and cards count for 2008\u201309 TFF Second League Ranking and Promotion Group games. This season optional kit numbers selected by players were allowed for the first time in the league's history. 18 players appeared in each game roster, three to be replaced. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in order of appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, U-18 team\nTFF organized Deplasmanl\u0131 S\u00fcper Gen\u00e7ler Ligi (DSGL) (Round-robin Super Youth League) in 2008\u201309. League was formed by 10 regional groups. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu U-18 team took place in Adana Group with 12 other teams from clubs that participated that year in professional leagues. M\u0130Y youth team finished 2nd after Adana Demirspor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200644-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, U-18 team\nBeing runners-up of Adana Group, M\u0130Y U-18 team promoted to national group stage, where three teams played elimination games. M\u0130Y eliminated \u015eanl\u0131urfaspor 1-0 (a.e.t) and Tokatspor 7-6 (1-1 and 6-5 pen.) in Group B. The group B games were played in Kahramanmara\u015f. In quarter-finals M\u0130Y U-18 team lost to Gaziantepspor 1-2 in \u0130stanbul and was eliminated. Later Gaziantepspor was eliminated at semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200645-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mestis season\nThe 2008\u201309 Mestis season was the ninth season of the Mestis, the second level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and Sport won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200646-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Miami Heat season\nThe 2008\u201309 Miami Heat season was the 21st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200646-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Miami Heat season\nFollowing a disastrous 15-67 season, Pat Riley resigned as head coach, and assistant coach Erik Spoelstra was promoted to become the new head coach; he was the youngest NBA head coach at the time of his hiring. With a healthy Dwyane Wade back in the lineup, the Heat greatly improved on their regular season record and returned to the playoffs, but were eliminated in the first round to the Atlanta Hawks in seven games, all of which were decided by double-digit margins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200646-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Miami Heat season, Transactions, Trades\nThe Heat traded Shawn Marion, Marcus Banks, and cash to the Toronto Raptors for Jermaine O'Neal, Jamario Moon, and a $4 Million trade exception on February 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by head coach Tom Izzo who was in his 14th year as head coach. The team played their home games at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan and were member of the Big Ten Conference. MSU finished the season 31\u20137, 15\u20133 in Big Ten play to win the Big Ten regular season championship by four games. They defeated Minnesota in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament before losing to Ohio State in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe Spartans received their 12th-straight NCAA Tournament bid, an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region. They defeated Robert Morris, USC, Kansas, and Louisville to advance to the Final Four for the fifth time under Izzo. In the Final Four, they defeated UConn to advance to the National Championship game where they lost to North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 2007\u201308 season 27\u20139, 12\u20136 in Big Ten play to finish in fourth place. Michigan State received a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, their 11th straight trip to the Tournament, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, their seventh trip under Tom Izzo, before losing to Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans lost Drew Neitzel (13.9 points and 4 assists per game) to graduation following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary\nMichigan State was led by sophomore Kalin Lucas (14.7 points and 4.6 assists per game), junior Raymar Morgan (10.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game), and senior Goran Suton (10.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe team began the season ranked No. 6 in the country and began the season well with home wins against Idaho and IPFW (coached by future MSU assistant coach Dane Fife).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe Spartans next traveled to Florida to participate in the Old Spice Classic. In the first round, they faced unranked Maryland who controlled the game, defeating MSU 80\u201362. The Spartans rebounded from the loss to Maryland by beating Oklahoma State 94\u201379 in the consolation bracket. In the consolation championship, MSU defeated Wichita State 65\u201357 behind 12 points from Marquise Gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe Spartans then faced No. 1 North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge at the site of the upcoming Final Four, Ford Field. There, MSU was blown out, 98\u201363. Izzo took the blame for the loss, \"The blame goes on me for the scheduling. We were dead.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nMichigan State returned home after playing five straight games away from the Breslin Center. Following easy wins over Bradley, Alcorn State, and The Citadel, MSU then went on the road again to face No. 5-ranked Texas at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. MSU, ranked 19th in the AP poll, were led by Goran Suton's 18 points, but still trailed as time wound down in the game. Durrell Summers hit a three-pointer with 18.6 second remaining to help pull out a 67\u201363 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe Spartans next defeated Oakland at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit, 82\u201366, to move to 9\u20132 and were ranked No. 10 in the country to finish the non-conference schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nMSU opened conference play on New Year's Eve with a win over No. 21 Minnesota behind a career-high 24 points from Kalin Lucas. Wins over Northwestern and Ohio State followed before the Spartans stepped back out of conference to welcome defending national champion Kansas to the Breslin Center on January 11. MSU fell behind early 7\u20131 and 11\u20136, but fought back before taking control of the game at the half with a 37\u201318 lead. Lucas again led the Spartans, scoring 22 points as the Spartans won 75\u201362 for their ninth straight win, pushing their record to 13\u20132 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nWins over Penn State and No. 20 Illinois pushed the win streak to 11. Prior to the win over Illinois, the Spartans retired Morris Peterson's jersey. The win over Illinois also gave MSU a 5\u20130 record in Big Ten play, their best start in conference since 1978. Looking to extend their win streak to 12 games, MSU welcomed Northwestern to the Breslin Centeron January 21. The Spartans, hampered by Raymar Morgan's sickness, were stunned by Northwestern, losing 70\u201363. The loss ended the Spartans 28-game home winning streak as well and left them at 5\u20131 in conference, 15\u20133 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nMSU returned to their winning ways defeating Ohio State and Iowa on the road to mark five straight Big Ten road wins. Another surprising loss at home, this time to Penn State, preceded a second win over No. 21-ranked Minnesota. At 18\u20134 and 8\u20132 on the season, the Spartans returned to the top ten rankings, moving to No. 9 in the AP poll. The Spartans then welcomed former Izzo assistant Tom Crean, coach of Indiana, to the Breslin Center on February 7. MSU, led by freshman Draymond Green's 15 points and 12 rebounds, blew out the Hoosiers, 75\u201347.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe Spartans then took their perfect road record to Michigan. MSU led the majority of the game, but Michigan rallied to within four with under five minutes remaining. But Kalin Lucas, who scored 13 of his 15 points after half time, made a three to extend the lead and Delvon Roe scored a season-high 14 points as MSU won 54\u201342.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe win over Michigan moved MSU to No. 6 in the AP poll (No. 5 in the Coaches Poll) and set up an important road game against No. 19 Purdue. The Boilermakers forced 22 Spartan turnovers, blocked eight shots and held MSU to 33% from the field. Lucas scored 13 for MSU, but it wasn't enough as they were blown out 72\u201354. The Purdue loss broke the road-winning streak, but still left MSU at 20\u20135 and 10\u20133 in conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe Purdue loss would also mark the last regular season loss by the Spartans. Wins over Wisconsin and Iowa preceded the No. 9-ranked Spartans trip to No. 20 Illinois. Lucas led the Spartans again with 18 points as they defeated Illinois 74\u201366 clinching a share of the Big Ten regular season championship. With a 64\u201359 win at Indiana on March 3, the Spartans won their first Big Ten regular season title since 2001 and first outright title since 1999. In the final game of the season, a 62\u201351 win over No. 19 Purdue, Lucas scored 21 points to lead MSU to the Big Ten championship by four games with a 15\u20133 record, 25\u20135 overall, and ranked No. 7 in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Regular season\nFollowing the conclusion of the regular season, Kalin Lucas was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Tom Izzo was voted Big Ten Coach of the Year. Travis Wilson was named Defensive Player of the Year, while Goran Suton was a second team All-Big Ten selection. Delvon Roe was named to the Big Ten freshmen team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, Big Ten Tournament\nAs the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, MSU had a bye into the quarterfinals. Looking to make their case for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, MSU defeated No. 8-seeded Minnesota 64\u201356 led by Chris Allen's 17 points. The win moved the Spartans to the Big Ten semifinals to face Ohio State. However, Michigan State's hopes for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament vanished as they were defeated by Ohio State, 82\u201370. Evan Turner had 18 points to lead the Buckeyes to win the over the Spartans, who shot just 38 percent from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nMichigan State received an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament, their 12th straight appearance in the Tournament. Though they only received a No. 2 seed, the path to the Final Four looked good for the Spartans with games in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana before the Final Four in Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nIn the First Round, the Spartans defeated No. 15-seed Robert Morris 77\u201362 behind Raymar Morgan's 16 points and Goran Suton's 11 points and 17 rebounds. Draymond Green added 16 points in the easy win. In the Second Round, MSU faced No. 10-seed USC for the right to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, which would be their second straight and eighth overall trip under Izzo. With a surprising offensive output by Travis Walton, scoring a career-high 18 points, the Spartans were able to hold off USC to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nIn the Sweet Sixteen, MSU faced No. 14-ranked and No. 3-seeded Kansas, marking the MSU's eighth trip to the Sweet Sixteen in the previous 12 years. The game was held in Indianapolis where MSU was 5\u20130 all time in NCAA Tournament games. Michigan State trailed by as many as 13 in the first half as Lucas struggled from the field. MSU trailed 36\u201329 at the half, but started strong in the second half as Draymond Green cut the Kansas lead to just one point three minutes into the half. Lucas sealed the win by scoring seven points in the final 49 seconds of the game (going 5\u20135 from the free throw line) as MSU advanced to the Elite Eight with a 67\u201362 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nIn the Elite Eight, the Spartans faced overall No. 1 seed Louisville with a chance to go to a Final Four in nearby Detroit, only 90 miles from MSU's campus. Led by MSU's rugged defense, Louisville, who had scored 103 points in their win over Arizona in the Sweet Sixteen, was held to 52 points and lost for the first time in 14 games. The Spartans, who slowed the game down, were led by Suton's 19 points and 10 rebounds and won 64\u201352. The win sent MSU to the Final Four for the fifth time in 11 seasons. \"Detroit, here we come,\" said coach Tom Izzo, a Michigan native. \"I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that.\" Durrell Summers contributed 10 second-half points in the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nIn Detroit for the Final Four, the Spartans practiced before a crowd of over 30,000 fans as they were clearly the hometown favorites. In the national semifinals, Michigan State faced Connecticut, another No. 1 seed, for the right to play for the national championship. Kalin Lucas led the Spartans with 21 points and Raymar Morgan added 18 as the smaller Spartans took it to the much bigger Huskies, led by Hasheem Thabeet. MSU led by two at the half and pulled away in the second to win 82\u201373 to advance to the national championship game. In contrast to the slowed down play against Louisville in the Elite Eight, MSU pushed the ball and wore out Thabeet and the Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nIn the National Championship game, the Spartans were re-matched with North Carolina, whom they had also lost to earlier in the season at Ford Field. Michigan State was appearing in only its third national championship game, going 2\u20130 in prior trips while winning the 1979 and 2000 Tournaments. Even better, under Tom Izzo, MSU was 14\u20132 in the second game of a weekend in NCAA Tournament play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nHowever, the game started horribly for MSU as North Carolina jumped out to a lead of 17\u20137 in the first five minutes and extend the lead to 24\u20137 with 14 minutes remaining in the half. North Carolina scored more points than any team had ever scored in the first half of an NCAA championship game, scoring 55 and blowing out the Spartans 55\u201334 at the half. MSU's 14 turnovers in the first half aided the Tar Heels 52.9% shooting. In counter, the Spartans only made 12 baskets in the first half. The Spartans held UNC in check more in the second half, outscoring the Tar Heels 38\u201334, but it was too little too late. The Spartans were defeated by North Carolina 89\u201372, marking the Spartans' first ever loss in the national championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200647-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Season summary, NCAA Tournament\nThe Spartans faced three No. 1 seeds (Louisville, UConn, and North Carolina) in the Tournament, only losing to North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200648-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Michigan State Spartans women's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Spartans were coached by Suzy Merchant and played their home games at the Breslin Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in competitive college basketball during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I season. The 2008\u201309 season marked the team's ninety-second consecutive season as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Big Ten Conference. The team finished the season with a 21\u201314 overall record and a 9\u20139 conference record. The 9\u20139 conference record tied for seventh place in the 2008\u201309 Big Ten conference standings. Michigan was seeded seventh in the single-elimination 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament where it advanced one round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThey were seeded tenth in the South Regional bracket of the single-elimination 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where it also advanced one round before losing to the Blake Griffin-led Oklahoma Sooners. Jevohn Shepherd and David Merritt served as team co-captains, and Manny Harris and DeShawn Sims shared team MVP honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 season marked a turnaround for the team for several reasons. The team rebounded from a 10\u201322 overall record and a 5\u201313 conference record during the previous 2007\u201308 season. The season was highlighted by the team's first two wins in eleven years against teams ranked among the top five in the AP Poll, and by the team's first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament since the 1998 Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nAlthough the team had appeared in the 1998 NCAA tournament, the last appearance in the NCAA tournament that had been recognized in official NCAA records as not having been tainted by the University of Michigan basketball scandal was their 1995 Tournament appearance. The team was in its first year off scholarship probation, which following the scandal had restricted the number of available scholarships. However, the team continued to be prohibited from affiliating with implicated athletes (Chris Webber, Robert Traylor, Maurice Taylor, and Louis Bullock) until 2012, which meant, among other things, that the players could not help the University recruit. The team began the season unranked, but in December 2008 it earned its first place in the top 25 since February 2006. As the season progressed, the team adopted the slogan \"Queme los barcos\", which is Spanish for \"burn the ships\", as a reminder that there was no turning back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 986]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nFor the forty-second consecutive season, the team played its home games in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the Crisler Arena, which has a capacity of 13,751. John Beilein was in his second season as head coach with the team during the 2008\u20132009 season. At the conclusion of the season, guard Manny Harris was named to the All-Big Ten first team, and forward DeShawn Sims was selected by the Big Ten media to the second team and chosen by the Big Ten coaches for the third team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Preview\nTheir 2008\u201309 pre-conference schedule included Atlantic Coast Conference members Maryland Terrapins and Duke Blue Devils, who went on to win the 2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. The team also played against geographical rival Eastern Michigan and the preseason #2 ranked Connecticut Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Preview\nUnlike conference rivals Michigan State, Purdue, and Wisconsin, Michigan was not ranked in the top 25 by either the Associated Press or the ESPN/USA Today preseason polls. In fact, the team did not even receive any votes, like rival Ohio State, in either poll. Pre season reports described the team as a contender for fifth place in the conference. Although the team was building from a 10\u201322 record, it won five of its last ten games the prior year. A poll of 22 members of the media published in the Detroit Free Press ranked Michigan eighth in the conference. The Sports Illustrated 2008 College Basketball Preview issue did not select the team as one of the five predicted Big Ten teams (the four mentioned above and the Minnesota Golden Gophers) to qualify for the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Roster\nOn May 5, 2008, sophomore Epke Udoh, the Big Ten's top shotblocker, decided to transfer for his final two years of athletic eligibility. Beilein attempted to replace Udoh with Robin Benzing, a member of Germany's national youth team. However, Benzing failed to meet the NCAA's initial-eligibility guidelines and did not play. Beilein was able to partially solve the problem of complimenting Manny Harris by luring point guard Laval Lucas-Perry to transfer from Arizona. Perry became eligible to play at the conclusion of the fall semester. The team anticipated relying on 7-foot (2.1\u00a0m) freshman center Ben Cronin to make up for the loss of Udoh and Ron Coleman, who averaged over 21 minutes each of his four seasons. Including Cronin, the team had three incoming recruits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Roster\nMichigan granted two of its scholarships to fifth-year redshirt graduate students C.J. Lee and David Merritt in September. Lee and Merritt had both been 2007\u201308 Big Ten Academic All-Conference selections. The varsity roster included fourteen players, thirteen of whom saw live game action. In December, the Wolverines made the decision to redshirt Ben Cronin after only 10 minutes of play. He had hip surgery on January 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Roster, Incoming signees\nThe incoming class had no four- or five-star recruits. However, it included three players that Rivals.com listed as three-star recruits. Only Ben Cronin was also listed as three-star by scout.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Roster, 2009\u201310 team recruits\nIncoming recruit Darius Morris and two Division I recruit teammates led Windward High School to the California Division V state title. Darius Morris received MVP of Olympic League, CIF Division 5A Southern Section Player of Year, and CIF Division 5A State Player of Year. Also Darius was awarded a John Wooden High School Player of the Year Award, received by Jrue Holiday the year before and the likes of Jason Kapono and Tayshaun Prince in the past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Roster, 2009\u201310 team recruits\nMatt Vogrich won the Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year award, following in the footsteps of Derrick Rose and Jon Scheyer. Unlike Scheyer and Rose, he did not win Illinois Mr. Basketball. Kelvin Grady announced his intent to transfer at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Playing style\nOver the course of the season, they developed a reputation for shooting a lot of three-point shots and for not turning over the basketball. The team ranked among the national leaders in three-point shots made per game. The ballhandling ability was a function of the Michigan lineup which often employed four guards and one center/forward, which meant that at any time the team had several adept ballhandlers on the court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Playing style\nBy the end of the season, the starting lineup usually included four players 6\u00a0feet 5\u00a0inches (1.96\u00a0m) or shorter and Sims who is 6\u00a0feet 8\u00a0inches (2.03\u00a0m). As a team that relied on the three-point shot, it was streaky and was susceptible to hot and cold stretches. The team relied on a deep bench and had 10 players who averaged 10 minutes per game. Even the eleventh player averaged 9.6 minutes. The offense used patient ball movement with backdoor cutters and slashers, which necessitated that defenses chase shooters and peel off picks. The offense resulted in a shot mix that employed three-pointers for about 48% of its shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Playing style\nOn defense, the team was known for employing Beilein's trademark trapping 1\u20133\u20131 halfcourt zone defense, which required opponents to be skilled at perimeter passing. The zone defense was generally employed after made baskets and dead-ball situations. After offensive misses or turnovers, the Wolverines relied on man-to-man defense. Depending on the matchups the team also used a 2\u20133 zone defense because the team did not have the type of athletes necessary to play on the wings of his 1\u20133\u20131. It employed the 1\u20133\u20131 less later in the season, and about ten percent of opponent possessions altogether. In total, the team used some sort of zone defense about 40 percent of the time. The team was also among the top 35 (of over 300) in the nation in terms of three-point shot defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Accomplishments\nOn December 13, 2008, the team tied Dartmouth\u2019s current  national record for most different players to make a three-point field goal in game set in 1993 when 9 players made three-point shots against Eastern Michigan. The team also set the current Big Ten Conference single-game three-point field goals attempted record of 42 on December 22, 2008 against Florida Gulf Coast and the conference games record of 40 on January 7, 2009 against Indiana. Over the course of the season the team set the current Big Ten Conference single-season three-point field goals attempted record if 912 as well as the single-season conference games record of 471. The team led the Big Ten Conference with 151 three-point field goals made in conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Accomplishments\nThe team set several school records. Its single-season total of 305 three-point field goals made surpassed the 1998 school record total of 260. This record was surpassed by the 2013\u201314 team. The team's single-game total of 16 three-point field goals made against Eastern Michigan on December 13, 2008 surpassed the school record 15 made on February 22, 1998. The team also established the school\u2019s single-season free throw percentage record of 75.7% (412\u2013544) surpassed the 75.4% set in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nAlthough the Big Ten Network had a two and a half hour special that featured Midnight Madness events from several Big Ten campuses on October 17, 2008, the Michigan Wolverines were not a featured part of the show. Michigan began the season with Ben Cronin suffering from a torn acetabular labrum (hip joint) and considering redshirting. The team started its season as the host of a 2K Sports College Hoops Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic tournament regional in which they defeated the Michigan Tech Huskies and Northeastern Huskies at Crisler Arena. Manny Harris won the second Big Ten Player of the week award of his career for his performances during these games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nThe first two victories qualified Michigan to appear in the tournament final four at the Madison Square Garden where the unranked Wolverines team upset the #4 ranked UCLA Bruins men's basketball team for its first win over a top-five team in eleven years on November 20, 2008. The 55\u201352 win also ended a twelve-game losing streak against ranked opponents. During the game, Michigan forced 17 UCLA turnovers with its 1\u20133\u20131 zone defense. Nonetheless, Michigan fell behind by as many as 10 points at one point in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nIn the first half, the Wolverines shot 31.3% from the field, and in the second half, they shot 61.9%, including 4 of 8 on three-point shots. Michigan trailed by two with 4 minutes and 16 seconds left before Stu Douglass made a three-point basket and Sims scored a few possessions later after a steal. In the final seconds UCLA's Nikola Dragovic hit a 3-point shot with five seconds left to reduce Michigan's four-point lead to one. Then UCLA sent Harris to the line where he made two free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0015-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nIn the final seconds Michigan defended an attack by Darren Collison who had his final shot blocked by Harris. At that point in the season, Michigan used DeShawn Sims as a sixth man. He played 28 minutes off the bench and led the team in scoring with 18 while being tied for the lead with 5 rebounds. Despite losing to #10 ranked (#5 in the Coaches' Poll) Duke the following night, the Wolverines began receiving votes in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings for the week of November 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nThe team earned a pair of non-conference victories against Norfolk State and Savannah State. In the Savannah St. game, Sims made a jump shot from the corner as time expired to win the game in overtime. Michigan had trailed by 20 at halftime, but scored the first 15 points of the second half. Next, the team was matched up against the Maryland in the ACC\u2013Big Ten Challenge, where they lost on December 3. The Maryland game marked Sims' entry into the starting lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nOn December 6, 2008 Michigan posted its second consecutive win over a top 5 opponent in a rematch against Duke with an 81\u201373 victory. The game included 11 lead changes and 16 ties. The close contest allowed the fans to play a part as they forced Duke to use a time out to quiet the noisy crowd late in the second half. The game, which had an attendance of 13,751, marked Michigan's 168th sellout and eighth consecutive as host to Duke. Sims, in his new starting role, led the way with 28 points (a career-high) and 12 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nNovak contributed 14 off the bench including 4 for 7 on three-point shots. Gerald Henderson fouled out in only 19 minutes of play. Michigan trailed 53\u201350 with 8 minutes and 38 seconds remaining before Novak hit three-point shots on consecutive possessions to give Michigan the lead for good. Michigan built a 68\u201359 lead with 3 minutes and 7 seconds left. Then, Duke made four straight three-point shots while Michigan made 13 of its last 14 free throws to defend its lead. The fourth three-pointer cut the lead to 75\u201371 with 51.3 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0017-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nThe game was the first time Michigan had defeated multiple top five teams in the same season since 1986\u201387 when it upended fifth-ranked Syracuse, 91\u201388 (January 18, 1987), second-ranked Iowa, 100\u201392 (January 31, 1987), and third-ranked Purdue, 104\u201368 (March 7, 1987). At that point in the season, Michigan's two wins against top five teams were as many as the rest of the nation combined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nThen, after beating Eastern Michigan the following week, they welcomed Laval Lucas-Perry to the lineup as he contributed 14 points in 16 minutes of play in a victory over the Oakland Golden Grizzlies. Two days later on December 22, Michigan entered the Associated Press top 25 poll for the first time since February 6, 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Preconference\nLater that night in a victory over Florida-Gulf Coast, DeShawn Sims became the first Wolverine to score 20 points and add 20 rebounds since Phil Hubbard had 22 points and 26 rebounds in a victory over University of Detroit in the 1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. This performance earned him his second career Big Ten Player of the Week award. On December 29, the team entered the top 25 of the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nAfter a win over North Carolina Central, which gave the Wolverines ten wins to match its previous season's total, the team lost its Big Ten Conference opener against the Wisconsin Badgers on New Year's Eve. The win made Michigan the first ranked team that Wisconsin defeated during the season after three previous losses. During the game Zack Novak scored his season high 20 points, but Harris was held to 9 points and Wisconsin shot 58.7% from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nOn January 4, the team earned its first conference victory against the Illinois Fighting Illini when five player chipped in with double digit scoring efforts and the defense induced a low shooting percentage in the second half. The loss during the week caused Michigan to fall from the top 25 of both polls. Michigan rallied from a 20-point deficit against the Indiana Hoosiers to force overtime in which it prevailed on January 7. It was the team's first victory in Bloomington, Indiana since 1995. On January 11, defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes marking eight wins in nine games starting with the Duke upset. Michigan opened a 32\u201316 lead and was never challenged afterwards. Following the Indiana and Iowa victories, Michigan moved back into the top 25 in both polls (AP #25, ESPN/USAT #24).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nBeilein stayed at 499 career wins at four-year academic institutions, as Michigan suffered its first consecutive losses of the season when its second conference loss, which came against Illinois on January 14, was followed by a loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes on January 17. The Illinois contest was a rematch from ten days earlier. After a 31\u201330 Michigan halftime lead resulting from 11 lead changes, Illinois shut down Michigan early in the second half to build a 57\u201345 lead with 5 minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nIn the game, Michigan did not attempt a free throw until the last 1 minute and 45 seconds of the second half. Against Ohio State, Michigan struggled against a 1\u20132\u20132 zone early in the game and fell behind by 11 before closing to a 29\u201325 halftime deficit. Michigan took a 44\u201340 lead with eight minutes remaining, and the score was tied at 47 before Ohio State ran off 10 points in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0020-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nThe game was a twentieth year celebration of the last Wolverine national championship with all but two members of the 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship team in attendance as the team wore throwback uniforms. The consecutive losses caused the team to lose almost all of their support in the national rankings. On January 20, in a contest against Penn State that pitted the conferences two leading scorers (Harris and Talor Battle), Michigan shot 9 for 30 from the field in the first half including 2 for 16 on three-point shot attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0020-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nThey fell behind by as many as 23 points in the second half. The loss extended the losing streak to three games. Although Michigan rebounded with Beilein's 500th win in a January 24 victory over Northwestern in which they scored on their first five possessions and never looked back,  they lost all support among the voters in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nMichigan ended January with a pair of losses to Ohio State and Purdue. The Ohio State game was notable for Novak's flagrant foul and ejection for elbowing P.J. Hill in the face. Harris accumulated a triple double of sorts with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 10 turnovers. Against Purdue, Harris was held to single digit scoring for the third time in four games. During the game he was ejected for elbowing Purdue captain Chris Kramer in the nose, which spurred Purdue to a 40\u201320 run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nNovak was ineligible due to an ejection in the prior game and Harris was ejected toward the beginning of the second half. On February 5, Harris was selected as a John R. Wooden Award 2008\u201309 Midseason Top 30 Candidate. After starting February play by snapping the two-game losing streak against Penn State on February 5, Michigan lost consecutive games to top ten opponents: Connecticut Huskies (#1) and Michigan State Spartans (#9). Harris posted a 28 points as Michigan rallied from a two-point halftime deficit to win by 20 against Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0021-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nAlthough Michigan confused Connecticut with a 2\u20133 zone defense instead of its normal 1\u20133\u20131 zone, which forced 10 first-half turnovers, Connecticut was victorious. The 11th double double of the season by Hasheem Thabeet helped Connecticut overcome only its second halftime deficit. Michigan stayed in the game in part due to six three-pointers by Stu Douglass. The loss against Michigan State marked 7 losses in 9 games for Michigan and gave Michigan State a 7\u20130 road record. On February 15, Michigan raised its record to 3\u20130 in overtime games in a victory over the Northwestern Wildcats on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0021-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nMichigan took a 56\u201351 lead with 1 minute and 44 seconds left, but let it slip away. Michigan never trailed in the overtime. Then four days later, they posted their first consecutive win since a three-game streak from January 4\u00a0\u2014 11 with a victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. In the game, Novak posted a career-best 6 three-pointers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nMichigan suffered an 80\u201370 overtime loss at the hands of ten-place Big Ten foe, Iowa, on February 22. Michigan had led 56\u201352 with 1 minute and 13 seconds remaining in regulation before allowing four straight free throws by Matt Gatens. The game was notable because Harris did not play during the overtime. At the time of the benching, Harris was in a battle with fellow sophomores Talor Battle and Evan Turner for the Big Ten Scoring leadership. Beilein commented on the benching: \"That's what we had to do to make our team better now and in the future.\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nIn the subsequent game against #16-ranked Purdue, Michigan won 87\u201378, raising its record to 3\u20134 against ranked opponents on the season. Harris was one of Michigan's leaders with 27 points and 8 rebounds, while Sims had a career-high 29 points. On March 1, Michigan lost to Wisconsin 60\u201355. After taking a 34\u201332 halftime lead, Michigan opened the second half shooting 1 for 12. Michigan closed the contest to a 52\u201350 game with 3 minutes and 55 seconds remaining. They stayed close as Wisconsin missed four of eight late free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0022-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nPrior to the final game of the season, the Wolverines adopted the slogan \"Queme los barcos,\" which means \"burn the ships\" and which had been used by 16th-century Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez as a command to his troops to remind them that there was no turning back in their battle with the Aztec. The team traded in their traditional warmup jersey's for shirts with their adopted slogan. On March 7, they recovered from a 51\u201339 deficit to win their conference finale against Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0022-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Big Ten Season\nLaval Lucas-Perry scored a career-high 19 points, including three straight three-pointers after Minnesota opened up the 12-point lead. Of the three teams that were ranked at the end of February and that Michigan had played twice (Duke, Illinois and Purdue), Michigan split the two games against each opponent, winning against each at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Postseason\nMichigan concluded its regular season with a 19\u201312 (9\u20139 Big Ten) record. This earned the team a tie for seventh place in the conference standings with Minnesota. Since Michigan swept the season series with a February 19, 74\u201362 win at home and a March 7, 67\u201364 win at Minnesota, Michigan was seeded seventh in the 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament held at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana while Minnesota was seeded eighth. During Championship Week, the Wolverines defeated the number ten seeded Iowa Hawkeyes on March 12 by a 73\u201345 margin. Sims helped Michigan open a 22\u20139 lead by scoring 16 of his 27 points in the first 10 minutes. Then the team lost to the number two seeded Illinois Fighting Illini on March 13. Sims scored 15 and Harris was held to 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Postseason\nMichigan continued to wear warmup shirts with the team slogan at the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. In the tournament, where Michigan earned the number 10 seed, the team defeated the Clemson Tigers 62\u201359 on March 19 in Kansas City. At one point, Michigan held a 16-point lead. After Harris gave Michigan a 58\u201343 lead with 5:51 remaining, Clemson had a 14\u20130 run to cut the deficit to 58\u201357 with 49 seconds left. Harris completed a three-point play on a driving layup with 37.4 second left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0024-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Season, Postseason\nDuring the game, Clemson's top shooter Terrence Oglesby was ejected for a flagrant foul. The Wolverines lost in the second-round game played on March 21, 2009 to the 2-seeded Oklahoma in a 73\u201363. During the game four of Michigan's five starters who were trying to defend against Blake Griffin spent much of the game in foul trouble with Harris and Lee fouling out and Novak and Sims finishing with four fouls. Although Michigan tried a variety of defenders and various approaches such as doubling him, sagging in the lane, bumping him, Griffin still posted 33 points and 17 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Awards and honors\nNo Wolverines were drafted into the 2009 NBA Draft after the season. Before, during and after the season, individual players earned the following awards and honors:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Awards and honors, Statistical leadership\nHarris led the Big Ten in free throw percentage according to some sources who recognize a 2.5 free throws made per game minimum, but was considered second according to the conference website that uses a 2 FTM/game minimum. The NCAA recognizes a 2.5 attempts per game minimum. Thus, according to the Big Ten Gatens is the Conference Free Throw Champion and according to the NCAA Harris is the champion. Harris and Sims were both ranked among the leaders in the Conference in several statistics and divided the team leadership in most statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0026-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Awards and honors, Statistical leadership\nHarris led the Wolverines in points, minutes, assists, free throws made, free throw percentage and steals, while Sims led the team in field goal percentage, rebounds and blocked shots. Although Harris led the team in scoring for the season, Sims led the team in scoring in all its victories against ranked teams during the regular season and during the last five games before the NCAA tournament, while the team was on the bubble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0026-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Awards and honors, Statistical leadership\nHowever, Harris and Turner became the 4th and 5th players in conference history to finish in the top ten in the conference in average points, rebounds, and assists for a season since assists became a statistic in 1983\u201384, following Steve Smith, Jim Jackson, and Brian Evans. After, Harris was named team MVP, he requested that Sims be recognized as co-MVP. Sims was recognized as co-MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200649-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Schedule\nBold text indicates game high; (nth time player led stat)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200650-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team is the Wolverines' 87th season. They represent the University of Michigan in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team is coached by Red Berenson and play their home games at Yost Ice Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200650-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Schedule and results\n^ Denotes Great Lakes Invitational (neutral site: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200650-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200650-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time on ice; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season\nThe 2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conference. The Mid-American Conference (MAC) sponsors 23 sports (11 men's and 12 women's). The MAC is made up of 12 full-time members and five affiliate members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Reese and Jacoby trophies\nThe Reese and Jacoby trophies are awarded to the top men's and women's athletic departments in the Mid-American Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Reese and Jacoby trophies\nPoints are awarded based on each school's finish, with the overall total divided by the number of sports sponsored by each school. An institution may count either indoor track and field or outdoor track and field but not both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Basketball (men's), Players of the week\nThe following are the MAC men's basketball players of the week. Number of awards won this season are in parenthesis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Basketball (women's), Standings\n* Receives E3 seed based on 2\u20130 head-to-head record vs. Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Cross country (men's)\nEastern Michigan won its fourth consecutive MAC Championship in 2008. The All-MAC team consisted of Ryan Bloom (Buffalo), Josh Karanja (Eastern Michigan), Sammy Kiprotch (Central Michigan), Aiman Scullion (Kent State), Kevin Silver (Miami), Pat Sovacool (Miami) and Curtis Vollmar (Eastern Michigan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Cross country (men's)\nSovacool of Miami was the only runner to qualify for the NCAA Championship. He finished 65th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Cross country (men's)\nIn the preseason poll voted by the MAC head coaches, Eastern Michigan was chosen to win the 2008 men's MAC Cross Country Championship. EMU had won the past three MAC Championships and had five All-MAC runners returning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Football\nBall State started the 2008 football season 12\u20130, going undefeated in conference play and defeating Indiana and Navy in out of conference games. BSU was ranked as high as 12th in the Associated Press Poll and 13th in the Coaches' Poll. They were also ranked 12th at one point in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) rankings. However, Ball State was upset by Buffalo in the MAC Championship game, lost their bowl game vs. Tulsa and finished unranked in each of the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Football\nIn regular season non-conference games, the MAC defeated BCS opponents #25 Pittsburgh (Bowling Green won 27\u201317), Syracuse (Akron won 42\u201328), Indiana (Ball State won 42\u201320 and Central Michigan won 37\u201334), Illinois (Western Michigan won 23\u201317) and Michigan (Toledo won 13\u201310).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200651-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mid-American Conference season, Sports, Football\nDespite having a successful non-conference record and gaining five bowl bids, the MAC finished the bowl season poorly. The MAC was the only conference to not win a bowl game and finished 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Middlesbrough's eleventh consecutive season in the Premier League. They were relegated at the end of the season. They were knocked out of the League Cup in the third round and knocked out of the FA Cup in the quarter-finals (sixth round).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season\nGareth Southgate continued as manager under chairman Steve Gibson. Before the season, Southgate was considering whether to continue with the traditional role of a club captain, but later decided that Emanuel Pogatetz would continue being captain following his performances in the final ten games of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Team kit and sponsors\nMiddlesbrough's kits were produced by Erre\u00e0 for the fifteenth and final season, and sponsored by GPS manufacturer Garmin. Back at the start of 2008, the club ran a poll to decide whether the club should return to the white band of prior seasons. The votes came out in favour of the band, and it was then up to the fans to decide between three different designs. The winning shirt was announced on 7 May 2008 to be choice A \u2013 the white band with a curl. The away kit, announced on 17 July 2008, would see a return to the popular black and blue striped kit worn by Jack Charlton's side of the mid-1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nMiddlesbrough net spending over the 2008 summer transfer window was almost nil, as money spent bringing in new faces was matched by money brought in through player sales, though it had only been half a year since Afonso Alves' club-record signing during the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nThe first transfer for the season was thought to have been announced back in May, with Maidstone United's England youth international defender Chris Smalling signing a two-year contract. However, the player changed his mind, the contract was cancelled, and later the same month he decided to join Fulham instead as it was closer to his home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nMark Schwarzer's departure at the end of the previous season saw Gareth Southgate announce that Brad Jones and Ross Turnbull would fight it out for the first choice goalkeeper's shirt, and thus no goalkeepers were amongst the signings during the summer, much to the initial dismay of Boro supporters. Liverpool goalkeeper Charles Itandje later revealed that Middlesbrough tried to sign him on loan during the summer, but that his club refused to allow him to move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nThe club's first signings of the summer were both announced on the same day in early July, with Dutch forward Marvin Emnes arriving in a deal worth \u20ac4 million (\u00a33.2 million at the time) and French midfielder Didier Digard arriving from PSG for \u20ac5 million (\u00a34 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nNext up came a series of midfield departures. After six years on Teesside, Dutch midfielder and former club captain George Boateng left for newly promoted Hull City for a fee of \u00a31 million, while academy graduate and England under-21 midfielder Lee Cattermole signed for Wigan Athletic in a deal worth \u00a33.5 million, rising to \u00a34 million based on appearances. Boro's midfield options were further reduced when H\u00e9rold Goulon, signed two years earlier, left without playing a senior game for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nWellington Phoenix's New Zealand international left-back Tony Lochhead joined the club on a week-long trial at the end of July but the club eventually decided against offering him a contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summer transfer window\nFinally, just a week before the season began and after only a year on Teesside, Luke Young moved to Aston Villa for a fee of \u00a35.5 million rising to \u00a36 million based on appearances. Fans were disappointed with the sale but, coupled with Young's wish to make the move, the club felt the offer was too good to turn down, having only paid \u00a32.5 million for him a year earlier. A replacement was brought in when Middlesbrough completed the \u00a33 million signing of Arsenal's Justin Hoyte before the first game of the season, but not in time for him to be eligible to play. The right-back signed a four-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nIn mid-November, before the window opened, former youth goalkeeper David Knight returned to the club on a month-to-month contract as cover following an injury to third-choice keeper Jason Steele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nMiddlesbrough and MFK Ko\u0161ice came to an agreement that would see talented young players exchanged between the two clubs. It was verbally agreed that 17-year-old Peter G\u00e1l-Andrezly would join the Middlesbrough reserve side for the second half of the season. Two further players, Serbian Under-21 international Nemanja Mati\u0107 and 18-year-old Juraj Hovan\u010d\u00edk, came to England on a trial period during December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nDuring December, the club told reporters that there were no funds available for transfers, meaning they needed to sell before they could buy, although at the same time the club were not looking to move on any of their best players either. This became a key element of the January transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nThe transfer window was once again dominated by reports linking Stewart Downing with a move to Tottenham Hotspur, but this time there was a basis for such reports. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp announced his interest in Downing towards the end of December. With the transfer window open, Spurs put in a bid for the player, reported to be around \u00a36 million, which was described as \"derisory\" by Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb. An improved offer was submitted and immediately rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nMiddlesbrough told Tottenham that the player was not for sale and any further interest they had would not be entertained, while chairman Steve Gibson told the media that no senior player would be leaving the club in January. Shortly afterwards, Downing submitted a written transfer request. The request was considered before being rejected. Downing's father, Stewart Senior, revealed his son's reasons for submitting his transfer request, stating that \"when he signed his new contract [in February 2008] he was assured that there would be significant investment in the squad\", arguing this had not happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nReiterating their position that they would not be letting any senior players leave the club during January, the club rejected a \u00a34.5 million offer from Portsmouth to take Gary O'Neil back to his former club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nWith the club falling into the relegation zone and a number of players ruled out through injury and suspension, Middlesbrough eventually moved into the transfer market on 22 January, with their first move bringing in striker Marlon King on loan from Wigan Athletic until the end of the season. King had been on loan at Hull City but his time there was cut short after he fell out with their manager. A day later, Mido made a move in the opposite direction, also on a loan until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nCrystal Palace midfielder Ben Watson underwent a medical at Middlesbrough, after the two clubs agreed a \u00a32 million fee. However, Wigan's bid for the player was also accepted and Watson decided to move there instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, January transfer window\nFollowing a successful loan spell, Academy graduate Tom Craddock made a permanent move to Luton Town. The striker started only one game during his time on Teesside before completing his \u00a380,000 move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, End of season\nRoss Turnbull left the club at the end of the season on a free transfer, to join Chelsea, after rejecting several contract offers, citing that he wanted to play regular first team football. The goalkeeper played less than 30 first team games for Middlesbrough and had been dropped earlier in the season in favour of teammate Brad Jones. David Knight also left at the end of the year, to join Darlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, End of season\nOut of contract winger Graeme Owens left the club to join Scottish Premier League side Kilmarnock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Transfers, Summary, Out\nFor departures of players out of contract at the end of 2007\u201308 see 2007\u201308 Middlesbrough F.C. season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Squad, Senior squad\nSquad numbers for the 2008\u201309 season were announced on 23 July 2008. Changes saw Julio Arca move from 3 to 20, with Andrew Taylor moving from 33 to 3. Marvin Emnes took the number 11 shirt, vacated by J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re's move to number 10. Didier Digard received the vacant number 8 shirt. Ross Turnbull and Brad Jones stayed at 21 and 22 respectively, leaving the number 1 shirt empty. Before they left, Luke Young, Lee Cattermole and H\u00e9rold Goulon were given numbers 2, 27 and 37 respectively. Justin Hoyte became the new number 2 upon his arrival, while Nathan Porritt was given number 33 before the away match at Portsmouth. Franks was given the number 37 shirt before the away match at Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Squad, Senior squad, Appearances and goals\nAppearance and goalscoring records for all the players who were in the Middlesbrough F.C. first team squad during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Squad, Senior squad, Discipline\nDisciplinary records for 2008\u201309 league and cup matches. Only players with one or more cards are included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nThe first game saw Boro visit Bootham Crescent to play York City. The visitors fielded different outfield sides in both halves, with Brad Jones the only player to appear in both halves. Jonathan Franks put Middlesbrough ahead in the second half, before York scored two goals to take the lead. David Wheater scored a late equaliser to leave the score tied at 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nNext up came a trip to Portugal for the Algarve Challenge Cup. The mini-league format would see 3 points awarded for a win and 1 for a draw, with an extra point for every goal scored. Boro's first game was against Scottish champions Celtic. The first half finished goalless, and the manager again elected to make many changes, with only Ross Turnbull and Josh Walker remaining on the field. J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re put Boro ahead late in the second half after the Celtic goalkeeper's clearance rebounded back off of the Boro forward. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink leveled the game during stoppage time to end the game at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nIt was a similar scenario in the next game, versus Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es. Nine changes at half time saw only Turnbull and Adam Johnson retain their places. Boro conceded another late goal to lose the game 0\u20131. Boro ended the competition with two points \u2013 one for a draw, and one for their solitary goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nBoro picked up their first pre-season win with victory over Carlisle United. French pair J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re and Didier Digard scored Boro's goals. Aliadi\u00e8re scored within a minute of the second half starting, before Carlisle levelled almost instantly. Digard struck a great shot to win Boro the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nA trip to Scotland for a second year running saw a remarkable comeback versus Hibernian. Hibs took a two-goal lead thanks to Steven Fletcher's goals in either half. Afonso Alves, on as a substitute, put Boro back in the game with a goal within a minute of coming on. Wheater's header levelled the game before Alves got his second goal to win the game 3\u20132 for Boro. There was bad news however as Julio Arca was injured and ruled out for six weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nA young Boro side cruised to a comfortable victory over Darlington in the next friendly. Adam Johnson opened the scoring by converting a penalty, with Marvin Emnes scoring his first goal for the club to leave the visitors two-up at the break. A Lewis Hardman own goal and a goal from Tony McMahon put Boro further in front, before Johnson scored his second of the game to complete a comfortable 5\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season\nPre -season finished in fantastic fashion, albeit their final game didn't start off in the best way. Sparta Rotterdam opened the scoring after just two minutes, but then Boro took charge. Alves scored three minutes later to level the game. A further three minutes down the line, Aliadi\u00e8re put Boro in front. Josh Walker got the third on thirteen minutes, and Alves got his second two minutes later. Stewart Downing made it five for the visitors just after the half-hour mark, while Rhys Williams added another shortly after half-time. No further goals were forthcoming and the game finished 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Pre-season, Results\nNote: Results are given with Middlesbrough score listed first. Man of the Match is according to .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, August\nMiddlesbrough began their season with a victory for the first time in eight years with a 2\u20131 win over Tottenham Hotspur. Brad Jones was named as Gareth Southgate's new number 1, but there was no place in the starting line-up for any of the club's summer signings, with Didier Digard and Marvin Emnes on the bench, while Justin Hoyte, only signed on the day, was ineligible. An early chance for David Wheater was controversially ruled out for a foul, but he converted again in the second half for Boro's first goal of the season. Mido, on as a substitute, converted a cross/shot from fellow substitute Digard to put the home side two goals up, before Robert Huth conceded an own goal late in stoppage time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, August\nThere was heartbreak for Middlesbrough at Anfield, as late goals from Liverpool saw them come from behind to win 2\u20131. Ross Turnbull started in goal after Brad Jones dislocated a finger during the warm-up, but the side were otherwise unchanged. It was goalless until Mido, again on as a substitute, put the visitors ahead after seventy minutes. Meanwhile, Justin Hoyte made his debut as a substitute for the injured Andrew Taylor. Boro looked set to record their first win at Anfield for thirty-two years until Jamie Carragher's shot deflected off Emanuel Pogatetz for an own goal with five minutes to go. Steven Gerrard's goal four minutes into stoppage time completed the comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, August\nStoke City were Middlesbrough's next opponents when they came to the Riverside. The visitors frustrated the home side until Amdy Faye was sent off for a two-footed tackle on Mohamed Shawky; Afonso Alves converted the resulting direct free kick. Stewart Downing missed the chance to extend Boro's lead when his penalty kick struck the bar, before for the third time in three league games, Middlesbrough conceded an own goal, this time courtesy of Justin Hoyte. Five minutes from the end, the home side's lead was restored with Tuncay's first goal of the season. The 2\u20131 victory extended Boro's home record to five wins from the last five home games in all competitions. It also gave the club its best Premier League start in nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, August\nGareth Southgate picked up the Premier League Manager of the Month award for August, becoming only the second person after Stuart Pearce to pick up both the Player and Manager of the Month awards, and the first Middlesbrough manager to win the award since Terry Venables in January 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, September\nThe international break left Middlesbrough without Tuncay and Shawky after both picked up injuries, while David Wheater could only make the bench after suffering from tonsillitis, so Digard, Riggott and Mido came in. Nathan Porritt was named as a substitute for the first time on an all-Academy bench. Portsmouth were the more dominant side throughout the match, however it was Boro who took the lead after Mido's fourth goal of the season. Jermain Defoe scored a brace for the home side in the second half to give them a 2\u20131 win. Digard picked up an injury and had to be taken off while Boro thought they should have had a penalty after Downing was brought down in the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, September\nMiddlesbrough were on top for much of the game at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, but ultimately came away with nothing from the 2\u20130 defeat. Mido was set to start, but was injured in the warm-up and was replaced by the initially-benched Alves. Downing and Alves created a host of good chances but none were converted. With sixteen minutes to go before the final whistle, Aliadi\u00e8re was brought down in the penalty area, but Downing sent his penalty kick flying over the bar for his second penalty miss of the season. The visitors were punished for their inability to score when Michael Chopra scored two goals in the final ten minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, September\nGareth Southgate's 100th game in charge, which saw Stewart Downing named captain for the first time in Emanuel Pogatetz' absence was a frustrating one. They saw two chances cleared off the line by former Middlesbrough player James Morrison, a shot hit the bar, and a penalty shout turned down as they squandered plenty of chances to beat Tony Mowbray's West Bromwich Albion. Instead, they were left to pick up the pieces after a 1\u20130 defeat courtesy of Jonas Olsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, October\nAfter going through September with four defeats from four games in all competitions, Middlesbrough picked up their first away win of 2008 against Wigan Athletic. Grounds and Riggott came into the side as Taylor and Huth were out injured, and the weakened defence earned Boro their first clean sheet of the season. Aliadi\u00e8re picked up his first Premier League goal of the season in the dying minutes \u2013 Boro's 600th in the Premier League \u2013 to snatch a 1\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, October\nFollowing another international break, Middlesbrough's next game was at home to Chelsea. Both sides were missing first-team players, but the quality of Chelsea's reserves showed as they outclassed Boro and ran out 5\u20130 victors. Hoyte was ruled out injured before the game and so Grounds covered at right-back, while Alves started the game on the bench. The home side were just a goal behind going into half-time, but four goals in twenty-two minutes after the break left Boro dejected, including an own goal from Wheater that was originally credited to Salomon Kalou. John Johnson came on to make his debut as a substitute for Grounds around the hour mark on a \"horrendous day\" for his club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, October\nMiddlesbrough next travelled to Ewood Park, looking for their second away win in a row. The away side were boosted by the return of Pogatetz and Tuncay from suspension and injury respectively, although Mido picked up an injury on the morning of the game. Although Blackburn had plenty of chances, the first fell to Boro's Aliadi\u00e8re, who hit the bar early on, while Tuncay had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside. Afonso Alves smashed the ball past Paul Robinson on 74 minutes, while Marvin Emnes finally made his Premier League debut after 84. Once again though, Boro conceded a late goal as the home side levelled the game at 1\u20131 three minutes into injury time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, October\nLooking for a much improved performance after their last home game, the midweek game versus Manchester City provided the response that both fans and manager were looking for. City had plenty of possession and chances but Ross Turnbull kept his first home clean sheet of the season. Afonso Alves made it two goals in two games after converting a penalty \u2013 Boro's 6000th league goal. There was also a welcome surprise in stoppage time as Boro made it 2\u20130 with a late goal courtesy of Gary O'Neil \u2013 his first for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, November\nMiddlesbrough came back from a goal down against West Ham United in their next game to draw the game at 1\u20131. West Ham dominated much of the game before tactical substitutions from manager Gareth Southgate improved the home side's performance and led to substitute Mido getting Boro's goal \u2013 his fifth of the season \u2013 late in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, November\nAn Aston Villa side looking to move into the Champions League spots on their home ground were Middlesbrough's next opponents. Boro gained two goals through defensive mistakes, with Tuncay converting them both, but they weren't the only chances they had, as Alves missed a sitter from three yards out. Villa levelled the game three minutes after Boro's first goal but the visitors won it 2\u20131 two minutes from the end of normal time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, November\nBoth Everton and Middlesbrough went into the next match on the back of a four-game unbeaten run, and both sides came out of it with their unbeaten runs intact after a 1\u20131 draw at Goodison Park. Gary O'Neil got his second goal of the season after just eight minutes to put the visitors ahead, but Boro old-boy Yakubu brought Everton level midway through the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, November\nThe club's unbeaten run came to a disappointing end after a poor home display against Bolton Wanderers. Middlesbrough found themselves two goals down after ten minutes, but had a number of chances to try to get back into the game. Pogatetz got a goal back for the home side after 77 minutes, but just 63 seconds later, Bolton scored their third to wrap up a 3\u20131 win. When Taylor was substituted during the game, he and a supporter got into an angry exchange of words, a situation for which Taylor later apologised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, November\nNext up came the Tyne-Tees derby match at home to Newcastle United. Both sides had chances to win the match but neither one took them, as the game ended in a 0\u20130 draw. The match was marred for the second year running by racist abusive chanting aimed at Boro striker Mido. Two men were later arrested after being identified by CCTV cameras. One man pleaded guilty to the offence and was fined, while another pleaded not guilty and is awaiting a hearing. Both Middlesbrough and The FA were disappointed by the decision not to issue a banning order, though the club did ban the individual from the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nNick Barmby marked his 500th career appearance against one of his former clubs as Middlesbrough visited Hull City for the first ever top-flight match between the two sides. Hull lined up with former Boro captain George Boateng in midfield after his departure during the summer. The previous four league meetings between the two sides had all ended in 0\u20130 draws, and it looked like the match was heading for another until Tuncay opened the scoring on 79 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0048-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nBoro's lead didn't last long however, as Bernard Mendy's shot hit the post and rebounded off of goalkeeper Ross Turnbull to go down as an own goal. It got worse for the visitors as just a few minutes later, Hull were awarded a soft penalty when Wheater tangled with Geovanni \u2013 a challenge which also saw the Middlesbrough defender receive a red card. TV replays showed that Geovanni was offside when the ball was played to him, but nothing was awarded by the assistant referee. Marlon King converted the penalty to give Hull a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nWith Wheater suspended, and both Taylor and Hoyte out injured, Middlesbrough had to field a patched-up back four for their home game versus Arsenal, with Tony McMahon returning to the starting line-up after a long time out with injuries, alongside Huth and Riggott, both of whom were returning from injury. There was also a start for Adam Johnson on the right hand side of midfield, as Alves was dropped to the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0049-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nEmmanuel Adebayor put Arsenal into the lead after quarter of an hour, but Aliadi\u00e8re got on the end of a wonderful cross from Tuncay to head home the equaliser twelve minutes later. The home side were then denied a penalty when Johnson was brought down in the box, but the referee didn't award anything. Both sides had further chances but the game ended 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nMiddlesbrough produced their worst away performance of the season thus far against Fulham, as they slumped to a 3\u20130 defeat. Julio Arca was lucky not to be red-carded for a late over-the-top challenge on Andy Johnson, earning only a yellow card. Jimmy Bullard got the opening goal after Turnbull could only parry Bobby Zamora's shot. Next, for the third time in three games, a penalty decision went against Boro, as Tony McMahon was adjudged to have handled the ball after the ball struck his arm from close range. Turnbull guessed the right way but was unable to save Danny Murphy's penalty kick. Clint Dempsey got the third to round off Fulham's win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nAn improved performance was expected but didn't come on Boxing Day, when Everton visited the Riverside Stadium. Middlesbrough rarely troubled the visitors, but striker-less Everton could still only manage a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, December\nThe performance finally improved but the result stayed the same when Middlesbrough went to Old Trafford, where Matthew Bates started a Middlesbrough game for the first time since the end of the 2005\u201306 season. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson had spoken before the game, hoping to banish the rift that existed between the two clubs. Things probably weren't helped when Pogatetz, defending a corner, put his hands around the back of Cristiano Ronaldo's neck a corner and the United player went down, claiming a penalty. The spat continued when the players walked off the pitch for half time. Dimitar Berbatov's goal was the decisive moment in the game when he fired home to give his side a 1\u20130 victory, and left Middlesbrough hovering above the relegation zone on goal difference and without a win in eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 876]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nWhen league football returned to the Riverside for the derby clash with Sunderland, a lot had happened in the interim. The club had recorded an overdue victory \u2013 against Barrow in the FA Cup (see FA Cup section), with Afonso Alves getting back amongst the goals, while the transfer window had seen Stewart Downing's transfer request rejected along with offers from Tottenham, while Portsmouth's moves for Gary O'Neil had all been rebuffed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0053-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nJosh Walker made his full league debut, starting in central midfield \u2013 more than two years after his substitute appearance in the last game of 2005\u201306, and Downing played centrally, supporting Alves. Downing and Alves linked up well to put Boro ahead before half time. The central midfield partnership of Walker and Digard were both forced off with injuries picked up from opposition challenges, meaning Matthew Bates was pushed into an unfamiliar central midfield role. Sunderland pressed more and more in the second half, and got their equaliser courtesy of Kenwyne Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0053-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nThe visitors could have gone on to win the game but Adam Johnson made a backheeled clearance off the goal line, and McMahon won a last-ditch tackle on Djibril Ciss\u00e9 after he was put through on goal on the stroke of full-time. The 1\u20131 draw extended Boro's winless run to nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nThe winless run entered double figures when Middlesbrough went down 3\u20130 away to West Bromwich Albion. Injuries to Pogatetz and Walker meant a reshuffle in both defense and midfield, and after just four minutes Boro were behind. The defense appealed in vain for offside as Chris Brunt fired home a heavily deflected shot. Another deflection saw Robert Koren's strike roll past Ross Turnbull to put the home side two goals up early in the second half. It got worse for the visitors had Didier Digard sent off for appearing to jump into a challenge on Borja Valero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0054-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nKoren got his second goal not long after to add to Boro's misery. West Brom's win over Boro, added to their win earlier in the season, meant they completed their first ever Premier League double. The Middlesbrough players reaction to Digard's sending off lead to The FA charging the club with failing to control their players. A handful of Boro players surrounded referee Mark Halsey to protest as he tried to push Digard off of the pitch, with Halsey dropping one of his cards as a result. Middlesbrough finally dropped into the relegation zone following Tottenham's victory over Portsmouth the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nMiddlesbrough went into their next game following a cup win away at Wolverhampton Wanderers, but that didn't signal a change in fortunes in the league. Set pieces were once again the side's undoing. Away at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, Middlesbrough started with new loan signing Marlon King as sole striker, with five men in midfield. Boro held out until 58 minutes into the game, when Salomon Kalou put his side ahead. He got his second on 81 minutes, condemning Middlesbrough to a 2\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, January\nGareth Southgate elected to make changes for the home tie versus relegation rivals Blackburn Rovers. Brad Jones returned for his first league start since the opening day of the season as Ross Turnbull was dropped to the bench, while the side featured five centre backs \u2013 Wheater, Huth, Riggott and Pogatetz at the back, while Matthew Bates once again operating in central midfield alongside the quickly-recovered Josh Walker. The set-up allowed Middlesbrough to gain their first clean sheet for two months, but limited themselves to a solitary shot on target over the course of the game. The 0\u20130 draw earned Boro a point but they fell to 19th in the table, with Blackburn joining them in the relegation zone in 18th, following Stoke's victory over Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, February\nA trip to the City of Manchester Stadium for Saturday's early kick-off was next on Middlesbrough's agenda. Manchester City's new signing Shay Given made a solid debut, denying Afonso Alves with four fine saves. Both sides had chances throughout the game but City were the only one to convert \u2013 Craig Bellamy's shot across goal went between Robert Huth's legs and beyond the reach of Brad Jones into the corner of the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, February\nBoro's defense remained solid when Wigan came to the Riverside Stadium, but continued to struggle in attack. A line-up unchanged from the midweek FA Cup draw with West Ham was forced into a change midway through the first half. Summer departure Lee Cattermole's strong-but-fair challenge on Didier Digard forced the midfielder off with injuries to both legs that would likely rule him out for the remainder of the season. Neither side could muster enough chances for a goal and the game ended 0\u20130. Middlesbrough's dire run stretched to fourteen games without a win, with only one goal in nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0058-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, February\nA letter from the club's Safety Officer, Sue Watson, was handed out to supporters in block 53A. It was intended to ask supporters to refrain from constantly standing and to stop banging on the plastic sheeting on the back of the stand, but its bad wording caused much anger among fans who interpreted it as asking them to sit down and be quiet. The club was forced to apologise to the fans and clarify the confusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, February\nA victory in their FA Cup fifth-round replay sent Middlesbrough into the home match with Liverpool with optimism that their disastrous run of form in the league would finally come to an end, and their hopes came true. Liverpool were riding high in second place, while Boro began the day in second bottom. A stroke of luck put the home side ahead as Xabi Alonso diverted the ball into his own net from a corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0059-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, February\nTuncay doubled the advantage in the second half, and they could have had more as the visitors left themselves open at the back as they tried to find a way back. Brad Jones kept a fourth consecutive home clean sheet and Boro moved out of the relegation zone with their 2\u20130 win, while Liverpool had now failed to win at the Riverside for seven seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, March\nMiddlesbrough were brought back down to Earth with a big loss away to Tottenham Hotspur. The home side came into the game on the back of a Carling Cup final defeat, while Boro remained unchanged. The mood was set within the first fifteen minutes as Robbie Keane and Roman Pavlyuchenko gave the home side an early two-goal lead, while Aaron Lennon made it three five minutes before half time. Tuncay twice had the ball in the back of the net but both times he was caught narrowly offside. Lennon got his second goal of the game late in the second half to condemn Boro to a heavy 4\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, March\nFellow relegation-battlers Portsmouth were next up as they visited the Riverside Stadium. Middlesbrough were caught napping at a corner on the half-hour mark and Peter Crouch put the visitors ahead. The second half saw Boro dominate the game but once more spurned plenty of chances. Things got worse as Matthew Bates was sent off after picking up a second yellow card when he was adjudged to have dived in the penalty area. Four minutes into injury time, Marlon King grabbed his first Middlesbrough goal as volleyed in from close range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0061-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, March\nAlves had a chance to hand Boro a win with the last kick of the game as he was through on goal but David James saved his shot and the game ended 1\u20131. Towards the end of the game, before the equaliser, some fans began to chant \"we've only got one player\", referring to Tuncay's efforts compared to his teammates. Southgate came out to say he was unhappy with the chant, calling it \"disrespectful\" and saying \"we survive as a club and as a town by everyone pulling together.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, March\nMiddlesbrough next visited Stoke City's Britannia Stadium in another important game. Like much of the season, the team once again failed to score. As expected, Rory Delap's throw-in's were Stoke's main offensive weapon. Although they dealt with most of them well, Ryan Shawcross headed one home on 84 minutes, giving them a vital 1\u20130 win over their relegation rivals. The loss left Middlesbrough four points from safety, with the battle against relegation taking its toll on the club's morale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0063-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, April\nApril began as March had ended with a defeat, this time at the hands of Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium. Middlesbrough's Gary O'Neil had cancelled out Bolton's opener to make the scores 1\u20131 but bad defending saw the home side score three more. The 4\u20131 defeat left Boro languishing in 19th place, five points from safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0064-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, April\nThe home tie against Hull was labelled as a \"must-win\" tie as they battled to avoid relegation. Middlesbrough got off to a perfect start as Tuncay opened the scoring after just three minutes, but Hull quickly hit back through Manucho. Boro regained the lead after Matthew Bates scored his first ever goal for the club, stabbing home from a corner. All three vital points were secured after a defensive slip by former Boro captain George Boateng let Marlon King in to make the score 3\u20131. Results later that day left Boro in 19th place but they were now only two points from safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0065-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, April\nAnother home tie followed a week later, and Boro did everything but score against a Fulham side featuring former Boro keeper Mark Schwarzer in goal. The keeper kept out several good efforts but his side's steady defence frustrated the home side and meant the game ended 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0066-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, April\nMiddlesbrough's dire away form continued at the Emirates Stadium as a Cesc F\u00e0bregas double condemned them to a 2\u20130 defeat, a club record tenth straight away loss. Boro had reason to complain about the opening goal when an offside player was interfering with the goalkeeper's view, but the visitors failed to really test the opposition goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0067-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nDespite Middlesbrough's placing in the relegation zone, they went into the home tie against Manchester United unbeaten at home in 2009. J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re had an early low shot saved by Ben Foster, but other than that failed to threaten a United side who rested several key players in preparation for their upcoming UEFA Champions League match. Ryan Giggs and Park Ji-Sung scored the visitors' goals and left Boro still entrenched in the relegation battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0068-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nThe \"must-win\" game at relegation rivals Newcastle's St James' Park was likely to determine both sides' chances of avoiding the drop. Tuncay's early shot rebounded off of the Newcastle keeper and then off Habib Beye, who put the ball into his own net for an own goal, giving the visitors the lead after just three minutes. Steven Taylor brought the scores level six minutes later as Boro conceded another poorly defended corner. The game was close, with both sides having several good opportunities, before substitute Obafemi Martins scored for Newcastle straight after coming on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0068-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nPeter L\u00f8venkrands settled the game as he put in his side's third goal. The 3\u20131 win was Alan Shearer's first as Newcastle manager and Middlesbrough's eleventh away defeat in a row. With Middlesbrough three points from safety, and a considerable inferior goal difference with just two games to go, relegation looked even more likely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0069-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nA great escape looked on the cards when Middlesbrough went a goal up at home to Aston Villa in their penultimate game of the season, courtesy of an overhead kick from Tuncay. Boro were dealt a huge blow however, when Stewart Downing was brought down under a challenge from Stiliyan Petrov, and needed treatment. He was able to briefly continue before needing to be substituted. John Carew brought Villa level when Boro failed to get started again in the second half. The visitors looked most likely to score again as they continued to press forward, while Boro needed to get forward themselves in their relegation fight. The game eventually ended in a 1\u20131 draw, with Boro needing a miracle in the final game to avoid the drop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0070-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nIn order to stay in the top flight, Middlesbrough needed relegation rivals Newcastle and Hull City to lose, while they needed a five-goal swing to Hull in goal difference. Stewart Downing's injury kept him out of a Premier League game for the first time since November 2006, also throwing doubt on a possible summer transfer, and Tuncay captained the side. Boro had to go for it, but instead they fell behind. Gary O'Neil temporarily brought his side level, but they again conceded and lost 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0070-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, May\nWith Newcastle and Hull both losing, the opportunity to escape was there for Middlesbrough, but they had failed to take it. Their twelfth consecutive away defeat extended the club record, and equalled a Premier League one, and saw their eleven-year run in the top flight ended, with the club needing to prepare for the next season in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0071-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Premier League, Results\nNote: Results are given with Middlesbrough score listed first. Man of the Match is according to .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0072-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, League Cup\nThe draw for the second round of the League Cup saw Middlesbrough handed a historic game versus League One side Yeovil Town \u2013 the game being the first ever competitive meeting between the two clubs. It turned out to be a comfortable victory for the home side. Gareth Southgate fielded a slightly weakened side, though handed Marvin Emnes his debut, along with first starts for Justin Hoyte and Didier Digard. Mido made his record three goals in three games after he opened the scoring, before Digard got his first goal for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0072-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, League Cup\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re added the third before Gavin Tomlin pulled one back for Yeovil. Emnes got a goal on his debut just after half-time, then Adam Johnson got the final goal to make it 5\u20131. Meanwhile, there was a full debut for Rhys Williams and a home debut for Josh Walker as they both came on as substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0073-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, League Cup\nMiddlesbrough were handed a tough away tie against Manchester United for the third round. Brad Jones started in goal in place of Ross Turnbull, while Robert Huth was rested. Cristiano Ronaldo was making his first start of the season for United, and marked it with the opening goal. Substitute Adam Johnson put Boro level, before Emanuel Pogatetz was sent off for a rash challenge on Rodrigo Possebon. Ryan Giggs and Nani made it a 3\u20131 win for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 503]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0075-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nMiddlesbrough were drawn at home to non-league Barrow in the third-round of the FA Cup. Middlesbrough went into the game without a win in eight league games. They named a strong line-up while giving Josh Walker his first Boro start as he lined up in the centre of midfield. The game saw Middlesbrough dominate in chances, but poor finishing meant they only won 2\u20131, with both of the home side's goals coming from Afonso Alves \u2013 his first goals for over two months \u2013 and both assisted by Stewart Downing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0075-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nMiddlesbrough's failures in front of goal meant they got a late scare as Barrow pulled a goal back after more bad defending at a set piece, but they failed to take a chance to level the game late on. A sour moment of the game saw J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re injured and ruled out for two months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0076-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nBoro still hadn't registered a league win by the time their fourth round tie came around, while their opponents Wolverhampton Wanderers sat top of the Football League Championship. Considering the two sides' recent form and with Middlesbrough playing away from home, many pundits were predicting a home win. It was more of a shock then that Middlesbrough were the side to advance through to the fifth round courtesy of a 2\u20131 victory. Boro winger Adam Johnson spurned several chances before Afonso Alves chipped the goalkeeper on the stroke of half-time. Wolves headed home an equaliser in the second half, but substitute Marvin Emnes fired in off the post seven minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0077-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nMiddlesbrough faced an away tie with West Ham United in the fifth round. Stewart Downing's first goal of the season put the visitors ahead midway through the first half, while Afonso Alves spurned several chances to extend their lead. Once again, a set piece was Middlesbrough's downfall, as H\u00e9rita Ilunga headed in the home side's equaliser after 83 minutes. The 1\u20131 draw meant a replay would be played at the Riverside Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0078-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe replay was played in front of a small but very vocal Boro crowd who were fired up by an unfortunately worded letter from the club seemingly asking them to sit down and be quiet in their last home game. The fans didn't have to wait long for a goal as in the fifth minute Stewart Downing curled an unstoppable free-kick over the wall and into the top-right hand corner of the net. Tuncay doubled the lead with a volley as West Ham's defense failed to clear the ball. The visitors dominated the possession but could not convert it to goals, and with Middlesbrough threatening on the counterattack, they couldn't afford to neglect their defensive duties. In the end, the 2\u20130 was enough to see Middlesbrough through to the last eight for the fourth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0079-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nMiddlesbrough faced Everton in the sixth round. Boro were unchanged for a fourth successive game coming into the match and were the better side in the first half. David Wheater rose to head home a Matthew Bates cross on the stroke of half time to send them in at half time as the happier side. Everton's assistant manager, and former Middlesbrough coach, Steve Round gave an angry team-talk to his side at half time which fired his side into a much better second half performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0079-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, FA Cup\nIt took only five minutes for Everton to get an equaliser \u2013 Marouane Fellaini heading home over a stranded Brad Jones. Six minutes later, Louis Saha scored Everton's second. Middlesbrough did little to threaten for the rest of the tie. The 2\u20131 defeat left Gareth Southgate lamenting his side's inability to see matches out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0081-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Reserves\nThe Middlesbrough Reserves are competing in the 11-team 2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League Northern division, as well as the Central League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0082-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Reserves, Appearances and goals\nAppearance and goalscoring records for all the players who played in Middlesbrough F.C. reserve team fixtures during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0084-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Reserves, Central League Cup results\nDespite competing in the Premier Reserve League, Middlesbrough entered the Central League Cup (known as the Totesportcasino.com League Cup for sponsorship reasons) for extra games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 252]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0086-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Staff\nPrior to the season, a shake-up in the medical department saw Scotsman Frank Nuttall, previously of Rangers and England, arrive as the new head of physical development, allowing Nick Allamby to leave his previous post of sports therapist and become a full-time conditioning coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0087-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Staff\nFirst team coach Steve Harrison left the club in early July following seven years at the club. Steve Agnew stepped up from being Reserve team coach to replace Harrison, while Academy coach Martin Scott took over as new Reserve team coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0088-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Staff\nFormer midfielder Mark Proctor, who had also had prior spells as a Reserve and youth coach with the club, returned to Middlesbrough as under-18 coach during mid-September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0089-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Other events, Compensation case\nOn 11 August 2008 it was announced that former Manchester United youngster Ben Collett, who five years earlier had a \"career-ending\" injury as a result of a tackle in a game versus Middlesbrough's reserves, had been awarded more than \u00a34.5 million in compensation. The fee would be paid by Middlesbrough's insurers. An appeal against the ruling, heard in June, failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200652-0090-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Middlesbrough F.C. season, Other events, Debt reduction\nMiddlesbrough's debts, reported to be around \u00a385\u201390 million, were cut by two-thirds over the summer following relegation. The reduction would leave the club in a healthier financial position and better placed for the Football League Championship, though Steve Gibson announced the debt reduction before relegation was confirmed and denied relegation was part of a cost-cutting plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200653-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Midland Football Alliance\nThe 2008\u201309 Midland Football Alliance season was the 15th in the history of Midland Football Alliance, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200653-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Midland Football Alliance, Clubs\nThe league featured 19 clubs from the previous season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200654-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Midland Football Combination\nThe 2008\u201309 Midland Football Combination season was the 72nd in the history of Midland Football Combination, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200654-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Midland Football Combination, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season\nThis article details Millwall's 2008\u201309 season in League One, Millwall's 83rd season in the Football League and 40th in the third tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season, Events\nThis will be a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2008\u201309 season, presented in chronological order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season, Events\n9 August 2009- season begins with a 4\u20133 loss at Oldham. 12 August 2009- Knocked out in the First Round of the League\u00a0Cup at home to Northampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season, Players, Squad information\nAppearances (starts and substitute appearances) and goals include those in the League One (and playoffs), FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season, Players, Squad stats, Disciplinary record\nSource:Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200655-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Millwall F.C. season, Players, Players in and out, Out\nEU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200656-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milton Keynes Dons F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the fifth season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Milton Keynes Dons Football Club, a professional football club based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200656-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milton Keynes Dons F.C. season\nFollowing their successful promotion from League Two in the previous 2007\u201308 season, the club returned to League One. On 2 July 2008, following the resignation of manager Paul Ince, the club appointed former Chelsea midfielder Roberto Di Matteo, his first managerial role in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200656-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milton Keynes Dons F.C. season\nThe season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200657-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milton Keynes Lightning season\nDuring the 2008-09 season, Milton Keynes Lightning will participate in the semi-professional English Premier Ice Hockey League. It will be the 7th year of Ice Hockey played by MK Lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200658-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Bucks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Milwaukee Bucks season is the 41st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200658-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Bucks season, Offseason\nOn Monday April 21, 2008, the Bucks introduced Scott Skiles as their new coach. Skiles becomes the 11th head coach in the history of the franchise. Skiles was a former coach with the Chicago Bulls and Phoenix Suns coach. He agreed to a four-year deal to replace his close friend, Larry Krystkowiak. Skiles stated that he is not backing away from his reputation for demanding a lot from his players. Skiles, 44, has amassed an overall record of 281-251 (.528) as an NBA head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200658-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Bucks season, Offseason\nHe was hired as head coach of the Bulls on November 28, 2003, and inherited a team with a record of 4 wins and 12 losses. While in Chicago, Skiles led the Bulls to three postseason appearances. The Bulls won 49 games in 2006\u201307, their most since they went 62-20 in \u201997-98. In the playoffs, the Bulls swept the defending NBA champion Miami Heat 4-0 in the first round of the 2007 NBA playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200659-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball team, Recruits\nThe following is a list of commitments Milwaukee received for the 2008\u201309 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200659-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball team, Player stats\nUpdated as of March 20, 2009.Showing only the Top 5 statistic leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200659-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball team, 2009 Horizon League Tournament\nFirst round games at campus sites of higher seedsSecond round and semifinals will be hosted by Butler. Championship will be hosted by higher-numbered remaining seed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200660-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey season\nThe Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey began their tenth NCAA season as the defending NCAA Champions for a fourth time in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200660-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; GW = Game Winning Goals; PPL = Power Play Goals; SHG = Short Handed Goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 82], "content_span": [83, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200661-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represented the University of Minnesota in the college basketball season of 2008\u20132009. The team's head coach was Tubby Smith. This was Smith's second year as Minnesota's head coach. The Golden Gophers played their home games at Williams Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Big Ten Network included the team in a two-and-a-half-hour special that featured Midnight Madness events from several Big Ten campuses on October 17, 2008; the Minnesota event to kick off the season was called \"Tubby's Tipoff\". The Gophers started the season on a twelve-game winning streak for the first time since the 1948\u201349 season. The team became ranked on December 22, the first time the team had been ranked since the 2002\u201303 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200661-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team\nRecruit Royce White signed with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, but did not play due to shoplifting and trespassing charges. He transferred to Iowa State in July 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200662-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nIn an October 17 victory over Ohio State, she tallied two assists in the 8-1 win. She also notched two assists on November 21 against Minnesota State. On February 7, she scored a power-play goal against Wisconsin in a 4-2 win. She competed at the NCAA Skills Challenge with fellow Gopher men's senior Justin Bostrom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 74], "content_span": [75, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200663-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Timberwolves season\nThe 2008\u201309 Minnesota Timberwolves season was the 20th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team  finished the season coached by Kevin McHale. After the season, McHale was dismissed though he would return as head coach for the Houston Rockets for the shortened 2011\u201312 season and would later guide the Rockets to the Western Conference Finals in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200663-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Timberwolves season\nThe Timberwolves drafted O. J. Mayo with the third pick in the first round of the 2008 draft. Soon, his rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for Kevin Love. The team also drafted Mario Chalmers, but his rights was soon traded to the Miami Heat, where he would win two championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season\nThe 2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season began October 11, 2008. It was the Wild's ninth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Pre-season\nAt the conclusion of the Pre-season, the Wild finished with a 5-2 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Regular season\nThe Wild were the most disciplined team in the League during the regular season, with just 291 power-play opportunities against. They also allowed the fewest power-play goals, with just 36.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Playoffs\nThe Minnesota Wild failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL Playoffs. after qualifying in 2006-07 and 2007\u201308", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Wild. Stats reflect time with Wild only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Wild only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200664-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Minnesota Wild season, Draft picks\nMinnesota's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200665-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Mississippi State basketball team represented Mississippi State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. Under head coach Rick Stansbury, the team played their home games at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Mississippi, and was a member of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200665-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball team, Previous season\nThe 2007\u201308 Bulldogs finished the season 23\u201311 (12\u20134 in SEC play) and reached the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament, where they barely lost to eventual runner-up Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200665-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball team, Before the season, Departures\nFive players from the 2007\u201308 team did not return for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 81], "content_span": [82, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200666-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team finished 31\u20137 and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Led by head coach Mike Anderson, Mizzou finished third in the Big 12 with a conference record of 12\u20134 and also won the Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament for the first time in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200666-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nFollowing a .500 season in 2007\u201308 season, the Tigers revamped their offense with five freshmen and two transfers. The Tigers basketball team was not heralded with much in the way of high hopes coming into the 2008\u201309 season. Most preseason polls had Missouri finishing in the bottom-half of the Big 12 Conference, including Athlon Sports and the Big 12 coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200666-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nAs a way to get in some much needed extra practice, coach Mike Anderson accepted an invitation to play three exhibition games in Canada in late August. In the first game of the tour, Missouri defeated the Niagara All-Stars by a score of 120\u201380 on August 30, 2008. The game was played at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. On August 31, 2008, in the same venue, the Tigers defeated Brock University 117\u201368.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200666-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nThis game gave the Missouri coaching staff and fans a nice look at the fresh faces, as Mizzou's seven newcomers combined for 66 of the Tiger's 117 points on the afternoon. The next morning, the Tigers closed out the Canadian trip by beating the Southern Ontario All-Stars by a final score of 109\u201392.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200666-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nThe Tigers played two pre-season games in 2008. The first was against Lincoln (MO), winning the game 97\u201354. The second of their two pre-season games was against Missouri Southern, resulting in an 87\u201358 Tigers victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200667-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan \"A\" Division\nThe  2008\u201309 Moldovan \"A\" Division season was the 18th since its establishment. A total of 17 teams contested the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200668-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan \"B\" Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Moldovan \"B\" Division (Romanian: Divizia B) was the 18th season of Moldovan football's third-tier league. There are 26 teams in the competition, in two groups, 12 in the North and 14 in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup\n2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup was the eighteenth season of the Moldovan annual football tournament. The competition started on 24 September 2008 with the first round and ended with the final held in the spring of 2009. The defending champions were Sheriff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, Preliminary round\nThis round featured 24 teams from Moldovan lower leagues. The games were played on 31 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, First round\nIn this round entered winners from the preliminary round and 12 new teams, also from Moldovan lower leagues. The games were played on 24 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, Second round\nThis round featured winners from the previous round as well as 4 new teams. The games were played on 8 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, Third round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round and the 8 remaining teams from the Moldovan National Division. The games were played on 22 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on 5 November 2008. The second legs were played on 22\u201324 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200669-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 8 April 2009. The second legs were played on 29 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200670-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan National Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Moldovan National Division (Romanian: Divizia Na\u021bional\u0103) was the 18th season of top-tier football in Moldova. The season started on 2 July 2008 and ended on 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200670-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan National Division\nJust prior to the start of the season, FC Politehnica Chi\u0219in\u0103u withdrew from the competition, causing the league to play with 11 teams this year. Further, CSCA-Steaua Chi\u0219in\u0103u merged with Rapid Ghidighici. The new club play under the name CSCA-Rapid Chi\u0219in\u0103u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200670-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan National Division, Promotion and relegation\nDue to the withdrawal of FC Rapid Ghidighici in mid-November 2007, no teams were relegated to Moldovan \"A\" Division. Promoted to Moldova's top-tier football were FC Academia UTM Chi\u0219in\u0103u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200670-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moldovan National Division, Results\nThe schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 20 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 30 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200671-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup was the third season of the Montenegrin knockout football tournament. The defending champions were FK Mogren. The competition featured 30 teams. It started on September 17, 2008 and ended on May 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200671-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup, First round\nLast year's finalists Mogren and Budu\u0107nost received a bye to the Second Round. The remaining 14 matches were played on September 17 and 18, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200671-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup, Second round\nThe first legs were played on October 22 and the second legs were played on November 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200671-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on November 26 and second on December 10, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200671-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on April 15 and second on April 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League\nThe 2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League was third season of the Montenegrin First League of Men's Handball, Montenegro's premier handball league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Participants\nIn the Montenegrin First League 2008/09 participated eight teams. For the first time, league didn't have two parts of competition. So, the clubs played 28 legs in the unique league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Participants\nThe following eight clubs participated in the Montenegrin First League 2007/08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Final table\nDuring the season, all members played 28 games. At the end, Budu\u0107nost won their first national trophy, with five points more than Lov\u0107en.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Budu\u0107nost and Lov\u0107en rivalry\nSeason will be remembered by the big rivalry between Lov\u0107en Cetinje and Budu\u0107nost Podgorica. Their match in Podgorica, which decided about national champion, played in 26th Leg on May 17, 2009, was the most attended game in the history of Montenegrin First League (4,000 spectators). Budu\u0107nost won 28:26 (18:14) and hold the first title in the club history. Match ended with incidents in Sports center 'Mora\u010da', with the clash of supporters, but the players Goran \u0110ukanovi\u0107 (Budu\u0107nost) and Igor Markovi\u0107 (Lov\u0107en) too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Budu\u0107nost and Lov\u0107en rivalry\nFour days later, Lov\u0107en and Budu\u0107nost played another important match - final of the Cup of Montenegro. In front of 2,000 spectators in Cetinje, Lov\u0107en won 26:25 (13:12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200672-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First Handball League, Budu\u0107nost and Lov\u0107en rivalry\nDuring the season, match Berane - Lov\u0107en, played in March, was dissolved too, after big incidents and fights on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League\nThe 2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League was the third season of the top-tier football in Montenegro. The season began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. The defending champions are Budu\u0107nost Podgorica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nFK Mladost Podgorica were directly relegated to the Montenegrin Second League after finishing 12th in last year's standings. Their place was taken by Second League champions Jezero Plav.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Teams, Promotion and relegation\n10th placed Bokelj Kotor and 11th placed Sutjeska Nik\u0161i\u0107 had to compete in two-legged relegation play-offs. Bokelj were relegated by losing 1\u20130 on aggregate against the 3rd placed team from Second League, Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje. On the other hand, Sutjeska saved their place in Montenegrin top league by beating cross-town rivals \u010celik Nik\u0161i\u0107, who had finished in 2nd place in the Second League, also with 1\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Results\nThe schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round will then be set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Results, Third round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Relegation play-offs\nThe 10th placed team (against the 3rd placed team of the Second League) and the 11th placed team (against the 2nd placed team of the Second League) will both compete in two-legged relegation play-offs after the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200673-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin First League, Relegation play-offs\nDe\u010di\u0107 remained a member of First League, while Mornar gained promotion to 2009\u201310 Montenegrin First League. OFK Titograd remained a member of Second League, while Jezero relegated to 2009\u201310 Montenegrin Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200674-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Second League\nThe 2008\u201309 Montenegrin Second League (Serbian: Druga Crnogorska Liga / \u0414\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0430 \u0446\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u043b\u0438\u0433\u0430) was the third season since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200674-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Second League, League format\nTwelve teams participate in this league. The top team directly qualifies for the Montenegrin First League while the second and third teams contest in a two matches playoff against the 11th and 12th team from the First League. The two bottom-placed teams are relegated to the Third League, to be replaced by the two winners of the Third League promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200674-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Second League, Promotion play-offs\nThe 3rd-placed team (against the 10th-placed team of the First League) and the runners-up (against the 11th-placed team of the First League) will both compete in two-legged promotion play-offs after the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200674-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montenegrin Second League, Promotion play-offs\nDe\u010di\u0107 remained a member of First League, while Mornar gained promotion to 2009\u201310 Montenegrin First League. OFK Titograd remained a member of Second League, while Jezero relegated to 2009\u201310 Montenegrin Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season was their 100th season and 92nd in the National Hockey League (NHL). While it was widely believed that the 2008\u201309 season marked the team's centennial, this would not be until the following season with the Canadiens' 100th anniversary taking place on December 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 2008 NHL Entry Draft took place in Ottawa on June 20\u201321 and the free agency period began on July 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Off-season\nThroughout much of the off-season, Canadiens' general manager Bob Gainey pursued a possible contract with unrestricted free agent Mats Sundin, formerly the captain of Montreal's historic rival, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The signing efforts started prior to July 1, 2008, and continued into August, as Gainey was still actively pursuing Sundin. This, despite the fact that Sundin's agent mentioned his player \"wasn't close\" to making a decision on his future, and was strongly considering retirement. The chase ended with the acquisition of forward Robert Lang from the Chicago Blackhawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Off-season\nThe Canadiens also acquired veteran forward Alex Tanguay from the Calgary Flames in exchange for the 25th overall pick in the 2007\u20132008 entry draft. Enforcer George Laraque and goaltender Marc Denis were signed to the team through free agency. Unrestricted free agents Michael Ryder, Mark Streit and Bryan Smolinski did not return to the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Preseason\nThe preseason schedule consisted of the team playing nine games in 13 days. The team claimed victory in six of these encounters. The initial game of the pre-season was played against the Boston Bruins in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Canadiens took part in the CBC's Kraft Hockeyville Series by playing a game against the Buffalo Sabres at the Sporting Centre Beno\u00eet Levesque in Roberval, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Preseason\nSome noteworthy performances at the Canadiens training camp were put forth by prospects Max Pacioretty, Yannick Weber and Ben Maxwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, Early Centennial year celebrations\nThe team has announced its intention to retire two uniform numbers during the 2008\u201309 season. As of March 2009, the only confirmed number is Patrick Roy's number 33, which was retired on November 22, 2008. In celebration of the Montreal Canadiens' centennial, the 2009 NHL All-Star Game was held in Montreal on January 25, 2009, and the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, scheduled for June 2009, was awarded to the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, October\n\u2014Guy Carbonneau, after the Montreal Canadiens concluded their preseason schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, October\nOn October 10, the Canadiens embarked on a trip for three consecutive road games where they opened the season against the Buffalo Sabres, at the HSBC Arena. Montreal lost the opening game of the season in shootout, but subsequently won 6\u20131 against the Toronto Maple Leafs on October 11 and 5\u20133 against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 13. The team returned to Montreal after four days on the road and a 2\u20130\u20131 record. The Canadiens hosted the Boston Bruins for their 100th home opening game and won 4\u20133 in shootout, with Alex Tanguay scoring the winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, October\nOn October 18, Saku Koivu achieved his 422nd assist with the Montreal Canadiens and surpassed Maurice \"the Rocket\" Richard at number seven for all-time assists in franchise history. Two days later, he got his 600th NHL career point when the Canadiens defeated the Florida Panthers 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, October\nAccording to a Forbes report published in late October 2008, the franchise ranks as the third most valuable in the NHL at US$334\u00a0million, making an 18%\u00a0increase in the past season. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings were respectively ranked first and second in the report. The Canadiens finished October with a 7\u20131\u20131 record in Minnesota and concluded the month with two consecutive road wins and a perfect overall road record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, November\nOn November 1, against the New York Islanders, Andrei Markov became the second defenceman in franchise history, after Guy Lapointe, to get five points in his first five road games of the season. On November 10, the league announced that forward Tom Kostopoulos was suspended for three games after hitting Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Mike Van Ryn from behind. On November 11, Chris Higgins got his first NHL career hat-trick in a 4\u20130 win against the Ottawa Senators. On November 22, the jersey number 33 of legendary goaltender Patrick Roy was retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, November\nOn November 24, against the New York Islanders, Ryan O'Byrne scored on his own net during a delayed penalty call, where Carey Price was pulled off for an extra attacker. On November 29, Mike Komisarek\u2014who was not playing due to injury\u2014temporarily took a place behind the bench as an assistant coach, in replacement of Doug Jarvis, who was at his father's bedside. Rookie right winger Matt D'Agostini was recalled from Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL) and Roman Hamrlik got his 400th NHL career assist in a 3\u20132 win over the Buffalo Sabres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, December\nOn December 2, Saku Koivu achieved his 612th point with the Montreal Canadiens after recording two assists in a 5\u20134 win over the Atlanta Thrashers. He tied Mats Naslund at 11th for all-time points in franchise history. Koivu then surpassed Naslund on December 6 after recording an assist in a 2\u20131 overtime loss over the New Jersey Devils. Matt D'Agostini scored his first NHL career goal and point and Roman Hamrlik played his 100th game with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, December\nThe Montreal Canadiens celebrated the 99th anniversary of the franchise on December 4 with a 6\u20132 win over the New York Rangers. Matt D'Agostini got his first NHL assist in a two-point performance. Georges Laraque got his first two points with his new team. D'Agostini had a successful debut with the team, recording six goals and two assists in his first 11 games. On December 13, Ben Maxwell played his first game in the NHL against the Washington Capitals after Saku Koivu was placed on the injured reserve list. On December 18, against the Philadelphia Flyers, Alexei Kovalev got his 900th NHL career point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, December\nAfter the Christmas break, the Canadiens were back in action on the road on December 27 and won 3\u20132 against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Montreal Canadiens enjoyed their 3000th franchise victory, with a 5\u20132 win over the Florida Panthers at Sunrise on December 29, solidifying their place as the most successful team in NHL history. Andrei Kostitsyn and Maxim Lapierre scored their first career hat-tricks during this road trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, January\nGeneral Manager Bob Gainey presented his mid-season report on January 13. He stated that he was looking to improve the team's power play, which was 26th in the league, and he wanted to acquire a proven player capable of helping the power play. When asked by a reporter what was his best transaction since taking over as the team's general manager, he answered that the hiring of Guy Carbonneau as head coach was his best move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nIn order to help bolster their power play, Bob Gainey acquired Matthieu Schneider from the Atlanta Trashers for a combination of draft picks. This is Schneider's second tenure with the Canadiens, who began his career in Montreal after being drafted by the team in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nOn February 17, Alexei Kovalev was asked by Managing Director Bob Gainey to go home and take a rest. He missed two games. There were rumors that he would be traded and the city was abuzz. Kovalev rejoined the team on February 21 and scored one goal and added two assists in a convincing 5\u20133 win over the Ottawa Senators. Kovalev received the first star of the game to the delight of the Montreal crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nA reporter for the Montreal newspaper La Presse stated on the evening of February 19 that the February 20 edition of the paper would have an expos\u00e9 that would make the Kovalev situation seem inconsequential. The paper reported that Roman Hamrlik and brothers Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn were involved with a person believed to be part of an organized crime ring in Montreal. Although the players have admitted that they know the person in question, no accusations nor proof has been provided indicating that the players were involved in any illegal activities. The article has since been written off as tabloid journalism and a major example on how the Montreal media negatively treat the Canadiens players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nOn February 26, Gainey traded Steve Begin to the Dallas Stars for Doug Janik, who was immediately sent to the Hamilton Bulldogs. Begin, who was often a healthy scratch during the season, would have been an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nSaku Koivu scored his 624th point with the Canadiens with an assist in a February 27 game against the Philadelphia Flyers. He became the tenth all-time leading scorer in Canadiens history, surpassing Elmer Lach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, February\nThe Canadiens claimed Glen Metropolit off waivers from the Philadelphia Flyers on February 27. Metropolit was practicing with the Flyers earlier in the day when Flyers General Manager Paul Holmgren informed him, \"I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that you're playing tonight. The bad news is that you're playing for the Canadiens.\" The Canadiens were in town playing the Flyers that same day and Metropolit simply moved his equipment to the visitor's dressing room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, March\nApproaching the NHL trade deadline, Bob Gainey traded for Mathieu Schneider and claimed Glen Metropolit. Gainey confirmed that he couldn't risk trading away his young prospects for any \"rental players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, March\nOn March 9, Gainey announced that he was replacing Guy Carbonneau as head coach until the end of the season. Don Lever was named assistant-coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, March\nPatrice Brisebois played his 1,000th NHL game on March 14 in a 3\u20132 loss to the New Jersey Devils. During that same game, Martin Brodeur tied the all-time NHL record for career wins with 551, tying Canadiens great Patrick Roy, who was in attendance at that game. Brodeur was given the first star of the game and received a standing ovation from his home province crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, March\nAlex Tanguay scored a season-high five points (two goals and three assists) on March 24 in a 6\u20133 win against the Atlanta Thrashers at the Bell Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, March\nAlexei Kovalev scored his 100th goal as a member of the Canadiens (and 23rd goal of the season) in a 4\u20131 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on March 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season, April\nThe Canadiens finished the regular season having tied the Carolina Hurricanes for the most power play opportunities, with 374.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Standings, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Standings, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Schedule and results\nWin (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs\nThe Montreal Canadiens clinched a playoff spot following a 5\u20134 overtime loss against the Boston Bruins on April 9, 2008, their 81st game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals: vs. (1) Boston Bruins\nThe Montreal Canadiens earned the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference by finishing with 93 points in the conference. With key players missing such as Andrei Markov, Mathieu Schneider, Alex Tanguay and Carey Price (who was struggling), they were swept in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime Losses; GA = Goals Against; GAA= Goals Against Average; SA= Shots Against; SV= Saves; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO= Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Canadiens. Stats reflect time with Canadiens only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Canadiens only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Awards and records, Team awards\nOn April 11, following the final home game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the team announced its award winners for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Transactions\nThe Canadiens have been involved in the following transactions during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Draft picks\nMontreal's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Farm teams, Hamilton Bulldogs\nThe Hamilton Bulldogs remain Montreal's top affiliate in the American Hockey League in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200675-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Montreal Canadiens season, Farm teams, Cincinnati Cyclones\nMontreal continues their affiliation alongside the Nashville Predators for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200676-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Morgan State Bears men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Morgan State Bears men's basketball team represented Morgan State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Todd Bozeman's third season at Morgan State. The Bears competed in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and played their home games at Talmadge L. Hill Field House. They finished the season 23\u201312, 13\u20133 in MEAC play to win the regular season championship. They also won the 2009 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament to receive the conferences automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They received the No. 15 seed in the South Region where they lost to No. 2 seed and AP #7 Oklahoma in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200677-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Moroccan Throne Cup was the 53rd edition of the competition. It began on 22 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200677-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe cup was won by FAR de Rabat, who beat Fath Union Sport in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200677-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moroccan Throne Cup, 5th Round\nThis round saw the entry of teams from the GNF 2. The draw was made on Wednesday 25 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200677-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Moroccan Throne Cup, Last 32\nThis round saw the entrance of clubs from Botola. The draw was made on Thursday 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200678-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Motherwell F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Motherwell's 11th season in the Scottish Premier League, and their 24th consecutive season in the top division of Scottish football. As well as the SPL, the club competed in the Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, and the UEFA Cup for the first time in 13 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200678-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Motherwell F.C. season, Transfers\nFor a list of Scottish football transfers in 2008\u201309, see transfers in season 2008\u201309", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200678-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Motherwell F.C. season, Motherwell F.C. Season 2008\u201309 First-team Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200679-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Munster Rugby season\nThe 2008\u201309 Munster Rugby season was Munster's eighth season competing in the Celtic League, alongside which they also competed in the Heineken Cup. It was Tony McGahan's first season as Director of Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200679-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Munster Rugby season, 2008\u201309 squad\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200679-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Munster Rugby season, 2008\u201309 Celtic League\nUnder the standard bonus point system, points are awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season\nThe 2008\u201309 NBA season was the 63rd season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic in the 2009 NBA Finals, four games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season\nThe 2008 NBA draft was held on June 28, 2008, and Derrick Rose was selected first overall by the Chicago Bulls and eventually was awarded the 2009 NBA Rookie of the Year Award. The 2009 NBA All-Star Game was hosted at the US Airways Center in Phoenix. The Western Conference All-Stars defeated the Eastern Conference All-Stars 146\u2013119. The All-Star Game co-MVPs were Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season\nThis was the first NBA season since 1966\u201367 without a Seattle franchise, as the  SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in July 2008 and became the Oklahoma City Thunder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Notable occurrences\nNBA All-Star BreakThe 2009 NBA All-Star Game was played at the US Airways Center, home of the Phoenix Suns, on February 15, 2009, with the West winning 146\u2013119 and the Phoenix Suns' Shaquille O'Neal and Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant being named the Co-MVPs. During the NBA All-Star Weekend, Nate Robinson of the New York Knicks won the Sprite Slam Dunk competition; Kevin Durant, who won the Rookie Challenge MVP, also won the inaugural H.O.R.S.E Competition and Miami's Daequan Cook beat Rashard Lewis in a tiebreaker to win the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Standings, By conference\nx- clinched playoff berthy- clinched division titlec- clinched home court advantage for the conference playoffsz- clinched home court advantage for the entire playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Playoffs\nTeams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Home court advantage does not necessarily belong to the higher-seeded team, but instead the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying the home advantage are shown in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Awards, Players of the week\nThe following players were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Awards, Players of the month\nThe following players were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Awards, Rookies of the month\nThe following players were named the Eastern and Western Conference Rookies of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Awards, Coaches of the month\nThe following coaches were named the Eastern and Western Conference Coaches of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Salary cap\nThe NBA announced that the salary cap for the season would be $58.680 million, immediately going into effect on July 9 as the league's \"moratorium period\" had ended and teams could begin signing free agents and making trades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Salary cap\nThe tax level for the season was set at $71.150 million, with each team paying a $1 tax for each $1 by which it exceeds $71.150 million. The mid-level exception was $5.585 million for the season and the minimum team salary, which was set at 75% of the salary cap, was $44.010 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200680-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBA season, Salary cap\nFor the 2007\u201308 season, the salary cap was set at $55.630 million ($3.05 million), the tax level was $67.865 million ($3.285 million) and the mid-level exception was $5.356 million ($229,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200681-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBL season\nThe 2008\u201309 NBL season was the 31st season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 10 teams contested the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200681-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBL season, Regular Season\nThe 2008-09 Regular Season took place over 22 Rounds between 13 September 2008 and 14 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200681-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBL season, Ladder\nThe NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the results in games played between the teams will determine order of seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200681-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NBL season, Ladder\n23-way Head-to-Head between Wollongong Hawks (5-2), Sydney Spirit (3-4) and Cairns Taipans (2-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200682-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings\nTwo human polls made up the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various publications' preseason polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200682-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, AP poll\nThe Associated Press (AP) preseason poll was released on October 31, 2008. This poll is compiled by sportswriters across the nation. In Division I men's and women's college basketball, the AP Poll is largely just a tool to compare schools throughout the season and spark debate, as it has no bearing on postseason play. Generally, all top 25 teams in the poll are invited to the NCAA basketball tournament, also known as March Madness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200682-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll\nThe Coaches Poll is the second oldest poll still in use after the AP Poll. It is compiled by a rotating group of 31 college Division I head coaches. The Poll operates by Borda count. Each voting member ranks teams from 1 to 25. Each team then receives points for their ranking in reverse order: Number 1 earns 25 points, number 2 earns 24 points, and so forth. The points are then combined and the team with the highest points is then ranked #1; second highest is ranked #2 and so forth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 78], "content_span": [79, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200682-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll\nOnly the top 25 teams with points are ranked, with teams receiving first place votes noted the quantity next to their name. Any team receiving votes after the top 25 are listed after the top 25 by their point totals. However, these are not real rankings: They are not considered #26, #27, etc. The maximum points a single team can earn is 775. The preseason poll was released on October 30, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 78], "content_span": [79, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 10, 2008, and ended with the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament's championship game on April 6, 2009, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The season saw six different teams achieve the AP #1 ranking during the year (just one shy of the NCAA record). Oklahoma sophomore Blake Griffin was the dominant individual performer, sweeping National Player of the Year honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season\nThe season began with North Carolina becoming the first unanimous preseason #1 team, and ended with the Tar Heels dominating the NCAA tournament en route to their fifth NCAA title. UNC won its six NCAA tournament games by double digits, and by an average of 19.8 points per game. Junior Wayne Ellington was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Season outlook, Pre-season polls\nThe top 25 from the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls, October 31, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Regular season, Conference winners and tournaments\nThirty athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The Ivy League does not have a conference tournament, instead giving their automatic invitation to their regular-season champion Cornell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 99], "content_span": [100, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, NCAA Tournament\nThe NCAA Tournament tipped off on March 18, 2009, with the opening round game in Dayton, Ohio, and concluded on April 6 at the Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Of the 65\u00a0teams that were invited to participate, 31 were automatic bids while 34 were at-large bids. The 34\u00a0at-large teams came from 8\u00a0conferences, with the Big East, ACC and Big Ten each receiving seven bids. The Big 12 and Pac-10 each received six bids. The SEC and Atlantic 10 each received three bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 89], "content_span": [90, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, NCAA Tournament\nThis season also marked the first time that three teams from the same conference were selected as #1 seeds (Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut). North Carolina tore through the tournament, winning each game by 12 or more points and beating Michigan State in the Final 89\u201372 behind an NCAA-record 55 first-half points to win its fifth National Championship. Ty Lawson recorded a record 8 steals, while Wayne Ellington was named tournament Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 89], "content_span": [90, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, National Invitation Tournament\nAfter the NCAA Tournament field was announced, the National Invitation Tournament invited 32 teams to participate. Five teams were automatic qualifiers for winning their conference regular-season championships, while the remaining 27 bids were named from an at-large pool. Notable entrants included Kentucky, who broke a 17-year NCAA tournament appearance streak by missing the field, as well as preseason top ten team Notre Dame and 2008 Regional Finalist Davidson. Penn State defeated Baylor 69\u201363 in the Final on April 2. The Nittany Lions' Jamelle Cornley was named tournament Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 104], "content_span": [105, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, National Invitation Tournament, NIT Semifinals and Final\nPlayed at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 31 and April 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 130], "content_span": [131, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, College Basketball Invitational\nThe second College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Tournament was held beginning March 17 and ended with a best-of-three final, ending March 30. It was the second year that the CBI tournament has conducted a post-season tournament. Oregon State defeated UTEP 2-1 in the final series to win the title. Oregon State's Roeland Schaftenaar was named tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 105], "content_span": [106, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Post-season tournaments, CollegeInsider.com Tournament\nThe inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament was held beginning March 17 and ended with a championship game on March 30. This tournament places an emphasis on selecting successful teams from \"mid-major\" conferences who were left out of the NCAA Tournament and NIT. Old Dominion defeated Bradley 66\u201362 to win the first CIT championship in Peoria, Illinois. The Monarchs' Frank Hassell was named tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 103], "content_span": [104, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200683-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches throughout the season and after the season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200684-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey rankings\nTwo human polls made up the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey rankings, the USCHO.com/CBS College Sports poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. As the 2008\u201309 season progressed, rankings were updated weekly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began on October 10, 2008 and concluded with the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on April 11, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Over the course of the season, five teams achieved the nation's #1 ranking, with Boston University finishing the season as the top-ranked team after winning the national championship tournament. This was the 62nd season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 114th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Pre-season polls\nThe top 20 from USCHO.com/CBS College Sports, October 6, 2008, and the top 15 from USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine, September 22, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Season format\nBeginning in 2008\u201309, a shootout is used to determine CCHA conference games that end in a tie. Shootout losers receive one point and an addition to their total number of ties. Shootout winners receive one point and an addition to their total number of ties, and as a bonus, receive one bonus point and an addition to their total number of shootout wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nThe following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nThe following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200685-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200686-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings\nTwo human polls comprise the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. The AP poll is currently a poll of sportswriters, while the USA Today Coaches' Poll is a poll of college coaches. The AP conducts polls weekly through the end of the regular season and conference play, while the Coaches poll conducts a final, post-NCAA tournament poll as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200687-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season began on October 17, 2008 and concluded on March 21 of the following year. This was the 36th season of Division III college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games\nThe 2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, which concluded the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, contained a record number of bowl games scheduled in college football history. A total of 37 bowl games, 34 team-competitive games and three all-star games, were played starting on December 20, 2008 with four contests and concluding with the Texas vs. The Nation Game in El Paso, Texas, played on January 31, 2009 at Sun Bowl Stadium. For the first time in 62 years, however, the Hula Bowl was not a part of the post-season as it was cancelled indefinitely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games\nA new record of 34 team-competitive bowls, plus three all-star games, were played, including the inaugural St. Petersburg Bowl and EagleBank Bowl. While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, this was the third consecutive year that teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games. To fill the 68 available team-competitive bowl slots, a new record total of 9 teams (13% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games\u2014all 9 had a .500 (6-6) season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, Selection of the teams\nNCAA bylaws say that a school with a record of 6\u20136 in regular season play and at least 5 wins over FBS teams are eligible only after conferences cannot fill out available positions for bowl games with teams having seven (or more) wins automatically eligible, excluding games played in Hawaii and conference championship games in the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, MAC and the SEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, Selection of the teams\nAfter the final regular-season games on December 7, 2008, four conferences \u2014 the Pac-10, the SEC, the Big 12, and the Big Ten \u2014 did not have enough teams to fill their bowl game allotments. The Pac-10 had seven contracted bowl slots with only five teams eligible. The last two bowls in the Pac-10 pecking order\u2014the Hawai\u02bbi Bowl (sixth) and Poinsettia Bowl (seventh)\u2014had contingency contracts with other conferences, respectively Conference USA and the WAC, to select one of the secondary conference's teams should the Pac-10 fail to supply enough eligible teams to supply that bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, Selection of the teams\nHowever, because C-USA had only six bowl-eligible teams to fill its six primary bowl slots, the Pac-10/C-USA slot in the Hawai\u02bbi Bowl became an at-large spot, and was awarded to Notre Dame. The SEC and Big 12 failed to produce enough teams to fill their requirements even before both conferences had two teams selected to BCS games, while the Big Ten was unable to fill its requirements once a second team from that conference (Ohio State) was selected to a BCS game. The Atlantic Coast Conference sent an NCAA-record ten teams to bowl games this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, Selection of the teams\nSince 72 teams were bowl-eligible, but only 68 bowl slots were available, four teams were left out of bowl games. Unlike in 2007, when an eight-win Troy team was left home for the postseason, no team with seven or more wins went without a bowl bid this year. All four uninvited teams \u2014 Arkansas State, Bowling Green, Louisiana-Lafayette, and San Jos\u00e9 State \u2014 had six wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200688-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NCAA football bowl games, Results\nNOTE: Rankings from final BCS Standings of December 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs\nThe National Football League playoffs for the 2008 season began on January 3, 2009. The postseason tournament concluded with the Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII, 27\u201323, on February 1, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Participants\nWithin each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Participants\nIn the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference then receive a bye in the first round. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Participants\nThe two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Schedule\nIn the United States, NBC broadcast the first two Wild Card playoff games and Super Bowl XLIII (their first Super Bowl broadcast since Super Bowl XXXII at the end of the 1997\u201398 playoffs). CBS telecast the rest of the AFC playoff games and Fox the rest of the NFC games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nPlaying in their first playoff game at home since 1947 & 1st Playoff game in University of Phoenix Stadium, Arizona outgained the Falcons in total yards 357\u2013250 and forced three turnovers. Atlanta running back Michael Turner, who rushed for 1,699 yards during the season, was held to 42 yards on 18 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nOne minute into the game, Atlanta receiver Harry Douglas gave his team a scoring opportunity by returning a punt 21 yards to the Cardinals 48-yard line. But two plays later, rookie quarterback Matt Ryan's pass was intercepted by Ralph Brown. The Cardinals offense started off their ensuing drive with three runs for 21 yards by Edgerrin James, and then took the lead over the Falcons with a 42-yard touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald on a flea flicker play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nIn the second quarter, Ryan led Atlanta 80 yards to the Cardinals 12-yard line where Jason Elam finished the drive with a 30-yard field goal to cut the score to 7\u20133. But three plays after the kickoff, Warner threw a short pass to receiver Anquan Boldin, who caught the ball and cut away from Lawyer Milloy, taking off down the left sideline for a 71-yard touchdown reception to give his team a 14\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nAtlanta responded with touchdowns on their next two drives to take the lead before halftime. First, Ryan threw for 67 yards on a 77-yard drive that ended with Turner's 7-yard touchdown run. Then, Falcons defensive back Chevis Jackson intercepted a pass from Warner on the Cardinals 23-yard line. Five plays later, Ryan threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Justin Peelle, giving Atlanta a 17\u201314 lead with 23 seconds left in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nHowever, Arizona would score 16 unanswered points in the second half. Three plays after the second half kickoff, Darnell Dockett burst up the middle on a running play, knocking the ball out of Ryan's hands before he could hand it off. Antrel Rolle (who was blitzing on the play) snagged the ball out of midair and returned it 21 yards for a touchdown. Then following two Atlanta punts and a missed 51-yard field goal by Neil Rackers, Arizona running back Tim Hightower finished a 76-yard drive with a 4-yard touchdown run, making the score 28\u201317. Early in the fourth quarter, the Cardinals increased their lead to 30\u201317 when defensive end Antonio Smith sacked Ryan in the end zone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nWith 4:14 left in the game, Atlanta managed to get back within one touchdown with a 5-yard touchdown pass from Ryan to Roddy White. But with the aid of a key 24-yard reception by reserve tight end Stephen Spach (who caught only two passes for 15 yards during the season) on third down and 16, the Cardinals managed to run out the rest of the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 30, Atlanta Falcons 24\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Falcons and Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nChargers running back Darren Sproles had 328 all-purpose yards (105 rushing, 45 receiving, 106 kickoff return yards, 72 yards on three punt returns), the third highest total in playoff history, and two touchdowns, including the game winning score in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nLate in the first quarter, three receptions by Colts receiver Anthony Gonzalez for 59 yards set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Joseph Addai, putting Indianapolis on the board. In the second quarter, an 18-yard punt return by Sproles gave the Chargers good field position on the Colts 44-yard line. A few plays later, Philip Rivers' 30-yard completion to tight end Antonio Gates set up a 1-yard touchdown run by LaDainian Tomlinson to tie the game. But two more receptions by Gonzalez, for gains of 20 and 11 yards, led to an Adam Vinatieri field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nAfter an exchange of punts, Hunter Smith's 34-yard punt from his own 11-yard line gave San Diego the ball on the Colts 45. Five plays later, Sproles scored on a 9-yard touchdown run, giving his team a 14\u201310 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nMidway into the third quarter, Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning managed to hurry his offense onto the line of scrimmage for a play while San Diego's defense was making substitutions. As a result, receiver Reggie Wayne ran past defensive back Antonio Cromartie (who didn't even realize the play had started), caught a pass from Manning, and took off for a 72-yard touchdown catch, retaking the lead for the Colts at 17\u201314. This would be the last score from both teams until late in the fourth quarter. San Diego responded on their ensuing drive by moving the ball to the Colts 9-yard line. But Sproles fumbled the ball into the end zone while being tackled by Tim Jennings and defensive tackle Raheem Brock recovered it for a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nWith under three minutes left in the game, Mike Scifres's 52-yard punt pinned the Colts back at their own 1-yard line. The Colts managed to get away from their own end zone with their first two plays, but on third down and two, linebacker Tim Dobbins drove them back to the 1 by sacking Manning for an 8-yard loss. Sproles then returned the ensuing punt 26 yards to the Colts 38-yard line. Following two receptions by Gates for 22 yards and an 8-yard run by Sproles, Nate Kaeding's field goal tied the game with 31 seconds left, sending it into sudden death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nIn overtime, the Chargers won the coin toss and drove for the winning score, aided by two key penalties against the Colts defense. First Sproles returned the kickoff 31 yards to his own 25-yard line, and two plays later he caught a 13-yard pass on third down and 11. Six plays later from the Indianapolis 40-yard line, Jennings was called for defensive holding while trying to cover Chris Chambers on a third down play, giving the Chargers a first down. On the next play, a 15-yard facemask penalty on Clint Session moved the ball to the 20. Sproles was tackled for a 2-yard loss on the next play, but after that he ran 22 yards for a game-winning touchdown to win the game for San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nThis would be the Chargers' last playoff win until the 2013 NFL playoffs & last home playoff win for the Chargers in San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Saturday, January 3, 2009, AFC: San Diego Chargers 23, Indianapolis Colts 17 (OT)\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Colts and Chargers, and the second consecutive postseason meeting. Both teams have split the previous two meetings. San Diego won the previous meeting 28\u201324 in the 2007 AFC Divisional playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nThe game featured a Dolphins offense which had an NFL-low 13 giveaways against a Ravens defense that led the league in takeaways with 34. The Ravens defense ended up triumphant, forcing five turnovers en route to victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nOn the game's opening drive, Baltimore running back Le'Ron McClain lost a fumble which linebacker Joey Porter recovered and returned to midfield. Several plays later, Miami advanced to the Ravens 1-yard line, but was unable to get into the end zone with two consecutive plays and ended up settling for a Dan Carpenter field goal to take a 3\u20130 lead. Baltimore responded with a drive to the Dolphins 5-yard line, featuring a 31-yard reception by tight end Todd Heap and scored with Matt Stover's 23-yard field goal to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nMidway through the second quarter, Ravens safety Ed Reed intercepted a pass from Chad Pennington and returned it 64 yards for a touchdown. Then after forcing a punt, Joe Flacco's 31-yard completion to Derrick Mason set up Stover's second field goal to give the Ravens a 13\u20133 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nMiami's misfortunes continued in the second half. On their first drive of the second half, Pennington threw his third interception of the game. Then after a punt, Dolphins running back Patrick Cobbs lost a fumble while being tackled by Marques Douglas and linebacker Terrell Suggs recovered it on Miami's 19-yard line. Three plays later, McClain scored on an 8-yard touchdown run to make it 20\u20133. The Dolphins responded with a drive to the Ravens 13-yard line, only to lose the ball on Pennington's fourth interception of the game, and his second to Reed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Pennington's 45-yard completion to Davone Bess set up his 2-yard touchdown pass to Ronnie Brown, cutting the score to 20\u20139 after Frank Walker blocked the extra point attempt. But the Ravens defense shut out Miami for the rest of the game. Meanwhile, a 48-yard run by Willis McGahee set up a 5-yard touchdown by Flacco, making the final score 27\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nThis would be the Dolphins last playoff appearance until the 2016 NFL playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 27, Miami Dolphins 9\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Ravens and Dolphins, with Baltimore winning the only prior meeting 20\u20133 in the 2001 AFC Wild Card playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 109], "content_span": [110, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 26, Minnesota Vikings 14\nBrian Westbrook's 71-yard touchdown reception in the second half gave the Eagles a two-score lead they never relinquished. Philadelphia's special teams unit also played a key role in their victory, as David Akers kicked four field goals, while DeSean Jackson returned five punts for a franchise playoff record 106 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 26, Minnesota Vikings 14\nEarly in the first quarter, Jackson's 62-yard punt return set up a field goal from Akers. Then after a punt, Donovan McNabb's 27-yard completion to Correll Buckhalter set up a 51-yard field goal by Akers on the last play of the quarter, making it 6\u20130. But Minnesota took the lead on their next drive with a 40-yard touchdown run from Adrian Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 26, Minnesota Vikings 14\nHowever, this turned out to be the only lead the Vikings would have for the entire game, and it would be short-lived. First, a 34-yard reception by Jackson set up Akers' third field goal. Then on Minnesota's next drive, defensive back Asante Samuel intercepted a pass from Tarvaris Jackson and returned it 44 yards for a touchdown, giving the Eagles a 16\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 26, Minnesota Vikings 14\nWith less than two minutes left in the first half, Peterson scored his second touchdown on a 3-yard run to cut the deficit to 16\u201314. But after a scoreless third quarter, Westbrook's 71-yard touchdown reception put the Eagles back up by nine points. Then with less than three minutes left in the game, a low snap by center Matt Birk in shotgun formation bounced off Tarvaris Jackson's foot and was recovered by Eagles lineman Juqua Parker. Five plays later, Akers kicked his fourth field goal, this one from 45 yards, to put the game away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Wild Card playoffs, Sunday, January 4, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 26, Minnesota Vikings 14\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Eagles and Vikings, with Philadelphia winning both prior meetings, including 27\u201314 in the 2004 NFC Divisional playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nMatt Stover kicked a 43-yard field goal with 57 seconds remaining to send the Ravens into the AFC Championship Game at the expense of the Titans, as quarterback Joe Flacco became the first rookie quarterback to win two playoff games in a single postseason. Tennessee turned the ball over three times, which proved to be the difference between the two teams, as Baltimore never gave the ball away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nThe Titans took the lead on their second drive of the game with Kerry Collins completing a 28-yard pass to rookie running back Chris Johnson and a 20-yarder to Justin Gage before Johnson finished the drive with an 8-yard touchdown run. But the Ravens answered back with Flacco's 48-yard touchdown pass to former Titan Derrick Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nEarly in the second quarter, Tennessee drove to the Ravens 25-yard line, only to turn the ball over on downs due to a fumbled snap on a fourth down conversion attempt. Then after forcing a punt, their drive to the Ravens 32-yard line also ended with no points when a pass from Collins was picked off by former Titan Samari Rolle. Following another punt, the Titans moved the ball into scoring range for the third time in a row, this time driving to the Baltimore 22. But once again they came up empty after LenDale White's fumble was recovered by Ravens safety Jim Leonhard with 25 seconds left in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nIn the second half, a 29-yard punt return by Leonhard and a 37-yard reception by Mark Clayton set up a Stover field goal to take a 10\u20137 lead. Meanwhile, the Titans failed to score again, as Rob Bironas missed a 51-yard field goal after Stover's field goal, and Ravens cornerback Fabian Washington forced and recovered a fumble from tight end Alge Crumpler on Baltimore's 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nHowever, the Ravens were unable to gain any yards with their ensuing drive and Tennessee got the ball back with great field position at the Ravens 42-yard line. This time, they managed to drive to the 10-yard line and score with a Bironas field goal to tie the game at 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nTwo plays after the ensuing kickoff, Baltimore faced third down and 2. On the next play, the play clock appeared to expire before the snap, but no penalty flag was thrown and Flacco ended up completing a 23-yard pass to Todd Heap. Five plays later, Stover's 43-yard field goal gave the Ravens a 13\u201310 lead with 53 seconds left. Baltimore's defense then sealed the victory by forcing Tennessee to turn the ball over on downs on their own 40-yard line. This would be the last playoff appearance for the Titans until the 2017 Season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, AFC: Baltimore Ravens 13, Tennessee Titans 10\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Ravens and Titans. Both teams split the prior two meetings with the victor winning on the road. Tennessee won the most recent meeting 20\u201317 in the 2003 AFC Wild Card playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nJake Delhomme was intercepted five times and lost a fumble as the Cardinals reached the NFC Championship Game for the first time in their history, winning for the first time in the Eastern Time Zone all season, and not only handing the Panthers their first home defeat of the season, but also handing them their first playoff home defeat. Delhomme, playing on his 34th birthday, became the first player to have five picks in the playoffs since Rich Gannon in Super Bowl XXXVII, with Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Gerald Hayes, Antrel Rolle, Ralph Brown, and Roderick Hood all hauling the ball in. Meanwhile, Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald set a franchise postseason record with 166 yards on eight receptions including a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nPanthers receiver Mark Jones gave his team good field position on their first drive, returning the opening kickoff 39 yards to the Arizona 48-yard line. A few plays later a 31-yard burst from DeAngelo Williams set up a 9-yard touchdown run by Jonathan Stewart giving Carolina a 7\u20130 lead. But this would be short lived as the Cardinals would respond with 33 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nAfter an exchange of punts, Kurt Warner's 48-yard completion to Fitzgerald set up a 3-yard touchdown run by Tim Hightower. Then on the first play of the Panthers next drive, Cardinals defensive end Antonio Smith knocked the ball out of Delhomme's hand as he was about to throw and recovered it on the Carolina 13-yard line. One play later, Edgerrin James' 4-yard touchdown run gave Arizona a 14\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nLater on, a 45-yard pass interference penalty on Rolle gave the Panthers the ball on the Arizona 13-yard line. But on the first play of the second quarter, Delhomme's pass was intercepted by Rodgers-Cromartie, who returned the ball 20 yards to the 20-yard line. Arizona then drove to the Panthers 31-yard line where Neil Rackers made a 49-yard field goal. Following a Carolina punt, two receptions by Fitzgerald for 42 yards set up another Rackers field goal. Then Hayes intercepted a pass from Delhomme, which led to another Arizona score, this one a 29-yard touchdown pass from Warner to Fitzgerald, making the score 27\u20137 by halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nThe situation didn't get any better for the Panthers in the second half. Six minutes into the third quarter, Rolle's 46-yard interception return led to Rackers' third field goal. Then in the fourth quarter, Delhomme was intercepted on two consecutive drives. After the second one, the Cardinals executed 12 consecutive running plays with Hightower, gaining 48 yards and setting up Rackers' fourth field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nCarolina managed to respond with an 8-yard touchdown pass from Delhomme to Steve Smith, but by then there were only 53 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, January 10, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 33, Carolina Panthers 13\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Cardinals and Panthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nIn what would turn out to be the final playoff game ever played at Giants Stadium, the Eagles defense forced three turnovers and only allowed the Giants to score three field goals despite five drives inside the Philadelphia 20-yard line. Meanwhile, Eagles kicker David Akers' three field goals gave him an NFL record 18 consecutive field goals in the postseason without a miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nNew York running back Ahmad Bradshaw returned the opening kickoff 65 yards, giving his team the ball on the Eagles 35-yard line. The Giants eventually drove to the 4-yard line, but ended up settling for a John Carney field goal to take a 3\u20130 lead. The Giants subsequently forced a punt, but on the first play of their next drive, Eli Manning's pass was intercepted by defensive back Asante Samuel and returned 25 yards to the Giants 2-yard line. A few plays later, quarterback Donovan McNabb gave his team a 7\u20133 lead with a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nEarly in the second quarter, Jeff Feagles' 45-yard punt pinned the Eagles back at their own 5-yard line. One play later, McNabb committed an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone, giving New York a safety. Following the free kick, the Giants drove to the Philadelphia 28-yard line, but came up empty when Carney's 46-yard field goal attempt sailed wide right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nWith just under four minutes left in the second quarter, Giants defensive back Kevin Dockery intercepted a pass from McNabb on his own 20-yard line. Following a 25-yard run by Brandon Jacobs and Manning's 25-yard completion to tight end Kevin Boss, Carney kicked a 34-yard field goal to give New York a 1-point lead. But the Eagles responded with a 25-yard field goal from Akers as time expired in the half, making the score 10\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nEarly in the second half, New York defensive tackle Fred Robbins intercepted a pass from McNabb and returned it 17 yards to the Eagles 33-yard line, setting up Carney's third field goal to take an 11\u201310 lead. But McNabb led the Eagles back with four completions for 57 yards on their ensuing drive en route to a 35-yard field goal from Akers. After receiving the ensuing kickoff the Giants got a first down at the Philadelphia 30 thanks to a 34-yard over-the-shoulder catch by Domenik Hixon on third and 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0048-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nBut the drive stalled and the Giants came up empty as Carney missed a second field goal try, this one from 47 yards. After the missed field goal, McNabb led the Eagles 63 yards in 10 plays and finished the drive with a 1-yard touchdown pass to reserve tight end Brent Celek on the first play of the fourth quarter, giving the Eagles a 20\u201311 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nThe Eagles defense then went on to dominate the fourth quarter, forcing two turnovers on downs, an interception and a fumble. Meanwhile, DeSean Jackson's 48-yard reception set up Akers' third field goal, making the final score 23\u201311, the first time in NFL history a game has ever ended with that score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nFor the second straight year, the No. 1 seed in the NFC lost in the divisional round as the Cowboys lost to the Giants in the 2007 playoffs. The top seed had advanced to the NFC Championship Game every year from 1988 to 2006. The Eagles also became the third No. 6 seed to advance to the conference championship game and first in the NFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nThis was the final playoff game at Giants Stadium, and the Eagles' last playoff victory until their Super Bowl winning 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, NFC: Philadelphia Eagles 23, New York Giants 11\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Eagles and Giants. New York won two of the prior three meetings. Philadelphia won 23\u201320 in the most recent meeting in the 2006 NFC Wild Card playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nPittsburgh gained 342 yards, did not commit any turnovers, held the ball for 36:30, and scored a touchdown in every quarter to defeat the Chargers. Willie Parker led the Steelers offense with 147 rushing yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nHowever, the Chargers took the opening kickoff and scored with Philip Rivers' 48-yard touchdown pass to Vincent Jackson just two minutes into the game. Pittsburgh responded with a drive to the San Diego 34-yard line. On fourth down, rather than risk a long field goal attempt, they faked attempting to gain a first down and ran a surprise pooch punt with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who kicked the ball 25 yards to the San Diego 9-yard line. Following a three-and-out, Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes returned Mike Scifres' punt 65 yards for a touchdown to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nLate in the second quarter, Pittsburgh tried to fool the Chargers with another trick play, this one a fake punt with a direct snap to safety Ryan Clark. But the Chargers back-up linebacker Antwan Applewhite tackled Clark for a 4-yard loss on the Steelers 44-yard line. Several plays later, Nate Kaeding's 42-yard field goal gave San Diego a 10\u20137 lead on the first play after the two-minute warning. But with less than one minute left, Roethlisberger's 41-yard completion to Hines Ward moved the ball to the Chargers 3-yard line. On the next play, Parker's 3-yard touchdown run gave the Steelers a 14\u201310 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nPittsburgh dominated the third quarter, starting it out with a 77-yard drive that ended with Roethlisberger's 8-yard touchdown pass to tight end Heath Miller. Meanwhile, their defense limited San Diego to just one play in the entire quarter, an interception by linebacker Larry Foote that negated a 63-yard kickoff return by Darren Sproles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nIn the fourth quarter, San Diego managed to make a goal line stand, tackling fullback Carey Davis for no gain on fourth down and 1 on the Chargers 1-yard line. After taking over at their own 1-yard line, the Chargers appeared to escape the shadow of their own end zone when Rivers hit Jacob Hester with a pass for an 11-yard gain. But a 10-yard sack by LaMarr Woodley and two incompletions forced San Diego to punt from their own 2, and Holmes returned the ball six yards to the 49-yard line. One play later, a 44-yard pass interference penalty on Eric Weddle in the end zone moved the ball to the 1-yard line, and running back Gary Russell scored a 1-yard touchdown run on the next play, increasing Pittsburgh's lead to 28\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nRivers then led the Chargers 73 yards in 10 plays and finished the drive with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Legedu Naanee. But the Steelers stormed right back, with Parker rushing five times for 53 yards and finishing the drive with a 16-yard touchdown run. Following an exchange of punts, Rivers threw a 62-yard touchdown pass to Sproles, cutting the score to 35\u201324, but by then there was less than two minutes left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, January 11, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 35, San Diego Chargers 24\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Chargers and Steelers, with San Diego winning both prior meeting in Pittsburgh, the most recent being 17\u201313 in the 1994 AFC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009\nFor the first time since 1979, both #1 seeds failed to get to the conference championship round. Both #1 seeds had been defeated by #6 seeds in the divisional round, the first time that this has happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nArizona built up an 18-point halftime lead, but had to fight off an Eagles comeback attempt to earn their first conference championship and Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. Arizona also became the second team ever to make it to the Super Bowl with a 9\u20137 record, joining the 1979 Los Angeles Rams. Arizona also became the first #4 seed to host a conference championship game. As of the 2020 season, this was the last time that any team seeded below #2 has hosted a conference championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nArizona took the opening kickoff and stormed down the field with a 9-play, 80-yard drive. Edgerrin James rushed four times for 33 yards on the drive, while Kurt Warner completed all four of his passes for 44 yards, the last one a 9-yard touchdown pass to Larry Fitzgerald. Philadelphia responded on their ensuing possession, starting it off with a 21-yard scramble by Donovan McNabb to the Arizona 39-yard line and finishing it with a 45-yard field goal by David Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0063-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nFollowing a punt, McNabb threw an interception to Aaron Francisco, but DeSean Jackson forced Francisco to fumble the ball during the return and Eagles lineman Jon Runyan recovered it. After the fumble, Philadelphia drove into scoring range, but they ended the drive with no points when Akers missed a 47-yard field goal attempt, ending his postseason record streak of consecutive field goals at 19. On the next play, Warner threw a 62-yard touchdown pass to Fitzgerald off of a double pass play, giving the Cardinals a 14-3 lead. It was the second time Arizona found pay-dirt on a trick play during the playoffs (after a flea flicker in the wild card game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0064-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nTwo plays into the Eagles next drive, McNabb completed a 47-yard pass to Kevin Curtis on the Arizona 19-yard line. But Arizona halted the drive at the 15, forcing Philadelphia to settle for a 33-yard field goal from Akers. Then the Cardinals took the ensuing kickoff and stormed down the field for another score. First James rushed for 22 yards, then Tim Hightower ran for 5, and then Warner completed a 16-yard pass to J. J. Arrington at the Eagles 30-yard line. Following two more Warner completions for 22 yards, he finished the drive with his third touchdown pass to Fitzgerald, making the score 21\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0065-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nAfter a Philadelphia punt, Warner led the Cardinals down the field again for more points. Starting with 1:31 left in the half, an unnecessary roughness penalty on Quintin Demps moved the ball to the Arizona 36. Then Warner completed a pair of passes to Jerheme Urban and Fitzgerald for 32 yards. A sack by linebacker Trent Cole pushed them out of field goal range, but on the next play, Warner's 13-yard completion to Anquan Boldin set up a 49-yard field goal by Neil Rackers, making the score 24\u20136 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0066-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nPhiladelphia's defense made a major improvement in the third quarter, limiting Arizona to nine rushing yards, one completion, and no first downs. Meanwhile, the Eagles cut the score to 24\u201313 with a 90-yard scoring drive. The Eagles converted three third downs on the drive, including McNabb's 50-yard completion to Curtis on third and 19, and finished it off with a 6-yard touchdown reception by tight end Brent Celek. The Eagles quickly forced a punt on Arizona's ensuing possession, and Jackson returned it 13 yards to the Philadelphia 39-yard line. Five plays later, McNabb's threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Celek. Rather than try to cut their deficit to three points, Philadelphia decided to kick the extra point, but Akers' kick was no good, keeping the score at 24\u201319. It was the first time Akers had missed an extra point all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 966]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0067-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Philadelphia took their first lead of the game with McNabb's 62-yard touchdown pass to Jackson, giving his team a 1-point lead after the two-point conversion attempt failed. But the Cardinals responded with a 14-play, 74-yard drive to retake the lead for good, featuring a 6-yard run by Hightower on fourth down and 1 on the Eagles 49-yard line. Warner completed all five of his passes for 56 yards on the drive and finished it off with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Hightower with less than three minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0067-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nThen his 2-point conversion pass to Ben Patrick made the score 32\u201325. Finally, the Cardinals defense sealed the victory by forcing a turnover on downs at the Arizona 47-yard line. By the time Philadelphia got the ball back, only 10 seconds remained. In a desperate lateral play, Darnell Dockett intercepted Jackson's throw, ending the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0068-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nFitzgerald finished the game with nine receptions for 152 yards and three touchdowns. This gave him an NFL postseason record 419 total receiving yards in his three playoff games. McNabb\u2019s 375 passing yards  and Warner\u2019s 145.7 passer rating were each third-highest recorded in the NFC championship game as of 2009. Both teams combined for an NFC postseason record 823 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0069-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nFor the second time in five years, an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl was denied. The Steelers lost the 2004 AFC Championship Game to the New England Patriots, who went on to win Super Bowl XXXIX over the Eagles 24\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0070-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, NFC: Arizona Cardinals 32, Philadelphia Eagles 25\nThis was the third postseason meeting between the Eagles and Cardinals. Both teams split the prior two meetings. The most recent ended with Philadelphia defeating the then-Chicago Cardinals 7\u20130 in the 1948 NFL Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0071-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nPittsburgh held the Ravens to 184 yards and forced five turnovers, including three in the last 3:13 of the game, en route to their seventh Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. Baltimore became the third consecutive road team (Pittsburgh was the last to win it), and the 11th out of 19 since the 1990 season, to lose the AFC title game and thus unable to duplicate their success in 2000 as a wild card team advancing to the Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0072-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nOn the first drive of the game, Ben Roethlisberger's 45-yard completion to Hines Ward set up a 34-yard field goal by Jeff Reed. Later in the first quarter, Steelers defensive back Deshea Townsend intercepted a pass from Joe Flacco and returned it to the Ravens 35-yard line. A few plays later, Santonio Holmes appeared to catch a 23-yard pass on the 1, but it was overruled by a Baltimore replay challenge and they ended up settling for a 42-yard field goal to make the score 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0072-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nLater on, the Ravens got a scoring opportunity when linebacker Ray Lewis forced a fumble from Pittsburgh running back Willie Parker and safety Jim Leonhard recovered it on the Steelers 43-yard line. But Baltimore turned the ball over on downs after failing to convert a first down on third and fourth down and 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0073-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nPittsburgh increased their lead to 13\u20130 on the second play of the second quarter with Roethlisberger's 65-yard touchdown pass to Holmes. But after several punts, a 45-yard punt return from Leonhard gave the Ravens a first down on the Pittsburgh 17-yard line. Two plays later, Willis McGahee scored a 3-yard touchdown run. Following an exchange of punts, Holmes returned a punt 25 yards to midfield. But the Steelers blew two chances to score before halftime. First, receiver Limas Sweed dropped a wide open pass near the end zone and the team ended up punting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0073-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nHowever, a roughing the punter penalty allowed the Steelers to retain possession. Heath Miller's 14-yard reception on the next play moved the ball to the Ravens 21-yard line with 23 seconds left in the half and no timeouts left. Pittsburgh decided to run a few more plays before attempting a field goal, but Mewelde Moore's 8-yard reception in the middle of the field took too much time off the clock, and Pittsburgh could not spike the ball before time in the half expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0074-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nMidway through the third quarter, Pittsburgh drove 51 yards and scored with Reed's third field goal of the game, making the score 16\u20137. But in the fourth quarter, the Ravens took advantage of another key special teams play when Mitch Berger's punt went just 21 yards to the Baltimore 42-yard line. Flacco then led the Ravens 58 yards, completing all four of his passes for 44 yards on the way to a 1-yard touchdown run by McGahee, cutting their deficit to 16\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0074-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nBaltimore's defense subsequently forced a punt and got the ball back on their own 14-yard line with just over six minutes left in the game. But four plays later, safety Troy Polamalu intercepted a pass from Flacco, ran all the way across the field, and took off for a 40-yard touchdown return, making the score 23\u201314. Pittsburgh then put the game away by forcing two more turnovers on the Ravens next two drives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0074-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nFirst, a hit by Ryan Clark on McGahee forced a fumble that was recovered by linebacker Lawrence Timmons; McGahee suffered a concussion and was removed from the field on a stretcher. Then after a punt, Tyrone Carter intercepted a pass from Flacco with less than a minute left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0075-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 18, 2009, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Baltimore Ravens 14\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Ravens and Steelers. Pittsburgh won the only prior meeting 27\u201310 in the 2001 AFC Divisional playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 122], "content_span": [123, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200689-0076-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NFL playoffs, Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers 27, Arizona Cardinals 23\nThis was the first Super Bowl meeting between the Steelers and Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 84], "content_span": [85, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 NHL season was the 92nd season of operation (91st season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was the first season since prior to the 2004\u201305 lockout in which every team played each other at least once during the season, following three seasons where teams only played against two divisions in the other conference (one division at home and one on the road). It began on October 4, with the regular season ending on April 12. The Stanley Cup playoffs ended on June 12, with the Pittsburgh Penguins taking the championship. The Montreal Canadiens hosted the 57th NHL All-Star Game at the Bell Centre on January 25, 2009, as part of the Canadiens' 100th season celebration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Canadian media rights\nIn June 2008, the NHL reached a new television deal with TSN, allowing the network to broadcast 70 regular season games per season featuring at least one Canadian team. The league also removed the restriction that only allowed all playoff games involving Canadian teams to air only on the CBC, even if it meant such games had to be broadcast regionally. The CBC and TSN continued to split the first three rounds of the playoffs, and the CBC still maintained exclusive coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals. But under the new deal, the CBC and TSN selects the rights to individual series using a draft-like setup, regardless if they involve Canadian teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Increase in salary cap\nNational Hockey League announced that the regular season salary cap would be going up for the fourth straight season. The 2008\u201309 salary cap is being increased by $6,400,000 (US) per team to bring the salary cap up to $56,700,000 (US). The salary floor is at $40,700,000 (US), which is higher than the salary cap on 2005\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Rule changes\nThe NHL brought in a number of rule changes for the start of the 2008\u201309 NHL season aimed at increasing offence and safety. The first rule change was to Rule 76.2 on faceoffs. The first faceoff of a power play will now be in the defending zone of the team that committed the foul, regardless of where the play was stopped. The second rule dealt with the issue of safety while players are pursuing the puck on a potential icing call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Rule changes\nRule 81.1 states that, \"Any contact between opposing players while pursuing the puck on an icing must be for the sole purpose of playing the puck and not for eliminating the opponent from playing the puck. Unnecessary or dangerous contact could result in penalties being assessed to the offending player.\" The third rule change also dealt with faceoff position: if a puck is shot off the goal frame, goal post or crossbar, the subsequent faceoff will remain in the end zone where the puck went out of play. Another rule change prohibits TV commercials, game breaks, and any line changes immediately after an icing call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Season schedule\nThe 2008\u201309 schedule returns to the pre-lockout schedule. The new schedule eliminates the three-year rotation where teams would only play teams in two of the three divisions of the opposite conference; instead the new schedule guarantees that each team plays every other team at least once. In this new schedule, each team will play their divisional rivals six times for a total of 24 games; they will play all other conference teams four times for a total of 40 games, and will play every team in the opposite conference at least once for a total of 15 games. To obtain a total of 82 games there are an additional three-wild card games; for the Canadian teams, the three-wild card games are composed of playing the three Canadian teams in the opposite conference an additional time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, European openers\nThe regular season started with four games played in Europe. The Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins played each other twice in Stockholm, Sweden with the two teams splitting a 2-game premiere, and the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning played each other twice in Prague, Czech Republic The Rangers swept Tampa Bay 2\u20130. The New York Rangers represented the NHL in the inaugural Victoria Cup challenge game as part of the club's pre-season schedule. The four teams also played some pre-season exhibition games in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, European openers\nOther than the four overseas regular season games starting October 4, October 9 was the actual first day of regular season games as far as widespread continental North American broadcast from most providers, including pay per view hockey packages. Other teams still played preseason games between October 4 and 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, European openers\nBy February 23, 2009, all four teams who started the season in Europe had fired their coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Winter Classic\nBecause of the success of the 2008 Winter Classic, another outdoor game was held in the 2008\u201309 NHL season. While Yankee Stadium was considered an early favorite, in a game to be hosted by the Rangers, cold-weather issues involving the old stadium put that location out of the mix. Another site considered was Beaver Stadium at Penn State University, with that game to likely involve the Penguins and the Flyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Winter Classic\nOn May 29, 2008, TSN reported that the 2009 NHL Winter Classic would be held in Chicago, Illinois on January 1, 2009, played between the Chicago Blackhawks and defending champion Detroit Red Wings. Soldier Field was considered an early candidate, however the NFL's Chicago Bears objected, citing a possible home game for the 2008 NFL playoffs that weekend (January 3\u20134); ironically, the Bears ended up being eliminated from contention in the last week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Winter Classic\nIt was decided that the game would be played at Wrigley Field, the North Side home of the Chicago Cubs, as confirmed by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on July 6. Ten days afterward, the NHL confirmed the reports that the game would officially be held on New Year's Day. Faceoff was scheduled for 1\u00a0pm EST (12 noon CST). The Red Wings won the game 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, Trade deadline\nThe NHL and National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) agreed to move the trade deadline from Tuesday, March 3, 2009, to Wednesday, March 4, 2009. This was done mainly because the schedule has twelve games on March 3 and only two on March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, General Managers' Meeting\nAt the meeting, held in Naples, Florida from March 9\u201311, 2009, general managers of the teams discussed issues that concerned them. Consensus on any topic would lead to action by the Board of Governors or the Competition committee in later meetings. Paul Kelly, executive director of the NHLPA, made a presentation on the topic of dangerous hits to the head, proposing new rules to penalize intentional hits. The general managers could not agree on the planned rule change and took no further action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, League business, General Managers' Meeting\nKelly intends to review the issue at the future Competition committee meeting, which is held after the Stanley Cup final. The general managers also discussed the topic of fighting in hockey, and agreed to penalize further players who start fights directly after face-offs and to further enforce the existing 'instigator' rule. The managers agreed to award a second-round compensatory pick in the 2009 entry draft to the New York Rangers due to the death of Alexei Cherepanov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Scheduled events and deadlines\nThe Christmas holiday roster freeze went into effect on December 19, 2008, and ended on December 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Scheduled events and deadlines\nThe NHL Winter Classic was held on January 1, 2009, between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Scheduled events and deadlines\nFor the Canadiens 100th anniversary season, the annual All-Star Game and the SuperSkills Competition was held in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Scheduled events and deadlines\nThe trade deadline was March 4 at 3\u00a0pm EST. The most notable trade was between the Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames sending Olli Jokinen to Calgary, but there were fewer trades than at previous deadlines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nThe first goal of the season was scored by Markus Naslund of the New York Rangers in Prague against the Tampa Bay Lightning. On October 16, 2008, the Blackhawks fired head coach Denis Savard and replaced him with former Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues head coach Joel Quenneville. On Saturday, October 25, the NHL scheduled fifteen games\u2014with all 30\u00a0teams playing\u2014for the second time in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nOn November 3, 2008, in a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the New York Islanders, Islanders forward Chris Campoli scored twice in one overtime. First, Campoli retrieved a loose puck and fired a shot past Jacket's goaltender Fredrik Norrena. The shot went through the net and, while Campoli celebrated, the game continued. Campoli then received a pass in front of the goal and shot the puck again into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nTampa Bay Lightning head coach Barry Melrose would record his first win as a head coach in over 13 years on October 21, 2008, with a 3\u20132 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers. However, the Lightning did not get off to a great start as hoped, and Melrose was fired by the Lightning with a 5\u20137\u20134 record. Rick Tocchet, who had been hired as assistant coach during the previous offseason, was promoted to interim head coach. Melrose subsequently re-signed with broadcaster ESPN. Melrose proceeded to get into a war of words with the Lightning management, accusing the management of interference during an interview on a Toronto radio station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nOn December 2, 2008, Carolina Hurricanes' head coach Peter Laviolette was fired and Paul Maurice was rehired in his place. Ron Francis became the team's associate head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nDuring the annual December board of governors' meeting, the issue of the state of the economy was raised. The Phoenix Coyotes were reported  to lose up to $35 million on the 2008\u201309 season. Asked to comment on Phoenix's loss, Commissioner Gary Bettman was quoted as saying \"They're going to get through the season just fine.\" The Buffalo Sabres, while not for sale, had been approached for purchase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nOn December 5, Sean Avery of the Dallas Stars was suspended six games for 'off-colour' remarks prior to a game against the Calgary Flames. On December 14, the Stars' management announced that he would not be returning to the team. After Avery's reinstatement by the league, he reported to the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL. He was placed on re-entry waivers and was claimed by the New York Rangers, his team in 2007\u201308.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nOn December 23, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that the Phoenix Coyotes were receiving financial assistance from the league in the form of advances on league revenues. The Coyotes pledged all of their assets to New York company SOF Investments LP to cover an estimated debt of $80 million. The team lost an estimated $200 million since 2001 and lost about $30 million this season. One of the team's owners, Jerry Moyes' principal source of revenue, Swift Transportation was also in financial difficulty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nESPN reported that the league had gotten involved with the operations of the Coyotes and their revenues. The NHL reportedly wanted to work with the city of Glendale, Arizona, which owns the arena and receives revenues from the team. ESPN also reported that Moyes wanted to sell his share of the team and that Hollywood film producer Jerry Bruckheimer was a possible interested purchaser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn February 2009, three head coaches were relieved from their duties. On February 1, Craig Hartsburg was fired as head coach of the Ottawa Senators following a 17\u201324\u20137 start to the season and was immediately replaced by Binghamton Senators head coach Cory Clouston. On February 15, Dan Bylsma of the American Hockey League's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was promoted to replace Michel Therrien of the Pittsburgh Penguins as interim head coach. Bylsma would later be announced as a permanent head coach of the team. On February 23, the New York Rangers fired Tom Renney following an overtime loss and he was replaced on the same day by TSN analyst and former Tampa Bay Lightning head coach, John Tortorella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn March, goaltender Martin Brodeur returned to the New Jersey Devils after a long injury. He became the winningest goaltender in league history, surpassing the record of Patrick Roy. Guy Carbonneau was also fired as the head coach of the Canadiens when the team was in danger of being eliminated from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn April, the Columbus Blue Jackets qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. The Carolina Hurricanes qualified for the playoffs for the first time since their 2006 Stanley Cup victory. The Ottawa Senators missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1995\u201396 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn an ironic twist, considering his injury woes of past seasons, Jordan Leopold played in all 64 games for the Colorado Avalanche. Upon being traded to the Calgary Flames Leopold played in all 19 remaining games for the Flames becoming the only NHL player to play 83 games of the 82 game 2008\u201309 season. Jacques Lemaire resigned as the first head coach of the Minnesota Wild on April 11 after missing the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nScoring in the regular season improved somewhat from 2007\u201308, with an average of 5.7 goals scored per game (7,006 goals scored over 1,230 games). Goaltenders combined for 156 shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn May 2009, it was revealed that the NHL had taken control of the Phoenix Coyotes from the start of the season and had known of the financial difficulties of the team prior to the start of the 2008\u201309 season. After owner Jerry Moyes petitioned the club into bankruptcy against the league's wishes, so as to sell the team to Jim Balsillie who plans to move the team to Hamilton, Ontario, the league challenged the right of Moyes to file for bankruptcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nIn the documents filed with the Phoenix bankruptcy court, the NHL stated that the league took official control of the team on November 14, 2008. The league then began advancing money to the club from league revenues, and made a loan to the club in February 2009, for a combined estimated total of $44.5 million over the full season. During the season, commissioner Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly had made a series of denials and obfuscations, while firing the Coyotes CEO and laying off 18 Coyotes employees. Moyes' documents filed with the court indicated that the team had lost $73 million over the last three years, and that the projected loss was $45 million for 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nJacques Martin became the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens on June 1 when former coach Bob Gainey returned to his general manager status. On June 3, Tony Granato was fired as the head coach of the Colorado Avalanche and was replaced on the next day by Joe Sacco, head coach of the Avs' top minor league affiliate the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL. On June 9, despite Brent Sutter winning 51 games (a franchise record), he resigned as head coach of the New Jersey Devils after two first-round playoff losses because of family reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0029-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season\nOne day later on June 10, Dave Tippett was fired as head coach of the Dallas Stars after missing the playoffs for the first time since the 2001\u201302 season, when Rick Wilson took over as coach. Marc Crawford was named the new head coach for the 2009\u201310 season the next day. Todd Richards would be named the second head coach of the Minnesota Wild on June 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season, Final standings\nGP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime/Shootout Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season, Final standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season, Final standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season, Final standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Regular season, Final standings, Tiebreaking procedures\nIn the event of a tie in points in the standings at the end of the season, ties are broken using the following tiebreaking procedures. The higher ranked team is the one with:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 75], "content_span": [76, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the regular season, the standard of 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The San Jose Sharks won the Presidents' Trophy for having the best record in the league, at 117 points. Division champions maintain their relative ranking during the entire playoffs while the remaining teams get reseeded below them after each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Playoffs, Playoff seeds, Eastern Conference\n*Montreal finished with exactly the same record as the Florida Panthers (including the first tie-breaker \u2013 number of wins). Montreal won on the second tie-breaker, head-to-head record, with a six points to three advantage in the four-game season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 63], "content_span": [64, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Playoffs, Playoff bracket\nIn each round, the highest remaining seed in each conference is matched against the lowest remaining seed. The higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage. In the Stanley Cup Finals, home ice is determined based on regular season points. Each best-of-seven series follows a 2\u20132\u20131\u20131\u20131 format: the higher-seeded team will play at home for games 1 and 2 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team will be at home for game 3, 4 and 6 (if necessary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Player statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games Played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Milestones, First games\nThe following is a list of players of note that played their first NHL game in 2008\u201309, listed with their first team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200690-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL season, Milestones, Last games\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their last NHL game in 2008\u201309, listed with their team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200691-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NHL transactions\nThe following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the 2008\u201309 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which players or draft picks, if applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season\nThis article shows statistics of individual players for the football club Dinamo Zagreb It also lists all matches that Dinamo Zagreb will play in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Team roster\nUpdated 5 March 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Summer\nMidfielder Luka Modri\u0107 agreed to a five-year contract with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur in a transfer worth \u20ac21m in late April, meaning his last game for the Croatian Cup second leg final on 14 May. On 22 May defender Hrvoje \u010cale signed a four-year contract with the Turkish side Trabzonspor for \u20ac2.2m, and four days later defensive midfielder Ognjen Vukojevi\u0107 joined Ukrainian giants Dynamo Kiev in a \u20ac6m transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Summer\nDuring the summer transfer window, a group of players were released, including 33-year-old forward Davor Vugrinec who joins city rivals NK Zagreb, Georg Koch who signs a deal with Rapid Vienna and Tomislav Mikuli\u0107 who signs a two-year contract with Standard Li\u00e8ge. Marijan Buljat and Dario Jertec were also released after failing to break into the first team squad under Branko Ivankovi\u0107, and join biggest local rivals, Hajduk Split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Summer\nAs for the arrivals, goalkeeper Tomislav Butina signed a two-year deal after being released by Olympiacos. Butina signed a two-year deal after being released by the Greek powerhouse, in a transfer which marked his return to the club after spending five years playing abroad, and 15 years after his first top-flight debut for the Blues in 1993. Heart of Hajduk Award winner Mirko Hrgovi\u0107 also joined the club from Japanese side JEF United, in a transfer which stirred some resentment by supporters of both Hajduk and Dinamo. Three South American players also joined the club in the summer transfer window: Luis Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez and Guillermo Su\u00e1rez came from Argentina's Boca Juniors and Tigre for \u20ac650,000 and \u20ac1m respectively, while Chilean international Pedro Morales joined from Universidad de Chile in a \u20ac1.6m transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Summer\nDid'dy Guela also left the club in late August amid heavy criticism by Ivankovi\u0107 and a publicized conflict with Ante Tomi\u0107 in training. Two months after his contract was terminated he joined Greek side Larissa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Winter\nOn 15 December 2008, Dinamo executive Zdravko Mami\u0107 and sports director Zoran Mami\u0107 agreed on a \u200b5\u00a01\u20442-year deal with Adri\u00e1n Calello signed from Argentina's Independiente. The following two signings were confirmed a few days later, in the form of forwards Miroslav Slepi\u010dka, who signed from Sparta Prague a \u200b3\u00a01\u20442-year deal worth \u20ac1.5m, and the 21-year-old Ilija Sivonji\u0107 from the local side Inter Zapre\u0161i\u0107. In late December it was announced that Mihael Miki\u0107 left the club to join the Japanese side Sanfrecce Hiroshima for \u20ac800,000. The last player to arrive in the winter transfer window was the 34-year-old Croatian international Robert Kova\u010d, who signed from Borussia Dortmund for \u20ac500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Winter\nSix youth players also signed their first senior contracts, out of which only Ivan Tome\u010dak joined the first team squad, while the rest were loaned to NK Lokomotiva, Dinamo's feeder club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Winter\nAdditionally, Dario Zahora, the 26-year-old Croatian forward who spent the last couple of seasons on loan spells at Slovenian sides Dom\u017eale and Interblock Ljubljana, joined Norwegian powerhouse Rosenborg for \u20ac280,000 in March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, First-team squad, Transfers, Winter\nDefender Dino Drpi\u0107, a product of Dinamo's youth academy and a permanent member of the first team squad since 2000, was abruptly suspended in January 2009, for \"poor disciplinary record\". He was removed from the first team and soon loaned out to German side Karlsruher SC. It was announced on 21 May 2009 that Karlsruhe bought Drpi\u0107's contract for \u20ac900,000, with the German side trailing at the bottom of the league table with just one match left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200692-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Dinamo Zagreb season, Player seasonal records\nCompetitive matches only. Updated to games played 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200693-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Osijek season\nNK Osijek entered the into 2008-09 Season defending third position, which is equal to their best position in Prva HNL won six times since Croatian independence. The team decided not to participate in the UEFA Intertoto Cup which would make preparations for the new season harder than usual, as happened two years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200693-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Osijek season\nTo prepare for the Season, NK Osijek played a few friendly matches against 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC Feh\u00e9rv\u00e1r to name a few. The new season will start with the same manager as last year, and with just Milan Pavli\u010di\u0107 sold from last years starting eleven. As the club's youth academy is one of the best in this part of Europe, several young players are drafted into the first team squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200693-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NK Osijek season\nFans and board of directors are hoping that this season can repeat last one, to put NK Osijek into UEFA cups next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200694-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NLA season\nThe 2008\u201309 National League A season, was the second ice hockey season of the National League A since the reorganization of the Swiss league and the 71st in the history of Swiss professional hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200694-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NLA season, Relegation\nEHC Biel would later defeat Lausanne HC, Champions of the National League B, 4-3 to remain in the National League A", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200695-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOFV-Oberliga\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the NOFV-Oberliga was the first season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system after the introduction of the 3. Liga in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200695-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOFV-Oberliga\nThe NOFV-Oberliga is split into two divisions, the NOFV-Oberliga Nord and the NOFV-Oberliga S\u00fcd. The champions of both divisions,  Tennis Borussia Berlin and ZFC Meuselwitz, were directly promoted to the 2009\u201310 Regionalliga Nord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 NOJHL season was the 31st season of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL). The eight teams of the East and West Divisions played 50-game schedules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season\nThe top teams of each division played for the Copeland-McNamara Trophy, the NOJHL championship. The winner of the Copeland-McNamara Trophy competed in the Central Canadian Junior \"A\" championship, the Dudley Hewitt Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season, Dudley Hewitt Cup Championship\nHosted by the Schreiber Diesels in Schreiber, Ontario. Soo finished in fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200696-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NOJHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200697-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NTFL season\nThe 2008/09 NTFL season was the 88th season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200697-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 NTFL season\nSt Marys have won there 27th premiership title while defeating Wanderers Eagles in the grand final by 64 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season\nThe 2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season began on October 10, 2008. It was the Nashville Predators' 11th season in the National Hockey League. The Predators ended up missing the playoffs for the first time since 2002-03 season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season, Regular season, Game log\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season, Playoffs\nThe Nashville Predators failed to qualify for the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, making it the first time that the Predators missed the playoffs since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season, Player stats, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Predators. Stats reflect time with the Predators only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200698-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nashville Predators season, Draft picks\nNashville's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One\nThe 2008\u201309 National Division One was the 22nd full season of rugby union within the second tier of the English league system, currently known as the RFU Championship. Leeds Carnegie joined National Division One, having been relegated from the Guinness Premiership after the 2007\u201308 season. Otley and Manchester were promoted from the 2007\u201308 National Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One\nLeeds Carnegie won a quick promotion back to the Guinness Premiership, while five teams were relegated to the newly named 2009\u201310 National League 1: Esher, Sedgley Park, Newbury, Otley and Manchester. The reason for the large number of teams being relegated was due to the league being restructured the next season from 16 to 12 teams as the new RFU Championship was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\n95 - 5 Nottingham at home to Otley on 8 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\n104 - 0 Leeds Carnegie away to Manchester on 8 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\n104 - 0 Leeds Carnegie away to Manchester on 8 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\nNottingham at home to Otley on 8 March 2009Leeds Carnegie away to Manchester on 8 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\nRotherham Titans at home to Exeter Chiefs on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Team\nCornish Pirates at home to Plymouth Albion on 12 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Player\nTim Taylor for Nottingham at home to Otley on 8 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Player\nTom Brown for London Welsh at home to Manchester on 28 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Player\nJason Strange for Leeds Carnegie away to Manchester on 8 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Player\nMichael Whitehead for Rotherham Titans at home to Exeter Chiefs on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Player\nRhys Jones for Cornish Pirates at home to Plymouth Albion on 12 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200699-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division One, Season records, Attendances\nExeter Chiefs at home to Cornish Pirates on 27 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North\nThe 2008\u201309 National Division Three North was the tenth and last season (twenty-second overall)  of the fourth division (north) of the English domestic rugby union competition using the name National Division Three North. The division was set to be re-branded National League 2 North for the following season due to an RFU reshuffle of the entire league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North\nNew teams to the division included Halifax and Nuneaton who were relegated from the 2007\u201308 National Division Two while promoted sides included Loughborough Students who came up as champions of Midlands Division 1 along with Kendal (champions) Huddersfield (playoffs) coming up from North Division 1. A further, final change to the division saw Rugby Lions transfer across to 2008\u201309 National Division Three South as the most southerly side in the division in order to address a team imbalance between the two leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0000-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North\nThe league system was 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw and additional bonus points being awarded for scoring 4 or more tries and/or losing within 7 points of the victorious team. In terms of promotion the league champions would go straight up into what would be known as National League 1 from 2009-10 but unlike previous years, there would be no promotion playoff between the runners up of the division and the runners up of National Division Three South due to the league restructuring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North\nNuneaton made it an instant return to the (newly named) 2009\u201310 National League 1 winning the league title and promotion ahead of nearest rivals Caldy who finished 9 points behind without the consolation of the usual north-south playoff. At the opposite end of the table Halifax suffered their second consecutive relegation being comfortably the worst team in the league with just 1 win and 1 draw for their efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North\nMuch more competitive but ultimately 8 points worse off than next highest team were Darlington Mowden Park who were relegated despite finishing runners up the previous season (narrowly losing in the playoffs). Darlington Mowden Park would drop down to the newly named National League 3 North (previously North Division 1). The second relegated team, Halifax, were initial supposed to join Darlington Mowden Park in that division but due to financial difficulties the club decided to drop out of the national leagues and start as an amateur club in Yorkshire 6 - the lowest level the club could drop to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\n83 - 3  Leicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\n68 - 0  Kendal away to Bradford & Bingley on 9 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\n83 - 3  Leicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\nLeicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\nLeicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Team\nNuneaton at home to Macclesfield on 11 October 2008Nuneaton away to Bradford & Bingley on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Player\nGareth Collins for Leicester Lions away to Bradford & Bingley on 7 March 2009 Gareth Collins for Leicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Player\nGareth Collins for Leicester Lions away to Bradford & Bingley on 7 March 2009 Gareth Collins for Leicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Player\nJon Boden for Leicester Lions at home to Halifax on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Player\nRoss Winney for Macclesfield at home to Hull Ionians on 6 September 2008 Rickie Aley for Nuneaton away to Harrogate on 4 October 2008 Jon Benson for Darlington Mowden Park at home to Fylde on 7 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Player\nRickie Aley for Nuneaton at home to Macclesfield on 11 October 2008 Rickie Aley for Nuneaton away to Bradford & Bingley on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Attendances\nFylde at home to Hull Ionians on 21 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200700-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three North, Season records, Attendances\nLoughborough Students at home to Huddersfield on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South\nThe 2008\u201309 National Division Three South was the ninth and last season (22nd overall)  of the fourth division (south) of the English domestic rugby union competition using the name National Division Three South. The division was set to be re-branded National League 2 South for the following season due to an RFU reshuffle of the entire league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South\nNew teams to the division included Henley Hawks who were relegated from the 2007\u201308 National Division Two while promoted teams included Richmond (champions) and Worthing Raiders (playoffs) from London Division 1, Chinnor who returned after an absence of just one year as champions of South West Division 1 and finally Rugby Lions who were transferred from the 2008\u201309 National Division Three North to ensure that there was not an imbalance of teams between the two regional leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0000-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South\nThe league system was 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw and additional bonus points being awarded for scoring 4 or more tries and/or losing within 7 points of the victorious team. In terms of promotion the league champions would go straight up into what would be known as National League 1 from 2009-10 but unlike previous years, there would be no promotion playoff between the runners up of the division and the runners up of National Division Three North due to the league restructuring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South\nLondon Scottish finished the season as champions and clinched the only promotion spot to the (newly named) 2009\u201310 National League 1. The Richmond-based side had a fantastic season with only the one draw against Rugby Lions early on in the season blemishing what would have been a perfect record (this was achieved by Plymouth Albion back in the 2001-02 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South\nFellow Londoners, runners up Rosslyn Park had a good season which could have seen them champions on any other year but even they finished 22 points behind Scottish and did not have the consolation of  a playoff due to the league restructuring. The two relegation spots were filled by Havant, who were comfortably the worst team in the division (ending a five-year stay in National 3 South), and Chinnor, who went straight back down yet again but were much improved from their last time spent in the division. Havant would drop to National League 3 London & South East (formerly London Division 1) while Chinnor would drop to National League 3 South West (formerly South West Division 1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\n85 - 3 London Scottish at home to Rugby Lions on 21 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\n71 - 13 London Scottish away to Worthing Raiders on 11 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\n85 - 3 London Scottish at home to Rugby Lions on 21 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\nLondon Scottish at home to Barking on 6 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\nLondon Scottish at home to Barking on 6 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\nRugby Lions at home to Bridgwater & Albion on 6 September 2008Richmond at home to Lydney on 13 September 2008Lydney away to Henley Hawks on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Team\nLydney at home to Worthing Raiders on 6 September 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Player\nBen Ward for Ealing Trailfinders at home to Lydney on 11 October 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Player\nDavid Howells for Ealing Trailfinders away to Bridgwater & Albion on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Player\nJames Brown for London Scottish at home to Barking on 6 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Player\nMatt Goode for Rugby Lions at home to Bridgwater & Albion on 6 September 2008 Mart Hart for Richmond at home to Lydney on 13 September 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Player\nMark Davies for Lydney at home to Worthing Raiders on 6 September 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200701-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Three South, Season records, Attendances\nLondon Scottish at home to Richmond on 24 January 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two\nThe 2008-09 National Division Two was the ninth and final version (twenty second overall) of the third division of the English rugby union league system using the name National Division Two. The RFU was planning to introduced a new professionalized format of the second division for the 2009-10 season which would lead to widespread league changes throughout the English league system including National Two being renamed National One and being increased from the 14 teams to 16 teams \u2013 a decision they made halfway through the season (more information on these changes is provided in the Divisional Changes section below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two\nNew teams to the division included Birmingham & Solihull (known the following season as Pertemps Bees) and Launceston who were relegated from the 2007\u201308 National Division One while promoted teams included Tynedale coming up from the 2007\u201308 National Division Three North  while Mounts Bay (champions) and Cinderford (playoffs) both from the 2007\u201308 National Division Three South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two\nAt the end of the season Birmingham & Solihull made an instant return to the (newly named) 2009-10 RFU Championship. They edged out runners up Cambridge by just 3 points due to the virtue of a superior bonus points record after both sides finished with 22 wins and 4 defeats each. At the bottom of the table Waterloo, Mounts Bay, Southend and Westcombe Park were relegated with Westcombe Park and Southend dropping to the 2009\u201310 National League 2 South and Waterloo falling to the 2009\u201310 National League 2 North. The relegation of Mounts Bay was particularly potent as it led to the club going out of business in June 2009 due to spiraling debts and an inability to cope with the increase of professionalism in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Divisional Changes\nHalfway through the season the RFU proposed to have a total restructuring of the league system. Resulting in many changes to the division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\n115 - 0 Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\n85 - 24 Blackheath away to Waterloo on 28 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\n115 - 0 Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\n115 - 0 Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\n115 - 0 Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Team\nMounts Bay at home to Southend on 5 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Player\nAlastair Bressington for Stourbridge away to Westcombe Park on 25 October 2008 Mark Woodrow for Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Player\nEmyr Lewis for Redruth at home to Waterloo on 21 March 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Player\nMark Woodrow for Birmingham & Solihull at home to Waterloo on 4 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Player\nDaniel Hawkes for Mounts Bay at home to Southend on 5 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Attendances\nRedruth at home to Mounts Bay on 20 December 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200702-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Division Two, Season records, Attendances\nWestcombe Park at home to Wharfedale on 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200703-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 National First Division was the 13th season of the National First Division, the second tier of South African soccer, and took place between 29 August 2008 and 2 May 2009. The champions were Jomo Cosmos, who were promoted to the South African Premier Division alongside play-off victors Mpumalanga Black Aces. FC AK and Durban Stars were relegated SAFA Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season\nThe 2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League is the inaugural season for the league and the 31st anniversary of professional Division 1 indoor soccer in the United States. The members of the NISL's first season are the Baltimore Blast, the Massachusetts Twisters, the Monterrey La Raza, the Philadelphia KiXX, and the Rockford Rampage. The Orlando Sharks were supposed to play, but due to scheduling conflicts with the Amway Arena the Twisters took the Sharks' spot for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season\nThe league kicked off on November 15, 2008 with the Philadelphia KiXX defeating the Massachusetts Twisters 34-11 and the Baltimore Blast defeating the Rockford Rampage 14-4. The regular season concluded March 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season\nEach team played eighteen games, nine home and nine away. La Raza also played, and won, the Copa Am\u00e9rica against PASL-Pro and PASL-Premier teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Final standings\nBlue indicates bye into the NISL ChampionshipGreen indicates playoff berth clinched", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Playoffs, Game 1\nFriday, 10:35PM EST, April 3, 2009 at Monterrey Arena in Monterrey, Nuevo Le\u00f3n", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Playoffs, Game 2\nSunday, 5:35PM EST, April 5, 2009 at Rockford MetroCentre in Rockford, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Playoffs, Game 3\nSunday, April 5, 2009 at Rockford MetroCentre in Rockford, Illinois (Immediately followed game two)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Playoffs, Championship\nSaturday, 7:35PM EST, April 11, 2009 at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200704-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Indoor Soccer League season, Playoffs, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games Played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200705-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Premier League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 17:24, 30 January 2020 (expand templates per Fb team TfD outcome and Fb competition TfD outcome and Fb cl TfD outcome and Fb rbr TfD outcome). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200705-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 National Premier League (NPL), the first division football league in the nation of Jamaica known as the Digicel National Premier League for sponsorship purposes, was contested by 12 teams. and after 33 matches was split into a champions group and relegation group. Both groups then play 5 more matches within that group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200706-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Twenty20 Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 RBS Twenty-20 Cup was the fourth edition of the RBS Twenty-20 Cup, a domestic Twenty20 tournament in Pakistan. It was held in Lahore from 4 to 8 October 2008. The Sialkot Stallions won their third overall and consecutive title by defeating the Karachi Dolphins in the final. As the winners, the Stallions qualified for the 2008 Champions League Twenty20, which was later cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200706-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Twenty20 Cup, Format\nThe format remained the same from the previous edition. The 13 teams are divided into four groups: Pool A with four teams, Pool B, C and D with three each. Each group plays a single round-robin tournament and the top team from each group advances to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals play the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200706-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Twenty20 Cup, Format\nThe position of the teams in the points table is determined by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200706-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Twenty20 Cup, Results, Teams and standings\nThe top team from each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200707-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 National Youth League (Australia)\nThe 2008\u201309 National Youth League was the first season of the National Youth League, the top Australian youth soccer league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200708-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cornhuskers were coached by Connie Yori. The Cornhuskers are a member of the Big 12 Conference and did not qualify for the NCAA tournament. Those hopes were tempered with the loss of two-time first-team All-Big 12 forward Kelsey Griffin to a season-ending ankle injury in late-August. Despite playing without Griffin, the Huskers fought their way to a 9-3 record early in the season that included a dramatic come-from-behind win over No. 24 Arizona State on Dec. 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200708-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team\nNebraska, which had received votes in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Top 25 for five weeks, knocked off a Sun Devil squad that went on to advance to the 2009 NCAA Elite Eight. However, just days after defeating ASU, the Huskers took another hit inside with the loss of junior center Nikki Bober to a season-ending knee injury. Without two of their most experienced post players for a final non-conference game at five-time NCAA Final Four participant LSU, the Huskers closed non-conference play at 9-4 with all four setbacks coming to 2008 NCAA Tournament teams, including three on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200708-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team, Awards and honors\nEight Nebraska women's basketball players claimed spots on the Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll. Nikki Bober, Kala Kuhlmann and Harleen Sidhu posted perfect 4.0 GPAs. Bober, Kuhlmann and Sidhu were joined on the spring honor roll by teammates Kaitlyn Burke, Kelsey Griffin, Cory Montgomery, Nicole Neals and Jessica Periago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200708-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team, Team players drafted into the WNBA\nNo one from the Huskers was selected in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 88], "content_span": [89, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup\nNedbank Cup is a South African club football (soccer) tournament. The knockout tournament, based on the English FA Cup format, carries a 'David versus Goliath' theme. The competition was sponsored by ABSA until 2007, after which Nedbank took over sponsorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Format\nThe 16 Premier Soccer League clubs, 8 National First Division teams, as well as 8 teams from the amateur ranks compete for the prize money of R6 million. The winner also qualifies for the CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Format\nThe teams are not seeded at any stage, and the first 16 sides drawn out of the hat receive a home-ground advantage. There are no longer any replays in the tournament, and any games which end in a draw after 90 minutes are subject to 30 minutes extra time followed by penalties if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Teams\nThe 32 teams competing in the Nedbank Cup competition are: (listed according to the league that they are playing in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Preliminary Round\nThe preliminary round saw the National First Division sides play each other is a knockout round to decide who will compete in the 2009 Nedbank Cup. All the game were played on 16 December 2008 and the winners of each game went into the draw to determine the fixtures for the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Second Round (Round of 16)\nOrlando Pirates have been handed a tricky tie in the Last 16 of the Nedbank Cup, but Kaizer Chiefs will back their chances against First Division side AmaTuks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Second Round (Round of 16)\nBucs will travel to Bloemfontein to face PSL strugglers Bloemfontein Celtic, who will be counting on their incredible home support to see them past the high-flying Soweto side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Second Round (Round of 16)\nChiefs have been paired with Pretoria University, while Mamelodi Sundowns face a tough task against Miguel Gamondi's Platinum Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Second Round (Round of 16)\nPeace Lovers, the last remaining Vodacom League side in the draw, have been rewarded for their win against Real Madrid with a home tie against Moroka Swallows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Second Round (Round of 16)\nThe continued unavailability of venues due to preparations for the 2009 Fifa Confederations and 2010 World Cup is giving several clubs a king size headache just hours after the Nedbank Cup Last 16 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Quarter-Finals\nOnly the strongest have survived to reach the Nedbank Cup quarterfinals draw held in Johannesburg on the morning of 23 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Quarter-Finals\nDefending champions Mamelodi Sundowns were knocked out by a gallant Platinum Stars on Sunday afternoon 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Quarter-Finals\nSundowns' exit was not the only shock of the tournament, as Kaizer Chiefs lost to First Division team Pretoria University and Pirates also lost to Bloemfontein Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Semi-Finals\nOn Tuesday 14 April 2009 the First Division giant killers Pretoria University drew their third successive Premier Soccer League side in the form of Ajax Cape Town  when the draw for the semifinal of the country's biggest knockout competition was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200709-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nedbank Cup, Results, Semi-Finals\nIn the other semifinal another First Division giant killer, Black Leopards, will play Moroka Swallows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200710-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Neftchi Baku PFK season\nThe Neftchi Baku 2008\u201309 season was Neftchi Baku's seventeenth Azerbaijan Premier League season. They started the season under the management of Anatoliy Demyanenko, however he was replaced by Hans-J\u00fcrgen Gede on 1 September 2008. On 28 February 2009 Gede was replaced Boyukaga Agaev, who was in charge until the end of the season. They finished 8th in the league and were knocked out of the Azerbaijan Cup at the quarterfinal stage by Karabakh. Neftchi also took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, reaching the Third Round before losing to Vaslui of Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200710-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Neftchi Baku PFK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200710-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Neftchi Baku PFK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200710-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Neftchi Baku PFK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200711-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\nThe 2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, also known as NB I, was the 107th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league was officially named Soproni Liga for sponsoring reasons. The season started on 25 July 2008 with Kaposv\u00e1ri R\u00e1k\u00f3czi FC beating the defending champions MTK Budapest by 3\u20131. The last games were played on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200711-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Promotion and relegation\nFC Sopron withdrew their participation in the winter break of last year's season after they declared bankruptcy. The team was put into last place and got all points deducted. The remaining relegation spot was earned by FC Tatab\u00e1nya, who finished the season with a mere 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200711-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Promotion and relegation\nPromotion to the league was granted to the champions of the two NB II divisions. Kecskem\u00e9ti TE won the Eastern Division while the winners of the Western Division were Szombathelyi Halad\u00e1s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200711-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Top goalscorers\nSource:  (in Hungarian) \u2013 Note: Click on \"G\u00f3ll\u00f6v\u0151 lista\" to retrieve the scorers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), Regular season, Standings\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), Regular season, Results\nIn the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), Champion Play-off, Final Standings\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), 5 to 8 Play-off, Final Standings\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), 5 to 8 Play-off, Results\nIn the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), Relegation Round, Final Standings\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 79], "content_span": [80, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200712-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's handball), Relegation Round, Results\nIn the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball)\nThe 2009\u201310 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I was the fifty-eighth series of the national team handball championship for Hungarian women. The defending champions were Gy\u0151ri Audi ETO KC and they managed to defend their title after winning the playoffs with five victories and only one draw. The regular season began on September 5, 2008 and ended on March 28, 2009. The playoff round finished on May 31, with Alba Feh\u00e9rv\u00e1r KC beating H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhelyi NKC for the fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Overview, Teams\nThe club of Budapest \u00d3budai Goldberger SE was the only relegated team last season and was replaced by PTE-PEAC from P\u00e9cs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Overview, Teams\nThis year's first division championship was geographically pretty well divided\u00a0: the league gathered two teams from the capital city Budapest (Vasas and FTC), two other from the Northern Great Plain (DVSC and Ny\u00edradony) and Central Transdanubia (Dunaferr and Alcoa), three from the Southern Great Plain (ASA-Consolis-HNKC, Kisunhalas and PTE-PEAC), and finally one from Central Hungary (V\u00e1c) and Western Transdanubia (Gy\u0151r).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Overview, Teams\nAfter a regular season of 22 matchdays, teams are divided into three groups of four depending on their position. First four teams compete for the title, next four play the 5-8 Classification Round and finally, last four placed clubs play to escape the relegation. In those playoffs, the clubs play in a round-robin system in which points were given according to their position in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Overview, Teams\nAs Hungarian champions, Gy\u0151ri Audi ETO KC entered the Group Phase of the 2008\u201309 EHF Women's Champions League. Anita G\u00f6rbicz's team made a brilliant performance and qualified for the final against Danish Viborg HK but lose by one goal at total score. The runners-up of last season, Dunaferr NK played a qualification tournament but finished second of their group and didn't make it to the next round. Therefore, they were reversed in the EHF Cup. DVSC-Aquaticum entered the third round of the 2008\u201309 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, won against Italian Pallamano Bancole but was eliminated by Romanian O\u021belul Gala\u021bi. In the EHF Cup, three teams represented Hungary\u00a0: Dunaferr NK (from the CL), Budapest Bank-FTC-RightPhone and Feh\u00e9r\u00e9p Alcoa FKC. First was eliminated in Round 3, the others in the eight-finals. Consequently, only Gy\u0151ri Audi ETO KC played a European Cup's final this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 952]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason\nTeams finished in bottom four positions after the regular season enter the classification round for 9\u201312 places, where a double round-robin system is used. In addition, they are given bonus points depending on their final position in the regular season: Ninth placed Kiskunhalas got four points, tenth placed V\u00e1c received three points, PTE-PEAC got two points and finally, last placed Vasas SC was awarded only one point. Clubs with the two lowest combined points get relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason, Classification round 9\u201312, Table\nAdditional points that were awarded after the final positions in the regular season are indicated in the bonus column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason, Classification round 5\u20138\nThe system is the same as for the precedent playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason, Classification round 5\u20138, Table\nAdditional points that were awarded after the final positions in the regular season are indicated in bonus points column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason, Classification round 1\u20134\nFirst four placed teams of the regular season entered the playoffs for the title. After a round-robin system, best placed team was designed champion. This year, Gy\u0151ri Audi ETO KC won the championship with five victories and one draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200713-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Postseason, Classification round 1\u20134, Table\nAdditional points that were awarded after the final positions in the regular season are indicated in bonus points column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200714-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g II\nThe 2008\u201309 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g II was Hungary's the 58th season of the Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g II, the second tier of the Hungarian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200715-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Netball Superleague season\nThe 2008\u201309 Co-operative Netball Superleague season saw Team Bath finish as champions for the third time. For a third season out of four, they defeated Galleria Mavericks in the grand final. The Superleague expanded to nine teams, with the addition of Glasgow Wildcats, the first team from Scotland. Team Bath finished the regular season with a 100% record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200715-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Netball Superleague season, Teams\nThe Superleague expanded to nine teams, with the addition of Glasgow Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200715-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Netball Superleague season, Regular season\nTeam Bath finished the regular season with a 100% record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200715-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Netball Superleague season, Play offs\nThe play-offs utilised the Page\u2013McIntyre system to determine the two grand finalists. This saw the top two from the regular season, Team Bath and Loughborough Lightning, play each other, with the winner going straight through to the grand final. The loser gets a second chance to reach the grand final via the minor final. The third and fourth placed teams, Galleria Mavericks and Leeds Carnegie also play each other, and the winner advances to the minor final. The winner of the minor final qualifies for the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200716-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey season\nThe New Hampshire Wildcats women\u2019s ice hockey team represents the University of New Hampshire. The Wildcats participated in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200716-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nJennifer Wakefield led New Hampshire in scoring. In addition, Wakefield led the Wildcats with 13 power play goals, four shorthanded goals and nine game-winning goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 72], "content_span": [73, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season\nThe 2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season was the team's 27th season in the National Hockey League (NHL) since the franchise relocated to New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Regular season\nThe Devils finished the regular season with the fewest power-play opportunities, with just 307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Playoffs\nThe New Jersey Devils ended the 2008\u201309 regular season as the Atlantic Division Champions and the Eastern Conference's third seed. The Devils have made the playoffs for the 12th straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Media\nTelevision coverage was now on MSG Plus, still under the play-by-play of Mike Emrick and Chico Resch. Radio coverage was still on WFAN with Matt Loughlin and Sherry Ross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime Losses; GA = Goals Against; GAA= Goals Against Average; SA= Shots Against; SV= Saves; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO= Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Devils. Stats reflect time with Devils only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Devils only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Draft picks\nNew Jersey's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200717-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Devils season, Farm teams\nThe Lowell Devils of the American Hockey League and the Trenton Devils of the ECHL remain the New Jersey Devils' minor league affiliates for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200718-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Nets season\nThe 2008\u201309 New Jersey Nets season was the 42nd season of the franchise, and their 33rd in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200718-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Jersey Nets season, Offseason\nOn June 26, it was announced the Nets had officially traded Richard Jefferson in exchange for Milwaukee Bucks players Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons. After missing the playoffs last season and going no further than the Eastern Conference Semi-finals the past five years, the Nets needed to change. Jefferson left after seven years at New Jersey where he ended up as the Nets third all-time leading scorer in franchise history. On July 21, the Nets acquired Orlando Magic guard Keyon Dooling in exchange for cash considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200719-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team represented the University of New Mexico as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Lobos were coached by second-year head coach Steve Alford and played their home games at the University Arena, also known as \"The Pit\", in Albuquerque, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200719-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team\nThe Lobos finished the season 22\u201312, 12\u20134 in Mountain West play. They were Co\u2013Champions of the Mountain West Conference with Utah and BYU. They were defeated by Wyoming in the semifinals of the 2009 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. They invited of the 2009 National Invitation Tournament. They defeated Nebraska before losing to Notre Dame in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200720-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team represented New Mexico State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was Marvin Menzies 2nd season as head coach. The Aggies played their home games at Pan American Center and competed in the Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 17\u201315, 9\u20137 in WAC play. They lost in the 2nd round of the 2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament to end the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200720-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team, 2008-09 Schedule and results\n|-The attendance for the 16 home games was 99,839 which averaged 6,240 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200720-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team, Ring of Honor Additions\nDuring the Jan 31, 2009 game against Hawaii, a ceremony was held which added new Aggies to the Ring of Honor - they were Jimmy Collins, Jerry Hines, and John Williamson. Also recognized were the 1978\u201379 and 1998-99 teams which each appeared in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season\nThe 2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season was the 7th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season\nThe regular season was marred by injuries, with only Rasual Butler playing in all games. The remaining four starters missed a combined 68 games, of whom center Tyson Chandler missed 37 games. Even when not on the injured list, Chandler's season was sub-par. Perhaps partly as a result of this, on February 18 Chandler was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder for forwards Joe Smith and Chris Wilcox. Despite the less than stellar season, this was generally perceived as a payroll-shedding move. However, within a day, the trade was rescinded due to concerns regarding Chandlers turf toe, which curiously, according to Chandler and the Hornet organization was not the reason for his stints on the injury list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season\nBattling these issues for much of the season, the Hornets finished the season with a record of 49\u201333, 7 games off the franchise best record of the previous season. This meant that the Hornets only finished 4th in the Southwest Division and 7th in the Western Conference. In the 2009 NBA Playoffs, the Hornets lost 1\u20134 in the first round to the second seeded Denver Nuggets. All four losses were severe, with the worst being a 58\u2013point drubbing at home in Game 4, losing 63\u2013121, which tied for the most lopsided loss in NBA Playoff history. Naturally lamented by fans and media alike, the embarrassing performance can at least be partly explained by the health situation of the players, with arguably the top 5 Hornets ailing to varying injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season, Offseason\nOn July 9 the Hornets announced they had signed their All Star point guard Chris Paul to a contract extension. Hornets owner George Shinn saying ''Chris is the face of our franchise and a leader both on and off the court... Getting him signed to an extension was our number one priority...'' On July 23 it was announced the Hornets had acquired free agent forward James Posey. Posey, a member of the 2008 Boston Celtics team that won the championship said ''I am excited to be a Hornet, it was a coveted destination for me...''", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season, Trades\nDecember 10, 2008: The New Orleans Hornets traded Mike James to the Washington Wizards for Antonio Daniels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season, Trades\nFebruary 17, 2009: The Hornets traded Tyson Chandler to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Joe Smith, Chris Wilcox and rights to DeVon Hardin. The trade was nullified when Chandler failed his physical because of a previous turf toe injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200721-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Orleans Hornets season, All Stars\nFor the second year in a row the Hornets were represented with two players at the NBA All Star Game as Chris Paul was voted in by the fans as a starter, and David West was selected as a reserve by the NBA coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season\nThe 2008\u201309 New York Islanders season was the 37th season in franchise history. On April 14, 2009, the Islanders won the NHL Draft Lottery to receive the first overall draft pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nCaptain Bill Guerin was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in March. The captaincy was left vacant for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 175]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Playoffs\nThe New York Islanders did not qualify for the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Islanders. Stats reflect time with Islanders only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Islanders only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Draft picks\nThe Islanders picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200722-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Islanders season, Farm teams\nThe Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League, the Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL, and the Odessa Jackalopes of the Central Hockey League are the Islanders' minor league affiliates for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200723-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Knicks season\nThe 2008\u201309 New York Knicks season was the 63rd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nThe 2008\u201309 New York Rangers season was the National Hockey League franchise's 82nd season of play and their 83rd season overall. It saw the Rangers qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Rangers started the season in Europe. First, as part of the inaugural Victoria Cup being held in Switzerland, the Rangers played an exhibition game against SC Bern on September 30, and then the main game against the 2008 European Champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk on October 1 (the first game between a Russian club and an NHL team since 1991). They won both games, and were awarded the first Victoria Cup. The Rangers battled from a 3\u20130 deficit in the Victoria Cup to win the game by a score of 4\u20133. Ryan Callahan scored the game-winning goal with 20 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nOn October 3, 2008 Chris Drury was named the 25th captain in Rangers history. The Rangers opened the NHL regular season against the Tampa Bay Lightning with two games in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 4 and 5. Alexei Cherepanov, a former first-round draft pick of the Rangers, died suddenly on October 13 during a Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) game in Moscow. The Rangers tied the 1983\u201384 Rangers for the best start in franchise history with a 5\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nThe quest for the greatest start in franchise history was put to a halt on October 15, 2008, with a 3\u20131 loss to the Buffalo Sabres. The Rangers set the franchise record for best start in a season by going 10\u20132\u20131 for 21 points in the first 13 games. The 10 wins and 21 points both marked franchise records. On January 24, 2009, the festivities for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game began in Montreal with Brandon Dubinsky and Marc Staal playing for the Sophomore Team in the YoungStars Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nStaal scored two goals in the game, but the Rookie Team won 9\u20135. Henrik Lundqvist was the Rangers' only All-Star selection, and stopped 12 of 16 shots in the Elimination Shootout during the SuperSkills Competition. On January 25, 2009, Lundqvist stopped 15 of the 21 shots he faced in the second period of the All-Star Game, helping the East beat the West 12\u201311 in a shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0001-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nOn February 3, 2009, the New York Rangers retired Adam Graves' number 9 jersey before a game against the Atlanta Thrashers, joining fellow 1994 Stanley Cup champion teammates Brian Leetch, Mark Messier and Mike Richter, as well as Ranger greats Rod Gilbert and Eddie Giacomin, in the rafters of Madison Square Garden. On February 22, the Rangers retired Andy Bathgate's number 9 and Harry Howell's number 3 jerseys before a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A day later, Head Coach Tom Renney was fired after five seasons with the Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0001-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season\nFormer Rangers assistant coach and coach of the 2004 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning, John Tortorella, was hired later that same day to replace Renney. Rangers Assistant general manager Jim Schoenfeld was given the interim assistant coaching position. Shortly after that, Sean Avery made his return to the Rangers, claimed off waivers from the Dallas Stars. Head Coach John Tortorella was suspended for Game 6 of the Rangers\u2013Washington Capitals playoff series after an altercation with a fan towards the end of the Rangers' 4\u20130 loss in Washington, D.C., during Game 5. On May 4, 2009, Markus Naslund announced that he would be retiring after one season with the Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Regular season\nThe Rangers finished the regular season with the League's best penalty-kill percentage, at 87.84%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Schedule and results\nWin (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Playoffs\nThe New York Rangers ended the 2008\u201309 regular season as the Eastern Conference's seventh seed. They were defeated in the first round by the Washington Capitals in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Transactions\nThe Rangers have been involved in the following transactions during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Draft picks\nNew York's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Farm teams, Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL)\nThe 2008\u201309 season will be the 12th season of American Hockey League (AHL) hockey for the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200724-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New York Rangers season, Farm teams, Charlotte Checkers (ECHL)\nThe 2008\u201309 season will be the 16th season of ECHL hockey for the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200725-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships was held at the Ice Sports Southland in Gore from 28 September through 3 October 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and synchronized skating across many levels, including senior, junior, novice, adult, and the pre-novice disciplines of juvenile, pre-Primary, primary, and intermediate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200726-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand Football Championship\nThe NZFC 2008\u201309 season is the fifth season of the New Zealand Football Championship competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200726-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand Football Championship\nThe previous seasons champion, Waitakere United, and second-ranked club Auckland City FC will also be competing in the 2008-09 O-League which will run alongside the NZFC season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200727-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand V8 season\nThe 2008\u201309 New Zealand V8 season began at Taupo on 3\u20135 October 2008 and finished at Hamilton near Auckland on 17\u201319 April 2009 after seven championship meetings and one season-ending non-championship event. Kayne Scott overturned a 38-point deficit heading into the final round at Pukekohe Park Raceway, to finish as champion; winning the title by nine points ahead of John McIntyre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200727-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand V8 season, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers are competing in the current series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200727-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 New Zealand V8 season, Points structure\nEach championship round consists of three races, one on Saturday afternoon, one on Sunday morning and a final reverse grid race on Sunday afternoon. Points for the 2008/2009 championship are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the fourth season for the Newcastle Jets, and the first as defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season, Players, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season, Players, Transfers\nTriallistsThe following players trialled with the Jets but were unsuccessful in gaining a contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season, 2009 AFC Champions League, Champions League squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season, Other squads, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200728-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets FC season, Other squads, Women's squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200729-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the Newcastle Jets' first season of football (soccer) in Australia's new women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200729-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200729-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle Jets W-League season, Milestones\nFirst game = 2\u20131 win home V Canberra UnitedLargest win = 4\u20131 win home V Perth GloryLargest loss = 3\u20132 loss away V Adelaide United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Newcastle United's 16th consecutive season in the top division of English football. This season saw the club relegated from the Premier League to the Championship, the first time the club had been relegated since 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThings had looked reasonable for Newcastle at the start of the new season, but a major falling out between Kevin Keegan and the board saw Keegan resign as manager. This led to an awful run of form under caretaker manager Chris Hughton and the surprise appointment of Joe Kinnear was made to try to help the team out. A health scare saw Kinnear have to leave his office as manager in February. Under Hughton and Colin Calderwood, the club went on another horrible run of form as they were sucked deeper into the relegation battle. Ex-player Alan Shearer was appointed as a temporary manager for the last eight matches of the season but he was only able to win one of these games and Newcastle were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Keegan resigns\nIn the summer transfer window, Newcastle United signed Jon\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez, Danny Guthrie, S\u00e9bastien Bassong and Fabricio Coloccini. There were also a number of departures from the first team, most notably that of James Milner to Aston Villa, whose departure was rumoured to have sparked disagreements between Keegan and the board, with Keegan claiming he was not consulted about his contract renewal. Shortly after the Arsenal game on 30 August, Spanish under-21 international Xisco was unveiled at St James' Park by Director of Football Dennis Wise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Keegan resigns\nOn 1 September, there were widespread media reports that Keegan had either resigned or been sacked. While these reports were revealed to be premature, Keegan did tender his resignation on 4 September, citing fury over a lack of control over transfers and interference from the board, reflecting upon the sale of James Milner and the arrival of Xisco, a player he claimed to have known nothing about. Many Newcastle fans were furious with the perceived mistreatment of Keegan; public anger was directed at owner Mike Ashley, Executive Director Dennis Wise, Vice-Chairman Tony Jimenez and Chairman Derek Llambias, who were perceived to have forced Keegan out of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Keegan resigns\nShortly after Keegan's departure, the League Managers Association warned Newcastle United to develop a structure which would satisfy the next manager to avoid a similar situation occurring again. They also reported that Keegan would consider a return to the club should they develop a structure he would be happy with. The club hit back at the allegations, claiming Keegan was aware of the structure when he joined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Keegan resigns\nIn December, however, following reports that Ashley was set to end his bid to sell United, it was reported that a legal battle was commencing between Ashley and Keegan, with Ashley rumoured to be claiming damage to his public image and Keegan claiming for breach of contract, following backing from the League Managers Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Joe Kinnear\nAssistant manager Chris Hughton took over as caretaker manager for several weeks, during which Newcastle remained winless in all three of their matches. On 26 September, Hughton was replaced by Joe Kinnear as \"interim manager.\" Kinnear's appointment proved completely unimpressive with the fans and resulted in Kinnear profusely verbally abusing and swearing at the media upon his first media interview. He then announced he would not speak to any national press again and would only speak with the local media. In his first two matches in charge, Newcastle managed 2\u20132 draws with Everton and Manchester City, coming from behind both times (the latter with ten men).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Joe Kinnear\nIn the last week of January, key players Shay Given and Charles N'Zogbia left, causing an already thin squad to lose more talent. Amongst ongoing criticism of the club board following Keegan's departure, Joe Kinnear managed five wins, ten draws, and 11 losses, and talks opened between Joe Kinnear and the board as to whether he would consider a full-time position the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Joe Kinnear\nOn 7 February, however, the club's torrid season took another major blow when Kinnear was admitted to hospital following heart problems, and Chris Hughton once again took charge of the team, this time with the help of Colin Calderwood. By the end of March, the club was struggling to find form and keep pace with the opposition. With scarce wins over the course of the season, the team now faced a relegation battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Alan Shearer\nKeeping to his decision not to rush Kinnear back into his role too shortly after his surgery, Mike Ashley brought in club icon Alan Shearer to take over from Kinnear as the club's interim manager on 1 April. As Shearer's appointment was announced, Dennis Wise resigned as director of football and the club announced there were no plans to replace him in the role. Shearer hired Iain Dowie as his assistant coach and began his reign as caretaker manager, losing 0\u20132 to Chelsea at St James' Park and drawing 1\u20131 away at Stoke City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Alan Shearer\nAfter losing 1\u20130 to Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane and drawing 0\u20130 at home with Portsmouth, the club was plunged even deeper into the tight relegation fight. The ignominious 3\u20130 loss to title-chasing Liverpool at Anfield on 3 May, with Joey Barton being sent off on 77 minutes for a dangerous tackle, left the club in 18th place. Shearer recorded his first victory as manager on 11 May, defeating fellow strugglers Middlesbrough 3\u20131, lifting the club out of the relegation zone to 17th place on goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Alan Shearer\nThe feel-good factor did not last, however, as the following week, Newcastle slumped to a 0\u20131 home defeat to Fulham to fall back in the relegation zone with only the away game to Aston Villa left to play. This left the club needing to better the results of Hull City and Sunderland to avoid relegation. Despite Sunderland, Hull and Middlesbrough all losing their matches, Newcastle United were relegated to the Championship for the first time since 1993 after a 1\u20130 defeat to Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Alan Shearer\nThe club was then placed for sale by Ashley, who noted the club's terrible season following bad decisions on his part, which he believed led the club into major financial loss and constant criticism following relegation. Ashley said, \"It has been catastrophic for everybody. I've lost my money and I've made terrible decisions. Now I want to sell it as soon as I can.\" Newcastle released an official statement on the club's sale, including a press phone number and email address which was quickly made further public by the national press, although the address provided was merely for general enquiries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Alan Shearer\nThis resulted in a large number of hoax bids being sent, most of which were made by rival Sunderland supporters. More controversy was once again caused by Dennis Wise, who claimed the club were still paying him \u00a380,000 a month despite his departure in April, and claimed it was a factor in why Ashley was struggling to sell the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Compensation to Keegan\nOn 2 October, a Premier League arbitration panel ruled in favour of Kevin Keegan on his dispute with the club. The club confessed that they had lied to the media, public and staff, and that their correspondence on Keegan's departure was just \"PR\". Keegan confirmed his delight at the outcome, stating he felt the \u00a32 million pay-out + interest fully justified his departure and mistreatment by the club. Dennis Wise announced to the press that he did not feel solely responsible for the situation that developed at the club, but yet did not wish to contradict or debate Keegan's accusations, although he announced deep sorrow over the situation and felt his career has been left \"in tatters\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Compensation to Keegan\nThe panel ruled in Keegan's favour, citing that player Nacho Gonz\u00e1lez was signed by Dennis Wise against Keegan's wishes, but also against the principles of the generally understood role of a Premier League manager, which usually states the manager has the final decision on player signings. The panel revealed that Wise asked Keegan to review Gonz\u00e1lez from YouTube, no more than 24 hours before the closing of the summer transfer window, from which Keegan refuted the player. The club revealed to the panel that Keegan had never been informed his word was not final and that they were not in a position to sack him should he not have agreed to their demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Season summary, Compensation to Keegan\nKeegan rejected talk of a third return to the club, feeling the fans had \"had enough,\" leaving the role open for Chris Hughton to become full-time manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Team kit\nThe team kit for the 2008\u201309 season was produced by Adidas and Northern Rock remained as the main sponsor. The home kit remained the same for the season while the new away kit was revealed to the public on 20 June 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Players, First-team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Players, Under-18 squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200730-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Newcastle United F.C. season, Players, Trialists\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200731-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nissar Trophy\nThe Mohammad Nissar Trophy was an annual first class cricket competition which takes place in Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi, India from 15 to 18 September 2008. It was contested over four days between Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited cricket team the winner of Quaid-i-Azam Trophy from Pakistan and Delhi cricket team the winner of Ranji Trophy from India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The head coach was Roy Williams. The team played its home games in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team won the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, the fifth NCAA national title in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Preseason\nThe Tar Heels were a trendy pick to win the National Championship that year, primarily because Wayne Ellington, Danny Green and Ty Lawson decided to withdraw from the 2008 NBA Draft, and consensus national Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough never declared for that draft. In addition, the players had been embarrassed in the previous season's Final Four by Kansas, and they were motivated to atone for that poor performance. In the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll the Tar Heels were ranked #1. They were the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. UNC also received the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of the Associated Press Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThe Tar Heels rolled through the nonconference schedule, along the way winning the Maui Invitational for the third time. They sputtered out of the gate to start ACC play, dropping their first two conference games to Boston College and Wake Forest. However, they recovered to reel off 10 straight conference wins, including a 101\u201387 thrashing of rival Duke. Their only relatively close games during this stretch came against the ACC's two Florida teams\u2014most notably against Florida State, in which they escaped with a Ty Lawson buzzer-beater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThey lost to Maryland in overtime, but recovered to win their last three games. A win over Virginia Tech gave the Tar Heels at least a share of their 27th regular season title (which are not recognized by the ACC as official championships; the tournament winner is declared champnion), and third in a row. They won the title outright with a season-ending win over Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThe ACC Tournament did not go nearly as well, largely because Ty Lawson was sidelined with an injured big toe. They needed a last-minute score to defeat Virginia Tech, then fell to Florida State in the second round. Still, the Tar Heels were rewarded with the #2 ranking in the final AP Poll, behind Louisville. They also finished third in the final regular-season Coaches Poll, behind Louisville and Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nDespite not making it to the ACC title game, the Tar Heels received the top seed in the NCAA South Region. It was the 13th time the Tar Heels had been selected as a #1 seed\u2014the most since the NCAA began seeding the tournament field in 1979. It is also UNC's 41st NCAA appearance\u2014tied with UCLA for the second-most in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThe Tar Heels played their first- and second-round games at the Greensboro Coliseum, just an hour west of Chapel Hill. They easily dispatched Radford and LSU to advance to the regionals at the FedExForum in Memphis. In the regional round, the Heels dismantled Gonzaga 93\u201377. In the regional final, they defeated Oklahoma 72\u201360 to advance to the Final Four for the 18th time in school history\u2014tied with UCLA for the most ever. The wins in the regional phase were also the school's 100th and 101st wins in the NCAA Tournament, passing Kentucky for most all-time, although Kentucky has reclaimed the top spot as of 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThe Tar Heels were the highest seed to reach the Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit; they were the overall #3 seed in the tournament behind Louisville and Pittsburgh. In the national semifinal, the Tar Heels pounded Villanova 83\u201369 to advance to the national championship game for the ninth time in school history. They played against Michigan State, whom the Tar Heels defeated 98\u201363 during the December 2008 ACC-Big Ten Challenge. They were no less dominant in the title game, winning 89\u201372 for the school's fifth NCAA national title\u2014tied for the third-most all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nThe win capped off one of the most dominant runs in the tournament's history. The Tar Heels won every game by at least 12 points\u2014a feat all the more remarkable since they upended four teams ranked in the top 15 of the final AP Poll in the process (#10 Gonzaga, #7 Oklahoma, #11 Villanova and #8 Michigan State). They also led for all but 10 minutes of a possible 240 minutes of game time. It also allowed Tyler Hansbrough and his fellow seniors to end their careers as the winningest class in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200732-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Schedule\nWayne Ellington was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, the fourth Tar Heel to earn the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 64], "content_span": [65, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200733-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team represented North Dakota State University. The head coach was Saul Phillips. The team played its home games in the Bison Sports Arena in Fargo, North Dakota, and was a member of the Summit League. They received an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament after winning The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament in their first year of eligibility, the first team to do so since Long Beach State in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200734-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 North West Counties Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 North West Counties Football League season (known as the 2008\u201309 Vodkat League for sponsorship reasons) was the 27th in the history of the North West Counties Football League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into two divisions: the Premier and the First. This was a change from previous seasons when the divisions were known as Division One and Division Two respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200735-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northampton Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the 31st season in the fourth division of English football, and the 94th season as a professional club played by Northampton Town F.C., a football club based in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200736-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Counties East Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Northern Counties East Football League season was the 27th in the history of Northern Counties East Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200736-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Counties East Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200736-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Counties East Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 13 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200737-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Northern Football League season was the 111th in the history of Northern Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200737-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 19 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200737-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200738-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Illinois Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Northern Illinois Huskies men's basketball team represented Northern Illinois University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This season was head coach Ricardo Patton's second season at Northern Illinois University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200739-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team represents University of Northern Iowa in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team, which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), is led by third-year head coach Ben Jacobson. In 2007\u201308, the Panthers finished 18\u201314 (9\u20139 in the MVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200739-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team, Pre-season\nNorthern Iowa played two games during the preseason. They faced Dubuque and Wayne State at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200739-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn January 31, 2009 the Panthers tied a school record for the most consecutive wins with a 61\u201357 victory over Indians State. The record tied the 1963\u20131964 State College of Iowa Panthers team. On February 2, 2008 Northern Iowa received 1 point in the AP Top 25 poll which had them ranked 45th. On March 9, 2008 Northern Iowa received 3 points in the AP Top 25 poll which had them ranked T-37th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200739-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200740-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 was the 41st season for the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and the second season for the Northern Premier League Division One North and South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200740-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Premier League\nAs continuing part of non-league restructuring, the Division One South temporarily has 20 teams, while the Division One North contains 21, with a targeted number for both of 22 teams. This will naturally affect the number of relegation slots available this season, as the league attempts to enlarge the size of the divisions at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200740-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Premier League, Cup Results\nChairman's Cup: Between Champions of NPL Division 1 North and NPL Division 1 South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200740-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northern Premier League, Peter Swales Shield\nThe 2009 version of the Peter Swales Shield saw the champions of the 2008\u201309 NPL Premier Division, Eastwood Town, play against the winners of the 2009 NPL Chairman's Cup, Durham City. Eastwood Town won the match 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200741-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team represented Northwestern University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Bill Carmody's ninth season at the Northwestern. The Wildcats are members of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Welsh-Ryan Arena. They finished the season 17\u201314, 8\u201310 in Big Ten play, lost in the first round of the 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament and were invited to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to the University of Tulsa. Northwestern matched their school record for most wins in a season and recorded their first post-season appearance since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200742-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwegian Futsal Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Norwegian Futsal Premier League season (known as Telekiosken Futsal Liga for sponsorship reasons) is the first ever season for futsal in Norway. It began 29 November 2008 and ended 15 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200742-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwegian Futsal Premier League, League table\nSource: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Norwich City's fourth consecutive year in the Football League Championship. On 3 May 2009, the club was relegated to play League One football for the first time in 49 years after losing 4\u20132 to Charlton Athletic and finishing in 22nd place. This article shows statistics and lists all matches played by the club during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season, Club sponsors\nFrom 26 April 2008, it was announced that Flybe would be stepping down as the main club sponsor. On 29 April 2008 it was announced that Aviva would be the new shirt sponsors, having signed a three-year contract. Aviva are the parent company of Norwich Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season, Board changes\nOn 2 September 2008, Andrew and Sharon Turner announced that they were leaving the football club's board of directors. This left a \u00a32 million hole in Norwich City's budget. On 4 September 2008, Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones announced that they would be injecting \u00a32 million, avoiding financial problems for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200743-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Norwich City F.C. season, Transfers, Out\n0* Indicates player joined club after being released by Norwich City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team represents the University of Notre Dame in the 2008-09 college basketball season, competing in the Big East Conference. The team is led by ninth-year head coach, Mike Brey, and plays their home games in the Edmund P. Joyce Center in Notre Dame, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Preseason, Roster changes and recruiting\nNotre Dame lost senior forward and team captain Rob Kurz to graduation. Freshman guard Ty Proffit left Notre Dame and transferred to another school Notre Dame had two players transfer in and they will sit out this season per NCAA rules for transfer students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 97], "content_span": [98, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Preseason, Roster changes and recruiting\nNotre Dame did not sign any recruits from high school for the 2008-09 class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 97], "content_span": [98, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Preseason, Preseason outlook\nWith returning Big East Player of The Year Luke Harangody, the Irish were picked to finish fourth in the Big East conference by the Big East coach's poll. Harangody was also a unanimous first-team all-Big East selection and was picked to repeat as player of the year. Senior point guard Kyle McAlarney also made first-team all-Big East selection. Notre Dame is also looking to keep its 37 consecutive home game win streak alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Preseason, Preseason outlook\nNotre Dame was selected as the pre-season No. 9 team in the country in the USAToday/ESPN preseason coaches poll, the program's highest ever preseason ranking in that poll. The Irish also debuted at No. 9 in the AP preseason poll, the fifth time Notre Dame has been ranked in the top 10 of that poll and its first top 10 ranking since the 1980\u201381 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Regular season, Roster\nHansbrough and Martin are not eligible to play due to NCAA transfer rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200744-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, Regular season, Coaches\n*Solomon returns to the staff for his fourth year after a previous stint from 2000 to 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. Their regular season began on October 11, 2008, against Denver and concluded on February 28, 2009, against Michigan State Spartans. Note Dame finished first in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and advanced to the 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament where they defeated Michigan 5\u20132 in the championship game. Notre Dame was given the top seed in Midwest Region and second seed overall for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season\nIn the opening game of the tournament, the Fighting Irish lost 5\u20131 to Bemidji State. They played their home games at the Edmund P. Joyce Center, and were coached by Jeff Jackson. Notre Dame's assistant coaches included Paul Pooley, Andy Slaggert, and Mike McNeill. Their athletic director was Jack Swarbrick. Games were broadcast over the radio on local ESPN Radio (AM1580), and were reported on by local newspaper the South Bend Tribune and Notre Dame's student newspaper The Observer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n^ Denotes Shillelagh Tournament (neutral site: Sears Centre, Hoffman Estates, Illinois)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\" Denotes 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament semifinals (neutral site: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\u00d7 Denotes 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament final (neutral site: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\u00b1 Denotes 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament regional semifinal (neutral site: Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 79], "content_span": [80, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 85], "content_span": [86, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200745-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time on ice; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 89], "content_span": [90, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Nottingham Forest's first season back in the Football League Championship, following promotion from League One in the 2007\u201308 season, after spending three years in the third tier. Forest finished in 19th place, seven points above the relegation zone, having been involved in the relegation scrap all season, with Billy Davies changing fortunes around to secure Championship status for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies, Summary\nForest had a busy pre-season, making six promising signings, with seven players leaving as they prepared for the 2008\u201309 season. The players to come in were Welsh international striker Robert Earnshaw on a three-year deal for \u00a32.65 million, Liverpool midfielder Paul Anderson on a one-year loan, ex-Manchester United striker Andrew Cole on a 12-month contract, French midfielder Guy Moussi from Angers SCO, striker Mickael Darnet from AS Cannes and Joe Garner from Carlisle United for \u00a31.14 million. Those departing Forest were striker Grant Holt to Shrewsbury Town, Northern Ireland international midfielder Sammy Clingan to Norwich City, Ghanaian international striker Junior Agogo to Egyptian side Zamalek Sporting Club, left-back Matt Lockwood to Colchester United and midfielder Kris Commons to Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Pre-season and friendlies, Summary\nForest had a reasonably successful pre-season, winning four, drawing one and losing two in their seven pre-season fixtures. Their warm-ups included two games against Premier League opposition in Everton and Sunderland. Forest were then asked to partake in a friendly against a second-string Republic of Ireland side on 9 October during the international break, which Forest lost 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nForest kicked off the 2008\u201309 season with a goalless home draw against Reading before suffering their first league defeat in the Championship in a 3\u20131 loss at Swansea City. With four strikers injured, Forest secured the loan signing of Manchester United forward Lee Martin. Martin started the scoring in the 3\u20132 success over Watford with a 25-yard curler; the victory was Forest's first of the Championship campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nRobert Earnshaw netted his first league goal for the club in the victory, with Nathan Tyson, returning from injury, taking just four minutes after stepping off the bench to net the winner to put Forest 14th in the league table. Forest finished the month with a 5\u20131 defeat to Wolves, who went top of the Championship following the result. This marked Tyson's first start of the season after a hamstring injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nForest picked up one point in five games during September in a 0\u20130 home draw against Charlton sandwiched by 2\u20131 loses to both Burnley and Preston, and losses at Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday. Forest then lost their first two games in October with a 2\u20130 home loss to Crystal Palace and a 2\u20131 defeat at QPR. They won a home point against Ipswich Town but lost again four days later to Cardiff City, with both goals conceded both penalties. This run of poor form saw Forest prop up the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0003-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nWith two away games coming up, it was being touted that manager Colin Calderwood faced the sack if they could not record a victory, but they did with a 2\u20131 away victory at Crystal Palace, with goals coming from midfielders Chris Cohen and Matt Thornhill. This was Forest's first win in ten games and in more than two months, and saw Forest them off the foot of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nNovember started with the East Midlands derby against Derby County at Pride Park Stadium, the first time the two teams had met in a competitive fixture in over three years. The match proved to be controversial, with Emanuel Villa scoring at both ends to make the score 1\u20131. Lewis McGugan was given a straight red card, then a 93rd-minute penalty for Derby was saved by former Ram Lee Camp, with manager Colin Calderwood commenting after that the save would go down in the folklore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nVeteran striker Andrew Cole then had his contract cancelled by \"mutual consent\" after the ex-Manchester United forward had fallen out with the club, as he was often being left on the bench. Forest followed up the Derby draw with another 1\u20131 draw at home to promotion-chasing Birmingham City and then a 2\u20132 draw away to Bristol City; the latter match saw Camp save another injury-time penalty and a point, seeing Forest into a four-game unbeaten run. However, they then lost 2\u20131 at home to Norwich City to return to the bottom of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nA further 0\u20130 away draw at relegation rivals Doncaster Rovers saw mass tabloid speculation that manager Colin Calderwood was set to be replaced by Billy Davies. In the next game, at home to Barnsley, Forest won by a 36th-minute header from Joe Garner, moving off the foot of the table to 23rd. Forest drew 2\u20132 at Coventry City, twice coming from behind to claim a point, but their poor home form continued with a 1\u20130 home loss to Sheffield United and a 0\u20130 draw against relegation rivals Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nForest then recorded an important victory away at Southampton, with defender Wes Morgan scoring his first goal of the season and Joe Garner chipping the goalkeeper from 35 yards. This took Forest to just one point off safety, with their next game at home to bottom-of-the-table Doncaster Rovers, but Forest were 4\u20130 down within an hour and down to ten men for much of the second half after Julian Bennett came off injured after Forest had used all their substitutions, with a cruciate-ligament injury ruling the left-back out for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nForest replied with two late goals, but immediately after the game the Forest board terminated manager Colin Calderwood's contract after two and a half years in charge of the club; assistant manager David Kerslake was also dismissed. Reserve-team manager John Pemberton took caretaker charge at Norwich City, which Forest won 3\u20132 to rise out of the relegation zone for the first time in three months; this game saw the end of Lee Camp's loan spell. On 1 January, Nottingham Forest appointed Billy Davies as their new manager, signing a three-and-a-half-year deal with David Kelly named as his assistant manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nDavies watched the next match, against nouveau-riche Premier League side Manchester City in the FA Cup third round, which saw Forest won 3\u20130 with goals from strikers Nathan Tyson, Robert Earnshaw and Joe Garner. Davies' first game in charge saw Forest go to bottom of the table Charlton Athletic and beat the strugglers 2\u20130, with Tyson and Earnshaw netting for the Reds. Their third victory in a row pushed Forest up to 21st and moved them closer to teams directly above them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0006", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nA 2\u20130 home win Plymouth Argyle moved them into 20th before a big rival match in the FA Cup against Derby County at Pride Park, which ended 1\u20131. There will be a replay on 4 February at the City Ground. This was followed up by a 2\u20131 home win against Sheffield Wednesday, in which Forest came from behind to win. The result put them 17th, four points clear of the relegation zone. February saw just one win for Forest at the end of the month against promotion chasing Reading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0007", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nForest lost their opening game of February to local rivals Derby in the FA Cup. Forest then drew 1\u20131 with QPR before going on a three-game losing streak to Birmingham City, Ipswich Town and Derby this time in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0008", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nAfter the bitter disappointment of picking up just one victory in February, Forest were looking to get off to the best possible start, and they did against Preston in a 2\u20131 victory with a brace from Rob Earnshaw sending Forest three places up the table into 18th and looking a lot less likely to face the drop after another good result this time a 1\u20131 draw to Swansea City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0009", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nHowever another three game losing streak to Watford, a 5\u20130 loss to Burnley and then a 1\u20130 defeat to Wolves thanks to a Michael Kightly goal saw Forest take another dramatic downturn and they slipped in the league table to the regulation place of 22nd. Forest knew that with just six games left to stay in the Championship they needed something special. After a 1\u20131 draw against Barnsley following a desperate equaliser from Rob Earnshaw, Forest still sat in the drop zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0010", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nUp next were Bristol City, when city went ahead through Ivan Sproule things looked bleak again at the City Ground. Rob Earnshaw again showed his fantastic ability to score vital goals after grabbing an equaliser but with twelve minutes to go Forest went 2\u20131 down thanks to Dele Adebola. Forest turned things round in a fantastic comeback, Joe Garner making it 2\u20132 and then in stoppage time on loan Dexter Blackstock grabbed the late winner to give Forest a vital three points and climb themselves out of the drop zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0011", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nA midweek match against Sheffield United followed the fantastic win against City but it was a dull affair. After Kelvin Wilson was sent off early on, Forest's best chance fell to Joe Garner who fired over the crossbar and the Red's had to settle for a 0\u20130 draw that put them back into the drop zone on goal difference with Barnsley. Coventry City was the next opponents Forest had to face. Forest seemed more likely too pick up a result as the match was at the City Ground following the hysterics last week against Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0012", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nAnd the only goal from James Perch after 46 minutes gave Forest a well-deserved win sending them up to 20th and out the drop zone, however they could not be complacent yet as both Norwich City and Barnsley, the two teams behind them had games in hand. Following the draw at Coventry, Forest saw that both Barnsley and Norwich failed to pick up a result that threatened Forest's safety. The early kick off saw on 25 April saw Forest hold Blackpool to a 1\u20131 draw at Bloomfield Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0004-0013", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Coca-Cola Championship, Summary\nBarnsley played Wolves and looked to have won what was a vital game however a late equaliser for Wolves saw Forest with a chance to stay up if Norwich were to lose to Reading. And they did, two goals from Shane Long meant Forest had escaped the drop. On the final day Forest beat already relegated Southampton 3\u20131 and secure 19th place just behind rivals Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Squad statistics, Appearances and goals\nThe statistics for the following players are for their time during 2008\u201309 season playing for Nottingham Forest. Any stats from a different club during 2008\u201309 are not included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200746-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Nottingham Forest F.C. season, Squad statistics, Disciplinary record\nSource:Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200747-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notts County F.C. season\nNotts County are the oldest club in the Football League. The 2008\u201309 season was its 12th year in The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200747-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notts County F.C. season, Season review, Cups, FA Cup\nNotts County took on non-League side Sutton Town where they won. After that they took on another non-league side, Kettering Town where they drew resulting in a replay where they lost 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200747-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notts County F.C. season, Season review, Cups, League Cup\nNotts County started their League Cup campaign against newly promoted Championship side, Doncaster Rovers. Myles Weston scored the only goal to put them through to the second round, where they took on Premier League side Wigan Athletic. There they lost 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200747-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notts County F.C. season, Season review, Cups, Football League Trophy\nNotts County's Football League Trophy campaign only lasted one match. League One outfit Scunthorpe United beat the County 2\u20131 at Glanford Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200747-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Notts County F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200748-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OB I bajnoksag season\nThe 2008\u201309 OB I bajnoks\u00e1g season was the 72nd season of the OB I bajnoks\u00e1g, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Six teams participated in the league, and Alba Volan Szekesfehervar won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League\nThe 2008\u201309 OFC Champions League was the 8th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 3rd season under the current OFC Champions League name. The competition consisted of a home and away group stage, followed by a knockout round. It took place from 2 November 2008 until 3 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League\nA qualifying round was due to be played, but due to the withdrawal of the representatives from the Cook Islands and Tuvalu, the entrants from Papua New Guinea automatically gained entry to the main draw. It is unknown why the domestic champions of Tahiti and New Caledonia were unable to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League\nThe winner of the tournament was Auckland City of New Zealand, who beat Koloale of the Solomon Islands in the two legged final, claiming Oceania's US$1 million (NZ$1.41 million) berth in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League, Participating teams\nUnder the rules of the OFC Champions League, the winner of the O-League Preliminary competition replaces the last-placed member nation from the previous year's O-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League, Participating teams\nHekari United automatically qualified to the Group Stage following the withdrawal of the representative clubs from Cook Islands and Tuvalu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200749-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OFC Champions League, Final\nThe OFC Champions League winner also advances to the qualifying round of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 OHL season was the 29th season of the Ontario Hockey League. Twenty teams played 68 games each during the regular season schedule, which started on September 17, 2008 and concluded on March 15, 2009. The OHL inaugurated the Mickey Renaud Captain's Trophy following his death in the previous season. The Windsor Spitfires played their last game at Windsor Arena on December 4, defeating the Guelph Storm, 2\u20131. The Spitfires played their first game at the WFCU Centre on December 11 against the Belleville Bulls, losing the game 4\u20130. The playoffs began on March 18, 2009, and ended on May 8, 2009 with the Windsor Spitfires winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup, and a berth in the 2009 Memorial Cup which was held in Rimouski, Quebec. Windsor went on to win the Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, Regular season, Final standings\nNote: DIV = Division; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; Mins = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime losses; SL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals allowed; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, Playoffs, Playoff scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, Playoffs, Playoff leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, All-Star Classic\nThe 2009 Subway OHL All-Star Classic was played February 4, 2009 at the WFCU Centre in Windsor, won 11\u20136 by the Eastern Conference. Cody Hodgson of the Brampton Battalion won the player of the game award, as he scored three goals and added two assists. The skills competition was held the previous night on February 3, with the Western Conference winning. Honorary captains for the event were former Peterborough Petes player Steve Yzerman for the Eastern Conference, while former Windsor Spitfires player Adam Graves represented the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 OHL Priority Selection\nOn May 2, 2009, the OHL conducted the 2009 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection. The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds held the first overall pick in the draft, and selected Daniel Catenacci from the York-Simcoe Express. Catenacci was awarded the Jack Ferguson Award, awarded to the top pick in the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 OHL Priority Selection\nBelow are the players who were selected in the first round of the 2009 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 CHL Import Draft\nOn June 30, 2009, the Canadian Hockey League conducted the 2009 CHL Import Draft, in which teams in all three CHL leagues participate in. The Plymouth Whalers held the first pick in the draft by a team in the OHL, and selected Gabriel Landeskog from Sweden with their selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 CHL Import Draft\nBelow are the players who were selected in the first round by Ontario Hockey League teams in the 2009 CHL Import Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 NHL Entry Draft\nOn June 26\u201327, 2009, the National Hockey League conducted the 2009 NHL Entry Draft held at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. In total, 45 players from the Ontario Hockey League were selected in the draft. John Tavares of the London Knights was the first player from the OHL to be selected, as he was taken with the first overall pick by the New York Islanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200750-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OHL season, 2009 NHL Entry Draft\nBelow are the players selected from OHL teams at the NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 OJHL season was the 16th and final season of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) before it was divided into two leagues for a single season. The twenty-nine teams of the Phillips, Ruddock, and MacKinnon Divisions will play 49-game schedules, while the eight teams of the Ontario Hockey Association's Central Division Hockey will play an experimental 53-game season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season\nCome February, the top eight teams of each division will play down for the Frank L. Buckland Trophy, the OJHL championship. The winner of the Buckland Cup will compete in the Central Canadian Junior \"A\" championship, the Dudley Hewitt Cup. If successful against the winners of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League and Superior International Junior Hockey League, the champion would then move on to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League championship, the 2009 Royal Bank Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, Current Standings\nas of February 13, 2009Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, 2008-09 Frank L. Buckland Trophy Playoffs, Divisional Playoffs\nNote: C is Central, M is Mackinnon, P is Phillips, R is Ruddock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, 2008-09 Frank L. Buckland Trophy Playoffs, Divisional Playoffs\nPlayoff results are listed by Pointstreak on the official league website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, Dudley Hewitt Cup Championship\nHosted by the Schreiber Diesels in Schreiber, Ontario. The Kingston Voyageurs finished in first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, 2009 Royal Bank Cup Championship\nHosted by the Victoria Grizzlies in Victoria, British Columbia. The Kingston Voyageurs lost out in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200751-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OJHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200752-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 OK Liga was the 40th season of the top-tier league of rink hockey in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200752-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga, Competition format\nThe eight first teams at the end of the regular season qualified for the playoffs while the three last teams were relegated to Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200752-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga, Playoffs\nQuarterfinals were played with a best-of-three format, while semifinals and final were played with a best-of-five series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200752-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga, Playoffs\nSeeded teams played games 1 and 3 of the quarterfinals and 1, 2 and 5 of semifinals and finals at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200752-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga, Copa del Rey\nThe 2009 Copa del Rey was the 66th edition of the Spanish men's roller hockey cup. It was played in A Coru\u00f1a between the eight first qualified teams after the first half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200753-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga Femenina\nThe 2008\u201309 OK Liga Femenina was the first edition of Spain's premier women's rink hockey championship. It was played without Catalan teams due to the high cost of the travels during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200753-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga Femenina\nBiesca Gij\u00f3n was the first champion of the new league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 79]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200753-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga Femenina, Copa de la Reina\nThe 2009 Copa de la Reina was the 4th edition of the Spanish women's roller hockey cup. It was played in Mieres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200753-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 OK Liga Femenina, Copa de la Reina\nVilanova L'Ull Blau won its first cup ever by beating Alcorc\u00f3n Cat's Best in the final by 10\u20131, the widest win ever in a final of this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200754-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball team representing Oakland University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200754-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team\nOakland was picked to finish third in The Summit League's preseason poll. Oral Roberts was voted to finish first and North Dakota State second. However, only eight votes separated the three teams. Senior forward Derick Nelson and junior guard Johnathon Jones were named to the Preseason All-League First Team. Senior guard Erik Kangas was named to the Second Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200754-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team\nPrior to the first game of the year against Cleveland State, senior forward Derick Nelson suffered a foot injury and sat out most of the season. Nelson played in two games against Eastern Michigan and Michigan State, but did not record a point and took a medical redshirt. Oakland lost their first game against CSU and defeated Pacific-10 Conference opponent Oregon for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200755-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Odense Boldklub season\nThe 2008\u201309 Odense Boldklub season was the club's 121th season, and their 48th appearance in the Danish Superliga. As well as the Superliga, they competed in the Ekstra Bladet Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200755-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Odense Boldklub season, Squad statistics, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200756-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team represented Ohio University in the college basketball season of 2008\u201309. The team was coached by John Groce and played their home games at the Convocation Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200757-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented The Ohio State University. The head coach was Thad Matta, then in his fifth season with the Buckeyes. The team played its home games in Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Buckeyes finished fourth in the conference's regular season, and was runner up in the Big Ten tournament, falling to Purdue 65\u201361 in the final game. In the NCAA Tournament, the Buckeyes lost in the first round to the Siena Saints in double overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200758-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma City Thunder season\nThe Oklahoma City Thunder played its inaugural season in the 2008\u201309 NBA season. It was the team's 1st season in Oklahoma City since the Seattle SuperSonics relocation was approved by league owners prior to settling a lawsuit. The team played at the Ford Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200758-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma City Thunder season\nOklahoma City hosted the New Orleans Hornets for two seasons, due to Hurricane Katrina's devastation along the Gulf Coast in August 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200758-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma City Thunder season, Draft picks\nThe 2008 NBA Draft was the final time that the Seattle SuperSonics made an NBA Draft appearance, as well as the final time that the SuperSonics appeared in official media publications. In early July, the franchise relocated to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was renamed the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder made their first NBA Draft appearance in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200759-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach is Jeff Capel, who was in his third year with the team. The team played its home games in the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, OK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200760-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Sooners were coached by Sherri Coale. The Sooners are a member of the Big Twelve Conference and qualified for the Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200760-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team, Regular season\nCal led by 17 points, 69-52, before Oklahoma (8-2) closed the game with a 34-6 run. Stevenson finished with 21 points and Courtney Paris had 18 points and 13 rebounds to extend her consecutive streak of double-doubles dating to her freshman season to 102 games in Oklahoma's third straight victory since their loss to top-ranked Connecticut on Nov. 30. Cal had won the only other two meetings with Oklahoma but this marked the first matchup between the schools since Nov. 28, 1987, when the Bears won 81-66 in the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200760-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team, Regular season\nFive Sooners scored in double-figures, including Courtney Paris, who finished with 11 points and 12 rebounds in only 22 minutes to stretch her NCAA record streak of consecutive double-doubles to 105 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200761-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oklahoma State Cowboys men's basketball team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Travis Ford's inaugural season at Oklahoma State. The Cowboys competed in the Big 12 Conference and played their home games at Gallagher-Iba Arena. They finished the season 23\u201312, 9\u20137 in Big 12 play. They lost in the semifinals of the 2009 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament. They received an at\u2013large bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, earning an 8 seed in the East Region, where they advanced to the Second Round by defeating 9 seed Tennessee 77\u201375. The Cowboy's fell in the Second Round to 1 seed Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200761-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team, Pre-Season\nIn the Big 12 preseason polls, released October 7, Oklahoma State was selected to finish sixth in the Big 12 coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200762-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team represented Old Dominion University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball during the 2008\u201309 season. Playing in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and led by eighth-year head coach Blaine Taylor, the Monarchs finished the season with a 25\u201310 overall record and won the 2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament \u2013 the first year of the tournament's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200762-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team\nIn CAA play, the Monarchs finished in third place with a 12\u20136 record. They advanced to the semi-finals of the 2009 CAA Tournament, where they lost to eventual champion VCU, 61\u201353.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Oldham Athletic's 113th season and their 10th consecutive season in the third tier of the English football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season and friendlies\nOldham Athletic was originally scheduled to play their first pre-season friendly versus Belgian First Division side, Cercle Brugge, on 15 July 2008, but the game was cancelled due to disputes between the two clubs. On 16 July, the Latics played their first friendly versus Rhyl of the Welsh Premier League at Belle Vue. Oldham won the game 3\u20130 as new midfielder Danny Whitaker scored in the 71st minute. The club's next pre-season friendly was a 2\u20131 victory over Grimsby Town three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season and friendlies\nOldham included many new transfers in the line-up, as well as Demar Phillips who was on trial from Premier League club Stoke City. Deane Smalley won the match for Oldham with a goal just five minutes before the final whistle. On 23 July, Oldham faced former-Premier League club Derby County at Boundary Park. Following a John Oster goal for Derby in the 16th minute, new striker Chris O'Grady put the Latics back level just six minutes later, with the game finishing in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season and friendlies\nOldham once again faced Premier League competition on 29 July, as Hull City visited Boundary Park. The Latics would once again finish with a 1\u20131 draw, following goals from Caleb Folan for Hull and Lewis Alessandra for Oldham. The following day, Oldham faced Barrow at Holker Street. After two early goals, new midfielder Dale Stephens pulled Oldham back to 2\u20131 in the 17th minute, though Jason Walker scored his second of the game as Oldham lost their first match of the pre-season. Oldham's final pre-season friendly was on 2 August versus Bradford City. Omar Daley of Bradford City scored the only goal of the game, giving Bradford City a 1\u20130 victory over Oldham in both clubs's final pre-season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nOldham was at home to face Millwall for their first league game of the 2008\u201309 season. Oldham found themselves down within 1\u20133 early into the second half. After Andy Liddell scored from a penalty kick in the 74th minute, Lewis Alessandra and Chris Taylor scored twice in the final ten minutes to earn Oldham a 4\u20133 victory after being down by two goals. In mid-August, Oldham traveled to Elland Road to face Leeds United. Following a 0\u20130 halftime draw, Chris Taylor scored after a little more than five minutes following the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nHis second came in the 65th minute when he scored from a curler from 18\u00a0yards out from goal\u2014giving Oldham 2\u20130 victory. Following a 2\u20130 victory over Leeds, Oldham was back at Boundary Park to face Cheltenham Town. Lee Hughes would give Oldham their first of the game shortly before halftime whistle. Shortly after the restart, Hughes would score his second of the game before netting his third in the 62nd minute. Danny Whitaker added Oldham's fourth of the game in the 85th minute for a 4\u20130 victory, sending Oldham to top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0002-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nAfter an impressive 4\u20130 rout of Cheltenham Town, Oldham was set to face middle-of-the-table Colchester United at Weston Homes Community Stadium. Mark Yeates gave the home side a 1\u20130 lead heading into the break, before grabbing his second in the 63rd minute. But in less than 60 seconds, Chris Taylor scored his 4th of the season to bring Oldham back to 2\u20131 down before Deane Smalley grabbed a goal shortly before full-time\u2014giving Oldham a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nOldham dropped to second place in League One following the 2\u20132 draw to start September, and was again on the road as they faced Tranmere Rovers. The only goal came in the 35th minute, when Reuben Hazell headed in a goal after a cross from Neal Eardley. The game was played at a quick pace for most of the day as a total of 10 yellow cards were shown, but Oldham held out for a 1\u20130 win. On 13 September, Oldham was back at home to face 2007\u201308 League Two champions, Milton Keynes Dons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nLee Hughes didn't wait long to get the scoring started as he gave Oldham a 1\u20130 lead by scoring in the 8th minute. Despite seven shots on target, MK Dons could not get a goal past goalkeeper Mark Crossley before Mark Allott grabbed Oldham's second and final goal in the 95th minute. Oldham battled Hartlepool United on 20 September for their seventh league game of the season. Lee Hughes and Chris Taylor gave Oldham a solid 2\u20130 lead heading into the halftime break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nHartlepool battled back hard in the opening moments of the second half, scoring three times in first ten minutes of the second half with goals from Andy Monkhouse, Antony Sweeney, and Joel Porter. In the 58th minute, Taylor scored Oldham's third of the game as the two teams finished the game with a 3\u20133 draw. Again at home, Oldham faced off against 15th placed local rivals Huddersfield. Ian Craney scored his second in five games, giving the visitors an early 1\u20130 lead in the 29th minute. An Andy Liddell free kick early in the second half would be enough, as the game ended with a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nThe Latics began the month of October in first place, where they had remained for most of the season. Oldham played a Friday night match versus local rival Stockport County, who sat in 7th place at the time. Oldham controlled the first half of the match, as an Andy Liddell goal in the 24th minute gave them a 1\u20130 halftime lead. However, Stockport dominated the second half, scoring three goals en route to giving Oldham their first defeat of the season. An 82nd-minute goal from Stockport defender Michael Raynes secured the victory, as the Hatters defeated Oldham 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nAfter dropping to third place, Oldham looked to regain the top spot in the league versus Hereford United. Lee Hughes got the action started quickly, scoring his fourth goal in the fifth minute of the game. Oldham continued their early pressure against the Hereford defence, which included Hughes earning Oldham a penalty kick after he was taken down in the area by Frenchman Bruno Ngotty\u2014with Andy Liddell converting on the penalty to give Oldham a 2\u20130 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nWolves loaned defender Daniel Jones netted in the 36th minute for the Latics, giving the home side a 3\u20130 lead at the halftime break. Stephen O'Leary picked up a yellow card in the 81st minute for taking down Jones with a bad challenge, and was sent off only a minute later, forcing Hereford to play out the final minutes with only ten men. Danny Whitaker took advantage of the sending off, netting the final goal in the 90th. Oldham played their third game of the month on 18 October against Leicester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nA lackluster first half of action led to scoreless action until the 54th minute, when a Steve Howard header gave the visitors a 1\u20130 lead. Danny Whitaker equalised a quarter-hour later, earning a 1\u20131 draw as Oldham maintained an unbeaten home record. Three days later, Oldham traveled to Memorial Stadium to face Bristol Rovers. A solid attack was stifled by Rovers goalkeeper Steve Phillips, who stopped all seven shots that were on target. Rickie Lambert netted his 11th goal of the season in the 16th minute, which led the way to a Chris Lines goal in the 35th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nPhillips and Oldham's Mark Crossley both kept out the opposition for the remainder of the match, as Oldham dropped their second consecutive away match. For their second straight away match, Oldham faced Swindon Town who sat in 18th place in League One. Oldham looked to be in control in the first 20 minutes of the match, putting pressure on Swindon's net without any success. Shortly after their barrage on the goal, defender Sean Morrison scored for Swindon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nA handball in the penalty area by Lee Hughes gave Swindon the opportunity to net another in the 34th minute, which was converted by Jack Smith to double Swindon's lead. The ball was bogged down in midfielder for second half, as neither side put pressure on goal\u2014letting Swindon wrap up their third home victory of the season. A Lewis Alessandra assured that Oldham would end October on a high note, as the striker scored his first hat trick in a 3\u20130 victory over Scunthorpe United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0004-0006", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nThe 19-year-old led Oldham struck first in the 26th, before quickly earning his hat trick in the second half with goals in the 50th and 60th minutes. Oldham's 3\u20130 win over the Iron was Scunthorpe's first loss since 16 October, and helped the Latics move to 4th place in the league to end October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nAfter struggling through October, Oldham started November at home against Yeovil Town who was coming off consecutive scoreless draws. It appeared it could have been three consecutive scoreless matches for Yeovil when the two teams were left without goals at halftime. Aaron Brown capitalised from a deep free kick, ending his side's goal drought to give the visitors a 1\u20130 lead. Ex-Oldham player Paul Warne grabbed another goal for the Glovers three minutes later from hesitant play by Neal Eardley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nOldham was unable to get a ball past goalkeeper Asmir Begovi\u0107, who secured a 2\u20130 victory for Yeovil and gave the Latics their first home loss since March 2008. After a 2\u20132 draw in the FA Cup, the Latics faced Northampton Town on 15 November. Oldham had several chances in the first half including a shot by Lee Hughes which was an apparent early goal, though he was flagged by the official for offsides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nWith a quarter of an hour left in the match, Hughes was cut down in the box to give Andy Liddell a chance to give the Latics a lead. Liddell easily converted on the spot-kick, sending Frank Fielding the wrong way. Despite the 1\u20130 victory, the game ended on a bad note as Hughes was sent off with his second yellow card. At Roots Hall, Southend United was just once beaten in their previous thirteen home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0005-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nJames Walker tried to help him side continue the streak as he smashed the ball past Mark Crossley from point-blank range for a 1\u20130 Southend advantage. Chris Taylor pulled Oldham back on level terms with a 67th-minute header, before Hughes scored his seventh of the season to give Oldham a 2\u20131 victory. Three days later, Oldham faced off against Walsall at home. Mark Allott started the scoring early, grabbing an early 1\u20130 lead for Oldham from a deflected shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0005-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nMichael Ricketts, a former Oldham striker, struck back in 23rd minute with a goal before Alex Nicholls gave the visitors a 2\u20131 advantage. Shortly before the halftime whistle, Hughes scored his 8th goal of the season which put the two sides on level terms at the break. With the game looking like a sure draw, Hughes grabbed another goal in the 89th minute as Oldham moved up to 4th place to end November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nTo begin the final month of 2008, Oldham was at home to play Brighton & Hove Albion. Oldham started the match quickly when Adam Virgo brought down Chris Taylor in the penalty box, allowing Andy Liddell to convert a spot-kick for a 1\u20130 Latics advantage in the 9th minute. However, Steven Thomson slid a ball past the Oldham defence to Glenn Murray who fired a shot into the roof of the net, putting the Seagulls back level at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nAdam Virgo, who received a yellow card for his tackle of Taylor, received a second in the 48th minute and was sent off. Despite having only ten men, the Brighton defence frustrated the Latics, holding on for a 1\u20131 draw. A week later, the Latics traveled to face Peterborough United at London Road Stadium. This game was again off to a quick start, however, it was the opposition who struck first. A shot from Aaron McLean in the 12th minute deflected off Latics defender Stefan Stam, giving Peterborough a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nEight minutes before the halftime break, McLean extended the lead with another goal with a rebound from a spot-kick, shortly after having another spot-kick saved by Oldham goalkeeper Greg Fleming. After several comebacks throughout the season, Oldham again showed their intentions when Lee Hughes poked the ball into the opposition's net for a 2\u20131 halftime lead for Peterborough. Just before the hour mark, Hughes again scored when he put a loose ball into the net. With several more chances for both sides, the game ended with a 2\u20132 draw. After two consecutive draws, Oldham was set to face Leyton Orient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nDespite early efforts from Danny Whitaker and Darren Byfield, Oldham was unable to net an early goal. A Leyton Orient goal looked possible when Adam Chambers got a rebound twelve yards out, but the midfielder sent the ball high over the net. After Byfield was pulled down in the penalty area by Tamika Mkandawire, Andy Liddell struck his 8th goal of the season via a penalty kick for a 1\u20130 halftime advantage. Near the midway point of the second half, Greg Fleming gave Orient a chance to get back on level terms when he fouled Ryan Jarvis in the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nFleming saved the penalty, but Jason Demetriou scored from a rebound, earning Leyton Orient a 1\u20131 draw\u2014Oldham's third consecutive. Oldham was away to face Crewe Alexandra under new manager Gudjon Thordarson on Boxing Day. Despite struggling with an illness just days before the match, Darren Byfield was named to the starting lineup. Just before the hour mark in the match, Byfield scored his first for the club from a through back from Kelvin Lomax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0006-0005", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, League One\nThe win was secured when Lee Hughes curled a ball past Stuart Tomlinson, before Hughes grabbed another five minutes before the final whistle for a 3\u20130 win. Two days after the Boxing Day victory, Oldham faced off against Carlisle United for the final match of 2008. Terrific play from Carlisle goalkeeper Tim Krul kept Oldham out of goal, despite giving the Latics nineteen corners. Neither side had an attacking threat until 17 minutes in when a Reuben Hazell header forced Krul into a saved shot. With nineteen total shots for the Latics, manager John Sheridan was surprised when the game ended in a scoreless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, FA Cup\nIn the first round of the 2008\u201309 FA Cup, Oldham was paired against League One side Cheltenham Town. Five minutes into the opening half, Scott Murray for Cheltenham opened the scoring with a strike, getting past goalkeeper Mark Crossley. The Robins gained a 2\u20130 halftime advantage when Lloyd Owusu earned and converted a penalty kick, getting it past the fingertips of Crossley. The Latics got a goal back when Chris Taylor's free kick was deflected by Cheltenham goalkeeper Shane Higgs, with the rebound falling immediately back to Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, FA Cup\nIn the 76th minute, Danny Whitaker equalised the game at 2\u20132 when a deflected shot crept into the corner of the net. A late robins shot from substitute Damian Spencer hit the post at the end of the match, but Oldham held on for a draw\u2014forcing a replay at Boundary Park. In the replay, an early 22nd minute shot from Lewis Montrose proved enough for Cheltenham to advance to the second round, and knock out Oldham for the fourth time in FA Cup history. Despite 17 shots to Cheltenham's three, Oldham could not muster a goal against Scott Brown. Shortly before the halftime break, Oldham was dealt a blow when Deane Smalley picked up an injury\u2014giving Matthew Wolfenden his first senior appearance of the season. Shortly before the final whistle, Kieran Lee almost equalised with a diving header, but the ball rolled past the far post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Carling Cup\nOldham's 2008\u201309 Carling Cup campaign began at near neighbours Rochdale. Craig Davies picked up his first red card of the season in the 45th minute following a clash with Nathan Stanton. Though Rochdale had a one-man advantage for the second half, the game was still level at 0\u20130 following regular time and extra time. Neal Eardley, Chris Taylor, and Danny Whitaker converted on penalties to put Oldham up 3\u20131 before Lee Hughes scored the fourth to give Oldham the victory over Rochdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Carling Cup\nFor their second game, the Latics were once again away\u2014this time to Burnley at Turf Moor, and Greg Fleming made his debut for the club in goal. The visitors found themselves down 1\u20130 early to Burnley after a Chris McCann goal in the 12th minute. After just over an hour played, Martin Paterson extended Burnley's lead to 2\u20130, before getting another in the 79th to secure a 3\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Review, Johnstone's Paint Trophy\nOldham faced League Two side Morecambe in the first round of the 2008\u201309 Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Though both sides had numerous chances to take the lead in the first half, the two sides were scoreless at the halftime break. A little over ten minutes after the restart, Danny Whitaker gave Oldham a 1\u20130 lead in the 56th minute before Stewart Drummond equalised for Morecambe in the 65th. The two teams ended regular time level at 1\u20131, and after neither side could get a winning goal, they went into a penalty shootout. Following Lewis Alessandra's miss in \"sudden death\", Andy Parrish sent Oldham goalkeeper Greg Fleming the wrong way to give Morcambe a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Awards, League One Team of the Week\nThe following Oldham Athletic players have appeared on the official Football League One team of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Awards, League One Team of the Year\nThe following Oldham Athletic players were named to the PFA Team of the Year for Football League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200763-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season, Awards, Internal awards\nEach season, the club allows fans to vote on several awards, including Oldham's Player of the Year and the Colin Shaw Memorial Trophy, which goes to the Young Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200764-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Andy Kennedy's third season at Ole Miss. The Rebels competed in the Southeastern Conference and played their home games at Tad Smith Coliseum. They finished the season with a record of 16\u201315, 7\u20139 in SEC play and did not qualify for any postseason tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200765-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympiacos B.C. season\nOlympiacos Piraeus B.C. 2008\u20132009 season was the 2008\u201309 basketball season for Greek professional basketball club Olympiacos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200766-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympiacos F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Olympiacos's 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece, but they are competing in the UEFA Cup after an 11-year participation in the UEFA Champions League, as they were eliminated in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Anorthosis. In the beginning of the summertime, Olympiacos unveiled Spanish Ernesto Valverde as their new coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 410]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200766-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympiacos F.C. season, Summer squad changes\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Olympique Lyonnais's 50th anniversary season in Ligue 1 and was their 20th consecutive season in the top division of French football. They were the defending champions having won the title the past seven consecutive seasons. They were entering the season after achieving their first ever double after winning the Coupe de France, along with their league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nFollowing the 2007\u201308 season, it was announced by Lyon Chairman Jean-Michel Aulas that manager Alain Perrin would not be returning despite being the first Lyon manager to win the double. Lyon management attributed the firing to \"Perrin's several malfunctions that affected the squad daily throughout the season\" and their constant failure in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nFollowing an extensive search, which linked the Lyon managerial position to several managers, including former Manchester United assistant and current Portugal national football team coach Carlos Queiroz, Brazilian manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo, and former French players and managers Didier Deschamps and Laurent Blanc to name a few, it was announced on 18 June 2008 that Lille manager Claude Puel would succeed Perrin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nDuring the managerial search, Lyon made several transfers, though even prior to the managerial search, Lyon made a significant transfer deal, signing Brazilian midfielder Ederson from Nice in January for \u20ac15 million. The summer transfers included Hugo Lloris (\u20ac8.5 million) who was brought in to replace to outgoing Gr\u00e9gory Coupet, Miralem Pjani\u0107 (\u20ac7.5 million), Jean Makoun (\u20ac14 million) and John Mensah (\u20ac8.4 million), who was brought in to replace the outgoing S\u00e9bastien Squillaci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nFollowing last year promotions of youth players Sandy Paillot, Anthony Mounier and Romain Beyni\u00e9 from the youth scheme to the professional squad, Lyon signed another set of youth players to professional contracts. Midfielders Pierrick Valdivia (no relation to Chilean playmaker Jorge Valdivia), Cl\u00e9ment Grenier and Sa\u00efd Mehamha, and striker Yannis Tafer were promoted to the first-team squad, although they will still play on Lyon's second squad in the CFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nLyon also sign young prospect Timoth\u00e9e Kolodziejczak from Lens. Kolodziejcak, a teammate of Tafer and Grenier on the international stage, will initially move to Lyon on a loan with a purchase clause likely to occur at a later date. Also in an effort to increase their youths' playing time, Lyon re-loaned Sandy Paillot to Grenoble for the entirety of the season and loaned out midfielder Romain Beyni\u00e9 to Belgian side Tubize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nNotable departures included Lo\u00efc R\u00e9my, who moved to Nice and French wunderkind Hatem Ben Arfa, who moved to rivals Marseille. The Ben Arfa move was put into speculation after Lyon officials argued that an agreement was not made between the two clubs. However, after a meeting between the two clubs organized by the LFP, the transfer was back on. Morevor, aforementioned central defender S\u00e9bastien Squillaci moved to Sevilla of La Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nOther departures include Gr\u00e9gory Coupet, who moved to Atl\u00e9tico Madrid after spending 12 years with the club, Patrick M\u00fcller and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roux, whose contracts expired on 30 June 2008, and Marc Crosas, who returned to Barcelona after spending the winter on loan with Lyon. Inconsistent striker Milan Baro\u0161 additionally moved to Turkish side Galatasaray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, News\nThis summer also saw the departure of several Lyon youth players who will attempt to ply their trade elsewhere. Loss\u00e9my Karabou\u00e9, Alexandre Bouchard, and Aur\u00e9lien Badin have moved to Ligue 2 sides Sedan, Ch\u00e2teauroux and Troyes respectively. The Italian Francesco Migliore moved to Belgian side R.A.E.C. Mons. Young striker Stephen Ettien moved to Scottish side Hamilton Academical, while Mohamed Bedda and Mickael Charvet earned trials at Strasbourg and Nice respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Team kits\nUmbro will provide the kits for Olympique Lyonnais. Umbro have been the official kit provider of Lyon since 2003 and just last year signed an extension with Lyon until 2013. This season, Lyon will have brand new home, away, and Champions League kits. The kits were presented on June 30, 2008. The new home kit is original white with the red and blue vertical strip, along with single blue stripes along the shoulders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Team kits\nThe new away kit is all blue with single black stripes along the shoulders and the new Champions League away kit is electric yellow with the red and blue vertical stripe, along with single red and blue stripes on the shoulders. The team's alternate away kit consists of the home shirt with red shorts and white socks. It is only worn when Lyon are unable to wear their white shorts in an away tie due to the designated home team wearing white shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Pre-season friendlies\nLyon played a total of six friendly matches. Lyon opened up their pre-season on 12 July with a 3\u20132 victory over N\u00eemes in Albertville, near Tignes, the location of Lyon's pre-season camp. A week later, on 19 July, they traveled away to Bucharest to face Rapid Bucure\u0219ti, which resulted in a 2\u20131 loss. They then took a trip to Belgrade to play against Partizan on 23 July. Lyon came out with a positive result, beating the Serbian side 3\u20131 with goals from Karim Benzema and Sidney Govou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Pre-season friendlies\nThey followed that victory up with another as they cruised to a 3\u20130 victory over Ligue 1 side Nancy in nearby Villefranche-sur-Sa\u00f4ne. Their last friendly in the month of July would in turn be a 0\u20131 defeat to AS Monaco on July 29 in Annecy. Their final friendly match was the annual Troph\u00e9e des Champions match. Since Lyon won both the league and the Coupe de France, they faced the club that finished in second place in Ligue 1 this past season, Bordeaux. The match was played on 2 August at Bordeaux's ground, the Stade Chaban-Delmas. After 90 minutes without a goal, Bordeaux defeated Lyon 5\u20134 on penalties to earn their first Troph\u00e9e des Champions title, ending Lyon's streak of six-straight Troph\u00e9e des Champions titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nLyon opened up their Ligue 1 season in a positive fashion, defeating Toulouse 3\u20130 with a brace from Karim Benzema and a rare goal from Jean Makoun. Following a 0\u20130 draw away to Lorient, which dropped them to third in the league standings, Lyon rebounded with back-to-back wins over Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes rivals Grenoble and Saint-\u00c9tienne respectively. Following that, Lyon picked up their third-straight victory with a 3\u20132 win over Nice. The match was, however, marred with controversy\u2014after trailing 0\u20132, Lyon got back into the match with two spectacular free-kicks from Juninho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nWith the match in injury time and looking to end in a draw, referee Jean-Charles Cailleux and one of his assistant referees ruled a handball infraction had been committed by Nice defender Vincent Hognon in the box, giving Lyon a penalty which was converted by Benzema. Looking at the replay, it could have easily been determined that the handball infraction had been without malice and that the penalty should have not been given. However, Lyon escaped with a victory, which moved them into first place. They followed this win up with back to back one goal wins over newly promoted side Le Havre and Nancy giving them five-straight league victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nThe following week, Lyon received their first loss in the league against Rennes that would later be described as a \"thrashing\" by the media. Lyon struggled in every aspect of the match and allowed Rennes striker Micka\u00ebl Pagis to score a hat-trick, the last goal being a beautiful strike from almost 30 yards out. The loss to Rennes showed as Lyon's horrible form continued drawing with both Lille and Auxerre the following two weeks. Lyon finally got back on track with shut-out wins over Sochaux, Le Mans and Monaco before heading into their showdown with imminent rivals Bordeaux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nWith Lyon playing at home, they proved to still be the most dominant French side in the league, defeating Bordeaux 2\u20131 with goals from Benzema and a beautiful goal from Kim K\u00e4llstr\u00f6m. The following week, Lyon got another test, this time in Paris. In this match, Lyon not only incurred their second defeat, but they lost their consistent right back Anthony R\u00e9veill\u00e8re to injury with the player likely being out for the season, though he later returned to the squad. The following match, Lyon only managed a 0\u20130 draw in the downpouring rain against Valenciennes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nLyon suffered their third defeat of the season the following week against relegation strugglers Nantes. Lyon came into the match apparently looking ahead to their Champions League clash with Bayern Munich and proceeded to underestimate the West Coast side, who defeated Lyon 1\u20132 with two goals from the Croat Ivan Klasni\u0107. The loss was promptly followed by a showdown for first place with rivals Marseille the following week. Other than battling for first place, the return of Hatem Ben Arfa to the Stade Gerland was on the minds of supporters, as well as the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nHowever, despite the hype and build-up leading up to the match, including achieving a record television audience, both clubs failed to score a goal as the match ended in another 0\u20130 draw. Lyon finally ended their winless run with a 1\u20130 victory over Caen with Benzema scoring Lyon's lone goal, his tenth of the league campaign. With the victory, Lyon were assured first place heading into the three-week winter break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nLyon returned from the winter break taking on Lorient. Despite getting an early goal from Ederson, Lyon failed to get a winning result leaving the match with a 1\u20131 draw. The following week, they rebounded with a 2\u20130 victory over Grenoble with Ederson getting on the scoreboard for the second-straight week. Due to Lyon's cup matches being postponed, they were forced to endure two cup matches in a span of four days before facing rivals Saint-\u00c9tienne. The match ended in another 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nAfter a full week of training, Lyon again rebounded from a draw picking up a convincing 3\u20131 victory over Hugo Lloris' former club Nice, with Jean Makoun scoring an unexpected brace. This match also marked the league debut of youth product Yannis Tafer. The following week, they picked up another convincing 3\u20131 win, this time against Le Havre, with Makoun scoring again. This match also marked Lyon's third-straight match where a red card was given. The following week, Lyon again earned a victory, defeating Nancy 2\u20130. Lyon started the match without the majority of their regulars who were being rested for the first leg of their Champion's League showdown with Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nReturning from Champion's League play, Lyon faced Rennes, who was responsible for the champions first loss of the season. The match remained even until the 66th minute when Kim K\u00e4llstr\u00f6m scored following a gifted pass from the youngster Miralem Pjani\u0107. The scoreline remained until injury time when Rennes striker Jimmy Briand scored after receiving a nice through-ball which caught Lyon defender Cris off guard. Briand proceeded to get a shot on the ball off balance, which got past the charging Hugo Lloris to tie the match 1\u20131, the eventual final scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nLyon followed this draw with a defeat taking on Lille, whom they had just contested three days ago in a Coupe de France tie. With the match being played at the Stade de France and the clubs entertaining a record crowd, Lyon fielded a pretty strong, yet questionable side with players Mathieu Bodmer and Fran\u00e7ois Clerc returning from a long absence and also having the task of defeating Barcelona in Spain in the second leg of their Champion's League clash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0013-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nIn the match, Lyon failed constantly to get on the scoreboard with the former mastiff Kader Ke\u00efta missing on numerous opportunities. Lille made sure they made good on their chances with R\u00f3bert Vittek scoring the opening goal in the 60th minute and Michel Bastos finishing off Lyon, scoring the second goal in the 88th minute to pick up a 0\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nAfter returning from their embarrassing defeat to Barcelona in Spain, Lyon suffered another embarrassment losing their first match at home this season to minnows Auxerre, despite both management and Claude Puel stating the club would respond positively to their elimination from the Champion's League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nFielding exactly the same lineup that lost 2\u20135 to Barcelona, Lyon failed for the second week in a row to get on the scoreboard losing 0\u20132 to Auxerre, who got goals from Ireneusz Jele\u0144 and Thomas Kahlenberg, leaving Lyon to hope they get a positive result from the Le Classique in order to hold on to their first-place position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nThey would indeed keep hold of first place as a result of Marseille's 3\u20131 victory over PSG. Lyon responded by picking up their first league victory in over three matches in a 2\u20130 win over Sochaux. They captured their second-straight league victory in a win over Le Mans with Karim Benzema securing a much-needed brace in a 3\u20131 win. With the likes of Marseille, Bordeaux, PSG, Lille and Toulouse on their backs, Lyon needed victories to ensure their eighth-straight league title. They proceeded to falter drawing with mid-table club Monaco 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nDespite being ten spots down in the table, Monaco were the stronger side forcing Lyon to come back from a goal down twice. The draw also dropped Lyon from the top spot, which they had held since the fourth week of the season. With Marseille recording a victory over Lorient hours before, Lyon needed a victory over Bordeaux to ensure they remain in the title race. Early on in the match, Lyon were denied a clear penalty chance after Ederson was taking down in the box by Bordeaux right back Matthieu Chalm\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0015-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nBordeaux proceeded to score just before half-time with a goal from the former Lyonnais Alou Diarra after Wendel hit the post on a shot off a corner kick. Chalm\u00e9 would be involved in another denied penalty dispute later in the match, this time with Benzema. Despite the initial foul occurring inside the penalty box, referee St\u00e9phane Br\u00e9 ruled the foul had occurred outside the box where Benzema fell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0015-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nEventually, Lyon fell to Bordeaux dropping the defending champions to third and, instead of fighting for the title, were now fighting for the third and final Champions League place with PSG, whom they faced next week. Played on a Friday, Lyon failed to score a goal for the second straight week as the match ended in a 0\u20130 draw. The next week against Valenciennes, Lyon endured their seventh defeat of the season, losing 0\u20132. The lost effectively, but not mathematically, eliminated Lyon from winning their eight consecutive title. That occurred the following week. Despite defeating Nantes 3\u20130 with Jean Makoun scoring a brace, a victory by Bordeaux over Valenciennes eliminated Lyon from title contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nInstead of reminiscing, Lyon took the opportunity to focus on qualifying for next year's UEFA Champions League with a key match against Marseille. Though they were positioned for the third qualifying round in the standings, Lyon looked to jump Marseille into second position to go directly through the group stage. In front of a record crowd for a Marseille match, Lyon cruised to a 3\u20131 victory, with Benzema finally ending his goal drought scoring a brace. Juninho scored the third goal. The following week, against Caen, Juninho and Benzema scored again in a 3\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions\nFor Juninho, it was his 100th career goal for Lyon. Juninho also received a standing ovation upon being substituted out, in what some knew was his final match at the Stade Gerland. Unfortunately, the victory was with malice since Marseille also won that week. Lyon were now guaranteed to finish in the third spot, meaning they would be seeded directly into the Playoff round, where they might end up facing the likes of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup champions Shakhtar Donetsk and Sporting CP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nLyon entered the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League for the eighth-straight season. Due to finishing as champions of Ligue 1 the past season, Lyon again entered directly to the group stage. The draw for the group stage was determined on August 28, 2008. Lyon were paired with the defending German champions Bayern Munich, Italian side Fiorentina and the Romanian runners-up Steaua Bucure\u0219ti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nLyon began their Champions League quest at home taking on Fiorentina. Lyon also unveiled their fluorescent green third kit in this match. As with the Nice match, which occurred just four days before, this match had its share of controversy. Following a disappointing first half, with Fiorentina leading 0\u20132 after two goals from Alberto Gilardino, Lyon came out for the second half with scoring in mind. With Lyon attacking, following a cross into the box, a collision occurred just inside the field of play between Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Piquionne and Fiorentina defender Luciano Zauri, which unexpectedly injured the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nFollowing a clearance by the Fiorentina defence, it was expected, by Fiorentina, that the ball would be put out of play with fair play being in mind. However, with Lyon trailing 0\u20132 and several Lyon players not having any idea of Zauri being down, they proceeded to attack and eventually a goal was scored by Piquionne. Following this incident, Lyon still trailed 1\u20132, but in the 86th minute, after earning a free kick, Juninho and Benzema proceeded to display excellent and sly teamwork as Benzema equalised for his side drawing the match 2\u20132 and giving both clubs one point through one round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nWith one point in hand, Lyon traveled to Munich to take on group leaders Bayern, who defeated Steaua Bucure\u0219ti 1\u20130 on the opening matchday. With both teams coming off unimpressive matches a couple of days before (Lyon an unspectacular 2\u20131 victory over Nancy and Bayern, a 0\u20131 loss away to Hannover 96), the match showed why with Lyon's only goal coming off the head of Bayern defender Mart\u00edn Demichelis in the 25th minute from one of Juninho's spot-kicks. Bayern later equalised through Z\u00e9 Roberto in the second half. Though Lyon had decent chances, including one where Karim Benzema had a chance to capitalize on a Bayern mistake late in the second half, the match remained 1\u20131 with Lyon leaving Munich with just two points through two matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nAfter starting off slow, Lyon rebounded picking up two victories in their home-away series with Steaua. Similar to last season matches with VfB Stuttgart, Lyon used these matches to get back into the competition defeating Steaua 5\u20133 in Romania. They came back from a 2\u20130 deficit and a 3\u20132 one-goal deficit before finishing off the Romanian side in the latter portion of the second half with a goal from Benzema and a brace from Fred. The second match was a positive result as well, with Lyon picking up a solid 2\u20130 victory with goals from Juninho and Anthony R\u00e9veill\u00e8re. With the result in the other match between Bayern and Fiorentina being a draw, this moved Lyon into first place in the group (on goal differential) heading into the final two matchdays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nWith the group stage drawing to an end and injuries piling up, Lyon traveled to Florence to again face Fiorentina. Despite having injury troubles at the back of the defense, Lyon performed well and only conceded one goal, again from Alberto Gilardino, though at the time of the goal, Lyon were up 2\u20130 after goals from Jean Makoun and Karim Benzema. Despite chances from Juninho and Ederson, in which both players hit the post in amazing fashion, the scoreline remained as Lyon booked their place in the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League\nIn the final group stage match, which decided what team would finish first place in the group, Bayern Munich defeated Lyon 2\u20133, scoring all three of their goals in the first half. Lyon controlled the second half with two goals from Sidney Govou and Benzema, but could not get a third to draw the match or a fourth to win the group. With this result, Lyon went through as second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, First Knockout Round\nFor the six-straight season, Lyon reached the first knockout round. Due to finishing second, Lyon faced the danger of being paired with several big clubs that finished first in other groups. Notable clubs Lyon could have been paired with include Liverpool, Manchester United, Barcelona and Juventus to name a few. Following the draw, Lyon indeed received a tough draw, being given La Liga side Barcelona. Lyon and Barcelona were in the same group the previous Champions League season. Lyon lost to Barcelona 0\u20133 at the Camp Nou, but played well enough to earn a 2\u20132 draw at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, First Knockout Round\nIn the opening leg at the Gerland, Lyon got off to a quick start scoring in just the seventh minute with a deceiving free kick, from an odd angle, by Juninho, which confused Barcelona goalkeeper V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s and eventually with into the inside of the side netting. Lyon continued to perform well into the first half, with the defence constantly pressing Barcelona's attack and Lyon's offence missing on a variety of goal chances. Barcelona eventually got its equaliser from the head of Thierry Henry, drawing the match at 1\u20131. This was the final scoreline as Lyon headed into the second leg at the Camp Nou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, First Knockout Round\nIn the second leg, the exact opposite occurred, with Barcelona constantly pressurizing Lyon in the first half, leaving Barcelona to control the match with most of the possession occurring in Bar\u00e7a's attack. This showed as Barcelona earned first half goals from Henry twice, Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o, which effectively ended Lyon's chances of advancing to the quarter-finals, despite Jean Makoun and Juninho scoring back-to-back goals in the 44th and 48th minutes respectively. The final scoreline eventually was 2\u20135, eliminating Lyon from the Champion's League for the seventh consecutive season and for the third consecutive season in the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, Coupe de la Ligue\nLyon entered the Coupe de la Ligue season having last won the cup in 2001. The previous season, they were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Le Mans. As with all other years, Lyon entered the cup in the Round of 16 as they qualified for the UEFA Champions League, where they faced last year's relegated side Metz. However, despite being relegated last season, Metz pulled off a tremendous 1\u20133 victory eliminating the defending league champions from the competition for the 8th straight season. Since winning the title in 2001, Lyon have only made it to January (usually when the quarter-finals take place) four times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nLyon entered the 2008\u20132009 Coupe de France season as defending champions, having won the title the previous season in a highly contested 1\u20130 victory against Paris Saint-Germain. Lyon began the defense of their title heading to the West coast to take on the Brittany-based side US Concarneau. The match was postponed from its assigned 3 January date due to a frozen pitch and was rescheduled to be played on January 24, 2009. Though Lyon were the dominant side the entire match, the score at halftime was only 2\u20130. Lyon came out blazing in the second half scoring four goals, three of them in the final six minutes of the match to defeat Concarneau by a score of 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nLyon advanced to the Round of 32 where they faced rivals Marseille in what was the first big draw of the Cup. In the match, Lyon got off to a quick start with Karim Benzema scoring the first goal in just the second minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0027-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nThe rest of the match was fairly even, though, marred with several incidents, including former Lyon player Hatem Ben Arfa receiving a barrage of boos when he entered as a substitute in the 16th minute, as well as every time he touched the ball and Lyon player Kader Ke\u00efta picking up a second yellow card for elbowing new Marseille player Brand\u00e3o in the face. In the end, Benzema's goal was the only goal of the match with Lyon securing their place in the Round of 16, where they faced another secondary rival, Lille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0027-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nLille, whom Lyon were to face in a league tie three days later, opened the scoring with a goal from Michel Bastos in the 22nd minute. Lyon responded just two minutes later with a goal from Jean Makoun. Just before half-time, Lille's prolific youngster Eden Hazard scored to give Lille a 2\u20131 lead. Lyon again responded just two minutes later in injury time with a goal from a Lyon youngster Anthony Mounier, thus evening the match heading into halftime. With Lyon constantly responding back, Lille effectively ended Lyon's chances of defending their title by scoring at the death with a goal from Nicolas Fauvergue giving Lyon no time to respond back, eliminating the defending champions from the Coupe de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Start formations, Starting 11\nNote: Formation shown indicates formation used in  club's league match against Toulouse on May 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Start formations, Starting 11\nLast updated: 30 May 2009Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Reserves and Academy\nThe Olympique Lyonnais Reserves and Academy teams will also participate in seasonal activities this season. The second team, Olympique Lyonnais B, will participate in the Championnat de France Amateurs. The under-18 squad will participate in their league, the Championnat National Under-18 and the Coupe Gambardella. The under-16 squad will also participate in their league, Championnat National Under-16, as well as the Coupe Nationale des 16 ans, which is a regional tournament composed of regional squads that play against other regions. Lyon players selected will participate with the Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Reserves and Academy, Match results\nNote: For the squads of the CFA, Under-18, and the Under-16, click here and here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200767-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique Lyonnais season, Olympique Lyonnais Ladies\nThe Olympique Lyonnais Ladies will also participate in their respective activities this season. The ladies, just like their male counterparts, won the double last season. They will compete in the top tier French women's division, the Division 1 F\u00e9minine, the women's version of the Coupe de France, the Challenge de France, and the UEFA Women's Cup, where they will begin from the second qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200768-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique de Marseille season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 French football season, Olympique de Marseille competed in Ligue 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200768-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique de Marseille season, Season summary\nMarseille finished 3 points behind league champions Bordeaux. Manager Eric Gerets left after his contract expired at the end of the season. Replacing him was former Marseille player Didier Deschamps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200768-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique de Marseille season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200768-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Olympique de Marseille season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200769-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Omani League\nThe 2008\u201309 Omani League was the 33rd edition of the top football league in Oman. It began on 23 October 2008 and finished on 27 May 2009. Al-Oruba SC were the defending champions, having won the previous 2007\u201308 Omani League season. On Wednesday, 27 May 2009, Al-Nahda Club lost 1-0 away in their final league match against Sur SC and emerged as the champions of the 2008\u201309 Omani League with a total of 45 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200769-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Omani League, Teams\nThis season the league had 12 teams. Al-Wahda SC, Oman Club and Bahla Club were relegated to the Second Division League after finishing in the relegation zone in the 2007-08 season. The three relegated teams were replaced by Second Division League teams Sohar SC, Saham SC and Al-Shabab Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200770-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon in the college basketball season of 2008\u201309. The team was coached by Ernie Kent and played their home games at McArthur Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200770-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team\nThe season came to an end on March 11, 2009 when the Ducks lost to Washington State in the first round of the Pac-10 tournament at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 62\u201340. There were speculations that coach Ernie Kent would be fired after the season, however, he was retained as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200770-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200771-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team represented Oregon State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball during the 2008\u201309 season. Playing in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) and led by first-year head coach Craig Robinson, the Beavers finished the season with a 18\u201318 overall record and won the 2009 College Basketball Invitational. It was Oregon State's first-ever postseason tournament championship. Their 12-win improvement over the previous season was the third-highest turnaround in Division I in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200771-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team\nIn Pac-10 play, the Beavers finished in eighth place with a 7\u201311 record. They lost in the first round of the 2009 Pac-10 Tournament to Stanford, 62\u201354.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team represented Oregon State University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Beavers were coached by LaVonda Wagner. The Beavers are a member of the Pacific-10 Conference and competed in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. Oregon State finished the 2008-09 season with a 20-12, the team's most victories since the 1994-95 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team, Regular season\nEntering the year, OSU was selected to finish eighth by both the league's coaches and media. The Beavers were 9-9 in Pacific-10 Conference games, finishing in a tie for fourth place. The nine wins were their most wins in league since the 2001-02 season. Oregon State was 13-3 in home games, 6-6 in games played on the road and 1-3 in neutral site contests. Oregon State won 11 non-conference games, which is the most for a Beavers' team since the club joined the Pac-10 more than 20 years ago. Oregon State went 6-0 in the month of December, the first time the team ever accomplished that. It also marked the longest win streak for Oregon State since the 2000-01 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team, Player stats\nBrittney Davis scored in double figures in the last 17 games straight. Of the Beavers' 32 games in 2008-09, she reached at least 10 points in 24. Talisa Rhea set the Pacific-10 Conference single-game record for three-pointers with 10 in the season opener against Sacramento State. She finished the game with 42 points, which is tied for fifth-most in school history. Rhea also had 64 three-pointers in 2008-09, the third-most in a single season. After just two seasons, she has made 131 three-pointers, which is second-most by an Oregon State player. As a team, the Beavers shot .744 from the free-throw line, a school record. That surpassed the previous best, set in 2004-05, of .734.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team, Postseason, Women\u2019s National Invitation Tournament\nOregon State made its second trip to the WNIT under head coach LaVonda Wagner and the sixth since the 2001 season. The Beavers opened the WNIT with a 59-47 victory over Portland State at legendary Gill Coliseum. Advancing to the third round, they lost to New Mexico, 61-56, in Rio Rancho. All-time, Oregon State is 12-6 (.667) in the WNIT, winning it in 1980 and 1982. Carol Menken holds the school record for points in a WNIT game with 33 against Drake in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 104], "content_span": [105, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team, Postseason, Women\u2019s National Invitation Tournament\nDavis scored her last collegiate three-pointer with 7.2 seconds remaining to pull the Beavers to within three points, making the score 59-56. The shot, a running jumper from way beyond the three-point line, came just seconds after New Mexico nailed two free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 104], "content_span": [105, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200772-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team, Awards and honors\nApril 25: The Oregon State women's basketball team held its annual banquet at the Club (level) at Reser. The event was sponsored by The Rebounders, the Oregon State women's basketball booster organization. There were more than 200 in attendance at the event, which served as an opportunity to honor the team's seniors: Tiffany Ducker, Brittney Davis and Mercedes Fox-Griffin, and to celebrate the team's accomplishments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season\nThe 2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season was the 20th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Led by 23-year-old center Dwight Howard, the team finished the regular season with a 59\u201323 record, the most wins since the 1995\u201396 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season\nThe Magic would go on to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games in the First Round, highlighted by forward Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu's game winner in game four of the first round of the playoffs, then defeated the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics in a tough, hard-fought seven-game series in the semi-finals, and finally, defeated the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in six games in the conference finals, thanks to all-star defensive player of the year center Dwight Howard's 40 points and 10 rebounds in Game 6, to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1995, only to lose to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season\nFollowing the season, T\u00fcrko\u011flu was traded to the Toronto Raptors in a three-team deal and Rafer Alston, Tony Battie and Courtney Lee were all dealt to the New Jersey Nets. It was also Tyronn Lue\u2019s last season as an NBA player, as 6 years later, he would return to the NBA, as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Roster\nTraded out during season: 10. Bogans, Keith (SG) 43. Cook, Brian (PF) 29. Wilks, Mike (G)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Regular season\nThe first half of the 2008\u201309 season went very well for the Magic. After 41 games, the Magic were 33\u20138, leading the Southeast Division, as well as having one of the top four records in the league. On January 13, 2009, they scored an NBA record 23 three-pointers against the Sacramento Kings. Nine of the twelve Magic players who played that night scored at least one three pointer. At the start of February, Jameer Nelson, their all-star starting point guard, went down with a shoulder injury which caused him to miss the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Regular season\nThe Magic then began a stretch where they did not win or lose consecutive games for almost the entire month. The Magic did make a deal at the trade deadline with the Houston Rockets for Rafer Alston. Still having to deal with the absence of Nelson though, Orlando managed to maintain one of the top records in the league, secured a second straight winning season, and clinched a playoff berth in mid-March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Regular season\nThe Magic defeated the defending champion Boston Celtics to capture their second consecutive division championship, and on the same night assured themselves of winning more games than the previous season. Finishing the regular season with a 59\u201323 record, it was the most games the team had won in a season since the 1995\u201396 season in which they had 60 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Playoffs\nThe Magic drew the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the playoffs. With the series tied at two wins for each team, Game 5 saw Vivani an incident in the 1st quarter involving Dwight Howard throwing an elbow at 76ers center Samuel Dalembert. Howard was assessed a technical foul but was not ejected from the game. The NBA reviewed the play and suspended Howard for Game 6. A second incident involving an elbow from Dwight Howard happened in Game 5 not long after the elbow to Dalembert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Playoffs\nThis time however, Magic rookie Courtney Lee was the recipient of the hit from his teammate. Lee left the game and did not return. Suffering a fractured sinus, it was announced that Lee was expected to have surgery and could miss the remainder of the postseason. Neither player's absence would prove costly to Orlando in Game 6, who won the series with a blowout on the road, and Lee returned to action in the next series wearing a protective face mask, such as one worn by Richard Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Playoffs\nIn the Eastern Conference semi-finals, the Magic faced the defending champion Boston Celtics. Facing a 3\u20132 series deficit, the Magic tied the series with a home game victory in Game 6 and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals by winning Game 7 on the road, ending Boston's 32\u20130 undefeated record when leading the series 3\u20132. Assistant Coach Patrick Ewing had guaranteed a win in Game 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Playoffs\nReturning to the conference finals for the first time since 1996, the Magic's opponent was the Cleveland Cavaliers, who compiled the league's best regular season record led by the season's MVP, LeBron James. That didn't stop the Magic as they closed the series out at home in Game 6, winning 103\u201390 as Dwight Howard scored 40 points, a career high for him in a playoff game. The Magic won the series 4\u20132, the Eastern Conference championship, and the right to face the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2009 NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200773-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orlando Magic season, Playoffs\nAfter dropping the first two games in the series, the Magic finally won their first ever game in the finals in Game 3. With the franchise losing their first six finals games 1995 and 2009 combined, it was the second most games a team had lost in the finals before earning their first win. However, in Game 4 the Magic lost to the Lakers 99\u201391 in overtime; the Lakers took a 3\u20131 series lead and won again in Game 5, thus ending the Magic's longest playoff run in team history and ending up 1\u20138 in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200774-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n2008\u201309 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) (known as the Vodafone f\u00e9rfi OB I oszt\u00e1ly\u00fa Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g for sponsorship reasons) was the 103rd water polo championship in Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200774-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), First stage\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; G+ - Points for; G- - Points against; Diff - Difference; P - Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200774-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), European competition Playoff\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; G+ - Points for; G- - Points against; Diff - Difference; P - Points; BP - Bonus Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200774-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Relegation Playoff\nPld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; G+ - Points for; G- - Points against; Diff - Difference; P - Points; Bp - Bonus Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season\nThe 2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season was the team's 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team began the season with a new head coach, Craig Hartsburg, and numerous personnel changes after narrowly making the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs. However, the team had a losing record under the new coach and he was fired in February, replaced by Binghamton Senators' head coach Cory Clouston. The team improved its record under Clouston, but not enough to qualify for the 2009 playoffs, ending an 11-year string of qualifying for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season\nIt was an off-season of numerous personnel changes. Wade Redden, a long-time Senator, signed a contract as a free agent with the New York Rangers. Ray Emery and Brian McGrattan, considered poor influences in the dressing room, were discarded. The Senators re-signed forwards Shean Donovan, Chris Kelly and Antoine Vermette and made several free agent signings, including Alex Auld, Jarkko Ruutu and Jason Smith. After an extended period of negotiations with Andrej Meszaros failed to produce a contract, the Tampa Bay Lightning showed interest in the defenceman, who was a restricted free agent. Unable to provide the draft picks needed to compensate the Senators, a trade was made and the Senators received Filip Kuba, Alexandre Picard and a first-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft from Tampa Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nOn June 5, it was reported that Wade Redden would not sign a contract paying $3.5\u00a0million annually with the Senators. He instead became an unrestricted free agent (UFA) on July 1 and signed a six-year, $39\u00a0million contract with the New York Rangers. On June 13, 2008, the Senators named Craig Hartsburg, coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, the new head coach after having interviewed candidates Bob Hartley and Peter DeBoer. Hartsburg signed a three-year contract with the Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nOn June 20, the day of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, the Senators placed Ray Emery on waivers and re-signed Chris Kelly to a new four-year, $8.5\u00a0million contract. At the draft, the Senators selected Erik Karlsson with their first-round pick (15th overall) and proceeded to select Patrick Wiercioch (42nd overall), Zack Smith (79th overall), Andre Petersson (109th overall), Derek Grant (119th overall), Mark Borowiecki (139th overall) and Emil Sandin (199th overall).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nOn July 1, the Senators announced that they had signed goaltender Alex Auld to a two-year contract worth $1\u00a0million annually. Auld is expected to serve as a backup to Martin Gerber for the 2008\u201309 season. On July 2, the Senators announced that they had re-signed forward Shean Donovan to a two-year contract at $625,000 per season. The Sens also announced that they have signed forward Jarkko Ruutu to a three-year contract worth $1.3 million per season. On July 5, the Ottawa Senators announced that Antoine Vermette had elected to take the club to salary arbitration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nThe Senators and Vermette agreed to a two-year deal on July 31. On July 8, the Senators announced that they had signed defenceman Jason Smith to a two-year, $5.2\u00a0million contract. On July 16, the Senators announced that they will host the Detroit Red Wings in their official home-opener on October 11. On July 17, the Ottawa Senators and CHUM Radio announced that the club and The Team 1200 had signed a multi-year extension to their agreement to broadcast Senators' games. The original ten-year contract expired at the end of the 2007\u201308 season. On July 31, the Ottawa Senators and Antoine Vermette avoided going to arbitration by agreeing to terms on a new two-year contract worth $5.525\u00a0million. Vermette would make $2.525\u00a0million and $3\u00a0million for the 2008\u201309 and 2009\u201310 seasons respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nOn August 29, in a trade similar to the Alexei Yashin trade in 2001, former first-round pick Andrej Meszaros was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Filip Kuba, Alexandre Picard and a first-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft (obtained by Tampa Bay in an earlier trade with the San Jose Sharks). Meszaros was a restricted free agent demanding $1\u00a0million more per season than what the Senators were willing to offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Off-season, Highlights\nAfter Tampa threatened to offer Meszaros an offer sheet with picks as compensation on August 28, the Senators opted to make a trade with Tampa. Meszaros subsequently signed a six-year, $24\u00a0million contract on August 30 with the Lightning. On September 2, the Senators made a deal with the Vancouver Canucks and traded defenceman Lawrence Nycholat for centre/right winger Ryan Shannon. On the same day, they signed another former Canucks player, Brad Isbister, who was an unrestricted free agent. On September 27, veteran defenseman Luke Richardson re-signed on a one-year, two-way contract with the Senators for his second season with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Pre-season\nOn October 2, the Senators played their first-ever game in Europe, a pre-season exhibition game in Gothenburg, Sweden, against Frolunda HC, which Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson played for before joining the NHL and during the 2004\u201305 NHL lockout. The Senators finished the 2008 pre-season with a record of 4\u20132\u20130\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nThe Senators started their season with a pair of games in Stockholm, Sweden. The Senators played the Pittsburgh Penguins twice at the Scandinavium on October 4 and October 5. The teams split the results, with the Penguins winning the first in overtime and the Senators winning the second. New Senator defenceman Filip Kuba picked up at least one point in each of the Senators' first eight games of the season, setting the NHL record for consecutive team games with assists from the start of a season by a defenceman. The previous mark of seven was set by Brad Park with the Boston Bruins in 1981\u201382. All points were assists and Kuba did not score his first goal with the Senators until November 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAlexander Nikulin, who had been demoted to the American Hockey League (AHL)'s Binghamton Senators, threatened to return to Russia unless he was traded. As a result, he was traded from Binghamton to the Phoenix Coyotes' AHL affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage, for Drew Fata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nFor a game on November 22 against the New York Rangers, the Senators unveiled their new third jersey. Marketed as \"Back in Black,\" the jersey is primarily black. The Senators' primary logo moves to the shoulders and the nickname \"SENS\" is across the front of the jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nPrior to that game, the Senators players, the team below the playoff cutoff in the standings for most of October through November, decided to grow moustaches, similar to the playoff beard tradition of teams in the playoffs. The team started growing the moustaches following a loss to the Montreal Canadiens on November 20. The idea originated with Dany Heatley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nOn November 27, the Senators waived Luke Richardson, a veteran of nearly 20 years in the NHL. He was not picked up by any other team and subsequently retired. He had not seen much playing time with Senators, and had been a healthy scratch several times in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nFrom December until early January, the Senators took an eight-game road trip as Scotiabank Place was used for the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The team, already well back of a playoff spot, received intense scrutiny by the media, believing a \"shake-up\" of some kind was imminent. The team only won one game on the road trip, and on January 7, Owner Eugene Melnyk was compelled to respond to media reports of the imminent firings of General Manager Bryan Murray and Head Coach Craig Hartsburg:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\n\u201cContrary to what is being reported today by the media, I have made no decisions with respect to any personnel changes within the Senators organization. Winning remains our No. 1 priority and there is a collective focus by our management, our coaching staff and our players to deliver this to our fans. I, along with our fans, will do nothing but continue to remain fully committed to our Senators and enthusiastically cheer them on to a successful second half of the season. This is crunch time. Now, more than ever, is the time to rally behind our team. We don\u2019t surrender half-way through the season. Every victory from here on in matters. We know it and the fans know it. Period.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAt the end of the road trip on January 8, the club was 13 points behind the eighth and final playoff spot, held by the Buffalo Sabres. The Ottawa Citizen launched the \"Tavares Cup,\" similar in spirit to the \"Daigle Cup\" of 1993, to keep track of the bottom five teams in the NHL, all of which had a chance, at least via the draft lottery, to draft the highly rated junior player, John Tavares. At the time of the start of the \"competition,\" the Senators were within the lowest five teams in the League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAlso on January 7, forward Jarkko Ruutu received a suspension of two games for biting in an altercation with a Buffalo Sabres forward on January 6. It was Ruutu's second suspension of the season, after elbowing a Montreal Canadiens forward earlier in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nOn January 9, 2009, goaltender Brian Elliott was recalled by Ottawa from Binghamton. He had been named the AHL's Goaltender of the Month for December. On January 15, Senators goaltender Martin Gerber was demoted to Binghamton for a two-week conditioning stint; he was placed on waivers and was assigned to Binghamton on January 27. Elliott started six games in a row and remained with Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nOn January 29, less than a month after previous comments to the media about the Senators, Eugene Melnyk responded to media speculation about possible organization changes with another memorable quote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\n\u201cAnybody that says we should blow up this organization should get their own bomb and go blow themselves up.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAt the time, the Senators remained near the bottom of the League in 29th place, with the lowest goal-scoring record in the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nHowever, only three days later, on February 2, Head Coach Craig Hartsburg was fired, ending his tenure with the Senators at only 48 games. Following a 7\u20134 loss to the Washington Capitals on February 1, Hartsburg had called out his team for not playing hard. Binghamton Senators' Head Coach Cory Clouston was elevated to head coach of Ottawa for the balance of the season. Clouston became the fourth head coach to coach the Senators in a year, prompting the media to dub the players as \"coach-killers.\" Assistant Coach Curtis Hunt was also let go (he became the Binghamton head coach) and recently retired defenceman Luke Richardson joined the coaching staff as an assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nOn February 12, former Head Coach John Paddock (who had moved on to coach the AHL' Philadelphia Phantoms) weighed in on the firing, stating that at some point that GM Bryan Murray would be held accountable:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\n\u201cI think now he's next in line. We were 14 games over .500 when I was fired. They're seven under now. Somebody needs to take responsibility for that. Whether the coaches he hired and fired were good or not, they're his players and they're either not playing good or can't play, one or the other.\u201d He was then asked which was the case: \u201cThe players are not very good, that's the problem.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nPaddock apologized to Murray via e-mail. Murray commented, \"I'm disappointed and a little bit surprised by it. I'm not sure what purpose he was trying to achieve doing that. He sent me an apology. The only complaint I ever had with John was that I didn't think he worked hard enough at getting himself ready and getting the team ready to play games.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nLate in February and early in March, as the season neared the trade deadline, the team still held out hold of making the playoffs although the team remained over ten points out of a playoff spot, as the team was winning more often with Clouston. The Senators began making roster deals, sending Dean McAmmond and a 2009 first-round pick for Chris Campoli and Mike Comrie. By the NHL trade deadline day of March 4, Murray admitted to the media that the club would be \"sellers\" and had given up hope of making the playoffs. On March 4, Antoine Vermette was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Pascal Leclaire and a draft pick. Martin Gerber was put on waivers three times and was finally picked up by the Toronto Maple Leafs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAlthough the club improved its record under new coach Clouston, including a 10\u20135\u20130 record in March, it was not enough to salvage the season. On March 31, following a loss to the Florida Panthers and a win by the Montreal Canadiens, the club was officially eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season\nAlthough eliminated, the team continued to play well, including a nine-game win streak on home ice. By April 8, the team's record under Clouston was 19\u201310\u20133 and he was rewarded with a two-year deal to continue coaching the Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n#Retired. \u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Senators. Stats reflect time with Senators only. \u2021Traded mid-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Playoffs\nThe Senators attempted to make the playoffs for the 12th straight season. Prior to the season, a majority of predictions by the media placed the Senators to enter the playoffs as the fourth seed or lower. Some, including The Hockey News' Adam Proteau, placed the team to miss the playoffs altogether. However, if they make the playoffs, Proteau plans to", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Playoffs\n\u201cCommission a musical mash-up consisting of Alanis Morissette and Paul Anka music \u2013 and Tom Green's short-lived professional rap career \u2013 and listen to it on repeat for an entire drive from Toronto to Ottawa. And back, even.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Playoffs\nAfter changing coaches and improving play, the Senators were not able to qualify for the playoffs. On March 31, the Senators were mathematically eliminated from the playoff race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Draft picks\nOttawa's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200775-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ottawa Senators season, Farm teams\nThe Senators continued their affiliation with the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL) and added an affiliation agreement with the Elmira Jackals of the ECHL. In previous years, Elmira had accepted players from Binghamton on a player-by-player basis. The new agreement formalized the arrangement of Elmira as the primary affiliate of Binghamton and the secondary affiliate of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200776-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Owen Cup\nFollowing are the results of the 2008-09 Owen Cup, the Staffordshire, England Rugby Union Cup played at Senior Level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200777-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PAOK FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is PAOK FC's 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200777-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PAOK FC season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nAppearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200777-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PAOK FC season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nOnly competitive matches Ordered by , \u00a0 and   = Number of bookings; \u00a0 = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card. 0 shown as blank", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup\nThe 2008-09 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup or known as the 2008-09 KFC PBA Philippine Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the first conference of the 2008-09 PBA season. The tournament started on October 4, 2008 and ended on February 11, 2009. The new conference will have games on Thursdays and Saturdays. The tournament is an All-Filipino format, which bans an import or a pure-foreign player for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup\nThe tournament featured the first ever regular season game played in Singapore. It was played at the Singapore Indoor Stadium between the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters and the San Miguel Beermen on November 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Format\nThe following format was observed for the duration of the conference:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Quarterfinals, (3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) San Miguel\nIn a battle of the two teams owned by the San Miguel Corporation, the Beermen escaped with a one-point win at game 1. The Kings averted elimination when the Beermen collapsed at Game 2, but Dondon Hontiveros lead the charge at game 3's fourth quarter to prevent a second-consecutive PBA championship for Ginebra as the Beermen closed out the Kings in a sold-out Cuneta Astrodome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Quarterfinals, (4) Rain or Shine vs (5) Sta. Lucia\nIn their first playoff appearance since joining the league in 2006, the Elasto Painters were overwhelmed in Game 1 by the defending champions, who played with the comebacking Ryan Reyes who just came from injury. Fracas involving Rain or Shine's Gabe Norwood and Solomon Mercado at the end of the first game caused Norwood to be suspended in Game 2, and Mercado on Game 3 if it happens. The short-handed Elasto Painters wound up short in Game 2 as they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Semifinals, (1) Alaska vs (5) Sta. Lucia\nIn a rematch of the 2007-08 semifinals series, the Aces won two consecutive game to lead the series 2\u20130. However, the Realtors won Game 3 to cut the series lead. But Alaska, seeking to prevent what happened last year, won Game 4 to take a commanding 3\u20131 series lead. Sta. Lucia won Game 5 but they came out short in Game 6 with Willie Miller having an all-around performance to lead the Aces to a rematch of the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals against Talk 'N Text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Semifinals, (2) Talk 'N Text vs. (6) San Miguel\nUnlike the other semifinal which was a slow defensive battle, the Talk 'N Text\u2013San Miguel matchup was a high-scoring offensive-minded series, with both teams passing the century mark in all of the games. The Texters walloped the winded Beermen in Game 1 with a 29-point win, but the Beermen were able to get even with a Game 2 victory. The Texters escaped at Game 3 thanks to Jimmy Alapag's clutch baskets, despite Hontiveros' 39-point explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Semifinals, (2) Talk 'N Text vs. (6) San Miguel\nIn a do-or-die Game 5, Marc Pingris and former Talk 'N Text player Jay Washington had double-double efforts to prevent the Texters from barging in the Finals. With Yancy de Ocampo was suspended after committing a flagrant foul-penalty 2 against Danny Seigle in Game 6, his brother Ranidel was ejected in the second quarter with the same offense. The game was close until the third quarter when the Texters made a run, but the Beermen tied the game at the end of the fourth quarter; Alapag missed a go-ahead tree-pointer as time expired to force overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200778-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup, Semifinals, (2) Talk 'N Text vs. (6) San Miguel\nWith 1:57 left in overtime, Washington scored on a put-back to put SMB up 115\u2013113. On the next possession, Mark Cardona converted his own three-pointer to put TNT up 116\u2013115. Washington missed a short stab, and Harvey Carey missed his own shot at the other end. Ali Peek tapped the ball, and Cardona grabbed it as time expired, to lead the Texters into the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200779-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals\nThe 2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals was the best-of-7  championship series of the 2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Alaska Aces and the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters played for the 96th championship contested by the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200779-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals\nThis wss the first Philippine Cup Finals where no team from the San Miguel Corporation took part since 2000, and the second time the Aces and the Tropang Texters met in the finals, the first was from the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference in which the Aces won in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200779-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Series summary, Game 5\nConference best player Willie Miller knocked in a big triple to make up for two crucial errors down the stretch. TNT had a chance to salvage the game but Renren Ritualo misfired his own three-point try then Harvey Carey missed a tip-in in the last eight seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200779-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\n*Marjon filled in for Picson who mistakenly went to the Araneta Coliseum instead of the Cuneta Astrodome which was the Game 5 venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200779-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, Broadcast notes\nMusic used in the coverage were \"We Made It\" by Busta Rhymes featuring Linkin Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season\nThe 2008\u201309 PBA season was the 34th season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The season formally opened on October 4, 2008  and ended on July 17, 2009.This was the first time that the league will hold their opening ceremonies on a Saturday. The league started the season with the 2008-09 Philippine Cup, or the traditional All-Filipino Conference, while capping off the season with the import-laiden 2009 Fiesta Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season\nThe first activity of the season was the 2008 PBA Draft last August 31 at the Market! Market! in Taguig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season, Pre-season events, Broadcast contracts\nThe 2008-09 season would be the first season under the PBA's new broadcast contract with Solar Sports. Games would now air on their cable channel Basketball TV, and on the stations of the Radio Philippines Network (who curiously, were the first broadcaster of the PBA) after an intense bidding war between Solar and ABS-CBN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season, Opening ceremonies\nThe season began on October 4 with the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters defeating the Coca Cola Tigers, 98-97.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season, Smart Gilas exhibition games\nExhibition games were held prior to Games 4 and 6 of the Philippine Cup Finals between the Smart Gilas (Philippines team that will compete in the FIBA Asia Championship 2011) coached by Rajko Toroman and previously eliminated teams from the Philippine Cup. The games also marked the appearance of the newly renamed Burger King Titans team formerly known as the Air21 Express.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season, Philippines-Australia goodwill series\nAn Australian team was invited to a two-game series between the national team, with the winner of a game being awarded P75,000 (about A$4,340).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200780-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PBA season, 2009 PBA All-Star Weekend\nThe 2009 PBA All-Star Weekend was held from April 22 to April 26 at three different cities, particularly: Victorias, Negros Occidental (April 22), Panabo, Davao del Norte (April 24), and Quezon City (April 26). The winners were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200781-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC CSKA Sofia season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was PFC CSKA Sofia's 58th season in A Group. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club have and will play during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200781-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC CSKA Sofia season, Players in/out, Summer transfers\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200781-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC CSKA Sofia season, Players in/out, Summer transfers\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200781-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC CSKA Sofia season, Players in/out, Winter transfers\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200781-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC CSKA Sofia season, Players in/out, Winter transfers\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200782-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC Cherno More Varna season\nThis page covers all relevant details regarding PFC Cherno More Varna for all official competitions inside the 2008-09 season. These are A PFG, Bulgarian Cup and UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200783-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC Levski Sofia season\nThe 2008\u201309 PFC Levski Sofia season included the club's 26th win of the A group of Bulgarian professional football, A Group. Additionally they competed in the Semi-finals of the 2008\u201309 Bulgarian Cup, but lost to OFC Pirin Blagoevgrad. The club made it to the third round of the UEFA Champions League. The top goal scorer was Georgi Ivanov with 13 total goals. The club changed managers from Velislav Vutsov to Emil Velev on the 13th of August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200783-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFC Levski Sofia season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200784-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PFF League\nThe 2008\u201309 PFF League was the 5th season of Pakistan Football Federation League, second tier of Pakistan Football Federation. The season started on 28 December 2008 concluded on 11 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200785-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PSV Eindhoven season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 Dutch football season, PSV Eindhoven competed in the Eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200785-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PSV Eindhoven season, Season summary\nDespite winning the Johan Cruyff Shield, manager Huub Stevens resigned in late January. His assistant Dwight Lodeweges acted as caretaker manager for the rest of the season, leaving at the season's end to manage NEC Nijmegen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200785-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PSV Eindhoven season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200785-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PSV Eindhoven season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season ended with six teams participating in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and two teams playing in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season\nThe Washington Huskies won the regular season championship and its head coach Lorenzo Romar was named coach of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season\nOnly three teams, Washington (#14), UCLA (#17) and Arizona State (#19), finished the season in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. They were #15, #18, and #19 respectively in the \"AP Top 25\" polls. However, in the final post-NCAA tournament coaches' poll, Arizona was also ranked, coming in at #24, behind Washington (#16), UCLA (#18) and Arizona State (#19).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nMike Montgomery, who was previously the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal, came back to college coaching with the California Golden Bears. Craig Robinson, President Barack Obama's brother-in-law, became the head coach of the Oregon State. Lute Olson retired from Arizona and Russ Pennell took over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Pre-season\nPac-10 teams participated in the Pac-10/Big 12 Series. They also took part in other x-season tournament games, including the 2K Sports Classic, and the John R. Wooden Classic in the Honda Center. Oregon Ducks played in the Maui Invitational Tournament and Washington State Cougars were there at the Legends Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Conference games\nWashington was first in scoring offense and rebounding offense, while Washington State was first in scoring defense and free throw percentage in conference games. UCLA was on top in scoring margin, field goal percentage and 3-point field goal percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Conference games\nArizona led the conference in attendance with a total of 232,576 in 17 games, averaging 13,681 (14,545 capacity).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Conference tournament\nUSC, the #6 seed team, won the 2009 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on March 14, in front of a crowd of 16,988. The team defeated #4 seed Arizona State and won the school's first tournament championship. It was also the first time a team seeded sixth in the tournament went on to win the championship. The Trojans received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA National Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Postseason\nSix Pac-10 teams participated in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Five teams won their first round games, but only Arizona played in the regional semi-finals. The Wildcats lost to Louisville 103\u201364.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Postseason\nOregon State and Stanford played in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI). Oregon State defeated Stanford (65\u201362) in over-time in the semi-finals and played UTEP for the championship in a best of three-game series. Oregon State won the CBI title by winning the first and third games over UTEP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Highlights and notes\nAt the end of March 2009, Washington State head coach Tony Bennett announced that he was leaving Washington State to take the head coaching job at Virginia. Ken Bone, formerly with Portland State, takes over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Highlights and notes\nOn March 31, 2009, UCLA's senior point guard Darren Collison was named the 2009 recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The award goes to the \"nation's outstanding senior male collegian 6'0\" and under who has excelled both athletically and academically.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Highlights and notes\nRuss Pennell left Arizona after a year coaching one of the country's premiere basketball programs. He coached the Wildcats to the Sweet 16, where the team lost the final game to Louisville, 103\u201364. USC's Tim Floyd went to Tucson for an interview of the Arizona job, but he decided to remain at USC. Sean Miller, former Xavier coach, accepted the job on April 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Highlights and notes\nThe conference set a new attendance record with 8,541 per game, beating the 2007 record of 8,524.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nJames Harden (SG, Sophomore), of Arizona State was named to the 2009 Consensus All-America first team. He was listed on the Associated Press, the USBWA, and the Sporting News All-American lists to qualify for the \"Consensus All-America\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nThe following players from Pac-10 were honored on the AP All American list:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors, All-Academic\nThe 2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball All-Academic teams (minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be either a starter or significant contributor):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors, All-Academic\nTaylor Rochestie, of Washington State, was named a Pacific-10 Conference winter Scholar-Athletes of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200786-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball season, Awards and honors, USBWA All-District team\nThe U.S. Basketball Writers Association's 2008\u201309 Men's All-District Teams (District IX: CA, OR, WA, HI, AZ, AK):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League\nThe 2008 season is the 54th season of Pakistan domestic football and the 5th season of the Pakistan Premier League, and was held from July 22, 2008 to December 6, 2008 under the auspices of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League, Format\nTeams play each other on a home and away basis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League, Format\nThe winners will represent Pakistan at the 2009 AFC President's Cup. The bottom two teams will be relegated to the Pakistan Football Federation League. Two teams will be promoted to the PPL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League, Format\nThe matches will be held at 1:00 and 3:00\u00a0pm respectively on home and away basis. This time the winning bonus will be Rs 500,000, the runners-up team will receive Rs 300,000 while the third position holder will receive Rs 100,000. All matches are likely to be supervised by neutral referees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League, The 2008 season\nKPT F.C. lead from the start and up to the midway point remained ahead of KRL, WAPDA and Army, who all made slips up. However, by the final third of the season KPT began to falter, and towards the end of the season it became a three horse race between Army, WAPDA and KRL, just as it has done the past four seasons. The season ended with WAPDA holding on to the title with Army in second over perennial third placers KRL. Pakistan Steel and PTV were both relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200787-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pakistan Premier League, The 2008 season\nWAPDA were given Rs500,000 as champions of Pakistan, while Pakistan Amy and KRL picked up Rs300,000 and Rs200,000 respectively. The Fair Play trophy along with Rs100,000 went to Afghan Club. Player of the season and Rs100,000 went to KRL F.C. defender Samar Ishaq. His teammate Mohammad Rasool was top scorers and received Rs50,000. While Abdul Aziz of WAPDA was goalkeeper of the season and was given Rs50,000. Ali Nawaz Baloch was best match commissioner and Mohammad Rauf Bari was best referee and each took Rs50,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200788-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panathinaikos F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Panathinaikos' 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece. They have qualified for the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round for the 2008\u201309 season. The 2007\u201308 season ended with Jose Peseiro's removal from the team's bench. After a year's absence they will return to Athens Olympic Stadium for the season. On 27 May 2008 after two hours of conversations between Panathinaikos chairmen, it was decided that Nikos Pateras would take over as Panathinaikos president. On 13 June 2008 Panathinaikos announced that the new team coach will be Henk ten Cate for the next two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200788-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200788-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Squad changes for 2008/09 season\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200788-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Squad changes for 2008/09 season\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200788-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Squad changes for 2008/09 season\nOut on loan:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200789-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panionios F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Panionios is 118th season in existence and its 48th in the top tier of the modern Greek football league system. They will also compete in the Greek Cup and UEFA Intertoto Cup. This year \u00c1lvaro Recoba the star of Uruguay who was in Inter Milan for years transferred to Panionios on September. He came to Athens with his compatriot Fabi\u00e1n Estoyanoff who also signs his contract with Panionios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200790-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panonian League season\nThe 2008\u20132009 Panonian League Season was the fourth and last season of the league. Like in the previous season, the teams came from only two countries - Croatia and Serbia. The same teams participated, and there were playoffs. The season started earlier, on September 30, and lasted until February 15, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200790-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panonian League season\nHK Vojvodina won the league playoffs. This was the first time a Serbian team won this cross-border league. In the finals, HK Vojvodina beat HK Partizan. The two teams would also reach the finals for the Serbian championship one month later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200790-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panonian League season, Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were held on February 6 & February 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200790-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panonian League season, Playoffs, Finals\nThe finals were scheduled for 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200790-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Panonian League season, Playoffs, Third Place\nThe third place competition was held on February 13 & February 16, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League\nThe 2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League season, known as the Telikom NSL Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third edition of Papua New Guinea National Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League\nThe title was won by Hekari Souths United, who won their third consecutive title. The side were awarded the title after several postponements and the eventual cancellation of the Grand Final, by virtue of their superior regular season finish compared to Rapatona Tigers, who they were due to face in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Teams\nEight teams entered the competition, an expansion of one from the previous season's seven. Previous season's runners-up Gelle Hills, and bottom two clubs Madang Fox and Besta Madang Fighters, all withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Teams\nOf the four new teams, only University Inter had any sort of previous history, having been founded in 1969 and having won five national titles before the induction of the National Soccer League. Eastern Stars, Sepik and Nabasa United were all newly formed teams ahead of the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Teams\n1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2006 Port Moresby Premier League: Champions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Format\nIn the regular season, each team played each other twice. The team at the top of the league after all matches were played was crowned 'Minor Premiers' and secured qualification for the 2009\u201310 OFC Champions League. At the end of the regular season, the top four teams advanced to a knockout competition, the winners of which were crowned Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nFourteen rounds of action were scheduled, with this season being the first in the competition's history to have an even number of sides taking part and therefore no need for the usage of byes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nOn the opening day of the season, on 8 November 2008, reigning champions Hekari United secured a last-gasp victory over Rapatona after a late goal from Fijian import Lorima Dau gave them a 2\u20131 victory, but it was Gigira Laitepo who led the league thanks to a 4\u20132 victory over newcomers Sepik. Thanks to heavy rain, University Inter and Eastern Stars had to wait until the following weekend for their season to kick-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nHowever, it was Hekari who led the way early on, leading the league after four rounds despite having a game in hand on most of the teams directly below them thanks to a postponed fixture against University Inter, who were level on points in second place alongside Welgris and Eastern Stars, with seven, two behind Hekari. Heading into Christmas, Hekari led the table by one point from University Inter, with 15 and 14 respectively, with both sides unbeaten and Hekari with a game in hand, and the two sides' rearranged fixture still to be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nOn 17 January 2009, Hekari took a huge step towards OFC Champions League qualification with a 3\u20130 victory over University Inter, putting them four points clear. This gap would widen to seven after the side won their game in hand against Eastern Stars, ensuring they secured a 100% record in the first half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nWith Hekari and Inter clear leaders, it was the battle for playoff qualification that was the most closely fought. After the eighth round of fixtures, Welgris and Gigira Laitepo were joint third with 11 points, with Rapatona on 10 and Eastern Stars on 9. On 21 January 2009, Welgris secured a massive 2\u20131 victory over league leaders Hekari United, not only inflicting Hekari's only defeat of the season onto the reigning champions, but also boosting their own playoff hopes in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nHowever, the following weekend, Welgris would suffer a damaging 2\u20131 defeat against fellow playoff chasers Gigira Laitepo, who leapfrogged them into the playoff places alongside Eastern Stars, who secured a narrow 1\u20130 win over struggling Nabasa. Welgris responded in style, however, securing a 4\u20130 victory over Eastern Stars on 14 February, returning to third place, with Rapatona now in fourth after two consecutive victories against the bottom two clubs. Fortune shifted again the following weekend as the four sides played each other, with Eastern Stars defeating Gigira Laitepo 2\u20131, and Rapatona securing a 2\u20131 victory over Welgris, putting Rapatona and Eastern Stars in the driving seat with two fixtures remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nAhead of the penultimate weekend of the season, Hekari United led the league by six points from Inter, meaning they just needed one draw from their final two matches to secure a third successive OFC Champions League campaign. As it happened, Inter fell to a surprise 2\u20130 defeat to Welgris Highlanders, gifting Hekari the title even if they hadn't defeated Eastern Stars 3\u20130 that same day. Rapatona secured their playoff status with a 2\u20131 win over Gigira Laitepo, while Welgris' shock win meant they just needed victory over 7th-placed Sepik on the final day to join them, a result they were easily able to secure, 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200791-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League, Summary\nIn the playoffs, Hekari secured a 1\u20130 victory over Welgris thanks to a Michael Foster goal, while Inter suffered a surprise 2\u20131 defeat at the hands of Rapatona, with goals from Richard Auram and Raymond Gunemba overhauling Tau Winnie's early opener for the university-based side. However, after two postponements, the NSL board decided on 4 April 2009 that the final two games \u2013 the Grand Final and the Third-Place Playoff \u2013 would be cancelled entirely, granting the title to Hekari United by default after they secured the best regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was French football club Paris Saint-Germain's 10th season in Division 1 F\u00e9minine and their 8th consecutive season in the top division of French football. PSG was managed by \u00c9ric Leroy - in his second season since replacing Cyril Combettes. The club was chaired by Alain Gobert. PSG was present in the 2008\u201309 Division 1 F\u00e9minine and the 2008\u201309 Challenge de France. Paris Saint-Germain reached the target set by the club last season after finishing 5th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season\nAdditionally, the fact that PSG became Challenge de France runners-up, the club's biggest honour to date, after being defeated by Olympique Lyonnais in the Final at the Stade de France set the bar even higher for the capital club. As seen in \u00c9ric Leroy's words, PSG started the campaign with the prospect of matching last season's heights by finishing between the first four in the league and pulling something off in the Challenge de France:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season\nDo as well as last season! To do this, I have a more comprehensive workforce with 22 girls at my disposal to work. The backbone of the group stayed unchanged, while some experienced new players will help us. My team is still young, but I think this season will be interesting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Squad\nFrench teams are limited to four players without EU citizenship. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries\u2014countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement\u2014are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nHaving defeated Paris Saint-Germain in last season's Challenge de France final with three unanswered goals, defending league and cup champions Olympique Lyonnais dominated an extremely defensive capital side which had to wait until stoppage time to record their only shot of the match. After the break, \"Les Parisiennes\" scored twice in two minutes and Vendenheim never recovered, conceding two more late in the match as Ingrid Boyeldieu grabbed a brace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nGoals in each half from Sophie Perrichon and Nora Coton-P\u00e9lagie turn the tables on a combative Yzeure side that managed to rescue a point and could have won it in the last-gasp. Juvisy had the chance to get revenge as Paris Saint-Germain defeated them for the first time in six years and left them out of the 2008 Challenge de France Final. Juvisy got their sweet revenge and climbed to second place after a highly contested match decided by two consecutive goals from the visitors in the dying stages. PSG produced a dominant display away to Soyaux which both Ingrid Boyeldieu and Candice Pr\u00e9vost seized to seal the capital's victory. PSG and Saint-\u00c9tienne ended with a scoreless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nIngrid Boyeldieu's strike midway through the first half equalized the score, but only served as consolation for the capital club against a Cond\u00e9 side which dominated the match from start to finish. In the absence of nine injured players, Paris Saint-Germain showed a seductive game but could not get the victory over H\u00e9nin-Beaumont at the Camp des Loges. Under the watchful eye of France manager Bruno Bini, it seemed \"Les Parisiennes\" were getting back on track after Ingrid Boyeldieu opened the score. Just a minute a later the visitors equalized before taking the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nParis Saint-Germain, however, didn't gave up and Boyeldieu completed her brace. H\u00e9nin-Beaumont responded quickly again and Rachel Sa\u00efdi netted a brace. After the break, Madina Frarma reduced the advantage and staged a failed comeback as H\u00e9nin-Beaumont killed off any remaining hope for Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain could not be separated from Saint-Brieuc as both sides were condemned to a scoreless draw. Montpellier scored three times as Paris Saint-Germain finished 2008 one point from relegation and stretched their negative run to five matches without victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nParis Saint-Germain returned to winning ways with a crushing victory against Yzeure thanks to Caroline Pizzala's hat-trick. \"Les Parisiennes\" recorded their first back-to-back victories after they went past a Toulouse side thanks to second-half goals from St\u00e9phanie Hoffele and Laure Lepailleur. Candice Pr\u00e9vost scored an amazing 20-yard shot to give Paris the lead in the derby. Juvisy, however, took the derby honours thanks to La\u00ebtitia Tonazzi's brace. PSG bounced back with a hard-earned victory over Soyaux thanks to Nonna Debonne's strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\n\"Les Verts\" claimed victory and climbed over PSG in the standings to reach safety in a match which saw Saint-\u00c9tienne players Jessica Houara and Kheira Hamraoui being sent-off after an altercation. Paris Saint-Germain made the trip to Vendenheim with just twelve players and could only save a point thanks to Candice Pr\u00e9vost's fourth goal of the season. During the final minutes of the match, \"Les Parisiennes\" were forced to play with ten players as an injured \u00c9lodie Monteiro, who had to left the field, couldn't be replaced after the capital club had already introduced Laure Boulleau, their only replacement available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nParis Saint-Germain returned to winning days inspired by Cindy Thomas who netted a hat-trick and laid on a fourth to condemn Cond\u00e9 to a sixth consecutive defeat. PSG, however, lost against a H\u00e9nin-Beaumont side which reached safety after being in relegation prior to the encounter. Paris Saint-Germain took the lead through Nora Coton-P\u00e9lagie's superb free kick, but \"Les Parisiennes\" were condemned to a draw against Saint-Brieuc at the Camp des Loges. After grabbing the lead thanks to Candice Pr\u00e9vost, it took Montpellier just three minutes to equalize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Division 1 F\u00e9minine\nPSG defeated Toulouse by the same score after a rampant two minutes, which saw strikes from Candice Pr\u00e9vost and Cindy Thomas, sealed the victory. PSG withstood the French champion during the first half, but Lyon dominated an extremely defensive capital side which conceded two goals in the second period. After a disappointing campaign marked by numerous injuries and where Paris Saint-Germain finished eighth and was prematurely eliminated from the Challenge de France, \u00c9ric Leroy handed over the job to manager Camillo Vaz and assistant coach Karine Noilhan in June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Challenge de France\nParis Saint-Germain entered the 2008\u201309 Challenge de France season having reached the final last season where they fell to a 0-3 defeat against Olympique Lyonnais. Paris Saint-Germain entered the competition during the Round of 32 phase. The last-32 were drawn and \"Les Parisiennes\" were pitted against second tier Le Mans. On paper, Paris Saint-Germain was favourite to beat D2 side Le Mans, however they disappointed as the capital club crashed out of the last-32 after being defeated on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200792-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (Ladies) season, Challenge de France\nLe Mans opened the hostilities through Cindy Dufeu's powerful shot and Paris Saint-Germain reacted immediately, taking control of the game and creating a host of chances which Laura Guilleux, the host's goalkeeper, managed to deflect. After the break, Nora Coton-P\u00e9lagie took advantage of a defensive error and scored the equalizer for \"Les Rouge-et-Bleu\", which could have won the match if it wasn't for Guilleux's save in a hand-to-hand against Cindy Thomas. With the final whistle, the penalties had to decide the fate of the game and eventual runners-up Le Mans came out victorious from the shootout as they left Paris Saint-Germain empty handed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was French football club Paris Saint-Germain's 36th professional season, their 36th season in Ligue 1 and their 35th consecutive season in French top-flight. Paris Saint-Germain was managed by Paul Le Guen. The capital club was chaired by Charles Villeneuve until S\u00e9bastien Bazin took over. Paris Saint-Germain was present in the 2008\u201309 Ligue 1, the 2008\u201309 Coupe de France and the 2008\u201309 Coupe de la Ligue. Last season's League Cup win allowed the capital club to participate in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup. Paris Saint-Germain's average home attendance for the 2008\u201309 season was 40,902, the second-highest in the Ligue 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nLast season, Alain Cayzac resigned with four games remaining and Paris Saint-Germain was in the relegation zone. Cayzac was temporarily replaced by Simon Tahar, then succeeded by Charles Villeneuve, days after Paris Saint-Germain maintained Ligue 1 status and was defeated in the French Cup Final by Lyon. He had relatively high ambitions for Paris Saint-Germain and stated his expectations from coach and former player Paul Le Guen. Villeneuve declared that Paris Saint-Germain started the season with the prospect of regaining success and stability:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nS\u00e9bastien Bazin, head of Colony Capital and shareholder of Paris Saint-Germain, offered me the presidency of the club and I accepted. Today, the day of my appointment, I had lunch for the first time with Paul Le Guen and told him that his place as coach was secured. I hope to build the team on a budget of 30 million euros. With some departures we would like to hire a great goalkeeper, one or two great strikers and a libero, and hopefully a good midfielder. My dream team would be like that of Chelsea's. They play very good and I hope Paris Saint-Germain can be like them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, News\nCity of Lens Mayor Guy Delcourt wanted the match to be replayed after PSG fans unfurled a racist banner midway through last season's League Cup Final. The match was not replayed, but Paris Saint-Germain were fined and banned from next's year edition. The measure was later overturned on appeal. Charles Villeneuve replaced Simon Tahar as president days after the club maintained Ligue 1 status and was defeated in the French Cup Final by Lyon. Charles Villeneuve announced that the Presidential Tribune was renamed the \"Tribune Francis Borelli\" to honor the former President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, News\nPauleta, PSG's all-time top scorer with 110 goals, announced his retirement from professional football. Paris Saint-Germain announced that Lilian Thuram would not play for the capital club. His medical examination revealed heart abnormalities. Paris Saint-Germain and Rennes decided, by mutual agreement, to terminate discussions and negotiations concerning Jimmy Briand's transfer. J\u00e9r\u00e9my Cl\u00e9ment signed a one-year contract extension until 2012. Guillaume Hoarau received the \"France Football Golden Star\" trophy for his performance in Ligue 2. Paris Saint-Germain refused a \u20ac0.3 million offer from Real Madrid for Yannick Boli as he was determined to succeed at Paris. Apoula Edel signed a new one-year contract extension until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, News\nThe renovations of the Camp des Loges were completed on 4 October 2008. The entire process cost \u20ac5 million and was inaugurated on 4 November 2008. Guillaume Hoarau was named Player of the Month for October by the UNFP with 55% of the votes. Charles Villeneuve announced that Pauleta would become ambassador and supervisor of the capital club. Paul Le Guen won the UNECATEF Fidelidade Mundial \"Le Coup du Coach.\" St\u00e9phane Sess\u00e8gnon was named Player of the Month for December by the UNFP with 55% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, News\nParis Saint-Germain announced that Charles Villeneuve would resign from his mandate as president-general manager ahead of the General Assembly. The Camp des Loges was recognised by the FFF as one of the best pre-training centers in France, being classified as Elite, Class 1 and Class A in recent seasons. S\u00e9bastien Bazin was named the new president of Paris Saint-Germain. P\u00e9guy Luyindula was named Player of the Month for January by the UNFP with 55% of the votes. Guillaume Hoarau was named Player of the Month for February by the UNFP with 71% of the votes. Paul Le Guen left Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season after the capital club decided not to renew his contract. Jean-Eudes Maurice signed a new three-year contract extension until 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kit\nNike manufactured the kits for Paris Saint-Germain and Emirates Airlines continued to be the club's main sponsor. Nike have been PSG's official kit provider since 1989. Emirates have been the club's partner since 2005 and the major shirt sponsor since January 2006. Emirates Airlines confirmed their commitment to PSG by extending the current partnership until 2014. Les Parisiens received brand new home and away kits. The home shirt had PSG's traditional colors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kit\nIt was dark blue with a vertical red band and two thinner white stripes on the middle of the chest which disappeared under the main sponsor's logo in white writing. The borders of the sleeves were partly red. The away shirt had a simple design. Silver was the main color while the sponsor's logo was accented by a red background bordered by white and black thin stripes. The shirts had the club badge on the top-left, the Nike logo on the top-right and the club sponsor Fly Emirates written across the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Pre-season\nParis Saint-Germain opened their preseason campaign with a victory over Pontivy. The capital club then achieved a new triumph, this time over Ligue 2 side Ch\u00e2teauroux in Port Crouesty. Paris Saint-Germain continued their pre-season preparations for the coming season with a draw against Boulogne. The capital club then defeated Clermont scoring two unanswered goals and confirming that Paul Le Guen's squad is in top form just two weeks before the start of the 2008\u201309 campaign. Paris Saint-Germain recorded two consecutive victories over Belgian sides Gent and Roeselare with youngster Yannick Boli scoring his third goal in pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Pre-season\nInvited by Portuguese club Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es for the first time, Paris Saint-Germain attended the Torneio Cidade de Guimar\u00e3es, were Les Rouge-et-Bleu suffered a narrow defeat at the hands of the hosts in their opening match. Benfica showed great capacity and came back from two goals down to equalize against Paris Saint-Germain in the second day of the tournament. Just three days before the start of the season, Les Parisiens finished their pre-season preparations with a superb victory over Qatari side Al-Khor at the Camp des Loges. Paris Saint-Germain showed great character as the pre-season lived up to all its promise and more, being without any doubt a positive outing for Paul Le Guen's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nAS Monaco made a winning start against Paris Saint-Germain's expensively-assembled team with a late goal. Guillaume Hoarau scored his first Paris Saint-Germain goal as the capital outfit condemned last season's runners-up Bordeaux to their first defeat of the season at the Parc des Princes. Sochaux got their first point of the season with a hard-earned draw at home to PSG. Paris Saint-Germain made it three games without defeat as their improvement under Paul Le Guen continued with another Guillaume Hoarau goal earning them a narrow win at Caen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nParis Saint-Germain took an early lead from the spot through new signing Mateja Ke\u017eman and held out for the 90 minutes to take all three points at home to Nantes. Saint-\u00c9tienne picked up their first win in four matches as they beat Paris Saint-Germain. Nassim Akrour's third goal of the season gave promoted Grenoble an historic win over Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes. Paris Saint-Germain's poor recent run continued as they let slip an early lead to take only a point from Nancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0007-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nParis Saint-Germain staged a come-from-behind win at home to Lorient with a late goal from substitute Loris Arnaud. Goals abounded as Paris Saint-Germain handed Marseille its first league defeat of the season, outscoring their arch-rivals four goals to two and denying them top spot on the table in a thrilling 'clasico' at the Stade V\u00e9lodrome. A bizarre own-goal from Zoumana Camara condemned Paris Saint-Germain to defeat at home to Toulouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0007-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nParis Saint-Germain coach Paul Le Guen blasted his players for being too soft at half-time of their clash away to Nice, but despite an improved second-half display, the capital club fell to a second consecutive loss. Ludovic Giuly's first goal for Paris Saint-Germain was enough to earn all three against a resistant, if largely uninspired, Lille who saw their nine-game unbeaten run brought to an end at the Parc des Princes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nParis Saint-Germain were too strong for Le Havre and took the points with goals from Guillaume Hoarau and Ludovic Giuly. Ludovic Giuly struck for the third time in as many games to give Paris Saint-Germain a narrow win over Lyon in the capital as the leaders' cushion at the top was reduced to five points. Rennes moved up to second in Ligue 1 after Bruno Cheyrou's first-half goal proved enough to give Guy Lacombe's side a narrow win over Paris Saint-German.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nA first half double from Ligue 1's leading scorer Guillaume Hoarau set the stage for Paris's win, their fifth in their last six matches, over Le Mans at the Parc des Princes. St\u00e9phane Sess\u00e8gnon struck twice against Auxerre to lift PSG into third as Paul Le Guen's men registered a fifth league win in six outings. In the race for second place behind autumn champions Lyon, Paris failed to keep the pace drawing at home to Valenciennes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nLaurent Blanc's Bordeaux thumped four unanswered goals past Paris to go within one point of top spot on the table, giving faltering champions Lyon serious cause for concern in the race for the title. PSG made it six wins from their last nine matches when they beat a tough Sochaux outfit at the Parc des Princes. Guillaume Hoarau grabbed his 13th goal of the season as Paris Saint-Germain moved up to third in the table thanks to their win over Caen. Paris Saint-Germain closed to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon thanks to an emphatic victory over Nantes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0008-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nParis Saint-Germain registered their fourth Ligue 1 victory in a row against Saint-\u00c9tienne to move outright second in the standings, one point behind Lyon, ahead of the champions match at home to Le Havre. Paris Saint Germain remained second, but lost ground after they were held to a goalless draw at Grenoble. Paul Le Guen's men made it three wins in four matches as they completely dominated a tentative Nancy outfit to consolidate second place on the L1 table. A superb first-half strike from Ludovic Giuly and a Micka\u00ebl Landreau penalty save were enough to give Paris Saint-Germain a narrow win at Lorient and ease Paul Le Guen's side within a point of leaders Lyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nMarseille are up to second in Ligue 1 after they emerged victorious over a ten-man Paris Saint-Germain in the 'classico'. Toulouse continued their string of strong results with a comprehensive win at home to Paris, their tenth victory in 14 matches in all competitions in 2009, to climb back to fourth place on the Ligue 1 table. Paris Saint-Germain beat Nice at the Parc des Princes to maintain their title challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nLille's goalless draw with visiting Paris was a case of two points dropped against an uninspired opposition and did little to help either side's fortunes, with both clubs leapfrogged by Toulouse, winners over Nantes. Paris Saint-German moved into fourth place as the club from the capital eased past bottom side Le Havre. Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain raised the curtain on a decisive weekend of football with a heart-stopping draw at the Stade Gerland which, in the end, suited neither side. Paris Saint-Germain missed out on the chance to go above Lyon into third as they were narrowly beaten by Rennes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Ligue 1\nMateja Kezman's second league goal of the season gave Paris Saint-Germain a narrow win at Le Mans to keep them in contention for a top-three finish. Paris saw their chances of overtaking Lyon into third place and a Champions League qualifying spot dealt a blow as they succumbed to in-form Auxerre at the Parc des Princes. PSG's ambitions of European football were in the balance after they saw a stubborn Valenciennes side come from behind at the Stade Nungesser. Paris needed to win at home to Monaco to clinch fourth or fifth and a place in Europe next season, but a tepid display from Paul Le Guen's men in a goalless draw left them empty-handed after being tipped as potential title contenders throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nParis Saint-Germain entered the French Cup having last won the cup in 2006 and having reached last season's Final, narrowly losing to Olympique Lyonnais in a highly contested match. PSG started from the round of 64, as all Ligue 1 clubs did. The draw for the last-64 of the French Cup saw Paris Saint-Germain paired with CFA club Montlu\u00e7on. Paris Saint-Germain squeezed through to the last-32 of the French Cup, but failed to impress against fourth division outfit, Montlu\u00e7on. Paul Le Guen's side had St\u00e9phane Sess\u00e8gnon to thank for the only goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Coupe de France\nThe draw for the last-32 pitted \"Les Parisiens\" with fourth tier side Gaz\u00e9lec Ajaccio. Paris Saint-Germain beat lower league opposition to progress to the last 16 of the French Cup. Mateja Ke\u017eman struck twice for PSG as they beat Gaz\u00e9lec Ajaccio. The Serbian striker scored once in either half before defender Sammy Traor\u00e9 helped secure Paul Le Guen's men a place in the next round. Last season's losing finalists PSG were drawn away to third tier club Rodez for the last-16. Paris Saint-Germain were sensationally knocked out of the French Cup, succumbing to a defeat after extra-time to lowly Rodez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Coupe de la Ligue\nHolders Paris Saint-Germain were through to the last-16 of the League Cup after Fabrice Pancrate's goal proved enough for the reigning champions to beat AS Monaco. Paris Saint-Germain's defence of the League Cup continued against Nancy after the draw for the last-16, quarter-finals and semi-finals was made. P\u00e9guy Luyindula scored both goals in Paris Saint-Germain's victory over Nancy to send the holders through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup. In a dramatic twist of fate, Paris Saint-Germain hosted Lens in the pick of the quarter-final draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, Coupe de la Ligue\nIn a remake of last season's Final, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Lens at the Parc des Princes to qualify for the semi-finals of the League Cup, where they met Bordeaux, winners over Ch\u00e2teauroux. Late goals from Souleymane Diawara and Wendel added to David Bellion's first-half strike put the icing on the cake as Bordeaux cruised past Paris Saint-Germain in the League Cup semi-final at the Parc des Princes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nParis Saint-Germain entered the UEFA Cup at the first round, 18 months after their last European clash against Benfica on 15 March 2007. Sitting in third place on the Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain were taking on Turkish club Kayserispor, unbeaten in the S\u00fcper Lig. The hosts, however, lost their unbeaten record in the final minute thanks to P\u00e9guy Luyindula goal, just a few minutes after the Turkish side had equalized through Delio Toledo. Paris Saint-Germain qualified to the group stage at Kayserispor's expense in a scoreless match at the Parc des Princes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nThe capital club was inserted into Group A with German club Schalke 04, English side Manchester City, Spanish outfit Racing de Santander, and Dutch club Twente. Despite his faith in young players, Paul Le Guen's men were overwhelmed by the better organized and more experienced Germans, who were quickly firming as Group A favourites. Schalke went ahead early through Larrys Mabiala's own goal before Kevin Kur\u00e1nyi added to their tally, followed by Halil Alt\u0131ntop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0012-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nCl\u00e9ment Chant\u00f4me's far-post strike in stoppage time came too late in a game where Paris Saint-Germain struggled to find their rhythm as Schalke pushed forward relentlessly at the Veltins-Arena. Paris Saint-Germain blew a two-goal lead as Spanish side Racing Santander held the capital club to a draw at the Parc des Princes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nParis Saint-Germain rued the missed opportunities in the second half of their goalless draw with Manchester City but still had a chance of qualifying for the next round. Paris Saint-Germain qualified to the last-32 after a dramatic victory over Twente at the Parc des Princes. Late goals from Mateja Ke\u017eman and P\u00e9guy Luyindula saw PSG clinch third spot in Group A ahead of Racing Santander on goal difference. Paris Saint-Germain reached the last-32 and received a tough draw being given Bundesliga side Wolfsburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nGiant striker Guillaume Hoarau marked his return by scoring two late goals as the side from the French capital finished over the top of German outfit Wolfsburg. Paris Saint-Germain walloped Wolfsburg in Germany for a convincing aggregate victory in the last-32. Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Micka\u00ebl Landreau made a number of good saves to deny before P\u00e9guy Luyindula put an end to Wolfsburg's hopes of a fightback by netting a penalty. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rothen doubled the lead on the hour with a terrific strike. Wolfsburg's Japanese star Makoto Hasebe reduced the arrears with a fine solo goal three minutes later, but Luyindula netted his sixth goal of the competition with a header from Cl\u00e9ment Chant\u00f4me's cross. Paris Saint-Germain, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winners, marched into the last-16 where they faced Portuguese side Sporting Braga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nParis Saint-Germain's European campaign was in the balance after they failed to break down a stubborn Braga side at the Parc des Princes. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rothen came closest when he struck an upright in the second-half, which saw Mateja Ke\u017eman jeered onto the pitch by the PSG fans as he made his first appearance at the Parc since his infamous shirt-throwing incident during his side's League Cup semi-final defeat to Bordeaux last month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Competitions, UEFA Cup\nGuillaume Hoarau came off the bench to score the only goal of the game to give Paris Saint-Germain a win over Braga and see them join Marseille in the quarter-finals. The capital club was pitted against Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv and fared little better than Marseille as they were held goalless at the Parc des Princes. Paris Saint-Germain found their ambitions frustrated by a well-organised Dynamo side. A disastrous display by Micka\u00ebl Landreau saw Paris Saint-Germain tumble out. PSG travelled to Ukraine with hope, but were on the back foot throughout after Isma\u00ebl Bangoura had given Dynamo a fourth-minute lead. P\u00e9guy Luyindula struck a post with a header soon after, but Micka\u00ebl Landreau's poor goalkeeping put an end to PSG's European ambitions. He inadvertently punched a high ball into his own goal, before fumbling an Oleksandr Aliyev free-kick on the hour mark that allowed Ognjen Vukojevi\u0107 to score a third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 984]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Start formations\nSource: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200793-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Other statistics\nSource:  and Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200794-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Parma F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200795-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Partick Thistle F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Partick Thistle participate in the Scottish First Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200795-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Partick Thistle F.C. season, Team kit\nThe team kit for the 2008\u201309 season is produced by Puma in partnership with Greaves Sports and the main shirt sponsor is Ignis asset management. The away kit is pink with grey stripes, and has attracted much media attention at the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200795-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Partick Thistle F.C. season, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200795-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Partick Thistle F.C. season, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200796-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University and completed the season by winning the 2009 National Invitation Tournament over the Baylor Bears at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Head Coach, Ed DeChellis, coached his sixth season with the team. The team played its home games in University Park, Pennsylvania at the Bryce Jordan Center, which has a capacity of 15,261, for the twelfth consecutive season. The season marked the team's sixteenth consecutive season as a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200797-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pentangular One Day Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 RBS Pentangular One Day Cup was the first edition of the Pentangular One Day Cup, a List A (limited overs) cricket tournament held in Pakistan. Five teams participated in the competition; four Pakistan provincial teams and one representing the capital. Punjab Stallions won the tournament by defeating Federal Areas Leopards in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season\nThis is a list of Persepolis F.C. 's results at the  IPL 2008-09, 2009 ACL and 2008-09 Hazfi Cup . The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup and Asian Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Squad, Iran Pro League\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Friendlies\nPersepolis 4-2 Sazan Rah Qom Ivan Petrovi\u0107 \u00a013'Hadi Norouzi \u00a046'Farhad Kheirkhah \u00a049'Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 \u00a080'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Friendlies\nPersepolis 8-0 Faraz Shemiran Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 Hadi Norouzi Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Hamidreza Ali Asgari Rahman Rezaei", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Friendlies, Pre-season, UAE Camp (Dubai Iranian club)\nIn the middle of July the club programmed a camp in Spain, but it cancelled. after Ghotbi joined team, the club programmed a camp in Dubai from July 27 to July 31 replacing the Spain camp. After Persepolis was censured by Iran football medias because of this programming, censurers believed that Dubai hot temperature on July is not suitable for training, but Persepolis officials answered that the camp was so profitable for team. The camp included swimming, bodybuilding, players recreation and two friendly matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Friendlies, Pre-season, UAE Camp (Dubai Iranian club)\nPersepolis 4-0   Wind DubaiIbrahima Tour\u00e9 \u00a028'Farhad Kheirkhah \u00a031' Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 \u00a051' Ibrahima Tour\u00e9 \u00a060' Sepehr Heidari", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200798-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persepolis F.C. season, Friendlies, Pre-season, UAE Camp (Dubai Iranian club)\nPersepolis  11-0   Fly Emirates Farhad Kheirkhah Farhad Kheirkhah Farhad Kheirkhah Farhad Kheirkhah Hossein Badamaki Hossein Badamaki Pejman Nouri Hadi Norouzi Franck Atsou  Masoud Zarei Masoud Zarei", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200799-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persian Gulf Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 26th season of Iran's Football League and eighth as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Persepolis were the defending champions. The season featured 15 teams from the 2007\u201308 Persian Gulf Cup and two new teams promoted from the 2007\u201308 Azadegan League: Payam Mashhad as champions and Foolad. Damash replaced Pegah. The league started on 4 August 2008 and ended on 26 April 2009. Esteghlal won the Pro League title for the second time in their history (total seventh Iranian title).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200799-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persian Gulf Cup, Teams\nBelow is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200799-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persian Gulf Cup, Attendances, Average home attendances\nUpdated to games played on 26 April 2009Source: Notes:Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendancesPegah, Sanat Naft and Shirin Faraz played last season in Azadegan League  Paykan moved from Tehran to Qazvin  Saba Battery moved from Tehran to Qom  Damash replaced Pegah", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200800-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Persib Bandung season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, the Indonesian football club Persib Bandung was placed third in the Indonesia Super League. The team reached the third round of the Indonesian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Perth Glory FC's 4th season since the inception of the A-League and 12th since the club's founding, in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season, 2008\u201309 Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season, Friendlies, China Tour\nPerth Glory began their pre-season early, with a three match trip to China, in early March. The team played three matches against three Chinese Super League sides, Changchun Yatai, Changsha Ginde and Guangzhou Pharmaceutical. Glory lost all three matches, but the tour was successful for trialling many new players in the lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season, Friendlies, Local Friendlies\nIn June, the Perth Glory squad took on Football West State League side Rockingham City in Port Kennedy, defeating the side 8\u20130 in front of a crowd of around 1,500. Glory also played the WA State Team, losing 2\u20133, with David Tarka making a successful return to competitive football in the match, after being out of the game through a hamstring injury for the past ten months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season, Friendlies, Indonesia Tour\nFinally in July, Perth Glory embarked on a short pre-season tour of Indonesia, playing and defeating Indonesian Super League sides, Persik Kediri and Deltras Sidoarjo, 2\u20131 and 1\u20130 respectively. Mitchell was able to give new recruits, like Eugene Dadi, Adrian Trinidad and Amaral a good run as well as a competitive hit out for younger State League recruits to impress, like Josip Magdic who scored the winner against Deltras Sidoarjo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200801-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory FC season, Pre-Season Cup\nUnlike last season, Perth were not as successful in this season's Pre-Season Cup, though also unlike last season, Glory had some pre-season cup games scheduled at home this time. Adrian Trinidad impressed, including creating and scoring a penalty in the first match against the Newcastle Jets, in Mandurah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200802-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 was the first season for Perth Glory in the new W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200802-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory W-League season, Background\nNicola Williams was appointed the coach of the team, with Tanya Oxtoby captaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200802-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Perth Glory W-League season, Player details\nStatistics accurate as of the end of the 2008\u201309 W-League season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200803-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Peterborough United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Peterborough United's 49th year in the Football League and their first season in League One since the 2004\u201305 season, having been promoted from League Two in the previous season. Peterborough had a successful league campaign, finishing second, and in doing so, securing promotion to the Championship. Along with League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy, in which they were knocked out in the third, first and second rounds respectively. The season covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200803-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Peterborough United F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season was the 70th season of the franchise, 60th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team finished with a .500 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season\nTwo things memorable about the season is that the team returned to the classic uniform style the team wore in the 1980s, and the Sixers defeated the Chicago Bulls in a game played at The Spectrum, the team's home from 1967\u20131996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe team signed Elton Brand to a five-year $79 million dollar contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, 2008 NBA draft\nOn June 26, the Sixers selected power forward/center Marreese Speights from Florida with the 16th overall pick. Their second round pick was previously traded to the Utah Jazz on June 7, 2009 for a second round pick in the 2009 NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nThe Sixers headed into the off-season with free agents Louis Amundson, Calvin Booth, Herbert Hill, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Ollie, Shavlik Randolph and Louis Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn June 24, the Sixers extended qualifying offers to key restricted free agents Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams. The Sixers brought in Atlanta Hawks restricted free agent Josh Smith  on July 3 for a tour of Philadelphia but left the city without signing an offer sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn July 9 after denouncing their rights to their unrestricted free agents, and trading Rodney Carney and Calvin Booth, the Sixers signed 2-time NBA All-Star Power Forward Elton Brand of the Los Angeles Clippers to a 5-year contract reportedly worth 78\u201382 Million dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nAfter the Brand signing, the first weeks of July were quiet in terms of free agency. Rumors spread that key restricted free agents Andre Iguodala and Louis Williams were being pursued by the Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn July 24 it was announced by Philly.com that the Sixers had come to terms with Point Guard Royal Ivey of the Milwaukee Bucks for a 2-year league minimum contract. The deal was finalized and signed on Monday July 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nAlso on July 28, Philly.com released that the Sixers had come to terms with Shooting Guard Kareem Rush of the Indiana Pacers. The deal was finalized and signed on Tuesday July 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nAfter news reports stated that Louis Williams rejected a $3.9M deal from the Sixers and he was talking to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he signed a 5-year deal on July 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn August 12, ESPN announced that the 76ers had come to terms with restricted free agent Andre Iguodala on a reported 6-year 80 million dollar deal. After several days, it was officially announced on August 18 that Iguodala had signed the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn August 19 Philly.com announced that veteran backup big man Theo Ratliff had agreed to terms on veterans league minimum 1 year 1.4 million dollar deal with the 76ers. Ratliff had previously played with Philadelphia from 1997\u20132001. Ratliff was named an All-Star in 2001, but was unable to play because of an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Summary, Free Agency\nOn September 1, 2008 following his placement on waivers Donyell Marshall agreed to terms with the Philadelphia 76ers for a one-year contract for the league minimum $1,262,275 (for veterans with at least 10 years of experience). The story was first reported by The Philadelphia Daily News", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200804-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia 76ers season, Playoffs, First Round\nIn the first round of the 2009 NBA Playoffs, the sixth seeded Philadelphia 76ers were paired with the third seed Southeast Division champions and eventual Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic in a best-of-seven series. The Sixers managed to split the series with the Magic at two games a piece after four games, but the Magic went on to win what would be the final two games of the series to eliminate the Sixers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Flyers' 42nd season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThe Flyers began the 2008\u201309 season by naming Mike Richards the 17th captain in Flyers history on September 17, with Jason Smith headed to the Ottawa Senators as a free agent. The Flyers were looking to build on the success of the previous season, but instead got off to an 0\u20133\u20133 start which became indicative of the season ahead. Despite a solid December and January, and finishing with four points more than the year before, for the most part the 2008\u201309 Flyers were an inconsistent unit, playing at the top of their ability one night while subpar the next.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nDefenseman Derian Hatcher missed the entire regular season and playoffs with a knee injury, and Steve Downie was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning for defenseman Matt Carle. Two pleasant surprises were the emergence of rookie center Claude Giroux and defenseman Luca Sbisa, who was drafted by the Flyers in June with the 19th overall pick acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for R. J. Umberger, the victim of a salary cap crunch. Scottie Upshall also found himself the victim of such a crunch, traded to the Phoenix Coyotes for Daniel Carcillo at the trade deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nDespite holding on to the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference for much of the season, due to a 4\u20135\u20131 finish to the season, highlighted by a home loss to the New York Rangers on the last day of the regular season, the Flyers slipped to the fifth seed and lost home-ice advantage in their first round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThe Flyers finished the regular season having scored the most shorthanded goals in the NHL, with 16, and having allowed the fewest shorthanded goals, with just one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nPittsburgh dominated the Flyers in Game 1, and despite a better effort by the Flyers in Game 2, Pittsburgh came to Philadelphia with a 2\u20130 series lead. The Flyers were the better team in Games 3 and 4, but Pittsburgh gained a split in Philadelphia and took a 3\u20131 series lead. After a decisive 3\u20130 win in Game 5, the Flyers jumped out to a 3\u20130 lead in Game 6, but promptly fell victim to the inconsistencies that plagued the team all season and gave up five unanswered goals in a season-ending 5\u20133 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nWin (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions\nThe Flyers were involved in the following transactions from June 5, 2008, the day after the deciding game of the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 12, 2009, the day of the deciding game of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Free agency\nThe following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency. Two-way contracts are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Internal\nThe following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Entry Draft, signed to entry level contracts. Two-way contracts are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Departures\nThe following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, which was held at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on June 20\u201321, 2008. The Flyers traded their originally allotted second, third, fifth, and seventh-round picks in four separate trades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the Phantoms' last playing in the Wachovia Spectrum and means they will move following the season. Comcast Spectacor sold the Phantoms to the Brooks Group of Pittsburgh on February 4, 2009, and the new ownership has expressed interest in eventually moving the Phantoms to Allentown provided that a multi-purpose arena can be constructed there. Until a permanent new home is found for the club it will have to operate starting in 2009\u201310 in a temporary location. The site being given the most serious consideration for that is Glen Falls, the former home of the AHL Adirondack Red Wings from 1979 to 1999. Comcast Spectacor continues to operate the team through the conclusion of the 2008\u201309 AHL season and playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nWith Craig Berube returning to his role as an assistant coach with the Flyers, John Paddock was named head coach of the Phantoms. The Phantoms trailed the Binghamton Senators by as many as 12 points on March 14 for the final playoff spot in the East Division, but came back to overtake Binghamton and clinch the final playoff spot in the final regular season game at the Spectrum. The Phantoms final season in Philadelphia came to an end after being swept from the first round of the playoffs by the Hershey Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200805-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nMississippi missed the ECHL playoffs and announced they would suspend operations for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season\nThe 2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season was the team's 37th season, 30th season in the National Hockey League and 13th season as the Phoenix Coyotes. It saw the Coyotes attempt to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2002. However, during the month of March, they were eliminated from the playoffs, and ended up 13th in the NHL's Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Preseason\nThe Phoenix Coyotes played eight preseason exhibition games to prepare for the regular season. Three games were at home, and the other five were on the road, including the franchise's first game back in Winnipeg, Manitoba, since the team moved from there to Phoenix in 1996. The Coyotes finished the preseason with a 2\u20135\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Regular season\nOn December 23, the Toronto-based The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that the Phoenix Coyotes team was receiving financial assistance from the NHL in the form of advances on League revenues. The Coyotes have pledged all of their assets to New York company SOF Investments LP to cover an estimated debt of $80 million. The team has lost an estimated $200 million since 2001 and may lose $30 million this season. One of the team's owners, Jerry Moyes' principal source of revenue, Swift Transportation, is also in financial difficulty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Regular season\nESPN reported that the League has become involved with the operations of the Coyotes and their revenues. The NHL apparently wants to work with the City of Glendale, which owns Jobing.com Arena and receives revenues from the team. If no investors are interested in keeping the team in Phoenix, Kansas City, Winnipeg or Hamilton will likely be healthier destinations for the franchise to relocate. ESPN also reported that Moyes wants to sell his share of the team and that Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is a possible interested purchaser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Regular season, Divisional standings\nNote: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Schedule and results\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Playoffs\nThe Coyotes failed to make the playoffs for the sixth straight season. They last made the playoffs in 2002. This season, they were officially eliminated from playoff contention in mid-March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Coyotes. Stats reflect time with the Coyotes only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Draft picks\nPhoenix's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Farm teams\nThe San Antonio Rampage are the Coyotes American Hockey League affiliate in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200806-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Coyotes season, Farm teams\nThe Arizona Sundogs are the Coyotes affiliate in the CHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200807-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Suns season\nThe 2008\u201309 Phoenix Suns season was the 41st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The season was to be a promising one, filled with All-Star talent at several positions. It was believed over the offseason, the Suns would be able to better incorporate Shaquille O'Neal, who necessitated changes to both the offense and defense after being obtained in a trade one season ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200807-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Suns season\nIt was also the first season head coach Terry Porter had been able to use the summer to implement his defensive approach for a team which had in seasons past scored a large number of their points off fast breaks and early in the shot clock. Sensing a need for change, team management traded for scorer Jason Richardson in December, but this did not appear to immediately reinvigorate an offense that had recently led the league in points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200807-0000-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Suns season\nHowever, after Phoenix went 28\u201323 to start the season, Suns assistant Alvin Gentry was named to replace Porter as head coach. Less than one week after the All-Star Game, Amar'e Stoudemire sustained a season-ending eye injury while the improvement of the team never fully came. The Suns finished 46\u201336, second in the Pacific division but out the playoffs for the first time since Steve Nash rejoined the Suns in the 2004\u201305 season. The Suns had the best team offensive rating in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200807-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Phoenix Suns season, Player statistics, Season\n* \u2013 Stats with the Suns. + \u2013 Minimum 70 games played or 2000 minutes, 1400 points. ^ \u2013 Minimum 55 three-pointers made. # \u2013 Minimum 125 free throws made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200808-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pirveli Liga\n2008\u201309 Pirveli Liga was the 20th season of the Georgian Pirveli Liga. The Pirveli Liga is the second division of Georgian Football. It consists of 4 reserve teams and professional teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200808-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pirveli Liga\nAlthough reserve teams was allowed to play in the same league system, they were not be allowed to play in the same division and therefore cannot be promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200809-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Jamie Dixon, who was serving for his 6th year as head coach at Pittsburgh and 10th overall at the university. The team played its home games in the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200809-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team, Outlook\nThe Pittsburgh Panthers, defending  Big East Conference Tournament Champions, came off a 27\u201310 (10\u20138) record in the 2007\u201308 season which included their seventh straight 20-win season, seventh straight season with 10 league wins in the Big East Conference, and a seventh straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Pitt advanced to the second round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Michigan State. That season also marked the seventh time in the last eight seasons that Pitt advanced to the Big East Tournament Championship title game, which tied for the most appearances in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200809-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team, Outlook\nPitt began the season returning three starters, each of its top three scorers, and seven of its top 10 players from the previous year. Pitt found itself ranked among the top 10 teams nationally in most preseason polls and publications. Five newcomers, including one junior college transfer and four freshman, joined Pitt for the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200809-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team, Schedule\nPitt's 2008\u201309 schedule included, in addition to their Big East slate, nine non-conference opponents that were ranked the previous season in the nation's top-100 Ratings Percentage Index, nine opponents that advanced to post-season play, and five that advanced to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200810-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team\nTemplate:2008\u201309 Big East Conference women's basketball standingsThe 2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament \"Sweet 16\". The Panthers were coached by Agnus Berenato. The Panthers are a member of the Big East Conference and played their home games at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200810-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team, Previous season\nThe 2007-08 Pitt women's basketball went 24-10, tying a program record number of wins set the previous season. Pitt earned its first ever bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament advancing to the second round where it lost to eventual national champion Tennessee. Pitt finished the season ranked #16 in the Coaches' Poll, its highest finish in the polls for the women up until that point. Center Marcedes Walker and Guards Karlyle Lim and Mallorie Winn finish up their eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200810-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team, Roster\n*Injured during the first regular season game against Texas A&M and was redshirted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe 2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the 42nd season of Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season began with two games against the Ottawa Senators in Stockholm, Sweden on October 4 and October 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nOn February 15, the team had a record of 27\u201325\u20135 and was five points out of playoff position. The organization fired head coach Michel Therrien and replaced him with Dan Bylsma, head coach of the organization's American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes-Barre. On February 26, the team traded defenseman Ryan Whitney to the Anaheim Ducks in return for Chris Kunitz. Before the trade deadline on March 4, they acquired Bill Guerin from the New York Islanders. Under Bylsma, the team went 18\u20133\u20134, including 10\u20131\u20132 in March, and lost only one home game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe Penguins qualified for the playoffs for the third consecutive season. They did not repeat as champions of the Atlantic Division, but earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference with 99 points. They began the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 15 against the Philadelphia Flyers. They beat the Flyers, Washington Capitals, and Carolina Hurricanes to earn a second-straight berth in the Stanley Cup Final. In the Finals, the Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in a rematch of the previous season's Stanley Cup Final to win the franchise's third league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Pre-season\nDue to their appearance in the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, the Penguins had less than three weeks before free agency began to settle numerous contract decisions. The Penguins added nine free agents and lost ten to other teams. Head Coach Michel Therrien also signed a new three-year contract that replaced the last year of his existing contract, with an increase in salary. The new contract was projected to keep him with the Penguins through the 2010\u201311 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Pre-season\nThe Penguins renewed 99% of their season ticket sales from the 2007\u201308 season; having sold out 67\u00a0consecutive games at Mellon Arena dating back to the 2006\u201307 season. In July, ESPN named Pittsburgh the top team in the Eastern Conference, and Sporting News predicted the team would finish in the league's fifth overall position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Pre-season\nThe team commenced training camp on September 16, 2008 in Pittsburgh. They played five pre-season games in preparation for the season, finishing with a 4\u20130\u20131 record. The team concluded its preparation for the season with practices in Stockholm. Defensemen Sergei Gonchar was injured in the pre-season opener and originally anticipated to miss \"four to six months.\" He appeared for the first time on February 14, 2009. With Gonchar out of the lineup and previous season's two other alternate captains Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts departed, the Penguins began the season with no returning alternate captains in the lineup. Therrien selected two alternate captains each month; Evgeni Malkin and Brooks Orpik served the role throughout the opening month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, October\nOn September 27, the Penguins embarked on a trip for Sweden where they opened the season against the Ottawa Senators, at the Stockholm Globe Arena. The Penguins were one of four teams to participate in NHL Premiere which began the season with games in Prague, Czech Republic and Stockholm, Sweden. Pittsburgh won the opening game of the season in overtime, getting two goals from Tyler Kennedy, including the game-winner. The game was broadcast on Mellon Arena's JumboTron where 2,300\u00a0spectators watched the game. The team returned to Pittsburgh after ten days in Europe and a 1\u20131\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, October\nThe Penguins hosted the Trib Total Media Faceoff Festival 2008 prior to their first four home games, allowing fans to watch the games on 9-by-12\u00a0foot LED screen outside of Mellon Arena. On October 18, Sidney Crosby scored one goal in addition to three assists to surpass benchmarks of 100\u00a0goals, 200\u00a0assists, and 300\u00a0total points for his career. In the same game, Evgeni Malkin assisted on four goals, giving him 200\u00a0total career points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, October\nThe Penguins received continued fan support from their previous season. In addition to extending a home sellout streak to 72\u00a0games on October 23, the Penguins ranked 113% above the national average for male television viewers aged 18 to 34. The franchise ranked as the 18th most valuable in the league at US$195\u00a0million, marking a 26%\u00a0increase from the past season. According to Forbes, the franchise's revenue would likely put the Penguins into the top ten after their new arena, Consol Energy Center, opened in 2010. The Penguins finished October with a 3\u20131\u20131 record in Pittsburgh and concluded the month with three consecutive road losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, November\nThe Penguins won their first six games in November before losing in a shootout on November 18. Rob Scuderi and Hal Gill were selected by Therrien to be November's alternate captains, taking over for Brooks Orpik and Malkin who served in October. On November 11, the Penguins returned to Detroit for the first time since the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals. The third goal of Jordan Staal's second career hat-trick came with 22.8\u00a0seconds remaining in regulation, sending the game into overtime where the Penguins achieved a 7\u20136 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, November\nMalkin's 13-game point streak ended on November 18, during the streak he scored 27\u00a0points. Through November 19, the Penguins led the league in overtime games with nine of 18\u00a0games taking extra time to decide. Through the first 20\u00a0games of the season, Mike Zigomanis led the league in faceoff percentage and Alex Goligoski led rookie defensemen in points. After an injury to Marc-Andre Fleury, Dany Sabourin and rookie John Curry split goaltending duties in his multi-game absence in which the team was 5\u20136\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, November\nOn November 26, Malkin scored three goals for his third career hat-trick, three days later Sidney Crosby also achieved a hat trick\u2014the second of his career. After the team's final game of the month, Malkin and Crosby ranked first and second in league scoring with 39 and 34\u00a0points respectively. Malkin also ranked first in the league with 29\u00a0assists, and was named the NHL's second Star of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, December\nTherrien named Jordan Staal and Matt Cooke December's alternate captains. \"I think it's important for our young group to try to extend the leadership group,\" the coach said of the decision. A survey by Turnkey Sports & Entertainment released on December 2 that surveyed fans of all 122 NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB teams ranked the Penguins eighth. The survey consisted of 21\u00a0categories such as entertainment value, commitment to winning, ticket value and likeability of the players and owners. Ranked 20th in the same poll in 2007, the Penguins were the second-ranked NHL team, behind the Detroit Red Wings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, December\nThe Penguins began the month with seven games in eleven days in which they were 2\u20134\u20131. As of December 10, Crosby and Malkin continued to lead the league in points as well as leading voting for the All-Star Game in Montreal. On December 11, after losing three consecutive games, Petr Sykora and Pascal Dupuis each scored their first career hat-tricks in a 9\u20132 victory over the New York Islanders in Pittsburgh. It was the seventh time in the Penguins' history that two players scored a hat-trick in the same game, the first since 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, December\nOn December 21, Sidney Crosby surpassed the record for most All-Star Game votes at 1,020,736, set by Jaromir Jagr, then with the Penguins, in 2000. Crosby broke the record with 13\u00a0days remaining in voting. Defenceman Ryan Whitney made his first appearance of the season on December 23, after missing 33\u00a0games with a foot injury. On December 26, Marc-Andre Fleury made 37\u00a0saves in Pittsburgh's first shutout of the season, defeating the New Jersey Devils, 1\u20130. After concluding the month with a 5\u20138\u20131 record, the team held a players-only meeting on December 30. \"The attitude is a little off right now,\" said Brooks Orpik, \"It's easy to be a good team when you're winning games. When you're going through rough batches like this, it's what tests guys' character.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, January\nThe Penguins began 2009 with three consecutive losses, extending their losing streak to five games\u2014the most consecutive since 2006. During the streak, the Penguins fell from second to ninth place in the Eastern Conference and failed to score on 32\u00a0consecutive power plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, January\nSidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin led all players in voting for the 2009 All-Star Game. However, Crosby did not play due to a knee injury. The top vote-getter for the second year in a row, Crosby also missed the 2008 All-Star Game. On January 8, the team announced that they had agreed to a four-year contract extension with Jordan Staal worth $16 million. Staal's rookie contract was set to expire at the end of the season. He was the Penguins first round pick, second overall in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, January\nThe team suffered from injuries, culminating in January where at one point they had eight starters injured. Mike Zigomanis had been inactive since December 3 and Ruslan Fedotenko was ruled out for four to six weeks after breaking his hand on January 6. Sergei Gonchar practiced with the team for the first time on January 16 after suffering a separated shoulder during the pre-season. By that time, the Penguins had lost 173 man-games due to injury, after losing 239 in the entire 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, January\nWith a 3\u20130 victory over the New York Rangers on January 18, the Penguins won a second consecutive game for the first time since November 15. However, the team was unable to capitalize and lost their last game before the All-Star break to the Carolina Hurricanes. The Penguins entered the break with a 23\u201321\u20134 record. The team's 50 points put them in tenth place in the Eastern Conference, two spots out of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, February\nOn February 14, Sergei Gonchar made his season debut and Ruslan Fedotenko returned to the line-up after missing over a month due to a hand injury. On February 15\u2014with the Penguins five points out of the playoffs\u2014Therrien was replaced by Dan Bylsma, the coach of the Penguins' AHL affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, on an interim basis. Tom Fitzgerald was promoted from Director of Player Development to assistant coach for forwards, while Mike Yeo, already with the team, became assistant for the defensemen. Assistant Andre Savard was reassigned within the organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, February\nOn February 21, Crosby recorded his 250th career assist in a 2-goal, 2-assist victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. On February 25, Fleury recorded his third shutout of the season, as the Penguins defeated the Islanders 1\u20130; the team remained two points out of the playoffs after the win. The day after the shutout, Ryan Whitney was traded to the Anaheim Ducks for Chris Kunitz and signing rights to prospect Eric Tangradi. In his first game after being traded to Pittsburgh, Kunitz recorded a goal and an assist as the Penguins defeated the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, March\nThe Penguins began March with five of six games on the road, before a homestand of eight consecutive games. Upon the Penguins' win on March 1, the team moved into eighth place in the Eastern Conference with 70\u00a0points. The NHL trade deadline was on March 4. On March 3, the Penguins placed Miroslav Satan on waivers to clear roster space for a trade. Before the deadline, the Penguins acquired New York Islanders' captain Bill Guerin in exchange for a conditional draft pick in the 2009 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, March\nThe Penguins also exchanged minor league defensemen, sending Danny Richmond to the St. Louis Blues organization for Andy Wozniewski. They also claimed winger Craig Adams off waivers from the Chicago Blackhawks. Dan Bylsma surpassed Herb Brooks' record for the best record in his first ten games as a Penguins' coach. The team went a franchise-first 5\u20130\u20130 on a road trip at the beginning of March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, March\nOn March 15, the Penguins soldout their 100th\u00a0consecutive game at the Mellon Arena. Evgeni Malkin recorded his 100th\u00a0point of the season while tying a career-high five point game against the Atlanta Thrashers on March 17. On March 20, Vince Lascheid, Penguins and Pittsburgh Pirates organist of 33\u00a0years, died. Vice President of Communications Tom McMillan said, \"[Lascheid] probably is the only organist in the history of professional sports to be inducted into a team Hall of Fame.\" The Penguins concluded March with eight consecutive games at the Mellon Arena\u2014their longest homestand of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, April and season results\nPittsburgh finished their homestand with a 6\u20131\u20131\u00a0record, moving into fourth place in the Eastern Conference. The final game of the homestand was the most watched game of the season on FSN Pittsburgh, the Penguins regional television network. FSN Pittsburgh was the most-watched regional Fox network in the NHL for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, April and season results\nOn April 7, Sidney Crosby scored his 100th\u00a0point of the season, Evgeni Malkin acquired his 300th\u00a0career point and Petr Sykora scored his 300th\u00a0career goal, while the Penguins qualified for the post-season for the third consecutive season with a 6\u20134 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Tickets for Pittsburgh's first two opening round playoff games sold out within a few hours of going on sale. The team collected over $100,000 for the families of three Pittsburgh Police officers who were killed days before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0018-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, April and season results\nThe Penguins finished their regular season on April 12 with a win over the Montreal Canadiens. Through his first 25\u00a0games as Penguins' coach, Dan Blysma's 18\u20133\u20134 record amounted to 40\u00a0points\u2014the second-most of any coach in NHL history through their first 25\u00a0games. The Penguins finished with a 45\u201328\u20139 record, for 99\u00a0points; fourth place in the Eastern Conference and second place in the Atlantic Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, April and season results\nEvgeni Malkin won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer with 113\u00a0points. Malkin followed Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and Crosby to become the fourth different Penguin to win the award. The award was the 13th overall for the Penguins since 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, Standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Regular season, Standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe Penguins advanced to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the third consecutive season. They earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference and home-ice advantage in the opening round match-up against the Philadelphia Flyers, following a loss by the Flyers on the last day of the regular season. For the second consecutive season, the Penguins erected a 12 by 16\u00a0foot LED screen on the lawn directly outside Mellon Arena, allowing fans to watch all playoff games, free of charge. After defeating Philadelphia, the Penguins beat the Washington Capitals and the Carolina Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Penguins faced the Detroit Red Wings, defeating them in seven games to win their third Stanley Cup in franchise history. The final game of the season drew a 42.2\u00a0television rating in Pittsburgh\u2014the highest local rating in any city since the NHL began to track the figure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 948]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nThe Penguins won Game 1 of the series 4\u20131, with goals from Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Tyler Kennedy and defenseman Mark Eaton. \"It was a good [night] for me,\" said Malkin, \"It was a good [night] for everybody.\" Flyers head coach John Stevens was fined US$10,000 and forward Daniel Carcillo was suspended by the NHL for the second game of the series for a hit to Maxime Talbot's head immediately following a faceoff with seven seconds left in the game; Carcillo was not penalized at the time of the hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nIn Game 2, Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist, while Marc-Andre Fleury made 38\u00a0saves. Bill Guerin scored two goals, including the game winner in overtime, and the Penguins won 3\u20132. With the Penguins up two games to zero, the series moved to Philadelphia for Game 3. After falling behind 2\u20130, goals from Malkin and Rob Scuderi tied the game. Malkin added his second goal of the game in the final period; however, Philadelphia won the game 6\u20133. In Game 4, Fleury stopped 45\u00a0shots, giving up one goal as the Penguins won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0023-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nCrosby scored his second goal of the playoffs and Tyler Kennedy added the game winner. The Penguins were unable to clinch the series in Game 5 at Mellon Arena. A goal by Malkin was taken away after it was determined that he had kicked the puck into the net; Martin Biron stopped 28\u00a0shots for the shutout. Pittsburgh viewers were unable to see approximately 30\u00a0minutes of the second period after a lightning strike at a FSN Pittsburgh network facility in Atlanta caused the station to temporarily black out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\n\"I just thought Malkin and Crosby almost looked like they took the game over, to be honest with you. We capitalized on a few opportunities there, and if you get a 3\u20130 lead, it should be over.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals\nIn Game 6, the Flyers lead 3\u20130 four minutes into the second period. Maxime Talbot fought Daniel Carcillo after the Flyers tallied their third goal and the Penguins, re-energized by Talbot's display, scored three goals in what remained of the second period to tie the game 3\u20133. Sergei Gonchar scored his first goal of the series, his first in 23\u00a0playoff games dating back to game two of the Penguins' first-round series against Ottawa in 2008, to break the tie at 2:19 of the third period. Crosby added an empty-net goal and the Penguins eliminated the Flyers and advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Three days after the Penguins series-clinching victory of the Flyers, the Penguins announced that Head Coach Dan Bylsma had signed a multi-year contract extension with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 90], "content_span": [91, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\nThe Penguins drew a matchup with the Washington Capitals in the second round semi-finals. The anticipation for the series was high considering the rivalry between the teams and star players, most notably Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins and Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin of the Capitals. The first three games in the series were scheduled for national television in the U.S., with game one on NBC and games two and three on Versus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\nGame 1 was held in Washington, where Capitals owner Ted Leonsis took steps to prevent Penguins' fans from purchasing tickets, such as not selling tickets to customers whose 724 or 412 area code indicated they were from Western Pennsylvania. Crosby scored to give the Penguins a first period lead, but Washington scored two goals before the conclusion of the period. Mark Eaton tied the game in the second period, but Washington's Semyon Varlamov held the Penguins scoreless for the remainder of the game as the Capitals took a 1\u20130 lead in the series. The game had 40%\u00a0more viewers than playoff games the previous season. In Game 2, Ovechkin and Crosby scored three goals each, though Dave Steckel's second period goal was the difference as Washington won 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\nThe series moved to Pittsburgh for Game 3 with the Penguins down 2\u20130. Goals from Ruslan Fedotenko, Nicklas Backstrom, Ovechkin and Malkin left the game tied after regulation. Kris Letang scored a powerplay goal 11 minutes into overtime, winning the game for the Penguins. Pittsburgh tied the series at two games apiece after a 5\u20133 Game 4 victory at Mellon Arena. After a Washington goal scored less than a minute into regulation, the Penguins responded with three goals in the first period. The Penguins' five goals came from five different players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\nDuring the first period, Sergei Gonchar was forced to leave the game after a knee-on-knee hit from Ovechkin; Gonchar returned to the Penguins' line-up for Game 7. Game 5 took place in Washington, D.C., the next day, due to the scheduling of a Yanni concert in Pittsburgh. After a scoreless first period, Washington took a 2\u20131 lead in the second. Fedotenko tied the game less than a minute into the third period, but a goal by Matt Cooke was matched by Ovechkin and the game went into overtime. With one second remaining in their second powerplay of the game, Malkin scored to give the Penguins their third consecutive victory. Game 6 was the third overtime game of the series. Washington forced a seventh game with a 5\u20134 victory. Nine different players scored goals in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\n\"I think everyone built the series up to end with a dramatic game seven, a huge story, and a big finish, but it didn\u2019t feel anticlimactic to us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\n\u2014Dan Bylsma, speaking about the Penguins' 6\u20132 victory in game seven", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference semi-finals\nIn the final game of the series, Pittsburgh scored two goals within eight seconds of one another to take a 2\u20130 lead after Fleury stopped Ovechkin on a breakaway. Pittsburgh scored three more goals in the second period, extending their lead to 5\u20130, before Ovechkin scored his eighth goal of the series. Each team added a goal in the final period to end the game with a 6\u20132 final score. Ovechkin scored eight goals and added six assists in the series, while Crosby tallied eight goals and five assists. Crosby's 13-point tally in the series totalled one less than Ovechkin's 14 points, which was the highest single-series point total since the 1995 playoffs. While shaking hands following the final game, Crosby told Ovechkin he had played a \"great series,\" to which Ovechkin responded, \"win the Stanley Cup.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 896]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Final\nPittsburgh faced the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final, after Carolina defeated the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. The series opened in Pittsburgh, where Miroslav Satan and Philippe Boucher scored their first goals of the playoffs. Marc-Andre Fleury was named the game's third star after making 23\u00a0saves and helping the Penguins to a 3\u20132 victory. In Game 2, Malkin scored a hat-trick and Chris Kunitz scored his first goal of the playoffs as the Penguins won 7\u20134, taking a two games to none series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0032-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Final\nIn Game 3, Malkin scored two goals and Crosby scored one as the Penguins took a 3\u20131 lead into the first intermission. After a scoreless second period, the Hurricanes came within a goal after Sergei Samsonov scored less than two minutes into the final period, but goals by Fedotenko, Craig Adams and Guerin gave the Penguins a 6\u20132 victory. The series concluded with the Penguins sweeping, four games to none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0032-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Final\nIn the series' fourth game, Pittsburgh gave up the initial goal less than two minutes into the opening period, but goals from Fedotenko and Talbot gave them the lead after the first period. A second period goal from Guerin and an empty netter from Adams sealed the Penguins' victory in the game and the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Eastern Conference Final\nFollowing Game 4, Crosby hoisted the Prince of Wales Trophy after refusing to touch it the previous season. As team captain, Mario Lemieux hoisted the Prince of Wales Trophy in 1991 and 1992, and the Penguins won the Stanley Cup each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nFor the second consecutive season, the Penguins played the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Finals, marking the first time in 25\u00a0years that two teams played each other in consecutive Finals. Tickets for Games 3 and 4, which were hosted at Mellon Arena, sold out in 10\u00a0minutes. In the first game of the series, the Red Wings scored the first goal when a puck shot by Brad Stuart ricocheted off the boards behind the goal, then bounced off Marc-Andre Fleury and into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nRuslan Fedotenko, with an assist from Evgeni Malkin, tied the game before the conclusion of the first period. Detroit went on to score a goal in each of the final two periods to win Game 1, 3\u20131. Evgeni Malkin scored a powerplay goal in the first period of game two, but the Penguins were held scoreless for the remainder of the contest; falling 3\u20131 for a second consecutive game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nWith the Penguins down two games to none, the series shifted to Pittsburgh for Game 3. After a 2\u20132 first period and a scoreless second period, Sergei Gonchar and Maxime Talbot each scored a goal in the third period to give the Penguins a 4\u20132 victory. In Game 4, the Penguins tied the Red Wings at two games apiece with three unanswered goals in the second period, including a shorthanded goal by Jordan Staal. With the series returning to Detroit, the Red Wings took a three games to two lead in the series with a 5\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0035-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nStaal and Tyler Kennedy scored as the Penguins tied the series at three games apiece in a 2\u20131 game six victory. In the seventh and final game of the series, Maxime Talbot scored two goals and Fleury made 23\u00a0saves as the Penguins won their third Stanley Cup in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nEvgeni Malkin won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs. Fans celebrated in the streets of Pittsburgh after the game, with the Stanley Cup victory coming four months after the Pittsburgh Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XLIII. Two days after the victory, 375,000\u00a0people attended a parade of the Cup through downtown Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Team. Stats reflect time with the Team only. \u2021Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Team only. Bold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Awards and records, Awards\nPrior to the team's final home game on April 9 against the New York Islanders, the team announced its annual award winners. Awards were given by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, the Penguins Booster Club, as well as voted amongst the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nConcerns over future player contracts were raised just days after the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals. Approximately a dozen players, including Marian Hossa, Jarkko Ruutu, Ryan Malone and Brooks Orpik, had fulfilled the final year on their contracts. On June 28, the Penguins traded the contract negotiation rights to Gary Roberts and Ryan Malone to the Tampa Bay Lightning for a conditional draft pick; it became a third-round pick when both Malone and Roberts signed with the Lightning on June 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0039-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nEvgeni Malkin was offered a contract from a Russian team in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) worth approximately $12.5\u00a0million, tax exempt, per year, which would make him the highest-paid hockey player in the world. However, Malkin turned down the offer to remain with the Penguins, and the IIHF released a statement saying that it would not honor the offer, as Malkin was already under an existing contract with the Penguins at the time. Malkin agreed to a five-year contract extension worth $8.7\u00a0million per year\u2014the same value as Sidney Crosby's contract\u2014with the Penguins on July 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0039-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nOn July 3, the Penguins agreed to a seven-year deal with restricted free agent goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury in addition to one-year contracts with free agents Miroslav Satan and Ruslan Fedotenko. On October 8, the Penguins made several roster adjustments, placing Kris Beech, who was already in Europe looking for a new team, on unconditional waivers and sending Janne Pesonen, John Curry and Jeff Taffe, who first had to clear waivers, to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. The next day, on October 9, the Penguins acquired Michael Zigomanis from Phoenix for future considerations. On December 19, the team extended their agreement with Maxime Talbot for an additional two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Draft picks\nThe 2008 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 20\u201321, 2008, in Ottawa, Ontario. The Penguins did not make their first selection until the fourth round, at 120th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Farm teams\nPittsburgh's American Hockey League affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, finished the 2008\u201309 season third in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Farm teams\nChris Minard, the AHL's leading goal scorer at time of announcement, was selected as a starter for Team Canada in the 2009 All Star Classic. Jeff Taffe and Ben Lovejoy were selected as reserves for the PlanetUSA team. All three players were under two-way NHL contracts and played games with Pittsburgh during the season. In the game, Taffe scored three goals and recorded two assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Farm teams\nJanne Pesonen, who signed a contract with the Penguins in July 2008, finished the 2008\u201309 season as the AHL's fourth-leading scorer, set a new record for points in a single season for the team, surpassing Toby Petersen's 67-point season in 2000\u201301, and his 82 points were the most ever by a Finn in AHL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Farm teams\nThe ECHL affiliate Wheeling Nailers finished the season fourth in the Northern Division, and were eliminated in the first round of the 2009 Kelly Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Farm teams\nThe Nailers had three players selected for the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game, all reserve forwards. Nick Johnson, the only Penguins prospect, was drafted by the team 67th overall in 2004 and signed an entry-level contract with the organization in March 2008. Johnson did not play in the All-Star Game because he finished the season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Media affiliates\nWXDX-FM 105.9 of Pittsburgh was the radio flagship station for the Penguins for the third season. In April, the team and the station agreed to a six-year contract extension. Mike Lange, former Penguin Phil Bourque and Bob Grove were the station's broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200811-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Media affiliates\nFSN Pittsburgh was the primary television network. Paul Steigerwald, Dan Potash, Rob King, and former Penguins Bob Errey and Jay Caufield were the station's broadcast team. During the semi-final playoff round against the Washington Capitals, game five set a record as the highest watched game on any FSN regional network in history. It was then surpassed by games six and seven; the final game of the series drew a 24.97\u00a0average rating\u2014twice the viewers than the second most watched show of the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200812-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PlusLiga\n2008\u201309 PlusLiga was the 73rd season of Polish Championship (9th season as professional league - PlusLiga) organized by Professional Volleyball League SA (Polish: Profesjonalna Liga Pi\u0142ki Siatkowej S.A.) under the supervision of Polish Volleyball Federation (Polish: Polski Zwi\u0105zek Pi\u0142ki Siatkowej).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200812-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 PlusLiga\nIn season 2008/2009 PGE Skra Be\u0142chat\u00f3w and Domex Tytan AZS Cz\u0119stochowa played in CEV Champions League, AZS UWM Olsztyn and Jastrz\u0119bski W\u0119giel played in CEV Cup, Asseco Resovia Rzesz\u00f3w in CEV Challenge Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 football season was Plymouth Argyle Football Club's 40th season in the Football League Championship, the second division of English football, and their 104th as a professional club. It officially began on 1 July 2008, and concluded on 30 June 2009, although competitive matches were only played between August and May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe team's shirt supplier was Puma. The shirt sponsor was Ginsters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Season summary\nThe club began the 2008\u201309 season in the Football League Championship for the fourth successive year, following a highly creditable 10th-place finish the previous year. However, this season they finished 21st in the league table, one position and five points above the relegation zone with a record of 13 wins, 12 draws, and 21 defeats from 46 games. Their leading goalscorer was Paul Gallagher with 13 goals in all competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Season summary\nThe club entered the FA Cup in the third round, where they lost 3\u20131 away to Premier League club Arsenal. They entered the League Cup in the first round and were eliminated away to Luton Town of League Two, losing 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Season summary\nNotable players to begin their careers with the Pilgrims this season included Carl Fletcher, Alan Judge, Paul Gallagher, Karl Duguid and Chris Barker. The club captain was Romain Larrieu and the team captain was Karl Duguid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Season summary, Championship, League table\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Squad details, Player statistics\n# = Squad number; Pos = Playing position; P = Number of games played; G = Number of goals scored;  = Yellow cards;  = Red cards; GK = Goalkeeper; DF = Defender; MF = Midfielder; FW = Forward", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Squad details, Player statistics\nStatistics do not include minor competitions or games played for other clubs. All players who were provided a squad number during the 2008\u201309 season are included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200813-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season, Squad details, Starting 11\nThe following players have been named in the most starting line-ups. This line-up may differ from the list of players with most appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Polish Cup  was the fifty-fifth season of the annual Polish cup competition. It began on July 30, 2008 with the Extra Preliminary Round and ended on May 19, 2009 with the Final, played at Stadion \u015al\u0105ski, Chorz\u00f3w. The winners qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Legia Warszawa were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Extra Preliminary Round\nEight of the 32 teams which had qualified on regional levels competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Preliminary round\nThe four winners of the Extra Preliminary Round and the 24 remaining teams qualified through regional levels competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Round 1\nThe fourteen winners of the Preliminary Round, along with the eighteen teams from 2007\u201308 II Liga, competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Round 1\nThe matches were played on  26 and 27 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Round 1\nNote 1: The draw was conducted prior to the merger of Polonia Warszawa and Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski. Upon completion of the merger, Stal Stalowa Wola, who were originally to play former II Liga side Polonia Warszawa, were awarded a walkover to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Round 2\nThe sixteen winners of Round 1, along with the sixteen teams from 2007\u201308 Ekstraklasa, competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Round 3\nThe sixteen winners of Round 2 competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinals were played in two legs. The first legs were played on March 4, 17 and 18, 2009 while the second legs took place on April 7 and 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200814-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polish Cup, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were also played in two legs. The first legs were played on April 29 and 30, 2009, while the second legs took place on May 6 and 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200815-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Polska Liga Hokejowa season\nThe 2008\u201309 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 74th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 10 teams participated in the league, and KS Cracovia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Port Vale's 97th season of football in the English Football League, and first season in League Two, following their relegation from League One. After a poor start to the season manager Lee Sinnott was sacked in September, and was replaced by Dean Glover. Despite a brief period of improvement, Vale then slipped back down the table to finish in eighteenth place. The team were also poor in the cup competitions, exiting the FA Cup at the Second Round, and both the League Cup and the League Trophy at the First Round. Marc Richards was the club's top scorer with eleven goals, and goalkeeper Joe Anyon was Player of the Year despite breaking his leg towards the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nThe pre-season saw manager Lee Sinnott sign non-league midfielder Rob Taylor, former Hereford United defender John McCombe, and former Middlesbrough midfielder Steve Thompson. Both players cited Sinnott as their reason for joining the club. He also added experienced defender Sam Stockley (Wycombe Wanderers); midfielder Anthony Griffith (Doncaster Rovers); and attacking midfielder Louis Dodds (Leicester City) to the squad. Lee Collins also joined on an extended loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers, and would sign a permanent contract with the club in January. Stockley was appointed captain, and most of these players would become key for the club over the next few seasons. Just before the season's start, teenage Tom Taiwo also arrived on a month loan from Chelsea, as did Plymouth Argyle youngster Damien McCrory. The club was aiming for an immediate return to League One, and fans got behind the club with record high season ticket sales of over 6,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 1010]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nThe season started well in August, but all four league games in September ended in defeat. However Sinnott refused to compromise his managerial philosophy in order to pick up results. A 4\u20131 home defeat to Macclesfield Town on 20 September would prove to be Sinnott's last game in charge. Sinnott was sacked on 22 September, with the Valiants in 16th place, Dean Glover taking over as caretaker manager for the second time in twelve months. The players were against the decision to axe Sinnott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nSinnott would later take court action against the club for a breach of contract, and settle out of court. Glover was appointed as manager on a permanent basis on 6 October. A win at Shrewsbury Town instigated a run of four away wins out of five. However Vale soon returned to their poor form, and slid back down the table. At the end of October, former Vale star Dave Brammer joined on loan from Millwall, and would join permanently in the January transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0002-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nThe next month Scott Brown also arrived on loan from Cheltenham Town, and would also join on a permanent transfer two months later. This is also what happened with defender Gareth Owen, who arrived after leaving Stockport County following a bust-up with Jim Gannon. Notts County player Neil MacKenzie also joined on loan, but would not enjoy his short stay in Stoke-on-Trent. Attempts to bring back Chris Birchall on loan failed. Leaving Burslem was Chris Slater, who returned to former club Chasetown. In December, Andy Porter left the club's backroom staff after seventeen years at the club, highlighting the unrest in the camp. Both Porter and Mark Grew had turned down offers to become Glover's assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nIn January, striker Luke Rodgers was released from his contract after a bust-up with manager Dean Glover, and immediately signed with Yeovil Town. Shane Tudor retired due to injury on 21 January. As well as the permanent signings of a number of loan players, Glover also brought in Pakistan international Adnan Ahmed on loan from Tranmere Rovers. Glover stated the club's revised aim was a top-half finish. In February, Glover signed Carlisle United striker Kevin Gall on loan. He failed to score in seven games with the club, and returned to Carlisle after picking up a calf injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nIn March, Kyle Perry was allowed to join local non-league side Northwich Victoria, after being told he had no future at Vale. In his place came loanee winger Paul Marshall from Manchester City. On 23 March, Anyon broke his leg at Saltergate in a defeat to Chesterfield. With Vale going eight games without a win, Glover admitted he was 'a dead man walking', and implored the fan's not to boo his son. Fans protested against both the board and the manager. The final game was a 2\u20131 win over Barnet at the Underhill Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nThey finished in eighteenth place with 48 points, 21 points short of the play-offs, and eleven points clear of relegation. Only Accrington Stanley and Chester City scored fewer than Vale's tally of 44 goals. With fourteen defeats only Macclesfield Town and Chester lost more games than Vale. Had Bournemouth and Luton Town not faced point deductions then Vale would have finished in twentieth place. Marc Richards was the club's top scorer with eleven goals in all competitions, whilst Louis Dodds also contributed ten goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nAt the end of the season most of the playing staff were retained, though Scott Brown returned to Cheltenham Town, Kyle Perry was released and signed with Mansfield Town, and Dave Brammer had to retire after Chairman Bill Bratt informed him via voicemail that he would not be offered a new contract. Youth team graduate Paul Dixon was not offered a new contract. Dean Glover, unpopular with the fans, was also informed that he would not be retained as manager for the following season, and left the club permanently after he rejected the opportunity to remain as a youth coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, League Two\nA slow uptake of season ticket sales was one major factor in Glover's sacking. Following Glover's departure the club withdrew their contract offer to Paul Edwards, who went on to play for Barrow. However Player of the Year Joe Anyon stayed at the club, despite claiming other clubs were interested in his signature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial side, poor results encouraged Vale fans to organize protests against manager Glover and the board, including Chairman Bill Bratt. With talks of fresh investment from shirt sponsors Harlequin Property came rumours on the internet that the company were planning to demolish Vale Park and build a supermarket, paying off Bratt to ensure his compliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nBratt passionately denied these accusations, seemingly angered by the suggestion and claimed that if he were to comply with the protesters demands and remove himself and the rest of the V-2001 directors from the Board, then the club would fold as banks and creditors would seek their money. He also reiterated his prior statements by stating that he would be prepared to leave his position if the right offer were to be made. The club had to make monthly repayments of around \u00a319,000 for a \u00a32.25 million loan taken out from the local council in 2005. The club's shirt sponsorship came from Harlequin Property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale advanced past Huddersfield Town with a 4\u20133 win at the Galpharm Stadium, Dodds hitting a brace. They then were knocked out by Macclesfield Town at the Second Round stage with a 3\u20131 home defeat. This meant the Vale missed out on a lucrative home tie with Premier League side Everton. Keeper Anyon slammed his defenders for their part in the defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Cup, Vale were defeated 3\u20131 by Championship outfit Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200816-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Trophy, Vale exited at the First Round with a 1\u20130 defeat to Stockport County at Edgeley Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200817-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vila Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 TVL Premier League or 2008\u201309 Port Vila Premier League is the 15th season of the Port Vila Premier League top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200817-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vila Premier League\nThe top five of the league qualify for the 2009 VFF Bred Cup, the national league of Vanuatu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200817-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Port Vila Premier League\nTafea FC were champions and Erakor Golden Star and Ifira Black Bird relegated to the 2009\u201310 TVL First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200818-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Portland State Vikings men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Portland State Vikings men's basketball team represented Portland State University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Vikings, led by head coach Ken Bone, played their home games at the Peter Stott Center and were members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 23\u201310, 11\u20135 in Big Sky play to finish second in the conference regular season standings. They won the Big Sky Tournament to earn an automatic bid \u2013 for the second straight season \u2013 to the NCAA Tournament. As No. 13 seed in the East region, the Vikings were defeated in the opening round by Xavier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200819-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 39th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the playoffs, the Trail Blazers lost to the Houston Rockets in six games in the First Round. The Trail Blazers had the second best team offensive rating in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200820-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Portsmouth F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 football season Portsmouth played their sixth consecutive season in the highest tier of English football, the Premier League. Thanks to the exploits of the previous season, Portsmouth achieved European football for the first time in their footballing history, thanks to an FA Cup win over Cardiff City; they competed in the UEFA Cup. They also participated in the Charity Shield, against Manchester United on 10 August 2008, at Wembley Stadium, eventually losing on penalties. This was the first time since 1996 that a team outside of the \"Big Four\" had competed in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200820-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Portsmouth F.C. season, Statistics, Appearances, Others\nIncludes players who have yet to feature prominently and former players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200820-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Portsmouth F.C. season, Competitions, Community Shield\nPortsmouth lost the 2008 FA Community Shield 3\u20131 on penalties against 2007\u201308 Premier League winners Manchester United after the match finished 0\u20130 after 90 minutes on 10 August. It was Pompey's second game against United in the space of two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League\nThe 2008\u201309 Premier Academy League Under\u201318 season was the twelfth edition since the establishment of The Premier Academy League, and the fifth under the current make-up. The first matches of the season were played on 23 August 2008, and the season ended on 18 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League\nAll teams played the other teams in their group twice and played 10 inter-group fixtures, producing 28 games a season. Eight of the inter-group games were played against teams in their 'paired group' (i.e. A\u2013B and C\u2013D are the paired groups), whilst the remaining two games comprise one game against a team in each of the two remaining groups. Winners of each group qualified for play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League\nArsenal became the first group winners by leading Crystal Palace 20 points with 6 games left in Group A after a 1\u20130 win against Watford on 21 March 2009. Group C champions Manchester City set up tie with Arsenal in the play-off the following week by recording a 23\u2013game unbeaten run which last to 26 games. Sunderland secured top spot in Group D after achieving the 14th win in last 15 games on 31 March. These 3 teams all clinched the group title for a third successive season. Tottenham Hotspur claimed the last play-off spot after beating Watford 2\u20131 on 6 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League\nArsenal reached the 2009 Premier Academy League Play-off Final with a 2\u20131 victory over Manchester City at the City of Manchester Stadium on 8 May. Tottenham Hotspur set up clash with Arsenal after defeating Sunderland 2\u20131 at the Stadium of Light on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League\nOn 17 May, Arsenal were crowned the 2008\u201309 Premier Academy League Champions after a 1\u20130 win against Tottenham Hotspur in the Play-off Final at White Hart Lane, with a goal from Rhys Murphy. It is Arsenal's first title since the Premier Academy League reformed as an under\u201318 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200821-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Academy League, League tables, Academy Group D\nRules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scoredPos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = PointsC = Champions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th season since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992. Manchester United became champions for the 11th time on the penultimate weekend of the season, defending their crown after winning their tenth Premier League title on the final day of the previous season. They were run close by Liverpool, who had a better goal difference and who had beaten United home and away, including a 4\u20131 victory at Old Trafford, but who were undone by a series of draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nThe campaign \u2013 the fixtures for which were announced on 16 June 2008 \u2013 began on Saturday, 16 August 2008, and ended on 24 May 2009. A total of 20 teams contested the league, consisting of 17 who competed in the previous season and three promoted from the Football League Championship. The new match ball was the Nike T90 Omni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nAt the start of this season, clubs were allowed to name seven substitutes on the bench instead of five. This season was also different in that there was no New Year's Day game, as is traditional. This was because the FA Cup Third Round is traditionally played on the first Saturday in January, which in 2009 fell in the usual spot for New Year's league games. September saw Manchester City taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group, transforming them into one of the world's wealthiest football clubs, securing the signing of Robinho for a British record \u00a332.5\u00a0million just seconds before the 2008 summer transfer window closed in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nThe first goal of the season was scored by Arsenal's Samir Nasri against newly promoted West Bromwich Albion in the fourth minute of the early kick-off game on the opening day of the season on 16 August. Gabriel Agbonlahor of Aston Villa scored the first hat-trick of the season against Manchester City, scoring three goals in the space of seven minutes. Manchester United clinched the 2009 Premier League title with a scoreless draw against Arsenal on 16 May 2009, their 11th Premier League title, and 18th League title overall, drawing level with fierce rivals Liverpool who finished as runners-up. It is the second time they clinched the title for three consecutive years, the first being in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nWest Bromwich Albion were the first team to be relegated to the Championship after losing 2\u20130 at home to Liverpool on 17 May 2009. They were joined in the Championship by Middlesbrough and Newcastle United on the last day of the season after Middlesbrough's defeat at West Ham United and Newcastle's 1\u20130 defeat at Aston Villa. It meant that Hull City and Sunderland stayed up despite home defeats to Manchester United and Chelsea respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League\nThe fact that Hull City avoided relegation (along with Stoke City, who stayed up relatively comfortably under the management of Tony Pulis), meant it was the first time since the 2005\u201306 season that more than one promoted club maintained their Premier League status. Aston Villa, Everton and Fulham all secured European football for the 2009\u201310 season through their league position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Teams\nTwenty teams competed in the league\u00a0\u2013 the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Championship. The promoted teams were West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City (returning to the top flight after absences of two and twenty-three years respectively) and Hull City (playing top flight football for the first time ever). This was also Stoke City's first season in the Premier League. They replaced Reading (ending their two-year top flight spell), Birmingham City and Derby County (both teams relegated after a season's presence).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Teams, Personnel and kits\nAlso, Nike provided new match balls, white with red and yellow (autumn/spring) and yellow with purple and black (winter), based on their T90 Laser II Omni model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Manager of the Season\nSir Alex Ferguson, 67, picked up the Premier League Manager of the Season for the ninth time. During his hugely successful spell with Manchester United, which began in 1986, he won eleven Premier League titles, five FA Cups, three League Cups, three European titles, one Intercontinental Cup and one Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 83], "content_span": [84, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Player of the Season\nNemanja Vidi\u0107, 27, won the Premier League Player of the Season accolade for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 82], "content_span": [83, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, PFA Players' Player of the Year\nThe PFA Players' Player of the Year award for 2009 was won by Ryan Giggs of Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, PFA Players' Player of the Year\nThe shortlist for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, PFA Team of the Year\nGoalkeeper: Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United)Defence: Glen Johnson (Portsmouth), Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidi\u0107 (all Manchester United)Midfield: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs (both Manchester United), Ashley Young (Aston Villa)Attack: Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), Fernando Torres (Liverpool)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, PFA Young Player of the Year\nThe PFA Young Player of the Year award was won by Ashley Young of Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, FWA Footballer of the Year\nThe FWA Footballer of the Year award for 2009 was won by Steven Gerrard for the first time. The Liverpool captain saw off the challenges of Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs and forward Wayne Rooney, who finished second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Golden Boot\nChelsea striker Nicolas Anelka won the Premier League Golden Boot award for the first time. He scored 19 goals in 35 appearances, which ensured he finished as the season's top scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Golden Glove\nManchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar collected the Premier League Golden Glove award for the first time. He kept a total of 21 clean sheets in 33 appearances, including a record run of 11 consecutive clean sheets (1,311\u00a0minutes) from Stoke City on 15 November 2008 to West Bromwich Albion on 27 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Fair Play Award\nThe Premier League Fair Play Award is merit given to the team who has been the most sporting and best behaved team. Fulham won this, ahead of London neighbours Chelsea and Arsenal. Hull City were deemed the least sporting side, finished in last place in the rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, LMA Manager of the Year\nThe LMA Manager of the Year award was won by David Moyes after leading Everton to back-to-back fifth-place finishes and the FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, PFA Fans' Player of the Year\nSteven Gerrard was named the PFA Fans' Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Premier League Spirit Award\nThe Premier League Spirit Award is given to \"the player or manager whose actions best encapsulate the spirit of the game\". In recognition for leading his club to the top of the Fair Play league, the Premier League Spirit Award for 2008\u201309 was given to Fulham manager Roy Hodgson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200822-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League, Awards, Annual awards, Behaviour of the Public League\nGiven to the best-behaved fans, Fulham won this for the third consecutive year, rounding off a hat-trick of sporting awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200823-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina\nThe 2008\u201309 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Premijer Liga) was the ninth season since its establishment and the seventh as a unified country-wide league. It started on 2 August 2008 and ended on 23 May 2009. Modri\u010da were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200823-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Promotion and relegation\nJedinstvo Biha\u0107 and \u017dep\u010de were relegated after the 2007\u201308 season due to finishing in 15th and 16th place, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200823-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Promotion and relegation\nThey were replaced by the champions of two second-level leagues, Zvijezda Grada\u010dac (Prva Liga BiH) and Borac Banja Luka (Prva Liga RS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200824-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League\nThe 2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League (officially known as the 2008\u201309 Barclays Premier Reserve League for sponsorship reasons) is the tenth season since the establishment of the Premier Reserve League. The season began on 1 September 2008, and ended with the play-off final on 21 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200824-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League\nThe events in the senior leagues during the 2007\u201308 season saw Birmingham City, Derby County and Reading all relegated and replaced by the promoted teams Hull City, Stoke City, and West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200824-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League\nSunderland won Premier Reserve League North title after beating Manchester City 3\u20130 on 14 April 2009. Aston Villa sealed the Premier Reserve League South title for a second successive season with a 2\u20130 win over West Bromwich Albion on 27 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200824-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League\nOn 21 May, Aston Villa were crowned the 2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League Champions after a 3\u20131 win against Sunderland in the Play-off Final at Villa Park. It is Aston Villa Reserves' first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200824-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Reserve League, Tables, Premier Reserve League South\nRules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scoredPos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; C = Champions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League\nThe 2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League season (known as the ABSA Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the thirteenth since its establishment. Supersport United were the defending champions, having won their first Premier Soccer League title on the final day of the previous season. The campaign began in August 2008, ended in May 2009. A total of 16 teams contested in the league, 14 of which contested in the 2007\u201308 season, and two of which were have been promoted from the National First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, Season summary\nSupersport United defended their title to win their second consecutive Premiership title. Orlando Pirates came close to taking the title in the final game. Both teams were tied at the top of the points table with 55 points each. Supersport United had a greater goal difference with 23 goals over Orlando Pirates's 17 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, Season summary\nBay United were relegated to the National League after finishing at the bottom of the table on 21 points. Thanda Royal Zulu will go into a playoff with teams from the National League to determain if they will retain their place in the PSL or be relegated to the National League after ending 15th on the league table with 33 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, Season summary\nBloemfontein Celtic survived relegation on goal difference, ending 14th on the league table with 33 points. They were tied with Thanda Royal Zulu, but their goal difference were greater than that of Thanda Royal Zulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, PSL Awards\nTeko Modise was the biggest winner at the annual Premier Soccer League awards dinner on 24 May 2009 at Gold Reef City Casino, pocketing a whopping R400 000 after he was named Footballer of the Year and Players' Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, PSL Awards\nIt was the second time that the Orlando Pirates midfielder bagged the coveted Footballer of the Year honour, following his controversial win last season. This time, however, Modise's brilliance from the unusual left of midfield position helped Pirates mount a championship bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, PSL Awards\nLucas Thwala, who earlier this month was named Pirates' Player of the Season ahead of Modise, was named the Premiership Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200825-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League, PSL Awards\nAjax Cape Town's Franklin Cale won the award for the Telkom Knockout Player of the Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby\nThe 2008\u201309 Guinness Premiership was the 22nd season of the top flight of the English domestic rugby union competitions, played between September 2008 and May 2009. Round 1 included the London Double Header at Twickenham, between the four London teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby\nThis season saw the introduction of the controversial ELVs, although only 13 of the rules were used, as opposed to the 30 that were trialled in the Super 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, The previous season\nNorthampton Saints gained promotion to the league this season by finishing top of the National Division One, taking the place of Leeds Carnegie who were relegated. In 2007\u20132008, Gloucester RFC finished top of the league but were beaten by Leicester Tigers in the semi-finals. London Wasps went on to beat Leicester Tigers 26\u201316 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Season synopsis\nLeicester Tigers finished top of the league table, then were crowned Champions after defeating Bath 24\u201310 in the semi-final and London Irish 10\u20139 in the final at Twickenham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Season synopsis\nGoing into the season, the top six clubs were all assured of berths in the 2009\u201310 Heineken Cup. By advancing to the final of the 2008\u201309 competition, Leicester secured a seventh place for England. The four Premiership semi-finalists\u2014Leicester, Harlequins, London Irish, and Bath\u2014plus Sale Sharks and Gloucester secured Heineken Cup berths. The seventh berth was secured by Northampton Saints when they defeated French side Bourgoin in the European Challenge Cup final on 22 May. The remaining clubs that will compete in the 2009\u201310 Premiership will compete in the 2009\u201310 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Season synopsis\nThe club that finishes bottom of the table is relegated and replaced by the club that tops the second-level National Division One. This season, Bristol were relegated, to be replaced by Leeds Carnegie, which won promotion at the first opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Teams\nNorthampton Saints, having won the 2007\u201308 National Division One, replaced Leeds Carnegie, who were relegated last season after finishing bottom of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Table\nIf teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200826-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Premiership Rugby, Top scorers\nNote: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who did not earn international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Preston North End F.C. competed in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season, Season summary\nHaving spent most of the previous season embroiled in a relegation battle, this season Preston edged into the play-offs in sixth place, pipping Cardiff City on the last day of the season. Though being level with seventh-placed Cardiff with 74 points and a goal difference of +12 each, Preston gained sixth place by virtue of having scored one more goal than Cardiff over the course of the season. The run of form that had seen Preston reach the playoffs saw manager Alan Irvine named the Championship's Manager of the Month for April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season, Season summary\nPreston were drawn against third-placed Sheffield United in the semi-finals. United won 2\u20131 over legs, consigning Preston to another season in the second tier of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season, Kit\nFor the fourth consecutive season, Preston's kits were manufactured by Italian company Diadora, who introduced new home and away kits. The home kit was a white shirt with navy shorts and navy and white hooped socks, inspired by the club's kit from the late fifties and early sixties. (White shorts were worn for the away match at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 10 January). The away kit was a yellow shirt with navy sleeves, yellow shorts and yellow socks with navy turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 42], "content_span": [43, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200827-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Preston North End F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200828-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primeira Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 Primeira Liga was the 75th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. It began on 22 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009. Porto was the three-time defending champions and secured a fourth consecutive title for the second time in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200828-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primeira Liga, Promotion and relegation, Teams relegated to Liga de Honra\nUni\u00e3o de Leiria have been relegated to the Liga de Honra after finishing in last place in 2007\u201308 Primeira Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 81], "content_span": [82, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200828-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primeira Liga, Promotion and relegation, Teams relegated to Liga de Honra\nBoavista were also relegated as a punishment for their participation in a match fixing scandal in 2003\u201304 season. Accordingly, Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira, which was originally scheduled to be relegated, was saved from demotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 81], "content_span": [82, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200828-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primeira Liga, Promotion and relegation, Teams promoted from Liga de Honra\nLeiria and Boavista were replaced by two promoted teams from Liga de Honra. The first was Trofense, which clinched the second level title. This was its first appearance in Primeira Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200828-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primeira Liga, Promotion and relegation, Teams promoted from Liga de Honra\nTrofense was accompanied by Rio Ave, which returned to the Primeira Liga after two seasons in the Liga de Honra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200829-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera B Nacional\nThe 2008\u201309 Argentine Primera B Nacional was the 23rd season of second division professional of football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams competed; the champion and runner-up were promoted to Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200829-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera B Nacional, Promotion/Relegation Playoff Legs Primera Divisi\u00f3n-Primera B Nacional\nThe 3rd and 4th placed of the table played with the 18th and the 17th placed of the Relegation Table of 2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200829-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera B Nacional, Relegation\nNote: Clubs with indirect affiliation with AFA are relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, while clubs directly affiliated face relegation to Primera B Metropolitana. Clubs with direct affiliation are all from Greater Buenos Aires, with the exception of Newell's, Rosario Central, Central C\u00f3rdoba and Argentino de Rosario, all from Rosario, and Uni\u00f3n and Col\u00f3n from Santa Fe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200829-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera B Nacional, Relegation\nThe bottom two teams of this table face relegation regardless of their affiliation status. Apart from them, the bottom teams of each affiliation face promotion/relegation playoffs against Torneo Argentino A and Primera B Metropolitana's \"Reducido\" (reduced tournaments) champions. The Reducidos are played after those leagues' champions are known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200830-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3\nThe 2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3 was the fourteenth season of top-tier football in Andorra. It began on 21 September 2008 and ended on 7 May 2009. FC Santa Coloma were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200830-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3, Competition format\nThe participating teams first played a conventional round-robin schedule with every team playing each opponent once home and once away for a total of 14 games. The league was then split up in two groups of four teams with each of them playing teams within their group a home-and-away cycle of games. The top four teams competed for the championship. The bottom four clubs played out one direct relegation spot and one relegation play-off spot. Records earned in the First Round were taken over to the respective Second Rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200830-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3, Promotion and relegation\nCasa Estrella del Benfica were relegated after the last season due to finishing in 8th place. They were replaced by Segona Divisi\u00f3 champions UE Santa Coloma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200830-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3, Promotion and relegation\nFurther, UE Engordany and Segona Divisi\u00f3 runners-up UE Extremenya played a two-legged relegation play-off. Engordany kept their spot in Primera Divisi\u00f3 by winning 5\u20133 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200830-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3, Relegation play-offs\nInter Club d'Escaldes competed in a two-legged relegation play-off against Atl\u00e8tic Club d'Escaldes, runners-up from Segona Divisi\u00f3, for one spot in 2009\u201310 Primera Divisi\u00f3. Inter successfully retained their Primera Divisi\u00f3 spot after winning on penalties 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200831-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Costa Rica)\nThe Invierno 2008-09 season started on July 27 with 2 groups of 6 teams, they will play twice (home and away) with the teams of their own group (10 games) and once with the teams of the other group (6 games), for a total of 16 games. The 3 top teams of each group qualify for the playoffs. The winners of group A and B get a bye week, while the 2nd of group A plays the 3rd of group B and the 2nd of group B plays the 3rd of group A. The winners of these series move to the semi-final series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200831-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Costa Rica)\nThe home field advantage in the playoffs is given to the team with the best record in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200831-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Costa Rica)\nThe winner of the playoff series will gain entry into the group stage of the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League. The runner-up will gain entry into the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round. If the same team wins both the Invierno and Verano tournaments then the preliminary round spot will be awarded to the team with the next best regular season record in the Verano tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season\nThe format for the 2008\u201309 season changed from 2 groups of 12 to 3 groups of 9 teams. This gave the opportunity and the number increased from 24 to 27, many teams served as reserve teams from teams in D1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Primera Divisi\u00f3n A Apertura 2008 is a Mexican football tournament, one of two short tournaments held each year. It began on July 18, 2008 and ran until December 7, 2008. The reigning champions, Le\u00f3n, were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Irapuato on a 2\u20131 two-leg aggregate, and thus could not successfully defend their Clausura 2008 title. Quer\u00e9taro won the tournament, defeating Irapuato on a 2\u20130 two-leg aggregate, and will earn a spot into the promotional playoff held after the end of the Clausura 2009 season, where the winners of the two tournaments meet in an effort to gain promotion to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura\nAfter winning the 2008 promotional playoff against Le\u00f3n, the Indios were promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n. Veracruz were relegated to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n A due to finishing at the bottom of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n relegation table. Pachuca Juniors won the right to be promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n A after winning the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n promotional playoff but lacked the certificate of promotion given to teams by the Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de F\u00fatbol Asociaci\u00f3n. Instead, Irapuato were promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n A, and two new reserve teams were created for the Indios of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez (Chihuahua) and Atlante (Chetumal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura, Tournament format\nA total of 27 teams are divided into three groups of nine teams each. Each team plays the other eight teams in its group twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 16 games. At the end of the regular season the top two teams in each group, as well as the next two highest placed teams, qualify to the Liguilla. The teams are seeded based on their position in the general table and are arranged before each round so that the highest seeded team remaining always plays the lowest seed remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura, Tournament format\nThe teams play a home and home series and whichever team has the better aggregate score advances. If the two teams are tied after both legs in the quarterfinals and semifinals the higher seed advances automatically. In the finals, if the two teams are tied after both legs two 15 minute halves of extra time are added. If the teams are still tied after extra time the champion is determined through a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura, Tournament format, Promotion\nOne team is promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n each year (two short tournaments). After the Clausura 2009 tournament, the champions of the Apertura 2008 and Clausura 2009 tournaments will play a home and home series to determine which team will be promoted. If the same team wins both tournaments it will be promoted automatically. In order for a team to be promoted it has to obtain a certification from the Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de F\u00fatbol Asociaci\u00f3n. If the winner of the promotional final is not certified for promotion a home and home series is played between the highest placed certified team and the club being relegated to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n A to determine which will be in the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Apertura, Tournament format, Relegation\nOne team is relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n each year (two short tournaments). The team that has the worst points to games played ratio over the previous three years (Apertura 2006, Clausura 2007, Apertura 2007, Clausura 2008, Apertura 2008, Clausura 2009) is relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Primera Divisi\u00f3n A Clausura 2009 is a Mexican football tournament, the second of two short tournaments held during the 2008\u20132009 Mexican football season. It began on January 10, 2009 and will run until May 23 or May 24, 2009. The winner of the tournament will earn a place in the promotional playoff against Quer\u00e9taro, the winners of the Apertura 2008 tournament, to determine which team will be promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Clausura, Tournament format\nA total of 27 teams are divided into three groups of nine teams each. Each team plays the other eight teams in its group twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 16 games. At the end of the regular season the top two teams in each group, as well as the next two highest placed teams, qualify to the Liguilla (playoffs). The teams are seeded based on their position in the general table and are arranged before each round so that the highest seeded team remaining always plays the lowest seed remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Clausura, Tournament format\nThe teams play a home and away series and whichever team has the better aggregate score advances. If the two teams are tied after both legs in the quarterfinals and semifinals the higher seed advances automatically. In the finals, if the two teams are tied after both legs two 15 minute halves of extra time are added. If the teams are still tied after extra time the champion is determined through a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Clausura, Tournament format, Promotion\nOne team is promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n each year (two short tournaments). After the Clausura 2009 tournament, the champions of the Apertura 2008 and Clausura 2009 tournaments will play a home and home series to determine which team will be promoted. If the same team wins both tournaments it will be promoted automatically. In order for a team to be promoted it has to obtain a certification from the Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de F\u00fatbol Asociaci\u00f3n. If the winner of the promotional final is not certified for promotion a home and away series is played between the highest placed certified team and the club being relegated to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n A to determine which will be in the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200832-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n A season, Torneo Clausura, Tournament format, Relegation\nOne team is relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n each year (two short tournaments). The team that has the worst points to games played ratio over the previous three years (Apertura 2006, Clausura 2007, Apertura 2007, Clausura 2008, Apertura 2008, Clausura 2009) is relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200833-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Principality Premiership\nThe 2008\u201309 Principality Premiership was the fourteenth Principality Premiership season and the fifth under its current format. The season began in September 2008 and ended in May 2009. Fourteen teams played each other on a home and away basis, with teams earning four points for a win, and a bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match. The losing team may also earn a bonus point if they lose by seven points or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200833-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Principality Premiership\nThe fourteen teams competing were Aberavon RFC, Bedwas RFC, Bridgend Ravens, Cardiff RFC, Cross Keys RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC, Glamorgan Wanderers RFC, Llandovery RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypool RFC, Pontypridd RFC, Swansea RFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200834-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pro A season\nThe 2008\u201309 LNB Pro A season was the 87th season of the French Basketball Championship and the 22nd season since inception of the Ligue Nationale de Basketball (LNB). The regular season started on October 3, 2008 and ended on May 11, 2009. The play-offs were held from May 22, 2009 until June 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200834-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Pro A season\nASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, after finishing at the top seed of the regular season, won the French Pro A League by defeating Orl\u00e9ans in playoffs final (55-41).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200835-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Professional Arena Soccer League season\nThe 2008-09 Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL- Pro) is the inaugural season for the league. The PASL-Pro is the largest indoor soccer league, hosting 21 teams spreading from Canada, the United States of America, and the Mexico. All US soccer clubs were invited to play in the United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer which 25 PASL-Pro and PASL-Premier teams, respectively, played in, as well as future PASL-Pro team, the San Diego Sockers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200835-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Professional Arena Soccer League season\nThe league kicked off at the Stockton Arena with the Stockton Cougars defeating the Colorado Lightning 10-5. The regular season concluded March 8, 2009 with three separate matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200835-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Professional Arena Soccer League season\nOn March 15, 2009 the Stockton Cougars won the inaugural championship 13-5 over 1790 Cincinnati. Stockton's goalkeeper, Jesus Molina, was named the playoffs MVP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200835-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Professional Arena Soccer League season, Standings\nAs of March 15, 2009\u00a0\u00a02008-09 League Championship\u00a0\u00a02008-09 Playoff Team(Bold indicates Division Winner)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200836-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team represented Providence College in the Big East Conference. The team finished with a 10\u20138 conference record and a 19\u201314 record overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200836-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nIn March 2008, head coach Tim Welsh was fired by the school after finishing with a losing record for the third time in four seasons. In April, Drake University head coach Keno Davis replaced him; Davis was named the 2008 Associated Press National Coach of the Year in his first and only season as a head coach at Drake. The Friars had previously been turned down by Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, who coached Providence to the 1987 Final Four, George Mason University head coach Jim Larranaga, a Providence alumnus, and University of Massachusetts head coach Travis Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200836-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nDavis inherited all five starters from Welsh's final season with the Friars. However, prior to the season junior guard Dwain Williams transferred to Oregon State, while reserve forward Charles Burch was the team's lone departing senior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200836-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nAt home, the Friars twice defeated ranked opponents; on January 28 they defeated #15 Syracuse, and on February 24, the Friars knocked off #1 Pittsburgh, the first time the school had accomplished the feat since 1976. The Friars received votes in the AP Poll after each win, but were not ranked at any point in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200836-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nFinishing with a 10-8 record in the Big East, the Friars began the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament as an eighth seed, defeating DePaul in the first round before falling to top-seeded Louisville in the quarterfinals. They missed the NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight season and lost in the first round of the NIT to Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200837-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University. The head coach was Matt Painter, then in his 4th season with the Boilers. The team played its home games in Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana, and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers finished tied for second in the conference's regular season, and captured their first Big Ten Tournament crown, defeating Ohio State 65\u201361 in the final game. In the NCAA Tournament, the Boilers reached the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2000, where they fell to the Connecticut Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200838-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants season\nThe 2008\u201309 Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants season was the 21st season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 QMJHL season was the 40th season of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The regular season began on September 11, 2008, and ended on March 15, 2009. The 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge series, featuring Team QMJHL versus the Russian Selects, took place on November 17 and 19, 2008. Eighteen teams played 68 games each. The Drummondville Voltigeurs, who finished first overall in the regular season, went on to capture their first President's Cup vs. the Shawinigan Cataractes in a series they won 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Standings, Division Standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses\u00a0; SL - Shootout losses\u00a0; GF = Goals for\u00a0; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Standings, Overall Standing\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses\u00a0; SL - Shootout losses\u00a0; GF = Goals for\u00a0; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Standings, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, 2008 NHL Entry Draft\nIn total, 27 QMJHL players were selected at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, Trades\n2nd round pick, 2009 (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies)3rd round pick, 2009 (Acadie-Bathurst Titan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, Trades\nJulien Tremblay2nd round pick, 2009 (Victoriaville Tigres)2nd round pick, 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, Trades\nNathan Dunnett7th round pick, 2009 (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies)3rd round pick, 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, Trades\n1st round pick, 2009 (Quebec Remparts)2nd round pick, 20093rd round pick, 2009 (Quebec Remparts)7th round pick, 20091st round pick, 20104th round pick, 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Players, Trades\nGuillaume Pelletier4th round pick, 20092nd round pick, 20102nd round pick, 20113rd round pick, 2011", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe ADT Canada Russia Challenge is a six-game series featuring four teams: three from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) versus Russia's National Junior hockey team. Within the Canadian Hockey League umbrella, one team from each of its three leagues\u00a0\u2014 the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and Western Hockey League\u00a0\u2014 compete in two games against the Russian junior team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe ADT Canada Russia Challenge has become a highlight on the CHL schedule and we are very proud to be associated with it. These two nations have such a storied hockey history that fans from across the country tune in expecting to see a hard fought series. We expect nothing short of world class hockey this November that hockey fans from across the country won't want to miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge was held in six cities across Canada, with two cities for each league within the Canadian Hockey League. The series began on November 17, 2008, and concluded on November 27, 2008. All six games were televised nationally on Rogers Sportsnet, along with RDS televising both games from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nIn the first game of the two part series between Team QMJHL and the Russian Selects, Team QMJHL scored five goals en route to a 5\u20133 win in front of 4,378 fans at Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Kmitri Kugryshev of the Russian Selects and goaltender Olivier Roy of Team QMJHL were named the ADT Players of the Game for their respective teams. The Russian Selects evened the ADT Canada Russia Challenge, winning the second game after having registered four goals in a 4\u20133 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 6,451 assembled at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200839-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 QMJHL season, Memorial Cup\nThe 91st MasterCard Memorial Cup was held in Rimouski, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League\nThe 2008\u201309 Qatari League or Q-League season was the 36th edition of top level football in Qatar and started on the 13 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League\nThe 2008\u201309 calendar released by the QFA saw the first phase run through 13 September till 23 November before phase two kicked off on 27 November to end on 7 February 2009. The final phase started on February 12 and concluded on April 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League\nTen teams played for the title of league champions with each outfit playing 27 matches. The last team in the standings was to be relegated until the QFA announced an expansion to the league for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League\nThe competition will be played at the seven stadiums of Al-Sadd, Al-Rayyan Sports Club, Al-Gharrafa, Al Wakrah, Al Khor, Qatar Sports Club, and Al-Arabi Sports Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League\nAl-Gharrafa won the title last season after pipping powerhouse Al-Sadd into second place while Al Shamal were relegated and their place in the top division will now be taken up by Al Khuratiyat SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League, League Expansion\nThe Qatar Stars League has slowly expanded since the turn of the decade, moving from 9 clubs to 10 clubs and then latest setup of 12 clubs for the 2009\u201310 Qatari League campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League, League Expansion\nThere are 2 divisions in the Qatari football structure and the league has previously seen one club promoted and relegated each year except in 'expansion' years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200840-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Qatar Stars League, League Expansion\nIt was announced on 15 April 2009 that no clubs would be relegated from the top flight in the Qatari League 2008-09 season, due to expansion reasons. The announcement was made with only one game remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was one of two first-class domestic cricket competitions that were held in Pakistan during the 2008\u201309 season. It was the 51st edition of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, contested by 22 teams representing regional cricket associations and departments, and was preceded in the schedule by the Pentangular Cup, contested by five teams representing the four provinces and the federal areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy\nThe format of the competition remained the same as the previous season, with the teams split into two groups of eleven playing 4-day matches in a round-robin and a 5-day final between the top teams in each group to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy\nThere were, however, changes to the structure of the groups; whereas the regions are departments were divided evenly between the groups in 2007\u201308, in 2008\u201309 the nine departmental teams were in Group A and eleven of the regional teams were in Group B; since both Karachi and Lahore had two teams in the competition, in order to even the groups, one from each was placed in Group A. The Group B match between Quetta and Rawalpindi was completed in 20.1 overs, with a match aggregate of 85 runs being scored. It was the lowest run-aggregate for a completed first-class cricket match, although both sides had forfeited their first innings after no play was possible on the first two days due to bad weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy\nSialkot beat Khan Research Laboratories, who had reached the final on net run rate, by 4 wickets in the final to win the trophy for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Group stage\nThe top teams in the round-robin group stage (highlighted) advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200841-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Group stage\nPosition determined by total points, most matches won after having a lead on first innings, fewest matches lost, followed by adjusted net run rate (matches with no result, i.e. those where both teams did not complete their first innings, were disregarded); matches finishing in a draw were decided on first innings scores, with points awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, Queens Park Rangers played in the Football League Championship, their fifth consecutive season at this level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Pre-season, New managerial team\nIan Dowie was announced as the replacement for Luigi De Canio as manager on 14 May 2008. Tim Flowers was later named Dowie's assistant, reprising his former role with Dowie at Coventry City. Paulo Sousa was named as manager after Ian Dowie was fired. When Sousa was fired, Gareth Ainsworth became caretaker manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Pre-season, Sponsorship\nFollowing the termination of the club's sponsorship deals with Car Giant, Le Coq Sportif and Sellotape at the end of the previous season, in July it was announced that Gulf Air would be the new shirt sponsors. Further sponsorship packages were also announced, including Abbey Financial Services, Chronotech and Lotto Sport Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Pre-season, Matches\nAll but one of QPR's pre-season fixtures were held away from Loftus Road while the ground underwent upgrading work ahead of the new season. Despite the optimism surrounding the club on the back of the investment and player transfers, Rangers suffered defeats in 3 out of 5 of their warm-up fixtures. The club started positively, winning 3\u20131 against Conference National side Stevenage Borough followed by a 1\u20130 win over Football League One side Northampton Town. However a pre-season tour to Scotland saw Rangers lose 2\u20130 and 1\u20130 (respectively) to Scottish Premier League sides Falkirk and Kilmarnock. The pre-season fixtures culminated in a 2\u20131 defeat at the hands of Serie A side Chievo in front of just 3,540 at Loftus Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nQueens Park Rangers started the season against Barnsley at Loftus Road. Fitz Hall scored twice in as many minutes after Iain Hume put the Yorkshire side 1\u20130 up in the fifth minute. Hall also missed a penalty in the second half, but Rangers held on to win the game 2\u20131. A win at Swindon Town in the League Cup followed before the first defeat of the season, to Sheffield United, 3\u20130 at Bramall Lane. Comprehensive home wins against Doncaster Rovers, Carlisle United (in the League Cup) and Southampton followed, before a win away against Norwich City saw Rangers put together a five-game unbeaten streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nA defeat at Coventry City was followed by a 1\u20130 win at Aston Villa in the third round of the League Cup with Damion Stewart getting the decisive goal. The result meant that QPR entered the fourth round of the competition for the first time since the 1995\u201396 season, where they were drawn away to reigning Premier League champions Manchester United. The euphoria of the Villa result was short-lived and Rangers returned to losing ways at home to Derby County just three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nBy early October, QPR had slipped to 11th in the Championship, following defeat to league leaders Birmingham City at St Andrew's. Former manager Terry Venables was speculatively linked with a return to Loftus Road to replace Iain Dowie if no improvement was seen in the club's form. Meanwhile, Dexter Blackstock stood out as an early contender for the club's top scorer for the season with 5 goals in 13 matches in all competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nOn 23 October, reports in the British press announced that the club would cap the maximum ticket price at the Category \"C\" (\u00a335) level as a response to the worsening financial crisis of 2007\u20132008. This led commentators to speculate that the club was damaged by negative press surrounding earlier proposed ticket price increases. The following day, Iain Dowie was sacked after just fifteen games in charge of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nWhile the press continued to speculate on Dowie's replacement, touting Roberto Mancini and Kenny Jackett among several others as potential candidates, existing player/coach Gareth Ainsworth was appointed caretaker manager in the interim. In his first game in charge Rangers ended Reading's 100% record at the Madejski Stadium, grinding out a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nJust over three weeks after their defeat at St Andrew's, Rangers played Birmingham again in a mid-week fixture at Loftus Road. In Ainsworth's second match in charge, a ten-man Rangers side won 1\u20130 courtesy of a 25-yard goal from Samuel Di Carmine. At the start of November, Rangers lost 2\u20130 to Ipswich Town beating Cardiff 1\u20130 at Loftus Road one week later. The mid-week League Cup tie at Old Trafford saw QPR defeated 1\u20130 missing out on the last eight of the competition courtesy of a Carlos Tevez penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nThe woes continued four days later with only the club's second home defeat of the season, this time at the hands of Burnley. By mid-November, the side's average of less than one goal-per-match led to them being ranked 21st in terms of the attacking statistics of the 24 Championship clubs, despite sitting tenth in the league table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nOn 19 November, Paulo Sousa, a former Portugal midfielder and previously assistant coach of the Portugal national team, was announced as the first team coach, ending Ainsworth's six-match run as caretaker. The following day, Tim Flowers stepped down as assistant coach and news sources (including the club's official website) reported Rangers had signed Bolton striker Hei\u00f0ar Helguson on an emergency loan deal. Signed to a 2+1\u20442-year contract, Sousa became the sixth first team coach of the club in 13 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nJust three days into his appointment, Sousa's first match in charge saw a ten-man QPR comprehensively beaten 3\u20130 away at Watford, leaving them firmly in mid-table, nine points above the relegation zone and three points from the play-offs. Purported new signing Helguson did not appear for the club at Vicarage Road, with rumours later surfacing the deal had not been completed. A mid-week fixture against struggling Charlton Athletic saw Sousa's first victory (2\u20131), with Dexter Blackstock (who returned from suspension) scoring twice. Four days later, Rangers travelled across London to Selhurst Park, drawing 0\u20130 with Crystal Palace, a match which featured Premier League striker Hei\u00f0ar Helguson, who had completed his loan move from Bolton Wanderers earlier in the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nQPR played league-leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first match of December. Played in a late kick-off at Loftus Road and in front of the Sky Sports cameras, QPR put on a fine performance, despatching their high-flying opponents with a 1\u20130 win courtesy of a 20-yard effort from skipper Martin Rowlands in his first full appearance since returning from injury. Despite dominating their next match, away to Sheffield Wednesday, QPR were beaten 1\u20130. The game marked QPR's 6th defeat from 11 away fixtures, and in which they had only scored twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nOne week later, QPR scored their first goal in nine \"away\" fixtures, managing a 1\u20131 draw with Plymouth Argyle. Hei\u00f0ar Helguson put QPR into an early lead before Plymouth equalised late in the second half. On 20 December, Helguson was again on the scoresheet, scoring twice alongside Dexter Blackstock's winner in Rangers' 3\u20132 victory over Preston North End.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nThe Christmas period saw QPR draw 2\u20132, twice surrendering the lead, away from home at Charlton Athletic on Boxing Day. Two days later, QPR played host to Watford, holding them to a 0\u20130 draw. As the January transfer window opened, QPR signed former England U21 international Wayne Routledge from Aston Villa. The club also made recent loan signings Borrowdale and Helguson's moves permanent. A small crowd of under 9,000 spectators saw Rangers start their FA Cup campaign with a goalless draw with fellow Championship side Burnley, in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nReturning to action in the Championship, QPR drew at home to Coventry City on 10 January with Dexter Blackstock again on the scoresheet. The result left QPR in ninth place in the league table for the sixth consecutive match, five points outside of the promotion play-off places and 13 points above the relegation zone. In the same week, Rangers also secured a permanent return to the club for Lee Cook and released veteran Italian midfielder Damiano Tommasi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nTravelling to Turf Moor for the FA Cup third round replay, QPR lost 2\u20131 after Burnley scored from a defensive error in the last minute of extra time. Samuel Di Carmine put Rangers ahead in the 54th minute with Burnley equalising just six minutes later before their last-gasp winner. Martin Rowlands also hit the woodwork and Helguson had a goal disallowed in an eventful match played in front of just 3,760 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nOn 17 January, QPR achieved their first away victory in all competitions since September. They defeated Derby County 2\u20130 at Pride Park Stadium, with new signing Wayne Routledge opening the scoring. Ten days later, Rangers travelled to Bloomfield Road and defeated Blackpool 3\u20130, with Hei\u00f0ar Helguson scoring twice. During the same month, QPR terminated former captain Adam Bolder's contract and loaned Zesh Rehman out to Bradford City. On 31 January, QPR extended their unbeaten run to eight matches with a scoreless draw at home to second-placed Reading. The result left Rangers in seventh place with 15 matches remaining, two points outside of the playoff positions and 16 points above the relegation zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nThe next scheduled match, a home fixture against Swansea City, was postponed due to heavy snowfalls in central London. However, QPR continued their unbeaten run into February beginning with a 2\u20132 draw away to Nottingham Forest. In an entertaining match, Matteo Alberti scored his first goals for the club within the space of three minutes after half-time. On 17 February, the club announced the signing of Spanish midfielder Jordi L\u00f3pez on a three-month contract. QPR's unbeaten run was finally ended in their next match, at home, courtesy of Ipswich Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nDespite QPR taking an early lead through a Samuel Di Carmine goal, Ipswich came back to win 3\u20131. The match was played in front of the Sky Sports cameras and with England national team manager Fabio Capello in attendance. Four days later, Rangers travelled to Cardiff City and earned a 0\u20130 draw. In a busy fixture period against both play-off rivals and relegation candidates, QPR next faced up to Barnsley at Oakwell. The South Yorkshire club added to Rangers' recent slump in form, running out 2\u20131 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nRangers' woes continued into March. A second consecutive home defeat to Norwich City (0\u20131) was followed by a 0\u20130 draw at home to Sheffield United. On 10 March, QPR suffered their |12th league defeat of the season, 2\u20130 away to Doncaster Rovers. The run of poor form left Rangers |11th in the Championship league table, eight points adrift of the play-off places and ten points above the relegation zone with nine matches left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nQPR's defensive streak improved with a draw to now-relegated Southampton, which was further built on in a 1\u20130 win over Swansea City, courtesy of Mikele Leigertwood's head. The Hoop's form continued with a 2\u20131 win over Bristol City. QPR initially went one up with a bending free kick from Jordi L\u00f3pez, until a powerful strike from Michael McIndoe put the visitors level. Four minutes later, Adel Taarabt scored the winner from close range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Events\nQPR salvaged a goalless draw against local rivals Crystal Palace, though they could have been 2\u20130 down with close shots from Craig Beattie and Paul Ifill. Equally, Heidar Helguson scuppered a near open goal. However, the experience of Radek Cerny held QPR on in the final stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200842-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200843-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 Queensland Roar season was the club's fourth season participating in the A-League where they would finish in 3rd place in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200843-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200843-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar FC season, Squad, Player Movement\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200843-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar FC season, Squad, Player Movement\n\u00a4 Reinaldo transferred to Busan I'Park at the end of the 2007/08 A-League season and returned to Queensland in July 2008 on a free transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200843-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar FC season, Hyundai A-League 2008\u201309, Finals Series\nPreliminary Final (One Leg \u2013 Played away to loser of Major Semi-final)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200844-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar W-League season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the Queensland Roar's first season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League, whose home ground was Ballymore Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200844-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Queensland Roar W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season Anderlecht competed in the Belgian First Division, Belgian Cup, and Champions League. Anderlecht competed in the Belgian Super Cup as cup-winners, but lost to Standard Li\u00e8ge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season\nAfter the 34 league matches, they ended with 77 points tied for first place. As Standard Li\u00e8ge had the same number of points and the same number of matches won, test matches were organised to determine the winner. Anderlecht drew 1\u20131 at home but then lost 1\u20130 at Standard and thus ended in second position. In the cup they were eliminated in the early rounds by Mechelen, who progressed on to lose the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season\nAnderlecht failed to progress past the second qualifying round of UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Transfers 2008-09, Players out\nLast updated: 27 December 2008EU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Transfers 2008-09, Loaned out\nLast updated: 29 May 2008EU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Squad statistics, Squad\nNote: during the summer transfer window, Kouyat\u00e9 and Proto are loaned out while Lamah and Pareja were sold. During the winter transfer window, Goor was sold and Kanu was loaned out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Squad statistics, Scorers, Per Match\nThe list of matches is chronological, as presented at the list of competitive matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Squad statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: May 22, 2009Source: Match reports in Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200845-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 R.S.C. Anderlecht season, Competitive Matches\nLast updated: 3 May 2009Source: sporza.be1Anderlecht goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Anderlecht.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200846-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 RK Zamet season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 52nd season in RK Zamet\u2019s history. It is their 1st successive season in the Dukat Premier League, and 32nd successive top tier season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200847-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 RPI Engineers women's ice hockey season\nThe RPI Engineers women's ice hockey team (the \"Engineers\") had a successful season in 2008\u201309 under the leadership of John Burke. The club finished as the ECAC Hockey conference\u2019s runner-up at the league tournament. The Engineers defeated Princeton in the quarterfinals, and proceeded to beat Harvard in the semifinals with a 3-2 overtime victory to advance to its first championship appearance. RPI posted an overall record of 19-14-4, including an 11-8-3 ECAC Hockey mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200848-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Radivoj Kora\u0107 Cup\nThe 2009 Radivoj Kora\u0107 Cup is the 7th season of the Serbian men's national basketball cup tournament. The \u017du\u0107ko's Left Trophy was awarded to the winner Partizan Igokea from Belgrade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 129th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 49 competitive matches during the 2008\u201309 season. The season began disastrously as the club exited the UEFA Champions League and European football altogether, losing 2\u20131 on aggregate to Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas in the second qualifying round. The first leg at Ibrox finished goalless, but the return leg ended in defeat for Rangers after an 87th-minute header from Linas Pilibaitis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe financial consequences of the failures to qualify for the Champions League were revealed when the club posted a loss of \u00a33.9m for the six months to December 2008, and in March decided to offer staff the option of voluntary redundancy as a way of cutting costs. There was also mounting pressure on the manager to reduce the first team squad from 28 players to a more manageable figure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe player excess was eased slightly with the departures of Chris Burke, Jean-Claude Darcheville and a couple out on loan deals but the increased debt meant that the club needed to find a cash injection. This resulted in the attempted sale of Kris Boyd to Birmingham City which fell through due to the players wage demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nIn the first Old Firm game of the season, Rangers won 4\u20132, with Pedro Mendes scoring his first goal for the club, and Kenny Miller scoring a double against his former employers. But the team's league form stuttered thereafter. Despite a run of five wins from six matches following the Old Firm victory, the side trailed Celtic by seven points in the league at the turn of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nFor the first few months of 2009 both sides dropped and gained points on the other and Rangers briefly took over top spot of the Scottish Premier League on 21 February after a win against Kilmarnock. The spell as league leaders lasted less than a fortnight. A defeat and a draw, both at home, to Inverness and Hearts respectively, saw Smith's side sit second in the table, one point behind Celtic, at the split. The fourth Old Firm league meeting of the season finished with a 1\u20130 win to Rangers, thanks to a Steven Davis strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0002-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThis meant that, with three league games remaining, Rangers were two points ahead of Celtic. Further twists and turns followed, both Old Firm sides drew their matches against Hibernian at Easter Road, and so Rangers were ahead by two points with one round of matches remaining. Smith's side just needed a win against Dundee United to guarantee the club's 52nd league title. That is exactly what they got, goals from Kyle Lafferty, Pedro Mendes and Kris Boyd sealed a 3\u20130 win and the club's first league championship in four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club played in the finals of both of the domestic cup competitions for the second season running. The 2009 Scottish League Cup Final was reached by defeating Partick Thistle, Hamilton and Falkirk en route but the final ended in a 2\u20130 defeat at the hands of Old Firm rivals Celtic. The match was Walter Smith's first ever Old Firm final and was marred by a Kirk Broadfoot sending off deep into extra time for a foul on Aidan McGeady inside the penalty box. Celtic were subsequently awarded a penalty which McGeady himself converted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers qualified for the 2009 Scottish Cup Final after beating St Mirren 3\u20130 in the semi-final. The second goal of the game was scored by Kris Boyd and was his 100th goal for Rangers. The team faced Falkirk at Hampden Park on 30 May 2009 in what was the club's 51st Scottish Cup Final appearance. A Nacho Novo strike in the first minute of the second half gave Rangers a 1\u20130 win and completed the domestic double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Players, Squad statistics\nList of squad players, including number of appearances by competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League\nLast updated: 24 May 2009Source: Wikipedia article1Rangers goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Matches, UEFA Champions League\nLast updated: 5 August 2008Source: Wikipedia article1Rangers goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Cup\nLast updated: 30 May 2009Source: Wikipedia article1Rangers goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Matches, League Cup\nLast updated: 15 March 2009Source: Wikipedia article1Rangers goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200849-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rangers F.C. season, Matches, Friendlies\nLast updated: 24 May 2009Source:1Rangers goals come first.National flags for Ground and Opponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.M = Match; Ground: H = Home, A = Away, N = Neutral, HR = Home replacement, AR = Away replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200850-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ranji Trophy\nThe season 2008\u201309 of the Ranji Trophy began on 4 November, and finished on 16 January with the final. 15 teams were divided in two groups. The 3 top teams of each group qualified to the playoffs, plus the two top teams of the plate league (Himachal Pradesh and Bengal). Mumbai won the final by defeating Uttar Pradesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200850-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ranji Trophy, Playoffs\nFour top teams of the plate group league qualified for the play offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200850-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ranji Trophy, Playoffs, Semi-finals\nMumbai were the first team to qualify for the final after on the basis of a lead over Saurashtra's first-innings total. The latter were dismissed for 379 in their first innings by Mumbai who made 637. Wasim Jaffer top-scored with 301 for them, while Sachin Tendulkar made 122.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200850-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ranji Trophy, Playoffs, Semi-finals\nUttar Pradesh advanced to the final, also by virtue of a first-innings lead, over Tamil Nadu. In reply to the latter's first innings total of 445, Uttar Pradesh's Shivakant Shukla, who made an unbeaten 178 in 569 balls and 821 minutes, helped his team go past the score securing a qualification for the final. Parvinder Singh, who scored his maiden first-class century, and Shukla batted for a total of five-and-half-hours, and added 272 runs for the fourth wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season\nReading Football Club played the 2008\u201309 season in the Football League Championship, having been relegated on the final day of the 2007\u201308 Premier League season. Despite a strong start to the season, especially at home, Reading were unable to secure promotion at the first attempt; a poor run of form in 2009 saw Reading win just 5 of their last 17 league games, the Royals finishing 4th in the league. Reading were defeated 3\u20130 on aggregate by Burnley in the play-off semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, Pre-season\nReading opened their pre-season with an away game against Didcot Town, winning 9\u20130, with nine different scorers, including a fan who won the opportunity to play at a charity auction. After further away wins at Forest Green Rovers (2\u20130), Havant & Waterlooville (1\u20130) and MK Dons (2\u20131), Reading went on a three-game friendly tour of Sweden, winning their three games against FC Trollh\u00e4ttan (4\u20131) in which Leroy Lita scored all four, against Lerkils IF (1\u20130) and against Halmstads BK (3\u20131) in which new signing Noel Hunt scored for the first time, ultimately scoring two. Reading's last friendly, and only home friendly, was against Aston Villa, and finished 1\u20131. It was Reading's only pre-season game that they did not win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, August\nReading's league campaign began with a 0\u20130 draw at promoted Nottingham Forest. In a game of few chances, Kevin Doyle came closest for the Royals, glancing a header goalwards from a Stephen Hunt cross, that Forest goalkeeper Paul Smith did well to tip on to the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, August\nTwo days later, the Royals enjoyed their first victory of the season, as a late Noel Hunt goal, on his competitive debut for Reading, secured a 2\u20131 victory at Dagenham and Redbridge in the 1st round of the League Cup. James Henry had opened the scoring for Reading in the first half, with his first goal for the club, tapping home after Shane Long had beaten the Dagenham goalkeeper to a cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, August\nReading's first home league match followed on 16 August, a game the Royals deservedly won 2\u20130, Ibrahima Sonko crashing home two headers, one in each half, both from Stephen Hunt corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, August\nA week later, the Royals lost a thrilling game 2\u20134 against Charlton Athletic. Matt Holland and Andy Gray's penalty gave the Addicks a 2\u20130 lead but Ibrahima Sonko kept up his scoring form with a thumping header before half-time. Stephen Hunt's retaken penalty completed the comeback for Reading, but further goals for Luke Varney and Hameur Bouazza gave Charlton all three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, August\nThe Royals returned to the Madesjki on 26 August with a thumping 5\u20131 victory over Luton Town in the League Cup 2nd Round. Noel Hunt opened the scoring after nodding in brother Stephen Hunt's cross. Soon later it was the other way around, Noel Hunt sliding in a cross and Stephen Hunt slotted home. Alex Pearce, Jem Karacan and James Henry all got their first goals for the club. A consolation for Luton was scored by Ryan Charles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, September\nThe month started at Portman Road, Ipswich. Reading's bad away form continued as The Royals lost 2\u20130 to the hands of Ipswich Town. The game was followed up by the biggest win of the season, so far, as Reading forced six passed Sheffield Wednesday. The Royals were 2\u20130 up within 10 minutes, Kevin Doyle scoring them both. Andr\u00e9 Bikey got the third on the half hour mark. Noel Hunt got the fourth on the fiftieth minute. Doyle scored his third of the game and two minutes later Reading were 6\u20130 up. It stayed that way until the end of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, September\nWatford. Reading came to Watford sitting fourth in the Championship. Reading took the lead on the 13th minute. The goal was scored by no-one! The goal was not claimed for by any Reading player. Watford soon went 2\u20131 up and an 89th minute spot kick was turned in by S. Hunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, September\nReading played a cup side in the League Cup as the Royals headed to Stoke to play the Premier League side Stoke City. Reading battled hard only losing to the Premier League side on spot kicks, 4\u20133, after a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, September\nReading played Swansea City and a 4\u20130 win set up a game with Wolverhampton Wanderers. The Royals went 1\u20130 up when an own goal by Wolverhampton Wanderers started off a hammering for Wolves. Andr\u00e9 Bikey made it 2\u20130 and Kalifa Ciss\u00e9 made a Reading win a game to forget for Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, October\nBurnley came to Reading. Reading won the game 3\u20131. The Hunt Brothers scored two and Shane Long made it 3\u20130. Burnley scored a goal, but it was too little to late. Away days. Reading lost to the hands of Preston North End 2\u20131. Mix ups saw a loss come to Reading's hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, October\nA home game to Doncaster Rovers followed. The Royals only won 2\u20131. This happened after Reading going 1\u20130 up, then Doncaster scored. One minute later the Royals scored to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, October\nA draw to Queens Park Rangers in front of the Sky Sports cameras at home, 0\u20130, and a loss, 1\u20130, away to Burnley rounded off a bad month for the Royals, home and away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, November\nReading returned to winning ways at Ashton Gate as the Royals opened November with a 4\u20131 win away to Bristol City. Kevin Doyle (twice) and Noel Hunt scored from close range, before Kalifa Ciss\u00e9 added Reading's fourth, smashing the ball into the top right-hand corner of the goal from outside of the penalty area. Reading's excellent home form continued the following weekend, Doyle (2) and Noel Hunt again got on the scoresheet in a 3\u20130 victory over Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, November\nThe Royals secured a third successive victory at Bramall Lane the following weekend, Kalifa Ciss\u00e9 opening the scoring in the 5th minute, before a Kevin Doyle header, just before half-time, completed a 2\u20130 win at Sheffield United. Reading then lost to Southampton at home 2\u20131. The Royals' 1st home defeat of the season so-far. K\u00e9b\u00e9 scored his 1st Reading goal. The Royals then headed off to Wales to play Cardiff City. Reading went 1\u20130 and 2\u20131 down. At 1\u20131, Reading were down to 10 men as Andr\u00e9 Bikey got sent off. Reading's scores were Kevin Doyle and Brynjar Gunnarsson in a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, December\nReading were playing Coventry City at home in front of the Sky Sports Cameras. The Royals went 1\u20130 down, but came back to win 3\u20131. Reading won 1\u20130 at Barnsley and at home to Blackpool. A late rally by Reading help them win 2\u20130 at home to Norwich City. Reading moved into 2nd as Reading won 3\u20131 at then 2nd place Birmingham City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, December\nReading then had a home draw, 1\u20131, to Cardiff City. The Welsh side went 1\u20130 in the 89th minute, but Reading's keeper Adam Federici scored in the 6th minute of injury time. Reading then drew 1\u20131 at Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, January\nReading met Cardiff City for the third time in six weeks in the FA Cup third round, and a largely second-string side were defeated 2\u20130 at Ninian Park, to end the Royals' eight-match unbeaten run. The Royals returned to the Madejski Stadium for the first league match of the calendar year, completing a 4\u20130 victory over Watford. Chris Armstrong opened the scoring with his first ever goal for Reading, before Kevin Doyle, Noel Hunt and Leroy Lita, back from Norwich, added to the tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, January\nA 2\u20130 defeat at Welsh side Swansea City followed, to end a run of 9 league matches unbeaten for Reading, before league leaders Wolves were beaten 1\u20130 at the Madejski Stadium, the game decided by a second-minute own-goal scored by Wolves' Neill Collins. The result closed the gap between Wolves and Reading, in 2nd place, to two points. January ended with a goalless draw at Loftus Road, as Reading and Q.P.R. drew 0\u20130 for the second time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, February\nOn the 6th of the month it was revealed that Bobby Convey had left the club by mutual consent. A second consecutive 0\u20130 draw followed, as the Royals were held at home by Preston. On 13 February it was revealed that Ivar Ingimarsson would be out injured for the rest of the season, scheduled for surgery on a knee cartilage problem. Reading's goal drought continued two weeks later, at home to Bristol City, as the Royals lost 2\u20130, a second home defeat of the season. Nottingham Forest visited the Madejski Stadium on 28 February, as the Royals slumped to a second straight home defeat, and a sixth consecutive game without scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, March\nReading secured a first win in five games under floodlights at Hillsborough, defeating Sheffield Wednesday 2\u20131, Kevin Doyle heading home from a corner, and Shane Long scoring the winner with nine minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, March\nThe Royals headed to Home Park, Plymouth to play Plymouth Argyle. Reading went 1\u20130 down, but Alex Pearce scored two minutes later. Argyle went 2\u20131 up and in the 80th minute, Jimmy Kebe scored, through the keepers legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, March\nReading played Charlton Athletic, at home, next. Reading drew 2\u20132 with two goals from young Irish striker Shane Long. However the Royals were denied victory by a last gasp equaliser. Reading next lost to Ipswich Town 1\u20130. The Royals went 1\u20130 down just 1 minute after the break. That meant the Royals went into a three match winless run with renewed purpose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, March\nHowever, that was forgotten in midweek as they won 1\u20130 at Doncaster Rovers, thanks to a late Dave Kitson winner eight minutes from time. Kitson had returned to the club on loan, as did Glen Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, March\nThe Royals ended the month with successive goalless draws, against Crystal Palace, eventually dropping into 4th place after Sheffield United's win over Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, April\nThe first game of April was away to Coventry City which ended in bore draw of 0\u20130. Both teams creating very little in another disappointing performance from the Royals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, April\nOn 10 April 2009, Sheffield United travelled to the Madjeski for an evening game in a real six-pointer with both teams needing the win to help secure that valuable play-off place. It ended in Reading losing 1\u20130 with Brian Howard scoring a scrappy  goal on the hour mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, April\nOn 13 April 2009, the Royals travelled to Bloomfield Road to face Blackpool and after taking a 2\u20130 lead, eventually drew 2\u20132. Jem Karacan scored his first goal of the season and league goal for the Royals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, April\nA goalless draw with Barnsley at home meant Reading had now gone 7 home games without a win. However, the Royals showed a return to form on the following Tuesday night with a 2\u20130 win at Derby County, Dave Kitson and Shane Long the goalscorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, April\nWith results having gone their way at the weekend, Reading went into their Monday night game with Norwich City knowing that only a win would keep their hopes of automatic promotion alive. Shane Long inspired Reading to a 2\u20130 win with both goals, both of them headers from Jimmy Kebe crosses. Reading, 4th, needed to win going into a clash with Birmingham City, 2nd. Reading lost 2\u20131 and Birmingham went up. Reading need to win to go up to the Premier League at the first attempt, and Sheffield United didn't win against Crystal Palace. United drew 0\u20130. If the Royals had won they would have gone up on Goal-Difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Review and events, May\nAndr\u00e9 Bikey was sent off as Reading lost the first leg of their play-off  semi-final at Burnley by a single goal. Bikey was sent off for a stamp on Robbie Blake, minutes after pulling back Burnley striker Steve Thompson to gift the Clarets the winning penalty, scored by Graham Alexander. Burnley advanced to the final at Wembley three days later as Reading lost the second leg 2\u20130, goals from Martin Paterson, and Thompson, sealing Burnley's win. Hours after Burnley winning the game Steve Coppell resigned as Manager of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Squad, Reserve/Academy squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200851-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reading F.C. season, Team kit\nReading's kit for the 2008\u201309 season is manufactured by Puma, and the main sponsor is Waitrose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Real Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol's 78th season in La Liga. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season, Players, Squad information\nESPN (for appearances and goals) and soccer-spain.com (for EU passport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season, Club, Coaching staff\nSource: , El club m\u00e1s laureado del mundo and realmadridfans", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season, Club, Other information\nSource:\u00a0, El club m\u00e1s laureado del mundo,Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium and Real Madrid closes the best year in its history", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season, Competitions\nAs in the last eleven seasons, Real Madrid were present in all major competitions, including La Liga and the Copa del Rey in Spain and the UEFA Champions League in Europe. They also contested the Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a as winners of the league last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200852-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Real Madrid CF season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 2009-06-01Source: Competitive matches and LFP.comOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200853-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Reggina Calcio season\nReggina Calcio finally dropped out of Serie A, following seven years of balancing around the drop zone. Following its previous six years, the club had stayed in Serie A by less than three points on all occasions. In 2008\u201309, Reggina dropped off the pace mid-season and was nowhere near survival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200854-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Regional Four Day Competition\nThe 2008\u201309 Regional Four Day Competition was the 43rd domestic first-class cricket tournament held in the West Indies, it took place from 9 January 2009 \u2013 14 April 2009. Each team played the other twice, one played at home and the other away. Jamaica won the tournament after finishing top of the table with seven wins from their twelve matches. It was their 2nd tournament win in succession and their 9th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200854-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Regional Four Day Competition\nNarsingh Deonarine of Guyana finished as the tournament's highest run-scorer, he made 1,068 runs at an average of 59.33, including two centuries and a highest score of 198. The leading wicket-taker in the competition was Ryan Austin of the Combined Campuses and Colleges, he took 60 wickets at an average of 24.06 with best innings figures of 6/123.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200855-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Regionalliga\nThe 2008\u201309 Regionalliga season was the first season of the Regionalliga at tier four of the German football league system and the 15th overall since re-establishment of the league in 1994. It was contested in three regional divisions of eighteen teams in each. The champions, Holstein Kiel, Borussia Dortmund II and 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 were promoted to the 3. Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200856-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team represented the University of Richmond in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball during the 2008\u201309 season. Richmond competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) under fourth-year head basketball coach Chris Mooney and played its home games at the Robins Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200857-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Robert Morris Colonials men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Robert Morris Colonials men's basketball team represented Robert Morris University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. Robert Morris was coached by Mike Rice Jr. and played their home games at the Charles L. Sewall Center in Moon Township, PA. The Colonials were a members of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 24\u201311, 15\u20133 in NEC play. They won the 2009 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They received the No. 15 seed in the Midwest Region and played No. 2 seed Michigan State in the first round, losing by a score of 77\u201362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200858-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey season\nThese are the highlights of the 2008-2009 Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200858-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey season, Players\nDuring the 2008-09 season, Delaney skated in all 35 games for the Colonials. She broke the RMU single-season record for points (32) and goals (18). In addition, she tied for first on the team with 14 assists. She was 13th in the NCAA in rookie scoring. She also led the Colonials in shots (113), power play goals (6), and short-handed goals (2). She had eight multi-point games and scored at least one point in 19 games. In the postseason, Delaney scored one goal and one assist in the CHA semifinal versus Wayne State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 66], "content_span": [67, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200859-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rochdale A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 Rochdale A.F.C. season was the club's 88th season in the Football League, and the 35th consecutive season in the bottom division of the League. Rochdale finished the season in 6th place in League Two, but missed out on promotion to League One after losing in the play-off semi-final against Gillingham. Adam Le Fondre finished as the club's top goal scorer with twenty goals in all competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200859-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rochdale A.F.C. season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200860-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Romanian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Romanian Hockey League season was the 79th season of the Romanian Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and SC Miercurea Ciuc won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200861-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ross County F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Ross County's first season back in the Scottish First Division, having been promoted as champions of the Scottish Second Division at the end of the 2007\u201308 season. They also competed in the Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200861-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ross County F.C. season, Summary\nRoss County finished Eighth in the First Division. They reached the first round of the League Cup, the fourth round of the Scottish Cup, and the final of the Challenge Cup, losing 3\u20132 on penalties to Airdrie United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season\nThe 2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 was the second-level French rugby union club competition, behind the Top 14, in the 2008\u201309 season. It ran alongside the 2008\u201309 Top 14 competition; both competitions were operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, Previous season\nAt the end of the previous season, Toulon were champions and thus automatically promoted to Top 14. They were eventually followed by Mont-de-Marsan, who beat Racing M\u00e9tro in extra time in the final providing the second promotion place. Blagnac, which had been newly promoted to Pro D2 for the 2007\u201308 season, finished bottom of the table and were initially relegated to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 1, but were further relegated by French sporting authorities to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 2 due to financial problems. Limoges finished second-from-bottom for the second consecutive year; unlike 2006\u201307, when Limoges were reprieved when Gaillac were denied a professional license due to financial issues, they received no such break in 2007\u201308. The other promoted team in 2007\u201308, Aurillac, stayed up, finishing in 11th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, Previous season\nColomiers and Bourg-en-Bresse earned promotion from F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 1 for the 2008\u201309 season, while Albi and Auch were relegated from the 2007\u201308 Top 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, 2008\u201309 synopsis\nRacing M\u00e9tro, which had barely missed out on promotion the previous season, easily won the title, clinching with three rounds to spare. The three promotion playoff games were decided by a total of 5 points, with the semifinal between Albi and La Rochelle being tied after extra time and decided on the third step of the tiebreaker, penalties scored during the match. Albi ultimately defeated Oyonnax in the final to secure an immediate return to the Top 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, 2008\u201309 synopsis\nThe two newly promoted teams, Colomiers and Bourg-en-Bresse, were in relegation trouble throughout the season, but Colomiers escaped, finishing in 14th, the last safe spot. Bourg-en-Bresse were provisionally joined in relegation by B\u00e9ziers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, 2008\u201309 synopsis\nHowever, this did not end the relegation saga. In order to keep a professional license and stay in Pro D2, all clubs must pass a postseason audit conducted by DNACG (Direction nationale d'aide et de contr\u00f4le de gestion), the LNR's financial arm. On June 12, DNACG announced that Tarbes and Bourg-en-Bresse had failed their audits and would be relegated. Tarbes would be relegated to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 1, while Bourg-en-Bresse, already consigned to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 1, would face a further drop to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 2. B\u00e9ziers would have been spared the drop if Tarbes had not successfully appealed its relegation. However, Tarbes were able to come up with sufficient financial guarantees to satisfy DNACG, and its relegation to F\u00e9d\u00e9rale 1 was officially rescinded on June 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200862-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Pro D2 season, The competition\nThe LNR uses a slightly different bonus points system from that used in most other rugby competitions. It trialled a new system in 2007\u201308 explicitly designed to prevent a losing team from earning more than one bonus point in a match, a system that also makes it impossible for either team to earn a bonus point in a drawn match. LNR chose to continue with this system for 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200863-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Bill Beaumont Cup (Rugby Union County Championship) was the 109th edition of England's County Championship rugby union club competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200863-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby Union County Championship\nLancashire won their 19th title after defeating Gloucestershire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga\nThe Rugby-Bundesliga 2008-09 was the 38th edition of this competition and the 89th edition of the German rugby union championship. Nine teams play a home-and-away season with a finals round between the top four teams at the end. The bottom two teams determine which club is relegated in an end-of-season decider. The season started on 30 August 2008 and finished with the championship final on 23 May 2009, interrupted by a winter break from early December to late February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga\nThe competition was won by the SC Frankfurt 1880, like in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Overview\nThe 2008-09 modus was somewhat different from the previous season. The competition had been expanded from eight to nine teams. The final, which used to be determined by the top-two teams of the regular season was now played by the two winners of the semi-finals which pair the first placed team against the fourth and the second against the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Overview\nAt the bottom end of the table, a relegation match between the two last-placed teams was also a new introduction. All up, the number of season games in the Rugby-Bundesliga increased to 76 from 57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Overview\nThis change of modus was decided upon on 19 July 2008 at the annual general meeting of the German rugby association, the DRV. It was decided to expand the league to ten teams for 2009-10, meaning only one club was to be relegated in 2009, and two promoted. It was also then decided to introduce the extended play-off format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Overview\nThe defending champion was SC 1880 Frankfurt, who beat RG Heidelberg in the 2007-08 final, while the RK 03 Berlin was newly promoted to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Overview\nWith Kerstin Ljungdahl and Dana Teagarden, two female head referees have been officiating in the Rugby-Bundesliga in 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Player statistics, Try scorers\nThe leading try scores in the Rugby-Bundesliga 2008\u201309 season were (10 tries or more):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, Player statistics, Point scorers\nThe leading point scores in the Rugby-Bundesliga 2008\u201309 season were (100 points or more):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200864-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga, DRV-Pokal 2008-09\nIn 2008-09, 16 teams took part in the national cup competition, those being the eight clubs who played in the Bundesliga in 2007-08 plus the top-four of each of the two 2nd Bundesligas that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200865-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga results\nThese are the results round-by-round for the Rugby-Bundesliga in 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads\nThe following players were on the roster of the nine Rugby-Bundesliga clubs for 2008-09", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, Berliner Rugby Club\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, RK 03 Berlin\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, SC 1880 Frankfurt\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, DRC Hannover\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, Heidelberger RK\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, RG Heidelberg\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, RK Heusenstamm\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, TSV Handschuhsheim\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200866-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rugby-Bundesliga squads, Clubs, SC Neuenheim\nNote: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup\nThe Russian Cup 2008\u201309 is the seventeenth season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of Soviet Union. The competition started on April 16, 2008 and finished with the Final held in spring 2009. The defending champions were CSKA Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Preliminary round\nThis round featured 20 Second Division teams and 2 amateur teams. The games were played from April 16 \u2013 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Preliminary round, Section Ural-Povolzhye\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, First round\nIn this round entered 11 winners from the previous round as well as 57 other Second Division teams, what made every team competing in this round Second Division one. The matches were played from April 29 \u2013 May 18, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered 34 winners from the First Round and the 6 remaining Second Division teams. The matches were played from May 21 \u2013 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Third round\nThe winners from the previous round entered this round. The matches were played from June 7 \u2013 13, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Fourth round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as 22 First Division teams. The matches were played on June 30 and July 1, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Fourth round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Fifth round\nAll 16 Premier League teams entered the competition in this round together with 16 winners from the previous round. The matches were played on August 5 and 6, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Fifth round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Sixth Round\nThe winners from the previous round entered the Sixth Round. The matches were played on September 23 and 24, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Sixth Round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe matches were played on April 15 and 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Quarter-finals\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Semi-finals\nThe matches were played on May 6 and 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 79]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Final\nPlayed in the earlier stages, but were not on the final game squad:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Final\nFC Rubin Kazan:  Gabriel (DF),  Jefthon (DF),  Vitali Kaleshin (DF),  Dato Kvirkvelia (DF), Igor Klimov (DF), Mikhail Mischenko (DF), Aleksei Popov (DF),  Lasha Salukvadze (DF),  Andrei Fyodorov (DF),  Vadim Afonin (MF),  Vagiz Galiullin (MF), Andrei Gorbanets (MF), Andrei Kobenko (MF), Aleksei Kotlyarov (MF), Sergei Semak (MF), Ildar Bikchantayev (FW),  Savo Milo\u0161evi\u0107 (FW),  Davron Mirzayev (FW), Ruslan Nagayev (FW), Igor Portnyagin (FW).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200867-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Cup, Final\nPFC CSKA Moscow: Anton Grigoryev (DF),  Lubo\u0161 Kalouda (MF),  Elvir Rahimi\u0107 (MF),  Ricardo Jesus (FW), Dmitri Ryzhov (FW),  Dawid Janczyk (FW).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200868-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Russian Volleyball Super League\nThe Russian Volleyball Super League 2008/2009 is the 18th official season of Russian Volleyball Super League. In all there are 12 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200869-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball represented Rutgers University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Hill, then in his 3rd season with the Scarlet Knights. The team played its home games in Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway Township, New Jersey, and is a member of the Big East Conference. The Scarlet Knights finished 15th in the conference's regular season, and were defeated in the first round in the Big East Tournament, falling to Notre Dame 61\u201350.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season\nThe 2008\u201309 European football season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 105th season and their 75th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. The season ran from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009, with Benfica competing domestically in the Primeira Liga, Ta\u00e7a de Portugal and Ta\u00e7a da Liga. The club also participated in the UEFA Cup, since they finished fourth in the Primeira Liga the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season\nAfter Jos\u00e9 Antonio Camacho's March 2008 resignation, Benfica did not have a permanent manager. The club inquired about Quique S\u00e1nchez Flores, Sven-G\u00f6ran Eriksson and others, ultimately choosing Flores. Rui Costa led the transfer activity as Benfica continued to invest heavily, spending nearly \u20ac19 million on Javier Balboa, Carlos Martins, Pablo Aimar and Sidnei and bringing in Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes and David Suazo on loan. Major departures included Rui Costa, Cristian Rodr\u00edguez, Petit and N\u00e9lson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season\nBenfica's season began inauspiciously but they quickly recovered, gaining momentum domestically and eliminating Napoli to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Cup. Until January, club performance fluctuated in their European campaign and the domestic league. Although they finished last in the former, they reached first place in the Primeira Liga for the first time since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season\nIn the new year, Benfica suffered their first league loss, falling to second place and beginning their erratic spell. Despite a sterling League Cup (where they earned their first honour in four seasons), the club's league play was not as impressive. They battled Porto for first place until March, when they had another costly loss and were passed by Sporting CP. Benfica tried to retake second place in the remaining eight matches, but in early May, the club dropped five points, sealing their fate; they finished third, missing the UEFA Champions League for a second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn February 2008, club president Lu\u00eds Filipe Vieira announced that a new director of football for 2008\u201309 had been selected. Although he did not name the individual, one month later Rui Costa confirmed that he would oversee Benfica's football division. With the unexpected resignation of head coach Jos\u00e9 Antonio Camacho on 10 March, assistant Fernando Chalana led the team through the final two months of the season. On 12 April Spanish manager Quique S\u00e1nchez Flores confirmed contacts from Benfica, who wanted him to take over the team immediately. S\u00e1nchez Flores declined the offer because he did not wish to be a temporary manager, and preferred to join a team at the beginning of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn 7 May, Vieira and Rui Costa travelled to Manchester to persuade Sven-G\u00f6ran Eriksson to return for a third stint with Benfica. Although both sides confirmed the meeting, after more than a week without an agreement the club moved on to other coaching candidates. Benfica then contacted Getafe manager Michael Laudrup and Brazilian manager Zico. After failing to come to terms with either, the club turned to first choice S\u00e1nchez Flores and signed him on 24 May. S\u00e1nchez Flores would be aided by technical assistant Fran Escrib\u00e1, goalkeeper coach Emilio \u00c1lvarez and fitness coach Pako Ayestar\u00e1n, with Diamantino Miranda and Chalana links to club management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, Pre-season\nBenfica made their first transfer deals in late April, adding R\u00faben Amorim and Jorge Ribeiro, both of whom had previously played for Benfica. With S\u00e1nchez Flores in charge, Benfica added midfielder Hassan Yebda on a free transfer and spent \u20ac4 million on Javier Balboa from Real Madrid. Balboa was signed only three days after the shock transfer of former Paris Saint-Germain loan Cristian Rodr\u00edguez to rival Porto. Although Benfica negotiated with PSG and the Uruguayan for months, the sides could not reach an agreement. During the next few weeks Benfica continued to spend, paying \u20ac3 million to Recreativo de Huelva for Carlos Martins and \u20ac6.5 million two weeks later, after a prolonged transfer saga, to Real Zaragoza for Pablo Aimar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe club's pre-season began on 8 July with two days of medical tests. Benfica's first training session was held two days later, nine days before their first pre-season match with Estoril. After a draw with Estori, the club lost Guadiana Trophy matches to Blackburn Rovers and Sporting CP. That week Benfica made more squad adjustments, paying \u20ac5\u00a0million for 18-year old Sidnei and releasing Petit after six years with the club. Early in August, Benfica won the Cidade de Guimar\u00e3es Trophy against Paris Saint-Germain and Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es, drawing with the former and defeating the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, Pre-season\nBefore their presentation match with Feyenoord, Benfica signed Spanish winger Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes in a \u20ac2.6 million loan deal. In the match with Feyenoord, \u00d3scar Cardozo scored the winning goal for Benfica. The club ended its preparation for the season against Inter Milan on 15 August in the new Eus\u00e9bio Cup. After a goalless draw in regular time, the Milanese won on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, August\u2013September\nBenfica's first competitive game was an away Primeira Liga opener against Rio Ave. S\u00e1nchez Flores did not have Reyes, and Jonathan Urretaviscaya started instead. At the Est\u00e1dio dos Arcos, the home team scored first with a 55th-minute goal from Jos\u00e9 Semedo. A minute later Benfica evened the score, with Urreta assisting Nuno Gomes for the 1\u20131 final result. It was the fourth consecutive time that Benfica failed to win their league start. S\u00e1nchez Flores said that Rio Ave created unexpected problems: \"It was not a easy game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, August\u2013September\nWe had a quality opponent, who left us trailing when we were not expecting it.\" During the last week of August Benfica brought in Honduran striker David Suazo on loan, sold right-back N\u00e9lson Marcos to Betis and was paired with Italian side Napoli in the UEFA Cup first-round draw on 29 August. A day later, Benfica hosted Porto for the first Cl\u00e1ssico of the season. The visitors started better, converting a 10th-minute penalty kick for a Kostas Katsouranis foul against Lucho Gonz\u00e1lez. In the 56th minute, Cardozo exploited a mistake by Helton to head in the equaliser. Three minutes later Katsouranis was sent off, but Benfica held the tie until the final whistle. Quique Flores said, \"It was a good game. In normal conditions we would have done better, but circumstances made it a little harder.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, August\u2013September\nAfter the first two weeks of September were dedicated to international football, Benfica returned to competition on the 18th. In the first leg of the qualifying stage for the UEFA Cup, the club faced Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo. Suazo began the scoring for Benfica with a 16th-minute header, but the lead lasted only two minutes. Luigi Vitale tied the score, and Germ\u00e1n Denis scored again for Napoli a minute later. In the second half Christian Maggio added another for Napoli, with Luis\u00e3o scoring for Benfica three minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, August\u2013September\nAlthough Quique Flores believed that the loss was a combination of referee mistakes and errors by his players, he believed his club could qualify. The following Monday, Benfica visited the Est\u00e1dio da Mata Real to play Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira in a 4\u20133 win. Nuno Gomes scored the one-nil in the sixth minute, and Pa\u00e7os equalised less than 10 minutes later. Before half-time, Quique's men added two more goals. In the restart, Pa\u00e7os made the match 3\u20132 in the 63rd minute before Benfica responded with a fourth goal from Jorge Ribeiro. Before the final whistle, William scored another for Pa\u00e7os.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, August\u2013September\nS\u00e1nchez Flores said about his first win at Benfica, \"I am happy for the fans, who needed this to feel that their team also fights for the league.\" On 27 September, Benfica hosted Sporting CP for the first Derby de Lisboa of the season. With the visitors enjoying a four-point lead in the league, Benfica had to win to move up in the standings. The game's only goals were in the second half, the first in the 67th minute when Pablo Aimar assisted Reyes; four minutes later, Sidnei headed in a free kick from Carlos Martins for the second. S\u00e1nchez Flores was encouraged by the victory against a team as strong as Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nOctober began with a crucial match against Napoli. Benfica had only defeated Italian teams four times, most recently on 29 March 1994. The club won with two second-half goals (an opener from Reyes and a confirmation goal from Nuno Gomes), qualifying for the group stage. The victory placed S\u00e1nchez Flores in club history, since Benfica had never eliminated an Italian team after losing the first leg. The game was Benfica TV's first broadcast. On 6 October, the club played Leix\u00f5es on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nWith the top of the Primeira Liga just three points away, Benfica could not beat the home team, losing two points; they led the game for over an hour, but were stopped by an 88th-minute equaliser from Wesley. To S\u00e1nchez Flores, the draw was due to Benfica's performance: low possession, missed passes and fouls resulting in free kicks. The following day, Benfica heard from UEFA headquarters in Nyon that their UEFA Cup group would include Olympiacos, Galatasaray, Hertha BSC and Metalist Kharkiv. After a two-week break for international matches, competition resumed with the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal on the 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nBenfica met third-tier side Penafiel at home; unable to defeat them in regular and extra time, they required penalty kicks. Lu\u00eds Dias missed one for Penafiel, enabling Benfica to advance to the fifth round. S\u00e1nchez Flores said, \"We wanted to play good football, but that did not happen.\" The following Thursday, Benfica travelled to Berlin to play Hertha in the Group B opening game. They took the lead with a 51st-minute goal from \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda, but Hertha responded with a 74th-minute equaliser when a shot by Marko Panteli\u0107 was deflected by Maxi Pereira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0010-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nCaptain Nuno Gomes said that although an away draw in Europe was a good result, Hertha's equaliser was bitter for the team. October ended with a home game against Naval. After a first half in which both teams failed to convert opportunities, Benfica scored their opening goal in the 71st minute. Naval evened the score eleven minutes later, but Cardozo responded with an 86th-minute winner for Benfica. S\u00e1nchez Flores said that the game was difficult because of his club's inconsistency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nIn November, Benfica had a busy schedule with six matches, two for the UEFA Cup. They began with a visit to Est\u00e1dio D. Afonso Henriques, home of Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es. David Suazo's 14th-minute goal was Benfica's 5,000th goal in competition. Sidnei made the score 2\u20130, with Guimar\u00e3es scoring a goal. The win gave Benfica second place, one point shy of leader Leix\u00f5es. S\u00e1nchez Flores attributed the victory to his players' commitment. The following Thursday, Benfica hosted Galatasaray in match-day two of the UEFA Cup. They lost two-nil, with second-half goals from Emre A\u015f\u0131k and \u00dcmit Karan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nIt was the club's first European loss to a Turkish team, and their largest home loss in European competition since 6 March 1997. With one point in two games, Benfica had to earn points in their next match to remain in the competition. On 10 November, the club romped over Desportivo das Aves in the Portuguese Cup. The Liga de Honra side was helpless against Benfica's offence, trailing three-nil at the 30-minute mark. Almost a week later, Benfica hosted a league game against Estrela da Amadora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0011-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nAfter a first half in which they struggled to beat Estrela goalkeeper N\u00e9lson, in the 51st minute Nuno Gomes assisted Sidnei for the game's only goal. S\u00e1nchez Flores called the win important because it held Benfica's lead over their rivals. The club continued to win domestically, with an away victory over Acad\u00e9mica on the 23rd. Earning 21 points in nine match days was a club high for the 2000s, matched only in 2000\u201301. Four days later, Benfica visited Karaiskakis Stadium to play Olympiacos. With a 39th-second goal from Luciano Galletti, the club trailed from the beginning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0011-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, October\u2013November\nThey conceded three more goals in the first half and a fifth in the second half, losing 5\u20131. The result left Benfica on the brink of a UEFA Cup exit, and was a dark remembrance of their worst European defeat nine years before in Vigo. Their performance was criticised; according to Lu\u00eds Avel\u00e3s it was \"extremely poor, full of beginner's mistakes, inadmissible distractions and multiple poor choices\", and S\u00e1nchez Flores apologised to the fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nBenfica began December hoping to extend their domestic winning streak, and the club's first game hosted Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal on 1 December. Laionel opened the score for Set\u00fabal in the 35th minute, with Benfica only responding in the second half with Kostas Katsouranis. In the 59th minute, David Suazo fired a powerful shot that beat Pedro Alves and put Benfica in the lead. However, in the 91st minute, a bicycle kick by Anderson do \u00d3 cleared Quim and levelled the game. Although S\u00e1nchez Flores called the equaliser an accident, he soon dropped Quim in favour of Jos\u00e9 Moreira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nA week later, Benfica visited the Est\u00e1dio dos Barreiros to play Mar\u00edtimo. They had their best performance of the season, winning 6\u20130 with Suazo and Nuno Gomes each scoring twice. The win put Benfica at the top of the table for the first time since May 2005, and was their largest away win since 1974. On 13 December, Benfica played Leix\u00f5es for a place in the Portuguese Cup quarter-finals. On a rainy night at Est\u00e1dio do Mar, neither team could find the back of the net in regular and extra time. Reyes missed a penalty, giving Leix\u00f5es the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0012-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nAlthough Nuno Gomes was frustrated with the elimination, he said it was time to hold their heads high and win the league. On Thursday the 18th, Benfica closed their European campaign by hosting Metalist Kharkiv. To qualify, Benfica had to win 8\u20130 and Olympiacos not win; in case of a draw, Benfica needed a better goal average. They lost one-nil, finishing last in Group B. S\u00e1nchez Flores assumed full responsibility for his team's performance in the competition. Of 40 teams, only Partizan, Heerenveen and Feyenoord played worse than Benfica. The year ended with a home game against Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0012-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nBenfica never overcame Nacional goalkeeper Rafael Bracalli, wasting an opportunity to open a four-point lead in the league table. The match ended in controversy after Cardozo had a goal disallowed because Miguel V\u00edtor had deflected the ball with his hands. According to S\u00e1nchez Flores, the goal was legitimate and Benfica were deprived of three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nIn January, the club had seven scheduled matches, four in the Primeira Liga and three for the League Cup. They opened with an away game against Trofense, their first league loss. Reguila scored first for Trofense, with H\u00e9lder Barbosa adding a confirmation goal in the 82nd minute. The loss cost Benfica first place, and they trailed Porto by one point. Quique Flores said, \"We played very poorly, weak in all aspects, especially offensively\". Benfica rebounded with an away win in Guimar\u00e3es in the first match day of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nKatsouranis headed in the first goal in the ninth minute, and Carlos Martins added a second goal in the 82nd minute. On 11 January, Benfica defeated Braga at the Est\u00e1dio da Luz. At half-time, David Luiz headed in a controversial winner, and S\u00e1nchez Flores said that the club were on course to regain their confidence after a poor past few weeks. They won their third match in a row on 14 January, defeating Olhanense 4\u20131 for the League Cup. D\u00ed Maria scored the final goal in an individual effort dedicated to Diego Maradona, who was present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0013-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, December\u2013January\nOn 17 January, Benfica confirmed a place in the semi-finals of the League Cup with a one-nil win against Belenenses. The goal was scored by Katsouranis, assisted by Di Mar\u00eda. The following Friday, Benfica faced Beleneses for the second time in a week. They had less success, losing two points in a goalless draw. S\u00e1nchez Flores said that Benfica could have won, and the draw was a poor result. The club ended the month with a home win against Rio Ave. Mantorras scored the only goal in the 70th minute, three minutes after entering the game. Now a squad player after several injury-plagued seasons, he was regarded as a super-sub; 12 of his 28 Benfica goals came from the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nIn February, Benfica's schedule included two difficult away matches against Porto and Sporting. They began the month with the semi-final of the 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga against Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es. Benfica scored the opening goal on a Carlos Martins corner kick which Gr\u00e9gory headed into his own net. Near the end of regulation time, Pablo Aimar added the second (his first for the club), and Guimar\u00e3es responded with a consolation goal. Four days later, Benfica played Porto at the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o in a game between the top two teams on the league table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nThey scored first through Hassan Yebda, who headed in a corner kick from Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes. In the second half, Benfica held Porto until the 72nd minute, when Pedro Proen\u00e7a signalled a controversial penalty by Yebda on Lisandro L\u00f3pez. Lucho Gonz\u00e1lez converted it for a 1\u20131 draw. S\u00e1nchez Flores was satisfied, because the club played well and controlled the game. The result kept Porto on top of the league table by one point. On 15 February, Benfica hosted Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0014-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nThe scoring came in the second half \u2013 the first goal in the 69th minute, when Aimar assisted \u00d3scar Cardozo. Four minutes later, R\u00faben Amorim made it 2\u20130, with Pa\u00e7os reacting immediately with the 2\u20131 from Ferreira. Near the end, Di Mar\u00eda scored the third goal for Benfica, with Pa\u00e7os cutting their lead to 3\u20132 and then hitting the post. S\u00e1nchez Flores called it a hard-fought win, with his players' commitment keeping Porto at bay. Almost a week later, Benfica visited the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade to face Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0014-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nAn 11th-minute opener from Li\u00e9dson was answered with an equaliser from Reyes before half-time. In the second half, Derlei unlocked the draw, scoring Sporting's second goal before Li\u00e9dson scored a third; Cardozo brought it down to 3\u20132, and the clock ran out three minutes later. Benfica's second league loss had troubling consequences; Sporting was tied for second place with 37 points, and Porto had a four-point lead. The club finished February with a home win against Leix\u00f5es. \u00c9lvis opened with an own goal for Benfica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0014-0004", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nNuno Gomes later scored the second (his fifth goal of the season), with Leix\u00f5es replying with a goal of their own. Despite playing with ten men, Benfica held Leix\u00f5es back and won. To S\u00e1nchez Flores, the match was intense and difficult, but the victory put pressure on their opponents (who faced each other in following day). With a goalless draw in the game between Porto and Sporting, Benfica finished February with 40 points, two fewer than Porto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nMarch was less busy than February, with only three matches. Benfica's first was at the Municipal Jos\u00e9 Bento Pessoa against Naval. The club took the lead with a third-minute goal from Aimar. Naval evened the score at the start of the second half with a goal by Marcelinho, but Katsouranis scored Benfica's second goal. Miguel V\u00edtor, who assisted the goal, told the media that Benfica wanted to keep winning in case Porto slipped. On 14 March, the club hosted Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es in their third game of 2009. Benfica was caught off-guard, losing 1\u20130 on a 66th-minute goal from Roberto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, February\u2013March\nS\u00e1nchez Flores called the defeat an \"accident that sometimes happens\", and said his team was focused on the remaining eight games. The loss impacted the league standings; Benfica dropped to third place, and Porto had a five-point lead over Sporting. A week later, Benfica and Sporting played the 2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final at the Est\u00e1dio do Algarve. After a goalless first half, Sporting scored the opening goal through Bruno Pereirinha in the 48th minute. Reyes levelled the score for Benfica in the 75th minute, converting a penalty kick. The game was decided on penalties, and the club won their first League Cup. With his first trophy at Benfica, S\u00e1nchez Flores called the win fair and the club had their sights on recovering second place and winning the league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nClub competition paused in the last week of March, resuming over the first weekend of April. Benfica's first game was a visit to nearby Est\u00e1dio da Reboleira to meet Estrela da Amadora. Referee Hugo Miguel called three penalties in the first half-hour: two for Benfica and one for Estrela. Cardozo converted both (in the fifth and 16th minutes), and Silvestre Varela scored for Estrela in a 2\u20131 final result. S\u00e1nchez Flores said that although Benfica played poorly, winning was what mattered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nOn 11 April, Benfica hosted Acad\u00e9mica in another home loss; a 23rd-minute goal by William Tiero secured Acad\u00e9mica's second consecutive away win against Benfica. The loss ended any hope of winning the title, since Porto had an eight-point lead. The race for second place (and a UEFA Champions League spot) also experienced a setback, since Sporting now had a four-point lead. The fans turned on S\u00e1nchez Flores, waving white handkerchiefs in the traditional request for resignation. The Spaniard realised that winning the Primeira Liga was nearly impossible, and Benfica should focus on qualifying for the Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0016-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nThe club rebounded with an away win against Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. They started strong, scoring three goals in the first half for a final score of 4\u20130. Cardozo and Nuno Gomes scored two goals apiece. A week after Set\u00fabal, Benfica hosted Mar\u00edtimo for April's final match. By the 38th minute, the club was winning 3\u20130. Mar\u00edtimo reacted, cutting Benfica's lead to 3\u20132 in the 60th minute, but the club defended their lead. Although S\u00e1nchez Flores was happy with the three points, he said that Benfica should have better controlled the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nIn May, Benfica had four matches to gain four points on Sporting. The first was at the Est\u00e1dio da Madeira with Nacional. Knowing that Sporting had lost points to Acad\u00e9mica, Benfica hoped to narrow the gsp between them to two points. After an uneventful first half, in the 56th minute Nen\u00ea scored the opening goal for Nacional. Eight minutes later, R\u00faben Micael extended the lead, with Reyes reducing it in the 67th minute. Benfica pressed unsuccessfully for the equaliser before Nacional scored again with Miguel Fidalgo. S\u00e1nchez Flores realised that winning the league title was now impossible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nOn 9 May, Benfica met Trofense at home. Valdomiro scored first for the visitors in the 31st minute before Benfica scored twice in two minutes, reaching half-time with a 2\u20131 lead. In the second half, Paulinho tied the score for Trofense. Sporting won that day, so Benfica trailed by seven points with two match days left and could not qualify for the Champions League. S\u00e1nchez Flores said, \"I know when to arrive and when to leave. I do not want to be a problem for the club.\" Playing out the schedule, Benfica first visited the Municipal de Braga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0017-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary, April\u2013May\nThey won 3\u20131, ending a five-year winless streak there. The victory was against Jorge Jesus, widely reported as S\u00e1nchez Flores' successor. A week later, Benfica ended their campaign with a 3\u20131 win against Belenenses. S\u00e1nchez Flores analysed the club's season: \"They asked me to improve the team and I did. But we all know what happened last year; we should set realistic goals. Second place was possible, but we failed in the final third. I won a title and fought for another.\" A short time later, he and the club terminated his contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nThe squad for the season consisted of the players in the tables below and staff members Quique Flores (manager), Fran Escrib\u00e1 (assistant manager), Emilio \u00c1lvarez (goalkeeper coach), Paco Ayestaran (fitness coach), and Diamantino Miranda and Fernando Chalana as links to club management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200870-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 2: Players with squad numbers marked \u2021 joined the club during the 2008\u201309 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200871-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S. Lazio season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 109th season in Societ\u00e0 Sportiva Lazio's history and their 21st consecutive season in the top-flight of Italian football. Lazio finished in 10th place in Serie A, however, won the Coppa Italia this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200871-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S. Lazio season, Squad, First team\nAs of September 20, 2008Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200871-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S. Lazio season, Squad, First team\nFor all transfers and loans pertaining to Lazio for the current season, please see; summer 2008 transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200872-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S.C. Napoli season\n2008\u201309 Serie A was the 67th Serie A season in the history of Societ\u00e0 Sportiva Calcio Napoli, and their 83rd overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200872-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S.C. Napoli season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200872-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S.S.C. Napoli season, Squad statistics, Starting 11\nLast updated: 31 May 2009Source: Squad statistics and Start formations Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200873-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SC Bastia season\nFrench football club SC Bastia's 2008\u201309 season. Finished 11th place in league. Top scorer of the season, including 10 goals in 10 league matches have been Pierre-Yves Andr\u00e9. Was eliminated to Coupe de France 8. round, the Coupe de la Ligue was able to be among the final 32 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200873-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SC Bastia season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200874-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SC Rheindorf Altach season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was SC Rheindorf Altach's 80th season in existence and the club's 3rd consecutive season in the top flight of Austrian football. In addition to the domestic league, Altach participated in this season's edition of the Austrian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200874-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SC Rheindorf Altach season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200874-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SC Rheindorf Altach season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 SIJHL season is the 8th season of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL). The six teams of the SIJHL will play 50-game schedules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season\nCome February, the top teams of the league will play down for the Bill Salonen Cup, the SIJHL championship. The winner of the Bill Salonen Cup will compete in the Central Canadian Junior \"A\" championship, the Dudley Hewitt Cup. If successful against the winners of the Ontario Junior Hockey League and Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, the champion would then move on to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League championship, the 2009 Royal Bank Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season, Dudley Hewitt Cup Championship\nHosted by the Schreiber Diesels in Schreiber, Ontario. Fort William finished in second place and Schreiber finished in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200875-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SIJHL season, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200876-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SK Rapid Wien season\nThe 2008\u201309 SK Rapid Wien season is the 111th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20\nThe 2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20 is the 2nd season of the official Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Sri Lanka. Six teams in total, five representing four provinces of Sri Lanka and a Sri Lanka Schools XI team participating in the competition. The competition began on 25 March 2009when Ruhuna elevens played the Sri Lanka Schools XI at Moors Sports Club Ground, Colombo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20\nThis season comprised 15 regular matches, two semi finals and a grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Rules and regulations\nTeams received 4 points for a win, 2 for a tie or no result, and 0 for a loss. At the end of the regular matches the teams ranked two and three play each other in the preliminary final. The winner of the preliminary final earns the right to play the first placed team in the final at the home venue of the first placed team. In the event of several teams finishing with the same number of points, standings are determined by most wins, then net run rate (NRR). All finals were played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Statistics, Most Runs\nThe top five highest run scorers (total runs) in the season are included in this table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Statistics, Most Wickets\nThe following table contains the five leading wicket-takers of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Statistics, Highest Team Totals\nThe following table lists the six highest team scores during this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Statistics, Highest Scores\nThis table contains the top five highest scores of the season made by a batsman in a single innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200877-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SLC Super Provincial Twenty20, Statistics, Best Bowling Figures in an innings\nThis table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures in an innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200878-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SM-liiga season\nThe 2008-09 SM-liiga season was the 34th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 14 teams participated in the league, and JYP Jyvaskyla won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200879-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SPHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 Southern Professional Hockey League season was the fifth season of the Southern Professional Hockey League. The regular season began August 24, 2008, and ended April 16, 2009, after a 60-game regular season and a four-team playoff. The Knoxville Ice Bears captured their second consecutive championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200879-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SPHL season, Preseason\nThe Jacksonville Barracudas franchise was suspended from the season due to lack of an arena. The team would eventually fold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200879-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SPHL season, Awards, All-Star selections\nF Travis Kauffeldt (Huntsville) F Donald Melnyk (Twin City) F Kevin Swider (Knoxville) D Kevin Harris (Knoxville) D Dan Vandermeer (Richmond) G Andrew Gallant (Knoxville)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200879-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SPHL season, Awards, All-Star selections\nF Tim Green (Columbus) F Beau McLaughlin (Richmond) F Rob Sich (Fayetteville) D Corey Hessler (Fayetteville) D Lawne Snyder (Fayetteville) G Ian Vigier (Columbus)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200879-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SPHL season, Awards, All-Star selections\nF Sam Bowles (Columbus) F Ryan Busby (Richmond) F Michael Richard (Twin City) D Kyle Lundale (Columbus) D Travis Martell (Knoxville) G Ryan Scott (Richmond)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, the club finished 10th in the Bundesliga, won the DFB-Pokal, and were eliminated in the Group Stage of Champions League and the final of the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, Players, Werder Bremen II\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, DFB\u2013Pokal, DFB\u2013Pokal review\nIn the first round of the DFB-Pokal, on 17 August, Werder Bremen defeated Oberliga club Eintracht Nordhorn 9\u20133. Werder Bremen got four goals from Markus Rosenberg, three goals from Hugo Almeida, and two more goals from Boubacar Sanogo and Jurica Vranje\u0161. Dennis Brode, Herion Novaku, and Bertino Nacar scored for Eintracht Nordhorn. Then in the second round, on 23 September, Werder Bremen defeated 3. Liga club Erzgebirge Aue 2\u20131. Fabian M\u00fcller gave Erzgebirge Aue a 1\u20130 lead in the seventh minute. However, Werder Bremen equalized with a 26-minute goal from Claudio Pizarro and took the lead with a 54-minute goal from Markus Rosenberg. Then in the round of 16, on 28 January, Werder Bremen defeated Borussia Dortmund 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200880-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 SV Werder Bremen season, Champions League, Champions League review\nWerder Bremen kicked\u2013off their Champions League campaign with a 0\u20130 draw against Anorthosis Famagusta on 16 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200881-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saba Qom F.C. season\nThis is a list of Saba Qom's results at the 2008\u201309 Persian Gulf Cup, 2008\u201309 Hazfi Cup and 2009 ACL. The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup and Asian Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200882-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sacramento Kings season\nThe 2008\u201309 Sacramento Kings season is the 64th season of the franchise, 60th in the National Basketball Association (NBA), 24th in Sacramento. After they traded away Ron Artest to the Houston Rockets in exchange for former Kings guard Bobby Jackson, and recently drafted Donte Greene a 2009 first-round pick and cash considerations during the offseason, the Kings have struggled all season and they finished with a franchise\u2013worst 17\u201365 record surpassed their record mark set in the 1989\u201390 season of 23\u201359 record and also team suffered their first 60\u2013loss season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200882-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sacramento Kings season\nAfter a slow start into the season, on December 15, 2008, just ten days before Christmas, the Kings fired their head coach Reggie Theus and their assistant coach Chuck Person after a 6\u201318 start and replaced by assistant coach Kenny Natt on the interim basis for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200882-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sacramento Kings season\nAt the trade deadline in midseason after the All-Star break they traded away former two-time All-Star Brad Miller and John Salmons to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Andr\u00e9s Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Michael Ruffin, and Cedric Simmons. Kings' guard Kevin Martin played only 51 games due to ankle injuries and this will be their final full season with the team before being traded to the Houston Rockets, following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200882-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sacramento Kings season\nAlso, following the season, interim head coach Natt and their four assistant coaches Rex Kalamian, former Kings' player Randy Brown, Bubba Burrage, and Jason Hamm were all fired on April 24, 2009, just nine days after the regular season was concluded with a franchise\u2013low 17\u2013win season and he was replaced by former Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics (now, Oklahoma City Thunder) head coach Paul Westphal on June 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200883-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball team represented Saint Louis University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Rick Majerus's second season at Saint Louis. The Billikens competed in the Atlantic 10 Conference. It was also the Billikens first season in which they played their home games at Chaifetz Arena. They finished the season 18\u201314 and 8\u20138 in A-10 play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200884-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Antonio Spurs season\nThe 2008\u201309 San Antonio Spurs season was the 42nd season of the franchise and the 33rd in the National Basketball Association (NBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200884-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Antonio Spurs season\nIn the playoffs, the Spurs lost to the Dallas Mavericks in five games in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200884-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Antonio Spurs season, Player statistics, Playoffs\nThe Spurs were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200884-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Antonio Spurs season, Awards and records, Records\nTim Duncan became the first player in NBA history to be an All-NBA selection in his first twelve seasons. Duncan is one of only eight players in the history of the league to be selected twelve times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200885-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 San Diego State men's basketball team represented San Diego State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Steve Fisher's tenth season at San Diego State. The Aztecs competed in the Mountain West Conference and played their home games at the Viejas Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season\nThe 2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season was the Sharks' 18th season in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Season events, Pre-season\nOn June 12, the San Jose Sharks named Todd McLellan their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Season events, Pre-season\nThe Sharks traded for defensemen Dan Boyle and Brad Lukowich from the Tampa Bay Lightning and signed Rob Blake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Season events, Pre-season\nFormer Shark Jeff Friesen tried out for a spot on the team, but the team released him before the season opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Season events, Pre-season\nKyle McLaren was placed on waivers, just before the regular season began. He was not claimed by any NHL team and was thus sent down to the Sharks' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Worcester Sharks, to receive more playing time and so that the Sharks could play under the salary cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Standings, Divisional standings\nNote: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 262]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Sharks. Stats reflect time with the Sharks only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Transactions, Trades\nSharks acquired defensemen Dan Boyle and Brad Lukowich for defenseman Matt Carle, defensive prospect Ty Wishart, a first-round-pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and a fourth-round-pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Transactions, Trades\nTraded defenseman Craig Rivet to Buffalo Sabres for a second-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and a second-round-pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Transactions, Draft picks\nSan Jose's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200886-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Jose Sharks season, Farm teams\nThe Sharks affiliate in the American Hockey League was the Worcester Sharks. The Worcester club finished in fourth place in the AHL's Atlantic Division with 42 wins and 35 losses. Worcester's leading scorer was Mike Iggulden with 29 goals and 66 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200887-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 San Miguel Beermen season\nThe 2008\u201309 San Miguel Beermen season was the 34th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200888-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Santosh Trophy\nThe Santosh Trophy 2009 was a football tournament in India. In the final, held in Chennai, Goa beat West Bengal by 4\u20132 on penalties after a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup was the 34th season of the Saudi Crown Prince Cup since its establishment in 1957. This season's competition featured a total of 16 teams, 12 teams from the Pro League, and 4 teams from the Qualifying Rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup\nPro League side Al-Hilal were the defending champions and successfully defended their title after a 1\u20130 win against Al-Shabab in the final. Al-Hilal won their eighth title to become the most successful team in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Qualifying rounds\nAll of the competing teams that are not members of the Pro League competed in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 4 available places in the Round of 16. First Division sides Al-Fateh, Al-Riyadh and Al-Ansar qualified as well as Second Division side Al-Fayha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Qualifying rounds, First Round\nThe First Round matches were played on 13 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second Round\nThe Second Round matches were played on 27 & 28 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Qualifying rounds, Final Round\nThe Final Round matches were played on 2 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Round of 16\nThe Round of 16 fixtures were played on 13, 14 and 15 February 2009. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe Quarter-finals fixtures were played on 18 and 19 February 2009. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Semi-finals\nThe Semi-finals fixtures were played on 22 and 23 February 2009. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200889-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Final\nThe final was held on 27 February 2009 in the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League\nThe 2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League was the 33rd season of Saudi Professional League since its establishment in 1976. Al-Hilal were the defending champions, having won their 11th title in the previous season. The campaign began on 13 September 2008 and ended on 12 April 2009. A total of 12 teams contested the league, 10 of which already contested in the 2007\u201308 season, and two of which were promoted from the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League\nOn 12 April 2009, in the final round of the season, Al-Ittihad won the title after a 2\u20131 victory over Al-Hilal. It was their eighth league title overall. Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Shabab all secured a berth for the 2010 AFC Champions League, while Al-Nassr and Al-Ettifaq qualified for the 2009\u201310 Gulf Club Champions Cup. Al-Watani and Abha were relegated to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Changes, Professional League rebrand\nOn 26 May 2008, the Saudi FF announced that league would be rebranded and would be known as the Saudi Professional League. The changes were based on the criteria introduced by AFC President Mohammed bin Hammam to improve the football standards in Asia. The changes also included a website dedicated to recording statistics of the league for the first time. It was also announced that the website would be run by the Saudi Professional League rather than the Saudi FF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Changes, Qualification and Prize money\nThe League champions, runners-up and third place as well as the winner of the King Cup of Champions qualified for the 2010 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Changes, Qualification and Prize money\nThe top eight teams qualified for King Cup of Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Teams\nTwelve teams competed in the league\u00a0\u2013 the top ten teams from the previous season and the two teams promoted from the First Division. The promoted teams were Al-Raed (returning to the top flight after an absence of five years) and Abha (returning to the top flight after an absence of two years). They replaced Al-Tai (after seven consecutive years in the top-flight) and Al-Qadisiyah (after six consecutive years in the top-flight).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Teams, Foreign players\nThe number of foreign players was limited to 3 per team, and should not be a goalkeeper. For the January transfer window, the SAFF added an additional slot for a player from one of the AFC countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Teams, Foreign players\nPlayers name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Relegation play-offs\nAl-Raed, who finished 10th, faced Abha, who finished 11th for a two-legged play-off. The winner on aggregate score after both matches earned entry into the 2009\u201310 Professional League while the loser was relegated to the First Division. Al-Raed won 4\u20133 on aggregate and retained their place in the next edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Season statistics, Scoring, Hat-tricks\n4 Player scored 4 goals(H) \u2013 Home team(A) \u2013 Away team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200890-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Saudi Professional League, Awards\nThe following awards were given following the conclusion of the season. The awards were known as the Arriyadiyah and Mobily Awards for Sports Excellence and were sponsored by Saudi newspaper Arriyadiyah and Saudi telecommunication company Mobily. The awards were presented on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200891-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Savannah State Lady Tigers basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Savannah State Lady Tigers basketball team competed in American basketball on behalf of Savannah State University. The Lady Tigers were members of the NCAA Division I-AA, as an independent. The head coach is Cedric Hardy, who served his fifth year. The team played its home games at Tiger Arena in Savannah, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200891-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Savannah State Lady Tigers basketball team\nThe Lady Tigers entered the season seeking to improve on the 14\u201315 record posted in the 2007\u201308 season, but finished with an 8\u201320 regular season record. The Lady Tigers were 1\u20132 in the Division I Women's  Independent Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200892-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Savannah State Tigers basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Savannah State Tigers basketball team competed in American basketball on behalf of Savannah State University. The Tigers competed in the NCAA Division I as an independent. The head coach is Horace Broadnax who is in his fourth year. The team played its home games at Tiger Arena in Savannah, Georgia. The Tigers entered the season seeking to improve on the 13-18 record posted in the 2007-08 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the sixth in the history of the Scarlets regional side. The season will see the Scarlets compete in three competitions: the Celtic League, the EDF Energy Cup and the Heineken Cup. The season welcomes a change of ground, with the team moving from their home of over 125 years, Stradey Park, to a new stadium in Pemberton named Parc y Scarlets, as well as a change in the team name, dropping the \"Llanelli\" from their moniker to become the Scarlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nThe Scarlets opened their 2008-09 Celtic League season away to Ulster on 5 September 2008. Despite playing against the wind in the first half, the Scarlets scored an early penalty in the sixth minute, before Darren Daniel scored the first try of the game, crossing in the corner. Clinton Schifcofske scored three penalties in response to make the half-time score 10\u20139 to the visitors. The Scarlets then took full advantage of the wind in the second half, Stephen Jones putting over two penalties to put the result beyond doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nThe Scarlets' next match came five days later, when they travelled to Rodney Parade to take on the Newport Gwent Dragons. The game looked out of the Llanelli side's reach at half time, as they trailed 25\u20136, but two unanswered tries from Martin Roberts and Nathan Brew, a conversion and two further penalties from Stephen Jones pulled the score back to 25\u201324. Brew came close to putting the Scarlets into the lead with 11 minutes to go, but fumbled the ball before he could get to the line, while Stephen Jones put an easy drop goal wide moments later. Fortunately for him, after Robert Lewis conceded a penalty in front of the posts, Jones finally gave the Scarlets a two-point win with three minutes left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nThe team's next game came just three days later, at home to Connacht in the first of their final three games at Stradey Park. The Irish side opened the scoring with a penalty in the first minute, but those were to be their only points of the match as the Scarlets tore through the Connacht defence seemingly at will. Both Morgan Stoddart and Dafydd James broke the Connacht line before Deacon Manu scored the first try of the game, and then an almost identical one soon after to make the score 12\u20133 going into half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nTwo more tries came soon after the break, from Jonathan Davies and Nathan Brew, securing the try bonus point for the Scarlets. Man of the match Morgan Stoddart added two more before the end, with his tries separated by one from Mark Jones, to end the final Celtic League game at Stradey Park with a 45\u20133 win for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nThe Scarlets unbeaten start to the season came to an end on 19 September when they travelled to Scotland to play Edinburgh, losing 32\u201312. The loss meant that the Scarlets' run of being the only team not to beat Edinburgh at Murrayfield continued. It took 26 minutes before the first try came for Edinburgh, and it was not long before they added a second. They could have had a third just before half time, but Mark Robertson knocked on in the in-goal area attempting to gather a bouncing ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nThe third eventually did come, however, as did a fourth before the midpoint of the second half. A Morgan Stoddart try was sandwiched between Edinburgh's two second half scores, and Martin Roberts crossed with a minute left to play, but it was too little, too late for the Scarlets. They then suffered a second defeat to a Scottish team in as many weeks with a 34\u201320 loss to Glasgow Warriors on 26 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nDespite taking a 12\u20130 lead in the first quarter of the match, the Scarlets found themselves 13\u201312 down at half-time and conceded another two tries before the 60 minute mark. Mark Jones scored a consolation try with eight minutes to go, but it was nullified by a last minute Glasgow try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nAfter a two-month break for the EDF Energy Cup, the Heineken Cup and the Autumn internationals, the Scarlets restarted their Celtic League campaign with a home game against Munster on 28 November 2008, their first match at their new stadium, Parc y Scarlets. The two sides exchanged a penalty each in the first quarter of the game, but it was Munster who scored the first try at the ground, Ian Dowling crossing in the 33rd minute. Denis Leamy then scored a converted try shortly before half-time, making the score 15\u20133 to the Irish at the interval. The second half was largely uneventful until the Scarlets made a late resurgence, being awarded a penalty try in injury time at the end of the game. However, it was not enough to overturn the Munster lead, the match finishing 18\u201316 to Munster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, Celtic League\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Points for; A = Points against; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus points; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, EDF Energy Cup\nThe Scarlets kicked off their 2008\u201309 EDF Energy Cup campaign with a 26\u201317 win away to Saracens on 5 October 2008. Australian Number 8 David Lyons opened the scoring for the Llanelli side, but Saracens responded almost immediately with two converted tries. However, the Scarlets took a 16\u201314 half-time lead through the boot of Stephen Jones. Saracens retook the lead soon after the break, but a Kees Meeuws try in the 48th minute secured the win for the Scarlets, while Stephen Jones denied the English side a losing bonus point with a penalty in the 63rd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, EDF Energy Cup\nOn 24 October 2008, the Scarlets hosted Bristol for the last ever competitive match to be held at Stradey Park. The home side got off to a perfect start, with Morgan Stoddart crossing the try line after just two minutes. Following lengthy analysis by the Television Match Official, Simon Easterby was awarded a try just before half-time, to take the score to 17\u20130 going into half time. A Stephen Jones penalty 10 minutes into the second half made it 20\u20130, before former Bristol centre Rob Higgitt scored to effectively put the result beyond doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, EDF Energy Cup\nThe remainder of the match was spent with the Scarlets seeking the one try that would have given them the bonus point win, but it never came, and they had to be content with a 27\u20130 whitewash. The result put them in pole position to qualify for the semi-finals, although Northampton were still to play both Saracens and the Scarlets themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, EDF Energy Cup\nSaracens beat Northampton that Sunday, meaning that the Scarlets needed only to avoid defeat to Northampton to qualify for the semi-finals. The match was played at Franklin's Gardens on the Saturday of the following weekend, and started at a blistering pace, with Regan King and Morgan Stoddart scoring tries in the first ten minutes. Northampton hit back immediately through Chris Ashton, who added another in the 29th minute. Ashton's two tries, in addition to a penalty for each side, meant that the half-time score was 13\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200893-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scarlets season, EDF Energy Cup\nNorthampton started the second half the brighter of the two sides, and they took the lead for the first time when Bruce Reihana scored a converted try in the 45th minute. They stretched their lead midway through the half, through Sean Lamont and the boot of Stephen Myler, and, although they suffered a yellow card to James Downey, they held off a Scarlet resurgence to win 33\u201320 and qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, known as the ALBA Challenge Cup due to sponsorship reasons with MG Alba, was the 18th season of the competition, competed for by all 30 members of the Scottish Football League. The defending champions were St Johnstone, who defeated Dunfermline Athletic by 3\u20132 in the 2007 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup\nThe competition was won by Airdrie United who defeated Ross County 3\u20132 on penalties following a 2\u20132 draw after extra time, the winning penalty was scored by Marc Smyth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, First round\nThe First round draw was conducted on 29 May 2008. Holders St Johnstone were drawn against Ross County away from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, First round, North and East Region\nRaith Rovers received a random bye to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, First round, South and West Region\nGreenock Morton received a random bye to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, Second round\nThe Second round draw was conducted on 30 July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200894-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Challenge Cup, Media coverage\nThe Partick Thistle v Airdrie United semi-final was shown live and the final was shown live on BBC Alba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Cup was the 124th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The winners were Rangers, who defeated Falkirk in the 2009 final on 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup\nThe competition was under new sponsorship. While the SFA sponsored the tournament last season, the new sponsor was Homecoming Scotland 2009, a project from the Scottish Government to encourage Scots from all over the world to visit the country. The tournament itself was known as The Homecoming Scottish Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup\nBanks o' Dee, Bathgate Thistle, Lochee United and Pollok were the four junior clubs that entered this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, First round\nThe First Round draw was conducted at Castlehead High School, Paisley on 8 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Second round\nThe Second Round draw was conducted at Lochee United's Thomson Park, Dundee on 27 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Third round\nThe Third Round draw was conducted on 27 October 2008. Six matches were postponed, all because of frozen pitches. They were rescheduled for the following Saturday. However, only two of those matches were played on that day, Elgin City v Spartans and Forres Mechanics v Dalbeattie Star. The other matches were repeatedly postponed because of poor weather. The Edinburgh City v Brechin City tie was eventually played on 8 December 2008 and the Inverurie Loco Works v Vale of Leithen tie on 13 December 2008. The Lochee United v Ayr United match was played on Tuesday, 23 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Third round\nOn 11 December 2008, the match between Elgin City and Spartans was ordered to be replayed after Elgin had fielded Joe Malin, a loanee from Ross County, in a 2\u20131 win. Malin was not registered in time for the original tie, but played in the rescheduled tie. The match was ordered to be played on 15 December. It later emerged that Spartans had also fielded an ineligible player, Dean Hoskins, after an administrative error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Fourth round\nThe Fourth Round Draw was conducted on 1 December 2008. Three matches were postponed due to failed pitch inspections, The first postponement, Inverurie Loco Works v Motherwell was rescheduled for 21 January but was not played (following 2 further postponements) until 2 February, whereas the Brechin City v St Mirren and Forfar Athletic v Forres Mechanics fixtures were both scheduled and played on 13 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Fifth round\nThe Fifth Round Draw was conducted on 11 January 2009 at Hibernian's Easter Road. Three matches were postponed, the Aberdeen v East Fife match because of adverse weather in and around the city, and the Airdrie United v Dunfermline Athletic and Forfar Athletic v Rangers because of frozen pitches. All have been rescheduled for 18 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe Quarter-final draw was conducted on 9 February 2009 at Hampden Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200895-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Cup, Semi-finals\nThe Semi-final draw was conducted on 8 March 2009 at Ibrox Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200896-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish First Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish First Division was the fourteenth season of the First Division in its current format of ten teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200896-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish First Division, Results\nTeams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200896-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish First Division, First Division play-offs, Semi-finals\nThe ninth placed team in the First Division played the fourth placed team in the Second Division and third placed team in the Second Division played the second placed team in the Second Division. The play-offs were played over two legs, the winning team in each semi-final advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200896-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish First Division, First Division play-offs, Final\nThe two semi-final winners played each other over two legs. The winning team was awarded a place in the 2009\u201310 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200897-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Football League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 00:31, 20 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup was a competition in Scottish Junior football. It was won by Auchinleck Talbot after they defeated Clydebank 2\u20131 in the final which had an attendance of 8,122.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup\nUnder a 2007 rule change, the Junior Cup winners (along with winners of the North, East and West regional leagues) qualify for the senior Scottish Cup; Auchinleck Talbot therefore competed in the 2009\u201310 Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup, First round\nThese ties were scheduled to take place on Saturday, TBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup, Second round\nThese ties were scheduled to take place on Saturday, TBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup, Third round\nThese ties were scheduled to take place on Saturday, TBC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup, Fourth round\nThese ties were scheduled to take place on Saturday, TBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200898-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Junior Cup, Fifth round\nThese ties were scheduled to take place on Saturday, TBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup was the 63rd season of the Scotland's second most prestigious football knockout competition, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-operative Insurance Cup. Celtic won the cup beating Rangers 2\u20130 after extra time thanks to a goal from Darren O'Dea and an Aiden McGeady penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, First round\nThe First round draw was conducted at Hampden Park on 2008-07-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Second round\nThe second round draw was conducted at The Signet Library, Edinburgh on 2008-08-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Third round\nThe Third round draw was conducted at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 2008-09-01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-final draw was conducted at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 25 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-final draw was conducted at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh on 12 November 2008 by First Minister Alex Salmond, a representative of sponsors Co-operative Insurance and the Presiding Officer of the Parliament, Alex Fergusson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Awards\nA team, player and young player were chosen by the Scottish sports press as the top performers in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200899-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, Media coverage\nIn Australia the Scottish League Cup was available on SBS and Setanta Sports who also broadcast it in Ireland. In the UK the Scottish League Cup was broadcast on BBC Scotland and BBC Red Button.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League season was the eleventh season of the Scottish Premier League and the second season under the sponsorship of the Clydesdale Bank. It began on 9 August 2008 with a game between Falkirk and Rangers. After the 33rd round of matches, the league split in half and each team played a further five matches against the teams in their half of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League\nChampions Rangers qualified directly for the Champions League, while second-placed Celtic qualified for the qualifying rounds. Four teams qualified for the new Europa League: Hearts and Aberdeen via league position, Falkirk via the Scottish Cup, and Motherwell by the Fair Play initiative. Inverness were relegated after their fifth season in the SPL and were replaced by St Johnstone for the following season's competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League\nThe championship was determined on the final day of the season. Leaders Rangers travelled to Tannadice to play Dundee United knowing that a win would secure the title. They achieved this comfortably, courtesy of a 3\u20130 victory. The goals were scored by Kyle Lafferty, Pedro Mendes and the league's top goalscorer, Kris Boyd. Celtic needed to win their final match of the season against Hearts and hope that Rangers failed to win, but their goalless draw was rendered meaningless. It was also Rangers first title in 4 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League, Results, Matches 1\u201322\nDuring their first 22 matches, each team played every other team home and away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League, Results, Matches 23\u201333\nDuring matches 23\u201333 each team played every other team once (either at home or away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200900-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Premier League, Results, Matches 34\u201338\nDuring matches 34\u201338 each team play every other team in their half of the table once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200901-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division was the fourteenth season of the Second Division in its current format of ten teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200901-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division, Results\nTeams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200901-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division, Second Division play-offs, Semi-finals\nThe ninth placed team in the Second Division played the fourth placed team in the Third Division and third placed team in the Second Division played the second placed team in the Second Division. The play-offs were played over two legs, the winning team in each semi-final advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200901-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division, Second Division play-offs, Final\nThe two semi-final winners played each other over two legs, the home team in the 1st Leg was determined by a draw conducted on 16 April 2008. The winning team were awarded a place in the 2008\u201309 Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200902-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Third Division\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Football League Third Division (also known as the 2008\u201309 Irn-Bru Scottish Football League Third Division for sponsorship reasons) was the 14th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 2 August 2008 and ended on 9 May 2009. Dumbarton F.C. finished top and were promoted alongside Stenhousemuir F.C. as play-off winners. Cowdenbeath F.C. were also promoted due to Livingston being demoted to the Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200902-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Third Division, Teams for 2008\u201309\nEast Fife as champions of the 2007\u201308 season were directly promoted to the 2008\u201309 Scottish Second Division. They were replaced by Berwick Rangers who finished bottom of the 2007\u201308 Scottish Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200902-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Third Division, Teams for 2008\u201309\nA second promotion place was available via a play-off tournament between the ninth-placed team of the 2007\u201308 Scottish Second Division, Cowdenbeath, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2007\u201308 Scottish Third Division, Stranraer, Montrose and Arbroath respectively. The play off was won by Arbroath who defeated Stranraer in the final. Cowdenbeath were therefore relegated. However, due to Gretna's expulsion from the Football League, an extra promotion place was awarded, thus Stranraer as losing play-off finalists were also promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200902-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Third Division, Teams for 2008\u201309\nAnnan Athletic, formerly of the East of Scotland League, were admitted to the SFL to replace Gretna, who resigned their league status on 3 June.) The SFL voted on the matter on 3 July, with 5 clubs having put forward applications. Annan, who like Gretna are from the Dumfries and Galloway region, were chosen above other applicants Cove Rangers, Edinburgh City, Preston Athletic and Spartans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200902-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Third Division, Results\nTeams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200903-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scottish Youth Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Scottish Youth Cup was the 26th season of the competition. The holders Rangers were defeated by under-19 league winners Hibernian in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200904-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scunthorpe United F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Scunthorpe United F.C. competed in League One, the third tier of English football. Scunthorpe also competed in the FA Cup, Football  League Cup and Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200904-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Scunthorpe United F.C. season, Season summary\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw Scunthorpe reach Wembley twice. The Iron qualified for the Football League Trophy final, but were beaten 3\u20132 after extra time by Luton Town. The club then qualified for the League One play-offs through an 88th-minute equaliser by club captain Cliff Byrne against promotion rivals Tranmere Rovers on the last day of the regular season. Scunthorpe beat MK Dons on penalties after a 1\u20131 aggregate draw in the semi-finals, before beating Millwall in the Wembley final 3\u20132, with two goals from Matt Sparrow and one from Martyn Woolford, to achieve promotion back to the Championship at the first time of asking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200905-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Second League of the Republika Srpska\nThe 2008\u201309 Second League of Republika Srpska season was the fourteenth since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3\nSegona Divisi\u00f3 2008\u201309 was the 10th season of football of Segona Divisi\u00f3, in Andorra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Sep 20]Jenlai           3\u20135 Atl\u00e8tic[Sep 21]Lusitans B      4\u20131 Principat BEncamp          0\u20130 BenficaExtremenya       bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Sep 27]Extremenya      4\u20130 Jenlai[Sep 28]Benfica         2\u20133 Lusitans B[Sep 29]Atl\u00e8tic         awd Principat B       [awarded 3\u20130, originally 3\u20134]Encamp           bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Oct 4]Jenlai          2\u20135 Benfica[Oct 5]Extremenya      1\u20133 Encamp[Oct 6]Lusitans B      1\u20132 Atl\u00e8ticPrincipat B     bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[Oct 11]Encamp           5\u20130 Jenlai[Oct 12]Benfica         0\u20135 Atl\u00e8ticPrincipat B     1\u20131 ExtremenyaLusitans B      bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Oct 19]Extremenya      1\u20136 Lusitans BAtl\u00e8tic         3\u20134 Encamp[Oct 20] Jenlai          1\u20133 Principat BBenfica         bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Oct 25]Extremenya      3\u20130 Benfica    Encamp          3\u20130 Principat B    [Oct 26]Lusitans B      0\u20130 Jenlai        Atl\u00e8tic         bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Nov 8]Atl\u00e8tic         1\u20131 Extremenya        [Nov 9]Encamp          2\u20131 Lusitans B      Principat B     3\u20130 Benfica           Jenlai          bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Nov 22]Benfica         2\u20132 Encamp           [Nov 23]Atl\u00e8tic         6\u20133 Jenlai           [Nov 24]Principat B     0\u20132 Lusitans B       Extremenya      bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Dec 13]Principat B     0\u20133 Atl\u00e8tic          [Mar 21]Lusitans B      4\u20133 Benfica      Jenlai         1\u201310 Extremenya       Encamp          bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Jan 25]Encamp          3\u20131 Extremenya       Atl\u00e8tic         3\u20131 Lusitans B  [Feb 8]Benfica         7\u20130 Jenlai        Principat B     bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[Feb 21]Atl\u00e8tic         0\u20135 Benfica          Jenlai         1\u201311 Encamp            [Feb 22]Extremenya      4\u20131 Principat B      Lusitans B      bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Feb 28]Lusitans B      4\u20132 Extremenya        [Mar 1] Encamp          1\u20131 Atl\u00e8tic      Principat B     n/p Jenlai               Benfica         bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Mar 7]Jenlai          0\u20137 Lusitans B          [Mar 8]     Principat B     2\u20138 Encamp   Benfica         1\u20131 Extremenya       Atl\u00e8tic         bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Regular Stage, League table\n[ Mar 15]    Lusitans B      2\u20132 Encamp  Benfica         5\u20130 Principat B  [Mar 16]       Extremenya      2\u20131 Atl\u00e8tic            Jenlai          bye", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200906-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3, Promotion and relegation playoff\nInter Club d'Escaldes competed in a two-legged relegation play-off against Atl\u00e8tic Club d'Escaldes, runners-up from Segona Divisi\u00f3, for one spot in 2009\u201310 Primera Divisi\u00f3. Inter successfully retained their Primera Divisi\u00f3 spot after winning on penalties 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200907-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season (known from that season as Liga Adelante for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th since its establishment. The first matches of the season were played on 30 August 2008, and the season ended on 21 June 2009. Real Zaragoza, Real Murcia and Levante were the teams relegated from La Liga the previous season. Alicante, Girona, Huesca and Rayo Vallecano were the teams promoted from Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200907-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe first goal of the season was scored by Alexandre Geijo, who scored in the 11th minute for Levante against Real Zaragoza in the early kick-off. The first red card of the season was given to Paco Pe\u00f1a from Real Murcia after a challenge on Sergio Pach\u00f3n in their opening match against Rayo Vallecano. The first hat-trick was scored by Sebasti\u00e1n Abreu in the match between Xerez and Real Sociedad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200907-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Teams\nThe 2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was made up of the following teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200908-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B\nThe 2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B season was the 32nd since its establishment. The first matches of the season were played on 30 August 2008, and the season ended on 21 June 2009 with the promotion play-off finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200909-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divis\u00e3o\nThe 2008\u201309 Segunda Divis\u00e3o season was the 75th season of the competition and the 59th season of recognised third-tier football in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200909-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nThe league was contested by 47 teams in 4 divisions with GD Chaves, FC Penafiel, CD F\u00e1tima and AD Carregado winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by CD F\u00e1tima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200909-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Segunda Divis\u00e3o, Championship Playoffs, Final\nThe final was played on 5 May 2009 in \u00c1gueda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200910-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy was the inaugural edition of India's 50 over Women's Challenger Trophy. Three teams made up of the best players in India competed in a round-robin group, with the top two advancing to the final. Matches were held at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad across four days in October 2008. The tournament was won by India B, who beat India A in the final by 6 wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200910-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, Competition format\nThe three teams played in a round-robin group, playing each other team once, with the top two advancing to the final. Matches were played using a 50 over format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200910-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, Competition format\nThe group worked on a points system with positions with the group being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200910-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, Competition format\nWin: 2 points. Tie: 2 points. Loss: 0 points. No Result/Abandoned: 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200910-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, Competition format\nIf points in the final table are equal, teams are separated by their Net Run Rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200911-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League\nThe 2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League was the 3rd edition of the women's List A cricket competition in India. It took place in November and December 2008, with 28 teams divided into five regional groups. Railways won the tournament, beating Maharashtra in the final, claiming their third title in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200911-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League, Competition format\nThe 28 teams competing in the tournament were divided into five zonal groups: Central, East, North, South and West. The tournament operated on a round-robin format, with each team playing every other team in their group once. The top two sides from each group progressed to the Super League round, where the 10 remaining teams were divided into two further round-robin groups. The winner of each group progressed to the final. Matches were played using a 50 over format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200911-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League, Competition format\nThe groups worked on a points system with positions with the groups being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200911-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League, Competition format\nWin: 4 points. Tie: 2 points. Loss : \u20131 points. No Result/Abandoned: 2 points. Bonus Points: 1 point available per match. Consolation Points: 1 point available per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200911-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Senior Women's One Day League, Competition format\nIf points in the final table are equal, teams are separated by most wins, then head-to-head record, then number of Bonus Points, then Net Run Rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200912-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sepahan F.C. season\nThis is a list of Sepahan F.C. 's results at the Persian Gulf Cup 2008-09, Hazfi Cup 2008-09 and 2009 ACL. The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup and Asian Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Serbian Cup season was the third season of the Serbian national football tournament. The competition started on 3 September 2008 and ended with the Final held on 21 May 2009. The defending champions were FK Partizan, who successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Preliminary round\nA preliminary round was held in order to reduce the number of teams competing in the next round to 32 and featured six teams from Serbian lower divisions. The matches were played on 3 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Preliminary round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Round of 32\nIn this round entered three winners from the previous round as well as all 12 teams from Serbian Superliga and several teams from Serbian second and third division. The matches were played on 24 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Round of 32\n1The match was played in \u0160id.2The match was played in Zve\u010dan. Note : Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Round of 16\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Quarter-finals\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Semi-finals\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200913-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Cup, Final\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200914-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian First League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jolicnikola (talk | contribs) at 09:20, 3 April 2020 (\u2192\u200eLeague table). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200914-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian First League\nThe Serbian First Football League (Serbian: Prva Liga Telekom Srbija) is the second-highest football league in Serbia. The league is operated by the Serbian FA. 18 teams will compete in this league for the 2008\u201309 season. Five teams will be promoted to the Serbian Superliga and two will be relegated the Serbian League, the third-highest division overall in the Serbian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200915-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian Hockey League season\nThe Serbian Hockey League Season for 2008-2009 consisted of 16 games. HK Partizan won the regular division and the playoffs, making it their 4th title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200916-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian League Belgrade\nThe 2008\u201309 Serbian League Belgrade was the fifth season of the league under its current title. It began in August 2008 and ended in June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200917-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian League East\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jolicnikola (talk | contribs) at 10:00, 3 April 2020 (\u2192\u200eLeague table). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200917-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian League East\nThe 2008\u201309 Serbian League East season was the sixth season of the league under its current title. It began on 16 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200918-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian League West\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jolicnikola (talk | contribs) at 10:02, 3 April 2020 (\u2192\u200eLeague table). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200918-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian League West\nSrpska Liga West is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third-tier football league. Teams from the western part of Serbia are in this section of the league. The other sections are Srpska Liga East, Srpska Liga Vojvodina, and Srpska Liga Belgrade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga\nThe 2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga season (known as the Jelen SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons) was the third since its establishment in 2006. It began on 16 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. Partizan Belgrade successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFK Be\u017eanija were relegated to the Serbian First League after finishing in 12th place. Promoted from the First League were champions FK Javor Ivanjica and runners-up FK Jagodina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFK Smederevo, having finished in 10th place, had to play a two-legged play-off against the fourth-placed team from the First League, FK Rad. Rad won 4\u20133 on aggregate and thus were promoted to the SuperLiga while Smederevo were also relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nFK Mladost Lu\u010dani declined their participation for the 2008\u201309 season due to financial problems on 2 July 2008. The spot left behind by Mladost was given to 11th placed (second to last) FK Banat Zrenjanin by the Serbian Football Association on the basis that the club has \"better sponsors and more committed community support\" than the other candidate for a free spot \u2013 FK Smederevo. This drew protests from FK Smederevo management who thought that their club has a better claim to stay in SuperLiga for the 2008\u201309 season based on their 2007\u201308 league finish. They even launched an official complaint with UEFA, but the answer they got was that UEFA stands by the Serbian Football Association's decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Team changes from 2007\u201308, Future changes\nAt the end of the 2007\u201308 season several SuperLiga clubs, most notably FK Be\u017eanija, proposed an expansion of the league from 12 to 16 teams for 2008\u201309. The FSS board rejected that proposal. However, it was decided that the 2009\u201310 season will feature 16 teams. Only one team will be directly relegated, while five First League clubs will be directly promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Results\nThe schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 matches. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Results, Third round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Awards, Player of the Year\nNenad Milija\u0161 and Almami Moreira both received the same number of votes therefore they both share the title as co-winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Awards, Team of the Year\nThe All Star team was voted on at the end of the season by the 12 coaches of each SuperLiga team. Almami Moreira was the only player to receive all 12 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers:  Mladen Bo\u017eovi\u0107 (33)Defenders: Ivan Obradovi\u0107 (29); Ivan Stevanovi\u0107 (26/1); Sr\u0111a Kne\u017eevi\u0107 (24/1); Nenad \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 (22/1); Marko Jovanovi\u0107 (16); Goran Gavran\u010di\u0107 (12); Rajko Bre\u017ean\u010di\u0107 (7);  Aleksandar Kosori\u0107 (2); Milovan Sikimi\u0107 (2); Bogdan Stevi\u0107 (1). Midfielders: Ljubomir Fejsa (27);  Almami Moreira (27/9); Adem Ljaji\u0107 (24/5); Radosav Petrovi\u0107 (21/1);  Juca (18/2); Nemanja Tomi\u0107 (14/2);  Nikola Vujovi\u0107 (11/3);  Danijel Mar\u010deta (2); Branko Mihajlovi\u0107 (1); Vojkan Miljkovi\u0107 (1). Forwards: Milo\u0161 Bogunovi\u0107 (32/6);  Lamine Diarra (29/19);  Washington (12/4); Brana Ili\u0107 (11/2); Aleksandar \u0110okovi\u0107 (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league game:  Darko Bo\u017eovi\u0107; Aleksandar Radosavljevi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200919-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serbian SuperLiga, Champion squad\nTransferred out during the season: Vladimir Brankovi\u0107 (on loan to Sevojno);  Nenad Brnovi\u0107 (on loan to Rad);  Dragan \u010cadikovski (to Incheon); \u0110or\u0111e Lazi\u0107 (to Metalurh); Nenad Marinkovi\u0107 (to Teleoptik); Aleksandar Miljkovi\u0107 (to Teleoptik);  Alexis N'Gambi (to Daugava); Veljko Paunovi\u0107 (retired); Milan Peri\u0107 (on loan to Jagodina); Zoran To\u0161i\u0107 (to Manchester United);  Kamel Zaiem (to Al-Khor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200920-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A\nThe 2008\u201309 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 107th season of top-tier Italian football, the 77th in a round-robin tournament. It began on 30 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009, with the announcement of the list of fixtures made on 25 July 2008. 20 teams competed in the league, 17 of which returned from the previous season, and three (Chievo, Bologna and Lecce) were promoted from 2007\u201308 Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200920-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A\n20 clubs represented 13 different regions. The most represented region was Lombardy with three teams: Atalanta, A.C. Milan, and Inter Milan. Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio and Sicily featured two teams each while Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Apulia, Calabria, and Sardinia were represented by one team each. There was a record number of southern teams in the top division with six teams: Cagliari, Catania, Lecce, Napoli, Palermo, and Reggina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200920-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A\nOn 16 May 2009, Internazionale won the league by holding an unassailable lead after A.C. Milan's loss away to Udinese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200920-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A, Rule changes\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw new rules relating to the transfer of player registration introduced. Clubs without non-EU players in their squad were allowed three incoming non-EU player transfers (whereas previously only newly promoted clubs could have three). Clubs with one non-EU player were allowed two such transfers and clubs with two non-EU players were permitted one transfer and a further one if they cancelled the registration of one of their non-EU players or that player gained EU nationality. Clubs with three or more non-EU players were given two conditional quotas with the caveat that the release (as opposed to transfer) of two non-EU players as free agent would only allow for one further non-EU signing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200920-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A, Teams\nThree teams were promoted from Serie B: Chievo, Bologna, and Lecce. The first two earned direct promotion, while Lecce won the promotional playoffs, defeating AlbinoLeffe 2\u20131 on aggregate in a two-legged playoff final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200921-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A (futsal)\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Serie A is the 26th season of top-tier futsal in Italy, began October 25, 2008 and finished on June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200922-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A (ice hockey) season\nThe 2008\u201309 Serie A season was the 75th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Eight teams participated in the league, and HC Bolzano won the championship by defeating Ritten Sport in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200923-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie A1 (men's water polo)\nThe 2008\u201309 Serie A1 is the 90th season of the Serie A1, Italy's premier Water polo league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B\nThe 2008\u201309 Serie B season was the seventy-seventh since its establishment. A total of 22 teams will contest the league, 15 of which will be returning from the 2007\u201308 season, four of which will have been promoted from Serie C1 (now Lega Pro Prima Divisione), and three relegated from Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Teams\nNoted teams featured in the league include Parma F.C., who last played Serie B in 1989\u201390 when under coach Nevio Scala they won their first promotion to the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Teams\nU.S. Sassuolo Calcio, promoted to Serie B as Serie C1/A champions, are competing at the highest level in the club's history. A vacancy created by the withdrawal of Sicilian squad F.C. Messina Peloro was filled by the federation by including U.S. Avellino, who were the best team slated to be relegated in 2007\u201308.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nFollowing the end of the 2007\u201308 season, rumours spread out regarding Messina's financial struggles which might lead the team to insolvency and following exclusion from the Serie B teamlist. This was implicitly confirmed by the fact that Messina has not organized a pre-season camp as of 10 July, and the team being still without a coach. On 14 July 2008 the club board announced their intention to resign from the Serie B due to financial difficulties, also stating their intention to start again from amateur league Serie D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nOn 25 July 2008 the Italian Football Federation confirmed that Avellino had been readmitted to Serie B to replace Messina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nOn 31 July 2008 Treviso was penalized 3 points; however it ultimately changed to \u20ac15,000 fine by Camera di Conciliazione e Arbitrato per lo Sport of CONI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nBrescia and Parma were the first clubs to sack their managers. The rondinelle sacked Serse Cosmi, with past UEFA Champions League experience at Udinese, replacing him with well-experienced 67-year-old boss Nedo Sonetti, whereas Parma opted to dismiss Luigi Cagni from the coaching post and appoint former Palermo boss Francesco Guidolin. Brescia completed its replacement prior to the two club's meeting in Brescia in Week 6, Parma the day after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nSeveral other coaching dismissals soon followed, regarding Avellino (former Foggia boss Salvatore Campilongo replacing Giuseppe Incocciati), Ascoli (former Juventus youth team coach Vincenzo Chiarenza taking over from Nello Di Costanzo) and Mantova (with former AC Milan assistant Alessandro Costacurta replacing Giuseppe Brucato). Chiarenza and Salernitana gaffer Fabrizio Castori went in December, but Castori was soon reinstated after Bortolo Mutti's inconsistency. The shortest reign was former Argentina striker Abel Balbo, who resigned after only 4 weeks in the job. Castori was sacked again after a 2\u20132 draw with Treviso, and Grosseto, Modena, Pisa and Mantova also lost their coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nOn 8 May 2009 Livorno 0\u20131 home loss to Triestina ensured Bari to be mathematically promoted to Serie A in advance of four weeks. The galletti, coached by former Juventus player Antonio Conte, will therefore make their return to the top flight after eight years in the Italian second division. On 11 May, Treviso was mathematically relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione following a 0\u20131 home loss to Veneto rivals Vicenza after being in the Serie A as late as the 2005\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200924-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie B, Events\nOn 16 May, Parma joined Bari by ensuring automatic promotion to Serie A in Week 40, following a 2\u20132 tie with Cittadella that left a gap of seven points between Francesco Guidolin's team and closest rivals Livorno with only two games remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D\nSerie D, the fifth level of Italian Football, is usually composed of 162 teams divided into nine 18-team divisions. Special relegation of four teams from the professional leagues above Serie D after the team list had been set increased the total number of teams for this season to 166. One division will have 20 teams, two will have 19, while the other six will remain at 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D\nThe regular Serie D season started September 7, 2008. Each team will play two matches against every other team in its own division; a total of 34 matches for 18-team divisions, 36 matches for the 19-team divisions, and 38 matches for the 20-team division. The nine division winners are automatically promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione for the 2009-10 season, while the two last-placed teams are automatically relegated to Eccellenza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D\nAfter the regular season is complete, teams placed 6th-last through to 3rd-last in each division play a double-leg series (6th-last vs 3rd-last, 5th-last vs 4th-last) where the winners remain in Serie D the following season and the two losers are also relegated to Eccellenza for a total of 4 relegations in each division, 36 in total for the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D\nThe nine division winners enter a tournament to determine the over-all Serie D champion and is awarded the Scudetto Dilettanti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D\nTeams placed second through fifth in each division enter a playoff tournament after the regular season as well. Eventually, a final game determines which team finishes first and which teams comes in second in this 36-team playoff, and these teams may be bumped up to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione if one or more current Seconda Divisione teams runs into financial difficulties or is penalized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Events, Start of season\nGiven a normal season where there are no team failures and special promotions, Serie D would feature 9 teams that had been relegated from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, 36 teams that had been promoted from Eccellenza, and 117 teams had played in Serie D the year before. Due to nine bankruptcies and non-admissions in the professional leagues above Serie D, the 2008-09 season was to feature only 5 teams that played in 2007\u201308 Serie C2, 36 teams that played in 2007\u201308 Eccellenza, and 121 teams that played in 2007\u201308 Serie D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Events, Start of season\nAfter the 162-team list was set, the league admitted four of the teams that had failed in the senior leagues. Messina & Spezia, both of whom played in 2007\u201308 Serie B, were placed in Girone I & Girone A respectively. Sporting Lucchese & Massese, both of whom played in 2007\u201308 Serie C1, were both placed in Girone E.  The schedule in those 3 divisions needed to be expanded to accommodate these extra teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Events, Promotions\nOn March 29, 2009 Siracusa became the first team to get promoted from Serie D in the season, winning the Girone I in advance of six weeks after a 2\u20130 home win to Rosarno that mathematically guaranteed a spot in the 2009\u201310 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione for the Sicilian side. They were followed one week later by Tuscans Sporting Lucchese, heir of AS Lucchese-Libertas, club formerly of Serie A and Serie B who was excluded from professional football only twelve months earlier. On April 26, Brindisi also obtained promotion to the fourth tier, after winning the Girone H in advance of three weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Events, Promotions\nOn May 10, with only one weeks remaining in the league, four more teams mathematically won promotion to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione: Biellese (Girone A), Pro Belvedere Vercelli (Girone B), Sacilese (Girone C) and Villacidrese (Girone G). Seven days later the league winners list finally became complete, with Girone D winners Crociati Noceto (in a historical first promotion into professional football for the Emilian club) and Girone F champions Pro Vasto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Scudetto Dilettanti, Semi-finals\nFirst legs played June 6 & 7, 2009; return legs played June 13, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nGirone B - 12th-13th place - played May 24, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nCasteggio Broni saved, Olginatese forced to play in relegation playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nGirone D - 16th-17th place - played May 24, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nCastellana to play in relegation playoffs, Comacchio Lidi directly relegated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nGirone F - 5th-6th place - played May 24, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Tie-breakers\nGirone G - 12th-13th place - played May 24, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Promotion playoffs, Semi-finals\nFirst legs played June 17, 2009; return legs played June 21, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200925-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Serie D, Relegation playoffs\nPlayed May 31 & June 7, 2009in case of aggregate tie score, higher classified team winsteam highlighted in green saved, other is relegated to Eccellenza", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200926-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 2008\u201309 Sheffield Shield season was the 107th season of official first-class domestic cricket in Australia. After nine seasons of being named the Pura Cup, it was announced that the Australian interstate trophy would return to its previous name of the Sheffield Shield as part of a new sponsorship agreement with Weet-Bix. The season began on 10 October 2008 when the Queensland took on Tasmania at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. The Victorian Bushrangers claimed the title following a draw with Queensland in the final at the Junction Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200926-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Shield season, Table\nThe top two teams after each round is played will compete for the Sheffield Shield final. The match will be contested at the home ground of the side that finishes first. For an explanation of how points are rewarded, see Sheffield Shield Points System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Sheffield United F.C. competed in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the sale of the previous season's top scorer, James Beattie, to Premier League newcomers Stoke City during the season, Sheffield United improved on the previous season's unsatisfactory form and were unlucky to finish the season in third place, three points behind Birmingham City. With this third-place finish came qualification for the playoffs: after narrowly defeating Preston North End 2\u20131 over two legs in the semi-final, United reached the playoff final, against Burnley, at Wembley. United lost 1\u20130, to a 13th-minute strike from Wade Elliott, which saw United consigned to a third consecutive season in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Kit\nSheffield United continued their kit manufacturing agreement with French company Le Coq Sportif, who produced a new kit for the season, designed by United season ticket holder Ben Frost. A black away kit with silver trim, chosen by the club's players, was also introduced. The previous season's black and fluorescent green away kit was retained as the third kit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 41], "content_span": [42, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Kit\nThe club ended their kit sponsorship agreement with American bank Capital One at the end of the previous season. The new kit sponsor for the season was visit Malta.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 41], "content_span": [42, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200927-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield United F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Sheffield Wednesday's 107th season in The Football League since being elected to the Football League First Division in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season, Season summary\nSheffield Wednesday achieved their first league double over city rivals Sheffield United in 95 years, but that was the highlight of a mediocre season for the Owls. Still, a final 13th-placed finish was an improvement from the relegation struggle of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season, Kit\nItalian manufacturers Lotto remained kit manufacturers for the season, as did Sheffield-based internet service provider Plusnet for the kit sponsorship. A new kit was introduced for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200928-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200929-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Shrewsbury Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 109th season of competitive association football and 58th season in the Football League played by Shrewsbury Town Football Club, a professional football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Their eighteenth-place finish in 2007\u201308 meant it was their fifth consecutive season League Two. The season began on 1 July 2008 and concluded on 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200929-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Shrewsbury Town F.C. season\nPaul Simpson, starting his first full season as Shrewsbury Town manager, made six permanent summer signings. They finished seventh in the table, and after beating Bury in the play-off semi-final, they lost 1\u20130 to Gillingham in the final at Wembley Stadium. Shrewsbury lost in their opening round matches in both the 2008\u201309 FA Cup and the League Cup, and were eliminated in the Southern section semi-final of the Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200929-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Shrewsbury Town F.C. season\n32  players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were 17 different goalscorers. Grant Holt finished as leading scorer with 28 goals, of which 20 came in league competition, one came in the FA Cup and seven came in the Football League Trophy. Holt was recognised for his contribution to the season receiving the League Two Player of the Year award and was included in the PFA Team of the Year for League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200930-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Siena Saints men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Siena Saints men's basketball team represented Siena College in the 2007\u201308 college basketball season. This was head coach Fran McCaffery's fourth season at Siena. The Saints competed in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and played their home games at Times Union Center. They finished the season 27\u20138, 16\u20132 in MAAC play to capture the regular season championship. They also won the 2009 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament for the second consecutive season to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament as No. 9 seed in the Midwest Region. After an opening round win over No. 8 seed Ohio State, the Saints lost to No. 1 seed Villanova in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200931-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Skeleton World Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Skeleton World Cup is a multi-race tournament over a season for skeleton. The season started on November 28, 2008, in Winterberg and ended on February 12, 2009, in Park City, Utah. The World Cup is organised by the FIBT who also run world cups and championships in bobsleigh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200932-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sloboda U\u017eice season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Sloboda's seventh consecutive season in Serbian League West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovak 1.Liga season was the 16th season of the Slovak 1. Liga, the second level of ice hockey in Slovakia. 16 teams participated in the league, and HC Spisska Nova Ves won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nHK Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves \u2013 HC 46 Bardejov 3:0 (10:3, 6:1, 2:1p)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\n\u0160HK 37 Pie\u0161\u0165any \u2013 HC Dukla Senica 3:0 (2:1, 9:1, 5:0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals\nHC 07 Pre\u0161ov \u2013 MHK Doln\u00fd Kub\u00edn 3:0 (5:3, 1:0, 7:1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season, Playoffs, Semifinals\nHK Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves \u2013 HC 07 Pre\u0161ov 3:1 (4:0, 3:1, 2:3p, 5:3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200933-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak 1. Liga season, Playoffs, Final\nHK Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves \u2013 \u0160HK 37 Pie\u0161\u0165any 3:1 (1:3, 5:2, 2:1, 3:0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200934-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovak Cup was the 40th season of Slovakia's annual knock-out cup competition and the sixteenth since the independence of Slovakia. It began on 5 August 2008 with Round 1 and ended on 20 May 2009 with the Final. The winners of the competition earned a place in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Artmedia Petr\u017ealka were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200934-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Cup, Round 3\nThe games were played on 24 September 2008 (1 game), 30 September 2008 (4 games), 1 October 2008 (2 games) & 21 October 2008 (1 game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200934-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played between 21 and 29 October 2008. The second legs were played on 4 November 2008 with the exception of Slovan \u2013 \u017dilina, which was played on 18 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200934-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 22 April 2009. The second legs were played on 5 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200935-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Extraliga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovak Extraliga season was the 16th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Slovakia. 13 teams participated in the league, and HC Kosice won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200936-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak First League\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Slovak First League (also known as 1. liga) is the ninth season of the league since its establishment. It began in late July 2008 and ended in June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200937-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Superliga\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovak Superliga (known as the Slovak Corgo\u0148 Liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th season of first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. This season started on 19 July 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. FC Artmedia Petr\u017ealka were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200937-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Superliga, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nFK AS Tren\u010d\u00edn were relegated after concluding the last season in 12th and last place. They were replaced by the champions of the 2007\u201308 1. Liga, 1. FC Tatran Pre\u0161ov. Also DAC Dunajsk\u00e1 Streda, who were Western Group champions of the 2007\u201308 2. Liga, merged with FC Senec and took their place in Superliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200937-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Superliga, Results\nThe schedule consists of three rounds. The pairings of the first round were set according to the 2007-08 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team. The remaining two rounds consist of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200937-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovak Superliga, Results, First round\nKey numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in final standings 2007-08):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200938-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League (official: 2008\u201309 UPC League) was the 18th season of the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in Slovenia. Union Olimpija won its 15th national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200938-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League, Regular season\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200938-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League, Champions standings\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200938-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League, Relegation league\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200938-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Basketball League, Relegation Playoffs\nP=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against, Pts=Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200939-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup was the 18th season of the Slovenian Football Cup, Slovenia's football knockout competition. It started on 2 August 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009 with the final. The defending champions were Interblock, who successfully defended the title by defeating Koper 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200939-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup, First round\nIn this round entered 19 teams from Slovenian second and third division. Since Izola withdrew from the competition before the beginning, Adria received a bye to the Second Round. The matches were played on 2 and 19 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200939-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as one team who had received a bye. The matches were played on 3 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200939-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup, Round of 16\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as all teams from the Slovenian PrvaLiga. Livar also entered in the Third Round. They got relegated to the second division at the end of the last year's PrvaLiga. The matches were played on 16 and 17 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200939-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Football Cup, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 15 April 2009. The second legs were played on 29 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League was the 18th season in Slovenia. The competition was mostly made up of teams from Slovenia, but there were two teams from Croatia too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season\nThe regular season was the first such season where a non-Slovenian team placed in first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season\nAt the end of the regular season the playoffs were held. It was the first time, that playoffs featured a non-Slovenian team. In the end Jesenice won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Round 1\nMedve\u0161\u010dak defeated Slavija 2\u20130 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Round 1\nMaribor defeated Mladost 2\u20130 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Round 1\nTriglav Kranj defeated Bled 2-1 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Round 1\nHK Olimpija defeated Mladi Jesenice 2\u20130 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Quarter-finals\nMaribor defeated Triglav Kranj 2\u20131 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Quarter-finals\nMedve\u0161\u010dak defeated HK Olimpija 2\u20130 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Semi-finals\nJesenice defeated Maribor 2\u20130 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Semi-finals\nOlimpija defeated Medve\u0161\u010dak 2\u20131 in a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200940-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Hockey League season, Play-offs, Final\nJesenice defeated Olimpija 4\u20130 in a best of seven series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200941-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga was the 18th season of top-tier football league in Slovenia. The competition is officially called PrvaLiga Telekom Slovenije for sponsorship reasons. The season started on 19 July 2008 and ended on 23 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200941-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga, Promotion and relegation\nLivar were relegated to the Slovenian Second League after just one year in the PrvaLiga, finishing last with only 17 points. Drava Ptuj successfully avoided relegation by beating Bonifika in the relegation play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200941-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga, Promotion and relegation\nPromoted to Slovenia's top football league were Second League champions Rudar Velenje, returning to Prva Liga after a two-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200941-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga, Relegation play-offs\nThe 9th placed team played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2008\u201309 Slovenian Second League, played on 31 May and 7 June 2009. Drava won 9\u20133 on aggregate and thereby secured a spot in the 2009\u201310 season of Slovenian PrvaLiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200941-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian PrvaLiga, Results\nEvery team plays four times against their opponents, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200942-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Second League\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian Second League season started on 10 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009. Each team played a total of 26 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200943-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Slovenian Third League\nThe 2008\u201309 Slovenian Third League was the 17th season of the Slovenian Third League, the third highest level in the Slovenian football system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200944-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Solomon Islands National Club Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Solomon Islands National Club Championship was the 6th season of the National Club Championship in the Solomon Islands. Marist F.C. won the league for the second time. All matches were played at the hillside ground called Lawson Tama Stadium, with an approximate capacity of 20,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200945-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 South Carolina men's basketball team represents University of South Carolina. The head coach is Darrin Horn who is in his first season with the Gamecocks. The team plays its home games in the 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200945-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn November 14, 2008, Carolina defeated the Jacksonville State Gamecocks 89\u201376 to win the first game of the Darrin Horn Era at USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200945-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn December 2, 2008, Carolina defeated Princeton 84\u201358, handing the Tigers their worst defeat in Jadwin Gym since it opened in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200945-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team, Regular season\nOn January 31, 2009, Carolina defeated #24 Kentucky, 78\u201377, the Gamecocks' second win in history at Rupp Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 182]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200946-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South China AA season, Coolpoint Ventilation First Division League\nNote 1: Due to waterlogged pitch at the stadium, the match was postponed from 5 October to 8 October. Note 2: Despite TSW Pegasus won by 3-2, the team used more than the allowed maximum of 6 foreign players at a time during the match. As a result, TSW Pegasus was sentenced a 0-3 loss and penalized for HK$10,000. Note 3: For the consideration of the maintaining the pitch quality, the match was postponed from 29 March to 30 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200946-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South China AA season, HKFA Sheffield United FA Cup\nNote *\u00a0: The match was postponed from 24 May due to weather condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200946-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South China AA season, Squad statistics\nStatistics accurate as of match played on 23 June 20091. Wong Chin Hung was on loan at TSW Pegasus from 23 September 2008 to 15 January 2009. 2 . Ho Kwok Chuen joined the team on loan from TSW Pegasus since 23 September 2008. 3. Sidra\u00edlson rejoined the team in September 2008. 4. Li Weijun, Monteiro and Maxwell left the club in early January 2009. 5. Kim Yeon-Gun joined the team in January 2009. 6. Li Zicheng was not registered for this season until January 2009. 7 . Cac\u00e1 and Fernando joined the club on 23 January 2009. 8. Lee Wai Lun joined the club on 24 January 2009. 9. Liu Songwei joined the club in February 2009. 10. Leung Hinson was promoted from youth team in February 2009. 11. Players not registered in the AFC Cup are indicated by NA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200947-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Florida Bulls men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 South Florida Bulls men's basketball team represented the University of South Florida Bulls in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was the 4th season in the Big East Conference and was the 38th season in school history. The team is coached by Stan Heath in his second year at the school. USF played its home games in the USF Sun Dome. The Bulls finished the season 9\u201322, 4\u201314 in Big East play, and lost in the first round of the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament in their first ever appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200948-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team represented the University of South Florida in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bulls ended the season with 27 wins and the 27th win of the season for the Bulls was the best in USF history - for men or women - and the highest win total by any Division I team in the state of Florida. USF capped their sixth postseason appearance by winning the 2009 WNIT Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200948-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team, Team players drafted into the WNBA\nNo one from the Bulls was selected in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 87], "content_span": [88, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season\nThe 2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season was a below average tropical cyclone season, which featured six named tropical cyclones compared to an average of about nine. Ahead of the season officially starting on November 1, 2008, the Island Climate Update tropical cyclone outlook predicted that the season, would feature an average risk of tropical cyclones impacting the South Pacific between 160\u00b0E and 120\u00b0W. The first tropical disturbance of the season developed to the northeast of the Samoan Islands on December 1, however, it remained weak and was last noted during the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts\nAhead of the cyclone season formally starting on November 1, 2008, New Zealand's MetService and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS), as well as various other Pacific Meteorological services, all contributed towards the Island Climate Update tropical cyclone outlook that was released during September 2008. The outlook took into account the ENSO neutral conditions that had been observed across the Pacific, as well as analogue seasons that had a similar climate background.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe outlook noted that on average eight to ten tropical cyclones occur between 135\u00b0E and 120\u00b0W during seasons, with neutral ENSO conditions. It was also predicted that there was a normal risk of tropical cyclones occurring over most of the Pacific and that the first named tropical cyclone would occur before the end of December. The outlook also assessed the risk of a tropical cyclone affecting a certain island nation or territory and noted that several tropical cyclones, usually occurred in the region between Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts\nMost areas including Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, Niue and Tuvalu, were thought to have an average risk of being impacted by one or more tropical cyclones. The Northern Cook Islands and the Tuamotu Islands were thought to have reduced risk, while it was thought unlikely that Pitcairn Island, Kiribati and the Marquesas would be impacted by a tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts\nDuring January 2009, a revised Island Climate Update tropical cyclone outlook was issued, which stated that La Ni\u00f1a conditions had redeveloped in the tropical Pacific and were expected to persist. As a result, they noted that on average six or seven tropical cyclones, could be expected to develop over the Pacific Ocean, during a season characterised by a weak La Ni\u00f1a. They also noted that the risk of a tropical cyclone impacting a certain island nation or territory had changed with an increased risk for areas to the west of the International Date Line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Seasonal forecasts\nIn particular, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Zealand, New Caledonia now had an increased risk, while Fiji had a variable risk of being affected by one or more tropical cyclones. The Northern Cook Islands, Tonga, Niue, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa and Tokelau were thought to have a reduced risk of being impacted, while other areas such as the Southern Cook Islands, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea had an average risk of being affected by a tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Season summary\nDuring the season, a total of fifteen significant tropical disturbances were monitored and numbered by the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS), within the South Pacific basin between 160\u00b0E and 120\u00b0W. Off these tropical disturbances, six became named tropical cyclones, while none developed into severe tropical cyclones for the first time since the 1994\u201395 season. The first tropical disturbance of the season developed on December 1, while the final system Tropical Disturbance 15F was last noted in the basin during April 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Season summary\nNotable Tropical depressions include Tropical Depression 04F, which caused Fiji's second worst natural disasters. Tropical Depression 08F, which intensified into Cyclone Hettie becoming the first tropical cyclone to form this season. Tropical Depression 10F brought heavy rains to Vanuatu and before making landfall on New Caledonia intensified into Category One Tropical Cyclone Innis. After it made landfall Innis became the first Tropical Depression to move into TCWC Brisbane's Area of responsibility since Cyclone Larry. Cyclones Joni and Ken both threatened the Southern Cook Islands however the only impact they had was minimal. Cyclone Jasper then moved into the region early on March 24 at peak intensity, having developed inside TCWC Brisbane's area of responsibility two days earlier. The final Tropical Depression this year to develop was Tropical Cyclone Lin near to the Lau Group of Fiji and Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 965]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 02F\nEarly on December 3, RSMC Nadi reported that a Tropical Disturbance had formed near the Southern Cook Islands and was located in a moderately sheared environment and was moving towards the southeast. Deep Convection had been present around a well-defined cyclonic circulation for the previous 24 hours. Over the next day the disturbance gradually developed with RSMC Nadi upgrading it to a Tropical Depression later that day whilst it was moving between Niue and the Southern Cook Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 02F\nOver the next couple of days the depression gradually weakened with convection which was located in the southern and eastern quadrants became sheared and the low level circulation centre became exposed as it moved into an area of cooler sea surface temperatures. Late on December 6 RSMC Nadi issued their final advisory on the depression as it moved into TCWC Wellingtons area of responsibility and was expected to become a mid latitude low-pressure system within 12 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 04F\nTropical Depression 04F formed late on January 4, as a weak tropical disturbance near to the eastern edge of RSMC Nadi's responsibility. The disturbance then rapidly organised itself sufficiently to be classified as Tropical Depression 04F early the next morning. Over the next couple of days the depression moved towards the southeast, before on January 8 as it started to bring heavy rainfall to Fiji. RSMC Nadi then issued their final advisory on it later that day, as it was now an extratropical depression. However late the next day RSMC Nadi started to reissue advisories on the depression and immediately passed primary warning responsibility for it to the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Wellington, who issued warnings on the depression until early on January 12 when they issued their last advisory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 04F\nFloods and mudslides caused by the depression killed at least eleven people in Fiji. Several towns and rural areas on Viti Levu were flooded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 05F\nOn January 11, RSMC Nadi reported that a tropical depression had formed to the south of the Solomon Islands and was just inside TCWC Brisbane's area of responsibility, and started issuing Tropical Disturbance Summaries on it. As the depression moved into RSMC Nadi's area of responsibility it was designated as 05F. Nadi reported at this time that whilst the depression had a low to moderate chance of forming into a tropical cyclone within 48 hours, there was an upper trough of low pressure that could provide an opportunity for the depression to either rapidly or explosively develop. Despite fair conditions, it dissipated without ever becoming a cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 06F\nLate on January 19, RSMC Nadi reported that a tropical disturbance had formed in a monsoonal trough of low pressure about 940\u00a0km to the north west of Papeete, in French Polynesia. Convection was confined to the northeast of the low level circulation and was disorganised. Late the next day whilst the disturbance was moving to the east and into an area of higher vertical wind shear, RSMC Nadi upgraded the disturbance to a tropical depression despite its low level circulation centre being exposed and lying to the west of the deep convection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 06F\nDuring the next morning as it interacted with another disturbance to the northwest the depression reached its peak wind speeds of 55\u00a0km/h, (35\u00a0mph) Over the next couple of days th depression moved towards the south before late on January 23 RSMC Nadi issued their final advisory on the depression as it was expected to become a hybrid system within 24 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 07F\nOn January 23, RSMC Nadi reported that a Tropical Depression had formed, to the southwest of American Samoa. Later that day as the Depression moved towards the east they downgraded the Depression to a Tropical Disturbance as the Low Level Circulation Center was exposed and located in an environment of moderate to strong vertical wind shear. During the morning of January 24 the Tropical Disturbance was reupgraded to a Tropical Depression and assigned the Tropical Depression the designation of 07F. Later that day the tropical depression reached its peak wind speeds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph). Early the next day RSMC Nadi released their final Tropical Disturbance Summary as the Tropical Depression had lost all tropical characteristics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Hettie\nOn January 24, RSMC Nadi reported that Tropical Disturbance 08F had developed within the monsoon trough and an area of minimal vertical windshear to the north of the Fijian dependency Rotuma. During the next day the disturbance moved towards the southeast and developed into a tropical depression while it was located near Rotuma. Over the next 3 days, the depression continued to move south-eastwards between Fiji and Tonga while intensifying slowly against stronger vertical windshear. before RSMC Nadi and the JTWC reported that the depression had developed into a tropical cyclone during January 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Hettie\nCyclone Hettie did not directly affect any inhabited land areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 09F\nOn February 1, RSMC Nadi reported that Tropical Depression 09F had developed within the monsoon trough about 575\u00a0km (355\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Port Vila, Vanuatu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 09F\nLate on February 1, a Tropical disturbance formed about 645\u00a0km (401\u00a0mi) to the west of Vanuatu and was embedded in a monsoonal trough. It quickly organized itself and thus later that day, it was upgraded to Tropical Depression 09F. At this time the Low Level Circulation Center was exposed as strong vertical wind shear and deep convection was displaced to the north of Low Level Circulation Center. The next morning the JTWC reported that deep convection, was located over the western boundary, of the depression's low level circulation center. Strong shear also still existed over the system, with deep convection still being displaced to the north of the system. The next morning RSMC Nadi reported that the Low Level Circulation Center was obscured with indications of good inflow bands flowing into the depression from the north and west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 914]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 09F\nEarly on February 5, RSMC Nadi issued its final advisory on the depression, as the systems low level circulation centre had become sheared and exposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Innis\nOn February 13, the FMS reported that Tropical Depression 10F had developed within an active convergence zone, about halfway between Fiji and Vanuatu. Over the next two days, the system gradually developed further as it moved westwards, before it passed over Vanuatu during February 15, with hostile environmental conditions influencing the depression's chance of becoming a tropical cyclone. As 10F left Vanuatu, the system turned towards the southwest and started to move towards New Caledonia, as outflow over the depression developed, while atmospheric convection started to wrap around the centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Innis\nDuring February 16, as the system approached New Caledonia, the FMS issued their final advisory as future prospects of the system becoming a tropical cyclone, were being undermined by increasing vertical windshear and land interaction. However, during the next day, the FMS resumed issuing advisories on the depression after it had crossed New Caledonia and moved into an area of low vertical windshear. Later that day after the system had become a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian Scale, the FMS named it Innis, while the JTWC initiated advisories on the system and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 15P.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Innis\nAfter a brief period of further development, both the JTWC and the FMS reported that Innis had peaked with sustained windspeeds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph), before vertical windshear over the system increased as an upper-level low encroached on Innis from the west. Later that day the primary responsibility for warnings was passed to MetService, as the system moved below 25\u00b0S and into their area of responsibility. Innis was subsequently declared an extratropical cyclone early on February 18, as it briefly moved into the Australian region and MetService issued their first warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Innis\nThe system was subsequently absorbed by a low that was moving between Australia and New Zealand, and had caused flooding within the Australian state of New South Wales. There was no significant damage reported within New Caledonia, after Innis had affected the island and dropped over 100\u00a0mm (3.9\u00a0in) of rainfall. During February 19\u201320, the low containing Innis remnants brought high winds, heavy rain and some minor flooding to several parts off New Zealand including from Auckland to Stewart Island. The heaviest rain was recorded in Taranaki, Canterbury and Otago, while 1 indirect death was reported after a car rolled over near Opotiki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Joni\nOn March 10, the FMS reported that Tropical Depression 11F had developed out of an area of low pressure that had spun down from the upper levels of the troposphere, about 380\u00a0km (235\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Rarotonga in the Southern Cook Islands. During the next day, shear decreased sufficiently to allow significant overall development. On the evening of the 11th, with the system moving into minimal shear, and outflow aloft becoming well-established, its probability of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 12 hours was raised to high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Joni\nAt 111200 UTC, it was named Joni with 35 knots close to the centre and whilst located about 40 nautical miles west-northwest of Mangaia and about 70 miles east-southeast of Rarotonga. With favourable conditions, the cyclone continued to intensify and attained storm intensity 18 hours later. Joni reached peak intensity as it neared 25 South latitude, the Nadi and Wellington border. Wellington accepted primary responsibility for further warnings beginning at 130000 UTC as the cyclone moved into their area of responsibility. Joni remained a cyclone for another day before it was downgraded to a low. As Joni was a small and compact system only minimal impact was reported in the Southern Cook Islands while some heavy rainfall was reported in Mangaia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ken\nEarly on March 16, a tropical disturbance formed to the south of a convergence zone which was located to the east of Palmerston Island, in the Cook Islands. Early that afternoon the JTWC reported that the disturbances low level circulation centre had rapidly consolidated and issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the developing system. Later that day, RSMC Nadi reported that the disturbance had organised enough to be classified as Tropical Depression 12F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ken\nEarly the next morning, as the depression was moving towards the southeast, RSMC Nadi reported that outflow was good to the south of the depression and upgraded it to a Category 1 Cyclone, assigning the name Ken to the cyclone. Later that day, the JTWC started to issue advisories on the storm and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 21P.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ken\nLate on March 18, RSMC Nadi reported that Ken had reached its peak intensity with winds of 95\u00a0km/h, (60\u00a0mph), which made it a Category 2 Cyclone. RSMC Nadi then passed primary warning responsibility of Cyclone Ken to TCWC Wellington who, downgraded Ken to a Category 1 Cyclone early the next day. Ken then re-intensified into a Category 2 Cyclone later that day; however it was quickly downgraded to a Category 1 Cyclone within their next advisory and then was declared extratropical by both TCWC Wellington and the JTWC early on March 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ken\nAs an extratropical cyclone, Ken reached 1-minute windspeeds of 110\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph). TCWC Wellington then issued their final advisory early on March 22, as it moved out of their eastern area of responsibility and was tracked by the Bureau of Meteorology for three more days as it crossed the Antarctic Peninsula into the Weddell Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Jasper\nDuring March 24, Cyclone Jasper moved into the South Pacific from the Australian region, while it at its peak intensity as a category 2 tropical cyclone with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph). At this time, convection erupted about the centre and well-corroborated by the corresponding microwave data which showed good and intense low-level circulation. Outflow over the system was good to the south but inhibited elsewhere. However, overnight, convection warmed considerably with shear tearing the cold tops to the south of the low-level centre. Later on the 25th, increasing shear and dry air entrainment caused its demise and was subsequently downgraded to a depression at 251200 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Jasper\nFlooding, triggered by heavy rains in northern New Caledonia, forced the evacuation of 25 families. Rough seas produced by the storm caused beach erosion along the coastlines of New Caledonia. High winds caused localized structural damage and knocked down a few power lines, leaving some residents without power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lin\nDuring April 1, the FMS reported that Tropical Disturbance 14F had developed within a monsoon trough to the north of Fiji. During the following day, the system moved south-eastwards and developed into a tropical depression, while a shallow tropical disturbance developed within the monsoon trough to the south of Futuna. 14F subsequently absorbed this shallow tropical disturbance, as it struggled to consolidate and organise to the north of Fiji, under the influence of vertical wind shear. During April 3, the FMS reported that 14F had developed into a Category 1 tropical cyclone and named it Lin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lin\nThe JTWC subsequently initiated advisories on Lin and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 25P, while it was located about 382\u00a0km (235\u00a0mi) to the northwest of Nuku'alofa. This was after atmospheric convection had developed over the systems low-level circulation centre and rapidly consolidated within favourable conditions. During April 4, Lin intensified further within favourable conditions and was classified as a Category 2 tropical cyclone, as it moved southeastwards towards the Tongan island of Tongatapu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lin\nDuring the next day, after Lin had passed directly over Tongatapu, the FMS reported that the system had peaked with estimated 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 110\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph), while the JTWC estimated 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 100\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph). During that day the cyclone weakened and started to transition into an extratropical cyclone, as it interacted with drier air and vertical wind shear surrounding the system increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0024-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lin\nThis prompted the JTWC to issue their final warning on the system, before MetService declared it extratropical, as they took over the primary warning responsibility of Lin from the FMS. MetService continued to track Lin's extratropical remnants for a couple of days, before they were last noted near 35\u00b0S 163\u00b0W during April 8. There was no major damage reported within Fiji from Lin, while it brought storm-force winds, heavy rain and flooding to parts of Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0024-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lin\nWithin Tonga, there were no reports of any casualties or structural damage, however, it did cause some damage to root crops, fruit bearing trees, gardens and power lines. The Tonga Meteorological Service also sustained some damage to their guttering, as well as various pieces of meteorological equipment which was valued about T$\u00a02,000 (US$1000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nOn December 1, the FMS reported that the first tropical disturbance of the season, had developed to the northeast of the Samoan Islands in an area of moderate vertical wind shear. The system subsequently moved westwards, before it was last noted during the next day. Tropical Disturbance 02F subsequently developed during December 3, to the northeast of Rarotonga in the Southern Cook Islands. Over the next couple of days the system moved towards the south-west, between Niue and the Southern Cook Islands and was classified as a tropical depression during December 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nThe system was last noted during December 6, as it moved into TCWC Wellington's area of responsibility and transitioned into a mid latitude low-pressure system within 12 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nDuring December 10, the FMS reported that Tropical Disturbance 03F had developed about 300\u00a0km (185\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Honiara in the Solomon Islands. However, the system had no definite low level circulation center, while atmospheric convection surrounding the system was confined to the north quadrant of the disturbance. As a result, the system was last noted during the next day, with the FMS speculating that a cyclonic circulation to the northwest of 03F might have absorbed the disturbance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nTropical Disturbance 15F was first noted within a monsoon trough by the FMS on April 7, while it was thought to be located to the northeast of the Solomon Islands. Atmospheric convection surrounding the disturbance was poorly organised, while it was reported to be hard to find the system's low-level circulation. Over the next few days, the system moved south-westwards and remained poorly organised, before it was last noted by the FMS during April 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200949-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South Pacific cyclone season, Season effects\nThis table lists all the storms that developed in the South Pacific to the east of longitude 160\u00b0E during the 2008\u20132009 season. It includes their intensity on the Australian Tropical cyclone intensity scale, duration, name, landfalls, deaths, and damages. All data is taken from RSMC Nadi and or TCWC Wellington. The damage figures are all 2009 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200950-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South West Peninsula League\nThe 2008\u201309 South West Peninsula League season was the second in the history of the South West Peninsula League, a football competition in England, that feeds the Premier Division of the Western Football League. The league had been formed in 2007 from the merger of the Devon County League and the South Western League, and is restricted to clubs based in Cornwall and Devon. The Premier Division of the South West Peninsula League is on the same level of the National League System as the Western League Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200950-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South West Peninsula League\nThe champions for the second season running were Bodmin Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200950-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South West Peninsula League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 20 teams, increased from 18 the previous season. Two new clubs joined the league:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was a slightly above average event in tropical cyclone formation. It began on November 15, 2008, and officially ended on April 30, 2009, with the exception for Mauritius and the Seychelles, for which it ended on May 15, 2009. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the basin, which is west of 90\u00b0E and south of the Equator. Tropical cyclones in this basin were monitored by the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre in R\u00e9union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nAs predicted by the sub regional office of Mauritius ten named storms formed in this basin. It officially began on November 15, but began 1 month earlier when Tropical Storm Asma formed on October 16. Most of the storms that formed this year were weak or stayed at sea. Only two storms reached hurricane strength this year, both of which were Category 3 or higher, and only 3 storms made landfall in the entire season. Overall, the impact of this season was relatively minor, but damaging for Madagascar, due to the heavy rains from Eric, Fanele, Izilda and Jade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Zone of Disturbed Weather 01\nOn October\u00a06, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began monitoring an area of persistent convection about 575\u00a0km (355\u00a0mi) southeast of Diego Garcia. Although the center of circulation (CoC) was elongated, the system was located within an area of low wind shear and development of the low was possible. At 12:00\u00a0UTC later that day, the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC), M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France (MFR), began issuing advisories on \"Zone of Disturbed Weather 01\". Despite a banding feature developed around the CoC, significant development was not anticipated. The low gradually weakened throughout October\u00a07, and dissipated the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nOn October 16, MFR designated an area of low pressure north-west of Diego Garcia as Tropical Disturbance 02. Later that evening the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the system. At 2100 UTC on October 16, the JTWC issued their first advisory and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 01S. Early the next day the disturbance intensified into a tropical depression, but on October 18 MFR downgraded the system to a tropical disturbance, noting that the near gale-force winds that were near the center are now several hundred kilometers away from the center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nThe next day MFR re-upgraded the system to a tropical depression due to a slight decrease in vertical wind shear that had inhibited the disturbance and a slight re-location of the center. Later that day MFR upgraded the depression to a Moderate Tropical storm, so the Sub-Regional Tropical Cyclone Advisory Centre in Mauritius assigned the name Asma to the tropical storm. Early on October\u00a020, Asma reached its peak intensity with winds of 85\u00a0km/h (55\u00a0mph) with a minimum pressure of 985\u00a0hPa (mbar).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nThe storm featured good outflow and was situated over warm waters; however, moderate wind shear was forecast to prevent the cyclone from intensifying any further. Shortly after reaching peak intensity, the combination of cooler waters and higher wind shear caused the storm to weaken slightly. Continued weakening took place throughout the day as deep convection associated with Asma dissipated and the strongest winds were displaced from the center. By the morning of October\u00a021, Asma was downgraded to a tropical depression as the low became further disorganized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0003-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nLater that day, the depression degenerated to a tropical disturbance as only an exposed low remained. The final advisory was issued at 0600\u00a0UTC on October\u00a022 as no redevelopment took place. However, only 12\u00a0hours after the final advisory was issued, the disturbance began to regenerate and MFR began issuing advisories on the regenerated system. The redevelopment was short lived and Asma dissipated less than 24\u00a0hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nOfficials in Madagascar issued storm warnings as Tropical Storm Asma was forecast to make landfall in the northern portion of the island on October\u00a023. Despite warnings, residents did not take precautions before the storm. Following the regeneration of Asma, the storm produced heavy rains over northern Madagascar which caused flooding in eight rural communities. One person was killed in Doany common rural district of Andapa. A total of 448\u00a0hectares of farmland were also inundated by floodwaters. Six oxen and 24 pigs were also killed and three bridges were damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Asma\nFollowing the damages caused by the storm, officials provided first aid kits, nine tons of rice, 100 cartons of soap, 60 cartons of clothing, 120 mosquito nets, 20 bags of pulses and 30 tents to the affected population. The heavy rains were accompanied by winds gusting up to 70\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph). After brushing Madagascar, Asma brought unseasonable heavy rains to parts of Mozambique and Tanzania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Bernard\nOn November\u00a015, a low-pressure area was located about 795\u00a0km (495\u00a0mi) east-southeast of Diego Garcia, accompanied by persistent convection. It was centered east of a ridge and was within an area of moderate vertical wind shear. Over the next several days, the system moved slowly eastward with little development. On November\u00a019, convection developed around the circulation after being nearly stationary for a few days. At 0600\u00a0UTC, MFR designated the system as Tropical Disturbance 03, about 695\u00a0km (430\u00a0mi) east-southeast of Diego Garcia. As rainbands and outflow developed, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Bernard\nLater that day, MFR upgraded the disturbance to a tropical depression. About three hours later, the JTWC began issuing advisories on Tropical Cyclone 03S, although wind shear was forecast to prevent significant intensification. Located to the northeast of a low to mid-level trough and to the southwest of a near-equatorial ridge, the system began to accelerate to the east. At 0600\u00a0UTC on November\u00a020, the JTWC assessed the system to have reached its peak intensity with winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph 1-minute winds). Shortly after, MFR upgraded the depression to Moderate Tropical Storm Bernard, with peak winds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Bernard\nJust six hours after being named, Bernard was downgraded to a tropical depression as all associated deep convection dissipated. The sudden decrease was caused by the storm's unusually fast movement of 50\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph) towards the east-southeast over cooler waters. At the same time MFR downgraded Bernard to a depression, the JTWC issued their final advisory on Tropical Cyclone 03S as it had weakened below tropical storm status. Early the next morning, MFR downgraded the system to a tropical disturbance and issued their final advisory on the dissipating cyclone. The remnants of Bernard entered the Australia region, where it was briefly designated as Tropical Low 01U before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Cinda\nOn the evening of December 16, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation alert on a rapidly organizing disturbance located west of Diego Garcia. The low level centre continued to improve with convection wrapping into the centre and the JTWC upgraded the disturbance into a tropical storm, at the same time MFR designated the system a tropical depression. Under low shear and favourable upper-level outflow, 04S was upgraded to Moderate Tropical Storm Cinda by MFR early on December 18. Soon after, Cinda was upgraded to a severe tropical storm as it moved south-southwestwards away from Diego Garcia. Later that same day, Cinda was downgraded to a moderate tropical storm. The wind shear kept the eye north of the convection. On the morning of December 21, Cinda degenerated into a remnant low about 250 miles off the coast of Madagascar amongst heavy wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 951]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dongo\nThe origins of Dongo can be traced back to an area of low pressure that formed far from land late on January\u00a07. At 06:00\u00a0UTC, MFR designated it as a Zone of Disturbed Weather 1,530\u00a0km (950\u00a0mi) northeast of Mauritius. However, strong wind shear was expected to inhibit short-term development. A few hours later, MFR further upgraded the low to a tropical disturbance. At 1500\u00a0UTC, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Situated along the edge of a low-mid level ridge, the disturbance tracked towards the southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dongo\nDespite a brief decease in convection, at 0600\u00a0UTC on January\u00a09, MFR upgraded the disturbance to a tropical depression. Shortly after, the depression was upgraded to Moderate Tropical Storm Dongo. At the time of the upgrade, Dongo began to turn more towards the south as further development of the storm was anticipated. Roughly three hours later, the JTWC began issuing advisories on Tropical Cyclone 06S . After weakening slightly early on January\u00a010, Dongo began to turn towards the southeast. Subsequently, convection rapidly decreased, leaving the center partially exposed even though conditions were favorable for intensification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0008-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dongo\nSix hours later, however, Dongo intensified into a severe tropical storm while reaching its peak intensity with winds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph 10-minute winds) with a minimum pressure of 984\u00a0hPa (mbar) according to MFR. Furthermore, Dongo peak with winds of 100\u00a0km/h (65\u00a0mph 1-minute winds) according to the JTWC about 1,240\u00a0km (770\u00a0mi) east-southeast of Mauritius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dongo\nTracking towards the south-southeast, Dongo approached cooler waters and began to transition into an extratropical cyclone. Wind shear was also increasing over the storm in response to an approaching upper-level trough. Despite moving over cooler waters, the storm remained a severe tropical storm until being declared extratropical at 0600\u00a0UTC on January\u00a012. Several hours later, the JTWC issued their final advisory on the system Early on January\u00a013, MFR followed suit, though it was later believed to have completed such transition earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Eric\nOn January 17, the MFR identified a Zone of Disturbed Weather northeast of La R\u00e9union. The following day the disturbance organized quite significantly west-northwest of Madagascar and MFR classified it as a tropical disturbance. The disturbance intensified into a moderate tropical storm on the 19th. Eric crossed the coastline around Toamasina, which reported a surface low pressure of 992 hPa, mid morning on that day and skitted along the eastern Madagascar coast for much of the day before tracking southeast away from the coast on January 20. On January 20, the JTWC issued its final advisory on Eric, as it had been torn apart by the shear from the strong Fanele. MFR downgraded Eric to a tropical depression on January 21, noting it could re-deepen as it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 891]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Eric\nEric killed two people, injured 24, left 992 homeless, and affected an additional 7,606 in eastern Madagascar. A total of 32 classrooms were destroyed by the storm, mainly UNICEF tents and 42 other classrooms were damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Fanele\nOn January 17, the JTWC identified a rapidly organizing tropical low just off the coast of Madagascar, near Antananarivo, in the Mozambique Channel. The system showed signs of a quickly developing surface low, and evidence of an upper-level Anticyclone creating a favorable environment for the system. Later that day, the JTWC assessed the possibility of the system becoming a tropical cyclone in 24 hours as Poor. As the system continued to organize, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert early the next morning. Soon afterward, the MFR designated the system as Tropical Disturbance 07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Fanele\nThe system was predicted to organize at regular speed and remain quasi-stationary within the next 24 hours and then recurve toward the Malagasy coast as a moderate tropical storm. Six hours later, MFR upgraded the system to Tropical Depression 07. The next day, the tropical depression was upgraded to Moderate Tropical Storm Fanele and the JTWC upgraded it to Tropical Cyclone 09S. Later that day, Fanele continued to rapidly organize as it strengthened into a Severe Tropical Storm. Late on January 19, Fanele strengthened into a high-end Tropical Cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0012-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Fanele\nIt strengthened into an Intense Tropical Cyclone on the morning of January 20 with an intensity of 100 knot winds. Fanele made landfall between 00:00 and 02:00\u00a0UTC on January 21 and weakened to a Category 1  with 75 knot winds. Early in the morning of January 22, Fanele weakened to tropical depression as it exited into the Indian Ocean. It restrengthed back into a Moderate Tropical Storm, but it became extratropical the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Fanele\nAt least eight people were killed, two were left missing, and over 20,000 others were left homeless due to Fanele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Gael\nOn February 1, MFR began issuing advisories on an area of disturbed weather newly formed in the central Indian Ocean. JTWC assessed the potential for the development of a significant tropical cyclone within next 24 hours as \"poor\". JTWC upgraded the disturbance's chances of forming into a tropical cyclone to \"fair\". On February 2, RSMC designated the area of disturbed weather as \"Zone of Disturbed Weather 08. \" Later that day JTWC upgraded the disturbance's chances to \"good\" and issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Later that day MFR upgraded Zone of Disturbed Weather 08 into Tropical Disturbance 08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Gael\nOn February 3, JTWC was upgraded the system to Tropical Cyclone 13S, MFR re-designated Tropical Disturbance 08 to Moderate Tropical Storm Gael. Early next day on February 5, MFR upgraded it to Severe Tropical Storm Gael. The system quickly intensified that morning into a Tropical Cyclone north of R\u00e9union Island in the early afternoon. Gael was upgraded to an Intense Tropical Cyclone in the evening on February 6. It held that strength for the next couple of days before weakening back to a Severe Tropical Storm. On February 10, the JTWC issued its final warning on Gael as it had transitioned into a cold-core system over the Southern Ocean which then merged with the extratropical remnants of Innis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Gael\nOn February 3, Met\u00e9o-France issued a pre-cyclone alert (yellow alert) for the islands near R\u00e9union. The next day, Mauritius Meteorological Services issued their Cyclone Warning Class II as Gael approached northeast of the island. Two fatalities occurred on R\u00e9union as a result of heavy rain produced by Gael. A motorcyclist was swept away after trying to cross a submerged road. The other death occurred after a man, who was reportedly drunk, attempted to swim across a flooded road. He was overcome by the waters and swept away. Officials in Madagascar warned the public about the possibility of torrential rains, mudslides, and significant property damage from Gael.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Hina\nOn February 20, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center began issuing advisories on an area of disturbed weather newly formed in the central Indian Ocean. Later that day, JTWC assessed the disturbance's potential for the development of a significant tropical cyclone within next 24 hours as Poor. Early on February 21, JTWC upgraded the disturbance's chances of forming into a tropical cyclone from Poor to Fair. In the afternoon, JTWC upgraded the system to Good and issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Hina\nThe JTWC then upgraded the disturbance to a Tropical Cyclone 16S, and it is forecast gradually move southwestward and strengthen for the next couple of days. It already began to show a defined organization with some convective banding that same day. Mauritius Meteorological Services upgraded the Zone of Disturbed Weather 09 intensifying to Moderate Tropical Storm and named it Hina. The next day, it became a Severe Tropical Storm. Later on February 25, Hina weakened to a Moderate Tropical Storm and then weakened to a tropical disturbance as wind shear removed all convection from the centre. Early on February 24, JTWC issued their final warning on 16S for the same reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression 10\nOn March 6, the JTWC began monitoring a newly formed area of disturbed weather in the central Indian Ocean, and two days later, they issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the disturbance and upgraded it to Zone of Disturbed Weather 10. On March 9, the disturbance was upgraded to a depression and was reclassified as Tropical Cyclone 19S. Wind shear strongly affected the system and caused it to dissipate in the early morning of March 10. The depression did not intensify to a tropical storm, it was the first to do so since the first disturbance of the season formed on October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Izilda\nA Tropical Disturbance formed in the Mozambique Channel around March 21 and on March 24 the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert and designated the system Tropical Cyclone 24S. The system is expected to drift very slowly south then south-west, remaining quasi-stationary. Around midday on the 25th, Izilda was upgraded to a severe tropical storm with 65\u00a0mph winds. It remained at that intensity throughout the day, but land interaction with Madagascar and wind shear caused Izilda to dissipate later on the 27th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Izilda\nDue to the proximity of Izilda to Madagascar, storm warnings were put in place for coastal areas between Morondava and Toliara. Fishermen were advised to remain at port due to large swells produced by the storm. Officials in Mozambique feared that the storm would bring heavy rains to areas already suffering from severe flooding which has left over 4,000 people homeless. Fishermen in the country were also advised not to leave port due to the dangerous conditions. As a tropical depression, Izilda passed near Europa Island; however, no damage was reported. Izilda brought moderate rainfall to parts of southwest Madagascar and Europa Island. Waves up to 8\u00a0m (26.2\u00a0ft) impacted coastal areas of Mozambique and Madagascar as Izilda stalled on March 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Jade\nOn April 4, an area of disturbed weather formed northeast of R\u00e9union. JTWC reported the disturbance's chance of forming into a tropical cyclone as \"good\" and issued Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert, and MFR began designating the system as Zone of Disturbed Weather 12. Later that day, JTWC upgraded the system to Tropical Cyclone 26S. Early next day, the disturbance intensified into Tropical Depression 12 as predicted by MFR. Later on that afternoon, MFR upgraded the tropical depression to a moderate tropical storm, naming it Jade. Later that evening, Jade was upgraded to a severe tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Jade\nJade made landfall near Antalaha, Madagascar between 06:00 and 08:00\u00a0UTC on April 6 and weakened to a moderate tropical storm. Soon after, Jade weakened to an overland depression. On April 7, Jade exited the coast of Madagascar. However, later that day, Jade reintensified into a moderate tropical storm. Then, on April 8, Jade was again upgraded to a severe tropical storm by La R\u00e9union. The storm became nearly stationary southeast of Madagascar later that day. It became extratropical soon afterwards but was quite powerful reaching a central air pressure of 948 millibars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Jade\nHeavy rains from the cyclone in northern Madagascar caused a home to collapse, killing three people. At least 800 others were left homeless due to the storm in northern Madagascar. Five other people were killed in a mudslide near Mananjary and another 3,320 were left homeless. A ninth person was killed on April 9 during a landslide in Nosy Varika. In all, Jade killed 15 people and left 22,900 others homeless throughout Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Storm names\nTropical disturbances were named upon reaching moderate tropical storm strength. When a tropical disturbance reached this intensity west of 55\u00b0E, then the Sub-Regional Tropical Cyclone Advisory Centre in Madagascar assigned the appropriate name to the storm. If it reached moderate tropical storm strength between 55\u00b0E and 90\u00b0E, then the Sub-Regional Tropical Cyclone Advisory Centre in Mauritius named the storm. New name lists are used every year, so no names are retired. The naming list for the 2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean was announced by M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France on August 20, 2008 and is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200951-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects\nThis table lists all the storms that developed in the Southern Hemisphere during the 2008\u20132009 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. It includes their intensity, duration, name, landfalls, deaths, and damages. All data is taken from M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France. The damage figures are all from 2009 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200952-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Southampton's fourth consecutive season in the Football League and their fourth also in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200952-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southampton F.C. season, Season summary\nHaving narrowly avoided relegation the previous season, Southampton looked to improve their position in the league in 2008\u201309. The season was even more disappointing, however, as the Saints finished second from bottom to be relegated to League One, which they would start with a ten-point deduction as a result of its parent company, Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC, entering administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200952-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southampton F.C. season, Season summary\nThe season was equally unsatisfactory in the cup tournaments, as the club were knocked out of both the FA Cup and the League Cup in the third round, losing 0\u20133 to Premier League champions Manchester United and 1\u20133 to League Two side Rotherham United. The season was worsened still by a change in management \u2013 head coach Jan Poortvliet resigned from the club on 23 January 2009, and youth academy manager Mark Wotte took over for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200952-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southampton F.C. season, Championship\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200954-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southeastern Conference women's basketball season\nThe 2008\u201309 SEC women's basketball season began with practices in October 2008, followed by the start of the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play started in early January 2009 and concluded in March, followed by the 2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 106th in the history of the Southern League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League\nAt the end of the season Division One Midlands was renamed Division One Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and five new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nCorby Town won the Premier Division and along with play-off winners Gloucester City got a place in the Conference North next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nMangotsfield United, Yate Town and Hitchin Town relegated to the divisions One, while Banbury United were reprieved from relegation after two Conference South clubs folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Division One Midlands\nDivision One Midlands consisted of 22 clubs, including 14 clubs from previous season and eight new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Division One Midlands\nNuneaton Borough, finished 7th in the Conference North went into liquidation due to financial difficulties, were immediately reformed under the name Nuneaton Town and placed two divisions below in Midlands division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Division One Midlands\nLeamington won the division in the second attempt and got a place in Premier Division along with play-off winners Nuneaton Town. Dunstable and Malvern finished bottom of the table and were relegated to the lower leagues. At the end of the season Division One Midlands was renamed Division One Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Division One South & West\nDivision One South & West consisted of 22 clubs, including 15 clubs from previous season and seven new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200955-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Southern Football League, Division One South & West\nTruro City won the division in an inaugural season and got a place in Premier Division along with play-off winners Didcot Town. Bracknell Town finished second bottom but were reprieved from relegation due to higher league clubs' problems. Winchester City finished bottom of the table and were relegated to the lower league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200956-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Spartan South Midlands Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Spartan South Midlands Football League season is the 12th in the history of Spartan South Midlands Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200956-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Spartan South Midlands Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 19 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200956-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Spartan South Midlands Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with five new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200956-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Spartan South Midlands Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured 13 clubs, which competed in the division last season, along with five new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200957-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Speedcar Series\nThe 2008\u201309 Speedcar Series was the second Speedcar Series championship. The championship consisted of five meetings, starting on December 5, 2008 at the Dubai Autodrome in the United Arab Emirates and finishing at the Bahrain International Circuit on April 25, 2009. Gianni Morbidelli finished as champion, pipping defending champion Johnny Herbert by just two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200957-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Speedcar Series, Teams and drivers\nAll of the teams used the Speedcar V8 vehicle with tyres supplied by Michelin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200957-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Speedcar Series, Championship Standings, Drivers\nPoints were awarded to the top eight classified finishers using the following structure:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season\nThe 2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season was the first season that the club played in La Liga, the highest tier of football in Spain, eleven years after its last time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season\nIn the previous season, the club promoted as third qualified of Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season, Overview\nSporting established a new record in La Liga of consecutive games without draws. It earned its first draw in the matchday 34 against Athletic Bilbao, but it lost a possible win in the 92nd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season, Overview\nThe club avoided relegation after winning its last three season games against M\u00e1laga, at Real Valladolid and Recreativo de Huelva, all of them by 2\u20131 scorelines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season, Overview\nIn the Copa del Rey, Sporting was eliminated in quarter-finals by Athletic Bilbao. The club had not reached this round since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200958-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sporting de Gij\u00f3n season, Squad, From the youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200959-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan cricket season\nThe 2008\u201309 Sri Lankan cricket season featured a Test series between Sri Lanka and India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200959-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan cricket season, Test series\nSri Lanka won the Test series against India by 2\u20131:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections\nSri Lanka has held several rounds of Provincial Council elections in 2008 and 2009 to elect members to eight of the country\u2019s Provincial Councils. The decision to hold elections in different parts of the country on separate days was a break in the usual practice, which is to hold elections for the whole country on the same day. For each provincial council, members are elected to serve a five-year term. A chief minister for the province is chosen by the elected members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections\nThe first election was held in May 2008 to elect members to Sri Lanka's Eastern Provincial Council. In August 2008, elections were held in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces. In 2009, elections were held for Central and North Western Provincial Councils in February, for the Western Provincial Council in April, for the Uva Provincial Council in August and for the Southern Provincial Council in October. No election was held for the ninth provincial council, Northern, which had been governed directly by the national government since it was demerged from the North Eastern Provincial Council in January 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections\nThe elections were largely seen as a referendum on the handling of the civil war by Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse. Rajapakse's United People's Freedom Alliance and its allies registered resounding victories over the opposition United National Party in all the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nIn an attempt to end the Sri Lankan Civil War the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed on 29 July 1987. One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to the provinces. Accordingly on 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987. On 3 February 1988 nine provincial councils were created by order. The first elections for provincial councils took place on 28 April 1988 in North Central, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, and Uva provinces. On 2 June 1988 elections were held for provincial councils for Central, Southern and Western provinces. The United National Party (UNP), which was in power nationally, won control of all seven provincial councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nThe Indo-Lanka Accord also required the merger of the Eastern and Northern provinces into one administrative unit. The accord required a referendum to be held by 31 December 1988 in the Eastern Province to decide whether the merger should be permanent. Crucially, the accord allowed the Sri Lankan president to postpone the referendum at his discretion. On September 2 and 8 1988 President Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Eastern and Northern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. Elections in the newly merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988. The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, an Indian backed paramilitary group, won control of the North Eastern provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nOn 1 March 1990, just as the Indian Peace Keeping Force were preparing to withdraw from Sri Lanka, Annamalai Varatharajah Perumal, Chief Minister of the North Eastern Province, moved a motion in the North Eastern Provincial Council declaring an independent Eelam. President Premadasa reacted to Permual's UDI by dissolving the provincial council and imposing direct rule on the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nThe 2nd Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 1993 in seven provinces. The UNP retained control of six provincial councils but lost control of the largest provincial council, Western, to the opposition People's Alliance. A special election was held in Southern Province in 1994 after some UNP provincial councillors defected to the opposition. The PA won the election and took control of the Southern Provincial Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nThe 3rd Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 1999 in seven provinces. The PA, which was now in power nationally, managed to win the majority of seats in two provinces (North Central and North Western). It was also able to form a majority administration in the other five provinces with the support of smaller parties such as the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) . The UNP regained control of the Central Provincial Council in 2002 after the CWC councillors crossed over to the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Background\nThe 4th Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 2004 in seven provinces. The United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the successor to the PA, won all seven provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Southern Province\nResults of the 6th Southern provincial council election held on 10 October 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Uva Province\nThe Uva Provincial Council was prematurely dissolved on 29 May 2009 by governor Nanda Mathew. The term of the council was due to expire in August. The Election Commissioner subsequently announced that nominations will be received from June 17 to June 23, to elect 21 members from the Badulla District and 11 members from the Monaragala District. After the close of nominations, the date of the elections was announced as 8 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200960-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sri Lankan provincial council elections, Results, Uva Province\nResults of the 5th Uva provincial council election held on 8 August 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200961-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St Mirren F.C. season\nSt Mirren competed in the Scottish Premier League, after finishing in tenth place in 2007\u201308. The 2008\u201309 season also saw the club leave Love Street for the new St Mirren Park in Greenhill Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200962-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Brian Nash, who was in his fourth year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The Terrier's home games were played at the  Generoso Pope Athletic Complex. The team has been a member of the Northeast Conference since 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200962-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team\nNash's team finished at 10\u201320 overall and 7\u201311 in conference play for an 8th-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200963-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represented St. John's University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Norm Roberts in his fifth year at the school. St. John's home games are played at Carnesecca Arena and Madison Square Garden and the team is a member of the Big East Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season\nThe 2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, the 42nd season for the NHL franchise in St. Louis, Missouri, resulted in the team returning to the NHL Playoffs for the first time since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nBefore the regular season, started the Blues were hit hard with an injury to defenseman Erik Johnson. Johnson suffered a leg injury in a golfing accident that put him out for the season. Despite this the Blues had a good start to the regular season, winning their first opening day game in years, and going 5\u20133\u20130, before injuries to Manny Legace and Andy McDonald, coupled with poor defensive play, placed the team in last place in their division at 5\u20138\u20131. The Blues would win three games in a row to make their record 9\u20138\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nOn November 24, 2008, Blues President John Davidson announced the Blues had traded Lee Stempniak to the Toronto Maple Leafs for defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo and center Alexander Steen. On November 30, Keith Tkachuk became the sixth American-born hockey player, and 72nd overall, to score 1,000 points in a career. The point came on a goal scored in his 1,077th game. He now has 511 goals and 489 assists. The goal helped the Blues to a 4\u20132 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers. It was his 362nd point in a Blues' uniform, ranking him eighth all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nThe Blues would lose their next three games before winning 4\u20133 over the Phoenix Coyotes. St. Louis would then lose three straight games against teams on the West Coast. The Blues would follow up by losing their next two games to extend their losing streak to five. In that period, defenseman Jay McKee would become another victim of unfortunate injuries for the Blues. The Blues ended the month of December with a poor 4\u201310\u20131 record. Just before the All-Star Game break (January 22 to 28), the team gained seven points in their last four games. On February 6, two days after his 36th birthday, goaltender Manny Legace was placed on waivers, and the Blues recalled Chris Holt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nAndy McDonald returned to active status on February 10 after almost three months out with a broken left leg (since November 16) and promptly made his presence felt with an assist on the Blues' first goal, and then later added a goal of his own, against the Vancouver Canucks, although they ultimately lost the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nA 6\u20132\u20134 surge in February pushed the Blues (60 points on Feb. 24) to an even 26\u201326 (eight overtime loses) record, and to within five points of the eighth and final playoff spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nIn a dramatic and wild 3\u20131 win, with the final two goals from the youngsters T. J. Oshie and Patrik Berglund late in the wide-open third period, plus 41 saves from Chris Mason, against the Dallas Stars on February 26, pushed the Blues into 12th place in the Western Conference, only three points from a playoff spot and over .500 for the first time since December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nA crucial 6\u20131 run from March 20 to April 2 pushed the Blues into eighth place, capped off by a stunning 5\u20134 win on April 2 over the Detroit Red Wings, their first victory over Detroit all season. The game was highlighted by David Backes' career-high four-goal night. It was the first four-goal night by any Blues' player since Scott Mellanby did it on March 6, 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nA key player in the team's late-season surge was the play of fan favorite T. J. Oshie, who was named NHL Rookie of the Month for March (April 2) after earning 13 points (four goals and nine assists) in 14 games, with the Blues going 9\u20134\u20131 in the month. From January 1 through the game on March 29, Oshie scored 11 goals and recorded 20 assists for 31 points in 37 games, leading all rookies, save for Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Ducks, in that span. His play garnered praise from several Blues veterans, including goaltender Chris Mason: \"T. J. is such a tenacious player. In every game he seems to create scoring chances out of nothing.\" Oshie was also listed #8 on \"Hockey's Future Top 50 prospects.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nThe Blues clinched a playoff spot in their second-to-last game of the season (#81), and their last home game, on April 10, in front of a raucous, standing-room-only crowd of 19,250, beating the Columbus Blue Jackets 3\u20131 in their 40th win of the season. The defense was superb, giving up only 17 shots, their lowest of the season. This is the first season since 2003\u201304 the Blues have made the playoffs. In the 2005\u201306 season, the Blues were in last place overall, and in 2007\u201308, they were tied for the fourth-worst record in the NHL. The Blues completed one of the greatest late-season playoff surges in NHL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary\nOn the same day the Blues clinched a playoff spot, their first-round draft pick in 2008, Alex Pietrangelo, 19, was assigned from the Niagara IceDogs in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) to the Blues' top minor-league affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League (AHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Summary, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Playoffs\nThe St. Louis Blues returned to the NHL Playoffs for the first time since 2004 with a sixth-place finish in the Western Conference. They were swept in four straight games in the first round by the Vancouver Canucks in large part due to the goaltending of Roberto Luongo. It was the first time the Blues were swept in a playoff series since the Dallas Stars did it to them in 1994", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Blues. Stats reflect time with Blues only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Blues only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Draft picks\nSt. Louis's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario, June 20-June 21, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Farm teams, Peoria Rivermen\nThe Peoria Rivermen are the Blues American Hockey League affiliate in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200964-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 St. Louis Blues season, Farm teams, Alaska Aces\nThe Alaska Aces are the Blues affiliate in the ECHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200965-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stade Rennais F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 108th season in the existence of Stade Rennais F.C. and the club's 15th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Angers participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue. The season covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200966-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Standard Bank Pro20\nThe 2008\u201309 Standard Bank Pro20 was the sixth running of Standard Bank Pro20 Series. It saw the Cape Cobras win their first title having previously lost in two finals. For the first time in the competition's history the semi-finals were best of three contests, both semis went to the third match and both were tied, the finalists were decided by a super over tie breaker. The series began on 21 January 2009 and finished with the final on 21 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200967-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Standard Li\u00e8ge season\nStandard Li\u00e8ge won their tenth ever league title thanks to a playoff victory against Anderlecht. They finished on the same point as them with the same number of games won. Following 1-1 away from home in Brussels, Standard won 1-0 at home thanks to a penalty scored by Axel Witsel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200967-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Standard Li\u00e8ge season\nThe season also saw the club nearly qualifying for the Champions League, following two 0-0 draws against Liverpool. In the extra time, however, Dirk Kuyt scored a decisive late goal. In the UEFA Cup, where Standard dropped down to, they beat Everton in the qualifying phase, which caused Everton to pay \u00a315 million for playmaker Marouane Fellaini, the highest ever fee paid for a Belgian player. In the UEFA Cup proper, Standard reached the Round of 32, where they were knocked out of the competition by Braga of Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200968-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team represented Stanford University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cardinal were coached by Tara VanDerveer. The Cardinal are a member of the Pacific-10 Conference and attempted to win their third NCAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200968-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team, Regular season\nJillian Harmon added 14 points in 16 minutes of action as the Cardinal bested a 73-point win over Long Beach State from Dec. 8, 1993 (122-49) with their fourth straight victory. Sarah Morton scored seven points to lead Washington with its worst loss in school history. The points allowed were the most ever by the Huskies, who scored their fewest points since getting 30 against Portland State on Feb. 13, 1976. It was Stanford's sixth consecutive win in the series, 10th in a row at home against the Huskies in Maples Pavilion and 10th in 11 overall dating to Jan. 4, 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200968-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team, Postseason, NCAA Basketball Tournament\nStanford reached the 2009 NCAA National semi-finals, losing to the eventual champion University of Connecticut (83-64). In the first two rounds in San Diego, they beat UC Santa Barbara 74-39 and San Diego State 77-49. In the Berkeley regionals, they defeated Ohio State 84-66 and Iowa State 74-53.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 89], "content_span": [90, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200969-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League\nThe 2008\u201309 State League was a 50-over women's cricket competition that took place in New Zealand. It ran from December 2008 to January 2009, with 6 provincial teams taking part. Canterbury Magicians beat Wellington Blaze in the final to win the competition, their third State League title in three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200969-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League, Competition format\nTeams played in a double round-robin in a group of six, therefore playing 10 matches overall. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side. The top two in the group advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200969-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League, Competition format\nThe group worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200969-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League, Competition format\nWin: 4 pointsTie: 2 pointsLoss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 2 points. Bonus Point: 1 point awarded for run rate in a match being 1.25x that of opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200970-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League Twenty20\nThe 2008\u201309 State League Twenty20 was the second season of the women's Twenty20 cricket competition played in New Zealand. It ran from December 2008 to January 2009, with 6 provincial teams taking part. Wellington Blaze beat Canterbury Magicians in the final to win the tournament, their first Twenty20 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200970-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League Twenty20, Competition format\nTeams played in a round-robin in a group of six, playing 5 matches overall. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format. The top two in the group advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 218]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00200970-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 State League Twenty20, Competition format\nWin: 4 pointsTie: 2 pointsLoss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200971-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks basketball team represented Stephen F. Austin University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lumberjacks were led by head coach Danny Kaspar and played their home games at the William R. Johnson Coliseum. They were members of the Southland Conference. The Lumberjacks finished the season 24\u20138, 13\u20133 in Southland play to claim the Southland regular season championship. They were champions of the Southland Conference Tournament to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament \u2013 the first appearance in school history. As No. 14 seed in the South region, they lost in the Round of 64 to No. 3 seed Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Stoke City's first season in the Premier League and the 53rd in the top tier of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season\nAfter gaining promotion to the Premier League for the first time, Stoke were immediately tipped to go straight back down by the media. Dave Kitson became the first signing and he was followed by Seyi Olofinjana, Thomas S\u00f8rensen, Amdy Faye, Abdoulaye Faye and the returning Danny Higginbotham. Stoke started the campaign at Bolton Wanderers and were dealt a harsh reality check losing 3\u20131. Stoke's first home game in the Premier League produced an exciting 3\u20132 win over Aston Villa with Mamady Sidib\u00e9 getting the winner in the 93rd minute. Stoke claimed a valuable point away at title challenges Liverpool in September and earned wins over Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion in October and November with Rory Delap's long throw-ins causing defences problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season\nStoke hit poor form in December failing to win a match and had to deal with an embarrassing on-field clash between teammates Ricardo Fuller and captain Andy Griffin away at West Ham United. In January Stoke brought in James Beattie and Matthew Etherington who proved to be influential signings. Beattie scored the only goal as Stoke ended a run of nine-matches without a win at the end of January against Man City. Stoke continued to improve and pulled clear of the relegation zone with important victories over Bolton, Middlesbrough and West Brom. Stoke sealed survival with a 2\u20131 victory away at Hull City in May 2009 and ended their first season in the Premier League in 12th position with 45 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Pre-season\nStoke began its preparations for the 2008\u201309 season with the traditional opener at Newcastle Town. City won 3\u20130 with goals coming from Richard Cresswell, Jon Parkin and Adam Rooney. Stoke then travelled to Austria for their pre-season training camp, where they also played two games. The first was against German side N\u00fcrnberg in Stainach, Greek forward Angelos Charisteas scored the only goal of the match. The second was against the Bahrain national team, a rare club versus country match. Stoke won 2\u20131 with the goals coming from Cresswell and Pericard while Ismail Abdul-Latif replied for the Arabic nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Pre-season\nOn their return to England Stoke travelled to League Two Notts County and came away with a 2\u20130 win thanks to a brace from Mamady Sidib\u00e9. Stoke kept their winning run going as they visited Shrewsbury Town's new stadium the New Meadow for the first time, Cresswell scoring the winning goal after 68 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Pre-season\nStoke's final away fixture saw them make the long trip down to Southampton. Stoke took the lead through new signing Dave Kitson, David McGoldrick levelled before Pericard scored from distance. Stern John pulled The Saints level again but Stoke were not to be denied as Jamie Hatch scored an own goal. Stoke's final friendly saw them take on Spanish side Osasuna in what was an entertaining 2\u20132 draw. Delap and Shawcross scored for city while Walter Pandiani and Javad Nekounam scored for Osasuna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, August\nStoke began their long-awaited first match in the Premier League and first in the top-flight for 23 years away at Gary Megson's Bolton Wanderers. Manager Tony Pulis gave debuts to new signings Thomas S\u00f8rensen, Seyi Olofinjana and record \u00a35 million man Dave Kitson. Stoke made a bright start and went close to opening the scoring through Leon Cort and Kitson. However, out of nowhere Bolton took the lead through Gr\u00e9tar Steinsson as his attempted cross curled in to the Stoke net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, August\nThis knocked all the momentum out of Stoke and Bolton took full advantage and scored twice through Kevin Davies and Johan Elmander to put Wanderers 3\u20130 up at half-time. Stoke tried to get back into the game and did manage to score a consolation from Ricardo Fuller in the final few seconds of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, August\nStoke's first home match in the Premier League came against Aston Villa in front of 27,500 at the Brit as Senegalese duo Abdoulaye Faye and Amdy Faye made their debuts. Both sides made a positive start and Stoke took the lead in the 30th minute when Liam Lawrence scored from the spot after Martin Laursen had brought down Rory Delap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, August\nVilla pulled level in second half through John Carew before Fuller put Stoke back in front with a quality goal, Gareth Barry's stray pass was intercepted by Delap who passed to Lawrence who fed in Fuller and the Jamaican 'swivelled' past Laursen and scored. The lead didn't last long as Stoke failed to deal with an Ashley Young free kick and Laursen made amends for his earlier errors. Stoke were not to be denied victory as in the final minute a trade mark Delap throw in was headed in by Mamady Sidib\u00e9 to give Stoke a 3\u20132 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, August\nStoke next travelled to Middlesbrough for the first time since 1997. The match was an even affair until the 36th minute when Amdy Faye was sent off for a dangerous two footed tackle on Mohamed Shawky. From the resulting free kick Afonso Alves put Middlesbrough into the lead against the run of play. Boro had the chance to make sure of the win midway through the second half after Abdoulaye Faye fouled Alves in the area but Stewart Downing hit the crossbar from the resulting spot kick. Stoke then equalised after Justin Hoyte put a Lawrence cross in to his own net. However Turkish striker Tuncay beat the offside trap and gave Boro the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, September\nFor the visit of Everton there were debuts for Ibrahima Sonko and the return of Danny Higginbotham. It was also the first live televised match of the season. Stoke made the better start with Fuller testing Tim Howard early on. It was Everton though who opened the scoring though Nigerian striker Yakubu just before half time and five minutes after the restart it became 2\u20130 as another Nigerian, Victor Anichebe, headed in. Stoke pulled one back through a Nigerian of their own when Olofinjana volleyed in after the Everton defence failed to clear a Delap throw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, September\nCity thought they had equalised moments later when Fuller went through and rounded 'keeper Howard but he was penalised for a foul on Joseph Yobo. They were level soon though as Phil Jagielka headed a Delap throw into his own net. Everton thought they should have had a penalty when Cort handled in the area but the referee, Alan Wiley deemed it outside the box which resulted in David Moyes been sent to the stands for his protest. Tim Cahill headed Everton back in front and the Toffees held out for the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, September\nStoke completed the Merseyside double with a trip to Anfield. Liverpool went into the match in fine form and it looked to be a very difficult task for Stoke to come away with anything. Stoke made a bad start as Steven Gerrard's free kick found the back of the net, luckily for Stoke the linesman ruled the goal out for offside. Liverpool had numerous chances to take the lead but Stoke's defence held firm and came away with an impressive 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, September\nTitle favourites Chelsea next came the Britannia Stadium and produced a commanding performance with two goals from Jos\u00e9 Bosingwa and Nicolas Anelka. Stoke rarely troubled Chelsea 'keeper Petr \u010cech in what was a simple win for the away side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, October\nSteve Simonsen and Michael Tonge made their first starts of the season away at Portsmouth. Peter Crouch acrobatically fired Pompey into the lead from Jermain Defoe's cross after 24 minutes at a time when the Potters were slightly on top of the game. Ricardo Fuller forced home an equaliser just after the break, but Defoe secured all three points for the hosts just three minutes later when he beat Simonsen at his near post with a low drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, October\nJuande Ramos's Tottenham travelled to Stoke in what turned out to be a match full of incident. The first came after 17 minutes when Gareth Bale fouled Tom Soares in the area and received a red card, Higginbotham scored from the spot after having to reset the ball four times due to strong winds. Spurs then equalised through Darren Bent before Delap gave City the lead early in the second half. Goalkeeper Sorensen was then forced off due to injury and also Vedran Corluka who collided with his own keeper Gomes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, October\nDue to these injuries 11 minutes of stoppage time would be required, Stoke had the chance to end the match when Soares was again brought down in the box but Fuller's spot kick hit both posts and Delaps rebound hit the cross bar. Spurs were reduced to nine men when Michael Dawson lunged nastily at Sidib\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, October\nStoke made their first trip to the City of Manchester Stadium and were undone by \u00a332 million Brazilian Robinho who scored a hat-trick. City did have their chances put were unable to beat Joe Hart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, October\nThe first Tuesday night match in the Premier League came at home against Roy Keane's Sunderland who had beaten rivals Newcastle United at the weekend. It proved to be a very tight affair with both sides struggling to create clear cut chances. Stoke scored the only goal of the game when Fuller out jumped Dean Whitehead to head in another Delap throw-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, November\nArsenal visited the Britannia Stadium at the beginning of November and was another match full of incident. The first came after just eleven minutes when Fuller's delicate touch from a Delap long throw put City in the lead. Arsenal rarely threatened Sorensen as they struggled to deal with Stoke's greater power and strength. They conceded again from a Delap throw on 73 minutes when Olofinjana bundled the ball past Almunia. Arsenal's misery was complete when Van Persie was sent off for needlessly barging into Sorensen, leaving him requiring assistance from the physio. Ga\u00ebl Clichy's deflected freekick gave the Gunners a consolation deep in stoppage time. After the match Arsenal manager Ars\u00e8ne Wenger accused Stoke of being overly aggressive in their play, Pulis responded to Wenger's criticism by quoting Abraham Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, November\nStoke went to Wigan still looking for their first away win in the Premier League however the home side were full of confidence and had Egyptian striker Amr Zaki in fine form. Athletic dominated the match and managed to have 22 shots to City's 2, the combination of Sorensen and some wayward Wigan shooting Stoke managed a useful scoreless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, November\nStoke then made the short trip to Manchester United in what turned out to be a poor game for City as the reigning champions scored five times without reply. Goals from Michael Carrick, Dimitar Berbatov, Danny Welbeck and two free-kicks from Cristiano Ronaldo condemned Stoke to a heavy defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, November\nAfter the heavy defeat at Old Trafford Stoke came up against Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion. It was a poor match with few scoring opportunities but Stoke did manage to get the only goal of the game when Mamady Sidib\u00e9 converted Danny Higginbotham's inch perfect centre with just five minutes remaining, to maintain City's exceptional winning record against the Baggies, and also lifted City up to 13th place in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, November\nSurprise package Hull City arrived at the Britannia Stadium which was covered by fog. Stoke dominated most of the match and should have scored in the first half, however it was the away side who opened the scoring through Marlon King just before half time. Boaz Myhill made a number of impressive saves to keep Hull ahead but he gave away a penalty when he fouled Fuller in the area and the Jamaican made the scores level. City pressed for the winner but the Tigers held out for a 1\u20131 draw. One bizarre moment of the match came when Hull substitute Dean Windass was shown a yellow card by referee Keith Stroud without coming on to the pitch, after he began to warm-up to close to Delap who was preparing to take a throw-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nMichael Owen scored twice for Newcastle United in the first 25 minutes of City's next match as St James' Park. Stoke improved greatly in the second half and when Ricardo Fuller was brought off the bench the game started to change and moments later he set up Sidib\u00e9 for a simple tap in. Stoke had a number of chances to pull level and the equaliser came in stoppage time when former 'Castle player Abdoulaye Faye converted a Whelan free kick to earn Stoke a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nStoke drew for the third game in a row when Fulham made the trip to the Britannia, it was a poor game of football with Richard Cresswell coming the closest to opening the scoring. Sidib\u00e9 suffered a serious injury after just a few minutes of the match which ruled him out until the end of February. There was an unsavory moment in the match when Fulham defender John Paintsil theatrically threw himself to the ground after minimal contact from Ricardo Fuller. Fuller branded Paintsil's actions as \"disgraceful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nOver 5,000 Stoke fans travelled to Blackburn Rovers as the club put on free coach travel, Pulis named an unusual starting eleven which included back-up 'keeper Steve Simonsen, Ryan Shawcross at right-back and reserve striker Vincent P\u00e9ricard starting. Rovers had new manager Sam Allardyce making his home debut and his team took control of the match early on. Sonko clumsily brought down Pedersen and Benni McCarthy made no mistake from the spot. Jason Roberts added a second before McCarthy made it 3\u20130 before half time. Only Steve Simonsen prevented Rovers adding more in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nOn Boxing day Stoke took on Manchester United in what was a bad tempered affair. Carlos Tevez scored the only goal for the away side in the second half, after Andy Wilkinson had been sent off for two bookable offences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nStoke made the trip to West London for their match against West Ham still looking for their first away win. City made the best possible start when Abdoulaye Faye powerfully headed in after just 4 minutes. It became a tight game for the remainder of the first half and City went in at the break a goal up. However Carlton Cole equalized for the Hammers after some poor defending from Andy Griffin. Following West Ham's goal, Fuller argued with Griffin, before slapping the Stoke captain's face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, December\nMike Jones gave Fuller a straight red for violent conduct and West Ham went on to win the match 2\u20131, Diego Trist\u00e1n earning the Hammers the three points. On 1 January 2009, Tony Pulis confirmed that Fuller and Griffin had \"kissed and made up\" after a team meeting. Fuller said Griffin had been \"very rude and disrespectful\", but accepted that his actions had been worse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, January\nAfter their embarrassing exit to Hartlepool United in the FA Cup Stoke took on title challengers Liverpool at the Britannia Stadium. Pulis gave new signing Matthew Etherington his debut as Stoke made a bright start to the match. Firstly Delap hit the crossbar from seven yards and then Shawcross put the ball past Reina but the goal was ruled out for offside. Liverpool rarely threatened up until the final few minutes when Gerrard hit the woodwork twice, and the match finished in a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, January\nJames Beattie made his Stoke debut against Chelsea following his transfer from Sheffield United. Stoke suffered a blow early into the match as both Amdy Faye and Danny Higginbotham had to depart due to injury. Stoke took a surprise lead in the 60th minute when Delap broke free and beat Cech. Stoke thought they had done enough to claim victory but in the 88th minute Chelsea equalised though Juliano Belletti then Frank Lampard scored with the final kick of the game to give Stoke a bitter defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, January\nStoke went in the game at Tottenham looking for their first win since the beginning of December. However any hopes of getting a result were ended in the first half as Spurs took control ruthlessly and went in at half time 3\u20130 in the lead. Stoke did manage to gain a consolation in the second half when Beattie scored his first goal for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, January\nManchester City made the trip to the Britannia and the end of January and made a bright start with Robinho and Stephen Ireland going closest. Delap was sent off in the 38th minute when he kicked the ball at Shaun Wright-Phillips after the Man City player fouled Etherington. Stoke took the lead against the run of play in the 45th minute when Beattie out jumped Wayne Bridge and headed past Joe Hart. Man City controlled the second half but never managed to score the equaliser and Stoke gained a valuable three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, February\nStoke were boosted by two transfer deadline day captures with the loans of Birmingham's Stephen Kelly and Wigan's Henri Camara. Stoke suffered a major blow after just 30 minutes in the match in Wearside when Pulis had to make three substitutions all due to injury. Sunderland took the lead in the second half through a typical Kenwyne Jones header Camara then managed to hit the crossbar from just four-yard's. Etherington was sent off for needlessly tripping Danny Collins and David Healy gave Sunderland a 2\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, February\nThe match against Portsmouth came alive in the final 15 minutes, Kranjcar gave Pompey the lead and from the restart Stoke were awarded a penalty after Glen Johnson handled in the area. Beattie scored to bring Stoke back level, he scored again just two minutes later after he headed in a Danny Pugh cross. With Stoke set for a much needed three points Shawcross under pressure from Hreidarsson sliced the ball in his own net to give Pompey a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, March\nAbdoulaye Faye was ruled out of the match against Aston Villa meaning that an unfamiliar back pairing of Sonko and Higginbotham started. In the first half Villa dominated and it became only a matter of time before they scored, it came on the stroke of half time through Bulgarian Stiliyan Petrov. Sorensen injured himself trying to save Petrov's goal and was replaced at half time by Simonsen. Stoke were improved second half but couldn't score the equaliser, and the game looked finished after 80 minutes as John Carew fired Villa in to a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0032-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, March\nStoke continued to push forward though and went close through Shawcross and Whelan who hit the post, Stoke did pull one back in the 88th minute when Shawcross headed in a cross from Beattie. Remarkably Stoke managed to score again in the final minute as Glenn Whelan's volley beat Brad Friedel to claim an unlikely 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, March\nBolton were next opponents for Stoke and should have taken the lead through Elmander after 11 minutes. City responded in cynical fashion though and took the lead with their first chance of the game just three minutes later. Gary Megson's side failed to deal with Abdoulaye Faye's long ball forward and Whelan nipped in to head the ball through to Beattie, and he made no mistake from ten yards by easily placing the ball past the helpless Jussi Jaaskelainen. Both sides continued to create and miss chances as the game became an entertaining affair. Stoke sealed the win when Fuller took advantage of Wanderers failing to clear a Delap throw in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, March\nStoke made the trip to Goodison Park for the first time since 1985 still looking for their first away win in the Premier League. The Toffees took control early on and goals from Brazilian J\u00f4 and Joleon Lescott gave the home side a 2\u20130 half-time lead. Stoke responded in the second half through a Shawcross header and came close to getting an equaliser but Marouane Fellaini made the points safe for Everton in added time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, March\nStoke then faced Middlesbrough in a relegation clash at the Britannia Stadium. It was a scrappy encounter and with the game seemingly destined for a draw Stoke scored through Shawcross via a Delap throw to give Stoke a vital three points and leave Boro rooted in the bottom three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, April\nStoke made the short trip to West Brom and made a flying start with Fuller scoring after just 80 seconds, Stoke went on to dominate the hosts and only Scott Carson keeping the Baggies in the match. Stoke sealed their first Premier League away win after Beattie curled his shot past Carson to seal a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, April\nRelegation-threatened Newcastle United along with their new manager Alan Shearer were the next side to come to the Britannia Stadium, Newcastle struggled throughout and Stoke took the lead after 33 minutes when former Newcastle player Abdoulaye Faye powerfully headed in a Liam Lawrence corner. Stoke had a number of chances to score the second but were unable to find the net and Newcastle claimed a fortunate point with ten minutes remaining through Andy Carroll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, April\nStoke then faced another relegation-threatened side in the form of Blackburn Rovers. The only goal came after 75 minutes when Liam Lawrence drilled the ball past Paul Robinson to send the Potters eight points above the relegation zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, April\nStoke made the trip to the capital to face in form Fulham; the home side took control of the match early into the match and took the lead in the 29th minute through Erik Nevland. Stoke were much improved in the second half and a number of chances to level but the match finished 1\u20130 to Europe-bound Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, May\nWest Ham were next to arrive at Stoke and became the first team to win at the Britannia Stadium in 2009. The match was a very tight affair with on the only goal being scored by a Diego Tristan free-kick after 33 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, May\nA win away at Hull City would confirm survival for Stoke with two games remaining and with Phil Brown's side also looking for vital points in order to climb out of the relegation zone. It turned out to be a very entertaining match with both sides going all out for the win, it was City though who took the lead. Lawrence put in a dangerous ball which fell through to Fuller, and he pounced from 6 yards to slam the ball into the bottom corner of Boaz Myhill's goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0041-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, May\nHull came out fighting in the second half and brought on Geovanni, Manucho, and Bernard Mendy in an attempt to draw level. However it was Stoke who kept creating chances with Whelan's half volley hitting the crossbar. Stoke sealed their survival with a long-range goal from Liam Lawrence on 73 minutes. Hull scored a consolation through an Andy Dawson free kick in the final minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, May\nThe season's penultimate game was against Wigan Athletic at home. The match was played in a relaxed atmosphere and was an entertaining game, Stoke winning 2\u20130 thanks to a trademark sole goal from Fuller and a well worked goal from James Beattie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, Premier League, May\nThe final game of the 2008\u201309 season came at Arsenal with Stoke making their first trip to the Emirates Stadium. Stoke lost 4\u20131 with all the goals coming in the first half. An own goal from Beattie opened the scoring for Arsenal with further goals from Abou Diaby and a brace from Robin van Persie. Stoke's goal came from a Fuller penalty after he was brought down in the area by a cynical foul by Denilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, FA Cup\nStoke were drawn against League One Hartlepool United in the third round of the FA Cup. Manager Pulis decided to field a largely reserve side with the likes of Andy Davies, Ibrahima Sonko, Tom Soares, Michael Tonge all getting rare run outs. However that decision backfired as Stoke were awful and Hartlepool claimed a shock 2\u20130 victory with goals from Michael Nelson and a wonder goal from David Foley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, League Cup\nStoke manager Tony Pulis made a large number of changes for the game at Cheltenham to give the Stoke side a largely reserve look. It turned out to an entertaining game as Stoke opened the scoring at the beginning of the second half through a Glenn Whelan freekick. It was 2\u20130 three minutes later when Richard Cresswell outpaced the Cheltenham defence and rounded Robins keeper Shane Higgs. Ashley Vincent gave Cheltenham hope before Jon Parkin sealed the win for Stoke. Alex Russell scored a consolation for the home side deep in to added time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, League Cup\nStoke took on Championship side Reading in the third round of the League Cup and took the lead through Pericard after nine minutes. James Henry pulled the Royals level from the spot before Sidib\u00e9 but Stoke back in front. However Henry scored again to send the tie into extra time. There was no more goals meaning the a penalty shootout would be required, Leroy Lita missed his decisive spot kick and Stoke went through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, League Cup\nRotherham United made it through to face City in the fourth round and posed an early threat to a largely reserve Stoke side in what was a bright opening 10 minutes by the League Two side. However City took control of the game and took the lead after 21 minutes though another Whelan freekick which left Andy Warrington with no chance of saving. Stoke sealed their place in the quarter final of the League Cup for the first time since 1978 when Danny Pugh scored his first goal for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200972-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stoke City F.C. season, League Cup\nStoke faced Derby in the quarters and it proved to be very frustrating night for the home side as with just ten seconds remaining Rob Styles adjudged former Ram Andy Griffin to have handled the ball inside the penalty area in the 93rd minute, and Nathan Ellington stepped up to send Derby through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200973-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stuttgarter Kickers season\nThe 2008\u201309 Stuttgarter Kickers season was the 109th season in the club's football history. In 2008\u201309 the club played in the new founded 3. Liga, the third tier of German football. The club also has taken part in the 2008\u201309 edition of the Wurttemberg Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200973-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stuttgarter Kickers season, Reserve team\nKickers' reserve team finished 7th in the Oberliga Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and were coached by Bj\u00f6rn Hinck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200973-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Stuttgarter Kickers season, Reserve team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 112th season in Sunderland A.F.C. 's history and 104th in the league system of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season, Background\nIn preparation for their Premier League campaign, Sunderland spent around \u00a340,000,000 in the 2007\u201308 season. Signings included the club's record signing of Craig Gordon for \u00a39,000,000, Michael Chopra for \u00a35,000,000, and Kieran Richardson for an undisclosed fee believed to be in the region of \u00a35,500,000. Roy Keane began his managerial tenure in the Premier League with a win over Tottenham Hotspur through a last minute goal from Michael Chopra. In an attempt to bolster their goalscoring chances, Sunderland signed Kenwyne Jones from Southampton for \u00a36,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season, Background\nThe club came close to their first Tyne-Wear derby victory at home in 17 years when they drew with Newcastle United. They had taken the lead before half time, but Shola Ameobi equalised an hour into the game. Michael Chopra missed the opportunity to win the game by heading the ball onto the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season, Background\nA tribute was paid to 1973 FA Cup Final goalscorer Ian Porterfield in a game against Reading. Sunderland marked the occasion by winning 2\u20131. A win over Aston Villa sparked a three-game winning streak, when Sunderland overcame West Ham United and Fulham to extend their lead over the relegation area. They sealed their Premier League safety in a 3\u20132 win over local rivals Middlesbrough through a 90th-minute goal from Daryl Murphy. They finished the season in fifteenth place, on 39 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200974-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sunderland A.F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season\nThe 2008-09 Super 10 was the top level Italian domestic rugby union club competition. It ran from September through to May, operated by the Federazione Italiana Rugby. The Super 10 is now called Top12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season\nThe Super 10 utilised the same bonus points system as almost all other major rugby union competitions (France uses a slightly different system):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season, Table\nThe third highest placed team then competes against a team from the Celtic League for a place in the Heineken Cup. (The Magners League team is determined as the best placed team who haven't already qualified for the Heineken Cup via other means. Currently this is limited to the higher of the lowest placed Welsh and lowest placed Irish team. This is because 2 Scottish teams earn direct qualification and currently only 2 Scottish teams are fielded.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season, Final Stages\nThe first semi-final was held on 23 May. Viadana came out on top, beating Rovigo 15-11. The next day Benetton Treviso beat Overmach Parma 15-6. The final of the Super 10 was contested on 30 May between Benetton Treviso and Arix Viadana at the Stadio Flaminio. Treviso started excellently scoring three tries in the first half. Treviso's first try was scored by Andy Vilk, a terrific run from the 10 metre line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season, Final Stages\nArgentine Pedro Di Santo was the next to be driven over the line from a few metres out, and the third by the fly-half Marius Goosen who caught the ball from a 22 dropout and ran straight through Viadana to score a try that should never have been one. Viadana responded with a try by Sam Cox. Viadana's full-back Garry Law missed three penalties leaving the score at 19-10 to Treviso at the halfway point. In the second half Law went from villain to hero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season, Final Stages\nHe scored a try and a second penalty to take Viadana into the lead by one point. However Law's opposite kicker Marius Goosen was one of the heroes for Treviso. He goaled a penalty to snatch back the lead and then converted replacement Robert Barbieri's try to take Treviso to their 14th title. The final score was Treviso 29-20 Viadana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200975-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super 10 season, Final Stages\nFor Benetton Treviso:Tries: Vilk, Di Santo, Goosen, BarbieriCons: Goosen 3Pen: Goosen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200976-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super League Greece\nThe 2008\u201309 Super League Greece was the 73rd season of the highest football league of Greece and the third under the name Super League. The season began on 31 August 2008 and ended on 26 April 2009. The league consisted of 16 teams. Participants were the 13 best teams from the 2007\u201308 season and three teams who have been promoted from Beta Ethniki. Olympiacos successfully defended their title after claiming their 37th title overall with three rounds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200976-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super League Greece, Play-offs\nThe play-offs for an additional Champions League spot were conducted in a home and away round robin format. Its participants have entered the mini-league with a number of bonus points based on their regular season record. Every team had the number of points earned by the fifth-placed team subtracted from its own number of points. The result was then divided through five and rounded to the nearest whole number to determine the number of bonus points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200976-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super League Greece, Play-offs\nThe teams started the play-offs with the following number of points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200976-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Super League Greece, Play-offs\nThe play-off winners entered the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Since AEK Athens have lost the final of the 2008\u201309 Greek Cup to Champions League-bound Olympiacos, all three Greek Europa League spots (two via league, one via domestic cup) were allotted according to the position of the respective teams in the play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200977-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Superliga Femenina\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the female football Superliga Femenina started on 7 September 2008 and finished on 10 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200977-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Superliga Femenina\nRayo Vallecano won the league for the first time in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200977-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Superliga Femenina, Teams\nCFF Puebla merged to Extremadura Femenino CF and was relocated to Almendralejo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200978-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Superliga Feminina Brasileira de Voleibol season\nThe 2008\u201309 Superliga Feminina Brasileira de Voleibol season was the 15th edition of the Championship; it began on October 29, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200979-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Supersport Series\nThe 2008\u201309 Supersport Series was the 13th running of the Supersport Series, the premier first-class competition in South Africa, and seventh since the introduction of franchise teams. Matches were played over four days, with each team playing each other twice, home and away, in a round robin format. The series started on 2 October 2008 and was played through until 2 April 2009. Nashua Titans emerged as champions for a third Supersport Series title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200979-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Supersport Series, Points table, Explanation of points\nPoints will be allocated for each match in accordance with the system described below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200980-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sussex County Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Sussex County Football League season was the 84th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200980-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sussex County Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200980-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sussex County Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200980-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sussex County Football League, Division Three\nDivision Three featured eleven clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200981-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swansea City A.F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Swansea City A.F.C. 's first time in the second tier of English football for 24 years. Swansea gained promotion as champions of League One by 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200981-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swansea City A.F.C. season, Awards, Championship Team of the Week\nThe following Swansea players have been selected in the official Championship team of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200981-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swansea City A.F.C. season, Fixtures and results, The Championship\nThe season finished on 3 May when Swansea City played Blackpool at the Liberty Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200981-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swansea City A.F.C. season, Fixtures and results, League Cup\nSwansea reached the Fourth round of the League Cup before losing to Championship strugglers Watford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200982-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swedish Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2008\u201309 Swedish Figure Skating Championships were held at the Cloetta Center in Link\u00f6ping between December 4 and 7, 2008. Because they were held in December, they were officially designated by the Swedish skating federation as the 2008 Swedish Championships, but the champions are the 2009 Swedish Champions. Senior-level (Olympic-level), junior-level, and two age-group levels of novice (Riksm\u00e4sterskap (RM) and UngdomsSM (USM)) skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating, although not every discipline was held in every level. This event was used to help choose the Swedish teams for the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 European Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200983-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swindon Town F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Swindon Town's second season in the League One since their relegation from the division in 2006. Alongside the league campaign, Swindon Town will also competed in the FA Cup, League Cup and the Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200983-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swindon Town F.C. season, Football League One\nLeicester comfortably won promotion in their first-ever season at this level, leading the table for virtually the entire season, going half the season (23 consecutive games) unbeaten and losing just 4 games in the process, Nigel Pearson brought stability to the club in becoming their first manager in five years to last an entire season as they looked to turn the corner after several years of struggle. Peterborough were runners-up, winning their second successive promotion and entering the second tier for only the second time in their history. Scunthorpe grabbed the final play-off place on the last day of the season in a winner takes all match v 7th place Tranmere Rovers and won promotion through them, making an immediate return to the Championship after being relegated the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200983-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swindon Town F.C. season, Football League One\nStockport went into administration before the final match of the season and so suffered a 10-point penalty; however, there was no real chance of them being relegated as a result of this penalty, barring an extremely unlikely set of results on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200983-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swindon Town F.C. season, Football League One\nHereford made an immediate return to League Two, finishing bottom in their first campaign at this level for thirty years. Cheltenham improved late in the season, but it proved too late to prevent relegation. Crewe suffered a late collapse and went down to League Two, having looked safe a few weeks previously, while Northampton were undone by other results going against them on the final day of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup\nSwiss Cup 2008\u201309 was the 84th season of Switzerland's annual cup competition. It began on 20 September with the first games of Round 1 and ended on 20 May 2009 with the Final held at Stade de Suisse, Berne. The winners earned a place in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League. FC Basel were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup, Participating clubs\nNine Super League teams (FC Vaduz are from Liechtenstein and thus play in the Liechtenstein Cup 2008\u201309) and all sixteen Challenge League clubs entered this year's competition, as well as thirteen teams from 1. Liga and 26 teams from lower leagues (their level within the Swiss league pyramid is given in parentheses below). Teams from 1. Liga and below had to qualify through separate qualifying rounds within their leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup, Round 1\nTeams from Super League and Challenge League were seeded in this round. In a match, the home advantage was granted to the team from the lower league, if applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup, Round 2\nThe winners of Round 1 played in this round. Teams from Super League were seeded. In a match, the home advantage was granted to the team from the lower league, if applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup, Round 3\nThe winners of Round 2 played in this round. In a match, the home advantage was granted to the team from the lower league, if applicable. Some games were postponed due to snow, and subsequently played elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200984-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Cup, Semi-finals\nThe winners of the quarter-finals played in this round. As in the previous round, matches were openly drawn, meaning that the team drawn first in a match earned the home game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200985-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Super League\nThe 2008\u201309 Swiss Super League was the 112th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. The competition is officially named AXPO Super League due to sponsoring purposes. It began on 18 July 2008 with a match between Young Boys Bern and reigning champions FC Basel, which the latter won by 2\u20131. The last matches were played in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200985-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Super League, Teams\nFC Thun were relegated after finishing in 10th and last place in 2007\u201308 Swiss Super League. They were replaced by Challenge League 2007\u201308 champions FC Vaduz, who are the first team from Liechtenstein participating in Switzerland's top football league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200985-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Super League, Teams\n9th placed FC St. Gallen and Challenge League runners-up AC Bellinzona competed in a two-legged relegation play-off after the end of last season. Bellinzona won 5\u20132 on aggregate and thus earned promotion, while St. Gallen were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200985-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Super League, Results\nTeams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200985-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Swiss Super League, Relegation play-offs\nFC Lucern as 9th-placed team of the Super League were played a two-legged play-off against Challenge League runners-up AC Lugano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200986-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC W-League season\nThe 2009 season is the Sydney FC's first season of football (soccer) in Australia's new women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200986-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200986-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC W-League season, Awards, Milestones\nFirst game = 4\u20130 win home V Perth Glory W-LeagueLargest win = 4\u20130 win home V Perth Glory W-LeagueLargest loss = 3\u20130 loss away V Queensland Roar W-League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season is Sydney FC's fourth season of football (soccer) in Australia, and will compete in the 2008\u201309 A-League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, 2008-09 Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Pre-season\nSydney commenced pre-season training on 28 April 2008, and have been actively promoting the club to the Sydney community in the lead up to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Pre-season\nA number of friendly matches against NSW Premier League opposition are expected to be arranged in May and June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Pre-season\nSydney played their first pre-season match against NSW Premier League side Blacktown City Demons at Gabbie Stadium which ended in a 0\u20130 draw. The match was significant in which Michael Enfield played his first game in almost a season, and fellow American Matt Taylor played his first trial game for the club. Sydney lost their 2nd trial match against Sutherland a week later losing 2\u20131 on artificial turf. Jacob Timpano scored Sydney's goal late in the 1st half. It was his first goal for the club after almost a year and a half on the sidelines through injury. Sydney's 3rd and final Pre-season friendly ended up a 2\u20130 win over Manly United, with Newly signed 17yr old Chris Payne scoring the double for the Sky Blues against his former club. It is their last Pre-season friendly before starting in the annual pre-season cup which starts later this month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 893]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup\nSydney have been drawn into Group B for the A-League Preseason Challenge Cup along with Queensland Roar, Central Coast Mariners and Wellington Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Fixtures\nOn a freezing cold night at Campbelltown Sydney came victorious against Queensland Roar 2\u20131. After a scoreless 1st half, Queensland scored first through their new Dutch import, before Sydney hit back minutes later through newly signed 17-year-old Chris Payne, late in the 2nd Half Alex Brosque was fouled near the penalty area and former Perth Glory midfielder Mitchell Prentice took a shot that fired into the top right corner of the net. Sydney next travel up to Gosford To play the Central Coast Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Fixtures\nSydney played the Mariners up at Bluetongue Stadium on 27 July. Central Coast had recently been in the News with former Socceroos and Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich reportedly signing a 2-year contract. Sydney dominated the first 15 minutes until Brad Porter scored 2 minutes before half time. Sydney had several excellent chances early in the 2nd through Alex Brosque and Terry McFlynn but Bosnich denied any Sydney goal. 2 late goals for Central Coast through former Sydney player Sasho Petrovski and Nik Mrdja. Sydney had a 70th minute Steve Corica penalty stopped by Bosnich. Sydney now will hope to get through to the Pre-Season final with a win over Wellington Phoenix at WIN Stadium next Saturday Night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Fixtures\nSydney played Wellington at WIN stadium, needing a victory and the Central Coast Mariners beating the Queensland Roar in order to get into the Pre-Season cup final. Sydney started off well with early goals from Alex Brosque and Iain Fyfe both opening up their goal tally's for the season, and Sydney looked to have the game under control by half time. Until 15 minutes into the 2nd half Wellington got a goal back through Troy Hearfield. A last-man sliding tackle by Dez Giraldi earnt Wellington a Penalty, as well as Giraldi's marching orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Fixtures\nThe penalty was converted past Sydney's 2nd keeper Ivan Necevski leveling the scores at 2\u20132. with 9 minutes to go till full-time a defensive mistake cost Sydney the game when Jacob Timpano but a terrible pass-back to Necevski and Wellington's Chinese import Leilei Gao intercepted it, and slotted the ball past a stunned Necevski. Sydney now go into the start of the 4th A-League season short on players with Alex Brosque, Dez Giraldi, Mitchell Prentice, and Simon Colosimo all out on Suspension, and John Aloisi, Brendon Santalab, and Michael Enfield all injured, as well as Mark Bridge, and Stuart Musialik out on Olyroo duties for the Beijing Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Player details, Transfers\nThe later parts of the 2007\u201308 season saw the departure of Mark Rudan to Japanese second division side Avispa Fukuoka and the club released David Zdrilic, Ruben Zadkovich and Patrick da Silva at season's end. Ufuk Talay joined his former teammate Mark Rudan and coach Pierre Littbarski at Avispa Fukuoka the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Player details, Transfers\nNew signings for the 2008\u201309 season started in earnest in March with the official announcements of Simon Colosimo from Perth, Mark Bridge and Stuart Musialik from Jets and a new marquee player in John Aloisi from the Mariners reportedly with a pay packet of up to A$1.4m a season. With Aloisi joining as the marquee and other signings being under the salary cap, Sydney were unable to retain Brazilian Juninho at the club and he was unceremoniously released during the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200987-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Sydney FC season, Player details, Transfers\nRuben Zadkovich was snatched up by Newcastle but ended up heading over to England on a reported 2-year contract with relegated Premier League team Derby County. Manly United young gun Chris Payne caught Kosmina's eye during a pre-season trial and signed the youngster on a 2-year youth contract. And in mid-July Kosmina signed Wollongong Wolves striker Dez Giraldi on an 8-week loan spell to replace the injured Brendon Santalab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team represented Syracuse University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Jim Boeheim, serving for his 33rd year. The team played its home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. Key contributors included senior Kristof Ongenaet, juniors Eric Devendorf, Arinze Onuaku, Andy Rautins and Paul Harris, sophomores Rick Jackson and Jonny Flynn and freshman Kris Joseph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Roster changes\nSyracuse lost its leading scorer from the previous season, forward Dont\u00e9 Greene, who declared for the 2008 NBA draft and was taken with the 28th overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies. Greene was then traded to the Houston Rockets and again to the Sacramento Kings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Roster changes\nSyracuse used Greene's scholarship to add Iowa State transfer Wesley Johnson. Johnson averaged 12.4 points per game during his sophomore season with the Cyclones, but must sit out the 2008\u201309 season. Syracuse will also have lacrosse recruit Kevin Drew, a walk-on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Roster changes\nOn the injury front, Syracuse returned juniors Eric Devendorf and Andy Rautins. Both had suffered season ending knee injuries in the 2007\u201308 season and were granted medical redshirts. However, the Orange also learned before the season started that sophomore Scoop Jardine would be out for entire season after suffering a stress fracture in his left leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Recruiting\nCoach Boeheim was able to sign three recruits for the 2008\u201309 season: Kris Joseph, Mookie Jones and James Southerland. However, Southerland did not qualify with his SAT score to attend Syracuse, and returned to Notre Dame Preparatory Academy for an additional season of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Preseason outlook\nWith returning co-Big East Rookie of The Year Jonny Flynn, the Orange was picked to finish eighth in the Big East conference by the Big East coach's poll. Flynn was also a first-team all-Big East selection. Syracuse began the season ranked No. 30 in the Associated Press poll and No. 31 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Preseason, Preseason outlook\nAlthough Syracuse was coming off two-straight NIT-bound seasons, and despite not having won an NCAA tournament game in four seasons, many experts picked Syracuse as a solid choice for the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Season Recap\nSyracuse started the season strong, winning the CBE Classic. In the semifinals on November 24, 2008, the Orange topped No. 17/18 Florida, 89\u201383. Jonny Flynn and Paul Harris led five SU players in double figures with 18 points each. In the finals on November 25, 2008, Syracuse defeated the defending champions, the No. 22/23 Kansas Jayhawks, 89\u201381 in overtime, to capture the CBE Classic. Jonny Flynn had 25 points, including a 3-pointer with 6.4 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime. Flynn was named MVP of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Season Recap\nBut the season would hit a low point on December 15, 2008 when then-No. 11 Syracuse lost to unranked Cleveland State University 72\u201369 as a result of a 60-foot, buzzer-beating shot by Cleveland State's Cedric Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Season Recap\nSyracuse would add another key non-conference win on December 20, 2008, when then-No. 11 Syracuse won a key away game against national runner-up Memphis as Syracuse's stifling zone held Memphis to just 7-for-33 shooting from 3-point land. Flynn paced the Orange with 24 points and six assists, as Syracuse was able to deal with the loss of Eric Devendorf to a suspension after he was accused of hitting a female student on Nov. 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Season Recap\nPerhaps the biggest game of the season happened on March 12\u201313, 2009, when then-No. 18 Syracuse and No. 4 Connecticut played the longest game in Big East history, and second longest in NCAA Division I history, as Syracuse won 127\u2013117 in six overtimes. Flynn set a new Syracuse record by playing 67 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Season Recap\nSyracuse would be named a No. 3 seed for the NCAA Tournament and win games over Stephen F. Austin (59\u201344) and Arizona State (78\u201367) to advance to the Sweet 16. But the Orange would be halted by Blake Griffin and Oklahoma in an 84\u201371 loss. The loss would mark the final game for Devendorf, Flynn and Harris, who all left the team following the season for the professional ranks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Big East tournament\nSyracuse was seeded sixth and received a bye in the first round. They reached the finals of the 2009 tournament, where they were defeated by the first-seeded Louisville Cardinals, 76\u201366. It was their fourteenth time making the Big East Tournament Finals, the most for any team in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Big East tournament\nPrior to making the finals, Syracuse's performance featured a conference record six-overtime quarterfinals game (the second longest game in NCAA history) in which they defeated third-seeded Connecticut 127\u2013117. A day later, in the semifinals, the Orange were forced into overtime again, where they defeated West Virginia 74\u201369 in a single extra session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, Big East tournament\nJonny Flynn was named the tournament's most outstanding player, becoming just the fourth player in Big East Tournament history to win the award as a member of the second-place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200988-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team, Season, NCAA tournament\nThe Orange were seeded third in the South Region, and played fourteenth-seeded Stephen F. Austin on Friday, March 20 at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. The Orange won, 59\u201344. They faced sixth-seeded Arizona State in the second round, winning 78\u201367. Their season ended in the South regional semifinals when they lost 84\u201371 to Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season was the first in Syracuse history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Offseason\nOn March 6, 2008, it was announced that the Orange would join College Hockey America. Syraucse was the fifth school to join the conference for women's hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Offseason\nPaul Flanagan, who coached the St. Lawrence Skating Saints women's ice hockey program to five NCAA Frozen Four appearances was appointed as the first coach for the Orange women's ice hockey program. Flanagan had been the 2001 ECAC and American Hockey Coaches Association Coach of the Year. For the inaugural season, Flanagan was joined by Graham Thomas, who played for Mannheim Jung Adler in Germany, and Erin O'Brien, a two-time All-American at Plattsburgh State, an NCAA Division III school for women's ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nSome of the first players for the team were transfer players from other schools. Gabrielle Beaudry, transferred to the Orange from Boston  College. Cheyenne Bojeski was a transfer from rival Mercyhurst, while Julie Rising came to the Orange from Bemidji State. Lucy Schoedel and Stefany Marty were both transfers from New Hampshire Wildcats women's ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nThe Orange's inaugural season was in 2008\u201309, and the team played its first ever game on October 1, 2008. On Wednesday, October 1, 2008, Lucy Schoedel recorded 34 saves and Megan Skelly scored the first goal in Syracuse women's ice hockey history. The goal was scored nine seconds into the school's first women's hockey game at Colgate. Despite holding a 2\u20130 lead in the game, the Orange lost to Colgate by a score of 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nThe following two games were against the eventual NCAA champion Wisconsin Badgers on October 2 and 3. Despite losing both games, Lucy Schoedel made seventy five saves in two games. A week later, Syracuse played in its first ever College Hockey America conference game. The Orange took on the Robert Morris Colonials. Lucy Schoedel recorded her 100th career save (and totaling 130 stops in just four games) in a 1\u20130 losing effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nTeam captain Stefanie Marty scored her first goal for Syracuse on October 17. It was a 4\u20132 loss at Quinnipiac. Of note, Cheyenne Bojeski also scored her first ever goal for Syracuse. The following day, co-captains Julie Rising and Stefanie Marty would both score as Syraucse won its first ever game by a 2\u20130 tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Roster, Seniors\nNikki Leone and Rachel Tilford were the seniors for the Orange. Both fourth-year members factored into the last Syracuse goal scored in the regular season. It was the Orange's sixth consecutive victory, and was played at the Onondaga County War Memorial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200989-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey season, Player stats\nStefanie Marty was the leading scorer for the Orange with 22 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup\nThe 2008-09 version of the Syrian Cup is the 39th edition to be played. It is the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, First qualifying round\n22 teams play a knockout tie. 11 clubs advance to the next round. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, Second qualifying round\n40 teams play a knockout tie. 20 clubs advance to the next round. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, First round\n32 teams play a knockout tie. 16 clubs advance to the next round. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, First round\n\u00b9 Areeha failed to the 2nd leg, match awarded 3-0 to Al-Sholla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, First round\n\u00b2 Saraqib failed to the 2nd leg, match awarded 3-0 to Al-Yaqaza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, First round\n3 Al-Jazeera failed to the 2nd leg, match awarded 3-0 to Al-Jaish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, Round of 16\n16 teams play a knockout tie. 8 clubs advance to the next round. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, Round of 16\n\u00b9 Al-Sholla failed to the Round of 16, matches awarded 3-0 to Al-Taliya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, Quarter-finals\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200990-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Cup, Semi-finals\n4 teams play a knockout tie. 2 clubs advance to the Final. Games played over two legs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League is the 38th season of the Syrian Premier League, Syria's premier football league. The season began on 10 October 2008 and finished on 12 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League\nAfrin and Al-Horriya were relegated from the previous season. Al-Wathba and Omyyah moved up from the Syrian League 1st Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League\nAt the end of the campaign, defending champions Al-Karamah were level on 52 points with Al-Ittihad and therefore were required to have a one off playoff match to determine the league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League\nAl-Futowa and Hutteen were relegated and would be replaced by Afrin and Al-Jazeera for the 2009\u201310 Syrian Premier League campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League\nSyrian international Mohamed Al Zeno finished the campaign as leading goalscorer with 17 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Continental Cups, AFC Cup\nAl-Karamah and Al-Majd entered the AFC Cup 2009 tournament. A tournament for second ranked Asian nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Continental Cups, AFC Cup\nDuring the domestic Syrian league season, only the group phases of this prestigious tournament is played until the knockout rounds which will take place in the next Syrian season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Continental Cups, AFC Cup\nAl-Majd comfortably qualified with one game to spare to reach the knockout rounds whilst Al-Karamah had somewhat of a shaky start and after 5 games find themselves in 3rd position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Continental Cups, Arab Champions League\nAl-Ittihad and Al-Taliya entered the Arab Champions League but Al-Taliya found the going tough, being thumped by Raja Casablanca of Morocco in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Continental Cups, Arab Champions League\nAl-Ittihad went one round better but  got beat by Wydad Casablanca, also of Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200991-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Syrian Premier League, Final league standings, Playoffs\n5th and 6th placed teams Al-Wathba and Al-Majd had a one match playoff at the end of the season due to both clubs finishing the regular season on 37 points. Al-Wathba won the tie 3\u20132 to claim 5th position in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200992-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig\nThe 2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig (also known as Turkcell Super League due to sponsoring reasons) was the fifty-first season since its establishment. It began on 22 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. Galatasaray were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200992-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig\nBe\u015fikta\u015f clinched the championship after winning at Denizlispor on the last matchday. The latter barely avoided relegation after finishing in a three-way tie on points with Gen\u00e7lerbirli\u011fi and Konyaspor. Head-to-head comparison between those three teams eventually resulted in the demotion of Konyaspor, who joined Kocaelispor and Hacettepe on their way to the second-level First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200992-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig\nFenerbah\u00e7e and Galatasaray had to settle for fourth and fifth place, respectively, after Sivasspor came in as runners-up and Trabzonspor finished third. The final positions for the three Istanbul clubs marked the first time since the 1980\u201381 season that only one of them was able to finish among the top three teams in Turkish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200992-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig, Promotion and relegation from 2007\u201308\n\u00c7aykur Rizespor, Manisaspor and Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa were relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 season after finishing on the bottom three places of the standings. They were replaced by TFF First League champions Kocaelispor, runners-up Antalyaspor and play-off winners Eski\u015fehirspor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200993-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TBHSL season\nThe 2008\u201309 Turkish Ice Hockey Super League season was the 17th season of the Turkish Ice Hockey Super League, the top level of ice hockey in Turkey. Six teams participated in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200994-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF First League\nThe 2008\u201309 TFF First League (also known as Bank Asya First League due to sponsoring reasons) was the second-level football league of Turkey and the 46th season since its establishment in 1963\u201364.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200994-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF First League, Promotion Play-Offs\nThe Promotion Play-Offs will be played in Yenikent Asa\u015f Stadium in Ankara. The Semi-final matches will take place on May 15. The League's third-placed team will play the sixth-placed team and the fourth-placed team will play the fifth-placed team. The winners of these matches will play on May 17 in the final match. The winner of this match will play in Turkcell Super League in the 2009\u20132010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200995-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF Third League\nThe standings of the teams playing in TFF 3. Lig Ranking Groups, Classifying Groups and Promotion Group in 2008\u201309 season are as follows. According to league regulations, if two or more teams are on equal points after the end of the season, higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question will be used to separate teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200996-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF Third League Group 2\nThe TFF Third League or TFF 3. Lig is the fourth level in the Turkish football league system. The league contains 50 clubs spread out over 4 groups with 10 clubs in Stage 1 (Ranking Groups). The top two clubs from each group qualify to the Promotion Group of Stage 2.The rest of the clubs stay in their groups which are called Classifying Groups and carry over their records from Stage 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200996-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF Third League Group 2\nThe tables and the results of the teams playing in TFF 3. Lig Group 2 of Ranking Groups in 2008\u201309 season are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200997-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF Third League Promotion Group\nThe TFF Third League or TFF 3. Lig is the fourth level in the Turkish football league system. The top two clubs from Ranking Groups qualify to the Promotion Group of Stage 2. Promotion Group clubs start the second stage without any carryovers. Top four clubs from the Promotion Group will be promoted to TFF 2. Lig of 2009\u20132010 season. Top clubs from the Classifying Groups and the 5th, 6th and 7th clubs from Promotion Group qualify for the Play-off matches to determine the last two teams to be promoted to TFF 2. Lig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200997-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TFF Third League Promotion Group\nThe tables and the results of the teams playing in TFF 3. Lig Promotion Group in 2008\u201309 season are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200998-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 German football season, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim competed in the Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200998-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season, Season summary\nIn their first ever season in the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim finished seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200998-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200998-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00200999-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters season\nThe 2008\u201309 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters season will be the 19th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season\nThe 2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season was the 17th season for the franchise in Tampa Bay. After a season of turnover in ownership, management and players, the team had a turbulent regular season. The Lightning failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nOn June 3, it was announced that head coach John Tortorella would not return to the team despite having one year remaining on his contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nOn June 18, 2008, the NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The sale of the Lightning was made to movie and television producer Oren Koules. The deal depended the closing of the financial deal of US$200 million to buy the team and lease the St. Pete Times Forum. Koules, 47, played in Medicine Hat and Calgary in the Western Hockey League (WHL) in the early 1980s. In more recent years, he achieved success with the Saw movie franchise and the television sitcom Two and a Half Men. Among his business partners in the Lightning deal is former NHL player Len Barrie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nOn June 24, the Lightning announced that Barry Melrose was hired as the team's new head coach. Melrose had not coached in the NHL since 1995 with the Los Angeles Kings. Since that time, he had served as an analyst for the ESPN networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nGoaltender Marc Denis' contract was bought-out by the Lightning on June 25, almost two years to the date after his acquisition from the Columbus Blue Jackets. Denis had one year remaining on his contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nThe Lightning acquired the rights to left wingers Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a conditional draft pick in 2009. Malone then agreed to a seven-year contract with the Lightning two days before he was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nThe Lightning acquired the rights to right wing Brian Rolston from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for a conditional draft pick in 2009 or 2010. Rolston would later sign with the New Jersey Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nThe whirlwind 32 days of questionable moves by new ownership came to a head on July 4 when, despite coming off a recent contract extension, Dan Boyle was traded along with Brad Lukowich to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Matt Carle (who would be traded in early November), Ty Wishart, a first-round draft pick in 2009 (which was traded in August) and a fourth round draft pick in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nBoyle was pressured to waive his no-trade clause by Tampa Bay's ownership, who said they would otherwise place him on waivers where he would likely be claimed by the Atlanta Thrashers. Frustrated at interference in the team's hockey operations by owners Len Barrie and Oren Koules, seven days later, general manager Jay Feaster resigned, despite having three years remaining on his contract. Indeed, Brian Lawton had already taken over the position, though not officially until October 2. John Tortorella would later go on to label the new owners as \"cowboys\" for these and other dubious moves, a moniker that would stick with them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nOn August 29, the Lightning acquired defenceman Andrej Meszaros from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for defenceman Filip Kuba, as well as Alexandre Picard, and a first-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft (obtained in the Dan Boyle deal with the San Jose Sharks). The Lightning would go on to sign Meszaros to a six-year contract worth $24\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Off-season\nOn September 18, the Lightning announced that their new team captain would be Vincent Lecavalier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Preseason\nThe Tampa Bay Lightning will be playing five pre-season games before opening the season against the New York Rangers on October 4 in Prague. Of special note, this is the first time that Tampa Bay will be opening the season outside of North America. This will also be the first time that the Lightning will play a pre-season game outside North America, playing Eisb\u00e4ren Berlin in Germany on September 28. It was announced later that the Lightning would also play against Slovan Bratislava of the Slovak Extraliga on September 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Regular season\nThe Lightning struggled on the penalty kill, finishing the regular season with the most power-play opportunities against (405) and the most power-play goals allowed (89).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Regular season, Record vs. Opponents\nNotes: * denotes division winner; teams in bold are in the Southeast Division; teams in italics qualified for the playoffs; points refer to the points achieved by the team whom the Thrashers played against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Regular season, Record vs. Opponents\n= Member of the Atlantic Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Southeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Central Division \u00a0 = Member of the Northeast Division \u00a0 = Member of the Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Playoffs\nThe Tampa Bay Lightning failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Player stats, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Lightning. Stats reflect season totals. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Draft picks\nTampa Bay entered the NHL Draft Lottery with a 48.8% chance of winning the lottery after stumbling to a 31\u201342\u20139 record in the regular season. The Lightning finished last in the league just four years after winning their first Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201000-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tampa Bay Lightning season, Draft picks\nTampa Bay's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft  in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga was the second edition of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga, also known as Carlsberg Cup due to sponsorship reasons. The first matches were played on 2 August 2008 and the final was held on 21 March 2009 at the Est\u00e1dio Algarve in Faro. Present for the second time in the final of this competition, Sporting CP were once again defeated 3\u20132 on penalties, this time by their rivals Benfica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Format\nAfter the first season, a change in the format was approved by the Portuguese League for Professional Football. The Cup began with a two-legged round between teams from Liga de Honra (2nd level). Winners were joined by the clubs classified 7th\u201314th from last season's Primeira Liga (1st level) plus two promoted to this season's Liga. There were six groups of three clubs each, and every team played two matches (once home and once away). Winners of the groups joined the top-six teams from the last season's Primeira Liga and there were three groups of four teams, each club playing three matches. Winners of the groups and the best second-placed club competed in the one-legged semi-finals, with the winners advancing to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Participating clubs\nThis is a list of clubs participating in the 2008\u201309 Portuguese League Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, First round\nThe matches were played on August 2 (first legs) and August 9 and 10, 2008 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Second round\nThe matches were played from August 16 to November 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Third round\nThe matches were played from December 14, 2008 to January 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201001-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, Knockout phase, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were held as one-legged matches with the two teams that had the highest number of points in the third round being given the home ground advantage. The draw was held at the LPFP headquarters on 20 January 2009, 12:30 UTC. The matches were played on 4 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal\n2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal was the 86th season of Portuguese football knockout tournament. The competition started on August 30, 2008 with the First Round and ended with the Final held in on May 31, 2009. The defending champions were Sporting CP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, First round\nIn this round entered teams from second (3rd level) and third division (4th level). A number of teams received a bye to the Second Round: F\u00e1tima (III), Uni\u00e3o da Madeira (III),  Abrantes (III), Lagoa (III), Torreense (III), Lusit\u00e2nia dos A\u00e7ores (IV), Marinhas (IV), Vila Me\u00e3 (IV), Madalena (IV), Amares (IV), Mondinense (IV), Portosantense (IV), Fornos de Algodres (IV), Louletano (IV), Coimbr\u0151es (IV), Cinf\u00e3es (IV), Caldas (IV), Futebol Benfica (IV) and Acad\u00e9mico Viseu (IV). The matches were played on August 30, 31, September 4, 6 and 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, First round\n1Maia were disqualified from the competition. Note : Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Second round\nThis round featured winners from the previous round, teams that received a bye in the First Round and all teams from Liga de Honra (2nd level). The matches were played on September 13 and 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Second round\n1Abrantes were disqualified from the competition. Note : Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Third round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round as well as all teams from Portuguese Liga. The matches were played on October 18 and 19, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Third round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Fourth round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round. The matches were played on November 8, 9 and 10, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Fourth round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Fifth round\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round. The matches were played on December 13 and 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Fifth round\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Quarterfinals\nThe matches were played on January 28, 29 and February 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Quarterfinals\nNote: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201002-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, Semifinals\nThe draw was held on February 5, 2009. The first legs were played on March 3 and 22, 2009. The second legs was played on April 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team represented Temple University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by head coach Fran Dunphy and played their home games at the Liacouras Center. The Owls are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 22\u201312 and 11\u20135 in A-10 play. They won the 2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament for the second consecutive year to receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team\nDionte Christmas led Temple in three statistics: points per game (19.5), three-pointers completed  (107), and total steals (51); he finished second in two more: rebounds per game (5.5) and assists (28). In addition, he was an honorable mention All-American and scored 2,000 points over his college basketball career. Also graduating were two other starters: 7\u20130 center Sergio Olmos, who was selected as an All-A10 Tournament player, and point guard Semaj Inge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team, Preseason\nOn October 28, 2008, the Owls were picked by other Atlantic 10 coaches to finish second, behind Xavier, and received 12 first place votes. Dionte Christmas was chosen to the Preseason First Team after leading the league in scoring the past two seasons. Lavoy Allen was named to the Preseason Defensive Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team, Season, Preconference season\nDionte Christmas scored 35 points to lead Temple past #8 Tennessee on December 13 88\u201372. This was Temple's first win over a top ten team since the 2006 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament, when the Owls upset #6 George Washington; John Chaney was coaching Temple at the time. The Owls started the game with an 8\u20130 lead and never faltered, with Tennessee only tying the score at 15 and never leading. Christmas started the second half with a three-pointer and scored three consecutive threes on a 17\u20136 run. For the game, he was 7-for-14 from the perimeter and 12-for-22 from the field. Sergio Olmos's 19 points were a career high, and Ryan Brooks registered a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team, Season, Postseason\nTemple was given a four seed in the 2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament; they received a bye and faced Saint Joseph's in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201003-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Temple Owls men's basketball team, Season, Postseason\nIn the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Temple was seeded eleventh in the South Regional, where they faced the sixth-seeded Arizona State Sun Devils in the first round. On March 20, 2009, behind a then career-high 22 points by Sun Devil Derek Glasser, Arizona State eliminated Temple 66\u201357. The Owls never had a lead, but cut the deficit to 52\u201349, the closest the game ever got. Temple's offense went without a field goal in the final 5:02. However, their defense held Arizona State star James Harden to nine points, less than half his season average, and 1-of-8 shooting. Dionte Christmas played all 40 minutes, shot 5-for-11 from behind the arc and scored 29 points in his final collegiate game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201004-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee. The team was coached by Pat Summitt and the team played their home games at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Lady Vols are a member of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201004-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, NCAA Basketball Tournament\nIn the opening round of the tournament they played a 26\u20138 Ball State Cardinals team that was making their NCAA tourney debut. Ball State would go on to win the game 71\u201355 making history. The Lady Volunteers had never lost in the first two rounds of the tournament, going 42\u20130 through the years. Tennessee also became the first defending champ to lose its opening game in the women's tourney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 77], "content_span": [78, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201005-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was the fourth season for Bruce Pearl as the Volunteers' head coach. The team, a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference, played its home games at Thompson-Boling Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201005-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team, Preseason\nThe 2007\u201308 Volunteers finished the season 31\u20135 overall with a 14\u20132 mark in conference play. They won their first outright SEC regular season men's basketball championship in 41 years. In postseason play, the Volunteers earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The team went on to lose in the Sweet Sixteen to the Louisville Cardinals and finished ranked at #7 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201005-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team, Preseason\nThe Vols lost three seniors from their team during the off-season: Chris Lofton, JaJuan Smith, and Jordan Howell. Also, sophomore forward Duke Crews and sophomore point guard Ramar Smith were dismissed from the team for a combination of \"violations of the University of Tennessee\u2019s substance-abuse policy and academic shortcomings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201005-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team, Preseason\nOn November 3, 2008, the SEC released the rosters for the preseason All-SEC first and second teams. Junior forward Tyler Smith was chosen for both SEC Player of the Year and first team All-SEC. Wayne Chism and J. P. Prince were selected for the second team All-SEC, thus tying Tennessee with LSU for the most All-SEC selections (3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201005-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team, Recruiting\nBruce Pearl was able to pull together a highly ranked recruiting class for the 2008\u201309 season. The class included: Emmanuel Negedu, rated 13th among power forwards in the Class of 2008 by Rivals.com; Renaldo Woolridge, the 11th ranked small forward; Bobby Maze, a junior college guard averaging 20.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game; and Scotty Hopson, a McDonald's All-American and ranked 5th overall by Rivals.com. The class also includes point guard Daniel West and center Philip Jurick. Rivals.com ranked the class as 7th best in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201006-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Terceira Divis\u00e3o\nThe 2008\u201309 Terceira Divis\u00e3o season was the 59th season of the competition and the 19th season of recognised fourth-tier football in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201006-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Terceira Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nThe league was contested by 92 teams in 7 divisions of 10 to 14 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n was the fourth tier of football in Spain. Play started on 30 August 2008 and ended on 28 June 2009 with the promotion play-off finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThere were 363 clubs competing in  Tercera Divisi\u00f3n (Third division) in the 2008\u201309 season, divided into 18 regional groups, each accommodating between 20 and 21 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe following clubs finished as champions of their respective groups", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe 18 group champion clubs participated in the Group Winners Promotion Play-off and the losers from these 9 play-off ties then proceeded to the Non-champions Promotion Play-off with clubs finishing second, third and fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, Promotion Play-offs, Group Winners Promotion Play-off\nPromoted to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B: Gimn. de Torrelavega, Uni\u00f3n Estepona, Villajoyosa, Varea, Espanyol B, Real Oviedo, Toledo, Palencia and Compostela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 79], "content_span": [80, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201007-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, Promotion Play-offs, Non-champions Promotion Play-off\nPromoted to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B: Izarra, San Roque, Alcal\u00e1, Cerro Reyes, Sporting Mahon\u00e9s, Cacere\u00f1o, Caravaca, Mallorca B and Mirand\u00e9s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 79], "content_span": [80, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201008-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team represents Texas A&M University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team is led by second-year head coach Mark Turgeon, who coached the team to a 25\u201311 record and an NCAA tournament appearance in his first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201008-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team\nThe Aggies went 14\u20131 in nonconference play, with wins over Alabama, Arizona, and LSU; the one loss was handed by Tulsa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201008-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team, Leading into the season\nJosh Carter and Bryan Davis received preseason Big 12 honorable mention. The team did not make the top 25 of the preseason AP or Coaches polls, though received votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201008-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team, Leading into the season\nDuring the 2009 signing period, the Aggies signed Naji Hibbert, Khris Middleton, Kourtney Roberson, and Ray Turner, who are all listed in the Rivals.com Top 150 prospects for the class of 2009. Hibbert, a Rivals four-star, is the highest-ranked recruit at No. 88. The recruiting class placed 23rd in the Rivals' early signing period national rankings compiled on 12 November 2008. ESPN's recruiting services ranked the class 25th in November as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team represented Texas A&M University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Preseason outlook\nThe team placed 10th and 11th in the preseason Coaches Poll and AP Poll, respectively. The Big 12 coaches picked the squad to finish 5th in the conference, behind first-place favorite Oklahoma, followed by Texas, Iowa State, and Baylor. Athlon Sports ranked the Aggies 4th in their preseason poll, while Lindy's poll placed them 11th. A Sports Illustrated writer also ranked the team 11th in her power rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Recruiting\nDuring the early signing period in November 2008, the Aggies signed Diamond Ashmore, Adrienne Pratcher, Kristi Bellock, and Cierra Windham. As of 20 November 2008, ESPN Hoopgurlz ranks the recruiting class 7th nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Preseason honors\nThe Big 12 coaches selected Tanisha Smith as the Preseason Newcomer of the Year, and Tyra White as the Preseason co-Freshman of the Year. Takia Starks also made the preseason all-Big 12 team, and Danielle Gant received honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Preseason honors\nSporting News included Starks in its preseason All-American first team. Starks became the first player in school history to be named a preseason first-team All-American. She also made the 25-member Wade Trophy preseason watch list and was one of the 30 John R. Wooden Award candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Preseason honors\nIn October 2008, Gant received the Academic Momentum Award, presented by The Scholar-Baller Program, a partner of National Consortium for Academics and Sports. The award is given to student-athletes who have \"demonstrated significant academic improvement throughout their collegiate careers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Season accolades\nTyra White received the Big 12 Freshman of the Week honor for the week of 14\u201316 November. Adaora Elonu received the same honor for the week of 17\u201323 November, and Sydney Carter got the co-honor for the week of 24\u201330 November. Elonu picked up her second honor for the week of 1 December\u20137, and got another co-honor for the week of 15\u201321 December. Takia Starks received her first honor for the week of 22 December \u2013 4 January. Danielle Gant got her first for the week of 5\u201311 January. After posting 11 points in a career-high 31 minutes of play against Oklahoma, and a game-high and career-high of 17 points at Kansas State, Sydney Carter grabbed the weekly honor for the week of 23 February \u2013 1 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Season accolades\nUpon defeating New Mexico 83\u201351, the Aggies set a school record for the largest margin of victory in a home game over a ranked opponent. The previous record was 19, which was compiled in the 2007\u201308 home matchup against Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Season accolades\nTwo players\u2014Damitria Buchanan and Katrina Limbaha\u2014made the 2008\u201309 Academic All-Big 12 women's basketball team. Both made the first team as they had a GPA greater than 3.20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201009-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team, Players, Season accolades\nStarks became the all-time leading scorer of A&M after posting 19 points in the first round of the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201010-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented The University of Texas at Austin in NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball competition as a member of the Big 12 Conference. The 2008\u201309 team posted a 23\u201312 record, finished in fourth place in the Big 12, and reached the second round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team represented Texas Tech University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team plays in the Big 12 Conference at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, Texas. The season marked Pat Knight's first full season as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Preseason, Personnel changes\nPat Knight took over the head coaching duties late in the 2007\u201308 season after Bob Knight resigned on February 4, 2008. This was Pat's first full season as head coach of the Red Raiders. Pat hired Bubba Jennings as an assistant coach in addition to Chris Beard and Stew Robinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, East Central\nIn the third game of the season, Texas Tech defeated Division II opponent East Central 167\u2013115, setting a new school record for most points scored in a game. The previous record of 128 was set in the double overtime victory over Texas on February 20, 1994. The combined total of 282 points also became a new record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Wichita State\nTexas Tech led the Wichita State Shockers 43\u201326 going into halftime. The lead quickly deteriorated as Wichita State went on a 12\u20133 run to open the second half. The Shockers eventually tied the game with about 41 seconds remaining. Mike Singletary then hit a 3-pointer with 4.1 seconds left to give the Red Raiders the win, 72\u201369.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Nebraska\nIn a 69\u201382 loss to Nebraska, Knight ran onto the court to argue with officials after Texas Tech player Alan Voskuil was called for a foul. After receiving two technical fouls, Knight was ejected from the game. Once in the tunnel, Knight ran back onto the court to continue arguing. Knight was not suspended, rather receiving a public reprimand from the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 82], "content_span": [83, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Texas\nThe Red Raiders were without head coach Pat Knight against Texas after he was suspended for criticizing the officials in a game four days earlier against Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Kansas\nTexas Tech upset #9 Kansas 84\u201365 at home on senior night. Senior Alan Voskuil had a career high 35 points, going 9\u201314 from 3-point range and 10\u201317 overall. It was Kansas' worst defeat of the season and marked their third straight loss at the United Spirit Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 80], "content_span": [81, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Big 12 Tournament\nThe only chance the Red Raiders had at making the postseason was to win the Big 12 Tournament where the winner receives an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. Texas Tech went into the tournament as the #11 seed after losing to Iowa State 76\u201378 in the last game of the regular season, thus giving Iowa State the #10 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Big 12 Tournament, Texas A&M\nTexas A&M took a 29\u201348 lead into halftime and built it up to 21 early in the second half. In the second half, sophomore Mike Singletary scored 29 points in a row to help Texas Tech take a 79\u201378 lead with 39.4 seconds left in the game and eventually win 88\u201383. Singletary finished the game with 43 points, a career high and Big 12 Tournament record for most points in a single game. Mike Singletary's 29 consecutive points is the second longest streak in NCAA history and Texas Tech's comeback from 21 points down is a Big 12 Tournament record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 102], "content_span": [103, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201011-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team, Notable games and events, Big 12 Tournament, Missouri\nTexas Tech was able to manage a 31\u201331 halftime tie against #3 seed Missouri. In the second half, however, Missouri's full-court press defense allowed the Tigers to go on a 13 point run early in the second half. Mike Singletary led Texas Tech with 17 points and Missouri's DeMarre Carroll had 19 to help Missouri win 81\u201360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201012-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs were led by third year head coach Ed Conroy and played their home games at McAlister Field House. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201012-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team\nThe Bulldogs won 20 games for just the second time in school history, and finished tied with archrival College of Charleston for second in the SoCon South Division. They also made their first postseason appearance, earning an invitation to the 2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, where they were eliminated in the first round by eventual champion Old Dominion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season\nThe 2008\u201309 Top 14 Competition was a French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR). It ran from late August 2008 through the final at Stade de France on June 6, 2009, in which Perpignan lifted the Bouclier de Brennus with a 22\u201313 win over Clermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season\nThis year's edition of the Top 14 welcomed Toulon, winners of the 2008 title in the second-level Pro D2, and Mont-de-Marsan, victors in the 2008 promotion playoffs between the second- through fifth-place teams in Pro D2. They took the place of Auch and Albi, relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 Top 14. Auch, which had been promoted to the Top 14 for 2007\u201308, finished bottom of the table and went down. The other newly promoted team in 2007\u201308, Dax, finished second-from-bottom, but were reprieved when French sporting authorities forcibly relegated 12th-place Albi to Pro D2 due to financial issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Competition format\nEach club plays every other club twice. The second half of the season is conducted in the same order as the first, with the club at home in the first half of the season away in the second. As in previous seasons, the top four clubs at the end of the home-and-away season advanced to a single-elimination playoff. The semifinals were held at neutral sites on May 29 and 30, with the final at Stade de France on June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Competition format\nGoing into the season, the top six clubs were guaranteed of berths in the 2009\u201310 Heineken Cup, with the possibility of a seventh if a French club had advanced further in the 2008\u201309 Heineken Cup than any team from England or Italy. However, the seventh French berth did not materialize this season, as the only Top 14 club to make the knockout stage, Toulouse, were eliminated in the quarterfinals, while England's Leicester Tigers reached the final (where they lost to Irish side Leinster). The sixth-place team would have been relegated to the 2009\u201310 European Challenge Cup if 11th-place Bourgoin had won the 2008\u201309 Challenge Cup final on 22 May; however, Bourgoin were defeated by English side Northampton Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Competition format\nThe bottom two teams are provisionally relegated to Pro D2, with the possibility of one or both of the bottom teams to be reprieved if a team above them fails a postseason financial audit (mandatory for all clubs in the league).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Competition format\nThe LNR uses a slightly different bonus points system from that used in most other rugby competitions. It trialled a new system in 2007-08 explicitly designed to prevent a losing team from earning more than one bonus point in a match, a system that also makes it impossible for either team to earn a bonus point in a drawn match. LNR chose to continue with this system for 2008-09.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Season synopsis\nWhile the four playoff teams\u2014Perpignan, Toulouse, Clermont, and Stade Fran\u00e7ais\u2014separated themselves from the pack fairly early in the season, it was Toulouse who were the form team in the first half of the season; they had a Top 14-record streak of 11\u00a0wins from Round\u00a05 through Round\u00a015. However, Perpignan surged in the second half of the season, finishing level with Toulouse on the season log; the Catalans claimed the top seed on the first tiebreaker of head-to-head competition points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Season synopsis\nBiarritz used a late-season surge to claim fifth place, while the final Heineken Cup berth was ultimately decided in the final round, when Brive's draw with Bourgoin combined with Bayonne's win over Stade Fran\u00e7ais without a bonus point left Brive and Bayonne level on the log; Brive won on the second tiebreaker of head-to-head scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Season synopsis\nAt the other end of the ladder, Mont-de-Marsan were rarely competitive and finished bottom. The second relegation place finally fell on Dax, after Bourgoin, Castres, and the highly ambitious Toulon spent time in relegation trouble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Season synopsis\nFor much of the season, Bourgoin faced another type of relegation trouble\u2014financial. At the end of each season, all teams in both divisions of LNR must pass a financial audit conducted by DNACG (Direction nationale d'aide et de contr\u00f4le de gestion), LNR's financial arm, to be able to keep their professional licenses. The club were able to satisfy DNACG that they had sufficient financial guarantees to participate in Top 14 and were thus allowed to stay in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201013-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top 14 season, Table\nBlue background Fifth to sixth also qualify for the 2009\u201310 Heineken Cup. Pink background Bottom two places are relegated to the 2009\u201310 Rugby Pro D2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League\nThe 2008\u201309 Top League was the sixth season of Japan's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League. The Toshiba Brave Lupus defeated Sanyo Wild Knights by 17\u20136 in the final of the Microsoft Cup to claim the 2008\u201309 Top League championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League\nThe Top League is a semi-professional competition which is at the top of the national league system in Japan, with promotion and relegation between the next level down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Preseason\nKintetsu Liners returned to the league, and Yokogawa Denki were promoted for the first time (and renamed Yokogawa Musashino Atlastars in the off season). They replaced Ricoh Black Rams and Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Regular season, Final standings\n\u2022  The top 4 teams qualified for the title play-offs. \u2022 The top 6 teams also qualified for entry into the All-Japan Rugby Football Championship. \u2022  Teams 11 and 12 went through to the promotion and relegation play-offs against regional challengers. \u2022  Teams 13 and 14 were automatically relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Regular season, Final standings\nFour points for a win, two for a draw, one bonus point for four tries or more (BP1) and one bonus point for losing by seven or less (BP2). If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:\u00a0\u2022  Difference between points for and against\u00a0\u2022  Total number of points for\u00a0\u2022  Number of matches won\u00a0\u2022  Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams\u00a0\u2022  Number of matches won excluding the first match, then the second and so on until the tie is settled", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Title play-offs\nTop 4 sides of the regular season competed in the Microsoft Cup (2009)  knock out tournament to fight for the Top League title. The top 4 teams of 2008\u201309 were Toshiba Brave Lupus, Sanyo Wild Knights, Kobe Steelers and Suntory Sungoliath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Top League Challenge Series\nHonda Heat and Ricoh Black Rams won promotion to the 2009\u201310 Top League via the 2009 Top League Challenge Series, while Mazda Blue Zoomers and Toyota Industries Shuttles progressed to the promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Promotion and relegation play-offs\nTwo promotion/relegation matches (Irekaesen) were played with the winners qualifying for the Top League in the next season. The 12th-placed team from the Top League against the 3rd-placed team from Challenge 1. The 11th-placed team from the Top League against the 1st-placed team from Challenge 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201014-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Top League, Promotion and relegation play-offs\nSo Sanix and Kyuden stayed in the Top League for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201015-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torino F.C. season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201016-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torneo Argentino A\nThe 2008\u201309 Argentine Torneo Argentino A was the fourteenth season of third division professional football in Argentina. A total of 25 teams competed; the champion was promoted to Primera B Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201016-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torneo Argentino A, Club information, Zone A\n1 Play their home games at Estadio Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Minella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201016-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torneo Argentino A, First stage\nAs Zone 3 had 9 teams and Zones 1 and 2 8 teams, each team of Zone 1 played against 1 team of Zone 2 to complete the fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season\nThe 2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 92nd, and their 82nd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThe Leafs faced an off-season challenge to hire a general manager. Brian Burke was a favourite for the position held by interim general manager Cliff Fletcher, but Burke opted to stay with the Anaheim Ducks. He was not given permission to talk to the Leafs about their vacancy by Ducks owner Henry Samueli. Burke had one more year left on his contract as the general manager of the Ducks, and those close to him say he was interested in the Maple Leafs' job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nOn May 7, the Leafs fired head coach Paul Maurice, along with two assistant coaches, after missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. On May 8, the Leafs asked the Vancouver Canucks permission to speak to Dave Nonis about hiring him for a position with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nIn mid-May, there were rumours that Wayne Gretzky was in the running for a position with the Maple Leafs. Gretzky responded to the rumours linking him to the Toronto Maple Leafs by stating that his focus was on the Phoenix Coyotes and developing their young talent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nOn June 10, Ron Wilson was hired as the new head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wilson was fired in May by the San Jose Sharks after the Sharks lost to the Dallas Stars in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Wilson has also coached the Anaheim Ducks and the Washington Capitals. The former U.S. college player spent parts of three NHL seasons with the Leafs in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThe Toronto Maple Leafs hired Al Coates as their player-personnel director on June 16. Coates comes to Toronto after spending the previous six seasons with Anaheim. Coates has spent more than 30 years in pro hockey and has been part of two Stanley Cup-winning teams (2007 with the Anaheim Ducks and 1989 with the Calgary Flames).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThe move perpetuated speculation that Anaheim general manager Brian Burke would become the Maple Leafs' GM once his deal with the Ducks expired in 2009. The fact that new head coach Ron Wilson played hockey with Burke at the Providence College sparked further rumors about Burke potentially joining the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nFormer NHL star Joe Nieuwendyk was named as general manager Cliff Fletcher's special assistant on July 8. While playing for the Florida Panthers, Nieuwendyk gained experience as a special consultant to GM Jacques Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThroughout the off-season, the Maple Leafs have been involved in numerous transactions. On June 24, the Toronto Maple Leafs put goaltender Andrew Raycroft and forward Kyle Wellwood on waivers. Moreover, interim GM Cliff Fletcher informed Darcy Tucker that he is to be bought out of his three-year contract; however, this decision was not made official until June 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThe Maple Leafs bought out goaltender Andrew Raycroft on June 28, making him eligible for free agency on July 1. When the free agent signing period began on July 1, Toronto signed defenceman Jeff Finger, goaltender Curtis Joseph and former Dallas Stars forward Niklas Hagman. Another transaction was made on July 3 when Toronto traded for former Montreal Canadiens forward Mikhail Grabovski in exchange for the rights to Greg Pateryn and a second-round draft pick in 2010. The Leafs also re-signed forwards Dominic Moore, John Mitchell and Greg Scott. On July 14, the Maple Leafs acquired forward Ryan Hollweg in a trade with the New York Rangers for a fifth-round draft pick in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nWith a young roster, the Maple Leafs were expected to have a lacklustre season. This proved to be correct, as they fell out of the playoff race relatively early and showed little sign of recovery. However, they showed signs of improvement in February and March 2009, during which they had a stretch of seven consecutive games that went into overtime. The Leafs lost the first two in shootouts, then won four in a row with two overtime wins and two shootout wins, followed by an overtime loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nIn November 2008, Brian Burke obtained his release from the Anaheim Ducks and joined the Maple Leafs as president and general manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nThe Maple Leafs were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs on March 31, 2009, with six games remaining in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nThe Maple Leafs finished the season with 286 goals allowed (excluding seven shootout goals), the most out of all 30 teams. The Maple Leafs also struggled on the penalty kill, finishing 30th overall in penalty-kill percentage, at 74.68%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, z \u2013 placed first in conference (and division)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Schedule and results, Playoffs\nThe Toronto Maple Leafs failed to qualify for the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions\nOn October 6, the team placed Mark Bell on waivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201017-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Draft picks\nToronto's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season\nThe 2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season is the 14th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Before the season began, six-time NBA All-Star and center Jermaine O'Neal was acquired to complement Chris Bosh in the frontcourt. 17 games into the season, head coach Sam Mitchell was fired and replaced by Jay Triano. The Raptors went into the All-Star break 13 games under .500, and O'Neal was traded to Miami for Shawn Marion. The Raptors continued to struggle, and were eliminated from the playoff race with seven games of the regular season remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Preseason\nSeeking to improve its rebounding and interior defence, Toronto traded T. J. Ford, Radoslav Nesterovi\u0107, Maceo Baston, and the draft rights to Roy Hibbert to the Indiana Pacers in return for six-time NBA All-Star Jermaine O'Neal and the draft rights to Nathan Jawai. With Ford gone, virtually all the point guard responsibilities rested on Jos\u00e9 Calder\u00f3n's shoulders, who re-signed to a multi-year contract. The Raptors then signed free agents Hassan Adams, Will Solomon and Jamal Sampson, but Sampson was waived at the end of the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Preseason\nThe Raptors also signed Roko Uki\u0107 who was drafted in the 2005 NBA draft, and lost Carlos Delfino and Primo\u017e Brezec to free agency. O'Neal's arrival, however, was dwarfed by the Elton Brand signing pulled off by division rivals Philadelphia. In a pre-season poll, more than half of the general managers predicted the acquisition of Brand to be the most significant one in the league, whereas the 30-year-old O'Neal was perceived to be past his prime. Nevertheless, the prospect of Toronto deploying two proven big men at the post with some of the league's best three-point shooters waiting at the perimeter signalled a change in game plan from the previous campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nThe Raptors began their campaign with a 95\u201384 road win against Philadelphia. The match featured the new All-Star acquisitions of both teams: O'Neal for the Raptors and Brand for the 76ers. Chris Bosh and O'Neal combined for 44 points and 19 rebounds in the win. The team notched another victory in their second game\u2014a home fixture against the Golden State Warriors\u2014thus opening with the same 2\u20130 record as the season before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nAndrea Bargnani, who had spent the summer buffing up his frame and working on his interior game, chalked up 5 rebounds and 3 blocks in the game that went into overtime. The Raptors then got off to their best start in four seasons when they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks in the third game, with Calder\u00f3n scoring a career-high 25 points in the 91\u201387 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0002-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nMeanwhile, O'Neal wasted no time in imposing his style on his new team: in the season opener at Philadelphia, he pointed to hecklers in the home crowd after making a dunk; in the team's second game, he blocked a dunk from Golden State's Brandan Wright and thereafter waved a finger, as though to say \"Don't come back here again.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nHowever, the Raptors could not keep up their new game plan of solid defence and lost four of their next five games, including a blowout loss to the Atlanta Hawks and another to the Boston Celtics after relinquishing a 17-point lead. While Bosh posted impressive numbers in nearly every game, his teammates were not as consistent. Toronto's depth at the point was soon put to the test when Calder\u00f3n was injured and unable to play against the rising Miami Heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nSolomon took over the reins with ease in that game and coupled with the Raptors' domination in the frontcourt led by O'Neal, Toronto secured a much needed win. Moon was also dropped to the bench, with Bargnani made the starting small forward. This performance came to naught in the next game against the Orlando Magic, where although Bosh and O'Neal combined for 54 points and 28 boards, the lack of production and defence from the wing, coupled with the inability to protect possession, brought Toronto back to .500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nAs though to prove a point, Bargnani and Anthony Parker combined for 44 points the next day in the win against Miami, while the tandem of Bosh and O'Neal secured 28 rebounds. This run was not sustained yet again, as Toronto lost a further two games on the trot: an overtime loss to New Jersey and another blowout loss to Boston, where the Raptors set a franchise record for highest field goal percentage (62%) conceded at home. That game also saw Bosh unleash a bout of angry frustration at his team as the Raptors plummeted to the bottom of the division standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nOn 3 December 2008, with the Raptors posting an 8\u20139 record 17 games into the season, Raptors' head coach Sam Mitchell was fired and replaced by longtime assistant Jay Triano on an interim basis. Triano\u2014the first Canadian head coach in NBA history\u2014immediately pointed to Toronto's bottom-of-the-league in fast break points as a major deficiency he wanted to overcome. However, the Raptors slipped a further three games to go 8\u201312 before it recovered with a two-game turnaround. In those two games, Triano attempted to introduce a new style of play: maximum protection of the paint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nHe also brought Kapono and Moon into the starting line-up and this seemed to work for a while before Toronto lost the next five games to go seven under .500, including a loss to the 2\u201324 Oklahoma City Thunder. Toronto ended up 4\u201311 in December under Triano, but got off to a good start in January with wins over Houston and Orlando before going down in a crucial game against Milwaukee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nJanuary also saw Bargnani emerging as a legitimate starting center with him averaging over 21 points and 6.6 rebounds over a 16-game stretch and Uki\u0107 showing good signs of adaptation to the NBA, but all this was overshadowed by the injuries that O'Neal and Calder\u00f3n sustained and the resulting mounting losses. Given the Raptors' perpetual inability to win close games and hold on to leads, the team went on a seven-game losing streak before the return of O'Neal and Calder\u00f3n saw them move to 19\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0004-0003", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nToronto then went on a six-game losing streak and dropped further down the pecking order with a 21\u201334 record going into the All-Star break. With Toronto looking to bring in a wing player and free up the salary space, O'Neal and Moon were traded to Miami for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks on 13 February 2009. Six days later, Solomon was moved in a three-way deal, resulting in Toronto acquiring a big man in centre Patrick O'Bryant from Boston. Pops Mensah-Bonsu and Quincy Douby were also signed on 6 March and 24 March 2009 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\n-Triano, after the Raptors failed to qualify for the playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201018-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toronto Raptors season, Summary, Regular season\nEven with the new acquisitions, Toronto continued losing games, one of which was a blowout 97\u2013127 loss to New York. Combined with a seven-game losing streak leading up to mid-March, this evaporated any hopes of making the playoffs. The only improvement came in the form of more fastbreak points and points scored in the paint, and the team even kickstarted a six-game winning streak in the last week of March, their longest winning streak in seven seasons. The Raptors were also eliminated from playoffs contention at the same time when the streak ended, with seven games of the regular season to go. They ended the season with a three-game winning streak, an overall record of 33\u201349, and were ranked 13th in the Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season was Torquay United's second consecutive season in the Conference National. The season runs from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Overview\nDespite gaining just five points from their first seven games, which saw the Gulls languishing in 18th place in the Conference, manager Paul Buckle soon set Torquay on a run of form which saw the team achieve a club record of seventeen games unbeaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Overview\nTorquay also enjoyed their most successful FA Cup run since 1990. After easing through a qualifying round against Chipstead, the Gulls then had to see off Evesham and Oxford to set up a Third Round clash with Championship side Blackpool. In one of the major upsets of the Third Round, the Gulls won the match 1\u20130 against a side placed three leagues above them. However, they were to narrowly lose their Fourth Round tie to Coventry, also of the Championship, thanks to an 87th-minute header from Elliott Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Overview\nThe 2008\u201309 season was also notable for the departure of two of Torquay's longest serving players. After a brief appearance in the 2008 FA Trophy Final defeat, Torquay's all-time leading appearance maker Kevin Hill made his official departure in July. Later in the season the Gulls also said farewell to another stalwart as defender Steve Woods left the club in April after an eight-year spell encompassing 281 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Overview\nThe season ultimately finished in thrilling style when, after beating Conference Champions Burton Albion on the final day of the season, Torquay qualified for the Play-off Semi-finals in which they beat Histon 2\u20131 on aggregate over two legs. The result meant the Gulls would make their second visit to Wembley in two seasons. However, unlike the previous season, the Torquay fans were treated to a 2\u20130 victory over Cambridge United thanks to goals from Chris Hargreaves and leading scorer Tim Sills. The win secured Torquay United's return to the Football League after a two-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Match of the season\nCAMBRIDGE UNITED 0\u20132 TORQUAY UNITEDConference National Play-off FinalWembley Stadium, 17 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Match of the season\nTorquay United's second trip to Wembley in two seasons was only made possible by the slenderest of margins. After having sneaked into the play-offs by beating Conference champions Burton Albion on the final day of the season, the Gulls only just managed to beat third placed Histon 2\u20131 on aggregate in the play-off semi-finals. They now faced the final hurdle preventing them from returning to the Football League after a two-year absence: a play-off final with the team who had finished second in the Conference, Cambridge United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Match of the season\nCambridge had been defeated in the previous year's play-off final by Torquay's arch-rivals Exeter City (who had also knocked the Gulls out in the same year's semi final). As such, they were eager to make it second time lucky, although, having experienced defeat themselves in the previous year's FA Trophy Final at Wembley, the Gulls were also keen not to repeat the disappointment of the previous season. Although Cambridge began the brighter of the two sides, it was Torquay (wearing their white and blue away strip) who took the lead through captain Chris Hargreaves after 35 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Match of the season\nCambridge had more chances in the second half, but their cause was hindered when defender Phil Bolland was sent off after a second yellow card for a tackle on Elliot Benyon in the 70th minute. Striker Tim Sills effectively sealed the victory five minutes later after he headed home a pin-point cross from winger Wayne Carlisle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Match of the season\nThe score remained 2\u20130 until the final whistle, and Torquay United could finally celebrate their return to the Football League after two years in the Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201019-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Torquay United F.C. season, Club statistics, First team appearances\nSource: , Substitute appearances in brackets. Total excludes FA Cup Qualifying Round and Conference League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201020-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al\nThe 2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al was the twenty-seventh season of the third most important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and fifth under the current format. It was held in two stages. First, twelve Premier League teams were divided into three groups. The winners and runners-up, as well as two best third placed teams from each group, advanced to the Quarterfinals. Quarterfinals and Semifinals were held as two-legged matches, while the Final was one-legged match held at Ramat Gan Stadium. The defending champions were Maccabi Haifa. Maccabi Tel Aviv won the 2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al making it their third Toto Cup title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201020-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al, Group stage\nThe matches were played from August 8 to November 12, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201020-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al, Elimination rounds, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played on January 5 and 6, 2009 while the second legs were played on January 13 and 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201020-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Al, Elimination rounds, Quarterfinals\nThe first game between Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Bnei Sakhnin (that should have been played in Kiryat Shmona) has been cancelled due to safety reasons during the 2008\u20132009 Israel\u2013Gaza conflict. The tie was eventually played as one-legged match on a neutral ground (Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan) on January 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201021-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Artzit\nThe 2008\u201309 Toto Cup Artzit was the 10th time the cup was being contested. This was the last edition of the third division Toto Cup, as Liga Artzit was dissolved at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201021-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Artzit\nThe final was played at Haberfeld Stadium in Rishon LeZion on 17 November 2008. The winners were Marmorek, who had beaten Hapoel Ashkelon 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201021-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Artzit, Format change\nFor this season, the 12 Liga Artzit clubs were divided into three groups with four clubs in each group. The three group winners, together with the best runner-up advanced to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201022-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit\nThe 2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit was the twenty-seventh season of the third most important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and fifth under the current format. It was held in two stages. First, twelve Liga Leumit teams were divided into two groups. Four teams from each group advanced to the Quarterfinals. Quarterfinals held as two-legged matches, while the Semifinals and the Final was held as one-legged matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201022-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit\nOn 3 February 2009, Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the 2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit making it their first Toto Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201022-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit, Group stage\nThe matches were played from August 8 to November 18, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201022-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toto Cup Leumit, Elimination rounds, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs were played from November 24 to December 11, 2008 while the second legs were played on January 5 to 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Tottenham Hotspur's 17th season in the Premier League, their 30th successive season in the top division of the English football league system and the 126th year of their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nAfter finishing 11th in the 2007\u201308 Premier League, Tottenham began the season under the leadership of Spaniard Juande Ramos, drafted in to replace Martin Jol midway through the previous season. However, after suffering the worst start of a league season in Tottenham's history, with no wins in eight league games and only two points, Ramos was sacked and replaced by seasoned manager Harry Redknapp, who quickly eliminated the continental structure that the club had established over the past seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nTottenham's league form improved and mainly remained positive with the final position of eighth a far cry from the relegation places Tottenham had occupied throughout the campaign. Spurs also reached the final of the League Cup, and, as the reigning champions, faced league leaders Manchester United but lost 4\u20131 on penalties. With an average attendance of 35,929, Tottenham had the ninth-highest attendance in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nTottenham drafted in a total of 15 players through transfers and sold 19 players during the combined summer and winter transfer windows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nAt the end of the 2007\u201308 season, which saw Tottenham finish 11th in the Premier League, the club announced the signing of Croatian playmaker Luka Modri\u0107 and reiterated that any club wishing to sign Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov would need to offer more than \u00a330\u00a0million. Tottenham's transfer movement began immediately, with Czech goalkeeper Radek \u010cern\u00fd moving on a free transfer to Queens Park Rangers following the end of the season; \u010cern\u00fd's loan deal had expired and was not offered a contract extension by Tottenham nor his parent club, Slavia Prague. Little under a month later, Tottenham agreed a deal with Barcelona for 19-year-old Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos for an initial fee of \u00a34.7\u00a0million. Not long afterwards, Tottenham reached a deal with Dutch club PSV for Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes, valued at around \u00a38\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 928]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nFollowing comments made by Sir Alex Ferguson indicating confidence over signing Dimitar Berbatov despite negotiations not yet underway, the club issued a press statement on 18 July 2008 on behalf of Daniel Levy, saying that both Manchester United and Liverpool had been reported to the Premier League over comments their respective managers had made which were seen as unsettling both Berbatov and Irish striker Robbie Keane with a view of enticing them away from Tottenham. Levy said of United boss Alex Ferguson:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\n\"Today's public comments by Manchester United's manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players. It is also probably one of the worst offences by any manager in the Premier League to date and is unbelievably hypocritical given his recent comments in respect of Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\n\"I have absolutely no wish to sell either player and to date we have not accepted any offer for either. However, when a player's head is turned and their commitment is absent, particularly when they occupy key positions such as that of striker, they become a negative influence in a team dressing room in which they were once a positive addition and influence. This is the situation we now have on our hands, with both Dimitar and Robbie having made it clear that they wish to leave for Manchester United and Liverpool respectively.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nThroughout July, Tottenham parted ways with many first team members of the squad. On 23 July 2008, it was announced that the club had sold the services of Teemu Tainio; the Finnish midfielder joined Sunderland on a three-year contract, while French defender Pascal Chimbonda followed him a day later, joining the same club for an undisclosed fee. The following day, former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson signed a five-year contract with Blackburn Rovers for \u00a33.5\u00a0million, having played for Spurs for four years. Robinson joined the club from Leeds United in May 2004 and made 175 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring once against Watford in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nOn 28 July 2008, Tottenham agreed to sell Robbie Keane to Liverpool for a total that could amount to \u00a320.3\u00a0million. With the sale, Tottenham also agreed to drop its official complaint to the Premier League regarding Liverpool's pursuit of Keane after Liverpool issued a formal apology and made a donation to the Tottenham Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nLevy issued a statement coinciding with the confirmation of the Keane transfer:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\n\"I was incredibly disappointed when I first heard, not only that Liverpool had been working behind the scenes to bring Robbie to Anfield, but that Robbie himself wanted to go and he submitted a transfer request to this effect. I have already made my opinion clear on the nature of this transaction. I don't regard it as a transfer deal \u2013 that is something which happens between two clubs when they both agree to trade \u2013 this is very much an enforced sale, for which we have agreed a sum of \u00a319m as compensation plus a potential further \u00a31.3m in additional compensation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nOn 30 July 2008, French midfielder Steed Malbranque became the third player in a week to leave, following Tainio and Chimbonda to Sunderland for a fee of \u00a37.8\u00a0million. Later the same day, Tottenham announced they had reached agreement with Blackburn for the transfer of David Bentley to the club for \u00a315\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Transfers\nTotttenham made their first transfer move in the month of August with the signing of veteran goalkeeper C\u00e9sar from Real Zaragoza on 8 August 2008. The deal was initially a season-long loan with the permanent signing being completed at the end of the 2008\u201309 season. The first Tottenham departure in August was French defender Youn\u00e8s Kaboul, who on 11 August 2008 joined Portsmouth for an undisclosed fee. Towards the end of August, two more players left, with Anthony Gardner moving to Hull City and Lee Young-pyo leaving for Borussia Dortmund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Friendlies\nAs part of their pre-season preparations, Tottenham held a training camp in Spain, along with numerous friendlies, in July. Their first friendly, against local side Tavernes, saw Spurs stroll to an 8\u20130 success, with Giovanni dos Santos scoring his first goals for the club. Tottenham then faced two of Juande Ramos' former teams in D\u00e9nia and H\u00e9rcules. Spurs beat D\u00e9nia 4\u20132 and then curtailed the Spanish section of their preparations with a 1\u20131 with H\u00e9rcules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Friendlies\nTottenham returned to England to play Norwich City, recovering from being a goal down to win 5\u20131, with Darren Bent netting four of the strikes. They later played Leyton Orient, again winning 5\u20131 with Luka Modri\u0107 scoring his first goal for Spurs and Bent scoring a hat-trick to take his tally to nine goals in five games. Tottenham then embarked to the Netherlands to play in the Feyenoord Jubilee Tournament, held in Rotterdam at the start of August, with a 2\u20130 victory over Celtic thanks to goals from Bent and David Bentley. Spurs followed this with another win, over German club Borussia Dortmund 3\u20130 with goals from Bent, Dos Santos and Jamie O'Hara. Tottenham were crowned the winners of the tournament on 3 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, Pre-season, Friendlies\nTottenham finished their pre-season preparations with a 5\u20130 victory over Serie A giants Roma, which ensured they stayed unbeaten throughout the period, scoring 33 goals and conceding 5 in a total of 7 games, with Darren Bent scoring 13 times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 77], "content_span": [78, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, August\nTottenham's league season got off to a poor start with a 2\u20131 loss to Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium, followed a week later by another 2\u20131 defeat to Sunderland, with debutant Djibril Ciss\u00e9 scoring the winning goal in the final minutes. The defeats against Middlesbrough and Sunderland were punctuated with the ongoing transfer saga concerning Dimitar Berbatov and Manchester United; rumours that Berbatov had refused to play (later revealed to be true) began to circulate, along with the theory that this refusal from one of Tottenham's best players was hurting team morale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, August\nTottenham got their first point of the season eight days after the Sunderland loss in a 1\u20131 draw at Stamford Bridge against title contenders Chelsea. With both the end of August and the summer transfer window approaching, the Berbatov saga ended with him making a transfer to Manchester United for \u00a330.75\u00a0million and young striker Fraizer Campbell coming on loan for the entire season. Manchester City had tried to enter the fray in the final hours with a \u00a330\u00a0million bid accepted but Berbatov rejected the move. Vedran \u0106orluka also completed his move from Manchester City to join Croatian teammate Luka Modri\u0107 and provide competition for the right-back position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, September\nTottenham's first match in September led to another 2\u20131 loss, at home to Aston Villa. This resulted in three losses in four and one point from a possible twelve, rooting Spurs to the bottom of the Premier League table. Tottenham achieved their first competitive win of the season in the UEFA Cup against Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w, with David Bentley scoring his debut and the winning goal. Spurs returned to the league with a goalless home draw against Wigan Athletic and a tepid 2\u20130 away defeat to Portsmouth, with ex-Tottenham player Jermain Defoe scoring a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, September\nAt the end of September, Tottenham were bottom of the league and officially suffering their worst Premier League start. Spurs, however, were able to make a successful start to the defence of their League Cup title, defeating Newcastle United 2\u20131 at St James' Park to progress to the fourth round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, October\nOctober started with progression to the group stages of the UEFA Cup for Tottenham with a 1\u20131 draw in Poland against Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w in their second leg tie, but Spurs' horrendous league form continued with a home loss to newly promoted Hull City, Geovanni's long range free-kick in the early minutes of the game condemning Tottenham to another loss, They then followed this match with another battle against a newly promoted side, Stoke City. The match concluded with Tottenham conceding two penalties and having Michael Dawson and Gareth Bale sent off in a 2\u20131 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, October\nThis loss meant that Tottenham had only two points from eight games, were bottom of the Premier League and now were amidst the worst start to a season in their 126-year history. The ever-increasing pressure on manager Juande Ramos grew after a 2\u20130 loss in Italy to Udinese in the first match of the UEFA Cup group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, October\nOn 25 October, the club announced the departure, with immediate effect, of sporting director Damien Comolli, head coach Juande Ramos and first team coaches Marcos \u00c1lvarez and Gus Poyet. It was announced, within hours, that the club had agreed a deal worth \u00a35\u00a0million with Portsmouth to permit manager Harry Redknapp to become the new head coach at Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, October\nRedknapp was unveiled as Tottenham manager the same day before the home match against Bolton Wanderers and gave the team talk, although the team itself was selected by Clive Allen and Alex Inglethorpe. Tottenham eased to their first league win of the season, with Roman Pavlyuchenko scoring his first Premier League goal. Tottenham then faced bitter rivals Arsenal in the latest installment of the North London derby; the match ended 4\u20134 and viewed as one of the best games in the long history of the derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, October\nTottenham took the lead with a stunning David Bentley volley from 35-yards, while Arsenal responded with a Mika\u00ebl Silvestre header and found themselves 3\u20131 ahead deep inside the second half. Darren Bent made it 3\u20132 before Robin van Persie seemingly wrapped up the points making it 4\u20132 to Arsenal. With five minutes left, however, Jermaine Jenas made it 4\u20133 after capitalising on a Ga\u00ebl Clichy slip, and then Aaron Lennon salvaged a point for Tottenham when he, four minutes into stoppage time, made it 4\u20134 with a tap-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, November\nTottenham's revitalised form continued into November with a win over league leaders Liverpool. Dirk Kuyt blasted Liverpool into an early lead before a Jamie Carragher own goal and a Pavlyuchenko tap-in gave Spurs the three points. Five days later, Redknapp took charge of his first Tottenham UEFA Cup match, which ended with Tottenham thrashing Dinamo Zagreb 4\u20130 on the strength of a Darren Bent hat-trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, November\nThe first away win for Tottenham's season came on 9 November 2008, with a 2\u20131 win over Manchester City; Bent scored his fifth goal in two games. Tottenham's fourth game in eleven days sent them to fifth round of the League Cup with a 4\u20132 win over Liverpool, which also included the first goals for on-loan striker Fraizer Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, November\nTottenham's six-game unbeaten run ended with a 2\u20131 loss to Fulham; a mistake from Heurelho Gomes helped Fulham into a two-goal lead before Fraizer Campbell pulled one back. Tottenham recovered quickly with a 1\u20130 win over Blackburn, increasing the pressure on Blackburn manager Paul Ince. The club followed this with another 1\u20130 win against NEC in the UEFA Cup, almost assuring safe passage to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, November\nNovember ended with a 1\u20130 home loss to Everton. Steven Pienaar's deflected effort, later attributed as a Vedran \u0106orluka own goal, was enough to get the victory for Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, December\nTottenham began December by putting themselves into the semi-finals of the League Cup with a 2\u20131 win over Watford. Watford had taken the lead through a Tamas Priskin strike but a penalty from Roman Pavlyuchenko and a goal from Darren Bent earned Spurs a tie against Burnley in the semi-finals. Tottenham continued their decent league form with a 2\u20130 win over West Ham United which also included Ledley King's first goal in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, December\nSpurs then faced defending Premier League champions Manchester United in a home tie which ended in a 0\u20130 draw, which meant that Tottenham were now unbeaten against the Premier League's top four. Tottenham then completed their UEFA Cup group stage with a 2\u20132 draw with Spartak Moscow; they proceeded to the next stage in the runner-up place to face UEFA Champions League drop-outs Shakhtar Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, December\nTottenham faced Newcastle at St James' Park in a losing 2\u20131 effort. The match was heading for a 1\u20131 draw until Damien Duff scored in stoppage time to give Newcastle the three points. Five days later, Tottenham opposed Fulham in the return match at White Hart Lane, the match ending 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, December\nDecember ended the same as November: with a loss, this time to newly promoted West Bromwich Albion. The 2\u20130 win was controversial, however, as defender Michael Dawson claimed that he had been fouled by West Brom striker Roman Bedn\u00e1\u0159 while the latter scored the opening goal. The goal stood and Tottenham ended the year still very much in a relegation battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January Transfer Window\nWith the January transfer window opening on 1 January, Tottenham made movement in the market straight away. On 6 January 2009, Jermain Defoe returned to the club from Portsmouth in a deal worth an initial \u00a39\u00a0million, with extras and the writing-off of past transfer fees in Pedro Mendes and Defoe himself; the media announced the total fee at \u00a315\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0029-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January Transfer Window\nJust over two weeks later, Tottenham came to an agreement for the transfer of Wilson Palacios for a fee of \u00a312\u00a0million from Wigan Athletic; the deal for Palacios was officially concluded on 30 January with the approval of a work permit. Tottenham also signed experienced goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini from Chelsea on a free transfer and also concluded a deal to re-sign Pascal Chimbonda from Sunderland for a fee thought to be around \u00a33\u00a0million. On the final day of the transfer window, Tottenham resigned their third former player in a month, signing striker Robbie Keane for a fee of an initial \u00a312\u00a0million, which, depending on circumstances, could rise to \u00a315\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January Transfer Window\nThe departures in January saw Andy Barcham made his loan move to Gillingham permanently for an undisclosed fee. Four days later, Charlie Daniels left Tottenham to join Leyton Orient on a free transfer. On 21 January, Spanish goalkeeper C\u00e9sar's contract was cancelled so he could return to Spain to sign for Valencia. Two days later, Tottenham outcast Hossam Ghaly joined Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr for an undisclosed fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January\nJanuary began well for Tottenham, advancing to the next round of the FA Cup with a 3\u20131 win over Wigan and then following that with a 4\u20131 win against Burnley in the League Cup semi-final first leg. However, Tottenham's league form again suffered when in the next game, against Wigan, Spurs lost 1\u20130 when Maynor Figueroa powered in a header in stoppage time to confine Tottenham to another loss from last-minute goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January\nTottenham responded seven days later with a 1\u20131 draw against Portsmouth at White Hart Lane. The match had massive publicity because of the return of Harry Redknapp and Jermain Defoe. In the match, David Nugent scored a deflected goal before Defoe returned to haunt his old club by scoring the equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January\nTottenham then faced Burnley in the League Cup semi-final second leg. Burnley could only progress by winning by three clear goals and it was widely seen as unlikely that Burnley would offer much in terms of opposition. After 90 minutes, however, goals from Robbie Blake, Chris McCann and Jay Rodriguez took the game to extra time and if they held on they would progress thanks to the away goals rule, but facing elimination with under three minutes left to play, goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe saw Spurs progress to the final 6\u20134 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January\nThree days after the extra-time tie, Tottenham faced Manchester United in the FA Cup, losing 2\u20131, having taken the lead through Pavlyuchenko before a deflected goal from Paul Scholes and a strike from Dimitar Berbatov ended eliminated the side from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, January\nThree days later, Tottenham got their first league win in six games with a 3\u20131 home win over Stoke. Brilliant play saw Spurs take a 3\u20130 lead in the first 30 minutes before James Beattie scored a consolation goal for the visitors. January ended in defeat for Spurs with 3\u20132 loss to Bolton. Bolton took a 2\u20130 lead before a Darren Bent double levelled until another last minute goal from Kevin Davies claimed the points for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, February\nFebruary for Tottenham started with the North London derby against Arsenal. The highly anticipated match ended 0\u20130 with Spurs enjoying the dominant moments in the game, thanks in part to the first-half sending-off of Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Ebou\u00e9. An 11-day rest period ended with a trip to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Tottenham lost 2\u20130 thanks to late goals from Evhen Seleznyov and J\u00e1dson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, February\nThe match incurred criticism due to Tottenham playing a weakened side, however the criticisms were brushed aside by Redknapp, who emphatically prioritized the Premier League and League Cup over the UEFA Cup. On 23 February, Tottenham faced Hull City at the KC Stadium in the Monday night fixture. Spurs eased to a 2\u20131 win with goals from Aaron Lennon and Jonathan Woodgate, sealing a valuable set of points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, February\nTottenham ended the February set of fixtures only three days later with the return leg of Shakhtar. Tottenham again fielded a severely weakened team due in part to the 2009 Football League Cup Final being only three days away, and earned a valiant 1\u20131 draw, with Giovani dos Santos scoring his first Tottenham goal before a late Fernandinho goal sealed the leg for Shakhtar in the dying moments to eliminate Spurs from Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, March\nMarch began with the 2009 League Cup Final against Manchester United. The frantic final ended 0\u20130 and resulted in a penalty shoot-out, which United won 4\u20131 to win the first major trophy of the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, March\nTottenham rebounded from the heart-break of the final loss three days later with a comprehensive 4\u20130 win over Middlesbrough to ease the immediate relegation concerns. The unbeaten run continued with a 1\u20131 at Sunderland on 7 March. The tense match began with an early goal for Kieran Richardson and remained so until in the dying embers of the game, where Robbie Keane struck a volley to earn Spurs a point. Eight days later, Tottenham faced fourth-placed Aston Villa at Villa Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0039-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, March\nAn early goal from Jermaine Jenas gave Spurs the lead until early in the second-half when the lead was extended thanks to a Darren Bent tap-in; John Carew stuck a consolation goal as Tottenham took the three points. Days before the last match of the March fixtures, Tottenham announced a record amount of profit in the 2008 fiscal year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, March\nTottenham faced Chelsea in the final match in March at White Hart Lane. In a thrilling London derby, Tottenham took maximum points thanks to a second-half goal from Luka Modri\u0107 and a much improved performance by goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes, putting Tottenham only three away from a European place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, March\nMarch ended with three call-ups into the England squad with Aaron Lennon in, thanks to being in mercurial form during the month of March and Ledley King earning a shock call-up, though with the injury situation surrounding the defender, King had to withdraw from the squad three days later. Darren Bent also received a call up on 28 March, after an injury to Carlton Cole ruled him out of the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, April\nThe penultimate month of the Premier League season began with a trip to Ewood Park, on 4 April, to face relegation-battlers Blackburn. Tottenham took the lead through a Robbie Keane penalty and led until the 80th minute, when the contentious sending off of Wilson Palacios swung the game back in Blackburn's favour, and two late goals from Benni McCarthy and Andr\u00e9 Ooijer gave the three points to the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, April\nSeven days later, Tottenham faced West Ham in a London derby. The match ended 1\u20130 thanks to a solo effort from the returning Roman Pavlyuchenko. The win ignited Tottenham's charge into the final Europa league place which was consolidated eight days later on 19 April, with another 1\u20130 win, this time over struggling Newcastle. An early Darren Bent goal was enough to secure the points and help steer the club further towards European football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, April\nApril ended with a defeat to league leaders Manchester United at Old Trafford. Tottenham led 2\u20130 through two quick-fire strikes from Darren Bent and Luka Modri\u0107, but in the second-half, United were awarded a penalty by referee Howard Webb and went on to win the game 5\u20132. Webb later admitted that he had got the penalty decision wrong. The loss damaged Tottenham's hopes of a seventh-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nAgainst the norm, there were four Premier League fixtures in May. Tottenham took on relegation strugglers West Brom at White Hart Lane, looking to bounce back from the heavy defeat at Old Trafford. The game was settled by a well-placed Jermaine Jenas effort from just outside the area on the stroke of half-time, and secured Spurs' fifth home win a row. It was their fourth 1\u20130 win at home in a row, and sixth consecutive home clean sheet, leaving them on the verge of a club record of the fewest goals conceded at home in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nA week later, Tottenham travelled to Goodison Park. The game was marred by the pre-match news that the brother of Wilson Palacios had been confirmed dead in his native Honduras, causing him to leave the team hotel hours before the game. This was one of many factors that caused Harry Redknapp to go with an unorthodox 3\u20135\u20132 formation, notably bringing in Gareth Bale at left wing-back for the Welsh youngster's first league start for four months. The match finished 0\u20130, and for the second consecutive season earned Tottenham a point in their European quest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nThe following Saturday, Tottenham went into their final home game of the season against Manchester City, with a target of setting a new club record for goals conceded at home. They simply had to concede no more than a goal to break the record of 11, which had stood since 1920. Spurs could also end Manchester City's hopes of Europe next season, while increasing their own slender hopes. Tottenham took the lead in the 29th minute when Jermain Defoe improvised with a back-heel from close range from Tom Huddlestone's cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0047-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nIn the second-half, Spurs were forced to rue their earlier missed chances when Valeri Bojinov grabbed an equaliser, in the process scoring the first away goal at the lane since James Beattie's consolation in January. A draw was looking increasingly likely until Fraizer Campbell was brought down to win a penalty, which was converted by Robbie Keane. The game finished 2\u20131 and Tottenham, having conceded just ten goals at home all season, broke their own club record and ensured ending the season with the best home defence in the 2008\u201309 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nTottenham went into the final game of the season at Anfield, with a small chance of finishing in seventh place and Europe, needing to beat Liverpool and hoping that Everton could earn three points against Fulham at Craven Cottage; Everton, however, won 2\u20130. In Spurs' match, Fernando Torres and an own goal by Alan Hutton had Liverpool 2\u20130 up. A goal from Robbie Keane on his return to Anfield gave Tottenham a glimmer of hope, but just three minutes later Yossi Benayoun scored for the home team, condemning Tottenham to a 3\u20131 loss to finish their domestic league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, 2008\u201309 season, May\nSpurs finished the season in eighth, a turnaround in form pushing them into higher reaches of the league, when they were as low as 19th place as recently as January and 20th for a part of the season. Having made their worst start to a league season in their 126-year history, Tottenham made a three place improvement on the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Statistics, Goal scorers\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201023-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Statistics, Clean sheets\nThe list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201024-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toulouse FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 72nd season in the existence of Toulouse FC and the club's 6th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. They participated in the Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201025-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tour de Ski\nThe 2008\u201309 Tour de Ski was the 3rd edition of the Tour de Ski and took place from 27 December 2008 until 4 January 2009. The race kicked off in Oberhof, Germany, and concluded with the Final Climb stage in Val di Fiemme, Italy. The tour was the first tour starting in Oberhof and the second starting in Germany. The men's event was 102\u00a0km, won by Dario Cologna of Switzerland; and the ladies' event was 60\u00a0km, won by Virpi Kuitunen of Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201025-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tour de Ski, Final standings, Sprint standings\nThe sprint competition was contested during the sprint races and partly during the other races. According to the position in the race, the skiers achieved bonus seconds for sprints, and bonus points for intermediate points in mass start races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201025-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tour de Ski, Stages, Stage 4\n31 December 2008, Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto na Morav\u011b - Individual start", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201025-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tour de Ski, Stages, Stage 6\n3 January 2009, Val di Fiemme, Italy - Mass start", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201026-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series\nThe 2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series was the fifth running of the Toyota Racing Series. The Toyota Racing Series is New Zealand's premier open-wheeler motorsport category. The Series includes races for every major trophy in New Zealand circuit racing including the New Zealand Motor Cup and the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy. The cars are also the category for the 2009 New Zealand Grand Prix, which was held as the third race of the Manfeild Autocourse round, \u2013 one of only two races in the world with FIA approval to use the Grand Prix nomenclature outside Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201026-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series\nMitch Cunningham won the championship by over 100 points ahead of Sam MacNeill and Michael Burdett; finishing as the round winner in three of the six meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201026-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers are competing during the 2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series. All drivers compete in Tatuus TT104ZZ chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201027-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Trabzonspor season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, Trabzonspor finished in third place in the S\u00fcper Lig. The top scorer of the team was G\u00f6khan \u00dcnal, who scored sixteen goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201027-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Trabzonspor season\nThis article shows statistics of the club's players and matches during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201027-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Trabzonspor season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201028-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, Tranmere Rovers F.C. competed in Football League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201028-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the 2007-08 season, Tranmere finished 11th and their ambition for 2008-09 was the play-offs. Their form in the first half of the season was mixed, but they found themselves in 8th place at Christmas. Tranmere finished 7th, missing out on the play-offs by one point. Despite this 7th-placed finish, manager Ronnie Moore was sacked and replaced by John Barnes in mid-June. A run of 5 games unbeaten in March/April led rovers into the play-off positions with 3 games remaining, but 7th placed Scunthorpe were two points behind and had played two games less. Tranmere lost to fellow play-off contenders Leeds United, but Scunthorpe lost too, leaving Rovers in 6th place. They failed to win their final 2 games, meaning they finished 7th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201028-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season, Kit\nTranmere's kits were manufactured by Vandanel and sponsored by the Wirral Metropolitan Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 40], "content_span": [41, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201028-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season, Squad\nSquad at end of seasonNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201028-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201029-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 TuS Koblenz season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the third consecutive season in the second division of German football, the 2. Bundesliga, played by TuS Koblenz, a professional football club based in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The club fiished 14th in the 2. Bundesliga despite a three-point deduction, and in addition to the 2. Bundesliga, Tus Koblenz also participated in the DFB-Pokal, where they were eliminated in the first round by FC Oberneuland. The club played their homes matches at Stadion Oberwerth. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201030-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team will represent Tulane University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Green Wave were coached by Lisa Stockton. The Green Wave are a member of Conference USA and attempted to win the Conference-USA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201030-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team, Postseason, Conference USA Tournament\nThe Green Wave forced 22 Tulsa turnovers. In the second half, the Green Wave scored the first fifteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 88], "content_span": [89, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201030-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team, Postseason, Conference USA Tournament\nBrittany Lindsey led Tulane with 16 points and tied her career-high in rebounds with 11. Junior guard Indira Kaljo added 12 points. Senior Ashley Langford handed out seven assists to finish with 722 for her career. Langford finishes her Tulane career 19th in scoring with 1,047 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 88], "content_span": [89, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201030-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team, Team players drafted into the WNBA\nNo one from the Green Wave was selected in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201031-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1\nThe 2008\u201309 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 was the 83rd season of top-tier football in Tunisia. It began on 8 August 2008 and concluded on 13 May 2009. The competition saw the return of two previous participants, Avenir Sportif de Kasserine and Espoir Sportif de Hammam-Sousse from Ligue Professionnelle 2. Esp\u00e9rance de Tunis won the championship while previous year's winnersClub Africain finished in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201032-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2 began on 16 August 2008 and will end on 27 May 2009. Espoir Sportif de Hammam-Sousse are the reigning champions. The competition saw the return of two previous participants, US Ben Guerdane and STIR S Zarzouna from Ligue Professionnelle 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201032-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2, Television rights\nThe Communication bureau of the FTF attributed the broadcasting rights of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2 to .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201033-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Basketball League\nThe 2008\u201309 Turkish Basketball League was the 43rd season of the top professional basketball league in Turkey. Efes Pilsen won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, also known due to sponsorship reasons as the Fortis T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131, was the 47th edition of the annual tournament that determined the association football S\u00fcper Lig Turkish Cup (Turkish: T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131) champion under the auspices of the Turkish Football Federation (Turkish: T\u00fcrkiye Futbol Federasyonu; TFF). (Be\u015fikta\u015f) successfully contested Fenerbah\u00e7e in the final, 4\u20132. This tournament was conducted under the UEFA Cup system having replaced at the 44th edition a standard knockout competition scheme. Be\u015fikta\u015f completed the double having successfully won 2008\u201309 S\u00fcper Lig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, First round\nThe draw for the First Round was conducted at the headquarters of the TFF in \u0130stanbul on 22 August 2008. The games were played on 3 and 4 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, Second round\nThe draw for the Second Round was conducted at the headquarters of the TFF in \u0130stanbul on 12 September 2008. The games were played on 24 and 25 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, Group stage\nThe group stage consisted of four groups with five teams each. The four teams that finished first through fourth in 2007\u201308 S\u00fcper Lig were seeded as group heads: Galatasaray, Fenerbah\u00e7e, Be\u015fikta\u015f and Sivasspor. The sixteen teams qualified through the first two rounds of elimination matches were randomly drawn into one of the four groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, Group stage\nEvery team played every other team of its group once, either home or away. The winners and runners-up of each group qualified for the quarterfinals. The games were played from 29 October 2008 to 18 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, Quarterfinals\nIn this round entered winners and runners-up of all of the previous round's groups. The draw was conducted at the headquarters of the TFF in \u0130stanbul on 19 January 2009. The first legs were played on 27 and 28 January 2009. The second legs were played on 3, 4 and 5 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201034-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Cup, Semifinals\nThe draw was conducted at the headquarters of the TFF in \u0130stanbul on 18 February 2009. The first legs were played on 3 and 4 March 2009. The second legs were played on 21 and 22 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201035-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkish Women's First Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 season of the Turkish Women's First Football League is the 13th season of Turkey's premier women's football league. Trabzonspor is the champion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections to the Mejlis (Assembly) were held in Turkmenistan on 14 December 2008, with a second round held in one constituency on 28 December 2008 and a revote in one constituency on 8 February 2009. The number of assembly members was increased from 65 to 125 (while the People's Council was abolished) in constitutional reforms enacted on 26 September 2008. It was the first election since Turkmenistan's independence in which, theoretically, parties other than the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan are allowed to take part since the constitution no longer defines Turkmenistan as a one-party state. However, no legal opposition parties had been set up and the fact that the election took place in single-seat constituencies greatly diminished the opposition's chance of gaining parliamentary representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Background\nAbout 90% of the 288 candidates for the 125 seats were members of the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (DPT), and 10% are of affiliated organisations or weak \"initiative groups\". However, all of the candidates expressed much support for the current President, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. Ethnic minorities, including the sizable Uzbek minority, were not allowed to field candidates, and many members of the opposition remained in exile. In addition, irregularities occurred when opposition candidates registered to become candidates, and others had passports confiscated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Background\nHuman Rights Watch said of the election, \"The conditions are not in place to hold a free and fair election that would be a meaningful reflection of the will of the people,\" but also mentioned that there has been \"some progress\". Turkmen citizens also noted that there was little, if any information regarding the candidates up for election available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Background\nThe election was also the first in which expatriates could vote. Polling stations were set up at Turkmenistan's 27 diplomatic missions, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Elections\n\"The parliamentary elections were well-organized, competitive and free. They were held in compliance with election legislation in effect in the country and generally recognized norms of democratic elections, and were marked by high voter turnout.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Elections\n\"I didn't vote... Why vote if the electoral commission members are going to do it instead of us?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Elections\nA small, nine-member team from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observed the elections, as well as small teams from the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the first time international observers were allowed to view the election. According to the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan, 2.59 million people, which is a turnout of 93.87%, cast ballots at 2,118 polling locations in 125 constituencies. However, some opposition and human rights groups suggested that the turnout may have been lower than 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Elections\nAfter the elections, the head of the CIS observation team said that voting was \"in line with the requirements of the local legislation and international norms of elections\". Ultimately OSCE chose not to monitor the elections, since the country's laws did not allow genuine competition. Human Rights Watch was also critical of the vote, for the same reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Elections\nSome residents reported being pressured to vote, or for whom to vote. There were also other issues, such as the use of pencils to mark votes, allowing single members of a family to vote for everyone else in the family, and that some people voted without needing to provide any identification documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Results\nThere were 13 seats up for election in Ashgabat, 19 seats in Ahal Province, 11 in Balkan Province, 26 in Da\u015foguz Province, 26 in Lebap Province, and 28 in Mary Province. Two or more candidates competed in each constituency, and candidates needed to win 50% of the vote in order to secure the seat. Runoffs were held on 28 December 2008, and a revote was held in one seat on 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201036-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Turkmen parliamentary election, Results\nA list of 123 winners were announced on 22 December 2008. However, the party affiliation of the candidates was not listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201037-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.C. Sampdoria season, Squad\nAs of August 13, 2008 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201037-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.C. Sampdoria season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201037-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.C. Sampdoria season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201037-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.C. Sampdoria season, Transfers, Summer 2008\nOut on loan:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season\nU.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo spent the 2008\u201309 season in the Serie A, the fifth season in a row for the Sicilian club in the Italian top flight since their return to the league in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nFor the upcoming season, Palermo are expected to confirm Stefano Colantuono as head coach. A number of signings were completed in mid-season, namely Brazilian striker T\u00falio de Melo from Le Mans (free transfer), and young Danish defender Simon Kj\u00e6r from Midtjylland; these are expected to be joined by a number of loan and co-ownership returns, such as Hernan Dellafiore from Torino. On May 28, Palermo announced to have signed Empoli defender Andrea Raggi in a full transfer. Two days later, the rosanero also finalized the signing of former Fiorentina midfielder Fabio Liverani. On June 5 Palermo announced on their website to have finalized the signing of Italy national team and Livorno goalkeeper Marco Amelia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nOn June 19, Palermo announced to have re-signed Croatian striker Igor Budan from Parma and Genoa defender Cesare Bovo, the latter in exchange with long-time rosanero Giuseppe Biava. Six days later, the club completed the signing of Atalanta centre-back Moris Carrozzieri. On July 1, the club finalized the signing of Davide Lanzafame from Juventus in a co-ownership bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nIn addition, Palermo-born Giovanni Tedesco and 41-year-old goalkeeper Alberto Fontana have agreed a one-year contract extension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nOn the other hand, a number of transfer were completed, with Amauri sold to Juventus (and Antonio Nocerino being signed by Palermo as part of the deal), Leandro Rinaudo transferred to Napoli and Italian internationals Cristian Zaccardo and Andrea Barzagli signed by German side VfL Wolfsburg;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nPalermo's pre-season phase will begin on July 14 to the training camp of Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria. They then moved to another camp in Levico Terme on August 1, then playing a friendly match in Wolfsburg against VfL Wolfsburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nPalermo started their season with a surprise 1\u20132 home loss to Ravenna, a Lega Pro Prima Divisione team (two divisions below Serie A). Successively, Zamparini confirmed the intention to sell newly acquired striker T\u00falio de Melo, citing the impossibility to ensure the player a guaranteed place in the starting lineup as he wanted. In the meantime, on August 30, and just a few hours before the rosanero's kickoff league match, Palermo announced the signing of 18-year-old striker Levan Mchedlidze on loan. The next day, Lille confirmed to have finalized the permanent signing of Melo from Palermo. On 1 September, Palermo completed both the signing of Davide Succi from Ravenna the loaning out of Bo\u0161ko Jankovi\u0107 to Genoa. Both moves were finalized following several unsuccessful attempts to sign Brazilian international striker Nilmar from Internacional, as confirmed in a club statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 943]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nThe very next day saw notable criticism from supporters and local and national media regarding the club's strategy in the transfer market, particularly underlining the lack of an appropriate replacement for Amauri and the controversial sale of T\u00falio de Melo a mere two months after signing with the rosanero. Zamparini responded to these criticisms by making the whole bid amounts in the seasons available to the public, in a very unusual move in Italy, noting his club was among the ones who spent the most money in order to sign new players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nOn September 4, 2008, in what was promptly received as another controversial move, the club surprisingly announced the immediate dismissal of Stefano Colantuono from his position, making him the first head coach to be sacked in the whole Serie A season, contemporaneously announcing the appointment of Davide Ballardini as new rosanero boss. Ballardini made his debut with an impressive 3\u20131 home win to Roma on September 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nBallardini then followed up the next week by beating Genoa 2\u20131, with centre-back Cesare Bovo scored a winning goal from 26 metres out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nPalermo's wonderful form continued as they stopped Italian giants Juventus 2\u20131, ending their unbeaten season. Fabrizio Miccoli scored a tap-in after Buffon deflected a volley from Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani. Newly acquired youngster Levan Mchedlidze scored in only his second-ever game in the Italian Serie A, grabbing Palermo a surprise win. Palermo then went on to achieve impressive wins to less exciting games, not performing particularly well in away matches. Namely, striking duo of Fabrizio Miccoli and Edinson Cavani proved to be instrumental to the rosanero's successes, with the former Benfica star establishing himself as team topscorer despite being limited by injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nAnother fan favourite win came in a league match against A.C. Milan, with the rosanero showing probably one of their finest seasonal performances and defeating 3\u20131 the rossoneri, with goals by Miccoli, Cavani and Simplicio, and Sicilian goalkeeper Marco Amelia being instrumental in the team win by saving a penalty shot by FIFA World Player winner Ronaldinho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nIn the January 2009 transfer window, Palermo opted to loan out all of their players who did not play regularly in the first half, namely Hern\u00e1n Paolo Dellafiore, Andrea Raggi, Davide Lanzafame and Maurizio Ciaramitaro. The club, with Igor Budan being unavailable for the whole season so far, was also linked with being interested to the likes of ACF Fiorentina striker Giampaolo Pazzini, who was ultimately acquired by Sampdoria. Later in the market window, Palermo also announced the loan of Ciro Capuano to Sicilian rivals Catania, and the signing for free of Mirko Savini from Napoli, then completing the transfer session with two international youngsters, Swiss full-back Michel Morganella and Uruguayan striker Abel Hern\u00e1ndez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nThe club went on performing relatively well with several ups and downs, the bottom point being a shock 0\u20134 home loss to Catania in the Sicilian derby, which was promptly followed by a 2\u20130 win at ACF Fiorentina's home. Palermo also managed to come back from two goals down to achieve a 2\u20132 draw at San Siro against Jos\u00e9 Mourinho's league leaders Internazionale thanks to efforts from Edinson Cavani and backup striker Davide Succi. In the second part of the season, Palermo declared interest in fighting to take a UEFA Europa League 2009\u201310 spot, with Roma, league surprise Cagliari and Lazio as main challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nOn April 23, the Italian National Olympic Committee announced that Moris Carrozzieri was found positive for cocaine as he failed a doping test made immediately after a home game against Torino on April 5. The physical centre-back was immediately suspended from football activities and is likely to face a long ban that could keep him off from the game for up to two years. According to Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini and sports director Walter Sabatini, the player might likely have assumed cocaine during a night out in a club in Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201038-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Citt\u00e0 di Palermo season, Review and events\nSuch events, which prived Palermo of one of the main defenders in the squad, were followed by a 0\u20133 loss to AC Milan, with two of the rossoneri goals being scored from controversial penalty kicks and Palermo reduced to 10 men after Cesare Bovo was sent off minutes after the beginning of the second half; this brought to bitter criticism against the referee from Maurizio Zamparini, who also announced a one-day news blackout as a form of protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201039-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 U.S. Lecce season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 91st season in the existence of U.S. Lecce and the club's first season back in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Lecce participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia. The season covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup was the 33rd season of the UAE President's Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup\nAl-Ahli went into this edition as the holders. Sharjah FC hold the most wins with 8 titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup, Round 1\n24 teams play a knockout tie. 12 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 30 & 31 October 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup, Round 2\n16 teams play a knockout tie. 8 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 28 & 29 November 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup, Quarter finals\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 1 & 2 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201040-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE President's Cup, Semi finals\n4 teams play a knockout tie. 2 clubs advance to the Final Ties played on 24 February 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201041-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE Pro League\nThe 2008\u201309 UAE League season was the 34th edition of top level football in the United Arab Emirates and started on 19 September 2008 until 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201041-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE Pro League\nAl-Ahli clinched the championship on the last day of the season, one of the most exciting campaigns for a number of years and also qualified for the 2009 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup as the host representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201041-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE Pro League\nEmirates Club and Hatta were relegated from the previous season. Ajman Club and Al Khaleej Club were promoted from the second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201041-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UAE Pro League\nThe winners of the league qualified for the 2009 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup as the host representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201042-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by 12th year head coach Pat Douglass and played at the Bren Events Center. They were members of the Big West Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201042-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe 2007\u201308 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team finished the season with a record of 18\u201316 and 9\u20137 in Big West play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201043-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCF Knights men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 UCF Knights men's basketball team was an NCAA Division I college basketball team that represented the University of Central Florida and competed in Conference USA. They played their home games at the UCF Arena in Orlando, Florida, and were led by head coach Kirk Speraw who was in his 16th season with the team. In the previous year, the Knights finished the season 16\u201315, 9\u20137 in C-USA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201043-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCF Knights men's basketball team\nIn February 2012, UCF vacated its wins from the 2008\u201309 season after it was discovered that there was an ineligible player on the team. The team's pre-sanction record was 17\u201314 (7\u20139). The \"official\" record stands as 0\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201044-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Africa Tour\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI Africa Tour was the fifth season of the UCI Africa Tour. The season began on 2 October 2008 with the Grand Prix Chantal Biya and ended on 19 April 2009 with the Tour du Maroc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201044-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Africa Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Africa Tour cycling jersey. Nicholas White of South Africa was the defending champion of the 2007\u201308 UCI Africa Tour. Dan Craven of Namibia was crowned as the 2008\u201309 UCI Africa Tour champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201044-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Africa Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201045-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI America Tour\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI America Tour was the fifth season for the UCI America Tour. The season began on 5 October 2008 with the Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional and ended on 12 September 2009 with the Univest Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201045-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI America Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI America Tour cycling jersey. Manuel Medina of Venezuela was the defending champion of the 2007\u201308 UCI America Tour. Gregorio Ladino of Colombia was crowned as the 2008\u201309 UCI America Tour champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201045-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI America Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 380]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201046-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour was the 5th season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 4 October 2008 with the Tour of Milad du Nour and ended on 13 September 2009 with the Tour de Hokkaido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201046-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Asia Tour cycling jersey. Hossein Askari from Iran was the defending champion of the 2007\u201308 UCI Asia Tour. Ghader Mizbani of Iran was crowned as the 2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201046-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 377]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201047-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup\nThe 2008\u20132009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 19 October 2008 and 25 January 2009 and is sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Nine events were organised, the same as the 2007\u20132008 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, although the events in Li\u00e9vin and Hoogerheide were replaced with Nommay, a former World Cup race, and Roubaix, which was first held in 2006. Hoogerheide hosts the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201048-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour was the fifth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The season began on 19 October 2008 with the Chrono des Nations and ended on 15 October 2009 with the Giro del Piemonte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201048-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Europe Tour cycling jersey. Enrico Gasparotto of Italy was the defending champion of the 2007\u201308 UCI Europe Tour. Giovanni Visconti was crowned as the 2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201048-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201048-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour\nThe UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201048-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Europe Tour, Final ranking\nThere is a competition for the rider, team and country with the most points gained from winning or achieving a high place in the above races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201049-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Oceania Tour\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI Oceania Tour was the fifth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 12 October 2008 with the Herald Sun Tour and ended on 15 February 2009 with the Oceania Cycling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201049-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Oceania Tour\nThe points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Hayden Roulston of New Zealand was the defending champion of the 2007\u201308 UCI Oceania Tour. Peter McDonald of Australia was crowned as the 2008\u201309 UCI Oceania Tour champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201049-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Oceania Tour\nThroughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nThe 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 31 October 2008 to 18 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nThe World Cup kicked off in Manchester, Great Britain on 31 October 2008. Although many of the top riders did not participate in this round, as they were still recovering from the 2008 Summer Olympics, this gave many less experienced riders an opportunity to make their mark in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\n171 riders were on the start list for the second round in Melbourne, Australia, held from 20\u201322 November 2008. New talent was prevalent once more, demonstrated by Cyclingnews' statistics which showed that 100 of those riders were under the age of 23 and only 12 were over 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nThe third round was held at the newly renovated Alcides Nieto Pati\u00f1o Velodrome in Cali, Colombia from 12\u201314 December 2008. 166 athletes competed in this round, representing 30 different countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nFor the fourth round, held from 16\u201318 January 2009, riders returned to the Beijing velodrome in China for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. Temperatures in the velodrome were much lower than the sweltering heat experienced by the riders during the summer, this time it was approximately 16 degrees indoors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nThe fifth and final round was held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 13\u201315 February 2009. British paralympic rider Darren Kenny also made an appearance at Copenhagen, a world record attempt had been scheduled during the World Cup, on 14 February. Kenny intended to attempt to break his own CP 3 World Hour Record of 41.817\u00a0km which was set in Manchester on 8 January 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics\nAs the five rounds of the World Cup were held scattered around the world, only a few riders were able to participate in every round. Those who attended the first two rounds were able to rise to the top of the overall series standings, this led to many unfamiliar names appearing at the top of the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201050-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Overall team standings\nOverall team standings are calculated based on total number of points gained by the team's riders in each event. With one round remaining, 60 teams have so far participated in the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. The top ten teams are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201051-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe second round of the women's individual pursuit of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Melbourne, Australia on 20 November 2008. 14 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [83, 83], "content_span": [84, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201051-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe women's individual pursuit consists of a 3\u00a0km time trial race between two riders, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one rider catches the other, the race is over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201051-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top two riders in the qualifying round advanced to the gold medal match and the third and fourth riders advanced to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201051-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, World Cup Standings\nGeneral standings after 2 of 5 2008\u20132009 World Cup races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 104], "content_span": [105, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201052-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's points race\nThe second round of the women's points race of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Melbourne, Australia on 21 November 2008. 39 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201052-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's points race, Competition format\nA points race is a race in which all riders start together and the object is to earn points during sprints or to lap the bunch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201052-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's points race, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of two qualifying heats of 10\u00a0km (40 laps). The top twelve cyclist of each heat advanced to the 20\u00a0km final (80 laps).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201052-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's points race, Schedule\nSaturday 21 November12:00-12:20 Qualifying, heat 113:20-12:40 Qualifying, heat 219:40-20:10 Final20:40-20:45 Victory Ceremony", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 86], "content_span": [87, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201053-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's scratch\nThe second round of the women's scratch race of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Melbourne, Australia on 20 November 2008. 36 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201053-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's scratch, Competition format\nA scratch race is a race in which all riders start together and the object is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps. There are no intermediate points or sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 92], "content_span": [93, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201053-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 2 \u2013 Women's scratch, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of two qualifying heats of 7.5\u00a0km (30 laps). The top twelve cyclist of each heat advanced to the 10\u00a0km final (40 laps).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 92], "content_span": [93, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201054-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 3 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe third round of the women's individual pursuit of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Cali, Colombia on 11 December 2008. 8 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [83, 83], "content_span": [84, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201054-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 3 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe women's individual pursuit consists of a 3\u00a0km time trial race between two riders, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one rider catches the other, the race is over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201054-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 3 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top two riders in the qualifying round advanced to the gold medal match and the third and fourth riders advanced to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201054-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 3 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, World Cup Standings\nGeneral standings after 3 of 5 2008\u20132009 World Cup races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 104], "content_span": [105, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201055-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 4 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe fourth round of the women's individual pursuit of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Beijing, China on 16 January 2009. 14 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [83, 83], "content_span": [84, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201055-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 4 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe women's individual pursuit consists of a 3\u00a0km time trial race between two riders, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one rider catches the other, the race is over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201055-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 4 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament consists of an initial qualifying round. The top two riders in the qualifying round advance to the gold medal match and the third and fourth riders advance to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201055-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 4 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, World Cup Standings\nGeneral standings after 4 of 5 2008\u20132009 World Cup races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 104], "content_span": [105, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201056-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe fifth round of the women's individual pursuit of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 13 February 2009. 16 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [83, 83], "content_span": [84, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201056-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe women's individual pursuit consists of a 3\u00a0km time trial race between two riders, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one rider catches the other, the race is over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201056-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top two riders in the qualifying round advanced to the gold medal match and the third and fourth riders advanced to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 103], "content_span": [104, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201056-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, World Cup Standings\nFinal standings after 5 of 5 2008\u20132009 World Cup races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 83], "section_span": [85, 104], "content_span": [105, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201057-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's points race\nThe fifth round of the women's points race of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 14 February 2009. 38 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201057-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's points race\nEllen van Dijk won, after winning the individual pursuit World Cup race the day before, the final points race. Katie Colclough finished second and Shelley Olds third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201057-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's points race, Competition format\nA points race is a race in which all riders start together and the object is to earn points during sprints or to lap the bunch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 96], "content_span": [97, 224]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201057-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's points race, Schedule\nSaturday 14 February12:55-13:15 Qualifying, heat 113:15-13:35 Qualifying, heat 214:10-14:40 Final15:05-15:10 Victory Ceremony", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 86], "content_span": [87, 212]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201058-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by WOSlinker (talk | contribs) at 21:29, 15 February 2020 (fix small tags). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201058-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe fifth round of the women's team pursuit of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 February 2009. 10 teams participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201058-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's team pursuit, Competition format\nThe women's team pursuit consists of a 3\u00a0km time trial race between two riders, starting on opposite sides of the track. If one team catches the other, the race is over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201058-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics \u2013 Round 5 \u2013 Women's team pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament consisted of an initial qualifying round. The top two riders in the qualifying round advanced to the gold medal match and the third and fourth riders advanced to the bronze medal race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [79, 97], "content_span": [98, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201059-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking\nThe 2008\u201309 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking is an overview of the UCI Track Cycling World Ranking, based upon the results in all UCI-sanctioned track cycling races of the 2008\u201309 track cycling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team opened the season on November 3 when it took on Cal Baptist in an exhibition game in Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins participated in the 2K Sports Classic, Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series, and the John R. Wooden Classic in the Honda Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe team opened the season with the following starters: Alfred Aboya (Center), James Keefe (Power forward), Josh Shipp (Small forward), Jrue Holiday (Shooting guard) and Darren Collison (Point guard).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe team opted not to have an October 17, 2008 Midnight Madness celebration this year. Practices began on Saturday, October 18, as they prepared for the first exhibition game on Monday, November 3. The team has been picked to finish first in the Pac-10 conference again, over Arizona State, USC and Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nFreshman Tyler Trapani (#4), great-grandson of former head coach John Wooden, had joined the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThree players from last season's team, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute were chosen to play in the NBA. Westbrook was picked by the Seattle SuperSonics as the fourth overall pick, while Love was the fifth pick by the Memphis Grizzlies, and Mbah a Moute was picked by the Milwaukee Bucks, the 37th pick in the NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe team finished the season by losing to Villanova 89\u201369 in the second round of the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The senior class of  Alfred Aboya, Darren Collison and Josh Shipp finished their careers with the most wins in school history with 123  The distinction was relative, as John Wooden's legendary teams played shorter seasons and freshmen were ineligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nDuring half-time of the January 31 game against Stanford, the Bruins' 1963\u201364 and 1964\u201365 National Championship teams were honored, along with their 98-year-old former coach John R. Wooden, who told the crowd that he can still remember those years. The game also marked the Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Awareness Weekend with both teams wore white sneakers with their suits and ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nA week later at the Notre Dame game, Troy Aikman was honored for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame and for having recently completed his courses for a degree in sociology during half-time. A plaque was presented to Aikman to be permanently displayed at UCLA's Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nSeniors Alfred Aboya and Darren Collison played more games for UCLA than any other player in history, passing Mitchell Butler's 130 games from 1990\u201393.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nThe 72\u201354 DePaul victory in the December 13, 2008 John R. Wooden Classic game was coach Ben Howland's 300th career victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nSidney Wicks and his 1968\u201369 championship team were honored during halftime of the final home game against Oregon on Saturday, March 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nThese former players are now playing on an NBA team: Jason Kapono, Arron Afflalo, Dan Gadzuric, Luc Mbah a Moute, Ryan Hollins, Baron Davis, Trevor Ariza, Jordan Farmar, Matt Barnes, Kevin Love, Earl Watson, and Russell Westbrook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nUCLA's three-year reign came to an end when Washington defeated Washington State, 67\u201360 to win the regular season Pac-10 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nDarren Collison was named to the All-Pac-10 team; Josh Shipp was named to the second team; Alfred Aboya was honorable mention on the All-Pac-10 team; Jrue Holiday was named to the All-Freshman team; and Alfred Aboya and Darren Collison were named to the All-Defensive team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nDarren Collison was an honorable mention in the 2008\u201309 AP All-America basketball teams. Additionally, he was named the 2009 recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The award goes to the \"nation's outstanding senior male collegian 6'0\" and under who has excelled both athletically and academically.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nIn the NCAA National Championship tournament, Alfred Aboya scored two free-throw points with 48 seconds remaining in the game to help UCLA get by VCU in the first round at the East Regional in Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. Top scorers in the game were Eric Maynor (21) for VCU and Josh Shipp (16) for UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nIn the second round, with six Wildcats scoring double-digit points, Villanova ended UCLA's hope of going to the Final Four for the fourth time in a row. Dante Cunningham had 18 points; Reggie Redding and Corey Fisher had 13; Corey Stokes put up 12; eleven points came from Scottie Reynolds and ten points were put up by Dwayne Anderson for the winning team. Josh Shipp had 18 points and Alfred Aboya had 8 rebounds for UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nOn Friday, April 3, Alfred Aboya will play in the Hershey's all-star game, which is part of the kickoff celebration to Final Four weekend at Ford Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nThe team finished the season with an attendance of 392,980 in 35 games, averaging 11,228 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Highlights\nFreshman guard Jrue Holiday announced on April 9 that he would make himself eligible for the NBA draft without signing with an agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201060-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Recruiting class\nThe incoming class of Jerime Anderson,  Drew Gordon, Jrue Holiday, Malcolm Lee, and J'Mison Morgan was ranked No. 1 in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201061-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UD Almer\u00eda season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, UD Almer\u00eda played in two competitions: La Liga and the Copa del Rey. It was their second season in the top flight since promotion from the 2006\u201307 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201061-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UD Almer\u00eda season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201061-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UD Almer\u00eda season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201061-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UD Almer\u00eda season, Squad, Almer\u00eda B players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League\nThe 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League was the 54th edition of Europe's premier club football tournament and the 17th edition under the current UEFA Champions League format. The final was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 27 May 2009. It was the eighth time the European Cup final has been held in Italy and the fourth time it has been held at the Stadio Olimpico. The final was contested by the defending champions, Manchester United, and Barcelona, who had last won the tournament in 2006. Barcelona won the match 2\u20130, with goals from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi, securing The Treble in the process. In addition, both UEFA Cup finalists, Werder Bremen and Shakhtar Donetsk featured in the Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League\nAnorthosis of Cyprus and BATE Borisov of Belarus were the first teams from their respective countries to qualify for the group stage. Romanian side CFR Cluj and Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg also made their Champions League debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Association team allocation\nA total of 76 teams from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organises no domestic league competition) participated in the 2008\u201309 Champions League. Countries are allocated places according to the 2007 UEFA league co-efficient .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Association team allocation\nBelow is the qualification scheme for the 2008\u201309 Champions League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Association team allocation, Association ranking\nFor the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2002\u201303 to 2006\u201307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Association team allocation, Distribution\nSince the title holders (Manchester United) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, the group stage spot reserved for the title holders is vacated, and the following changes to the default access list are made:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Association team allocation, Teams\nLeague positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nThe draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on Tuesday, 1 July 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The first leg matches were held on 15 July and 16 July, while the second legs were played on 22 July and 23 July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nIn the draw for the first qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The lower pot contained the 14 teams from associations 40\u201353: none of these teams had a team ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nTwo of the 14 ties were won by the lower ranked team: Inter Baku (Azerbaijan, country rank 42) beat Rabotni\u010dki (Macedonia, 36); and BATE Borisov (Belarus, 40) beat Valur (Iceland, 37).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nOf the 28 teams in the first qualifying round, two survived as far as the group stage: Anorthosis and BATE Borisov. Each then finished in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nThe first leg matches were played on 29 July and 30 July, while the second legs were played on 5 August and 6 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nIn the draw for the second qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The higher pot contained teams ranked 166 or higher: so each tie contained exactly one team ranked in the top 166.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nThree of the 14 ties were won by the lower ranked team: Kaunas (unranked, coefficient 2.640) beat Rangers (ranked 24, coefficient 66.013); BATE Borisov (unranked, 1.760) beat Anderlecht (56, 41.810); and Anorthosis (ranked 193) beat Rapid Wien (ranked 166).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nOf the 28 teams in the second qualifying round, Panathinaikos were the only one to qualify for the knockout phase of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round\nThe draw for the third qualifying round took place on 1 August 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The first leg matches were played on 12 August and 13 August, while the second leg matches took place on 26 August and 27 August. The losing team of each match are being seeded into the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round; while the winning teams advance into the UEFA Champions League 2008\u201309 group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round\nIn the draw for the third qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The higher pot contained teams ranked 61 or higher. However, the draw was held before the second qualifying round was played, which meant that Kaunas and BATE Borisov effectively moved into the higher pot, replacing the teams they eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round\nFour of the 16 ties were won by the lower ranked team: Anorthosis (ranked 193) beat Olympiacos (ranked 44); BATE Borisov (unranked, coefficient 1.760) beat Levski Sofia (ranked 80, coefficient 32.644); Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (ranked 67) beat Schalke 04 (ranked 22) and Dynamo Kyiv (ranked 74) beat Spartak Moscow (ranked 61).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage took place on 28 August 2008 at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, prior to the 2008 UEFA Super Cup the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout phase, and the third-placed teams entered the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup. Based on paragraph 6.05 in the  for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nZenit St. Petersburg, BATE Borisov, CFR Cluj and Anorthosis each made their debut appearance in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nFrom the first knockout round through to the semi-finals, clubs play two matches against each other on a home and away basis with the same rules as the qualifying rounds applied. In the last 16, group winners play runners-up other than teams from their own pool or nation. For the draw of the quarter-finals and semi-finals clubs are seeded based on the results in the group stage and round of 16 of the current season (eight matches).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe draw for the first knockout round was held on Friday, 19 December 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football and Bruno Conti, the ambassador for the final in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were both held on Friday, 20 March 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by David Taylor and Bruno Conti. Unlike the first knockout round, teams from the same group or country may be drawn together from the quarter-finals onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Round of 16\nThe first legs of the first knockout round were played on 24 and 25 February 2009, and the second legs were played on 10 and 11 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Round of 16\nBayern Munich defeated Sporting CP by 12\u20131 on aggregate in the first knockout round; the biggest two-leg win in Champions League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Round of 16\nManchester United's 2\u20130 victory against Internazionale in the first knockout round was their 21st consecutive undefeated match, a record surpassing Ajax's 20 undefeated matches, set between 1985\u201386 and 1995\u201396. The record was extended to 25 matches, ending with a 2\u20130 defeat to Barcelona in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Quarter-finals\nThe first leg matches were played on 7 April and 8 April, with the second leg matches being played on 14 April and 15 April 2009. Due to the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough Disaster, Liverpool were granted their request that their return leg not be played on 15 April; the match was played on 14 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Quarter-finals\nPorto's 1\u20130 loss to Manchester United in the second leg of the quarter-finals was the club's first ever home defeat to English opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Semi-finals\nThe first leg matches were played on 28 April and 29 April, while the second leg matches were played on 5 May and 6 May 2009. As in 2007\u201308, the semi-final teams consisted of three Premier League sides and Barcelona. This was the third consecutive season in which three of the four semi-final teams were English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Semi-finals\nManchester United were the first defending champions to reach the semi-finals since the introduction of the first knockout round in the 2003\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Semi-finals\nChelsea were knocked out by Barcelona after a highly controversial performance by referee Tom Henning \u00d8vreb\u00f8, while Arsenal's 3\u20131 loss to Manchester United in the second leg of the semi-finals was the club's first defeat at the Emirates Stadium in a European competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201062-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase, Final\nThe 2009 UEFA Champions League Final was played at 20:45 CEST on 27 May 2009 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. Barcelona won the match 2\u20130, with goals from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi. Barcelona's victory also meant that they became the first Spanish team to win the Treble. Manchester United were the first defending champions to reach the final of the competition since Juventus in 1997, but they failed to become the first club to defend the European Cup since Milan in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage\nThe 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage matches took place between 16 September and 10 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage, Seeding structure\nSeeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients: Pot 1 held teams ranked 1\u201310 (since Milan and Sevilla did not qualify), Pot 2 held teams ranked 11\u201323, Pot 3 held teams ranked 25\u201345, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 46\u2013193 and unranked teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage, Seeding structure\nClubs from the same association were paired up to split the matchdays between Tuesday and Wednesday. Clubs with the same pairing letter played on different days, ensuring that teams from the same city (e.g. Milan and Internazionale, who also share a stadium) did not play on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage, Seeding structure\nOf the 16 teams in Pots 1 and 2, 14 eventually qualified for the first knockout round. The exceptions were Werder Bremen (to the UEFA Cup) and PSV (eliminated). Their places went to Panathinaikos (from Pot 3) and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (from Pot 4). Aalborg BK were the lowest-ranked Pot 4 team to qualify for the UEFA Cup Round of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage, Tie-breaking criteria\nBased on paragraph 6.05 in the  for the current season, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201063-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage, Groups\nTimes are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase\nThe knockout phase of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League began on 24 February 2009 and concluded with the final at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 27 May 2009. The knockout phase involved the 16 teams who finished in the top two in each of their groups in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase\nTimes are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Format\nEach tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that had the higher aggregate score over the two legs progressed to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finished level, the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progressed. If away goals were also equal, 30 minutes of extra time were played. If there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team qualified by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided via a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Format\nIn the draw for the first knockout round, matches were played between the winners of one group and the runners-up of a different group. The only restriction on the drawing of teams in the first knockout round was that the teams could not be from the same national association or have played in the same group in the group stages. From the quarter-finals onwards, these restrictions did not apply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Format\nIn the final, the tie was played over just one leg at a neutral venue. If scores were level at the end of normal time in the final, extra time was played, followed by penalties if scores remained tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16\nThe draw for the first knockout round of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League was held on 19 December 2008, and conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Bruno Conti, the ambassador for the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final. The first legs of the first knockout round were played on 24 and 25 February 2009, while the second legs were played on 10 and 11 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, First leg\nThe knockout phase began on 24 February with four first-leg ties. English side Arsenal gained a first leg advantage with a 1\u20130 home victory against Roma at the Emirates Stadium, courtesy of Robin van Persie's 37th-minute penalty. The other English team in action, Manchester United, drew 0\u20130 with Internazionale at the San Siro, failing to score the away goal they had been hoping for. The other two matches finished in score draws, with the away sides having the upper hand going into the second legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, First leg\nLyon drew 1\u20131 with Barcelona at the Stade de Gerland in France, with Barcelona's Thierry Henry cancelling out an opener from Juninho. Porto came from behind twice away to Atl\u00e9tico Madrid to secure a 2\u20132 draw at the Vicente Calder\u00f3n. Maxi Rodr\u00edguez put Atl\u00e9tico in front in the fourth minute, Lisandro L\u00f3pez equalised in the 22nd minute, Diego Forl\u00e1n scored on the stroke of half-time to restore Atl\u00e9tico's advantage but L\u00f3pez levelled in the 72nd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, First leg\nIn the second set of first leg ties, played on 25 February 2009, three teams scored away goals. Bayern Munich scored five times without reply away to Sporting CP. In the match at the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade, Franck Rib\u00e9ry gave the Germans the lead in the 42nd minute and Miroslav Klose doubled their advantage in the 57th. Rib\u00e9ry scored again from the penalty spot in the 63rd before a brace from Luca Toni put the tie out of Sporting's reach, even before the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, First leg\nFive-time winners Liverpool also managed an away win, against nine-time winners Real Madrid, but had to wait until the 82nd minute at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u for it, when Yossi Benayoun scored a header from F\u00e1bio Aur\u00e9lio's free-kick to hand them the advantage for the second leg. Villarreal and Panathinaikos shared a score draw at the El Madrigal, with Giuseppe Rossi scoring a 67th-minute penalty to cancel out Giorgos Karagounis' 59th-minute opener. In the other game, Chelsea beat Juventus at Stamford Bridge courtesy of a 12th-minute strike from Didier Drogba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nIn the four second leg ties played on 10 March, the two English clubs in action both progressed along with Bayern Munich and Villarreal. Liverpool eliminated the nine-time European Cup winners Real Madrid with a 4\u20130 home victory. Fernando Torres doubled Liverpool's aggregate lead in the 16th minute, and Steven Gerrard made it 2\u20130 on the night with a 28th-minute penalty. Gerrard further extended Liverpool's lead two minutes after half-time and Andrea Dossena made it 5\u20130 on aggregate with two minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nChelsea also made it through to the quarter-finals with a 2\u20132 draw, having won the first leg at Stamford Bridge 1\u20130. They fell behind to a goal from Vincenzo Iaquinta in the 19th minute but equalised through Michael Essien on the stroke of half-time. Juventus went back in front through an Alessandro Del Piero penalty, although Chelsea were heading through on the away goals ruling. Chelsea sealed their passage to the last eight when Didier Drogba equalised in the 83rd minute to win 3\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nIn the other games, Sporting CP departed the competition after setting a new Champions League record aggregate defeat of 12\u20131 to Bayern Munich. An early goal from Lukas Podolski extended Bayern's lead to 6\u20130 on aggregate and this was followed up by further strikes before half-time from Podolski again, \u00c2nderson Polga (own goal) and Bastian Schweinsteiger, sandwiched by a consolation from Sporting's Jo\u00e3o Moutinho. Bayern were not finished at 4\u20131 as Mark van Bommel, Miroslav Klose and Thomas M\u00fcller further added to the scoreline. Villarreal were the fourth side to make it into the quarter-finals by beating Panathinaikos 3\u20132 overall. Ariel Ibagaza put Villarreal 2\u20131 up on aggregate in the 49th minute, Evangelos Mantzios equalised six minutes later, but Joseba Llorente turned the tie in Villarreal's favour in the 70th minute and the match finished 2\u20131 to Villarreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 943]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nThe remaining two English sides both reached the quarter-finals on 11 March and they were joined by Porto and Barcelona. Manchester United defeated Internazionale 2\u20130 on aggregate at Old Trafford. After a 0\u20130 draw at the San Siro in the first leg, United were aware that an away goal for Inter would make it difficult, but they made the perfect start with centre back Nemanja Vidi\u0107 scoring with a header after four minutes. Cristiano Ronaldo doubled the lead just after half-time and the match finished 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nPorto and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid played out a 0\u20130 draw at the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o in Portugal, but Porto went through on the away goals rule, having scored twice in a 2\u20132 draw in Spain. Barcelona beat Lyon 6\u20133 on aggregate with a 5\u20132 win at the Camp Nou. Thierry Henry scored twice in the space of a couple of minutes shortly before the half-hour mark to put Barcelona 3\u20131 up on aggregate before Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o made it 4\u20130 just before half-time on the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0010-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nLyon scored two consolation goals through Jean Makoun on the stroke of half-time and Juninho just after the break, but Barcelona added a fifth in the final minute. In the last game to finish, Roma defeated Arsenal 1\u20130 at the Stadio Olimpico with Juan scoring in the ninth minute. The first match had finished 1\u20130 to Arsenal so the match headed into extra-time and, eventually, penalties. Arsenal emerged victorious in the shootout, winning 7\u20136 after Max Tonetto missed Roma's final spotkick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid 2\u20132 Porto on aggregate. Porto won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nArsenal 1\u20131 Roma on aggregate. Arsenal won 7\u20136 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals of the competition took place in Nyon, Switzerland, on 20 March 2009. There was no seeding and no country protection, meaning that it was an entirely random draw. The first legs were played on 7 and 8 April while the second legs were played on 14 and 15 April. Liverpool requested that their second leg be played on 14 April so that it avoid a clash with the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster on 15 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, First leg\nEnglish sides Manchester United and Arsenal were involved in the first two quarter-final matches on 7 April. Arsenal were playing the first leg away against Villarreal from Spain, their second encounter in three years following on from a meeting in the semi-finals three years earlier. Villarreal went in front in the 10th minute thanks to a long-range effort from Marcos Senna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, First leg\nThe Yellow Submarine went on to dominate the first half, but Arsenal did not concede again and their defensive work was rewarded in the 66th minute as a clipped ball from Arsenal captain Cesc F\u00e0bregas was controlled on the chest by Emmanuel Adebayor and volleyed acrobatically with an overhead kick into the bottom corner. The match eventually finished 1\u20131, with Arsenal taking an away goal into the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, First leg\nManchester United played their first leg at home at Old Trafford against Porto, the team who had knocked them out in the first knockout round five years before. Porto took an early lead, in the fourth minute, when Cristian Rodr\u00edguez netted past Edwin van der Sar. The advantage lasted only 11 minutes, however, at which point Wayne Rooney scored the equaliser, chipping the ball over the advancing Helton following a careless back-pass from Bruno Alves. In an open game, in which Porto dominated, another goal appeared certain but did not come until the 85th minute. Carlos Tevez saw off his marker to score from a Rooney flick from a couple of yards out. The action had not finished however and Mariano Gonz\u00e1lez equalised in the final minute to hand Porto a second away goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, First leg\nLiverpool and Chelsea faced each other in an all-English tie at Anfield on 8 April. The sides were meeting in the Champions League for the fifth straight season, having last faced each other in the competition in the 2008 semi-final, when Chelsea advanced to the final. Fernando Torres handed an early advantage to Liverpool, scoring in the sixth minute. However, their lead only lasted until the 39th minute when the Liverpool defence allowed Branislav Ivanovi\u0107 too much space at a corner and he was able to power a header past Pepe Reina. Chelsea took the lead in the 62nd minute from an almost identical situation as Ivanovi\u0107 scored his second headed goal. Didier Drogba added a final goal to make it 3\u20131 to the away side with a side-footed finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, First leg\nIn the final game, played on the same evening, two of the most successful European clubs, Barcelona and Bayern Munich met at the Camp Nou in Spain. It was their first meeting since the group stage of the 1998\u201399 tournament. Bayern had beaten Sporting CP 12\u20131 in the previous round, but Barcelona posed a far tougher proposition and it showed. Lionel Messi put Barcelona in front in the ninth minute and Samuel Eto'o doubled the lead three minutes later. Messi scored his second goal in the 38th minute and Thierry Henry made it 4\u20130 in the 43rd minute. The score remained at 4\u20130 throughout the second half, leaving Barcelona as favourites to progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nIn the first two of four second-leg ties, Chelsea came with a 3\u20131 advantage over Liverpool and the bonus of three away goals, Liverpool came into their match knowing they needed to score three times without conceding to progress, or win 3\u20131 to take the game to extra time at Stamford Bridge. Despite starting the match as outsiders, Liverpool looked to be well on the way towards their target as they took a 2\u20130 lead within half an hour and levelled the scores at 3\u20133 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nF\u00e1bio Aur\u00e9lio scored directly with a free kick from the left of the penalty area in the 19th minute to hand them the lead and this was doubled nine minutes later from the penalty spot: Xabi Alonso stepped up to score following a foul on him by Branislav Ivanovi\u0107. But six minutes after half-time, Didier Drogba made the score 2\u20131 with a shot that went through the hands of Pepe Reina, and six minutes later, Chelsea equalised to 2\u20132 when Alex scored with a powerful free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0018-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nFrank Lampard put Chelsea 3\u20132 up in the 76th minute and, at this stage, Liverpool needed to score three goals to advance. Goals from Lucas and Dirk Kuyt in the 81st and 83rd minutes, respectively, put Liverpool 4\u20133 up on the night and only a goal away from advancing. However, Lampard scored again in the 89th minute to finish the tie off, and the match ended 4\u20134 and 7\u20135 to Chelsea overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nIn the other match to take place that evening, Barcelona and Bayern Munich played out a 1\u20131 draw at the Allianz Arena. Bayern trailed the tie 4\u20130 following the first match at the Camp Nou and they were able to play without fear in the first half. Luca Toni and Franck Rib\u00e9ry created chances in the first half but Barcelona weathered the storm and created their only meaningful chance of the first half through Dani Alves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nThey managed to pull a goal back early in the second half, when Z\u00e9 Roberto took the ball past defender Yaya Tour\u00e9 and set up Rib\u00e9ry who was able to score past V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s. But Barcelona put the tie beyond the reach of Bayern with an equaliser from Seydou Keita at the end of a 17-pass move. The match finished 1\u20131, giving Barcelona a 5\u20131 aggregate win to set up a fourth tie with Chelsea in five seasons two weeks later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nThe third second-leg tie was finely poised at 1\u20131 between Arsenal and Villarreal at the Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal ahead courtesy of the away goals rule; Villarreal came into the match knowing they had to score. Both teams were without key players: Arsenal had to play without goalkeeper Manuel Almunia, William Gallas and Ga\u00ebl Clichy while captain Marcos Senna and Santi Cazorla were missing for Villarreal. Theo Walcott delivered some dangerous crosses and Robin van Persie missed an early chance from Samir Nasri's cross, but Diego God\u00edn also tested Arsenal goalkeeper \u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski with a volley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nArsenal, however, took the lead in the 10th minute as Walcott raced onto a F\u00e0bregas through-ball and chipped the ball over Diego L\u00f3pez. Villarreal continued to create chances, including Robert Pires nearly marking his return to his former club with a goal. Emmanuel Adebayor followed up a Van Persie free kick with a header on goal, but Gonzalo Rodr\u00edguez cleared the ball off the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0020-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nAfter half-time, Van Persie had a shot from distance charged down, but Arsenal did score a second goal in the 60th minute as Van Persie opted to slide a pass through to Adebayor, and his strike partner applied the finish. The tie was over in the 69th minute when God\u00edn was adjudged to have fouled Walcott; Sebasti\u00e1n Eguren collected a second yellow card for his protests before Van Persie scored from the penalty spot. The match finished 3\u20130 to Arsenal, with Arsenal winning 4\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nThe final quarter-final second leg tie was between Porto and Manchester United, played simultaneously with Arsenal's match. Porto had the advantage of two away goals, after drawing 2\u20132 at Old Trafford. Manchester United looked to recall Rio Ferdinand from a back injury to partner Nemanja Vidi\u0107 in central defence. Despite a mixed season, Cristiano Ronaldo had still scored 20 goals in all competitions and won numerous awards and he added his 21st goal with a 35-metre strike after only six minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nPorto created very few chances, their only meaningful shot being a free kick that went wide of Edwin van der Sar's goal in the first half and later a chance for Lisandro L\u00f3pez. United played the game at a controlled pace, but they were unable to score a second goal to settle the nerves \u2013 the threat remained that if Porto scored late, United would be knocked out. Ronaldo had a shot saved by the Porto goalkeeper Helton and Vidi\u0107 missed from a couple of yards. They held on to become the first English team to win at Porto and keep their ambition of winning five trophies in the same season alive. It was United's first clean sheet in six matches and set up a semi-final with fellow English team Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals took place immediately after the draw for the quarter-finals. The first legs were played on 28 and 29 April and the second legs on 5 and 6 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Semi-finals, Second leg\nAlthough Chelsea had achieved a goalless draw at the Camp Nou, Barcelona went into the game as favourites. The game started well for Chelsea and after nine minutes Michael Essien scored a 20-yard left-footed volley after Barcelona failed to clear a pass into the box from Frank Lampard. The first half came to a close with Chelsea leading 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Semi-finals, Second leg\nDespite Barcelona dominating possession, Chelsea continued to be the most dangerous side, especially following the sending off of Eric Abidal following a foul on Nicolas Anelka, with Chelsea also calling for up to four penalties, none of them being awarded by Norwegian referee Tom Henning \u00d8vreb\u00f8. A 93rd-minute equaliser from a shot by Andr\u00e9s Iniesta \u2013 which happened to be Barcelona's only shot on target \u2013 allowed Barcelona to ensure a last-minute qualification to the final. An additional handball in the box from Eto'o from a Ballack shot was also waived away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Semi-finals, Second leg\nAlmost as soon as referee \u00d8vreb\u00f8 blew the final whistle, several Chelsea players surrounded him with complaints regarding his decisions. Some players, like Frank Lampard and Iniesta, swapped shirts, while others, such as Michael Ballack, John Terry, and Didier Drogba, continued to shout at the referee and contest him, with Drogba notably shouting, \"It's a fucking disgrace\" into a live television camera. Kevin McCarra writing for The Guardian described \u00d8vreb\u00f8 as \"relatively inexperienced\" and declared he \"did not inspire any confidence whatsoever\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201064-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Semi-finals, Second leg\nIn the post-game analysis on Sky Sports 2, the four commentators unanimously held that among the 4 penalty appeals turned down by the referee, 3 of them should have been awarded, including the shirt-pulling against Didier Drogba by Eric Abidal which would otherwise be a one-on-one against the goalkeeper, the lob ball over Barcelona defender Gerard Piqu\u00e9 but was blocked by his stretched-out right palm in the 82nd minute and the last-minute fully stretched upper arm block by Eto'o. All of the three fouls were committed inside the penalty box. Referee \u00d8vreb\u00f8 admitted his errors in 2018 at an interview after the two teams played against each other in the 2017-18  Champions League round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying rounds for the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League began on 15 July 2008. In total, there were three qualifying rounds which provided 16 clubs to join the group stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nThe draw for this round was performed on 1 July 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, First qualifying round, Seeding\nDinamo Zagreb Artmedia Petr\u017ealka Dom\u017eale G\u00f6teborg Anorthosis  Tampere United Dinamo Tbilisi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, First qualifying round, Seeding\nVentspils Rabotni\u010dki Modri\u010da FBK Kaunas Sheriff Tiraspol Drogheda United Valur", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, First qualifying round, Seeding\nBATE Borisov Levadia Tallinn Inter Baku Dinamo Tirana Pyunik Aktobe Linfield", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, First qualifying round, Seeding\nLlanelli NS\u00cd Runav\u00edk F91 Dudelange Valletta FC Santa Coloma Budu\u0107nost Podgorica Murata", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nThe draw for this round was performed on 1 July 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Seeding\nPartizan Dinamo Zagreb Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w Artmedia Petr\u017ealka Aalborg BK Brann Rapid Wien", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Seeding\nDom\u017eale Beitar Jerusalem MTK Budapest G\u00f6teborg Anorthosis Tampere United Dinamo Tbilisi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Seeding\nVentspils Inter Baku Modri\u010da FBK Kaunas Sheriff Tiraspol Drogheda United BATE Borisov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, First leg\n2\u20132 on aggregate. Brann won on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round\nThe draw for this round was performed on 1 August 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round, Seeding\nLiverpool Barcelona Arsenal Schalke 04 Juventus FBK Kaunas Marseille Steaua Bucure\u0219ti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round, Seeding\nPanathinaikos Basel Olympiacos Fenerbah\u00e7e Shakhtar Donetsk BATE Borisov Fiorentina Spartak Moscow", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round, Seeding\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid Sparta Prague Dynamo Kyiv Levski Sofia Slavia Prague Galatasaray Partizan Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201065-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Third qualifying round, Seeding\nDinamo Zagreb Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w Standard Li\u00e8ge Twente Artmedia Petr\u017ealka Aalborg BK Brann Anorthosis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup was the 38th season of the UEFA Cup football tournament. The final was played at the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium, home ground of Fenerbah\u00e7e, in Istanbul on 20 May 2009. This season was the final one to use the UEFA Cup format; starting in 2009, the competition was known as the UEFA Europa League. Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk beat Werder Bremen 2\u20131 after extra time to win their first European title. Zenit Saint Petersburg were the defending champions but were eliminated by Udinese in the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Association team allocation\nA total of 157 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA league coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2002\u201303 to 2006\u201307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Association team allocation\nBelow is the qualification scheme for the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Association team allocation, Distribution\nSince the winners of the 2007\u201308 UEFA Cup, Zenit Saint Petersburg, qualified for the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the playoff round was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Association team allocation, Redistribution rules\nA UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualifies for the UEFA Cup by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 67], "content_span": [68, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Round and draw dates\nThe calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nThe draw for the first qualifying round took place on 1 July 2008. The first legs were played on 17 July 2008 and the second legs were played on 31 July 2008, with the exception of the Nordsj\u00e6lland vs TVMK match, which was played on 29 July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nIn each region of the draw for the first qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The lower pots contained unranked teams from associations 34\u201353, together with V\u0117tra of Lithuania (the 33rd association). The higher pots contained teams from associations 1\u201332, together with S\u016bduva of Lithuania, and FH (who had a team ranking, 209).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, First qualifying round\nThree of the 37 ties were won by the lower ranked team, all involving teams whose ranking was that of their association: WIT Georgia (Georgia, ranked 38) beat Spartak Trnava (Slovakia, 24); Vllaznia (Albania, 43) beat Koper (Slovenia, 29); and St Patrick's Athletic (Ireland, 35) beat Olimps (Latvia, 31).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nThe draw for the second qualifying round was held on 1 August 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland, and featured 16 teams entering directly at the second qualifying round, as well as the 37 winners from the previous round and the 11 third round winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The first legs were played on 14 August 2008 and the second leg on 28 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nBecause there are an odd number of teams in the Central and Northern groups in the 2nd qualifying round, UEFA moved Rennes from the Central-East group to the Northern group. Furthermore, Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs and S\u016bduva were moved from the Northern group to the Central-East group, and Vaslui and Interblock Ljubljana were moved from the Southern-Mediterranean group to the Central-East group. It is unknown why UEFA decided on these last moves since it is not strictly required. One of the reasons could be to have more balance in the groups with respect to the coefficients.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\nIn each region of the draw for the second qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The higher pots contained teams with a ranking of 176 or higher, and unranked teams from associations ranked 1 to 15 (or 17 in the Southern-Mediterranean region).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round\n12 of the 32 ties were won by the lower-ranked team. The 12 teams that lost to a lower team were: AEK Athens, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Aris, Red Star Belgrade, Grasshopper, Slovan Liberec, Viking, Lokomotiv Sofia, Elfsborg, Gent, Queen of the South and Debrecen. St Patrick's Athletic were the only team to beat a higher-seeded team in each of the two qualifying rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, First round\n32 teams entered the tournament at the first round, along with the 32 winners from the previous round and the 16 losers from the Champions League third qualifying round. The 80 teams were then split into eight groups of ten teams; five seeded teams and five unseeded teams. The draw was based on their coefficient ranking with one exception: no country can have multiple teams in any group. Teams ranked 108 or higher were seeded, as were unranked teams from England and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, First round\nThe draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on Friday, 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco. The matches were played on 18 September and 2 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, First round\nNine of the 40 ties were won by the unseeded team. The nine seeded losing teams, with their ranking, were: Everton (50), Rapid Bucure\u0219ti (58), Be\u015fikta\u015f (60), Sparta Prague (68), Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti (69), Levski Sofia (80), Austria Wien (82), Rennes (97) and Hapoel Tel Aviv (108).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup was held at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 7 October 2008. The 40 teams in the draw were divided into five pots based on their UEFA coefficients. The eight teams with the highest UEFA coefficient were allocated to Pot 1, the next eight teams to Pot 2, and so on. One team from each pot was drawn for each group, with the restriction that no team could be drawn with one from the same country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Group stage\nThe top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase\nExcept for the final round, the rounds in the final phase are two-legged. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The away goals rule also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shoot-out. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase\nThe draw for the Round of 32 was held on Friday, 19 December 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football and 2009 UEFA Cup Final ambassador Can Bartu. In this round, each UEFA Cup group winner paired with the third-placed team from another UEFA Cup group and each UEFA Cup group runner-up paired with a third-placed team from the UEFA Champions League, with the only restriction on the draw being that teams from the same national association could not be drawn together. The UEFA Cup group winners and runners-up each played the second leg of their Round of 32 ties at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase\nThe draw for the Round of 16 also took place on 19 December 2008, immediately after the draw for the Round of 32. Each tie in the Round of 32 was numbered, and teams were drawn for the Round of 16 as \"Winners of match 1\", \"Winners of match 2\", etc. Unlike the Round of 32, teams from the same group or country may be drawn together from the Round of 16 onwards, meaning that they were entirely randomly drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase\nThe draws for the quarterfinals and semifinals were both held on Friday, 20 March 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by David Taylor and Can Bartu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Round of 32\nThe first legs were played on 18 February and 19 February, and the second leg matches were played on 26 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Round of 32\nManchester City were the only team from the first qualifying round to reach the Round of 16. Braga were the only team from the Intertoto Cup to reach the Round of 16 and were therefore awarded the title of Intertoto Cup winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Round of 32\nOf the eight teams who had been placed in Pot 5 of the group stage draw, only Metalist Kharkiv and Saint-\u00c9tienne reached the Round of 16. Of the eight teams that entered the Round of the 32 from the UEFA Champions League group stage, two lost: Fiorentina and Bordeaux. Of the eight ties between a third-placed team and a first-placed team from the UEFA Cup group stage, two were won by the third-placed team; the winners were Braga and Paris Saint-Germain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Round of 16\nThe first leg matches were played on 12 March, and the second leg matches were played on 18 March and 19 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 9 April and the second legs were played on 16 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 30 April and the second legs on 7 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Final phase, Final\nThe final of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup was held on 20 May 2009 at the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first time that the UEFA Cup Final had been held in Turkey and followed the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, which was held in Istanbul's Atat\u00fcrk Olympic Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201066-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, Top goalscorers\nSource: Hammond, Mike, ed (2009). The European Football Yearbook 2009/10. London: Carlton Books. ISBN\u00a0978-1-84732-360-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase\nThe final phase of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup began on 18 February 2009, and concluded with the final at the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium in Istanbul on 20 May 2009. The final phase involved the 24 teams that finished in the top three in each group in the group stage and the eight teams that finished in third place in the UEFA Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase\nEach tie in the final phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that had the higher aggregate score over the two legs progressed to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finished level, the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progressed. If away goals are also equal, 30 minutes of extra time were played. If goals were scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team qualified by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, there would be a penalty shootout after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase\nIn the draw for the Round of 32, matches were played between the winner of one group and the third-placed team of a different group, and between the runners-up of one group and the third-placed team from a Champions League group. The only restriction on the drawing of teams in the Round of 32 was that the teams must not be from the same national association or have played in the same group in the group stages. From the Round of 16 onwards, these restrictions did not apply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase\nIn the final, the tie was played over just one leg at a neutral venue. If scores were level at the end of normal time in the final, extra time was played, followed by penalties if scores had remained tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 32\nThe draw for the Round of 32 took place on 19 December 2008, the day after the final round of UEFA Cup group stage matches. The draw was conducted by UEFA Secretary David Taylor and 2009 UEFA Cup Final ambassador Can Bartu, and featured the top three teams from each group in the group stage and the eight third-place finishers from the UEFA Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 32\nThe draw saw each UEFA Cup group winner paired with the third-placed team from another UEFA Cup group and each UEFA Cup group runner-up paired with a third-placed team from the UEFA Champions League, with the only restriction on the draw being that teams from the same national association could not be drawn together. The UEFA Cup group winners and runners-up each played the second leg of their Round of 32 ties at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 32, Second leg\nMarseille 1\u20131 Twente on aggregate. Marseille won 7\u20136 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 32, Second leg\nWerder Bremen 3\u20133 Milan on aggregate. Werder Bremen won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 32, Second leg\nDynamo Kyiv 3\u20133 Valencia on aggregate. Dynamo Kyiv won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 16\nThe draw for the Round of 16 took place on 19 December 2008, immediately after the draw for the Round of 32. Each tie in the Round of 32 were numbered and teams were drawn for the Round of 16 as \"Winners of match 1\", \"Winners of match 2\", etc. The teams drawn first in each Round of 16 tie will play the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nMetalist Kharkiv 3\u20133 Dynamo Kyiv. Dynamo Kyiv won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Round of 16, Second leg\nManchester City 2\u20132 Aalborg BK on aggregate. Manchester City won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 20 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Semi-finals\nThe draw for the semi-finals took place immediately after the draw for the quarter-finals. The first legs will be played on 30 April and the second legs on 7 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201067-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup final phase, Semi-finals, Second leg\nWerder Bremen 3\u20133 Hamburg on aggregate. Werder Bremen won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round\nThe first round of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup began on 16 September 2008, which narrowed clubs down to 40 teams in preparation for the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nRennes 2\u20132 Twente on aggregate. Twente won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nBorussia Dortmund 2\u20132 Udinese on aggregate. Udinese won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nFeyenoord 2\u20132 Kalmar on aggregate. Feyenoord won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nBrann 2\u20132 Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a on aggregate. Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a won 3\u20132 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nSlavia Prague 1\u20131 Vaslui on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201068-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup first round, First round, Second leg\nDinamo Zagreb 3\u20133 Sparta Prague on aggregate. Dinamo Zagreb won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201069-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup group stage\nThe group stage of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. The draw took place on 7 October 2008 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Group stage matches began on 23 October 2008 and concluded on 18 December 2008. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201069-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup group stage, Seedings\nPot 1 contained teams ranked between 2 and 39: Pot 2 held teams ranked 40 to 71, Pot 3 held teams ranked 72 to 88, and Pot 4 teams ranked 91 to 122 together with unranked teams from England and Spain. Pot 5 held the remaining teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201069-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup group stage, Seedings\nDinamo Zagreb, and all the Pot 5 teams, had beaten higher-ranked teams in the first round. Lech Pozna\u0144 and \u017dilina had also beaten higher-ranked teams in the Second Qualifying Round. Seven of the eight teams in Pot 5 qualified for the Round of 32, \u017dilina being the only exception. In contrast, only five of the eight teams in Pot 1 managed to do the same, as Sevilla, Benfica and Schalke 04 were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201069-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup group stage, Tie-breaking criteria\nBased on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201070-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying rounds for the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup began on 17 July 2008. In total, there were two qualifying rounds which narrowed clubs down to 80 teams in preparation for the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201070-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, First leg\nMatch played as a one off in Austria due to political unrest in Georgia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201070-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Second leg\nAPOEL 5\u20135 Red Star Belgrade on aggregate, APOEL win on away goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201070-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Second leg\nZ\u00fcrich 2\u20132 Sturm Graz on aggregate. Z\u00fcrich won 4\u20132 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201070-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds, Second qualifying round, Second leg\nMatch played as a one off in Austria due to political unrest in Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201071-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Futsal Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 23rd edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament and the 8th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201071-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Futsal Cup, Final\nThe 2009 UEFA Futsal Cup Final was played at 17:00 CET on 26 April 2009 at the Palace of Sports in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Inter FS won the match 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201072-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Women's Cup\nThe UEFA Women's Cup 2008\u201309 is the eighth edition of the UEFA Women's Cup football club tournament (since rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League), the most important trophy in European club football. The first qualifying round started on 4 September 2008 and the final over two legs was held on 16 and 22 May 2009. Duisburg defeated Zvezda Perm 7\u20131 on aggregate to claim their first UEFA Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201072-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UEFA Women's Cup, First qualifying round, Group A4\nTournament in Oslo (Norway). Georgia's champion FC Iveria Khashuri withdrew their team from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201073-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 UMass Minutemen basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by first year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at William D. Mullins Memorial Center and are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 12-18, 7-9 in A-10 play to finish for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201074-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USC Trojans men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 USC Trojans men's basketball team represented the University of Southern California during the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Trojans, led by 4th year head coach Tim Floyd, played their home games at the Galen Center and were members of the Pacific-10 Conference. They finished the season 22\u201313, 9\u20139 in Pac-10 play. They won the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament over Arizona State. They went to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as a 10th seed, where they lost in the 2nd round to Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201075-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 USHL season is the 30th season of the United States Hockey League as an all-junior league. The regular season began on October 3, 2008, and concluded on April 5, 2009, with the regular season champion winning the Anderson Cup. The 2008\u201309 season was the first for the expansion Fargo Force, replacing the Ohio Junior Blue Jackets who folded after only two seasons in existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201075-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USHL season\nThe Clark Cup playoffs featured the top four teams from each division competing for the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201075-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USHL season, Regular season\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched league title", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201076-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USM Alger season\nIn the 2008\u201309 season, USM Alger competed in the Ligue 1 for the 31st time, as well as the Arab Champions League and the Algerian Cup. It was their 14th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201076-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USM Alger season, Squad information, Playing statistics\nAppearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearancesRed card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201076-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 USM Alger season, Squad information, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201077-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Udinese Calcio season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Udinese Calcio's 14th consecutive and 29th overall season in Serie A. The team competed in Serie A, finishing 7th, and in the Coppa Italia, reaching the quarter-finals. Having finished 7th the previous season also, Udinese competed in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201078-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uganda Super League\nThe 2008\u201309 Ugandan Super League was the 42nd season of the official Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201078-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uganda Super League, Overview\nThe 2008\u201309 Uganda Super League was contested by 18 teams and was won by Uganda Revenue Authority SC, while Mbarara United FC, Bugerere FC, Youfra FC, Sharing FC and Kakira FC were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201078-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uganda Super League, Leading goalscorer\nThe top goalscorer in the 2008\u201309 season was Peter Ssenyonjo of Police FC with 22 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup is the 18th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition, currently known as DATAGROUP \u2013 Football Ukraine Cup, or Kubok of Ukraine. The defending champion of this edition is Shakhtar Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup\nThe Ukrainian Cup began with a preliminary round where teams from Druha Liha and Amateur Cup champions participated. In the second preliminary round, teams from Persha Liha were drawn into the competition and then in the round of 32 teams from Premier League entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup\nThe winners of this competition will enter as Ukraine's cup winner representative in the play-off round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League. Since one of the finalists, Shakhtar Donetsk, has already qualified for European competitions for 2009\u201310 by virtue of their position in the Premier League, Vorskla Poltava automatically qualifies for the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Team allocation, Round and draw dates\nAll draws held at FFU headquarters (Building of Football) in Kyiv unless stated otherwise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, First Preliminary Round\nIn this round entered 25 teams from Druha Liha and winners of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup. The draw for the First Preliminary Round was held on July 8, 2008 while the matches took place on July 16, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Second Preliminary Round\nIn this round entered all 18 teams from Persha Liha. They were drawn against the 14 winners of the First Preliminary Round, with two matches containing only Persha Liha teams. The draw was held on July 22, 2008 while the matches were played on August 6, 2008, unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Round of 32\nIn this round entered all 16 teams from Premier League. They were drawn against the 16 winners from the previous round, who played home in this round. The draw was held on August 15, 2008 while the matches were played on September 13, 2008, unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Round of 16\nIn this round entered winners from the previous round (11 Premier League and 5 Persha Liha teams). The draw was random and was held on September 24, 2008. The matches were played on October 29, 2008, unless otherwise noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Quarterfinals\nThe draw was held on October 31, 2008 and was random. The matches were played November 12, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Semifinals\nThe draw was held on November 19, 2008 and was random. The games were scheduled to be played on April 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Competition schedule, Final\nThe Ukrainian Cup Final was played in Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk on May 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201079-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Cup, Top goalscorers\nIn bold are the players that are still in the competition. Statistics can be found at RSSSF web-site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League is the eighteenth since its establishment. The Professional Football League (PFL) decreased the number of teams in the league. This season, there are 18 teams instead of 20 teams competing. Two of the teams were relegated from the 2007\u201308 Ukrainian Premier League and two were promoted from the 2007\u201308 Ukrainian Second League. To decrease the number of teams in the competition 4 teams were relegated from the 2007\u201308 Ukrainian First League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Teams, Promoted teams\nBoth of the following two teams were promoted from Druha Liha and debuting in the Ukrainian First League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Teams, Relegated teams\nTwo teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2007\u201308 season after finishing on the bottom of the competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Teams, Withdrawn teams\nOn June 26, 2008 MFC Mykolaiv was withdrawn from competitions. On July 1, 2008 the club was announced about the official disbandment. Due to the public pressure and with help of Hryhoriy Surkis, it became possible to preserve the club in professional competitions. MFK Mykolaiv was admitted to the 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League instead of the third team of Dynamo, FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Competition information\nPlacing of teams in table of standings are done in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Withdrawn teams, Komunalnyk Luhansk\nAfter competing in thirteen rounds of the competition Komunalnyk Luhansk withdrew from the PFL on October 17, 2008. The PFL annulled all the results from the competition and adjusted the standings. Komunalnyk had a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 10 losses scoring 12 goals and having 31 goals scored against them in the thirteen games that they played in. At the end of the 13th round Komunalnyk was in 17th place in the standings. Yuri Kudinov was team's leading goal scorer with 8 goals (3 penalties).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Withdrawn teams, Knyazha Schaslyve\nKnyazha withdrew on the March 25, 2009. The PFL will award technical victories to teams that are to play against Knyazha after the winter break. Knyazha in 18 games had a record of 5 wins, 5 draws, and 8 losses scoring 22 goals and having 23 goals scored against them. At the end of the 18th round Knyazha was in 14th place in the standings. Oleksandr Mandziuk was team's leading goal scorer with 9 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201080-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian First League, Withdrawn teams, Ihroservis Simferopol\nIhroservis failed to pay league dues on time and were excluded from competitions for the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201081-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Hockey Championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Hockey League season was the 17th season of the Ukrainian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Ukraine. 13 teams participated in the league, and HC Sokil Kyiv won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League season was the eighteenth since its establishment. The league was restructured and split off from the Professional Football League of Ukraine. It was officially named as the EpiCentre Championship of Ukraine in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League\nShakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions of the past season, having won their fourth league title. The season began on 16 July 2008 with a scoreless draw between Tavriya Simferopol and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. The last round of matches were played on 26 May 2009. A total of 16 teams participated in the league, 14 of which had contested in the 2007\u201308 season, and two of which were promoted from the Persha Liha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League\nVorskla Poltava's Ahmed Yanuzi scored the first goal of the tournament on 18 July 2008 in the 72nd minute of an away match against FC Kharkiv. Dynamo Kyiv won their title several games before the end of the season after a home win against Tavriya Simferopol. Dynamo finished with a 15-point lead over the defending champions and current runners-up Shakhtar Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Round by round\nThe following table is a historic representation of the team's position in the standings after the completion of each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Stadiums\nFC Kharkiv played in Sumy, because Dynamo Stadium in Kharkiv which was recently bought by the club requires major renovations. The club returned to their home ground in April for their 24th Round game against Tavriya. Arsenal Kyiv, who also has a chronic problem with obtaining its own home ground, shared three stadiums in the first half of the season. Initially allowed to play at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Arsenal was forced to seek another home venue during its times financial hardship. Arsenal was spotted by Obolon Kyiv that let the club utilize the Obolon Stadium. As the problem continues to be unresolved with Arsenal's home field, they could possibly relocate from Kiev, with some speculations of moving to Sumy Oblast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Stadiums\nDnipro Dnipropetrovsk has moved this season to the newly built Dnipro Stadium, but still played some of its games at Stadium Meteor on occasion. Also Shakhtar Donetsk plans to move to the newly built Donbass Arena once it is completely built. FC Chornomorets Odessa, due to renovations at Chornomorets Stadium played its games in the second half of the season at Spartak Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Stadiums\nNewly promoted FC Lviv decided to use Ukraina Stadium expecting to attract extra fans in Lviv. However, economic factors as well as poor performances and lack of support in the area the club decided after the winter break to return to their original home ground Kniazha Arena in Dobromyl. After one home game in atrocious conditions in early spring which damaged the pitch the club was forced to look to other venues (including Avanhard Stadium in Lutsk and Bannikov Stadium in Kiev). Late in April FC Lviv returned for home fixtures at Kniazha Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Stanislav Bohush (20), Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (10). Defenders: Bet\u00e3o (24), Badr El Kaddouri (23 / 1), Andriy Nesmachny (22 / 2), Taras Mykhalyk (18 / 2), Pape Diakhat\u00e9 (13 / 1), Goran Sabli\u0107 (7), Vitaliy Mandziuk (6), Oleksandr Romanchuk (5), Oleh Dopilka (1). Midfielders: Ognjen Vukojevi\u0107 (27 / 2), Oleksandr Aliyev (25 / 13), Tiberiu Ghioane (21 / 9), Milo\u0161 Ninkovi\u0107 (20 / 5), Roman Eremenko (19 / 1), Corr\u00eaa (11 / 1), Malkhaz Asatiani (11), Atanda Yussuf (11), Serhiy Kravchenko (9 / 1), Oleh Husiev (9), Mykola Moroziuk (5), Florin Cernat (3 / 1), Frank Temile (1). Forwards: Isma\u00ebl Bangoura (26 / 13), Artem Milevskyi (24 / 10), Artem Kravets (12 / 4), Roman Zozulya (11 / 1), Andriy Yarmolenko (10), Maksim Shatskikh (6), Guilherme (2 / 3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (24), Rustam Khudzhamov (6). Defenders: Darijo Srna (25 / 4), Dmytro Chyhrynsky (23 / 1), R\u0103zvan Ra\u021b (17), Oleksandr Kucher (15), Vyacheslav Shevchuk (14), Mykola Ishchenko (13), Oleksandr Chyzhov (9), Volodymyr Yezersky (8). Midfielders: Willian (29 / 5), J\u00e1dson (26 / 1), Tom\u00e1\u0161 H\u00fcbschman (22 / 1), Fernandinho (20 / 5), Oleksiy Hay (16 / 2), Mariusz Lewandowski (16 / 1), Ilsinho (13 / 1), Igor Duljaj (13 / 1), Kostiantyn Kravchenko (6), Artem Fedetsky (5 / 1), Oleksiy Poliansky (3). Forwards: Yevhen Selezniov (26 / 7), Oleksandr Hladkyy (26 / 4), Marcelo Moreno (14 / 2), Luiz Adriano (12 / 4), Nery Castillo (4 / 1), Ruslan Fomin (2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Oleksandr Horiainov (23), Ihor Bazhan (7). Defenders: Milan Obradovi\u0107 (28 / 5), Vitalie Bordian (27 / 1), Papa Gueye (24), Seweryn Gancarczyk (23 / 2), Jonathan Maidana (20), Andriy Koniushenko (15 / 1), Yevhen Selin (2), Maksym Yakhno (1). Midfielders: Valentyn Sliusar (29 / 3), Edmar (27 / 4), Serhiy Valiayev (26 / 2), Oleksandr Rykun (17), Walter Acevedo (12), Andriy Berezovchuk (9 / 1), Anton Postupalenko (6), Serhiy Barilko (3). Forwards: Marko Devi\u0107 (24 / 8), Jaj\u00e1 (23 / 11), Venance Zeze (14 / 1), Dmytro Semochko (9), Roman Butenko (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201082-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League, Medal squads\nNote: Players in italic are those whose playing position is uncertain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201083-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League youth championship\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League youth championship season is a competition between the U-21 youth teams of Ukrainian Premier League clubs. The competition has reorganized from the last season by transitioning to age restricted competition under complete administration of the newly established Ukrainian Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201083-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Premier League youth championship\nThe events in the senior leagues during the 2007-08 season saw Naftovyk Reserves and Zakarpattia Reserves all relegated and replaced by the promoted teams Illichivets Mariupol Reserves and Lviv Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League\nThe 2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League was the 18th season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The competitions are divided into two groups \u2013 A and B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Competition information\nNote: Relegation from the League is not covered by the current regulations. The placing of teams in the table is done in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Team changes, Admitted teams\nThe following teams were promoted from the 2008 Ukrainian Football Amateur League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Team changes, Relegated teams\nThe following teams were relegated from the 2007\u201308 Ukrainian First League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nOn October 25, 2008 FC Desna-2 Chernihiv did not arrive for the match against their opponent FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve and subsequently withdrew from the PFL on October 29, 2008. The PFL annulled all their results from the competition and adjusted the standings. Desna-2 Chernihiv had a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 12 losses scoring 7 goals and having 24 goals scored against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nObolon-2 withdrew after the winter-break. Obolon-2 Kyiv after 20 games had a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses scoring 20 goals and having 31 goals scored against them and were in 16th place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nKnyazha-2 withdrew after the winter-break. FC Knjazha-2 Schaslyve after 20 games had a record of 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 losses scoring 15 goals and having 35 goals scored against them and were in 17th place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nNafkom withdrew after the season completed failing to receive a professional license. Most of its players joined Nyva Vinnytsia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Expelled teams\nFC Korosten was expelled from the PFL after the 22nd round for not arriving to a scheduled game for the second time in the 2008\u201309 season. FC Korosten after 21 games had a record of 8 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses scoring 24 goals and having 36 goals scored against them and were in 11th place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group A, Standings, Expelled teams\nDnipro were expelled from the competition after the 28th round. The club failed to arrive for their 29th and 30th-round games. Dnipro Cherkasy after 27 games had a record of 17 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses scoring 37 goals and having 14 scored against them and were in 3rd place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group B, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nPFC Sevastopol-2 withdrew after the winter-break. PFC Sevastopol-2 Sevastopol after 21 games had a record of 2 wins, 4 draws and 15 losses scoring 17 goals and having 39 goals scored against them and were in 17th place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group B, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nArsenal withdrew after the season completed failing to receive a professional license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Group B, Standings, Withdrawn teams\nTytan failed to pay license fees for the next season and subsequently the PFL withdrew their professional status in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201084-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ukrainian Second League, Playoff game\nDue to FC Ihroservice Simferopol failing to pay their license dues for the 2009\u201310 Ukrainian First League season the PFL allowed an extra team to be promoted. The PFL determined that a playoff game between the 2nd placed teams Druha Liha \u2013Arsenal Bila Tserkva and FC Poltava.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201085-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga\nThe 2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga was the twentieth season of top-tier football in Georgia. It was scheduled to begin in August 2008, but the start of the league was delayed due to the 2008 South Ossetia war. The first round of games finally took place on 13 and 14 September 2008. The season ended with the 33rd round played on 23 May 2009. Dinamo Tbilisi were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201085-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga\nThe league was reduced from 14 to 12 teams prior to this season. However, Ameri Tbilisi voluntarily withdrew from the competition in mid-July because of financial reasons. As no replacement team was announced, the league featured only 11 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201085-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga, Promotion and relegation\nMerani Tbilisi, Dinamo Batumi and Dila Gori were relegated at the end of the previous season due to finishing 12th through 14th, respectively. Spartaki Tskhinvali, who finished the previous season in 11th place, retained their spot in Umaglesi Liga after defeating Pirveli Liga runners-up Gagra by 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201085-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga, Promotion and relegation\nDue to the reduction of league size, only Pirveli Liga champions Chiatura were promoted. However, they did not want to compete in 2008\u201309 Umaglesi Liga because of unknown reasons, so Gagra took their spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201086-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United Counties League\nThe 2008\u201309 United Counties League season was the 102nd in the history of the United Counties League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201086-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United Counties League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 19 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201086-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United Counties League, Division One\nDivision One featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, relegated from the Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201087-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer\nThe 2008\u201309 United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer was the first open knockout style tournament for Arena/Indoor Soccer. In its inaugural season, the St. Louis Illusion were cup winners, due to their victory over the Detroit Waza and the Stockton Cougars inability to field a team for the final due to the late finish of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201087-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer, US Arena Open Cup bracket\n\u2020 Due to the withdrawal of the Semifinal Winning Stockton Cougars before April 18, what was originally supposed to be a Semifinal Match between the St. Louis Illusion and Detroit Waza became the Championship Match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201087-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer, Qualifying\nSan Diego Fusion qualify for US Arena Open Cup Round of 16", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201087-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer, Qualifying\nOTW Santa Clara qualify for US Arena Open Cup Round of 16", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule\nThe following is the 2008\u201309 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers prime time hours from September 2008 through August 2009. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2007\u201308 season. The schedule omits the Public Broadcasting Service (whose programming is listed here).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule\nThe official schedule was set by each network before the start of the official fall season. NBC revealed its fall schedule on April 2 followed ABC and The CW on May 13, CBS on May 14, Fox on May 15, and MyNetworkTV on May 22. The CW unveiled its Sunday lineup on May 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule\nAll times given are in U.S. Eastern Time. Pacific Time is the same. Subtract one hour for Central or Mountain time. The exception is when a program is aired live in all time zones (such as NBC Sunday Night Football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule\nEach of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule, Sunday\nNote: On Sundays, The CW programming begins at 6:30 PM (EST). Note: CBS' Sunday Night primetime lineup is often delayed due to NFL on CBS game coverage running longer than scheduled, except in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, where the lineup airs as scheduled. Note: The 7pm hour on Fox features animated series reruns in the Pacific and Mountain time zones during the NFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule, Thursday\nNote: The Moment of Truth was originally scheduled to air Thursdays at 8:00 on Fox, but was instead shelved, effectively canceling it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201088-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule, Renewals and Cancellations, Cancellations/Series endings\nThe entire schedule of programs for MyNetworkTV except for WWE Smackdown! did not pass on to the 2009/10 season due to the network's conversion to a programming service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 107], "content_span": [108, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201089-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nThe 2008\u201309 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2008 to August 2009. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201089-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nAffiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS \u2013 which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids \u2013 is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox or MyNetworkTV, as neither network offers (and continues not to offer) a daytime network schedule or network news, and Ion Television, as its schedule was composed mainly of paid programming and syndicated reruns at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201090-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule (late night)\nThese are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September, 2008 to August, 2009. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201090-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 United States network television schedule (late night), Schedule\nNote: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ended its first run on May 29, 2009, with The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien premiering on June 1, 2009. Note: Late Night with Conan O'Brien ended on February 20, 2009, with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon premiering on March 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201091-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2008\u201309 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season is the 77th professional season of Uruguay's top-flight football league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201091-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nVilla Espa\u00f1ola was relegated due to financial issues after the Apertura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201091-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Results\nResults tables includes scores from both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201091-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Liguilla Pre-Libertadores, Playoff\nSince Liverpool and Defensor Sporting tied on points and goal difference in the Liguilla, a playoff was needed to determine who earned the Uruguay 2 spot in the 2009 Copa Sudamericana First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201092-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah Jazz season\nThe 2008\u201309 Utah Jazz season was the 35th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the 30th since the team moved from New Orleans to Salt Lake City for the 1979\u201380 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201092-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah Jazz season\nFor the third straight year, the Jazz made the playoffs, but as the number 8 seed. The Jazz were quickly knocked out of the playoffs with a defeat to the Los Angeles Lakers in the opening round, losing in five games, and having their season ended by the Lakers for a second consecutive time. The Lakers would go on to win their 15th NBA Championship in the NBA Finals, defeating the Orlando Magic in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201092-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah Jazz season, Offseason\nBesides the draft, the only significant move that the Jazz made in the offseason was to trade third-string point guard Jason Hart to the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for veteran journeyman point guard Brevin Knight on July 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201092-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah Jazz season, Playoffs, West First Round\nLast Playoff Meeting: 2008 Western Conference Semifinals (Los Angeles won 4-2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201093-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah State Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Utah State Aggies men's basketball team represented Utah State University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Stew Morrill's 11th season at Utah State. The Aggies played their home games at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum and were members of the Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 30\u20135, 14\u20132 to capture the regular season championship for the second straight year. They also won the 2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament to earn an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. As No. 11 seed in the West Region, they lost to No. 6 seed and AP #23 Marquette in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201094-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Utah Utes men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Utah Utes men's basketball team represented the University of Utah during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and were a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Utes were led by second-year head coach Jim Boylen. They finished the season 24\u201310 (12\u20134 in Mountain West play) and won the 2009 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. As No. 5 seed in the Midwest region, Utah lost to Arizona in the Round of 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201095-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 V-League (South Korea)\nThe 2008-09 V-League season was the 5th season of the V-League, the highest professional volleyball league in South Korea. The season started on 22 November 2008 and finished on 14 April 2009. Cheonan Hyundai Capital Skywalkers were the defending champions in the men's league and Incheon GS Caltex KIXX the defending female champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201096-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VCU Rams men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 VCU Rams men's basketball team represented Virginia Commonwealth University during the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. The Rams compete in the Colonial Athletic Association and played their home games at Stuart C. Siegel Center. They finished the season 24\u201310, 14\u20134 and won the 2009 CAA Tournament against George Mason. The Rams lost in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament to UCLA by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201097-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VMI Keydets basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 VMI Keydets basketball team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Keydets were coached by Duggar Baucom in his 4th year at VMI, and played their home games at Cameron Hall. It was VMI's 5th season in the Big South Conference and the Keydets' 101st season of basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201097-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VMI Keydets basketball team\nVMI opened the year with an upset over the Kentucky Wildcats in Rupp Arena on November 14, 2008, by a score of 111\u2013103. After losses to Virginia and Jacksonville State to drop their record to 4\u20132, VMI then went on a ten-game winning streak and won their first six conference games before falling to Liberty 91\u201380, in what was the first sellout in the 27-year history of Cameron Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201097-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VMI Keydets basketball team\nAfter finishing the regular season with a 22\u20137 mark, VMI cruised through their first two Big South tournament games, beating Coastal Carolina 96\u201376 in the quarterfinals and besting Liberty 78\u201358 in the semifinals. The Keydets ultimately fell to Radford 108\u201394 in the Big South Championship game, ending their season at 24\u20138. The 24 wins in a season were the school's second-most all-time, trailing only the 1976\u201377 team who 26 wins en route to a Sweet 16 appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201098-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Valencia CF season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 season, the Spanish football club Valencia CF was placed 6th in the La Liga. The team reached the quarterfinal round of the Copa del Rey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201098-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Valencia CF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201099-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team was an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Horizon League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201099-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe 2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season was the 39th season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Off-season\nOn June 17, 2008, the Canucks named Ryan Walter as an assistant coach. He joined head coach Alain Vigneault and assistant coach Rick Bowness on the Canucks' coaching staff. Walter, 50, played in 1,003 NHL games over 15 seasons with Washington, Montreal, and Vancouver, scoring 264 goals and 382 assists. He won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1986. A native of New Westminster, British Columbia, Walter was the second overall pick by the Washington Capitals in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Off-season\nThe Canucks lost two key veterans to free agency. Markus Naslund, the Canucks' captain for the previous seven seasons, signed a two-year, $8\u00a0million contract with the New York Rangers, while Pitt Meadows native Brendan Morrison signed a one-year, $2.75\u00a0million contract with the Anaheim Ducks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Off-season\nThe Canucks also lost a promising young defenceman in Luc Bourdon, who died in a motorcycle accident in his hometown of Shippagan, New Brunswick. The Canucks honoured Bourdon with a tribute in the season opener, October 9, against the Calgary Flames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Off-season\nAmong the Canucks' roster additions was Steve Bernier, who was acquired from the Buffalo Sabres for a second- and third-round draft pick, and Pavol Demitra, who signed a two-year, $8\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Off-season\nThe Canucks announced on September 4, 2008, that they will honour Linden in a pre-game ceremony on December 17, 2008 before a game against the Edmonton Oilers. His jersey number, 16, will be retired by the team, joining former captain Stan Smyl as the second Canuck to have his number retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Pre-season\nThe Canucks' 2008 pre-season began on September 12 with the opening of their annual prospects training camp. The camp consisted of 22 players and was held in Vancouver, British Columbia at both General Motors Place and the University of British Columbia campus, as well as in Camrose, Alberta. The prospect camp was then followed by the main training camp, held over two days beginning September 20 in Whistler, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Season events, Pre-season\nOn September 30, 2008, the Canucks named Roberto Luongo as the twelfth captain in team history, with Luongo becoming only the seventh goaltender in NHL history to be named team captain. NHL rules prevent goaltenders from physically wearing the captain's letter \"C\", however, they do not prevent goaltenders from being named captain. The Canucks also named Willie Mitchell, Mattias Ohlund, and Ryan Kesler as alternate captains. Mitchell assumed the duties of dealing with officials during games, while Ohlund took faceoffs and performed other ceremonial duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Standings, Conference standings\nbold \u2013 qualified for playoffs, y \u2013 division winner, p \u2013 Presidents' Trophy winnerCE \u2013 Central Division, NW \u2013 Northwest Division, PA \u2013 Pacific Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Vancouver. Stats reflect time with the Canucks only. \u2021Denotes player no longer with the team. Stats reflect time with Canucks only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Transactions, Draft picks\nVancouver's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, 7th Canuck\nOn October 25, 2008, the Canucks retired the jersey number '7' in honour of the fans, the \"seventh Canuck\". Originally, the plan was to have a randomly selected season ticket holder unveil the banner before every home game and have it raised to the rafters, but after the first game it was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Farm teams, Manitoba Moose\nThe Canucks' AHL affiliate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Moose' home arena is the MTS Centre. The team has been affiliated with the Vancouver Canucks since the 2000\u201301 AHL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201100-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vancouver Canucks season, Farm teams, Victoria Salmon Kings\nThe Canucks' ECHL affiliate based in Victoria, British Columbia. The Salmon Kings' home arena is the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. The team has been affiliated with the Vancouver Canucks since the 2006\u201307 ECHL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's college basketball season. The team competed in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference and finished with an overall record of 19\u201312 (SEC: 8\u20138). They were led by Kevin Stallings, in his ninth year as head coach, and played their home games at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was their sixth straight winning season, although they failed to play in a post-season tournament for the first time in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nThe previous year's 2007\u201308 team finished 26\u20138 and ranked 25th in both the AP Poll and the ESPN/USA Today (Coaches) poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nEntering the season, Vanderbilt was picked by the media attending the SEC's media days in October to finish 4th in the SEC East, behind Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nVanderbilt lost three starters from the previous year's team\u20142008 SEC-player of the year swingman Shan Foster (20.3 ppg), shooting guard Alex (Red) Gordon (10.8 ppg) and power forward Ross Neltner (8.3 ppg) \u2013 and returned two starters\u2014sophomore center A.J. Ogilvy and junior point guard Jermaine Beal. With no seniors and only two juniors (Beal and junior guard George Drake), the Commodores were one of the youngest team's in Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nOgilvy, the Commodores' leading rebounder (6.7 rpg) and second leading scorer (17.0 ppg) the previous season, was selected by the SEC media and SEC coaches to the pre-season all-SEC first team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201101-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, Roster\n1 Missed the season after torn ACL against MTSU. 2 Walk-on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201102-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Commodores are a member of the Southeast Conference and competed in the Sweet Sixteen at the NCAA Tournament. It was the Commodores 14th appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16 after earning its sixth Southeastern Conference Tournament championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201102-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team, Postseason, SEC Tournament\nMarch 8: The Commodores earned the SEC Tournament crown for sixth time in school history. In the championship game, Christine Wirth scored 20 points, and the Commodores (No. 23 ESPN/USA Today, No. 22 AP) beat Auburn (No. 5 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 AP) 61-54 to win the Southeastern Conference tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201102-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team, Postseason, SEC Tournament\nVanderbilt (24-8) defeated the Tigers (29-3) for the second time in three weeks to win the SEC tournament. Vanderbilt also extended its winning streak over Auburn to 15. Auburn star DeWanna Bonner was held to nine points after scoring a combined 58 in her first two games of the tournament. Whitney Boddie led the Tigers with 14 points and eight assists. This was the 10th straight year the No. 1 seed has failed to win the SEC tournament. Wirth was named the tournament's most valuable player while Jennifer Risper also made the all-tournament squad. Vanderbilt has the second-most SEC tournament titles of any program, trailing only Tennessee's 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201103-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2008-09 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season (officially the 2008\u201309 Copa CANTV for sponsorship reasons) is the 27th professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201103-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Serie Final\nCaracas F.C. and Deportivo Italia ended with one championship each at the end of the Apertura and Clausura. Tournament rules establish that a playoff game is required. Caracas F.C. won by an aggregate score of 6-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201104-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season (Spanish: Liga Venezolana de B\u00e9isbol Profesional or LVBP):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201104-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season, Awards\nManager of the year (Chico Carrasquel Award): Frank Kremblas (Caracas)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201104-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season, Awards\nPitcher of the year (Carrao Bracho Award): David Austen (Zulia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201104-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season, Highlights\nJes\u00fas Guzm\u00e1n finished with 67 RBI to set a new league record, surpassing the old mark of 67 set by Pete Koegel in the 1973-1974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201104-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League season, Highlights\nThe Tigres de Aragua won their 3rd straight championship, becoming the 2nd team in VPBL history to do it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201105-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vermont Catamounts women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-09 Vermont Catamounts season was their fourth in Hockey East. Led by head coach Tim Bothwell, the Catamounts had 7 victories, compared to 25 defeats and 2 ties. Their conference record was 4 victories, 15 defeats and 2 ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201106-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season, the club was a genuine contender for the Bundesliga title, losing out only to VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich and finishing in third position. Striker Mario G\u00f3mez scored 24 goals in the Bundesliga campaign, only to then make a shock switch to rivals Bayern for the highest-received transfer fee in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201106-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201106-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201106-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season, Players, VfB Stuttgart II\nVfB Stuttgart II were coached by Rainer Adrion and finished 11th in the 3. Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201106-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfB Stuttgart season, Players, VfB Stuttgart II\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201107-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfL Bochum season\nThe 2008\u201309 VfL Bochum season was the 71st season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201107-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfL Bochum season\nThe team finished in 14th place in the Bundesliga league, after playing 34 league matches, of which they only won seven matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201108-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfL Wolfsburg season\nVfL Wolfsburg won their first ever Bundesliga title during this season. Manager Felix Magath formed an attacking lineup, which included strikers Edin D\u017eeko and Grafite, the pair scoring 54 goals between them, much due to the help of attacking midfielder Zvjezdan Misimovi\u0107's 20 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201108-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfL Wolfsburg season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201108-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 VfL Wolfsburg season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Season summary\nThe 2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season is the Salmon Kings' 5th season in the ECHL. The season started with the Salmon Kings raising their West Division Championship banner above the arena floor, and continued towards the All Star break with the team establishing a 15-game winning streak between December 8, 2008 and January 10, 2009, which was second all time in ECHL history. With a 26-9-1-2 record at the end of the streak, and well in first place in their division, another banner seemed well within reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Season summary\nHowever, the team went 12-19-0-4 afterwards and dropped to third place, which ensured a Kelly Cup playoff first round match-up against the Idaho Steelheads. In the playoffs, the Salmon Kings swept their first ever series by eliminating the Steelheads in round one in four straight games. Unfortunately in the second round, the Salmon Kings were eliminated from the playoffs by their arch rivals, the Alaska Aces in five games. Their lone win was a 4-0 shutout on home ice, their second shutout of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0000-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Season summary\nDespite their second straight second round elimination, the '08\u2013'09 season saw a number of team records. Dylan Yeo became the first Salmon King player to win a league award, as he was awarded the Defenseman of the Year. Also, team captain Wes Goldie set a new team record with 48 goals, while also becoming the first Salmon King to collect 200 points with the team. Finally, the team broke their previous attendance record with 4,923 fans, up from 4,871 the previous year and 4,248 in '06\u2013'07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Schedule and results, Regular season\nLegend:\u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime Losses; SOL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Against; GAA= Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO= Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Player stats, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Victoria. Stats reflect time with the Salmon Kings only. \u2021Denotes player no longer with the team. Stats reflect time with Salmon Kings only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201109-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Victoria Salmon Kings season, Professional affiliations, Vancouver Canucks\nThe Salmon Kings' NHL affiliate based in Vancouver, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201110-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vijay Hazare Trophy\nThe 2008\u201309 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the seventh season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India. It was contested between 27 domestic cricket teams of India, starting in February and finishing in March 2009. In the final, Tamil Nadu beat Bengal by 66 runs to defend win their 3rd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team represented Villanova University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by Jay Wright in his eighth year as head coach of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games at The Pavilion on the school's campus as members of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 30\u20138, 13\u20135 in Big East play to finish in fourth place. They lost in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament to Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe Wildcats received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the East region. They defeated American, UCLA, Duke, and Pittsburgh to advance to the Final Four. In the Final Four they were defeated by the eventual national champion for the second straight year, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Wildcats finished the 2007\u201308 season 22\u201313, 9\u20139 in Big East play to finish in a tie for eighth place. The Wildcats lost in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament to Georgetown. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Clemson and Siena to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. There they lost to the eventual national champions, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team, Season\nBefore the season began, on October 22, 2008, the Wildcats were selected to finish fifth among the 16 Big East Conference teams in the annual preseason coaches' poll at Madison Square Garden. As part of recent tradition, the 2008 Hoopsmania (an on-campus kickoff of the Villanova Basketball season), included a performance by hip-hop artist T-Pain. Previous artists have included 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and MIMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team, Season\nThe Villanova-Pitt game on January 28, 2009 was the last game to be held at the Wachovia Spectrum which drew a crowd of 17,449. The Wildcats finished perfect the year at the Pavilion. Villanova's 25 regular-season wins tied a school record. It had been done three times before, but not since 1950\u201351.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201111-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team, Season\nDuring the 2009 Big East Awards Ceremony, head coach Jay Wright was named the 2009 Big East Coach of the Year. He won the award twice in the previous four years. Villanova senior forward Dante Cunningham was named the Big East's Most Improved Player, and sophomore guard Corey Fisher won the Sixth Man Award. Cunningham, a senior forward, won second-team honors on the all-Big East team, while junior guard Scottie Reynolds took honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 102nd season in the existence of Villarreal CF and the club's ninth consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football. In addition to the domestic league, Villarreal participated in this season's editions of the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League. The season covered the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Group stage\nThe group stage draw was held on 28 August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe draw for the round of 16 was held on 19 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201112-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Villarreal CF season, Competitions, UEFA Champions League, Knockout phase\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201113-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by fourth-year head coach Dave Leitao, and played their home games at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201113-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team\nThe Cavaliers were picked to finish last in the conference this season in the pre-season media poll. While they only finished 11th, ahead of Georgia Tech, their record of 10\u201318 and 4\u201312 in conference was the worst the team had received in over forty years. At the end of the season, head coach Dave Leitao resigned. On April 1, 2009, Washington State head coach Tony Bennett was announced as his replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201113-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team, Last season\nThe Cavaliers had a record of 17\u201316, with a conference record of 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201114-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hokies lost Deron Washington off of their 2007\u201308 team, which finished as the fourth place team in the conference and lost to Ole Miss in the NIT quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201114-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201115-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Vysshaya Liga season\nThe 2008\u201309 Vysshaya Liga season was the 17th season of the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of ice hockey in Russia. 33 teams participated in the league, and HC Yugra won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201116-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 W-League\nThe 2008\u201309 W-League was the first season of the W-League, the top Australian professional women's soccer league, since its establishment in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201116-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 W-League\nThe season was played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series. Queensland Roar were crowned as Premiers for winning the home-and-away season and also Champions after defeating Canberra United 2\u20130 in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201117-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WABA Multipower\nWABA Multipower for season 2008\u201309 was the eighth season of WABA League. The league included nine teams from five countries, with \u0160ibenik Jolly becoming champions, for the fourth time in the team's history. In this season participating clubs from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and from Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201117-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WABA Multipower\nThe season began on 11 October 2008 and ended on 28 February 2009, when it completed a Regular season. The Final Four was played during the 14th and 15 March 2009 in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. The Winner of the Final Four this season was \u0160ibenik Jolly from Croatia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201117-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WABA Multipower, Regular season\nThe season was played with 9 teams in a dual circuit system, each team playing one game at home and one away. The four best teams at the end of the regular season were placed in the Final Four. The regular season began on 11 October 2008 and it ended on 28 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201117-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WABA Multipower, Final four\nThe final four was played from 14\u201315 March 2009, in the Nikoljac hall in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season\nThe 2008\u201309 WHL season was the 43rd season of the Western Hockey League (WHL). The regular season began on September 18, 2008, and ended on March 15, 2009. The WHL Playoffs commenced on March 20, 2009, and the 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge series, featuring Team WHL versus the Russian Selects, took place from November 26\u201327, 2008. The Kelowna Rockets won the Ed Chynoweth Cup as WHL champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season\nWHL Commissioner, Ron Robison, dedicated the 2008\u201309 season to Ed Chynoweth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, 2008\u201309: Ed Chynoweth's season\nThe 2008\u201309 WHL Season will allow us to showcase some of the finest young hockey talent in the world today. We fully expect each WHL Division will feature highly competitive races as our clubs battle for a playoff position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, 2008\u201309: Ed Chynoweth's season\nThe Commissioner of the Western Hockey League, Ron Robison, dedicated the 2008\u201309 season to Ed Chynoweth, who died on April 22, 2008. His death occurred just over a year after the WHL Championship trophy was changed in his honour. Ed Chynoweth was the principle builder of Major Junior hockey in Canada as President of the WHL and CHL over the past four decades. Throughout the entire 2008\u201309 season, the helmets of all the players and officials will display an \"EC\" decal, representing Ed's initials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season\nThe Western Hockey League opened its 43rd regular season on September 18, 2008 in Cranbrook, British Columbia between defending Memorial Cup Champions, Spokane Chiefs and the Kootenay Ice. This season, the WHL is planning to have 30 of its regular season games broadcast on Shaw TV, as well as complete coverage of the 2009 WHL Playoffs. The broadcast schedule begun on September 18 with a special half-hour \"preview show\" followed by the 2008\u201309 WHL season opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season\nThe 2008\u201309 WHL season will also be highlighted with the Canada Russia Challenge, an annual CHL showcase event. The 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge, featured a two-game series between Team WHL versus the Russian Selects, on November 26, 2008 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and the second game took place on November 27, 2008 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season, Standings\nx - clinched playoff spot, z - clinched best conference record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season, Standings\nx - clinched playoff spot, z - clinched best conference record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts. = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Regular season, Goaltending leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; Mins = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses; SOL = Shootout Losses; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Players, 2008 NHL Entry Draft\nIn total, 37 WHL players were selected at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. This was more than any other hockey league in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe ADT Canada Russia Challenge is a six-game series featuring four teams: three from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) versus Russia's National Junior hockey team. Within the Canadian Hockey League umbrella, one team from each of its three leagues \u2014 the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and Western Hockey League \u2014 compete in two games against the Russian junior team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe ADT Canada Russia Challenge has become a highlight on the CHL schedule and we are very proud to be associated with it. These two nations have such a storied hockey history that fans from across the country tune in expecting to see a hard fought series. We expect nothing short of world class hockey this November that hockey fans from across the country won't want to miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nThe 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge was held in six cities across Canada, with two cities for each league within the Canadian Hockey League. The series begun on November 17, 2008, and concluded on November 27, 2008. Both Western Hockey League games were held in the province of Saskatchewan. Former Prince Albert Raider forward Dan Hodgson was Honorary Captain for the final game in the series, held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on November 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Canada Russia Challenge\nAll six games were televised nationwide on Rogers Sportsnet, along with RDS broadcasting both games from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Canada Russia Challenge, Results\nIn the first game of the two part series between Team QMJHL and the Russian Selects, Team QMJHL scored five goals en route to a 5\u20133 win in front of 4,378 fans at Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Kmitri Kugryshev of the Russian Selects and goaltender Olivier Roy of Team QMJHL, were named the ADT Players of the Game for their respective teams. The Russian Selects evened the ADT Canada Russia Challenge, winning the second game after having registered four goals in a 4\u20133 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 6,451 assembled at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201118-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WHL season, Memorial Cup\nThe 91st MasterCard Memorial Cup was held in Rimouski, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201119-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WICB Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 WICB President's Cup was the 35th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201119-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WICB Cup, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201119-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WICB Cup, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201120-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WNBL season\nThe 2008\u201309 WNBL season was the 29th season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 10 teams contested the league. The regular season was played between October 2008 and March 2009, followed by a post-season involving the top five in March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201120-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WNBL season\nBroadcast rights were held by free-to-air network ABC. ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00PM at every standard time in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201120-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WNBL season\nMolten provided equipment including the official game ball, with Hoop2Hoop supplying team apparel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201121-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WRU Challenge Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 WRU Challenge Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the SWALEC Cup, was the 39th WRU Challenge Cup, the annual national rugby union cup competition of Wales. The competition was won by Neath RFC, who had previously won it five times, in 1971\u201372, 1988\u201389, 1989\u201390, 2003\u201304 and 2007\u201308.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201122-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WWHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201122-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 WWHL season, Clarkson Cup 2009\nA Canadian Women's Hockey League's team Montreal Stars won the Clarkson Cup by defeating  3-1 the Minnesota Whitecaps", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201123-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Dino Gaudio. he team played its home games in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201123-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team\nOn January 19, the Deacons took the top spot in both the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and the Associated Press poll, making it the second time in program history a Wake Forest team was number one in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201123-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team\nWake Forest finished the regular season with a record of 24\u20135, and 11\u20135 in the ACC, which tied them with Duke. The Demon Deacons received the number two seed in the 2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament in a tiebreaker over Duke because of their victory against number one seed North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201123-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team, Preseason\nIn the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll the Demon Deacons were ranked #24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season\nThe 2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season was the team's 35th in the National Hockey League. The Capitals finished the regular season with a record of 50\u201324\u20138 and a team-record 108 points, and they won their second consecutive Southeast Division championship. They defeated the New York Rangers in the first round of the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs 4\u20133, overcoming a 3\u20131 series deficit. The Capitals were then defeated by the eventual champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 547]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season, Regular season, Conference standings\nAT \u2013 Atlantic Division, NE \u2013 Northeast Division, SE \u2013 Southeast Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season, Playoffs\nThe Washington Capitals won the Southeast Division and qualified for the playoffs for the second straight season. The Capitals would eventually win the first round against the New York Rangers, in seven games, after trailing the series 3\u20131 for their first playoff series victory since reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 1998. However, the Capitals would not get past the Pittsburgh Penguins and lost the series in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Capitals. Stats reflect time with the Capitals only. \u2021Traded mid-seasonBold/italics denotes franchise record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season, Draft picks\nWashington 's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201124-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Capitals season, Farm teams\nHershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201125-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Lorenzo Romar's 7th season at Washington. The Huskies played their home games at Bank of America Arena and are members of the Pacific-10 Conference. They finished the season 26\u20139, 14\u20134 in Pac-10 play and they captured the Pac\u201310 regular season title and an at-large bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They earned a 4 seed in the West Region which they defeated Mississippi State in the first round before losing to Purdue in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201126-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represents Washington State University for the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team plays its home games on Jack Friel Court in Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201126-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nAt the end of March 2009, Tony Bennett announced that he was leaving Washington State to take the head coaching job at Virginia. Ken Bone, formerly with Portland State, takes over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201127-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Washington Wizards season\nThe 2008\u201309 Washington Wizards season was the 48th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Wizards began the season hoping to improve on their 43\u201339 record from the previous season, but failed and fell 24 games short. The team finished 2008\u201309 with a dismal 19\u201363 record that equalled their worst 82-game performance from the 2000\u201301 season, and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since the 2003\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season\nWatford Football Club are an association football team from the county of Hertfordshire, England. Waford has played in the Championship since being relegated from the Premier League in 2006\u201307. The club finished the season in 13th position out of 24 Championship teams. The club went through four managers during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season, Background, review and events\nThe 2008\u201309 season was their second consecutive one in the Football League Championship, following relegation from the Premier League in 2006\u201307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season, Background, review and events\nThey reached the fifth round of both the League Cup and FA Cup, where they were eliminated by Premier League sides Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea respectively. Both teams went on to reach the finals of the corresponding competitions, with Chelsea going on to win the 2009 FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season, Background, review and events\nOff the pitch, there were a series of personnel changes through the course of the season. Chairman Graham Simpson and chief executive Mark Ashton resigned, and were replaced by Jimmy Russo and Julian Winter respectively. Following a decline in form throughout 2008, manager Aidy Boothroyd left the club by mutual consent, and was replaced by Brendan Rodgers. In turn, Rodgers controversially left the club a few weeks after the last game of the season, having previously suggested that rumours linking him to Reading were \"questioning his integrity\". His replacement was first team coach and former player Malky Mackay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season, Background, review and events\nThe season is perhaps best remembered for the \"ghost goal\" incident, which occurred in a league match against Reading on 20 September 2008. Following a corner from Reading player Stephen Hunt, John Eustace kicked the ball across the line, level with the six-yard box. Initially, linesman Nigel Bannister seemed to signal for a goal kick, and players from both sides ran away from the penalty area, waiting for goalkeeper Scott Loach to take it. However, Bannister walked over to referee Stuart Attwell, and after a brief discussion, Attwell awarded Reading a goal. The match eventually finished 2\u20132. The match also marked Loach's debut; the \"ghost goal\" was the first goal he conceded in his Watford career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 766]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201128-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Watford F.C. season, Player information, First-team squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 90], "content_span": [91, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201129-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wayne State Warriors women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Wayne State Warriors women's ice hockey season head coach was Jim Fetter. Assisting Fetter was Nicolette Franck and Allison Rutledge. The equipment manager was Jim Campbell while the assistant athletic trainer was Katie Lang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201130-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wellington Phoenix FC season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was Wellington Phoenix's second season in the A-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201130-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wellington Phoenix FC season, Players, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201130-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wellington Phoenix FC season, Statistics, Goal scorers\nGoal scored from penalty kick \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 goals scored from penalty kick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201131-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Alliance League\nThe 2008\u201309 Welsh Alliance League, known as the design2print Welsh Alliance League for sponsorship reasons, is the 25th season of the Welsh Alliance League, which is in the third level of the Welsh football pyramid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201131-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Alliance League\nThe league consists of seventeen teams and concluded with Bethesda Athletic as champions and promoted to the Cymru Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201131-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Alliance League, Teams\nBethesda Athletic were champions in the previous season. Gwynedd League champions Llanllyfni and runners-up Barmouth & Dyffryn United were promoted to the Welsh Alliance League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201132-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 FAW Welsh Cup was the 122nd season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales, excluding those who play in the English League System. The 2008\u201309 tournament commenced on 16 August 2008, and was covered live and exclusive on S4C in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201132-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Cup, Preliminary round, South\n1First match was postponed and the replay was held at Lock\u2019s Lane, Porthcawl on 3 September 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201132-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Cup, Second round\nThe matches were played between 3 and 10 October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201132-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Cup, Third round\nThe matches were played on 31 October and 1 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201132-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Cup, Fourth round\nThe matches were played on 30 and 31 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201133-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh League Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Welsh League Cup season was won by The New Saints, beating Bangor City in the final. It was the third victory for The New Saints in the competition, and the fifth appearance by Bangor City in the final. The final took place at Latham Park, in Newtown, Wales. The match was refereed by Phil Southall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201134-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh National League (Wrexham Area)\nThe 2008\u201309 Nizam-Druid Welsh National League was the sixty-fourth season of the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area). The league was reduced to two divisions for senior teams this season, the remaining two divisions were made into reserves and colts leagues. The Premier Division was won by Llangollen Town, who gained promotion to the Cymru Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201135-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Premier League\nThe 2008\u201309 Welsh Premier League was the 17th season of the Welsh Premier League since its establishment in 1992 as the League of Wales. It began on 15 August 2008 and ended on 25 April 2009. Llanelli were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201135-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Welsh Premier League, Team changes from 2007\u201308\nPrestatyn Town were promoted from the Cymru Alliance and played in the top division for the first time in their history. Caersws survived relegation after none of the top two teams in the divisions below could meet ground regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201136-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wessex Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Wessex Football League was the 23rd season of the Wessex Football League. The league champions for the first time in their history were Poole Town, who were denied promotion to the Southern League due to ground grading problems. VT were promoted as runners-up. There was the usual programme of promotion and relegation between the two Wessex League divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201136-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wessex Football League\nFor sponsorship reasons, the league was known as the Sydenhams Wessex League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201136-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wessex Football League, League tables, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, reduced from 23 the previous season, after A.F.C. Totton were promoted to the Southern League, and Downton and Ringwood Town were relegated to Division One. Two new clubs joined:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201136-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wessex Football League, League tables, Division One\nDivision One consisted of 21 clubs, the same as the previous season, after Laverstock & Ford were promoted to the Premier Division, and Liss Athletic left the league. Two clubs were relegated from the Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201137-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bank Premier League\nThe West Bank Premier League 2008\u201309 season was won by Wadi Al-Nes while Al-Arabi and Ittihad Nablus were relegated. The top ten teams qualified for Division A, while the next ten teams qualified for Division B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201137-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bank Premier League\nAfter the regular season a tie on points for 10th place was decided in a one leg play-off. Shabab Al-Khalil won the match against Markaz Askar by 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201137-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bank Premier League, Final league table\nAskar and Balata are refugee camps in the Nablus Governorate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201137-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bank Premier League, Final league table\nAl-Am'ari is a refugee camp in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season\nDuring the 2008\u201309 English football season, West Bromwich Albion competed in the Premier League, following promotion from the Football League Championship as Football League champions the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Season summary\nWest Bromwich began the season strongly with ten points from their opening seven games leaving them in midtable, but that proved to be as good as it got for the Midlanders and with only five more league wins during the rest of the season Albion soon sunk to the foot of the Premier League and were relegated in last place. At the end of the season, manager Tony Mowbray left to take charge at Celtic; he was replaced by MK Dons manager Roberto Di Matteo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Season summary\nIn January, an assessment of company accounts by Equifax saw Albion rated third among Premiership clubs by credit rating, with a score of 71 out of 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Background\nWest Bromwich retained their kit sponsorship deal with English company Umbro, who introduced both a new home kit and a new away kit with navy shorts and yellow shirts and socks. The club was unable to find a kit sponsor for the season, and so became the first club in Premier League history to go a season without any kit sponsorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Background\nAlbion completed a \u00a33 million-plus refurbishment of the Halfords Lane Stand in time for the start of the season. This included new dressing rooms, dugout areas and tunnel, executive boxes and a media gantry. As a result, the capacity of The Hawthorns was slightly reduced to 26,272 and the stand was renamed as the West Stand. New navy blue seats were installed in the stand, replacing the lighter blue seats previously fitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Players, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Players, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201138-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Players, Reserve squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201139-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Ham United F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season saw West Ham United compete in the Premier League, where the club finished in 9th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201139-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Ham United F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201140-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Midlands (Regional) League\nThe 2008\u201309 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 109th in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire. It has three divisions, the highest of which is the Premier Division, which sits at step 6 of the National League System, or the tenth level of the overall English football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201140-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 19 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201141-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents West Virginia University in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team is coached by Bob Huggins and plays their home games in the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201141-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team, Pre-Season\nDuring the offseason, the Mountaineers picked up four recruits who look to make an immediate impact in Morgantown. Devin Ebanks a 6\u20139, 205 pound forward from Oakdale, CT seems to be the Mountaineers #1 recruit, being ranked #11 on the Rivals.com Top 150 recruits. The Mountaineers also added Darryl \"Truck\" Bryant, a 6-2 190 pound guard from Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Jones, a 6-7 210 pound forward from Mount Vernon, NY, and Dee Proby a 6-9 250 pound forward from Angelina College in Lufkin, TX. West Virginia was picked to finish 9th in the Big East Pre-Season Coaches Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201142-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008-09 WCHA hockey season was the tenth season of WCHA women's play. Since its inception, WCHA teams have won the national championship every season. The defending NCAA champions were the WCHA's Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201142-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's ice hockey season, Season outlook\nThe Bulldogs received five first-place votes and a total of 47 points in the pre-season poll (league coaches could not vote for their own team). The Bulldogs edged the Minnesota Golden Gophers, which grabbed two first-place votes, and the Wisconsin Badgers, which had one first place vote. UMD, Wisconsin and Minnesota were ranked first through third in the national USA Today/US Hockey Magazine preseason college hockey poll as well. For the second consecutive season, league-member coaches have picked Minnesota Golden Gophers senior forward Gigi Marvin as the pre-season most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 87], "content_span": [88, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201142-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's ice hockey season, Season outlook\nFour other players: Wisconsin forwards Meghan Duggan and Erika Lawler plus Minnesota Duluth goaltender Kim Martin, a Patty Kazmaier finalist last year, and teammate Haley Irwin, the forward who led the league in scoring with 60 points last season - also received votes for preseason MVP. Forward Pernilla Winberg  of the University of Minnesota Duluth was selected as the pre-season WCHA Rookie of the Year. Others receiving votes included Jocelyne Lamoureux, a forward from the University of Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 87], "content_span": [88, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201142-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Collegiate Hockey Association women's ice hockey season, Postseason\nJessie Vetter was the WCHA Final Face-Off MVP as Wisconsin won the League championship and garnered the top seed going into the NCAA championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 83], "content_span": [84, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201143-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Football League\nThe 2008\u201309 Western Football League season (known as the 2008\u201309 Toolstation Western Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 107th in the history of the Western Football League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201143-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Football League\nThe league champions for the first time in their history were Bitton, although it was runners-up Frome Town who took promotion to the Southern League. The champions of Division One were Larkhall Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201143-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured two new clubs in a league of 21 after Truro City were promoted to the Southern League, and Odd Down were relegated to the First Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201143-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Football League, First Division\nThe First Division featured three new clubs in a league of 20, reduced from 21 the previous season after Wellington and Sherborne Town were promoted to the Premier Division, Backwell United resigned and Weston St Johns were relegated. Both the latter two clubs joined the Somerset County League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201144-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by first year head coach Ken McDonald and team captain Orlando Mendez-Valdez. They played their home games at E. A. Diddle Arena and were members of the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 25\u20139 and 15\u20133 in Sun Belt Play to finish first in the East Division. One of the highlights of the season was a victory over in-state rival, 3rd ranked Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201144-0000-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team\nThe Hilltoppers won the Sun Belt Basketball Tournament and earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. They defeated Illinois in the first round before falling tenth ranked Gonzaga. Mendez-Valdez was SBC Player of the year and was joined by A.J. Slaughter on the All SBC team. Slaughter was SBC Tournament Most Valuable Player and was joined on the All-Tournament team by Mendaz-Valdez and Sergio Kerusch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201145-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u20132009 Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball team representing Western Michigan University. The team was the defending Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division champion and was picked to finish first in the MAC West Division by members of the MAC News Media Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201145-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team\nWMU opened the season losing to Texas Christian in the first game of the inaugural Charleston Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201145-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team\nIn February 2009, redshirt freshman Justin Hairston decided to transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team represents Wichita State University in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team, which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), is led by second-year head coach Gregg Marshall. The Shockers opened the season with a win over Florida A&M on November 10, 2008, and ended the season with a loss to Stanford in the College Basketball Invitational. Their final record for 2008\u201309 was 17\u201317 (8\u201310 MVC), a huge improvement from their 2007\u201308 record of 11\u201320 (4\u201314 MVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Shockers started out with mediocre level of play, but performed well against then ranked Michigan St. and Georgetown and even beat a very good Siena team in the Old Spice Classic at the end of November. On February 21, the Shockers beat a Cleveland State team with an RPI of almost a hundred better than WSU's. Then came conference play. The Shockers lost their first 6 games in Missouri Valley play, and on January 14, were in dead last in the MVC. Then came the comeback. In the more-than-century-old MVC, 49 teams had started 0\u20136. None won more than five games in conference play for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team, Post-season\nWichita State finished MVC play 8\u201310 but were not rewarded well with a 7 seed in the MVC tournament. They beat Missouri St. 59\u201346 in the play-in game at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, and now had to face a hot no. 2 Creighton team. It was a game no one expected them to win. The Shockers tried to keep close in the first half, but were down by 13 at halftime. Creighton came out and made a huge run in the second half, giving them a 22-point lead and a chance to embarrass Wichita State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team, Post-season\nBut the Shockers did not give up, and shut Creighton down almost the rest of the way. They came within 13 with 3:43 to play in the game and 5 with about 1 minute. The Shockers were down 59\u201361 with about 10 seconds left, but had the ball. Toure' Murry, who had already had two game-saving shots this season, caught the inbounds pass and quickly shot a 3-pointer, which swished through the net. The Shockers had come back from 22 down to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0002-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team, Post-season\nWith 9 seconds left, Creighton inbounded the ball and brought it all the way down, but shot a wild jumper that missed. A Shocker tried to grab the rebound but lost it out of bounds. Creighton had 1.8 seconds to take the lead. Booker Woodfox half-fumbled the inbounds pass, but threw up a 17-footer which swished right through. The Bluejays had escaped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201146-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team, Post-season\nThe Shockers were given a chance to bounce back from the heartbreak with a spot in the College Basketball Invitational, one of the NCAA's minor post-season tournaments made for improving teams. In the first round of the single-elimination tournament, Wichita State beat Buffalo by a score of 84\u201373. The Shockers season was then ended on March 23 with a 70\u201356 loss to Stanford in the second round of the CBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201147-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita Thunder season\nThe 2008\u201309 Wichita Thunder season was the 17th season of the CHL franchise in Wichita, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201147-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wichita Thunder season, Regular season, Conference standings\nNote: x - clinched playoff spot; y - clinched conference title; e - eliminated from playoff contention", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season\nWigan Athletic's season in the 2008\u201309 Premier League was their fourth season in the Premier League, and Steve Bruce\u2019s first full season as the manager of the club. The off-season saw the club sign a number of players, including Middlesbrough's highly rated young midfielder Lee Cattermole, Birmingham City pair Dani\u00ebl de Ridder and Olivier Kapo, both of whom played under Bruce at Birmingham, and little known Egyptian striker Amr Zaki, ranked as the world's best striker in FIFA rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season\nThe club saw no forced sales during the transfer window, with players like Emile Heskey, Paul Scharner, Luis Antonio Valencia and Wilson Palacios deciding to commit their futures to the club rather than move away. Players to depart from the club included Julius Aghahowa, Salomon Olemb\u00e9, Josip Skoko, Andreas Granqvist, Marlon King and Marcus Bent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nDuring the pre-season the Latics played in seven friendlies, all away from home, to prepare for the upcoming Premier League season. The first match was on 19 July away to FC St. Veit, which Wigan won comfortably 3\u20130. The next game was played on 22 July against Bundesliga opposition Eintracht Frankfurt; the Latics were defeated 2\u20130. A further away game in Germany was played on 25 July against another Bundesliga club, Hannover, which finished 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nWigan's first friendly on English soil was on 29 July at Barnsley, which saw the Latics give a debut to Lee Cattermole. The Wigan club thrashed the Yorkshire outfit 6\u20130 with goals from Marlon King, Emile Heskey, Luis Antonio Valencia, Michael Brown and a brace for new boy Dani\u00ebl de Ridder. Wigan made the short trip to Sheffield on 2 August to play Championship club Sheffield Wednesday, defeating them 3\u20132. Wigan later travelled to Scotland to face Scottish Premier League team Hibernian on 5 August, winning 1\u20130 before finishing off their pre-season with an impressive 1\u20130 victory over Dutch side Utrecht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nWigan's first Premiership game was away to West Ham United on 16 August, with the home side victorious thanks to a Dean Ashton brace. Wigan finished the game the better side, according to reports, and had the better possession and territory overall for the whole game but could only muster one goal, from debutant Amr Zaki, losing 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nOn 24 August Wigan played their first game at the JJB Stadium, against last season's Premier League runners-up Chelsea. The game began badly for Wigan who, already without first-choice goalkeeper Chris Kirkland, gave away a free kick after just 4 minutes of play just outside the box, which was scored by Deco. Despite going down early the Latics rallied and performed valiantly against one of the superior Premier League sides and pressed for an equalising goal, which, in the end, was in vain as Chelsea ran out 1\u20130 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nOn 26 August Wigan played against Notts County at the JJB Stadium in the second round of the League Cup, which led to a comprehensive 4\u20130 victory for the hosts. Many of Wigan's fringe players, including striker Henri Camara, shone in this one-sided affair with goals coming from Camara (2), Zaki and Tomasz Kupisz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, July and August\nOn 30 August Wigan played away to Premiership newcomers Hull City in a Premier League game that, if Hull won, would take them to the top of the table. Wigan, however, were not to be thwarted three times in a row and thrashed Hull 5\u20130, the club's biggest victory in the Premiership. Hull began woefully with poor defending leading to an own goal by Sam Ricketts from a Kevin Kilbane corner within 5 minutes. Antonio Valencia added a second on the counterattack and, despite some decent resolve from Hull, they were finished after an Amr Zaki strike just after the hour mark made sure of the result. Later goals were added by Zaki and Emile Heskey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, September\nWigan's next home fixture was played against Sunderland on 13 September; the fixture which had caused controversy within the town due to the decision to move a Rugby League fixture the previous day by owner Dave Whelan to allow the pitch to be in good condition for the game against Sunderland, a move which angered many Wigan Warriors fans. The game itself started well for Sunderland, who dominated the game and eventually opened the scoring when Wigan defender Titus Bramble tried to clear the resulting corner and headed into his own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, September\nWigan finished the half the better side and came out after half-time much the same but struggled to find the equaliser. The game became a more even affair nearer the end of the second half, with both side posting good chances. It was Wigan who would break Sunderland's resistance, however, with another goal from Amr Zaki equalising matters for Wigan before Lee Cattermole was given a red card in the final minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, September\nOn 16 September, Wigan announced the signing for former Birmingham and Ghanaian international goalkeeper Richard Kingson, released by the Midlands club at the end of the 2007\u201308 season, on a three-year contract after a successful trial period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, September\nOn 21 September Wigan travelled to White Hart Lane to face Tottenham Hotspur. The last time Wigan faced Tottenham they were heavily defeated 4\u20130, but performed much better against a struggling Tottenham side who, before the game, were rooted to the bottom of the Premiership. Wigan had a few decent chances but struggled to dominate the game for large periods, with only Tottenham's toothless attacking plays keeping Wigan in the game. Spurs had a claim for a penalty after Maynor Figueroa tripped Spurs midfielder Aaron Lennon in the box, but referee Steve Tanner dismissed their calls for a spot-kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, September\nOn 28 September Wigan faced Manchester City at the JJB Stadium. A long-range Antonio Valencia goal and an Amr Zaki penalty gave Wigan a 2\u20131 win; City's consolation goal was scored by Vincent Kompany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, October\nOn 4 October Wigan again played at home, against a struggling Middlesbrough side who had not won away from home all season. Wigan had looked confident and the most threatening during the opening half but were unable to take their chances when given them and were eventually undone in the 89th minute with a strike from Middlesbrough forward J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Aliadi\u00e8re.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, October\nOn 18 October, Wigan travelled to Anfield to play league leaders Liverpool. Wigan showed sheer determination throughout the whole game and took the lead on the 29th minute from the head of lead goalscorer Amr Zaki. Dirk Kuyt later levelled things for Liverpool before a sensational strike from Zaki moments before half time gave Wigan the lead for the second time in the game. Wigan dominated the majority of the second half before a reckless challenge from Antonio Valencia led to him being given a second yellow card and leaving the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, October\nThe game opened up more for Liverpool who were inspired by Wigan's disadvantage and Albert Riera restored parity five minutes after the dismissal of Valencia. Wigan then had to play defensively for the remainder of the game as Liverpool assaulted the Wigan goal and were successful just five minutes before the end of the game as Dirk Kuyt nodded home a Jermaine Pennant cross to win the game for Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, October\nOn 26 October, Wigan hosted an in-form Aston Villa side who comfortably beat Wigan 4\u20130. Gareth Barry had opened the scoring early in the first half after Titus Bramble gave away a penalty and were battered into submission in the second half with goals from Gabriel Agbonlahor and John Carew within five minutes of each other ending the game as a contest, a final goal from Steve Sidwell moments before the end compounding the misery for Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, October\nOn 29 October, Wigan travelled to Fulham. The game finished with another loss for Wigan, their fourth in a row. Both sides had been struggling for form before the game and it was billed as a relegation battle in which Fulham came out successful with a 2\u20130 victory. Andrew Johnson celebrated his 100th career goal in this game with an early goal and then another on the hour mark to finish off Wigan's resilence and put pressure on Wigan boss Steve Bruce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nOn 1 November, Wigan's luck changed as they managed to take all three points in a hard-fought victory at Fratton Park against Portsmouth. Portsmouth controlled the opening half but a foul on Titus Bramble by Papa Bouba Diop led to a penalty, converted by Amr Zaki on the stroke of half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nPortsmouth came out in the second half strong and bombarded the Wigan goal, hitting the woodwork a total of four times before Wigan made Portsmouth pay for their wasteful demeanour with Emile Heskey bagging his 100th career goal to give Wigan a precious three points in the final minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nOn 8 November, Wigan hosted Stoke City at the JJB Stadium. Wigan dominated the game but both sides were largely uninspiring in the first half with very few chances to be had. Wigan were better equipped in the second half and peppered the Stoke goal but were left frustrated at Stoke's defensive prowess; the game ended 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nOn 11 November, Wigan travelled to the Emirates Stadium to face Arsenal in the fourth round of the League Cup. Although both sides largely players their reserve players, it was Arsenal who were victorious in a very one-sided affair. The game took a while to come to life, but a goal by Jay Simpson just before half-time broke the deadlock and spurred Arsenal onto an emphatic win against a toothless Wigan side. A further goal for Simpson and a goal from Carlos Vela ended Wigan's run in the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nOn 15 November, Wigan travelled to St James' Park to face Newcastle United. The first half was well controlled and organised by Wigan against a sloppy Newcastle, who conceded within three minutes after a wonder strike from Ryan Taylor. In the second half Newcastle looked more determined and were galvanised by a second bookable offence for Wigan's Emmerson Boyce. Wigan still looked in control of the game for large periods despite missing key men such as Emile Heskey and Amr Zaki, but were undone with the arrival of Michael Owen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nIt was Owen's attacking threat that eventually broke through and pulled Newcastle level on the 80th minute; seven minutes later, Owen's striker partner Obafemi Martins scored to put Newcastle in a seemingly unassailable position with minutes remaining. However, poor defending from Newcastle allowed Titus Bramble to power a header home with a minute of normal time remaining to earn Wigan a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nOn 24 November, Wigan played a home fixture against Everton. In a game that offered many opportunities for both sides but woeful finishing it would be Wigan who would eventually break the deadlock with a strike from Henri Camara midway through the second half ensuring Wigan took all three points and clawed themselves out of the relegation zone. It was Camara's first Premier League goal since December 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, November\nWigan finished the month by hosting fellow strugglers West Bromwich Albion on 29 November. In a game that West Brom had fought hard in they initially took the lead through Ishmael Miller after a Titus Bramble blunder gifted the striker an opportunity on goal. West Brom could have had a further lead if not for the form of Chris Kirkland, who made numerous saves to keep Wigan in the game. Wigan would equalise through Henri Camara just after the hour mark and an 87th-minute goal from an unmarked Emmerson Boyce finished off an unlucky West Brom and gave Wigan a vital three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, December\nOn 6 December, Wigan returned to the Emirates Stadium to face an out-of-form Arsenal. It was to be Arsenal's day, however, as Emmanuel Adebayor scored against the run of play in the 16th minute to give Arsenal a lead they would never lose and strike a blow to Wigan's confidence, despite a strong attacking threat in the final minutes from Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, December\nOn 13 December, Wigan hosted a Blackburn Rovers side in very poor form and eased to a 3\u20130 victory over their north-west rivals. Two early goals within two minutes of each other from Heskey and Valencia finished the game as a contest after 20 minutes with Lee Cattermole eventually ending the game with a third goal for Wigan midway through the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, December\nOn 26 December, Wigan were again at home, this time against Newcastle United. Newcastle, despite good form coming into the game, were out of sorts and were behind on the scoreboard after 29 minutes with a 30-yard free kick from Ryan Taylor beating Shay Given. The second half had Newcastle offering little more than in the first half and things got worse for the north-east outfit when S\u00e9bastien Bassong upended Amr Zaki in the penalty area and was given a red card with the penalty being converted by Zaki moments later. Newcastle did get a penalty of their own after a Chris Kirkland took Andy Carroll out in the penalty box and Danny Guthrie added a consolation goal at the end of a lacklustre performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, December\nOn 28 December, Wigan travelled the short distance to the Reebok Stadium to face Bolton Wanderers. Due to the significance of the game, being both a derby and a potential six-point fixture, tempers were heated and a lot of heavy tackles were used with several yellow cards being shown. Wigan did get the opening goal from the penalty spot after Andy O'Brien fouled Amr Zaki just before half time. Bolton then pressed for an equaliser and had the ball cleared off the line at one point during the game but could not find an equaliser and Wigan went home with all three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nWigan's first game of the new year came on 2 January in an FA Cup third round clash at Tottenham Hotspur. Wigan played a much weaker side than they had been playing in the Premiership up to now and it showed with Spurs dominating the game and running out comfortable 3\u20131 winners. Roman Pavlyuchenko opened the scoring for Spurs just inside the second half from the penalty spot after Wigan goalkeeper Richard Kingson fouled Fraizer Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0026-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nA long range shot from Jamie O'Hara bounced back off the woodwork at straight to Luka Modri\u0107, who doubled Spurs' advantage midway through the second half. Wigan did fight back and earned themselves a goal through Henri Camara two minutes from time, but as they pressed forward for an equaliser they were caught on the counter by Pavlyuchenko, who added a third in stoppage time to knock Wigan out of the cup at the first hurdle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 11 January Wigan had a return match in the Premier League against Tottenham, at the JJB Stadium. Wigan dominated the game for almost the full 90 minutes and were comfortable with Spurs' attacking strategies. Their hard work and endeavour paid off when Maynor Figueroa popped up with a header in the final minute to give Wigan a well-deserved 1\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 12 January, Wigan announced a successful work permit application to allow Colombian international Hugo Rodallega to join Wigan from Mexican side Club Necaxa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 14 January, Wigan travelled to Old Trafford to face reigning champions Manchester United in a rescheduled game. Wigan were caught cold in the opening minute of the game when Cristiano Ronaldo broke away down the right flank and crossed for Wayne Rooney to score. Despite heavy pressure from Manchester United in the first half, Wigan's defence remained strong and the second half saw Wigan dominate the champions and have a penalty claim harshly denied by referee Steve Bennett, but Wigan could not take their opportunities and United held on to claim victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0029-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nWigan had also announced that they had rejected a bid for midfielder Wilson Palacios from Tottenham Hotspur worth \u00a310,000,000 and have asked Spurs to increase their offer. Tottenham returned with an improved offer of \u00a314,000,000 which was accepted by the Wigan club. The deal, however, was held up after a disagreement over the payment of transfer fees, allowing Manchester City to voice interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 15 January, it was announced that left-sided midfielder Kevin Kilbane had left Wigan to join Hull City for an undisclosed fee after Hull's long publicised interest in the Iris international.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 17 January, Wigan travelled to the City of Manchester Stadium to face Manchester City. City were the more controlled side during the first half but wasted their opportunities on goal. Wigan came out more spirited in the second period but conceded an early second-half goal to Pablo Zabaleta. City's good position was rocked only a few minutes later after the dismissal of Richard Dunne for a kick on grounded Wigan striker Amr Zaki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0031-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nWigan began to dominate proceedings from this point but could not find the finishing touch and even had Zaki miss an open goal five minutes before time and had a penalty decision ruled against them as City held on for victory to inflict back-to-back defeats on Wigan for the first time since October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 21 January, Wigan and Tottenham agreed terms on the transfer of Wilson Palacios for \u00a312,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 22 January, Wigan announced the loan signing of Egyptian striker Mido from Middlesbrough on loan for six months, with Wigan's Marlon King moving in the opposite direction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 23 January, Emile Heskey agreed terms and signed for Aston Villa in a deal worth \u00a33,500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 28 January, Wigan hosted Premiership challengers Liverpool at the JJB Stadium. Liverpool began the game strongly and were awarded with a goal on the stroke of half-time by Yossi Benayoun. Wigan performed valiantly throughout the second half and controlled the midfield better than Liverpool and were awarded a penalty six minutes from the end of the game, which was converted by Mido on his debut for Wigan. Hugo Rodallega had a superb chance to win the game later on for Wigan, crashing a free kick against the bar but the game ended level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, January\nOn 31 January, Wigan travelled to Villa Park to face Aston Villa. In a game dominated by Aston Villa Wigan's strong defence held the onslaught from Villa out for the whole game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, Season summary, February\nOn 2 February, it was announced that Henri Camara would join Stoke City on loan until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201148-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wigan Athletic F.C. season, First team squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201149-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women's hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women's hockey team represented Wilfrid Laurier University in the 2008-09 Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's hockey season. The Golden Hawks were coached by Rick Osborne. Assisting Osborne was Jim Rayburn. The Golden Hawks played their home games at Sunlife Financial Arena. The Golden Hawks were a member of the Ontario University Athletics and qualified for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's ice hockey championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201149-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women's hockey season, Regular season, Tournaments\nThe Golden Hawks competed in the Bisons UMSU Tournament. In the Championship Game, Manitoba beat the Golden Hawks 3-2 in Overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 87], "content_span": [88, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201150-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team represented The College of William & Mary during the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. This was head coach Tony Shaver's sixth season at William & Mary. The Tribe competed in the Colonial Athletic Association and played their home games at Kaplan Arena. They finished the season 10\u201320, 5\u201313 in CAA play and lost in the preliminary round of the 2009 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament to James Madison. They did not participate in any post-season tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201151-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Bo Ryan, coaching his eighth season with the Badgers. The team played its home games at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team was the Badgers' 56th season. They represent the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team is coached by Mike Eaves and play their home games at Kohl Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Schedule and results\n\u00b0 Denotes 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament first round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 87], "content_span": [88, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Schedule and results\n\u201c Denotes 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament semifinals (neutral site: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 87], "content_span": [88, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Schedule and results\n\u00d7 Denotes 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament third place (neutral site: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 87], "content_span": [88, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201152-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time on ice; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average; G = Goals; A = Assists; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201153-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey season\nThe 2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey team was the Badgers' 9th season. Led by head coach Mark Johnson, the Badgers went 21\u20132\u20135 in the WCHA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201153-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey season, Regular season\nOn October 18, the Badgers beat Bemidji State in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201153-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\nGreen Background indicates a win. Red Background indicates a loss. White Background indicates an overtime tie/loss. * Non-Conference Game. (SO) Shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 110th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. They played the season in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League Championship. The season turned out to be a major success as the club finished top of the division and were therefore promoted back to the Premier League after a five-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season\nThe team enjoyed their best start to the season for almost fifty years, winning seven of their opening eight games and scoring 23 goals in the process. They led the table continuously from October until the season's end, when they were crowned champions, winning their first silverware in 20 years. Leading goalscorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake also finished as the division's top scorer for a second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nThe close season saw the club continue their policy of signing young players with potential from the lower leagues, rather than pursuing their heavy investment strategy of early times. The close season saw the likes of Richard Stearman, David Jones and Sam Vokes arrive, along with the experience of Chris Iwelumo, while making a transfer profit with the sale of players such as Seyi Olofinjana, Jay Bothroyd and Freddy Eastwood. The squad was also boosted by retaining their most valuable assets in Wayne Hennessey, Michael Kightly and the division's top goalscorer of last season, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nThe season saw the club's strongest start since 1949\u201350, as a draw away to Plymouth preceded two runs of seven consecutive wins \u2014 scoring 23 goals and conceding only seven goals in the first eight games. Transfer deadline day saw the club add further defensive strength as three new defenders joined the ranks \u2014 George Friend, Matt Hill and Jason Shackell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nAlthough their winning streak was ended by a 3\u20130 home defeat to promotion rivals Reading, as well as a 5\u20132 defeat at Norwich, which saw Wolves surrender top spot to Birmingham City, Wolves rediscovered their winning form for the second run of seven consecutive wins to lead the table at Christmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nAfter drawing their final two fixtures of 2008, Wolves endured a dismal start to 2009, winning just once in eleven league fixtures. Trying to arrest this slump, the January transfer window saw the arrival of three new faces: Kyel Reid and Nigel Quashie on loan for the remainder of the season from West Ham United; defender Christophe Berra also joined from Scottish club Hearts for \u00a32.3million. The FA Cup had brought some cheer with a fringe squad winning 2\u20130 at local rivals Birmingham in the 3rd Round, before the club exited the competition with a 2\u20131 home defeat to Premier League side Middlesbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nWeathering their bad run of league form, Wolves managed to regain an air of consistency, reinventing their game from the free-flowing, free-scoring football of the first third of the season to hold down a string of clean sheets and one goal margin victories against Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday. With promotion rivals Birmingham City and Reading unable to take advantage of their poor run, March saw an upturn in Wolves' league form as the club took 13 points from a possible 15, strengthening their position at the top of the table that they had led since October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nWith just seven games left on the Championship calendar, Aston Villa striker Marlon Harewood was loaned for the run-in, though the team were also hit by the news that key midfielder Michael Kightly would miss the remainder of the season after suffering a broken metatarsal in his foot. Further injury woe struck when Chris Iwelumo suffered medial ligament damage in a loss to local rivals Birmingham in April that ended a five-game unbeaten run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nHowever, Easter weekend brought 3\u20130 home win against struggling Southampton, followed by a 3\u20132 away victory at Derby County that gave Wolves a seven-point lead over third-placed Sheffield United. Promotion to the Premier League was confirmed on 18 April 2009 when a goal from Ebanks-Blake gave Wolves a 1\u20130 win over Queens Park Rangers. Seven days later, Wolves clinched their first league title since the 1988\u201389 season \u2014 and their first title at second-tier level since 1976\u201377 \u2014 after a 1\u20131 draw at Barnsley brought the point they required for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Season review\nWolves completed their season with a 1\u20130 home win over Doncaster Rovers, after which they were presented with the Championship trophy to crown their most successful season in decades as they returned to the top flight after a five-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Results, Pre season\nWolves conducted a short three-match tour of Scotland, their first visit in three years. As had become common in recent years, only their final game was held at their Molineux home. A second \"Wolves XI\" team largely comprising academy prospects and out of favour senior players also played a series of matches during this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Results, Pre season\n\"Wolves XI\" pre season results (all away):  v Chasetown (18 July),  v Rhyl (26 July),  v Stafford Rangers (5 August)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Results, Football League Championship\nA total of 24 teams competed in the Championship in the 2008\u201309 season. Each team would play every other team twice, once at their stadium, and once at the opposition's. Three points were awarded to teams for each win, one point per draw, and none for defeats. The provisional fixture list was released on 16 June 2008, but was subject to change in the event of matches being selected for television coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Players, Statistics\nKey:\u00a0\u00a0\u2021 On loan from another club \u00a0\u00a0* First appearance(s) for the club", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Players, Statistics\nCorrect as of end of season. Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances in parentheses where applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201154-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season, Kit\nThe season saw a new home and away kit, both manufactured by Le Coq Sportif. The away kit was all black with minor neon green piping. Chaucer Consulting sponsored the club for a fifth and final season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 48], "content_span": [49, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201155-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's CEV Cup\nThe  Women's CEV Cup  2008-09 is the 37th edition of the European Women's CEV Cup volleyball club tournament, the former Top Teams Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201155-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's CEV Cup, Teams of the 2008\u20132009\nThe number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201155-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's CEV Cup, Play-off, 1/16 Finals\nThe 16 winning teams from the 1/16 Finals will compete in the 1/8 Finals playing Home & Awaymatches. The losers of the 1/16 Final matches will qualify for the 3rd round of the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201156-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's EHF Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Women's EHF Cup was the 28th edition of the competition, taking place from 8 September 2008 to 17 May 2009. SD Itxako defeated HC Leipzig in the final to become the second Spanish club to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201157-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's National Cricket League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Women's National Cricket League season was the 13th season of the Women's National Cricket League, the women's domestic limited overs cricket competition in Australia. The tournament started on 29 November 2008 and finished on 25 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201157-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Women's National Cricket League season\nThe New South Wales Breakers won the tournament after topping the ladder at the conclusion of the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201158-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 World Series of Poker Circuit\nThe 2008\u201309 World Series of Poker Circuit is the 5th annual World Series of Poker Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201159-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Worthington's District Cup\nThe 2008\u201309 Worthington's District Cup is the national Rugby Union district cup competition of Wales. It is the 36th annual Welsh Districts cup. The current champions are Cambrian Welfare RFC (2 times 1996\u201397, 2007\u201308). This was the last Welsh District Cup as the WRU instated all remaining WDRU (Welsh Districts Rugby Union) clubs with full WRU membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201159-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Worthington's District Cup, 2007-08 Final\nThe 2007-08 Final took place at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 12 April. The final was competed between Cambrian Welfare RFC and Bryncethin RFC (both teams from WRU Division 6 Central). The final score was 20 - 8 to Cambrian Welfare RFC who won the competition for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201160-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team is currently representing the University of Wyoming in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. It competes in the Mountain West Conference, which consists of nine universities located mostly in the Mountain States of the U.S., with outlying members in California and Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201161-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team represented the University of Wyoming in the 2008\u20132009 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Cowgirls were coached by, as the Cowgirls will play their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming. The Cowgirls are a member of the Mountain West Conference and participated in the Mountain West Conference Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201161-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team, MWC Tournament\nThe Cowgirls opened up play at the Mountain West Conference Tournament Tuesday, March 10, in Las Vegas. Their first-round opponent was the Colorado State Rams. The game started at 5:30 p.m. Mountain Time at the Thomas and Mack Center. The Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team (16-14 overall, 8-8 MWC) lost in the first round of the MWC Tournament by the final of 64-56 to the Colorado State Rams (10-20 overall, 4-12 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201161-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team, MWC Tournament\nThree players finished the game by scoring in double-figures. Sophomore Hillary Carlson had 17 points and four rebounds. Emma Langford followed with 16 while Megan McGuffey added 13 in her final game as a Cowgirl. Kristen Scheffler had a team high six rebounds. Wyoming shot 19-54 (.352) from the field, 1-14 (.071) from the three-point line and 17-23 (.739) from the free throw line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201161-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team, MWC Tournament\nAmaka Uzomah, Bonnie Barbee and Zoi Simmon each finished with 11 points, while Uzomah led the way with nine rebounds. The Rams were 23-56 (.411) from the field, 14-21 (.667) from the free throw line and out rebounded the Cowgirls 39-29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201162-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team\nThe 2008\u201309 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team represented Xavier University in the 2008\u201309 college basketball season. They were led by head coach Sean Miller in his fifth and final season at Xavier. The Musketeers were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference and played their home games at the Cintas Center. Xavier finished the season with a record of 27\u20138, 12\u20134 in A-10 play to win the regular season championship. The Musketeers lost in the quarterfinals of the A-10 Tournament to Saint Louis. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as a #4 seed. The Musketeers defeated Portland State and Wisconsin to advance to the Sweet Sixteen before losing to Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201162-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Musketeers finished the 2007\u201308 season with a record of 30\u20137, 14\u20132 in conference play to win the regular season championship. Xavier lost to Saint Joseph's in the semifinals of the A-10 Tournament. The Musketeers received an at-large bid as a #3 seed to the NCAA Tournament where they advanced to the Elite Eight before losing to UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201163-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xtreme Soccer League Season\nThe 2008-09 Xtreme Soccer League Season was the only season for the league. The members of the XSL's first season were four former MISL teams: the Chicago Storm, the Detroit Ignition, the Milwaukee Wave, and the New Jersey Ironmen. The regular season kicked off on December 13, 2008 and concluded on April 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201163-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xtreme Soccer League Season\nOn March 29, 2009 the Detroit Ignition claimed the first XSL season championship by having the New Jersey Ironmen defeat the Milwaukee Wave 15-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201163-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xtreme Soccer League Season\nThe league went on a one-year hiatus after its inaugural season but never returned to active play. The Milwaukee Wave joined the National Indoor Soccer League for the 2009-2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201163-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Xtreme Soccer League Season, Final standings, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games Played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201164-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Yemeni League\nThe 2008\u201309 Yemeni League was the 17th edition of top level football in Yemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201164-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Yemeni League\nAl-Hilal Al-Sahili won the championship on the final day of the season and qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 87th season of competitive association football and fifth season in the Football Conference played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. Their 14th-place finish in 2007\u201308 meant it was their fifth successive season in the Conference Premier. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season\nAhead of Colin Walker's first start to a season as manager, York signed nine players before the summer transfer window closed. The season started with an eight-match unbeaten run, but Walker was dismissed in November 2008 after three successive defeats. Martin Foyle was appointed as his successor, and after the turn of the year York won only five league matches. Survival in the Conference Premier was achieved with a 17th-place finish. York reached the 2009 FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium, being beaten 2\u20130 by Stevenage Borough. They were eliminated from the 2008\u201309 FA Cup in the fourth qualifying round, and from the 2008\u201309 Conference League Cup in the Northern section fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season\n33 players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were 14 different goalscorers. Defender Daniel Parslow missed only one of the 58 competitive matches played over the season. Richard Brodie finished as leading scorer with 19 goals, of which 15 came in league competition and four came in the FA Trophy. The winner of the Clubman of the Year award, voted for by the club's supporters, was Parslow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Background and pre-season\nBilly McEwan was dismissed as manager of York City early into the 2007\u201308 season, with the team 19th in the Conference Premier table and having recently been beaten by Conference South team Havant & Waterlooville in the FA Cup. After a six-match unbeaten run as caretaker manager, Colin Walker was appointed as York's permanent manager and led the team to a 14th-place finish in the table. York released Darren Craddock, Stuart Elliott, Tom Evans, Ross Greenwood, Anthony Lloyd, Manny Panther and Alex Rhodes after the season ended, while Nicky Wroe and Martyn Woolford left for Torquay United and Scunthorpe United respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Background and pre-season\nJimmy Beadle, Richard Brodie, Craig Farrell, Josh Mimms, Daniel Parslow, Ben Purkiss, Mark Robinson and Onome Sodje signed new contracts ahead of 2008\u201309. York signed seven players before the season started; they were goalkeepers Michael Ingham from Hereford United and Artur Krysiak on a one-month loan from Birmingham City, defender Mark Greaves from Burton Albion, midfielders Niall Henderson from Raith Rovers, Steven Hogg from Gretna and Ben Wilkinson from Hull City, and striker Daniel McBreen from St Johnstone. Professional contracts were handed to three youth-team players, those being defenders Andy McWilliams and Josh Radcliffe and winger Liam Shepherd. Greaves was named as York's club captain for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Background and pre-season\nNew home and away kits were introduced for the first time in two years. The home kit comprised red and navy blue halved shirts with red collars, navy blue shorts and navy blue socks with two white strips on the cuffs. The away kit included white shirts with black shoulders, white shorts and white socks with black cuffs. Last season's third kit was retained, which featured light blue shirts with a maroon collar, bar a section under the neck which was light blue, and maroon trims on the sleeves, maroon shorts and light blue socks. CLP Industries continued as shirt sponsors for the fourth successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, August\nYork's season started with a 1\u20130 victory away to Crawley Town, Farrell scoring the winner 19 minutes from time. The second match was a 1\u20130 home win over Wrexham, who had won their opening fixture 5\u20130 against Stevenage Borough, with Greaves scoring the winner. Krysiak suffered a dislocated finger during this match, which resulted in him returning to Birmingham prematurely from his loan spell, and was replaced by Mimms, who gave an assured performance. York's winning start to the season ended after a 1\u20131 home draw with Histon, who took the lead through a Daniel Wright penalty kick in the first half, before McBreen scored the equaliser for York on 69 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, August\nWinger Simon Russell signed for the club from Kidderminster Harriers. York drew 2\u20132 away to Northwich Victoria, which saw the team fight back on two occasions after twice being a goal down, with Brodie scoring his first goal of the season. He then scored in the third minute against Barrow, who equalised seven minutes later through Lee Hunt, in a home match that finished a 1\u20131 home draw. Beadle was loaned out to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Whitby Town for a month, having not made any appearances in 2008\u201309.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0007-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, August\nSodje scored with a late volley after coming off the bench to give York a 1\u20131 draw away to Torquay United to maintain the team's unbeaten record, which looked under threat after Danny Stevens gave Torquay the lead on 65 minutes. Sodje's goal against Torquay won the first Conference Premier Goal of the Month competition, for August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, September\nGrimsby Town midfielder Peter Bore joined on an initial one-month loan on transfer deadline day. York drew for the fifth time in succession with a 1\u20131 home draw with Mansfield Town, in which Sodje scored after he latched onto Adie Moses' misplaced header. The team's first victory in six matches came in a 2\u20130 home win over Woking; the goals came from McBreen and a Danny Bunce own goal. A 4\u20132 defeat away to Kettering Town saw York's unbeaten run come to an end after nine matches, leaving their opponents as the only unbeaten team in the division. Former Accrington Stanley striker David Brown, former Rotherham United defender Tom Hirst and Ipswich Town midfielder Jai Reason joined the club on trial. After impressing in a reserve-team match, Hirst was signed by the club. However, Brown and Reason were not offered contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, September\nAn 86th-minute equaliser from McBreen gave York a 1\u20131 draw at home to Salisbury City, which maintained the team's unbeaten record at Bootham Crescent. Parslow signed a new contract with the club, and Rotherham midfielder Peter Holmes joined on a one-month loan. A second defeat of the season came after losing 2\u20130 away to Kidderminster, Brian Smikle and Justin Richards scoring for the home team. Beadle was released by the club towards the end of his loan spell at Whitby, due to him looking for regular first-team football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, September\nThis was followed by the departure of Bore, who returned to Grimsby from his loan spell early. A 3\u20133 draw away against Stevenage was achieved after the team were 2\u20130 down after 19 minutes, with the York goals coming from Sodje, Holmes and Farrell. Sodje picked up a hamstring injury during this match, meaning he would be out of action for four to six weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, October\nDespite having the better chances, York drew 0\u20130 at home with Cambridge United, before being beaten 3\u20131 away by Wrexham, in which Wilkinson scored a late consolation goal. The club made an attempt to re-sign former striker Clayton Donaldson on loan from Crewe Alexandra, but were told to make an inquiry four weeks later, due to him being injured. York's first double of the season came with a 2\u20130 away win over Woking, the goals coming from Wilkinson and McBreen. Iyseden Christie's loan spell at Kettering from Stevenage was to be terminated for a loan move to York to go ahead, but this deal fell through. Walker revealed he was interested in signing striker Bruce Dyer, shortly after he played against York's reserve team for Bradford City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, October\nYork achieved a consecutive victory for the first time in 2008\u201309 after beating Rushden & Diamonds 2\u20130 at home, with goals from Robinson and Farrell. After this match, Holmes was recalled by Rotherham. Brodie was loaned to fellow Conference Premier club Barrow for one month, having lost his place in the starting line-up. Former Leeds United midfielder Gavin Rothery impressed for the reserve team against Hartlepool United, after which he signed a short-term contract with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, October\nA 0\u20130 home draw with Mansfield in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup resulted in a replay, which would be played at Field Mill. Radcliffe was sent out on loan for a month at Harrogate Railway Athletic of the Northern Premier League Division One North. York were eliminated from the FA Cup after a 1\u20130 defeat away to Mansfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, November\nAn 87th-minute penalty scored by Yemi Odubade saw York lose 1\u20130 away to Oxford United. Dyer signed for the club, having been unattached after his release by Chesterfield at the end of 2007\u201308. Adam Boyes signed a long-term professional contract ahead of York's Conference League Cup third round tie against Mansfield, which was won with a 4\u20132 penalty shoot-out victory. This was preceded by Greaves' headed goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time, earning the team a 1\u20131 draw, which was followed by a goalless period of extra time. The attendance of 609 was the lowest crowd in the club history\u2014breaking the previous record of 763 set in the 2007\u201308 Conference League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, November\nYork lost 2\u20131 at home to Torquay, in their first home defeat of the season. After Roscoe Dsane gave the visitors the lead, Greaves equalised for York with a header from a Purkiss cross in the 85th minute, before Mark Ellis scored for Torquay on 90 minutes. A third successive defeat came after losing 1\u20130 away to Cambridge. It was agreed that Brodie's loan at Barrow would be extended after he scored four goals in six appearances, but York decided to overturn this decision a day later. Barrow hoped to open talks over signing him on a permanent contract in January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, November\nWalker was dismissed as manager, alongside head coach Eric Winstanley, with youth-team coach Neil Redfearn taking over as caretaker manager. He took charge of the team for the home match against Crawley, which finished a 2\u20132 draw after Lewis Killeen scored the rebound from a Thomas Pinault penalty in the 90th minute. Former Port Vale manager Martin Foyle was appointed as manager, with Redfearn taking the role of assistant manager. Foyle made his first signing by bringing in winger Adam Smith on loan from Conference North club Gainsborough Trinity. Foyle's first match in charge was a 1\u20131 away draw against Salisbury City, which was earned following a Brodie goal in the 83rd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, December\nA 1\u20130 home defeat by Grays Athletic through a Wes Thomas goal followed; this was Grays' first away victory of the season. York followed this with a 1\u20131 draw away to Histon, in which they took the lead through Brodie in the 14th minute, before Parslow scored an own goal on 59 minutes. North Ferriby United striker Steve Torpey was appointed as youth-team coach to succeed Redfearn. Foyle's first win as manager came in a 2\u20130 away victory over Northwich Victoria in the FA Trophy first round, both goals coming from Brodie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, December\nThis was followed with a 3\u20131 home win over Ebbsfleet United, with goals from Adam Smith, Brodie and Sodje after being one goal down. Dyer retired from football, having only made three appearances for York through back and hamstring injuries, while Rothery was released. York's two-match winning run ended after a 2\u20131 defeat away to league-leaders Burton Albion, which was secured after Greaves scored an own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0015-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, December\nA 2\u20131 home defeat by Altrincham followed; Brodie scored a free kick in the 32nd minute to give York the lead, before Chris Senior and Dale Johnson scored for the visitors in the second half. Redfearn left the club to take charge of the Leeds under-18 team and Andy Porter, a former teammate of Foyle at Port Vale, was appointed as assistant manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, January\nThe New Year began with a second defeat of the season to Burton, this time being beaten 3\u20131 at home, in which Brodie scored in the first half with a shot from the edge of the penalty area. Wrexham defender Kyle Critchell was signed on a one-month loan, who Foyle knew while he was a coach at the club. Adam Smith returned to Gainsborough following the conclusion of his loan, while a permanent move had been stalled as Gainsborough were holding out for a fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0016-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, January\nProgression to the third round of the FA Trophy was ensured with a 2\u20131 away victory over Oxford, with goals from McBreen and Brodie. Further signings from Wrexham took place when striker Simon Brown and midfielder Christian Smith signed on loan and permanently respectively. Hirst was released having failed to break into the first team. Lewes were beaten 3\u20130 at home; Brodie opened the scoring with a volley into the top corner from outside the penalty area, and Christian Smith scored from 30\u00a0yards before Brodie finished the scoring with a low shot into the bottom corner. Henderson was released having fallen out of the reckoning for a first-team place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, January\nYork were knocked out of the Conference League Cup following a 3\u20131 away defeat by Barrow in the Northern section fourth round. Midfielder Levi Mackin was signed on loan from Wrexham until the end of the season. He debuted in York's 2\u20131 away defeat to Eastbourne Borough, in which Christian Smith scored a header from Brown's cross. Adam Smith rejoined York from Gainsborough on a permanent contract for an undisclosed fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0017-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, January\nHis return came as a substitute in York's 1\u20131 draw away to Altrincham, in which Brodie scored the equalising goal after Shaun Densmore put the home team in the lead. Farrell was loaned out to Oxford for the remainder of the season, as he sought more game time. York drew 1\u20131 away with Kidderminster in the FA Trophy third round, in which Boyes scored his first goal for York, meaning a replay was to be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, February\nCritchell's loan at York was extended for a second month, with the fitness of several York defenders in doubt. York were beaten 1\u20130 away by Mansfield, courtesy of a Robert Duffy penalty, in the teams' fourth encounter of the season. A 13\u201312 penalty shoot-out victory over Kidderminster followed a 1\u20131 extra time draw in an FA Trophy replay; in normal time, McBreen scored a header from a corner delivered by Simon Rusk before the away team equalised shortly after through Justin Richards. A new record for the most consecutive penalties scored in a shoot-out was set, at 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, February\nMcBreen was reported to have signed for North Queensland Fury of the A-League, although the transfer had yet to be confirmed by York. It was confirmed that he would join the Fury for the start of 2009\u201310 in August 2009. Former Wrexham defender Shaun Pejic signed after a successful trial at the club. York beat Conference South team Havant & Waterlooville 2\u20130 at home in the fourth round of the FA Trophy to secure a place in the semi-final, with both goals scored by McBreen. This was followed by a 2\u20130 away defeat to Rushden in the league. York's first league victory in a month was a 2\u20130 home win over Weymouth, who were forced to play a weakened team due to their financial situation, and Brodie scored headers in each half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, March\nIngham made several important saves as York drew 0\u20130 away to Ebbsfleet. The first leg of the FA Trophy semi-final tie against AFC Telford United ended in a 2\u20130 away win, with goals in each half from Rusk and Purkiss. A late goal from Sodje with a shot from the edge of the penalty area earned the team a 1\u20131 draw away to Forest Green Rovers, after Kaid Mohamed had given the home team a first-half lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, March\nA 2\u20131 home win over Telford in the second leg of the FA Trophy semi-final, with goals in each half from Brodie and McBreen, saw York progress into 2009 FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium with 4\u20131 aggregate victory. This was followed by a 0\u20130 home draw with Kettering in the league. Wilkinson joined divisional rivals Altrincham on loan until the end of the season, having failed to feature in the team since January 2009. York drew 0\u20130 with play-off contenders Kidderminster at home, which was followed by a 2\u20130 home defeat to Stevenage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, April and May\nYork dropped into the relegation zone after a 1\u20130 away defeat to Grays, who themselves moved out of the relegation zone and above York, and this was followed with a 0\u20130 home draw with Oxford. They were beaten 2\u20131 at home by Northwich; Jonny Allan gave the visitors the lead in the first half and Robinson equalised with a penalty on 68 minutes, before Allan scored a stoppage-time winner for Northwich. This was followed by a 0\u20130 draw away to fellow strugglers Barrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, April and May\nBefore York's penultimate home match against Eastbourne, Parslow was named the 2008\u201309 Clubman of the Year, voted for by the club's supporters. A 1\u20130 victory saw York move out of the relegation zone, in what was their first league win in 10 matches. It was achieved after McBreen scored from a Purkiss pass in the 35th minute. A second successive win came at home to Forest Green, who York beat 2\u20131 with second-half goals from Boyes and Brodie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Review, April and May\nA 2\u20131 away victory over Weymouth saw York secure survival from relegation, with their opponents facing relegation as a result. Brodie gave York a 14th-minute lead, and after Cliff Akurang equalised for Weymouth late in the first half, Boyes scored the winning goal 13 minutes from time. York's last league match was a 1\u20131 away draw with bottom placed Lewes, Greaves scoring on 80 minutes before the home team equalised three minutes from time. This result saw them finish the season 17th the table. York were defeated 2\u20130 by Stevenage in the 2009 FA Trophy Final at Wembley, who scored with second-half goals from Steve Morison and Lee Boylan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nYork were in a midtable position for most of the season, and were as high as fifth in August 2008, while dropping as low as 22nd in April 2009. Their goalscoring record of 47 goals scored was the fifth lowest in the division; whereas, their defensive record of 51 goals conceded was better than that of the champions Burton. Parslow made the highest number of appearances during the season, appearing in 57 of York's 58 matches. Brodie was York's top scorer in the league and in all competitions, with 15 league goals and 19 in total. McBreen was the only other player to reach double figures, with 10 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAfter the season ended, York released Greaves, Hogg, McBreen, Pejic, Radcliffe, Robinson, Rusk, Shepherd, Christian Smith and Wilkinson. Boyes, Farrell, Darren Kelly and Sodje left for Scunthorpe, Rushden, Portadown and Barnsley respectively. Brodie, McWilliams, Mimms and Purkiss signed new contracts with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201165-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 York City F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nOver the summer York signed defenders James Meredith from Shrewsbury Town, Alan O'Hare from Mansfield and Djoumin Sangar\u00e9 from Salisbury, midfielders Neil Barrett from Ebbsfleet, Andy Ferrell from Kidderminster, Alex Lawless from Forest Green, Mackin from Wrexham, winger Craig Nelthorpe from Oxford, and strikers Michael Gash from Ebbsfleet, Richard Pacquette from Maidenhead United and Michael Rankine from Rushden. Striker Michael Emmerson was promoted from the youth team after he signed a professional contract with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201166-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ystalyfera RFC season\nAt the end of this season Ystalyfera were promoted back to the level of Division Three after an absence of three years. This was the first taste of success for ten years since the Division Five Championship in season 1998-99, the highest points total and number of league wins since then. The 264 total of most away game points was also equalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201166-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ystalyfera RFC season\nAt the start of the season initial form of the side continued on from the end of the previous campaign, with commanding wins at home up to November, the only defeats being away - a surprising 2nd half collapse at Pontycymmer and the \u2018theft\u2019 of a victory at Bryncoch where we more than matched the eventual Division champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201166-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ystalyfera RFC season\nThe relatively young \u2018Fera side continued to grow in confidence boosted by the experience of no less than 7 former captains namely; Martyn Stoneman, Alun Guerrier, Steven Munkley, Kevin Williams, Peter Abraham, Damian James and Craig Lloyd, all contributing in their own individual ways and the latter two coaching the team in its success. Cornerstone of the achievement was undoubtedly the two young props Kieran Lloyd and Daniel White. Hard working and dedicated they played in every game and won commendable plaudits from both local and visiting onlookers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201166-0001-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ystalyfera RFC season\nCaptain for his second year Paul Davies, led his side through a surge of five consecutive wins in April whilst getting married and enjoying a honeymoon as well! Gareth James, back in the side from the Bryncoch away game with 5 conversions, finished with the highest season total of 172 points, his career total to date being 535. Brother Damian increased his club record total to 1354 points. Graham Jones was top try scorer with 9 touchdowns. Players Player was Stephan Jones and Supporters Player Daniel White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201166-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Ystalyfera RFC season\nA profitable season also delivered in the Welsh Cup where Ystalyfera equalled their highest progress reaching the Third Round for the seventh time. Opportunity to achieve success in the elusive Swansea Valley cup proved disappointing with the termination of the event due to the failure of participating teams to complete the fixtures. This season finished with great promise from an averagely young side, playing a fast positive style of play and much fun to watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Team Kit\nThe team kits for the 2008-09 season are produced by Adidas. The home kit was revealed at Zamalek TV website on April 4. The kit was first worn in the first CAF Champions League game of the 2007-08 season. An all-black kit with white stripes replaced the bright-yellow away kit from the 2006-07 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Squad, Youth Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Transfers, Overall\nThis section displays the club's financial expenditure's in the transfer market. Because all transfer fee's are not disclosed to the public, the numbers displayed in this section are only based on figures released by media outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Statistics, Top scorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201167-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 Zamalek SC season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\n*  = 1 suspension withdrawn ** = 2 suspensions withdrawn*** = 3 suspensions withdrawn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201168-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 curling season\nThe 2008-09 curling season began in September 2008 and ended in April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201169-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 figure skating season\nThe 2008\u201309 figure skating season began on July 1, 2008, and ended on June 30, 2009. During this season, elite skaters competed on the Championship level at the 2009 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships. They also competed in elite competitions such as the Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201169-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 figure skating season, Season notes\nAs this was a pre-Olympic season, skaters qualified entries to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games at the 2009 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201169-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 figure skating season, Season notes, Age eligibility\nSkaters competing on the junior level were required to be at least 13 but not 19 \u2013 or 21 for male pair skaters and ice dancers \u2013 before July 1, 2008. Those who had turned 14 were eligible for the senior Grand Prix series and senior B internationals. Those who turned 15 before July 1, 2008 were also eligible for the senior World, European, and Four Continents Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201169-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 figure skating season, Season's best scores\nThe following are all the season's best scores set over the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201170-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Argentine football\n2008\u201309 season of Argentine football was the 118th season of competitive football in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201170-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Argentine football, National teams, Men's\nThis section covers Argentina men's matches from August 1, 2008 to July 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201170-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Argentine football, National teams, Men's\nFor the Olympic Games results, please see here. Those results are not tallied here because the team is made of Under\u201323 players, not the full squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201170-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Argentine football, National teams, Women's\nThis section covers Argentina women's matches from August 1, 2008 to July 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201171-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Australian soccer\nThe following article is a summary of the 2008\u201309 football season in Australia, which was the 4th competitive season since the restructuring of the domestic system and commencement of the A-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201172-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Belgian football\nThe 2008\u201309 football season in Belgium, which is the 106th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201172-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Belgian football, European Club Results\nAs Cercle Brugge did not desire to play in the Intertoto Cup, Germinal Beerschot took their place but where immediately eliminated. Anderlecht  suffered a painful defeat to BATE Borisov in the second qualification round of the Champions League, which did not even send them into the UEFA Cup. Gent also performed weak, losing immediately in their first match. Club Brugge got into the group stage but after drawing in every match against mostly weaker opponents, they finally succumbed at home to Copenhagen. Champions Standard Li\u00e8ge however provided stunning football as they came very close to keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League and then dropped into the UEFA Cup where they beat teams such as Everton, Sevilla, Partizan and Sampdoria before eventually going out against Braga in the last 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201173-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Cape Verdean football\nIn the 2008\u201309 season of competitive football (soccer) in Cape Verde The 2nd Cape Verdean Cup took place in July and August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201173-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Cape Verdean football, Final standings, Cape Verdean Football Championships\nAcad\u00e9mica and Sporting  Praia were first in each group while  Mindelense and Sporting Porto Novo, second of each group. Acad\u00e9mica Praia had the most points second were Mindelense and Sporting Praia with 12. Mindelense scored the most with 13 goals followed by Sporting Praia and Ultramarina with eleven, Acad\u00e9mica Praia with ten and Sporting Porto Novo with nine. Later, Acad\u00e9mica Praia advanced with four goals scored while Sporting Advanced with three. Sporting won the first match 2-0, the second leg had a goal draw, with a total of three goals, Sporting Praia claimed their 8th national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201173-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Cape Verdean football, Final standings, Cape Verdean Cup\nThe second Cape Verdean Cup took place. Boavista Praia won their first cup title after defeating Acad\u00e9mico do Aeroporto 1-0 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201173-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Cape Verdean football, Final standings, Island or regional competitions, Regional Super Cups\nThe 2008 champion winner played with a 2008 cup winner (when a club won both, a second place club competed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 103], "content_span": [104, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201174-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Croatian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 2008\u201309 football (soccer) season in Croatia, which was the 18th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201174-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Croatian football, National team\nThe home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201174-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Croatian football, National team, World Cup qualifiers\nCroatia is currently in Group 6 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football\nThe 2008-09 season is the 119th season of competitive football in Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, National team, Players\nThe following players appeared for Denmark during the 2008-09 season. All caps and goals are tallied for the 2008-09 season only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, National team, Friendly matches\nThe home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, National team, World Cup qualifiers\nDenmark competed in Group 1 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, National team, World Cup qualifiers\nThe home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, League XI national team\nOn December 5, 2008, a 20-man squad Denmark League XI national football team was named to play the 2009 King's Cup in Thailand. In the following month, a total ten players pulled out of the squad and had to be replaced in turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, League XI national team\nOlsen had initially refrained from selecting players from AaB due to their participation in the UEFA Cup, and when F.C. Copenhagen also advanced in that tournament, Copenhagen players Mathias J\u00f8rgensen, Hjalte Bo N\u00f8rregaard, Thomas Kristensen, and Martin Vingaard were replaced. Additionally, Mikkel Bischoff, Steffen Kielstrup, Anders Randrup, Thomas Rasmussen, Christopher Poulsen, as well as replacement player Jonas Troest, all had to pull out due to injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201175-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Danish football, League XI national team\nThe team played two games, as it won the tournament. The number of caps and goals reflect performances during the two matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 129th season of competitive football in England. The Premier League started on 16 August 2008, while the Championship, League One, and League Two matches started on 9 August 2008. The regular season of the Football League ended on 3 May 2009, while the Premier League ended on 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 July 2008: Luiz Felipe Scolari, who managed Brazil to World Cup glory in 2002, is appointed manager of Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n22 July 2008: Luke McCormick, on bail after being charged with causing death by dangerous driving, has his contract terminated by Plymouth Argyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n29 July 2008: Liverpool pay \u00a320.3million for 28-year-old Tottenham Hotspur and Ireland striker Robbie Keane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n9 August 2008: The first Football League matches of the season are played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n10 August 2008: The FA Community Shield is won by Manchester United on penalties against Portsmouth after a goalless draw at Wembley Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n16 August 2008: The first Premier League matches of the season are played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 August 2008: The first month of the Premier League season ends with Chelsea top of the league under their new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and West Bromwich Albion being bottom of the table. The race to get into the Premier League is being headed by Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End and Birmingham City who are level on 10 points at the top of the Football League Championship after four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 September 2008: Manchester City are taken over by the Abu Dhabi group to become the richest club in England, and pay a national record \u00a332.4million for Real Madrid CF and Brazil striker Robinho, while Manchester United pay a club record \u00a330.75million for Tottenham Hotspur and Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov. In League Two, Kevin Bond becomes the first manager to be removed of the season when his contract is terminated by Bournemouth after two years in charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n3 September 2008: West Ham United manager Alan Curbishley resigns after 21 months in charge, the first Premier League managerial resignation of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n5 September 2008: Kevin Keegan resigns after eight months back in charge at Newcastle United, leading to dissatisfaction from fans at Chairman Mike Ashley, who allegedly forced Keegan out of the club with a series of disputes about team selection and transfers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n11 September 2008: Gianfranco Zola, former Chelsea and Italy striker, becomes West Ham United's first non-British manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n26 September 2008: Joe Kinnear, 61, returns to football as interim manager of Newcastle United, four years after leaving Nottingham Forest due to health reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n27 September 2008: Hull City win 2\u20131 over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. Their first win against Arsenal in English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 September 2008: Chelsea and Liverpool finish September level on points at the top of the Premier League, with Aston Villa, Arsenal and West Ham United completing the top five. Blackburn Rovers, sixth in the league making Paul Ince the most successful Ethnic Minority manager to start a Premier League season. Hull City, playing top division football for the first time are seventh in the Premier League. Defending champions Manchester United are ninth in the league, with a game in hand over the teams above them, while Tottenham Hotspur are bottom of the table. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City are first and second respectively in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 October 2008: Luke McCormick is found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving at Stoke Crown Court and sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n26 October 2008: Tottenham Hotspur, bottom of Premier League, terminate the contract of manager Juande Ramos and hire Portsmouth's Harry Redknapp to fill the vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n28 October 2008: Portsmouth promote assistant manager Tony Adams to manager following Harry Redknapp joining Tottenham Hotspurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 October 2008: Liverpool finish October as Premier League leaders, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Hull City completing the top five. Manchester United are sixth with a game in hand over the top five clubs. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City are first and second respectively in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n22 November 2008: Charlton Athletic, bottom of the Football League Championship 18 months after being relegated from the Premier League, sack manager Alan Pardew after nearly two years in charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 November 2008: Chelsea and Liverpool are level on points at the top of the Premier League, with Manchester United in third place. Aston Villa and Arsenal complete the top five, with Hull City in sixth place in the league. Tottenham Hotspur are bottom of the table with West Bromwich Albion second-bottom in the league. Blackburn Rovers complete the bottom three relegation places. Wolverhampton Wanderers lead the Championship by 6 points ahead of second placed Birmingham City and 13 points ahead of third placed Reading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 December 2008: Darren Anderton retires from playing after a career of nearly 20 years in his final game Anderton scores AFC Bournemouth's winning goal against Chester City in League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n16 December 2008: Blackburn Rovers terminate the contract of Paul Ince after six months as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n17 December 2008: Sam Allardyce is appointed manager of Blackburn Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n22 December 2008: Leeds United terminate the contract of manager Gary McAllister after 11 months as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n23 December 2008: Simon Grayson resigns as Blackpool manager to take the managers job at Leeds United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 December 2008: Sheffield United striker Jordan Robertson, 20, suffers minor injuries in a car crash on the M1 motorway in Leicestershire in which a 38-year-old Coventry man is seriously injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n26 December 2008: Nottingham Forest, 22nd in Football League Championship, terminate the contract of manager Colin Calderwood after two and a half years in charge. Omar Mohammed, the man injured in the car crash which also involved Jordan Robertson, dies in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n29 December 2008: Paul Jewell resigns as Derby County manager after one year, with the East Midlands side 18th in the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 December 2008: Liverpool end 2008 as Premier League leaders, three points ahead of second placed Chelsea, while third placed Manchester United are 10 points off the top of the table but have three games in hand. Arsenal and Aston Villa complete the top five, while Everton and Wigan Athletic occupy sixth and seventh place respectively. West Bromwich Albion, Blackburn Rovers and Stoke City occupy the relegation places. Wolverhampton Wanderers remain top of the Championship, with Reading and Birmingham level on points in second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n3 January 2009: Billy Davies returns to management by accepting an offer to take over as Nottingham Forest manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 January 2009: Nigel Clough ends 10 years as manager of Conference National leaders Burton Albion to take the managers jobs at Derby County. Tottenham Hotspur pay a club record \u00a315million for Portsmouth striker Jermain Defoe, a year after he left them for half that fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n20 January 2009: Four Tottenham Hotspur fans are banned from all football grounds in England for four years after being found guilty of making indecent chants at the club's former defender Sol Campbell in reference to his transfer to Arsenal in 2001. The incidents took place at Fratton Park, where Tottenham were playing Campbell's current club Portsmouth, on 28 September the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 January 2009: Manchester United are top of the Premier League while the rest of the top seven remains unchanged from the end of December. West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City and Middlesbrough are in the relegation places all on 21 points at the bottom of the Premier League. Wolverhampton Wanderers, Reading and Birmingham City continue occupy the top three positions in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n2 February 2009: Robbie Keane returns to Tottenham Hotspur after six months at Liverpool for a fee of \u00a312million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 February 2009: Portsmouth terminate the contract of Tony Adams after 14 weeks as manager. Paul Hart is appointed caretaker manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n9 February 2009: Chelsea terminate the contract of Luiz Felipe Scolari after eight months as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n11 February 2009: Dutchman Guus Hiddink, manager of the Russia national football team, accepts an offer to manage Chelsea until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n28 February 2009: Manchester United end February as Premier League leaders ahead of Chelsea by seven points and with a game in hand. Liverpool, Arsenal, Everton and Wigan Athletic complete the top seven. West Bromwich Albion, Blackburn Rovers and Stoke City occupy the relegation places. Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City and Reading continue in the top threeplaces respectively in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 March 2009: Manchester United win the 2008\u201309 Football League Cup defeating Tottenham Hotspur 4\u20131 on penalties, following a 0\u20130 draw after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n14 March 2009: Liverpool beat Manchester United 4\u20131 at Old Trafford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 March 2009: Manchester United's lead at the top of the Premier League is one point over Liverpool, with a game in hand. The whole top seven remains unchanged again at the end of the month. West Bromwich Albion, Middlesbrough and Newcastle United occupy the relegation zone. Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City and Reading continue in the top three places in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n5 April 2009: Luton Town win the 2008\u201309 Football League Trophy by defeating Scunthorpe United 3\u20132 in extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n13 April 2009: The first two relegations of the season take place, with Hereford United relegated from League One to League Two one season after promotion and Luton Town are relegated from League Two into the Conference National. Their third successive relegation resulting in the loss of league status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n18 April 2009: Wolverhampton Wanderers are promoted to the Premier League and Leicester City are promoted to the Football League Championship, while Charlton Athletic are relegated to League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n21 April 2009: Ipswich Town sack manager Jim Magilton after failing to reach the Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n22 April 2009: Roy Keane appointed new manager of Ipswich Town on a two-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 April 2009: Peterborough United are promoted to the Football League Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 April 2009: Brentford are promoted to League One as well as winning the League Two title with a 3\u20131 win over Darlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 April 2009: Cardiff City played their last ever game at Ninian Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 April 2009: Manchester United end April with a three-point lead over Liverpool with a game in hand in the Premier League, with Chelsea the only other team still in contention for the title. Arsenal, Aston Villa, Everton and Fulham complete the top seven who will qualify for Europe club competitions for next this season. West Bromwich Albion, Newcastle United and Middlesbrough occupy the relegation zone. Birmingham City and Sheffield United the final two teams in contention for automatic promotion to the Premier League, while playoff qualification is being contested between Reading, Cardiff City, Burnley and Preston North End.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n2 May 2009: Chester City are relegated to the Conference. resulting in the loss of league status for second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n2 May 2009: Wycombe Wanderers and Exeter City won promotion to League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n3 May 2009: Birmingham City are Promoted to The Premier League after a last day 2\u20131 Win over Reading. Norwich City are relegated to League One, and Crewe Alexandra and Northampton Town are relegated to League Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n5 May 2009: Manchester United win 4\u20131 on aggregate over Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals to reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 May 2009: Chelsea lose on away goals in the Champions League semi-final with FC Barcelona, ending their hopes of a final against Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n16 May 2009: Manchester United earn a 0\u20130 draw with Arsenal at Old Trafford to win the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n17 May 2009: West Bromwich Albion are relegated from the Premier League to the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n23 May 2009: Gillingham win promotion to League One after defeating Shrewsbury Town 1\u20130 in the League Two play-off final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n24 May 2009: On the final day of the Premiership season Newcastle United and Middlesbrough are relegated to the Championship after both lost away at Aston Villa and West Ham United respectively. This ends Newcastle United's 16-year spell in the Premier League. Also Scunthorpe United win promotion to the Championship with a 3\u20132 win over Millwall in the League One play-off final at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 May 2009: Burnley win promotion to the Premier League, defeating Sheffield United 1\u20130 at Wembley in the Championship play-off final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n27 May 2009: Manchester United lose 2\u20130 to Barcelona in 2009 UEFA Champions League Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 May 2009: Chelsea win the FA Cup final beating Everton 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0063-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, National team\nThe home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0064-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, National team, World Cup qualifiers\nEngland is currently in Group 6 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0065-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nManchester United won their 18th league title, drawing level with Liverpool for the record of most league titles. Liverpool pushed them all the way; they actually had a superior goal difference and completed the double over United, even winning 4\u20131 at Old Trafford in March, but also suffered 11 draws which enabled United to overtake and win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0065-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nChelsea broke records for all the wrong reasons as their 86-game unbeaten home record finally came to an end, with several surprise away losses effectively ending their title challenge (as well as resulting in manager Luiz Felipe Scolari being sacked), though they did win the FA Cup under caretaker manager Guus Hiddink. Arsenal finished fourth to claim the final Champions League spot, which meant that last season's top 4 all qualified for Europe's elite for the fifth time in six seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0066-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nAston Villa had looked like breaking into the Champions League spots for most of the season, but a late collapse that saw them win just twice in their last 13 league games saw them join FA Cup finalists Everton in qualifying for the newly formed UEFA Europa League (which replaced the UEFA Cup). Fulham were the other team to qualify for Europe, marking a remarkable turnaround since Roy Hodgson had taken over 18 months earlier when relegation from the Premier League looked a certainty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0066-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nThis was not only the first time they had qualified for Europe via their league position, but in finishing 7th in the first tier, this was also the highest ever league finish in the club's history. Stoke City, despite being pre-season relegation favourites for many, defied their critics and finishing comfortably in mid-table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0067-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nWest Bromwich Albion made an immediate return to the championship after propping up the table for most of the season. Joinining them on the final day were Middlesbrough and Newcastle United, ending 11 and 16-year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Sunderland survived relegation, thanks to the efforts of caretaker manager Ricky Sbragia after Roy Keane's surprise resignation in December; meaning next season they would be the only North-East team in top flight football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0067-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Premier League\nDespite a brilliant start to the season (Which included victories at Arsenal and Tottenham, a draw at Liverpool and a narrow 4\u20133 loss at Manchester United, and climbing as high as third place in October), Hull City won just one league game after the new year, but avoided relegation by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0068-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Championship\nFive years after being relegated from the Premier League, Wolverhampton Wanderers returned to the top flight in style as champions, having been in the top 2 for virtually all the season since August. Birmingham City were runners-up, making this the fourth season in a row that they had swapped divisions. Burnley joined them by beating Sheffield United in the play-off final, earning their place in the top flight after a 33-year absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0069-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Championship\nCardiff City occupied a play-off position for much of the season, but agonisingly slipped out of them on the final day after obtaining just one point in their final four league games. Preston North End in contrast, took twelve points from their final four league games, including a 6\u20130 win over Cardiff to finish ahead of them by courtesy of having scored one goal more throughout the season. Doncaster Rovers who were favourites to go straight back down and in the second tier after half a century out, achieved a respectable mid-table finish ahead of former Premier League teams in Crystal Palace, Coventry City, Blackpool, Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0070-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Championship\nCharlton suffered their second relegation in three years, despite a run of just one loss out of eight games at the end of the season. Southampton also crashed out of the division amid financial worries, which also meant they would be starting the 2009\u201310 season in League One with a ten-point deduction for entering administration. Norwich were the third relegated club, meaning that all three relegated clubs had been in the Premier League as recently as 2005 and had long left the third tier (Charlton last competed in the third tier in 1981, Southampton and Norwich in 1960).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0071-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League One\nLeicester comfortably won promotion in their first-ever season at this level, leading the table for virtually the entire season, going half the season (23 consecutive games) unbeaten and losing just 4 games in the process. Nigel Pearson brought stability to the club in becoming their first manager in five years to last an entire season as they looked to turn the corner after several years of struggle. Peterborough were runners-up, winning their second successive promotion and entering the second tier for only the second time in their history. Scunthorpe grabbed the final play-off place on the last day of the season in a winner takes all match v 7th place Tranmere Rovers and won promotion through them, making an immediate return to the Championship after being relegated the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0072-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League One\nStockport went into administration before the final match of the season and so suffered a 10-point penalty; however, there was no real chance of them being relegated as a result of this penalty, barring an extremely unlikely set of results on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0073-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League One\nHereford made an immediate return to League Two, finishing bottom in their first campaign at this level for thirty years. Cheltenham improved late in the season, but it proved too late to prevent relegation. Crewe suffered a late collapse and went down to League Two, having looked safe a few weeks previously. Northampton were relegated on the final day of the season after losing at Leeds and other results went against them. Brighton had looked certainties for relegation in the closing weeks, but the appointment of Russell Slade as manager saw them claim 16 points out of a possible 21 to survive. Carlisle and Hartlepool both survived on the last day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0074-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League One\nLeading goalscorer: Simon Cox (Swindon Town) \u2013 29, and Rickie Lambert (Bristol Rovers) \u2013 29", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0075-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Two\nBrentford made a return to League One as champions, the second club to win the fourth tier three times since Doncaster Rovers. Exeter won their second successive promotion, and on the final day of the season managed to pip Wycombe Wanderers for the runners-up spot. Wycombe themselves managed the final automatic promotion spot by virtue of a single goal over Bury. The play-offs were won by Gillingham, who made an immediate return to League One after the previous season's relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0076-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Two\nSeveral teams suffered heavy points deductions during the season. Rotherham were docked 17 points at the start of the season and Darlington 10 points later on. Without these penalties they would have both qualified for the play-offs, but instead managed only mid table. Bournemouth also suffered a 17-point deduction pre-season, and halfway through it looked to be enough to cost them their League status; however, a fightback under new manager Eddie Howe saw them climb to safety and secure survival with a game to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0077-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Two\nLuton suffered the heaviest deduction however, and the loss of 30 points proved too much for them to survive (though they would still have been relegated, albeit while finishing a place higher, had they only suffered the same 17-point deduction as Bournemouth and Rotherham). They suffered their third successive relegation and dropped out of the league, making them only the third English team to suffer three successive relegations, and the first to drop from the second tier to the Conference in successive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0077-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Two\nThe other relegated team was Chester City, who were statistically the worst team in the division and returned to the Conference after only five years. This would ultimately be the final season that the club completed, as they folded in March 2010, before the end of the following campaign. Grimsby would also have suffered relegation, if not for Luton's points deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201176-0078-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in English football, League tables, Football League Two\nLeading goalscorers: Simeon Jackson (Gillingham) \u2013 20, Grant Holt (Shrewsbury Town) \u2013 20, and Jack Lester (Chesterfield) \u2013 20", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 99th season of competitive football in Germany. It lasted from 1 July 2008 until 30 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n5 October 2008 \u2013 Jos Luhukay is released from his duties as head coach of Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach after 20 months over a series of bad results. Director of sporting affairs Christian Ziege acts as a caretaker until a new coach has been found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n19 October 2008 \u2013 Hans Meyer is introduced as the new head coach of Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach. It is his second spell with the club after a four-year stint between 1999 and 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n23 November 2008 \u2013 Armin Veh, head coach of defending champions VfB Stuttgart, is sacked after 33 months. Former player Markus Babbel, who has retired after last season, takes over the coaching duties. Babbel is assigned the title of a \"teamchef\" since he does not own a professional coaching license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n26 March 2009 \u2013 Fred Rutten is sacked as head coach of FC Schalke 04 after 9 months. A well-below-expectation season performance, including early exits in the UEFA Cup and DFB-Pokal competitions and a dismal eighth place in the Bundesliga, is cited as the reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n1 April 2009 \u2013 FC Schalke 04 announces that assistant coaches Mike B\u00fcskens, Youri Mulder and Oliver Reck will once again act as caretakers for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n27 April 2009 \u2013 J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann is released from his duties as FC Bayern Munich head coach. \"Endangered minimum season goals\" are cited as the cause of his dismissal after ten months. Jupp Heynckes, who coincidentally visits the Bayern match before Klinsmann's exit, and reserves coach Hermann Gerland are appointed as caretakers. Mehmet Scholl is assigned as temporary coach for the 3. Liga reserve team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n6 May 2009 \u2013 Felix Magath, manager of championship contenders VfL Wolfsburg, is announced as new FC Schalke 04 manager for the 2009\u201310 season. Magath signs a four-year contract with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n14 May 2009 \u2013 Louis van Gaal is confirmed as new head coach of Bayern Munich for the 2009\u201310 season. Van Gaal, who won the Eredivisie with AZ Alkmaar, signs a two-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n17 May 2009 \u2013 Just prior to the last matchday, Michael Frontzeck is ousted as Arminia Bielefeld head coach in a last attempt to save the club from relegation. J\u00f6rg Berger is assigned as a caretaker two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n21 May 2009 \u2013 Friedhelm Funkel announces he resignment after five seasons as Eintracht Frankfurt head coach at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n26 May 2009 \u2013 Martin Jol, head coach of Hamburger SV, leaves the club for Eredivisie sides Ajax Amsterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n28 May 2009 \u2013 Hans Meyer announces he retirement as a coach after successfully avoiding relegation with Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n2 June 2009 \u2013 In a surprise move, Christoph Daum skips his last year with 1. FC K\u00f6ln to become the new head coach of Turkish S\u00fcper Lig sides Fenerbah\u00e7e.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n3 June 2009 \u2013 Michael Frontzeck signs a two-year contract as head coach of Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n4 June 2009 \u2013 Michael Skibbe is appointed as new head coach of Eintracht Frankfurt. Skibbe signs a two-year contract with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n5 June 2009 \u2013 Bruno Labbadia, head coach of Bayer Leverkusen, leaves the club after just one year and takes over Hamburger SV. Labbadia signs a two-year contract with Hamburg. Jupp Heynckes is named as Labbadia's successor, also signing a two-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Diary of the season\n12 June 2009 \u2013 Former Bundesliga player Zvonimir Soldo signs a two-year contract as head coach of 1. FC K\u00f6ln. Soldo enters Cologne after a Prva HNL title with Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Men's national team, FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifiers\nGermany was drawn into Group 4 of UEFA qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Women's national team, Olympic football tournament\nGermany ended the Olympic football tournament with the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Women's national team, UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifiers\nGermany had already qualified for the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 before the start of the season. After the last qualifying match, the team finished with eight wins from eight matches in Group 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Women's national team, 2009 Algarve Cup\nGermany finished the 2009 Algarve Cup as fourth-placed team after losing against Denmark in the match for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Men, 3. Liga\n1. FC Union Berlin were the dominating team in the first season of the newly created third tier of the German league pyramid, winning the championship and promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with four matches to play. The remaining one-and-a-half promotion spots were contested between Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf, Paderborn, and Unterhaching until the last matchday. Since all three teams won their last matches, D\u00fcsseldorf gained direct promotion, while Paderborn were to face 2. Bundesliga sides Osnabr\u00fcck in the 2. Bundesliga relegation playoffs. The third-placed team eventually completed the promotional trio by beating Osnabr\u00fcck 2\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Men, 3. Liga\nStuttgarter Kickers were struggling both on and off the pitch and consequently relegated to the fourth-level Regionalliga. After being on bottom of the table for most of the season, the choice not to return a loan from the German FA resulted in a three-point deduction, which effectively ended their season. The second relegated team, VfR Aalen, fell victim to its amount of drawn matches. Fifteen of them, paired with only eight wins, resulted in only 39 points, which proved to be too few to survive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Men, 3. Liga\nWacker Burghausen would originally have been the third team to be relegated. However, they were spared after Kickers Emden, who were a promotion contender for three-quarters of the season, had to return their license over financial problems. Since Emden did not obtain a license for the Regionalliga, they entered the fifth-tier Oberliga Niedersachsen for the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, Bundesliga\nTurbine Potsdam emerged victorious in a very tight championship race, beating runners-up Bayern Munich by just a single goal. A 4\u20130 defeat against third-placed FCR Duisburg just days before the last matchday of the season proved to be costly for the team from Munich. Long-time successive champion 1. FFC Frankfurt had to battle through a couple of injuries to key players, including Birgit Prinz, and thus finished in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, Bundesliga\nThe first three teams qualified for the newly created UEFA Women's Champions League, although Duisburg did only so on virtue of their UEFA Women's Cup win. Both Potsdam and Duisburg directly entered the main round of the competition, while Bayern Munich competed in a qualification tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, Bundesliga\nOn the bottom side of the table, TSV Crailsheim never had a chance to be competitive, and successfully ended the season with a mere five points in last place. The second relegation place was contested between SC Bad Neuenahr and Borussia Friedenstal. The team from southwestern Germany eventually prevailed and sent Friedenstal back to the 2. Bundesliga after just one year in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, 2. Bundesliga\nThe northern group was won by Tennis Borussia Berlin. SG L\u00fctgendortmund had to leave the second tier again after just one season. They were accompanied by 1. FC Union Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, 2. Bundesliga\nThe southern group saw a close finish between 1. FC Saarbr\u00fccken and VfL Sindelfingen. Saarbr\u00fccken eventually prevailed and made their immediate return to the top flight. Wattenscheid 09, who were also relegated from the Bundesliga last season, finished fourth. On the bottom end of the table, SV Dirmingen were relegated with the worst record of all 24 2. Bundesliga teams. They were joined by Viktoria J\u00e4gersburg, who made their immediate return to the Regionalliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, League tables, Women, 2. Bundesliga\nThe relegation playoffs featured a match-up between Mellendorf and L\u00f6chgau. Both teams were promoted to the second level one year ago. L\u00f6chgau eventually retrieved their spot with a 2\u20131 aggregate victory, sending Mellendorf back to the Regionalliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201177-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in German football, Retirements\nThe following is a list of retired players who ended their career at the end of the 2008\u201309 season. All retirements are, unless noted otherwise, listed in the 2009 special edition of kicker magazine. The club given in parentheses is the last club of the retired player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201178-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Guatemalan football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 2008-09 football (soccer) season in Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201178-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Guatemalan football, National team\nThis section covers the Guatemala national team matches from the beginning of June 2008 until the end of June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201178-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Guatemalan football, National team\nThe Guatemala national team played the entirety of its 2010 World Cup qualification campaign from June 2008 to November 2008, being eliminated in the Third Round of the CONCACAF region as third place in its group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201178-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Guatemalan football, National team\nKEY:  F = Friendly match; WCQ2010 = 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification; UNCAF 2009 = UNCAF Nations Cup 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football\nThe 2008\u201309 season in Hong Kong football, starting July 2008 and ending June 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Events\nOn 9 July 2008, South China goalkeeper Zhang Chunhui was sentenced imprisonment for 8 months due to inflicting grievous bodily harm upon another person. He injured a 17-year-old boy in Causeway Bay on 19 December 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Events\nOn 22 July 2008, HKFA confirmed the Hong Kong First Division League team list for 2008-09 season. 13 teams will compete in the top division, among which TSW Pegasus and Xiangxue Eisiti will enter using competing membership, and they will need to sponsor one local cup competition each. There are two team name changes: Lanwa Redbull renamed to be Sheffield United and Wofoo Tai Po renames to be NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Events\nOn 2 September 2008, the 2008\u201309 season of Hong Kong First Division League started at Hong Kong Stadium, with the match between South China and Citizen, with Citizen drawing South China 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Events\nOn 17 September 2008, South China head coach Tsang Wai Chung left his post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Representative team, Hong Kong Team\nThe home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Representative team, Hong Kong Team, Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup\nHong Kong representative football team participated in 31st Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201179-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Hong Kong football, Representative team, Hong Kong Team, Asian Cup qualifiers\nHong Kong is going to play in their Asian Cup 2011 qualifying campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201180-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Italian football\nThe 2008\u20132009 season was the 107th season of competitive football in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201180-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Italian football, National team\nItaly played the qualifying campaign for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Italy also be participated in the FIFA Confederations Cup in mid-to-late June, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201180-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Italian football, Honours\nGirone A: BielleseGirone B: P.B. VercelliGirone C: SacileseGirone D: Crociati NocetoGirone E: Sporting LuccheseGirone F: Pro VastoGirone G: VillacidreseGirone H: BrindisiGirone I: Siracusa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football\nThe 2008-09 season is the 96th season of competitive football in Libya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Events\nOn October 15, 2008, the Libyan Super Cup was won Ittihad as they defeated Khaleej Sirte 4-0 at 11 June Stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Events\nOn October 17, 2008, the 2008-09 Libyan Premier League season started at the Green Document Stadium, at 14:00 GMT where Akhdar defeated Tersanah by 3 goals to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Events\nOn November 4, 2008, the 2008-09 Libyan Second Division season started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Events\nOn February 26, 2009, the 2008-09 Libyan Cup competition started", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Events\nOn May 28, 2009, Al Wahda Tripoli's relegation from the Libyan Premier League was confirmed after a 4-1 away defeat to Ahly Benghazi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, National team\nThe home team is on the left hand column; the away team is on the right hand column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, National team, World Cup Qualifiers\nLibya was in Group 4 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification process", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, National team, African Nations Championship\nLibya was in the North Zone for qualification to the inaugural African Nations Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, National team, African Nations Championship, Finals\nLibya were drawn in Group B, along with DR Congo, Ghana and Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, First round\nAl Ahly Tripoli go through with an aggregate score of 7-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, First round\nKhaleej Sirte go through with an aggregate score of 6-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, First round\nAl Ahly Benghazi go through 3-2 on penalty kicks, after an aggregate score of 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Second round\nFirst Legs to be played over March 13-March 15, 2009Second Legs to be played over April 3-April 5, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Second round\nAhly Tripoli advance to the next stage of the competition with an aggregate score of 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Second round\nIttihad are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 4\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Second round\nAhly Benghazi are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 5\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Second round\nKhaleej Sirte are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Third round\nFirst legs to be played over April 17-April 19, 2009Second legs to be played over May 1-May 3, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Third round\nAhly Tripoli are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 2\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Fourth round\nFirst legs to be played over May 17-May 19, 2009Second legs to be played over May 29-May 31, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in CAF competitions, Fixtures & Results, Fourth round\nAhly Tripoli are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 2\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 93], "content_span": [94, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UAFA Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nFirst legs to be played over October 27-October 29, 2008Second legs to be played over November 24-November 26, 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UAFA Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nIttihad are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 3\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UAFA Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nAl Ahly Tripoli are eliminated from the competition after losing a penalty shootout 9\u20138, after an aggregate score of 0\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UNAF Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nKhaleej Sirte are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 4\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UNAF Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nIttihad are eliminated from the competition with an aggregate score of 3\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201181-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Libyan football, Performance in UNAF Competitions, Fixtures & Results\nThere was an ongoing feud as to who would take 3rd place. Ittihad were originally given 3rd place as JS Kabylie did not play a penalty shootout, as they claim they won the tie on away goals. The Algerian club also said that Ittihad had an unfair advantage playing at home in a one-off match. As a result, UNAF met on January 19 to discuss the case. The UNAF later decided that the two clubs would share 3rd place, and therefore share the $75,000 prize fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football\nThe 2008\u201309 season was the 112th season of competitive football in Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Other honours, Individual honours, PFA Scotland awards\nCeltic midfielder Scott Brown was named Players' Player of the Year after winning the most votes from his fellow players. He was named on the shortlist along with three other Old Firm players, Celtic defender Gary Caldwell and Rangers midfielder's Steven Davis and Pedro Mendes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Other honours, Individual honours, PFA Scotland awards\nThe Young Player of the Year award was awarded to James McCarthy who was named on the shortlist along with; Heart of Midlothian winger Andrew Driver, Hibernian striker Steven Fletcher and fellow Hamilton Academical midfielder James McArthur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nScotland began the season with a friendly against Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland were denied a victory by substitute goalkeeper Allan McGregor who saved a David Healy penalty after he brought down Warren Feeney inside the area. The draw meant that Scotland had yet to win under George Burley after three matches. The 2010 World Cup qualification campaign began against Macedonia. Scotland faced an early free-kick after Macedonia striker Goran Maznov fell theatrically on the edge of the penalty area as he was challenged by stand-in captain Stephen McManus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nCraig Gordon was able to tip the resulting shot onto the post, but Il\u010do Naumoski followed up to score five minutes into George Burley's first competitive match. Both teams had opportunities and Scotland were denied what appeared to be a clear penalty after James McFadden was brought down but the referee waved away the appeals and booked the striker for his protests. Scotland recovered from their opening defeat with a 2\u20131 victory away to Iceland in what was Burley's first win as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nKirk Broadfoot scored on his debut and James McFadden scored from a penalty, Iceland got back into the match after captain McManus handled in the box and Ei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0johnsen scored from the resulting penalty. Scotland held out for the win despite having to play the last 13 minutes down to ten men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nScotland drew 0\u20130 at home to Norway despite debutant striker Chris Iwelumo being presented with an open goal opportunity from just three yards, with the ball being crossed by Gary Naysmith from the left to the right side of the goal where Iwelumo is standing, he connects with the ball but somehow manages to put the ball wide of the left post. The draw left Scotland top of Group Nine but with just four points from three games, with the Netherlands having played just one. They next played a friendly against Argentina in Diego Maradona's first match as Argentina manager, Maxi Rodr\u00edguez scored the winning goal for the Argentines in a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nThe Netherlands beat Scotland comfortably with goals from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Robin van Persie and Dirk Kuyt, depleted by injuries Burley was forced to field an inexperienced side Ross McCormack making his debut started along with Christophe Berra and Allan McGregor, who were making their first competitive starts. Scotland were denied a chance to get back into the match at 2\u20130 down when referee Massimo Busacca (who was suspended by his home federation) disallowed a seemingly perfectly good Gary Caldwell goal, minutes later the Netherlands were awarded a penalty from which Kuyt scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nRoss McCormack and Steven Fletcher both scored their first international goals in a 2\u20131 win over Iceland, McCormack opened the scoring after 39 minutes firing high into the net from an Alan Hutton cross, Indridi Sigurdsson levelled for the visitors after P\u00e1lmi Rafn P\u00e1lmason hit the post, Scotland though regrouped and after 65 minutes were awarded a debatable corner which McCormack took, the ball was headed into the danger area by McManus and Fletcher headed into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201182-0005-0002", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish football, Scotland national team, Summary\nScotland had gained seven points from five matches and occupied second spot in Group nine, three points clear of Iceland, four matches between the other teams and Scotland retained second position having played less matches than all other teams in the group meaning they were in prime position for second place with Holland already guaranteed first, However, only the second placed teams from eight of the nine qualifying groups would go into the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201183-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish reserve and youth football\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 15:03, 26 January 2020 (\u2192\u200eNotes and references). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201183-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Scottish reserve and youth football\nThe 2008\u201309 season was a season of reserve and youth football in Scotland. The season commenced in August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201185-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Turkish football\nThe 2008\u201309 season is the 105th season of competitive football in Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201186-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Uruguayan football, Second Division, Teams\nThese are the teams that currently participate in Uruguayan Second Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201186-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Uruguayan football, Uruguay national teams\nThis section will cover Uruguay's games from August 1, 2008 until June 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201186-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Uruguayan football, Uruguay national teams, Uruguay U-20, World Cup qualifiers\nThe Uruguay under-20 squad is in Group B of the qualification process for the Final Group of 2009 South American Youth Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201186-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Uruguayan football, Uruguay national teams, Uruguay U-17, World Cup qualifiers\nThe Uruguay under-17 squad is in Group B of the qualification process for the Final Group of 2009 South American Under-17 Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 2008-09 football season in Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n A, Torneo Apertura (\"Opening\" Tournament)\nLast updated: 14 December 2008Source: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n A, Torneo Clausura (\"Closing\" Tournament)\nLast updated: 26 May 2009Source: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n A, Aggregate Table\nLast updated: 26 May 2009Source: 1Although the Union Atl\u00e9tico Trujillo qualified to the First Division, were not inscribed due to the merger with Real Esspor. 2Yaracuyanos FC bought UA Maracaibo spot.3Trujillanos FC promoted. Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, Grupo Centro Occidental\nLast updated: 14 December 2008Source: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, Promotion playoff\nMinasoro FC and U.A. San Antonio finished the tournament as champions of the Apertura: Grupo Centro Oriental and Grupo Centro Occidental respectively, because of this they have to play a promotion playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, Grupo Centro Occidental\nLast updated: 10 May 2009Source: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, Promotion playoff\nFundaci\u00f3n Cesarger and U.A. San Antonio finished the tournament as champions of the Clausura: Grupo Centro Oriental and Grupo Centro Occidental respectively, because of this they have to play a promotion playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, Grupo Centro Occidental\nLast updated: 10 May 2009Source: Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored. P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201187-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Venezuelan football, Venezuela national team\nThis section will cover Venezuela's games from August 19, 2008 until June 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201188-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Welsh football, FAW Premier Cup\nThe FAW Premier Cup was discontinued, 2007-08 being the last season the competition was run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201188-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Welsh football, Welsh Cup\nBangor City won the 2009 Welsh Cup beating Aberystwyth Town 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201188-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in Welsh football, Welsh League Cup\nThe New Saints won the 2009 Welsh League Cup beating Bangor City 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201189-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in men's cyclo-cross\n2008\u201309 in men's cyclo-cross covers the major Cyclo-cross competitions in the 2008-09 season, which runs from September 2008 until March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201189-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 in men's cyclo-cross\nThe competitions considered are the World Championships, National championships, the World Cup, the Superprestige and the Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy. Results of single day races of type C1 (the highest class) are also given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201190-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 snooker season\nThe 2008\u201309 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 4 June 2008 and 10 May 2009. Four players missed the fourth ranking event of the season, the Bahrain Championship, and therefore lost ranking points; this was due to a clash with some Premier League matches whose date had already been approved by the game's governing body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201190-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 snooker season, New professional players\nNote: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2007/2008 professional Main Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201190-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 snooker season, Calendar\nThe following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201190-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 snooker season, Official rankings\nThe top 16 of the world rankings, these players automatically played in the final rounds of the world ranking events and were invited for the Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201191-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u201309 synchronized skating season\nThe 2008\u201309 synchronized skating season began on July 1, 2008, and ended on June 30, 2009. During this season, which was concurrent with the season for the other four disciplines (men's single, ladies' single, pair skating and ice dancing), elite synchronized skating teams competed on the International Skating Union (ISU) Championship level at the 2009 World Championships and Junior World Challenge Cup. They also competed at various other international as well as national synchronized skating competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis\nThe 2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis is a major financial crisis that hit Belgium from mid-2008 onwards. Two of the country's largest banks \u2013 Fortis and Dexia \u2013 started to face severe problems, exacerbated by the financial problems hitting other banks around the world. The value of their stocks plunged. The government managed the situation by bailouts, selling off or nationalizing banks, providing bank guarantees and extending the deposit insurance. Eventually Fortis was split into two parts. The Dutch part was nationalized, while the Belgian part was sold to the French bank BNP Paribas. Dexia group was dismantled, Dexia Bank Belgium was nationalized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Context\nThe global financial crisis and the credit crunch shocked trust across the board. At the time of bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Belgium was in a long simmering political crisis. The Flemish and French communities were at odds with one another, especially after the electoral gains of the Flemish separatist party N-VA. The fear of Belgium splitting into two worsened the trust situation. Most of the events took place during the Leterme I, Van Rompuy I and Leterme II Governments. Didier Reynders was finance minister in all of them. The government was assisted by CBFA and the Court of Audit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Context\nHistorically Belgium has had a high public debt, which in 1993 peaked at 137.8% GDP. In order to be able to join the eurozone this was greatly reduced to around 100% GDP at the turn of the century. This budgetary discipline was continued after the introduction of the euro, in part to comply with the Maastricht Treaty. By 2007 the public debt of Belgium had dropped to 84% GDP. The reduced debt increased Belgium's ability to cope with the situation. The government interventions in the financial sector, and deficit spending at a time of economic slowdown has affected the government debt, rising again to 99.6% GDP in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Context\nThere is a degree of pillarisation in Belgium. Dexia belonged to the Catholic pillar, Ethias belongs to the socialist pillar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Fortis\nFortis was the largest Belgian bank in early 2008, positioned mainly in the Benelux. From mid-2008 onwards, the bank began facing severe liquidity problems and its stock value began rapidly declining. The problem was exacerbated by the earlier acquisition of the Dutch bank ABN Amro, which had depleted Fortis' capital. Since the beginning of 2008, about 3% of the deposits stalled at the bank were withdrawn. Belgian and Dutch ministers and financial regulators met each other on 27 September to tackle the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Fortis\nThe following day, Fortis was partially nationalised on 28 September 2008, with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg investing a total of \u20ac11.2 billion (US$16.3 billion) in the bank. Belgium will purchase 49% of Fortis's Belgian banking division, with the Netherlands doing the same for the Dutch banking division. Luxembourg has agreed to a loan convertible into a 49% share of Fortis's Luxembourg banking division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Fortis\nOn 3 October the Dutch government purchased the Dutch banking and insurance division of Fortis for \u20ac16.8 billion ($23.3 billion), becoming the holder of Fortis Bank Nederland, Fortis Verzekeringen Nederland and Fortis Corporate Insurance, including the part of ABN Amro held by Fortis. BNP Paribas, a French bank, took a majority stake in Fortis, while Belgian and Luxembourg governments became minority shareholders with blocking power in exchange for shares in BNP Paribas. The deal does not include the main holding company, but does include the insurance and banking subsidiaries, except for Fortis Insurance International. Dutch and Belgian shareholders' associations have requested a review of the takeover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Fortis\nToxic assets were placed in a bad bank called Royal Park Investments. Thanks in part to good management and multi billion euro guarantees by the government the holding performed better than expected. In April 2013 it was sold for 2.3 billion euro to the American investment firm Lone Star. This was good news for public finances (1 billion euro) and the Fortis holding since renamed to Ageas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Dexia\nOn 30 September 2008 the Belgian, French and Luxembourg governments said they would put in \u20ac6.4bn to keep Dexia afloat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Dexia\nThe problems at Dexia stem in part from a multi-billion loan to troubled German bank Depfa and potential losses at its US subsidiary FSA. The Dexia board stated on 5 October 2008 that the capital addition by the governments would put it in a position in which it could deal with deteriorating market conditions, and that the credit risks associated with Hypo Real Estate and Depfa are only limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Dexia\nMarket conditioned worsened over the following years, generating losses. On the sale of FSA, due to the fall of Lehman brother and Icelandic banks and finally due to a large exposure to the Greek government-debt crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, Dexia\nEventually, in October 2011, the group was dismantled Dexia bank Belgium was bought by the Belgian federal government for 4 billion euro and changed its name to Belfius. Other healthy components were also sold off and the toxic assets remained in the Dexia Holding. Dexia holding is Europe's largest bad bank. Operating with the help of bank guarantees of the Belgian and French governments Dexia holding is tasked to minimize the losses on its toxic assets. The holding is still generating large losses, which led Belgium and France to inject another \u20ac5.5 billion in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, KBC\nSince the beginning of October 2008, the price of KBC shares had dropped by more than half. The turbulence on the international financial markets and the skewed domestic situation after the government bail-out of its two largest competitors had increased the pressure. On Saturday 25 October, KBC was reported to be in talks with the Belgian government, hoping to obtain a \u20ac3.5 billion cash injection. The company, which is also active in Central Europe, fears the harm of the financial woes hitting that region. The deal was approved. The extra cash was used to increase its risk buffer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, KBC\nBecause KBC is seen by the Walloons as a mainly Flemish bank, the federal government was unwilling to participate in a second intervention. In January 2009, the Flemish government stepped in KBC for \u20ac2 billion. In addition KBC was allowed to issue bonds to the Flemish government for up to 1.5 billion euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, KBC\nWhen the credit rating of MBIA an American insurer, which specializes in bond insuring, was downgraded to junk this decreased the value of KBC's risky assets. A third agreement was made. Mid -May 2009 the federal government announced it will offer bank guarantees for up to 2 billion euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Bank crises, KBC\nIn 2012 KBC made a profit of 612 million euro. By the end of that year, and ahead of schedule, KBC had paid back all of the 3.5 billion euro of support from the federal government. It also plans to pay back the support from the Flemish government at an accelerated pace, starting with 1.17 billion in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Government reaction\nBesides the bail-outs of both Fortis and Dexia, the government also guaranteed all bank savings up to \u20ac20,000. This limit was later raised to \u20ac100,000. On Saturday 11 October, the government announced that all banks, including the smaller ones, could obtain a similar guarantee on the condition that they are solvent and pay a fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Government reaction\nThe government also negotiated in deals to protect the savings of the 16,000 Belgian customers of the Icelandic Kaupthing Bank whose money was locked up for months following the crisis in Iceland. They belonged to the subsidiary Kaupthing Bank Luxembourg. Which was finally taken over by Blackfish Capital the Belgian accounts were taken over by Crelan. Which later also took over Centea part of the activities KBC had to shed from the European Commission as compensation for the government support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Government reaction\nWhen in late 2011 the interest rates on Belgian government bonds rose to irrational heights the government asked for support from the population and promoted the staatsbon. The staatsbon is a government bond that can be easily purchased at banks without any knowledge of the stock exchange. The long term rates on the international markets briefly spiked above 5.5%. The consumer purchasable bonds offered gross interests rates of 3.5%, 4%, 4.2% depending on the runtime of 3, 5 or 8 years. This was twice that of a standard savings account. The attractive rate, and the promotion resulted in a success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Government reaction\nThis way the government managed to borrow 5.68 billion euro below market rates. Colloquially this iteration of the staatsbon is referred to as the Leterme-staatsbon after then Prime minister Yves Leterme. Shortly after the measure, and with a new government finally being formed the interest rates started to drop. Early 2013 even to the lowest level they had been since the introduction of the euro(below 2%). Allowing them to be resold at a profit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201192-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Belgian financial crisis, Stock market reaction\nThe BEL-20 stock index lost more than 20% of its value during the week of 6\u201310 October, making it the largest weekly decline in the stock index' history. At the time Fortis, Dexia and KBC stocks made up 29.78% of the weighted index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute\nThe 2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute was a political dispute during the 40th Canadian Parliament. It was triggered by the expressed intention of the opposition parties (who together held a majority of seats in the House of Commons) to defeat the Conservative minority government on a motion of non-confidence six weeks after the federal election of October 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute\nThe intention to vote non-confidence arose from the government's fiscal update, tabled on November 27, 2008. It included several contentious provisions that the opposition parties rejected and that the government later withdrew to resolve the crisis. The Liberal Party and New Democratic Party reached an accord to form a minority coalition government. The Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois agreed to provide support on confidence votes, thereby enabling the coalition a working majority in the Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute\nOn December 4, 2008, Governor General Micha\u00eblle Jean (the representative of the Canadian monarch and head of state, Elizabeth II) granted Prime Minister Stephen Harper (the head of government) a prorogation on the condition that parliament reconvene early in the new year; the date was set as January 26, 2009. The first session of the 40th parliament thus ended, delaying a vote of no-confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute\nAfter prorogation, the Liberals underwent a change in leadership and distanced themselves from the coalition agreement, while the NDP and Bloc remained committed to bringing down the government. The Conservative government's budget, unveiled on January 27, 2009, largely met the demands of the Liberals, who agreed to support it with an amendment to the budget motion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Background\nThe 39th Canadian Parliament produced a Conservative minority government headed by Stephen Harper that lasted for two and a half years. On September 7, 2008, the Prime Minister was granted a dissolution of parliament followed by a snap election. Harper justified recommending the dissolution by stating that parliament had become dysfunctional and that his government required a new mandate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Background\nDuring the election campaign, movements for strategic voting to defeat the government came from a variety of sources. The Liberals and the Green Party formed an agreement not to run candidates against their respective leaders and a national Anything But Conservative (ABC) campaign was created by Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams. The election also took place at the height of the Financial crisis of 2007\u20132008, which saw governments in the United States and United Kingdom take drastic measures to stimulate their economies and bail out failing financial institutions. The Conservatives promised to stand firm with Canada's fiscal course, while the other parties began to promise greater stimulus measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Background\nThe October 14, 2008, vote saw an increase in the Conservative seat count from 127 to 143\u2014still a plurality\u2014while the Liberals, led by St\u00e9phane Dion, returned as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, with 77 seats, down from 103. Two other parties, the New Democratic Party (NDP), with 37 seats, up from 29 seats, and the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, with 49 seats, down from 51 seats, together with two independent members of parliament, were elected to the House of Commons. Dion announced his resignation as Liberal leader a week after the election, stating it was his intention to stay on as leader until a successor was chosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nOn November 27, 2008, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty provided the House of Commons with a fiscal update, within which were plans to cut government spending, suspend the ability of civil servants to strike until 2011, sell off some Crown assets to raise capital, and eliminate the existing CAD$1.95 per vote subsidy parties garner in an election. Since money bills are matters of confidence, the opposition was forced to consider whether to accept the motion or bring down the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nFlaherty's update was ultimately rejected on the grounds that it lacked any fiscal stimulus during the ongoing economic crisis, for its suspension of federal civil servants' ability to strike, for suspending the right for women to seek recourse from the courts for pay equity issues, and for the change in election financing rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nAfter the Conservative government tabled its fiscal update, NDP leader Jack Layton asked his predecessor, Ed Broadbent, to contact former Liberal prime minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien to discuss a coalition to oust the Conservatives from power. The plan became public almost immediately. Labelling the absence of an economic stimulus plan as irresponsible and the removal of public funding to parties as an attack against democracy, the opposition threatened to topple the government by voting against the fiscal update. The opposition parties based their strategy on the constitutional authority of the Governor General Micha\u00eblle Jean to appoint a Liberal-NDP coalition able to hold the confidence of the House of Commons to form a government, should the Conservative government fall on a matter of confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 895]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nIt was decided that should a coalition between the Liberals and NDP be called upon to form government its mandate would last until June 30, 2011. The proposed coalition was to have a cabinet of 24 ministers of the Crown, with the leader of the Liberal Party as prime minister, 17 other Liberal ministers (including the minister of finance), and six New Democratic ministers; if the prime minister chose a larger cabinet, the NDP proportion would be maintained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0008-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nAs the outgoing leader of the Liberal Party, Dion would have become prime minister, likely serving until the Liberal leadership convention in May 2009. Further, Liberal party elders Frank McKenna, Paul Martin, John Manley, and former Saskatchewan NDP premier Roy Romanow, were reported to have been asked to form an economic advisory body to the coalition if needed, though both McKenna and Manley declined to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nThe leader of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, which held the balance of power in the 40th parliament, signed a policy accord with the other opposition parties and agreed to support the proposed coalition on confidence votes until at least June 30, 2010. In return, the Bloc would have access to a consultative mechanism for the duration of the agreement, but would not directly participate in the coalition, receiving no cabinet positions and being free to vote as it wished on other matters. Independent MP Bill Casey announced he would join in voting non-confidence against Harper. It has been speculated that Layton and Duceppe had formed an agreement prior to the Conservatives' fiscal update and then persuaded Dion to sign on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Catalyst and formation of a coalition\nIn December 2008, Elizabeth May announced the Green Party would support the proposed coalition from outside parliament. Dion indicated that the Green Party would be given input, but not a veto, over coalition policy and left open the possibility, should he become prime minister, of advising the appointment of May to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 92], "content_span": [93, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Historical background\nSince Confederation, the only formal coalition government at the Federal level was during Canada's involvement in World War I, when the governing Conservatives rebranded as the Unionist Party and accepted Liberals from English Canada into government in response to the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Previous Progressive Conservative and Liberal minority governments had relied on ad hoc voting arrangements with the NDP and the former Social Credit Party to maintain supply instead of formal coalitions. Pierre Trudeau's private offer of a coalition to the NDP after the 1980 election, an attempt to form consensus in the patriation debate and bring more Western Canadian members into Cabinet, was refused by NDP leader Ed Broadbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Historical background\nIn 2000, the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives discussed forming a coalition government with the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois if, together, their three parties had won a majority of the seats in the 2000 election. During the minority Martin government of 2004-06, Conservative leader Stephen Harper sent a letter to then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, suggesting that, if the Liberal minority government fell, the Conservatives would be willing to form a government with the support of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and NDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Historical background\nThere have been examples of coalition governments provincially: In Manitoba, a coalition existed between the provincial Liberal Party and the Progressives following the 1932 election; the two parties subsequently merged, and also led a coalition government with several other parties through the 1940s. British Columbia was governed by a Liberal-Conservative coalition, formed to keep the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Historical background\nIn 1985, the Ontario Liberals and the third-place New Democrats reached an agreement to vote non-confidence in the governing Progressive Conservatives and have the lieutenant governor appoint the Liberal leader, David Peterson, as premier, with the NDP pledging to support his government on confidence motions for a period of two years. The NDP had no cabinet posts. The most recent coalition was seen in Saskatchewan in 1999, when the New Democratic Party formed such an arrangement with two Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Cabinet response\nOn November 28, 2008, Stephen Harper referred to the accord between the Liberals and NDP as undemocratic backroom dealing, stating that the opposition parties were \"overturning the results of an election a few weeks earlier in order to form a coalition that nobody voted for\"; Transport minister John Baird announced that two of the Minister of Finance's proposals that had been rejected by the opposition\u2014the elimination of political party subsidies and a ban on strikes by public servants\u2014would be dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Cabinet response\nFurther, in response to the opposition's demands for an economic stimulus package, the Conservatives changed their plan to one in which a federal budget would be presented on January 27, 2009, instead of late February or early March. Despite these concessions, the Liberals indicated that they intended to present their motion of non-confidence on December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Cabinet response\nThe government then cancelled opposition day, originally to be held on December 1, to avert the threatened vote of non-confidence, this meant the earliest a coalition non-confidence motion could occur would be the following week, December 8, 2008. On November 30, the Conservatives released a secretly recorded private NDP conference call in which Jack Layton indicated that the groundwork for assuring the Bloc's participation \"was done a long time ago\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Cabinet response\nThe NDP said in reaction that they would consider pressing criminal charges and alleged that Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Duncan received the invitation to participate by mistake, in place of NDP MP Linda Duncan, who had \"a similar email address\". However, it does not constitute a wiretap crime under the Criminal Code of Canada if someone is invited to participate in a conference call and then releases the recording publicly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, The dispute, Cabinet response\nThe possible change of government was debated during Question Period, and the Conservatives aired radio and television advertisements contending that \"a leader whose party captured just 25% of the vote in the October 14 election doesn't have a legitimate mandate to govern\". In anticipation of the Prime Minister's visit to the Governor General, Harper's office also organised protests outside of the vicereine's residence, while Baird said that \"Conservatives would go over the head of Parliament and of the Governor General\". The revenue minister, Jean-Pierre Blackburn, said \"It's a kind of coup d'\u00e9tat\", while Environment Minister Jim Prentice declared the coalition to be \"irresponsible and it is undemocratic\". Echoing Prentice's sentiment, Harper insisted that the government \"will use all legal means to resist this undemocratic seizure of power\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 927]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General\nGovernor General Micha\u00eblle Jean stated that \"what is happening right now is part of the possibilities in our democratic system and I think that people can be reassured that, as I turn to what is happening, I am myself looking at my constitutional duties.\" Jean was faced with three possible outcomes as a result of her planned meeting with the Prime Minister on December 4, 2008: dissolving parliament, proroguing parliament, or dismiss the Prime Minister and invite the opposition parties to form government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General\nThe media looked to the two previous occasions when the reserve powers of the governor general were used in respect to declining the advice of the prime minister: The first was in 1896, when Charles Tupper refused to resign as prime minister following his party's loss in the election and Governor General the Earl of Aberdeen refused his advice to make several appointments. This effective dismissal forced Tupper to relinquish office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General\nThe second was in 1926, during the King\u2013Byng affair, when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, already in minority government and having lost two votes that suggested he was likely to lose a third vote\u2014one on a confidence question\u2014asked Governor General the Viscount Byng of Vimy to dissolve parliament. Byng refused on the grounds that parliament was still viable and should sit for a reasonable period before a new election should be called, and then only if members of parliament were demonstrably unable to work together to form an alternate government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General\nOne view held that, in applying the rationale relied upon by Byng to the matters in 2008, Jean would have been obliged to refuse advice to dissolve parliament within less than six months of the previous election, unless Harper had a valid reason consistent with Commonwealth constitutional precedent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General\nHowever, the situation in 2008 was not identical to the one that unfolded in 1926 and so the precedent may not have been directly applicable: In the 1925 election, Arthur Meighen had emerged as the plurality seat winner and the Liberals had suffered an electoral rebuff, with King losing his own parliamentary riding. Although Byng had suggested he resign immediately, King and his cabinet struggled on with Progressive Party support. In 2008, the Tories were in an electoral ascendancy while the Liberals suffered one of their heaviest defeats. In addition, former Governor-General of New Zealand Sir Michael Hardie Boys expressed the opinion that Byng had been in error in not re-appointing King as prime minister on the defeat of Meighen in the vote of confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Dissolution of parliament\nPeter H. Russell, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto, suggested that if Harper had sought a dissolution, the Governor General would have had to consider carefully the reasonableness of the request. In Russell's view, the vicereine's primary concern is to protect parliamentary democracy and a dissolution of parliament would have necessitated an election only two months after the preceding one; repeated short term elections are not healthy for the system. In such a case, with a reasonably viable coalition available, Jean might then refuse Harper's advice to dissolve parliament (forcing him to resign under constitutional precedent), and invite Dion to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Dissolution of parliament\nFormer governor general Adrienne Clarkson wrote in her memoirs, Heart Matters, that she would have allowed the then prime minister, Paul Martin, a dissolution of parliament only after at least six months following the 2004 election: \"To put the Canadian people through an election before six months would have been irresponsible\", she wrote, especially considering that she had received a letter co-signed by then opposition leader Stephen Harper, NDP leader Jack Layton, and Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe, asking her to consider letting them attempt to form a government without an election if the Liberal government should fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Dissolution of parliament\nMaclean's columnist Andrew Coyne noted that, while a coalition government is neither unconstitutional nor illegitimate, there are several concerns that the Governor General must address in considering installing such a government. The coalition's ability to govern in a stable manner would be a factor. Coyne also noted that the opposition parties' plan was defeating an established government weeks after an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nThe option of prorogation (ending the parliamentary session without dissolving parliament in advance of new elections) presented various possible scenarios: One was a long-term prorogation, lasting up to a legal maximum of one year, while another was a short prorogation period lasting a few weeks to a few months. Each would delay parliamentary activity, including the introduction of a motion of non-confidence, and the Conservative government would therefore continue, though without new funding, which requires parliamentary approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nAfter discussions with the Governor General, Harper advised parliament be prorogued until January 26, 2009, with a budget scheduled to be tabled the following day. On December 3, Dion wrote to the Governor General with his opinion that she must refuse the prime minister's advice to prorogue parliament; in his opinion, it would be an abuse of power to deny or delay the right of the legislature to give or withhold confidence in the government. He also suggested that the government had already, in effect, lost the confidence of the House of Commons and that Harper was therefore incompetent to tender official advice as prime minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nConstitutional scholar C. E. S. Franks of Queen's University suggested that the Governor General could have agreed to prorogue parliament, though on the condition that the government only manage day-to-day affairs until parliament was reconvened; the Governor General would not approve orders-in-council requiring Cabinet decisions, meaning that the government could not undertake any major policy initiatives, much like the way governments govern during an election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0024-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nHowever, a prime minister advising prorogation when facing an imminent confidence vote, as well a governor general refusing or implementing conditions on such a request, would all be unprecedented in Canadian history; \"there is no precedent whatsoever in Canada and probably in the Commonwealth\", Franks stated. Constitutional scholar and former advisor to governors general Ted McWhinney said that the Governor General would have no choice but to accept the Prime Minister's advice concerning prorogation, though the Prime Minister would have to defend to the electorate why he had advised this particular course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nFormer governor general and NDP politician Edward Schreyer stated that if the Conservative government were to lose a vote of confidence, Micha\u00eblle Jean would have no choice but to offer the coalition the opportunity to govern. He also said that prorogation would be a difficult judgement call and said that a short prorogation might be reasonable as long as it was not \"used in the longer term as a means of evading, avoiding and thwarting the expression of the parliamentary will\" by avoiding a confidence vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Role of the Governor General, Prorogation of parliament\nIn 1873, during the 2nd Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald advised Governor General the Earl of Dufferin to prorogue parliament to stop the work of a committee investigating Macdonald's involvement in the Pacific Scandal. While the Governor General did reluctantly grant prorogation, he insisted that it be limited to a period of ten weeks. When parliament returned, Macdonald was censured and had to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Leaders' addresses to the nation on December 3\nBoth Harper and Dion addressed the nation on December 3, 2008, with televised statements broadcast on Canada's major television networks. Harper's five-minute pre-recorded statement, televised nationally in English and French at 7 pm Eastern Time (ET), outlined the steps the government had taken to address the economic crisis and attacked the Liberals for forming a coalition with the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois. Harper said: \"at a time of global economic instability, Canada's government must stand unequivocally for keeping the country together. At a time like this, a coalition with the separatists cannot help Canada. And the opposition does not have the democratic right to impose a coalition with the separatists they promised voters would never happen.\" The press noted that while he used the word sovereigntist in the French version of his speech, Harper used separatist in English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 131], "content_span": [132, 1012]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Leaders' addresses to the nation on December 3\nThe networks also agreed to air a response from Dion, which aired around 7:30 pm ET. In it, Dion attacked the Conservatives, stating they did not have a plan to weather the economic crisis and he claimed that Canadians did not want another election, instead preferring that parliament work together during this time. \"Within one week, a new direction will be established, a tone and focus will be set. We will gather with leaders of industry and labour to work, unlike the Conservatives, in a collaborative, but urgent manner to protect jobs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 131], "content_span": [132, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Leaders' addresses to the nation on December 3\nThis statement, intended to air immediately following Harper's, was late in arriving to the networks and was of low video quality, prompting the party to apologize; CBC Television network anchorman Peter Mansbridge compared the quality of Dion's video to YouTube. CTV Television Network had already signed off its special broadcast before Dion's statement arrived. CTV commentator Robert Fife stated that the New Democrats and Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois were \"angry\" with the quality of Dion's address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 131], "content_span": [132, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Leaders' addresses to the nation on December 3\nLayton unsuccessfully requested his own airtime and later addressed Canadians live on the national news channels where he said: \"tonight, only one party stands in the way of a government that actually works for Canadians\u00a0... Instead of acting on these ideas\u00a0... Mr. Harper delivered a partisan attack.\" Duceppe said: \"Stephen Harper showed a serious and worrisome lack of judgment by putting his party's ideology before the economy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 131], "content_span": [132, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Immediate reaction\nIn the nine predominantly English-speaking provinces, polls showed the idea of a coalition was unpopular. Strongest support for the coalition came from the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec, while the strongest opposition was in Alberta. It was speculated that had the coalition taken power from the Conservatives, it would revive concerns of western alienation that had been tempered by the Conservative victory two years prior. Anti -coalition rally organizers emphasized that their opposition was to the Bloc's association with the coalition, not Quebecers in general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 103], "content_span": [104, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Immediate reaction\nConservative attacks on the coalition would cost the party future support in Quebec, as Quebecers \"tend to view sovereignist parties as legitimate political formations\"; Antonia Maioni, head of the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University, stated that \"[Harper] is portraying not only the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois but Quebecers in general as being a threat to national unity in Canada.\" Dion defended the coalition accord, saying that \"fellow Quebecers who believe in separation are more likely to be reconciled with Canada if we work with them than if we marginalize them\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 103], "content_span": [104, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Other reactions\nStatements regarding the upset in Ottawa came from provincial premiers, both past and present: Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, who originally started the ABC campaign, stated that he would remain neutral on this issue and that he would work with whomever was prime minister; British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell spoke out against the coalition, stating that if their gamble fails, Canada's economic worries will become significantly worse as a result; Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach urged federal party leaders to take a time out and hold off the non-confidence vote until the new year so a federal budget can be introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Other reactions\nQuebec Premier Jean Charest, a federalist and former leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party, condemned the \"anti-sovereigntist rhetoric\" of the prime minister, emphasizing that the Bloc MPs had been legitimately elected by Quebecers, and stating: \"I live in a society in which people can be sovereigntists or federalists, but they respect each other. The same thing should prevail in the federal parliament.\" He also accused Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Pauline Marois of using the ensuing discussion about the coalition to attempt to build sovereigntist momentum. Former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau told Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al that the deal was an \"impressive victory\", showing how powerful the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is in federal politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Other reactions\nPolitical satirist and commentator Rick Mercer wrote, \"The drama that played out this week was many things: unimaginable, embarrassing and, yes, it made our parliamentary system look like a laughingstock. However, this situation was not, as Mr. Harper insisted, undemocratic, illegal or un-Canadian.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Leadup to the Governor General's decision, Other reactions\nThe editorial board of The Globe and Mail echoed Mercer's sentiment, pointing out that Harper's statements on the legality of the coalition were \"knowingly erroneous\" and, in June 2012, Peter H. Russell said the Conservative's attacks on the legitimacy of the coalition proposal were \"deliberately misleading\" and that the notion that \"a multiparty government must be approved by voters beforehand is 'absolutely B.S.'\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nOn December 2, it was announced that Harper's plan was to ask the Governor General to prorogue parliament, delaying a confidence vote until the new year. The coalition leadership sent a letter to Jean\u2014who was abroad conducting state visits to various European countries\u2014informing her of the events, upon the receipt of which, Jean announced that she would cut her trip short and return to Ottawa \"in light of the current political situation in Canada\". Harper visited the Governor General at Rideau Hall at about 9:30 am ET on December 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0035-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nAfter consulting with the Prime Minister and other advisors for more than two hours, Jean granted Harper's request and parliament was prorogued until January 26, 2009, with the Conservatives scheduled to announce the budget the following day. Near the end of her tenure as vicereine, Jean revealed to the Canadian Press that the two-hour delay in giving her decision was partly to \"send a message\u2014and for people to understand that this warranted reflection.\" She later stated in an interview on The Hour that \"I was in a position where I could have said no\u00a0... And the decision had really to, in my mind, to be in the best interests, really, of the country, looking at all of the circumstances. And I have no regrets.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nIt was also at the same time said by Peter H. Russell, one of the constitutional experts from whom Jean sought advice, that Canadians ought not regard the Governor General's decision to grant Harper's request as an automatic rubber stamp; Russell disclosed that Jean granted the prorogation on two conditions: parliament would reconvene soon and, when it did, the Cabinet would present to parliament a proposed budget, a vote on which is automatically a matter of confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nThis, Russell said, set a precedent that would prevent future prime ministers from advising the prorogation of parliament \"for any length of time for any reason\". He in 2012 also speculated that, though it was likely not \"an overriding factor\", Jean may have been concerned that, should she have refused Harper's advice, the vote of non-confidence proceeded and succeeded, and a new coalition cabinet was installed, the Conservative Party would launch a public campaign painting the new government and, by extension, the actions of the Governor General as illegitimate, creating \"a crisis of confidence in Canada's political system\". Peter Hogg disagreed with Russell's supposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nMost scholars indicated that the privacy of the meeting between Harper and Jean follows \"the tradition of regal discretion [going] back centuries, to the era when Britain's Parliament was only a minor branch of government\"; the practice protects the viceroy's necessary non-partisan nature. Lorne Sossin, professor at the University of Toronto and a constitutional law expert, offered a counter-opinion, stating that \"it is simply not acceptable to have a closed door at Rideau Hall at moments like this\", citing that transparency is a necessity in democracy. Joe Comartin, NDP MP for Windsor-Tecumseh, suggested that such decisions should be made by the Chief Justice of Canada after a hearing in open court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nAndrew Dreschel of The Hamilton Spectator stated proroguing parliament was the right move, imposing a \"cooling-off period on the sweaty rhetoric and dank distortions that have been steaming up the political spectrum\". Conservative MP Bruce Stanton said the suspension of parliament until late January \"was perhaps the last tool in our basket to be able to allow parliamentarians to take a step back\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0038-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nBefore Russell revealed the conditions Jean placed on her acceptance of Harper's advice, there was some concern that Jean's decision may have set a precedent for a prime minister to seek prorogation or dissolution when confronting a potential vote of non-confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0038-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nNelson Wiseman, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, said the following of Harper's advice \"has been a blow to parliamentary democracy in Canada\" and Helen Forsey, daughter of Eugene Forsey, claimed that Jean's granting of prorogation was a shameful encouragement of \"flagrantly subversive behaviour by a Prime Minister\" and that, had he still been alive, the senior Forsey's \"denunciations would have been ringing from the rooftops\". Margaret Wente at The Globe and Mail opined that the Governor General was the only person who emerged from the situation with any gained respect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament\nIn his book Harperland, published in late 2010, columnist Lawrence Martin quoted Kory Teneycke, former director of communication for the Office of the Prime Minister, as saying that, in the days preceding Harper's meeting with the Governor General, the option of appealing to the Queen was considered, should Jean decline prorogation. Such a series of events would have been a first in Canadian history. Constitutional scholar Ned Franks said to The Globe and Mail in September 2010 that the Queen would likely have refused to intervene in such circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament, Aftermath and resolution\nOn December 4, 2008, after the prorogation, Dion hinted that the Liberals could support the Conservative budget, but only if it represented a \"monumental change\". Layton and Duceppe remained committed to their proposed coalition and toppling the Harper government, with Layton demanding that the Conservatives provide affordable housing and childcare programs alongside subsidies for struggling industries. Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis said that the coalition would not survive when parliament resumed, while others in his party suggested working with the Conservatives on the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament, Aftermath and resolution\nAfter the Governor General prorogued parliament, there were questions within the Liberal Party regarding the future of Dion's leadership and the coalition. In a caucus meeting held the same day of the prorogation, Dion faced criticism for the amateur, out-of-focus video of his address to the nation and for disallowing dissent once the coalition accord was presented to caucus. Former deputy prime minister John Manley, in an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, demanded that Dion resign immediately as Liberal leader. Leadership contenders Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae both agreed that Dion had to quit immediately. Dion announced on December 8, 2008, that he would step down upon the selection of an interim leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament, Aftermath and resolution\nBob Rae, who helped to persuade the Liberal caucus of the power-sharing deal, took over as the coalition's main Liberal advocate and planned to travel throughout the country to promote the coalition. Michael Ignatieff, the frontrunner to succeed Dion, stated that he believed the proposal had kept the Conservatives in check, and described his position as a \"coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition\" after viewing the Conservative budget. After the withdrawal of his two rivals, Ignatieff was left as the sole declared leadership candidate, so he was appointed interim leader, and was chosen as leader at the May 2009 convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament, Aftermath and resolution\nOn December 12, Ignatieff met with Harper to discuss the budget, with their spokesmen describing the meeting as a \"cordial\". Layton and Duceppe remained committed to ousting the Harper government, pledging that the NDP would vote against the Conservative budget regardless of what it contained. Layton urged Ignatieff's Liberals to topple the Conservatives before the shelf life of the coalition expired; constitutional experts said that four months after the last election, if the government fell, the Governor General would likely grant the Prime Minister's request to dissolve parliament instead of inviting the coalition to form the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor General prorogues parliament, Aftermath and resolution\nOn January 28, 2009, the Liberals agreed to support the budget as long as it included regular accountability reports, and the Conservatives accepted this amendment. This ended the possibility of the coalition, with Layton publicly denouncing Ignatieff's decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nAn Angus Reid Strategies poll on this subject conducted on December 1 and 2, 2008, consisting of online interviews with 1,012 Canadian adults, and with a reported margin of error of 3.1%, showed that 40% of respondents agreed with the statement \"The Conservative party does not deserve to continue in government\", while 35% agreed with \"The Conservative party deserves to continue in government\", and 25% were \"not sure\". On the question \"Should the opposition parties get together and topple the Conservative minority government headed by Stephen Harper? \", 41% responded No, 36% Yes, and 23% not sure. If the government was defeated in a no-confidence vote, 37% of respondents would support a coalition of opposition parties taking power, 32% favoured holding a new election, 7% favoured an accord rather than a coalition among opposition parties, and 24% were not sure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 939]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nA L\u00e9ger Marketing poll of 2,226 people, conducted on behalf of Sun Media and released on December 4, showed a regional split on what should happen if the Harper government fell. Nationally, 43% of respondents preferred a new election be held, compared to 40% who favoured allowing the coalition to govern. In Western Canada, however, respondents were sharply opposed to the coalition, led by Albertans, who responded 71% in favour of new elections. Quebec showed the highest level of support for the coalition, with 58% preferring it to a new election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0046-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nOntario was split, with 43% preferring an election compared to 39% supporting the coalition. This poll also showed that 60% of Canadians were concerned that the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois would hold the balance of power in a coalition, compared to 35% that were not concerned, with the majority of respondents in every region, excluding Quebec, expressing concern. 34% of those polled argued that the Conservatives were best able to handle the economic crisis, compared to 18% for the coalition. 14% felt the Liberals individually were best prepared, 7% felt the NDP individually were the best choice, and 2% felt the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois were best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nAn EKOS Research Associates poll of 2,536 people, conducted on behalf of CBC and released on December 4, showed that if an election were held the next day, the Conservatives would have received 44% of the vote, up from 37.6%; the Liberals 24%, down from 26%; the New Democrats 14.5%, down from 18.2%; the Bloc 9%, down from 10.5%; and the Green Party 8%, up from 4.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0047-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\n37% of respondents (including the majority of Conservative voters) expressed support in proroguing parliament, while 28% (including a majority of Liberal and Bloc voters, and a near majority of NDP voters) supported the proposed coalition taking power within the next few weeks, with 19% supporting an election. Additionally, 47% of respondents thought that Harper's Conservative government would better manage the financial crunch, versus 34% in support of the Dion-led coalition. Furthermore, 48% of respondents (including the majority of Liberal, NDP, and Green voters, but only 41% of Conservative voters) expressed confidence in the Governor General's ability to make decisions regarding the impasse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nAn Ipsos-Reid poll suggested that if an election had been held on December 5, the Conservatives would have received 46% of the vote, enough to have easily formed a majority government. The poll also showed Liberal support had dropped to 23% from the 26.2% they received in the election, and New Democrat support fell to 13% from 18.2%. Also telling was that 56% of those polled said they would rather go to another election, rather than let the coalition govern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nBut opposition to the coalition waned after Christmas, 2008. In a poll taken from January 3 to 7 Nanos Research found 33% would vote Conservative, 34% Liberal, 19% NDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nBy January 12 to 14, 2009, The Strategic Counsel found the parties were back to more or less 2006 levels: CPC 36%, Liberals 29%, NDP 18% and it also shows the public now almost evenly split in terms of their attitude towards the coalition. It appeared that the short term bump the Tories got after they prorogued had vanished. The coalition had 44% support, another election 49%, yet only 36% would vote Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Polling\nOn January 15\u201317 EKOS Research Associates found 50% support for the Coalition, while 43% would prefer the Conservative government to the Coalition, and 6% were undecided, although only 36% would vote Conservative. Yet 49% wanted a new election, showing some confusion remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Rallies\nPublic rallies, both in favour of and against the coalition, continued to be held a number of days after the prorogation, particularly on the afternoon of December 6. Besides the aforementioned that was attended by both Dion and Layton, other gatherings included one in Halifax, with Conservative MP Gerald Keddy attending; one in Calgary, at which Conservative MP Jason Kenney addressed the crowd; and at Queen's Park in Toronto, where Conservative MP Peter Kent spoke alongside John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. The rallies, all together, attracted over ten thousand, with the largest assembly being in Ottawa, with an estimated attendance of 4,000. Calgary had an estimated 2,500 and Toronto an estimated 1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201193-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Public response, Online activity\nWeb users across the political spectrum came out in force, leaving thousands of posts on news websites, blogs, and news articles; on December 1, The Globe and Mail website had over 4,500 comments posted on its articles related to the political dispute. This motion was in addition to the multiple specialized websites that were launched during the upset, and using the Internet to promote rallies and protests in the hopes of voicing their opinion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike\nThe 2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike was a withdrawal of playing services by the 2008 Cork senior hurling team over the issue of team management. The strike marked the third such strike in five years with the 2007\u20132008 Cork players' strike being the most recent. Reports of unrest within Cork began at least as early as 4 November 2008 when the manager Gerald McCarthy played down talk of unrest in the panel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike, January\nIn January the 2008 panel issued a statement outlining their reasons for striking, primarily claiming the Cork County Board was not following the processed agreed in the aftermath of the 2007\u20132008 strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike, February\nWith the strike ongoing the Cork county board fielding a team made up of players who were not involved in the 2008 panel. While an estimated 10,000 marched in support of the striking hurlers. The Cork footballers have said they will join the Hurlers on strike if the matter is not settled by the end of the National Football League. While the Hurlers asked the clubs of Cork too put a motion of no confidence in Gerald McCarthy before the county board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike, March\nOn 1 March 2009, Cork management were forced to field an understrength side that was defeated by Galway by 14 points in front of crowd of only 600 their third defeat in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike, March\nOn 5 March 2009, Na Piarsaigh became one of many clubs to support the hurlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201194-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Cork senior hurling team strike, March\nOn 10 March 2009, Gerald McCarthy confirmed that he would be stepping down as Cork hurling manager with immediate effect after reported death threats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive\nThe 2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive (codenamed Operation Lightning Thunder) started on 14 December 2008, when joint Ugandan, DR Congolese and Southern Sudanese forces launched a botched military attack against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Garamba region of DR Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, Background\nIn June 2008, after the LRA had attacked and killed 23 people in Southern Sudan, including 14 soldiers, a Ugandan military spokesman said Uganda, DR Congo and Sudan would launch a joint offensive against the LRA if its leader, Joseph Kony, failed to commit to the Juba peace talks. Concurrently, the Southern Sudanese Information Minister, Gabriel Changson, declared that \"The LRA have started war\", and that \"Southern Sudan will not be the place where they can wage this war\". The same month, diplomats reported that the LRA had acquired new weapons and was forcibly recruiting new soldiers, adding 1,000 recruits to the 600 soldiers it already had.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, Background\nAn onslaught against the LRA by Ugandan forces in northern Uganda and across the border in Southern Sudan, led the rebels to relocate to the densely forested Garamba National Park in DR Congo \u2013 and when they attacked and killed civilians there, the Congolese government vowed to destroy the LRA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, The operation\nIn November 2008, the US President George W. Bush personally signed the directive to the United States Africa Command to provide assistance financially and logistically to the Ugandan government during the offensive. The United States military helped in the planning stages of the operation, and also provided financial and technical support in the form of satellite phones and fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, The operation\nOn 14 December 2008, a statement announcing the operation was released in the Ugandan capital Kampala by the intelligence chiefs of the armed forces of the three countries: the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). \"The three armed forces successfully attacked the main body and destroyed the main camp of Joseph Kony, code-named Camp Swahili, setting it on fire,\" the statement said. The Ugandan government stated on 21 December 2008, that 70% of the LRA's camps had been destroyed so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, The operation\nHowever it was also reported that these camps were already empty when they were attacked. On 24 December 2008 Uganda said one of its MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. \"The pilot, Bosco Opiyo, failed to recover the plane from diving and plunged into the ground, dying instantly, and the craft also caught fire. The accident is purely a technical accident\", said Ugandan Army spokesman Paddy Ankunda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, The operation\nBy early January 2009, according to a Congolese official, the LRA was routed, had lost most of its food supply, and was on the run and very close to the border of the Central African Republic, which had reinforced troops at the border. However, other reports indicated that the LRA had split up into smaller units and, in reprisals against the offensive, the LRA attacked civilians they suspected of supporting the operation, raping, mutilating and killing villagers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201195-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Garamba offensive, Ugandan withdrawal\nOn 15 March 2009, Uganda abruptly ended its participation in the offensive and began withdrawing its troops from Garamba. The withdrawal, according to Lt. Gen. Ivan Koreta, the Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, was due to an agreement signed with DR Congo. During a handover ceremony in Garamba, the DR Congo Chief of General Staff, Gen. Didier Etumba Longila, said Congo would continue hunting the LRA until they were neutralised although one source described the Congolese army units allocated to the task as poorly trained and underpaid soldiers who often preyed on the villagers they were meant to be protecting. The LRA continued to terrorise areas in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid\nFollowing the 2008\u20132009 Israel\u2013Gaza conflict, an international conference took place on 2 March 2009 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where donor countries and international bodies pledged almost US$4.5 billion for humanitarian and reconstruction aid for the Gaza Strip. These funds bypassed Hamas, with the PA in collaboration with the donor community taking the lead in delivering and distributing the funds. Damage from the Israeli offensive was estimated to be almost $2 billion. However, actual transfers of aid had been beset by difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Pledges\nDonors pledged US$4.481 billion at the Sharm el-Sheikh conference to help the Palestinian economy and rebuild the Gaza Strip. The biggest donor was Saudi Arabia with $1 billion, followed by the United States with $900 million, a third for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and the rest to assist the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas. The conference was criticized by Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Hamas confiscation and obstruction of aid\nOn 12 January, Hamas raided some 100 aid trucks entering Gaza, stole their contents and sold them to the highest bidders. On 20 January, gunmen from Hamas' armed wing seized 12 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid that had been donated by the Jordanian government to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to Jordanian and Palestinian Authority officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Hamas confiscation and obstruction of aid\nOn 3 February, 3,500 blankets and over 400 food parcels were confiscated by Hamas police personnel from an UNRWA distribution center. On the following day, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator demanded that the aid be returned immediately. In a separate incident on 5 February, Hamas seized 200 tons of food from UNRWA aid supplies. The following day, UNRWA suspended its activities in Gaza. Hamas issued a statement stating that the incident was a misunderstanding between the drivers of the trucks and had been resolved through direct contact with the UNRWA. On 9 February, UNRWA lifted the suspension on the movement of its humanitarian supplies into Gaza, after the Hamas authorities returned all of the aid supplies confiscated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Hamas confiscation and obstruction of aid\nSome local Gaza NGOs providing emergency aid stated that Hamas had ordered them to stop operating because it suspected they were affiliated with rival group Fatah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Concerns of strengthening Hamas\nMilitant Islamist organization Hamas, which is the de facto governing body of the Gaza Strip, is boycotted by western countries as a terrorist organization. In an international conference on reconstructing Gaza, donors insisted that the aid money for the Gaza Strip must bypass Hamas. An administration official from the United States, which pledged $900 million in aid, said that none of the country's aid would go to Hamas, being funneled instead through United Nations groups and non-governmental organizations. However, congresspersons expressed concern that some money would fall into the hands of Hamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Concerns of strengthening Hamas\n\"To route $900 million to this area, and let's say Hamas was only able to steal 10 percent of that, we would still become Hamas' second-largest funder after Iran,\" said Representative Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig M\u00f8ller stressed that aid from Denmark would not end up in the hands of Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that \"Israel supports foreign aid to the Strip, but it is important to build mechanisms and oversight methods to ensure that the aid reaches Gazan civilians and will not be used to strengthen Hamas.\" Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of the rival Fatah party, advised international donors to send Gaza reconstruction money directly to property owners, offering a plan that would effectively bypass the territory's Hamas rulers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 876]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Israel and Egypt barring aid transfers\nThe Gaza Strip is bordered by Israel and Egypt, and much of the humanitarian aid reaches the strip through Israel. According to the Associated Press, \"Israel allows in several dozen truckloads of aid every day, but bars the entry of concrete, pipes and other materials that it fears Hamas could seize.\" Israel says that cement and steel could be used by militants to build rockets and attack tunnels. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that opening border crossings was an \"indispensable goal,\" adding that it was \"essential to ensure that illegal weapons do not enter Gaza.\" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed anger at Israeli delays in relaying Gaza aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Israel and Egypt barring aid transfers\nOn several occasions during the conflict, Egypt prevented the Muslim Brotherhood from delivering aid to Gaza. On 12 February, Egyptian police seized 2,200 tons of food and medical aid destined for the Gaza Strip and being stored by the group, arresting two of its members. A security official said that the two were accused of illegally storing goods. The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Obstruction of aid\nIn June 2009 hundreds of Israeli protestors temporarily blocked goods and humanitarian aid from reaching the Gaza Strip. The protesters, waving signs and carrying posters of 22-year-old kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, cut off the approach to three major crossings into the Gaza Strip while dozens of trucks, loaded with aid, waited outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201196-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Gaza Strip aid, Difficulties, Obstruction of aid\nIsrael tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip stating that it will not remove the blockade until Shalit is freed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201197-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Israel Football League season\nThe 2008\u20132009 Israel Football League season was the second season of the Israel Football League (IFL). This was the first season under the IFL's new sponsorship agreement with the Kraft Family, which re-branded itself as the Kraft Family Israel Football League. This was also the inaugural season for both the Jerusalem Kings expansion team and the Pioneers' in their new home of Modi'in after relocating from HaSharon in the off-season. The season concluded with the Modi'in Pioneers defeating the Jerusalem Lions, 32-26 in double overtime, in Israel Bowl II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201197-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Israel Football League season, Regular season\nThe regular season began in November 2008 and consisted of an eight game schedule, with each team playing the others twice during the season. The top four teams at the end of the regular season (Pioneers, Underdogs, Lions and Kings) qualified for the playoffs, with the Kings edging out the Sabres through the IFL points tie-breaker system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201197-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Israel Football League season, Playoffs\nThe semifinals saw the Pioneers defeat the Kings and the Lions upset the Underdogs to set up a match-up between the Pioneers and Lions in Israel Bowl II, which took place on April 3, 2009, at Kraft Family Stadium. Asaf Katz earned Israel Bowl MVP honors for the champion Modi'in Pioneers, who won in double overtime 32-26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201198-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Israeli Final Four\nThe 2008\u20132009 Israeli Final Four , the fourth Israeli Final Four was held at Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv, Israel on 19 and 21 May 2009 to determine the winner of the 2008\u20132009 Israeli League. The contestants were Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 2007\u201308 Israeli League runner-up, Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Haifa, the 2008\u201309 Israeli State Cup runner-up and Gilboa/Galil. Maccabi Tel Aviv won their 48th Israeli League crown, beating Maccabi Haifa 85-72 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201198-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Israeli Final Four, Venue\nThe Yad Eliyahu Arena is an indoor sports arena in Tel Aviv, Israel. Opened in 1963 with its seating capacity varying from 5,000 to 11,700, it had hosted the 1971\u20131972 FIBA European Champions Cup final, the 1993\u20131994 FIBA European Championship Final Four, the 2003\u20132004 Euroleague Final Four, the 2005-2006 Israeli Final Four, the 2006-2007 Israeli Final Four and the 2007-2008 Israeli Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought\nBetween 2008 and early 2010, Kenya, one of the countries of Eastern Africa, was affected by a severe drought, which put ten million people at risk of hunger and caused a large number of deaths to livestock in Kenyan Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), constituting around 88% of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought\nThe areas which experienced the worst effects were Northern Kenya, Somalia and Southern Ethiopia, most severely in Kajiado and Laikipia. These predominantly pastoral regions reported deaths of up to half of the livestock. Droughts in Kenya have become more frequent causing crop failures and devastation as three-quarters of the population are sustained by agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Background\nOwing to the lack of annual rainfall, the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya (ASALs) are very susceptible to drought and flooding. These lands are impacted by the increasing effects of climate change and the risk of desertification. Water scarcity leaves unimproved water supplies for the majority of the population, so these places tend to be marginalized, and have high rates of poverty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Background\nKenya experienced limited rainfall in 2008 from October to December, followed by a similar situation in 2009. The Kenyan Red Cross conducted assessment reports indicating the risk of starvation for millions of Kenyans, resulting in an appeal to the international donor community for food aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Background\nKenya has been supported by a drought management system since 1980. The system includes policies and strategies, an early warning system, a funded contingency plan, and overall drought coordination and response structure. Despite that, at the end of the 2008\u20132009 drought, the European Union delegation considered that a review of the responses to this drought would have been appropriate, in order to strengthen the efficiency of the drought management and alleviate its consequences. The system became the responsibility of the National Drought Management Authority, established in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Food security\nAgriculture supports around 75% of the Kenyan population and accounts for 25.9% of the GDP, making it one of the leading means of sustenance of the country and a significant contributor to employment and food security; on the other hand, droughts caused by climate change have put a strain on agriculture and the country itself to the extent that in January 2009 the Government declared a state of emergency, because ten million Kenyans needed food aid after a poor harvest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Food security\nIn the North of the country, by April, 30% of the population was suffering from acute malnutrition because the \u201clong rains\u201d of 2009 failed, and some areas of the country were already worn out by five years of consecutive droughts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Food security\nThe shortage of food was also worsened by a political crisis caused by a disputed election in early 2008. This provoked a climate of violence in the East of the country which drove away farmers who were unable to return in time to plant maize in the planting season. This led to food, water, and power shortages throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Food security\nIn 2011 the USAID youth program, which works closely with Feed the Future, brought groups of young mothers together to improve food security, working on nutrition. Cultivating vegetables and legumes they have been improving their health and that of their infants, in a shared urban farm in Mombasa. Making sure that children are well-fed is eminent as malnutrition in childhood and pregnancy has many adverse consequences for child survival and long-term well-being. Food-borne illnesses are often caused by bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that affect human health. Food security issues were also created by violations in trade standards, resulting in the exclusion of food from international, regional, and local markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Effects on the Maasai pastoralists\nIn Kenya, pastoralism represents a mainstay source of sustenance, providing livelihood, security, and employment opportunities (around 90% of the population). It It is impacted by droughts, that directly impact livestock assets of pastoral households.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Effects on the Maasai pastoralists\nMaasai pastoralists are traditionally semi-nomad and practice seasonal transhumance from dry to wet season pastures. The severe drought of 2009 has prompted pastoralists in Northern Kenya to abandon their traditional lifestyles (like in the 2005 drought) due to the harsh living conditions and the destruction of their pastures by drought, overgrazing, and soil erosion. In conditions of extreme drought, some pastoralists tried to dig down into dry riverbeds and water pans looking for water and others moved onto highland pastures in Mt.Kenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0010-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Effects on the Maasai pastoralists\nThese responses were eventually unsuccessful due to the increasing number of livestock deaths (it is estimated that over 38.000 cattle died). The high number of losses also constituted a social implication for the Maasai, who as a tradition measure their wealth on the dimension of their herds. Due to the high mortality rate at the time, there was a major decline in livestock. This raised the prices of milk and other livestock items, which adversely affected hunger levels and lowered income levels. Land degradation also increased due to livestock competition from pastures and water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Effects on the Maasai pastoralists\nTo cope with the drought in the short term the Maasai developed four strategies. The first was to take their animals to graze very early in the morning when the grass is covered with dew. The second was to guard reserve pastures on their higher lands while the grass regenerated so that it can be used during drought. The third strategy was to increase the length of their migrations as the gravity of the drought worsened. The last method was to dig shallow wells in dry riverbeds during migrations to acquire water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Effects on the Maasai pastoralists\nTwo long-term solutions were developed. The first was to keep livestock of mixed-species; in addition to the traditional herd composed by grazers (cattle and sheep) and browsers (goats), pastoralists added donkeys and camels. Different animal species adapt differently to drought and this method ensured that at least part of the herd survived in a specific climatic event. The second method was to increase the size of their herds during wetter periods, so they have some animals left at the end of a drought period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nClimate change has been playing an important role in Kenya's droughts, reducing the drought cycle from every ten years to annual events. When the cycle of droughts in Kenya occurred every ten years, farmers had recovery time to rebuild their livestock and crops before the next drought. When the recovery time dropped to two years, this recovery was no longer possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nDryness is not the only outcome of climate change: rains have decreased during the long rainy season (from March to May), but have registered an increase from September to February causing an extension of the normal rainfall period (October to December), which, together with growing intensity and strength, has created vulnerability to floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nThe table below displays data of the average monthly rainfall of Kenya from 1901 to 2016, compared with the predicted changes for 2080\u20132099.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nIt is expected that the annual average temperature of the territory of Kenya will increase by 1.0\u00b0\u0421 to 2.8\u00b0\u0421 by 2060, with greater effects in the tea production, but a negative impact on crop and maize revenues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nData showing the actual and predicted mean annual temperature increase is shown for the period 1901 to 2099:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, Micro-climate\nThe Rift Valley Province is particularly sensitive to climate change. It is predicted that coastal areas will suffer from rising sea levels from which floods and saltwater intrusions will result, due to the melting of glaciers which will further reduce the availability of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on wildlife\nDue to the drought animals were dying, some from starvation, others of thirst and many because their weak immune systems could not fight disease or infection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on wildlife\nBy September 2009, at least 60 elephants and hundreds of animals had died in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on wildlife\nThere was a conflict between locals and wildlife due to the absence of land. Consequently, the pastoralists took their herds illegally into the national parks and wildlife reserves, in a search for grazing land and water. The pastoralists felt betrayed by their government because they thought that the interests of the tourists who come to see the wildlife had been put before their own. They questioned why they had to allow wildlife on to their land but could not legally use the parks and reserves for grazing at such difficult times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on the GDP\nBefore the 2008 drought, the Kenyan economy had been growing at relatively high annual rates ranging from 6 to 7 percent, and it was expected to continue on the same path during the following years. The annual growth rate fell to 1.5 percent because of the drought. Despite the growth they worked for in the construction sector, tourism and agriculture faced very high declines (-36 and -5 percent, respectively), and inflation rose to an unprecedented annual rate of 26.2 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on the GDP\nIn 2009, the government designed certain steps to promote growth in order to increase the GDP. These initiatives included restoration of investor confidence, an expansionary fiscal policy through a stimulus package, and monetary policy focus to preserve price stability at a single-digit rate. They were able to make the GDP rise by 2.6% with this method. The agriculture sector contracted by 2.7% due to the drought, high costs of inputs, and depressed demand for some of the country's exports due to the global financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Effects, The effects on the GDP\nIn 2011, the GDP reached 10.06% due to the strong performance of the financial sector, construction and tourism. The population was also facing a high annual rate of inflation caused by rising food and fuel prices, which appeared to affect the poor disproportionately. The combination of four factors was also threatening the Kenyan economy: high fuel prices, high food prices, the drought in the Horn of Africa, and the Euro crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses\nThe main financial contributors in efforts were ALRMP (Arid Lands Resource Management Project) and the government; these organizations are designated a significant role under the country's drought management system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses\nALRMP funded 83% of interventions and provided for 46% of total expenditure on drought response; 62% of the total transactions audited during 2007\u20132008 were suspected to be fraudulent or questionable. Among the funds, foreign donors accounted for 8%. This is likely to be an underestimation because cost information for two-thirds of the projects funded by these donors were not available. Government accounted for 29% of spending, but just 6% of programs, reflecting the high cost of the commercial interventions for de-stocking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Water related responses\nMost water tankering interventions were not providing adequate supplementary water to justify the cost involved. The amount of that water in the communities was relatively limited, not even coming close to the MoWI\u2019s suggested standard of 10 liters per person per day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Water related responses\nIn Dol Dol, the people were able to remain in the villages even though starvation had not been completely eradicated. Clean water tanks were distributed to the communities, who used it to cook their food, removing the need to walk 20\u00a0km to fetch water (6:00 to 15:00 every day). The farm animals had access to water, but the impact was minimal as most died anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Water related responses\nThere were two limits of the intervention. Firstly, the water supplied was not enough for all the inhabitants. Only those who lived near the roads could be helped, because the arid terrain made moving to the inner villages too risky. Secondly, whoever managed to acquire the water could only use it for cooking and drinking, because there was not enough to be used for chores such as washing clothes or bathing. They mostly targeted women and schools for water support, rather than the adult male population, therefore the community estimated only about 10 percent of the population benefited. In Merti, Isiolo, the community also felt that the use of a Bowser (tanker) helped the people that were left in the villages, whilst the animal breeders were forced to migrate with their animals, looking for other natural sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 884]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Commercial destocking responses\nBy the height of the drought in mid-2008, few measures had been implemented. Most of the effective measures occurred in 2009. Compared to other measures, de-stocking, restocking and animal health interventions began relatively late. All de-stocking options were carried out after June 2009, when the drought had reached its worst stage. After June, 63% of all measures were introduced, 77% related to animal feeding, 70% to borehole development/maintenance, and 54% for peace-building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Commercial destocking responses\nThe Kenyan government began carry out de-stocking operations in May 2009. Effective contributions made from NGO's started later in the year, from July 2009. ALRMP, which began to contribute to interventions by the Kenyan government, was the only exception to this latency of action by the key members. 49% of the total expenditure on livestock-related drought intervention between 2008 and 2009 was accounted for by conventional livestock interventions, which mainly included feed, health, and de-stocking. The Kenyan government and ALRMP were the biggest investors, highlighting the contributions made by organizations in the Kenyan drought management system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Livestock responses\nIn Kenya, recurrent droughts can contribute to livestock disease. Consequently, more animal breeders chose to train in the field of livestock health. The increase in the number of trained and community-based health workers operating in the Turkana areas has enabled livestock keepers to acquire relevant skills through training and knowledge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Livestock responses\nA tradition of the Kenyan rural culture is that local herbs and techniques are used in the treatment of livestock diseases. In recent years, with the emergence of trained community-based animal health workers, a safer and more advanced control is being opted for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Responses Assessment\nThe effectiveness of the drought intervention measures have been assessed in a range of studies. The main determinants which established the level of effectiveness of an intervention  were whether the intervention was completed as planned and if they were able to deliver the intended benefits to the targeted beneficiaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Responses Assessment\nContributions from NGO\u2019s were generally considered more effective than those completed by the Kenyan government. Specifically, the contributions that made most of the difference and therefore top-ranked in the highest average effectiveness ratings, were funded by international donors. It was not possible to determine a relationship between the effectiveness of an intervention and the time at which it started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Responses Assessment\nOn average, an intervention reached 3,227 individuals, increasing from 55 for peace-building to 22,370 for water trucking. The cost per individual reached was 3,362 Kenyan Shilling (approximately 30.6 US Dollars in 2021). This ranged from 163Ksh for water trucking to 8,652Ksh for emergency replenishment. This indicates that a total of more than 1.5 million people benefited, based on the presumption of no duplication (if the same person is benefiting from multiple interventions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201199-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Kenya Drought, Responses, Responses Assessment\nThe real relative impact that each intervention has had on the population is difficult to assess even though there is evidence to determine a better efficacy of one intervention. The reason is that there is inadequate information on the scale of the benefits given to individuals and households. In general, there was no relationship between an intervention's efficacy and the capital invested in its success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence\nFollowing the global financial crisis of 2007\u20132008, there was a worldwide resurgence of interest in Keynesian economics among prominent economists and policy makers. This included discussions and implementation of economic policies in accordance with the recommendations made by John Maynard Keynes in response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, most especially fiscal stimulus and expansionary monetary policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence\nFrom the end of the Great Depression until the early 1970s, Keynesian economics provided the main inspiration for economic policy makers in Western industrialized countries. The influence of Keynes's theories waned in the 1970s due to stagflation and critiques from Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Robert Lucas Jr., and other economists, who were less optimistic about the ability of interventionist government policy to positively regulate the economy, or otherwise opposed to Keynesian policies. From the early 1980s to 2008, the normative consensus among economists was that attempts at fiscal stimulus would be ineffective even in a recession, and such policies were only occasionally employed by the governments of developed countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence\nIn 2008, prominent economic journalists and economists began arguing in favour of Keynesian stimulus. From October onward, policy makers began announcing major stimulus packages, in hopes of heading off the possibility of a global depression. By early 2009, there was widespread acceptance among the world's economic policy makers about the need for fiscal stimulus. Yet by late 2009, the consensus among economists began to break down. In 2010, with a depression averted but unemployment in many countries still high, policy makers generally decided against further fiscal stimulus, with several citing concerns over public debt as a justification. Unconventional monetary policy continued to be used in attempts to raise economic activity. By 2016, increasing concerns had arisen that monetary policy was reaching the limit of its effectiveness, and several countries began to return to fiscal stimulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 936]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Competing views on macroeconomic policy\nMacroeconomic policy focuses on high level government decisions which affect overall national economies rather than lower level decisions concerning markets for particular goods and services. Keynes was the first economist to popularize macroeconomics and also the notion that governments can and should intervene in the economy to alleviate the suffering caused by unemployment. Before the Keynesian Revolution that followed Keynes's 1936 publication of his General Theory, the prevailing orthodoxy was that the economy would naturally establish full employment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Competing views on macroeconomic policy\nSo successful was the revolution that the period spanning the aftermath of World War II to about 1973 has been referred to as the Age of Keynes. Stagnating economic performance in the early 1970s successfully shattered the previous consensus for Keynesian economics and provided support for a counter revolution. Milton Friedman's monetarism school was prominent in displacing Keynes' ideas both in academia and from the practical world of economic policy making. A key common feature of the anti-Keynesian schools of thought is that they argued for policy ineffectiveness or policy irrelevance. Although the theoretical justifications vary, the various schools all hold that government intervention will be much less effective than Keynes had believed, with some advocates even claiming that in the long run interventionist policy will always be counterproductive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 949]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Competing views on macroeconomic policy\nKeynesian economics followed on from the Keynesian Revolution. In contrast to the recent resurgence of Keynesian policy making, the revolution initially comprised a shift change in theory. There had been several experiments in policy making that can be seen as precursors for Keynes' ideas, most notably President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous \"New Deal\" in the United States. These experiments had been influenced more by morals, geopolitics and political ideology than by new developments in economics, even though Keynes had found some support in the Uniuted States for his ideas about counter-cyclical public works policy as early as 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Competing views on macroeconomic policy\nAccording to Gordon Fletcher, Keynes' General Theory provided a conceptual justification for New Deal-type policies which was lacking in the established economics of the day. This was immensely significant, as in the absence of a proper theoretical underpinning there was a danger that ad hoc policies of moderate intervention would be overtaken by extremist solutions, as had already happened in much of Europe. However, Keynes did not agree with all aspects of the New Deal; he considered that the almost immediate revival of business activity after the program's launch could only be accounted for by dangerous-to-rely-on psychological factors, such as the boost to confidence effected by Roosevelt's inspiring oratory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian ascendancy 1941\u20131979\nWhile working on his General Theory, Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw, \"I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize, not I suppose at once but in the course of the next ten years \u2013 the way the world thinks about economic problems. ... I don't merely hope what I say, in my own mind I'm quite sure.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0005-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian ascendancy 1941\u20131979\nKeynes's ideas quickly became established as the new foundations for mainstream economics, and also as a leading inspiration for industrial nations economic policy makers from about 1941 to the midseventies, especially in the English speaking countries. The 1950s and 1960s period, when Keynes's influence was at its peak, to many appeared in retrospect to have been a golden age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian ascendancy 1941\u20131979\nAt that time, in contrast to the decades before WWII, the industrialized world and much of the developing world enjoyed high growth, low unemployment and an exceptionally low frequency of economic crises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0006-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian ascendancy 1941\u20131979\nIn late 1965 Time magazine ran a cover article with the title inspired by Milton Friedman's statement, later associated with Richard Nixon, \"We are all Keynesians now\"; the article described the exceptionally favourable economic conditions then prevailing, and reported that \"Washington's economic managers scaled these heights by their adherence to Keynes's central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government.\" The article also states that Keynes was one of the three most important economists ever, and that his General Theory was more influential than the magna opera of his rivals, namely Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx's Das Kapital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Displacement by monetarism and new classical economics 1979\u20131999\nA swelling tide of criticism of Keynesian economics, most notably from Milton Friedman, a leading figure of monetarism, and the Austrian School's Friedrich Hayek, was unleashed by the stagflation of the 1970s. A series of events that contributed to this economic situation included Richard Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls on 15 August 1971 and unilateral cancellation of the Bretton Woods system in 1972, his ceasing the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, as well as the 1973 oil crisis and the recession that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 108], "content_span": [109, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Displacement by monetarism and new classical economics 1979\u20131999\nIn 1976, Robert Lucas of the Chicago school of economics introduced the Lucas critique, which called into question the logic behind Keynesian macroeconomic policy making. The new classical economics became the dominant school in macroeconomics. By the mid-1970s, policy makers were beginning to lose their confidence in the effectiveness of government intervention in the economy. In 1976 British Prime Minister James Callaghan said that the option of \"spending our way out of recession\" no longer exists. In 1979, the election of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister brought monetarism to British economic policy. In the United States, the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker adopted similar policies of monetary tightening in order to control inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 108], "content_span": [109, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Displacement by monetarism and new classical economics 1979\u20131999\nIn the world of practical policy-making as opposed to economics as an academic discipline, the monetarist experiments in both the United States and Britain in the early 1980s were the pinnacle of anti-Keynesian and the rise of perfect competition influence. The strong form of monetarism being tested at this time asserted that fiscal policy is of no effect, and that monetary policy should only try to target the money supply to control inflation, without attempting to target real interest rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 108], "content_span": [109, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Displacement by monetarism and new classical economics 1979\u20131999\nThis was in contrast to the Keynesian view that monetary policy should target interest rates, which it held could influence unemployment. Monetarism succeeded in bringing down inflation but at the cost of unemployment rates in excess of 10%, causing the deepest recession seen in the developed countries since the end of the Great Depression and severe debt crises in the developing world. Contrary to monetarist predictions, the relationship between the money supply and the price level proved unreliable in the short- to medium-term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 108], "content_span": [109, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0009-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Displacement by monetarism and new classical economics 1979\u20131999\nAnother monetarist prediction not borne out in practice was that the velocity of money did not remain constant, and in fact dropped sharply. The Bank of England abandoned its sterling M3 money targeting in October 1985; the United States Federal Reserve began increasing the money supply above monetarist-advised thresholds with no effect on inflation, and discarded monetarism by 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 108], "content_span": [109, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nBy 1999, the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the harsh response by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had already caused free market policies to be at least partially discredited in the eyes of developing world policy makers. The developing world as a whole stopped running current account deficits in 1999, largely as a result of government interventions to devalue the countries' currencies, which would help build foreign reserves to protect against future crises and help them enjoy export led growth rather than just rely on market forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nFor the advanced economies, while there was much talk of reforming the international financial system after the Asian crises, it was not until the market failure of the late 1990s and early 2000s dot-com bubble that there was a significant shift away from free market policies. In the United States, there was a return by the government of George W. Bush to a moderate form of Keynesian policy, with interest rates lowered to ease unemployment and head off recession, along with a form of fiscal intervention with emergency tax cuts to boost spending. In Britain, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had gone on record, saying \"the real challenge was to interpret Keynes's insights for the modern world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nYet American and British policy makers continued to ignore many elements of Keynesian thinking such as the recommendation to avoid large trade imbalances and to reduce government deficits in boom years. There was no general global return to Keynesian economics in the first 8 years of the 2000s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nEuropean policy became slightly more interventionist after the start of the 21st century, but the shift in a Keynesian direction was smaller than was the case for the United States and Britain; however, continental Europeans had not generally embraced free market thinking as wholeheartedly as had the English-speaking world in the 1980s and 1990s. Japan had been using moderate Keynesian policies in the nineties, and switched to neoliberalism with the government of Junichir\u014d Koizumi in 2001\u20132006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nFor the first half of the 2000s, free-market influences remained strong in powerful normative institutions like the World Bank, the IMF, and in prominent opinion-forming media, such as the Financial Times and The Economist. The Washington Consensus view that current account imbalances do not matter continued even in the face of a ballooning United States deficit, with mainstream academic opinion only turning to the view that the imbalances are unsustainable by 2007. Another notable anti-Keynesian view that remained dominant in United States and Britain policy making circles was the idea that markets work best if they are unregulated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Background, Keynesian counter currents 1999\u20132007\nIn the world of popular opinion, there had been an upsurge in vocal but minority opposition to the raw free market, with anti-globalization protests becoming increasingly notable after 1998. By 2007, there had been bestsellers promoting Keynesian or at least pro-mixed economy policies; among them were Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and Song Hongbing's Currency Wars. In the academic world, the partial shift towards Keynesian policy had gone largely unnoticed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence\nIn the wake of the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 and the search for a way out of the crisis, a worldwide move toward Keynesian deficit financing and general resurgence of Keynesian policies resulted in a new economic consensus, which involved reassessment or even reversal of normative judgments on a number of topics. The Keynesian view receiving most attention has been fiscal stimulus, applied by numerous states as a response to the Great Recession. The IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn advocated for global fiscal stimulus already in January 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence\nGordon Brown built support for fiscal stimulus among global leaders at September's UN General Assembly, after which he secured George Bush's agreement for the first G20 leaders summit. In late 2008 and 2009 fiscal stimulus packages were widely launched across the world, with packages in G20 countries averaging at about 2% of GDP, with a ratio of public spending to tax cuts of about  2:1. The stimulus in Europe was notably smaller than in large G20 countries elsewhere. Other areas where opinion has shifted back towards a Keynesian perspective include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nIn March 2008, leading free-market journalist Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, announced the death of the dream of global free-market capitalism, and quoted Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, as saying \"I no longer believe in the market's self-healing power.\" Shortly afterward, economist Robert J. Shiller began advocating robust government intervention to tackle the financial crisis, citing Keynes. Macro economist James K. Galbraith used the 25th Annual Milton Friedman Distinguished Lecture to launch a sweeping attack against the consensus for monetarist economics and argued that Keynesian economics were far more relevant for tackling the emerging crises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nMuch discussion among policy makers reflected Keynes's advocacy of international coordination of fiscal or monetary stimulus, and of international economic institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, which he had helped to create at Bretton Woods in 1944, and which many argued should be reformed at a \"new Bretton Woods\"; this was evident at the G20 and APEC meetings in Washington, D.C., and Lima, Peru in November 2008, and in coordinated reductions of interest rates by many countries in November and December 2008. IMF and United Nations economists and political leaders such as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocated a coordinated international approach to fiscal stimulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nWorld Bank's President Robert Zoellick advocated that all developed countries pledge 0.7 percent of their stimulus package to a vulnerability fund for assisting developing countries. Donald Markwell and others argued that the absence of an effective international approach in the spirit of Keynes would risk a return of economic causes of international conflict, which Keynes had identified back in the 1930s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nThe first nation to  announce a substantial fiscal stimulus was Great Britain, with  Chancellor Alistair Darling referring to Keynes as he unveiled plans for fiscal stimuli to head off the worst effects of recession. These measures were later described by Ed Balls as the first time a postwar British government had been able to meet a recession with a \"classic Keynesian response\". In his autobiography published in 2011, Darling recounts how his response to the crisis was \"influenced hugely by Keynes's thinking, indeed, as were most other governments\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nDarling's stimulus announcement was swiftly followed by a similar declaration from China,  and over the next few weeks and months from European countries, the U.S. and other countries across the world. In a speech on 8 January 2009, President-elect Barack Obama unveiled a plan for extensive domestic spending to combat recession, further reflecting Keynesian thinking. The plan was signed by him on 17 February 2009. There had been extensive debate in United States Congress concerning the necessity, adequacy, and likely effects of the package, which was cut from $819 to $787 billion during its passage through the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nOn 21 January 21, 2010, the Volcker Rule was endorsed by President Obama. It was a proposal by United States economist Paul Volcker to restrict banks from making speculative investments that do not benefit their customers. Volcker had argued that such speculative activity played a key role in the recent worldwide financial crisis. Plans for a new $180 billion stimulus plan were announced by Obama in September 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nA renewed interest in Keynesian ideas was not limited to Western countries and stimulus plans were a common response to the crisis from nations across the globe. Stimulus packages in Asia were on a par with those in Europe and America. In a speech delivered in March 2009 entitled Reform the International Monetary System, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, revived Keynes's idea of a centrally managed global reserve currency. Dr Zhou argued that it was unfortunate that Keynes's bancor proposal was not accepted at Bretton Woods in the 1940s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nHe argued that national currencies were unsuitable for use as global reserve currencies as a result of the Triffin dilemma and the difficulty faced by reserve currency issuers in trying to simultaneously achieve their domestic monetary policy goals and meet other countries' demand for reserve currency. Zhou proposed a gradual move towards adopting IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) as a centrally managed global reserve currency. Zhou's view was echoed in June 2009 by the IMF, and in September was described by the Financial Times as the boldest statement of the year to come from China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Among policy makers\nIn a widely read article on dollar hegemony published in Asia Times Online on 11 April 2002, Henry C.K. Liu asserted that \"The Keynesian starting point is that full employment is the basis of good economics. It is through full employment at fair wages that all other economic inefficiencies can best be handled, through an accommodating monetary policy.\" Liu also advocated denominating Chinese exports in Chinese currency (RMB), as a step to free China from the constraints of excessive reliance on the dollar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nAccording to Anatole Kaletsky, Keynesian stimuli were rapidly followed by \"revivals of growth in one country after another, roughly in proportion to the size of the various stimulus plans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nChina was one of the first nations to launch a substantial fiscal stimulus package, estimated at $586 billion spread over two years, and in February 2009 the Financial Times reported that both government officials and private investors were seeing signs of recovery, such as rises in commodity prices, a 13% rise in the Chinese stock market over a period of 10 days, and a big increase in lending, reflecting the government's success in using state-owned banks to inject liquidity into the real economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nReviewing events from 2010, economics commentator John Authers found that the stimulus and associated expansionary monetary policy had a dramatic effect in reviving the Chinese economy. The Shanghai index had been falling sharply since the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, but the decline was halted when news of the planned stimulus leaked in late October. The day after the stimulus was officially announced, the Shanghai index immediately rose by 7.3%, followed by sustained growth. Speaking at the 2010 Summer Davos, Premier Wen Jiabao also credited the stimulus for good performance of the Chinese economy over the past two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nAs late as April 2009, central bankers and finance ministers remained cautious about the overall global economy; by May, the Financial Times was reporting that according to a package of leading indicators there were signs that recovery was imminent in Europe too, after a trough in March. The United States was one of the last major economies to implement a major stimulus plan, and the slowdown there looked set to continue for at least a few more months. There was also a rise in business and consumer confidence across most of Europe, and especially in the emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia and India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nIn June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported improvements in global economic outlook, with an overall growth forecast for 2010. The OECD gave the credit to stimulus plans, which they warned should not be rolled back too swiftly. The IMF also reported a better than expected global economic outlook in July, though warning that the recovery is likely to be slow. They credited the \"unprecedented\" global policy response and echoed the OECD in urging leaders to avoid complacency and not to unwind recession fighting fiscal and monetary policies too soon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nIn a widely syndicated article published in August 2009, Paul Krugman announced that the world had been saved from the threat of a second great depression, thanks to \"Big Government\". The United States economy emerged from recession in the third quarter of 2009, which the Financial Times credited to the stimulus measures. In November, the managing director of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn repeated the warning against terminating the stimulus measures too soon. The Financial Times reported that significant differences had emerged even within Europe, with senior members of the European Central Bank expressing concern about the risk of delaying the exit for too long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nOn 8 December 2009, President Obama unveiled what the Financial Times described as a \"second stimulus plan\" for additional job creationusing approximately $200 billion of unused funds that had been pre-approved for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. In the same speech he expressed the view that the initial stimulus had already saved or created 1.6 million jobs. In an article looking back at 2009, economist Arvind Subramanian wrote in the Financial Times that economics had helped to redeem itself by providing advice for the policy responses that successfully prevented a global slide into depression, with the fiscal policy stimulus measures taking their \"cue from Keynes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nIn July 2010, economics journalist Robin Harding wrote for the Financial Times that most American economists are in agreement regarding the large influence of the United States stimulus on the economy, although he mentioned high-profile dissenters such as Robert Barro and John B. Taylor. Barro's arguments against the effectiveness of the stimulus have been addressed by Keynesian economics professor J. Bradford DeLong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nA July 2010 paper by Moody's Investors Service's chief economist Mark Zandl and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder predicted that the United States recession would have been far worse without the government intervention. They calculate that in the absence of both a monetary and fiscal response, unemployment would have peaked at about 16.5% instead of about 10%, the peak to trough GDP decline would have been about 12% instead of 4%. Despite the lack of deficit spending, without the intervention the 2010 and 2011 United States federal budget deficit was forecast to be almost two times larger, due to the predicted collapse of tax receipts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Efficacy\nIn August 2010, a report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found the United States stimulus to have boosted growth by as much as 4.5%. House of Representatives Minority Leader John Boehner expressed skepticism about the report's accuracy. In March 2011, citing studies on the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus from several dozen economists and international bodies, David Romer told the IMF that \"we should view the question of whether fiscal stimulus is effective as settled.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nIn 2009, there were several books published by economists advocating a further shift towards Keynesian thinking. The authors advocated further reform in academic economics, policy making, and even the public's general ethics. Theoretical arguments regarding the relative merits of free market versus mixed economy policies do not always yield a clear conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nIn his 2009 book Keynes: The Return of the Master, economic historian Lord Skidelsky has a chapter comparing the performance of the world economy between the \"golden age\" period of 1951\u20131973, when Keynesian policies were dominant, with the Washington Consensus period of 1981\u20132008, when free market policies were adopted by leading governments. Samuel Brittan of the Financial Times called this part of the book the key chapter for the practically inclined reader. Using data from the IMF, Skidelsky finds superior economic performance on a whole range of metrics, except for inflation where he says there was no significant difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nSkidelsky suggests the high global growth during the golden age was especially impressive given that during that period Japan was the only major Asian economy enjoying high growth; the exceptional growth of China and other Asian emerging economies, raising the global average, happened later. He also comments that the golden age, compared with other periods, was substantially more stable. Martin Wolf found that in 1945\u20131971 (27 years) the world saw only 38 financial crises, whereas in 1973\u20131997 (24 years) there were 139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0035-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nSkidelsky also reports that inequality was generally decreasing during the golden age, whereas since the Washington Consensus was formed it has been increasing. He notes that South America has been an exception to the general rise in inequality; since the late 1990s, inequality has been falling there, which James K. Galbraith explains as likely due to the region's early \"retreat from neoliberal orthodoxy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nIn his 2009 book The Keynes Solution, post-Keynesian economist Paul Davidson makes another historical case for the effectiveness of Keynesian policy, referring to the experience of the United States during the Great Depression. He notes how economic growth and employment levels increased for four successive years as the New Deal policies were pursued by President Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nWhen government spending was cut back in 1937 due to concerns about the budget deficit, all the gains were lost in one year, and growth only resumed after spending increased again from 1938, as a response to growing acceptance of deficit spending in a recession and later due to World War II. For Davidson, this experience validates the view that Keynesian policy has the power to deliver full employment and prosperity for a government's entire labor force. Davidson also wrote that both price stability and employment in the Keynesian age were superior even to the classical gold standard era that was terminated by World War I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nOn 8 November 2008, Paul Davidson and Henry C.K. Liu co-authored an open letter to world leaders attending the November 15 White House summit on financial markets and world economy, urging reconsideration of Keynes' analytical system that contributed to the golden age of the first quarter century after World War II. The letter, signed by many supporting economists, advocates a new international financial architecture based on an updated 21st century version of the Keynes Plan originally proposed at Bretton Woods in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, On Keynesian resurgence, Calls for further extensions\nThe letter ends by describing this new international financial architecture as aiming to create (1) a new global monetary regime that operates without currency hegemony, (2) global trade relationships that support rather than retard domestic development and (3) a global economic environment that promotes incentives for each nation to promote full employment and raise wages for its labor force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nA marked shift towards Keynesian thinking took place among prominent economists. Some, such as Paul Krugman, James Galbraith and Brad Delong, were already Keynesians but in 2008 began to get considerably more attention for their advocacy of Keynesian policy. Others, such as Richard Posner and Martin Feldstein, had previously been associated with anti-Keynesian thinking, yet by 2009 publicly converted to Keynesian economics, which made considerable impact on other economists. Posner's 2009 book, A Failure of Capitalism, was a critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its ideologues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nThis shift towards Keynesian thinking was widely shared by many politically active economists across the world. In the years leading up to the resurgence, Germany had been home to some of the most outspoken critics of Keynesianism, yet according to economist Sebastian Dullien writing in December 2008, \"important voices in the German economic profession are now calling for a large stimulus package, passed as quickly as possible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0040-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nThe New York Times reported that in the March 2008 annual meeting of the American Economic Association, economists had remained hostile or at least sceptical about the government\u2019s role in enhancing the market sector or mitigating recession with fiscal stimulus. But already during the January 2009 meeting virtually everyone voiced their support for such measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nThere were a few high-profile known dissenter economists, such as Robert Barro and Eugene Fama,  but in 2008 and early 2009 their objections had little influence on the mainstream debate. A dissenter from Germany had been Stefan Homburg, who in January 2009 complained \"I simply cannot understand how so many economics professors have done a complete U-turn. Have they all gone mad?\" Among the less publicly prominent economists, who tend to debate only with their fellows and write mainly in technical journals,  a substantial shift in opinion was less obvious. Speaking in March 2009, Galbraith stated that he had not detected any changes among academic economists, nor a re-examination of orthodox opinion in the journals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nUntil 2008, the consensus among most mainstream economists was that fiscal stimulus did not work. New Keynesians and New Classical economists had previously agreed monetary policy was sufficient for most downturns and the two schools of thought debated only technicalities. The extent of the recession made the New Keynesians re-evaluate the potential of large stimulus, and their debates with New Classical economists, who often opposed stimulus entirely, became substantive. Some economists (primarily post-Keynesians) accused the New Keynesian system of being so integrated with pro-free market neo-classical influences that the label 'Keynesian' in this case could be considered a misnomer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nThe 2008 financial crisis has led  economists to pay greater attention to Keynes's original theories. In February 2009, Robert Shiller and George Akerlof argued in their book Animal Spirits that the current United States stimulus package was too small, because it did not take into account loss of confidence or do enough to restore the availability of credit. In a September 2009 article for The New York Times, on the lessons economists should learn from the crisis, Krugman urged economists to move away from neoclassical models and employ Keynesian analysis, writing:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nSo here's what I think economists have to do. First, they have to face up to the inconvenient reality that financial markets fall far short of perfection, that they are subject to extraordinary delusions and the madness of crowds. Second, they have to admit ... that Keynesian economics remains the best framework we have for making sense of recessions and depressions. Third, they'll have to do their best to incorporate the realities of finance into macroeconomics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nBy mid-2010, interest in Keynes' ideas was still growing within academia, even though the apparent consensus among prominent economists had fractured and the revival in Keynesian policy making had to some degree stalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, In academia\nIn October 2011, journalist John Cassidy noted the large number of new books that had recently come out about Keynes, including from leading universities such as Cambridge and MIT, with more books due to come out towards the end of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nKeynesian ideas also attracted considerable criticism in this time period. While from late 2008 to early 2010 there was broad consensus among international leaders concerning the need for coordinated stimulus, the German administration initially stood out in their reluctance to fully embrace Keynesian policy. In December 2008, Finance Minister Peer Steinbr\u00fcck of Germany criticised Gordon Brown's advocacy of Keynesian stimulus, saying \"The switch from decades of supply-side politics all the way to a crass Keynesianism is breathtaking.\" By the end of January 2009, Germany had announced a second stimulus plan which, relative to GDP, was larger than Britain's. George Osborne, at the time shadow British chancellor, opposed a return to Keynesian policy from as early as October 2008, saying \"even a modest dose of Keynesian spending\" could act as a \"cruise missile aimed at the heart of recovery.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 943]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nCritics argued that Keynesian policy would be counter-productive for the reasons of being inflationary, creating more income disparity, and causing consumers to rein in their spending even more as they anticipated future tax increases. In 2009, more than 300 professional economists, led by three Nobel laureates in economics, James M. Buchanan, Edward C. Prescott, and Vernon L. Smith, signed a statement against more government spending, arguing that \"Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nRobert Barro, an economics professor at Harvard University (author of the 1974 Ricardian equivalence hypothesis postulating that government stimuli are inefficient in a perfect market), argued that the United States stimulus spending might be unwise because of one of the factors the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 depended on for its effectiveness, the \"multiplier effect\"; the fiscal multiplier, required to be over the value of one for the effect to take place, was in practice close to zero, not 1.5, as he said the Obama team were assuming, which means the extra employment generated by the stimulus would be cancelled out by less output and investment in the private sector. A group of German economists had also argued that the size of the multiplier effect was overestimated, while the Memorandum Group of German Economics Professors claimed the opposite and demanded a larger stimulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 952]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nEconomist Edward Prescott (author of the real business-cycle model that post-Keynesians hold failed to forecast the crisis) and economist Eugene Fama argued that stimulus plans are unlikely to have a net positive effect on employment, and may even harm it. Economist Jeffrey Sachs doubted a positive effect because the stimulus and associated policies \"may work in the short term but they threaten to produce still greater crises within a few years\". In a June 2010 article, referring to the cooling of enthusiasm for further stimulus found among policy makers at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, Sachs declared that Keynesian economics is facing its \"last hurrah\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nThere have also been arguments that the Great Recession of the early 21st century was caused not by excessively free markets but by the remnants of Keynesian policy. Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago argued that \"Keynesianism is just a convenient ideology to hide corruption and political patronage\". In February 2009, Alan Reynolds, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, acknowledged the Keynesian resurgence but stated that evidence from various studies suggest Keynesian remedies will be ineffective and Keynesian advocates appear to be driven by blind faith. In 2009, historian Thomas Woods, an adherent to the Austrian school of economics, published the book Meltdown, which places blame for the crisis on government intervention and points to the Federal Reserve as the primary culprit behind the financial calamity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Criticism\nProfessor John Bellamy Foster, a sociologist, questioned whether the resurgence had been truly Keynesian in character. He suggested those few economists he regards as genuinely progressive, such as James Galbraith, were now far from the centre of government. He also asserted that it is Karl Marx, not Keynes, that society should look to for a full solution to economic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nAccording to Henry Farrell and John Quiggin, the previous apparent consensus for Keynesian policy among prominent economists by late 2009 began to dissolve into dissensus. There was no reversal to the previous free-market consensus, but the apparent unity of the previous year had gone. In part this was due to objections from anti-Keynesians like Robert Barro attracting wider attention, in part to the intervention of elite economists who had previously kept out of the debate, specifically from the ECB but also others, including Jeffery Sachs. The lack of consensus among expert opinion made policy makers vulnerable to calls for abandonment of Keynesian policy in favour of fiscal consolidation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn April 2010, a communiqu\u00e9 from the Washington meeting of finance ministers called for continuation of the stimulus policies until the recovery is firmly entrenched with strong private sector activity, though it accepted that some countries had already begun to exit from the policies. By mid-2010, the earlier global consensus for ongoing Keynesian stimulus had fractured, mirroring the \"dissensus\" that had emerged among prominent economists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0054-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nEspecially in Europe, there was an increase in rhetoric calling for immediate fiscal tightening, following event,s such as the Greek debt crisis and the displacement in Britain of the Labour government with a coalition dominated by the Conservatives after the May 2010 elections. While some high level officials, particularly from the United States and India, continued advocating sustained stimulus until the global recovery is better established, a communiqu\u00e9 from the G20, issued after their June 2010 meeting of finance ministers in Busan, welcomed the trend towards fiscal consolidation rather than further deficit financed stimulus. The G20 did reiterate that forceful government intervention had been the correct response in 2008 and 2009. Then IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who had been a leading advocate for stimulus spending from as early as January 2008, said he was comfortable with the reversal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 983]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nEuropean political leaders embarked on substantial austerity drives. In July 2010, leading European economic policy maker Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, stated that it was time for all industrial nations to stop stimulating and start tightening. Keynesian economists and Keynes biographer Lord Skidelsky contested the move to implement cuts given the still fragile economy. In a July 2010 article, Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens argued that recent events show the markets to have re-established themselves as leading influences on western economic policy, while Brad DeLong wrote that he considered himself and fellow Keynesians to have lost the argument for fiscal stimulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn April 2011, Professor Patrick Dunleavy wrote that the resurgence has caused a \"backlash against the State\", starting in America with movements like the Tea Party and later spreading to Europe. He also stated it is likely that ideological wars between rival economic world views have returned for good. In September, Steven Rattner opined that the 2012 United States presidential election was shaping up to be a contest between the economic policies of Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, or \"a clash of ideologies the likes of which America has not seen in decades.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0056-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nRepublican candidates openly praised Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. According to Rattner, while the Democrats economic strategy remained largely based on Keynes, the economist's name was now rarely mentioned; Keynes had become an almost politically toxic word due to the extensive criticism of the 2009 Keynesian stimulus. Rattner refers to the work of Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi, which determined that the 2009 United States stimulus saved about 8.5 million jobs, and with Obama's  third stimulus, a $450 billion Jobs plan was projected to create 1.9 million jobs in 2012. Also in September, President of the European Commission Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso called for additional fiscal policy to boost economic growth, while recognizing many European countries did not at that time have the capability to launch a substantial stimulus program. German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the idea of further stimulus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 963]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nBy November 2011, efforts to pass Obama's American Jobs Act had been rejected by the United States Congress. In Britain, David Cameron made a speech in which he recognized a deteriorating economic outlook but said those arguing for traditional fiscal stimulus were \"dangerously wrong\". Simon Cox, Asia economics editor for The Economist, predicted that while China might face future economic challenges, the incoming leaders expected to take over the top positions in late 2012 ( Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang ) were far less likely than their predecessor to respond with Keynesian policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0057-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nAlso in November, The Courageous State book was released by the anti-tax evasion campaigner Richard Murphy, calling for a revival of the Keynesian resurgence, which he argues is the best economic policy for the interests of ordinary people. Murphy sees the resurgence as having faded out by late 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0057-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nInfluential figures that had come out against Keynesian policy, even from left of center politics, include the UK Labour Party's Maurice Glasman, whose favorite economist is Hayek, and the diplomat Carne Ross, who asserted that no form of centralized authority can meet the problems of the modern world, arguing for an anti-statist form of participatory democracy instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn January 2012, Philip Stephens repeated his earlier view that the markets once again have decisive influence on economic policy making, also noting a decline in the public's trust in government in both Europe and the US, along with greater concern over public debt. In March however, while accepting that the resurgence had stalled, Paul Krugman expressed optimism about the long term prospects of achieving a lasting shift towards Keynesianism in both mainstream economics and policy making. In May, Krugman  published the book End this Depression Now!, where he repeated his calls for greater use of fiscal stimulus, though according to the Financial Times his proposals were both \"modest\" and \"cautious\", reflecting the resistance to such measures since the end of resurgence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn June, Krugman and Richard Layard launched A manifesto for economic sense, where they call for greater use of stimulatory fiscal policy to reduce unemployment and boost growth. By mid-2012, with the ongoing Euro crisis and persistent high unemployment in the US, there had been renewed consideration of stimulus policies by European and American policy makers but no return to the pro-stimulus consensus that existed in  2009. After the 2012 G8 summit, leaders issued a statement recognising the range of opinions concerning the best measures to strengthen their economies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn January 2013, Japan's recently elected conservative government announced a ten trillion yen Keynesian stimulus package, which was to include public works and create an expected 600,000 new jobs. At the same time, the Financial Times published Wolfgang M\u00fcnchau's article \"US joins misguided pursuit of austerity\", as the United States was abandoning the relatively stimulatory policy it had adopted prior to 2013, repeating, in the author's view, Europe's mistake. In July 2013, Philip Mirowski wrote that not only had the Keynesian resurgence subsided but the rival economic orientation of neoliberalism had emerged from the financial crisis stronger than ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nIn May 2016, three IMF economists published new research findings and criticized some of the fundamental assumptions of the neoliberal doctrine. They warned that austerity policies could do more harm than good because of their social costs, such as increased inequality, which \"in turn hurts the level and sustainability of growth\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0061-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nSpeaking of capital account liberalization, that is unrestricted movement of capital across international borders (\"openness\") and fiscal consolidation, meaning policies to reduce fiscal deficits and debt levels (\"austerity\"), they wrote: \"Since both openness and austerity are associated with increasing income inequality, this distributional effect sets up an adverse feedback loop. The increase in inequality engendered by financial openness and austerity might itself undercut growth, the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting. There is now strong evidence that inequality can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth\". Additionally, they recommended actively combating inequality by redistributing wealth via taxes and government spending, noting \"the evidence of the economic damage from inequality suggests that policymakers should be more open to redistribution than they are\" and \"the fear that such policies will themselves necessarily hurt growth is unfounded\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 1075]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201200-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Keynesian resurgence, Aftermath: 2010 and later\nBy October 2016, there had been recent increases in fiscal stimulus for many countries, along with calls for this return to fiscal stimulus and demand management policies to increase further, or at least for further research into clarifying the scope for such policies to be effective. Among these who made such calls were the IMF,  Janet Yellen, and senior White House economist Jason Furman. While some economists and government policy makers remain sceptical, Martin Sandbu for the Financial Times said a return to Keynes original positive views about demand management is underway. Sandbu calls this \"paleo-Keynesianism\" to differentiate from \"new Keynesianism\" thinking which had relatively little to say in favour of state intervention in the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots\nOn 29 December 2008, violent riots first broke out in Oslo, Norway amid protests against the Gaza War, starting outside the Israeli embassy. Riots broke out again following a protest on 4 January 2009, while the most violent and destructive riots took place on 8 and 10 January when riots spread throughout the city with widespread destruction of private and public property, clashes between rioters and police with several injuries, as well as attacks on civilians, including individuals targeted due to being thought by rioters to be Jews. Around 200 people were arrested in total, mainly Muslim youth, supported by left-wing autonomous Blitz activists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nOn 29 December 2008, around 1,000 anti-Israel protesters moved towards the Israeli embassy in Parkveien, where speeches were held by people including Inga Marte Thorkildsen of the Socialist Left Party. Other organisations behind the demonstration were the Red Party, Red Youth (RU), Socialist Youth (SU) and the Norwegian People's Aid. The protest turned violent when around 100 youth, mainly Blitz activists and \"young boys\" breached police roadblocks and began throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at the embassy and the police, striking several police officers, amid rioters heard shouting \"allahu akbar\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nGasoline was drawn from nearby cars to set fire to trash bins that were launched against the police. Three windows of the hairdressing salon of a well-known homosexual was smashed, with circumstances suggesting a hate crime. Police responded by firing tear gas at the rioters, and eventually detained nine youths of which four were arrested, including two asylum seekers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nOn 4 January 2009, an anti-Israel demonstration arranged by the Palestine Committee of Norway, Red Party and Blitz began outside the Norwegian parliament building and then moved to the Israeli embassy. Members of the crowd grew violent, and around 200 protesters including Hezbollah supporters began throwing stones and shooting fireworks against the police. The rioters were dispersed by police firing tear gas, after receiving several warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nOn 8 January, around 200 police officers were stationed out in anticipation of protests as a peaceful pro-Israel rally arranged by organisations such as With Israel for Peace (MIFF) was to be held outside the Norwegian parliament building, with the Progress Party leader Siv Jensen scheduled to give a pro-Israel speech. During Jensen's speech, anti-Israel activists started throwing rocks at the pro-Israel demonstrators, forcing Jensen to leave the podium. The police used tear gas when rioters attacked a bus that tried to evacuate pro-Israeli activists from the area, which included a large number of elderly demonstrators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0003-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nA pro-Israel protester was attacked and injured by anti-Israel protesters shouting \"take him, he's a Jew\", \"fucking Jew\" and \"allahu akbar\". Among other slogans, protesters shouted \"death to the Jews,\" \"kill the Jews\" and \"slaughter the Jews\" in Arabic. An additional fifteen police officers from the Asker and B\u00e6rum police district were eventually brought in for assistance. The final count reported forty shop windows to have been smashed in the riots, and several cars and buses damaged, including fifteen police cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0003-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nAt least six people were reported to have been injured, of which five police officers, one mutilated in the face by an iron rod. Police said they had found several secret stashes of Molotov cocktails, club weapons and knives throughout Oslo during the evening. 37 mainly immigrant-background rioters were detained by the police, of which fifteen were brought into custody, and nine charged with violence against police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nOn 9 and 10 January new anti-Israel demonstrations were arranged by an Islamo-leftist alliance of several organisations, including the Workers' Youth League (AUF), Red Party, Red Youth (RU), Socialist Youth (SU), Norwegian People's Aid, Islamic Association, and other pro-Palestine and Muslim organisations. Blitz stated openly that they supported the violent riots. On 10 January, 3,000 demonstrators were joined by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nThe protest soon erupted into new riots as fireworks and rocks were thrown at the police and the Israeli embassy, with at least two people injured and several police officers struck by objects. The violence spread throughout Oslo, and numerous shop windows were smashed and cars damaged. Five McDonald's restaurants were destroyed in the riots because of a false rumor spread by text message that all the money McDonald's earned that day would go to support Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0004-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nSome of the youngest rioters reported to have been told by older youths to \"hunt for Jews\", with one group severely beating up a shop owner accused of being a Jew. The Oslo Freemasonry Lodge, which hosted a children's Christmas party with 300 people was deliberately attacked with fireworks after crushing a window open, nearly causing a fire. The police detained 160 rioters during the evening, charging eleven with property damage and violence against police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Timeline of the riots\nA total of 194 protesters were arrested during the 8 and 10 January riots. The police stated that they would investigate all the arrested and that most of them would receive fines of 9,000 NOK (around 1,300 USD). In the end, only ten rioters were prosecuted by the police, and less than ten convicted. The Oslo Trade Association called the small number of prosecutions by the police \"unacceptable\" and \"deeply worrying\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nIn his book The Anti- Jewish Riots in Oslo (2010), Norwegian author and editor Eirik Eiglad, himself a socialist who was present in Oslo during the riots, wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nAs far as I can judge, these were the largest anti-Jewish riots in Norwegian history. Even before and during World War II, when anti-Semitic prejudices were strong, public policies were discriminatory, and the Nazified State Police efficiently confiscated Jewish property and deported Jews on that despicable slave ship SS Donau - even then, Norway had not seen anti-Jewish outbursts of this scale. This country had no previous history of wanton anti-Jewish mass violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nPolice investigators noted similarities in the modus operandi of the Oslo riots with earlier riots in Paris and in the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nIn cooperation with Norwegian education authorities, Islamic leaders in Norway initiated \"dialogue meetings\" with youths in mosques following the riots, with the aim of \"using the Quran\" to reach out to youths who had participated in the riots. Tariq Ramadan later visited Oslo and held speeches in the Rabita Mosque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nThe riots have been credited by sociologists for \"awakening\" young Norwegian Muslims politically. Others have drawn connections to February 2010, when thousands of Oslo taxi drivers blocked the city centre, and 3,000 Muslims took part in an illegal demonstration against newspaper Dagbladet for publishing a Muhammad cartoon in the context of a news story about an internet link (which the newspaper strongly criticised), during which one of the speakers, Mohyeldeen Mohammad \"warned\" of a 9/11 or 7/7 in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201201-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Oslo riots, Analysis and aftermath\nThe riots have later been noted as an important shared experience and common denominator for many members of the Norwegian Salafi-jihadist group Profetens Ummah, and Norwegian jihadists in the Syrian Civil War. One participant in the riots, leftist turned-Muslim convert Anders Cameroon \u00d8stensvig Dale went on to become an internationally wanted terrorist as a bomb-maker for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive\nThe 2008\u20132009 SLA Northern offensive was an armed conflict in the northern Province of Sri Lanka between the military of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The battle broke with the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive attempting to break through the LTTE defence lines in the north of the island, aiming to conclude the country's 25-year-old civil war by military victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Background\nFollowing the defeat of the LTTE in the eastern Province of Sri Lanka and their retreat to the north in July 2007, the Sri Lankan military set its sights on the separatist-held territory in the north. On January 2, 2008, the government of Sri Lanka unilaterally withdrew from the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA), signed on February 22, 2002, with the Tamil Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Background\nAccording to Keheliya Rambukwella, a spokesman for the government on defence issues, the \"Government of Sri Lanka decided to officially withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement since it is futile to continue with the Ceasefire with no indication that LTTE is willing to enter the peace path.\" This set the stage for the Army's attack on the Forward Defence Lines (FDL) in the island's north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nIn its plans the SLA adopted new operation tactics and strategic approaches. The Army opened several battle fronts all over the LTTE controlled areas in Vanni. The clear target of the battle was the Elephant Pass. The three main FDLs, Muhamalai, Nagarcoil and Kilali Forward Defense Lines, in Jaffna district, were hit at the same time along with the FDLs in Vavuniya and Mannar districts. Over the next weeks and months army units were sent toward LTTE bunker lines in attempts to destroy LTTE bunker positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nBy the end of February, although the SLA managed to destroy at least 250 LTTE bunkers they were only able to advance a few kilometers into rebel territory. However, the SLA were still slowly advancing on the A-9 highway which directly leads toward Elephant Pass. The SLA issued several calls to the LTTE to surrender before the Army's advances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nOn February 20, SLA forces staged their most intense attack yet on the LTTE bunker lines. In heavy fighting 92 rebels and 3 soldiers were killed according to the government. Another 20 soldiers were wounded and five bunkers were destroyed. More intense fighting also flared up on March 5. Major engagements all along the de facto border separating territory held by the LTTE occurred and on March 8, SLA troops, backed by helicopter gunships, pushed across the front lines using tanks, mortars and artillery. 84 Rebels and 11 soldiers were killed during the close-quarters combat over those three days and nine rebel bunkers were destroyed and another four captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nOn March 22, a floating mine or a suicide attack off the northern coast of Sri Lanka claimed the lives of 10 Sri Lankan seamen. None of their bodies were ever recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nBy early April government soldiers were battling tropical illnesses brought on by heavy rains. About 500 troops affected by dengue fever and the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus were being treated at hospitals. Also, their offensive operations against LTTE frontlines stalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nMid -April offensive operations against the LTTE continued and dozens of Tiger bunker positions were overrun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nTwo days after the failed offensive a bomb exploded on a crowded bus in the capital Colombo killing 24 passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nOn May 16, a suicide bomber attacked a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital killing 10 people, including 8 policemen. By this point an estimated 360 rebels and 41 soldiers had been killed in the month of May according to military sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nOn May 17, the military said it captured Palampiddi town from Tamil Tiger rebels in Mannar district. A military spokesman said capturing Palampiddi was strategically important because it would block the rebels' supply route between the northern Vavuniya and Mannar districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nDuring the rest of May and throughout June heavy fighting continued in which heavy SLA air strikes resulted in the destruction of an LTTE complex in the jungle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nOn July 16, Sri Lankan military claimed to have captured a major coastal town, Vidattaltivu, in the Mannar District of northwest Sri Lanka from the Tamil tigers. According to BBC correspondents, Vidattaltivu was an LTTE naval base and a hub for smuggling supplies from India across Palk Strait. Vidattaltivu is the biggest town situated on Sri Lanka's North-Western coast (Jaffna lies on north coast) and was a major base of the Sea Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0011-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nThe Sri Lanka Army 58 Division and Commando Brigade took over the town in an attack; that was the first time Sri Lankan military was able to capture the town since the Indian Peacekeeping Force left Sri Lanka in 1990. The commandos of Sri Lanka's Army initially faced resistance from 60 LTTE cadre. But the LTTE soon started a withdrawal towards Iluppakkadavai as it came under heavy artillery and rocket fire. Later Sri Lankan military claimed over 30 LTTE cadre were killed for the loss of just one soldier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0011-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Probing the LTTE bunker lines\nSri Lankan troops approaching from the east of Vidattaltivu cut off the Mannar-Poonaryn Road. Finally, the troops marched into the town and captured it after 21 years. Following the capture of the town, the Sri Lankan air force attacked withdrawing Tamil Tigers. According to Air Force of Sri Lanka, Mi-24 helicopter gunships sunk two LTTE boats 4\u00a0km north of Vidattaltivu around 1:00 PM local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nOn September 2, SLA forces managed to break through LTTE defences and captured the town of Mallavi which was regarded as a \"nerve centre\" for the Tamil Tigers. Some 20 SLA soldiers and more than 100 Tigers were killed during the battle for the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nThe same day, the LTTE conducted a counter-attack against advancing SLA troops to regain their lost bunker lines. The Army claimed to have killed 52 and wounded 65 Tiger fighters. As for the SLA casualties suffered during the counter-attack the military said that they had seven soldiers killed, seven missing and 50 wounded while the LTTE claimed to have killed 75 soldiers and wounded 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nAfter the taking of Mallavi the SLA started an advance on the rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nOn September 9, LTTE suicide fighters, known as Black Tigers, conducted a raid on a military base in Vavuniya in coordination with two LTTE bomber planes and a Tiger artillery barrage, which totaled 70 shells. The raid left 25 people dead: 12 soldiers, 11 Tigers, one policeman and one civilian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nSince early September, heavy fighting was raging for the town of Nachchikuda, both on land and sea. At least 29 soldiers were killed during that battle along with 100 to 200 Tigers in the month of September, according to the military. Dozens more died in October and the sea port, which was a vital base for the LTTE's Sea Tigers, finally fell on October 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Breaking the LTTE defence line\nBy October 12, the SLA had come within 2 kilometers from the outskirts of Kilinochchi. The LTTE were preparing to defend the city with a string of concrete bunkers and trenches in a heavily mined jungle surrounding the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, The west coast falls and Kilinochchi is surrounded\nBetween October 18 and October 20, heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kilinochchi, with SLA troops attempting to break through LTTE bunker lines. During these two days 36 SLA soldiers were killed and 48 were wounded in contrast to 12 Tamil Tiger fighters killed. This resulted in the deaths of some soldiers and the sickening of others. The military was not able to break through the remaining LTTE bunker lines situated before the city, due to heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 108], "content_span": [109, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0018-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, The west coast falls and Kilinochchi is surrounded\nFurthermore, most of the Sri Lankan army soldiers were needed to secure rebel territory taken in the previous two months after the LTTE's retreat to the north. With SLA forces stretched, that territory was coming under hit and run attacks by the rebels. Even the Sri Lankan Air Force was not being able to dislodge the rebels from their positions on the roads into Kilinochchi. The city had, by this point, been evacuated of all civilians and the LTTE were preparing bunker positions within the town. Earlier in the month the SLA stated they would take the rebel capital within days, however more than two weeks later operation maps at press briefings showed they were still 10 to 15 kilometers from the town, in contrast with their previous statements of being only two kilometers from Kilinochchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 108], "content_span": [109, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, The west coast falls and Kilinochchi is surrounded\nBy mid-November SLA forces managed to clear the entire west coast of LTTE cadres. By November 17, the SLA captured three more strategic towns: Mankulam, Pannikankulam and Pooneryn. Mankulam and Pooneryn had been in LTTE hands for the previous nine years. 54 soldiers were killed and another 350 wounded in the battle for Pooneryn, which fell after SLA forces advanced on the Pooneryn-Paranthan road. At the same time an offensive was conducted on the Muhamalai front. There, the SLA were attempting to break through the LTTE forward defence lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 108], "content_span": [109, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, The west coast falls and Kilinochchi is surrounded\nHalf a dozen attacks were repulsed by the LTTE leaving hundreds of casualties among government forces. In three days between November 16 and November 19, 200 SLA soldiers were reported to have been killed and another 700 wounded in battles across the north of the country. Some opposition lawmakers put the number at 250 killed. A Sri Lankan military source said the SLA Command in Jaffna had lost contact with two battalions. However, despite this, the SLA managed to break through the first line of the LTTE's defence on the Muhamalai front on November 20, which gave the SLA another 800 yards. This left the LTTE with two more lines of defence at Muhamalai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 108], "content_span": [109, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nIn December, three unsuccessful SLA offensives were conducted in an attempt to take the capital of the Tigers, Kilinochchi. In early January, however, the town was taken by the SLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nOn December 10, an offensive was blunted with the deaths of 89 SLA soldiers according to a LTTE affiliated website, versus SLA reported deaths of 20 soldiers and 27 Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nOn December 16, a multi-front offensive was launched by the SLA against Kilinochchi. That offensive too was defeated by the Tigers. According to the Tigers the SLA lost two battalions of troops, 170 soldiers dead and 420 wounded. The SLA denied this and claimed to have had only 25 soldiers killed, 18 missing (LTTE pictures released after the battle confirmed at least 27 bodies of soldiers in their hands) and 160 wounded while they killed 120 Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nIn any case, it was a critical victory for the Tigers at a time when they were being squeezed into the last pockets of territory they were holding. Such stiff resistance was not expected from the LTTE so late in the battle. This was mainly because the LTTE now deployed their best Special Forces members against the SLA's might, which were held back earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nOn December 20, an LTTE counter-offensive was mounted by the Tigers as SLA forces were preparing an attempt to attack and capture the village of Iranamadu, just south of the city. In the fighting that ensued the Tigers claimed to have killed 60 and wounded 150 SLA soldiers and pushed them back by two kilometers. The military again reported lower numbers of dead, 28 killed and missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Battle for Kilinochchi\nOn January 2, 2009, the Sri Lankan army troops entered the town of Kilinochchi from two sides. The intensity of fighting after the army entered the town remained unknown as both army and LTTE had banned independent reporters from the areas. The Sri Lankan Army met with only minimal resistance once it entered the town, as the Tigers had withdrawn and taken hiding positions in nearby jungles. Later, the military officially announced it had taken control of the town and were performing mopping up operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Fall of Elephant Pass and Mullaittivu\nOn January 9, 2009, the LTTE's defence line in the Jaffna peninsula collapsed and SLA units from the north captured the strategic Elephant Pass base, which had been under LTTE control for almost nine years. LTTE fighters provided only minimal resistance to the advancing troops and instead retreated toward Mullaittivu in the northeast of the island, the last major town held by the LTTE, to where LTTE forces from Kilinochchi had already retreated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Fall of Elephant Pass and Mullaittivu\nOn January 25, SLA troops crossed a lagoon and entered Mullaittivu before encountering heavy resistance from the LTTE. After several hours of fighting the military captured the last Tamil Tiger stronghold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, Fall of Elephant Pass and Mullaittivu\nHowever, even with the fall of Mullaittivu, heavy fighting continued in the north-eastern jungles, with artillery bombardments killing another 160 civilians between January 25 and January 27. Human Rights Watch alleges that Sri Lankan Army artillery strikes against a hospital in Mullaitivu killed 67 people and wounded another 87; an article for The Guardian contends that the artillery strikes targeting in a government designated safe zone adjacent to the hospital killed 378 people and injured 1,212.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nBy early February 2009, LTTE-controlled territory was reduced to 200 square kilometers. In a battle between February 2 and February 6, SLA forces captured the last Sea Tigers base at Chalai, north of Mullaittivu. 12 Sea Tigers were killed, including 4 top Sea Tiger commanders. By early March 2009, SLA forces surrounded the last LTTE-held town, Puthukkudiyiruppu. There they encountered heavy resistance from the final remnants of the LTTE, which stalled the SLA offensive yet again. Between March 5 and 8, heavy fighting raged as LTTE fighters conducted wave attacks against SLA lines in an attempt to break through. The SLA responded with heavy artillery shelling that left hundreds of civilian casualties. During those three days 250 rebels were killed according to SLA sources. Pro -LTTE website Tamilnet reported that at least 100 soldiers and 300 civilians were also killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 957]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nOn March 10, Black Tiger commandos reportedly attacked SLA artillery positions in Thearaavil, 18\u00a0km from Puthukkudiyiruppu junction. They, in a joint operation with LTTE's Col. Kiddu Artillery formation, destroyed six SLA artillery weapons platforms. The LTTE reported that they killed more than 50 soldiers while losing only three commandos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nBetween March 14 and March 17, heavy battles raged and it seemed that the LTTE finally managed to halt the advance of the SLA after a year of fighting, just when less than 28 square kilometers were left under the Tiger control. The fighting left 604 SLA soldiers dead, according to the LTTE. Black Tiger commandos were also involved in the fighting. Despite this momentary victory the Tigers were still sustaining heavy casualties. By March 21, the LTTE's strength was down to only 1,500 fighters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nAfter the military advances were halted the SLA stopped using massive ground attacks on LTTE frontlines and concentrated on heavy artillery attacks on their positions. These attacks were leaving hundreds of civilian casualties and creating a humanitarian disaster. Between March 18 and March 26, SLA artillery and air strikes left more than 420 civilians killed and more than 660 wounded inside the government-declared safe zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nOn March 24, the LTTE attempted to break out through the SLA defences north of Iranapalai, however they were stopped by intense fire from SLA infantry and armored units. The same day the military continued its advance, a week after the start of the heavy artillery and air attacks. Members of 53 Division and Task Force-8 seized control over a section of the LTTE-built earth bund ditch across the A-35 main road, west of the Nanthikadal lagoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nBetween April 1 and April 5, SLA forces killed 525 rebels and captured Puthukkudiriruppu. Now, the only uncleared territory for the SLA was the no-fire zone, where the remaining 500 LTTE fighters were mingled with the civilian refugees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nThe LTTE managed to hold out against the military for another month, but by mid-May the end was near. By the first two weeks of May tens of thousands of refugees poured out of rebel held territory after the military made holes in the LTTE's defences. In these final stages of the war, between May 7 and May 14, around 1,000 civilians were killed in the fighting. By May 15, all civilians had been evacuated from the no-fire zone and the military stated the war will be over in 48 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand\nIn those last 48 hours of fighting the LTTE conducted massive suicide bomb attacks on advancing troops and were in general not surrendering but dying in battle. Early on May 16, the SLA forces coming in from the north linked up with the forces coming in from the south on the coastline, effectively cutting off the Tigers from the sea. Now they were boxed in and surrounded by the SLA on a territory only 1.92 square kilometres in size, with their back against the Nanthikadal lagoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand, Defeat of the LTTE\nPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa declared military victory over the tigers on May 16, 2009 after 26 years of conflict. On the same day for the first time in their long struggle against the Sri Lankan government, the rebels were offering to lay down their weapons in return for a guarantee of safety. Sri Lanka's disaster relief and human-rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe stated 'The military phase is over. The LTTE has been militarily defeated. Now the biggest hostage rescue operation in the world has come to a conclusion, The figure I have here is since 20 April, 179,000 hostages have been rescued.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand, Defeat of the LTTE\nOn May 17, rebel official Selvarasa Pathmanathan conceded defeat saying in an email statement \"This battle has reached its bitter end\". Earlier in the day, a group of about 70 Tamil Tigers tried to cross the lagoon to the other side in six boats and escape, but they were all killed by the SLA. Also, SLA special forces rescued seven POW's (three soldiers and four sailors). The four sailors had been in captivity since November 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand, Defeat of the LTTE\nLate in the evening, SLA special forces conducted a raid in which they killed Charles Anthony, the eldest son of the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, Balasingham Nadesan, the leader of the political wing of the LTTE, Seevaratnam Puleedevan, head of the LTTE's peace secretariat, and Ramesh, a top military leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, The battle, LTTE's last stand, Defeat of the LTTE\nOn May 18, the Sri Lanka Army forces confirmed that Prabhakaran was killed in the morning of that day. According to the UK Telegraph, Prabhakaran was \"...killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack as he tried to escape the war zone with his closest aides. Soosai, the leader of his \"Sea Tigers\" navy, and Pottu Amman, his intelligence chief were also killed in the attack.\" The LTTE confirmed Prabhakaran's death on May 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Foreign Tamils cease fire call\nTamil people in India, as well as the worldwide Tamil diaspora, had repeatedly called for a cease-fire, rallies had taken place in many major western cities such as Toronto, London, Washington, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties\nThe UN estimated in May 2009, that 7,000 civilians had been killed and another 16,700 had been wounded between January 20 and May 7, 2009, and another 1,000 were killed in heavy artillery bombardments by the SLA forces in the last week of fighting. Both the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE were blamed for the civilian deaths. Another 396 civilians were killed between January and September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties\nThe Times newspaper has reported that as many as 20,000 civilians were killed in the Safe Zone. Some of the deaths were caused by the Tamil Tigers but most were as a result of shelling by the Sri Lankan military. The UN had previously estimated that 6,500 civilians had been killed in the three months to the middle of April, meaning that the death toll soared to 1,000 each day in the final two weeks of the war. The UN says it has no confirmed estimates of civilian casualties and the Sri Lankan government has denied the Times' allegations. The Guardian newspaper, quoting another U.N. official, called the Times' figure as a \"dangerous extrapolation\". The Guardian also questioned many underlying assumption of the Time's figure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties\nThe SLA stated that, by January 6, 2009, they had killed up to 4,073 LTTE militants in the previous fourteen months, most of them in the north. In contrast the LTTE said they lost 2,200 fighters during 2008. Another 2,515 LTTE militants were reported to have been killed between January and May 2009. The SLA also reported at the end of October they suffered 1,270 soldiers killed in the whole country, only around a dozen were not killed in the north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties\nFollowing the implementation of the new government policy in late October to not reveal military casualties the only sources on the numbers of SLA dead were the ones from pro\u2013LTTE sources. There were also several sporadic reports by the SLA to counter-act the reports by the Tigers in the propaganda war. According to reports of the pro\u2013LTTE website Tamilnet and those several military reports, a conservative estimate had been made that hundreds of SLA soldiers had been killed since then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0043-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties\nHowever, in mid-January 2009, the military confirmed that 3,700 soldiers had been killed in the previous three years of fighting and another 16,000 were wounded in the recent offensive. With 1,325 confirmed dead in 2006 and 2007, that would make a total of 2,375 killed in 2008, with less than a hundred not killed in the north. Also, more than 1,200 soldiers were estimated to had died in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nCasualty figures provided by both sides differ wildly and cannot be independently verified. On numerous occasions it was established that the government was covering up its own casualty figures, as on March 5, when Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva stated to the Parliament that 104 soldiers and policemen were killed in February, while the Defence Ministry reported only 63 government soldiers killed during that month and 107 soldiers since the start of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nInitially the SLA stated that 185 soldiers were killed or missing during the failed offensive in the Jaffna peninsula in April, but later some military sources cited a lesser number of 49 soldiers killed. In June, parliamentary oversight prompted the release of official figures. The figures showed that 120 soldiers were killed and 945 wounded during April, which was in contrast with military statements citing 90 killed. Also the release showed that 138 soldiers were killed and 540 wounded in May, while the military claimed 92 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nSri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake confirmed that during the month of September, 200 soldiers were killed and another 997 wounded. This was in contrast to the claims of the Defence Ministry that only 96 soldiers were killed during that month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nFinally, after months of attempts by the military to conceal the true casualty figures, on the request of Parliament, on October 20, it was revealed that 1,099 soldiers were killed along with 396 civilians in the first nine months of the year. Some 7,000 soldiers were also wounded. Following this revelation the government implemented a new policy of not revealing any more day-to-day numbers of soldiers killed in the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nAlso, it had come into question how much the government was inflating the LTTE's losses, because at the start of the year the government stated there were only 3,000 militants left, but by mid-June they reported to have killed over 5,000 militants and wounded 3,000, which would mean that the whole of the LTTE had already been destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nA three-member United Nations panel which collected evidence for over 10 months said that \"the panel's determination of credible allegations reveals a very different version of the final stages of the war than that maintained to this day by the government.\" The panel also called on the Secretary General of UN to immediately set up \"an independent international mechanism\" for investigating \"credible\" allegations that both Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers committed serious human rights violations and war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the months before the decades-old civil war ended in 2009. The panel said that 40,000 people were killed in the war, of whom tens of thousands died in the war's last five months. According to the panel, most civilian casualties in the final phases of the war were caused by government shelling that could amount to \"war crimes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 969]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nThe panel furthermore stated that \"the government systematically shelled hospitals on all fronts,\" and \"deprived people in conflict zone of humanitarian aid in the form of food and medical supplies, particularly surgical supplies.\" The panel documented LTTE use of civilians as human shields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201202-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Casualties, Casualty numbers manipulation\nU.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated that the U.N. would not launch an investigation without the agreement of the Sri Lankan government and U.N. member states. Human Rights Watch stated that such an investigation was being blocked by the Russian and Chinese governments, while the American ambassador to the UN requested that the Sri Lankan government address the panel's report constructively, in order to further the peace process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 87], "content_span": [88, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis\nUkraine was hit heavily by the late-2000s recession, the World Bank expects Ukraine's economy to shrink 15% in 2009 with inflation being 16.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis\nThe deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods and services January through September 2009 was estimated at $1.08 billion, which was 9.5 times down on the same period in 2008, export of goods over the period decreased by 48.7%, to $27.478 billion, while imports fell by 53.5%, to $31.570 billion; export of services dropped by 23.2%, to $6.841 billion, while imports were down by 19.9%, to $3.829 billion (the deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade over the first nine months of 2008 was estimated at $10.284 billion, which was 2.7 times up on the same period of 2007).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis\nAccording to a forecast by the State Employment Center unemployment in Ukraine will triple to 9% in 2009 (there was 3% unemployment at the end of 2008), which would mean about 3 million people will apply for employment services. In September 2009 the official level of unemployment was 1.9%. 95% of the population of Ukraine have felt influence of the financial crisis; in July 2009 21% of them stated that \"The crisis has a catastrophic impact on me and my family\", this figure dropped to 17% in October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0002-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis\nActual year-on-year wages in Ukraine fell in October 2009 by 10.9%, while in October 2008 it grew by 4.8% year-over-year according to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. The real incomes for Ukrainians in 2009 fell down 8.5% while the nominal income went up 6.2%. The Ukrainian economy shrank 15 percent in 2009. The second Tymoshenko Government had predicted GDP growth of 0.4% in 2009 and a slowdown in inflation to 9.5% (also in 2009), although the overwhelming majority of economists considered this forecast to be excessively optimistic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis\nThe Ukrainian economy recovered in the first quarter of 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Reasons for crisis\nAnalysts say the reasons for the crises are slumping steel prices, local banking problems and the cutting of Russian gas supply of January 2009. This made key industries such as metallurgy and machine building lay off workers, and real wages started to fall for the first time in a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Reasons for crisis\nIn 2008 the hryvnia dropped 38% against the US dollar, eclipsed only by the Icelandic krona and the Seychelles rupee. Since many loans and mortgages were issued in dollars and most Ukrainians are paid in hryvnyas (Ukraine's currency), they had to buy dollars with the weak hryvnya, and so they were paying back much more on the loans than they had expected. From December 2008 till mid-May 2009 Ukrainian banks were not allowed to grant requests for early withdrawals of bank deposits. As of September 2009 financial analysts predict a recovery of the hryvnia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Reasons for crisis\nAccording to David Heslam of Fitch ratings \"At the root of the problem is Ukraine\u2019s inconsistent macroeconomic policy framework, as the authorities are aiming to defend the exchange rate while avoiding necessary fiscal tightening in the absence of adequate sources of non-monetary financing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Reasons for crisis\nIn November 2009 (Ukraine's) Minister of Economics Bohdan Danylyshyn stated that in his view the \"permanent conflicts\" and \"lack of understanding\" between the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and the Cabinet of Ministers was one of major factors of the deep fall of the Ukrainian GDP in 2009, as in his view the conflicts affected the efficiency of the anti-crisis policies of Ukraine (he also insists government should get involved in NBU's activity).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Reasons for crisis\nAsked in August and October 2009 \"Who bears the most responsibility for the difficult socioeconomic situation in Ukraine?\" about a half of all Ukrainians polled (47%) answered President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, and 22% blamed Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, while 17% of the respondents thought that the Verkhovna Rada is also responsible for the lack of progress in solving economic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2008\nThe share of problem loans in bank portfolios grew to 10.3 percent by December 11, 2008 and is continuing to grow. Banks have all but stopped issuing loans, and clients have hurried to withdraw deposits. In October 2008 the National Bank of Ukraine introduced a moratorium on withdrawals ahead of schedule. Industrial output in November 2008 tumbled 28.6 percent, following a 19.8 decline in October 2008. Steel production slumped 48.8 percent, oil refining and chemical output fell 35.2 percent and machine building by 38.8 percent. Ukraine's economy shrunk 14.4 percent year-on-year in November 2008. Statistical data showed the gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 3.6 percent in January\u2013November compared to 5.8 percent in January\u2013October. Ukraine's Economy Ministry expects the economy to grow 3.5-4.0 percent in 2008. The Hryvnia also lost value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 921]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2008\nAccording to a poll (held November 25 through December 5, 2008) by the Horshenin Institute of Management Problems about 79% of those polled suffered from rise in prices, about 29% from delays in payment of salaries. More than some 20% have suffered from reduction of salaries. In the families of some 14.8% somebody lost their job, and some 6% said their enterprise shut down. A total of 90.8% of those polled described their financial state as \"making both ends meet\" and 83.1% said they are short of money for food. Only 2.4% of Ukrainians said they were not hit by the economic crisis at all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2008\nMid -December 2008 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered the forecast for Ukraine's GDP in 2009 from a 2.5% growth rate to a 5% decline, the same day the Cabinet of Ministers worsened the GDP growth forecast to 0.4% from 6% for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2008\nIn November 2008, the IMF approved a stand-by loan program for Ukraine to the tune of $16.5 billion. A second one worth $1.87 billion might be granted in February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2008\nIn November 2008, the official unemployment rate increased by 0.4 percent to 2.3 (Previously 1.9% in September), the State Statistics Committee said that as of December 1 (2008), it registered 640,000 unemployed people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nUkraine's banking system recorded losses of 7 billion hryvnias (UAH) ($909 million) in the first quarter of 2009 compared to a profit of 2.1 billion hryvnias in the same period a year ago, according to a central bank report of April 22, 2009. In April 2009 the IMF forecast  an 8.0 percent shrink of the Ukrainian economy in 2009 and a 1.0 percent grow in 2010. Mid -April 2009 Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, the IMF mission chief in Ukraine, stated that there were a number of encouraging signs that Ukraine's economy had started to adjust to the global crisis. According to Olena Belan, analyst at Dragon Capital, \"that is a good signal for investors, showing that Ukraine is taking anti-crisis measures and the economic situation is under control.\" Foreign direct investment did plunge 66% (to $2.7 billion) in the first half of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nOn May 18, 2009 Ukraine's State Statistics Committee reported that the deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in the first quarter of 2009 was estimated at $419.7 million, which was 9 times down on the same period the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nThe Ukrainian state became the de facto owner of Ukrhazbank (84.21% after investing UAH 3.2 billion), Rodovid Bank (99.97% after investing UAH 2.809 billion) and Bank Kyiv (99.93% after investing UAH 3.563 billion) early June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nThe industrial output of Ukraine in the period January\u2013August 2009 shrank by 29.6% compared to the same period in 2008. The fall in Ukraine's industrial output slowed to 26.7% in July 2009 compared to July 2008, compared to a fall of 27.5% in June and 31.8% in April and May 2009 (compared to 2008 again).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nOn September 17, 2009 the World Bank approved a loan for Ukraine in the amount of $400 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nAccording to a public opinion poll conducted by FOM-Ukraine in September/October 2009 46.2% of those polled thought that the economic situation in the country would worsen within the next few months, while 35% stated that the economic situation in Ukraine would remain unchanged and 8% thought the situation would improve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nOn November 1, 2009 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that it could cut financial assistance to Ukraine, Managing Director of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn stated he was \u201cvery worried\u201d with President Viktor Yushchenko\u2019s decision to sign a bill adopting wage and pension increases. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused Yushchenko and other candidate for the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election of backing the increase to sabotage her government and thereby undercutting her presidential bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2009\nLate November 2009 acting vice governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Vasyl Pasichnyk forecasted no mass bankruptcies in the Ukrainian banking sector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2010\nUkraine's total foreign debt (state and corporate) had reached 93.5% of the 912.563 billion Hryvnya GDP in March 2010; late February 2010 the Ukrainian Finance Ministry had reported that the country's total state debt by early 2010 was to 32.9% of the GDP. Standard & Poor's upgraded Ukraine's rating the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2010\nMarch 18, 2010 the National Bank of Ukraine stated the total external debt in Ukraine increased 2.3% to $103.973 billion in 2009, and it considered a 4% GDP growth realistic for 2010 the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201203-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis, Crises per year, 2010\nThe Ukrainian economy recovered in the first quarter of 2010 due to stronger-than-expected growth in the global economy, driven primarily by emerging Asia and Latin America, larger social transfers to the population approved in the 2010 budget law and a lower price for imported natural gas (due to the 2010 Ukrainian\u2013Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201204-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Vend\u00e9e Globe\nThe Vend\u00e9e Globe is a non-stop solo Round the World Yacht Race for IMOCA 60 class yachts this is the 6th edition of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201204-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Vend\u00e9e Globe, Summary\nThe 2008 Vend\u00e9e Globe began on 9 November 2008 and was won by Michel Desjoyaux, who set a new record at 84d 3h 9' 8\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201204-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Vend\u00e9e Globe, Summary\nRace Director for this edition was Denis Horeau who heads the event management team having done the role for the 1989 and 2004 editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201204-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Vend\u00e9e Globe, Incidents, Retirement causes\nThe problems encountered by Jean Le Cam\u2014losing his keel bulb and capsizing in the Southern Ocean\u2014had a major impact on the order of finish. Fellow competitor Vincent Riou diverted and found his boat, circling to try to toss a rope to Le Cam who had exited a security hatch to hang onto the rudder. After three failed attempts, Vincent Riou went in closer, managing to rescue Jean Le Cam but also damaging his mast which failed soon after. Riou retired, but was awarded third place on redress, as he was third when diverted to assist the boat in distress. In addition Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac\u2019h was awarded 11 hours, Sam Davies 32 hours and Marc Guillemot 82 hours for diverting to aid in the rescue", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201204-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Vend\u00e9e Globe, Entries, Participant facts equipment\nThirty skippers started the race a qualification passage was required to validate the registration of each boat, this course could have been carried out as part of another sailing race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race\nThe 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race was a yacht race held between 4 October 2008 and 27 June 2009\u2014the 10th edition of the round the world Volvo Ocean Race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race\nThe eight participating boats made ten stops in nine countries around the world. The first offshore leg of the 2008\u201309 Race started in Alicante, Spain, on 11 October 2008, with the in-port race having been held seven days earlier. A total of ten legs created the route, with seven in-port (IP) races held at various cities around the world. Unlike previous editions, the route crossed the Strait of Malacca at the Malay Archipelago, instead of Cape Leeuwin south of Australia. The boats covered 37,000 nautical miles (69,000\u00a0km) in the course of their journey. The chief executive of the 2008\u201309 race was Knut Frostad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race\nOn 15 June 2009, Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben Grael, finished third on leg 9 from Marstrand to Stockholm, Sweden. With their third-place finish, they were able to secure overall victory. Ericsson 4 covered the 42,500 miles (68,400\u00a0km) of the race in a time of 127 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, 21 seconds. Ericsson 4 completed the race with 114 \u00bd points, whilst Puma ended with 105 \u00bd. Afterwards Kochi was described as a \"memorable\" port but Galway was the best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Participants, Budgets\nEricsson's budgets were \u20ac50 million, whilst Puma's budget was approximately \u20ac20 million. By comparison, the joint Irish and Chinese team, Green Dragon, received \u20ac8 million from the Irish government and \u20ac4 million from China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Summary\nThe route also included seven \u2018scoring gates\u2019 (at Fernando de Noronha, Mauritius, Pulau Weh, Indonesia, Latitude 36S, Cape Horn, Fernando de Noronha and St John's, Newfoundland). Yachts scored 'half-points' at these gates, the same as for the in port races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Cape Town\nEricsson 4 won leg one of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante, Spain, to Cape Town in South Africa in a time of 21 days, 17 hours and 54 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Kochi\nThe second leg of began on 15 November 2008, with the sailors avoiding pirates off the coast of Somalia on their way to India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Singapore\nTelefonica Blue won leg three of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Kochi, India, to Singapore in Singapore. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, whilst Ericsson 3 and Ericsson 4 finished in third and fourth places respectively. The race was described as very close, with the top four boats finishing the race within twenty minutes of each other. The race took ten days to complete, ending on 22 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Qingdao\nTelefonica Blue won leg four of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Singapore in Singapore to Qingdao, China. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, whilst Ericsson 4 finished in third place. Telefonica Black, Ericsson 3 and Delta Lloyd all withdrew to sail to the Philippines and Taiwan for repairs. The leg lasted from 18 January until 29 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Rio de Janeiro\nEricsson 3 won leg five, the longest leg at 12,300 miles (19,800\u00a0km), of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Qingdao in China to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in a time of 40 days and five hours, arriving on 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Rio de Janeiro\nThe teams left for Boston in the United States on leg five, which began on 11 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Boston\nThe boats arrived in Boston in late April, with an in port race on 9 May. Leg 6 was won by Ericsson 4 at 21:05 GMT, 26 April 2009 after 15 days, 10 hours and 31 minutes of sailing", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Galway\nEricsson 4 won leg seven of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Boston in the United States to Galway, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a time of seven days, 10 hours, 33 minutes and 51 seconds. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, one hour behind. Green Dragon finished in third position, whilst Telefonica Blue finished in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Galway\nF\u00e1ilte Ireland West sponsored the two-week Galway Stopover. It was expected that 140,000 people would visit Galway during the Stopover but the final total significantly outnumbered half a million, with some early reports suggesting that over 600,000 people had come to Galway to view the boats. \u20ac43 million was the economic total predicted for Galway from the events but the final total was anticipated to be over \u20ac80 million. Figures released the following November suggested the total was just under \u20ac56 million. The atmosphere and support in Galway was described positively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Galway\nAt least 50,000 people watched the seven yachts leave Galway on Leg 8 of the race. Irish President Mary McAleese made a public speech before the sailors took off, noting their \u201cextraordinary skill and resilience\u201d which had \u201cinspired all of us\u201d. Liu Biwei, China's ambassador to Ireland, spoke of how he favoured the Irish-Chinese pairing, and the fleet received several blessings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Galway\nThe sailors reported of the enjoyment they had in Galway, with Puma skipper Ken Read describing it as \"the best stopover I have ever been involved with\" saying he would return the following year after enjoying his time on the golf course and declaring that there was \"something about Ireland and myself that seem to like each other\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Galway\nGalway is expected to compete again for a stopover during the next race, with other Irish destinations such as Belfast and D\u00fan Laoghaire expected to compete also.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Marstrand\nEricsson 4 won leg eight of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Galway to Marstrand in Sweden in a time of 12 hours and 57 minutes, their third consecutive victory and fifth overall Puma finished in second place and Green Dragon finished in third place. It was Green Dragon's second successive podium finish and, although they finished third, they had led for most of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Marstrand\nThe boats left Galway Bay, journeying southward along the west coast of Ireland. They then travelled in a south-easterly direction across the Irish Sea to south England, moving in an eastwards direction up the English Channel. The teams then travelled up into the North Sea until arrival at the Baltic Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Stockholm\nPuma won leg nine of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Marstrand to Stockholm in Sweden, their first win in the race. The third place for Ericsson 4 was enough for the team to also win the overall race at this point, leading to comparisons with the victor of the previous race, Mike Sanderson and ABN AMRO One, who won at the end of leg seven in Portsmouth, England, in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Route, Stopovers, Saint Petersburg\nTelefonica Black won the last leg of the 2008\u201309 Volvo Ocean Race from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg, covering the 400 miles (640\u00a0km) in a time of 1 day, 12 hours and 41 minutes. Puma Ocean Racing had led the race for most of the way. Ericsson 4, finished in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Stealth play\nThis race featured \"Stealth play\", a tactic that allowed a crew to hide its position from its competitors for a period of 12 hours. It was designed to add a tactical dimension to the race, whereby a team might opt to make a break from the fleet without the rest of the competitors knowing what they are doing and where they are on the race track. The ploy can first be used on leg one, leg two, leg five, leg six and leg seven. If it is not used on one leg, it cannot be accumulated for use on a following leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Results\n(*Current results as of 27 June 2009, 2:05:00 GMT, after the finish of IP Stockholm.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201205-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Volvo Ocean Race, Results, Records\nDuring Leg 1 \"Ericsson 4\", skippered by Torben Grael, broke the monohull 24 hour distance record when he sailed 596.6\u00a0nmi (1,104.9\u00a0km), an average of 24.85\u00a0kn (46.02\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201206-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 York University strike\nThe 2008\u20132009 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903, the union representing contract professors, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201206-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 York University strike, The strike\nThe strike began on November 6, 2008 and concluded on January 29, 2009 when the provincial parliament legislated the union back to work. The strike lasted for 85 days, making it the longest academic strike in English-speaking Canada to that time, only surpassed by the subsequent 2018 York University strike. 5000 students, including the Schulich School of Business and the Osgoode Hall Law School, were able to return to school a week prior to the end of the strike due to a deal struck by the union and the university. Much of the criticism focused on CUPE 3093 and York University President Mamdouh Shoukri's poor handling of the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201206-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 York University strike, The strike\nThe Union went on strike due to a variety of institutional grievances, including job security for contract professors, elimination of the Non-Academic Student Code of Conduct, creation of whistleblower protection, and fund indexation. On January 20, 2009, CUPE 3903 defeated a forced ratification vote that would have ended the strike. On January 24, Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty announced a rare Sunday recall of the provincial legislature in order to pass back-to-work legislation mandating an immediate end to the strike. On January 29, the York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act was passed in the provincial parliament on a count of 42\u20138 ending the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201206-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 York University strike, Future labour disruptions at York University\nMembers of CUPE 3903 held further strikes in 2015 and 2018 at York University after failing to reach an agreement with the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations\nThe 2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations between the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (led by Morgan Tsvangirai), its small splinter group, the Movement for Democratic Change \u2013 Mutambara (led by Arthur Mutambara), and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union \u2013 Patriotic Front (led by Robert Mugabe) were intended to negotiate an end to the partisan violence and human rights violations in Zimbabwe and create a framework for a power-sharing executive government between the two parties. These negotiations followed the 2008 presidential election, in which Mugabe was controversially re-elected, as well as the 2008 parliamentary election, in which the MDC won a majority in the House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations\nPreliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on 10 July, and on 22 July, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections. Negotiations between the parties officially began on 25 July in Pretoria, mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki. A final deal was reached on 11 September 2008, providing for Mugabe to remain President while Tsvangirai would become Prime Minister. The deal was signed on 15 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\nMbeki met with Mugabe on 5 July; Arthur Mutambara, Welshman Ncube, and Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga of the MDC-Mutambara group also participated in the discussions. Although Tsvangirai's MDC organisation was not invited to participate, it declined to do so, reiterating its refusal to recognise Mugabe as president and saying that discussions should take place only in the presence of an AU-appointed mediator. Mbeki nevertheless expressed hopes that Tsvangirai's party would participate. Patrick Chinamasa stressed that the government was committed to dialogue with both MDC groupings, but said that Tsvangirai had committed \"an act of utter disrespect\" by failing to appear at the talks. Mutambara also stated that the involvement of all parties was necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\nTalks between the parties began in Pretoria on 10 July. ZANU-PF and both MDC groupings were present for the talks, although Tsvangirai said that his group's delegation, led by Biti, was present to explain its conditions for negotiations\u2014which included an end to the violence, the release of MDC prisoners, and the appointment of an AU envoy\u2014 not to actually participate in negotiations. Chamisa described the discussions as merely \"talks about whether to have talks, really just a consultation\". ZANU-PF was represented in the talks by Chinamasa and Goche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\nIn a report from the Human Sciences Research Council, a policy group in South Africa, that was released on 10 July, Peter Kagwanja wrote that violence perpetrated against ZANU-PF by MDC supporters, which he described as having previously been spontaneous, was becoming more organised, and he warned that this increased the possibility of a civil war. Chamisa, however, denied that the MDC had been responsible for any violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\nOn 11 July, the MDC said that Gift Mutsvungunu, a party official, had been found dead near Harare on the previous day; his body was said to be burned and his eyes gouged out. The MDC suspected the security forces of responsibility for this killing, and the party said that its total number of dead during the violence had reached 113. Chamisa said on 13 July that no agreement had been reached and that the two sides \"still have to clear the course for meaningful talks\". According to Chamisa, violence against MDC members and supporters was continuing, and he said that it was \"difficult to engage in meaningful dialogue\" under the circumstances. Zimbabwe's Sunday Mail, however, reported on the same day that an agreement had been reached on a \"working framework\" for talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\n14 MDC activists, who were being held on charges of violence, were acquitted and released on 14 July, according to the MDC. This followed the death on the same day of a police officer who was the key witness against the activists. On 15 July, church leaders in Zimbabwe said that the \"will of the people of Zimbabwe was not given authentic expression during these elections\" due to the violence, and they expressed willingness to assist in making arrangements for the formation of a national unity government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations\nMugabe launched a food subsidy programme on 16 July; this programme, involving coupons for food, was designed to counter continually rising inflation and what Mugabe described as \"unjust price increases\" by private businesses. He also accused the UK of seeking to control Zimbabwe's resources on this occasion. Also on 16 July, the pro-MDC Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions condemned the second round and urged the appointment of a prominent AU envoy to assist in mediation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations, Agreement and Memorandum\nKenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on 20 July that the two parties had \"agreed a framework for negotiation\" and that he expected this agreement to be signed later in the same week. According to Odinga, the talks that would follow this agreement would be held in Pretoria and would still be mediated by Mbeki, but with AU and UN supervision. Also on 20 July, Zimbabwe's Sunday Mail reported that any companies with Western investments would be taken over by Zimbabweans or by \"companies from friendly countries, particularly those in the Far East\" if they acted on Western calls to stop doing business in Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 117], "content_span": [118, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations, Agreement and Memorandum\nZANU-PF and both groups of the MDC signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining a framework for talks on 21 July in Harare. Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai were present to sign the agreement; they shook hands on this occasion, and it was reportedly the first time they had met in about 10 years. According to Mbeki, who was also present, the agreement \"commits the negotiating parties to an intense program of work to try and finalize negotiations as quickly as possible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 117], "content_span": [118, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0009-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Preliminary negotiations, Agreement and Memorandum\nMugabe said that the aim of the talks was to \"chart a new way, a new way of political interaction\", while Tsvangirai described the agreement as \"the first tentative step towards searching for a solution for a country that is in crisis\". Under the terms of the agreement, the parties agreed to end political violence and work towards a national unity government and a new constitution; the agreement also required that the parties not use the media as a means of negotiation and set the period for negotiations at two weeks. Mbeki's spokesman Mukoni Ratshitanga subsequently said that this was not a strict limit and talks could continue after two weeks if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 117], "content_span": [118, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July)\nFollowing the preliminary agreement, talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC reportedly began on 22 July in South Africa. Ratshitanga said on 23 July that the talks had begun at an undisclosed location, but Chinamasa said that they were to start on 24 July. The Herald reported on 24 July that negotiating teams for both parties took the same flight to South Africa on 23 July. Meanwhile, the South African newspaper Business Day reported that the two sides had already reached agreement on most of the issues, although details remained to be decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July)\nThe Herald reported on 25 July that the ZANU-PF Politburo had decided that any agreement with the opposition must leave Mugabe in office as president and must not threaten land reform. Ratshitanga said on 26 July that the talks were \"proceeding well\", although he gave no details.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July), Stalling\nOn 28 July, an MDC official said that the talks had stalled due to disagreement on the question of who would lead the government; according to the official, Tsvangirai had been offered the position of Vice-President, but the MDC was unwilling to accept any deal that did not place Tsvangirai at the head of the government. Speaking on 29 July, however, Mbeki said that the talks were continuing and that they were going \"very well\". The talks adjourned on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 99], "content_span": [100, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July), Stalling\nMbeki said on 30 July that the talks were adjourned so that the negotiators could consult with their leaders and that they would resume on 3 August. He met with Tsvangirai in Pretoria on 29 July and with Mugabe in Harare on 30 July. For his part, Mugabe said that the talks were going well and that the negotiators were working towards a compromise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 99], "content_span": [100, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July), Stalling\nSpeaking on 30 July, Tsvangirai expressed his hope that the negotiations would result in an \"honourable exit\" for Mugabe; he also said that Mugabe was \"just as human as every one of us\", while asserting that he was \"ignorant, or chooses to be in denial, as far as the violence is concerned\". During a visit to Senegal in which he met with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Tsvangirai said on 31 July that he was \"fairly satisfied\" with the way the negotiations were proceeding, while acknowledging that some \"sticking points\" remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 99], "content_span": [100, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 1 (22 \u2013 30 July), Stalling\nAn explosion occurred at Harare's central police station late on 2 August, damaging it but causing no casualties. According to a police statement, the explosion was caused by a bomb planted on the building's first floor; it said that one additional bomb that had not exploded was recovered from the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 99], "content_span": [100, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August)\nThe talks resumed on 3 August. On the same day, as part of its \"Let's Talk for a Change\" campaign, the MDC had an advertisement published in The Standard, in which it acknowledged that Mugabe had taken a positive step by accepting power-sharing negotiations. Ratshitanga said on the next day that the renewed negotiations were proceeding well and that the negotiating parties were not concerned about meeting the deadline, which had been set for 4 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August)\nA South African newspaper, The Star, reported on 5 August that an agreement was near; according to The Star, this agreement would create the post of Prime Minister for Tsvangirai, while Mugabe would remain in office as president, but in a ceremonial capacity. The Star also reported that MDC wanted the transitional period that followed the agreement to last for 24 to 30 months, while ZANU-PF wanted it to last for five years. The Herald reported on the same day that the parties had agreed to expand their negotiating teams. ZANU-PF and the MDC made a joint statement on 6 August calling for an end to violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), Another deadlock\nIn a statement on 7 August, Mugabe said that the reports regarding a draft agreement were \"utter nonsense\"; he also denied reports that he was planning to meet with Tsvangirai. According to Mugabe, the talks were \"going on very well\", and he said that \"the people of Zimbabwe shall be informed in due course\". However, Mbeki went to Harare on 9 August, and Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba said that Mugabe would meet with Tsvangirai on 10 August, while reports suggested the signing of an agreement was imminent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 108], "content_span": [109, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), Another deadlock\nOn 10 August, Mbeki met with Tsvangirai in Harare, then met with Mugabe. Zimbabwe's The Sunday Mail reported on the same day that \"a common position\" to keep Mugabe in office as president had been agreed upon. Following further negotiations at a hotel in Harare, Mugabe said when leaving the hotel on 11 August that they were \"not exactly\" going well, but that they would continue on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 108], "content_span": [109, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), Another deadlock\nOn 12 August, the power-sharing negotiations continued, with reports indicating that the MDC-T and ZANU-PF were still deadlocked. Mugabe and Mutambara (of the MDC-M) were reported to have signed an agreement on 12 August that excluded Tsvangirai, but later in the day Mbeki denied that a deal was signed between any of the three negotiating parties, stating that Tsvangirai had left the negotiations earlier in the day to reflect on them. MDC-M Secretary-General Welshman Ncube also said that no agreement had been reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 108], "content_span": [109, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nThe round of talks in Harare ended on the night of 12 August. Tsvangirai expressed continued commitment to dialogue on 13 August, saying that any agreement needed to \"put the people first, not leadership positions and titles\"; meanwhile, Mbeki, who had left Zimbabwe, maintained that it was still \"possible to conclude these negotiations quite quickly\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nOn 14 August, when Tsvangirai went to the airport in Harare to travel to Johannesburg for a SADC summit, his emergency travel documents were confiscated by members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (his passport had previously expired and he was not able to renew it); the documents were quickly returned, however, and Tsvangirai departed for the summit. According to Charamba, Mugabe's spokesman, Tsvangirai's documents were only valid for travel to Angola, and he denied MDC claims that two other members of the MDC delegation to the summit, Biti and Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, had their passports confiscated as well. Charamba accused Tsvangirai of purposefully attempting to travel with invalid documents so that he could use the resulting incident for political gain. Meanwhile, it was announced that Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, would not attend the summit unless an agreement was reached in Zimbabwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 1023]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nOn 15 August, the day before the summit, Tsvangirai spoke to a gathering of Cabinet ministers from the SADC countries. In this speech, he acknowledged that the MDC and ZANU-PF remained divided on the question of how executive powers should be allocated in the national unity government. According to Tsvangirai, the sides had agreed on leaving Mugabe in office as president and establishing a new position of Prime Minister for himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0021-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nTsvangirai explained that he wanted to have strong, executive powers: as Prime Minister, he \"must chair the Cabinet and be responsible for the formulation, execution and administration of government business including appointing and dismissing his ministers\", stressing that he could not succeed in the role if he was given \"responsibility without authority\". Mugabe, according to Tsvangirai's proposal, would be a head of state without veto power; he would remain commander-in-chief of the military, but would act in that capacity on Tsvangirai's advice. ZANU-PF, on the other hand, favoured an agreement in which Tsvangirai would become Prime Minister while Mugabe would remain in charge of the Cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nAt the summit on 16 August, SADC leaders held talks with Mugabe and Tsvangirai. Meanwhile, Tsvangirai told The New York Times that he would only accept an agreement that gave him the executive powers necessary to properly govern the country, and he said that \"it's better not to have a deal than to have a bad deal\". Biti said that he thought the odds of the talks ending successfully were \"fifty-fifty\". The SADC summit ended on 17 August, with the two sides still unable to agree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 2 (3 \u2013 12 August), SADC Summit\nMbeki said that the negotiations would continue after the summit; Biti, speaking for the MDC, expressed continued commitment to dialogue, as did Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu. In a statement, the SADC leaders called on the parties to \"conclude the negotiations as a matter of urgency to restore political stability in Zimbabwe\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nThe SADC leaders' statement also included the suggestion \"that while negotiations are continuing, it may be necessary to convene parliament to give effect to the will of the people\". On 19 August, the government announced its intention to convene Parliament in the subsequent week, five months after the parliamentary election was held. The MDC said on the same day that it did not oppose convening Parliament as long as it was not accompanied by the formation of a new Cabinet, desiring that the new Cabinet should be appointed only after the conclusion of a power-sharing agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0023-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nOn 20 August, however, the MDC took a firmer stance, declaring the move to convene Parliament to be unacceptable, with Biti stating that it would \"be a clear repudiation of the Memorandum of Understanding, and an indication beyond reasonable doubt of ZANU-PF's unwillingness to continue to be part of the talks. In short convening parliament decapitates the dialogue\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0023-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nWhile on a visit to Nairobi, Tsvangirai said on 21 August that convening Parliament and appointing a Cabinet would violate the conditions of the talks, according to which each step in the process was to be taken by common consensus, and suggested that Mugabe's decision could mean he was \"abandon[ing] the basis for the talks\". He also referred to the need to balance the powers that would be held by the President and Prime Minister under a power-sharing arrangement, whereby both would possess both responsibility and authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nDespite the MDC-T's objections, the members of Parliament were sworn in on 25 August. On the same day, an election was held for the post of Speaker of Parliament; the vote resulted in a victory for MDC-T candidate Lovemore Moyo, who received 110 out of 208 votes in a secret ballot. ZANU-PF did not present a candidate against Moyo and instead supported Paul Themba Nyathi of the MDC-M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nOn 27 August, Moyo, the newly elected Speaker, said in an interview that the talks would continue. The Herald reported comments by Mugabe on 27 August in which he said that he would soon form a new government; he also said that it appeared the MDC did not want to participate in that government. According to Mugabe, the MDC \"[had] been promised by the British that sanctions would be more devastating, that in six months time the government will collapse\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nHe sharply criticised the preceding Cabinet as \"the worst in history\" and said that the new Cabinet would be composed of \"managers\". MDC-T spokesman Chamisa said that Mugabe had no mandate to form a Cabinet and that doing so would be \"a recipe for disaster\", urging him to wait and reach an agreement with the MDC; meanwhile, MDC-M spokesman Edwin Mushoriwa also said that his group would not participate in a government formed without an agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nDeputy Information Minister Bright Matonga reiterated on 28 August that Mugabe intended to form a Cabinet, saying that this was necessary for the country to move forward, to improve the economy and alleviate suffering. According to Matonga, Mugabe had received a mandate from SADC. MDC-T spokesman Biti, meanwhile, said that the formation of a Cabinet would mean \"killing the talks\" and that it would be \"a disaster and an act of insanity\" for Mugabe to attempt to \"go it alone\". He also said that the MDC was planning to write to Mbeki to protest Mugabe's alleged violations of the July preliminary agreement. Some observers speculated that, by announcing his intention to form a Cabinet, Mugabe was attempting to force the MDC into accepting the power-sharing conditions favoured by ZANU-PF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 881]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nZANU-PF and MDC delegations met separately with Mbeki on 29 August. On the next day, The Herald reported that ZANU-PF had rejected a new MDC proposal, according to which Mugabe and Tsvangirai would co-chair the Cabinet. The Herald denounced this proposal as \"absurd\" and \"insolent\", saying that it displayed \"stunning ignorance on how government works\". MDC-T spokesman Chamisa said on 31 August that \"nothing was achieved\" in the talks two days prior and that the negotiators had returned to Zimbabwe. The chairman of the Executive Council of the African Union, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe said on 2 September that the African Union hoped that an immediate agreement, providing for power to be split equally between ZANU-PF and the MDC, was still possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nOn 3 September, according to The Herald, Mugabe said while attending Levy Mwanawasa's funeral in Zambia that he would form a Cabinet unless the MDC-T signed a power-sharing agreement by 4 September. The Herald quoted Mugabe as saying that it was unacceptable for the country to go on indefinitely without a new Cabinet. Biti said that the MDC-T had heard nothing about Mugabe's threat except what was published in The Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0028-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nAccording to Biti, the talks were at a stalemate, but he expressed continued commitment to them, while also saying that if Mugabe formed a Cabinet unilaterally, the dialogue would be destroyed. The Herald also reported that Mugabe again alleged that the MDC-T was resisting an agreement due to British influence; Biti responded that this was \"patronizing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Convening Parliament\nUS Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said on 5 September that negotiations should continue, warning that her government would consider a Cabinet formed unilaterally by Mugabe to be a \"sham\". MDC-T leader Tsvangirai on 7 September called for early elections under international supervision if the talks failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present)\nOn 9 September 2008, talks resumed with new proposals, with Mbeki flying in from South Africa to mediate. A fresh proposal by Mbeki was tabled that would propose making Tsvangirai an executive prime minister; all three leaders of the major political parties spoke of progress in the talks, and reports of Mugabe backing down on his earlier threats to exclude the MDC surfaced in the foreign press. The day before, Mutambara's group of the MDC announced that they would refuse to work with ZANU-PF if talks were deadlocked. Both Tsvangirai and Mugabe spoke positively of the talks on 10 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 98], "content_span": [99, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nLeaving the talks on 11 September, Tsvangirai told the press that a deal had been reached. Mbeki said later in the day that the deal would be signed in Harare on 15 September in the presence of other African leaders; he did not explain the terms of the deal, saying that they would not be revealed until the deal was signed. The Zimbabwean Permanent Representative to the UN, Boniface Chidyausiku, described the agreement as a \"triumph for African diplomacy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nThe SADC postponed a meeting of its defence committee indefinitely until Mbeki could finalise a unity deal in Zimbabwe; while confirming that he would attend the meeting, Mbeki told journalists that, if the deal fell through at the last minute, he would tell the SADC that he had done his best as mediator, and that the deal would fall through because one or more of the parties were not serious about the negotiations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nAt the end of the fourth day of negotiations Mbeki announced that Mugabe, Tsvangirai, and Mutambara had signed a power-sharing agreement \u2013 \"memorandum of understanding.\" Mbeki stated: \"An agreement has been reached on all items on the agenda ... all of them [Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Mutambara] endorsed the document tonight, and signed it. The formal signing will be done on Monday 10\u00a0am. The document will be released then. The ceremony will be attended by SADC and other African regional and continental leaders. The leaders will spend the next few days constituting the inclusive government to be announced on Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0033-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nThe leaders will work very hard to mobilise support for the people to recover. We hope the world will assist so that this political agreement succeeds.\" The deal is also expected to result in a de facto amnesty for the military and Zanu-PF party leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0033-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nOpposition sources said \"Tsvangirai will become prime minister at the head of a council of ministers, the principal organ of government, drawn from his Movement for Democratic Change and the president's Zanu-PF party; and Mugabe will remain president and continue to chair a cabinet that will be a largely consultative body, and the real power will lie with Tsvangirai.\" South Africa's Business Day reported, however, that Mugabe was refusing to sign a deal which would curtail his presidential powers. According to The New York Times, MDC spokesman Chamisa announced: \u201cThis is an inclusive government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0033-0003", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nThe executive power would be shared by the president, the prime minister and the cabinet. Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara have still not decided how to divide the ministries. But Jendayi E. Frazer, the American assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said: \u201cWe don\u2019t know what\u2019s on the table, and it\u2019s hard to rally for an agreement when no one knows the details or even the broad outlines\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nAn MDC official said on 13 September that the MDC wanted to control the key ministries of home affairs, finance, and justice; in return, the official said that the MDC was willing to concede the ministries of defence and state security to ZANU-PF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Round 3 (9 September \u2013 present), Final power-sharing deal\nOn 15 September 2008, SADC leaders witnessed the signing of the power-sharing agreement, brokered by Mbeki. With a symbolic handshake and warm smiles at the Rainbow Towers hotel, in Harare, Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed the deal to end the violent political crisis. Under the terms of the deal, Mugabe will remain President, Tsvangirai will become Prime Minister, the MDC will control the police, ZANU-PF will control the Army, and Mutambara will become Deputy Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition\nThe parties planned to hold talks regarding the allocation of Cabinet portfolios beginning on 16 September, but these talks were delayed. In The Herald on 17 September, Chinamasa said that the necessary constitutional amendments to provide a legal basis for some aspects of the agreement would be considered by Parliament after it began sitting on 14 October. However, he also said that other aspects of the agreement would not require constitutional amendments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 102], "content_span": [103, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0036-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition\nMugabe, in a speech to the ZANU-PF Central Committee that was broadcast live on 17 September, described the agreement as a \"humiliation\", but said that the party could have avoided the situation if it had not \"blundered\" in March, when it failed to win a parliamentary majority. However, he asserted that ZANU-PF was still in \"the driving seat\" and would \"not tolerate any nonsense\" from the MDC. The Central Committee approved the agreement, while expressing concern that attacks against ZANU-PF supporters could have a negative effect on relations between the parties. On the same day, Tsvangirai said that he was confident that the deal would hold and that Mugabe was committed to it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 102], "content_span": [103, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition\nThe parties held talks regarding the allocation of portfolios on 18 September, but according to Chamisa, the MDC-T spokesman, no agreement was reached and \"the matter [was] referred to the negotiators\". The negotiators met on 19 September, but according to Chamisa they failed to reach an agreement. Chamisa said that ZANU-PF had a \"take, take and take mentality\" and wanted to hold all of the most important portfolios, while the MDC favoured a \"give and take situation\" in which the most important portfolios would be divided fairly. In particular, the MDC wanted to control the finance portfolio, justifying this by pointing to the disastrous state of the economy, but ZANU-PF objected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 102], "content_span": [103, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Mugabe's trip to New York\nWith the situation still unresolved, Mugabe embarked on a trip to the United Nations on 19 September; the MDC complained that he did not swear in Tsvangirai before leaving for this trip, which was expected to last at least a week. Vice-President Joseph Msika was responsible for handling Mugabe's duties while he was out of the country. Chamisa said that Mugabe was unwilling to leave the country in Tsvangirai's hands during his absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 129], "content_span": [130, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0038-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Mugabe's trip to New York\nA column in The Herald on 20 September belittled the agreement, saying that Mugabe remained free to appoint a Cabinet of his choosing and was only required to consult with the Prime Minister; it also said that the agreement could \"collapse any day\". Aside from this, Tsvangirai expressed concern regarding the stark and bitter language in the column (which was generally believed to have been written by Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba, under the pen name Nathaniel Manheru), describing it as hateful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 129], "content_span": [130, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0038-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Mugabe's trip to New York\nOne passage in the column seemed to suggest violence, saying that an audit of land reform, as provided by the agreement, would \"draw blood redder than the setting sun.\" Although Tsvangirai emphasised that he did not think the column's writer was expressing Mugabe's views, he said that if the column reflected ZANU-PF's attitude, the agreement was already doomed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 129], "content_span": [130, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Ouster of Mbeki from South African presidency\nOnly a few days after the agreement was signed, Mbeki was forced to resign as President of South Africa by his party, the African National Congress (ANC). This raised additional concerns about the future of the agreement; it was unclear if Mbeki would continue to act as mediator, and it was unclear if South Africa, under new leadership, would remain so heavily involved in resolving Zimbabwe's political situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 149], "content_span": [150, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0039-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Ouster of Mbeki from South African presidency\nJakaya Kikwete, the President of Tanzania and Chairman of the African Union, said on 24 September that \"the South African government ... will continue to focus on the issue\", while SADC spokesman Charles Mubita said that Mbeki would continue to act as mediator. According to Mubita, Mbeki was appointed as mediator \"based on his knowledge, understanding and acumen of the situation\" and did not necessarily need to be a sitting president to serve in that role.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 149], "content_span": [150, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0039-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Ouster of Mbeki from South African presidency\nFor his part, Mugabe was quoted in The Herald on 25 September as saying that Mbeki's removal as President of South Africa was \"devastating\" and \"very disturbing\", while also stating that it was \"the action of the South African people\" and that as a Zimbabwean he was in no position to judge. Mbeki's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, said on 2 October that he wanted Mbeki to continue mediating. On 3 October, a spokesman for the South African government announced that Mbeki had agreed to continue in his role as mediator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 149], "content_span": [150, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Ouster of Mbeki from South African presidency\nMugabe returned to Zimbabwe from the UN on 29 September. He said upon returning that \"there is no deadlock\" and that only four ministries were left to be decided. According to Mugabe, the Cabinet would be formed later in the same week. On 30 September, Mugabe and Tsvangirai met, but they were unable to reach an agreement on the allocation of Cabinet portfolios and \"the matter was referred to the mediator\", according to Chamisa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 149], "content_span": [150, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0040-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Ouster of Mbeki from South African presidency\nChamisa argued that if the portfolios were allocated according to ZANU-PF's wishes, then ZANU-PF would control the government and the MDC would be \"a mere cosmetic accessory and mere lipstick\". He warned that this was \"completely unacceptable\" and that the MDC was not so \"desperate to be in the government\" that it would accept a secondary status. ZANU-PF's Chinamasa, however, denied that there was any deadlock in negotiations and said that all parties were committed to reaching an agreement. He said that any disagreement that might exist was insufficient to warrant Mbeki's intervention and expressed confidence that the matter could be resolved without his help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 149], "content_span": [150, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Further negotiations between party leaders\nMugabe, Tsvangirai, and Mutambara met in Harare on 4 October for talks on the distribution of portfolios, but could not reach an agreement; according to Charamba, Mugabe's spokesman, the negotiating teams would meet again to discuss the allocation of the portfolios of finance and home affairs. Spokesmen for the MDC-T and the MDC-M also acknowledged the failure to reach an agreement and said that negotiations would continue. The MDC-T's Chamisa said on 5 October that all of the Cabinet portfolios were in question, not just two of them, as claimed by Charamba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 146], "content_span": [147, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Further negotiations between party leaders\nThe negotiators met briefly on 7 October but again failed to reach an agreement. According to Chamisa, the parties were \"still in different worlds in a fundamental way\". For his part, Biti said that he and fellow MDC negotiator Elton Mangoma left the meeting in outrage after the ZANU-PF negotiators said that they were only present \"to justify why they needed the two ministries of home affairs and finance\". Biti insisted that the MDC had never agreed to the allocation of any ministries and that it was deceptive for ZANU-PF to claim that there were only two in dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 146], "content_span": [147, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0042-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Further negotiations between party leaders\nHe expressed hope that Mbeki could help resolve the situation, saying that if Mbeki was unsuccessful the only remaining hope was divine intervention. It was reported at this time that the power-sharing agreement was near collapse; reportedly, some members of the ZANU-PF leadership were adamant that the party needed to hold the key portfolios, believing that ZANU-PF would be in grave danger if it did not control those ministries. ANC President Jacob Zuma said on the same day that he hoped the Zimbabwean parties could reach an agreement on their own, but he also said that Mbeki was available to facilitate the negotiations if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 146], "content_span": [147, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Further negotiations between party leaders\nTsvangirai said on 9 October that the talks were deadlocked and progress was impossible unless Mbeki intervened. Meanwhile, Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu dismissed the claim of a deadlock entirely: \"Deadlock is the figment of imagination by our detractors from outside Zimbabwe\". According to Ndlovu, it was necessary for ZANU-PF to \"teach art of government formation and implementation of policies\" to the MDC, as they were \"still new\". Nevertheless, Mugabe, Tsvangirai, and Mutambara met on 10 October and agreed that Mbeki's mediation was needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 146], "content_span": [147, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nOn 11 October, The Herald published an official list showing the allocation of ministries to the three parties; defence, home affairs, foreign affairs, justice, and local government were among the 14 portfolios allotted to ZANU-PF. The MDC-T's 13 portfolios included constitutional and parliamentary affairs, economic planning and investment promotion, labour and social welfare, sport, arts and culture, and science and technology development, while the MDC-M's three portfolios were listed as education, regional integration and international co-operation, and industry and commerce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0044-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nAccording to The Herald, only the finance ministry remained in dispute, and it said that Mbeki would travel to Zimbabwe to assist in negotiations on the matter. The allocations published in The Herald were not approved by the MDC-T, which rejected them outright. MDC-T spokesman Chamisa denounced the publication of the list as \"unilateral, contemptuous and outrageous\", saying that such imbalance in the importance of the portfolios would effectively give ZANU-PF control of the government. He warned that ZANU-PF's \"arrogance\" would \"put the deal into jeopardy\". At a rally in Harare on 12 October, Tsvangirai said that the MDC-T would withdraw from the agreement if ZANU-PF did not relent on the allocation of ministries. MDC-M spokesman Edwin Mushoriwa also rejected the list of allocated ministries, saying that it was a \"hallucination on the part of ZANU-PF.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 993]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nAn official close to the presidency said the dilution of Mugabe's powers promised in the agreement was \"illusory\", and described the MDC as merely a \"junior partner\" whose only role would be \"to gain legitimacy and international funds\". ZANU-PF planned to take the ministries of defence, justice, home affairs, farming, information, and mines. The mining sector is the last occasionally functioning part of the economy given the country's wealth of natural resources and this carries huge opportunities for corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0045-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nThe MDC would be offered the finance ministry, in an effort to persuade donors that real reform was taking place so that would trigger billions in aid and reconstruction. The presidential official said \"It's a tricky situation for the MDC... Nonetheless we now have the opposition in government and they have to fix the economy, just as they told the electorate.\" A ministerial post involving kick starting foreign aid is seen by some as a poison chalice for the MDC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0045-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nIf the party were to succeed it would help shore up support for the ZANU-PF and make it harder to oust in the future, while a failure would cause the MDC to be branded as incompetent and would undermine its own support. MDC officials were said to be aware of the risk of being manipulated and refused to sign up for a ministry that lacks real authority. According to an MDC spokesman, \"It would appear that Zanu-PF does not understand power-sharing. We are still poles apart, with them insisting on taking all the key ministries, literally rendering the (opposition) peripheral in government \u2013 in fact, a situation where we would be in but out of government.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nMsika and Joice Mujuru were sworn in as Vice-Presidents by Mugabe on 13 October. Justice Minister Chinamasa said that this represented another step in the process and that it would be followed by the swearing in of the Prime Minister and the new Cabinet, remarking that \"the locomotive has been too long at the railway station and it is now warming up its engine towards delivering services to the people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0046-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Announcement of cabinet\nAccording to Chinamasa, parliamentary approval of the constitutional amendments was not necessary prior to the appointment of the Prime Minister; he said that the amendments would enable Tsvangirai and Mutambara to take up seats in Parliament, and that having seats in Parliament would merely provide them with constitutional legitimacy after they assumed office as ministers. In other comments, Chinamasa blamed the MDC for stalling the situation and complained that it was trying to renew discussion on matters that had been previously settled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 127], "content_span": [128, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nLater on 13 October, Mbeki arrived in Zimbabwe to facilitate negotiations. Mugabe and Tsvangirai met for over seven hours on 14 October, but no agreement was reached. Talks over the next two days did not produce an agreement, but on 16 October Mugabe expressed optimism about the possibility of an agreement being reached on the next day, stressing the \"need for compromise on both sides\". Chamisa said that there was \"some movement, but not enough\". Reportedly control of the home affairs ministry remained a key sticking point; ZANU-PF was said to have offered the finance ministry to the MDC and to have proposed that the parties alternate control of the home affairs ministry, but the MDC reportedly rejected this proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 875]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nBy 17 October, Tsvangirai announced to the press that the talks had failed due to the conflict over the home affairs ministry, and that both he and Mugabe had agreed to refer a resolution of differences to SADC; Mugabe stated that the talks \"went in the wrong direction\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0048-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nOn 16 October, SADC had officially acknowledged that it did not recognise Mugabe as the legitimately-elected president in response to a legal application filed against it by the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum, but it rejected a request from the Forum for the rejection of Mugabe from SADC meetings due to SADC's belief that Mbeki's role as moderator in the negotiations would facilitate an end to the deadlock and bring the power-sharing deal to fruition. SADC, according to Tsvangirai, would meet on 20 October in Swaziland to discuss further proceedings; in the meantime, neither party would walk away from talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nHowever, on 20 October, the scheduled meeting took place without Tsvangirai in attendance, due to a boycott called by the MDC after Tsvangirai was given a temporary one-way exit document by the Zimbabwean government that was only meant for travel to Swaziland; Swaziland is geographically landlocked by South Africa and Mozambique, and any travel to Swaziland would go through the air or groundspace of either country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0049-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nThe MDC took the lack of an official passport, which Tsvangirai had lacked for months prior to the scheduled talks, as a sign of the ZANU-PF's lack of consideration for the MDC or the talks, while the ZANU-PF regarded the matter as a technicality that was due to the government's lack of access to paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0049-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nThe meeting, instead, brought Mugabe to discuss matters with the SADC troika of heads of state from Swaziland, Mozambique and Tanzania, also known as the \"Organ on Politics, Defence and Security\"; in addition, it was announced that the current South African president, Kgalema Motlanthe, would join the organ. Meanwhile, negotiations between the three parties were suspended for a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, Return of Mbeki and failure of negotiations\nA new meeting was scheduled to be held in Harare on 27 October. MDC-T spokesman Chamisa said on 24 October that Tsvangirai would attend that meeting. On 25 October, Tsvangirai said that while the MDC respected SADC and the regional leaders, it would not sign an unsuitable deal at their behest. The SADC meeting in Harare was unsuccessful, with control of the home affairs ministry remaining the key sticking point. A communique issued afterwards called for a new SADC summit to be held \"as a matter of urgency\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nAt the subsequent SADC summit in Johannesburg, the SADC leaders proposed the immediate formation of a Cabinet with shared control of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Tsvangirai rejected this and criticised SADC for not confronting Mugabe. Returning from the summit on 10 November, Mugabe said that the new Cabinet would be appointed \"as quickly as possible\" and expressed his hope that the MDC would accept the SADC proposal, while Chinamasa said that the MDC had been invited to submit names for the Cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0051-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nOn 12 November, MDC-T spokesman Chamisa said that his party would not join the Cabinet until \"outstanding issues such as the issue of governors, equity and allocation of key ministries\" were resolved. Bright Matonga, the Deputy Minister of Information, was quoted by The Herald on the same day as saying that the MDC would \"never hold this country to ransom\" and that there was no reason why a Cabinet could not be formed without the MDC if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nOn 24 November, Motlanthe, the President of South Africa, urged the parties to reach an agreement, warning that if they did not, \"the situation will get worse and will implode or collapse altogether\". Talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC restarted in South Africa on 25 November, again mediated by Mbeki. Mbeki described the negotiations as \"the same as ever, forward and backwards, sideways and around ... the usual\". Tsvangirai released a statement on 26 November calling on Mbeki to step down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0052-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nAccording to Tsvangirai, Mbeki \"does not appear to understand how desperate the problem in Zimbabwe is, and the solutions he proposes are too small\"; he also accused Mbeki of supporting ZANU-PF and said that the MDC could not \"continue negotiating under his facilitation\". Two days later, a letter from Mbeki sharply criticising Tsvangirai's position was published. In this letter, Mbeki urged Tsvangirai to \"take responsibility for the future of Zimbabwe\" instead of devoting himself to \"being a militant critic of President Mugabe and ZANU-PF.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0052-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nIn response to Tsvangirai's accusation that the SADC leaders lacked the courage to confront Mugabe, Mbeki said that Tsvangirai had \"describe[d] us in a manner that is most offensive in terms of African culture\". He also suggested that Tsvangirai perhaps believed \"that others further away, in Western Europe and North America, are of greater importance\" to Zimbabwe than other countries in the region and Africa as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, SADC ruling, cholera outbreak and Mbeki\u2013Tsvangirai spat\nOn 28 November, the details of the bill to change the constitution were agreed, but four other issues remained open. When asked how the talks were going, Chamisa stated that the glass was either half-full or half-empty, depending on the point of view. In the 30 November edition of The Sunday Mail, Chinamasa said that the negotiators had prepared the text for this amendment, but that it still needed to be approved by the leaders on both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 159], "content_span": [160, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nIn remarks published in The Herald on 5 December, Mugabe told the ZANU-PF Politburo that \"if the arrangement fails to work in the next one-and-a-half to two years\", there would be an early election. On 13 December, the draft constitutional amendment was published in the government gazette. According to Motlanthe, the amendment marked a \"major step towards the formation of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe\", and he expressed his hope that Tsvangirai would be sworn in immediately; it was believed that Mugabe was empowered to swear in Tsvangirai as Prime Minister without waiting for parliamentary approval of the amendment. Chamisa stressed that the outstanding issues of cabinet portfolios and provincial governors still needed to be resolved, while Chinamasa echoed Mugabe's earlier warning that he would call a new election if power-sharing was not successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 1017]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nOn 19 December 2008, Mugabe claimed that the US was trying to get Southern African countries to oust him from power, but that his regional neighbours were \"not brave enough\". On 4 January, Mugabe fired 12 ministers and deputy ministers who had lost their seats in Parliament from the cabinet:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nOn 15 January 2009, Mugabe announced that he would hold talks with Tsvangirai again within a week. On 18 January 2009, Mugabe issued an ultimatum, calling on Tsvangirai to join the unity government or \"break from it\", refusing to concede on any points of contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nAfter another SADC meeting on 26 January 2009, there were conflicting reports. The SADC and ZANU-PF claimed that it had been agreed that the Constitutional Amendment would be adopted on 5 February 2009 and the new government, including Tsvangirai, sworn in on 11 February 2009, while the MDC stated that there had been no agreement on key issues. However, on 29 January 2009 the MDC confirmed that it would join the inclusive government and that the MDC's national council would vote on the issue on 30 January 2009; it approved the deal. South African President Motlanthe pledged to assist Zimbabwe in the rebuilding process once the unity government was in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nThe news of the MDC's entry into government was followed by outbreaks of last-minute farm raids by war veterans, who feared that the coalition government would rein in the land reforms as a liberalising measure for the economy. On 5 February, both houses of parliament passed the unity government bill unanimously. Motlanthe expressed optimism on 8 February, saying that Mugabe and Tsvangirai \"seem to be getting along fairly well\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nOn 10 February, the law creating a National Security Council, which would include Mugabe and Tsvangirai, was passed by Parliament. Tsvangirai designated the MDC's choices for Cabinet positions on the same day; these included Tendai Biti as Minister of Finance and Giles Mutseyekwa as Co-Minister of Home Affairs. Mugabe's ministerial appointees for ZANU-PF were subsequently announced; this list was dominated by members of the ZANU-PF old guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Details of the talks, Negotiations on Cabinet composition, New unilateral threats and MDC capitulation\nTsvangirai and the deputy prime ministers were sworn in on 11 February 2009 as planned. On 13 February 2009, shortly before the planned swearing-in ceremony of the government, the MDC's nominee for deputy agriculture minister, Roy Bennett, was arrested at the Harare airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 147], "content_span": [148, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201207-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 Zimbabwean political negotiations, Aftermath\nIn August 2013, following Tsvangrai's defeat in the 2013 Zimbabwean general election, Tsavngrai announced that he and his party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would no longer work with Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, arguing that the elections were rigged and the election results were fraudulent. This would likely mean that Tsvangrai will resign as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, and the breakage of the power sharing deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary\nThe Budapest serial killings were a series of murders perpetrated by four Neo-Nazis (\u00c1rp\u00e1d Zolt\u00e1n Kiss, Istv\u00e1n S\u00e1ndor Kiss, Zsolt Istv\u00e1n Pet\u0151 and accomplice Istv\u00e1n Csaba Csontos) against people of Roma ethnicity, occurring between July 2008 and August 2009. It is regarded as one of the worst crimes in the country's history after the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary\nThe perpetrators had previously obtained firearms and Molotov cocktails after robbing a house in Besenysz\u00f6g, using them in numerous attacks in 10 locations, killing six people in the process. The subsequent investigation revealed that the gang were skinheads from Debrecen, and their motive was retaliation for crimes committed by gypsies and a desire to incite anti-Roma sentiment among the ethnic Hungarian population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary\nAll four were arrested on August 21, 2009 at a nightclub in Debrecen, where two of them worked as bouncers. The criminal proceedings began on March 25, 2011 and lasted until August 6, 2013. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss, Istv\u00e1n Kiss and Zsolt Pet\u0151 were sentenced to life imprisonment, while Istv\u00e1n Csontos was a given a 13-year sentence without a chance of parole, with an expected release date of August 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Pretext\nFrom the very beginning, the four men planned the crimes in advance, selecting several sites which received high media coverage because of past incidents involving the Roma and non-Roma population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Pretext\nThe weapons used to carry out the attacks were acquired from a robbery on March 7, 2008. On that day, the Kisses and Pet\u0151, who were aided by an unidentified accomplice, broke into the home of a hunter in Besenysz\u00f6g, who had previously offered to sell them his Franchi M610 VSL. Presenting themselves as police officers, they tied up the occupants with duct tape, threatening them with two objects that resembled real guns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0004-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Pretext\nThe robbers scavenged the hunter's weapon cabinet, taking the following items: a 7x64mm Mauser rifle with a Swarovski Optik scope, a 12x76mm Fabarm MAX2 Bock sporting rifle, a 12x76mm Franchi M610 VSL semi-automatic shotgun, a F\u00c9G Bock shotgun, an IZS-58 MHE shotgun, a 22mm BRNO M2E hunting rifle, a 16x70mm 158 type rifle and two double-barrel shotguns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Pretext\nAfter the robbery, the gang began to plan and scout their locations from an apartment on Poroszlay Street in Debrecen. The vehicle used for the attacks was an Opel Astra belonging to \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss' wife, which initially had its license plate covered, but later was replaced by fakes manufactured by Istv\u00e1n Kiss' girlfriend, Edit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Debrecen\nIn preparation for the crimes, the gang decided to hold a practise shooting. On June 2, 2008, after midnight, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss fired several shots at the refugee camp in Debrecen with one of the rifles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Galgagy\u00f6rk\nGalgagy\u00f6rk was chosen as the first location because there had been previous clashes between the ethnic Hungarian and Roma communities, which were heavily reported in the press. More specifically, the men learned of it from a report on Echo TV about an ethnic Hungarian family being driven out of their homes and the involvement of the Magyar G\u00e1rda. While the people who had forced the family to leave were never identified, the gang nevertheless decided to opt for an attack on the local gypsies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Galgagy\u00f6rk\nOn July 21, 2008, the Kisses and Pet\u0151 opened fire on several residential buildings and breaking several windows. While several people, including minors, were present during the attacks, no injuries were reported. The attack was considered a failure, as the press erroneously considered that this might've been caused by a local feud between residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Piricse\nDue to the lack of media coverage, the perpetrators considered the Galgagy\u00f6rk attack to be a failure. This led \u00c1rp\u00e1d and Istv\u00e1n Kiss to plan another one, and on August 7, 2008, the two of them met with Zsolt Pet\u0151 to plan their next move, agreeing that they strike in Piricse. The trio got into a car and drove towards their destination, stopping at Encsencs to change the license plate. On the night of August 8, 2008, Molotov cocktails were thrown at two houses on Ady Endre Street and a shotgun shot fired through the window of one building. One of the sleeping occupants, Magdolna Gyetyin\u00e1s, left the house to check out what was going on, causing Istv\u00e1n Kiss to shoot her with one of the shotguns, hitting her in the leg and elbow. During their escape, the trio fired several more shots at the houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Ny\u00edradony\nOn the night of September 5, 2008, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss carried out another attack by himself in Ny\u00edradony, using the Mauser rifle to penetrate the window of a house on J\u00e1zmin Street in the Tam\u00e1sipuszta section of the village. Two adults and their four children, in addition to the victim's mother and three minor siblings and brothers, were present in the building, but none were harmed. While they had woken up from the attacks, they decided to wait for the attacker to leave, refraining from switching the lights on as to not draw attention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tarnabod\nDuring their next meeting on September 27, the main trio planned another attack, this time in Tarnabod, where it was reported that some Roma had murdered an elderly man. In addition to their usual armament and clothing, they also carried with themselves VHF radios to keep in contact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tarnabod\nTwo days later, at midnight, Zsolt Pet\u0151 threw two Molotov cocktails at a house on Tarna Street, one at the wall and the other at a window, before firing at it with his Fabarm. Meanwhile, the Kisses threw their cocktails at another house, before all three fled towards Tarna Creek. Along the way, they shot at another victim who was standing by the window in his home, but failed to hit him. In total, five buildings were shot at or had Molotov cocktails thrown at them, but miraculously none of the residents had been harmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tarnabod\nDespite the attackers' intentions, they had unknowingly attacked ethnic Hungarian residents living in the village, as that neighborhood was populated mainly by elderly women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Nagycs\u00e9cs\nOn November 3, 2008, the trio attacked two houses on Gy\u00f6rgy D\u00f3zsa Street in Nagycs\u00e9cs. One of the buildings was occupied by a married couple and their mentally handicapped, deaf-mute child and the homeowner's physically disabled brother; the other had another couple and their two minor children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Nagycs\u00e9cs\n\u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss had stationed himself at a field with his Mauser, covering for Istv\u00e1n Kiss and Zsolt Pet\u0151, who were throwing cocktails at the building. The noise caused the occupants of the buildings to wake up and start extinguishing the flames. The attackers shot and killed J\u00f3zsef and Tiborn\u00e9 Nagy on the spot, and severely wounded the other man from the adjacent building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Nagycs\u00e9cs\nA peculiarity noticed by investigators was that, despite Istv\u00e1n Csontos not being present during this attack, footprints from a fourth person were found at the crime scene, whose identity has not been established to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Als\u00f3zsolca\nAnother attack was carried out on December 15, 2008 on Pista Dank\u00f3 Street in Als\u00f3zsolca, with the targets being an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old chopping firewood near their home. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss shot at the 18-year-old from the other side of the Saj\u00f3 river with his Mauser, missing him, but instead piercing through his companion's clothing. He fired another shot, hitting the older victim in the hip area and causing him to collapse. Despite his life threatening condition, he was rescued, but was left permanently disabled from his injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy\nIn 2007, a conflict occurred between ethnic Hungarian and Roma residents in Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy, leading to intervention from the Magyar G\u00e1rda and members of the National Guard, a right-wing paramilitary organization demanding for the segregation of Romas from ethnic Hungarians. This stunt subsequently led to the organization being outlawed by the government. Because of his incident, the gang chose Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy as their next target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy\nOn February 23, 2009, the trio arrived in front of a house on Fenyves Street, occupied by 29-year-old R\u00f3bert Csorb\u00e1, his wife and three children. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss hid himself in the trees while his two cohorts attacked head on, with Zsolt Pet\u0151 throwing two Molotov cocktails into the attic and walls, causing them to light on fire. When Csorba noticed the fire, he picked up two of his children and ran towards the patio door. He was seen by Istv\u00e1n Kiss, who fired at the terrace twice with his Franchi, fatally hitting R\u00f3bert and his 4-year-old son, Robik\u00e1, and seriously injuring the daughter Biank\u00e1, who fled back towards the house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tiszal\u00f6k\nIn this incident, the three main perpetrators were joined for the first time by Istv\u00e1n Csontos, who knew of the previous attacks and wanted to participate due to his anti-gypsy convictions, acting as their getaway driver. Unlike the previous times, Zsolt Pet\u0151 was not present during the attack in Tiszal\u00f6k. While \u00c1rp\u00e1d and Istv\u00e1n Kiss were committing the crime, Csontos waited in nearby Polg\u00e1r, returning to the crime scene to pick up the brothers and then leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tiszal\u00f6k\nTiszal\u00f6k was chosen due a 2008 parade organized by the National Guard, and the subsequent counter-protest by the Roma community. The attack took place on April 22, 2009 at 10PM, with \u00c1rp\u00e1d, who was hiding in some nearby grass, opening fire with his shotgun at a house on Nefelejcs Street. This caused the homeowner, Jen\u00f6 K\u00f3ka, to try and flee via the yard, but was seen by the attackers, who shot at him with their rifles, hitting him in the chest and killing him on the spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tiszal\u00f6k\nPrior to the murder, police assured the public that they could cordon off the county in a maximum of ten minutes. However, an hour and a half after the murder, one of the Kiss brothers phoned Csontos and told him to pick them up. Csontos was stopped on the way by police officers, but despite having an empty guitar case, military binoculars, maps and a radio in his car, Csontos was let go by the officer and wasn't questioned further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0022-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tiszal\u00f6k\nTen minutes later, he picked up the brothers from a nearby railway embankment and they all drove away from the area. On the way back, the car got stuck in mud on a dirt road, making \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss make a phone call to his partner, \u00c9v\u00e1 N., to help them out (this call would later be used to track down the killers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0022-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Tiszal\u00f6k\n\u00c9v\u00e1 N. went there in the early hours with her own car, picked up the trio and drove them back to Debrecen, with them returning back the next day with a farmer, whom they had asked to help tow their car away with his tractor. This happened only 40 kilometers away from the crime scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Kisl\u00e9ta\nThe last known attack occurred in Kisl\u00e9ta on August 3, 2009. On that night, the Kiss brothers and Zsolt Pet\u0151 approached a house on Bocskai Street from the fields, while Istv\u00e1n Csontos returned to Debrecen with the car until he would be called back to pick his associates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Kisl\u00e9ta\nAfter approaching the front door, two of them kicked it down and broke inside, where Pet\u0151 fired at the doorframes with his Fabarm. They then went to the bedroom and opened fire at the two people they found lying in bed. The mother, M\u00e1ria Balogh, was killed on the spot, while her daughter, Ketrin, who was hiding behind her mother, survived. After the incident, she was left with permanent brain damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Kisl\u00e9ta\nAfter the attack in Kisl\u00e9ta, police patrols were increased in the area, so one of the men began carrying around a pistol, in case a shoot-out with police occurred. Disappointed with the resutls, the trio planned to also attack the mayor of the village, who, according to them, was a leftist who always gave the jobs to gypsies. Later on, an allegation by a Magyar G\u00e1rda employee claimed that one of the men likely attended M\u00e1ria Balogh's funeral, as a suspicious man with a tattoo on his right upper arm, most likely \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss, was seen there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Later plans\nThe perpetrators planned to acquire new weapons before they were captured, so they re-browsed gun advertisements on the internet and also began mapping the sellers' residences. They also considered acquiring high-powered automatic weapons from the military barracks in Hajd\u00fahadh\u00e1z, with Csontos even taking photos of the area, but this idea was later abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Attacks, Later plans\nAfter Kisl\u00e9ta, the gang planned to attack Ipolytarn\u00f3c on August 23, but this was thwarted by their arrest on August 21. This planned attack was confirmed after the seizure of satellite and other recordings, indicating they were going to attack a Roma-populated house in the town. During these seizures, police also uncovered evidence that they had planned to strike in Erd\u0151kertes, Kisv\u00e1rda and Tura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, General characteristics of the attacks\nThe initial attacks were mainly on buildings inhabited by Roma people, with the aim of causing fear and confusion. In comparison, the 2008 Nagycs\u00e9cs attack marked a turning point in the case when press coverage gave confirmation to the perpetrators. In the subsequent attacks, they typically turned against gypsies with a more ordinary way of life, with the aim of heightening tensions between the Roma and the non-Roma. For this reason, the gang accepted Istv\u00e1n Csontos as a driver due to increased police presence on the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 100], "content_span": [101, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, General characteristics of the attacks\nIn total, the gang attacked 10 villages and towns and 55 people, killing six and injuring five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 100], "content_span": [101, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Investigation\nDuring the investigation, police inspected one and a half million cars and millions of phone calls, as well as reviewing 800 hours worth of surveillance camera footage, lasting roughly a year since the start of the crimes. After the fifth attack in Als\u00f3szolca in December 2008, the police concluded that the same perpetrators were responsible for the recent spat of crimes, at which point they started focusing on how and by whom the attacks were committed, as well as who the targets were.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Investigation\nConcerning the Tarnabod attack, three young local Roma youths were charged after they had given false testimony and traces of gunpowder was found on them. However, according to their lawyer, the gunpowder actually originated from the arresting officers, and the boys had never owned a firearm. Six months later, the boys were released and later received monetary compensation for their unjustified detention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Investigation\nA large part in stopping the actual killers were the cell phone calls made at the time and place of the crimes, as well as matching DNA samples taken from the suspects. Prior to their arrest, Hungarian police sought assistance from the FBI in profiling the perpetrators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nThe course of the investigation, especially on-site measures after the attack in Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy and the inspection of the storage site, was criticized in several aspects. According to several law enforcement agencies, the first-instance proceedings lasted 28 months because deficiencies in the locations had to be clarified during criminal proceedings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nOn May 7, 2009, a forensics team funded by the National and Ethnic Minority Rights Protection Office, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the European Roma Rights Centre was dispatched to Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy to collect data, which they would later published in their report titled The White Booklet. According to the report, after the tragedy, the first people to arrive on the scene were reporters from Dabasi Television, then police and firefighters, with the ambulance coming in last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0034-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nThe fire department falsely determined that a short circuit was the cause of the fire, despite a gas can being found on the spot, and police initially ignored testimony about gunshots sounding through the area. It was also documented that one of the detectives had urinated on a footprint possibly belonging to one of the killers, and some authorities claimed the cartridges had been scattered by the victims themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nThe Independent Police Complaints Board found that the police had seriously violated the fundamental constitutional rights during the scene: while they had fulfilled their obligation to take action and help prevent an escalation of tensions, they had only partially secured the site. The fire was treated as accidental for more than 10 hours, and after the resignation group and the inspection committee withdrew, no police force remained at the crime scene until a morning inspection began. According to the Board, the reasons for this unprofessional conduct was a lack of ballistic knowledge. During the criminal lawsuit, the judge called the scene \"shocking and desperate\" because, for example, the ambulance paramedic hadn't noticed that one of the victims had been shot in the head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 885]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nFollowing the Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy tragedy, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcs\u00e1ny requested a report from the ministries to supervise the police, fire brigade and the hospitals, which later found an abundance of procedural and professional errors had occurred at the crime scene. The Chief Captain of Pest County initiated disciplinary proceedings against the hot-pressed commander and the head of the on-site inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nAccording to leaked telegrams published by WikiLeaks in 2011, staff the American embassy in Budapest commented that the view of Hungarian police was that most of the population were indifferent about the case. A few days after the gang members were arrested, in the last days of August 2009, a document referring to intelligence sources appeared on the Internet detailing the omissions made by the intelligence services. The documents revealed that all three main members had been monitored before the attacks, but their supervision had ceased after they had begun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0037-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nSince 2004, Istv\u00e1n Kiss had not only been under close control by the Hajd\u00fa-Bihar police department, but at the beginning of 2008, he was noted for preparing to purchase weapons and large quantities of ammunition. The county branch initiated an extension into its secret data collection program, and even informed then-director general S\u00e1ndor Laborc about it, but the request was rejected by higher-ups. The National Security Committee of the National Assembly found that there was insufficient communication between units from the Office of Natural Security and that the service was uncaring in its handling of extremists under surveillance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0037-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nIn the spring of 2008, despite the request of the Hajd\u00fa-Bihar operations officer, the Legal Department never issued a surveillance order on \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss or Zsolt Pet\u0151, nor did it tighten surveillance on Istv\u00e1n Kiss, which later on was completely suspended. The committee also established that Gy\u00f6rgy Szilv\u00e1sy and \u00c1d\u00e1m Ficsor, the successor socialist ministers in charge of the national security services, as well as the former director-general of NBH S\u00e1ndor Laborc and the acting director-general L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Balajti were responsible for this misconduct, with all four resigning from their respective posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0037-0003", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nThe report also indicted Attorney General Tam\u00e1s Kov\u00e1cs, but no charges were brought against him. Four former NBH officers were charged with forgery of public documents, and even Csontos' detention officer was prosecuted for providing false testimony because he had denied at the hearing that he had anything to do with the detainee, but all defendants were acquitted of their respective charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Irregularities in the investigation\nIn connection with the previous surveillance of the perpetrators by the intelligence agencies, Minister of Defense Csaba Hende initiated an investigation into the activities of the KBH during the murders; the results were originally scheduled to remain encrypted until 2020, but were made public on September 4, 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Arrest\nThe breakthrough in the case was when the gang's car got stuck in the mud after the attack in Tiszal\u00f6k, when \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss called his girlfriend \u00c9v\u00e1 N. to help take them home. When the phone call was inspected, it was discovered that this same cellular device had been used in proximity to the Galgagy\u00f6rk and Kisl\u00e9ta crime scenes. A week later, all four suspects were being monitored, and after surveillance determined that the group was planning another attack, it was determined that their arrest couldn't be postponed any longer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Arrest\nThe National Bureau of Investigation and the REBISZ arrested two of the men at the dawn of August 21, 2009, at the P\u00e9renyi Club in Debrecen. The arresting force consisted of 85 officers and hundreds of detectives conducting house searches in 13 locations parallel to the arrests, during which they detained the other two suspects. While examining the detainees' homes and dozens of other locations, 1,916 items were seized: map sketches, the getaway vehicle and the winter tires, boots, cameras, and the weapons, which were found hidden in the P\u00e9renyi Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0040-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Arrest\nPolice determined that the attacks had been timed, as the perpetrators had wanted to avoid any civilian injuries. In addition, the stolen weaponry from Besenysz\u00f6g was also found and confiscated from the Kiss brothers' apartment. As the perpetrators lacked any official permit to handle the weaponry, they were also charged with misuse of firearms and ammunition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Trial\nThe four men were charged with six murders, five attempted murders, reckless endagerment, maiming, armed robbery, theft and misuse of weaponry and ammunition. In addition, it was specifically mentioned that their actions were committed for racist motives. The first trial began on March 25, 2011 at the Budapest District Court. The final verdict was delivered on August 6, 2013, when all four defendants were found guilty on all counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0041-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Trial\n\u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss, Istv\u00e1n Kiss and Zsolt Pet\u0151 received life terms with 10 years deprivation of civil rights, while Istv\u00e1n Csontos received a 13-year prison term and 10 years deprivation of civil rights. The four were also required to reimburse the victims' families for 107 million forints. A second trial took hold at the Curia (the forum building for the Supreme Court) in 2016, where the sentences of the convicts were upheld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Open questions\nAlthough the manner in which the weapons were stolen was clarified to the smallest detail, the origins of the ammunition were not revealed. On the basis of the indictment, it turned out that there were several acquisitions of weapons and ammunition for which there were no intermediaires or contributors. In addition, the did not operate in isolation from other extremist groups and individuals in Debrecen and elsewhere, although \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss gradually distanced himself from them and gradually began to use his phone less and less. It is also known that the accomplice in the initial robbery of the weapons has never been identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Open questions\nDuring the raid in Per\u00e9nyi Club, in addition to the four later defendants, the police also arrested two other persons, Antal R. and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 E., on suspicion of aiding and abetting suspected criminals. They were investigated for possible connection to the gang, but in the end, both were released without any charges. This is despite the fact that one of the men, Antal R., was a self-avowed neo-Nazi and had previously served time in the same jail as Istv\u00e1n Csontos, with his profile matching that of the suspect accomplice in the robbery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Open questions\nFollowing the arrests of the accused, an unofficial document leaked which stated that Istv\u00e1n Kiss had been monitored by the Constitution Protection Office until May 2008. It is unknown how the agency was made aware of the Besenszy\u00f6g robbery during this period, and as no members of it were questioned during the trial as witnesses nor the indictment mentioned the organization's relationship with the accused, it remains a mystery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Case overview, Open questions\nIt is also unclear how the perpetrators acquired the necessary finances for the attacks, or whether they had any supporters, helpers or instigators. According to the investigators, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss and his brother, Istv\u00e1n, and Istv\u00e1n Csontos each had an income of around 100-120 thousand forints per month, with only Zsolt Pet\u0151 earning 200 thousand from his two jobs. Thus, it was rightly concluded that, while they could've had enough for the spent ammunition and raw materials used for the Molotov cocktails, it was considered doubtful it would've covered any other expenses associated with the attacks. The members never used their own phones, always using either disposable phones with SIM cards or walkie-talkies. According to the indictment, the ammo used by Pet\u0151 alone was enough to dry up their income, and this was excluding travel costs for vignettes and fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 941]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Cause of events, Perpetrators' background\nAt the time of the attacks, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss was 42, his brother Istv\u00e1n - 33, Zsolt Pet\u0151 - 34 and Istv\u00e1n Csontos, who took part solely in the Tiszal\u00f6k attack, only 27. The latter two were friends of the brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Cause of events, Perpetrators' background\nThe investigation determined that none of the defendants suffered from mental illness or any personality disorders that necessitated a mitigation of their sentences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Cause of events, Motives\nThe main motivations of the perpetrators, who described themselves as neo-Nazis and Hungarianists, was retaliation to crimes committed by Roma offenders who, in their view, terrorized the ethnic Hungarian population but always got away with lenient sentences. The Kiss brothers were particularly affected by an infamous case from 2006, when teacher Lajos Sz\u00f6gi was lynched by the relatives of a girl he had almost run over with his car, but then attempted to help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0048-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Cause of events, Motives\nThe murder caused outrage in the population, with the brothers joining the National Guard in sympathy, initially believing that the paramilitary organization was suitable for regulating the Roma, taking part in their protest in Pest in 2007. However, they came to the conclusion that the National Guard wasn't strict enough. All three of the main defendants agreed that the state authorities, the judiciaries and the police were doing an improper job in detecting and punishing Roma criminals, and because of this, they had decided to take justice into their own hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nIn November 2009, the National Gypsy Self-Government placed a memorial plaque at the organization's headquarters on D\u00f3hany Street in Budapest, but it was later removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nOn July 19, 2011, a monument designed by Zolt\u00e1n Nagygy\u00f6rgy and \u00c1d\u00e1m M\u00e1rk Horv\u00e1th, and funded by Csepel and ARC, was revealed at the G\u00f6d\u00f6r Club in Budapest, to commemorate the victims of the murders and to emphasize the peaceful coexistence of ethnic Hungarians and Roma Hungarians. The monument was exhibited at the Valley of the Arts in Kapolcs, at the Vidor Festival in Ny\u00edregyh\u00e1za, and at the Sziget Festival and Millen\u00e1ris Park in Budapest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nThe murders inspired the plot of the 2012 film Just the Wind, directed by Benedek Fliegauf. Eszter Hajd\u00fa made a documentary about the case entitled Judgment in Hungary; it later won the 2014 jury grand prize at the Open City Docs in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nAfter the first fatal attack had occurred, on November 3, 2018, the local Roma government inaugurated a memorial plaque in memory of the Nagy couple in Nagycs\u00e9cs. On February 23, 2019, a civil commemoration in honor of the victims of the Tat\u00e1rszentgy\u00f6rgy attack was held in Budapest. Participants gathered at Pope John Paul II Square and then, after delivering their speeches, marched together toward the De\u00e1k Square Lutheran Church, where worship services were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nOn March 28, 2019, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony, the mayor of Zugl\u00f3, forwarded a motion to rename Mexik\u00f3i Street to Robik\u00e1 Csorba Street. As the family wished to discuss this more widely, he withdrew the motion at their request on April 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Commemoration\nIn a debate held during the second round of the 2019 Budapest municipal elections, candidates Olga K\u00e1lm\u00e1n, G\u00e1bor Kerpel-Fronius and Gergely Kar\u00e1csony all stated that they would support the erection of a memorial to the murder victims in Budapest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nAt the end of 2018, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss asked for a retrial, basing his appeal off the incorrect information provided in the Tiszal\u00f6k case, which would redefine his guilt from that of a main perpetrator to accomplice, thus reducing his sentence. This was rejected by the Metropolitan Judgement Board on March 28, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0055-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nIn the retrial request, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss claimed that he hadn't handled a gun during the murder of Jen\u00f6 K\u00f3ka, but that it was his brother, Istv\u00e1n, who had pulled the trigger and that his footprint hadn't been recorded by authorities; he also alleged that the shooting of the Debrecen refugee camp wasn't done by him but by Zsolt Pet\u00f6, and that he had been at his workplace at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0055-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nHe raised his younger brother's confession as new evidence, however, according to the reasoning of the panel, the new evidence must be capable of establishing a new fact not present in the judgment, which in itself could make the accused likely to get an acquittal or lesser sanction. Since procedural positions cannot be accumulated and charged persons unable to be heard as witnesses, his motion was denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nAt the beginning of March 2020, the press reported for the first time that the main defendant, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss, wished for a new trial concerning the Roma murders. In his view, the role of the socialist government and the secret services hadn't been properly clarified in previous proceedings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0056-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nKiss complained that the reasons for the events (social tension between the gypsies and Hungarians, as well as open coverage as crimes committed by gypsies) were all due to activities encouraged by the government at the time, and that the National Guard and the Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement had moles who encouraged the acquisition of weapons and the extermination of gypsies, a fact confirmed by the latter organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0056-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nAccording to Kiss, the ethnic conflict was blown up by people with a background in the secret services in 2008 in Galgagy\u00f6rk, as a result of which they had begun to \"settle in\", espousing slogans reminiscent of one used by the services. He also claimed that the first killing taking place in the same village was no coincidence, alleging that it was all planned in advance by the Constitution Protection Office, who had already admitted that they had monitored Istv\u00e1n Kiss, but had withheld his files. This general phenomenon, in his view, was caused by the Gyurcs\u00e1ny government's desire to divert people's attention from the country's poor economic situation, anti-government sentiment and impending election defeat for the Hungarian Socialist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\n\u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss also requested an re-examination of Istv\u00e1n Csontos' role in the murders, as well as people related to him, citing his service in Kosovo and later employment by the Military Security Office and constant contact with his detaining officer, whom he had met in person before the last attack in Kisl\u00e9ta. To date, it hasn't been revealed exactly what the two men had conversed about nor whether Csontos' officer, Ern\u00f6 H\u00f3dos, reported to his supervisor about the meeting. Kiss also requested that the investigators find out why Csontos had been let go from the scene and arrested hours later. Istv\u00e1n himself later claimed that the police interrogation had been a simple mistake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201208-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary, Renewal and reopening of the investigation\nIn May 2020, the National Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it was conducting a new investigation into the alleged fifth member, and that it was seeking information for any potential instigators, financiers or other accomplices. The reopening of the investigation is presumably related to the new information provided by \u00c1rp\u00e1d Kiss, albeit it remains unclear whether specific people have been eyed as potential suspects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division\nThe 2008\u201310 European Nations Cup First Division was the 7th edition of the championship since it was reformed in 2000. The championship not only determined the champions of the ENC but it also acted as an element of European qualification for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division\nAt present, there is no promotion or relegation between the European Nations Cup and the Six Nations. The current champions are Georgia, who won the 2011 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division\nThe top two teams, Georgia and Russia, qualified directly to the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and the third placed team, Romania, entered the European qualification playoffs. These playoffs included the champion of Division 2A and the leaders of the lower ENC divisions (excluding 3D) at the end of the 2008\u201309 season. Romania emerged as the winner of the playoff series and will go on to play Tunisia, the second place African qualifier, in the semifinals of the Rugby World Cup 2011 20th Place Playoff for the last spot in the 2011 Rugby World Cup finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division\nThis season saw Germany in the First Division for the first time since the divisional system was created, replacing Czech Republic who were relegated to Division 2A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division\nThe divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away. From 2009 onward, the title is assigned according to a one-year ranking. So Georgia won the 2009 title  and Romania the title for 2010. The same for the 2011\u201312 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201209-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup First Division, Table 2008\u201310\nThe cumulated table from both years, 2009\u20132010, decided which teams qualify directly to 2011 Rugby World Cup, which  team goes through Play-off qualification rounds and which team is relegated to Division 1B for the 2010\u201312 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201210-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Second Division\nThe European Nations Cup Second division 2008\u20132010 is the second tier of the European Championship for developing Rugby Union nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201210-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Second Division\nIt is made up of two divisions with 5 teams in each division. Due to changes in the structure of the European Nations Cup for the 2010\u20132012 competition, no team will be relegated from Division 2A or 2B. The winner of Division 2A gets promoted to Division One and the winner of Division 2B will get promoted to Division 2A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201210-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Second Division\nThe leader of Division 2B at the end of the 2008\u20132009 season, and the champion of Division 2A at the end of the competition, will have the opportunity to participate in qualification for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201210-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Second Division\nThe former champions of Division 2A were Germany who have been replaced by the relegated Czech Republic. Poland won Division 2B and were promoted to Division 2A in place of the Netherlands. Sweden was promoted from Division 3A to replace the relegated Andorra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201210-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Second Division, Division 2A\nThe tournament was won by Ukraine, that obtained the promotion to the highest lever of ENC, and qualification to Rugby World Cup Qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division\nThe 2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup (ENC) Third Division (a European rugby union competition for national teams)  will be contested over two years during which all teams meet each other home and away. The Third Division consists of four levels, which effectively constitute the 5th through 8th levels of European international rugby. The winner of each division will be promoted to the next highest division. Due to changes in the competition, the last placed team will not be relegated to the next division lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division\nThe leader of each division (excluding 3D) at the end of the 2008\u20132009 season will have the opportunity to participate in the qualification for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division\nThe previous champion of Division 3A, Sweden, was promoted to the Second Division and replaced with relegated side Andorra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division, Table \u2013 Division 3A\nSerbia were ranked ahead of Andorra based on 39\u201328 aggregate score in their two matches as the series was tied 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division, Matches\n1 Armenia were unable to show up for the match due to a pilot's strike in Armenia; Lithuania were awarded a 25\u20130 victory and Armenia received a point for the loss. 2 The match was originally scheduled for 17 April 2010, but was postponed due to the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull eruption. 3 Lithuania's win in this match set a new world record in men's International Rugby for the most consecutive wins with 18 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division, Table \u2013 Division 3C\nGreece were ranked ahead of Bulgaria based on 56\u201336 aggregate score in two head to head matches as the series was drawn 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division, Table \u2013 Division 3D\nOn 23 September 2009, Slovakia withdrew from the remainder of the competition, and their record was expunged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201211-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 European Nations Cup Third Division, Matches\n1 Monaco forfeited the match due to player illness; Azerbaijan received a 6\u20130 win, and Monaco were given a point for the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201212-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 Montenegrin municipal elections\nMontenegrin municipal elections were held in all 21 municipalities, between April 2004 and October 2006. It resulted in the decisive victory of the ruling Coalition for European Montenegro in 18 out of 21 municipalities, where he has secured a majority, on its own or in a coalition with national minority parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201212-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 Montenegrin municipal elections, Results, Podgorica\nThe local government was formed after an agreement between ruling Coalition for European Podgorica (composed by Democratic Party of Socialists, the Liberal Party and Bosniak Party), which was a relative winner of the election and Social Democratic Party which ran independently. Current mayor Miomir Mugo\u0161a (DPS) has been voted a new four-year mandate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201212-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 Montenegrin municipal elections, Results, Herceg Novi\n17,039 or 68.4% of eligible voters voted. 16,649 of the votes are valid and 390 invalid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201212-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 Montenegrin municipal elections, Results, Tivat\nThe turnout was 65.2% or 7,062. There were 6,938 valid and 124 invalid votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201212-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132010 Montenegrin municipal elections, Results, Results in rest of municipalities\nIn seventeen other municipalities ruling Coalition for European Montenegro (DPS, SDP, LP and BS) stay in power in most municipalities. It held an absolute majority in Bar, Budva, \u017dabljak, Bijelo Polje, Danilovgrad, \u0160avnik, Mojkovac, Kola\u0161in, Plav, Ro\u017eaje, Nik\u0161i\u0107, Cetinje, Andrijevica and Berane. The opposition won only in Plu\u017eine, where the local SNP won absolute power, and in Pljevlja where local government was formed by joint opposition list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nThe Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland that involved the default of all three of the country's major privately owned commercial banks in late 2008, following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt and a run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Relative to the size of its economy, Iceland's systemic banking collapse was the largest experienced by any country in economic history. The crisis led to a severe economic slump in 2008\u20132010 and significant political unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nIn the years preceding the crisis, three Icelandic banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir, multiplied in size. This expansion was driven by ready access to credit in international financial markets, in particular money markets. As the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 unfolded, investors perceived the Icelandic banks to be increasingly risky. Trust in the banks gradually faded, leading to a sharp depreciation of the Icelandic kr\u00f3na in 2008 and increased difficulties for the banks in rolling over their short-term debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nAt the end of the second quarter of 2008, Iceland's external debt was 9.553 trillion Icelandic kr\u00f3nur (\u20ac50 billion), more than 7 times the GDP of Iceland in 2007. The assets of the three banks totaled 14.437 trillion kr\u00f3nur at the end of the second quarter 2008, equal to more than 11 times the national GDP. Due to the huge size of the Icelandic financial system in comparison with the Icelandic economy, the Central Bank of Iceland found itself unable to act as a lender of last resort during the crisis, further aggravating the mistrust in the banking system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nOn 29 September 2008, it was announced that Glitnir would be nationalised. However, subsequent efforts to restore faith in the banking system failed. On 6 October, the Icelandic legislature instituted an emergency law which enabled the Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) to take control over financial institutions and made domestic deposits in the banks priority claims. In the following days, new banks were founded to take over the domestic operations of Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir. The old banks were put into receivership and liquidation, resulting in losses for their shareholders and foreign creditors. Outside Iceland, more than half a million depositors lost access to their accounts in foreign branches of Icelandic banks. This led to the 2008\u20132013 Icesave dispute, that ended with an EFTA Court ruling that Iceland was not obliged to repay Dutch and British depositors minimum deposit guarantees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 954]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nIn an effort to stabilize the situation, the Icelandic government stated that all domestic deposits in Icelandic banks would be guaranteed, imposed strict capital controls to stabilize the value of the Icelandic kr\u00f3na, and secured a US$5.1bn sovereign debt package from the IMF and the Nordic countries in order to finance a budget deficit and the restoration of the banking system. The international bailout support programme led by IMF officially ended on 31 August 2011, while the capital controls which were imposed in November 2008 were lifted on 14 March 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis\nThe financial crisis had a serious negative impact on the Icelandic economy. The national currency fell sharply in value, foreign currency transactions were virtually suspended for weeks, and the market capitalisation of the Icelandic stock exchange fell by more than 90%. As a result of the crisis, Iceland underwent a severe economic depression; the country's gross domestic product dropped by 10% in real terms between the third quarter of 2007 and the third quarter of 2010. A new era with positive GDP growth started in 2011, and has helped foster a gradually declining trend for the unemployment rate. The government budget deficit has declined from 9.7% of GDP in 2009 and 2010 to 0.2% of GDP in 2014; the central government gross debt-to-GDP ratio was expected to decline to less than 60% in 2018 from a maximum of 85% in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nThe Icelandic kr\u00f3na had declined more than 35% against the euro from January to September 2008. Inflation of consumer prices was running at 14%, and Iceland's interest rates had been raised to 15.5% to deal with the high inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nOn the night of Wednesday, 8 October 2008, the Central Bank of Iceland abandoned its attempt to peg the Icelandic kr\u00f3na at 131 kr\u00f3nur to the euro after trying to set this peg on 6 October. By 9 October, the Icelandic kr\u00f3na was trading at 340 to the euro when trading in the currency collapsed due to the FME's takeover of the last major Icelandic bank, and thus the loss of all kr\u00f3na trade 'clearing houses'. The next day, the central bank introduced restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency within Iceland. From 9 October to 5 November, the European Central Bank quoted a reference rate of 305 kr\u00f3nur to the euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nThe Central Bank of Iceland set up a temporary system of daily currency auctions on 15 October to facilitate international trade. The value of the kr\u00f3na is determined by supply and demand in these auctions. The first auction sold \u20ac25 million at a rate of 150 kr\u00f3nur to the euro. Commercial kr\u00f3na trading outside Iceland restarted on 28 October, at an exchange rate of 240 kr\u00f3nur to the euro, after Icelandic interest rates had been raised to 18%. The foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Iceland fell by US$289 million during October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nDuring November, the real exchange rate (discounting inflation) of the Icelandic kr\u00f3na, as quoted by the Central Bank of Iceland, was roughly one-third lower than the average rate from 1980 to 2008, and 20% lower than the historical lows during the same period. The external rate as quoted by the European Central Bank was lower still. On the last trading day of the month, 28 November, the Central Bank of Iceland was quoting 182.5 kr\u00f3nur to the euro, while the European Central Bank was quoting 280 kr\u00f3nur to the euro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nOn 28 November, the Central Bank of Iceland and the Minister for Business Affairs agreed on a new set of currency regulations, replacing the central bank's restrictions imposed early on in the crisis. Movements of capital to and from Iceland were banned without a license from central bank. It is estimated that foreign investors hold some \u20ac2.9 billion in kr\u00f3na-denominated securities, popularly known as \"glacier bonds\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nThe foreign exchange rules also oblige Icelandic residents to deposit any new foreign currency they receive with an Icelandic bank. There is anecdotal evidence that some Icelandic exporters had been operating an informal offshore foreign exchange market, trading pounds and euros for kr\u00f3nur outside the control of any regulator and starving the onshore market of foreign currency. Hence the Central Bank had to sell \u20ac124 million of currency reserves in November 2008 to make up the difference, compared with an estimated trade surplus of \u20ac13.9 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nThe last currency auction was held on 3 December. The domestic interbank foreign exchange market reopened the following day with three market makers, all of them government-owned. On the first two days of domestic trading, the kr\u00f3na climbed to 153.3 to the euro, up 22% against the last currency auction rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Currency\nIn January 2009, the exchange rate of Icelandic kr\u00f3na against Euro seemed to be more stabilized compared with the situation in October 2008, with the lowest rate at 177.5 kr\u00f3nur per EUR on 1, 3 and 4 January 2009, and the highest at 146.8 on 30 January 2009. In the meantime, however, Iceland's 12-month inflation in January 2009 climbed to a record high of 18.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nIn September 2008, internal documents from Kaupthing, the largest bank in Iceland, were leaked to WikiLeaks. On 29 September 2008, a plan was announced for the bank Glitnir to be nationalised by the Icelandic government with the purchase of a 75% stake for \u20ac600 million. The government stated that it did not intend to hold ownership of the bank for a long period, and that the bank was expected to carry on operating as normal. According to the government, the bank \"would have ceased to exist\" within a few weeks if there had not been intervention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0013-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nIt later turned out that Glitnir had US$750 million of debt due to mature on 15 October. However, the nationalization of Glitnir never went through, as it was placed in receivership by the FME before the initial plan of the Icelandic government to purchase a 75% stake had been approved by shareholders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThe announced nationalisation of Glitnir came just as the United Kingdom government was forced to nationalise Bradford & Bingley and to sell its retail operations and branch network to Grupo Santander. Over the weekend of 4\u20135 October, British newspapers carried many articles detailing the nationalisation of Glitnir and the high leverage of Iceland's other banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0014-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nInfluential BBC business editor Robert Peston published an opinion piece on the banks, stating that debt insurance for Kaupthing required a premium of \u00a3625,000 to guarantee the return of \u00a31 million: \"the worst case of financial BO I've encountered in some time\" was his graphic description. The Guardian said \"Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall.\" These articles spooked investors discussing Icesave (the brand name of Landsbanki in the UK and the Netherlands) in online forums and many started moving their savings out of the Internet bank. Problems with access to the site hinted at a run on savings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn 6 October, a number of private interbank credit facilities to Icelandic banks were shut down. Prime Minister Geir Haarde addressed the nation in a speech that became infamous for its portentous closing words: 'God bless Iceland'. He announced a package of new regulatory measures which were to be put to the Althing, Iceland's parliament, immediately, with the cooperation of the opposition parties. These included the power of the FME to take over the running of Icelandic banks without nationalising them, and preferential treatment for depositors in the event that a bank had to be liquidated. In a separate measure, retail deposits in Icelandic branches of Icelandic banks were guaranteed in full. The emergency measures had been deemed unnecessary by the Icelandic government less than 24 hours earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThat evening, the Guernsey subsidiary of Landsbanki went into voluntary administration with the approval of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. The administrators would later say that \"The main reason for the Bank's difficulties has been the placing of funds with its UK fellow subsidiary, Heritable Bank.\" Guernsey's Chief Minister stated \"the directors of Landsbanki Guernsey took appropriate steps by putting the bank into administration.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThe FME placed Landsbanki in receivership early on 7 October. A press release from the FME stated that all of Landsbanki's domestic branches, call centres, ATMs and internet operations will be open for business as usual, and that all \"domestic deposits\" were fully guaranteed. The UK government used the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008 first to transfer retail deposits from Heritable Bank to a Treasury holding company, then to sell them to Dutch bank ING Direct for \u00a31 million. The same day, the FME also placed Glitnir into receivership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThat afternoon, there was a telephone conversation between Icelandic Finance Minister \u00c1rni Mathiesen and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. That evening, one of the governors of the Central Bank of Iceland, Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Oddsson, was interviewed on Icelandic public service broadcaster R\u00daV and stated that \"we [the Icelandic State] do not intend to pay the debts of the banks that have been a little heedless\". He compared the government's measures to the U.S. intervention at Washington Mutual, and suggested that foreign creditors would \"unfortunately only get 5\u201310\u201315% of their claims\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nDarling announced that he was taking steps to freeze the assets of Landsbanki in the UK. The Landsbanki Freezing Order 2008 was passed at 10\u00a0am on 8 October 2008 and came into force ten minutes later. Under the order the UK Treasury froze the assets of Landsbanki within the UK, and introduced provisions to prevent the sale or movement of Landsbanki assets within the UK, even if held by the Central Bank of Iceland or the Government of Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0019-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThe freezing order took advantage of provisions in sections 4 and 14 and Schedule 3 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and was made \"because the Treasury believed that action to the detriment of the UK's economy (or part of it) had been or was likely to be taken by certain persons who are the government of or resident of a country or territory outside the UK\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nThe UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced that the UK government would launch legal action against Iceland over concerns with compensation for the estimated 300,000 UK savers. Geir Haarde said at a press conference on the following day that the Icelandic government was outraged that the UK government applied provisions of anti-terrorism legislation to it in a move they dubbed an \"unfriendly act\". The Chancellor of the Exchequer also said that the UK government would foot the entire bill to compensate UK retail depositors, estimated at \u00a34 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0020-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nIt is reported that more than \u00a34 billion in Icelandic assets in the UK have been frozen by the UK government. The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) also declared Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, the UK subsidiary of Kaupthing Bank, in default on its obligations, sold Kaupthing Edge, its Internet bank, to ING Direct, and put Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander into administration. Over \u00a32.5 billion of deposits for 160,000 customers were sold to ING Direct. The scale of the run on Kaupthing Edge deposits had been such that many transactions were not completed until 17 October. Although Geir Haarde has described the UK government's actions over Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander as an \"abuse of power\" and \"unprecedented\", they were the third such actions taken under the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008 in less than ten days, after interventions in Bradford & Bingley and Heritable Bank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 951]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn the same day, the Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden's central bank, made a credit facility of 5 billion Swedish krona (\u20ac520 million) available to Kaupthing Bank Sverige AB, the Swedish subsidiary of Kaupthing. The loan was to pay \"depositors and other creditors\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn 9 October, Kaupthing was placed into receivership by the FME, following the resignation of the entire board of directors. The bank said that it was in technical default on its loan agreements after its UK subsidiary had been placed into administration. Kaupthing's Luxembourg subsidiary asked for, and obtained, a suspension of payments (similar to chapter 11 protection) in the Luxembourg District Court. Kaupthing's Geneva office, which was a branch of its Luxembourg subsidiary, was prevented from making any payments of more than 5000 Swiss francs by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. The directors of Kaupthing's subsidiary on the Isle of Man decided to wind up the company after consultation with the Manx authorities. The Finnish Financial Supervision Authority, Rahoitustarkastus, announced having taken control of Kaupthing's Helsinki branch already on 6th, to prevent money from being sent back to Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 980]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn the same day, the UK Treasury issued a licence under the Landsbanki Freezing Order 2008 to allow the London branch of Landsbanki to continue some business. A second licence was issued on 13 October, when the Bank of England provided a \u00a3100 million secured loan to Landsbanki \"to help maximise the returns to UK creditors\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn 12 October the Norwegian government took control of Kaupthing's Norwegian operations, including \"all of the bank's assets and liabilities in Norway\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn 21 October, the Central Bank of Iceland asked the remaining independent financial institutions for new collateral against their loans. This was to replace the shares in Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing which had been pledged as collateral previously and which were now of much lower value, if not worthless. The value of the collateral was estimated at 300 billion kr\u00f3nur (\u20ac2 billion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0025-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOne of the banks, Sparisj\u00f3\u00f0abanki (SPB, also known as Icebank), stated the next day that it could not provide new collateral for its 68 billion kr\u00f3nur (\u20ac451 million) loan, and would have to turn to the government for help. \"This problem won't be solved in any other way,\" said CEO Agnar Hansson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Banks\nOn 24 October, it emerged that a Norwegian export credit company (Eksportfinans) had made a complaint to Norwegian police concerning the alleged embezzlement of 415 million Norwegian kroner (\u20ac47 million) by Glitnir since 2006. The Icelandic bank had acted as an agent for Eksportfinans, administering loans to several companies: however Eksportfinans alleges that, when the loans were paid off early by borrowers, Glitnir kept the cash and merely continued with the regular payments to Eksportfinans, effectively taking an unauthorized loan itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Stock market\nTrading in shares of six financial companies on the OMX Nordic Iceland Exchange was suspended on 6 October by order of the FME. On Thursday 9 October, all trading on the exchange was frozen for two days by the government \"in an attempt to prevent further panic spreading throughout the country's financial markets\". The decision was made to do so due to \"unusual market conditions\", with share prices having fallen 30% since the start of the month. The closure was extended through Monday 13 October due to continuing \"unusual market conditions\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Stock market\nThe market reopened on 14 October with the main index, the OMX Iceland 15, at 678.4, which corresponds to a plunge of about 77% compared with 3,004.6 before the closure. This reflects the fact that the value of the three big banks, which form 73.2% of the value of the OMX Iceland 15, had been set to zero. The values of other equities varied from +8% to \u221215%. Trading in shares of Exista, SPRON and Straumur-Bur\u00f0ar\u00e1s (13.66% of the OMX Iceland 15) remains suspended. After a week of very thin trading, the OMX Iceland 15 closed on 17 October at 643.1, down 93% in kr\u00f3na terms and 96% in euro terms from its historic high of 9016 (18 July 2007).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Stock market\nTrading in the shares of two financial services companies, Straumur\u2013Bur\u00f0ar\u00e1s and Exista, resumed on 9 December: together the companies account for 12.04% of the OMX Iceland 15. The values of the shares in both companies dropped sharply, and the index closed at 394.88, down by 40.17% on the day. Trading in shares in SPRON and Kaupthing remains suspended, at prices of 1.90 kr\u00f3nur and 694.00 kr\u00f3nur respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nThe four credit rating agencies which monitor Iceland's sovereign debt all lowered their ratings during the crisis, and their outlook for future ratings changes became negative. The Icelandic government had a relatively healthy balance, with sovereign debt of 28% of GDP and a budget surplus of 6% of GDP (2007). More recently, the estimated 2011 debt was 130% of GDP with a budget deficit of 6% of GDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nIn addition, the value of foreign currency bonds which matured in the remainder of 2008 was only $600 million, and foreign currency debt service in 2009 was only $215 million, well within the government's ability to pay. However the agencies believed that the government would have to issue more foreign currency bonds, both to cover losses as the banks' overseas operations are liquidation and also to stimulate demand in the domestic economy as Iceland goes into recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nA team of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Iceland at the start of October 2008 for talks with the government. Industry Minister \u00d6ssur Skarph\u00e9\u00f0insson was said to be \"favourable\" to help from the IMF to stabilise the kr\u00f3na and to allow interest rates to be lowered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nOn 7 October, the central bank of Iceland announced that they had been in talks with the Russian ambassador to Iceland, Victor I. Tatarintsev, over a \u20ac4 billion loan from Russia. The loan would be given across three or four years, with an interest rate of 30 to 50 basis points (0.3% to 0.5%) above LIBOR. Central Bank of Iceland governor Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Oddsson later clarified that the loan was still being negotiated. According to R\u00daV, prime minister Geir Haarde had been investigating the possibility of a Russian loan since the mid-summer. When questioned on the matter in a press conference, Geir Haarde said: \"We have not received the kind of support that we were requesting from our friends. So in a situation like that one has to look for new friends.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nA team of Icelandic negotiators arrived in Moscow on 14 October to discuss the possible loan. Russian deputy finance minister Dmitri Pankin said that \"The meeting took place in a friendly atmosphere.... We are working thoroughly on the issue to take a final decision\". On the same day, the Central Bank of Iceland drew on its swap facilities with the central banks of Denmark and Norway for \u20ac200 million each. Iceland has swap facilities with the other Nordic countries for a total of \u20ac1.5 billion. Iceland is also seeking assistance from the European Central Bank (ECB): there is some precedent for the move, as the ECB already has currency swap arrangements with Switzerland, another non-member of the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nOn 24 October, the IMF tentatively agreed to lend \u20ac1.58 billion. However the loan had still not been approved by the Executive Board of the IMF on 13 November. Due to the delay Iceland found itself caught in a classic catch-22 situation, loans from other countries could not be secured until the IMF program had been approved. The Icelandic government spoke of a $500M (\u20ac376M) gap in the funding plans. Dutch finance minister Wouter Bos stated that the Netherlands would oppose the loan unless agreement was reached over deposit insurance for Landsbanki customers in the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Development, Sovereign debt\nThe IMF-led package of $4.6bn was finally agreed on 19 November, with the IMF loaning $2.1bn and another $2.5bn of loans and currency swaps from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. In addition, Poland has offered to lend $200M and the Faroe Islands have offered $50M, about 3% of Faroese GDP. The Icelandic government reported that Russia offered to lend $500M, and Poland, $200M. The next day, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom announced a joint loan of $6.3bn (\u20ac5bn), related to the deposit insurance dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nIn 2001, banks were deregulated in Iceland. This set the stage for banks to upload debts when foreign companies were accumulated. The crisis unfolded when banks became unable to refinance their debts. It is estimated that the three major banks held foreign debt in excess of \u20ac50 billion, or about \u20ac160,000 per Icelandic resident, compared with Iceland's gross domestic product of \u20ac8.5 billion. As early as March 2008, the cost of private deposit insurance for deposits in Landsbanki and Kaupthing was already far higher (6\u20138\u00bd% of the sum deposited) than for other European banks. The kr\u00f3na, which was ranked by The Economist in early 2007 as the most overvalued currency in the world (based on the Big Mac Index), has further suffered from the effects of carry trading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nComing from a small domestic market, Iceland's banks have financed their expansion with loans on the interbank lending market and, more recently, by deposits from outside Iceland (which are also a form of external debt). Households also took on a large amount of debt, equivalent to 213% of disposable income, which led to inflation. This inflation was exacerbated by the practice of the Central Bank of Iceland issuing liquidity loans to banks on the basis of newly issued, uncovered bonds \u2013 effectively, printing money on demand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nIn response to the rise in prices \u2013 14% in the twelve months to September 2008, compared with a target of 2.5% \u2013 the Central Bank of Iceland held interest rates high (15.5%). Such high interest rates, compared with 5.5% in the United Kingdom or 4% in the eurozone for example, encouraged overseas investors to hold deposits in Icelandic kr\u00f3nur, leading to monetary inflation: the Icelandic money supply (M3) grew 56.5% in the twelve months to September 2008, compared with 5.0% GDP growth. The situation was effectively an economic bubble, with investors overestimating the true value of the kr\u00f3na.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nAs with many banks around the world, the Icelandic banks found it increasingly difficult or impossible to roll over their loans in the interbank market, their creditors insisting on payment while no other banks were willing to make fresh loans. In such a situation, a bank would normally have to ask for a loan from the central bank as the lender of last resort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0040-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nHowever, in Iceland the banks were so much larger than the national economy that the Central Bank of Iceland and the Icelandic government could not guarantee the payment of the banks' debts, leading to the collapse of the banks. The official reserves of the Central Bank of Iceland stood at 374.8 billion kr\u00f3nur at the end of September 2008, compared with 350.3 billion kr\u00f3nur of short-term international debt in the Icelandic banking sector, and at least \u00a36.5 billion (1,250 billion kr\u00f3nur) of retail deposits in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nThe situation was made worse by the fact that Icesave was operating as a branch of Landsbanki, rather than as a legally independent subsidiary. As such, it was completely dependent on the Central Bank of Iceland for emergency loans of liquidity, and could not turn to the Bank of England for help. The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) was aware of the risk, and was considering imposing special liquidity requirements on Icelandic deposit-taking banks in the weeks before the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0041-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nHowever the plan \u2013 which was never implemented \u2013 would have forced the Icelandic banks to cut interest rates or stop taking new deposits, and might even have sparked the sort of bank run it was designed to prevent. The Guernsey authorities were also planning on bringing in restrictions on foreign banks operating as branches and on transfers of funds between Guernsey subsidiaries and parent banks (\"parental upstreaming\"). Landsbanki operated in Guernsey through a legally independent subsidiary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Causes\nThe existence of a bank run on Landsbanki accounts in the UK in the period up to 7 October seems confirmed by a statement from the bank on 10 October, which said \"Landsbanki \u00cdslands hf. transferred substantial funds to its UK branch during this time to fulfil its Icesave commitments.\" The transfer of funds from Landsbanki Guernsey to Heritable Bank, a Landsbanki subsidiary in the UK, also suggests a bank run in the UK. A transfer of \"substantial funds\" from Iceland to the UK would have been a significant downward push on the value of the kr\u00f3na, even before the effects of any speculation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0043-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Bank restructuring\nWholesale funding disappeared in September 2008 leading to the collapse of Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbanki. Due to the size of the combined balance sheet of those banks the government of Iceland did not have the means to save those banks. They were put into receivership instead with their boards replaced. Nevertheless, the failed banks were restructured by dividing them into a new and an old bank in order to avoid a credit crunch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0044-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Bank restructuring\nThe new state-owned banks took over the domestic activities and have been recapitalised by government with a capital ratio of 16% of all assets. The Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) has acted to \"ring-fence\" the Icelandic operations of Landsbanki and Glitnir, stating its aim of \"continued banking operations for Icelandic families and businesses\". NBI (originally known as N\u00fdi Landsbanki) was set up on 9 October with 200 billion kr\u00f3nur in equity and 2,300 billion kr\u00f3nur of assets. N\u00fdi Glitnir was set up on 15 October with 110 billion kr\u00f3nur in equity and 1,200 billion kr\u00f3nur of assets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0044-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Bank restructuring\nN\u00fdja Kaup\u00feing was set up on 22 October with 75 billion kr\u00f3nur in equity and 700 billion kr\u00f3nur of assets. The equity in all three new banks was supplied by the Icelandic government, and amounted to 30% of Iceland's GDP. The new banks will also have to reimburse their predecessors for the net value of the transferred assets, as determined by \"recognised appraisers\". As of 14 November 2008, these net values were estimated as: NBI ISK558.1bn (\u20ac3.87bn), N\u00fdi Glitnir ISK442.4bn (\u20ac2.95bn); N\u00fdja Kaup\u00feing ISK172.3bn (\u20ac1.14bn). The total debt of 1173 billion kr\u00f3nur is more than 90% of Iceland's 2007 gross domestic product.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0045-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Bank restructuring\nThe international businesses remained with the old banks for winding up. Glitnir and Kaupthing, shorn of their Icelandic operations, obtained moratoria on payments to creditors (similar to Chapter 11 protection) from the District Court of Reykjav\u00edk on 24 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0046-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Bank restructuring\nThe rescue operations of the central bank along with the restructuring and recapitalization of the banks increased the public debt ratio by about 20 percentage points of GDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0047-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nThe current economic climate in the country has affected many Icelandic businesses and citizens. With the creation of N\u00fdi Landsbanki, the new organisation which replaces the old Landsbanki, around 300 employees will lose their jobs due to a radical restructuring of the organisation which is intended to minimise the bank's international operations. Similar job losses are expected at Glitnir and Kaupthing The job losses can be compared with the 2,136 registered unemployed and 495 advertised vacancies in Iceland at the end of August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0048-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nOther companies have also been affected. For example, the private Sterling Airlines declared bankruptcy on 29 October 2008. The national airline Icelandair has noticed a significant slump in domestic demand for flights. However, the airline states that year-on-year international demand is up from last year. Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n Arngr\u00edmsson, a spokesman for the airline, said \"we're getting decent traffic from other markets... we are trying to let the weak kr\u00f3na help us.\" He has also stated that it is impossible to predict whether the company will be profitable this year. Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0, an Icelandic newspaper, is cutting some jobs and merging parts of its operations with the media corporation 365. The newspaper 24 stundir has ceased publication due to the crisis, resulting in the loss of 20 jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0049-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nImporters are particularly hard hit, with the government restricting foreign currency to essential products such as food, medicines and oil. The \u20ac400 million loan from the central banks of Denmark and Norway is sufficient to pay for a month's imports, although on 15 October there was still a \"temporary delay\" which affected \"all payments to and from the country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0050-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nThe assets of Icelandic pension funds are, according to one expert, expected to shrink by 15\u201325%. The Icelandic Pension Funds Association has announced that benefits will in all likelihood have to be cut in 2009. Iceland's GDP is expected by economists to shrink by as much as 10% as a result of the crisis, putting Iceland by some measures in an economic depression. Inflation may climb as high as 75% by the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0051-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nUnemployment had more than tripled by late November 2008, with over 7000 registered jobseekers (about 4% of the workforce) compared to just 2136 at the end of August 2008. As 80% of household debt is indexed and another 13% denominated in foreign currencies, debt payment is going to be more costly. Since October 2008, 14% of the workforce have experienced reductions in pay, and around 7% have had their working hours reduced. According to the president of the Icelandic Federation of Labour (AS\u00cd), Gylfi Arnbj\u00f6rnsson, these figures are lower than expected. 85% of those registered as unemployed in Iceland stated that they lost their job in October, after the economic collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0052-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nOn 17 July 2009, lawmakers voted 33\u201328 (with two abstentions) to approve a government plan for Iceland to apply for full European Union membership. Although Iceland (as a member of EFTA) already had a free trade arrangement with the EU, it had always rejected full membership due to concerns that its independence could be compromised. However, Prime Minister J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, who was elected in April, had promised to bring Iceland into the EU to help stabilize its economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0052-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nEU enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn expressed support for Iceland's membership, stating that as \"a country with deep democratic traditions\", Iceland will be welcome in the EU's expansion plans. (However, on 13 September 2013 the Government of Iceland dissolved its accession team and suspended its application to join the EU. On 12 March 2015, Foreign Minister of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson stated that he had sent a letter to the EU withdrawing the application for membership, without the approval of the Althing, though the European Union stated that Iceland had not formally withdrawn the application.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0053-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nThe crisis led to a radical shift in the political landscape of Iceland which until this time had been marked by stability. After the effects of the crisis set in, mainstream parties were discredited as newer parties such as the Left Greens and the Pirate Party moved into the mainstream. During the Social Democrat-Left Green coalition (2009-13) the crisis was blamed on corruption and a lack of transpanecy; in reaction to this the government attempted to reform the constitution and protect the welfare state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0053-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nJoining the coalition resulted in the Left Greens losing their innocence as a party, resulting in voters punishing them at the 2013 election, at which they lost about half of their voter base. Voters were angry that the government had seemingly bowed to the IMF demands and introduced austerity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0053-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Within Iceland\nLater on in 2016 and 2017 the Left Greens were able to gain back a sizable proportation of their electoral gains by focusing their campaigns on their historical opposition to the Independence Party and oil drilling off the coast as well as  arguing that the largest state run bank should be converted into a value vased bank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0054-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nOver \u00a3840 million in cash from more than 100 UK local authorities was invested in Icelandic banks. Representatives from each council met to try to persuade the Treasury to secure the money in the same way that customers' money in Icesave was fully guaranteed. Of all the local authorities, Kent County Council has the most money invested in Icelandic banks, \u00a350 million. Transport for London, the organisation that operates and coordinates transport services within London, also has a large investment at \u00a340 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0054-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nLocal authorities were working under government advice to invest their money across many national and international banks as a way of spreading risk. Other UK organisations said to have invested heavily include police services and fire authorities, and even the Audit Commission. In October 2008, it was hoped that about one-third of the deposited money will be available fairly rapidly, corresponding to the liquid assets of the UK subsidiaries: liquidation of other assets, such as loans and offices, will take longer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0055-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nIn an emergency sitting of Tynwald on 9 October 2008, the Isle of Man government raised compensation from 75% of the first \u00a315,000 per depositor to 100% of \u00a350,000 per depositor. The Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, Tony Brown, confirmed that Kaupthing had guaranteed the operations and liabilities of its Manx subsidiary in September 2007, and that the Manx government was pressing Iceland to honour this guarantee. Depositors with Landsbanki on Guernsey found themselves without any depositor protection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0056-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nIn October 2008, an agreement was reached between the Icelandic and Dutch governments on the savings of about 120,000 Dutch citizens. The Icelandic government agreed to cover the first \u20ac20,887 on savings accounts of Dutch citizens held by Landsbanki subsidiary Icesave, using money lent by the Dutch government. The total value of Icesave deposits in the Netherlands were \u20ac1.7 billion. At the same time, Iceland and Britain reached an agreement on the general contours of a solution: Icesave deposits in the UK total \u00a34 billion (\u20ac5 billion) in 300,000 accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0056-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nThe figure of \u20ac20,887 was the amount covered by the Icelandic Depositors' and Investors' Guarantee Fund (DIGF; Tryggingarsj\u00f3\u00f0ur in Icelandic): however, the DIGF had equity of only 8.3 billion kr\u00f3nur at the end of 2007, \u20ac90 million at the exchange rates of the time and far from sufficient to cover the Dutch and British claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0057-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nThe cost of deposit insurance in the UK was unclear in November 2008. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) paid around \u00a33 billion to transfer deposits from Heritable Bank and Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander to ING Direct, while the UK Treasury paid an additional \u00a3600 million to guarantee retail deposits that were higher than the FSCS limit. The Treasury also paid out \u00a3800 million to guarantee Icesave deposits that were higher than the limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0057-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nA loan of \u00a32.2 billion to the Icelandic government was expected to cover the claims against the Icelandic DIGF relating to Icesave, while the exposure of the UK FSCS is expected to be \u00a31-2 billion. The Supreme Court of Iceland, in 2011, ordered the repayment of \"\u00a34.5bn to the UK and \u20ac1.6bn (\u00a31.2bn) by liquidating assets\". In January 2016, The Financial Times reported that HM Treasury \"had been paid \u00a3740m from the Landsbanki estate\". This payment by the Landsbanki estate was the final repayment to the UK's treasury, which totaled \u00a34.6bn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0058-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nThe crisis also prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reduce its foreign aid to developing nations, from 0.31% to 0.27% of GNP. The effect of the aid cut was greatly amplified by the falling value of the kr\u00f3na: the budget of the Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA) was reduced from US$22 million to $13 million. Since Iceland's foreign aid is targeted in sectors for which the country has particular expertise (e.g., fisheries, geothermal power), the cutbacks will have a substantial impact in countries which receive Icelandic aid \u2013 most noticeably in Sri Lanka, where ICEIDA is pulling out altogether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0059-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nOn 27 February 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Iceland's new government was trying to raise $25 million by selling its ambassadorial residences in Washington, New York, London and Oslo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0060-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nOn 28 August 2009, Iceland's parliament voted 34\u201315 (with 14 abstentions) to approve a bill (commonly referred to as the Icesave bill) to pay the United Kingdom and the Netherlands more than $5 billion lost in Icelandic deposit accounts. Initially opposed in June, the bill was passed after amendments were added which set a ceiling on the payment based on the country's gross domestic product. Opponents of the bill argued that Icelanders, already reeling from the crisis, should not have to pay for mistakes made by private banks under the watch of other governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0060-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Effects, Outside Iceland\nHowever, the government argued that if the bill failed to pass, the UK and the Netherlands might retaliate by blocking a planned aid package for Iceland from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Under the deal, up to 4% of Iceland's gross domestic product (GDP) will be paid to the UK, in sterling terms, from 2017 to 2023 while the Netherlands will receive up to 2% of Iceland's GDP, in euro terms, for the same period. Talks between Icelandic, Dutch and UK ministers in January 2010 dubbed as \"Icesave\" did not result in any specific actions being agreed upon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0061-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Special Investigation Commission\nOn 12 December 2008, the Althing established a Special Investigation Commission (SIC), which came to consist of Supreme Court Justice P\u00e1ll Hreinsson who served as chairman, Parliamentary Ombudsman Tryggvi Gunnarsson and Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Benediktsd\u00f3ttir associate chair at Yale University, to investigate the causes and lessons of the crisis. The commission released its report on 12 April 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 95], "content_span": [96, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0062-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Icelandic criminal investigations\nThe Office of the Special Prosecutor was founded with the passage of a bill in the Icelandic parliament 10 December 2008. The aim was to investigate suspected criminal conduct leading up to, in connection with or in the wake of the banking crisis, whether these relate to the activities of financial undertakings, other legal entities or individuals, and, as appropriate, to follow up these investigations by bringing charges in court against those concerned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0063-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Icelandic criminal investigations\nIn February 2009, \u00d3lafur Hauksson (b. Reykjav\u00edk 1964) was appointed; it was the Icelandic government's second attempt to appoint to the role, and \u00d3lafur was one of only two applicants. He had previously been the police chief in Akranes. At the time the unit had four staff members; by September 2013 it had 109, with 140 cases under investigation. By that time, the top managers of all three Icelandic banks which collapsed during the financial crisis had been charged, though the cases progressed slowly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0063-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Icelandic criminal investigations\nThe last active investigation related to the financial crisis concluded in December 2017; 202 cases had been investigated in total over the period, with 23 of them ending up in court. By January 2018, 13 of the court cases ended with guilty verdicts, four with not guilty verdicts and six trials were still pending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0064-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Icelandic criminal investigations\nThe investigation has been focusing on a number of questionable financial practices engaged in by Icelandic banks:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0065-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Official investigations, Arrests by UK Serious Fraud Office\nOn 9 March 2011, Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz were arrested in London by the UK's Serious Fraud Office as part of their ongoing investigation in conjunction with Iceland's Special Prosecutor's Office into the collapse of Icelandic Bank Kaupthing. Neither was, however, indicted, and in fact they sued the Serious Fraud Office for wrongful arrest, receiving large sums in compensation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 97], "content_span": [98, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0066-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Scrutiny of Icelandic business leaders\nSince the crisis began, many of Iceland's business leaders, who had previously been considered financial gurus who greatly developed Iceland's economy, are now under intense public scrutiny for their roles in causing the financial crisis:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0067-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Scrutiny of Icelandic business leaders\nReportedly, all of those under scrutiny are now rarely seen in public and some have apparently left the country. They are also reportedly the subjects of an ongoing investigation to determine if any of their business practices warrant criminal prosecution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0068-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Statements from former politicians\nFormer Prime Minister Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Oddsson has claimed that Iceland needs to investigate \"unusual and unconventional loans\" given by the banks to senior politicians during the years before the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0069-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Statements from former politicians\nBj\u00f6rn Bjarnson, the former Minister for Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, has started a blog detailing the problems with the business sector and the efforts to cover them up. This was cited as an example of how politicians and businessmen, who traditionally held a tight grip over the Icelandic media, have lost this control and that dozens of similar blogs have been created. Bj\u00f6rn stated that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0070-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Statements from former politicians\n\"I have written a lot about problems in the business sector over the last 14 years, and I can only compare some parts of it to Enron. Here companies have been playing a game, using the media and publishing to make themselves look good. We only hope that the foreign media will soon begin to understand what has been going on\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0071-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nParts of the Icelandic public have arranged protests against the Central Bank, the Parliament and the government's alleged lack of responsibility before and after the crisis, attracting between 3000 and 6000 people (1\u20132% of Iceland's population) on Saturdays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0072-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nIn early November 2008, the President of Iceland, \u00d3lafur Ragnar Gr\u00edmsson, at an informal lunch with foreign diplomats, criticized Iceland's traditional friends (particularly Britain, Sweden and Denmark) as well as the International Monetary Fund. According to a memo from the Norwegian embassy, he suggested that the Russians might want to use the Keflav\u00edk Air Base, the Russian ambassador replied that they had no need for it. The President is quoted to have said that Iceland would soon recover, even if they had to fight alone. The President does not necessarily agree with the government on these issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0073-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nIn October 2008, the UK PM Gordon Brown used provisions in part 2 of the Anti- Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 to freeze Landsbanki holdings in the United Kingdom. Iceland's prime minister Geir Haarde protested against what he described as \"a terrorist law being applied against us\", calling it \"a completely unfriendly act\". Angered by the British decision, Iceland decided to submit a formal complaint to NATO about their move, and it also provoked more than 80,000 Icelanders (equal to 25% of its entire population) to sign an online petition set up under the heading \"Icelanders are not terrorists\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0073-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nThe relationship got even tenser when UK replied a month later by cancelling its scheduled patrol of the Icelandic airspace in December 2008. Iceland has no standing army of its own, and relies on a long-term standing agreement with NATO where a group of member states have committed in turns to defend the Icelandic airspace, and the UK Royal Air Force had now cancelled this after mutual agreement with NATO (presumably with another member state having accepted the responsibility).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0074-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nAccording to a poll from late November 2008, 64% were in favour of early elections, with only 29.3% opposed. In a poll from 22 November 2008, the Social Democratic Alliance led with 33.6%, followed by the Left-Green Alliance at 27.8% and the Independence Party at 24.8%; the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party were far behind, with only 6.3% and 4.3%, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0075-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath\nAs the Parliament met again on 20 January 2009, there were protests with reinvigorated force and escalation of conflict between protesters and the police. On 22 January, police used tear gas to disperse people on Austurv\u00f6llur (the square in front of the Al\u00feing), the first such use since the 1949 anti-NATO protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0076-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nPrime Minister Geir H. Haarde announced on 23 January 2009 that he would be stepping down as leader of the Independence Party for health reasons: he has been diagnosed as having a malignant oesophageal tumour. He said he would travel to the Netherlands around the end of January for treatment. Education Minister and Independence Party vice-chairman \u00deorger\u00f0ur Katr\u00edn Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir was to serve as Prime Minister in his absence. The leader of the Social Democratic Alliance, Foreign Minister Ingibj\u00f6rg S\u00f3lr\u00fan G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir, was also unwell, undergoing treatment for a benign brain tumour since September 2008. The government recommended that elections be held on 9 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0077-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nBj\u00f6rgvin G. Sigur\u00f0sson, Iceland's Commerce Minister, resigned on 25 January, citing the pressures of the nation's economic collapse, as the country's political leaders failed to agree on how to lead country out of its financial crisis. One of his last acts as minister was to dismiss the director of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). Bj\u00f6rgvin acknowledged that Icelanders have lost faith in their government and political system. \"I want to shoulder my part of the responsibility for that,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0078-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nNegotiations on continuing the coalition broke down the next day, apparently over demands from the Social Democratic Alliance to take over the leadership of the government, and Geir Haarde tendered the government's resignation to the President of Iceland, \u00d3lafur Ragnar Gr\u00edmsson. The President asked the present government to continue until a new government can be formed, and held talks with the five political parties represented in the Althing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0079-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nAfter these discussions, Ingibj\u00f6rg S\u00f3lr\u00fan G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir of the Social Democratic Alliance and Steingr\u00edmur J. Sigf\u00fasson of the Left-Green Movement were asked by the President to negotiate the formation of a new coalition government. Such a coalition would be five seats short of an overall majority in the Althing, but the Progressive Party (seven seats) was expected to support the coalition without actually joining the government. Neither party leader became Prime Minister: instead, the position went to J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir of the Social Democratic Alliance, then the Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security, who became the new chairwoman of her party on 28 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0080-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nOn 8 April 2009, former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde stated that he was solely responsible for accepting controversial donations to the Icelandic Independence Party in 2006, ISK 30 million from the investment group FL Group, and ISK 25 million from Landsbanki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0081-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Political aftermath, Government resignation\nGeir was strongly criticized in the April 2010 report of the Special Investigative Commission into the financial collapse, being accused of \"negligence\" along with three other ministers of his government. Iceland's parliament voted 33\u201330 to indict Geir, but not the other ministers, on charges of negligence in office at a session on 28 September 2010. He will stand trial before the Landsd\u00f3mur, a special court to hear cases alleging misconduct in government office: it will be the first time the Landsd\u00f3mur has convened since it was established in the 1905 Constitution. The trial began in Reykjavik on 5 March 2012. Geir Haarde was found guilty on one of four charges on 23 April 2012, for not holding cabinet meetings on important state matters. Landsd\u00f3mur said Mr. Haarde would face no punishment, as this was a minor offence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 913]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0082-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nIceland's financial position has steadily improved since the crash. The economic contraction and rise in unemployment appear to have been arrested by late 2010 and with growth under way in mid-2011. Four main factors have been important in this regard. First is the emergency legislation passed by the Icelandic parliament in October 2008. It served to minimise the impact of the financial crisis on the country. The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used permission granted by the emergency legislation to take over the domestic operations of the three largest banks. The much larger foreign operations of the banks, however, went into receivership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0083-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nA second important factor is the success of the IMF Stand-By-Arrangement in the country since November 2008. The SBA includes three pillars. The first pillar is a program of medium term fiscal consolidation, involving painful austerity measures and significant tax hikes. The result has been that central government debts have been stabilised at around 80\u201390 percent of GDP. A second pillar is the resurrection of a viable but sharply downsized domestic banking system on the ruins of its gargantuan international banking system which the government was unable to bail out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0083-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nA third pillar is the enactment of capital controls and the work to gradually lift these to restore normal financial linkages with the outside world. An important result of the emergency legislation and the SBA is that the country has not been seriously affected by the European sovereign debt crisis from 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0083-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nDespite a contentious debate with Britain and the Netherlands over the question of a state guarantee on the Icesave deposits of Landsbanki in these countries, credit default swaps on Icelandic sovereign debt have steadily declined from over 1000 points prior to the crash in 2008 to around 200 points in June 2011. The fact that the assets of the failed Landsbanki branches were estimated to cover most of the depositor claims had an influence to ease concerns over the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0084-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nThe third major factor behind the resolution of the financial crisis was the decision by the government of Iceland to apply for membership in the EU in July 2009. While views on the feasibility of EU membership are quite mixed in Iceland, this action has served to enhance the credibility of the country on international financial markets. One sign of the success of the above efforts is the fact that the Icelandic government was successfully able to raise $1 billion with a bond issue on 9 June 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0084-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nThis development indicates that international investors have given the government and the new banking system, with two of the three biggest banks now in foreign hands, a clean bill of health. The first two major measures were implemented by the government of Geir H. Haarde but also carried out by the government of Johanna Sigurdardottir, which then took the step to apply for EU membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0085-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nFinally, the fourth major factor was the sharp rise in foreign tourism, which pumped a large amount of money into the economy; this tourism boom was caused primarily by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull and the rise in popularity of Game of Thrones, which had some scenes that were filmed in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0086-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Recovery starting in 2011\nIceland has undertaken recapitalization of lenders such as injection of ISK 33 billion (2.1% of 2010 GDP) into Housing Financing Fund at the end of 2010, under a restructuring plan approved by the EFTSA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0087-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Aftermath (2012\u20132013)\nBy mid-2012 Iceland was regarded as one of Europe's recovery success stories. It has had two years of economic growth. Unemployment was down to 6.3% and Iceland was attracting immigrants to fill jobs. Currency devaluation effectively reduced wages by 50% making exports more competitive and imports more expensive. Ten-year government bonds were issued below 6%, lower than some of the PIIGS nations in the EU (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain). Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, a member of parliament, noted that adjustments via currency devaluations are less painful than government labor policies and negotiations. Nevertheless, while EU fervor has cooled the government continued to pursue membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0088-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Aftermath (2012\u20132013)\nIceland elected a new government in April 2013, which as one of their top priorities wanted to negotiate a debt haircut towards foreign creditors of the three failed Icelandic banks now in receivership, as part of a deal to lift the long enforced (since November 2008) capital controls. The current capital controls ban a swap/exchange of ISK denominated assets to foreign currency, and so by effect has trapped repayment of ISK denominated assets to the creditors \u2013 which in theory mean they should be interested to accept a haircut in return for getting the capital controls lifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0088-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Aftermath (2012\u20132013)\nThe Icelandic government intent somehow to route the saved money from the negotiated debt haircut for creditors into a national household debt relief fund, enabling a 20% debt relief for all household mortgages. In July 2013, Standard & Poors recommended Iceland to drop the debt relief initiative, as it would only result in increased debt for the government \u2013 making it even more difficult to lend at credit markets, and it was forecasted also to ignite high inflation along with an economic recession equal to a GDP detraction of 10%. The government has nevertheless appointed a taskforce to present proposals on how best to achieve the government's goal about implementing a combined capital control abolition and debt relief for households, with a reporting deadline in October 2013. Capital controls were eventually ended in March 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 921]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201213-0089-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis, Crisis resolution, Aftermath (2012\u20132013)\nA significant amount of the capital trapped in Iceland by the capital controls was channelled into property investment, partly by the financial management company Gamma, and was one factor that fuelled rising property prices in Iceland after the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis\nThe U.S. state of California had a budget crisis in which it faced a shortfall of at least $11.2 billion, projected to top $40 billion over the 2009\u20132010 fiscal years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2008\nOn September 23, 2008, about 3 months after its due date, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the 2008\u20132009 budget. Worsening financial conditions since 2003 left the state with a large shortfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2008\nA two-thirds vote is required to pass a budget, and in both the original budget negotiations and in the attempt to revise the budget no political party by itself had enough votes to pass a budget. The majority Democrats fought to minimize cuts to programs, while most of the minority Republicans refused to accept any tax increase. The original budget was put together by Democrats and some Republicans using spending cuts, internal borrowing, and accounting maneuvers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2008\nIn November 2008, Schwarzenegger proposed spending reductions including the following measures concerning state employees:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2008\nIn December 2008, Schwarzenegger ordered mandatory furloughs of two days per month for state employees, as well as \"layoffs, reductions and other efficiencies\" to achieve savings in the General Fund of up to 10%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nLabor organizations filed lawsuits and took other actions in an attempt to stop the furloughs of state workers. On Jan. 29, 2009, a Superior Court Judge ruled that Schwarzenegger had emergency furlough power, and on February the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the appeal to the decision came too late and was incomplete, so judges were unable to determine if a halt to state furloughs is legally justified. As part of the furlough, various state offices were closed on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month from February 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010, which was estimated to save the State $1.3 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nBy February 2009 California State Controller John Chiang delayed $3.5 billion in state payments (such as state tax refunds) for at least 30 days because the state was experiencing cash flow difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nThe state legislature passed a budget in February 2009 that depended on the voters approving tax extensions and money redirection into the general fund, which in May the voters did not approve. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger then proposed $16 billion in cuts and also borrowing money from local governments. In the legislature, the Republicans agreed to lower the income of state employees, but the Democrats resisted these proposals and suggested increasing fees to be paid by smokers and oil wells. Neither party agreed to borrowing money from local governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nOn April 1, 2009, the state sales and use tax was temporarily increased by one percentage point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nThe state had been selling bank-guaranteed short-term notes to get cash, but in June 2009 its credit rating was lowered. When the state asked for a federal guarantee of the notes, the Obama administration said it had no legal authority to back state notes and that the state should solve its own problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nOn July 1, 2009, Schwarzenegger ordered state workers to take a third furlough day each month. On July 2, 2009, the state government began issuing IOUs to meet its short term financial obligations. Five days later, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase announced that they would stop accepting IOUs by July 10. Fitch Ratings dropped California's bond rating from A-minus to BBB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nOn July 24, 2009, the state government passed a budget that included $15 billion in service cuts, including $8.1 billion in education cuts. Eliminated from the final plan included proposals to borrow money from city and county governments and to drill for oil off the coast of Santa Barbara. Chiang announced in August 2009 that the IOU program would end the next month and that California would pay off 327,000 IOUs worth almost $2 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, 2009\nThe budget crisis led to cutbacks and many layoffs at state universities in California. In order to curb the budget shortfalls, the California Board of Regents voted on a 32% raise in all tuition costs for state universities. This led to the 2009 California college tuition hike protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, From 2012 and into 2013\nWith the passage of Proposition 30 in 2012 and a steadily improving economy, for the first time in many years, California Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget plan for 2013 listed a small surplus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, Causes of budget deficit\nA major source of the deficit was a decline in state revenues from more than $100 billion in 2007 to about $85 billion in 2008\u2014mostly due to declines in personal income taxes, corporate taxes and other taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, Causes of budget deficit, Required legislative supermajorities\nNews reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority to pass tax increases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0015-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, Causes of budget deficit, Required legislative supermajorities\nThe National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) notes that, as of 2008, only 9 states required a supermajority to pass the state budget and of those 9, only 3 (California, Arkansas, and Rhode Island) required a two-thirds supermajority instead of a three-fifths supermajority to pass the state budget. The NCSL also notes that, as of 2008, 15 states required a supermajority to raise taxes and that California was among the 10 of those 15 that require more than a three-fifths supermajority (i.e., a 2/3 or 3/4 supermajority).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201214-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 California budget crisis, Causes of budget deficit, Required legislative supermajorities, Reforms\nProponents of ending the state's supermajority requirements note that \"Since 1980, the California State Legislature has met the June 15 constitutional deadline for sending a budget to the governor only five  times (of thirty budget periods). Only ten times has the brokering been done by the July 1 start of the fiscal year.\" They sponsored California Proposition 25 (2010), a ballot initiative that changes legislative vote requirements to pass a budget, but not tax increases, from two-thirds to a simple majority. California Proposition 25 (2010) was approved in the state's November 2010 general election ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 107], "content_span": [108, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks\nThe 2008-2012 Cyprus talks were held as part of the long-going peace process, in order to resolve the Cyprus dispute. The talks failed to achieve their goals. An opinion poll conducted in 2010 reported that 84% of Greek Cypriots and 70% of Turkish Cypriots assumed that: \"the other side would never accept the actual compromises and concessions that are needed for a fair and viable settlement\". At the beginning of 2013, Cyprus negotiations were suspended because of a change of government in the Greek Cypriot community of Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, 2008 elections in the Republic of Cyprus\nIn the 2008 presidential elections, Papadopoulos was defeated by AKEL candidate Dimitris Christofias, who pledged to restart talks on reunification immediately. Speaking on the election result, Mehmet Ali Talat stated that \"this forthcoming period will be a period during which the Cyprus problem can be solved within a reasonable space of time \u2013 despite all difficulties \u2013 provided that there is will\". Christofias held his first meeting as president with the Turkish Cypriot leader on 21 March 2008 in the UN buffer zone in Nicosia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0001-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, 2008 elections in the Republic of Cyprus\nAt the meeting, the two leaders agreed to launch a new round of \"substantive\" talks on reunification, and to reopen Ledra Street, which has been cut in two since the intercommunal violence of the 1960s and has come to symbolise the island's division. On 3 April 2008, after barriers had been removed, the Ledra Street crossing was reopened in the presence of Greek and Turkish Cypriot officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nA first meeting of the technical committees was set to take place on 18 April 2008. Talat and Christofias met socially at a cocktail party on 7 May 2008, and agreed to meet regularly to review the progress of the talks so far. A second formal summit was held on 23 May 2008 to review the progress made in the technical committees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nAt a meeting on 1 July 2008, the two leaders agreed in principle on the concepts of a single citizenship and a single sovereignty, and decided to start direct reunification talks very soon; on the same date, former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer was appointed as the new UN envoy for Cyprus. Christofias and Talat agreed to meet again on 25 July 2008 for a final review of the preparatory work before the actual negotiations would start. Christofias was expected to propose a rotating presidency for the united Cypriot state. Talat stated he expected they would set a date to start the talks in September, and reiterated that he would not agree to abolishing the guarantor roles of Turkey and Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nAfter the conclusion of negotiations, a reunification plan would be put to referendums in both communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nIn December 2008, the Athenian socialist daily newspaper To Vima described a \"crisis\" in relations between Christofias and Talat, with the Turkish Cypriots beginning to speak openly of a loose \"confederation\", an idea strongly opposed by South Nicosia. Tensions were further exacerbated by Turkey's harassment of Cypriot vessels engaged in oil exploration in the island's Exclusive Economic Zone, and by the Turkish Cypriot leadership's alignment with Ankara's claim that Cyprus has no continental shelf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nOn 29 April 2009, Talat stated that if the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (that will put the last point in the Orams' case) makes a decision just like in the same spirit with the decision of European Court of Justice (ECJ) then the Negotiation Process in Cyprus will be damaged in such a way that it will never be repaired once more. The European Commission warned the Republic of Cyprus not to turn Orams' case legal fight to keep their holiday home into a political battle over the divided island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nOn 31 January 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cyprus to accelerate talks aimed at reuniting the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nThe election of nationalist Dervi\u015f Ero\u011flu of the National Unity Party as president in Northern Cyprus on 18 April is expected to complicate reunification negotiations. Talks were resumed after the elections in late May, however, and Ero\u01e7lu stated on 27 May 2010 he was now also in favour of a federal state, a change from his previous positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Preparatory talks\nIn early June 2010, talks reached an impasse and UN Special Advisor Alexander Downer called on the two leaders to decide whether they wanted a solution or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 18 November 2010, 1st tripartite meeting (Ban, Christofias, Eroglu) occurred in New York City without any agreement over the main issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 26 January 2011, 2nd tripartite meeting (Ban, Christofias, Eroglu) occurred in Geneva, Switzerland without any agreement over the main issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nIn March 2011, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported, \"The negotiations cannot be an open-ended process, nor can we afford interminable talks for the sake of talks\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 18 March 2011, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots realised 100th negotiation since April 2008 without any agreement over the main issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nBy mid-2011, there was a renewed push for an end to negotiations by the end of 2011 in order to have a united Cyprus take over the EU presidency on 1 July 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 7 July 2011, the 3rd tripartite meeting (Ban, Christofias, Eroglu) occurred in Geneva, Switzerland without any agreement over the main issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 30\u201331 October 2011, the 4th tripartite meeting (Ban, Christofias, Eroglu) occurred in New York City without any agreement over the main issues. Ban said that the talks are coming to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 23\u201324 January 2012, the 5th tripartite meeting (Ban, Christofias, Eroglu) occurred in New York City without any agreement over the main issues. Ban said \"I will be providing a report to the Security Council on the status of the negotiations at the end of February. At the end of March, I will seek a review of the process from my Special Adviser, Alexander Downer. If his report is positive, consistent with relevant Security Council resolutions and following consultations with the two sides, I intend to call a multilateral conference in late April or early May\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Tripartite meetings\nOn 21 April 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said \"there is not enough progress on core issues of reunification talks for calling an international conference\". International observers qualified the situation as the \"collapse of reunification talks\", \"last chance for Cyprus reunification lost\", \"UN-led rounds of talks have failed\" and the \"failure of UN Cyprus campaign for reunification\". On 27 April 2012, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Alexander Downer said \"If the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Leaders cannot agree with each other on a model for a united Cyprus, then United Nations cannot make them\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Breakdown of talks\nAt the end of September 2012, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Dervis Eroglu said that joint committees with the Greek Cypriot side had been set up to take confidence-building measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Breakdown of talks\nIn 2012, the European Union(EU)-funded project \"Reconciliation and Peace Economics in Cyprus\" found that \"There was little hope for a settlement in the island and the UN-sponsored talks again failed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Breakdown of talks\nAt the beginning of 2013, Cyprus negotiations were suspended because of a change of government in the Greek Cypriot community of Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Aftermath\nOn 29 May 2013, President of Rep. of Cyprus, Anastasiades, said \"Any new round of talks will not begin from the point they ended in 2012\". On 11 February 2014, Alexander Downer, UN Secretary-General's special adviser, stepped down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201215-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 Cyprus talks, Aftermath\nIn February 2014, the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders declared a Joint Communique. leading to a new round of talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament\nIn Romania's 2008 legislative election, held on 30 November, no party won an outright majority. The Democratic Liberal Party won the largest number of seats, closely followed by the Social Democratic Party + Conservative Party Alliance. It was thought that the third-placed National Liberal Party would hold the key for the new government. It asked for the post of Prime Minister in its negotiations with the two parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament\nIn the end, the Democratic Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party signed a coalition agreement, with Theodor Stolojan as Prime Minister designate. Two days later, inexplicably, Stolojan renounced this designation, and was quickly replaced by Emil Boc, Democratic Liberal Party president and incumbent Mayor of Cluj-Napoca. The National Liberal Party, Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, and the 18 Minorities Parties formed the Parliamentary Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament\nThe coalition originally had approximately 70% Parliament support, but the Social Democrats pulled out of the coalition on 1 October 2009, in protest of the sacking of interior minister Dan Nica, and the government fell in a vote of no confidence on 13 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament, Senate\nThe President of the Senate for this legislature was Mircea Geoan\u0103, former president of the Social Democratic Party, between 19 December 2008 and 23 November 2011. He was replaced by Vasile Blaga on 28 November 2011. In 3 July 2012, Crin Antonescu replaced Blaga at the Senate Presidency. During Antonescu's tenure as interim President, the business of the Senate was carried by Vice President Petru Filip. Filip switched parties from the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) to the Social Democratic Party (PSD) during the no confidence vote for the Ungureanu Cabinet. He also served as interim President of the Senate between the removal from office of Geoan\u0103 and Blaga's election in 2011. At that time he was a PDL Vice President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies\nOn 19 December 2008, Roberta Anastase was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies as  a member of Democratic Liberal Party. She was removed from office on 3 July 2012, and replaced by Valeriu Zgonea, Chamber Vice President at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies\nDuring the 2009 Spring Session of the Parliament, two Inquiry Committees were constituted, along with an Inquiry Sub-Committee. One Committee was formed to examine Minister of Youth and Sport Monica Iacob-Ridzi, regarding her possible misuse of money spent on Youth Day festivities. The other investigated Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Nicolae Nemirschi, regarding the possible misuse of money spent by his Ministry on the promotion of Governmental Programs. The Sub-Committee was formed to review former Prime Minister C\u0103lin Popescu-T\u0103riceanu, regarding the possible fraudulent allocation of oil drilling rights in the Snake Island area, recently gained by Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201216-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132012 legislature of the Romanian Parliament, Chamber of Deputies\nThe Chamber of Deputies was called in an Extraordinary Session in July to receive the reports of the Ridzi Inquiry Committee and T\u0103riceanu Inquiry Sub-Committee, and the formation of a new Inquiry Committee for the Minister of Tourism, Elena Udrea, regarding the possible misuse of money spent by her Ministry on tourism ads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis\nThe 2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, also known as the Great Recession in Spain or the Great Spanish Depression, began in 2008 during the world financial crisis of 2007\u201308. In 2012, it made Spain a late participant in the European sovereign debt crisis when the country was unable to bail out its financial sector and had to apply for a \u20ac100 billion rescue package provided by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis\nThe main cause of Spain's crisis was the housing bubble and the accompanying unsustainably high GDP growth rate. The ballooning tax revenues from the booming property investment and construction sectors kept the Spanish government's revenue in surplus, despite strong increases in expenditure, until 2007. The Spanish government supported the critical development by relaxing supervision of the financial sector and thereby allowing the banks to violate International Accounting Standards Board standards.. The banks in Spain were able to hide losses and earnings volatility, mislead regulators, analysts, and investors, and thereby finance the Spanish real estate bubble. The results of the crisis were devastating for Spain, including a strong economic downturn, a severe increase in unemployment, and bankruptcies of major companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis\nEven though some fundamental problems in the Spanish economy were already evident far ahead of the crisis, Spain continued the path of unsustainable property led growth when the ruling party changed in 2004. In these early times Spain had already a huge trade deficit, a loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners, an above-average inflation rate, house price increases, and a growing family indebtedness. During the third quarter of 2008 the national GDP contracted for the first time in 15 years, and, in February 2009, Spain (and other European economies) officially entered recession. The economy contracted 3.7% in 2009 and again in 2010 by 0.1%. It grew by 0.7% in 2011. By the 1st quarter of 2012, Spain was officially in recession once again. The Spanish government forecast a 1.7% drop for 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis\nThe provision of up to \u20ac100 billion of rescue loans from eurozone funds was agreed by eurozone finance ministers on 9 June 2012. As of October 2012, the so-called Troika (European Commission, ECB and IMF) is in negotiations with Spain to establish an economic recovery program required for providing additional financial loans from ESM. In addition to applying for a \u20ac100 billion bank recapitalization package in June 2012, Spain negotiated financial support from a \"Precautionary Conditioned Credit Line\" (PCCL) package. If Spain applies and receives a PCCL package, irrespective to what extent it subsequently decides to draw on this established credit line, this would at the same time immediately qualify the country to receive \"free\" additional financial support from ECB, in the form of some unlimited yield-lowering bond purchases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis\nThe turning point for the Spanish sovereign debt crisis occurred on 26 July 2012, when ECB President Mario Draghi said that the ECB was \"ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro\". Announced on 6 September 2012, the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program of unlimited purchases of short-term sovereign debt put the ECB's balance sheet behind the pledge. Speculative runs against Spanish sovereign debt were discouraged and 10-year bond yields stayed below the 6% level, approaching the 5% level by the end of 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nThe residential real estate bubble saw real estate prices rise 200% from 1996 to 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\n\u20ac651 billion was the mortgage debt of Spanish families in the second quarter of 2005 (this debt continued to grow at 25% per year \u2013 2001 through 2005, with 97% of mortgages at variable rate interest). In 2004, 509,293 new properties were built in Spain and in 2005 the number of new properties built was 528,754. In a country with 16.5 million families, there were 22\u201324 million houses and 3\u20134 million empty houses. From all the houses built over the 2001\u20132007 period, \"no less than 28%\" were vacant as of late 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nHouse ownership in Spain is above 80%. The desire to own one's own home was encouraged by governments in the 60s and 70s, and has thus become part of the Spanish psyche. In addition, tax regulation encourages ownership: 15% of mortgage payments are deductible from personal income taxes. Even more, the oldest apartments are controlled by non-inflation-adjusted rent-controls and eviction is slow, therefore discouraging renting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nWhen the speculative bubble popped Spain became one of the worst affected countries. According to Eurostat, between June 2007 and June 2008, Spain has been the European country with the sharpest plunge in construction, with actual sales down an average 25.3%. So far, some regions have been more affected than others (Catalonia was ahead in this regard with a 42.2% sales plunge while sparsely populated regions like Extremadura were down a mere 1.7% over the same period).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nBanks offered 40-year mortgages and, more recently, 50-year mortgages. While some observers suggest that a soft landing will occur, others suggest that a crash in prices is probable. Lower home prices will allow low-income families and young people to enter the market; however, there is a strong perception that house prices never go down. As of August 2008, while new constructions have come virtually to a halt, prices have not had significant movements, neither up nor downwards. The national average price as of late 2008 is 2,095 euros/m2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nHousing priceswere projected to fall another 25%. Government protections allow banks to avoid marking-to-market to postpone losses. \"Spanish housing prices are now falling at the fastest pace on record\" dropping 15.2% over the last year. Mortgage holders must continue to pay the debt even after a foreclosure. Banks have begun to accept \"deed-in-lieu deals\" in which the debt is cancelled if the property is surrendered, allowing the bank to quickly sell and recoup a greater percentage of the loan or turn the property into a rental.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Property bubble\nSome developments resemble ghost towns. For instance, the town of Valdeluz was constructed for 30,000 people, but had a population of only 700 people in 2011. Ghost airports such as \u20ac1.1 billion Ciudad Real Central Airport, Castell\u00f3n-Costa Azahar Airport and others were built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Prices\nDue to the lack of its own resources, Spain has to import all of its fossil fuels, which in a scenario of record prices added much pressure to the inflation rate. Thus, in June 2008 the inflation rate reached a 13-year high of 5.00%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0012-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Prices\nThen, with the dramatic decrease of oil prices that happened in the second half of 2008 plus the confirmed burst of the property bubble, concerns quickly shifted to the risk of deflation instead, as Spain registered in January 2009 its lowest inflation rate in 40 years which was then followed in March 2009 by a negative inflation rate for the first time ever since this statistic was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Prices\nAs of October 2010, the Spanish economy has continued to contract, resulting in decreasing GDP and increasing inflation. From 2011 to 2012 alone, prices rose 3.5% as compared to 2% in the United States. The rise in prices, combined with the recently implemented austerity measures and extremely high unemployment, are heavily impacting the livelihood of Spanish citizens. As the average wage decreases, the buying power of the money decreases as well. The frustration of this decreases in buying power has manifested in several, very large, worker demonstrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nThe Spanish banking system had been credited as one of the most solid and best equipped among all Western economies to cope with the worldwide liquidity crisis, thanks to the country's conservative banking rules and practices. Banks are required to have high capital provisions and demand various proofs and securities from intending borrowers. Nevertheless, this practice was greatly relaxed during the housing bubble, a trend to which the regulator (Banco de Espa\u00f1a) turned a blind eye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nSpain's unusual accounting standards, intended to smooth earnings over the business cycle, have misled regulators and analysts by hiding losses and earnings volatility. The accounting technique of \"dynamic provisioning\", which violated the standards set by the International Accounting Standards Board, obscured capital cushions until they were depleted, allowing the appearance of health as problems mounted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nIt was later revealed that nearly all the Spanish representatives in Congress had large investments in the housing sector, some owning up to twenty houses. Over time, more and more news has emerged about the informal alliance between Spanish central and regional governments, the banking sector (bear in mind for example the recent government pardon of the second in command at the Santander Bank, while all the major parties are strongly indebted with banks, and such debts are extended from time to time) which increased the bubble size over the years. Most regional semi-public savings banks (cajas) lent heavily to real estate companies that at the end of the bubble went bankrupt, then the cajas found themselves left with the collateral and properties of those companies, namely overpriced real state and residential-zoned land, now worthless, rendering the cajas in essence bankrupt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 949]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0017-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nIn stark contrast to countries like Ireland, no nationalization took place. Instead the problem was rolled-over with the extension of the remaining real estate companies debts, while the central government bailed once and again banks and cajas alike. For more than three years, there has been a steady process of bank concentration. Spain had the densest bank-office net in Europe, which led many bank employees to be dismissed. By contrast, the bank Board of Members have mostly kept their jobs, even those in merged entities. Golden parachutes have been prevalent: it has been speculated that this was because of fear that laid-off senior members would talk about the sector's rampant malpractice. To this date no bankers have been legally charged for having roles in this process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0018-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nIn May 2012 credit ratings of several Spanish banks were downgraded, some to \"junk\" status. The Bankia bank, the country's largest mortgage lender, was nationalized on 9 May, and on 25 May it announced that it would require a bailout of \u20ac23.5 billion to cover losses from failed mortgages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0019-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nIn addition to Spanish banks, other European banks have a sizable presence in Spain. German banks lead with an exposure of $146 billion. Germany's Landesbanks \"rushed in\" during the early 2000s. Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and ING have large Spanish units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0020-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nOn 9 June 2012 Eurozone finance ministers agreed that Spanish banks would be provided with up to \u20ac100 billion of rescue loans. This money is to be distributed via the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring, and that the exact amount to be loaned would be determined after audits of the banks. EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and vice-president Olli Rehn welcomed the move, praising the combination of a \"thorough restructuring of the banking sector\", structural reforms, and fiscal consolidation; U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also welcomed the move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0021-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nRecent bank stress tests will enable the Spanish government to make a formal request for the \u20ac100 billion credit line. Further analysis and tests will be undertaken prior to restructuring and recapitalization over the next year. Restrictions on the credit line exempting funds from covering \"legacy assets\" suggests limits to the planned banking bailouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0022-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nIn May 2012, Spanish banks lent \u20ac1.66 trillion to the private sector and took in \u20ac896 billion. Historically it would borrow the difference from foreign banks (i.e., interbank lending) but reduced access has led to a greater reliance on ECB loans. Spanish banks borrowed a record \u20ac376 billion (net) from the ECB in July 2012. Depositors are fleeing Spanish banks; deposits have dropped 4.7% from June to July (2012) as money is moved abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0023-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Spanish banking system\nOn 28 November 2012, the European Commission approved the Spanish government's plan to shrink and restructure three major Spanish banks\u2014Bankia, NCG Banco, and Catalunya Banc\u2014and sell a fourth, Banco de Valencia. This is part of a \u20ac37 billion EC bailout or restructuring approved in June. It includes loss-taking by investors of up to \u20ac10 billion, the creation of a \"bad bank\" to absorb up to \u20ac45 billion of failed loans, closing thousands of bank branches, and reducing staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0024-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis\nAfter having completed substantial improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s, which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback in October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels. Between October 2007 and October 2008, Spain had its unemployment rate climb 36%, exceeding by far the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993. In particular, in October 2008, Spain suffered its worst unemployment rise ever recorded and, the country has suffered Europe's biggest unemployment crisis during the 2008 crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0025-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis\nSpain's unemployment rate hit 17.4% at the end of March 2009, with the jobless total now having doubled over the past 12 months, when two million people lost their jobs. In this same month, Spain had over 4 million people unemployed, By July 2009, it had shed 1.2 million jobs in one year and was to have the same number of jobless as France and Italy combined. By March 2012, Spain's unemployment rate reached 24.4%, twice the eurozone average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0026-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis\nIn 2012, unions organized a general strike to protest proposals to weaken union power, enable cuts in wages, and lower firing costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0027-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis\nBy the end of 2012, Spain's unit labor costs improved. It narrowed the gap with Germany by 5.5% and 4.6% with respect to France. Spain's policy of internal devaluation cut public sector salaries by 5% with an additional 7.1% cut consisting of a suspension of the \"14-month bonus\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0028-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis\nSpain, as in other southern European nations, relies heavily on the inter-generational family structure for a significant portion of the social safety net. Employment expectations should be adjusted for this cultural ethos. The unemployment rate for the \"principal breadwinner\" is 12.4% less than the 25% overall rate (June 2012.) Employment is also found in the underground economy, which is estimated to be as large as 20% of the economy during the boom years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0029-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, Youth unemployment\nUnemployment for those under 25 has been reported to be 50%. Spain's current generation is considered the most educated that the country has ever had, yet it faces the greatest rate of unemployment in Europe. Roughly 68% of young people are willing to leave the country to search for a job, and those with college degrees are willing to settle for working at so-called minijobs for a paycheck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0029-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, Youth unemployment\nThe State Secretary for Unemployment states that higher education is a way for the current generation to battle this issue; however, government cuts are occurring that slash university staff salaries and increase the number of students per class. For those paying their own way through college, the tough economy has made it nearly impossible to find a job and study simultaneously. Hopes for the future are dwindling as Spain's unemployment rate is almost as high as it was for the United States during the Great Depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0029-0002", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, Youth unemployment\nPeople are beginning to fear the transformation of this generation into one referred to as a \"Lost Generation\" that is constantly looking for work and whose futures are closed off from \"good careers\". The stress of unemployment has also affected personal relationships, with many young adults separating from partners. Youth unemployment is about double overall unemployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0030-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, Youth unemployment\nThe high unemployment rate, at 56% as of June 2013, is overstated. Subtracting students and young mothers not looking for jobs, the actual number is closer to 22%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0031-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, From immigration to emigration\nLarge-scale immigration continued throughout 2008 despite severe unemployment, but by 2011 the OECD confirmed that the total number of people leaving the country (Spaniards and non-Spaniards) had over taken the number of arrivals. Spain is now a net emigrant country. There are now indications that established immigrants have begun to leave, although many that have are still retaining a household in Spain due to the poor conditions that exist in their country of origin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 85], "content_span": [86, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0032-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, From immigration to emigration, Tourism\nAs the financial crisis was getting started in Spain, it was already underway in the United States and other western countries. The decrease in disposable income of consumers led to a sharp decrease in Spain's tourist industry, a rarity in a country with so many coastal towns. Indeed, the EU as a group saw a decline in tourists coming to their countries in 2008 and 2009, with \u221213% tourism growth in coastal Spain. Despite its traditional popularity with Korean and Japanese tourists, the relatively expensive cost of holidaying in Spain led many to pursue \"sun and beach\" Mediterranean getaways in Turkey, Spain's tourism rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 94], "content_span": [95, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0033-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Employment crisis, From immigration to emigration, Tourism\nHowever, Spain has also seen the largest growth in tourism since 2011 and 2012. Its geographic advantages, the Arab Spring, and other non-economic factors are contributing to its resurgence as a tourist destination. While Spain's economy itself is not doing well, purchasing power parity is generally rising again. Furthermore, violent unrest in North Africa and the Middle East is redirecting tourists towards stable countries like Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 94], "content_span": [95, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0034-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Public debt\nSpain entered crisis period with a relatively modest public debt of 36.2% of GDP. This was largely due to ballooning tax revenue from the housing bubble, which helped accommodate a decade of increased government spending without debt accumulation. In response to the crisis, Spain initiated an austerity program consisting primarily of tax increases. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced on 11 July 2012 \u20ac65 billion of austerity, including cuts in wages and benefits and a VAT increase from 18% to 21%. The government eventually succeeded to reduce its budget deficit from 11.2% of GDP in 2009 to 8.5% in 2011 and it is expected to fall further to 5.4% in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0035-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Public debt\nAs of 15 June 2012, Spain's public debt stood at 72.1% of GDP, still less than the Euro-zone average of 88%. If Spain uses the \u20ac100 billion credit line to bail out its banks, its debt will approach 90% of GDP. To avoid this, the EU has pledged to lend to banks directly although it now appears that the Spanish government may have to guarantee the loans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0036-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Public debt\nIn June 2012, the Spanish 10-year government bond reached 7%, 5.44% over the German 10-year bond. As Spanish credit default swaps (CDS) hits a record high of 633 basis points and the 10-year bond yield at 7.5% (23 July 2012) Spain's economic minister travels to Germany to request that the ECB facilitate government bond purchases to \"avoid an imminent financial collapse\". Promised borrowing by the ECB has enabled Spain's 10-year yield to stay below or close to the 6% level and settling below the 5% level in the spring of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0037-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Ratings\nFor the third time in 13 months, Moody's Investors Service has cut Spain's rating. On 18 October 2011 Moody's Rating cut Spain's rating by 2 notches to A1 from Aa2 with the outlook remaining negative. Standard and Poor's has downgraded Spain on 14 October 2011 and Fitch Ratings cut it to the same level on 7 October 2011. On 14 June 2012, Moody's downgraded Spain to Baa3, just one notch above \"junk\". Standard and Poor's downgraded Spain to BBB- (one notch above junk) on 11 October 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0037-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Ratings\nDBRS downgraded Spain to single-A, which remains higher than the major credit rating agencies. This rating allows the ECB to use a lower margin for banks that borrow with Spanish debt as collateral. After a recent review, Moody's maintained Spain's investment-grade credit rating, removing the pressure on the country's debt. This decision by Moody's assures that Spanish bonds will continue to gain investor support; yields feel 5.50%, a level last seen in April. Although Moody's can still downgrade the country's ratings in the future, the decision to not downgrade will encourage the buying of Spain's bonds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0038-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, 2012 financial bailout\nOn 9 June 2012 the Eurogroup held an emergency meeting to discuss how to inject capital into Spanish banks. The IMF estimated the capital needs of the Spanish banks to be about 40 billion euros. The Eurogroup announced intentions to provide up to 100 billion euro to the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring to the Spanish government. The Spanish government is then expected to give the appropriate amount of money to the respective banks. On 21 June 2012 it was decided that 62 billion euros would be shared among the Spanish banks in need.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0038-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, 2012 financial bailout\nThe European Union warned that rescued banks are subject to control and Union experts would meet stringent requirements. Since then, the country's borrowing costs have reached levels deemed unsustainable in the long run, raising the prospect of a second aid program for Madrid following the 100 billion euro lifeline it obtained for its banks in June. Spain expects the European Commission, to approve the restructuring plans of the banks needing aid on 15 November 2012 and then to authorize the disbursal of the first credit line of up to 100 billion euros within three weeks after that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0039-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, 2012 financial bailout\nA larger economy than other countries which have received bailout packages, Spain had considerable bargaining power regarding the terms of a bailout. Due to reforms already instituted by Spain's conservative government less stringent austerity requirements are included then was the case with earlier bailout packages for Ireland, Portugal, and Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0040-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, 2012 financial bailout\nAs the EU's fifth largest economy, Spain remains a large concern. In 2011 Mariano Rajoy took over the government with his conservative views, pushing out Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero and his left-wing views. Trying to get Spain out of the highest unemployment rate in the European Union was proven to be harder than expected. The bailout for Spain has been estimated to not be enough to restore the economy. There is a serious debt in the country, and substantial cuts would have to be put in place to restore the economy at this point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0040-0001", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, 2012 financial bailout\nMany youths are trying to find jobs abroad, creating a problem for the future domestic economy and job market. Rajoy recently proposed a new budget for 2013 that would be very different and would cut government spending by 8.9%. By April 2013, unemployment had risen to 27%, but is now around 15% \u2013 16.1% as of February 2018 and is one of Europe's fastest growing economies, thus demonstrating that the country is improving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0041-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Separatist movements\nOne effect of the financial crisis is an increase in support for independence in Catalonia. The Statute of Autonomy included a package of laws that gave more power to the region and would have recognized Catalonia as a nation, although one still within Spain. As with the rest of Spain, Catalonia has had high levels of unemployment. As many as 22% of the economically active population, which is still lower than Spain's national jobless rate, yet higher than Madrid. In 2010, Spain's Constitutional Court weakened the Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia, which further irritated Catalan secessionist organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201217-0042-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132014 Spanish financial crisis, Separatist movements\nThe 2015 regional election was the first to produce a majority for openly separatist parties. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insisted that Spain's constitution does not allow a region to secede. Spain's Basque Country unsuccessfully tried to get such a move approved in Parliament in 2008. Catalan president Artur Mas instead scheduled an independence referendum for 2014, which was downgraded to being a more informal ballot after further intervention by the Constitutional Court. The dispute remains unresolved, as of March 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0000-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage\nThe 2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage was a shortage of civilian small arms ammunition in the United States that started in late 2008, and continued through most or all of 2010, with an additional shortage beginning in December 2012 and continuing throughout 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0001-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage\nThe 2008 election of President Barack Obama triggered increased sales of both firearms and ammunition. USA Today reported that in Wyoming, the \"run on bullets and reloading components\" reached such a \"frenzy\" that a Cheyenne retailer began rationing sales and said she was also selling semiautomatic rifles as fast as she could put them on the shelves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0002-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage\nIn December 2012, a new wave of panic buying was driven by the perceived likelihood of new firearm control laws being passed by Congress and state governments in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. This led to a severe shortage of ammunition for most handgun calibers and some rifle calibers, especially the previously easy-to-find and cheaply priced .22 LR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0003-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage\nBy August 2013, the rate of consumer purchases of most types of ammunition was receding, but prices continued to be above those found before December 2012 and ammunition for some calibers continued to be difficult to procure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0004-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The first shortage (2008\u20132010)\nMost people attributed the ammunition shortage to reaction of gun owners and other groups to the election of U.S. President Barack Obama, claiming that these people feared more restrictive gun laws, ammunition taxes, and social decay. An October 2009 Gallup poll found that \"Many Gun Owners Think Obama Will Try to Ban Gun Sales\" completely, and similar themes were struck in an Associated Press report:  \"Shooting ranges, gun dealers, and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages.\" The Gallup report said, \"although the survey did not ask directly whether those who hold the belief that Obama wants to ban gun sales have acted on that belief in terms of increased purchases of guns and ammunition, a connection between the belief and the behavior is a logical hypothesis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0005-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nAfter the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012, new attention was paid to firearms laws in America. The perpetrator had used a Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle. Certain AR-15 rifles were considered assault weapons under the federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, which expired in 2004, and some are considered assault weapons in states that have such bans in force. In the wake of the shooting, there were calls for new or stricter gun control laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0006-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nIn response to concerns that the federal and state governments would limit the sale of firearms and ammunition, sales of firearms hit an all-time high in December 2012, with the FBI reporting that 2.8 million NICS background checks were performed that month, with the vast majority after the date of the shooting. A corresponding large increase in ammunition sales also occurred during this time, with some retailers reporting in January 2013 that they had already sold stock that had been expected to last for a couple of years, sometimes in the span of a single day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0007-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nOn April 17, 2013, the main Congressional action introduced after the shooting, the Manchin-Toomey amendment, failed in the Senate, marking the end of the strongest push to implement new firearms laws on a federal level. However, many states passed new firearms restrictions, such as Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York. Regardless, the massive increase in ammunition sales earlier in the year had severely limited the continued availability of these products in the market, with many ammunition manufacturers unable to keep up with the demand even after running 24/7 shifts at all of their factories. Additionally, despite the defeat of the federal bill, a significant number of firearms owners remained concerned about the possibility of future actions to limit the availability of certain firearms and ammunition, and continued to accumulate ammunition well into the later parts of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 977]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0008-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nThe clearest explanation of the problem, according to The Motley Fool, comes from Hornady Manufacturing's president, Steve Hornady:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0009-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nPeople walk into the store, they don't see as much as they want so they take everything they can get. The next guy who comes in can't get anything, so he panics. ...this shortage] is purely a consumer driven shortage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0010-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, The second shortage (2012\u20132016)\nIn 2016, certain calibers of ammunition, most notably .22 long rifle, were still reported as being in short supply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0011-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Response by manufacturers and distributors\nRemington Arms Chief Executive Officer Ted Torbeck said \"Since the U.S. presidential election, demand for (ammunition) has risen amidst concerns that the new administration will further restrict the use or purchase of firearms and ammunition and levy additional taxes on these products. Since that time we have responded by ramping up production, providing for additional employee overtime, establishing additional production shifts, and expanding our supply chain, none of which has required significant capital.\" However, in August 2013 Remington broke ground on a $32 million expansion of their ammunition plant in Lonoke, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0012-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Response by manufacturers and distributors\nDue to the very small profit margins on .22 caliber ammunition, manufacturers could not justify the costs they would incur by expanding production capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0013-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Response by manufacturers and distributors\nIn response to the shortage, some ammunition distributors reduced shipments to individual stores. Some retailers raised prices substantially. Nevertheless, some merchants reported increases in sales between 15% and 100%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0014-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Price increase\nBetween 2007 and 2012 the dollar value of ammunition doubled in price in most cases. In certain areas, the price of .22LR caliber ammo increased from 5\u00a2 per round to upwards of 12\u00a2 per round. Following the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, public concerns on how government officials would legislate bans on specific calibers led to an increase in demand for ammo, motivating the price to increase, the continuation of which held some responsibility for the ammo price bubble that was created.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0015-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Price increase, Gray market\nThe increased demand for ammunition not only contributed to inflated prices but also created an opportunity for gray market vendors to arise. Many of these vendors were able to obtain ammunition in bulk and sell at an exorbitant price. The increase in gray market sales fed public suspicion that government was intervening with ammo supply, since ammo that was once easy to come by was now barren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201218-0016-0000", "contents": "2008\u20132016 United States ammunition shortage, Price increase, Gray market\nThe shortage resulted in adverse consequences for law enforcement agencies. Several police departments delayed or reduced firearm training programs for officers. The U.S. military was unaffected by the shortage, as its ammunition is produced by dedicated plants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201219-0000-0000", "contents": "2009\n2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th  year of the 3rd\u00a0millennium, the 9th  year of the 21st\u00a0century, and the  10th  and last year of the 2000s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201219-0001-0000", "contents": "2009, Events, Unknown\nThe flu pandemic in 2009 begins in Mexico, soon spreading to the U.S. and then around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 21], "content_span": [22, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee)\n\"2009\" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 120th episode overall. Written by the show's co-creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan and directed by Paris Barclay, it aired on Fox in the United States on March 20, 2015, along with the next episode, \"Dreams Come True\", as a special two-hour season and series finale. The episode features a flashback from the show's pilot episode that explores the reasons why the original five members of the New Directions glee club decided to join.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nIn 2009,  Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) announces to his wife Terri Schuester (Jessalyn Gilsig) that he is now running the McKinley High glee club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nKurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) is depressed as he starts his second year at McKinley High. Guidance Counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) notices him looking at a pamphlet about suicide, and calls his father Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) to the school. Afterward, Burt tells Kurt that he has to join a team by the end of the week and start making friends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nAt lunch, Kurt sits at a table with Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), and tells her that he needs to join a club; after finding out that he can sing, she suggests the new glee club. The two of them meet and sing but when Kurt suggests they audition together, Rachel refuses: stars shine separately, and she plans to shine. Kurt then asks Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) for advice, since he has heard that she is a star of her church choir, and also recruits her to audition for the glee club. He auditions, and tells his father that he has joined the club. Burt is unsure but happy for his son, but Kurt hesitates to tell his dad that he is gay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nRachel tries to befriend Mercedes, and asks to come to her church to hear her sing. When she does, Rachel is worried, and tells Mercedes that she has a great future as a soul singer, but Mercedes tells her that whatever type of music is being sung, Rachel will have to compete with her for it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nTina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) is rebelling by using a fake stutter to drive most people away, and dressing as a goth. She is friends with Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), who really likes her as she is the only one at the school who treats him like a regular human being despite his being in a wheelchair. In the cafeteria, a couple of Tina's goth friends dump food on Rachel and Kurt as a dare, and one dares Tina and Artie back to try out for the glee club. They both do, supporting each other, and each is impressed by the other's singing ability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nThe first meeting of New Directions is a tense one: Will gives the first solo to Artie, but Rachel insists that she should be getting the solos as she has the best voice, a claim immediately disputed by Mercedes. That night, Terri finds Will working on music for the glee club, and she is concerned that Will's commitment to glee club may cause future issues with their marriage, but Will promises to put her first. Rachel is pleased when Will gives her the next solo, but Mercedes is very upset. She is talked out of quitting by her church choir director (April Grace), who urges her to stay, and predicts that competing with Rachel will ultimately make Mercedes a better singer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nPrincipal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) and Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) praise Sue's leadership of the Cheerios cheerleaders to five consecutive national championships. Sue wonders about the revival of glee club, but Figgins assures her that they are of no concern and that Sue and the Cheerios will always be the center of McKinley High. During her weekly one-on-one basketball game with Will, Sue tells him that it is wrong to encourage the dreams of such young minds, but Will disagrees, and says that glee club could be even more important than cheerleading. Sue gives him an ultimatum: her friendship or the glee club. Will picks the glee club, adding that he just recruited Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), the quarterback of the football team. Sue is furious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nHearing that Terri is pregnant and that Will may be leaving as glee club director to become an accountant, Rachel goes to see Terri to convince her that Will needs to stay at McKinley. Terri is not persuaded in the least. Mercedes and Kurt are having issues with Finn, which they talk over at a coffee shop, where Mercedes has a chance encounter with Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Plot\nArtie, Kurt, Mercedes, Rachel, and Tina meet on whether or not to kick out Finn, but they realize that he belongs in glee club as much as they do, and they unanimously vote to keep him in. Emma begs Figgins to give Will a raise so that he can stay on as glee club coach, but Figgins instead finds an old video of Will competing in a glee club championship, which Emma shows to Will. Sue congratulates Will on his departure from teaching, but as he is leaving, he hears the sound of the glee club singing \"Don't Stop Believin'\" in the auditorium, and he stays to watch them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Production\nAlthough this was the twelfth episode aired in the sixth season, it was the ninth episode to be produced. It was initially announced as airing ninth, set for February 27, 2015, but was rescheduled as part of the finale. The episode was written by the show's three co-creators, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, and directed by Paris Barclay, who described it as the \"most unusual episode of Glee I have ever directed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Production\nThe episode was filmed in early December 2014. The filmed material is supplemented by the inclusion of the entire original performance of \"Don't Stop Believin'\" from Glee's pilot episode, which features Cory Monteith and Lea Michele on lead vocals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Production\nRecurring characters appearing in this episode include new McKinley High glee club member Tina Cohen-Chang (Ushkowitz), students Noah \"Puck\" Puckerman (Salling), Dave Karofsky (Max Adler) and Matt Rutherford (Dijon Talton), guidance counsellor Emma Pillsbury (Mays), Principal Figgins (Theba), Will's wife Terri Schuester (Gilsig), Kurt's father Burt Hummel (O'Malley) and Terri's co-worker Howard Bamboo (Kent Avenido). New characters introduced for this episode were April Grace as Mercedes' church choir director and Bex Taylor-Klaus as a goth student. Natalija Nogulich, while given a guest star credit, does not appear in the broadcast episode. Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray and Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez appear in the footage from the pilot episode performance of \"Don't Stop Believin'\", but are not credited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Production\nFive of the six songs from the episode have been released on a digital five-track EP with the title Glee: The Music, 2009. These are: \"Popular\" from the musical Wicked sung by Michele and Colfer, Zella Jackson Price's \"I'm His Child\" performed by Riley, Katy Perry's \"I Kissed a Girl\" sung by Ushkowitz, Ginuwine's \"Pony\" performed by McHale, and Journey's \"Don't Stop Believin'\" in the original version from the pilot episode of the series. The sixth song, \"Mister Cellophane\" from the musical Chicago sung by Colfer, is not on the EP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Reception, Ratings\nThe episode was broadcast an hour earlier than the show's usual Friday timeslot, with the second episode and series finale airing in that usual timeslot. \"2009\" received a season high 0.8/3\u00a0Nielsen rating/share in the 18\u201349 demographic and attracted 2.69\u00a0million American viewers during its initial broadcast. Its ratings and viewership were higher than the final episode of the series, \"Dreams Come True\", which aired immediately after and was watched by 2.54 million viewers and received a 0.7/2 rating/share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201220-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 (Glee), Reception, Critical response\nAndy Swift of TVLine wrote that the episode \"tackled flawlessly\" the \"tricky\" task of doing a flashback to the year 2009 without Cory Monteith, who had played Finn Hudson until his death in 2013, both in alluding to \"iconic moments\" in the pilot and by mentioning Finn at a number of points in the dialogue. He described the inclusion of the \"Don't Stop Believin'\" footage from pilot as \"absolutely gut wrenching in every sense of the word\". Time's James Poniewozik wrote that it was an \"ingenious move\" to make the episode \"essentially an alternative version\" of the Glee pilot, which had been \"one of the best TV pilots of the last decade\". He called the episode \"sweet and nostalgic and tearjerking\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 41], "content_span": [42, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201221-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 (album)\n2009 is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Wiz Khalifa from Pittsburgh and Curren$y from New Orleans. It was released on February 8, 2019 via Jet Life Recordings and Atlantic Records. Production was handled by Cardo, Dame Grease, DJ Fresh, Harry Fraud, Monstabeatz, Ricky P, Sledgren, Van Gogh and Z Cook. It features guest appearances from Problem and Ty Dolla $ign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201221-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 (album), Commercial performance\nIn United States, 2009 debuted at number 35 on the Billboard 200 with 16,000 album-equivalent units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201222-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1. deild karla\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 21:16, 14 April 2020 (\u2192\u200eReferences). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201222-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1. deild karla\nThe 2009 season of 1. deild karla was the 55th season of second-tier football in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas\nThe 2009 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 3 May 2009. It was the 196th running of the 1000 Guineas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas\nThe winner was Hamdan Al Maktoum's Ghanaati, an American-bred bay filly trained at Lambourn by Barry Hills and ridden by her trainer's son Richard Hills. Hamdan Al Maktoum was winning the race for the fifth time after Salsabil (1990), Shadayid (1991), Harayir (1995) and Lahan (2000), the last two of whom were ridden by Richard Hills. Barry Hills, who retired shortly after the race, had trained Enstone Spark to win the classic in 1978. Ghanaati's win was achieved in race record time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas, The contenders\nThe race attracted a field of fourteen runners, ten trained in the United Kingdom and four in Ireland: there were no challengers from continental Europe. The odds-on favourite was the John Gosden-trained Rainbow View an undefeated, American-bred filly who was making her seasonal debut after winning the Sweet Solera Stakes, May Hill Stakes and the Fillies' Mile in 2008. Her most dangerous challenger appeared to be Cheveley Park Stakes winner Serious Attitude whilst the most-fancied of the other British-trained fillies Lahaleeb Lahaleeb, who had won the Rockfel Stakes and the Fred Darling Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas, The contenders\nThe Irish runners were Cuis Ghaire (Albany Stakes), Pursuit of Glory, Heart Shaped, the runner-up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Shimah, who had finished second to Again in the Moyglare Stud Stakes. Special Duty headed the betting at odds of 8/11 ahead of Serious Attitude (8/1) and Cuis Ghaire (12/1) with Heart Shaped and Lahaleeb on 14/1. Ghanaati, the six-length winner of a Kempton maiden race, started at 20/1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas, The race\nThe 66/1 outsider Penny's Gift took the early lead and set the pace for the first quarter-mile until she was headed by the Godolphin runner Devotee. Cuis Ghaire and Ghanaati were close behind, with Heart Shaped, Rainbow View and Serious Attitude all in touch with the leaders. The field clustered into a single group in the centre of the wide, straight course. Cuis Ghaire moved into the lead at half way, at which point the outsider Aspen Darlin was pulled up with an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201223-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 1000 Guineas, The race\nWith two furlongs left to run, Ghanaati accelerated past Cuis Ghaire to take the lead as Rainbow View and Serious Attitude began to struggle. In the final furlong, Ghanaati established a clear advantage and won by one and a half lengths from Cuis Ghaire, with the outsider Super Sleuth finishing strongly to take third by a nose from Heart Shaped. Rainbow View came next ahead of Penny's Gift and Serious Attitude. The winning time of 1:34.22 was a record for the race and was 1.66 seconds faster than that recorded by Sea The Stars in the 2000 Guineas over the same course and distance the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201224-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Algarve\nThe 2009 1000\u00a0km of Algarve (1000\u00a0km do Algarve) was the third round of the 2009 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve, Portugal, and was held over the night starting on 1 August 2009 and ending in the early morning of 2 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201224-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Algarve, Race Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201224-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Algarve, Race Report, Race report, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201225-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Catalunya\nThe 2009 1000\u00a0km of Catalunya was the opening round of the 2009 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmel\u00f3, Spain on 5 April 2009. Aston Martin Racing won overall on their debut of the Lola-Aston Martin B09/60, while Lola also secured the LMP2 win with Racing Box. The GT1 category was won by the IPB Spartak Racing Lamborghini, while Team Felbermayr-Proton's Porsche led GT2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 436]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201225-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Catalunya, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201226-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of N\u00fcrburgring\nThe 2009 ADAC 1000\u00a0km-Rennen N\u00fcrburgring was the fourth round of the 2009 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the N\u00fcrburgring GP-Strecke, N\u00fcrburg, Germany, on 23 August 2009. Aston Martin Racing, with third entry AMR Eastern Europe, swept the overall podium for this race, led by the No. 007 of Jan Charouz, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Enge, and Stefan M\u00fccke. Quifel ASM Team led the LMP2 category for the second straight race, while the Larbre Comp\u00e9tition Saleen outlasted its only competition in GT1. The No. 77 Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche won their third race of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201226-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of N\u00fcrburgring, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201226-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of N\u00fcrburgring, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama\nThe 2009 1000\u00a0km of Okayama was the inaugural event of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's (ACO) Asian Le Mans Series. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit, Japan and feature two 500\u00a0km races held on 30 October and 1 November 2009. The winning teams in each of the four categories earned an automatic invitation to the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans. A second Asian Le Mans Series event, scheduled for the Shanghai International Circuit, China, on 7 and 8 November was cancelled by the ACO due to economic circumstances. The race weekend is being shared with the World Touring Car Championship's Race of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Entries\nThe ACO's initial plans for the debut event of the Asian Le Mans Series was for a minimum of 30 entries. On 9 May 2009 the ACO announced an initial entry of 31 teams which would consist of competitors from the Le Mans Series, American Le Mans Series, FIA GT Championship, Super GT, as well as other local Japanese and Chinese teams. The ACO agreed to supply applying teams with freight transport in an attempt to lure further entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Entries\nA second entry list was published on 1 September and included 23 cars. The final entry list is led by Europeans in the LMP1 category featuring Pescarolo Sport entered under the Sora Racing title, two Kolles Audis, an Le Mans Series-champion Aston Martin, one Oreca, and the new Drayson Lola. The sole Japanese entrant in the category was from T\u014dkai University/YGK Power, who last competed at the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans. LMP2 features a mere two entries, both from the Le Mans Series. OAK Racing enters their Mazda-powered Pescarolo while Iba\u00f1ez Racing Service enters their Courage-AER for a shot at a Le Mans invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Entries\nEntries in the GT1 category were predominantly Japanese, all of which are teams currently entered in the Super GT series. Hitotsuyama Team Nova's Aston Martin was joined by the experienced JLOC Lamborghinis. The sole European entry was the Larbre Comp\u00e9tition Saleen. In GT2 there were a variety of entries and cars, led by the first entries from the American Le Mans Series: Rahal Letterman Racing brought one of their new BMW M3s while Robertson Racing represents Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Entries\nFelbermayr-Proton's two Porsches and Team Farnbacher's Hankook-shod Ferrari were entered from the Le Mans Series, while Hankook-KTR, Team Daishin, and JimGainer came from Super GT. Scuderia Forme also entered their Porsche 996 which had previously competed in the Japan Le Mans Challenge. A lone Chinese entry came in the form of an Aston Martin for Team Hong Kong Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Entries\nThe top two teams from the 2009 Formula Le Mans Cup series were to also receive free entries for the event, but a scheduling conflict with the new Formula Le Mans Winter Series prevented teams from participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Qualifying\nJonny Cocker led the field in the Drayson Lola-Judd, earning the first pole position for himself and the team. A tenth of a second behind was Christophe Tinseau in the Sora Pescarolo 01, while Nicolas Lapierre was a further three tenths of a second behind for Oreca. Mathieu Laheye was the victor amongst the two LMP2 cars, beating the Iba\u00f1ez Courage by three seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Qualifying\nGT1 was led by the local Hitotsuyama Team Nova Aston Martin of Takeshi Tsuchiya, but the car was later disqualified for a rear wing violation. This gave the Larbre Saleen pole position in the category, ahead of the two JLOC Lamborghinis. A similar story in GT2 featured the Team Hong Kong Aston Martin initially setting the fastest time but later being disqualified for the same rule violation. Marc Lieb's Felbermayr-Proton Porsche thus was promoted to pole position, leading the JimGainer Ferrari and the second Felbermayr-Proton entry. The two disqualified Aston Martins will be required to start from the back of the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold. The qualifying positions will set the starting grid for both races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Race One\nThe first 500\u00a0km race was led early by Jonny Cocker in the Drayson Lola-Judd before Cocker was forced to pit for headlight repairs, dropping him several laps behind the leaders. The Aston Martin Racing entry led for much of the three hours before being forced to make an extra pit stop for fuel in the closing minutes, allowing the Sora Pescarolo to win the first race of the weekend. Drivers Christophe Tinseau and Shinji Nakano led the second place Oreca by a margin of 6.9\u00a0seconds at the finish, while the third place No. 15 Kolles Audi was two laps behind in third. OAK Racing won the LMP2 category by 22 seconds over their only other competitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Race One\nIn the GT1 class it was the Japanese teams which dominated as JLOC's No. 69 Lamborghini won the category by fifteen seconds over the Hitotsuyama Team Nova Aston Martin. The Larbre Saleen and second JLOC Lamborghini failed to finish the race. GT2 was led by the American entry from Rahal Letterman BMW, finishing three tenths of a second ahead of European Felbermayr-Proton Porsche and Farnbacher Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 438]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Race Two\nThe second race started with the same grid as the first race, which allowed Jonny Cocker to once again lead the opening laps in Drayson Lola. Stefan M\u00fccke in the Aston Martin was able to catch Cocker and take the lead several laps in, which it maintained for the rest of the event and took the second of the weekend's checkered flags. Race one winners Sora Racing finished in second but over a minute behind the Aston Martin. Oreca once again finished on the podium with third. In LMP2, early damage to the Iba\u00f1ez Courage allowed OAK Racing to win the second race unchallenged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Race Two\nIn the GT1 category the class was again dominated by the Hitotsuyama Aston Martin and the No. 68 JLOC Lamborghini, although it was Hitotsuyama who were the victors in this round, winning by over a lap. The Larbre Comp\u00e9tition Saleen was third in class, just losing out to the Lamborghini by less than two tenths of a second. In the GT2 category the race one-winning No. 77 Felbermayr-Proton Porsche suffered an engine failure early in the event, allowing the second team car and the Robertson Ford to fight for the class lead. Engine problems set the Ford back but Felbermayr-Proton were still not able to secure victory as the Hankook Farnbacher Ferrari was able to make it into the top position at the end of the three hours. The Japanese Team Daishin Ferrari completed the podium in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201227-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Okayama, Race Two, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201228-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Silverstone\nThe 2009 Autosport 1000\u00a0km of Silverstone was the fifth and final round of the 2009 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Silverstone Circuit, England, on 13 September 2009. The race was won from pole position by Olivier Panis and Nicolas Lapierre for Team Oreca, while the third-place finishing Aston Martin of Jan Charouz, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Enge and Stefan M\u00fccke won the LMP1 championship. Speedy Racing Team Sebah won their first race in the LMP2 category while the ASM Team failed to finish but were able to win their championship. First-time LMS entrant Gigawave Motorsport led the GT1 category while JMW Motorsport won in GT2. Team Felbermayr-Proton secured the GT2 class championship by finishing in seventh in their class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201228-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Silverstone, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201228-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Silverstone, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201229-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Spa\nThe 2009 1000\u00a0km of Spa was the second round of the 2009 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, on 10 May 2009. Several teams used Spa as a test prior to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including eventual winners Team Peugeot and Team Essex Porsche, as well as the Jetalliance Racing Aston Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201229-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 1000 km of Spa, Report, Qualifying\nThe qualifying sessions for both the GT and Prototype categories were marked by several red flag periods which halted the sessions. These were caused by several accidents and car failures on circuit, which left five cars unable to complete a flying lap time. Peugeot was able to lock out the first row by margin of over a second from the leading Aston Martin, while the returning Team Essex Porsche RS Spyder secured pole position in LMP2. Jetalliance Racing gave Aston Martin a pole in GT1 and championship leaders Team Felbermayr-Proton led GT2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 587]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring\nThe 2009 Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring was the 57th running of the 12 Hours of Sebring and the opening round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Sebring International Raceway, Florida on March 21, 2009. Three new cars made their debut at Sebring: Audi's diesel R15 TDI, Acura's first LMP1 entry the ARX-02a, and the return of the BMW M3 to the GT2 category. It was also the last time GT1 category raced at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring\nTom Kristensen, Allan McNish, and Rinaldo Capello won, Audi's ninth Sebring victory in eleven attempts, and set several event records in the process. Peugeot fell 22 seconds short of the winning Audi. While Acura's LMP1s failed to survive for twelve hours, their lone LMP2 entry was the sole finisher in the category and earned Fern\u00e1ndez Racing their first ALMS victory. The GT1 category was fought amongst only the two Corvette Racing cars, while GT2's battle of manufacturers was won by Ferrari and the Risi Competizione team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Entry\nFor the start of the American Le Mans Series season, 28 cars were officially entered, with the bulk of the entries in LMP1 and GT2. The 2008 race winners, Penske Racing Porsche, did not return to defend their title. Four manufacturers were represented in LMP1, including a duo of R15 TDIs, Audi's latest diesel prototype, being entered by Joest Racing. Peugeot returned once more with their 908 HDi FAP, entering two cars compared to last year's single Sebring entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Entry\nAcura made their LMP1 debut with the new ARX-02a being run by de Ferran Motorsport and Highcroft Racing, while the remaining two entries were Lola-AERs entered by Intersport Racing and Autocon Motorsports. LMP2 consisted of two teams entering three cars, with Fern\u00e1ndez Racing once again running an Acura and Dyson Racing partnering with Mazda for two Lola coup\u00e9s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Entry\nGT1 was once again left to just Corvette Racing with two cars, while GT2 dominated the entry list with 15 cars. Porsche was represented by two cars each from Flying Lizard Motorsports and VICI Racing, as well as a single entry for Farnbacher-Loles Racing. Ferrari once again aligned with Risi Competizione for two cars, while the Italian-Argentinian Advanced Engineering PeCom team also represents the brand. BMW made their return to the series with two M3 E92s for Rahal Letterman Racing. The rest of the GT2 field was made of a mix of teams and automotive brands, including LG Motorsport's Chevrolet Corvette, PTG's Panoz, Primetime's Dodge Viper, Robertson's Ford GT, and Drayson's Aston Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Qualifying\nHeld on Thursday, March 19, two 15-minute qualifying sessions were held to determine the starting grid. The two GT categories qualified in the first session, led by the two GT1 Corvettes. Only setting a few laps, the #4 Corvette of Oliver Gavin out qualified his teammate, Jan Magnussen. In GT2 Porsche locked in the first two spots on the grid, led by Dirk Werner of Farnbacher-Loles. Advanced Engineering PeCom led Ferrari with a third place spot, while Robertson Racing's Ford GT earned fifth. BMW's debut was hampered by mechanical problems for the #92 car, while the #90 of Bill Auberlen qualified seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Qualifying\nIn the LMP qualifying session, Acura was able to upset both Audi and Peugeot by earning pole position in their LMP1 debut. De Ferran Motorsports' driver Scott Dixon outpaced Tom Kristensen's Audi by less than a tenth of a second, while Christian Klien led Peugeot to third. Acura earned a second pole position in the session as Fern\u00e1ndez Racing led the LMP2 category, nearly two seconds ahead of the fastest Dyson Lola-Mazda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Qualifying\nAfter qualifying the VICI team, who had one qualifier, withdrew from the event. This decreased the starting grid to 26 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nThe field crossed the starting line to begin the 12 Hours of Sebring at 10:30\u00a0am EST. Although the de Ferran Acura led from pole position, the lead of the race was quickly taken by Audi before the first turn, followed by Peugeot. The #08 Peugeot started at the tail of the field due to power steering problems forcing it to begin from pit lane. One of the two Rahal Letterman BMW's also suffered problems on the grid and had to be taken to the garage, finally starting the race nearly an hour late. An early on track incident was a collision between the #40 Robertson Ford and the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche, with the Porsche requiring extensive repairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nDuring pit stops in the first few hours of the race, Audi changed their Michelin tires at every opportunity while Peugeot opted to change tires at every other pit stop. This allowed Peugeot to take the lead. The Highcroft Acura suffered a spin in the hands of David Brabham, forcing the Robertson Ford to evade the Acura and hit the wall outside Sunset Bend, bringing out the first full-course caution. A second caution was required an hour later to retrieve the Intersport Lola-AER after its engine failed while on the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nWhile S\u00e9bastien Bourdais led the race in Peugeot #08, he suffered a spin on Sunset Bend while diminished his lead by 20 seconds, but he was able to continue. The #07 Peugeot however came to the pits for a lengthy stop to repair an air conditioning fan in the cockpit, dropping it from contention. Meanwhile, the Dyson Racing Team retired their two cars from the event, as did the remaining Rahal Letterman BMW, all due to engine failures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nA third caution period came out when David Brabham once again spun his Highcroft Acura, this time making light contact with a wall. While Peugeot still led in the eighth hour of the race, Audi began to double stint their tires for the first time when Lucas Luhr brought the third place Audi in for a scheduled stop but did not change tires. This aided Audi in retaking the lead from Peugeot during the race's ninth hour. Peugeot #08 then suffered a small leak in a rear tire, requiring the team to make an unscheduled pit stop to replace it. The two LMP1 Acuras meanwhile suffered mechanical problems, eventually leading to the retirement of both de Ferran and Highcroft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nIn the closing hours, the #45 Porsche, having rebounded from its incident early in the race, was attempting to pass the PTG Panoz for third place in GT2 when the two came into contact at the exit of Sunset Bend. The Porsche, driven by Marc Lieb, was spun into the concrete wall and required extensive repairs while the Panoz continued on. In the closing hours, Peugeot and Audi traded the lead as each team made their respective pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nPeugeot #08 led as it came to the pits for its final stop, but Audi needed only a short refuel on their final stop several laps later. This allowed Audi driver Allan McNish to exit the pits after his final stop ahead of Peugeot with only fifteen minutes remaining. By the race finish the margin of victory between the #2 Audi and #08 Peugeot was 22 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race\nTom Kristensen earned his record fifth overall win. The #2 Audi covered a distance of 1,417\u00a0mi (2,280\u00a0km) at an average speed of 117.986\u00a0mph (189.880\u00a0km/h), both of which were new event records. The Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing Acura was the sole survivor in LMP2, finishing in fourth overall, while Corvette Racing #3 outperformed its teammate in GT1. The GT2 class was won by the Ferrari of Risi Competizione, while the European Advanced Engineering PeCom Ferrari was second. Panoz completed the GT2 class podium. In the Michelin Green X Challenge, the race winning #2 Audi was the most efficient LMP, while the #3 Corvette lead GTs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201230-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201231-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 2. deild karla\nThe 2009 season of 2. deild karla is the 44th season of second-tier football in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201231-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 2. deild karla, Results\nEach team play every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201232-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 2. divisjon\nThe 2009 2. divisjon season was the third highest football (soccer) league for men in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201232-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 2. divisjon\n26 games were played in 4 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Str\u00f8mmen, Follo, Sandnes Ulf and Ranheim were promoted to the 2010 Norwegian First Division. Number twelve, thirteen and fourteen were relegated to the 3. divisjon, except for the two number twelve teams with the most points. The winning teams from each of the 24 groups in the 3. divisjon each faced a winning team from another group in a playoff match, resulting in 12 playoff winners which were promoted to the 2. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201233-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Daytona\nThe 2009 Rolex 24 at Daytona Presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 is the first round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Daytona International Speedway between January 24\u201325, 2009. David Donohue won the race 40 years after his father won by holding off a furious charge from NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya in the closest finish in race history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThe 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans 2009) was the 77th Grand Prix of Endurance, an endurance auto race run over 24 hours. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France, and was organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) over 13\u201314 June  2009 and was started by Fiat and Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo at 15:00 local time (13:00 UTC). A test day was initially scheduled for 31 May that year, but was canceled by the ACO due to economic concerns. The race was attended by 234,800 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans\nPeugeot succeeded in winning the race in the third year of the 908 HDi FAP program with drivers David Brabham, Marc Gen\u00e9, and Alexander Wurz driving the No. 9 car for 382 laps; an all-French driving squad secured second place for Peugeot as well. Audi, who had won eight of the last ten Le Mans, finished third in their new R15 TDI. Team Essex gave Porsche their second LMP2 victory in a row, while the American Corvette Racing team earned their first GT1 win since 2006. Risi Competizione Ferrari led the GT2 category for their second straight victory in the class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Schedule\nEvents for the 24 Hours of Le Mans began on 8 June with technical inspections, before initial practice began on 10 June. Due to the cancellation of the May test session, the Wednesday track session has been altered to free practice only, with no qualification times being recorded in the mostly wet session. Qualifying therefore only took place on Thursday, which remained dry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic invitations\nAutomatic entry to the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans was granted to teams that had performed well in the previous year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as the 2008 seasons of the American Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, FIA GT Championship, and the Petit Le Mans. New for 2009 was an automatic invitation awarded to the team which accumulated the most points in the Michelin Energy Endurance Challenge, as part of the Le Mans Series. The award was based on fuel economy of competitors during each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic invitations\nOn 20 January 2009, the ACO announced that 15 of the 29 automatic invitations had been accepted by their recipients. Entries with a blue background were granted entries, but did not accept their invitations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Applications\nPrior to the deadline for applications, 82 separate entries by teams representing 17 countries were received by the ACO. This amount is only six less than the total of applications received for the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ACO Selection Committee decided on which teams were invited to fill the remaining 40 positions alongside those teams who had already received automatic invitations, along with ten reserve entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list\nOn 26 February, the ACO announced their list of 55 entries which will be invited to take part in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans. 21 cars within the LMP1 category include Audi, Peugeot, and Aston Martin with three cars each, as well as private entries for the Kolles Audis, Pescarolo Peugeot, and Speedy-Sebah Aston Martin. This also made a total of nine cars which would be using diesel fuel. LMP2 featured previous race winners Team Goh in a previous winning car, the Porsche RS Spyder, joined by last year's runner-up Team Essex. Mazda supplied engines for four entries, split amongst the Lola and Pescarolo chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list\nThe GT1 category was fought amongst three manufacturers, as Corvette Racing and Luc Alphand Aventures attempted to overcome the two private Aston Martin and Lamborghini entries. GT2 was once again dominated by the Ferrari and Porsche battle, although Ferrari had the power of numbers with its ten entries compared to Porsche's five. Sole entries from Spyker and the Drayson Aston Martin completed the GT2 field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list, Reserve entries\nTen entries are granted a reserve entry, in case an entry from the list of 55 withdraws prior to the event. These ten entries will be allowed to join the race entry list in the order they are listed here, regardless of their class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list, Reserve entries\nOn 31 March, Gigawave Motorsport withdrew their Aston Martin from the GT1 category of the entry list in order to concentrate on their development of the Nissan GT-R program. This promoted Advanced Engineering/Team Seattle from the reserve list to the entry list. Three days later Epsilon Euskadi withdrew their LMP1 entry which was replaced by the Endurance China Team. Epsilon Euskadi also withdrew their second entry from the reserve list. On 29 April, it was announced that Vitaphone Racing withdrew their LMP2 entry and was replaced by a second IMSA Performance Matmut GT2 entry. Racing Box also announced that they withdrew their LMP2 reserve entry. IPB Spartak Racing announced their withdrawal from the event on 15 May because one of their drivers, Peter Kox, was unable to participate in the race. It was replaced by the Barazi-Epsilon LMP2 entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list, Reserve entries\nOn 22 May, reserve entries were no longer able to be accepted into the race, regardless of further withdrawals. The entries of Gerard Welter's WR-Zytek LMP2, Team Felbermayr-Proton's Porsche GT2, Snoras Spyker Squadron's Spyker GT2, and Larbre Comp\u00e9tition's Saleen GT1 were the only remaining reserves at the time of the entry list closure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Free practice\nAfter the cancellation of the test session, Wednesday's schedule was changed from a qualifying session to a six-hour free practice. Track conditions varied as rain arrived several times during the practice, limiting the amount of time available with a dry circuit. Audi led the session with Allan McNish setting a fastest lap of 3:30.708 in the No. 1 car, followed immediately by the No. 2 Audi. The best Peugeot was the No. 9 car, followed immediately by the privately entered Pescarolo Sport Peugeot. The fastest LMP1 not running a diesel engine was the second Pescarolo entry with a time of 3:35.868, followed by the No. 008 and No. 007 Aston Martins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Free practice\nThe LMP2 category was led by the Porsche RS Spyders, with Team Essex's 3:46.426 ahead of the Navi Team Goh entry. Quifel ASM Team's Ginetta-Zytek was a distant third, ten seconds behind Team Essex. Corvette Racing were at the front of GT1, with the No. 63's 3:57.876 lap time ahead of the No. 64 car. Jetalliance Racing were third while the two Luc Alphand Corvettes did few laps after fixing an incorrectly installed rollcage and the JLOC Lamborghini did not complete a lap after breaking a driveshaft. Porsche were ahead of Ferrari in the GT2 category, with Felbermayr-Proton ahead of the Risi Competizione. Spyker Squadron were able to reach third in the class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Free practice\nThe only major incident of the practice session was an accident by KSM's driver Jean de Pourtales. The driver spun approaching the Dunlop Chicane, impacting a concrete barrier before sliding into a tire barrier. The second impact ripped much of the rear of the car off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying\nSt\u00e9phane Sarrazin claimed his third consecutive pole position at Le Mans, planting the No. 8 Peugeot at the front of the field with a lap time of 3:22.888. He set the lap on the third of his flying laps during a run near the end of the four-hour qualifying session, bettering Allan McNish's lap time by 0.8 seconds. McNish's lap was set on the final lap of the first two-hour qualifying session, beating the Peugeot of Franck Montagny who led much of the first session. McNish's lap remained at the top of the charts for much of the second session until Sarrazin's performance. Peugeot planned to practice race setups during the entire qualifying session, and were not seeking to obtain the pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying\nAt the end of qualifying Peugeots filled the next three places on the grid behind the front row with the car of Pescarolo Sport settling in at fourth fastest. Aston Martin were able to secure the fastest lap for a petrol-powered car, with the No. 007 entry on a few thousandths of a second behind the No. 3 Audi and followed by the No. 008 Aston Martin and No. 13 Speedy Racing Team Sebah Aston Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying\nThe Porsche RS Spyders continued their dominance in the LMP2 category, with Casper Elgaard of Team Essex ahead of Team Goh with a lap time of 3:37.720. Third in the category was the No. 33 Speedy Racing Team Sebah Lola-Judd which was over three seconds behind the Porsches. Corvette Racing secured the front row in the GT1 category, with Jan Magnussen's No. 63 entry half a second ahead of the No. 64 sister car. Jetalliance Racing's privately entered Aston Martin was under two seconds behind, and followed immediately by the two Luc Alphand Corvettes. The JLOC Lamborghini struggled with mechanical issues and was never able to lift itself from last place on grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying\nThe GT2 category was led by Porsche who bested their rivals Ferrari with two cars. Pole winner Flying Lizard Motorsports' 4:03.202 was less than a tenth of a second ahead of the No. 77 Felbermayr-Proton car. Risi Competizione led the Ferrari fight with a third place qualifying time, joined by JMB Racing and BMS Scuderia Italia. The Aston Martin of Drayson Racing was ninth in the category, while the Spyker was eleventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying\nSeveral incidents occurred during the qualifying session. The Pescarolo Peugeot drive by Jean-Christophe Boullion spun at the Tetre Rouge corner and ripped the left front fender off the car after impacting the wall. The Peugeot was able to return to the pits and be repaired. The No. 007 Aston Martin also hit a wall after losing control during braking for the second chicane on the Mulsanne Straight. Jan Charouz was traveling at 270\u00a0km/h (170\u00a0mph) at the time of the incident. The incident occurred in the closing minutes of qualifying, but the car was repaired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nNew rules have caused the diesels to become considerably slower than the previous year. Peugeot qualified 4 seconds slower than 2008 but still maintained the speed advantage over the new Audi R15. Audi's lack of testing meant that the cars struggled to get any sort of a good setup. All works drivers complained about understeer in the Le Mans aero package on the R15. Tom Kristensen commented that the high-downforce package like the one used at Sebring were much better. The R15 also struggled to get beyond a double-stint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nThe race began at 15:00 local time (UTC+2) 13 June 2009, with Franck Montagny in the pole position Peugeot 908 HDi FAP leading the field. The race was started by the waving of the French tricolour by Fiat and Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, honoring the 60th anniversary of Ferrari's first victory at Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nIn the LMP1 class, the Peugeots showed they could maintain a pace that the Audis struggled to maintain over the full run. The #7 Peugeot was released too early and hit from the side by the Pescarolo Peugeot. The initial damage was a small puncture but the resulting damage destroyed the whole left rear end of the car. Two of the three Audis had off-track excursions in the first 12 hours; one resulting in the #2 car being out of the race on lap 104. During the early evening, the #1 Audi lost a lap to the leading Peugeot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nFurther technical issues would see it lose another seven laps in total to the winner. In LMP2, the Navi Team Goh Porsche RS Spyder qualified 2nd overall and maintained a solid pace until crashing heavily with one hour to go, allowing the pole-sitting #31 Team Essex Porsche to carry on to the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nIn GT1, the final outing of the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R as a factory team at Le Mans ended well, with the #63 car driven by O'Connell, Magnussen and Garc\u00eda sitting on the pole and finishing first in class. Magnussen was sick early on, which left O'Connell and Garcia to finish the race as a two-driver team. Several other teams were stricken with the loss of a driver, most notable being the LMP1 #009 Lola-Aston, whose driver Stuart Hall was excluded when he collided with the LMP2 #26 Radical, and the stewards determined his fault to be substantial. Another team with a driver that was excluded was Kolles' Narain Karthikeyan as he dislocated his shoulder going over the pitwall before the race, leaving Charles Zwolsman, Jr. and Andr\u00e9 Lotterer to do the whole 24 hours, yet they finished a respectable 7th in P1 and 7th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 863]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nIn GT2, Ferrari celebrated their 60th Anniversary win with Ferraris taking the first 4 spots, the Risi Competizione #82 Ferrari F430 heading the class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race\nNew rules requiring only one man with one airgun in the pits were aimed to lower the overall costs of the event by causing teams to double or triple stint tires due to the time needed to replace them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Race results\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars running at the finish but failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are marked as Not Classified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot protest\nOn Monday, 8 June, following scrutineering and approval of the Audi R15 TDI by the ACO, Peugeot Sport director Olivier Quesnel stated that the team may file a protest over the legality of certain elements of the R15 TDI's design. This protest was officially filed two days later, immediately before the start of practice. Peugeot believes that the R15 features aerodynamic elements on the front of the car which violate the ACO's regulations about devices which may increase the amount of front downforce. Peugeot, as well as fellow competitors Aston Martin Racing and Oreca, initially questioned these aerodynamic elements at the 2009 12 Hours of Sebring in March, but were assured that the ACO would evaluate them prior to Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot protest\nLater that night, Peugeot received a response from the ACO stating that it would not uphold the protest. The ACO stated that they have the ability through their own regulations to determine if an aerodynamic element's sole purpose is to create downforce. Peugeot responded within an hour by appealing this decision. A decision on this appeal however would not be made until after the race had taken place, thus allowing Audi to continue to compete. Audi stated that they believed the matter was between Peugeot and the ACO, and that their car was legal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201234-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot protest\nFollowing the race, Peugeot announced that they were withdrawing their appeal of the scrutineer's decision. Peugeot cited a planned increase in communication between manufacturers and the ACO as their reasoning for the withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201235-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring\nThe 2009 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring is the 37th running of the 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring. It took place over May 23\u201324, 2009. Manthey Racing's #1 Porsche claimed honours in the SP7 class and was the overall victor, completing 155 laps over the 24 hours. Team Abt Sportsline and their #97 Audi claimed second overall and finished as top runner in the SP9 GT3 class. 118 of the 170 starters were classified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201235-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring, Intro\nFor 2009, the organizers announced that they wanted to reduce the gap in speeds, by not accepting small capacity cars any more, and by slowing down the fastest classes, SP7 and SP8. Also, the new FIA GT3 and FIA GT4 classes were adopted, called SP9 and SP10. Some of the new rules are controversial, especially the fact that instead of the regular fuel pumps as used in any public station, the top teams have to use expensive equipment designed to equal the times needed to refill, meaning that an economic car is punished compared to a thirsty car. Due to the various rule changes, some teams have declined to take part, namely Zakspeed with their Viper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201235-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring, Intro\nProbably also due to the economic crisis, the number of entries is much lower than in previous years, with only 170 cars starting the race. Surprisingly, the pole was set by a Ford GT, followed closely by the four factory-entered Audi R8 LMS and two Porsche GT3 of the Manthey team. They have decided to enter their well-known RSR, which is basically a GT2 car, but now has about 70\u00a0hp less due to new air restrictors, and also a 997 GT3 Cup S, the version Porsche homologated for FIA GT3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201235-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring, Intro\nFor the first 19 hours, two of the Audis and the two Manthey Porsche battled for the lead within a lap, the pace likely to result in a new distance record. The Manthey #1 had been punished for approaching an accident site too quickly and had to wait 3 minutes in the box, but the decision was reverted later based on data logging evidence, with the lost time deducted from the results. Around 11:30, the #99 Audi which had a narrow lead was stopped by suspension problems. Following repairs this car finished in 5th position. This left the #97 Audi in second, and with the win in its class, 5 minutes behind the overall winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa\nThe 2009 Total 24 Hours of Spa was the 62nd running of the Spa 24 Hours and the fourth round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. The race took place at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps between 25 and 26 July 2009. Joining the FIA GT Championship competitors were cars from numerous national GT series as well as competitors from the FIA GT3 European Championship. This was the last time GT1 machinery was eligible for the race, as well as the last Spa 24 Hours that was part of the FIA GT Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa\nPK Carsport's Anthony Kumpen, Mike Hezemans, Kurt Mollekens, and Jos Menten won the race for the second time for Corvette, leading a Vitaphone Racing Maserati and a Phoenix Racing Audi for the overall podium. The GT2 category was won by AF Corse Ferrari, while the Ford GT of Matech GT Racing won amongst G3 entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying's three sessions were hampered by rain, with the only dry track time coming in the early minutes of the first session. The three Vitaphone Maseratis were able to quickly grab the top positions before the rains came, locking them into that position as no improvements were able to be made in any of the latter wet sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Qualifying\nThe No. 120 Rossa Corsa Ferrari and No. 11 Full Speed Racing Saleen were required to start from pit lane after they both changed engines following qualifying. The two PMB Motorsports Porsches did not participate in any of the three qualifying sessions and also had to start from pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying results\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Race\nVictory in the race went to the number 4 PK Carsport Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1, which finished 11 laps ahead of the second placed Maserati MC12 GT1 of Vitaphone Racing Team DHL. Phoenix Racing, AF Corse and Matech GT Racing took class victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Race\nFollowing the race, Porsche revealed that all of their cars participating in the GT2 category had used steel sleeves which did not match the homologation papers for the 997 GT3-RSR. The FIA later disqualified all Porsches from the GT2 category for this violation, amending the final race results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201236-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 24 Hours of Spa, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201237-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 3. divisjon\nThe 2009 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201237-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 3. divisjon\nBetween 22 and 26 games (depending on group size) were played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Twelve teams were promoted to the 2. divisjon through playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201238-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 4 Nations Cup\nThe 2009 4 Nations Cup was the 14th playing of the annual women's ice hockey tournament. It was held in cities around Finland, from November 3\u20137, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201239-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 76 Classic\nThe 2009 76 Classic was a 3-day, 8-team, 12-game men\u2019s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I exempt basketball event held on November 26, 27, & 29, 2009. The tournament was sponsored by ConocoPhillips-owned brand 76. All 12 games were played at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The 76 Classic was an ESPN Regional TV owned and operated event, hosted by ESPN and the Big West Conference. All games were televised on the ESPN family of networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201239-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 76 Classic\nButler, with 6'9\" Gordon Hayward, was rated No. 9 by ESPN The Magazine in its pre-season rankings, followed by No. 11 West Virginia, No. 23 Minnesota, No. 27 Texas A&M, and No. 30 UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201239-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 76 Classic\nThe West Virginia Mountaineers won the tournament by defeating Long Beach State, Texas A&M, and upstart Portland in the finals to capture the 76 Classic title in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201240-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 A Championship\nThe 2009 A Championship was the second season of the A Championship in Ireland. The season was sponsored by Newstalk. The league featured 18 teams. Shamrock\u00a0Rovers\u00a0A were the champions while the runners up, Salthill Devon, were promoted to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201240-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 A Championship, Overview\n18 teams participated in the 2009 A Championship. 12 of these were the reserve teams of League of Ireland clubs. The 2008 champions UCD\u00a0A and Limerick 37 A did not enter teams for the 2009 season. They were replaced by Sporting\u00a0Fingal\u00a0A and Dundalk A. The six non-reserve teams included Salthill Devon and Tullamore\u00a0Town, both of whom played in the 2008 season. Cobh\u00a0Ramblers had been relegated from the 2008 Premier Division but were demoted directly to the A Championship after being refused a First Division licence. Castlebar\u00a0Celtic, F.C. Carlow and Tralee\u00a0Dynamos were making their debut at senior national level. They were the first clubs from their respective counties of Mayo, Carlow and Kerry to play at this level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201240-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 A Championship, Overview\nThe regular season started on 4 April and was completed by early November. The format saw the 18 teams split into two groups of nine, divided roughly into southern and northern  groups. The two groups used a traditional round-robin format. The two group winners, Shamrock\u00a0Rovers\u00a0A and Salthill Devon, then played off in a final. Shamrock Rovers emerged as champions. As the highest placed non-reserve team, Salthill Devon also qualified for a promotion/relegation play-off. However they were subsequently promoted directly to the 2010 First Division after their opponents, Kildare County, withdrew from the League of Ireland before the play-off could be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga\nThe Lithuanian A Lyga 2009 was the 20th season of top-tier football in Lithuania. The season started on 4 April 2009 and ended on 31 October 2009. Ekranas successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Promotion and relegation\n\u0160ilut\u0117 were relegated to the I Lyga after finishing the 2008 season in last place. They were replaced by I Lyga champions Tauras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Pre-season controversy\nThe Lithuanian top football division was shaken to its core after FBK Kaunas and Atlantas withdrew their participation on 20 March 2009. Both teams cited serious differences with the Lithuanian Football Federation over the way the league has been led in the past as a reason. This was the second blow to the league within two weeks after \u017dalgiris were denied a license for this season because of excessive financial problems on 6 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Pre-season controversy\nAs a consequence, the chairman of the National Football Clubs' Association (NFKA), Gintaras Ugianskis, resigned from his post. Further, the organization of the league was put into the hands of the LFF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Pre-season controversy\nThe 2009 A Lyga consists of eight teams chosen from all teams of both A Lyga and I Lyga. Teams with a higher 2008 season rank had a preference to enter. Clubs being interested in a participation could submit their application until 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Pre-season controversy\nOn 27 March 2009, the LFF announced the three replacement teams. Banga Garg\u017edai, LKKA ir Teledema Kaunas and Kruoja Pakruojis were appointed to the league. Further, the LFF classified FBK Kaunas and Atlantas to play in the third-tier II Lyga because of \"unethical conduct and other irregularities\" while \u017dalgiris were granted a license for the second-level I Lyga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201241-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 A Lyga, Results\nEvery team will play each other four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 28 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 20], "content_span": [21, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final\nThe 2009 A-League Grand Final took place at Telstra Dome in Melbourne, Australia on 28 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final\nIt was the final match in the A-League 2008\u201309 season, and was played between premiers Melbourne Victory and runners-up Adelaide United. Melbourne Victory won the match 1\u20130 and became the winners of the 2008\u201309 Championship, thus becoming the first team to win the A-League domestic treble, after also claiming the 2008 Pre-Season Challenge Cup, and the 2008\u201309 Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final\nThe match will always be marred by the 10th minute sending off of Cristiano which ultimately contributed to the loss. Similarly Daniel Allsopp was sent off in the 65th minute for an alleged headbutt. The decision infuriated Former Australia international Robbie Slater who was commentating the game \"Did the blood coming from Roddy's ear sway it? I thought it was a disgraceful decision and the grand final was ruined.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final\nThe Grand Final was the last event to be held at the Telstra Dome, the former name of Melbourne's Docklands Stadium. Due to a change in sponsorship, the stadium is now known as Etihad Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary\nWith both teams down to ten men for the last 25 minutes, Adelaide were left scoreless with Melbourne taking their second A-League championship medal. Pondeljak's goal earned him the prestigious Joe Marston Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary\nA contentious early red card given to the lone Adelaide striker Cristiano by referee Matthew Breeze saw the Reds go down to ten men by the tenth minute. However, Adelaide managed to hold back Melbourne from scoring until Tom Pondeljak scored 23 metres out from goal in the 60th minute to allow Melbourne to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary\nFive minutes later, Melbourne striker Daniel Allsopp was also sent off for allegedly headbutting Adelaide's Robert Cornthwaite in an incident in the Melbourne penalty box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary\nBoth Cristiano and Allsopp's red cards were revoked by the Football Federation Australia in a post-match conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Controversy\nThe red card to Adelaide talisman Cristiano after just 10 minutes in the championship decider against Melbourne Victory created a lot of controversy post match. The Brazilian starlet had been warned before that referee Matthew Breeze would send him off if he suspected anything untoward about his heading with flailing arms. He felt as though he was a marked man all season by referee Matthew Breeze \" I couldn't sleep after the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201242-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 A-League Grand Final, Controversy\nFox Sports analyst and Former Australia international Robbie Slater claimed the referee made the wrong call, \"ruined\" the Grand Final and argued that the A-League should hire an elite overseas official to handle its championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400\nThe 2009 AAA 400 was the twenty-eighth stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the second in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on September 27, 2009 at Dover International Speedway, in Dover, Delaware before a crowd of 110,000 people. The 400-lap race was won by Jimmie Johnson of the Hendrick Motorsports team after he started from pole position. His teammate Mark Martin finished second and Matt Kenseth came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400\nJohnson won the pole position and maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race. After a competition caution on lap 25, Ryan Newman became the leader of the race. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon were in the top ten for most of the race. Johnson reclaimed the lead, after passing Kurt Busch. Johnson maintained the first position to lead the most laps of 271, and to win his fourth race of the season. There were nine cautions and six lead changes among four different drivers during the course of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400\nThe race was Johnson's fourth win of the 2009 season, as well as the forty-fourth of his career. The result kept Martin in the lead in the Drivers' Championship, ten points ahead of Johnson, and sixty-five in front of Juan Pablo Montoya. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, forty-five ahead of Toyota and seventy-five in front of Ford, who bumped Dodge, with one-hundred and twenty-two points, to fourth place. The race attracted 5.08 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Background\nThe 2009 AAA 400 was the twenty-eighth of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the second in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It took place on September 27, 2009, in Dover, Delaware, at Dover International Speedway, a short track that holds NASCAR races. The NASCAR race makes use of the track's standard configuration, a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the backstretch are banked at nine degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Background\nBefore the race, Mark Martin led the Drivers' Championship with 5,230 points; Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin were tied for second with 5,195 points each, 35 points behind Martin. Juan Pablo Montoya was fourth with 5,175 points, ten ahead of Kurt Busch and nineteen ahead of Tony Stewart in fifth and sixth respectively. Ryan Newman with 5,151 was eleven points ahead of Brian Vickers, as Greg Biffle with 5,138 points, was ten ahead of Jeff Gordon. Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne rounded out the top twelve positions in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with 5,117 and 5,069 points respectively. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 199 points, thirty-nine points ahead of their rivals Toyota in second place. Dodge, with 118 points, were one point ahead of Ford in the battle for third place. Johnson was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 881]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second 45 minutes. The final session lasted 60 minutes. In the first practice session, Johnson was fastest, placing ahead of Newman in second and Montoya in third. Biffle took fourth position and Kurt Busch placed fifth. A. J. Allmendinger, David Reutimann, Kevin Harvick, Martin and David Gilliland rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session. During the session, Bowyer broke a rocker arm, and his team changed engines as a consequence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Practice and qualifying\nForty-four drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday afternoon; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Johnson clinched his third pole position of the season, with a time of 22.878. He was joined on the grid's front row by Montoya. Newman qualified third, Biffle took fourth and Reutimann started fifth. Kahne, Gordon, Bowyer, Sam Hornish, Jr. and Paul Menard completed the top ten positions. The driver that failed to qualify was Scott Wimmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Practice and qualifying\nDuring qualifying, Elliott Sadler's changed his car's engine, after one failed during the session. After the qualifier Johnson said, \"A pole today will make the start of the weekend much better and give us a lot of direction and momentum moving into tomorrow, It does carry you, and there is an aspect of momentum. But at the same time, you've got to go out and perform.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Kurt Busch was fastest in the second practice session, ahead of Montoya in second, and Newman in third. Johnson was fourth quickest, and Bowyer took fifth. Kyle Busch managed sixth. Stewart, Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Gilliland followed in the top ten. Of the other drivers in the Chase, Biffle finished with the eleventh fastest time, while Kahne set the fourteenth fastest time. Kahne set the fastest time in the final practice session, while Montoya and Joey Logano followed in second and third respectively. Martin was fourth quickest, ahead of Biffle and Johnson. Kurt Busch was seventh fastest, Jamie McMurray eighth, Gilliland ninth and Martin Truex, Jr. tenth. Other chase drivers included Newman in eleventh and Hamlin in eighteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nThe race, the twenty-eighth of a total of thirty-six in the 2009 season, began at 2:00\u00a0p.m. and was televised live in the United States on ESPN. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were cloudy with the air temperature 71\u00a0\u00b0F (22\u00a0\u00b0C); a moderate chance of rain was forecast. Pastor Dan Schafer began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Country music group and Show Dog-Universal Music recording artists Trailer Choir performed the national anthem, and Sergeant Major John Jones of the Pennsylvania National Guard gave the command for drivers to start their engines. During the pace laps, Bowyer, Sadler and Tony Raines all had to move to the rear of the grid because of them changing their engines. NASCAR announced that a competition caution would take place on lap 25, meaning drivers would make mandatory pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nJohnson maintained his pole position lead into the first corner. One lap later, Newman passed Montoya for the second position. After starting the race in twelfth, Martin had lost four positions to run eighteenth by lap 4. By the 10th lap, Johnson had built up a 1.2 second lead over Newman. Bowyer, who began the race at the rear of the grid, had moved up thirteen positions to twenty-ninth by lap 15. Two laps later, Raines drove to his garage. On lap 18, Kurt Busch passed Vickers for ninth, as Kahne claimed fourth position from Biffle, two laps later. On lap 25, the competition caution came out. During the caution, all of the leaders made pit stops; Gilliland became the new leader on lap 28. After pit stops, Newman claimed the first position and held it at the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nOn lap 31, a multi-car collision occurred in turn 3 as Logano was bumped by Stewart, causing him to flip sideways, which collected Truex, Robby Gordon and Reed Sorenson, prompting the second caution. On the same lap, the red flag was shown to allow race officials to clear the track of debris. The race was restarted 24 minutes later under caution. Newman maintained his lead at the restart, followed by Kurt Busch and Menard. Three laps later, Montoya and Gordon passed Menard for fifth and sixth respectively. On lap 43, Jeff Burton fell to ninth after being passed by Hamlin and Martin. Four laps later, Martin passed Hamlin for the thirteenth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nBy lap 50, Johnson passed Reutimann to move back into the top ten. On lap 58, Kurt Busch passed Newman to claim the lead. Three laps later, Jeff Gordon claimed fifth position off Kahne, while Menard was passed by Johnson for eighth. On lap 63, Montoya moved into the third position after passing Biffle, while Gilliland went to his garage to retire from the race. Two laps later, Kyle Busch claimed seventh position off Kahne, as Montoya passed Newman for second on lap 66. On lap 67, Gordon and Biffle passed Newman for third and fourth positions. Four laps later, Johnson claimed seventh from Kahne. On lap 80, Reutimann ran out of fuel, forcing him to make a pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nOn lap 83, Biffle was passed by Johnson for the fourth position. One lap later, Michael Waltrip lost his car's right-front tire and collided with the wall, causing the third caution. All of the leaders elected to make pit stops. Kurt Busch remained the leader at the restart, ahead of Biffle and Kyle Busch. On lap 93, Kyle Busch passed Biffle for second position, while McMurray was passed by Kahne for ninth on lap 96. Three laps later, Biffle dropped to sixth after being passed by Jeff Gordon, as Montoya passed Kyle Busch for the third position on lap 113.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nSixteen laps later, Kahne passed Jeff Gordon for sixth, while Stewart moved into the eighteenth position on lap 137. On the 147th lap, Kurt Busch was blocked by Bobby Labonte, allowing Johnson to claim the lead. By the 150th lap, Kyle Busch dropped three positions to sixth after being passed by Martin, Kahne and Jeff Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nGreen flag pit stops began on lap 152, when Hornish made a pit stop. Eleven laps later, the fourth caution came out. During the caution, which was caused by liquid on the track, all of the leaders made pit stops. Kurt Busch reclaimed the lead for the lap 168 restart. Stewart moved into the eleventh position on lap 170. Six laps later, Johnson reclaimed the lead off Kurt Busch. By the 183rd lap, Johnson opened out a 1.6 second lead over Kurt Busch. Twenty-four laps later, Kyle Busch collided with the wall in turn 3 and turn 4, prompting the fifth caution. All of the leaders chose to make pit stops during the caution. The race resumed on lap 211, with Johnson leading from Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nBy the 223rd lap, Johnson had a lead of 1.6 seconds. Twenty-seven laps later, Sorenson rejoined the race track. On lap 252, Stewart passed Allmendinger for the ninth position. Seven laps later, Stewart moved into eighth after passing Newman, and passed Bowyer for seventh on the 262nd lap. On lap 272, Johnson's lead of 3.5 seconds was reduced to nothing when the pace car moved on track. During the caution, which was caused by David Stremme making contact with the wall at turn 4, all of the leaders made pit stops. Johnson remained the leader at the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nOn lap 286, Kahne was passed  by Newman for ninth. By lap 290, Johnson built up a lead of two seconds. Seventeen laps later, Martin passed Kenseth for the fourth position. Johnson's lead had increased to 2.2 seconds by lap 319. Five laps later, debris was spotted on the track and the seventh caution was prompted. All of the leaders elected to make pit stops during the caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nJohnson maintained his lead at the restart, followed by Martin and Kenseth. One lap later, Montoya moved into the second position, as Martin fell to fifth. On lap 336, Martin moved into fourth after passing Kurt Busch, and passed Kenseth for third two laps later. On lap 341, the eighth caution came out when Regan Smith spun off, collecting Stremme, Truex and Sadler. Johnson kept the lead at the lap 347 restart. One lap later, Kenseth moved into the second position, as Stewart and Gordon moved into fourth and tenth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nOn lap 349, Gordon passed Newman for ninth, before falling to eleventh position after contact with Newman one lap later. On the 354th lap, Stewart was passed by Martin for the fourth position, as Johnson had built a 2.2 second lead by lap 357. One lap later, Jeff Gordon moved into the ninth position after passing Newman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race\nOn the 368th lap, Hornish, spun on the backstraightaway, prompting the ninth and final caution of the race. During the caution, some of the leaders made pit stops. Johnson maintained the lead on the lap 373. Four laps later, Newman passed Mears for eighth, as Edwards was passed by Stewart for twelfth. On the 383rd lap, Kahne, Allemndinger and Stewart passed Newman for seventh, eighth and ninth respectively. On the next lap, Kenseth was passed by Martin for second position. On the 391st lap, Kahne was passed by Allmendinger for the second position. Two laps later, Johnson's lead had increased to 2.2 seconds and held it to win the race. Martin finished second, ahead of Kenseth in third, Montoya fourth, and Kurt Busch fifth. Gordon, Allmendinger, Kahne, Stewart and Newman rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race, Post-race\nAs far as sending a message, I hope it does. I hope people are worried.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race, Post-race\nJohnson appeared in victory lane to celebrate his fourth victory of the season in front of 110,000 people who attended the race. Johnson also earned $276,076 in race winnings. Afterward, he said, \"I woke up (on Sunday) morning very optimistic. By about lap two or three I knew we had a very balanced car and we'd be competitive all day long, get a solid finish. \", he continued, \"I see guys get so worried about what other people think, what other people say and spend a lot of time in those areas. That's not what works for me. (I) don't watch television; don't watch or read any of the trade papers or magazines. Just ignore, ignore, ignore and focus on my world and what's going on with my race car. That's what I'll do through the rest of the Chase.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race, Post-race\nMartin, who finished second, was candid about the result, \"We did really well to finish second. I just don't think we were in [Johnson's] league today.\" In the post-race press conference, Kenseth said of his result, \"We didn't qualify very good, but we were really happy with our car. When the race started, I didn't think we were quite as good as we were yesterday (in practice), but we were able to have really good pit stops.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race, Post-race\nLogano, who was involved in the biggest accident of the race, \"The biggest thing was, I was fine the whole time, [but] I'm not really sure what happened. The spotter was clearing me low. When I got down there, they checked up going into the corner and I got tagged from behind.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201243-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 AAA 400, Race, Post-race\nThe race result kept Martin in the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 5,400 points. Johnson, who won the race, stood in second, ten points behind Martin, and sixty-five ahead of Montoya. Kurt Busch moved into fourth position with 5,325 points. Stewart with fifth, Hamlin sixth, and Newman, Jeff Gordon, Biffle and Vickers followed in the top-ten positions. The final two positions available in the Chase for the Sprint Cup were occupied by Edwards in eleventh and Kahne in twelfth. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained their lead with 208. Toyota remained second with 163. Ford followed with 123 points, one point ahead of Dodge in fourth. 5.08 million people watched the race on television. The race took three hours, twenty-two minutes and eleven seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 1.970 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201244-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AAMI Classic \u2013 Draw\nAndy Roddick was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201244-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AAMI Classic \u2013 Draw\nRoger Federer won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20133, against Stanislas Wawrinka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201245-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ABC Supply Company A.J. Foyt 225\nThe 2009 ABC Supply Company A.J. Foyt 225 was the fifth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, held on May 31, 2009 at the 1.015-mile (1.633\u00a0km) Milwaukee Mile, in West Allis, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament\nThe 2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 37th edition of the event known as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, and is part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 9 February through 15 February 2009. Second-seeded Andy Murray won the singles final beating first-seeded Rafael Nadal in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Players\nThe list of original seeded players was headlined by world number 1 Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Nikolay Davydenko. Also lined up are Gilles Simon, Ga\u00ebl Monfils, David Ferrer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Robin S\u00f6derling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Players\nRobin S\u00f6derling was forced to withdraw from the tournament on the second day, before he was due to face Russia's Evgeny Korolev on day three. He was replaced by Frenchman Marc Gicquel who entered the tournament as a lucky loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd /  Leander Paes 6\u20132, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Seeds\nRobin S\u00f6derling was the eighth seed, but had to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Singles\nIn the first ATP World 500 Series tournament of the year, all the seeded players reached the second round. World number 1 Rafael Nadal needed three sets to beat Simone Bolelli and David Ferrer equally took three sets to advance against J\u00fcrgen Melzer. Thiemo de Bakker, who was ranked at #242 in the world rankings and one of only two Dutchmen in the competition, lost his first round tie against Andreas Seppi. The other home player, Jesse Huta Galung, gave seventh seed Jo Wilfried Tsonga a real game but lost out on two tie-breaks. Andy Murray beat former top three player Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107 while Ga\u00ebl Monfils took the first set against Swiss player St\u00e9phane Bohli before his opponent had to retire injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Singles\nSeeds began to fall in the second round: Nikolay Davydenko, Gilles Simon and David Ferrer exited the competition with defeats to Julien Benneteau, Mario An\u010di\u0107 and Mikhail Youzhny respectively. Nadal overcame the loss of the second set against the 2008 junior champion Grigor Dimitrov to win 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 6\u20132. Murray defeated Seppi 7\u20136, 7\u20136 and Monfils beat fellow Frenchman Micha\u00ebl Llodra. The quarter-final line-up was completed by Marc Gicquel (who had the opportunity to play after Soderling's withdrawal) and Tsonga who defeated Dmitry Tursunov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Singles\nIn the quarter-finals Rafael Nadal beat Frenchman Tsonga 6-4, 7-6, 6-4 to set up a match with Monfils in the semi-finals, who beat Julien Benneteau 7-6, 6-1. Mario An\u010di\u0107 continued his good form from the Zagreb tournament the previous week by beating Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 6-2 in their quarter-final match. Marc Gicquel was forced to retire from his quarter-final against Murray when Murray was leading 7-6, 4-6, 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Singles\nIn the first semi-final match, despite initial fears that he would not be able to play due to an ankle injury, Murray beat An\u010di\u0107 6-1, 6-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Doubles\nThe #1, #2 and #4 seeded doubles pairs all progressed through the first two rounds to reach the semi-finals. Top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 recorded identical scorelines of 7\u20136(2), 6\u20134 in their opening two matches, defeating singles players Dmitry Tursunov (the champion the previous year with Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych) and Gilles Simon in the first round before beating Italians Andreas Seppi and Simone Bolelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201246-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Events, Doubles\nThe #2 seeded pair of Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes won on a final-set champions tiebreak against Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber, then proceeded to win 6\u20132, 6\u20131 against Igor Andreev and Marcin Matkowski in the quarterfinals. The Julian Knowle and Andy Ram partnerships also reached the semi-finals after a straight sets victory over Andy Murray and James Auckland in the first round and victory over the French pair of Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and Micha\u00ebl Llodra in the second round. The #3 pair of Jeff Coetzee - Wesley Moodie were defeated in the quarter-finals by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and J\u00fcrgen Melzer 4-6, 66-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201247-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament \u2013 Doubles\nTom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Dmitry Tursunov are the defending champions. They are both present but do not compete together. Berdych partners with J\u00fcrgen Melzer, but lost in the semifinals to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107. Tursunov partnered with Gilles Simon, but lost in the first round to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201248-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament \u2013 Singles\nMicha\u00ebl Llodra was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Ga\u00ebl Monfils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201249-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament \u2013 Wheelchair Singles\nThis was the first edition of the doubles tournament. The top two seeds Robin Ammerlaan and St\u00e9phane Houdet met in the final. Ammerlaan won the first tournament with a three set win to seal the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201250-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACB Playoffs\nThe 2009 ACB Playoffs was the final phase of the 2008\u201309 ACB season. It started on Saturday, May 16, 2009 and run until Thursday, June 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nThe 2009 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Clemson Tigers. The game, sponsored by Dr. Pepper, was the final regular-season contest of the 2009 college football season for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Georgia Tech defeated Clemson, winning the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship, 39\u201334. However, Georgia Tech was forced to vacate the game victory and the conference title in 2011 due to sanctions stemming from an NCAA investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nThe Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets were selected to represent the Coastal Division by virtue of a 7\u20131 record in conference play and a 10\u20132 record overall. Representing the Atlantic Division was Clemson, which had an 8\u20134 record (6\u20132 ACC). The game was a rematch of a contest played September 10 in Atlanta. In that first game, Georgia Tech won a close 30\u201327 matchup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nThe game was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on December 5, 2009. Tampa had been chosen to host the game after poor attendance at the game's previous location, Jacksonville, Florida, led conference officials to seek an alternative. The 2009 championship was the last to be hosted in Tampa, as the game moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nFrom the start of the game, the 2009 ACC championship had a large amount of offense. Throughout the contest, neither team punted: Every offensive drive ended in a score or a turnover. Clemson scored first, a touchdown on its opening drive, and held a 7\u20133 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Georgia Tech scored 13 points to Clemson's six, and the Yellow Jackets entered halftime with a 16\u201313 lead. They extended that lead in the third quarter, scoring 17 points to Clemson's lone touchdown and extra point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nIn the fourth quarter, Clemson closed the gap and took a 34\u201333 lead with 6:11 remaining, but Georgia Tech drove down the field and scored a touchdown with 1:20 remaining, giving the Yellow Jackets a 39\u201334 lead that was the game's final margin. In recognition of his significant performance despite the loss, Clemson running back C. J. Spiller was named the game's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game\nBy winning, Georgia Tech earned a spot in the 2010 Orange Bowl football game, and Clemson was selected for the 2009 Music City Bowl. Several players that participated in the ACC championship later played in postseason all-star games and were later selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process\nThe ACC Championship Game features the winners of the Coastal and Atlantic divisions of the Atlantic Coast Conference. In the early 2000s, the conference underwent an expansion to add three former Big East members: the University of Miami and Virginia Tech in 2004, and Boston College in 2005. With the addition of a twelfth team, the ACC was allowed to hold a conference championship game under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process\nThe inaugural 2005\u00a0game featured a Florida State win over Virginia Tech, 27\u201322. In 2006, two different teams made their first appearances in the game, which was held in Jacksonville, Florida. Wake Forest defeated Georgia Tech, 9\u20136. In 2007, one team new to the championship game and championship-game veteran featured in the contest as Virginia Tech faced off against Boston College. The game resulted in a 30\u201316 Virginia Tech victory. In 2008, Virginia Tech and Boston College again played in the championship game. Virginia Tech won the rematch, 30\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Site selection\nBefore the 2007 game, cities other than Jacksonville (site of the 2007 ACC Championship Game) presented their plans to be the site of the 2008 ACC Championship Game. After poor attendance in the ACC Championship Game at Jacksonville for the second straight year, ACC officials and representatives of the conference's member schools elected not to extend the Gator Bowl Association's contract to manage and host the game for another year. On December 12, less than two weeks after Jacksonville had hosted the 2007 ACC Championship Game, the ACC announced that Tampa, Florida would host the game in 2008 and 2009 and Charlotte, North Carolina would host the game in 2010 and 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Site selection\nThe cities were chosen based on bids presented to the ACC and its member schools. Each city requested and was granted a two-year contract. Tampa was chosen as the site of the 2008\u00a0game because Charlotte was scheduled to hold the annual convention of the Association for Career and Technical Education at the same time as the game, and adequate hotel space would not be ready in time for the two events. As a result, Charlotte's two-year span of hosting the game was pushed back to 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection\nBefore the beginning of the 2009 college football season, the annual poll by media members who cover ACC football predicted Virginia Tech to win the Coastal Division and Florida State to win the Atlantic Division. Virginia Tech received 78 of a possible 87 first-place votes in its division, while Florida State received 56 in the other division. In regards to predicting the championship game's outcome, 69 of the 87 voters chose Virginia Tech to win. Georgia Tech and Clemson were predicted to finish second in the Coastal and Atlantic divisions, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Georgia Tech\nThe Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets entered the 2009 season after a 2008 campaign that saw them finish 9\u20134, including a season-ending 38\u20133 loss to the LSU Tigers in the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl. Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson, entering his second season as head of the Yellow Jackets, had high hopes that Georgia Tech would be able to improve upon its 2008 performance. Others agreed with Johnson's assumption, as the Yellow Jackets were ranked No. 15 in the preseason Associated Press and USA Today coaches' polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Georgia Tech\nIn Georgia Tech's first game, the Yellow Jackets defeated lightly regarded Jacksonville State, 37\u201317. Five days later, in Tech's first competitive game of the season, the Yellow Jackets narrowly defeated Clemson, 30\u201327, on the basis of a fake field goal for a touchdown and a late field goal. One week after the Clemson win, Tech\u2014by then raised to No. 14 in the national polls\u2014suffered its first loss of the season, to No. 20 Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Georgia Tech\nThat loss turned out to be Georgia Tech's last to a conference opponent during the 2009 regular season. Nine days after the Miami loss, Georgia Tech defeated No. 22 North Carolina, then followed that with a win over Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State. Wins over Florida State and No. 4 Virginia Tech followed in subsequent weeks. The latter victory was the Yellow Jackets' first win over a top-five team since 1962 and gave Georgia Tech a lead in the divisional standings. Following the Virginia Tech win, Georgia Tech defeated Virginia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest (in overtime) and Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Georgia Tech\nThe Duke victory raised Georgia Tech to 10 wins, the school's first time at that mark since 1990, and the Yellow Jackets were ranked No. 7, their highest position in the national polls since that year. But following the Duke game, the Yellow Jackets faced Georgia in the rivalry known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. During that game, the unranked Georgia Bulldogs upset Tech, 30\u201324. Though Georgia Tech had clinched its ACC Championship Game slot with the win over Duke, the loss was nevertheless a \"huge letdown\" for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Clemson\nThe Clemson Tigers began the 2009 season after finishing 7\u20136 in 2008, including a season-ending loss in the 2009 Gator Bowl to Nebraska. Heading into 2010, Clemson returned many of its 2009 players, but faced questions about whether those players would perform better with another year of experience. Also under question was head coach Dabo Swinney, who was beginning his first full season as head coach of the Tigers after assuming control in the seventh game of 2008. Clemson attempted to answer some of the questions about the team's potential in the first game of the season, a 37\u201314 win against Middle Tennessee State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Clemson\nClemson lost its first real test, a conference game at 15th-ranked Georgia Tech, but recovered to win the following week against Boston College. The Boston College win was Clemson's last for almost a month, however, as Clemson lost to nonconference opponent Texas Christian on September 26, then was defeated by ACC divisional foe Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Clemson\nThe two losses, piled upon the loss to Georgia Tech, left Clemson with a 2\u20133 record. An anonymous report said coach Swinney became involved in a shouting match with a position coach, while players called a private meeting in an effort to turn the team's season around. On October 17, The Tigers rallied from their losing streak by defeating Wake Forest, 38\u20133, and moved back into the middle of the competition for the Atlantic Division championship. One week after defeating Wake Forest, the Tigers traveled to Miami, Florida, to play the Miami Hurricanes, who were ranked No. 10 in the Bowl Championship Series Poll. The Tigers played the Hurricanes into overtime, then upset Miami with a touchdown, 40\u201337.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Selection process, Team selection, Clemson\nThe Miami win tied Clemson for the lead in the division standings with Boston College, whom the Tigers had already defeated and held a head-to-head tiebreaker over. After the Miami game, Clemson defeated nonconference Coastal Carolina, then reeled off three wins over ACC teams. Clemson beat Florida State on November 7, NC State on November 14, and Virginia on November 21. On the same day Clemson defeated Virginia, Boston College was defeated in an ACC game, giving Clemson the Atlantic Division championship outright. After the Virginia game, Clemson faced longtime in-state rival South Carolina. In that game, South Carolina defeated Clemson, ending the Tigers' winning streak just before the ACC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Pregame buildup\nFollowing the last week of regularly scheduled conference games, both teams fell in the national college football polls because of their rivalry losses. Georgia Tech, which had been No. 7 in the Bowl Championship Series Poll, No. 7 in the Associated Press Poll, and No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches' Poll, dropped to No. 10 in the BCS Poll, No. 12 in the AP Poll, and No. 12 in the coaches' poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Pregame buildup\nClemson, which had been No. 18 in the BCS, No. 15 in the AP, and No. 16 according to the coaches, dropped out of the BCS and coaches' polls and was No. 25 according to the AP. Spread bettors predicted Georgia Tech would win the game. Various betting organizations favored the Yellow Jackets by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Pregame buildup\nThe game was a rematch of an early regular-season contest, but even though Georgia Tech won that game, there were questions about whether the victory would be repeated. Twice before, the two teams matched in the ACC Championship Game had played earlier that season. Both times, the loser of the first matchup won the second. There also were questions about each team's quality because of their losses in rivalry games against Southeastern Conference foes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary\nThe 2009 ACC Championship Game kicked off at 8:06\u00a0pm EST on December 5, 2009, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The weather at kickoff was cloudy, with 88 percent humidity, an air temperature of 53\u00a0\u00b0F (12\u00a0\u00b0C) and a north wind of 6 miles per hour (9.7\u00a0km/h). Approximately 42,815 people were in the stands, according to turnstile attendance figures, out of 57,227 tickets sold. The game also was seen by approximately 2.541 million viewers on ESPN, which broadcast the game with Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, and Erin Andrews. The 2.5 million viewers  brought the lowest-ever TV rating for an ACC Championship Game, even though the broadcast was the first ACC Championship Game to be played in prime time since 2005. The game's referee was Jeff Flanagan, its umpire was Keith Roden, and its linesman was Mike Owens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, First quarter\nThe Clemson Tigers began the game with first possession. After Georgia Tech's kickoff and a short return, the Tigers' offense began work at their 33-yard line. Three short plays advanced the ball to the Clemson 41-yard line and gained the Tigers a first down. On the next play, Clemson running back C. J. Spiller broke free for a 40-yard rush to the Georgia Tech 19-yard line. Two plays later, Clemson quarterback Kyle Parker completed a 15-yard pass to Jacoby Ford. On the next play, Spiller ran forward three yards, across the goal line for a touchdown and the game's first points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, First quarter\nClemson's post-score kickoff was returned to the Georgia Tech 15-yard line, where the Yellow Jackets began their first offensive possession. On the first two plays of the game, Georgia Tech running back Roddy Jones escaped the Clemson defense for gains of 21 yards and 22 yards, respectively. Those plays advanced the Yellow Jackets to the Clemson 42-yard line, where Georgia Tech began advancing by small gains. In three plays, Georgia Tech gained a first down, but two subsequent plays lost yardage before kicker Scott Blair came onto the field to attempt\u2014and convert\u2014a 48-yard field goal. The score narrowed Clemson's lead to 7\u20133 with the quarter exactly half elapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, First quarter\nThe Tigers began their second drive of the game from their 26-yard line and advanced the ball through short gains. The Tigers needed three plays to gain a first down, then running back Andre Ellington advanced 18 yards and into Georgia Tech territory. Clemson could not gain another first down, and kicker Richard Jackson missed a 52-yard field goal attempt. After the miss, Georgia Tech's offense resumed the field. From the Tech 35-yard line, the Yellow Jackets advanced to the Clemson 48-yard line before running back Jonathan Dwyer gained 20 yards to the 28-yard line. Two plays later, as the Yellow Jackets advanced to the 18-yard line, the quarter ended with Clemson leading, 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe second quarter began with Georgia Tech facing first down, in possession of the ball at the Clemson 18-yard line. On the first play of the quarter, Dwyer gained 10 yards and a first down with a running play to the Clemson eight-yard line. Three plays later, Dwyer completed the Yellow Jackets' scoring drive with a run into the end zone. The touchdown and extra point gave Georgia Tech its first lead of the game, 10\u20137, with 13:30 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Second quarter\nClemson returned Georgia Tech's kickoff to its 43-yard line, but despite the good field position, Clemson was unable to take advantage. On the first play of the drive, Clemson quarterback Parker threw an interception to Georgia Tech defender Dominique Reese, who went out of bounds at the Tech 45-yard line. Georgia Tech's offense returned to the field at that point and began driving down the field. In two plays, Tech passed the 50-yard line. In six more, it penetrated the Clemson 10-yard line. Once there, however, the Yellow Jackets' drive stalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Second quarter\nThree consecutive penalties against Georgia Tech pushed the Yellow Jackets back 20 yards, and Tech was unable to score a touchdown or gain a first down after that setback. Kicker Blair again returned to the field and scored a 49-yard field goal. With 5:35 remaining in the first half, Georgia Tech extended its lead to 13\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Second quarter\nClemson's offense returned to the field at its 35-yard line after Georgia Tech's kickoff and a 30-yard return by C. J. Spiller. During the ensuing drive, Spiller was the key player for the Tigers. On five consecutive plays, he received the ball during rushing plays. He gained 3, 13, 6, 2, and 41 yards, respectively, on each of these plays en route to the end zone and a touchdown. Clemson attempted a two-point conversion, but the try failed and the Tigers simply tied the Yellow Jackets, 13\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Second quarter\nGeorgia Tech's offense began the final drive of the first half with 2:55 remaining. The Yellow Jackets started from their 36-yard line and began slowly: Their first play gained no yards, and their second gained eight before a fumble that was recovered by a fellow Yellow Jacket. A short running play gained three yards, enough for a first down, and the drive continued. Consecutive rushing plays gained few yards at a time, and Georgia Tech used its timeouts to stop the game clock and prevent time from running out in the half. A 10-yard pass interference penalty pushed Georgia Tech inside the Clemson 20-yard line, and kicker Blair again converted a field goal. The successful kick gave Georgia Tech a 16\u201313 lead heading into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Third quarter\nBecause Clemson received the ball to begin the game, Georgia Tech received the ball to begin the second half. Chris Tanner returned the kickoff to the Tech 29-yard line, and the Yellow Jackets began the first offensive drive of the half. Jones opened the drive with a 16-yard run, then the Yellow Jackets converted a fourth down to continue down the field. Six plays after the fourth-down conversion, Tech quarterback Nesbitt ran into the end zone for a touchdown. The following extra point gave Tech a 23\u201313 lead with 9:12 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Third quarter\nClemson fielded the following kickoff, and its offense continued with the success it found in its final drive of the first half. As in that drive, C. J. Spiller was a key performer. Clemson's drive began at its 40-yard line, and it took just five plays for the Tigers to score a touchdown. Four of those plays, including the culminating one, came from Spiller, who covered 40 yards during them. Spiller's touchdown cut Georgia Tech's lead to 23\u201320. But as quickly as Clemson scored, Georgia Tech moved even more quickly. From its 30-yard line, the Yellow Jackets needed only three plays, the keystone coming on a 70-yard throw from Nesbitt to Thomas for a touchdown. With 5:10 remaining in the quarter, the Yellow Jackets restored the 10-point margin, 30\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Third quarter\nBeginning from their 26-yard line after a kickoff, Clemson attempted to again cut into Tech's lead. The Tigers, again guided by the running offense of Spiller and Jamie Harper, advanced to the 37-yard line, where Parker's passing attack took over. Parker completed two passes before Georgia Tech defender Jerrard Tarrant ran in front of a long throw downfield. He intercepted Parker's pass and returned it 50 yards to the Clemson 28, where Tech's offense began anew. Despite the good field position, Tech was unable to gain a first down but still was within range of a 40-yard field goal from Blair, who extended the Yellow Jackets' lead to 33\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Third quarter\nWith time running out in the third quarter, Clemson's offense entered the field of play at its 28-yard line. After a five-yard penalty for delay of game, the Tigers' Andre Ellington gained 41 yards on two plays, pushing into Georgia Tech territory. Those plays all but exhausted the quarter's remaining moments, however, and the third quarter ended with Georgia Tech still leading, 33\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe fourth quarter began with Clemson in possession of the ball and facing second and nine from the Georgia Tech 35-yard line. The Tigers' first two plays of the quarter failed to gain a first down, setting up a critical fourth-down conversion opportunity for them. Rather than attempt a field goal, the Tigers attempted to gain a first down and were successful as Parker completed a seven-yard throw. Though Georgia Tech sacked Parker on a subsequent play, the yardage loss was offset by a pass interference penalty against the Yellow Jackets. One play after the penalty, Spiller ran nine yards for a touchdown. It and the subsequent extra point cut Georgia Tech's lead to 33\u201327 with 12 minutes remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nWith a solid lead and time running down in the game, Georgia Tech began a sequence of running plays intended to keep the game clock running while gaining ground. From their 25-yard line, the Yellow Jackets gained 38 yards on seven plays, advancing into Clemson territory in the process. Facing fourth down at the Clemson 37-yard line, the Yellow Jackets attempted to gain a first down rather than kick a long field goal. When they were stopped short of the first-down line, Clemson's offense returned to the field. Spiller again drove the Tigers down the field, opening the drive with a 54-yard run on its first play. Three plays later, Ellington capitalized the drive with a one-yard run for a tying touchdown. The following extra point gave Clemson a one-point lead, 34\u201333, with 6:11 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 865]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nClemson's post-touchdown kickoff was returned to the Tech 14-yard line, where the Yellow Jackets began their game-winning drive. The offense began slowly; Georgia Tech gained only nine yards in three plays, setting up a crucial fourth-down conversion. A failed try would give Clemson the ball deep in Georgia Tech territory, with little time remaining in the game for Georgia Tech to reply to any score. Instead, the Yellow Jackets converted the fourth down, keeping their drive alive. On the first play after the fourth-down conversion, Nesbitt completed a 21-yard pass to Dwyer, pushing Tech to near midfield. Eight plays later, Dwyer breached the Clemson defense for a 15-yard gain and the go-ahead score. A false start penalty on Georgia Tech's two-point conversion try prevented any extra points, but the touchdown's six points were enough to give Georgia Tech a 39\u201334 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 936]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nClemson received Georgia Tech's kickoff with 1:20 remaining in the game. On the Tigers' first play, they committed a 10-yard penalty. Two incomplete passes followed from Parker, who then completed an 18-yard throw to Xavier Dye. This set up a fourth-and-two for the Tigers, who needed to gain a first down to keep their potential game-winning drive going. Instead, Parker was stymied in his attempt to run for the needed yards, and Clemson turned the ball over on downs. Georgia Tech's offense ran out the remaining seconds on the clock and ensured their 39\u201334 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Statistical summary\nIn recognition of his performance despite a losing effort, Clemson running back C. J. Spiller was named the game's most valuable player. Spiller set several ACC Championship game records: most yards, most yards per carry, most touchdowns, and longest run from scrimmage. Spiller finished the game with 233 rushing yards, more than Georgia Tech's two leading rushers combined. The Yellow Jackets' Jonathan Dwyer had 110 rushing yards and two touchdowns, while Josh Nesbitt rushed for 103 yards and one touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Statistical summary\nAs quarterback, Georgia Tech's Josh Nesbitt was the top performer. In addition to his rushing performance, Nesbitt completed 9 of 16 pass attempts for 136 yards and one touchdown. On the opposite side of the field, Clemson's Kyle Parker was successful on 10 of his 17 pass attempts for 91 yards, but also had two interceptions, the game's only turnovers. Nesbitt set an ACC Championship Game record for longest pass play with his 70-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas in the third quarter. The two teams also set records for total offense: Georgia Tech's 469 total yards and Clemson's 414 total yards each broke the previous record for total offense, as did each team's rushing total break the previous team rushing record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Statistical summary\nOn defense, Clemson defensive end Da\u2019Quan Bowers led all defenders with 11 total tackles, including one for loss. Bowers' performance was a personal best for him and was the second-most in ACC Championship Game history. For Georgia Tech, Mario Edwards was the leading tackler with seven, including two assisted tackles. Tech's Jerrard Tarrant, who had five tackles, the second-most on the team, also had one interception and returned it 50 yards. The interception and return, Tarrant's first of the season, was the longest in ACC Championship Game history. Georgia Tech's other interception was fielded by Dominique Reese, for no return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Postgame effects\nGeorgia Tech's win brought it to a record of 11\u20132, while Clemson's loss dropped it to 8\u20135. The win ensured Georgia Tech's first outright conference championship since 1990, and as a reward for winning the conference, Georgia Tech received a spot in the 2010 Orange Bowl, a Bowl Championship Series game. In that game, the Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the Yellow Jackets, 24\u201314. Clemson also was selected to participate in a postseason bowl game. The Music City Bowl, played in Nashville, Tennessee, selected the Tigers to play against the Kentucky Wildcats. In that game, the Tigers defeated the Wildcats, 21\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201251-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Championship Game, Vacated\nOn July 14, 2011, Georgia Tech was forced to vacate the win due to an NCAA investigation. The NCAA accused Tech of fielding an ineligible player during the game, and although they were unable to obtain evidence that an ineligible player had been played, the NCAA concluded that the investigation had been hampered by Georgia Tech's administration. This was taken as evidence of wrongdoing, and penalties for playing an ineligible player were imposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 12\u201315 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The tournament was broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, along with Raycom Sports in the ACC footprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe championship game matched Duke against Florida State, who made their first appearance in the ACC championship game since joining the league in 1992. Duke won 79\u201369 for their 8th conference title in 11 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nTeams were seeded based on the final regular-season standings, with ties broken under an ACC policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nWake Forest and Duke split their regular-season games, each winning one. Wake Forest was awarded the second seed for its better record against top-seeded North Carolina: Wake won its only game, while Duke lost both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nBy finishing fourth in the conference, Florida State joined North Carolina, Duke and Wake Forest as teams that received a first-round bye in the tournament. It was the first time that the Seminoles had earned a bye since joining the conference in time for the 1991-92 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nClemson received the fifth seed because it beat Boston College in their only meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201252-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nThe three-way tie among Maryland, Virginia Tech, and Miami was broken based on the record of games played among the three teams. Maryland received the seventh seed for having the best winning percentage (2\u20131), Virginia Tech received the eighth seed (1\u20131), and Miami received the ninth seed (1\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201253-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Trophy Challenge\nThe 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge was a cricket tournament in Chiang Mai, Thailand, taking place between 12 and 21 January 2009. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also formed part of the regional qualifications  for the ICC World Cricket League. The top 2 teams were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division. Bhutan also qualified for the  WCL82010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201253-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Trophy Challenge, Teams\nAfter the 2006 ACC Trophy a decision was made to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in these divisions was determined by the final rankings in the previous tournament. The top ten teams went into the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite with the remaining teams taking part in the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. They were also joined by China who had not previously taken part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201253-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Trophy Challenge, Group stage, Points Tables\nGreen denotes teams going into the semifinals. Yellow denotes teams that play in the fifth place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division. Red denotes teams that play in the seventh place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201253-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Trophy Challenge, Semifinals\nWinners of the semifinals were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division and qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201254-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup\nThe 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup was played between 22 and 30 November 2009 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201254-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup\nThe twelve competing teams were: Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UAE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201254-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup\nAfghanistan defeated the United Arab Emirates in the final to win the tournament for the second time, following their joint victory with Oman in 2007. In the third place playoff Oman defeated Kuwait, meaning they will join Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates for the cricket tournament at the 2010 Asian Games, along with the national teams of Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201255-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship\nThe 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship was an international women's cricket tournament held in Malaysia from 3 to 9 July 2009. It was the first women's tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to feature the Twenty20 format of the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201255-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship\nTwelve teams participated in the tournament, including five that were making their international debuts (Bhutan, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar). The teams were divided into two groups, one of which was topped by Thailand and the other by Hong Kong. Both of those teams eventually progressed to the final at Kinrara Academy Oval, where Hong Kong defeated Thailand by four runs to record their first ACC women's title. The losing semi-finalists, Nepal and China, played off for third place, with Nepal winning by 73 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201255-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201255-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201256-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ADAC Formel Masters\nThe 2009 ADAC Formel Masters season was the second season of the ADAC Formel Masters series from Germany. Daniel Abt became series champion, after winning eight of the season's sixteen races, and competed as a Volkswagen Junior driver in the German Formula Three Championship in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201257-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ADAC GT Masters\nThe 2009 ADAC GT Masters season was the third season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC. It began on 12 April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and finished on 18 October at the same place after seven double-header meetings. Christian Abt with help of Shane Williams, Jan Seyffarth and Christopher Mies clinched the championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201258-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AF2 season\nThe 2009 AF2 season was the AF2's 10th and final season. It was preceded by 2008. The regular season began on Friday, March 20 and finished on Saturday, July 25. The league champion was the Spokane Shock, who defeated the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers 74-27 in ArenaCup X.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201258-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AF2 season, ArenaCup X\nArenaCup X was the tenth and final edition of arenafootball2's championship game in which the National Conference Champions Spokane Shock defeated the American Conference Champions Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, 74\u201327. The game was held on Saturday, August 22, 2009. As part of the league's tenth anniversary celebrations, the game was held at the neutral-site Orleans Arena (within the Orleans Resort & Casino) in Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201258-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AF2 season, ArenaCup X\nBecause of legal issues regarding the ownership of arenafootball2 (the original Arena Football League had owned a controlling stake), the league legally disbanded two weeks after the game was played because of the parent's bankruptcy. AF2's board of directors formed a new entity, Arena Football One, that assumed the Arena Football League identity after winning a bankruptcy court sale in late 2009. Future championships for that league which, while \"new\", consists of AF2's board of directors, use the ArenaBowl as its championship, leading to the retirement of the ArenaCup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201258-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AF2 season, ArenaCup X\nThe \"new\" Arena Football League began in 2010 with the defending champion Shock moving up. They went on to defeat the Tampa Bay Storm in ArenaBowl XXIII, thus winning consecutive titles in the premier level in consecutive years, with different league identities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201259-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Beach Soccer Championship\nThe 2009 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was a qualifying tournament held during 7 November \u2013 11, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that determined which two participants will represent the AFC region at the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201259-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Beach Soccer Championship, Format\nThe seven nation tournament consisted of two groups. The teams played each other once in their group during the group stage. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals. The semifinal winners qualified for the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League was the 28th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 7th under the current AFC Champions League title. The final was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 7 November 2009. The winners, South Korean club Pohang Steelers, qualified for the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League\nThe champions league was expanded to 35 clubs this year, with 5 teams starting from a knockout qualifying stage. An extra stage in the knockout phase was added so that the runners up as well as the winners from the group stage would progress. The previous season winner no longer got a bye through to the knockout round. Each team was allowed to field a maximum of four foreign players this season, one of whom had to be from an AFC Member Association country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Qualification\nA total of 35 teams participated in the 2009 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Qualification, AFC assessment ranking\n\u2020 One of the A-League clubs, Wellington Phoenix, is based in New Zealand, an OFC member country, therefore not being eligible to compete in the ACL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Qualification, Allocation of entries\nBelow is the qualification scheme for the 2009 AFC Champions League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Qualification, Allocation of entries\nThe following teams had qualified for qualifying play-off, but were removed as their leagues did not meet the Champions League criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Teams\nIn the following table, the number of appearances and last appearance count only those since the 2002\u201303 season (including qualifying rounds), when the competition was rebranded as the AFC Champions League. TH means title holders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 7 January 2009 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Group stage\nEach club played double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members, a total of 6 matches each. Each team had been numbered from 1 to 4, the numbers determine the order of the fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Group stage\nClubs receive 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked according to points and tie breakers are in following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Group stage\nWinners and runners-up of each group qualified for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 of the 2009 AFC Champions League was held on 7 January 2009, along with the draw for the group stage. The West Asian matches were played on 26 and 27 May. The East Asian matches were played on 24 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals and the remaining knockout rounds took place at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 29 June 2009. The first leg matches were played on 23\u201324 September, with the second leg matches were played on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nThe first leg matches were played on 21 October, with the second leg matches were played on 28 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201260-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League, Knockout stage, Final\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League Final was played on 7 November at National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201261-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League Final\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League Final was a football match which was played on Saturday, 7 November 2009. It was the 28th final of the AFC Champions League, Asia's premier club football tournament, and the first single match final since 2002 when the competition was known as the Asian Club Championship. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo and it was contested between Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia and Pohang Steelers of South Korea. The winners Pohang Steelers were also entered the quarter-finals of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201261-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League Final\nPohang Steelers defeated Al-Ittihad 2\u20131, winning its third title to become the most successful club in Asian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201262-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League group stage\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League group stage was played from 10 March to 20 May 2009. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knock-out stage of the 2009 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage was played from 26 May to 7 November 2009. A total of 16 teams competed in the knockout stage to decide the champions of the 2009 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage, Qualified teams\nThe winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage qualified for the knockout stage. Both West Zone and East Zone had eight teams qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage, Bracket\nNote: while the bracket below shows the entire knockout stage, the draw for the round of 16 matches was determined at the time of the group draw, and kept teams from East and West Asia completely separate for that round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage, Bracket\nThe draw for the quarter-finals and beyond was held separately, and placed no restrictions on which teams could meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 of the 2009 AFC Champions League was held on 7 January 2009, along with the draw for the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201263-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals and the remaining knockout rounds took place at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201264-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off\nThe 2009 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off took place between 18 and 25 February 2009. The winners in the play-off round advanced to the group Stage of the 2009 AFC Champions League, while the losers in each round entered the 2009 AFC Cup group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup\nThe 2009 AFC Cup was the sixth season of the AFC Cup and is competed among clubs from nations who are members of the Asian Football Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup\nWith the Asian Football Confederation reviewed the format of the AFC Champions League and made significant changes to way the competition is run, the teams that qualified for the AFC Cup is also from different countries compared to the previous editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Allocation of entries per association\nA total of 32 clubs will participate in the 2009 AFC Cup. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2009 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 12 January 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Group stage\nEach club plays double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members, a total of 6 matches each. Clubs receive 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked according to points and tie breakers are in following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Group stage\nWinners and runners-up of each group will qualify for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Knockout stage, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 of the 2009 AFC Cup was held on 12 January 2009, along with the draw for the group stage. The Western Asia matches were played on 26 May, while the Eastern Asia matches were played on 23 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 41], "content_span": [42, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals and the remaining knockout rounds took place at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 29 June 2009 starting 7:30 pm. The first leg matches were played on 15 September, with the second leg matches played on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nThe first leg matches were played on 15 October, with the second leg matches played on 21 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201265-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup, Knockout stage, Final\nThe 2009 AFC Cup Final was played on 3 November at the home ground of Al Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201266-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup Final\nThe 2009 AFC Cup Final was a football match played on Tuesday, 3 November 2009 between Al-Kuwait and Al-Karamah. It was the 6th final of the AFC Cup and was the first time the final match to be played in a one-off format. The game was  played at Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, being the home ground of Al-Kuwait. Al-Kuwait won the title by winning over Al-Karamah 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201266-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup Final\nBoth finalists were eligible to compete in the play-offs for the 2010 AFC Champions League, subject to AFC's assessment for professionalism based on selected criteria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201267-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup group stage\nThe group stage of the AFC Cup (Asian Football Confederation) matches took place between 10 March and 19 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201267-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup group stage, Groups, West Asia, Group E\nAl-Majd were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player (Khaled Mansoor Al Baba) in four matches (vs. Al Faisaly (JOR) on 07.04.2009 and 21.04.2009; vs. Dempo SC (IND) on 05.05.2009 and vs. Muharraq (BHR) on 19.05.2009) of the AFC Cup. All these matches have been awarded 3\u20130 to the teams who played against Al Majd and the club has been fined US$4000 for every match. The player was ineligible because he was registered by the club outside the recognized window(s) for registration as provided for by FIFA and AFC. Al Majd's fine was later withdrawn after appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201268-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup knockout stage, Round of 16\nThe draw for the round of 16 of the 2009 AFC Cup was held on 12 January 2009, along with the draw for the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201268-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals and the remaining knockout rounds took place at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201268-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC Cup knockout stage, Final\nThe 2009 AFC Cup Final was played on November 3 at the home ground of Al Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201269-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC President's Cup\nThe 2009 AFC President's Cup was the fifth edition of the AFC President's Cup, a competition for football clubs in countries categorized as \"emerging nations\" by the Asian Football Confederation. Eleven teams competed for the title and were split up into three groups, playing each other team in their group once. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified for the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinal matches played in the final match to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201269-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC President's Cup\nEach group was to be played over a period of days in May and June at one venue - Group A at Dashrath Stadium, Nepal, Group B at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka and Group C at Spartak Stadium, Bishkek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201269-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC President's Cup\nThe final stage of the competition took place in Tajikistan from September 25\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201269-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC President's Cup, Qualifying teams\n1 No league held in 2008 so 2006\u201307 champions qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201269-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC President's Cup, Group stage, Best runner-up\nThe best runners-up team from among the three pools qualify for the semi-finals. Because group B consists of only three teams, matches against fourth-placed sides in the other groups are excluded from the following comparison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201270-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship\nThe AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2009 was the 3rd instance of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship. It was held from November 4 to 15 in Bangkok, Thailand. The top 3 teams qualified for 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201270-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship, Group stage\nThe draw for the AFC U-16 Women's Championship 2009 took place in Bangkok on February 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201271-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification\nThe 2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification was qualification section of 2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship. It was held from November 8 to 17 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201271-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification, Group stage, Qualifying Group A\nAll matches were held at MBPJ Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201271-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification, Group stage, Qualifying Group B\nAll matches were held at KLFA Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201272-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship\nThe AFC U-19 Women's Championship 2009 was the fifth edition of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship. It was held from August 1 to 12 in Wuhan, China. The top 3 teams qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201272-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship, Group stage\nThe draw for the AFC U-19 Women's Championship 2009 took place in Kuala Lumpur on February 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201272-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship, Goalscorers\nThere were 48 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201273-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification\nThis article include details of 2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201273-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification, Group A\nAll matches were held at Shah Alam and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (UTC+8).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201274-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF Futsal Championship\nThe 2009 AFF Futsal Championship was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 8 June to 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201274-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF Futsal Championship, Awards\nFair-Play Trophy: \u00a0IndonesiaMVP:  Keattiyot ChalaemkhetBest Goalkeeper:  Dang Phuoc AnhBest Goalscorer:  Sayan Karmadi \u2013 10 goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201275-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-16 Women's Championship\nThe 2009 AFF U-16 Women's Championship was held from 9 October to 18 October 2009, hosted by Myanmar. All games were played at the Thuwunna Stadium and Aung San Stadium. It was the first tournament held for this age bracket amongst the group of annual AFF Women's Championship events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201276-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-16 Youth Championship\nThe 2009 AFF U-16 Youth Championship was due to take place in Bangkok, Thailand between the 20 July and 2 August 2009, it was later moved to start on 6 August until 19 August but was eventually cancelled one month prior to the opening day due to the H1N1 virus in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201277-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship\nThe 2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship was the sixth edition of the tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation and was hosted by Vietnam for the second time. The matches were played in Ho Chi Minh City from the 4th to the 12th of August 2009. Vietnamese company Kova Paint have become the sponsors of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201277-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship, Teams\nBrunei, \u00a0Philippines, \u00a0Laos and \u00a0Indonesia were scheduled to take part in the competition but withdrew a week before it started due to health concerns over the swine flu. Malaysia also planned to withdraw but went ahead and took part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201277-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship, Teams\nMacau were also planning to join this edition of the tournament, but their plans never came to fruition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201277-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFF U-19 Youth Championship, Tournament, Group stage\nPrior to withdrawals, the following was the original grouping of the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201278-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Army Award\nThe Australian Football League celebrates the best act of selflessness or one percenter of the season through the annual AFL Army Award competition. The 2009 winner was Tom Hawkins of Geelong for his \"brilliant smother followed by chase and tackle\" in round 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final\nThe 2009 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the St Kilda Football Club and the Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009. It was the 113th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2009 AFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final\nThe match, attended by 99,251 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 12 points, marking the club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory. It is remembered as one of the great grand finals in recent memory, due to the closeness of the scoreline, the physical nature of the game and the sheer brilliance of individual efforts from some of its participants. Geelong's Paul Chapman was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Background\nSt Kilda entered the 2009 premiership season after having lost its preliminary final in 2008 against eventual premiers Hawthorn. The Saints' home-and-away season was outstanding, and they won their first 19 games to record the longest winning streak in the club's history, before losing consecutive late season games. They finished on top of the ladder with a club record 20\u20132 record, and won the McClelland Trophy for the first time since 1997. They accounted for fourth-placed Collingwood by 28 points in their qualifying final and won a hard-fought and low scoring preliminary final against the Western Bulldogs by seven points to earn their place in the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Background\nGeelong entered the 2009 season after two consecutive minor premierships and two consecutive grand final appearances: a victory in 2007 and a loss in 2008. They won their first 13 home-and-away games, but endured a late season slump\u2014with a 5\u20134 record and only one win by greater than a goal\u2014to finish second with an 18\u20134 record. Geelong defeated a fast-finishing Bulldogs team by 14 points in their qualifying final and then comfortably beat Collingwood by 73 points in their preliminary final to advance to the grand final. In the week leading up to the grand final, Geelong's Gary Ablett was awarded the Brownlow Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Background\nThe two sides had faced each other once during the year in a famous Round 14 match, before which both sides were undefeated. A record Etihad Stadium crowd saw St Kilda win the match by six points, with Michael Gardiner kicking the winning goal in the dying minutes. Despite their respective ladder positions, Geelong entered the grand final as $1.60 favourites to win amongst most bookmakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Background\nThis grand final appearance was the sixteenth in Geelong's history and its third in succession. It was sixth grand final appearance in St Kilda's history and the first since the 1997 Grand Final, with the club attempting to win its second premiership. Geelong and St Kilda had never previously met each other in a grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Background\nIt was also the first grand final to be played since the death of cartoonist William Ellis Green (better known as WEG), who had been drawing victory posters after VFL/AFL grand finals since 1954. The posters had been sold after each Grand Final with the proceeds going to the Royal Children's Hospital. Beginning in 2009, the posters were drawn by cartoonist Mark Knight of the Herald Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Media coverage\nCoverage telecast live and in HD (via One HD) on Channel Ten and One HD with commentators Stephen Quartermain (host), Tim Lane (commentator), Robert Walls (expert commentator), Luke Darcy (expert commentator), Mark Howard (boundary rider) and Andrew Maher (boundary rider). Geelong\u2019s K-Rock provided local coverage with commentary from Anthony Mithen and Ian Cohen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Pre-match entertainment\nMark Seymour from Australian rock band Hunters and Collectors performed \"Holy Grail\" on stage, followed by Jimmy Barnes singing \"No Second Prize\". John Farnham then sang \"You're the Voice\", joined later by Seymour and Barnes. The premiership cup was brought onto the field twice: once by captains and administrators from football clubs affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires, and then later via zip-line by Adelaide Crows champion Mark Ricciuto. The Qantas choir performed \"I Still Call Australia Home\", and the national anthem was performed a cappella by the cast of Jersey Boys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary\nThe grand final was played in cold and wet conditions. It had rained heavily the previous night in Melbourne such that the ground was particularly wet around the boundary, and there were also several heavy showers during the game. The highest ambient temperature for the game was only 11.3\u00a0\u00b0C, the coldest on record for a grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nGeelong started strongly, with Max Rooke scoring the opening goal of the game in the 3rd minute after winning a holding the ball at centre half-forward against St Kilda's Raphael Clarke, and Cameron Mooney scoring another in the 8th minute. From that point forward, St Kilda dominated the middle part of the quarter, asserting an advantage in the midfield, particularly through the influence of Lenny Hayes who tallied 11 disposals for the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nSt Kilda failed to convert on the scoreboard due to inaccurate kicking: despite entering the forward 50-metres arc on 14 occasions to Geelong's two during a sustained period of midfield dominance, they registered only registered 2.2 (14), with goals to Brendon Goddard in the 13th minute and Hayes in the 20th minute; while Geelong was able to counterattack with one goal to Joel Selwood in the 18th minute. Andrew McQualter, Adam Schneider and Stephen Milne all missing easy shots at goal; but, in the 29th minute, Schneider marked and goaled from 15 meters out to give St Kilda a two-point lead at quarter time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nSt Kilda opened the second quarter better, and Sean Dempster kicked the first goal of the quarter from a high tackle free kick in the 4th minute; but again the Saints missed several relatively easy shots at goal from Schneider, Milne and McQualter, and after twelve minutes of strong play led by only ten points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nGeelong then responded with the next four goals of the game in a fifteen minute period of play. Shannon Byrnes gathered a tumbling Cameron Ling kick in the goal square for Geelong's fourth goal in the 13th minute; and a goal to Gary Ablett, Jr. from a marking infringement free kick in the 20th minute gave Geelong back the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nThe game's most controversial goal came in the 24th minute with scores level: St Kilda full back Zac Dawson's attempted clearing kick was smothered in the goal square by Geelong's Tom Hawkins, who gathered and immediately snapped for goal from five metres out; the ball clipped the inside of the right goal post, but no umpire was in a position to see it and a goal was awarded (video score reviews were not introduced to the league until 2012). Fifteen seconds of game time later, a clean centre clearance finished with a goal to Paul Chapman, and a 12-point lead to Geelong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nHowever, St Kilda finished the quarter with a flurry of goals, kicking three inside the final minute of playing time. With 53 seconds remaining, Clinton Jones roved a pack to snap a goal from the pocket. With nine seconds remaining, Justin Koschitzke got his boot to a broken marking contest in the goal square, just eluding the diving hands of Darren Milburn's attempted smother, to tie the scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nThen Milburn, believing (incorrectly, according to replays) that he had touched Koschitzke's kick off the boot, made an obscene gesture to goal umpire, giving away a free kick for demonstrative abuse on the goal line; Schneider took the free kick and kicked the easy goal to give St Kilda a six-point half-time lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nThe third quarter was an even and lower-scoring contest. There were many stoppages, much congestion and very little opportunity for scoring by either side. Geelong's Mooney goaled in the eighth minute the quarter from a solid contested mark at the top of the goal square, and Saints' captain Nick Riewoldt did likewise in the tenth minute. Riewoldt had two more scoring chances soon after, kicking a behind in the 14th minute, and having a short range shot smothered for a rushed behind by Harry Taylor in the 15th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nAfter a goal to Chapman in the 18th minute, the scores were tied at 58 apiece, and remained tied for more than ten minutes. The deadlock was broken by the Saints' Leigh Montagna, who goaled with 90 seconds left in the quarter from a Steven King hit-out from a boundary throw-in in the Saints' forward pocket. With one more behind before the end of the quarter, St Kilda entered the three quarter time break with a seven-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nGeelong scored a goal from a Hawkins set shot in the second minute of the final quarter to bring the margin back to a single point. The 21\u00a0minutes that followed were a tough battle which yielded only five behinds: the first two to St Kilda, and the next three to Geelong, tying the scores at 67 apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nIn the 24th minute, with less than five minutes of play remaining, Geelong's Steve Johnson had the ball in defense and kicked the ball towards Ablett, who had found space in the centre circle. St Kilda's Zac Dawson had left his opponent Cameron Mooney and run a considerable distance from his own defenseand managed to spoil the kick. With two St Kilda players in the area, the ball fell to Geelong's Matthew Scarlett, who had also run a long way from his own defensive area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nScarlett, with his right foot, gently kicked the ball five metres out of midair to Ablett, who was now in space\u2014a moment which has become known as the toe-poke. Ablett then kicked the ball long to Geelong's goal square, where several players contested for the ball. After receiving the ball from teammate Shannon Byrnes, Geelong forward Travis Varcoe managed to handball to Chapman, who kicked a left-foot goal past St Kilda's Jason Blake's outstretched hands. Had Dawson's spoil not gone directly to Scarlett, St Kilda had the numbers advantage at the fall of the ball and would likely have been able to go forward into attack themselves. After the game, Matthew Scarlett stated that his toe poke was a lucky kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nA subsequent behind to Rooke in the 27th minute put the Cats seven points ahead. In the 29th minute, Stephen Milne took a long kick into a largely open forward line towards the unguarded goals for St Kilda, but it was a tumbling kick and Scarlett was able to comfortably rush it through for a behind. Kicking in from the behind, the Cats went to a contest 50m from goal where a strong mark was taken by Harry Taylor. From there, the Cats were in the process of moving the ball forward when the final siren sounded. An after-the-siren goal from Rooke extended the margin to twelve points, and St Kilda was held goalless during the final quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Norm Smith Medal\nPaul Chapman was awarded the Norm Smith Medal for his three goals and 26 possessions, including nine possessions and the go-ahead goal in the final quarter despite sustaining a slight hamstring injury in the first quarter. Chapman received 9 of a possible 15 votes to win the medal. St Kilda's Jason Gram, who had 30 disposals, finished second for the medal; he also polled nine votes but lost to Chapman on a countback, as Chapman received three votes from three of the five judges, while Gram received three votes from only one judge. Geelong's Harry Taylor was third, receiving a single set of three votes for his job shutting down St Kilda's Nick Riewoldt. Geelong's Max Rooke, Gary Ablett, Jr., Jimmy Bartel, Darren Milburn and Joel Corey also polled votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Norm Smith Medal\nChaired by John Worsfold, the voters and their choices were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, General summary\nChapman, Rooke, Milburn, Ablett, Bartel and Taylor were all excellent for Geelong. Taylor, in particular, was lauded for restricting dangerous Saints forward Riewoldt to just one goal. Contributing strongly for the Saints were Hayes, Gram, Luke Ball, Jones, Montagna, Steven Baker and Brendon Goddard; Goddard continued playing with a broken nose and a fractured collarbone, sustained in separate incidents during the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, General summary\nThere was a very high number of tackles laid during the game\u2014partly due to the high pressure of the teams, and also exacerbated by the wet conditions are always conducive to high tackle counts. St Kilda's 118 tackles set a new record as the highest by any team in any game, the combined total of 214 tackles set a new mark as the second highest on record, and Bartel's 16 tackles matched the equal-highest personal tally on record\u2014these tallies have all since been surpassed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, General summary\nIn general play, St Kilda  throughout the first half earned 31 inside-50s to Geelong's 15, and was consistently able to stop Geelong's rebound through the middle. However, they did waste many of their inside-50s by missing relatively easy shots on goal and were unable to defend the fewer entries by Geelong. In the second half, general play was much more even but Geelong had the better of the inside-50s and clearances, and were better able to break through St Kilda's rebound defense. This attribute ultimately accounted for Geelong's triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, General summary\nIt was an extremely close game throughout: twelve points was the greatest margin at any stage of the game (held by Geelong early in the first quarter, late in the second quarter, and the final margin).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201279-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, General summary\nSt Kilda became the first team to lose a grand final from a three-quarter time lead since Hawthorn in 1984; and Geelong became the first team to ever win a grand final after losing the first three quarters (albeit losing them only by 2, 1 and 4 points, respectively). Geelong was the first team since Essendon in 2000 to win both the pre-season premiership and the regular season premiership in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201280-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Rising Star\nThe NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a stand out young player in the Australian Football League. The 2009 Ron Evans medal was won by Brisbane Lions player Daniel Rich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201280-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Rising Star, Eligibility\nEvery round, an Australian Football League rising star nomination is given to a stand out young player. To be eligible for the award, a player must be under 21 on 1 January of that year, have played 10 or fewer senior games and not been suspended during the season. At the end of the year, one of the 22 nominees is the winner of award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201281-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Under 18 Championships\nThe 2009 AFL Under-18 Championships was the 2009 series of the AFL Under 18 Championships, a state and territory-based Australian rules football competition which showcases the best junior footballers in Australia, primarily with the aim for them to be drafted into the Australian Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201281-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Under 18 Championships\nThis year's competition was played with just one division compared to two from previous years. The competing teams will be Victoria (split into separate Country and Metropolitan teams), South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, a combined New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory team, Tasmania and Queensland. Each team played five games, with teams playing each team from their division from last year plus two from the other division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201281-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Under 18 Championships, Fixture\nLarke Medallists(Best in Division One): David Swallow(WA) and Andrew Hooper(Vic Country)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201281-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL Under 18 Championships, 2009 AFL Under-18 All-Australian team\nThe 2009 Under-18 All-Australian team was announced following the conclusion of the 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships on 4 July 2009. The sponsored name of the squad is the 2009 NAB AFL Under-18 All-Australian team, due to sponsorship arrangements with the National Australia Bank (NAB). The team was selected by a panel which was chaired by the AFL national talent manager Kevin Sheehan, and consisted of Alan McConnell and Jason McCartney from the AFL, as well as recruiters Matt Rendell, Bryce Lewis, Graham Hadley and Francis Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201281-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL Under 18 Championships, 2009 AFL Under-18 All-Australian team\nThe championship-winning Western Australia earned the most selections, with nine of the 22 selections, as well as the coach position in the team. Both the Larke Medallists, David Swallow (WA) and Andrew Hooper (Victoria Country), and the Hunter-Harrison Medallist, Dylan McNeil (NSW/ACT), were selected for the squad. Seventeen of the 22 players in the side were eligible for the 2009 AFL Draft, with nine ultimately selected in the first or priority rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft\nThe 2009 AFL draft consisted of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2009/10 Australian Football League off-season. These were the trade week (held between 5 October and 9 October), the national draft (held on 26 November), the pre-season draft (15 December) and the rookie draft (15 December).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements\nIn the lead up to the trade week many high-profile players such as Brendan Fevola, Darren Jolly, Shaun Burgoyne, Luke Ball, Barry Hall, Andrew Lovett and Josh Gibson either requested to be traded or were suggested to be likely to be traded during the AFL's annual trading period. Of these players, only Luke Ball was unable to secure a trade by the end of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements\nTrade week was significantly more active than the previous year. Four trades involving seven players, including a three-team, four-player trade, were completed on the first day of the trade week alone, compared to only six players traded in the entire 2008 trade week. Overall, twenty-three players changed clubs (the most since the 2003 trade week), and twenty-five draft picks were traded. Of the sixteen active clubs, only the Adelaide Crows did not make a trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements\nThis was the first season in which teams were permitted to trade rookie-listed players, with Geelong's Shane Mumford being the first player to be traded whilst still officially on the rookie list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 32], "content_span": [33, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements, Fevola trade\nThe most widely anticipated trade during trade week was that of Carlton full forward and incumbent Coleman medallist Brendan Fevola. Carlton announced its intentions to trade the 28-year-old Fevola after his drunken behaviour at the 2009 Brownlow Medal Count, which served as the last straw in a long rap sheet of off-field indiscretions while at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements, Fevola trade\nThe Brisbane Lions emerged as the likely destination. Brisbane initially offered 31-year-old full forward Daniel Bradshaw and 23-year-old midfielder Michael Rischitelli in the trade. Both players were flown to Melbourne to tour Carlton's facilities, but Rischitelli was not willing to relocate. On the final day of trade week, Brisbane agreed to give Carlton 19-year-old key position prospect Lachlan Henderson and a first round draft pick, in exchange for Fevola, a second-round draft pick, and for Carlton to pay $100,000 of Fevola's salary for each of the two years remaining on his existing contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements, Fevola trade\nAlthough considered reasonable at the time, the trade is now widely viewed as a complete disaster for the Brisbane Lions, because all players involved in the trade negotiations had left the club within eighteen months. Shortly after trade, Bradshaw walked out on the Lions, and was recruited to the Sydney Swans in the pre-season draft \u2013 either because his feelings were hurt by being offered to trade, or because Fevola's recruitment would have limited Bradshaw's own opportunities in the Lions' forward-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, Player movements, Fevola trade\nRischitelli left the club at the end of 2010, after signing a contract with league newcomers Gold Coast; some in the media speculated that he was also disgruntled about being offered in the Fevola trade, but this has never been confirmed. Finally, prior to the 2011 season, Brisbane sacked Fevola after further off-field incidents during the 2010/11 offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, 2009 national draft\nThe 2009 national draft was held on 26 November, a Thursday evening, rather than the Saturday morning timeslot that has been used in the past years. For the first time, the top ten selections will be made prior to the telecast, and unveiled in a countdown manner from ten to one, rather than the usual counting up method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, 2009 national draft\nMelbourne finished the 2009 AFL season in last position and as they had won fewer than 5 games during each previous two seasons, they have the first two selections in the draft. This proved controversial as it was later revealed that the club had deliberately lost matches towards the end of the season; after a thorough investigation, the club was fined $500,000 in 2013. Despite much discussion concerning tanking during the season, no other club qualified for a priority pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, 2009 national draft\nIn the lead up to the draft, it was widely tipped that Tom Scully and Jack Trengove would be Melbourne's first two selections. The destination of former St Kilda captain Luke Ball was also subject to much debate, with Collingwood being the likely club after failing to secure a trade for him during the October trade week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, 2010 pre-season draft\nThe 2010 pre-season draft was held on Tuesday 15 December. Unlike the national draft, it is an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting software.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201282-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL draft, 2010 rookie draft\nThe 2010 rookie draft was held on Tuesday 15 December, immediately after the pre-season draft. Unlike the national draft, it is an online meeting using Microsoft Office Live Meeting software. The rookie draft rules allow each club to have up to eight rookies, and for the first time allowed clubs to retain rookies for a third year and be able to draft two mature age rookies, without the restriction that they must not have been previously listed by an AFL club. The Gold Coast Football Club was allocated the first five selections, despite the new club only competing in the Victorian Football League for the 2010 season, before entering the AFL for the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series\nThe Australian Football League's 2009 finals series determined the top eight final positions of the 2009 AFL season over four weekends in September 2009, culminating with the 113th AFL/VFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009. Geelong won the AFL premiership, for the second time in three years, following their twelve point win over St Kilda in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, The finals system\nThe system is a final eight system. This system is different from the McIntyre Final Eight System, which was previously used by the AFL, and is currently used by the National Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, The finals system\nThe top four teams in the eight receive what is popularly known as the \"double chance\" when they play in week-one qualifying finals. This means that even if a top-four team loses in the first week, it still remains in the finals, playing a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final. The bottom four of the eight play knock-out games, in that only the winners survive and move on to the next week. Home-state advantage goes to the team with the higher seed in the first two weeks, to the qualifying final winners in the third week. Games in Victoria are played at the MCG, regardless of the team's usual home ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, The finals system\nIn the second week, the winners of the qualifying finals receive a bye to the third week. The losers of the qualifying final plays the elimination finals winners in a semi-final. In the third week, the winners of the semi-finals from week two play the winners of the qualifying finals in the first week. The winners of those matches move on to the Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Qualification\nWhile both St Kilda and Geelong were undefeated until a round 14 match-up, and the Saints threat of an undefeated season only broken after 19 wins, both teams dropped matches late in the home-and-away season. Collingwood finished strongly, winning 12 of its last 14 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week one, First qualifying final (St Kilda vs. Collingwood)\nCollingwood started impressively in the first quarter with six scoring shots to three, to lead 2.4 (16) to 1.2 (8). St Kilda dominated the second quarter, scoring 5.2 to 2.2 to lead by 10 points at halftime. St Kilda kicked six goals to three in the second half to win by 28 points. Nick Riewoldt was the leading goal-kicker for St Kilda 5 goals. Anthony Rocca kicked two goals for Collingwood, but rolled an ankle with less than three minutes remaining. St Kilda progressed directly to the Preliminary Final, where it faced the Western Bulldogs in the First Preliminary Final. Collingwood progressed to the Semi-Final, where it faced Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 83], "content_span": [84, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week one, Second qualifying final (Geelong vs. Western Bulldogs)\nGeelong dominated the first quarter and led by 28 points at quarter time. After quarter time the match was more even, and by three-quarter time, Geelong had extended its lead to only 35 points. The Bulldogs had a strong fight-back in the final quarter, but missed many shots on goal, finishing with 4.6 to 1.3 for the quarter. Geelong progressed to a Preliminary Final, which would be against Collingwood, and the Bulldogs progressed to a Semi-Final against Brisbane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 88], "content_span": [89, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week one, First elimination final (Adelaide vs. Essendon)\nEssendon was playing in its first final since 2004. The first quarter was close, but Adelaide dominated the game from that point forward: eight goals to two in the second quarter, six goals to three in the third quarter, and eight goals to two in the final quarter. The final margin was 96 points. Adelaide progressed to a Semi Final against Collingwood; Essendon was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 81], "content_span": [82, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week one, Second elimination final (Brisbane vs. Carlton)\nCarlton was playing in its first final since 2001. After a close first half, Carlton opened a lead in the third quarter. After kicking the first goal of the final quarter, Carlton led by 30 points; but, Brisbane staged a strong comeback, kicking the last six goals of the game, to overrun Carlton and record a seven point win. Brisbane progressed to a Semi Final against the Bulldogs; Carlton was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 81], "content_span": [82, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week two, First semi-final (Collingwood vs. Adelaide)\nCollingwood made five changes (four because of injuries) to the team that lost to St Kilda. Adelaide dominated the first quarter, kicking six goals to one, and partway into the second quarter, Adelaide's lead reached 32 points. However, the game became more defensive, and Collingwood won the second quarter two goals to one. In the third quarter, Collingwood dominated, kicking six goals to none, to lead by ten points. In the final quarter, Adelaide kicked the first three goals, before Collingwood's Brent Macaffer scored a goal and tied the game early in time-on. In the end, Collingwood's Jack Anthony kicked the game-winning goal from a controversial free kick with only fifteen seconds remaining. Collingwood progressed to the Preliminary Final against Geelong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 77], "content_span": [78, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week two, Second semi-final (Western Bulldogs vs. Brisbane)\nAfter building a seventeen-point lead in the first half, the Western Bulldogs scored five goals to two in the third quarter to set up an unbeatable lead. The Bulldogs eventually won by 51 points to progress to the Preliminary Final against St Kilda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 83], "content_span": [84, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week three, First preliminary final (St Kilda vs. Western Bulldogs)\nThis match was a low scoring, defensive struggle in cold, wet conditions. The Bulldogs kept St Kilda goalless in the first quarter, to lead by 15 points. Three goals to two in the second quarter saw St Kilda narrow the margin to seven points; then, with four goals to two in the third quarter, St Kilda took the lead by five points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 91], "content_span": [92, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week three, First preliminary final (St Kilda vs. Western Bulldogs)\nThe Bulldogs took back the lead with a goal early in the quarter, but with five scoring shots resulting in 1.4, did not build a lead; two late goals to St Kilda's captain Nick Riewoldt (who finished with four goals for the game) saw St Kilda regain and seal a seven point win. St Kilda progressed to the Grand Final for the first time since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 91], "content_span": [92, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201283-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL finals series, Week three, Second preliminary final (Geelong vs. Collingwood)\nFor the second time in three years the Cats and Magpies would play off in the Preliminary Final. Collingwood started well, kicking 2.2 to nothing in the opening seven minutes; but Geelong then scored 3.6 to nothing for the rest of the quarter, and opened up a 24-point lead late in the second quarter. Two late goals to Collingwood narrowed the margin to 11 points at half time. Geelong then dominated the second half, kicking ten goals to one, ultimately winning by 73 points. Geelong progressed to its third consecutive grand final. Geelong would match that feat for the first time since 1951-1953 and the second time in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 86], "content_span": [87, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season\nThe 2009 Australian Football League season commenced on 26 March and concluded on 26 September. It was the 113th season of the VFL/AFL competition and the 20th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. The season consisted of 22 home and away rounds and four rounds of finals, culminating in the 2009 AFL Grand Final which determined the 2009 AFL premiers. Geelong won the Grand Final against St Kilda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Pre-season, AFL pre-season draft\nThe pre-season draft was held on 16 December 2008 (but is referred to as the 2009 Pre-season draft in continuation from the early years of the AFL draft when it was held in January or February) and most pre-draft interest was on whether or not former West Coast Eagles captain and Brownlow Medal winner Ben Cousins would be selected by the Richmond Football Club. Richmond, the only club to show interest in recruiting Cousins, had one selection in the pre-season draft (because it had only one space left on its senior list).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Pre-season, AFL pre-season draft\nIn the week leading up to the pre-season draft, Richmond requested to have Graham Polak (who had been hit by a tram the previous season, with it not clear at this stage whether or not the resulting injuries would end his career) moved to the rookie list, to free up an additional list space and give them a second selection in the pre-season draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Pre-season, AFL pre-season draft\nThe request was similar to one made by and granted to the Essendon Football Club a few years earlier with respect to Adam Ramanauskas, but there were key differences which led to Richmond's request being rejected by the AFL and a majority of rival clubs on 15 December. Although Richmond had maintained throughout the previous week that it would draft Cousins only if its request to put Polak on the rookie list was granted, they selected Cousins anyway with their only selection in the pre-season draft. Josh Carr's return to Port Adelaide was another major player move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Awards, AFL Rising Star\nThe 2009 award was won by Daniel Rich from the Brisbane Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Awards, Goal of the Year\nThe Australian Football League celebrates the best goal of the season through the annual Goal of the Year competition. From 2009 onwards, the commercial name for the award is the AFL Stores Goal of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Awards, Mark of the Year\nThe Australian Football League celebrates the best mark of the season through the annual Mark of the Year competition. From 2009 onwards, the commercial name for the award is the Hungry Jack's Mark of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Awards, AFL Army Award\nThe Australian Football League, with the support of the Australian Army, recognises players who produce an act or acts of bravery or selflessness to promote the cause of his team during a game. Each week three players and what they did are made available on the AFL Army Award website for supporters to vote on. The player with the highest percentage of the vote is the AFL Army Award nominee for that round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Awards, AFL Army Award\nFor the full list of round-by-round nominees, see 2009 AFL Army Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Umpiring and rule changes\nUmpires were also encouraged to recall a centre bounce if it is offline, throwing it up the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201284-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL season, Umpiring and rule changes\nPlayers contacting umpires continued to be an issue with several players fined for making contact with umpires as they retreated from ball-ups. In related offences, Collingwood's Heath Shaw was suspended for one week after touching an umpire's shoulder, and Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett was fined $5000 after criticising the umpires on radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201285-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL\u2013CIO election\nThe 2009 election for the leadership of the AFL-CIO occurred following the announcement of incumbent president John Sweeney's retirement. The election took place during the 26th AFL-CIO National Convention in Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201285-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL\u2013CIO election\nThe event was preceded by a 2008 speech at which then-Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka had blasted the perceived racism being directed against 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, increasing his profile both inside and outside the labor movement. Trumka, who had served as Secretary-Treasurer since first being elected in 1995, received no contest for the position of president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201285-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL\u2013CIO election, Candidates, Other electees\nThe total number of vice-presidents of the federation was expanded from 43 (including the Executive Vice-President) to 51.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201285-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AFL\u2013CIO election, Candidates, Other electees\nThe following were elected to other vice-presidencies besides the Executive Vice-Presidency:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201286-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships\nThe 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Milan, Italy, from September 1, 2009 to September 12, 2009, in the Mediolanum Forum. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition was under the supervision of the world's governing body for amateur boxing, the AIBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201286-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships\nOriginally, Cameroon, Trinidad and Tobago and Uzbekistan each expressed interest in hosting the championships. However, they did not submit a final application and were therefore withdrawn from the running. This left Italy and South Korea remaining, who were the final two countries in contention during the bidding process to host the 2009 championships. The city of Milan in Italy was then chosen to host the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season\nThe 2009 AIHL season was the tenth season of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). It ran from 25 April 2009 until 23 August 2009, with the AIHL finals following on 29 and 30 August 2009. The Newcastle North Stars won the H Newman Reid Trophy (backdated) after finishing the regular season first in the league standings. Adelaide Adrenaline won the Goodall Cup (backdated) for the first time by defeating the Newcastle North Stars in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, League business\nThe 2009 season will be reduced to seven teams after the Central Coast Rhinos dropped out due to changes made in the licensing model. Two teams were renamed for the start of the season, Western Sydney Ice Dogs, dropped the Western part of the title to become the Sydney Ice Dogs and the Adelaide A's have been renamed for the start of the season, playing under the new name of Adelaide Adrenaline. The Sydney Ice Dogs have also been forced to relocate to Liverpool's Catholic Club's ice rink after their former home at Baulkham Hills rink withdrew from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, League business\nOn 25\u201326 July there was a week's break for the Junior Men's national tournament, known as the Brown Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, Regular season\nNote: \"SO\" indicates that a game was won through a shootout. Games schedule sourced from the AIHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, Regular season, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the ten top skaters sorted by points, then goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, Playoffs\nIn 2009, the Goodall Cup, celebrating 100 years of existence, had been taken back from Ice Hockey Australia (IHA) for an amateur interstate tournament and was replaced by the AIHL with the newly commissioned AIHL Champions Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, Playoffs\nThe 2009 playoffs was scheduled for 29 August 2009 with Championship final held on 30 August 2009. Following the end of the regular season the top four teams advanced to the playoff series which was held at Hunter Ice Skating Stadium in Warners Bay, Newcastle, New South Wales. The series was a single game elimination with the two winning semi-finalists advancing to the Championship final. The inaugural AIHL Champions Trophy was won by the Adelaide Adrenaline who defeated the Newcastle North Stars 3\u20132 in overtime after the two sides finished regulation time locked at 2\u20132. Adelaide's Cass Delsar, was named the finals most valuable player (MVP) after scoring the overtime winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201287-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 AIHL season, Playoffs\nIn March 2010, the AIHL and IHA agreed to reinstate the Goodall Cup as the ultimate prize of the AIHL and backdated Adelaide Adrenaline's 2009 championship to the Goodall Cup (first title), etching the South Australian team's name on the cup and officially calling them the 2009 Goodall Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201288-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AIK Fotboll season\nAIK had a sensational season, winning 14 league matches by the odd goal, to claim their first domestic title since 1998, also winning the cup final against IFK G\u00f6teborg, also title rivals in the league, which was decided in a straight run-in between the two candidates. There, AIK turned around a 1\u20130 deficit to win 2\u20131 and claim the title, more than enough, considering a draw had landed the title as well. Key players in the title success included goalkeeper Daniel \u00d6rlund, conceding just 20 goals all season, plus new defensive general Jos Hooiveld, midfielder Jorge Ortiz and striker Iv\u00e1n Obolo, all of them departing following the title success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201289-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMA National Speedway Championship, Event format\nOver the course of 12 elimination races, 20 heats each rider raced against every other rider once. The riders get placed in a main event according to their earned points. The championship was run over three rounds at the Costa Mesa Speedway in Costa Mesa, California and the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201290-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMA Pro American Superbike Championship\nThe 2009 AMA Pro American Superbike Championship was the 34th running of the AMA Superbike Championship, an American motorcycle racing championship. Mat Mladin won his seventh championship and announced his retirement following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201291-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship, Introduction\nThe 2009 AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship was the first running of the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship, an American motorcycle racing series that acts as a feeder series for the AMA Pro American Superbike Championship. The series replaced the AMA Formula Xtreme Championship. Danny Eslick won his first championship riding a Buell. Mike Baldwin was the crew chief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201292-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMA Pro Racing Championship season\nThe 2009 AMA Pro Racing Championship season consisted of the American Motorcyclist Association's professional motorcycle racing series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201293-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMA Supercross season\nThe 2009 AMA Supercross season (for sponsorship reasons, the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship) was the thirty-sixth AMA Supercross Championship season. It was also the second season with the World Supercross Championship designation. James Stewart, Jr. claimed his second title, after winning eleven of the seventeen rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201294-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMNRL season\nThe 2009 AMNRL season was the 12th season of the American National Rugby League (AMNRL). The Boston Thirteens joined the league as an expansion team, bringing the number of teams to eleven. The New York Knights won the Grand Final, defeating the Jacksonville Axemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500\nThe 2009 AMP Energy 500 was the 33rd race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the seventh event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500, Summary\nIt was held on November 1, 2009, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, and is the only race in the Championship Chase to utilize restrictor plates. This marks the first time the race was run in an early November spot, the slot formerly occupied by the Atlanta Motor Speedway event. Jamie McMurray won the race, his first since Daytona in 2007. The last 15 laps of the race were a duel between McMurray and David Stremme, who had never had a top-five in Sprint Cup competition. Stremme ended up 22nd after running out of fuel. Nationwide Series regular Robert Richardson Jr. made his first Cup start and finished 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500, Summary, Qualifying\nBecause qualifying was rained out, the rules awarded points leader Jimmie Johnson the pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500, Summary, Single-file racing\nNASCAR told the drivers in the drivers meeting  that they could not bump draft in the corners. That was followed by a controversial race where drivers drove in a single file line all the way around the track for a few segments. Many fans believed and still believe that that was a protest by the drivers to the new rule. Jimmie Johnson and Jamie McMurray all defended their actions. Johnson responded by saying, \"No, there's not truth to that. When we hit single-file like that, we just know there's no need to race at that point. All that matters is from that last pit stop on.\" Instead of deciding to wreck and dwindle down the field on Sunday, Johnson said the drivers finally got smart about how to approach the race. Everyone seemed to realize that you can't win if you aren't around at the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500, Summary, Single-file racing\nMcMurray, the eventual race winner, said, \"It wasn't like everybody was in their cars and we were like, 'Let's get single-file and prove a point' or 'Let's just follow each other.' You had to be in the outside groove because that's where all the momentum was.\" This continued with Casey Mears leading the line for many laps until the first round of green flag pit stops started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201295-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 AMP Energy 500, Summary, Race ends under caution\nWith five laps to go, Ryan Newman's car flipped on the back straightaway, landing on Kevin Harvick, and also collecting Marcos Ambrose and Elliott Sadler. The race was briefly red-flagged as debris was cleaned up and paramedics cut Newman from his car. Newman was uninjured. After a green-white-checkered restart, a big wreck happened with two laps to go, causing Kurt Busch, Scott Speed, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon and Robby Gordon to crash; Martin's car blew over, but landed back on its wheels. The race ended under the caution flag and McMurray was scored as winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201296-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ANFA Cup\n2009 ANFA Cup, marketed as Prime Minister's Invitational Tournament, the thirteenth version of the ANFA Cup, a knock-out football tournament organized by the All Nepal Football Association. All matches were played at the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu. Six teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season\nThe 2009 ANZ Championship season was the second season of the ANZ Championship. The 2009 season began on 4 April and concluded on 26 July. Melbourne Vixens were minor premiers. With a team co-captained by Bianca Chatfield and Sharelle McMahon, Vixens subsequently defeated Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic 58\u201343 in the major semi-final and Adelaide Thunderbirds 54\u201346 in the grand final to finish as overall premiers. The grand final was played on Sunday 26 July at Hisense Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Regular season\nDuring the regular season the Australian teams played each other twice and the New Zealand teams once. The New Zealand teams also played each other twice and each of the Australian teams once. Melbourne Vixens won 12 of their 13 matches during the regular season. Their only defeat came in Round 10 against Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, their main challengers for top spot. Vixens had to win their final two home matches with plenty of goals to guarantee top place. After a 63\u201335 win against Canterbury Tactix in Round 13, Vixens' defeated Central Pulse 80\u201339 in Round 14 to secure the minor premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Regular season, Round 13: Rivalry Round\nRound 13 featured five Australia verses New Zealand matches. Goals scored by Australian and New Zealand teams were added together and the country with the most goals won the Rivalry Round Trophy. During the round, Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic became the first New Zealand team to win in Australia, defeating West Coast Fever 49\u201338. After 24 games, Central Pulse won their first match, defeating the reigning champions New South Wales Swifts 53\u201352. Southern Steel became the third New Zealand team to secure a win when they defeated Adelaide Thunderbirds 58-49. Despite New Zealand teams winning three of the five matches, Australia won the Rivalry Round Trophy 261\u2013252.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Media coverage\nIn 2009 the ANZ Championship TV partners included Network 10 and One HD in Australia and Sky Sport (New Zealand). Television audiences were up 52% across Australia and New Zealand, from 5.8 million to 8.8 million. During the season, an average of 229,000 viewers watched per game. The grand final TV audience peaked at 354,329 viewers and the cumulative audience across both countries was over 11 million. Before the Round 12 match between New South Wales Swifts and West Coast Fever, Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre hosted a charity match, billed as Netball's Festival of Stars. The match was viewed by a television audience of 345,164 viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Gallery\n7 March 2009; Erin Bell (GS) of New South Wales Swifts prepares to shoot against Brooke Thompson (GK) of Melbourne Vixens during the pre-season tournament, the 2009 SOPA Cup. Bell subsequently made her ANZ Championship debut with Swifts in the Round 1 match against Canterbury Tactix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Gallery\n7 March 2009; Renae Hallinan (left) of Melbourne Vixens and Kimberlee Green (right) of New South Wales Swifts  during the pre-season tournament, the 2009 SOPA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201297-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ANZ Championship season, Gallery\n7 March 2009; Tamsin Greenway playing for Queensland Firebirds  during the pre-season tournament, the 2009 SOPA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201298-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AON Open Challenger\nThe 2009 AON Open Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Genoa, Italy between 7 and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201298-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 AON Open Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201298-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 AON Open Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nDaniele Bracciali /  Alessandro Motti def. Amir Hadad /  Harel Levy, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201299-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AON Open Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nGianluca Naso and Walter Trusendi were the defending champions, but Naso chose to not compete this year. Trusendi partnered with Thomas Fabbiano, but they were eliminated in the quarterfinal by Igor Zelenay and Lovro Zovko. Daniele Bracciali and Alessandro Motti won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Amir Hadad and Harel Levy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201300-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 AON Open Challenger \u2013 Singles\nFabio Fognini chose to not defend his 2009 title. Alberto Mart\u00edn defeated Carlos Berlocq 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards\nThe 2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards were held on Thursday, September 17, 2009, at the Christchurch Town Hall, celebrating excellence in New Zealand songwriting. The Silver Scroll Award was presented to James Milne and Luke Buda for the Lawrence Arabia song \"Apple Pie Bed\", and musicians and academics Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Silver Scroll Award\nThe Silver Scroll Award celebrates outstanding achievement in the songwriting of original New Zealand pop music. The evening's music performances were again produced by Don McGlashan. Each of the nominated songs were covered in a new style by another artist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Silver Scroll Award, Long list\nJames Milne and Luke Buda \"Apple Pie Bed\" (Lawrence Arabia)Oliver Gordon, Nick Major, Michael Carpinter, Stephen Small and Jasper De Roos \"Closer To Home\" (Autozamm)Phil Madsen \"Dancing On The Moon\" (Phil Madsen)Shayne Carter \"Degrees Of Existence\" (Dimmer)Peter Wadams, Sam Hansen and Vince Harder \"Everything\" (P-Money feat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Silver Scroll Award, Long list\nVince Harder)Dann Hume and Jon Hume \"Hey Boys And Girls\" (Evermore)Dave Dobbyn \"Howling At The Moon\" (Dave Dobbyn)Kody Nielson & Ruban Nielson \"I Can't Stop Being Foolish\" (The Mint Chicks)Jess Chambers \"Island\" (Jess Chambers)Reb Fountain \"January's Well\" (Reb Fountain)Jamie Greenslade \"Lotaluv\" (Maitreya)Dave Gibson & Justyn Pilbrow \"Louder Louder\" (Elemeno P)David Atai, Te Awanui Reeder, Donald McNulty, Heath Manukau, Junior Rikiau, Feleti Strickson-Pua and Che Ness \"Mr Mista\" (Nesian Mystik)Eden Mulholland \"Oldest Trick In The Book\" (Motocade)James Christmas & Barry Palmer \"On My Mind\" (Luger Boa)Julia Deans, Andrew Bain & Simon Braxton \"Silences & Distances\" (Fur Patrol)Jeremy Redmore, Simon Oscroft, Matthew Warman, Aidan Bartlett and Nick Campbell \"The Letter\" (Midnight Youth)Andrew Spraggon & Iva Lamkum \"Turn Around\" (Sola Rosa)Matt Barus \"Vampires\" (Dukes)Ruth Carr, Paul Dodge & Ryan Beehre \"Wayho\" (Minuit)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 991]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, New Zealand Music Hall of Fame\nMusicians the late Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. Both were known for their work with traditional Maori instruments. Melbourne was a composer, singer and respected academic, and Nunns is considered the leading authority on taonga p\u016boro. Moana and the Tribe performed a song written by Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Other awards\nFour other awards were presented at the Silver Scroll Awards: APRA Maioha Award (for excellence in contemporary Maori music), SOUNZ Contemporary Award (for creativity and inspiration in classical composition) and two awards acknowledging songs with the most radio and television play in New Zealand and overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201301-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, APRA song awards\nOutside of the Silver Scroll Awards, APRA presented four genre awards in 2009. The APRA Best Pacific Song was presented at the Pacific Music Awards, the APRA Best Country Music Song was presented at the New Zealand Country Music Awards and the APRA Children\u2019s Song of the Year and What Now Video of the Year were presented at StarFest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201302-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ARAG World Team Cup\nThe 2009 ARAG World Team Cup was a tennis tournament play on outdoor clay courts. It was the 31st edition of the World Team Cup and was part of the 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Rochusclub in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, from 17 May through 23 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201302-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ARAG World Team Cup\nSweden was the defending champions, but they failed to advance beyond the group stage. Serbia defeated Germany in the final, by two rubbers to one for their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201303-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ARCA Re/Max Series\nThe 2009 ARCA Re/MAX Series was the 57th season of the ARCA Racing Series. The season began on February 7 with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 and ended on October 11 with the Rockingham ARCA 200. Justin Lofton of Eddie Sharp Racing won the season championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201303-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ARCA Re/Max Series\nThis season's championship result was the closest in ARCA history, as Lofton won the title over Kligerman by a mere five points. Although Kligerman won an astounding nine races that season, Lofton (who won six races) was able to barely beat him, mainly on the strength of earning bonus points for winning poles. Lofton won five poles that year while Kligerman won zero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201303-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ARCA Re/Max Series, Schedule\nThe series' 2009 schedule was announced by ARCA on October 30, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201304-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASA Midwest Tour season\nThe 2009 ASA Kwik-Trip Midwest Tour presented by Echo Outdoor Power Equipment was the third season of the American Speed Association's Midwest Tour. The championship was held over 12 races, beginning May 3 in Oregon, Wisconsin, and ending October 11 in West Salem, Wisconsin. Steve Carlson was the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic\nThe 2009 ASB Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 24th edition of the ASB Classic, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 5 through 10 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic\nThe singles draw is led by WTA No. 4, Luxembourg, Dubai winner, Olympics gold medalist Elena Dementieva, Tokyo, New Haven, Stockholm titlist Caroline Wozniacki and Strasbourg champion, Fes, Portoro\u017e runner-up Anabel Medina Garrigues. Also competing are Stanford champion Aleksandra Wozniak, Prague quarter-finalist Shahar Pe'er, Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Changes\nAt the 2008 tournament, the courts were changed to a blue Plexicushion surface, replacing the green Rebound Ace. This was consistent with the surface change that was also implemented at the Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Changes\nFor the 2009 WTA Tour the ASB Classic was chosen as part of the new 55 tournament calendar. A new tournament director, Brenda Perry, was brought in, and there was also an increase in prize money from $145,000 to $225,000. The event underwent a change in sponsorship, with Zealandia, a New Zealand horticulture firm, becoming a supporting partner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Entrants, Seeds\nNadia Petrova, who was set to be the number two seed, was forced to pull out when it was announced that she had contracted viral meningitis in mid-December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Entrants, Other notable entrants\nThe return of Marina Erakovic (a New Zealander) to this event provoked a strong interest from media in the country. In the 2008 event, Erakovic had reached the semifinals, defeating the top seed Vera Zvonareva in the process. Erakovic went on to have the most successful season of her career, despite some poorer results and injuries in the latter half of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Entrants, Other notable entrants\nCommenting on the 2009 tournament, Erakovic said, \"Even though the ASB Classic is important and I want to do well in my home town, my sight is set on the Australian Open and to be 100 percent for that.\" Erakovic had had to rely on a wildcard to gain entry to the previous year's event, but in 2009 was a direct entrant. Another entry which drew attention from the media was that of Mirjana Lu\u010di\u0107, who had reached the Wimbledon semifinals ranked 134 in 1999, but had been largely absent from the Tour in the preceding years for personal reasons. Lu\u010di\u0107 received a wildcard for the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Entrants, Qualifying\nThe qualifying tournament was played from 3\u20134 January. Four players received wildcards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Entrants, Qualifying\nThe four players to qualify were Ayumi Morita and Aiko Nakamura (both Japan), German player Kristina Barrois, and Italian Alberta Brianti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review\nDay by day summaries of the women's singles and doubles events. The singles draw is composed of 32 players, with 8 of these players seeded, while the doubles draw features 16 players, 4 of which are seeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day one\nThe singles and doubles events both started on 5 January. In the women's singles, the seeded players who featured on the first day all advanced to the second round. Third seed and WTA #22 Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Italian Mara Santangelo 7\u20135, 6\u20130. Fourth seed Aleksandra Wozniak overcame her opponent Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 from Slovakia in three sets, winning 6\u20133, 6\u20137(4), 7\u20135. Shahar Pe'er, the fifth seed from Israel, sealed her passage into the next round with a straight sets triumph against Petra Cetkovsk\u00e1 of the Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day one\nThe final seed to go through, Czech Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1 took three sets before triumphing 7\u20136(3), 4\u20136, 7\u20135 against Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia. In other matches, another Czech Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 beat France's Virginie Razzano 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 to line up a second round match with Pe'er; Romanian Edina Gallovits also found out her opponent would be Medina Garrigues after beating yet another Czech, Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 7\u20135. American Jill Craybas and French Aravane Reza\u00ef recorded victories against Kimiko Date-Krumm and Eleni Daniilidou respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day one\nSeveral matches were played in the doubles event on the first day. The most notable result saw top seeds Jill Craybas (playing her second match of the day following her singles victory) and New Zealander Marina Erakovic knocked out by the Spanish pairing of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6\u20134, 6\u20132. They were the only seeds to fall, with fourth seeds Chan Yung-jan (from Chinese Taipei) and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia advancing comfortably with a 6\u20132, 6\u20132 win over \u0130pek \u015eeno\u011flu of Turkey and German Jasmin W\u00f6hr. Chan and Pavlyuchenkova's win set up a second round match with Russians Elena Dementieva and Elena Vesnina who beat Natalie Grandin from South Africa and Latvia's L\u012bga Dekmeijere 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day two\nDay 2 saw the completion of the first round of matches in both the singles and doubles competitions. The remaining seeds who were not in action on the first day all won their matches and qualified for round two. During the day session, top seed and ATP no. 4 Russian Elena Dementieva had a far from straight forward match against Chan Yung-jan from Chinese, eventually coming through 7\u20135, 6\u20133. The young player from Taipei was hard-hitting but did not have enough to beat Dementieva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day two\nSecond seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, ranked at a career high of #12, crushed her opponent, Italian qualifier Alberta Brianti 6\u20131, 6\u20130 in 56 minutes to achieve a meeting with Jill Craybas. No.8 seed Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro from Spain beat Nathalie Dechy 6\u20134, 6\u20130. She found out her opponent for round two later in the day, with Anne Keothavong from Great Britain winning 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Croatian wildcard Mirjana Lu\u010di\u0107. In other day matches, Elena Vesnina routed qualifier Aiko Nakamura, 6\u20131, 6\u20130 and qualifier Ayumi Morita beat Marta Domachowska, 6\u20134 4\u20136 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day two\nThe unseeded Marina Erakovic of New Zealand sealed her place in the second round by beating Nuria Llagostera Vives from Spain 7\u20135, 6\u20134. Seventh seed Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ensured that all eight of the seeds had made it to the second round by winning her match in the night session against German Kristina Barrois 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day two\nIn doubles, second seeds Shahar Pe'er and Caroline Wozniacki progressed to the quarter-finals by defeating Argentinian Betina Jozami and Indian Shikha Uberoi 6\u20132, 6\u20132 but no. 3 seeds Czech Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 and Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus were beaten 6\u20134, 6\u20134 by Italian Mara Santangelo and French player Nathalie Dechy, a three-times Grand Slam doubles titlist. In other matches, Sarah Borwell from Great Britain and her partner Martina M\u00fcller qualified for the quarter-finals, overcoming the disappointment of a 6\u20130 first set to take the next two 7\u20135, 10-7 on champions tiebreak against Aiko Nakamura (Japan) and Marta Domachowska (Poland). Edina Gallovits and Eva Hrdinov\u00e1 defeated Australian wildcards Shona Lee and Kairangi Vano 6\u20133, 6\u20134. Finally, in an all American tie, Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears lost to Julie Ditty and Carly Gullickson 6\u20131, 6\u20133 to complete the quarter-final lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 941]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day three\nAfter the first round passing without losing any seeds, five were knocked out on day three, all in straight sets, leaving just three seeds qualifying for the quarter-finals. 3rd seed Anabel Medina Garrigues lost to Edina Gallovits 6\u20133, 6\u20133. No. 6 seed Nicole Vaidi\u0161ov\u00e1 was beaten 6\u20134, 6\u20133 by Elena Vesnina. Aleksandra Wozniak, the 4th seed, was knocked out by Ayumi Morita 7\u20135, 6\u20132, no. 7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day three\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova failed to progress as she lost 6\u20132, 6\u20133 to Aravane Reza\u00ef while Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro succumbed to Briton Anne Keothavong who continued her good start to life in the top 60 with a 6\u20132, 6\u20134 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day three\nAs for the seeds that progressed, top seed Elena Dementieva beat New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6\u20132, 6\u20133; No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki narrowly saw off veteran Jill Craybas 6\u20134, 7\u20135. 5th seed Shahar Pe'er had to try hard to concentrate on her tennis because an Auckland-based protest group staged protests at her decision not to pull out of the tournament with a war taking place in Gaza. Nevertheless, she became the third seed to progress, beating Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 in a topsy-turvy match 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day five\nDay five saw both semi-finals take place in the singles draw. The only seeded player left in the draw, top seeded Russian Elena Dementieva and the world no. 4 as of the start of the tournament was involved in the first match. She faced French player and last year's beaten finalist Aravane Reza\u00ef. Dementieva won the match 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in less than an hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day five\nLater in the day, unseeded Russian Elena Vesnina took on British number 1 and world no. 60 Anne Keothavong, playing in only her second WTA Tour semi-final and whose ranking should improve after her progress during the tournament. Keothavong matched Vesnina for much of the first set, falling behind 5\u20133 with a single break of serve. But she did not give up and she broke back and then held her service game to level the first set. The set eventually went to a tiebreak, which the British player took 7-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day five\nThe second set was a completely different story, Vesnina dropping just one game to win it 6\u20131. This set up a final-set decider which went with serve until the seventh game when Keothavong felt she had been given a wrong linecall and ended up being broken. She fought back to 5\u20135 but was broken again in the eleventh. Keothavong managed to save two match points but then, after saving two break points of her own, Vesnina hit an ace to seal victory and complete a match lasting almost two hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Review, Day five\nThe second semi-final of the doubles competition was a match between American pair Julie Ditty and Carly Gullickson, and France's Nathalie Dechy partnering Italian Mara Santangelo. Santangelo and Dechy, bidding for their second title as a partnership following Rome Masters victory in 2007 advanced to the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134. Their final opponents being Spaniards Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa Parra Santonja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201305-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic, Finals, Doubles\nNathalie Dechy /  Mara Santangelo defeated  Nuria Llagostera Vives /  Arantxa Parra Santonja, 4\u20136, 7\u201363, 12\u201310", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201306-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic \u2013 Doubles\nMariya Koryttseva and Lilia Osterloh were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201306-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic \u2013 Doubles\nIn the final, Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa Parra Santonja, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), [12\u201310].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201307-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic \u2013 Singles\nLindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year due to her pregnancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201307-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ASB Classic \u2013 Singles\nElena Dementieva won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20131, against Elena Vesnina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games\nThe 2009 ASEAN Para Games, officially known as the 5th ASEAN Para Games, was a Southeast Asian disabled multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15 to 19 August 2009. This was the second time Malaysia hosted the ASEAN Para Games and its first time since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games\nAround 980 athletes participated at the Games, which featured 409 events in 11 sports. The games was opened by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Former Prime Minister of Malaysia at the Putra Indoor Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games\nThe final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Malaysia and Vietnam. Several Games and National records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally successful with the effective cost spent to host the games and arrangement of public transport, commitment in environment conservation and with the rising standard of disabled sports competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Host city\nThe 5th ASEAN Para Games was originally scheduled for Laos in January 2010, but Laos begged off from hosting the games due to financial constraints and inexperience in providing disability-accessible venue adaptations for disabled athletes. Hence, the 5th ASEAN Para Games was instead held five months ahead of the Laos 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15 to 19 August 2009, featuring 409 events in 11 sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Development and preparation\nThe Kuala Lumpur Asean Para Games Organising Committee (KLAPGOC) was formed to oversee the staging of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Development and preparation, Venues\nThe 5th ASEAN Para Games had 11 venues for the games. 9 in Kuala Lumpur and 1 each in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Development and preparation, Public transport\nShuttle bus services, Rapid KL Buses were provided throughout the games and were used to ferry athletes and officials to and from the airport, games venues and games village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 68], "content_span": [69, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Development and preparation, Sustainability\nCommitted in conserving the environment, the games organiser gave each medal winner of the Games an opportunity to plant a tree at the Paralympic Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Marketing, Logo\nThe logo of the 2009 ASEAN Para Games is an image of a heart shape surrounded by ten doves which represents the ten ASEAN nations. The initial KL in the logo represents Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia as the host of the games, the number \u201909 represents the year 2009, the heart shape in the \u20180\u2019 represents the loving, caring and hospitality of Malaysian people, while the brush stroke sphere represents the unity of the ASEAN Community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Marketing, Logo\nThe Games logo is mostly rehashed from the 2006 FESPIC Games logo, and due to Malaysian athletes excellent performance at the 2006 FESPIC Games, the rehash of the 2006 FESPIC Games logo as the 2009 edition games logo is meant to reflect Malaysia's intention to replicate its 2006 FESPIC Games success at the 2009 ASEAN Para Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, Marketing, Mascot\nThe mascot of the 2009 ASEAN Para Games is a mousedeer named, \"Ujang\". The mousedeer is a native animal in Malaysia locally known as pelanduk or kancil which is shy, but very agile and quick thinking. It is a favourite character in local folktales commonly known as \"Sang Kancil\", noted for its intelligence, wit, cunning feints and quick reaction to escape from all kinds of danger, especially from its enemies. The adoption of mousedeer as the games mascot is to represent the courage of the Paralympic athletes in overcoming challenges and the odds. The name of the mascot, Ujang is a common nickname for local Malay youths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony was held on Thursday, 15 August 2009, beginning at 20:00 MST (UTC+8) at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The opening ceremony begins with the cultural performances by a troupe from Kuala Lumpur City Hall followed by a march past by the 10 contingents taking part in the games. After all the contingents took their respective places, former prime minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was given the honour to declare the meet open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThis was followed by six Malaysian national paralympians, Abdullah Daud (swimming), Mohd Noor Isa (badminton), Norisah Bahrom (wheelchair tennis), Mohd Fazli Fauzil (athletics), Julius Jeranding (swimming) and Muira Mukri (chess) bringing in the Games flag before being presented to six Royal Malaysian Navy personnel to be hoisted. National paralympian Lee Seng Chow, a track and field athlete, then lead the gathered paralympians in taking the athletes' oath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThis was followed by four national paralympians - Nadrul Shakir Nor Zainal (swimming), Marriappan Perumal (powerlifting), Siow Lee Chan (powerlifting) and Mohd Riduan Emeari (athletics) ushering in the Games torch before the cauldron was lit. Finally, a 120-strong gymnastics group from Soka Gakkai entertained the spectators to a gymnastic performance reflecting the spirit of unity, courage and harmony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony was held on Monday, 19 August 2009, beginning at 20:00 MST (UTC+8) at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The closing ceremony begins with a series of song performance by local Malay singers. After the performance, the best sportsman and best sportswoman trophy were awarded to a swimming sportsman from Thailand and a swimming sportswoman from Vietnam respectively. This was followed by a speech from Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin, the president of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Closing ceremony\nRepresentatives from Malaysia Book of Records then awarded certificate to the games committee to recognise the games as a smoking-free games. After that, Ahmad Shabery Cheek, then Malaysian Minister of Youth and Sports gave his speech and officially declared the games closed. The flag of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation was lowered by the six Royal Malaysian Navy personnel and the cauldron was extinguished. The ASEAN Para Games responsibilities was officially handed over to Indonesia, host of the 2011 ASEAN Para Games, where the Indonesia ambassador received the flag of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation as its symbolisation. The troupe from Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the same troupe who performed at the opening ceremony before, concluded the ceremony with a cultural performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201308-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ASEAN Para Games, The games, Medal table\nA total of 936 medals comprising 409 gold medals, 288 silver medals and 239 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Malaysia's performance was their second best in ASEAN Para Games History and was second behind Thailand as overall champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201309-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASP World Tour\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Caiaffa (talk | contribs) at 03:21, 2 December 2019 (\u2192\u200eFinal Standings). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201309-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ASP World Tour\nThe 2009 ASP World Tour is a professional competitive surfing league run by the Association of Surfing Professionals. Men and Women compete in separate tours with Events taking place from late February to mid-December, at various surfing locations around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201309-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ASP World Tour\nSurfers receive points for their best events. The surfer with the most points at the end of the tour is announced the 2009 ASP surfing world champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201310-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ASTRA Awards\nThe 7th Annual ASTRA Awards were presented on Monday, 20 April 2009 at The Entertainment Quarter in Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201311-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Tour\nThe Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour is the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2009 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 20 top tier Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and 142 regular series tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201311-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Tour, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S) and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour: the Tretorn SERIE+ tournaments, and the regular series tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Tretorn SERIE+ win > one regular tournament win); 3) a singles > doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201312-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Trophy\nThe 2009 ATP Challenger Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Trnava, Slovakia between 21 and 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201312-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201312-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Trophy, Champions, Doubles\nGrigor Dimitrov /  Teymuraz Gabashvili def. Jan Min\u00e1\u0159 /  Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol, 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201313-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nDavid \u0160koch and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete this year. Grigor Dimitrov and Teymuraz Gabashvili defeated Jan Min\u00e1\u0159 and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201314-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Challenger Trophy \u2013 Singles\nAlberto Mart\u00edn didn't try to defend his 2008 title. Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. won the tournament, by defeating Lamine Ouahab 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201315-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors\nThe 2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Salzburg, Austria between 30 November and 6 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201315-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201315-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201315-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors, Champions, Doubles\nPhilipp Marx /  Igor Zelenay def. Sanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201316-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nNumber 1 seeds Philipp Marx and Igor Zelenay won 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final against the No. 2 seeds, twins Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201317-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Salzburg Indoors \u2013 Singles\nMichael Berrer became the first champion of this tournament. He defeated Jarkko Nieminen 6\u20137(4), 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201318-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag\nThe 2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag was a tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the event known that year as the ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the International Tennis Center in Umag, Croatia, from 27 July through 2 August 2009. First-seeded Nikolay Davydenko won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201318-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201318-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag, Finals, Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k defeated  Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201319-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Doubles\nMichal Merti\u0148\u00e1k and Petr P\u00e1la were the defending champions, but Pala chose not to compete. Merti\u0148\u00e1k partnered with Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k, and won in the final over Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201320-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Singles\nFernando Verdasco was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201320-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag \u2013 Singles\nNikolay Davydenko won in the final 6-3, 6-0 against Juan Carlos Ferrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour\nThe Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP. The 2009 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the ATP World Team Championship, the Davis Cup (organized by the ITF), and the ATP World Tour Finals. Also included in the 2009 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points, and is organised by the ITF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour\n2009 saw Pete Sampras' Grand Slam singles record surpassed by Roger Federer, who won his 15th title at Wimbledon. Federer also completed his Career Grand Slam at this year's French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nThe ATP reinstated the world tour to its name as the organisation rebranded itself as the ATP World Tour. ATP World Tour tournaments in 2009 are classified as ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 500, and ATP World Tour 250. Broadly speaking the Tennis Masters Series tournaments became the new Masters 1000 level and ATP International Series Gold and ATP International Series events became ATP 500 level and 250 level events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nThe World Tour Masters 1000 includes tournaments at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid, Toronto/Montreal, Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris. The end-of-year event, the Tour Finals, moved to London. Hamburg has been displaced by the new clay court event at Madrid, which is a new combined men's and women's tournament, and the indoor hard court event in Madrid was replaced by an outdoor hard court Masters tournament in Shanghai. From 2011, Rome and Cincinnati will also be combined tournaments. Severe sanctions will be placed on top players skipping the Masters 1000 series events, unless medical proof is presented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nPlans to eliminate Monte Carlo and Hamburg as Masters Series events led to controversy and protests from players as well as organisers. Hamburg and Monte Carlo filed lawsuits against the ATP, and as a concession it was decided that Monte Carlo remains a Masters 1000 level event, with more prize money and 1000 ranking points, but it would no longer be a compulsory tournament for top-ranked players. Monte Carlo later dropped its suit. Hamburg was \"reserved\" to become a 500 level event in the summer. Hamburg did not accept this concession, but later lost its suit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nThe World Tour 500 level includes tournaments at Rotterdam, Dubai, Acapulco, Memphis, Barcelona, Hamburg, Washington, Beijing, Tokyo, Basel and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nThe ATP & ITF declared that 2009 Davis Cup World Group and World Group Playoffs award a total of up to 500 points. Players accumulate points over the four rounds and the playoffs and these are counted as one of a player's four best results from the 500 level events. An additional 125 points are given to a player who wins all eight live rubbers and wins the Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Tour changes\nOtherwise, the domain name of their website was changed to \"www.atpworldtour.com\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Schedule\nThis is the complete schedule of events on the 2009 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2009 ATP World Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Finals, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, and the ATP World Tour 250 series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Statistical information\nThe players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Grand Slam win equalling two Masters 1000 wins, one ATP World Tour Finals win equalling one-and-a-half Masters 1000 win, one Masters 1000 win equalling two 500 events wins, one 500 event win equalling two 250 events wins); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Statistical information, Title information\nThe following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Statistical information, Title information\nThe following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Rankings\nThese are the ATP Rankings of the top twenty singles players, doubles players, and the top ten doubles teams on the ATP Tour, at the end of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the 2009 season, with number of rankings points, number of tournaments played, year-end ranking in 2008, highest and lowest position during the season (for singles and doubles individual only, as doubles team rankings are not calculated over a rolling year-to-date system), and number of spots gained or lost from the 2008 to the 2009 year-end rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Rankings\nThe 2008 year-end rankings include the number of points under the 2008 points system, and doubled, as they were at the end of the year by the ATP, to fit the 2009 points system (the doubles (team) rankings points were not doubled, as they were calculated under the ATP Race points system in 2008). The doubled year-end rankings were never officially published though, as the first rankings of 2009 already counted the drop of the 2008 season openers' points due to a calendar change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\nThe Davis Cup World Group and World Group Play-Off matches awarded ATP Ranking points from 2009 to 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\nOnly live matches earn points; dead rubbers earn no points. If a player does not compete in the singles of one or more rounds he will receive points from the previous round when playing singles at the next tie. This last rule also applies for playing in doubles matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\n1 A player who wins a singles rubber in the first day of the tie is awarded 5 points, whereas a singles rubber win in tie's last day grants 10 points for a total of 15 available points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\n2 For the first round only, any player who competes in a live rubber, without a win, receives 10 ranking points for participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\n3 Team bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 7 live matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\n4 Performance bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 8 live matches in a calendar year. In this case, no Team bonus is awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Point distribution\n5 Team bonus awarded to an unchanged doubles team who wins 4 matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201321-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour, Retirements\nFollowing is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the ATP Rankings top 100 (singles) or top 50 (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals\nThe 2009 ATP World Tour Finals (also known as the 2009 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for sponsorship reasons) was held in London, United Kingdom between 22 November and 29 November 2009. It was the first time the O2 arena hosted the ATP World Tour Year-End Singles and Doubles Championships. The event was renamed from Tennis Masters Cup to ATP World Tour Finals following the rearrangement of the ATP Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification\nSpots were awarded to the top seven players highest ranked single players in the world ranking and the top seven doubles teams in the 2009 ATP Doubles Race, with one spot reserved for Grand Slam champions who finish outside of the top 8, but within the Top 20 players or teams. As this did not happen, the final spot went to the next player or team in the top 8. Two additional players and teams were also in London as alternates in case of withdrawals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 19 May 2009 after reaching his 7th final of the year at the 2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open, 2009 Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal of Spain was announced as the first qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nRafael Nadal began the year by winning his first Grand Slam on hardcourt at the Australian Open, defeating Roger Federer in the final 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, just after defeating Fernando Verdasco in a tournament record 5 hours 14 minutes battle in five sets. Following his Australian Open triumph he reached the final of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament losing to Andy Murray. He then revenged his loss by defeating Murray in the final of BNP Paribas Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nHe then won three straight titles at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and at the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell. He then lost in his fourth straight final in the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open to Federer. He was the four-time defending champion at Roland Garros and had a 31-match winning streak in Paris, broken with a surprise fourth round loss to No. 23-seeded Robin S\u00f6derling. He then missed Wimbledon becoming the first player since Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 to not defend his title, and lost his no. 1 ranking to Federer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nHe then returned at the Rogers Masters but he did not reach a final until the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 losing to Nikolay Davydenko. He also reached the semifinals of the US Open and the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters. Nadal has a 4\u20134 record at the championship and reached the semifinals in 2006 and 2007. This is his 3rd appearance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 5 July \u2013 after the 2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Roger Federer of Switzerland who won his 15th Slam at the tournament over Andy Roddick was announced as the second qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nRoger Federer began the year with a loss to Rafael Nadal at the final of the Australian Open. He won his first title of the year at the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open defeating Nadal in the final. For his first win over Nadal since 2007 and ending Nadal's 5 match winning streak. After Nadal's early exit, Federer snapped up the French Open, beating Robin S\u00f6derling 6\u20131, 7\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final  to complete the career Grand Slam. At Wimbledon Federer defeated Andy Roddick in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nIt was the longest match in the final of Wimbledon in terms of games 5\u20137, 7\u20136, 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 16\u201314. Federer reclaimed the world no. 1 ranking and broke Pete Sampras's Grand Slam record with a 15th Grand Slam. He won his 4th title of the year at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters defeating Novak Djokovic. He was also a runner-up at the US Open losing to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro and the Davidoff Swiss Indoors losing to Djokovic ending his 3-year run at the tournament. He also reached 4 semi-finals at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Sony Ericsson Open, BNP Paribas Open and the Qatar ExxonMobil Open. He has a 27\u20135 record in the championship having won it on 4 occasions in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. This is his 8th appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 20 August \u2013 After his title in the 2009 Rogers Masters defeating Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Andy Murray of Great Britain was announced as the third qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nAndy Murray won six titles in the year, more than anyone else. With titles in the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, the Sony Ericsson Open. As well as at Queens, in the Rogers Cup and in the Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana defeating Mikhail Youzhny. He was also the runner up at the BNP Paribas Open. He missed the Asian Leg due to a wrist injury. At the slams he reached the semifinals for the first time at Wimbledon, as well as the quarterfinals of the French Open for the first time. This is his second appearance with a 3\u20131 record following his semifinal appearance last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 10 September \u2013 Novak Djokovic of Serbia the defending champion was the Fourth to qualify following his third straight semifinal appearance at the 2009 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nNovak Djokovic made his tennis do the talking as he won his first title of the year in Dubai Tennis Championships defeating David Ferrer. He then won three other titles in the inaugural Serbia Open defeating \u0141ukasz Kubot, China Open defeating Marin \u010cili\u0107 and in Davidoff Swiss Indoors defeating Roger Federer. He then won his first Masters title of the year at the BNP Paribas Masters over Ga\u00ebl Monfils. He finished as a runner-up at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, Gerry Weber Open, Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters and the Sony Ericsson Open. He also made the semifinal of the US Open. He is the Defending champion and has a 4\u20134 record. This is his 3rd appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 15 September \u2013 after his first Slam win at the 2009 US Open over Roger Federer, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro of Argentina became the fifth qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro produced a break-out year, as he reached a career-high no. 5 and won his first Slam at the 2009 US Open defeating Roger Federer 3\u20136, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final. He is also the tallest ever Grand Slam champion and the first player to defeat both Nadal and Federer in the same Grand Slam tournament. He also won two other titles at the Heineken Open defeating Sam Querrey, and the Legg Mason Tennis Classic defeating Andy Roddick. He also reached his first Masters final at the Rogers Cup losing to Andy Murray. He also reached the semi finals at the French Open losing to Federer. Del Potro has a 1\u20132 record at the championship and is making his 2nd appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 20 September \u2013 despite an early exit at the US Open, Andy Roddick of the United States was the sixth qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nAndy Roddick won the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships defeating Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek. His major triumph though came at the Wimbledon finishing as runner-up to Roger Federer. He defeated hometown hero Andy Murray and Lleyton Hewitt en route to this final. As well as finishing as a runner up at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open losing to Murray and the Legg Mason Tennis Classic losing to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. At the Slams, he also reached the Semifinals of the Australian Open losing to Federer after defeating Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nPlus making the fourth round of French Open for the first time, losing to Ga\u00ebl Monfils. This is Andy seventh straight qualificationand his sixth appearance withdrawing in 2005. He has an 8\u20138 record reaching the semi final in 2003, 2004, and 2007. Roddick withdrew from the tournament due to a left leg injury suffered at the Shanghai Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 12 November \u2013 After Verdasco fell to \u010cili\u0107 in the third round of the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters last years runner-up Nikolay Davydenko of Russia took one of the last two remaining spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nNikolay Davydenko won his first tournament at the International German Open defeating Paul-Henri Mathieu. The following week he won the ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero. As well as the inaugural Proton Malaysian Open defeating Fernando Verdasco. Davydenko then claimed his 3rd Masters title at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 upsetting Rafael Nadal after defeating Novak Djokovic. He well as making the quarterfinals of French Open losing to S\u00f6derling. This is his fifth appearance with an 8\u20137 record. His best performance came last year as he reached the final losing to Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nOn 13 November after both S\u00f6derling and Tsonga fell to Djokovic and Nadal respectively in the quarterfinals of the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters Australian Open semifinalist Fernando Verdasco occupied the last remaining spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nFernando Verdasco started the year well with a semifinal appearance Australian Open losing to Rafael Nadal in a tournament record 5 hour 14 minute battle after five sets. He claimed his third title of his career in the Pilot Pen Tennis prevailing over Sam Querrey. He was also the runner up in the Brisbane International losing to Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek and the Malaysian Open losing to Nikolay Davydenko. Verdasco is making his debut at the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nAfter Roddick's withdrawal due to left leg injury on 17 November Robin S\u00f6derling was announced as his replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nRobin S\u00f6derling 's highlight of the year was reaching the French Open final. After becoming the first player to defeat Rafael Nadal at the Roland Garros. He won his only title of the year at the Catella Swedish Open defeating Juan M\u00f3naco. He reached 4 semifinals as well at the Heineken Open, Proton Malaysian Open, China Open, and the If Stockholm Open. Soderling is making his debut at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualification, Singles qualification\nThe two alternate spots were up for grabs. With the first one was taken by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who won 3 titles including the SA Tennis Open defeating J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy, the Open 13 defeating Micha\u00ebl Llodra and at the AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships defeating Mikhail Youzhny. His highlight at the slams was the quarterfinals of the Australian Open losing to Fernando Verdasco. The second spot was taken by Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, who won the 2009 Movistar Open over Jos\u00e9 Acasuso 6\u20131 6\u20133. As well as reaching the semifinals of the French Open losing to Robin S\u00f6derling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nThe first two teams qualified for the year-end doubles tournament on 5 July. They were the defending champions Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 of Serbia and the American brother duo of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan from the United States following their doubles final at the 2009 Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 played their second full tour together. They started with back-to-back runner-up finishes at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open and at the Medibank International Sydney to the Bryans. They claimed their first title of the year at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. They then claimed three back-to-back titles at Monte-Carlo and Internazionali BNL d'Italia and the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell. They claimed their fourth title at the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nThe Canadian-Serbian duo hit back from a two-set deficit in The Championships semi-finals at Wimbledon, against James Blake and Mardy Fish, before edging the Bryans in a four-set final. They won their 7th and 8th titles at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors. They won their 9th title and 5th Masters of the year, at the BNP Paribas Masters, and reached the semifinals of the French Open. They have a record of 5 and 0. With a best of Champions last year, this is their 2nd appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan began with back-to-back titles in Australia by winning the Medibank International Sydney and winning their 7th Slam at the Australian Open. They won their third title of the year at the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships. The brothers added the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. They won the LA Tennis Open and China Open. They also reached 5 other finals, Monte-Carlo, Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Wimbledon, Western & Southern Financial Group and Davidoff. They were the only team to reach the semifinal or better at all 4 slams. Bob Bryan also won the French Open Mixed Doubles playing with Liezel Huber. This is their 10th appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nOn 10 September the teams of Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd/Leander Paes following the US Open finals, the two teams are competing in their second straight year-end championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nMahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles only win came at the Rogers cup. They also finished as runner-up at the Australian Open and at the US Open. As well as at the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell. Separately Bhupathi won the Australian mixed doubles with Mirza. Knowles won the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships with Fish and the Wimbledon mixed doubles with Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld. and the final of the China Open with Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes won two out of four Grand Slams. They won the French Open. and the US Open. They finished as runners-up at ABN AMRO. They reached the Australian Open semifinals. Paes separately reached and lost three finals, the Heineken Open with Scott Lipsky and the Mixed doubles finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open with Cara Black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nThe last four qualifiers were decided at the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters. They were \u0141ukasz Kubot/Oliver Marach, Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k/Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k, Max Mirnyi/Andy Ram only after Wesley Moodie/Dick Norman were ousted. Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski qualified after winning their quarterfinal match-up against the Bryans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach claimed three doubles titles, in their debut year. They took the Grand Prix Hassan II, the Serbia Open and the Bank Austria-TennisTrophy. They also reached the final of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel. At the Slams, they were able to reach their first Major semifinals at the Australian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k, in their first year on tour together, won 5 titles., the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, the MercedesCup, at the ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag, the BCR Open Romania, and finally at the Valencia Open 500. They also reached the finals of the Movistar Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nMax Mirnyi and Andy Ram reached three finals, all Masters 1000 events. They won one of these finals at the Sony Ericsson and lost the BNP Paribas Open and the Rogers Masters. They reached the US Open semifinal. Ram separately finished as runner-up at the Australian mixed doubles with Nathalie Dechy and at the Open 13 with Julian Knowle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Doubles qualification\nMariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski won the Aegon International and the Malaysian Open. They also reached the finals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings\nThe tournament was conducted in a round robin format. The eight players/teams divided in two groups. The eight seeds were determined by the South African Airways ATP Rankings and the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings of Monday, 16 November 2009. The top seed was placed in Group A and the second seed placed in Group B. Players/teams seeded three and four, five and six, seven and eight, were then drawn in pairs placing the first drawn in Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Singles grouping\nGroup A: Consisted of Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro and Fernando Verdasco. Against the rest of the group, Roger Federer was 12\u20137, Andy Murray was 17\u20135, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro was 2\u201310 and Fernando Verdasco was 1\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Singles grouping\nAndy Murray led 6\u20133 against Federer, having won 4 of their last 5 meetings at that point. Murray was 4\u20131 against del Potro and 7\u20131 over Verdasco. Federer was 3\u20130 against Verdasco and 6\u20131 over del Potro. Verdasco and del Potro faced each other for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Singles grouping\nGroup B: Against the rest of the group, Rafael Nadal was 21\u201310, Novak Djokovic 13\u201316, Nikolay Davydenko 8\u201312 and Robin S\u00f6derling 7\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Singles grouping\nNadal was 14\u20136 with Djokovic. Nadal led 4\u20133 against Davydenko. Nadal edged Soderling, 3\u20131. Djokovic was tied with Davydenko at 2\u20132, and was 5\u20130 against S\u00f6derling. S\u00f6derling led Davydenko 6\u20133 including 5 of their last 6 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Doubles grouping\nGroup A: Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 were joined by Bhupathi/Knowles, \u010cerm\u00e1k/Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k and Fyrstenberg/Matkowski. Against the rest of the group Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 were 8\u20133, whilst Bhupathi/Knowles were 7\u20131. \u010cerm\u00e1k/Merti\u0148\u00e1k were 0\u20131 and Frystenberg/Matkowski were 2\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Doubles grouping\nNestor/Zimonjic were 3\u20131 against Bhupathi/Knowles, 4\u20132 against Fyrstenberg/Matkowski and 1\u20130 against Cermak/Mertinak. Bhupathi and Knowles had never played Cermak/Mertinak but were 4 and 0 against Fyrstenberg/Matkowski. Cermak/Merinak had never faced Fyrstenberg/Matkowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Doubles grouping\nGroup B: Against the rest of the group the Bryans were 7\u20133, while Dlouh\u00fd/Paes were 1\u20133 while Ram/Mirnyi were at 2\u20132 and Kubot and Marach were 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Groupings, Doubles grouping\nThe Bryans were 3\u20131 up against Dlouh\u00fd/Paes, 2\u20132 with Ram/Mirnyi and 3\u20130 against Kubot/Marach. Ram/Mirnyi and Dlouh\u00fd/Paes had never faced their other opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 1: 22 November 2009\nThe tournament started with group A doubles action. In the opening match the top doubles team and defending champions Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 being upset by Fyrstenberg/Matkowski 6\u20134, 6\u20134. The Polish team faced no break points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 1: 22 November 2009\nIn the first singles match, 2008 semifinalist Murray fought del Potro. Murray went up 5\u20130 over Del Potro, who took a medical timeout at 3\u20130, for a nosebleed. Del Potro dropped to 15\u201340, but eventually saved two set points and won the game. At 5\u20131, on the second break point Del Potro challenged Murray's apparent ace and won the break. Both players then held, giving Murray the first set 6\u20133. In the second set, Del Potro looked rejuvenated taking the first 3 games; breaking at love in the second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 1: 22 November 2009\nMurray broke in the 5th game to bring it back to serve. The Argentine broke again and held to lead 5\u20132. Both players held, requiring a third set. The decider saw a change of roles as Murray broke in the second game at his second chance to lead 3\u20130. The servers held the next four games to 5\u20132. At 5\u20132 Del Potro went down 15\u201330, and then double-faulted, giving Murray 2 match points. Murray converted the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 1: 22 November 2009\nFederer/Verdasco started with Verdasco breaking Federer and holding to lead 2\u20130. At 3\u20132, Verdasco was warned for taking too much time. Verdasco held for a 4\u20132 lead. In the next game Federer saved two break points. The two players then held, giving Verdasco the set 6\u20134. In the second set both players held serve comfortably to 6\u20135, when Federer broke to win the set 7\u20135. In the 3rd, Federer took a 5\u20130 lead and won 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 2: 23 November 2009\nNadal/S\u00f6derling was a sequel to the fourth round of the French Open. S\u00f6derling broke in the second game and led 3\u20130, quickly reversed by Nadal for 3\u20133. From there both players held to 5\u20134. At 40\u201330 Nadal made three unforced errors, giving S\u00f6derling the first at 6\u20134. In the second set Nadal broke in the 3rd game for 2\u20131. Nadal then saved two break points before S\u00f6derling challenged a backhand from Nadal. Both players then held. At 5\u20134 Nadal faced match point at 30\u201340, which S\u00f6derling converted to win the set 6\u20134 and the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 2: 23 November 2009\nThe final match repeated last year's final pitting Djokovic against Davydenko. At 2\u20132 in the 1st Davydenko broke at love. Then the Russian saved one break point for 4\u20132. Both then held. Djokovic faced two set points and gave Davydenko the first set 6\u20133. At 2\u20132 on serve in the 2nd Davydenko saved two break points to lead 3\u20132. At 4\u20134 Davydenko's unforced errors gave Djokovic a break and he served out the set 6\u20134. In the decider Djokovic broke early for 2\u20130. He served for the match at 5\u20134 but Davydenko broke back. Djokovic broke back and served the match out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 2: 23 November 2009\nThe doubles competition produced two upsets as Mirnyi/Ram beat World no. 2 the Bryans 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Kubot/Marach defeated Dlouh\u00fd/Paes in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 3: 24 November 2009\nThe next day del Potro and Verdasco played each other for the first time. In the 3rd game del Potro broke at 15. Both held giving del Potro the first set 6\u20134. At 4\u20133 in the second Verdasco converted the first break point to lead 5\u20133. Verdasco won 6\u20133 triggering a deciding set. Verdasco went down 3\u20132 and 0\u201340. He saved 2 break points but at 30\u201340, del Potro challenged a Verdasco forehand called in. Hawk-Eye reversed the call giving del Potro a 4\u20132 lead. Verdasco saved match point at 5\u20132, then Verdasco broke and held to level the set at 5\u20135. Del Potro won the eventual tie-break 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 3: 24 November 2009\nFederer then took on Murray. Both players immediately broke, then at 3\u20132 Federer held only 2 of 3 break points. The first set went to Murray 6\u20133. In the 6th game of the second set the Swiss was able to break and served it out for 6\u20133. Federer then broke in the third, fifth and seventh games to finish 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 3: 24 November 2009\nBhupathi/Knowles outlasted Fyrstenberg/Matkowski 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137], taking them to the semifinal. Defending champions Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 lost to \u010cerm\u00e1k/Merti\u0148\u00e1k 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 4: 25 November 2009\nFirst S\u00f6derling battled Djokovic. No break opportunities emerged until 5\u20134 when Djokovic saved 3. In the following tie-break, the Swede took a 2\u20130 lead and then the Serb took three. S\u00f6derling got a mini-break for 6\u20134, and won at 7\u20135. Djokovic then won the opening game but then S\u00f6derling won the next six to advance to the Semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 4: 25 November 2009\nThe next match was a Shanghai final rematch between Davydenko and Nadal. Davydenko raced into a 3\u20130 lead. In the 6th game Davydenko broke again, and served it out at 6\u20131. Davydenko broke Nadal in the 5th game of the 2nd and then saved two break points in the 6th for 4\u20132. Nadal then broke Davydenko to level it at 4\u20134. Both held through to a tie break. Nadal got a mini-break for 2\u20131, but gave it back for 3\u20133. Davydenko then broke for 5\u20133. Davydenko converted his second match point to win at 7\u20134. For the first time in his World Tour Finals history, Nadal failed to reach the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 4: 25 November 2009\nIn Doubles, in the first match Kubot/Marach outlasted Mirnyi/Ram in a marathon 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [16\u201314] to advance in the top spot. The second match saw the Bryans eliminated Dlouh\u00fd/Paes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 5: 26 November 2009\nMurray played Verdasco, hoping for a straight set shot through to the semi final, leaving Federer and Del Potro to fight for the other spot. A loss for Murray would eliminate him. And a three-set win required a complicated tie break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 5: 26 November 2009\nIn the first eight games, Murray failed to convert multiple break points. In the ninth game, Murray finally succeeded and served it out for 6\u20134. Verdasco saved break points in the fifth game for 3\u20132. Verdasco saved two more break points in the 11th game, leading to a tie-break. Verdasco won the early lead 4\u20132 but Murray recovered to reach 4\u20135 on serve. Verdasco won the next point before Murray double faulted to give Verdasco the set. In the third Verdaso save the only break point in the second. Verdasco double faulted to give Murray a 4\u20132 lead who held on to win the breaker 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 5: 26 November 2009\nThe last match repeated US Open final as Federer took on del Potro. Del Potro broke in the 1st and 5th games thanks to a Federer double fault, winning the opening set 6\u20132. Federer saved a break point in the next game, eventually reaching a tie break. Del Potro claimed a 4\u20132 lead, but Federer fought back to win 7\u20135. That put Federer into the semi final. Murray needed Federer to win four games in the final set for him to advance but Federer did not oblige. At 4\u20133 Federer went down 0\u201340. He saved one break point but del Potro got the next and closed out the match 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 5: 26 November 2009\nMurray was thereby out, with Federer and del Potro advancing. The three players won the same number of matches and leaving it to game percentage. All of the Group A matches went three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 5: 26 November 2009\nIn the doubles Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 were eliminated despite claiming their first victory over Bhupathi/Knowles at 6\u20134, 7\u20136. The second match saw \u010cerm\u00e1k/Merti\u0148\u00e1k move on by defeating Fyrstenberg/Matkowski, finishing second in the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 6: 27 November 2009\nNadal began the day by taking on Djokovic. Djokovic broke in the opening game. Nadal struck back in the next game after Djokovic saved two break points. In the third game, Djokovic broke again. In the next game, Djokovic held, taking a 3\u20131 lead. Nadal held and then broke. Both players then held to force a tie-break. Djokovic took the mini-break to lead 4\u20132 and held on for 7\u20135. Djokovic broke for the fourth time, gaining a 3\u20131 lead. Djokovic took the match at 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 6: 27 November 2009\nS\u00f6derling still had to battle Davydenko, who was trying to claim the second semifinal berth. In the 7th game Davydenko failed to convert break points, as did S\u00f6derling in the next 8th, eventually leading to a tie break. There were no mini-breaks until the changeover, which was followed by three straight, giving Davydeno the set 7\u20134. In the 9th game of the second set S\u00f6derling broke at love and won the set 6\u20134, giving him the top spot in Group B. At 3\u20132 in the final set Davydenko broke to lead 5\u20132. S\u00f6derling held. At 5\u20133 with two match points, Davydenko double-faulted, but converted the next match point to win 6\u20133. This win meant that Davydenko would face Federer, becoming the only 2008 singles semifinalist to go through to the 2009 semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Round robin, Day 6: 27 November 2009\nIn doubles, Dlouh\u00fd/Paes lost their final round robin match to Mirnyi/Ram 7\u20136, 6\u20134. Then the Bryans had to win their match against Kubot/Marach in straight sets to reach the semi final, which they did 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 7: 28 November 2009\nPlay began between Federer and last year's runner-up Davydenko. Federer had won all 12 prior encounters. Davydenko saved two early break points. In the next game. Davydenko broke, then held and broke again at love. Federer broke back immediately for 2\u20134. Federer saved only one of two break points, for a third consecutive break. Davydenko held for 6\u20132. At 5\u20135, Davydenko converted a break point and in the next game saved one of his own before serving it out in his first win over Federer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 7: 28 November 2009\nIn the evening semifinal, S\u00f6derling played del Potro, having split their last two meetings. In the third game, S\u00f6derling saved three break points from 0\u201340 for 2\u20131. Both players continued to hold, creating a tie-break. S\u00f6derling went up 5\u20130, before winning it 7\u20131. At 4\u20133 in the second set, del Potro broke S\u00f6derling and held on for 6\u20133. The third set saw S\u00f6derling break to lead 4\u20132 and del Potro break for 4\u20133. From there, both players held. In the tie-break, del Potro went up 4\u20130 lead and won 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 7: 28 November 2009\nMirnyi/Ram defeated \u010cerm\u00e1k/Merti\u0148\u00e1k 6\u20134, 7\u20136 to reach the finals. Then, there was an Australian Open final rematch pitting the Bryans against Bhupathi/Knowles. The result was the same, with the Bryan twins taking it 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 8: 29 November 2009\nThe Bryans got a first set chest bump after taking the first set point on a down-the-middle backhand. A single break in game eight of the second set was enough for the brothers to serve for the match. The pair thrilled to have regained the title and the top ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 8: 29 November 2009\nFinally, del Potro and Davydenko having both defeated Soderling, Federer, and one Spaniard along the way faced off. This was their fourth meeting, with Davydenko leading 2\u20131. Davydenko broke at his second chance and then easily served out the set. In the second set at 2\u20132, del Potro saved a break point. Davydenko did the same, for 3\u20133. At 4\u20134 Davydenko broke at love. Davydenko then served the match out for a 6\u20133, 6\u20134 win. This was Davydenko's biggest title to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Finals, Day 8: 29 November 2009\nDel Potro commented \"Congratulations Nikolay, you had a great week, you beat everyone and you're a great champion. Thank you the crowd, you support me a lot and helped me. I hope to see you next year.\" Davydenko added; \"Yeah!... I just want to congratulate Martin: he had a big season. For me it was amazing, coming in as number seven and winning the tournament. I surprised myself. Maybe I now have English fans... I hope. I really enjoy coming to London, I will try to come back again.\" He also added \"Trophy, it's always something important, you know, in career for the tennis player. Something important for me because Federer I beat in semifinals. It was a great match, good feeling. Never beat him before. And beat him once here in semifinals. But, you know, finals different\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201322-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals, Champions, Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan def. Max Mirnyi /  Andy Ram, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201323-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round robin stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201323-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133 against Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201323-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201323-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201324-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Singles\nNikolay Davydenko defeated Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 to win the Singles tennis title at the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201324-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Singles\nNovak Djokovic was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the round robin stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201324-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Singles\nAndy Roddick qualified for the tournament, but withdrew due to a left leg injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201324-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201324-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Finals \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201325-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ATP World Tour Masters 1000\nThe twentieth edition of the ATP Masters Series. The champion of each Masters event is awarded a 1,000 rankings points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499\nThe 2009 Aaron's 499 was the ninth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. With a distance of 500.8 miles (806.0\u00a0km), it was held on April 26, 2009 at the 2.66 miles (4.28\u00a0km) Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. Fox Sports broadcast the race starting at 1 PM EDT, with MRN and Sirius XM Radio carrying the radio broadcast over the air and on satellite respectively. The race had nine cautions, 25 different leaders, and 57 lead changes, the most lead changes of the season up until that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499\nBrad Keselowski, driving for Phoenix Racing, won the race in his fifth career start (third start in 2009) and led his first career Sprint Cup lap, Lap 188 (in fact the only lap he led the entire race), while Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second and Ryan Newman finished third. This was the first time since Casey Mears's win at the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte that a driver had won his first career win in a major, and the first win in the Aaron's 499 by a first-time driver since Phil Parsons in 1988. It was also the first time a driver's first ever lap led was to win the race. Keselowski dedicated his win to the late Neil Bonnett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Background\nTalladega Superspeedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Michigan International Speedway. The standard track at the speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.66 miles (4.28\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at thirty-three degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 16.5 degrees. The back stretch has a two-degree banking. Talladega Superspeedway can seat up to 143,231 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Background\nBefore the race, Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 1242 points, and Jimmie Johnson stood in second with 1157. Kurt Busch was third in the Drivers' Championship with 1144 points, six ahead of Tony Stewart and 56 ahead of Denny Hamlin in fourth and fifth. In sixth, Clint Bowyer with 1052 points was 26 points ahead of Kyle Busch in seventh, as Carl Edwards with 1023 points was 31 points ahead of David Reutimann, and 48 points in front of Kasey Kahne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nTo begin pre-race events, Jeff Sauls, Chaplain Emergency Crews and Alabama Raceway Ministry, delivered the invocation at 1:00 P.M Central Standard Time (2:00 pm Eastern Standard time). Then Katie Stam, Miss America 2009, performed the national anthem. At 1:08 pm, University of Alabama head football coach, Nick Saban, delivered the starting command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nDuring the pace laps, Scott Speed made an emergency last-minute pit stop, causing him to start the race 1 lap down, since the Talladega races are impound races. Before the green flag, six drivers (including all four Richard Petty Motorsports cars) had to move to the back of the field due to engine changes: Brad Keselowski, Kasey Kahne, David Stremme, Elliott Sadler, Reed Sorenson, and A. J. Allmendinger. Robby Gordon was also forced to start at the rear as his car height was too low and failed post-qualifying inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nAt the drop of the green flag at 1:20 pm, polesitter Juan Pablo Montoya claimed the lead and stayed in that position for four laps. On lap 5, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed him for the lead with drafting help from Denny Hamlin. Earnhardt, Jr. led for one lap before being repassed by Montoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 7, David Ragan, who had won the Nationwide Series race the day before, took the lead on the back straightaway with the help from Joey Logano, who had assisted Ragan in that win. Moments later, the first caution flag was waved for a huge crash in turn 3. This started when Matt Kenseth, while in the middle groove, moved up in front of Jeff Gordon (driving a retro Pepsi Challenge paint scheme used by Darrell Waltrip in 1983) and made contact, causing the 24 car to wobble and get loose on the high side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nGordon then made contact with David Gilliland, getting him loose, then came down and collected 14 more cars, including Allmendinger, Kahne, Sadler, Casey Mears, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Max Papis, Jamie McMurray, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Scott Riggs, and Bobby Labonte. Martin, who had won the Phoenix race the previous week, took a very hard hit, as his car went over the hood of Riggs', smashed into the wall driver's side first, and got fishtailed by Kahne as his came to a rest on the infield. Bowyer and Gilliland also went head-on into the outside wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nUnder this caution, Speed got the free pass. Most of the drivers pitted under the caution on lap 9. As the caution period continued, John Andretti, Greg Biffle, and Ryan Newman each led a lap before making their pit stops. When the race restarted on lap 13, Logano claimed the lead. One lap later, Martin Truex, Jr. took it away from Logano with help from Earnhardt, Jr. Truex, Jr. continued to lead until lap 18, when Montoya passed him for it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOne lap later, Busch, upon returned after the huge wreck on lap 6, took the lead from Montoya and led a lap before being passed by Hamlin. On lap 22, Jeff Burton took the lead and led for a lap before being passed by Hamlin. Burton repassed him for the lead on lap 24. On lap 27, Busch reclaimed the lead when Burton was shuffled out of line. As this took place, Burton reported having no voltage in his car. One lap later, the second caution was thrown for debris on the track. Burton was penalized for pitting early to replace his car battery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn the lap 34 restart, Kyle Busch claimed the lead. He led for the next seven laps. On lap 38, Truex, Jr. briefly took the lead on the back straightaway before Busch repassed him with a shove from Michael Waltrip. In the middle of the next lap, Truex, Jr. passed Ky. Busch, but lost the lead coming into the tri-oval. On lap 40, Ky. Busch, assisted by David Ragan, was travelling alongside Jimmie Johnson, who was being pushed by David Stremme. On lap 41, Ky. Busch, pushed by Speed, raced side-by-side with Johnson, who was being pushed by Earnhardt, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 42, the third caution flag waved when Michael Waltrip cut down in front of Marcos Ambrose in the tri-oval and spun out. Waltrip saved his car and barely avoided hitting the inside retaining wall. The free pass went to Allmendinger, 22 laps down after being involved in the first crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nDuring the pit stops, Scott Speed stayed out for a lap to claim the lead from Kyle Busch, but returned it to him when he pitted on lap 45. The race restarted on lap 46 with Busch leading. Busch led for two laps before being passed by Earnhardt, Jr. on lap 48. Earnhardt, Jr. and Martin Truex, Jr. had such a run that they were able to get a few seconds ahead of the main pack. Eanrhardt, Jr. led until he was passed by Matt Kenseth on the inside on lap 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nKenseth led for three laps before Earnhardt, Jr. repassed him. Earnhardt, Jr. continued to lead for the next seven laps. On lap 60, the fourth caution waved when Kurt Busch spun out in the tri-oval after being touched in the left-rear by David Stremme. his spin happened in exactly the same spot that Waltrip's pin happened in to bring out the previous caution. He also saved his car. During this caution, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, and Kasey Kahne all returned to the track multiple laps down after repairs from the big crash. Under the caution, Jeff Burton received the free pass. Waltrip led for a lap during the caution before pitting and giving the lead to Martin Truex, Jr. At the restart on lap 64, Truex, Jr. led the field to the green flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nThe Top 4 drivers \u2014 Truex, Jr.; Sadler; Earnhardt, Jr.; and Kyle Busch \u2014were able to get a strong start and pull away from the lead pack. Truex, Jr. led until he was passed on the inside by Hamlin on lap 75. Two laps later, Montoya took the lead. He led for one lap before being passed by Earnhardt, Jr., who had a shove from David Stremme. Two laps later, Jimmie Johnson claimed the lead with a shove from Earnhardt, Jr. Johnson led for one lap before being passed by Hamlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 82, Earnhardt, Jr. and his JR Motorsports driver Brad Keselowski got together on the back straightaway and went below the yellow line. Though Earnhardt, Jr. was able to blend back into the field, Keselowski ended up losing the draft and fell all the way to the back of the lead pack. On lap 83, Sam Hornish, Jr. took the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nTwo laps later, debris on the back straightaway brought out the fifth caution of the day. Most of the drivers pitted under the caution, while Jeff Burton received the free pass. Joe Nemechek led one lap before pitting, while Paul Menard stayed out and led the field to the restart on lap 88. Menard was passed one lap later by Denny Hamlin, who had help from Joey Logano. Hamlin led for two laps before Jimmie Johnson passed him on lap 92. Johnson led for a lap before Hamlin repassed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 100, the field began to run side by side, led by Hamlin on the outside as Casey Mears led a line on the inside. On Lap 111, Earnhardt, Jr. and a lap-down Jeff Burton hooked up and got such a run they were able to get a five-second lead over the main pack for a few laps. Burton was attempting to get back on the lead lap the hard way. On lap 112, Menard pitted, followed a lap later by Reed Sorenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 114, Earnhardt, Jr.'s runaway lead vanished as Martin Truex, Jr. claimed the lead, and Earnhardt, Jr. fell back to 11th place. Truex, Jr. led until lap 116, when he was passed by Joey Logano, who was repassed by Truex, Jr. a lap later. On lap 119, Burton got back on the tail end of the lead lap. On lap 121, Brian Vickers passed Truex, Jr. for the lead. Vickers led two laps before Truex, Jr. repassed him with a push from Kyle Busch. One lap later, the sixth caution came out for debris. On lap 125, under caution, Carl Edwards claimed the lead as the leaders pitted. Jeremy Mayfield also stayed out. Both Edwards and Mayfield pitted one lap later and gave the lead to Kyle Busch, who had won the race off pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nKyle Busch led the field to the green flag on lap 127. The field shuffled around during the next seven laps, with Busch and Hamlin swapping the lead several times in the middle of the track on lap 132. On lap 134, Elliott Sadler claimed the lead with help from Brad Keselowski. Sadler led for three laps before Kurt Busch passed him with help from Earnhardt, Jr. On lap 140, Hamlin pushed David Reutimann to the lead, but went around Reutimann at the finish line to lead the lap. One lap later, Casey Mears claimed the lead. He led until lap 143 when Jeff Burton passed him with assistance from Earnhardt, Jr., who took the lead from Burton on the next lap on the middle groove. Kurt Busch passed Earnhardt, Jr. on lap 145, and led one lap before Earnhardt, Jr. repassed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nOn lap 146, the seventh caution came out for debris. Under the yellow flag, Jeremy Mayfield stayed out to collect five bonus points for leading a lap as most of the drivers took their final pit stops of the day. Kurt Busch led the field to the green flag on lap 150. He led for four laps before his brother passed him with help from Earnhardt, Jr. Busch led for fifteen laps before Matt Kenseth passed him on lap 169. Kenseth led for a lap before Busch repassed him. On lap 171, the eighth caution came out when Busch and Truex crashed in turn 3. It began when Jeff Burton made contact with Busch's rear bumper, causing him to wobble, and eventually spin out after contact from Montoya, while behind them, Truex got turned loose by Ragan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nMatt Kenseth claimed the lead and led the field to the green flag on lap 175. One lap later, Hamlin got loose but saved his car, and teamed up with Ryan Newman to make a run past the leaders, allowing Newman to take the lead from Kenseth two laps later. On lap 180, the ninth caution flag was waved for a large crash on the back straightaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nIt started when Montoya, running in the middle of the lead pack, was touched by Hamlin, causing Montoya to spin into Bobby Labonte and collected seven more cars, including Martin Truex, Jr., Robby Gordon, David Stremme, Jeremy Mayfield, Jimmie Johnson, Michael Waltrip, and Sam Hornish, Jr.. Gordon took the worst of it, as his car was sent head on into inside wall, stoving in the entire front portion of his car. Newman continued to lead at the restart on lap 184, drafting with Earnhardt, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nCarl Edwards passed Newman for the lead to take the white flag on lap 187, pushed by Brad Keselowski. Edwards and Keselowski were ahead of Newman, who was being pushed by Earnhardt, Jr. heading down the back straightaway. Coming into the tri-oval, Edwards attempted to block Keselowski, and Keselowski made contact with Edwards' left rear quarter panel. Edwards spun backwards and went airborne. Earnhardt, Jr. slipped past Edwards on the inside, and Edwards' airborne car was struck head-on by Newman. This second hit propelled Edwards higher and sent him flying straight into the catch fence. Eight fans were injured by flying debris; the most serious one being a woman whose jaw was broken, and was airlifted to a nearby hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nAs Keselowski crossed the finish line and won the race with Earnhardt, Jr. right behind him, Edwards landed hard on his wheels and screeched to a halt in the middle of the track 100 feet (1,200\u00a0in) away from the finish line. No other cars except Newman had been in the vicinity of Edwards' car, and all of the cars behind him made it past without incident, although Greg Biffle came very close to hitting Edwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Race recap\nAfter a few moments, Edwards climbed out of his car and in a tribute to the 2006 comedy racing film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, he jogged to the finish line to a standing ovation from the crowd, which Mike Joy described as having \"shades of Ricky Bobby\". When Edwards was interviewed on Larry King Live, he responded, \"I'm kind of a Will Ferrell fan. He did that at the end of Talladega Nights.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nIn the wake of the crash, the catch fence was raised by 10 feet and was strengthened for the fall race in order to prevent such an incident from occurring again. In addition, NASCAR implemented a rule for the fall race at Talladega in which drivers were not allowed to bump draft in the corners as an attempt to reduce multicar crashes that often took place at that part of the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nFinally, in 2010, the wing on the Car of Tomorrow was replaced by a spoiler due to its role in Edwards' crash, as well as other wrecks in which the wing provided enough aerodynamic lift to render the roof flaps useless. NASCAR on Fox analyst Darrell Waltrip compared Edwards' crash to a one in 1987, when Bobby Allison blew a tire and went into the catchfence near the start/finish line, ripping out several feet of it and injuring several fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nThat crash made NASCAR mandate restrictor plates at Daytona and Talladega to slow down the cars from such extremely high speeds. Although Edwards quickly congratulated Keselowski for the win, the two drivers began a rivalry that heated up almost every year. After a few incidents in the NNS with Keselowski in 2009 they were given a warning by NASCAR on their bitter feelings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nAlmost a year later, in the closing laps of the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta, Edwards (a few laps down after an accident with him early in the race) intentionally rushed for Keselowski's bumper and turned him. This was a wreck that resembled what Keselowski did to Edwards at Talladega the previous year. Keselowski climbed out mostly unscathed, and with an injured leg, he limped down the track to the ambulance. Not long after the crash when reviewing radio quotes, NASCAR black-flagged Edwards for the finish after finding out that Edwards did intentionally turn Keselowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nLater that year, Edwards was leading a Nationwide Series race at Gateway Raceway when Keselowski, who said during a red-flag period that he had the fastest car, bumped him in turn 1 of the final lap to take the lead. In return, Edwards spun Keselowski into the pack in turn 4 of the final lap, causing in a multiple car collision and won the race. Keselowski was rammed hard by charging cars and spun in circles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nKeselowski climbed out with minor injuries and a grimace on his face and in victory lane, Edwards confessed publicly that the crash was not an accident. When interviewed, Keselowski furiously said, \"I found a way to beat him but he just wrecked me ... it is not cool when I wreck on the straightaway going over 180 miles per hour. I am sure Edwards will think about how great he is or how cool he is in his own little mind but that is not reality.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201326-0020-0003", "contents": "2009 Aaron's 499, Aftermath of the last lap crash\nThat week, Edwards and Keselowski met with NASCAR, who penalized both drivers' points for the Nationwide Series championship standings, fined them both $25,000, and requested them to calm down the rivalry or face indefinite suspension from the sport. Their rivalry did not end until the 2012 Nationwide race at Watkins Glen, where the two rivals finished 1-2 and confirmed it in both their interviews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201327-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis\nThe 2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Blumenau, Brazil between 11 and 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201327-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201327-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis, Champions, Men's doubles\nMarcelo Demoliner /  Rodrigo Guidolin def. Rogerio Dutra da Silva /  J\u00falio Silva, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, [13\u201311]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201328-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis \u2013 Doubles\nAdri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda and Leonardo Mayer were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate this year. Marcelo Demoliner and Rodrigo Guidolin won in the final 7\u20135, 4\u20136, [13\u201311], against Rogerio Dutra da Silva and J\u00falio Silva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201329-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto Santa Catarina De Tenis \u2013 Singles\nMarcelo Demoliner became the first champion of this tournament. He defeated Rogerio Dutra da Silva in the final (6\u20131, 6\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201330-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia\nThe 2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bras\u00edlia, Brazil between 10 and 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201330-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201330-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia, Champions, Doubles\nMarcelo Demoliner /  Rodrigo Guidolin def. Ricardo Mello /  Caio Zampieri, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201331-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Demoliner and Rodrigo Guidolin defeated 6\u20134, 6\u20132 their compatriots Ricardo Mello and Caio Zampieri in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201332-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aberto de Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Singles\nRicardo Mello won in the final 7\u20136(2), 6\u20134, against Juan Ignacio Chela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201333-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan\nThe 2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Canc\u00fan, Mexico between 16 and 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201333-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201333-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan, Champions, Doubles\nAndre Begemann /  Leonardo Tavares def. Greg Ouellette /  Adil Shamasdin, 6\u20131, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201334-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete this year. Andre Begemann and Leonardo Tavares won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20138], against Greg Ouellette and Adil Shamasdin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201335-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Casablanca Canc\u00fan \u2013 Singles\nGrega \u017demlja, who was the defending champion, reached the final, where he lost to Nicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa 3\u20136, 5\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201336-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca\nThe 2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mexico City, Mexico between 13 and 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201336-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201336-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca, Champions, Men's doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana def. V\u00edctor Estrella /  Jo\u00e3o Souza, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201337-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca \u2013 Doubles\nCarsten Ball and Robert Smeets were the defenders of championship title, but they chose not to defend their 2009 win. Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana defeated V\u00edctor Estrella and Jo\u00e3o Souza (6\u20133, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201338-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Internacional Varonil Club Casablanca \u2013 Singles\nDawid Olejniczak was the defending champion, but lost to Im Kyu-tae in quarterfinals. The qualifier Dick Norman won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20137(6), 7\u20135, against Marcel Felder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201339-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel\nThe 2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 16th edition of the men's tournament (9th for the women) of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, and was part of the 500 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and was in the International category of tournaments on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Fairmont Acapulco Princess in Acapulco, Mexico, from February 23 through February 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201339-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel\nThe men's singles draw included David Nalbandian, the 2008 runner-up in this event and winner in Sydney earlier this year; Ga\u00ebl Monfils, a semifinalist in Doha and Rotterdam earlier this year; Nicol\u00e1s Almagro, the defending champion; Tommy Robredo, a semifinalist in Vi\u00f1a del Mar and winner of Costa do Sauipe and Buenos Aires earlier this year; Carlos Moy\u00e1, a two-time champion of this event; Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s; Jos\u00e9 Acasuso, Vi\u00f1a del Mar runner-up and Costa do Sauipe semifinalist earlier this year; and Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201339-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel\nThe women's singles draw included two top 20 players: Dubai champion Venus Williams and Flavia Pennetta, who has reached the final of this event the last five years and won it twice. Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro, 2004 champion Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1, Bogot\u00e1 runner-up Gisela Dulko, Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1, Tathiana Garbin, and Bogot\u00e1 champion Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez were also in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201339-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Finals, Men's doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k defeated   \u0141ukasz Kubot /  Oliver Marach, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201339-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Finals, Women's doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Lourdes Dom\u00ednguez Lino /  Arantxa Parra Santonja, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201340-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel \u2013 Men's Doubles\nOliver Marach and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k were the defending champions, but did not compete together that year. Marach partnered with \u0141ukasz Kubot, but lost in the final to Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Merti\u0148\u00e1k. Merti\u0148\u00e1k partnered with \u010cerm\u00e1k and won the final 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201341-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel \u2013 Men's Singles\nNicol\u00e1s Almagro was the defending champion, and defeated Ga\u00ebl Monfils 6\u20134, 6\u20134, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201342-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel \u2013 Women's Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez were the defending champions, and in the final, defeated Lourdes Dom\u00ednguez Lino and Arantxa Parra Santonja, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201343-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abierto Mexicano Telcel \u2013 Women's Singles\nFlavia Pennetta was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Venus Williams, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Abkhazia on 12 December 2009, the fourth such elections since the post of President of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia was created in 1994. The result was a victory for incumbent president Sergei Bagapsh, who received 63% of the vote, winning a second term in office. Bagapsh competed against four opposition candidates: former Vice President and Prime Minister Raul Khajimba, who came second behind Bagapsh in the 2004 Presidential election, and newcomers Beslan Butba, Zaur Ardzinba and Vitali Bganba. Khajimba had stated that he, Ardzinba and Butba would support each other should one of them reach the second round of the election. Bagapsh was inaugurated on 12 February 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Candidates, Requirements and the procedure for registration\nAccording to the Law on the Election of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, candidates for the Presidency have to:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 97], "content_span": [98, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Candidates, Requirements and the procedure for registration\nProspective candidates had to be nominated between 13 October and 2 November 2009. This could be done either by an interest group, which had to present a list of signatures, or by a political party registered with the Central Election Commission. The only parties registered in this way were United Abkhazia, the Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia, the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia and the People's Party. After the nomination period ended on 2 November, the Central Election Commission verified the signature lists and whether candidates satisfied the set requirements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 97], "content_span": [98, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Candidates, Requirements and the procedure for registration\nTo test the nominees' proficiency in Abkhaz, it established a language commission consisting of Aleksei Kaslandzia, Batal Khagush, Eva Tania, Adgur Skinkuba and Fatima Kvarchelia. Registration of the candidates had to be completed before 12 November and two days after their registration the Central Election Commission had to publish the list of nominees whose candidacy had been approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 97], "content_span": [98, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Candidates, Candidates\nFive people were nominated for the presidency. On 5 November they successfully passed the Abkhaz language examination. Bagapsh and Khajimba were exempted from it as they had already passed a similar examination during the 2004 Presidential election, but they both volunteered to undergo it anyway. On 6 November, all five nominees were officially registered as candidates, and they received their certificates on 9 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Bagapsh, Khajimba, the 2004 election and the power-sharing agreement\nSergei Bagapsh and Raul Khajimba already competed for the presidency in the 2004 Presidential election. That election was narrowly won by Bagapsh, but this was disputed by Khajimba and his supporters. To end the severe crisis that followed Bagapsh and Khajimba reached an agreement under which Bagapsh became President and Khajimba Vice President. The arrangement was uneasy: Khajimba's Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia remained in opposition and Khajimba on various occasions supported the opposition's criticism of government policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 128], "content_span": [129, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Bagapsh, Khajimba, the 2004 election and the power-sharing agreement\nMost recently, on 20 May 2009, the Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia, the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia and several other opposition groupings held a press conference in which they sharply criticised the governments foreign policy. On 28 May Khajimba announced that he agreed with the criticism and that he had filed for resignation. According to some observers Khajimba was partly motivated in his decision by the need to disassociate himself from the current authorities in the run-up to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 128], "content_span": [129, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Bagapsh, Khajimba, the 2004 election and the power-sharing agreement\nBagapsh first addressed the matter of his candidacy when during a press conference in Moscow on 18 April 2009 he announced that he would probably make use of his constitutional right to run for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 128], "content_span": [129, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Beslan Butba\nBeslan Butba is a prominent businessman and a former member of the People's Assembly. When he failed to retain his seat in the 2007 elections, he founded the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia and the private TV station Abaza TV. On 15 May 2009 Butba first announced that he planned to compete in the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Attempts by Khajimba to form alliances with Butba and Ardzinba\nIn the run-up to the election, various opposition politicians and organisation often jointly expressed their criticism of the government. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that during the summer of 2009 Khajimba and Butba had entered negotiations over forming an alliance, but fell out following the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Abkhazia. Putin had met with Khajimba, but not with Butba, and Butba considered this an unfriendly act on the part of Khajimba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 122], "content_span": [123, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Attempts by Khajimba to form alliances with Butba and Ardzinba\nDuring the nomination period for candidates, Khajimba then tried to form a team with Ardzinba. The alliance would have combined Ardzinba's backing by part of the business community and his financial resources with Khajimba's elector popularity. The pair said they would run together during two meetings with voters, and the idea was that they would receive the joint nomination by the Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia. According to the Kommersant, in the end the pair could not agree on what positions they would get.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 122], "content_span": [123, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Attempts by Khajimba to form alliances with Butba and Ardzinba\nKhajimba wanted the Presidency, and offered Ardzinba to become Prime Minister, but this was not acceptable to the latter. The congress of the Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia planned on 29 October was called off, and Ardzinba was instead nominated by an initiative group that day. Khajimba had already been nominated by an initiative group on 19 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 122], "content_span": [123, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Attempts by Khajimba to form alliances with Butba and Ardzinba\nNevertheless, on 18 November Khajimba and Ardzinba announced that they would continue to coordinate their campaigns, and that they had appointed chairman of Aruaa Vadim Smyr to lead this coordination. On 20 November, Khajimba stated that he and Ardzinba had different visions on coming to power, but that he did not consider Ardzinba his opponent, and that in the case of a second round, he, Ardzinba and Butba would support each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 122], "content_span": [123, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Other political actors, Sergei Shamba\nMinister for Foreign Affairs Sergei Shamba was another potential presidential candidate. Shamba had participated and come third in the 2004 election. Even though he had originally been brought into the cabinet by Khajimba over Bagapsh' preferred candidate he rejected the opposition criticism of Abkhazia's foreign policy that led Khajimba to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 97], "content_span": [98, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Other political actors, Stanislav Lakoba\nIn the 2004 election, Bagapsh had run with Stanislav Lakoba as Vice Presidential candidate. The power-sharing deal between Bagapsh and Khajimba to end the post-election crisis meant that Lakoba could no longer become Vice President. Instead, after the new election on 12 January 2005, Lakoba was appointed Secretary of the Security Council on 17 February. When Khajimba resigned as Vice President on 28 May 2009 he declared that within the government he had received most support by Lakoba. On 18 August Lakoba himself handed his resignation over the Abkhazian citizenship crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 100], "content_span": [101, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Political-background, Other political actors, Stanislav Lakoba\nIn an interview with Caucasian Knot on 3 September Lakoba stated that he would not participate in the December 2009 presidential election and he called absurd the notion that he would join the opposition. Nevertheless, in an interview with the newspaper Nuzhnaya on 17 November, Lakoba stated that as a private citizen he supported Khajimba's candidacy and he praised his work in the Security Council. On 4 December Lakoba had a statement read out on Abkhazian television in which he stressed that this was only his private opinion and that it should not be used by any of the election campaigns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 100], "content_span": [101, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign\nThe election campaign official began when the candidates received their registration certificates on 9 November. Since Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab was a candidate for the Vice Presidency, he was suspended from his post on 11 November as required by law, and his tasks were taken over by First Vice Premier Leonid Lakerbaia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign\nThe election campaign was monitored as in previous years by the League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\". On 26 October, it released its first report and on 5 November it gave a press conference detailing its findings. The League released a second report on 1 December and a third report on 12 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign\nThe Central Election Commission was headed by Batal Tabagua, first appointed by Bagapsh's predecessor Vladislav Ardzinba during the crisis following the 2004 election. In its second report, the League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\", generally praised the Central Election Commission, but called upon it to be more responsive to the various complaints submitted to it, and it expressed regret that the Commission had not set up its own information service and website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Raul Khajimba\nOn 20 November Khajimba gave a press conference in which he talked about some of his political positions. He spoke out in favour of free press and of equal access to information sources for all journalists. He promised that if he won the election he would not prosecute journalists for their view of events. Khajimba also promised to continue to fight corruption by providing decent wages and the certainty of punishment in the event of corruption. He claimed that while still in government, he had brought to light the corruption in the Sukhumi administration that cost Mayor Astamur Adleiba and several others their position, but that similar corruption in other cities had been buried by the prosecutor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Raul Khajimba\nThis criticism was strongly rejected by the prosecutor's office on 30 November. It claimed that the corruption in the Sukhumi administration could only be investigated properly once Khajimba's allies O.L. Berulava and T.V. Parulua had been take of the case, and that corruption in other cities had not been ignored since misdealings in the Ochamchira district administration had also been dealt with. It furthermore criticized possibly corrupt affairs during Khajimba's own time as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Raul Khajimba\nKhajimba also spoke out in favour of reducing the bureaucracy by removing parallel structures in government. Concretely, he proposed removing the legal and economic departments of the Presidential administration in light of the existence of the Justice and Economy Ministries, and the cutting of the position of Vice President. He also criticised the recruitment of state officials on the basis of their family ties. Khajimba complained that the judiciary was not independent and he proposed that judges should be appointed by the People's Assembly and not by the President. According to the press agency Apsnypress, judges are actually already elected by Parliament, albeit upon nomination by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Raul Khajimba\nOn 11 December Khajimba gave a press conference with the Association of Media Workers. He advocated the strengthening of relations with Russia while at the same time preserving the identity of Abkhazia. Regarding the inhabitants of the Gali District, Khajimba denied that he was against granting them Abkhazian citizenship and passports but argued that this should take place according to laws reflecting the will of the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Sergei Bagapsh\nDuring a visit to a school in Sukhumi on 23 November, Bagapsh stated that education and health were his priorities, that wages would probably be raised in these areas in the coming year, that it was impossible to solve all problems simultaneously and that opposition promises of raising wages to 20,000 rubles were blatant lies. His Vice Presidential candidate Ankvab talked about the achievements of the current government, claiming that 10,622 people had received a total of 67\u00a0million rubles in assistance. He also praised the fact that patients had been sent to Russian medical institutions to receive free treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Sergei Bagapsh\nIn an interview with the newspaper Respublika Abkhaziya Vice Premier Leonid Lakerbaia boasted of the sixfold increase of pensions between 2004 and 2009, the increase of pension categories from 16 to 29, the post-war high in fertility and other successes in social policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Zaur Ardzinba\nOn 24 November Ardzinba gave a press conference in which he stated that if he were elected President, he would do everything to bring together the fragmented people of Abkhazia and to remove the divide between 'us' and 'them'. He also declared that he would make use of qualified people in the government administration, from all political camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Political programmes, Zaur Ardzinba\nOn 11 December, Ardzinba declared that while the power-sharing agreement that resolved the 2004 post-election crisis had meant to bring an end to the division in the Abkhazian society, it had in fact failed to do so, and that he meant to correct that. Ardzinba also spoke out against the size of the bureaucracy, lamenting the duplication of functions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Media use, TV broadcasts\nEach candidate received four hours of free air time on national television in the four weeks running up to election day. During the first week (from 16 to 20 November) candidates had to either address voters live and answer questions from voters or send in a pre-recorded DVD. In the second week the candidates, assisted by no more than five associates, would answer questions of voters present in the studio, or send in a pre-recorded DVD. In the third week the Vice-Presidential candidate had to answer questions from voters. In the last week the Presidential candidate again had to address voters live and answer questions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Media use, TV broadcasts\nApart from these broadcasts, each candidate could also buy one commercial not longer than three minutes, which would be broadcast on national television three times daily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Media use, TV broadcasts\nThe private channel Abaza TV, owned by Beslan Butba, also offered equal amounts of airtime to all candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Media use, TV broadcasts\nThe League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\" criticised both the State Radio and TV and Abaza TV for unequal coverage of the election. It noted that the State TV had shown in detail meetings of United Abkhazia, the party of incumbent President Bagapsh, and that Abaza TV had broadcast directly from the Congress of the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia, the party of its owner Beslan Butba. Both broadcasts had featured clear agitation in support of the parties' candidates and against the other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Media use, Newspapers\nMost newspapers of Abkhazia campaigned for one of the candidates, with Edinoy Abkhazii, Amtsakhara and Respublika Abkhaziya on the side of incumbent President Bagapsh, and Ekho Abkhazii, Forum, Novy Den and Nuzhnaya on the side of the opposition. The League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\" condemned the unbalanced and incomplete reporting in both pro-government and pro-opposition papers. It particularly condemned the fact that Butba had replaced all the journalists of his newspaper Ekho Abkhazii by political activists. It also criticised an article by Daur Achugba in Forum for its gross unsubstantiated accusations against the government and President Bagapsh in particular, and its statements directed against a national minority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Public contract\nWith input from all involved parties, the Public Chamber drafted a ten-point social contract to regulate election conduct, which it opened up for signing from 13 till 18 November. On the first day, head of the Public Chamber Natela Akaba expressed her puzzlement that it had not yet been signed by any of the candidates or the heads of the election campaigns. On 18 November, Khajimba and Ardinba stated that they would sign the social contract if and only if Bagapsh were to sign it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Public contract\nIn its second report on 1 December, the League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\" acknowledged that there had been some flaws in the way the Public Contract had been drafted, but it nevertheless criticised President Bagapsh for refusing to sign it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of administrative resources\nGovernment officials were by law forbidden to participate in the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 101], "content_span": [102, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of administrative resources\nIn its first report, the League \"For Fair Elections\" admonished certain government officials for calling on voters to vote for President Bagapsh. In its second report, the League specifically singled out the Minister of Education and the Mayor of Sukhumi for participating in Bagapsh's campaign. It furthermore judged that while the General Prosecutor had a right to correct incorrect accusations by opposition candidates, he had gone beyond that and his statements too could be considered campaigning for Bagapsh. The league criticised the opposition for the fact that members of the People's Assembly had appeared in the campaigns of Khajimba and Ardzinba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 101], "content_span": [102, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of administrative resources\nThe League also condemned the call of some leaders of the Armenian community on all Armenians to vote for President Bagapsh, and a more covert but similar call for support for Bagapsh by Vice Premier Alexander Stranichkin during a conference of the Union of Russian Nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 101], "content_span": [102, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of administrative resources\nOn 20 November, Khajimba complained to the Central Election Commission that Bagapsh was trying to influence the election by ordering state-employees to make copies of their passports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 101], "content_span": [102, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of administrative resources\nOn 25 November the Central Election Commission responded to Khajimba's complaint. It stated that it had not received any concrete examples by Khajimba, but that it had nevertheless investigated the copying of passports in the Sukhumi City Hospital, which had been mentioned by Khajimba in his press conference on 20 November. According to the Central Election Commission, passports had been copied in the context of a human resource program of the health ministry initiated in 2008 involving all medical personnel in Abkhazia, and the matter was thus unrelated to the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 101], "content_span": [102, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of foreign nationals in campaigns\nAbkhazian election law forbade foreign nationals from taking part in the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 107], "content_span": [108, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of foreign nationals in campaigns\nOn 20 November, Khajimba complained to the Central Election Commission that in one of Bagapsh's election videos on TV, foreign nationals had campaigned for him. According to the press agency Apsnypress, the video had indeed featured several Russian nationals speaking approvingly of Bagapsh, although they did not explicitly recommend voting for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 107], "content_span": [108, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Use of foreign nationals in campaigns\nIn its second report, the League \"For Fair Elections\" also criticised the fact that the first President of Adygea Aslan Dzharimov had participated in Bagapsh's campaign. It also considered Beslan Butba's employment of Russian spin doctors to be in breach of the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 107], "content_span": [108, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Other violations\nIn its press conference on 5 November the League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\" condemned United Abkhazia and the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia for having started campaigning before the official start of the election campaign when the candidates were registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Other violations\nOpposition candidates complained that on 23 November, their election posters were torn in Gagra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Unlawful campaigning, Other violations\nIn its second report, the League condemned the campaigns of Ardzinba and Butba for using recordings of ordinary citizens without their consent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Abkhazian citizenship dispute\nThe 2009 presidential election was the first in which voters could only use their Abkhazian passport to identify themselves. This disenfranchised mostly the Georgian part of Abkhazian society, since the majority of Georgians does not have Abkhazian citizenship. In the run-up to the election, President Bagapsh attempted to extend the number of Georgians eligible for Abkhazian citizenship, but had to abandon these plans under opposition protests, and the government decided to suspend until after the election the issuing of new passports to residents of the Gali District, where most Georgians live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Abkhazian citizenship dispute\nThis last decision was sharply and repeatedly criticised by the League \"For Fair Elections\" as violating the Constitution of Abkhazia. It strongly recommended that the sides should come to agree that the suspension be lifted before the election, and it criticised the opposition for its unwillingness to do so. The League also considered the general ambiguous effects of making the Abkhazian passport the sole document granting participation in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Abkhazian citizenship dispute\nIt praised the increased overall transparency but lamented the electoral exclusion of most inhabitants of the Gali District, pointing out the fact that only 3500 inhabitants of the Gali District would be able to participate in the election, whereas 25,000, 12,000 and 15,000 inhabitants of the Gali District had voted in the elections of 1999, 2005 and 2007. The League warned that the legitimacy of the election would be judged on the basis of the participation of ethnic minorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Abkhazian citizenship dispute\nOn 24 November, Ardzinba, Khajimba and Butba complained to Minister of Internal Affairs Otar Khetsia that the State Passport Service had refused to provide them with the number of Abkhazian passport holders, divided out by district and nationality, the number of passport holders abroad and the number of Abkhazian citizens under the age of 18. Specifically, the trio requested anonymised passport data for the Gali District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nOn 19 November, in Gagra the car of Vitali Azhiba burned down, head of the regional branch of Beslan Butba's Party of the Economical Development of Abkhazia. On 20 November a building burned down in the village of Aradu in the Ochamchira District, said by Butba's campaign to be the district office of the agro-industrial complex 'Aradu', owned by Butba. Butba condemned the events on 21 November as \"planned political provocations, aimed at destabilising the situation in Abkhazia and intidating society\". They were labeled 'terrorist attacks' by Aruaa, \"aimed at intimidating voters and destabilising the country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nIt lamented \"the inability of authorities to ensure the safety of citizens and the rule of law in such a challenging period for our nation and state\" and it warned that should the government not in the course of the following days take decisive steps towards resolving the crimes, Aruaa would consider it partly to blame for the resulting civil unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nMinister of the Interior Otar Khetsia stated on 21 November that criminal cases had been opened by law enforcement agencies in Gagra and Aradu. He noted that Azhiba's car had stood along the road at a far distance from his home, and while he confirmed that fire had broken out, he cautioned that it was up to the investigation to establish whether the car had exploded or been set fire to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nKhetsia also confirmed that a warehouse for kiwifruit had burned down in Aradu, and that everything would be done to find the perpetrators, but he expressed his surprise at the fact that reporters from Abaza TV (owned by Butba) had been at the crime scene before officers from the Ochamchira police department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nThe prosecutor's office declared on 30 November that the incidents were under investigation, and it condemned accusations of government involvement, warning that it would prosecute any attempts to destabilise the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Fire incidents involving Beslan Butba's campaign\nIn its second report, the League of Voters \"For Fair Elections\" called alarming the burning incidents and it called for an impartial, thorough and speedy investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 96], "content_span": [97, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Possible election fraud\nSome of the opposition candidates have repeatedly speculated that the government might try to rig the election. On 20 November, Khajimba requested to know the number of eligible voters abroad. and also on 20 November, Zaur Ardzinba requested of the Central Election Commission that it publish the names of the members of the central, district and divisional election commissions, including those abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Possible election fraud\nOn 11 December Khajimba gave a press conference with the Association of Media Workers. He expressed his conviction that all opposition candidates would conduct their activities within the law, but he accused the government of planning fraud and of using its administrative resources to support the campaign of Bagapsh. He claimed that if he had used the administrative at his position when he was Prime Minister, he would have won the 2004 election. He also denied that he had received any Russian support during that election, and praised the fact the Russian government was not supporting any candidate now. He did not exclude the possibility that the opposition would start street protests should the government manipulate the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Possible election fraud\nLikewise, Ardzinba said on 11 December that while the 2004 election had been 'stolen', the opposition would not allow that to happen this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Possible election fraud\nConversely, in its second report the League of Voters \"For Free Elections\" condemned the campaign of Butba for soliciting voters to sign a 'contract' in which they committed themselves to voting for Butba during the election. The League also reported receiving unconfirmed reports of vote buying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Campaign, Possible election fraud\nOn 3 December Head of the Central Election Commission Batal Tabagua also stated that although no official complaints had been made, reports had come in concerning the bribing of voters. He warned that if this turned out to be true, the candidate in question would be excluded from the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nOn 7 October 2009, the date of the election was set by the People's Assembly to be 12 December. The voting was structured through the 35 electoral districts of Abkhazia, comprising a total of 174 polling stations. Two of these were stationed in Russia \u2013 in Moscow and Cherkessk \u2013 they were officially part of electoral district no. 5 in Sukhumi. Their election commissions were appointed by Abkhazian Ambassador to Russia Igor Akhba. Ten days before election day, on 2 December, lists of voters were distributed. On 10 and 11 December, the ballot papers were handed out to the election commissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nOn Election Day, the voting stations were open from 08:00 until 20:00. The Abkhazian passport was the only document voters could use to identify themselves. To prevent multiple voting, the passports of voters were stamped on page 17. On 7 December, there were 146,121 holders of an Abkhazian passport, of which 9910 were under the age of 18 and thus ineligible to vote, and 5759 lived outside Abkhazia. The total number of eligible voters was estimated at 127,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nRaul Khajimba was the first of the candidates to vote, at 9:00, followed by Sergei Bagapsh at 9:30. Beslan Butba intended to vote at 10:00 but had to come back late due to the huge crowd at the polling station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nAt 12:00, the turn-out was 21%, at 15:00 it was 40.77%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nThe results of the election are to be published no later than three days after the election, that is, 15 December. If a second round is necessary, it is to be held no later than two weeks after the first round, that is, before 26 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Conduct\nOn 1 December the Public Chamber of Russia announced that it would send a delegation to Abkhazia from 11 to 13 December to monitor the election. On 8 December it was announced that also the State Duma and various Russian NGOs would send delegations during that period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Results\nAccording to the final results, Bagapsh won in the first round with over 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, International reactions\nGeorgia \u2013 The election was condemned as illegal on 20 November by the Central Election Commission of Georgia, which considers Abkhazia to be part of its territory. On 11 December the spokesperson of Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili called the election an immoral Kremlin-staged comedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, International reactions\nRussia \u2013 Two polling stations were opened in Russia for local Abkhazian citizens to vote in the elections. After the election results were announced, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Bagapsh for his victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, International reactions\nUnited States \u2013 The Department of State called the elections illegitimate and illegal, and reiterated its support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201344-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Abkhazian presidential election, Inauguration and formation of a new government\nPresident Bagapsh announced on 13 December that his reinauguration would take place on 12 February 2010, and that it would be modest, quick and without pomp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (officially the 2009 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the seventeenth and final Formula One motor race of the 2009 Formula One season. It took place on 1 November 2009 at the 3.45-mile Hermann Tilke-designed Yas Marina Circuit. It was the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and also the first ever day-night Grand Prix (starting at 17:00, with sunset at 17:43 on raceday). The race was won by Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull, with polesitter Lewis Hamilton (driving for McLaren) having retired due to a brake failure. This would be the last Formula One race for Kazuki Nakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella and the Brawn GP, BMW Sauber and Toyota teams (respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJenson Button had secured the title of World Champion in Brazil, but only two points separated the second-placed and third-placed Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello. Brawn GP was declared Constructors' Champion in Brazil with Red Bull second, but third position overall was still undecided between McLaren and Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThis would be the last race in Formula One for Nico Rosberg at Williams and for Robert Kubica (replacing Alonso at Renault in 2010) at BMW Sauber. This would be the last race for Nick Heidfeld until the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Background\nAs in Brazil, Kamui Kobayashi continued to race for Toyota as Timo Glock was ruled out after he was injured in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix during qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nIn keeping with FIA regulations that state the practice and qualifying sessions must be run under the same conditions as the race, the practice sessions were run in the late afternoon and early evening so as to simulate the transition between day and night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe sessions were dominated by the McLaren team, with Lewis Hamilton spending most of his time on or near the very top of the timing sheets. He set the early standard in the first session, producing a fastest lap of 1:43.939. Teammate Heikki Kovalainen struggled initially, but eventually set the fastest time of the second session \u2013 1:41.307, two-tenths of a second faster than teammate Hamilton. \u2013 and retained his pace in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nAt Ferrari, both Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Giancarlo Fisichella struggled, spending most of the weekend at the bottom of the timing sheets, though a pair of last-minute one-lap charges by R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen saved the team from total embarrassment. Fisichella was less than impressed with Yas Marina's underground pit exit, claiming it was both very difficult and dangerous, despite it remaining incident-free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nRobert Kubica stopped on the circuit halfway through the second practice session with a suspected engine failure. The Pole, down to the last of his eight racing engines, was running with a used engine at the time, thus preventing the need for him to take a grid penalty. Nick Heidfeld spent most of the sessions at the tail end \u2013 at one point unable to explain why he was over two seconds slower than Kubica \u2013 until his final runs in the last session, which elevated him into the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nLike Ferrari, Renault struggled all weekend. Unlike Ferrari, neither Fernando Alonso or Romain Grosjean were able to do much about it, simply unable to find speed around the circuit. Alonso, however commented that the Yas Marina circuit was enjoyable, stating that there was always something to do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nKamui Kobayashi continued to impress in what was only his second outing for Toyota, frequently out-pacing teammate Jarno Trulli, and at one point setting the third-fastest lap time. However, Kobayashi's program for the weekend consisted mostly of doing dummy qualifying runs, while Trulli was focusing on pace over an extended period, meaning the difference between the two drivers was not as great as it appeared to be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe Toro Rosso drivers continued their trend of being the very first out in the early sessions. S\u00e9bastien Buemi demonstrated that his pace in Japan and Brazil was no one-off, and he spent most of the practice sessions near the top of the timing sheets and was the first person to break the 1:40.000 barrier in the third practice session. Jaime Alguersuari was less receptive to the circuit than others and was over-shadowed by his teammate until a hydraulics problem sidelined him for the duration of the third session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nRed Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel also had strong sessions, hinting at a pace that would eventually show itself in qualifying. After Hamilton set a time a second faster than anyone else in the third session, it was Vettel who led the rest of the field in making up the gap, however both drivers would finish outside the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nWilliams' Nico Rosberg echoed Alonso's sentiments that he liked the circuit, stating that every corner was 'unique'. However, both he and teammate Kazuki Nakajima had an inconsistent weekend, alternating between the bottom end of the top ten and running as low as fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nForce India's Adrian Sutil commented that he preferred Abu Dhabi over Marina Bay in Singapore as it was easier to see around the Yas Marina circuit. After being limited by brake problems early in the first session, he eventually took to the circuit. Like teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi, his occasional bursts of speed were soon overrun by the other drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nJenson Button spent most of first practice exchanging blows with Hamilton, responding to each of Hamilton's fastest laps with one of his own. The trend continued into the third session with Button prevailing, setting a 1:40.625, two-thousandths of a second quicker than Hamilton. Rubens Barrichello had a relatively anonymous string of practice sessions, finishing within the top ten on each occasion, but never quite having the pace of his teammate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nLewis Hamilton was the fastest in the first qualifying session, becoming the first man to set a lap time of less than 1:40.000 with a 1:39.873. Fellow Briton Jenson Button was the only other driver who came close, with his best lap time half a second slower than Hamilton. For the third race of the season \u2013 after Luca Badoer in Valencia and Spa \u2013 a Ferrari qualified in twentieth and last place, with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing one second behind Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and two behind Hamilton. Joining Fisichella in an early elimination were the Force Indias of Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi and the Renaults of Fernando Alonso and Romain Grosjean after Jaime Alguersuari relegated Alonso to fifteenth place in the final few minutes of the first session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nHamilton once again topped the second session with another lap time under 1:40.000, though this time Sebastian Vettel was able to break the same barrier as well, the only other person to do so all weekend. By the time the second session had come around, night was falling over the circuit, and with it the track temperature dropped. Despite the cars carrying less fuel in the second session, the difference in lap times between Q1 and Q2 was noticeably smaller than at other races, with many of the drivers struggling to improve upon their first-session times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nHeikki Kovalainen came to a halt on the circuit with a gearbox failure, which would afford him a five-place penalty for the race. Elsewhere, the second Ferrari of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was eliminated, as were Jaime Alguersuari and Kazuki Nakajima. Kamui Kobayashi was also eliminated after qualifying twelfth, just one place behind his starting position in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe third session was unique in that once the drivers left the pits, they stayed out for the duration; in previous races, they have gone out once at the start and once at the end, or simply waited until the final few minutes to set a time. This was attributed to the tyres, as it took several laps for the drivers to get either compound up to a working temperature. Lewis Hamilton remained in the pits while the other nine took to the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe lap times started falling as the drivers did several laps, with Jenson Button and Jarno Trulli exchanging lap times before Hamilton emerged and took the provisional pole. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber both went faster, only for Hamilton to secure a front-row berth on his final lap with a 1:40.948 and leaving Vettel and Webber second and third respectively. Rubens Barrichello slotted into fourth, while Button edged out Trulli for fifth. The BMW Saubers of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld took seventh and eighth, followed by the Williams of Nico Rosberg in his final race for the Grove-based team, and S\u00e9bastien Buemi taking tenth on his twenty-first birthday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nSebastian Vettel and Mark Webber gave Red Bull their fourth one-two finish of the season, with Vettel finishing seventeen seconds ahead of his teammate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nLewis Hamilton led the race from the start, but did not open a singularly impressive lead as was expected, and Vettel stayed within a few seconds of him during the early phase of the race. There was contact between Rubens Barrichello and Webber in the first corner, with Barrichello losing a part of his front wing, which hurt his pace to begin with. The first lap was otherwise clean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel leap-frogged Hamilton during the first round of stops before the McLaren pit wall reported that Hamilton had a problem with his right-rear brake. Hamilton was forced to retire the car after eighteen laps, as it was unsafe to continue given that the circuit contained three very large braking areas. It was briefly suggested that the problem may have been a faulty data logger that was showing a problem, but McLaren was still obliged to retire the car. The only other retirement of the race was Jaime Alguersuari during the pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHis in-lap had been slow and he made the mistake of pulling up in the Red Bull pit instead of the Toro Rosso garages. With Sebastian Vettel due in that lap, Red Bull were forced to send him back out. Alguersuari later claimed that when he was ready for the stop, his team were not. The Red Bull and Toro Rosso garages were located next to one another, with the pit crews in similar uniforms. Alguersuari retired when he returned to the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFrom there, the race remained relatively incident-free. Jenson Button exited from his stop to find the Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, who was running on a one-stop strategy. Button, in a heavier car and with tyres that would take several laps to break in, was powerless to stop Kobayashi from simply driving around the outside of him at the giant hairpin at one end of the circuit. Kobayashi would run as high as third during the race before his stop, and would ultimately finish sixth, collecting three World Championship points in only his second race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHis performance in Brazil and Abu Dhabi in particular impressed Toyota's management enough for him to be seriously considered for a full-time race seat in 2010 (although it subsequently transpired that Toyota withdrew from Formula One before the start of the 2010 season). Fellow Japanese driver Kazuki Nakajima finished in thirteenth, making him the only driver to race in every Grand Prix of the season without scoring a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nElsewhere, Giancarlo Fisichella was given a drive-through penalty and finished his final race for Ferrari a lowly sixteenth, ahead of only Adrian Sutil and Romain Grosjean. Ferrari teammate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen \u2013 in the final race for his first stint at the Maranello-based outfit, before his return at the 2014 Australian Grand Prix \u2013 had a similar struggle from eleventh on the grid, finishing down in twelfth behind fellow Finn Heikki Kovalainen. Ferrari's failure to score points meant that the team conceded third place in the Constructors' championship, closing their worst season since Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger drove for them in 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe final few laps saw Jenson Button begin to rapidly reel in the second-placed Mark Webber, whose rear tyres were steadily beginning to lose grip. Button caught up with him with six laps to go, and the final lap was one of the hardest-fought of the season. Both drivers made an error going into the chicane and hairpin, and while Button attempted to make a move on Webber going down the back straight, the Australian defended his line into the switchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe move meant that Button had the racing line and came out of the ninth corner nose-to-tail with the Red Bull. Button drew alongside Webber in the run down to the bottom corner, forcing Webber to take a defensive line again, but the Red Bull driver held his line and managed to pull the car up in time and held on for second place despite a minor error at turn fourteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the front of the field, Sebastian Vettel won the race by seventeen seconds, securing the runner-up position in the championship from Barrichello, who went on to finish fourth ahead of Nick Heidfeld in BMW Sauber's final race. Kobayashi was sixth, scoring his first career points, with Toyota teammate Jarno Trulli taking seventh, and S\u00e9bastien Buemi closing out the points-scoring positions in eighth, four seconds ahead of the Williams of Nico Rosberg, also in his final race for his team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThis was the last race to feature pit stops for refueling, which had been re-introduced in 1994, as the regulations for 2010 had banned them. Jarno Trulli made the final refueling stop on lap 42. This was also the last race to use the 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 points scoring system, introduced in 2003 and the last race to date for drivers Fisichella, Nakajima, and the constructors Toyota, BMW and Brawn GP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201345-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Classification, Race\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201347-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\nThe Acropolis International Tournament 2009 was a basketball tournament held in OAKA Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, from August 24 until August 26, 2009. This was the 23rd edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament. The four participating teams were Greece, Lithuania, Russia and Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201348-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Acropolis Rally\nThe 2009 Acropolis Rally of Greece was the 56th running of the Acropolis Rally and the seventh round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 17 special stages. Ford's Mikko Hirvonen took his first win of the season and Citro\u00ebn Junior Team's S\u00e9bastien Ogier his first-ever podium position. Hirvonen's teammate Jari-Matti Latvala climbed back to third place after going off the road and dropping from first to 11th place on the first day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201348-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Acropolis Rally\nCitro\u00ebn's championship leader S\u00e9bastien Loeb crashed out from third place, and Dani Sordo broke his suspension while running second, right behind Hirvonen. Stobart M-Sport Ford's fifth-placed driver Henning Solberg crashed into the same rock as Sordo and also retired. Petter Solberg found himself Hirvonen's main challenger for the win, but also had to retire with a broken suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201348-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Acropolis Rally\nWith mechanical problems for Mads \u00d8stberg and Evgeny Novikov, who took his first-ever stage win in the event, Federico Villagra finished fourth, Conrad Rautenbach fifth and Khalid al-Qassimi sixth, which marked his career-best result. \u00d8stberg climbed back into the points on the last stage. Home country's Lambros Athanassoulas edged out Nasser Al-Attiyah to win the Production World Rally Championship category, and also collected a WRC point for eighth place overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election\nThe Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, 2009 took place on October 18, 2009 electing Gilles Taillon on the second ballot by a margin of two votes over \u00c9ric Caire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Background\nAfter the results of the 2008 Quebec election, in which the ADQ went from being the official opposition, and 39 seats (41 MNA's had been elected in 2007, but two crossed the floor to the Liberals) to the traditional third-party role and seven seats, longtime leader Mario Dumont stepped down from the leadership of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Candidates, \u00c9ric Caire\n\u00c9ric Caire, 43 the MNA for La Peltrie. He was elected in 2007, and has served as the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Candidates, Christian L\u00e9vesque\nChristian L\u00e9vesque, 39, the former MNA for L\u00e9vis. He was elected in 2007 and served as Official Opposition's Shadow Minister for the Treasury Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 86], "content_span": [87, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Candidates, Gilles Taillon\nGilles Taillon, 63, former MNA for Chauveau, and former President of the ADQ and the Conseil du patronat du Qu\u00e9bec. He served as Deputy Leader and the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Finance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 82], "content_span": [83, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Rejected candidates, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Plante\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Plante, former Montreal City Councillor (1998\u20132005) for the Vision Montreal Party, ADQ candidate and owner and host of Radio XTRM, an internet radio show. His campaign was rejected on the grounds the 1,000 signatures he had collected were not valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 97], "content_span": [98, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Rules and deadlines\nThe new leader was elected by all party members through a preferential ballot cast electronically the new leader being announced in early October 2009. Interested parties must collect 1,000 signatures, including at least 60 in a dozen different regions of Quebec. They must also pay a deposit of $15,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201349-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec leadership election, Aftermath\nCaire and Marc Picard quit the ADQ caucus shortly after Taillon's victory. Taillon himself resigned as leader less than a month after the leadership election, and was succeeded by Deltell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival\nThe 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009. Katrina Sedgwick was again Festival Director. Jan Chapman received the 2009 Don Dunstan Award The poster this year depicts the iconic film festival eye character concept that was so successful in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival\nThe festival opened with My Year Without Sex directed by Sarah Watt and closed with Easy Virtue directed by Stephan Elliott. The festival presented 23 world premieres, 62 Australian premieres, 38 Australian films, 9 new Australian features from established and emerging filmmakers, and 143 films from over 49 countries. The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film was won by the South Korean film Treeless Mountain, directed and written by So Yong Kim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Competition, Jury\nThe following people were selected for the In Competition Jury:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Competition, In Competition\nThe following films were selected for the In Competition section:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Awards\nThe Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film was won by the South Korean film Treeless Mountain, directed and written by So Yong Kim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Awards\nThe Audience Award for Best Feature was won by Samson & Delilah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Awards\nThe Audience Award for Best Documentary was won by Kiran Bedi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201350-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Film Festival, Awards\nThe Audience Award for Best Short was won by The Cat Piano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201351-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Football Club season\nThe 2009 AFL season was the Adelaide Football Club's 19th season in the Australian Football League (AFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201351-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Football Club season\nThe captain for this season was Simon Goodwin, and the leadership group was Tyson Edwards, Brett Burton, Ben Rutten, Nathan van Berlo, Michael Doughty and Scott Stevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201351-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Football Club season, Playing list\nStatistics are correct as of start of 2009 season. Flags represent place of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201351-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Football Club season, NAB Cup\nThe despite an opening round loss to Geelong, the 2009 NAB Cup was not a total loss; Trent Hentschel made his return after 21\u20442 years off with a knee injury. The Crows lost to the Geelong Cats by 35 points, 1.17.8 (119) - 2.9.12 (84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201351-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Football Club season, Home and away season\n(In the table below, green rows are wins, red rows are losses. In the Score column Adelaide scores are always shown first.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201352-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Sevens\nThe 2009 Adelaide Sevens, promoted as the International Rugby Sevens Adelaide 2009, was a rugby sevens tournament that was part of the IRB Sevens World Series in the 2008\u201309 season. It was the Australian Sevens leg of the series, held between 3 and 5 April at the Adelaide Oval in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201352-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Sevens\nSouth Africa retained their title, and took an almost unassailable lead in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series, defeating rapidly improving Kenya in the final. England won the Plate, Samoa the Bowl and the US the Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201352-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Sevens, Format\nThe teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with 3 points awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The top two teams from each group progressed to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progressed to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201352-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Sevens, Pool stages\nThe tournament started on the Friday night and Saturday with matches between teams in the same pool on a round robin basis. The following is a list of the recorded results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201352-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide Sevens, Knockout\nPlay on the last day of the tournament consisted of finals matches for the Bowl, Plate, and Cup competitions. The following is a list of the recorded results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201353-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide United W-League season\nThe 2009 season is Adelaide United Women's second season in the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201353-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide United W-League season, Review, September\nThis season saw drastic squad changes after a disappointing inaugural season, including new signing Christina Papageorgiou taking the captaincy. However, Adelaide still struggled in the league failing to win a single game, and finished seventh ahead of the Newcastle Jets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201353-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide United W-League season, Review, March\nRacheal Quigley was named Adelaide United 2009/10 Westfield W-League Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201353-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Adelaide United W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201354-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegean Tennis Cup\nThe 2009 Aegean Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rhodes, Greece between April 27 and May 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201354-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegean Tennis Cup, Champions, Men's doubles\nKarol Beck /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd def. Rajeev Ram /  Bobby Reynolds, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201354-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegean Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201355-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegean Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nKarol Beck and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Rajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds and they became the first champions of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201356-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegean Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nBenjamin Becker defeated his compatriot Simon Stadler in the final and won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201357-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships\nThe 2009 Aegon Championships (also known traditionally as the Queen's Club Championships) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 107th edition of the event and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom, from 8\u201314 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201357-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships\nThe singles draw was headlined by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour Number 3, US Open and Indian Wells runner-up, Doha, Rotterdam and Miami champion Andy Murray, Memphis winner, Australian Open semifinalist and four-time Queen's Club champion Andy Roddick, and Australian Open quarterfinalist Gilles Simon. Also present were Acapulco runner-up, French Open quarterfinalist Ga\u00ebl Monfils, Chennai and Zagreb winner Marin \u010cili\u0107, James Blake, Marat Safin and Mardy Fish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201357-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships\nThe doubles draw was led by reigning Wimbledon champions, Rotterdam, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome and Madrid winners Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107. Other seeded partnerships were 2008 US Open and 2009 Australian Open champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201357-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships, Finals, Doubles\nWesley Moodie /  Mikhail Youzhny defeated  Marcelo Melo /  Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201357-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships, Entrants, Seeds\n* Seedings are based on the rankings as of 25 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201358-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201358-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships \u2013 Doubles\nWesley Moodie and Mikhail Youzhny won in the final 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20136], against Marcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201359-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships \u2013 Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but chose not to participate due to a knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201359-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20134, against James Blake, becoming the first British champion at Queen's since 1938.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201359-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201360-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic\nThe 2009 Aegon Classic is a tennis tournament being played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 28th edition of the event, known that year as the Aegon Classic,  It is taking place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom from 8 June until 14 June 2009. Thirteenth-seeded Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201360-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic, Finals, Doubles\nCara Black /  Liezel Huber defeated  Raquel Kops-Jones /  Abigail Spears, 6\u20131, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201361-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic \u2013 Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions and won in the final by beating Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201362-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic \u2013 Singles\nKateryna Bondarenko was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201362-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic \u2013 Singles\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 won her maiden WTA tour title, defeating Li Na in the final 6\u20130, 7\u20136(7\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201362-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Classic \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201363-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International\nThe 2009 Aegon International was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 35th edition of the event for the women and the 1st edition for the men. It was classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series on the 2009 ATP World Tour. The event took place at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom from June 13 through June 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201363-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International, Finals, Men's doubles\nMariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski defeated  Travis Parrott /  Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201363-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International, Finals, Women's doubles\nAkgul Amanmuradova /  Ai Sugiyama defeated  Samantha Stosur /  Rennae Stubbs, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201364-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThis was the first edition of the men's doubles event at Eastbourne. Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski defeated Travis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek 6-4, 6-4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201365-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe men's singles event at the 2009 Aegon International tennis tournament was won by Dmitry Tursunov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201366-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber are the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201367-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International \u2013 Women's Singles\nAgnieszka Radwa\u0144ska was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Virginie Razzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201367-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon International \u2013 Women's Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki won the title, defeating Razzano in the final 7\u20136(7\u20135), 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201368-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Trophy\nThe 2009 Aegon Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Nottingham, Great Britain between 1 and 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201368-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Trophy, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201368-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Trophy, Champions, Doubles\nEric Butorac /  Scott Lipsky def. Colin Fleming /  Ken Skupski, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201369-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Trophy \u2013 Men's Doubles\nEric Butorac and Scott Lipsky defeated Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski in the final (6\u20134, 6\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201370-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aegon Trophy \u2013 Men's Singles\nBrendan Evans won in the final 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134), against Ilija Bozoljac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201371-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aerobic Gymnastics European Championships\nThe 6th Aerobic Gymnastics European Championships was held in Liberec, Czech Republic in November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201372-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan avalanches\nThe 2009 Afghan avalanches occurred near Kabul, Afghanistan on 16 January 2009. At least ten people were killed and twelve vehicles and machinery used to clear the road of snow were swept away when the avalanche struck a highway. Forty people were rescued, eleven of whom were injured by the avalanches. The avalanches struck the Salang tunnel, the main highway linking southern and northern Afghanistan in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, at an altitude of 4,450 metres (14,600\u00a0ft). Searchers spent the next two days and beyond locating the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009. The election resulted in victory for incumbent Hamid Karzai, who won 49.67% of the vote, while his main rival Abdullah Abdullah finished second with 30.59% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election\nThe election was characterized by lack of security, low voter turnout and low awareness of the people about the election and election process and widespread ballot stuffing, intimidation, and other electoral fraud. A second round run-off vote, announced under heavy U.S. and ally pressure, was originally scheduled for 7 November 2009, but it was cancelled after Abdullah refused to participate, and Hamid Karzai was declared President of Afghanistan for another 5-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election\nThe election was the second under the present constitution of Afghanistan and was held on the same day as elections for 34 provincial council seats. The Taliban called for a boycott of the election, describing it as a \"program of the crusaders\" and \"this American process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election date\nUnder the 2004 constitution, elections should have been held no later than 60 days before the end of President Karzai's term in July 2009. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) originally recommended that the poll be held at the same time as the 2010 parliamentary balloting to save costs. However, politicians in the country were unable to agree to the details. Concerns about accessibility to mountainous areas in spring 2009 and the ability of getting adequate people and materials in place by then led the IEC to announce the elections would be delayed to August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election date\nThe opposition accused Karzai of attempting to extend his power past his term. In February 2009, President Hamid Karzai called on the Independent Election Committee to hold the election according to the country's constitution, thereby forcing the IEC to reiterate the August date, and silencing critics, who feared a leadership vacuum between May and August. Some potential Afghan opponents complained Karzai's move was an attempt to clear the field of challengers, most of whom would not be ready to campaign for the 2009 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election date\nAfter the IEC and the international community rejected Karzai's decree, Karzai accepted the date of August 20, 2009. The Supreme Court of Afghanistan announced in March 2009 that Karzai's term would be extended until a new leader had been elected. His opponents called the decision unconstitutional and unacceptable, pointing out that it put Karzai in a position to exploit the office to secure his electoral victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election date\nThe election date of August 20, 2009 was one day after the Afghan anniversary of the formal end of Britain's third attempt to conquer Afghanistan ninety years ago in 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nForty-four candidates had registered for the presidential election when the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) announced its official preliminary list of registered candidates on May 17, 2009. Three candidates withdrew from the race before the election took place, having thrown their support behind one of the top two contenders. Each presidential candidate ran with two vice-presidential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nKarzai filed his candidacy on May 4, 2009; he retained incumbent second Vice President Karim Khalili, who is from the Hazara ethnic group but exchanged the first Vice President Ahmad Zia Massood for Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a Tajik former warlord blamed by human rights groups for mass civilian deaths during the Afghan Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nThe United National Front announced on April 16, 2009, that they would nominate former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah as their presidential candidate. Abdullah was foreign minister of the Northern Alliance from 1998 onwards, and was a dominant figure in the Alliance. He was appointed foreign minister in the interim government that was installed after the U.S. invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nThe first person to have declared his intention to run, Dr. Ramazan Bashardost formally registered for the presidential election on May 7, 2009, with vice-presidential candidates Mr. Mohammad Mosa Barekzai, a professor at the Kabul Agricultural Institute and Ms. Afifa Maroof, a member of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and with a dove, a symbol of peace and liberty, as their campaign symbol. Bashardost openly criticized the government and accused ministers of corruption. While serving as the planning minister, he was critical of foreign organizations in Afghanistan eating up aid money meant for the Afghan people and later resigned under government and foreign pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nDr. Ashraf Ghani, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and former finance minister, UN special advisor, and World Bank analyst, registered as a presidential candidate on May 7, 2009. At a time when many Afghans would have preferred to lessen the appearance of ties to the U.S. government, he had the distinction of hiring Clinton-campaign chief strategist James Carville as his campaign advisor. His close ties to Washington placed him among those that Afghans considered to be \"Zana-e-Bush\", literally \"Bush's wives\". Ashraf Ghani was also reported as the candidate most favoured by the U.S. for appointment to a \"chief executive officer\" position that the U.S. intended to insert regardless of the winner of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nMirwais Yasini, the First Deputy Speaker of the Afghan House of the People joined the race in March 2009. He was previously a member of the Emergency Loya Jirga convened in 2002, served as deputy of the Loya Jirga, and director of counter narcotics and deputy minister of counter narcotics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nShahla Atta, a liberal female MP and war widow also stood, pledging to revive the modernizing policies of 1973\u20131978 president Mohammad Daoud Khan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nOther presidential contenders included the leader of the Justice and Development Party of Afghanistan Zabihullah Ghazi Nuristani; former attorney general Abdul Jabbar Sabit; former defence minister Shah Nawaz Tanai; Uzbek leader Akbar Bai; economy expert and current senior minister Hedayat Arsala; economist Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui; Sarwar Ahmedzai, a former member of the 2002 Afghan Loya Jirga who authored a 2009 country report for U.S. officials formulating a new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan; and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates\nAlong with the presidential candidates, were 3197 candidates for 420 provincial council positions. A Provincial Council in each of Afghanistan's 34 provinces advises and works with the provincial administration, headed by a Governor that is appointed by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nAccording to human rights groups, at least 70 candidates with links to \"illegal armed groups\" were on the ballot list in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nWhile the electoral law disallowed candidates with links to \"illegal armed groups\", and the Karzai-appointed Independent Election Commission had barred 56 other candidates that it identified as being commanders or members of illegal militias, many of the bigger warlords, including current parliamentarians and provincial council members elected in 2004 and 2005, simply bypassed this by registering their militias as private security companies or by having the right political connections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nBoth of Hamid Karzai's vice-presidential candidates and many of his key allies in the election are alleged to have committed widespread human rights violations and war crimes. Human Rights Watch has called for Vice President Karim Khalili and key ally, former army chief of staff General Abdul Rashid Dostum, to face trial before a special court for alleged war crimes. Khalili is alleged to have been responsible in the killing of thousands of innocent people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nKarzai's other vice-presidential candidate and former senior security advisor Mohammad Qasim Fahim, along with Karzai backer and former energy minister Ismail Khan, have also been listed by the human rights group as among the \"worst perpetrators.\" Better known as Marshal Fahim, the vice-presidential candidate is accused of having been a former Communist secret police chief, murdering prisoners of war during the 1990s, running private armed militias, and involvement in kidnapping and other crimes after 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nFahim, a key U.S. ally in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, had also previously served as Karzai's First Vice President and Minister of Defense, having been appointed to those positions in the interim and transitional governments installed after the 2001 invasion. Karzai is also being advised by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, who is said to have first invited Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan and has lobbied for an amnesty for warlords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nMost prominently covered was the dramatic return, three days before the election, of General Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile in Turkey as part of a deal to help bring President Karzai to victory. After allegedly kidnapping and beating up a political rival, he was removed as Karzai's army chief of staff in late 2008 and disappeared into exile in Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nA key U.S. ally during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, General Dostum is arguably the most notorious of Afghanistan's warlords, accused of massive human rights abuses, including the Dasht-i-Leili massacre of up to 2,000 Taliban who were suffocated in cargo containers in late 2001. He is also alleged to have crushed one of his own soldiers to death by tying him to the tracks of a tank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nMany Afghans hate these powerbrokers in the Afghan government, angered that they evaded accountability for their human rights abuses in the nineties and regained power and land through private militias funded by the millions of dollars they were paid by the CIA in the 2001 U.S. invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nAnalysts have suggested that part of Karzai's strategy was to make deals with warlord allies to deliver large blocs of votes in return for key positions and influence in his new government or other significant promises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Prominent involvement of warlords\nIn the immediate aftermath of the election, analysts and diplomats suggested that Karzai's alliances with strongmen like General Dostum had paid off, delivering him large numbers of votes in the north. Fahim delivered Tajik votes for Karzai, Khalili brought Hazara support, and Dostum delivered Uzbek votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Involvement of drug traffickers\nKarzai's vice-presidential candidate, Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim, is also alleged to have long ties to drug trafficking, according to CIA reports from as early as 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Involvement of drug traffickers\nA crucial U.S. ally as the military commander of the Northern Alliance, he worked closely with the CIA in the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and was rewarded with millions of dollars in cash. He was then appointed First Vice President and Minister of Defense in the interim and transitional governments installed after the invasion, handling more millions of dollars sent by the U.S. in military aid to raise and arm a new Afghan army. CIA intelligence reports in 2002 showed that Fahim had a history of narcotics trafficking before the U.S. invasion, and that he was still actively involved after being installed as defense minister, trafficking heroin via cargo plane flights north through Russia, with aides in the Afghan Defense Ministry also involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Involvement of drug traffickers\nHamid Karzai's election campaign manager for the south, and half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai \u2013 himself a candidate for re-election as the head of the Kandahar provincial council \u2013 has also long been alleged to have prominent drug trafficking ties, and was thought to control a significant proportion of Afghan heroin production. Numerous reports link him to the Afghan drug trade, according to officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States Embassy in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Involvement of drug traffickers\nOfficials at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have alleged that the White House favored a hands-off approach with Ahmed Wali Karzai because of his political position. Only a week before the election he denied a report from German news magazine Stern that said that British special forces had found several tons of opium on his land. He claimed that this was being done just before the election to hurt Hamid Karzai's chance of re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Candidates, Involvement of drug traffickers\nAccording to current and former U.S. officials, Ahmed Wali Karzai was also being paid by CIA, and had been for the past eight years. The New York Times  on October 27, 2009, stating: \"The C.I.A.\u2019s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade.\" Also alleged to have orchestrated much of the fraud in favour of his brother in the presidential election, Ahmed Wali Karzai was himself re-elected to the Kandahar provincial council in the August 20 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nThe Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), said insecurity had \"severely limited freedom of movement and constrained freedom of expression for candidates\". Security concerns prevented presidential candidates from campaigning in most of the provinces, and candidates running for provincial councils were under constant threat wherever they went. Widespread cultural opposition to women in public life, further compounded by the lack of security, made campaigning by women candidates very difficult or impossible in many parts of the country, according to EU observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nA UN election monitoring report said in early August that there was mounting evidence that the government was using state resources to favour Karzai. An election commission report in July noted that state-run Radio Television Afghanistan had dedicated 71% of prime-time news coverage to the president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nIssues at the forefront in the election campaign were the insurgency and lack of security, the conduct of foreign troops in Afghanistan and civilian casualties, corruption, and poverty. Topics concerning women's rights were virtually never featured in news coverage of the electoral campaign, and women received almost no coverage in news reporting during the election, according to a European Union observation mission report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nMr. Karzai announced that he would invite the Taliban to a Loya Jirga (a grand tribal council) to try to restart stalled peace talks. A May pre-election poll reported that over two-thirds, 68%, of Afghans thought their government should hold talks and reconcile with the Taliban, and 18% did not know or refused to answer. Only 14% did not support government talks and reconciliation with the Taliban. Karzai also said the country was growing in stature and would be able to prevent \"foreigners\" from jailing Afghans, referring to the foreign military forces operating in their country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nAccording to Ramazan Bashardost, the insurgency was motivated by the presence of foreign military forces in their country, by the presence of warlords and human rights abusers in the Western-backed regime, by the corruption in that government, and by poverty. Bashardost vowed that he would not allow foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nAbdul Salam Rocketi, a former Mujahideen \"freedom fighter\" \u2013 whose name came from using rocket-propelled grenades to shoot down Soviet helicopters \u2013 and former Taliban commander, said he would announce an amnesty for all the insurgents if he won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign\nThe Election Commission accredited 160,000 observers for the election. The Afghan Free and Fair Elections Foundation, the largest local monitoring group, said that it would have observers at 70 per cent of polling stations but couldn't observe the remainder because of security concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Debates\nTwo candidate debates took place before the August 20 election. The first debate was held on July 23 and was broadcast on Tolo TV. It was supposed to feature Karzai, Abdullah, and Ghani, though Karzai later declined to take part, with his campaign blaming Tolo TV for being biased against him. A second debate took place on August 16 on RTA TV (the state broadcaster) and Radio Free Afghanistan involving Karzai, Ghani, and Bashardost, with Abdullah not participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Pre-election polls\nThe pre-election polls, funded by the U.S. government and conducted by Washington D.C.-based organizations, found Hamid Karzai leading his nearest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, by a wide margin, but suggested that he would not have the 50% support required to win the August 20 election outright, raising the prospect of a run off election in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Pre-election polls\nOpinions on the following people (International Republican Institute, May 3\u201316, 2009)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Pre-election polls\n\u2020(Note: May figures were from responses to an open-ended question before the list of presidential candidates was known)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Pre-election polls\n\u2020\u2020(The International Republican Institute survey did not ask respondents about a Karzai \u2013 Barshardost second round scenario)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Campaign, Pre-election polls\nThe administering of public opinion polls for the 2009 presidential election was beset by numerous difficulties because of the lack of security, harsh geography, and lack of accurate demographic data, but analysts hoped that with improved sampling techniques the pre-election polls would be more predictive of the outcome than they were in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nDespite the surge of 30 thousand additional foreign military troops into Afghanistan in the three to four months leading up to the elections, and major military operations in the weeks and days ahead of the election, 12 out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces remained classified as \"high risk\" by the Afghan Ministry of Interior \u2013 meaning limited or no government presence \u2013 casting into doubt the ability of over one-third of the country to participate in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nA week and a half before the election, the Afghan government announced that it had hired 10,000 tribesmen to provide additional security for the election in almost two-thirds of Afghanistan's provinces. The men were being paid $160 a month, would be non-uniformed, and would use their own guns to secure polling stations in 21 out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nISAF officials stated two days before the election that the 60,000-troop ISAF military force in Afghanistan would halt all offensive operations on polling day in order to help Afghan forces maintain security for the presidential election. The order to halt operations and divert forces to help security followed a similar order issued to Afghan forces by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nBecause of the lack of security, the full list of polling centers was only announced on the actual polling day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nA day before the election, hundreds of polling stations were ordered closed in parts of the country where military and police forces fear to go and would not be able to provide protection for election monitors. It had previously been estimated that as many as 700 out of 7,000 polling stations across the country would not open because of the widespread insecurity. On election day, the Afghan election commission reported that only 6,200 polling stations had operated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\nIn Kandahar province, the mayor of Kandahar city, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, said that he would not go vote. \"For the last three years the security is getting worse, day by day,\" Hamidi stated. \"Even a child understands that the election day is not safe.\" His daughter, Rangina Hamidi, a prominent women's advocate, said that it was not worth the risk and that she would not vote either:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security\n\"My message to the women of Kandahar is this: don't go vote and put yourselves at risk for nothing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Attacks ahead of the vote\nAlready in the month preceding the election day, there was a rise in violent incidents, all over Afghanistan, including a suicide bomber attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7. An ISAF spokesperson stated two days before the election that insurgent attacks had averaged 32 per day in the last 10 days, but had spiked up to 48 attacks per day within the last four days. Among the major attacks reported:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Media blackout imposed\nIn decrees issued two days before the presidential election, the Afghan government imposed censorship for election day, barring news organizations from reporting any information about violence between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. out of concern that reports of violence could reduce voter turnout and damage chances of staging a successful election. Low turnout could undermine the credibility of the election \u2013 and could also hurt Karzai's results in the election if not enough ethnic Pashtun people, who form his base of support, turned out for the vote in the insurgent-dominated south of Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Media blackout imposed\nOn the eve of the election, police at the Kabul bank beat journalists and bystanders with rifle butts to keep them away from the scene where the bloody siege had taken place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Media blackout imposed\nThe head of the Afghan Independent Journalists' Association (AIJA) said that the government censorship decrees would not stop Afghan and foreign journalists from providing information to the public during the critical election period: \"It shows the weakness of the government and we condemn such moves to deprive people from accessing news.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Media blackout imposed\nHuman Rights Watch also criticized the news censorship, stating: \"An attempt to censor the reporting of violence is an unreasonable violation of press freedoms.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Media blackout imposed\nThe Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan called the Afghan government's limitation of media freedom on election day \"a violation of democratic principles\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\n\"This was one of the most violent days witnessed in Afghanistan in the last eight years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nAfghan government officials reported that 73 incidents of violence had taken place in 15 provinces throughout the country during voting. That number of attacks represented a 50% spike over NATO figures for the violence in the days leading up to the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nThe Afghan government also reported that at least 26 people were killed in the election day violence, including eight Afghan soldiers, nine police officers and nine civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nThe government figures were impossible to verify, however, because of the government-imposed ban against reporting any information on violence. Anecdotal evidence suggested that the number of election day attacks could actually be much higher than the government reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nAnother report since has placed the number of attacks on election day in Afghanistan at more than 130. - Broken link in citation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nISAF has since reported that more than 400 militant attacks occurred on election day \u2013 making it one of the most violent days in Afghanistan since 2001. By comparison, ISAF had stated two days before the election that insurgent attacks had averaged 32 per day in the previous 10 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nIn one of the worst reported attacks, militants stormed the town of Baghlan in northern Afghanistan, forcing all polling stations there to be closed down, with fighting lasting for most of the day. The district police chief was among those killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nRocket attacks, gun battles, and bomb blasts occurred across much of the country, closing scores of polling stations. The province of Kandahar alone was hit by 122 insurgent rockets. Rockets and mortars were launched into Kandahar, the second largest city in the country, Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, Tirin Kot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan, as well as other cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nIn an unconfirmed report, militants hanged two people in Kandahar because their index fingers were marked with indelible ink, showing that they had participated in the election that militants consider a tool of foreign occupation. Before the elections militants had threatened to hack off the fingers seen stained by this ink, used to identify voters and prevent fraud. Nader Nadery, of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) said two voters had each lost their finger in southern Kandahar province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nIn the capital city Kabul, militants took over a building before being killed after a two-hour shootout. The capital was also reported to have been hit by at least five bomb blasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nTwo British soldiers and one U.S. soldier were also killed in separate roadside bomb blasts in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan on election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence\nIchal Supriadi, an election observation supervisor with the Asian Network for Free Elections, reported that security fears had grounded many international observers, and that their election observation center had received many reports from their ground observers of people being discouraged from going out to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence, The worst violence in 15 years\n\"Polling day recorded the highest number of attacks and other forms of intimidation for some 15 years. Regrettably, 31 civilians were killed, including 11 IEC officials as well as 18 Afghan National Police (ANP) and eight Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Election day violence, The worst violence in 15 years\nIn a report dated October 21, 2009, issued after the release of the final certified election results for the August 20 vote, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) stated that on election day Afghanistan had suffered the highest number of attacks and intimidation the country had seen in some 15 years. The timeframe of 15 years, going back to around August 1994, coincides with Ahmed Rashid's description from  of when \"Afghanistan was in state of virtual disintegration just before the Taliban emerged at the end of 1994. The country was divided into warlord fiefdoms and all the warlords had fought, switched sides and fought again in a bewildering array of alliances, betrayals and bloodshed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\n\"The highest level of civilian casualties since the fall of the Taleban in 2002 has been registered in Afghanistan in the period around the elections.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nOn August 25, 2009, a few hours after the first preliminary results were released, a cluster of vehicle bombs detonated together in a massive explosion that killed at least 43 people and wounded at least 65 in Kandahar city, in the bloodiest attack since July 2008. The force of the giant blast, at the center of the city in a district that includes U.N. facilities and an Afghan intelligence office, caused houses and buildings around to collapse, shattering windows around the city, and sending flames shooting into the sky. People miles outside of town felt the rumble. The main target appeared to be a Japanese company that had recently taken over a contract to build a road that insurgents had stalled for several months. A Taliban spokesman denied responsibility, saying the group condemned the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 899]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nOn the same day, another bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed four U.S. soldiers, bringing the total number of foreign troop deaths in Afghanistan this year to 295, making the 2009 death toll for foreign forces in Afghanistan the highest in the eight-year war since the 2001 U.S. invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nOn August 26, 2009, the justice ministry director of Kunduz province, Sayed Jahangir, was killed by a bomb planted in his car in northern Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nOn August 27, 2009, Amnesty International issued a statement saying: \"As uncertainty surrounds the outcome of presidential elections in Afghanistan, civilians are at greater danger than at any time since the fall of the Taleban.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nAugust 2009 ended as the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001. At least 51 American soldiers were killed in the month of the election, the highest monthly toll for the U.S. in the nearly eight-year-long war, surpassing the previous high of 45 in July. The month was also the worst in the war in terms of the overall death toll for all foreign military troops, with 77 deaths. Along with 76 deaths in July, the two months were by far the deadliest for the foreign military troops in Afghanistan, according to figures from icasualties.org.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Violence in the aftermath of the vote\nOn September 12, 2009, a day on which the IEC was to have announced the first full preliminary results, waves of attacks engulfed Afghanistan. At least 66 people \u2013 including 24 civilians, 5 U.S. soldiers, and 26 Afghan policemen, soldiers, and guards \u2013 were killed in violence that swept across the country. The bloodshed seemed to demonstrate the ability of insurgents, including the Taliban, to carry out attacks in most parts of the country despite the surge to a record number of foreign military troops in the eight-year war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nThe lack of security and its effects on voter registration, polling station accessibility, and voter turnout \u2013 mainly in regions populated by Afghanistan's Pashtun tribes, which make up 32-37% of the country's population \u2013 have raised serious concerns about an ethnic imbalance in the Afghan election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\n\"There are districts that I am 100 percent sure no government worker can go to - But you are telling me that still so many people registered? I don't believe it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nAccording to leaders and residents of Pashtun districts, many voter registration centers in their districts never opened during the registration period and few people even left their homes, let alone registered. Provincial officials have also said that election registration teams rarely, if ever, dared to venture outside of the district capitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nIn the province of Wardak, with six of the province's eight districts controlled by insurgents, this resulted in the two Hazara-dominated districts of the province forming the bulk of the new voters registered. Independent Election Commission (IEC) Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Zekra Barakzai stated that \"the registration numbers in Pashtun districts are very low.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nAccording to Habibullah Rafeh, a policy analyst with the Afghan Academy of Sciences, there could be an ethnic imbalance if the same problem was reproduced in other Pashtun regions of Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nIn Helmand province, where 62% of the population is Pashtun and where U.S. Marines conducted major offensives, only 75 people were found to have been registered in one town of 2,000 residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nFor those that did register to vote, the absence of polling stations because of lack of security may have been the next obstacle. In Helmand province, Haji Mohammad, from Marja district, said that he sold all his family's voting cards because there were no polling stations in their area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nOn the day before the election, Afghan election officials ordered 443 polling stations within insurgent territory in the Pashtun-dominated provinces of Paktika, Paktia, Khost, Zabul, Helmand and Kandahar to stay closed because of the lack of security. While the Afghan election commission had until recently presented a figure of 7,000 polling stations, on election day it reported that only 6,200 polling stations had actually operated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nCompounded with its effects on voter registration and polling station accessibility, the lack of security also seems to have been a major factor in the much lower voter turnout in the Pashtun-dominated south of the country, where turnout was as low as 5\u201310%, effectively disenfranchising the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Lack of security, Possible ethnic imbalance\nOn election day, Abdul Hamid, a tribal elder from Paghman District \u2013 a mostly Pashtun district bordering Wardak province \u2013 was reported as insisting that 40 to 50% of eligible Paghman voters had not received voting cards, and therefore could not cast a ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud\nStarting in December 2008, journalist Anand Gopal and others have reported extensively on the widespread instances of fraud in the voter registration process, with the registration rolls including \"phantom voters\" and multiple registration cards issued to a single registrant, amongst numerous other problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud\nTwo days before the election, an investigation by the BBC also found and reported evidence of widespread electoral fraud and corruption in the Afghan presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting cards being sold\nAfter being informed that voting cards were being sold in the capital, Kabul, an Afghan working for the BBC posed as a potential buyer and was offered one thousand voting cards on the spot, for $10 (\u00a36) per card. Samples provided were all authentic with the name, photo and home details of the voter on them. Other parties also offered to sell the BBC investigators thousands of votes, and some sellers have even been arrested by the authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting cards being sold\nA flourishing black market in voter registration cards has also sprung up across the south of Afghanistan where they were being sold for \u00a36 to \u00a318 each. The Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), an independent election monitoring organisation, had also collected evidence of election fraud, particularly in the voter registration process. The monitoring group found that in many places people were being issued multiple voting cards, that voting cards were often issued for children, and that stacks of voting cards were given to men who falsely claimed that they were for women in their households.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0087-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting cards being sold\nLong lists of imaginary female relatives were found to have been concocted during an attempt to update the electoral roll. In Kandahar, \"Britney Jamilia Spears\" appeared among the names registered. FEFA found that multiple registrations of a single person were taking place in at least 40% of all centers in one phase of the registration drive, and in one case, investigators found that about 500 voting registration cards were given to just one individual in Badghis province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting cards being sold\nThe independent election observers also reported that as many as one in five registrations were for people under the voting age \u2013 in many cases as young as 12 years old. According to a pre-election report by the Afghanistan Analyst Network, a Kabul-based group of foreign experts, as many as three million voters on the register were feared to not exist. The huge numbers of vote cards issued for phantom voters have raised concerns about massive electoral fraud. Shahrzad Akbar, a senior analyst with FEFA, stated that because the monitoring body was only able to investigate a few parts of the country, the election irregularities and abuses could be even more widespread:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting cards being sold\n\"We couldn't observe how it went in every single district or village. I am sure that there are cases of multiple card distribution that we don't know about. But those incidents that we do know about caused us enough concern to contact the Independent Election Commission and say, 'please prevent this!'\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Bribes being offered\nThere has also been evidence that people working for candidates have deliberately tried to influence the outcome of the election by offering bribes to buy large numbers of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Bribes being offered\nIn Baghlan province, a tribal elder and former military commander described how the voter fraud scheme worked. Within the hierarchical structure of Afghanistan, key local leaders like him have the ability to persuade large numbers of people to vote for one candidate or another. He reported that he and other local leaders had been approached by teams from the two leading contenders of the presidential election with monetary bribes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Bribes being offered\n\"If one candidate gives $10,000, then the other gives $20,000 and a third one offers even more. It has become such a lucrative and competitive business. I don't know where they get their money from.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Bribes being offered\nAccording to a U.S. government-funded poll released the week before the poll, the two leading contenders in the election were Hamid Karzai, the Pashtun incumbent, and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister with strong ties to the former Northern Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Bribes being offered\nIn Helmand province, tribal leaders and local people also described a systematic attempt by Karzai supporters to collect or buy voter registration cards from people in an electoral fraud scheme allegedly orchestrated by Karzai's half-brother and campaign manager for the south, Ahmed Wali Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nAlong with bribes, cases of threats by warlords have also been reported. In Herat province, a village elder said he had been threatened with \"very unpleasant consequences\" by a local commander if the residents of his village failed to vote for Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nOther instances of coercion in the electoral process \u2013 ranging from threatening phone calls to beatings and killings \u2013 by government agents (particularly security forces and armed factions aligned with certain candidates) have been extensively documented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nThe hiring of 10,000 tribesmen by the Karzai government to secure polling stations in 21 out of 34 provinces, without uniforms and using their own guns, also raised questions of voter intimidation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nDuring the voting, intimidation of voters by some powerful candidates, in particular local candidates running for provincial council seats, was reported by observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0099-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nIn the northern province of Balkh, people were forced at gunpoint to vote for former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, according to complaints lodged with the election commission by former finance minister Dr. Ashraf Ghani in the days after the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0100-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Armed coercion\nMeanwhile, both the Karzai and Abdullah camps have accused each other's side of having engaged in intimidation of voters, including allegations from Abdullah of intimidation and other interference by the head of the border police in Kandahar province, General Abdul Raziq, and his forces on behalf of Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0101-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Hundreds of polling stations shut down\nThe day before the election, Afghan election officials ordered more than 440 polling stations to stay closed during the vote out of fears of election fraud. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Hamid Karzai's supporters were trying to keep open polling stations deep within insurgent-held regions where the army and police fear going and where voting could not be properly monitored by observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0102-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Hundreds of polling stations shut down\nAn international observer monitoring the election proceedings said that the IEC had come under \"a lot of pressure\" from the Karzai administration to open more polling stations in the provinces of Paktika, Paktia, Khost, Zabul, Helmand and Kandahar where the government has little control beyond major urban centers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0103-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Hundreds of polling stations shut down\nRegistration figures suggested that concerted preparations for vote-rigging had taken place in Khost and Paktia. Records suspiciously showed that twice as many women as men had registered to vote, while a thriving black market in voting cards has appeared with cards being bought and sold by the thousands for \u00a36 to \u00a318 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0104-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nGovernment workers, required to be impartial in the election, were found by election observers to have actively and illegally campaigned for candidates. Investigators have also found members of political parties occupying positions as election officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0105-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nThe most problematic conflict of interest may be the fact that the country's Independent Elections Commission (IEC) that oversees the whole election is not \"independent\" of the Karzai administration at all. All seven of its members were appointed to the commission by Hamid Karzai, and its chairman, a former Karzai advisor in Herat province, has reportedly made no secret of his partisan support for the incumbent president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0106-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nIn the days following the election, Karzai's main challenger, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, denounced the chairman of the IEC as working for Mr. Karzai. Foreign election observers have also criticized the Independent Election Commission as being full of Karzai appointees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0107-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nThe BBC has reported that the Independent Election Commission has been accused of not doing enough to prevent abuses that have been brought to its attention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0108-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nFEFA, the country's largest independent election monitoring organization, has also raised questions about the impartiality of Independent Election Commission (IEC) local officials, and noted that questions about IEC impartiality constituted \"a trend that has persisted throughout the electoral process\". Throughout election day, numerous reports were received of local IEC officials improperly interfering in the voting process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0109-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Systemic conflicts of interest\nU.S.-based Human Rights Watch said the independence of the Independent Election Commission was compromised by Karzai's appointment of the IEC chairman without parliamentary oversight and accused the IEC chairman of displaying \"clear bias\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0110-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nElection day news included reports of widespread electoral fraud throughout the day. At one polling station in Nad-e-Ali, in the Helmand province, just over 400 people had voted by 1 p.m., but three hours later, the figure had apparently rose to some 1,200, despite that guards had hardly seen any voters. Election officials were later seen counting piles of ballot papers, without checking simply declaring the votes had been cast for Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0111-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nAs early as 8 a.m., only one hour after the polls had opened, officials at the U.S. embassy in Kabul were receiving complaints of fraud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0112-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nAshraf Ghani, one of the presidential candidates and also reported as favoured by the U.S. for a \"chief executive\" position to run the country regardless of the election outcome, e-mailed U.S. officials with reports of his opponents stuffing election ballot boxes. Other candidates also lodged similar complaints with U.S. officials \u2013 who referred them instead to the national election body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0113-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nAbdullah, the main opponent to Hamid Karzai in the presidential election, said that his supporters were lodging complaints of election fraud, in particular from Kandahar province. Hours after the polls closed, his deputy campaign manager, Saleh Mohammad Registani, alleged that \"very large scale\" fraud had taken place in at least three of the country's 34 provinces, including ballot box stuffing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0114-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nPresidential candidate Mirwais Yasini, the deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament, lodged 31 complaints with Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC), telling the BBC that both main camps had engaged in widespread electoral fraud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0115-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nElection monitor group FEFA reported receiving cases throughout the voting day of \"improper interference\" by local Independent Election Commission (IEC) staff in the voting process, raising continued concerns about the impartiality of IEC election officials. Their post-election provisional report also detailed cases of election officials being ejected from polling stations by representatives of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0116-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nPhotojournalist Peter Nicholls of The Times photographically  an apparent case of ballot box stuffing amid low voter turnout in Pul-e-Charkhi, in Kabul province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0117-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nIn a further irregularity, the supposedly indelible ink used to mark the index finger of voters to prevent voting more than once was found to be easily removable in many instances \u2013 a repeat of a problem that had also occurred in the 2004 and 2005 elections. According to Havana Marking, director of a documentary on the elections, by 9 a.m. people were bleaching their fingers and casting ballots twice. The documentary makers filmed \"a cafe full of young men laughing and deciding who to vote for the second time\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0118-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nComplaints about the ink were made by the camps of all three of the main challengers in the presidential race. Aides to Dr. Abdullah reported that at the polling station where he had cast his ballot, voters had been able to clean the ink from their fingertips within minutes. Ashraf Ghani's team had reports of inferior ink that was easily removed being used in the western city of Herat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0118-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Election fraud, Voting irregularities\nPresidential candidate and former planning minister Dr. Ramazan Bashardost charged that the indelible ink could be washed off easily, and lodged an official complaint endorsed by a member of the Election Complaints Commission. The former minister, who had been running third in the pre-election polls, said: \"This is not an election. This is a comedy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0119-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Flawed election\nWestern officials conceded the election would be flawed, admitting that there had been election corruption, that there was apathy, that the lack of security would stop some from voting, and that precautions designed to prevent fraud would be ineffective in many parts of the country where election monitors cannot go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0120-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Flawed election\nThe international community accepted that fraud would be inevitable in the presidential election, but hoped that it could be minimised to an \"acceptable level where it will not alter the final result\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0121-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Flawed election\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann put the odds of an election that would appear \"good enough\" at \"50-50\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0122-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Flawed election\nAdditionally, 7 million fewer Afghans were even allowed to vote than in the last election. Thousands of complaints were filed, and there was blatant evidence of corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0123-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nNATO officials announced in March 2009 that 15.6 million voters had registered to vote, roughly half of the country's population, and that 35 to 38 percent of registered voters were women. Those registration numbers were disputed, however, by the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan and media reports, which suggested widespread fraudulent activity in the election process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0124-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nWhile UN, American and Afghan officials quickly hailed the election as a success, evidence from observers on the ground and from journalists suggested that the Taliban had succeeded in deterring many Afghans from voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0125-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nAt the end of the voting day, top election official Zekria Barakzai estimated the voter turnout across the country at around 40\u201350%. One Western diplomat slapped aside 50 percent as a \"joke\". On August 21, The New York Times  reported that overall turnout was expected to be about 40%. On August 26, The Daily Telegraph reported that turnout may have been little more than 35% nationwide and was less than 10% in some districts of Helmand and Kandahar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0126-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nFigures released by the IEC on August 31, when the ballots from almost half of the country's polling stations had been counted, pointed to a turnout of only 30% to 35%. Most of the ballots counted to that point were from the north of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0127-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIndependent election observers in the country almost all agreed that voter turnout was far lower than in the previous presidential election in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0128-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nThe turnout was uneven across the country with low turnout in the south and east of Afghanistan, suppressed by lack of security and disenchantment, while vote participation was somewhat higher in the more stable north and west of the country, including some reports of long lines of voters seen outside polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0129-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nVoter turnout in the eastern city of Jalalabad was low at no more than 20\u201330%, according to election observer Tim Fairbank: \"A lot of people have told us they were afraid to vote, and afraid to have their fingers dipped in ink because of the Taliban's threats.\" The government, on the other hand, was expected to claim that it was more like 60% in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0130-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn the Pashtun-dominated southern provinces, turnout was as low as 5\u201310%, according to one Western official. In some parts of the country almost no women voted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0131-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn Khan Neshin, Helmand province, in the south of Afghanistan, election officials estimated that only 250 to 300 people \u2013 out of an estimated population of 35,000 to 50,000 in a region larger than Connecticut \u2013 showed up to vote at the single polling station available for the area. Not a single woman voted, according to the district governor, Massoud Ahmad Rassouli Balouch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0132-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn Babaji district of Helmand province, where 10 British soldiers were killed in Operation Panther's Claw, a British offensive launched against insurgents a few weeks ahead of the elections, reports indicated that only about 150 people voted out of a population of 55,000. One election observer said no more than 15 people voted at the polling centre where he was based.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0133-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn another Helmand province district of 70,000 people, barely 500 people voted, while in one town of 2,000 residents, only 50 people voted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0134-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nVoter turnout in Kandahar city, Afghanistan's second largest city, was estimated to be down 40% from the previous election in 2004. Noor Ahmad, a resident of Zerai District, said: \"The turnout is very low, perhaps less than 5 percent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0135-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent in Kandahar, Dawa Khan Meenapal, said that people voted heavily but overall turnout was lower than in past elections, and that participation by women was very low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0136-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand, Mohammad Aliyas Daee, a Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent in Helmand, similarly reported that \"the overall participation of women was negligible.\" Voter turnout, by one estimate, was at below 20% in the city, considered to be more secure than the rest of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0137-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nIn the southeastern Uruzgan province, the deputy police chief, Mohammad Nabi, estimated the province-wide turnout to be less than 40%, saying that \"people had no interest\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0138-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nVoting in the capital city Kabul also appeared to have been depressed, with one estimate placing turnout at only 30%. Officials, witnesses, and journalists at several polling stations reported low participation numbers. Afghan journalist and research analyst, Abdulhadi Hairan, observed that the low voter turnout in Kabul resulted in reporters and cameramen having to wait nearly to midday before having enough voter interviews to send back to their news organizations. Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's main opponent in the presidential election, called the low voter turnout in Kabul \"unsatisfactory.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0139-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\n\"The early information is that the turnout was very low in some provinces and at best was fair in others.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0140-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout\nThe polls in Afghanistan, originally scheduled to close at 4 p.m. after nine hours of voting, had been held open an hour longer in a last-minute decision by the Independent Election Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0141-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nOfficial election monitors and the UN placed voter turnout in the election at only around 30\u201333%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0142-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nIn a joint report with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, issued October 21, 2009, after the release of the final certified election results for the August 20 vote, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0143-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nThe approximate quantity and guarded wording of the UN statement indicated a voter turnout of no higher than 33%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0144-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nThe figures of the Independent Election Commission, adjusted for 1,065,031 votes discarded as fraudulent, indicate a voter turnout of 31.4%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0145-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nWhen the IEC released its September 16 uncertified final results with a total of 5,662,758 \"valid votes\", the IEC claimed a voter turnout of 38.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0146-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nFollowing the ECC's official audit findings, the IEC's October 21 final certified results for the August 20 election presented a total of 4,597,727 \"valid votes\". 1,065,031 votes or 18.8% of the votes had been invalidated between the IEC's September 16 results and its final certified results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0147-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nA proportional 18.8% reduction of the IEC's September 16 voter turnout figure of 38.7% gives a voter turnout figure of 31.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0148-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Low voter turnout, Post-audit voter turnout figures\nIn an article published October 21, 2009, in Foreign Policy magazine, J. Scott Carpenter, an official election observer for the August 20 vote, placed the voter turnout at 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0149-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nBallot counting began immediately after the polls closed on August 20, with official preliminary results to be declared two weeks later on September 3, official final results to be declared two weeks after that on September 17, and a run-off, if required, to be held within two weeks after that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0150-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nWithin a day into the vote counting, however, both the Karzai and Abdullah camps were making claims of leading far enough in the count to obtain a majority of over 50%, and that a run-off vote would not be needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0151-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nThree days into the vote counting, reports suggested that Hamid Karzai had been re-elected by a landslide, with early figures giving Karzai 72% of the vote and his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, at 23%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0152-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nIf confirmed, the scale of the win is expected to provoke accusations of vote-rigging, with the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) having already received 225 complaints within three days \u2013 some containing multiple allegations \u2013 and reports still arriving from remote areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0153-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nThirty-five of the complaints received so far were deemed by the ECC to have been on a scale large enough to have altered the outcome of the poll, with the most common complaint among them being ballot box tampering. Other charges included intimidation of voters, failures of the \"indelible ink\", and interference in polling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0154-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nAbdullah Abdullah accused Hamid Karzai of \"stealing\" the election and alleged that widespread electoral fraud had been committed. He told The Guardian: \"It was led by Mr Karzai. He knew. He knew that without this he cannot win, about that I have no doubt in my mind.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0155-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nA senior UN official said that there would be no legitimacy if Karzai was proclaimed the outright winner in the election that Afghanistan's international backers are desperate should be seen as legitimate: \"If the international community say it is all wonderful, they lose further credibility and are associated with an illegitimate government.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0156-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nBy August 25, the ECC said it had received 1,157 complaints, with 54 categorized as \"high priority\" and material to the outcome, and many more still expected. Some of the worst fraud may have occurred in Helmand province, according to allegations from at least two presidential candidates. A spokesman for Ashraf Ghani alleged large-scale ballot box stuffing in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0156-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nAn aide to Dr. Abdullah accused election officials in Helmand of having doubled the real turnout figure \u2013 a claim that found some anectdotal support in changing figures given by the top local Independent Election Commission official in Helmand, who told The Times on the day of the election that fewer than 50,000 people had voted in the province, then changed the number to 110,000, and then to 150,000 in subsequent days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0157-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nA UN official predicted that anywhere between 10% and 20%, or as many as one in five, of all the ballots were illegal, and even proposed that negotiations would have to be made to \"massage down\" Karzai's victory margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0158-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nThe deputy speaker of Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, Mirwais Yasini, claimed that thousands of ballots cast for him had been removed from ballot boxes by his opponents and taken away to be destroyed instead of counted. He displayed bags full of ballots from Kandahar that had been discovered by his supporters. Yasini said the only option available was to \"abolish the election\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0159-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nAbdullah Abdullah also brought forth evidence to support his allegations of widespread vote-rigging.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0159-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nHe showed sealed ballot forms that he similarly claimed were votes for him that were never counted; a vote ledger sheet from a polling station that listed only a few names, yet had a ballot tally on the bottom of 1,600; video showing ballot-stuffing that he said was recorded on August 22 \u2013 two days after the polls had closed on August 20 and ballot boxes were supposed to have been sealed; video of an individual directing voters to cast their ballot for Karzai; a photograph allegedly showing Karzai people looking over the shoulders of voters filling their ballot sheets behind the cardboard voting screens; a thick tablet of ballot sheets still affixed to the pad, with every single ballot apparently pre-marked for Karzai with the same pen and by what seemed to be the same hand. Abdullah said the tablet had been turned over to them in southern Afghanistan and was just one of hundreds. He said: \"This amount of fraud ... Even I did not anticipate it. I was shocked.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 1091]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0160-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud\nMore than 10 boxes of ballots were lost when a U.S. Air Force Chinook helicopter accidentally dropped and lost the ballot boxes collected from a remote village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 116], "content_span": [117, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0161-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nOn August 26, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) reported partial results tallied from 10% of the polling stations, and announced that it planned to release partial results each day for the next several days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0162-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nBy one account, Hamid Karzai was leading slightly with 41% of the counted votes, while Abdullah Abdullah was at 39%, based on 524,000 valid votes counted after 31,000 \u2013 or 5.6% \u2013 of the votes were thrown out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0163-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nBy another account, covering the same news, IEC Chief Electoral Officer Daoud Ali Najafi announced in a news conference that Karzai was at 38% while Abdullah was at 36%, based on 550,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0164-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nAccording to the BBC, the partial results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0165-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nThose partial figures of 550,000 votes from 10% of the polling stations, when extrapolated, could suggest a national turnout of 5.5 million, which would be about 30% lower than the turnout figures from the previous presidential election in 2004. The tally was based mainly on returns in the north and other parts of the country \u2013 the commission said that less than 2% of the ballots in Kandahar province and none of the ballots from Helmand province had been tallied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0166-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 26 partial results\nReports of the total number of registered voters have varied from 15 million, to 15.6 million, to 17 million, with no verified list of eligible voters to compare against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0167-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 27 partial results\nA second release of partial results was made by the election authorities after 17%, or 940,000, of the ballots were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0168-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 27 partial results\nThe figures have also been reported as Karzai having 44.8% and Abdullah 35.1% of the ballots based on 17% of the country's polling stations (as opposed to 17% of the ballots).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0169-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 27 partial results\nAgain, slightly different figures were reported in other accounts, covering the same news, in which IEC Chief Electoral Officer Daoud Ali Najafi told reporters in Kabul that Karzai had 42% and Abdullah 33% of 998,000 ballots counted from 17% of the polling stations in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0170-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 27 partial results\n998,000 ballots from 17% of the polling stations suggests a nationwide turnout of nearly 5.9 million. 940,000 ballots representing 17% of the ballots would suggest a turnout of 5.5 million out of 15-17 million voters registered. The presidential election of 2004 had produced a tally of approximately 8 million ballots out of 11 million voters registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0171-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 27 partial results\nRamazan Bashardost, the candidate likely to place third in the election, said the Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials were breaking electoral law by announcing results before the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) had completed its work. The complaints commission had by now received more than 1,400 complaints, with over 150 of them serious enough to change the vote's outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0172-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 29 partial results\nPartial results released on August 29, with 2.03 million ballots tallied from 35% of polling stations, gave the following numbers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0173-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 29 partial results\nClaims of massive fraud escalated with a total of more than 2,000 now received by the Electoral Complaints Commission, 270 of which it considered serious enough to have changed the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0174-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 29 partial results\nAbdullah Abdullah stepped up his allegations of widespread vote rigging, saying that \"massive fraud, state-crafted, state-engineered fraud\" had taken place throughout the country,\" and that ballot boxes had been stuffed with hundreds of thousands of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0175-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 29 partial results\nOn August 25, supporters of Abdullah threatened with violence if their candidate would lose, while Abdullah himself urged them to stay calm while the electoral commission would investigate their concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0176-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 29 partial results\nOn August 30, the Electoral Complaints Commission announced that the number of allegations it considered serious enough to have affected the outcome had now reach 567, more than double the number announced the day before. The total number of complaints registered with the ECC had now reached 2,493, with over one-fifth classified as \"Category A\", meaning serious enough to alter the outcome. Most votes in the southern parts of the country, where Karzai is seen as having strong ethnic Pashtun support, and where complaints of fraud seemed highest, had yet to be counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0177-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 31 partial results\nPartial results released on August 31, with 2,869,562 valid ballots tallied from 47.8% of polling stations, gave the following numbers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0178-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, August, rampant allegations of fraud, August 31 partial results\nThe results with nearly half of the polling stations counted pointed to a turnout of only 30% to 35%, adding to doubts about the election's legitimacy. Most of the ballots counted so far had been from polling stations in the north of Afghanistan, where most of Abdullah's support was. Observers said that the ballots from the south that mostly remained to be counted could put Karzai over the 50% needed to win the election without a run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 143], "content_span": [144, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0179-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nAccording to a senior Western diplomat, hundreds of thousands of ballots for Hamid Karzai were from as many as 800 fake polling sites where no one had actually voted. The diplomat and another Western official also said that Karzai supporters took over approximately 800 actual polling centers on election day and used them to fraudulently report tens of thousands of ballots for Karzai. The Western diplomat said: \"This was fraud en masse.\" In Karzai's home province, Kandahar, preliminary results indicated that more than 350,000 ballots had been turned in to be counted, but Western officials estimated that only about 25,000 people had actually voted in the whole province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0180-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nAccording to an IEC official and a Western official in Afghanistan, the Independent Election Commission introduced a set of standards to exclude questionable votes on August 29, but when it appeared that the new exclusions would put Karzai's tally below 50%, the commission cast a second vote on September 7 to loosen the fraud standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0181-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 8, 2009, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), dominated by U.N.-appointed Westerners, reported that over 720 major fraud allegations considered material to the outcome had been registered, and ordered recounts at polling stations where it had found \"clear and convincing evidence of fraud\" in at least three provinces. The U.N.-appointed ECC chairman, Grant Kippen, said voting irregularities included unfolded ballots (that would not have fit through a ballot box slot), identically marked ballots, and overly large ballot counts, including a box in Kandahar with 1,700 ballots when the maximum should be 600. Dozens of voting sites tallied by the Independent Election Commission reportedly had Karzai winning in perfectly round numbers like 200, 300, or 500 ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 920]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0182-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nAlso on September 8, 2009, with the IEC releasing the first partial results to show Hamid Karzai above the 50% threshold, the U.S. State Department called for a \"rigorous vetting\" of the electoral fraud claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0183-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 10, 2009, the ECC ordered the invalidation of tens of thousands of ballots, mostly votes for Karzai, from 83 polling stations from three provinces. These included all presidential ballots from 5 polling stations in Paktika Province, either all presidential ballots, all provincial council ballots - or in some case both - from 27 polling stations in Ghazni Province, as well as ballots from 51 polling stations in Kandahar Province. The chairman of the ECC, Grant Kippen, said there would be no re-voting and that the ballots would simply discounted from the final tally. A source at the ECC indicated this was just the beginning of a process, according to a BBC correspondent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0184-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nThe Independent Election Commission indicated that results from 447 polling stations, or 200,000 ballots, had already been quarantined and flagged to the ECC for investigation, and that the figure could rise to 660 polling stations and as many as 500,000 ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0185-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 15, 2009, the foreign-dominated ECC ordered a recount of 2,600, or 10%, of the country's 26,000 polling stations \u2013 many of them in southern Afghanistan \u2013 a move expected to strip votes away from incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Because many of those polling stations had substantially higher turnouts than average, possibly the result of ballot stuffing, more than 10% of the vote could be affected. With the September 12 partial results showing Karzai at 54.3% of the votes, just 4.3 points above the 50% threshold, the ECC-ordered recount could potentially force a run-off election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0186-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 21, 2009, over a month after the election day, and after several weeks of wrangling, it was reported that the IEC and ECC had agreed to rely on statistical sampling in the interests of expediency instead of carrying out an in-depth investigation of all the alleged voting irregularities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0187-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nThe exact methodology to be used had yet to be agreed upon and could take a few days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0188-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nSupporters of the deal claimed that streamlining the complaints review process would reduce political instability. Critics of the deal said that bypassing a full investigation of all the irregularities would undermine faith in the credibility of the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0189-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 25, 2009, the IEC and ECC announced that they had agreed to audit and recount ballots from only 313 of the 3,063 polling stations that had been deemed suspicious, representing a sample of about 10% of suspect ballot boxes, in order to expedite a resolution to the disputed election. According to the election officials, the 313 ballot boxes to be used in the statistical sampling were randomly selected in front of candidate agents and observers, and were to be retrieved from the provinces as soon as the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0190-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nOn September 26, 2009, Afghan newspaper \"daily 8 Subh\" quoted the IEC chief electoral officer as saying that a decision about whether a run-off would occur would be made within the next ten days, and that any run-off would be held within a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0190-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit\nHowever, other news sources reported the IEC as urging the Electoral Complaints Commission to expedite their fraud investigations, saying that the final results must be released within the next ten days if the election commission is to be able to prepare a second round of voting before winter snow at the end of October makes voting impossible in parts of the country. Missing the window could delay any run-off until springtime, creating a power vacuum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 132], "content_span": [133, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0191-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 2 partial results\nPartial results released by the Independent Election Commission on September 2, with 3,689,715 valid ballots tallied from 60.3% of polling stations, gave the following numbers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0192-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 2 partial results\nAbdullah reiterated his allegations of massive fraud, and accused the Independent Election Commission of cooperating in \"organized fraud\". One of his campaign chiefs, Zalmai Younosi, said: \"How can we accept a corrupt government funded by drugs and not respected by the world?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0193-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 2 partial results\nThe Electoral Complaints Commission reported that it had hired 70 extra people and would need at the very least two weeks, working overtime, in order to process the more than 2,600 reports of fraud, with over 650 of them large enough to \"have material effect on the results\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0194-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 2 partial results\nOn September 3, 2009, when official preliminary results were originally planned to have been released, the IEC said the earliest possible date was now delayed to September 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0195-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 6 partial results\nResults released on September 6, 2009, with ballots from 74.2% of polling stations tallied, gave the following count:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0196-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 6 partial results\nIndependent Election Commission officials said results from 447 of about 28,000 polling stations had been annulled after fraud investigations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0197-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 8 partial results\nPartial results released by the Independent Election Commission on September 8, with 5,469,289 valid ballots tallied from 91.6% of polling stations, showed Hamid Karzai over the 50% vote threshold needed win the election without a run-off:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0198-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 8 partial results\nThe Independent Election Commission (IEC) also reported that it had \"quarantined\" results from 600 polling stations where it suspected irregularities, and sent the list of stations to the ECC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0199-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 8 partial results\nMeanwhile, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said it had found \"clear and convincing evidence of fraud\", and that a recount and inspection should be done for any polling station where 600 or more ballots were cast, or where any single candidate received more than 95% of the votes. U.N.-appointed ECC chairman Grant Kippen said how many polling stations this would involve was unknown. The chief electoral officer of the IEC said it could take two to three months to comply with the ECC's recount and audit order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0200-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 8 partial results\nWith Karzai passing the 50 per cent threshold but confrontated with allegations of massive fraud, a crisis emerged when a recount of ballots was ordered. That demand was challenged by the Afghan-dominated Independent Election Commission (IEC), which went on to publish the results, effectively giving Karzai the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 161], "content_span": [162, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0201-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 12 partial results\nThe IEC had previously announced that it hoped to release full preliminary results, originally scheduled for September 3, on September 12, 2009, instead. On that date, however, they announced that the count was still not complete and that there would be another delay, with no date known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 162], "content_span": [163, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0202-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 12 partial results\nThe partial results released by the IEC on September 12, tallied from the ballots of 92.8% of polling stations, showed Karzai slightly further in the lead and Abdullah slightly further lagging:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 162], "content_span": [163, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0203-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 12 partial results\nBallots from an additional 2.15% of polling stations were set aside because of irregularities at the 600 stations and excluded from the IEC's latest results on orders from the ECC. The IEC reported that hundreds of thousands of ballots had now been quarantined for audit. Election officials were unwilling to provide a time-scale for the final result, while observers said that investigation of the extensive fraud allegations could take months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 162], "content_span": [163, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0204-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 12 partial results\nThe day was accompanied by a spate of violence in which at least 66 people were killed in gunbattles, suicide strikes, and roadside bombs. The dead included 24 civilians, 5 foreign soldiers, 7 Afghan soldiers, 12 Afghan policemen, 7 security firm guards, and at least 11 militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 162], "content_span": [163, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0204-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 12 partial results\nAttacks occurred in all corners of the country \u2013 not only in the south and east, but also in the west and north that had been comparatively quiet until recent weeks around the election \u2013 signalling an expanding insurgency despite record numbers of U.S. and coalition troops in the eight-year war since the 2001 U.S. invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 162], "content_span": [163, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0205-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nOn September 16, 2009, the IEC released its final uncertified results for the presidential election, with Hamid Karzai winning the election in one round with 54.6% of the vote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0206-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nThe IEC claimed that voter turnout was 38.7%. However, anectdotal evidence from observers suggests it was much lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0207-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nThe results were not final until approved by the UN-dominated Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) which had already previously called for recounts at about 10% of polling stations, a process which could take months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0208-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nMore than 2,800 complaints were registered with the ECC, including complaints involving polling day and the ballot counting process, with 726 allegations that the ECC categorized as serious enough to have affected the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0209-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nThe EU deputy chief observer, Dimitra Ioannou, alleged that 1.5 million ballots were suspect out of the 5.5 million ballots, representing 27% of the vote. According to Ioannou, 1.1 million of the votes for Karzai were suspect, along with 300,000 of the votes for Abdullah, and 92,000 of the votes for Bashardost. The EU deputy chief observer noted that if all the votes they deemed suspect were invalidated, Karzai's percentage would drop from 54.6% to 46%, while Abdullah's would rise from 27.7% to 31%, effectively forcing a run-off. The Karzai campaign denounced the announcement as \"partial, irresponsible and in contradiction with Afghanistan's constitution.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0210-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nThe European Union election observer mission had previously declared the election process to be generally \"good and fair\", shortly after voting day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0211-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, September, massive fraud alleged, sample-based audit, September 16 uncertified final result\nThe figures alleged by the EU deputy chief observer represented approximately 36%, 19%, and 18% of the votes counted for Karzai, Abdullah, and Bashardost, respectively. Invalidating the 1.5 million ballots would reduce the already low voter turnout figure to under 27%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 171], "content_span": [172, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0212-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility\nThe time frames mentioned at the end of September for a decision about a run-off did not appear to hold however: The recount of the random sample of 10% of suspect ballot boxes finally only began nine days later, on October 5, 2009. The UN stated that this recount process would take at least four days and that a final result would come next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 135], "content_span": [136, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0213-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility\nOn October 11, 2009, the recount of the 10% sample of suspect ballot boxes was reported to be completed, with results to be announced within a few days. The head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, stated that vote fraud in the Afghan election had been \"widespread\". He refused to reveal any numbers however, saying \"any specific figures would be speculative\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 135], "content_span": [136, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0214-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility\nOn October 12, 2009, just days before results of the audit were expected to be announced, the chairman of the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), Canadian Grant Kippen, told reporters that the ECC had misinterpreted the statistical analysis to determine the percentage of votes that would be voided for each candidate in ballot boxes deemed suspect. The week before, the ECC had stated that each candidate would lose votes in proportion to the number of fraudulent ballots cast for them in a random sampling of ballots boxes deemed suspect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 135], "content_span": [136, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0214-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility\nUnder the new ECC interpretation, the commission divides suspect ballot stations into six categories of reason for suspicion, and disqualifies the same percentage from each candidate's total ballots within each category. According to an Associated Press article: \"That means votes legitimately cast for a candidate could be canceled if they were found in ballot boxes that were deemed to have been stuffed in favor of another contender.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 135], "content_span": [136, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0215-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility\nOn the same day, in a blow for the UN-backed complaints body's credibility, one of the two Afghan members of the five-member ECC resigned, stating \"foreign interference\" on the part of the three Western members \u2013 an American, a Canadian, and a Dutch \u2013 of the complaints body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 135], "content_span": [136, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0216-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nOn October 17, 2009, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, which had widely been expected to release its findings from its statistics-based audit, delayed the announcement again as ECC officials spent the day in meetings with Afghan election officials and double-checking calculations \u2013 and as U.S. and other Western officials pressured Karzai and Abdullah to state their acceptance of the findings before the ECC announcement and to work out a power-sharing deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0217-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nAccording to The New York Times, Karzai fielded a flurry of visits and phone calls from U.S. and other Western officials pressing him to accept the delayed U.N.-led audit results, enter into a power-sharing deal with Abdullah, or otherwise avert a crisis in the contended election. Among the American officials working the phones were Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. In Afghanistan, U.S. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, met with Karzai at least twice, and Abdullah once, stressing \"the necessity of a legitimate outcome,\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0218-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called Karzai and Abdullah. French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, who had flown to Afghanistan \"in the context of tension\" caused by the election crisis, pressured both Karzai and Abdullah to \"respect\" the U.N.-backed audit process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0219-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nAlong with U.S. Senator John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad was also in Kabul that day for talks with Afghan leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0220-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nThe spokesman for Karzai's campaign, Wahid Omar, said they were concerned that the process was \"being overshadowed by political discussions.\" Karzai's spokesman stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0221-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\n\"We will not be committed to a result that is decided on politically.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0222-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nThe ECC's ruling was now expected October 18, according to The New York Times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0223-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nOn October 18, 2009, however, the BBC reported that the ECC results from the fraud investigation were now due \"in the next few days\". The Telegraph  that the ECC investigation was \"understood\" to have knocked Karzai's vote percentage down to between 47% and 49%, but that the official result \"was delayed as the West asked the men to reach an agreement that would avoid another round of voting.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0224-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Waiting game and Western political pressure\nWhite House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel indicated in veiled criticism of Hamid Karzai that it would be 'reckless' for the U.S. to commit more troops to Afghanistan until there is a 'true partner' to work with in Kabul. An expert familiar with the U.S. administration's thinking said there was no stomach for an election run-off after the \"organisational headaches and risks to American troops\" experienced in the August 20 ballot, and stated: \"There is a clear preference for a deal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 180], "content_span": [181, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0225-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nOn October 19, 2009, The New York Times  that the ECC submitted its findings to the IEC that day, leaving the official announcement of results to the Independent Election Committee. However, an unnamed Western official said that the ECC investigation gave Karzai only 48% of the vote, under the 50% threshold required to avoid a run-off. The sample-based audit was reported to have found levels of fraud ranging from 71% to 96% in the six categories into which suspect ballot boxes had been divided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0226-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nKarzai campaign spokesman Wahid Omar stated: \"I don't think we can make any judgment based on the figures announced today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0227-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nIn a follow-up article the same day, The New York Times  that based on its own analysis using preliminary data from the ECC findings, 874,000, or 28%, of Karzai's 3,093,000 votes were ordered invalidated by the sample-based fraud audit, as were 185,000, or 18%, of Abdullah's votes. The ECC also completely discarded 210 ballot boxes because of fraud, reducing Karzai's total by 41,000 votes and Abdullah's by 10,807 votes. The ECC findings resulted in pushing Karzai's final vote total from 54% down to around 48\u201349%, and raising Abdullah's vote total from 28% up to 31%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0228-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nAccording to an  by The Times, overall, \"some 1.26 million recorded votes were excluded from an election that cost the international community more than $300 million.\" The New York Times wrote, \"fraud was so pervasive that nearly a quarter of all votes were thrown out. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0229-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nConcerns that Karzai might reject the ECC findings in direct conflict with his main backer for eight years, the United States, led to continued intense American and ally pressure on him to accept a power-sharing deal or face a second round run-off. Senator John Kerry made an unplanned stop in Kabul to meet Karzai in the presidential palace \"to continue his discussions and consultations\", according to the U.S. embassy. White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said former U.S. army general Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was engaged in \"delicate but extremely important\" efforts to persuade Karzai to accept the ECC's findings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0230-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said that she had spoken a number of times with Karzai in recent days, announced that Karzai would be making an announcement the next day, saying \"He is going to announce his intentions ... But I don't want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai's statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this.\" An unnamed diplomatic source also said that Karzai would be making a nationwide address flanked by U.S. Senator John Kerry and U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide, and claimed that Karzai was prepared to make concessions, such as forming a power-sharing coalition or agreeing to a run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0231-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, ECC fraud investigation findings reported to IEC\nHowever, according to The Times, one of Karzai's senior cabinet ministers, Ismail Khan, who had met with Karzai, said he had been told that a formal challenge will be issued: \"He said he will complain against the ECC decision, and demand an investigation into why they cut his votes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 185], "content_span": [186, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0232-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nOn October 20, 2009, under heavy U.S. and ally pressure, President Hamid Karzai announced his acquiescence to a run-off in the election. Flanked at a news conference by U.S. Senator John Kerry, the head of the powerful United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Kai Eide, the U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan, he announced a run-off to be held on November 7, stating: \"Unfortunately, the election of Afghanistan was defamed. Any result that we were getting out of it was not able to bring legitimacy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0233-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nKarzai had initially indicated that he might reject the Western-dominated ECC's findings. According to The New York Times, Karzai's capitulation came after \"all-out push\" by U.S. administration officials and their European allies. In a meeting hastily arranged after the release of the ECC ruling the previous day, U.S. Senator Kerry and the U.S. ambassador Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry were at the presidential palace in Kabul. Karzai initially hesitated but ended up agreeing to accept the findings during the course of the two-hour meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0234-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nBesides Senator Kerry and General Eikenberry, Karzai was pushed hard by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who urged him in multiple calls over the last few days to be a \"statesman\" and accept the results, and by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who called Karzai three times in the last 48 hours, warning him that he could lose Western support if he did not accede to a second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0234-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nChiming in as well, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper also called to warn Karzai that he would face dire problems with the coalition countries involved in Afghanistan if he did not cooperate. The American, British, and French ambassadors to Afghanistan joined U.S. Senator Kerry and the U.N.'s Kai Eide in flanking Karzai as he made his announcement at the news conference. U.S. administration officials had also used President Obama's pending strategy review on Afghanistan as leverage on Karzai, indicating that they would not make a decision on adding troops until Karzai agreed to accept the election outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0235-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nA senior Western official was quoted in  by The Times as saying: \"No one wants a second round. It'll be expensive, bloody, and probably fraudulent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0236-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, Acquiescence to a run-off on November 7\nAccording to The Times, the certified results after the audit findings had left Karzai with 49.67% of the vote, just 0.33% below the 50% threshold to have avoided the run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 176], "content_span": [177, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0237-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Post-election vote count and investigations, October, ruling of the ECC awaited, run-off possibility, October 21 certified final result\nOn October 21, 2009, following the ECC's official audit findings and Karzai's heavily pressured acquiescence to a run-off, the IEC released its final certified results for the August 20 vote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 170], "content_span": [171, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0238-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\n\"It is hard to see how a second round can be credible.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0239-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nOn October 23, election authorities, with UN assistance, began delivering ballots for the November 7 run-off. UN planes flew ballots and voting kits to provincial capitals from where they would be delivered to thousands of polling stations by helicopter, truck, women and donkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0240-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nBecause of insecurity and fraud concerns, 7,000 polling stations \u2013 nearly 30% of the 24,000 polling stations that had been set up for the August 20 vote \u2013 were cut for the run-off vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0241-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nThere were also concerns that voter turnout for the run-off could be even lower than the \"anemic\" turnout of 30\u201333% in the first round on August 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0242-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nAccording to Gilles Dorronsoro, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and an expert on Afghanistan and South Asia: \"This time around, the weather will be worse, and the plain fact is, most Afghans don\u2019t like their options enough to vote.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0243-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nThe UN told the IEC that 200 of its 380 district election chiefs in the first round had ignored procedures or been complicit in fraud and must not be hired again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0244-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\n\"The international community cannot expect Afghans to risk their lives to participate in a sham election.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0245-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nThe run-off campaign period formally opened on October 24. Abdullah's campaign called for the dismissal of the three top officials of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), accusing them of having allowed widespread fraud in the first round of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0246-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nBoth run-off candidates were reported to be frantically wooing Ramazan Bashardost, the presidential candidate that had placed third in the August 20 first round vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0247-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nBashardost, who had campaigned against the corruption and greed of Kabul politicians and against the poverty of Afghans, said he had not decided who to support between the two \u2013 if anyone \u2013 saying the choice was between \"the worst, and worse than the worst.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0248-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nThe Taliban reiterated their call for Afghans to boycott the election, denouncing it as a foreign-orchestrated sham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0249-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election\nOn October 26, Abdullah called again for the sacking of Azizullah Lodin, the head of the Independent Election Commission, saying that he had \"no credibility\". Karzai rejected the call by Abdullah, stating \"the changes would not be helpful to the elections and the country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0250-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, Abdullah withdrawal from the run-off vote\nOn November 1, 2009, Abdullah Abdullah announced that he was withdrawing from the run-off vote, saying \"I will not participate in the November 7 election,\" because his demands for changes in the electoral commission had not been met, and a \"transparent election is not possible.\" Hamid Karzai had rejected Abdullah's demand that the head of the IEC resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 105], "content_span": [106, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0251-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, Abdullah withdrawal from the run-off vote\nAbdullah also said the Afghan people should not accept results of an election from the current election commission, and stated that Karzai's government had not been legitimate since its mandate expired in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 105], "content_span": [106, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0252-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, Abdullah withdrawal from the run-off vote\nSpeculation immediately followed that the run-off election would be cancelled. Afghanistan was thrown into a crisis after the withdrawal of Abdullah, which in effect cleared the way for Karzai to retain power despite the accusations of fraud. A weakened Karzai administration, shorn of electoral legitimacy, would represent a major blow to the Western allies who considered to send more troops to fight the Taliban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 105], "content_span": [106, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0253-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, Run-off cancelled and winner declared\nThe next day, on November 2, officials from the Independent Election Commission announced the cancellation of the November 7 run-off and declared Hamid Karzai the winner by default. According to The New York Times, the Afghan election commission and Karzai had been under intense pressure from the United States and its allies to cancel the run-off. Abdullah said the appointment had \"no legal basis\" and Afghans deserved a better government. He stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0254-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, Run-off cancelled and winner declared\n\"A government that is appointed by an illegitimate commission, a commission that has tainted its own legitimacy, cannot bring the rule of law to the country, it cannot fight the corruption.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 101], "content_span": [102, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0255-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, November 7 run-off election, NDI data browser\nOn December 17, 2009, the National Democratic Institute opened up an Afghanistan election data browser to the public. This tool allows users to browse the raw vote count from the 2009 presidential election on a national view and quickly study details on lower (provincial, district, and even polling center) levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0256-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nThe United States is widely seen to have an enormous stake riding on the outcome of the election in Afghanistan. While U.S. officials have taken great pains to repeatedly assert neutrality, there are many perceptions and allegations of U.S. interference and manipulation in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0257-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nMany in Afghanistan perceive the U.S. to have favoured Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah over Hamid Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0258-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nFour prominent Afghan politicians, including Ghani and Abdullah, were in attendance at U.S. President Obama's inauguration in January. Karzai, however, was not. Media reports began appearing that suggested that the U.S. was eager for a change at the top in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai was also angered when the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl W. Eikenberry, appeared beside Ghani and Abdullah at news conferences in June, ahead of the election, though Eikenberry stressed impartiality in his remarks. After Karzai did not show up at the first televised debate \u2013 against Abdullah and Ghani \u2013 the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan published an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for \"serious debate among the candidates\" in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0259-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nAll these developments were viewed by many in Afghanistan as a message about which candidates the U.S. now preferred to have in power in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0260-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nSome of Karzai's rivals have alluded that Karzai is extremely concerned about foreign interference in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0261-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\n\"He considers everybody part of that big plot,\" Abdullah said. \"In the meetings with elders and political leaders who have talked and spoken to me, he says this, 'We should unite. You know, there are plots, Americans, British,' and so on and so forth.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0262-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference\nBoth Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani have told people privately that the United States gave them the green light to run for president, according to a former U.S. official in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0263-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Allegations of U.S. manipulation\nAs the first installments of vote counting results were being released, about a week after election day, Ramazan Bashardost, who ran third in exit polls, contended that the U.S. was playing a role in manipulating the outcome, in order to use a contested situation for its plans to broker a deal among the leading candidates. Others have made the same contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0264-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Allegations of U.S. manipulation\nA TIME  that came out just after the election did suggest that a contested election outcome could \"suit the U.S. purpose.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0265-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Allegations of U.S. manipulation\nSome support for Bashardost's allegation may be seen in the U.S.-funded pre-election polls, one conducted by what Gary Langer, director of polling at ABC News,  as \"an outfit called Glevum Associates, which appears from its website to be a military contractor engaged in producing psychological operations data as part of a U.S. Army counterinsurgency program, the Human Terrain System,\" and the other by the International Republican Institute, a \"pro-democracy group affiliated with the Republican Party and financed by the American government.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0266-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Allegations of U.S. manipulation\nIn their May 3\u201316, 2009 poll, the International Republican Institute found that Bashardost placed higher than Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani in favorability amongst Afghans, and that Bashardost and Ghani both came in at the very same level of support, 3%, when Afghans were asked who they would vote for president in an open-ended question. Yet their July 16\u201326 survey asked a series of questions that quite specifically included Ghani, but left Bashardost out for some reason:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0267-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, New chief executive position\nU.S. officials have also made clear, even before the election, that \u2013 regardless of who won the Afghan election \u2013 Washington planned to use the leverage of the military force and financial resources at its command to extensively reorganize the Afghan government according to U.S. plans. The U.S. would push for a new non-elected \"Chief Executive\" position to be inserted under the President, with the appointee taking over all the day-to-day operations of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0268-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, New chief executive position\nAshraf Ghani has widely been characterized as the U.S. favourite for appointment to that position. (Another mention was Zalmay Khalilzad.) Ghani has had discussions with U.S. officials, including both the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, and the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, and has denied turning down the job offer. He told reporters a few days before the election: \"I've been approached repeatedly; the offer is on the table. I have not accepted it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0269-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, New chief executive position\nOther plans by the U.S. Defense and State departments also call for the installation of American \"mentors\" and liaisons inside Afghan government ministries in Kabul, a policy that was heavily used in the early years of the U.S. military occupation of Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0270-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, New chief executive position\nThe powerful, non-elected \"chief executive\" position envisaged for insertion into the Afghan government was characterized by a senior White House official as \"a prime minister, except not prime minister because he wouldn\u2019t be responsible to a parliamentary system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0271-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, New chief executive position\nAfghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said that installing a \"shadow prime-minister\" would pose constitutional problems, but said: \"I know that in Washington this idea has strong supporters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 92], "content_span": [93, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0272-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nThe day after the election, a tense meeting took place between the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, and Afghan president Hamid Karzai, with sources describing the meeting as \"a dramatic bust up\" and \"explosive\". to The Times, Holbrooke was already raising the possibility of a run-off, causing Karzai to accuse the U.S. special envoy of trying to force a second round \"against the interests of Afghanistan\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0273-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nThe U.S. special envoy also met with Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, after the election. The discussion between Holbrooke and Karzai was said to have been noticeably briefer than Holbrooke's meeting with Abdullah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0274-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nOn August 29, it was announced that the envoys from the United States, Britain, France, and Germany would meet in Paris to discuss the Afghan elections. According to The Times, a French official said that Holbrooke wanted a run-off in order to chasten Karzai and show him his power was limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0275-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nReacting to reports that the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan wanted the vote to go to a second round for the sake of credibility, the IEC said the result is an Afghan issue:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0276-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\n\"It is not up to Mr. Holbrooke to decide the first or the second round, this decision is up to the people of Afghanistan who have voted and the IEC is counting these votes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0277-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nOn September 3, 2009, envoys from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other Western countries met in Paris to discuss the Afghan elections and how to rescue their costly efforts. The Paris meeting was seen as an effort to garner support for the U.S. response to the election and pressure Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Western envoys to Afghanistan said to expect a run-off in the Afghan election, suggesting that one could occur if enough votes are invalidated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0278-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nThe U.S., European, and NATO leaders also declared in their Paris meeting that their Western military troops were staying in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0279-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nIn an interview with Le Figaro released on September 7, 2009, Hamid Karzai accused the United States of trying to undermine him in order to make him more malleable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0280-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nOn September 13, 2009, the Sunday Telegraph reported that a \"stormy meeting\" between U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, former U.S. general Karl Eikenberry, and President Karzai had occurred the previous week. \"Don't declare victory,\" warned the ambassador, on the instructions of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Telegraph reported that the Afghan president had refused to meet American officials since then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0281-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nOn September 15, 2009, the top U.S. diplomat to the United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Peter Galbraith, was  ordered out of the country by the head of the mission, U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide, following a heated disagreement over the American diplomat's demands for a wholesale recount that would virtually ensure a run-off. According to diplomatic sources, Galbraith \u2013 a close friend of the U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke \u2013 wanted the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to annul results from 1,000 of the nationwide total of about 6,500 polling centres and to recount results from another 5,000. Eide, on the other hand had been seeking only a recount of some 1,000 polling centres. UN officials suggested that Mr. Galbraith's position was representative of the U.S. stance, while Mr. Eide's echoed those of the European missions in Kabul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 981]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0282-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nAccording to The Times, the IEC were preparing on September 8 to announce results for the last 15% of ballots, mostly from the controversial areas of the south and Badghis province in the north that were expected to return big majorities for Karzai, when Galbraith stepped in and forced them not to announce those results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0283-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nAt a meeting with IEC officials on September 13, Galbraith \"laid into the commissioners, in front of the donors and observers\" and demanded to know why they had not yet started printing ballot papers in preparation for a run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0284-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nOn September 30, 2009, The Times  that the U.S. diplomat was fired from the UN mission in Afghanistan. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, said he dismissed Galbraith \"in the best interests of the mission\" after the Karzai government had told the UN that it was unwilling to deal with the American in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0284-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nThe Times also revealed that UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide had lobbied hard behind the scenes against the appointment of Galbraith as his deputy, but that the United States had pushed Ban Ki Moon to appoint Galbraith, a close friend and ally of Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0285-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a run-off\nIn October 2009, numerous news articles, such as  by The New York Times and  by the Associate Press, described the extraordinary American efforts, in concert with allies, over multiple days to pressure Hamid Karzai into acceding to run-off vote. On October 20, caving in to the relentless U.S. arm-twisting, he reluctantly acquiesced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0286-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn September 13, 2009, the Sunday Telegraph  that American officials were making frantic efforts to force President Hamid Karzai into a power-sharing deal against his wishes, stating that \"US officials have made little secret of their wish to see his wings clipped\". In what one official in Kabul described as \"turmoil\" behind the scenes, Western diplomats were attempting to convert the election crisis into an opportunity for their purposes by forcing Karzai to share power in government with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and \"reformist ministers\", and accept a diminished role for the presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0287-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nIntense Western diplomatic pressure was also being exerted on Abdullah Abdullah to cut a deal. According to The Telegraph, the fear is that if Karzai defies Washington and appoints his own choice of allies to key ministerial roles, he would be more \"difficult for the West to influence\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0288-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn September 27, 2009, it was reported that the United States and other NATO countries with military forces in Afghanistan had indicated to Hamid Karzai's government that they expected he would remain in office for another five-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0288-0001", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nThe U.S. Secretary of State and foreign ministers of the countries, meeting in New York on September 25, 2009, with U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide and Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta, reached \"consensus\" in Spanta's presence that Hamid Karzai would probably \"continue to be president\" of Afghanistan, whether by winning a run-off or as a result of having won more than 50% of the ballots in the disputed August 20 elections. The electoral fraud investigations by the Electoral Complaints Commission had not yet been completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0289-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 15, 2009, Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan under George W. Bush, arrived in Kabul from Washington D.C. A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said Khalilzad was there as a \"private citizen\" and that he was not representing the United States government. Earlier in the year Khalilzad was widely discussed as an American favorite to assume a powerful, unelected \"CEO\" position that U.S. officials hoped to create inside the Afghan government. A Western official said Khalilzad had come on the invitation of Mr. Karzai, but a spokesman for Karzai's campaign denied that. In an appearance on Afghan television, Khalilzad indicated that he had come to help Afghans during a difficult election process, but an official in Mr. Abdullah's campaign said they did not want his assistance, saying \"We do not need any broker.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 965]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0290-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 17, 2009, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, which had widely been expected to release its findings from the statistics-based audit, delayed the announcement again as U.S. and ally envoys pressured Karzai and Abdullah to state their acceptance of the findings before the ECC announcement and to work out a power-sharing deal. A senior American official made the point of stating that Karzai and Abdullah together won more than 70% of the votes in the first round, ensuring the credibility of a government in which they shared power. A Karzai spokesman indicated that both foreign and Afghan officials were proffering formulas for power sharing, but that Karzai had rejected them and would not discuss power sharing until after a winner is declared. Abdullah also reiterated that he would consider negotiating after the results were announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 974]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0291-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 18, 2009, The Telegraph  that the ECC results were being \"delayed as the West asked the men to reach an agreement that would avoid another round of voting.\" In veiled criticism of Hamid Karzai, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel made clear that the U.S. would not send more troops to Afghanistan until there is a 'true partner' to work with in Kabul. An expert familiar with the U.S. administration's thinking suggested there was no longer any stomach for an election run-off after the \"organisational headaches and risks to American troops\" brought by the August 20 ballot, and stated: \"There is a clear preference for a deal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0292-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nFrench foreign minister Bernard Kouchner stated that Karzai and Abdullah were ready to \"work together\" to find a settlement. A Western diplomat in Kabul said: \"The idea now is to reach an agreement in which Karzai's victory at the first round is accepted ...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0293-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nFollowing the flurry of last-minute phone calls, visits, and statements that U.S. and other Western officials made to Karzai, on October 19, 2009, The New York Times reported an unnamed Western official saying: \"In the last 72 hours, I think even Karzai got the message. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0294-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nDemonstrations supporting Karzai took place in Kandahar, in the south of Afghanistan and in Ghazni province in the center of the country. In the district of Spin Boldak, around 3,000 demonstrators gathered in a market, shouting: \"We don't want foreigners to interfere in our election.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0295-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nAli Shah Khan, a tribal leader from the area, said the protesters believed that foreigners were deliberately delaying the election results, and stated: \"The foreign countries want a weak leader for Afghanistan. After that they can do whatever they want.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0296-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 19, 2009, the ECC communicated its fraud investigation result to the IEC, with its unofficially released findings stripping approximately a million votes from Karzai \u2013 and bringing his vote share slightly below the critical 50% threshold required to win without a run-off. The continued concerns that Karzai and the IEC, whose members he appointed, might reject the ECC's findings, resulted in continuation of the intense American and ally efforts to pressure Karzai into accepting a power-sharing deal or face a run-off vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0297-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nAccording to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Senator John Kerry made an unplanned stop in Kabul to meet Karzai in the presidential palace \"to continue his discussions and consultations\". Meanwhile, according to White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, former U.S. army general Karl Eikenberry who commanded U.S. and ally forces in Afghanistan in 2005\u20132007, was also engaged in \"delicate but extremely important\" efforts to persuade Karzai to accept the U.N. panel's ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0298-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stating that she had spoken with Karzai a number of times in recent days, announced that Karzai would be making an announcement the next day, saying \"He is going to announce his intentions ... I am very hopeful that we will see a resolution in line with the constitutional order in the next several days. But I don't want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai's statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this.\" A diplomatic source told The Times that Karzai would make a nationwide address flanked by U.S. Senator John Kerry and U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide, claiming that Karzai was prepared to make concessions, such as agreeing to a run-off or forming a power-sharing coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 891]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0299-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn the other hand, The Times  that one of Karzai's senior cabinet ministers, Ismail Khan, who had met with Karzai, said he had been told that a formal challenge will be issued: \"He said he will complain against the ECC decision, and demand an investigation into why they cut his votes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0300-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nAccording to one analysis on October 20, 2009,  by Tom Coghlan in The Times, the U.S. did not want a run-off to take place, but, rather, was trying to push Karzai into entering a power-sharing deal with his rival, in order to keep him in office but with a \"weakened mandate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0301-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 20, 2009, after Karzai caved in to intense U.S. and ally pressure that a senior U.S. administration official described as a \"full court press\", and acceded to a run-off, diplomats said the efforts to get the two men to join forces would now intensify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0302-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 21, 2009, U.S. officials, including a U.S. defence official, emphasized that a power-sharing agreement remained a strong possibility as a way of resolving the crisis without going through with the run-off that had just been announced the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0303-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, U.S. efforts to force a power-sharing deal\nOn October 25, 2009, Karzai and Abdullah, responding to questions in separate interviews on U.S. television, both rejected a power-sharing deal before the run-off vote. Karzai, responding to questions in a CNN interview, stated that such a deal would be \"an insult to democracy\". Abdullah, responding to questions on Fox News, ruled out a deal ahead of the run-off, and, in another interview on CNN, stated he had \"absolutely no interest\" in joining the government if Karzai won, saying that he would not be \"part of the same deteriorating situation\". The New York Times wrote that such a coalition would provide the U.S. and NATO with political cover for the continued presence of their military forces \"because they would be backing a government that had the support of a vast majority of Afghans.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 106], "content_span": [107, 907]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0304-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Accusations of foreign interference from within the ECC\nOn October 12, 2009, one of the two Afghan members of the Western-dominated Electoral Complaints Commission resigned over \"foreign interference\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 119], "content_span": [120, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0305-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Accusations of foreign interference from within the ECC\nMaulavi Mustafa Barakzai, a judge who ad been appointed to the panel by the Afghan Supreme Court, stated that his resignation was due to the fact that the three UN-appointed Western officials on the panel \u2013 an American, a Canadian, and a Dutch \u2013 were \"making all the decisions on their own\" and that Afghans had little input in its decisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 119], "content_span": [120, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0306-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Accusations of foreign interference from within the ECC\nBarakzai's resignation left the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) with only one Afghan member and three officials from countries with foreign military troops in Afghanistan. The ECC is led by one of the three foreign officials, chairman Grant Kippen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 119], "content_span": [120, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0307-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Accusations of foreign interference from within the ECC\nKarzai said that the resignation Barakzai \"cast serious doubt\" on the work of the commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 119], "content_span": [120, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0308-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Perceived U.S. interference, Accusations of foreign interference from within the ECC\nMustafa Barakzai, a Supreme Court Judge who was one of two Afghans on the commission, resigned on Monday claiming foreigners were \"interfering\" in its work. Supporters of Abdullah claimed that Karzai was somehow behind Barakzai's sudden resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 119], "content_span": [120, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0309-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Accusations of a United Nations cover-up\nU.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, fired from his UN post by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on September 30, 2009, after accusing his former boss, UN special envoy Kai Eide, of helping cover up electoral fraud and being biased in favor of Hamid Karzai, further accused the UN of fabricating the reason for his dismissal and of helping to cover up massive electoral fraud committed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0310-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Accusations of a United Nations cover-up\nIn his statements on October 4, 2009, the American diplomat characterized the Afghan election as a \"train wreck\", and claimed: \"As many as 30% of Karzai's votes were fraudulent, and lesser fraud was committed on behalf of other candidates.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0311-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Accusations of a United Nations cover-up\nGalbraith told the Washington Post that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon's final instruction before firing him was: \"Do not talk\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201373-0312-0000", "contents": "2009 Afghan presidential election, Accusations of a United Nations cover-up\nOn October 11, 2009, Kai Eide referred to Galbraith's allegations as \"personal attacks\" against his integrity, adding they have \"affected the whole election process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201374-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Africa Trophy\nThe 2009 Africa Trophy was the first edition of rugby union intermediate African championship for national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201374-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Africa Trophy, South Zone\nThe tournament was played in Gaborone, Botswana. It was also of the first two of division one of south section of 2008 CAR Development Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201375-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Fencing Championships\nThe 2009 African Fencing Championships were held in Dakar, Senegal from 6 to 9 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201376-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Handball Champions League\nThe 2009 African Handball Champions League was the 31st edition, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament was held from October 21\u201330 at the Palais des Sports in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon, contested by 11 teams and won by Groupement Sportif des P\u00e9troliers of Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201376-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Handball Champions League, Draw\nHC H\u00e9ritage Primeiro de Agosto Sahel de Douala Stade Mandji", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 44], "content_span": [45, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201377-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Judo Championships\nAlaa El Idrissi Is a Judoka Originally From Morocco, Born 31 October 1987 in Casablanca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201377-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Judo Championships\nThe 2010 African Judo Championships were the 30th edition of the African Judo Championships, and were held in Mauritius from 30 April to 3 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201378-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Junior Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships were held in Bambous, Mauritius from 30 July to 2 August. There were 40 events in total, of which 20 were contested by male athletes and 20 by female athletes. Multiple gold medallists Caster Semenya and Amaka Ogoegbunam broke championships records, but also created controversy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics later that year. Semenya was asked to take a gender test and Ogoegbunam tested positive for anabolic steroids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201379-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship\nThe 2009 African Nations Championship was the first edition of the African Nations Championship in football. The tournament took place in Ivory Coast from 22 February to 8 March 2009. Thirty countries attempted to qualify for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201379-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship, Group stage, Tie-breaking criteria\nWhere two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201379-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship, Group stage, Group B\nNB: Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac was sent to the stands in the 82nd minute for unsporting behaviour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201380-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship Final\nThe 2009 African Nations Championship Final was a football match held on 8 March 2009, and was the culmination of the inaugural tournament organised by CAF, aimed at players playing in their domestic leagues. The final was contested by DR Congo and Ghana, who had met earlier in the group stage, where Ghana ran out 3\u20130 winners. However, this was not to be the case, as DR Congo comfortably won 2\u20130 to record their first triumph in a continental competition since the 1974 African Nations Cup, where, as Zaire, they defeated Zambia 2\u20130 in the replay", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201381-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship qualification\nThe qualification phase for the 2009 African Championship of Nations began in March 2008. These games did not count towards the FIFA rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201382-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Nations Championship squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2009 African Nations Championship in the Ivory Coast. The tournament started on 22 February 2009. The final took place in Abidjan on 8 March 2009. The tournament's rules state that each team's squad must consist of players playing in their national league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201383-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Rally Championship\nThe 2009 African Rally Championship season was the 29th season of the African Rally Championship. The season consisted of five rallies, beginning on February 20, with the Rally of Tanzania, and ending on August 30 with the conclusion of the Zimbabwe Challenge Rally. Zimbabwe's James Whyte won the championship, winning two of the five rallies during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201384-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 African U-17 Championship was a football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament took place in Algeria. The top four teams qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Nigeria, automatically qualified as the hosts, didn't qualify for the Finals, although if they qualified for the Finals and went on to reach the semi-finals, then the teams who finished third in their respective groups would have met in a playoff for the fourth and final place in the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201384-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African U-17 Championship, Group stage, Group B\nAfter the group ended, Niger was ejected from the competition for fielding an over-aged player. Their results were expunged from the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201385-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African U-17 Championship qualification, Preliminary round\nThe first leg matches were played on either 11, 12, 13 or 15 August 2008. The second leg matches were played on either 25 or 26 August 2008. The winners advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201385-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African U-17 Championship qualification, First round\nThe first leg matches were played on either 29, 30 and 31 August, except for the Zambia vs Namibia match, which was played on 6 September. The second leg matches were played on 12, 13 or 14 September 2008. The Angola vs Botswana matches were played on 14 September (first leg), and 26 September (second leg). The winners advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201385-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 African U-17 Championship qualification, Second round\nThe first leg matches were played on 8 and 9 November. The second leg matches were played on 22 and 23 November. The winners qualified for the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201386-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Union base bombings in Mogadishu\nTwo large-scale attacks against AMISOM soldiers carried out by al-Shabaab suicide bombers in Mogadishu, Somalia occurred in 2009. In total 32 people, including 28 AMISOM soldiers were killed and 55 people were injured by the two bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201386-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Union base bombings in Mogadishu, 22 February attack\nOn 22 February 2009, was carried out by Al-Shabaab. against the base of the African Union Mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. The attack, carried out by one suicide bomber in a car and one on foot, left 11 Burundian soldiers dead and 15 others seriously hurt. The car bomber was a Somali contractor who had easy access to the base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201386-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 African Union base bombings in Mogadishu, 17 September attack\nOn 17 September 2009, twin suicide bombings occurred at Aden Adde International Airport, the headquarters of AMISOM, in Mogadishu, killing 17 soldiers. The bombers were able to enter the base using two stolen white UN cars and struck a meeting between the AMISOM troops and the Transitional Federal Government. Brigadier General Juvenal Niyoyunguruza of Burundi, the deputy head of AMISOM, was killed in the blast, while the mission's Ugandan commander, General Nathan Mugisha, was wounded. Of the dead peacekeepers, 12 were Burundian and five were Ugandan. Four Somali civilians also died in the attacks, which wounded another 40 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201386-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 African Union base bombings in Mogadishu, 17 September attack, Aftermath\nShelling by both al-Shabaab and AMISOM after the bombings killed 19 Somali civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201388-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Women's Handball Champions League\nThe 2009 African Women's Handball Champions League was the 31st edition, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament was held from October 21\u201330 at the Palais des Sports in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon, contested by 8 teams and won by Atl\u00e9tico Petr\u00f3leos de Luanda of Angola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201389-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Women's Youth Handball Championship\nThe 2009 African Women's Youth Handball Championship was the 2nd edition of the tournament, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation and held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from September 26 to 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201389-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Women's Youth Handball Championship\nAngola was the champion and the tournament qualified the top four teams to the 2010 world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201389-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 African Women's Youth Handball Championship, Preliminary round\nThe three teams played in a round robin system with the top two playing the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship\nThe 2009 African Youth Championship is a football tournament for under 20 players. It was held in Rwanda from 18 January until 1 February 2009. It also served as qualification for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification, Preliminary round\nThe first leg was played on either the 18, 19 or 20 April 2008. The second leg was held on either the 2, 3 or 4 May 2008. The winners advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification, Preliminary round\nCongo, Nigeria, Zambia, Gambia, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Egypt, Cameroon, Benin, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Ghana, Angola, Gabon, South Africa and Burkina Faso all received byes to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification, First round\nThe First Round first leg matches were held on the 27, 28 and 29 June 2008. The second legs were held on the 11, 12 and 13 July 2008. The winners qualified for the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification, Second round\nThe first legs were played on the 26, 27 and 28 September. The second legs were played on the 11, 12 and 13 October. The winners qualified for the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification to FIFA U-20 World Cup\nThe four best performing teams qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201390-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 African Youth Championship, Qualification to FIFA U-20 World Cup\nEgypt failed to advance to the semifinals, but qualified as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nThe Aftonbladet\u2013Israel controversy refers to the controversy that followed the publication of a 17 August 2009 article in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. The article revealed that Israeli troops harvested organs from Palestinians who had died in their custody. Sparking a fierce debate in Sweden and abroad, the article created a rift between the Swedish and the Israeli governments. Israeli officials denounced the report at the time and labelled it anti-Semitic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nWritten by Swedish freelance photojournalist Donald Bostr\u00f6m, the article's title was V\u00e5ra s\u00f6ner plundras p\u00e5 sina organ (\"Our sons are being plundered for their organs\"). It presented allegations that in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, many young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by Israeli forces and their bodies returned to their families with organs missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nThe Israeli government and several US representatives condemned the article as baseless and incendiary, noted the history of antisemitism and blood libels against Jews and asked the Swedish government to denounce the article. The government refused, citing freedom of the press and the Swedish constitution. Swedish ambassador to Israel Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier condemned the article as \"shocking and appalling\" and stated that freedom of the press carries responsibility, but the Swedish government distanced itself from her remarks. The Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association and Reporters Without Borders supported Sweden's refusal to condemn it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nThe former warned of venturing onto a slope with government officials damning occurrences in Swedish media, which may curb warranted debate and restrain freedom of expression by self-censorship. Italy made a stillborn attempt to defuse the diplomatic situation by a European resolution condemning antisemitism. The Palestinian National Authority announced that it would establish a commission to investigate the article's claims. A survey among the cultural editors of the other major Swedish newspapers found that all would have refused the article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nIn December 2009, a 2000 interview with the chief pathologist at the L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine Yehuda Hiss was released in which he had admitted taking organs from the corpses of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers without their families' permission. Israeli health officials confirmed Hiss's confession but stated that such incidents had ended in the 1990s and noted that Hiss had been removed from his post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nThe Palestinian press claimed the report \"appeared to confirm Palestinians' allegations that Israel returned their relatives' bodies with their chests sewn up, having harvested their organs\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\nSeveral news agencies reported that the Aftonbladet article had claimed that Israel killed Palestinians to harvest their organs, although the author, the culture editor for Aftonbladet, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes denied that it had made that claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nIn August 2009, Aftonbladet ran an article by freelance writer Donald Bostr\u00f6m in its culture section. The article opened by mentioning arrests related to a suspected money-laundering and organ-trafficking operation involving rabbis, politicians and civil servants in New Jersey and New York. Briefly introducing the problem of the illegal organ trade worldwide, Bostr\u00f6m then related that he heard and saw things during his stay in the Palestinian territories in 1992, during the First Intifada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nA photograph accompanying the article depicted a cadaver with a line of stitches on the torso, identified as that of Bilal Ghanem, who was 19 when he was killed by IDF soldiers on 13 May 1992. The Ghanem family was not interviewed for his article, but Bostr\u00f6m described his impressions of Ghanem's burial, which he attended:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nTogether with the sharp noises from the shovels we could hear occasional laughter from the soldiers who, as they waited to go home, exchanged some jokes. As Bilal was put in the grave his chest was uncovered and suddenly it became clear to the few people present just what kind of abuse he had been exposed to. Bilal was not by far the first to be buried with a slit from his abdomen up to his chin and speculations on the intent started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nThe next paragraph of the article quoted other Palestinian families and reads as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nThe affected Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza were sure of what happened to their sons. Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors, relatives of Khaled from Nablus told me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin and the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who had all disappeared for a number of days only to return at night, dead and autopsied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\n\u2013 Why would they otherwise keep the bodies for up to five days before they let us bury them? What happened to the bodies during that time? Why are they performing an autopsy when the cause of death is obvious, and in all cases against our will? Why are the bodies returned at night? And why with a military escort? And why is the area closed off during the funeral? And why is the electricity cut off? There were lots of upset questions from Nafes uncle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nBostr\u00f6m also wrote that unnamed UN staff members had told him that \"organ theft definitely occurred\" but that they had been \"prevented from doing anything about it\". He also reported the response of the IDF spokesperson as being that the allegations of organ theft were lies and that all Palestinian victims are routinely subjected to autopsy. Bostr\u00f6m noted that according to Palestinian statistics for 1992, Bilal Ghanem had been one of 133 Palestinians killed and one of 69 going through postmortem examination. Bostr\u00f6m concluded the article with his opinion: questions on what was happening remained unanswered and should be investigated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nMeanwhile, family members of Bilal Ghanem, the Palestinian at the centre of the article's allegations, stated that they had never told Bostr\u00f6m that Ghanem's organs had been removed. However, even though they never spoke to Bostr\u00f6m and lacked any proof to confirm the allegations, they thought that Bilal had been deprived of some organs. In a follow-up editorial, Aftonbladet editor Jan Helin wrote that he approved the article for publication \"because it raises a few questions\" but acknowledged that the paper then had no evidence for its claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Article\nIn August 2009, Bostr\u00f6m said that he did not know whether the claims were true but that he wanted them investigated; he made similar remarks at a November conference in Israel. Aftonbladet published an update noting the recent conviction of Yehuda Hiss, Chief Pathologist at Israel's Abu Kabir Institute, and two of his colleagues for improperly taking body tissue from a dead Israeli soldier in 2001. The paper acknowledged that the event did not prove the truth of the original allegations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nThe claim in the article sparked an angry reaction by Israeli Foreign Ministry official Yigal Palmor, who associated the article with mediaeval and 19th-century blood libels. On 23 August, the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, called for the Swedish government to condemn the article. An Israeli official quoted him as saying, \"We're not asking the Swedish government for an apology, we're asking for their condemnation\". The Israeli Finance Minister, Yuval Steinitz, said that a continued Swedish refusal to condemn the article might lead Israel to cancel a visit, scheduled for September, by the Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nSteinitz told the Israel Army Radio, \"Whoever doesn't distance himself from this kind of blood libel might not be a welcome guest in Israel at this time. Until the Swedish government understands differently, the state of Israel, the state of the Jews, cannot ignore antisemitic expressions and modern recycling of medieval antisemitism\". The Israeli Government Press Office, which accredits foreign journalists visiting the country, said that it was delaying its approval for an Aftonbladet correspondent and photographer who are seeking permission to enter the Gaza Strip by the maximum of 90 days allowed by regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nNetanyahu said that history was replete with blood libel against Jews that have led to murder: \"These matters cannot be taken lightly. We are not asking from the Swedes anything that we did not ask of ourselves\". He reminded his ministers that in February 2009, after a satirical skit on the Israeli Channel 10 that had poked fun at the Christian belief that Jesus walked on water and Mary was a virgin had angered the Vatican, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had expressed regret and sorrow. Netanyahu commented: \"I don't recall that Olmert's condemnation damaged press freedom in Israel\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nThe Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told Army Radio, \"What angers us is that the Swedish government didn't condemn it but hastened to reprimand the ambassador who did find it right to condemn\" the story, which he compared to historic anti-Semitic tracts. He accused Sweden of hypocrisy and called the affair \"an odor of anti-Semitism\". Lieberman noted the Swedish condemnation of the Muhammed cartoons affair in 2005 as well as Sweden's shutdown of an Internet site in the country that had posted the caricatures and the Swedish foreign minister's letter of apology to the president of Yemen for doing so. He had criticized Sweden for its silence earlier that year when the Malm\u00f6 decided not to allow spectators to a Davis Cup match between Sweden and Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nThe Israeli Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, said that he would act to prevent the paper's reporters from receiving work permits in Israel. The Welfare and Social Services Minister, Isaac Herzog, said that Israel should take legal steps against the paper. When asked why Israel did not investigate the article's claims, Israel's envoy to Sweden, Benny Dagan, said: \"Why don't we investigate why the Mossad and the Jews were behind the bombing of the twin towers? Why won't we investigate why Jews are spreading AIDS in the Arab countries? Why won't we investigate why Jews killed Christian children and took their blood and organs to bake matzot on Pessah?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nOn 23 December 2009, after Israeli government officials admitted that organ harvesting had taken place in the 1990s, parliamentary hearings into the issue began in Israel's Knesset. Health officials testified that Israeli authorities had harvested organs from the dead bodies of Israelis and Palestinians in the 1990s for transplant purposes and said that the practice had since been ended. Ahmed Tibi, an Arab citizen of Israel, and a member of the Knesset, testified that he had evidence indicating that organ theft continued, citing the case of Fadul Ordul Shaheen, a Palestinian from Gaza who died of diabetes in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Government\nTibi related that after Shaheen's body was returned to his family with bleeding from the eyes and a deep cut through the body, the family said that both the corneas and kidneys were taken from his corpse. Tibi asked for the complaint to be investigated and also for a government probe on whether organs were being harvested from Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Yaacov Litzman, the deputy health minister, responded that he would investigate the case \"with all seriousness\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Media\nGideon Levy, in Ha'aretz, criticized the article and the Israeli response and that the article damaged \"the fight against the occupation\". Levy criticized Bostr\u00f6m for not engaging in documentation, investigation and the presentation of proof. He noted, \"There were cases in which the organs of Palestinians who had been killed were harvested without permission, something the [Abu Kabir] Institute of Forensic Medicine has done to others in Israel, for research purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Media\nBut it's a long way from that to suspicion of trafficking in organs based only on the fact that in 1992 a dead Palestinian was found whose organs had been removed and his body sewn back up. And 17 years later a few Jews were arrested on suspicion of trafficking in human organs. That's not professional journalism, that's cheap and harmful journalism\". However, he called Lieberman's response \"ludicrous\" and stated that it had diplomatically damaged Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Media\nThe editorial line of Ha'aretz was much harsher: \"Donald Bostrom, a veteran Swedish journalist, wrote a despicable, utterly baseless article\". It stated, however, that Lieberman' reaction was \"no less outrageous or inciting\" than Bostrom's article: \"Lieberman's impassioned and demagogic reaction has damaged Israel. It cheapened the Holocaust, blew the article out of proportion and caused an international uproar, pushing Sweden \u2013 which currently holds the presidency of the European Union \u2013 into an unnecessary confrontation with Israel\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Media\nMaariv published an article reporting that much of Bostr\u00f6m's story had come from his book Inshallah (2001), which it stated to have been partly financed by the Swedish Foreign Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Civil society\nYoram Peri head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv University, said the report touched a raw nerve among Israelis, who harbour deep distrust towards Europe and believe its newspapers to be pro-Palestinian. Agreeing on the lack of merit in the article, he suggests, however, that politicians had blown the controversy out of proportion for political purposes: \"Lieberman expressed the feeling of many Israelis who do not understand the European narrative, and they think that any criticism comes from total misunderstanding of the Middle East, or because Europe is totally antisemitic and pro-Palestinian. Very few politicians, unfortunately, are sophisticated enough to distinguish between legitimate criticism and attacks by those with other motives\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Civil society\nFormer diplomat Colette Avital said that Sweden should know the difference between freedom of the press and freedom of opinion: \"freedom of expression is not unlimited, even in that beautiful northern country\". She criticised Israeli official and media reactions as \"blown out of all reasonable proportion\" and the Israeli Foreign Minister for voicing \"ridiculous and ultimately harmful threats\" of cancelling the Swedish minister's visit or refusing entry to Swedish journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Israeli reactions, Civil society\nA support meeting of families of Israeli and Palestinian donors of organs and tissues on 26 August at Sourasky Medical Center, in Tel Aviv, discussed the report. Participants stressed a message that \"organ donation is saving lives without any conditions\" and called the report black propaganda against Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Government\nElisabet Borsiin Bonnier, the Swedish ambassador to Israel, strongly condemned the article: \"The article in the Swedish newspaper is shocking and terrifying for us Swedes, as it influences the Israeli citizens.... The embassy can not emphasize more its disgust\". The Swedish foreign ministry and the Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, distanced themselves from the ambassador's statement and underlined that Sweden is a democracy with freedom of press and that state representatives should not comment on individual articles in newspapers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Government\nM\u00e5rten Schultz, senior lecturer in jurisprudence, thought that the appeals to freedom of speech were \"attempts to use the rhetorically convincing status of the freedom of expression and press legislation in order to pursue a political agenda\" and exhorted politicians and journalists to bring out and read the Freedom of the Press Act before they said what the government is not entitled to do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Government\nThe Office of the Chancellor of Justice said that although, the government can not criticize the decision to publish, it might go further in its criticism of the article without violating the Constitution although that might be \"inappropriate\". The literal words by the Chancellor of Justice, G\u00f6ran Lambertz, were the following, according to the Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyr\u00e5: \"It is not completely clear where the limits are. There is rather a lot one may do, according to the constitution, even if it were to be regarded as politically and legally inappropriate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Government\nOn 6 September 2009, Bildt announced the cancellation of a trip he planned to make to Israel on 11 September. There was some speculation in Israel and elsewhere that it was related to the controversy. However, Swedish officials denied that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Legal complaints\nThe Swedish Chancellor of Justice, the sole attorney in enforcing violations to the conventions regarding freedom of the press and freedom of expression as well as the ombudsman on supervising government action both received two written requests asking for investigation into the matter. One asked the chancellor to judge whether the article \"really would include anything that brings it beyond what the freedom of press allows \u2013 for example constitute hate speech.\" The second asked him to open an errand of supervision regarding the Swedish ambassador's statements, and on a principal level explain what an ambassador officially can express on behalf of the high office and the country. Aftonbladet was acquitted of all charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Legal complaints\nNils Funcke, a Swedish journalist and author on the Swedish constitution, predicted that the Swedish ambassador to Israel would be criticized for her initiative. The question, he said, was how sharp the criticism would be and how the government would react. Despite his deep concerns regarding the quality of journalism in the article, he called it \"unthinkable\" that the chancellor's office would take legal action on its contents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Donald Bostr\u00f6m and Aftonbladet\nThe author of the article, Donald Bostr\u00f6m, spoke to Israel Radio on 19 August 2009 and said that he was worried by the allegations he reported: \"It concerns me, to the extent that I want it to be investigated, that's true. But whether it's true or not \u2013 I have no idea, I have no clue\". Bostr\u00f6m told CNN that the purpose of his article was to call for an investigation into the claims about stealing organs in the early 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Donald Bostr\u00f6m and Aftonbladet\nIn an interview to the Arab media site Menassat, Bostr\u00f6m said there was \"no conclusive evidence\" that organ harvesting was a systematic IDF practice but that there is a \"collection of allegations and suspicious circumstances\". He was quoted as saying, \"The point is that we know there is organ trafficking in Israel. And we also know that there are families claiming that their children's organs have been harvested. These two facts together point to the need for further investigation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Donald Bostr\u00f6m and Aftonbladet\nThe newspaper's editor, Jan Helin, said \"I'm not a Nazi, I'm not anti-Semitic\" and described himself as \"a responsible editor who gave the green light to an article because it raises a few questions\" but noted that Aftonbladet had no evidence that Israel practiced organ harvesting. Aftonbladet published a follow-up to Bostr\u00f6m's article that defended his report and said that the organ-harvesting allegation \"should be investigated, either to stop the relentless Palestinian rumors, or, if the rumors prove to be true, stop the trade in body parts\". It called Bonnier's condemnation of the original article a \"disgrace\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Donald Bostr\u00f6m and Aftonbladet\nBostr\u00f6m told Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, \"I am not an anti-Semite, and that's what saddens me most in this whole story. I've been a journalist for 25 years and I've always written against racism and segregation\". He said that he had not meant to imply that IDF soldiers killed Palestinians for their organs: \"Even the Palestinians don't say that. What they said is that when the Israeli army returned the bodies, 62 of them had been autopsied and 20 Palestinian families I spoke to were certain that their sons' organs had been harvested\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Donald Bostr\u00f6m and Aftonbladet\nHe acknowledged that he had not personally seen evidence of organ harvesting since the bodies that were returned to the families were never examined to determine whether organs had been taken: \"As far as I know no one examined the bodies. All I'm saying is that this needs to be investigated\". He also said, \"Sweden supports Israel as a country and a people, and I am a part of this. There are many people, I among them, who condemn the Israeli government's policy of occupation and violation of international law. Israel needs to withdraw to its borders and evacuate the settlements. If Israel does this, support for you will reappear\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Other media\nThe Swedish rival newspaper Sydsvenskan sharply criticized Aftonbladet for publishing what it called \"an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory\". Henrik Bredberg in Sydsvenskan said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Other media\n\"Donald Bostr\u00f6m publicised a variant of an anti-Semitic classic, the Jew who abducts children and steals their blood.... The regrettable aspects just seem to grow and grow... the Israeli government rages and speaks of an article which 'shames Swedish democracy and the entire Swedish press'. Hardly. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are part of democracy.... Dare to believe in freedom of the press and open debate. Even when individual editors make stupid and tasteless decisions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Other media\n\"The Foreign Ministry has made it clear that Swedish freedom of the press applies. Good. Aftonbladet should not be given the unwarranted glory of martyrdom.... Publication seems to represent an obvious lack of judgment. Unfortunately the lack of judgment did not stop there. The Swedish ambassador in Tel Aviv... attacked the article and thereby created the impression that having views about or intervening in individual publications should be a task for the government and its representatives.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Other media\nSeveral political commentators pointed out that Sweden held the presidency of the Council of the European Union at the time of the dispute. From an Israeli point of view, they say, discrediting Sweden as anti-Semitic might be a way to prevent European criticism of Israel's policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Swedish-Jewish community\nLena Posner-K\u00f6r\u00f6si, a leader of Sweden's Jewish community, criticized Israel's official response to Bostr\u00f6m's article, stating in an interview with the Israeli army radio that Israel's reaction and media outrage had provided the claims with much more exposure than they would have had otherwise and had blown the story out of proportion. She noted how initial widespread condemnations of Aftonbladet and its article in the Swedish media quickly turned into united defence for freedom of the press when Israel requested that the government should condemn it as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Swedish-Jewish community\nPosner-K\u00f6r\u00f6si explained that \"freedom of expression is sacred\" to Swedes and that no one \"understands how Israel dares to interfere\". Posner-K\u00f6r\u00f6si was still critical of Aftonbladet, stating in her letter to editor Jan Helin that \"the Jewish Central Council in Sweden insists that the description is akin to classic antisemitism \u2013 Jews who kidnap children to slaughter them and steal their blood. We are confounded how a Swedish newspaper once again permits its pages to include such hate speech and expect that you, as editor and publisher to reject antisemitic statements\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Swedish reactions, Swedish-Jewish community\nAnders Carlberg, the outgoing chairman of the Jewish Community in Gothenburg called Israel's response \"unhelpful\". He said that Israel should have responded by publishing a rebuttal: \"The stance of the community in general is that it's strange that this has become a government issue at all.... It falls along the lines of Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Palestinian Authority\nOn 3 Sep 2009, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced the formation of an interministerial panel to investigate allegations that the Israeli military \"stole organs\" from Palestinian detainees. The secretary general of the PA Council of Ministers, Dr Hassan Abu Libdeh, if true, the alleged events, if true, would constitute violations of human rights. The PA's ministers of Health, Interior, and Foreign Affairs, and senior officials from each ministry would, he said, sit on the commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Palestinian Authority\nIn November 2015, in a letter to the UN, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations accused Israel of continuing to harvest organs from Palestinians killed by its forces. Riyad Mansour said that was a confirmation of \"past reports about organ harvesting\", which prompted Israel to reject the allegations and condemn them as anti-Semitic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Ghanem family and relatives\nAccording to The Jerusalem Post, Jalal Ghanem, the brother of Bilal Ghanem, whose photograph had accompanied Bostr\u00f6m's article, could not confirm the allegations. Jalal said that Bilal was evacuated by the IDF in a helicopter after he had been shot. His corpse was delivered to the family a few days later, and there were stitches on Bilal's body that ran from the chest down to the bottom of the abdomen, and his teeth were missing. Jalal also said that the only time the family saw the Swedish photographer was at Bilal's funeral photographing the event. In subsequent interview with Al-Jazeera, he added that he thought Bilal was among those who had their organs stolen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Ghanem family and relatives\nTheir mother denied having told any foreign journalist that her son's organs had been stolen, The Jerusalem Post reported in its article. However, she did not rule out the possibility that Israel was harvesting organs of Palestinians. Another relative of the family, Ibrahim Ghanem, said that the family never told the Swedish photographer that Israel had stolen organs from Bilal's body and speculated, \"Maybe the journalist reached that conclusion on the basis of the stitches he saw on the body.\" He also said that the family had no evidence on whether the organs were removed because they had not had an autopsy conducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Ghanem family and relatives\nIn an interview with Aftonbladet made one week after the original article, Jalal Ghanem and Bilal's mother, Saadega Ghanem, still stood by their allegations and also claimed that Bilal was still alive when he had been taken away. They also claimed that IDF soldiers tried to prevent journalists from taking pictures of the body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Media\nPalestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh reported in an article in Al-Ahram that prior accusations of organ harvesting had been made by representatives of the Palestinian Authority, including by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Amayreh noted that no genuine investigation had ever been carried out into the Palestinian allegations of unauthorized organ harvesting even though they had dated to before the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Media\nJonathan Cook, a British journalist covering the Israel-Palestine conflict, said that Western journalists had heard about such rumours. According to Cook, \"the families making the claims were not given a hearing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the first Intifada, when most of the reports occurred, and are still being denied the right to voice their concerns today\". In an article for the Scottish Daily Record, British politician George Galloway asserted that Israel was \"playing mini-Mengele on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails\", a reference to the Nazi physician Josef Mengele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Palestinian reactions, Civil society\nIn September 2009, hundreds of Palestinians attended a conference marking the \"national day for the return of the bodies of martyrs\" in Nablus. Palestinian organizations said that Israel was holding the bodies of 275 Palestinians and refusing to return them to their families. After the conference, Mohammad Barakeh, a Palestinian Member of Knesset in Israel, made a connection between the missing bodies and the article in Aftonbladet: \"Israel has maintained its reputation and alerted the entire world to the Swedish article. They claim that what was published there could not be true.... The burden of proof falls on Israel, and as long as it refuses to say what the status of the bodies is or return them, it is hiding something awful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Iran\nThe Iranian state newspaper Kayhan quoted Arab reporter Kusar Aslam, who claims to have been stationed in Gaza and the West Bank for 22 years, as saying, \"Since the early 1970s the Israelis have snatched thousands of Palestinian bodies from hospitals in the territories and transferred them to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.... My personal experience verifies the report published by (Donald) Bostr\u00f6m\". She said that the IDF kidnapped living Palestinians: \"I personally witnessed Israeli soldiers and army vehicles snatching Palestinian bodies from emergency rooms. In other instances I saw soldiers follow Palestinians to cemeteries with the intent of stealing bodies before they were buried. This became so widespread that many people began to bury those murdered by IDF forces near their homes \u2013 in the yard or under a tree\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 899]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Syria\nSyrian President Bashar Assad's spokeswoman, Bouthaina Shaaban, praised Bostr\u00f6m's article in Asharq Al-Awsat and said Israel \"should be put on trial\" for its \"criminal acts\". She claimed that there was a connection between the violation of Palestinian corpses claimed by Bostr\u00f6m and the accused Israeli-American organ-trafficking ring whose members were indicted in New Jersey and New York in July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Syria\nYossi Levy, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's spokesman said Shaaban's praise for the article should be a \"warning light\" for the Swedish government, which \"unfortunately has still not fully and courageously condemned the article\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, United States\nIn a letter to the Swedish prime minister, Representatives Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Elton Gallegly (R-CA), members on the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, wrote:\"Given the far-reaching implications for this article, which raises the unfortunate specter of similar blood libels and spurious charges that have been directed at Jews throughout the centuries, it is critical that your government unequivocally repudiate and reject the heinous allegations expressed in this article.... It is essential that this vitriolic article not be used by anti-Semites, anti-Israel advocates, and extremists as an excuse to commit acts of violence and terrorism against the Jewish community in Sweden or internationally\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, United States\nSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of U.S. Helsinki Commission, released a press release that urged European foreign ministers to denounce the Aftonbladet article: \"We at the U.S. Helsinki Commission are dedicated to upholding human rights, particularly freedom of the press. But with freedom of the press comes responsibility. And when major press outlets fail to meet their responsibility, and instead raise the specter of racism or anti-Semitism, then public officials are duty bound to speak out and condemn such blatant falsehoods. I commend Sweden's Ambassador to Israel for fulfilling this duty, and I call on the Swedish Government, which currently holds the European Union Presidency, to support Italian and other EU efforts to denounce this harmful reporting\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, United States\nCo-Chairman of US Helsinki Commission Senator Alcee Hastings (D-FL) said, \"This incendiary article draws on age old anti-Semitic imagery, and attempts to place it in a modern context of worrisome hostility in Europe towards both Jews and Israel. Government leaders must demand the press act with journalistic integrity and report responsibly, particularly when it can incite the violent potential of anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, United States\nAbraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith said that the ADL lodged a complaint with the Swedish embassy in Washington: \"Such unfounded rumors \u2013 of Jews 'poisoning the wells' and carrying out acts of ritual murder\u2014have been in the playbook of anti-Semites through the centuries, and continue to be believed in parts of the Arab world and elsewhere to this day. What could Mr. Bostr\u00f6m and the editors who ushered this article into print have been thinking?\" The letter stated, \"This article represents nothing less than a base recycling of the medieval blood libel in which Jews were charged with killing Christian children for their alleged ritual use\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, United States\nIn a video on its website on 24 August 2014, Time magazine quoted the 2009 Swedish Aftonbladet report as fact. After a denouncing report from Honest Reporting came out, Time retracted, within hours, the allegations that Israeli soldiers had harvested and sold Palestinian organs in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Reporters Without Borders\nReporters Without Borders expressed regret that Israel had gone after the Swedish government for a condemnation: \"Regardless of the article's content and although we understand the public outcry it has triggered in Israel, the Israeli authorities must refrain from asking their Swedish counterparts to intervene.... \"Aftonbladet alone is responsible for the articles it publishes. The Swedish government is not responsible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Italy\nIn an interview with Haa'rez on 31 August, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that he had recently met with Bildt and that both agreed that at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers the next week, they would work to pass a resolution making it clear that the EU, under the Swedish presidency, strongly condemns anti-Semitism and will take action against any manifestation of it in Europe. Frattini said he was intending to demand that the meeting's summary statement explicitly condemn the article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Italy\nLater that day, the Swedish news agency TT quoted Carl Bildt as denying the Frattini's conclusion and reported that the head of communications at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Cecilia Julin, denied that Bildt and Frattini even had discussed the dispute or a possible resolution at the Council of Ministers: \"From the Swedish side we have no plans to handle this question through the informal foreign ministers' meeting in Stockholm\". According to her, Bildt suggested that Frattini's comment must have arisen through an \"Italian misunderstanding\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0055-0001", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Italy\nReinfeldt also insisted that the Swedish government could not take a stand because of Sweden's freedom of the press. At a press conference in Stockholm, he said: \"We cannot be asked by anyone to contravene the Swedish constitution, and this is something we will also not do within the European Union\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Reactions from elsewhere, Italy\nThe Israeli Prime Minister's Office did not comment on Frattini's initiative. However, Palmor said: \"Every initiative against anti-Semitism is welcome. But if the declaration is general and does not specifically relate to the article in Aftonbladet, it will not resolve anything\". He added that \"We did not ask for an apology, or for measures against the newspaper or the journalist. All we asked of Sweden and the Swedes is that they reject and decry the content of the report. And our position has not changed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Yehuda Hiss interview\nIn December 2009, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of a newsletter, \"Organs Watch\", released the tape of an interview that she had conducted in 2000 with Yehuda Hiss, the director of Israel's L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine (known colloquially as the \"Abu Kabir\" Forensic Institute). In the interview, which appeared on Israel's Channel 2 television, Hiss stated that he had harvested organs in the 1990s. \"We started to harvest corneas.... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family\". Hiss was fired from his position as director of the forensic institute in 2004 for \"repeated body-part scandals\". Hiss was later reinstated and remained head of the institute until he retired in October 2012 after allegations of bad procedures at the institute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 925]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Yehuda Hiss interview\nIsraeli officials acknowledged that such incidents had taken place but stated that neither Israelis nor Palestinians had been specifically targeted, that no such incidents had occurred for a long time and that Hiss had been removed from his position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Yehuda Hiss interview\nScheper-Hughes stated that Palestinians were not the only ones affected \"by a long shot\" but that she felt the interview must be made public now because \"the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201391-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy, Yehuda Hiss interview\nIn an interview with Al Jazeera, Scheper-Hughes said the organ harvesting took place with the \"sanction and approval\" of the military establishment and that the \"body parts were used by hospitals for transplant purposes \u2013 cornea transplants. They were sent to public hospitals [for use on citizens]... and the skin went to a special skin bank, founded by the military, for their uses\", like for burns victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201392-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air Force Falcons football team\nThe 2009 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Air Force competed as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Falcons were coached by third-year head coach Troy Calhoun. They finished the season with a record of 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in Mountain West play to finish in fourth place. They were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl where they defeated Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup was the 33rd provincial rugby union competition, the fourth since the competition reconstruction in 2006, involving the top 14 provincial unions in New Zealand. It ran for 15 weeks from 30 July to 7 November. It was also the last edition of the provincial competition to use the Air New Zealand Cup name, as the competition's sponsorship contract with Air New Zealand ended after that season. The 2010 competition will be held under a new name, the ITM Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup\nUnlike previous seasons the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup did not have quarterfinals in their finals format, instead going straight to the semifinals with the top four teams rather than the top eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup\nCanterbury were the eventual champions, winning their second title in a row and their seventh overall, it was the first time Canterbury had gone back-to-back in the provincial championship. They beat Wellington, 28 \u2013 20, at AMI Stadium in Christchurch on 7 November. Wellington were down 18 \u2013 3 at halftime but came back to close the scores to 25 \u2013 20 in Canterbury's favour, but a late penalty goal by Stephen Brett put Wellington out of reach and gave Canterbury the win and the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup\nDoubts were raised throughout the season with serious support coming from the four teams likely to be axed, Counties Manukau, Northland, Manawatu, and Tasman, and their supporters, while the financial sustainability of the two unions who were to be promoted to the new first division was questioned. On 11 December the New Zealand Rugby Union decided to stick with the 14 team Air New Zealand Cup and the 12 team Heartland Championship format through 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin\nThe round-robin was the first phase of the competition, which consisted of 91 games over 13 weeks from 30 July to 25 October. The Rugby Union Bonus Points System was used to determine which four teams were to go on to the finals. There were seven games in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin\nAfter the round robin Hawke's Bay, Southland, Wellington and Canterbury came out on top to advance to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Standings\nThe top four teams from the round robin advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Standings\n(1) the winner of the round robin match between the two provinces; then (2) highest point difference; then (3) most tries scored; then (4) a coin toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Standings\n(1) the province with the most wins against other tied provinces in the Round Robin; then (2) if two teams remain tied they shall be ranked according to the criteria listed above, but if more than two teams remain tied, they shall be ranked according to criteria (2) to (4) only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nThe lists of how many tries and points each team has scored in the 2009 Air NZ Cup Round Robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nHawke's Bay scored the most points this season with 372 points while Southland had the best defensive record with 189 points scored against them. Hawke's Bay also scored, along with Canterbury and Wellington, the most tries this season with 40. Southland gave up the fewest tries as well of points with only 15 tries scored against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nThe table shows how many points were scored by each team (white) and how many points each team was scored against them (grey) in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. Hawke's Bay scored the most points this season with 372 points with an average of 28.6 points per game while Southland had the best defensive record with 189 points scored against them at an average of 14.5 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nList of tries each team has scored. Canterbury, Hawke's Bay and Wellington all scored the most tries during the round robin with 40 each. North Harbour, Northland and Taranaki all scored the fewest tries with only 20 tries each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nSouthland gave up the fewest tries with 15 while Counties Manukau gave up the most with 48.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Team\nList of teams whose players received yellow and/or red cards. Bay of Plenty were issued the most yellow cards with five while North Harbour were issued the only red card of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Player\nThe list of the top players who scored the most points and tries in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. A total of 3953 points including 406 tries were scored with a total of 218 players scoring points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Player\n2009 Air New Zealand Cup Round Robin top ten point scorers. Matt Berquist scored the most with 156 points and an average of 14.2 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Round robin, Statistics, Player\n2009 Air New Zealand Cup top try scorers. Zac Guildford scored the most tries during the season with 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals contained two semifinals that were played on 30 and 31 October while the grand final was played on 7 November. Canterbury were crowned champions after beating Wellington 28 \u2013 20 in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals, Semifinals\nAfter the top four teams were determined from the round robin the semifinals were played on 30 and 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals, Semifinals\nCanterbury beat Hawke's Bay, 20 \u2013 3, in the first semifinal on 30 October. Canterbury had their best defensive performance of the season (points wise) against Hawke's Bay which was subsequently their worst offensive performance of the season. Canterbury gained their second final berth in a row and their first home final since 2001 while Hawke's Bay were knocked out of the competition from the semifinals in the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals, Semifinals\nWellington beat Southland, 34 \u2013 21, in the second semi. Wellington were leading 19 \u2013 7 at halftime but Southland made comeback early in the second scoring to converted tries in the first ten minutes. Wellington recovered though with two second half tries to replacement Dane Coles and a fifth penalty by Piri Weepu gave Wellington the win and a fourth straight place in the Air New Zealand Cup Final. Southland were knocked out for the second time in a row by Wellington in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals, Final\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final was played on 7 November at AMI Stadium in Christchurch between Canterbury and Wellington. It was Wellington's eighth final in eleven years while Canterbury were playing their first home final since 2001. Canterbury scored 2 tries in the first half, both coming to Colin Slade, in the 2nd and 35th minute and went into halftime with an 18 \u2013 3 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Finals, Final\nWellington came back in the second, reducing the deficit to 5 in the final 5 minutes but a late penalty goal by Stephen Brett in the 78th minute gained Canterbury back-to-back titles for the first time in the 33-year history of the competition, winning 28 \u2013 20. Wellington, however, have now lost the final for the fourth time in a row, losing all previous Air New Zealand Cup finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Ranfurly Shield\nThe Ranfurly Shield went through 10 challenges this season and changed hands twice, from Wellington to Canterbury in round 5, then from Canterbury to Southland in the last round of the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Ranfurly Shield\nWellington held off Wairarapa Bush 90 \u2013 19 in a convincing first up match and 61 \u2013 6 game against Wanganui. Wellington beat Otago 23 \u2013 19 on 31 July in a match at Westpac Stadium, and then Auckland 16\u201315 on 22 August. Wellington lost the shield the next week though losing to Canterbury 36 \u2013 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Ranfurly Shield\nCanterbury won their first challenge against Otago on 12 September, when they won 36 points to 16. They won their next challenge against Taranaki on 18 September, 29 \u2013 17. Their next challenge was against Northland on 26 September, which they won 31 points to 21. They successfully defended the shield for the fourth time against Manawatu winning 50 \u2013 26. In their fifth and final challenge of the season, Canterbury lost the Ranfurly Shield to Southland on 22 October 9 points to 3. Southland will not have their first challenge until next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Provincial rugby reconstruction\nThe 2009 season may well be the last Air New Zealand Cup, by name and format, as the New Zealand Rugby Union has restructured the domestic competition with three divisions involved: a premier division competition with 10 teams, a Heartland Championship competition, also with 10 teams, and a new first division with the remaining 6 teams. This means that four teams in this year's competition will be relegated into the new first division whilst two Heartland teams will be promoted to join them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Provincial rugby reconstruction\nThis has since become questioned with \"serious doubts being raised about the ability of two Heartland provinces to join the proposed \"second-tier\" competition for 2010.\" Nothing has been confirmed but this, allied to concerns about that competition being \"meaningful\", will almost certainly see a stay of execution for the 14-team Air New Zealand Cup through to 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 76], "content_span": [77, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Tasman's inclusion\nThe Tasman Rugby Union was in doubt for inclusion 2009 Air New Zealand Cup, stating financial problems as the cause of their potential downfall. But in December 2008, the New Zealand Rugby Union confirmed that they were able to compete in the 2009 competition after new funding arrangements were put in place for Tasman in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Bay of Plenty coaching changes\nThe Bay of Plenty Rugby Union terminated head coach Greg Smith's contract by mutual agreement in August, two weeks into the competition. Technical adviser Sean Horan took his place for the remainder of the season as Steve Miln remained assistant coach. Smith was appointed as Kevin Schuler's successor in March this year, but stood down before the Air NZ Cup competition began on 30 July amid claims of a player revolt and a breakdown with management. A statement released by the Bay of Plenty rugby Union said the termination of Smith's contract was due to \"breakdown in certain aspects of the relationship\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Hawke's Bay 125th Anniversary\nIn 2009 the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union celebrated their 125th Anniversary. First founded in 1884 the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union became only the sixth team to celebrate 125 years in New Zealand Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Hawke's Bay 125th Anniversary\nRugby in Hawke's Bay began in 1875 when the Napier Football Club changed and adopted rugby rules. By 1878 Napier, calling itself Hawke's Bay arranged matches with Gisborne on a regular basis. The Hawke's Bay union was formed at a meeting of delegates of four clubs inside the region: Napier, Union, Hastings, and Petane. Hawke's Bay were one of the founding member of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union in 1982, also their administrators, Ernest Hoben, became the first secretary and Logan, became a member of the inaugural three-man appeal committee who also served as the first New Zealand selectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Hawke's Bay 125th Anniversary\nHawke's Bay have contributed 48 players to the New Zealand national team throughout their history including George N\u0113pia, Maurice and Cyril Brownlie, Kel Tremain and Norm Hewitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Hawke's Bay 125th Anniversary\nHawke's Bay was also part of a period during New Zealand Rugby history which came to be known as 'shield fever'. The revival of the Ranfurly Shield's interest was helped by Hawke's Bay's tenure between 1922\u201327 under head coach Norman McKenzie. They also had another lengthy period from 1967\u201369 under Colin Le Quesne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Hawke's Bay 125th Anniversary\nHawke's Bay have won the National Provincial Championship 2nd division 7 times: in 1979, 1988, 1990, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004; and since being promoted up to the Air New Zealand Cup in 2006, have been semifinalists in 2007, 2008, and 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Canterbury win the Ranfurly Shield\nCanterbury won the Ranfurly Shield off Wellington on 29 August. They won 36 \u2013 14 in a one-sided affair in which Wellington only scored in the last ten minutes. It was the first time they won the shield since 2007 and the 13th time they have won the shield overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 79], "content_span": [80, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Canterbury win the Ranfurly Shield\nCanterbury were leading 26 \u2013 0 at halftime thanks to tries by George Whitelock and Tim Bateman as well as 2 conversions and 4 penalty goals from Daniel Carter. Canterbury increased their lead to 36 with 15 minutes left while two late tries by Wellington was only a consolation as the challengers cut the holders shield tenure to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 79], "content_span": [80, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Southland win the Ranfurly Shield\nSouthland won the Ranfurly Shield off Canterbury when they beat them 9 points to 3 on 22 October. It was the first time they have won the 'shield' since 1959, 50 years from tenures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Southland win the Ranfurly Shield\nDefense was evident during the game with the only scoring coming from a dropkick by Stephen Brett for Canterbury and 3 penalty goals by Robbie Robinson for Southland. At 3 \u2013 3 after the halftime break Robinson kicked his second penalty goal 7 minutes in and secured the game with another in the 71st minute of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Kerikeri\nKerikeri hosted its first ever provincial rugby match on 16 August at the Kerikeri Domain when the home team, Northland, lost 32 to 13 to Auckland in front of 6,000 people. It was also the first time Northland have played a home game inside the province outside of Whangarei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Kerikeri\nNew Zealand Rugby Union CEO Steve Tew said the shift was agreed to given the redevelopment work taking place at Whangarei's Okara Park ahead of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Kerikeri\nTruck and trailer units were used as corporate boxes, a marquee was set up to feed 200 people and a temporary stand was put up that could seat 3000 people. More than 6000 tickets were pre sold and a crowd of 7000 was expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Taranaki coach quits\nTaranaki coach Adrian Kennedy quit on 11 November saying the province is too parochial and closed to new ideas. He was the first outsider to coach the team and finished eighth in both his seasons in charge, his winning percentage was below 50%. His tenure was also plagued by bad off-field behaviour from players. Five players were stood down this season after an all-night public drinking binge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones\nThe list of milestones of players and teams who celebrated a significant moment during the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nThe moments in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup where it happened for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nOn 1 August the Hawke's Bay Magpies beat Auckland 47 \u2013 13, this was their first Air New Zealand/NPC win over them and their first win over the Aucklanders since 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nHawke's Bay scored their first of five tries after 25 minutes of play which went wing Zac Guildford who ran down the left-hand touchline after a midfield turnover. After a try just before halftime by flanker Karl Lowe, Hawke's Bay scored three more tries in the second while Auckland couldn't add onto their 13 points scored in the first. 22 points from the boot of first five-eighth Matt Berquist along with five tries gave Hawke's Bay their first win over Auckland in 35 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nTasman beat North Harbour 19 \u2013 15 on 7 August, it was the first time in Tasman's short history that they have beaten North Harbour. North Harbour were Tasman's first ever Air New Zealand Cup opponent back in 2006 which North Harbour won 33 \u2013 27 in Blenheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nNorth Harbour's points all came from the boot of first five Mike Harris with 5 penalty goals while Tasman were able to score two tries and two penalties to win their first game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nAuckland went down to Tasman, 12 \u2013 8, for the first time in their two previous meetings. The first time they met Auckland won 46 \u2013 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nTasman gained the halftime lead with a try and conversion from Andrew Goodman while Auckland could only score a penalty goal by Ash Moeke. Soon after the break Tasman scored their second try when Blair Cook took advantage of a blindside which Auckland failed to cover. Tasman were out 12 \u2013 3 with five minutes before winger Atieli Pakalani made a break through the Tasman defense then passed to hooker Pat Leafa to score the try. The conversion was missed and Tasman held on to win 12 points to 8 with their best defensive performance of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nWhen Tasman and Counties Manukau played each other on 16 August, it was the first time these two teams have faced off in Tasman's 4-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nTasman scored 51 points to Counties Manukau 15 including 6 tries. Both Blair Cook and James Kamana of Tasman scored two tries each while Andrew Goodman converted five of those as well as kicking three penalty goals. Sione Halani and Kade Poki scored the other tries while Matty James kicked a conversion. Counties Manukau only managed two tries to Mark Selwyn and Sherwin Stowers as well as one conversion and penalty goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nWhen Taranaki beat Wellington 29 points to 16, it was the first time they have beaten them in a NPC or Air New Zealand Cup match since 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Firsts\nTaranaki outscored Wellington two tries to one as they ended their 20-year losing streak to their Hurricanes partners. Willie Ripia scored 19 points of the boot by converting both tries and kicking five penalty goals. Daniel Kirkpatrick kicked the remaining 11 points for Wellington but it was not enough to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nList of significant moments by players in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nDavid Holwell, of Northland, celebrated his 100th game for the province on 11 October. However the team could not pull off the upset against his old province Wellington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nHolwell became Northland's 22nd centurion since their formation in 1920. He debuted for Northland in 1995 as 20-year-old against North Harbour. Before his hundredth game Holwell had played 254 first class games where he scored 2181 points including 36 tries, 450 conversion, 365 penalty goals and 2 drop goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nWhen Wellington beat Counties Manukau on 4 September, winger Hosea Gear equaled the record for most tries by a player in an Air New Zealand Cup game with 4, 3 of them in the first 30 minutes. He now holds the record with Peter Playford from Tasman who scored four tries against Northland in 2006. The overall New Zealand provincial rugby record is five on six occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nWhen Wellington beat Auckland 16\u201315, fly-half Fa'atonu Fili kicked his third dropped goal of the season, an Air New Zealand Cup record. He also made his team the holder of most drop goals in a season by a team in the Air New Zealand Cup overtaking Southland in 2007 and Counties Manukau and Hawke's Bay, both in 2008. The overall New Zealand provincial rugby record is 4 by Ron Preston from Bay of Plenty against Waikato in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Milestones, Player\nManawatu's Andre Taylor equaled the record for most points scored in an Air New Zealand Cup match with 27. He scored 2 tries and was given kicking duties where he scored 4 conversions, 2 penalty goals and 1 drop goal. He now shares the record with Jimmy Gopperth from North Harbour who scored 27 points against Counties Manukau in 2008. The overall New Zealand provincial rugby record is held by Ben Blair from Canterbury when he scored 37 points against Counties Manukau in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Season highlights, Player suspensions\nIn total there were eight player suspensions throughout the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup with only three of them being cleared of any suspension. The largest ban went to Kurt Baker, who was suspended for eight weeks for abusing and threatening a referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Pre-season fixtures\n2009 pre-season games including two Ranfurly Shield matches for Wellington against Wairarapa Bush and Wanganui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201393-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup, Referees\nThe list of referees who have officiated in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. Garratt Williamson has refereed the most games this season with 12. Nathan Pearce officiated the Hawke's Bay, Taranaki game on 15 August, he was the first referee from outside the country to referee an Air New Zealand Cup match, he was followed by fellow Australian Andrew Lees on 11 September and Englishman Wayne Barnes on 24 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201394-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final was a rugby union match played on Saturday 7 November 2009. It was the fourth Air New Zealand Cup final to determine the winner of the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup and the 33rd winner of New Zealand's premier provincial rugby competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201394-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final\nIt was the last Air New Zealand Cup Final with the competition structure set to change for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201394-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final\nCanterbury were the first team to qualify for the final when they beat Hawke's Bay 20 points to 3 on 30 October. Wellington gained the second spot after beating Southland 34 points to 21 on 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals will determine the winner of the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup season. It will consist of two semifinals on 30 October and 31 October and Grand Final on  7 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals\nCanterbury were the first team during the round-robin to qualify for the finals when they beat Manawatu on 9 October. Canterbury also gained homefield advantage throughout the finals when they beat Hawke's Bay on 16 October. Southland and Wellington were the next teams to gain a playoff spot while Wellington gained a home game in the second semifinal. Southland gained the spot after a final round win over Canterbury while Wellington gained a spot and a home semi with a win over Tasman. Hawke's Bay were the fourth and final team to claim a playoff spot after winning their game in the 13th round with a 4 try bonus point and when Waikato, the only team who could overtake them, lost to Auckland on 24 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals\nCanterbury were the first team to qualify for the final of when they beat Hawke's Bay 20 points to 3 on 30 October. It was the second year in a row that Canterbury qualified for the final and the first time that an Air New Zealand Cup final was held at AMI Stadium. They played Wellington who beat Southland on 31 October winning 34-21. They played the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final on 7 November. Wellington qualified for all four Air New Zealand Cup finals and their eighth final in eleven years, but only winning in 2000 which was also against Canterbury in Christchurch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Fixtures\nThere was a total of 3 games in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, two semifinals on 30 and 31 October and a culminating grand final on 7 November. Canterbury (no. 1 seed) beat Hawke's Bay(no. 4 seed) at AMI Stadium in Christchurch on 30 October. Wellington gained the no. 2 seed placing and beat no. 3 seed Southland on 31 October for the second spot in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review\nCanterbury came out on top during the round-robin with 47 competition points, 4 more than their closest contenders, and a league-leading 10 wins. Wellington were second with 43, while Southland and Hawke's Bay were third and fourth respectively and both on 41 competition points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review\nHawke's Bay scored the most points throughout the round-robin with 372. They also have scored the most tries along with other finalists Canterbury and Wellington with 40. Southland came through the round-robin with the best defensive record with only 189 points scored against them and average of 14.5 points a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Canterbury\nCanterbury finished the 2009 Air NZ Cup Round-Robin with the most competition points with 47 and were rewarded the no. 1 seed for the playoffs which gave them homefield advantage throughout. They recorded the most wins with 10, scored 369 points, gave up 231 with an overall points differential of 138, the best in the competition. They scored 40 tries, and kicked 35 penalty goals, 2 drop goals and 29 conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Canterbury\nDaniel Carter scored most of Canterbury's points throughout the season with 98 while Sean Maitland scored most of the tries with 8, third most in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Canterbury, Canterbury squad\nA total of 37 players played for Canterbury in the 2009 season. George Whitelock was the captain and Rob Penney and Tabai Matson were the coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Canterbury, Canterbury squad\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Wellington\nWellington finished second on the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup points table and were rewarded a home semifinal for it. They finished with 9 wins and 4 losses out of 13 games. They scored 362 points including a league-leading 40 tries as well as 31 penalty goals, 3 drop goals (an Air New Zealand Cup record) and 30 conversions. They also gave up 237 points and finished with a points differential of 125, second best in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Wellington\nDaniel Kirkpatrick scored most of Wellington's points with 95 of them through 11 games while, for the second year in a row, Hosea Gear lead Wellington in try-scoring with 11 through 9 games including a record-equaling 4 tries against Counties Manukau in round 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Wellington, Wellington squad\n37 players played for Wellington this season. Jacob Ellison was captain and Jamie Joseph and Andre Bell were the coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Wellington, Wellington squad\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Southland\nSouthland finished third on the points table with 41 competition points, 9 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw. They were the best defensive team in the competition with 189 points scored against and an average of 14.5 points a game, they also on 6 occasions held their opponent tryless. They scored 260 points and had an overall points differential of 71. They scored 28 tries, 30 penalty goals and  15 conversions. They also ended the round robin in the possession of the Ranfurly Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Southland\nRobbie Robinson scored the most points for Southland with 111 points through 11 games and 29 of Southland's 30 penalty goals. Locks Joe Tuineau and Josh Bekhuis were the leading try scores during the round-robin with 4 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Southland, Southland squad\n30 players have played for Southland during the season, Jamie Mackintosh was captain and Simon Culhane and David Henderson were the coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Southland, Southland squad\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Hawke's Bay\nHawke's Bay finished the round robin fourth on the points table with 41 competition points and 8 win, 4 losses and 1 draw. They scored the most points out of any other team with 372 and also gave up 256 points for an overall points differential of 116. They came first-equal in tries with 40 along with other finalists Wellington and Canterbury, they also scored the most 5 try bonus points with 6. In total they scored 40 tries, 36 penalty goals, 2 drop goals and 29 conversions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Hawke's Bay\nMatt Berquist scored the most points for the Hawke's Bay team, and the whole competition, with 156 points and an average of 14.2 points a game. They also had the top try scorer of the competition in Zac Guildford who scored 13 tries through 12 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Hawke's Bay, Hawke's Bay Squad\nA total of 30 players were part of the Hawke's Bay team this season, Jason Shoemark was captain and Peter Russell and Tom Coventry were the coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Hawke's Bay, Hawke's Bay Squad\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Round Robin review, Hawke's Bay, Statistics\nHawke's Bay scored 372 points this season, most by any other team. Matt Berquist scored the most points with 156, most among players. They also scored 40 tries including the only penalty try of the season; Zac Guildford led them with 13 tries, also most among players. Sona Taumalolo, Ash Dixon, Matt Egan and Ross Kennedy were the only players in the Hawke's Bay team to receive disciplinary cards with yellows in round 3, round 8, round 9 and round 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One\nCanterbury beat Hawke's Bay on 30 October in the first semifinal of the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup finals. Canterbury scored 20 points and put out their best defensive performance of the season only giving up 3 points against Hawke's Bay who were the leading points scorers amongst teams during the round robin. Hawke's Bay were also held tryless for only the second time all season with the previous time being against fellow semifinalists Southland. It was the third year in a row that Hawke's Bay were knocked out in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nCanterbury scored 3 tries and held Hawke's Bay to a penalty goal to win the first semifinal and be the first team to qualify for the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final. Hawke's Bay made a late change when Richard Buckman replaced Andrew Horrell in the starting lineups because of a pre-existing injury. Sam Giddens replaced Buckman's spot on the bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nLock Sam Whitelock scored the first of Canterbury's tries from broken play when Hawke's Bay couldn't take a high kick from Stephen Brett. Tyson Keats cleaned up the loose ball and passed the ball out to Whitelock to open the scoring 9 minutes into the game. Brett converted the try from wideout and Canterbury were up 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nCanterbury had the chance to score earlier but Michael Paterson couldn't pull in the offload by Sean Maitland after a break down the right hand touchline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nHawke's Bay's Matt Berquist kicked the only points of Hawke's Bay night from a penalty 40 metres out. That was his only opportunity at goal for Berquist who had an 82.2% success rate during the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nCanterbury scored their second try 4 minutes before halftime when Isaac Ross got the pass from Paterson who first charged down Chris Eaton's clearing kick, then regathered the ball and offloaded to Ross for the try in the corner. Stephen Brett could not convert and Canterbury had a 12-3 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nAfter ten minutes of the second half Hawke's Bay had possession inside Canterbury's 22-metre line and had them backed up when they knocked on and Canterbury got the ball. They spread the ball wide to Maitland who ran down the touchline into Hawke's Bay's territory, too fast for the scrambling defence, before he passed to Brett in support to score Canterbury's third try of the night. Brett missed once again and Canterbury had a 14-point lead with 30 minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nThroughout the remaining minutes Canterbury sustained pressure on their opponents forcing the mistakes and also bringing on fresh legs to finish the game off, all in the final twenty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Match summary\nBrett kicked a penalty goal 3 minutes before the full-time whistle but had the game wrapped up beforehand with the teams playing most of the second half on Hawke's Bay's side of field. The game finished 20-3 in Canterbury's favour and second straight final berth while Hawke's Bay were knocked out in the semifinals for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal One, Player movement\nCanterbury used all of their seven subs during the game while Hawke's Bay 5 of their substitutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two\nWellington won the second semifinal against Southland on 31 October. Wellington gained a lead going into halftime and were able to hold on after a Southland comeback early on in the second half to win 34 - 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nBoth teams scored 3 tries but Wellington scored 5 penalty goals while Southland had no chance for any goal kicking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nWellington were up 3 points to nil before the first try was scored by Southland's Jason Rutledge in the 14th minute of play. He got fed the ball and in midfield after an attacking lineout and was too strong for the remaining defenders. Robbie Robinson converted and Southland were up 7-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nWellington scored their first try of the match after two more penalties by Weepu. The Lions won the ball from a defending scrum, Anthony Perenise ran the ball up and fed to Alby Mathewson who passed to David Smith to score Wellington's try. Weepu converted the try and with a penalty 2 minutes later Wellington went into halftime with a 19-7 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nSouthland regained the lead ten minutes into the second half with two tries in quick succession. The first coming to halfback Scott Cowan who stole the ball of opposite Alby Mathewson then had a clear 50-metre run to the line. Robbie Robinson converted and Southland reduced Wellington's lead to 5. Their second come from broken play of a stolen ball from the breakdown. Midfielder Jason Kawau made the break and had an easy draw and pass to fellow midfielder Kendrick Lynn for Southland's third try of the night. Another conversion by Robinson and Southland were ahead 21-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nThat, however, was the last time Southland scored on the night with Wellington have most of the ball throughout the remainder of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Match summary\nAfter another penalty by Weepu, bringing his tally to 17, Wellington scored the second and third try both to replacement hooker Dane Coles. Coles linked up with Mark Reddish after a counterattack started by Victor Vito and carried on by Hosea Gear for his first and second was from a crossfield kick to fullback Apoua Stewart who fed Victor Vito to draw and pass to an open Coles for his second. Weepu converted the second and Wellington finished with 34-21 advantage and qualified for the fourth final in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Semifinal Two, Player movement\nBoth Wellington and Southland used all of their replacements available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Final was played on 7 November with Canterbury beating Wellington 28 points to 20. Canterbury had an 18 - 3 lead into halftime but Wellington fought back to lower the margin to 7 at one point but ultimately finished in Canterbury's favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final, Match summary\nCanterbury made a good start with a try to Colin Slade after Wellington failed to protect the ball. Captain George Whitelock picked up the loose ball which ultimately ended up with Slade who had no one in front of him 60 metres out. Stephen Brett converted and Canterbury were 7-0 after two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final, Match summary\nAfter a failed penalty goal attempt by Piri Weepu, Brett had his chance after a scrum penalty and put Canterbury up 10-0 16 minutes in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final, Match summary\nAnother penalty by Brett after 29 minutes and another Weepu in the 32nd put the scores at 13-3 before Colin Slade scored his second after he was put into the gap from a pass from centre Casey Laulala. Brett missed the conversion and Canterbury went into halftime with an 18-3 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final, Match summary\nWellington were the first to score in the second half with Alapati Leuia picking off a pass from Colin Slade in the 54th minute. Weepu converted and Wellington reduced the margin to 8. Canterbury hit back though with a try to wing Sean Maitland running onto a Brett pass 40 metres out and sprinting pass three players for his team's 3rd try. With the conversion from Brett, Canterbury were up 25-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Grand final, Match summary\nAfter another Weepu penalty goal, Colin Slade received a yellow card in two minutes later for a professional foul. Wellington used it to their advantage and scored their second try coming from replacement Scott Fuglistaller. Weepu couldn't convert and Wellington were down by a converted try. But one last penalty goal by Brett in 78th minute put it out of reach for Wellington and Canterbury won their second provincial rugby title in as many years winning 28-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Statistics, Team\nThere have been 78 points scored through 2 games of the 2009 air New Zealand Cup Finals including 9 tries. Piri Weepu, from Wellington, has scored the most with 19. Dane Coles has scored the most tries by a player with 2. There have been no disciplinary cards issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201395-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Finals, Statistics, Player\nPiri Weepu scored the most points in the finals with 29 while Dane Coles and Colin Slade scored the most tries with 2 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201396-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Round Robin\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup was a provincial rugby union competition in New Zealand, which was run as a round-robin tournament from 30 July to 25 October. There were 13 rounds where every team played each other once. The top four teams on the Air New Zealand Cup table advanced to the semi-finals, where they played for a chance in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201396-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup Round Robin\nMost weeks, one game was played on Thursday at 7:35 pm (NZ Time), two games on Fridays both starting at 7:35 pm, three games on Saturdays at 2:35, 5:30 and 7:35 pm and one game on Sundays at 2:35 pm. Again, this is most common, there were games played at 4:30 or 6:30 pm and more or less games played on certain days, e.g. Thursdays and Saturdays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics\nThe 2009 Air New Zealand Cup ran from 30 July to 7 November. This page includes all statistics from the 14 teams during the 13 rounds of the round-robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics\nThere were 3953 points scored with an average of 43.4 points per game; there also were 406 tries scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics\nHawke's Bay scored the most points with 372 and, along with Canterbury and Wellington, the most tries with 40, while Southland had the best defensive record through the competition with only 189 points scored against them through 13 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics\nMatt Berquist, from Hawke's Bay, scored the most points out of every player in the competition - with 156 points and an average of 14.2 points through his 11 matches. Zac Guildford scored the most tries this season with 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Team\nThe lists showing all statistics for all teams about points, tries and disciplinary cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Team, Points\nThe table showing how many points scored by each team (white) and how many points each team was scored against them (grey) in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup Round Robin. Hawke's Bay scored the most points so far with 372 (28.6 points a game), while Southland had the fewest points scored against them with 189 (14.5 points a game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Team, Tries\nThe list of how many tries each team scored in the round robin. Canterbury, Wellington and Hawke's Bay scored the most tries this season with 40 each while Taranaki, North Harbour and Northland scored the fewest with 20 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Team, Competition Points\nList of how many competitions points each team scored with overall and week totals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Team, Disciplinary cards\nList of teams whose players received yellow and/or red cards. Bay of Plenty were issued the most cards with 5 while North Harbour were issued the only red card of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Player\nThe list of the top players who have scored the most points and tries in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. There were 3,953 points including 406 tries scored with a total of 218 players scoring them, Matt Berquist leads them all with 156 points and an average of 14.2 points per game. There have also been 33 yellow cards and 1 red card issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Player, Top Ten Points Scorers\nA total of 218 players from each team scored points in the round robin, Matt Berquist has scored the most with 156 and average of 14.2 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Player, Top Try Scorers\nA total of 218 players have scored a total of 406 tries. Zac Guildford has scored the most tries by a player this season with 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Player, Top Goal Kickers\nMathew Berquist leads all goal kickers this season with 82.2% success rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Overall, Player, Disciplinary Cards\nThe list of all players who have received a yellow or red card in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. Luke Braid and Colin Bourke, both from Bay of Plenty are the players who received the most disciplinary cards with two yellows each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics\nThe lists showing each teams; points scorers, try scorers, goal kickers and disciplinary card recipients where available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Auckland\nAuckland scored 272 total points this season including 29 tries. Ash Moeke led them with 75 points scored through 13 games with an average of 5.8 points per game while Joe Rokocoko and Paul Williams led the try scorers with 4 tries each. Flanker Hamish Paterson and Peter Saili were the only players in the Auckland squad to receive a yellow card, which was in round 7 and round 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Auckland\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Bay of Plenty\nBay of Plenty scored a total of 268 points through 13 games with an average of 20.6 points per game. Mike Delany scored the most of these points with 149 and an average of 12.4 points a game. They also scored 24 tries, and were issued five disciplinary cards, also most throughout the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Bay of Plenty\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Canterbury\nCanterbury scored 369 points through the round-robin. Daniel Carter scored the most of Canterbury's points, with 98 points and an average of 16.3 points a game. Canterbury also scored 40 tries this season with Sean Maitland scoring the most with 8. Adam Whitelock was  the only player to receive a disciplinary card, with a yellow in round 2 against Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Canterbury\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Counties Manukau\nCounties Manukau scored 235 total points this season with Tim Nanai-Williams leading them with 70 points, they also scored 30 tries, with Ahsee Tuala and Simon Lemalu leading them with 4 each. Winger Sherwin Stowers is the only player to receive a yellow card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Counties Manukau\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Hawke's Bay\nHawke's Bay scored 372 points this season, most by any other team. Matt Berquist scored the most points with 156, most among players. They also scored 40 tries including the only penalty try of the season; Zac Guildford led them with 13 tries, also most among players. Sona Taumalolo, Ash Dixon, Matt Egan and Ross Kennedy were the only players in the Hawke's Bay team to receive disciplinary cards with yellows in round 3, round 8, round 9 and round 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Hawke's Bay\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Manawatu\nManawatu scored a total of 305 points in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup. Isaac Thompson led them all with a tally of 71 points and an average of 5.9 a game. Manawatu have  scored 35 tries this season, Andre Taylor led them with 3 tries. Johnny Leota, Brent Thompson and James Goode were the only players to receive disciplinary cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Manawatu\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, North Harbour\nNorth Harbour scored a total of 244 points this season with an average of 19 points a game, they also scored 20 tries. Michael Harris scored the most points with 108 and an average of 10.8 points a game. North Harbour were issued two disciplinary cards including the only red card of the season, which went to Andrew Mailei in round 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, North Harbour\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Northland\nNorthland scored 226 points this season with an average of 17.8 points per game, Lachlan Munro led the team with a tally of 146 points throughout his 13 games. They have also scored 20 tries, which captain Jared Payne led with 6, and had one player receive a disciplinary card, which was also the first in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Northland\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Otago\nOtago scored 260 points this season with Glenn Dickson leading them all with 72 points and an average of 5.5 points a game. Ben Smith led the team with 6 tries from a total of 26 from the team. Peter Mirrielees was the only player to receive a disciplinary card with a yellow in round 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Otago\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Southland\nSouthland scored 260 points throughout round-robin with an average of 20 points per game. Robbie Robinson scored the most with a tally of 111 points through his 11 games. They also scored 28 tries with locks Josh Bekhuis and Joe Tuineau leading the team with 4 each. Jamie Mackintosh was the only Southland player to receive a yellow card which came in round 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Southland\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Taranaki\nTaranaki scored 252 points this season, with Willie Ripia scoring the most with 115 points through his 11 games. They also scored 20 tries with Tony Penn and Shayne Austin leading them with 3 each. Three Taranaki players received disciplinary cards, all yellow; Scott Waldrom in round 2 against Northland, Jarrad Hoeata in there round 3 draw against Hawke's Bay and Craig Clarke in Round 5 against Manawatu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Taranaki\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Tasman\nTasman scored a total of 243 points this season. They have also scored 26 tries. Captain Andrew Goodman scored most points scoring 106 points through 13 games while wingers James Kamana and Blair cook led the team with 4 tries each. Kahn Fotuali'i and Alex Ainley were the only players from the team have been given yellow cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Tasman\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Waikato\nWaikato scored 285 points this season which Callum Brucescoring the most with 125 points through 13 games with an average of 9.6 points per game. They also scored 28 tries, led by Sosene Anesi with 5. Jordan Smiler, Liam Messam and Save Tokula were the only players to receive a disciplinary card for Waikato; all yellow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Waikato\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Wellington\nWellington scored 362 points through the round-robin with an average of 28.3 points per game, and also scored 39 tries. Daniel Kirkpatrick led the team in points with 95 through his 11 games while Hosea Gear led the team in tries with 11. Hosea Gear also, along with Daniel Ramsey and Anthony Perenise, received a disciplinary card, all yellow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201397-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Air New Zealand Cup statistics, Individual Team Statistics, Wellington\n- Squad only include players who have been named in a starting 15 or reserves bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team\nThe 2009 Akron Zips football team represented the University of Akron in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Akron competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. The team was coached by J. D. Brookhart and played their homes game at InfoCision Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Before the season\nMuch of the anticipation leading up to the season involved the grand opening of the new on-campus Summa Field at InfoCision Stadium. The University set up , allowing fans to watch the progress of the stadium being built. Fans watched online as the final stages of the stadium were pieced together, including a 40-foot by 25-foot video scoreboard and ribbon boards along the east stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Before the season\nThe first Spring Training Scrimmage took place on March 12, after only five practices. With the offensive side down two key running backs (DeVoe Torrence and Alex Allen), the defense was able to win this session, along with the second scrimmage on March 28. In the annual Blue-Gold game, the defense came out victorious again, winning the game with a score of 28\u201324. Key plays in this game included a blocked field goal by Norman Shuford and an interception by Kevin Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Before the season\nAlex Allen was one of the 106 nominees for Allstate's AFCA Good Works Team. According to the Press Release, this list \"honors college football players who make outstanding contributions in the areas of volunteerism and civic involvement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Roster\nThe Zips lost relatively few starters from the 2008 football season. However, the starters that they did lose include lettermen Dennis Kennedy and Chris Kemme, the latter of which signed for the Detroit Lions after the 2009 NFL Draft. On the defensive side, Akron lost all three linebackers to graduation, and Strong Safety/Kickoff Returner Bryan Williams signed a free agency deal with the Cleveland Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Coaching staff\nThe Zips made hired three new coaches for the 2009 football season. Shane Montgomery was the head coach of the Miami Redhawks for the past four seasons, and moved over to serve as Akron's Offensive Coordinator and Tight Ends Coach. During his time at Miami, he led the team to a first-place tie in the MAC East Division in both 2005 and 2007. Walt Harris is best known for being the head coach of Pitt from 1997 to 2004 and Stanford in 2005 and 2006. A week later, Akron announced the hiring of new Linebackers coach Vince Okruch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nNinth-ranked Penn State built a 31\u20130 halftime lead, holding Akron to 28 total yards and minus-17 yards rushing in the first half. Akron was able to get on the board in the second half on a 40-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Chris Jacquemain following a Penn State turnover. The Zips finished with 186 total yards, only 28 of which were from rushing. Penn State amassed 515 total yards including 379 from passing, mostly from quarterback Daryll Clark, who also threw 3 touchdowns. Following the win, the Nittany Lions rose to #5 in the polls and improved to 4\u20130 all-time against the Zips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Morgan State\nThe Zips opened Summa Field at InfoCision Stadium against the Morgan State Bears, a Football Championship Subdivision team. This was the Zips' first meeting with the Bears, as well as the Bears' season opener. The Bears were led by Carlton Jackson, who had previously played for the Zips in the 2007 season. He battled for the starting quarterback position with Chris Jacquemain in that year, who prevailed and led the Zips in this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Morgan State\nLogistically, the game went on without any major problems and the new stadium was well received by fans. The biggest problem according to fans was finding their appropriate parking lot. During the game, Akron amassed 436 total offensive yards, which included 186 passing yards. This was the most passing yards allowed by Morgan State since a 2008 game against Towson. Despite the 250 yards rushing, no running back individually rushed for 100 yards, because six different backs were used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nThe game marked the second meeting between the two teams, the first being in the 2007 season at Indiana's Memorial Stadium where the Hoosiers won 41\u201324. Indiana faced Akron in their third game of the season and first road game after defeating Eastern Kentucky and Western Michigan at home. This was also the first time a team from the Big Ten Conference had played in Akron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nIn the days leading up to the game, however, the Zips met with some adversity when it was announced September 18 that starting quarterback Chris Jacquemain would be indefinitely suspended for a violation of team rules. No reason was given in that suspension nor was a timetable provided for his return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nBehind Ben Chappell's two touchdown passes and Ray Fisher's opening kickoff return, the Hoosiers were able to again defeat the Zips by a final score of 38\u201321. For Akron, new starting quarterback Matt Rodgers, who had just two days of practice as the starting quarterback, completed six of his eight passes in the first half, but threw four interceptions in the second half. Two of the interceptions would lead to touchdowns for Indiana. The Zips were able to score touchdowns on a blocked punt early in the game as well as a Rodgers rushing touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nAkron began the MAC schedule with an away game against Central Michigan,  their first meeting since a 35\u201332 Central Michigan victory at the Rubber Bowl in 2007. The Zips faced more discouraging news in the week leading up to the game. First, it was announced on September 23 that Jacquemain had been dismissed from the team. The next day, the University announced that sophomore Cowles Stewart had been suspended from the team after he was charged with felonious assault and Running Backs coach and Recruiting Coordinator Reno Ferri was put on paid administrative leave as the University began to investigate violations of NCAA Compliance rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nCentral Michigan Quarterback Dan LeFevour had a career day against the Zips, scoring six touchdowns in becoming the seventh MAC quarterback to pass for 10,000 yards in his career. Matt Rogers achieved a pass efficiency of 120 with no interceptions. He completed 12 of his 19 passes for a total of 127 yards. Running Back Joe Tuzze also ran in for a score, which was the first in his collegiate career. The Zips fell to 8\u201314 all-time against the Chippewas with the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nAfter an off-week during the season, the Zips awaited their next MAC Opponent, Ohio University. Overall, the series between these two schools are tied, 12\u201312\u20131, with the last game a 49\u201342 loss in Athens. However, this series is heavily favored year after year towards the home team. The last game that was lost at the Rubber Bowl was in 1997 when the Zips lost in a four-point decision. Prior to the game, previously suspended running backs coach Reno Ferri had resigned from his position, effective November 1. This resignation comes amidst an internal investigation by the University regarding recruiting violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nThe woes only got worse once the game started for Akron. During the second quarter, starting quarterback Matt Rodgers suffered an ACL injury and was removed for the rest of the game, possibly the rest of the season. To replace him, the Zips had to turn to their third quarterback, Patrick Nicely, who was originally planned to have a redshirt year. The lone touchdown for the Zips came in the third quarter when running back Joe Tuzze ran for a 3-yard score. Other than that, the game belonged to Ohio. The Bobcats' scoring came from two field goals and two touchdowns (one two-point conversion attempt failed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nAkron began a three-game road series with a trip to UB Stadium to face the Buffalo Bulls. Akron leads the overall series 8\u20132, but Buffalo has won each of the past two meetings, including a 40\u201343 quadruple-overtime decision in the 2008 season. That was the last game in the historic Rubber Bowl, as the University was working hard on the new stadium. The Zips, 1\u20134 on the season, had been in this same position in 2005, when they won the most conference games in the school's history as well as the MAC Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nAkron began the scoring in the second quarter when Mike Ward recovered a Patrick Nicely fumble in the endzone. However, Buffalo quickly came back with 8:47 left in the first half and tied the game on a Maynard pass to make the game 7\u20137. Buffalo scored again only four minutes later with another pass to Roosevelt, and the game went to halftime with the score 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nAfter the break, Zips running back Alex Allen tied the game once again with a 1-yard touchdown run, and kicker Branko Rogovic gave Akron its final lead of 17\u201314 with 9:57 remaining in the game. However, Buffalo was able to make the last score as Mario Henry made a 1-yard touchdown run with 6 minutes remaining in the game. Akron was never able to recover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nThis game was high in injuries as the Zips lost two significant players as a result of this game. Leading receiver and senior Deryn Bowser left the game in the first half with a broken fibula. Along with Bowser, Sophomore linebacker Aaron Williams suffered a broken arm in the 21\u201317 loss. Both players will not return this season. The Bulls also lost players due to injuries, with tailbacks Ike Nduka and Brandom Thermilus both going down with sprained ankle injuries. Junior tight end Kyle Brey also left with a shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nIn the middle of the season, the Zips took a break from Mid-American Conference opponents and traveled to Syracuse, New York to take on the Syracuse Orange. The series between these two teams only began last season, as Akron traveled to the Carrier Dome and came out with a victory, 42\u201328. This victory was seen as an upset by many journalists, although the Orange finished the season 3\u20139 and finished last in the Big East Conference. Syracuse was poised for revenge against Akron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nFreshman quarterback Nicely got the first touchdown of his collegiate career when he connected with Andre Jones in the first quarter. After moving to the wide receiver position due to Bowser's injury, Andre Jones became the only player in the nation to start at four different positions, three on offense and one on defense. Early in the second quarter, Syracuse got its first score from running back Delone Carter on a 7-yard run with 12:20 remaining in the half. The Orange was able to score again with 4:14 remaining when Carter scored another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nWith the score 14\u20137 in Syracuse's favor, Akron's kicker Branko Rogovic missed a 29-yard field goal to send the game into halftime. The second-half kickoff was returned by Dashan Miller for 98 yards to tie the game, but Syracuse scored two more touchdowns, one by Marcus Sales and another by Carter, to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\nWith hopes of playing in a bowl game all but lost, the Zips traveled to Northern Illinois University to take on the MAC West Huskies. The Zips have faced the Huskies a total of nine times, including the 2005 MAC Championship Game on Ford Field. Northern Illinois leads the overall series 5\u20134, although Akron has won the last two meetings. The previous match up between these two teams was in the Championship Game. Northern Illinois was ahead 30\u201324 with only 17 seconds remaining in the game when Luke Getsy connected with Domenik Hixon for a 36-yard touchdown pass to give the Zips a 31\u201330 victory. Akron won both meetings in 2005 with a combined score of 79\u201362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\nAlong with the Zips, the Huskies have been having quarterback problems as well. In an earlier game against the Toledo Rockets, starting quarterback Chandler Harnish was sent off of the field with a knee injury. This forced the team to start their backup, DeMarcus Grady, for the Miami and Akron games. In the first half of the game, the only scoring was provided by Northern Illinois kicker Mike Salerno when he scored field goals in the first and second quarter. In the third quarter, however, the momentum shifted when Akron was able to make two scores to take the lead. Branko Rogovic provided the first points by kicking a 34-yard field goal in their first possession after kickoff, and then scored a touchdown on an 80-yard pass from halfback Alex Allen to Andre Jones to make the score 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Northern Illinois\nNorthern Illinois would prove to bounce back in the fourth quarter however, and put three touchdowns on the board to win the game. The first came only 1 minute and 25 seconds into the quarter, as running back Chad Spann rushed 28 yards for a touchdown. Spann would score again with eight minutes remaining to put the Huskies ahead 20\u201310, and the game ended on a Nathan Palmer touchdown with only 46 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Kent State\nEvery year, The University of Akron and Kent State University face off in a rivalry game for the Wagon Wheel. While Akron has won 29 of the 51 matches against Kent State, the Golden Flashes held the lead since the Wheel was introduced in 1946. This year's game is unique in the series, in which both teams' quarterbacks are pure freshmen who just came out of high school not even six months ago. Kent State quarterback Spencer Keith took over the job as the original starter, Giorgio Morgan suffered an ankle injury in an earlier game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Kent State\nKent State was able to score on their first drive, moving 60 yards down the field to set up a field goal by Freddy Cortez. However, Akron immediately responded with a drive on their own, but ended up scoring a touchdown to take the lead 7\u20133 in the first quarter. The lead was extended in the second quarter by a 59-yard reception by Jeremy LaFrance, to set Akron's score at 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201398-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips football team, Game summaries, Kent State\nThe Golden Flashes were able to come back at this point, scoring ten unanswered points which were finished by a field goal in the ending seconds of the first half. In the third quarter, it had appeared that Jeremy Bruce had fumbled the ball, which was recovered by a Kent State defender and returned for a touchdown. After the review however, it was determined that Bruce's elbow had hit the ground before the ball coming loose, therefore the player was down. That play proved to be crucial to the Flashes, as they ended up losing the game by potentially one touchdown, with a final score of 28\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201399-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips men's soccer team\nThe 2009 Akron Zips men's soccer team represented the University of Akron during the 2009 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Zips finished the season undefeated and won every match of the season except for the national championship game, where they lost in penalties to Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201399-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Akron Zips men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201400-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar VBIED Campaign\nThe 2009 Al Anbar VBIED Campaign were a series of carbomb attacks (including several suicide bombings) throughout Al Anbar Province in the months following the withdrawal of US forces from Iraqi cities on June 30, 2009. In early 2009, U.S. forces began pulling out of cities across the country, turning over the task of maintaining security to the Iraqi Army, police, and their paramilitary allies. Experts and many Iraqis worried that in the absence of U.S. soldiers, AQI might resurface and attempt mass-casualty attacks to destabilize the country. There was indeed a spike in the number of suicide attacks, and through mid and late 2009, al-Qaeda in Iraq rebounded in strength and appeared to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201400-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar VBIED Campaign\nThe first attack was on July 15, when six people (including five policemen) were killed and another 19 wounded in Ramadi when a suicide bomber driving a minibus struck a checkpoint of Iraqi soldiers and police. On July 21, a pair of car bombs were simultaneously detonated near a group of restaurants in Ramadi, killing 1-3 people and wounding 13-18. That same day a state of emergency was declared in Ramadi along with vehicle bans both there and in Fallujah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201400-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar VBIED Campaign\nFour days later on July 25, four people were killed and another 12 wounded when a car bomb was detonated outside the offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Fallujah. On August 3, two car bombs hit the cities of Haditha and Saqlawiyah. The Haditha bomb targeted a crowded marketplace, killing seven civilians and wounding 20, while the Saqlawiyah attack unsuccessfully targeted the local police chief, but killed two civilians. On September 7, two car bombs were detonated against police checkpoints in Ramadi, killing seven (including three police) and wounding seventeen. Another car bomb attack against a police station in Ramadi on September 27 killed three police and wounded four. On October 6, a suicide car bomb was detonated near a residential compound in Fallujah, killing nine civilians and wounding 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election\nThe Al Anbar Governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Background\nThe governorate is overwhelmingly populated by Sunni Arabs. The sitting governorate council was elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. These elections took place at the same time as the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election and were boycotted by nearly all Sunni Arab parties. The Iraqi Islamic Party was the only significant Sunni Arab party to put up candidates but they also withdrew from the ballot days before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Background\nThe turnout in Anbar was 2% for the legislative elections and only 0.5% for the governorate election. Therefore, although the Iraqi Islamic Party has traditionally been stronger in Mosul, they ended up with nearly all the seats on the governorate council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Background\nFrom 2004, the governorate became a major site of the insurgency in Iraq directed against the Iraq government and occupying United States army. However, the formation in September 2006 of the Anbar Salvation Council was a turning point, and led to the American-backed tribal forces driving al-Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents out of al-Anbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Campaign\nMore than 520 candidates stood in Anbar, from 37 party lists. The main contest was between the Iraqi Islamic Party which ran the council since 2005 and various parties linked to the Awakening movements formed by tribal leaders and funded by the United States to fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Analysts predicted the IIP standing on their own would be \"wiped out\" in Anbar by the Awakening movements. the Iraqi Islamic Party formed the Coalition of Intellectuals and Tribes together with uniting the Islamic Party, the gathering of Anbar\u2019s Tribal Leaders and Intellectuals, Iraq\u2019s People\u2019s Conference and the Independent Tribal National Gathering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Campaign\nLists associated with the Awakening movements included the Iraq Awakening and Independents National Alliance and the National Front for the Salvation of Iraq. The Alliance was led by Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, Sheikh Amir Ali al-Sulaiman and Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes Sheikh al-Hayyes left the Alliance before the election and contested as head of the \"Anbar Salvation Council\" list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Campaign\nThe National Front was led by Sheikh Ali Hatim,  the tribal leader of the Dulaim tribal confederation - the largest in Anbar - and has previously clashed with Abu Risha's brother, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, when he was the head of the Anbar Salvation Council. The Front claimed the support of the Anbar Salvation Council, the Al-Anbar Awakening Congress, and the Council of Al-Anbar Sheikhs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Campaign\nThe Tribes of Iraq Coalition, headed by Hamid al-Hais is another list which claims to be backed by tribal leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Campaign\nSaleh al-Mutlak's Iraqi National Dialogue Front is the only significant list that doesn't rely on support from tribal leaders, being based on former Ba'ath Party supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Results\nFollowing the vote, supporters of the IIP and the Sahawa gathered in the capital, Ramadi, and started firing in the air to celebrate victory. Iraqi police quickly dispersed the groups and announced a curfew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Results\nEarly leaked results indicated that the lists backed by the IIP had won 12 of the 29 seats on the council - the largest number for any party. Sahawa supporters accused the IIP of adding 100,000 fraudulent ballot papers and threatened a violent reaction if it was confirmed. Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha threatened to \"transfer our entity from a political to a military one\" and \"to fight the Islamic Party and the [Electoral] commission\". The IIP condemned the threats of violence saying this behaviour would \"take us back to the Middle Ages\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Results\nThe Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq and IIP member, Rafi al-Issawi, called for a recount with people accused of fraud prosecuted. Iraqi National Dialogue Front leader Saleh al-Mutlaq said most of the lists thought the IIP had manipulated the vote, he had seen fraudulent ballots himself and the vote had been \"tainted\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Results\nThe Electoral Commission said they had received a flood of complaints which they were investigating - including some serious complaints that could alter the outcome of the vote. Commission officials met with Abu Risha, assured him they would not tolerate any forgery and asked him to avoid confrontation with the IIP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201401-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Anbar governorate election, Results\nFollowing the election, the Iraq Awakening and Independents National Alliance nominated as governor Qasim Al-Fahdawi, a businessman who had recently been running a construction company in the United Arab Emirates. He was elected by 24 votes to 3 and formed a government including all parties except for the Iraqi Islamic Party's three members. Dr. Jassim al-Halbusi was elected chairman of the provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201402-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al Muthanna governorate election\nThe Al Muthanna governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201403-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al-Fateh Confederations Futsal Cup\nThe 2009 Al-Fateh Confederations Futsal Cup, being the first Futsal Confederations Cup, was held in Libya from 6 to 11 October 2009. The draw was held on 4 October 2009 in Tripoli. After Spain withdrew on 3 October, it was decided to be a single group competition. Iran won the tournament after winning all their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201404-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al-Nasr International Tournament\nThe 2009 Al-Nasr International Tournament is a friendly football tournament that takes place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201405-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Al-Q\u0101disiyyah governorate election\nThe Al-Q\u0101disiyyah governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 115th overall season, 76th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 18th within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Nick Saban, in his third year, and played their home games at Bryant\u2013Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They finished the season undefeated with a record of 14\u20130 (8\u20130 in the SEC) and as national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nLooking to build on the successes of the 2008 campaign, Alabama entered the 2009 season as the favorite to win the Western Division and meet the Florida Gators in the 2009 SEC Championship Game. Alabama closed the regular season with a 12\u20130 record including four wins against Top 25-ranked teams\u2014and met the Gators for the SEC Championship in a rematch of the 2008 contest. Alabama was victorious by a final score of 32\u201313. The following day, final Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings were unveiled. No. 1 ranked Alabama would meet No. 2 ranked Texas for the BCS National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nIn the BCS National Championship Game, the Crimson Tide defeated the Longhorns 37\u201321 to capture their first-ever BCS Championship. With the 14-0 record, they became only the 3rd team in college football history to accomplish this feat, behind the 2002 Buckeyes and the 2009 Broncos (who completed the feat three days earlier in the Fiesta Bowl).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAlabama earned their third SEC championship since the inception of the SEC Championship Game in 1992, and their 22nd SEC title. The victory over Texas gave Alabama their 13th national championship in football (their eighth wire service title since the AP Poll began in 1936) and their ninth perfect season since 1925. The season included victories over the previous three national champions: Florida, Louisiana State University (LSU), and Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe season marked the first time a player for Alabama won the Heisman Trophy: Mark Ingram won the award over Stanford running back Toby Gerhart. Other award winners included Rolando McClain, who won the Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Award, and defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who won the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach. Also, six players were named to various All-America Teams with Terrence Cody, Mike Johnson, and Javier Arenas being consensus selections and Ingram  and McClain each being unanimous selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nDuring the 2008\u20132009 campaign, the Crimson Tide completed a perfect 12\u20130 regular season record with wins over No. 9 Clemson, No. 3 Georgia, longtime rival Tennessee, No. 16 LSU, and in-state rival Auburn to end a six-game losing streak in the Iron Bowl. The Tide went on to lose their final two games in the postseason to end the season 12\u20132. They lost to the Florida Gators (31\u201320) in the SEC Championship Game, and to the Utah Utes (31\u201317) in the Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nAlabama reached No. 1 in the AP and Coaches' Polls for the first time since the final polls in 1992 and during the regular season for the first time since 1980 between weeks ten and fourteen. The Tide reached No. 1 in the BCS rankings for the first time in school history between weeks ten and fourteen. The team finished the 2008 season with a final ranking of No. 6 in both the AP and Coaches' Polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nIn February 2009, Alabama signed the No. 1 recruiting class according to Rivals and the No. 2 recruiting class according to Scout. Spring practice began on March 13 and concluded with the annual A-Day game on April 18. Televised live by ESPN, the Crimson team defeated the White team by a score of 14\u20137 before 84,050 fans in Bryant\u2013Denny Stadium. Greg McElroy and Marquis Maze were named co-MVPs of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nOn June 11, 2009, the NCAA Committee on Infractions sanctioned Alabama for \"major violations\" of NCAA policies as a result of athletes who received improper benefits in 16 of 19 NCAA sports, including football. As a penalty, the football program was forced to vacate 21 victories from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons in addition to being placed on three years probation, ending in June 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nThe university stated that none of the textbooks or materials identified in the investigation were used for profit, and that the athletes involved who still had eligibility remaining were to pay restitution for the additional materials identified as part of the inquiry. Alabama appealed the ruling to the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee in late June, but was unsuccessful; the Committee upheld the sanctions in March 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nDuring SEC Media Days in July, voters selected Alabama and Florida to again win their divisions, with 63 of 64 ballots choosing Florida to win the SEC Championship Game. Voters selected Julio Jones, Mike Johnson, Terrence Cody, Rolando McClain, Javier Arenas (as a defensive back), and Leigh Tiffin to the Preseason All-SEC First Team and selected Mark Ingram and Arenas (as a return specialist) to the Preseason All-SEC Second Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season\nBy August, Alabama had 19 players on 11 different preseason award watch lists. These included Cody and McClain for the Chuck Bednarik Award; Jones for the Fred Biletnikoff Award; Dont\u2019a Hightower and McClain for the Butkus Award; Leigh Tiffin for the Lou Groza Award; Cody, Hightower, Mike Johnson, and McClain for the Lombardi Award; Cody and McClain for the Lott Trophy; Jones for the Maxwell Award; Javier Arenas, Cody, and McClain for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy; Cody and Johnson for the Outland Trophy; Arenas for the Jim Thorpe Award; and Mark Ingram for the Doak Walker Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season, Returning starters\nAlabama had 16 returning starters from the previous season, including eight on defense, four on offense, and all of the special teams. The most notable departures from the previous year were Andre Smith, Antoine Caldwell, and Marlon Davis on the offensive line; John Parker Wilson at quarterback; Glen Coffee at running back; and Rashad Johnson at safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season, Recruiting class\nAlabama's recruiting class was highlighted by seven players from the \"ESPN 150\": No. 4\u00a0Dre Kirkpatrick (CB); No. 6\u00a0Trent Richardson (RB); No. 12\u00a0D.J. Fluker (OT); No. 20\u00a0Nico Johnson (ILB); No. 36\u00a0A.\u00a0J. McCarron (QB); No. 65\u00a0Kendall Kelly (WR); No. 110\u00a0Tana Patrick (OLB); No. 142\u00a0Petey Smith (ILB); and No. 143\u00a0Eddie Lacy (RB). Alabama signed the No. 1 recruiting class according to Rivals and the No. 2 recruiting class according to Scout. The football program received 29 letters of intent on National Signing Day, February 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Schedule\nThe Sagarin computer ratings calculated Alabama's strength of schedule to be the most difficult out of the 245 Division I teams. The Congrove Computer Rankings also calculated it as the most difficult out of the 120 Division I FBS teams in its rankings. Alabama's 2009 schedule was officially released on December 19, 2008. In accordance with conference rules, Alabama faced all five Western Division opponents: Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss. They also faced three Eastern Division opponents: official SEC rival Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina. Alabama did not play SEC opponents Georgia and Vanderbilt. Although not on the regular season schedule, Bama met Florida in the SEC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Schedule\nAlabama also played five non-conference games. For the season opener, the Tide played in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Virginia Tech at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The non-conference schedule also included games against Florida International and North Texas of the Sun Belt Conference and UT-Chattanooga of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). For the 2010 BCS National Championship Game, Alabama played Texas for the first time since the 1982 Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Coaching staff\nPrior to the 2009 season, Alabama made several changes to its coaching staff. Alabama lost their defensive head coach, Kevin Steele, on January 10, 2009, when he was hired as defensive coordinator for Clemson, and their linebacker coach Lance Thompson on January 16, when he was hired as linebacker coach by Tennessee. The following week, Saban named Sal Sunseri from the NFL's Carolina Panthers as his team's new assistant head and linebacker coach, and James Willis from Auburn as the new associate head and linebacker coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nAfter defeating Clemson in the inaugural Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, Alabama announced in December 2008 they would return for the 2009 edition against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The Tide dominated play for most of the game, outgaining Tech in total offense by 498 yards to 155, but mistakes, penalties, and poor play by the special teams allowed the Hokies to hang on until 18 fourth-quarter points sealed the 34\u201324 Alabama victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nBama scored first with field goals of 49 and 34 yards from Leigh Tiffin to take an early 6\u20130 lead. The Hokies responded with a 98-yard Dyrell Roberts kickoff return for a touchdown to give Tech a 7\u20136 lead. Following the recovery of a Ryan Williams fumble by Brian Selman deep in Hokie territory, the Tide retook the lead 9\u20137 on a 32-yard Tiffin field goal. Early in the second quarter, Antoine Hopkins intercepted a Greg McElroy pass. On the ensuing possession, Tech led 10\u20139 after a successful 28-yard Matt Waldron field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nAlabama responded by driving 76 yards for a touchdown and a 16\u201310 lead, with the big plays coming on a 14-yard run by Mark Ingram, passes of 16 and 10 yards from McElroy to Julio Jones and the score coming on a 19-yard Roy Upchurch run. On the next Virginia Tech possession, three personal fouls and a pass interference penalty carried the Hokies downfield with Williams scoring on a one-yard touchdown run. The score remained 17\u201316 at the half after Tiffin missed a 36-yard field goal at the end of the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nIn the third quarter Roy Upchurch fumbled the ball at the Tech nine after a long run,  negating the lone scoring opportunity for either team in the third quarter. Still down by a point in the fourth quarter, McElroy hit Marquis Maze for a 48-yard completion to the Virginia Tech six-yard line, and Ingram scored a touchdown on the next play. A successful two-point conversion pass from McElroy to Colin Peek gave Alabama a 24\u201317 lead. On the ensuing kickoff, Davon Morgan fumbled and Chris Rogers recovered for the Tide at the Tech 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe following Alabama drive stalled at the 3, but Tiffin's fourth field goal made the score 27\u201317. Poor kickoff coverage and penalties set up a 32-yard Williams that run cut the lead to 27\u201324 late in the fourth quarter. Alabama quickly struck back as Ingram rushed for 39 yards, McElroy completed a 19-yard pass to Peek, and then threw to Ingram for an 18-yard touchdown and a 34\u201324 lead. The Hokies never threatened to score again and Alabama won its opener, 34\u201324. Ingram led the Tide with 150 yards rushing on 26 carries and a pair of touchdowns, and he was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Hokies to 11\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida International\nThe Golden Panthers of Florida International proved a tougher opponent than Alabama expected in the first half. However, the Tide pulled away with a 40\u201314 victory in the 2009 home opener. Alabama opened the scoring with a 23-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal followed by a 24-yard Greg McElroy touchdown pass to Mike McCoy, which gave Bama a 10\u20130 lead. FIU followed the McElroy touchdown with T. Y. Hilton returning the ensuing kickoff 96 yards, bringing the score to 10\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida International\nBama responded with a 29-yard Tiffin field goal to extend the lead to 13\u20137 early in the second quarter; the following kickoff was booted out of bounds, which set up the Golden Panthers at the 40. The ensuing 60-yard drive resulted in a 9-yard Paul McCall touchdown pass to Greg Ellingson that gave FIU a 14\u201313 lead. Bama responded with a 64-yard drive  culminating with a two-yard Mark Ingram touchdown run to put Bama up 20\u201314 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida International\nTrent Richardson continued the Alabama scoring in the third quarter with a nine-yard touchdown run to extend the lead to 26\u201314. A 46-yard punt return by Javier Arenas set up Richardson's second score on a 35-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter. Alabama led 33\u201314. Terry Grant scored the Tide's final points with a 42-yard touchdown run to bring the final score to 40\u201314. Alabama outgained FIU 516\u2013214 in total offense and 275\u20131 in rushing offense. Greg McElroy set an all-time Alabama record by completing 14 consecutive pass attempts and was 18\u201324  for 241 yards and a touchdown. For his 113-yard, two-touchdown rushing performance, Richardson was named the SEC Freshman of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Golden Panthers to 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Texas\nAlabama's second consecutive matchup with a Sun Belt opponent on the season resulted in its second consecutive victory, as the Tide defeated the North Texas Mean Green 53\u20137. Greg McElroy opened the scoring with a two-yard touchdown run followed by a 34-yard touchdown pass to Marquis Maze to take a 14\u20130 first quarter lead. The Tide continued the scoring in the second quarter, with touchdowns on a one-yard Trent Richardson run and a 29-yard McElroy pass to Mark Ingram followed with a 35-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal. This gave Alabama a 30\u20130 lead at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Texas\nIn the third quarter, Bama extended their lead to 44\u20130 following touchdown runs of five and one yard respectively from Ingram and Terry Grant. After North Texas reached the end zone on a 34-yard Nathan Tune touchdown pass to Lance Dunbar, Alabama closed the game with ten fourth-quarter points on a 20-yard Tiffin field goal and 9-yard Grant touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Texas\nAlabama outgained the Mean Green 523\u2013187 in yards of total offense. It was the most points for Alabama in a game since beating Texas-El Paso 56\u20137 in 2001 and the most scored at Bryant\u2013Denny since defeating Tulane 62\u20130 in 1991. By completing of 13 of 15 passes, McElroy tied a school record with an overall completion percentage of 86.7. The game was notable for McElroy as the North Texas head coach, Todd Dodge, was his high school head coach when McElroy led Southlake Carroll to the 2005 Texas Class 5A high school football championship. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Mean Green to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas\nIn Bobby Petrino's first visit to Tuscaloosa as a head coach, Alabama opened conference play by defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks 35\u20137. After a scoreless first quarter, two big touchdown plays, a 52-yard run by Trent Richardson and a 50-yard pass from Greg McElroy to Julio Jones, had the Tide up 14\u20130 at the half. Arkansas responded early in the third quarter and cut the lead to 14\u20137 after Ryan Mallett hit Greg Childs for an 18-yard touchdown reception; the Hogs would not reach the end zone again as the Tide responded with three unanswered touchdowns. Bama scored first on an 80-yard touchdown pass from McElroy to Marquis Maze followed with two touchdowns by Mark Ingram, one on a 14-yard pass from McElroy and one on a 2-yard run, bringing the final score to 35\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas\nAlabama outgained the Razorbacks 425\u2013254 in yards of total offense. McElroy threw for career highs of 291 yards and three touchdowns. For his 65-yard, nine-carry, one-touchdown performance, Richardson was named the SEC Freshman of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Razorbacks to 10\u20138 (13\u20137 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nIn Alabama's first trip to Lexington since 2004, and their first road game of the 2009 season, the Tide defeated the Kentucky Wildcats 38\u201320. Alabama scored on their opening drive after Javier Arenas returned the opening kickoff 60 yards, which set up an 11-yard Mark Ingram touchdown for an early 7\u20130 lead. Kentucky responded with a pair of 49-yard Lones Seiber field goals. The score was 7\u20136 at the end of the first quarter. The Tide extended their lead late in the second quarter following a nearly seven-minute, 13-play, 97-yard touchdown drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nGreg McElroy passes of 27 and 21 yards and a 13-yard run by Ingram moved Bama down the field, culminating with a three-yard touchdown pass from McElroy to Colin Peek to put the Tide up 14\u20136. With only 40 seconds remaining in the half, Kentucky tailback Derrick Locke fumbled the ball after catching a short pass. Courtney Upshaw returned 45 yards for an Alabama touchdown that put the Tide ahead 21\u20136 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nOn the second play of the third quarter, Rolando McClain intercepted a Mike Hartline pass, giving Alabama possession at the Wildcat 38. Two plays later Ingram scored on a 32-yard run, making the score 28\u20136. Following an Eryk Anders interception that set up a 36-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal, the Wildcats reached the end zone for the first time on the ensuing drive. Hartline connected with Randall Cobb for a 45-yard touchdown reception in bringing the score to 31\u201313. The Tide responded with a 7-yard Darius Hanks touchdown reception to complete a 13-play, 76-yard drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nKentucky scored the afternoon's final points in the fourth quarter on a two-yard Alfonso Smith touchdown run. The final score was 38\u201320. Kentucky's four turnovers sabotaged an effort that was better than any other of Alabama's previous opponents, as the Wildcats gained 301 yards in total offense and held Alabama to 352. McElroy threw for two touchdowns, giving him nine on the season against only one interception, and Ingram rushed for 140 yards on 22 carries. For his 12 tackles (8 solo), one interception, one forced fumble and one pass break-up, McClain was named both the SEC Defensive Player of the Week and the Bronko Nagurski Award National Defensive Player of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Wildcats to 35\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nBefore the largest crowd to ever witness a game in Vaught\u2013Hemingway Stadium, Alabama defeated their long-time rival, the Ole Miss Rebels, 22\u20133. Alabama struggled to put the ball in the end zone all afternoon with drives stalled at the Mississippi 8, 4, 4, 4, and 13. Each of those drives resulted in a field goal by Leigh Tiffin, who was 5 for 5 on the day. Other special teams contributions included a blocked punt in the second quarter and a recovered Dexter McCluster fumble on a punt return in the third quarter, both by Cory Reamer. McElroy struggled, completing only 15 of 34 passes for 147 yards, but Mark Ingram ran for a then career-high 172 yards and accounted for Alabama's only touchdown on a 36-yard run in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nThe Alabama defense had an excellent day, with Javier Arenas, Kareem Jackson, Rolando McClain, and Cory Reamer each intercepting a Jevan Snead pass. Overall, the Tide held the Rebels to 212 yards of total offense and a single Joshua Shene field goal in the third quarter. center William Vlachos was named the SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week and Tiffin was named the Lou Groza Award \"Star of Stars\" for his five field goal performance. The victory was the team's  sixth in a row over the Rebels and improved Alabama's all-time record against Ole Miss to 43\u20139\u20132 (47\u20138\u20132 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nIn South Carolina's first trip to Bryant\u2013Denny since 2004, the Tide defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks 20\u20136 on homecoming in Tuscaloosa. On the second play from the start of the game, Mark Barron intercepted a Stephen Garcia pass and returned it 77 yards for a touchdown and a 7\u20130 Alabama lead. Greg McElroy struggled; he threw a pair of first-quarter interceptions on Bama's first two offensive possessions. South Carolina's C.C. Whitlock fumbled the ball on the return of the second interception and possession was recovered by Darius Hanks. The Tide continued its drive to the Gamecock 8, and Leigh Tiffin kicked a field goal to put Alabama ahead 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nFollowing a failed 49-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal attempt in the second quarter, South Carolina answered by driving to the Alabama five-yard line. However, the Bama defense held the Gamecock offense to three consecutive incompletions; the result was a 22-yard Spencer Lanning field goal to make the score 10\u20133. On the following possession, Mark Ingram ran 54 yards to the South Carolina 28. The drive stalled at the 17 and Tiffin's field goal made it 13\u20133. South Carolina responded with a quick drive that ended with a 31-yard Lanning field goal as time expired in the first half with the score 13\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, with 8:08 to go, Alabama took possession at its own 32 following a Gamecock punt. Taking direct snaps out of the wildcat formation, Ingram rushed for 64 yards on five carries, then took a pitch from Greg McElroy for the last four yards and the touchdown, sealing Alabama's 20\u20136 victory. The Alabama offense turned the ball over four times in this game after committing only two turnovers in the first six games. Mark Ingram's 246 yards rushing marked his third consecutive career-high effort and the third highest single game total in Alabama history. For their performances, Ingram was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week and Rolando McClain was named the Lott Trophy IMPACT Player of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Gamecocks to 10\u20133 (12\u20132 before NCAA vacations and forfeits).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 927]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nThis edition of the Third Saturday in October was a defensive struggle with a surprise finish as the Crimson Tide defeated the Tennessee Volunteers 12\u201310. In a defensive struggle for both teams, Leigh Tiffin was 4 for 4 on field goals and accounted for all of Alabama's scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nWith the Tennessee defense stopping the Tide on consecutive drives, Alabama's defense responded with Mark Barron intercepting a Jonathan Crompton pass at the Bama 19 in the first quarter. The ensuing drive resulted in a 38-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal and a 3\u20130 lead. The Vols responded with a 24-yard Daniel Lincoln field goal that tied the game 3\u20133. Tiffin hit field goals of 50 and 22 yards before Lincoln missed a 47-yard attempt at the end of the first half, leaving the score 9\u20133 at halftime. After a scoreless third, in the fourth Tennessee drove to the Alabama 27, but Terrence Cody blocked Lincoln's field goal. On the ensuing possession, Tiffin hit a 49-yard field goal to bring the score to 12\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nLate in the fourth, Mark Ingram lost a fumble for the first time in his collegiate career, giving Tennessee possession at the Alabama 43 with 3:29 remaining in the game. The Vols drove the ball 43 yards in 2:10, culminating with an 11-yard Crompton touchdown pass to Gerald Jones to cut the gap to 12\u201310. The Vols followed with a successful onside kick attempt and regained possession of the ball at their own 41-yard line. After Tennessee was penalized five yards for a false start, Crompton completed a pass to Luke Stocker for 23 yards, to the Bama 27-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nWith the clock ticking off the final seconds and Tennessee out of time outs, Crompton spiked the ball to stop the clock with four seconds left. This set up Lincoln for a 45-yard field goal attempt to win the game. However, Terrence Cody knocked his blocker over and broke through the line. He blocked Lincoln's field goal as time expired, preserving Alabama's 12\u201310 victory and perfect season. For their performances, Cody was named the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week and Tiffin was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nWith the SEC West divisional championship on the line, Alabama defeated their long-time rival the LSU Tigers 24\u201315 to secure a spot in the SEC Championship Game. Following a scoreless first quarter, LSU took possession on its own 9 on the last play of the first quarter and embarked on a 13-play, 91-yard drive that ended in a 12-yard touchdown pass from Jordan Jefferson to Deangelo Peterson and a 7\u20130 lead. Javier Arenas returned the ensuing punt 40 yards to the Alabama 49, and the Tide drove to the LSU 11 before settling for a 28-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal that made the score 7\u20133. Neither team could mount a sustained drive for the rest of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAt the start of the second half Alabama received the kickoff, took possession at its own 19, and started getting the ball to Mark Ingram. On the drive, Ingram was responsible for a 12-yard reception from Greg McElroy and rushes of 4, 12, 12, and 18 yards that advanced the ball to the Tiger 23. Two plays later, McElroy hit Darius Hanks for his first touchdown pass since the Kentucky game, and Alabama was up 10\u20137. The ensuing LSU drive stalled at the Tide 46. The  LSU punt was downed at the Alabama 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nTwo plays later McElroy was sacked for a safety, making the score 10\u20139. LSU returned the free kick to its own 41 and drove 59 yards for the touchdown, the big play coming on a 34-yard run by Charles Scott. The two-point conversion attempt failed, leaving the score 15\u201310 in favor of LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAlabama received the kickoff and again relied on Ingram: seven Ingram rushes for 48 yards accounted for most of the offense on a drive that ended with a 20-yard Tiffin field goal, making the score 15\u201313. Following a LSU three and out, Alabama took possession on its own 27-yard line. On first down, McElroy completed a screen pass to Julio Jones which Jones turned into a 73-yard touchdown. After a successful two-point conversion, Alabama led 21\u201315. LSU went three and out again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nA methodical 11-play, 31-yard Alabama drive consumed 6:14 of game time and ended in a 40-yard Tiffin field goal with 3:04 left to  seal a 24\u201315 Alabama victory. Alabama won the SEC Western Division championship and clinched a berth in the SEC Championship Game against Florida, which clinched the East that same day with a 27\u20133 victory over Vanderbilt. Ingram rushed for 144 yards and Jones had 102 receiving yards. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Tigers to 45\u201323\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nPlaying in front of the largest crowd to ever witness a game in Davis Wade Stadium, and with the Bulldogs wearing black jerseys for the first time in their history, Alabama cruised to a 31\u20133 victory over long-time rival Mississippi State. After a scoreless first quarter, Alabama scored a pair of touchdowns in the second to take a 14\u20130 lead. The first touchdown came on a 45-yard Darius Hanks reception from Greg McElroy and the second on a 1-yard Mark Ingram run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nAfter a 39-yard field goal by Leigh Tiffin extended the lead to 17\u20130 in the third, the Bulldogs scored their only points of the night on a 34-yard Derek DePasquale field goal. On the ensuing kickoff, Javier Arenas returned the ball 46 yards and on the next play, McElroy hit Julio Jones for a 48-yard touchdown reception. The score was 24\u20133. Mark Barron intercepted a Tyson Lee pass at the Alabama 30 on the next Bulldog offensive series. On the following play, Ingram scored a touchdown on a 70-yard run to bring the final score to 31\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nFor the game, McElroy threw for 192 yards and two touchdowns on 13 of 18 passing, and Mark Ingram rushed for 149 yards two touchdowns. Mississippi State was held to 213 total yards, with Barron intercepting two Tyson Lee and Marquis Johnson intercepting one Chris Relf pass. For his performance, left guard Mike Johnson was named the SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Bulldogs to 73\u201318\u20133 (72\u201319\u20133 without NCAA vacations and forfeits).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Chattanooga\nOn senior day in Tuscaloosa, Alabama dipped down to college football's Football Championship Subdivision and defeated the Mocs of UT-Chattanooga 45\u20130. After being stopped on their first possession, Alabama reached the end zone on the next five consecutive possessions in running up a 35\u20130 lead in the first half. First-quarter touchdowns included a 2-yard Trent Richardson run, a 25-yard Mark Ingram run, and a 19-yard Julio Jones reception from Greg McElroy. In the second quarter, touchdowns were scored by Javier Arenas on a 66-yard punt return and on a 40-yard Ingram run. With the only third quarter points coming on a 41-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal, Bama's final points of the afternoon came on a 21-yard Roy Upchurch touchdown run in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Chattanooga\nJavier Arenas set the all-time SEC record with his seventh punt return for a touchdown and was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week. Mark Ingram led the offense with 102 yards and two touchdowns before being pulled early in the second quarter. Alabama outgained Chattanooga in total offense 422\u201384 and recorded their first defensive shutout since defeating Auburn 36\u20130 in 2008. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Mocs to 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nOne year after Alabama's 36\u20130 victory in Tuscaloosa, the 2009 Iron Bowl contest against the Auburn Tigers ended with a 26\u201321 Tide victory and a 12\u20130 regular season. The Tigers, who entered the game 7\u20134 and unranked, took the ball after Alabama's initial three and out and struck quickly. On Auburn's fourth play from scrimmage, Terrell Zachery raced 67 yards on a reverse for a touchdown and a 7\u20130 Auburn lead. The run was the longest allowed by the Tide since a 70-yard run by Arkansas' Darren McFadden in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAuburn then successfully executed an onside kick and retained possession of the ball. After the onside kick, Auburn drove 58 yards in 12 plays, scoring on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Chris Todd to Eric Smith. The Crimson Tide, which had never trailed in a game by more than seven points all season, found itself down 14\u20130 before the first quarter was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nEarly in the second quarter Alabama completed a 10-play, 58-yard drive by scoring on a two-yard run by backup tailback Trent Richardson. The key plays were a 15-yard pass from McElroy to Darius Hanks and a 13-yard pass from McElroy to Richardson. After an exchange of punts gave Alabama good starting position at the Auburn 45, the Tide quickly struck again with McElroy hitting tight end Colin Peek on a 33-yard touchdown pass that left the game tied 14\u201314 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nIn the third quarter, Auburn scored on another quick strike. The Tigers took possession on their 24 after a Bama punt; Kodi Burns rushed for four yards, and then Todd hit Darvin Adams on a 72-yard completion that put Auburn back in front 21\u201314. The completion marked the longest play from scrimmage allowed by the Bama defense all season and the longest pass play since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nJavier Arenas gave Alabama an opportunity by returning the ensuing kickoff 46 yards to the Auburn 45, but Mark Ingram, who struggled the entire game, rushed for 7 yards and 2 yards and then was held for no gain on both third and one and fourth and one, and Alabama turned the ball over on downs. Auburn went three and out and punted, and Arenas set the Tide up again, returning the punt 56 yards to the Auburn 33-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0043-0002", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAlabama drove to the Auburn 10 before settling for a Leigh Tiffin field goal that cut the deficit to 21\u201317. Alabama kicked off and two plays later, Auburn quarterback Todd threw an interception that gave Alabama possession at the Auburn 43. The Tide drove to the Tigers' 13 before this drive also stalled, forcing another Leigh Tiffin field goal that made the score 21\u201320. As the third quarter ended, Auburn continued to hang on to a one-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nNeither team could make progress with possessions early in the fourth quarter, and after an exchange of punts, Alabama got the ball on its own 21 with 8:27 to go, and began what would soon be known as \"The Drive\". Richardson opened with a 7-yard rush, and on third and three, McElroy completed a nine-yard pass to Julio Jones for a first down. Three plays later, on third and five, McElroy completed a six-yard pass to Jones for another first down and advancing the ball to the Tide 48.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nTwo plays later, on second and eight, a third pass from McElroy to Jones for 11 yards led to a third first down. Two plays after that, a fourth pass from McElroy to Jones and a fourth first down at the Auburn 28-yard line. On second and nine at the Auburn 27, McElroy chose a different target, hitting Richardson for a first down to the Auburn 11-yard line. After a four-yard run by Richardson to the Auburn 7, the Tigers called time out with 1:34 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0044-0002", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nRichardson took the ball three more yards to the Auburn 4, leaving the Tide at third and three. Each team called a time out in succession with 1:29 left. Alabama's offensive coaches called for a running play, but head coach Nick Saban, unwilling to settle for a field goal, overruled this decision and demanded a pass. McElroy completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to third-string tailback Roy Upchurch, giving Alabama a 26\u201321 lead with 1:24 to go. McElroy had completed seven consecutive passes on The Drive after missing his first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nA two-point conversion attempt failed and the lead was five points. Auburn took possession at the 25 following the kickoff and took 1:14 to run four plays and advance the ball to its own 46 with ten seconds to go. Todd completed a 17-yard pass to Darvin Adams at the Alabama 37, and after spiking the ball, Todd's last pass fell incomplete and the game was over. Alabama had survived, beating Auburn 26\u201321 despite being outgained 332 yards to 291 and being held to only 73 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAlabama faced Florida in the SEC Championship Game in a rematch of the 2008 contest, with the Tide capturing their 22nd conference championship following their 32\u201313 victory over the Gators. The Tide struck first, driving 47 yards with the opening possession before Leigh Tiffin kicked a 48-yard field goal and a 3\u20130 lead. Following a Florida three and out on their first possession, Alabama responded with an 8-play, 76-yard touchdown drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nOn the drive, Greg McElroy completed key passes to Colin Peek and Marquis Maze and Mark Ingram rushed for 37 yards and the touchdown in taking a 9\u20130 lead following a missed extra point. On the ensuing possession, Caleb Sturgis hit a 48-yard field goal that made the score 9\u20133 at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAlabama scored first in the second quarter on a 34-yard Tiffin field goal to complete a 68-yard drive and extend the Bama lead to 12\u20133. Florida followed with what turned out to be its only touchdown drive of the game. Rushes of 23 yards and 15 yards from quarterback and former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow were followed by a 23-yard touchdown pass from Tebow to David Nelson, and Florida had cut the lead to two, 12\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nOn the next offensive play, Ingram took a short pass from McElroy and raced 69 yards to the Gator 3-yard line, and ran it in for a touchdown from three yards out on the next play. The Gators ended the first half with a 32-yard Sturgis field goal to make the halftime score 19\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nFlorida opened the third quarter with a three and out. On the Tide's first offensive series of the second half, McElroy completed a 28-yard pass to Maze and was followed with a 15-yard personal foul penalty in bringing the ball into the red zone. On the next play McElroy completed the drive with a 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Colin Peek. Alabama took a 26\u201313 lead. Florida got one first down on its next possession before punting the ball to Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nTaking the ball at its own 12-yard line with 7:36 to go in the third quarter, Alabama held the ball for the rest of the quarter and into the fourth, using up 8:47 of game time on a 12-play, 88-yard drive. Ingram, who rushed for 37 yards on the drive, scored on a 1-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter to increase Bama's lead to 32\u201313. Florida mounted a late drive that reached the Alabama 6 before Tebow threw an interception to Javier Arenas in the end zone. On Florida's next possession, the Gators turned the ball over on downs at the Alabama 13, and the Tide was able to run out the clock to secure the 32\u201313 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nFor his 239-yard, one touchdown passing performance, Greg McElroy was named the game's MVP. Ingram rushed for 113 and Trent Richardson rushed for 80 yards. The victory gave Alabama its 22nd SEC title, their third since the inception of the Championship Game and their first in ten years\u2014the longest time the Crimson Tide program has ever gone without an SEC championship. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Gators to 20\u201314 (21\u201314 without the NCAA vacation of the 2005 victory). Alabama earned their third SEC championship since the inception of the SEC Championship Game in 1992, and their 22nd SEC title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nFollowing victories in their respective conference championship games, on December 6 the final Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings were unveiled, pitting the No. 1 ranked Crimson Tide against the No. 2 ranked Texas Longhorns for the 2010 BCS National Championship. The game was held in the Rose Bowl, although it was not the actual Rose Bowl Game, in which Ohio State beat Oregon six days earlier. Alabama came into the game having never beaten Texas, compiling an all-time 0\u20137\u20131 record against the Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nAlabama won the toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff. After losing thirteen yards on a sack and a penalty, Nick Saban called for a fake punt, which resulted in a Texas interception by Blake Gideon at the Alabama 37-yard line. On the initial possession, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy suffered a hit from Marcell Dareus which forced him to leave the game. Suffering from a pinched nerve in his throwing shoulder, McCoy did not return. With McCoy out, freshman Garrett Gilbert replaced him at quarterback, and the Longhorns settled for a field goal and a 3\u20130 lead. The ensuing kickoff was an onside kick, and Texas retained possession of the ball when Alabama failed to field the kick. The Longhorns only advanced the ball five yards and Hunter Lawrence kicked another field goal to go ahead 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe Tide went ahead in the second quarter. Greg McElroy threw for only 58 yards on 6 of 11 passing for Alabama, but 23 of those yards came on a completion to Julio Jones that advanced the ball to the Texas 12. Three plays later Mark Ingram ran it in from two yards out, and Alabama went ahead 7\u20136. After an exchange of punts, Bama took possession on the Texas 49-yard line, and on the second play Trent Richardson burst through a hole in the middle and raced 49 yards untouched for the touchdown, extending the lead to 14\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nTexas continued to struggle for offense in McCoy's absence, and on the next possession a Texas drive ended when Javier Arenas intercepted a Gilbert pass at the Alabama 25. Following a short punt late in the quarter, Bama drove to the Texas 9, and increased their lead to 17\u20136 following a successful 26-yard Leigh Tiffin field goal. It appeared that the Crimson Tide would go into the locker room leading 17\u20136. However, after gaining nine yards on a rush up the middle, Texas called time out with 15 seconds left. With the ball at the Texas 37, Gilbert threw a shovel pass to D.J. Monroe, who bobbled the ball and batted it into the arms of Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus, who lumbered 28 yards for a touchdown that made the halftime score 24\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nHaving been sacked 4 times in the first half but had considerable success rushing the ball, Alabama came out rushing after halftime, attempting only two passes in the 3rd quarter. Meanwhile, Gilbert, who had struggled early in the game, started to find his rhythm, mostly due to the efforts of Jordan Shipley, one of only two Texas receivers to catch a pass thrown beyond the line of scrimmage in the game. A 44-yard touchdown pass from Gilbert to Shipley cut the lead to 24\u201313. Early in the fourth, Leigh Tiffin missed a 52-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nOn the ensuing possession, the Longhorns drove 65 yards and scored another touchdown on a 28-yard Shipley reception. A successful two-point conversion pulled the score to within three points, 24\u201321. Following an Alabama punt, Texas gained possession on their own 7-yard line with 3:14 to go. On the second play of the drive, Eryk Anders laid a hit on Gilbert that forced a fumble, and Alabama recovered at the Texas 3. Three plays later Ingram, who rushed for 116 yards in the game, ran it in for the score that gave Alabama a 31\u201321 lead. On the following drive, Gilbert threw a second interception to Arenas, and a Trent Richardson touchdown with 47 seconds left made the final score 37\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nFor their performances, Mark Ingram was named the game's offensive MVP and Marcell Dareus was named defensive MVP. Alabama beat Texas for the first time in their history, won its first ever BCS championship game, and won its first national championship since 1992. It was Alabama's thirteenth claimed and eighth national championship by vote of the AP poll or coaches' poll, the others coming in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, and 1992, and ninth perfect season, the others coming in 1925, 1930, 1934, 1945, 1961, 1966, 1979, and 1992. Alabama became the third school in major college history to go 14\u20130, joining the 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes and the 2009 Boise State Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Rankings\nEntering the 2009 season, the Crimson Tide was ranked No. 5 in the AP and Coaches' Preseason Polls. By week seven Alabama moved into the No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll and the No. 2 ranking in both the Coaches' Poll and the initial BCS rankings. After dropping as low as No. 3, following the victory against Florida in the SEC Championship Game Alabama captured the No. 1 ranking in the AP and Coaches' Polls as well as in the final BCS rankings. Following the victory over Texas in the BCS Championship Game, Alabama was selected a unanimous No. 1 by the AP and as the No. 1 team in the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season\nFollowing the victory against Texas for the national championship, the team arrived at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport on the evening of January 8. Several thousand fans were there to greet them upon their arrival. On January 16, a public national championship celebration at Bryant\u2013Denny Stadium was attended by well over 30,000 spectators. Speakers at the event included head coach Nick Saban and Alabama athletic director Mal Moore. All of the championship trophies were available for public viewing. In early March, the team was invited to the White House, where Obama greeted the team and offered congratulatory remarks for their championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season\nFor their victory, each team member and coach received three championship rings designed by Jostens: a university-issued title ring, a BCS issued title ring, and another for winning the SEC championship. The rings were distributed as part of the annual A-Day weekend the following April. Also as part of the A-Day celebrations, the 2009 team captains Javier Arenas, Rolando McClain, and Mike Johnson were honored at the Walk of Fame ceremony at the base of Denny Chimes. As recognition for becoming the fifth Alabama head coach to win a national championship, the University unveiled a statue of coach Saban along the Walk of Champions outside Bryant\u2013Denny Stadium as part of A-Day festivities on April 16, 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Final statistics\nAfter their victory over Texas in the BCS National Championship Game, Alabama's final team statistics were released. On the defensive side of the ball, they ranked second in scoring defense (11.71 points per game), second in total defense (244.14 yards per game), second in rushing defense (78.14 yards per game) and tenth in passing defense (166.00 yards per game). They were also the conference leaders in scoring, total and rushing defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Final statistics\nOn offense, nationally the Crimson Tide ranked 12th in rushing offense (215.07 yards per game), 22nd in scoring offense (32.07 points per game), 42nd in total offense (403.00 yards per game) and 92nd in passing offense (187.93 yards per game). Individually, Leigh Tiffin led the SEC with an average of 2.14 field goals and 9.43 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards\nIn the weeks following the SEC Championship Game, multiple Alabama players were recognized for their on-field performances with a variety of awards and recognitions. At the team awards banquet on December 6, Javier Arenas, Mike Johnson and Rolando McClain were each named the permanent captains of the 2009 squad. At that time both McClain and Mark Ingram were also named the 2009 co-most valuable players with McClain and Terrence Cody named defensive players of the year and Ingram and Johnson named the offensive players of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards, Conference\nThe SEC recognized several players for their individual performances with various awards. Alabama swept the three major individual awards on the AP All-SEC team, with Mark Ingram named Offensive Player of the Year, Rolando McClain named Defensive Player of the Year, and Nick Saban named Coach of the Year. In addition to Ingram and McClain, Javier Arenas (as a defensive back), Terrance Cody, Mike Johnson, and Leigh Tiffin were named to the AP All-SEC First Team. James Carpenter, Colin Peek, and Arenas (as a return specialist) were named to the AP All-SEC Second Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards, Conference\nEight players were named to the Coaches' All-SEC First Team, including Arenas (as both a defensive back and return specialist), Mark Barron, Cody, Ingram, Mike Johnson, McClain, and Tiffin. Julio Jones was named to the Coaches' All-SEC Second Team. Nico Johnson, Barrett Jones, and Trent Richardson were named to the 2009 Freshman All-SEC Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards, National\nAfter the season, a number of Alabama players were named as national award winners and finalists. Mark Ingram became Alabama's first Heisman Trophy winner, with the closest margin of victory in the history of the award, over Stanford's Toby Gerhart. Ingram was a finalist for the Maxwell Award and the Doak Walker Award. Linebacker Rolando McClain won the Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Award. Other national award finalists included Terrence Cody (for the Chuck Bednarik Award) and Leigh Tiffin (for the Lou Groza Award). Defensive coordinator Kirby Smart won the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards, National\nIn addition to the individual awards, several players were also named to various national All-American Teams. Javier Arenas, Terrance Cody, Mark Ingram, Mike Johnson, Rolando McClain, and Leigh Tiffin were named to the AP All-American First Team and Mark Barron was named to the AP All-American Second Team. Cody, Ingram, Mike Johnson, and McClain were named to the Walter Camp All-American First Team. Arenas and Tiffin were named to the Walter Camp All-American Second Team. Arenas, Ingram, Mike Johnson, and McClain were named to the AFCA All-America Team. With their selections on various teams, Mike Johnson, Mark Ingram, Terrence Cody, Rolando McClain and Javier Arenas were each consensus All-America, with Ingram and McClain each being unanimous selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, Awards, All-star games\nSeven Alabama players were selected by postseason all-star games. Lorenzo Washington appeared in the Texas vs. The Nation Game. Justin Woodall participated in the East-West Shrine Game. Javier Arenas, Terrence Cody, Mike Johnson, Colin Peek, and Leigh Tiffin  played in the Under Armour Senior Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, NFL Draft\nOf all the draft-eligible juniors, only Rolando McClain and Kareem Jackson declared their eligibility for the 2010 NFL Draft. Ten Alabama players, eight seniors and two juniors, were invited to the NFL Scouting Combine. The invited Alabama players were tight end Colin Peek, offensive lineman Mike Johnson, defensive linemen Terrence Cody, Brandon Deaderick and Lorenzo Washington, linebacker Rolando McClain, defensive backs Javier Arenas, Kareem Jackson and Justin Woodall, and placekicker Leigh Tiffin. In the draft, Alabama had seven players selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, NFL Draft\nThe first round selections were McClain (8th Oakland Raiders) and Jackson (20th Houston Texans); the second round picks were Arenas (50th Kansas City Chiefs) and Cody (57th Baltimore Ravens); the third round pick was Mike Johnson (98th Atlanta Falcons); and the seventh round picks were Marquis Johnson (211th St. Louis Rams) and Deaderick (247th New England Patriots). Both Peek and Washington, with the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys respectively, signed as undrafted free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201406-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, After the season, NFL Draft\nFollowing the 2010 season, juniors Mark Ingram, Julio Jones and Marcell Dareus declared their eligibility for the 2011 NFL Draft. Five Alabama players, two seniors and three juniors, were invited to the 2011 NFL Scouting Combine. The invited players were offensive lineman James Carpenter, quarterback Greg McElroy, defensive end Marcell Dareus, running back Mark Ingram, and wide receiver Julio Jones. In the draft, Alabama set a school record with four players selected in the first round. The first round selections were Dareus (3rd Buffalo Bills), Jones (6th Atlanta Falcons), Carpenter (25th Seattle Seahawks) and Ingram (28th New Orleans Saints). McElroy was selected in the seventh round (208th New York Jets). Preston Dial signed as an undrafted free agent with the Detroit Lions in July 2011 after the NFL labor dispute was resolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 911]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods\nThe 2009 Alaska floods were a series of natural disasters taking place in the United States state of Alaska during April and May 2009. The floods were a result of heavier-than-normal winter snowfall and above-average spring temperatures that resulted in rapid melting of the winter snowfall. The resulting high water levels were magnified in places by the development of ice dams which caused catastrophic flooding. The record-breaking flood that affected Eagle, Alaska in early May is the best example of an ice dam causing flooding beyond the norm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Causes\nThe winter of 2008\u20132009 brought unusually heavy snowfall to much of Alaska. Kotzebue, on the Bering Sea coast, received a record 102 inches of snowfall\u2014more than double the average of about 40 inches. In other locations, winter snowfall did not set records but still was heavier than average. Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city, received 71.5 inches of snow and experienced unusually cold temperatures for the first three months of the year, preventing early melting of the snowpack. Snow also fell heavily in Lake Minchumina and the Alaska Range. At Eagle, the ice on the Yukon River was 55\u00a0inches thick\u2014over 40 percent greater than normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Causes\nBy mid-April, concerns were raised that the heavy snowpack would pose a problem if it melted quickly. \"There's plenty of snowpack out there to cause problems this year,\" warned a National Weather Service meteorologist at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Causes\nIn Fairbanks and most of Interior Alaska, temperatures remained below freezing for most of April and temperatures did not hit 50 degrees until April 26. After that date, temperatures rose rapidly. By April 28, the snowpack at Fairbanks International Airport had melted, leaving only snow berms and piles. The next day, Fairbanks recorded a record high temperature of 74 degrees. On April 30, Fairbanks set an all-time high temperature for the month of April when the thermometer reached 76 degrees. Record high temperatures also were recorded at Eagle, Delta Junction, and other towns in central Alaska. In less than one week, central Alaska residents went from skiing to swatting mosquitoes. The warmup was so rapid that on May 1, the Alaska Division of Forestry issued its first wildfire alert of the year. By that date, however, rivers across central Alaska were already flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 910]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Tanana Valley\nThe Tanana River valley was the first area of Alaska to experience spring flooding. On April 28, the ice on the Salcha River broke up, flowed into the Tanana River, and formed an ice jam. The jam partially dammed the river, flooding low-lying areas of the town of Salcha. High temperatures during the following couple of days added to the ice jam, and several families were forced from their homes by the rising water. Fairbanks North Star Borough officials set up a self-serve sand bag station at the Salcha Fairgrounds, and residents near the river erected impromptu levees. The Salcha ice jam broke loose on April 30, causing flood levels to decline dramatically. Record-high temperatures that day caused jams to form on other rivers in the area, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Tanana Valley\nOn the Chatanika River, a jam caused a flood that threatened several homes before the ice broke loose and dropped water levels to near normal. By May 1, almost the entire Fairbanks North Star Borough was directly threatened by some sort of flooding. In Fox, small-stream flooding caused a house to be evacuated. Flooding was reported in North Pole and in rural areas of the borough. On May 2, high water on the Chena River swept through Fairbanks, causing flooding in low-lying areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Tanana Valley\nThe high water caused the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider closing the floodgates at the Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project, a structure built to protect Fairbanks from flooding. The high water registered just below the threshold to close the gates, however, and they remained open throughout the flood. By May 5, the water receded in Fairbanks and the surrounding area as the Tanana River drained floodwater into the Yukon. The draining high water ripped a barge away from its moorings in the Tanana River near Nenana, causing it to float down the Yukon River until it was arrested by a helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Kuskokwim River\nOn May 6, multiple ice jams formed on the Kuskokwim River near the villages of Upper and Lower Kalskag. These jams caused the snowmelt-bolstered river to flood areas around both villages, forcing residents to take action. After the jams broke and flowed downriver, they re-formed near Akiak. The resulting flood caused the evacuation of more than 10 percent of the town's residents to nearby Bethel, while many of the remaining residents sought shelter in the local school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Susitna River\nOn May 3, an ice jam formed on the Susitna River, causing flooding that washed out the tracks of the Alaska Railroad. Large chunks of ice also were pushed onto the tracks, making work difficult for crews assigned to repair the rail line. The incident severed rail traffic between Fairbanks and Anchorage until May 7, when track repairs were completed and the railroad resumed service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Yukon River, Eagle and Eagle Village\nOn May 3 and May 4, ice on the Yukon River near the Alaska/Canada border began to break up. Open water was seen near the town of Eagle, which is just west of the border. On May 4, a large ice jam developed about 10 miles downriver of Eagle. The high-flowing Yukon, fueled by snowmelt from the high temperatures of the previous week, soon flooded the town. Large chunks of ice were carried over the town's riverbank retaining wall and smashed into stores and buildings. The Alaska Native settlement of Eagle Village was severely flooded and virtually destroyed by marauding blocks of ice. In Eagle itself, floodwater lifted buildings off their foundations and caused havoc for the town's 120-plus residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Yukon River, Middle Yukon\nThe high water released by the break-up of the Eagle ice jam reached Circle, the next significant town downriver from Eagle, in early May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Yukon River, Middle Yukon\nThe river surge hit Fort Yukon on May 7 and early in the morning of May 8. Although the flood reached 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) above flood stage, it did not top the town's Yukon River levee. Areas outside the levee received minor flooding, and some residents were evacuated to the village school and to Fort Yukon Air Force Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Yukon River, Lower Yukon\nThe surge of water released from the Yukon River near Eagle in the first week of May reached the lower Yukon villages of Grayling, Holy Cross, and Nulato by May 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Response\nInitial responses to the flooding were organized by people and organizations closest to the separate disasters. Most efforts were focused on assisting residents of Eagle, but notable help was given to other affected communities, including Akiak and Stevens Village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Response\nOn May 3, National Park Service employees from the headquarters of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Eagle moved to support residents of the town who had been flooded out of their homes. Supplies of food and water were delivered to old Eagle Village on May 5, and the next day, officials from the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management arrived to manage the response from a headquarters set up at Eagle's school. By Thursday, May 7, National Park Service helicopters were airborne, checking on people in isolated homesteads near and within the preserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Response\nOn May 6, Governor Sarah Palin declared the drainages of the Yukon, Kuskokwim, Kobuk, and Susitna rivers to be disaster areas. The next day, she canceled a trip to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner in order to survey the damaged communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Response\nIn Fairbanks, private citizens donated more than 7,000 pounds (3,175\u00a0kg) of supplies to Eagle residents. The amount of donations was so great that the airline that volunteered to fly the supplies to Eagle was overwhelmed. By May 7, the total amount of private donations exceeded 10,500 pounds (4,763\u00a0kg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201407-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Alaska floods, Response\nBy May 10, larger amounts of government aid began reaching affected areas. Akiak on the Kuskokwim River received diesel fuel, potable water, food, and other items, while four 400-gallon (1,514-liter) water tanks were sent to Eagle to alleviate problems caused by contaminated wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201408-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian Cup Final\nThe 2009 Albanian Cup Final was the 57th final of the Albanian Cup. The final was played at Stadiumi Niko Dovana in Durres on 6 May 2009. The match was contested by KF Tirana, who beat Elbasani in their semi-final, and Flamurtari who beat Shkumbini. After Rezart Dabulla opened the scoring with a header after 42 minutes, Devis Mema equalised in the 65th minute before Hair Zeqiri scored the winner on the 92nd minutes to give Flamurtari their third Albanian Cup success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201409-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian Supercup\nAlbanian Supercup 2009 is the 16th edition of the Albanian Supercup since its establishment in 1989. The match was contested between the 2009 Cup winners KS Flamurtari and the 2008\u201309 Albanian Superliga champions KF Tirana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201410-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian Women's National Championship\nThe 2009 Albanian Women's National Championship was the 1st season of women's league football under the Albanian Football Association, played after several unofficial tournaments, which were staged as promotion for women's football in Albania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201410-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian Women's National Championship\nThe competition was played in a knock-out tournament over 5 days, with 8 teams participating. Tirana AS won the title, beating Juban Danja 4\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201410-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian Women's National Championship, Results, Quarter-finals\nAll matches were played on 23 January 2009, with two played at Selman St\u00ebrmasi Stadium in Tirana and two at the National Sports Centre in Kam\u00ebz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Albania on 28 June 2009. No alliance achieved 71 deputies on its own needed to form a parliamentary majority. A coalition government was formed by the Democratic Party and Socialist Movement for Integration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Electoral System\nThe 140 members of Parliament were elected in twelve multi-member constituencies analogous to the country's twelve counties. Within the constituencies, seats are elected by closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 3% for parties and 5% for alliances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Electoral System\nSeats are allocated to alliances using the d'Hondt system, then to political parties using the Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Background\nPrior to the election, the electoral law was changed to a regional and proportional system. Polls from March and April 2009 saw a very close race, with both the governing Democratic Party of Albania and the opposition Socialist Party of Albania around 37%, with minor parties like the Socialist Movement for Integration, the G99 Movement, the Unity for Human Rights Party and the Republican Party of Albania in the low single digits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Background\nShortly before the election, the ethnic Greek Unity for Human Rights Party switched their allegiance, abandoning their alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania to join the Socialist Party of Albania. The Party for Justice and Integration, a party representing the interest of ethnic Albanians whose properties in Greece were seized after WW2, joined the coalition Alliance of Change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Alliances\nThis election saw a total of 33 parties organized in four alliances, one party running on its own and one independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Results, Regional level\nThe electorate was split in twelve regions, in a regional proportional system, each of which elected a specific number of Members of Parliament (deputet). The following table details the regional results going from North to South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nInitially the PD led coalition interred into discussions about dividing up the various cabinet posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201411-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Albanian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nWhile it was still unclear whether the PD-led alliance held 70 or 71 seats, the leader of the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) announced on 4 July 2009 that he had accepted Berisha's invitation to form a government with the PD and stated he wanted to be a stabilising factor in Albania's path towards European Union membership. With the addition of the four seats from LSI, the coalition had the necessary majority to form a government. Nonetheless, in November 2010, the EU in its \"Key findings of the Opinion on Albania\" found that the political stalemate since the June 2009 elections was a significant barrier to Albania's candidacy for European Union membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201412-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Alberta Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Alberta's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 28 - February 1 at the Medican Multiplex in Sylvan Lake. The winning Cheryl Bernard team represented team Alberta at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots\nThe 2009 Albina, Suriname riots took place on December 24\u201325, 2009, when local maroon inhabitants attacked Brazilian, Chinese, Colombian and Peruvian gold diggers after a man was allegedly stabbed to death by a Brazilian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots\nOne death has been confirmed by the local police authorities, but Roman Catholic Brazilian priest Jos\u00e9 Verg\u00edlio, which is aiding the victims, said that at least seven people died, vehicles and houses were burned and stores owned by Chinese were plundered. According to the Surinamese government, 20 women were raped, one of which was pregnant and lost her baby in the trauma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots\nAt least 24 people were injured during the riots. The injured were transported to a military hospital, while the Brazilians living in Albina were transferred to Paramaribo. Brazilians and Chinese living in the region have been evacuated. According to eyewitnesses, 17 people are missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots\nThe Brazilian government sent a diplomatic mission on December 27, 2009 to attend the Brazilian victims. Five Brazilians returned to Brazil on December 27 on an airplane of the Brazilian Air Force. On December 28, an airplane with capacity for 40 people was sent to the city with the purpose of rescuing more Brazilians. The Surinamese government sent in troops to conduct searches and keep the peace, although violence is over by all accounts. Suriname officials have come out saying they have the forces to protect all foreigners in the country and have already taken several people into custody for questioning. 35 suspects were arrested on December 28, according to the city's chief of police, Krishna Mathoera-Hussainali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots, Background\nAlbina is primarily a base for nomadic gold prospectors. The town is made up of people from Suriname, neighboring French Guiana, the People's Republic of China and Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots, Background\nThere are between 15,000 and 18,000 Brazilian nomad gold diggers in Suriname, or about 4% of the total population of the country, most of them living illegally. They are some of the poorest people in Brazil, mostly from the Northeast Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201413-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Albina, Suriname riots, Background\nTensions in gold prospecting villages like Albina are not sporadic, but violence is quite uncommon. Gold diggers often come in conflict with indigenous people in their search to find and extract gold from remote areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201414-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albirex Niigata season\nThe 2009 Albirex Niigata season is Albirex Niigata's sixth consecutive season in J. League Division 1. It also includes the 2009 J. League Cup, and the 2009 Emperor's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201414-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Albirex Niigata season, Players, First team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201414-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Albirex Niigata season, Players, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201415-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Albuquerque mayoral election\nThe Albuquerque mayoral election of 2009 occurred on October 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201415-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Albuquerque mayoral election\nIn July 2009, incumbent Mayor Martin Chavez announced that he would seek a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201415-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Albuquerque mayoral election\nState Representative Richard J. Berry won the election with 36,466 votes (43.82%) to Chavez's 29,140 votes (35.02%) and Romero's 17,458 (20.98%) Write-in candidates won 149 votes, or .18% of the total. Although Berry received less than 50 percent of the vote, Albuquerque election law requires a runoff only if no candidate receives at least 40 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201416-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alessandria Challenger\nThe 2009 Alessandria Challenger (known as 2009 Trofeo Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Alessandria, Italy between May 25\u201331, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201416-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Alessandria Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201416-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Alessandria Challenger, Champions, Men's doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Jos\u00e9 Antonio S\u00e1nchez-de Luna def. Mart\u00edn Alund /  Guillermo Hormaz\u00e1bal, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201417-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alessandria Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nFlavio Cipolla and Simone Vagnozzi were the champions in 2008. Cipolla chose to not play this year and Vagnozzi partnered up with Uros Vico. They lost to Paolo Lorenzi and Giancarlo Petrazzuolo in the first round. Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Jos\u00e9 Antonio S\u00e1nchez-de Luna won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Mart\u00edn Alund and Guillermo Hormaz\u00e1bal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201418-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alessandria Challenger \u2013 Singles\nPaolo Lorenzi was the defender of title, but he lost to Kav\u010di\u010d in the first round. Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Jesse Levine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201419-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Alexander Keith's Tankard\nThe 2009 Alexander Keith's Tankard (New Brunswick's men's provincial curling championship) was held February 11\u201315 at Thistle St. Andrews Curling Club in Saint John, New Brunswick. The winning team will represent New Brunswick at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201420-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve Cup\nThe 2009 Algarve Cup was the sixteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 4 and 11 March 2009. It was won by Sweden who defeated holders the United States in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw in the final-game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201420-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve Cup, Format\nThe twelve invited teams were split into three groups that played a round-robin tournament. The entrants were almost identical to the previous year, but Iceland moved up into Group B from their previous ranking in 2008, replacing Italy who did not feature this time. Wales returned to the competition for the first time in five years, while Austria appeared in the competition for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201420-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve Cup, Format\nGroups A and B, containing the strongest ranked teams, were the only ones in contention to win the title. The group winners from A and B contested the final, with the runners-up playing for third place and those that finished third in these two groups playing for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201420-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve Cup, Format\nThe teams in Group C were playing for places 7-12, with the winner of Group C playing the team that finished fourth in Group A or B with the better record for seventh place and the Group C runner-up playing the team which came last in Group A or B with the worse record for ninth place. The third and fourth-placed teams in Group C played for eleventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201420-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve Cup, Format\nPoints awarded in the group stage follow 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Portuguese GP2 round was the tenth and final round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on September 19 and 20, 2009 at Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve at Portim\u00e3o, Portugal. This race was the only race in the 2009 GP2 Series season that was not acting as a support race for Formula One, instead supporting an FIA GT Championship event. As Nico H\u00fclkenberg claimed the drivers title at the previous round in Monza, only the battle for the Teams championship could be fought in the Algarve. This was the final GP2 race for H\u00fclkenberg, as he will step up to Formula One in 2010. Durango again decided to miss a round after not starting in Italy either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nVitaly Petrov started on pole for the feature race, with Dani Clos qualifying a career best second. GP2 Champion H\u00fclkenberg started from third on the grid, but got a good start down into turn 1, where he slotted in behind Petrov. After a few laps behind the Russian, H\u00fclkenberg made the decision to pit first. His gamble eventually paid off as after Petrov stopped, H\u00fclkenberg gained the lead and never looked back, winning by 10 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nPetrov faded afterwards, by finishing in fourth, with Luca Filippi battling his way through the field to finish second ahead of a surging Lucas di Grassi. Rold\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez was fifth behind Petrov, with Michael Herck earning his first points in GP2 in sixth, before stewards disqualified him. Kamui Kobayashi finished seventh, while Davide Valsecchi finished eighth, both moved up one place after Herck's disqualification, with Valsecchi scoring his first points for Barwa Addax Team. Andreas Zuber finished ninth but was promoted to the reverse-grid pole. With H\u00fclkenberg winning, both championship battles finished, as he earned enough points for ART Grand Prix to win the teams championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nThe Sprint Race was equally thrilling, with a large collision at the start. Vitaly Petrov struggled to get away in his Barwa Addax car, with the car's anti-stall system kicking in race was red flagged. Most drivers passed him, but Michael Herck was not so lucky and crashed into the back of him, hitting the pit wall afterwards. It ended a miserable weekend for the Romanian, who lost what would have been his first GP2 points finish in Race 1 due to a technical infringement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nThe crash left the main straight covered with debris and prompted a suspension while the mess was cleaned up. After nearly half an hour the field was led back out behind the safety car, with Coloni's Andreas Zuber leading from Davide Valsecchi, Kamui Kobayashi, Lucas di Grassi, Luca Filippi, Nico H\u00fclkenberg and Pastor Maldonado. Zuber backed the field up at the final corner in preparation for the green flag on lap six, but timed his charge too early and shot past the safety car as it was still entering the pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201421-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Algarve GP2 Series round\nThe top seven, with the exception of Filippi, passed the safety car and were all duly given drive-through penalties. After the penalties were issued, Filippi was in the lead. He never looked back and won by over 4 seconds to claim his first win since 2007, and his team's first win of the season. Sergio P\u00e9rez was second on the road ahead of Filippi's team-mate Javier Villa. Dani Clos scored his first points of the season in fourth, with \u00c1lvaro Parente and Diego Nunes completing the top six. P\u00e9rez lost his second place due to a post-race time penalty for overtaking under the safety car. He slipped to eleventh, giving Super Nova a 1-2 and third place in the teams championship on countback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches\nThere were disturbances before and after two international association football matches between Egypt and Algeria in November 2009, leading to diplomatic tensions between Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. The matches were in Group C in the CAF section of the qualifying competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches\nThe first match, the final scheduled match in Group C, took place in Cairo on 14 November, with Egypt winning 2\u20130. The result left Egypt and Algeria tied for first place in Group C, necessitating a playoff match in a neutral country. This took place in Omdurman, Sudan on 18 November, with Algeria winning 1\u20130 and thus qualifying for the World Cup final tournament in South Africa in June 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Rivalry\nThe countries are both in North Africa, only separated by Libya, and football matches between them are fiercely contested local derbies. Although both have long been among Africa's stronger sides, each had experienced a long drought without World Cup qualification: Algeria since 1986 and Egypt since 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Rivalry\nIn 1989, Egypt beat Algeria in a decisive qualifying match for the 1990 World Cup. Player Ayman Younes later said, \"It was a battle, not a football match.\" Algerians felt the Tunisian referee was biased; fans rioted in the stands. An Algerian player attacked an Egyptian fan. Algeria's Lakhdar Belloumi was convicted in absentia for a glass attack which blinded Egypt's team doctor in one eye. He remained subject to an Interpol arrest warrant, although he claimed goalkeeper Kamel Kadri had been the true perpetrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Rivalry\nFor political analyst Ziad Majed, the tension dates from Gamal Abdel Nasser days when he sent Egyptian teachers to help arabize Algeria after its independence. These teachers contributed to the rise of political Islam in Algeria, ultimately leading to the Algerian civil war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Rivalry\nOn the other hand, Khaled Diab suggests the 1989 match was the key moment for Egypt\u2013Algeria rivalry, and that it is mainly confined to football rather than a reflection of deeper enmity; he notes Gamal Abdel Nasser supported Algeria's independence war against France, and suggests memory has faded in Algeria of Anwar El Sadat's unpopular Camp David Accords with Israel. On the other hand, Brian Oliver and James Montague point to other football controversies before 1989. In the 1950s, an Algerian National Liberation Front football team toured Africa to publicise its independence campaign, but were forbidden from playing in Egypt. At the 1978 All-Africa Games, Algerian police attacked Egyptian players and fans during their match against Libya. There were brawls at a qualifier for the 1984 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Blida match\nAlgeria's home match against Egypt in the 2010 qualifiers took place in June 2009 without any incident being reported. Rather, to cool down animosity between the two countries, the Egyptian team was received with flowers at the airport. Diplomatic agreement, with personal intervention from Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, included lifting the Interpol warrant on Belloumi and compensating the Egyptian team doctor. Both teams prepared for the match away from the pressure of intense local fans; Egypt in Oman, Algeria in France. Algeria coach Rabah Saadane wept at a press conference, expressing fear for his family's safety in the event of defeat. 5,000 security personnel turned Blida into a \"virtual military base\". Minors were barred from the stadium unless they had a ticket. Algeria won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nThe lead-up to the crucial match was hyped. In October, insults were traded on internet sites, and Egyptian hackers made a denial-of-service attack on the website of Algerian newspaper Ech-Chorouk El-Youmi; an Algerian hacker retaliated by crashing the websites of the President of Egypt and Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram. Both countries' governments appealed for calm. Media in both countries alluded to the 1989 match. Editorialist Mohamed El Dahshan reported, \"In the two days preceding the game, Egyptians celebrated as if they had already won.\" Ahmed Shobair stated that rumours started on the internet were being propagated by the mainstream media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nWhen the Algerian team arrived in Cairo on Thursday 12 November, the bus carrying the team to its hotel was stoned, breaking windows and injuring three players and one official. Egyptian media alleged that the attack had been staged by the Algerians to have the match moved to a neutral venue. The police escort of one van and several motorcycle outriders was criticised as insufficient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nEgypt's leading state-owned daily Al-Ahram charged on Friday that it was the Algerian players, not stonethrowers, who had caused the damage to the bus. \"The bus carrying the team from the airport to the hotel was at the centre of a strange incident in which some of the players started to smash the vehicle's windows claiming that they were the target of stonethrowing\", the paper reported. The independent daily Al-Shuruq went further, saying the whole episode was a \"complete fabrication.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nCiting a \"senior security source\", the paper said the windows of the bus were smashed \"from the inside not the outside as claimed by Algerian team members.\" It accused the players of a \"complete fabrication intended to serve as an excuse in the event that they lose\" Saturday's key decider for next year's World Cup finals in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nThe independent Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper acknowledged that some \"kids\" had thrown stones but charged that the Algerian players had then put on a \"display of histrionics pretending to be scared and injured, and smashing up the bus's windows and seats.\" The state-owned Al Gomhuria said the players had even assaulted the bus driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nCounterclaims included footage shot by Canal+ for its documentary about the Algerian team and cellphone footage shot by Rafik Sa\u00effi. FIFA observer Walter Gagg said, \"We saw that three players had been injured \u2014 Khaled Lemmouchia on the head, Rafik Halliche above the eye and Rafik Sa\u00effi on the arm.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nThe initial reporting following the incident likely led to further poisoning the build-up to Saturday's game. The pre-match atmosphere in Egypt had already surged to feverish heights amid an unprecedented level of tension between the North African rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nEgyptian foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki had specifically called for responsible coverage by both countries' media as the two governments issued joint appeals for calm. Egyptian and Algerian media \"hold a responsibility in this regard and must work to maintain the strong ties between both countries and should not fuel disagreements that are unrelated to sports and sportsmanship\", Zaki said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nThat same evening just outside Cairo, Algeria's \"king of ra\u00ef\" Cheb Khaled performed alongside Egyptian star Mohamed Mounir to a packed audience of nearly 45,000 people, according to organisers. \"Long live Egypt, Arab country, long live Algeria, Arab country\", Cheb Khaled shouted to the crowd, with little apparent impact on home fan passions ahead of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nEgyptian Football Association board member Mahmoud Taher later indicated that \"all Algeria players are safe. They were not hurt. Algeria is trying to blow things out of proportion. The bus is damaged from inside, so it is obvious that they were the ones who did that to escalate the matter. FIFA has not contacted Egypt as recently reported, and there aren't any intentions to call off the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nKhairi Morsi, the Egyptian driver who drove the Algerian delegation's bus, said the Algerian team had assaulted him. He indicated to Modern Sport TV that \"they also shattered the windows from inside when they saw some Egyptian people around the bus.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nOn Friday 13 November, FIFA declared the match would go ahead as scheduled, but \"asked the Egyptian Football Association and the highest national authorities through the relevant ministries to provide written guarantees that confirm the implementation of the necessary additional safety and security measures at any time for the Algerian delegation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nEch-Chorouk reported that six Algerian fans were killed in the chaos that followed the match. This was denied by Algeria's ambassador in Cairo, Abdel Qader Hadjar, who said only eleven people had been injured. Egypt's Health Ministry reported 20 Algerians and 12 Egyptians injured. Reda City 16, a well-known Algerian rapper, claimed his brother had died in the Cairo incidents. His claims, made on a YouTube video posting, were disseminated by the Ech-Chorouk newspaper's internet site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nThere were attacks on Egyptian interests in Algeria after the match. EgyptAir's Algiers bureau was broken into and a \"serious\" amount of damage done and the office was closed due to health and safety concerns. Stones were hurled at other buildings. The headquarters of Djezzy, an Algerian subsidiary of the Egyptian Orascom group, was vandalised and looted. Allegedly related was the Algerian government's demand from Orascom for US$596m in back taxes. An Egyptian plane sent to Algeria to \"rescue\" citizens was refused permission to land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nIn Marseille, 500 police were deployed to quell disturbances by Algerian youths, making eight arrests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Cairo match\nAs a result of these events, on 18 May 2010, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee sanctioned and fined the Egyptian Football Association for not adopting the necessary measures to prevent the assault on the bus of the Algerian delegation on the way from the airport to the hotel on 12 November 2009. The report would also admonish the Egyptian Football Association for failures in maintaining security and order in the Cairo International Stadium for the game between Egypt and Algeria held on 14 November 2009. This would result in a two-game ban for the Egyptian national football team whereby the first two home matches of the preliminary competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil would be played at a location at least 100 kilometres away from Cairo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match\nThe teams finished level on 13 points and level on all tiebreakers: goal difference in all group matches (+5); goals scored in all group matches (9); points in all Algeria\u2013Egypt matches (3); and goal difference in all Algeria\u2013Egypt matches (0). (The away goals rule was not used as a group-stage tiebreaker). The teams met in a one-game play-off to decide the qualifier. To determine the match venue, each team selected a country other than their own (Algeria selected Tunisia and Egypt selected Sudan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match\nAfter Sudan was drawn in a lottery on 11 November, the Al Merreikh Stadium in Omdurman was selected by FIFA as the venue for the play-off. The decision to play a tie-breaking playoff game to determine who qualifies to the 2010 FIFA World Cup was controversial because despite the fact that Algeria and Egypt were level on points and goal difference, Egypt should have qualified based on the away goals rule, which was used to determine the winner of a tie in the case of a tiebreaker in both previous and subsequent qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match\nReuters reported that 15,000 police were mobilised for the match. Embassies advised their nationals to avoid the stadium area; government offices and schools closed early. Scuffles leading to minor injuries were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match\nOn Monday 16 November, Al Jazeera reported that Algerian fans had stoned a bus carrying the Egyptian players from a training session, without causing injury. The following day, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir hosted a function in the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, in which Algerian Football Federation head Mohamed Raouraoua snubbed his Egyptian counterpart Samir Zaher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match\nEach team's fans were allocated 9,000 tickets, with the stadium capacity reduced from 41,000 to 36,000; there were fears of ticketless fans congregating outside. Although the countries' own blocks were strictly segregated, many Algerian and Egyptian fans purchased tickets allocated to the home Sudanese. Locals estimated the actual attendance at up to 50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match, Details\nEgyptian news media ran many stories about attacks that allegedly happened in Sudan. Al-Ahram, a state-owned Egyptian newspaper, reported that buses designated for Egyptian fans to be taken to the airport had been destroyed, forcing them to walk there under escort of the Sudanese army. Egypt's foreign ministry spoke of \"Egypt's extreme displeasure with the assaults on Egyptian citizens who went to Khartoum to support the Egyptian team\". Algerian diplomats said later that a widely broadcast video showing hundreds of Algerian fans brandishing knives had in fact been taken at an Algerian club match several years earlier. According to Al-Ahram, Sudanese diplomats suggested \"scores\" of Egyptians had been attacked and \"a few\" hurt. Egypt's health ministry later said there had been 20 death this day. The New York Times reported \"no widespread rioting. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 922]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match, Details\nAfter the loss of the match, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) filed a complaint with FIFA against the Algerian football delegation. The EFA indicated that \"Egyptian fans, officials and players put their lives at risk before and after the game, under threat from weapons, knives, swords and flares.\" The statement also threatened with the Egyptian football team's withdrawal for two years from all international competitions as a sign of protest. On 18 May 2010, FIFA announced that the conditions for opening disciplinary proceedings had not been met and closed the complaint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match, Details\nAbout 12,000 Algerian fans celebrated on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris and a lot more across France. However, among the numerous celebrating crowd, some offenders made the most of the situation to loot one supermarket and torch cars. There were 150 arrests across France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Omdurman match, Details\nEgypt's ambassador to the UK claimed thousands of fans had to flee to the airport for safety. Sudan summoned the Egyptian ambassador to protest at the media coverage of the Sudanese hosting of the match. That evening, over 1,000 Egyptians protested near the Algerian embassy in Zamalek, Cairo, burning flags, shouting anti-Algerian slogans and damaging cars and shops. The Interior Ministry said 11 police and 24 protesters were injured, and 20 people arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nOn Friday, Alaa Mubarak telephoned a talk show, saying \"We are Egyptian and we hold our head high, and whoever insults us should be smacked on his head.\" Hosni Mubarak said on national television that he would not condone the \"humiliation\" of Egyptians abroad. However, the Foreign Ministry said the government would not \"tolerate violations against Algerian interests\", suggesting a clampdown on protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nDiplomats meeting to repair relations the next week reportedly characterised the dispute as \"ultimately a fight among soccer fans\" that \"was picked up and inflamed by some elements in the media\". An article in al-Ahram suggested that the Egyptians attending the match were mainly wealthy people who could afford to travel, rather than \"the really tough fans\" who could have defended themselves against assaults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nThe two sides met again in Angola in January, for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals. Egypt cruised to a 4\u20130 victory, en route to an unprecedented 7th tournament win, in a hotly tempered match where Algeria had three players red carded. Match referee Coffi Codjia was indefinitely suspended by the Confederation of African Football for failing to send off Algerian goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi for headbutting the match official, only awarding the player a yellow card for the incident. Chaouchi was later one of the players to be dismissed, for a second bookable offence. He received a three match ban by CAF for the headbutt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nA meeting of Egyptian sports organisations agreed to be \"prudent\" when hosting events at which Algerians were competing, and not to travel to competitions in Algeria. The Egyptian Handball Federation was due to host the African Championships in February 2010; after a request for postponement was denied by the African Handball Confederation, it withdrew as host, but said it would still field a team. The CAHB canvassed for a new host, with only Algeria volunteering. The Egyptian federation announced it would host the tournament after all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nFIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against the Egyptian FA for its handling of the Algerian team's security in Cairo. On 23 November FIFA announced that its Executive Committee would hold an extraordinary general meeting on 2 December in Cape Town, where members were already due to meet to discuss the seedings for the World Cup, to discuss recent controversies. The Egypt\u2013Algeria match was expected to figure, along with the dispute over France's handball goal against Ireland, and the investigation into a major match-fixing scam. FIFA's disciplinary committee was asked to launch an investigation; it was expected that the Algerian member of the committee would be recused. A report was expected by February 2010; Algeria's place at the World Cup finals was not in jeopardy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nOn 25 November 200 Egyptian intellectuals signed a statement condemning the media hype and political manipulation of the dispute. Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syrian President Bashar Assad, condemned the dispute as distracting Arabs from the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nThere were reports that Muammar al-Gaddafi and Israel had each offered to mediate in the dispute. On 26 November, Reuters reported that a Sudanese mediation plan was nearing agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nOn 1 December, al-Ahram reported that a village in New Valley Governorate had applied to change its name from al-Jaza'ir (\"Algeria\") to Mubarak al-misriyin (\"Mubarak for Egyptians\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nA joint venture oil company announced on 6 December was seen as heralding a recovery in relations between the two countries. It was reported that Egypt would not return its ambassador to Algiers unless compensation was paid for damage to Egyptian property in Algeria. Al-Ahram reported on 10 December that inflammatory media reports in both countries had been ended by order of the respective Presidents, following mediation by Gaddafi and al-Bashir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Subsequent events\nEfforts by the UAE FA to broker an accord between the Egyptian and Algerian FAs were endorsed by Sepp Blatter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Analyses\nAlgeria claimed there was an orchestrated media campaign to damage its reputation and to create a fictitious enemy to Egypt, to rally the masses behind Gamal Mubarak and give him some legitimacy in his bid to inherit the presidency from his father. Foreign analysts suggested both governments encouraged protests about football to channel public discontent away from political issues. Jack Shenker suggests the anger was fomented primarily by the sensationalist media, with belated political endorsement. Others saw the violence as an expression of a general public malaise. On 22 November 2009, The Observer suggested an opposition backlash was building in Egypt to President Mubarak's stoking of the dispute. On 10 December, The New York Times made similar observations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201422-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Algeria v Egypt football matches, Analyses\nAn Arab League spokesperson proposed that, in the future, celebrities and political leaders should not attend sensitive matches, lest they feed into public passions. Official planes had carried 200 Algerian MPs to the Cairo match, and 133 Egyptian celebrities to the Khartoum match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201423-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian Cup Final\nThe 2009 Algerian Cup Final was the 45th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on May 21, 2009, at Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida with kick-off at 16:00. CR Belouizdad beat CA Bordj Bou Arreridj 2\u20131 on penalties to win their six Algerian Cup. The competition winners are awarded a berth in the 2010 CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush\nAn ambush on the Algerian paramilitary took place on June 17, 2009 at 8:00\u00a0pm (19:00\u00a0GMT), when Algerian paramilitary escorting Chinese construction workers to a motorway project came under attack from Islamist rebels. Early reports suggested 18 soldiers were killed; some news outlets are reporting that 24 soldiers were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush\nAttacks such as these had been thought to be decreasing prior to the incident, but suddenly began to increase again. The attack was the deadliest aimed at Algeria's government forces for six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush, The ambush\nIslamist rebels first attacked the convoy on a highway in the province of Bourdj Bou Arr\u00e9ridj, 180 kilometres (110\u00a0mi) east of the capital Algiers by detonating two home-made bombs. The gendarmes were then sprayed with bullets. Attackers then reportedly stole the soldiers' uniforms and weapons. Total rebel casualties are unknown. The injured soldiers were taken to nearby hospitals. They stole weapons and several police vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush, The ambush\nAlgerian security forces  launched an operation using helicopters to track and apprehend the militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush, Similar incident\nThis ambush followed a similar incident on 3 June 2009. Two teachers and eight police escorts died near Algiers whilst in the act of transporting examinations from an examination centre. The teachers' car was bombed and two police cars were fired on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201424-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian military ambush, Similar incident\nOn 20 April 2014, a similar ambush lead to death of 14 Soldiers in the Tizi Ouzou province of Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election\nMember State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Algeria on 9 April 2009. The result was a victory for incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was re-elected with 90% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Background\nThe Council of Ministers announced on 3 November 2008 that a planned constitutional revision would remove the two-term limit on the presidency that was previously included in Article 74, thereby enabling Bouteflika to run for a third term. The People's National Assembly endorsed the removal of the term limit on 12 November 2008, with only the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) voting against its removal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Candidates\nThirteen candidates submitted papers to contest the election, but only six were approved to run:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Candidates\nAlthough some urged former President Liamine Z\u00e9roual to run, he said in a published statement on 14 January 2009 that he would not, while also suggesting that it was not in the best interests of democracy for Bouteflika to run for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Candidates\nRCD President Sa\u00efd Sadi announced on 15 January 2009 that the RCD would not participate in the elections, which he described as a \"pathetic and dangerous circus\", saying that to participate \"would be tantamount to complicity in an operation of national humiliation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Candidates\nBouteflika announced his independent candidacy for a third term at a rally in Algiers on 12 February 2009, and officially submitted his candidacy on 23 February, shortly before the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201425-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Algerian presidential election, Results\nThe official turnout of 75% was disputed by the opposition, with some claiming it was as low as 16%. Informal US Embassy observations placed it at \"25\u201330 percent at most.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201426-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series\nThe 2009 All England Super Series is the 99th edition of the All England Open Badminton Championships and also the third tournament of the 2009 BWF Super Series. It was held from 3\u20138 March 2009 in Birmingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201427-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series \u2013 Men's doubles\nThis article list the results of men's doubles category in the 2009 All England Super Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201428-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series \u2013 Men's singles\nThis article list the results of men's singles category in the 2009 All England Super Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201429-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series \u2013 Mixed doubles\nThis article list the results of mixed doubles category in the 2009 All England Super Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201430-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series \u2013 Women's doubles\nThis article list the results of women's doubles category in the 2009 All England Super Series of badminton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201431-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All England Super Series \u2013 Women's singles\nThis article list the results of women's singles category in the 2009 All England Super Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201432-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open\nThe 2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Longboat Key, Florida, United States between May 9 and May 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201432-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201432-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received special exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 83], "content_span": [84, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201432-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open, Champions, Doubles\nV\u00edctor Estrella /  Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez def. Harsh Mankad /  Kaes Van't Hof, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201433-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open \u2013 Doubles\nV\u00edctor Estrella and Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez became the first champions of this tournament, after their won 6\u20132, 6\u20134 against Harsh Mankad and Kaes Van't Hof in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201434-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All Star Children's Foundation Sarasota Open \u2013 Singles\nJames Ward won in the final 7\u20136(4), 4\u20136, 6\u20133, against Carsten Ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201435-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All Thailand Golf Tour\nThe 2009 All Thailand Golf Tour is the 11th season of the All Thailand Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Thailand since it was established in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team\nThe 2009 All-Australian team represents the best performed Australian Football League (AFL) players during the 2009 season. It was announced on 14 September, as a complete Australian rules football team of 22 players. An initial squad of 40 players was previously announced on 1 September. The team is honorary and does not play any games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Selection panel\nThe selection panel for the 2009 All-Australian team consisted of non-voting chairman Andrew Demetriou, Adrian Anderson, Kevin Bartlett, Gerard Healy, James Hird, Glen Jakovich, Mark Ricciuto and Robert Walls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Team, Initial squad\nA squad of 40 players, consisting of 12 defenders, 12 forwards and 16 midfielders/ruckmen was announced on 1 September. The top four teams after the home and away season provided 24 of the 40 players selected in the initial squad, with the bottom eight teams only providing seven players. Three clubs, Melbourne, Port Adelaide and Richmond, did not have any players nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Team, Initial squad\nControversial omissions from the squad include former Brownlow Medallists Simon Black and Jason Akermanis, as well as prolific midfielders Jobe Watson, Scott Thompson, Bryce Gibbs, Aaron Davey, Joel Corey and Daniel Cross. Dane Swan was surprisingly named as a forward, despite playing mainly as a midfielder and only scoring 17 goals during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Team, Final team\nNick Riewoldt was named as captain of the All-Australian team for the first time. The top two teams for the season, Geelong and St Kilda, each had five players selected. Nine players were selected for the first time, with Matthew Scarlett and Simon Goodwin receiving their fifth respective selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Team, Final team\nThe most controversial selections were the selection of Collingwood pair Leon Davis and midfielder Dane Swan as forwards, despite kicking only 34 and 18 goals respectively, ahead of Mark LeCras who kicked 58 goals for the season and Jason Porplyzia who kicked 52 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201436-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Australian team, Team, Final team\nNote: the position of coach in the All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201437-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Big 12 Conference football team\nThe 2009 All-Big 12 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big 12 Conference players for the 2009 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).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201437-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Big 12 Conference football team, Key\nBold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201438-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Big Ten Conference football team\nThe 2009 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2009 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).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201438-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and media", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201439-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 26th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The started on 31 May 2015 and ended on 29 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201439-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nKilkenny were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the final by Cork who won the title by 2-23 to 0-16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201440-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, the most important elite level inter-county competition for age graded development squad county teams in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Clare by eight points in the final, played at Semple Stadium Thurles. 2009 Kilkenny 5-10 Clare 3-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201440-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, B Division\nThe Minor B final was won by Limerick who defeated Waterford by one point in a dramatic final at Mallow. Waterford defeated Derry 1\u20139 to 0\u20139 at Ashbourne and Limerick defeated Wexford 3\u201316 to 3\u20139 in the semi-finals. Naomi Carroll and Chloe Morey scored three points each. The Minor C final was won by Laois. Sarah Ann Fitzgerald scored 2\u20132 to help Laois defeat Carlow in the final by five points. Laois defeated Roscommon in the minor C semi-final  by 8\u201312 to 1\u20131 and Carlow defeated Cavan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201440-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, Arrangements\nClare defeated Cork 1\u20139 to 0\u201311 in the semi-final at Kilmallock, while \u2019s Denise Gaule scored 3\u20137 and Aoife Murphy 2\u20133 as Kilkenny defeated Tipperary by 5\u201315 to 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201440-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, The Final\nFive goals before half-time, two of them from Denise Gaule, enabled Kilkenny win the final. They lead 5.05 to 1.04 at the break", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201441-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 78th 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201441-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nTyrone entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Armagh in the Ulster quarter-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201441-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nOn 20 September 2009, Armagh won the championship following a 0-10 to 0-7 defeat of Mayo in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title overall and their first in sixty championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201442-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 78th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 12 April 2009 and ended on 6 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201442-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nOn 6 September 2009, Galway won the championship after a 2-15 to 2-11 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their 8th championship title overall and their first title since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201442-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nTipperary's John O'Dwyer was the championship's top scorer with 4-37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship\u2014known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons\u2014 is the high point of the 2009 season in the sport of camogie. It commenced on 20 June 2009 and ended with the final on 13 September 2009. Eight teams competed in the Senior Championship out of twenty-seven who competed overall in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships. The final of the 2009 Senior Championship was contested by Cork\u2014the reigning champions\u2014and Kilkenny at Croke Park on 13 September 2009. The final was available to view worldwide. Cork were the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Launch\nThe Championship was launched in Croke Park, Dublin on 10 June 2009. Camogie Association of Ireland President Joan O'Flynn said at the launch that the 2009 Championship would be \"the highest profile yet\". The Camogie Association also announced the use of county grounds for the first time, with the aim of improving attendances and facilities. This led to some debate on the role of women in sport, with Marie O'Halloran of The Irish Times claiming that female athletes were \"still playing second fiddle\". Camogie county boards were also undecided whether their players would dress in a skirt or shorts\u2014they presently wear \"skorts\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Summary\nThe eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. Each team played one another once only. The top two in each group contested the semi-finals. Cork went into the 2009 Senior Championship as reigning champions. They began their title challenge by dismissing Dublin. League champions Wexford began their challenge with a game against Limerick in Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Summary\nThe semi-finals were contested at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on 15 August 2009. Galway versus Kilkenny and Cork versus Wexford were the semi-finals. Cork and Kilkenny progressed to the final. Kilkenny's victory over Galway was unexpected as 33% of their team was under the age of twenty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Summary\nPrior to the final, representatives from both the Minor (Offaly versus Waterford) and Senior Championship finals met President Joan O'Flynn at Croke Park. The teams were named on 10 September 2009. The semi-final between Kilkenny and Galway in which Kilkenny produced a late surge to snatch victory deep in injury-time to qualify for their first final since 2001 was described as \u201cone of the most memorable games ever played in Nowlan Park.\u201d The final between Cork and Kilkenny was played at Croke Park on 13 September 2009 and was broadcast live in Ireland on RT\u00c9 Two and internationally on RT\u00c9.ie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Summary\nHighlights were shown on The Sunday Game in Ireland and worldwide on the same channels. Cork were featuring in their eighth consecutive final, whilst Kilkenny last appeared in the final in 2001 when they lost to Tipperary. Kilkenny last won the final in 1995. The teams had met earlier in the Championship in Group 1 when Cork beat Kilkenny by a scoreline of 2-05 to 0-07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201443-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Summary\nThe Gala Performance Award was awarded the player who topped a public poll as having given the season's best performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201444-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 78th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 17 March 2009 to determine the winners of the 2007\u201308 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the 39th 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 Portumna of Galway and De La Salle of Waterford, with Portumna winning by 2-24 to 1-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final was a unique occasion as it was the first ever championship meeting between Portumna and De La Salle. It remains their only clash in the All-Ireland series. Portumna were hoping to make their own piece of history by becoming only the fourth team to retain the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe first half was a pedestrian affair, with De La Salle clearly nervous from the outset. Their inside forward line had a torrid afternoon against the tight marking Portumna defence, and when attacks were broken up, the Galwaymen broke up the field. De La Salle's cause wasn't helped when forwards Lee Hayes and Derek McGrath had to leave the field after picking up injuries. After 20 minutes, Portumna were 1-7 to 0-1 ahead, courtesy of a Damien Hayes goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nDe La Salle's indiscipline out the field cost them and with Joe Canning's radar working to aplomb from 65s and sideline cuts, they paid a heavy price on the scoreboard. When Hayes added his second goal two minutes before the break, the game was effectively over as a contest. De La Salle were awarded a penalty just before the break, but goalkeeper Stephen Brenner's shot was tipped over the bar by Portumna custodian Ivan Canning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe second half offered more of the same, in spite of Paudie Nevin finding the net for De La Salle after a period of ping pong in the Portumna goalmouth. Tipperary native, Miche\u00e1l Ryan, Andy Smith, David Canning and Kevin Hayes also found the range for Portumna, as the game resembled a training session close to the finish. John Mullane tried hard for De La Salle, but never got a chance to run at the opposing defence, and his point near the end, received a ripple of applause from the De La Salle faithful in the crowd. Portumna's victory margin was well merited with eleven of their players getting on the scoresheet", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201445-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nPortumna's victory secured their third All-Ireland title in four years. They joined Sarsfield's, Athenry and Birr as the only sides to have retained the All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201446-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the inter-county Gaelic football tournament played between 31 counties of Ireland, London and New York. The draw for the 2009 championship took place on 9 October 2008. The tournament began on 10 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201446-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final took place on 20 September 2009, contested by Cork and Kerry. This was the year Tadhg Kennelly made history by becoming the first person to ever hold AFL Premiership and All-Ireland winning medals in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football\u2014he previously won the biggest prize in Australian rules with Sydney Swans in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201446-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 3\nA draw was made for round 3 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round 2 playing each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 100], "content_span": [101, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201446-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Fixtures and results, All-Ireland qualifiers, Round 4\nA draw was made for round 4 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round three (Donegal, Kerry, Meath and Wicklow) playing against the losing provincial finalists (Antrim, Galway, Kildare and Limerick).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 100], "content_span": [101, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Football Final was the 122nd event of its kind. Played between Cork and Kerry on 20 September 2009 in Croke Park, Dublin, it was the last football match of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nKerry won by a score of 0-16 to 1-09. It was their 36th All-Ireland SFC title, reaffirming their status as Gaelic football's most successful county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIn playing for the winning team, Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to ever hold AFL Premiership and All-Ireland winning medals in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football\u2014he previously won the biggest prize in Australian rules with Sydney Swans in 2005. Kennelly's former coach Paul Roos and some of his former Sydney teammates attended the game. The game was also attended by international guests of the Global Irish Economic Forum which was taking place in Dublin on the same weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe game was televised nationally by RT\u00c9 Two, online by RT\u00c9.ie and internationally by RT\u00c9 Radio 1, with match highlights being shown on The Sunday Game on RT\u00c9 Two and RT\u00c9.ie that night. RT\u00c9's coverage for the first time ever involved live pictures of its legendary broadcaster M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Muircheartaigh's commentary as given to RT\u00c9 Radio 1 during the match; he appeared on The Late Late Show to discuss this with Ryan Tubridy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History\nThe Irish Independent described Cork versus Kerry as \"Gaelic football's busiest rivalry over the last two decades\", and that going into the final it may be at its \"most explosive\", with eight sendings off during games between the teams in the past two years and 35 yellow cards since July 2008. On the day of the final, the Sunday Independent's Ralph Riegel described it as \"a rivalry that traces its roots back to the old cross-border cattle raids of the ancient Gaelic clans\". Both Martin Breheny in the Irish Independent and Colm O'Connor in the Irish Examiner noted that the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final would be the 19th meeting between the sides in the championship during the 2000s\u2014with Breheny adding that their previous 19 meetings stretched back to 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, History\nIt was Kerry's sixth consecutive All-Ireland Final. It was also their eighth final of the decade, an all-time record. By winning the final they achieved five All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles during the 2000s, matching their own efforts in the 1930s and the 1980s. Cork and Kerry previously met in the 2007 final, with Kerry winning by a ten-point margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Team selection\nCork named the same team that defeated Tyrone in the semi-final. A doubt, however, remained over the fitness of Ray Carey who injured his shoulder during a training session. Eight members of the 2007 final team featured. Cork also announced they had renewed their sponsorship deal with O2 days before the final. Going into the final, Cork had scored a goal in all of their fourteen Championship matches since 2007's qualifier game against Louth, also scoring eight goals in five matches against Kerry over a two-season period. Anthony Lynch and Nicholas Murphy were the remaining players from the 1999 final loss to Meath. Ray Carey was declared unfit on matchday and was replaced with Kieran O'Connor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Team selection\nKerry's Colm Cooper was originally described as \"very doubtful\" for the final. However, he, alongside Paul Galvin, were later declared fit, with Kerry officials dismissing claims about Cooper's fitness as one of several \"false stories\" to have come out of the county in 2009. Kieran Donaghy, who had recovered from a foot injury, was expected to appear amongst the substitutes. Donaghy criticised the media for what he termed the \"pandemonium\" that was created surrounding Cooper throughout the campaign following a drinking session with Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 which saw them both removed from the team for a time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Team selection\nTadhg Kennelly also had to deny he would rejoin the Sydney Swans in the AFL. Kerry made one change from the semi-final line-up; Donnacha Walsh was replaced by Tommy Walsh. Prior to the match, speculation surrounded Kennelly and Walsh over whether they would return to play in Australia if they won their first All-Ireland medals. Kennelly later signed a two-year contract with Sydney Swans, as did Walsh; who signed a two-year deal with St Kilda Football Club around 2 months after the All Ireland Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee controversy\nMarty Duffy of Sligo was appointed match referee for the final. The decision led to comment from former managers of both counties involved in the final, Mick O'Dwyer who expressed his belief that the choice of referee was based on \"politics\" and Billy Morgan who thought that Pat McEnaney ought to have been appointed referee instead. The GAA officially refused to offer a response to the two men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee controversy\nLiam and Sam in the Irish Independent compared the \"pre-emptive\" criticism of the referee to a scenario where the referee were to question the manner in which one of the teams play the sport or express dismay that a better team should have qualified for the final instead. Radio Kerry analyst and former referee Weeshie Fogarty expressed his dismay at the criticism of Duffy, commenting: \"It's bad enough to referee big games in Croke Park and see your name being castigated in the papers and torn asunder the following week. But by God, when it happens before the game, that is a new trend to me\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, First half\nIn the first minute, Kerry's Tadhg Kennelly struck the chin of Cork's Nicholas Murphy with his shoulder, escaping a caution in the process. Kennelly later admitted the challenge was premeditated, comparing himself to a \"raging bull\" in his autobiography. One minute later Cork's Donnacha O'Connor scored the first point of the final. Kennelly opened Kerry's account with a score from forty yards in the third minute. The seventh and ninth minutes respectively saw points from Cork's Colm O'Neill and Paddy Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, First half\nA goal for Cork came in the tenth minute from Colm O'Neill, with Kerry's Colm Cooper responding two and three minutes later by winning two frees and scoring two points. Cork achieved a four-point lead 30 yards out. O'Connor sets up and makes it two from two for O'Connor to give Cork a four-point lead in the sixteenth minute when Donnacha O'Connor scored a free from 30 yards but Kerry's Tommy Walsh responded by scoring two further points three and four minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, First half\nColm Cooper scored from another free in the twenty-third minute, with Kennelly and Paul Galvin both missing two chances to score soon after. Declan O'Sullivan, Cooper and Kennelly soon followed with three points. Cork responded with a point from Daniel Goulding but Kerry's Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 scored another. The final actions of the first half were frees scored by Cooper and Goulding for Kerry and Cork respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nKerry's Colm Cooper scored the opening point of the second half, with Cork's response consisting of several wides. Kerry captain Darren O'Sullivan then scored a dubious point which should not have been given as he bounced the ball twice before scoring. Kerry goalkeeper Diarmuid Murphy then preserved his team's four-point lead in the forty-seventh minute by saving Daniel Goulding's effort on goal. Donnacha O'Connor scored a free two minutes later to give Cork their first point for some time. Tadhg Kennelly was substituted for Donnacha Walsh. Goulding scored two more frees for Cork but Tommy Walsh followed up by scoring two frees for Kerry. Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 scored what proved to be the final point of the match in the fifty-eighth minute. The remainder of the match consisted of wides and substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 80], "content_span": [81, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Trophy presentation\nFollowing a pitch invasion by fans after the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, the GAA confirmed that the presentation of the Sam Maguire Cup would take place in Croke Park's Hogan Stand. The GAA insisted that it still remained worried about the health and safety of fans and expects an accident to happen \"one of these days\". Kerry captain Darren O'Sullivan expressed his indifference about the location: \"If they give [the cup] out in the car park around the back, I just want to get my hands on it\". During the presentation, Tadhg Kennelly did his dance which he previously did when he won the AFL Grand Final with the Sydney Swans in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction\nJack O'Connor claimed his team were influenced by the criticism which had come their way\u2014\"We were being written off \u2013 fellas like Spillane now were almost feeling pity for us. But that is where you get the energy from; you get it from enjoying each other's company and trying to build it up\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction\nConor Counihan claimed his team lost because of missed opportunities to score\u2014\"'We were definitely at a stage out there where we had opportunities and had we taken them, well it might have been an entirely different story. There's no doubt we could have put more pressure on Kerry at a couple of crucial periods. We didn't take our chances, however, and that's what it all boils down to\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction\nTadhg Kennelly confirmed that he was committed to the Kerry team and would not be returning to Sydney Swans for the following season\u2014\"My head is truly, truly set on Kerry. And my heart. That\u2019s probably the main thing that has come out here\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Reaction\nSe\u00e1n Moran in The Irish Times commended Kerry for how they \"rattled off\" another title, noting the achievement was \"all the more admirable for the quality of opposition with which they have had to contend\" and that Jack O'Connor, on his decision to return as manager, was \"rewarded with the ultimate vindication\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Homecoming\nOne of the largest crowds to ever attend an All-Ireland homecoming collected in Rathmore, County Kerry on 21 September 2009 to wait for the team train to arrive. With \"The Best\" playing in the background, Aidan O'Mahony and Tom O'Sullivan carried the Sam Maguire Cup to a stage which was erected in the town's train station and Tadhg Kennelly danced yet another jig of celebration as children queued to receive autographs. Touring the county, a fireworks display was on offer in honour of the team in Killarney and the streets of Tralee were tightly packed with wellwishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Homecoming\nCork departed Dublin at 16:00 on 21 September 2009 en route to Cork's Kent Station via Mallow. Hundreds of people gathered at South Mall near Parnell Place to welcome the team, amongst them the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Miche\u00e1l Martin and Dr John Buckley, Bishop of Cork and Ross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201447-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match, Awards\nThe nominations for the 2009 GAA All Stars Awards were announced on 25 September 2009. All but three of Kerry's winning team were nominated, with ten of Cork's team also being nominated. Kerry's Tomas \u00d3 S\u00e9, Declan O'Sullivan and Colm Cooper were also nominated in 2008. The nominees for Footballer of the Year were Paul Galvin and Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 of Kerry and Graham Canty of Cork. Cork's Colm O'Neill was nominated for Young Footballer of the Year alongside Mayo's Aidan O'Shea and eventual winner Donegal's Michael Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 123rd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The draw for the 2000 fixtures took place on 8 October 2008. The championship began on 30 May 2009 and ended on 6 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nKilkenny were the defending champions. Antrim and Galway joined the Leinster Championship for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 6 September 2009, Kilkenny won the championship following a 2-22 to 0-23 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final. This was their 32nd All-Ireland title overall, their 7th championship of the decade and a record-equalling fourth All-Ireland title in-a-row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nGalway's Joe Canning was the championship's top scorer with 3-46. Kilkenny's Tommy Walsh won Hurler of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Provincial changes\nDue to a lack of competition in their own respective provinces, Antrim and Galway pushed for entry to the Leinster Championship. At a special meeting of Congress on 4 October 2008, delegates voted to include Galway and Antrim in a restructured Leinster Championship on a trial basis for three years. Dublin, Wexford and Offaly spoke against the move, however, when put to a vote approximately 80% of delegates voted in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Teams\nA total of 12 teams competed in the championship, including all of the teams from the 2008 championship. There were no new entrants. On 3 August 2008, Westmeath won the Christy Ring Cup for the second year in succession, however, there was no promotion mechanism for them to join the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe format of the 2009 championship was slightly different from previous years. Firstly, Galway have had no opposition in the Connacht Senior Hurling Championship since 2004. Due to this it was decided at a special meeting of the GAA's congress for Galway to join the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship for a three-year trial period, starting with the 2009 championship. Antrim, being the only Tier 1 team in the Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, also participated in the Leinster Championship on a three-year trial period. Antrim also competed in the Ulster Championship which was run as a separate tournament to the All-Ireland Hurling Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\n12 counties participated in Tier 1 of the 2009 Championship. These teams were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nProvincial ChampionshipsThe Munster championship was played as usual with five teams. The Leinster championship also proceeded as usual, except for the addition of both Antrim and Galway, bringing the total number of competing teams to seven. The Leinster and Munster champions advanced directly to the All-Ireland semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nAll-Ireland QualifiersThe qualifiers gave teams defeated in the provincial championships another chance at winning the All-Ireland. Phase 1: (2 matches) the three Leinster quarter-finalists and the Munster quarter-finalist play off. Phase 2: (2 matches) the two Leinster semi-finalists and two Munster semi-finalists play off. Phase 3: (2 matches) The four winners of Phase 1 and Phase 2 games meet in Phase 3. The two Phase 3 winners advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nAll-Ireland SeriesQuarter-finals: (2 matches) The defeated Munster and Leinster finalists played the winners of the Phase 3 qualifiers. Semi-finals: (2 matches) The Munster and Leinster champions played the winners of the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nPromotion and relegation between Tier 1 and Tier 2 was in operation in the 2009 championship. The defeated team in the Round 2 match of the Relegation playoffs was demoted to the 2010 Christy Ring Cup, to be replaced by the winners of the 2009 Christy Ring Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Relegation play-offs\nIt was intended to hold a relegation playoff between Antrim and Wexford, but instead it was decided to allow both compete in the 2010 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201448-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Retirees\nThe following players played their last game in the 2009 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Hurling Final was a hurling match played on 6 September 2009 in Croke Park, Dublin, between Kilkenny and Tipperary. It was the first time the two teams had met in the All-Ireland final since 1991. Kilkenny's win was their fourth in a row, an accomplishment last matched by Cork between 1941 and 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nKilkenny's victory gave them a record seventh title of the decade and a record 18th consecutive Championship win. Following the match, Kilkenny manager Brian Cody announced details of the release of his autobiography, Cody. Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin was named as the sport's Opel GPA Player of the Month for August after the win; Shefflin contributed 1\u201314 of Kilkenny's score in the final. Shefflin was named on The Etihad 125 Dream Team before the final. He also claimed his ninth All Star Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nPrior to the game, Kilkenny were hailed as already being \"the greatest side ever to play the game\" by Eamonn Sweeney in the Sunday Independent as the Cork side who had already achieved four consecutive titles over sixty years previously did so against the backdrop of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak which led to fewer games being played. Rock singer Shane MacGowan attended the final to support his team Tipperary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nKilkenny went into the 2009 hurling final as defending champions, having won it in three consecutive years from 2006 to 2008. They were aiming for their fourth consecutive All-Ireland Senior Hurling title, a feat only previously achieved in hurling by Cork from 1941 to 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Ticketing\nOn 1 September 2009, the GAA confirmed that the final was an 82,000 sell-out. GAA Ticketing Manager Ronan Murphy said \"Sunday's All-Ireland final is a sell-out. In fact both Tipperary and Kilkenny had been back to us looking for more tickets. There is an ancient rivalry between Tipperary and Kilkenny and the fact that Kilkenny are going for the four in a row also adds to the interest ... Throughout the country the demand for tickets was very strong\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team news\nTipperary manager Liam Sheedy kept faith with the same team that beat Limerick in the Semi-final. Vice captain Conor O'Mahony was passed fit after suffering a 'dead leg' the previous week and lead the team from the centre-back position. Willie Ryan, who was named team captain at the start of the season, had to make do with a place on the substitutes bench. Goalkeeper Brendan Cummins, full-forward Eoin Kelly and right-corner forward Lar Corbett were the only survivors from the last Tipperary team to play in an All-Ireland final in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team news\nKilkenny manager Brian Cody in naming his team, omitted 2008 All-Ireland-winning captain James \"Cha\" Fitzpatrick for the final in favour of Derek Lyng. In total Cody made two personnel changes to the side which beat Waterford in the Semi-final stage, Richie Hogan also started at right half-forward, with Henry Shefflin moving to centre-forward, Martin Comerford was the player to drop out of the team. Comerford later revealed he had received advance word of this, but not from management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, First half\nAn early effort on goal by Kilkenny's Henry Shefflin was blocked by Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins. Tipperary then entered the lead following a point by Lar Corbett and two frees converted by Eoin Kelly. However, five points were then scored by Kilkenny in quick succession, with Eddie Brennan, Eoin Larkin and Tommy Walsh amongst the scorers. Tipperary's Kelly followed by Lar Corbett twice then scored. Kelly scored his eighth point of the match to give Tipperary the lead seven minutes before half-time. Five of six scores at the end of the first half came from Kilkenny though; amongst the scorers were Shefflin and Brennan. The sides were level in score on seven occasions throughout the first half but by the end it was Kilkenny who led by 0\u201313 to Tipperary's 0\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match summary, Second half\nThe first notable action of the second half occurred when Kilkenny goalkeeper PJ Ryansaved from a Seamus Callinan effort on goal. Callinan, however, soon scored two points to bring the scores level, with Shane McGrath scoring the point that put Tipperary ahead once again. Ryan soon saved another effort by Tipperary's Kelly and Kilkenny players Shefflin and Hogan scored some more points. Tipperary substitute Benny Dunne was sent off in the 53rd minute for hitting out at Walsh. However Tipperary continued to dominate as Kelly, Noel McGrath and Callinan each scored points to keep their team two points ahead. A controversial penalty awarded against Tipperary was scored by Shefflin and within one minute Martin Comerford on as a substitute consolidated Kilkenny's lead with a second goal. The last points of the match were scored by Eoin Larkin to seal Kilkenny's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 955]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Trophy presentation\nPrior to the final, the GAA stated that the All-Ireland final post-match presentation of the Liam MacCarthy Cup would be returned to the centre of the pitch. The Association were considering a return to the centre of Croke Park for All-Ireland day presentations since the 2008 football decider between Tyrone and Kerry when Kerry's Colm Cooper was jostled by rival supporters as he left the field following the final whistle. From 1999 to 2001, presentations were made in the centre of Croke Park and passed off largely without incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Trophy presentation\nHowever, a pitch invasion by fans following the 2009 hurling final meant plans to change the style of trophy presentation were cancelled, with Kilkenny captain Michael Fennelly receiving the Liam MacCarthy Cup in the Hogan Stand of Croke Park. GAA President Christy Cooney later spoke of his disappointment about the pitch invasion but indicated that it confirmed his belief that the invasions must stop. He said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Trophy presentation\nDespite all pre-match communications, press publicity and big-screen appeals, it was extremely disappointing to see our plans were not realised. Even allowing for all the exuberance and joy of supporters on the day, it was disappointing to see the disregard for the safety of others amongst fans intent on getting on the pitch and ignoring safety appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction\nKilkenny manager Brian Cody called the victory \"very special\", saying it felt \"outstanding, terrific\". However, he spoke of his annoyance at a question put to him by RT\u00c9's Marty Morrissey in his post-match interview which questioned the decision-making of the referee when he gave the penalty. While later appearing on Newstalk show Off the Ball, Cody reiterated his irritation with the RT\u00c9 interview and also suggested there was a media \"witch-hunt\" against Kilkenny hurler Tommy Walsh\u2014\"The Tommy Walsh witch-hunt went on and Tommy Walsh rose above everything and proved the kind of player he is\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction\nTipperary manager Liam Sheedy said the team could not have done any more, \"these lads have done everything I\u2019ve asked of them in last eight months, everything I could possible want them to. So to just come up short is very, very disappointing. We knew we were facing the best team in probably the history of the game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction\nBarry O'Brien, the Tipperary County board chairman, said the county would raise the issue of introducing a video referee in future championships \"to make sure the decisions are not only the right decisions, but are seen to be the right decisions\". Former Offaly hurler Joachim Kelly, in the Irish Examiner, later agreed that video technology would be a good idea. Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins spoke in the aftermath of how he had appealed to the referee to look at the giant screen in Croke Park before awarding the penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction\nDiarmuid O'Flynn of the Irish Examiner said the match had been above the \"mediocrity\" which in his belief had been on show all season during the 125th anniversary of the GAA. Se\u00e1n Moran of The Irish Times felt it was a \"shame\" the trophy presentation was spoilt by what he called \"the reckless behaviour of some supporters\". The Irish Independent, in rating the performances of the teams taking part in the 2009 Senior Hurling Championship, ranked Kilkenny as number one \"undisputed champions\" and \"the greatest team of all time\". The Kilkenny People's John Knox claimed Kilkenny had \"surviv[ed] the most searching test any team has possibly ever received in Croke Park\" and were now \"the greatest hurling team ever! \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction\nHenry Shefflin and other members of the winning team appeared on The Late Late Show on 11 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Civic reception\nAn estimated tens of thousands of fans gathered in Kilkenny city for the team's return the following night, taking photographs and receiving autographs when the team train eventually arrived at approximately 18:00. The Irish Times said \"grown men cried and women swooned\" as the team exited their train \"blinking like astronauts from a space capsule, looking slightly shellshocked \u2013 and relieved \u2013 to be back\". Henry Shefflin said it was \"great to be home, back to our own people\" and manager Brian Cody said returning to Kilkenny was \"one of the highlights\" of his experience. Kilkenny's mayor Malcolm Noonan and other politicians, formally dressed for the occasion, greeted the team as their open-top bus arrived at their civic reception held in the city centre. Following this, the team departed for their by now customary meal at Langton's Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Audience ratings\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final was watched on RT\u00c9 Two by 68% of those with televisions, its highest ratings for three years. Viewing figures peaked towards the end of the match. RT\u00c9.ie recorded 28,076 streams for the minor and senior hurling finals combined. A worldwide audience also watched the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Awards\nThe nominations for the 2009 GAA All Stars Awards were announced on 23 September 2009. Henry Shefflin, who had eight previous wins, was nominated for a potential ninth win which would have equalled the record number of wins jointly held by Kilkenny hurler D. J. Carey and Kerry footballer Pat Spillane. Tommy Walsh was nominated for a seventh consecutive year. Tipperary's Eoin Kelly received his sixth nomination. Despite losing the final, Tipperary achieved one more nomination than Kilkenny, and all but two of the team which started the final were included. First-time nominees for the finalists were P\u00e1draic Maher, Paddy Stapleton, James Woodlock, Pat Kerwick, John O'Brien and Noel McGrath of Tipperary and Michael Rice of Kilkenny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201449-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Awards\nKilkenny won six All-Star Awards, with Shefflin and Walsh included. Tipperary won four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201450-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship was held between July 26 and September 27, 2009. Cork were the winners for the fifth season in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201450-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, Fixtures and results, Relegation match\nDonegal are relegated to the Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201451-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Cork and Dublin. Dublin made their first appearance in the final since 2004. Cork would win their fifth successive All-Ireland title. In a closely contested final, Cork scored four points in the final eight minutes to clinch the title by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201451-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams\nTeam:1 Elaine Harte2 Rena Buckley3 Angela Walsh4 Geraldine O'Flynn5 Ciara O'Sullivan6 Br\u00edd Stack7 Briege Corkery8 Juliet Murphy9 Norita Kelly10 Nollaig Cleary11 Deirdre O'Reilly12 Amy O'Shea13 Mary O'Connor (c)14 Valerie Mulcahy15 Rhona Buckley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201451-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams\nSubstitutes:Laura McMahon for O'Shea (39)Linda Barrett for Rhona Buckley (42)Mair\u00e9ad Kelly for O'Connor (51)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201451-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams\nTeam:1 Cl\u00edodhna O'Connor2 Avril Cluxton3 Noelle Comyn4 Maria Kavanagh5 Colleen Barrett6 Sorcha Furlong7 Siobh\u00e1n McGrath8 Denise Masterson (c)9 Niamh McEvoy10 Mary Nevin11 Amy McGuinness12 Elaine Kelly13 Lyndsey Davey14 Sin\u00e9ad Aherne15 Lindsay Peat", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201451-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams\nSubstitutes:L. Kidd for Cluxton (27)N. Hurley for Kelly (39)E. Travers for Barrett (54)K. Flood for McEvoy (56)R. Byrne for Nevin (57)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201452-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the 46th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201452-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nKerry entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Cork in the Munster quarter-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201452-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nOn 4 May 2009, Cork won the championship following a 1-13 to 2-9 defeat of Down in the All-Ireland final. This was their 11th All-Ireland title overall and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201453-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 46th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964. The championship began on 20 May 2009 and ended on 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201453-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nOn 13 September 2009, Clare won the championship following a 0-15 to 0-14 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title in the under-21 grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Croke Park, Dublin on 13 September 2009 to determine the winners of the 2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 46th 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 Clare of Munster and Kilkenny of Leinster, with Clare winning by 0-15 to 0-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Clare and Kilkenny was the first championship meeting between the two sides. Kilkenny were hoping to retain the title and claim their 11th championship. Clare were hoping to win their first All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nKilkenny started the brighter and scored first through Mark Kelly who tapped over with just a minute on the clock. Clare signalled their intent from that point on and raced into a 0-3 to 0-2 lead with Colin Ryan and Caimin Morey both finding their range early on. Clare built on that early lead and were in control for most of the opening half, with the influential Ryan claiming four further points before the interval to help his side to an 0-8 0-6 half-time lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nKilkenny charged out of the blocks in the second half, putting real pressure on Clare by hitting three points without answer from Richie Hogan, James Nolan and Colin Fennelly. With fifteen minutes remaining in the match Kilkenny were ahead by 0-12 to 0-10. Clare dug deep to rally late on, outscoring the Cats by five points to two with John Conlon claiming two superb points to help his side to their first major silverware since winning the minor and senior All-Ireland double in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nClare's All-Ireland victory was their first. They became the eighth team to win the All-Ireland title and put them in joint sixth position with Wexford and Waterford on the all-time roll of honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201454-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nKilkenny's defeat was a record-equaling tenth in an All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201455-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team\nThe 2009 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-10 Conference teams for the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season. The Oregon Ducks won the conference, posting an 8\u20131 conference record. Oregon then lost to the Big Ten champion Ohio State Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl 26 to 17. Stanford running back Toby Gerhart was voted Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year. UCLA defensive tackle Brian Price was voted Pat Tillman Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201456-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-Pro Team\nThe 2009 All-Pro Team consists of National Football League (NFL) players named to the Associated Press (AP), Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA), and Sporting News All-Pro teams in the 2009 NFL season. The Associated Press and Sporting News named first and second-team selections. The AP team was selected by a national panel of 50 NFL writers. The Sporting News selection process consisted of a players' poll, making it \"The Players' All-Pro Team\". The PFWA All-NFL team is based on a poll of its more than 300 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team\nThe 2009 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 2009 Southeastern Conference football season. Coaches could not vote for their own players, making a selection to 11 of the 12 coaches' squads earn one a unanimous selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team\nThe Alabama Crimson Tide won the conference, beating the previous season's conference and national champion Florida Gators, 32 to 13 in the SEC Championship game. Alabama then defeated the Big 12 champion Texas Longhorns in the National Championship game 37 to 21. Alabama led the conference with six consensus first-team All-SEC selections by both the AP and the coaches. Florida was second with five. Alabama featured four on defense, while Florida had four on offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team\nAlabama running back Mark Ingram Jr., a unanimous selection, won the Heisman Trophy and was voted AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was a unanimous selection of the conference coaches and was voted the coaches' SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Tebow, who won the Heisman as a sophomore in 2007, was the preseason pick as the AP Offensive Player of the Year. Alabama linebacker Rolando McClain, unanimous, was voted the AP Defensive Player of the Year and won the Butkus Award given to the nation's top linebacker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team\nTennessee safety Eric Berry, a unanimous selection by AP, was the preseason pick as the AP Defensive Player of the Year and won the Thorpe award given to the nation's top defensive back. Georgia punter Drew Butler, a consensus selection, won the Ray Guy Award given to the nation's top punter. Berry, Butler, and Florida cornerback Joe Haden were unanimous All-American selections. Ingram and McClain missed out on being unanimous All-Americans by one selector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team\nFlorida tight end Aaron Hernandez, who won the Mackey Award given to the nation's top tight end, was later convicted of the murder of Odin Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201457-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 All-SEC football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and AP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 31], "content_span": [32, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup\nThe 2009 Allan Cup was the 2009 edition of the Canadian National Championship of Senior ice hockey. This tournament marked the 101st year that the Allan Cup has been awarded. The 2009 tournament was hosted by the City of Steinbach, Manitoba and the Steinbach North Stars. The tournament began on April 13, 2009, and ended April 18, 2009. All games were played at the T.G. Smith Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup\nIn the final, the Bentley Generals won their first ever Allan Cup, defeated the Southeast Prairie Thunder 4-3 in double overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup, Information\nBoth Quebec and the Maritime Provinces were not represented at the 2009 Allan Cup. It was the second consecutive year that the Maritimes had been unable to muster together a Senior \"AAA\" club. Quebec missed the tournament for the first time in recent history due to their only major Senior league being on hiatus that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup, Information\nA new regional grouping was added for 2009, as Northern Ontario was represented by the Thunder Bay Twins who defeated the Kenora Thistles 2-games-to-1. The Southern Ontario region was represented by the Dundas Real McCoys, winner of Major League Hockey, the only league to fully be taking part in this year's Allan Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup, Information\nThis years Allan Cup also featured a rare scenario where the host venue happened to be the home arena for two competing teams. While the Steinbach North Stars were the host team, the Southeast Prairie Thunder also earned a berth in the Allan Cup by defeating the Selkirk Rivermen in provincial playdowns. Saskatchewan was a battle between the 2007 Allan Cup champion Lloydminster Border Kings and the Weyburn Devils, won by Lloydminster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201458-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Allan Cup, Information\nThe Alberta champions, Bentley Generals, defeated the Fort St. John Flyers, the only team registered in British Columbia, to win the McKenzie Cup and the Pacific seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201459-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad\nThe 2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad was a tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 42nd edition of the event known that year as the Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland, from 26 July through 2 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201459-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201459-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles\nMarco Chiudinelli /  Michael Lammer defeated  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd /  Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201460-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad \u2013 Doubles\nJaroslav Levinsk\u00fd and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201461-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nVictor H\u0103nescu was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Florent Serra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201461-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nThomaz Bellucci won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20132), against Andreas Beck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201462-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Allsvenskan\nAllsvenskan 2009, part of the 2009 Swedish football season, was the 85th Allsvenskan season played. AIK clinched their first Swedish title since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201463-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Almaty Cup\nThe 2009 Almaty Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan between 24 and 30 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201463-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Almaty Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201463-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Almaty Cup, Champions, Doubles\nDenys Molchanov /  Yang Tsung-hua def. Pierre-Ludovic Duclos /  Alexey Kedryuk, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(5), [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201464-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Almaty Cup \u2013 Doubles\nAlexandre Krasnoroutskiy and Denys Molchanov were the defending champions, but only Molchanov tried to defend his title. He teamed up with Yang Tsung-hua and they won this tournament, by defeating Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Alexey Kedryuk 4\u20136, 7\u20136(5), [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201465-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Almaty Cup \u2013 Singles\nSebasti\u00e1n Decoud was the defending champion, but he chose to not compete this year. Ivan Sergeyev defeated Dustin Brown 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201466-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21-23 at Pete Sylvester Field in Endicott, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Binghamton defeated second-seeded Albany, 16-6, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Binghamton received the America East's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament, the program's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201466-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201466-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player\nBinghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201467-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 6\u20138 through at SEFCU Arena place on the University at Albany campus. The final was held on March 14 at the Events Center, the home court of the Binghamton Bearcats, who were the highest remaining seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201467-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Bearcats earned their first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament, and were given the #15 seed in the East Regional. They played Duke in the first round of the Tournament, losing 86\u201362. Vermont gained a bid to the 2009 College Basketball Invitational, and won in the first round against Wisconsin-Green Bay 76\u201372, but would lose in the Quarter-Finals against Oregon State by a score of 71\u201370 in Overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201467-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Men's Basketball Tournament, Controversy\nOne month after the SEFCU Arena site was announced, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced that they would be moving their 2009 Men's and Women's Tournament from the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey to the Times Union Center in Albany to be played on the same weekend as the America East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201468-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament\nThe 2009 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the 10th edition of the America East Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament and took place from April 29 to May 2 at the higher seeds home field. The winner of the tournament received the America East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship. Four teams from the America East conference will compete in the single elimination tournament. The seeds were based upon the teams' regular season conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201468-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament, Standings\nOnly the top four teams in the America East conference advanced to the America East Conference Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201469-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open\nThe 2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey between 10 and 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201469-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201469-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open, Champions, Doubles\nFrederico Gil /  Filip Prpic def. Grigor Dimitrov /  Marsel \u0130lhan, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201470-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open \u2013 Doubles\nFrederico Gil and Filip Prpic became the new champions, after defeating Grigor Dimitrov and Marsel \u0130lhan 3\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201471-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Express \u2013 TED Open \u2013 Singles\nFrederico Gil was the defending champion, but he lost to Florian Mayer in the semifinal. Illya Marchenko defeated Florian Mayer 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201472-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Indoor Football Association season\nThe 2009 American Indoor Football Association season is the league's fifth overall season. The regular season began on Saturday, March 7 and ended on Monday, July 7. The league champion was decided on Sunday, July 26 as the Reading Express won AIFA Championship Bowl III. Prior to the regular season, the league held an exhibition game in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania called the AIFA Kickoff Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series\nThe 2009 American Le Mans Series season was the 39th season for the IMSA GT Championship, with it being the eleventh season with the American Le Mans Series moniker. It began on March 21, 2009, and ended on October 10, 2009 after ten events. The series was composed of Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) and Grand Tourer (GT) race cars divided into four classes: LMP1, LMP2, GT1, and GT2. A fifth category, known as the Challenge class, was also added for select races and featured Porsche 997 GT3 Cup cars from the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge. 2009 was also the final year for GT1, with Corvette Racing abandoning the class after Long Beach and switching over to much more competitive GT2 (renamed GT) class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series\nThis was the first time that the Michelin Green X Challenge championship was used throughout a full ALMS season after its initial introduction at the 2008 Petit Le Mans. Two champions were determined by the entry which is the most efficient over the season within the LMP and GT categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series\nPatr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing duo David Brabham and Scott Sharp won the main LMP1 standings, holding off De Ferran Motorsports pairing Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud at the final round of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Adri\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez and Luis D\u00edaz won the LMP2 title, in the final season of Fern\u00e1ndez Racing, who closed at the end of the 2009 season. In GT2, Flying Lizard Motorsports' Patrick Long and J\u00f6rg Bergmeister won six races en route to the championship title. Husband-and-wife Martin and Melanie Snow won the inaugural GT Challenge class title, that ran at half of the season's ten races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Schedule\nThe 2009 schedule remained mostly identical to the 2008 schedule, although the season was shortened in length. This was done to allow teams from the American Le Mans Series to participate in events for the new Asian Le Mans Series in November. On December 18, 2008, it was announced that the Detroit race would be canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Schedule\nThe Challenge class of cars only participated in five rounds in 2009: Utah, Lime Rock, Mid-Ohio, Road America, and Laguna Seca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Season results\nNote that the GT1 class only competed in two rounds. Johnny O'Connell, Jan Magnussen, and Antonio Garc\u00eda won the 12 Hours of Sebring for Corvette Racing, while Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won for Corvette at Long Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Championships\nPoints were awarded to the top ten cars and drivers which either finish the race or complete 70% of the winner's distance, except in the ALMS Challenge category where cars and drivers only have to complete 50% of their class winner's distance. Teams with multiple entries only scored the points of their highest finishing entry in each race. Drivers were required to drive a minimum of 45 minutes to earn points, except for the Long Beach event which required only 30 minutes. The GT1 category was only used for two events and no championships were awarded in that category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Championships, Team championships\nTeams with full entries were awarded points in the team championships. Teams which participated in partial season or on a race by race basis were not counted as part of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Championships, Team championships, ALMS Challenge standings\nGruppe Orange tied on points for the ALMS Challenge Team Championship, but Snow Racing broke the tie by having three wins over the season compared to Gruppe Orange's one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Championships, Driver championships\nDrivers who participated in races but failed to score points over the course of the season are not listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201473-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series, Championships, Driver championships, ALMS Challenge standings\nDriver points were awarded collectively, with all the drivers who have driven for a team being awarded the same number of points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201474-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach\nThe 2009 Tequila Patr\u00f3n American Le Mans Series at Long Beach was the third round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Long Beach street circuit, California on April 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201474-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach\nThe de Ferran Motorsports Acura team earned their first victory in the series, leading the Highcroft Racing Acura to the finish. Fern\u00e1ndez Racing Acura also won the LMP2 category for their third straight race while the #4 Chevrolet Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won Corvette Racing's final appearance in the GT1 category in the American Le Mans Series. Flying Lizard Motorsports won their second straight GT2 class victory after early leader Farnbacher-Loles suffered a suspension failure on circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201474-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201474-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\n\u2020 \u2013 The #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari's times were not allowed as the car failed post-qualifying inspection due to being below the minimum ride height.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201474-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game\nThe 2009 American League Central tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 regular season, played between the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins to determine the champion of the American League's (AL) Central Division. It was played at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 6, 2009. The Twins won the game 6\u20135 in 12 innings and advanced to the 2009 AL Division Series where they were swept by the New York Yankees; the Tigers failed to qualify for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game\nA tie-breaker was necessary after both teams finished the season with identical win\u2013loss records of 86\u201376. The Twins, who had won the regular season series against the Tigers, 11 games to 7, were thus awarded home field due to a rules change prior to the 2009 season. It was the third tie-breaker played in MLB from 2007\u20132009. It was also the second consecutive tiebreaker for the AL Central title after 2008, when the Chicago White Sox defeated the Twins to win the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game\nThe Twins became the first (and, as of the 2020 season, only) MLB team to contest tie-breaker games of any sort (divisional and/or wild card) in consecutive seasons. The tie-breaker is counted as the 163rd regular season game played by both teams and all events in the game are added to regular season statistics. This was the Twins' final regular season game at the Metrodome as the team moved to Target Field for the 2010 season. The tie-breaker was later named the Best Regular-Season Game of the Decade by Sports Illustrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nThe Tigers led the AL Central for periods at the start of the season in April, ultimately tying for the lead on May 10 and taking the lead outright on May 16. The Tigers held at least a share of the divisional lead from then onwards, holding their largest lead of 7 games on September 6. Although the Tigers went 16\u201312 in September, their second-best month by winning percentage in 2009, they won just 1 of 4 games in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nThe Twins went 16\u201311 and 4\u20130, respectively, over this same stretch to tie the Tigers for the divisional lead after the 162-game regular season. More broadly, the Tigers were 48\u201339 over the first half of the season while the Twins were 45\u201344 but the Twins came back in the second half going 41\u201332 leading up to the tie-breaker while the Tigers went 38\u201337 over the same span. The Twins won 11 of the two teams' 18 match-ups that season prior to the tie-breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nThis late-season competition for the AL Central title included a four-game series between the two teams from September 29 to October 1. The series, played at the Tigers' home field Comerica Park, started with a day-night doubleheader caused by a rainout the night before when the series was scheduled to start. The final game of the series featured moments of contention between the two teams. In the third inning, Nate Robertson hit Denard Span. Minnesota starter Scott Baker hit Marcus Thames with a pitch the next inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nThames responded by sliding hard into second base to break up a potential double play that inning. Twins' reliever Jose Mijares then threw behind the Tigers' Adam Everett in the eighth inning. Umpire Angel Hernandez warned Mijares and the Tigers bench, Tigers' manager Jim Leyland argued with Hernandez, and he was ejected. Despite the warning Minnesota's Delmon Young was hit in the knee with the first pitch in the ninth inning by Jeremy Bonderman. Bonderman was immediately ejected as was Tigers' catcher Gerald Laird who argued with Hernandez and the benches cleared, though there was no brawl. Bonderman was suspended for three games, and Tigers' hitting coach Lloyd McClendon\u2014who had been acting as manager following Leyland's ejection\u2014was suspended for a game. McClendon, Leyland, and Laird were all fined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nUltimately, the four-game series was split with two wins for each team, and the Tigers maintained a two-game lead with three games remaining for each club. The Tigers lost two of their next three games to the Chicago White Sox, whereas the Twins swept the Kansas City Royals in a three-game series leaving both teams tied with an 86\u201376 record. A tiebreaker game would decide the winner of the Central division while the loser would be eliminated from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nPrior to the 2009 season, home field advantage in a tiebreaker game was decided by a series of coin tosses held towards the end of the regular season that would decide the home teams of all possible tiebreakers. A rule change following the 2008 season altered this process, leaving the site determined on a series of performance-based criteria beginning with the head-to-head record between the two teams that were tied. Therefore, the Twins took home-field advantage in this game, by virtue of winning the season series against the Tigers 11\u20137. The game was the third MLB tie-breaker in as many seasons, a record number for the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Background\nWhile October 5 had been the original scheduled date for a potential tiebreaker game, a scheduling conflict with the Minnesota Vikings, who were co-tenants of the Metrodome with the Twins, resulted in the tiebreaker game being moved a day later to October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nThe game was scoreless through the first two innings. Detroit took a three-run lead in the third inning which started when Curtis Granderson walked, advanced on a ground out, and scored on a single by Magglio Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez to center field. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez was then brought home via a two-run home run by Tigers' first baseman Miguel Cabrera. The Twins responded in the bottom of the inning, with Matt Tolbert singling to lead off the inning, advancing to second base on a single by Denard Span, and then moving to third on a flyball out. Tigers' starter Rick Porcello attempted a pickoff throw to first which hit the baserunner Span and went past the first baseman Cabrera. Span was out but Tolbert was able to score on Porcello's throwing error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nThe score remained 3\u20131 until the bottom of the 6th inning. Porcello got the first two batters of the inning out but then allowed a home run to Jason Kubel to bring the game within one run. Porcello then walked the next batter, Michael Cuddyer, and was relieved by Zach Miner. The Twins loaded the bases against Miner, but did not score again in the inning. Scott Baker, the Twins' starter, walked the first batter of the 7th and was relieved by Jon Rauch though no runs scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nThe Twins took a 4\u20133 lead in the bottom of the 7th with a leadoff single by Nick Punto and a two-run home run by Orlando Cabrera. The Tigers responded, tying the game at 4 with a home run by Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez in the top of the 8th off of Matt Guerrier. Guerrier allowed another two walks in the inning and was relieved by closer Joe Nathan who escaped the inning with no further scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nNathan remained in the game, holding the Tigers scoreless in the 9th, while Tigers' closer Fernando Rodney did the same to Minnesota to force extra innings. Jesse Crain replaced Nathan in the top of the 10th and hit Aubrey Huff who was pinch hitting for Wilkin Ramirez. Don Kelly then pinch ran for Huff, and scored on a double by Brandon Inge to give the Tigers a 5\u20134 lead. The Tigers inserted Clete Thomas for Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez in right field as a defensive replacement in the bottom of the 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nHowever the Twins retied the game at 5\u20135 as Cuddyer led off the inning with a triple and, following a Delmon Young groundout and a walk to Brendan Harris, scored on a single by Tolbert. Alexi Casilla pinch-ran for Harris and advanced to third on Tolbert's single. Nick Punto then hit a fly ball to left-fielder Ryan Raburn. Casilla attempted to score on the play, but inadvertently inched off the base before the ball was caught, and had to return to the base before breaking for home. Catcher Gerald Laird successfully tagged out Casilla to complete the inning-ending double play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nBoth teams were held scoreless in the 11th. The Tigers threatened to score in the top of the 12th, with a walk by Cabrera and a single by Kelly with one out. Twins pitcher Bobby Keppel then intentionally walked Raburn to load the bases, hoping he could induce a double play. Then, Keppel threw a fastball close to batter Brandon Inge with his first pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nInge believed he was hit by the ball and should advance to first, which would force a go-ahead run to score with the bases loaded, but home plate umpire Randy Marsh ruled the pitch did not hit Inge and allowed the at-bat to continue. Tigers' manager Jim Leyland would say later that \"the replay kind of confirms that it did hit him,\" but Marsh maintained that replays were \"inconclusive.\" Inge ultimately grounded into a force out at home and Laird would strikeout to close the top of the inning with no scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Game summary\nCarlos G\u00f3mez led off the bottom of the 12th with a single for the Twins and advanced to second on a ground-out. With first base open, the Tigers intentionally walked Delmon Young to bring up Casilla. Casilla atoned for his earlier base-running blunder by hitting a ground ball through the right side of the infield. The base hit allowed the speedy Gomez to score from second without a play, thus giving the Twins a 6\u20135 walk-off victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nThe tie-breaker win clinched the American League Central for the Twins and earned them a spot in the ALDS, in which they were swept by the New York Yankees in three games. The Tigers became the first team in MLB history to have a three-game division lead with four games remaining and lose the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nMLB tie-breaker games count as regular season games and this game affected certain statistical races for the 2009 season. For example, Jason Beck of MLB.com noted that if the umpire agreed with Brandon Inge on the contentious 12th inning call Inge would have tied for the most hit by a pitch in the American League. Twins' catcher Joe Mauer won the 2009 American League batting title, and his final batting average for the season moved from .364 to .365 in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201475-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Central tie-breaker game, Aftermath\nThe game was later chosen by Sports Illustrated as the Best Regular-Season Game of the Decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series\nThe 2009 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 2009 American League playoffs, was a best-of-seven game series matching the two winners of the 2009 American League Division Series. The AL East Division champions, the New York Yankees, defeated the AL West Division champions, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, four games to two, to advance to the 2009 World Series, their first since 2003. This was the third time that these two teams faced each other in the playoffs. They met in the 2002 ALDS and 2005 ALDS with the Angels winning both series by 3\u20131 and 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series\nThe Yankees held home-field advantage because they had a better regular-season record than Los Angeles Angels. The series, the 39th in league history, began on October 16 and ended on October 25. Fox Sports carried all games with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. Starting with the 2009 season, weeknight games began 40 minutes earlier as suggested by Commissioner Bud Selig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series\nThe Yankees won the series four games to two, and went on to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 4\u20132 in the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Summary, New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim\n\u2020 Game 6 was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, October 24, but was postponed because of rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 101], "content_span": [102, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nFriday, October 16, 2009 \u2014 7:57 PM (ET) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nOn a blustery night where the official game time temperature was 45\u00a0\u00b0F (7\u00a0\u00b0C), starter CC Sabathia limited the Angels to one run on four hits and a walk in eight innings, striking out seven in a 4\u20131 Yankee win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Yankees staked Sabathia to a 2\u20130 lead in the bottom of the first on an Alex Rodriguez sacrifice fly and an unusual RBI infield single from Hideki Matsui. Matsui hit a short popup to the left side of the infield, but there was a miscommunication between third baseman Chone Figgins and shortstop Erick Aybar and the ball fell in for a single, enabling Johnny Damon to score from second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nVladimir Guerrero set up the Angels' only run in the top of the fourth, hitting a high fly ball to deep left field that looked to be a home run but bounced in front of the fence for a double instead, possibly due to the windy conditions. Guerrero scored two batters later on Kendrys Morales' single. The Yankees added a run in the fifth on Matsui's second run-scoring single of the night, and a pair of Angels errors led to New York's fourth run in the sixth. After reaching base on a walk, Melky Cabrera advanced to second on John Lackey's errant pickoff attempt. Derek Jeter then singled up the middle, but Torii Hunter overran the ball, allowing Cabrera to score without a play at the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nMariano Rivera pitched the ninth, recording his 36th career postseason save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nSaturday, October 17, 2009 \u2014 7:57 PM (ET) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nOnce again, the Yankees struck first in the second inning. After Nick Swisher worked a two-out walk\u2014his first in this postseason\u2014Robinson Can\u00f3 hit his first career postseason triple to deep right-center field to score Swisher. In the bottom of the third, Derek Jeter hit a solo home run to right field to give the Yankees a 2\u20130 advantage. The Angels fought back in the fifth. After Maicer Izturis hit a leadoff ground rule double to right field, Erick Aybar's one-out single brought Izturis home to cut the lead in half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nLater in the inning, New York starter A. J. Burnett's bases-loaded wild pitch caused the game to be tied at two. Both teams threatened multiple times in the ensuing innings, but neither scored and the game was sent to extra innings. In the top half of the 11th, Gary Matthews, Jr. drew a walk off Yankees reliever Alfredo Aceves, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Erick Aybar, and scored on an RBI single by Chone Figgins. At this point, the weather took a turn for the worse, which included rain and snow falling, but the Yankees battled back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nIn the bottom half of the frame, Alex Rodriguez tied the game with a leadoff home run off Angels closer Brian Fuentes. Then, in the 13th inning, Melky Cabrera managed to reach on an error committed by Izturis, consequently driving in the winning run. Izturis had the option of throwing to first for the second out, but instead attempted a tough throw to get the force at second for a potential double play, completely missing shortstop Aybar. Figgins, who was backing up the play, came up with the ball in an attempt to get the play at the plate but it slipped out of his hand. Jerry Hairston, Jr., who had reached on a single to start the inning, came around to score on that error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nAlex Rodriguez's 11th-inning home run was his second late-inning game-tying home run in this postseason. Both were off the opposing team's closer (the Minnesota Twins' Joe Nathan, in ALDS Game 2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nMonday, October 19, 2009 \u2014 4:13 PM (ET) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nFor the third game in a row the Yankees scored first, this time on Derek Jeter's leadoff home run off Angels starter Jered Weaver. They extended their lead on solo home runs by Alex Rodriguez in the fourth inning and Johnny Damon in the fifth, both off Weaver. Yankees starter Andy Pettitte held the Angels scoreless until the fifth inning, when he yielded a solo home run to Howie Kendrick in the fifth. The next inning, Vladimir Guerrero hit a two-run home run, also off Pettitte, to tie the game. The Angels took the lead in the seventh, thanks to Kendrick's one-out triple and Maicer Izturis' sacrifice fly, both off Joba Chamberlain. However, a Jorge Posada solo home run off Kevin Jepsen\u2014the sixth in the game\u2014tied it again in the eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nAnother Angels' gaffe proved costly. In the eighth inning Abreu led off with a double but attempted to stretch it into a triple. An alert Jeter called for the ball at second and tossed to Mark Teixeira who was covering second, since Robinson Can\u00f3 was in the outfield, to tag Abreu for the out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nFor the second consecutive time in the series, the Yankees and Angels played extra innings. The Angels loaded the bases with one out in the tenth inning against Mariano Rivera, but were unable to score. In the bottom of the 11th inning, Yankees pitcher David Robertson retired the two Angels batters he faced and was one out away from forcing a 12th inning when manager Joe Girardi replaced him with Alfredo Aceves, a decision that would later be criticized by the New York media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nAceves, who yielded a go-ahead run to the Angels in the 11th inning of Game 2 that was later erased by Rodriguez' home run, yielded a single to Kendrick on a 3\u20131 count. Jeff Mathis, the Angels' backup catcher who was inserted into the game in the eighth inning, followed with a double to deep left field, scoring Kendrick from first and winning the game in a walk-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nTuesday, October 20, 2009 \u2014 7:57 PM (ET) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nYankees ace CC Sabathia started Game 4 on three days' rest, which proved to be no problem, as he pitched eight strong innings, allowing only one earned run on a home run by Kendrys Morales in the fifth, five hits, and two walks, while striking out five. For the fourth straight game in the series the Yankees scored first. With runners on second and third and one out, Robinson Cano hit into a fielder's choice to score Alex Rodriguez. After a walk loaded the bases, Melky Cabrera's two-run single made it 3\u20130 Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nNext inning, Mark Teixeira hit a leadoff single and Angels' starter Scott Kazmir was relieved by Jason Bulger, who allowed a two-run home run to Rodriguez, tying a postseason record set by Lou Gehrig and Ryan Howard for recording an RBI in eight consecutive games. In the eighth, Cabrera walked off of Ervin Santana who was relieved by Matt Palmer. Johnny Damon's home run made it 7\u20131 Yankees. Rodriguez doubled to lead off the ninth and scored on Jorge Posada's sacrifice fly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nOne out later, Robinson Cano walked and Brett Gardner singled before both scored on a double by Cabrera, giving him four RBIs. Chad Gaudin relieved Sabathia in the bottom of the ninth and retired the Angels in order as the Yankees were one win away from their first World Series since 2003. The game included three controversial calls by the umpiring crew that third base umpire and crew chief Tim McClelland\u2014who made two of the three calls in question\u2014admitted were in error, drawing more attention to the argument for instant replay in baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThursday, October 22, 2009 \u2014 7:57 PM (ET) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nUnlike the previous four games, this time the Angels scored first. With Chone Figgins on third base and Bobby Abreu on first, Torii Hunter singled to center field, scoring both Figgins and Abreu. Hunter then scored on an RBI double by Vladimir Guerrero, followed by a Kendrys Morales RBI single that scored Guerrero from second. All this was done before the first out was recorded. From that point on, neither starter\u2014John Lackey for the Angels and A. J. Burnett for the Yankees\u2014allowed a run until the seventh inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nIn the top half of that inning, Lackey worked into a bases-loaded jam with two outs when manager Mike Scioscia replaced him with Darren Oliver. Mark Teixeira connected with Oliver's first pitch for a double that scored all three inherited runners\u2014Melky Cabrera, Jorge Posada, and Derek Jeter. After an intentional walk to Alex Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui singled, scoring Teixeira and tying the game. Oliver was replaced with Kevin Jepsen, who yielded a triple to Robinson Can\u00f3 that scored Rodriguez and Matsui, giving the Yankees a two-run lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nIn the bottom half of the seventh, Abreu hit an RBI groundout that scored Jeff Mathis from third. Hunter then drew a walk, followed by a Guerrero single that scored Erick Aybar, and a Morales single that scored Hunter, giving the Angels a one-run lead. The Yankees threatened Angels closer Brian Fuentes in the ninth inning. With two outs, Fuentes loaded the bases, but Nick Swisher popped out to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nSunday, October 25, 2009 \u2014 8:20 PM (ET) at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nGame 6 was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, October 24, but was postponed because of rain. Angels gaffes once again proved costly. In the top of the second, baserunner Vladimir Guerrero ran too far from first base on a fly ball out and was doubled off. The game remained scoreless until the top of the third inning when Bobby Abreu singled home Jeff Mathis, who singled to lead off and moved to second on a groundout, to give the Angels the early lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nThe Yankees left six men on base in the first and second innings before they finally broke through in the bottom of the fourth after Johnny Damon lined a two-run single with the bases loaded off of Joe Saunders to give them the lead for the remainder of the game. A single reloaded the bases before Alex Rodriguez walked to force in another run. Saunders was then removed in favor of Darren Oliver, who pitched 2+2\u20443 shutout innings. This remains to date the Angels last post-season victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nAndy Pettitte pitched a strong game, allowing one run in 6+1\u20443 innings while striking out six. Mariano Rivera entered the game in the eighth inning for a six-out save. Chone Figgins hit a leadoff single in the eighth, moved to second on a groundout and scored on a Guerrero single with two outs to close the gap to 3\u20132. In the bottom of the eighth, Robinson Cano drew a leadoff walk off of Ervin Santana, who was relieved by Scott Kazmir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nThe Angels misfielded two sacrifice bunts by the Yankees, a fielding error by Howie Kendrick and a throwing error by pitcher Scott Kazmir, allowing a run to score. A walk loaded the bases before Mark Teixeira's sacrifice fly made it 5\u20132 Yankees. Rivera retired the side in the ninth to record the Yankees' 40th American League pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Composite box\n2009 ALCS (4\u20132): New York Yankees over Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Aftermath\nThe Yankees finished off the job, beating the Philadelphia Phillies in World Series in six games. It was the fifth overall ring for the Core Four era Yankees (fourth for Posada who was left off the playoff roster in 1996) and the first for star players such as Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, and Hideki Matsui. It was the team\u2019s 27th World Series and their last to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Aftermath\nIn regards to Matusi, on December 16, 2009, the 2009 World Series MVP agreed to a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim worth $6.5 million. Matusi told Yomiuri Shimbun that he \"loved the Yankees the best\" but that he no longer felt valued and when his agent called to negotiate, \"The Yankees had nothing prepared [in terms of contract conditions].\" He made up his mind to sign with the Angels quickly. \"I really felt their high expectations of me,\" he said. On April 13, 2010, Matusi returned to Yankee Stadium as a member of the Angels and received his championship ring and a long standing ovation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201476-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Championship Series, Aftermath\nThe 2009 American League Championship Series marked the end of the most successful era in Angels franchise history. From 2002-2009, they made six postseason appearances, which was highlighted by the by team winning the 2002 American League pennant and World Series. Before 2002, they had been to the postseason just three times in franchise history (1979, 1982, and 1986), never winning a postseason series. From 2010-2020, the Angels made the postseason just once (in 2014) and have not been back to an American Championship League Series since 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nThe 2009 American League Division Series (ALDS) consisted of two concurrent best-of-five game series that determined the participating teams in the 2009 American League Championship Series. Three divisional winners and a \"wild card\" team played in the two series. The ALDS began on Wednesday, October 7 and ended on Sunday, October 11. The matchups were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nThe Twins and Detroit Tigers finished the 162-game schedule in a first-place tie atop the American League Central and played a one-game playoff at the Metrodome on Tuesday, October 6 that was won by the Twins, 6\u20135, in 12 innings, giving them the division championship and a postseason berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nThe Yankees, by virtue of finishing with the best record in the American League, were given the choice of playing an eight-day series (with three off-days) or a seven-day series (with two off-days) and opted for the former.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nThis is the third consecutive season\u2014and the fourth since 2004\u2014that the Angels and Red Sox have met in the ALDS. The Red Sox swept the Angels in 2004 and 2007, and defeated the Angels 3\u20131 in 2008. The Twins and Yankees last met in the postseason in the 2004 ALDS, which the Yankees won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nThe Angels and Yankees each swept their respective series in three games. Since the advent of division series play in 1995, this was the first time that the winners of both divisional series swept their opponents (Royals and Orioles swept both of their ALDS series in 2014, defeating the Angels and Tigers respectively). The Yankees went on to defeat the Angels 4\u20132 in the ALCS, and defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4\u20132 to win the 2009 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nGame 3 of the Twins\u2013Yankees series was the final Major League Baseball game at the Metrodome, as the Twins moved into their new home stadium, Target Field, starting with the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series\nTBS carried the tie breaker game and also televised all Division Series games in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1\n6:07\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1\nIn the first postseason game at the new Yankee Stadium, the Yankees rebounded from an early 2\u20130 deficit to take the first game of the series, 7\u20132, behind a strong outing from CC Sabathia and timely hitting by Derek Jeter, Nick Swisher, Alex Rodriguez, and Hideki Matsui. The Twins opened the scoring in the third by stringing together three consecutive two-out hits, including an RBI single by Michael Cuddyer. One batter later, a passed ball by Jorge Posada enabled Joe Mauer to score from third, giving the Twins a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1\nThe Yankees answered in the bottom of the inning when Jeter smashed a two-run home run into the left field seats, and in the fourth, a two-out RBI double off the bat of Swisher put the Yankees in front for the first time of the night. One inning later, Rodriguez broke an 0-for-29 postseason skid with runners on base (dating back to the 2004 ALCS) by lining a two-out single to left center, scoring Jeter from second and knocking Twins starter Brian Duensing out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1\nMatsui then belted a two-run home run into Monument Park off reliever Francisco Liriano, making it 6\u20132 Yankees. Rodriguez added another RBI single in the seventh off of John Rauch with the run charged to Liriano to complete the scoring. Sabathia settled down after the third inning, striking out eight and limiting the Twins to two runs (one earned) and eight hits in 6+2\u20443 innings of work. The Yankees bullpen then combined for 2+1\u20443 innings of scoreless relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\n6:07\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\nLate-game heroics from Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira powered the Yankees past the Twins in Game 2 for a commanding two-games-to-none series lead. The Twins' Nick Blackburn and Yankees' A. J. Burnett pitched five shutout innings each before Delmon Young walked with one out in the top of the sixth, stole second and scored on Brendan Harris's triple, but the Yankees tied the score in the bottom of the inning on Rodriguez's RBI single off of Blackburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\nIn the eighth, Phil Hughes allowed a two-out walk to Carlos Gomez, who moved to third on Harris's single and scored on Nick Punto's single. Mariano Rivera relieved Hughes and allowed an RBI single to Denard Span. With the Yankees trailing 3\u20131 in the bottom of the ninth, Teixeira led off with a single off Twins closer Joe Nathan, and Rodriguez followed with a dramatic game-tying two-run home run into the Yankee bullpen in right center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\nThe Yankees threatened to win the game in the tenth, putting runners on first and third with one out, but Johnny Damon lined out to shortstop Orlando Cabrera and Brett Gardner was doubled off third to end the inning. In the top of the 11th the Twins mounted a threat of their own, beginning with a Joe Mauer base hit later in an at-bat in which he had already been denied a ground-rule double on a blown call by left field umpire Phil Cuzzi, who erroneously called Mauer's drive down the left field line foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0010-0003", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\nReplays showed the ball landed inside the foul line in fair territory. Two subsequent Twins hits moved baserunners up a single base and loaded the bases with nobody out, meaning that Cuzzi's officiating error possibly cost the Twins a run. Yankees reliever David Robertson was able to work out of the jam, bringing the total number of runners left on base by the Twins to 17. That set the stage for Teixeira, who opened the bottom of the frame by lining Jos\u00e9 Mijares' 2\u20131 pitch down the line and just over the left field wall for a walk-off home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2\nTeixeira's home run was the first of his postseason career and the first postseason walk-off home run by a Yankee since Aaron Boone's series-winner in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 3\n7:07\u00a0p.m. (ET) at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 3\nStarters Carl Pavano and Andy Pettitte matched zeroes until the bottom of the sixth, when Joe Mauer singled off Pettitte with two on to put the Twins ahead 1\u20130. The Yankees seized the lead half an inning later on a pair of opposite field solo home runs by Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada. In the eighth, Nick Punto led off with a double off New York's Phil Hughes and Denard Span followed with an infield single, but Punto made a wide turn around third and was thrown out trying to get back to the bag, effectively ending the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 3\nIn the top of the ninth, Ron Mahay, Jon Rauch and Jose Mijares walked three straight batters with one out before consecutive RBI singles by Jorge Posada and Robinson Cano off of Joe Nathan padded the Yankees' lead to 4\u20131. Mariano Rivera recorded the final four outs, earning the save and sending the Yankees on to the American League Championship Series in the Twins' final game at the Metrodome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 1\n9:37\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 1\nGame 1 started off as a pitchers' duel between Los Angeles' John Lackey and Boston's Jon Lester. Each starter gave up four hits; however, one of the hits given up by Lester was a three-run home run by Torii Hunter in the fifth inning that proved to be all the run support Lackey needed. In the seventh, Ramon Ramirez loaded the bases for the Angels on a walk, hit-by-pitch and single with no outs. Takashi Saito in relief allowed a two-out Kendry Morales RBI single that scored Vladimir Guerrero and Juan Rivera. Lackey pitched 7+1\u20443 shutout innings while Darren Oliver pitched 1+2\u20443 shutout innings. This was the first time the Red Sox had been shut out in postseason play since Game 2 of the 1995 ALDS, and the first ever shutout by Angels pitching in the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 2\n9:37\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 2\nThe Red Sox scored their first run of the series when Jacoby Ellsbury tripled to lead off the fourth and scored on Victor Martinez's single. However, they did not score again while the Angels tied the game in the bottom half on Kendrys Morales's sacrifice fly with two on. The Angels broke the tie with three runs in the seventh to hand Josh Beckett his first loss in nine postseason starts since Game 3 of the 2003 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 2\nVladimir Guerrero drew a leadoff walk and pinch runner Howie Kendrick stole second, then Maicer Izturis broke the deadlock with an RBI single and, after Mike Napoli was hit by a pitch, Erick Aybar's two-run triple over center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury's head chased Beckett from the game two batters later. Angels starter Jered Weaver continued in the footsteps of Game 1 starter John Lackey with a masterful performance, striking out seven while limiting the Red Sox offense to one run on two hits and two walks in 7+1\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 3\nThe Angels stunned the Red Sox and the Fenway crowd with two runs in the eighth and three in the ninth, overcoming late-inning deficits of 5\u20132 and 6\u20134 to sweep the series and advance to the American League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 3\nScott Kazmir started for Los Angeles and was largely ineffective, surrendering five runs on five hits and three walks in six innings. The Red Sox struck first in the third when a one-out walk and subsequent single was followed by a two-run double by Dustin Pedroia, who scored on Victor Martinez's single to put them up 3\u20130. After the Angels got on the board in the fifth on Kendrys Morales's home run, J. D. Drew hit a two-run home run in the bottom half that gave Boston what seemed like a comfortable 5\u20131 lead. The Angels chipped away against Boston starter Clay Buchholz in the sixth, putting runners on first and third with none out before Kendrys Morales grounded into a run-scoring 5\u20134\u20133 double play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 3\nRed Sox reliever Billy Wagner worked into a second-and-third, two-out jam in the eighth, prompting manager Terry Francona to summon Jonathan Papelbon from the bullpen for a four-out save. Juan Rivera greeted Papelbon by lining his first pitch to right center for a two-run single, momentarily making it a 5\u20134 game, but Boston added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning off of Kevin Jepsen when David Ortiz singled with two outs and was replaced by pinch runner Joey Gathright, who stole second and scored on Mike Lowell's single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Game 3\nPapelbon retired the first two batters in the top of the ninth, but Erick Aybar kept the inning alive with a two-strike single. After Chone Figgins worked a walk, Bobby Abreu, also down to his final strike, doubled off the Green Monster to score Aybar from second. Torii Hunter then received an intentional walk, loading the bases for Vladimir Guerrero. Guerrero ripped Papelbon's first pitch for a two-run single to center, putting the Angels ahead 7\u20136. Closer Brian Fuentes retired the Red Sox in order in the bottom of the inning for the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201477-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 American League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. Boston, Composite box\n2009 ALDS (3\u20130): Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim over Boston Red Sox", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201478-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 American Society of Cinematographers Awards\nThe 24th American Society of Cinematographers Awards were held on February 27, 2010, honoring the best cinematographers of film and television in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201479-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Combined Events Cup\nThe 2009 Americas Combined Events Cup were held in La Habana, Cuba, at the Estadio Panamericano on May 29\u201330, 2009. A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201479-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Combined Events Cup, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 32 athletes from 7 countries. Cuba entered with two teams (A and B). The announced athlete from \u00a0Chile did not show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201480-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Rugby Championship\nThe 2009 Americas Rugby Championship season was the inaugural season of the Americas Rugby Championship. The season featured a Canadian division with four teams representing provinces or regions of Canada, along with international A sides from the U.S. and Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201480-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Rugby Championship\nThe Canadian Division played a round robin schedule to determine what two teams would play in the Canadian final. The BC Bears went undefeated in round robin play and defeated the Ontario Blues 12\u20138 in the Canadian final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201480-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Rugby Championship\nThe international finalist was decided in a match between the U.S. Select XV and the Argentina Jaguars. The match was won by the Jaguars 57\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201480-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Americas Rugby Championship\nThe ARC Final pitted the BC Bears against the Argentina Jaguars. The Jaguars gave the Bears their only loss of the season in a 35\u201311 decision. The Ontario Blues defeated the U.S. Selects to take 3rd place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nThe 2009 Amstel Gold Race was the 44th edition of the Amstel Gold Race classic cycle race and took place on April 19, 2009. It was held on a 257.4-kilometre (159.9\u00a0mi) course from Maastricht to Cauberg, the Netherlands, as the fifth event of the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the ninth event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series. It was won by Serguei Ivanov, who formed a late breakaway with Robert Gesink and Karsten Kroon with 8\u00a0km to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nThe top three from 2008 event, Damiano Cunego, Fr\u00e4nk Schleck, and Alejandro Valverde, were present but only Cunego finished in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nOver the course of the race, many riders sought to break away from the peloton. While some breakaways lasted for some time, all were eventually retrieved. The final attempt, by Roman Kreuziger, ultimately contributed to the winning move:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nAndy Schleck led the peloton at a steady pace over the Kruisberg while Gasparotto did the same over the famous Eyserbosweg. In the descent Kreuziger sneaked away on his own and he rode up the following climb of the Fromberg on the big ring. Still, he gained no more than 100 metres over a peloton that was reduced to no more than 50 riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nSerguei Ivanov (Katusha), marked by Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas), tried to bridge up towards Kreuziger but the attempt from the Russian fell short since the Italian didn't co-operate in this counter-attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nOn the Keutenberg, the penultimate climb, Simon Gerrans (Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam) caught Kreuziger, followed by Ivanov, Robert Gesink (Rabobank), Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto), Andy Schleck, Michael Albasini (Columbia-Highroad), Christian Pfannberger (Katusha) and Karsten Kroon (Saxo Bank).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nMeanwhile, the likes of Samuel S\u00e1nchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne), Damiano Cunego (Lampre-NGC) and Davide Rebellin (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli) missed this move and were consequently effectively shut out of contesting the finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201481-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Amstel Gold Race\nGesink attacked the leader's group after the climb of the Keutenberg. The Dutchman was joined by Ivanov and Kroon a little later, and while Albasini tried to bridge towards the leaders on his own, it didn't stick. The leading trio was left on its own out front and soon after were the occupants of the podium's three steps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201482-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Amsterdam Tournament\nThe Amsterdam Tournament 2009  was the 11th Amsterdam Tournament, a pre-season football tournament which is contested from club teams from all over Western Europe. The 2009 tournament was contested by Ajax, Sunderland, Benfica, and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. It was won for the first time by Portuguese side Benfica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201482-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Amsterdam Tournament, Table\nNB: An extra point is awarded for each goal scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201483-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Anchorage mayoral election\nThe 2009 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 7 and May 5, 2009, to elect the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Since no candidate reached a 45% plurality needed to win outright, the top-two candidates advanced to a runoff. Fifteen candidates competed, with former State Rep. Eric Croft and former Anchorage Assemblyman Dan Sullivan proceeding to the runoff election, which Sullivan won with 57% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201484-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience\nThe 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the inaugural edition of the Andalucia Tennis Experience, and was an International-level tournament of the 2009 WTA Tour. The event took place at the Club de Tenis Puente Romano in Marbella, Spain, from 6 April until 12 April 2009. Second-seeded Jelena Jankovi\u0107 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201484-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience, Finals, Doubles\nKlaudia Jans /  Alicja Rosolska defeated  Anabel Medina Garrigues /  Virginia Ruano Pascual, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201485-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience \u2013 Doubles\nThe doubles event at the 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience was won by Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201486-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience \u2013 Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 won in the final 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 over Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201487-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andaman Islands earthquake\nThe 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake occurred on August 11 at 19:55 UTC in the Andaman Islands of India. The earthquake magnitude was recorded as 7.5 Mw, and was the strongest in the region since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The epicentre was 260\u00a0km north of Port Blair, and tremors were felt in south-east India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Thailand. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch to India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Thailand, but it was later lifted. No casualties or injuries were reported, although there were complaints about minor damage to buildings. At about the same time, the  2009 Shizuoka earthquake affected south Honsh\u016b in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash\nThe 2009 Andhra Pradesh helicopter crash occurred on 2 September 2009 near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74\u00a0km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. The helicopter was a Bell 430 helicopter owned by the Andhra Pradesh Government, and registered VT-APG. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Accident\nThe Bell 430 helicopter took off from Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad, and soon encountered bad weather. The official accident report states that the aircraft's weather radar was red, meaning that the weather was extreme. The flight crew decided to fly slightly left of their planned route. The pilots soon noticed that the weather was getting worse, and agreed that they would turn left after crossing Krishna River. Begumpet and Shamshabad Air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 9:02 am IST while it was passing through the dense Nallamala Forest area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Accident\nShortly after 09:20 am IST, the flight crew encountered a problem with the transmission oil pressure. The pilots became engaged in finding out emergency checklist procedures for the transmission oil pressure, but were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Accident\nSoon after, the co-pilot continually called out \"go around\", likely indicating that he thought the aircraft would soon crash into something. During the last 14 seconds, the rate of descent was extremely high. Thereafter the helicopter crashed due to loss of control resulting in high rate of descent in down draught. The helicopter impacted the ground in a steep left bank and all occupants on board died due to crash injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Aftermath\nThe state government of Andhra Pradesh and the Government of India launched one of the largest search and rescue operations in the history of the country. The state's security officials mentioned that bad weather was hindering the search and rescue efforts. The Home Ministry of India dispatched 5000 CRPF soldiers for the operation while the Defence Ministry of India ordered the Indian Air Force to comb the area using low altitude planes and the Sukhoi-30MKI equipped with thermal imaging systems. In addition, police personnel from six districts were involved in the ground search.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Aftermath\nAndhra Pradesh's elite anti-Naxal troops, Greyhounds, were also deployed in the area, owing to their extreme familiarity with the jungle terrain of the area. Local tribal residents from this part of the state assisted with the search mission. Patrol parties also combed the Krishna river for the remains of the helicopter. ISRO's RISAT-2 satellite was also deployed to search the area, but the 41 high-resolution images of the area were unable to trace the helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Aftermath\nThe wreckage of the helicopter was finally spotted by an IAF Mi-8 helicopter at 08:20 am IST the following day, less than 24 hours after contact was lost with the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Death of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy\nThe Indian Prime Minister's Office confirmed the helicopter's crash on the morning of 3 September and the death of all aboard, including that of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. The Director General of Police said that the bodies of Reddy and others were charred beyond recognition and had to be identified on the basis of clothing. The autopsy of all the bodies was carried out at Kurnool Medical College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 85], "content_span": [86, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Investigation\nAlthough the sparsely populated forest area is considered to be stronghold of the outlawed Naxal communist insurgents, the National Security Advisor of India ruled out the possibility of the Naxals bringing down the helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201488-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash, Investigation\nThe investigation eventually concluded that the factors that caused that crash included the fact that the crew became fixated for more than six minutes in trying to find the reason behind the problem with their transmission oil pressure system, and they became distracted from the worsening weather. They also noted that the flight crew was flying in Instrument meteorological conditions whereas the flight plan was cleared for VFR flying, and the flight crew never discussed the bad weather, diverting, or returning to base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 66], "content_span": [67, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nThe Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in April 2009, concurrently with the 2009 Indian general election. The elections were held in the state in the first phase (2009-04-16) and the second phase (2009-04-23). The results were declared on 2009-05-16. The incumbent Indian National Congress retained power in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly lower house, though with a reduced majority. The Congress Legislature party re-elected incumbent Chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy as its leader thus re-nominating him to the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nIn the 2004 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, Congress had swept the state, winning 185 of the 294 seats in the Assembly. The Congress' pre-poll alliance partners Left Front and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) also did well, winning 15 and 26 seats respectively, taking the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) tally to 226. As the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was invited to form the Government by Governor S.S. Barnala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nAs expected, the Government lasted the full term of 5 years and the tenure of the Legislative Assembly was due to expire on 30 May 2009. The Election Commission of India (ECI) decided to hold the Assembly elections along with the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC falls under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background\nAfter the 2008 Lok Sabha vote of confidence, the Left Front withdrew support to the Congress in the state as well. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and TRS then joined the Left as part of the national Third Front. In Andhra Pradesh, this alliance called themselves the \"Grand Alliance\" against what they called the \"corrupt Congress\" and \"communal BJP\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background\nHowever, after the elections in Andhra Pradesh were completed, but before the counting of votes, TRS switched allegiance to the NDA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nDespite losing their alliance partner after voting and fighting anti-incumbency in the state, Congress managed to get the majority in the 294-member Assembly with 157 seats. Analysis of the results showed that the split of the anti-Congress votes between the Grand Alliance and actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi's newly formed Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) helped increase the Congress overall seat count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201489-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nThe incumbent Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was sworn in for a second term on 20 May 2009. His council of 35 ministers were sworn in by Governor N.D. Tiwari a few days later on 25 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 26 April 2009, the fourth under the 1993 Constitution. The elections were held at the end of the normal four-year term of the General Council (Consell General, Andorra's parliament), but also following months of intense pressure from Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy to change the country's banking secrecy laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election\nThe Social Democratic Party led by Jaume Bartumeu was the clear winner, with 45.03% of votes for its national list, followed by the \"Reformist Coalition\" led by the Liberal Party of Andorra (32.34%) and the new Andorra for Change party (18.86%). The Social Democrats hold fourteen seats in the General Council, against eleven for the Liberals and three for Andorra for Change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election\nThe electorate, restricted to Andorran citizens, was 20,298 voters out of a population of about 85,000. There were 114 candidates for 28 seats, more than one candidate for every 200 voters. Turnout was 75.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Issues\nThe main issue in the elections is the possible changes required to Andorra's economic model to facilitate its international relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Issues\nOn 11 March 2009, three weeks before the 2009 G-20 London Summit, the Head of Government Albert Pintat made a unilateral declaration in Paris promising to improve the exchange of information (for tax purposes) about non-residents who hold bank accounts in Andorra. He committed the incoming government to drafting changes to the banking secrecy laws by 1 September 2009, which would then be passed by the General Council before 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Issues\nHe also announced that he would not be leading the Liberal Party of Andorra in the elections so as to devote his time to negotiating tax treaties with other countries, starting with France. Such agreements would also abolish the punitive customs duties which France and Spain impose on Andorran exports (33% and 25% respectively). The Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party have agreed to cooperate in the drafting of the new legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Issues\nThe negotiation of tax treaties is complicated by the present tax structure of Andorra. The state is funded mostly by indirect taxation, such as levies on water supplies and telecommunications, and by fees for administrative permits. The Social Democratic Party proposes the introduction of income tax and value added tax, albeit at low rates, whereas the Liberal Party prefers keeping changes to the tax system to a minimum. Andorra for Change rejects any changes whatsoever to the current system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Issues\nA third issue is the relationship Andorra should have with the European Economic Area (EEA): at present, Andorra has a limited set of bilateral agreements with the European Union in the fields of economic, social, and cultural cooperation, signed in June 2004. The Social Democratic Party favours expanding these into a fully fledged association agreement; the Liberal Party is more reticent, but has promised to cooperate in any discussions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Electoral system\nTwenty-eight \"general councillors\" were elected on 26 April 2009, based on party lists (closed list system):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201490-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Andorran parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe parish lists and the national list are independent of one another: the same person cannot appear on both the national list and on a parish list, and voters cast two separate ballots (there is no requirement to vote for the same party for both lists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201491-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola Cup\nThe 2009 Ta\u00e7a de Angola was the 28th edition of the Ta\u00e7a de Angola, the second most important and the top knock-out football club competition in Angola, following the Girabola. Primeiro de Agosto beat Sagrada Esperan\u00e7a 2\u20131 in the final, to secure its 3rd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201491-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola Cup\nThe winner and the runner-up qualified to the CAF Confederation Cup. Sagrada who were supposed to participate as the runner-up, later declined to participate citing financial reasons, being replaced by Acad\u00e9mica do Soyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201492-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola Super Cup\nThe 2009 Superta\u00e7a de Angola (22nd edition) was contested by Petro de Luanda, the 2008 Girabola champion and Santos FC, the 2008 Angola Cup winner. On home court, Santos beat Petro 2\u20130 to secure their 1st title as the away match ended in a 2-1 win for Petro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201492-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola Super Cup, Match details, Second Leg\nSquad: Bebucho, Bu\u00e1, Buanza, Chico Caputo, Chinho, Did\u00ed, Ed\u00fa, Enoque, Fissy, Guilherme, Guto, Jotab\u00e9, Maninho Loide, Manucho Barros, Mauro, Micki, Milex, Miloy, Paz, Rainho, Ribeiro, Rui, Saw\u00fa, Solange, Tchebe, Toyzinho, Tsherry, Zez\u00e3o Head Coach: M\u00e1rio Calado", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods\nThe 2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods was a natural disaster which began in early March 2009 and resulted in the deaths of at least 131 people and otherwise affected around 445,000 people. The floods affected seven regions of Namibia, three provinces of Zambia, two regions of Angola and part of Botswana. The floodwaters damaged buildings and infrastructure and displaced at least 300,000 people. A state of emergency was declared in northern Namibia and there were fears that a disease epidemic would ensue. The Red Cross agencies and governments of the two countries responded to the disaster, and aid was distributed by the World Health Organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Causes\nThe border regions of Angola, Namibia and Zambia are dominated by small rivers which flood regularly during the rainy season from December to April. Floods in 2008 lasted from February to March and affected 250,000 people in Namibia with 42 people losing their lives. The floods this year have primarily been caused by heavy rain; more rain has fallen on the region since December than fell in the entire five-month rainy season of last year. As a result, the flooding this year has been worse than that usually experienced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Causes\nIt has been reported that the floods could be the worst in the area for four decades. The Angolan National Institute of Meteorology has placed the cause of the heavy rain with a large equatorial depression which is expected to remain over the country until April when it will start to move southwards. One report has blamed the continuing heavy rain on the effects of the meteorological phenomenon La Ni\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Angola\nAngola has been affected by floods within two of its provinces: Cuando Cubango and Cunene. The worst affected province has been Cunene, which lies on the Cuvelai River. Within Cunene alone 125,000 people have been affected by the flood and 25,000 have lost their homes. Across the country more than 30,000 people have been made homeless by the floods. There are fears that the floods could exacerbate diseases already present in the area, particularly cholera and malaria. Three cases of cholera have also been reported in Ondjiva, the capital of Cunene region, and local officials expect that number to increase. The Red Cross reports that so far there have been 19 deaths attributable to flooding in Angola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Botswana\nBotswana has been affected by the rising height of the Okavango River has risen to 8.62 m, the second highest depth recorded and the highest since 1969. The Okavango terminates in Botswana at the inland Okavango Delta and the Botswana government has issued an alert to those living alongside the river to move to higher ground. The government has evacuated 63 families amid concerns that flooding will worsen, particularly in the Chobe District. More than 400 people have been displaced as a result of the floods and the Botswana Defence Force is working to help those affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Namibia\nSeven regions of Namibia have been affected by the flood: Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshana, Oshikoto, Zambezi, Kavango and Kunene. The worst affected regions have been Omusati, Ohangwena, Oshana and Oshikoto which lie on the Cuvelai River. In the Zambezi Region floodwaters have reached areas up to 20\u00a0km from where the river normally flows. Up to 300,000 people have been affected by the floods in Namibia which have displaced around 276,000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Namibia\nThe floods have destroyed crops, houses, schools, medical centres and roads in the country whose president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has said could be experiencing one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. Gravel roads have been particularly affected with up to 85% of those in affected areas being damaged and cutting people off from assistance. People and livestock have been washed away and there have been cases of crocodiles and hippopotamuses swimming in the flood water, attacking and killing people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Namibia\nThere was a pre-existing cholera outbreak in the Kunene Region and the floods have worsened this by overwhelming sanitation infrastructure and reducing supplies of clean drinking water. Malaria cases have also increased, with 2,000 known to have contracted the disease of which 25 have died. The Namibian government has stated that 112 people have died so far as a result of flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Namibia\nPresident Pohamba has stated that a food shortage could follow the floods and the United Nations has estimated that crop production in Namibia will fall by 63% in the next year and that up to 500,000 people could be affected by a food shortage. Local food prices have already risen by 37% because of the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Zambia\nZambia has experienced flooding in the Western, North-Western and Southern Provinces. The damage to infrastructure alone totals more than $5 million and one district, Shangombo, remains cut off from outside help completely. The floods have affected 20,000 households and destroyed 5,000 homes in the Southern Province alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Effects, Elsewhere\nAlthough this particular flood event has been worse than previously experienced in Namibia and Angola, there have been lower levels of flooding elsewhere in the region, such as on the Zambezi River, and the rainy season is expected to last just four more weeks. It is expected that the Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe and the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique will protect countries on the lower Zambezi from flooding caused by rainwater in the upper river. The Red Cross is also keeping watch on Severe Tropical Storm Izilda which is heading for Mozambique's east coast and could cause further flooding there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Reactions\nPresident Pohamba has declared a state of emergency across six northern districts, and has requested international assistance. The Namibian state relief fund has been active in the region delivering water, food, tents and other supplies to flooded areas by helicopter and motorboat. However it is hindered by a shortage of both aircraft and boats, and is running out of funding. The Red Cross agencies in both Angola and Namibia have responded to the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Reactions\nThe Angola Red Cross is distributing mosquito nets, water purification tablets and rehydration sachets and the Namibia Red Cross Society has been distributing chlorine tablets and promoting hygiene in the affected areas. The World Health Organization has also responded with the delivery of five tonnes of health care kits and supplies of drinking water. There are fears that the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 may limit the effectiveness of aid agencies who are already over-stretched across Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Reactions\nDisplaced persons camps have been established in Oshana, Oshikoto, Ohangwena and Omusati in Namibia and currently hold around 4,500 people although they are said to be overcrowded and lacking in fresh water and sanitation provision. The World Health Organization has sent several healthcare teams into the area to train emergency personnel and to provide expertise in disease prevention. The floods coincided with a visit to Angola by Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed solidarity with the flood victims and encouraged reconstruction efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201493-0008-0003", "contents": "2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods, Reactions\nThe Namibian national power company, NamPower, has donated food worth N$50,000 to those who have lost their homes in the areas near to Ruacana Hydro-electric Power Station which accounts for 70% of the country's electricity needs. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an appeal for $1.3 million to fund relief operations to assist 20,000 people in Namibia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201494-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Antiguan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 12 March 2009. The result was a victory for the United Progressive Party, which won nine of the seventeen elected seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201494-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Antiguan general election, Conduct\nThree days before the elections the Chamber of Commerce announced observations of voter registration irregularities and called for an investigation into the matter. For example, in the Saint Peter constituency, voter registration increased by 41%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201494-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Antiguan general election, Conduct\nA three-member observation team from Belize, Canada, and Guyana observed the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201494-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Antiguan general election, Aftermath\nOn 31 March 2010, a judge nullified the election of UPP's leader Spencer and two other UPP MPs, calling the UPP's majority into question. However, on 24 October the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court overturned the High Court's decision and decided that the three MPs were duly elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201495-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec\nThe 2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Manerbio, Italy between 24 and 30 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201495-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201495-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201495-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec, Champions, Doubles\nAlessio di Mauro /  Simone Vagnozzi def. Yves Allegro /  Jesse Huta Galung, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201496-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec \u2013 Doubles\nThomas Fabbiano and Boris Pa\u0161anski won the doubles competition in 2008. Fabbiano teamed up with Matteo Marrai, but they were eliminated by Philipp Marx and Rogier Wassen already in the first round. Alessio di Mauro and Simone Vagnozzi won in the final 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20134], against Yves Allegro and Jesse Huta Galung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201497-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Antonio Savoldi\u2013Marco C\u00f2 \u2013 Trofeo Dimmidis\u00ec \u2013 Singles\nVictor Crivoi didn't try to defend his 2008 title. Qualifier Federico del Bonis became the new champion, after defeating another qualifier Leonardo Tavares 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201498-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Anugerah Bintang Popular\n2009 Bintang Popular Berita Harian Awards (2009 Most Popular Artiste Berita Harian Awards) was held on April 4, 2010 on Arena of Stars, Genting Highlands as an appreciation for artists and most entertaining artists in 2009. The show was broadcast live by TV3. The winner of Most Popular Artiste, Dato\u2019 Siti Nurhaliza defeated Mawi that had won three times in row before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201499-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Anzac Test\nThe 2009 ANZAC test, was a rugby league test match played between Australia and New Zealand at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on 8 May 2009. It was the 10th Anzac test played between the two nations since the first was played under the Super League banner in 1997. This was the fourth Anzac Test played in Brisbane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201499-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Anzac Test\nThis was the 112th test between Australia and New Zealand since 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201500-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team\nThe 2009 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was the 80th season of play for the Mountaineers. The team was led by Jerry Moore, the 2006 Eddie Robinson Award winner for Coach of the Year. Moore is in his 21st season as head coach. The Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201501-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Arab Athletics Championships was the sixteenth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries which took place in Damascus, Syria from 6\u20139 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture\nAl-Quds Arab Capital of Culture (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0639\u0627\u0635\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0642\u0627\u0641\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\u200e) was the name given to Arab Capital of Culture programme in 2009. The programme, organised by UNESCO and the Arab League, is designed to promote Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab world. The 2009 event was the 14th programme since its establishment in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture\nAl-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem, the proclaimed capital of the State of Palestine, although the seat of government and de facto capital is Ramallah. Many of the events were held in the Palestinian territories controlled by the Palestinian National Authority. The opening event scheduled for January 2009 was delayed due to the Gaza War. It was held on March 21, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture, Launching of the events\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas officially launched the celebration of Jerusalem as the Capital of Arab Culture for 2009 at a ceremony in Bethlehem. Simultaneous ceremonies were supposed to take place in Jerusalem, Gaza, Nazareth and Mar Elias refugee camp in Lebanon. These synchronized celebrations in five locations reflect the desire of building a cultural bridge between the Palestinian people in Palestine and the Palestinians in the diaspora. Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter instructed police to suppress PNA-sponsored events calling Jerusalem the \"capital of Arab culture\" because they constituted a violation of the interim agreement, which includes a clause stating that the PA is prohibited from organizing events in Israeli territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture, Launching of the events\nOn Dichter's orders, police shuttered eight planned events and detained twenty organizers and participants for questioning. The blocked events included a soccer match scheduled at a school on Nablus Road, a conference for young women at the Al-Hiya'la Center, and marches in the Wadi al-Joz and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods. In addition, a group of Arab students was blocked from rallying at the Temple Mount with PLO flags. A similar ceremony was blocked on the Haroun al-Rashid road. Events in Ras al-Amud and al-Tur were also shut down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture, In the Gaza Strip\nSpokesperson of the Ministry of the Interior Ihab al-Ghussein said that the celebrations for Al-Quds Arab Capital of Culture in March at the headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza. Abbas accused Hamas of blocking celebrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201502-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Capital of Culture, In Denmark\nEvents took place on September 26 and 27 in Denmark. This celebration, the only one outside the Arab world, included more than 40 Palestinian artists, among them the hip hop group Ramallah Underground, the folklore dance troupe El Funoun, the Oriental Music Ensemble, visual artist Rana Bishara, and film director Larissa Sansour who presented her film A Space Exodus (reviewed by Professor Helga Tawil Souri). They were also joint cultural productions produced with prominent Danish artists, as well as a bazaar showcasing cultural products and Palestinian cuisine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201503-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Champions League Final\nThe 2009 Arab Champions League Final was a football match which was played on Saturday, 21  May 2009. It was the 6th final of the Arab Champions League. the final play as home and away matches, and it was contested between Esp\u00e9rance of Tunisia and Wydad Casablanca of Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201503-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Champions League Final, Match details\nThe 2009 Arab Champions League Final will be play home and away matches on 9 May at  Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca, Morocco, on 21  May   at Stade 7 November, Rad\u00e8s, Tunisia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201504-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Cup\nThe Arab Cup 2009 was planned to be the ninth staging of the Arab Cup, an association football tournament held between Arab countries by UAFA. The first stage of qualifying began in December 2006, but no further rounds were played and the tournament was cancelled because of no sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201504-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Cup, Qualifications\nThe first qualifying stage contained eight teams which had lower FIFA ranking. The eight teams were divided into two groups. Each group contained four teams and the group winners qualified for the second qualifying stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201504-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Cup, Qualifications\nThe second qualifying stage contained 16 seats; 14 teams which had a higher FIFA ranking get byes from the first qualifying round and were entered into the second qualifying round, and two teams from the first qualifying stage got the last two seats. 16 teams were divided into four groups, four teams in each group and the group winners and runners-up qualified for the Arab Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201505-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab League summit\nThe 2009 Arab League summit was held in Doha, Qatar on March 30, 2009. The Arab League defied the International Criminal Court by giving a \"warm welcome\" to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whom the Court placed a warrant on for war crimes in the Darfur genocide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201505-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab League summit, Reactions\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak boycotted the summit amid differences with Qatar stemming from the 2008\u20132009 Israel\u2013Gaza conflict. Other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia were also hesitant to come to the summit if Iran or Hamas were in attendance (neither of the parties came while the Saudis did).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201505-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab League summit, Incidents\nAfter Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani speech, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia a liar, accusing him of \"bringing the Americans to occupy Iraq\" and of being \"made by Britain and protected by the US. \", while stating: \"I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level\". He then invited the King to visit him to solve the issues between the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201506-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Arab Youth Athletics Championships was the third edition of the international athletics competition for under-18 athletes from Arab countries. Organised by the Arab Athletic Federation, it took place in the Syrian city of Aleppo from 22 to 24 July. A total of thirty-eight events were contested, of which 20 by male and 18 by female athletes. The difference was accounted for by the lack of steeplechase and pole vault events for girls (the latter being dropped from the tournament due to a lack of entries).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201506-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Athletics Championships\nAs in 2007, Morocco and Bahrain \u2013 typically strong in the sport regionally \u2013 did not participate. Egypt topped the table for a second time running, winning eight gold medals in its haul of thirteen. Sudan had the next highest number of event winners, with seven. Algeria had the highest overall medal count, at 22 medals (four gold), and were followed by this ranking by the host nation, which took 20 medals (five gold). Tunisia also performed well, with five gold medals and a total of ten. Thirteen of the five nations present at the competition reached medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201506-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Athletics Championships\nA total of eleven championship records were broken at the competition. Awad El Karim Makki of Sudan set new records in both the boys' 200 metres and 400 metres events \u2013 defending the two titles he had won in 2007. Syria's Hamid Mansour also achieved a title defence and new record, doing so in the boys' discus throw, and managed to create a double by winning the shot put as well. Three girls managed individual doubles: Abir Barkaoui of Tunisia won the 200\u00a0m and 400\u00a0m, while Egypt's Fadia Saad Ibrahim and Rana Ahmed Taha swept the throws, taking the shot put/discus and javelin throw/hammer throw, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201506-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Athletics Championships\nMakki of Sudan went on to win a medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, being the only 2009 Arab medallist to do so. Qatar's Mohammed Al-Garni later reached the 1500\u00a0m podium at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Egyptians Rana Ahmed Taha and Wedian Moktar Abdelhamid claimed senior titles at the 2011 Arab Athletics Championships while their compatriot Fadia Saad Ibrahim became a senior Arab gold medallist in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201507-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Arab Youth Volleyball Championship was the tenth edition of the Arab Youth Volleyball Championship. It was held in Ghazir Hall, Beirut, Lebanon from 24 July to 1 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201507-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arab Youth Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nBahrain\u00a0Lebanon (Host)\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0United Arab Emirates\u00a0Iraq\u00a0Kuwait", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201508-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arbil governorate election\nGovernorate or provincial elections are due to be held in Arbil Governorate in 2009 to replace the governorate council elected in the Iraqi governorate elections of 2005. The remaining governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan held elections on 31 January 2009. The election will follow the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup\nThe 2009 Archery World Cup was the fourth edition of the Archery World Cup, organised by the World Archery Federation. The first three hosts of the qualification legs remained the same as in 2008, with the first leg was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the second leg in Porec, Croatia, the third at Antalya Centennial Archery Field in Antalya, Turkey. The final leg was held in Shanghai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup\nThe best individual and mixed performers in each discipline over the three legs then joined host representatives in qualifying for the World Cup Finals, which were contested on in Copenhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup\nThis was the first edition of the world cup where the mixed team events were contested at the final, with the top ranked mixed teams competing against a host country team in a one match final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring\nThe compound legs consisted of a 50m qualification round of 72 arrows, followed by the compound round at 50m on a 6-zone target face, using cumulative scoring for all individual, team and mixed competitions. The top four individual performers (with no more than two from each country) proceeded to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring\nThe recurve legs consisted of a FITA qualification round, followed by a 72m Olympic set system . The top seven individual performers (with no more than two from each country), plus one host nation representative if not already qualified, proceeded to the finals; the top mixed team performer proceeded to face the host nation at the finals, which were the same competition format as the legs. The team competition was not competed at the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201509-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Archery World Cup, Competition rules and scoring\nCompetitors' top three scores go towards qualification. The scores awarded in the legs were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Argentina for half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third (24) of the seats in the Senate on 28 June 2009, as well as for the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires and other municipalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nThe elections were due to have been held on 25 October 2009. In March 2009, the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, moved to bring forward the date of elections to the Buenos Aires City Legislature to June 28, saying that it would increase transparency and democratic quality. Opposition figures criticised the decision, suggesting Macri was attempting to consolidate his power in the city, and building the career of his deputy, Gabriela Michetti, expected to head the list for Macri's coalition in the election. Similar changes to the election date had been introduced in the provinces of Santa Fe and Catamarca (March 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nDespite the criticism by politicians from Government ranks that Macri had abused the process by unilaterally changing the election date, President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner announced that she too would be introducing legislation to move the date of national elections forward by four months, to June 28. Despite great debate and the defections of some Peronist legislators, the proposal passed its Congressional stages quickly and the date was successfully changed. The Government claimed it would allow politicians to leave behind campaigning priorities and focus on tackling the ongoing local effect of the international financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nEqually controversial was a decision by Front for Victory leader N\u00e9stor Kirchner (the current President's husband and predecessor) to advance stand-in candidates - prominent local lawmakers (notably Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli, as well as 15 Greater Buenos Aires-area mayors) who, after the election, would be likely to cede their new seats to down-ticket names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nThe elections resulted in a setback for the governing, center-left Front for Victory and its allies, which lost their absolute majorities in both houses of Congress. Former President N\u00e9stor Kirchner stood as head of his party list in the important Buenos Aires Province. Kirchner's list was defeated, however, by the center-right Republican Proposal (PRO) list headed by businessman Francisco de Narv\u00e1ez; the loss in Buenos Aires Province, though narrow, is significant as the province has been considered a Peronist stronghold and had helped maintain Kirchnerism as the dominant force in Argentine politics since 2003. Buenos Aires Vice Mayor Gabriela Michetti stood as head of the PRO list for the Lower House, and defeated four other prominent parties; the evening's surprise in Buenos Aires, however, was that of filmmaker Fernando Solanas' left-wing Proyecto Sur, which obtained second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 945]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nThe Kirchners' leading opposition on the center-left, the Civic Coalition, also made significant gains \u2013 particularly in the Senate, where they gained 7 seats. The Front for Victory had already lost 16 Lower House members and 4 Senators on the heels of the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector over a proposed rise in export tariffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201510-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Argentine legislative election, Background\nThe crisis was defused by Vice President Julio Cobos' surprise, tie-breaking vote against them on July 16, 2008; but fallout from the controversy led to the President's distancing from Cobos (who successfully supported his own party list in his native Mendoza Province), a sharp drop in presidential approval ratings, and the aforementioned congressional defections. One especially successful ex-Kirchnerist was Santa Fe Province Senator Carlos Reutemann, who after the agrarian conflict formed Santa Fe Federal. His new party narrowly bested local Socialist Party leader Rub\u00e9n Giustiniani, who would garner one of Santa Fe's three Senate seats. The Front for Victory retained a plurality in both houses, however (they will, with two allies, be one seat short of an absolute majority in the Senate).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season\nThe 2009 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 90th in the National Football League, their 22nd in Arizona and their third under head coach Ken Whisenhunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season\nThe Cardinals finished the season with a 10\u20136 record, an improvement from their 9\u20137 previous season record and the first time the team has won 10 games since 1976. The franchise was able to successfully defend the National Football Conference (NFC) West division title and earned a playoff berth in the NFC Wild Card round against the Green Bay Packers, which they won in overtime by 51\u201345, the highest scoring game for two teams combined in a playoff game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season\nThe following week on January 17, 2010, the Cardinals were blown out by the eventual Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the NFC divisional round. This game would be the final game of quarterback Kurt Warner's career, and this was the only playoff game in thirteen total appearances in which he failed to throw a touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season\nThe 2009 season was the team's first to secure back-to-back postseason appearances since its move to Arizona, and the first time the team did so since 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, 2009 NFL Draft\nAs NFC champion and having lost Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals had the second-to-last pick in the first round (31st overall).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nWith their NFC title on the line, the Cardinals began their season at home in a Week 1 divisional duel with their NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Arizona trailed early as Niners kicker Joe Nedney got a 37-yard and a 50-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Cardinals got on the board as kicker Neil Rackers made a 44-yard field goal. San Francisco answered with running back Frank Gore getting a 6-yard touchdown run, while Arizona closed out the half with Rackers kicking a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Cardinals would tie the game in the third quarter as quarterback Kurt Warner completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. In the fourth quarter, Arizona took the lead as Rackers nailed a 43-yard field goal. However, the 49ers regained their lead as quarterback Shaun Hill completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to Gore. San Francisco's defense would then prevent the Cards' offense from rallying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nWith the loss, the Cardinals began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the 49ers, the Cardinals traveled to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for a Week 2 interconference duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Cardinals scored on their first drive with a 1-yard run by running back Tim Hightower. The Jaguars also scored on their first possession with a 30-yard field goal from kicker Josh Scobee. Arizona then answered with a 45-yard field goal by kicker Neil Rackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nIn the second quarter, trailing 10\u20133, the Jaguars lined up for another Scobee field goal only to have it blocked by backup defensive end Calais Campbell and returned by free safety Antrel Rolle for an 83-yard touchdown. The Cardinals would extend their lead by halftime as quarterback Kurt Warner completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to running back Jason Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nWarner would find wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald in the third quarter for a 22-yard touchdown pass that increased the Cardinal lead to 28. Jacksonville would attempt to mount a comeback with quarterback David Garrard completing a 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis in the third quarter and a 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mike Sims-Walker in the fourth quarter, but Arizona held on for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nWarner's performance (24/26, 243 yards, 2 TDs) would become the new NFL record for a single-game completion percentage (92.3%), snapping Vinny Testaverde's old record set in 1993 (91.3%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nComing off their Week 2 road win over the Jaguars, the Cardinals went home for a Week 3 Sunday night interconference duel with the Indianapolis Colts. Arizona took flight in the first quarter with kicker Neil Rackers' 38-yard field goal. However, the Colts took a monster lead in the second quarter as quarterback Peyton Manning completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne, a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark, and a 53-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Pierre Gar\u00e7on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Cardinals tried to fight back in the third quarter as quarterback Kurt Warner hooked up with wide receiver Anquan Boldin on a 10-yard touchdown pass, but Indianapolis replied with Manning's 3-yard touchdown pass to running back Joseph Addai. Afterwards, the Colts closed out the game in the fourth quarter with kicker Adam Vinatieri's 26-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nWith the loss, Arizona entered its bye week at 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Houston Texans\nComing off their bye week, the Cardinals stayed at home for a Week 5 interconference duel with the Houston Texans. Arizona would get off to a very fast start as running back Tim Hightower got a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, followed by quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 9-yard and a 26-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald in the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Houston Texans\nHowever, the Texans gained steam in the third quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Brown. Afterwards, Houston would tie the game in the fourth quarter with quarterback Matt Schaub completing an 11-yard and a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Johnson. However, the Cardinals went back to work with two crucial defensive moments. First, cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie would return an interception 49 yards for a touchdown. Second, even when the Texans' offense got down to Arizona's 1-yard line on a 1st down play inside of the two-minute warning, the defense withstood three tries and held on for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their home win over the Texans, the Cardinals flew to Qwest Field for a Week 6 NFC West duel with the Seattle Seahawks. Arizona took flight in the first quarter with quarterback Kurt Warner hooking up with wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on a 2-yard touchdown pass, followed by a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Tim Hightower. In the second quarter, the Cardinals would add onto their lead as kicker Neil Rackers made a 29-yard field goal. The Seahawks would then get their only score of the game as kicker Olindo Mare got a 28-yard field goal. In the second half, Arizona pulled away with Warner completing a 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Breaston in the third quarter and Rackers booting a 31-yard field goal in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 7: at New York Giants\nComing off their road win over the Seahawks, the Cardinals flew to Giants Stadium for a Week 7 Sunday night duel with the New York Giants. After a scoreless first quarter, Arizona would trail in the second quarter as Giants running back Brandon Jacobs got a 4-yard touchdown run. The Cardinals would answer with rookie running back Chris \"Beanie\" Wells, but New York came right back with quarterback Eli Manning completing a 62-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hakeem Nicks. Arizona would end the half with kicker Neil Rackers nailing a 30-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 7: at New York Giants\nThe Cardinals would take the lead in the third quarter with running back Tim Hightower's 1-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to running back Jason Wright. The Giants tried to come back in the fourth quarter as kicker Lawrence Tynes booted a 20-yard field goal, yet safety Antrel Rolle's final interception of the game sealed the deal for Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Carolina Panthers\nComing off their impressive road win over the Giants, the Cardinals went home for a Week 8 duel with the Carolina Panthers in a rematch of last year's divisional game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Carolina Panthers\nIn the first quarter, Arizona trailed early as Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart got a 6-yard touchdown run. The Cardinals would respond as quarterback Kurt Warner completed a 14-yard touchdown pass to rookie running back LaRod Stephens-Howling. However, Carolina unleashed its fury in the second quarter with Stewart's 10-yard touchdown run, quarterback Jake Delhomme's 50-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith, and defensive end Julius Peppers returning an interception 13 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Cardinals would begin their rally in the third quarter as Warner connected with tight end Ben Patrick on a 1-yard touchdown pass, but the Panthers would answer in the fourth quarter as kicker John Kasay booted a 35-yard field goal. Arizona tried to come back as running back Tim Hightower got a 1-yard touchdown run, but Carolina would seal the win as Kasay nailed a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Chicago Bears\nHoping to rebound from their home loss to the Panthers, the Cardinals flew to Soldier Field for a Week 9 duel with the Chicago Bears. Arizona would deliver the opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Kurt Warner completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. The Bears would respond with quarterback Jay Cutler hooking up with tight end Greg Olsen on a 33-yard touchdown pass, yet the Cardinals would answer with Warner finding tight end Ben Patrick on a 6-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, Arizona would unleash a firestorm as Warner found Fitzgerald again on a 17-yard touchdown pass, followed by tight end Anthony Becht on a 15-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, the Cardinals would close out the half with a 43-yard field goal by kicker Neil Rackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Chicago Bears\nIn the third quarter, Arizona would get the period's only points as Rackers booted a 30-yard field goal. Chicago would begin to rally in the fourth quarter as Cutler found Olsen again on a 3-yard and a 20-yard touchdown, yet the Cards closed out the game with Warner hooking up with wide receiver Steve Breaston on a 4-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their dominating road win over the Bears, the Cardinals went home for a Week 10 NFC West rematch with the Seattle Seahawks. Arizona would trail in the first quarter as Seahawks running back Justin Forsett got a 20-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, Seattle would increase their lead as quarterback Matt Hasselbeck found tight end John Carlson on a 31-yard touchdown pass. The Cardinals would get on the board with quarterback Kurt Warner's 28-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Breaston, but the Seahawks answered with kicker Olindo Mare getting a 32-yad field goal. Arizona would end the half with a 27-yard field goal from kicker Neil Rackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nThe Cardinals would tie the game in the third quarter with a 10-yard touchdown run from rookie running back Chris \"Beanie\" Wells. Seattle tried to take control in the fourth quarter with Mare booting a 20-yard field goal, yet Arizona came out on top as Wells picked up a 13-yard touchdown run and Warner connected with wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on an 18-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 11: at St. Louis Rams\nLooking to improve to 5\u20130 on the road, the Cardinals went to their former home for a Week 11 duel against divisional rival St. Louis Rams. The Rams would score first, on a Josh Brown field goal following a fumble by Chris \"Beanie\" Wells. However, the Cardinals would score the next 21 points, as Kurt Warner connected with Anquan Boldin for a touchdown at the end of the first quarter, followed by a Warner to Larry Fitzgerald touchdown and a Beanie Wells rushing touchdown in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 11: at St. Louis Rams\nDuring the second touchdown drive of the second quarter, Warner was hit hard by St. Louis safety O.J. Atogwe, with his head hitting the turf as he went down. Warner played the remaining six plays of the drive, but was replaced for the remainder of the game by backup quarterback Matt Leinart. Leinart struggled with a more conservative game throughout the second half, and the Cardinals did not score for the remainder of the game. St. Louis attempted to rally; however, they were only able to muster a second Josh Brown field goal and a Steven Jackson touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 11: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, the Cardinals improved to 7\u20133; however, Warner's status remained questionable for the next week's game against the Tennessee Titans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Tennessee Titans\nWith Kurt Warner on the sidelines due to injury, and in the tenth season since he won Super Bowl XXXIV over the Titans, the Cardinals fell to a game-winning rally led by quarterback Vince Young as he raced the Titans 99 yards down field over the final 2:37, converted two fourth downs, and fired the winning ten-yard touchdown on the final play to Kenny Britt. The win made the Titans the first team to win five straight after starting 0\u20136 as they improved to 5\u20136 while the Cardinals fell to 7\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWeek 13 saw the return of star quarterback Kurt Warner to the line-up. The Cardinals took off in the first half building a 24\u201310 lead. Warner played exceptionally well, throwing for three first half touchdowns on his way to a 285-yard effort. The defense stifled Favre and the Vikings and held Adrian Peterson to a season-low 19 yards. The Warner led offense propelled the Cards to a stunningly one-sided 30\u201317 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. St. Louis Rams\nWith this win, The Cardinals got their 10th win of the season. The last time the Cardinals had double digit wins in a season was in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. Green Bay Packers\nWith the Vikings win earlier in the day, this game was rendered unimportant. The Cardinals pulled Kurt Warner along with other starters early in the 2nd quarter while the Packers continued to play their starters until the 4th quarter. Late in the 4th quarter, quarterback Brian St. Pierre threw his first career touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nEntering the postseason as the NFC's #4 seed, the Cardinals began their playoff run at home in the NFC Wild Card game against the #5 Green Bay Packers, looking to avenge their Week 17 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nArizona would take advantage of some Packer turnovers early in the first quarter by turning them into a 1-yard touchdown run for running back Tim Hightower and quarterback Kurt Warner's 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Early Doucet. The Cardinals would also add a 23-yard field goal from kicker Neil Rackers. Green Bay would reply in the second quarter with quarterback Aaron Rodgers getting a 1-yard touchdown run, yet Arizona went right back to work as Warner found Doucet again on a 15-yard touchdown pass. The Packers would end the half with a 20-yard field goal from kicker Mason Crosby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nIn the third quarter, the Cardinals went back to work as Warner found wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on a 33-yard touchdown pass, but Green Bay would answer with Rodgers completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Jennings followed by a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jordy Nelson. Arizona continued to show off its offense firepower as Warner hooked up with Fitzgerald again on an 11-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Packers would tie the game in the fourth quarter as Rodgers would complete a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver James Jones, followed by fullback John Kuhn's 1-yard touchdown run. The Cardinals' offense continued to flex its muscles as Warner found wide receiver Steve Breaston on a 17-yard touchdown pass. Just then, Green Bay would tie the game again as Rodgers would complete an 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Spencer Havner. The Cardinals drove down field in the final minutes, but a 34-yard field goal try by Neil Rackers with nine seconds remaining sailed wide left, forcing overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nArizona's defense would rise to the occasion in overtime as linebacker Karlos Dansby recovered a fumble and ran it back 17 yards for the game-winning touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nWith the win, the Cardinals improved to overall record to 11\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Wild Card: vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe 96 combined points between both teams would become the highest point total in an NFL postseason game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Divisional Round: at New Orleans Saints\nComing off their shootout win over the Packers, the Cardinals flew to the Louisiana Superdome for the NFC Divisional Round against the top-seeded New Orleans Saints. On their very first offensive play of the game, Arizona came out fast as running back Tim Hightower got a 70-yard touchdown run. The Saints would hugely respond with running back Lynell Hamilton getting a 1-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Drew Brees completing a 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jeremy Shockey, along with running back Reggie Bush getting a 54-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, the Cardinals would come right back as rookie running back Chris \"Beanie\" Wells got a 4-yard touchdown run. However, New Orleans came right back as Brees threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devery Henderson and a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marques Colston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 95], "content_span": [96, 961]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Divisional Round: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints would add onto their lead in the third quarter with a 43-yard field goal from kicker Garrett Hartley, followed by an 83-yard punt return for a touchdown by Bush. Arizona tried to rally, but New Orleans' defense continued to shut down any possible comeback, effectively sealing a Cardinals blowout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 95], "content_span": [96, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201511-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Cardinals season, Post season results, NFC Divisional Round: at New Orleans Saints\nWith the loss, the Cardinals' season ended with an overall record of 11\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 95], "content_span": [96, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201512-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Diamondbacks season\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks' 2009 season is the franchise's 12th season in Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201512-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Diamondbacks season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201512-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Diamondbacks season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201513-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona State Sun Devils football team\nThe 2009  Arizona State Sun Devils football team  represented Arizona State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Sun Devils were coached by third-year coach Dennis Erickson and played their home games at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The Sun Devils finished the season 4\u20138 (2\u20137 Pac-10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201513-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries, Idaho State\nJunior placekicker Thomas Weber ties school record for 5 made field goals in a game and Senior Linebacker Mike Nixon earned Pac-10 Conference Defensive Player of Week for his 3 interceptions one of which returned for a touchdown and blocked punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201513-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWith the appearance the game would be heading into overtime, ASU quarterback Danny Sullivan threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to receiver Chris McGaha in the last five seconds of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201513-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries, California\nBoth teams were 2-2 in the conference. The Bears fumbled in their first possession, but scored in the second possession on a Kevin Riley pass to Jahvid Best for 11 yards for a touchdown. Another touchdown pass, from Riley to Marvin Jones, gave Cal a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. For the Sun Devils, Samson Szakacsy completed a pass to Jovon Williams (3 yards) and Danny Sullivan passed to Kyle Williams (80 yards) for touchdowns to tie the game in the second quarter. Then Giorgio Tavecchio kicked a 25-yard field goal for Cal before the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201513-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries, California\nIn the third quarter, Giorgio Tavecchio kicked a 51-yard field goal to increase Cal's lead to 6. But Arizona State answered in the fourth quarter with a Cameron Marshall rush touchdown for 6 yards. Giorgio Tavecchio missed a 39-yard field goal with 5:46 left in the game, but kicked a 24-yard field goal to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Wildcats, led by sixth-year head coach Mike Stoops, played their home games at Arizona Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team\nArizona hosted Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference to begin the season on September 5, 2009 (with a 19\u20136 win), and ended the regular season with a 21\u201317 win over perennial conference power, then-ranked #20 Southern California on December 5, 2009; this was the first victory over USC by the Wildcats in the Mike Stoops era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team\nIn addition to the slate of nine conference games, four at home and five on the road, the Wildcats traveled to Iowa City, Iowa and lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten (who eventually finished with a #10 AP Poll ranking and an invitation to the Orange Bowl), and hosted in-state sister school Northern Arizona of the Big Sky Conference the preceding week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team\nAfter posting an 8\u20134 regular season record (6\u20133 in the Pac-10, good for a second-place tie in the conference with Oregon State and Stanford), the Wildcats were invited to appear in the 2009 Holiday Bowl in San Diego, the second consecutive postseason bowl game for the Arizona football program under Stoops. The Wildcats were shut out 33\u20130 by Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe Wildcats finished the regular season with an Associated Press poll ranking of #22, their first national ranking since the 2000 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nThe Wildcats\u2019 season began following a 43-minute lightning delay, the second straight year the Arizona season opener was delayed by lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nCentral Michigan was flagged for a false start on its first play from scrimmage. After a short completion and a trap-play run, CMU quarterback Dan LeFevour was intercepted by LB Vuni Tuihamalaka at the Chippewas\u2019 31, but the Wildcats, on their third play from scrimmage (in the person of WR Bug Wright) coughed up the ball at CMU's 16. The UA forced Central Michigan to go three-and-out on its second drive, then drove to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nThe 'Cats forced a second turnover just before the end of the quarter. Linebacker C.J. Parish drilled CMU's Antonio Brown on a punt return, forcing the ball loose. UA longsnapper Jason Bertoni, who started his career at Central Michigan (before leaving the Chippewa program in 2007 for personal reasons), recovered at CMU's 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nThe Wildcats gained seven yards on three plays, setting up a 37-yard Alex Zendejas field goal. Zendejas hit a total of four field goals in his first college start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nArizona's first touchdown of the season came midway through the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nFreshman QB Matt Scott led the Wildcats on a nine-play, 63-yard drive. RB Nic Grigsby capped it with a three-yard run up the middle. Zendejas\u2019 PAT made it a 13-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nCentral Michigan was hampered by the quickness of the Arizona defense and didn\u2019t score until there were 12 minutes 21 seconds remaining in the game; even then, the team failed to convert on a two-point conversion that would have made it a one-possession game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan\nScott completed 10 of 17 first-half passes for 110 yards. Sophomore QB Nick Foles did not play a snap in the entire game. TE Rob Gronkowski, a key offensive weapon for Arizona in 2008 and speculated to be a future top NFL draft pick, did not play in the opener because of a back injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nThe Wildcats were effective, if not totally crisp, in a 34\u201317 win over in-state rival Northern Arizona (NAU), a FCS (formerly Division I-AA) member of the Big Sky Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nJunior RB Nicolas Grigsby rushed for two touchdowns; Grigsby's two scores \u2014 a 25-yard run and a 30-yard run \u2014 helped pace the Wildcats through a sometimes-choppy first half in front of 50,623 at Arizona Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nHe was key to the Wildcats' final drive of the second quarter, an 18-play, 99-yard march. WR Terrell Turner gave the Wildcats a 21\u201310 lead with a 2-yard touchdown catch from starting QB Matt Scott, a play after WR Delashaun Dean hauled in a 23-yard grab. Dean was drilled by two NAU players at the end of the play, and had to be helped off the field. Scott then found Turner on a short pass to pad the Wildcats' lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nArizona added two scores in the second half to put the Lumberjacks away. Sophomore RB Keola Antolin punched in a 1-yard score on the first play following Grigsby's 94-yard run to give the Wildcats a 27\u201310 lead with 10 minutes left in the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nBackup quarterback Nick Foles hit Juron Criner for a 5-yard touchdown pass on the second play of the fourth quarter to make it 34\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nThe Wildcats began emptying their bench midway through the third quarter. Foles entered the game with 7:15 remaining in the quarter, and drove the team about 40 yards before fumbling a snap and turning the ball over. CB Trevin Wade's second interception of the third quarter gave Arizona the ball back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Northern Arizona\nArizona has not lost to NAU since 1937. All three of Arizona's state universities (Arizona, NAU and Arizona State) are obligated under state law to play one another in athletic contests each year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nThe Hawkeyes scored on the opening drive, with a 2-yard touchdown run by Adam Robinson. But Arizona tied the score at 7 after Trevin Wade returned a Ricky Stanzi interception 38 yards into the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nQB Matt Scott missed a handful of open receivers in the third quarter, and \u2014 on a play that could have changed the momentum of the game \u2014 WR Delashaun Dean dropped what would have been a 50-yard gain. Dean appeared to trap the ball between his leg and the ground; a video replay rule confirmed that it was an incomplete pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nIowa's defense would again prove to be the difference-maker in this game, not allowing a touchdown until 1:53 was remaining in the game, with the Hawkeyes well ahead. Iowa safety Tyler Sash, with a grab of a Matt Scott pass intended for Terrell Turner, also netted his seventh interception in five games (dating back to last year).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nNick Foles came in at QB in the fourth quarter and went 6 for 11 with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Juron Criner, but, as noted above, the damage was already done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nThe loss dropped Arizona to 0\u20137 against Big Ten teams in the last decade; the Wildcats\u2019 last nonconference road win of any kind came in 2001, when John Mackovic's Wildcats defeated San Diego State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nRunning behind a third-string tailback and second-team left tackle, right guard and wide receiver (as well as a new starting QB, sophomore Nick Foles, the transfer from Michigan State) the Wildcats defeated Oregon State 35\u201332 at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, in the Pac-10 opener for Arizona. The Wildcats started the game without a half-dozen starters, including tight end Rob Gronkowski (who would end up being out the rest of the 2009 season due to back surgery). Tailbacks Nicolas Grigsby and Keola Antolin were out of the game by halftime with shoulder and leg injuries, respectively (Grigsby would not fully recover until the end of the season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThat left the Wildcats with third-stringer Greg Nwoko at running back. The redshirt freshman from the Austin, Texas area delivered: His 52-yard catch-and-run on a screen pass set Arizona up for its second touchdown of the quarter, a 3-yard pass from quarterback Nick Foles to receiver Juron Criner. Nwoko rushed nine times for 44 yards and a touchdown in the first extended action of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nArizona took the lead early in the third quarter, when Foles \u2014 making his first college start \u2014 dove in on a sneak from the 1-yard line. Foles led his team on a 15-play, 71-yard scoring drive in the first quarter, connecting with WR Delashaun Dean for a 2-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThe Beavers scored their first touchdown with 2 minutes remaining in the quarter, when Damola Adeniji caught a tipped pass from QB Sean Canfield for an 11-yard score. James Rodgers gave OSU a 14\u20137 lead with a 2-yard run midway through the second quarter. Arizona tied the game on Nwoko's touchdown, but the Beavers re-took the lead on the final play before halftime. Justin Kahut's 21-yard field goal made it 17\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nFoles appeared to put the game away when he found WR Terrell Turner for a 13-yard touchdown pass with eight minutes remaining, but the Beavers \u2014 resilient and persistent \u2014 proved tough to put away. Canfield found Aaron Nichols for a 13-yard score with 4:09 remaining, cutting Arizona's lead to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nCB Devin Ross intercepted Canfield with 1 minute 33 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nEven after surrendering a safety with 25 seconds left, Oregon State recovered an onside kick and had the ball, down five points, in their zone. This time, Arizona made the plays. Sacks by Earl Mitchell and Ricky Elmore ended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nGrigsby left the game after just one rushing attempt with what was discovered to be a sprained AC joint in his right shoulder. He was never fully healthy the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nIn a controversial play, Washington LB Mason Foster intercepted a deflected pass off the foot of Arizona's Delashaun Dean (who insisted the pass hit the ground) and returned the carom 37 yards for a touchdown with 2:37 left, and the Huskies rallied with two touchdowns in the final three minutes to beat the Wildcats 36\u201333 in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nOn the call, Dean commented: \"I felt it graze my foot, but the way the ball bounced up, it would have hit my foot a lot harder\", Dean said. \"I figured it had to hit the ground, then after seeing the pictures you could actually see the black beads from the turf jump up when the ball hit the ground. It's pretty obvious when you look at it. I don't know how it got missed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nLed by quarterback Jake Locker, Washington overcame a 12-point deficit in the final 3 minutes to hand Arizona the loss. Arizona lost the game despite a torrid third quarter. QB Nick Foles connected with David Roberts on a 9-yard touchdown pass on the Wildcats\u2019 first possession of the second half. The Wildcats got the ball back \u2014 and scored again \u2014 following a strange play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWashington punter Will Mahan muffed a snap on fourth down deep in the Huskies' zone on their first possession of the second half. He recovered the muff, took a few steps and kicked a ball that rolled 12 yards behind the original line of scrimmage. Mahan was flagged for an illegal kick, and the Huskies were penalized half the distance to the goal line \u2013 9 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nArizona turned the good fortune into a 23-yard Alex Zendejas field goal. The Wildcats capped their 17-point quarter with an eight-play, 36-yard drive; Foles delivered the crushing blow on third-and-goal from the Huskies\u2019 1, faking a hand-off up the middle and bootlegging into the end zone for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWashington cut Arizona's lead to six points just before the quarter's end, when Devin Aguilar caught his second touchdown pass of the night, a 29-yarder from Jake Locker. But Zendejas nailed a 29-yarder on the first possession of the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe UA was leading 33\u201321 when Washington took over with the ball with 4:16 remaining in the contest. But the Wildcats' LB Vuna Tuihalamka was flagged for a late hit on a missed pass, getting Washington past midfield. It took quarterback Jake Locker six plays to travel 59 yards; his 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kavario Middleton cut the Wildcats' lead to 33\u201328 with 2:55 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe Huskies then chose to kick the ball deep, figuring that \u2014 with two timeouts left \u2014 they could try to force Arizona to punt. The Wildcats instead went for the kill. On first down, the Wildcats called what Stoops dubbed \"a run-pass\" option play, meaning Foles could check down to a run or choose to throw. He threw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWhen his first few options weren't there, the quarterback attempted a short screen route to Dean. The ball glanced off the side of his right shoe and into Mason Foster's hands. The Huskies' linebacker ran in untouched. The defeat of Arizona came as the Husky football program, winless during the 2008 season, was trying to rebuild under their new head coach, former USC offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian (for their part, the Huskies finished the season 5\u20137 and 4\u20135 in Pac-10 play).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington\nFollowing the game, head coach Mike Stoops said Arizona coaches were to blame for the poor call \u2014 even though Foles had been running the play all night with great success. He completed 39 of 53 passes for 384 yards and a touchdown. Offensive coordinator Sonny Dykes, however, defended the call. Arizona settled for four field goals and continued to struggle in the red zone. The Wildcats limited Locker to just 140 passing yards, but let him drive at will when one stop would have ended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nIn a game that featured more than a thousand offensive yards, the Wildcats rallied back late to defeat the Cardinal. The quarterbacks were evenly matched: Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck threw for 423 yards and three touchdowns, while Arizona's Nick Foles also tossed three touchdown passes and had a total of 415 yards. Stanford's Toby Gerhart had 123 yards and two touchdowns. Arizona managed a total of just 138 rush yards, but 57 of those came on Nic Grigsby's go-ahead touchdown with under three minutes left. Stanford drove to the Arizona 17 with seconds to play, but a fourth-down pass to Chris Owusu was batted away and the Wildcats escaped with a home victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nIn the first quarter, Arizona's first drive ended when UCLA safety Rahim Moore intercepted a Nick Foles pass. But in their second drive, Foles passed to Juron Criner for a 41-yard touchdown to give the Wildcats a lead. After Arizona recovered a Bruin fumble, Grigsby rushed into the end zone for a 6-yard touchdown, extra point blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nBoth Moore and Jerzy Siewierski intercepted a Wildcats pass in the second quarter. Kai Forbath kicked a 53-yard field goal to put UCLA on the board before the half. UCLA's Datone Jones recovered a Foles fumble and Forbath kicked a field goal to begin the third quarter. Kevin Craft came in to replace Kevin Prince in UCLA's second possession, but Christian Ramirez fumbled the ball to Arizona, which led to the Wildcats' third touchdown, a Nick Foles 25-yard pass to Criner. Tony Dye recovered a Wildcats fumble and ran in for a 28-yard UCLA touchdown. Late in the third quarter, Nick Booth rushed for 6 yards for a score to give Arizona a 27\u201313 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nIn the fourth quarter, the Bruins were unable to do anything and lost their fourth game in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nIn their final home season game, California started backup RB Shane Vereen in place of their star RB Jahvid Best, who was still recovering from a concussion sustained the previous week. The then-#18 ranked Wildcats were also missing their starting RB, Nic Grigsby, with ongoing shoulder troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nCal's Giorgio Tavecchio hit four field goals, including a 22-yard go-ahead kick with 4 minutes 46 seconds remaining, to boost the Golden Bears past a desperate UA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nTavecchio contributed in other ways, too. After hitting the field goal that put Cal ahead for good, the kicker tackled Arizona's Travis Cobb on a kickoff return. Bolstered by Cobb's return, the Wildcats drove deep into Cal territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nArizona faced third-and-three from the Cal 25 when QB Nick Foles dropped back and attempted a short pass. The ball deflected off a Cal defender and back into the hands of Foles, who rolled right and threw it forward again \u2014 this time for a completion to WR Delashaun Dean. Foles was flagged for an illegal forward pass, and Arizona was penalized 5 yards from the spot of the penalty, 9 yards behind the line of scrimmage. The Wildcats' field goal unit stood on the sideline when, on fourth-and-17 from the Golden Bears' 39, Foles attempted a desperate pass to David Roberts that was broken up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nFoles' mistake was emblematic of the Cats' struggles. Arizona gained just 274 yards, 174 below its season average. Foles completed 25 of 41 passes for 201 yards and a touchdown, but was intercepted once and sacked three times. Foles had only been sacked four times before all season before the game. The Wildcats rushed for just 73 yards as a team, a 2.6 yards-per-carry average that rarely equates to wins. And yet Arizona had its chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nCal scored a late touchdown but botched a PAT attempt, leaving Arizona a chance to drive for a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion. The Wildcats had hope, but struggled to make the simplest of plays. Their last drive included an incomplete pass, a holding call (which was declined) and two sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nCalifornia QB Kevin Riley threw for 181 yards and a score, with two interceptions. Vereen had 30 carries for 159 yards, both career highs, including one score. Keola Antolin, who had rushed for 149 yards against the Bears in 2008, was held to 78 yards and a score. This was Cal's fourth straight victory over the Wildcats in Berkeley, and moved them up to #25 in the BCS rankings (they would go on to an 8\u20135 (5\u20134 Pac-10) regular season and lose 37\u201327 to Utah in the 2009 Poinsettia Bowl).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California\nArizona, on the other hand, seemed to have its relatively high hopes for its first-ever appearance in the Rose Bowl placed in jeopardy with the frustrating road loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon uniform combination: green helmet, white jersey with silver numbers, black pants", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nIn a PAC-10 conference showdown that prompted College Gameday to pay its first visit to the University of Arizona campus, the outcome of the game would ultimately send the winning team to the Rose Bowl Game. The Fans and the Arizona Wildcats players all wore red with the intent to \"Red Out Oregon\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon QB Jeremiah Masoli's touchdown plunge on third-and-goal in the second overtime period gave the Ducks a come-from-behind, 44\u201341 victory over the U of A before 57,863 fans at Arizona Stadium and a national TV audience (ESPN on ABC). The Ducks overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime, then scored touchdowns on both their possessions. Hundreds of red-clad Arizona students from the \"Zona Zoo\" student section were on the sidelines, preparing for a victory party, when Masoli hit tight end Ed Dickson for an 8-yard touchdown with six seconds left in regulation to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe teams traded scores in the first overtime; Arizona started the second OT with the ball and hit a field goal only to watch the Ducks drive 25 yards in four plays for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nMasoli was brilliant in a 15-play, 80-yard drive at the end of regulation, converting on two fourth-down plays to get deep into Arizona territory. With Oregon trailing 31\u201324, Masoli found Dickson in the middle of the end zone. Kicker Morgan Flint's PAT tied it at 31, forcing the first overtime game at Arizona Stadium since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon started overtime with the ball, and drove quickly. LaMichael James' 21-yard run moved the Ducks to Arizona's 4. On third-and-goal, Masoli found Jeff Maehl for a 4-yard touchdown. The Wildcats tied the game on its ensuing possession when QB Nick Foles hit Juron Criner for a 3-yard score, the receiver's third touchdown of the night. Arizona HC Mike Stoops instantly sent place-kicker Alex Zendejas out to tie it, though a two-point conversion could have won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Wildcats had the ball to start the second overtime but gained just 1 yard on three plays. Zendejas gave the UA a 41\u201338 lead with a 41-yard field goal. It didn't last. Masoli found Dickson on a 23-yard pass on Oregon's first play of the second overtime. The Ducks gained a yard on their next two plays, setting up third-and-goal from the 1. Masoli faked on a lead-option play and ran in the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe result left Arizona reeling, especially since the Wildcats appeared to have the game in hand in the fourth quarter. Arizona led by a touchdown late when Foles attempted to put the game away with a pass into the end zone; WR Terrell Turner tipped the ball, and Oregon's Talmadge Jackson III intercepted it and took a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nWide receiver David Douglas fumbled at the Ducks' 2 in the first quarter. CB Trevin Wade dropped a sure interception in the second half, and Zendejas missed a short field goal that would have put the UA up by 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Wildcats' defense, so solid all night, forced two Masoli fumbles but couldn't recover them. That only made it worse. \"We let a lot of good things slip away\", safety Cam Nelson said. \"I don't really know what else to say.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nIn winning, Oregon eliminated Arizona from Rose Bowl contention. Masoli finished with 345 yards of total offense and six touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nAlex Zendejas kicked a 32-yard field goal as time expired, and the Wildcats defeated their primary in-state rival, Arizona State (ASU), 20\u201317 in Tempe to retain the Territorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nArizona won after ASU's Kyle Williams \u2013 who had caught the tying touchdown pass minutes earlier \u2013 muffed a punt to give the Wildcats the ball at the ASU 22-yard line. Keola Antolin scored on a 67-yard run and Orlando Vargas blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown for the Wildcats, who have beaten the Sun Devils in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1997\u201398.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nDimitri Nance ran for 115 yards for the Sun Devils, who lost their last six games, matching the school record for consecutive losses in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nDown 14\u20130 at halftime, the Sun Devils rallied and appeared ready to force Arizona into their second overtime situation of the season with 2:02 remaining. On 4th-and-12 from Arizona's 14, ASU QB Danny Sullivan rolled out of the pocket and fired a strike to a diving Williams in the back of the end zone. It was their second scoring connection of the quarter, following a 44-yarder with 11:54 to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nArizona defense was led by Ricky Elmore who had 2 sacks, 5 tackles and 1 forced fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThen came a critical ASU error. Williams muffed a Keenyn Crier punt, and the Wildcats' Mike Turner recovered at the Sun Devils' 22-yard line. Four plays later, Zendejas, a Phoenix-area native (some of his Glendale, Arizona family were in attendance), trotted on and nailed the game-winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThe game ended with a scuffle at midfield. ASU linebacker Vontaze Burfict took a swing at UA backup longsnapper Ricky Wolder. Vontaze Burfict a true-freshman at 6feet 3\u00a0inches and 245 pounds swung wildly at Wolder without making any contact. Players from both sides had to be separated so they could clear the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThis was Mike Stoops' third win over Arizona State, and arguably the most important one of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC\nIn the season finale, WR Juron Criner dived into the end zone with a 36-yard touchdown pass from Nick Foles with 3:14 to play, and Arizona secured a 21\u201317 victory USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC\nFoles passed for 239 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score for the Wildcats, who finally beat USC for the first time in coach Mike Stoops' tenure by scoring the final touchdown in a defense-dominated game. Foles went 22 of 40 but made several clutch throws, including an early touchdown pass to WR Delashaun Dean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe Wildcats ended a seven-game losing streak against USC, and the Wildcats also have their first win over the Trojans during the Pete Carroll era. The Trojans, who came into the contest ranked #20 in the Associated Press poll, dropped out of the national rankings with the loss and dropped to #24 in the BCS standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC\nArizona is also the first non-Stanford team in the Pac-10 to defeat USC in the Coliseum during the Carroll era (Stanford defeated Carroll's teams in the Coliseum in 2001, 2007, and 2009 while the Big 12's Kansas State defeated the Trojans in the Coliseum in 2001\u2014the only other victory by a team over a USC home team coached by Carroll). With the Wildcats' win, Arizona State becomes the only remaining Pac-10 team that has never beaten the Trojans in the Carroll era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC\nWith a final regular season overall record of 8\u20134, Arizona accepted an invitation to the 2009 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl after this game. The Trojans were invited to the 2009 Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, they defeated Boston College 24\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Nebraska (2009 Holiday Bowl)\nThe Cornhuskers, coming off a heartbreaking loss to Texas in the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game (thereby missing a chance at a BCS bowl game berth), defeated the Wildcats 33\u20130 for the first shutout in the history of the Holiday Bowl. This was a rematch of the two teams, who faced each other in the 1998 Holiday Bowl, where Arizona defeated Nebraska 23\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Nebraska (2009 Holiday Bowl)\nThe Wildcats were held to just 109 total yards of offense and just 6 first downs. The 'Huskers were led on offense by WR Niles Paul who had 4 catches for 123 yards, including a touchdown, which accounted for 74 of his receiving yards. Quarterback Zac Lee threw for 173 yards and the touchdown to Paul. Rex Burkhead of Nebraska led all rushers with 89 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries. This also marked the first time in Nebraska's 46 game, bowl game history that it has shut out a team in postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201514-0080-0001", "contents": "2009 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Nebraska (2009 Holiday Bowl)\nHowever, this was the third time in Arizona's bowl history that they have been shut out, the second time in a game in San Diego. The Wildcats lost the 1921 San Diego East-West Christmas Classic to Centre College 38\u20130 and the 1990 Aloha Bowl to Syracuse 28\u20130. Prior to the 2009 Holiday Bowl no team had scored less than 10 points in a game. The game also marked Nebraska's first 10-win season since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201515-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season\nThe 2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season was the 12th season of the highest classification of high school boys soccer in Arkansas since being sanctioned by the Arkansas Activities Association. The first conference game was played on February 24, 2009. The season concluded May 8, 2009 with the championship match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201515-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season, Conference Alignment\nThe 2009 season was the first under the 2008-2010 classification cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201515-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season, Regular season\nTeams in the West conference play a single round-robin of seven games, playing once against each opponent. Teams in the Central conference play each other home-and-away in a double round-robin of fourteen games. Matches finishing in a draw after 80 minutes go to a golden goal overtime consisting of two 10-minute halves. If no goal is scored during overtime, the game goes to a penalty shootout. Wins during regulation play, overtime, and penalty shootout are considered equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201515-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season, Regular season\nIf two or more teams are equal on wins and losses at the end of conference play, the following criteria is used to determine the final standings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201515-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas High School 7A Boys Soccer Season, Regular season, West\n* Bentonville forfeited all of their conference games due to playing two ineligible players in their matches. The score for each of their games was recorded as a 3-0 loss. :", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team\nThe 2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team represented the University of Arkansas in baseball at the Division I level in the NCAA for the 2009 season. Dave van Horn, a former Razorback player, is the coach in his fifth year. The team clinched a berth in the 2009 College World Series with a defeat of the Florida State Seminoles on June 6. The Razorbacks' run in Omaha ended on June 19 when they were defeated by the LSU Tigers, finishing tied for third nationally with the Arizona State Sun Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Pre-Season\nAfter a 34-24 record in 2008, Arkansas looked forward to 2009. On October 20, the White team defeated the Red team in the Hogs final fall practice. Despite being picked to finish fourth in the SEC West, the Hogs pulled a #22 ranking from Baseball America. This was the first time Arkansas had ever been ranked in a pre-season poll since 2007, when the team was ranked No. 7 in the nation. The Razorbacks 2009 schedule was ranked #1 hardest in the SEC by SEC baseball.com. Outfielder Chase Leavitt was named a Preseason All-SEC player by Rivals.com. The Razorbacks' recruiting class was ranked 4th best by Collegiate Baseball and 8th best by Baseball America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Coaches\nTodd Butler was named coach most ready for a head coaching job by SEC coaches when polled by College Baseball Insider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, February, Washington State\nThe Razorbacks began the season with three games against Washington State. The schedule was changed to a doubleheader on February 20 due to cold weather. Ben Tschepikow, a senior infielder, hit a 2-run home run in the fourth inning that provided the winning margin. The second game was ended Andrew Darr's walk-off home run. The next game took place on February 22, and Darr was again the hero, this time in the form of a squeeze. Arkansas was ranked 22nd in most polls for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, February, Kansas\nKansas came to Fayetteville for a two-game series with the Diamond Hogs from February 24\u201327. After dropping the opener pitched by Brett Eibner, the Hogs won the next contest on a Jacob House walk-off home run. House, an occasional starter at first base, entered the game as a pinch hitter in the eighth and delivered a liner that got past the Jayhawk first baseman. The Sophomore delivered again, a walk-off home run in the 10th inning which gave the Razorbacks the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, February, Western Illinois\nThe Razorbacks began a three-game series against the Leathernecks of Western Illinois University, a game that was won on a Brett Eibner triple in the tenth inning. Stephen Richards, a junior pitcher, earned his second consecutive win in the game. The remaining two games were cancelled due to a snowstorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Valparaiso\nRedshirt freshman Drew Smyly quieted the Crusader's bats, while Bo Bigham ignited the Razorback sticks, ending in a 7-3 Hog win on March 3. The two teams met in Baum Stadium met again on March 4, with Andy Wilkins swatting his fourth home run of the year. Valpo began to claw back into the game late, but Stephen Richards pitched a scoreless ninth, giving the Hogs a 9-6 win. Arkansas was ranked #21 in most polls throughout the series with Valpo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, California\nThe Razorbacks met their second Pac-10 team, the California Golden Bears, in Baum Stadium. Game 1 was packed with excitement, including a tying home run by Ben Tschepikow in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, and a game winning squeeze by Collin Kuhn. Game two was marred by Razorback errors, giving the 12-6 decision to Cal despite Chase Leavitt going 3 for 3 with two walks. Drew Smyly delivered a strong outing against the Bears in game three, with Leavitt producing a four hit game. Eibner and Darr hit home runs and Zack Cox hit a triple, giving the Hogs the game and series. Arkansas broke their previous attendance record for a non-conference series with the three game set against Cal, when a total of 21,429 fans attended the three game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Centenary\nArkansas hit the road for the first time in 2009 for a midweek series with Centenary College of Louisiana. The Hogs had won 25 straight games against the Gentlemen before a 5-1 defeat in 2008. Game 1 ended in an 8-3 Razorback defeat, and the second game was rained out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, #17 Florida\nThe Gators came to Fayetteville for a three-game SEC series. This was the conference opener for both squads. The first game was a decisive Razorbacks victory, with Dallas Keuchel earning the 11-4 win. On the following day, Arkansas defeated the Gators 8-4 thanks to a six run second inning. The Sunday game was tied 2-2 until the eighth inning, when Brian McKinney cut and missed on a 3-2 pitch that went into the dirt. The runner advanced to first, when he unintentionally kicked the ball out of UF catcher Buddy Munroe's range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, #17 Florida\nThis allowed Ben Tschepikow to score from third base giving the Hogs the lead. Munroe argued that the kick was intentional, a case also argued by Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan was ejected and the Razorbacks tacked on an extra run, giving the Hogs a 4-2 win, 3-0 SEC record, and sweep of Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Nebraska\nThe Razorbacks were 7-7 against Nebraska entering the two-game series. In the first game, the Hogs wore green hats for Saint Patrick's Day, and seven different Razorbacks got a hit on the way to a 7-3 Arkansas victory. The second game was led 4-1 by Arkansas until a six-run ninth inning. Andy Wilkins hit two home runs in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Auburn\nArkansas entered Plainsman Park on March 20 for a three-game series with Auburn. The first game was a 3-2 Arkansas victory decided by a Ryan Cisterna ninth-inning home run. The next day, Chase Leavitt, Scott Lyons, Jacob House and Collin Kuhn each had two hits in a 10-6 defeat of the Tigers, giving Arkansas a 5-0 start in the SEC for the first time in Razorbacks history. The third game was decided by a four-run first inning, with Ben Tschepikow collecting four hits in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Missouri State\nThe Missouri State Bears came to Fayetteville for a single game, a 10-0 Razorbacks win. The Hogs recorded 18 strikeouts, a school record, with Brett Eibner striking out seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Mississippi State\nMississippi State traveled to Arkansas to meet the Razorbacks, who were 3-0 in SEC play. The first game was suspended by rain, but ended a 20-9 Razorbacks win. Dallas Keuchel's outing was ended prematurely when rain poured, suspending the game in the fifth inning. After game 1 was completed, the two teams decided to play a doubleheader of seven innings games on Sunday. T. J. Forrest started the afternoon on the mound for the Razorbacks, winning a 5-1 decision. The second game of the day was dropped to the Bulldogs, 12-4. MSU leadoff man Grant Hogue went 4 for 4, scoring 4 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, March, Missouri State\nThe Bears entered the contest winning nine of ten, but again met Brett Eibner, whose two solo home runs thrust the Hogs to a 2-0 victory. The win pushed the Razorbacks' March record to 15-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, #23 South Carolina\nDallas Keuchel earned the win as Zack Cox hit a three-run home run to give the Razorbacks the first game of a three-game series, played in brand-new Carolina Stadium. The Gamecocks returned the following day and issued the Hogs a 9-1 thumping, with Scott Lyons driving in the only Razorbacks run. Arkansas would pull out the rubber game, however, a 7-4 victory for Mike Bolsinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, #1 Arizona State\nThe #1 Arizona State Sun Devils came to Fayetteville for the back end of a two-year home-and-home midweek series, with Arkansas also ranked #1 entering the game. The Hogs dropped both games to ASU in 2008, but returned the favor in 2009. Game 1 marked the first #1 vs #1 matchup in Baum Stadium, and Game 2 set the then-Baum record for highest attendance, with 11,434 patrons witnessing the Hogs 8-7 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, #1 Arizona State\nThe first game featured a five-run Razorback seventh inning, sparked by a leadoff walk to Chase Leavitt followed by Tom Hauskey, Ben Tschepikow, Andrew Darr, and Scott Lyons all recording hits in the inning. Stephen Richards recorded his fifth save as the game ended a 7-3 Razorbacks win. Arkansas then defeated ASU a second time on April 8, an 8-7 win. The game was decided by Tim Carver single in the fifth inning, completing the transformation from a 6-1 deficit in the third inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, Vanderbilt\nArkansas and Vanderbilt met in Baum Stadium for a three-game SEC series. The Razorbacks, fresh off two victories over number 1 Arizona State, dropped both games, with the third being cancelled due to rain. In the two games, Arkansas committed eight errors and gave up a nine-run inning. The offense was also inept, being shut out in game 1 and no-hit through the fifth inning in game 2. Mike Minor of Vanderbilt struck out eleven Razorback batters, only to be one-upped by Caleb Cotham's striking out twelve the following day. The two losses marked the first time Arkansas dropped consecutive games in 2009 as well as the first lost series for the Hogs. The two wins gave Vanderbilt their first series win in Baum Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, Louisiana-Monroe\nThe Hogs and Warhawks met for a midweek series on April 14 and 15. The series was split, with the Warhaks taking the first game 3-2. West Covina, California native Scott Lyons won game two in the tenth inning for the Razorbacks, launching a walk-off home run into the Hogs' bullpen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, #1 Georgia\nArkansas dropped to #5 after dropping three of four games, and traveled to Athens to play the new #1. Dallas Keuchel threw a strong seven innings, but the Hogs lost 3-4 in game 1. The second game would also be dropped 3-4, this time on a Matt Cerione single in the ninth inning. Razorback sophomore Brett Eibner tossed a gem in game three, preventing the sweep. The Woodlands, Texas native Eibner threw a complete game one-hit shutout, striking out twelve Bulldogs. The feat garnered Eibner SEC and National Player of the Week honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, Oral Roberts\nThe Oral Roberts Golden Eagles hosted the Hogs for one game at J. L. Johnson Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Hogs prevailed from a 9-6 contest with Zack Cox collecting four hits. The Razorbacks met Oral Roberts again, this time in Baum Stadium, on May 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, Tennessee\nArkansas and Tennessee met for an SEC series in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Razorbacks took game 1, 9-3, behind a strong outing by Dallas Keuchel and Jacob House's 4 RBI. The subsequent game was lost on a failed pickoff attempt by Razorback Stephen Richards, who leads the team in saves. The Plano, Texas native made an errant throw attempting to pickoff Volunteer P.J. Polk, who was on first base with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. The Hogs would take the game three slugfest, 15-8, behind Scott Lyons' two home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, April, #9 Oklahoma\nArkansas met the #9 Oklahoma Sooners once in Baum Stadium. Brett Eibner took over the game, hitting a tying two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth (his second long ball of the day) and drawing a walk-off walk in the tenth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Eibner was down 0-2 and fouled off six pitches during the twelve-pitch at bat before drawing ball four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, #4 L. S. U.\nThe LSU Fighting Tigers held a one-game lead over the Razorbacks entering this series, which is a heated rivalry. A rain delay caused Game 1 and Game 2 to become a doubleheader on May 2. Dallas Keuchel was outstanding on the mound in Game 1, throwing 8.1 innings, allowing only four runs. The Razorbacks scored four runs in the fourth inning, but the fans held their breath when catcher Ryan Cisterna was hit in the face by an Anthony Raunado fastball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, #4 L. S. U.\nRaunado would hit Eibner later, causing umpires to issue warnings, and an LSU relief pitcher would also hit Zack Cox in the contest. Game 2 would have another outstanding pitching performance, this time by LSU's Louis Coleman. He delivered a two-hit shutout, splitting the series' first two games. The Sunday contest ended when a Razorback's rally fell one run short, 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, #21 Alabama\nArkansas and Alabama squared off in Tuscaloosa for a critical SEC series. The Hogs would be swept by the Crimson Tide. Dallas Keuchel turned in a great performance, but had no run support and lost a 2-1 decision. The Hogs lost game two 8-6, with freshman outfielder Collin Kuhn homering twice. Alabama homered four times in game three, taking a 5-6 decision from Brett Eibner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, #21 Alabama\nArkansas clinched a berth in the 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament when Auburn defeated Kentucky on May 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, Oral Roberts\nArkansas snapped a season-long five game losing skid with a victory over Oral Roberts. The offense continued to struggle, but managed to eke three runs across, the third by Scott Lyons in the bottom of the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, May, #9 Ole Miss\nArkansas committed four errors in the opener with Ole Miss, resulting in a 7-5 loss. The Razorbacks also dropped game two due to a six run seventh inning for the Rebels. The Rebels also won game three on the Razorbacks' senior night. The Razorbacks entered the SEC Tournament as the #7 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, SEC tournament\nArkansas played the first game of the tournament, an 8-5 defeat of #9 Florida. The Hogs next matched up with the #21 Georgia Bulldogs. The game entered the tenth inning tied 1-1 when a Georgia batter hit a bases loaded liner to Zack Cox. Cox delivered home but catcher Ryan Cisterna could not keep his foot on home plate, allowing Matt Ceronie to score the winning run. Arkansas played Florida again in an elimination game on May 22. Arkansas again defeated the Gators, the fifth time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, SEC tournament\nThe win marked the first time Arkansas beat the same SEC opponent five times in one year since joining the league. Zack Cox hit a home run that crushed the scoreboard, described by announcers as the \"longest home run they had seen in Hoover\". Vanderbilt would crush the Razorbacks in the semifinal game, 11-1. The game was ended prematurely due to the mercy rule, ending the Razorbacks run in the SEC Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Norman Regional\nArkansas received an invitation to play in the Norman regional as a #2 seed. The games are hosted by the Oklahoma Sooners, with L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park hosting all games played in the regional among #21 Arkansas, #9 Oklahoma, #23 Washington State, and Wichita State. Arkansas defeated Washington State on May 29 by the score of 10-3. The Hogs took advantage of a great catch by Jarrod McKinney and a nine run eight inning to beat the Cougars for the fourth time this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Norman Regional\nArkansas would play #9 Oklahoma next due to the Sooner's win over Wichita State. The game would be a 17-6 Arkansas victory, with Scott Lyons, James McCann, Ben Tschepikow, and Andy Wilkins all collecting at least three hits. The team collected 20 hits in the contest, a season high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Norman Regional\nThe Razorbacks played Oklahoma again on May 31, an elimination game for the Sooners. Razorbacks freshman pitcher Drew Smyly threw fell two outs short of a no-hitter, with the offense scoring eleven runs. Andy Wilkins (a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native) went 5-5 at the plate with two doubles, two home runs, four runs scored and five RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Norman Regional\nThe win pushed Arkansas into its third super regional, played at Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida against the Florida State Seminoles. Oklahoma was the #7 national seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Tallahassee Super Regional\nArkansas and Florida State met previously in the 2004 Fayetteville Super Regional, with the Hogs emerging victorious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Tallahassee Super Regional\nArkansas took Game 1 from the Seminoles thanks to a three-run seventh and two-run eighth inning. The game took over nine hours real-time to complete due to multiple rain delays. Arkansas center fielder Brett Eibner was featured on SportsCenter's Top 10 plays for a catch he made in the third inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Schedule, NCAA Tournament: Tallahassee Super Regional\nArkansas entered Game 2 with Brett Eibner on the mound and Florida State one loss away from elimination. Second baseman Bo Bigham gave the Hogs a 6-5 lead in the seventh inning of Game 2, but senior platoon outfielder Andrew Darr gave the Hogs the biggest hit of the game in the bottom of the ninth when he hit a two-run double off the wall. The two runs batted in gave the Hogs a 9-8 lead they would not relinquish, giving the Razorbacks their first College World Series appearance since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series\nArkansas became the first team to punch its ticket to Omaha. The Razorbacks played the Cal State Fullerton Titans, winners of the Fullerton Super Regional first. LSU beat Arkansas on June 15 after defeating Virginia. Arkansas next played the Cavaliers in a College World Series classic, a twelve-inning affair that resulted in Virginia's elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 1: Cal State Fullerton\nThe Razorbacks had met the Titans three times previous to this, twice in the 1979 College World Series. The Razorbacks dropped all three contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 1: Cal State Fullerton\nArkansas began the scoring on a Zack Cox single, scoring Chase Leavitt and Ben Tschepikow. Cox would hit a two-run home run in the subsequent inning, making it a 4-0 Arkansas advantage. Fullerton would respond with two runs, but a spectacular play by Bo Bingham would be the highlight of the inning. Scott Lyons hit a two-run single in the fifth inning to make it a 6-2 Hog lead, followed by a three-run home run by Andy Wilkins. The final would be a 10-6 Razorbacks win, with Dallas Keuchel earning the win by pitching six innings and Mike Bolsinger earning the three-inning save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 6: L. S. U.\nArkansas and LSU had met previously this season, with the Bayou Bengals taking two of three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 6: L. S. U.\nThe Razorbacks bats could not touch Louis Coleman, but LSU got to Hog starter Brett Eibner. Mikie Mahtook gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead in the first with a home run to left field, followed by an Andy Wilkins sacrifice fly. Ryan Schimpf doubled to score DJ LeMahieu in the fourth, giving the Tigers a 4-1 lead. A five-run sixth inning gave LSU the final margin of 9-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 9: Virginia\nArkansas and Virginia played on June 17 in an elimination game. The Cavaliers took a two-run lead in the fifth inning off Razorbacks pitcher Drew Smyly. Arkansas was down to their final strike in the top of the ninth inning when Brett Eibner homered to tie the game at three. The game would remain scoreless until the twelfth inning, when Andrew Darr doubled to score Jarrod McKinney. Dallas Keuchel, the Game 1 starter, would close out the game from the tenth inning to keep the Hogs' hopes alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 11: L. S. U.\nArkansas used eight pitchers, including closer Stephen Richards starting the game in an effort to keep their Omaha hopes alive. LSU jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Micah Gibbs scored Blake Dean. The Tigers would push the advantage to 4-0 in the third inning, which included an error and a wild pitch by the Razorbacks. LSU hit solo home runs in the fifth and sixth innings, making the score 6-0. The seventh inning would produce five LSU runs, with the Hogs using four pitchers to record three outs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201516-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, College World Series, Game 11: L. S. U.\nArkansas center fielder Brett Eibner hit a two-run home run, scoring Jacob House to make the score 11-2, but the Tigers would get those two runs back in the bottom of the seventh. Chase Leavitt hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth, scoring Thomas Hauskey and Andrew Darr, but the game ended a 15-4 final. Arkansas was eliminated from the College World Series tied for third place with the Arizona State Sun Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe 2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Razorbacks played five home games at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas and two home games at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. Head coach Bobby Petrino was in his second season at Arkansas. The Razorbacks finished the season 8\u20135, 3\u20135 in SEC play and won the Liberty Bowl 20\u201317 against East Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Leading into the 2009 season\nFormer Michigan State head coach John L. Smith was hired as special teams coordinator. He replaced Lorenzo Ward who took a spot with the South Carolina Gamecocks. Quarterback Ryan Mallett and linebacker Ryan Powers were both arrested before the season. Mallett's charge of public intoxication garnered national headlines, and Powers was charged with shoplifting from a Fayetteville Wal-Mart. Neither player was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Leading into the 2009 season, Players, Additions\nPunter Briton Forester signed with the team on March 2 out of Palomar College. Forester had previously competed at Hawaii in 2006 and 2007, and will be designated a junior at Arkansas. New special teams coach John L. Smith was integral in Forester's signing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Leading into the 2009 season, Players, Additions\nSouthern Cal transfer Broderick Green was cleared to play by the NCAA on July 31, 2009. The running back transferred to Arkansas to be nearer his ill grandmother, who resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. He will have three years of eligibility remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Leading into the 2009 season, Players, Departures\nIn a press release on December 16, 2008, Nathan Dick, brother of Casey Dick, announced his intentions to transfer from the University of Arkansas. His release was granted by Bobby Petrino. Dick transferred to in-state UCA. Crosby Tuck, a sophomore receiver from Shiloh Christian School, announced on February 23, 2009 that he would no longer play for the Razorbacks. The Springdale native's decision was based on an elbow injury against Kentucky in 2007, from which he has not returned. Tuck will remain at the University of Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Leading into the 2009 season, Players, Departures\nSophomore linebacker Khiry Battle was dismissed from the team on June 29, 2009, due to an unspecified violation of team rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Missouri State\nArkansas began the season with a bang as Dennis Johnson returned the opening kickoff 91 yards for a touchdown. The Razorbacks also threw for over 400 yards as a team for the first time in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Missouri State\nRyan Mallett went 17 for 22 passing for 309 yards and a touchdown in his Razorbacks debut. He transferred from the University of Michigan following the 2007 season, and had to sit out the 2008 season in accordance with NCAA regulations. His backup, Tyler Wilson, was more efficient but less productive going 13 for 19 for 138 yards with an interception and two touchdowns. Senior running back Michael Smith scored from 15 yards out to make the score 14\u20130 Razorbacks. Broderick Green scored on a 1-yard touchdown plunge to make the score 21\u20133 to close the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Missouri State\nVan Stumon caught a Wilson pass for a two-yard touchdown, followed by a Bears score to push the Razorback advantage to 28\u201310. Alex Tejada added a short field goal before halftime to give the Hogs a 21-point lead. Joe Adams caught a 40-yard touchdown pass from Mallett to start the third quarter scoring, with the Hogs also notching another Tejada field goal. The fourth quarter produced another TD strike from Wilson, this time to Cobi Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Missouri State\nSmith finished with four carries for 43 yards and the score. True freshman Ronnie Wingo Jr. rushed eight times for 50 yards, Broderick Green rushed 10 times for 31 yards and a touchdown. Jarius Wright caught 6 passes for 139 yards, with Joe Adams snagging 4 for 70 and a TD. Cobi Hamilton had four grabs for 56 and a TD, Greg Childs caught 4 for 50 yds. Tight end D.J. Williams, named to the Mackey Award watch list, caught two passes for twenty yards. Razorback linebackers Wendel Davis and Jerry Franklin had five solo tackles each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #20 Georgia\nThe fifth-largest crowd in Razorback Stadium history watched the Hogs and Dogs pile up over 1,000 yards of offense and numerous school records. Georgia QB Joe Cox threw for 375 yards and five scores. Bulldogs receiver A. J. Green had seven catches for 137 yards and two scores. Ryan Mallett of Arkansas completed 21 of 39 for 408 yards and five touchdowns. The yardage and touchdown totals both are school records. Razorback receiver Greg Childs caught five passes for 140 yards and two TDs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #20 Georgia\nArkansas scored on their first two plays; Joe Adams catching an 18-yard pass from Ryan Mallett (Alex Tejada kick) followed by a Jarius Wright 48-yard pass from Mallett. Georgia scored on a Joe Cox TD pass and Blair Walsh field goal, followed by a Greg Childs 30-yard touchdown reception from Ryan Mallett to make it a 21\u201310 Razorback lead to end the first period. Early in the second quarter, Razorback linebacker Jerry Franklin was assessed two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and was ejected. Georgia opened the second quarter scoring with an 80-yard run by Richard Samuel, followed by a 25-yard pass from Joe Cox to A.J. Green. Walsh added a field goal as time expired, giving UGA the first half, 27\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #20 Georgia\nArkansas forced Georgia into a three-and-out, followed by a 40-yard Ryan Mallett aerial to Greg Childs, to make it a 28\u201327 Arkansas advantage. Tavarres King of Georgia responded by catching a 50-yard pass from Cox. Arkansas replied when D.J. Williams snagged a 2-yard pass from Mallett. Georgia two-way player Orson Charles caught a 44-yard pass from Joe Cox to make the score 40\u201335. The Dogs attempted a two-point conversion, and A.J. Green caught the lob from Cox to make it 42\u201335. Razorback kicker Alex Tejada added a short field goal, making the score 42\u201338 to Georgia's advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #20 Georgia\nA.J. Green caught a 28-yard touchdown pass from Cox to give UGA an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter. The Razorbacks drove inside the Georgia 10-yard line, but settled for a field goal. Georgia subsequently took the ball and tacked on another field goal, making the final score 52\u201341.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #20 Georgia\nThe three-hour and forty-five-minute affair contained 25 penalties for 193 total yards. The two teams combined to run 125 plays. Joe Cox was named National Offensive Player of the Week by the Walter Camp Football Foundation for his efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #3 Alabama\nArkansas visited Bryant\u2013Denny Stadium on September 26 to play the third-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #3 Alabama\nArkansas and Alabama battled to a 0\u20130 tie after the first quarter, with the two teams combining for five punts and six first downs. Trent Richardson got the scoring started for 'Bama, breaking numerous tackles on his way to a 52-yard touchdown run. After Arkansas punted on the ensuing possession, Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy completed a deep pass to Julio Jones for 50 yards and a touchdown out of the wildcat formation. Arkansas rushed for negative yardage in the second quarter, but was losing by only 14 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #3 Alabama\nArkansas' offense got started in the third quarter on a Greg Childs 18-yard touchdown reception from Ryan Mallett. The Alex Tejada kick made it a 14\u20137 Alabama lead. Alabama's response was a single play: McElroy to Marquis Maze for an 80-yard touchdown pass. Arkansas' Dylan Breeding had his punt attempt blocked, setting up Mark Ingram to catch a 14-yard TD pass from McElroy. The Crimson Tide led 28\u20137 entering the fourth quarter, and Ingram's 2-yard run produced the 35\u20137 final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M, Southwest Classic\nTexas A&M and Arkansas renewed their past rivalry, now named the Southwest Classic, in Cowboys Stadium on October 3, 2009. Texas A&M took an early 10\u20130 lead on a Randy Bullock field goal and Jerrod Johnson 60-yard pass to Bran Jackson, but Arkansas responded with 30 unanswered points before halftime. TD passes from Ryan Mallett to Broderick Green and DeAnthony Curtis, followed by an 85-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Jerry Franklin, gave the Hogs a 21\u201310 lead. Alex Tejada made a field goal and Jarius Wright's 31-yard touchdown reception gave the Razorbacks a 30\u201310 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M, Southwest Classic\nThe Aggies replied with a field goal from Bullock with 8:16 to play in the third quarter. Mallett hit Michael Smith for a 29-yard passing touchdown to close the third quarter scoring. Texas A&M receiver Ryan Tannehill caught a 3-yard pass from Johnson to make it a 19\u201337 game, but the Aggies failed the two-point conversion. After another Tejada field goal, Razorback true freshman Ronnie Wingo, Jr. broke loose for a 62-yard touchdown to produce the final margin of 47\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M, Southwest Classic\nTexas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson completed 30 of 58 passes for 345 yards and two touchdowns. Ryan Mallett was 17 of 27 passing for 271 yards, four touchdowns and an interception. Joe Adams caught three passes for 110 yards to lead Arkansas in receiving. The contest took three hours and twenty six minutes to complete, and contained 151 plays, 91 of which were run by Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #17 Auburn\nFormer Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville provided his insight on the contest, stating over the radio on WJOX, \"Arkansas can\u2019t stop a cold, but they\u2019ll try to score some points\" and that Auburn would win \"by three touchdowns\". Bobby Petrino was an offensive coordinator for the Tigers under Tuberville in 2002, and was considered as Tuberville's successor after a dismal 2003 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #17 Auburn\nArkansas forced a three-and-out on the game's opening drive, and scored on a Broderick Green 2-yard run to give the Hogs an early 7\u20130 lead. Early in the second quarter, Michael Smith broke a 25-yard touchdown run to give the Razorbacks a 13\u20130 edge. Tigers running back Mario Fannin fumbled the ensuing kickoff, recovered by Arkansas' Jerell Norton at the Auburn 34-yard line. Two plays later, Ryan Mallett completed a 16-yard touchdown pass to Greg Childs to stretch the lead to 20\u20130. Auburn's Wes Byrum hit on a 37-yard field goal before halftime, and Mallett completed a five-yard touchdown pass to D. J. Williams to make the Arkansas lead 27\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #17 Auburn\nArkansas punted to open the third quarter, but Jake Bequette's recovery of Ben Tate's fumble gave the Hogs the ball at the Arkansas 5-yard line. Ten plays later, Ryan Mallett rushed for a four-yard touchdown to make it 34\u20133 Hogs. Tate replied twice, first on a one-yard touchdown run, and later on a 60-yard touchdown scamper. Onterio McCalebb also scored on the ground for Auburn in the third quarter, cutting the Razorbacks' lead to 23\u201334. Broderick Green responded early in the fourth quarter on a 3-yard rushing score. Alex Tejada added a field goal to produce the final 44\u201323 margin. Arkansas won by 21 points, totally reversing Tommy Tuberville's prediction that the Tigers would prevail by three scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nWith Florida favored to win by 25 points, the Arkansas Razorbacks pushed the top-ranked Gators to the edge. Arkansas sacked 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow six times and forced four turnovers, but missed a 31-yard Alex Tejada field goal that would have given the Hogs a 23\u201320 lead with 3:08 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nJake Bequette set up the game's first points be forcing a Tebow fumble, recovered by Zach Stadther. The Hogs drove to the one-yard line before the first quarter ended tied scoreless. USC transfer Broderick Green plunged into the end zone to start the second quarter, and gave the Hogs a 7\u20130 lead. Tebow fumbled again on his team's ensuing possession, but the Razorbacks could not capitalize. UF receiver Aaron Hernandez fumbled for the third straight Gator possession, but the Hogs were forced to punt. Florida's kicker, Caleb Sturgis, kicked a 30-yard field goal on Florida's next possession to make the game 7\u20133 in favor of Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nThe Razorbacks drove inside the UF five-yard line before halftime, but could only get a field goal. This gave the Hogs a 10\u20133 lead at the break, despite missing on every third down conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nFollowing the half time performance, Florida connected on a 51-yard field goal from Sturgis to cut the Razorbacks' lead to 10\u20136. Tramain Thomas made an outstanding play on UF's Chris Rainey later in the third quarter. He attempted to tackle Rainey in the open field, but fell to the turf. While falling, Thomas kicked the ball cleanly out of Rainey's arm, and it fell right to Thomas. The Hogs took over at Florida's 28-yard line, but missed a short field goal and were forced walk away empty from the encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nOn Florida's ensuing possession, Tim Tebow connected with Deonte Thompson for a 77-yard touchdown pass. Ramon Broadway was peeking into the backfield on the play, and took a false step towards the line of scrimmage. This allowed Thompson to give the Gators a 13\u201310 lead. Arkansas replied with a drive fueled mostly by the efforts of Dennis Johnson, who started at running back instead of an injured Michael Smith. The drive's deciding play, however, was when Ryan Mallett missed an open Van Stumon in the end zone. The Hogs did connect on another Tejada field goal, tying the game at 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Mallett was forced to step up in the pocket and sling a pass to Greg Childs on 3rd and 17. Childs caught the ball and outran several UF defenders to the end zone. It appeared that Childs lost the ball on the one-yard line, but after review it was decided that he maintained possession on the 75-yard scoring play. Arkansas had a 20\u201313 lead with 9:40 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nFlorida responded with a 67-yard scoring drive, assisted by a 15-yard pass interference penalty and 15-yard personal foul penalty called consecutively against Arkansas. The CBS broadcasting team said that the calls were both \"questionable\". Top-ranked Florida tied the game at 20. The officiating crew was suspended by the Southeastern Conference the following week, and remained on suspension until November 14. Florida coach Urban Meyer later said that the SEC was right by suspending the crew, and Bobby Petrino was reprimanded by the SEC for publicly criticizing the crew after the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, #1 Florida\nRyan Mallett later led a 56-yard drive to the UF 21-yard line, but Alex Tejada missed a potential game-winning field goal with 3:08 remaining. Tebow and company marched down the field to the Arkansas 10-yard line, finding Riley Cooper for three first downs on the drive. With thirteen seconds to play, Sturgis kicked the game-winning field goal, ending the Razorbacks' upset bid and preserving Florida's homecoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nThe Arkansas Razorbacks traveled to Oxford, Mississippi to match up against former coach Houston Nutt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nJevan Snead opened the scoring for the Ole Miss Rebels, running in from one yard out. The University of Texas transfer also completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to Shay Hodge to take a 14\u20130 Rebels lead. Ole Miss added a field goal from Joshua Shene before Arkansas scored. Knile Davis rumbled in from three yards out to draw the Razorbacks within 10. Before halftime, Snead lead what looked like a last-minute scoring drive until Arkansas defensive back Jerico Nelson intercepted a pass at the Arkansas six-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nAndru Stewart intercepted another Snead pass early in the third quarter, leading to an Alex Tejada field goal. Ole Miss responded when Snead hit Dexter McCluster on a screen pass that McCluster took for a 64-yard touchdown. Arkansas scored on the ensuing possession when Ryan Mallett connected with Carlton Salters for a 58-yard touchdown. The ball was intended for Greg Childs, but Childs and two Rebel defenders tipped the ball to an uncovered Salters for the score. The Rebels added two more Shene field goals to make the final score 30\u201317. McCluster rushed 22 times for 123 yards. He also caught 7 passes for 137 yards and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nThe Eastern Michigan Eagles came to Fayetteville on Halloween to play the Razorbacks on homecoming. Prior to the game, EMU was the top-ranked defense against the pass, but last against the run. The Hogs were without Michael Smith, who had a hamstring injury, but regained the services of WR Joe Adams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nArkansas scored on its first drive when running back Knile Davis took the ball in from six yards out. The Hogs also scored on their next possession, a Broderick Green run over right guard for a touchdown. On the ensuing possession, EMU quarterback Kyle McMahon was intercepted by Freddie Burton, who returned the ball 50 yards for a touchdown. Early in the second quarter, Ryan Mallett found Joe Adams on a ten-yard crossing pattern for a score. Following a missed Alex Tejada field goal, Patrick Treppa punted for EMU, leaving the Razorbacks with the ball on their own one-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nHowever, on the next play, Broderick Green broke through the line and rumbled 99 yards for a touchdown. The score was the longest play in Arkansas Razorbacks history, longer than the previous record of 90 yards set by Billy Moore against Tulsa back in 1962. Following another EMU punt, Mallet found Adams for a 78-yard touchdown pass, giving the Hogs a 42\u20130 lead as the teams went to halftime. The Razorback defense did not allow EMU a single first down in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nFollowing the homecoming halftime festivities, Seth Armbrust blocked an Eastern Michigan punt, and scooped it up for a touchdown. At this point, Kyle McMahon began to move the Eagles, scoring on their next two possessions, including a TD pass to Kinsman Thomas for 77 yards. Mallett responded with a 55-yard bomb to Cobi Hamilton, and Davis capped the drive two plays later to make it a 56\u201313 game. After another EMU score, Mallett found Lucas Miller for a sixteen-yard score. EMU tacked on another score, but the Razorbacks prevailed in a 63\u201327 rout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201517-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nMallett finished completing 14 of 16 passes for 249 yards and three touchdowns. Broderick Green had 135 yards on nine rushes, including the 99-yard record-setting score. Joe Adams had 109 yards receiving in his first game after suffering a mild stroke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201518-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team\nThe 2009 Arkansas State Red Wolves football team represented Arkansas State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Red Wolves, led by 8th year head coach Steve Roberts, played their home games at ASU Stadium. The Red Wolves finished the season 4\u20138 and 3\u20135 in Sun Belt play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season\nThe 2009 Arkansas Twisters season was the franchise's tenth season as a football franchise, last in the arenafootball2 league, and final season as the \"Arkansas Twisters\". The National Conference team, led by head coach Chris Siegfried, played their home games on Allstate Field at Alltel Arena (which changed names to \"Verizon Arena\" mid-season) in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The Diamonds finished the 2009 regular season with an 11-5 record and 2nd place in the Southwest Division. The team's playoff run ended with a 36-77 loss to the Boise Burn in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Off-field moves\nAfter two seasons in the Central Division of the National Conference, the Twisters were realigned to the Southwest Division for the 2009 season. They joined the Bossier\u2013Shreveport Battle Wings, Corpus Christi Sharks, and Rio Grande Valley Dorados in the Southwest Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Off-field moves\nThe Twisters re-signed head coach Chris Siegfried for a second season after leading the team to a winning record and a short playoff run in 2008. The assistant coaches for 2009 were former Dallas Cowboys fullback and first-year coach Robert Thomas, four-time ArenaBowl champion player and 2004 ArenaBowl Defensive MVP Omar Smith, plus veteran assistant coach and East Tennessee State University alum Travis Crusenberry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Off-field moves\nIn April 2009, the team was alerted that two active players had been assigned the \"retired\" jersey numbers of former Twisters players Reggie Swinton and Kahlil Carter. The team blamed the error on a \"former employee\" who had ordered the team's new uniforms without checking with veteran front office staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Off-field moves\n2009 was the final year for Arkansas in arenafootball2 (af2) as the league was merged with remnants of the original Arena Football League to create Arena Football 1. Although they signed on as a charter member of Arena Football 1, Twisters ownership soon had issues with league restructuring and financial stability so they jumped to the Indoor Football League. To avoid buying the rights to the team's name and logo, the Arkansas franchise held a \"name the team\" contest and became the Arkansas Diamonds for the 2010 season, their last before relocating to Texas. Arkansas is the site of the only diamond mine in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Roster moves\nWhen pre-season training camp began on March 6, 2009, players included the 2008 AF2 Offensive Player of the Year, quarterback Kyle Rowley, plus defensive back Lawrence Richardson, wide receiver Robert Johnson, kicker James Paul, and prospect Xavier Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Roster moves\nReceiver Rod Harper left the team mid-season in June 2009 when he signed with the NFL's New Orleans Saints. Harper was the second Twisters player to jump directly from AF2 to the NFL. (The first was Reggie Swinton who played for the Twisters in 2000 before being signed by the Dallas Cowboys in 2001.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201519-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arkansas Twisters season, Roster\nRookies in italicsRoster updated July 25, 200920 Active, 0 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201520-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arlington mayoral election\nThe 2009 Arlington mayoral election was held on May 9, 2009 to elect the mayor of Arlington, Texas. The election was officially nonpartisan. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Robert Cluck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201520-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arlington mayoral election\nIf no candidate had obtained a majority of the vote, a runoff would have been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl\nThe 2009 Armed Forces Bowl was the seventh edition of the Armed Forces Bowl, a college football bowl game, and was played at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The game started at 12:00 PM US EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN and matched the Houston Cougars of Conference USA and the Air Force Falcons of the Mountain West Conference. The game earned a 1.6 rating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl\nThis was the second year in a row that the two teams finished their seasons against each other in the bowl game played on the TCU campus. The Cougars, the Conference USA runner-up after losing to East Carolina in the championship game, beat Air Force 34\u201328 last year for their first bowl victory since 1980. Air Force played in the Armed Forces Bowl for the third straight season. The Falcons lost 42\u201336 to California in the 2007 game, which was then their first bowl appearance since 2002. Each team also made their third appearance in the bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl\nThe only other meeting between the two schools was in 2008 when the Falcons defeated Houston 31\u201328 in a game played in front of just 2,546 people at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the campus of SMU in Dallas, Texas. The game was originally to be a home game for the Cougars but due to Hurricane Ike the game was moved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl\nThe game marked the first time that Houston had entered a bowl game with a national ranking in the Coaches' Poll since the 1979 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl, Game summary\nAir Force wore blue home jerseys, and Houston wore home red jerseys with contrasting colors. This was the first bowl game in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season where teams wore contrasting color jerseys, allowed by a new rule this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl, Game summary\nThe Falcons ground out 402 yards of rushing offense on their way to their first bowl victory since 2000. Air Force was led by tailbacks, Jared Tew who had 173 yards and two touchdowns and Asher Clark who carried 17 times for 129 yards and two touchdowns. Clark was named the game's MVP. Air Force's defense was just as impressive as the top ranked pass defense in the country held 2009 NCAA leading passer, Case Keenum to 222 yards and only one touchdown while intercepting him six times. Keenum only had six interceptions in the first 12 games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl, Game summary\nAfter Houston was held without a touchdown before halftime, Tyron Carrier returned the opening kickoff of the second half 79 yards for his fourth TD the season. He took the ball near the left sideline, then ran to the middle of the field before shooting through a gap and running untouched to get the Cougars within 24\u201313. Air Force immediately responded with its first kickoff return for a touchdown since 1985. Jonathan Warzeka fielded the ball and stepped back into the end zone before running 100 yards. Five Houston players got their hands on him, but couldn't get him down. According to STATS, it was only the sixth major college game since 1996 with kickoff return touchdowns on consecutive plays. None of them had been in a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201521-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Armed Forces Bowl, Game summary\nThe loss for Houston was their ninth of its last 10 bowl games. The Falcons scored a school-record 47 points, the second-most by a service academy in a bowl game. Navy put up 51 in the 2005 Poinsettia Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201522-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Cup\nThe 2009 Armenian Cup was the 18th season of Armenian knockout football competition. It featured only 8 Premier League teams. The tournament started on 17 March 2009 and ended on 9 May 2009. The defending champions were Ararat Yerevan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201522-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Cup, Results, Quarter-finals\nThe first legs were played on 17 and 18 March 2009. The second legs were played on 7 and 8 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201522-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe first legs were played on 14 and 15 April 2009. The second legs were played on 21 and 22 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201523-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian First League\nThe 2009 Armenian First League season began on 9 April 2009 and ended on 6 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201524-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Premier League\nThe 2009 Armenian Premier League season was the eighteenth since its establishment. The season began on 21 March 2009 and ended on 7 November 2009. FC Pyunik were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201524-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Premier League\nThere were no teams promoted from the previous season of the First League. Therefore, Kilikia FC play another season in the top league. Only 8 teams were allowed to play in the 2009 Armenian Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201524-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Armenian Premier League\nThe league was played in four stages. Teams played each other four times, twice at home and twice away. FC Pyunik gained maximum points after round 28 and were crowned champions; winning their ninth consecutive title, twelfth overall. Ararat Yerevan were relegated to Armenian First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201525-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Army Black Knights football team\nThe 2009 Army Black Knights football team represented the United States Military Academy (USMA or \"West Point\") as an independent during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by first-year head coach Rich Ellerson, tBlack Knights finished the season with a record of 5\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election\nGeneral elections were held in Aruba on 25 September 2009. The elections were the seventh to be held for membership of the Estates since autonomy was granted by the Dutch in 1986, and resulted in a victory for the Aruban People's Party, which won 12 of the 21 seats in the Estates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Background\nPrior to this election the People's Electoral Movement (MEP) were the governing party, holding eleven seats. The main opposition Aruban People's Party (AVP) held eight with the Network of Electoral Democracy and the Aruban Patriotic Movement holding a seat apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Electoral system\nThe 21 members of the Estates were elected for a four-year term using proportional representation, carried out in a single nationwide constituency. Each party was allowed to place up to 29 people on their party list. The party or coalition with a majority was allowed to select a Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Campaign\nEight parties and 167 independents contested the elections. The Aruban Director of the Register of Population and electoral council member Sharline Luidens forbade the press from taking photos inside polling stations during the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Campaign\nPre -election polls showed the AVP were expected to win, campaigning to reduce inflation and abolish a tax on local business. The AVP also pledged to address concerns over the island's oil refinery operated by Valero Energy, which had been closed since mid-July 2009 and had provided jobs for around one thousand people, as well as a recent decline in tourists visiting the island. The People's Electoral Movement (MEP) pledged to diversify the economy and reduce debt and living costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Campaign\nThe parties were represented by specific colors during the campaign; the AVP was known as the \"green party,\" the MEP was the \"yellow party\" and the independent Real Democracy Party was identified as the \"red party.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Results\nA turnout of 86% was recorded for the election which proceeded without disruption. Governor Fredis Refunjol and his wife, Clarette, voted at the Sacred Heart School in Savaneta early Friday morning and urged all Arubans to vote as well. Incumbent Prime Minister Nelson Oduber and his wife, Glenda, cast their ballots at the EPB School in Hato, on the edge of Oranjestad. AVP leader Mike Eman voted in the afternoon at the Colegio Arubano, a junior-senior high school, with his wife, Doina, and his brother, Henny Eman, who was Aruba's first Prime Minister. Doina Eman, who is originally from the United States, had recently acquired her Dutch passport and this was the first Aruban election in which she was eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Results\nPolls closed in Aruba at 7:00 pm local time. Early results began filtering in approximately 8:30 pm. The first results reported in were from the Noord District, which showed a marked support for the AVP. Twelve election precincts in Oranjestad, the capital, were also won by the AVP early in the evening. The AVP, which is identified by the color green, also won eight polling stations in San Nicolas, the site of the recently closed Valero Energy oil refinery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Results\nSupport declined for Nelson Obuder's MEP party across the island. The MEP, which is known as the \"yellow party\", captured its traditional stronghold of Santa Cruz, as well as precincts in portions of Savaneta and Paradera. Support for the MEP ultimately dropped from eleven to eight seats in the Estates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Results\nThe AVP, led by Mike Eman, claimed 48% of the vote and twelve seats in the Estates, making Eman the 5th Prime Minister-Elect of Aruba with an absolute majority of three seats in the 21-seat House. The MEP won 36% of the vote and eight seats, with the final seat being won by the Real Democracy Party. This meant that Nelson Oduber, the demissionary Prime Minister of Aruba, had lost control of the Estates for the first time in eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Results\nEman arrived at the AVP party headquarters in Oranjestad, where he was greeted by approximately 2,000 supporters dressed in green, the color of the AVP. The victory was marked by AVP supporters letting off fireworks and unfurling flags in the green livery of the party. In his speech, Eman thanked Aruba's Latino and Haitian communities. The winning party of an Aruban election traditionally celebrates with a parade following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201526-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Aruban general election, Reactions\nOduber blamed the MEP's defeat on Dutch interference in Aruba's affairs, in particular referring to a recent announcement that the Dutch authorities would commence an investigation into corruption on the island. Oduber also singled out Valero Energy CEO Bill Klesse, accusing him of taking sides in the election against the MEP by closing the refinery shortly before the election took place. In a speech carried only on Aruban Channel 22, Oduber did not congratulate the winning AVP. Instead, he said that the AVP should work to fulfill its \"unreal promise\" to Arubans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nThe Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in October 2009, concurrently with the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. The elections were held in the state for all 60 Assembly seats on 2009-10-13. The results were declared on 2009-10-22. Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's Indian National Congress party came back to power in the state with an increased majority, winning 42 seats in the 60 seat Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nIn the 2004 Arunachal Pradesh Assembly election, Congress won 34 of the 60 seats and Congress leader Gegong Apang was elected as the Congress Legislative Party and was sworn in as the Chief Minister. Apang had defected from the Bharatiya Janata Party just a few weeks before the election. The BJP won win 9 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nHowever, in April 2007, 29 Congress legislators formally supported a change of leadership in the state Congress. The dissidents also claimed support from 2 NCP, 1 Arunachal Congress and 11 independent legislators. Apang, Arunachal's longest serving chief minister, was forced to step down on 2007-04-09 when the Congress legislators elected Power Minister Dorjee Khandu as the new Congress Legislative Party leader. Khandu was sworn in as the state's seventh Chief Minister by Nagaland Governor K. Sankaranarayanan on 2007-04-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nIn June of the same year, Khandu's Government received further strengthening when 8 out of the 9 BJP MLAs joined Congress, taking the strength of the party to 41.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe tenure of the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly was scheduled to expire on 2009-10-24. So the Election Commission of India announced on 2009-08-31 that the election to the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly would be held in October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThough Nationalist Congress Party and All India Trinamool Congress were Congress' allies at the Centre, in Arunachal Pradesh, they fought the election against Congress. The BJP was also in the fray in Arunachal, having formed their 1st Government in the North-East after Apang and his supporters had joined the BJP in August 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government Formation\nThe Congress party won 42 of the 60 seats in the Assembly, including 3 uncontested seats - Dorjee Khandu from Mukto, Tsewang Dhondup from Tawang and Jambey Tashi from Lumla. Seasoned Congressman, seven times MLA and former chief minister, Gegong Apang, and his son Omak Apang both lost the elections. While Gegong lost to Nationalist Congress Party, his son was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. Without the competition from Gegong, Dorjee Khandu was smoothly elected as the Congress Legislative Party leader on 2009-10-24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201527-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Government Formation\nKhandu was sworn in for his 2nd term as the Chief Minister by Governor J.J. Singh at the Darbar Hall of the Itanagar Raj Bhawan on 2009-10-25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201528-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 As Sulaymaniyah governorate election\nGovernorate or provincial elections are due to be held in Sulaymaniya Governorate in 2009 to replace the governorate council elected in the Iraqi governorate elections of 2005. The remaining governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan held elections on 31 January 2009. The election will follow the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201529-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashbourne Cup\nThe 2009 Ashbourne Cup inter-collegiate camogie championship was staged in Cork over the weekend of February 21\u201322. It was won by Waterford Institute of Technology who defeated the hosts UCC in Saturday's semi-final in The Mardyke before denying University College Dublin the three-in-a-row in the final by three points in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn 24 hours later. Player of the tournament was WIT's Stacey Redmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201529-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashbourne Cup, The Final\nWaterford's victory was inspired by a fifth-minute goal on five minutes from Mullinavat's Michelle Quilty who combined effectively with Wexford duo Stacey Redmond and Ursula Jacob to shoot past Wexford inter-county team-mate Mags Darcy. Waterford led 1\u20136 to 0\u20131 at half-time. UCD came back in the second half when they had the breeze with strong performances from Wexford's Mary Leacy and Cork's Rena Buckley but their goal from another Wexford inter-county player Una Leacy 10 minutes from the end was not enough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201529-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashbourne Cup, Shield\nGalway's Lorraine Ryan scored 1\u20138 of NUIG's total in a 1\u201314 to 2\u201310 victory over University of Limerick. Edel Maher and Maire O'Neill scored first half goals for Limerick who led 2\u20137 to 0\u20134 at half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series\nThe 2009 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing and storied cricket rivalry between England and Australia, and was part of the Australian cricket tour of England in 2009. Starting on 8 July 2009, England and Australia played five Tests, with England winning the series 2\u20131. England thus reclaimed The Ashes from Australia, who had won the previous series in 2006\u201307. Andrew Strauss became just the second England captain in 20 years, alongside Michael Vaughan in 2005, to win the Ashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series\nThe first Test was held at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, the first Test match ever to be held at the ground, and resulted in England saving a draw with one wicket to spare, and Ricky Ponting surpassing 11,000 Test runs, becoming Australia's leading Test run scorer as the series progressed. The second Test at Lord's was preceded by the announcement that Andrew Flintoff would be retiring from Test cricket at the end of the series. The England all-rounder then took his first Lord's five-for to seal a 115-run victory, England's first against Australia at the ground in 75 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series\nRain prevented play for large amounts of the Third Test at Edgbaston, including the entire third day, making the draw an inevitable result. Australia pegged the score back to 1\u20131 with an innings victory at Headingley after bowling out England for 102, their lowest Ashes total since they were bowled out for 77 at Lord's in 1997. This left the Fifth Test at The Oval to decide the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series\nAustralia began the match needing only a draw to retain the Ashes, but an inspired bowling performance from Stuart Broad to remove Australia for just 160 runs, and a maiden Test century for Jonathan Trott in England's second innings left Australia chasing 546 with two days left to play. An innings of 121 from Michael Hussey gave the Australians hope, but he gradually ran out of partners before losing his own wicket to give England a 197-run win in the match and a 2\u20131 series victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Background\nThe 2009 Ashes series began with Australia leading by 31 series to 27, with five drawn series. Australia had won nine of the last 10 Ashes series, including winning the most recent series 5\u20130 in 2006\u201307, but the 2005 series, the last to be held in England, was won 2\u20131 by the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Background\nAustralia's last two Test series before the Ashes were played against South Africa, the first in Australia and the second in South Africa. Although South Africa won their tour series 2\u20131, Australia recovered to win the return series by the same scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Background\nMeanwhile, England warmed up for the 2009 Ashes with two Test series against the West Indies, the first in the West Indies and the second in England. The first series comprised five matches and was won 1\u20130 by the West Indies, but the second only included two Tests, England winning both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Background\nThe immediate preparation for the Ashes consisted of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, held in England in June 2009. Australia struggled in their group, losing to the West Indies and Sri Lanka by seven and six wickets, respectively, and were eliminated at the first hurdle. England also suffered a shock four-wicket defeat to the Netherlands in their first match, but they recovered by defeating Pakistan by 48 runs to qualify for the Super Eights. There, they were paired with South Africa, India and the West Indies, but defeat to South Africa and a narrow victory over India meant that they needed a victory against the West Indies to reach the semi-finals. They lost the match via the Duckworth\u2013Lewis method, and were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Background\nAustralia completed their Ashes preparations with tour matches against Sussex and the England Lions, but both matches finished as draws. Meanwhile, England's schedule was completed with a draw against Warwickshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nEngland won the toss and captain Andrew Strauss chose to bat. England slumped to 90/3 early but recovered with a fine partnership of 138 runs between Pietersen and Collingwood. Hauritz dismissed Pietersen for the crucial fifth wicket when he offered a simple catch to short leg, attempting to sweep from outside the off stump. England ended the day at 336/7 after Siddle picked up two crucial wickets in the last four overs of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nSwann's unbeaten 47 off 40 balls took England to 435. Australia's openers started brightly facing eight overs before lunch. Flintoff, the fastest bowler in the match, captured the only wicket when Hughes' bottom-edge was well caught by Prior. Katich and Ponting steadily took control with sensible batting. Ponting reached a major milestone in his career scoring his 11,000th run and joining Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Allan Border. By the end of the day both batsmen had scored centuries, Katich's first against England and their unbeaten partnership of 189 runs had Australia at 249/1 at stumps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nKatich and Ponting added 50 runs to the overnight total before their partnership was broken by Anderson who had been given the new ball earlier. Anderson collected his second wicket of the day (Hussey) when Prior took an easy catch. Ponting was soon to follow, chopping the ball onto his stumps as he attempted a cut shot off Panesar's bowling. After lunch, Australia consolidated their position without losing a wicket and passing England's total and at tea were 458/4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nPlay was delayed unexpectedly for two hours due to rain and when play resumed it was under lights \u2013 the first time artificial light was used in a Test Match in Britain. At stumps Australia were in a strong position with 5 wickets in hand and a lead of 44 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nResuming in fairly muggy, heavy clouded conditions North and Haddin punished the English attack. North reached his deserved century scoring centuries on both his Test and Ashes debuts. At lunch Australia had reached 577/5. After lunch, Haddin became the destroyer-in-chief, flicking three successive Anderson deliveries to the boundary and closed in on his second Test ton with booming sixes off the ineffective English attack. When Haddin was finally dismissed, Ponting declared the Australian innings at 674/6, the largest total against England since 1934 and fourth highest in The Ashes series. In the short time before tea England failed miserably to hold on, losing Cook and Bopara. The rain started as tea was taken and play ended for the day with England 219 runs behind and in dire straits to save the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, First Test\nResuming on 20/2, England lost three wickets in the first 90 minutes of play and reached lunch on 102/5. Paul Collingwood lasted 245 balls and batted for five hours and 43 minutes before being caught at gully by Michael Hussey. The last man partnership of James Anderson and Monty Panesar managed to bat England into a lead. With every dot ball cheered, England managed to bat until 18:40 to secure a draw. Australia captain Ricky Ponting later accused the England team of time-wasting by allowing their 12th man, Bilal Shafayat, and physiotherapist, Steve McCaig, to twice run onto the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nEngland started the day with the news that former captain and talisman Andrew Flintoff was going to retire from Test cricket after the Ashes, Monty Panesar had been dropped in favour of Graham Onions and Steve Harmison had been left out of the squad. England won the toss and chose to bat first. They started exceptionally well with Strauss and Cook opening and going in for lunch 126/0. There was bad luck for the Australians after the interval when Strauss hit a ball back towards bowler Nathan Hauritz who, in trying to take the catch, dislocated his finger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nEngland's pre-lunch form continued into the afternoon, until, with the score 196/0, Cook was dismissed LBW by Johnson just short of his century on 95. England soon lost Bopara for 18 and, from 222/2, England started to collapse: the next four middle order batsmen fell for just 74 with Australia's bowlers looking far better than they had done earlier in the day. Strauss continued past 150 to reach 161 with Broad on 7 going into day 2 and England on a possible shaky 364/6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nEngland started the way they had finished on day 1 \u2013 with fast wickets for few runs. Strauss was eventually bowled out on his second ball of the day for his previous day's total of 161. After that, two quick wickets meant that England were on 378 with only one wicket left. Onions and Anderson started slowly but gathered confidence with a partnership of 47 until Anderson was caught by Hussey ending England's innings on 425 all-out. The Australians had just under an hour before lunch and James Anderson claimed two wickets with the crucial wicket of Ricky Ponting. A 93 run partnership seemed to have the Australians back in the game but 6 wickets for 53 runs put England into a very strong position going into day 3 with Hauritz and Siddle on 3* each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nHaving bowled Australia out for 215, England decided not to enforce the follow on. In England's 2nd Innings, openers Strauss and Cook started brightly as they looked to score quick runs to increase their lead in the match. After reaching 32 in 42 balls, Cook was trapped LBW by spinner Nathan Hauritz while England were on 61. Strauss fared little better against Hauritz and was out against him shortly afterwards by a catch from Michael Clarke. These two wickets brought Bopara and Pietersen to the crease and also signalled a slowing of the run rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nThis partnership lasted 28 overs when Hauritz, showing few ill-effects from his dislocated middle finger on Day 1, got another England wicket. Simon Katich caught Bopara for 27 from 93 balls. When Pietersen fell 7 overs later, caught behind to Siddle, the score 174 for 4. It was left to Collingwood and wicketkeeper Prior to accelerate the run-rate for England. Matt Prior in particular enjoyed success hitting a quick-fire 61 off 42 balls (an innings which included 9 boundaries) until he was dismissed run out by a quick piece of fielding from Marcus North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nUpon Prior's dismissal came Andrew Flintoff, playing in his last test for England at Lord's. Flintoff with Collingwood made a fifty partnership in 8 overs with Collingwood reaching his half-century. When Collingwood was dismissed caught behind off Siddle, Stuart Broad came on as next batsman but failed to face a ball as the umpires stopped play due to rain. Almost immediately afterwards, heavy showers meant that play was abandoned for the day with England 311 for 6, a lead over Australia of 521.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nPlay was delayed due to early showers until 11:15. Andrew Strauss immediately declared England's second innings closed on 311 for 6, leaving Australia a target of 522 to win in two days of play. England started strongly, reducing Australia to 128/5, but a counter-attack by Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin brought Australia back into the game, reaching 313/5 at the close of play, with an outside chance of reaching the target of 522. The highest total ever to have been reached by a test side in the fourth innings to win was 418 (West Indies vs Australia, 2002\u201303 at St John's).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nRequiring another 209 runs to win, Australia hopes were high with Michael Clarke on 136 and Brad Haddin on 80. England broke the partnership early when Andrew Flintoff made Haddin edge one to Paul Collingwood. Graeme Swann then bowled Clarke with his first ball of the day, and Flintoff then bowled both Nathan Hauritz and Peter Siddle to claim his first five-wicket-haul at Lord's, on his final appearance as a Test player at the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Second Test\nThe feat also meant he became one of the few players to grace both Lord's Honours Boards (because of the 142 he made against South Africa six years prior). With only one wicket left, Mitchell Johnson aggressively powered to 63 before he was clean-bowled by Swann to wrap up England's first Ashes Test victory at Lord's since 1934 at 12:42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nAustralia chose to bat first after winning the toss. Play began at 17:00 after a long rain delay. At the start of the day, Australian opener Phillip Hughes announced via his Twitter page that he had been dropped from the side. His replacement, all-rounder Shane Watson, put on 85 runs for the first wicket with Simon Katich before Katich was trapped LBW in Graeme Swann's first over. Over the course of the day's 30 overs, Watson accrued 62 runs not out as Australia finished the day at 126/1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nEngland started the day in fine form as Graham Onions removed Shane Watson and Michael Hussey with the first two balls of the day, before taking the wicket of Ricky Ponting soon after as the Australian captain tried to hook a quick bouncer. The Australians only added another 30 runs before James Anderson took the next wicket, sparking a sequence of four Anderson wickets in four overs for just 10 runs. Anderson and Onions shared the last two wickets between them as Nathan Hauritz and Ben Hilfenhaus put on 34 for the tenth wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nEngland opened their innings with the momentum in their favour, but they had to face the same batting conditions as the Australians had, and Alastair Cook was removed for a duck in the second over. Ravi Bopara was the next to fall as he continued his poor run of form and put on just 23 runs. However, Andrew Strauss and Ian Bell batted until the end of the day to take England into the third day at 116/2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nHeavy overnight rain left the pitch unplayable on Day 3. The umpires examined the pitch at 12:00 and 14:30, by which time large puddles had formed, forcing play to be abandoned for the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nThe fourth day began in the same fashion as the first three had: with a one-hour delay for rain. Play eventually got underway at 12:00, but the partnership only lasted another eight overs, as Strauss was caught behind by Graham Manou off Hilfenhaus. Collingwood was next to fall to Hilfenhaus, caught by Ponting at second slip with the last ball before lunch. Bell reached his half-century just after lunch, but was trapped LBW by Johnson five overs later. Matt Prior and Andrew Flintoff then developed a strong partnership, putting on 89 runs for the sixth wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nFlintoff and Stuart Broad then combined for another 52 runs before Flintoff was caught out by a Nathan Hauritz ball that spat out of the rough and caught him on the glove. The last three wickets went for 66 runs, with Broad top-scoring with 55 to take England to 376 all out, 113 runs ahead of the Aussies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nThe Australian innings began well, with the openers putting on 47 runs before two quick wickets fell to Onions and Swann in consecutive overs: Katich edged Onions to Prior, and then Swann tormented Ponting before clean-bowling him with the last ball of his over. The day ended with Australia on 88/2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nThe final day of the Third Test was the only day on which play began on schedule. Victory was a definite possibility for both sides, but England's 25-run lead gave them a slight advantage despite the time constraints. Australia drew level with England in the 10th over of the day, with both batsmen heading towards half-centuries. Watson was the first to reach 50, but was out off his next ball, edging the last ball of Anderson's first over of the day to Prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Third Test\nHussey was next to reach 50; however, he only put on 14 more before himself edging to Prior off Broad, in only Broad's second over of the innings. Australia's fifth-wicket partnership proved largely impenetrable for the remainder of the day, as Clarke and North pushed towards centuries and Australia towards a 200-run lead in the evening session. North looked the most likely to reach his century first, but \u2013 when still on 96 \u2013 he mistimed a drive that Anderson caught spectacularly at gully. Clarke then took another eight overs to reach his century with a four off Bopara, at which the two captains agreed to end the match as a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nEngland won the toss and decided to bat first. However, within four overs they were already a wicket down as Andrew Strauss was caught for just three runs. He was then followed by Ravi Bopara (1), Ian Bell (8) and Paul Collingwood (0) before the end of the 19th over. Alastair Cook had managed to stay in throughout all this, but he was soon caught on 30 runs by Michael Clarke off Stuart Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nAfter Cook's wicket, only Matt Prior offered any resistance, finishing the innings on 37 not out, while the five bowlers scored just six runs between them, three of them getting ducks. Although England responded well by getting Simon Katich out for a duck off series debutant Steve Harmison, the Australian innings began to gather pace and they were 69/1 off 15 overs by tea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nThe Australian second wicket partnership reached its century, but then three wickets came in relatively quick succession as Shane Watson fell for 51, Ricky Ponting for 78 and Michael Hussey for just 10 in the space of three overs. Australia finished the day on 196/4, with Michael Clarke on 34 and Marcus North on 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nResuming with a 94 run lead Clarke and North extended their partnership to 152 runs before it was broken by Graham Onions. After the lunch break, North continued with good support from the Australian tail and reached his century with a six. Clark was the best of the others with three sixes in his score of 32 (22 deliveries), and Australia finished with a total of 445. Stuart Broad recorded his best Test effort with figures of six wickets for 91 runs. The English openers started comfortably in the quest to erase the 343 run deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nBut just as it seemed they were in control, Ben Hilfenhaus struck twice in two balls, first removing Strauss with a ball that swung in subtly and then Bopara was dismissed for leg before, despite replays showing a deft inside edge onto his pad. Johnson produced a spell of left arm swing bowling that captured the prime wickets of Bell (3), Collingwood (4) and opener Cook. Nightwatchman Anderson was left with Prior at stumps with England in trouble at 82/5, still 261 runs behind Australia's total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nHilfenhaus dismissed Anderson with the third ball of the third day, when the batsman nicked a short ball outside off stump and was caught at second slip by Ponting. It came the delivery after Anderson scored a 4. Prior and Broad added a further 34 runs before Hilfenhaus had Prior taken behind by a diving Haddin. Broad and Swann then took the attack to the Australian bowlers, at one point taking 47 off 2.4 overs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fourth Test\nTheir eighth-wicket partnership of 108 from 79 balls was the second-fastest century stand in Test history, behind Kiwis Nathan Astle and Chris Cairns against England in 2002 (118 from 65 balls). Broad was out with the score at 228/8 attempting to hit a boundary off a wide delivery from Johnson and was caught by Watson in the deep. After lunch, Harmison continued to frustrate the Australian bowlers with 19 from 28 deliveries, until Swann (62) and Onions (0) fell to Johnson, and the innings concluded after 61.3 overs at 263 to give Australia a victory by an innings and 80 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nWith a 10-day break between the 4th and 5th Tests, England looked at their squad following their batting performances at Headingley. Many names were thrown up as possible replacements for the failing middle order of Bopara, Bell and Collingwood, including Jonathan Trott and Robert Key, as well as Mark Ramprakash, whose last test came in 2002, and Marcus Trescothick, who then ruled himself out of the running. The fitness of Andrew Flintoff was also questioned, as many commentators said that he would have to play if England were to win the Test. Flintoff remained in the squad, the only change being the introduction of Trott for Bopara, with the confirmation that the South African-born batsman would make his Test debut at The Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nEngland won the toss and captain Andrew Strauss chose to bat on a pitch quite uncharacteristic of what would be considered normal at The Oval. Although they lost Alastair Cook to an outside edge off Peter Siddle early in the innings, England recovered to reach 108/1 at lunch, with Strauss making his fifty in just 89 balls. However, the captain put on just five more after the break before being caught behind by wicket-keeper Brad Haddin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nThe next two wickets fell to Siddle in relatively quick succession: Paul Collingwood was caught at mid-on by Michael Hussey, before Ian Bell \u2013 who had reached his half-century off 73 balls \u2013 inside-edged onto his own stumps for 72. In came debutant Jonathan Trott, who took 12 balls to open his Test scoring tally, and continued to score slowly as he lost partners in Matt Prior and Andrew Flintoff, who made just seven runs in the first innings of his final Test match to take England to 247/6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nTrott himself was next to fall, run out by Simon Katich: Trott clipped the ball to the leg side, but Katich made a smart stop and, with just one to aim at, threw the ball at the stumps, catching Trott well out of his ground. The eighth wicket stood for another 39 runs, when Graeme Swann was caught behind off Siddle for the Australian's fourth wicket of the innings, and with that play was closed for the day with England at 307/8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nEngland added just 25 more runs for their last two wickets at the start of Day 2, Hilfenhaus trapping Anderson LBW for 0 in the second over of the day (ending his 54 innings sequence without a duck), before dismissing Broad for 37. Shane Watson and Simon Katich took Australia to 66/0 before rain forced lunch to be taken three minutes early, with the resumption of play delayed until almost 14:30. After lunch the Australian openers lasted just two overs before the start of a massive Broad-inspired batting collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nFirst to fall was Watson, LBW on 34, then Ricky Ponting was deceived by a cutter from Broad and played onto his own stumps for just eight runs. Michaels Hussey and Clarke were next to go, Hussey LBW for a duck, before Clarke was caught low at short extra cover by Jonathan Trott. After a spell in which Broad took four wickets for just eight runs, Swann returned to the attack and immediately took the wicket of Marcus North, although replays subsequently showed that the Australian number 6 got an inside edge to the ball before it struck his pad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nKatich reached his half-century in the 37th over of the innings, but was out the very next ball, caught by Alastair Cook at short leg. Broad completed his five-wicket haul in the 39th over, bowling Brad Haddin to give him wicket-to-wicket figures of 5/19 and leave only the Australian bowlers to dismiss. Swann took the next two wickets \u2013 albeit that of Stuart Clark was given incorrectly \u2013 leaving it to Flintoff to bowl Hilfenhaus and end the Australian innings for 160 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0028-0003", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nThe English openers returned to the crease and put on 27 before Cook edged North to first slip for just nine. Mitchell Johnson then combined well with Simon Katich at short leg for the next two wickets, Katich catching Bell low before Johnson thumped a bouncer into Collingwood, looping the ball up for Katich to catch easily, leaving the home side at 39/3. Nevertheless, Strauss and Trott recovered well to take England into the third day at 58/3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nStrauss and Trott built a partnership of 118 before the England captain edged to Michael Clarke at first slip just before the lunch break on day three. With the final ball of the morning session, Prior drove a ball from North to the off side and hit Ricky Ponting at silly point square in the jaw. The Australian captain, looked nonplussed, simply spat out some blood. After lunch, Prior was run out while attempting to sneak a run, despite hitting the ball straight to Katich, who threw down the stumps at the bowler's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nThe next man in was Andrew Flintoff, playing in his final Test innings, and he added 22 off 18 before being caught on the long-on boundary. A lofted straight drive from England's most promising all-round prospect, Stuart Broad, brought up the 400 lead, but an attempted slog found his top edge and he was caught by Ponting off North for 29. Meanwhile, Trott progressed towards his maiden Test century, ably supported by Graeme Swann, who reached his half-century in just 44 balls. However, the England spinner was eventually caught behind, top-edging a pull shot off a bouncer from Hilfenhaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nTrott then became the 18th England cricketer to make a century on debut with a four off Hilfenhaus's next over, but he and Anderson only managed to add another 31 before Trott was caught by North at point off Stuart Clark, prompting a declaration from Andrew Strauss. England's score of 373/9 declared meant that in order to win the match Australia would need to make 546 runs in just over two days on a pitch that had not yet produced more than 400 over the course of the match. England, on the other hand, needed only to take 10 Australian wickets. The Australian openers managed to get to 80 without loss by the end of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nStarting the day at 80/0, Australia lost both Simon Katich and Shane Watson LBW in quick succession within the first five overs. Ponting and Hussey then built an impressive partnership, sharing a stand of 127 runs before Ponting was run out by a direct hit from Andrew Flintoff fielding at mid-off, which marked an important turning point in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nMichael Clarke was then run out in the very next over following some sharp fielding from Andrew Strauss at slip, while Marcus North was next to go when he left his ground to reach for a Graeme Swann delivery but missed, allowing keeper Matt Prior to stump him before he could get back. Hussey and Haddin steadied the innings as Hussey reached his first century in 28 Test innings after earlier being dropped by Paul Collingwood on 55, but Haddin was eventually out for 34 attempting a big shot over mid-wicket, where he was caught in the deep by Strauss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201530-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 Ashes series, Matches, Fifth Test\nHarmison took the wicket of Mitchell Johnson for a duck in the next over, and then removed Siddle and Clark in consecutive balls. Hilfenhaus survived the hat-trick ball, but the match only lasted another two overs as Hussey was caught by Cook at short leg off the bowling of Swann. England won the match by 197 runs, to claim a 2\u20131 series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201531-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship\nThe 2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship season was an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201531-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship\nAustralian Subaru driver Cody Crocker won his fourth successive title, the first driver to do so. Crocker's co-driver, Ben Atkinson likewise wrapped up the co-drivers title. Crocker scored 94 out of a possible 96 points to complete dominate the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201531-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship\nThe Pacific Cup, decided over the first three rallies in the season was won by New Zealand pairing, Hayden Paddon and John Kennard. Crocker won the Asia Cup, held over the later four rallies of the season. Crocker's team mate, New Zealand driver Emma Gilmour finished second in the championship, moving past former champion Katsuhiko Taguchi at the final round to become the first woman to finish in the series top three positions. Subaru won the Manufacturers Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201532-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Aerobic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were the first edition of the Asian Aerobic Gymnastics Championships, and were held in Bangkok, Thailand from March 27 to March 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201533-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Airgun Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Airgun Championships were held in Doha, Qatar between December 16 and December 22, 2009. It acts as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201534-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 25th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held from June 7 to June 13, 2009 in Zhuhai, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201535-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Archery Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Archery Championships was the 16th edition of the Asian Archery Championships. The event was held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia from December 15 to December 21, 2009 and was organized by Asian Archery Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201536-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Athletics Championships\nThe 18th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Guangzhou, China in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201543-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium on November 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 208]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201553-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump event at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium on November 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201581-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Baseball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Baseball Championship is an international baseball competition that was held in Sapporo, Japan from July 27 to August 3, 2009. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and featured teams from China, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201581-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Baseball Championship, Qualification Tournament\nEight teams were featured in the qualifying tournament from May 25\u201330, 2009. In the end Indonesia advanced as the winning team to the B level competition in Narita, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201582-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Baseball Cup\nThe 2009 Asian Baseball Cup was hosted in Bangkok, Thailand after being scheduled to be held in the Philippines. The tournament was won by Indonesia in the final against Pakistan. Indonesia will continue to the 2009 Asian Baseball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201583-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Beach Volleyball Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Beach Volleyball Championship was a beach volleyball event, that was held from December 23 to 26, 2009 in Haikou, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201584-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships was the 13th Asian Canoe Sprint Championships and took place from September 26\u201329, 2009 in Azadi Lake, Tehran, Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering\nThe 2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering (Chinese: \u4e9a\u6d32\u6ed1\u96ea\u767b\u5c71\u9526\u6807\u8d5b) was the second edition of an Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering\nThe event was organized by the Asia Ski Mountaineering Federation (ASMF), and was the first officially sanctioned Asian Championship by the new International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF), which emerged from the ISMC in 2008. At this edition a vertical race and a relay race was added. So that the few female ski mountaineers could also participate in the relay race event, the teams were mixed with at least one female racer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering\nThe championship was held at the Beidahu ski ressort in the Chinese Nagano Prefecture from February 10 to February 13, 2009. Participating were racers from China, South Korea and Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering, Results, Vertical race\nEvent held on February 11, 2009; participating where racers from China, South Korea and Japan; course length: 720\u00a0metres", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering, Results, Individual\nEvent held on February 12, 2009; course length: 1.900\u00a0metres; course of the female racers was 300\u00a0metres shortened", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201585-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering, Results, Relay\nEvent held on February 12, 2009; mixed teams of at least one female (f) racer", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201586-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Cross Country Championships\nThe 10th Asian Cross Country Championships took place on March 1, 2009 in Manama, Bahrain. Team rankings were decided by a combination of each nation's top three athletes finishing positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201587-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Cycling Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Cycling Championships took place at the Tenggarong Velodrome in Tenggarong and Samarinda, Indonesia from 14 to 20 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201588-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Fencing Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Fencing Championships was held in Doha, Qatar from 14 November to 19 November, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201589-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations\nFor divisional competitions, see: 2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201589-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations\nThe 2009 Asian Five Nations, known as the 2009 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to its sponsorship by HSBC, was the second series of the rugby union Asian Five Nations, the flagship competition devised by the International Rugby Board to develop the sport in the Asian region. The tournament played a role in qualifying for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, with Singapore, the last place team, being relegated to Division 1. As the 2010 edition will serve as the final round of Asian qualifying, Singapore is effectively eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201589-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations, Teams\nThe teams involved, with their world rankings pre tournament, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments\nFor main Top 5 Division, see: 2009 Asian Five Nations", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments\nThe 2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, known as the 2009 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the HSBC, refer to the Asian Five Nations divisions played within the tournament. This was the 2nd series of the Asian Five Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments\nThere were three main divisions, with two further regional divisions. The winners of Division 1 would be promoted up to the Top Division for 2010, as will the winner of Division 2 being promoted to Division 1. The loser of Division 1, drops to Division 2. With the newly included Division 3, this also means the winner of Division 3 will replace the loser of Division 2 in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments\nScoring system: 5 points for a win, three for a draw, one bonus point for being within seven points of the winning team, and one for four tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, Teams\nThe teams involved, with their world rankings pre tournament, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201590-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, Division 1\nDivision One served as the second round of qualifying for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, as the champion, Arabian Gulf, earned promotion to the Asian Five Nations for the 2010 season. The 2010 HSBC Asian Five Nations will be the final qualifying stage for the Asian representative at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201591-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Indoor Games\nThe 3rd Asian Indoor Games (Vietnamese: \u0110\u1ea1i h\u1ed9i Th\u1ec3 thao Trong nh\u00e0 ch\u00e2u \u00c1 2009) were held in Vietnam from 30 October till 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201591-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Indoor Games, Mascot\nThe mascot of the 2009 event is the Ho chicken (G\u00e0 H\u1ed3), a distinctly Vietnamese rare breed of chicken, familiar as a symbol in Vietnam. According to folklore, the chicken (particularly the roosters) have the five qualities of a man of honour: literacy, martial arts, physical strength, humanity and loyalty. The symbolism in the context of the AIGs is that the G\u00e0 H\u1ed3 rooster rising himself to welcome the sun is linked to the readiness of the sports industry of Vietnam to host this major event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201591-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Indoor Games, Participating nations\nAll of OCA members participated in the Games, excluding: Pakistan, Palestine, & Timor-Leste. In the brackets are the total numbers of the athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201591-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Indoor Games, Sports\nThe 2009 Asian Indoor Games did not feature indoor cycling, extreme sports and indoor hockey which were played in the previous games. All of the demonstration sports in the 2007 Asian Indoor Games namely, 3 on 3 basketball, kurash and kickboxing, were included in this year's Asian Indoor Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201592-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Judo Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Judo Championships were held at Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan from 23 May to 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201593-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships\nThe 15th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships 2009 were held in Jaipur, India, from  22 \u2010 26 July 2009. It was organised by the Table Tennis Federation of India under the authority of the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201594-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Karate Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Karate Championships are the 9th edition of the Asian Karate Championships, and were held in Nanhai Gymnasium, Foshan, China from September 25 to September 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games\nThe 1st Asian Martial Arts Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand from August 1, 2009, to August 9, 2009, in 9 sports. Due to Political crisis in Thailand And 2009 Swine Flu, the Bangkok Asian Martial Arts Games Organizing Committee (BAMAGOC) and the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Thailand decided that Asian Martial Arts Games moved from the original schedule of April 25 to May 3 now on August 1 - 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games, Emblem\nThe emblem comprises the letter \"A\" which stands for Asia that would include the Asian countries and population as well; while the letter \"M\" stands for Martial Arts Sports. The two connected letters are reflecting the meanings of modernity, activeness and simplicity; combining with the thoughts and cohesiveness of friendship and equality among the countries in Asia for the upcoming Martial Arts Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games, Emblem\nFor the overall picture, it is a mixture of contemporary art, manifesting that Thailand is to act as the host of the Games. Red is the main color of the OCA, reflecting the color of the fight, standing for the color of the heart and colorizing the Asian art. Gold is the color of brightness of the Thai Kingdom and is the color for creativity and determination to organize the 1st Asian Martial Arts Games 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games, Mascot\n\"Hanuman\" is a white \u2013 creamy super monkey and considers it as the God of the ape which has every kind of fighting skill with strong determination of great success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games, Mascot\nThe Organizing Committee uses \"Hanuman Yindee\" as the Mascot as it wants to convey the message of the word \"Yindee\" which means proudness and gratification. Furthermore, the Organizing Committee is using the word \"Yindee\" as to extend to everybody a warm welcome and a chance of making continuous friendship and solidarity throughout the entire peoples of Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201595-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Martial Arts Games, Participating nations\n37 out of the 45 Asian countries took part. Iran, North Korea, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Timor-Leste did not compete. Iran, a favourite for a spot at the top of the leader board pulled out of the contest after fears of catching swine flu forced the Iranian National Olympic Committee to advise the country pull out of the contest. Palestine, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan did not have any competitors at the games but their athletes still counted in the draw in Taekwondo because of their late withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201596-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship was the 10th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201596-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nThe teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2008 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201597-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was held from September 27 to October 5, 2009 in Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201597-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nThe teams are seeded by addition of ranking of 2007 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship and FIVB World Rankings divided by 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201598-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Netball Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Netball Championship was the seventh edition of the Asian Netball Championship, a quadrennial Asian netball championship co-ordinated by the Asian Federation of Netball Associations (AIFNA), inaugurated in 1985. Nine nations competed in the tournament with the Sri Lanka taking out their fourth Asian Championship over Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201599-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 4th Seniors Rhythmic Gymnastics Asian Championships was held in Astana, Kazakhstan during 15 \u2013 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201599-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Results, Team\nThe team final was held on 16 October 2010. The team final score was the total of top 10 scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201600-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Speed Skating Championships were held between 4 January and 5 January 2009 at the Tomakomai Highland Sports Center in Tomakomai, Hokkaid\u014d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201601-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Swimming Championships\nThe 8th Asian Swimming Championships were held November 25\u201328, 2009 in Foshan, China. It featured 38 different events (19 male, 19 female), all of which were contested in a 50m (long course) pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201601-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Swimming Championships, Participating countries\n174 swimmers (102 males, 72 females) from 15 countries swam at the Championships. Teams were from:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201601-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Swimming Championships, Event schedule\nPrelims (morning) sessions began at 9:00\u00a0a.m., Finals (evening) sessions began at 7:30\u00a0p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201602-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Table Tennis Championships were held in Lucknow, India from 16 to 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201603-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Tour\nThe 2009 Asian Tour was the 15th season of the modern Asian Tour, the main men's professional golf tour in Asia excluding Japan, since it was established in 1995. Prize money for the season exceeded US$39 million and Thongchai Jaidee topped the Order of Merit for the third time with US$981,932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201603-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Tour, Tournament results\nThe number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Asian Tour members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201603-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Tour, Tournament results\nOnly 50% of the prize money from major championships and World Golf Championships are counted towards the Order of Merit, but are not shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201603-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Tour, Leading money winners\nThere is a complete list on the official site .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201604-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Weightlifting Championships were held in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan between May 11 and May 15, 2009. It was the 40th men's and 21st women's championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201604-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201605-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship was the 10th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201605-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nThe teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2008 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201605-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nThailand (Host & 2nd) North Korea (4th) Chinese Taipei Iran Uzbekistan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201606-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship (10th tournament) took place in Bangkok from 13 August\u201318 August. It acts as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2010 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201607-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Hanoi, Vietnam from September 5 to September 13, 2009. 14 teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201607-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, Pools composition\nThe teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 2007 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201608-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship (3rd tournament) took place in Amman from 4 July\u20139 July. It acts as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics in Singapore and the 2010 Women's Youth World Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201609-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Wrestling Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Pattaya, Thailand. The event took place from May 2 to May 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games\nThe 2009 Asian Youth Games or AYG 2009 (Malay: Sukan Belia Asia 2009, Sukan Belia Asia Dua Ribu Sembilan; Chinese: 2009\u4e9a\u6d32\u9752\u5e74\u8fd0\u52a8\u4f1a, Li\u01cengqi\u0101nji\u01d4 Y\u00e0zh\u014du Q\u012bngni\u00e1n Y\u00f9nd\u00f2nghu\u00ec; Tamil: 2009 \u0b86\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf \u0b87\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0b9e\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd, Ira\u1e47\u1e6d\u0101yirattu O\u1e49patu \u0100ciya I\u1e37ai\u00f1ar Vi\u1e37aiy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6duka\u1e37) officially the 1st Asian Youth Games (Malay: Sukan Belia Asia Pertama; Chinese: \u7b2c\u4e00\u7684\u4e9a\u6d32\u9752\u5e74\u8fd0\u52a8\u4f1a, D\u00ecy\u012bde Y\u00e0zh\u014du Q\u012bngni\u00e1n Y\u00f9nd\u00f2nghu\u00ec; Tamil: \u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b86\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf \u0b87\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0b9e\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd, Mutalil \u0100ciya I\u1e37ai\u00f1ar Vi\u1e37aiy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6duka\u1e37) and commonly as Singapore 2009 (Malay: Singapura 2009, Singapura Dua Ribu Sembilan; Chinese: \u65b0\u52a0\u57612009, X\u012bnji\u0101p\u014d Li\u01cengqi\u0101nji\u01d4; Tamil: \u0b9a\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc2\u0bb0\u0bcd 2009, Ci\u1e45kapp\u016br Ira\u1e47\u1e6d\u0101yirattu O\u1e49patu), was held in Singapore from 29 June to 7 July 2009 in over 90 sporting events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games\nThe plan for the Asian Youth Games was part of Singapore's bid to stage the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (YOG). The purpose was to allow youths to use the chance to benchmark their performances against youth teams from Asian nations. The Games also provided Singapore with an opportunity to test organisational and logistical capabilities in advance of the 2010 YOG. The organisation of the Games, spearheaded by the Singapore Sports Council, cost S$15 million, which was part of the $130 million for YOG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Torch relay\nThe 1st Asian Youth Games torch relay started on 28 June morning with the Community and Corporate Leg. The flame lighting ceremony was held on 28 June at the Kallang Waterfront. The flame is then carried across the island in buses to arrive at the start of the three routes, named after the Olympic values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. A total of 70 torchbearers were involved in day one of the relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Torch relay\nThe torch relay resumed on 29 June for the Schools leg, with the flame travelling to 45 schools around Singapore, where over a hundred runners had the honour of carrying the torch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Torch relay\nThe relay ended at the Singapore Indoor Stadium where three athletes ran in with the torches and light the cauldron as part of the Opening Ceremony celebrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Branding, Theme song\nThe theme song entitled Asia's Youth, Our Future was unveiled on 19 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Branding, Theme song\nThe song carries the message of hope and friendship and was composed by musician Iskandar Ismail, and written jointly by Jose Raymond and Hoo Cher Liek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Branding, Emblem\nThe official emblem of the 2009 Asian Youth Games was unveiled on 14 November 2008 and designed by Brainwave Design. The logo, as described by Olympic Council of Asia, represents excellence and victory that the athletes will bring during the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Branding, Mascot\nFrasia, which means Friends of Asia, is the name of the official mascot for the 1st Asian Youth Games. The mascot embodies the values and spirit of the Asian Youth Games. The sprightly lion exemplifies friendship, respect and excellence. It constitutes a spirited representation of young hearts and minds in pursuit of sporting excellence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Branding, Stamps\nMany countries' postal services have also released stamps, such as Uzbekistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Broadcast\nThe sports events were broadcast 'live' primarily via the official website through 4 concurrent 'live' streams during the games period. It was the first multi-sport event to receive approval from the Olympic Council of Asia to provide broadcast coverage of all the sports events completely via digital channels. Singapore's television channel, MediaCorp Channel 5 provided daily highlights of the Games. StarHub TV had 4 dedicated TV channels to provide coverage for the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Broadcast\nThe opening ceremony was broadcast 'live' via the website. In addition, Video On-Demand Clips capturing key sporting highlights of the various games were made available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Venues\nThe Asian Youth Games and the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games are expected to use the same competition venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Venues\nNTUC Downtown East originally was the planned Games Village for athletes and officials. However, a decision was made to move the Games Village to central Singapore at Swissotel The Stamford. The change was made as NTUC Downtown East does not have enough beds for the athletes. Due to the H1N1 outbreak, Swissotel The Stamford catered the ninth floor to suspect cases in athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Opening ceremony\nThemed Asia's Youth, Our Future, the inaugural Asian Youth Games opening ceremony on 29 June was held in the Singapore Indoor Stadium. More than 1,400 performers from 20 schools and tertiary institutions took part in the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was graced by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Representatives from the Olympic Council of Asia and the Singapore National Olympic Council were also present. There were three segments which were showcased: 'Asia's Zest', 'Garden in the City', and 'Spirit Of Evolution'. The AYG cauldron was lit by three Singaporean young athletes, Tao Li (swimming), Remy Ong (bowling), and Jasmine Ser (shooting).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Participating nations\nThe Singapore Asian Youth Games 2009 saw an estimated 1,300 athletes aged between 14 and 17 from 43 countries competing in more than 80 sporting events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Sports\nAttempts were made to stage all 26 YOG sports but, due to time and resource constraints, Singapore and the Olympic Council of Asia trimmed it to nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Sports\nThere were a total of 9 sports, the 8 that the Singapore and the Olympic Council of Asia trimmed down from the 26 YOG sports as well as an addition sport of Bowling which is not an official Olympics Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Incidents\nAn athlete from Philippines who was participating in the football matches came down with H1N1 flu, causing the Group A football preliminary match between Philippines and Chinese Taipei due to be played at Meridian Junior College at 5pm (1700hrs) on 20 June 2009 to be suspended till further notice. The player's condition is stable, according to the AYG2009 website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Incidents\nFour cases of H1N1 flu virus were discovered from the Hong Kong booters on 22 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201610-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Games, Incidents\nMalaysia has withdrawn most of its athletes (with the exception of their sailors) due to concerns over the H1N1 outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201611-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Para Games\nThe 2009 Asian Youth Para Games (Japanese: 2009\u5e74\u30a2\u30b8\u30a2\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30d1\u30e9\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u30ba, romanized:\u00a0Nisenky\u016b-Nen Ajiay\u016bsuparag\u0113muzu), officially known as the 1st Asian Youth Para Games,  was an Asian youth disabled multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan from 10 to 13 September 2009. Around 466 athletes from 29 participating nations participated at the games which featured 6 sports consisted of 5 main sports and 1 demonstration sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201611-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Para Games\nThis was the first time Japan hosted the games. Japan is the first nation to host the Asian Youth Para Games. The games was opened and closed by Akihito at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201611-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Para Games\nThe final medal tally was led by host Japan, followed by Iran and China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201611-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Asian Youth Para Games, Organisation, Development and preparation\nThe Tokyo 2009 Asian Youth Para Games Organising Committee (TAYPOC) was formed to oversee the staging of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings\nThe 2009 Assam serial blasts occurred on 6 April 2009 in the Maligaon and Dhekiajuli areas of the Assamese capital Guwahati on the eve of the Assamese Rajya Sabha MP and Indian Prime Minister's visit to address poll rallies. It also came during the campaigning phase of the 2009 Indian general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Background\nIn the light of 2008's attacks around the country, particularly the Mumbai attacks, as well as other bombings in Assam in both 2008 and New Year's Day 2009, this adds to the instability of the insurgency-racked Seven Sister States. After the Mumbai attacks security in the country was a major concern due to the elections. This led to a vociferous debate in the country of the ability to manage security along with the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Background, Follow-up\nEarlier in the day suspected members of the militant outfit Karbi Longri National Liberation Front exploded a bomb near a BSF camp at Jengpha in the central Karbi Anglong district. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was also scheduled to hold a poll rally in the district headquarters of Diphu, which itself was cancelled from the previous day due to unspecified reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Bomb attacks\nThe DGP of Assam said 7 were killed and 56 injured in the Maligaon blast at around 14:00 IST. The blast also sparked a fire that set ablaze two cars and 20 motorcycles as it spread to a three-storey building housing the area police station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Bomb attacks\nHours later, five people were reported injured in the Dhekiajuli blast that was, according to reports, planted on a cycle. Six were killed at the blast site, while one succumbed to injuries after jumping from an adjacent building which had caught fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Perpetrators\nThough it was still too early to point any fingers the media said \"suspected ULFA militants\" had a hand in carrying out this attack. Assam DGP J M Srivastav said that \"this is the handiwork of ULFA boys ahead of the outfit's 'Raising Day,'\" while adding that the militants used hi-tech explosives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201612-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Assam bombings, Reactions\nAssam CM Tarun Gogoi immediately acknowledged a lapse in security, saying the attack could have been prevented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201613-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Assembly of Experts by-election in Tehran Province\nA by-election was held on 12 June 2009 for the vacant seat of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran Province, caused by death of Mohammad-Hassan Marashi. It was held along with the 2009 Iranian presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201613-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Assembly of Experts by-election in Tehran Province\nThe seat was won by Mahmoud Alavi, who gained more than 2.6 millions out of 5.8 millions of votes cast. He was not supported by major clerical organizations, The Two Societies had endorsed Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201614-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Assen Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Assen Superbike World Championship round will be the fourth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of April 24\u201326, 2009 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season\nThe 2009 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October with the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited to and obliged to attend every UCI ProTour event, and were invited to every event in the inaugural UCI World Calendar as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season\nWith a strong identity as a stage racing team, Astana's leaders in 2009 were Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer, and Lance Armstrong, who returned to competitive cycling in 2009 after a four-year absence. The team's manager up through the Tour de France was Johan Bruyneel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season\nThe team's biggest success in 2009 was Contador's overall victory in the Tour de France. Elsewhere, their main successes in 2009 were in small stage races, with Contador winning the Volta ao Algarve and the Vuelta al Pa\u00eds Vasco as well as two stages in Paris\u2013Nice, and Leipheimer winning the Tour of California and the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n. The team also won the team classification at numerous events. The team failed to live up to lofty expectations in the Giro d'Italia; Leipheimer was widely considered a favorite for victory, as was Armstrong before a collarbone injury sustained weeks before, but Leipheimer finished sixth overall and the team did not win any stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season\nAway from competition, the team's season was marked by financial troubles with their sponsors in the Kazakhstani government, which threatened the team's makeup and very existence for a time. The return of Alexander Vinokourov from retirement and a ban for doping, which ended just as the 2009 Tour de France did, changed the team's makeup for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, One-day races, Spring classics\nBy their own admission, Astana did not aim for the classics. Astana's first one-day race of the season was Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Their best-placed rider was Michael Sch\u00e4r in 35th. Aside from their one podium finish, with Maxim Iglinsky in E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, the seventh place attained by Daniel Navarro in the Gran Premio di Lugano was the team's best result in a one-day race in the spring season. Through Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne, Milan\u00a0\u2013 San Remo (which saw the participation of Armstrong), the Tour of Flanders, Gent\u2013Wevelgem, Paris\u2013Roubaix, the Amstel Gold Race, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge they did not have a rider finish higher than 16th (Assan Bazayev in Milan\u00a0\u2013 San Remo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, One-day races, Fall races\nAstana raced a light schedule in the fall, with the pinnacle of their season having come at the Tour de France. The team sent squads to the Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n, Vattenfall Cyclassics, the GP Ouest-France, the Giro dell'Emilia, the GP Beghelli, the Giro del Piemonte, and the Giro di Lombardia. Their best results from this crop of races came from Alexander Vinokourov, who finished seventh in Lombardy and fifth in the Giro dell'Emilia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nThe first event in which the team participated in 2009 was the Tour Down Under. As it was Armstrong's first event back after four years of retirement, he made many headlines and was even specially promoted on the event's webpage, though neither he nor the team were especially competitive in the event. Armstrong finished 29th overall, with the same time as Jes\u00fas Hern\u00e1ndez in 28th as the best-placed Astana riders. The team did not finish in the top ten in any stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nIn February, the team competed in the Tour of California, where Leipheimer won the individual time trial in Solvang and the Tour itself for the third straight year. The team also won the teams classification. While the Tour of California was ongoing, the team sent another eight-man squad including Contador and Andreas Kl\u00f6den to the Volta ao Algarve. Contador and Kl\u00f6den were first and third, respectively, in the time trial in Stage 4, giving Contador the overall lead which he retained through the conclusion of the race the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nAt Paris\u2013Nice in March, Contador appeared well in line to repeat his victory there from two years prior, winning the opening individual time trial  and the mountainous sixth stage. He dramatically faltered in Stage 7, however, losing the yellow jersey and three minutes to Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez, and ultimately finishing fourth. He was unable to chase down S\u00e1nchez because of what was later blamed on dietary problems. The team experienced both success and hardship in the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n later in the month. Leipheimer won the event overall, with Contador having ridden the event in support for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nThe first day, however, Armstrong was involved in a crash and taken to the hospital with was later revealed as a fractured clavicle. The injury was thought to take away from Armstrong's previously high odds to win the Giro d'Italia, and there was briefly speculation that he would even pull out of the Giro because of the injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nIn April, Contador claimed a convincing victory in the Vuelta al Pa\u00eds Vasco, taking the race lead by winning the mountainous Stage 3 and dominating the final time trial. Though they did not race as Astana due to UCI rules, Armstrong, Leipheimer, and Chris Horner took part in the Tour of the Gila at the end of April and early May in what was Armstrong's first race back from the collarbone injury, with Leipheimer and Armstrong finishing in the top two places. With a squad made up of riders that normally ride in support for others, the team took a stage win (Kl\u00f6den) and second overall (Janez Brajkovi\u010d) in the Giro del Trentino, also in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nAstana participated in the Volta a Catalunya in May, while the Giro d'Italia was ongoing. The team did not win any stage, but Haimar Zubeldia took third overall in the event, and the team won the teams classification. In the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 in June, Contador was thought to be a favorite for victory, but he did not seem to try his hardest to win, not attacking or taking any pulls on the mountainous Stage 5 and seeming to work for Alejandro Valverde on the race's last two days. The team next took part in the Tour de Suisse, with Kl\u00f6den in fourth their highest-placed rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Stage races\nAstana sent squads to the Brixia Tour, the Tour de Pologne, the Tour of Ireland, the Eneco Tour, the Tour of Missouri, and Franco\u2013Belge, but did not obtain a stage win, podium finish, or classification victory in any of them. The squad sent to the Tour de l'Ain was more successful. Chris Horner obtained the race lead after the individual time trial in stage 3B, which was won by Alexander Vinokourov riding for the Kazakh national team. Though Horner fell to second behind Tour de l'Ain champion Rein Taaram\u00e4e the next day as the race concluded, he did win the points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nAstana was one of 22 teams which participated in the Giro d'Italia. Contador chose to skip the Giro, despite his status as reigning champion, in order to concentrate on the Tour de France. The squad Astana sent to the Giro included Armstrong, in his first Grand Tour since the 2005 Tour de France and first ever Giro, and Leipheimer, who was considered to be a favorite to win the event. Support riders on the squad included Yaroslav Popovych, Chris Horner, and Janez Brajkovi\u010d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nThe team started well, coming in third place in the team time trial in Stage 1, putting Leipheimer and Armstrong 13 seconds off the race lead. In the first mountain stage three days later, Leipheimer finished with Popovych and Horner with the same time as stage winner Danilo Di Luca, while Armstrong lost 15 seconds. The next day, Armstrong lost nearly three minutes and effectively lost any chance in the General Classification, while Leipheimer remained within ten seconds of stage winner Denis Menchov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nLeipheimer was fourth overall after that stage and remained there until Stage 12, the very long and irregular individual time trial in Cinque Terre, where he was the only rider within a minute of the winning time put up by Menchov and moved to third overall. Horner withdrew from the race after Stage 10, after sustaining a leg injury that for a time prevented him from even being able to stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nLeipheimer would fall from a podium position days later, though. After stages won by sprinters and breakaways, Stage 16, with a summit finish at Monte Petrano, was the next real test for riders aiming for the General Classification. Leipheimer was dropped by other leading riders on the climb and wound up losing almost three minutes on the stage, to fall to sixth overall. With their GC hopes all but dashed, Astana decided to try for stage wins on the remaining mountain days in the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nArmstrong attacked on Stage 17 and got clear of the leading group, but was unable to bridge to the man in first position on the road, Franco Pellizotti, who went on to win the stage. Ultimately, Astana did not win any stage at the Giro, but they did win the Trofeo Fast Team, beating Team Columbia\u2013High Road by over 24 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nThe team was one of 20 to receive an invitation to the Tour de France. Contador, Leipheimer, and Armstrong were all named to the team. There was much speculation and controversy, which began when Armstrong first signed with the team, over who would be the team's protected rider in the Tour. Though Armstrong's express goal in returning from retirement was to win an eighth Tour de France, Contador had won his last three Grand Tours and insisted that he deserved leadership of the team and hinted that he might leave if forced to support Armstrong. Bruyneel assured Contador that he would be the leader before the season began. Contador was also publicly named team leader shortly before the Tour began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nThe team showed well in the Stage 1 individual time trial, with Contador, Kl\u00f6den, Leipheimer, and Armstrong all finishing in the top ten, and Contador just 19 seconds off the time put up by stage winner Fabian Cancellara. Two days later, a surprising move made by Team Columbia\u2013HTC resulted in the field being split, as eight members of that team pushed a 28-man breakaway toward the finish line ahead of the main peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nArmstrong, Popovych, and Zubeldia were in the first group, as Popovych and Zubeldia had helped to drive the break, while Leipheimer, Contador, and the other members of the team were in the second group 41 seconds back. This resulted in Armstrong rising to third overall and displacing Contador as the team's best-placed rider. Speculation ensued that this move was meant to firmly install Armstrong as the team's leader, and Contador was visibly stunned by the stage result when interviewed afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nAstana won the Stage 4 team time trial the next day, putting Armstrong a mere 22/100ths of a second off the race lead and Contador, Kl\u00f6den, and Leipheimer behind him third through fifth, with Zubeldia also in the top ten at seventh. After a couple of sprinter-friendly stages where the main contenders stuck together out of trouble, the high mountain Stage 7 shook the standings, and Astana, again. Coming to the finish line, a group of overall contenders was in ninth position on the road, as remnants of the morning's breakaway were scattered ahead of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nInstead of finishing as a cohesive group, Contador attacked from this group and gained 21 seconds, putting him ahead of Armstrong as Astana's best-placed rider again, though both were within 8 seconds of new race leader Rinaldo Nocentini. Armstrong said of Contador's attack that it \"wasn't really the plan,\" but that he was nonetheless unsurprised by it. The team was dealt a major blow in Stage 12, when Leipheimer, after crashing with Cadel Evans in the final kilometers of the stage, was forced to leave the Tour with a broken wrist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nStage 15 proved to be a crucial one, as the Tour entered Switzerland in a stage with many high mountain climbs. With about three kilometers gone by in an 8.8\u00a0km final climb to Verbier, Contador attacked and got free of the leading group, that included Kl\u00f6den and Armstrong, soloing to the line for the stage win and the yellow jersey. Armstrong said after the stage that he had given it everything he had in the climb and Contador was simply the stronger rider; it was seen as settling any lingering controversy over the squad's leader and protected rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nContador all but cemented the Tour title by winning the time trial in Annecy in Stage 18, just beating out Cancellara to post the day's best time. Armstrong gained a little over a minute on Fr\u00e4nk Schleck by finishing 16th, and climbed back into a podium position, third, with the result. The two finished the Tour in those positions after holding them on Mont Ventoux, and then riding home safely in the Tour's largely ceremonial finale in Stage 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe team was one of 22 to receive an invite to the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. After having first been named only as a reserve, the returning Alexander Vinokourov was named to the squad five days before the race began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nAstana's Vuelta was a quiet one. Vinokourov placed in the top ten of the opening individual time trial but he fell out of the top ten of the overall standings the next day due to a crash. Haimar Zubeldia's 18th-place finish on stage 8, which was the Vuelta's first high mountain stage, propelled him into eighth overall until the next day, when he lost time and fell to ninth. In stage 10, Vinokourov figured in a winning breakaway, but his poor positioning in the four-man sprint finish meant the stage victory went to Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam's Simon Gerrans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nBefore stage 12, Astana held ninth overall. They continued to hold it after the stage, but the rider in that position changed; Zubeldia had been in the top ten, but finished further behind stage winner Ryder Hesjedal than Daniel Navarro, so it was Navarro who was the team's highest-placed rider after the stage. After the next two stages, Navarro also fell from the top ten, and the team did not achieve anything further, with Navarro in 13th their highest-placed rider in the race's final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Financial troubles\nShortly before the beginning of the Giro d'Italia, it was reported that many of the team's sponsors in Kazakhstan had not paid their full obligations to the team, and that most of the riders had been underpaid to that point in the season as a result. One sponsor, the Kazkhstani state carrier Air Astana, dropped its sponsorship entirely. There was concern that the team itself may fold, as UCI ProTour teams must meet certain financial parameters to stay active, or risk losing their UCI license.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Financial troubles\nIn protest to the underpayment by the team's sponsors, the team decided to change their jersey a week into the Giro. The new jersey was revealed on May 15, the date of Stage 7 when the Giro returned to Italy from Austria, as having the names of the underpaying sponsors faded out to the point of being unreadable. Of the nine Astana riders in the Giro, eight wore the new jerseys - Andrey Zeits, who is from Kazakhstan, was the only one to stay with the original jersey. The squad at the concurrent Volta a Catalunya did not wear the faded jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Financial troubles\nIt was announced on June 19 that the situation had been resolved, with the Kazakh Cycling Federation agreeing to pay what the sponsors were indebted to the team. The team reverted to its normal jerseys in the Tour de France, with nothing faded out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Financial troubles\nShortly after this announcement, rumors circulated that Garmin\u2013Slipstream had been close to signing Contador away from the team, should the Kazakhstani government have failed to pay its obligations and the team defaulted to the ownership of Armstrong or Bruyneel. Other unspecified Spanish Astana riders were also said to be close to jumping to the American team to follow Contador. Garmin team manager Jonathan Vaughters refused to address the rumors, saying that all negotiations are confidential until finalized, but Contador himself commented in September that he had been close to switching before the 2009 Tour began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 61], "content_span": [62, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel\nWhile riding for Astana in the 2007 Tour de France, Alexander Vinokourov tested positive for blood doping, causing the entire team to be removed from the race and Vinokourov to retire after being banned from the sport by his national federation and the UCI. After confirming in October 2008 his intention to return to competitive cycling, Vinokourov stated on the eve of the 2009 Tour de France that he would rejoin Astana, the team he believes was created expressly for him, at the expiration of his two-year ban on July 24. He indicated that Astana manager Johan Bruyneel will be bound by the team's sponsors to accept him, or else Bruyneel would be forced from the team. Bruyneel publicly stated in April 2008 that he did not want Vinokourov on a team he ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 105], "content_span": [106, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel\nThe next day, it was further revealed that not only Bruyneel stood to be forced from the team according to Vinokourov, but also Armstrong and other riders from the former Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. The team would be built around Vinokourov and Contador, who would be able to choose which riders he wanted his teammates. It would contain almost exclusively Kazakhstani and Spanish riders, in the image of the former Liberty Seguros team, for which Contador previously rode. The matter was even addressed by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. The new team organization would be in place by the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, which Vinokourov would ride.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 105], "content_span": [106, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel\nOn 21 July, with Contador, Armstrong and Kl\u00f6den holding three of the top four places in the Tour de France, Bruyneel told Belgian channel VRT that Astana as currently constituted was \"finished\" and that he would be leaving the team, as Vinokourov and the Kazakh federation had discussed, after the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 105], "content_span": [106, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel, Disposition of riders for 2010\nIn the wake of Bruyneel's announcement about leaving Astana during the Tour, Contador said that he would not consider his future until after the race was over. On 23 July, Lance Armstrong announced the formation of a new U.S. cycling team, Team RadioShack, for 2010. Whether Bruyneel would take part in this venture was not addressed at the time, but Armstrong then announced Bruyneel's participation on 25 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 137], "content_span": [138, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel, Disposition of riders for 2010\nOn 31 July, Contador's agent announced that Contador had turned down an offer to remain with Astana under a new four-year contract because he had felt uncomfortable being caught between the Kazakhs on one side and Bruyneel on the other, and he was hoping to leave Astana before his contract expired in 2010. However, on 11 August, Contador's close friend Sergio Paulinho accepted a two-year contract with Team RadioShack, indicating that Contador might not be able to leave Astana as he and his agent wished. This was confirmed on 15 August, when a spokesperson for the Kazakh sponsors of Astana said that they intended to sponsor the Astana team on the UCI ProTour through 2013 and that they intended to enforce the last year of Contador's contract with Astana in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 137], "content_span": [138, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel, Disposition of riders for 2010\nOnce Bruyneel's move to Team RadioShack was confirmed, the squad began filling with transfers from the 2009 Astana team. In addition to Armstrong and Paulinho, Tomas Vaitkus and Gregory Rast joined Team RadioShack as one-day classics specialists, and Jose Luis \"Chechu\" Rubiera joined for Grand Tour support. On September 1, Levi Leipheimer's move to Team RadioShack was confirmed and on October 2, Andreas Kl\u00f6den's move was confirmed. On October 4, Chris Horner also signed with Team RadioShack for two years. On October 15, Yaroslav Popovich's move was also confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 137], "content_span": [138, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel, Disposition of riders for 2010\nIt was also reported that Haimar Zubeldia was to remain with Astana, on order from Contandor, though for unclear reasons this changed, as Zubeldia's transfer to Team RadioShack was confirmed weeks later. With Dimitry Muravyev's transfer, Astana's entire 2009 Tour de France squad, Contador aside, had moved to Armstrong's new team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 137], "content_span": [138, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201615-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Astana season, Away from competition, Return of Alexander Vinokourov and departure of Johan Bruyneel, Disposition of riders for 2010\nTwo other Astana riders moved with former Discovery Channel rider George Hincapie to team BMC for 2010: Steve Morabito and Michael Sch\u00e4r.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 137], "content_span": [138, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201616-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Braves season\nThe 2009 Atlanta Braves season was the 44th season in Atlanta and the 139th overall. The Braves were once again skippered by Bobby Cox, then in his 24th season managing the team. It was the Braves' 44th season in Atlanta, and the 138th season overall for the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201616-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201616-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201617-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Dream season\nThe 2009 WNBA season was the 2nd season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Dream qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. However, they were eliminated by the Detroit Shock in a sweep in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201617-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Dream season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Dream's 2008 record, they would pick 1st in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Dream picked Sancho Lyttle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201617-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Dream season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Dream selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season\nThe 2009 Atlanta Falcons season was the 44th season for the team in the National Football League. The team looked to match or improve upon their 11\u20135 record from 2008 and return to the playoffs, however, the Falcons were eliminated from contention in Week 15 for the first time since 2007, after the Dallas Cowboys upset the New Orleans Saints. Despite not making the playoffs, the team, with a record of 9\u20137, posted consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history. The only Falcon this year to play in the Pro Bowl was Roddy White. He finished the game with 8 catches and 84 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe 2009 NFL Draft was held on April 25 and 26, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Falcons selected eight players which included seven players on the defensive side of the ball. The Falcons also made a trade with the Dallas Cowboys, giving the Cowboys their fifth round (143rd overall) pick in exchange for Dallas\u2019 fifth (156th overall) and seventh round (210th overall) selections. With the 24th selection in the first round, the Falcons selected defensive tackle and All-SEC performer Peria Jerry from Ole Miss to continue to beef up the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, 2009 NFL Draft\nHighly regarded, hard hitting safety William Moore from Missouri was chosen in the second round and speedy corner Christopher Owens of San Jose State was the Falcons\u2019 third round choice. Rounding out the draft were defensive end Lawrence Sidbury of Richmond(fourth round), cornerback William Middleton from Furman (fifth round), tackle Garrett Reynolds of North Carolina(fifth round), linebacker Spencer Adkins from Miami (sixth round), and local product defensive tackle Vance Walker from Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football (seventh round).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Schedule, Regular season\nThe Falcons' regular season schedule was released on April 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Falcons began their season at home in an inter-conference battle with the Miami Dolphins. After a scoreless first quarter, Atlanta took off in the second quarter as quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to fullback Ovie Mughelli, followed by kicker Jason Elam making a 36-yard field goal. In the third quarter, the Falcons continued their stellar play as Ryan completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez (with a failed PAT). Atlanta concluded its game in the fourth quarter as Elam nailed a 50-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Dolphins got their only score as quarterback Chad Pennington completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to running back Ricky Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Miami Dolphins\nWith the win, the Falcons began their season at 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Miami Dolphins\nTony Gonzalez (5 receptions, 73 yards, and a TD) became the 21st player in NFL history to collect 11,000 career receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Carolina Panthers\nComing off their win over the Dolphins, the Falcons stayed at home, donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for a Week 2 NFC South showdown against the Carolina Panthers. Atlanta trailed early in the first quarter as Panthers kicker John Kasay got a 38-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Falcons answered with quarterback Matt Ryan completing a 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez. In the second quarter, Carolina replied with running back DeAngelo Williams getting a 3-yard touchdown run. Atlanta struck back as Ryan completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to fullback Jason Snelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Panthers crept close as Kasay nailed a 50-yard field goal, yet the Falcons increased their lead prior to halftime as Ryan completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White. After a scoreless third quarter, Atlanta got some distance from Carolina as running back Michael Turner got a 1-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Carolina mustered an 11-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Jake Delhomme to tight end Dante Rosario. On another Panthers possession, Delhomme threw an interception to cornerback Chris Houston. After yet another possession, with time running out, the Panthers tried to rally as Delhomme threw a deep desperation pass, but it resulted incomplete as cornerback Brent Grimes batted it down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New England Patriots\nComing off a successful two-game home stand, the Falcons flew to Gillette Stadium for a Week 3 inter-conference battle with the New England Patriots. Atlanta led early with a 26-yard field goal from Jason Elam, but the Patriots tied the game with a 21-yard field goal from kicker Stephen Gostkowski. New England took the lead in the second quarter with running back Fred Taylor's 8-yard touchdown run, yet the Falcons answered with running back Michael Turner's 2-yard touchdown run. New England closed out the half with Gostkowski's 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New England Patriots\nThe entire second half was completely dominated by the Patriots. Gostkowski nailed a 22-yard field goal in the third quarter and a 33-yard field goal in the fourth quarter, while quarterback Tom Brady closed out the game with a 36-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chris Baker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New England Patriots\nWith the loss, the Falcons went into their bye week at 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 5: at San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their bye week, the Falcons flew to Candlestick Park for a Week 5 duel with the San Francisco 49ers. Atlanta took off in the first quarter with running back Michael Turner's 7-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Matt Ryan hooking up with wide receiver Roddy White on a 31-yard touchdown pass. The 49ers answered with running back Glen Coffee getting a 2-yard touchdown run. San Francisco started the second quarter with kicker Joe Nedney making a 39-yard field goal, but the Falcons began to soar. It started with Ryan's 90-yard touchdown pass to White and concluded with Turner's 3-yard and 1-yard touchdown runs. Atlanta closed out the game with kicker Jason Elam's 40-yard field goal in the third quarter and Ryan's 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 5: at San Francisco 49ers\nAtlanta's 35 first-half points was the most in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Chicago Bears\nComing off their impressive road win over the 49ers, the Falcons went home for a Week 6 Sunday night duel with the Chicago Bears. After a scoreless first quarter, Atlanta trailed early in the second quarter as Bears quarterback Jay Cutler found wide receiver Johnny Knox on a 23-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, the Falcons took the lead as quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 40-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White and a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Chicago tied the game in the fourth quarter with Cutler hooking up with tight end Greg Olsen on a 2-yard touchdown. Atlanta regained the lead as running back Michael Turner got a 5-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, the defense fended off a last-second Bears drive to lock up the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Dallas Cowboys\nComing off their Sunday night home win over the Bears, the Falcons flew to Cowboys Stadium for a Week 7 duel with the Dallas Cowboys. In the first quarter, Atlanta took flight as quarterback Matt Ryan hooked up with wide receiver Roddy White on a 4-yard touchdown pass. The Cowboys took the lead in the second quarter with kicker Nick Folk nailing a 38-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Tony Romo completing a 59-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin and a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Crayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Dallas Cowboys\nIn the third quarter, the Falcons answered with running back Michael Turner got a 2-yard touchdown. However, Dallas came right back with Romo finding Austin again on a 22-yard touchdown pass. The Cowboys increased their lead in the fourth quarter with Folk booting a 46-yard field goal, followed by Crayton returning a punt 73 yards for a touchdown. Atlanta tried to come back as Ryan completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Eric Weems, but the Cowboys closed out the game with Folk's 34-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 8: at New Orleans Saints\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Cowboys, the Falcons flew to the Louisiana Superdome for a Week 8 NFC South showdown against the undefeated New Orleans Saints on Monday night. Atlanta took flight in the first quarter as running back Michael Turner capped off the game's opening drive with a 13-yard touchdown run. The Saints responded by capping off their opening drive with a 22-yard touchdown run from running back Pierre Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 8: at New Orleans Saints\nAfterwards, the Falcons regained the lead with free safety Thomas DeCoud sacking quarterback Drew Brees, which caused Brees to fumble the ball, allowing defensive end Kroy Biermann to pick the ball up and run 4 yards for a touchdown. However, New Orleans exploded with points in the second quarter as Brees hooked up with wide receiver Marques Colston on an 18-yard touchdown pass, running back Reggie Bush getting a 1-yard touchdown run, and cornerback Jabari Greer returning an interception 48 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 8: at New Orleans Saints\nAtlanta started to rally in the third quarter as quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 68-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White, followed by a 25-yard field goal from kicker Jason Elam. However, the Saints answered with Brees connecting with Thomas on a 1-yard touchdown pass. The Falcons tried to come back as Elam booted a 40-yard field goal, but an interception from free safety Darren Sharper ended any hope of a rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 8: at New Orleans Saints\nThis marked the first time in the Mike Smith/Matt Ryan era that the Falcons suffered consecutive losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Washington Redskins\nHoping to snap a two-game losing streak, the Falcons went home for a Week 9 duel with the Washington Redskins. Atlanta took flight in the first quarter as quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez, followed by cornerback Tye Hill returning an interception 62 yards for a touchdown. The Redskins answered in the second quarter as kicker Shaun Suisham nailed a 48-yard field goal, yet the Falcons kept their attack on as running back Michael Turner got a 30-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Jason Elam booting a 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Washington Redskins\nWashington began to rally in the third quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Ladell Betts. The Redskins came closer in the fourth quarter as quarterback Jason Campbell hooked up with tight end Todd Yoder on a 3-yard touchdown pass, yet Atlanta closed out the game with Turner's 58-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Carolina Panthers\nComing off their home win over the Redskins, the Falcons flew to Bank of America Stadium for a Week 10 NFC South rematch against the Carolina Panthers. Atlanta began to fly in the first quarter as kicker Jason Elam nailed a 35-yard field goal, but the Panthers replied with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Jonathan Stewart. Carolina extended their lead in the second quarter with quarterback Jake Delhomme completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith, yet the Falcons answered as fullback Jason Snelling got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Panthers closed out the half with Delhomme hooking up with Smith again on a 4-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Carolina Panthers\nIn the second half, Atlanta worked their way back into the game as Elam booted a 24-yard field goal in the third quarter, followed by quarterback Matt Ryan finding tight end Justin Peelle on a 3-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter (with a failed 2-point conversion). However, Carolina closed out the win with Stewart's 45-yard touchdown run, getting their revenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 11: at New York Giants\nHoping to rebound from a loss against the rival Panthers, the Falcons flew to Giants Stadium for a Week 11 duel with the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 11: at New York Giants\nIn the first quarter, the Falcons trailed early with kicker Lawrence Tynes making a 39-yard field goal. In the second quarter the Falcons came on top with fullback Jason Snelling getting a 7-yard touchdown run, until they fell behind with quarterback Eli Manning hooking up with tight end Kevin Boss on a 4 and a 28-yard touchdown pass. In the third quarter, fullback Jason Snelling got a 1-yard touchdown run for the Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 11: at New York Giants\nThe Giants made it a 2-possession game with running back Brandon Jacobs getting a 2-yard touchdown run, until the Falcons replied with kicker Jason Elam making a 25-yard field goal. The Giants tried to pull away in the fourth quarter with Manning passing to fullback Madison Hedgecock 3 yards for a touchdown, until the Falcons stepped up to tie the game with quarterback Matt Ryan completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Eric Weems, then found tight end Tony Gonzalez on an 11-yard touchdown pass. At overtime, the Falcons lost the game with kicker Lawrence Tynes getting the game-winning field goal from 36 yards away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nHoping to rebound from their loss against the Giants, the Falcons went home, re-donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for an NFC South showdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the first quarter, things looked bad as Matt Ryan was sacked, injured his toe, and got taken out of the game as his back-up Chris Redman got on the field. In the second quarter, the Falcons drew first blood as kicker Jason Elam nailed a 45-yard field goal. Atlanta extended their lead as Redman threw a shovel pass to Jerious Norwood for a 22-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nTampa Bay responded with Josh Freeman's 42-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Bryant and tied the game at halftime with Connor Barth's 39-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Bucs safety Corey Lynch blocked a Falcons punt, which set Freeman up for an 8-yard touchdown pass to running back Carnell Williams to take the lead. The Falcons struck back as Elam nailed a 37-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Bucs punter Dirk Johnson faked a play which was backfired. Several plays later, Elam attempted a 43-yard field goal, but he missed as it went too much to the left. The same happened with Bucs kicker Barth as he missed a 51-yard field goal attempt. Atlanta was facing fourth and goal with 26 seconds remaining and no timeouts left, as Redman connected with Roddy White for a 5-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 889]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith the win, the Falcons improved to 6\u20135. It was later revealed that Matt Ryan was out for several weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off a relief home win against their rival Tampa Bay, the Falcons stayed home and got set for a Week 13 duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. Due to Matt Ryan's toe injury against the Bucs, Chris Redman was set to start. The Falcons trailed early as Eagles kicker David Akers made a 33-yard field goal. After that, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb connected with Leonard Weaver for a 4-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, the Eagles extended their lead with another 33-yard field goal from David Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nIn the third quarter, things got uglier for the Falcons as their former quarterback Michael Vick rushed 5 yards for a touchdown. The Falcons got the ball back, only for Redman to throw an interception to Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown, which he took 83 yards for a defensive touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Vick threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Eagles tight end Brent Celek. With time already running out, Redman threw a last second 3-yard touchdown pass to Roddy White, avoiding a shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. New Orleans Saints\nHoping to rebound from their disappointing home loss against the Eagles, the Falcons remained at home and prepared for an NFC South rematch against the undefeated New Orleans Saints, with Matt Ryan still injured. In the first quarter, the Falcons drew first blood as kicker Matt Bryant nailed a 36-yard field goal. The Saints tied the game with kicker Garrett Hartley nailing a 33-yard field goal. The Falcons closed the first quarter with Bryant nailing a 30-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Saints quarterback Drew Brees connected with running back Reggie Bush for a 6-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints extended their lead as Brees connected with Marques Colston for a 3-yard touchdown pass (with a failed PAT). The Falcons closed out the first half as Bryant nailed a 27-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Reggie Bush took a 21-yard touchdown pass from Brees to extend the Saints' lead even more. The Falcons got their first touchdown of the game as Redman connected with Michael Jenkins for a 50-yard touchdown pass. In the fourth quarter, Jason Snelling got 4-yard touchdown run to tie the game, giving Atlanta some hope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. New Orleans Saints\nHartley gave the Saints the lead as he made a 38-yard field goal. After Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma intercepted Redman's pass, the Saints attempted yet another field goal, which was a fake that resulted in an incomplete pass. The Falcons faced fourth and 2 at the 49-yard line with less than 2 minutes, where Redman completed a pass to Snelling, but Vilma stopped him at the line of scrimmage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New York Jets\nHaving already been eliminated from playoff contention because the Cowboys upset the Saints the day before, the Falcons flew a second time to Giants Stadium for a Week 15 inter-conference battle with the New York Jets; Matt Ryan returned from his toe injury. In the first quarter, Atlanta drew first score with Matt Bryant kicking a 24-yard field goal. The Jets took the lead with Mark Sanchez launching a 67-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Braylon Edwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New York Jets\nThe second quarter remained scoreless as the Jets attempted a 19-yard field goal, but Kellen Clemens fumbled the ball, causing him to get tackled by Brent Grimes. After yet another scoreless quarter (third), the Jets attempted a 37-yard field goal, but it was blocked by Chauncey Davis. The Falcons, with one last chance, made a late fourth and goal play, where Ryan hooked up with Tony Gonzalez for a 6-yard touchdown pass. New York got the ball back, but Brent Grimes' interception sealed the win for Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New York Jets\nWith the win, the Falcons improved to 7\u20137 and ended a two-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills\nAfter a close call against the Jets, the Falcons went home for a Week 16 inter-conference battle with the Buffalo Bills. In the first quarter, the Falcons got straight to work as Matt Ryan completed a 42-yard touchdown pass to Roddy White. In the second quarter, Matt Bryant's 51-yard field goal extended the lead for Atlanta. As the first half was closing, Buffalo blocked Atlanta's field goal and things got crazy as a couple of Bills possessed the ball, but they could not manage to get it into the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills\nIn the third quarter, Atlanta extended their lead even more as Marty Booker caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Ryan. Things got better for the Falcons as Buffalo running back Fred Jackson fumbled the ball, which led Lawrence Sidbury to return it for an 11-yard defensive touchdown as he dragged a few Buffalo players. The Bills finally got on the board as kicker Rian Lindell nailed a 42-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Ryan re-connected with White for a 5-yard touchdown pass, as it was too late for the Bills to catch up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nComing off their home win against the Bills, the Falcons flew to Raymond James Stadium for a Week 17 NFC South rematch against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the opening kickoff, Falcon Eric Weems fumbled the football, causing the Bucs to recover, which set up Connor Barth for a 48-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Falcons responded by taking the lead with Matt Bryant's 36-yard field goal, followed by Matt Ryan's 2-yard touchdown pass to Justin Peele. After a scoreless third quarter, Tampa Bay tied the game with Josh Freeman's 8-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Bryant. Atlanta answered back as Ryan threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Roddy White. After another possession, the Falcons sealed the deal with Bryant's second 36-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201618-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith the win, not only did the Falcons improve to 9\u20137, but they also posted back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history under head coach Mike Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections\nA municipal election in the City of Atlanta was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Atlanta is the capital of the state of Georgia and is the largest city in Georgia and is the center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections\nVoters filled the offices of mayor of Atlanta, members of the Atlanta City Council and members of the Atlanta Board of Education, for terms commencing January 2010 and ending January 2014. Voters also voted in retention elections on a number of Municipal Court judges. The election was non-partisan, meaning that political party affiliations did not appear on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, Mayor\nThe Mayor is the city's chief executive officer and head of the executive branch, which carries out the laws that have been instituted by the Council. The mayor is responsible for the day-to-day operations of city government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, Mayor\nIncumbent mayor Shirley Franklin was prevented by term limits from running for another term in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, Mayor\nThe four leading mayoral candidates, based on standing in polls, took part in a final debate sponsored by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV were City Council President Lisa Borders, City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, state Senator Kasim Reed, and attorney Jesse Spikes. Minor candidates included Peter Brownlowe, Kyle Keyser, and write-in candidates. Previously on October 14, 2009, Emory University sponsored a debate which included the six front running candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, Mayor\nMary Norwood received the most votes in the November election but did not win a majority. Therefore, she and Kasim Reed, who placed second, advanced to a runoff where Kasim Reed won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, City Council members and President of the City Council\nThe City Council has fifteen members. The Council's role is to advise the mayor and pass local ordinances. Twelve are elected in single-member districts by area, while three are elected at-large from one-third (four) of the 12 voting districts (referred to as \"posts\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, City Council members and President of the City Council\nThe President of the Council is elected from the city at-large and is the presiding officer of the Council, acting as chair of all Council meetings. The President of the Council votes on the Council only in case of a tie. The President of the Council appoints chairs and members of the various committees, subject to rejection by a majority of the Council and also acts as acting mayor (exercising all powers and discharging all duties of the mayor) in case of a vacancy in that office or during the disability of the mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, City Council members and President of the City Council\nThere were three candidates for Council President: Ceasar C. Mitchell, Clair McLeod Muller, and Dave Gregory Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, City Council members and President of the City Council\nMitchell placed first in the November election, with 48.67% of the vote, but not a majority. Therefore, he and Muller, who placed second, advanced to a December runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 78], "content_span": [79, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, Board of education\nThe Atlanta Board of Education establishes and approves the policies that govern the Atlanta Public Schools. The Board consists of nine members, representing six geographical districts and three \"at-large\" districts. One person is elected per district to represent the schools in a given district for a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201619-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlanta elections, City of Atlanta Municipal Court Judges\nThe following current City of Atlanta Municipal Court Judges were on the November 3, 2009 ballots for either dismissal or retention:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201620-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held from May 20\u201323 at Fifth Third Field in Dayton, OH. It featured the top six regular-season finishers of the conference's 14 teams. Third-seeded Xavier defeated Rhode Island in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the A-10's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201620-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 27-game regular-season schedule, were seeded one through six. The top two seeds, Dayton and Rhode Island, received byes into the second round of play in the double elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201620-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nIn the three-way tie for fourth-place, the conference's tiebreaking procedures gave Massachusetts the fourth seed, Fordham the fifth, and Charlotte the sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201620-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team\nThe following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Xavier's Billy O'Conner, one of six Musketeers selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201620-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team\nXavier's Jordan Conley and Charlotte's Rob Lyerly, both selected in 2008, were second-time selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201621-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was played at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey from March 11 through March 14, 2009. The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and was crowned Atlantic 10 Conference champion. Temple won the tournament with a 69\u201364 victory over Duquesne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship\nThe 2009 IMSA Cooper Tires Atlantic Championship season was the thirty-sixth Atlantic Championship season. It was the first full season of the Championship under the sanctioning of the International Motor Sports Association. After a three-way title battle into the final round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, John Edwards became the series' youngest champion, beating Jonathan Summerton on a tie-breaker, after both drivers finished on 182 points. They also finished tied on four victories, but Edwards broke the tie with four second-place finishes compared to Summerton's three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Schedule\nSeven rounds are held jointly with the American Le Mans Series: Sebring, Miller, Lime Rock, Mid-Ohio, Mosport, Road Atlanta and Laguna Seca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Schedule\nThe series planned to open its season on a road course on Hutchinson Island in Savannah, Georgia, on March 15. The race was postponed until 2010, as further work on the track was required before it could be homologated for professional open wheel racing. A second race at New Jersey Motorsports Park and Autobahn Country Club were added instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Drivers and teams\nThe following teams and drivers competed in the 2009 Atlantic Championship. All teams are using the Swift 016.a chassis powered by a Mazda-Cosworth MZR 2.3-litre inline-4 engine and Cooper tires. C2 Class teams use the Swift 014.a chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Championship Standings\nThe point system was modified from previous years for the 2009 season. Points are awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Television and other video\nFor the 2009 season, a new Atlantic Championship high definition television package was announced on HDNet, which features live coverage of certain events, and replays of others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201622-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Championship, Television and other video\nWeb video of events has also historically been available on the series website, and the series also has its own official YouTube channel under the username \"AtlanticRacingSeries.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, NC from May 20 through May 24. It was the first time the tournament has been played at the ballpark since 1999 and fourth time overall since the ballpark opened in 1995. The #6 seeded Virginia Cavaliers won the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record, earning the Atlantic Coast Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Virginia's first conference championship in baseball since 1996, and their second tournament championship ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe tournament was originally scheduled to be contested at Fenway Park in Boston, home of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox. But on August 14, 2008 it was announced by Fenway Sports Group, along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, that the location of the tournament would have to be changed due to a scheduling error. The ACC chose the Bulls' ballpark as Fenway's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament\n2009 was the third year in which the conference used a round robin tournament format, with the team with the best record in each group at the end of the three-game round robin advancing to a one-game championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top two teams from both the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, as determined by conference winning percentage, in addition to the four teams with the next best conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will be selected to participate in the ACC Baseball Championship. The two division champions will automatically be seeded number one and two based on winning percentage in overall conference competition. The remaining teams will be seeded (three through eight) based on winning percentage in overall conference competition without regard to division. All ties will be broken using the tie-breaking provisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Tournament\nNotes\u2020 - Denotes extra innings\u2021 - Denotes game shortened due to Mercy Rule1 - Florida State beat Boston College head-to-head", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201623-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Results, Division B\n1 - Game ended in the bottom of the eighth inning due to the Mercy Rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season\nThe 2009 ACC football season was an NCAA football season that was played from September 3, 2009, to January 5, 2010. The Atlantic Coast Conference consists of 12 members in two divisions. The Atlantic division consists of Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, North Carolina State and Wake Forest. The Coastal division consists of Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The division champions met in the 2009 ACC Championship Game, where Georgia Tech defeated Clemson by a score of 39\u201334. Georgia Tech represented the ACC in the BCS, being invited to the FedEx Orange Bowl where they lost to Iowa. The ACC had a total of seven teams play in a bowl game and finished the bowl season with a record of 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Previous season\nBoston College and Florida State tied for the Atlantic division championship. Boston College beat Florida State during the regular season so they represented the Atlantic division in the 2008 ACC Championship Game. A similar situation occurred in the Coastal division where Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech tied. Virginia Tech won the regular season meeting so they represented the Coastal division in the championship game. Virginia Tech would win the ACC championship game 30-12 over Boston College and would represent the ACC in the FedEx Orange Bowl where they would defeat Cincinnati, the champions of the Big East Conference, 20-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Previous season\nThe ACC would ultimately send 10 teams to bowl games, the most of any conference in 2008. Boston College (9-5) lost to Vanderbilt 16-14 in the Music City Bowl. Florida State (9-4) beat Wisconsin 42-13 in the Champs Sports Bowl. Georgia Tech (9-4) lost to LSU 38-3 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Maryland (8-5) beat Nevada 42-35 in the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. North Carolina (8-5) lost to West Virginia 31-30 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Wake Forest (8-5) beat Navy 29-19 in the EagleBank Bowl. Miami (7-6) lost to California 24-17 in the Emerald Bowl. Clemson (7-6) lost to Nebraska 26-21 in the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl. North Carolina State (6-7) lost to Rutgers 29-23 in the PapaJohns.com Bowl. The only two teams not to go to a bowl game were Virginia (5-7) and Duke (4-8).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll\nThe 2009 ACC Preseason Poll was announced at the ACC Football Kickoff meetings in Greensboro, North Carolina on July 27. Virginia Tech was voted to win Coastal division and the conference. Florida State was voted to win the Atlantic division. Jonathan Dwyer of Georgia Tech was voted the Preseason ACC Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason All Conference Teams, Offense\nQB Russell Wilson- NC State,       RB Jonathan Dwyer- Georgia Tech,       RB C. J. Spiller- Clemson,       WR Demaryius Thomas- Georgia Tech,       WR Jacoby Ford- Clemson,       TE Greg Boone- Virginia Tech,       OT Jason Curtis Fox- Miami,       OT Anthony Castonzo- Boston College,       OG Sergio Render- Virginia Tech,       OG Rodney Hudson- Florida State,       C  Matt Tennant- Boston College,       PK Matt Bosher- Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 98], "content_span": [99, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason All Conference Teams, Defense\nDE Jason Worilds- Virginia Tech,       DE Willie Young- NC State,       DT Vince Oghobaase- Duke,       DT Marvin Austin- North Carolina,      LB Dekoda Watson- Florida State,        LB Quan Sturdivant- North Carolina,       LB Alex Wujciak- Maryland,        CB Ras-I Dowling- Virginia,        CB Kendric Burney- North Carolina,       S Morgan Burnett- Georgia Tech,       S Kam Chancellor- Virginia Tech,       P Travis Baltz- Maryland,        Specialist: C. J. Spiller- Clemson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 98], "content_span": [99, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Regular season\nRankings reflect that of the USA Today Coaches poll until week eight when the BCS poll will be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Regular season, Week One\nESPN's College GameDay broadcast from Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Virginia Tech and Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Regular season, Week Five\nESPN's College Gameday broadcast from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts for the Boston College vs Florida State game. Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich, the 2008 ACC Defensive player of the year who earlier in the year was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, announced he was now cancer free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201624-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, Regular season, Week Thirteen\nESPN's College Gameday broadcast from Gainesville, Florida for the Florida vs Florida State game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201625-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Cup\nThe 2009 Atlantic Cup, known as the Hotels of Jacksonville Atlantic Cup for sponsorship purposes, was the first Atlantic Cup rugby league football tournament. It was held on November 14, 2009 at Hodges Stadium at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. This inaugural contest was a single test between the United States and Jamaica. The event was deemed a success, and sponsors hoped the Atlantic Cup would become an annual event, with other developing rugby league nations such as South Africa and Japan competing. It was followed by the 2010 Atlantic Cup, which featured the United States, Jamaica, and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201626-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament was the 6th Atlantic Hockey Tournament played between March 7 and March 21, 2009 at campus locations and at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York. Air Force won their third consecutive Atlantic Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and received Atlantic Hockey's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201626-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the seventh and tenth seeds and eighth and ninth seeds play a single game with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and highest ranked first round winner, the third and sixth seeds, and the fourth and fifth seeds play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201626-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format\nIn the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201626-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Hockey Tournament, Format, Regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201627-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Melching Field at Conrad Park on the campus of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida from May 21 through 24. Jacksonville won its fourth tournament championship to earn the Atlantic Sun Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The event was heavily marred by rain, resulting in two format changes. Originally planned as a six team double-elimination tournament, the format was changed to a single elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201627-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top six teams (based on conference results) from the conference earn invites to the tournament. Florida Gulf Coast, Kennesaw State, North Florida, and South Carolina Upstate were ineligible for the tournament due to NCAA rules after reclassifying to Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201627-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Tournament Most Valuable Player\nAlex Martinez was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Martinez was an infielder for Jacksonville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 102], "content_span": [103, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201628-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 4\u20137, 2009 at Allen Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201628-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe seven eligible men's basketball teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 20 game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The winner of the tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The #1 seed, if not tournament champions, will receive an automatic bid to the NIT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 2009 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average Atlantic hurricane season that produced eleven tropical cyclones, nine named storms, three hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. It officially began on June\u00a01 and ended on November\u00a030,  dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. The season's first tropical cyclone, Tropical Depression One, developed on May\u00a028, while the final storm, Hurricane Ida, dissipated on November\u00a010. The most intense hurricane, Bill, was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that affected areas from the Leeward Islands to Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season featured the lowest number of tropical cyclones since the 1997 season, and only one system, Claudette, made landfall in the United States. Forming from the interaction of a tropical wave and an upper-level low, Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle with maximum sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (70\u00a0km/h) before quickly dissipating over Alabama. The storm killed two people and caused $228,000 (2009 USD) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season\nPre -season forecasts issued by Colorado State University (CSU) called for fourteen named storms and seven hurricanes, of which three were expected to attain major hurricane status. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) later issued its initial forecast, which predicted nine to fourteen named storms, four to seven hurricanes, and one to three major hurricanes. After several revisions in the projected number of named storms, both agencies lowered their forecasts by the middle of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season\nSeveral storms made landfall or directly affected land outside of the United States. Tropical Storm Ana brought substantial rainfall totals to many of the Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico, which led to minor street flooding. Hurricane Bill delivered gusty winds and rain to the island of Newfoundland, while Tropical Storm Danny affected the U.S. state of North Carolina, and Erika affected the Lesser Antilles as a poorly organized tropical system. Hurricane Fred affected the Cape Verde Islands as a developing tropical cyclone and Tropical Storm Grace briefly impacted the Azores, becoming the farthest northeast forming storm on record. The season's final storm, Ida, affected portions of Central America before bringing significant rainfall to the Southeast United States as an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 844]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nForecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by noted hurricane experts Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University; and separately by NOAA forecasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nKlotzbach's team (formerly led by Gray) defined the average number of storms per season (1950 to 2000) as 9.6\u00a0tropical storms, 5.9\u00a0hurricanes, 2.3\u00a0major hurricanes (storms reaching at least Category\u00a03 strength in the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale) and an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) Index of 96.1. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACE numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nACE is only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. NOAA defines a season as above-normal, near-normal or below-normal by a combination of the number of named storms, the number reaching hurricane strength, the number reaching major hurricane strength and ACE Index.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts, Pre-season forecasts\nOn December\u00a010, 2008, Klotzbach's team issued its first extended-range forecast for the 2009\u00a0season, predicting above-average activity (14\u00a0named storms, 7\u00a0hurricanes, 3\u00a0of Category\u00a03 or higher and ACE Index of 125). On April\u00a07, 2009, Klotzbach's team issued an updated forecast for the 2009\u00a0season, predicting near-average activity (12\u00a0named storms, 6\u00a0hurricanes, 2\u00a0of Category\u00a03 or higher and ACE Index of 100), citing the possible cause as the high probability of a weak El Ni\u00f1o forming during the season. On May\u00a021, 2009, NOAA issued their forecast for the season, predicting near or slightly above average activity, (9 to 14\u00a0named storms, 4 to 7\u00a0hurricanes, and 1 to 3\u00a0of Category\u00a03 or higher).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts, Midseason outlooks\nOn June\u00a02, 2009, Klotzbach's team issued another updated forecast for the 2009 season, predicting slightly below average activity (11 named storms, 5\u00a0hurricanes, 2 of Category\u00a03 or higher and ACE Index of 85). Also on June\u00a02, 2009, the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU COAPS) issued its first ever Atlantic hurricane season forecast. The FSU COAPS forecast predicted 8 named storms, including 4 hurricanes, and an ACE Index of 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts, Midseason outlooks\nOn June\u00a018, 2009, the UK Met Office (UKMO) issued a forecast of 6\u00a0tropical storms in the July to November period with a 70% chance that the number would be in the range\u00a03 to 9. They also predicted an ACE Index of 60 with a 70%\u00a0chance that the index would be in the range\u00a040 to 80. On August\u00a04, 2009, Klotzbach's team updated their forecast for the 2009 season, again predicting slightly below average activity (10 named storms, 4\u00a0hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes). On August\u00a06, 2009, the NOAA also updated their forecast for the 2009 season, predicting below average activity (7\u201311 named storms, 3\u20136 hurricanes, and 1\u20132 major hurricanes).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nDuring the 2009 season, nine of the eleven tropical cyclones affected land, of which five actually made landfall. The United States experienced one of its quietest years, with no hurricanes making landfall in the country. Throughout the basin, six people were killed in tropical cyclone-related incidents and total losses reached roughly $77\u00a0million. Most of the damage resulted from Hurricane Bill, which caused severe beach erosion throughout the east coast of the United States. In the United States, tropical cyclones killed six people and caused roughly $46\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nIn the Lesser Antilles, Tropical Storms Ana and Erika brought moderate rainfall to several islands but resulted in little damage. Elsewhere in the Atlantic, the Azores Islands, Atlantic Canada, Bermuda, Cape Verde Islands and Wales were affected by tropical cyclones or their remnants. In Canada, Hurricane Bill produced widespread moderate rainfall in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, leaving roughly $10\u00a0million in losses. The hurricane also produced tropical storm-force winds in Bermuda. Hurricane Fred briefly impacted the southern Cape Verde Islands as it bypassed the islands early in its existence. The Azores and Wales were also affected by Tropical Storm Grace; however, both areas recorded only minor effects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nOverall, the season's activity was reflected with a low cumulative ACE Index of 53, the lowest since the 1997 season. Due to the low number of storms in the 2009 season, many of which were short-lived, the overall ACE value was ranked as below-average, totaling under 66. Hurricane Bill was responsible for the ACE value for August being 30% above average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One\nDuring late-May, a frontal boundary stalled near The Bahamas and slowly degenerated. On May\u00a025, 2009, an area of low pressure developed along the tail-end of a decaying cold front near the northern Bahamas. Tracking northward, this low gradually developed as it moved within 85\u00a0mi (135\u00a0km) of North Carolina's Outer Banks. By May\u00a028, deep convection developed across a small area over the low-pressure system, leading to the National Hurricane Center classifying the system as Tropical Depression One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One\nIt was the northernmost forming May tropical cyclone in Atlantic history, though subtropical cyclones formed equally far north in 1972 and 2007. It also marked the third consecutive year with pre-season tropical or subtropical cyclones in the basin. The depression moved over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream for the following 24\u00a0hours, allowing it to maintain its convection, before moving into a hostile environment characterized by strong wind shear and cooler waters. Late on May\u00a029, the system degenerated into a remnant low. Several hours later, on May\u00a030, about 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) south-southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Tropical Depression One was absorbed by a warm front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One\nAs a tropical cyclone, the depression had no impact on land. However, the precursor to the system brought scattered rainfall and increased winds to parts of the North Carolina coastline, but no damage. Rainfall in Hatteras amounted to 0.1\u00a0in (2.5\u00a0mm) on May\u00a027; sustained wind reached 15\u00a0mph (24\u00a0km/h) and gusts were measured up to 23\u00a0mph (37\u00a0km/h). The lowest sea level pressure recorded in relation to the system was 1009 mbar (hPa; 29.80\u00a0inHg). Increased winds along coastal areas of the state was possible in relation to the outer edges of the depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ana\nAna formed out of an area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave on August\u00a011, Ana briefly attained tropical storm intensity on August\u00a012 before weakening back to a depression. The following day, the system degenerated into a non-convective remnant low as it tracked westward. On August\u00a014, the depression regenerated roughly 1,075\u00a0mi (1,735\u00a0km) east of the Leeward Islands. Around 06:00UTC on August\u00a015, the storm re-attained tropical storm status, at which time it was named Ana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ana\nAfter reaching a peak intensity with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1003 mbar (hPa; 29.62\u00a0inHg), the storm began to weaken again due to increasing wind shear and the unusually fast movement of Ana. In post-storm analysis, it was discovered that Ana had degenerated into a tropical wave once more on August\u00a016, before reaching any landmasses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ana\nNumerous tropical storm watches were issued for the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic between August\u00a015 and 17. Several islands took minor precautions for the storm, including St. Croix which evacuated 40\u00a0residents from flood-prone areas ahead of the storm. In the Dominican Republic, officials took preparations by setting up relief agencies and setting up shelters. Impact from Ana was minimal, mainly consisting of light to moderate rainfall. In Puerto Rico, up to 2.76\u00a0in (70\u00a0mm), causing street flooding and forcing the evacuation of three schools. High winds associated with the storm also downed trees and power lines, leaving roughly 6,000 residents without power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bill\nAs Ana regenerated into a tropical depression, a new tropical depression developed early on August\u00a015 southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Light wind shear and warm waters allowed the depression to steadily intensify, becoming Tropical Storm Bill later that day. By August\u00a017, Bill attained hurricane-status about midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles. Eventually the hurricane attained its peak intensity as a Category\u00a04 storm roughly 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) east-northeast of the Leeward Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bill\nThe storm attained maximum winds of 130\u00a0mph (210\u00a0km/h), the highest of any storm during the season, before weakening slightly as it turned north. The large storm passed roughly 175\u00a0mi (280\u00a0km) west of Bermuda as a Category\u00a02 hurricane. Further weakening took place as Bill brushed the southern coast of Nova Scotia the following day. Shortly before making landfall in Newfoundland, Bill weakened to a tropical storm and accelerated. The storm eventually transitioned into an extratropical cyclone after moving over the north Atlantic before being absorbed by a larger non-tropical low on August\u00a024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bill\nTwo people were killed by the storm's large swells\u2014one in Maine and another in Florida. The hurricane came close enough to warrant tropical cyclone watches and warnings in both the US and Canada. Bill was one of three tropical storms active on August\u00a016. Large, life-threatening swells produced by the storm impacted north-facing coastlines of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as Hurricane Bill approached Bermuda. Along the coasts of North Carolina, waves averaging 10\u00a0ft (3.0\u00a0m) in height impacted beaches. On Long Island, beach damage was severe; in some areas the damage was worse than Hurricane Gloria in 1985. In New York, severe beach erosion caused by the storm resulted in over $35.5\u00a0million in losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Claudette\nJust one day after the formation of Hurricane Bill, the season's third named storm developed on August\u00a016. Forming out of a tropical wave and an upper-level low-pressure system, Claudette quickly intensified into a tropical storm offshore south of Tallahassee, Florida. By the afternoon, the storm had attained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) and steadily tracked towards the Florida Panhandle. Early on August\u00a017, the center of Claudette made landfall on Santa Rosa Island. Several hours after landfall, the storm weakened to a tropical depression and the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center took over primary responsibility of the storm. The system quickly dissipated and was last noted over Alabama on August\u00a018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Claudette\nThe National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for the Florida coastline and residents in some counties were advised to evacuate storm-surge-prone areas. Tropical Storm Claudette, produced moderate rainfall across portions of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama between August\u00a016 and 18. Two people were killed offshore amidst rough seas from the storm. An EF-0 tornado spawned by the storm in Cape Coral damaged 11 homes, leaving $103,000 in damages. Additional damages to coastal property and beaches amounted to $125,000 as a result of Claudette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Danny\nAround the same time the remnants of Hurricane Bill dissipated over the northern Atlantic, a new tropical storm developed near the Bahamas on August\u00a026. The system, immediately declared Tropical Storm Danny on its first advisory, erratically moved in a general northwestward direction. Danny attained peak winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) before succumbing to high wind shear. After turning northward, the storm weakened and was eventually absorbed by another low-pressure system off the east coast of the United States early on August\u00a029. High waves from Danny killed a boy in the Outer Banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Erika\nOn September\u00a01, the season's fifth named storm, Tropical Storm Erika, formed east of the Lesser Antilles. Upon forming, the storm had attained its peak intensity with winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). Persistent wind shear prevented the system from intensifying and resulted in the storm's convection being completely displaced from the center of circulation by the time it passed over Guadeloupe on September\u00a02. After entering the Caribbean Sea, Erika briefly regained strength before fully succumbing to strong shear. The system eventually dissipated on September\u00a04, to the south of Puerto Rico. Damages were minor, though one island received several inches of rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fred\nSeveral days after Erika dissipated, a new tropical depression formed southeast of the Cape Verde Islands on September\u00a07. This depression rapidly intensified within an environment of low wind shear and high sea surface temperatures. Receiving the name Fred on September\u00a08, the storm quickly developed an eye feature and was upgraded to a hurricane roughly 24\u00a0hours after being named. Within a 12\u2011hour span, the storm's winds increased by 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) to its peak of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fred\nUpon reaching this intensity, Fred became the strongest storm on record south of 30\u00b0N and east of 35\u00b0W in the Atlantic basin. Not long after the intensification ceased, it began to weaken as dry air became entrained within the system. By September\u00a011, the storm nearly stalled northwest of the Cape Verde Islands and weakened to a tropical storm. The following day, Fred degenerated into a remnant low before taking a westward track across the Atlantic. The remnants of Fred persisted for nearly a week, nearly regenerating into a tropical depression several times. The low eventually dissipated on September\u00a019, to the south of Bermuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Eight\nIn late September, a new, well-defined tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean. By September\u00a025, the system had developed sufficient deep convection for the NHC to classify it as Tropical Depression Eight. At this time, the depression attained its peak intensity with winds of 35\u00a0mph (55\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1008\u00a0mbar (hPa). Shortly thereafter, wind shear and decreasing sea surface temperatures caused the depression to weaken. The system degenerated into a remnant low on September\u00a026 before degenerating into a trough of low pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Grace\nOriginating from an extratropical cyclone east of Newfoundland on September\u00a027, the precursor to Tropical Storm Grace tracked southeastward towards the Azores, gaining subtropical characteristics. After executing a counterclockwise loop between October\u00a01 and 3, deep convection wrapped around a small circulation center that had developed within the larger cyclone. On October\u00a04, this smaller low developed into a tropical storm while situated near the Azores Islands, becoming the northeasternmost forming Atlantic tropical cyclone on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Grace\nThe storm quickly turned northeastward and intensified, developing an eye-like feature as it attained peak winds of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 986 mbar (hPa; 29.12\u00a0inHg). It weakened over increasingly colder waters and began merging with an approaching frontal boundary. Early on October\u00a06, Grace transitioned into an extratropical cyclone before dissipating later that day near Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Grace\nAlthough Grace passed through the Azores Islands, the storm had little known effects there. In Europe, the system and its remnants brought rain to several countries, including Portugal, the United Kingdom and Belgium. No fatalities were linked to Grace and overall damage was minimal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Henri\nA tropical wave left the coast of Africa on October\u00a01, moving westward with intermittent showers and thunderstorms. On October 5, the system became better organized, and a low-pressure area formed. Although the thunderstorms were displaced east of the center of circulation and the probability for development was never high, the disturbance became a tropical depression around 0000 UTC on October 6 about 775\u00a0mi (1,245\u00a0km) east of the Lesser Antilles. Operationally, the storm was not designated a tropical cyclone until later on October\u00a06, when it was immediately declared a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Henri\nAffected by strong wind shear, Henri remained disorganized with its center located on the western edge of the convection. Moving northwestward, Henri intensified slightly to peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) on October\u00a07 after the convection increased. Shortly thereafter, the wind shear grew stronger, and on October\u00a08 the storm weakened to a tropical depression. The structure became further disorganized with several low-level vortices. Just twelve hours after weakening into a depression, Henri degenerated into a remnant area of low pressure. The remnants continued northwestward before turning to the west-southwest due to a ridge. On October\u00a011, the storm's circulation dissipated near Hispaniola, having never impacted land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ida\nThe final storm of the 2009 season formed over the southern Caribbean Sea on November\u00a04. The slow moving system quickly developed into Tropical Storm Ida within a favorable environment as it neared the coastline of Nicaragua. Several hours before moving over land, Ida attained hurricane-status, with winds reaching 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). Hours after moving inland, Ida weakened to a tropical storm and further to a tropical depression as it turned northward. On November\u00a07, the depression re-entered the Caribbean Sea and quickly intensified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ida\nEarly on November\u00a08, the system re-attained hurricane intensity as it rapidly intensified over warm waters. Ida attained its peak intensity as a Category\u00a02 hurricane early the next day with winds of 105\u00a0mph (170\u00a0km/h) as it moved over the Yucat\u00e1n Channel. Not long after reaching this intensity, Ida quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it entered the Gulf of Mexico. Despite strong wind shear, the storm briefly re-attained hurricane status for a third time near the southeastern Louisiana coastline before quickly weakening to a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ida\nShortly before moving inland over the southern United States, Ida transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. The remnants of Ida persisted until November\u00a011, at which time the low dissipated. Remnant energy from Ida provided energy for another system which became a powerful nor'easter, causing significant damage in the Mid-Atlantic States. The resulting storm came to be known as Nor'Ida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ida\nIn the southern Caribbean, Hurricane Ida caused roughly $2.1\u00a0million in damage in Nicaragua after destroying numerous homes and leaving an estimated 40,000 people homeless. Ida also produced significant rainfall across portions of western Cuba, with some areas recording up to 12.5\u00a0in (320\u00a0mm) of rain during the storm's passage. In the United States, the hurricane and the subsequent nor'easter caused substantial damage, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic States. One person was killed by Ida after drowning in rough seas while six others were killed in various incidents related to the nor'easter. Overall, the two systems caused nearly $300\u00a0million in damage throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2009. This was the same list used in the 2003 season, with the exceptions of Fred, Ida, and Joaquin, which replaced Fabian, Isabel, and Juan, respectively. The names Fred and Ida were used for the first time this year. There were no names retired this year; thus, the same list was used again in the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201629-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms that formed in the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s) \u2013 denoted by bold location names \u2013 damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2009 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season\nThe 2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season was Atl\u00e9tico Nacional's 61st season in the Categor\u00eda Primera A. The season highlights include the signing of new international players and the new manager Luis Fernando Su\u00e1rez, who won a championship with Atl. Nacional in 1999. Adidas replaced marathon as the kit-manufacturer; this will increase the team's worldwide exposure. This season they will only participate in Torneo Apertura 2009, Torneo Finalizaci\u00f3n 2009 and Copa Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Team kit\nThis year Atl\u00e9tico Nacional changed their kit manufacturer to Adidas as their one-year contract with marathon expired. Postob\u00f3n will still be their shirt sponsor making this year their tenth year sponsoring them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Current squad, Reserve & Youth Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\nIncludes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Statistics, Disciplinary record\n*  = 1 suspension withdrawn ** = 2 suspensions withdrawn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Statistics, Starting 11 Copa Mustang 2008-II\nLast updated: 2009-03-19Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Pre-season, Friendly matches\nThis game was played by the alternate roster of Atl\u00e9tico Nacional since it was played the same day of the match of Copa Cafam. As for Envigado they also played with their alternative team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201630-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Atl\u00e9tico Nacional season, Copa Mustang 2009-I\n2009-I Copa Mustang will be the beginning of the new Colombian football tournament for Atl\u00e9tico Nacional and for all other teams in the Colombian League. The first two games for Atl\u00e9tico Nacional will be played behind closed doors, due to the disturbances made by the fans in the last season's last game against La Equidad. The organization will also have to pay about $5,000 dollars fine. After Atl\u00e9tico Nacional struggling by losing the first six games of the season, finally won their first match against Millonarios by one goal to nothing. On April 22, 2009 manager Luis Fernando Su\u00e1rez resign from the team after losing against Deportivo Cali by a goal, later on April 23 Jos\u00e9 Santa would take over the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201631-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were led by first year head coach Gene Chizik. Despite playing the 12th toughest schedule in the nation, the Tigers finished the season 8\u20135 (3\u20135 in SEC play) and won the Outback Bowl 38\u201335 in overtime against Northwestern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201631-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Auburn Tigers football team\nWhile Auburn was unranked at the end of the season in both major polls, several BCS participating computer rating systems such as Sagarin (#22), Massey (#22), Peter Wolfe (#25), Howell (#24), David Wilson (#21), Team Rankings (#18) and the FACT Foundation (#21) included the Tigers in their final top 25 rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201631-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe offense finished the season ranked 2nd in the SEC and 16th in the nation (with just under 432 yards per game), while the defense struggled with depth issues and finished 68th and 2nd worst in the SEC. The pass efficiency defense however was 3rd best in the SEC and ranked 22nd in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201631-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Auburn Tigers football team, Coaching change\nOn December 3, 2008, Auburn University announced that 10-year head coach Tommy Tuberville would not return for an eleventh season. The coaching search ended less than two weeks later when Auburn announced Iowa State's second-year head coach and former Auburn defensive coordinator Gene Chizik as the Tigers' next head coach. Auburn had interviewed at least eight coaches, including Buffalo's Turner Gill and TCU's Gary Patterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201631-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Auburn Tigers football team, Schedule\nAuburn's schedule consisted of eight Southeastern Conference opponents (four home, four away) and four non-conference opponents. Auburn opened the season against Louisiana Tech. It was the twelfth matchup between the schools and the first meeting since 2004. The Tigers also hosted Mid-American Conference opponent Ball State for the third time. Also, Football Championship Subdivision foe Furman visited for the first time since 1956. Auburn began conference play in the second week, hosting Mississippi State. The following week, the Tigers hosted West Virginia, the second game in a home-and-home series between the two teams. The Tigers had previously faced all twelve regular season opponents, with Auburn holding the all-time series lead going into the season against all but Alabama (33\u201339\u20131), LSU (19\u201323\u20131), and West Virginia (0\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201632-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Open (darts)\n2009 Auckland Open was a darts tournament that took place in Auckland, New Zealand on 19 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season\nThe 2009 Auckland Rugby League season was the 2009 season of senior rugby league in Auckland. The Auckland Rugby League ran the various competitions. The season commenced on 14 March with the start of the Phelan Shield and ended on 5 September with the Fox Memorial Grand Final. This was the 100th season of the competition, which began with the 1910 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season\nThe season followed the same format as 2008, with a qualification series in the first half of the year giving sixteen teams the opportunity to enter the Fox Memorial competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season\nBeginning 7 June two games a week were broadcast in both English and M\u0101ori on M\u0101ori Television and Te Reo respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial Qualification Series\nThe Lion Red Fox Memorial Qualification Series involved sixteen teams divided into two pools, with the top eight teams entering the Fox Memorial competition. It started on 21 March and concluded on 2 May. The bottom eight teams instead entered the Sharman Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Phelan Shield\nThe Mandron Masonry Phelan Shield began on 14 March and features eleven teams. The regular season concluded on 5 September with a grand final. The New Lynn Stags were the defending champions. Minor premiers the Manukau Magpies defeated the Waiheke Rams in the final to win the Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Sharman Cup\nThe bottom eight teams in the Fox Memorial Qualification Series took part in the SAS Sharman Cup. The Richmond Bulldogs were the defending champions. The grand final was held on 5 September and saw minor premiers the Howick Hornets defeat the Glenora Bears 19\u201312 to win the Cup. Hibiscus Coast were relegated to the Phelan Shield with the Manukau Magpies being promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial\nThe top eight teams in the Fox Memorial Qualification Series took part in the Lion Red Fox Memorial. The Mt Albert Lions were the defending champions and managed to defend their title, defeating the Papakura Sea Eagles 32\u201310 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial\nAs minor premiers the Otahuhu Leopards were awarded the Rukutai Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Awards\nThe Auckland Rugby League's 2009 Awards were announced on 24 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Awards\nLion Red Fox Memorial Player of the Year: Phillip Kahui (Mt Albert)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Awards\nGeorge Rainey Medal Fox Memorial Team of the Year:Fullback: James Blackwell (Otahuhu)Winger: Phillip Kahui (Mt Albert)Centre: Toshio Laiseni (Papakura)Standoff: Zensei Inu (Te Atatu)Halfback: Aaron Woodhouse (Manurewa)Prop: Dylan Davis (Marist)Hooker: Zac Tippins (Te Atatu)2nd Row: Sala Faalogo (Mt Albert)Lock: Tui Samoa (East Coast Bays)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201633-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Auckland Rugby League season, Awards\nMandron Masonry Phelan Shield Player of the Year:Itaifale Tolefoa (Navy/North Shore Dolphins)SAS Sharman Cup Player of the Year:Aaron Booth (Glenora Bears)M\u0101ori Television Rookie of the Year:Stephen Shennan (Te Atatu Roosters)Premiership Coach of the Year: Brent Gemmell (Mt Albert)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201634-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Audi Cup\nThe first edition of the Audi Cup was a two-day association football tournament that featured four teams, and was staged in late July 2009 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. The competition was organised and promoted by car manufacturer Audi AG to celebrate their 100th year of trading, and hosted by 2007\u201308 Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich defeated Manchester United in the final in a penalty shoot-out after a goalless draw. Boca Juniors defeated Milan in the third place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201634-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Audi Cup, Competition format\nThe competition took the format of the latter stages of a regular knock-out competition. The winners of each of the two matches on the first day compete against each other for the Audi Cup, whilst the two losing sides play in a third-place match. The draw for the 2009 Audi Cup semi-finals was made on the Audi stand at the Geneva Motor Show, on 3 March 2009. The draw was conducted by Audi representative Tom Kristensen, in the presence of an official representative from each participating team. Gennaro Gattuso (Milan), Wes Brown (Manchester United), Carlos Bianchi (Boca Juniors) and Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich) were present on behalf of their clubs. The trophy was contested over two days, each day seeing two matches played back-to-back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201635-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Austin Aztex season, Schedule & Results\nExhibition MatchesThe Austin Aztex began their inaugural season as a professional team by playing 4 MLS teams in preseason exhibition matches. The first three games were held in Austin at Nelson Field while the fourth MLS match was in Rio Tinto Stadium on the MLS opening weekend. A fifth exhibition match was scheduled against the CONCACAF semi-finalist Puerto Rico Islanders in between their home and away series against Cruz Azul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201635-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Austin Aztex season, Stats\nGP - games played,  Min - Minutes played,  G - Goals scored,  A - Assists,  S - Shots,  F - FoulsGAA - Goals Against Average, GA - Goals Against, W - Wins, L - Losses, T - Ties, CS - Clean Sheets", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201636-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Austin mayoral election\nThe 2009 Austin mayoral election was held on May 9, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Will Wynn was term-limited. No candidate received a majority of the vote, which would have precipitated a runoff election, but second-place finisher Brewster McCracken withdrew from the race  making Lee Leffingwell the winner by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201637-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia Day Honours\nThe Australia Day Honours 2009 are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2009 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201637-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia Day Honours\nThe Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour\nThe 2009 Australia national rugby union Tour  was a series of seven matches played by the Australia national rugby union team in November 2009. The \"Wallabies \" didn't obtain their goal (the Grand Slam) drawing the match with Ireland, and losing surprisingly to Scotland. The tour was preceded by a match against All Blacks for the Bledisloe Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Matches, New Zealand\nAssistant referees:Craig Joubert (South Africa)Taizo Hirabayashi (Japan)Television Match Official:Akihisa Aso (Japan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad\nThe 35-man touring party was announced on 8 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad\nOn 28 October, Tyrone Smith was called up to replace the injured Rob Horne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad\nAfter Berrick Barnes was ruled out with an injury sustained in training Brumbies, fly-half Matt Toomua was called up to cover for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad\nNote: Caps and date of ages are to opening tour match on 31 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201638-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national rugby union team tour, Squad, Coaching staff\nHead Coach -  Robbie DeansAssistant Coach -  Jim WilliamsSkills Coach -  Richard GrahamHigh Performance Director -  David Nucifora", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201639-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national soccer team season\nThis page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201639-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national soccer team season, Summary\nThe start of the year consisted of alternating qualification matches for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. When Australia met Japan in February, they were top of the group with three wins. A draw against Japan, a win against Uzbekistan and then another draw with Qatar was enough for Australia to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup with two games to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201639-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national soccer team season, Summary\nAsian Cup qualifying started poorly with a draw in Indonesia and a home loss to Kuwait although wins later in the year improved Australia's position in the group leading into the final fixtures in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201639-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national soccer team season, Summary\nNetherlands were ranked number three in the world at the time of visiting Sydney to play a friendly that finished nil-all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201639-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australia national soccer team season, Summary\nAustralia finished the year at 21 in the FIFA rankings; however, the September 2009 ranking saw Australia reach its highest ever position of 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201640-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the championship winner receiving the 2009 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2009 championship was the 53rd Australian Drivers' Championship and the fifth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed in accordance with FIA Formula 3 regulations. The season began on 19 March 2009 at the Adelaide Street Circuit and finished on 29 November at Sandown Raceway after eight events across four different states with two rounds per event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201640-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Drivers' Championship\nTeam BRM driver Joey Foster became the second successive champion from Great Britain, holding off 2007 series champion Tim Macrow by eight points. In the National classes, Tom Tweedie was champion in National A, recording three top-three overall finishes and twelve class wins, while Peter Kalpakiotis was champion in National B as he was the only driver to contest more than one meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201640-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points System\nChampionship points were awarded on a 20\u201315\u201312\u201310\u20138\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the top ten classified finishers in the Championship Class in each race. One additional point was awarded to the driver setting the fastest lap time in the class in each qualifying session and in each race at each round. The same system was also used for both the National A Class and the National B Class awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201640-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Drivers' Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers have competed during the 2009 Australian Formula 3 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201640-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Drivers' Championship, Race calendar\nOriginally Event 7 of the series was to have taken place at Symmons Plains Raceway in Tasmania, and was indeed set to host the series signature race, the Tasmanian Super Prix on 18 October, however with several other series involved in the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships withdrawing from the logistically difficult Tasmanian meeting, the event was cancelled. Subsequently, a new meeting was organised to be held at Queensland Raceway on 21 August on the support card of the V8 Supercar Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201641-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Film Institute Awards\nThe 51st Annual Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film and television acting achievements for 2009 in the cinema of Australia, took place over two nights on 5 December 2009 and on 11 December 2009. During the ceremonies, the Australian Film Institute presented Australian Film Institute Awards (AFI awards) in 40 categories, including feature films, television, animation, and documentary. The ceremony was hosted by Julia Zemiro of SBS's RocKwiz. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; with nominees thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201641-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Film Institute Awards, AFI Outstanding Achievement Dinner\nThe following two AFI Awards were presented at the AFI Outstanding Achievement Dinner in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201642-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship\nThe 2009 Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Ford open wheel racing cars. The championship was the 40th national series for Formula Fords to be held in Australia and the 17th to carry the Australian Formula Ford Championship name. It began on 26 March 2009 at the Albert Park Street Circuit and finished on 25 October at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit after eight rounds held across four different states and territories. Round 1 was contested over two races and all other rounds over three races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201642-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship\nSouth Australian driver Nick Percat dominated the championship, winning 12 of the 23 races. At the Hidden Valley Raceway round, Percat set a new record for the most races wins in the history of national level Formula Ford racing in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201642-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Points\nChampionship points were awarded on a 20-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 basis to the top ten classified finishers in each race. An additional point was awarded to the driver gaining pole position for each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201642-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers competed in the 2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship\nThe 2009 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of closed production based sports cars which are either approved by the FIA for GT3 competition or approved by CAMS as Australian GTs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship\nThe GT Championship division for FIA GT3 specification vehicles was won by former Carrera Cup racer David Wall driving a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup S for the family owned Wall Racing team, which included race victories at Albert Park, Phillip Island, Eastern Creek and Mount Panorama for a comfortable victory margin of almost 90 points over another former Carrera Cup racer James Koundouris. Veteran Jim Richards, driving Wall's 2008 Carrera Cup car, finished third in the championship. Neither Koundouris or Richards took race wins in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship\nThe other race winners were Craig Baird, whose Mosler dominated the opening round at Adelaide but the team was sold mid-season leaving Baird without a drive; Dean Grant, whose Lamborghini gained a win at Eastern Creek, and Max Twigg, who debuted a 997 GT3 Cup S similar to Wall's at the final round at Sydney Olympic Park to dominate the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship\nThe GT Challenge division for older cars, (mostly Porsche 996 Carrera Cup cars and one-make specification Ferraris and Maseratis), was won by Jordan Ormsby whose old Porsche GT3-RS dominated the series after Klark Quinn was moved from the Challenge division to the Championship division. Quinn won the first five races for the season prior to that. Michael Loccisano was second driving a 996 Carrera Cup with Keith Wong third driving a Ferrari 360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship\nThe GT Production division for production based sportscars was won by Chevrolet Corvette driver, Paul Freestone. Lotus Exige drivers Mark O'Connor and Tim Poulton completed the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 2009 Australian GT Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship, Season review, Race calendar\nThe championship was contested over a six-round series. Within each division, each driver could count only his/her best five round results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship, Season review, Drivers Championship\nNote: Three races held during the Adelaide and Eastern Creek rounds, the others had two races. Albert Park has only two rounds although three were scheduled. The third race was nullified by CAMS because of only one green flag lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201643-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian GT Championship, Australian Tourist Trophy\nThe 2009 Australian Tourist Trophy was awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the driver gaining the highest aggregate points total in the Eastern Creek and Phillip Island rounds of the 2009 Australian GT Championship. The title, which was the twentieth Australian Tourist Trophy, was won by David Wall driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S Type 997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 March 2009 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia. It was the first\u00a0race of the 2009 Formula One season. The 58-lap race was won by Jenson Button for the Brawn GP team after starting from pole position. Rubens Barrichello finished second in the other Brawn GP car, with Jarno Trulli third for Toyota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix\nBrawn GP became the first constructor since Mercedes-Benz at the 1954 French Grand Prix to qualify on pole position, and then go on to win the race on their Grand Prix debut. The race also became the second race in Formula One history to finish under stabilised safety car conditions\u2014after the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix\u2014following a collision between Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel, who were running second and third, on lap 56. This was Jenson Button's second Grand Prix victory, and his first since the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix\nThis also marked the first race since the 1997 European Grand Prix that cars competed using slick tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe Grand Prix was contested by 20\u00a0drivers, in 10\u00a0teams of two. The teams, also known as constructors, were Ferrari, McLaren-Mercedes, Renault, Brawn-Mercedes, Force India-Mercedes, BMW Sauber, Toyota, Red Bull Racing-Renault, Williams-Toyota and Toro Rosso-Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe race saw the debut of Brawn GP, whose owner Ross Brawn had bought out Honda Racing F1. The Brawn cars were driven by Honda's former drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button. The race also saw the debut of S\u00e9bastien Buemi, driving for Toro Rosso. Buemi became the first Swiss driver in Formula One since Jean-Denis D\u00e9l\u00e9traz in 1995. Buemi replaced Sebastian Vettel who had moved to Red Bull Racing replacing the retired David Coulthard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nPrior to the opening race of the season, McLaren and Renault planned to boycott the season opener due to money not being paid to the teams. However, the boycott was avoided and both teams arrived in Melbourne for the opening round. In a second dispute, several teams protested to the stewards about the legality of the Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars, with arguments that the diffuser on the cars were illegal. The protest was thrown out by stewards. However, the teams that initially protested, had appealed against the decision, with a FIA International Court of Appeal hearing set for after the Malaysian Grand Prix. At the hearing, the diffusers were deemed legal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe race itself saw a later start time, Having started at 15:30 AEDT (04:30 UTC) in 2008, the race was moved to 17:00 AEDT (06:00 UTC) for 2009. However, the executives of the Australian Grand Prix rejected calls from Bernie Ecclestone to move it to a night race, just like the one held in Singapore, as they want to honour their current contract to 2015 of a twilight race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"In both sessions sector two was working particularly well. There are only two 'real' corners in the sector, but it's really interesting and it feels good in the car. The FW31 is well balanced all round the track, but seems even more so there than in any other places. After a winter of testing, it's good to get out on a new, fresh track and we seem to be in a better position than we thought.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nNico Rosberg, after topping the timesheets in both Friday sessions and his thoughts on how well the Williams FW31 was comparing against his rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1\u00a0hour and 30\u00a0minutes with weather conditions dry throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an\u00a0hour, and was also dry throughout. The Williams cars of Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima set the pace, ending up first and second with only five-hundredths of a second splitting the two. The only other driver that was within half a second of them was Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's Ferrari, who was marginally behind Nakajima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRubens Barrichello set the fourth fastest time in the first official session for the Brawn team, outpacing teammate Jenson Button, who could only muster up the sixth fastest lap. Heikki Kovalainen was the faster of the two McLaren drivers in fifth, with teammate and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton languishing all the way down in 16th, some 2.3 seconds off the pace of the Williams cars. Rounding out the top ten were Felipe Massa's Ferrari, the Toyota of Timo Glock, Adrian Sutil's Force India (thus meaning that four of the six Mercedes\u2013engined cars were in the top ten) and the first of the Renaults driven by Fernando Alonso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRosberg was again the pace-setter in the second practice session, with a time some six-tenths of a second faster than what he achieved during the first 90-minute session. This time, Barrichello was second in his Brawn with the Toyota of Jarno Trulli in third. This marked an improvement for Trulli as he was only 12th in the first session. The only Australian in the field, Mark Webber ended up fourth for Red Bull Racing, ahead of Button, Glock and Nakajima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nWebber's teammate Sebastian Vettel was eighth, after a morning session that was interrupted by a hydraulic failure which led him to pull his car off the road between turns six and seven. This ruled him out of the rest of the session, and restricted him to bottom of the timesheets and only four laps completed. Rounding out the top ten were Sutil's Force India, which ended up ninth again, and Massa in tenth. The three teams running the controversial rear diffusers (Brawn, Williams, and Toyota) were consistently the best teams on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRosberg completed a clean sweep of top spots in practice, by coming fastest in Saturday's practice session. His time edged out Trulli's Toyota by just three thousandths of a second. Button was third, and the only other driver to break into the 1:25 lap times, just under two-tenths of a second behind Rosberg. Massa improved again to end up fourth, and be the only driver from McLaren or Ferrari to finish in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nNakajima again impressed in the Williams, finishing fifth, in front of Barrichello, Webber, and Glock, who took the next three fastest times and were split by around six hundredths of a second. The two BMW Sauber drivers\u2014Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld\u2014rounded out the top ten, as they appeared in the top ten on the timesheets for the first time, after a fraught pair of practice sessions on Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"The last five or six months for both of us have been so tough because of going from not having a drive or any future in racing to putting it on pole here is just amazing, it really is and I have got to give all credit to the team and Ross [Brawn] and Nick [Fry] for making this happen. This is where we deserve to be after the tough times we have had.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe qualifying session was split into three parts. The first part of qualifying runs for 20\u00a0minutes and eliminates the cars that finished the session 16th or lower. The second part of qualifying lasts for 15\u00a0minutes and eliminates cars that finished in positions 11 to 15. The final part of qualifying lasts for 10\u00a0minutes and determines the positions from first to tenth, and effectively decides who starts the Grand Prix in pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nAfter dominating all three practice sessions on Friday, and again on Saturday morning, Rosberg did not fare so well in qualifying, managing a time only good enough for fifth position. The Brawn cars of Button and Barrichello dominated qualifying with the Brazilian finishing first in the first two parts of the session. In the third session, Button managed to beat his teammate's time by three-tenths of a second, and secured the fourth pole position of his career and his first pole since the 2006 Australian Grand Prix, that ended with Button's car blowing its engine on the final straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nVettel's Red Bull was third with teammate Webber in tenth at his home race, which would later become eighth after the disqualification of the Toyotas. Kubica improved even further to line up fourth, easily outpacing teammate Heidfeld, who did not make the third session and was running the KERS system, which Kubica was not. After Glock was demoted, Massa was promoted to sixth and was the best KERS runner, ahead of teammate R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, with Heidfeld and Alonso completing the top ten, after the Toyotas' disqualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0013-0003", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nAfter the session, Hamilton was demoted five places as his gearbox had to be changed, which originally dropped him from 15th on the grid, to 20th. Some hours after Hamilton's penalty, the Toyota cars had their times declared void as the rear wing on their cars was deemed to be illegal. This pushed Hamilton up to 18th, with Glock in 19th and Trulli 20th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe conditions on raceday were similar to what had been seen on both Friday and Saturday, the air temperature at 25\u00a0\u00b0C (77\u00a0\u00b0F); clear skies throughout, with the race beginning at 17:00 AEDT. Button led away and retained his pole position lead into turn one. He was closely followed by Vettel, Rosberg, Massa, Kubica and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. Those six led away and were unaffected by the chaos that occurred behind, in turn one. After near-stalling, Barrichello had dropped from second to ninth, and challenged up the inside of Webber's Red Bull as they entered turn one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAfter being hit from behind, Barrichello's left front tyre impacted with the right-hand sidepod of Webber's car which half-spun the Australian into the BMW Sauber of Heidfeld. Once Barrichello had emerged relatively unscathed, Webber impacted on the front left of Kovalainen's McLaren causing irreparable damage to the left front suspension of the Finn's car. At turn three, Massa attempted a move down the inside of Rosberg, forcing the German off course and as a result, falling behind the Brazilian. At the end of the lap, Webber, Sutil and Heidfeld all pitted to repair damage caused in the first corner incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFurther down the field, reigning champion Hamilton was progressing through the field having started eighteenth. After the first corner incident, he moved up to 13th at the end of the first lap. He passed Bourdais for 12th on lap two, Fisichella for 11th on lap three, and broke into the top ten, after passing Buemi on lap four. Out front, Button was beginning to establish a lead of over four seconds by the time he set the fastest lap on lap\u00a0six, with a lap of 1:28.787. Vettel was still running second ahead of Massa, Kubica, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen with Rosberg completing the top six. Hamilton attempted to pass Piquet for ninth, doing so at Turn 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap ten, Rosberg attempted a move on R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen into turn one, and succeeded to move up into fifth place on track. In the process, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was slowed up by the German's move, allowing Barrichello to close up on the straight that leads into Turn 3. The Brawn car closed up thanks to picking up the slipstream, but even this left him several car lengths behind the Ferrari as they entered the braking zone for the corner. Barrichello's car snaked under brakes, and clipped the back of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's car, causing more damage to his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nR\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was forced wide by the hit, and Barrichello's momentum initiated a passing move into Turn 4, succeeding and moving into sixth\u00a0place. The Finn pitted at the end of the lap, changing from the option tyre, onto the prime compound and did not change compounds again for the remaining distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMassa and Hamilton both pitted on lap\u00a0eleven, with both drivers changing from the option tyres, moving onto the harder rubber. This allowed for a scrap for third to begin between Kubica, Rosberg and Barrichello to occur, as the latter two had caught up on the Pole. It would only last one lap however, as Kubica pitted on lap\u00a0twelve, the final driver to change his first stint super-softs. Out front, Button continued to lead by 4.3 seconds from Vettel with Rosberg third, Barrichello fourth and Nakajima fifth. Lap\u00a016 saw both Vettel and Rosberg pit, with Vettel remaining in second and Rosberg fell to 12th. Rosberg was delayed by a slow left front tyre change, which was a major contribution to his nine-place fall in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap\u00a018, whilst running in fourth place, Nakajima ran slightly wide on the exit of Turn 4 and proceeding to put too much power down spinning the car sideways and head on into the wall between Turns 4 and 5. After hitting the wall, his front wing ended up in the middle of the track and directly on the racing line. Button made his pit stop a lap later, and exited pit lane as the safety car was deployed. After the field cycled through, the safety car eventually picked up Button and would remain on the track until the end of lap\u00a024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the restart, Button held position out front, ahead of Vettel, Massa, Kubica \u2013 who was still weaving his car to get temperature into his tyres after he had crossed the start/finish line \u2013 and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. In a battle for sixth, Piquet had lined up a move on sixth-placed Rosberg, causing the German to defend on the inside. However, Piquet lost control of his car under braking \u2013 and possibly due to the tyres not being up to the required temperature \u2013 and spun off into the turn one gravel and out of the race. Further down the field, Glock lost two places to Hamilton and Alonso, as both drivers attacked hard on the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nPositions remained the same until lap\u00a031, when Massa made his second and final pit stop of the race and emerged back into the fray in 14th place. After returning to the race, Massa was told by race engineer Rob Smedley to step up his pace, as according to him Kubica and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen were a threat due to longer middle stints. Trulli pitted on lap\u00a033, having made his first pit stop on lap\u00a010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nA lap later, Kubica set the fastest lap, with a 1:27.989, and two laps later, the Pole bettered that by a thousandth of a second \u2013 his fastest lap of the race. At this point, Button was still extending his lead over Vettel, leading by over five seconds from the German.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nKubica pitted from third\u00a0place on lap\u00a039, and rejoined the circuit in seventh, just behind Hamilton, who was still making his way up the field. At the same time, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen made his second stop and rejoined in ninth. Buemi had quietly made his way up into fourth place, just in front of the Brit, before he made his second and final pit stop on lap\u00a041. Two laps later, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen made an error whilst exiting Turn 13, and spun off, glancing the wall on the right hand side. He eventually returned to the pits, to make an unscheduled pit stop. Also pitting this lap was Hamilton, then running in third place. It was a close-run thing at pit exit, but Hamilton did enough to hold off Massa and rejoined in tenth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nRosberg and Vettel pitted on consecutive laps, trying to limit the amount of time that they would have to spend on the super-soft tyre. Both drivers held station in seventh and second positions respectively. At this time, Massa was slowly exiting the race with suspension damage, limping round before retiring the Ferrari in pit lane. Button pitted for the final time on lap\u00a047, and suffered a very slow stop, with a sticking left rear wheel change, with the pit stop lasting 13.2\u00a0seconds. A lap later, Rosberg set the fastest lap of the race \u2013 1:27.706 \u2013 and was still closing on Glock. Glock and Barrichello both pitted late on, and the race order on lap\u00a055 was Button, Vettel, Kubica, Barrichello, Trulli, Hamilton, Glock, Alonso, Rosberg and Buemi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nLap\u00a056 saw Vettel make a slight mistake in Turn 1, and allowed Kubica to make a run down the outside, towards Turn 3. Vettel braked early and Kubica was ahead turning in. However, Vettel turned in and his front wing locked onto the sidepod of Kubica's BMW. Due to this collision, both cars lost their front wings, but they carried on towards Turns 4 and 5. Kubica was ahead, but without downforce he understeered off the circuit into the wall and out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMeanwhile, Vettel also made an error on the way into the corner, sliding and hitting the wall, causing his left front tyre to bend back on itself. He carried on, as he was still in the points at this time. He could only continue on for just over a lap, as he ground to a halt between Turns 10 and 11. As the debris was not cleared up in time, this led to only the second safety car finish in Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAs stated by Article 40.14 of the sporting regulations for Formula One, the safety car pulled in and the drivers proceeded over the line without overtaking. Button secured a debut victory for Brawn after leading the race from start to finish. He led home teammate Barrichello as they completed a Brawn one-two. Trulli finished third although there were accusations that he passed Hamilton under the safety car. This would later turn out to be true, and he was penalised twenty-five seconds pushing him down to 12th in the results, thus promoting Hamilton to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThis decision was later reversed: Trulli was eventually re-instated to his 3rd finishing position and Hamilton was disqualified for misleading stewards during their investigation. Glock finished fourth, having started from the pit lane, and was followed home by Alonso, Rosberg, Buemi and Bourdais. Buemi's two points made him Switzerland's first points scorer since Marc Surer at the 1985 Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"We have worked incredibly hard for this victory today and to see the dedication, commitment and sheer hard work come to fruition with Jenson and Rubens bringing home a one-two finish for Brawn GP at the first race of the season is immensely rewarding. After everything that our team has been through over the past four months, this is quite simply a sensational result. It is just the beginning for us and it wasn't a perfect race by any means so we will learn from today and continue to improve. We have to keep developing the car throughout the season if we want to challenge for further wins and the championship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nRoss Brawn, team principal of Brawn GP, reflecting on his team's d\u00e9but.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nThe top three finishers on the road appeared on the podium and in the subsequent press conference, where Button reflected on a somewhat easy race, in which he led all 58\u00a0laps, although it was not without its problems: \"The first few laps of the race were great for me and I could settle into a pace, but then when the safety car came out I struggled massively to get heat into the tyres. The car was hitting the ground and just before the safety car pulled in I flat-spotted the tyre pretty severely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nI was struggling quite a bit with vibration and with the poor light as well. Being in the front it should be easy, but it was not easy at all.\" He also reflected on his and his team's achievements, as they became the first driver/team combination since Juan Manuel Fangio and Mercedes at the 1954 French Grand Prix to win the team's debut race, having started from pole position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nIt is not just for me, but for the whole team. This is a fairy tale ending really to the first race of our career together and I hope that we can continue this way and I know we are going to fight to keep this car competitive and with the limited resources we have to keep it at the front. The whole team has done a good job and this has got to continue as this is where I think we deserve to be and we have worked very hard for this. So thank you very much to the team and bring on Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nBarrichello picked up his first podium since the 2008 British Grand Prix, and his highest finish since the now-infamous 2005 United States Grand Prix, in which only the six Bridgestone-shod cars started due to safety concerns with Michelin's tyres. He praised the strength of his Brawn car, as he was involved in several incidents during the race. He also reflected upon his fluffed start, which ultimately led to the first of his incidents, at Turn 1. \"I hit anti-stall, so the car went into neutral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nI recovered quite quickly but then I lost a lot of pace compared to people and I was hit from behind from a McLaren and that put me sideways and I hit someone really hard. I thought the car was done from that crash but I survived quite well, but on my first stint my nose was falling apart and I lost the braking stability when I hit Kimi as well. He closed the door and I couldn't avoid him. I had a lot of mixed emotions during the race, but it was fantastic. I started second but could only hope for one better but after the start I am delighted to be here with the second place.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nTrulli was pleased with his third place on the road, but was however, unaware of the penalty that he was due to receive for his late race pass of Hamilton under the safety car. \"Well, after yesterday's disappointment this was a great day, especially for my team. I started from the pit and I was lucky enough to get away from the first corner accident. From that time on I was just pushing, pushing, pushing really hard because the car was good.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nAfter an investigation, stewards deemed that Sebastian Vettel was in the wrong after his collision with Robert Kubica, which resulted in both of them not finishing the race. Vettel received a fine and a 10-place grid penalty to be applied in the following round in Malaysia. Red Bull Racing, Vettel's team, also received a $50,000 fine for letting him continue with a damaged car, for over a lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nAlso after the race, Trulli's third place was put under investigation. The stewards decided that the Italian regained his position overtaking Hamilton during a safety car period, having run off the track when the safety car was out. Trulli was penalised 25 seconds, moving him down to 12th. Trulli's explanation of the incident was: \"When the safety car came out towards the end of the race Lewis Hamilton passed me but soon after he suddenly slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nI thought he had a problem so I overtook him as there was nothing else I could do.\" In public Hamilton corroborated this, stating that the McLaren team had told him to let Trulli repass. Behind closed doors, however, Hamilton told the stewards that he had received no instruction to allow Trulli past, and had not consciously done so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nToyota had appealed the penalty firstly to the stewards, but that appeal was rejected, as a team cannot appeal a time penalty\u2014in lieu of the fact that the offence occurred within the last five laps of the race\u2014in accordance with Article 16.3 of the Sporting Regulations for Formula One. Toyota then appealed to the clerk of the course, Tim Schenken, but later retracted this appeal stating that: \"Having considered recent judgements of the International Court of Appeal, it is believed any appeal will be rejected.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nThe Trulli/Hamilton case was reopened to examine new evidence, and both drivers were summoned to a stewards' inquiry on 2 April 2009, prior to the Malaysian Grand Prix. McLaren continued to insist it had not given orders to allow Trulli past, even after being played an audio recording of such an instruction over team radio. Hamilton, as well, continued to assert his false statement. The stewards decided that Hamilton and McLaren had misled them, having contradicted the available evidence. Hamilton was disqualified and McLaren stripped of their constructors' points. Trulli was re-instated into third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nMcLaren's Sporting Director, Dave Ryan, was subsequently suspended by the team the day after Hamilton's disqualification was announced. McLaren were summoned to appear before the FIA on 29 April 2009 to answer charges of breaching the International Sporting Code. At this meeting, McLaren were given a suspended three-race ban, which would only be applied if a similar offence occurred within the next twelve months. It was revealed that Dave Ryan had been sacked by McLaren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nAs this was the first race of the season, Button led the Drivers' Championship with 10\u00a0points, followed by Barrichello on 8 and Trulli on 6. Meanwhile, in the Constructors' Championship, Brawn picked up a maximum 18\u00a0points thanks to the 1\u20132 for Button and Barrichello. This gave them a seven-point lead over Toyota, with Renault on four points, thanks to Alonso's fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201644-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Grand Prix, Classification\nCars that used the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201645-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Individual Speedway Championship\nThe 2009 Individual Speedway Australian Championship was the 2009 version of the Individual Speedway Australian Championship organised by Motorcycling Australia. The three final rounds took place between 3 January and 10 January. The championship was won by Leigh Adams, who beat the defending champion Chris Holder into second place. Rory Schlein finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201645-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Individual Speedway Championship\nBy winning the 2009 Australian Solo Championship, Leigh Adams won his record 10th Australian title which he had first won in 1992. Adams was undefeated through the three rounds held at the Newcastle Showgrounds, Olympic Park Speedway, and Gillman Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201645-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Individual Speedway Championship, Finals, Newcastle\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201645-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Individual Speedway Championship, Finals, Mildura\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201645-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Individual Speedway Championship, Finals, Gillman\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201646-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for car manufacturers. It was the 24th manufacturers title to be awarded by CAMS and the 15th to be contested under the Australian Manufacturers' Championship name. The championship was open to Group 3E Series Production Cars. Mitsubishi ended the season as champions, beating other manufacturers Toyota and Subaru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201646-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Calendar\nThe title was contested over a five-round series run concurrently with the 2009 Australian Production Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201646-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Calendar\nRounds 1 to 4 were each composed of three \"20-minute\" races with one driver per car. Round 5 was composed of two \"one hour\" races with either one or two drivers per car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201646-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system\nOnly manufacturers registered for the championship were eligible to score championship points. Each registered manufacturer could nominate up to two cars, irrespective of class, which were the only cars eligible to score points for that manufacturer at that round of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201646-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system\nFor races with standing starts, championship points were awarded on class finishing positions and for races with handicap starts on outright finishing positions. For rounds contested over two races, points were awarded on a 45-36-30-27-24-21-18-15-12-9-6-3 basis in each race and for rounds contested over three races on a 30-24-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis in each race. All eligible finishers outside of the top twelve in each race were awarded one point each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201647-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Mini Challenge\nThe 2009 Australian Mini Challenge delivered by Pizza Capers was the second running of the one make championship. It began on 26 March at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit and ended on 2 December at the new Homebush Street Circuit. A winner of two rounds during the season, Paul Stokell won the championship ahead of Chris Alajajian, who remained in title contention despite not winning any of the series' eight rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201647-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Mini Challenge, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers contested the 2009 Australian Mini Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201647-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Mini Challenge, Calendar\nThe 2009 Australian Mini Challenge delivered by Pizza Capers was contested over eight rounds, starting at Albert Park in March and finishing at Homebush in December", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open\nThe 2009 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 97th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 19 January through 1 February 2009. The tournament is remembered for containing many notable matches of the 2009 year, including the Nadal v Verdasco semi final and the Nadal v Federer final. It was the first hard court Grand Slam in which Nadal made the final or won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open\nNovak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova were the defending champions. Djokovic was forced to retire in his quarter-final match against Andy Roddick due to heat stress, ending his title defence, whilst Sharapova chose not to defend her title due to long lasting shoulder surgery; the withdrawal subsequently dropped her out of the WTA's Top 10 for the first time since July 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open\nSecond seeded Serena Williams regained the women's singles title and recorded her fourth Australian Open title and tenth Grand Slam title overall after defeating third seed Dinara Safina in straight sets. Serena, partnering with her sister Venus, also won the women's doubles tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open\nFirst seeded Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in five sets to win the men's singles title. This was Nadal's first hard court grand slam title, having previously only won on clay at Roland Garros four times and grass at Wimbledon once. He also became the first Spaniard to ever win the Australian Open. This tournament featured 23 five-set men's singles matches, the most since 1988. In men's doubles, another sibling pair took the title as Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open\nThis tournament was notable for being the warmest tournament weather-wise; the average daily maximum temperature throughout the tournament was 34.7 degrees Celsius, nine degrees above normal. The coolest Australian Open was in 1986, when the maximum temperature averaged just 22.5 degrees Celsius, 3.5 degrees below normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (19 January)\nDay one's play began with 7th seeded Andy Roddick easing through to the 2nd round in Rod Laver Arena in straight sets. Later defending champion and 3rd seeded Novak Djokovic also made it to the second round, as well as seeded players Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Marat Safin, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, Mardy Fish, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Robin S\u00f6derling, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Tommy Robredo, Stanislas Wawrinka, Marin \u010cili\u0107, while 11th seeded David Ferrer was made to work hard before prevailing in five sets over Denis Gremelmayr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (19 January)\n2006 finalist Marcos Baghdatis also progressed in straight sets, while Australia's defending boy's champion Bernard Tomic won a four set encounter on his debut. Later in the evening, 10th seeded David Nalbandian dropped a set but eventually defeated Frenchman Marc Gicquel, while three-time champion 2nd seed Roger Federer won the first set easily, but was made to work hard in the next two sets, before defeating Italian Andreas Seppi on his fifth match point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (19 January)\n27th seed Feliciano L\u00f3pez was the only seed to fall, losing to 2008 US Open quarterfinalist, Luxembourg's Gilles M\u00fcller in a five set thriller that ended 16\u201314 in the fifth. The match was originally thought to be the longest in the history of the Australian Open, spanning over 5 hours and 34 minutes. However, it was later discovered that a timing error had added over an hour to the match, that in reality lasted 4 hours and 24 minutes. The semifinal match between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco did become the longest, however, at 5 hours and 14 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (19 January)\nIn the women's singles, last year's finalist and 5th seeded Ana Ivanovic began her campaign with a hard earned straight sets victory, while compatriot and top seed Jelena Jankovi\u0107 was an easy winner over Yvonne Meusburger. Other players following the Serbian duo into the second round include 3rd seed Dinara Safina, 7th seed Vera Zvonareva, Caroline Wozniacki, Aliz\u00e9 Cornet, Nadia Petrova, Marion Bartoli, Anna Chakvetadze, Alisa Kleybanova and Ai Sugiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (19 January)\n25th seeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi halted the progress of former world number four Kimiko Date-Krumm, playing in the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in 13 years, in three tight sets, while last year's semifinalist Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 defeated local hope Casey Dellacqua in straight sets. Another former world number four, unseeded Australian Jelena Doki\u0107 also moved into the second round for the first time in ten years with a hard-fought victory over Tamira Paszek. Meanwhile, 23rd seed \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay's poor form in Grand Slams continued as she crashed out to Galina Voskoboeva, 24th seed Sybille Bammer lost to Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1, while Sara Errani defeated 27th seed Maria Kirilenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (20 January)\nWith temperatures soaring in Melbourne, Andy Murray had life made easy in his first round match when opponent Andrei Pavel was forced to concede with a back injury early in the second set, having lost the first. Other top-ten seeds such as last year's finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon and James Blake also progressed comfortably, along with Ga\u00ebl Monfils, Fernando Verdasco, Richard Gasquet, J\u00fcrgen Melzer, Ivo Karlovi\u0107 and Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, while Igor Andreev and Nicol\u00e1s Almagro both won through in five sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (20 January)\nIn a five-set thriller that lasted three hours and seven minutes, former finalist and 13th seed Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez overcame home-crowd favorite Lleyton Hewitt. Later on, top-seed Rafael Nadal posted a 6\u20130, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 win against Christophe Rochus that tied with Andy Roddick's first-round score, establishing himself and Roddick as the most dominant male performers of the first round. Two more seeds fell in the first round, with Russian 29th seed Dmitry Tursunov losing to Flavio Cipolla, while another former finalist, 30th seed Rainer Sch\u00fcttler was defeated by Israel's Dudi Sela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (20 January)\nIn the women's draw, Polish 9th seed Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska became the first top ten seed on either side to lose, as she was upset in three sets by Kateryna Bondarenko. 4th seed Elena Dementieva, on a ten-match winning streak this season, pulled through in three tough sets while the Williams sisters, 6th seeded Venus and second seed Serena, comfortably won their first-round matches, as did former women's champion Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, along with Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Patty Schnyder, Flavia Pennetta, Alona Bondarenko and Zheng Jie, while teenagers Victoria Azarenka and Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1 recorded crushing victories over their respective opponents. 30th seeded Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak suffered defeat at the hands of Sabine Lisicki, while Francesca Schiavone lost to Peng Shuai and Tamarine Tanasugarn was defeated by Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 935]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nDay three saw the second round matches getting underway in Melbourne Park. Defending champion and 3rd seed Novak Djokovic progressed with a straight sets victory over J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy, while second seed Roger Federer breezed past 118th-ranked Russian Evgeny Korolev 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 at Rod Laver Arena, which sets up a third-round match with Marat Safin, who recovered from a slow start to beat Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez 7\u20135, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nAndy Roddick also needed four sets to get past Xavier Malisse, while Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro eased into the third round, along with Marin \u010cili\u0107, David Ferrer, Stanislas Wawrinka, Mardy Fish, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Tommy Robredo. In the biggest upset in the men's tournament up to this point, unseeded Yen-hsun Lu defeated 10th-seeded David Nalbandian in five sets. 16th-seeded Robin S\u00f6derling was also upset by unseeded former finalist Marcos Baghdatis in four, while lucky loser Amer Deli\u0107 prevailed in five sets against 28th seed Paul-Henri Mathieu and French veteran Fabrice Santoro came from behind to defeat Philipp Kohlschreiber. In the feature night match at Rod Laver Arena, sixteen-year-old Bernard Tomic took the first set against Gilles M\u00fcller but eventually lost 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 to the more experienced Luxembourgian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 888]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nIn the women's draw, it was a perfect day for the seeds, with the exception of 17th-seeded Anna Chakvetadze, who lost a sensational 3-set encounter to Jelena Doki\u0107, the latter continuing with her comeback and set up a third round clash with Danish teenager, 11th seed Caroline Wozniacki after some questionable decisions by Fred Mather. Top seed Jelena Jankovi\u0107 encountered resistance against Kirsten Flipkens but eventually won 6\u20134, 7\u20135, while Ana Ivanovic had an easier time against qualifier Alberta Brianti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nThird seed Dinara Safina also needed to come back from one set down to beat Ekaterina Makarova, while Vera Zvonareva crushed Edina Gallovits 6\u20130, 6\u20130, and Nadia Petrova defeat Sania Mirza in straight sets. Also through to the third round are Aliz\u00e9 Cornet, Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, Marion Bartoli, Ai Sugiyama, Kaia Kanepi and Alisa Kleybanova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nThe doubles matches also began, with most of the seeds in action passing their first tests, including Bob and Mike Bryan, Jeff Coetzee/Wesley Moodie, Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski, Bruno Soares/Kevin Ullyett, Max Mirnyi/Andy Ram, Travis Parrott/Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek, Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k/Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k and Christopher Kas/Rogier Wassen, as well as Yan Zi/Zheng Jie, Samantha Stosur/Rennae Stubbs, Maria Kirilenko/Flavia Pennetta, Casey Dellacqua/Francesca Schiavone, Hsieh Su-wei/Peng Shuai and Tatiana Poutchek/Anastasia Rodionova in the women's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (21 January)\nIn the three sister pairings in action, 10th seeds Venus and Serena Williams swept aside Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova, unseeded Agnieszka and Urszula Radwa\u0144ska defeat Jill Craybas and Tamarine Tanasugarn, but 4th seeds and defending champions Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko became the highest seeds to fall in the women doubles competition so far, losing in straight sets to Gisela Dulko/Roberta Vinci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (22 January)\nDay four saw the conclusion of all second round matches in the singles competition. In the men's draw, top seed Rafael Nadal continued on his quest for a first Australian Open crown without too much trouble from Roko Karanu\u0161i\u0107, winning through in straight sets 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 6\u20132. Likewise, an in-form 4th seed Andy Murray eased into the 3rd round by defeating Marcel Granollers 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (22 January)\nOther top ten seeds that moved on included 5th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and 6th seed Gilles Simon, both dropping a first set tiebreak but went on to win the next three sets, and 9th seed James Blake, who cruised past S\u00e9bastien de Chaunac. Ga\u00ebl Monfils, Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, Fernando Verdasco, Richard Gasquet, Nicol\u00e1s Almagro, Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, J\u00fcrgen Melzer and Igor Andreev all won through, while Ivo Karlovi\u0107 was the only seed to fall in the men's draw, losing to compatriot Mario An\u010di\u0107 after surrendering a two sets to one lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (22 January)\nUnseeded Spaniard Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro scored the biggest upset to date in women's singles, defeating one of the pre-tournament favourites, 6th seeded Venus Williams 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135, after coming back from 5\u20132 down and saving one match point while serving at 5\u20134 down in the third set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (22 January)\nVenus' younger sister, second seeded Serena Williams had to work hard to dispatch Argentina's Gisela Dulko, saving six set points, while Dulko served for the second set at 5\u20133 in a game that featured 12 deuces, then fought through six more deuces to lead 6\u20135 and eventually won 6\u20133, 7\u20135. 4th seed Elena Dementieva extended her winning streak in the new season to 12 matches with a win over Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1, and Svetlana Kuznetsova, Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, Victoria Azarenka, Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1, Zheng Jie, Flavia Pennetta, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Alona Bondarenko all moved on to the third round, while Swiss 14th seed Patty Schnyder fell to Virginie Razzano. Unseeded local hope Samantha Stosur also won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (22 January)\nMajority of the first round matches in the doubles competition also ended. Top seeds Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonji\u0107 led a charge of seeded pairs to the second round, including Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles, Leander Paes/Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd, Marcelo Melo/Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 and Martin Damm/Robert Lindstedt, while in the women's competition co-world number ones Cara Black and Liezel Huber eased into the second round, along with seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues/Virginia Ruano Pascual, Kv\u011bta Peschke/Lisa Raymond, Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1/Ai Sugiyama, Victoria Azarenka/Vera Zvonareva, Nuria Llagostera Vives/Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez and Sorana C\u00eerstea/Monica Niculescu, meaning no seeds fell in the women's doubles that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nDay five of the tournament saw the commencement of third round matches in the singles event, where seed started playing against each other. In men's singles, defending champion Novak Djokovic was made to work hard against his Bosnian-born American opponent, lucky loser Amer Deli\u0107, but eventually saw off his opponent in four tough sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\n8th seeded Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro was heavily tested by unseeded Gilles M\u00fcller as well, but prevailed in four sets as well, while 7th seed Andy Roddick continued on a collision course with Djokovic with an easier passage against Fabrice Santoro, winning in straight sets and firing 22 aces along his way to just four by the Frenchman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 continued his fine form by defeating last year's quarterfinalist, 11th seed David Ferrer, while Tommy Robredo ended the journey of Yen-hsun Lu with an easy victory, and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych created a minor upset by defeating 15th seed Stanislas Wawrinka in four. Later at night, Roger Federer clashed with Marat Safin in a repeat of the 2004 finals and 2005 semifinals in an exciting matchup in Rod Laver Arena. The second seed was on form and sent out a strong signal to his rivals with a convincing 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5) victory. 2006 finalist Marcos Baghdatis also sent 23rd seed Mardy Fish packing with a straight sets victory and set up a fourth round clash with Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nIn the women's draw, following Venus William's exit the day before, Ana Ivanovic replaced her as the highest seed to fall so far, losing 5\u20137, 7\u20136(5), 2\u20136 to 29th seed Alisa Kleybanova. Ivanovic, finalist last year broke Kleybanova in 10th game of the second set when the latter was serving for the match, and brought the match to the decider by winning a tiebreak, but ultimately conceded the match to her younger Russian opponent as Kleybanova ran away with a 6\u20132 victory in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nEarlier in the night session, Jelena Doki\u0107 continued her fairytale comeback to Grand Slam tennis by upsetting 11th seeded Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki, despite losing the first set she bounced back strongly to take the next two 6\u20131, 6\u20132, and will meet Kleybanova next. Elsewhere, earlier in the day, it was business as usual for the top 16 seeds. Top seed Jelena Jankovi\u0107 was once again tested but overcame the heat and Ai Sugiyama in straight sets, and will face Marion Bartoli next, the Frenchwoman coming back from one set down to beat Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nDinara Safina also displayed her form and cruise past Kaia Kanepi with the loss of just four games, playing 15th seed Aliz\u00e9 Cornet next, after Cornet recovered from one set down to knock out last year's semifinalist Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1. 10th seed Nadia Petrova was the first to advance after winning one set against Galina Voskoboeva, after which the latter retired with an injury, and set up a last 16 clash with Vera Zvonareva, who eased past Sara Errani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nIn men's doubles action, the upset of the day was created by unseeded \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, when they knocked out the top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 in straight sets, in a day of upsets for the men's doubles which saw a total of five seeds being knocked out of the competition, including defending champion Andy Ram, partnering Max Mirnyi this year, crashing out to Spanish Davis Cup winning pair of Feliciano L\u00f3pez and Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (23 January)\nSeeds moved on in the women's doubles, with the exception of Tatiana Poutchek and Anastasia Rodionova, who lost to Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Patty Schnyder. Mixed doubles competition also began, but none of the seeds in action made it to the second round, with Alona Bondarenko/Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 losing a match tie-break to Aliz\u00e9 Cornet/Marcelo Melo, Kv\u011bta Peschke/Pavel V\u00edzner losing to last year's finalists Sania Mirza/Mahesh Bhupathi, and Kateryna Bondarenko/Jordan Kerr defeated by Jarmila Gajdo\u0161ov\u00e1/Samuel Groth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nThe top seeds in the upper half of the men's draw did not have much trouble in progressing into the last 16. Rafael Nadal made it to the next round with a solid 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 victory over former World No. 2 Tommy Haas, producing over 50 winners and just eight unforced errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\n13th seed Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez is up next for the Spaniard, after the latter came back from the dead against 24th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet in a 249-minute thriller, in which both players exhibit barrages of winners, and a gripping third set tiebreak in which both had opportunities to take the set, or the match for Gasquet, and eventually it was Gonz\u00e1lez who prevailed 12\u201310 in the decider. Andy Murray comfortably won his match against J\u00fcrgen Melzer as well, 7\u20135, 6\u20130, 6\u20133, and set up a tie with 14th seed Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nThe Spaniard was clearly on form as he completed a 6\u20134, 6\u20130, 6\u20130 thrashing of Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, the same player who beat him in the Brisbane International final just two weeks before. Gilles Simon and Ga\u00ebl Monfils set up an all-French fourth round encounter after powering past their opponents, unseeded Croat Mario An\u010di\u0107 and 17th seed Nicol\u00e1s Almagro. In contrast, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga need to overcome a third set lapse before defeating Dudi Sela in four and will play James Blake in the last 16, who dropped one set against Igor Andreev as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nSerena Williams was the first among the women seeds to progress to the last 16 in Day Six, firing 10 aces on her way to a 6\u20131, 6\u20134 win over Chinese Peng Shuai. Belarusian teenager Victoria Azarenka awaits her in the next round, the 13th seed sending the only other former champion in the draw, 20th seed Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo packing in a closely fought contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nElena Dementieva continued on her excellent form this season, this time edging local hope Samantha Stosur in two tight sets, 7\u20136(6), 6\u20134, to set up a tie with another teenage star, 18th seed Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1, who defeat Virginie Razzano in straight sets to progress to the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time. Svetlana Kuznetsova is also through to the next round, overcoming 68 unforced errors from her racket to beat Alona Bondarenko. Alona's sister Kateryna also lost, crushed 6\u20132, 6\u20132 by Wimbledon semifinalist Zheng Jie, who will now play Kuznetsova. Elsewhere, Anabel Medina Garrigues posted a minor upset by powering past 12th seed Flavia Pennetta, and will now play unseeded Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro, Venus Williams' victor who cruised past compatriot Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nSeeds continued to tumble in the second round of the men's doubles, including 5th seeds Wesley Moodie and Jeff Coetzee, who lost to local wildcards Joseph Sirianni and Andrew Coelho, Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k/Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k losing to another local pairing in Paul Hanley/Jordan Kerr, and Martin Damm/Robert Lindstedt, who were upset by Mardy Fish/John Isner, while former champions Bob and Mike Bryan are safely through. Women's top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber went through to the next round as well, along with Victoria Azarenka/Vera Zvonareva, Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1/Ai Sugiyama, Kv\u011bta Peschke/Lisa Raymond while Sorana C\u00eerstea/Monica Niculescu fell to Nathalie Dechy/Mara Santangelo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (24 January)\nThe seeds also went 1\u20131 in the first round of mixed doubles competition, with second seeds Yan Zi/Mark Knowles defeating Nadia Petrova/Max Mirnyi while third seeds Lisa Raymond/Marcin Matkowski losing to Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1/Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\n4th round matches begin with 8th seed Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro advancing into his first Australian Open quarterfinals after recovering from a one set deficit to beat 19th seeded Marin \u010cili\u0107. Both players were tipped to be highly successful in the future, but it was del Potro who stood firm with less error count as he prevailed 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 and will play three-time champion, world no. 2 Roger Federer. Federer himself survived the challenge from 20th seeded Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, who have not beaten him since their first encounter in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\nBerdych looked sharper of the two, showing little nerves as he went two sets up, but Federer came out firing from the third set onwards, and eventually came through safely, winning 4\u20136, 6\u20137(4), 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20132. 7th seed Andy Roddick also moved on to the quarterfinals with a comprehensive 7\u20135, 6\u20131, 6\u20133 victory over Tommy Robredo, and will play defending champion Novak Djokovic for a place in his 4th Australian Open semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\nDjokovic looked impressive early on against former finalist Marcos Baghdatis, racing to a 6\u20131 first set victory, but the Cypriot gave him a much harder time, though giving up a one-break lead in the second set to lose a tiebreak and winning another third set tiebreak. However, the defending champion was too hot to handle and eventually by 2.30 am, Djokovic has sealed a 6\u20131, 7\u20136(1), 6\u20137(5), 6\u20132 victory in over three hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\nIn the women's draw, top seeded Jelena Jankovi\u0107's quest for a maiden Grand Slam title came to a premature end in one of the shocks of the day, as 16th seed Marion Bartoli displayed her best tennis in two sets to dump the Serbian 6\u20131, 6\u20134, meaning Jankovi\u0107's world number one crown could be in danger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\n7th seeded Vera Zvonareva also made it to her first Australian Open semifinals, after coming through in two tough sets against compatriot and 10th seeded Nadia Petrova, 7\u20135, 6\u20134. 3rd seed Dinara Safina almost followed Jankovi\u0107's path out of the tournament, as she survived two match points against Aliz\u00e9 Cornet, who was serving for the match while 2\u20136, 6\u20132, 5\u20134 up, but eventually lost the decider 7\u20135. Safina's opponent in the quarterfinals would be a resurgent Jelena Doki\u0107, who, in the first match of the night session in Rod Laver Arena, defeated 29th seed Alisa Kleybanova in a three-hour match, 7\u20135, 5\u20137, 8\u20136, despite needing a medical time out towards the end of the decider. The Australian hang tough to break Kleybanova to love in the final game, sealing a famous win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\nDoubles play continue with 2nd seeds Bob and Mike Bryan progressing to a quarterfinal clash against compatriots Mardy Fish and John Isner, who sent 7th seeds Bruno Soares/Kevin Ullyett out of the tournament. 6th seeded Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski and unseeded Feliciano L\u00f3pez/Fernando Verdasco also advanced to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (25 January)\nThe top women seeds were not as lucky as four of the top eight pairs were sent crashing out, with Anabel Medina Garrigues/Virginia Ruano Pascual suffering a heavy defeat at the hands of 16th seeds Peng Shuai/Hsieh Su-wei, 3rd seeds Kv\u011bta Peschke/Lisa Raymond losing to Nathalie Dechy/Mara Santangelo, 5th seeds Rennae Stubbs/Samantha Stosur defeated by Venus and Serena Williams while 6th seeds Yan Zi/Zheng Jie lost to Nuria Llagostera Vives/Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nDay eight saw the remaining fourth round men's matches with a warm forecast to complement Australia Day. However it was quite a disappointing day with three seeded players from both men and women's draw retiring due to various reasons. In Rod Laver Arena, 6th seeded Gilles Simon battled against his in-form countrymen, 12th seed Ga\u00ebl Monfils, with Simon taking the first set 6\u20134 only for Monfils to hit back 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nHowever, he began to show signs of suffering in the third set and after a medical timeout while 4\u20131 down and eventually losing the set, Monfils retired citing a wrist injury, sending Simon to his first Grand Slam quarterfinals, where he will face top seed Rafael Nadal. Nadal appeared to be in complete control over Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, easily winning the first two sets and coming through the third set with heavier resistance from the Chilean, but the Spaniard never looked in doubt in his quest for a first Australian Open title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nHowever, the surprise of the day came when 4th seeded Andy Murray, tipped by many as a favourite to win the title, crashed out to an in-form Fernando Verdasco, despite leading by 2 sets to 1. Verdasco, who had only lost twelve games on his way to the fourth round, came out firing in the last two sets, serving with astonishing accuracy, and won 85% of his first serves to outlast the Scot 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, and set up a quarterfinal tie with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who sent James Blake packing with a straight sets victory, meaning Murray was the only top eight seed to not make it to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nIn the women's draw, following Monfils' withdrawal earlier on, Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams took the court earlier than expected, and it was the young Belarusian who made the better start, breaking the three-time champion twice to take the first set 6\u20133. However, after a missing chances to go 2\u20130 up in the second, Azarenka started to show signs of discomfort and was broken instead to trail 3\u20132, and a medical timeout couldn't do the wonders as the youngster retired in tears after another game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nAzarenka later explained that she had been throwing up all morning and was feeling weak, but thought she could play after feeling better before her game, but ultimately succumbed. Williams went through to the quarterfinals, where she will play 8th seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, who benefited from yet another withdrawal, in the form of 22nd seed Zheng Jie, who retired after five games with a wrist injury she picked up in the third game after falling and landing awkwardly on her hand. Elena Dementieva advanced with her fourteenth win of the season, this time dominating Slovakia's 18th seed Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, and will play another giantkiller, unseeded Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro in the quarterfinals, the latter easily dispatching compatriot and 21st seed Anabel Medina Garrigues 6\u20133, 6\u20132 earlier in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nIn men's doubles, 4th seeds Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes advanced into the quarterfinals after defeating local pairing of Paul Hanley/Jordan Kerr, while Joseph Sirianni/Andrew Coelho also lost to Simone Bolelli/Andreas Seppi. 3rd seeds Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles and unseeded \u0141ukasz Kubot/Oliver Marach filled in the remaining quarterfinal slots with straight sets victory over their respective opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (26 January)\nIn the women's side, top seeded Cara Black and Liezel Huber advanced after Victoria Azarenka, partnering Vera Zvonareva pulled out with an illness, and 7th seeds Flavia Pennetta/Maria Kirilenko also conceded a walkover to Casey Dellacqua/Francesca Schiavone due to Pennetta suffering from right foot bursitis. 9th seeds Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1/Ai Sugiyama won through easily against \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay/Elena Vesnina, and Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld/Patty Schnyder also won. In mixed doubles second seeds Yan Zi/Mark Knowles were also shown the exit in the second round by Canadians Aleksandra Wozniak/Daniel Nestor, while 7th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues/Tommy Robredo won their first round match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nIn the first quarterfinal match of the day, women's 7th seed Vera Zvonareva was at her best, despite falling behind 3\u20131 in the first set as 16th seed Marion Bartoli seemed to have set up the decisive break. Zvonareva, who have yet to concede a set throughout the tournament, hit back strongly, moving her opponent around the court and hitting clean winners while errors started to flow from Bartoli's racket with alarming regularity as her game started to beak apart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nIn the end, it was Zvonareva who reeled off eleven straight games as she routed the Frenchwoman 6\u20133, 6\u20130, advancing to her maiden Grand Slam semifinal. 3rd seed Dinara Safina had a tough opponent in the form of Jelena Doki\u0107, who had defeated three seeded players on her way to the quarterfinals and had won all her matches in three sets so far. The two players traded breaks regularly as they shared the first two sets, Safina taking the first 6\u20134 but losing the second by the same scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nDoki\u0107, with strong local support behind her, continued to battle bravely, breaking Safina to level things at 4\u20134 in the decider but in the end, Safina's stamina and speed prevailed as she wrapped up the match 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, and progress to the semifinals, while Doki\u0107 exited the tournament, but can be assured of a return to the top 100 in the post-tournament rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nIn the men's draw, Novak Djokovic's reign as the defending champion came to an abrupt end after he forfeited his match against Andy Roddick while 7\u20136(3), 4\u20136, 2\u20136, 1\u20132 down, due to heat stress. Djokovic had started shakily, winning a tiebreak after both players failed to force a break point on their opponent's serve, but some inspired play by Djokovic saw him taking the tiebreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nRoddick, however, was too strong on his own serve in the second set, dropping just two points and eventually taking the second set 6\u20134. Djokovic was clearly not himself from the beginning of the third set, and laboured for the final eleven games of the match battling cramps and heat stress before finally decided to give up after he was broken to love in the third game of the 4th set, handing Roddick a 4th semifinal appearance in Melbourne Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nRoddick will face a familiar foe in second seed Roger Federer next, after the Swiss recorded an astonishingly easy victory over Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, who is playing in just his second Grand Slam quarterfinal. After losing the first set 6\u20133, del Potro seemed to have given up while Federer only appeared more devastating as the match progressed, before recording a 6\u20133, 6\u20130, 6\u20130 victory, after which the Argentine admitted that there was little he could do against Federer if he was not playing well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nThe women doubles semifinals lineup was also completed. 9th seeded Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama reached the semifinals after ending the dreams of co-world number ones Cara Black and Liezel Huber in three sets, winning a third set tiebreak 12\u201310, and will be up against unseeded Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo next, the French-Italian pairing coming from behind to send Spanish 11th seeds Nuria Llagostera Vives/Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez packing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nThe other semifinal match will be between French Open runners-up Casey Dellacqua/Francesca Schiavone against the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, with the 12th seeded Australian-Italian pair coming back from a first set bagel to defeat Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld/Patty Schnyder while the 10th seeds needed 3 sets to get past Hsieh Su-wei/Peng Shuai as well. In men's doubles, giantkillers \u0141ukasz Kubot/Oliver Marach defeated another seeded team, 6th seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski and will play 3rd seeds Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (27 January)\nIn mixed doubles, it was a bad day for Black and Huber as well as the top seeded Cara Black and Leander Paes crashed out to the unseeded pairing of Patty Schnyder/Wesley Moodie, while Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray lost to Nathalie Dechy/Andy Ram. 7th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues/Tommy Robredo and unseeded Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1/Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd made it to the quarterfinals, both with wins in a match tie-break against their respective opponents, leaving Medina Garrigues and Robredo as the only seeded team left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nDay ten of the competition saw temperatures reaching as high as 43 degrees Celsius, causing the extreme heat policy (EHP) to be implemented for the first time this year. As part of the policy, all outdoor matches were suspended and eventually cancelled, affecting many junior matches, and also legends and wheelchair tournaments. Play continued in the main stadiums, with Svetlana Kuznetsova, apparently more comfortable than her opponent Serena Williams in the blistering heat, taking the first set 7\u20135 despite failing to close the set while serving at 5\u20134 up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nHowever, the momentum swung over to Williams' side, after the match was interrupted for closing the roof of the stadium due to the implementation of the EHP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nKuznetsova, visibly unhappy at the interruption, hang in tough to break Williams again and went 5\u20133 up, but will rue missing a golden opportunity to make her first Australian Open semifinal as Williams won 4 games in a row to take the second set 7\u20135, and blasted her way through the third 6\u20131, winning ten out of the last eleven games to destroy the Russian's dream of an all-Russian semifinal, following Elena Dementieva's 15th win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0032-0003", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nThe 4th seeded Russian proved too good for surprise package Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro, playing in her second Grand Slam quarterfinal in just four Grand Slam main draw appearances, though the 6\u20132, 6\u20132 scoreline did not clearly reflect the closeness of the match, as the young Canary Island resident had numerous chances to break back against Dementieva, only to be saved by the in-form Russian each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nThe second semifinal match in the men's singles has also been decided when top seed Rafael Nadal set up an all-Spanish encounter with compatriot, 14th seed Fernando Verdasco. Nadal experienced momentum swings against 6th seeded Gilles Simon, winning the first set 6\u20132 with ease, but had to come from behind in the next two sets, including saving a set point in the second set, but eventually breaking Simon to win both sets 7\u20135, and continued his march to a first Australian Open crown after advancing to a second straight semifinals without dropping a set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nHopes of a rematch of last year's semifinals were dashed after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was sent out of the tournament in four sets against a fired up Fernando Verdasco, who had been on song since winning the Davis Cup for Spain at the end of last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nTsonga's serve appeared impenetrable early on, while Verdasco was forced to save break points but raced to a 5\u20132 lead in the tiebreaker before eventually winning 7\u20132. Tsonga hit back with his first break which sealed the second set, but Verdasco's serve once again proved to be the deciding factor as Tsonga's falter, Verdasco racing to a 4\u20130 lead in the third and converting all four break opportunities he has, in contrast to Tsonga's two out of thirteen, and powered into his maiden Grand Slam semifinals 7\u20136(2), 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (28 January)\nIn men's doubles, second seeds Bob and Mike Bryan advanced to the semifinals with a hard-fought win over compatriots Mardy Fish/John Isner, where they will take on 4th seeds Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd/Leander Paes in a rematch of last year's US Open final, who ended the journey of Italians Simone Bolelli/Andreas Seppi. The mixed doubles semifinals lineup is also completed with 7th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues/Tommy Robredo defeating Patty Schnyder/Wesley Moodie in a match tie-break, and will play Nathalie Dechy/Andy Ram after the unseeded pair defeat Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1/J\u00fcrgen Melzer in straight sets. Last year's finalists Sania Mirza/Mahesh Bhupathi also won through against Aleksandra Wozniak/Daniel Nestor, and will play Czechs Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1/Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd, who received a walkover from Aliz\u00e9 Cornet/Marcelo Melo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nThe women's semifinals were played inside Rod Laver Arena with its roof closed once again, due to temperatures hitting a new high during the fortnight, causing the Extreme Heat Policy to be invoked for the second day in a row, and outdoor matches were suspended until 1930 hours. Nevertheless, play continued inside the main stadium with Serena Williams looking to snap a three-match losing streak against the form player of this season, Elena Dementieva, who had won 15 consecutive matches while taking two titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nThe first two games saw multiple deuces and a couple of break points for both players but ultimately managed to hold serve, and the game proceeded on serve until Williams broke the deadlock in the eighth game and subsequently served out the first set 6\u20133. Dementieva bounced back strongly to break Williams at the early stages of the second set to open up a 3\u20130 lead, but her serve began to falter as well, recording a series of double faults as Williams broke back twice to lead 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0035-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nA series of blistering forehands saw Dementieva getting back into the match but in the end, her serve failed her again and Serena Williams soon served for the match, winning 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in 98 minutes, ending Dementieva's unbeaten start to the season and advancing to the women's final for the fourth time. Her opponent will be Dinara Safina, who broke a three-match losing streak as well against Vera Zvonareva. Zvonareva, in her first Grand Slam semifinals, appeared to be more shaky of the two, quickly falling behind against Safina's dictating baseline rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0035-0003", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nEven though Zvonareva managed to break back, she appeared to be troubled by her own serve, until Safina broke again in the 7th game and went on to seal the set 6\u20133. The second set was a closer affair as Safina began to make unforced errors, trading a break with Zvonareva, until Zvonareva appeared to have the upper hand while serving for the second set at 6\u20135. Safina, however, broke her opponent to love and from that point onwards she was in control, sealing her second Grand Slam final by winning the tiebreak. Victories for both Williams and Safina ensured that Jelena Jankovi\u0107 will surrender her world number one status in the post-tournament rankings to the winner of the finals, and is projected to fall to number 3 in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nIn the first men's semifinals, Roger Federer was back to his best as he dismantled American Andy Roddick 6\u20132, 7\u20135, 7\u20135 to move on to his fourth Australian Open final, having won the previous three in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Federer was in complete control in the first set, quickly breaking Roddick twice to open up a 5\u20131 lead, but had to stave off a late Roddick charge to secure the first set 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nThe second set was much closer, Roddick relying on his big serves and constantly charging to the net to stay in the set, even though Federer looked comfortable and broke the American in the eleventh game, serving out with ease. The third set was similar to the second set, and as Federer sealed the decisive break to lead 6\u20135, there was no stopping the Swiss as he advanced to the finals, where he awaits the winner between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nThe men's and women's doubles semifinals were also concluded, with Bob and Mike Bryan easing past Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in just 54 minutes, advancing to their fifth final in six years, while Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles needed just four more minutes to defeat surprise package \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6\u20133, 6\u20131. The women's doubles finals will be between 9th seeded Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1/Ai Sugiyama and 10th seeded Venus Williams/Serena Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (29 January)\nThe Slovakian-Japanese pairing looked sharp on the way to a 6\u20134, 6\u20133 victory over Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo, while the Williams sisters, with Serena fresh from her singles semifinals, crushing 12th seeds Casey Dellacqua/Francesca Schiavone 6\u20130, 6\u20132. Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram were the first to advance to the mixed doubles final, sending the last seeded pair Anabel Medina Garrigues and Tommy Robredo out of the tournament with a 7\u20136(7), 6\u20134 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nIn the second men's singles semifinals, top seeded Rafael Nadal took on his countrymen, 14th seed Fernando Verdasco, in the first ever all-Spanish semifinal in Australian Open. Nadal was the favourite to advance, only losing one set to his older opponent in 6 meetings and is yet to drop a set this year in Melbourne Park, however Verdasco had been on his peak form, upsetting favourites like Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on his way to his maiden Grand Slam semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nWith Roger Federer waiting in the final, both players carried their form into the match, holding on to their own serve as they entered a first set tiebreak, where Nadal had the initial advantage, but Verdasco's big serves comes to his rescue again and earned two set points after a lucky net cord, which he duly converted to take the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nNadal was heavily tested on his own serve in the second set while Verdasco powered to several love service games, but Nadal hung on and with some astonishing play, saved two game points in the 10th game and broke Verdasco, levelling things at one sets all. The momentum appeared to swing to Nadal's side as he broke Verdasco twice in the third set, only for Verdasco to break back immediately each time, bringing the third set into a tiebreaker which Nadal won handily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0003", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nVerdasco's huge forehands and serve continued to pose a problem for Nadal, even though he had to call on a trainer at changeovers to tend to what appeared as a problem to his left calf. Another tiebreak was needed to settle the 4th set, and Verdasco sprinted away with a 7\u20131 victory, bringing the match to a decider. By then the match had already lasted more than 4 hours \u2013 but neither player showed signs of tiredness, even though Nadal appeared to be more at ease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0004", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nHaving come down from 0\u201330 down to lead 5\u20134 in the decider, Nadal gained 3 match points courtesy of only a 3rd double fault from Verdasco, and even though Verdasco managed to save two of them, a second double fault of the game \u2013 4th overall \u2013 handed Nadal the match and a place in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0038-0005", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nNadal only managed to win one more point than Verdasco (193 to 192), who blasted 95 winners past Nadal, in a match that broke the Australian Open record as the longest men's singles match at 5 hours and 14 minutes (previous record by Boris Becker and Omar Camporese in 1991 at 5 hours and 11 minutes).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nIn an earlier match, the women's doubles final was played out between Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1/Ai Sugiyama and Serena Williams/Venus Williams. Playing beneath the roof of the Rod Laver Arena as temperatures hit 43 degrees Celsius outdoors, the Slovak\u2014Japanese pairing appeared to have the upper hand at first, breaking Venus to take the opening game. But it did not take the sisters too long to find their rhythm as Sugiyama was broken for 2\u20132. Sugiyama's serve was under pressure again by some heavy returns and the sisters break again, serving out the first set 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nAll four players failed to hold serve at 1\u20131 in the second set, with Sugiyama's first to go, but eventually the Williamses get the decisive break to lead 4\u20133. Two games later, Hantuchov\u00e1 was left serving to stay in the match, but the sisters combined power proved too much, as they eased to a 6\u20133, 6\u20133 victory, for their 8th Grand Slam doubles title together, meaning they are now the joint 3rd most successful doubles pairings in the Open Era, together with Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Su\u00e1rez, and behind Martina Navratilova/Pam Shriver (21) and Gigi Fern\u00e1ndez/Natasha Zvereva (14).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (30 January)\nLast year's mixed doubles finalist, India's Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi also earned the opportunity for another shot at the title, cruising past Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1/Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd 6\u20131, 6\u20134 to advance to the finals against Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (31 January)\nThe women's singles final saw second seed Serena Williams clash against third seed Dinara Safina, with the winner ascending to the top spot in the WTA rankings, replacing Jelena Jankovi\u0107, in the post-tournament rankings. Safina was also aiming to be just the second Russian to ascend to the position with her maiden Grand Slam title, while it would be the 10th for Williams. Having won the women's doubles title a day earlier, Williams settled down quickly, comfortably holding serve and built up a 2\u20130 lead following multiple double faults from Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (31 January)\nA hope for a Safina comeback was quickly extinguished as Williams looked sharp, blasting winners and heavy returns past her younger opponent, and sealed the first set 6\u20130 in just 22 minutes. Safina regrouped and proceeded to break Williams in the opening game of the second set, her first lead of any kind in the match, but the advantage was short-lived as Williams broke back immediately, and after easily holding to love, two more double faults and errors from Safina allowed her opponent to seal the decisive break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0041-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (31 January)\nSafina could do nothing more than fighting to hold her own serves, forcing Williams to serve out, but another dominant service game saw Williams clinched her 4th Australian Open title after wins in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Safina admitted later during the prize giving ceremony that she felt like a ball boy on court against her opponent, promising to return the following year, while Williams will spend her 62nd non-consecutive week on top of the rankings next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (31 January)\nFollowing the women's singles final, the men's doubles final took place in the Rod Laver Arena. Second seeds, American twins Bob and Mike Bryan overcame the third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles to take home their third Australian Open title together. Bhupathi and Knowles came out firing first, playing a near flawless first set to take the first set 6\u20132 after just 27 minutes, with a series of clever play that wrong-footed the twins on various occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (31 January)\nThey continued to pressure the 30-year-old Americans in the second set, forcing numerous break points but unable to convert each time, as the momentum shifted over and with Knowles' serve starting to falter, the Bryans were able to put away some smashes and volleys to take the second set 7\u20135. From there, they looked comfortable, steamrolling past the decider 6\u20130 to regain the title they last won in 2007, and dash Bhupathi's hope of winning two titles (he made it to the finals of the mixed doubles as well).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (1 February)\nNadal and Federer's first encounter for the year resulted in a five-set epic\u2014lasting 4 hours and 23 minutes\u2014with Nadal prevailing, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(3), 3\u20136, 6\u20132 for his sixth Grand Slam title and his first on hard courts. Nadal is the first Spaniard in history to win the Australian Open and the fourth male tennis player \u2013 after Jimmy Connors, Mats Wilander and Andre Agassi \u2014 to win Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces. Later in 2009, Roger Federer would become the fifth player to accomplish this feat upon winning his 14th grand slam title at the 2009 French Open. Federer, who was pursuing a record-tying fourteenth Grand Slam title, was unable to hold back tears during the trophy presentation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated  Roger Federer, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Mahesh Bhupathi /  Mark Knowles, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nSerena Williams /  Venus Williams defeated  Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 /  Ai Sugiyama, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nSania Mirza /  Mahesh Bhupathi defeated  Nathalie Dechy /  Andy Ram, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Juniors, Boys' Doubles\nFrancis Casey Alcantara /  Hsieh Cheng-peng defeated  Mikhail Biryukov /  Yasutaka Uchiyama, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Juniors, Girls' Doubles\nChristina McHale /  Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 defeated  Aleksandra Kruni\u0107 /  Sandra Zaniewska, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair events, Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nRobin Ammerlaan /  Shingo Kunieda defeated  Stefan Olsson /  Maikel Scheffers, 7\u20135, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 76], "content_span": [77, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair events, Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nKorie Homan /  Esther Vergeer defeated  Agnieszka Bartczak /  Katharina Kr\u00fcger, 6\u20131, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Champions, Wheelchair events, Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nNick Taylor /  David Wagner defeated  Johan Andersson /  Peter Norfolk, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201648-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open, Singles Seeds\nWithdrawals: Lindsay Davenport, Katarina Srebotnik, Nikolay Davydenko, Maria Sharapova, Li Na, Nicolas Kiefer", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201649-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Australian Open Grand Prix was a badminton tournament which took place at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia on 22\u201326 July 2009 and had a total purse of $50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201650-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nHsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua were the defending champions, but only Cheng-peng participated this year. He partnered with Francis Casey Alcantara and won the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, over Mikhail Biryukov and Yasutaka Uchiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201651-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nIn the Boys' Singles tournament of the 2009 Australian Open, Yuki Bhambri won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131, against Alexandros Georgoudas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201651-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nBernard Tomic was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the Men's Singles this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201652-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nKsenia Lykina and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201652-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nChristina McHale and Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 won the tournament, defeating Aleksandra Kruni\u0107 and Sandra Zaniewska in the final, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201653-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nArantxa Rus was the defending champion, but she did not participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201653-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nKsenia Pervak won the tournament, defeating Laura Robson in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201654-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJonathan Erlich and Andy Ram were the defending champions, but Erlich chose not to participate due to an elbow injury, and only Ram competed that year. Ram partnered with Max Mirnyi, but lost to Feliciano L\u00f3pez and Fernando Verdasco in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201654-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20130, against Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201655-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in the final, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 3\u20136, 6\u20132, to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2009 Australian Open. It was his first Australian Open title and his sixth Major tournament overall. Nadal became the first (and, as of 2021, the last) Spanish man to win the singles tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201655-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic was the defending champion, but retired due to heat stress while trailing two sets to one in the quarterfinals against Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201655-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe 2009 men's singles edition is considered to be one of the best Grand Slam tournaments in the Open Era. It is remembered for containing many of the best matches of the 2009 season, including the Nadal\u2013Fernando Verdasco semifinal (lasting 5 hours and 14 minutes) and the final itself. It is noteworthy for being the first hard court Major in which Nadal made the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201655-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final\nThe 2009 Australian Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2009 Australian Open. It was contested between the world's top two players for much of the previous four years, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, then ranked first and second in the world respectively. It was their seventh of nine meetings in a Grand Slam final, and their first outside of either the French Open or Wimbledon. This was Nadal's first Grand Slam hard court final while it was Federer's ninth and at the time he was yet to lose in a Grand Slam hard court final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final\nNadal defeated Federer in five sets in four hours and twenty-three minutes, with the match finishing after midnight, becoming the first Spaniard, male or female, to win the Australian Open. The match was lauded as one of the greatest ever at the Australian Open, and came seven months after the pair contested the 2008 Wimbledon final, a match widely regarded as one of the greatest ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match\nPascal Maria was the chair umpire for the match. Nadal won the coin toss and elected to begin the match receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, First set\nFederer began the match serving and immediately gifted a break of serve to Nadal with a double fault and three unforced errors. Both men settled in well from there in the next game where Federer went ahead 15-30 after a forehand winner. Nadal fought back to deuce after saving a break point. Federer earned a second break point after three deuces, but did not convert it after a backhand error. Nadal then hit a forehand long to give Federer a third break point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, First set\nThe game lasted for ten minutes before Federer broke Nadal with a forehand winner to level the opening set at 1-1. Federer held serve with another forehand winner to get to 2-1. Nadal held comfortably to reach 2-2. In the fifth game at 30-30, Nadal's forehand was out but the linesman did not call it. Federer challenged and the Hawkeye review showed the ball was long, giving Federer 40-30 instead of break point to Nadal. Federer held at deuce to go ahead 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, First set\nAt 3-2 on Nadal's serve, Federer got to 30-30 after Nadal unsuccessfully challenged his own forehand that was long by about a millimetre. Federer hit a winner in the next rally to gain another break point. At 30-40, Federer hammered a return winner to break Nadal for the second time and gain a 4-2 lead. In the seventh game, Federer was unable to consolidate the break. Nadal hit a forehand winner to gain a break point opportunity in which Federer double faulted on to hand a second break to Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, First set\nBack on serve, Federer got to 30-30 the next game but Nadal held after Federer netted his next two returns. The set went to 5-5 where Nadal broke Federer for the third time in the set with a passing shot to go ahead 6-5. Nadal then served it out to win the first set 7-5. The set lasted 57 minutes and saw a wild pace of play with many long rallies. Federer was serving below his normal level which gave Nadal an early advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Second set\nThe second set saw more of the same pace. Nadal relentlessly kept on pummelling Federer's backhand hoping to draw errors. The set remained on serve until 2-2 where Nadal broke Federer to go ahead 3-2. Federer's first serve percentage was down to just 32% at this point. With the serve not working, Federer engaged in aggressive baseline rallies to compete with Nadal, constantly putting him on the defensive. Serving with a 3-2 lead, Nadal doubled faulted for the first time in the match. At 30-30, Nadal committed two errors to give Federer a break and level the set at 3-3. From there, Federer raised his game and held serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Second set\n4-3 saw a long and grueling game as Nadal fell behind 15-40 in his service game. He saved the first break point after a rally and saved the second one with an excellent serve. Federer got the advantage at deuce but Nadal saved the third break point with an ace. Federer fought back to gain a fourth break point that Nadal saved with a drop shot. Federer kept slugging and regained the advantage with a backhand winner during the next rally. He finally broke Nadal on his fifth break point of the game to gain a 5-3 lead. Federer then served out the set to take it 6-3 after winning four games in a row. Federer had gotten himself back into the match from the baseline and won the second set despite having a first serve percentage of just 37%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Third set\nIn the third set, long rallies continued and both men held serve until 3-2 when Nadal gained the first break point of the set. Federer saved it after a grueling rally and went on to hold serve. At 3-3, Federer had an opening at 15-30 until he made 3 unforced errors to allow Nadal to hold. Federer held his next game relatively well to get to 4-4. Nadal then called for the trainer to massage his right thigh and the match saw a delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Third set\nAfter play resumed, Federer kept up his aggressive play to go ahead 0-40 and gain three break point chances. Two brutal rallies went Nadal's way, and at 30-40, he then caught Federer off guard with a serve to Federer's forehand to get to deuce. Nadal went on to hold with an ace and stay ahead 5-4. Federer held comfortably to get to 5-5 and Nadal once again called for the trainer in an attempt to blunt Federer's momentum as he sat down to eat a banana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Third set\nWhen play resumed, Nadal quickly fell behind again in his service game 15-40. Federer hit a forehand long at 30-40 to keep Nadal in the game and reach deuce. The ball was clearly out but Federer used a strategic Hawkeye challenge on the call in an attempt to rattle Nadal. Nadal then lost the next point at 40-40, which he too strategically challenged to no avail. Federer then gained another break point after the ruling, his sixth break chance in the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Third set\nNadal saved it with a forehand winner and went on to hold and stay ahead 6-5. Nadal fought hard in the next game to break. Federer saved a set point and needed three deuces to finally hold for 6-6. The tiebreak went to 3-3 where Federer shanked a forehand to give Nadal a mini-break. Nadal then hit two winners to go ahead 6-3 and found himself with three set points. Federer double faulted to end the 78-minute set and Nadal went ahead two-sets-to-one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fourth set\nFederer went back to work quickly holding serve to begin the fourth set. A backhand winner from Federer and an error from Nadal set up two break points in the next game. Federer converted with a forehand winner to break Nadal and go ahead 2-0. Nadal then broke back in the third game with two forehand winners at 30-30 to get back into the set. Federer showed an outburst of emotion for allowing this to happen as he fired a ball into the advertising boards. Nadal then held to put the set back on serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fourth set\nThe next game was another grueling affair on Federer's serve. At 2-2, Federer fell behind 15-40 and a big serve got him to 30-40 as Nadal's return went long. At this moment the umpire overruled the call, believing that Nadal's return was good. Federer challenged and the Hawkeye review confirmed the return was long. After a spat with the umpire, Federer saved the next break point with a backhand winner to get the game to deuce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fourth set\nThey battled on in the same game, Federer got the advantage but lost it after another brutal rally. Federer lost another advantage with a double fault. On the third deuce, Nadal regained a break point with a forehand. Federer tried to save it with a drop shot but Nadal got to it, yet he hit the ball wide to keep Federer in the game. Another rally at deuce ended with a fourth break chance for Nadal. Federer saved it with an ace, and then further saved a fifth break point with a forehand winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fourth set\nAfter the seventh deuce Federer held serve to survive the game. At 3-2, Federer broke Nadal again to regain his break lead. He went ahead 5-2 after holding and Nadal then held to stay in the set. At 5-3 with Federer serving for the set at 15-all, a Federer ball was called out and Nadal appeared to have an opening. A Federer challenge saw the ball barely catch the line, giving Federer 30-15 instead of 15-30. He went on the hold from there and claimed the fourth set 6-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fifth set\nNadal served to open the fifth set with a hold. Federer held to get to 1-1, but showed signs of exhaustion as Nadal held easily to go ahead 2-1. From there, Nadal broke after two Federer backhand errors at 30-30 and gained a 3-1 lead. After Nadal's relentless onslaught on Federer's backhand for the better part of four hours, it finally broke down as the clock struck midnight in Melbourne. Serving at 3-1, Nadal raced ahead to a 40-0 lead. Federer fought back to 40-30 but Nadal got the hold to stay ahead 4-1. Federer then held at love to get back to 4-2. Federer lost the next game with another backhand error and Nadal lead 5-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match, Fifth set\nFederer served to stay in the match, but committed a double fault at 0-15 to put Nadal two points away from victory. At 15-40, Federer saved a championship point with a good serve. At 30-40, Federer saved the second one after a long rally ended with a Nadal error. At deuce, a long rally saw Nadal create a third championship point with a backhand winner. One last rally ensued that saw Federer run around his backhand three times to hit a forehand. The contest finally came to an end as Federer's final forehand barely went long. The match ended at 12:14 AM as Nadal fell to the court in disbelief that he had won the Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Statistics\nThe match statistics followed a similar pattern to those at the 2008 Wimbledon final, with Federer having a lower first serve percentage against Nadal (51% compared to 64%) and again he was not as clinical on break point opportunities with only 31% break points converted for Federer whereas Nadal converted 43% of his break points. However, the total points by each player proved even closer than that at the aforementioned Wimbledon final, as Federer won one more point than Nadal (174 to 173) yet still lost this final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nIt was a match of great significance for Federer who had the opportunity to equal the all-time record of Grand Slams won which at the time was fourteen set by Pete Sampras. Federer simultaneously could have equaled the then Open Era record for the most Australian Open titles at four each with Andre Agassi (the record has since been broken by Novak Djokovic with eight Australian Open titles). Further, Federer had entered the match with an 8-0 record in hard court Grand Slam finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThe loss saw Federer fall short of equaling both as his undefeated record in hard court Major finals came to an end. The loss further brought about immediate doubt by some analysts who believed that Federer might never equal Sampras' record. This was Federer's first and only Australian Open final loss in his career (6-1 overall record). However, Federer would go on to equal both of the records within the following twelve months after the loss. Federer came back the next year and reclaimed the Australian Open title, winning his sixteenth major and fourth title in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nAs a result of his win, Nadal set his own records by holding three of the four Grand Slam titles at the same time for the first time in his career. Upon winning this final, it was Nadal's sixth major win and his first on a hard court. He also became the first man in the Open era to hold three Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces simultaneously, in addition to winning the Gold Medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThis Australian Open win for Nadal remains especially important as it his only win in Melbourne to date,  which is an essential piece of his Career Grand Slam. Nadal eventually made it back to four more Australian Open finals in 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2019 but has yet to win again to claim a second Australian Open title that would also see Nadal become the first man in the Open era to achieve a double Career Grand Slam, winning each of the majors at least twice in singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThe defeat brought Federer to tears as he came to terms with his loss. Following the final, tennis analyst Bud Collins proposed that Federer might never win another major as long as Nadal was playing tennis. For years this was partially true in the sense that Federer won four majors since this final, but indeed had not beaten Nadal in three subsequent Grand Slam meetings. Federer lost to Nadal once more at the French Open finals in 2011 and Federer lost to Nadal twice more at the Australian Open semifinals in 2012 and 2014. It would not be until the 2017 Australian Open that two would meet again in a Grand Slam final, that time ending in the 35 year-old Federer's five-set victory that claimed his 18th singles major and subsequently set new tennis records from it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nUntil his 2017 Australian Open victory, Federer had not beaten Nadal in a Grand Slam since the 2007 Wimbledon final and many analysts pointed to the 2009 Australian Open final as the match which severely compromised Federer's belief that he could win against Nadal in a major. Mats Wilander proposed that Federer had developed a mental block while playing against Nadal and that their rivalry had become one-sided and predictable after this match. Tennis Channel commentator Justin Gimelstob referred to Federer's loss as a type of 'collateral damage' in which Federer not only lost a tennis match but also lost his last remaining stronghold to Nadal, having lost major finals to him on clay, grass, and hard courts in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nAs such, many believed that Nadal's victory over Federer would bring about a permanent change in the tennis rankings as Nadal was then clearly the number one player over Federer after the Swiss had held that title for over four-and-a-half years consecutively with Nadal being the second best for nearly three years of that. Later in the year, however, Nadal would lose at the French Open for the first time when he lost to Robin S\u00f6derling in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nS\u00f6derling would eventually reach the final, before losing to Federer, who by winning the French Open for the first (and, as of 2019, only) time completed his own Career Grand Slam and equalled Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 Major titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nNadal later withdrew from Wimbledon due to a knee injury, while Federer, who lost to Nadal in the previous year's final, would regain the title after outlasting Andy Roddick 16-14 in a five-set epic and return to world number one in the rankings, displacing Nadal who dropped to No. 2 as a result of being unable to defend the Wimbledon title which he won in 2008. Just as Federer rebounded during the rest of 2009, Nadal would return from injury in 2010 to win 3 consecutive grand slams, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open (completing his Career Grand Slam at a record 24 years of age).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, During the trophy presentation\nBesides the 2008 Wimbledon Final, this match is still considered to be one of Federer's most devastating career losses. During the runner-up speech, Federer found himself in tears as he tried to speak. \"Maybe I'll try later again I don't know. God it's killing me,\" Federer said before breaking down and stepping aside. Nadal then received the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup and put his arm around Federer, encouraging him to take to the microphone again. Federer stepped forward and finished his speech. \"I don't want to have the last word. This guy deserves it. So, Rafa, congrats. You played incredible. You deserve it man,\" Federer said. \"I'd like to thank the legends for coming out. You know how much it means to me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 109], "content_span": [110, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, During the trophy presentation\nNadal then addressed Federer as he took to the microphone. \"Well first of all, sorry for today,\" he said to Federer. \"I really know how you feel right now. It\u2019s really tough. Remember, you\u2019re a great champion. You\u2019re one of the best of history.\" During his speech, Nadal further stated that Federer would recover from the loss to go on and break Sampras' record of fourteen Grand Slam titles in due time. Federer did exactly that at the following two Grand Slam tournaments, first equalling the record at the French Open and then breaking it at Wimbledon by winning his fifteenth major. Nadal was also able to surpass Sampras\u2019 record several years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 109], "content_span": [110, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, After the match\nDuring the post-match press conference Federer admitted that he played a subpar fifth set and felt that the match should have never gone to five sets. \"Maybe I should have never been there, you know, in the first place. I think he played well. I definitely played a terrible fifth set, you know. I kind of handed it over to him.\" Federer was further asked if he believed he could ever beat Nadal in a major final again. He responded, \"Yeah, for sure. I didn't spend four and a half hours out there [not] believing it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 94], "content_span": [95, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, After the match\n\"[This was] one of the matches in my career where I feel like I could have or should have won, you know. But you can't go through your whole life as a tennis player taking every victory, you know, that's out there. You've got to live with those, you know. But they hurt even more so like if you're that close, you know, like at Wimbledon or like here at the Australian Open.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 94], "content_span": [95, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, After the match\nNadal's uncle and coach Toni later echoed this sentiment and felt that the match should have been over in three or four sets, and suggested that Federer has lost his belief while playing against Nadal. \"The key difference in the match [then] was that in the final set Roger's level fell and Rafa was able to maintain his level,\" he said. Nadal felt that surviving the third set and winning it in a tiebreaker was the pivotal point of the match. \"Winning the third was vital. It would have gotten very complicated if I had lost that set.\" Regarding Federer's breakdown during the trophy presentation, Nadal said he understood what Federer was feeling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 94], "content_span": [95, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201656-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Nadal and Federer about the match, After the match\n\"Of course it can happen to all of us. It was an emotional moment, and I think this also lifts up sport, to see a great champion like Federer expressing his emotions. It shows his human side. But in these moments when you see a rival who is also a comrade, feeling like this, you enjoy the victory a little bit less.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 94], "content_span": [95, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201657-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nSun Tiantian and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but Sun chose not to participate. Zimonji\u0107 partnered with Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld, but lost in the first round to Cara Black and Leander Paes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201657-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nSania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the title, defeating Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201658-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nShingo Kunieda and Satoshi Saida were the defending champions, but only Shingo Kunieda participated this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201658-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nShingo Kunieda partnered Robin Ammerlaan and won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20131, against Stefan Olsson and Maikel Scheffers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201659-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nShingo Kunieda was the defending champion and won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against St\u00e9phane Houdet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201660-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nThe quadriplegic doubles wheelchair tennis tournament at the 2009 Australian Open took place on 30 January 2009. Only two teams took part; defending champions Nicholas Taylor and David Wagner defeated Johan Andersson and Peter Norfolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201661-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles\nPeter Norfolk was the defending champion and won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20131, against David Wagner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201661-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles, Draw, Round Robin\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 65], "content_span": [66, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201662-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nJiske Griffioen and Esther Vergeer were the defending champions, but they did not compete together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201662-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nGriffioen partnered up with Florence Gravellier, but they lost in semifinals, to Agnieszka Bartczak and Katharina Kr\u00fcger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201662-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nVergeer partnered up with Korie Homan and they won in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20130, against Bartczak and Kr\u00fcger", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201663-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nEsther Vergeer was the defending champion and won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Korie Homan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201664-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nSerena Williams and Venus Williams won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201664-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDefending champions Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko lost in the first round to Gisela Dulko and Roberta Vinci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201665-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSerena Williams defeated Dinara Safina in the final 6\u20130, 6\u20133, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2009 Australian Open. It was Williams' fourth career Australian Open singles title, her tenth Grand Slam title and Safina's second career Grand Slam final loss. By winning the title, Williams regained the World No. 1 ranking from Jelena Jankovi\u0107 for the first time since October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201665-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMaria Sharapova was the defending champion, but withdrew from the tournament, due to a recurring shoulder injury which also ruled her out of the 2008 tennis season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201665-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was also the first Australian Open to feature three Russian semifinalists with Safina, Vera Zvonareva and Elena Dementieva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201666-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nThis article displays the qualifying draw for the Women's singles at the 2009 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201667-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Production Car Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars. It was the 16th Australian Production Car Championship title to be awarded by CAMS. As well as claiming the Class A2 title, Garry Holt won the overall championship in his BMW 335i. Holt held off Class A1 champion Rod Salmon by just two points in the overall standings. Other class champions were Jake Camilleri in his Mazda 3 MPS (Class B) and Stuart Jones' Toyota Celica (Class C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201667-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Production Car Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested concurrently with the 2009 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, over a five-round series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201667-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Production Car Championship, Calendar\nRounds 1 to 4 each comprised three 20-minute races with one driver per car. Round 5 was staged as two x one hour races with one or two drivers per car. The third race of each three race round employed a handicap start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201667-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Production Car Championship, Class Structure\nThere were no entries for Class D or Class E", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201667-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Production Car Championship, Points system\nTwo points were awarded to the driver setting the fastest qualifying time for each class at each round. For races with standing starts, points were awarded to drivers based on their finishing positions within their class. For races with handicap starts, points were awarded to drivers based on their outright finishing positions. Points were awarded in each race of two race rounds on a 45-36-30-27-24-21-18-15-12-9-6-3 basis with an additional point for each other finisher. Points were awarded in each race of three-race rounds on a 30-24-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis with an additional point for each other finisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201668-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Rally Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Rally Championship season is the 42nd season in the history of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201668-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Rally Championship\nIt is also the first since the mid-1980s to take place with no significant manufacturer support after Toyota withdrew its support of the Bates Motor Sport rally team which has competed as Toyota Team Australia since the early 1990s. Toyota did fund the team's final appearance at the tarmac Rally Tasmania, but after that Neal Bates had to find other sources of funding for his Corolla. Simon Evans left the team, taking up the reins of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX under the banner of his own personal building business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201668-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Australian Rally Championship\nDespite this setback, Evans and his wife Sue regained the title they had lost the previous year to their now former boss. Bates could only manage third in the title, finishing behind one of the Corollas he had previously built to the Group N+ regulations, driven by an ever-consistent Glen Raymond. Evans younger brother Eli slipped to fourth in the standings after beating Simon into second position last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201668-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies\nThe 2009 season featured six rallies, the first five of which contribute to the drivers' title. The sixth, the newly reinstated Rally Australia, will contribute only to the manufacturers standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201668-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Rally Championship, Teams & Drivers\nThe following are the competitors from the 2009 ARC season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201669-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships\nThe 2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships were held at the Hobart Aquatic Centre from Saturday 8 August to Wednesday 12 August. They were organised by Swimming Australia and sponsored by Telstra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201669-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships\nThe events were spread over five days of competition featuring heats in the morning, with semifinals and finals in the evening session. The format of the meet consisted of heats for all individual events with semifinals in the 50 and 100\u00a0m individual events. The 200 and 400\u00a0m events consisted of A and B finals with no semifinals whilst the 800 and 1500\u00a0m freestyle and relay events consisted of timed finals only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201669-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships, Medal winners, Men's events\nLegend: WR \u2013 World record; CR \u2013 Commonwealth record; OR \u2013 Oceanian record; AR \u2013 Australian record; ACR \u2013 Australian All Comers record; Club \u2013 Australian Club record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 80], "content_span": [81, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201669-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships, Medal winners, Women's events\nLegend: WR \u2013 World record; CR \u2013 Commonwealth record; OR \u2013 Oceanian record; AR \u2013 Australian record; ACR \u2013 Australian All Comers record; Club \u2013 Australian Club record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Superkart season covers national level Superkart racing in Australia during 2009. There were three national level race meetings in 2009 all held on the calendar of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships, the first two covered the Australian Superkart Championship, which was won by Sam Zavaglia. The third event, the stand-alone Pacific Superkart Challenge, was won by Warren McIlveen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Featured events, Australian Superkart Championship\nThe 2009 Australian Superkart Championship was the 21st running of the national championships for Superkarts. It began on 6 June 2009 at Mallala Motor Sport Park and end on 19 July at Eastern Creek Raceway after eight races. It was contested for two engine capacity based classes, 250 cc International (incorporating 250 National Class) and 125 cc. 125cc champion was Melbourne teenager, Steven Tamasi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Featured events, Australian Superkart Championship\nA third national level event was held later in the season at Morgan Park Raceway which was held for the 250 International, 125cc, the recently superseded 85cc class and the Rotax Max non-gearbox category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Featured events, Non-Gearbox Superkart Championship\nWith insufficient pre-registration, non-Gearbox Rotax Max championship was not contested in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 2009 Australian Superkart Championship. The series consisted of two rounds, with four races at each meeting. With only four competitors appearing from the 250 National class all season, the 250 Nationals were merged into the 250 International class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Results and standings, Gearbox race calendar\nThe 2009 www.artmotorsport.com.au Australian Superkart Championship season consisted of two rounds. Four races were held at both race meetings. Likewise four races were held at the Pacific Superkart Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship\nPoints were awarded 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the top fifteen race positions in first three races of each round. The fourth race of each round, which is longer than the others (eight laps vs five laps) awarded points for the top twenty race positions at 25-22-20-18-16-15-14-13-12\u201311-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Points sourced from in part:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201670-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Superkart Championship, Results and standings, Rockpress Pacific Superkart Challenge\nPoints were awarded 401-300-225-169-127-95-71 based on the top race positions in each classe in each of the four races. There was an additional bonus points structure added, multiplying the points received by the number of karts entered in that competitors class, divided by the total number of entries for the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 100], "content_span": [101, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201671-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian Swimming Championships\nThe 2009 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 17\u201322 March 2009. They doubled as the national trials for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201672-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series\nThe 2009 Yokohama V8 Ute Racing Series was a motor racing series for Ford Falcon and Holden Utility Trucks built and conforming to V8 Utes series regulations and those holding valid licence to compete as issued by series organisers Spherix and Australian V8 Ute Racing Pty. Ltd. The series formed the ninth running of a national series for V8 Utes in Australia. The series began on 19 March 2009 at the Adelaide Street Circuit and ended on 6 December at the Homebush Street Circuit after 24 races, although one was declared a 'no-race'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201672-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series\nFormer Rugby League footballer Jack Elsegood, driving a Ford Falcon XR8 Ute prepared by Wilson Brothers Racing, won his first national series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201672-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 2009 Australian Sports Sedan Series. The series will consist of fifteen races, at five race meetings, held in three states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201672-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Results and standings, Race calendar\nThe 2009 V8 Utes Series consisted of eight rounds, all of which were held on the support programme of the V8 Supercar Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201672-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian V8 Ute Racing Series, Results and standings, Drivers' points\nThe V8 Utes series is rare, in that qualifying carries as many points as each of the three races that occur for each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm\nThe 2009 Australian dust storm, also known as the Eastern Australian dust storm, was a dust storm that swept across the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland from 22 to 24 September 2009. The capital, Canberra, experienced the dust storm on 22 September, and on 23 September the storm reached Sydney and Brisbane. Some of the thousands of tons of dirt and soil lifted in the dust storm were dumped in Sydney Harbour and the Tasman Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm\nOn 23 September, the dust plume measured more than 500 kilometres (310\u00a0mi) in width and 1,000 kilometres (620\u00a0mi) in length and covered dozens of towns and cities in two states. By 24 September, analysis using MODIS at NASA measured the distance from the northern edge at Cape York to the southern edge of the plume to be 3,450\u00a0km. While the cloud was visible from space, on the ground the intense red-orange colour and drop in temperature drew comparisons with nuclear winter, Armageddon, and the planet Mars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm\nThe dust storm was described by the Bureau of Meteorology as a \"pretty incredible event\" that was the worst in the state of New South Wales in nearly 70 years. The phenomenon was reported around the world. The Weather Channel's Richard Whitaker said: \"This is unprecedented. We are seeing earth, wind and fire together\". It was later referred to as \"The mother of all dust storms.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Meteorological situation, First storm\nAccording to the New South Wales regional director of the Bureau of Meteorology, Barry Hanstrum, the cause was an \"intense north low-pressure area\" which \"picked up a lot of dust from the very dry interior of the continent\". Senior forecaster Ewan Mitchel said winds from a cold front picked up dust from north-east South Australia on 22 September. That night the winds strengthened to 100\u00a0km per hour and collected more dust from areas in New South Wales that were drought affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Meteorological situation, First storm\nAir particle concentration levels reached 15,400 micrograms per cubic metre of air. Normal days register up to 20 micrograms and bushfires generate 500 micrograms. This concentration of dust broke records in many towns and cities. The CSIRO estimated that the storm carried some 16 million tonnes of dust from the deserts of Central Australia, and during the peak of the storm, the Australian continent was estimated to be losing 75,000 tonnes of dust per hour off the NSW coast north of Sydney. The dust storm coincided with other extreme weather conditions which affected the cities of Adelaide and Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Meteorological situation, First storm\nThe dust is believed to have originated from far-western New South Wales and north-east South Australia. This includes an area known as the 'Corner Country', a dry, remote area of far-western New South Wales. In South Australia the dust may also have come from Lake Eyre Basin or the Woomera area, the latter raising concerns that it was radioactive and dangerous since the area contains the Olympic Dam uranium mine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Meteorological situation, Second dust storm\nA second dust storm, originating in the same area but believed to be smaller, reached Broken Hill and Cobar by 10 pm on 25 September 2009. This storm arrived in Sydney between 4 and 5 am on 26 September 2009, it pushed the EPA Air Quality Index into the 'Poor to Hazardous' range. However this was not as intense and had cleared by mid morning. The storm reached Brisbane on the evening of 26 September 2009, with the haze expected to clear by 28 September 2009. On 29 November 2009, another minor dust storm occurred, which decreased visibility to 5\u00a0km over Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory\nThe first city to be affected was Broken Hill, which was 'blacked out' at about 3:30\u00a0pm on 22 September 2009. At least one mine was shut down. It was also witnessed in Cowra. The storm blew across Canberra and the surrounding region by midday on 23 September 2009, before being washed away by overnight rain, the heaviest rainfall over Canberra in months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory\nIt was reported that the dust set off smoke alarms across the state and prompted increased demand for emergency services. Asthma sufferers were hospitalised. Rain was also reported to have resulted, with cricket ball-sized hailstones falling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory\nThe dust storm also reached the north coast of NSW on the morning of 23 September 2009. Coffs Harbour was affected by 7 am. At Coffs Harbour Airport visibility was down to 500 metres by 9 am and the airport remained closed until 10:30am. Grafton and the Clarence Valley were affected by 8:30 am. It caused flight delays at Ballina airport and flight cancellations for most of the day at Lismore airport with visibility at 700 metres. A local school rugby union carnival was also called off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Sydney\nThe storm caused severe disruption to international flights\u2014several early morning Air New Zealand flights from Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington had to return to New Zealand after finding themselves unable to land at Sydney Airport. These flights were listed as cancelled and many others were rescheduled to a later time. 18 international flights were diverted to Melbourne Airport or Brisbane Airport, while six others were cancelled altogether. There were delays of six hours reported for overseas flights, whilst domestic flights experienced disruption of as much as three hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Sydney\nRoads were disrupted, including the main tunnel of the M5 East Motorway which was shut down. Building sites were closed. Ferry services were cancelled. Canterbury Park Racecourse's scheduled day of horse racing was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Sydney\nSchools were disrupted as those children who attended were distracted by the dust storm, while many parents kept their children home. School trips and sports activities were cancelled for the day, and children were directed to stay inside during breaks in some schools. Face masks experienced surging sales in Sydney as concerned residents rushed to protect themselves against the dust, with at least one retailer indicating she had sold more than during the swine flu pandemic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, Queensland\nResidents of Windorah in South West Queensland reported low visibility on the morning of 22 September. By 23 September visibility in Toowoomba and Ipswich in South East Queensland was reduced to 100 metres (330\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, Queensland\nBrisbane was affected by the dust storm, although low visibility was less of a problem at Brisbane Airport than it was at Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, Queensland\nThe Gold Coast was also affected by the dust storm by 11.30\u00a0am, reducing visibility to 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft). Work stopped at construction sites due to health concerns, powerlines were down in some areas, the Q-deck was closed and traffic was slow with motorists using headlights. False fire alarms resulted in the evacuation of the Southport Magistrates Court. Flights were able to depart but incoming flights were diverted. The beaches remained open with added 'no swimming' flags in unpatrolled areas. Two fishermen off the coast of South Stradbroke Island were lost and a helicopter was required to locate them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, Queensland\nThe dust storm reached Central and North Queensland by the evening of 23 September 2009. However the effect was less serious, with visibility between 50 and 7,000 metres. Commercial flights were not disrupted. Affected areas include Townsville, Blackwater, Rockhampton, Mackay, Cairns and the Gulf of Carpentaria (Normanton and Kowanyama).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, Impacts, New Zealand\nRed dust from the storm reached New Zealand on the morning of 25 September 2009, behind a weather front that brought cold temperatures to the North Island. It was observed by satellite, atmospheric monitoring equipment (a beta attenuation monitor) at Auckland International Airport and by dust settling on the ground. Dust settled across Auckland as well as in the Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki districts of the North Island and it also reached the South Island's West Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, In popular culture\nRoger Deakins, cinematographer of the film Blade Runner 2049, has stated that images of the dust storm in Sydney directly inspired the film's Las Vegas scenes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201673-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian dust storm, In popular culture\nWith Las Vegas, Denis [Villeneuve] wanted it to have the red dust. We discussed it at length and we came up with these images of Sydney during the dust storm that they had a few years ago. There are these wonderful photos of the Sydney Opera House and it\u2019s covered with red dust. That formed the basis for Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget\nThe 2009 Australian federal budget for the Australian financial year ended 30 June 2010 was presented on 12 May 2009 by the Treasurer of Australia, Wayne Swan, the second federal budget presented by Swan, and the second budget of the first Rudd Government. Swan commented that the budget would be tougher than in previous years. \"Projected government revenue has fallen by $200 billion since the last budget because of the global economic crisis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget\nThere were many allegedly planned leaks which released a number of headline details and bad news in the weeks beforehand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Revenue mix\nA$210 billion decrease in revenue was forecast over the next four years, with the 2009\u201310 deficit expected to be in excess of $50 billion. Labor suggested that the decrease in revenue, brought about by the global financial crisis, was the primary reason for the deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Revenue mix, Taxation\nLabor budgetary policy on taxation is to keep it below the 2007\u20132008 level of 24.7% of GDP over the medium term. After taking into account regulatory changes to eliminate \"tax minimisation\" through employee share schemes, taxation receipts come in at 22% of GDP. The government has not indicated whether it will be modifying its target for 2010\u20132011, in light of the forecast contraction in growth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Expenditure mix\nOverall expenditure is expected to increase in 2009/2010 by 1.6% of GDP. The key feature of the budget was a third round of spending to provide long-term stimulus. Overall, spending has increased by 4.6% of GDP since the last Howard/Costello budget (2007/2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Expenditure mix, Social security and welfare\nLabor budgetary policy separates aged care from other welfare expenditure. The budget saw synchronised changes across the public sector as the government decided to lift the pension age and also moved to lift the superannuation preservation age. Two reports which accompanied the budget, the Pension Review Report and the Henry review on tax strategy, argued the need for a single means test\u2014more comprehensive than testing assets and income separately, standard practice since 1985\u2014to promote other forms of saving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Expenditure mix, Infrastructure, transport and energy\nThe government will invest more than $22 billion for \"Nation Building Infrastructure\" in transport, broadband, clean energy, universities and health care.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Opposition and crossbench response\nShadow Treasurer Joe Hockey challenged the government's projections for a return to budget surplus, claiming that growth projections were above historical trends. The Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Turnbull, called on the Prime Minister to reveal the full economic modelling used in the Treasury outlook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Opposition and crossbench response\nIn his formal response to the budget, Turnbull announced opposition to the reduction in private health insurance rebates, proposing that the funds be sourced by raising the tax on cigarettes by 3 cents instead. The Greens criticised the budget for supporting the coal industry and indicated their support for Turnbull's cigarette tax proposal. Family First Senator Steve Fielding criticised the government for breaking its election promise to maintain private health insurance rebates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Reception\nReaction from business lobby groups was mixed, with the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Australian Industry Group supporting the capital spending but critical of the plan to return to budget surplus. National Seniors Australia and ACOSS welcomed the increase to age pensions, but raised concerns that sole parents, the young and unemployed had been ignored. International ratings agencies Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Group, said that the budget did not risk Australia's AAA rating as the country's finances remained sound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Reception\nAn ongoing Westpac survey found that consumer confidence dropped as a result of the budget. Surveyed consumers anticipated that stimulus payments in the form of cash bonuses were no longer an option for the government, and their expectations of a turnaround during the following five years dwindled. The fall is equal to about half of last month's gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201674-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian federal budget, Reception\nCome 22 May, as senators and Treasury officials prepared for the Senate estimates committee hearings on the budget, the government faced strident criticism from chief executives, unions and small companies over the changes to employee share schemes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds\nAustralia is home to four professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2009. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football, rugby league, football (soccer) and rugby union (international rules football is a code of football played by Australian rules footballers). Sydney and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions\nSeveral football codes have national (domestic) competitions in Australia, the following are taken into consideration:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions\nTwo of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one team in New Zealand. Attendance figures for the New Zealand teams are not taken into account in the figures on this page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions\nOther competitions, such as international and representative competitions, included are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions\nNote: For these competitions, only figures for games that take place in Australia are taken into account", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Non-competition games\nSome non-competition matches (such as friendly and exhibition matches) are also included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Non-competition games\nNote: this list will be updated as more games are scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Competitions not included\nThere are several notable semi-professional regional and state based competitions which draw notable attendances and charge an entry fee that are not listed here. These are worth mentioning as some of their attendances rival those of national competitions and compete for spectator interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Competitions not included\nAs the attendance figures for some of these competitions can be difficult to obtain (many don't publish season figures and some play matches as curtain raisers to other events), they have not been included in the official lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code\nIn order to directly compare sports, the total attendances for each major code are listed here. The colour-coding of the different codes is used throughout the article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code\nNote that only the competitions that appear on this page excluding those specifically not included are considered, there are many other (generally smaller) competitions, leagues and matches that take place for all of the football codes, but these are not included. The following are included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by League\nSome codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by team\nTotal home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Match\nAttendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201675-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Match, Single matches\nThese are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201676-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 16\u201318 October 2009 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. Ducati rider Casey Stoner won the grand prix, in his home race. Championship leader Valentino Rossi finished second, further increasing his championship lead over rival Jorge Lorenzo, who crashed out and failed to score any points. This also marked the final Grand Prix win in the career of Marco Simoncelli before his death 2 years later on 23 October 2011 at the 2011 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix after suffering a fatal crash in Race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201676-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, 250 cc classification\nThe race, scheduled to be run for 25 laps, was stopped after 18 full laps due to Roberto Locatelli having an accident and did not restart as two-thirds of the race distance had been completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201676-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201677-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Austrian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Austrian Figure Skating Championships (German: \u00d6sterreichischen Staatsmeisterschaften im Eiskunstlauf 2009) took place between 12 and 14 December 2008 at the EisArena in Linz. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Austrian teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201677-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Austrian Figure Skating Championships\nThe Junior Championships were held immediately prior to the Senior championships in the same location and arena, between 10 and 12 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201677-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Austrian Figure Skating Championships\nThe senior and junior compulsory dance was the Paso Doble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400\nThe 2009 Autism Speaks 400 presented by Heluva Good! was the thirteenth points race in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, marking the halfway point to the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, and was held at the 1-mile (1.6\u00a0km) Dover International Speedway in Delaware's state capital city May 31 of that year, consisting of 400 miles (640\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Background\nFox Sports, in its 2009 swan song, televised the race beginning at 1:30 PM US EDT while MRN (terrestrial) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite) handled radio coverage starting at 1 PM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Background\nThe biggest change that year at Dover was a new pit road area. Previously, Dover's pit road only had enough room for 42 pit stalls, meaning one team had to share a pit until a car dropped out of the race. Now, thanks to a new pit wall facing the main stands,  widening the lanes within pit road by 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m), the area was rebuilt and all 43 cars will have their own pit stalls that are 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) longer than before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Background, Pre-Race News\nThe biggest news this week concerned the Hendrick Motorsports #88 team of Dale Earnhardt, Jr..   His cousin and crew chief, Tony Eury, Jr., who had come with him from Dale Earnhardt Inc. (now Earnhardt Ganassi Racing) two years ago in one of the biggest events of that Silly Season, was fired. He will be replaced for the next two races with manager Brian Whitesell. Lance Magrew, a veteran crew chief will take over at Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Qualifying\nJeff Gordon wrecked his car in the first run of qualifying. David Reutimann, winner of the previous week's rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 took his third career pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Qualifying\nFailed to Qualify: Brad Keselowski (#25), Max Papis (#13), Derrike Cope (#75), David Starr (#06).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201678-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Autism Speaks 400, Race recap\nThe Jimmie Johnson #48 Lowe's team chose a rather unusual strategy: they chose the last pit stall (the newly designated 43rd pit stall). It worked to a charm as he led the most laps (298), and made the win with a pass of Tony Stewart with three laps to go and claim the win coming from seventh place on the final pit stop under caution that had earlier cost them the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500\nThe 2009 Auto Club 500 was the second race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. the 500 miles (800\u00a0km) race occurred on February 22, 2009, at the 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, 60 miles (97\u00a0km) from Los Angeles and was one of the cleanest races in the history of the track with only one caution for an on track incident out of all 250 laps. Fox broadcast the race beginning at 5\u00a0pm US EST with radio coverage on MRN (terrestrial) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite) starting at 5:15\u00a0pm US EST. The race started at 3\u00a0pm local time, and run into prime time, counterprogramming against the Academy Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nCapitol Records Nashville recording artists Little Big Town performed the National Anthem and actor Hugh Laurie gave the command to start engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nBrian Vickers (the polesitter), Michael Waltrip (42nd), David Reutimann (7th); Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (35th), and Reed Sorenson (17th) started from the back due to changes in the engine and the transmissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nActress Angie Harmon waved the green flag as Jamie McMurray started in first place, but was passed by Jimmie Johnson on the backstretch for the lead. The first caution came out on lap 5; a light rain shower over turn 4. Ryan Newman's transponder was malfunctioning and had to go to pit road for repair. After leaving the pits. the left endplate of the rear spoiler on Newman's car fell off. Newman, again, came down pit road for repairs. VIckers reported his car's carburetor had stopped working a few times under caution. On lap 17, Earnhardt, Jr.; Joey Logano, Dave Blaney and others stopped for fuel. The field restarted on lap 23 with Jimmie Johnson in the lead, followed by McMurray, Jeff Gordon and brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nSince the restart, in 13 laps, defending Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth moved up to 11th position from 20th position; David Ragan ran in 7th from the 19th position. Joe Nemechek made his way to pit road where his crew then pushed the car to the garage on lap 37. The second caution came out on lap 41 due to light rain. Drivers start their first round of pit stops; Ku. Busch and Jimmie Johnson  switched positions for first and second, Ragan gained five positions, and teammate Kenseth gained 7 positions on pit road. Sorenson was too fast entering and exiting pit road, served a drive thru penalty. Restart on lap 47.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nJohnson edged ahead of Ku. Busch to the start-finish line for the lead after the restart. Blaney entered pit road with no power on lap 50. Lap 67, Johnson continued to lead laps; Scott Riggs headed to the garage, becoming the third driver to do so after Blaney and Nemechek; he returned to the track, 8 laps down, in 41st. Gordon led his first lap in the race on lap 78. Drivers Casey Mears, Jeff Burton, John Andretti, Logano, Scott Speed, and Jeremy Mayfield went a lap down when Gordon took the lead. Lap 85, second round of pitstops. Teammates Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards each led a lap during the round of pitstops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nOn lap 119, drivers began their third round of pitstops. Gordon remained the leader until Biffle's crew completed the pit stop quicker than Gordon's crew during the pitstop round; no pit road penalties were served. Biffle led an additional 13 laps until the yellow flag waved on lap 140 because of light rain; Michael Waltrip gets the 'lucky dog' free pass. Drivers entered pit road with Biffle in the lead. Kenseth gained three positions for the lead (4th to 1st), Biffle lost a position (1st to 2nd), Johnson lost two positions (4th to 6th), and Harvick gained two positions (12th to 10th) after completing their stops. Montoya stayed on the track and led a lap before he entered pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nThe field restarted with Kenseth in the lead, Biffle in 2nd, Gordon in third, Ku. Busch in 4th, and Johnson in 5th on lap 151. Teammates Johnson and Gordon battled for 2nd as Kenseth pulled away and led laps. David Ragan, who stood in 19th and was a lap down, reported an overheating engine on lap 161. Speed entered pit road reporting with no power before the fourth caution on lap 169, again due to rain. Vickers, in 18th place, got the lucky dog free pass. Hendrick Motorsports drivers Johnson, Martin, Earnhardt, Jr. reported problems on the same lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nIn the fourth round of pitstops, Johnson gained 3 positions (5th to 2nd), Gordon lost a position (2nd to 3rd), Biffle lost three positions (6th to 9th), Hamlin gained one position (8th to 7th), Edwards lost three positions (7th to 10th). Robby Gordon was too fast exiting pit road; Robby Gordon was served a drive through penalty. Stewart stayed out as did Montoya, Martin, Stremme, and Reutimann. After leading three laps, Stewart and others entered the pits handling over the lead to Mark Martin before Martin entered pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nThe field restarted with Kenseth, Johnson, Gordon, and brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch in the top five on lap 176. Earnhardt, Jr. restarted in 17th after engine repairs. Mark Martin's engine blew out of turn 2 after the restart. Martin coasted the car to pit road; no caution. Running in 10th, Jaime McMurray reported concerns on his brakes on lap 189. Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth battled for the lead with 55 laps to go; Gordon retook the lead, leading lap 195. Kenseth, then, fell back to third behind teammate Greg Biffle. Earnhardt, Jr. drove his car to the garage, like teammate Martin, because of engine problems on lap 206.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nHarvick, running in 12th, lost the engine, hit and slid across the outside wall between turn one and two on lap 207, ending a streak of 81 races running at the finish. It was also the first time Harvick got a DNF with Shell-Pennzoil sponsorship. Fifth caution of the race; Kasey Kahne got the 'lucky dog' pass. During the pitstop round, Kenseth moved up two positions (3rd to 1st), Gordon lost a position (1st to 2nd), Hamlin and Kurt Busch gained two spots, Steward and Vickers moved up three spots, Biffle lost nine positions, and McMurray lost three positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nBiffle lost nine spots because he ran over the air hose. David Stremme stayed out and led three laps. Kenseth, Gordon, Kyle Busch, Hamlin, and Kurt Busch, in the top five, restart the field on lap 215. The drivers in the top five positions remained unchanged until lap 242 when Hamlin and Kurt Busch switched positions. Aric Almirola, a lap down, slowed on the backstretch; no caution. Kenseth held off a hard-charging Gordon for his 18th win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Race recap\nKenseth was the second driver to win the first two races in a season (Gordon in 1997) and the fourth driver to win both the Daytona 500 and the following race (Cale Yarborough in 1977, Richard Petty in 1973). Gordon, Ky. Busch, Biffle, and Ku. Busch made up the Top 5. Vickers, after starting from the back, finished in 10th place. Rookie Logano was in 26th place, a lap down. Earnhardt, Jr., because of engine problems, was in 39th, 45 laps down, finishing ahead of teammate Martin who also had engine problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Point standings after the race\nJeff Gordon jumped 10 positions in the standings from 12th to 2nd. Greg Biffle moved from 20th to 5th . Carl Edwards was in 9th from 18th. Kyle Busch moved up 20 positions from 38th to 18th. Jimmie Johnson was in 19th from 31st. Brian Vickers moved up 14 spots from 40th. Travis Kvapil, was in 30th from 42nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201679-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Auto Club 500, Point standings after the race\nElliott Sadler dropped 6 spots from 5th. A.J. Allmendinger lost 10 positions from 3rd. Kevin Harvick dropped from 2nd to 16th. Martin Truex, Jr. dropped 7 positions to 17th. Mark Martin lost 12 spots from 15th to 27th. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. lost 9 spots from the 26th place in the point standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash\nThe 2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash occurred on April 9, 2009, when a British Aerospace 146 (BAe 146) crashed into Pikei Hill during a ferry flight from Sentani Airport to Wamena Airport, both in Indonesia's Papua province. Due to the force of the impact the aircraft was totally destroyed and all 6 crew members were killed. The aircraft was carrying voting paper to Wamena as well as several other goods, as a parliamentary election was held in the month. The wreckage was found in Pikei Hill, Tengah Mountain, Tangma, Yahukimo District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash\nThe accident was the first fatal crash for Aviastar and was the second airliner crash in Indonesia within a week, after an Indonesian Air Force Fokker 27 crashed into a hangar at Bandung on 6 April, killing all 24 people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash\nA final report by the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) concluded that the crash was due to Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) resulting from pilot error. The Captain ignored the ground proximity warning after the First Officer had warned him many times as he became anxious about how the Captain was handling the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Accident\nThe BAe 146-300, registered PK-BRD, was being operated by Aviastar on a ferry flight from Sentani Airport, Jayapura to Wamena Airport, Wamena. The crew consisted of two pilots, two flight attendants, a flight engineer, and a load master. Captain Sigit Triwahyono was the handling pilot and First Officer Lukman Yusuf was the support/monitoring pilot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Accident\nThe flight was being operated under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) from Sentani, and a visual descent, approach, and landing at Wamena, because there was no published instrument approach procedure at Wamena. There was low cloud on the final approach track to Runway 15 at Wamena. The aircraft was observed conducting a low altitude go-around over the runway: it then climbed to a low height along the extended centre-line to the south east, before making a right turn onto the downwind leg of the circuit. As it began its second approach it hit Pikei Hill in Tengah Mountain at 07:43 local time (10:43 UTC). All on board were killed instantly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved in the accident was a BAe 146 Series 300. It had been manufactured in 1990 and was delivered to Thai Airways International as HS-TBO with the name  Lahan Sai. Subsequently, it was sold to Jersey European Airways in 1998 as G-JEBC. It was later transferred to British European in June 2000 then with Flybe after the merger in 2002 and later in 2007 it was finally bought by Aviastar and was registered in Indonesia as PK-BRD. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had accumulated 22,200 flying hours. The aircraft had an airworthiness license issued in January 2009. Originally built as a passenger aircraft, Aviastar modified the aircraft into a combined passenger and cargo configuration in September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft was in the 42-passenger and cargo configuration. However, the weight chart used for the accident flight was for the aircraft in a 110-passenger configuration. That was therefore the incorrect chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Passengers and crew\nBecause the aircraft was conducting a ferry flight there were no passengers; on board were six crew members which all were Indonesian. The Captain was 56-year-old Sigit Triwahyono, who had a total flying experience of more than 8,300 hours, of which 1000 were on the BAe146. The First Officer was 49-year-old Lukman Yusuf, with a total flying experience of over 12,400 hours, 200 on the BAe146.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nThe investigation was conducted by the National Transportation Safety Committee. At the time of the accident the weather in Wamena was calm, with slight haze and broken clouds surrounding the area. Visibility was 8\u00a0km. The weather was not a factor in the crash. Investigators retrieved both the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder. Both had good quality data. Based on the analysis of the flight recorders, investigators then reconstructed the chronological order as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nAt its first attempt to land, the runway in Wamena was obscured by low clouds. Knowing that they couldn't fly the aircraft to the established flight path for an approach, the crew abandoned the approach and started a go around to the right at a low height, approx 46\u00a0m (150\u00a0ft). While on the right circuit down-wind leg, the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) warning sounded, eight of them were \"Don't sink\", two \"Too low terrain\", two \"Bank Angle\" and one \"Terrain Terrain\" voice aural alerts. The flight crew did not respond to any of those alerts. First Officer Lukman became really concerned with Captain Sigit's handling of the aircraft. He later said \"be careful, Sir\" to Captain Sigit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nThe aircraft then increased its bank angle to the right. First Officer Lukman became really anxious, saying \"Sir Sir Sir open Sir left left\". Shortly afterwards Captain Sigit banked the aircraft to the left. The \"Don't sink\" alert sounded for the second time. The bank angle to the left became extreme, exceeding 40\u00b0. The aircraft also entered a 10-degree nose down pitch attitude. First Officer Lukman then warned Captain Sigit \"don't sink\". In repeating the words \"don't sink\", First Officer Lukman was alerting Captain Sigit to comply with the EGPWS voice aural alert \"Don't sink, don't sink\". Captain Sigit immediately responded \"ya, ya\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nThree seconds later, Lukman urgently commanded \"left turn\". The EGPWS voice alert then sounded, \"Too low, terrain\", \"bank angle, bank angle\" \"terrain \u2013 terrain\" warning. At the same time, First Officer called to Captain Sigit \"sir! sir ! sir!\". The aircraft then impacted the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nNTSC noted that there was not good crew resource management throughout the flight. Neither pilot was trained sufficiently in handling the aircraft when the EGPWS warning alert sounded. The Company Operations Manual (COM) specified that the crew briefing should be updated if changing circumstances so required. Captain Sigit did update the briefing when the first approach was discontinued and the go-around was conducted. Captain Sigit's disregard of the EGPWS alerts that sounded as the aircraft was being maneuvered was in non-conformance with the instructions for crew response to EGPWS alerts and cautions, as published in the COM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nThat, together with their lack of flight crew training in EGPWS, meant that they had not been properly prepared to respond in a timely and appropriate manner to the alerts and warnings provided by the EGPWS. Had Captain Sigit executed the appropriate responses to those EGPWS alerts it is unlikely that the crash would have occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201680-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Aviastar British Aerospace 146 crash, Investigation\nNeither flight crew member conformed to the instructions about flight crew responsibilities during a visual approach, as published in the COM. This resulted in their being unable to assure the safety of flight at low level while manoeuvring the aircraft in proximity with terrain in conditions of reduced visibility. Had they more carefully planned the second approach, and closely cooperated with each other, they may have achieved a safe approach and landing. Their disregard of the published procedures bypassed the safety criteria and inbuilt risk treatments in the design of those procedures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201681-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Azerbaijan on 18 March 2009. It consisted of 29 measures voted on separately; the most controversial were a measure to abolish presidential term limits and a measure to greatly restrict press freedom. The measures passed, with approval of measures between 87.14% and 91.76%, disapproval between 4.59% and 7.24% and invalid votes between 3.64% and 5.70%; turnout was 71.08%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201681-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum\nThis provision of the constitutional amendment was condemned by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, which stated that \"As a rule, it can be said that the abolition of existing limits preventing the unlimited re-election of a President is a step back, in terms of democratic achievements\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201681-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum\nProfessor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the  Faculty of Law of Sydney University, in his legal opinion stated that the conduct of the Azeri government in the adoption of the amendment violated the principle of transparency and that it constituted a breach of European law under the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the international law. The amendment was also criticized by the Azerbaijani opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201681-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum\nOn the basis of the amendment in 2013 Ilham Aliyev ran for president for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201682-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat An-12 crash\nOn 26 August 2009, an Antonov AN-12 crashed into a cemetery near Brazzaville, Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201682-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat An-12 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved was an 43 year-old Antonov An-12BK of A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat, manufactured in 1966 and registered as TN-AIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201682-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat An-12 crash, Accident\nThe aircraft departed from Brazzaville Maya-Maya International Airport bound for Pointe Noire Airport carrying food, a minibus and three other vehicles. Attempting to land on Runway 05, the aircraft crashed into a cemetery 11 kilometres (6.8\u00a0mi) southeast of Maya-Maya airport at Nganga Lingolo, a town on the outskirts of Brazzaville, at 06:00 local time (05:00 UTC). All 5 Ukrainian crew members and the Congolese passenger died on impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201682-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat An-12 crash, Accident\nThe METAR in force at the time of the accident showed that there was a mild wind of 270\u00b0 at 6 knots (11\u00a0km/h), visibility was 7 kilometres (4.3\u00a0mi), there were scattered clouds at 1,600 feet (490\u00a0m) and it was overcast at 13,000 feet (4,000\u00a0m), and the temperature was 21\u00b0C. At the time of the accident it was there was a light rain and visibility was 3.5 kilometres (2.2\u00a0mi). Eyewitnesses reported that one of the wings was on fire before the crash, and that the aircraft broke up in mid-air. The carriage of the passenger was illegal, as the Republic of the Congo bans AN-12s from use as passenger aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201682-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 A\u00e9ro-Fr\u00eat An-12 crash, Investigation\nThe accident was investigated by the Congolese National Agency for Civil Aviation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by WOSlinkerBot (talk | contribs) at 20:53, 20 June 2020 (remove un-needed options from tables). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season\nThe 2009 BAFL Season is the British American Football League. BritBowl XXIII, the league's championship game, was scheduled to be played at Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster on 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season, Schedule, Regular season, Formula\nBased on the British American Football League, setup for the 2009 season there will be a 3 tier structure consisting of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season, Regular season standings\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT = Winning Percentage, PF= Points for, PA = Points against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season, Playoffs\nThe playoffs are scheduled to be played on 5/6 September 2009. BritBowl XXIII will then be played on 27 September 2009 at Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201683-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BAFL season, Playoffs, BAFL 2 Playoff\nThe BAFL 2 Playoffs are split geographically between the North and the South. The Southern half of the draw includes the conferences champions from each of the East, South East and South West. The Northern half includes conferences champions from the Scottish, Northern and Central conferences. There is a wild card team from each of the North and the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award\nThe 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, held on 13 December, was the 56th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Awarded annually by the BBC, the main titular award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year. The winner is selected by public vote from a 10-person shortlist. Other awards presented include team, coach, and young personality of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Winner and nominees\nThe BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an annual sport award ceremony and the 2009 edition was its 56th staging. It occurred on the evening of 13 December, at the Sheffield Arena, Sheffield. For 2009, the BBC moved the awards from the Echo Arena, Liverpool to Sheffield to try and attract more spectators. It was the first time that the programme was held in Yorkshire, which was broadcast live in the United Kingdom on BBC One, the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 Live. Sue Barker, Jake Humphrey and Gary Lineker presented the ceremony on the main stage, whilst Clare Balding, Matt Dawson, John Inverdale and Stephen Parry served as the backstage radio broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Winner and nominees\nNominations for the award were conducted by a panel of 26 sport experts representing magazines and select national and regional newspapers. They were asked to choose ten nominees not in preference but in alphabetical order. Had there have been a tie after the nominating process, the production team would have asked six members of a panel of former winners for their first three preferences in order. There would be three points for first, two for second and one for third. The tied nominee with the highest number of points would subsequently advance to the final ten; had there been a second tie, another vote would be conducted to move the tied participant with the highest number of first places to the shortlist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Winner and nominees\nThe ten nominees were announced on the BBC One programme The One Show on the evening of 30 November. The list was composed of two athletes from the sport of athletics, and one each from the sports of boxing, cricket, cycling, diving, football, Formula One, gymnastics and tennis. Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One World Champion, was the bookmakers' initial favourite to win the accolade, followed heptathlete world champion Jessica Ennis and cricketer Andrew Strauss. In the week prior to the ceremony, the bookmakers moved footballer Ryan Giggs into contention and made him the more than likely winner during the programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Winner and nominees\nGiggs was announced as the winner with 29.40 per cent of the public vote. Button finished runner-up with 18.74 per cent of the public vote and Ennis was third with a 15.58 per cent vote share. Giggs was the first footballer to be voted the recipient of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award since David Beckham in 2001 and the fourth in history following Michael Owen in 1998, Paul Gascoigne in 1990 and Bobby Moore in 1966. Chris Hoy and Andrew Flintoff presented Giggs with the silver television camera and tripod trophy. The ten nominees and their 2009 achievements are described in the table below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Helen Rollason Award\nThe BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award was presented to an individual \"for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity.\" The winner was chosen by BBC Sport with no public vote and the name of the recipient was revealed on the night of the ceremony. Help for Heroes charity fundraiser Major Phil Packer, who raised money through sporting activities, was named the award's winner. Packer was presented with the accolade by Steve Redgrave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Young Sports Personality\nThe BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year was presented to the sportsperson under the age of 16 on 1 January 2009 for \"outstanding sporting achievements\". The panel to decide the nominees and winner was chaired by Humphrey, and included the broadcasters Helen Skelton of Blue Peter, Ore Oduba from Sportsround, two representatives each from the Youth Sport Trust and the Sports Personality of the Year and two previous Young Sports Personality recipients in Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Kate Haywood. The panel convened on 9 November to determine the first ten nominees from a BBC and Youth Sport Trust compiled list and returned a fortnight later to choose the first three and the recipient with the seven losing nominees informed that they did not make the final shortlist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Young Sports Personality\nTom Daley, the diver, was named the winner of the award. It was Daley's second win after his first in 2007 and he was the first person to earn the award more than once. He received the accolade from Amir Khan and Ellie Simmonds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Unsung Hero Award\nThe BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award recognised \"someone who is dedicating their life to promoting sport in their community, taking no reward from it other than the pleasure of helping others to take part and enjoy their sport.\" UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man residents aged 16 or over but no previous winners, BBC employees and anybody working with the award or their close relatives was eligible to be nominated for the accolade on select BBC websites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Unsung Hero Award\nA national panel of judges composed of leading sporting individuals, BBC Sport and BBC Nations and Regions representatives and a former Unsung Hero Award recipient determined the overall winner and two runners-up from all 15 BBC Nations and Regions. The winner of the award was announced during the show. Doreen Adcock, the Milton Keynes-based swimming instructor, was named the recipient; she received the accolade from the swimmer Rebecca Adlington and the snooker player Jimmy White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Team of the Year\nThe BBC Sports Team of the Year Award was given to \"the (British only) team that has achieved the most notable performance in British sport.\" A 30-strong judging panel made up of sporting experts from select national and regional magazine and newspaper sports editors determined the winner. They voted for the first and second preferences as their first two selections, with two points going for first position and one point for second. The team with the highest number of points was selected to earn the Team of the Year. The team with the highest number of first positions would earn the award had a tiebreak been declared, although the accolade would be shared if a tie was still present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Team of the Year\nEngland's 2009 Ashes winning cricket team was named the winners of the accolade for the second time after its first in 2005. Flintoff accepted the award on behalf of the team by Kelly Holmes while it was touring South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201684-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards, Team of the Year\nAs part of the 2009 ceremony, awards were also to be presented for:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201685-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BBL Champions Cup\nThe 2008 BBL Champions Cup was the fourth edition of the super cup game in German basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season\nThe 2009 BC Lions season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 56th overall. The Lions finished the season in fourth place in the West Division with a disappointing 8\u201310 record after losing their last three regular season games. While it was their first losing record since 2001, they still managed to play in the East-Semi Final playoff game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after that same team eliminated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the last game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season\nThe Lions would go on to play in the first East Final in franchise history, which they lost to the Montreal Alouettes. It was the sixth consecutive appearance for the Lions in a division final and the third consecutive season that their season was ended by the eventual Grey Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. The Lions traded their sixth and thirteenth overall picks for Hamilton's third overall pick in order to secure the chance to draft Bishop's running back Jamall Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import players updated 2009-10-08 \u2022 47 Active, 6 Inactive, 5 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season, Playoffs, East Semi-Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 15, 10:00 AM Pacific Standard TimeVenue: Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201686-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BC Lions season, Playoffs, East Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 22, 10:00 AM Pacific Standard TimeVenue: Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201687-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania\nThe 2009 BCR Open Romania was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 17th edition of the event known that year as the BCR Open Romania, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Arenele BNR in Bucharest, Romania, from 21 September through 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201687-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201687-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania, Finals, Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k defeated  Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201688-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania \u2013 Doubles\nNicolas Devilder and Paul-Henri Mathieu were the defending champion, but they chose to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201688-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania \u2013 Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134 against Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201689-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BCR Open Romania \u2013 Singles\nGilles Simon was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20132), 7\u20136(8\u20136), against Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201690-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BCS National Championship Game\nThe 2009 FedEx BCS National Championship Game was an American football game played at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on January 8, 2009. It was the national championship game for the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and featured the second-ranked Florida Gators against the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners. The two participants were determined by the BCS Rankings to decide the BCS National Championship. Television coverage in the United States was provided by Fox, and radio coverage by ESPN Radio. The game was the last BCS Championship to air on Fox; starting with the 2010 game, ABC or ESPN televised the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201690-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BCS National Championship Game\nTim Tebow's two touchdown passes and Percy Harvin's two-yard touchdown run led the Florida Gators to their second BCS National Championship in three seasons. The Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners, 24\u201314, in front of a Dolphin Stadium record crowd of 78,468.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201690-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BCS National Championship Game, Road to the championship, University of Oklahoma\nThe Sooners, coached by Bob Stoops, lost one game during their regular season to Texas in the annual Red River Rivalry contest, 45\u201335 on October 11. During the regular season, quarterback Sam Bradford, winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy, led the Sooners on offense to become the highest-scoring team in NCAA history (702 points) and the first team to score 60 or more points in five consecutive games. The game was Oklahoma's fourth BCS Championship appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 85], "content_span": [86, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BD\n2009 BD is a very small asteroid, approximately 10 meters in diameter, which is classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group and as an Earth co-orbital asteroid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BD, Orbit\nDuring the 2011 opposition, the last opposition of 2009 BD that was observed, 2009 BD approached on June 2, 2011 within 0.00231 AU (346,000\u00a0km) of the Earth, which is less than 1 lunar distance. For comparison, the distance to the Moon is about 0.0026 AU (384,400\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 14], "content_span": [15, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BD, Orbit\nWith an orbital period of 369.99 days, 2009 BD is in a near 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, and also has about the same orbit around the Sun as Earth. Other resonant near-Earth objects in addition to 2009 BD include 3753 Cruithne (the first to be discovered), (85770) 1998 UP1, 54509 YORP, 2001 GO2, 2002 AA29, 2003 YN107, (164207) 2004 GU9, and 2010 TK7 (an Earth trojan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 14], "content_span": [15, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BD, Orbit\nThe Jupiter Tisserand invariant, used to distinguish different kinds of orbits, is 6.039. The orbit has a small inclination of about 0.4 degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 14], "content_span": [15, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BD, Orbit\nJPL and MPC give different parameters for the orbit of 2009 BD, affecting whether the orbit type should be considered an Apollo asteroid or an Amor asteroid. JPL includes non-gravitational acceleration parameters in the orbital solution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 14], "content_span": [15, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201691-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BD, Physical characteristics\nBecause 2009 BD is a very small multi-opposition near-Earth object, the effect of radiation pressure on the orbit caused by light from the Sun was able to be detected. The radiation-related acceleration allowed the Area to Mass Ratio (AMR) to be estimated at (2.97 \u00b1 0.33) \u00d7 10\u22124 m2/kg. Assuming an albedo of 0.12, a typical average for asteroids in the inner solar system, this AMR corresponds to a density of about 640\u00a0kg/m3. This density is consistent with the density of very porous rock. For comparison, the asteroid 2006 RH120 has a measured density of about 400\u00a0kg/m3, and the density of the asteroid 253 Mathilde as measured by the NEAR-Shoemaker space probe was 1300\u00a0kg/m3. In contrast, the density of the man-made near-Earth object 6Q0B44E is 15\u00a0kg/m3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 33], "content_span": [34, 796]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00201692-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO Canadian Open of Curling\nThe 2009 BDO Canadian Open of Curling was held January 22-25 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship\nThe 2009 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 32nd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation. Mark Webster was the defending men's champion having won the title for the first time in the 2008 final against Simon Whitlock, but he was eliminated 4\u20130 by John Walton in the second round. The title was eventually won by 2000 champion Ted Hankey, who won 7\u20136 against Tony O'Shea, in a match which lasted just under two and a half hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship\nThe defending women's champion, Anastasia Dobromyslova, was due to defend her championship, having beaten seven-time champion Trina Gulliver in the 2008 final, but on 7 December 2008 she resigned from the BDO/WDF setup after her defeat in the Winmau World Masters to Francis Hoenselaar. It later emerged that she had accepted the 70th and last place into the rival PDC World Championship, replacing an Indian qualifier. This meant that for the first time, the defending women's champion would not be returning to defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship\nHoenselaar, a five-time runner-up, won her first world title by beating Gulliver \u2013 the player that had beaten her each time \u2013 by two sets to one. The event took place from 3\u201311 January 2009 and for the 24th time, the tournament took place at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Men's\nThe televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2007\u201308 season were seeded for the tournament. They were joined by 16 other players who had either been invited by right (10 of the sixteen in this method), a standby player (Stephen Bunting) with 5 other qualifiers determined at the International Playoffs, which were held on 4 December 2008 in Bridlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize Money\nThe 2009 World Championship featured a prize fund of \u00a3320,000 \u2013 a rise of \u00a310,000 on the previous year. The only monetary change was that the Men's Champion received \u00a395,000 instead of \u00a385,000 as received by Mark Webster at the 2008 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day One, Saturday 3 January, Women's\nThe opening match of the 2009 world championships was between top seed Gary Anderson and Norway's Robert Wagner. Anderson won the match 3\u20132. Simon Whitlock, last year's runner-up, beat Mark Barilli 3\u20130. Tony O'Shea defeated Sweden's Daniel Larsson 3\u20130, while Darryl Fitton, the 5th seed, beat Mark Salmon 3\u20130 without dropping a leg. There were 3\u20132 wins for Edwin Max and Robert Hughes as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Two, Sunday 4 January, Women's\nThe opening match saw Mark Webster begin the defence of his title and he beat Holland's Willy van de Wiel. 2008 Masters runner-up Scott Waites also won against Ross Smith 3\u20130. 2000 champion Ted Hankey and 2001 champion John Walton both had 3\u20130 wins over former semi-finalists Brian Woods and Shaun Greatbatch respectively. Greatbatch was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in June 2008. He received a guard of honour and a standing ovation after his match. Former World Darts Trophy champion Gary Robson overcame Stephen Bunting 3\u20131 in a match where he averaged 98. England's Alan Norris beat number 13 seed Steve West 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Three, Monday 5 January\nDay three saw reigning Masters champion Martin Adams begin his 16th World Championship campaign. Adams beat Dave Chisnall 3\u20132 in a tiebreak. Martin Atkins also progressed by beating Joey ten Berge 3\u20132. Ross Montgomery saw off Martin Phillips 3\u20131 whilst debutant Daryl Gurney saw off number 14 seed and fellow debutant Garry Thompson 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Four, Tuesday 6 January\nDay four saw the start of the second round. Tony O'Shea averaged 92 as he beat Holland's Edwin Max 4\u20130. Darryl Fitton averaged 98 beating the previous year's finalist Simon Whitlock 4\u20132 while Whitlock averaged 92. Top seed Gary Anderson made the quarter-finals beating Wales' Robert Hughes 4\u20132. World Masters runner-up Scott Waites reached the quarter-finals with a 4\u20130 win over Alan Norris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Five, Wednesday 7 January\nNumber three seed Martin Adams defeated Daryl Gurney 4\u20132. Adams had been 2\u20130 up before Gurney levelled the match at 2\u20132, but Adams edged each of the next two sets 3\u20132 to book his place in the quarters. 2001 World Champion John Walton knocked out the defending champion Mark Webster 4\u20130. Webster won four legs in the match. 2000 World Champion Ted Hankey saw off Scotland's Ross Montgomery 4\u20131 whilst number six seed Gary Robson saw off Martin Atkins 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Six, Thursday 8 January, Women's\nTony O'Shea reached the semi-finals of the World Championships for the second time in his career as he beat the number one seed Gary Anderson 5\u20133. O'Shea went into a 4\u20131 lead before Anderson took the next two to make it 4\u20133. O'Shea took the next set for the win. Darryl Fitton came from 4\u20131 down to beat World Masters runner-up Scott Waites and set up a semi-final clash with fellow native of Stockport, O'Shea. In the women's championship, both Trina Gulliver and Francis Hoenselaar gained 2\u20130 wins to set up their sixth final against one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Day Seven, Friday 9 January, Women's\nFormer World Champion Ted Hankey saw off 2001 champion John Walton. Hankey beat Walton \u2013 who had only dropped five legs before the match \u2013 by five sets to one. Martin Adams gave up a 3\u20130 lead over Gary Robson, who made it 4\u20134, before the Masters champion won the final set 3\u20130 to complete a 5\u20134 win and set up a semi-final clash with Hankey. This meant that all four semi-finalists were 40 or older \u2013 the first time that this had ever occurred at a World Championship, in either organisation. (Hankey 40, Fitton 46, O'Shea 47 and Adams 52)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201693-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage\nThe tournament was again covered by the BBC in the UK. Coverage was presented by Ray Stubbs, with analysis from Bobby George and commentary from David Croft, Bobby George, Tony Green, and Ted Hankey. The tournament was also shown on SBS6 in the Netherlands and Eurosport across continental Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201694-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BET Hip Hop Awards\nThe 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards are a recognition ceremony held on October 10, 2009 at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The  2009 show was hosted by Mike Epps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201694-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BET Hip Hop Awards\nKanye West led the BET Hip-Hop Awards 2009 with nine nominations,  followed by Jay-Z and  Lil Wayne with seven and T.I. with sx nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201694-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BET Hip Hop Awards\nThe rapper and music producer Ice Cube received the I Am Hip-Hop Award, for his role in pioneering the West Coast rap movement in the late 1980s. Jay-Z was the most awarded artist of the ceremony, with four awards, including Hustler of the Year. Although he was in Arkansas Penitentiary on a federal gun charge, T.I. won three awards, two of whitch Rihanna's collaboration \"Live Your Life\". Kanye West was awarded as Producer of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201694-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BET Hip Hop Awards, Winners and nominations, Track of the Year\nOnly the producer of the track nominated in this category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201695-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BFL season\nThe 2009 season of the Belgian Football League (BFL) is the regular season played in the Belgium. The first week starts on February 8 and ends with the 12th week April 26. Then the Playoffs follow in the 14th and 15th week. The 2 remaining teams then compete in the championship Belgian Bowl XXII.This is played in the 17th week on May 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201695-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BFL season, Regular season, Regular season standings\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT = Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201695-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BFL season, Post season\nIn the 2009 playoffs the Tigers played in the quarter final against the Brussels Black Angels on May 10. The Tigers gave forfait after the halftime resulting in a 50\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201696-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BGL Luxembourg Open\nThe 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open was a tennis tournament on indoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the Fortis Championships Luxembourg, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg, from October 17 through October 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201696-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BGL Luxembourg Open, WTA entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201696-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BGL Luxembourg Open, Champions, Doubles\nIveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 /  Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 def. Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 /  Renata Vor\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1, 1-6, 6-0, [10-7]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201697-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BGL Luxembourg Open \u2013 Doubles\nSorana C\u00eerstea and Marina Erakovic were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 won in the final 1-6, 6-0, [10-7] against Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 and Renata Vor\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201698-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BGL Luxembourg Open \u2013 Singles\nElena Dementieva was the defending champion, but she chose not to participate that year. Timea Bacsinszky won in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20135 against Sabine Lisicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201699-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Telecom Indoors\nThe 2009 BH Telecom Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 23 and 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201699-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Telecom Indoors, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201699-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Telecom Indoors, Champions, Men's doubles\nKonstantin Kravchuk /  Dawid Olejniczak def. James Auckland /  Rogier Wassen, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201700-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Telecom Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nThe 2009 BH Telecom Indoors \u2013 Doubles was part of the 2009 BH Telecom Indoors professional tennis tournament. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Frederik Nielsen were the defenders of championship title, but they didn't take part this year; and the title was won by Konstantin Kravchuk and Dawid Olejniczak in the final 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 10\u20137, against James Auckland and Rogier Wassen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201701-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Telecom Indoors \u2013 Singles\nAndreas Beck was the defending champion. He decided that he wouldn't play this year. Ivan Dodig won in the grand finale 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Dominik Meffert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201702-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup\nThe 2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. This was the eighteenth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil between 27 July and 2 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201702-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201702-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup, Champions, Doubles\nM\u00e1rcio Torres /  Izak van der Merwe def. Juan-Pablo Amado /  Eduardo Schwank, walkover", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201703-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup \u2013 Doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were the defending champions, but Qureshi chose to not play this year. Gonz\u00e1lez participated with Horacio Zeballos, but they lost to Torres and van der Merwe in the semifinal. M\u00e1rcio Torres and Izak van der Merwe became the new champions, after withdrawal of Juan-Pablo Amado and Eduardo Schwank before the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201704-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BH Tennis Open International Cup \u2013 Singles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez was the defending champion, but he lost to the eventual the winner of tournament, J\u00falio Silva in the second round. Silva defeated Eduardo Schwank 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201705-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open\nThe 2009 BMW Ljubljana Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the eighteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between 21 and 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201705-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201705-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201705-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open, Champions, Doubles\nJamie Delgado /  Jamie Murray def. St\u00e9phane Robert /  Simone Vagnozzi, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201706-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Pablo Brzezicki and Mariano Hood were the defending champions; however, they didn't start this year. British pair Jamie Delgado and Jamie Murray won this tournament, after their won against St\u00e9phane Robert and Simone Vagnozzi 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201707-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Ljubljana Open \u2013 Singles\nIlija Bozoljac was the defending champion, but retired due to a right ankle injury in the second round, when he played with his compatriot Filip Krajinovi\u0107. Paolo Lorenzi defeated Grega \u017demlja 1\u20136, 7\u20136(4), 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201708-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Open\nThe 2009 BMW Open was a tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 94th edition of the BMW Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. The men's events took place in Munich, Germany, from 2 May through 10 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201708-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Open\nThe men's draw was headlined by the defending champions, Chilean Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez and Croatian Marin \u010cili\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201708-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Open, Finals, Doubles\nJan Hernych /  Ivo Min\u00e1\u0159 defeated  Ashley Fisher /  Jordan Kerr, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201709-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Open \u2013 Doubles\nMichael Berrer and Rainer Sch\u00fcttler were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201710-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Open \u2013 Singles\nFernando Gonz\u00e1lez was the defending champion, but was unable to play due to an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201711-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW PGA Championship\nThe 2009 BMW PGA Championship was the 55th edition of the BMW PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was held 21\u201324 May at the West Course of Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, a suburb southwest of London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201711-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW PGA Championship\nEnglishman Paul Casey won his first BMW PGA Championship with a one stroke victory over fellow Englishman Ross Fisher. This result saw him rise to Number 3 in the Official World Golf Rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201712-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Tennis Championship\nThe 2009 BMW Tennis Championship was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sunrise, United States between 16 and 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201712-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Tennis Championship, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201712-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Tennis Championship, Champions, Men's doubles\nEric Butorac /  Bobby Reynolds def. Jeff Coetzee /  Jordan Kerr, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 10\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201713-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Tennis Championship \u2013 Doubles\nJanko Tipsarevi\u0107 and Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107 were the defending champions; however, they lost to Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k in the first round. Eric Butorac and Bobby Reynolds won in the final 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 10\u20134, against Jeff Coetzee and Jordan Kerr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201714-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BMW Tennis Championship \u2013 Singles\nRobin Haase was the defending champion, but he did not defend his title due to an injury. Robin S\u00f6derling, who would have been the 2nd seed, entered late and played the qualifying tournament. He was not seeded in the main draw, but he defeated: M\u00fcller, Bolelli, Sch\u00fcttler, L\u00f3pez and he reached the final. He won 6\u20131, 6\u20131, against 1st seeded Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych in the last match of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201715-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters\nThe 2009 Paris Masters (also known as the BNP Paribas Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 37th edition of the Paris Masters, and was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2009 ATP Tour. It was held at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from 8 November through 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201715-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters\nIn singles, the event was notable for hosting the last ATP Tour appearance of the former Number One player Marat Safin. He lost his second round match against Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, in what would be his last professional match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201715-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters, ATP players, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201715-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters, ATP players, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201715-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters, Finals, Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defetaed  Marcel Granollers /  Tommy Robredo, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201716-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters \u2013 Doubles\nJonas Bj\u00f6rkman & Kevin Ullyett were the defending champions, but Bj\u00f6rkman retired in 2008. Ullyett teamed up with Bruno Soares, but they lost in the second round against Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo. With this win, Nestor completed a Career Golden Masters, having won all nine ATP Tour Masters 1000 events. He was the first player to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201717-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters \u2013 Singles\nNovak Djokovic defeated Ga\u00ebl Monfils in the final, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20133), to win the Singles title at the 2009 Paris Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201717-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters \u2013 Singles\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga was the defending champion, but lost to Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201717-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Masters \u2013 Singles\nIt was the last professional appearance for former world No. 1 Marat Safin. He lost in his second round match against Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201718-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open\nThe 2009 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the men's event (21st for the women), known that year as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 9 through March 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201718-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nAndy Roddick /  Mardy Fish defeated  Max Mirnyi /  Andy Ram 3\u20136, 6\u20131 [14\u201312]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201718-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open, Champions, Women's doubles\nVera Zvonareva /  Victoria Azarenka defeated  Gisela Dulko  /  Shahar Pe'er 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201719-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJonathan Erlich and Andy Ram were the defending champions, but Erlich chose not to participate due to injury, and only Ram competed that year. Ram partnered with Max Mirnyi, they lost in the final to Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick 6\u20133, 1\u20136, [12\u201314]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201720-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated Andy Murray in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2009 Indian Wells Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201720-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNovak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201721-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDinara Safina and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but Safina chose not to participate, and only Vesnina competed that year. Vesnina partnered with Maria Sharapova, but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova and Tatiana Poutchek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201722-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nAna Ivanovic was the defending champion, but was defeated by Vera Zvonareva in the final 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20132, in a rematch of last year's quarterfinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201723-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux\nThe 2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bordeaux, France between May 11 and May 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201723-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201723-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received special exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201723-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Champions, Doubles\nPablo Cuevas /  Horacio Zeballos def. Xavier Pujo /  St\u00e9phane Robert, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201724-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux \u2013 Doubles\nDiego Hartfield and Sergio Roitman were the defending champions. They didn't participate this year. Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos won in the final. They defeated Xavier Pujo and St\u00e9phane Robert 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 10\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201725-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux \u2013 Singles\nEduardo Schwank was the defending champion; however, he didn't take part in tournament this year. Marc Gicquel won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134, against Mathieu Montcourt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201726-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano\nThe 2009 BSI Challenger Lugano was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lugano, Switzerland between 8 and 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201726-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201726-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201726-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano, Champions, Doubles\nJohan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer def. Pablo Cuevas /  Sergio Roitman, walkover", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201727-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano \u2013 Doubles\nRameez Junaid and Philipp Marx were the defenders of title, but they lost to Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer in the semifinal. Pablo Cuevas and Sergio Roitman withdrew in the final, so Brunstr\u00f6m and Rojer became the new champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201728-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BSI Challenger Lugano \u2013 Singles\nLuis Horna was the defending champion, but he chose to not start this year. Stanislas Wawrinka won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Potito Starace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201729-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix\nThe 2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is the third season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix in badminton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201730-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF Super Series\nThe 2009 BWF Super Series is the third season of the BWF Super Series. Like the previous season, the twelve tournaments were all hosted by nations in Asia and Europe with the Malaysia Open as the opening tournament and China Open as the final tournament in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201730-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF Super Series, Results, Performance by countries\nTabulated below are the Super Series performances based on countries. Only countries who have won a title are listed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201731-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF Super Series Masters Finals\nThe 2009 BWF Super Series Masters Finals was a top level badminton competition which was held from December 2 to December 6, 2009 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The final was held by Badminton Association of Malaysia. It was the final event of the BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201731-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF Super Series Masters Finals, Representatives by nation\n\u00a7: Nicole Grether from Germany and Charmaine Reid from Canada were the players who played in two categories (women's singles and women's doubles), Anthony Clark from England and Hendra Aprida Gunawan from Indonesia were the players who played in two categories (men's doubles and mixed doubles), while Kunchala Voravichitchaikul from Thailand was the only player who played in two categories (women's doubles and mixed doubles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships, a global tournament in the sport of badminton. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10\u201316 August 2009. It was the first ever World Championships event to take place in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships\nBadminton England withdrew before the first round due to a perceived threat of terror against the team. They were later joined by two Austrian doubles players. Lin Dan won the men's singles event, thus becoming the only player in badminton history to have won three men's singles world championship titles having done so consecutively in 2006, 2007, and 2009. Lu Lan won the World Championship title in the women's singles event. Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China won the World Championship title in the men's doubles event in a match which was later dubbed a \"classic\". Zhang Yawen and Zhao Tingting won the World Championship title in the women's doubles event, whilst Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark won the World Championship title in the mixed doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Host city selection\nDenmark, India, and Macau submitted bids to host the championships. India won the right to host the championships after the remaining candidates withdrew their bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Venue\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships were held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Draw\nThe draw took place on 22 July 2009, featuring Chief Guest and Indian Sports Minister, Dr. M.S. Gill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Participating nations, Austria\nDue to security worries Austrian doubles pair Peter Zauner and J\u00fcrgen Koch decided against participation in the 2009 BWF World Championships. The BWF issued a special statement calling the withdrawals \"an individual decision on the part of the players\". COO BWF Thomas Lund said: \"I believe it is a matter of concern that teams haven\u2019t been consulting us before pulling out, because all the necessary information is available with us which will allay fears\". Lund declined to blame the Indian media for their part in the withdrawals: \"I can\u2019t say India as hosts have any reason to be blamed for a false newspaper report with threat perceptions which triggered these reactions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Participating nations, Denmark\nDenmark, who had not achieved a BWF World Championship singles win since 1999, and a men's title since 1997, took part. The country last won the men's doubles title in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Participating nations, England\nThe English badminton team decided against participation in the 2009 BWF World Championships, citing fears of a \"terrorist threat\", although, according to Hyderabad's police commission \"there's no real threat, only a perception\". Badminton England chief executive Adrian Christy called it \"an incredibly tough decision and one we didn't take lightly\". Christy said: \"We were not prepared to risk the safety of our players, coaches and staff in what we felt could have been a very volatile environment\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Men's singles\nLin Dan of China won the World Championship title in the men's singles event, beating Chen Jin in the final with a score of 21\u201318, 21\u201316. The victory, Lin's third consecutive World Championship crown (four counting the unofficial World Championship, the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008), set a new record for consecutive titles. However, despite the three consecutive victories, Lin was not ranked number one in the world at the time of his third victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Women's singles\nLu Lan won the World Championship title in the women's singles event, beating Xie Xingfang in the final. Lu won by a score of 23\u201321. Xie had at one point reached game point when the score was at 21\u201320. Lu won in two games by scores of 23\u201321 and 21\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Men's doubles\nCai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China won the World Championship title in the men's doubles event, the final of the World Championships, beating Lee Yong-dae and Jung Jae-sung of Korea in the final. It was their second men's doubles title, having previously won in Madrid in 2006. Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng won the first game by a score of 21\u201318. The Koreans then won the second game by a score of 16\u201321 to draw level. The third game saw the two pairs exchange the lead several times with a one-point difference before exchanging several match points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Men's doubles\n28\u201326 was the final score, with the Chinese declared winners on their sixth match point. Retired Chinese badminton player and now coach of his national team, Li Yongbo, watched from the sidelines what was later termed \"a classic that will be often recalled as one of the best men\u2019s doubles matches in the recent history of the sport\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Women's doubles\nZhang Yawen and Zhao Tingting won the World Championship title in the women's doubles event, beating Cheng Shu and Zhao Yunlei in the final. They did so with some difficulty, including three games with scores of 17\u201321, 21\u201317 and 21\u201316, and battled delaying tactics employed by their rivals. The match also featured several lengthy rallies which consisted of over thirty shots. On the winners' podium to receive their medals, the winners cried as it was their first ever victory in the women's doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201732-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships, Mixed doubles\nThomas Laybourn and Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark won the World Championship title in the mixed doubles event, beating Lilyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia (the defending champions) in the final. It was their first ever world title. The duo beat Zheng Bo and Ma Jin of China and Korea's Olympic champions on the way to the final. In the final, the Danish doubles pair won the first game by a score of 21\u201313 and also eased through the second game at a score of 21\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201733-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10 August \u2013 16 August 2009. Following the results of the men's doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201734-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, from 10 August \u2013 16 August 2009. Following the results of the men's singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201735-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10 August \u2013 16 August 2009. Following the results of the mixed doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201736-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10 August \u2013 16 August 2009. Following the results of the women's doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201737-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, from 10 August \u2013 16 August 2009. Following the results of the women's singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201738-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Junior Championships\nThe 2009 BWF World Junior Championship is the eleventh edition of the BWF World Junior Championships, an junior badminton world championship which was held in Alor Setar, Malaysia, from October 23 to November 1, 2009. Six competitions were played during the event with singles in both the boys and girls. Also doubles were played in both sexes as well as the mixed doubles which was played. The final competition was a team event which saw 21 teams compete for the team's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201738-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Junior Championships, Team competition\nA total of 21 countries competed at the team competition in 2009 BWF World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201739-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Junior Championships \u2013 Boys' doubles\nThe boys' doubles of the tournament 2009 BWF World Junior Championships was held on 28 October\u20131 November 2009. The Malaysian pair of Chooi Kah Ming and Ow Yao Han took out the boy's doubles final defeating Indonesian pair, Berry Angriawan and Muhammad Ulinnuha in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201740-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Junior Championships \u2013 Boys' singles\nThe boys' singles of the tournament 2009 BWF World Junior Championships was held on 28 October\u20131 November 2009. Chinese player, Tian Houwei took out the boy's singles final as he defeated Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin from Malaysia in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201741-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF World Junior Championships \u2013 Girls' singles\nThe girls' singles of the tournament 2009 BWF World Junior Championships was held on 28 October\u20131 November 2009. Thai player, Ratchanok Inthanon took out the girl's singles final as she defeated fellow countrywoman Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201742-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF season\nThe 2009 BWF Season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2009 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of Badminton through an extensive worldwide program of events. These events have various purposes according to their level and territory in which they are held but those events owned by BWF seek to showcase the Sport via the widest possible quality television broadcast and build the fanbase of the Sport throughout the World.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201742-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF season\nThe world badminton tournament structure has four levels: Level 1 (BWF Major Events: Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, Suhadinata Cup, World Championships, Bimantara Cup, and World Senior Championships), Level 2 (BWF Superseries: Superseries and Superseries Masters Finals), Level 3 (BWF Grand Prix: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold), and Level 4 (BWF Continental Tournament: International Challenge, International Series, and Future Series). The Thomas Cup & Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup and Suhandinata Cup are Teams Events. The others \u2013 Superseries, Grand Prix Events, International Challenge, International Series, Future Series and Bimantara Cup are all individual tournaments. The higher the level of tournament, the larger the prize money and the more ranking points available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201742-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF season\nThe 2009 BWF Season calendar comprised the World Championships tournaments, the Sudirman Cup, the BWF Super Series (Super Series and Super Series Masters Finals), the Grand Prix (Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix), the International Series (International Series and International Challenge), and Future Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201742-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BWF season, Schedule\nThis is the complete schedule of events on the 2009 calendar, with the Champions and Runners-up documented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team\nThe 2009 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cougars were led by head coach Bronco Mendenhall and played their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team\nThe Cougars finished the season with a record of 11\u20132, 7\u20131 in Mountain West play and won the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas 44\u201320 over Oregon State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nBYU would enter the 2009 Cowboy Classic with a 14-22 record against the Big XII. However BYU was 1-0 against the Sooners. The only previously meeting was the 1994 Copper Bowl, where BYU won 31-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nBYU headed back down South for their second game of the season. The Green Wave would be their featured opponent. BYU and Tulane came into the contest with a 1-1 record against each other. The last meeting between the two was back in 2001, when BYU defeated the Green Wave 70-35 in Provo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Colorado State\nBYU would try and bounce back after the loss to FSU. The loss to FSU ended a winning streak the Cougs had had at home since 2004. With a 37-27-3 record against the Rams, things looked good for BYU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nThe 2009 Beehive Boot began with the Battle for the Old Wagon Wheel as Utah State visited the Cougars. With a 42-23-3 record in one of the longest rivalries in the nation, BYU looked to try to continue to show the FSU game was a fluke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, UNLV\nAfter the Conference Weekend showdown, the Cougs headed on the road for their second road game of the year against a team they have thoroughly dominated, UNLV. Going into the 2009 season, the Cougars found themselves 13-3 against the Rebels lifetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nBack-to-back road games would be the norm most of the season, as was this case with Vegas and then San Diego. BYU would challenge the Aztecs with a 25\u20137\u20131 record against them intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, TCU\nHeading into Homecoming BYU looked to get back on the winning track against TCU. The Cougars had won 5 of the first 7 meetings against TCU, but the Horned Frogs took the win in 2008 to get their 3rd win against the Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nBYU hit the road for the final back-to-back road trip of the year. Their first stop would be in Laramie. The Cougars came into the game with a 42-30-3 record against the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nThe final road game on the back-to-back road trip took the Cougars to Albuquerque for their regular showdown with the Lobos. The Cougars came into the game with a 43-13-3 record against the Lobos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nThe final home stretch began with an old match-up against everybodies favorite run-and-gun squad, the Air Force Falcons. The Cougars came into the game with a 23-6 record against the Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Utah\nThe regular season ended with the third edition of the Deseret First Duel. The winner would take a 2-1 lead in head-to-head football since the Holy War became sponsored by Deseret First Credit Union. The Cougars came into the game with a 30-50-4 against the Utes. With both teams at 6-1 in conference play, and with TCU likely headed to a BCS game, BYU and Utah came in knowing the winner would be getting a berth in the Las Vegas Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201743-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Las Vegas Bowl\nThe fifth consecutive trip to the Las Vegas Bowl awaited BYU after their win over the Utes. Their opponent would be Bronco Mendenhall's alumni school- Oregon State, his first meeting against them with BYU. It was the first ever top 25 showdown in Vegas Bowl history. It also would feature a match of runner-up's as Oregon State was one of three teams tied for second in the Pac-10. BYU would go into the game with a 3-5 record lifetime against the Beavers. After going 19-for-30 for 192 yards with 3 touchdowns, Max Hall would win the MVP honor. Hall would leave as the most winning quarterback in BYU history at 43-9. His running back, Harvey Unga, would leave the school as the all-time leading rusher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201744-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Babil governorate election\nThe Babil governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201744-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Babil governorate election, Campaign\nA candidate for the State of Law Coalition, Shaykh Haitham Kadhim al-Husaini was shot dead by gunmen who attacked his car when he left a campaign rally in Jabala district, a mixed Sunni-Shiite area where he lived. His wife and four children had been killed in a separate attack at their home two years previously. He was one of eight candidates across Iraq who were killed during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201744-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Babil governorate election, Results\nIn March, the Iraqi National Dialogue Front said they would form an alliance with the State of Law Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201745-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Masters\nThe 2009 Baden Masters was the fifth time the Baden Masters curling event was held. It was held from September 11\u201313, 2009 and was the first even of the 2009-10 World Curling Tour season. Canada's Brad Gushue rink defeated Norway's Thomas Ulsrud rink in the final 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201746-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Open\nThe 2009 Baden Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Karlsruhe, Germany between May 25\u201331, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201746-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201746-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nRameez Junaid /  Philipp Marx def. Tomasz Bednarek /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201747-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Open \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel K\u00f6llerer and Frank Moser were the defending champions, but they didn't play this year. Rameez Junaid and Philipp Marx won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20134, against Tomasz Bednarek and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201748-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baden Open \u2013 Singles\nTeymuraz Gabashvili was the defending champion; however, he chose not to play this year. Florian Mayer defeated Dustin Brown 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201749-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Badminton Asia Championships\nThe 2009 Badminton Asia Championships is the 29th tournament of the Badminton Asia Championships. It was held in Suwon, South Korea from 7 to 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201750-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Badminton Asia Junior Championships\nThe 2009 Asian Junior Badminton Championships is an Asia continental junior championships to crown the best U-19 badminton players across Asia. This tournament were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 12\u201319 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201750-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Badminton Asia Junior Championships, Venue\nThis tournament were held at Stadium Juara in Kuala Lumpur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201751-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad bombings\nThe 6 April 2009 Baghdad bombings were six car bombings across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, though it was not known if the attacks were a result of coordination and planning or merely coincidental.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201751-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad bombings, Background\nThe attacks came a week after Iraqi forces putting down an uprising by members of an Awakening Council angry over the arrest of their commander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201751-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad bombings, Background\nDespite a seeming decline in violence since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the capability of many armed groups to strike with deadly results still exists. Though the government insists it is only detaining those wanted for grave crimes, certain fighters \u2013 many of them former insurgents \u2013 see it as settling sectarian scores. To this end some 250 Iraqis were killed in violent attacks in the month of March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201751-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad bombings, Attack\nThe bombings in the Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City had at least 10 deaths and 60 other injuries. In the central Allawi district, another explosion killed four people and wounded 15 others. A car bomb targeted the convoy of a senior interior ministry official resulting in one civilian death and another policeman dead while four policemen were injured in a southeastern neighbourhood of New Baghdad. A vehicle explosion near a market in the district of Hussainiya resulted in two other deaths and 12 others wounded. Another car bomb near the Doura district, killed four people and injured 15 more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201751-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad bombings, Reaction\nInterior ministry officials have declined to comment on whether the bombings were co-ordinated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election\nThe Baghdad governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election, Background\nTwo seats in Baghdad are reserved for minority religions: one for Christians and one for Sabeans. Over 3,000 candidates contested the 57 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election, Campaign\nA candidate for the Iraqi Islamic Party was killed outside his home in the al-Ameriya district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election, Results\nSunni Arab residents of the Fadel district complained that they felt it was dangerous registering to vote because the office was in a neighbouring area that was Shiite dominated and they had to pass through two checkpoints. Many voters in that district were reported to have been turned away as they were not registered and turnout was less than 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election, Results\nThe Iraqi National List of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was said to have won most support in Fadel along with the Iraqi Communist Party. A local Sahwa official and former 1920 Revolution Brigade member said he knew former al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters who had voted for the INL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201752-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad governorate election, Results\nIn March, the State of Law Coalition said it would ally with the Iraqi National Dialogue Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201753-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing\nThe Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing was a suspected suicide bombing in the city of Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 28 people on 8 March 2009. The attack occurred at 10\u00a0am local time (UTC+3) in the centre of a crowd outside the police recruitment centre building. Most of the dead were police recruits; others were civilians and serving officers. There were a further 57 injuries. The death toll is the highest reported incident in Iraq for nearly one month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201753-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing\nInsurgents often choose police recruitment centres to attack and this centre, located on Palestine Street, was previously attacked. Concrete blocks have been constructed and checkpoints have been set up nearby to prevent such an attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201753-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing\nAccording to a nearby police lieutenant there was a demonstration of about 100 oil employees at one intersection between the police recruitment building and the oil ministry. The bomb went off one hour after the demonstration had started, and according to some sources, the bomber had mingled with the crowd. The police believe that the bomb was remotely detonated, despite speculation regarding a bomber committing suicide. There were reports of a second bomb. Some reports suggest a motorcycle crashed into the crowd and the rider detonated explosives in a worn belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201753-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing\nOther reports claim that the explosives were worn in a vest. An eye-witness said that the police started discharging their firearms after the explosion, leading to the widespread belief that the explosions were merely cover for targeted killings within the crowd. Pick-up trucks were used to transport the casualties to hospital afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 26 April 2009 at the Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain. It was the sixth Bahrain Grand Prix and fourth race of the 2009 Formula One season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Jenson Button driving for Brawn after starting from fourth on the grid. Sebastian Vettel finished second for Red Bull and Jarno Trulli finished third for Toyota. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton drove to a season's best fourth position, followed by the second Brawn of Rubens Barrichello. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen picked up Ferrari's first points of the season in sixth, whilst Toyota's Timo Glock and Renault's Fernando Alonso finished in seventh and eighth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Background\nGoing into the round, Brawn GP driver Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by 6 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello. Barrichello led Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing and Timo Glock of Toyota F1 by 5 points in second. Brawn GP led the Chinese Grand Prix winners Red Bull Racing by 16\u00bd points in the Constructors' Championship. Toyota were a further point back and the only other team to hit double figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Background\nFerrari were yet to score a point, and failure to do so in Bahrain would have resulted in Ferrari's worst ever start to a season in Formula One. Their previous worst start also came when they were Constructors' Champions; in the 1980 season the team scored no points until the fourth race, the 1980 United States Grand Prix West, where Jody Scheckter finished fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Background\nForce India introduced a revised floor and diffuser in Bahrain for the Force India VJM02, as well as an upgraded front wing and reprofiled sidepods. Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella welcomed the upgrades, hoping the car's lack of downforce would be addressed by the new modifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the race; of which two were held on Friday April 24, 2009, with the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon. Both sessions lasted 90 minutes with weather conditions hot and dry throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted for 60 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nAt the end of the first practice session, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of 1:33.647 in his McLaren car, ahead of the two BMW Sauber cars of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica. Williams' Nico Rosberg continued his quick practice form with the fourth fastest time, followed by the Brawn of Jenson Button, the McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen, Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, and Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Red Bull's Mark Webber and the other Ferrari of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen shared the ninth fastest time, completing the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nNico Rosberg was fastest in Friday's second practice session, topping the timesheets with a time of 1:33.339, followed by Fernando Alonso in the Renault and Jarno Trulli in the Toyota. The Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were fourth and fifth, with Button close behind. Adrian Sutil of Force India put in an impressive laptime to finish seventh in the standings, with Toyota's Timo Glock, Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, and Williams' Kazuki Nakajima rounding out the top 10. The BMWs of Heidfeld and Kubica could not repeat their times from the first session, and were classified in seventeenth and twentieth, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nIn third practice, Glock managed the fastest time with a 1:32.605 before his car rolled to a halt due to brake problems, and there were improved times from Ferrari and McLaren. Felipe Massa managed the second fastest time, with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in fifth. Rosberg was third fastest, and Hamilton posted the fourth fastest time. Nelson Piquet, Kubica, Nakajima, Trulli and Heidfeld made up the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. Jarno Trulli achieved his fourth career pole position, and his first since 2005, whilst his teammate Timo Glock qualified second. This marked the first time Toyota had put both cars on the front row of the grid. Sebastian Vettel qualified third, with Jenson Button behind him. In fifth was the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton, with Rubens Barrichello in sixth. Renault's Fernando Alonso managed seventh place, and behind him Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen completed the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nKovalainen, Nakajima, Kubica, Heidfeld and Piquet made up 11th to 15th on the grid. Those knocked out in the first session and classified 16th to 20th were Sutil, Buemi, Fisichella, Webber and Bourdais. Webber was controversially blocked by Sutil near the end of his qualifying lap (Sutil claimed he didn't realise Webber was on a flying lap), preventing him from posting a fast time. As a result, the stewards gave Sutil a three-place grid penalty, demoting him to 19th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nTimo Glock got off to a perfect start from second on the grid and took the lead. Jarno Trulli was running second, but had to fight off Lewis Hamilton in the first corner, who had passed Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel from fifth on the grid after a flying start with the help of his KERS. Button had also overtaken Vettel, who was running a heavier fuel load. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, meanwhile, had pushed his Ferrari up to sixth place, making up four positions from the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFurther back in the field, there was damage sustained to the cars of Felipe Massa, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica and Kazuki Nakajima, all of whom had to pit early to replace their front wings, whilst Heikki Kovalainen lost track position after running wide. Massa also complained of problems with his KERS system due to a temperature problem, and was advised to turn it off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the start of lap 2, Button overtook Hamilton to claim third position. The KERS-aided McLaren of Hamilton then kept Vettel's Red Bull at bay, and only when Hamilton entered the pits on lap 15 did Vettel finally pass him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nSince both the Toyotas were running light on fuel, they made their pit stops early, with Glock in on lap 12 and Trulli on lap 14. The Toyota team opted to put both their drivers onto the slower, harder compound tyres for the middle stint of the race, opposite to the strategy being run by the other teams. By the time Button had made his stop on lap 15 on the softer tyres, he had made up enough ground over Trulli in just one lap to come out in front. Glock, who had once led the race, had lost so much time on the tyres that he stayed behind Hamilton in seventh place even after the McLaren driver had completed his pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel's pit stop on lap 18 placed him ahead of Hamilton, but just thirty metres behind the slower-lapping car of Trulli, preventing him from challenging Button for the lead. Button took this opportunity to pull out a 7.5 second gap between himself and Trulli by lap 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBy lap 34, Button had increased his lead to 15.6 seconds, putting him in clear control of the race. By the time the second round of pit stops were completed for the front runners, Button was ahead of anyone else, this time on the harder tyres. Toyota's tyre strategy had not paid off, and Vettel, on the softer tyres, put in some fast lap times once Trulli had his second stop and was no longer in Vettel's path. After his own stop, Vettel (now on the harder compound tyre) ended up just in front of the Toyota driver, the very opposite of the situation after the first pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap 44 there was drama with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Glock fighting for sixth position, with the Finn just edging out Glock at turn four. Rubens Barrichello had lost a lot of time earlier in the race after failing to pass the KERS-equipped Renault of Nelson Piquet. However, he showed the pace of the Brawn car by ending up just in front of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, even after having one pit stop more, then pulled away from him in the final laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap 48, spiking oil pressure on the Williams of Nakajima caused the only retirement of the race as he crawled into the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201754-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, Report, Race\nButton drove home to his third victory of the season, 7 seconds clear of Vettel, who was pushing particularly hard in the last laps. Trulli crossed the line 2 seconds behind Vettel, with Hamilton finishing fourth. Barrichello took fifth, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen sixth, Glock less than a second behind in seventh, and Fernando Alonso finished eighth, 52 seconds behind Button. Nick Heidfeld equalled Michael Schumacher's record of 24 consecutive finishes, bringing home his BMW Sauber in 19th and last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201755-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahrain national football team results\nThis article details the fixtures and results of the Bahrain national football team in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201756-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini Crown Prince Cup\nThe 2009 Bahraini Crown Prince Cup was the 9th edition of the cup tournament in men's association football. It is played by the top-4 teams of the Bahrain Classification Soccer League 2008-09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201756-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini Crown Prince Cup\nMuharraq Club were the holders and defending champions for the last three seasons and once again added to their trophy cabinet making it four wins in a row", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201757-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini FA Cup\nThe 7th Bahraini FA Cup started on December 24, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 74]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201757-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini FA Cup\n19 clubs were drawn into 4 groups. 3 groups of 5 teams and one group of 4 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201757-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini FA Cup, Group Stages\nThe group winners will qualify for the semi final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201758-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini King's Cup\nThe Bahraini King's Cup is an end of season cup competition involving teams from the Bahraini Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201758-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini King's Cup\nMuharraq Club were the 2008 holders and retained the title. It was also Muharraq's 4th title of the domestic campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201758-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bahraini King's Cup, First round\nThe first round of the competition involves the lowest 6 teams in the Bahrain Classification Soccer League 2008-09 season. Games were played over 15 and 16 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201759-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ball Hockey World Championship\nThe 2009 Ball Hockey World Championship was the eighth ball hockey world championship held by ISBHF in Plzen, Czech Republic. Czech Republic won their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201760-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ball State Cardinals football team\nThe 2009 Ball State Cardinals football team represented Ball State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Ball State competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division. The team was coached by Stan Parrish and played their homes game at Scheumann Stadium. The finished with a record of 2\u201310 (2\u20136 MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201761-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ballon d'Or\nThe 2009 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Lionel Messi of Barcelona on 1 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201761-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ballon d'Or\nMessi won the award by a then record margin, 240 points ahead of 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo. Xavi was the second Barcelona player in the top three, finishing a further 63 points behind Ronaldo. Messi's win made him the first Argentine-born player to win the award since Omar S\u00edvori in 1961; however, S\u00edvori had taken Italian citizenship by that time and is recognised to have won the Ballon d'Or as an Italian player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201762-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe Baltimore Orioles' 2009 season was the 109th season in franchise history. The Orioles finished the season last in the AL East with a record of 64\u201398. It was the fifth consecutive season in which the Orioles had fewer wins than in previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201762-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe Orioles missed the playoffs for the twelfth straight season, tying a record set between 1984 and 1995", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201762-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Orioles season, New uniforms\nThe Orioles debuted new uniforms at the Harborplace Gallery shopping center on November 12, 2008. The team's new uniforms featured an updated, ornithologically correct oriole bird on their caps on a black crown with orange bill, a new patch incorporating the flag of the state of Maryland in a circle borrowed from their vintage 1960s and 1970s insignia, and the return of the city name (Baltimore) on the road uniforms for the first time since 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201762-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201762-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season\nThe 2009 season was the Baltimore Ravens' 14th in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise entered the season off an 11\u20135 record in their previous season, a playoff berth, but a loss in the American Football Conference (AFC) Championship game against the eventual Super Bowl XLIII champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Ravens recorded nine victories to seven losses, although they were unable to win the AFC North division title. However, due to various playoff clinching scenarios in the AFC, the Ravens were able to clinch a wild card berth against the Oakland Raiders in Week 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season\nAs the sixth seed in the AFC for the second straight year, they defeated the third seeded New England Patriots in Foxboro in the AFC Wild Card playoffs, handing Tom Brady's first ever playoff loss at home and New England's first home playoff loss since 1978. They, however, lost in the AFC Divisional playoffs against the top seeded and eventual AFC Champion Indianapolis Colts; with this loss, the 2009 season came to an end for the Ravens. For head coach John Harbaugh, this was his second year with the franchise, compiling an overall record of 20\u201312 in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Offseason\nRex Ryan, a longtime fixture on the Ravens' sidelines, departed for New York to become the New York Jets head coach after the Ravens fell to the Steelers in the 2008 AFC Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Offseason\nOther notable offseason departures include linebacker Bart Scott and safety Jim Leonhard, both of whom left Baltimore to follow Rex Ryan to New York, and longtime placekicker Matt Stover. On March 5, 2009, Stover told reporters that the Ravens were \"going in a different direction.\" When Stover's tenure ended with the Ravens, the team severed ties with one of its two remaining players from the Ravens' first season in 1996; the other being Ray Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Baltimore Ravens had six selections going into the 2009 NFL Draft, which was held in Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York on April 25 and April 26, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe 2009 NFL schedule was released on April 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Baltimore Ravens began the 2009 season at home for the second season in a row. They hosted the Kansas City Chiefs, who struggled to a franchise-worst 2\u201314 record in 2008. The Ravens dominated time of possession and offensive production throughout the game, but their special teams miscues made the game much closer than the score would indicate. The Ravens found the end zone halfway through the first quarter for their first touchdown of the season when Flacco found Willis McGahee for a 3-yard touchdown pass. The Ravens would later increase their advantage with a Stephen Hauschka field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the second quarter, a special teams miscue led to Chiefs safety Jon McGraw blocking a Sam Koch punt into the end zone, where he recovered for a touchdown. Early in the third quarter, Derrick Johnson intercepted an errant Joe Flacco pass and returned it to the Ravens 3-yard line. Chiefs quarterback Brodie Croyle found standout receiver Dwayne Bowe for a touchdown three plays later. The Ravens would respond with an 11-play, five-minute drive capped off by a 9-yard touchdown to Todd Heap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nAfter trading touchdowns halfway through the fourth quarter, the Ravens defense forced a turnover on downs and their offense capitalized with a 1-yard touchdown run by Le'Ron McClain. McGahee added an additional touchdown for the Ravens in the final minute of the game to open their season with a 38\u201324 win, their second successful home opener in a row. With the win, not only do the Ravens improve to 1\u20130, they are the only team in the AFC North to win their home opener on Kickoff Sunday; the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Tennessee Titans 13\u201310 on Kickoff Night the Thursday prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Chargers host the Ravens in their home debut in San Diego after a narrow escape in the second of two AFL 50th Anniversary-themed division rivalry Monday Night matchups against the Raiders in Oakland. The Chargers jumped out to an early lead when a blown coverage led to an easy 81-yard touchdown pass from Philip Rivers to Darren Sproles. The Ravens answered with Willis McGahee on a 5-yard touchdown run, but the Chargers would increase their advantage on a Nate Kaeding field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Diego Chargers\nThe offensive display would continue in the second quarter, but the Ravens touchdowns were only answered by Chargers field goals. McGahee found the end zone a second time to take the lead 14\u201310, but the Chargers pulled within one on the second Kaeding field goal. Flacco then found Kelley Washington for Flacco's first touchdown pass of the day and Washington's first touchdown reception as a Raven just inside the 2-minute halftime warning. Rivers led the Chargers down the field in an attempt to answer, but the drive stalled and had to settle for the third of four Kaeding field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Diego Chargers\nIn the second half, both defenses stiffened. Todd Heap would get his second touchdown catch of the season from Flacco from 9 yards out, but the Chargers responded with a 35-yard touchdown catch from Vincent Jackson. Late in the fourth quarter, interceptions from Flacco and Rivers led to trading field goals. After a Ravens punt, Rivers led the Chargers all the way down to the Ravens 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Chargers went for the first down on fourth down to go for the win, but Sproles was stopped by Ray Lewis five yards in the backfield, allowing the Ravens to run the clock out. With the win, not only do the Ravens improve to 2\u20130, the Ravens take sole possession of first place in the AFC North with the Steelers' loss to the Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cleveland Browns\nAfter another high scoring affair in San Diego, the Ravens returned to Baltimore with a one-game lead on the Steelers and Bengals and hosted their first AFC North Division game against the Cleveland Browns. (Coincidentally, the Bengals host the Steelers in divisional play in Week 3 as well.) Although this was the third consecutive high-scoring game for the Ravens, this was not a close contest. The Ravens struck early on the first of two touchdown runs from Willis McGahee and increased their advantage on a Hauschka field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cleveland Browns\nIn the second quarter, after another Hauschka field goal, McGahee found the end zone again. His second rushing touchdown leads the NFL with five. Although the Browns wanted to prove they were up to the challenge of contending with a quality football team, miscues thoroughly undid the Browns as quarterbacks Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn combined for four interceptions. Quinn was benched at the half in favor of Anderson, but Anderson was no better than his maligned counterpart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe third quarter only saw another touchdown for the Ravens, but was a special one for Ray Rice, as it was his first career NFL touchdown. The final minutes of the third quarter also saw the Browns' longest drive of the day, but as time expired in the third quarter, the Browns were stopped short of the end zone. The fourth quarter opened with the Browns' only points of the game on a field goal from Billy Cundiff, a free-agent signee since kicker Phil Dawson was inactive due to a leg injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe final points of the contest came on the third Anderson interception, which was Ed Reed's first of the season. Flacco's touchdown was not only the longest of the season for him to date, but was the only passing touchdown all day. He hit a wide-open Derrick Mason after a blown coverage in the Browns secondary for a 72-yard touchdown. With the win, the Ravens improve to 3\u20130 and improve to 1\u20130 in the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New England Patriots\nComing off their divisional home win over the Browns, the Ravens flew to Gillette Stadium for a Week 4 battle with the New England Patriots. After Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski got a 32-yard field goal in the first quarter, Baltimore got into the game with quarterback Joe Flacco hooking up with wide receiver Derrick Mason on a 20-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, New England came back with quarterback Tom Brady's 1-yard touchdown run and running back Sammy Morris' 12-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New England Patriots\nThe Ravens would reply in the third quarter with defensive end Terrell Suggs sacking Brady, causing a fumble which rolled into the Patriots' endzone, where defensive end Dwan Edwards would land on it for a touchdown. New England would come right back with Brady's 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Randy Moss. Baltimore would play some catch-up in the fourth quarter as Flacco found running back Willis McGahee on a 13-yard touchdown pass, but the Patriots willingly replied with Gostkowski's 33-yard field goal. Flacco would lead a last-minute drive, but New England's stiffened and came away with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nHoping to rebound from their tough road loss to the Patriots, the Ravens went home for a Week 5 AFC North duel with the Cincinnati Bengals. The winner would take the lead in the division after five weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Baltimore's defense went to work in the second quarter with safety Ed Reed returning an interception 52 yards for a touchdown. The Bengals would answer with a 32-yard field goal from kicker Shayne Graham. Near the end of the third quarter, Cincinnati would take the lead on a 28-yard touchdown run from running back Cedric Benson. The Ravens would respond in the fourth quarter as quarterback Joe Flacco hooked up with running back Ray Rice 48-yard touchdown pass. However, late in the game, the Bengals would deliver the final strike as quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Caldwell. Baltimore tried to rally, but an interception from cornerback Leon Hall eliminated any chance of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAlso, the defense's 40-game streak of keeping a single rusher under 100 yards was snapped. The last time that Baltimore allowed a 100-yard rusher was Dec. 10, 2006 against the Chiefs' Larry Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Ravens flew to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for a Week 6 interconference duel with the Minnesota Vikings. Baltimore would trail in the first quarter as Vikings quarterback Brett Favre completed a 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe and a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bernard Berrian. Afterwards, the Ravens would snag the only points of the second quarter with kicker Stephen Hauschka making a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings\nIn the third quarter, Minnesota would extend its lead as kicker Ryan Longwell nailed a 40-yard field goal. Baltimore would come right back into the game with running back Ray Rice's 22-yard touchdown run, but Longwell helped out the Vikings with a 22-yard field goal. In a nerve-wracking fourth quarter, Minnesota increased its lead with Favre finding Shiancoe again on a 1-yard touchdown run. The Ravens would respond with quarterback Joe Flacco's 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mark Clayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings\nAfter Longwell gave the Vikings a 29-yard field goal, Baltimore would take the lead as Flacco completed a 12-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Derrick Mason and Rice getting a 33-yard touchdown run. Minnesota would regain the lead as Longwell booted a 31-yard field goal. Flacco would get the Ravens into scoring range, but Hauschka's 44-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left, preserving the Vikings' so-far perfect season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings\nWith the loss, Baltimore went into its bye week at 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings\nThis also marked the first time that the Ravens defense allowed back-to-back 100-yard rushers since 2005 (Bengals' Rudi Johnson and Texans' Domanick Williams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Denver Broncos\nComing off their bye week, the Ravens went home for a Week 8 duel with the undefeated Denver Broncos. Baltimore took flight in the first half with kicker Stephen Hauschka nailing a 43-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 35-yard field goal in the second quarter. The Ravens would immediately make their domination felt in the third quarter as rookie cornerback Lardarius Webb returned the second half's opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Broncos would get on the board with running back Knowshon Moreno getting a 1-yard touchdown run, yet Baltimore answered with Hauschka booting a 31-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Ravens closed the game out in the fourth quarter as quarterback Joe Flacco found wide receiver Derrick Mason on a 20-yard touchdown pass, while running back Ray Rice got a 7-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: at Cincinnati Bengals\nComing off their dominating home win over the Broncos, the Ravens flew to Paul Brown Stadium for a Week 9 AFC North rematch with the Cincinnati Bengals. Baltimore would trail in the first quarter as Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Caldwell, followed by running back Cedric Benson getting a 1-yard touchdown run. Cincinnati would increase their lead in the second quarter as kicker Shayne Graham booted a 23-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the Ravens got on the board with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Ray Rice. However, the Bengals' defense would stop any further progress from Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Cleveland Browns\nHoping to rebound from their season-sweeping losses to the Bengals, the Ravens flew to Cleveland Browns Stadium for a Week 10 Monday night duel with their AFC North rival, the Cleveland Browns. After a scoreless first half, Baltimore acquired all of their points in the third quarter. It began with running back Ray Rice getting a 13-yard touchdown run, safety Dawan Landry returning an interception 48 yards for a touchdown and kicker Stephen Hauschka booting a 44-yard field goal. Afterwards, the defense consistently shut down the Browns' inept offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nComing off their shutout road win over the Browns, the Ravens went home for a Week 11 duel with the Indianapolis Colts. Baltimore would trail in the first quarter as Colts quarterback Peyton Manning threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark. The Ravens would answer with recently signed kicker Billy Cundiff (after Stephen Hauschka was cut) making a 46-yard and a 44-yard field goal. Baltimore would take the lead in the second quarter with Cundiff's 38-yard field goal, but Indianapolis would answer with a 5-yard touchdown run from running back Joseph Addai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Ravens would close out the half with Cundiff nailing a 36-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, Baltimore regained the lead again in the fourth quarter with a 20-yard field goal from Cundiff, but the Colts would get the last laugh as former Ravens kicker Matt Stover booted a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nFollowing a close loss to the Colts the prior week, the much-hated Steelers came to town for a rematch of last year's AFC Championship Game. Steelers starting QB Ben Roethlisberger, who suffered a concussion in the previous week's overtime loss to the Chiefs did not start and was the designated third-string quarterback. Backup Charlie Batch also was hurt in that game, which left second-year QB Dennis Dixon, who previously had one pass in his NFL career, to start. The Steelers received the opening kickoff, but went three-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nOn the ensuing possession, the Ravens drove down the field with ease, capping off their drive with a touchdown run by Willis McGahee. In the second quarter, Dixon hit WR Santonio Holmes on a play-action pass for a 33-yard touchdown, tying the game. The Ravens answered on the following drive, with a 52-yard strike from Joe Flacco to Mark Clayton, setting up a 10-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Mason. In the third quarter, on the Ravens opening possession, Clayton made a 9-yard reception but fumbled the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe ball was kicked 20 yards towards the Steelers endzone by a Pittsburgh player, but recovered by Tyrone Carter. The Steelers drove, but were held to a field goal by Jeff Reed. Later in the fourth quarter, Joe Flacco was sacked by Lawrence Timmons and fumbled the ball, recovered by the Steelers near midfield. The drive resulted in a 24-yard run on a QB option by Dixon, giving the Steelers their first lead of the night. On the Ravens next possession, things were looking bad when the offense was facing a third-and-22 with around three minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0003", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nJoe Flacco completed a pass to Derrick Mason for 17 yards, leaving John Harbaugh with a critical decision. Harbaugh opted to go for it and Joe Flacco found Ray Rice for a 44-yard reception, setting the Ravens up inside the Steeler 10-yard line with less than 2 minutes left. Billy Cundiff tied the game with a 24-yard field goal. On the following Steeler possession, Dennis Dixon was nearly intercepted by Lardarius Webb. The Steelers were forced to punt, giving the ball back to the Ravens with about 1:30 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0004", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nA very good punt return into Steeler territory by Chris Carr was wiped off by a block in the back. Despite the setback, the Ravens managed to drive to the Steeler 40-yard line, where their drive stalled. On third-and-9 with 25 seconds left, Joe Flacco was sacked and fumbled, but the ball was recovered by Ben Grubbs. With the clock counting inside 10 seconds left and no timeouts, the field goal team managed to get into formation and get the kick off. The 56-yard attempt by Billy Cundiff was dead center, but about 2 yards short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0021-0005", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn overtime, the Steelers won the toss and got the ball, but were forced to punt. The Ravens, also forced to punt deep in their own territory, gave the ball to Pittsburgh around the Steeler 40-yard line. On a third-and-5, Dennis Dixon threw an interception to LB Paul Kruger, who returned the ball 26 yards to the Steeler 28-yard line. Already in field goal range, the Ravens ran the ball down to the Pittsburgh 11-yard line where Billy Cundiff made a 29-yard field goal to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the win, both teams' records is 6\u20135. The Ravens hold the final wild card seed in the AFC due to the head-to-head tiebreaker over Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Green Bay Packers\nWith injuries to Ed Reed and Mark Clayton, both the offense and defense failed to play up to standards and the team endured another painful defeat. With the loss, the Ravens fell to 6\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs Detroit Lions\nWith the win, the Ravens improved to 7\u20136 and allowed them outright second place in the AFC North with the Steelers' loss to the Browns. Also, the Ravens would set a record of most points scored in a single game until Week 10 of the 2012 season when they defeated the Raiders scoring 55 points against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nEven with the loss to the Steelers, the Ravens playoff hopes were not yet vanished. All the Ravens needed was a win the following against the Oakland Raiders to clinch a playoff berth. The loss dropped the team to 8\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Oakland Raiders\nThis victory allowed the dethroning of the defending world champion Pittsburgh Steelers and ending the latter team's run at a repeat title. In turn, the Ravens got their Wild Card spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Round: at New England Patriots\nEntering the postseason as the AFC's sixth seed, the Ravens began their playoff run at Gillette Stadium in the AFC Wild Card round against the #3 seeded New England Patriots. This game was a rematch of their game played during Week 4 of the 2009 season. The Ravens drew first blood as Ray Rice took the handoff from Flacco and ran through a hole in the defense on his way to an 83-yard touchdown on the first offensive play of the game. It was the longest rush of his career and the second longest rush in NFL postseason history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 102], "content_span": [103, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Round: at New England Patriots\nLess than two minutes later, LB and DE Terrell Suggs, forced a fumble from New England quarterback Tom Brady's hand on a third-and-11 pass attempt and recovered for the Ravens on the New England 17. Le'Ron McClain then capped a five-play Ravens scoring drive with a 2-yard touchdown plunge, extending the lead to 14\u20130. The Ravens capitalized on another New England miscue when cornerback Chris Carr intercepted a Tom Brady pass. After a 6-play, 26-yard drive, Ray Rice hopped into the end-zone for his second touchdown of the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 102], "content_span": [103, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Round: at New England Patriots\nOn the Patriots very next possession, another Tom Brady pass was intercepted by safety Ed Reed. Reed took the interception and returned it 25 yards before handing it off to Dawan Landry, who took it another 25 yards. This led to a Ravens field goal and a 24\u20130 first-quarter lead. The Ravens went on to defeat the Patriots by a final score of 33\u201314. The Ravens would advance to face the top-seeded Colts in the Divisional Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 102], "content_span": [103, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Divisional Round: at Indianapolis Colts\nComing off their impressive road win over the Patriots in the Wild Card round, the Ravens flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for the AFC Divisional Round against the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts. Baltimore would trail to begin the first quarter as former Ravens kicker Matt Stover got a 44-yard field goal. The Ravens would respond with kicker Billy Cundiff making a 25-yard field goal. However, the Colts rebounded in the second quarter as quarterback Peyton Manning completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Austin Collie and a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne. Following a scoreless third quarter, Baltimore's deficit increased in the fourth quarter as Stover gave Indianapolis a 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 101], "content_span": [102, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201763-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Baltimore Ravens season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Divisional Round: at Indianapolis Colts\nWith the loss, the Ravens' season ended with an overall record of 10\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 101], "content_span": [102, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201764-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bancolombia Open\nThe 2009 Bancolombia Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia between 16 and 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201764-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bancolombia Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201764-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bancolombia Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Prieto /  Horacio Zeballos def. Alexander Peya /  Fernando Vicente, 4\u20136, 6\u20131, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201765-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bancolombia Open \u2013 Doubles\nBrian Dabul and Ram\u00f3n Delgado were the defending champions. Delgado chose to not participate this year. Delgado partnered up by Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud, however they lost to Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Jean-Julien Rojer. Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto and Horacio Zeballos won in the final 7\u20136(5), 6\u20134, against Alexander Peya and Fernando Vicente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201766-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bancolombia Open \u2013 Singles\nMarcos Daniel was the defending champion, but he decided to not defend his 2009 title. Horacio Zeballos defeated Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez in the final (7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201767-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bandy World Championship\nThe Bandy World Championship 2009 was held between 18 and 25 January in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, Sweden. Men's teams from 13 countries participated in the 2009 competition: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Canada, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Mongolia, the Netherlands and the United States (group B). Belarus retained their place in group A by beating the United States in a play off in the previous tournament held in 2008. 44 games were played. 4 out of these were played on other sites than V\u00e4ster\u00e5s. Games were played in Solna, Stockholm, Eskilstuna and Uppsala. The main venues were ABB Arena Syd in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, Sweden's largest indoor arena for bandy, and Hakonplan, an outdoor stadium. These two arenas are placed on the same recreation area in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, Rocklunda sports park. The time in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s is UTC+1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201767-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bandy World Championship\nThe six teams of Group A competed for the championship, while the seven teams in Group B competed for a chance to play in Group A in 2010. Sweden defeated Russia in the final, 6\u20131, to take the gold medal. Finland took the bronze, while Kazakhstan and Norway earned fourth and fifth places, respectively. Belarus, after finishing at the bottom of the Group A pool, had to face the winner of the Group B pool to retain its place in the championship group for the next year. For the fifth straight year, Belarus beat the United States in this match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201767-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bandy World Championship, Venues\nABB Arena Syd and Hakonplan in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s staged 40 games. The other venues were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201767-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bandy World Championship, Rules\nTeam rosters are limited to 17 players in each game, with 11 playing and 6 reserves at a time. Game durations are 90 minutes for Group A matches and 60 minutes for Group B matches, in each case divided into equal halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201768-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bandy World Championship squads\nBelow are the squads for the 2003 Bandy World Championship final tournament in Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election\nThe ninth gubernatorial election for the city of Bangkok, Thailand was held on 11 January 2009. The election came about after the resignation of Apirak Kosayothin on 13 November 2008,  the incumbent who was only just re-elected a little more than a month (on 5 October 2008). the resignation stemmed from an indictment by the National Counter Corruption Commission or NCCC, in which Apirak was indicted for the controversial 6.6 billion Baht fire-engine procurement contract. The former Prime Minister and former Bangkok Governor Samak Sundaravej was also found guilty in the same verdict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election\nOn 13 November Apirak announced his resignation saying: \"Like the Democrat Party, I support a move that will perpetuate politics-for-people\" at the same time maintaining his innocence and stating that his resignation should become an example of a change in Thai politics, his resignation triggered an automatic by-election. By the end of the 11 January 2009, Sukhumband was declared the winner of the race, becoming the 15th Governor of Bangkok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election, Campaign\nOn 1 December, the Election Commission allowed the registration of candidates. A total of 14 candidates registered. In accordance with the law, they picked numbers by which they would be assigned for the campaign. The three highest profile candidates were: MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, ML Nattakorn Devakula and Yuranun Pamornmontri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election, Campaign\nMR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the 56-year-old candidate of the Democrat Party, is a former Foreign Minister. MR Sukhumband vowed to carry on with policies initiated by Governor Apirak and to continue the environmentalist agenda. He ran under the slogan: \"Bring back Bangkokians' smiles\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election, Campaign\nML Nattakorn Devakula, a 32-year-old Independent candidate, was a former TV host, popularly known as \"Khun Pluem\". He ran on the slogan: \"Vote for me. Vote for the governor of the future\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election, Campaign\nYuranun Pamornmontri, the 45-year-old Puea Thai Party candidate,  is a popular TV actor and film star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201769-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election, Results\nThe election and results were announced on the same day:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201770-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladesh ferry accident\nThe 2009 Bangladesh ferry accident occurred on 4 December 2009 on the Daira river located in Mithamain Upazila, Kishoreganj District in Bangladesh. A passenger ferry collided head-on with a launch. At least 47 people were killed. The accident occurred in the morning when the river was covered by fog.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201770-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladesh ferry accident, Accident\nAt around 9.00am local time the ferry, which was overcrowded, was traveling on the Daira river about 100\u00a0km from the capital of Dhaka when it collided with a motor launch due to poor visibility caused by thick fog. The accident occurred only a week after another ferry disaster in Bangladesh killed nearly at least 85 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201770-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladesh ferry accident, Rescue effort\nThe police chief of Kishorganj district, Anwar Hossain, commented that most of the casualties were women and children and that 46 bodies had been retrieved after the ferry had been fully searched with the aid of specialist divers from Dhaka. He said in a media statement that the rescue was called off Friday evening with eight people unaccounted for. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, sent condolences to the families of those who had lost loved ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201770-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladesh ferry accident, Cause\nShah Kamal, the chief government official in Kishorganj district blamed the poor conditions caused by the early morning fog as well as citing driver error as the cause. Boat and ferry accidents due to lax safety standards and overloading are common in Bangladesh, which is criss-crossed by 230 rivers, More than 3,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives in ferry accidents since 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201770-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladesh ferry accident, Cause\nBangladesh is the world's most densely populated country, with more than 1,000 people per square kilometre (0.4 square mile), and also one of the poorest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201771-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bangladeshi presidential election\nIndirect presidential elections were due to be held in Bangladesh on 16 February 2009 following the 2008 parliamentary election. They were originally scheduled to have taken place by 5 September 2007, when Iajuddin Ahmed's term expired, but was postponed due to the lack of an elected parliament. The Awami League, which resoundingly won the parliamentary election, nominated AL presidium member Zillur Rahman as its candidate for president, and he was expected to be elected at the parliamentary session. Rahman was the only candidate who submitted his papers by the nomination deadline of 9 February 2009, and as he did not withdraw by the withdrawal deadline of 11 February 2009, the Election Commission declared him elected. He was sworn in on 12 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201772-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banja Luka Challenger\nThe 2009 Banja Luka Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 14 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201772-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Banja Luka Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201772-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Banja Luka Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nDustin Brown /  Rainer Eitzinger def. Ismar Gor\u010di\u0107 /  Simone Vagnozzi, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201773-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banja Luka Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nAttila Bal\u00e1zs and Amir Hadad were the defending champions, but they chose to not play together this year. Hungarian player, Bal\u00e1zs, decided to compete with Du\u0161an Lojda. They were eliminated by Ismar Gor\u010di\u0107 and Simone Vagnozzi in the semifinals. Player from Israel, Hadad, partnered with Philipp Marx, but they lost to Nikola \u0106iri\u0107 and Miljan Zeki\u0107 in the quarterfinals. Dustin Brown and Rainer Eitzinger defeated Gor\u010di\u0107 and Vagnozzi 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201774-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banja Luka Challenger \u2013 Singles\nIlija Bozoljac chose to not defend his 2008 title. 1st-seeded Daniel Gimeno-Traver defeated 6th-seeded Julian Reister 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201775-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy\nThe 2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the event known that year as the Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, from October 24 through November 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201775-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201775-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received lucky losers into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201775-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Finals, Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot /  Oliver Marach defeated  Julian Knowle /  J\u00fcrgen Melzer 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201776-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy \u2013 Doubles\nMax Mirnyi and Andy Ram were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach won in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [11\u20139] against Julian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201777-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy \u2013 Singles\nPhilipp Petzschner was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201777-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy \u2013 Singles\nJ\u00fcrgen Melzer defeated Marin \u010cili\u0107 in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in his hometown of Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery\nThe 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery was a large robbery of cash from the College Green cash centre of the Bank of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland, on 27 February 2009. It was the largest bank robbery in the Republic of Ireland's history. Criminals engaged in the tiger kidnapping of a junior bank employee, 24-year-old Shane Travers, and forced him to remove \u20ac7.6 million (US$9 million) in cash from the bank as his girlfriend and two others were held hostage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery\nIreland's Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, criticised the bank for its failure to follow what he termed \"established protocols\" during the robbery, as the Irish police force, the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, was not informed of the incident until the money had been removed from the bank. A manhunt was under way for the perpetrators, with seven people being arrested and \u20ac1.8 million of the stolen cash located, scattered across Dublin, on 28 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Robbery\nLate on the night of 26 February, Travers, whose father is a member of the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na based at Clontarf, Dublin, was alone watching television at the home of his girlfriend near Kilteel, County Kildare. The woman and her mother were out shopping together. When they arrived home with the five-year-old nephew of Travers, six heavily built masked men, dressed in black and carrying handguns, jumped from the bushes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Robbery\nThe family was held overnight by the armed gang, during which time their mobile phones were confiscated and Travers' girlfriend was hit across the back of her head with a vase by one of the men. As dawn was arriving, the gang ordered all but Travers to enter their dark Volkswagen Golf family car. They were then bound together and driven to Ashbourne, County Meath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Robbery\nThe bank employee was given a mobile phone, ordered to collect \u20ac20, \u20ac50, \u20ac100 and \u20ac200 bank notes from his workplace, and supplied with a photograph of the rest of the family at gunpoint to convince his colleagues that their lives were under threat. Travers drove to Dublin in his red Toyota Celica car, acquired the cash through the assistance of colleagues who viewed the photo, and carried the money out of the building in four laundry bags. He took it to Clontarf Road railway station, whereupon he surrendered the cash and his sports car to a waiting gang member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Robbery\nTravers then entered a garda station, the first point at which garda\u00ed were notified that the robbery had taken place. One hour after this, the other family members succeeded in freeing themselves and walked to a nearby garda station. Travers' girlfriend required immediate medical treatment for a head wound she had received during a struggle with her captors, and the family were reported to be \"traumatised\" by their ordeal. Travers's car was later found burned out in an apartment block near Tolka House Pub in Glasnevin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Reaction\nMinister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern said \"proper procedures\" were not followed during the course of the robbery, saying that garda\u00ed should have been contacted before the money had left the bank. He also questioned how such a large sum of money could be taken as a result of one man being targeted. He has remarked, \"Criminals are going for the line of least resistance, the human connection as it were. Given the fact there is so much detailed technology available to financial institutions, the line of least resistance is the human being.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Reaction\nThe bank's chief executive, Richie Boucher, appointed just two days earlier, immediately wrote to all his staff to remind them that protocol should be followed in the event of future robberies, saying \"Our priority is always for the safety and well-being of all staff. I am sure this incident will raise concerns. Our best defence is to follow tried and tested procedures. I would ask everybody to remind themselves of these procedures, which are there to protect you, your families and the bank.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Reaction\nThe attack caused Charlie Flanagan, a Teachta D\u00e1la, to remark that \"tiger kidnappings are taking place in Ireland ... at a rate of almost one per week.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Arrests\n\u20ac1.8 million of the stolen cash was recovered and seven people were arrested by garda\u00ed in a number of incidents on 28 February. A house in Phibsboro was sealed off and ten more houses were searched. A total of five cars and one van were seized by garda\u00ed. One of the men was arrested following a chase along the M50 near the Navan road, with two bales of packed cash being discovered in his car. Four other men were arrested in a car in Monk Place and in Great Western Square, Phibsboro, and two more were seized in a house on Great Western Villas, Phibsboro. Cash was also found in a car in Phibsboro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Arrests\nThe six men and one woman are believed to be members of a well-known gang from Dublin's north inner city and have connections to a major Dublin gangland figure. On 2 March, those arrested appeared before the High Court to challenge the lawfulness of their detention, viewing the warrants issued by the District Court the day before as invalid. That day, two of those arrested were released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201778-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of Ireland robbery, Arrests\nAn unidentified bank employee was arrested on 28 January 2010 based on suspicion that the robbery had been an inside job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201779-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic\nThe 2009 Bank of the West Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 38th edition of the Bank of the West Classic, and was part of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Taube Tennis Center in Stanford, California, United States, from July 27 through August 2, 2009. It was the first women's event on the 2009 US Open Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201779-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic, WTA Entrants\nPlayers committed to participating in the singles event for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201779-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic, WTA Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201779-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic, Finals, Doubles\nSerena Williams /  Venus Williams defeated  Yung-Jan Chan /  Monica Niculescu, 6\u20134, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201780-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic \u2013 Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Yung-Jan Chan and Monica Niculescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201780-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic \u2013 Doubles\nSerena Williams and Venus Williams won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131, against Yung-Jan Chan and Monica Niculescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201781-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic \u2013 Singles\nAleksandra Wozniak was the defending champion, but lost to Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201781-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bank of the West Classic \u2013 Singles\nMarion Bartoli reached her second straight final and won the title, defeating Venus Williams 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201782-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open\nThe 2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Portoro\u017e, Slovenia, from July 20 through July 26, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201782-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201782-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Champions, Doubles\nJulia G\u00f6rges /  Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 def. Camille Pin /  Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201783-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open \u2013 Doubles\nAnabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual were the defending champions, but both chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201783-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open \u2013 Doubles\nJulia G\u00f6rges and Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Camille Pin and Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201784-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Banka Koper Slovenia Open \u2013 Singles\nSara Errani was the defending champion, but she was defeated by World No. 1 Dinara Safina in the final, 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20131, 7\u20135. This was the final WTA title Safina won before her retirement in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid\nThe Baraawe raid, code named Operation Celestial Balance, was a helicopter assault by United States Special Operations Forces against the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and associated al-Shabaab militants near the town of Baraawe in southern Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid, Background\nNabhan was the facilitator between al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab, he had been wanted by the United States since 2006, as he was a member of the east-African al-Qaeda cell responsible for several terrorist attacks in East Africa, including the 1998 United States embassy bombings and the 2002 Mombasa attacks. In 2007, in the midst of the Battle of Ras Kamboni, Nabhan was unsuccessfully targeted by an American military airstrike in the town of Ras Kamboni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid, Background\nA long-Running CIA CTC/SAD operation that hunted for the individual for a number of years, recruiting a network of Somali agents and paying off Somali warlords for information on the location of Nabhan and his associates. A team from the ISA began getting a precise location of the target from cell phone intercepts and surveillance from both short-range US Navy Scan Eagle UAVs and long range CIA Predators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid, Background\nCIA and JSOC planners presented President Obama with 4 options: a Tomahawk cruise missile strike, an airstrike, an attack by Little Bird helicopters or an attempt to capture the target with an assault force of SEALs. Obama picked the airstrike option as it limited the any potential collateral damage and the chances of US casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid, Raid\nOn the day of the operation, Nabhan was seen traveling in a two-car convoy from the southern coastal town of Barawe, this was reportedly the best opportunity to target him as he would be away from civilian population, particularly as the convoy had stopped for breakfast. As a USMC AV-8B approached its release point, it reported a malfunction in its targeting system; so 4 helicopters (2 AH-6M Little Birds and 2 MH-6M Little Birds) piloted by members of the 160th SOAR, carrying a team of SEALs from DEVGRU launched from a Navy Ship off-shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201785-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Baraawe raid, Raid\nThe AH-6s strafed the two-vehicle convoy, killing Nabhan and 3 al-Shabaab terrorists, the MH-6s dropped off the DEVGRU operators who cleared the vehicles and recovered Nabhan's body. The DEVGRU operatives placed the bodies of the four terrorists in body bags and loaded them onto their helicopters. The DEVGRU operatives extracted onto the helicopters and returned to their naval vessels. CBS News reported that two other wounded militants were also captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201786-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Ladies Open\nThe 2009 Barcelona Ladies Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Barcelona Ladies Open, and it was an International-level tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the David Lloyd Club Tur\u00f3 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, from 13 April until 19 April 2009. Unseeded Roberta Vinci won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201786-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Ladies Open, Finals, Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Sorana C\u00eerstea /  Andreja Klepa\u010d, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201787-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Ladies Open \u2013 Doubles\nLourdes Dom\u00ednguez Lino and Arantxa Parra Santonja were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201788-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Ladies Open \u2013 Singles\nMaria Kirilenko was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Roberta Vinci, 6-0, 6-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201789-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell\nThe 2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell (also known as the Trofeo Torneo de God\u00f3) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 57th edition of the event known that year as the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, from 20 April through 26 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201789-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, Champions, Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Mahesh Bhupathi /  Mark Knowles 6\u20133, 7\u20136(11\u20139)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201790-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell \u2013 Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201790-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(11\u20139), against Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201791-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell \u2013 Singles\nFour-time defending champion Rafael Nadal successfully defended his title, defeating David Ferrer in a rematch of the previous year's final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135, to win the Singles title at the 2009 Barcelona Open. It was his record-extending fifth title at the Barcelona Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201791-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201792-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barrow Raiders season\nThe Barrow Raiders, the English professional rugby league team from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, competed in the second tier competition of British rugby league, the 2009 Co-operative Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201792-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Barrow Raiders season, Table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201793-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Barum Czech Rally Zl\u00edn\nThe 2009 Barum Czech Rally Zl\u00edn was 8th round of 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season, it was won by local driver Jan Kopeck\u00fd with \u0160koda Fabia S2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nElections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2009 proceeded according to revised rules enacted in 2001 and further revamped in 2007. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) held an election to select from among recent players, and elected Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nIn keeping with the 2007 rules changes, the Veterans Committee held an election for players who were active in the years 1943 to 1987, but not before or after that period; for the fourth consecutive election cycle, this election produced no selections. An election to select from among players who were active prior to 1943 was conducted by a separate Veterans Committee panel of 12 Hall of Famers, writers, and baseball historians, chosen by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors, and this election produced the first player selection by the Veterans Committee since 2001, Joe Gordon. An election to select managers, umpires and executives had been held for the 2008 inductions; the next such election was held prior to the 2010 inductions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nInduction ceremonies in Cooperstown were held July 26, 2009, with Commissioner Bud Selig presiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe BBWAA was again authorized to elect players active in 1989 or later, but not after 2003; the ballot, announced on December 1, 2008, included candidates from the 2008 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 2003. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote; ballots had to be returned by December 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nVoters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate who received votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. Results of the 2009 election by the BBWAA were announced on January 12. The ballot consisted of 23 players, the lowest number ever; there were 13 candidates returning from the 2008 ballot, also a record low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\n539 ballots were cast (including two ballots which supported no candidates), with 405 votes required for election. A total of 2,902 individual votes were cast, an average of 5.38 per ballot. Those candidates who received less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nCandidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (\u2020). The candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nTommy John and Jim Rice were on the ballot for the 15th and final time; Rice became the first player elected in his final year of BBWAA ballot eligibility since Ralph Kiner in 1975, while John's eligibility ran out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe newly eligible candidates included 22 All-Stars (12 of whom were not included on the ballot), who were selected a combined total of 58 times \u2013 a slight increase from 2008, when 17 All-Stars who had been selected a total of 43 times became eligible. Rickey Henderson, a 10-time All-Star, was the only new candidate who was selected more than five times. The ballot included two MVPs (Henderson and Mo Vaughn), and one Cy Young Award-winner and perfect game thrower (David Cone), none of them winning more than once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nPlayers eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Steve Avery, Jason Bere, Mike Bordick, John Burkett, Omar Daal, Joe Girardi, Mark Guthrie, Joey Hamilton, Bill Haselman, Darren Holmes, Trenidad Hubbard, Todd Hundley, Brian L. Hunter, F\u00e9lix Jos\u00e9, Chad Kreuter, Graeme Lloyd, Keith Lockhart, Albie Lopez, Pat Mahomes, Al Martin, Orlando Merced, Charles Nagy, Denny Neagle, Troy O'Leary, Lance Painter, Dean Palmer, Craig Paquette, Tom Prince, Jeff Reboulet, Rick Reed, Rich Rodriguez, Terry Shumpert, Luis Sojo, Dave Veres, Matt Walbeck, Mike Williams and Kevin Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nNone of the newly eligible candidates would appear on any future ballots. As expected, Henderson was elected on his first appearance; no other first-timer received the 5% of votes required to remain on the ballot. As a result, the 2010 ballot broke the record set this year for fewest returning candidates, with only 11 players returning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nRules for election by the Veterans Committee were revised in July 2007 following complaints that the three elections conducted under the previous format (in 2003, 2005, and 2007) had resulted in no selections. After the February 2007 election, Bud Selig expressed frustration over the ongoing difficulties, and voiced his support for a revision of the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nUnder the revised format, a Historical Overview Committee composed of 11 sportswriters appointed by the BBWAA's Board of Directors met in spring 2008 to develop a ballot of 20 former players active between 1943 and 1987; the committee members were: Dave Van Dyck (Chicago Tribune); Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun); Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau); Moss Klein (formerly Newark Star-Ledger); Bill Madden (New York Daily News); Ken Nigro (formerly Baltimore Sun); Jack O'Connell (MLB.com); Nick Peters (The Sacramento Bee); Tracy Ringolsby (Rocky Mountain News); and Mark Whicker (The Orange County Register).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nA six-member panel of Hall of Famers also met to independently select five players for consideration; these lists were merged to create a preliminary ballot of 21 names: Dick Allen, Ken Boyer, Bert Campaneris, Rocky Colavito, Mike Cuellar, Steve Garvey, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Ted Kluszewski, Mickey Lolich, Roger Maris, Lee May, Minnie Mi\u00f1oso, Thurman Munson, Tony Oliva, Al Oliver, Vada Pinson, Ron Santo, Luis Tiant, Joe Torre and Maury Wills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nFollowing the elections of 2003 through 2007, when the voting membership of the Veterans Committee included not only the living members of the Hall but also recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award and J. G. Taylor Spink Award, voting was now limited to Hall members; they met at the Hall during induction weekend in 2008, and reduced the ballot to 10 names through voting by mail in August. This final ballot was then sent to the 64 living members, and they voted by mail, casting votes for up to four candidates each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nAny candidate receiving votes on 75% of ballots would be inducted to the Hall; a maximum of five inductees was possible. The final ballot was announced on September 16; all ten finalists were returnees from the 2007 final ballot. Results were announced on December 8 at Major League Baseball's winter meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada, but no candidate received the necessary number of votes. All 64 eligible voters cast ballots, with 48 votes required for election. Players elected in subsequent years are indicated in plain italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nA total of 213 votes were cast for the 10 candidates, an average of 3.33 votes per ballot cast, suggesting that most voters cast votes for the maximum number of candidates but that the votes were too scattered for any one candidate to reach the required number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nAlthough Hall of Fame officials had hoped that reducing the field of candidates on the final ballot from approximately 25 names to 10 would help focus attention on the most popular candidates and increase the chances of a selection, the coinciding move to reduce the allowable number of votes per ballot from ten to four appeared to counteract any potential benefit, as every candidate but one saw his percentage of the vote drop from 2007 (Tiant improved slightly from 18.3% to 20.3%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nHall of Fame chairwoman Jane Forbes Clark stated, \"When our board of directors restructured the Veterans Committee after the 2007 election, it did so with the goal of ensuring the voters \u2013 the living Hall of Famers \u2013 would review their peers. The 10 post-1942 ballot finalists all spent a substantial part of their playing career in the 1960s or the 1970s, and a vast majority of the voters were either actively playing, managing or involved in baseball in those two decades.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nShe added, \"The process was not redesigned with the goal of necessarily electing someone, but to give everyone on the ballot a very fair chance of earning election through a ballot of their peers. The vote reinforces the selections of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and maintains the high standards set by the BBWAA. A 75-percent threshold is extremely difficult to attain, but the highly selective process helps ensure that enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame remains the greatest honor in the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nFormer manager Dick Williams, who had been inducted into the Hall earlier in the year, noted, \"It's not our job to vote someone in,\" and added, \"It's our job to consider the candidates.\" Noting his support for some of the candidates, he stated, \"I thought Kaat would get in. I voted for him. And I think Joe Torre will, too, when he's done managing. I missed quite a few times before I got in. I know what that's like.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nIn announcing the lack of selections from this ballot, Hall president Jeff Idelson noted that the Hall's board of directors would review the results at its annual spring meeting, in keeping with their regular practice, and consider whether to further alter the selection process; he stressed that this was the first use of the new process featuring a smaller voting body and a reduced ballot. He added that the voting levels indicated that the members believed there were worthy candidates for induction, although no agreement could be reached as to the best ones. Hall member Joe Morgan, also a member of the Hall's board, argued that the current members were not trying to keep candidates out, but observed that the addition of strong new candidates each election might have the effect of reducing the support for any single player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 907]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nThe ballot was composed almost entirely of players who were active in the 1960s and 1970s, with all but Hodges being active during the period from 1967 to 1972 (Hodges was a manager in that time period); even among the 21 players initially considered, only six had their rookie seasons before 1958, and only Hodges, Ted Kluszewski and Minnie Mi\u00f1oso debuted before 1955. Other players who were on the 2007 ballot who were eligible for consideration were Bobby Bonds, Curt Flood, Sparky Lyle and Don Newcombe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nIn addition to Ken Boyer, Rocky Colavito, Kluszewski, Roger Maris, Mi\u00f1oso and Newcombe, other potential candidates whose rookie seasons were before 1958 were Billy Pierce, perhaps the American League's top pitcher in the mid-1950s, Roy Face, the National League's first great reliever, and Dick Groat, a solid-hitting shortstop who was the NL's MVP in 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nAmong the players who were eligible for the first time were Dusty Baker, Vida Blue, Ron Cey, Cecil Cooper, George Foster, Steve Garvey, Bobby Grich, Dave Kingman, Davey Lopes and Bill Madlock, with only Garvey being included among the 21 semifinalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nIn addition to improving on the fruitless outcome of the previous three elections for players, there may have been particular urgency in the 2009 vote resulting in the selection of one or more new members, as in 2011 a large group of potentially popular candidates would become eligible \u2013 possibly further diluting the support for any single candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nUnder the then-current Veterans Committee rules, those becoming eligible in 2011 would have included Buddy Bell, Dave Concepci\u00f3n, Ron Guidry, Tommy John, Graig Nettles and Ted Simmons; another sizable group of potentially popular candidates, including Bob Boone, Dwight Evans, Keith Hernandez, Fred Lynn, Dave Parker and Dan Quisenberry, would have become eligible in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nAs it turned out, this would be the last election for the Veterans Committee in this particular form. In July 2010, the Hall announced a new voting procedure to consider individuals not eligible for the BBWAA ballot. Starting with the elections for 2011 induction, the Veterans Committee was split into three 16-member subcommittees, each made up of Hall of Famers, executives, baseball historians, and media members. Each subcommittee votes once every three years on candidates from a composite ballot including both long-retired players and non-playing personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, 1943 and later\nThe ballots and subcommittees were divided by era, with the first vote involving figures from what the Hall calls the \"Expansion Era\" (1973 and later). The following year saw candidates considered from the \"Golden Era\" (1947\u20131972), with candidates from the \"Pre-Integration Era\" (1871\u20131946) following in the 2013 election. The first player elected under the new procedure was Ron Santo, elected in 2011 by the Golden Era subcommittee as part of the class of 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nFor the first and ultimately only time, a separate election was held for players whose major league careers began before 1943; these elections are scheduled to occur every five years. The election was conducted on December 7, 2008 at the winter meetings in Las Vegas, among a committee of twelve Hall members and members of the media, with results announced the following day; votes by proxy would be allowed only in emergencies, but this was not necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nThe Historical Overview Committee of the BBWAA selected 10 candidates to appear on the ballot, with votes from 75% of the committee necessary for election; each committee member could vote for up to four candidates, allowing for a maximum of five selections. The final ballot was announced on August 25; the candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nThe committee members apparently made an effort to vote for as many candidates as they were allowed, casting at least 41 of a possible 48 individual votes (vote totals for three candidates were not released), for a minimum possible average of 3.42 votes per ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nOf the ten final candidates, none were living; Vernon was alive at the time the final ballot was announced, but died a month later. The finalists included candidates spanning the entire period from 1868 (White) to 1960 (Vernon), although six of the ten were active in the 1940s; four of the top five finishers were active in the 1940s, with the four pre-1930 candidates gaining no more than 12 total votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nThe Historical Overview Committee was permitted to nominate candidates who played in the Negro leagues prior to 1946, as long as their time in the Negro leagues and major leagues totals at least ten seasons; this rule would seem to include players such as Minnie Mi\u00f1oso (who debuted with the New York Cubans in 1945) and Don Newcombe (who debuted with the Newark Eagles in 1944), even if they did not appear in the Negro leagues until after 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nNegro league first baseman Buck O'Neil, whose playing career began in 1937, was eligible to be included on this ballot; however, if the overview committee believed that his contributions to baseball after his playing career ended outweigh his playing accomplishments, he could be instead considered in the election for non-players in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0024-0002", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nThe rules state that: \"Those whose careers entailed involvement as both players and managers/executives/umpires will be considered for their overall contribution to the game of Baseball; however, the specific category in which such individuals shall be considered will be determined by the role in which they were most prominent. In those instances when a candidate is prominent as both a player and as a manager, executive or umpire, the BBWAA Screening Committee shall determine that individual's candidacy as either a player (Players Ballot), or as a manager, umpires, executive or pioneer (Managers/Umpires Ballot, or Executives/Pioneers Ballot).\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Veterans Committee, Pre-1943\nBecause of the 2010 changes to Veterans Committee voting, this would be the only vote of the pre-1943 committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nThe J. G. Taylor Spink Award has been presented by the BBWAA at the annual summer induction ceremonies since 1962. It recognizes a sportswriter \"for meritorious contributions to baseball writing\". The recipients are not members of the Hall of the Fame, merely featured in a permanent exhibit at the National Baseball Museum, but writers and broadcasters commonly call them \"Hall of Fame writers\" or words to that effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nThree final candidates, selected by a three-member BBWAA committee, were named on July 15, 2008 in New York City in conjunction with All-Star Game activities: Nick Peters of The Sacramento Bee, Dave Van Dyck of the Chicago Tribune, and Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to cast ballots in voting conducted by mail in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nOn December 10 at baseball's winter meetings, Nick Peters was announced as the recipient. Peters, who covered the San Francisco Giants from 1961 to 2007, received 210 votes out of the 447 ballots cast, with Elliott receiving 123 votes and Van Dyck receiving 107; seven blank ballots were submitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award\nThe Ford C. Frick Award has been presented at the annual summer induction ceremonies since 1978. It recognizes a broadcaster for \"major contributions to baseball\". The recipients are not members of the Hall of the Fame, merely featured in a permanent exhibit at the National Baseball Museum, but writers and broadcasters commonly call them \"Hall of Fame broadcaster\" or words to that effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award\nTo be eligible, an active or retired broadcaster must have a minimum of 10 years of continuous major league broadcast service with a ball club, a network, or a combination of the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award\nTen finalists were announced on October 6, 2008. In accordance with guidelines established in 2003, seven were chosen by a 20-member committee composed of the 15 living recipients, along with 5 additional broadcasting historians and columnists: Bob Costas (NBC), Barry Horn (The Dallas Morning News), Stan Isaacs (formerly of New York Newsday), Ted Patterson (historian) and Curt Smith (historian). The seven finalists chosen by the committee were: Billy Berroa, Ken Coleman, Dizzy Dean, Lanny Frattare, Tony Kubek, Graham McNamee and Dave Van Horne. Three additional candidates \u2013 Tom Cheek, Jacques Doucet and Joe Nuxhall \u2013 were selected from a list of 210 candidates through results of voting by fans conducted throughout September at the Hall's official website, with 145,138 ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201794-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award\nOn December 9 at baseball's winter meetings, it was announced that Tony Kubek would be the recipient. Kubek, who was a television analyst for NBC, the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees from 1965 until his 1994 retirement, became the first recipient of the Frick Award whose broadcasting career was solely in television (1995 recipient Bob Woolf is best known as a television play-by-play man, but has also worked in radio), and also the first recipient to have called games for a Canadian team. He was selected in a November vote by the same committee which selected the finalists. They voted by mail, and based the selection on the following criteria: longevity; continuity with a club; honors, including national assignments such as the World Series and All-Star Games; and popularity with fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup\nThe 2009 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 38th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the 1986 AWS. The 2009 tournament was held, for the first time, across a continent\u00a0\u2013 with games played in 27 cities across eight European countries, from September 9 to 27. The final was a repeat of the previous BWC final, with the United States again defeating Cuba, winning its fourth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup\nThere were 22 participating countries (which stands as the most ever in tournament history), with 20 teams split into five groups for the first round, after which \"official\" host Italy and 2007 European Champion Netherlands joined the advancing 14 teams in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup\nThe next competition would be the last amateur championship held as the BWC tournament, which was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial WBSC Premier12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nPrevious editions of the World Cup were held with no more than 18 teams. These teams were initially broken up into two pools, with the top teams from each pool qualifying for the final knockout stage. With 22 teams competing in the 2009 tournament, the format has been expanded into three phases. Teams that play from the first round and finish among the top eight teams of the tournament will now have played as many as 15 games, making it one of the longest campaigns for any international baseball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nAll of the teams, with the exception of Italy and Netherlands, will compete in the first round (as hosts for the second-round games, Italy and Netherlands receive a bye through the first round). The teams will be broken into five pools of four teams each. Each pool will be held in a different country, with the hosts Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Croatia and Germany assigned to the corresponding pools. (Previously, Russia had been set as the host nation for Pool D, however they were replaced by Croatia in an announcement from the IBAF.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nUnlike the 2009 World Baseball Classic, the pools will be conducted in single round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool will automatically qualify for the second round, while four of the five third-place finishers will also qualify as wild cards. In some respects, the first round is like a final qualifying tournament, similar to the format used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nThe second round operates similarly to the first, but on an expanded scale. The field of teams is split into two pools, one hosted in Italy, the other in the Netherlands. The fourteen qualifiers from the first round are assigned to the pools, and commence a single round-robin competition. The top four teams from each pool then qualify for the third and final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nThe third round is broken into two parts: a partial round-robin and then four classification games, including the final. Each team will play four games during the round-robin phase, against the teams they have not yet faced (in Round 2) who also qualified \u2013 i.e. the teams from the Italian pool will face the teams from the Netherlands pool, but not each other. The teams are then ranked on their results in this phase and in games of the 2nd round between qualified teams, but in two groups based on the pool they qualified from.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format\nEach team then plays a classification game against their counterpart from the opposite group to determine their final placings in the tournament \u2013 i.e. the fourth place Italian qualifier faces the fourth place Netherlands qualifier to determine seventh and eighth positions, the third place qualifiers compete for fifth and sixth positions, and so on. The winner of the final classification game will be declared the winner of the World Cup for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format, Tiebreaking procedures\nThe IBAF employs a standard tiebreaking system across all tournaments it sanctions, though it will use a modified version for this World Cup. Ordinarily there are five criteria available to be used when two or more teams finish the tournament (or a section thereof) with the same winning percentage; if the first method does not split the teams involved, the next one is used, continuing down the list of methods until a distinction is achieved. The criteria used to determine the higher placed finishing team, in order, are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format, Tiebreaking procedures\nFor this World Cup though, a simplified method of tiebreaking will be used:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Format, Tiebreaking procedures\nIn the case of determining the four wild card teams that will progress from the first to the second round, the first measure will automatically be skipped, as it will be impossible for the teams to have played against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Teams\nTwenty-two teams qualified for the tournament, either through finishing high enough in the 2007 World Cup, placing high enough in regional tournaments that doubled as qualifying tournaments for the event, or by automatic qualification by hosting some part of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201795-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Baseball World Cup, Awards\nThe IBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201796-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Basel Summer Ice Hockey\nThe 2009 Basel Summer Ice Hockey is an ice hockey tournament that was held in Basel, Switzerland for the first time between 19 and 22 August 2009. All matches were played at host EHC Basel's home St. Jakob Arena. Six teams, split into two groups of three, took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201796-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Basel Summer Ice Hockey, Teams participating\nThe list of teams that were confirmed for the tournament are as listed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election\nThe 2009 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 1 March 2009, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. It would be the first time that the elections for two of the Spanish \"historical regions\"\u2014namely, those comprising Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country itself\u2014were held simultaneously. This would evolve into an unwritten convention in subsequent years, with Basque and Galician elections being held concurrently in 2012, 2016 and 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election\nThe 2009 Basque election was the first one to be held without any major electoral candidacy from the abertzale left, after their previous iterations\u2014the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV/EHAK) and Basque Nationalist Action (ANV)\u2014had been outlawed in September 2008 because of their reported ties to ETA and the outlawed Batasuna party. In early February 2009, two political groupings formed by abertzale left members to contest the election, Demokrazia Hiru Milioi (D3M) and Askatasuna (\"Freedom\"), were barred from contesting the election by both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. In response, the abertzale left asked their voters to cast invalid ballots, both in protest to the court rulings and seeking to prevent tactical voting in favour of either Lehendakari Juan Jos\u00e9 Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Eusko Alkartasuna (EA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 901]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election\nThe election resulted in an upset, as Basque nationalist parties lost their parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years, paving the way for a non-PNV led government. The Socialist Party of the Basque Country\u2013Basque Country Left (PSE\u2013EE) under Patxi L\u00f3pez gained seven seats to command a 25-strong caucus, the best historical showing of the party in a Basque regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election\nThe People's Party (PP), which had switched leaders less than a year before the election as former leader Mar\u00eda San Gil quit over disagreements with the national leadership of Mariano Rajoy, had a net loss of two seats from 2005. The new Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) party, founded in 2007 by former PSOE member and regional minister Rosa D\u00edez was able to achieve a breakthrough in \u00c1lava and have its regional candidate Gorka Maneiro elected. Meanwhile, PNV's previous coalition partners, Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and Ezker Batua (EB), suffered a harsh electoral downturn with both their leaders losing their seats and resigning in the aftermath of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election\nThe PSE formed a minority government with L\u00f3pez as the first non-PNV lehendakari since 1979 through a confidence and supply agreement with the PP. While both parties had established an uneasy alliance in the Basque Country since the late 1990s despite their overall national rivalry, this would constitute the most relevant agreement reached between both parties at any level of administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Basque Parliament was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of the Basque Country, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a lehendakari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nVoting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Basque Country and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The 75 members of the Basque Parliament were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes\u2014which included blank ballots\u2014being applied in each constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nSeats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of \u00c1lava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, being allocated a fixed number of 25 seats each to provide for an equal representation of the three provinces in parliament as required under the regional statute of autonomy. This meant that \u00c1lava was allocated the same number of seats as Biscay and Gipuzkoa, despite their populations being, as of 1 January 2009: 315,280, 1,154,628 and 704,173, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of the Basque Parliament expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 17 April 2005, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 17 April 2009. The election decree was required to be published in the BOPV no later than 24 March 2009, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Election date\nThe lehendakari had the prerogative to dissolve the Basque Parliament at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a lehendakari within a sixty-day period from the Parliament re-assembly, the Parliament was to be dissolved and a fresh election called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Election date\nLehendakari Ibarretxe had been scheduled to announce a snap election for autumn 2008 following his expected failure in holding a proposed referendum on the Basque Country's political status for 25 October 2008, to be averted by the Spanish government. The electoral defeat of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) in the 2008 Spanish general election in the region and internal opposition from the PNV leadership to an immediate election delayed the scheduled snap vote to early 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Overview, Election date\nFinally on 3 January 2009, Ibarretxe took advantage of Galician president Emilio P\u00e9rez Touri\u00f1o's previous announcement of a Galician election for 1 March to call the Basque election simultaneously, a move which was interpreted by the media and by political parties as intending to caught his political rivals by surprise (particularly, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the People's Party (PP), by forcing them to run two simultaneous election campaigns).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Background\nThe Ibarretxe Plan, a major proposal by Lehendakari Juan Jos\u00e9 Ibarretxe to reform the 1979 Basque Statute of Autonomy and turn the region into an associated state to Spain as a way to ending the ongoing conflict with the paramilitary ETA group, was brought to a standstill following its parliamentary defeat in a vote in the Congress of Deputies on 1 February 2005 and the subsequent electoral setback of Ibarretxe's coalition in the April 2005 regional election. On 22 March 2006, ETA declared a \"permanent ceasefire\" to allow for a peace process to ensue with the Spanish government under then-Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, but peace talks terminated as a result of the 2006 Madrid\u2013Barajas Airport bombing on 30 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Background\nLater into the legislature on 28 September 2007, Ibarretxe attempted to revive his statute reform plan by announcing a new \"right to decide roadmap\" which provided for a referendum on the proposal being held by 25 October 2008, whether it was in agreement with the Spanish government or without it. The law establishing the legal framework allowing the Basque government to hold the vote was approved by the Basque Parliament in June 2008, but was subsequently suspended and overturned by the Constitutional Court, which ended up ruling that the law and the proposed referendum were unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Background\nOn 31 August 2006, the leadership of Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) had voted for terminating their electoral alliance with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) ahead of the 2007 foral and local elections, after seven years of collaboration; on 10 November 2008, the decision was made irreversible after EA announced its maintainment ahead of the incoming 2009 regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Background\nThe 2007 elections had seen strong gains for the Socialist Party of the Basque Country\u2013Basque Country Left (PSE\u2013EE) and a decline for the parties supporting Ibarretxe's government, PNV, EA and Ezker Batua (EB), a situation confirmed one year later in the 2008 Spanish general election in the region as the PSE\u2013EE emerged as the most voted party with 38.1% and 9 out of 18 Congress seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Background\nConcurrently, and in application of the 2002 Law of Political Parties\u2014which allowed the outlawing of parties \"whose activity violates democratic principles, particularly when it seeks to deteriorate or destroy the regime of freedoms or prevent or eliminate the democratic system by promoting, justifying or exculpating attacks on the life or integrity of people, legitimizing violence as a method to achieve political objectives or politically supporting the action of terrorist organizations to achieve their purposes of subverting the constitutional order\"\u2014the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court barred several parties from contesting elections because of their reported ties to ETA and the outlawed Batasuna party; namely, the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV/EHAK), Basque Nationalist Action (ANV), several groupings created specifically to contest the 2007 local elections (such as Abertzale Sozialisten Batasuna and Abertzale Sozialistak) or the 2009 regional election (Demokrazia Hiru Milioi and Askatasuna).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 1078]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Parliamentary composition\nThe Basque Parliament was officially dissolved on 6 January 2009, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country. The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Parties and candidates\nThe electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Parties and candidates\nBelow is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Opinion polls\nThe table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The \"Lead\" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Basque Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Invalid votes\nAfter Demokrazia Hiru Milioi (D3M) and Askatasuna (\"Freedom\") were outlawed in February 2009, Basque separatists were asked to cast their vote for D3M, whose ballots would be counted as invalid. According to some sources, the pro-independence Basque left (that were formerly represented by Batasuna and later by EHAK) was surprised by the lower support of their void option. If the void votes are to be counted as the support of this option, it would have obtained the worst results in their history, having received 100,924 void votes, 50,000 less than in the previous regional election and less than half their historical top in the 1998 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Invalid votes\nMajor electoral analysis has been performed on the results and the issue of the void votes by pro-Basque nationalist and non-Basque nationalist parties alike. It is a frequent misunderstanding that, had the votes for the illegal lists been counted as valid, they would have been entitled to seven seats. Actually, taking into account that the average of \"normal\" void votes (struck-out names, double-voting, etc.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Invalid votes\nin the last three Basque regional elections (1998, 2001 and 2005) was about 0.4%, and assuming that all the void votes that could not be accounted for by that statistic alone were cast for a hypothetical unitary abertzale list (instead of for two different lists, Askatasuna and D3M), those ~97,000 votes would have accounted for at most 6 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nThe election results saw the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) of Lehendakari Juan Jos\u00e9 Ibarretxe securing a clear victory with 38.1% of the vote and 30 seats, but it came at the expense of Ibarretxe's erstwhile allies, Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and Ezker Batua (EB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nTogether with Aralar, which had seen a remarkable rise of support in absence of electoral competition from other abertzale left parties\u2014a result of their illegalization because of their ties with ETA and Batasuna\u2014the parties in support of Ibarretxe could only muster 36 out of the 75 seats in the Basque Parliament, against 39 of the combined totals for the Socialist Party of the Basque Country\u2013Basque Country Left (PSE\u2013EE), the People's Party (PP) and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), meaning that for the first time since 1979 the possibility existed for a non-PNV lehendakari to be appointed. Upon learning of the results, PP regional leader Antonio Basagoiti proclaimed his satisfaction and announced his support for Socialist Patxi L\u00f3pez as new lehendakari, who had previously announced that he felt \"legitimated to lead the change\" and would be running for investiture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 944]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nAs the PNV\u2013EA\u2013EB alliance\u2014in government since 2001\u2014was no longer workable, the PNV attempted to figure out a coalition agreement with the PSE to remain in power, mirroring the historical collaboration that the two parties had maintained from 1986 to 1998, and hinting at withdrawing PNV's support to Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero's government in the Cortes Generales if the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) did not back their plan. The PSE rejected supporting a new PNV administration even if Ibarretxe was replaced with a different candidate, conditioning any agreement on Patxi L\u00f3pez becoming lehendakari, which the PNV refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nInstead, the PSE proposed the formation of a minority cabinet led by L\u00f3pez that could be supported by the PP, ruling out a full-fledged coalition. Concurrently, the PSOE's national leadership supported L\u00f3pez's bid and defended the PSE's autonomy to agree on any pact that their local branch deemed fit, despite the PNV's threat of withdrawing their support nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nSeeking to provide the new government of parliamentary stability, the PSE and the PP\u2014which had been and still were arch-rivals at the national level\u2014reached an unprecedented confidence and supply agreement on 30 March that would see the Basque nationalists ousted from power after 30 years of uninterrupted government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nThe PNV, which had dubbed any such agreement as \"legitimate\" but as a \"fraud to the electorate\" and an \"act of political aggression\", announced a \"harsh\" opposition to L\u00f3pez's government and vowed to put forth Ibarretxe as their candidate in the investiture session, citing their \"right\" to head the government as the top-voted party. As part of their agreement, the PSE would support PP's Arantza Quiroga as new president of the Basque Parliament and treat the PP as their \"preferred\" parliamentary partner, whereas the PP would refrain from moving or supporting any vote of no confidence on the new cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201797-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Basque regional election, Aftermath, Government formation\nL\u00f3pez was elected as new lehendakari on a 39\u201335 vote in the investiture session held on 5 May 2009, garnering the additional support of the sole legislator from Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), and was sworn in two days later. Simultaneously, his political defeat led Ibarretxe to announce his farewell from politics altogether, a move which would allow his party to reorganize itself from opposition hands-free and, eventually, lead to the abandonment of Ibarretxe's sovereigntist plans and discourse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election\nThe Basra governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nOne seat in the election is reserved for Assyrian Christians", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nBasra is the main oil-producing and transit centre in Iraq, which has led to intense competition over control of its Governorate. It has been the centre of competition between the al-Maliki Federal government, which controls the police and army, the Islamic Virtue Party Governor of Basra which controls the Oil Protection Corps and local militias from the Sadrist Movement and Tharallah. Following the Battle of Basra in 2008, the central government seized control of the city's streets from the Sadrist Movement and the security situation improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nIn April 2007, SIIC successfully brought a no-confidence motion against Governor Waili. This dismissal was ratified by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in July, but eventually overturned by the Supreme Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nThe central government has organized \"Local Support Committee\" militias, has spent $100 million in reconstruction projects and has started paying unemployment benefits in the province. This was expected to lead to an increased support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nMeanwhile, the Islamic Virtue Party dropped Waeli from its candidate list, reportedly due to his \"polarizing\" effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Background\nIn a move away from their traditional apolitical stance, a list with a core support from the Shaykhiya religious community stood for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Basra Region\nIn November 2008 Wael Abdul Latif, an Independent Islamist MP backed by tribal Sheikhs, submitted a petition to the Electoral Commission of Iraq signed by 34,800 people calling for a vote on a Region of Iraq covering only the governorate of Basrah. The Sadrist movement opposed the move, saying it was \"playing with fire\" as did the Islamic Dawa Party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. SCIRI remained neutral, as it supports a nine-province Region covered the whole of southern Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201798-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Basra governorate election, Basra Region\nAs the petition was signed by more than 2% of the population, the commission published an official request for signatures; if more than 10% of the population had signed it before 15 January 2009, a referendum would have been held within 15 days. In the event, the initiative failed to reach 10% and was struck down by the Electoral Commission. Backers accused the al-Maliki federal government of blocking their media campaign and appealed the decision to the Federal Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201799-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Battle of Rafah\nThe 2009 Battle of Rafah was a battle, fought between the police forces of the Islamist group Hamas controlling Gaza, and the radical Islamist group Jund Ansar Allah. The fighting began on 14 August 2009 and concluded the next day. In total, 24 people were killed in the fighting, including six Hamas police officers and an 11-year-old girl, and a further 150 were wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201799-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Battle of Rafah, The raid\nA day before the Hamas raid, Jund ansar Allah leader, Abdel Latif Moussa, declared an Islamic state in Gaza, and swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda. About 100 of his fighters were seen in a video where he pledged allegiance in his base, a mosque in Rafah. The next day, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades attacked the Mosque and other bases of the group in Rafah. The fighting lasted 7 hours. It was reported, that when the Hamas reached the positions if Moussa, and Jund Ansar Allah's military commander, Abu Abdullah al Suri, they detonated themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201799-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Battle of Rafah, The raid\nAbout 13 Jund ansar allah fighters were killed, and 40 captured, 5 civilians were also killed, including 6 Hamas soldiers. al-Qassam brigades commander Abu Jibril Shimali, was  also killed during the battle. The group was virtually destroyed after the fighting, having both of its leaders killed, and its bases captured. It was reported that Hamas later released some of the captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201800-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup\nThe 2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Eckental, Germany between 2 and 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201800-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201800-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, Champions, Doubles\nMichael Kohlmann /  Alexander Peya def. Philipp Marx /  Igor Zelenay, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201801-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup \u2013 Doubles\nYves Allegro and Horia Tec\u0103u, who were the winners in 2008, chose to not compete this year. Michael Kohlmann and Alexander Peya became the new champions, by defeating Philipp Marx and Igor Zelenay 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201802-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bauer Watertechnology Cup \u2013 Singles\nDenis Gremelmayr, who was the defending champion, lost to Alexander Peya already in the first round. Daniel Brands won in the final match 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Dustin Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup\nThe 2009 Bavarian Cup was the twelfth edition of this competition, organised by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), which was first  held in 1998. The winner and runners-up were both qualified for the 2009\u201310 DFB-Pokal. Additionally, this year's semi-finalist, SpVgg Unterhaching, was also qualified because it finished in the top-four of the 3. Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup\nThe competition was open to all senior men's football teams playing within the Bavarian football league system and the Bavarian clubs in the Regionalliga S\u00fcd (III) and 3. Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup, Rules and History\nThe seven Bezirke in Bavaria each play their own cup competition which in turn used to function as a qualifying to the German Cup (DFB-Pokal). Since 1998 these seven cup-winners plus the losing finalist of the region that won the previous event advance to the newly introduced Bavarian Cup, the Toto-Pokal. The two finalists of this competition advance to the German Cup. Bavarian clubs which play in the first and second Bundesliga are not permitted to take part in the event, their reserve teams however can.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup, Rules and History\nThe seven regional cup winners plus the finalist from last season's winners region were qualified for the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup, Participating clubs\nThe following eight clubs qualified for the 2009 Bavarian Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201803-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bavarian Cup, DFB Cup 2009\u201310\nThe two clubs, SpVgg Weiden and Wacker Burghausen, who qualified through the Bavarian Cup for the 2009\u201310 drew the following first-round opposition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201804-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bayern\u2013Rundfahrt\nThe 2009 Bayern\u2013Rundfahrt was the 30th edition of the Bayern\u2013Rundfahrt cycle race and was held on 27 May to 31 May 2009. The race started in Kelheim and finished in Gunzenhausen. The race was won by Linus Gerdemann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team\nThe 2009 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Art Briles. The Bears played their home games at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. Baylor finished the season with a record of 4\u20138 and 1\u20137 in Big 12 play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Before the season, Program history\nThe Baylor Bears football program finished 2008 with a 4\u20138 record and a 521\u2013523\u201343  (0.499) all-time record, marking the first time in decades that Baylor's overall record was losing. The program has not won its conference or attended a bowl game since 1994, when it both won the Southwest Conference and played in the 1994 Alamo Bowl; it has not had a winning season record since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Before the season, Program history\nThe Bears are currently the only Big 12 team to not have made a bowl game since the Big 12's inception, and the team has gone the longest of any team in a BCS conference without a bowl game appearance (Duke Blue Devils last played in a bowl game two days later in the 1995 Hall of Fame Bowl)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Before the season, Predictions\nMany agreed that the difficult schedule of the Bears would likely hurt their chances of reaching a bowl game. One ESPN analyst even criticized Baylor's decision to move its 2009 home game against Texas Tech to the Cowboys Stadium, a more neutral and media-friendly location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Facilities\nIn fall 2008, two new facilities, the Highers Athletic Complex and the Simpson Athletics and Academic Center, were completed. The 2009 football season is the first in which the two facilities are available for use year-round. With five consecutive record-breaking fund-raising years for the Baylor Bear Foundation and the \"Above and Beyond\" and \"Victory with Integrity\" Board of Regents campaigns, the Highers Athletic Complex and Simpson center were built and Grant Teaff Plaza and club seating were improved, in addition to various other non-football construction and improvements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Facilities, Highers Athletic Complex\nThe Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletic Complex is a set of three full-size practice football fields, two of natural turf and the third of artificial turf. Located on the main Baylor Campus next to the Baylor Marina, the Highers Athletic Complex is now the main location of football practice. Its location is much closer than that of Floyd Casey Stadium, the current home stadium of Baylor and previous practice location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Facilities, Highers Athletic Complex\nConstruction began in November 2008 for the Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Practice Facility. The final facility of the Highers Athletic Complex was completed in August 2009 and offers an 80-yard synthetic turf field with ten-yard end zones. At an estimated $11 million cost, the facility provides Baylor its first indoor practices ever, allowing for practice in most weather, including extreme heat, cold, and rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Facilities, Simpson Athletic and Academic Center\nThe Simpson Athletic and Academic Center is located adjacent to the Highers Athletic Complex and Baylor Marina. The Simpson Center has the main athletics training room and equipment room for most Baylor athletes, the football locker room and weight room, football coaches' offices, football meeting rooms, academic center for all student-athletes, and the Baylor Athletic Department administrative offices. In 2008, for the third straight year, Baylor University had the highest NCAA Graduation Success Rate in the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Facilities, Floyd Casey Stadium\nFloyd Casey Stadium, located about four miles from the Baylor University campus, is the site of the Baylor Bears' home games. The stadium, built in 1950, has an official capacity of 50,000 and has an artificial turf field, fixed aluminum bleachers, and the Big 12's largest locker room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Coaching\nArt Briles remained at Baylor as head coach for his second season there, following four seasons as head coach at the University of Houston and other previous coaching jobs at Texas Tech and various high schools in Texas. As a head coach at Baylor, Briles has a 4\u20138 record, and a career head coach record of 38\u201336. In the 2008 season, all Baylor victories were achieved with the opponent scoring 21 points or fewer, and all Baylor losses taken when the opponent scored more than 21 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Coaching\nRandy Clements and Philip Montgomery are the offensive co-coordinators, Brian Norwood is the defensive coordinator, and Dino Babers is the Special Teams coordinator. Colin Shillinglaw is the 2009 director of football operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nBaylor University entered their season opener as underdogs by two to three points; the game score over-under given by various bookmakers ranged from 51.5 to 54 points. Never trailing at any point in the game, Baylor won on the road, 24\u201321 (for a combined score of 45), for the first time in the ten games since 22 September 2007. The game also was Baylor's first win in a season opener since 2005, four years prior; Baylor had lost 13 straight road season openers, dating back to 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nFollowing the game, Baylor received 17 votes in the AP Poll for week 2, giving the Bears an unofficial #40 rank, and 15 votes in the week 3 poll, for an unofficial #38 ranking. The Coaches' Polls awarded Baylor 2 votes in week 2, for an unofficial #47 rank, and no votes in week 3. Several Baylor players received honors. Baylor had the highest net average punting yardage (46.0 yards per punt) in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) after weeks 1 and 2. In addition, Baylor had the second-highest turnover margin (3.0) in the FBS after week 2, behind Arizona State. Baylor's defense was ranked 37th nationally using the pass efficiency defense rating, and 36th nationally in total defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest, Series history\nBaylor's 2009 game at Wake Forest's BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the first away game in the Baylor-Wake Forest series and sixth overall; including the 2009 game, the past four games in the series have been the season openers for both teams. Baylor first played Wake Forest on 1 January 1949, at the 1948 postseason Dixie Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama; Baylor's first bowl game and Wake Forest's second ended in a 20\u20137 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest, Series history\nBaylor hosted Wake Forest for the 17 November 1951 game, in which #10 Baylor won 42\u20130; this remains Baylor's largest margin of victory in a shutout ever, and the last shutout in a season opener victory. In the 20 September 1952 game, Baylor won at home again, 17\u201314. Baylor again welcomed Wake Forest on 23 September 1961 and won 31\u20130. On 28 August 2008, Baylor hosted Wake forest for the first time in over 40 years; Wake Forest won for the first time in series history, 41\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Connecticut\nFor the Bears' second game, they hosted Connecticut at Floyd Casey Stadium during Baylor's Parents Weekend. Various bookmakers gave Baylor a ten- to eleven-point advantage for the game, with the over-under within 44 to 45.5 combined points, and sports pundits were divided on which team would win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Connecticut, Series history\nBaylor had only played Connecticut once before, in the preceding 2008 season. In that 19 September 2008 game at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, the Huskies won by a narrow 31\u201328 points. The game was Baylor's first away game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State\nBaylor held its second home game and third overall at home, hosting the Northwestern State Demons. Baylor received the ball first, but a fourth-down rushing attempt failed, and the Demons recovered the ball, eventually resulting in a touchdown. Baylor responded with four consecutive touchdowns before Northwestern State could finally score again, with a field goal; the Bears finished the first half with two more touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State\nQuarterback Robert Griffin III did not return for the second half due to an injury that required season-ending surgery, but Blake Szymanski still helped the Bears to four more touchdown passes before initiating the quarterback kneel in the fourth quarter to prevent Baylor from scoring further; the Demons managed one field goal in each of the third and fourth quarters. Baylor's score was the team's largest since its 68\u20130 shutout of the Blackland Army Air Field football team in 1942; the 55-point margin of victory was Baylor's largest since the 20 October 1979 55\u20130 result in the away game against the Army Black Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State, Series history\nBaylor has played and beaten Northwestern State, of the Football Championship Subdivision, twice before. On 9 September 2006, Baylor hosted Northwestern State and won 47\u201310. On 6 September 2008, Baylor hosted again and won 51\u20136 in Robert Griffin III's first game as starting quarterback; the score was the largest margin of victory for Baylor since the 24 November 2001 home game against Southern Illinois University, also of the FCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Kent State\nThe general bookmaker consensus for this game was a Baylor win by at least 20 points, with a combined score of about 50. The Bears opened up the game worried about how their season would progress without Robert Griffin III. Third string quarterback Nick Florence showed himself capable of maintaining Baylor dominance of the Mid-American Conference as he passed 20-27 without an interception, only getting sacked twice throughout the whole game, and rushing for two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Kent State, Series history\nBaylor has never played a football game against Kent State until this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nBaylor entered Oklahoma Memorial Stadium seeking their first-ever win against Oklahoma, with the nation's longest current home game winning streak (at 26 games), and their first win since 2004 against a ranked opponent. Uncertainty about the outcome of the game was expressed by many, due largely to the fact that 2008 Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford was not certain to lead Oklahoma against Baylor following a shoulder injury that left him out of earlier games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nA few days before the game, though, Bradford was confirmed as starting quarterback for the game; bookmakers listed Oklahoma as the obvious favorite, with the spread at least 25 points and a combined score over/under of about 54. Despite a strong showing from the Baylor defense, keeping Oklahoma scoreless until midway through the second quarter, the offense, led by third string Nick Florence, was just as unable to score. After Oklahoma made two touchdowns to bring the game to 14\u20130, Baylor was able to act as well, responding with a touchdown of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nIn the second half, Oklahoma consistently moved the ball down the field, but was held by Baylor's defense to four field goals, before finally scoring a touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Blake Szymanski, Baylor's second-string quarterback, led the Bears' final drive; despite a 42-yard pass from Szymanski to David Gettis, Baylor did not score due to an end zone interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma, Series history\nBaylor has played Oklahoma eighteen times, with thirteen games in Big 12 play. The Bears have never defeated the Sooners, making Oklahoma the only opponent Baylor has faced at least five times and never beaten. The closest recent game was in 2005, when the Sooners won 37\u201330 in a double-overtime game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nBaylor meets Iowa State for a game that will break a losing streak for one of the teams. Baylor has lost twelve consecutive Big 12 road games dating back to 2006, and Iowa State has lost eleven straight Big 12 games, including a loss to Baylor at Floyd Casey Stadium in 2008 (Iowa State also has lost fifteen consecutive Big 12 road games, dating back to 2005). For Iowa State, the game is particularly important, as it aims for its first Homecoming game victory since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nSports betting websites gave Iowa State a narrow 1.5-point advantage, with an over/under between 50 and 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nDespite scoring first with a field goal, Baylor was kept out of the endzone for nearly the whole game, finally scoring a touchdown in the final minute of play. Iowa State University, dominant throughout the entire game, secured their first conference win since 2007. Starting quarterback Blake Szymanski threw three interceptions, the most by a Baylor player since the 2007 game against Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Iowa State, Series history\nBaylor and Iowa State have met eight times, splitting victories equally between them. Baylor has won their last two meetings; in 2008, the Bears won one their two conference games against Iowa State, 38\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201805-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Baylor Bears football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nHaving lost its last nineteen games against ranked opponents, Baylor was hoping for a Homecoming miracle to beat #12 Oklahoma State. Unfortunately, Oklahoma State, facing major injuries like Baylor, was preparing for its showdown with the Texas Longhorns for the Big 12 South leadership, and used Baylor to do it. OSU quarterback set a team record with his 85 percent completion rate, and Baylor scored its first points, a touchdown and successful try, in the fourth quarter. Statistically, the teams' efforts were similar, except in OSU's much better ability to rush the ball, and its better kickoff yardage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201806-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships\nThe 2009 SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is a beach volleyball event, that was held from June 26 to July 5, 2009 in Stavanger, Norway. The Swatch FIVB World Championships are organized every two years, and Norway is the first Northern European country to host the event. The city of Stavanger had earlier hosted ten Open and Grand Slam events at the SWATCH FIVB World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201806-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships\nThe 2009 event was the seventh official edition of the championship, after ten unofficial championships (1987\u20131996) all held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201807-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bedford municipal election\nThe 2009 Town of Bedford municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in the town of Bedford, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Claude Dubois was returned without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201808-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Beemapally police shooting\nThe 2009 Beemapally police shooting was a police shooting that happened at Beemapally, a coastal area in southern Kerala, India. Six people died and 42 others were injured. Four policemen were suspended and the city police commissioner was transferred in the aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201808-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Beemapally police shooting, Investigation\nA judicial commission headed by district judge K. Ramakrishnan investigated the incident. The Commission submitted a report to then chief minister Oommen Chandi in January 2012. Following the report, the state government requested the CBI to investigate the explosives found at the location. The CBI submitted a closure report on 2013, stating they could not establish how the explosives arrived at the location and which people were behind it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201808-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Beemapally police shooting, Investigation\nThe judicial commission report rejected allegations that the police firing is unjustifiable and concluded that it was the police action which prevented a large scale communal riot. The Beemapally Muslim Jama-Ath Action committee rejected the judicial commission report by saying \"The Ramakrishnan Commission report has not offered any justice to the victims. In fact, it has portrayed people from the Muslim community in bad light\" and demanded strong action against the policemen involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201808-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Beemapally police shooting, In popular culture\nThe plot of the 2021 film Malik is supposedly based on this event. Director Mahesh Narayanan replied that the movie was \"taken from surroundings but it's still a fictional place with fictional characters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201809-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Beijing Guoan F.C. season\nThe  2009 Beijing Guoan F.C. season  was the 6th consecutive season in the Chinese Super League, established in the 2004 season, and 19th consecutive season in the top flight of Chinese football. They competed at the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201809-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Beijing Guoan F.C. season, First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201810-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Beijing International Challenge\nThe 2009 Beijing International Challenge (also known as the 2009 BTV Cup) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7\u201312 July 2009 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201810-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Beijing International Challenge\nLiang Wenbo won his first professional title by beating Stephen Maguire 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201810-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Beijing International Challenge, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201811-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian First League\n2009 Belarusian First League was the nineteenth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201811-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2008 season\nThe winners of last season (Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. Due to reduction of Premier League, the promoted team was replaced by three teams that finished at the bottom of 2008 Belarusian Premier League table (Lokomotiv Minsk, Savit Mogilev and Darida Minsk Raion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201811-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2008 season\nOne team that finished at the bottom of 2008 season table (PMC Postavy) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by the best team of 2008 Second League (DSK Gomel).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201811-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2008 season\nTwo of the three teams that relegated from Premier League (Savit Mogilev and Darida Minsk Raion) disbanded during the off-season. No teams were invited to replace them, and the planned First League expansion from 14 to 16 clubs did not happen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201811-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2008 season\nLokomotiv Minsk changed their name to SKVICH Minsk and Dinamo-Belcard Grodno shortened their name to Belcard Grodno prior to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201812-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian Premier League\nThe 2009 Belarusian Premier League was the 19th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 4 and ended on November 8, 2009. BATE Borisov were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201812-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian Premier League, Team changes from 2008 season\nDue to league reduction from 16 to 14 teams three relegated teams (Lokomotiv Minsk, Savit Mogilev and Darida Minsk Raion, who finished 14th, 15th and 16th in 2008 respectively) were replaced by only one team, the winner of 2008 First League Minsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201812-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belarusian Premier League, Overview\nBATE Borisov won their 6th champions title and qualified for the next season's Champions League. The championship runners-up Dinamo Minsk, bronze medalists Dnepr Mogilev and yet to be determined 2009-10 Cup winners qualified for the Europa League. Due to decision to gradually reduce Premiere League to 12 clubs (14 in 2009, 12 in 2010) three lowest placed teams (Gomel, Granit MikashevichiSmorgon) relegated to the First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201813-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Beledweyne bombing\nThe 2009 Beledweyne bombing took place on June 18, 2009 in Beledweyne, Hiiraan, Somalia. A suicide bomber carried out the attack, detonating an explosives-laden vehicle at the front gate of the Medina Hotel. The blast killed 35 people, among them the Somali security minister Omar Hashi Aden, former Somali ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union, Abdikarim Farah, and several Somali diplomats. Jihadist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201814-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Cup Final\nThe 2009 Belgian Cup Final, named Cofidis Cup after the sponsor, was played on Saturday, 23 May 2009 between Genk and KV Mechelen and won by Genk with 2\u20130. It was the 54th Belgian Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201815-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Figure Skating Championships\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 58.143.166.173 (talk) at 13:49, 25 June 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201815-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Belgian Figure Skating Championships (Dutch: Belgisch Kampioenschap 2009; French: Championnat de Belgique 2009) took place between 21 and 23 November 2008 in Lommel. Skaters competed in the discipline of ladies' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201815-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Figure Skating Championships\nSkaters from United Kingdom and The Netherlands competed as guest skaters and their results were discounted from the final results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Belgian Grand Prix (officially the 2009 Formula 1 ING Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 30 August 2009 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps near the town of Spa, Belgium. It was the 12th race of the 2009 Formula One season. The race was contested over 44 laps, with an overall race distance of 308.2\u00a0km (191.5\u00a0mi). The race was won by 2007 world champion Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen of Ferrari after starting from sixth on the grid. Giancarlo Fisichella of Force India came second after starting from the team's first and only pole position. Sebastian Vettel came third after starting from eighth on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix\nIt was R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's first Grand Prix victory since the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix and Ferrari's only victory of the season. Fisichella's second position gave Force India their first ever championship points and their first podium. This race also marks Fisichella's final podium and last points in Formula One, before he became a Ferrari test driver in 2010, as well as R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's 18th and last Grand Prix victory until the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and his last for Ferrari until the 2018 United States Grand Prix. This was the last race for Luca Badoer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJenson Button led the World Championship entering the Belgian race weekend despite not scoring a podium since early June. He had an 18-point lead over Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello. Mark Webber was 2\u00bd points behind Barrichello in third and was 4\u00bd points ahead of Red Bull Racing teammate Sebastian Vettel. The respective recoveries of Ferrari and McLaren ensured that the last two World Champions, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Lewis Hamilton, had scored podiums in the two races leading up to Belgium. Brawn GP led Red Bull Racing by 27\u00bd points in the Constructors' Championship. The next team, Ferrari, were 52\u00bd points behind Red Bull and 80 points behind Brawn. Ferrari's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, who had previously won the event three times, was the only former winner entered in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nRain affected the first practice session of the weekend. Only 10 cars got dry lap times in while the rest of the field posting lap times in the wet. Jarno Trulli posted the fastest lap followed by Button. Fernando Alonso was third followed by the two Toro Rossos. Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella posted the fastest time off the wet runners followed by Nico Rosberg. Neither Vettel nor Hamilton posted lap times. The second session stayed dry throughout with Hamilton topping the session. Timo Glock was second and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen third, the top three cars were separated by less than 0.7s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nFisichella kept his pace for Force India as he came sixth. This was one of the closest sessions in the history of Formula One with 18 of the 20 cars coming within less than a second from the leader. Only Rosberg and Luca Badoer were more than a second away from Hamilton's time. Both Brawns struggled coming only 17th and 18th. This session may have seen another indication that BMW Sauber have greatly improved their car after Nick Heidfeld topped the session. Another Toyota came second with Trulli and Force India's Adrian Sutil came third. Hamilton took 9th place with Button rounding off the top ten. Red Bull's problems with the Renault engine continued as Webber's engine had a major problem. This gave Red Bull-Renault their third engine failure in a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nThe first session would see five cars drop out and decide the final five grid positions. Badoer qualified 20th for the second race in a row, after crashing at the end of the session and bringing out the yellow flag, causing many drivers to slow down. Fisichella topped the session with Trulli finishing just behind him. The other four drivers to be knocked out at the end of the session were Renault's Romain Grosjean (P19), Williams's Kazuki Nakajima (P18) and the two Toro Rossos of Jaime Alguersuari (P17) and S\u00e9bastien Buemi (P16).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nThe second session would again see another five cars drop out to decide grid positions 11\u201315. The session was topped by the Toyota of Jarno Trulli, while BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica was second with Red Bull's Vettel coming third. Also significant in the second part of qualifying was the elimination of Brawn's Jenson Button who could only manage P14. The two McLarens of Heikki Kovalainen (P15) and Lewis Hamilton (P12) were also knocked out along with the second Renault of Alonso (P13) and Force India's Adrian Sutil (P11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nThe final session would see the remaining 10 grid positions be decided. Williams's new aero package was not working as they would like as Rosberg qualified P10. The two Red Bulls of Webber (P9) and Vettel (P8) seemed to struggle in conditions favouring their cars. Glock took P7 with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, driving the only KERS car in the top 10, coming in sixth. The two BMW Saubers' new updates seemed to be lifting the whole team as Kubica (P5) and Heidfeld (P3) achieved their best qualifying positions of the season. The only Brawn in the final session, that of Rubens Barrichello, took P4. One of the biggest surprises on an already unpredictable track, Force India took their very first pole position. It was Fisichella's first pole position since the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix. Trulli took second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAs the race started everyone seemed to make a good start apart from Rubens Barrichello, who almost stalled his car, causing him to drop to the back of the field. At Les Combes, at the top of the hill, a crash caused the safety car to come out. Romain Grosjean ran into the back of Jenson Button who in turn spun 180\u00b0 and collided with Grosjean for a second time, causing them to both retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nLewis Hamilton backed off after seeing the incidents ahead of him, which caused Jaime Alguersuari to run into him; both crashed into the barrier and retired. The safety car came in on lap 5 with Fisichella still leading and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen right behind him. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen closed up to the Force India driver through the Eau Rouge corner and passed him on the way into Les Combes. The main bulk of the first round of stops came in around lap 14. Mark Webber was released in front of Nick Heidfeld and was handed a drive through penalty, severely affecting his race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAfter the first stop Fisichella closed to within one second of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. Jarno Trulli retired from the race on lap 22; after starting on the front row he had dropped to the back of the field, having pitted after a first lap collision. Fernando Alonso retired on lap 27 with a suspected wheel problem after a first corner collision with Adrian Sutil. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Fisichella pitted for the second time on the same lap and it was the Finn who emerged in front and kept his lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel recorded the fastest lap of the race with a late push to try to catch the leaders but it was to no avail as R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen took the chequered flag for the first time this season with Fisichella scoring Force India's first-ever points with a second-place finish. Vettel finished third, followed by the two BMW Saubers and Heikki Kovalainen finishing sixth. After dropping to the back of the field at the start, Rubens Barrichello came in seventh with Nico Rosberg picking up the final point in eighth, finishing his seven race points streak. Barrichello's car was smoking from the back for the last few laps and the car caught fire in parc ferm\u00e9. Webber finished ninth for the second race in a row and scored no points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nWith Button failing to score, his championship lead became smaller for the second race in a row as his teammate Barrichello closed the gap by two points. Vettel's third place moved him ahead of his teammate Webber. Raikkonen's win further extended Ferrari's lead in the constructors' championship over McLaren, but his teammate Luca Badoer was again under scrutiny after finishing last for the second time: reports came out of the paddock that second place man Fisichella would replace him at Ferrari for the Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nOn 31 August Force India team principal Vijay Mallya reported that Fisichella would not be driving for Ferrari at Monza. However, on 3 September Fisichella was released from his contract at Force India and joined Ferrari until the end of the season. Force India announced on 7 September that Vitantonio Liuzzi, the team's test driver, would replace Fisichella for the remaining five races of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201816-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nOn 4 September, Renault were summoned to a meeting by Formula One's governing body, the FIA with the allegations of race fixing during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Renault faced the possibility of expulsion from the championship as McLaren were in the 2007 Formula One season. During the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting later that month, Renault admitted that Nelson Piquet Jr. had deliberately crashed under the instructions of Renault team principal Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds, in the hope of helping Alonso win. The Renault team were handed a disqualification from F1, which was suspended for two years pending any further rule infringements. Briatore was banned from all FIA-sanctioned events for life, while Symonds was banned for five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201817-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian Super Cup\nThe 2009 Belgian Super Cup is a football match that was played on 25 July 2009, between league winners Standard Li\u00e8ge and cup winners K.R.C. Genk. The cup was won 2\u20130 by Standard Li\u00e8ge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections\nRegional elections were held in Belgium on 7 June 2009 to choose representatives in the regional parliaments of Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community of Belgium. These elections were held on the same day as the European elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections\nThe Parliament of the French Community is composed of all elected members of the Walloon Parliament (except German-speakers) and 19 of the French-speaking members of the Brussels Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections, Flemish Parliament\nAll 124 members of the Flemish Parliament were elected. The five Flemish provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders, Antwerp, Flemish Brabant and Limburg) each are a constituency, plus the Brussels-Capital Region where those voting for a Dutch-language party could also vote in the Flemish election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections, Flemish Parliament\nNotes:1) * = The results of Christian Democratic & Flemish and the Socialist Party\u2013Differently are compared with the results of the Christian Democratic and Flemish / New Flemish Allianceand the Socialist Party\u2013Differently / Spirit (now the Social Liberal Party) joint lists in the 2004 regional elections.2) FLA = Flanders, BRU = Brussels (Capital Region), TOT = total", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections, Walloon Parliament\nAll 75 members of the Walloon Regional Parliament were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections, Brussels Regional Parliament\nAll 89 members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region were elected. Those voting for a Dutch-language party could also cast a vote for the Flemish parliamentary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201818-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Belgian regional elections, Parliament of the German-speaking Community\nAll 25 members of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201819-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belizean municipal elections\nA municipal election was held in Belize on 4 March 2009. Voters elected sixty seven representatives, eighteen in city councils (11 Belize City, 7 Belmopan) and forty nine in town councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201819-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belizean municipal elections, Participating parties, Belize City\nMayor of Belize City Zenaida Moya will seek reelection after fighting off a challenge by Councillor Anthony Michael. She will be challenged by retired public officer Dr. Cecil Reneau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201819-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belizean municipal elections, Participating parties, Belmopan\nSimeon Lopez, sitting mayor, won a local convention on August 17, defeating younger challengers Khalid Belisle and subordinate Eugene Brown. He will be challenged by the PUP's Rosalind Casey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201820-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Belmont Stakes\nThe 2009 Belmont Stakes was the 141st running of the Belmont Stakes. The race took place on June 6, 2009, and was televised on ABC and ESPN360. The value of the race was $1,000,000 in stakes. Post time was 6:19\u00a0p.m. EST. As the final jewel in the Triple Crown, this year's event was run without the elusive championship at stake as 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird was defeated in the Preakness. The attendance at Belmont Park was 52,861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201820-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Belmont Stakes\nSummer Bird closed stoutly in the stretch and was victorious over Dunkirk and Mine That Bird, who battled on for the minor placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201820-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race announcements\nAfter winning the Preakness, connections of winner Rachel Alexandra were not committed to the race. With a week before the race they decided not to enter the filly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201820-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race announcements\nAmong the possible challengers to Mine That Bird are Summer Bird, who shares the same sire\u2014Birdstone, and Chocolate Candy, Dunkirk, Flying Private, Brave Victory, Charitable Man, Luv Gov, Miner\u2019s Escape, Mr. Hot Stuff and Nowhere To Hide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201820-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Belmont Stakes, The Field\nThe draw for The Belmont Stakes was done on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Mine That Bird was made the morning line 2-1 favorite and tried to become the 61st favorite to win  and the first since Afleet Alex in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201821-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bergen International Film Festival\nThe 2009 Bergen International Film Festival was arranged in Bergen, Norway 21st-28 October 2009, and was the 10th edition of the festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201821-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bergen International Film Festival, Films in competition, Jubilee program\nOn the occasion of the 10th version of the Bergen International Film Festival, festival leader Tor Fosse arranged a special jubilee program consisting of special films that where important in the creation of independent Norwegian film festivals in 80s and 90s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201822-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Berlin Marathon\nThe 2009 Berlin Marathon was the 36th edition of the Berlin Marathon. The marathon took place in Berlin, Germany, on 20 September 2009 and was the fourth World Marathon Majors race of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201822-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Berlin Marathon\nThe men's race was won by Haile Gebrselassie in 2:06:08 hours and the women's race was won by Atsede Habtamu in a time of 2:24:47 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201823-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Best of Nollywood Awards\nThe year 2009 saw the first Best of Nollywood Awards, recognising achievement in the Nigerian film industry. Ramsey Nouah won Best Actor, Ini Edo won Best Actress, and Izu Ojukwu won the directors' award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201824-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan A-Division\nThe 2009 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the fifteenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Druk Star FC, their second title. They qualified as Bhutan's representatives in the 2010 AFC President's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201824-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan A-Division, League table\nTeams played each other on a home and away basis, there was no relegation play-off this season, the bottom two teams were relegated automatically. Ngangpa were promoted from the B-Division for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201825-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan earthquake\nThe 2009 Bhutan earthquake occurred on 21 September at 14:53 BTT (08:53 UTC) in the eastern region of Bhutan with moment magnitude of 6.1. The epicenter was situated at 180 kilometres (110\u00a0mi) east of the capital Thimphu, in Monggar District. However, Bangladesh and northern India also felt it, with buildings in Guwahati, Assam, cracking up. The tremors were felt as far as Tibet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201825-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan earthquake\nAt least eleven people are reported to have been killed\u2014seven in Bhutan, four in India. The death toll, initially ten, increased when one more died in the night. At least fifteen were wounded. Many of the deaths in Bhutan came about when their houses fell in on top of them. The Indians were construction workers whose road fell through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201825-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan earthquake\nOne businessman said the earthquake happened as shopping was underway for the Blessed Rainy Day ceremony of Buddhism. Another inhabitant said it \"made the surrounding hills look like they were throwing up dust\" and that \"the road was suddenly filled with boulders and mud\". Thousands are living outdoors as a result. Children were crushed under structures as they caved in. Roads were blocked but these were cleaned up relatively quickly. Monasteries were also struck. People ran for their lives out of their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201825-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan earthquake, Aftershocks\nAn earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale was heard in Myanmar and the northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur and the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201825-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bhutan earthquake, Reaction\nPrime Minister of Bhutan Jigme Thinley said the earthquake was \"one of the biggest disasters in recent times\". He also said the length of the earthquake (95 seconds) was \"very long\". He and his home minister embarked on a visit to the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201826-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Biante Touring Car Masters\nThe 2009 Biante Touring Car Masters was an Australian motor racing series  for pre-1974 Touring Cars. It was the third annual Touring Car Masters series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201826-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Biante Touring Car Masters\nGroup 1 was won by Gavin Bullas driving a Ford Mustang and Group 2 by Trevor Talbot driving a Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game\nThe 2009 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game was held on December 5, 2009 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The divisional winners from the Big 12 Conference squared off in the 14th edition of the game. The Texas Longhorns represented the South Division and the Nebraska Cornhuskers represented the North. Texas won 13\u201312 on a last second field goal by placekicker Hunter Lawrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game\nOn the play immediately prior to Lawrence's field goal, as the game clock ticked down Texas quarterback Colt McCoy rolled far to the right, with Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh in hot pursuit, and threw a pass well downfield and out of bounds. The game clock ran out, which would have ended the game, with Nebraska appearing to win 12\u201310. However, pursuant to Rule 12-3-6, the video replay official determined that an \"egregious\", and therefore reviewable, error concerning the game clock had occurred and ordered the errantly elapsed one second be returned to the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game\nThe ESPN/ABC video feed showed that McCoy's pass hit a stadium railing out of bounds with :01 left, allowing Texas to kick the winning field goal to advance to the BCS title game. This controversy has led to the game being called by some followers as One Second Left. After the game, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said that the 1 second rule was part of a BCS conspiracy. The game was the third championship tilt between the Cornhuskers and Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game\nUnranked Texas upset #3 Nebraska 37\u201327 in 1996 in St. Louis, Missouri, while #2 Nebraska beat #12 Texas 22\u20136 in 1999 in San Antonio, Texas. Texas is now 3\u20132 in the conference title game; Nebraska fell to 2\u20133. Texas is second in Big 12 Championship titles to Oklahoma, who own 7 conference titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game\nPer Big 12 policy, Nebraska was declared the home team because the game took place in a home state of four Big 12 South teams. Designated \"home\" teams are 9\u20135 in Big 12 Championship Games. The South Division has won 6 years in a row and is 10\u20134 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201827-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Championship Game, Selection process\nThe Big 12 Championship Game matched up the winner of the North and South divisions of the Big 12 Conference. The game was first played in 1996, when the conference was assembled to include all of the teams from the Big Eight Conference as well as four teams that had formerly been members of the Southwest Conference. The championship game was modeled on the SEC format, which was the first conference in college football to have a conference championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201828-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament was held at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, from May 20 to May 24, 2009. This was the fourth year the conference used the round robin tournament setup. The winners of each group at the end of the round robin faced each other in a one-game match for the championship. The Texas Longhorns defeated the Missouri Tigers, 12-7 to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201829-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Softball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big 12 Conference Softball tournament was held at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, OK from May 8 through May 10, 2009. Missouri won their second conference tournament and earned the Big 12 Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201829-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Softball Tournament\nOklahoma, Missouri, Baylor, Texas, Nebraska, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State received bids to the NCAA tournament. Missouri would go on to play in the 2009 Women's College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201830-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the 13th edition of the Big 12 Conference's annual championship tournament, held at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City from March 12 until March 15, 2009. The Tournament Champion, Baylor's Lady Bears, received an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201830-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe single-elimination tournament had four rounds, with the top four seeds receiving byes in the first round. Seeding was based on regular season records. The Tournament has been held every year since 1997. It was run simultaneously with the 2009 Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201831-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2009 Big 12 Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big 12 Conference held from November 4 to 8, 2009. The 8-match tournament was held at the Blossom Athletic Center in San Antonio, TX with a combined attendance of 6,750. The 9-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Oklahoma State Cowgirls defeated the Texas A&M Aggies in the championship match to win their 2nd conference tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201832-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference football season\nThe 2009 Big 12 Conference football season was the 14th season for the Big 12, as part of the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201832-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference football season, Preseason, Media Poll\nRanked by total points, first place votes shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201832-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Conference football season, All-Big 12 Teams & Awards, Individual Awards\nCoach of the Year:                 Mack Brown \u2013 Texas Offensive Lineman of the Year:     Russell Okung \u2013 Oklahoma State Defensive Lineman of the Year:     Ndamukong Suh \u2013  Nebraska Offensive Freshman of the Year:    Christine Michael \u2013 Texas A&M Defensive Freshman of the Year:    Aldon Smith \u2013 Missouri Special Teams Player of the Year:  Brandon Banks \u2013 Kansas State Defensive Newcomer of the Year:    David Sims \u2013 Iowa State Offensive Newcomer of the Year:    Daniel Thomas \u2013 Kansas State Defensive Player of the Year:     Ndamukong Suh \u2013 Nebraska Offensive Player of the Year:     Colt McCoy \u2013 Texas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201833-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship was the 13th edition of the Big 12 Conference's championship tournament held at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City from March 11 until March 14, 2009. The University of Missouri Tigers defeated the Baylor University Bears 73\u201360 in the championship game to claim their first Big 12 Tournament title for Mizzou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201833-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeding\nThe Tournament consisted of a 12 team single-elimination tournament with the top 4 seeds receiving a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201834-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Bright House Field in Clearwater, FL. This was the twenty fifth annual Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, and third to be held at Bright House Field. The Louisville Cardinals won their second tournament championship in a row and claimed the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Louisville joined the league prior to the 2006 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201834-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe Big East baseball tournament was an 8 team double elimination tournament in 2009. The top eight regular season finishers were seeded one through eight based on conference winning percentage only. The field was divided into two brackets, with the winners of each bracket meeting in a single championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201834-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Tournament\n\u2020 - Indicates game was suspended after 7 innings due to 10 run mercy rule. \u2021 - Indicates game was suspended after 8 innings due to 10 run mercy rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201834-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Jack Kaiser Award\nAndrew Clark was the winner of the 2009 Jack Kaiser Award. Clark was a junior first baseman for Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season\nThe 2009 Big East football season was an NCAA football season that was played from September 5, 2009, to January 2, 2010. The Big East Conference consists of 8 football members:  Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, and West Virginia. Cincinnati won the Big East Championship for the second consecutive year and was invited to the Allstate Sugar Bowl where they lost to Florida 51\u201324. Overall, the Big East went 4\u20132 in Bowl Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Previous season\nCincinnati (11-3) was the Big East champions and got the conference's automatic bid into the BCS and went to the FedEx Orange Bowl, losing to ACC champion Virginia Tech 20-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Previous season\nFive other Big East teams went to bowl games in 2008, finishing bowl play with a record of 4-2 as a conference. Connecticut (8-5) beat Buffalo 38-20 in the International Bowl. Pittsburgh (9-4) lost to Oregon State 3-0 in the Brut Sun Bowl. Rutgers (8-5) beat North Carolina State 29-23 in the PapaJohns.com Bowl. South Florida (8-5) beat Memphis 41-14 in the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl. And West Virginia (9-4) beat North Carolina 31-30 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. The only two teams not to go to a bowl game were Louisville (5-7) and Syracuse (3-9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll\nThe 2009 Big East Preseason Poll was announced at the Big East Media Day in Newport, RI on August 4. Pittsburgh was chosen as the favorite to win the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Regular season\nRankings reflect that of the USA Today Coaches poll for that week until week eight when the BCS rankings will be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Regular season, Week Seven\nOn October 18, UConn cornerback Jasper Howard was stabbed to death during a fight at an on campus dance. Howard had a career-high 11 tackles and forced a 3rd-quarter fumble to earn the game ball just hours before his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201835-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Conference football season, Awards and honors, Big East Conference Awards\nThe following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Big East Conference football coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201836-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place in March 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Louisville Cardinals defeated the Syracuse Orange 76\u201366 in the tournament finals to earn the Big East Tournament championship for the first time, and received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201836-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament\nThis was the first Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first-round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals. The tournament featured a conference record six-overtime quarterfinals game (the second longest game in NCAA history) in which Syracuse defeated UConn 127\u2013117.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201836-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Results, Quarterfinals, Syracuse vs. Connecticut\nThe quarterfinal game on Thursday, March 12 between Syracuse and Connecticut lasted for six overtime periods, the second-longest game in NCAA Division I Men's Basketball history. The record is a seven overtime game from December 21, 1981, in which Cincinnati outlasted Bradley 75\u201373, in a game that took place before the implementation of the shot clock. Syracuse beat Connecticut 127\u2013117 without having the lead in any of the first five overtimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201836-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Results, Quarterfinals, Syracuse vs. Connecticut\nThe game tipped off at 9:36 PM ET and ended at 1:22 AM ET on Friday March 13; in the 3 hours and 46 minutes it took to play the game, a combined total of 244 points were scored (102 of which were scored in overtime), 211 field-goals attempted (103 in overtime), 93 free throws attempted, 66 fouls committed with four players on each team fouling out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201837-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament took place in March 2009 at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The Connecticut Huskies defeated the Louisville Cardinals 75-36 in the tournament finals to receive the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. This was the first Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first-round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201838-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big League World Series\nThe 2009 Big League World Series took place from July 29-August 5 in Easley, South Carolina, United States. Santiago,  Dominican Republic defeated Thousand Oaks,  California in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201839-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 7\u201311, 2009. The winner, Portland State, advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Teams were re-seeded after the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201840-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament  was the postseason baseball tournament for the Big South Conference, held from May 19\u201323, 2009 at McCormick Field, home field of UNC Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina. The top eight teams participated in the double-elimination tournament. The champion, Coastal Carolina, won the title for the tenth time, and earned an invitation to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201840-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament, Format\nThe top eight finishers from the round-robin regular season qualified for the tournament. The teams were seeded one through eight based on conference winning percentage. The bottom seeds played a single elimination play-in round, with the two winners joining the top four seeds in a six team double-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201840-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nDavid Anderson was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Anderson was a first baseman for Coastal Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201841-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 3\u20137, 2009. It was won by the Radford Highlanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201841-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe quarterfinals were held on campus sites, with the higher seed playing host in each game. The semifinals and finals were held at the Dedmon Center in Radford, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201842-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio from May 20 through 24. Third seeded Indiana won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201842-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe 2009 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous seven years, the top two seeds received a single bye, with the four lower seeds playing opening round games. The top seed played the lowest seeded winner from the opening round, with the second seed playing the higher seed. Teams that lost in the opening round played an elimination game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201842-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player\nMatt Bashore was named Most Outstanding Player. Bashore was a pitcher for Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 2009 Big Ten Conference football season was the 114th for the conference, and saw Ohio State conclude the regular season as Big Ten Conference champion for the 5th consecutive time, their 34th Big Ten title. This earned them the conference's automatic selection to a Bowl Championship Series game in which it emerged victorious in the January 1, 2010 Rose Bowl against Oregon Ducks. Co -runner-up, Iowa, earned the conference's at-large BCS invitation to the January 5, 2010 Orange Bowl. The season started on Thursday, September 3, as conference member Indiana hosted Eastern Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe conference\u2019s other 10 teams began their respective 2009 season of NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) competition two days later. All teams started their season at home except Illinois who started their season on neutral turf for the third consecutive season against Missouri and Minnesota who traveled to Syracuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season\nAlthough several players had post season All-star games remaining, the season concluded for Big Ten teams with the 2010 Orange Bowl in which Iowa defeated Georgia Tech. This was the seventh bowl game for the conference which compiled a 4\u20133 record. Over the  course of 77 home games, the conference set a new attendance record. During the season, Minnesota opened a new athletic stadium, TCF Bank Stadium, and Purdue welcomed a new head coach, Danny Hope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe season saw John Clay selected as offensive player of the year by both the coaches and the media. Jared Odrick and Greg Jones won defensive player of the year awards from the coaches and media, respectively. Chicago Tribune Silver Football recipients as the Big Ten co-MVPs were Daryll Clark and Brandon Graham. Jones was the conferences only consensus 2009 College Football All-America Team representative. The Big Ten Conference enjoyed two national statistical championships. Graham led the nation in tackles for a loss (TFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season\nRay Fisher earned the national statistical championship in kickoff return average and established a new Big Ten single-season record with his performance. The Big Ten led the nation with six first team Academic All-Americans. After the season, 34 athletes were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft including three in the first round and six each by Iowa and Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Previous season\nDuring the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Ohio State won its fourth consecutive Big Ten championship while co-champion Penn State won its second in four years. Although the two teams tied with 7\u20131 conference records, Penn State earned the conference's automatic Bowl Championship Series selection due to a head-to-head victory. The two teams have been the only teams from the conference to win a Big Ten championship in the past four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Previous season\nDuring the season, every home game was televised nationally and 98 percent of the Big Ten's games were nationally aired far exceeding all other conferences, none of whom had even 75 percent of their games televised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason\nIn a given year, each Big Ten team will play eight of the other Big Ten teams. Thus for any given team in a given year, there are two others which will not be competed against. Below is the breakdown of each team and its two \"no-plays\" for 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason\nThe Big Ten Conference announced on July 27 that the big ten media had elected Ohio State as the preseason favorite for the 2009 football season. It had ranked Penn State second and Michigan State third. It chose Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason\nIn the Preseason Coaches' Poll released on August 7, the Big Ten was one of only three conferences with multiple teams ranked in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason\nThe College Football Hall of Fame has selected Iowa's Larry Station (1982\u201385), Ohio State's Chris Spielman (1984\u201387) and Penn State's Curt Warner (1979\u201382) for December induction. 28 Big Ten athletes were selected in the 2009 National Football League Draft in late April, including four first-round picks. Two additional players were selected in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists\nAccording to the Big Ten Conference at the beginning of the season:\"The Big Ten now features 51 student-athletes on preseason watch lists for 19 different national awards. Among the honored conference players, 27 appear on more than one list and five Big Ten standouts lead the way by appearing on five different lists. Every Big Ten team has at least one player appearing on a watch list. Iowa, Ohio State and Penn State top all Big Ten schools with seven different players appearing on watch lists, followed by six nominees from Illinois and Michigan and five selections for Michigan State and Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists\nOn the offensive side of the ball, returning first-team All-Big Ten quarterback Daryll Clark of Penn State appears on the watch lists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year, Manning, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards. Illinois signal caller Juice Williams, a second-team All-Big Ten choice last year, appears on four different lists for the Manning, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards. Illini wideout Arrelious Benn (Biletnikoff, Walter Camp Player of the Year, Maxwell) and Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor (Manning, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien) appear on three different watch lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists\nPlayers appearing on two lists include Iowa offensive tackle Bryan Bulaga, Michigan running back Brandon Minor and offensive lineman David Molk, Michigan State center Joel Nitchman, Minnesota wideout Eric Decker and quarterback Adam Weber, Northwestern center Ben Burkett, Ohio State center Mike Brewster, Penn State running back Evan Royster and offensive lineman Stefan Wisniewski and the Wisconsin trio of running back John Clay, tight end Garrett Graham and center John Moffitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists\nOn the defensive side of the ball, four standouts appear on five different watch lists. Big Ten Preseason Defensive Player of the Year and returning first-team All-Big Ten linebacker Greg Jones of Michigan State has been named to the watch lists for the Bednarik, Butkus and Rotary Lombardi Awards and the Lott and Nagurski Trophies. Fellow linebacker Sean Lee of Penn State, who missed last season due to injury after earning second-team All-Big Ten accolades in 2007, appears on the same five watch lists as Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists\nDefensive ends Brandon Graham of Michigan and Corey Wootton of Northwestern were both tabbed for the Bednarik, Ted Hendricks, Rotary Lombardi, Lott  and Nagurski watch lists. Wootton was a first-team All-Big Ten choice last year while Graham was named to the second team. Two more Nittany Lion standouts were named to four watch lists in linebacker NaVorro Bowman (Bednarik, Butkus, Lombardi, Nagurski) and defensive tackle Jared Odrick (Bednarik, Lombardi, Nagurski, Outland). Other defensive standouts to appear on multiple lists include Illinois linebacker Martez Wilson, Indiana defensive end Jammie Kirlew, Iowa linebacker Pat Angerer and Ohio State safety Kurt Coleman.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists, Award watch lists\nLott Trophy, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, and Jim Thorpe Award watchlist candidate Kurt Coleman of Ohio State, was suspended by the Big Ten Conference for one game. The suspension was for a violation of the new 2009 NCAA football playing rule that required mandatory conference video review of an act where a player initiates helmet-to-helmet contact and targets a defenseless opponent. The incident occurred during the September 26 game against Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists, Midseason\nObi Ezeh, Jones and Lee were among the sixteen selected to the midseason Butkus watchlist and Clark was named as one of ten finalists for the Unitas award. Eight Big Ten athletes were named as semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy: Illinois' Jon Asamoah, Indiana's Jammie Kirlew, Michigan's Zoltan Mesko, Minnesota's Eric Decker, Northwestern's Andrew Brewer, Ohio State's Jim Cordle, Penn State's Josh Hull and Wisconsin's Mickey Turner on October 1. Four Big Ten Players midseason watch list for the John Mackey Award: Moeaki, Gantt, Quarless and Graham. Three were quarterfinalists for the Lott Award: Angerer, Jones and Coleman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Watchlists, Midseason\nThe Big Ten had two O'Brien Award semifinalists: Stanzi and Clark. Eric Decker was named one of 10 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award. Jones has been selected as a semifinalists for the Bednarik Award along with Angerer, Bowman and Wisconsin defensive end O'Brien Schofield. Hawkeyes' Tyler Sash was chosen as a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award. Swenson and Northwestern's Stefan Demos were named semifinalists for the Groza Award. Mesko, Blair White, and Andrew Brewer were among the 12 finalists for the Wuerffel Trophy. Mesko, and Donahue were among 10 semifinalists for the Guy Award. Mesko was named one of three finalists for the Ray Guy Award. Michigan's Graham was a finalist for the Henricks Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Rankings\nUnlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a National Championship title. That title is bestowed by one or more of four different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason: the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll. Two additional polls are released midway through the season; the Harris Interactive Poll is released after the fourth week of the season and the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings is released after the seventh week. The Harris Poll and Coaches Poll are factors in the BCS Standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Season\nPurdue head coach Danny Hope began his  first season in West Lafayette. On September 12, Minnesota opened the 2009 season its new 50,720-seat home field, TCF Bank Stadium when the team hosted the Air Force Falcons. For the third straight year, each Big Ten home game during the first three weeks of the season was broadcast nationally on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 or the Big Ten Network, which televised more than 20 contests altogether in the opening weeks, including all nine home games in Week 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Season\nEvery ABC afternoon telecast was broadcast nationally, either on ABC or simultaneously on ESPN or ESPN2. Note that although the Big Ten is a regional conference the Big Ten Network, which was available in 19 of the 20 largest U.S. media markets, was available to approximately 73 million homes in the U.S. and Canada through agreements with more than 250 cable television or satellite television affiliates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Season\nThe season began amidst allegations that Michigan was working its players beyond the extent permissible by the NCAA. Nonetheless, the conference had its fifth ten-win week during the opening weekend. During week 3, the Ohio State-USC game became the most-viewed college football game in ESPN history. After three weeks, the Big Ten Conference was the only Football Bowl Subdivision conference with five 3\u20130 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Records against other conferences\nThe following summarizes the Big Ten's record this season vs. other conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Records against other conferences, Big Ten vs. BCS matchups\nDuring the season, Big Ten teams played several games against BCS conference opponents. Some of these games are regularly contested rivalry games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 100], "content_span": [101, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Records against other conferences, Bowl games\nOn December 6, the Bowl matchups were announced. It marked the fifth consecutive season that at least seven Big Ten teams earned bowl game invitations and the ninth time in twelve-year history of the Bowl Championship Series that the conference was awarded two BCS invitations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Players of the week\nThroughout the conference regular season, the Big Ten offices named offensive, defensive and special teams players of the week each Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors\nAt the conclusion of week 12, the coaches and media made Big Ten Conference football individual honors selections. John Clay was selected as offensive player of the year by both the coaches and the media. Jared Odrick and Greg Jones won defensive player of the year awards from the coaches and media, respectively. Bryan Bulaga and Odrick were selected as offensive and defensive linemen of the year. Chris Borland was freshman of the year and Kirk Ferentz was Coach of the Year. The Chicago Tribune Silver Football recipients as the Big Ten co-MVPs were Daryll Clark and Brandon Graham, marking the first time the award has been shared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors, All-Conference\nThe following players were selected as All-Big Ten at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 102], "content_span": [103, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors, All-Americans\nThe following players were chosen as All-Americans for the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, ESPN, Football Writers Association of America, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, Rivals.com, Scout.com, College Football News, Walter Camp Football Foundation or the Pro Football Weekly teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 101], "content_span": [102, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors, All-Star Games\nThe following players were selected to play in post season All-Star Games:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 102], "content_span": [103, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors, All-Star Games\nKafka earned offensive MVP; Shofield was named defensive MVP, and White led all receivers with seven catches for 93 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 102], "content_span": [103, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference football individual honors, All-Star Games\nBrandon Graham earned MVP honors with five tackles, two sacks, one forced fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 102], "content_span": [103, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistics\nThe Big Ten had two national statistical leaders: Brandon Graham led the nation with 2.17 tackles for a loss per game ahead of national second-place finisher O'Brien Schofield and Ray Fisher led the nation in kickoff return average with 37.35. Greg Jones ranked third nationally in tackles per game at 11.85 followed closely by Pat Angerer who finished fourth. Ryan Kerrigan finished third in quarterback sacks per game with 1.08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistics\nThe Big Ten saw several career and single-season Big Ten records fall. Mike Kafka broke Drew Brees 1998 record for single-season offensive plays (642 vs. 638). Fisher's return average was a Big Ten single-season record, surpassing the 1965 record. Troy Stoudermire accumulated 43 kickoff returns, which tied Earl Douthitt's 1973 single-season total. David Gilreath's 108 career kickoff returns surpassed the 106 set by Brandon Williams (2002\u201305) and Derrick Mason (1993\u201396).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistics\nOther near single-season records were Tyler Sash's 203 interception return yards, which fell short of the 207 set in 2003 by Alan Zemaitis and Ryan Kerrigan's 7 forced fumbles, which was short of the 8 set by Jonal Saint-Dic in 2007. Jim Tressel became the second head coach to secure five consecutive Big Ten championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Attendance\nIn 2009, the Big Ten established a new overall conference attendance record with 5,526,237 fans attending 77 home games. This surpassed the previous record set in 2002 when a total of 5,499,439 was reached in 78 contests. Below is a table of home game attendances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic honors\n26 Big Ten student-athletes were named to the Academic All-District teams presented by ESPN The Magazine, including 18 first-team selections: Illinois' Jon Asamoah, Indiana's Brandon Bugg, Trea Burgess and Ben Chappell, Michigan's Zoltan Mesko, Michigan State's Blair White, Minnesota's Eric Decker and Jeff Tow-Arnett, Northwestern's Doug Bartels, Stefan Demos and Zeke Markshausen, Penn State's Jeremy Boone, Josh Hull, Andrew Pitz and Stefen Wisniewski, Purdue's Joe Holland and Ryan Kerrigan and Wisconsin's Brad Nortman. The Nittany Lions were one of only six schools nationwide with four or more first-team selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic honors\nSecond-team picks included the Hawkeyes' Julian Vandervelde, the Wolverines' Jon Conover, the Spartans' Adam Decker and Andrew Hawken and the Buckeyes' Bryant Browning, Todd Denlinger, Andrew Moses and Marcus Williams. To be eligible for the award, a player must be in at least his second year of athletic eligibility, be a first-team or key performer and carry a cumulative 3.30 grade point average. First-team selections will be added to the national ballot and are eligible for Academic All-America honors to be announced on November 24. Penn State's Hull and Pitz are looking to earn Academic All-America accolades for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic honors\nFor the fifth consecutive season the Big Ten had more (8) student-athletes named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first or second teams in football than any other conference whether they be a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Big Ten also had six of the fifteen first-team selections, which led the nation. FCS' Missouri Valley Conference was second with five first or second team selections and the FBS' Big 12 Conference had four honorees. Only the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference had two first team selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, Academic honors\nThe Academic All-America first-team honorees from the Big Ten include Zoltan Mesko, Blair White, Zeke Markshausen, Josh Hull, Andrew Pitz and Stefen Wisniewski. Second-team honors went to Northwestern's Stefan Demos and Purdue's Ryan Kerrigan. Hull and Pitz were repeat first-team selections. The Big Ten conference also recognized 193 football players as fall term 2009-10 Academic All-Conference honorees, including Purdue's Joe Holland who has maintained a 4.0 Grade Point Average. The student-athletes honorees were letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution and who carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201843-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Conference football season, 2010 NFL Draft\nThe 2010 saw 34 Big Ten athletes selected. This included at least one representative from each member school, making the Big Ten one of only two conferences to have each of its members repreented among the draft selections. Iowa and Penn State each had six selections. The Big Ten had three first round selections: Big Ten Silver Football co-winner Brandon Graham was selected 13th overall by Philadelphia. Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year Bryan Bulaga 23rd by Green Bay, while Big Ten Defensive Player and Lineman of the Year Jared Odrick was chosen 28th overall by Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201844-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 12 and March 15, 2009 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the 11th annual Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament. The championship was won by Purdue who defeated Ohio State in the championship game. As a result, Purdue received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The win marked Purdue's first tournament championship in only their second appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201844-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll Big Ten schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top five teams received a first round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201845-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will take place in March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201845-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top two seed receive byes into the semifinals. Seeds 3 and 4 receive byes into the quarterfinals. If necessary, the bracket will be adjusted after each round so that the top and bottom seeds in each round play in the same game. The ninth place team, Cal Poly, did not receive a tournament invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201846-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 BigPond 300\nThe 2009 BigPond 300 is the thirtieth event of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of 20 and 22 November at the Barbagallo Raceway in Western Australia. The two races were won by the two Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford drivers, Jamie Whincup winning on Saturday, Craig Lowndes on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup\nThe 2009 Billie Jean King Cup was an exhibition women's tennis tournament played on March 2, 2009 in New York City, United States. It marked the inaugural year of the tournament, and the first time women's tennis had been played at Madison Square Garden since 2000, when the year-ending Chase Championships were held there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup\nBroadcast internationally on HBO, the event featured 2008 US Open Champion Serena Williams, 2008 Wimbledon Champion Venus Williams, 2008 French Open Champion Ana Ivanovic and 2008 year end world No. 1 ranked player Jelena Jankovi\u0107, who filled in as a wild card for the injured 2008 Australian Open Champion Maria Sharapova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup\nSerena Williams won her semifinal match against Ana Ivanovic 6\u20133, and Venus Williams won hers 6\u20134 against Jelena Jankovi\u0107. The final was won by Serena 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup\nBetween the semifinals and final a tribute was paid to tennis legend and pioneer Billie Jean King. The tribute featured a speech by former president Bill Clinton, and appearances by figure skaters Sarah Hughes and Nancy Kerrigan, race car driver Janet Guthrie, Billie Jean King's long time double's partner Rosie Casals and other prominent women in sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup\nA portion of the proceeds from the 2009 event benefited the Dream Vaccines Foundation and the Women's Sports Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Players\nAna Ivanovic - 2008 Roland Garros Grand Slam singles champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Players\nSerena Williams - 2008 US Open Grand Slam singles champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Players\nJelena Jankovic - 2008 US Open Grand Slam singles runner-up", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Draw, Reception\nThe 2009 Billie Jean King Cup was questioned by some for the element of spectacle and prize money at the event. Attendance of the event was described as \"so-so\" (though inclement weather was cited as a valid factor). The semifinal matches, because of their brevity due to the scoring structure, were criticized as being played \"largely with something like a clock-puncher's resignation\". The final match between Venus and Serena Williams, however, was considered more engaging, as another match in the continuing rivalry between the Williams sisters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Draw, Reception\nWell known sports and tennis writer, Jon Wertheim praised the event in one of his SI.com mailbag entries, \"Here it is, early March, traditionally, a time in the sports calendar when tennis is off the radar. And\u2014as was the case last year when Federer played Sampras\u2014tennis not only gets some buzz, but also 12,000 or so fans on the East Coast (and a few hundred thousand with HBO) can watch the sport live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201847-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Billie Jean King Cup, Draw, Reception\nThe players get some extra cash, as well as a chance to penetrate the New York market, not insignificant if you're trying to build Ivanovic as a global star. The USTA wisely used the occasion to market the sport nationwide. BNP Paribas gets some value for their tennis investment. Everyone comes away happy. Here's hoping this is an annual event. Maybe next year you combine genders?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201848-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 2009 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201848-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 12 June 2009 in the United Kingdom, on 8 June 2009 in Australia, on 1 June 2009 in New Zealand, and on 15 June 2009 in The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Belize, and Antigua & Barbuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201848-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201848-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours, Australia\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 2009 for Australia were announced on 8 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201848-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours, New Zealand\nThe 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours for New Zealand were announced on 1 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201849-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 1 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201849-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201850-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open\nThe 2009 Black Forest Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Freudenstadt, Germany between 31 August and 6 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201850-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201850-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received special exemption into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201850-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open, Champions, Doubles\nJan H\u00e1jek /  Du\u0161an Karol def. Martin Kli\u017ean /  Adil Shamasdin, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201851-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open \u2013 Doubles\nDick Norman and Kristof Vliegen chose to not defend their title. Jan H\u00e1jek and Du\u0161an Karol won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20135], against Martin Kli\u017ean and Adil Shamasdin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201852-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Black Forest Open \u2013 Singles\nSimon Greul was the champion in 2008, but he decided to not defend his title. Jan H\u00e1jek won this tournament, by defeating Laurent Recouderc 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20135) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201853-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes\nThe 2009 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 85th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place in Baltimore, Maryland on May 15, 2009, and was televised in the United States on the Bravo TV network owned by NBC. Ridden by jockey Terry Thompson, Payton d'Oro, won the race by one and one quarter lengths over runner-up Bon Jovi Girl. Approximate post time on the evening before the Preakness Stakes was 5:50 p.m. Eastern Time and the race was run for a purse of $150,000. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:49.75. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 23,819.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team\nThe 2009 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos played their home games at Bronco Stadium, most famous for its blue artificial turf surface, often referred to as the \"smurf-turf\". They completed the regular season undefeated (13\u20130), their second consecutive unbeaten regular season and fourth in the last six years (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009), and won the WAC title for the seventh time in the last eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team\nThe Broncos capped their season with a showdown against fellow unbeaten TCU in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl, which marked the Broncos' return to the site of the game that put the program on the national sports map, the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. With their 17\u201310 win, the Broncos avenged a loss to the Horned Frogs in the previous season's Poinsettia Bowl, and became only the second team in Division I FBS history to finish a season 14\u20130, after Ohio State in 2002 (Alabama became the third team to go 14\u20130 just three days after the Fiesta Bowl). The Broncos finished ranked #4 in the Associated Press and USA Today coaches poll for their highest ranking in school history to finish a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team\nHead Coach Chris Petersen was named the Paul \"Bear\" Bryant National Coach of the Year, an award he also won following the 2006 season. Petersen is the first two-time winner of the award since it was renamed in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Previous season\nThe Broncos were one of only two teams (the other being the Utah Utes) to finish the 2008 regular season with an undefeated record and win their sixth WAC Championship in seven years. However, The Broncos were unable to finish the season undefeated after losing 17\u201316 to #11 TCU in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season\nThe Broncos entered the 2009 season as one of the youngest college teams in the nation, with only five seniors on their roster, easily the fewest in FBS. No other team had fewer than nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season\nTwo Broncos were listed on scout.com's list of the 100 best returning players in the nation. Senior defensive back Kyle Wilson at #54 (#5 best DB) and sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore at #37 (#11 best QB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, All-American lists\nKyle Wilson (Sr.-DB)- Playboy, nationalchamps.net 2nd team, CBSSports.com. 2nd team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, Pre-season Top 25 polls\nOn August 6 Boise State received 542 points to rank 16th in the USA Today preseason poll, two spots behind their season opening opponent, Oregon. The Broncos were the highest rated non BCS conference school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, Pre-season Top 25 polls\nOn August 22 Boise State received 659 points to rank 14th in the Associated Press preseason poll, two spots ahead of Oregon. Just as they were in the USA Today poll, the Broncos were the highest rated non BCS conference school. The 14th ranking was the highest preseason ranking in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, WAC Media Day\nOn July 29, Boise State was picked to win the WAC and received 8 first place votes in the WAC coaches poll to 1 first place vote for Nevada, but no coach can vote his own team in first place, thus Boise State received all 8 possible first place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, WAC Media Day\nThe media also voted Boise State to win the conference with the Broncos receiving 55 first place votes to only 3 for Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, WAC Media Day\nAnd Kyle Wilson was named the preseason Defensive Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Pre-season, South endzone bleacher expansion\nFor the second consecutive year Bronco Stadium received an expansion, this time in the south endzone temporary bleachers. Following the multimillion-dollar sky box expansion which opened in 2008, the sub-million dollar bleacher expansion extends the number of rows in the south endzone and adds an additional 1,600 seats to the stadium capacity, which is now 33,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results\nRankings reflect the Coaches poll until the week of the Hawaii game, after which the BCS poll was used, and are from the respective poll released prior to game time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\n2nd meeting. 1\u20130 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 37\u201332 Broncos win in Eugene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\nOn August 31, this game was named the Allstate Sugar Bowl Manning Award Matchup of the Week for the matchup of Boise State QB Kellen Moore vs Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\nThe Broncos won their 50th straight regular season home game, and the first ever at home against a top 25 team, with a 19\u20138 win over the Oregon Ducks, the second straight year the Broncos have beaten the highly ranked Pac-10 team. The Bronco defense completely shut down the fast-paced spread option offense of Oregon holding them to six first half three and outs, forced a safety in the second quarter, did not allow a first down until 7:07 left in the third quarter and only allowed six overall, and only allowed 31 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\nThe Bronco offense scored on a 10-yard TD pass from Kellen Moore to Austin Pettis in the second quarter (Michael Choate 2pt conv. ), a D.J. Harper 1 yard TD run in the third (conv. failed), and a 45-yard Kyle Brotzman field goal, but missed several other opportunities to score with two missed field goals, another failed on a bad snap, and three straight fumbles in the second half. The Broncos set a school record with 59 rushing attempts. Kellen Moore finished 19/29 for 197 and 1 TD. Austin Pettis had 6 catches for 68 yards and the TD. The Broncos out gained the Ducks 351 to 152. The 34,127 in attendance set a new Bronco Stadium record. The Broncos moved up 2 spots in the AP poll to #12 and 5 spots in the Coaches poll to #11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\nAfter the game, Oregon RB LeGarrette Blount, who earlier in the week was quoted as saying, \"We owe that team an ass-whuppin,\" punched Bronco DE Byron Hout in the chin/jaw after Hout had taunted him in front of Boise State head coach Chris Petersen who attempted to move Hout away from Blount before the hit. Blount then went after fans in the front row of the south end zone before being restrained and escorted off the field by security, police, Oregon coaches, and players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Oregon\nBlount was later suspended by the University of Oregon for the entire season (Blount would return to action in the Ducks season finale on December 3, 90 days after the Boise State incident). Blount issued an apology to everyone: the fans, the nation, and Boise State. Hout was not suspended. Head Coach Chris Petersen released the following statement: \"The event that took place last night following our game between Byron and Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount was very unfortunate and we do not condone Byron's action. There will be disciplinary consequences for Bryon as a result of the incident last night and they will be handled internally.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Miami (OH)\nFirst ever meeting. The RedHawks are scheduled to return to Boise in 2012. There are currently no future plans for Boise to play at Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Miami (OH)\nBoise State shutout a non-conference FBS school for the first time in school history by dominating Miami (OH) 48\u20130. The Broncos outgained the RedHawks 441 to 197. Kellen Moore went over 300 yards for the fifth time in his career and threw 4 touchdowns for the first time in his career. Austin Pettis and Titus Young both had over 110 yards receiving with longs of over 50 each and 3 combined touchdowns. The Broncos held their opponent to less than 40 yards rushing for the second consecutive week (Oregon: 31, Miami: 38) and forced 4 interceptions (Iloka, Johnson, Smith, Tevis).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Miami (OH)\nWhen asked about stopping the run, safety Jeron Johnson said, \"That's the key to our defense is to stop the run game and make them pass. We have a good secondary so we feel that we can hold our own in the passing game. If we can stop the run, we'll be in good shape\". Kyle Brotzman missed his first ever extra point, ending his school record for consecutive PAT's at 118. The Broncos moved to #10 in both major polls following the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\n12th meeting. 7\u20134 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 61\u201310 Broncos win in Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\nAn offensive explosion occurred in Fresno with the Broncos and Bulldogs combining for 987 yards, 1494 yards including return yards in a 51\u201334 Bronco win. Winston Venable opened the scoring with a 30-yard interception return for a touchdown on the Bulldogs opening drive. The Broncos would follow with a 32-yard Kyle Brotzman field goal to go up 10\u20130. A 60-yard touchdown run by D.J. Harper on the Broncos next possession was just a sampling of the fireworks that would follow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\nAfter a Fresno State field goal, Titus Young returned the following kickoff 77 yards to set up a 7-yard touchdown catch to him from Kelln Moore. The Broncos looked to be in complete control of the game at 24\u20133, but Ryan Mathews of Fresno State would answer with consecutive 69 and 60 yard touchdown runs to bring the Bulldogs within 7 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\nThe Broncos returned the opening kickoff of the 2nd half for a touchdown only to see it overturned on offsetting penalties for a block in the back and a personal foul, but Doug Martin would return the next kick 77 yards to set up a Brotzman field goal. The Bulldogs would drive and score a touchdown to bring the score to 27\u201324. The Broncos would follow with a 74-yard Jeremy Avery rush which was fumbled at the 1 yard line but recovered in the end zone for a Bronco touchdown by Titus Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0020-0003", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\nFresno answered with a 17-play drive ending with a 27-yard field goal to end the 3rd quarter with a score of 34\u201327. In the first two minutes of the 4th quarter, Kellen Moore connected with Austin Pettis for an 8-yard touchdown catch, Ryan Mathews broke his third 60+ yard touchdown run of the night, this time 68 yards, then Jeremy Avery scored on a 67-yard screen pass to bring the score to 48\u201334. Following a 69-yard Jeremy Avery rush the Broncos added a late 24-yard field goal by Jimmy Pavel to end the scoring. The Broncos and Bulldogs combined for 8 plays of 60 yards or more with 2 being over 70. Despite the 17-point win, the Broncos gave up 507 yards. Boise State moved to #8 in both major polls, their highest regular-season ranking in school history to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fresno State\nBoth Fresno State and Boise State wore \"D.B.\" decals on their helmets to honor Dan Brown, former Boise State linebacker (1978\u20131981) and former Fresno State defensive coordinator (2002\u20132008), who died from brain cancer on March 15, 2009. Junior wide receiver Titus Young was selected as the WAC Special Teams Player of the Week for returning five kickoffs for 154 yards with a long of 77. Junior running back D.J. Harper, the Broncos leading rusher through three games, tore his left ACL against Fresno State and missed the rest of the season. Harper applied for, and was granted, a medical redshirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Bowling Green\n3rd meeting. 2\u20130 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 20\u20137 Broncos win in Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Bowling Green\nThe Broncos made a rare trip to the Eastern time zone and walked away with a victory against a MAC team for the second time this season with a 49\u201314 win over Bowling Green. After a scoreless first quarter, the Broncos ran off 22 points in a span of 2:47 in the second quarter with two Titus Young TD runs (18, 25) and a Doug Martin TD run (34). The Broncos first six scoring drives all took only four plays or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Bowling Green\nKellen Moore threw for 195 yards in the second quarter and finished 17/21 for 247 and 2 TDs before leaving the game midway through the third quarter. Jeremy Avery got his first rushing TD of the season in impressive fashion with a 71-yard run in the third. The Broncos gained a total of 529 yards. The Broncos once again set a school record by climbing to #5 in all major polls, including the Harris poll which debuted this week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, UC Davis\n4th meeting. 3\u20130 all time. Last meeting 1985, a 13\u20139 Broncos win in Boise. Boise State head coach Chris Petersen was quarterback for UC Davis in the last meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, UC Davis\nIt was a game that was much closer than was expected as UC Davis of the FCS gave the Broncos all they could handle in a 34\u201316 Bronco win in a cold, rain-soaked, tension-filled Bronco Stadium. The Aggies held the Broncos scoreless in the first quarter and held them on a 4th and goal at the 1 yard line to give them momentum for the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, UC Davis\nThe Broncos did manage to be up 13\u20130 at half time on two Kyle Brotzman FGs and a Kellen Moore to Austin Pettis TD pass, but UC Davis hung close in the second half with scores of 20\u201310 and 27\u201316 before a late Doug Martin TD sealed the win for the Broncos. Austin Pettis had a career-high of 10 receptions for 129 yards and two TDs. Ryan Winterswyk recorded a sack for the third straight game and blocked a field goal right before halftime. The Bronco defense was without their captain Kyle Wilson who missed the game with a shoulder injury. The lackluster performance by the Broncos contributed to them dropping in the AP and Coaches polls to #6, but they did remain #5 in the Harris poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, UC Davis\nFollowing their bye week the Broncos moved back to #5 in the AP poll and remained at #6 in the Coaches poll and #5 in the Harris poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Tulsa\n5th meeting. 4\u20130 all time. Last meeting in 2004, a 45\u201342 Broncos win in Tulsa. Tulsa is scheduled to play at Boise in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Tulsa\nBig plays kept Tulsa in the game, but the Broncos were able to hang on to remain undefeated with a 28\u201321 win. The Broncos gave up points in the 1st quarter for the first time this season and had their first deficit of the season. Tulsa connected on long TD passes of 55 and 53 yards. The Broncos tried to answer with their own big plays, but could not connect twice on long passes to Titus Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Tulsa\nInstead the Broncos moved the ball with a steady dose of Doug Martin (112 YDS) and Jeremy Avery (73 YDS) on the ground to set up 3 short Kellen Moore TD passes (8,17,2), 2 to Tommy Gallarda. Tulsa held the Broncos in the redzone twice leading to 2 Kyle Brotzman field goals (27,18). Tulsa had the ball with a chance to score to tie the game but were unable to convert on a 4th down with 37 seconds to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Tulsa\nThe Bronco defense came up with 13 tackles for loss and 5 sacks, 2 by Ryan Winterswyk, bringing his season total to 5. The Broncos would fall in the AP poll to #6 but rose to #5 in the Coaches poll and debuted at #4 in the BCS poll, their highest ranking in any major poll in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Hawaii\n11th meeting. 7\u20133 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 27\u20137 Broncos win in Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Hawaii\nBoise State had lost their last two trips to the islands in 2007, but this game was never in doubt as the Broncos beat the Warriors for the 8th time in 9 years as a member of the WAC. Kellen Moore had a career-high 5 TD passes (35, 14, 24, 10, 48) going 18/30 for 223 yards. Titus Young caught 8 passes for 115 yards and 3 TDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Hawaii\nFreshman running back Matt Kaiserman, who had been hurt the entire season, made his Bronco debut and ran for 122 yards, 51 of those on the Broncos final drive alone where he carried the ball on all 11 plays to lead to his first career TD. The score could have been much worse than it was, but Hawaii was able to force the Broncos to attempt 5 field goals, 4 of which Kyle Brotzman made (25, 28, 32, 27). The Bronco defence force 3 INTS, 2 by Jeron Johnson, and 3 fumble recoveries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Hawaii\nThe Broncos did continue to have center to quarterback exchange problems which led to 6 fumbles, all of which they did recover, and center Thomas Byrd was replaced by Garret Pendergast, but Pendergast snapped a ball into the end zone which led to a Hawaii safety. The Broncos remained the same in the AP (#6) and the two human BCS polls (Coaches #5, Harris #5), but their BCS computer poll average fell from #5 to #8 to bring their BCS ranking to #7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Hawaii\nOn October 26 Jeron Johnson was named the WAC defensive player of the week for his 2 interceptions and 1 fumble recovery and Kyle Brotzman was named the WAC special teams player of the week for going 4\u20135 on field goals and having a 72-yard punt, which is the longest punt in the WAC so far this season. Brotzman also completed a 28-yard pass on a fake punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, San Jose State\n10th meeting. 9\u20130 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 33\u201316 Broncos win in San Jose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, San Jose State\nThe Broncos cruised to their 20th straight regular season win to remain undefeated on the season with a 45\u20137 win over San Jose State. The Broncos opened the game with a 61-yard touchdown pass from Kellen Moore to his brother Kirby Moore for Kirby's first career TD. When asked about the brother to brother connection, Boise State head coach Chris Petersen said, \"When that happened on the sideline, I think everyone just had a smile on their face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, San Jose State\nIt's so hard to playDivision I football and then to be able to do that with your brother is something that is really special. I justthink that that's a special thing to play college football with your brother, and when you hook up for a big playlike that, and hopefully they'll be many more down the road.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, San Jose State\nBoise State led only 10\u20137 with less the a minute left in the 1st half until Kellen Moore found Mitch Burroughs on an 18-yard TD pass then scored on a Moore 1 yard TD run after a San Jose fumble to lead 24\u20137 at halftime. Austin Pettis caught an 8-yard TD pass to open the 3rd quarter and now has a touchdown reception in all 8 games this season. Kyle Wilson returned an interception 27 yards for the defence's 2nd TD of the year. A late Doug Martin TD run capped off the Bronco scoring. Kellen Moore added 3 more TD passes and now has 24 with only 2 INT's. The Broncos moved up in the AP (#5) and Harris polls (#4 including 1 first place vote) and remained the same in the Coache's (#5) and BCS (#7).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, San Jose State\nOn November 2, Kyle Wilson was named the WAC defensive player of the week after his first career interception return for a touchdown and recording 5 tackles with 1 for a loss of 2 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Louisiana Tech\n12th meeting. 7\u20134 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 35\u20133 Broncos win in Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Louisiana Tech\nBoise State has always played exciting, close games when they travel to Ruston, Louisiana, and 2009 was no different as the Broncos had to hold on late for a 45\u201335 win against the upset-minded Bulldogs. The Broncos looked as if they were going to run away the game, building a lead of 27\u20137 at halftime with the help of big plays from Titus Young (40 yard touchdown reception) and Kyle Wilson (59 yard punt return to the 3 to set up a Doug Martin TD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Louisiana Tech\nBut mistakes loomed large as Kellen Moore was intercepted and returned 75 yards for a TD and Kyle Brotzman missed 2 of his 5 field goals (29, 34, 25 made. 44, 31 missed). Tech got as close as 30\u201328 before the Kellen Moore connected with Austin Pettis for a 12-yard TD and Jeremy Avery broke a 44-yard TD run to extend the lead to 45\u201328. Tech would add a late TD to bring final to 45\u201335.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0036-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Louisiana Tech\nKellen Moore threw for a season high 354 yards and added 3 more TDs to bring his total to 27 on the season with only 3 INTs. Austin Pettis now has a TD catch in all 9 games this season and has 10 total for the year. Kyle Wilson recorded his second INT in as many weeks. The Broncos would fall in the Coaches, AP and Harris polls but rose one spot in the BCS to now be ranked #6 in every poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Idaho\n39th meeting. 20\u201317\u20131 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 45\u201310 Broncos win in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Idaho\nThe Broncos won their 11th straight game against their in-state rival to remain undefeated on the season with a 63\u201325 win. The Vandals came into the game with high hopes after winning 7 of their first 10 games, but the Broncos ended the Vandals hopes early with 4 first half Kellen Moore TD passes (4, 25, 8, 20), 3 of which went to Austin Pettis. Add a 1 YD TD run by Jeremy Avery and a 100+ yard Titus Young kickoff return for a TD to bring the Broncos lead to 42\u201317 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Idaho\nKyle Wilson opened the second half scoring by returning an INT 71 yards for his second TD ruturn of the season. Matt Kaiserman found Kyle Efaw for an 11 YD halfback pass TD before Moore found Pettis for a TD for the 4th time (14 YDS). Kellen Moore finished 22/32 for 299 and 5 TDS to bring his season total to 32 with only 3 INTS. Austin Pettis finished with 8 Receptions for 123 YDS and 4 TDS, brought his TD streak to 10 games and set a school record with 14 touchdown receptions for the season. The Broncos intercepted Vandal quarterback Brian Reader 5 times and recovered 2 fumbles to record 7 turnovers. The Broncos would remain at #6 in all 4 major polls following the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Idaho\nOn November 16 Austin Pettis was named the WAC offensive player of the week and Titus Young was named WAC special teams player of the week. Senior fullback and offensive captain Richie Brockel, one of only five seniors on the roster, missed the remainder of the season with a foot injury. Freshman running back Matt Kaiserman, who had missed the first six games with a concussion, missed the remainder of the season with a broken leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Utah State\n16th meeting. 11\u20134 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 49\u201314 Broncos win in Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Utah State\nThe Broncos opened the season 11\u20130 for the 4th time in 6 years and their 9th straight win over Utah State with a 52\u201321 win. The Aggies hung with the Broncos until about 6 minutes left in the first half with the score tied at 14 until the Broncos scored 3 quick TDs to end the half, one after a fumble recovery at the 9 yard line, to lead 35\u201314 at half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Utah State\nThe Aggie pass defense held Kellen Moore to under 60% pass completions for the first time in his career (24 games) going 15/29 (51.7%) for 233 YDs and only 1 TD which ended a streak of 9 straight games with multiple TD passes and 6 straight with 3 or more. The Bronco run game picked up where the passing left off as they racked up a season high 323 YDs with both Doug Martin and Jeremy Avery going over 115 YDs with a combined 6 TDS, 4 for Martin alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0041-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Utah State\nAustin Pettis failed to catch a TD for the first time in a game this season. Kyle Brotzman's 52 yard FG in the 3rd quarter was a career long. The Bronco defense dominated the Aggies forcing 13 TFL of 45 YDs, 4 Sacks and 2 turnovers. Boise State remained at #6 in every major poll for the 3rd straight week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Utah State\nOn November 23 Doug Martin was named WAC offensive player of the week, the 4th Bronco in the last 3 weeks to be awarded by the WAC, for his performance of 13 CAR for 121 YDs and 4 TDs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\n36th meeting. 23\u201312 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 41\u201334 Broncos win in Reno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\nOn November 23, this game was named the Allstate Sugar Bowl Manning Award Matchup of the Week for the matchup of Boise State QB Kellen Moore vs Nevada QB Colin Kaepernick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\nNevada came into the game on an eight-game win streak and 7\u20130 in the WAC and looked to knock off the Broncos to win the outright WAC championship, but the undefeated Broncos set the tone early and often on their way to at least a share of their seventh WAC title in eight years. Titus Young took the game's opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown, his second return TD in three weeks, and the Broncos would add two TD passes to seldom-used fullback Dan Paul to lead 20\u20130 at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\nAfter a Wolf Pack field goal, Paul added his third touchdown reception to give the Broncos their largest lead of the game 27\u20133. Nevada would keep the game close by scoring two TDs before halftime to be down by 11 but could only match the Broncos point for point in the second half to lose 44\u201333. The Broncos held the nations leading rushing attack to only 242 yards and Kaepernick was held to only 172 total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0045-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\nMoore added five more TDs to bring his season total to 38, which set a new school record for TD passes in a season, passing the old record of 35. The Broncos stayed at #6 for the fourth straight week in every major poll and with Oklahoma's win over Oklahoma State, Boise State became the front runner to receive an at large bid to a BCS bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Nevada\nOn November 30, wide receiver Titus Young was named the WAC special teams player of the week, marking the third time he has won the award this season. Wide receiver Austin Pettis, who leads the team with 14 TD catches, broke his leg on the Broncos failed two point conversion after their second TD. He did return and played sparingly in the Broncos bowl game. Starting linebacker Daron Mackey tore his ACL and missed the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, New Mexico State\n10th meeting. 9\u20130 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 49\u20130 Broncos win in Las Cruces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, New Mexico State\nBoise State wrapped un another undefeated season and outright WAC title with a 42\u20137 win over New Mexico State. The Broncos finished the regular season 13\u20130 for their second consecutive and fourth undefeated regular season in six years. The conference title is their seventh title in nine years as a WAC member and sixth outright title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, New Mexico State\nThe win was also the 56th straight game and eighth straight season of being undefeated at home in the regular season (2002\u20132009).The Broncos opened the scoring with a 47-yard TD pass from Moore to Young, bringing Moore's school record for TD passes in a season to 39. Jeremy Avery and Doug Martin would provide the rest of the scoring combining for 5 TDs (4 for Martin) and 170 yards with Martin breaking a TD run of 56 yards, his season long. Ryan Winterswyk had half a sack to finish the year with a team high 8.5. Brandyn Thompson's INT in the 2nd quarter brought the Bronco total to 21 for the year. Boise State finished the regular season ranked #6 in every major poll, their highest ranking to end a season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, New Mexico State\nOn December 6 the Broncos were selected to play 12\u20130 and BCS #4 TCU in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. This will be Boise State's second BCS appearance with the other being the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. TCU earned the non\u2013automatic qualifiers automatic bid by being the highest ranked team from a non BCS conference. Boise State became the first team from a non BCS conference to earn an at large bid to a BCS bowl. The Fiesta Bowl will also be the first BCS bowl to feature two teams from non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences and the first to feature two undefeated teams outside of the National Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\n3rd meeting. 1\u20131 all time. Last meeting in 2008, a 17\u201316 Horned Frogs win in the Poinsettia Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\nThe Broncos reached into their bag of tricks once again on the biggest of stages to help pull out a 17\u201310 victory over TCU to avenge their only loss in the 2008 season and win their second Fiesta Bowl championship. In a game dominated by defense the Broncos would strike first with a Brandyn Thompson 51 yard interception return for a touchdown. Kyle Brotzman, who had earlier in the game missed a 36-yard field goal, connected on a 40-yard field goal to extend the lead to 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\nTCU's Andy Dalton threw a 30-yard TD pass to Curtis Clay right before halftime to make the score 10\u20137 at the break. A third quarter 29 yard TCU field goal would tie the game. Both teams went back and forth into the fourth quarter until Boise State pulled off a gutsy call that opened the game up. On fourth and nine on their own 33 yard line the Broncos executed a fake punt for a first down with a 29-yard pass from Kyle Brotzman to Kyle Efaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0051-0002", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\nThree straight completions by Kellen Moore put the Broncos on the 2 yard line where Doug Martin dove into the endzone for a 17\u201310 lead. Brotzman came up clutch two more times as he made a touchdown saving tackle on a punt return with about five minutes to play and punted the ball to the one yard line with only 1:06 to play. The Horned Frogs would have had to go 99 yards to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0051-0003", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\nTCU drove to the Broncos 30 yard line before Dalton was intercepted by Winston Venable to seal the win with 18 seconds to play. Brandyn Thompson was named the game's defensive MVP with 2 interceptions, 1 for a TD, and 7 tackles. Kyle Efaw was named the game's offensive MVP with 4 receptions for 75 yards and caught the pass on the fake punt. The 14 wins is the most in school history and only the second 14\u20130 season in NCAA history (2002 Ohio State, the winner of the 2010 BCS National Championship, Alabama, also was 14\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Game results, Fiesta Bowl - TCU\nOn January 7, following the National Championship game, the Broncos would finish ranked #4 in the AP and coaches poll, their highest ranking in school history to finish a season (#5 AP and #6 coaches in 2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Post-season awards, First Team All WAC\nKyle Wilson-Sr. DB- 2nd straight year on the 1st team, 2007 2nd team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Post-season awards, First Team All WAC\nRyan Winterswyk- Jr. DL- 2nd straight year on the 1st team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Records\nLowest percentage of passes intercepted, season (over 350 attempts): Kellen Moore, 0.70%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, Records\nAn NCAA FBS record as of the end of 2014", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201854-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Boise State Broncos football team, NFL Draft\nOn April 22, 2010, Sr. Cornerback Kyle Wilson was selected as the 29th overall pick in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the New York Jets. Wilson is just the second Bronco ever taken in the first round of the draft (Ryan Clady 12th overall in 2008). Wilson grew up in Piscataway, New Jersey, which is only about 30 miles from where the Jets play their home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nThe 2009 Boko Haram uprising was a conflict between Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, and Nigerian security forces. Violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria resulted in more than 1,000 dead, with around 700 killed in the city of Maiduguri alone, according to one military official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nA government inquiry later found that, while long-standing tensions existed between Boko Haram and the Nigerian Security forces, the immediate cause of the violence stemmed from a confrontation between a group of sect members and joint tax forces located at custom bridge Gamboru ward in the city of Maiduguri. The Boko Haram members were en route to bury one of their members at the Gwange cemetery. The officers, part of a special operation to suppress violence and rampant crime in Borno State, demanded that the young men comply with a law requiring motorcycle passengers to wear helmets. They refused and, in the confrontation that followed, police shot and wounded several of the men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nAccording to initial media reports, the violence began on 26 July when Boko Haram launched an attack on a police station in Bauchi State. Clashes between militants and the Nigeria Police Force erupted in Kano, Yobe and Borno soon after. But President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua disputed this version of events, claiming that government security forces had struck first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\n\u201cI want to emphasize that this is not an inter-religious crisis and it is not the Taliban group that attacked the security agents first, no. It was as a result of a security information gathered on their intention ... to launch a major attack,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nNigerian troops surrounded the home of Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, the founder and spiritual leader of Boko Haram since 2002, in Maiduguri on 28 July after his followers had barricaded themselves inside. On July 30, the military captured Yusuf and transferred him to the custody of the police. They summarily executed him in public outside police headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nIslam Online suggests that politics, not religion, was the cause of the violence. People such as Christian pastor George Orjih were murdered specifically because they refused to convert to Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising\nPrior to the clashes, many local Muslim leaders and at least one military official had warned the Nigerian authorities about the Boko Haram sect. Those warnings were reportedly ignored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Bauchi, Bauchi State\nOn 26 July, more than 50 people were killed and several dozen were injured in Bauchi when a firefight erupted as a police station was attacked by 70 Nigerian Boko Haram sect members, who were armed with grenades and small arms. One government soldier and 32 Boko Haram militants were killed in the aftermath of the initial attack. The government claimed that 39 militants had been killed, and confirmed the death of a soldier. The attack was initiated by Boko Haram after their leaders were detained by the police. Security forces retaliated by raiding the neighbourhoods where the group was entrenched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Bauchi, Bauchi State\nIsa Yuguda, State Governor of Bauchi, commented: \"We have pre-empted the militants. Otherwise the situation would have been bad. I'm calling on all the people of Bauchi to be calm and be rest assured the situation has been brought under control.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Bauchi, Bauchi State\nYuguda declared a night-time curfew, and the police maintained a visible profile. Businesses remained open in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Maiduguri, Borno State\nIn July 2009, media reported that 100 bodies were found beside police headquarters in Maiduguri. Hundreds of people were leaving their homes to escape the violence. A jailbreak was reported but was not immediately confirmed. Several civilian corpses lay in the city's streets; witnesses said they had been shot after being pulled from their cars. The country's army and police were both on patrol and firing at suspects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Maiduguri, Borno State\nOn 28 July, Army soldiers reportedly launched an offensive on the compound of sect leader Mohammed Yusuf and a nearby mosque used by his followers in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri. Troops shelled Mohammed Yusuf's home in the city after Yusuf's followers barricaded themselves inside. Shots rained across the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Maiduguri, Borno State\nOn 30 July, Nigerian security forces killed 100 Boko Haram militants in fighting in Maiduguri. Security forces fought their way into a mosque occupied by militants, raking the interior with machine gun fire. Elsewhere, Military and Police forces engaged militants in house-to-house fighting. It was initially reported that Boko Haram vice-chairman Abubakar Shekau had been killed, but he was later reported alive. Nigerian policemen were also killed. After the government declared Maidguri to be secured, Nigerian forces began setting up mortar positions to shell the remaining enemy compound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Maiduguri, Borno State\nOn 30 July, Yusuf was captured by the military and handed over to the police at the police headquarters in Maiduguri. Police officers summarily executed Yusuf inside the compound in full view of public onlookers. Police officials initially claimed that either Yusuf was shot while trying to escape or died of wounds sustained during a gun battle with the military. The police also executed other Boko Haram suspects, including Yusuf's father-in-law, outside the police headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Maiduguri, Borno State\nOn 2 August, a group of women and children abducted by Boko Haram were found locked in a house in Maiduguri. The military said a total of 700 people were killed in Maiduguri during the clashes. The Red Cross later said that it had taken 780 bodies from the streets of the city to be buried in mass graves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Potiskum, Yobe State\nA gun battle lasting several hours took place in Potiskum. Boko Haram militants set a police station on fire using fuel-laden motorcycles. The police station burned to the ground, and as a result, a police officer and a fire safety officer were both killed. Police engaged the fighters and wounded several. Police arrested 23 fighters after the battle. According to Nigerian sources, 43 Boko Haram fighters were killed in a shootout near the city on 30 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201855-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Boko Haram uprising, Wudil, Kano State\nThree people were killed in an attack in Wudil, and police forces made more than 33 arrests. Wudil's senior police officer was injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201856-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boles\u0142aw Chrobry Tournament\nThe 2nd Tournament for Boles\u0142aw Chrobry Crown - First King of Poland was the 2009 version of the Boles\u0142aw Chrobry Tournament. It took place on 23 May in the Start Gniezno Stadium in Gniezno, Poland. The draw was made on 15 May in the Gniezno' Old Square. The Tournament was won by Greg Hancock who beat Adrian Miedzi\u0144ski and Rune Holta. The top Gniezno' rider Krzysztof S\u0142abo\u0144 was eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201856-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boles\u0142aw Chrobry Tournament, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games\nThe XVI Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held in 2009 in Sucre, Bolivia. The competitions in Sucre took place from 15\u201326 November. A number of Bolivian cities hosted some of the sporting events, including Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Tarija. Also, events were held outside of Bolivia, with Guayaquil, Lima, Quito and  Salinas hosting a number of competitions. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games\nThe opening ceremony took place on November 14, 2009, at the Estadio Patria in Sucre, Bolivia. The Games were officially opened by Bolivian president Evo Morales. Torch lighter was swimmer H\u00e9ctor Medina. The athlete's oath was sworn by sprinter Lupita Rojas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Deficits in Organization and Criticism\nA number of organizational deficits was reported. Initially, the games were scheduled between September 12\u201324, 2009. On July 1, 2009, the games were postponed to the new date because of \"technical problems\". The construction works on the sports facilities did not proceed fast enough. The infrastructure was not yet finished even when the games were already officially opened. Some sports like cycling and baseball had to be relocated to secondary venues like Cochabamba at short notice. Other sports like athletics, billiards, fencing, table tennis, taekwondo, or volleyball were experiencing problems because of the lack of equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Deficits in Organization and Criticism\nSome sports like roller sports were cancelled completely. Weightlifting competitions had to start already on October 30, 2009, because the world championships would have been contemporaneously else. In equestrianism, the transfer of the horses to Bolivia could not be guaranteed. In shooting, the shotgun competitions (Clay pigeon shooting) were relocated to Lima, Per\u00fa, because the equipment and munition did not arrive in time, and they were held until December 6, 2009, ten days after the official closing ceremony of the games. As a consequence, criticism emerged, and restructuring of the games as well as far-reaching reforms were requested to guarantee their future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nSucre, Bolivia, hosted the following competitions:athletics (Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Patria), basketball (Polideportivo Garcilazo), beach volleyball (Polideportivo Garcilazo), billiards (Sal\u00f3n Club de la Uni\u00f3n), boxing (Coliseo Universitario), BMX racing (Pista de Bicicross del Complejo Deportivo Garcilazo), mountain biking (Circuito Donwhill Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas), diving (piscina de la zona de El Rollo),\u2020 fencing (Polideportivo Complejo Patria), football (Estadio Patria), futsal (Complejo Deportivo Garcilazo), artistic gymnastics (Coliseo \"Max Toledo\"), rhythmic gymnastics (Poligimnasio Max Toledo), karate (Estadio Edgar Cojintos), racquetball (Polideportivo Complejo Patria), roller speed skating road,\u2020 roller speed skating track,\u2020 swimming (piscina de la zona de El Rollo), table tennis (Coliseo Jorge Revilla), taekwondo (Coliseo de Combates Poligimnasio Max Toledo), tennis (Complejo Deportivo La Madona), volleyball (Coliseo Jorge Revilla Aldana), water polo (piscina de la zona de El Rollo),\u2020 weightlifting (Coliseo Universitario), wrestling (Coliseo Cerrado \u201cEdgar Cojinto\u201d) \u2020:  Event initially scheduled, but cancelled at short notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 1180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nCochabamba, Bolivia:baseball (Estadio de Laguna Alalay), track cycling (Vel\u00f3dromo \u201cMariscal Santa Cruz\u201d), road cycling, equestrianism (Country Club Cochabamba)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nSanta Cruz, Bolivia:bowling (Bolera: Cosmic Bowling), shooting (Pol\u00edgono de Villa Victoria \u201cAbraham Telchi\u201d)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nTarija, Bolivia:canoeing (el embalse de San Jacinto), triathlon (Represa de San Jacinto)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nGuayaquil, Ecuador:softball (Estadio Liga del Sur), water skiing (Samborond\u00f3n Mocoli Island)\u2020 \u2020:  Event initially scheduled, but cancelled at short notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nQuito, Ecuador:archery (Estadio de la Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica), squash (Concentraci\u00f3n Deportiva de Pichinca)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Venues\nLima, La Punta, Per\u00fa:badminton (Club Regatas), judo (Coliseo de Basquetbol del Club Regatas Lima de Chorrillos), rowing (Yacht Club de la Punta), clay pigeon shooting (Pol\u00edgono Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez de la Base A\u00e9rea de Las Palmas)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Participation\nAbout 2377 athletes from 6 countries were reported to participate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Sports\nIn March 2009, three disciplines were already cancelled because the requiredminimum number of member federations was not reached, namely women's futsal,artistic roller skating, and waterskiing. Moreover, 91 events in 11 sports were cancelled at short notice, among them completely the diving, water polo, and roller speed skating competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201857-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivarian Games, Medal count\nThe medal count for these Games is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Bolivia on 25 January 2009, postponed from the initially planned dates of 4 May 2008 and then 7 December 2008. Drafted by the Constituent Assembly in 2007, the new constitution was approved in the referendum according to an exit poll by Ipsos Apoyo for La Raz\u00f3n and ATB, a Bolivian television network. Furthermore, it required early elections to be held on 6 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, History\nUnder President Evo Morales, the Constituent Assembly was elected on 2 July 2006. The referendum should originally have taken place on 6 August 2007, but the Assembly's validity was extended until 14 December 2007. The referendum was important for the Afro-Bolivian population and activists like Marfa Inofuentes P\u00e9rez, who lobbied for and were successful in obtaining inclusion of articles recognizing Bolivia's black population and providing legal protections for the minority group on par with other ethnic groups. On 9 December 2007, the Assembly approved the draft and on 14 December, the Assembly officially handed the constitution draft over to the National Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, History\nThe National Congress adopted the law on 28 February 2008 calling for the referendum on 4 May 2008 even though many opposition members chose to stay away during the vote. A law was also approved and signed by Morales that permitted only Congress to call departmental referendums, thereby barring the departmental referendums on autonomy that had also been called for 4 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, History\nOn 7 March 2008, the National Electoral Court suspended the referendum, along with the opposition's regional referendums, saying that there was not enough time for adequate electoral preparations. Nonetheless, the government of Santa Cruz Department went ahead and held its autonomy referendum as planned, ignoring the Court's interdiction on all referendums. Beni Department and Pando Department held their referendums on 1 June 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, History\nIn a decree on 28 August 2008, Morales declared that the referendum would be held on 7 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, History\nIn April 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that the first term of President Evo Morales did not count towards constitutional term limits as the constitution of Bolivia had since been amended, thus allowing Evo Morales a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, Unrest and agreement\nFollowing unrest in Pando, the government and the opposition held talks which resulted in a compromise reached on 20 October 2008. They agreed to hold the referendum on 25 January 2009 and early elections on 6 December 2009; Morales in turn promised he would not run again in 2014 after his likely reelection in 2009, despite the fact that he would be allowed to do so under the new constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201858-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian constitutional referendum, Results\nPresident Evo Morales enacted the new constitution on 7 February 2009, saying that he had accomplished his mission to \"re-found\" Bolivia. He spoke in front of thousands of his supporters in the town of El Alto, located near La Paz, claiming that his opponents had \"tried ceaselessly\" to have him killed. He also said: \"Now I want to tell you that they can drag me from the palace. They can kill me. Mission accomplished for the re-founding of the new united Bolivia\". One key reform allows Morales to stand for re-election in December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic\nThe 2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic was an epidemic of dengue fever which struck Bolivia in early 2009, escalating into a national emergency by February. The BBC described it as the worst outbreak of dengue fever in the country's history. At least 18 people died and 31,000 were infected by the mosquito-transmitted arbovirus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic\nOn 20 February, the Pan American Health Organization reported that eighty (80) cases of the more severe dengue hemorrhagic fever had occurred in Bolivia since January, of which 22% were fatal. Bolivia requested outside assistance and foreign aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic, Background\nBolivia first declared a national emergency in early February 2009, when it alerted the world about the country's worst outbreak of dengue fever in twenty-two years. By 3 February, five people had died in the east of the country and over 7,000 more were infected. Worst hit is the Santa Cruz Department, near the Paraguayan border and the Amazon. A number of military facilities, particularly in the city of Santa Cruz, were turned into temporary hospitals as the real hospitals struggled to cope with the conditions. Thousands of soldiers were mobilized to assist medical workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic, Background\nThe government then allocated funds to supply hospitals across the country; however, it was criticised in some quarters for the slowness of its actions. The infection was most widespread in the tropical eastern lowlands, where conditions led to a thriving mosquito population. Bolivia's healthcare services had difficulty in coping with the outbreak, with experts from Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay and the World Health Organization called in to assist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic, Mosquito transmission\nMosquitoes thrive in the high temperatures and humidity of the Bolivian lowlands and it was that region which saw the highest numbers of infected civilians. There is currently no vaccine for dengue fever. Those infected experience flu-like symptoms such as severe headaches, fevers and joint pain. 1 of 4 people infected with dengue will develop symptoms. There is no specific treatment for dengue, other than managing the symptoms. The best way to address dengue is to disrupt the mosquito's habitat. Mosquitos breed in stagnant water, i.e. open storage containers, discarded tires, and uncollected garbage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201859-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic, Mosquito transmission\nThe infected are advised by medical experts to drink plenty of fluids and obtain significant rest. Dengue fever sufferers have an approximate 1% chance of progressing to the more severe dengue hemorrhagic fever. 1 of 20 individuals who become ill with dengue will develop severe dengue. Severe dengue can lead to life-threatening condition including shock, internal bleeding, or death. Other symptoms include hypothermia, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and confusion. The global average case-fatality ratio for dengue hemorrhagic fever is 5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Bolivia on December 6, 2009, following a constitutional referendum held on 25 January 2009. Voters elected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election\nThe five departments which had not already done so all voted to have departmental autonomy. Eleven  municipalities voted to have indigenous autonomy, out of twelve holding such referendums. One province voted to have regional autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates\nUnder the new constitution, all previous terms will not be considered for term limits. If any candidate fails to win over 50% of the vote and another candidate is within 10%, a second round will be held. It was the first time that an incumbent President will run for reelection. The presidential candidates were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Opinion polls\nPolling prior to the election indicated that incumbent Evo Morales enjoyed a 55% approval rating, as well as an 18-point lead over his closest challenger Manfred Reyes Villa. As Morales was expected to cruise to reelection, the local press reported that Villa has already purchased an airplane ticket to the United States for the 7th (the day after the election).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Results\nEvo Morales won a convincing victory, with 64.22% of the vote. His party, Movement for Socialism, won a two-thirds majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Autonomy referendums, Departments\nThe five departments which had not already done so all voted to become autonomous departments. Each will have to produce a statute of autonomy. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Autonomy referendums, Regional autonomy\nThe Gran Chaco Province in Tarija held a referendum on regional autonomy, which was approved by 80.4% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201860-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bolivian general election, Autonomy referendums, Municipalities\nThe following municipalities voted on whether to become autonomous municipalities according to the  Indigenous Originary Campesino Autonomy provisions of the 2009 Constitution. Eleven voted yes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201861-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bologna municipal election\nMunicipal elections were held in Bologna on 6\u20137 and 21\u201322 June 2009. The centre-left candidate Flavio Delbono was elected mayor at the second round with 60.77% of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201861-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bologna municipal election, Background\nThe centre-left primary elections took place on 13 and 14 December 2008. The Vice-President of Emilia-Romagna, Flavio Delbono, received 49.73% of the 24,920 votes cast in the primary; Maurizio Cevenini received 23.29%, Virginio Merola received 21.44% and Andrea Forlani received 5.1%. On 9 January 2009, Delbono announced that he would be resigning as vice-president of Emilia-Romagna and regional assessor in order to focus on his election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201861-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bologna municipal election, Background\nThe other candidates were Alfredo Cazzola, former owner of Virtus Bologna and Bologna F.C., who was the candidate of The People of Freedom and Northern League, and Giorgio Guazzaloca, a former mayor of Bologna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201861-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bologna municipal election, Voting system\nThe voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201861-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bologna municipal election, Voting system\nThe election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201862-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bombardier Learjet 550\nThe 2009 Bombardier Learjet 550 was the sixth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, held on June 6, 2009 at the 1.455-mile (2.342\u00a0km) Texas Motor Speedway, in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201863-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival\nThe 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held June 11\u201314, 2009 at a 700-acre (2.8\u00a0km2) farm in Manchester, Tennessee, United States. There were roughly 75,000 people in attendance. The onset of Bonnaroo 2009 was punctuated by monstrous thunderstorms. Thursday night included heavy rain, lightning, strong winds and hail. A lighter storm passed over the farm on Friday. The resulting mud became a hardship for some and a plaything for others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201863-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Lineup\nThe initial lineup was released on the festival's website at midnight on February 3, 2009. Phish performed a traditional 2-set headlining spot on Sunday night as well as a late night set on Friday night. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201863-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Lineup\nDown and The Ting Tings appeared on the initial lineup but were later removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201863-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Lineup\nThe previously annual Superjam did not take place, and for the first time in Bonnaroo's eight-year history, not a single The Grateful Dead member performed at the festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201864-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR\nThe 2009 Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR was the second round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Virginia International Raceway on April 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season\nThe Boston Blazers are a lacrosse team based in Boston playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was their first season in the NLL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season\nThe Blazers began their inaugural season by losing back-to-back games to the division rival (and eventual East division champion) New York Titans. But the Blazers surprised everybody by winning seven of their next eight games, on their way to a 10-6 record, tied with New York and Buffalo for best in the East. The Titans won the East on tie-breakers, but the Blazers finished a respectable third and made the playoffs in their first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season\nIn the Eastern division semi-final, the Blazers were defeated by the defending champion Buffalo Bandits 11-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201865-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Blazers season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Blazers selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201866-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Cannons season\nThis is the 9th season for the Boston Cannons in Major League Lacrosse. The Cannons played in their home games at Harvard Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201867-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston City Council election\nBoston City Council elections were held on November 3, 2009. Eight seats (four district representatives and four at-large members) were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were unopposed. Seven seats (the four at-large members, and districts 1, 7, and 9) had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201867-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston City Council election, At-large\nCouncillors John R. Connolly and Stephen J. Murphy were re-elected to their at-large seats. Incumbents Michael F. Flaherty and Sam Yoon did not run for re-election as they were running for Mayor of Boston; their seats were won by Felix G. Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley. Pressley's victory made her first woman of color to be elected to the council in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201867-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston City Council election, District 6, Special election\nIn August 2010, Tobin resigned his seat to take a position as Vice President for City and Community Affairs at Northeastern University. The seat was filled via a special election on November 16, 2010, with the preliminary election on October 19, 2010. Matt O'Malley was elected to serve the remainder of Tobin's term, defeating James W. Hennigan III, brother of former council member Maura Hennigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201867-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston City Council election, District 7, Special election\nOn December 1, 2010, Turner was expelled by an 11\u20131 vote, following his corruption conviction, making him the first councillor to be expelled in the history of the modern Boston City Council. This created a vacancy that needed to be filled by a special election, which took place on March 15, 2011, with the preliminary election on February 15, 2011. Tito Jackson was elected to serve the remainder of Turner's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team\nThe 2009 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Eagles were led by first-year head coach Frank Spaziani. He replaced Jeff Jagodzinski who was fired after the 2008 season. The Eagles finished the season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in ACC play and lost in the Emerald Bowl 24\u201313 against USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Preseason\nMobile quarterback Anthony Haney (New Jersey recruit) was injured in an early preseason practice due to a career ending arm injury", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Preseason, Mark Herzlich\nMark Herzlich, a senior linebacker and the 2008 ACC Defensive Player of the Year, revealed on May 14 that he had been diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer most commonly found in bone or soft tissue. In his statement, he indicated he was unsure what his illness would mean for his football future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Season Highlights\nIn the Eagles 52\u201320 win over NC State, Sophomore RB Montel Harris set two single-game school records when he rushed for 264 yards and 5 TDs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Season Highlights\nOn October 3, College Gameday came to Boston College for the Eagles' game against the Florida State Seminoles. During the broadcast, star LB Mark Herzlich, who was forced to miss the entire 2009 season after being diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, publicly announced that he was cancer-free. BC went on to beat the Seminoles by a score of 28\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Season Highlights\nEarly in the season, Boston College won in thrilling fashion as the Eagles defeated Wake Forest 27\u201324 in OT. Boston College had the ball first in OT and kicked a field goal. On Wake Forest's possession, the Demon Deacons had a First and Goal from the 3 yard line. Amazingly, Isaac Johnson stripped Riley Skinner and Wes Davis recovered the ensuing fumble to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201868-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston College Eagles football team, Season Highlights\nTrue freshman Luke Kuechly was pressed into service as a weakside linebacker due to the unexpected departure of Herzlich and became a national sensation. He led the team and conference and finished second in the nation in Total Tackles with 158. Kuechly was named to the CFN All-America Team, the ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year, and the Defensive MVP of the Emerald Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201869-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Marathon\nThe 2009 Boston Marathon was the 113rd running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 20. The elite men's race was won by Ethiopia's Deriba Merga in a time of 2:08:42 hours and the women's race was won by Ethiopia's Salina Kosgei in 2:32:16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201870-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Pizza Cup\nThe 2009 Boston Pizza Cup (the Alberta men's curling championship) was held February 11-15 at the Wainwright Arena in Wainwright. Defending champion Kevin Martin won again. As winner, Martin represented Alberta and won the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201870-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Pizza Cup, Qualification\nThree teams qualify from Southern Alberta, three from Northern Alberta and two from the Peace Region. In addition, four teams have automatically qualified based on other reasons. Defending World Champion Kevin Martin qualifies as defending champion, plus Kevin Koe as the top remaining Albertan team in the CCA rankings from last season. In addition the top two teams remaining teams on the Alberta Curling Tour receive spots, that being Ted Appelman's team and Randy Ferbey's team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season\nThe 2009 Boston Red Sox season was the 109th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished second in the American League East with a record of 95 wins and 67 losses, eight games behind the New York Yankees, who went on to win the 2009 World Series. The Red Sox qualified for the postseason as the AL wild card, but were swept by the American League West champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ALDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe Red Sox opened the season with a postponement due to rain. However, on April 7, the season began at Fenway with the first pitch being thrown by Edward Kennedy, who later died in August. The Red Sox got off to a slow start, going 2\u20136 in the first eight games. However, the Sox won 11 straight games beginning on April 15. The win streak was Boston's longest since 2006 when they had a 12-game win streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nA highlight of the streak was Jacoby Ellsbury's steal of home on April 26 to cap off a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees. They finished April with a record of 14\u20138 and tied with the Toronto Blue Jays for the division lead. Also, Jerry Remy, NESN color commentator, had surgery to remove a small area of cancer on his lung. While recovering he also got pneumonia. He also was suffering from fatigue and depression. These are the people who filled in for him: Dennis Eckersley, Dave Roberts, Buck Martinez, Tony Massarotti, Rance Mulliniks, Rex Hudler, Ron Coomer, Ken Rosenthal, Kevin Kennedy, Dwight Evans, Sean Casey, Jim Kaat, Gordon Edes, Bob Montgomery, Frank Viola, Sean McAdam, Brian Daubach, and Rick Dempsey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe team flattened out in May, going 15\u201314 in the month and falling to third in the division behind the Yankees and the Blue Jays. Through the first two months of the season, slugger David Ortiz struggled, batting .185 with one home run. Additionally, pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka was placed on the disabled list after just two starts with an injury that manager Terry Francona attributed to his participation in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Off the field, announcer Jerry Remy, of NESN television, was replaced by Dennis Eckersley beginning on May 6 as Remy began undergoing cancer treatment. Despite these struggles, the Red Sox set an American League record, tying the Major League record, on May 7 by scoring 12 runs without recording an out during the 6th inning of a game against the Cleveland Indians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe Red Sox took the division lead, and improved to the second-best record in MLB, during June. Through the first half of the month, the Sox played four division leaders, the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, and Philadelphia Phillies, winning three of the four series and sweeping both the Tigers and Yankees. By sweeping the Yankees, the Sox improved to 8\u20130 against the team, the best record against them since sweeping the 14-game season series against them in 1912. At the All-Star break, the Red Sox had the second best record in Major League Baseball and held a three-game lead in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe Red Sox faltered after the All-Star break, losing five of six on the road to the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers and batting .192 and scoring 13 runs. In response to the poor offensive performance and to make room for Jed Lowrie's return from injury, Julio Lugo was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for cash and two minor-league players were traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Adam LaRoche on July 22, and on July 25 Mark Kotsay was designated for assignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe Red Sox made a move at the trade deadline, July 31, to acquire catcher Victor Martinez from the Cleveland Indians for pitchers Justin Masterson, Nick Hagadone, and Bryan Price. They also traded Adam LaRoche to the Atlanta Braves for Casey Kotchman. After winning the first eight games of the season against their rival Yankees in the first half of the season, the Red Sox lost nine of the next ten to finish the season 9\u20139 against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nOne of the stranger victories for the Sox came on August 14 against the Texas Rangers. Going into the top of the 9th inning, the home Rangers were leading 4\u20132. Jacoby Ellsbury drove in David Ortiz to pull within one run and Jason Varitek was left on second base with no outs. Pitcher, Clay Buchholz came in to pinch run for Varitek with no outs. Dustin Pedroia doubled, but the inexperienced, and potentially tying run, Buchholz, was thrown out at the plate as he hesitated between second and third before attempting to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nAll was shortly forgotten when the team scored five more runs to win 8\u20134. On August 21, Jacoby Ellsbury tied the record for the Red Sox single season record for stolen bases (54), in a game against the New York Yankees, a record previously held by Tommy Harper. Ellsbury then broke the record with his 55th steal on August 25, against the Chicago White Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home Run Allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201871-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston Red Sox season, Farm system\nThe Class A-Advanced affiliate changed from the Lancaster JetHawks to the Salem Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201872-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 2009 occurred on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, between incumbent Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino, and Michael F. Flaherty, member of the Boston City Council and former Council president. Menino was re-elected to a fifth term, the first mayor to do so in Boston history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201872-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston mayoral election\n31% of registered voters turned out to vote in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201872-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston mayoral election\nThe nonpartisan municipal preliminary election was held on September 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201872-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Boston mayoral election, Campaign\nAfter the preliminary election, Flaherty and fellow-Councillor Sam Yoon, who had finished third, declared they had formed a ticket. If Flaherty  were victorious, he vowed to appoint Yoon deputy mayor, a position that had not existed in Boston since the administration of Kevin White, who left office in 1984. Details of the position, including salary, were never finalized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election\nGeneral elections were held in Botswana on 16 October 2009, alongside local elections, with early voting in 26 polling stations abroad taking place 3 October. The result was a tenth successive victory for the Botswana Democratic Party, which won 45 of the 57 elected seats in the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Electoral system\nThe 57 directly-elected members of the National Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies. A further four members were elected from a list nominated by the President, whilst the President and Attorney General became ex officio members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Campaign\nThe ruling BDP was suffering from internal problems leading up to the election, with President Ian Khama threatening to expel party leader and former cabinet minister Daniel Kwelagobe, who also led the rival Barata-Phathi faction within the BDP. Although Khama and Kwelagobe eventually reconciled, stability within the BDP remained in question. The BDP campaign focused on its record in government, including education, training and economic development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Campaign\nBotswana National Front leader Otsweletse Moupo did not contest the elections after losing the party's primary elections for his Gaborone West North seat. It was speculated that he would stand for election in Gaborone South, but Moupo ultimately declined to run. The BNF campaign centred around creating a strong civil society and improving social welfare and housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Campaign\nThe Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and the Botswana Alliance Movement (BAM) formed an electoral alliance and supported each other's candidates. BCP leader Gilson Saleshando stood for election in Selebi-Phikwe West, a constituency held prior to the election by BDP candidate Kavis Kario. The alliance's campaign included a pledge to stop the economic downturn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Campaign\nThe Botswana People's Party (BPP) campaign focused on agricultural development and manufacturing, whilst the MELS Movement of Botswana (MELS) promised to fight the exploitation of the population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Campaign\nA total of 177 candidates contested the elections; 57 from the BDP, 48 from the BNF, 46 from the BCP-BAM alliance (42 from the BCP and 4 from the BAM), 6 from the BPP, 4 from MELS, one from the Botswana Tlhoko Tiro Organisation and 15 independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Opinion polls\nVery few scientific opinion polls were taken prior to the election, preventing accurate measures of public sentiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Conduct\nEarly voting was planned for police and polling officers on 29 September, as they would be unable to vote on election day. However, because of a printing error at the Johannesburg-based printer that was responsible for printing the ballot papers, early voting could not proceed as planned; ballot numbers, which should be unique to counter election fraud, were sometimes repeated on the ballots for local elections. As a result Police officers and polling officers had to vote on 16 October, along with the general public. For officers stationed far away from the place they are registered to vote, this presented serious problems. The BCP threatened legal action against the Independent Electoral Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Conduct\nElection turnout was reported to be high with polling station opening times being extending to cope with large queues. Election observers stated that the overall process ran smoothly, although in some instance people had been unable to vote. The Southern African Development Community noted that the elections were \"credible, peaceful, free and fair\", but raised concerns about the \"slow polling process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Results\nNehemiah Modubule, MP for Lobatse, won re-election running as an independent, having been elected in 2004 as a BNF candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201873-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana general election, Aftermath\nThe BDP held a victory rally in Gaborone on 18 October, and President Khama was sworn in for his first full term on 20 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201874-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana local elections\nLocal elections in Botswana were held on 16 October 2009 for the district councils of the Districts of Botswana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201874-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Botswana local elections, Results By District, Kgatleng District\nThere was a tie in one constituency and a by-election was on 5 December 2009. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) candidate won, increasing their total seats from 7 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201875-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Boucherville municipal election\nThe 2009 Boucherville municipal election was an election that was held on the 1st of November 2009 to elect Boucherville's mayor and eight councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201875-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Boucherville municipal election\nJean Martel and his party's eight candidates were elected. The voter turnout was 49.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201875-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Boucherville municipal election\nThe election results were made available on the website of Qu\u00e9bec's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe 2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team represented Bowling Green State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dave Clawson and  played in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They played their home games at Doyt Perry Stadium. They finished the season 7\u20136, 6\u20132 in MAC play to finish in third place in the East Division. They were invited to the Humanitarian Bowl where they lost to Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOn November 28, 2008, Athletic Director Greg Christopher announced that head coach Gregg Brandon had been fired after six seasons and 44\u201330 record, including a 31\u201318 conference record, which was the best of any MAC coach since 2003 and led the team to three bowl games (2\u20131) and shares of two East division championships. Christopher stated that a culmination of on and off the field events led to Brandon's dismissal, nine months after Brandon received a three-year contract extension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nThe on-field problems included the Falcons 6\u20136 record, which was very disappointing as the Falcons were favored to win the MAC East division, and a 1\u20134 home record which included losses to Miami (OH) and Eastern Michigan (who finished 2\u201310 and 3\u20139 respectively) and a 40\u201334 double-overtime loss to eventual MAC Champion Buffalo, after the Falcons led the game by 20 points entering the fourth quarter and gave up two touchdowns within the final three minutes of the game. Off the field, eleven Falcons players found themselves in legal troubles, two of which were arrested on drug trafficking charges. The program was also stripped of nine scholarships by the NCAA because of inadequate grades on the association's Academic Progress Report. Christopher stated that Brandon's post-game tirade about the lack of student support and attendance after the Buffalo loss, did not factor into his decision to release the coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 989]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOn December 7, 2008, the Falcons lost two valuable coaches to rival Toledo, as defensive coordinator Mike Ward and co-offensive coordinator Matt Campbell were brought to the Rockets by new head coach (and former BG assistant) Tim Beckman. The two assistants left, because they were not guaranteed contracts after Gregg Brandon was fired. Ward was a very influential tool in recruiting and a few recruits were expected to rescind their verbals to Bowling Green, because of his departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOn December 12, 2008, athletic director Greg Christopher named Dave Clawson as the program's 17th head coach. Clawson, served the previous season with Tennessee as the Volunteers' offensive coordinator and had been the head coach at Fordham and Richmond, winning three conference championships and two Div. I-FCS Coach of the Year awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOthers that were considered for the job included former Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Tim Beckman (now head coach at Toledo), Ohio State defensive coordinator Luke Fickell, former Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen (now head coach at the University of Florida), Louisville defensive coordinator Ron English, LSU offensive line coach Greg Studrawa, Central Michigan assistant Zach Azzani, Missouri defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus and Purdue defensive coordinator Brock Spack", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOn January 27, 2009, Clawson announced eight additions to his coaching staff for the upcoming season. The list included Shannon Morrison and Joe Trainer hired as co-defensive coordinators, Warren Ruggerio as offensive coordinator, John Hunter as running backs coach, John McDonnell as offensive line coach, Doug Philips as defensive ends coach, Sean Spencer as defensive tackles coach and special teams coordinator, and Clint Dowdle as director of football operations. A month after being introduced as co-defensive coordinator, Joe Trainer left the Falcons to become head coach at Rhode Island, a school that he was previously an assistant and defensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nOn February 2, 2009, quarterbacks coach Jim Hofher left the Falcons to become offensive coordinator at Delaware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Key losses\nClawson dismissed Senior defensive lineman Michael Ream for an undisclosed violation of team rules in April. Ream, who had been suspended in 2007 due to violating team rules, was to be the only senior on Bowling Green's defensive line. When asked about the dismissal, Clawson stated \"We are disappointed that we had to take this step, but when a student-athlete makes a poor decision, he must live with the consequences of his decision.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Preseason, Key losses\nThe following are some of the key players (all but Ream having graduated) who will be no longer eligible to play in the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nThe Dave Clawson era at Bowling Green began with a home contest against the Sun Belt's Troy Trojans in the first meeting between the two schools. The game was also the first time that Bowling Green opened the season at home since 2003. The Falcons came into the game as a 7-point underdog.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nTroy received the opening kickoff and marched 80 yards down the field on ten plays in just under two minutes, led by Troy quarterback Levi Brown, who had played under Clawson at Richmond. Troy running back DuJuan Harris finished off the drive, running the ball in from two yards out to put Troy up 7\u20130. The teams would trade punts on the next two drives before Bowling Green pushed the ball into Troy's territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nAfter completing a pass on fourth and six to Troy's 25-yard line, Tyler Sheehan was intercepted by Troy defensive back Bryan Willis ending the Falcons' deepest drive of the first quarter. Troy would push their lead to 14\u20130 after Brown hit wide receiver Jerrel Jernigan for a 13-yard touchdown. The Falcons would answer on the following drive, as Sheehan hooked up with senior wide receiver Freddie Barnes for a 31-yard touchdown pass cutting Troy's lead to 14\u20137. Late in the second quarter Troy drove deep into Bowling Green's territory, but their drive stalled at the Falcons' 17-yard line after the Trojans failed to convert on fourth and one. The Falcons would run the clock out and end the half trailing 14\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nThe Falcons would show a totally different look in the second half effectively shutting the door on the Troy's offense, including forcing a fumble and intercepting Brown twice. The Falcons scored on their second drive of the third quarter, as Sheehan found Barnes for eight yards and their second touchdown of the game. On the first play of the fourth quarter, senior defensive back Roger Williams intercepted a Levi Brown pass at Bowling Green's 29-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nBowling Green would take the lead on the following possession, as freshman kicker Jerry Phillips converted a 21-yard field goal making the score 17\u201314 in Bowling Green's favor. Bowling Green would score on its second consecutive possession, as junior runningback Willie Geter capped off a 4 play, 49 yard drive with a one-yard rush, increasing the Falcons' lead to 24\u201314. Bowling Green freshman defensive back Adrien Spencer sealed the win for Bowling Green after he picked Brown off on a fourth and four and took the ball back for a 64-yard interception return for a touchdown, increasing the score to 31\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Troy\nDuring the game, Bowling Green senior wide receiver Freddie Barnes set the school record for most receptions in a game, as he collected 15 receptions for 157 yards and Clawson became the eighth consecutive coach to win their debut as the head coach at Bowling Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe Falcons' second game of the season came on the road against the Big 12's Missouri Tigers who came into the game ranked #25th in the nation. The Falcons entered the game with a 3\u20131 series advantage, including a 20 \u2013 13 victory the last time the two teams met at Faurot Field in 2001. The Falcons came into the game as a 20-point underdog and were not expected to cause the Tigers much of a threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe Falcons would start off the game well reaching the red zone on three of their first five drives. The Falcons would strike first as Tyler Sheehan hooked up with sophomore receiver Ray Hutson on a 10-yard touchdown pass late in the first quarter to complete a 10 play, 80-yard drive and give the Falcons a 7\u20130 lead. On the first play of Missouri's ensuing possession, sophomore quarterback Blaine Gabbert fumbled the ball after being hit by Falcons' senior linebacker Cody Basler and the ball was recovered by junior defensive lineman Carlos Tipton at Missouri's 22-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe Falcons offense would waist the opportunity, going three and out, gaining three yards and having to settle for a 37-yard field goal from freshman kicker Jerry Phillips to push the Falcons lead to 10\u20130 at the end of the first quarter. The Falcons would recover another fumble in Missouri's territory as senior defensive back Jahmal Brown forced Missouri junior defensive back to fumble the ball on a punt return and junior linebacker Neal Dahlman recovered the ball for the Falcons at Missouri's 18-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe Falcons would waist their second possession with a short field, going three and out for four yards and settling for a 32-yard field goal from Phillips to push the lead to 13\u20130. The Tigers would get two field goals from sophomore kicker Grant Ressel (38, 46) to cut the Falcon lead to 13\u20136 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nBowling Green would keep the foot on the pedal entering the second half, taking the opening possession of the half 73 yards on 11 plays capped off with a 1-yard touchdown run from Willie Geter to push the Falcons lead to 20\u20136. From there, the Falcons offense would go stagnant, only gaining five first downs the rest of the game. Missouri would wear down the Falcons' defense starting with an 11 play, 87 yard drive culminating in a 27-yard touchdown pass from Gabbert to Jarred Perry to cut the Falcons' lead to 20\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201876-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Bowling Green Falcons football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMissouri would continue to run down the Falcons scoring on their next two possessions with a 33-yard pass from Gabbert to Wes Kemp and a 1-yard run by Der Washington to give the Tigers the 27\u201320 lead. The Falcons would have one last chance, taking possession at their own 16-yard line. Sheehan would complete a 17-yard pass to senior receiver Chris Wright on the first play of the drive, but would only complete one of his next four passes as the Falcons turned the ball over on downs near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201877-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Box Office Entertainment Awards\nThe 40th Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Box Office Entertainment Awards (GMMSF-BOEA) is a part of the annual awards in the Philippines held on June 21, 2009. The award-giving body honors Filipino actors, actresses and other performers' commercial success, regardless of artistic merit, in the Philippine entertainment industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201877-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Box Office Entertainment Awards\nThe yearly event is supposed to be 39th this year, but they believe that it is an unlucky number. Thus they skipped the 39th and renamed the event the 40th instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201877-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Box Office Entertainment Awards, Winners selection\nThe winners are chosen from the Top 10 Philippine films of 2008, top-rating shows in Philippine television, top recording awards received by singers, and top gross receipts of concerts and performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201877-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Box Office Entertainment Awards, Awards ceremony\nOn June 21, 2009 at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Ayala Avenue in Makati, Philippines, the 40th Box Office Entertainment Awards night was held. The event was then aired on June 28 on ABS-CBN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201877-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Box Office Entertainment Awards, Multiple awards, Companies with multiple awards\nThe following companies received two or more awards in the television category:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201878-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brabantse Pijl\nThe 2009 Brabantse Pijl was the 49th edition of the Brabantse Pijl cycle race and was held on 29 March 2009. The race started in Leuven and finished in Beersel. The race was won by Anthony Geslin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election\nThe 2009 Bradfield by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Bradfield on 5 December 2009. This was triggered as a result of the resignation of former minister and ex-Liberal Party leader Brendan Nelson. The by-election was held on the same day as the Higgins by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election\nThe by-election was contested on the same boundaries drawn for Bradfield at the 2007 federal election. At that election, the Liberal Party won the seat over the Labor Party with a 63.45 per cent of the vote on a two-party-preferred basis, making it the safest metropolitan seat in Australia for the Liberals. The 2007 result was the second-closest in the seat's 60-year history (after the 1952 Bradfield by-election against an independent). The Liberal candidate has never had to go to preferences to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election\nThe writ for the by-election was issued on 30 October, with the rolls closing on 9 November. Candidate nominations closed on 12 November, and were announced the following day. At 22 candidates, it ties with the 1992 Wills by-election for the most candidates to contest a federal lower house seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election\nBoth the Bradfield and Higgins by-elections were the last by-elections for the House of Representatives until the Griffith by-election held in February 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Background\nAt the 2007 federal election, the opposition Kevin Rudd-led Labor Party defeated the incumbent John Howard-led Liberal-National coalition government. This marked the first change of government in over 11 years. Brendan Nelson had served in ministerial positions in the Howard government, before taking over the Liberal leadership from Howard after the election loss. He lost the leadership to Malcolm Turnbull less than a year later after sustained poor polling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Background\nNelson first won the seat of Bradfield at the 1996 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Background\nNelson had initially indicated (16 February 2009) he would stay as the member until the next election, at which time he would retire from parliament. On 25 August 2009, however, he announced he would be resigning by late September, thus triggering a by-election. On 16 September 2009, he was appointed as Ambassador to the European Union, NATO, Belgium and Luxembourg. He officially resigned from the House on 19 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Campaign\nThe Higgins and Bradfield by-election campaigns were overshadowed by Liberal infighting over Labor's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, culminating in the replacement of Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott as Liberal leader. Although fairly safe on paper, some commentators including Malcolm Mackerras tipped the Greens to win in Higgins, and force the Liberals to preferences in Bradfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Candidates\nThe following table is the order and party affiliation of each candidate who has nominated to contest the seat of Bradfield on 5 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Candidates\nThe Australian Labor Party did not stand a candidate. The Christian Democrats suggested that they were considering running up to eleven candidates (eleven being the number of faithful disciples). The CDP ended up fielding nine candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Results\n\u00a7 The combined Christian Democrats vote was 3.58 percent, an increase of 1.84 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Aftermath\nThe Christian Democratic Party's lead candidate, James Whitehall, resigned from the party soon after the by-election on strong disagreement with the content of a controversial and unauthorised survey circulated by the campaign director Michael Darby. The platform of the CDP for the by-election was focused on the controversial Emissions Trading Scheme, which was supported by both the Liberal and Labor parties at the time of the by-election. Changes to the CDP platform, as suggested by the controversial survey, had not been sighted or approved by many of its candidates. Whitehall's father, the party's junior deputy president, also resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201879-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Bradfield by-election, Aftermath\nBeing the author of the survey, which included questions on whether the Government should be able to deport Muslims, and whether mosques and Islamic schools should be banned, Darby faced expulsion from the party. He was ultimately relieved of his position, and party leader, Fred Nile, offered an apology for the survey, also stating that the CDP would not run multiple candidates in any electorates in future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201880-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradford Bulls season\nThis article details the Bradford Bulls rugby league football club's 2009 season, the 14th season of the Super League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201880-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bradford Bulls season, Table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201881-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brandenburg state election\nThe 2009 Brandenburg state election was held on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Brandenburg. It took place on the same day as the 2009 federal election and 2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Minister-President Matthias Platzeck took small losses, but retained a majority. However, the SPD chose to form a government with The Left rather than continue the SPD\u2013CDU coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201881-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brandenburg state election\nThe election saw the Free Democratic Party and The Greens re-enter the Landtag for the first time since the 1990 election, while the German People's Union lost all its seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201881-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brandenburg state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the 4th Landtag of Brandenburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201882-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round was the fourth round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 18 and 19 July 2009 at Brands Hatch at Kent, United Kingdom. The first race was won by Philipp Eng, with Andy Soucek and Henry Surtees also on the podium. The second race was won by Andy Soucek, with Robert Wickens and Mikhail Aleshin also on the podium. The round was overshadowed by the fatal accident suffered by Henry Surtees in second race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201882-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round\nSurtees was hit on the head by a wheel from the car of Jack Clarke after Clarke spun into the wall exiting Westfield Bend. The wheel broke its tether and bounced back across the track into the following group of cars and collided with Surtees' helmet. The car continued straight ahead into the barrier on the approach to Sheene Curve, also losing a wheel, and came to rest at the end of the curve with its remaining rear wheel still spinning. This indicated that Surtees had lost consciousness, with his foot still pressing the accelerator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201882-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round\nSurtees was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilised before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital. His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheelrather than the following crash with the barriers, and was announced later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201883-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open\nThe 2009 Brasil Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 9th edition of the Brasil Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place in Costa do Sau\u00edpe resort, Mata de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o, Brazil, from 9 February through 14 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201883-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open\nThe singles line up was led by world no. 17 and defending champion Nicol\u00e1s Almagro, Tommy Robredo and Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s. Other top seeds are 2009 Vi\u00f1a del Mar finalist Jos\u00e9 Acasuso, Marcel Granollers, Eduardo Schwank, Nicolas Devilder and Potito Starace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201883-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open, Champions, Doubles\nMarcel Granollers /  Tommy Robredo def. Lucas Arnold Ker /  Juan M\u00f3naco 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201884-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Thomaz Bellucci and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201884-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open \u2013 Doubles\nIn the final, Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo defeated Lucas Arnold Ker and Juan M\u00f3naco, 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201885-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open \u2013 Singles\nNicol\u00e1s Almagro was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Frederico Gil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201885-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brasil Open \u2013 Singles\nIn the final, Tommy Robredo defeated Thomaz Bellucci, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout\nThe 2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout was a power outage that occurred throughout much of Brazil and for a short time the entirety of Paraguay, on Tuesday, November 10, to Friday, 20 November, 2009, at approximately 22:15 BST. The blackout affected an estimated 60 million people in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description\nThousands of passengers were stranded as metro trains came to a halt and buses failed to cope with the volume of passengers. There were widespread reports of road accidents as street lighting and traffic lights failed. The blackout began about 22:15 on Tuesday and lasted until about 02:45 on Wednesday in S\u00e3o Paulo, although power was restored gradually in some places from before midnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description, Causes\nHeavy rains and strong winds caused three transformers on a key high-voltage transmission line to short circuit, cutting the line and automatically causing the complete loss of 14 GW of power and the  shutdown of the Itaipu Dam for the first time in its 25-year history. The power cut, which Brazilian officials said affected 18 of the country's 26 states, brought chaos to cities including S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Campo Grande and Vit\u00f3ria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description, Causes\nMedia such as Slashdot and 60 Minutes reported that the outage was the work of hackers. However, in December, 2010, WikiLeaks released a US diplomatic cable which suggested otherwise. The cable also reported that it", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description, Causes\nrepresented a loss of 28,000 megawatts \u2013 or 45 percent of total Brazilian consumption at that instant \u2013 of electricity and left an estimated 87 million residents without power. Scrutiny has been intense and speculation rife over the cause of the incident, in large part due to the recent announcement of Rio as the host of the 2016 summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description, Causes\nand indicated that the longest outage was 6 hours, in S\u00e3o Paulo, and details interim reports on what failures caused the outage, and responses under consideration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Description, Causes\nPresident Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva arranged an emergency commission to enquire into the cause of the blackout. The blackout also unleashed a political stir as the  Minister of Energy has been summoned to testify before Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201886-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazil and Paraguay blackout, Affected regions, Paraguay\nThe Itaipu Dam is shared with Paraguay. In the immediate aftermath of its failure, interconnecting lines to Paraguay's other large powerplant, the Yacyreta Dam (in the border with Argentina), also failed. All of the country's territory was affected by the blackout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grande Pr\u00eamio Petrobras do Brasil 2009) was a Formula One motor race held at the Aut\u00f3dromo Jos\u00e9 Carlos Pace, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil on 18 October 2009. It was the sixteenth race of the 2009 Formula One World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix\nThe 71-lap race was won by Mark Webber, driving a Red Bull-Renault. Webber took his second victory of the season, and the second of his career, by 7.6 seconds from Robert Kubica in a BMW Sauber, with Lewis Hamilton third in a McLaren-Mercedes. Jenson Button finished fifth in his Brawn-Mercedes to secure his first and only Drivers' Championship, while Brawn GP sealed the Constructors' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Background\nLocal favourite Felipe Massa won the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix for Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton picked up the World Championship for McLaren by overtaking Timo Glock on the last corner of the race for 5th. Massa also won the race in 2006, and was runner-up to teammate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in 2007 as the Finn took the World Championship. The World title had been won at Interlagos for the previous 4 years, with Hamilton, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Fernando Alonso (twice) taking the title. Alonso has never won the Brazilian GP, however, with Juan Pablo Montoya and  Massa winning the 2005 and 2006 races respectively. Another former Brazilian Grand Prix winner lining up was Giancarlo Fisichella, who won in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Background\nThe race has a history of home success, with Massa, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet Sr, Carlos Pace and Emerson Fittipaldi winning. Rubens Barrichello aimed for his first win at Interlagos, hoping to improve on his previous best placing of 3rd in 2004. Massa had targeted a return after injuries sustained in an accident in qualifying in the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, but this was not possible. Massa instead was given the honour of waving the chequered flag at the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Background\nChampionship leader Jenson Button needed to finish within four points of teammate Barrichello to seal the 2009 drivers' title. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel needed to finish first or second in order to stay in the running for the title fight. In the constructors' standings, Brawn GP required just half a point to be declared champions, while Red Bull Racing needed to finish first and second in both Brazil and Abu Dhabi with Brawn not scoring in either round to take the title for themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Background\nGP2 driver and Toyota test driver Kamui Kobayashi replaced Toyota's Timo Glock after tests revealed that he had cracked a vertebra in his qualifying accident at the previous race at Suzuka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying report\nQualifying was dominated by a tropical storm that would interrupt the session for over an hour, and made the session last 2 hours and 41 minutes, the  longest qualifying session in the history of F1. The first session saw the elimination of Giancarlo Fisichella, both McLaren cars and championship contender Sebastian Vettel; Nick Heidfeld joined them as the fifth and final car eliminated. The rains set in after the first session, delaying qualifying until the circuit could be declared safe. Nico Rosberg topped the timing sheets with a lap time of 1:22.828.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying report\nWhen the weather had cleared and the cars eventually re-emerged, Rosberg would once again come out on top. The session was almost immediately red-flagged with Vitantonio Liuzzi crashing heavily at the first corner. Unable to set a time, he was subsequently eliminated. Q2 also saw the elimination of championship leader Jenson Button down in fourteenth and behind Jaime Alguersuari, Kamui Kobayashi and Romain Grosjean, the three least-experienced drivers in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying report\nFor the first time since the knockout qualifying system was introduced, the third and final ten-minute session was contested by drivers from nine of the ten teams, the only exclusion being McLaren, with both Hamilton and Kovalainen having been knocked out in the first session; Williams were the only team to field two cars in the final session. Jenson Button's closest championship rival and teammate Rubens Barrichello took his first pole since the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix, on a drying circuit with a 1:19.576, but the release of the post-qualifying car weights revealed him to be the lightest car on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying report, Qualifying classification\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nThe opening lap was dominated by three separate incidents. Heikki Kovalainen made contact with Sebastian Vettel coming out of the Senna 'S', and while Vettel emerged unscathed, Kovalainen ran out of road and very nearly collected Fisichella, who was forced to go the long way around. The second incident took place just two corners later when Jarno Trulli tangled with Adrian Sutil while trying to make a pass coming out of the fifth corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nBoth the Toyota and the Force India were eliminated, with Sutil taking out Fernando Alonso in the process when the Renault driver was unable to avoid his out-of-control Force India, an incident which caused the deployment of the safety car. The third and final incident took place in the pit lane; after his encounter with Vettel, Heikki Kovalainen pitted, followed closely by Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, the latter having damaged his front wing after light contact with Mark Webber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nKovalainen was released from his pit while the fuel hose was still attached, taking it with him and with it, a spray of fuel. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's exhaust ignited the spilt fuel in a fireball, but no one was injured and both drivers were able to continue once Brawn mechanics extricated the McLaren fuel hose from Kovalainen's car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nPole-sitter Barrichello controlled the first phase of the race, though Mark Webber and Robert Kubica stayed in touch, just two and a half seconds adrift. Aided by the first-lap incidents and the safety car, Button was placed ninth at the end of the first lap. He proceeded to take Grosjean around the outside at Turn 6 and then Nakajima at the first corner once green-flag conditions resumed, before being held up by debutant Kamui Kobayashi. He was heard on the team radio voicing his displeasure at the newcomer's tactics in defending his line. When he finally cleared the Toyota driver, Button was able to build a lead of three and a half seconds on him in a single lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nBarrichello was unable to sustain the pace needed to maintain his lead over Webber, and in the first round of pit stops, the home town driver was passed by the Australian before coming under fire from Robert Kubica. Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton\u00a0\u2014 having started seventeenth\u00a0\u2014 had pitted on the first lap and removed the softer tyre compound as his team switched him to a one-stop strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nOther incidents early in the race saw Nick Heidfeld run out of fuel after his fuel-rig malfunctioned, whilst Kobayashi's blocking tactics removed fellow countryman Kazuki Nakajima's front wing, and the Williams driver crashed heavily at the fourth corner. His teammate Nico Rosberg had succumbed to gearbox troubles a few laps earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nThe second stage of the race saw Button leading a group of four one-stopping drivers, with their ultimate success or failures having consequences on the championship standings given Barrichello's position. Both Hamilton and then Vettel successfully leap-frogged Button after Button's second stop and the Briton was caught behind Kovalainen, though a fading Rubens Barrichello was in a position such that had the race ended there and then, Button would still be declared World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nButton inherited sixth position when Kovalainen pitted, while Hamilton managed a pass down the inside of Barrichello into the first corner that inadvertently damaged the Brazilian's tyre, causing a puncture and forcing him to pit. He resumed in eighth, with Vettel's fourth placing meaning that, barring a dramatic turn in events, Button would be the 2009 World Champion even if he retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nMark Webber, who had led unchallenged since the first stops, went on to win the race, with Robert Kubica securing BMW Sauber's first podium since Malaysia. Lewis Hamilton's pass on Barrichello was good enough to net him third place and see McLaren overtake Ferrari for third in the constructors' standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nSebastian Vettel was fourth when he needed to be first or second to continue the championship fight in Abu Dhabi, while Button's fifth place from fourteenth on the grid was enough for him to secure the 2009 World Championship, becoming the tenth British champion and the first British champion to succeed another since 1969, when Jackie Stewart succeeded Graham Hill as World Champion. He also became the second driver in succession to win a World Championship by finishing fifth in Brazil whilst driving a Mercedes-powered car carrying the number 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nButton used only one  chassis over the course of the season (most drivers change chassis several times), having driven it in every practice and qualifying session and race, meaning that he won the World Championship in the oldest car on the grid. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Sebastien Buemi and Rubens Barrichello rounded out the minor points placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report\nFelipe Massa was the chequered flag waver in this Grand Prix. The podium trophies were of an unusual three-pronged design and matt-turquoise in colour. They were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and were constructed of recycled plastic bottle tops, collected on site over the course of the Grand Prix weekend, and remoulded at the site's plastic recycling plant. The initiative is to highlight sponsor Petrobras' green credentials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201887-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race report, Race classification\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201888-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian federal budget\nThe 2009 Brazilian federal budget was submitted to the National Congress of Brazil by President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva on August 27, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201888-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian federal budget, Total receipts\nThe total receipts for fiscal year 2009 are estimated at US$657.9 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides\nThe 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides were a severe natural disaster principally affecting five northeastern states of Brazil. As a result of heavy rains, fourteen people were reported dead over a period of one month and at least 62,600 others had been left homeless as of 2 May 2009. Nineteen people were dead by 5 May 2009, with a significant increase in homeless people being reported, estimated at 186,000. The death toll by 8 May was thirty-nine and 270,000 people were reported homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides\nThe state of Santa Catarina in the South of the country has also been damaged. A total of seven states have been affected across the country. Maranh\u00e3o was the worst affected state, with at least six deaths and at least 40,700 homeless people occupying shelters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides\nThe Amazon River Basin suffered its second-heaviest flood in one hundred years during this period. These are already the worst floods Brazil has experienced in over twenty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides\nReconstruction from the floods and mudslides are expected to take 3\u20135 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nHeavy rain in Brazil began in early April 2009, affecting 40,000 people. 13,000 people were immediately left homeless and there were two quick deaths in Maranh\u00e3o's state capital, S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, both as a result of mudslides. The homeless were half in shelters and half in the care of relatives. Thirteen of the state's municipalities had declared state of emergency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nOn 23 April, it was reported that the disaster had already killed three people, including a one-month-old child from Salvador, the capital of Bahia, who was suffocated by a mudslide. Over 33,000 people had been made homeless at that stage; 30,000 of these were in Maranh\u00e3o and 3,400 were in the adjacent state of Bahia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nAt least 3,000 people lost their homes in Santa Catarina, whilst one died. The governor of Amazonas, Eduardo Braga, initiated a state of emergency in every one of his state's sixty-two municipalities. Fourteen people were reported dead within one month and at least 62,600 others were left homeless by 2 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nNineteen people were dead by 5 May 2009, as a sharp rise in homelessness occurred. Homeless totals have been estimated at 186,000 individuals. Images of citizens travelling around in boats and barely visible rooftops were broadcast on television. Emergency shelters were said to be \"packed\" with homeless people. At least six major highways were closed in Maranh\u00e3o. A railway used to transport iron ore and 1,300 people each day was also shut down. The governor of the state of Piau\u00ed declared state of emergency in nineteen of the state's towns and cities, and requested help from the military in rescuing people from the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nBy this time, over 186,000 people were homeless. The death toll by 6 May was reported at twenty-nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nThe death toll by 8 May was thirty-nine and 270,000 people were reported homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Developments\nBy 10 May, it was being reported that over 300,000 people were homeless and 44 had been killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201889-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides, Reaction\nPresident of Brazil, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, inspected the damage by air and brought food to those displaced by the disaster. He commented: \"We need to look more seriously into the climate situation these days. Something is changing and we still have time to fix it.\" (i.e. : Mass De-Forestation?) Brazil's Health Ministrer Jos\u00e9 Gomes Tempor\u00e3o has promised to deliver medical supplies to Maranh\u00e3o.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case\nIn 2009, a 9-year-old girl was forcibly impregnated by her stepfather; the girl's mother helped her procure an abortion. The twin pregnancy was terminated. Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Sobrinho affirmed that the girl's mother and the doctors who performed the abortion had been automatically excommunicated under Canon Law. This prompted an array of national and international criticism for the Archbishop's actions. In response, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil declared that no one was excommunicated in the case, and in an article published on L'Osservatore Romano a Vatican bioethicist rebuked the archbishop for his public statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Law\nAbortion is legal under Brazilian law in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or in which giving birth would endanger the mother's life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Law\nThe 1983 Code of Canon Law says that automatic excommunication is imposed on \"a person who procures a completed abortion\" (Canon 1398), but not if, for instance, the act was done \"by a person who was coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or due to necessity or grave inconvenience unless the act is intrinsically evil or tends to the harm of souls\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, The abortion\nDoctors in Recife performed an abortion on the nine-year-old girl on 4 March 2009. They judged her life to be at risk because of her age and because she was pregnant with twins and weighed 80 pounds. According to Fatima Maia, the director of the hospital CISAM, if the pregnancy continued, the child could suffer a ruptured uterus and hemorrhage, and she also ran the risk of diabetes, hypertension, eclampsia and lifelong sterility. She had been raped, allegedly by her stepfather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Sobrinho's view and actions\nAs well as expressly denying that he had excommunicated anyone, but had only said that excommunication had been automatically incurred, Sobrinho said that \"the law of God is higher than any human laws. When a human law\u2014that is, a law enacted by human legislators\u2014is against the law of God, that law has no value. The adults who approved, who carried out this abortion have incurred excommunication.\" In an interview, he added: \"They took the life of an innocent. Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Sobrinho's view and actions\nAn adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot be ignored.\" Sobrinho explained that the rapist stepfather was not excommunicated because abortion, the taking of an innocent life, is even worse than rape. The girl was not excommunicated, because minors are exempt from excommunication. Archbishop Sobrinho and his diocese also tried to prevent the abortion by approaching the child's parents, the State Governor and the hospital where she was first admitted, after which it put off the abortion indefinitely. His lawyers then issued legal threats against the second hospital where the abortion finally took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Government reaction\nPresident Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, a Catholic, criticized what he called the \"conservative attitude\" of the Archbishop in a case where the doctors were trying to save the girl's life, adding: \"In this case, the medical profession was more right than the Church.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Government reaction\nHealth Minister Jos\u00e9 Gomes Tempor\u00e3o described what he called the Catholic Church's position as \"extreme, radical and inadequate\". Tempor\u00e3o, who had frequently clashed with the Church on questions such as abortion and state distribution of free condoms, called on the participants in a national convention on women's health to acknowledge the \"brilliant\" work done by the medical team who performed the abortion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, National Conference of Bishops of Brazil\nThe National Conference of Bishops of Brazil repudiated Sobrinho's initiative. At a press conference, Bishop Dimas Lara Barbosa, Secretary General of the Conference, said that the girl's mother was not excommunicated, since she had acted under pressure to save her daughter's life, and that there were no grounds to declare the doctors excommunicated, because (automatic) excommunication depended on each one's degree of awareness and only those who were \"aware and contumacious\" were excommunicated. At the press conference, a document on excommunication written by canonist Enrique P\u00e9rez Pujol, who stressed that the penalty should not be applied amid a polemic, was distributed to journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, National Conference of Bishops of Brazil\nArchbishop Geraldo Lyrio Rocha, President of the Conference, avoided answering a question whether Sobrinho had acted hastily in saying that automatic excommunication had occurred. He said that \"at no time did he want to hurt someone who was already hurting, but only wished to draw attention to the gravity of the deed of abortion in the face of a certain permissiveness regarding the life of the unborn\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, National Conference of Bishops of Brazil\nHe said that Sobrinho had excommunicated no one, but had pointed out that abortion entails the possibility of excommunication, which is a measure intended to make not only an individual but the whole Church community take note of the gravity of the deed. As for the rapist, he said that a rapist \"is outside of communion\" and \"in grave mortal sin\", even though rape is not listed among the crimes that give rise to automatic excommunication. He said: \"Rape is something so repugnant that the Church does not need to call attention to it. It is punished by the state justice system, which does not punish abortion so much.\" He said that talk of excommunication seemed to have made people forget the crime of the rapist, who needed to be punished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, Rino Fisichella\nThe Holy See's non-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, published a front-page article on 15 March by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, that was highly critical of Sobrinho's action. Fisichella said that excommunication was automatic, so that focusing on it rather than on helping and supporting the child victim showed a lack of compassion that detracted from the credibility of the Church's anti-abortion teaching.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, Rino Fisichella\nAfter reiterating the church's condemnation of abortion, he wrote that the moral situation was difficult because of the girl's young age and the risk to her life and praised those who \"allowed [her] to live and will help [her] to recover hope and trust\". He wrote: \"The conscience of the physician finds itself alone when forced to decide the best thing to do. A choice like that of having to save a life, knowing that one puts a second at serious risk, never comes easily.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, Rino Fisichella\nThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith responded to press coverage of Fisichella's article calling it manipulation and exploitation. It issued a clarification that the article did not signal a change of doctrine and said that \"the Church's teaching on procured abortion has not changed, nor can it change\". The clergy of the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife took issue with Fisichella, stating that the local Church had been supportive of the girl and her mother. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that Sobrinho had acted \"with all pastoral solicitude\". The members of the Academy gave Fisichella a vote of no confidence because of his article, and he was reassigned in the next year to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 75], "content_span": [76, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, Others\nCardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, deplored what he called an attack on the Church in Brazil: \"It is a sad case, but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated. Life must always be protected. The attack on the Brazilian church is unjustified.\" He added that excommunication of those who performed the abortion was just.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Church hierarchy's view, Others\nBishop Jean-Michel di Falco of Gap, France, criticized what he saw as the un-Christlike nature of Sobrinho's statement. He said that bishops should act as pastors rather than executioners. As had the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, he denied the applicability of Canon 1398 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law to the girl's mother, because such an automatic excommunication does not apply to someone who acts out of grave fear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Other reactions\nOn 9 March 2009, Health Minister Tempor\u00e3o interrupted the opening ceremony of a national medical convention on women's health in Bras\u00edlia in order to compliment Dr. Ol\u00edmpio Moraes, one of the doctors who carried out the abortion and who was in attendance. Participants gave Moraes a standing ovation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Other reactions\nMoraes expressed gratitude to Sobrinho for the excommunication, which, he said, had drawn attention to Brazil's restrictive abortion laws. Another of the doctors involved said that he will continue attending Mass, \"praying, conversing with God, and asking him to illuminate me and my colleagues in our medical team to help us take care of people in similar cases.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201890-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Brazilian girl abortion case, Other reactions\nThe United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, in its January 2014 assessment of the Holy See's compliance with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, cited this Brazil case. It \"urge[d] the Holy See to review its position on abortion which places obvious risks on the life and health of pregnant girls and to amend Canon 1398 relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which access to abortion services can be permitted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201891-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger\nThe 2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the 14th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bra\u0219ov, Romania between 31 August and 6 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201891-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201891-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nPere Riba /  Pablo Santos def. Simone Vagnozzi /  Uros Vico, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201892-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nDavid Marrero and Daniel Mu\u00f1oz-de la Nava were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate that year. Pere Riba and Pablo Santos won the final against Simone Vagnozzi and Uros Vico 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201893-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bra\u0219ov Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDaniel Gimeno-Traver was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Thiemo de Bakker won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20130, against Pere Riba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup\nThe 2009 Breeders' Cup World Championships were the 26th edition of thoroughbred racing's season ending premier event, and took place on November 6 and 7 during the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The event was telecast by ESPN. The Breeders' Cup is generally regarded as the end of the North America racing season, although a few Grade I events take place in later November and December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup\nThe highlight of the weekend was Zenyatta's victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic, marking the first time a female horse had won the race. Horses from Europe and California won the majority of races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup, Highlights\nThe Breeders' Cup Classic was the most anticipated race of the 2009 event, especially because of the decision by the connections of mare Zenyatta to enter her against male horses in the race instead of attempting to defend her title in the Ladies Classic (aka the Distaff). Zenyatta would face eight grade/group I-winning males, including horses who had won the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes (in both 2008 and 2009), Jockey Club Gold Cup, Santa Anita Handicap, Pacific Classic, Arlington Million, Man o\u2019 War, Champion Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Sussex Stakes, and Manhattan Handicap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup, Highlights\nZenyatta ran in last for most of the race then starting making up ground on the far turn, racing on the inside to save ground. When her path along the rail was blocked, she angled sharply to switch paths to the outside, then started closing again, eventually defeating Gio Ponti by a length. She became the first female to win the Classic in its 26-year history. \"I was able to cut the corner with her off the turn, and that made the difference,\" said jockey Mike Smith. \"She started to get to them in the stretch, and the crowd started screaming. Then she started looking at the crowd, so I had to get after her a little bit, but she still won within herself.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup, Highlights\nEuropean horses enjoyed success with two wins on Friday (Midday in the Filly & Mare Turf and Man of Iron in the Marathon), followed by four wins on Saturday (Pounced in the Juvenile Turf, Vale of York in the Juvenile, Goldikova in the Mile, Conduit in the Turf). California-based horses won several of the remaining races, including Zenyatta in the Classic, her stablemate Life Is Sweet in the Ladies Classic, California Flag in the Turf Sprint and Dancing in Silks in the Sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup, Highlights\nThe relatively poor showing by horses from the East Coast was attributed by some to the synthetic dirt surface of the main track, with which horses from the East Coast had little experience. Noted turf writer Andrew Beyer wrote, \"If the Breeders' Cup is a championship race, it's the championship of California, Britain and a few scattered tracks that have installed synthetic surfaces. But it is not a championship event in the way its creators intended.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201894-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup, Highlights\nThe total handle (amount bet) at the Breeders' Cup exceeded $150 million for the first time, up by over 4% from 2008. In addition, an estimated $24.75 million was wagered through Betfair. There was one winning Pick-6 ticket on the Saturday card, which paid $1,838,305. The television ratings on ESPN were also up, particularly for the segment covering the Classic, which increased from a 1.1 rating in 2008 to a 3.1 in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic\nThe 2009 Breeders' Cup Classic was the 26th running of the Breeders' Cup Classic, part of the 2009 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships program. It was run on November 7, 2009 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California with a purse of $5,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic\nFor the first time in the race's history, a mare won when Zenyatta closed from last place to win by a length. The race was named the NTRA Moment of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic\nThe Classic is run at a distance of one mile and one-quarter (approximately 2000 m). It is normally run on a dirt surface but in 2009 was run on a synthetic surface. It is run under weight-for-age conditions, with entrants carrying the following weights:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Contenders\nIn 2008, European-based horses finished one-two in the Classic, a result that many attributed to the synthetic surface used at Santa Anita. California had adopted synthetic surfaces starting in 2007 due to safety concerns but many horsemen and bettors felt that the synthetics performed more like turf than dirt. As a result, a few East Coast racehorses who had only raced on natural dirt surfaces did not ship to Santa Anita for the Breeders' Cup. Most notably, the connections of the outstanding filly Rachel Alexandra announced that she would not race on \"plastic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Contenders\nInstead, the favorite for the race was Zenyatta, who in 2008 had won the Ladies Classic and was named the Champion Older Female Horse. Zenyatta came into the Classic undefeated in thirteen career starts and was, with Rachel Alexandra, one of the most popular horses in recent memory. However, some handicappers questioned her credentials. As a California-based horse, she had demonstrated her ability to win on synthetic but was viewed as having faced inferior competition to that on the East Coast. She also had never raced against male horses, had never run at \u200b1\u00a01\u20444 miles, and the Beyer Speed Figures that she had recorded in previous races were unexceptional for a Grade I winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Contenders\nShe was part of a thirteen horse field that included eight other Grade I/Group One winners from three countries. The most highly regarded contenders were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nIn post position four, Zenyatta was initially reluctant to enter the starting gate. Then Quality Road in post position twelve started acting up, delaying the start of the race by five minutes when he refused to load even after being blindfolded. When he injured himself kicking the gate, he was scratched. The rest of the field was unloaded due to the delay and then reloaded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nWhen the race finally began, Zenyatta broke poorly and got off on the wrong lead. As was her custom, she dropped to the back of the field and trailed by as much as fifteen lengths. Down the backstretch, she had passed only one horse and was still about a dozen lengths behind. She started her move around the final turn, with jockey Mike Smith keeping her close to the rail to save ground. Track announcer Trevor Denman had kept an eye on the mare throughout the race, noting she had a lot of work to do at the top of the stretch, and saying \"If she wins this, she'll be a superhorse!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nTurning into the stretch, Zenyatta faced a wall of horses in front of her, so Smith angled her away from the rail. When she finally had running room in mid-stretch, she was still in sixth place but closed ground rapidly. As she moved to the lead, announcer Trevor Denman exclaimed, \"Zenyatta is flying on the grandstand side! This. Is. Un-be-liev-ABLE! What a performance! We will never see another like this! \"[52][53][54]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nZenyatta eventually won by a length. Gio Ponti, who had received an excellent trip on the rail, finished second while Twice Over was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nAfter moderate opening fractions, the time for the race was a solid 2:00.62. Nearly seven lengths behind with a quarter-mile remaining, Zenyatta ran the final quarter-mile in 23 seconds flat. It was the first time that a female horse had \"beat the boys\" in the Classic. Zenyatta was given a hero's welcome on her return to the winner's circle, with many fans holding signs honoring 'Queen Z.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nAfter the race, Smith described the run. \"I had to hit her out of the stall,\" he said. \"Then she was on her left lead and you want to be on your right down the straight. Then she gathered herself up... At the half-mile (pole), they were stacked up... but then it was like the parting of the sea as it opened up down there. She won it well within herself, believe it or not.\" He also said, \"I believe if there was another horse ahead of Gio Ponti, she would have caught him, too. She still had run left. \"[50] \"She is all heart,\" said trainer John Shirreffs. \"The way the crowd took to her was just amazing. They cheered for her, they clapped for her. They love her. What a wonderful relationship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nEven veteran horsemen were moved by Zenyatta's performance and the crowd's reaction. \"I switched camps at the eighth pole,\" said Bob Baffert, the trainer of Richard's Kid. \"When I saw my horse wasn't going to win, I started yelling for Zenyatta... I have never seen a grandstand like that; nobody wanted to leave. The crowd was captivated. It felt like a horse had just won the Triple Crown.\" \"She's a freak, what can I say?\" said Gio Ponti's trainer Christophe Clement. \"My horse ran a great race but he couldn't beat her.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Race Description\nThe race was named the NTRA Moment of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201895-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, Results\nTimes: \u200b1\u20444 \u2013 0:24.16;  \u200b1\u20442 \u2013 0:47.88; \u200b3\u20444 \u2013 1:11.88; mile \u2013 1:36.16;  final \u2013 2:00.62Fractional Splits: (:24.16) (:23.72) (:24.00) (:24.28) (:24.46)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201896-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brickyard 400\nThe 2009 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, the 16th running of the event, was the twenty-first race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the sixteenth NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). It was the first race under the ESPN/ABC section of the TV coverage for the 2009 season. The 160-lap, 400 miles (640\u00a0km) event took place on July 26 at the 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) IMS located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate town completely surrounded by Indianapolis).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201896-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Brickyard 400\nAlong with ESPN, the IMS Radio Network, working with Performance Racing Network, provided radio coverage on terrestrial radio, World Harvest Radio International also provided Shortwave feed of the IMS coverage, and with Sirius XM Radio holding the satellite radio rights. Juan Pablo Montoya dominated the race leading almost 120 laps, but after a pit penalty while under green flag conditions toward the end of the race, Jimmie Johnson held off a hard charging Mark Martin to claim victory, his third triumph at the storied venue. The race will be known as Allstate 400, as Allstate Insurance announced that it would not renew its sponsorship of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201896-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brickyard 400, Tires\nFollowing the fiasco surrounding tire wear in the 2008 race, infuriating the fans and everyone else involved, Goodyear held three tire tests afterward, with the most recent tire test held on June 15\u201316. The drivers there agreed that the tire wear was much better than last year, mostly because the Car of Tomorrow was not run at IMS in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201897-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brigham municipal election\nThe 2009 Brigham municipal election was held on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Brigham, Quebec. All incumbents were re-elected without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season\nThe 2009 Brisbane Broncos season was the 22nd in the club's history and their first without foundation coach Wayne Bennett. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and by the 12th round were leading the competition, but then suffered one of their worst post-State of Origin form slumps ever and spent rounds 16 to 22 outside the top eight. The team managed to finish the regular season 6th (out of 16), qualifying for the finals for the 18th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season\nThe Broncos then came within one match of the grand final but were knocked out for the 3rd season in a row by eventual premiers the Melbourne Storm (who months later were found to have been cheating the salary cap over the previous four seasons and had all honours achieved during the period nullified by the NRL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nThe new post-Bennett Broncos era got off to a thrilling start when they defeated the North Queensland Cowboys 19\u201318 in round 1 at Suncorp Stadium in the first game under coach Ivan Henjak. Star signing Israel Folau scored his first try in Broncos colours and the first try of the season for the club in the 6th minute, followed by NRL debutantes Antonio Winterstein and Jharal Yow Yeh who also crossed. In round 2 the Broncos defeated the Melbourne Storm for the first time since the 2006 NRL Grand Final. Israel Folau was up against his old club for the first time and scored a try in the 11th minute and second for the year for the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nFor the second year in a row, The Broncos won the opening three rounds of the season when they defeated the New Zealand Warriors 26\u201310 at Mt Smart Stadium. In the following days Shane Webcke, who had been appointed assistant coach for Brisbane at the start of the season quit his post in the wake of controversy surrounding the release of his new book in which he was critical of some Broncos personnel. Later that week Wayne Bennett returned to Brisbane with the St. George Illawarra Dragons for round 4, coaching against his old club for the first time. Brisbane conceded their first loss of the season in what was also Darius Boyd's first match against his old club and the Dragons' 8th straight win against the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nThe following week, the Broncos continued their 7-year winning streak in the Good Friday match against the Roosters, surviving a strong 2nd-half comeback by the Sydneysiders. In round 7, Darren Lockyer answered his critics as he helped the Broncos to a 40\u20138 win over the Parramatta Eels at Suncorp Stadium. Lockyer had a hand in most of the Broncos seven tries with Karmichael Hunt scoring three of the seven tries himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nDarren Lockyer's 300th game did not go as planned when they faced the Newcastle Knights in torrential rain at EnergyAustralia Stadium and lost, the match punctuated by a 35-minute half-time break. In round 10, Israel Folau equalled the club record for most tries in a match when he scored 4 tries against the Gold Coast Titans at Suncorp Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nThe following week, the Broncos survived a strong Wests Tigers side who were playing their 10th anniversary match, hanging on to win 20\u201318 at Campbelltown Stadium. In round 13, the Broncos suffered one of their worst defeats in the club's history when they lost 48\u20134 against the Melbourne Storm at Olympic Park. The loss is also equalled second in the Broncos worst defeats. In round 21, the Broncos were handed their worst ever defeat by the Canberra Raiders 56\u20130 at Canberra Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nThe following week, the Broncos bounced back to keep their finals hopes alive with a 30\u201310 win over the Cronulla Sharks at Suncorp Stadium. In round 24, The Broncos won their first match against the St. George Illawarra Dragons since round 6, 2005, when they beat the Dragons 12\u20132 at WIN Stadium. In round 25, the Broncos secured their 18th straight finals appearance when they beat Queensland rivals North Queensland Cowboys 16\u201310 at Dairy Farmers Stadium. The Broncos were the first opponent for the Gold Coast Titans competing in their first ever finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Results\nThe Broncos survived a late comeback from the Titans holding on to a 40\u201332 win at Skilled Stadium. The Broncos made it consecutive wins against the St. George Illawarra Dragons for the first time since 2004 and their first win against the Dragons at Suncorp Stadium since 2004 with a 24\u201310 win against the Dragons in the semi-final at Suncorp Stadium. Source: Their chances against Melbourne in the grand final qualifier suffered a major blow when in form halfback Peter Wallace broke his ankle toward the end of that win against the Dragons. The Broncos 2009 season came to an end in the Preliminary Final going down 40\u201310 to eventual premiers, the Melbourne Storm at Etihad Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201898-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Broncos season, Coaching staff\nShane Webcke was an Assistant Coach up until 6 April 2009, when he resigned from his role due to the controversy surrounding his auto-biography \"Hard Road\". In addition, international cricketer and long-time Broncos fan Andrew Symonds was adopted by the club in an unpaid role assisting the coaching staff following his exile from cricket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International\nThe 2009 Brisbane International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It was the first edition of the event known as the Brisbane International and resulted from the merger of the Next Generation Adelaide International on the men's tour with the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts on the women's tour. The 2009 Brisbane International was a World Tour 250 series event on the ATP Tour and an International series event on the WTA Tour. Both the men's and women's events took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson from 4 January through 11 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International\nThe men's draw was led by Novak Djokovic, who was the World No. 3 ranked player, 2008 Australian Open champion, 2008 Pacific Life Open champion, and 2008 Tennis Masters Cup winner. Joining Djokovic in the tournament was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who was the 2008 Australian Open runner-up and the 2008 champion of the tournament in Bangkok and the Masters Series tournament in Paris. Fernando Verdasco, a member of Spain's 2008 Davis Cup championship team and the winner of the tournament in Umag, also played in Adelaide. Also lined up for this tournament were Lyon titlist Robin S\u00f6derling, Tokyo winner Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, Mardy Fish, Richard Gasquet, and Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International\nThe women's field featured Ana Ivanovic, the World No. 5 ranked player, a former World No. 1, 2008 Australian Open runner-up, and champion of the 2008 French Open and 2008 Pacific Life Open. Joining Ivanovic in the tournament was Victoria Azarenka, who was the runner-up at the 2008 Generali Ladies Linz tournament, the 2008 Gold Coast tournament and the 2008 Prague Open tournament the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International\nAlso present were Marion Bartoli, the runner-up at the 2008 tournament in Stanford; Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, 2008 Australian Open semifinalist; Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, a former World No. 1, champion of the 2008 tournament in Cincinnati, and semifinalist at the 2008 tournament in New Haven, Connecticut; World No. 26 Kaia Kanepi; and World No. 30 Francesca Schiavone. The seventh seed, Maria Kirilenko, had to withdraw because of a viral illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day one: 4 January\nIn women's singles, Victoria Azarenka, the second seed, defeated Kateryna Bondarenko 6\u20130, 6\u20132. The third seed, Marion Bartoli, overcame home qualifier and World No. 528 Monika Wejnert 6\u20131, 6\u20132. The only seed to fall was sixth-seeded Kaia Kanepi who lost to Russian Alisa Kleybanova 6\u20131, 6\u20134. In other first round matches, Jarmila Gajdo\u0161ov\u00e1 advanced to face Azarenka after beating Peng Shuai, and Tsvetana Pironkova defeated Monica Niculescu in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day one: 4 January\nFour matches were played in men's singles. Seventh-seeded Richard Gasquet advanced to the second round with a 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 victory over fellow Frenchman Marc Gicquel. Robin S\u00f6derling, the fourth seed, also reached the second round, beating Sam Querrey 6\u20133, 6\u20133. Taylor Dent and Julien Benneteau also won against Steve Darcis and Robby Ginepri, respectively. Dent, who had thought his career was over following back surgery and sliding down to World No. 865 in the rankings from a career high of World No. 21, set up a second round match against Gasquet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day two: 5 January\nFirst round play in women's and men's singles continued on day two while the doubles events also started. Four matches were completed in the men's singles tournament. Third-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, aiming for his first career hard court title, defeated Australian wildcard Bernard Tomic 6\u20132, 6\u20134. The other seed in action, Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek from the Czech Republic, beat Russian doubles specialist Igor Kunitsyn 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day two: 5 January\nThe other players to progress to round two were Finnish player Jarkko Nieminen, who took just over 2 hours to win 5\u20137, 6\u20131, 6\u20134 against Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, the 2007 Australian Open runner-up who is just now returning from injury. The only seed to exit the tournament on day two was Mardy Fish, the sixth-seeded American who lost 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(4) to J\u00fcrgen Melzer of Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day two: 5 January\nThe majority of first round matches in women's singles was played on day two, with three of the seeds failing to progress. Fourth-seeded Slovak Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 was knocked out by Italian Sara Errani. After taking the first set in a tiebreak, she lost the next two sets 6\u20134, 6\u20130. Eighth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy lost 7\u20135, 6\u20132 to Belarusian Olga Govortsova. Ai Sugiyama, who replaced Maria Kirilenko as a seeded player, was defeated by home-favourite Samantha Stosur 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day two: 5 January\nA couple of seeds did make the second round, however: top seeded Serbian Ana Ivanovic needed 1 hour, 45 minutes to win her match against Czech Petra Kvitov\u00e1 6\u20134, 6\u20132 and former World No. 1 Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, the fifth-seeded Frenchwoman, triumphed 7\u20136(9), 7\u20136(5) over home player Jelena Doki\u0107. Qualifiers Roberta Vinci (Italy), Melinda Czink (Hungary) and Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva advanced against Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld, Alona Bondarenko, and Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1. Lucky loser Julie Coin of France, who was accepted into the tournament when Kirilenko withdrew, beat Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 7\u20135, 6\u20137(5), 7\u20136(3) in the longest women's match so far at almost 3 hours 20 minutes. Unseeded Czech Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 also won against Australian wildcard Isabella Holland 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day two: 5 January\nJust one match was played in the women's doubles and it saw unseeded duo Mervana Jugi\u0107-Salki\u0107 from Bosnia and Chinese player Peng Shuai defeat Akgul Amanmuradova from Uzbekistan and Yuliana Fedak of Ukraine 6\u20131, 6\u20134. In the men's competition, third seeds Simon Aspelin and Pavel V\u00edzner saw off singles players Julien Benneteau and Micha\u00ebl Llodra 6\u20134, 7\u20135 while in a match of the singles specialists, French duo Marc Gicquel and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat countryman Paul-Henri Mathieu and his Croatian partner Mario An\u010di\u0107 7\u20135, 4\u20136, [10-4] (champions tiebreak).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nFirst round play was completed and second round play was started in men's singles, resulting in several upsets of seeded players. World No. 3 and top-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic lost his first round match to Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Gulbis, who reached a career-high ranking of World No. 38 during 2008 that included a maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal, was rewarded with a match against Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu who beat Russian qualifier Teymuraz Gabashvili 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nThe other seeds to play their first matches were Frenchman Jo Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Argentinian Agust\u00edn Calleri, currently ranked World No. 62, 6\u20132, 7\u20135, and fifth-seeded Czech Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych who advanced 6\u20130, 6\u20134 to a second round match against Kei Nishikori, the Japanese player who beat U.S. player Bobby Reynolds 6\u20132, 6\u20133. Mario An\u010di\u0107, Florent Serra, and Micha\u00ebl Llodra all won their first round matches, against Amer Delic, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and home qualifier Joseph Sirianni. Fourth-seeded Robin S\u00f6derling and seventh-seeded Richard Gasquet won their second round matches: Gasquet defeated Taylor Dent 7\u20135, 6\u20134 while S\u00f6derling recorded a 6\u20133, 6\u20133 triumph against Julien Benneteau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nThe second round started in women's singles. Second seed Victoria Azarenka took over 2 hours to win her match against Slovakian born but Australian based Jarmila Gajdo\u0161ov\u00e1 7\u20136, 7\u20135. The match between Tathiana Garbin and Alisa Kleybanova took 2 hours 20 minutes to complete, with the former winning 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132. The fourth seed Marion Bartoli emerged victorious in a match lasting half an hour less despite taking three sets, beating qualifier Melinda Czink 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20131. Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 defeated home-favourite Samantha Stosur in the night session 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in under an hour to reach the quarterfinals. The Australian, whose ranking had dropped to outside the top 150 while she was ill with meningitis, lost despite feeling she had been hitting the ball well. \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 is due to play Azarenka, and Bartoli will face Garbin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nThe men's doubles saw its first seeds eliminated as second seeds Marcelo Melo (defending champion with Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda) and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 losing to American Travis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek from Slovakia. Their next opponents will be the new partnership of Briton Jamie Murray and Slovakian Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107, who defeated the Austrian pair Julian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer 6\u20137(14), 6\u20132, [10-4] (champions tiebreak). Top seeds Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram needed three sets to defeat Czechs Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych 4\u20136, 6\u20132, [11-9].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nThe fourth seeded pair - Czech Martin Damm and Swede Robert Lindstedt - narrowly won against the South American pairing of Argentinian Lucas Arnold Ker and Brazilian Bruno Soares 7\u20135, 7\u20135. Their next match will be against Spaniard Fernando Verdasco and German Mischa Zverev who beat Australians Brydan Klein and youngster Bernard Tomic 7\u20136(4), 7\u20136(5). Home players Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione beat Americans Mardy Fish and Sam Querrey by the same scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day three: 6 January\nFive more matches took place in the women's doubles first round, with all four seeds securing victory. Top seeded South African-American duo Cara Black and Liezel Huber beat France's S\u00e9verine Br\u00e9mond and Olga Govortsova 6\u20133, 6\u20133 while the second seeds, Ukrainian sisters Kateryna and Alona Bondarenko, defeated Alisa Kleybanova and Monica Niculescu 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [10-7]. Italian third seeds Victoria Azarenka and Francesca Schiavone followed up their singles successes by knocking out Tatiana Poutchek and Anastasia Rodionova 6\u20133, 6\u20132. Sun Tiantian and Yan Zi, the fourth seeded Chinese pair, beat Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Yaroslava Shvedova 3\u20136, 7\u20136(12), [10-6]. In the only non-seeded match, Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama eased through against home wildcards Monika Wejnert and Sophie Ferguson 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day four: 7 January\nThe biggest upset of the day was in men's singles, where Japanese Kei Nishikori defeated fifth-seeded Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych 7\u20136(7), 6\u20133. The other seeds won, with third-seeded Fernando Verdasco defeating Mario An\u010di\u0107 6\u20132, 6\u20133; eighth-seeded Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek defeating defending champion Micha\u00ebl Llodra 7\u20136(2), 6\u20133; and second-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcoming a first set bagel to defeat Jarkko Nieminen 0\u20136, 7\u20136(1), 7\u20136(5). In other matches, Paul-Henri Mathieu defeated the player who defeated Djokovic earlier in the tournament, Ernests Gulbis, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 while Florent Serra beat J\u00fcrgen Melzer 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day four: 7 January\nBoth women's seeds prevailed, with top-seeded Ana Ivanovic saving match points to defeat Roberta Vinci 6\u20137(4), 7\u20135, 6\u20131 and fifth-seeded Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo also saving match points and needing 3 hours, 15 minutes to defeat lucky loser Julie Coin 5\u20137, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(11). Olga Govortsova and Sara Errani also advanced by defeating qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva and Tsvetana Pironkova, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day four: 7 January\nIn the men's doubles quarterfinals, the unseeded French duo and new partnership of Tsonga and Marc Gicquel upset the third-seeded team of Simon Aspelin and Pavel V\u00edzner 7\u20136(1), 6\u20134. In the other match, Travis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek defeated Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107 and Jamie Murray 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day four: 7 January\nIn women's doubles, the top-seeded team of Cara Black and Liezel Huber lost to Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama 7\u20135, 3\u20136, [10\u20133]. The fourth-seeded team of Sun Tiantian and Yan Zi also lost to Mervana Jugi\u0107-Salki\u0107 and Peng Shuai 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20137]. In the remaining first round matches, Polish pair Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska beat Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 and Galina Voskoboeva 6\u20131, 6\u20133. Jans and Rosolska then reached the semifinals by walkover when Victoria Azarenka and Francesca Schiavone, the fourth-seeded team, withdrew from their quarterfinal match. Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King defeated Coin and Hungarian Melinda Czink 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day five: 8 January\nTwo of the men's singles quarterfinals were played on day five. The first saw third-seeded Fernando Verdasco defeat Florent Serra 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20133. Joining him in the semifinals was Paul-Henri Mathieu, who defeated Kei Nishikori 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day five: 8 January\nIn women's singles, the story of the day was Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, as she routed top-seeded Ana Ivanovic 6\u20133, 6\u20132. Second-seeded Victoria Azarenka advanced with a 7\u20136(5), 6\u20134 victory over Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 while third-seeded Marion Bartoli defeated Tathiana Garbin 6\u20133, 6\u20133. The lone unseeded player to advance to the semifinals, Sara Errani, defeated Olga Govortsova 6\u20133, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day five: 8 January\nIn men's doubles, home favorites Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione upset the top-seeded team of Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram, while fourth-seeded Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt fell to Verdasco and Mischa Zverev. In women's doubles, Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King defeated the second-seeded team of Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko 6\u20131, 6\u20133, while Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska advanced to the final with a 6\u20133, 6\u20134 victory over Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day six: 9 January\nThe last two quarterfinals in men's singles were played, with Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek coming back from a set down to defeat fourth-seeded Robin S\u00f6derling 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133. After losing the first set, \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek recovered to pull ahead 3\u20130 in the second set with an early break, taking the set and then establishing a 5\u20133 lead in the decider. His semifinal opponent will be seventh-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet who defeated second-seeded compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 despite Tsonga's eight aces and Gasquet's four double faults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day six: 9 January\nIn the women's singles semifinals, Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo retired from her match with Marion Bartoli after just four games because of a thigh injury. Despite the retirement, she was expected to be fit for the Australian Open starting two weeks later. Bartoli will next play Victoria Azarenka, a 6\u20133, 6\u20131 victor over Sara Errani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day seven: 10 January\nThe men's semifinals were played, with third-seeded Fernando Verdasco defeating Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 6\u20132, 6\u20131. Verdasco was broken at the beginning of the match to fall behind 2\u20130 but then won six straight games to take the first set. In the second semifinal, eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet struggled in the first three games of the first set, giving Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek an early break. Gasquet was able to break back immediately and broke twice more to take the first set. Gasquet's errors allowed \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek to win the second set, breaking Gasquet twice. In the third set, \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek broke Gasquet's serve twice while losing his own serve only once to win the match 2\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day seven: 10 January\nVerdasco's success at the tournament continued in the men's doubles semifinals. He and partner Mischa Zverev defeated home pair Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to reach the final. Their opponents will be Marc Gicquel and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the all-French pair, who overcame Travis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek 7\u20135, 6\u20137(4), [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day seven: 10 January\nVictoria Azarenka, a new top-20 player from Belarus, claimed her maiden Women's Tennis Association Tour title with a 6\u20133, 6\u20131 victory over third-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. The 19-year-old won the tournament without losing a set. After falling behind 4\u20131 and two breaks of serve in the first set, Bartoli fought back to 4\u20133. Azarenka then won six consecutive games to take the set and lead 4\u20130 in the second before closing out the match in 29 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day seven: 10 January\nWith no seeds left in the women's doubles, Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King overcame a first set loss to defeat Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska 3\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20135],", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day eight: 11 January\nCzech Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek won the men's singles title, defeating third-seeded Fernando Verdasco from Spain 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134. This was \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek's third singles title on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour after Rotterdam in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2007. \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek led 4\u20131 in the third set with a double break before Verdasco broke back to trail 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Review, Day eight: 11 January\nVerdasco also was involved in the doubles final. Partnering Mischa Zverev for the first time, they lost to fellow new team Marc Gicquel and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Finals, Men's doubles\nMarc Gicquel /  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated  Fernando Verdasco /  Mischa Zverev 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201899-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International, Finals, Women's doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld /  Vania King defeated  Klaudia Jans /  Alicja Rosolska, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201900-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMart\u00edn Garc\u00eda and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but Garc\u00eda chose not to participate, and only Melo competed that year. Melo partnered with Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1, but lost in the first round to Travis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201900-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarc Gicquel and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Fernando Verdasco and Mischa Zverev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201901-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Men's Singles\nMicha\u00ebl Llodra was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201901-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Men's Singles\nRadek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201902-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nDinara Safina and \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201902-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King won in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 10\u20135, over Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201903-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane International \u2013 Women's Singles\nVictoria Azarenka won the title, defeating Marion Bartoli in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201904-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Lions season\nThis article covers the 2009 AFL season results for AFL team, the Brisbane Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201905-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Roar W-League season\nThe 2009 season was the Brisbane Roar's second season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201905-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Roar W-League season, Season 2 \u2013 2009, Fixtures\nThe season was played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201905-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brisbane Roar W-League season, Players\nSquad retrieved from recent articles. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201906-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bristol City Council election\nThe 2009 Bristol City Council elections were held on Thursday 4 June 2009, for 23 seats, that being one-third of the total number of councilors. The Liberal Democrats who had been leading a minority administration, won an overall majority of the council, the first time the party had achieved this on Bristol City Council. The Liberal Democrats were defending 11 seats, the Labour Party 10 and the Conservatives 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards\nThe 2009 Brit Awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 18 February 2009. It was the 29th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony was held at Earls Court in London, and was broadcast live on ITV on 18 February at 8pm (GMT). Duffy became the first female artist to ever win three awards in the same year, and only Blur, in 1995, have ever won more awards at a single ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards\nThe show was advertised as live by ITV but the broadcast included several audio deletions which means the show was shown on a time delay system. The 2009 Brit Awards ceremony was watched by 5.49 million people and was the 32nd most watched programme on TV on the week ending 22 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Hosts\nKylie Minogue, Mathew Horne and James Corden hosted the 2009 edition of the Brit Awards, with Fearne Cotton presenting backstage. Fearne also hosted the launch party for ITV2 in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Hosts\nJohnny Vegas introduced and closed the event, as well as reading out the nominees in a pre-recorded voiceover. Emma B provided the live voiceovers as the artists came to the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Hosts\nRufus Hound, Sara Cox, Melanie Blatt and Nicole Appleton presented the Red Carpet and Encore events on ITV2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Hosts\nAlesha Dixon presented a backstage programme, screened on ITV two days after the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Memorable moments, Girls Aloud\nBritish reality band, Girls Aloud, marked their first ever performance at the 2009 ceremony, by performing their single, \"The Promise\". The performance saw the band members, including Cheryl and Nicola Roberts appear as though they were naked, with their modesty being covered by pink feathers. This performance was nominated in the 2010 ceremony for the \"BRITs Hits 30 \u2013 Best Live Performance at the BRIT Awards\", alongside Oasis and The Who, which the Spice Girls eventually went on to win. \"The Promise\" won best British single, their first ever BRIT award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201907-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brit Awards, Memorable moments, Mick Kluczynski\nTen days before the 2009 Brits, Mick Kluczynski, the production manager for the Brits since 1995 who assisted with the transition from the Fleetwood/Fox debacle to the scale of the current ceremony, died. Despite this setback the team he put in place ensured that everything went as planned, and the show was dedicated to his memory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa\nThe 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa was an international rugby union tour which took place in South Africa from May to July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa\nThe British & Irish Lions played a three-match Test series against South Africa, with matches in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg, as well as matches against six provincial teams, and a match against the Emerging Springboks, South Africa's second national team. The Lions won all six provincial matches and drew with the Emerging Springboks, 13\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa\nSouth Africa won the Test series, defeating the Lions 26\u201321 in the first Test, and then 28\u201325 in the second Test. The third Test was won by the Lions 28\u20139. The highlight of the series was the second Test, which the Lions led until the 76th minute, when they fell 25\u201322 behind. Stephen Jones then scored a penalty to tie the score at 25\u201325 with only two minutes left, but two minutes into injury time, Morn\u00e9 Steyn scored a 52-metre penalty kick to win the match for South Africa, 28\u201325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa\nThe tour followed the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand and preceded the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Background\nThe tour was confirmed by the South African Rugby Union on 21 September 2007. The Lions chief executive John Feehan stated in November 2007 that no home Test match would be played prior to departure, as had taken place in 2005, and that fewer players and personnel would go to South Africa than had gone to New Zealand in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Background\nThe Lions' tour manager was Gerald Davies, the head coach was Ian McGeechan, and the captain of the squad was Munster captain and Ireland lock, Paul O'Connell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Background\nThe tour schedule was announced by the Lions and the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on 10 April 2008. The final fixture confirmed was the game in Port Elizabeth; on 22 January 2009, SARU announced that they had received permission from the South African government to hold the match on the Youth Day national holiday on 16 June. This match marked the debut of the Southern Kings, a franchise formed in the Southern and Eastern Cape region, following the failure of the Southern Spears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Background\nHead coach Ian McGeechan had planned to take the Lions squad to the Spanish city of Granada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains for a high-altitude training camp, but on 27 April he announced that it had been cancelled because of problems over player availability. The Lions flew to South Africa on 24 May, arriving the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Background\nThe format was similar to that of the Lions' 2005 tour of New Zealand. As in 2005, six games were played before the first Test, and a mid-week game between the first and second Tests; unlike 2005, there was no mid-week game between the second and third Tests. Due to its unpopularity, The Power of Four anthem was not used on the 2009 tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, First Test\nSouth Africa won the first Test in Durban 26\u201321. Leading 19\u20137 at half-time and 26\u20137 after 50 minutes, the Springboks had dominated the scrum until the Lions made several substitutions. The Lions mounted a strong comeback, scoring late tries through Tom Croft and Mike Phillips, but South Africa held on. Inside the last ten minutes of the game, the Lions had two tries disallowed by the TMO. It was later described as an \"unbelievable\" Test match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test\nThe second Test at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria was won by South Africa 28\u201325 with the last kick of the game \u2013 a penalty by Morn\u00e9 Steyn from inside his own half. The Lions had led 19\u20138 after an hour, but tries from Bryan Habana and Jaque Fourie allowed South Africa to tie the score before Steyn's series-winning kick. It was described as \"devastation\" for the Lions, with the team ending the game \"looking more like a scene from [American television series] ER as opposed to a rugby team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test, Controversy\nThe week of the third Test was marked by controversy and intense media interest surrounding the suspended Springbok players Schalk Burger and Bakkies Botha after a very physical second Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test, Controversy\nBurger was yellow-carded in the first minute, after he appeared to gouge Luke Fitzgerald's eye. Burger was subsequently banned for eight weeks for \"making contact with the face in the eye area.\" He was cleared of gouging, as his action was found to be \"reckless\" but not intentional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test, Controversy\nBurger was widely criticised, with many commentators believing he should have been sent off for the incident. Brian O'Driscoll was among many who criticised South Africa coach Peter de Villiers after he said Burger's actions should not even have led to a yellow card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test, Controversy\nBakkies Botha was banned for two weeks for a dangerous charge on prop Adam Jones, which left Jones with a dislocated shoulder. SA Rugby expressed their confusion over the reasons for Botha's ban with the coach calling it a \"textbook cleanout\". An appeal was lodged but the initial ruling was upheld. Coaches and players expressed concern about the impact such an interpretation might have on a core component of the game, with Lions player Phil Vickery and forwards coach Warren Gatland lending their support to Botha's case. The injured Jones himself later came out in defence of Botha saying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Second Test, Controversy\nThe Springboks came out for the third Test wearing white armbands with the words \"Justice 4\" on, in protest over perceived inconsistencies in the citing process. This protest was investigated by the IRB for allegedly \"bringing the game in disrepute\", and the team and management were fined accordingly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Third Test\nThe Lions won the third Test on 4 July at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, beating the Springboks 28\u20139, in what The Times called \"one of the best and most heroic performances in the history of the Lions\". Having already won the series, the Springbok squad saw 10 changes from the previous week, and the Lions also saw substantial changes. The Lions led from the start, and Shane Williams scored two tries. England lock Simon Shaw was sin-binned for striking Springboks scrum-half Fourie du Preez with his knee in this test and received a two-week ban as a result. This was the first Test victory for the Lions in eight years, their last being in Brisbane in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Test series, Third Test\nJamie Roberts was voted the Lions' sponsors' 'Player of the Series' by British and Irish journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Lions squad\nThe Lions announced a 37-man squad on 21 April 2009. Before the start of the tour Tom\u00e1s O'Leary, Tom Shanklin and Jerry Flannery all withdrew because of injuries and Alan Quinlan was suspended. During the tour, Leigh Halfpenny, Stephen Ferris, Euan Murray, Lee Byrne, Adam Jones, Gethin Jenkins, Jamie Roberts and Brian O'Driscoll, as well as Ferris' replacement Ryan Jones, were forced to withdraw from the squad due to injury. Nathan Hines was suspended for one week because of a dangerous tackle against the Emerging Springboks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201908-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, Lions management\n23 backroom staff were appointed by the Lions, slightly down from the 26 on the 2005 tour to New Zealand. The Lions reverted to having only one management structure, rather than a separate team for the midweek side. The tour manager was former Wales and Lions player Gerald Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201909-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British 125 Championship\nThe 2009 British 125 Championship season was the 22nd British 125cc Championship season. The championship went down to the very last meetings at Oulton Park, James Lodge leading by 18 points from Martin Glossop with Rob Guiver 23 points behind; after Glossop fell, Lodge only had to finish 14th to take the title. Lodge took a 7th-place finish to secure the title while Guiver moved above Glossop into second place in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201910-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Academy Scotland Awards\nThe 2009 British Academy Scotland Awards were held on 8 November 2009 at the Glasgow Science Centre, honouring the best Scottish film and television productions of 2009. Presented by BAFTA Scotland, accolades are handed out for the best in feature-length film that were screened at British cinemas during 2008. The Nominees were announced on 17 October 2009. The list caused some controversy for the lack of film actresses making the nominations. The ceremony was hosted by Lorraine Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201910-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Academy Scotland Awards\nBill Forsyth, Jeremy Isaacs, David Jones and Patrick Doyle were honoured with Outstanding Contribution awards at this ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201911-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Academy Television Awards\nThe 2009 British Academy Television Awards were held on 26 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event was broadcast live on BBC One and was hosted by Graham Norton. The nominations were announced on 24 March. Winners in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201912-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Academy Television Craft Awards\nThe British Academy Television Craft Awards of 2009 are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and were held on 17 May 2009 at Hilton Hotel, Mayfair, the ceremony was hosted by Alexander Armstrong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201913-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 British Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, held from 10\u201312 July at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. It was organised by UK Athletics. It served as a selection meeting for Great Britain at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201914-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, British Columbia's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 20-25 at the Parksville Curling Club in Parksville, British Columbia. The winner represents team British Columbia at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum\nFollowing the 2005 electoral reform referendum, British Columbia held a second referendum on electoral reform in conjunction with the provincial election on May 12, 2009. As in 2005, voters in 2009 were asked were asked which electoral system should be used to elect legislators: the existing first-past-the-post electoral system or the BC single transferable vote electoral system (BC-STV) proposed by the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform to ensure more proportional representation in the provincial Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum\nThe referendum was defeated, with 60.9 percent voting against the reform and 39.09 percent of voters supporting the change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum\nBC later held another referendum on electoral reform, in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Scheduling\nThe government of British Columbia initially scheduled the second referendum to be conducted alongside the 2008 municipal elections. On April 26, 2007, Premier Gordon Campbell announced that the referendum date would be shifted to May 12, 2009. Conducting a referendum alongside the May provincial election was estimated to cost between $1 million and $2 million. The chief electoral officer had warned that a referendum in tandem with the municipal election would have cost up to $30 million. The chief electoral officer had also raised concerns regarding to adequacy of facilities, a shortage of trained voting officials, and differing voter eligibility requirements for local and provincial voters' lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Proposed electoral boundaries\nIn the 2005 referendum, voters cast ballots for or against BC-STV without knowing how the new system would affect their electoral ridings. This uncertainty led to voter concerns that, to create ridings large enough to support the multiple representatives preferred under BC-STV, ridings would be merged into unmanageably-large districts, particularly in the less densely populated north and interior of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Proposed electoral boundaries\nThe post-election Speech from the Throne identified this as a critical piece to be addressed for the second referendum: \"One task that was never assigned to the Citizens' Assembly was to show precisely how its proposed STV model might apply on an electoral map. This was arguably a design flaw in its terms of reference that in retrospect may have impacted how people voted in the referendum. Your government believes that establishing STV constituency boundaries may provide the public with a critical piece of information that was missing at the time of the referendum.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Proposed electoral boundaries\nThe ensuing electoral boundaries redistribution prompted significant controversy for reasons largely unrelated to the BC-STV system, and on several occasions it seemed possible that the commission's work, including its STV recommendations, might be rejected altogether. Ultimately, a bipartisan agreement between the governing Liberals and opposition New Democrats saw the passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 on April 10, 2008, which implemented, with modification, the report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission. 20 STV electoral districts returning a total of 85 MLAs were accordingly established.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Question\nIn 2005 voters had been asked:\"Should British Columbia change to the BC-STV electoral system as recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Campaigns\nLegislation to allow a second referendum on an alternative electoral system, the Electoral Reform Referendum 2009 Act, was introduced in the provincial legislature on March 8, 2008 by Attorney-General Wally Oppal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Campaigns\nPublic funding was available to groups who are supporters or detractors of both the single transferable vote (STV) and the first-past-the-post election systems. Through the chief electoral officer, registered groups were to be given funds to provide information and educational material about their positions. Each side had access to a total of $500,000 in public funding and an equivalent amount funded neutral public information campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Campaigns\nOn January 12, 2009, the Attorney General issued an information bulletin announcing the proponent and opponent groups. The officially recognized proponent group was Fair Voting BC, which operated under the campaign name \"British Columbians for STV\", while the recognized opponent group was the No STV Campaign Society led by Bill Tieleman, which campaigned under the name \"No STV\". The Citizens' Assembly Alumni group, representing the bulk of the original Citizens' Assembly members, continued to play an active role in promoting their recommendation working in close cooperation with Fair Voting BC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Results\nThe referendum would have required 60 per cent overall approval and 50 per cent approval in at least 60 per cent (51 out of 85) of the province's electoral districts in order to succeed. If the vote had been in favour of BC-STV, the new electoral system would have been scheduled to be in place for BC's 2013 election. However, the province's voters defeated the change with only 39.09% of 1,651,139 votes in favour of BC-STV (representing a 55% voter turnout).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201915-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, Opinion polls\nOn April 15, Yes for BC-STV published a press release stating that an Angus Reid Poll, conducted between March 9 to 12, showed 65% support for BC-STV, but that awareness for the referendum was at 44%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election\nThe 2009 British Columbia general election was held on May 12, 2009, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) formed the government of the province prior to this general election under the leadership of Premier Gordon Campbell. The British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) under the leadership of Carole James was the Official Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election\nThe election was the first contested on a new electoral map completed in 2008, with the total number of constituencies increased from 79 in the previous legislature to 85. Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates which are the second Tuesday in May every four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election\nA second referendum on electoral reform was held in conjunction with the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election\nThe election did not produce a significant change in the province's political landscape. The BC Liberals, who had been in power since the 2001 provincial election, were returned to power, constituting the first time in 23 years a party has won three elections in a row. As a result of the seat redistribution, both the Liberals and the New Democrats gained seats, and both parties increased their popular vote by less than one per cent over 2005. Each party lost two incumbent MLAs: the BC NDP's Jenn McGinn and Charlie Wyse, and the Liberals' John Nuraney and Wally Oppal were defeated. All other seat changes in the election resulted from the new seats or from retiring incumbents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election\nVoter turnout was 50.99% of eligible voters (1,651,567 registered voters).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, British Columbia Liberal Party\nThe BC Liberal party dropped from 72 to 46 seats in the legislature after the 2005 provincial election. Having formed a majority government since 2001 the party promoted its own track record as the government. Much of the party's platform was revealed in the 2009 Budget which included a three-year fiscal plan including revenue expectations, tax measures, and spending priorities. The budget proposed cost savings from reduced budgets in half of the ministries, 76% less government advertising, public sector wage freezes, and less spending on government travel costs, contracted professional services, and discretionary spending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, British Columbia Liberal Party\nThe budget plan proposed to increase spending by $4.8 billion over 3 years for healthcare, $300 million over three years for social services, and $800 million more annually for education, as well as some new funding for childcare, policing, victims services, and social housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, British Columbia Liberal Party\nThe BC Liberal platform, some of it already promised in the budget, advocates hospital improvements in Surrey, Victoria, Vernon, Fort St. John and Kelowna; travel and accommodation assistance to families who must travel long distances to be with their children when they are receiving care; new measures to help remote communities get new access to fresh fruit and vegetables; provide citizens electronic access to their health records; establishing voluntary five-year-old kindergarten classes; establishing a law school at Thompson Rivers University, a medical school at UBC Okanagan, and a Wood Design and Innovation Centre at UNBC; doubling the BC Training Tax Credit; exempting the first $20,000 of seniors' pension income from income tax; legislating a Residents Bill of Rights for seniors living in residential care facilities and a registry for residential care aides; installing cameras to monitor school yards and high-risk public areas; outlaw dumping of raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and help build a new sewage treatment plan for Greater Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 1163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, New Democratic Party of British Columbia\nUnder Carole James' leadership the NDP won 33 seats in the 2005 election and two by-elections in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 99], "content_span": [100, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, New Democratic Party of British Columbia\nAmong other points, its platform involved repealing the carbon tax, instituting a cap and trade plan of greenhouse gas emissions, adopting California's tough vehicle tailpipe emission standards, expanding the capacity and efficiency of public hospitals, instituting health care wait time guarantees, a 1-year small business tax holiday, freezing post-secondary tuition fees, hire more Crown Prosecutors, restoring public oversight to BC Ferries, restricting raw log exports, increasing the minimum wage to $10/hr indexed to inflation, placing a moratorium on new private run-of-the-river power projects, reinstating the Buy BC program, creating a new Rural Economic Development Fund, and promoting farm gate sales of agricultural products (including meat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 99], "content_span": [100, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Green Party of British Columbia\nThe Green Party ran a full slate of candidates, as it did in 2005 when it won over 9 percent of the vote but no seats in the legislature. Its new leader was Jane Sterk, a former Esquimalt councillor. It supported the BC-STV proposal in the referendum. The party released its platform in a book titled British Columbia's Green Book, 2009\u20142013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Green Party of British Columbia\nAmongst other points, it advocated balanced budgets, reducing taxes on industry and business while increasing taxes on pollution, creating a Green Venture Capital Fund to invest in green collar jobs, directing 1% from the PST to municipal governments, allowing municipalities to issue municipal bonds, creating a provincial police force, reducing tuition fees by 20%, increasing funding to post-secondary institutions, refunding full tuition fees to graduates who work and live in the province for five years after receiving their degree, banning use of cosmetic pesticides, expanding the Medical Service Plan (to cover chiropractic, physiotherapy, eye exams, massage therapy, routine physical exams, and counselling for addictions), creating a Guaranteed Livable Income by unifying all current income support programs, supporting harm reduction practices, regulating cannabis, halting river-based hydro projects pending a review of the environmental assessment process, re-establishing BC Ferries as a Crown corporation, halting the Gateway Program, using usage based insurance for ICBC rates, and creating a BC Legacy Fund from oil and gas royalties for municipal and rural community projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 90], "content_span": [91, 1286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Conservatives nominated 24 candidates, up from seven candidates in 2005 when they won 0.55% of the vote. In spite of his low profile party leader Wilf Hanni participated in a leaders' \"Forum\" in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nTheir platform advocated, among other points, competitive and performance-based healthcare delivery within a publicly funded system, opposing the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill with Aboriginal peoples, returning treaty responsibility to the federal government, repealing the carbon tax and opposing a carbon trading system, expanding resource development (including offshore drilling), reducing the PST by 1%, harmonizing the PST with the Federal GST, eliminating the Property Transfer Tax, rolling back salary increases of MLAs and senior government employees, permitting parents more choices in which schools to send their children to and funding the schools accordingly, repealing the Corren Agreement, reducing tuition fees for students who meet certain standards in post-secondary education, light rail transit in southern Vancouver Island and in Chilliwack, eliminating tolls on bridges (including a proposed toll on the Port Mann Bridge), work requirements on public projects for criminals serving time in jail, a new program to address small crime separately from more serious crimes, creation of a program called Communities That Care to strengthen family dynamics and reduce negative youth behaviors, publishing a Criminal Offenders Registry, creating a substantive appeal process beyond the BC Human Rights Tribunal, enact a 'Right to a Free Vote' legislation for MLAs to freely vote in the Legislature, hold votes for federal senators, and implement a preferential voting system for provincial elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 1594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Libertarian Party ran six candidates in this election, as it did in 2005. The party supported reducing government involvement in delivery of health care, education, and car insurance; reducing taxes as services are privatized; and reducing government regulation on guns and drugs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Marijuana Party ran one candidate in this election and endorsed the Green Party. In 2005 it ran 44 candidates, while in 2001 it ran a full slate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Refederation Party nominated 22 candidates, up from four candidates in 2005 under its previous name the \"Western Refederation Party of BC\". The party mainly advocates for direct democracy based on the Swiss model, the creation of a provincial constitution, and re-negotiating with the federal government the terms of confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nAccording to its website its platform also includes the creation of a provincial police force, homogeneous schools and classes of students with similar abilities, reinstating alternative medical options (such as physiotherapy, dental, and chiropractic) into the Medical Services Plan and placing the Medical Services Plan under the jurisdiction of Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, making WorkSafe an enforcement agency only by moving its insurance component to ICBC, a moratorium on run-of-river hydro projects and fish farms, holding a referendums on the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement and the sale of Crown Corporations, and a judicial review of the sale of BC Rail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Communist Party of BC is the provincial branch of the national Communist Party. It had three candidates running in the 2009 election, as it did in 2005. The CPBC campaigned against BC-STV in favour of Mixed Member Proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nIt advocates progressive tax based on ability to pay, raising the minimum wage to $16/hour indexed to the cost of living, ending the $6/hour training wage, holding a public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail, banning raw log exports, requiring by legislation the processing of timber locally for export, banning evictions for the purpose of renovation, scrapping the Gateway Program, holding elections for the TransLink board with a $1 single zone fare for the Lower Mainland, removing guns and tasers from transit police, eliminating tuition fees, expanding the apprenticeship program, lowering the voting age to 16, withdrawing from the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, and reintegrating BC Transmission Corporation back into BC Hydro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Nation Alliance Party is a new party that nominated two candidates in this election, both in Richmond ridings. The party seeks to promote the rights of ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. Among other points, it advocates promoting participation in the public affairs, promoting non-violence, and opposing racialism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe People's Front is the provincial wing of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) which generally advocates, among other points, increased spending on health, education and other social programs, a moratorium on the debt, hereditary rights of the Aboriginal peoples, recognition of the equality of all languages and cultures, instituting recall elections, and rights for individuals to initiate legislation. It nominated four candidates in this election, down from five in 2005 and 11 in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe BC Reform Party nominated four candidates. It had only one candidate in the 2005 election but nine in 2001 and a full slate of 75 in the 1996 election. According to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, replacing the provincial income tax with a sales tax and a business tax on gross receipts, use of an employee payroll credit, repudiation of any carbon taxes and carbon credit trading, re-establishing public equity in BC Investment Management Corporation, re-establishment a Grand jury system, restrictions on judicial reviews of legislative actions, and elections for local provincial court judges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nBilling itself as \"the world's first sex-positive party\", the Sex Party nominated three candidates in Vancouver ridings, as it did in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nAccording to its website, its platform includes, amongst other points, requiring sexual health and hygiene education in schools, requiring school districts to establish professional support programs to address discrimination of sexual minorities, providing provincial funding for institutes studying and teaching human sexuality or researching sexuality policy issues, reserve designate areas for nudists on all public parks and beaches larger than one hectare, establish a Sex Worker Empowerment Program as an agency providing counseling, education, and advocacy to sex workers, requiring municipalities to treat sex toy businesses as other retail businesses, repeal sex negative regulations, requiring all long term care institutions to articulate a sexuality policy that is non-judgmental about residents' sexuality, creating a Sex-Positive Press Council to expose overt and subtle censorship in BC media, changing Victoria Day to Eros Day to celebrate and encourage sex-positive expression, and proclaiming Valentine's Day a statutory holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 1120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe Western Canada Concept had one candidate running in this election, down from two candidates in the 2005 election. The party strongly advocates independence for western Canada, and amongst other points advocates for anti-abortion legislation, strong private property rights, balanced budgets, promotion of cultural assimilation rather than multiculturalism, and compulsory public service with a volunteer armed forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe WLP is an anti-materialist political movement that hopes to achieve socialist and green ends through, among other things, the promotion of a four-day, 32-hour work-week. The party had 2 candidates down from 11 in 2005. The 2005 BC election marked the debut in Western politics of any registered party expressly driven by the ideology of voluntary simplicity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nThe party nominated one candidate in 2005 and two in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Political parties, Minor parties\nAmong other points, it advocates publishing reports explaining where every tax dollar is spent, free votes in the legislature, making all campaign promises legally binding, requiring MLAs hold public townhall-style meetings at least once every four months, labelling products sold in BC indicating environmental standards, adding generating capacity to existing dams, opening run-of-river dam project areas to recreational use, providing periodic written statements detailing the cost of each citizen's use of the health care system, provide forgivable loans to post-secondary students who continue to live and work in BC after graduation, permit more private post-secondary institutions, requiring all people serving time in jail to work to pay for the cost of their incarceration, legalization of marijuana, eliminate the property transfer tax, disallow restrictions on secondary suites and minimum home sizes, harvesting all Pine Beetle affected timber immediately, limiting the total allowable yearly fishing catch (rather than regulating length of the fishing season), require weekly educational programs for anyone receiving welfare payments, provide before and after school childcare, permitting private insurance companies to compete with ICBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 1325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign\nApril 10, 2008, passage of the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 moving BC from 79 to 85 constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign\nOctober 29, 2008, by-elections in Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview, both won by the New Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign\nApril 14, 2009, the campaign will officially begin when the writ is issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign\nApril 24, 2009 1pm close of nominations for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign, Debates\nThere was one TV debate featuring the leaders of the three major parties: Gordon Campbell, Carole James, and Jane Sterk on all three major BC networks on Sunday May 3 at 5:00\u00a0p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign, Debates\nCKNW had a debate of the three leaders on April 23 from 8:30\u00a0a.m. to 10:00\u00a0a.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201916-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 British Columbia general election, Timeline of the campaign, Debates\nCBC Radio One had a debate of the three leaders on April 21 at 7:30\u00a0a.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201917-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 British Figure Skating Championships took place from January 11 to 16, 2009 in Nottingham. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating across the levels of senior, junior, and novice. The results were among the criteria to determine the British teams for the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 European Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201918-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Formula 3 International Series\nThe 2009 British Formula 3 International Series (for sponsorship reasons, the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series) was the 59th British Formula 3 International Series season. It began on 13 April at Oulton Park's Easter Monday meeting and ended on 20 September at Brands Hatch after 20 rounds in four countries. Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo won the title with two races to spare, at the penultimate round at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve in Portim\u00e3o. Daniel McKenzie sealed the National Class title during the same race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201918-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Formula 3 International Series, Calendar\nThe calendar for 2009 saw the total number of races drop from 22 to 20. Three overseas events remain, with the 24 Hours of Spa-supporting event the only one to remain from 2008. However, the Monza 1000km-supporting races and the FIA GT-support event in Bucharest were dropped to be replaced by the series' first visit to Germany and to Hockenheim, and also a visit to the brand-new Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal. Thruxton and Croft have also been dropped to be replaced with a second meeting at Silverstone. Donington's meeting was originally scheduled for 26 April, however due to ongoing issues with the circuit's track licence, the meeting was rescheduled for 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201919-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Formula Ford Championship\nThe 2009 British Formula Ford Championship was the 34th edition of the British Formula Ford Championship. It began on 13 April at Oulton Park's Easter Monday meeting and ended on 4 October at Castle Combe Circuit after 9 rounds and 25 races, all held in the United Kingdom. James Cole won the series, taking seven race victories with team Jamun Racing to finish 47 points ahead of Josef Newgarden in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201920-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British GT Championship\nThe 2009 Avon Tyres British GT season was the 17th season of the British GT Championship. The season began at Oulton Park's Easter Monday meeting and finished on 20 September at Brands Hatch after 14 races. 2009 saw the debut of the new Supersport class. Twins David and Godfrey Jones won the GT3 title during the final race of the season. Jody Firth sealed the GT4 title, while Phil Keen and Marcus Clutton won the Supersports Class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201920-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British GT Championship, Standings\nPoints are awarded to the top eight finishers in the order 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. Drivers in bold indicate pole position. Drivers in italics indicate fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201920-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British GT Championship, Standings, GT3\n\u2020 \u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix\nThe 2009 British Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, on 21 June 2009. The 60-lap race was the eighth round of the 2009 Formula One season. It was scheduled to be the last British Grand Prix to be held at Silverstone, before the event moved to Donington Park for the 2010 season. However, due to Donington being unable to raise the required funds the event returned to Silverstone again in 2010, on a new layout. The race was won by Sebastian Vettel, who started on pole, with championship leader Jenson Button finishing in sixth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Background\nHome driver Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by 26 points from Brawn teammate Rubens Barrichello. Barrichello was 8 points clear of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who lay 1.5 points ahead of his teammate, Mark Webber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 39.5 points from Red Bull Racing and were a further 24 points ahead of Japanese manufacturer Toyota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Background\nHome favourite and reigning World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, had won the previous year's event for McLaren. As well as Hamilton, the British Grand Prix has a history of native success. Down the years these include wins for David Coulthard, Johnny Herbert, Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell, John Watson, James Hunt, Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark and Stirling Moss. Britain was to be represented this year by Hamilton and Jenson Button.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Background\nDue to the continuing political dispute between the Formula 1 Teams Association (FOTA), the FIA and Formula 1 Management (FOM), there was talk that the teams against the proposed 2010 season budget cap would not compete in the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Background\nOther former British GP winners in the field were Ferrari's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Renault's Fernando Alonso and Brawn GP driver Rubens Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nSebastian Vettel was fastest in both the first and second practice sessions, with Mark Webber coming second in both. The final session saw Nico Rosberg top the time charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nQualifying began in some of the coolest conditions experienced all year, with an air temperature of just 16\u00a0\u00b0C (61\u00a0\u00b0F). The session was mostly dominated by the Red Bull drivers, until a late flying lap by Kazuki Nakajima saw him fastest by a tenth of a second. The session ended prematurely in the final minute when Adrian Sutil crashed heavily at Abbey, forcing reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton to abort his final lap and leaving him nineteenth with Giancarlo Fisichella, S\u00e9bastien Bourdais, Sutil and S\u00e9bastien Buemi also eliminated. Sutil's accident was later found to have been a result of brake failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe second session did not begin until the remains of Sutil's car were removed from the circuit, with track conditions remaining constant and Red Bull continuing their pace, with Mark Webber remaining unchallenged for most of the session with teammate Sebastian Vettel only out-pacing him on his final run. Championship leader Jenson Button only narrowly missed elimination, setting the eight-fastest time at the end of the session when he had previously been sitting eleventh. Felipe Massa, Robert Kubica, Heikki Kovalainen, Nelson Piquet, Jr. and Nick Heidfeld were all eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe third and final session saw most of the cars switching to the softer option tyre. Sebastian Vettel took pole from Rubens Barrichello, with Webber third. Button qualified sixth \u2013 his worst of the season \u2013 after Nakajima found some of his first-session pace to steal fifth place out from under him, resulting in his career-best qualifying position. When the weights of each car was published post-qualifying, it emerged that Vettel was 9\u00a0kg heavier than the Brawn of Barrichello and 7\u00a0kg heavier than teammate Webber. After qualifying, it was announced that BMW Sauber would be abandoning their KERS program for good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel and Red Bull dominated the Grand Prix, with the young German driving away from the field from pole position, often pulling away from Barrichello at the rate of one second per lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nIt was a good day for the Red Bull drivers from the moment the lights went out, with championship rival Button dropping down to ninth position at the end of the first lap after a poor start. Fellow home driver Hamilton was having more success, albeit from 19th on the grid, gaining four positions in the first two laps. The mixed-up race order was perhaps reflective of the season as a whole, with the only World Champions in the field \u2013 Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton \u2013 at one point battling for 13th, 14th and 15th positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the front of the race while Vettel was setting fastest laps, teammate Mark Webber was unable to pass Rubens Barrichello for second position until the Brazilian pitted on lap 20. Webber pitted a lap later but produced a good enough in-lap to emerge from the pits ahead of Barrichello. Nico Rosberg also benefited from the pit stop phase, emerging in fourth position, ahead of Felipe Massa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton's eventful race at the back of the field continued, running off track on several occasions. He was able to pass teammate Heikki Kovalainen who had just emerged from the pits on lap 34. The following lap, Sebastian Bourdais attempted a similar manoeuvre at the Abbey chicane, however the Toro Rosso driver was less successful, colliding with the Finn and causing both cars to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the second round of pit-stops, Button was able to take advantage of a long middle stint to move ahead of Raikkonen and Trulli and up to sixth position, behind Massa, who had in-turn leap-frogged Rosberg for fourth. Button was on the faster tyre compound and pressured both cars until the finish, but was unable to pass Rosberg despite being just 0.3 seconds behind the German at the start of the last lap. Rosberg was himself just 0.8 seconds behind Massa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAs Vettel took the chequered flag, he was 15.1 seconds ahead of teammate Webber, who was a further 25.9 seconds ahead of Barrichello. Jarno Trulli finished in 7th ahead of Raikkonen, who had to endure late pressure from Trulli's teammate Timo Glock. Hamilton finished a lowly 16th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nThe combination of the fast sweeping circuit suiting the updated Red Bull RB5 and cold conditions hampering the Brawn produced what was a disappointing result for pace-setting Brawn. Button's championship lead was reduced to a still substantial 23 points over Barrichello, who was now just 2 points ahead of Vettel. Webber was a further 3.5 points behind, while Brawn's Constructors' Championship lead was also cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nRed Bull's Christian Horner declared his team could mount a serious title challenge following the successful showing of their updated car, claiming it should be quick on the remaining circuits. Vettel declared his car to be \"fantastic\" while Mark Webber praised the team but admitted a mistake in qualifying cost him any chance of winning. The race also saw Vettel claim his first \"hat trick\", with pole, fastest lap and the win. Button dismissed talk of Red Bull now having a sizeable advantage, saying Brawn looked weaker than they were because of the cool conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nThere were contrasting emotions for 2008 title contenders Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton, Massa describing his race from 11th to 4th as good as winning the race while Hamilton said he was pushing his hardest despite finishing 16th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201921-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 British Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nAway from the track action, the talk of the paddock was the threat of a breakaway series, with FIA President Max Mosley confident of a solution to the dispute. Commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone admitted for the first time the British Grand Prix would be returning to Silverstone if Donington Park was unable to host the 2010 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201922-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Indoor Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 British Indoor Athletics Championships was the 3rd edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for the United Kingdom. It was held from 13\u201314 February at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield, England. A total of 24 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over the two-day competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201923-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British National Track Championships\nThe 2009 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from 20\u201324 October 2009 at the Manchester Velodrome. They are organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and were open to British cyclists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201924-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Rally Championship\nThe 2009 MSA British Rally Championship season was the 51st season of the British Rally Championship. The season consisted of six rounds and began on 28 March with International Rally North Wales. The season ended on 26 September, at the International Rally Yorkshire. Irishman Keith Cronin won the title at his first attempt after a season-long battle with Mark Higgins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201924-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Rally Championship, Calendar\nThe calendar still has six rounds in 2009. Last years season climax, Wales Rally GB is no longer a round of the BRC and is replaced with a new season opener, the Bulldog International Rally North Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201924-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Rally Championship, Drivers' Championship standings\nThese results are based on overall positions in the rally, in which there may be entries which are not eligible for BRC points. Only the five best results from the six rallies count towards a driver's final score. (*) denotes the dropped score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201925-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Rowing Championships\nThe 2009 British Rowing Championships were the 38th edition of the National Championships, held from 17\u201319 July 2009 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. They were organised and sanctioned by British Rowing, and are open to British rowers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201926-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Speedway Championship\nThe 2009 British Speedway Championship was the 49th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 20 May at Wimborne Road in Poole, England. The Championship was won by Chris Harris, who beat Edward Kennett, Tai Woffinden and Lee Richardson in the final heat. It was the second time Harris had won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201926-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Speedway Championship, Results, The Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201927-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Superbike Championship\nThe 2009 British Superbike season was the 22nd British Superbike Championship season. It began at Brands Hatch on 13 April, ending at Oulton Park on 11 October after 26 races held in England and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201927-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Superbike Championship\nNone of the top four from the 2008 championship returned, as Shane Byrne, Leon Haslam and Tom Sykes moved into the Superbike World Championship, with Cal Crutchlow leaving for the Supersport World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201927-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Superbike Championship\nHaving lost his MotoGP ride, Sylvain Guintoli moved into the championship,  joining the Worx Crescent Suzuki team on a GSX-R1000. HM Plant Honda had an all-new all-Australian line-up, with former World Supersport Championship front-runner Josh Brookes and reigning British Supersport Champion Glen Richards. Reigning champions GSE Racing switched from Ducati to Yamaha, retaining Leon Camier and adding James Ellison to the team. Chris Walker made a return to the championship on a Motorpoint/Henderson Yamaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201927-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British Superbike Championship\nCamier won the title in dominant fashion, winning a series record nineteen races during the season. Team-mate Ellison finished as runner-up with Stuart Easton third. Gary Mason was just as dominant in the Privateers Cup, winning eighteen races en route to the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201928-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Supersport Championship\nThe 2009 British Supersport Championship was the twenty-second running of the British Supersport Championship. The top two runners in the 2008 championship, Glen Richards and Ian Lowry both moved up to the British Superbike Championship, with HM Plant Honda and Relentless Suzuki respectively. Steve Plater and the returning Billy McConnell were early season contenders for the championship, with Plater eventually going on to claim the championship at the final round, at Oulton Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nThe 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 52nd British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. It began at Brands Hatch on the Indy layout on 5 April and finished after 30 races over 10 events on the Grand Prix layout at Brands Hatch on 4 October. Colin Turkington won the championship for the first time, ahead of Jason Plato and Fabrizio Giovanardi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nThe season also saw Airwaves BMW score their first win in the series when Rob Collard won the second race of the day at the opening meeting at Brands Hatch. The team seemed to have added a second win in race three as Jonathan Adam crossed the line first but he was demoted to second after making contact with Jason Plato handing Plato the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nAndrew Jordan became the youngest driver to qualify on pole at Donington after team-mate Fabrizio Giovanardi was excluded for failing technical checks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nAlso, Stephen Jelley took his first win in the series at the first race at Rockingham. He followed this up with another victory in race 3, a race that saw Tom Chilton become the first driver to score a podium position in a Ford Focus following a collision between Plato, Turkington and Plato's team mate James Nash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nAt the final meeting at Brands Hatch, Chilton took pole position becoming the first Ford driver to do so since 2000. All three races were won by Jason Plato, becoming only the second driver to do so following Dan Eaves' hat-trick at Thruxton in 2005; but this was not enough to win the title. Colin Turkington became British Touring Car Champion for the first time, coincidentally becoming the first Northern Irishman to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship\nFormer British Grand Prix winner Johnny Herbert contested the final three meetings in a Team Dynamics Honda Civic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201929-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nAll races were held in the United Kingdom. The 2009 season had ten race weekends with three BTCC rounds at each. Provisional dates were announced by series organisers on 11 July 2008. The calendar was finalised on 17 March 2009, when all race timetables were announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24\u201326 July 2009 at Donington Park. It was to be the final motorcycle Grand Prix at Donington, with the race moving to Silverstone for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nThis race was most notable for the wet-weather conditions the race took place in, Andrea Dovizioso's shock win and Colin Edwards' and Randy de Puniet's shock podiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nAfter nine rounds, Valentino Rossi is narrowly leading the title hunt with 176 points. A close second is Jorge Lorenzo with 162 points and a bit further back in third is Casey Stoner with 148 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nIndicating the end of an era, this was to be the final race at the famous Donington Park circuit as it would be the Silverstone Circuit that would host the MotoGP race from 2010 onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nValentino Rossi took pole position on Saturday - the fourth of the season - with a time of 1:28.116. Second is Dani Pedrosa who is +0.095 seconds behind and third is Rossi's teammate Jorge Lorenzo who is +0.286 behind. The second row of the grid consists out of Casey Stoner, Andrea Dovizioso and Colin Edwards in fourth, fifth and sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nWhile the 250cc was a wet-dry race and it had stopped raining for a while, the rain started to fall again as soon as the pit lane was opened. The bikes are all going out on slicks on the sighting lap but many riders are uncertain given the now mixed conditions. Riders are also waiting for race control whether they will declare the race wet or dry. As the race is eventually declared 'wet', one rider who takes the gamble is Stoner, who has changed his tyres to full wets on both the front and the rear. Rossi chooses the Soft - Soft tyres, Pedrosa the Medium - Soft and Lorenzo also goes with the Soft - Soft combination. Stoner has the Rain - Rain combination instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nAll riders except Pedrosa get away without problems on the warm-up lap. The Spaniard needs help from his Repsol Honda team as his bike has stalled. Eventually, all the riders line up on their respective grid slots. As the lights go out, Rossi has a good start and maintains his lead heading into Redgate (Turn 1). His teammate Lorenzo swoops around the outside to dive into second position, Pedrosa fighting with Toni El\u00edas though Redgate and Hollywood (Turn 2) for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nFifth is Dovizioso and sixth is Marco Melandri, who has gained one position from the start of the opening lap. The biggest loser is Stoner, who has lost five places and is now down in ninth position as it looks like his tyre gamble does not pay off for now. At the Craner Curves, Lorenzo takes a tighter line and passes Rossi for the lead, followed by a surprising El\u00edas who not only manages to pass Pedrosa at the outside of Hollywood but also blasts past Rossi on the outside, outbraking him at the Old Hairpin (Turn 4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nEntering Starkey's Bridge (Turn 5) and the Schwantz Curve (Turn 6), the duo at the front has now opened up a gap to Rossi already, though he manages to close it relatively quickly. El\u00edas then dives down the inside of Lorenzo at McLean's (Turn 7), surprising the Spaniard and taking over at the front halfway into the first lap. Both Repsol Honda riders - Pedrosa and Dovizioso - then pass Rossi on the short straight before Coppice (Turn 8). ' The Doctor' has now been demoted from the lead of the race to fifth position in just half a lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nJames Toseland makes a move at Starkey's Straight for sixth position as Pedrosa has a moment and runs wide upon entry of The Esses (Turn 9). This allows fourth place Dovizioso to try and take him around the outside but he rides upon a damp kerb and loses traction, not allowing him to make the move. At the Melbourne Hairpin Rossi lunges down the inside of Dovizioso and with Pedrosa avoiding the Italian, he passes both and moves up into third spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0006-0004", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nPedrosa then loses out to teammate Dovizioso as well, the Spaniard being demoted to fifth in just one turn. Behind him, Toseland also goes up the inside of Randy de Puniet, who has made progress from tenth on the grid, to overtake him for sixth position. At Goddards (Turn 11), Toseland goes up the inside of Pedrosa and takes fifth position from him, with Melandri doing likewise on de Puniet for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap two, Pedrosa retakes fifth from Toseland at the Wheatcroft Straight. It now starts to rain at the start/finish straight, the conditions now really being mixed as another part of the circuit is still dry enough for slick tyres. At the Old Hairpin, Melandri goes up the inside of Toseland for fifth, running wide upon exit and gifting the place back to the Englishman. Dovizioso has closed up to Rossi and tries a very daring move down his inside at the entry of Starkey's Bridge, running on the damp kerb and having a moment as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nThis allows Rossi to keep his lead going into Schwantz Curve, Pedrosa trying to take fourth from him as well but failing. El\u00edas, who by now has opened up a gap to second place Lorenzo, looks back at Starkey's Straight to see how far behind he is. Dovizioso has a look at the outside of Rossi but does not make a move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap three and Pedrosa sets the fastest lap of the race. Stoner has dropped further down the order and is now in a lowly thirteenth place. Dovizioso again has a look up on the outside of Rossi upon entry of Redgate but decides to stay behind for now. Pedrosa has also opened up a gap to sixth place Toseland. At the Old Hairpin, Dovizioso goes up the inside of Rossi and snatches third place from him. He then overtakes Lorenzo for second at McLean's as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nPedrosa then lines up a pass on Rossi as he takes a wider line going into Coppice, then goes up his inside at the exit of the corner and promotes himself up into third. At Starkey's Straight, Dovizioso then takes the lead as he goes side-by-side with and easily overtakes El\u00edas. Lorenzo does likewise at the end of the straight, snatching second going into The Esses. Behind them, de Puniet also makes a lunge up the inside of Alex De Angelis and takes eighth place. At the Melbourne Hairpin, Pedrosa dives down the inside of El\u00edas and overtakes him for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap four and Dovizioso sets the fastest lap of the race. By now, Stoner has dropped another two places and is fifteenth, behind Chris Vermeulen. Rossi is now right behind Eli\u00e1s, stalking him for a few corners and then passing him for fourth spot at the Old Hairpin. Pedrosa has opened up a gap to Rossi, who was held up by El\u00edas. Toseland is also being shadowed by Melandri and de Puniet at the exit of Coppice but neither makes a move at Starkey's Straight. Toseland now has created a train of four riders whom he is holding up, consisting of Melandri, de Puniet, de Angelis and Loris Capirossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap five, Lorenzo takes over at the front thanks to a dive down Dovizioso's inside at Redgate. Stoner has lost another position on the previous lap, being overtaken by G\u00e1bor Talm\u00e1csi and now lingering at the bottom in sixteenth position, only ahead of his teammate - also on rain tyres - which is Nicky Hayden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap six and Pedrosa makes a move on teammate Dovizioso, going up his inside to pass him at Redgate and promote him up to second. El\u00edas in fifth now has a gap of +1.707 seconds over sixth place Toseland. Lorenzo has opened up a gap to Pedrosa, who himself is now coming under pressure from Dovizioso, Rossi and El\u00edas - who has closed the gap to the Italian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap seven, Lorenzo is in the lead with Pedrosa chasing him. El\u00edas is now losing ground to Rossi but still has a gap of +2.996 seconds back to de Puniet, who has passed Toseland for sixth. All the teams are warming up their second bikes, with the Ducati Marlboro Team preparing theirs with slick tyres whilst everyone else is preparing them with rain tyres. At the Old Hairpin, both Dovizioso and Rossi lunge past the inside of Pedrosa, demoting him from second to fourth in one corner. El\u00edas has caught right up to the back of Pedrosa at Starkey's Bridge, stalking him but not making a move for now. Rossi then makes a pass on Dovizioso for second at the end of Starkey's Straight, entering The Esses ahead of him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap eight and Rossi is now making up ground on teammate Lorenzo, taking Dovizioso with him. Eli\u00e1s now has a +3.856 second gap back to de Puniet in sixth. Behind the trio, El\u00edas passes Pedrosa for fourth at the exit of the Craner Curves. It is now drizzling on most parts of the circuit, making the conditions very tricky. This is shown when El\u00edas goes a bit wide entering Starkey's Bridge, gets on the damp kerb, loses the bike and highsides out of contention and into the gravel at high speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nThe Spanish rider walks away unhurt but disappointed as he is being assisted by a marshall, with the other marshalls removing his bike from the grass. Capirossi overtakes Toseland for seventh meanwhile. Melandri also passes Mika Kallio at the Melbourne Hairpin for eighth position, diving down his inside and hitting him slightly in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap nine, Lorenzo gap back to Rossi is +0.449 seconds. The top six is as follows: Lorenzo, Rossi, Dovizioso, Pedrosa, de Puniet and de Angelis. Just before Lorenzo enters Goddards, he touches the white line and immediately loses the bike, sliding him out of contention. He runs to his bike to see if he can continue on, the marshalls checking it for him but upon realisation that it is damaged, he was away disappointed as a marshall assists him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap ten and Rossi now leads in the tricky conditions, followed by Dovizioso in second. Pedrosa is in a lonely third, having dropped off the pace from the group a few laps ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap eleven, Dovizioso's gap back to teammate Pedrosa is +6.169 seconds. The Spaniard meanwhile is coming under threat from a rapidly closing de Puniet, who is only +1.181 seconds behind. Exiting Coppice and coming onto Starkey's Straight, de Puniet is very close to Pedrosa. At the end of the straight, the Frenchman goes up the inside of Pedrosa, taking third from him at The Esses. Toseland has also passed Capirossi and is up into sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twelve and the gap Dovizioso has to de Puniet is +8.994 seconds. Pedrosa then retakes third by going up the inside of de Puniet at Redgate. Entering the Old Hairpin, it is de Puniet's turn as he repasses Pedrosa and retakes the position. The rain in the pitlane is now intensifying and a big, dark cloud is slowly moving towards the circuit. At Starkey's Straight, Pedrosa closes up on de Puniet again but does not make a move at the entrance of The Esses. At the short straight before the Melbourne Hairpin however, he blasts past and takes back third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap thirteen, the second bikes in the pit lane are being readied just in case the riders decide to enter. Rossi is still leading, followed by Dovizioso. De Puniet has also overtaken Pedrosa for third, taking the position by going up the inside at the entrance of Starkey's Bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap fourteen and Pedrosa blasts past de Puniet again at the exit of the Wheatcroft Straight, retaking the position in the process. De Puniet then tries to fight back around the outside but the Spaniard pushes him wide onto the kerb, forcing him to stay behind. Rossi's gap back to Dovizioso is +0.341 seconds and the top six is as follows: Rossi, Dovizioso, Pedrosa, de Puniet, de Angelis and Toseland. At the exit of Hollywood and the entrance of the Craner Curves, the Frenchman stays right behind Pedrosa and manages to sneak up his inside to take third back again. At the front, the duo of Rossi and Dovizioso now lap the struggling Ducati's of Stoner and Hayden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap fifteen - the halfway point of the race -, Dovizioso is now right behind Rossi who is still in the lead. After overtaking Pedrosa, de Puniet is now slowly starting to ride away from him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap sixteen and Dovizioso now has a whopping +12.854 second gap back to Pedrosa, who has repassed de Puniet. Further back, de Puniet has a +2.334 second gap back to de Angelis. Dovizioso is now all over the back of Rossi but does not make a move on him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap seventeen, Rossi has a +0.112 second gap to Dovizioso. Pedrosa now has opened up his own gap to de Puniet as de Angelis laps Hayden. Colin Edwards meanwhile has moved up the order and is now seventh, behind teammate Toseland. At Redgate, Kallio dives down the inside of Capirossi and snatches eighth place from him. The group of Toseland, Edwards, Kallio, Capirossi and Melandri all lap a struggling Stoner at Hollywood and the Craner Curves as he slows down. At Starkey's Bridge, Edwards closes right up on Toseland, easily overtaking him for sixth spot at McLean's. At the entrance of The Esses, Capirossi outbrakes Kallio and retakes eighth position exiting the chicane. Melandri then tries a move up the inside but fails as Capirossi blocks him and Kallio tries to get back at the Italian around the outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap eighteen and Kallio passes both Capirossi and Toseland, shooting past at Redgate and taking seventh. At the Old Hairpin, Melandri then dives down Capirossi's inside and snatches ninth place from him. The rain is now slowly intensifying, making the conditions even trickier than before. At the entrance of The Esses, Melandri goes a bit wide as he has a slight moment but doesn't lose too much time or any positions as a result of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap nineteen, Dovizioso has an +11.893 second gap back to de Puniet as Rossi is still ahead, being harassed by him all throughout the lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twenty and the gap Dovizioso has to de Puniet has decreased, it now only being +10.618 seconds. His gap back to Pedrosa has increased however to +2.105 seconds after overtaking him. Sixth place Edwards has meanwhile also caught up to de Angelis and is all over the back of him. In the middle of The Esses, Rossi then loses the rear of his bike and slides out of the lead, gifting Dovizioso first place and a wide gap back to second. He immediately runs to his bike to try and get it restarted, the marshalls helping him get it pushed and lucky for him, the bike does restart and he is able to continue on, albeit being overtaken by multiple riders by now.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap twenty-one Dovizioso leads the race as de Puniet is now starting to chase him down, Pedrosa being in third. Rossi rejoins behind of Canepa in eleventh and begins his hunt to salvage his race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twenty-two and Rossi has it all to do as Dovizioso is out in front, de Puniet still closing down on him. The rain in pit lane is now intensifying which makes the circuit more slippery. Rossi is now slowly catching up to the rear of", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap twenty-three, Dovizioso has a +12.571 seconds back to de Puniet. Edwards has passed de Angelis for fourth right now and is only +1.284 seconds adrift of third place Pedrosa by now. De Angelis' gap back to Toseland is +5.051 seconds. Seventh place Melandri has entered the pits, as well as Capirossi to change bikes. Rossi is now only +2.096 seconds behind tenth place Kallio. At Hollywood, Edwards passes a now struggling Pedrosa and moves up third. Not far behind is de Angelis, who also manages to overtake the Spaniard at the entrance of Starkey's Bridge around the outside, him almost losing his bike as he has a moment. Vermeulen has also entered the pits to swap bikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twenty-four and Dovizios is still out in front, taking the gamble by staying out and going slowly to avoid falling like his rivals Rossi and Lorenzo have done. Kallio has entered the pits to swap bikes The top six is now as follows: Dovizioso, de Puniet, Edwards, de Angelis, Pedrosa and Toseland. As Kallio rejoins, Melandri passes him as well and is now ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap twenty-five, Edwards is now rapidly closing up on de Puniet and is taking de Angelis with him. Pedrosa is now being hounded by Niccol\u00f2 Canepa's Pramac Racing Ducati for seventh. Rossi meanwhile is ahead of the Spaniard in sixth thanks to the riders in front all pitting for wet weather tyres. At The Esses, de Puniet also loses the rear of his bike but manages to catch it just in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twenty-six and Dovizioso's gap to de Puniet is +7.811 seconds. This decreases to +7.288 seconds in sector one, decreasing again in sector two to +5.654 seconds. Edwards has now closed up even more on de Puniet as the gap Dovizioso has to the Frenchman drops again in sector three to +4.409 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap twenty-seven, Dovizioso's gap to de Puniet is now +4.011 seconds. Edwards' gap to de Angelis is +1.261 seconds and Toseland's gap to Rossi is +4.332 seconds. Edwards has quickly caught de Puniet and is right up on his rear at Coppice. Dovizioso's gap back to de Puniet has decreased to +3.477 seconds in sector one, then to +2.609 seconds in sector two. In sector thee, the gap shrinks even further to +1.464 seconds. De Puniet has a look back to see where Edwards is exiting the Melbourne Hairpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLap twenty-eight and Dovizioso's gap to de Puniet is only +1.660 seconds. At the Wheatcroft Straight, Edwards is right behind the Frenchman but does not make a move entering Redgate. Edwards has a +2.611 second gap back to de Angelis as Toseland's gap to Rossi has now increased to +3.967 seconds. At the Old Hairpin, Edwards goes up the inside of de Puniet and takes second from him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDovizioso's gap to Edwards was +1.723 seconds at the beginning of the lap and has since dropped to +1.594 in sector two, +1.179 seconds in sector two and +0.987 seconds in sector three. De Puniet then dives down the inside of Edwards at the Melbourne Hairpin, taking second from him as they tiptoe into the corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn lap twenty-nine, the penultimate lap of the race, Dovizioso's gap to de Puniet has now increased slightly to +1.410 seconds. Edwards' gap to de Angelis is now +3.759 seconds and Toseland's gap back to Rossi is +3.408 seconds. Pedrosa has also been passed by Canepa as he moves up to seventh. In sector one, Dovizioso's gap to de Puniet has shrunk to +1.196 seconds and shrinks again in sector two - it now only being +0.880 seconds. However, the gap in sector three increases again to +0.995 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDovizioso crosses the line to start the final lap - lap thirty - and his gap to de Puniet has increased to +1.409 seconds. Edwards closes up on the Frenchman exiting Coppice. Rossi makes a very late lunge up the inside of Toseland at the end of Starkey's Straight, initially taking fifth but running wide entering The Esses, allowing Toseland to retake the place upon exit. Edwards meanwhile passes de Puniet at the final corner - Goddards - by diving up his inside in a do-or-die pass and snatches second from him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDovizioso meanwhile has no troubles and crosses the line to win the race - his first ever win in the MotoGP class. A close second is Edwards and a celebratory de Puniet, who does a big wheelie, comes home third. A bit further behind is de Angelis in fourth, also doing a wheelie. Fifth is Rossi who managed to overtake Toseland making a do-or-die lunge up his inside at the Melbourne Hairpin, with the Brit coming home in sixth spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nOn the parade lap back to parc-ferm\u00e9, an ecstatic Dovizioso celebrates by punching up in the air multiple time. As he rides back, many fans have invaded the track and are cheering him on, waving at them and the fans in the grandstands. Edwards also waves at the fans and de Puniet waves the French flag in what they would consider being 'enemy territory' for centuries. Rossi talks to Dovizioso whilst still on the bike, then shaking hands and Rossi happily waving at the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDovizioso casually waves at the fans standing on the track, the marshalls keeping them from swarming them and Pedrosa - who has now come next to him and rides ahead of him. Many fans cheer and clap for the Italian's first win in the premier class. Toseland, who has finished sixth, gets many applauses and cheers, many fans also giving him a pat on the arm and back. Some even running after him in support of their home hero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDe Puniet is the first to arrive back at parc-ferm\u00e9, being hugged by one of his LCR Honda crewmembers before stepping off. Another one then gleefully hugs him as the Frenchman still has the French flag in his hands, running to his crew to celebrate as well. Edwards is the second person to arrive at parc-ferm\u00e9, his team clapping for him as he takes off his helmet and puts on his cap, then steps off a puts his thumb in the air. He then celebrates with his team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nLast is race winner Dovizioso who arrives at parc-ferm\u00e9, the Repsol Honda crew congratulating him on his maiden win. He steps off the bike, then calmly walks over to his crew as they all hug him in joy. Dovizioso then talks to his team as de Puniet behind him gets interviewed by the press. All the riders by now are being interviewed by the media as Toseland takes his time to greet all the home fans and greet them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nAll the riders make their way onto the podium, Dovizioso and de Puniet having a quick chat before the Frenchman steps on the podium, followed by Edwards and Dovizioso. All the riders shake hands and Simon Gillett, then CEO of Donington Park Leisure ltd, hands out the third place trophy to de Puniet, who lifts it up in glee. Next up is Jorge Viegas, a representative of FIM to hand out the second place trophy to Edwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nThe crowd cheers loudly as his name is mentioned and he receives the trophy, cheekily sticking out his tongue as he raises the trophy to signify the victory. Then it's the turn of Jean Mesquida, Spanish Minister for Tourism, to hand out the winners trophy to a delighted Dovizioso, lifting the big trophy up his head as he smiles. The Italian national anthem plays for Dovizioso and as it stops, the podium girls hand out the champagne. De Puniet immediately sprays the crowd upon receiving it, followed by Edwards and then Dovizioso before they spray each other. They then toast their champagne bottles before drinking some out of it. The riders climb upon the podium and pose for the group photo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP race report\nDespite Rossi crashing out from the lead and only finishing fifth, Lorenzo's retirement and Stoner's fourteenth position means that 'The Doctor' extends his lead in the championship. He has 187 points, followed by Lorenzo with 162 points in second and Stoner in third with 150 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, 125 cc classification\nThe 125cc race was stopped after 13 full laps due to rain. It was later restarted for 5 additional laps, with the grid determined by the running order before the suspension. The second part of the race determined the final result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201930-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 British motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201931-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brno Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Brno Formula Two round was the second round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 20 and 21 June 2009 at Masaryk Circuit at Brno, Czech Republic. The first race was won by Mirko Bortolotti, with Mikhail Aleshin and Philipp Eng also on the podium. The second race was won by Andy Soucek, with Julien Jousse and Nicola de Marco also on the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201932-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brno Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Brno Superbike World Championship round was the tenth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of July 24-26, 2009 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno. Ben Spies, Michel Fabrizio and Max Biaggi were the three dominant riders on pace all weekend - Fabrizio took Spies out in a collision in race one (handing Aprilia their first win since returning to WSBK at the start of the season), before all three were on the race two podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201932-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Brno Superbike World Championship round\nCheca and Rea gave Ten Kate their first ever double WSBK podium finish in race one. Championship leader Noriyuki Haga was still not 100% fit following his huge crash at Mugello in the previous round, but Spies' non-finish in race one reduced the damage to his championship. Troy Corser made flying starts to lead both races on the BMW, while his teammate Rub\u00e9n Xaus suffered a broken leg in a big crash on lap one of race one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201933-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bromont municipal election\nThe 2009 Bromont municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Bromont, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to another term without difficulty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot\nOn May 20, 2009, US law enforcement arrested four men in connection with a fake plot concocted by an FBI informant to purportedly shoot down military airplanes flying out of an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, and blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale community of the Bronx using weapons supplied by the FBI. The group was led by the Pakistani Shahed Hussain, a criminal who was working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to avoid deportation for DMV fraud. Shahed Hussain has never been charged in the USA with any terrorism related offenses and was paid nearly $100,000 US Dollars by the FBI for his work on this plot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot\nThe FBI's use of two informants, and offers of money and food incentives to the four men in the case has led to accusations that the FBI engaged in entrapment. On August 23, 2013 by a 2 to 1 vote an appeal to overturn the convictions was denied by a Manhattan appeals court. Judge Jon O. Newman cited Cromitie's statements as proof of intent. In dissent, the Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs said there was scarce evidence of pre intent and that Cromitie was \"badgered\" into joining the plot. All three judges unanimously rejected the entrapment claims by the three other defendants and rejected all four defendants\u2019 arguments that their convictions should be overturned on grounds of government misconduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Background\nThe attempted attack is cited as one of a series of plots and failed attacks on military installations in the United States, including the 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot, the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot, the 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting, and the September 11 attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Background\nPrevious attacks in Riverdale include the 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press during the controversy over The Satanic Verses and the 2000 New York terror attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Suspects\nThe terrorist suspects were four Muslim men; three are African-American U.S. citizens, and one is a Haitian immigrant. Cromitie was first recruited by Shahed Hussain, an Albany hotel owner and FBI informant at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque in Newburgh, New York, which he attended on only a few occasions. The FBI informant posed as a wealthy business man and enticed Cromitie with an offer of $250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Suspects\nCromitie and his three accomplices, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, had no serious offences on their records, but were described as \"extremely violent men\" by prosecutors. The defense argued that these men would never have contrived this plot without the leadership of paid informants, which many have considered a wasteful use of government resources, i.e., to create terrorism plots where there wouldn't have been any to begin with. None of the men had the money, knowledge or skills to obtain materials or assemble a bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Suspects\nCromitie (also known as Abdul Rahman), the reported leader, claimed he was born a Muslim and that his parents live in Afghanistan. He told the FBI informant that he was angry about the US military killing Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He had lived in Brooklyn and had a record of 27 arrests for minor crimes both in upstate New York State and New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Suspects\nIn April 2009, the FBI informant coaxed Cromitie and his three alleged accomplices into accepting their targets. They were to bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx. They were also to fire Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles at military planes at a nearby air base, although it was not clear if they were to target any manned aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Suspects\nIn late August 2010, Hussain testified that Cromitie \"hated Jews and Jewish people and he hated the American people, American soldiers. He was full of hate on those subjects. He said he would kill the president (then George W. Bush) 700 times because he's the Antichrist.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nShahed Hussain, a Pakistani immigrant, agreed to serve as an FBI informant after being arrested in 2002 over a scam involving driver's licenses. He previously served as an informant in an unrelated terrorism investigation in Albany, which resulted in the convictions of Yassin M. Aref and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain. In the Bronx case he was reported to have used audio and video taped many of his meetings with the attackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nIn 2008 Hussain showed up at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque under the name \"Maqsood\", talking of jihad and violence. Members of the congregation interviewed after the plot was exposed said that \"most\" members of the congregation had believed Hussain to be an informant. No one reported his talk about Jihad to the authorities. Cromitie expressed interest to the informant of returning to Afghanistan, and hopefully becoming a martyr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nIn April 2009, Cromitie and his three accomplices chose their targets. They planned to both bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx, and, using Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles, shoot down military planes flying out of a nearby air base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nThe accused attackers bought cellphones, as well as cameras, from Wal-Mart, to scout out the synagogues. They attempted to buy guns from a dealer in Newburgh; however, the dealer had sold out. They then drove downstate and bought a $700 pistol from a Bloods gang leader in Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nOn May 6, 2009, the men traveled to Stamford, Connecticut, to pick up what they believed to be a surface-to-air guided-missile system and three improvised explosive devices, all of which were incapable of actually being used. On the way there, one of the men believed they were being followed by federal agents. They returned to Newburgh until they were satisfied that they were safe, and then turned around and headed back to Stamford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Plot\nThe men also conducted surveillance of military planes at the Air National Guard base, including taking photographs to prepare for the attack there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Attempted attack and arrest\nThe men placed fake bombs wired to cell phones in three separate cars outside the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center, both in the Riverdale community of Bronx. New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said one of the suspects placed explosives, while the other three suspects served as lookouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Attempted attack and arrest\nThe men were returning to their vehicle and heading to attack aircraft at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, with the fake Stinger missiles when law enforcement stopped them. The air base shares facilities with the civilian Stewart International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Attempted attack and arrest\nAs the men were returning to the vehicle, the signal was given for the arrest. An 18-wheel New York City Police Department vehicle blocked the end of the street. The FBI informer also served as the driver of the suspects' vehicle. Another armored vehicle arrived, and officers from the department's Emergency Service Unit smashed the blackened windows of the S.U.V., removed the men from the vehicle, and handcuffed them on the ground. None offered resistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Attempted attack and arrest\nBoth the car bombs and the missiles were actually fakes given to the plotters with the help of an informant for the FBI. Each of the two homemade bombs was equipped with about 37 pounds of inert material designed to look like C-4 plastic explosive, and \"there was no danger to anyone,\" Kelly said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nCromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams, and Payen and were charged with conspiracy and weapons offenses at their first court appearance on May 21, 2009 and were ordered to be held without bail. The charges they faced \u2013 conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles \u2013 carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nAll four men pleaded not guilty. In March 2010, defense lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case on grounds of entrapment. Relying on materials provided by the government (including recordings and FBI agents' affidavits), the defense argued that the plot was proposed and closely directed by the FBI's informant, who \"suggested the targets, paid for the defendants' groceries, bought a gun, provided the fake bombs and missile, assembled the explosive devices and acted as chauffeur\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nIn late August 2010, government informant Shahed Hussain testified, stating that ringleader James Cromitie \"hated Jews and Jewish people and he hated the American people, American soldiers. He was full of hate on those subjects. He said he would kill the president 700 times because he's the Antichrist.\" After a six-week trial, the four were convicted. The lawyers for the four have filed a motion for a new trial claiming that Hussain committed perjury during the trial. David Williams told the Village Voice that the four were not part of plot to hurt people but to swindle Hussain, and the incriminating statements were made to make Hussain believe the four were credible terrorists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nOn June 29, 2011, Cromitie, Onta Williams, and David Williams were each sentenced, for their part in the attempted attack, to 25 years in prison by Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon. The judge criticized not only the defendants, but also what she viewed as the government's overzealous handling of the investigation. Referring to Cromitie, she said, \"The essence of what occurred here is that a government, understandably zealous to protect its citizens from terrorism, came upon a man both bigoted and suggestible, one who was incapable of committing an act of terrorism on his own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nIt created acts of terrorism out of his fantasies of bravado and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true.\" She added, \"The government did not have to infiltrate and foil some nefarious plot \u2013 there was no nefarious plot to foil.\" She said the defendants were \"not political or religious martyrs,\" but \"thugs for hire, pure and simple.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nEach of the men apologized before the sentencing. Cromitie said, \"I've never been a terrorist and I'll never be a terrorist. I'm very sorry I let myself get caught up in a sting like this\" and added that he did not truly believe the anti-Semitic statements heard on the audiotapes at trial. On September 7, 2011, McMahon also sentenced Laguerre Payen to 25 years prison, but repeated her criticism of the government's handling of the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nIn 2013, a federal appeals court, by a vote of two to one, upheld convictions that the three defendants were guilty as charged. Judge Newman, in rejecting the misconduct claims, stated that, \"As with all sting operations, government creation of the opportunity to commit an offense, even to the point of supplying defendants with materials essential to commit crimes, does not exceed due process limits....[FBI] agents would have been derelict in their duties if they did not test how far Cromitie would go to carry out his desires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Trial and sentencing\nWhen a government agent encounters a Muslim who volunteers that he wants to 'do something to America' or die like a martyr, the agent is entitled to probe the attitudes of that person to learn whether his religious views have impelled him toward the violent brand of radical Islam that poses a dire threat to the United States.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Imprisonment\nJames Cromitie is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood Medium, a medium-security facility in Pennsylvania, and is scheduled for release in 2031.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Imprisonment\nOnta Williams is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, McDowell, a medium- security facility in West Virginia, and is scheduled for release in 2031.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Imprisonment\nDavid Williams is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto, a medium- security facility in Pennsylvania, and is scheduled for release in 2030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Imprisonment\nLaguerre Payen is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Tucson, a high-security facility in Arizona, and is scheduled for release in 2032.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Reactions and aftermath\nMichael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, praised the New York City Police Department. Other local politicians also praised law enforcement and expressed relief. New York Governor David Paterson said the plot illustrated the constant terrorist threat New York faces. On May 30, 2009, New York Governor David Paterson announced he would give the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Reform Temple $25,000 each to improve their security. The money will come from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and will primarily involve the installation of alarms and surveillance equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201934-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronx terrorism plot, Reactions and aftermath\nAn award-winning 2014 HBO documentary about the case, The Newburgh Sting, showed that the attack plans and materials were all supplied by the FBI informant who coaxed the accused into participating by offering incentives including $250,000, described as a clear case of entrapment. The arrest was described (by the documentary) as having been expertly stage-managed in the style of a Hollywood production, needlessly deploying multiple armoured vehicles and over a hundred officers from various departments, including bomb squads although there was no bomb. The FBI, it was claimed, was motivated throughout by a desire to maintain public fear of terrorism and to enhance their reputation for effectiveness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201935-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronze Helmet (Poland)\nThe 2009 Silver Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Br\u0105zowy Kask, BK) is the 2009 version of Bronze Helmet organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on 11 September in Wroc\u0142aw and was won by Maciej Janowski (Atlas Wroc\u0142aw). Janowski beat Patryk Dudek (Falubaz Zielona G\u00f3ra) and \u0141ukasz S\u00f3wka (KM Lazur Ostr\u00f3w Wlkp. ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201935-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bronze Helmet (Poland), The Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201936-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brown Bears football team\nThe 2009 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Brown finished third in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201936-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brown Bears football team\nIn their 13th season under head coach Phil Estes, the Bears compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents 241 to 197. James Devlin and Paul Jasinowski were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201936-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brown Bears football team\nThe Bears' 4\u20133 conference record placed third in the Ivy League standings. They outscored Ivy opponents 159 to 125.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201936-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brown Bears football team\nBrown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal\nThe 2009 Brownlow Medal was the 82nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Gary Ablett of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling thirty votes during the 2009 AFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal\nAblett won the award with thirty votes, eight votes ahead of 2004 medal winner, Chris Judd. It was Ablett's first Brownlow, despite winning many other awards in the previous few years and being the Brownlow pre-count favourite for the previous three years. It was the second time in three years that a player from Geelong won the Brownlow Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Ablett's victory\nGary Ablett's victory in the 2009 medal followed his sixth-place finish in 2007 and his third-place finish in 2008. In all three years he was the favourite to win the award. Ablett polled in 13 matches, including eight best-on-ground performances. His seventh consecutive best-on-ground performance in round 20 confirmed his victory, as his 26-vote tally at this point was seven votes ahead of Judd, Brown and Hayes, who were all equal on 19 votes with only six votes left from the remaining two rounds. During his acceptance speech, Ablett referred to his father, Australian Football Hall of Fame member Gary Ablett Sr., who, despite being considered one of the best footballers players of all time, never won a Brownlow medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Ablett's victory\nI can at least say I've done something he hasn't done... I've always said I'd be happy to be half as good. He's the best player to play the game, in my opinion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure\nThe three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure, Ineligible players\nAs the medal is awarded to the fairest and best player in the league, those who have been suspended during the season by the AFL Tribunal (or, who avoided suspension only because of a discount for a good record or an early guilty plea) are ineligible to win the award; however, they may still continue to poll votes. Sam Mitchell was the leading ineligible player after being found guilty of striking Adelaide's David Mackay. Chris Judd was suspended for an incident during the finals, but under the rules he remained eligible for both this year's and the 2010 medal, the latter of which he won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure, Pre-count favourites\nGary Ablett started the year as the favourite to win the medal with both the bookmakers and in a poll of all 16 AFL captains. He remained as favourite throughout the year and entered the count as the leading contender for the third consecutive year. Other leading contenders included Dane Swan and St Kilda midfielders Leigh Montagna, Nick Dal Santo and Lenny Hayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure, Brendan Fevola controversy\nAblett's win was overshadowed by the behaviour of Carlton full-forward Brendan Fevola. Fevola was heavily intoxicated at the function, and while on camera (or alleged to have been) verbally abused guests, gave his opinion on Brownlow votes, had a bottle of beer knocked out of his hands by 2008 Brownlow Medallist Adam Cooney, vomited and urinated on Casino fixtures, simulated sex acts, sexually harassed unsuspecting female guests and bystanders, sang a cappella on stage at the Brownlow after party, and fought with a Channel 7 journalist and Crown security staff before being removed from the complex by his teammates. Fevola was fined $10,000 by the AFL, fired from the Grand Final edition of the Footy Show, and withdrew himself from the Coleman Medallist's lap of honour at the 2009 AFL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201937-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Brownlow Medal, Blue carpet arrivals\nFor the first time, the carpet was blue, to celebrate the release of the new Toyota Prius. The carpet arrivals were hosted by Fifi Box and Hawthorn's Brad Sewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201938-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Brumos Porsche 250\nThe 2009 Brumos Porsche 250 was the seventh round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Daytona International Speedway on July 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201939-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bryant Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 Bryant Bulldogs football team represented Bryant University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Marty Fine and played their home games at Bulldog Stadium. They finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in NEC play to tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche\nThe 2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche happened on Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r in Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands, UK, on 24 January 2009. Three mountain climbers were killed and one sustained a serious shoulder injury. Two of the dead were from Northern Ireland and the other was from Scotland. Nine people from at least three countries in at least two parties were involved in the incident on a mountain that is well recognised by tourists to Scotland. While avalanches are not uncommon in the area, very few deaths are reported\u2014this incident has been described as \"one of the worst disasters in the Scottish mountains for decades\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Geography\nThe avalanche occurred in the Coire na Tulaich area of the mountain. Coire na Tulaich affords a relatively easy (but steep) ascent of the mountain in summer conditions and is also the main ascent route for hill walkers. This corrie has a history of previous avalanches. The last fatal avalanche before this incident occurred in February 1995, resulting in the deaths of at least six people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Geography\nBuachaille Etive M\u00f2r (which means \"the great herdsman of Etive\") is a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers. There are two Munros on the ridge of Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r. Stob Dearg is the highest peak on the ridge and is the one seen from the A82 road, the other Munro summit being Stob na Br\u00f2ige.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Climbers\nAccording to John Grieve, the leader of Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team, the nine caught in the avalanche appeared to consist of two parties, one made up of seven friends, both Scottish and English, and a pair of climbers. Also a man with a serious shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Search and rescue effort\nFollowing the avalanche at 12:00 UTC, a major search and rescue operation was carried out in blizzard conditions. Rescue helicopters were involved alongside members of Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team who were aided by detection dogs. First to arrive at the scene was the RAF rescue helicopter, Rescue 137, which had been diverted from an exercise in the area. A second helicopter, Rescue 177, was then scrambled from the Royal Navy station at HMS Gannet near Prestwick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Search and rescue effort\nUpon their discovery at 15:00 UTC, the three climbers were airlifted off the mountain and taken to the Belford Hospital in Fort William by ambulance where they were pronounced dead at 17:00 UTC. A fourth person airlifted to hospital sustained a shoulder injury, and the remaining five people found on the mountain were described as \"uninjured\". The rest of the climbers were left on the mountain for a period as weather conditions prevented the helicopters from re-engaging in their search efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\nJohn Grieve said the avalanche was initiated by a climber who dislodged a huge sheet of snow, sending it down on the nine other climbers who were swept 500 feet (150\u00a0m) downhill. The climber avoided being swept away by digging into the mountain with his ice axe before he composed himself to alert the emergency services. The surviving climbers had begun to unearth their friends' bodies from the snow with their ice axes by the time the rescue team had arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\nFifty-year-old Jim Coyne from Lindsayfield, East Kilbride, said he and 53-year-old David Barr from Paisley, were on the mountain when a slab of snow came away from the peak. Barr sustained the shoulder injury. Coyne told of how they were just below the summit when the avalanche occurred, describing it as \"massive\"  and saying they were", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\n... engulfed and I managed to dig my way out. As I tried to get my bearings I saw an arm sticking out of the snow. It was Davie. I dug for 10 minutes using just my hands to get him free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\n54-year-old Tom Richardson, an experienced climber from Sheffield in England, also had a narrow escape and subsequently alerted the emergency services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\nThe three casualties were named as Eamonn Murphy, 61, John Murphy, 63 and Brian Murray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\nThe incident occurred in the Coire na Tulaich area of popular Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r (pictured above).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201940-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r avalanche, Cause\nLooking north towards the A82 road in Glen Coe from upper Coire na Tulaich on Buachaille Etive M\u00f2r.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election\nElections to Buckinghamshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election, Result\nThe overall turnout was 40.50% with a total of 190,795 valid votes cast. A total of 843 ballots were rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election, Council Composition\nFollowing the last election in 2005 the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election, Ward Results\nAsterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2005, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis. All results are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201941-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buckinghamshire County Council election, Ward Results, Bowerdean, Micklefield & Totteridge\nBoth Julia Wassell and Chaudhary Ditta were previously elected as Labour councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201942-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bucknell Bison football team\nThe 2009 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Bucknell tied for second-to-last in the Patriot League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201942-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bucknell Bison football team\nIn their seventh and final year under head coach Tim Landis, the Bison compiled a 4\u20137 record. Greg Jones, A.J. Kizekai and James Phelan were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201942-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bucknell Bison football team\nThe Bison were outscored 260 to 162. Bucknell's 2\u20134 conference record tied with Fordham for fifth in the seven-team Patriot League standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201942-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bucknell Bison football team\nBucknell played its home games at Christy Mathewson\u2013Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge\nThe 2009 Budapest City Challenge was the fifth round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season and was organised by City Challenge GmbH. It took place at the Hungaroring, Hungary on 30 August 2009. Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini won for the Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati after the disqualification of the K plus K Motorsport Saleen. Richard Westbrook and Emmanuel Collard of Prospeed Competition won in the GT2 category by passing the AF Corse Ferrari on the final lap of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying was led by the No. 2 Vitaphone Maserati of driver Alex M\u00fcller who recorded a lap time over a tenth of a second faster than Karl Wendlinger in the K plus K Saleen. Enrique Bernoldi, in only his second FIA GT event, qualified the Sangari Corvette on the second row alongside the third Vitaphone Maserati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Qualifying\nThe GT2 category was led by the No. 60 Prospeed Porsche of Richard Westbrook at the end of the qualifying session but Westbrook later had his lap times excluded after the Porsche failed a stall test during technical inspection. This promoted \u00c1lvaro Barba of No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari to his first pole position, followed by Tim Mullen's CRS Racing Ferrari. Westbrook's exclusion demoted the Prospeed Porsche to 24th and last on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race\nThe race was led into the first turn by Enrique Bernoldi's Sangari Corvette which managed to jump from the third place grid position to first, followed by Karl Wendlinger's No. 14 K plus K Saleen and the No. 2 and No. 33 Vitaphone Maseratis. The four held this position in the early laps but Alex M\u00fcller in the No. 2 car braked too late for the first turn at the start of the fourth lap and jumped the inside kerbs before impacting the leading Corvette and spinning in front of the second place Saleen. This allowed the No. 33 Vitaphone car into second but Bernoldi continued to lead despite the damaged car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race\nThis damage would however hamper the Corvette as the first pit stops took place and the Sangari Team Brazil crew had difficulties refueling the car. The No. 1 Maserati inherited the lead following its pit stop but had to relinquish it after the team was penalized for speeding in the pit lane. This allowed the No. 14 Saleen, now driven by Ryan Sharp, to take the lead which it held until the second round of pit stops where the No. 33 Maserati took over at the front of the field. Karl Wendlinger returned to the cockpit and was able to overcome the deficit and retake the lead from the Maserati in the last ten minutes of the race. On the final lap the No. 33 was passed by the No. 1 team car to complete the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race\nIn the GT2 category the No. 97 Brixia Racing Porsche of Martin Ragginger led the field at the end of the first lap after passing the three Ferraris which had qualified ahead of it. The Porsche however made its first pit stop earlier than the rest of the GT2 competitors and allowed the No. 50 AF Corse Ferrari to lead the class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race\nThe No. 60 Prospeed Porsche of Richard Westbrook and Emmanuel Collard, which had started from last on the grid, was able to climb through the GT2 field and eventually challenge AF Corse's Gianmaria Bruni in the latter half of the race. Westbrook was able to outbrake Bruni's Ferrari entering the first turn of the final lap and hold the lead for the rest of the lap. The No. 77 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari completed the GT2 podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race\nFollowing the race the No. 14 K Plus K Motorsports Saleen was excluded from the race after the car failed post-race technical inspection. The car's engine did not stall as required when its air restrictors were blocked. This promoted Bartels and Bertolini to the race win as well as Enrique Bernoldi and Roberto Streit to their first GT1 podium. M\u00fcller was also penalized after the race for avoidable contact when he collided with the No. 8 Corvette and No. 14 Saleen, earning a five grid spot penalty for the No. 2 Vitaphone Maserati at the next FIA GT event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201943-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Budapest City Challenge, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout\nThe 2009 Budweiser Shootout was the first exhibition stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The 31st annual running of the Budweiser Shootout, it was held on February 7, 2009, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Daytona International Speedway, before a crowd of 80,000 people. The 78-lap race was won by Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing, after he started from the next-to-last 27th position. Jamie McMurray of Roush Fenway Racing finished in second, and Stewart-Haas Racing's Tony Stewart was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout\nPole position starter Paul Menard was passed by Elliott Sadler on the third lap. Dale Earnhardt Jr. took the lead for the first time on lap four, and led a total of 23 laps, more than any other driver. Carl Edwards assumed the lead on lap 17, holding it until a caution flag was issued on lap 25. During the caution all the teams made a scheduled ten-minute pit stop. On the 41st lap, Earnhardt retook the lead, which he maintained until the 50th lap, when Matt Kenseth passed him. McMurray became the leader on lap 66, and held it until Harvick overtook him on the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout\nThe race was Harvick's first Sprint Cup Series victory since the 2007 Nextel All-Star Challenge, and Richard Childress Racing's first Budweiser Shootout win since the 1995 edition. Eight cautions were issued during the race, which saw an event-record 23 lead changes among 14 drivers, and attracted 8.3 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Background\nThe 2009 Budweiser Shootout was the first of two exhibition stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the 31st annual edition of the event. It was held on February 7, 2009, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Daytona International Speedway, a superspeedway that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn 2.5\u00a0mi (4.0\u00a0km) superspeedway. The track's turns are banked at 31\u00a0degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18\u00a0degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Background\nThe Budweiser Shootout was created by Busch Beer brand manager Monty Roberts as the Busch Clash in 1979. The race, designed to promote Busch Beer, invites the fastest NASCAR drivers from the previous season to compete. The race is considered a \"warm-up\" for the Daytona 500. It was renamed the Bud Shootout in 1998. The name changed to the Budweiser Shootout in 2001, the Sprint Unlimited in 2013 and the Advance Auto Parts Clash in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Background\nA total of 28 cars were eligible to compete in the race, including the top six teams based on owners' points from the 2008 season from each of the series four manufacturers (Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, and Toyota). In addition to the first 24 cars eligible for competing, each of the four manufacturers received one \"wild card\" berth for a car or driver not already qualified, for previous Cup Series champions and past Shootout winners based on the 2008 owners' points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Background\nThe race was 75 laps long (as opposed to 70 laps in the 2008 race), with two segments of 25 and 50 laps. In between the segments there was a ten-minute pit stop. During the pit stop, teams were able to change tires, add fuel, and make normal chassis adjustments, but they were not be allowed to change springs, shock absorbers or rear-ends. Also, all the work was done in either the garage or on pit road. Afterward, the race was restarted with one lap behind the pace car. The caution laps, as well as the green flag laps were scored in the race. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nTwo practice sessions were held on the afternoon of February 6 before the race. The first session lasted 45 minutes, and the second 60 minutes. Kyle Busch was fastest in the first practice session, held in clear and cool weather conditions, with a time of 47.009 seconds, more than seven hundredths of a second faster than the second-placed Jimmie Johnson, who was recovering from a cut finger he sustained on his left hand while altering his racing uniform with a kitchen knife at the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nMatt Kenseth was third fastest, ahead of Reed Sorenson, A. J. Allmendinger and Earnhardt Jr. Carl Edwards was seventh, still within one second of Kyle Busch's time. In the second practice session, Johnson was fastest at 46.724 seconds. Allmendinger, Earnhardt, Kasey Kahne, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle, Bobby Labonte, Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch and Scott Speed rounded out the top ten positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nDuring the second practice session, Paul Menard was driving through the first turn when his right-rear tire deflated, causing him to spin sideways. Speed was close behind him, and although he slowed, he made contact with the right-front quarter panel of Menard's car. Both cars spun across the track, and stopped in the infield grass. Speed's vehicle had minor damage, but Menard's car was taken to the garage area. Menard was transported to the infield care center for treatment and was released soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nShortly after that, Sorenson made contact with the right-rear corner of Kyle Busch's vehicle with the front of his car, and his teammate Kahne sustained damage to his car's right-hand section from glancing a barrier beside the track at the first turn, Jeff Burton's engine failed on the third lap of his second practice session, and his team changed engines. Edwards also had to swerve to avoid hitting a chunk of debris that detached from David Reutimann's car at high speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nFor qualifying, the 28 drivers drew their starting positions by a lot, a feature that is unique to the event. Menard chose the pole position, ahead of Elliott Sadler, Sorenson, Speed and Denny Hamlin who rounded out the top five positions. Stewart drew sixth place, and Brian Vickers drew the seventh position. Bobby Labonte chose the eighth position, ahead of Earnhardt and Kyle Busch. Eleventh went to Edwards, and the next four places were drawn by Kurt Busch, Robby Gordon, Kahne, and McMurray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Practice and qualifying\nDavid Ragan, who drew sixteenth, was followed by Michael Waltrip, Allmendinger, Joey Logano, and David Stremme in the first 20 positions. Johnson, David Reutimann, Burton, Casey Mears, Kenseth, Biffle, Kevin Harvick, and Jeff Gordon chose the last eight starting positions in the event. Once the lot was completed, Menard commented, \"That's pretty cool, By the time I drew there were about four numbers at the front and three back near 17th and 18th so I felt like I had a pretty good shot at getting a good starting position.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nThe 75-lap race began on February 7 at 8:10\u00a0p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC\u221205:00), and was televised live in the United States on Fox. Commentary was provided by lap-by-lap analyst Mike Joy, with analysis from three-time Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip, and former crew chief Larry McReynolds. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were clear but cool. L. Ronald Durham, pastor of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Vocalist Catina Mack from Orlando performed the national anthem, and country music singer Dierks Bentley commanded the drivers to start their engines. During the pace laps, Burton fell to the rear of the field because he changed his car's engine, and Logano did the same for missing the mandatory pre-race drivers' meeting due to him participating in the track's ARCA Re/Max Series race, which ended later than scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 957]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nMenard held the lead going into the back stretch on lap one. On lap two, the top seven cars were in a single file until side-by-side racing began at the conclusion of the lap. Hamlin received assistance from Sadler to pass Menard for the lead on the third lap. On lap four, Earnhardt turned left to overtake Hamlin and move into first place. That same lap, Ragan appeared to slow behind Johnson; Robby Gordon made contact with Ragan's rear, sending him into the right-hand barrier. Speed, Logano and Mears were collected, causing the first caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nBiffle's car sustained minor cosmetic damage as the involved cars slid down the track, and Jeff Gordon avoided the multi-car accident. Logano and Speed immediately retired from the race because of the significant damage to their cars. The race restarted on lap nine, with Earnhardt leading and Sadler in second. Two laps later, Sadler passed Earnhardt to take the lead. He and Kurt Busch were first and second as the field began lap 13, but Stewart and Kahne moved into the first two positions exiting the first turn. Approaching the 14th lap Kahne slid up the circuit and narrowly avoided going into Hamlin's side, while Vickers and Harvick made contact with each other, but no caution was needed in both cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nOn lap 17, Hamlin temporarily took the lead from Stewart, but it was Edwards who held the first position at the conclusion of the lap. Stremme separated the field into two with his advance through it. Harvick slowed because he was forced into the right-hand wall, removing his front left fender, and fell five seconds behind the pack. At the end of the 22nd lap, Hamlin slid and regained control of his car into the turn-four tri-oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nOn lap 23, Hamlin turned left on the back straight leaving turn two, but he hit Reutimann, who then clipped the front-right quarter of Stremme's car, spinning both drivers into the grass in the field, and  causing the second caution. Both drivers continued. During the caution, all of the teams made their compulsory ten minute pit stops, before returning to the track for the restart. Edwards led until his teammate McMurray overtook him on lap 26. Kahne took the lead on the 27th lap. He held it until Kyle Busch briefly passed him later that lap. Kyle Busch had no assistance from Johnson, and Kahne regained the lead. On lap 29, McMurray took the lead, but on the following lap lost it to Jeff Gordon on his left. McMurray regained the lead from Gordon on lap 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nThat lap, Jeff Gordon fell behind in the middle lane, and Vickers hit his car's rear. That caused Gordon to clip Biffle's rear and left-hand sides, sending him into Johnson's path, and collecting Mears, Burton, and Allmendinger; a third caution was issued, during which most of the leaders, including McMurray, made pit stops for fuel and tires. Kyle Busch led at the lap-36 restart. One lap later, Sorenson's engine failed, ending his race, and bringing out a fourth caution because of oil on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nEarnhardt's teammate Jeff Gordon aided in a pass on Kyle Busch for the former to take the lead for the second time at the lap-41 restart. Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon created a single file as the former led the next eight laps. In the meantime, Waltrip was pushed by Sadler and hit the right-hand wall on the back straight. Kenseth overtook Earnhardt on lap 50, but Earnhardt regained the lead on the next lap. Five laps later, a fifth caution came out after a three-car accident involving Reutimann, Stremme, and Sadler going into the first turn. Every driver chose to make pit stops for fuel and tires. Edwards and Kyle Busch ran into the infield grass during the pit stops as the nearest drivers ran four abreast entering turn one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nKyle Busch took the lead from Earnhardt at the pit stops, and held it at the lap-59 restart. On the next lap, Johnson helped his teammate Earnhardt reclaim the lead on the outside lane. Jeff Gordon took it on lap 61 before an oversteer dropped Earnhardt to the rear of the pack. Johnson led the next two laps until Vickers passed him exiting turn two on the 64th lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nOn that lap, a sixth caution was prompted, as Menard lost control of his car leaving the fourth turn, collecting Earnhardt, who in turn hit Labonte on his way towards the right-hand wall. Biffle was hit by possibly Mears. McMurray led the field at the restart on lap 69, followed by Johnson and Kyle Busch. Leaving turn four, McMurray got loose in front of Johnson and Kyle Busch, but he retained the lead. Kenseth and Johnson steered to the left on the 71st lap, and McMurray responded by doing the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nJohnson fell to fifth after receiving a bump that sent him to the right. McMurray then held off Kenseth on the outside line during lap 72. On the next lap, Jeff Gordon went left to try and get ahead of McMurray, but did not succeed. McMurray's lead was reduced to nothing, as a seventh caution was necessitated on the 73rd lap, when Stremme slid into Biffle's rear, sending Biffle into the right-hand barrier; the two were connected until they reached the infield grass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nThe race restarted on the 77th lap, for a green\u2013white\u2013checker finish (extending the race to 78 laps) with McMurray leading Jeff Gordon, Johnson, and Harvick. Exiting the first turn, a large amount of bump drafting occurred. On the final lap, Hamlin gave Harvick assistance on the right to maintain Harvick's momentum on the backstretch, enabling Harvick to pass McMurray for the lead. Behind the two, Johnson got loose from being bumped by Stewart, and slid into the side of Hamlin and Mears between turns three and four. Kahne then hit Kyle Busch's rear, and the two crashed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race\nVickers could not steer away, and was collected. The eighth (and final) caution came out, and the field was frozen in place, with the order of finish determined by where the drivers were when the caution began. This gave Harvick the victory. It was his first in the Cup Series since another exhibition event 71 races prior, the 2007 Nextel All-Star Challenge. It was also Richard Childress Racing's first Budweiser Shootout win since the 1995 edition. McMurray finished second, Stewart third, Jeff Gordon fourth, and Allmendinger fifth. Kahne, Edwards, Kenseth, Kurt Busch, and Kyle Busch completed the top ten. There were an event-record 23 lead changes among a record 14 different drivers during the course of the race. Earnhardt led four times for a total of 23 laps, more than any other driver. Harvick led once for a single lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 863]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nHarvick appeared in Victory Lane to celebrate his win in front of the crowd of 80,000 people; the win earned him $200,000. He said the win was reminiscent of his 2007 Daytona 500 triumph when he overtook Mark Martin on its final lap and a multi-car accident occurred behind him: \"We got behind early, lost the draft and I was thinking, \u2018Man, we won the Daytona 500 the same way,\u2019 Just never giving up. If that's not fun to watch, I don't know what is. I had gotten squeezed up in the wall and knocked the left-front fender off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nIt seemed like we were in the wrong spot for the whole race. But we ended up in the right place when it mattered.\" McMurray said he was disappointed to lose the win after failing to block Harvick. \"I saw (Harvick) coming, I moved up and I thought I was high enough,\" he said. \"I didn't think there was room between him and the wall, and he just snuck in there. You feel like a sucker when you're in the front of this deal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nStewart, who finished third in his first race as a team owner, spoke of his satisfaction with the result with his new crew chief Darian Grubb: \"It really put me at ease I guess the whole night. Just hearing his confidence on the radio gave me confidence. We led laps tonight. We were a factor at parts of the night. I think everybody at some point of the night was vulnerable and able to fall to the back and get freight-trained.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nRagan suggested that Robby Gordon had lost focus when he hit him on lap five. \"It's just a typical deal here at Daytona and Talladega\", he said. \"When someone gets checked up usually two or three rows back someone doesn't see it.\" Logano said of his involvement in the accident, \"You start in the back and that's kind of what happens, [I] just saw one [car] get loose, checked up and then saw he was coming down so I floored ahead to the apron and just [got] clipped enough to send me back head-on into the wall.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nSpeed called the crash an instance of being in the \"wrong place\" at the \"wrong time\" and referred to his second practice session accident with Menard. \"Kind of a thing that happens around here \u2013 it's racing. The cars are so heavy and they're going so fast it's not actually a lot of reacting that you can do. Sometimes it works out and you go through there looking like a hero and sometimes it doesn't. It didn't work out the best, but still it's better than nothing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\nSome drivers and crew chiefs raised concerns during and after the event about the handling of the Car of Tomorrow on Daytona International Speedway's variable track surface. Kyle Busch argued the car was not suitable for the track because of balance difficulties, and Labonte said it was \"pretty erratic\" and its handling was not to his liking. McMurray said he did not feel any loss of vehicle control. Todd Parrott, Labonte's crew chief, stated his belief that there were few handling changes from previous editions of the race, and Reutimann concurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201944-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Budweiser Shootout, Race, Post-race comments\n\"I wouldn't say it's much different than usual\", he said. \"They're kind of a handful, which is kind of how they are.\" The race attracted 8,300,000 million television viewers, and drew a final Nielsen rating with a 4.9 rating over a 9 share. It took one hour, 31 minutes, and 57 seconds to complete; because it ended under caution, no margin of victory was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km\nThe 2009 200\u00a0km of Buenos Aires was the sixth edition of this race in the TC2000 season. The race was held in the Aut\u00f3dromo Juan y \u00d3scar G\u00e1lvez in Buenos Aires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nThe driver pairing formed by Norberto Fontana-Ricardo Mauricio (Toyota Corolla-TTA) won the sixth edition of the \u201cBuenos Aires 200 Kilometres\u201d, which took place today at the Aut\u00f3dromo Oscar y Juan G\u00e1lvez, in the city of Buenos Aires. Runners-up were Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez-Anthony Reid (Honda New Civic-Equipo Petrobras) and third were Christian Ledesma-Jos\u00e9 Ciantini (Chevrolet Vectra-Chevrolet Elaion). The circuit was damp when the race began, and there was bright sunshine by the time it ended, which meant that the teams had to change the type of tyres their cars were using. An additional ingredient for this classic event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nHaving dominated proceedings during the entire weekend, Fontana and Mauricio had no trouble whatsoever in claiming victory in front of the 45,000 spectators which were present for the sixth edition of the race, making the most of the fantastic Toyota Corolla and using good pit strategy which allowed them to keep ahead at all times. Once again, the Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres did not allow any of the drivers to repeat victory and a new driver pairing lifted the cup, the same as Toyota, which thus won this race in Buenos Aires for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\n\u201cWe did a great job and formed an excellent team. We finally achieved this win. All the team worked very well and Diego Bruna did his job impeccably. This race I will always remember, because of what it means to win in Buenos Aires, because of my nephew who won the Formula Renault 1.6 (Ricardo Trosset) race. Everything turned as we had planned it. This is a perfect dream,\u201d said an emotional Fontana during the press conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nFontana drove the first stint and began edging away from Mat\u00edas Rossi's Renault M\u00e9gane II (Renault Lo Jack Team), aboard a Corolla which adapted very well to the damp track, due to the great performance of the car during pre-event testing at the \u201cOscar Cabal\u00e9n\u201d circuit in C\u00f3rdoba, which led to the Japanese product being very quick through the fast swerves of the circuit variant No. 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nAs the laps passed by, Fontana dominated at ease, while the track gradually dried out and this meant the teams had to change their strategies during the event, as all cars had started with wet tyres and the tyre compound began wearing out on the drying track. The unexpected also happened in the fact that the safety car was deployed on lap six due to the stranded VW Bora of Gustavo Der Ohanessian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nWith the cars again bunched up, it looked as of Rossi might challenge Fontana for the lead, but the aspirations of Rossi did not get him anywhere, as Fontana once again eked out a gap. Behind them came Fabi\u00e1n Yannatuoni (DTA)  who was doing a great job in third place, ahead of Mart\u00edn Basso (YPF-Ford) and Cac\u00e1 Bueno (Equipo Petrobras), while Scotland's Anthony Reid fell to ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nWhen lap 15 arrived, the pitstops for driver changes, and due to the drying track, tyre changes, began. This changed everyone's plans, as the mechanics concentrated on changing the tyres, while the drivers had to do their changes unassisted. In this aspect, the Toyota pitwork was very good and Mauricio was able to quickly reclaim the lead which Fontana had worked so hard to maintain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\n\u201cWe claimed a very important win and this was on the basis of continuous work from all the team, which did a great job during the pre-event tests and throughout these last three years during which I was invited to compete in this race,\u201d said Brazil's Mauricio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nBehind the leader, his countryman Camilo (Renault Lo Jack team) was trying to defend second place, having to fend off Lionel Ugalde (Ford-YPF) who had taken over the Ford Focus from Mart\u00edn Basso and Pechito L\u00f3pez (Equipo Petrobras), who was already at the wheel of the Honda New Civic which Reid had previously driven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nL\u00f3pez overtook Ugalde and on that same lap went in pursuit of the Renault, alongside which he did one of the race's most outstanding manoeuvres, these two cars going side by side throughout the Curv\u00f3n Salotto, the back straight and the Ascari Chicane, prior to the cars rubbing sides and losing time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nCamilo fell back at that moment, down to fifth place, while L\u00f3pez recovered and claimed the runner-up spot after having overtaken Ugalde. \u201cWe changed some things in the car, which were very risky, but things turned out well and that allowed me to close in on the leader. For me, this is like a victory, if we think in the championship. I\u2019m very grateful to Anthony who at his age continues giving us one hundred and fifty percent; he sometimes seems to be younger than me,\u201d  said L\u00f3pez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nOn his part, Reid stated: \u201cMy start was not so good due to the car\u2019s balance. As the track dried, the car went better. The driver change at the pits was fantastic.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nLedesma and Ciantini did an outstanding job, reaching the podium after starting from 11th on the grid with the Chevrolet Vectra of the Chevrolet Ealion team, thanks to a strategy decided at the last moment, when Ciantini drove the first stint. \u201cWe practised the strategy with me doing the first stint, but last night I woke up and began thinking that we needed to change it; I had a feeling. I told the team that we had to change and they were doubtful. Luckily we did so and it all turned out very well, the same as the driver change,\u201d  said Ledesma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201945-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires 200km, Report\nBehind them came, in fourth place Basso-Ugalde (Ford Focus-Ford YPF), fifth Rossi-Camilo (Renault Megane II-Renault Lo Jack Team), sixth Silva-Bueno (Honda New Civic-Equipo Petrobras), seventh Spataro-Maluhy (F\u00edat L\u00ednea-Fiat Pro Racing Team), eighth Pern\u00eda-Canapino (Honda New Civic-Equipo Petrobras), ninth Yannantuoni-Flaqu\u00e9 (Chevrolet Astra-DTA) and tenth Carducci-Diruscio (Ford Focus-DP1 Team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201946-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix Race 1\nResults from the 2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix held at Buenos Aires on September 12, 2009, in the Aut\u00f3dromo Oscar Alfredo G\u00e1lvez. The race was the first race for the 2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix of 2009 Formula Three Sudamericana season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201947-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix Race 2\nResults from the 2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix held at Buenos Aires on September 13, 2009, in the Aut\u00f3dromo Oscar Alfredo G\u00e1lvez. The race was the second race for the 2009 Buenos Aires Grand Prix of 2009 Formula Three Sudamericana season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season\nThe Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the franchise's 18th season. It was also their first season in title defense since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season, Transactions, Trades\n* - Hinman was acquired from the Arizona Sting in the dispersal draft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201948-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bandits season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Bandits selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season\nThe 2009 season was the Buffalo Bills'  40th season in the National Football League the 50th overall and the fourth and final under the head coach Dick Jauron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season\nThe Bills were unable to improve upon their third consecutive 7\u20139 regular-season record (2006, 2007 and 2008) and failed to make the playoffs for the 10th consecutive year, the longest-standing playoff drought in the NFL which did not end until the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season\nJauron returned as head coach for a fourth season, the first Bills coach since Marv Levy to receive a contract extension beyond three years. He was fired on November 17 after a 3\u20136 start and replaced on an interim basis by defensive coordinator Perry Fewell, who was fired at the end of the season but not before starting Ryan Fitzpatrick for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe Bills drafted three players\u2014Eric Wood, Andy Levitre and Jairus Byrd\u2014who would later become starters on the team. Byrd was runner-up in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting. First round pick Aaron Maybin was released from the Bills shortly before the 2011 season after two disappointing seasons with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Schedule, Preseason\nThe Bills were selected to play against the Tennessee Titans in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on August 9, 2009; the game seeks to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Football League. Bills owner Ralph Wilson was among the 2009 inductees to the Hall and is one of the two surviving original AFL owners, the other being Titans owner Bud Adams. Each team wore their AFL throwback uniforms, with the Titans in Houston Oilers uniforms, as the team played in Houston until the early-1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season\nThe Bills played a 16-game schedule in 2009, in accordance with the NFL scheduling formula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season\nThe schedule consisted of six games against their AFC East divisional rivals (two each against the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, and New York Jets), four intra-conference games versus the AFC South (one game each against the Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Tennessee Titans), four inter-conference games against teams from the NFC South (one game each against the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers), and two games against the remaining two AFC teams that, like Buffalo, finished fourth in their respective divisions in 2008 (one game each versus the Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs). For the first time, the Bills faced the Buccaneers in Buffalo; in the 33-year history of the Tampa Bay franchise, all previous regular-season games between the two teams have been held in Tampa, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 922]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 1\nThe Bills began their season at Gillette Stadium for an AFL Legacy duel with their AFC East rival, the New England Patriots, in the first game of a MNF doubleheader. Buffalo got off to a fast start in the first quarter as quarterback Trent Edwards completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end Shawn Nelson. The Patriots would respond in the second quarter as running back Fred Taylor got a 1-yard touchdown run, yet Buffalo came right back as defensive end Aaron Schobel returned an interception 26 yards for a touchdown. New England would close out the half with kicker Stephen Gostkowski getting a 20-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 1\nIn the third quarter, the Bills would add to their lead as kicker Rian Lindell made a 40-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Patriots replied with Gostkowski nailing a 28-yard field goal. Buffalo would increase their lead as Edwards completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to running back Fred Jackson. With just over 5 minutes to play, The Patriots would strike back as quarterback Tom Brady completed an 18-yard touchdown pass to tight end Benjamin Watson (with a failed two-point conversion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 1\nOn the ensuing kickoff, cornerback Leodis McKelvin got the kickoff from his own endzone and got as far as the Bills 31-yard line, where he was stripped of the ball and New England's Gostkowski recovered. This would eventually set up Brady's 16-yard touchdown pass to Watson (with another failed two-point conversion). With under a minute to play Buffalo tried to respond, but the Patriots' defense was too much to overcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 1\nWith the bitter loss, the Bills began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 2\nHoping to rebound from a tough loss to the Patriots, the Bills would play their Week 2 home opener in an interconference duel with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This would be the first time that Buffalo ever hosted Tampa Bay in a regular season game, having played a preseason game with each other in 1977. In the first quarter, the Bills came out firing as quarterback Trent Edwards completed a 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans, safety Donte Whitner returning an interception 76 yards for a touchdown and kicker Rian Lindell making a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 2\nThe Buccaneers would get on the board in the second quarter as quarterback Byron Leftwich completed a 42-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Winslow, while Buffalo replied with Lindell getting a 43-yard field goal. Tampa Bay would close out the half as Leftwich completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to running back Carnell \"Cadillac\" Williams. After a scoreless third quarter, the Bills began to pull away as Lindell got a 43-yard field goal and Edwards completed a 43-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Terrell Owens. The Buccaneers tried to rally as Leftwich completed a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jerramy Stevens (with a failed two-point conversion), yet Buffalo closed out the game with Lindell nailing a 20-yard field goal. With the win, the Bills improved to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 3\nComing off their win the Buccaneers, the Bills stayed at home for a Week 3 interconference duel with the New Orleans Saints. Buffalo would trail early as Saints running back Lynell Hamilton got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Bills would answer in the second quarter on a fake field goal attempt, punter Brian Moorman threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to defensive end Ryan Denney. New Orleans would close out the half with kicker John Carney's 27-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the Saints took control in the fourth quarter with running back Pierre Thomas' 34-yard touchdown run, Carney's 35-yard field goal and Thomas' 19-yard touchdown run. With the loss, Buffalo fell to 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 4\nHoping to rebound from their home loss to the Saints, the Bills flew to Land Shark Stadium for a Week 4 AFC East duel with the Miami Dolphins. After a scoreless first quarter, Buffalo would find themselves trailing in the second as Dolphins kicker Dan Carpenter got a 33-yard field goal, followed by cornerback Vontae Davis returning an interception 23 yards for a touchdown. The Bills would get on the board with a 35-yard field goal from kicker Rian Lindell, but Miami would answer with running back Ronnie Brown's 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 4\nThe Dolphins' domination continued into the third quarter with quarterback Chad Henne completing a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brian Hartline, followed by a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Ricky Williams. Buffalo tried to salvage the game in the fourth quarter with quarterback Trent Edwards completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Josh Reed, but Miami would close out the game with Brown's 4-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 5\nThe Bills, hoping to shake off a loss to the winless Miami Dolphins on the road the week before, faced the 0\u20134 Cleveland Browns at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The wind played a factor throughout the game, making it difficult for both teams to sustain drives in the air. The Browns and Bills traded punts in the first quarter until the Bills had a drive end at their own 47 after turning it over on downs. This stop led to the only points of the first half by the Browns, a 24-yard field goal by backup kicker Billy Cundiff. Cundiff was the starter at kicker for the Browns due to the injury to their regular kicker Phil Dawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 5\nIn the second half, the longest drive by the Bills in the game was in their opening possession, which led to a successful 36-yard field goal by Bills kicker Rian Lindell to tie the game at 3. Later in the third quarter, each quarterback threw an interception, first Trent Edwards of the Bills to cornerback Eric Wright of the Browns, and then Derek Anderson of the Browns to Bills' safety Jairus Byrd. Deadlocked at 3 apiece going into the fourth quarter, both offenses continued to be stifled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 5\nHowever, a special teams blunder by Bills punt returner Roscoe Parrish allowed the Browns to set up at the Buffalo 16-yard line after Parrish muffed the punt. From this turnover, the Browns were able to win the game on an 18-yard field goal by Cundiff with 23 seconds left to play. This loss dropped the Bills' record to 1\u20134, with the division rival New York Jets next up on the schedule in the Meadowlands. The Browns improved their record to 1\u20134. During the game, the Bills lost two defensive starters to injury who were carted off the field- linebacker Kawika Mitchell and linebacker Marcus Buggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 5\nIn this loss, the Bills earned the dubious distinction of losing to a quarterback with the worst completion percentage in NFL history in a win (minimum of 10 attempts), the Browns Derek Anderson, who completed just 2 out of 17 passes for just 23 yards- a percentage of 11.7%. Joe Ferguson (Buffalo) won a game on September 29, 1974, against the New York Jets while completing neither of his two pass attempts in the last NFL game won by a team without a pass completion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 6\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the Bills flew to The Meadowlands for a Week 6 AFC East duel with the New York Jets. In the first quarter, Buffalo got the initial strike as kicker Rian Lindell got a 33-yard field goal. The Jets would answer with a 23-yard field goal from kicker Jay Feely. New York would take the lead in the second quarter Feely's 41-yard field goal and running back Thomas Jones' 71-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 6\nIn the third quarter, the Bills fought back as Lindell nailed a 25-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick completing a 37-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans. Both teams would fight hard throughout the fourth quarter and eventually, Lindell got a chance to kick a last-second field goal. However, his 46-yard attempt went wide right, sending the game into overtime. In overtime, both teams would slug it out with each other throughout most of the quarter. In the end, Buffalo emerged victorious as Lindell booted the game-winning 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 6\nWith the win, not only did the Bills improve to 2\u20134, but the defense managed to record five interceptions (two for rookie safety Jairus Byrd, one for safety George Wilson, one for cornerback Reggie Corner, and one for linebacker Paul Posluszny).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 6\nStarting quarterback Trent Edwards (5/5 for 43 yards) left the game in the second quarter with a concussion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 7\nComing off their thrilling overtime road win over the Jets, the Bills flew to Bank of America Stadium for a Week 7 interconference duel with the Carolina Panthers. With quarterback Trent Edwards recovering from a concussion, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was given the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 7\nBuffalo delivered the opening charge in the first quarter with a 7-yard touchdown run from running back Marshawn Lynch. In the second quarter, the Panthers got on the board as defensive tackle Hollis Thomas tackled running back Fred Jackson in his own endzone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 7\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Bills increased their lead in the fourth quarter with Fitzpatrick completing a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans, followed by a 29-yard field goal from kicker Rian Lindell. Carolina tried to rally as running back DeAngelo Williams got a 15-yard touchdown run, yet Buffalo pulled away with Lindell's 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 8\nComing off their road win over the Panthers, the Bills went home for a Week 8 duel with the Houston Texans. In the first quarter, Buffalo struck first as wide receiver Terrell Owens got a 29-yard touchdown run. The Texans would answer in the second quarter with a 42-yard and a 22-yard field goal from kicker Kris Brown. The Bills would end the half with kicker Rian Lindell's 21-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 8\nHouston would creep closer in the third quarter with Brown booting a 26-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Texans would take the lead and never look back as running back Ryan Moats got three touchdown runs of 11 yards (followed by quarterback Matt Schaub's 2-point conversion pass to wide receiver Andre Johnson), 1 yard, and 3 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 8\nWith the loss, Buffalo went into their bye week at 3\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 8\nDespite the loss, rookie safety Jairus Byrd once again had two interceptions. He would become the first rookie and only the second player in NFL history to have three-straight multi-interception games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 10\nComing off their bye week, the Bills flew to LP Field, donned their throwbacks, and played a Week 10 AFL Legacy game with the Tennessee Titans. In the first quarter, Buffalo struck first with a trick play as running back Fred Jackson completed a 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans. The Titans would answer with a 28-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Johnson and quarterback Vince Young's 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington. Tennessee would add onto their lead in the second quarter with a 38-yard field goal from kicker Rob Bironas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 10\nThe Bills would close out the half with quarterback Trent Edwards' 8-yard touchdown pass to Evans. Buffalo would tie the game in the third quarter with kicker Rian Lindell nailing a 25-yard field goal, but the Titans would pull away in the fourth quarter with Johnson's 1-yard touchdown run, Bironas' 51-yard field goal, safety Vincent Fuller returning an interception 26 yards for a touchdown and cornerback Rod Hood returning an interception 31 yards for a touchdown. With the loss, not only did the Bills fall to 3\u20136, but head coach Dick Jauron would get fired two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 11\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Titans, the Bills flew to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for an intraconference duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the 1st quarter Buffalo trailed early as kicker Josh Scobee made a 29-yard field goal. Then the Bills came on top with kicker Rian Lindell hitting a 26 and a 28-yard field goal. The Bills fell behind in the 2nd quarter when RB Maurice Jones-Drew got a 3-yard touchdown run. Then the Bills would score to end the half with Lindell nailing a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 11\nIn the third quarter Buffalo took the lead with QB Ryan Fitzpatrick making a 98-yard touchdown pass to WR Terrell Owens (with a failed 2-point conversion attempt). In the fourth quarter Buffalo fell behind again with QB David Garrard making a 3-yard touchdown pass to WR Mike Sims-Walker (With a successful QB sneak to make the two-point conversion). With the loss, the Bills fell to 3\u20137 in Perry Fewell's first game as interim head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 12\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the Bills went home, donned their throwback uniforms (again), and played a Week 12 AFC East rematch with the Miami Dolphins. After a scoreless first quarter, Buffalo would trail early in the second quarter as Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brian Hartline. The Bills would tie the game with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick getting an impressive 31-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 12\nMiami would retake the lead in the third quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Ricky Williams, yet Buffalo's offense would explode with points in the fourth quarter. It would begin with running back Fred Jackson's 3-yard touchdown run and continued with kicker Rian Lindell booting a 56-yard field goal. Afterwards, Fitzpatrick would hook up with wide receiver Terrell Owens on a 51-yard touchdown pass, while Jackson got a 7-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 13\nIn their second-ever regular season game north of the border, Buffalo traveled to Toronto to take on divisional rivals the New York Jets. The team traded field goals in the first quarter before the Bills took a 10\u20136 lead after a 15-yard touchdown run from Marshawn Lynch. The Jets regained the lead after quarterback Mark Sanchez threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Braylon Edwards. The teams went scoreless in the third quarter that was notable for Sanchez suffering a sprained Posterior cruciate ligament to his right knee. The team again traded field goals in the final quarter. Buffalo had a chance to take the lead or at least tie in the final two minutes, but quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw an interception to Darrelle Revis, sealing the victory for the Jets. With the loss, Buffalo fell to 4\u20138 overall and 1\u20132 since firing Jauron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201949-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Week 17\nBuffalo won its season finale for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team\nThe 2009 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team, Previous season\n2008 was a year of milestones for the UB Bulls: first winning season since rejoining FBS (formerly Division IA), first outright division championship, first conference championship and first bowl game appearance (2009 International Bowl). It was a season of close wins and close losses with six games being decided on the last play or in overtime. UB won four of those games and lost two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team, Previous season\nUB stunned observers when they decisively defeated Ball State 42-24 in the 2008 MAC Championship Game. They went on to lose the International Bowl to Connecticut 38-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team, Previous season\nHead coach Turner Gill signed a contract extension with the Bulls after being courted by Syracuse and Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team, Schedule\n2009 got off to a bad start for the Bulls as star running back James Starks injured the labrum in his left shoulder in a pre-season scrimmage. It was determined that he would need surgery and miss the whole year. Because he was redshirted his first year at UB, he will not be able to play again for the Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201950-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Bulls football team, Schedule\nBuffalo's offense struggled to overcome the loss of Starks and the up-and-down play of new starting quarterback Zach Maynard while the defense continued to have a hard time stopping opposing teams and could not generate as many turnovers as they did in 2008. Buffalo was out of MAC championship contention midway through the season, but did finish with two straight wins on the road. After the season was over, Turner Gill accepted an offer to coach Kansas. Gill was replaced by Jeff Quinn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201951-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Flash season\nThe 2009 season was Buffalo Flash's first season of existence, and the first in which they competed in the W-League, at the time the second division of women's soccer in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201951-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo Flash season, Club, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201952-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo mayoral election\nA mayoral election took place in Buffalo, New York on November 3, 2009. Incumbent Democratic mayor Byron Brown won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201952-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo mayoral election, Primary\nThe primary election was held on September 15, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown defeated South District Councilmember Michael P. Kearns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201952-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo mayoral election, General\nUnder New York's electoral fusion law, Brown received the party endorsements of not only the Democratic party, but also of the Independence, Conservative, and Working Families parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201952-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Buffalo mayoral election, General\nThe Republican Party did not field a candidate. Independent candidate Matthew Ricchiazzi withdrew from the race after his petition to get on the ballot was rejected by the Board of Elections. Thus, Brown was unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201953-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Cup Final\nThe 2009 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 69th final of the Bulgarian Cup. The final was played at the Georgi Asparuhov Stadium in Sofia on 26 May 2009, and marked the first time that the final has been staged at this stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201953-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Cup Final\nThe match was contested by Litex Lovech, who beat Minyor Pernik 1\u20130 in their semi-final, and Pirin Blagoevgrad who beat Levski Sofia 1\u20130. The match was Litex's seventh Bulgarian Cup final, and Pirin's fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201953-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Cup Final\nLitex Lovech won the final 3\u20130, with goals from Wilfried Niflore, Doka Madureira and Krum Bibishkov, claiming their fourth Bulgarian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201954-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Bulgarian Figure Skating Championships were the National Championships of the 2008\u201309 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201954-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Figure Skating Championships\nThe results were used to choose the teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201954-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Figure Skating Championships\nGuests competitors from the Czech Republic and Serbia also participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201955-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian Supercup\nThe 2009 Bulgarian Supercup was the seventh Bulgarian Supercup match, a football match which was contested between the 2008-09 A Professional Football Group champion, Levski Sofia, and the 2008-09 Bulgarian Cup holder, Litex Lovech. The match was held on 1 August 2009 at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria. Levski beat Litex 1\u20130 thanks to a second-half goal from Frenchman C\u00e9dric Bardon to win their third Bulgarian Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009. With 40% of the vote, the decisive winner of the elections was the established in 2006 personalistic party of Boyko Borisov, GERB. The Socialist Party, in power before the election, was in second place, with around 18%. \u041ence-ruling National Movement Simeon II did not cross the 4% threshold and won no seats. The turnout was 60.2%, one of the lowest ever. Following the election, GERB leader Boyko Borisov became Prime Minister. Just like all the previous parliamentary elections since the fall of communism, the government was not re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Background\nThe 2009 elections saw the debut of a parallel voting system with a lesser plurality vote element. 209 of the 240 parliament seats were distributed according to the proportional system, while the remaining 31 (the number of voting constituencies in Bulgaria) were allocated for First Past the Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Background\nThe ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party wanted to amend the electoral law, increasing state subsidies for political parties threefold (the reason for doing this would be making campaign financing more transparent, they claim), requiring registration in at least two-thirds of all electoral districts (thus eliminating most marginal parties).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Background\nAn electoral reform was passed in April 2009 with the votes of the BSP, the DPS, Ataka and Order, Law and Justice. It would raise the election threshold for alliances from 4% to 8% (which was widely seen as a move against the opposition electoral alliance of DSB and SDS, which was polling around 7.3% at that time) and established that 31 of the 240 seats would be elected by majority vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Background\nPresident Georgi Parvanov returned the law to parliament for reconsideration, but as the parties had no plans to amend it and as he could only return the law once, he had to sign it before the election. After the law had been passed, the provision raising the electoral threshold was struck down by the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Background\nThe Blue Coalition was denied registration for the election by the Central Election Commission on 28 May 2009 due to a leadership struggle in the SDS, one of the two constituent parties. The Blue Coalition announced it would appeal the ruling. On 29 May 2009, the Supreme Administrative Court overturned the CEC's decision, allowing the Blue Coalition to contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Results\nThe following members were elected through first past the post voting in 31 single-member constituencies:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe elections were decisively won by Boyko Borisov's GERB party, which gained 39.72% of the proportional vote and 26 of the 31 majority vote parliament seats, in total 116 and almost half of the Assembly's 240 seats. Until the elections Borisov was Mayor of Sofia and left office to become Prime Minister, until 2005 he was a member of the former king Simeon II's National Movement for Stability and Progress party and before he was also a member of the Communist Party, though he and his party's policy are opposite to the Communist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party-headed Coalition for Bulgaria gathered 17.70% but no majority vote seats. The Muslim minority's party Movement for Rights and Freedoms amassed 14.45% and won the remaining five majority vote seats, the nationalist party Attack came fourth with 9.36% of the proportional vote, followed by the right-wing Blue Coalition of former ruling elements with 6.76% and the newly Order, Law and Justice, whose tally was at 4.13%. Parties such as Lider and Saxe-Coburg Gotha's once-ruling NDSV did not cross the 4% threshold and won no seats. The voter turnout of 60.20% was perceived as high, but was not unexpected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201956-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Aftermath\nAs a result of the election, the government was formed by GERB alone with Boyko Borisov as Prime Minister. BSP and DPS, two of the members of the former centre-left ruling coalition, were put in opposition. Due to the party's failure in the elections, not electing a single member of parliament, former Tsar and more recently Prime Minister resigned as NDSV leader on 6 July. While Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev took the responsibility for the socialists' electoral failure, he did not resign as party leader and continued to lead the party in opposition through to the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201957-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulldogs RLFC season\nThe 2009 Bulldogs RLFC season  was the 75th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 2nd (out of 16), a vast improvement on the previous season, when they came last. The Bulldogs came within one match of the grand final but were knocked out by the Parramatta Eels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201957-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulldogs RLFC season, Season summary\nAfter an extremely disappointing 2008 season, in which the club finished with the wooden spoon, 2009 will be a season of rebuilding for the Bulldogs. A number of high-profile new recruits, including Brett Kimmorley, Josh Morris, Michael Ennis, David Stagg and Ben Hannant along with mid-season signing of Greg Eastwood will join the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201957-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulldogs RLFC season, Fixtures\nDuring the regular season, the Bulldogs will play most home games at ANZ Stadium in Homebush Bay. ANZ Stadium is also the home ground of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and one of the home grounds of the Parramatta Eels, so Bulldogs away matches against these two teams will also be played at this venue. Two Bulldogs home games will be played away from Homebush Bay: the Round 11 match against Melbourne will be played at Bluetongue Stadium in Gosford, and the Round 19 match against the Gold Coast will be played at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201957-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Bulldogs RLFC season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201958-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Burgos bombing\nThe 2009 Burgos bombing occurred on 29 July 2009, when at least 65 people were injured after a van bomb carrying more than 300\u00a0kg of explosive went off outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos, Spain. The attack was  blamed on Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). Several children were among the 65 wounded in the attack, which was targeted at Civil Guards, their family members and citizens, instead of only officers as ETA targets in most of its attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201958-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Burgos bombing\nSome days before the attack, Spanish police warned that the organization might be trying a series of van bomb attacks after they found information of three vans being carried to Spain in a document seized from arrested members Asier Borrero, Itziar Plaza and Iurgi Garitagoitia a few weeks before the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201958-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Burgos bombing, Occurrence\nAbout 120 people, one-third of them children, were sleeping in the building when the bomb went off at around 4:00 am local time (0200 UTC), blowing off most of its facade. The blast also left a two-metre (six-foot) deep crater in the street outside the barracks and heavily damaged the 14 storey residential complex and other buildings in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201958-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Burgos bombing, Aftermath\nThe day after the bombing, a car bomb explosion on the island of Majorca killed two civil guards, Carlos S\u00e1enz de Tejada Garc\u00eda, 28, and Diego Salva Lezaun, 26. The two attacks came few hours before the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election\nThe city of Burlington, Vermont held a mayoral election on March 3, 2009. This was the second mayoral election since the city's 2005 approval of instant-runoff voting (IRV). The incumbent mayor Bob Kiss, who had served since 2006, successfully won reelection on the Vermont Progressive line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election\nUnlike in the city's first IRV mayoral election three years prior, however, Kiss was neither the plurality winner (Republican candidate Kurt Wright) nor the Condorcet winner (Democratic candidate Andy Montroll). This led to a controversy about the use of IRV in mayoral elections, culminating in a successful 2010 citizen's initiative repealing IRV's use by a vote of 52% to 48%. Ranked-choice voting would thus remain unused in Burlington until 2021, when voters again adopted IRV for all city council elections (but not mayoral ones) by a vote of 64% to 36%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Instant-runoff voting in Burlington\nThe city of Burlington, Vermont approved IRV for use in mayoral elections with a 64% vote in 2005, at a time when IRV was only used in a few local elections in the United States. The 2006 Burlington mayoral race was decided after two rounds of IRV tallying, selecting candidate Bob Kiss of the Vermont Progressive Party (VPP). In the election, Kiss prevailed over opponents Hinda Miller, Democrat, and Kevin Curley, Republican. With his election Kiss became the second member of the VPP to be elected to the office (Peter Clavelle was the first).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Results\nUnlike Burlington's first IRV mayoral election in 2006, the mayoral race in 2009 was decided in three rounds. Bob Kiss won the election, receiving 28.8% of the vote in the first round, and receiving 48.0% in the final round (which made up 51.5% of the ballots which had not been exhausted), defeating final challenger Kurt Wright (who received more votes than Kiss in the earlier rounds, but only received 45.2% in the final round).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election\nThe IRV election is considered a success by IRV advocates such as FairVote, asserting it prevented the election of the first round plurality leader by avoiding the effect of vote-splitting between the other candidates, was easy for voters to understand, avoided the need for traditional runoffs, and \"contributed to producing a campaign among four serious candidates that was widely praised for its substantive nature\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election\nAdvocates of other voting reforms considered the election a failure of IRV because a 54% majority of voters preferred another specific candidate over the IRV winner: The Condorcet \"beats-all\" winner (and likely most-approved/highest-rated candidate) did not win. Critics claimed the system is convoluted, did nothing to increase voter turnout, turned voting into a \"gambling game\" due to non-monotonicity, and \"eliminated the most popular moderate candidate and elected an extremist\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election\nThe IRV outcome was a result of vote-splitting: Andy Montroll defeated both Bob Kiss and Kurt Wright in separate pairwise contests, and was eliminated in the second round of IRV due to vote-splitting with both candidates. Kurt Wright acted as a spoiler candidate (a loser whose presence in the race changed who the winner is), splitting the vote against Bob Kiss; Wright received more first-choice votes (including promoted votes to first-choice) than Montroll due to Kiss splitting the vote against Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election\nThe election did demonstrate that voters are capable of using ranked-choice ballots, with 99.9% of the ballots filled out correctly, though this includes 16% of voters who bullet-voted for only one candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election\nMontroll was therefore preferred over Kiss by 54% of voters, preferred over Wright by 56% of voters, over Smith by 60%, and over Simpson by 91% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Analysis of the 2009 election, Hypothetical results under various voting systems\nThe winner under other voting methods can be deduced, assuming the electorate did not employ tactical voting in any case: In IRV, there is no tactical incentive for a voter withhold or falsify their second choice. For each voting method below that elects Montroll, Kiss supporters can withhold or falsify their second choice to defeat Montroll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 114], "content_span": [115, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Effect on IRV in Burlington\nThere was post-election controversy regarding the IRV method, and in 2010 a citizen's initiative resulted in the repeal of IRV in Burlington. The initially \"stagnant\" repeal campaign drew renewed interest as Kiss became embroiled in a series of controversies. In December 2009, a group called \"One Person, One Vote\", made up of Republicans and Democrats unhappy with the election outcome, held a press conference to announce that they had collected enough signatures for an initiative to repeal IRV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Effect on IRV in Burlington\nAccording to a local columnist, the vote was a referendum on Kiss's mayoralty; Kiss had allegedly become a \"lame duck\" because of a scandal relating to Burlington Telecom and other local issues. However, in an interview with Vermont Public Radio, Kiss disputed that claim, and those gathering signatures for the repeal stated that it was specifically a rejection of IRV itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Effect on IRV in Burlington\nThe IRV repeal initiative in March 2010 won 52% to 48%. It earned a majority of the vote in only two of the city's seven wards, but the vote in those 2009 strongholds for Kurt Wright was lopsided against IRV. Republican Governor Jim Douglas signed the repeal into law in April 2010, saying \"Voting ought to be transparent and easy to understand, and affects the will of the voters in a direct way. I'm glad the city has agreed to a more traditional process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Effect on IRV in Burlington\nThe repeal reverted the system back to a 40% rule that requires a top-two runoff if no candidate exceeds 40% of the vote. Had the 2009 election occurred under these rules, Kiss and Wright would have advanced to the runoff. If the same voters had participated in the runoff as in the first election and not changed their preferences, Kiss would have won the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201959-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Burlington mayoral election, Effect on IRV in Burlington\nThe following decade saw continuing controversy about voting methods in Burlington. In 2011, for example, an initiative effort to increase the winning threshold from the 40% plurality to a 50% majority failed by 58.5% to 41.5%, while in 2019, instant-runoff voting was once again proposed for Burlington by Councilor Jack Hanson but went unapproved by the Charter Change Committee for the March 2020 ballot. One year later, in July 2020, the city council voted 6\u20135 in support of a measure to reinstate IRV, but that was vetoed by Mayor Miro Weinberger the following month. In a city election, Burlington voters voted in favor by IRV by 64% to 36% (8914 to 4918) on March 2, 2021. The charter change requires approval and enactment by the Vermont legislature, which did not act on it 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201960-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis\nThe 2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Busan, South Korea between May 11 and May 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201960-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis, Single entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201960-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis, Champions, Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana def. Tasuku Iwami /  Toshihide Matsui, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201961-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis \u2013 Doubles\nRik de Voest and \u0141ukasz Kubot were the defending champions; however, they chose to not participate this year. Twins brothers Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana defeated 6\u20134, 6\u20132 Tasuku Iwami and Toshihide Matsui in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201962-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Busan Open Challenger Tennis \u2013 Singles\nGo Soeda was the defending champion but lost to his compatriot Yuichi Sugita in the first round. Danai Udomchoke became the new champion after his win against Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d in the final (6\u20132, 6\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201963-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 6\u20139, 2009. It was won by the VCU Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201964-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Beach Soccer Championship\nThe 2009 CAF Beach Soccer Championship was a qualifying tournament held during 1 July \u2013 5 July, 2009 in Durban, South Africa that determined which two participants will represent the CAF region at the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201964-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Beach Soccer Championship, Format\nThe nine nation tournament consisted of three groups. The teams played each other once in their group during the group stage. The top teams in each group advanced to the semifinals, the fourth team would be selected according to the best of the second top team of the three groups. The semifinal winners qualified for the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League\nThe 2009 CAF Champions League is the 45th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 13th edition under the current CAF Champions League format. The winner will participate in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2010 CAF Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualification\nBelow is the qualification scheme for the competition. Nations are shown according to their CAF 5-Year Ranking \u2013 those with a ranking score have their rank and score indicated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualification\nItalicised clubs withdrew without playing. Bolded clubs received a bye in the preliminary round, entering the tournament in the first round. Unranked associations have no ranking points and hence are equal 23rd (Malawi \u2013 ranked =18th \u2013 did not enter a champion this year).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualification\n1 The champions of Congo DR, South Africa, Sudan, and Tunisia were not given byes in the first stage although the runners-up were. Unlike European tournaments, seeding within the CAF draws is based on performance in continental tournaments only. 2 The 2007\u201308 Egyptian Premier League runner-up, Ismaily opted not to enter this competition, choosing instead to play in the 2008\u201309 Arab Champions League. The third-placed Egyptian side, Al-Zamalek were not allowed to replace them as the CAF Champions League regulations allow only national champions and runners-up to compete. 3 2008 R\u00e9union Premier League Champion, JS Saint-Pierroise, banned from African club competitions after withdrawing from the 2007 CAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nThe preliminary round first legs were played on 30 January \u2013 1 February, and the second legs on 13\u201315 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\n1 Played over one leg after first leg cancelled due to political violence in Madagascar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Dispensation round\nTwo federations inscribed their clubs after the deadline, but were admitted for an intermediate round. However, the winning club could only gain access to the first round if another winning club from the preliminary round withdrew subsequently. The first leg was played on 22 February, and the second leg on 8 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Dispensation round\nAs no side withdrew from the first round, Akonangui were effectively eliminated as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, First round\nThe first round first legs were played on 13\u201315 March, and the second legs on 3\u20136 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Qualifying rounds, Second round\nThe first leg will be on 17\u201319 April and the second leg on 1\u20133 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on 7 May in CAF headquarters in Cairo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Group stage\n\u00c9toile du Sahel and Al-Merreikh were seeded as level I, while TP Mazembe and Al-Hilal were seeded as level II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Knockout stage, Semifinals\nThe first legs were scheduled for 4 October and the second legs for 17\u201318 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201965-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League, Knockout stage, Final\n2\u20132 on aggregate. TP Mazembe won on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final\nThe 2009 CAF Champions League Final was a football tie held over two legs in November 2009 between Heartland, and TP Mazembe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final\nThe first leg was held on 1 November and the second leg on 7 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Qualified teams\nIn the following table, finals until 1996 were in the African Cup of Champions Club era, since 1997 were in the CAF Champions League era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Venues, Dan Anyiam Stadium\nDan Anyiam Stadium is a Nigerian multi-purpose stadium located in Owerri, Imo State. It is located in the centre of Owerri, Imo State's capital, the capital of Imo State, the stadium is named after Daniel Anyiam, vice-captain of the first Nigeria national football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Venues, Dan Anyiam Stadium\nIt is used mostly for association-football matches and is the home stadium of Heartland F.C.. The stadium a capacity of 10,000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Venues, Frederic Kibassa Maliba Stadium\nStade Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric-Kibassa-Maliba, also known as Stade de la Kenya, is a multi-use stadium located in the Kenya suburb of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the current home of FC Saint Eloi Lupopo and the former home venue of TP Mazembe. The stadium has a capacity of 35,000 people and is named after Frederic Kibassa Maliba, a former Minister of Youth and Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Format\nThe final was decided over two legs, with aggregate goals used to determine the winner. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule would have been applied, and if still level, the tie would have proceeded directly to a penalty shootout (no extra time is played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201966-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League Final, Matches, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Mohamed Chaabane (Algeria)Nasser Sadek (Egypt)Fourth official:Lamine Ben Aissa (Algeria)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201967-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League group stage\nThe group stage of the 2009 CAF Champions League was played from 18 July to 20 September 2009. A total of eight teams competed in the group stage, the group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout stage playing semifinal rounds before the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201967-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League group stage, Format\nIn the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the Knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201968-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League knockout stage\nThe knockout stage of the 2009 CAF Champions League was played from 4 October to 7 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201968-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League knockout stage, Semi finals\nThe first legs were scheduled for 4 October and the second legs for 17\u201318 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201968-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League knockout stage, Semi finals\nThe Nigerian Football Federation requested the second leg of the Heartland \u2013 Kano Pillars semi final be rescheduled from 17 October due to preparations for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201968-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League knockout stage, Final\n2\u20132 on aggregate. TP Mazembe won on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds\nThis page provides the summaries of the matches of the qualifying rounds for the group stage of the 2009 CAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nIn this round the 42 teams that did not receive byes to the First Round were randomly drawn against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nThe matches were held between 30 January 2009 and 15 February 2009. The 21 winners advanced to the First Round held in March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nPrimeiro de Agosto won 7 \u2013 3 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nCanon Yaound\u00e9 won 2 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nAS Douanes won 4 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nKano Pillars won 2 \u2013 0 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nClub Africain advanced to the First Round after Sporting Clube de Bafat\u00e1 withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nDjoliba won 4 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nKampala City Council FC won 3 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nSupersport United won 8 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nHeartland won 10 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nFAR Rabat won 6 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nPetro de Luanda won 6 \u2013 0 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nEtoile Filante Ouagadougou won 4 \u2013 3 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nAl Ahly won 7 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nIttihad Khemisset advanced to the First Round after Wallidan Football Club withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nASO Chlef won 3 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nAS Mangasport won 3 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nMonomotapa United F.C. won 3 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nYoung Africans won 14 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nUS Stade Tamponnaise won 6 \u2013 0 and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nPlayed as a single match after the scheduled first leg was cancelled due to political violence in Madagascar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nZESCO United F.C. won 5 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\nAl-Merreikh won 2 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Dispensation Round\nTwo federations inscribed their clubs after the deadline, but were admitted for an intermediate round. However, the winning club could only gain access to the first round if another winning club from the preliminary round withdrew subsequently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Dispensation Round\n1 \u2013 1 on aggregate after extra time; Akonangui FC won 5 \u2013 4 on penalty kicks. However, as no victorious side withdrew from the tournament, Akonangui did not advance to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nThis a knock-out stage of 32 teams; the 21 teams advancing from the preliminary round, and 11 teams that received byes to this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\n1 \u2013 1 on aggregate after extra time; C.D. Primeiro de Agosto won 5 \u2013 4 on penalty kicks and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAggregate score 1 \u2013 1. Kano Pillars F.C. advanced to the Second Round on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAggregate score 2 \u2013 2. Djoliba AC advanced to the Second Round on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nKampala City Council FC won 3 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nHeartland F.C. won 4 \u2013 2 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nTP Mazembe won 5 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nASEC Mimosas won 3 \u2013 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAl Ahly Tripoli won 3 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAggregate score 3 \u2013 3. Ittihad Khemisset advanced to the Second Round on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\n\u00c9toile Sportive du Sahel won 2 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nCotonsport won 5 \u2013 3 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAggregate score 4 \u2013 4. Monomotapa United advanced to the Second Round on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAl Ahly won 4 \u2013 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAl-Hilal won 4 \u2013 3 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nZESCO United F.C. won 2 \u2013 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, First round\nAl-Merreikh won 4 \u2013 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nThis is a knock-out stage of 16 teams that advanced from the first round; winners will advance to the group stage, with the losers advancing to the CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nThe first leg will be on 17\u201319 April and the second leg on 1\u20133 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nAggregate score 3\u20133. Al-Hilal advanced to the Group Stage on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nAggregate score 3\u20133. Kano Pillars advanced to the Group Stage on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nZESCO United won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nAl-Merreikh won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nHeartland won 3\u20132 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nTP Mazembe won 1\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\nMonomotapa United won 2\u20131 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201969-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, Second round\n\u00c9toile Sportive du Sahel won 2\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup\nThe 2009 CAF Confederation Cup was the 6th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The competition began with the preliminary round stage in the first week of March 2009 and concluded with the second leg of the final match on the first week of December 2009. The winners played in the 2010 CAF Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Qualifying rounds\nThe draw for the Preliminary Round and the Second Round were made on December 4, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round\n1st legs played 30 January-1 February 2009 and 2nd legs played 13\u201315 February 2009, except the ASFAN-USM game which was postponed to Feb. 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Qualifying rounds, First round\nFirst Legs were played 13\u201315 March 2009 and second Legs played 3\u20135 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Qualifying rounds, Second round\n1st Legs to be played 17\u201319 April 2009 and 2nd Legs to be played 1\u20133 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Qualifying rounds, Play-off round\nJoined by round of 16 losers of the 2009 CAF Champions League. Winners to Group Stage. 1st Legs were played 17\u201319 May and 2nd Legs were played 29\u201331 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Group stage\nThe group stage draw was held before the second round of 16 phase - with teams allocated to groups before the winners of ties were known. Matches were played from 17 July to 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Knock-out stage, Semi-finals\nThe first legs are scheduled on 2\u20134 October and the second legs on 16\u201318 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Knock-out stage, Final\nThe first leg is scheduled on 29 November and the second leg on 5 December. Stade Malien won 3\u20132 on penalties to win the CAF Confederation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201970-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup, Top goalscorers\nThe top scorers from the 2009 CAF Confederation Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201971-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup Final\nThe 2009 CAF Confederation Cup Final was the final of 2009 CAF Confederation Cup, which was the 6th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201971-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Confederation Cup Final\nThe final was played between ES S\u00e9tif from Algeria and Stade Malien from Mali. The winners qualified to participate in the 2010 CAF Super Cup against the winner of the 2009 CAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201972-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Super Cup\nThe 2009 CAF Super Cup was the 17th CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The match was contested by 2008 CAF Champions League winners, Al-Ahly, and 2008 CAF Confederation Cup winners, CS Sfaxien at the International Stadium in Cairo on 6 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201972-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Super Cup\nAl-Ahly won the match 2\u20131, with two goals from Angolan striker Fl\u00e1vio, and won the title for the record fourth time (having won the Super Cup in 2002, 2006 and 2007), all of them under the management of Manuel Jos\u00e9. CS Sfaxien finished as runners-up second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201972-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CAF Super Cup\nOverall, this was the seventh Super Cup triumph for Egyptian clubs and the fifth time that a Tunisian club finished runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201973-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CAR Development Trophy\nThe 2009 CAR Development Trophy, also known as the 2008 Africa Junior Trophy, was the sixth edition of third (former second) level rugby union tournament in Africa. The competition involved ten teams that are divided into two zones (North and Center). (No south tournament was played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games\nThe 38th CARIFTA Games was held in the George Odlum National Stadium in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia, on April 10\u201313, 2009. Detailedreports on the results were given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the CFPI Timing website, and on the \"World Junior Athletics History\"website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 545athletes (junior (under-20) and youth (under-17)) from about 25 countries:Anguilla (5), Antigua and Barbuda (7), Aruba (14), Bahamas (58), Barbados(45), Bermuda (23), British Virgin Islands (6), Cayman Islands (12), Dominica(7), French Guiana (7), Grenada (21), Guadeloupe (19), Guyana (10), Haiti (9),Jamaica (68), Martinique (37), Montserrat (4), Netherlands Antilles (22),Saint Kitts and Nevis (30), Saint Lucia (42), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines(6), Suriname (2), Turks and Caicos (14), Trinidad and Tobago (64), US VirginIslands (13).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Records\nIn the boys' U-20 category, there were 6 new records set, the most significantby Kirani James of Grenada finishing the 400 metres in 45.45 seconds, thereby gathering thisyears' Austin Sealy Award. The new mark for 1500 metres was set by Gavyn Nero from Trinidad andTobago in 3:47.56, and for 5000 metresby Jamaican Kemoy Campbell in 14:40.67. Jehue Gordon from Trinidad and Tobago won the 400 m hurdles in the newrecord time of 50.01 seconds. On the field, Raymond Higgs from the Bahamas cleared 2.21m in high jump, whereas Quincy Wilson fromTrinidad and Tobago threw the discus  55.67 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Records\nThe new games record in the girls' U-20 category was set by Natoya Gouleof Jamaica running the 1500 metres in 4:27.48.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Records\nIn the boys' U-17 category, Jahazeel Murphy of Jamaica set two new gamesrecords, one in the 200 metres in 20.97s (1.4\u00a0m/s),  and the other by leadingthe Jamaican 4 \u00d7 100 m relay team to 40.76s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Records\nThe U-17 girls set also 6 new records:  Jamaica's Shericka Jackson set the new record mark for 400 metres to 53.48s, and helped both relay teams toestablish new records, 45.05s for 4 \u00d7 100 m, and 3:38:09 for 4 \u00d7 400 m. Her compatriot Janieve Russell was also member of both record relay teams,and moreover set the record for 300 metres hurdles to 41.30s. In high jump, both Peta-Gaye Reid of Jamaica and Akela Jones ofBarbados cleared 1.80m equaling the games record set in1999. Finally, the new triple jump record was set to 12.61m by Jamaica\u2019s Rochelle Farquharson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Austin Sealy Award\nThe Austin Sealy Trophy for themost outstanding athlete of the games was awarded to Kirani James ofGrenada. He won the gold medal in the 400 metrescompetition in thejunior (U-20) category setting the new games record to 45.45s,improving Usain Bolt's record from the year 2003, and a bronze medal withthe 4 \u00d7 400 m relay team from Grenada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201974-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary\nComplete results can be found on the CFPI Timing website and on the World Junior Athletics Historywebsite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201975-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CCAA Soccer Championship\nThe Canadian Men's Soccer Championship is an association football team contested in Canada. It is organised by CCAA and sponsored by Adidas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201976-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 38th CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 6 and March 21, 2009 at campus locations and at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Notre Dame won their second CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and Mason Cup and received the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201976-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and highest-ranked first-round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 960]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201976-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201977-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CD Universidad San Mart\u00edn season\nThe 2009 season is the 6th season of competitive football by Universidad San Mart\u00edn de Porres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup\nThe 2009 Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge tournament was the 33rd edition of the CECAFA Cup football tournament that involves teams from East and Central Africa. The 2009 edition was hosted in Kenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Information\nSudan was left out due to missing the deadline for the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Information\nFrench telecommunications company Orange agreed to sponsor the tournament. Orange paid $175,000 USD for the privilege.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Information\nThe Kenyan Government also paid $80,000 USD to sponsor the tournament. It is the first time in 15 years that the CECAFA Cup has been hosted in Kenya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Information\nCECAFA unveiled tournament mascot Tembo, a friendly looking elephant in a black- and yellow-stripped jersey and orange shorts, standing with his left foot on a football. Tembo will spread the message \"Uniting for Peace\", the tournament's theme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Information\nTelevision rights were sold to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in partnership with South-African owned Super Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201978-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA Cup, Eritreans seek refugee status\nFollowing Eritrea's exit from the competition, the Eritrean national football team sought refugee status in Nairobi and then leave to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201979-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship was the 2nd edition of the CECAFA U-17 Championship organized bt CECAFA (Council of East and Central Africa Football Association. The second edition of the CEFAFA U-17 Championship, all games were originally to be played in Nairobi, Kenya but have since been moved to Sudan. due to financial reasons, the Sudanese FA and El Merreikh Investment Group have agreed to sponsor the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201979-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship\nThe cup is also referred to as the Bashir Cup and the Hassan el Bashir Cup by East African media due to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201979-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship\nThere is a possibility that a third group will be based at Kessala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201979-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship, Knockout stage\nIn the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201980-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CEMAC Cup\nThe 2009 CEMAC Cup was the sixth edition of the CEMAC Cup, the football championship of Central African nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201980-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CEMAC Cup\nThe tournament was held from December 1 to December 13 in the Central African Republic. The tournament was played by 6 teams composed just by players based on local clubs. All matches were played in the Barthelemy Boganda Stadium. Central African Republic managed to beat Equatorial Guinea in the final by 3-0, and won their first title in this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201981-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CERH Women's European Cup\nThe 2009 CERH Women's European League was the 3rd season of Europe's premier female club roller hockey competition organized by CERH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201981-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CERH Women's European Cup\nGij\u00f3n conquered its second title after defeating CP Voltreg\u00e0 in the penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201981-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CERH Women's European Cup, Results\nThe Final Four was played in Coutras, France. Eboli withdrew from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201982-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM ET on TSN. 48 players were chosen from among 774 eligible players from Canadian universities across the country, as well as Canadian players playing in the NCAA. Of the 48 draft selections, 38 players were drafted from Canadian Interuniversity Sport institutions, including the first seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201982-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL Draft\nThe first two rounds were broadcast live on TSN with CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon announcing each selection. The production was hosted by Rod Black and featured the CFL on TSN panel which included Duane Forde, Steve Sumarah, Stefan Ptaszek, Farhan Lalji, Glen Suitor, Matt Dunigan, and Chris Schultz who analyzed the teams' needs and picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season\nThe 2009 Canadian Football League season was the 56th season of modern professional Canadian football. Officially, it was the 52nd season of the league. The Montreal Alouettes won the 97th Grey Cup on November 29 with a last second 28\u201327 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The 19-week regular schedule, issued February 3, 2009, began on July 1, which was only the second time in league history that a CFL season started on Canada Day, with the first occurring in 1998. The playoffs started on November 15 and two weeks of pre-season games began June 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Arena football suspension and moves for expansion\nIn February unexpected news was made when an American group, led by ex-NFL receiver Oronde Gadsden, announced their intentions to pursue a franchise in the CFL. Citing the suspension of the 2009 season of the Arena Football League and the demise of NFL Europe as a potential opportunity for growth the US market, Gadsen's group highlighted either Detroit\u2013Windsor or Rochester, New York as possible locations for a new team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 84], "content_span": [85, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Arena football suspension and moves for expansion\nReaction from the CFL with respect to Gadsen's intentions was mixed, however, with league head office iterating a reluctance to return to US expansion while Montreal Alouettes owner, Robert Wetenhall, welcoming the concept of bids involving border regions (Wetenhall's Alouettes spent two years in Baltimore in the 1990s, though under American ownership; Wetenhall purchased the team after it moved to Montreal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 84], "content_span": [85, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Arena football suspension and moves for expansion\nThe mayor of Moncton, premier of New Brunswick, and league commissioner Mark Cohon met in February to negotiate a deal that would see the city host a regular season game annually over five years, beginning in the 2010 CFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 84], "content_span": [85, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Rule changes\nSeveral main rule changes were proposed for 2009 by fans at the request of CFL commissioner Mark Cohon. The following changes were implemented:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Rule changes\nOther rule changes considered included moving the kickoff back 10 yards for all kicks (not just following safeties), and moving the ball back during conversions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Hall of Fame induction weekend\nFor only the second time in its 39-year history, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame induction weekend events did not take place in Hamilton, Ontario, the home of the museum. It took place in Winnipeg from September 24 to 26, finishing with the tribute game between the Blue Bombers and Argonauts on September 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, Bye weeks\nByes in the two weeks preceding the Labour Day Classic games were retained, however the byes were changed so as to ensure that each pair of Labour Day Classic opponents will have equal rest as opposed to splitting the byes by division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, CFL news in 2009, CFL retro\nAs the league approaches the 100th Grey Cup, the CFL celebrated the 1960s with all eight teams wearing retro-themed uniforms from that era at different points in the season. All teams wore their retro uniforms in Week 3. The Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Calgary Stampeders were the only teams to wear both home and away retro uniforms, while the remaining teams wore one set of uniforms. The BC Lions wore their black alternate jerseys in combination with their retro pants and helmets for a \"retro look,\" but did not introduce new home retro jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, Regular season\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201983-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs\nThe Montreal Alouettes were the 2009 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders, 28\u201327 on a field goal by Damon Duval at Calgary's McMahon Stadium on the last play of the game. It was the first Grey Cup for the Alouettes since 2002. Alouettes' runningback Avon Cobourne was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player, and slotback, Ben Cahoon was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship\nThe 2009 CFU Club Championship was the 11th edition of the CFU Club Championship, the annual international club football competition in the Caribbean region, held amongst clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The top three teams in the tournament \u2013 W Connection, Puerto Rico Islanders, and San Juan Jabloteh \u2013 qualified for the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, Competition format\nThere was no tournament in 2008 because, prior to this edition, the CFU Club Championship had been held near the end of the calendar year, but in 2008 it was decided that it would be held near the beginning of the following calendar year in order to have the competition take place closer to the next CONCACAF Champions League, which uses this tournament as the Caribbean zone qualifying tournament. As a result, this, the next tournament, was held in early 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, Competition format\nThe draw for the first round was held at the CONCACAF office in New York City on January 15. The first round matches were originally scheduled to be held over two legs on March 18 and 25. The draw for round two was completed immediately following the first round draw. The second round will also be two-legged and will be held in mid-April. The semi-finals, final and third-place match will be single-elimination matches hosted in Trinidad and Tobago. The semi-finals will be played on May 15, and the final and third-place match will be played two days later at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, Draw\nThe first round was played among clubs from two pots. Each club was drawn against another club from the opposing pot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, 1st round\nThe first round was contested in five two-legged matchups. Team #1 in each matchup hosted the first leg. The schedule for the first round legs was updated on March 11 due to necessary travel accommodations for clubs and local events occurring in Aruba and Haiti that would conflict with the original match schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, 2nd Round\nSan Juan Jabloteh were seeded and received a bye to the 2nd round. San Juan Jabloteh and W Connection both hosted their first leg matchups on the same day and decided to host their matches as a billed doubleheader at Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella. In Jabloteh's return leg to Suriname they were without head coach Terry Fenwick, who did not travel with the team because he had not been paid by the club since the end of the 2008 TT Pro League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201984-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CFU Club Championship, Final round\nAll of the matches in the final round will be played at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad and Tobago. The final round matchups are single elimination; the losers will play one another in a third place matchup to determine the third and final CFU entrant into the CONCACAF Champions League 2009\u201310. The Puerto Rico Islanders were seeded and received a bye directly into the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201985-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 CHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played on March 13 and March 14, 2009 at the John S. Glas Field House in Bemidji, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Bemidji State received College Hockey America's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201985-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament will featured two rounds of play. In the first round, the first and fourth seeds and second and third seeds will each play for a berth in the championship game. The winners of the championship, played on March 14, 2009, will receive an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201985-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201986-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS Men's Basketball Championship\nThe 2009 CIS Men's Final 8 Basketball Tournament was held March 13-15, 2009. It was the second of three consecutive CIS Championships to be held at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario and was hosted by the Carleton Ravens. The host Ravens won the championship, their sixth in seven years. Stu Turnbull of the Ravens was named tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup\nThe 2009 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (47th Annual) was held March 26\u201329, 2009. It was the first year of a two-year CIS Championship bid by Lakehead University and was hosted at Fort William Gardens hockey rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup\nSimilar to previous years, going back to the introduction of the expanded format in 1998, the six invited teams were split into two pools of three in which each team played the other (two games total). The best team in each pool advanced to the final. All pool games had to be decided by a win; there were no ties. If a pool had a three-way tie for 1st (all teams had 1\u20131 records) than goals for/goals against differential among the tied teams was the first tie-breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup\nThe UNB Varsity Reds advanced to the finals for the third straight year and won their second title in two years, having won in 2007 in Moncton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, Road to the Cup, OUA Playoffs\nThe 2009 OUA hockey Conference had two divisions broken-up further into two groups each for a total of four groups: Far-East, Mid-East, Mid-West and Far-West. The pennant winner of each group advanced to the second round and the next best four teams in the division (across both groups) played each other in the first round. The 'next best four' approach accounted for weaknesses and strengths between teams in the same division (as an example,: in the East, the 'next best four' teams all came from the Far-East Group; McGill, Concordia, Carleton and Ottawa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, Road to the Cup, OUA Playoffs\nSince Lakehead was hosting the University Cup and did not advance to the Queen's Cup final and an OUA team can not be a wild-card when the University Cup is hosted by an OUA team, there was no requirement for a bronze medal game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, University Cup\nThe six teams that advanced to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card team was selected from the AUS Conference as the CW was provided the wild-card in 2008 and OUA teams were ineligible as they were the host conference. With Lakehead losing in the first round of the playoffs, they were a natural 'host' and are the 6th seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, University Cup\nRanking was based on the last Top 10 media release for the season, February 17, well before the end of the playoffs. The Ranking Committee provided the Tournament Committee with a 6-team mini-ranking prior to the tournament which was then used for seeding. As this was not a 'formal' Top 10, it was not released to the media leaving the February 17 ranking as the last and most recent Top 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, University Cup, Pool B - Afternoon\nNote: The Western Mustangs were the second team in the expanded 6-team format, to advance to the championship final with a 1\u20131 record. The Alberta Golden Bears were the first team to advanced to the finals with a 1\u20131 record, which occurred the previous season in Moncton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, Championship Final\nBench assignments were based on each advancing team's 2 pool games, not their tournament seed. UNB was assigned the home bench based on their record of 2-0 versus Western at 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, Tournament All-Stars\nLachlan MacIntosh, a forward from the UNB Varsity Reds, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP. He had a hat-trick in the Gold Medal final to finish with five goals and one assist for six points, tying for the tournament lead with teammate Kyle Baily's one goal and five assists, and was UNB's Game MVP in the finals as well as in their tournament opener versus Alberta on Thursday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201987-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS University Cup, Tournament All-Stars\nGoaltender: Travis Fullerton, UNB Varsity RedsDefenseman: Dustin Friesen, UNB Varsity RedsDefenseman: Chris Petrow, Western MustangsForward: Kyle Bailey, UNB Varsity RedsForward: Joe McCann, Western Mustangs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201988-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship was held February 26, 2009 to February 28, 2009, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to determine a national champion for the 2008\u201309 CIS women's volleyball season. The tournament was played at the Aitken University Centre and was hosted by the University of New Brunswick. It was the second consecutive year that the University of New Brunswick had hosted the tournament following their first ever hosting duties in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201988-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship\nThe Canada West champion UBC Thunderbirds repeated as national champions following their five-set match victory over the fourth-seeded Calgary Dinos. The Thunderbirds became the first team to win consecutive championships since the Manitoba Bisons in 2001 and 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season\nThe 2009 CIS football season began on August 29, 2009, and concluded its campaign with the 45th Vanier Cup national championship on November 28 at PEPS stadium in Quebec City, Quebec. Twenty-seven universities across Canada compete in CIS football, the highest level of amateur play in Canadian football, under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The Queen's Golden Gaels defeated the Calgary Dinos 33-31 in the Vanier Cup to claim the 2009 national championship and their fourth in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Schedule\nThe regular-season schedule began early with a single Canada West Universities Athletic Association game in week one on Saturday, August 23, between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Simon Fraser Clan at Thunderbird Stadium in Greater Vancouver. The Ontario University Athletics, Quebec University Football League, and remaining CWUAA teams got underway the following week during the Labour Day weekend, and the Atlantic University Sport conference began their matches the week following that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Awards and records, Records\nAs of October\u00a01, 2009, three active CIS quarterbacks were climbing the top ten career passing records. Danny Brannagan of Queen's Golden Gaels was in fifth place for both all-time 9,236 career passing yards and 71 touchdowns. Michael Faulds of Western Mustangs was in sixth place just behind Brannagan with 9,137 career passing yards and Justin Dunk, of the Guelph Gryphons was seventh with 9,093 passing yards. In their rivalry game on October 17, 2009, both Brannagan and Faulds became only the second and third players, respectively, to pass for over 10,000 yards in their career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Awards and records, Records\nFaulds would eventually pass Brannagan and claim the title of All-Time Passing Leader, totaling 10,811 career yards, as well as the CIS single-season passing record with 3,033 yards. Brannagan would have to settle with second on the all-time list after a disappointing final game of the season left him with 10,714 for his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Awards and records, Records\nMcGill wide receiver Charles-Antoine Sinotte was in eighth place on the career receptions list with 172 catches, and working towards reaching the record of 194 catches that former Redmen teammate Erik Galas set in the 2008 CIS football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Awards and records, Records\nGuelph kicker Rob Maver was in eighth place on the CIS all-time field goals list with 54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Awards and records, Records\nSaskatchewan Huskies kicker Grant Shaw, kicked a 55-yard field goal on October 17 against Manitoba, to tie a Canada West record for longest field goal. It was two yards shy of the all-time CIS record of 57 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Top 10\nRanks in italics are teams not ranked in the top 10 poll but received votes. NR = Not Ranked, received no votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Championships\nThe Vanier Cup is played between the champions of the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl, the national semi-final games. In 2009, according to the rotating schedule, the Dunsmore Cup Quebec championship team will meet the Ontario conference's Yates Cup champion for the Mitchell Bowl. The winners of the Canada West conference Hardy Trophy travel to the Atlantic conference Loney Bowl champions for the Uteck Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Championships\nThe Canada West play-offs start with the top four placed teams from the regular season, with the top placed team hosting the fourth place and the second place team hosting the third placed. The winners of those semi-finals then compete for the Hardy Cup championship who then travels to the Atlantic champion for a national semi-final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Championships\nThe Quebec play-offs similarly play-off the top four placed teams with the Dunsmore Cup champions moving on to compete for the Mitchell Bowl against the Ontario champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Championships\nThe Ontario conference starts out with the top six placed teams from the regular season. The third placed team hosts the sixth place team and the fourth placed team host the team in fifth place. The winners then take on the top two placed teams in the conference semi-finals and the semi-final champions compete for the Yates Cup. The Ontario champions, in 2009, host the Quebec conference champions for the Mitchell Bowl national semi-final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201989-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS football season, Results, Championships\nThe Atlantic conference play-offs the second and third placed teams to determine who plays the first place team at the Loney Bowl for the Jewett Trophy. The Atlantic winner then hosts the Canada West champion to meet in the Uteck Bowl national semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201990-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS/CCA Curling Championships\nThe 2009 edition of the CIS nationals was held in Montreal, Quebec. The event was played March 25\u201329, 2009 at the Royal Montreal Curling Club and Montreal West Curling Club. 12 men's and women's team were expected to participate;  One representative from each province plus 2 teams from Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201990-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS/CCA Curling Championships\nThe Universiades are only held every 2 years, so this year's winners represented Canada at the 2010 Karuizawa Invitational in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201990-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CIS/CCA Curling Championships\nThe winners of the Championships were the University of Regina in the men's event, and Wilfrid Laurier University in the women's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201991-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, also known as the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for (CONCACAF), was a qualifying tournament held during June 17 \u2013 21, 2009 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico that determined which two participants will represent the CONCACAF region at the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. It was originally  scheduled to be between April 29 and May 3, 2009, however, Shortly before the tournament started, it was announced that it would be postponed indefinitely due to the growing concerns of the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201991-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, Format\nThe six nation tournament consisted of two three-team groups. The teams played each other once in their group during the group stage, meaning each team played two games during the group stage. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals. The semifinal winners qualified for the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup and contest the CONCACAF title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201992-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League champions. It was contested by two Mexican clubs, Atlante and Cruz Azul, being the third all-Mexican CONCACAF club championship final in the last four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201992-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final\nThe first leg was held in Estadio Azul of Mexico City, and won by Atlante 2\u20130. The second leg was held in Estadio Andr\u00e9s Quintana Roo in Canc\u00fan, where both teams tied 0\u20130. Atlante F.C. won the competition 3\u20131 on points (2\u20130 on aggregate), achieving their second CONCACAF Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201992-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Rules\nLike other match-ups in the knockout round, the teams played two games, one at each team's home stadium. If the teams remained tied after 90 minutes of play during the 2nd leg, the away goals rule would be used, but not after a tie enters extra time, and so a tie would be decided by penalty shootout if the aggregate score is level after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201992-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Final summary\nFernando Navarro opened the scoring for Atlante in the 17th minute at Estadio Azul in Mexico City, and Christian Berm\u00fadez added the second in the 24th. Rafael M\u00e1rquez Lugo set up both goals, which came from close-in shots from six meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201992-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Final summary, First leg\nAssistant referees: Jos\u00e9 Luis Camargo Alberto Mor\u00ednFourth official: Roberto Garc\u00eda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the tenth edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, and the twentieth soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). It was played from July 3 to 26, 2009 in the United States. This competition was the fourth tournament without guests from other confederations. Mexico won their fifth Gold Cup, and eighth CONCACAF Championship overall, after beating the United States 5\u20130 in the final. It was the second consecutive Gold Cup final and fourth overall to feature Mexico and the United States and the third won by Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Qualified teams\nA total of 12 teams qualified for the tournament. Three berths were allocated to North America, five to Central America, and four to the Caribbean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Venues\nThe set of thirteen venues\u2014the largest number ever used to stage the Gold Cup\u2014was announced on March 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Squads\nParticipating teams selected a squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), except the United States, who were given an expanded 30-player roster due to their participation in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Group stage\nThe twelve teams that qualified were divided into three groups. The draw for the Group Stage was announced on 2 April 2009. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage along with the best two of the third-place teams, filling out the knockout field of eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Awards, All-Tournament Team\nThe All-Tournament Team was selected by the CONCACAF Technical Study Group. The player selections were made from the eight teams that reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Awards, All-Tournament Team\nMike Klukowski Freddy Fern\u00e1ndez Fausto Pinto Luis Moreno Clarence Goodson Chad Marshall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Awards, All-Tournament Team\nJulian de Guzman Celso Borges St\u00e9phane Auvray  Gerardo Torrado Giovani dos Santos Stuart Holden", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn Canada, the tournament was broadcast by Rogers Sportsnet and GolTV Canada", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn Costa Rica, the tournament was broadcast by Teletica Canal 7, XPERTV 33 and Repretel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn Mexico and Central America, the tournament was broadcast by Televisa and TV Azteca (Mexico and United States Matches) and SKY M\u00e9xico", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn Honduras, Televicentro was broadcasting in three of their channels, MegaTV, Tele Sistema, Canal 7y4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn Panama, the tournament was broadcast by RPC TV Canal 4 and TV Max.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nIn the United States, English language coverage of games involving the USA, as well as one game from each round of the knockout stages even if the USA was not involved, was on Fox Soccer Channel. All tournament games received Spanish language coverage split between Galavision, TeleFutura, Univision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201993-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Media coverage\nWorldwide, except in the Americas, the tournament was streamed by  the legal online rights holder working in partnership with CONCACAF, with English commentary and in HDTV quality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201994-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final was a football match that took place on 26 July 2009 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, to determine the winner of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201994-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, Background\nThis was the eighth CONCACAF Gold Cup final that featured the United States. They had won the title four times, most recently in 2007. Their opponent, Mexico, had won the tournament seven times, most recently in 2003. The two teams are longtime rivals and met twice before, splitting wins. The 2009 final was the last U.S. match to be played at Giants Stadium before its demolition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201995-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage was played July 3\u201312, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201995-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage, Format\nThe draw for the Group Stage was announced April 2, 2009. The twelve qualified teams were divided into three groups of four. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage along with the best two of the third-place teams, filling out the knockout field of eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201995-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup group stage, Format\nIf teams were level on points, they were ranked on the following criteria in order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201996-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage\nThe 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage began with the quarterfinals on July 18 and concluded on July 26 with the Final at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201996-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals opened with a double-header at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on July 18. The first match featured Canada and Honduras. The nightcap featured the United States and Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201996-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe remaining two quarter-final matches were played the next day, again as a double-header, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas; being the first match featured by Guadeloupe and Costa Rica; and Mexico and Haiti featuring the nightcap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201996-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Quarter-finals, Canada vs Honduras\nAssistant referees: William Torres Leonel LealFourth official: Marco Antonio Rodr\u00edguez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201996-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals\nThe two semi-final matchups were played as a double-header at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 23. The first match featured Honduras and hosts United States; the nightcap featured Costa Rica and Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201997-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads\nBelow are the player squads of the teams participating in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. All rosters consist of 23 players (with 3 goalkeepers), except for the United States, which was given 7 extra roster slots due to recent participation in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201997-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads\nThe statistics in the tables below represent player profiles as of the beginning of the tournament. See individual player articles for current statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201998-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 CONCACAF U17 Championship was the football championship tournament for under-17 in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), and was formatted to determine the four CONCACAF representatives to advance to the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria. The 8-team tournament was originally scheduled to be played from April 21 to May 2 and hosted by Mexico at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana. However, the tournament was cancelled on April 27 due to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. At the time that the tournament was cancelled the group stage had already been played, and the four teams who could qualify to the U-17 World Cup\u00a0\u2013 Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States \u2013 had already done so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201998-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Group stage\nThe groups were drawn at the CONCACAF headquarters on January 15, 2009. The match schedule for the groups and final rounds were announced two weeks later. The top two teams from each group will advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201998-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Championship round\nThe four teams to qualify for the semifinals were automatically qualified to the World Cup. The championship round, however, was not played because it was cancelled due to a swine flu outbreak. The four qualifiers are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201999-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification\nThe 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification tournaments took place in 2008 to qualify national teams for the 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, which was played in Mexico from 21 April to 9 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201999-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification, Central American Zone, Group A\nMatches in Group A were hosted by Panama's association football governing body, FEPAFUT, the Federaci\u00f3n Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol. All matches took place at Estadio Virgilio Tejeira in the city of Penonom\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201999-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification, Central American Zone, Group B\nMatches in Group B were hosted by El Salvador's association football governing body, Federaci\u00f3n Salvadore\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol. All matches too place in the Estadio Cuscatl\u00e1n in the city of San Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201999-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification, Central American Zone, Playoff\nThe runner-up from each Central American group played a two-legged playoff to determine the 8th and final team to qualify for the tournament proper. Guatemala won the two-legged playoff 2:1 on aggregate score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00201999-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualification, Caribbean Zone\nCaribbean qualifying was determined in the 2008 CFU Youth Cup. Cuba qualified with Trinidad and Tobago by reaching the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship\nThe 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship was the biannual CONCACAF youth championship tournament for under-20 national teams. The 2009 edition was held in Trinidad and Tobago. All matches were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago and Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad. The CONCACAF U-20 Championship traditionally serves as the CONCACAF qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, and under the 2009 tournament format the four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt from 25 September to 16 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Group stage\nThe winner and runner-up from each group advanced to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Group stage, Group 1\nAll matches in this group were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Trinidad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Group stage, Group 2\nAll matches in this group were played at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Tobago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Championship round\nAll four teams to qualify for the semifinals automatically qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202000-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Final Ranking\nNote: Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying\nThe 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying tournament determined the Caribbean and Central American Under-20 association football national teams that would participate in the 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which itself will qualify national teams to the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Qualification began on 14 May 2008. The final round of qualification was a one-game playoff on 2 March 2009, between the runner-up from the Caribbean zone, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the 3rd-place finisher from the Central American zone, Honduras. The three North American zone nations, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, as well as tournament hosts Trinidad and Tobago, were automatically entered into the final tournament without need for qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round\nThe first round consisted of five groups of four teams. The five group winners and top four group runners-up from each group advanced to the second qualification round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Group A\nAll Group A matches were hosted by Asociaci\u00f3n de F\u00fatbol de Cuba, the governing by for association football in Cuba. All matches were played at Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Group B\nAll Group B matches were hosted by the Cayman Islands Football Association, the governing body for association football in the Cayman Islands, and were played at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in George Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Group C\nAll Group C matches were hosted by Arubaanse Voetbal Bond, the governing body for association football in Aruba. All matches were played at Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Group D\nAll Group D matches were hosted by the Grenada Football Association, the governing body for association football in Grenada. All matches were played at Tanteen Recreational Ground in St. George's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, First round, Group E\nAll Group E matches were hosted by Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie, the governing by for association football in the Netherlands Antilles. All matches were played at Stadion Ergilio Hato in Willemstad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Second round\nThe second round consists of three groups of three. The three group winners from each group as well as the best-performing runner-up will move on to the third and final round of the CFU region's qualification tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Second round, Group F\nAll Group F matches were hosted by Federaci\u00f3n Dominicana de F\u00fatbol, the governing by for association football in the Dominican Republic. All matches were played at Estadio F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez in Santo Domingo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Second round, Group G\nAll Group G matches were hosted by Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie, the governing by for association football in the Netherlands Antilles. All matches were played at Stadion Ergilio Hato in Willemstad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Second round, Group H\nAll Group H matches were hosted by Arubaanse Voetbal Bond, the governing by for association football in the Aruba. All matches were played at Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 81], "content_span": [82, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean zone, Third round\nThe final round of CFU qualification were hosted by, the governing body for association football in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The matches were played at Victoria Park in Kingstown, the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The group winner, Jamaica, qualified for the tournament proper, and the runner up from the Caribbean region, St Vincent and the Grenadines, as group runner-up, earned the right to a one-game playoff with the 3rd-place finisher from the Central American region, Honduras, to determine the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone\nThe Central American zone comprises two groups. One group has three teams and the other has four teams. The two group winners will move on to the tournament. The runner-up from each group will play a two-legged playoff to determine the third place team from the region. The third place team will play the runner-up from the Caribbean region for the final spot in the tournament proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone, Group 1\nThe matches played in Group 1 were hosted by Federaci\u00f3n Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de F\u00fatbol de Honduras, the governing body for association football in Honduras. All matches were played at Estadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone, Group 2\nAll of the matches in Group 2 were hosted by Federaci\u00f3n Nacional de F\u00fatbol de Guatemala, the governing body for association football in Guatemala. All matches were played at Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Central American zone, Playoff\nThe two group runners-up faced off in a two-legged playoff for third place rights in the region. Honduras, as winners of the 3rd place playoff, advanced to face the runner up from the Caribbean qualification, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, to become the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202001-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Caribbean/Central American playoff\nHonduras, as winner of the 3rd place playoff in Central American qualification, faced Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the runner-up from the Caribbean zone tournament, for the final place in the tournament proper. The match was a one-game playoff on 2 March in Macoya, Trinidad four days prior to the opening of the tournament proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202002-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship squads\nBelow are the rosters for the 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship held in Trinidad and Tobago from March 6\u201315, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202002-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship squads, United States\nThe United States roster was announced by on February 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202003-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 COSAFA Cup\nThe 2009 COSAFA Cup is the 13th edition of the football tournament that involves teams from Southern Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202003-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 COSAFA Cup\nSouth Africa had originally expressed an interest in hosting the 2009 and 2010 events but later reneged and Zimbabwe was given the task to host the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202003-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 COSAFA Cup\nMadagascar were to take part in the competition as the fourth team in group A, but withdrew. South Africa and Angola will take part with a Development XI and an U-20 squad respectively, and their matches will not be counted as A internationals by FIFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202004-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 COSAFA U-20 Cup\nThe 2009 COSAFA U-20 Cup is an association football tournament contested between national teams affiliated to COSAFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships\nThe 2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships was an international championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. CPISRA stands for Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in the Netherlands from 23\u00a0October to 1\u00a0November\u00a02009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships\nFootball 7-a-side was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. The Championships was a qualifying event for the 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, The draw\nDuring the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 102], "content_span": [103, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Kostyantyn Symashko02 Vitaliy Trushev03 Serhiy Vakulenko04 Taras Dutko05 Anatolii Shevchyk06 Ivan Shkvarlo07 Andriy Tsukanov08 Denys Ponomaryov09 Mykola Mikhovych11 Volodymyr Antonyuk10 Oleksandr Devlysh12 Ihor Kosenko", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Brian Mc Gillivary02 Aidan Brennan03 Paul Dollard04 Luke Evans05 Finbar O\u2019Riordan06 Mark Jones06 Gary Messett08 Dara Snell09 Kieran Devlin10 Darren Kavanagh11 Joseph Markey12 Chris Kirwan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Oleg Smirnov02 Andrey Lozhechnikov04 Pavel Borisov05 Georgy Nadzharyan06 Aleksey Tumakov07 Alexey Chesmin08 Ivan Pothekin09 Mamuka Dzimistarishvili11 Stanislav Kloykhalov12 Alexander Lekov13 Lasha Murvanadze15 Viacheslav Larionov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Craig Connell02 Kieran Martin03 Chris Nelson04 Scott Troup05 Jamie Tervit06 Graeme Paterson08 Connor Hay09 Jonathan Paterson10 Laurie McGinley11 Riley McKenna13 Keith Gardner", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Keith Johnson02 Nick Creasey03 Jason Slemons04 Chad Jones05 Bryce Boarman06 Chris Ahrens07 Adam Ballou08 Tom Latsch09 Josh McKinney10 Marthell Vazquez13 Tyler Penn15 Moises Morales", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Mehran Nikoee Majd02 Bahman Ansari04 Gholamreza Najafi05 Hadi Safari06 Behnam Sohrabi Bagherabadi07 Rasoul Atashafruz08 Ehsan Gholamhossein-pour Bousheri10 Abdolreza Karimizadeh11 Morteza Heidari13 Moslem Akbari22 Ardeshir Mahini", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Rudi van Breemen04 Jeffrey Bruinier05 Joey Mense06 Patrick van Kempen07 Dennis Straatman08 Pawel Statema09 John Swinkels10 Stephan Lokhoff11 Martijn van de Ven14 Daan Dikken16 Bart Adelaars18 Gerard Arends", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Cameron Kleimer02 Todd Philips03 John Philips04 Christopher Duehrsen05 Scott van den Boogaard06 Sefik Smajlovic07 Dustin Hodgson08 James Jordon09 Eric Flemming10 Vito Proietti11 Matthew Brown12 Zack Murdock", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Delcio Costa02 Jean Rodrigues03 Leandro Marinho04 Antonio Rocha05 Jose Guimaraes06 Claudemar Lima07 Jean Silva08 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira10 Renato Lima11 Mateus Calvo12 Mois\u00e9s Tamiozzo das Silva13 Pedro Santos Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n01 Sam Larkings02 Jarrod Law03 Patrick Grant04 Aidan Bennison05 Brett Cross06 Daniel Berry07 Ned McCabe08 Brett Fairhall09 Ben Atkins10 Thomas Goodman11 Jamie Laybutt12 Jamie Paulsen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Participating teams and officials, Squads\n02 Tatsuya Ihara03 Yasuhiro Yamaguchi04 Koji Watarai05 Nobuyuki Suzuki06 Yuji Yamada07 Rikiya Sakai08 Taisei Taniguchi09 Jun Okada10 Tsukasa Kawano11 Keisuke Kawabe12 Takayuki Iwasa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 100], "content_span": [101, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Venues\nThe venues to be used for the International Championships were located in Arnhem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Format\nThe first round, the first group stage, was a competition between the 12 teams divided among four groups of three, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the second group stage for the position one to eight. the two lower ranked teams plays for the positions nine to 32. Teams were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw. When comparing teams in a group over-all result came before head-to-head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Format\nIn the second round, the second group stage, the two groups, each with four teams, fighting for the positions one to eight, the first placed of the two groups played in the finals around the victory of the tournament, the second place around the third place, the third place around the fifth place and the last plays around the seventh place. The five last placed, one from group 1, group 3 and group 4 and two from group 2 plays everyone against everyone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Format\nThe first placed is the ninth of the tournament, the second-place finishes the tenth, the third-place finishes the eleventh, the fourth place the twelfth and the fifth place the thirteenth. For any match in the finals, a draw after 60 minutes of regulation time was followed by two 10 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams were still tied, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine a winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Format\nClassificationAthletes with a physical disability competed. The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Format\nTeams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202005-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, First Group stage\nThe first round, or group stage, have seen the sixteen teams divided into four groups of four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 76], "content_span": [77, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n\nThe 2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n was the 2009 edition of the Spanish official show jumping horse show, at Las Mestas Sports Complex in Gij\u00f3n. It was held as CSIO 5*.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n\nThis edition of the CSIO Gij\u00f3n was held between July 29 and August 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n, Nations Cup\nThe 2009 FEI Nations Cup of Spain was the fifth competition of the 2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League and was held on Saturday, August 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n, Nations Cup\nThe competition was a show jumping competition with two rounds. The height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters. The best six teams of the eleven which participated were allowed to start in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n, Nations Cup\nGrey penalties points do not count for the team result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202006-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CSIO Gij\u00f3n, Gij\u00f3n Grand Prix\nThe Gij\u00f3n Grand Prix, the Show jumping Grand Prix of the 2010 CSIO Gij\u00f3n, was the major show jumping competition at this event. It was held on 3 August 2009. The competition was a show jumping competition over two rounds, the height of the fences were up to 1.60 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202007-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CV Whitney Cup\nThe 2009 CV Whitney Cup was played at Florida's International Polo Club, as a World Polo Tour Cup event, February 38th-March 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202007-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CV Whitney Cup, Results, First Round\nSat. Feb. 28 \t3:00 pm \tPony Express def. Las Monjitas \t12-11 in OT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202007-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CV Whitney Cup, Results, First Round\nSun. Mar. 1 \t12:00 pm \tLechuza Caracas def. Orchard Hill \t14-13 in OT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202007-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CV Whitney Cup, Results, Consolation Cup\nThu. Mar. 5 \t3:00 pm \tSemifinal:Las Monjitas def. Orchard Hill9-7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202007-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CV Whitney Cup, Results, Consolation Cup\nSun. Mar. 8 \t12:00 pm \tIPC Cup Final:Las Monjitas vs. White BirchThe game was stopped after Mariano Aguerre suffered an injury in the first chukker and a substitute was unavailable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202008-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cadet World Championship\nThe 2009 Cadet World Championship were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1 and 10 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202009-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nThe 2009 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202009-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nCal Poly competed in the Great West Conference (GWC). The 2009 Mustangs were led by first-year head coach Tim Walsh and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. The team finished the season with a record of four wins and seven losses (4\u20137, 1\u20133 GWC). The Mustangs were outscored by their opponents 258\u2013303 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202009-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team\nThe 2009 CSUB Roadrunners baseball team represented California State University, Bakersfield in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2009. The 2009 season was the inaugural season for the Roadrunners in baseball, with CSUB beginning the transition from Division II to Division I in 2006, launching baseball in 2009, and completing the transition and eligible for the post season in 2011. A new stadium, Hardt Field, was built on the CSUB campus during the off-season and opened on opening day of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Pre-Season\nIn June 2006, CSUB president Horace Mitchell announced that CSUB would be moving to Division I, and entering a four-year reclassification process, which would require additional funds for the creation of a new baseball program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Pre-Season\nIn August, 2008, before the schedule for Cal State Bakersfield's inaugural baseball season was released, coach Bill Kernen confirmed that the Roadrunners would play six games against Fresno State, the defending College World Series champion. August 2008 also marked the groundbreaking of CSUB's Hardt Field, construction of which was completed in 28 weeks. The Roadrunners strength of schedule (SOS) was ranked an astounding 19th in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Regular season\nCSUB entered the 2009 Baseball season with a competitive schedule, competing against multiple teams ranked in the top 30 in Collegiate Baseball poll, along with the 2008 National Champion Fresno State Bulldogs. CSUB opened the season at home against the St. Louis Billikens, in a three-game series which marked the first winning series for the Roadrunners, finishing 2\u20131 in the series. The second team faced by the Roadrunners was the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, ranked #30 in the Collegiate Baseball poll, which resulted in a 10\u20130 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Regular season\nThe 2009 Season found the team getting off to a .500 start in their first 6 games, including victories over St. Louis and Utah. However, after getting off to a good start, the Roadrunners went 1\u201314 in the month of March. During the course of the month, the Roadrunners met several in-state opponents, including San Jose State, St. Mary's, and San Francisco. The 'Runners also cemented a rivalry with the nearby Cal Poly Mustangs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Regular season\nThe 'Runners also met their valley rivals, the Fresno State Bulldogs, winning one game of the three game series played in Beiden Field, and winning the first game of the homestand in a come from behind win, by a score of 17\u201312. The Roadrunners' 4-3 victory over the Bulldogs on April 4 marked the first time that a first-year NCAA Division I baseball program defeated the defending College World Series champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Rankings\nThe 'Runners have yet to be ranked, and are ineligible for the post season until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Awards and honors\nErik Draxton and Jason Kudlock were selected to the All-Independent Academic Team in 2009. Erik Draxton had a 3.42 gpa in Business Administration. Jason Kudlock had a 3.38 gpa in Psychology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202010-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners baseball team, Major League Baseball Draft\nIn CSUB's first year of eligible draftees, the first three baseball players in CSUB's short history (2nd year) were selected in the 2010 MLB Draft. Zach Arneson was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the 21st round as the 648th pick. Jason Kudlock was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 36th round as the 1096th pick. Finally, Mickey Jannis was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays as the 1331th pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 81], "content_span": [82, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202011-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Calabasas, United States between 19 and 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202011-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202011-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships, Champions, Doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez /  Simon Stadler def. Treat Conrad Huey /  Harsh Mankad, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202012-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nIlija Bozoljac and Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107 were the defending champions and they tried to defend their title. Unfortunately, they retired in his match against Mark Ein and Kevin Kim already in the first round (when the result was 2\u20131 for American pair). Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Simon Stadler defeated Treat Conrad Huey and Harsh Mankad 6\u20132, 5\u20137, [10\u20134] in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202013-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nVince Spadea was the defending champion, but he was eliminated by qualifier Luka Gregorc already in the first round. Donald Young defeated his compatriot Michael Russell 7\u20136(4), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs\nThe 2009 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League (AHL) began on April 15, 2009. The 16 teams that qualified, 8 from each conference, played best-of-seven series for division semifinals, finals and conference finals. The conference champions then played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Hershey Bears defeated the Manitoba Moose four games to two in the finals to win the Calder Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the 2008\u201309 AHL regular season, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Bracket\nIn each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the \"extra\" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nThese are the top five goaltenders based on both goals against average and save percentage with at least one game played (Note: list is sorted by goals against average).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202014-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Calder Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Eastern Conference, East Division\nDue to scheduling issues, Philadelphia hosted the first two games of the series. These would be their last 2 games in Philadelphia, as the team would move to Adiriondack after the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 80], "content_span": [81, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202015-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Roughnecks season\nThe Calgary Roughnecks are a lacrosse team based in Calgary playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 8th in franchise history. The Roughnecks finished the season with a franchise best 12\u20134 record to lead the league. They won the Champion's Cup at home with a 12\u201310 victory over the New York Titans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202015-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Roughnecks season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202015-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Roughnecks season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202015-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Roughnecks season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202015-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Roughnecks season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Roughnecks selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season\nThe 2009 Calgary Stampeders season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 71st overall. The Stampeders attempted to repeat as Grey Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season\nThe Stampeders finished in second place with a 10\u20137\u20131 record. They appeared in the West Final but lost to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season, Offseason, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. The Stampeders selected safety Eric Fraser of Central Michigan University in the first round, eighth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import player updated 2009-10-08 \u2022 45 Active, 13 Inactive, 9 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season, Playoffs, West Semi-Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 15, 2:30 PM Mountain Standard TimeVenue: McMahon Stadium, Calgary, Alberta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202016-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Calgary Stampeders season, Playoffs, West Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 22, 2:30 PM Mountain Standard TimeVenue: Mosaic Stadium, Regina, Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 2009 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) competition during the 2009 season. The Golden Bears were led by eighth-year head coach Jeff Tedford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team\nCalifornia hosted and beat Maryland to begin the season on September 5, 2009. It continued with victories over Eastern Washington, and at Minnesota. However, the team struggled with consistency, losing at Oregon and USC, then rebounding by winning at UCLA, Washington State, and then at Arizona State. Following a loss to Oregon State, Cal managed to upset Pac-10 title contender Arizona. Cal also pulled of an away game upset at Stanford in the Big Game. It ended the season with a loss at Washington on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team\nThe Bears matched their 2008 regular season record of 8\u20134, finishing tied for fifth in the conference with the former reigning conference champion, USC. The Bears did not produce a 1,000-yard rusher for the first time since 2002, Tedford's first season. They accepted a bid to the 2009 Poinsettia Bowl, where they lost to Utah on December 23, snapping a four bowl game winning streak going back to 2004. The team was ranked as high as no. 6, but spent almost half the season unranked. The end of the season saw some coaching changes. Cal hired Jeff Genyk as special teams coach to replace the fired Pete Alamar, and Clancy Pendergast as defensive coordinator to replace Bob Gregory, who departed for Boise State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Preseason\nSeveral key players departed after 2008, including Alex Mack, Nate Longshore, Zack Follett, Will Ta'ufo'ou and Cameron Morrah offensively, and Zack Follett, Rulon Davis, and Anthony Felder defensively. The Bears also lost offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti to Pittsburgh, but gained Andy Ludwig, who helped guide the Utah Utes to a perfect 13\u20130 season as offensive coordinator. Ludwig had previously worked alongside Cal head coach Jeff Tedford at Oregon and Fresno State, becoming the fifth offensive coordinator at Cal in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Preseason\nRunning back Jahvid Best underwent surgery to tighten a ligament that had been injured when he dislocated his left elbow against Colorado State on September 27, 2008. This was followed up by foot surgery on January 23 to relieve the irritation of an extra bone that was caused when Best bruised his foot halfway through the 2008 season. He missed spring football practice as a result. In early June Best was able to participate in team summer workouts without pain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Preseason\nA week before the season opener against Maryland, junior Kevin Riley was named the starter for the 2009 season, a contrast to 2008 when head coach Jeff Tedford alternated between him and Nate Longshore. Riley's experience and comfort level with the offense were cited as factors in him winning the starting job over sophomore Brock Mansion and freshman Beau Sweeney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Preseason\nThe Bears were picked to finish second in the Pac-10 behind reigning conference champion USC in the annual preseason poll of media members who regularly cover the Pac-10. This marked the fifth time in the last six Pac-10 preseason polls that Cal was picked to be the conference's runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nCal's home opener was a rematch against Maryland, the Terrapins having won an upset of the then ranked #25 Bears in Cal's third game of the 2008 season at College Park. With a 7:00 PM PDT start, it was the Terrapins' turn to make an adjustment to the time change. The Bears played with their last names on their uniforms, a departure from the 2008 season when they had their numbers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nCal jumped to an early lead in the first quarter when Jahvid Best broke free for a 73-yard touchdown run on the first play of Cal's second possession. On the ensuing kickoff, the Bears recovered a fumble by Maryland returner Torrey Smith, resulting in Best's second touchdown run of the game from 2 yards. A 47-yard kickoff return by Smith helped set up the Terrapins' first points of the game with a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nBoth teams traded a field goal apiece in the second quarter. The Bears then capitalized on a sack of quarterback Chris Turner that led to a fumble recovery. While avoiding a sack from defender Jared Harrell, Kevin Riley threw his first touchdown pass of the game to Skyler Curran. Riley then connected with Nyan Boateng on a 39-yard pass with 31 seconds left in the quarter to make it 31\u20136 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nCal added a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter, the first on an 11-yard run from Shane Vereen. After Maryland attempted a fourth down conversion on the Cal 40-yard line and failed, Riley connected with Marvin Jones for a 42-yard touchdown. The Terrapins' final points of the game came on a 39-yard run by Da'Rel Scott. Early in the fourth quarter Riley threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Vereen for Cal's final score of the game. The Bears then pulled their starters as both teams traded possessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Maryland\nKevin Riley threw for 298 yards and four touchdowns, each to a different receiver. Jahvid Best rushed for 137 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Chris Turner threw for 167 yards and was sacked six times. Da'Rel Scott, the second-leading rusher in the Atlantic Coast Conference during the 2008 season, was held to 90 rushing yards with one touchdown. The loss was the Terrapins' most lopsided season opener since 1892, when they lost to St. John's of Annapolis 50\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Eastern Washington\nThe Bears faced the #17 FCS ranked Eagles for the first time. Cal scored first on a 1-yard run by Kevin Riley, followed by the Eagles marching downfield led by quarterback Matt Nichols to tie the game on a 4-yard pass to Grant Williams. The Eagles were able to hold the Bears offensively in the first quarter, however after Shane Vereen made his first of three rushing touchdowns in the beginning of the second quarter, the Bears took control of the game. One the ensuing possession, Nichols was sacked by Mike Mohammed and fumbled. Linebacker Mychal Kendricks recovered the fumble for a 45-yard return, which resulted in a field goal. Kevin Riley then connected with Jahvid Best on the Bears' next possession for a 22-yard touchdown, the only touchdown of the game the Bears scored through the air. Cal led 24\u20137 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 904]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Eastern Washington\nCal opened the third quarter with Best scoring his second touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run and scored on the ensuing possession when Shane Vereen scored his second touchdown from 2 yards. Eastern Washington replaced Nichols with Jeff Minnerly, but he was unable to lead the Eagles offensively, and was replaced in the fourth quarter by Scott Burgett. This proved to be the most productive quarter for the Bears, with Vereen scoring his third touchdown from two yards, wide receiver Isi Sofele making a 22-yard touchdown run, and Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson making a 1-yard run. The Eagles were able to drive to the Cal 23 with over 5 minutes left in the quarter, but missed a 40-yard field goal attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Eastern Washington\nThe Bears amassed 339 rushing yards, with seven of the Bears' touchdowns coming on the ground, from five different players. Best finished the game with 142 rushing yards, a rushing touchdown, and a receiving touchdown. Shane Vereen had three rushing touchdowns, the first time in his career that he had a multiple rushing touchdown game. Riley had 151 passing yards with one passing touchdown and one rushing touchdowns. The Bears stifled the Eagles' run game, holding them to 21 rushing yards, and made four sacks against all three of the Eagles' quarterbacks. Starter Matt Nichols passed for 197 yards and the Eagles' lone score. The game marked the first time the Bears scored 50 or more points in back to back games since 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nCal's first road game was the second played at Minnesota's brand new TCF Bank Stadium. The Bears dominated the first quarter, scoring on their first possession when Jahvid Best scored on a 34-yard touchdown run, and on their ensuing possession on a 2-yard run from Best. The Gophers got on the board on their first play of the second quarter on a 26-yard touchdown pass from Adam Weber to Eric Decker. The Bears were then able to drive downfield, but missed a 47-yard field goal. Cal scored on its next possession on a 27-yard run from Best, while Minnesota scored before the half when Weber connected with Decker again for a 13-yard touchdown with less than a minute left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nThe Gophers put the lone score of the third quarter on a 7-yard touchdown pass from Decker to MarQueis Gray. With the game tied at 21 all, the fourth quarter belonged to the Bears. Best scored two touchdowns from short yardage, while the Cal defense intercepted Weber three times, one setting up a touchdown, and the other two within the final two minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nThe victory, which placed Cal into the top 10, was only the second win in the last ten road games, snapping a four-game losing streak of road contests. Best, who rushed for 131 yards, set a modern school record and a career-high with five rushing touchdowns. Kevin Riley threw for 252 yards, while the Bear defense held the Gophers to 37 yards rushing. Gophers quarterback Adam Weber threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns, including three interceptions. The Bears' leading receiver in 2008, Nyan Boateng, broke his foot during the first half of the game and is expected to miss four to six weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Bears put their new #6 ranking on the line against the unranked Ducks, who had beaten #14 Utah the previous week, snapping the Utes' 16-game winning streak. On the opening kickoff, the Bears recovered a fumble which they were able to convert into a field goal for their only score of the game. The Ducks also responded with a field goal. Oregon dominated Cal for the next three quarters. The Ducks opened the second quarter with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Jeremiah Masoli to tight end Ed Dickson, with a successful two-point conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOn the ensuing possession, the Bears were unable to capitalize on a 45-yard kickoff return by Shane Vereen when a 43-yard field goal attempt missed. Cal was able to recover an Oregon fumble on the ensuing possession, but gave the ball right back when Kevin Riley fumbled. The Ducks converted the turnover into points on a 1-yard run from Remene Alston. Oregon struck again when running back LaMichael James scored on a 4-yard run with a minute left in the half to make it 25\u20133 Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe second half belonged to the Ducks, who scored two touchdowns in the third quarter on 9- and 36-yard touchdown passes from Masoli to Dickson. The Bears struggled offensively and were unable to add to their score. Freshman quarterback Beau Sweeney stepped in for Riley late in the fourth quarter, which resulted in him moving up in the depth chart as the #2 quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon dominated Cal, outgaining the Bears with 524 yards of total offense to the Bears' 207. Jahvid Best was held to 55 rushing yards while Kevin Riley threw for 123 yards and was sacked four times. Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli threw for 253 yards and three touchdowns, all of them to Ed Dickson, who had a career best 148 receiving yards. Running back LaMichael James had 118 yards rushing with one touchdown. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak against Oregon and the 39 point difference was the most since a loss to USC in 2001. It was also the worst sustained by Jeff Tedford in his coaching career at Cal, dropping the Bears 18 spots in the AP Polls to #24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Southern California\nComing off a huge upset the previous week against Oregon, Cal was looking to bounce back against #7 USC. The Bears were able to drive downfield on their first possession after taking the opening kickoff. However, after Kevin Riley threw his first interception of the season to USC safety Taylor Mays in the end zone, the Bears, would remain scoreless until the fourth quarter. The Trojans capitalized on the turnover, with Joe McKnight breaking free for a 38-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Southern California\nFollowing a USC field goal, the Trojans attempted a fourth down conversion in the closing seconds of the first quarter, but were held by the Bears. Cal however was unable to move the ball and after being driven back to their 24-yard line by a 15-yard penalty, were forced to punt. USC wide receiver Damian Williams then returned the punt 66 yards for a touchdown and the Trojans added a field goal late in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Southern California\nCal was able to drive downfield in the final minute and a half to the USC 21-yard line, but missed a 38-yard field goal to make it 20\u20130 at the half. The Bears were able to hold the Trojans to a field goal in the third quarter, ending a streak of six scoreless quarters by kicking a field goal in the fourth quarter. The final Trojan score came on a four-yard rushing touchdown by Joe McKnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Southern California\nThe Bears were held to just a field goal for the second week in a row, with Jahvid Best being held to 48 yards, even less than he was able to gain the previous week. Riley passed for 198 yards and an interception. The Bears were held to 88 total rushing yards, while USC's Joe McKnight rushed for 121 yards and two scores. Matt Barkley passed for 282 yards. The game marked the first time that the Bears had been held out of the end zone at home since 1998 and was the third time during Jeff Tedford's tenure as head coach that Cal failed to score a touchdown, the second time being the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nFollowing a bye week and two consecutive blowout losses, the Bears faced the Bruins in Los Angeles. Both teams came in with a 3\u20132 overall record and were looking for their first conference win. The Bears scored their first touchdown in three games on their opening possession, when running back Shane Vereen was able to run 42 yards for a score. The Bears then recovered a fumble caused by a sack of Bruins quarterback Kevin Prince, which set up a 43-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Riley to Marvin Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nUCLA responded on the ensuing possession with a 48-yard kickoff return by Terrence Austin which helped set up a 7-yard run by Jonathan Franklin. In the second quarter, Cal scored first when Riley connected with Jahvid Best for a 51-yard touchdown. UCLA countered when Franklin was able to break free for a 74-yard touchdown run on the following possession. After being pinned at the Cal 7-yard line following a UCLA punt, Best had his first rushing touchdown in three games when he was able to run for a 93-yard score, the third longest touchdown run in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nBoth teams then traded scoring drives, with a Bruins field goal coming after, Riley connecting with Marvin Jones for a 24-yard score, and another Bruins field goal to close out the half. The second half was much quieter, with both teams scoring on field goals in the third quarter, and the final score of the game coming in the fourth when Mychael Kendricks intercepted Prince for a 69-yard touchdown return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nCal won for the first time in Southern California during Jeff Tedford's tenure as head coach, having previously been 0\u20137 against UCLA and USC while on the road. Riley finished with 205 yards passing and three touchdowns, two of them to Marvin Jones. Shane Vereen finished with a career-high 154 rushing yards and a score, while Jahvid Best also broke the century mark with 102 rushing yards and a score. For the Bruins, Kevin Prince threw for 313 yards, while Johnathan Franklin rushed for 101 yards and two scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nThe Cougars were looking for their first conference win and faced the Bears on the road. Cal wide receiver Jeremy Ross returned the opening kickoff for 54 yards, which set up the first score of the day for the Bears on a 27-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Riley to Jahvid Best. On their next possession, Riley connected with Marvin Jones for a 37-yard touchdown. The Bears scored again when Ross took a Cougars punt 76 yards for a touchdown. Following a Washington State field goal, Riley threw a 21-yard touchdown to Shane Vereen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nIn the second quarter, Best got his first rushing touchdown of the day on a 61-yard run. The Cougars were able to score in back to back possessions, with Jeff Tuel throwing a 68-yard touchdown pass to Johnny Forzani, then a 19-yard touchdown pass to Gino Simone. The Cougars were unable to put up any more points in the second half, although Riley threw an interception in the third quarter. Best got his second rushing touchdown of the game in the third quarter, while Shane Vereen rushed for one in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nKevin Riley threw for 229 yards and three touchdowns, while Jahvid Best rushed for 159 yards and two scores, with one touchdown reception. Cougars quarterback Jeff Tuel threw for 354 yards and two scores. The victory was Cal's fifth in a row over Washington State. The Bears put up a season high 559 total yards of offense, while the Cougars remained winless in conference play. While unranked in the AP Top 25 as a result of the win, the Bears earned a #24 BCS ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nBoth Cal and Arizona State entered the game with a 2\u20132 conference record. On the Bears' opening possession, the Sun Devils recovered a fumble by Kevin Riley, but were unable to convert it into points. Cal struck quickly, scoring on the ensuing possession when Riley connected with Jahvid Best for an 11-yard touchdown. This was followed up by a 12-yard pass to Marvin Jones on the Bears' third possession. In the second quarter, Sun Devils running back Ryan Bass fumbled on the Cal 2-yard line, which the Bears recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nHowever Cal gave the ball right back when Riley fumbled on the 3-yard line. This time Arizona State capitalized, with backup quarterback Samson Szakacsy connecting with Jovon Williams for a 3-yard score. Cal was then able to drive downfield, but Giorgio Tavecchio missed a 34-yard field goal. Arizona State quarterback Danny Sullivan then connected with Kyle Williams for an 80-yard score. The Bears' sole score of the quarter was a 25-yard field goal to make it 17\u201314 at the half set up by a 38-yard interception return by Syd'Quan Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThe sole score of the third quarter came on a 51-yard field goal by Tavecchio set up by an interception of Sullivan by Eddie Young. Arizona State took their only lead of the game when Cameron Marshall ran in for a 6-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. After Tavecchio missed a 39-yard field goal, Cal was able to drive downfield in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and Tavecchio made the game winning 24-yard field goal with 21 seconds left. A Sun Devils comeback attempt was stifled when Sullivan was sacked by Tyson Alualu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThe victory brought the Bears back into the Top 25 at #23 and moved them up in the BCS Rankings to #20. Both teams combined for 238 yards on 23 penalties, with five total turnovers. Riley threw for 351 yards and two touchdowns, while Best had one receiving touchdown but was held to 63 rushing yards. For the Sun Devils, Sullivan passed for 244 yards and a touchdown. Marshall had 71 yards rushing and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThe #23 ranked Bears had not defeated the Beavers in Memorial Stadium since 1997, and with their last win in the series occurring in 2006 in Corvallis, Oregon. Oregon State drove downfield on their second possession of the game and scored on a 1-yard quarterback keeper by Sean Canfield. The Beavers scored again 1 minute into the second quarter when Canfield passed to James Rodgers for 15 yards. The Bears responded by marching downfield in a drive that consumed more than 7 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nJahvid Best was able to score on a direct snap from 7 yards out, but sustained a severe concussion when while hurdling defender Tim Clark, he was pushed in the air by safety Cameron Collins, causing him to fall on his right shoulder and neck. The game was halted for nearly 15 minutes while Best was attended to, eventually being taken to a local hospital. Oregon State came back after play resumed to extend their lead to 21\u20137 when Canfield threw a 3-yard pass to Jordan Bishop in the final two minutes of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nIn the third quarter, Sean Canfield threw an interception on the Cal 1-yard line, but Kevin Riley was intercepted in turn, which the Beavers were able to convert into a field goal. In the fourth quarter, Oregon State put together a scoring drive over six minutes long that culminated in a 24-yard touchdown run by Jacquizz Rodgers. With the game out of reach, Riley led the Bears on a drive lasting less than a minute that ended in a 2-yard touchdown pass to Verran Tucker with a minute left to play. An attempt at an onside kick was recovered by Oregon State, and Canfield took two straight knees to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nIn the Bears' fifth straight loss to the Beavers, Riley threw for 200 yards and a score, while Best was held to 29 yards and 9 carries. Oregon State's victory made them bowl eligible, with Canfield passing for 342 yards and two scores, making this game the third straight that the Bears had given up more than 300 passing yards. Jacquizz Rodgers, the 2008 Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year, was held to a season low 67 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nIn their final home season game, the Bears started backup running back Shane Vereen in place of Jahvid Best, who was still recovering from a concussion sustained the previous week. The #18 ranked Wildcats were also missing their starting running back, Nic Grigsby. The Bears capped off their opening first quarter drive with a 46-yard field goal by Giorgio Tavecchio  and were able to recover a Wildcat fumble late in the quarter, which resulted in another field goal to begin the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nArizona responded late in the quarter with a 1-yard rushing touchdown by Keola Antolin which was followed up by a 36-yard field goal. With less than 30 seconds left in the half, the Bears were able to drive downfield and enable Tavecchio to kick a 46-yard field goal to make it 10\u20139 Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nThe third quarter started out promisingly for Cal when Josh Hill intercepted Nick Foles. However Tavecchio missed a 46-yard field goal attempt and Kevin Riley was intercepted on the Bears' next possession by Cam Nelson. The Bears defense however was able to hold the Wildcats and Cal capitalized on a 14-yard punt when Riley connected with Skylar Curran for a 27-yard touchdown, with the two-point conversion attempt failing. Riley threw another interception late in the quarter which the Wildcats were able to convert into a touchdown early in the fourth on an 8-yard reception by A.J. Simmons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nAn attempt at a two-point conversion also failed. The Bears responded by marching downfield in a lengthy drive consuming more than seven minutes that resulted in a field goal. The Wildcats were unable to take advantage of a 37-yard kickoff return by Travis Cobb and turned the ball over on downs. Vereen was then able to break free for a 61-yard touchdown run with 1:30 left in the game. However, the extra point attempt was botched, leaving Arizona with the possibility of forcing overtime with a touchdown and successful two-point conversion with just over a minute to play. The Bear defense however was able to preserve the lead, sacking Foles twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nRiley threw for 181 yards and a score, with two interceptions. Vereen had 30 carries for 159 yards, both career highs, including one score. The Bears defense managed to sack Arizona quarterback Nick Foles three times. Foles had only been sacked four times before all season before the game. He threw for 201 yards and a score, while Antolin, who had rushed for 149 yards against the Bears in 2008, was held to 78 yards and a score. The Bears' fourth straight victory over the Wildcats at Memorial Stadium moved them up to #25 in the BCS rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nBoth teams faced each other in the 112th Big Game with seven wins each, the first time this had happened since 1991, with #17 Stanford favored over #25 Cal. The Cardinal had scored a combined 106 points in two previous games against higher ranked opponents, with consecutive upsets over Oregon and USC, two teams which had blown out Cal 42\u20133 and 30\u20133, respectively. Cal also played its second game without star running back Jahvid Best, again starting backup Shane Vereen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Cardinal scored on their first possession when Toby Gerhart broke free on the game's third play for a 61-yard touchdown. After successfully blocking a punt, which gave Stanford great field position on the Cal 19-yard line, Gerhart scored again on a 2-yard run. The Bears responded with a scoring drive of their own that resulted in a field goal. In the second quarter, a Cal drive was halted when Richard Sherman intercepted Kevin Riley deep in Stanford territory. The Cardinal were unable to capitalize on the turnover however, and the Bears went on a five-minute scoring drive that saw Vereen score his first touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run with just over a minute left in the quarter to make it 14\u201310 Stanford at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nCal took the lead in the third quarter with a 92-yard scoring drive resulting in a 4-yard run by Vereen. Stanford was able to move downfield in turn, but missed a 45-yard field goal. The Bears marched downfield again and scored on a 3-yard run by Vereen. Stanford responded on the ensuing possession by scoring on a 1-yard run by Gerhart. The Bears in turn scored in the beginning of the fourth quarter with a 12-yard pass from Riley to Marvin Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nMidway through the quarter, the Cardinal put together an 87-yard touchdown drive which resulted in Gerhart getting his fourth score of the game on a 5-yard run. After getting the ball back with just under 4 minutes left in the game, Stanford attempted a fourth down conversion which failed. The Bears took possession on the Stanford 23-yard line, but ended up settling for a field goal, making the score 34\u201328 and giving the Cardinal a chance to win with more than two and a half minutes left if they could score a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0037-0002", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nStanford started out with good field position at its 42-yard line and was able to drive down to the Cal 13-yard line. Cal linebacker Mike Mohamed saved the game for the Bears when he intercepted Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck, allowing Riley to take three straight knees and Cal to retain the Stanford Axe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe victory marked two milestones for Jeff Tedford's tenure as coach at California; this was his 100th game and his 67th victory, tying Pappy Waldorf for the most wins at Cal in the modern era. Riley threw for 235 yards and a score, while Vereen had another career game, rushing for 193 yards on 42 carries with three scores. The loss, as well as a double overtime win later in the day by Oregon over Arizona, eliminated Stanford from Rose Bowl contention and the possibility of sharing the Pac-10 conference title. Luck threw for 157 yards, while Gerhart rushed for 136 yards and all of Stanford's four touchdowns, tying a single Big Game record previously set by Cal players Chuck Muncie and Lindsey Chapman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe Bears entered their final game of the regular season after a bye week following the Big Game, with the Huskies also coming off a victory in their rivalry game after regaining the Apple Cup from archrival Washington State the previous week. Star running back Jahvid Best missed his third straight game since sustaining a severe concussion against Oregon State on November 7. Cal drove 78 yards on the opening possession, but missed a 42-yard field goal. Washington quickly responded with a 40-yard touchdown pass from Jake Locker to Jermaine Kearse, and from then on held onto the lead. The Bears' sole score of the first half came on their second possession with a 29-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Locker scored twice on a 19-yard run and 2-yard run, to make it 21\u20133 Huskies at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWashington opened the second half with a score on a 21-yard pass from Locker to Devin Aguilar. Cal responded on the ensuing possession for their only score of the second half on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Riley to Nyan Boateng. The Huskies came right back with a scoring drive on their own on a 13-yard pass from Locker to Aguilar. The Bears were unable to capitalize on a 65-yard kickoff return by Isi Sofele and a fourth down conversion attempt was halted at the Washington 13-yard line with six and a half minutes left in the third quarter. The Huskies shut down the Bear offense for the rest of the game, recovering two fumbles by Riley in the fourth quarter and scoring late in the game on a 10-yard run by Chris Polk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe loss dropped Cal to fifth place in the Pac-10 standings, tying the Bears with USC, who lost earlier to Arizona. Riley passed for 215 yards and a touchdown, but was sacked five times. Shane Vereen was held to 92 rushing yards. The Huskies' Jake Locker threw for 248 yards and three scores, while rushing for 77 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Chris Polk rushed for 93 yards and a score, while defensive end Daniel Te\u2019o-Neshehim, who had three sacks on Riley, came out of the game as Washington's career sack leader with 30. The victory was Washington's second over a ranked opponent since upsetting #3 USC at home on September 19. The Huskies became just the eleventh FBS team since 1946 to follow a winless season with five victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nCal played its third bowl game in San Diego in six years, having made two previous trips to the Holiday Bowl in 2004 and 2006. The Bears had not lost a bowl game since 2004. Running back Jahvid Best did not play in the Poinsettia Bowl, missing his fourth straight game. Utah entered the matchup with eight straight bowl victories, the longest post-season winning streak in the nation. The Utes also faced their former offensive coordinator, Andy Ludwig, who had helped guide them the previous year to a 13\u20130 record and #2 ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nThe game started promisingly for the Bears, who were able to hold the Utes on their first two possessions. Midway through the first quarter, Cal scored first on a 36-yard run by Shane Vereen. The Bears quickly struck again when linebacker Eddie Young intercepted Jordan Wynn for a 30-yard touchdown return on the ensuing possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nFrom this point on however, the game belonged to the Utes. Utah's comeback began with a 61-yard kickoff return by Shaky Smithson that helped set up the first touchdown pass of the night for Wynn on a 6-yard strike to Kendrick Moeai. Cal struggled offensively in the second quarter and could not get past midfield. Utah scored on all three of its possessions with a field goal, 15-yard touchdown reception by Moeai, and 21-yard touchdown reception by Jereme Brooks. The Utes led 24\u201314 at the half and had scored 24 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nThe second half saw the game seesaw back and forth defensively until Kevin Riley was sacked, resulting in a fumble which the Utes recovered late in the third quarter. Cal was able to hold Utah to a field goal and responded on the next possession by driving downfield, allowing Vereen to score his second touchdown of the night on a 1-yard run. Utah put up the first points of the fourth quarter on a field goal, and Stevenson Sylvester intercepted Riley on a tipped pass that he was able to return for a 27-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nRiley threw a second straight interception, but the defense was able to hold the Utes. The final score of the game came late in the quarter on a 24-yard touchdown reception by Jeremy Ross to make the score 37\u201327 Utah. Cal attempted a two-point conversion, which failed. An attempt at an onside kick was recovered by Utah, allowing Wynn to take three straight knees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl\nVereen finished with 122 rushing yards and two scores, becoming the seventh Cal running back to rush for 100 yards in a bowl game. Riley threw for 214 yards, accounted for all three Cal turnovers with two interceptions and a fumble, and was sacked four times. The Bears were able to halt the Utes' running game, but had trouble stopping them through the air. Jordan Wynn threw for 338 yards and two scores, with one interception and three sacks. Wide receiver David Reed set school records for catches (81) and receiving yards (1,188) in a season during the game. Cal's loss ended a winning streak of four postseason games. The last bowl game the Bears had lost was in San Diego at the 2004 Holiday Bowl. The Utes extended their post-season winning streak to nine bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 851]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nAs a result of the concussion sustained by starting running back Jahvid Best on November 7, Shane Vereen, who had served as the primary backup, stepped into the starting spot for the rest of the year. Best would miss the rest of the season and finished with 867 yards rushing. Vereen finished the season with 952 yards rushing including 122 yards in the Poinsettia Bowl. This ended a seven-year stretch of 1,000-yard rushers going back to head coach Jeff Tedford's first year at Cal in 2002. The Bears lost their first bowl game since 2004, snapping a winning streak of four post-season victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nThe Bears saw several coaching changes. Pete Alamar, special teams and tight ends coach, was not asked back for the 2010 season. The Bears had struggled on special teams all season, ranking ninth in the conference in kick coverage, 48th nationally, and 99th nationally in punt coverage. Placekicker duties during the season alternated between Giorgio Tavecchio and Vince D'Amato, with consistency an issue. Alamar was succeeded by Jeff Genyk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nDefensive coordinator Bob Gregory, who was first hired by head coach Tedford upon Tedford's arrival at Cal in 2002, left the team to become a defensive assistant at Boise State. He was succeeded by Clancy Pendergast, who had been hired by the Oakland Raiders on February 8, 2010 as a defensive assistant. Pendergast had previously been the defensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs and Arizona Cardinals. Former NFL players Akili Smith and Ronnie Bradford joined the Cal coaching staff March 12, 2010 as administrative assistants for the offense and defense, respectively. Tedford had previously coached Smith as a quarterback at Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nCal was represented at the East\u2013West Shrine Game by Mike Tepper and Verran Tucker, and at the Senior Bowl by Tyson Alualu and Syd'Quan Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nJahvid Best announced on January 2, 2010 that he forgo his senior year and enter the NFL draft. He was picked by the Detroit Lions as the 30th overall selection in the 2010 NFL Draft following Tyson Alualu, who was drafted as the 10th overall selection by the Jacksonville Jaguars. This marked the first time since 2003 that two Cal players had been drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft. No other players were drafted until Syd'Quan Thompson was the final Cal player to be picked in the seventh round as the 225th overall selection by the Denver Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Aftermath\nOffensive linemen Chet Teofilo and Mike Tepper signed undrafted free agent contracts with the Dallas Cowboys on April 24. Wide receiver Verran Tucker joined them on April 26, the same day that linebacker Devin Bishop signed a free agent contract with Denver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Players, Depth chart\nThese were the primary starters and backups through the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202017-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 California Golden Bears football team, Awards and honors\nSchwartz was chosen as second-team preseason All-Pac-10 by Lindy, and to third team by Athlon. Phil Steele chose him as preseason, midseason, and postseason third-team All-Pac-10. He received a Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention, and was awarded the Brick Muller Award as Cal's Most Valuable Offensive Lineman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A\nProposition 1A was a defeated California ballot proposition that appeared on the May 19, 2009 special election ballot. It was a constitutional amendment that would have increased the annual contributions to the state's rainy day fund. The proposition was legislatively referred to voters by the State Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A, Background\nIn February 2009 the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2009\u20132010 state budget during a special session. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A, Background\nThe proposition was part of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 (Third Extraordinary Session), which was authored by Republican assemblymen Roger Niello of Fair Oaks and Anthony Adams of Hesperia. The amendment passed in the State Assembly by a vote of 74 to 6 and in the State Senate by a vote of 30 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A, Proposal\nProposition 1A would have increased the target size of the state's rainy day fund from 5% to 12.5% of the General Fund (the state's chief operating fund). The proposition also established a way of determining which extra revenues to contribute to the rainy day fund (officially the Budget Stabilization Account, however Proposition 1A would have changed the name of the fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund). Extra revenues would first be used to meet constitutionally mandated education funding obligations and the remainder would be deposited in the rainy day fund. Once the target size was reached, any other revenues would have been used to pay off Economic Recovery Bonds established by Proposition 57 in 2004. Once these obligations were made any further unexpected revenues could be used on other projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A, Proposal\nIf Proposition 1B also passed, then 1.5% of revenues would be subtracted from the rainy day fund annually until $9.3 billion was paid to public education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202018-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1A, Proposal\nThe State Legislature passed a different bill that included tax increases with the 2009\u20132010 budget. That bill had a provision that stated if Proposition 1A passed, the tax increases would continue for another two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202019-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1B\nProposition 1B was a defeated California ballot proposition that appeared on the May 19, 2009 special election ballot. The measure was legislatively referred to the ballot by the State Legislature. If passed it would have secured additional funding for primary education. Additionally, Proposition 1B would have only passed if Proposition 1A passed as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202019-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1B, Background\nIn February 2009 the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202019-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1B, Background\nThe proposition was part of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 2 (Third Extraordinary Session), which was authored by Speaker of the State Assembly Karen Bass, a Democrat from Los Angeles. The amendment passed in the State Assembly by a vote of 68 to 11 and in the State Senate by a vote of 28 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202019-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1B, Proposal\nProposition 1B would have mandated supplemental payments of $9.3 billion to schools and community colleges. This figure was the difference between the amount actually appropriated in recent budgets, and the amount that, under some interpretations of Proposition 98, should have been spent. If approved by a popular vote majority, the measure would only have been enacted if Proposition 1A had also been approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C\nProposition 1C was a defeated California ballot proposition that appeared on the May 19, 2009 special election ballot. The measure was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that would have made significant changes to the operation of the State Lottery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C, Background\nIn February 2009, the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C, Background\nThe proposition was part of Assembly Bill 12 (Third Extraordinary Session), which was authored by Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, a Democrat from Santa Rosa. The bill passed in the State Assembly by a vote of 70 to 8 and in the State Senate by a vote of 30 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C, Proposal\nProposition 1C would have authorized borrowing against future State Lottery proceeds as a way to avoid statewide spending cuts. The 2009\u20132010 budget plan included $5 billion from this source, and the measure would also have authorized similar borrowing in future years. It did not include a cap on the amount of future lottery revenue that could be pledged to pay for current spending. Essentially, the measure would have allowed a form of deficit spending that would not be subject to the balanced budget provisions adopted by a vote of the people in Proposition 58.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C, Proposal\nThe proposal would have also repealed the requirement that State Lottery revenue be used only for education. Instead, the State Legislature could have appropriated State Lottery revenue for any purpose. However, the measure would have required the State Legislature to appropriate general fund revenues to education in an amount equivalent to the State Lottery revenues that went to schools in 2008\u20132009 fiscal year, adjusted for inflation and changes in student counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202020-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1C, Proposal\nIt would have also revised State Lottery management details, including repealing a competitive bidding requirement for certain State Lottery operations, and lowering the cap on the amount of State Lottery revenue that can be used for administration purposes from 16% to 13% (which was the amount used for administration at the time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202021-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1D\nProposition 1D was a defeated California ballot proposition that appeared on the May 19, 2009 special election ballot. The measure was legislatively referred by the State Legislature. If approved, the proposition would have authorized a one-time reallocation of tobacco tax revenue to help balance the state budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202021-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1D, Background\nIn February 2009, the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202021-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1D, Background\nThe proposition was part of Assembly Bill 17 (Third Extraordinary Session), which was authored by Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, a Democrat from Santa Rosa. The bill passed in the State Assembly by a vote of 75 to 3 and in the State Senate by a vote of 37 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202021-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1D, Proposal\nProposition 1D, officially entitled \"Budget Act of 2008. Children and Families  Act: use of funds: services for children. \", would have authorized a fund-shift of $268 million in annual tobacco tax revenue currently earmarked for First Five early childhood development programs under the terms of Proposition 10. That revenue, plus $340 million in unspent First Five tobacco tax money held in a reserve fund at the time, would have instead been used to pay for other state government health and human services programs that serve children, including Medi-Cal, foster care, child care subsidies, preschool programs, and more. Money for these programs came from the state's General Fund at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202021-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1D, Proposal\nAt the time, 80% of First Five money was distributed to county governments for similar programs, including government \"school readiness\" programs for pre-schoolers, Medi-Cal health coverage to children whose family income is above the cap for that program, government parent-education training, food and clothing subsidies, and more. Under Proposition 1D, that revenue stream would have ceased for five years, essentially ending most First Five programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202022-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1E\nProposition 1E was a defeated California ballot proposition that appeared on the May 19, 2009 special election ballot. The measure was legislatively referred by the State Legislature. If passed Proposition 1E would have authorized a one-time reallocation of income tax revenue to help balance the state budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202022-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1E, Background\nIn February 2009, the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1E.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202022-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1E, Background\nThe proposition was part of Senate Bill 10 (Third Extraordinary Session), which was authored by Senator Denise Ducheny, a Democrat from San Diego. The bill passed in the State Senate by a vote of 36 to 2 and in the State Assembly by a vote of 76 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202022-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1E, Proposal\nProposition 1E would have authorized a fund-shift of approximately $230 million annually in income tax surcharge revenue currently earmarked for specified mental health programs under the terms of Proposition 63, also known as the Mental Health Services Act. For two years that revenue would have instead be used to pay for the state's share of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Program, a federally mandated Medicaid program for low income persons under age 21. At the time, revenue for this program came from the state's General Fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202022-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1E, Proposal\nThe earmarked Proposition 63 revenue that would be diverted comes from a 1% state income tax surcharge imposed on the portion of a taxpayer\u2019s taxable income in excess of $1 million. In the past, this surcharge has taken in between $900 million and $1.5 billion annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202023-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1F\nProposition 1F of 2009 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment 8) was a measure approved by California voters relating to the salaries of state officers. It was an amendment of the Constitution of California prohibiting pay raises for members of the State Legislature, the Governor, and other state officials during deficit years. It was proposed by the legislature and approved in a referendum held as part of the May 19, 2009 special election ballot, in which the California electorate also voted on five other propositions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202023-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1F, Background\nIn February 2009, the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202023-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1F, Background\nThe measure was proposed by the State Legislature as a joint resolution called Senate Constitutional Amendment 8 of the 2009\u201310 Regular Session (Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009). It was authored by Senator Abel Maldonado, a Republican from Santa Maria, and passed both houses unanimously. The legislature later voted in an extraordinary session to submit the amendment and five other proposals to a special election held in May. The other propositions were all rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202023-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1F, Provisions\nThe measure amended Article III, Section 8 of the California constitution, which concerns the Citizens Compensation Commission. The amendment prohibits the commission, which sets salary levels for the governor, other top state officials, and members of the California State Legislature, from increasing those salaries if the state General Fund is expected to end the year with a deficit. Specifically, if the state's Director of Finance reports that there will be a negative balance in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties at the end of that fiscal year. While there would be a financial benefit to the state, such savings would be minimal. The introduction to the amendment states that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202023-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California Proposition 1F, Provisions\nExisting provisions of the California Constitution direct the California Citizens Compensation Commission to establish and adjust the salary and benefits for Members of the Legislature and certain other state officers. This measure would prohibit the commission from adopting in a fiscal year a resolution that would increase the salary of Members of the Legislature or other state officers if the Director of Finance determines that there will be a negative balance in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties at the end of that fiscal year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202024-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California Redwoods season\nThe 2009 California Redwoods season was the first and only season for the California Redwoods. In the United Football League's Premiere Season, the team finished with a 2\u20134 record and in third place. This team is now known as the Sacramento Mountain Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202024-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California Redwoods season, Draft\nThe draft took place on June 19, 2009. Those selected were among participants in earlier workouts held in Orlando as well as Las Vegas. Once a player was picked by a team, his rights were held by that team should he elect to play in the UFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202024-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California Redwoods season, Personnel, Roster\nRookies in italicsRoster updated November 15, 200952 Active, 6 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests\nThe 2009 California university college tuition hike protests were a series of protests held on college campuses in the University of California system and elsewhere in California in September 2009 through March 2010. Protests were mostly made up of students, although faculty, school employees and others joined in the protests as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests\nThey were protesting against a tuition increase voted into effect by the University of California Board of Regents following a budget deficit caused by actions of members of the board. This tuition hike was a 32% increase, and pushed the annual cost of attending the UC above $10,000 for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests\nProtesters were also demonstrating against pay cuts and other cutbacks for the university system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests\nThe protests have been described as a precursor to the Occupy movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nIn 2003 Regent Blum, Regent Wachter and Regent Parsky consolidated control of UC\u2019s investment strategy, bypassing the university treasurer\u2019s in-house investment specialists, and hired private managers to handle a number of transactions. This action increased management costs and limited transparency, since these external managers were not subject to public record laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nThe amount of university money placed in private equity soon more than tripled, and by March 2009, the university\u2019s books carried a balance of $6.7 billion in 212 private equity partnerships, which consist primarily of risky leveraged buyout funds (LBOs)\u2014more than 10 percent of the university investment fund total of $63 billion\u2014and by spring of that year UC\u2019s private equity returns were running at a negative 20 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nLikewise, after the financiers took control of the investment committee, the university\u2019s allocation to private real-estate deals increased from nearly zero to $4.5 billion in less than a decade, and by mid-2009, the private real-estate portfolio had lost an astonishing 40 percent of its value. This shift in investment strategy, which drained the university's endowment, had clear benefits for individuals on the board of regents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nBy 2009, in an effort to curb the budget deficits that they had created, the Board of Regents passed a tuition hike for all 10 universities in the system, increasing tuition by 32%, which pushed the annual costs of attendance above $10,000 for the first time. UC President and Regent Mark G. Yudof's response to the tuition increase was \"When you have no money, you have no money,\" propagating the claim that the budget shortfall was due to the recession rather than the regents' mismanagement of university funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nThese increases in tuition costs further benefited individuals on the Board of Regents who had investment holdings related to student lending and private postsecondary education, such as Regent Blum, who is known to have holdings in private education as well as a number of conflict-of-interest holdings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nWhile causes for the tuition hikes and subsequent protests can be traced to the actions of \"Wall Street heavy-hitters\" on the University of California Board of Regents who drained the university endowment for their personal gain, the Regents made a claim that was widely circulated by the media that the state's lack of support for higher education was to blame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nThe regents also circulated the claim that the recession and the 2008 state budget crisis were the cause for tuition hikes, which allowed the actual causes of the University's budget deficit to go unchecked. The tuition increases occurred alongside spending cuts occurring across state institutions, making them seem like part of the larger recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nUniversity officials stated that the tuition increases were needed as they had already done all they could. In the protests, students would point out that the state still seemed have quite a bit of money, with signs that read \"California No. 1 in Prison Spending, yet #48 in Education.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Background\nThe tuition hike was voted into effect by the regents on November 20, 2009. This was a two-step increase, with the first hike set to go into effect at the beginning of 2010, and the second going into effect in the fall semester of 2010. When the Regents voted to pass the tuition hike on November 18, 2009 many students as well as professors and university faculty broke out in protests. The protests have been compared to similar protests which occurred in the 1960s at California universities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nDemonstrations were held in September and October 2009 to protests state cuts and layoffs at university campuses in California. Major protests held on September 24 and October 15 were against staff cuts, layoffs and student tuition and fee hikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nMajor protests against the tuition hikes broke out on November 18, 2009 after the Regents' vote and continued in the following days. Students held sit-down strikes, blocking cars from entering the universities. Students also hijacked several university buildings, locking themselves inside. Major protests broke out at UC Berkeley following the announcement of the tuition hikes in September 2009. In a series of actions on November 18\u201320, the UC Berkeley administration was seriously challenged by a series of militant actions on every major UC campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nOn November 20 at UC Berkeley, 43 students locked themselves inside Wheeler Hall and held the building for 12 hours while thousands gathered outside for support and militant push-back against scores of riot police called in from several counties. One faculty member at UC Berkeley (Integrative Biology Professor Robert Dudley) was arrested while observing the protests. At UC Santa Cruz, over 100 students participated in a sit-in at the campus' Kerr Hall. They occupied the building for an entire three days before surrendering to police. No arrests were made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nDemonstrators occupied an administration building at San Francisco State University for over 23 hours and led to clashes with police until they were eventually forced out. Although many professors remained complicit, some participated in the protests as well by not teaching in the days following the vote to raise tuition. Many professors and graduate students continued to teach classes but incorporated short \"teach-ins\" in the 5\u201310 minutes at the end of class, to highlight the proposed (and since then, enacted) tuition increases. Teach-ins often contrasted the cost to attend UC compared to comparable private institutions like MIT and Harvard, as well as the salaries of top administrators (Mark Yudof compared to Susan Hockfeld and Lawrence Summers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nAt UC Davis, 51 students and 1 faculty member were arrested at the main administration building. In December 2009 at UC Berkeley, hundreds of students re-took Wheeler hall for a week to hold open workshops, classes, and teach-ins. The series of events, known as \"Live Week,\" forged an open-access model of education run horizontally and self-governed by the community of students, faculty, and workers. On December 11, 2009, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and the UC Berkeley administration used the information it obtained about a concert by Boots Riley organized by students and community as a pretext to clear the building. 66 students were arrested at 4\u00a0am without dispersal order and taken to Santa Rita Jail. The legitimacy of all these actions is seriously contested in a number of lawsuits against the administrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests\nOn March 4, 2010, protests at UC Davis were met with police brutality when they attempted to march upon the I-80 freeway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests, Violence Against Protestors\nThe UC administration responded with overwhelming police force to protests\u2014police in riot gear from the university police departments, local county sheriff's offices, California Highway patrol and state police were regularly called out during campus protests. As protests persisted, the administration escalated police violence, intimidation, and suppression of free speech, exposing the structural role of police and state violence in the privatization of public services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 84], "content_span": [85, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests, Violence Against Protestors\nOn November 20, thousands of protesters gathered around Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley in support of 43 students, who occupied the building and successfully shut down the operations of the University for the day. While the occupiers were defending the space from the inside, police unleashed unwarranted violence on students on the outside. They used batons and rubber bullets, injuring the unarmed bodies of hundreds of peaceful protesters and sending some to the emergency room with broken bones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 84], "content_span": [85, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests, Violence Against Protestors\nAt the annual Regents' meeting on November 17 the next year at UCSF, the Regents voted another 8% increase while hundreds of police in riot gear used tear gas and batons to fend off protesters from disrupting the meeting. In a particularly heated moment, UCSF Police Officer Jared Kemper drew his gun in front of dozens of students, threatening to shoot at them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 84], "content_span": [85, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Protests, Violence Against Protestors\nMore than 700 students and several faculty members were arrested across campuses between late 2009 and the middle of 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 84], "content_span": [85, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, National Day of Action 2010\nThe campaign inspired a call for a nationwide day of action against tuition increases and budget cuts on March 4, 2010. Dozens of actions took place around the country, most of which were peaceful, although some were violent. The largest actions took place in California, notably several large un-permitted marches around the San Francisco Bay Area that tied up traffic and sometimes led to conflict with police. The largest act of civil disobedience occurred when hundreds of protesters converged to blockade Interstate Highways 880 and 990 at Oakland during rush hour. 150 protesters were arrested and one was hospitalized. Protesters displayed a banner that read \"Occupy everything,\" while shutting down the roadway for an hour, an action that has been described as a precursor to the Occupy movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202025-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 California college tuition hike protests, Aftermath\nIn the aftermath of the passage of state Proposition 30 in 2012, Governor Jerry Brown urged the trustees of UC and California State University to reconsider any further hikes, and they complied. UC tuition remained frozen for three years afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections\nThe California state special elections, 2009 were held on May 19, 2009 throughout the state of California. The elections were authorized by the State Legislature and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a part of a budget signed into law on February 19, 2009. Voters voted on six ballot propositions, 1A through 1F, for the open 26th State Senate district seat, and in a primary for the open 32nd congressional district seat. All of the propositions except 1F were defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Background\nIn February 2009 the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008\u20132009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1A\nProposition 1A was a constitutional amendment that would have increased the annual contributions to the state's rainy day fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1B\nProposition 1B would have secured additional funding for primary education, but only if Proposition 1A passed as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1C\nProposition 1C was a constitutional amendment that would have made significant changes to the operation of the State Lottery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1D\nProposition 1D would have authorized a one-time reallocation of tobacco tax revenue to help balance the state budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1E\nProposition 1E would have authorized a one-time reallocation of income tax revenue to help balance the state budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, Propositions, Proposition 1F\nProposition 1F prohibited pay raises for members of the State Legislature, the Governor, and other state officials during deficit years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 26th State Senate district special election\nA special election to fill the 26th district of the State Senate was called by Governor Schwarzenegger on December 10, 2008 as a consequence of the resignation of former State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas following his election to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. A special primary election was held on March 24, 2009, and the special election was held on May 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 26th State Senate district special election, Candidates\nA total of eight candidates registered for the special election, but only three qualified for the special election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 26th State Senate district special election, Primary election\nAn open primary election for the special election was held on March 24, 2009. Since no candidate won a majority, the candidates with the top votes for each party advanced to the special general election. Price won more votes than any other Democrat while Shifren and Henderson were the only candidates of their parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 88], "content_span": [89, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 26th State Senate district special election, Special election\nIn the special runoff election, Democratic Curren Price won by a large margin, beating Republican Nachum Schifren and Peace and Freedom Party candidate Cindy Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 88], "content_span": [89, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 32nd congressional district special primary election\nA special election to fill the 32nd congressional district was called by Governor Schwarzenegger on March 10, 2009 as a consequence of the resignation of former Congresswoman Hilda Solis following her appointment as United States Secretary of Labor. The special primary election was May 19, 2009 while the special election was held on July 14, 2009. The election was won by Democrat Judy Chu, who became the first Chinese American woman elected to serve in Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 32nd congressional district special primary election, Primary election\nIn the May 19 primary, Democrat Judy Chu led all candidates, but failed to gain enough to prevent a runoff general election. Betty Chu qualified as the Republican candidate for the runoff and Christopher Agrella qualified as the Libertarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 97], "content_span": [98, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202026-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 California elections, 32nd congressional district special primary election, Special election\nIn the special runoff election, Democratic Judy Chu won by a significant margin, beating Republican Betty Chu and Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 97], "content_span": [98, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision\nThe 2009 California mid-air collision occurred at sea, west of San Diego, on 29 October. It involved a Lockheed HC-130H Hercules of the United States Coast Guard and a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra of the U.S. Marine Corps. There were no survivors among the nine crewmates aboard either aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision, Accident\nAt 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC), a Lockheed HC-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard and a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps collided in mid-air. The location of the accident was 24 kilometres (15\u00a0mi) east off San Clemente Island, California. The Hercules was carrying a crew of seven and the Cobra a crew of two people; there were no survivors. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a fireball in the sky. Debris from the collision was reported at the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision, Accident\nThe Hercules was on a Search and Rescue mission to search for a sailboat in distress while the Super Cobra was on a training flight. Two Sikorsky MH-60J helicopters along with USCGC\u00a0Edisto, USCGC\u00a0Petrel and USCGC\u00a0Blackfin were sent to search the area. USCGC\u00a0Blacktip, USCGC\u00a0George Cobb and USCGC\u00a0Jarvis later joined the search.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision, Aircraft, HC-130 Hercules\nThe HC-130H Hercules involved was serial number 1705. The aircraft was c/n 382-4993 and it had formerly served with the United States Air Force as 83-0007. It was based at the Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento, California. It had been in service previously at Air Station Barber\u2019s Point, Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision, Aircraft, AH-1W Super Cobra\nThe Super Cobra was operated by Marine Aircraft Group 39, based at Camp Pendleton. Personnel aboard the aircraft belonged to Marine Aircraft Group 39 and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, based at Miramar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202027-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California mid-air collision, Investigation\nA joint investigation by the United States Coast Guard and the U.S. Marine Corps was opened into the accident, headed by Rear Admiral Korn. The investigation concluded in mid-2010 and each agency released its own report of findings. Both agencies found that there was no single cause for the incident, and there was no misconduct on the part of any aircrew involved. However, both identified serious failings on the part of the U.S. Navy air traffic control center that had responsibility for the airspace within which the collision occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires\nThe 2009 California wildfires were a series of 9,159 wildfires that were active in the US state of California, during the year 2009. The fires burned more than 422,147 acres (660\u00a0sq\u00a0mi; 1,708\u00a0km2) of land from early February through late November, due to Red Flag conditions, destroying hundreds of structures, injuring 134 people, and killing four. The wildfires also caused at least US$134.48 million in damage. Although the fires burned many different regions of California in August, the month was especially notable for several very large fires which burned in Southern California, despite being outside of the normal fire season for that region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires\nThe Station Fire, north of Los Angeles, was the largest and deadliest of these wildfires. It began in late August, and resulted in the devastation of 160,577 acres (251\u00a0sq\u00a0mi; 650\u00a0km2) of land as well as the death of two firefighters. Another large fire was the La Brea Fire, which burned nearly 90,000 acres (141\u00a0sq\u00a0mi; 364\u00a0km2) in Santa Barbara County earlier in the month. A state of emergency was also declared for the 7,800-acre (12\u00a0sq\u00a0mi; 32\u00a0km2) Lockheed Fire in Santa Cruz County, to the north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires, Fires\nBelow is a list of all fires that exceeded 1,000 acres (4.0\u00a0km2) during the 2009 fire season. The list is taken from CAL FIRE's list of large fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires, Weather conditions\nInvasive, non-native vegetation dies and re-sprouts year after year creating an unnatural buildup of dead plant material. While periodic fires are natural, and many native plants depend upon fire to reproduce; the intensity and frequency of these fires is altered by the presence of non-natives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires, Weather conditions\nIn Southern California, the normal wildfire season begins in October, with the arrival of the infamous Santa Ana winds, and it is unusual to see fires spread so rapidly during other times of year. However, temperatures throughout the southern part of the state exceeded 100\u00a0\u00b0F (38\u00a0\u00b0C) for much of late August. The combination of high temperatures, low humidity and a large quantity of tinder-dry fuel, some of which had not burnt for decades, allowed some of the normal fires to quickly explode out of control despite the lack of winds to spread the flames. These conditions, along with extreme terrain in many undeveloped areas that slowed access to burn areas, made firefighting difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202028-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California wildfires, Notable fires\nDozens of fires burned throughout California in August 2009. Some of the most notable are listed here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202029-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 10th congressional district special election\nCalifornia's 10th congressional district special election, 2009 was held on November 3, 2009, to fill the vacancy caused in California's 10th congressional district by the resignation of Ellen Tauscher. Democratic Party candidate John Garamendi won against Republican opponent David Harmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202029-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 10th congressional district special election, Background and procedures for election\nOn May 5, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Democratic Representative Ellen Tauscher for the position of Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 26 and subsequently resigned from her congressional seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 102], "content_span": [103, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202029-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 10th congressional district special election, Background and procedures for election\nFollowing her resignation, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election. An open primary among candidates of all political parties took place on September 1, 2009; if one candidate had won a majority of the votes, he or she would have won the seat with no further action. As that didn't occur, the general election took place on November 3, 2009 between the candidates with the most votes for each party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 102], "content_span": [103, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202029-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 10th congressional district special election, Candidates\nThe following individuals appeared in the certified list of candidates and the certified list of write-in candidates published by the Secretary of State of California, and were thus eligible to receive votes in the special primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202029-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 10th congressional district special election, Results, Primary\nSince no candidate won a majority in the September 1, 2009, open primary, the candidates with the top votes for each party advanced to the special general election. Garamendi won more votes than any other Democrat and Harmer more than any Republican. Denham, Cloward, and McIlroy were the only candidates from their parties so they advanced the general election by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election\n2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election was held July 14, 2009, to fill the vacancy in California's 32nd congressional district. The election was won by Democrat Judy Chu, who became the first Chinese American woman elected to serve in Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Background and procedures\nThe election resulted from Hilda Solis's resignation to become Secretary of Labor following her confirmation on February 24, 2009. The election was called to fill the rest of her term, which ended on January 3, 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Background and procedures\nOn March 10, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called for the special primary election to be held on May 19, the same day as a statewide special election. If a candidate received the majority of votes in the primary election he or she would have been declared the winner and no runoff would have been held. Since no candidate won a majority, the candidates that won the most votes in each party appeared on the ballot for the general runoff election, held on July 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Candidates\nA total of 13 candidates registered for the special election, of which only three qualified for the runoff general election. One additional candidate registered only for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nThe campaign to replace Solis began as soon as her nomination to Obama's cabinet was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nState Senator (and former Majority Leader) Gloria Romero, whose 24th State Senate district overlaps the congressional district, became the first politician to express interest in running for the open seat. On December 18, 2008, the day that Solis's selection first became known, Romero said, \"I have deep roots, and I would certainly give it every consideration. Definitely, I am interested\". The same State Senate seat was previously held by Solis. Of the many possible contenders, Romero said, \"I can beat them all\". However, on January 8, Romero decided not to run for the seat, opting to try for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nOn December 22, Judy Chu, Chair of the State Board of Equalization, announced that she would run in the special election. She said, \"I've decided to heed those calls [of supporters]. I know this district very, very well and I believe the people of this district know me and know I'm very devoted to the San Gabriel Valley\". The congressional district makeup was 48% Latino and 13% Asian. She began campaigning heavily, and captured the endorsements of several San Gabriel Valley politicos. (The following month, Chu became Vice Chair of the Board of Equalization.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nOn January 8, 2009, State Senator Gil Cedillo announced he was running. He was endorsed by Romero once she decided not to run, and the race was largely viewed as a contest between Chu and Cedillo. Cedillo collected the endorsements of several local mayors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nOn January 7, the day before, Emanuel Pleitez, a 26-year-old member of the Barack Obama presidential transition team for the U.S. Treasury Department, had declared his intentions to run. A young banker who left Goldman Sachs, Pleitez is a native of the district. Pleitez ran a more grassroots campaign, relying on a steady flow of volunteers and various individuals making any contribution to his efforts. The Huffington Post said if elected, he would become the second member of the Millennial generation to serve in Congress. By late March, the Pleitez campaign had about 20 full-time staffers and many volunteers; it was also the first campaign of the 32nd Congressional district to open a campaign office, and launched a modern website before any candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nBy late January, Blanca Rubio, president of the Baldwin Park Unified School District Board of Education, also said she was running. However, she was not mentioned in subsequent press reports about the election. In late March, she said she was withdrawing from the race for family reasons and endorsed Chu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nOthers who had been mentioned as possible candidates for the seat included Assemblyman Charles M. Calderon, his brothers Senator Ronald S. Calderon and former Assemblyman Thomas M. Calderon (both Ronald and Thomas Calderon subsequently declined to run and endorsed Cedillo instead), Assemblyman Edward Hernandez (who subsequently declined to run and endorsed Chu instead), Chu's husband, Assemblyman Mike Eng, and former Assemblyman Ed Chavez (who subsequently declined to run and endorsed Cedillo instead). Candidates from outside the congressional district were also permitted by law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nNo major Republicans indicated that they would run in the special election. The Republican who were candidates were former Covina mayor David Truax, accountant Jim Hetzel, and business owner Teresa Hernandez. Hetzel and Hernandez were political newcomers, and these were the first Republicans to vie for the seat since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nAs the only Libertarian Party candidate, Christopher Agrella, a businessman, was guaranteed to move on to any general election from the primary. Agrella said his top priorities if elected would be to bring about real government accountability, balance the federal budget by cutting out waste, and repeal the federal tax code in its entirety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nTurnout in special elections is almost always low, and support from organized labor was seen as crucial in helping to get out a candidate's vote. On January 26, Chu received the coveted endorsement of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Cedillo replied that he had a long association with the labor movement and that, \"At the end of the day, people know me as a public servant who delivers and not as a politician.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nSomewhat ironically, all of this campaign activity had taken place before there was any official vacancy in the seat, as Solis's confirmation process was being held up in the United States Senate. Solis herself decline to endorse any of the potential replacements for her, although Chu suggested that the congresswoman would prefer her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nOn February 24, 2009, the special election finally became a certainty, with Solis's long confirmation process coming to a successful close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nChu formally announced her candidacy on February 27, stating, \"It occurred to me this seat would open, and who could carry on ... [Solis's] desire to represent the constituents?\" Cedillo formally announced his candidacy on March 7 at a rally in El Monte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nThe first candidates' forum was held on March 19 in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, sponsored by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Only Cedillo, Chu, and Pleitez were invited. By late March, Cedillo and Chu had each raised several hundred thousand dollars and were widely viewed as the frontrunners. A fellow of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government characterized the contest by saying: \"When people talk about this race, there's Cedillo and Chu, then there's Pleitez, and then there's everybody else.\" Through the end of March, Chu had raised $770,000, Cedillo $568,000, and Pleitez $153,000. One political analyst commented ruefully, \"It does not take a lot of money in these low turn out races, but that doesn't mean a lot of money isn't going to be spent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 865]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nBy April 6, the official filing deadline for the primary, twelve candidates had filed for the race, comprising eight Democrats, three Republicans, and one Libertarian. Chu and Cedillo were still considered the front-runners, with each having raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for their campaigns. Judy Chu's task was complicated by the appearance of her cousin-in-law, Betty Chu, a Republican Monterey Park City Council member and former mayor, on the ballot as well. Benita Duran entered the race as the last candidate for the 32nd Congressional district. She was the former deputy district director for Solis' congressional office and staged a grassroots campaign for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary campaign\nBy early May, Cedillo and Chu were battling each other via campaign mailers, with Cedillo putting out attacks on Chu that included unrelated headlines from articles about the financial crisis of 2007\u20132010. Cedillo also put out a mailer against Pleitez that represented one of the first uses of in American politics of Facebook photographs for opposition research and negative campaigning. Cedillo's material likened Pleitez's socializing to Animal House and accused Pleitez of flashing gang signs. Chu had the endorsement of Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa. While Solis herself continued to remain neutral, Solis's husband, parents, and siblings all endorsed Chu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, Primary results\nIn the May 19 primary, Democrat Judy Chu led all candidates, but failed to gain enough to prevent a runoff general election. Betty Chu qualified as the Republican candidate for the runoff and Christopher Agrella qualified as the Libertarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 79], "content_span": [80, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nNot much media attention was given to the general election race due to the district's heavily Democratic lean. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune dubbed the race \"The Chu Chu train\" in reference to the same last names of the two major candidates, while a campaign consultant referred to it as \"The Chu-Chu runoff\". With expected turnout at the 10 percent level, one analyst dismissed the possible name confusion effect on voters: \"When you\u2019re dealing with that low of turnout, you\u2019re dealing with a sophisticated, knowledgeable electorate.\" Despite their relation by marriage, the two women did not know each other well nor like each other. Judy May Chu accused Betty Tom Chu of dropping her middle name \"Tom\" in order to play further upon the name similarity, a charge that Betty Chu sternly denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nAt a June 23 debate featuring the three candidates, the two Chus presented conflicting views on term limits, the Employee Free Choice Act, and universal health care. Following the debate, while Betty Chu remained in the area, Judy Chu flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with Democratic leaders, indicating her confidence in winning the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nWith the election looming, Judy Chu has actually downsized her headquarters, again signaling her confidence in winning the heavily democratic district. On the other side, Betty Chu opened a campaign headquarters, and Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella operated his low-tech campaign out of a storage shed. While Judy Chu was considered to be the clear front-runner, she said she was not taking anything for granted; much of her campaigning involved phone calls to voters and fundraising.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nBetty Chu also worked to raise funds and to get her message out, telling voters that she had a great deal of experience as a long-time attorney, banker, entrepreneur, and elected official. Agrella continued to run what he called a \"shoe-string\" campaign, trying to get his name known in the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nA forum, sponsored by the American Legion, was held between Betty Chu and Christopher Agrella. Judy Chu was originally scheduled to participate but dropped out to do a fundraiser. Judy Chu also did not attend a forum sponsored by Looking Green, leading to the cancellation of the forum, since the remaining candidates felt it was unnecessary due to their similar positions on the issues. The Judy Chu campaign explained their reason for not attending was to spend the last days of the campaign contacting voters and making sure they show up for the election, which was expected to have low turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nFundraising reports indicated that Judy Chu had raised $1.3\u00a0million from individuals (constituting about three-quarters), PACs, and unions. The amount was more than expected and budgeted for the race by the campaign. The campaign indicated that $1\u00a0million was spent in the primary, and $200,000 spent in the general election. Betty Chu spent around $75,000 on efforts to get her name known in the district with billboards, mailers, and TV ads. Much of the spent monies were personal loans. The Betty Chu campaign missed one filing deadline with the Federal Election Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nWith turnout expected not to be higher than 10%, or 25,000 or so votes, both Chus were working to ensure their constituents turned out on election day. The general election was considered less relevant than the primary by the voters, with the Judy Chu campaign acknowledging that many of the voters they had talked to thought the primary in May was the end of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202030-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 California's 32nd congressional district special election, General election campaign\nWhile Judy Chu was pushing to ensure loyal Democrats come to the polls, Betty Chu worked to get Republicans, unmotivated to show up by the district's Democratic tilt, to flock to the polls and perhaps pull off a long-shot upset. Over 10,000 absentee ballots were filed, with about half from Democrats, a third from Republicans, and the remaining from unaffiliated voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 89], "content_span": [90, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election\nAn election to Cambridgeshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The election was delayed from 7 May to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 69 councillors were elected from 60 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party retained their majority on the council, while the Green Party and UKIP gained their first seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election. The next election is scheduled for 4 May 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election, Summary\nIn Cambridge, the Labour Party lost two seats, to the Green Party in Abbey and to the Liberal Democrats in King's Hedges. The Conservatives, despite improving their vote in many electoral divisions and coming second citywide, failed to gain any seats. South Cambridgeshire saw three seats change hands from Conservatives to Liberal Democrats, including in Hardwick which the Liberal Democrats had held since a by-election in 2008. In East Cambridgeshire however, the Conservatives gained four seats from the Liberal Democrats, with Labour fielding candidates in several electoral divisions they did not contest in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election, Summary\nThere was no change in representation from Fenland, where Conservatives won every seat. In Huntingdonshire, Liberal Democrats lost a seat to Conservatives in St Neots Eaton Socon and Eynesbury, but gained one in Godmanchester and Huntingdon East, a two-member division which subsequently had split representation. The election in the Ramsey electoral division was delayed until 23 July 2009 due to the death of one of the candidates. The election in that division was won by the United Kingdom Independence Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election, Results\nNote: the election in the Ramsey electoral division, previously held by the Conservative Party, was delayed until 23 July 2009 due to the death of one of the candidates. The election in that division was won by the United Kingdom Independence Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202032-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election, Party strength by electoral division\nThe following maps show the percentage of the vote each party obtained by electoral division. A colour key for each map can be viewed by clicking on the image.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny\nThe 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny refers to the mutiny of a part of the Malagasy army which led to the ousting of Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana on March 17, 2009, and to the nomination of Andry Rajoelina as President of the High Transitional Authority on March 21, 2009. The 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny began near the Malagasy capital of Antananarivo on March 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, First day\nIn the early morning of March 8, 2009 Camp Capsat near the capital of Antananarivo mutinied and stated that they did not support the government's actions in a growing violent dispute between President Marc Ravalomanana and the former mayor of Antananarivo, Andry Rajoelina. The feud has resulted in violent street protests across the country since the beginning of February resulting in at least 28 deaths to up to 135 people killed in resulting looting after the first riots. Camp Capsat soldiers, numbering 600 broke out of the military base and have seized a main road leading to the capital setting up a roadblock after reports came in that the Presidential Guard was preparing to attack the camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, First day\nThe mutiny has occurred by military members who have refused to follow high ups in the military as clashes between opposition supporters and military forces in Madagascar have killed four people since Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, Second Day\n\"An AFP reporter was able to access one wing of the military compound, where soldiers who refused to be quoted confirmed that the base was rebelling in protest at the regime\u2019s repression of opposition demonstrations. The army chief of staff came this morning in an attempt to sweet-talk us but he quickly had to get back in his car and leave, said one of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, Second Day\nThe government military minister has warned mutinous soldiers that they will face action and he stated that he hopes the army \"doesn't fracture\" as the situation is a political problem, not a military problem and it does not need the involvement \"of the army.\" Western analysts predict that the situation in Madagascar will only be solved when the military decides to join the opposition or remain loyal to the president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, Third Day\nMutinous soldiers at Camp Capsat still maintain their roadblock and control Camp Capsat outside of the capital and no action has been taken by the Presidential Guard. There are no reports that other military units have joined the mutiny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, Fourth Day\nMilitary general General Edmond Rasolofomahandry, leader of the Madagascar military was sacked by the President of Madagascar after threatening to take control of the country in 72 hours if the President and Opposition did not come to a peaceful conclusion. His threat resulted in the defence minister a key Presidential ally resigning. The President then appointed Andre Andriarijaona as the new military general of the Madagascar military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202033-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Camp Capsat mutiny, Fourth Day\nWith the resignation of the army chief and the Defense Minister and the installation of pro-mutiny army chief and Defence Minister may lead to a military junta or a coup against President Marc Ravalomanana. Most people in Madagascar believe Marc Ravalomanana will be replaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202034-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup\nThe 2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Reggio Emilia, Italy between 22 and 28 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202034-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202034-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202034-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup, Champions, Doubles\nMiguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n /  Pere Riba def. Gianluca Naso /  Walter Trusendi, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202035-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup \u2013 Doubles\nChinese pair Yu Xin-yuan and Zeng Shao-Xuan was the defenders of title; however, they didn't start this year. Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n and Pere Riba became the new champions, after their won against Gianluca Naso and Walter Trusendi in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202036-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Camparini Gioielli Cup \u2013 Singles\nMathieu Montcourt was the defending champion. He lost to Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n in the first round. Paolo Lorenzi defeated Jean-Ren\u00e9 Lisnard in the final 7\u20135, 1\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202037-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campbell Fighting Camels football team\nThe 2009 Campbell Fighting Camels football team represented Campbell University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL). The Fighting Camels were led by second-year head coach Dale Steele and played their home games at Barker\u2013Lane Stadium. Campbell  finished the season 3\u20138 overall and 2\u20136 in PFL play to place fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202038-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (also known as the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) is a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 34th edition of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, from July 6 through July 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202038-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships\nThe singles field is led by Mardy Fish, Fabrice Santoro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202038-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJordan Kerr /  Rajeev Ram defeated  Michael Kohlmann /  Rogier Wassen, 6\u20137(6\u20138), 7\u20136(9\u20137), [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202039-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby\nThe 2009 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby  was won by the selection of Cordoba that beat in the final the selection of Tucum\u00e0n", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A was the 53rd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil. It was contested by 20 clubs starting on May 9 and ending on December 6. The 2009 edition was won by Flamengo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe first goal of the tournament was scored by Igor on the 13th minute of the match between his team, Sport and Barueri, which ended in a 1\u20131 draw. Holders S\u00e3o Paulo had a bad start losing to Fluminense 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nInternacional led the tournament from round 2 to 6, when Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro took the lead. In the 9th round, Internacional regained the lead but one round later Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro managed to come back to the top of the table after defeating their city rivals Cruzeiro 3\u20130. The club from Belo Horizonte held the lead until round 15, when Palmeiras reached the top. In the middle of the championship, Flamengo was only on the 10th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nPalmeiras managed to stay in the top until round 34, when they lost 1\u20130 against Fluminense, which was struggling to avoid relegation. Four days earlier, S\u00e3o Paulo had tied 1\u20131 with Gr\u00eamio after having three players sent off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nRound 37 saw several changes in the standings. S\u00e3o Paulo could have won their seventh title, and fourth in a row, if they had defeated Goi\u00e1s, exactly as it had happened last season. However, this time Goi\u00e1s 4\u20132 win sent S\u00e3o Paulo from the top of the table to the fourth place. Flamengo defeated Corinthians and took the lead for the first time in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nInternacional advanced to second place and in the last round, had not only to defeat Santo Andr\u00e9 but also count on their city rivals Gr\u00eamio to at least tie against Flamengo in the last match. Despite rumors that Gr\u00eamio would not play as hard as they could, Flamengo had to come back from a 0\u20131 score to win the tournament. Internacional 4\u20131 win was worthless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nPalmeiras also came to the last round of the championship with chances to end in the top position. For that, they had to beat Botafogo, which would be relegated if did not win the last match. The result was tragic for Palmeiras: 0\u20132 defeat that combined with Cruzeiro 2\u20131 over Santos left the team outside the top four and, therefore, out of 2010 Copa Libertadores. Botafogo, together with city rivals Fluminense, managed to avoid relegation. After spending 37 rounds in relegation zone, Fluminense, which managed to leave the bottom four positions one match earlier, held a 1\u20131 draw away against Coritiba and sent the team from Curitiba to S\u00e9rie B exactly when the club was celebrating 100 years of foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 2009 edition of the Brasileir\u00e3o marked the professional debut of players such as Neymar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Format\nFor the seventh consecutive season, the tournament will be played in a double round-robin system. The team with most points will be declared the champion. The bottom-four teams will be relegated for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Format, International qualification\nThe S\u00e9rie A will serve as a qualifier to CONMEBOL's 2010 international tournaments. The top-three teams in the standings will qualify to the Second Stage of the 2010 Copa Libertadores, while the fourth place team will qualify to the First Stage. The next eight-best teams will qualify to the 2010 Copa Sudamericana. Should the winner of the 2009 Copa do Brasil finish better than 13th, the next best team(s) will earn the berth(s) it would have qualified for in the league standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Team information\nLike in 2008, twenty teams will compete in this year's S\u00e9rie A. Defending champion S\u00e3o Paulo will have a chance to extend two records in Brazilian football should they win this year: first club to win four titles in a row, and first club to win seven titles overall. Of the four teams promoted from the 2008 S\u00e9rie B, one is new to the S\u00e9rie A. Barueri will be competing in the S\u00e9rie A for the first time since turning professional eight years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Team information\nFour-time champion Corinthians returns after spending a single season in the S\u00e9rie B. The other teams promoted are Santo Andr\u00e9 (first return since 1984) and Ava\u00ed (first return since 1979). As is becoming common in Brazilian football, one of the country's most important clubs has been relegated after the previous season. For 2009, Vasco da Gama, champion in 1974, 1989, 1997 and 2000, will play the 2009 season in the S\u00e9rie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202040-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Team information, Managerial changes\n1 Marcelo Rospide was interim manager since Celso Roth was sacked after Gr\u00eamio's elimination in the Campeonato Ga\u00facho 2009 on April 5. 2 Match played for the 2009 Copa Libertadores. 3 Interim coach Jorginho Cantinflas managed the team for 7 matches, until the 14th round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nIn 2009, the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, the second level of the Brazilian League, was contested by 20 clubs from May 8 to November 29, 2009. Top four teams in the table would eventually qualify to the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A to be contested in 2010, meanwhile the bottom four would be relegated to S\u00e9rie C next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nThree former Brazilian champions played in this edition. Vasco da Gama was relegated for the first time in history, meanwhile Bahia and Guarani came back from S\u00e9rie C in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Also playing for the first time was Duque de Caxias, which was promoted along with Atl\u00e9tico Goianiense and Campinense. After spending a single season in S\u00e9rie A, Ipatinga and Portuguesa had returned to S\u00e9rie B along with Figueirense, which was playing top-level since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nIn the beginning of the tournament, Vasco was figuring in the middle of the table with 4 draws in 6 matches. Meanwhile, recently promoted Guarani had a promising start. However, another team which came from S\u00e9ric C, Atl\u00e9tico Goianiense, managed to reach the top of the table. But when 4-time Brazilian champions woke up, no other team could stop them. Vasco took the lead in the end of the first half of the championship and never let it go. On round 34, after defeating Juventude 2\u22121 in a packed Maracan\u00e3 Stadium, Vasco clinched their promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nTwo rounds later, in a crowded Maracan\u00e3 Stadium again, the club from Rio de Janeiro reached the title after a 2\u22121 win against Am\u00e9rica de Natal. On round 37, Guarani and Atl\u00e9tico Goianiense also reached S\u00e9rie A along with Cear\u00e1, which did not start well but managed comeback and reach the top-four group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nIn the other side of the table, teams from Northeastern Brazil struggled to avoid relegation. Campinense stayed in the bottom four group during all the championship and their relegation was confirmed on round 37. In the very same day, ABC and Fortaleza also booked their trip to S\u00e9rie C, meanwhile 1988 Brazilian champions Bahia avoided relegation after flirting with it in the last rounds. The last matchday decided who was the last relegated team. Brasiliense, Ipatinga and Am\u00e9rica de Natal good results sent Juventude to the third level of Brazilian football after spending 15 years in S\u00e9ries A and B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202041-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, Format\nFor the fourth consecutive season, the tournament was played in a double round-robin system. The team with most points has been declared champions. Top four clubs ascended to S\u00e9rie A, meanwhile the bottom four were relegated to S\u00e9rie C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C\nIn 2009, the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, the third level of the Brazilian League, was contested by 20 clubs from May 24 to September 19, 2009. In an attempt to increase profits and interest on the competition, CBF decided to reduce the number of participating teams from 64 to 20 this season and establish regular membership, akin to S\u00e9rie A and S\u00e9rie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C\nIn the finals, Am\u00e9rica Mineiro, a traditional club from the city of Belo Horizonte, defeated ASA after winning away and at home. Top four clubes, the ones which qualified to the quarterfinals, ascended to the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B to be contested in 2010: Am\u00e9rica Mineiro, ASA, Icasa and Guaratinguet\u00e1. Meanwhile, the bottom four clubs, the ones that finished in last place of each group, were relegated to S\u00e9rie D next season: Sampaio Corr\u00eaa, Confian\u00e7a, Mixto and Marc\u00edlio Dias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Results, Knockout stages\n* plays second leg at home. (p) won on penalty shootout. (a) won by away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Results, Knockout stages, Quarterfinals\nFirst leg played on August 9; Second leg played on August 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Results, Knockout stages, Semifinals\nFirst leg played on August 23; Second leg played on August 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202042-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C, Results, Knockout stages, Finals\nFirst leg played on September 13; Second leg played on September 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D\nIn 2009, the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, the fourth division of the Brazilian League, is currently being contested for first time in history. The competition has 40 clubs, four of which will eventually qualify to the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C to be contested in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Competition format\nThe 40 teams are divided in ten groups of 4, playing within them in a double round-robin format. The two best ranked in each group at the end of 6 rounds will qualify to the Second Stage, which will be played in home-and-away system. Winners advance to Third Stage along with the three losers with best record in previous stages. The quarterfinal winners will be promoted to the S\u00e9rie C 2010. As there is no S\u00e9rie E, technically there will be no relegation. However, teams who were not promoted will have to re-qualify for S\u00e9rie D 2010 through their respective state leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Participating teams\nSorted by state, ordered by CBF State Ranking as of December 2007 . Each state federation has its own criteria to indicate a club to this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Second Stage\nTeams in the left column played second match at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Third Stage\nTeams in the left column play second match at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Third Stage\nThree of the five 3rd stage losers qualify due to their overall record:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Bracket\n* plays second leg at home. (p) won on penalty shootout. (a) won by away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Quarterfinals\nTeams in the left column play second match at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Semifinals\nTeams in the left column play second match at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202043-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D, Results, Finals\nTeams in the left column play second match at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202044-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Carioca\nThis Campeonato Carioca was the 109th edition of football of FFERJ (Federa\u00e7\u00e3o de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, or Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation). It started play on January 24, 2009 and ended on May 3, 2009. Sixteen teams contested this edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202044-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Carioca\nAm\u00e9rica and Cardoso Moreira, relegated the previous year, were replaced by Bangu and Tigres, respectively winners and runners-up of the lower level championship in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202044-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Carioca, System\nGroup A: Americano, Cabofriense, Duque de Caxias, Fluminense, Madureira, Resende, Tigres and Vasco;Group B: Bangu, Boavista, Botafogo, Flamengo, Friburguense, Maca\u00e9, Mesquita and Volta Redonda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202045-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Catarinense\nThe 84th season of the Campeonato Catarinense began on January 17, 2009, and ended on May 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202045-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Catarinense, Format\nThe winner of the four stage was crowned the champion. The champions and the runner up qualified to Copa do Brasil 2010 and the champions qualified to Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D 2009. The tree teams with the worst positions were released to Divis\u00e3o Especial 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202045-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Catarinense, Four Stage\n* In Florian\u00f3polis, because the Ava\u00ed have better punctuation in the all stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A\nThe 2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol de la Serie A was the 51st season of the Serie A, Ecuador's premier football league. The season began on January 31 and ended on December 7. Deportivo Quito successfully defended their title for their fourth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A\nOwing to a change in sponsorship from  to , the tournament will be called the Copa Credife Serie A for the next three years until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nFor 2009, a new format was introduced and approved by Ecuadorian Football Federation. The new tournament was divided into four stages, as opposed to the usual three. All matches were scheduled to be played on Sundays, but some were moved at the clubs' requests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nThe First Stage was a double round-robin tournament in which the twelve teams played against each other teams twice: once at home and once away. At the end of the stage, the top-four teams with the most points qualified to the Third Stage; the top three earned bonus points (3, 2, & 1 respectively). The top-two teams also qualified to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nIn the Second Stage, the teams were divided into two groups of six. Groups were formed by draw, but did not have no more than one team from each provincial organization (the exception being Pichincha). The teams played within their groups in a double round-robin tournament and in a local derby (Spanish: cl\u00e1sico). The derbies were played on the third and seventh match day of the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nAt the end of this stage, the two-top teams from each group qualified to the Third Stage; the top team in each group earned one bonus point for the Third Stage. The two teams with the fewest points in the First and Second Stage aggregate table were relegated to the Serie B for the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nIn the Third Stage, the eight qualified teams were placed into two groups of four depending on their position on the aggregate table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nThe top two teams from each group will advance to the Fourth Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Format\nThe Fourth Stage will consist of two head-to-head match-ups: one by the top-finisher of each group in the Third Stage, and the other by the runners-up. The match between the top finishers in the Third Stage will determine the national champion; the other will determine who finished third and fourth. The national champion, runner-up, and third-place finisher will each have a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores. The Ecuador 1 berth will go to the national champion, Ecuador 2 will go to the runner-up, and Ecuador 3 to the third-place finisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Teams\nTwelve teams competed in the 2009 Serie A season, ten of whom remained from the 2008 season. Deportivo Azogues and Universidad Cat\u00f3lica were relegated last season to the Serie B after accumulating the fewest points in the First and Second Stage aggregate table. They were replaced by Manta and LDU Portoviejo, the 2008 Serie B winner and runner-up, respectively. This was Manta's second spell and second season in the Serie A, having previously played in the 2003 season. LDU Portoviejo were playing in their 22nd season in the league. Their last appearance was in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, First stage\nThe first stage ran from January 31 to July 12. The top-two teams qualified to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana. The top-four teams qualified to the Third Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Second stage\nThe Second Stage began on July 19 and ended on October 3. The top-two teams from each group qualified to the Third Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Second stage, Inter-group cl\u00e1sicos\nSource:1. The match was played at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha in Guayaquil.Colours: Blue=home team win; Yellow=draw; Red=away team win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Third stage\nThe Third Stage began on October 16 and is scheduled to end on November 22. The winners of each group will advance to the Fourth Stage to contest the national title. Both teams will have earned a berth to the 2010 Copa Libertadores and enter in the Second Stage of the competition (their exact berths will be determined in the Fourth Stage). The group runners-up will also advance to the Fourth Stage to contest the third-place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Fourth stage\nThe Fourth Stage will consists of two playoffs. The legs of the playoffs will be played on November 29 and December 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Fourth stage, Third-place playoff\nThe third-place playoff will be contested between the runners-up of each Third Stage group for a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Fourth stage, Championship playoff\nThe championship playoff will be contested between the winners of each Third Stage group for the national title. Both teams will have already earned a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage, but their exact berth will be determined here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202046-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, Awards\nThe awards were selected by the Asociaci\u00f3n Ecuatoriana de Radiodifusi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho\nThe 89th season of the Campeonato Ga\u00facho kicked off on January 20 and ended on April 19. Repeating the 2008 final score, Internacional clinched their 39th title \u2013 second consecutive \u2013 after beating Caxias 8\u20131 in the Ta\u00e7a F\u00e1bio Koff final. As Internacional had already won Ta\u00e7a Fernando Carvalho, beating city rivals Gr\u00eamio 2\u20131 in the final, Campeonato Ga\u00facho finals were unnecessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho\nThe competition had 16 clubs divided into two groups. In the first part, called Ta\u00e7a Fernando Carvalho teams from one group played against teams from the other group. In the second part, called Ta\u00e7a F\u00e1bio Koff, clubs played inside their group. On both parts, top four teams from each group qualified to play-offs, when every round was decided in a single game. Winners of each part were supposed to play finals, but as Internacional won both, they were declared champions without it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, System\nGroup 1: Internacional, Juventude, Avenida, Esportivo, Veran\u00f3polis, Brasil and Internacional (SM);Group 2: Gr\u00eamio, Caxias, Santa Cruz, Ypiranga, Ulbra, Sapucaiense, S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 and S\u00e3o Luiz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, System\nThe tournament will be divided in two stages. In the first one, called Ta\u00e7a Fernando Carvalho (Fernando Carvalho Cup, in reference to former Internacional chairman, winner of the 2006 Copa Libertadores and FIFA Club World Cup), teams from one group will play in single round-robin format against clubs of the other group. Top four teams in each group advance to quarterfinals. In home-and-away system, winners qualify to semifinals and then, to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, System\nLater, in Ta\u00e7a F\u00e1bio Koff (F\u00e1bio Koff Cup, in reference to former Gr\u00eamio chairman, winner of the 1983 Intercontinental Cup, 1983 and 1995 Copa Libertadores), teams in the same group will play each other  once. Again, top four teams will play quarterfinals, winners play semifinals and then finals. If the same club wins both stages, they will be declared champions. Otherwise, a final will be disputed in home-and-away system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, Background\nOn January 15, just one week before its debut in the championship, a bus carrying all Brasil squad crashed in the 150th kilometer of the BR-392 road, in the city of Cangu\u00e7u, southern Rio Grande do Sul. The team was heading back to Pelotas after beating Santa Cruz 2\u20131 in a friendly match played in Vale do Sol, near Santa Cruz do Sul. The bus plunged off a 130-foot ravine after the driver lost its control when approaching a turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, Background\nThe accident caused the death of three members of the team: goalkeeper trainer Giovani Guimar\u00e3es, defender R\u00e9gis Gouveia and striker Claudio Milar. Milar is considered to be one of the most notable players in the history of the club, scoring 110 goals in approximately 200 caps. Several other players sustained injuries. Among the injured was Copa Libertadores 1995 winner and 1996 Olympic bronze-medalist Danrlei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, Background\nAfter the disaster, several clubs offered to loan players for free in order to help Brasil to play in the tournament. Also, companies as Multisom and Banrisul signed special sponsorship deals to provide financial support. On January 19, club managers and the Rio Grande do Sul Football Federation decided that Brasil should skip their first 5 matches, debuting on February 3 against Santa Cruz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, Finals\nFinals were scheduled to be played on April 26 & May 3, but as Internacional won both Ta\u00e7a Fernando Carvalho and Ta\u00e7a F\u00e1bio Koff, finals became unnecessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202047-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Ga\u00facho, Overall table\nConsidering only group matches of both Fernando Carvalho and F\u00e1bio Koff trophies, the bottom two teams in overall table will be relegated to play lower levels in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202048-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Internacional de Verano\nThe Campeonato Internacional de Verano 2009, also known by the sponsored name Copa Bimbo, was the inaugural Campeonato Internacional de Verano, an exhibition international club football competition featuring four clubs from Uruguay and Brazil. It was played in Montevideo, Uruguay at the Estadio Centenario from 17 to 21 January 2009. It was won by Brazilian club Cruzeiro, who defeated Uruguayan side Nacional in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202049-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Mineiro\nThe Campeonato Mineiro de Futebol do M\u00f3dulo I de 2009 was the 95th season of Minas Gerais's top-flight professional football league. The season began on January 25 and ended on May 3. Cruzeiro were crowned the league champion after going through the competition undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202050-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 2009 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divis\u00e3o - S\u00e9rie A1 was the 108th season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top-flight professional football league. The season began on January 21 and ended on May 3. Corinthians were crowned the league champion after going through the competition undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202051-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Pernambucano\nThe Campeonato Pernambucano 2009 was the 95th edition of the Campeonato Pernambucano. The competition was won by Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202051-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Pernambucano, Format\nThe Campeonato Pernambucano is divided into two rounds: Ta\u00e7a Revolu\u00e7\u00e3o Constitucionalista de 1817 (1817 Constitutionalist Revolution Cup) and Ta\u00e7a Confedera\u00e7\u00e3o do Equador (Confederation of the Equator Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202051-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Pernambucano, Format\nIn each round, the teams played once against each of the remaining teams. The champion of the round was the team that made the most points at the end of the eleven rounds. The final was played between the champions of the shifts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202051-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Campeonato Pernambucano, Format\nThe Campeonato Pernambucano will be decided in two extra matches between the winner of the two Cups. If a club win the two cups it is declared as the Campeonato Pernambucano 2009 champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202052-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Camping World Grand Prix at the Glen\nThe 2009 Camping World Indy Grand Prix at the Glen was the ninth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season. It took place on July 5, 2009 at the 3.370-mile (5.423\u00a0km) Watkins Glen International road course in Watkins Glen, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nThe 2009 Canada Cup Floorball Championship was the sixth such championship contested in the tournament's history. The tournament took place over 15 to 17 May 2009 at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nCalifornia's X-Stream IBK defeated the Czech Republic's TJ Sokol Jarom\u011b\u0159 6:5 in the championship match to capture the gold medal in the elite division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nCanadian teams swept the rest of the 6 divisions, including the brand new high school division, which was won by the Centre Dufferin Royals, and back-to-back championships for both Manitoba in the ladies division and Cambridge FC in the recreational division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nThe tournament also saw its first international referees take part, as 4 International Floorball Federation (IFF) officials from the Czech Republic helped bring the refereeing up to international standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nThe competition also saw a withdrawal in the Hammer Conference, where the Georgian national team was slated to play but withdrew due to Visa problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball)\nAs well, the tournament saw its first headline sponsor, as the competition was presented by Source for Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball), Elite Division results, Playoffs\nAt this point in the competition, the top 8 clubs from all 3 conferences are ranked and placed into their respective playoff brackets. Draws between clubs were settled by points, wins, head-to-head match-ups, goal differential, goals against, goals for, and finally a coin toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball), Elite Division results, Playoffs\nDue to the withdrawal of the Georgian national team, the Ottawa Blizzard played UHC Lenzburg in a one-match playoff for the 8th and final playoff spot. This was decided by the tournament jury, which concluded that the highest placed 3rd place club in either the Alpha or Platinum conference would play the last placed club in the Hammer conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball), Elite Division results, Placement round\nThe placement round saw the 3 clubs who did not qualify for the playoffs play against each other for the 9, 10, and 11 spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball), Elite Division results, Placement round\nThe format for the placement round saw a match between the bottom 2 clubs, where the losing club was given 11 (last) place in the tournament. From there, the 9 placed club after round robin play, in this case the losing club from the one-match playoff, played against the winning club in the previous 11 place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202053-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup (floorball), Other divisions\nIn addition to the elite division, six other divisions were contested, all won by Canadian clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202054-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup of Curling\nThe 2009 Canada Cup of Curling was held March 18-22 at the Farrell Agencies Arena in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202054-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Cup of Curling, Qualifiers\nThe four qualifying positions in both the men's and women's events were held December 11-15, 2008. The men's qualifier was held at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton while the women's qualifier was held at the Ottawa Curling Club and Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202055-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Summer Games\nThe 2009 Canada Summer Games were held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island from August 15 to 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202055-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Summer Games, Medal standings\nThe following is the medal table for the 2009 Canada Summer Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202055-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canada Summer Games, Events\nYukon won its first Canada summer games gold medal at these games courtesy of Alexendra Gabor in the 400M freestyle event in swimming She also won all of Yukon's medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202056-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Championship\nThe 2009 Canadian Championship (officially the Nutrilite Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association that took place in the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in 2009. It is the second Canadian Championship held, after the inaugural competition in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202056-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Championship\nAs in the previous tournament, participating teams were the Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The tournament consisted of a home and away series between each pair of teams for a total of six games. Toronto FC, winners of the tournament, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and gained entry into the Preliminary Round of the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202056-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Championship\nFour of the six matches were broadcast in English by Rogers Sportsnet, while Radio Canada broadcast in French two of Montreal Impact's matches at Vancouver and at home against Toronto FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202057-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Direct Insurance BC Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2009 Canadian Direct Insurance BC Men's Curling Championship (British Columbia's men's provincial curling championship) was held February 9-15 at the Golden Ears Winter Club in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The winning team represented British Columbia at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202058-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships took place between January 14 and 18, 2009 at the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The event determines the national champions of Canada and was organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. Skaters competed at the senior and junior levels in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Although the official International Skating Union terminology for female skaters in the singles category is ladies, Skate Canada uses women officially. The results of this competition were used to pick the Canadian teams to the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 Four Continents Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships, as well as the Canadian national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202058-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships\nThe junior compulsory dance was the Starlight Waltz and the senior compulsory dance was the Viennese Waltz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202058-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs\nReigning champions Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay withdrew before the event due to injury to Langlois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202059-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Floorball Championships\nThe 2009 Canadian Floorball Championships were the third national championships in Canadian floorball. The tournament took place from April 17 to April 19, 2009 in Richmond, British Columbia. The event was organized by the British Columbia Floorball Federation (BCFF), and is sanctioned by Floorball Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202059-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Floorball Championships\nAll matches took place in the Richmond Olympic Oval, an official venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202059-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Floorball Championships\nIn conjunction with the event, 3 friendly matches between the men's national floorball teams of India and Canada were played. In addition to that, there was an International Floorball Federation development seminar as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202060-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships\nThe 2009 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held January 31-February 8 at the Sunwave Centre and the Salmon Arm Curling Club in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The winning teams of Prince Edward Island's Brett Gallant in the men's event and Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes in the women's event would go on to represent Canada at the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships in Vancouver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202060-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario\nThe Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships were held January 7\u201311 at the Gananoque Curling Club in Gananoque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202060-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario\nRachel Homan and her rink from the Ottawa Curling Club defeated Katie Morrissey of the neighbouring Rideau Curling Club 11-4 in the women's final. Team Homan went undefeated at the tournament, finishing with an 8-0 record. Morrissey had beaten Danielle Inglis of Burlington 8-3 in the semifinal. Both rinks finished tied after round robin play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202060-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Qualification, Ontario\nIn the men's final, Bowie Abbis-Mills out of the KW Granite Club defeated Neil Sinclair of Manotick 6-5. Abbis-Mills won his semifinal match against Ilderton's Chris Liscumb rink 14-6. Sinclair earned a bye to the final after posting the best round robin record at 6-1. Both Abbis-Mills and Liscombe finished the round robin with 5-2 records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202061-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season\nThe 2008\u201309 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League (CMISL) season sees a different format than previous seasons. As the league has become affiliated with the Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) in the United States, the Edmonton Drillers and Saskatoon Accelerators will play four soccer games and the Calgary United FC will play eight games against the PASL teams. Edmonton and Saskatoon will play two home games and two road games and Calgary will play four home games and four road games against PASL teams. In the CMISL portion of the schedule each team will play eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202061-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season\nThis will see Edmonton play six home games and two road games, Saskatoon play two home games and six road games and Calgary play six home games and two road games. As a result of the imbalanced schedule, the CMISL announced that all Calgary United FC games against PASL opponents will only be worth one point in the standings. The remainder of Calgary's schedule, as well as the entire Edmonton and Saskatoon schedules are worth two points in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202061-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season\nThe playoffs will feature the CMISL champion taking part in an interlocking championship with the winners of the PASL and the winner of the Mexican Liga Mexicana de Futbol Rapido. The CMISL championship will again be a first place versus second place game to be held March 8, 2009 in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202061-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season\nAs the CMISL as become affiliated with the PASL, the CMISL has adopted the rules of the PASL. The most substantial change was the fact that all goals scored are now worth a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202062-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship\nThe 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from November 9 to 16, 2008 at the Arniatok Arena in Iqaluit, Nunavut. It was the first national championships of any sport to be held in Nunavut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202062-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship\nTeam Manitoba, consisting of Sean Grassie, Allison Nimik, Ross Derksen and Krendra Green won its eighth national mixed title. Two members of the winning team (Grassie and Nimik) represented Canada at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they won a bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials\nThe 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials were held December 6\u201313, 2009 at Rexall Place in Edmonton. The event is also known and advertised as Roar of the Rings. The winner of the men's and women's events represented Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Canada was guaranteed a team in each event as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process\nFor both men's and women's categories, a pool of sixteen teams is designated as eligible to be Canada's representative at the 2010 Olympics. From the pool of sixteen, four teams are selected to qualify directly for the 2009 Canadian Curling Trials, \"The 2009 Roar of the Rings\". The remaining twelve teams compete in a pre-trials tournament, which is a triple-knockout bonspiel, with four teams advancing to the eight-team trials. The winner of the trials represents Canada at the 2010 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process, Pool of sixteen\nFor each of the three curling seasons from 2006\u201307 to 2008\u201309, four teams are named to the pool of sixteen, resulting in a total of twelve teams in the pool by the end of the 2008\u201309 season. The four teams are the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process, Pool of sixteen\nIf a team qualifies under more than one criterion (for example, a team wins both the Canada Cup and is the leader in the CTRS standings) or has already qualified in a previous season, then the four spots for that season are rounded out by selecting the highest ranked teams in the season's CTRS standings that have not already qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process, Pool of sixteen\nTo select the remaining four teams for the pool of sixteen, after the 2008\u20132009 season, from the teams that have not already qualified, the highest ranked teams are chosen, based on three-season, two-season, and one-season rankings. The rankings are determined by adding up the CTRS points earned by each team in their best events in each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process, Pool of sixteen\nIf a team's membership changes from one season to another, the CTRS points earned by the team are divided amongst the individual players and allocated to their new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Canadian Olympic qualification process, Direct qualifiers to the Olympic Trials\nFrom the pool of sixteen, the first four teams who meet any one of the following criteria (in order of priority) will be qualified directly for the Canadian Olympic Trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 117], "content_span": [118, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202063-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Pre-trials qualifier\nThe pre-trials tournament was held on November 10\u201315, 2009 at the CN Centre in Prince George, British Columbia. The twelve teams from the pool of sixteen that did not qualify directly for the Olympic trials participated in a triple-knockout competition that selected four additional teams to compete in the Olympic Trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202064-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Rugby Championship\nThe 2009 Canadian Rugby Championship was the inaugural season of the CRC, Canada's highest level of domestic rugby competition. The BC Bears won the MacTier Cup going undefeated, while the Ontario Blues finished as runners-up, allowing them both to advance to the Americas Rugby Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202064-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Rugby Championship\nNathan Hirayama's 36 points scored in the regular season is an all-time record for the league, during the 6 game format. The format was later changed to 10 games in the regular season, where in 2011 Dean Blanks scored 55 points, holding the current league record for points scored, albeit having played three more games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202064-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Rugby Championship, The Season, Structure\nThe 2009 CRC season included four Canadian senior representative teams\u2014the BC Bears, the Prairie Wolf Pack, the Ontario Blues, and The Rock, playing against each other in a round-robin format, similar to that of The Rugby Championship, with the team that has collected the most points during the season being named champions. There were no divisions or conferences. Six games were played, each team playing every other team once. In lieu of a post-season, the champion and runner-up both continued on to participate in the ARC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202065-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Senior Curling Championships\nThe 2009 Canadian Senior Curling Championships was held March 21\u201328 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2010 World Senior Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season\nThe 2009 Canadian Soccer League season was the 12th since its establishment where a total of 17 teams from Ontario and Quebec took part in the league. The season began on May 15, 2008, and ended on October 24 where for the second straight season the Serbian White Eagles faced Trois-Rivi\u00e8res Attak at the CSL Championship. The Attak denied Serbia their championship title by defeating them 3-2 in a penalty shootout. The victory marked the organizations first championship title, and the return of the championship to Quebec since the 1978 season when Montreal Castors competed in the National Soccer League. Throughout the regular season both Serbia, and Trois-Rivieres won their respective divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season\nThe season marked a historic year for the league as it became the first league in 16 years to receive conditional membership in the Canadian Soccer Association. Allowing the CSL to create an effective player developmental system in order to provide the missing link between the top provincial amateur level to the MLS/USL. The league received more coverage with Rogers TV committing to broadcasting a full 23-game schedule every Saturday night through to the finals. While the Reserve Division expanded to include 7 teams with TFC Academy II winning their first piece of silverware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Results table\nAll Stats Current as of games played Sep 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Playoffs\nIn 2009, both the quarterfinals and semifinals will be two game series. The winner of the series will be the team with the most points after two games. Should they be tied after the second game, the 2nd game will go into overtime, and if necessary, penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Playoffs\nIn both the quarter- and semifinals, the team who finished higher in the standings determines which of the two games they prefer to host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Playoffs\nThe Championship shall be a one-game final on Saturday October 24 at Lamport Stadium in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Individual awards\nThe annual CSL awards were presented before the CSL Championship final on October 24, 2009. The majority of the awards were taken by the National Division teams. The Serbian White Eagles and Trois-Rivi\u00e8res Attak went home with the most awards. Serbian team captain Sasa Viciknez became the second player in CSL history to be named the MVP twice. After recording one of the best defensive records throughout the season Dan Pelc took the Goalkeeper of the Year. Mirko Medic a former Serbian football veteran also contributed to Serbia's strong defensive performance, and as a result was voted the Defender of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Individual awards\nReda Agourram of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res received both the Golden Boot and Rookie of the Year honors, which subsequently promoted him to the USL First Division with the Montreal Impact. After leading Trois-Rivi\u00e8res to their first double Philippe Eullaffroy was given the Coach of the Year. Armand Di Fruscio the veteran general manager of St. Catharines Wolves was presented with the Harry Paul Gauss award for his constant commitment and allegiance to the league. TFC Academy were given their first Fair Play and Respect award. The Referee of the Year went to Justin Tasev, a veteran match official who refereed numerous USL and NASL matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202066-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Soccer League season, Reserve Division\nThe 2009 season saw the division increase to 7 teams with all the matches being played St. Joan Of Arc Turf Field in Vaughan, Ontario. The division was still primary based in the Greater Toronto Area with the senior clubs establishing relationships with the top provincial youth clubs in order to compete in the reserve division to provide a player development structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202067-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Tour\nThe 2009 Canadian Tour season ran from November 2008 to October 2009 and consisted of 16 golf tournaments. It was the 40th season of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202067-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian Tour\nThe season started with three events in Central and South America in late 2008, followed by an event in April in Mexico, 10 events in Canada (June to September), and ending with two events in Mexico (rescheduled from May). Canadian Graham DeLaet won the Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202068-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian electoral calendar\nThis is a list of elections in Canada in 2009. Included are provincial, municipal and federal elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and party leadership races at any level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget\nThe Canadian federal budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on January 27, 2009. The federal budget included $40 billion in stimulus and $20 billion in personal income tax cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget\nThe Budget Implementation Act, 2009 was introduced in the House of Commons on February 6, 2009, and it received royal assent on March 12, 2009, enacting the legislative changes necessary to implement the budget. It was announced as the \"Budget 2009: Economic Action Plan\", with accompanying publicity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget\nThe NDP and the Bloc announced shortly following the presentation of the budget that they would not support it in its initial form, but the budget was passed on February 3, 2009, with the support of the Liberals. All MPs for the NDP and the Bloc and the six Liberal members from Newfoundland and Labrador voted against the budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Economic crisis and parliamentary dispute\nPrior to the 2009 budget, on November 26, 2008, Jim Flaherty released an economic statement to which according to many experts would introduce measures to deal with a significant worldwide economic slowdown that started earlier during the year where millions of jobs were lost in several sectors across the world including thousands in Canada particularly in the auto sector in southern Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Economic crisis and parliamentary dispute\nWhile announcing that there will be no deficits in 2008\u201309 fiscal year, he added that any measures to deal with the economic slowdown would result in a deficit though the government that the situation in Canada compared to the other G7 countries is not as bad. He also added prior to the announcement that a \"technical\" recession was possible. Many economists and groups predicted significant deficits after 2009 and for a couple of years and urged Parliament to quickly adopt a stimulus package to encourage spending. Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page had forecast a deficit of between 4 and 14 billion dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Economic crisis and parliamentary dispute\nFlaherty announced two controversial measures including the suspension of the right to strike among government workers which previously approved a 6.8% pay hike for the next 4 years (2.3% for the first year and 1.5% for the following three). The minister also announced a significant reduction of funding of political parties resulting in election results with a lower value per vote. It had also announced the possibility of cut spending by as much as $2 billion on various programs as well as the sale of various federal properties. It has also reduced the pay raises and bonuses of several bureaucrats and politicians including the cancellation of a three percent raise for MPs and cut unnecessary traveling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Economic crisis and parliamentary dispute\nThe opposition parties threaten to topple the government on a non-confidence motion in relation to the economic statement. The opposition criticized the lack of immediate economic stimulus packages to help cope with the struggling economy as well as the political party subsidies cuts which the latter was reversed by the government one day later and would not be included on a bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Economic crisis and parliamentary dispute\nThis led a political crisis and the subsequent suspension of the Parliament on December 3, 2008 as the opposition threaten to defeat the government on a confidence motion that was set for December 1 and later one week later before the prorogation of the House. While the budget was scheduled for the early-spring, pressure due to the economic crisis and the opposition parties forced the government to move ahead the budget set for January 27, 2008, one day after Parliament resumes. On December 20, 2008, the government announced it would spend approximately $30 billion in order to stimulate the economy while forecasting a deep deficit for a five-year period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Highlights\nA $33.7 billion deficit for the 2009\u201310 fiscal was announced during the deposition of the budget on January 27, 2009 with a projected deficit of $29.7 billion for the following year as well as additional deficits until 2013 for a total of $85 billion over five years while Flaherty also announced a $1.1 billion deficit for the end of the 2008\u201309 financial year. It is the first deficit announced since the 1996\u201397 fiscal year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Highlights\n$12 billion was earmarked for various new infrastructure projects including roads, internet broadband access with additional funding for renovations on aging infrastructures as well as for green infrastructure projects. $8 billion was also announced for social housing renovation projects, $1.5 billion for job training, $2.7 billion for short-term loans for the auto industry as well as various income and corporate tax cuts and tax credits up to $20 billion for individuals and $2 billion for businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Highlights\nAmong the tax measures included were a new home renovation tax credit of up to $1350, the extension of the EI benefits by five weeks for the next two years as well as the increase of the basic personal amount to $10,320 before any payment of federal income tax. The government estimated that the $40 billion in economic stimulus and other measures would create close to 200 000 jobs while it forecast a one percent growth of the economy over the next two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Reception\nThe Liberal Party, now headed by Michael Ignatieff who replaced Dion during the prorogation of the Parliament, supported the budget but also proposed in return an amendment, which passed 214\u201384, The amendment would force the government to present occasional reports on the progress and costs of the budget. Both the NDP and the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois opposed the budget. The Bloc cited the loss of transfer payments for the province while the NDP cited a lack of funding for the vulnerable and also criticized the infrastructure funding as well as pay-equity reforms introduced in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Reception\nSix Liberal MPs from Newfoundland and Labrador also expressed opposition to the budget citing that the province would lose up to $1.6 billion in transfer payments as it no longer collects equalization. Ignatieff permitted his members to vote against his party lines. The budget passed 211 to 91. Among popular opinion, a Strategic Council poll indicated that 62% of Canadians were in favour of the budget against 38% who were not in favour while Canadians were split on whether the government failed the economy in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202069-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian federal budget, Areas of direction\nSome of the key items in the Economic Action Plan budget were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202070-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian honours\nThe following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2009. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202070-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian honours\nHowever, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2009 calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202070-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canadian honours\nProvincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours are listed within the page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202071-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra Raiders season\nThe 2009 Canberra Raiders season was the 28th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 13th (out of 16).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202071-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra Raiders season, Pre-season\nThe Canberra Raiders lost founding father Les McIntyre in the pre-season in February leading to the disruption of a pre-season camp and his name being embroidered on the club jerseys for the rest of the season 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202071-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra Raiders season, Season summary\nDespite a disappointing start to the season for the Raiders, losing too many close matches, they were able to defeat the Melbourne Storm 26 \u2013 16 at Canberra Stadium (Canberra's first victory over Melbourne in 7 years and 14 games) in round 16, keeping their slim finals hopes alive. The Raiders in round 21 handed the Brisbane Broncos club the heaviest defeat in their history with a 56\u20130 trashing at Canberra Stadium, the largest winning margin of the season. The Raiders also had a memorable win over the number one team at the time St George-Illawarra Dragons, by 24\u201312. Despite wins against three of the top four (St George Illawarra Dragons, Gold Coast Titans and the Melbourne Storm) and coming within three points of the other (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs) losses to bottom placed teams Cronulla Sharks and Sydney Roosters at home saw the Raiders finish in 13th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202071-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra Raiders season, Results, Toyota Cup (Under 20s)\nThe Under 20s team was unsuccessful in defending its National Youth Competition title, the season started well but injuries and players moving up into first grade saw them enter a six match losing streak late in the regular season and saw them just scrape into the top eight on points differential. The team were able to upset the minor premiers Manly in week one of the finals but fell to the Wests Tigers in week two ending their title defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202072-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra United W-League season\nThe 2009 season is Canberra United's second season of football (soccer) in Australia competing in the W-League 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202072-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra United W-League season, Fixtures\nThe 2009 season will be played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series. Canberra opened the season with a grand final rematch against Queensland Roar. Just four players that started the grand final nine months earlier remained for Canberra, and were outplayed by a Roar team that retained much of their championship winning squad for the second season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202072-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canberra United W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival\nThe 62nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 May to 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury. Twenty films from thirteen countries were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. The awards were announced on 23 May. The film The White Ribbon (Das wei\u00dfe Band), directed by Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival\nThe festival opened with Pixar's film Up, directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. This marked the first time that an animated film or a film in 3-D opened the festival. The festival closed with Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky directed by Jan Kounen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival\nAmerican director Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Honorary Palme d'Or, an award given to directors who had established a significant body of work without ever winning a competitive Palme d'Or.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Main competition\nThe following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2009 Official Selection:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Un Certain Regard\nThe following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition\nThe following films were selected to be screened out of competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cin\u00e9fondation\nThe following short films were selected for the competition of Cin\u00e9fondation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition\nThe following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cannes Classics\nThe Festival Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema and restored masterworks from the past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cin\u00e9ma de la Plage\nThe Cin\u00e9ma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week\nThe following films were screened for the 48th International Critics' Week (48e Semaine de la Critique):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight\nThe following films were screened for the 2009 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des R\u00e9alizateurs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202073-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards\nThe following films and people received the 2009 Official selection awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup\nThe 2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of five races in 4 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 22nd edition. The series consisted of 2 continental championships (Oceania and Pan American) which were open to all countries and 3 world cup races. The athletes gained points for their results in the three world cup races plus their best result from any of the two continental championships. The women's single canoe appeared for the first time at the world cups and was an exhibition event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Final standings\nThe winner of each race was awarded 50 points. Paddlers outside the top 20 in any event were awarded 2 points for participation. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions in the final world cup race (World Cup Race 3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, Oceania Championships 2009\nThe 2009 Oceania Championships took place in Mangahao, New Zealand from January 31 to February 1. The C2 event was not held here. Three countries won 1 gold each. New Zealand paddlers managed to take 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 1\nThe first world cup race of 2009 was held in Pau, France on June 27\u201328. Home paddlers took 1 gold, 2 silvers and 1 bronze to win the medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 2\nThe series continued in Bratislava, Slovakia on July 4\u20135. Slovak paddlers won 3 out of 4 medal events and added 2 silvers and 2 bronzes to win the medal table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 3\nThe race in Augsburg, Germany, held on July 10\u201312, was the final regular world cup race of the season. Germany won the medal table with 1 gold, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202074-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, 2009 Pan American Championships\nThe 2009 Pan American Championships were held in Kananaskis, Canada on August 2\u20133. Canada was the most successful country with 2 golds and 2 bronzes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202075-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Canoe Sprint European Championships\nThe 2009 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Brandenburg, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202076-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Cup\nThe 2009 Cape Verdean Cup (Ta\u00e7a Nacional de Cabo Verde de 2009) season was the 3rd competition of the regional football cup in Cape Verde. The season started on 20 July and finished with the cup final on 2 August. The cup competition was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation (Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Caboverdiana de Futebol, FCF). Group A matches took place at Est\u00e1dio Ad\u00e9rito Sena in Mindelo, S\u00e3o Vicente and Group B matches took place at Est\u00e1dio Marcelo Leit\u00e3o in Espargos. The final stage containing two semifinal matches and a final were played at Est\u00e1dio da V\u00e1rzea. Boavista Praia won their first of two cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202076-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Cup\nA total of nine clubs participated, five in Group A and four in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202076-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Cup, Group stage\nThe top two of each group qualified into the final, they were Batuque FC and Acad\u00e9mica do Fogo of Group A and Boavista Praia and Acad\u00e9mico do Aeroporto of Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202076-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Cup, Semifinals\nInside the brackets are abbreviation of the island winner (SS represents Santiago South as the island are divided into two zones) and national championship participant under I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202077-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Football Championships\nThe 2009 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 30th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 16 April, earlier than the last season and finished on 11 June. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. Sporting would win their 8th title and fourth straight after defeating the city's rival Acad\u00e9mica. This was the first final competition that featured two clubs from the same island as well as the same city, it happened the following season with Boavista. Sporting Praia's next and final title would win in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202077-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview\nSporting Clube da Praia was again the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202077-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview\nIt was the only club that got three titles until 2016 when CS Mindelense became the second club to win three back-to-back titles. The biggest win was Mindelense who scored 6 against Foguet\u00f5es. Only one match which one team scored the highest point and the season was again not the retelling of high scoring records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202078-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Capital One Bowl\nThe 2009 Capital One Bowl was held on January 1, 2009 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The Georgia Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference defeated the Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten Conference by a score of 24\u201312. The game was televised to a national audience on ABC. The game was supposed to be a \"showdown\" between MSU RB Javon Ringer and Georgia RB Knowshon Moreno, but both players combined for only 43 carries and 109 yards, with Ringer scoring on a rushing touchdown and Moreno on a receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202078-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, First half\nThe Bulldogs scored the first points of the game when Blair Walsh connected on a 32 yd field goal early in the first quarter. Michigan State would answer with a 20-yard field goal by Brett Swenson with 4:50 left in the first quarter. The Spartans would take the lead late in the second quarter with a 32 yd field goal of their own. Despite multiple turnovers neither Michigan State or Georgia could score a touchdown in the first half and Michigan State would take a 6\u20133 lead into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202078-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Second half\nBoth teams continued to struggle offensively until Georgia drove 96 yards and scored on a Matthew Stafford 35-yard touchdown pass to Michael Moore with 3:31 left in the third quarter. After forcing Michigan State to punt on their next possession, Georgia would score another touchdown off a 21-yard Matthew Stafford pass, this time to Aron White right before the end of the third quarter. Michigan State would pull within a touchdown after Javon Ringer finally found the end zone for the Spartans with 8:50 left in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202078-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Capital One Bowl, Game summary, Second half\nMichigan State attempted a two-point conversion to try to pull within three points of Georgia, however the attempt failed with an incomplete pass. This made the score 17\u201312. After a short possession by Georgia, Michigan State would get the ball back and would drive into Georgia territory, but turned the ball over on a failed fourth down conversion attempt. Georgia would seal the game when Knowshon Moreno scored on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Stafford with just 3:43 left in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship\nThe 2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship was a non-ATP affiliated exhibition tournament. It was the first edition of the event held in Abu Dhabi, from January 1 through January 3 2009 and. Six of the world's top ten were competing in the knockout event, which had prize money of $250,000 to the winner. The event was held at the Abu Dhabi International Tennis Complex at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It served as a warm-up event for the season, with the ATP World Tour beginning on January 5 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship\nRafael Nadal (world number 1) and Roger Federer (number 2) received byes to the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship, Review, Day One\nAndy Roddick and Nikolay Davydenko started the tournament on January 1. Davydenko won the match in straight sets 6\u20134, 6\u20134. Roddick won his first service game with three straight aces but was broken in his next service game and Davydenko held his serves to take the set. At 4-4 in the second he was again broken and Davydenko then held his serve to win the match and set up a match with Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship, Review, Day One\nLater in the day Andy Murray beat James Blake 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in a match lasting less than one hour. Murray broke Blake twice in each set to win the match. He broke Blake for the first time in the third game and then established a 5-2 lead with another break. He then took a 4-0 lead in the second set. Murray went through to face former world no. 1 Roger Federer in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship, Review, Day Two\nDay Two began with the first semi-final between Federer and Murray. Federer broke Murray early on to open up a 3-0 lead but Murray broke back to level the match at 3-3. With a tiebreak looming Federer broke for the set. Murray took the second 6-2 to level the match. In the final set, Murray continued his winning run of games, taking a 4-1 lead but, after missing an opportunity for 5-1, Federer won the next three games. The set went to a tiebreak which Murray edged 8-6 to reach the final and to beat Federer for the fifth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship, Review, Day Two\nIn the second semi-final Davydenko faced Nadal. The Russian broke Nadal to love in the first game of the match but he won just one more game in the set as he lost it 6-2. The second set began just as the first, with a break for Davydenko but Nadal immediately broke back. In the sixth game, with Davydenko serving at 3-2 down, Nadal gained another break and which the Russian could not recover, with the Spaniard taking the set 6-3 for a 6-2, 6-3 victory. Nadal went through to the final to play Murray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202079-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Capitala World Tennis Championship, Review, Day Three\nThe final saw Nadal take on Murray. The first two games went with serve. But Murray broke Nadal in his next service game, after a third break point. Nadal, however, broke back in the eighth game. Murray then won the next two games to take the set 6-4. The second set started with four straight service holds before Murray got a break to lead 3-2. With victory in sight for Murray, Nadal broke straight back. He then got another break in the 12th game and closed out the set 7-5. In the seventh game of the final set Murray gained the decisive break in a game lasting 14 minutes. Murray held on to win the debut edition and to beat Federer and Nadal at the same tournament for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202080-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carfax 400\nThe 2009 Carfax 400 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that took place on August 16, 2009, at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Actual start time of the race was 2:10PM Eastern Daylight Time; meaning that the race ended at exactly 5:12 PM EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202080-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carfax 400, Background\nMichigan International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) long. Opened in 1968, the track's turns are banked at eighteen degrees, while the 3,600-foot-long front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at twelve degrees. The back stretch, has a five degree banking and is 2,242 feet long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202080-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Carfax 400, Summary\n200 laps were run on a paved oval track spanning 2.000 miles (3.219\u00a0km). Out of the 43 race car drivers on the grid, there were 41 American-born driers and two foreigners (Marcos Ambrose from Australia and Juan Pablo Montoya from Colombia). There were seven cautions for 36 laps and the race lasted three hours and two minutes. Attendance was 103,000 strong and Brian Vickers (driving a Toyota Camry) won the race under a fuel mileage finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202080-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Carfax 400, Summary\nThe other contenders who finished in the top ten were: Jeff Gordon (lost by 1.409 seconds), Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Carl Edwards, Sam Hornish, Jr., Casey Mears, Joey Logano, Clint Bowyer, David Reutimann, and Denny Hamlin. The pole speed was 187.242 miles per hour (301.337\u00a0km/h) while the average speed was 131.531 miles per hour (211.679\u00a0km/h). Jimmie Johnson had a dominant run during the closing laps until he ran out of fuel. He later admitted that his team was not good on fuel mileage during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202080-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Carfax 400, Summary\nTony Raines failed to qualify for the race due to lack of speed. There were two instances of rain during the race which eventually returned to fair weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series\nThe fifty-first edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 2009. It was held from February 2 through February 7 with the champions teams from Dominican Republic (Tigres del Licey), Mexico (Venados de Mazatl\u00e1n), Puerto Rico (Leones de Ponce) and Venezuela (Tigres de Aragua). The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice. The games were played at Estadio Casas GEO in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nTigres de Aragua of Venezuela clinched its first team Caribbean Series title and seventh as a country with a 5\u20131 record. Guided by Buddy Bailey, the Venezuelan club took the top spot much more easily than expected, especially considering the absence of big-name stars, which was mitigated by playing small ball. In addition, the opportune hitting and sharp defense were bolstered by above-average running speed and strong bullpen support. Venezuela clinched the title with a 5\u20133 win over host Mexico before an overflow crowd at Mexicali's stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nCloser Francisco Butt\u00f3 set records with more saves in a series (4) and most saves in series history (6, including 2007 and 2008 editions), which was enough to be named the Most Valuable Player of the series. Also providing offensive support were SS Luis Maza (.300 batting average), CF Selwin Langaigne (.280, three runs, three RBI) and 2B Ram\u00f3n Castro (.286 BA, four RBI). The team only committed three errors and the pitching staff posted a collective 2.41 earned run average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nVenezuela blasted only one home run in the series, but it was a good one as first baseman H\u00e9ctor Gim\u00e9nez' 11th-inning, walk-off solo homer in Game 4 pushed the Tigers to  a 1\u20130 victory over the Mexican team. The only winning starter on their staff was Horacio Estrada (one earned run, three strikeouts in 5+1\u20443 innings of work). Other members of the team included starter Tim Harikkala (0.00 ERA in six innings) and relievers Ronald Belisario, Iv\u00e1n Blanco, Marcos Carvajal, Andrew Lorraine and V\u00edctor Moreno; catching tandem of Alex Delgado and Wilson Ramos; DH Ra\u00fal Ch\u00e1vez; 3B Luis Ugueto, and outfielders Rodney Medina and Jackson Meli\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe experienced Lorenzo Bundy managed the Mexican club, represented by the Venados de Mazatl\u00e1n, and finished in second place with a modest 3\u20133 mark. A strong offense and solid defense (only three errors) were not enough to compensate for poor pitching and a lack of speed on the basepaths. Leading the offensive charge were Edgar Gonzalez, who had the series' highest batting average at .423 (.454 OBP, .577 SLG), though his brother Adri\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez did hit .286 with eight RBI and a .714 SLG, including three home runs in a game to set a series record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nSS H\u00e9ber G\u00f3mez (.368 BA, .474 SLG, five runs, three RBI) and RF Christian Quintero (.318 BA, three runs, three RBI) also carried much of the offensive weight. One of the few bright spots in the pitching staff was Walter Silva, who posted a 1\u20131 record with 12 strikeouts and a 2.25 ERA in two starts. The roster also included veteran pitchers Francisco C\u00f3rdova and Pablo Ortega; catcher Miguel Ojeda; outfielder Rub\u00e9n Rivera, and infielders Freddy Sandoval, Robert Saucedo and \u00d3scar Robles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico finished tied in third place with a 2\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe defending champion Tigres del Licey, of the Dominican Republic, was a pale shadow of the glorious franchise that won 10 series titles (three undefeated) and posted a 65\u201324 record (.730 percentage) in 15 appearances between 1971 and 2008. Managed by Jos\u00e9 Offerman, the offense mustered little punch (.220 BA) and led the series with seven errors. The most prominent players were starters Alfredo Sim\u00f3n (1\u20130, five hits, seven SO in 7.0 innings) and Ram\u00f3n Ortiz (1.42 ERA, five SO, 6+1\u20443 innings); reliever Julio Ma\u00f1\u00f3n (two saves), and DH Ronny Paulino (.381 BA, .762 SLG, five RBI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nAlso in the roster were pitchers Wilton Ch\u00e1vez, Valerio de los Santos, Julio Mateo, Jos\u00e9 Mercedes, Jailen Peguero, Carlos P\u00e9rez, Oneli P\u00e9rez and Jorge Sosa; catcher Salvador Paniagua; infielders Erick Aybar, Willy Aybar, Ronnie Belliard, Anderson Hern\u00e1ndez and D'Angelo Jim\u00e9nez, and outfielders Jos\u00e9 Bautista, Fernando Mart\u00ednez, Ricardo Nanita and Timo P\u00e9rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nPuerto Rico returned to the Series after a one-year absence, represented by the Leones de Ponce and managed by Eduardo P\u00e9rez, former big leaguer and ESPN Baseball Tonight broadcaster. The Boricuas team outscored their rivals, 18\u201316, despite a negative record of 2\u20134. The pitching staff was led by Giancarlo Alvarado (1\u20130, 16 SO and a 2.32 ERA in 11+2\u20443 innings), and posted one of the two shutouts in the series, while the offense was paced by SS Luis Figueroa (.389 BA, 4 RBI), 1B Carlos Rivera (.360 BA, 4 RBI) and 2B Andy Gonz\u00e1lez (.333 BA, 4 RBI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202081-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe rest of the roster was filled with starters Josu\u00e9 Matos (1\u20130, 5.0 innings), H\u00e9ctor Mercado (1.29 ERA, seven SO, 6+2\u20443 innings) and Bill Pulsipher (1.42 ERA, seven SO, 6+1\u20443 innings); relievers Iv\u00e1n Maldonado (one save, 4 SO, 3+2\u20443 innings), Josh Rainwater (0.00 ERA, 5.0 innings) and Fernando Cabrera; catchers Eli Marrero, Robinson Cancel and Ra\u00fal Casanova; infielders Fernando Cortez and Iggy Suarez, and outfielders Jes\u00fas Feliciano and Ra\u00fal Gonz\u00e1lez, among others. To fill the void last winter, Perez, who took over as Ponce's manager just one day before the start of the regular season, created the Winter Training Program for professional and amateur players on the island, and expressed cautious optimism that winter baseball in Puerto Rico was back to stay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election\nThe 2009 Carinthian state election was held on 1 March 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Carinthia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election\nThe election took place five months after the death of Governor J\u00f6rg Haider, long-time leader of the Freedom Party in Carinthia (FPK). He was succeeded by Gerhard D\u00f6rfler. The FPK had split from the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) when Haider formed the Alliance for the Future of Austria in 2005, and without its veteran leader, the party's future was uncertain. Nonetheless, D\u00f6rfler managed to retain the FPK's position and even increase its voteshare to an all-time high of almost 45%. The opposition Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) suffered major losses, but remained in second place. The Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) made gains, and The Greens narrowly retained their seats. The FP\u00d6's new state branch won just 3.8% and failed to enter the Landtag at all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election\nThe FPK managed to secure a majority in the state government for the first time, but was still two seats short in the Landtag. The party subsequently formed a coalition with the \u00d6VP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Background\nPrior to amendments made in 2017, the Carinthian constitution mandated that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, German: Landesr\u00e4ten) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government was a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualified for at least one state councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Background\nIn 2005, then-Governor and former federal leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) J\u00f6rg Haider split from the party due to internal disputes, and founded the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZ\u00d6). The Freedom Party in Carinthia, then the FP\u00d6's state branch and led by Haider, changed its allegiance and became the Carinthian branch of the BZ\u00d6. The large majority of its leadership and structure followed, with only a small minority defecting to the FP\u00d6's new Carinthian branch. Shortly after the 2008 federal election, Haider was killed in a car accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Background\nHe was succeeded by Gerhard D\u00f6rfler, who became the new Governor of Carinthia and leader of the FPK. D\u00f6rfler led the party to the 2009 state election under the name \"Freedom Party in Carinthia \u2013 BZ\u00d6 List J\u00f6rg Haider\". The FP\u00d6 launched a new Carinthian state branch, hoping to challenge the FPK's dominance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Electoral system\nThe 36 seats of the Landtag of Carinthia are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202082-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Carinthian state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, six parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202083-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carisap Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nPaolo Lorenzi and J\u00falio Silva were the defending champions. They didn't take part in these championships this year. Stefano Ianni and Cristian Villagr\u00e1n won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20133), 1\u20136, [10\u20136], against Niels Desein and St\u00e9phane Robert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202084-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carisap Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nM\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez didn't want to defend his 2008 title. Fabio Fognini became the new champion. He won 6\u20137(5\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20130, against Cristian Villagr\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202085-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlow County Council election\nAn election to Carlow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season\nThe 2009 AFL season was the 113th season in the AFL to be contested by the Carlton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season\nCarlton finished 7th out of 16 teams. The season marked the first time that Carlton had played finals since 2001, ending a club record drought of seven consecutive VFL/AFL seasons without a finals appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nThe 2009 AFL season was the 113th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 113th season contested by the Carlton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nFormer club champion Stephen Kernahan continued as club president in the 2009 season, a position he had held since August 2008. Brett Ratten and Chris Judd continued in their respective roles as senior coach and captain of the club, each entering his second season appointed to the job. The club's joint major sponsors were car manufacturer Hyundai, unchanged from 2008, and national tourism promoter Tourism Malaysia, newly signed for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nAs in previous years, the club's primary home ground was Etihad Stadium \u2013 which was known until 1 March 2009 as Telstra Dome \u2013 with home games expecting to draw larger crowds played at the M.C.G. ; the traditional home ground Princes Park was renamed from MC Labour Park to Visy Park in the offseason, and it continued to serve as the training and administrative base. As had been the case every year since 2003, Carlton had a full alignment with the Northern Bullants in the Victorian Football League, allowing Carlton-listed players to play with the Bullants when not selected in AFL matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Membership campaign: \"They Know We're Coming\"\nThe club marketed its 2009 membership campaign on what became one of the most well-remembered slogans in league history: \"They Know We're Coming\". CEO Greg Swann described the slogan as an irreverent way to rebuild the \"Carlton arrogance\" which the club was known for during its successful period, but which had been missing since the club's first wooden spoon in 2002 and in the aftermath of the salary cap breach that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Membership campaign: \"They Know We're Coming\"\nThe provocative slogan was immediately successful in generating discussion and interest, drawing scorn from many opposition fans, and notably drawing a response from traditional rivals Essendon, who published a \"They Know We're Waiting\" poster on its website. Carlton went on to sell 42,408 memberships for the 2009 season, a new record membership for the club, breaking the record of 40,764 set the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Squad and player statistics for 2009\nFlags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes\nThe following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2008 season and the conclusion of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home-and-away season\nCarlton had a strong season. Although its win-loss record was only 6\u20136 after twelve rounds, four of its six losses came by less than ten points. After falling to eighth place with a 69-point loss to Essendon in Round 13, Carlton won seven of its following eight games to cement a place in the finals for the first time since 2001. In the final round match against Adelaide, both teams were fighting for 5th place and a home elimination final; the result was Carlton's heaviest loss of the season, 72 points, which saw Carlton finish 7th, and required them to travel to Brisbane for the first week of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home-and-away season\nCarlton's full season win-loss record was 13\u20139, a notable improvement on its record of 10\u201312 from the 2008 season. The club's form throughout the season unpredictable; Carlton returned a 3\u20132 record against the top four teams, including an impressive Round 19 upset victory against eventual premiers Geelong, but only 2\u20134 against the next four teams on the ladder; Carlton's record against the bottom eight was 8\u20133, with all three of those losses coming inside the first seven rounds of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals\nPlaying its first final since 2001, Carlton and Brisbane fought an evenly contested first half, and Brisbane took a one-point lead into half time. Carlton dominated the third quarter, kicking six goals to two; and, after a goal in the first minute of the final quarter, led by 30 points. But from there, Brisbane kicked the final six goals of the match, to overrun the Blues and win the match by seven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Leading Goalkickers\nBrendan Fevola was Carlton's leading goalkicker for 2009, kicking 89 goals for the season. It was the seventh consecutive and final time that Fevola won the club goalkicking. The 89 goal tally was the second-highest of Fevola's career, second to his 99 goals in the 2008 season. Fevola also won the Coleman Medal, as his tally of 86 goals in the home-and-away season was the highest in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Leading Goalkickers\nSmall forward Eddie Betts was second with 38 goals, the highest in his career at that point, and Marc Murphy was third, kicking 31 goals from the midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nSetanta \u00d3 hAilp\u00edn was suspended for four matches by the AFL Tribunal for striking, then kicking Cameron Cloke during an intra-club practice match in early February; the intra-club match unusually fell under the tribunal's jurisdiction because it was an AFL-sanctioned game, and was officiated by AFL umpires as part of their preseason. \u00d3 hAilp\u00edn was also briefly internally suspended by the club for the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nThe club's immediate past president Richard Pratt died on 28 April, prior to Round 6, after his battle with prostate cancer. A long time benefactor of the club, Pratt had served as president from February 2007 until July 2008, and was a key off-field figure in Carlton's recovery from its poor condition in the mid-2000s to its return to the finals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nFollowing Pratt's death, the Carlton and Collingwood Football Clubs established the Richard Pratt Cup, a new trophy to presented in perpetuity to the winner of Carlton's annual home match against Collingwood, accompanying an event to raise money for the Pratt Foundation. The trophy was first contested in Round 17, and was won by Collingwood. The Richard Pratt Cup became a companion to the Peter Mac Cup, which had been contested annually between Carlton and Collingwood since 1993, and accompanied an event to raise money for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The teams had previously shared hosting duties, but with the establishment of the Richard Pratt Cup, Collingwood became the host of all Peter Mac Cup matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nCarlton played its Round 7 home match at Gold Coast Stadium in Queensland, in return for a guaranteed $400,000 payment from the AFL. After North Melbourne \u2013 which had played three matches at the stadium in each of 2007 and 2008 \u2013 rejected a proposal to relocate permanently to the Gold Coast, the league offered to pay for Victorian clubs to shift home games there in 2009, in order to continue the league's presence in the area until the Gold Coast Suns could be entered the league in 2011. Carlton, St Kilda and Richmond each accepted the $400,000 offer to play one game there during the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nIn its away game against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval in Round 14, Carlton wore a once-off yellow Livestrong guernsey, instead of its normal white clash guernsey, to raise money for cancer research. Money raised in the event was divided between the Livestrong Foundation (then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation) and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The guernseys were yellow with navy blue cuffs, collar, side-panels, monogram and numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events\nBrendan Fevola caused trouble when he drank excessively at the Brownlow Medal Count. He served as the host of The Footy Show's Street Talk segment, but was so obnoxiously drunk while filming it that the show did not air it. Already on his final disciplinary chance with Carlton following his indiscretion the previous season, the incident led to Fevola being traded to the Brisbane Lions in the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal\nThe Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest awards night took place on 28 September. The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night. Brendan Fevola, after his behaviour at the Brownlow Medal, did not attend the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal\nThe voting system for the John Nicholls Medal remained the same as in 2008. In each match, the five members of the Match Committee awarded votes. Each committee member could award votes to up to eight players, and each player could receive up to ten votes from each judge. A \"perfect score\" for a round is 50 votes. The player with the most total votes across all premiership season matches (including home and away matches and finals) wins the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal\nThe winner of the John Nicholls Medal was Chris Judd, who polled 558 votes. It was Judd's second consecutive John Nicholls Medal, in only his second season at the club, and was the second of three John Nicholls Medals that Judd would win consecutively from 2008 to 2010. Judd won comfortably ahead of Marc Murphy (451 votes) and Bryce Gibbs (415 votes). The top ten is given below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal\nThe following other awards were presented on John Nicholls Medal night:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Coleman Medal\nBrendan Fevola was the winner of the Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker, kicking 86 goals in the home-and-away season to finish ahead of Brisbane's Jonathan Brown (78 goals) and St Kilda's Nick Riewoldt (68 goals). It was Fevola's second career Coleman Medal, after winning the award in 2006; in doing so, Fevola became the first Carlton player since George Coulthard in the 1878, 1879 and 1880 VFA seasons to win the league goalkicking more than once in his career, and the first Carlton player ever to achieve the feat in the VFL/AFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Brownlow Medal\nChris Judd finished second for the 2009 Brownlow Medal, polling 22 votes; he finished eight votes behind runaway winner Gary Ablett Jr. (Geelong). Marc Murphy and Bryce Gibbs each polled 15 votes to finish equal-ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, AFLPA awards\nFor each of the AFLPA awards, one or three Carlton players were nominated following internal vote of Carlton players (except for Best Captain, where captain Chris Judd was nominated by default). Chris Judd went on to finish third for the Leigh Matthews Trophy; none of Carlton's other nominees placed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Other awards\nThe 40-man squad for the All-Australian Team was announced on 1 September 2009, and the final team of 22 was announced on 14 September 2010, with both Judd and Fevola named in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Other awards\nAaron Joseph was nominated for the 2009 AFL Rising Star award for his performance in Carlton's Round 12 win against St Kilda. Joseph did not poll votes in the final count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Other awards\nChris Yarran was represented the Indigenous All-Stars team, which played a pre-season match against Adelaide on 7 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Other awards\nKen Hands, who played with Carlton from 1945 to 1957, then coached the club from 1959 to 1964, was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Northern Bullants\nThe Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Bullants during the 2009 season. It was the seventh season of the clubs' affiliation, which had been in place since 2003. Carlton senior- and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the Carlton team were eligible to play for either the Northern Bullants seniors or reserves team, including both Victorian Football League matches. Home games were shared between the Bullants' traditional home ground, Preston City Oval, and Carlton's traditional home ground, Visy Park. Carlton development coach David Teague served also as the senior coach for the Bullants during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Northern Bullants\nThe Bullants finished second out of fourteen in the VFL, after being defeated in the Grand Final by North Ballarat by 23 points. It was the Bullants' first Grand Final appearance since 1984. The Bullants had finished third on the ladder after the home-and-away season. Carlton rookie-listed player David Ellard, who did not play at AFL level during the season, won the Laurie Hill Trophy as the Bullants' best and fairest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202086-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Football Club season, Notes\n:1. Ratten also served as head coach in the final six rounds of 2007 as caretaker, before being officially appointed as head coach for 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202087-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Rugby 7s\nThe 2009 Carlton Rugby 7s, had previously been conducted as the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s competition but was rebranded as the Carlton Sri Lanka Rugby 7s under a new partnership between the Tharunyata Hetak Foundation and the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU). The tournament was the sixth and final leg of the Asian Sevens Series for the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202087-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Rugby 7s\nThe Carlton 7s were held on 27\u201329 November 2008 at Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, involving 12 teams from the Asian rugby playing nations of Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei, China, Thailand, Iran, Jordan, Brunei, Pakistan and Malaysia, together with the host nation, Sri Lanka. In the Cup final Japan defeated Malaysia 26 points to 7, with Thailand winning the Plate and Pakistan the Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202087-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Carlton Rugby 7s\nThere was also a separate championship for six invited international teams, in addition to the annual schools tournament. The schools event was won by St Peter\u2019s College, who defeated Royal College 17 points to 14. In the final of the Invitational International tournament, Fiji, who fielded the Fiji Dijicel were victorious over the South African Vipers, 38 points to 12. In the third place play-off the Western Samoa Barbarians beat the New Zealand Legends by 14-5 whilst the Australian Legends recorded a 24-5 win over Papua New Guinea in the fifth place play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202088-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Challenge Cup\nThe Carolina Challenge Cup is a four-team round robin pre-season competition hosted by the Charleston Battery. It was started in 2004 and features teams from Major League Soccer and the United Soccer Leagues. The 2009 Carolina Challenge Cup was won by Real Salt Lake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season\nThe 2009 Carolina Panthers season was the franchise's 15th season in the National Football League. They failed to improve on their franchise-record 12\u20134 season in 2008 (which was later surpassed by the 2015 team) and also failed to make the playoffs. The 2009 Panthers are only the sixth team in NFL history to have two players rush for 1,000 yards: Jonathan Stewart (1,133) and DeAngelo Williams (1,117). It was also the first team in NFL history to have two players rush for more than 1,100 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Panthers began their season with a Week 1 duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. They were playing with Jake Delhomme, who had five interceptions, and one fumble in their postseason game, last year, vs. the Arizona Cardinals. In the first quarter, Carolina pounced first with running back DeAngelo Williams getting an 11-yard touchdown run. The Eagles responded with kicker David Akers getting a 49-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Philadelphia took control as Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme lost a fumble, which was recovered by defensive end Victor Abiamiri and returned two yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAlso, wide receiver DeSean Jackson returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown, and quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek and a 4-yard touchdown pass to running back Brian Westbrook. The Panthers  closed out the period with kicker John Kasay nailing a 22-yard field goal. Afterwards, in the third quarter, the Eagles continued their domination as McNabb got a 3-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nDelhomme (7-of-17 for 73 yards) was benched after committing five turnovers (four interceptions and a fumble).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Atlanta Falcons\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Eagles, the Panthers flew to the Georgia Dome for a Week 2 NFC South duel with the Atlanta Falcons. In the first quarter, Carolina delivered the first scratch as kicker John Kasay got a 38-yard field goal. The Falcons answered with quarterback Matt Ryan completing a 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez. The Panthers retook the lead in the second quarter as running back DeAngelo Williams getting a 3-yard touchdown run, but Atlanta repliedy with Ryan completing a 10-yard touchdown pass to running back Jason Snelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Atlanta Falcons\nCarolina gained some ground as Kasay nailed a 50-yard field goal, but the Falcons closed out the first half scoring with Ryan completing a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White. After a scoreless third quarter, Atlanta pulled away as running back Michael Turner getting a 1-yard touchdown. The Panthers tried to rally, but get only get an 11-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Jake Delhomme to tight end Dante Rosario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Dallas Cowboys\nStill looking for their first win of the season, the Panthers flew to Cowboys Stadium for a Week 3 Monday night duel with the Dallas Cowboys. After a scoreless first quarter, Carolina took the lead in the second quarter with quarterback Jake Delhomme's 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dante Rosario. The Cowboys took the lead in the third quarter with kicker Nick Folk's 24-yard field goal and running back Tashard Choice's 5-yard touchdown run. Dallas extended their lead in the fourth quarter with Folk's 19-yard field goal and cornerback Terence Newman returning Delhomme's 7th interception of the season 27 yards for a touchdown (with Choice getting the 2-point conversion run). The Panthers tried to rally, but the Cowboys' defense prevented their comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Dallas Cowboys\nWith the loss, Carolina entered its bye week at 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Washington Redskins\nFollowing their bye week, the Panthers returned to Charlotte to face the Washington Redskins. After a DeAngelo Williams fumble, the Redskins struck first blood with quarterback Jason Campbell's 10-yard touchdown pass to running back Clinton Portis. During the second quarter, linebacker Thomas Davis and defensive end Julius Peppers tackled Portis in the endzone for a safety, making the score 7\u20132. The Redskins responded with a 39-yard field goal by kicker Shaun Suisham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Washington Redskins\nDuring the third quarter, cornerback DeAngelo Hall intercepted quarterback Jake Delhomme's pass and took it to the one, with Clinton Portis capping it off with a touchdown run, making it 17\u20132. The Panthers then scored on a 17-yard touchdown catch by tight end Jeff King. In the fourth quarter, kicker John Kasay booted a 43-yard field goal, decreasing the lead to 17\u201312. After a botched punt return by the Redskins, Carolina scored on an 8-yard run by running back Jonathan Stewart. With the two-point conversion pass to wide receiver Steve Smith, Carolina took a 20\u201317 lead. After a Washington punt, the Panthers ran out the clock with an 8-yard run by Jake Delhomme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nComing off their win over the Redskins, the Panthers flew to Raymond James Stadium for a Week 6 NFC South duel with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carolina trailed in the first quarter as Buccaneers running back Cadillac Williams got a 20-yard touchdown run, but the Panthers tied the game in the second quarter with a 20-yard touchdown from running back DeAngelo Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nIn the third quarter, Carolina took the lead with quarterback Jake Delhomme's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jeff King and running back Jonathan Stewart's 26-yard touchdown run. Tampa Bay immediately answered with a 97 yard kickoff return for a touchdown by wide receiver Sammie Stroughter. The Buccaneers tied the game in the fourth quarter as safety Tanard Jackson returned an interception 26 yards for a touchdown, but the Panthers got the last laugh as Williams got a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nCornerback Dante Wesley was ejected from the game in the second quarter after ramming into Buccaneers kick returner Clifton Smith. He later received a one-game suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Buffalo Bills\nComing off their divisional road win over the Buccaneers, the Panthers went home for a Week 7 interconference duel with the Buffalo Bills. Carolina found themselves trailing in the first quarter as Bills running back Marshawn Lynch got a 7-yard touchdown run. The Panthers responded in the second quarter as defensive tackle Hollis Thomas tackled running back Fred Jackson in his endzone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Buffalo Bills\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Buffalo got a big play in the fourth quarter as quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick completing a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans, followed by kicker Rian Lindell nailing a 29-yard field goal. Carolina tried to recover as running back DeAngelo Williams got a 15-yard touchdown run, but the Bills sealed the win with Lindell's 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals\nHoping to rebound from their dismal home loss to the Bills, the Panthers flew to the University of Phoenix Stadium for a Week 8 duel with the Arizona Cardinals in a rematch of last year's divisional game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals\nCarolina began the scoring with a 6-yard touchdown run from running back Jonathan Stewart. The Cardinals answered with quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to running back LaRod Stephens-Howling. The Panthers took a commanding lead in the second quarter as Stewart got a 10-yard touchdown run, quarterback Jake Delhomme hooked up with wide receiver Steve Smith on a 50-yard touchdown pass, and defensive end Julius Peppers returned an interception 13 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn the third quarter, Arizona began to rally as Warner connected with tight end Ben Patrick on a 1-yard touchdown pass. Carolina answered in the fourth quarter with a 35-yard field goal from kicker John Kasay. The Cardinals tried to pull off a comeback as running back Tim Hightower got a 1-yard touchdown run, yet the Panthers closed out the game with Kasay's 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Arizona Cardinals\nThe Panthers' defense had a field day, recording 5 interceptions and a fumble recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New Orleans Saints\nComing off a defensively-strong performance against the Cardinals, the Panthers flew to the Louisiana Superdome for a Week 9 NFC South duel with the undefeated New Orleans Saints. Carolina got off to a fast start in the first quarter as running back DeAngelo Williams got a 66-yard and a 7-yard touchdown run. The Saints got on the board in the second quarter as kicker John Carney made a 23-yard field goal. The Panthers came right back as kicker John Kasay nailed a 32-yard field goal, but New Orleans closed out the half as Carney booted a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New Orleans Saints\nIn the third quarter, the Saints continued to hack away as running back Pierre Thomas got a 10-yard touchdown run. Carolina answered with Kasay's 25-yard field goal, but New Orleans tied the game to end the period as quarterback Drew Brees completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Robert Meachem. Afterwards, the Saints pulled away in the fourth quarter with Carney's 40-yard field goal, followed by defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove forcing a fumble from Williams and returning it 1 yard for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nHoping to rebound from their tough divisional road loss to the Saints, the Panthers went home for a Week 10 NFC South rematch with the Atlanta Falcons. Carolina trailed early in the first quarter as Falcons kicker Jason Elam booted a 35-yard field goal, yet the Panthers came right as running back Jonathan Stewart got a 1-yard touchdown run. Carolina added to their lead in the second with quarterback Jake Delhomme hooking up with wide receiver Steve Smith on a 4-yard touchdown pass, yet Atlanta answered with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Jason Snelling. The Panthers close out the first half scoring with Delhomme's 4-yard touchdown pass to Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nIn the second half, the Falcons began to erase their deficit as Elam nailed a 24-yard field goal in the third quarter, followed by quarterback Matt Ryan completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Justin Peelle. Afterwards, Carolina pulled away as Stewart got a 45-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Miami Dolphins\nComing off their divisional home win to the Falcons, the Panthers went home for a Week 11 Interconference duel with the Miami Dolphins. In the first quarter, Carolina got on the board first with John Kasay hitting a 29-yard field goal. In the second quarter the Dolphins replied and took the lead with Chad Henne getting a 14-yard touchdown pass to Ricky Williams, and a 1-yard touchdown run from Williams again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Miami Dolphins\nAfter a scoreless third quarter the Panthers slightly improved as John Kasay nailed a 33-yard field goal, until Miami kept it a 2-possession game when Dan Carpenter got a 37-yard field goal. The Panthers kept their hopes alive as Jake Delhomme made a 27-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith (with a successful 2-point conversion made by DeAngelo Williams). The Dolphins pulled away as Ricky Williams made a 46-yard touchdown run. The 48-yard field goal made by John Kasay near the end of the game wasn't enough for the Panthers and that resulted in a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New York Jets\nWith both teams coming off of tough losses, the Panthers went on the road to face the formidable defense of the New York Jets in what was on paper a close matchup. Both teams sported identical 4\u20136 records and were top 3 in rushing offense, while sporting similar numbers in pass defense game. Things started out well for Carolina, their first drive taking almost 6 minutes of clock to drive down into Jets territory when bad luck struck them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New York Jets\nA miscommunication between Jake Delhomme and Steve Smith resulted in a pass being fired at Smith while he wasn't looking, and it caromed off of Smith's leg into the arms of Jets' CB Darrelle Revis, who returned it 67 yards for a TD. It was the first of Delhomme's 4 INTs of the day, two each  by Revis and safety Kerry Rhodes. Rhodes' first set the Jets up in good field position, which the Jets were able to capitalize on when Thomas Jones ran the ball in for a 4-yard TD. The Panthers soon after that struggled to do anything against the Jets defense and secured only two John Kasay field goals for a 17\u20136 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New York Jets\nThe Panthers fell to 4\u20137 and wound up losing Jake Delhomme to a broken finger on his throwing hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202089-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina Panthers season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith the surprising win against the playoff-bound Vikings, the Panthers improved to 6\u20138. This marked Carolina's first Sunday Night Football home game since NBC picked up the rights in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202090-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina RailHawks FC season\nThis is a recap of the Carolina RailHawks 2009 season. The RailHawks are an American soccer team which played their third season in the USL First Division in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202090-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Carolina RailHawks FC season, Players, Current roster\nAs of July 26, 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202091-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Carrera Panamericana\nThe 2009 edition of the Carrera Panamericana Mexican sports car racing event started in Huatulco, Oaxaca and finished in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. This edition was composed by 7 stages. The Swedish Stig Blomqvist won this edition. Ana Goni was his co-driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202092-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game\nThe 2009 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game on TSN was held on January 10 and 11 at the Casino Rama Entertainment Centre in Rama, Ontario. The total purse for the event was CAD$ 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202092-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game\nFour teams were invited to participate. They played one semi-final each on January 10, and the winners played in the final on January 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202092-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game\nFor the first time ever, a women's team participated in this event. World Women's Champion Jennifer Jones and her team were invited. They joined defending men's world champion, Kevin Martin, four time world champion Randy Ferbey and 2007 World Champion Glenn Howard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202092-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game, Draw to the button\nTeam Howard won the draw to the button contest to determine seeding. This awarded them an extra $1000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202093-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Castleford Tigers season\nThe Castleford Tigers competed in their twelfth Super League in their 84th rugby league season. They also competed in the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202093-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Castleford Tigers season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202094-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan independence referendum in Arenys de Munt\nThe Arenys de Munt query on Catalonia independence was a municipal non-binding query promoted by the Moviment Arenyenc per l'Autodeterminaci\u00f3 (Arenyenc Movement for Self-determination) held in Arenys de Munt on 13 September 2009. The query was formulated exclusively for residents of this village on the following question: Est\u00e0 d'acord que Catalunya esdevingui un Estat de dret, independent, democr\u00e0tic i social, integrat a la Uni\u00f3 Europea? (Do you agree on Catalonia becoming an independent, democratic and social State of law, integrated in the European Union? ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202094-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan independence referendum in Arenys de Munt\nThis query was the first democratic one on Catalonia independence and, despite being municipal and symbolic, had a remarkable influence on Catalan and Spanish politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202094-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan independence referendum in Arenys de Munt, Reactions in the media\nThe query had wide media coverage all around the world and more than 300 journalists were granted to cover it by the organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202095-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12\u201314 June 2009 at the Circuit de Catalunya. This race is known as one of the most thrilling in MotoGP history, because Valentino Rossi held off the challenge of teammate Jorge Lorenzo by overtaking him in the last corner, on the last lap, to win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202095-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Incident\nJulian Simon, a Spanish racer in the 125cc race, celebrated victory one lap early, as he was confused with the sign that his team had shown him. He thought the sign said he was first position with no laps left, when the sign actually says 'L1' which means that he had one lap remaining. Andrea Iannone stormed to the lead and won, whilst Simon could only finish fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202095-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202096-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalans Dragons season\nThis article details the Catalans Dragons rugby league football club's 2009 season. This is their 4th season in the Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202096-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalans Dragons season, Table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202097-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalunya Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Catalunya Formula Two round was the eighth and final round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 31 October and 1 November 2009 at Circuit de Catalunya in Montmel\u00f3, just outside Barcelona, Spain. The first race was won by Andy Soucek, with Mikhail Aleshin and debutant Tristan Vautier also on the podium. The second race was also won by Soucek, with Nicola de Marco and Robert Wickens also on the podium. Edoardo Piscopo missed this round to participate in the first round of 2009\u201310 GP2 Asia Series season in Abu Dhabi. His slot was filled by Formula Palmer Audi driver Vautier. Carlos Iaconelli also missed out on the round, due to flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202098-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalunya GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Spanish GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on May 9 and May 10, 2009 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmel\u00f3, Spain. It was the first race of the 2009 GP2 Season. The race was used to support the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202098-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalunya GP2 Series round, Report\nThe first race resulted in a one-two finish for Barwa Addax Team drivers Romain Grosjean and Vitaly Petrov, with J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio finishing third for DAMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202098-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Catalunya GP2 Series round, Report\nThe second race was won by Edoardo Mortara for Telmex Arden International, with Romain Grosjean and J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio also on the podium. Mortara finished sixth in his first race, so was automatically on Pole for race 2. He wins in his first ever GP2 Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire\nThe 2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire was a fire that began with an explosion on October 23, 2009, and was extinguished on October 25 at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) oil refinery and oil depot in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico. While the fire and subsequent explosion occurred close to the city of Cata\u00f1o, it technically occurred within the borders of Bayam\u00f3n, even though Cata\u00f1o was more affected by fumes and evacuation. There were no fatalities, but 3 people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event\nThe initial explosion destroyed eleven storage tanks at the facility, but quickly spread to other nearby tanks. The tanks contained gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. The resulting explosion was measured as equivalent to a 2.8-magnitude earthquake on the Richter magnitude scale. The tanks exploded at approximately 12:23\u00a0a.m. and could be heard in places as far away as Cidra, 11 miles away and shook windows and doors over two miles away. At some point the flames reached a height of 100 feet (30\u00a0m) above the refinery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event\nThe explosion caused 30 million gallons of petroleum to be released into bodies of water and neighboring wetlands of the San Juan Bay, resulting in dead wildlife and a major health impact to the population. Environmental assessments conducted by the EPA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources (PR DNR) found dead wildlife and both aquatic and avian species, including several legally protected species, covered in oil. Millions of dollars in damage were seen by neighboring communities. After the event, about 600 people were using shelters in Cata\u00f1o, Guaynabo, and Toa Baja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event\nThe five workers that were present at the plant at the moment managed to escape in time. Several drivers were injured when the explosion shattered the glass in their cars, two people suffered minor injuries at the nearby Fort Buchanan of the U.S. Army, and four other people sought help for respiratory problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Initial Response\nThe call came to the Puerto Rico 9-1-1 office at 12:27 am. The Puerto Rico Fire Department stations of Bayam\u00f3n and Cata\u00f1o responded to the call once the tanks exploded. Later, due to the seriousness of the situation, PRFD had to make the decision to urgently call fire stations island-wide. Puerto Rico Police Department closed the De Diego Expressway due to the danger of the situation and a helicopter was patrolling the area. In less than one hour, firefighters from San Juan, Bayam\u00f3n, Cata\u00f1o, Toa Baja, Guaynabo, Carolina and Trujillo Alto responded to the urgent call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Initial Response\nOther stations from other parts of Puerto Rico such as Ponce, Caguas, Arecibo, Humacao, and even Ft. Buchanan also responded to the scene. One hundred and thirty firefighters, with the support of the Puerto Rico National Guard, responded to the fire. Fifteen hundred residents were evacuated from four adjacent communities. Also, San Juan, Carolina and Bayam\u00f3n city fire departments and the Luis Mu\u00f1oz Mar\u00edn Airport Crash and Rescue responded to the call. As a result of the smoke cloud, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration diverted plane traffic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Initial Response\nTo avoid further explosions, firefighters attempted to chill the remaining tanks to keep them from exploding. Also, dozens of fuel trucks were being moved from the area. Due to the smoke cloud, authorities evacuated several communities downwind from it, as well as 80 people living in a secure facility for Justice Department witnesses. Governor Luis Fortu\u00f1o canceled classes at nearby schools as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Local Response\nPuerto Rico Governor Luis Fortu\u00f1o declared a state of emergency, and activated the Puerto Rico National Guard to support firefighters and aid the injured. Also, schools in the San Juan Metro Area were cancelled for the day, some schools near the explosion area were closed until 4 days after the explosion due to people who were evacuated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Governmental Aid\nPresident Barack Obama separately declared a federal state of emergency in Puerto Rico, clearing the way for U.S. federal agencies to coordinate disaster relief and authorizing the use of federal funds. Fighting the fire has cost the local Puerto Rican government more than $6.4 million, as of October 25. The United States Army announced that the explosion and fire had closed nearby Fort Buchanan until further notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Event, Governmental Aid\nAuthorities built a temporary pipe to San Juan Bay in order to bring seawater to extinguish the fire, but the fire was extinguished before it could be used. Fire fighting foam was supplied from the nearby United States Virgin Islands. Luis Fortu\u00f1o announced on October 25 that the fire had been extinguished, and estimated the initial cost to fight the fire at $6.4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Investigation\nOn the days after the explosion, more than 60 agents from both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were dispatched to the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. in Bayam\u00f3n, just west of San Juan, to aid in the investigation, said ATF spokesman Marcial Orlando Felix. Several agents flew in from the U.S. Mainland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Investigation\nThe Caribbean Petroleum Corporation supplies most of Puerto Rico's oil and gasoline, which is marketed under the Gulf Oil brand name, but only 10 percent is managed from this plant. Government officials said at the time that Puerto Rico had enough fuel and diesel to last for 24 days after the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Investigation\nThe morning after the explosion, police started investigating a graffiti found near the Minillas Tunnel in San Juan with the message: \"Boom, fire, RIP, Gulf.\" However, the FBI later determined that they were not painted by anyone connected to the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Investigation\nOn October 30, 2009, the director of the FBI in Puerto Rico, Luis Fraticelli, said that more than 240 investigators analyzed the explosion and did not find evidence it was intentional. Authorities continued to investigate whether negligence was involved. The next month, officials from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board announced that a malfunctioning tank fuel gauge led to the explosion. The faulty equipment prevented workers from noticing that one of the tanks was overflowing before the fuel vapors ignited after coming into contact with electrical equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Aftermath\nThe day after the explosion, a lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court of San Juan against Caribbean Petroleum Corporation and MAPFRE Insurance Company. MAPFRE was later removed from the lawsuit. The action was filed by lawyers John Navares, Camilo Salas, and Daniel Becnel. On December 11, 2009, a third joint lawsuit was presented against Caribbean Petroleum Corp. by 1,000 defendants seeking $500 million in damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202099-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Cata\u00f1o oil refinery fire, Aftermath\nOn August 2010, Caribbean Petroleum Corporation filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The company cited debts of $500 million to $1 billion, against assets of $100 million to $500 million, according to the filing. The filing came after the company failed to comply with  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency orders to clean the site of the explosion. Caribbean Petroleum claimed their financial situation prevented them from doing the work, and EPA took over the cleaning process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season\nThe 2009 Copa Mustang was the 62nd season of Colombia's top-flight football league, the Categor\u00eda Primera A. The season is divided into two championships; Torneo Apertura and Torneo Finalizaci\u00f3n. Each tournament crowned a national champion and qualified for the 2010 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura began on February 6 and ended on June 28. Once Caldas won the tournament for their 3rd national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Torneo Apertura, Cuadrangular semifinals\nThe second stage of the Torneo Apertura was a quadrangular semifinal. The eight teams qualified from the first stage were placed into two groups of four. The top-two seeded teams were placed into separate groups, while the other qualified teams were pooled into odd and even seeds and placed into separate groups. Each group played against each other in a double round-robin format. The top team from each group will play each other in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Torneo Finalizaci\u00f3n\nThe Torneo Finalizaci\u00f3n began on June 10 and is scheduled to end in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Torneo Finalizaci\u00f3n, Cuadrangular semifinals\nThe second stage of the 2009 Copa Mustang II is a quadrangular semifinal. The eight teams qualified teams from the first stage were placed into two groups of four. The top-two seeded teams were placed into separate groups, while the other qualified teams were pooled into odd and even seeds and placed into separate groups. Each group played against each other in a double round-robin format. The top team from each group will play each other in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Relegation\nRelegation was determined by an average of the points obtained in the First Stages of the past six tournaments (three seasons). For the purposes of completing the relegation table, the 2007 and 2008 numbers of the 2008 Primera B champion (Real Cartagena) will be the same as the team that finished 16th in this relegation table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Relegation, Relegation/promotion playoff\nBy finishing 17th in the relegation table, Deportivo Pereira played a playoff against the 2009 Primera B runner-up Atl\u00e9tico Bucaramanga. The team that accumulated the most points over two legs will play in the Primera A for the 2010 season. If there is a tie in points, goal difference would be taken into account, followed by a penalty shootout. Atl\u00e9tico Bucaramanga host the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202100-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A season, Aggregate table\nThe aggregate table is the sum of all points and results throughout the entire season, including Cuadrangulares and Finals. This table determined the remaining berths for the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202101-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera B season\nThe 2009 Categor\u00eda Primera B season, officially known as the 2009 Copa Premier season for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th season since its founding as Colombia's second division football league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202101-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Categor\u00eda Primera B season, Promotion/relegation playoff\nAs the second worst team in the 2009 Categor\u00eda Primera A relegation table, Deportivo Pereira had to play a two-legged tie against Atl\u00e9tico Bucaramanga, the Primera B runners-up. As the Primera A team, Deportivo Pereira played the second leg at home. The winner competed in the Primera A for the 2009 season, while the loser competed in the Primera B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202102-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cavan County Council election\nAn election to Cavan County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202103-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament\nThe 2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Saint Br\u00e9lade, Jersey, Great Britain between 9 and 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202103-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202103-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament, Champions, Doubles\nFrederik Nielsen /  Joseph Sirianni def. Henri Kontinen /  Jarkko Nieminen, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, [10\u20132]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202104-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament \u2013 Doubles\nColin Fleming and Ken Skupski were the defending champions, but they lost to Henri Kontinen and Jarkko Nieminen in the final. The Finnish pair reached the final, where they lost to 4th seeds Frederik Nielsen and Joseph Sirianni 5\u20137, 6\u20133, [2\u201310].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202105-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caversham International Tennis Tournament \u2013 Singles\nAdrian Mannarino, who was the defending champion, chose to not compete this year. Jarkko Nieminen won in the final match 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20135, against St\u00e9phane Robert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202106-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caymanian constitutional referendum\nA referendum on a draft constitution was held in the Cayman Islands on 20 May 2009 alongside general elections. The new constitution was approved by 63% of voters, and by the Privy Council on 10 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202106-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Caymanian constitutional referendum, Background\nSince around 2000 the Cayman Islands had sought a new constitution, in order to cement the United Kingdom's possession of the islands. On 22 May 2008 the Caymanian government had announced the question and that it was aiming to hold the referendum in July. However, following an announcement on 27 June, the referendum was postponed until the 2009 general elections in order to give time to negotiate and agree the constitution with the UK. The negotiations took place in January and February 2009 and a consultation started in the islands on 11 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202106-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Caymanian constitutional referendum, Background\nOn 24 February the Legislative Assembly passed the Referendum (Constitutional Modernisation) Bill, 2009. The referendum was to be held in accordance with Article 29, paragraph 2 of the constitution, and required a majority to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202106-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Caymanian constitutional referendum, Results\nDo you approve the draft constitution which was agreed by the Cayman Islands constitution delegation and the government of the United Kingdom on 5th February, 2009 and tabled in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands on 11th February, 2009?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202107-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Caymanian general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 20 May 2009 alongside a referendum on a draft constitution. The opposition United Democratic Party defeated the incumbent People's Progressive Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202108-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cellular South Cup \u2013 Doubles\nLindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202109-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cellular South Cup \u2013 Singles\nLindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but was off the Tour indefinitely due to pregnancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202110-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Celtic Crusaders season\nThe Crusaders made their d\u00e9but season in the Super League in 2009, in their fifth year of existence. They also competed for the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202110-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Celtic Crusaders season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202110-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Celtic Crusaders season, Notes\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Game called off due to flooded pitch. ^\u00a0b:\u00a0Game rearranged to make the Leeds Rhinos available for the 2009 World Club Challenge. ^\u00a0c:\u00a0Game postponed in respect to the death of Wakefield player, Leon Walker, who received a fatal injury during the reserves' game. Game rearranged to 30 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202111-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Championships in Athletics\nThe 20th Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Cementos Progreso in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between June 12\u201313, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202111-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Championships in Athletics\nA total of 40 events were contested, 21 by men and 19 by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202111-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Championships in Athletics, Participation\nA total of 163 athletes from 7 countries were reported to participate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202111-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Women, Note\n\u2020: Event with no points for the team rankings because of the low number of participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202111-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Championships in Athletics, Team Rankings\nGuatemala won the overall team ranking and the teamranking in the men's category. Costa Rica won the team ranking in the women'scategory", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Nacional Flor Blanca \"Magico Gonzalez\" in San Salvador, El Salvador, between May 16\u201317, 2009. Organized by the Central American Isthmus Athletic Confederation (CADICA), it was the 22nd edition of the Junior (U-20) and the 17th edition of the Youth (U-18) competition. A total of 80 (including 8 exhibition) events were contested, 41 (including 2) by boys and 39 (including 6) by girls. Overall winner on points was \u00a0Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Junior, Girls (U-20)\n\u2020: Treated as exhibition contest (no medals and no points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 102], "content_span": [103, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Youth, Boys (U-18)\n\u2020: Treated as exhibition contest (no medals and no points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 100], "content_span": [101, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Youth, Girls (U-18)\n\u2020: Treated as exhibition contest (no medals and no points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 101], "content_span": [102, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Team trophies\nThe placing table for team trophy awarded to the 1st place overall team (boys and girls categories) was published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202112-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation\nA total number of 218 athletes were reported to participate in the event. Belize and Panam\u00e1 did not send athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202113-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics\nThe 13th Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics was hosted by the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) on June 18\u201319, 2009. It was originally to be held in Freeport, Grand Bahama. However, it had to be relocated to Nassau, New Providence, because the reconstruction of the stadium in Freeport could not be completed in time. This is already the third time, that the event is hosted by the Bahamas, after 1987 in Nassau, New Providence and 2001 in Freeport, Grand Bahama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202113-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics, Participation\nAlthough 20 teams were announced to participate, only 19 appeared in the listed results. Athletes from Anguilla, Honduras, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Turks and Caicos Islands did not earn a medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 87], "content_span": [88, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships (Spanish: XXII Campeonato CAC Atletismo) was the twenty second edition of the tournament and was held between 3 and 7 July in Havana, Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Event summary\nThe host country Cuba dominated the tournament, winning the most gold, silver, and bronze medals, and finishing with a total of 53 medals. Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago were joint second with two gold, five silver and seven bronze medals. Colombia, Puerto Rico and Saint Kitts and Nevis also picked up two gold medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Event summary\nChampionships records were broken in over a quarter of the athletics events, bringing a total of 11 new records. A handful of national records were also broken at the Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Event summary\nThree athletes won double golds: Virgil Hodge won the 200 metres and 4\u00d7100 metres relay titles, Emmanuel Callender won the 100 metres then helped the Trinidad and Tobago relay team to victory, while Yudileyvis Castillo completed a 5000 and 10,000 metres double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Event summary\nThe 2009 edition of the Championships saw a number of nations win their first gold medal in the history of the competition. Shara Proctor took the long jump gold for Anguilla, Tahesia Harrigan won the British Virgin Islands' first gold in the 100 metres, and the Saint Kitts and Nevis relay team won the country's first ever gold medal in women's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202114-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Event summary\nA number of invitational guest athletes competed at the Championships. Although each country could only have two representatives, it could also enter additional athletes. Their performances, however, were not eligible for medals at the competition. Cuba entered a number of athletes and relay teams in this way. One such competitor, Arnie David Giralt, recorded 17.46 m in the triple jump, which was ultimately better than gold medallist Alexis Copello's best jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the official results of the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics which took place on July 3\u20137, 2009 in Havana, Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nNote: Although each country could only have two representatives, Cuba, as the host, could also enter additional athletes. Their performances, however, were not eligible for medals at the competition. Results of such athletes are given below all others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Men's results, 100 meters\nHeats \u2013 July 3Wind:Heat 1: 0.0\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: +0.1\u00a0m/s, Heat 3: -0.8\u00a0m/s, Heat 4: 0.0\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 99], "content_span": [100, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Men's results, 200 meters\nHeats \u2013 July 5Wind:Heat 1: -0.3\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: +0.5\u00a0m/s, Heat 3: -0.5\u00a0m/s, Heat 4: -0.2\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 99], "content_span": [100, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Men's results, 110 meters hurdles\nHeats \u2013 July 3Wind:Heat 1: -0.3\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: -0.6\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 107], "content_span": [108, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Women's results, 100 meters\nHeats \u2013 July 3Wind:Heat 1: +1.1\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: -0.5\u00a0m/s, Heat 3: +1.0\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 101], "content_span": [102, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Women's results, 200 meters\nHeats \u2013 July 5Wind:Heat 1: -1.8\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: +0.2\u00a0m/s, Heat 3: +0.5\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 101], "content_span": [102, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202115-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results, Women's results, 100 meters hurdles\nHeats \u2013 July 3Wind:Heat 1: -0.3\u00a0m/s, Heat 2: -0.4\u00a0m/s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 109], "content_span": [110, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202116-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Bedfordshire Council election\nElections to Central Bedfordshire Council were held on 4 June 2009. This was the first elections to the newly formed council, with all 66 seats being up for election, elected in wards that matched the previous County Council electoral divisions, but with twice as many councillors being elected in each. All Councillors elected would serve a two year term, expiring in 2011, when ward boundaries would be reviewed. The Conservative Party won overall control of the council, managing to win 54 of 66 seats on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202116-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Bedfordshire Council election, Result\nThe overall turnout was 40.59% with a total of 171,328 valid votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202117-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Coast Mariners W-League season\nThe 2009 season is the Central Coast Mariners' second season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202117-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Coast Mariners W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202118-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central League Climax Series\nThe 2009 Central League Climax Series (CLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2009 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2009 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The CLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 17 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202119-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe 2009 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Central Michigan competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division. The team was coached by Butch Jones and played their home games in Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The Chippewas finished the regular season 11\u20132 and 8\u20130 in conference play, beat Ohio in the 2009 MAC Championship Game to win the MAC title and were invited to the GMAC Bowl where they defeated Sun Belt Champion Troy 44\u201341 in double overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202119-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nAt the end of the season, Jones departed Central Michigan to become the head coach of the University of Cincinnati. Steve Stripling, the defensive ends coach, became interim head coach and coached the GMAC bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202119-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Central Michigan Chippewas football team, Game summaries, Troy\nThis is the first ever meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202120-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam (women) season\nThe 2009 season was the fifth for the Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam Women (UCI code: CWT), which started in 2005 as the Univega Pro Cycling Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202120-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam (women) season, Results in major races, Women's World Cup 2009\nKirsten Wild finished 3rd in the individual and the team finished 1st in the teams overall standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202120-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam (women) season, UCI World Ranking\nThe team finished 1st in the UCI ranking for teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season\nThe 2009 season for the Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam, its first, began in February with the Tour of Qatar and ended in October with the Giro di Lombardia. Though they applied for UCI ProTour status after their formation, the team competed in 2009 as a UCI Professional Continental team with wildcard status. This means that although they were not automatically invited to UCI ProTour events, they were eligible to be invited. Despite not being a ProTour team, they effectively competed at the highest level available in the sport - seventeen of the twenty-four UCI World Ranking events invited the team, including all three Grand Tours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season\nThe team formed for the 2009 season after their title sponsor, Cerv\u00e9lo, was outbid to remain the bicycle frame sponsor of Team Saxo Bank. The owners of the company wanted to remain at the highest level of pro cycling, and formed the TestTeam. The team's leader is 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre, who was one of the first riders to join the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season\nCerv\u00e9lo TestTeam established itself as a strong classics team in its first year of existence, with three victories and seven other podium finishes in the spring season. The team was also prolific in winning individual stages in stage races, while they did not have an overall win in a stage race this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season\nThe team's general manager is Thomas Campana, who the owners of Cerv\u00e9lo actively sought to lead the team in the weeks after its formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Genesis of the new team\nThe founding of Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam was a direct reaction to Team CSC Saxo Bank switching to Specialized. A press release issued by the team at the time they were first founded indirectly stated that Specialized had outbid them to become Saxo Bank's new supplier. Sastre and Roger Hammond were two of the first cyclists to be rumored to be joining the new team. Cerv\u00e9lo cofounder Gerard Vroomen has said that bicycle manufacturers have for long not gotten much out of sponsorship and supplier deals with professional teams and that their money was better spent fronting their own team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Genesis of the new team\nHe approached Sastre two days after the conclusion of the 2008 Tour de France and told him about the new team, at which time Sastre verbally indicated to Vroomen that he would join the team. The other highly prominent cyclist on the squad is former Tour de France green jersey winner Thor Hushovd, who needed a new team following the collapse of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole after the 2008 season, and brought a number of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole riders to the team after signing. Hushovd has stated that Sastre's presence on the team legitimized it in his eyes and in those of other top pro cyclists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Genesis of the new team\nIn the six months between the end of the Tour de France and the team's first training camp in Portugal in January 2009, a roster of 25 riders and an entire supporting staff was hired. The team is one of the most broadly international in professional cycling, with 13 nations represented by those 25 riders. At the first presentation of the team in Portugal, Vroomen also evoked legendary cyclist Fausto Coppi having ridden for a team sponsored by the bicycle industry (that sponsor being Bianchi Bicycles) as a motivation for sponsorship of the new team. On February 11, the team was one of thirteen assigned \"Wild Card\" status by the UCI, allowing the organizers of UCI ProTour events to select them to race in their event despite not having ProTour status as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Spring classics\nRight away, Cerv\u00e9lo established itself as a strong classics team. Hushovd won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad as he outsprinted seven others in a chasing pack that caught two leading riders, including teammate Heinrich Haussler, just before the finish. The next day, the team finished on the podium at two different events, with Simon Gerrans finishing third in a sprint finish at the Gran Premio di Lugano and Jeremy Hunt likewise third in a sprint at Kuurne\u2013Brussels\u2013Kuurne. The team got its second victory at the Giro del Mendrisiotto two weeks later, as Ignatas Konovalovas soloed to the finish line ahead of a 12-man chase pack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Spring classics\nThe team took two of three podium places in Milan\u2013San Remo later in March. The race came down to its traditional closing sprint, which Haussler opened early with what seemed to be an insurmountable lead, only to be pipped for the victory by Mark Cavendish. Their speed was so great that they attained a 2-second gap over the other 32 riders in the sprint after only a few hundred meters of sprinting. Hushovd came in third. While the team was pleasantly surprised to get two podium places in the classic, Haussler himself appeared quite despondent at losing the sprint to Cavendish when talking to reporters after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Spring classics\nAt the Tour of Flanders in April, Haussler took another second place, although this one more resembled a victory as it was a 29-man sprint for second a minute behind the event's winner Stijn Devolder. Hushovd returned to the podium at Paris\u2013Roubaix, getting to the line ahead of Leif Hoste and Johan Van Summeren in third just over a minute behind Tom Boonen. Haussler also did well in this event, finishing seventh, three minutes behind Boonen. It was after this event that Haussler became the leader of the inaugural UCI World Ranking. Dominique Rollin made the podium at Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen, finishing third in a sprint behind Alessandro Petacchi and Kenny Van Hummel. In June, as the early season one-day races were coming to an end, Haussler claimed a victory in the GP Triberg-Schwarzwald, outsprinting seven breakaway companions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 901]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Spring classics\nIn addition to their victories and numerous podiums, the team also had several close misses to that level of success. Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, Brabantse Pijl, the Gran Premio Miguel Indurain, the Amstel Gold Race, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge all had Cerv\u00e9lo riders finish in the top ten. The only major race on their busy spring one-day schedule to not see a Cerv\u00e9lo rider finish at least this high was the Gran Premio dell'Insubria, where their best-placed rider was 13th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Fall races\nGerrans picked up his first career win in a one-day race at the GP Ouest-France, outsprinting four breakaway companions for the win. The team had come to the event thinking Hushovd would be their leader, but he pulled out mid-race after feeling himself to be on poor form. The win came a day after Emma Pooley of the women's Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam won the GP de Plouay-Bretagne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, One-day races, Fall races\nRoger Hammond took two other strong results in the fall season, second place at the Sparkassen Giro and fourth in Paris\u2013Bourges. The team also sent squads to the Sparkassen M\u00fcnsterland Giro, Paris\u2013Tours, the Giro del Piemonte, and the Giro di Lombardia, with Martin Reimer in ninth at Paris\u2013Tours their best result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nThe first race of the season, and thus in the history of Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam, was the Tour of Qatar. Though the race's general classification was won by Tom Boonen, Cerv\u00e9lo  was quite successful in the event as well. Roger Hammond won the second stage, into Al Khor Corniche, gaining the golden jersey as race leader in the process. It was seen at the time, and attributed by Hammond, as having been a total team effort. With four top-five finishes in the Tour of Qatar, Haussler won the event's points classification and was also the best young rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nBehind Tour of Qatar winner Boonen in the event's final general classification were five Cerv\u00e9lo riders second through sixth, giving the team a convincing victory in the team classification. The next stage race in which the team got a victory was the Tour of California, with Hushovd winning a mass sprint finish in the third stage, after Cerv\u00e9lo's leadout train successfully outmaneuvered Team Columbia\u2013High Road's. Haussler took two stage wins later in the month at the Volta ao Algarve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nIn March, Haussler got a stage win in Paris\u2013Nice, winning a mass sprint in Stage 2. The win briefly gave him the lead in the points classification, as he wore the green jersey in the following stage. The team next took stage wins in the Volta a Catalunya, which was concurrent to the Giro d'Italia. Hushovd, who had chosen to skip the Giro in order to better focus on the Tour de France, won the Stage 1 time trial and a mass sprint finish to Stage 6. He was notably defeated, however, in a sprint finish to Stage 5 by an unheralded rider from Team Katusha, Nikolay Trusov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nIn August, Jeremy Hunt won a stage in Danmark Rundt, while Roger Hammond finished on the event's final podium, in third. Though the team did not win any stage in the Vuelta a Burgos, they were the only to finish with two riders (\u00cd\u00f1igo Cuesta and Philip Deignan) in the top ten overall. After finishing second in the first stage of the Tour du Limousin, Xavier Florencio maintained his high positioning and finished on the event's final podium in third. A strong squad, headed by the team's most prolific winners Hushovd and Haussler, was sent to the Tour du Poitou-Charentes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nBrett Lancaster took third in the stage 3 individual time trial, to move into second overall, and held that position through the conclusion of the race. Hushovd and Haussler took back-to-back stage wins to close out the event, with Hushovd's stage 4 win coming the same day as the stage 3 time trial, just hours later. In the Tour of Missouri in September, Hushovd won the mass sprint finish to stage 3, becoming the only rider on the season to defeat Mark Cavendish in a group sprint on two occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nThe victory had been achieved by a change in tactics from the previous flat stages \u2013 instead of a proper leadout, members of Hushovd's train instead made repeated attacks in the race's final two kilometers. That, along with the finish's rolling profile, gave Hushovd his winning advantage, and the stage win briefly gave him the overall race lead. Despite a surprising defeat to Philippe Gilbert in a sprint finish to the race's concluding stage, Hushovd won the Tour of Missouri's points classification. The team did not get any more stage wins on the season, but Hammond finished on the final podium at two events, the Tour of Britain and Franco-Belge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Stage races\nThe team's success was not as frequent in short stage races as it was in one-day races; they sent squads to the Tour de Langkawi, Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, the Vuelta al Pa\u00eds Vasco, the Tour de Romandie, Bayern-Rundfahrt, the Tour de Suisse, the Ster Elektrotoer, the Giro del Trentino, Tour of Austria, the Brixia Tour, and the Tour of Ireland, but did not obtain a notable result in any of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nThe team was one of 22 to participate in the Giro d'Italia. Sastre was the team's leader in the race, with finishing on the podium his explicit goal. After mostly lying low in the race's first two weeks, with Sastre shadowing the other overall contenders to stay within striking distance, the team claimed four stage victories in the race's third week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nSimon Gerrans won stage 14, attacking his breakaway companions (including teammate Philip Deignan, who worked for Gerrans once it was clear that the two of them wouldn't be needed to support Sastre on the stage) to reach the race's summit finish first. Two days later, Sastre won what was called the Giro's queen stage, riding away on his own from race leader Denis Menchov and a group of overall contenders to the top of Monte Petrano to win the grueling, seven-hour-plus climbing-intensive stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nThough the victory at the time propelled Sastre into third in the overall classification, he lost significant time two days later on the stage into Blockhaus, seeming off the form he had had going into Monte Petrano. Sastre rebounded to win the stage into Mount Vesuvius, two days after Blockhaus, with another long solo attack. The Giro's final time trial was won by Ignatas Konovalovas, while Sastre finished the race in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia\nThanks to Sastre's stage wins and high overall placing, and Gerrans' and Konovalovas' stage wins, Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam was briefly the leader of the World Ranking team classification, in the standings published after the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nThe team was one of 20 invited to the Tour de France. Sastre, the champion from 2008, announced that he intended to defend that title in November 2008. His status as defending champion was largely overshadowed by the intra-squad rivalry from the Astana team between Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong, and by the latter's return to the Tour for the first time in four years. Armstrong and Sastre also touched off some controversy with each other, when Armstrong called the 2008 Tour \"a bit of a joke\" for Sastre having won it and for Christian Vande Velde finishing fifth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nSastre claimed Armstrong needed to show more respect after that statement. Armstrong eventually apologized to Sastre for the comments, which put the spat behind them. Sastre himself had a somewhat bizarre relationship with the media during the Tour, blasting them for calling the race \"boring\" and for focusing, in Sastre's opinion, too much on the Contador-Armstrong rivalry, while Sastre did not seem particularly motivated to win the race. Sastre apologized four days later, saying he was in a \"bad frame of mind\" when he made the comments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nOn the road, Hushovd emerged as a favorite to win the green jersey for a second time (having previously won it with Cr\u00e9dit Agricole in 2005). He won the uphill sprint finish to Stage 6 in Barcelona after having lost out to Mark Cavendish in sprints in Stages 2 and 3. Hushovd and Cavendish quickly emerged as the top if not only contenders for the points classification title, as Hushovd claiming two intermediate sprints in Stage 8 gave him the green jersey, but only by 11 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nCavendish reclaimed the jersey after his victory in Stage 11, his fourth, but Hushovd won it back after the medium-mountain Stage 13, when he finished in the yellow jersey group. The two were in a sprint for the green jersey points available for 13th place in Stage 14, after a 12-man breakaway survived to the finish line. Cavendish originally finished ahead of Hushovd, but was relegated to the last position in the peloton, 154th, for irregular sprinting, maneuvering Hushovd toward a barricade in the final 300 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nIn Stage 17, Hushovd staged a daring solo breakaway, after the morning's initial breakaway was caught, and stayed away over the second and third of five climbs on the course and, more importantly, got top points in two intermediate sprints. Though he lost almost 30 minutes at the finish line, the move gave him a 30-point lead in the points classification and the Stage 17 combativity award. Though he did not score again until his sixth-place finish on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, where Cavendish took his sixth stage win of the Tour, Hushovd was successful in coming away with the green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Tour de France\nApart from Hushovd, the team claimed another win in Stage 13, when Haussler attacked three breakaway companions 40 kilometers from the finish line and soloed to victory more than four minutes ahead of them. It was seen as a redemption for Haussler's near misses at Milan\u2013San Remo and the Tour of Flanders, and also garnered him the stage's combativity award. Sastre, for his part, was quiet, finishing in the top ten of a stage only once, in Stage 15. Sastre never threatened the race lead, finishing 17th overall, more than 26 minutes behind Contador as Tour champion. It is his worst Grand Tour time-wise since the 2006 Giro d'Italia, when he rode in support of Ivan Basso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe team was one of 22 invited to the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Roger Hammond contested sprints in two of the three mass-start stages held in the Netherlands, finishing third behind Gerald Ciolek in Stage 2 and seventh behind Greg Henderson in Stage 3. As the squad sent to the Vuelta lacked riders with any serious climbing prowess, the team was quiet, without so much as a top ten in a stage, until the undulating tenth stage into Murcia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe breakaway that morning comprised 19 riders from 18 teams, four of whom stayed out front to the finish \u2013 Alexander Vinokourov, Ryder Hesjedal, Jakob Fuglsang, and Cerv\u00e9lo rider Simon Gerrans. They were able to contest a sprint finish among themselves, with Gerrans coming around Vinokourov's early leadout to take the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe win gave Gerrans stage wins in all three Grand Tours for his career (having previously won a stage in the Giro d'Italia earlier this season, and in the 2008 Tour de France while riding for Cr\u00e9dit Agricole), and the team stage victories in all three Grands in its first season of existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe eighteenth stage also featured a Cerv\u00e9lo win from a breakaway, but this one had additional significance. After being part of a 16-man group that escaped on the first-category Puerto de Mijares, Philip Deignan continued to shed his breakaway companions on the way to the finish line, last outsprinting Roman Kreuziger for the stage win. Deignan had begun the day 18th in the overall classification, but finishing 9' 41\" ahead of the peloton on the day propelled him into ninth. It was the first Grand Tour stage win for an Irish cyclist since Stephen Roche in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202121-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nDeignan went on to hold ninth place through the conclusion of the race, the best overall finish for an Irishman since Roche in the 1992 Giro d'Italia and Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam's best-placed finisher. Deignan and Juan Jos\u00e9 Cobo were the only two of the top ten overall in the Vuelta to have won a stage in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202122-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chakwal mosque bombing\nThe 2009 Chakwal mosque bombing occurred on 5 April 2009, in Chakwal in the Punjab province of Pakistan. An initial casualty count of 30 was reported with at least 150 injuries. The mosque was reportedly \"packed\" at the time of the explosion. The attack occurred during a religious congregation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202122-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chakwal mosque bombing, Background\nThe bombing of the Chakwal mosque came just over a week after another mosque bombing in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The attack also occurred at a minority Shia mosque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202122-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chakwal mosque bombing, Background, Follow up\nThe attack came a day after eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in the capital Islamabad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202122-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chakwal mosque bombing, Attack\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility though security officials said they believed the attack to be a result of a suicide bombing. The attack also came only days after Tehreek-e-Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud warned of increased attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202123-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell\nThe 2009 Challenge Bell was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 17th edition of the Challenge Bell, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the PEPS de l'Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec City, Canada, from September 14 through September 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202123-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202123-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell, Champions, Doubles\nVania King /  Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1  def. Sofia Arvidsson /  S\u00e9verine Br\u00e9mond Beltrame, 6\u20131, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202124-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell \u2013 Doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King were the defending champions, but Gr\u00f6nefeld decided not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202124-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell \u2013 Doubles\nKing partnered with Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 and successfully defended her title, defeating Sofia Arvidsson and S\u00e9verine Br\u00e9mond Beltrame 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202125-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell \u2013 Singles\nNadia Petrova was the defending champion, but she retired, due to a viral illness, in the quarterfinals against Melinda Czink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202125-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Bell \u2013 Singles\nCzink went on to win her maiden WTA singles title, defeating Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup\nThe 2009 Challenge Cup (also known as the Carnegie Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 108th staging of the most prestigious knock-out competition in rugby league. Teams from England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia were included in the tournament. It began in January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup\nTeams from the Co-operative Championship received byes into round three along with four teams from France, and the winner of the Russian Championship. Teams from the Super League enter in round four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup\nDefending champions St. Helens lost in the semi-final 14 \u2013 24 to the Huddersfield Giants who went on to lose the final 16 \u2013 25 to the Warrington Wolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup\nFor 2009, the early stages of the competition was revamped. As the competition has expanded, there was now a preliminary round before the first round, and teams were placed into two 'pools' for the preliminary, first and second rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Pools\nPool B features 16 teams, which is a mixed bag of Rugby League Conference teams (including representatives from Scotland and Wales), armed forces representative teams and University teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Preliminary round, Pool A\nAll matches were due to be played on 3\u20134 January, however, winter weather forced the postponement of most of these fixtures due to frozen pitches. The round is divided into two pools, with several teams receiving a bye to the First Round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Preliminary round, Pool A\n\u2020: fixtures rearranged due to frozen pitches. New dates varied between teams, depending on clashes with league fixtures and weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Preliminary round, Pool B\nPool A Byes: West Hull, Thatto Heath Crusaders, Myton Warriors, Orchard Park and Greenwood, Eastmoor Dragons, East Hull, Sharlston Rovers, Kells, Hull Isberg, East Leeds, Pilkington Recs, West Bowling, Milford Marlins, Crossfields, Waterhead, Castleford Panthers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Preliminary round, Pool B\nPool B Byes: St Mary's University College, RAF, Warrington Wizards, Featherstone Lions, Hull University, Edinburgh Eagles, Northumbria University, Royal Navy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 1\nAll matches played on 24\u201325 January. The round was divided into two pools, with the teams that received a bye in the last round entering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 1, Pool A\n\u2020: fixtures rearranged for 31 January due to flooded pitches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 2\nDraw hosted by Wath Brow Hornets on 27 January, as the winners of the Cumbrian derby in the first round. Matches were played 14\u201315 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 3\nDraw was made live on BBC Radio Manchester on 17 February. All twenty Co-operative Championship teams were added into the competition in this round, as well as four teams from the French Elite One Championship, and winners of the 2008 Russian Championship, RC Lokomotiv Moscow. The matches were played on 7\u20138 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 4\nThe draw for round 4 was made live on 9 March on BBC Radio 5 Live. The sixteen victorious Co-operative Championship teams from round 3 were joined by all fourteen Super League XIV teams, as well as Wath Brow Hornets, the competition's only amateur club remaining at this stage, and Lezignan, making this the Round of 32. From this point, no more teams were added to the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nThe sixteen teams remaining after Round 4 were randomly paired against each other, in a draw held at RAF Leeming on 7 April involving AVM Chris Davison, Director of the RAF Sports Board, and Barrie McDermott, former Leeds and Great Britain and Ireland player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nAll matches were played on 9\u201310 May. The match between Gateshead Thunder and Oldham R.L.F.C. was due to be played at the Gateshead International Stadium, since Gateshead were the home team, however the match was rearranged to be played at the Darlington Arena due to a fixture clash between a playoff match for Gateshead F.C., who share the stadium with the rugby league side, and an athletics meeting. This was the first ever professional rugby league match to be held inside County Durham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nThe first match of this round was a repeat of a Super League fixture only thirteen days earlier. Wakefield Trinity took the initial lead, scoring ten points in six minutes, before Wigan levelled the game by the 24th minute. An early drop goal by Danny Brough edged Wakefield ahead by one point before Wigan scored their third try to lead 11\u201316 going into half time, following a successful conversion by Pat Richards. Wakefield scored their only try of the second half after 51 minutes, before Wigan scored two more tries to win the game by a margin of eleven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nOldham also started off taking the initial lead before losing to the Gateshead Thunder. Tommy Goulden gave the visitors a lead of six points following a successful conversion, and this gave them a 4\u20136 lead at half time following a Gateshead try which was unsuccessfully converted. Four tries and three goals from Gateshead after the break handed them a twenty-two-point lead, and two tries and a goal from Oldham were not enough to restore the deficit. A final Gateshead try ended the game with a firm 18-point margin in favour of Gateshead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nThe first game ever to be concluded via the golden point rule was played at The Jungle. Halifax earned a ten-point lead through a try and two goals, one of which a penalty. Castleford replied with a converted try, before Halifax kicked another penalty goal to lead 6\u201312. The home side again scored a try, which was converted, before Halifax kicked another penalty goal before half time. Halifax scored first with a try after the break, before Castleford scored another of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nAnother try for Halifax was countered with three Castleford tries, one of which was successfully converted to give them a 30\u201322 lead. Two converted Halifax tries put them into the lead by four points with ten minutes to play, but a try from Brent Sherwin on the 74th minute levelled the game at full-time. Sherwin also scored the drop goal three minutes into extra time to send Castleford through after an historic fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nHuddersfield won their early morning kick-off against Rochdale Hornets despite two late tries from the away side. Luke Robinson opened up the scoring on six minutes to score the first of five first-half tries for Huddersfield, to which Rochdale had no reply. Huddersfield scored again after 44 minutes to put themselves 32 points to nil ahead, before two converted Rochdale tries lowered the deficit to twenty points. Shaun Lunt finished the game off five minutes from full-time with a try that was successfully converted to provide himself with a hat-trick, and to give Huddersfield a comfortable win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nLike Oldham and Wakefield had done the day before, Featherstone Rovers took the initiative before losing to the opposition. Featherstone took a four-point lead thanks to a try which was unsuccessfully converted before Warrington scored twenty unanswered first-half points with four tries and two conversions. Chris Hicks converted his own try shortly after the break to put Warrington 4\u201326 into the lead before Featherstone replied with what was to be their final try. Warrington proceeded to run in five tries before full-time, all of which were converted by Hicks, to win the game by almost a half-century of points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nSalford City Reds had lost three of their previous matches prior to this round's fixture, but this did not stop eight Salford City Reds players touching down for tries as they delivered the widest winning margin of the round away to Batley. Eight tries and eight goals, seven of which made up John Wilshere's ten goal match tally, scored by Salford City Reds went unanswered as Batley went into half-time fighting a 48-point deficit. Two further converted tries from Salford City Reds, including Mark Henry's fourth try, came before Batley's only try of the afternoon, which was not converted. Luke Adamson touched down two minutes from full-time to give a winning margin of 62 in favour of Salford City Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nOf the four Co-operative Championship sides facing Super League opposition on the Sunday, Sheffield Eagles came closest to winning, with Hull Kingston Rovers having to regalvanise themselves to prevent a Sheffield come-from-behind victory. The Sheffield Eagles only scored one converted try in the first forty minutes compared to the Hull Kingston Rovers' four tries and three goals which had given them a sixteen-point advantage going into half time, but Sheffield struck back quickly after the break with a converted try in the 41st minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nSheffield scored again fifteen minutes later with a converted try to put them only four points behind, before Shaun Briscoe went over the try-line and Michael Dobson converted to restore a ten-point advantage. Sheffield scored another try to lower the gap to four points again, but a late Rovers try in the 77th minute ended the game to advance them through to the quarterfinals instead of Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Round 5\nIn a repeat of the 2007 Challenge Cup Final, St. Helens overcame French opposition in the outfit of the Catalans Dragons to reach the quarterfinals and maintain their four-year unbeaten cup run. Two tries within ten minutes gave an eight-point advantage to the home side before Thomas Bosc kicked a penalty to reduce the lead to 8\u20132. Catalans scored a converted try in the 21st minute to level game, before two tries and a goal for St Helens meant an 18\u20138 half time scoreline. Catalans failed to score at all in the second half, whilst to the contrary, St Helens ran in four tries, two of which were scored by Paul Wellens. All of the second half tries were converted by Sean Long to give the home side a winning margin of 34 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe sixth round of the Challenge Cup involves the eight teams who won their respective matches in the previous round. This is the final round where home field advantage is given, due to the requirement that all semi-final matches must be played at a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe draw was made live on BBC Two at the GPW Recruitment Stadium on 10 May. Chris Joynt, four times winner of the Challenge Cup with St. Helens drew the home sides, while Andy Farrell OBE, four times winner with the Wigan Warriors, drew the away sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe matches were played on 29\u201331 May, during the hottest weekend of the year so far temperature-wise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nA sunny Friday evening at the JJB Stadium provided host to the round's first match, between the Wigan Warriors and Salford City Reds. Salford City Redswere victorious in their last three games going into this match, with Wigan hoping to get back to winning ways after a defeat to Warrington at the Halliwell Jones Stadium. Both players were also missing a player, Wigan's Stuart Fielden for disciplinary reasons, and Darrell Goulding for Salford City Reds, on loan from Wigan, who was cup-tied for playing against Barrow Raiders earlier on in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nA line break from Gareth Hock gave the home side a six-point lead after two minutes, following a successful conversion from Pat Richards. Salford City Reds replied nine minutes later with a line break of their own, eventually resulting in a try for Luke Adamson, converted by John Wilshere. It was to be the only Salford City Reds score of the match, but Wigan failed to take full control after forty minutes in only scoring one further try from Pat Richards on the wing to make the score 10\u20136 on the half-time hooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nHowever, Wigan scored eighteen unanswered points in the second half, with Pat Richards kicking a goal on the 49th minute, and scoring two more tries on the 59th and 70th minute to complete his hat-trick, the latter of which was converted. Hock scored another try of his own after 76 minutes, with Richards kicking the conversion to bring his individual total for the match to twenty, booking Wigan's place in the semi-finals for the first time since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nA Lee Briers drop goal in extra-time was all that separated Hull Kingston Rovers and Warrington Wolves at \"New\" Craven Park on the Saturday in a closely fought game. Both sides were in winning form, with Warrington Wolves having assembled three wins in a row, and Hull Hull Kingston Rovers having won their previous six matches. The two sides had recent history in the competition, when in 2006, Warrington Wolves were knocked-out by Hull Kingston Rovers, who were then in National League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe home side were first on the scoresheet after centre Kris Welham crossed the line in the 3rd minute. The conversion attempt was successful from Michael Dobson, before Vinnie Anderson replied for Warrington Wolves on the 17th minute to put the scores level following a Briers conversion. In spite of attacking play from both sides, the game ended at half time 6\u20136. Warrington Wolves seized the initiative four minutes after the break thanks to a converted Jon Clarke try, however, Hull Kingston Rovers levelled the game again five minutes later when Clint Newton crossed over the tryline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe home side pressed a ten-point advantage with two 53rd and 60th minute tries from Ben Galea and Jake Webster respectively, the latter of which was the only unsuccessful conversion of the match. Warrington Wolves matched Hull Kingston Rovers with two tries of their own in five minutes from Matt King and Chris Bridge, to put them two points ahead with ten minutes left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0028-0003", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nA penalty conceded to the side of Warrington Wolves 's left upright was kicked by Hull Kingston Rovers's Dobson three minutes from full-time to force the game into a golden point situation, the score being 24\u201324 at the final hooter. Hull Kingston Rovers did not gain enough territory to allow Dobson a chance at a drop goal, whilst conversely Briers missed three attempts, once to the right side facing him and twice to the left side of the uprights, before landing his fourth attempt five minutes into extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nIn contrast, the match at the Gateshead International Stadium could barely have been more one-sided, with St. Helens running out eventual winners against the Gateshead Thunder. St Helens scored twice in the first five minutes, with tries from Matthew Gidley and James Roby, both conversions missed. A brief lull in the game was ended with another St Helens try after 21 minutes from fullback Paul Wellens, and this was converted by Sean Long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nChris Flannery scored in the 25th minute, before a barrage of three St Helens tries in five minutes from Maurie Fa'asavalu, Kyle Eastmond and Leon Pryce respectively put the visitors 0\u201336 ahead following three conversions from Eastmond. Gateshead scored their solitary try before half-time when Ben McAlpine scored, and Nick Youngquest converted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe second half saw thirty unanswered points from St Helens with five tries in the 51st, 54th, 57th, 64th and 72nd minutes, all of which were successively converted by Eastmond to continue St Helens' four-year unbeaten cup run, finish the score at 6\u201366, and end any chance of a Co-operative Championship team reaching Wembley this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nThe local derby between Huddersfield and Castleford was the solitary game on the Sunday, due to BBC coverage. Huddersfield were fresh from a 48-point winning margin over Wakefield Trinity from the Super League round the week before, whilst Castleford had not won a match during regular time in four games. Despite the form book, it was Castleford who gained the early advantage thanks to an aerial take from Michael Shenton following Rangi Chase's kick, before crashing over the tryline on the way back down to give Castleford a 0\u20134 lead after three minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nSeveral passages later, Kevin Brown dummied his way for a try in front of the uprights which was successfully converted by Brett Hodgson. Huddersfield had a disallowed try before Castleford kicked a penalty two minutes before half-time to make a 6\u20136 scoreline at the break. Huddersfield again had a try disallowed for a forward pass, before Brett Ferres scored his only try, and two Kirk Dixon goals gave the visitors a 6\u201314 lead after fifty minutes. Huddersfield did not concede again, and following a twenty-minute lull, scored a try thanks to Stephen Wild, which was successfully converted. Determined Castleford defending kept Huddersfield out for nine further minutes, before Danny Kirmond scored the match winning try in the 77th minute to send Huddersfield through to the semi-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals\nThe four teams remaining play against each other for straight access into the Final. All matches in this round are played on a neutral venue. The draw was made live on BBC Two following coverage of the quarterfinal match between Huddersfield Giants and Castleford Tigers on 31 May. Only nine days after losing their Super League XIV tie at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, Wigan Warriors were drawn against the Warrington Wolves, whilst a repeat of the 2006 Challenge Cup Final was made with St. Helens versus Huddersfield Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals\nOne match is played on Saturday 8 August, the other is played the day after. The dates and venues were confirmed on 2 June, with Wigan Warriors vs Warrington Wolves being played in Widnes at the Stobart Stadium Halton on the Saturday, and St Helens vs Huddersfield being played on the Sunday at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals, Wigan vs Warrington\nA Matt King hat-trick ended Wigan's dreams of going to Wembley in 2009, putting Warrington into their first Challenge Cup final since 1990, despite the return of Wigan's captain Sean O'Loughlin following a knee injury. The video referee declined a Warrington try from Ben Westwood on grounds of obstruction, and Wigan also had a disallowed try from winger Pat Richards, but it was Wigan who took the initiative thanks to a side-step from Phil Bailey after seven minutes; the try was successfully converted by Richards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals, Wigan vs Warrington\nTwo further points were added to Wigan's tally following a penalty, to give an 8\u20130 lead. Warrington rallied to score twenty-four unanswered points by the half-time break, with two tries from King as well as tries from Louis Anderson, Lee Briers and Michael Cooper, before King completed his hat-trick in the 48th minute to give the Wolves a 24-point lead. Sam Tomkins, in his first season of first-team rugby, started a Wigan fightback as he caught an offload from the right wing by George Carmont before grounding the ball beneath the sticks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals, Wigan vs Warrington\nChris Riley was stretchered off for concussion and whiplash after colliding with Joel Tomkins' knee, and Wigan took advantage of this with two further tries from Andy Coley and Thomas Leuluai which were both converted to reduce Wigan's arrears to six points. Briers kicked a drop goal the set afterwards to give Warrington safety, before the game was sealed with a Chris Hicks try to give the full-time score of 26\u201339.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals, St Helens vs Huddersfield\nA Francis Meli hat-trick was not enough to extend St Helens' four-year unbeaten run in the Challenge Cup with a victory in Warrington. Man of the match Brett Hodgson opened up the points tally with a try in the fifth minute, although he failed to convert it. Meli scored on the wing five minutes later to level the game following another missed conversion from Kyle Eastmond. Stephen Wild scored the only other try of the first-half following a line break from Kevin Brown, which was converted to give Huddersfield a 4\u201310 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Semi finals, St Helens vs Huddersfield\nHuddersfield extended the advantage further, scoring two tries from Leroy Cudjoe and Brown in the first ten minutes of the second half, although Brett Hodgson again missed both. Meli cross the line again on the wing to bring the score to 10\u201318. A strong defensive performance from Huddersfield prevented another St Helens score, and Wild's second try three minutes from full-time gave the Giants a 14-point advantage. St Helens' solitary try-scorer Meli scored on the wing straight from the kick-off to complete his hat-trick, but there was not enough time for a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe Carnegie 2009 Challenge Cup Final was played on 29 August, eight rounds and almost eight months after the tournament started in its preliminary stages. Following tradition, the match was held in London at Wembley Stadium. The game finished with Warrington Wolves defeating the Huddersfield Giants 16\u201325 following two controversial disallowed tries for the Giants, which if awarded would have won them the game if at least one conversion attempt was good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Television coverage\nSelected matches were televised solely by the BBC in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Television coverage\n2 Coverage in Northern Ireland (including analogue) was televised an hour later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202126-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup, Television coverage\nThe competition was also televised by Nine Network in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final\nThe 2009 Carnegie Challenge Cup Final was played on 29 August 2009 at Wembley Stadium, in London between Huddersfield Giants and Warrington Wolves. It was the first Challenge Cup final since 1985\u201386 that any of the 'Big Four' (Bradford, Leeds, St. Helens, and Wigan) had failed to reach. It was the second final in four years for Huddersfield following their appearance in the 2006 final, but their first appearance at Wembley Stadium in forty-seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final\nEn route to the final, Warrington defeated Wigan 39\u201326 in their semi final at the Stobart Stadium Halton in Widnes on 8 August 2009, and on the day after Huddersfield beat holders St Helens 24\u201314 in Warrington's Halliwell Jones Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final\nDue to the way teams at different professional levels are introduced into the tournament, the number of rounds needed to reach a Challenge Cup final depends on the team, and the league they play in. For a Super League team to reach a final, they must have played four rounds. Five rounds must have been played for a team playing in the Co-operative Championship, and for an amateur or foreign club, the number varies depending on which round they entered the competition. Because both Warrington Wolves and Huddersfield Giants are Super League clubs, they both entered the competition in the fourth round, receiving byes in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nWarrington's cup-run started with a home tie to Championship One part-timers the York City Knights. Their last meeting in the Challenge cup in 2000 resulted in a near-whitewashing 84\u20131 defeat. Lee Briers replaced Michael Monaghan at scrum-half while Hicks took over kicking duties, with Martin Gleeson left out over speculation of a move to Wigan Warriors, which eventually came true. Warrington scored first thanks to a try from Simon Grix in the second minute, but York struck back immediately afterwards to take the lead with an effort from fullback; Danny Ratcliffe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nVinnie Anderson and Ben Harrison both scored tries which were converted before sloppy defence allowed Paul Hughes to score an opportunist York try midway through the first half. Warrington took a half time lead of 28\u201310 thanks to Ben Westwood and the first try of the season for Michael Cooper. Warrington kept a clean sheet in the second half, as they doubled their first half tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nTries from Chris Bridge, Lee Briers, Vinnie Anderson, Louis Anderson and Paul Johnson took the game away from York, a cause not helped by the sending off of prop; Danny Ekis after 64 minutes The game finished 52\u201310, with Garreth Carvell returning from injury to pick up the man of the match award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nTheir fifth round match was a fixture away at the Featherstone Rovers' Chris Moyles Stadium in which they again scored 56 points. The game was fullback Richard Mathers' debut for the Wolves following his transfer from the Wigan Warriors in exchange for Martin Gleeson. Rovers scored first thanks to Tommy Saxton on the wing, and threatened to score another, although an interception from Hicks was returned for a 70-metre try. Monoghan then set up Mathers in support who scored the away team's second try. A deflected kick picked up by Westwood provided another Warrington try for Monaghan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nAlthough a knock-on from Chris Riley gave the Featherstone Rovers good field position, they failed to score, and Warrington extended the lead to 8\u201320 at half time thanks to a try from Paul Wood. Warrington scored first after the break following some tidy passing between Monoghan and Jon Clarke, with Hicks eventually scoring the try, before the Featherstone Rovers scored their second and last try of the match through Tom Haughey. A further Warrington try from Hicks, as well as a try worked by ex-Wigan pair Mickey Higham and Mathers were followed by tries from Harrison, Riley and Bridge to end the game comprehensively in Warrington's favour, with ten tries in total being scored by the away side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nOn 30 May, Hull witnessed only the second ever Challenge Cup game to be decided by the golden point rule, as Hull Kingston Rovers proved a tougher outfit than both of Warrington's previous sub-Super League opponents. Hull Kingston Rovers started better, and seized the initiative after just three minutes, with Paul Cooke's long pass to Peter Fox proving an opportunity for Kris Welham. Despite multiple handling errors from Simon Grix, the home side failed to extend their lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nTwo goal-line dropouts eventually lead to Vinnie Anderson crashing over the try-line on the 16th minute, in front of the post; Chris Bridge converted to level the scores 6\u20136, which it remained until half-time thanks to a last resort tackle from fullback Shaun Briscoe to deny Ben Harrison a try. Monaghan retreated from the match in the 31st minute, but Warrington took the lead at the start of the second half when Jon Clarke finished off a Matt King break on the wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nHull Kingston Rovers replied with two tries of their own in five minutes, from Clint Newton, and later Ben Galea following a kick from Paul Cooke which deceived Richie Mathers. With the scores already 18\u201312, Rovers extended their lead further on the hour with a break that covered half the \"New\" Craven Park pitch from Jake Webster. Matt King plucked Lee Briers' kick into the corner for a Warrington try and Chris Bridge made the scores level with another try in the 70th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0005-0003", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nBridge converted his own try to give Warrington a slender two-point lead before a penalty conceded for offside provided Michael Dobson with an opportunity to level the game again. A knock on from the resulting kick-off gave Lee Briers a chance to land a drop goal, but he sliced the ball, forcing the game into extra time. He missed two further chances, before kicking the ball between the uprights in front of the visiting Warrington fans in the 85th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nThis victory set up a semi-final date with Wigan Warriors, the most successful team in the Challenge Cup's history, at the Stobart Stadium Halton in Widnes. Despite a third minute Ben Westwood try disallowed by video referee Phil Bentham for obstruction, Warrington again fell behind before replying strongly, with Phil Bailey returning from injury to give Wigan a 6\u20130 lead after seven minutes, before Pat Richards scored his 1000th Wigan career point with a penalty goal to extend the lead by a further two points. Bailey was soon withdrawn with an injury to his Achilles which ended his match day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nThree tries came in quick succession as Warrington struck back, with Matt King bursting through four defenders, Louis Anderson taking advantage of a mistake from Amos Roberts, and Briers weaving through the defensive line to take the scores to 18\u20138 following three successful conversions from Chris Bridge. Although Andy Coley was held over the try-line, Wigan's attack on the Warrington line was otherwise dull, and further tries from Michael Cooper and Matt King put the game beyond the Warriors by half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Route to final, Warrington Wolves\nWarrington scored first in the second half, with Matt King gathering the high ball from Lee Briers unopposed to complete his hat-trick. A spirited Wigan fightback followed thanks to Warrington handling errors in their own half, with Sam Tomkins gathering his own kick for a try in the 55th minute, Andy Coley scoring from a Paul Prescott offload, and Thomas Leuluai defeating Richie Mathers in a one-on-one tackle. Richards' perfect kicking game reduced the margin to just six points, before a Lee Briers drop goal from thirty metres out and a Chris Hicks try put the game once again beyond Wigan's reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match\nThe cup final curtain raiser, a match contesting the Year 7 boys Champion Schools was between Outwood Grange College of Wakefield and Castleford High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match\nClassical soprano Hayley Westenra was the headline pre-match entertainment, performing the cup final anthem, \"Abide with Me\", and the British national anthem. Supporting Westenra were the Black Dyke Band and the ACM Gospel Choir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match\nPlayers from the 1975 final, played by Warrington and Widnes and including Mike Nicholas, 'Big' Jim Mills and Doug Laughton, were re-united before kick-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match\nThe coaches for both teams were from the same part of New South Wales and had even played together for the St. George Dragons in their 1993 NSWRL season grand final loss to the Brisbane Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match\nThe BBC broadcasting team included commentators Dave Woods and Jonathan Davies, presenters Clare Balding, Robbie Paul, Damian Johnson and Tanya Arnold and experts Justin Morgan and Brian Noble, the coaches of Hull Kingston Rovers and Wigan Warriors respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, First half\nWarrington kicked off and after the game's first set of six tackles, Brett Hodgson's clearing kick was charged down by Louis Anderson who re-gathered and was tackled close to Huddersfield's try-line. Moments later, in only the second minute of the game, Richie Mathers from close range barged over between the uprights and the video referee ruled that a Huddersfield hand had not prevented him from grounding the ball on the line. Chris Bridge's straightforward conversion put the Wolves ahead 6\u2013nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, First half\nJust on the seven-minute mark, after repeat sets attacking Warrington's line, Huddersfield's Shaun Lunt appeared to have scored a similar try, forcing his way to the line beneath the uprights to put the ball down, although it was controversially denied by the video referee, who ruled a double movement. However, in the 9th minute, the Giants were working the ball out of their own half when David Faiumu offloaded from a tackle to a flying Brett Hodgson who then drew the fullback in and passed to Lunt who outran the defence to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, First half\nHodgson successfully kicked the extras so the scores were level at 6 all. Only about two minutes later Warrington replied with another close-range try, this time from Michael Monaghan running from dummy half and stretching out from the tackle to put the ball down. Bridge made no mistake with the conversion so the Wolves' lead was 12\u20136. Then in the fifteenth minute Warrington scored again, moving the ball out to the right to Chris Hicks' wing where he crossed, improving the field position for his kicker before putting the ball down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0012-0003", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, First half\nBridges kicked the goal, pushing the Wolves' lead out to 18\u20136, with less than a quarter of the match played. Shortly after, Warrington appeared to have scored again when Matt King leapt for a Lee Briers bomb and came down with the ball over the line. However the video referee ruled that he'd taken the ball from a Huddersfield defender's hands in mid-air so it was disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0012-0004", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, First half\nIn the 24th minute, Huddersfield got repeat sets in Warrington's half and worked the ball out to the left wing where David Hodgson crossed untouched, but again the video referee disallowed the try, this time the video referee ruled that a member of the Warrington defence had been taken out. Huddersfield continued to dominate possession and field position and eventually, less than four minutes from half-time, after keeping the ball alive they scored out on the right hand side through Brett Hodgson. He missed the difficult conversion attempt so the score was 18\u201310 in favour of Warrington and would remain at that till the half-time siren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, Second half\nAfter the break, the contest became quite an even arm wrestle and no points were scored until the sixtieth minute, when from about fifteen metres out from Huddersfield's line, Michael Monaghan ran from dummy half then passed from the tackle to Vinnie Anderson who hit a big gap and crashed over under the posts. The kick for Bridge was simple so the score was 24\u201310 in Warrington's favour. Four minutes later Huddersfield were penalised for a high tackle on Lee Briers by Scott Moore less than thirty metres from their line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, Second half\nWarrington decided to take the shot at goal and Bridge missed his first kick of the day so the score remained unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, Second half\nThe Wolves then successfully kept Huddersfield penned up in their own half, protecting their lead, until the seventy-seventh minute when the Giants got a consolation try: a Warrington mistake saw Huddersfield get a set of six in the opposition half and after keeping the ball alive and sending it through the hands out to David Hodgson on the wing, he stepped outside one defender and inside the next before reaching an arm out of the third defender's tackle to bounce the ball off the try-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0013-0003", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Match, Second half\nThe video referee was again called upon to award the try and Brett Hodgson's sideline conversion was successful, bringing the score to 24\u201316. With just over a minute remaining, Warrington were down close to Huddersfield's line when the ball went to Lee Briers who kicked a field goal, putting the final score at 25 - 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202127-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Cup Final, Man of the Match\nThe Lance Todd Trophy is awarded to the Man of the Match in each year's Challenge Cup final and this year Michael Monaghan became the third Australian in history to win it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202128-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour\nThe 2008 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was started as the Satellite Tour in 1986 and was renamed the Challenge Tour ready for the start of the 1990 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202128-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour\nThe Challenge Tour Rankings was won by Italy's Edoardo Molinari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202128-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour, Tournament schedule\nThe table below shows the 2009 Challenge Tour schedule. The season started in March and was made up of 24 tournaments played in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Central Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202128-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour, Tournament schedule\nThe numbers in brackets after winners' names indicate the player's total number of wins on the Challenge Tour including that event. No-one accumulates many wins on the Challenge Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202129-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour graduates\nThis is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2009. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2009 earned their European Tour card for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202129-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour graduates\n* European Tour rookie in 2010T = Tied \u00a0 The player retained his European Tour card for 2011 (finished inside the top 117). The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2011, but retained conditional status (finished between 118-150). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2011 (finished outside the top 150).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202129-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Tour graduates\nMolinari won three Challenge Tour events in 2009. The players ranked 16th through 20th were placed below the Qualifying School graduates on the exemption list, and thus could improve their status by competing in Qualifying School; Julien Guerrier improved his status in this way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy\nThe 2009 Challenge Trophy was be contested for in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from October 7 to 12, 2009. The round robin group seedings were based on last years performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy\nDay 2 saw extreme snow and wind which forced organizers to adjust the schedule to the SaskTel Indoor pitch. Games were also shortened to 60 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Teams and rosters\nThe Nationals are seeded based on last seasons performance. For 2009 the seedings are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Teams and rosters, Hellas SC\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Teams and rosters, Royal-S\u00e9lect de Beauport\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Teams and rosters, Calgary Callies\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, British Columbia\nThe BC Provincial Cup is held in the spring of the season. This year's event went from April 4 to May 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Alberta\nThe Mike Traficante Challenge Cup will be held in Edmonton from 4 Sep to 7 Sep, 2009. The teams will be seeded from the Alberta Major Soccer League. The groups will be S1, N2 and N3 in one and N1, S2 and S3 in the other. Seeds S3 and N3 are open to challenge from any district. This year, the teams in the AMSL include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Saskatchewan\nThe Saskatchewan representative shall be determined through the Saskatchewan Premier Soccer League. Six teams will compete this season including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Manitoba\nThe Manitoba representative will be determined through the MSA 2009 Senior Provincial Championship. This cup competition will take place in August as the team entry's are due 4 August 2009. Watch for teams in the  to be entered. Seeding is determined by 15 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Manitoba\nHellas SC of Manitoba qualified after a 1-0 extra time win over Lucania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Ontario\nThe Ontario representative is determined by the Ontario Cup. This is a single knock-out tournament with the finals scheduled for 20-Sep-2009 at 8:00pm at the Soccer Centre in Vaughan. This year's event features 62 teams entering the bracket at various levels determined by geography. Before the First round is a Preliminary round and an Extra Preliminary round for some regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Ontario\nThe final match saw a repeat of 2008 between London AEK and Real Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Qu\u00e9bec\nThe AAA Quebec Cup (aka Coupe du Qu\u00e9bec Saputo AAA) is the cup competition that determines the Quebec representative at the Canadian Club Nationals. The first 2 rounds are home and away matches, while the last 3 rounds are single matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, New Brunswick\nDid not send a team in 2008 and so are unranked for 2009. Deadline for teams to register is 15-July-2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Prince Edward Island\nThe Avondale Islanders seen to be the only team competing at a high enough level and will probably represent PEI again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202130-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenge Trophy, Qualified teams, Nova Scotia\nThe winner of the Nova Scotia Soccer League will represent the province at the National Challenge Trophy. This year's competition will include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202131-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger ATP Iquique\nThe 2009 Challenger ATP Iquique was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor Clay courts. It was part off the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Iquique, Chile between 19 and 25 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202131-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger ATP Iquique, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202132-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger ATP Iquique \u2013 Doubles\nJean-Julien Rojer and Johan Brunstr\u00f6m won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202133-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger ATP Iquique \u2013 Singles\nM\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Guillermo Hormaz\u00e1bal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202134-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby\nThe 2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour, offering totals of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Granby, Quebec, Canada between July 27 and August 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202134-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 86], "content_span": [87, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202134-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player entered the singles main draw with a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 86], "content_span": [87, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202134-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby, Champions, Doubles\nColin Fleming /  Ken Skupski def. Amir Hadad /  Harel Levy, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(8\u20136)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202135-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby \u2013 Doubles\nPhilip Bester and Peter Polansky were the defending champions but they chose to not compete together this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202135-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby \u2013 Doubles\nBester played with Kamil Pajkowski, but they lost to Lester Cook and Michael Yani in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202135-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby \u2013 Doubles\nPolansky teamed up with Bruno Agostinelli and this pair lost in the first round too. They were eliminated by Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Alexandre Kudryavtsev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202135-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby \u2013 Doubles\nColin Fleming and Ken Skupski defeated Amir Hadad and Harel Levy in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202136-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby \u2013 Singles\nAlex Bogdanovic didn't attempt to defend his 2008 title. Xavier Malisse won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Kevin Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202137-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil\nThe 2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador between 9 and 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202137-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202137-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil, Champions, Doubles\nJ\u00falio C\u00e9sar Campozano /  Emilio G\u00f3mez def. Andreas Haider-Maurer /  Lars P\u00f6rschke, 6\u20137(2), 6\u20133, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202138-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil \u2013 Doubles\nThe 2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador between 9 and 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202138-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil \u2013 Doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Decoud and Santiago Giraldo were the defending champions, but Giraldo competed only in singles. Decoud chose to start with Eduardo Schwank. They withdrew before match against J\u00falio C\u00e9sar Campozano and Emilio G\u00f3mez in the quarterfinal. Campozano and G\u00f3mez, who received a Wild Card into the doubles draw, won this tournament. They defeated Andreas Haider-Maurer and Lars P\u00f6rschke 6\u20137(2), 6\u20133, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202139-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil \u2013 Singles\nSergio Roitman, the defending champion, lost to Mart\u00edn Alund already in the first round. Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti defeated Santiago Giraldo 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(4) in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202140-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg\nThe 2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cherbourg, France between 2 and 8 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202140-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202140-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg, Champions, Men's doubles\nArnaud Cl\u00e9ment /  \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin def. Martin Fischer /  Martin Slanar, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20133]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202141-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg \u2013 Doubles\nFlorin Mergea and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, but they chose not to defend their title. Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20133], against Martin Fischer and Martin Slanar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202142-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger DCNS de Cherbourg \u2013 Singles\nThierry Ascione was the defending champion, but lost in the final 2\u20136, 4\u20136, to Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202143-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso\nThe 2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Salinas, Ecuador between January 12 and January 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202143-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202143-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso, Champions, Men's Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana def. Juan Pablo Brzezicki /  Iv\u00e1n Miranda, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202144-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4), against Juan Pablo Brzezicki and Iv\u00e1n Miranda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202145-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Salinas Diario Expreso \u2013 Singles\nIv\u00e1n Miranda was the defending champion; however, he lost in the second round to Benjamin Becker. Santiago Giraldo was the defending champion, and won in the final over Michael Russell, 6-3, 6-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202146-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta\nThe 2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Puebla, Mexico between 23 and 29 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202146-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202146-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta, Champions, Doubles\nVasek Pospisil /  Adil Shamasdin def. Guillermo Olaso /  Pere Riba, 7\u20136(7), 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202147-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta \u2013 Doubles\nNicholas Monroe and Eric Nunez were the defending champions, but decided to not compete this year. Vasek Pospisil and Adil Shamasdin defeated Guillermo Olaso and Pere Riba 7\u20136(7), 6\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202148-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger Varonil Britania Zavaleta \u2013 Singles\nMichael Lammer decided to not defend his last year's title. Ram\u00f3n Delgado defeated Andre Begemann 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202149-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger de Providencia\nThe 2009 Challenger de Providencia was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Providencia, Chile between 9 and 15 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202149-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger de Providencia, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202149-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger de Providencia, Champions, Men's doubles\nHoracio Zeballos /  Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto def. Fl\u00e1vio Saretta /  Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202150-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger de Providencia \u2013 Doubles\nEduardo Schwank and Mariano Hood were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate this year. Horacio Zeballos and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto won in the final 7\u20136(2), 6\u20132, against Fl\u00e1vio Saretta and Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202151-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger de Providencia \u2013 Singles\nThomaz Bellucci was the defending champion, however he didn't take part in these championships this year. M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Mariano Zabaleta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202152-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger of Dallas\nThe 2009 Challenger of Dallas was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Dallas, United States, between 12 and 17 February 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202152-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger of Dallas, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202152-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger of Dallas, Champions, Men's Doubles\nPrakash Amritraj /  Rajeev Ram def. Patrick Briaud /  Jason Marshall, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202153-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger of Dallas \u2013 Doubles\nBenedikt Dorsch and Bj\u00f6rn Phau were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. Prakash Amritraj and Rajeev Ram won in the final 6\u20133, 4\u20136, [10\u20138] against Patrick Briaud and Jason Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202154-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Challenger of Dallas \u2013 Singles\nAmer Delic was the defending champion; however, he lost to Brendan Evans in the quarterfinals. Ryan Sweeting won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202155-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Champion Hurdle\nThe 2009 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 10 March 2009. It was the 79th running of the Champion Hurdle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202155-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Champion Hurdle\nThe winner was Raymond Tooth's Punjabi, a six-year-old gelding trained in Berkshire by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Barry Geraghty. The victory was Henderson's fourth in the race, following See You Then in 1985, 1986 and 1987, and a first in the race for Geraghty..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202155-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Champion Hurdle\nPunjabi won at odds of 22/1 by a neck from the Triumph Hurdle winner Celestial Halo. The field included four previous winners of the race: Hardy Eustace (2004, 2005), Brave Inca (2006), Sublimity (2007) and Katchit (2008). Twenty-one of the twenty-three runners completed the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20\nThe 2009 Champions League Twenty20 was the first edition of the Champions League Twenty20, an international club cricket tournament. It was held in India between 8 October and 23 October 2009 and featured 12 domestic teams from Australia, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies. The New South Wales Blues were the winners of the tournament, defeating Trinidad and Tobago in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Format\nThe tournament consisted of the 12 domestic teams from seven countries as determined by the domestic Twenty20 tournaments of those countries. The tournament has 23 matches, and is divided into three stages: the group, league and knockout stages. If a match ends in a tie, a Super Over will be played to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Format\nThe group stage has the teams divided into four equal groups, with each playing a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advances to the league stage. The league stage merges the remaining teams from Groups A and B to form League A, and the remaining teams from Groups C and D to form League B. Another round-robin tournament is played in each league. Teams that have faced each other from the group stage will not play each other again, but have the result from their first meeting carried forward. The top two teams from each league advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage consists of two semi-finals, with the top team of one league facing the second-placed team from the other. The winners of the semi-finals play the final to determine the winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Format, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the competition was US$6 million. In addition to the prize money, each team receives a participation fee of $500,000. The prize money was distributed as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Qualification\nThis tournament featured 12 teams, an increase from the eight teams for the planned 2008 tournament, with the added participation of teams from Sri Lanka, New Zealand and the West Indies. Pakistan's participation was removed due to the decline between Pakistan and India's cricket boards arising from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which caused the 2008 tournament to be cancelled. Lalit Modi, the chairman of the tournament, claimed the Pakistan government was unwilling to give Pakistan players clearance to travel to India. Representatives of the Pakistan Cricket Board claimed they were not contacted on the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Teams\nThere are players who are a part of more than one qualified team. In that case, a player can play for his \"home\" team (the team from the country he is eligible to represent in international cricket) without consequence. If he plays for any other team, that team must pay the home team US$200,000 as compensation. Only Dirk Nannes was named in more than one preliminary squad \u2013 that of the Delhi Daredevils and his \"home\" team the Victorian Bushrangers. Delhi paid Victoria US$200,000 to retain Nannes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202156-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20, Reception\nThe tournament was low in popularity due to the lack of team recognition outside the three teams from the host nation India. Matches not involving these teams drew low television ratings and attendances. The Indian teams also had poor performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202157-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions League Twenty20 squads\nThis is a list of the squads that qualified for the  2009 Champions League Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202158-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions Tour\nThe 2009 Champions Tour was the 30th season for the golf tour now known as PGA Tour Champions since it officially began in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour. The season consisted of 25 official money events with purses totalling $48,875,000, including five majors. Bernhard Langer won the most tournaments, four. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202158-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Champions Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 2009 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold. Golfers winning on their Champions Tour debut are shown in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202159-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship 1\n2009 Championship 1 was a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom, the third tier of the sport in the country. The winner of this league will be promoted to the Co-operative Championship. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202159-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship 1, 2009 Structure\nThe Dewsbury Rams were easily the best team throughout the regular season. They won all their games and finished on top of the table, 12 points ahead of the second placed Keighley Cougars. The Rochdale Hornets were stripped of six competition points  for going into administration and had to be reformed by local fans .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202159-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship 1, 2009 Structure\nThe first round of playoffs saw both the Hunslet Hawks and the Oldham R.L.F.C. advance to play each other in a knockout game the very next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202159-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship 1, 2009 Attendances\n\u2013 Crowd figures could not be found for all games. \u2013 The final will be played at a neutral venue and thus will not be included in the averages of any team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League\nThe 2009 Championship League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 5 January to 26 March 2009 at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League\nJudd Trump won in the final 3\u20132 against Mark Selby, and earned a place in the 2009 Premier League Snooker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group one\nGroup one matches were played on 5 and 6 January 2009. Mark Selby was the first player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group two\nGroup two matches were played on 7 and 8 January 2009. Mark Allen was the second player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group three\nGroup three matches were played on 9 and 10 February 2009. Joe Perry was the third player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group four\nGroup four matches were played on 11 and 12 February 2009. Stuart Bingham was the fourth  player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group five\nGroup five matches were played on 2 and 3 March 2009. Mark King was the fifth player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group six\nGroup six matches were played on 4 and 5 March 2009. John Higgins was the sixth player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Group seven\nGroup seven matches were played on 23 and 24 March 2009. Judd Trump was the last player to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202160-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League, Winners group\nThe matches of the winners group were played on 25 and 26 March 2009. Judd Trump has qualified for the 2009 Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts\nThe 2009 Championship League Darts is the second edition of a darts competition\u2014the Championship League Darts. The competition is organized and held by the Professional Darts Corporation and has a maximum prize fund of \u00a3189,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts\nThe format of the tournament is similar to the Premier League Darts tournament, also organized by the PDC, except it is contested by a larger pool of players who are split up into a number of groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts\nEvery match was watched on one of the ten bookmaker websites who broadcast the competition. The tournament was also available globally through the internet, except in the United States of America where it wasn't shown for legal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Format\nThe first group consisted of the top eight players from the PDC Order of Merit who were available for the competition. These eight players played each other over the course of a day and receive points for their performance. A win earned a player two points, unlike 2008 there was no draws. All matches were contested over 11 legs with a player winning the match when the reach 6 legs. When all players have played each other, the four players with the most points progressed to the semi-finals with the winners of those matches progressing into the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Format\nThe winner of the final progressed to the winners group which took place at the end of the competition. The runner-up, losing semi-finalists and the players finishing fifth and sixth moved into group two, where they were joined by the next three players in the Order of Merit. The format of the second group was the same as the first group with players moving into the third group. In total there was 8 groups before the final group took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Format\nThis format ensured that all players who do not win the group or finish in the last two positions had another chance to qualify for the winners group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Qualification\nPlayers must have been in top 29 places in PDC Order of Merit following 2009 World Matchplay Darts in order to qualify. Thirty places used because of Raymond Van Barneveld withdrawing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Qualification\n1. Phil Taylor  | 2. James Wade | 3. Raymond van Barneveld | 4. John Part | 5. Terry Jenkins | 6. Mervyn King | 7. Ronnie Baxter | 8. Adrian Lewis | 9. Colin Lloyd | 10. Alan Tabern | 11. Dennis Priestley | 12. Colin Osborne | 13. Wayne Mardle | 14. Mark Walsh | 15. Kevin Painter | 16. Andy Hamilton | 17. Robert Thornton | 18. Vincent van der Voort | 19. Denis Ovens | 20. Peter Manley | 21. Mark Dudbridge | 22. Jelle Klaasen | 23. Wayne Jones | 24. Andy Smith | 25. Roland Scholton | 26. Kirk Shepherd | 27. Co Stomp\u00e9 | 28. Tony Eccles | 29. Micheal van Gerwen | 30. Barrie Bates", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money\nThe prize money remained the same as last years tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money, Groups 1\u20138\nGroup Matches \u2013 \u00a350 per leg wonPlay-off Matches \u2013 \u00a3100 per leg won", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money, Winners group\nIn the winners group the prize money was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money, Winners group\nGroup Matches \u2013 \u00a3100 per leg wonPlay-off Matches \u2013 \u00a3200 per leg wonIn addition the winners group had separate prizes for the winner, runner-up and losing semi-finalists. These prizes broke down as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money, Winners group\nWinner \u2013 \u00a310,000 and a place in the 2009 Grand Slam of DartsRunner-Up \u2013 \u00a35,000 and a place in the 2009 Grand Slam of DartsLosing Semi-finalists \u2013 \u00a32,500 each", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Prize money, Prize money won\nThe following table shows the amount of prize money that has been won by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Tournament dates\nThe tournament took place over 9 days throughout September and October 2008. One group were played on each day. The dates were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Tournament dates\nThe tournament took place at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Essex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202161-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Championship League Darts, Groups\nNote: Bold indicates group winner, italics indicate the eliminated players. In groups 1\u20137, players were eliminated for finishing in the bottom two of the league and in group 8, the players are eliminated for finishing in the bottom four and losing in the semi finals and the final of the Group 8 playoff. Although in the Winners Group players are out of contention for the title for failing to win outright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl\nThe 2009 Champs Sports Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Wisconsin Badgers of the Big Ten Conference and the Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, the game started at 8:00 PM US EST on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, and was televised by ESPN. Wisconsin won the game 20-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl\nThe 2009 game marked the last time in the foreseeable future that the Big 10 was represented in the bowl game. A four-year contract was signed so that starting in 2010 the Big East will send a team to the bowl instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl\nMiami made its third appearance in the bowl, they last played in the game in 1998 where they easily defeated North Carolina State 46\u201323. The Canes won their two previous appearances. Meanwhile, Wisconsin made its second appearance in as many years. They were defeated in the 2008 game by Florida State 42\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl\nThe bowl game marked the fourth time that the two schools have faced each other and the first time in the post-season. Miami previously held a 2\u20131 series advantage (now 2-2) with the last meeting being a 51\u20133 thrashing by the Hurricanes in opening game of the 1989 season. Miami would go on to win their 3rd National Championship that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl, Game summary\nWisconsin wore their home red jerseys, and Miami wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl, Game summary\nWisconsin sophomore tailback, John Clay rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns on his way to being named the bowl MVP. Quarterback Scott Tolzien threw for 260 yards, and Montee Ball added 61 yards rushing for the Badgers, who defeated their first ranked opponent of the season and also reached the 10 win plateau for the first time since 2006. Miami quarterback Jacory Harris struggled for much of the game being sacked 5 times and knocked down on several other plays. Harris did finally find the endzone with 1:22 left in the game and finished with 188 yards passing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202162-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Champs Sports Bowl, Game summary\nThe game displayed a sharp contrast in the locations of the two schools. Although played in the typical warm weather city of Orlando, the game time temperature was only about 40 degrees. Most Miami players wore long sleeves and would stand by heaters on the sidelines, however almost all Wisconsin players wore short sleeves and stated prior to the game that it felt like spring. The 56,747 fans in attendance was the highest total to ever watch a Champs Sports Bowl game since the game moved to Orlando in 2001. The attendance number also ranks second overall in bowl history as the only other game with more fans present was the 1990 Blockbuster Bowl played between Florida State and Penn State in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202163-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Changchun Yatai season\nThe 2009 Changchun Yatai season was Changchun Yatai's 3rd consecutive season in the Chinese Super League since its debut season in 2007. This season Changchun Yatai participated in the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202163-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Changchun Yatai season, Review and events, Monthly events\nThis is a list of the significant events to occur at the club during the 2009 season, presented in chronological order. This list does not include transfers, which are listed in the transfers section below, or match results, which are in the results section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202163-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Changchun Yatai season, Squad details, Players information\n(As to 20 September 2009, Club Apps/Goals before 2009 season are not accurate.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202164-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Charles University Rector election\nThe Charles University Rector election, 2009 was held when the first term of the incumbent Rector V\u00e1clav Hampl expired. Hampl was elected for second term. Hampl's reelection was considered certain as he was the only candidate and 12 faculties of 17 endorsed him. Hampl received 55 votes from 61 delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202165-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Charlotte mayoral election\nThe biennial Charlotte mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009. The seat was open due to the decision by Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican, not to seek re-election. Democrat Anthony Foxx, a member of the City Council, won the election by a slim margin, becoming the first Democrat elected to lead the city since Harvey Gantt was re-elected in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup\nThe 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup was the ten-race playoff that determined the champion of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, contested among the top twelve drivers following the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 on September 12 at Richmond International Raceway. The entire chase was broadcast on ABC in the USA and TSN 2 in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Format\nFor the second year, the twelve drivers who qualified for the Chase had their point totals reset to 5,000 points, with a ten-point bonus for each race they won prior to the Chase. The driver who earns the most points at the end of the Chase will be declared the 2009 series champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Changes\nThis year's changes were where the ten races will be. Atlanta Motor Speedway's fall date, the Pep Boys Auto 500, was switched to the Labor Day weekend, and Auto Club Speedway, which hosts the Pepsi 500, took the space in the race schedule. Talladega Superspeedway's date, the AMP Energy 500 was in return, moved to Atlanta's date with Auto Club moving into Talladega's original position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Races\n\u2021 \u2013 Ineligible for the Chase as he did not finish in Top 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Qualified Drivers\nThe 12 drivers who have qualified for the chase after the Chevy Rock and Roll 400", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202166-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup, Results\nNOTE: Standings in Cup points before the race in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup\nThe 2009 Chatham Cup is New Zealand's 82nd knockout football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup\nThe 2009 competition had a preliminary round, a qualification round, and four rounds proper before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. In all, 130 teams took part in the 2009 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup, The 2009 final\nIn the final, Three Kings United took an early lead through a third-minute goal from Luiz del Monte. Three Kings dominated for much of the early part of the match, but higher-ranked Olympic fought back, and a header just before the half-hour mark from Mickey Malivuk levelled the scores at 1-1. In the second half Olympic had the upper hand, and eventually took the lead through a 75th-minute penalty taken by Raf de Gregorio. Three Kings attacked strongly during the last few minutes of the match but were unable to produce an equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup, The 2009 final\nThe Jack Batty Memorial Cup is awarded to the player adjudged to have made to most positive impact in the Chatham Cup final. The winner of the 2009 Jack Batty Memorial Cup was Raf de Gregorio of Wellington Olympic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup, Results, Second Round\n* Won on penalties by Bohemian Celtic (5-4) and Ferrymead Bays (6-5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202167-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chatham Cup, Results, Third Round\n* Won on penalties by Nelson Suburbs (5-4) and Manurewa (7-6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202168-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chattanooga Mocs football team\nThe 2009 Chattanooga Mocs football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mocs were led by first-year head coach Russ Huesman and played their home games at Finley Stadium. They finished the season 6\u20135 overall and 4\u20134 in SoCon play to place fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nThe 2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was the thirty-fifth and penultimate stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the ninth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 15, 2009 at Phoenix International Raceway, in Avondale, Arizona before a crowd of 90,000. The 312-lap race was won by Jimmie Johnson of the Hendrick Motorsports team after starting from third position. Jeff Burton finished second and Denny Hamlin came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nMartin Truex, Jr. won the pole position, although he was passed by Kurt Busch by the end of the first lap. Fifty-six laps later, Johnson became the leader of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, including Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin ran in the top ten for most of the race. Johnson maintained the first position to lead the most laps of 238, and to win his seventh race of the season. There were four cautions and nine lead changes among four different drivers during the course of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nThe race was Johnson's seventh win of the 2009 season, and the forty-seventh of his career. The result kept Johnson in the lead of the Drivers' Championship, one-hundred and eight points ahead of Mark Martin and one-hundred and sixty nine in front of Jeff Gordon. Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, fifty-eight ahead of Toyota, ninety-five in front of Ford and one-hundred and eight ahead of Dodge. The race attracted 5.17 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Background\nThe 2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was the thirty-fifth of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the ninth in the ten race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It took place on November 15, 2009, in Avondale, Arizona, at Phoenix International Raceway, a short track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at Phoenix International Raceway is a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was banked at three degrees. The back stretch, which has a dogleg shape instead of a straight, has nine degrees of banking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Background\nBefore the race, Jimmie Johnson led the Drivers' Championship with 6,297 points, and Mark Martin stood in second with 6,224 points. Jeff Gordon followed in third with 6,185 points, fifty-nine ahead of Kurt Busch, and ninety-eight in front of Tony Stewart in fourth and fifth. Juan Pablo Montoya with 6,061 was eleven points ahead of Greg Biffle, as Denny Hamlin with 5,975 points, was two ahead of Ryan Newman, and seventy-seven in front of Kasey Kahne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Background\nCarl Edwards and Brian Vickers in eleventh and twelfth with 5,857 and 5,777 points rounded out the contenders for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet were leading with 247 points, fifty-five ahead of their rival Toyota. Ford, with 158 points, were seven points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Johnson was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Practice and qualifying\nTwo practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014both on Saturday. A practice session scheduled for Friday morning was cancelled because of rain. The first session lasted 45 minutes, and the second and final session lasted 60 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Practice and qualifying\nForty-six drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday evening; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Martin Truex, Jr. clinched his third pole position of the season, with a time of 26.643. He was joined on the grid's front row by Kurt Busch. Johnson qualified third, Kahne took fourth, and Hamlin started fifth. Biffle, Kyle Busch, Stewart, Casey Mears and Martin completed the top ten positions. The three drivers that failed to qualify were Regan Smith, Kevin Conway and Brandon Ash. After the qualifier Truex said, \"(Today) we were pretty good in practice. This is a weird track where you go out in practice, then expect to pick up a half-second somehow (in qualifying). We did. It's strange, but it felt good.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 917]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Practice and qualifying\nIn the first practice session, Sam Hornish, Jr. was fastest, placing ahead of Kahne in second, and Kyle Busch in third. Biffle was fourth fastest, and Hamlin placed fifth. Montoya, Johnson, Martin, Stewart and Gordon rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session. Of the other drivers in the chase, Vickers was fifteenth fastest, while Newman placed seventeenth. Later that day, Johnson was fastest in the second and final practice session, ahead of Martin in second, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in third. Truex was fourth quickest, and Kurt Busch took fifth. Jeff Burton managed sixth. Gordon, Jamie McMurray, Joey Logano and Kahne followed in the top ten. Other chase drivers included Montoya in seventeenth and Edwards in twenty-third. Kahne scraped the turn two wall and sustained minor damage to his right-hand quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 891]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nThe race, the thirty-fifth of a total of thirty-six in the 2009 season, began at 3:15\u00a0p.m. EST and was televised in the United States on ESPN. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were sunny. Phoenix International Raceway chaplin Ken Bowers began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Former J Records recording artist Tyrese Gibson performed the national anthem, and Senator John McCain commanded the drivers to start their engines. No driver had to move to rear of the grid at the start of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nTruex retained his pole position lead into the first lap. On the same lap, Kurt Busch passed Truex to become the new race leader. One lap later, Martin, who started tenth, fell to eleventh. On the 4th lap, Hornish had moved up to seventh position after passing Kyle Busch and Gordon. Two laps later, Montoya moved into the sixteenth position, as Martin passed Stewart for tenth on lap 7. By the 9th lap, Kurt Busch had a one-second lead over Truex One lap later, Kurt Busch increased his lead to 1.5 seconds. On lap 13, Martin passed Kyle Busch to claim ninth. Two laps later, Martin moved into eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nGordon who began the race in fourteenth, had moved up eight positions to sixth by lap 22. Three laps later, Truex had reduced Kurt Busch's lead to one second, as Martin moved into seventh on lap 28. One lap later, Kurt Busch extended his lead over Truex to 1.6 seconds, as Gordon moved into fifth position. On lap 33, Johnson passed Truex for second; Martin passed Gordon to claim fifth on lap 38. Four laps later, Johnson closed to half a second from Kurt Busch. Twelve laps later, Earnhardt dropped to twentieth position. On lap 57, Johnson passed Kurt Busch to claim the lead, with Martin moving to fourth one lap later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nBy lap 60, Johnson built up a 1.5 second lead over Kurt Busch, while Hamlin moved into the third position. Green flag pit stops took place from lap 65 to 73; Kurt Busch reclaimed the lead at the end of the cycle. On lap 90, Johnson passed Kurt Busch to take over the lead position. One lap later, Hamlin took over fifth position. On the 102nd lap, Martin and Gordon moved into third and fourth respectively. Four laps later, Montoya moved into fourth. Having started on pole position, Truex clinched sixth position on lap 107. On lap 115, the pace car moved on track because debris was spotted on the track. During the caution, most of the leaders made pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nJohnson maintained his lead on the restart, followed by Martin and Gordon. Also, the second caution was prompted when Michael Waltrip damaged his car on that restart, Brad Keselowski was hit from behind and David Ragan spun sideways. None of the leaders chose to make pit stops, as the clean-up crew came on track to clear debris and fluids. Johnson held the lead at the lap 127 restart. Gordon accelerated slower than the leaders and dropped to sixth position by the next lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nOn lap 129, Kyle Busch and Gordon made contact, but both managed to continue, without damaging their cars. By the next lap, Hamlin passed Martin for second position. On lap 134, Johnson had a 1.5 second lead, as Clint Bowyer moved into the fifth position. By the 138th lap, Johnson's lead was increased to 2 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nKurt Busch and Montoya moved into fourth and ninth positions respectively on lap 141. By the 150th lap, Johnson had built up a 2.7 second lead over Hamlin. On lap 162, Johnson's lead of 3.4 seconds was reduced to nothing when debris was spotted on the track, causing a caution. During the caution, some of the leaders elected to make pit stops. Johnson remained the leader on the restart, ahead of Bowyer and Hamlin. Two laps later, a multi-car collision occurred on the front straightway as Earnhardt lost control of his car, and collected Logano, Scott Speed, Hornish, Bobby Labonte, Kenseth, Stewart, Vickers and Keselowski. The damaged cars headed to the pit road during the caution as crews cleaned up debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nJohnson maintained his lead at the restart. On lap 179, Earnhardt headed for his garage because of an oil leak. Three laps later, Vickers and Labonte retired from the race, and Gordon dropped to tenth position. By the 186th lap, Johnson rebuilt his lead to 2.3 seconds, as Bowyer passed Gordon to claim third. Five laps later, Martin and Gordon moved into sixth and ninth positions respectively. Johnson's lead over Kurt Busch was three seconds by lap 196. Four laps later, Edwards moved up to eighteenth position, while Montoya moved to eighth, one lap later. By lap 203, Johnson mainained a 3.4 second lead, while Burton was passed by Martin for fifth position five laps later. Johnson's lead was increased to 4.3 seconds by the 215th lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nOn lap 219, Hamlin moved into the third position, and one lap later, Martin moved up another place to fourth. On lap 222, Johnson increased his lead over Kurt Busch to almost five seconds. Six laps later, Earnhardt rejoined the race. Green flag pit stops began on lap 240; Johnson made a pit stop on lap 242, giving the lead to Kenseth. After pit stops, Johnson regained the first position. By lap 277, the drivers reported their cars becoming loose as track temperatures began to drop. Twelve laps later, Burton passed Hamlin for the second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race\nOn lap 296, Gordon passed Ambrose to claim ninth, while Truex moved into the fifth position. By lap 302, Johnson maintained a 1.8 second lead over Burton. Two laps later, David Reutimann moved back into the top ten after passing Ambrose, while Kurt Busch moved up to sixth on lap 310. Johnson maintained his lead to win his seventh race of the 2009 season. Burton finished second, ahead of Hamlin in third, Martin in fourth, and Truex in fifth. Kurt Busch, Bowyer, Montoya, Gordon and Reutimann rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race\nJohnson appeared in victory lane to celebrate his seventh win of the season in front of 90,000 who attended the race. Johnson also earned $267,001 in race winnings. Afterward, he said, \"I guess it could have been a statement we were sending. There was a lot of pressure. All week long, we wondered if we could step up like we did today. I'm very proud how we rose to the occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race\n\", he continued, \"When I go home tonight, I'm going to be (mentally) driving laps, what I think I need to do in qualifying trim so I can put my best effort in on Friday. Same thing for race practice on Saturday, and go racing Sunday. Texas was such a good lesson. And I hope that the points we lost in Texas isn't what keeps us from winning this championship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race\nBurton, who finished second, was happy with his performance, \" [New crew chief] Todd Berrier has come in and done a great job, the team\u2019s done a great job. We had one hiccough early on pit road but the rest of them we picked out our spots every single time, and that\u2019s what it takes; it takes a team effort.\" In the subsequent post-race press conference, Hamlin said, \"Anytime that Jimmie is down is not usually because of performance, it's usually because of an incident like last week. There was no doubt in my mind they were going to come this week and make a statement. Obviously leading all the laps pretty much and winning the race sends a statement out there that he is the best, that they're not going to be denied this year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202169-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, Race, Post-race\nThe race result left Johnson maintaining the lead in the Drivers' Championship with 6,492 points. After the race, Martin who finished fourth, was less optimistic about his championship chances, \"We've still got to go to Homestead and run like this again because we've still got that threat behind us, Jeff Gordon, especially.\" Gordon maintained third with 6,323 points, forty-two ahead of Kurt Busch and one-hundred and sixteen in front of Stewart. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained the lead with 256 points. Toyota remained second with 198 points. Ford followed with 161 points, six ahead of Dodge in fourth. 5.17 million people watched the race on television. The race took two hours, forty-nine minutes and twenty-six seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 1.033 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 863]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202170-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup\nThe 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup was a horse race which took place at Cheltenham on Friday March 13, 2009. It was the 81st running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and it was won by the pre-race favourite Kauto Star. The winner was ridden by Ruby Walsh and trained by Paul Nicholls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202170-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup\nKauto Star became the first horse to regain the Gold Cup in the event's history. He had previously won it in 2007, and he was runner-up in 2008. The winning margin of thirteen lengths was the widest in the race since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202170-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Full result\n* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter. nk = neck; PU = pulled-up.\u2020 All trainers are based in Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open\nThe 2009 Chennai Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the Chennai Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, from 5 through 10 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open\nThe singles line up was led by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No . 5, Tennis Masters Cup runner-up, Miami Masters, P\u00f6rtschach and Warsaw champion Nikolay Davydenko, Rome Masters finalist and Beijing Olympics doubles gold medalist Stanislas Wawrinka, and Costa do Sau\u00edpe and Bucharest runner-up, 2004 and 2005 Chennai champion Carlos Moy\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day One\nMarin \u010cili\u0107, Simon Greul and Bj\u00f6rn Phau were the early winners in the singles event. The no. 3 seed \u010cili\u0107 overcame Alberto Mart\u00edn from Spain 6\u20134, 6\u20134. The German player Greul had a comfortable 6\u20133, 6\u20134 victory over Daniel Gimeno-Traver while compatriot Phau beat Santiago Ventura 6\u20132, 7\u20135. Greul will now play another German, the no. 5 seed Rainer Sch\u00fcttler, who took three sets to emerge victorious against home-favourite Prakash Amritraj 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20131. In the other completed matches, seeded player Marcel Granollers (8) reached the second round without too much difficulty, beating Hyung Taik-Lee of South Korea 6\u20134, 7\u20135. The only non-Indian wildcard Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd recorded a 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 win against Go Soeda from Japan and Israel's top player Dudi Sela overcame Spaniard Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo 4\u20136, 7\u20136(3), 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day One\nThe men's doubles also started on the first day. The only seeds in action, American Scott Lipsky and David Martin of Sweden progressed to the second round with a 7\u20136(9), 6\u20133 victory over home player Rohan Bopanna and Italian Flavio Cipolla. American duo Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram advanced 6\u20131, 6\u20132 against home wildcards Yuki Bhambri and Harsh Mankad. Oliver Marach of Austria and Serbian Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 beat Spaniards Carlos Moy\u00e1 and Pablo And\u00fajar 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10-4] (champions tiebreak) to set up a match with Lipsky and Martin in round two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day Two\nIn the remaining first round matches, world #5 and top seed, Russian Nikolay Davydenko, eased to a 6\u20132, 6\u20133 victory over Austrian Daniel K\u00f6llerer in his first match. He was joined by #4 seed Ivo Karlovi\u0107 of Croatia (defeated American Rajeev Ram 6\u20130, 6\u20133), #6 Carlos Moy\u00e1 of Spain (triumphed against Danai Udomchoke 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4)), and #7 Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 of Serbia, comfortably advancing with a 6\u20132, 6\u20133 victory over Spaniard Pablo And\u00fajar.#2 seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland wasn't as fortunate, falling to Italian qualifier Flavio Cipolla 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day Two\nThe winners were also joined by Uzbek Denis Istomin who will play \u010cili\u0107 following a 6\u20134, 7\u20136 triumph against home player Rohan Bopanna; German Andreas Beck who will play Marcel Granollers after thrashing Roko Karanu\u0161i\u0107 6\u20130, 6\u20131 and Czech Ivo Min\u00e1\u0159, who beat Wayne Odesnik of America 6\u20130, 6\u20133 and preceded to face Karlovi\u0107 in round two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day Two\nOn the doubles side, #3 seeds Rogier Wassen & Lovro Zovko won their first match, beating Alberto Mart\u00edn & Dudi Sela 6\u20133, 6\u20131. They will next face Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram in the quarter-finals. In an all-Spanish match between Daniel Gimeno-Traver / Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Marcel Granollers / Santiago Ventura, the latter pair comfortably won 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day Three\nBecause of rain, no matches were played. However, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd advanced when top seed Nikolay Davydenko was forced to withdraw because of a heel inflammation, which will also keep him out of the Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Review, Day Seven\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 won his 2nd career title by defeating Devvarman in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202171-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open, Finals, Doubles\nEric Butorac /  Rajeev Ram defeated  Jean-Claude Scherrer /  Stanislas Wawrinka, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202172-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana were the defending champions, but chose not participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202172-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open \u2013 Doubles\nEric Butorac and Rajeev Ram won in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, over Jean-Claude Scherrer and Stanislas Wawrinka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202173-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open \u2013 Singles\nMikhail Youzhny was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202173-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chennai Open \u2013 Singles\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133), against Somdev Devvarman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202174-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chevy Rock & Roll 400\nThe 2009 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 was the 26th race in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, and served as the last race in the \"regular season\" before the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. The 400-lap, 300-mile (480\u00a0km) race was held on Saturday night, September 12, 2009 at the 0.75-mile (1.21\u00a0km) Richmond International Raceway in Henrico County, Virginia outside the state capital city, and was telecast on ABC with radio being handled by MRN Radio (over the air/terrestrial) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202174-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Chevy Rock & Roll 400\nAfter this race, the top twelve drivers in the points standings were determined to enter the ten-race playoff to decide the 2009 Sprint Cup Champion, and their points were reset to 5,000 points with a ten-point bonus for each win they compile during the first 26 events this year. Denny Hamlin won the race, Brian Vickers gets the last spot, leaving Kyle Busch who won four times out, along with Matt Kenseth. It is the first time he has failed to make the cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202174-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chevy Rock & Roll 400, Race\nThe race was mainly a duel between Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin. The duo led 396 of the 400 laps run. Gordon got shoved to sixth, but made it up to third late in the race. Hamlin then held off Kurt Busch to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202175-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season\nThe 2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season features the Marines quest to win their first Pacific League title since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season\nThe 2009 Chicago Bears season was the franchise's 90th season overall in the National Football League. The Bears had looked to improve upon their 9\u20137 record from 2008 and return to the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 season, but failed to do so for the third consecutive season. The team finished 7\u20139, and third in the NFC North. This season was Lovie Smith's sixth season as the team's head coach. The Bears played all their home games at Soldier Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nThe Bears hired former Detroit Lions head coach, Rod Marinelli, to be their defensive line and assistant head coach. Bob Babich became the linebackers coach again after Lloyd Lee was fired. However, Babich even though he is still the Defensive Coordinator was stripped of his play calling duties in favor of Head Coach Lovie Smith. Jon Hoke was hired as defensive backs coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 1\nThe Bears began their season at Lambeau Field for a Sunday night battle with their hated rival, the Green Bay Packers. After a scoreless first quarter, Chicago trailed early as Packers kicker Mason Crosby got a 52-yard field goal. The Bears would respond with safety Danieal Manning sacking quarterback Aaron Rodgers in his own endzone for a safety, but Green Bay would respond as running back Ryan Grant got a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 1\nChicago would take the lead in the third quarter as quarterback Jay Cutler completed a 36-yard pass to wide receiver Devin Hester, along with kicker Robbie Gould making a 47-yard field goal. Afterwards, the lead went back and forth in the fourth quarter. Crosby would kick a 39-yard field goal, while Gould nailed a 21-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Packers took the lead again as Rodgers completed a 50-yard touchdown pass and the following two-point conversion to wide receiver Greg Jennings. The Bears tried to rally, but an interception ended any hope of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 1\nCutler's 4 interceptions were the most he had thrown in one game of his career, until week 10 against the 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 2\nHoping to rebound from their Sunday night loss to the Packers, the Bears played their Week 2 home opener against the defending Super Bowl champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers took an early lead in the first quarter as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed a 1-yard TD pass to tight end Matt Spaeth, but the Bears immediately fired back in the second quarter as quarterback Jay Cutler completed a 7-yard TD pass to tight end Kellen Davis to tie the score 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 2\nIn the third quarter, Pittsburgh retook the lead once more as Roethlisberger got a 2-yard run, but Chicago would rally in the fourth quarter as Cutler threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Johnny Knox. The Steelers would then miss 2 field goal attempts, as the Bears drive the ball down to Steelers territory, ending the drive with kicker Robbie Gould's 44-yard field goal, to give the Bears the lead. The Steelers then fumbled the ball on the ensuing kickoff, ending any chance for a last second hail mary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 3\nComing off their home win over the Steelers, the Bears flew to Qwest Field for a Week 3 duel with the Seattle Seahawks. Chicago would trail in the first quarter as quarterback Seneca Wallace completed a 39-yard touchdown pass to running back Julius Jones, followed by kicker Olindo Mare's 46-yard field goal. Seattle would add onto their lead in the second quarter with Mare's 37-yard field goal, yet the Bears would answer with quarterback Jay Cutler's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 3\nChicago would take the lead in the third quarter with Cutler's 7-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Johnny Knox, followed by kicker Robbie Gould's 37-yard field goal. The Seahawks would reply in the fourth quarter with Mare's 39-yard and 46-yard field goal, yet the Bears would prevail as Cutler completed a 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devin Hester, followed by a 2-point conversion pass to wide receiver Earl Bennett. Afterwards, Chicago's defense would hold on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 4\nComing off their road win over the Seahawks, the Bears went home for a Week 4 NFC North duel with the Detroit Lions. Chicago surprisingly trailed early in the first quarter as Lions running back Kevin Smith got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Bears would answer with quarterback Jay Cutler's 5-yard touchdown run, yet Detroit came right back with quarterback Matthew Stafford's 14-yard touchdown pass to tight end Will Heller. Chicago would take the lead in the second quarter with Cutler's 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Davis and a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen, yet the Lions would tie the game prior to halftime with Smith's 3-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 4\nThe Bears would start the third quarter with a bang as rookie wide receiver Johnny Knox returned the half's opening kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown. Later on, kicker Robbie Gould would add onto Chicago's lead with a 52-yard and a 22-yard field goal. Detroit tried to rally in the fourth quarter with kicker Jason Hanson's 35-yard field goal, yet the Bears pulled away with running back Matt Fort\u00e9's 37-yard touchdown run and running back Garrett Wolfe's 2-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 4\nWith the win, Chicago would enter its bye week at 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 6\nComing off their bye week, the Bears flew to the Georgia Dome for a Week 6 Sunday night duel with the Atlanta Falcons. Following a scoreless first quarter, Chicago delivered the game's opening strike in the second quarter with quarterback Jay Cutler completing a 23-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Johnny Knox. However, the Falcons would respond with quarterback Matt Ryan hooking up with wide receiver Roddy White on a 40-yard touchdown pass and finding tight end Tony Gonzalez on a 10-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 6\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Bears tied the game in the fourth quarter with Cutler hooking up with tight end Greg Olsen on a 2-yard touchdown pass. However, Atlanta struck back with a 5-yard touchdown run from running back Michael Turner. Cutler would get Chicago's offense deep into Falcon territory, but Atlanta's defense would spoil the comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 7\nHoping to rebound from their Sunday night road loss to the Falcons, the Bears flew to Paul Brown Stadium for a Week 7 interconference duel with the Cincinnati Bengals. Chicago would trail early in the first quarter as Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer found wide receiver Chris Henry on a 9-yard touchdown pass and wide receiver Chad Ochocinco on an 8-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 7\nThings continued to get worse for the Bears as Palmer completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end J.P. Foschi and an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laveranues Coles, followed by a 29-yard field goal from kicker Shayne Graham. Chicago would close out the half as kicker Robbie Gould booted a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 7\nAfterwards, Cincinnati would pull away with Palmer finding Ochocinco again on a 13-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter and former Bears running back Cedric Benson getting a 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Chicago would end the game with quarterback Jay Cutler's 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devin Hester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 8\nHoping to rebound from their horrendous road loss to the Bengals, the Bears went home for a Week 8 interconference duel with the Cleveland Browns. Before the game, a pregame ceremony was held for the late Walter Payton, who died exactly 10 years ago on November 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 8\nChicago got off to a fast start in the first quarter as kicker Robbie Gould made a 37-yard and a 29-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Bears would add onto their lead as Gould booted a 32-yard field goal, followed by running back Matt Fort\u00e9 got a 1-yard touchdown run. In the third quarter, the Browns would get onto their board with a 1-yard touchdown run by quarterback Derek Anderson (with a blocked PAT). Afterwards, Chicago would continue their dominating day with a 10-yard touchdown run by Fort\u00e9. The Bears would then close out the game in the fourth quarter with cornerback Charles Tillman returning an interception 21 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 9\nComing off their win over the Browns, the Bears stayed at home for a Week 9 duel with the Arizona Cardinals. Chicago would trail early in the first quarter as Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner hooked up with wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on an 11-yard touchdown pass. The Bears would answer as quarterback Jay Cutler competed a 33-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen, but Arizona came right back as Warner hooked up with tight end Ben Patrick on a 6-yard touchdown pass. Chicago would find themselves in a huge deficit in the second quarter as Warner completed a 17-yard touchdown pass to Fitzpatrick and a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Anthony Becht, followed by kicker Neil Rackers nailing a 43-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 9\nThe Cardinals would add onto their lead as Rackers booted a 30-yard field goal in the third quarter. The Bears tried to rally in the fourth quarter as Cutler connected with Olsen on a 3-yard and a 20-yard touchdown pass, but Arizona pulled away with Warner completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Breaston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 10\nHoping to rebound from a miserable home loss to the Cardinals, the Bears flew to Candlestick Park for a Week 10 Thursday night duel with the San Francisco 49ers, led by head coach Mike Singletary (former Bears linebacker).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 10\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Chicago would trail in the second quarter as 49ers running back Frank Gore got a 14-yard touchdown run. The Bears would close out the half with a 50-yard field goal from kicker Robbie Gould. In the third quarter, Chicago would inch closer with Gould's 38-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, San Francisco would answer with kicker Joe Nedney making a 21-yard field goal. The Bears would get have a late game drive go deep into 49er territory, but an interception by safety Michael Lewis ended any hope of a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202176-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Bears season, Regular season, Week 10\nQuarterback Jay Cutler (29/52 for 307 yards) would throw for a career-worst 5 interceptions in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 2009 Chicago Cubs season was the 138th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 134th in the National League and the 94th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs, attempting to win the NL Central division for the third consecutive season, fell short by finishing in second place with a record of 83\u201378.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Minor League affiliates\nIn 2009 The Chicago Cubs had three minor league affiliates. The team's Single-A affiliate is the Peoria Chiefs, located in Peoria. The Chicago Cubs' Double-A affiliate is the Tennessee Smokies based in the Knoxville, Tennessee metropolitan area. Finally the Chicago Cubs Triple-A Affiliate is the Iowa Cubs, located in Iowa. The Iowa Cubs are coached by former Cub and Hall of Fame player Ryne Sandberg In 2010. Sandberg previously coached the Chiefs and Smokies as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season, Key injuries\nThe Cubs were plagued by injuries in 2009, and were only able to field their Opening Day starting lineup three times the entire season. Third baseman Aramis Ram\u00edrez injured his throwing shoulder in an early May game against the Milwaukee Brewers, sidelining him until early July and forcing journeyman players like Mike Fontenot and Aaron Miles into more prominent roles. Additionally, key players like Derrek Lee (back), Alfonso Soriano (legs and knee) and Geovany Soto (shoulder) nursed minor, nagging injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Sale of the franchise\nAfter many years of speculation that the Chicago Tribune wanted to sell the Chicago Cubs organization, they finally inked a deal on January 22, 2009 with the Ricketts family for a total of $900 million. The sale included the Cubs, Wrigley Field, and the Tribune's 25% stake in the Comcast Sports Network Chicago, a regional TV channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Media\nThe Chicago Cubs radio broadcasting team was anchored by veteran announcers Pat Hughes and Ron Santo this past season making it the duo's 15th year together. Hughes provides the play-by play-announcer while Santo serves as the color commentator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202177-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Cubs season, Media\nThe Chicago Cubs 2009 television broadcasting team was anchored by Len Kasper and Bob Brenly. Games could be seen on multiple channels including: WGN-TV, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, WGN America, and even at times WCIU-TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season\nThe 2009 Chicago Fire season was the club's 14th year of existence, as well as their 12th season in Major League Soccer and 12th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. It began with a 3-1 away win over FC Dallas on March 21, 2009 and ended with a loss on penalties to Real Salt Lake in the Eastern Conference Final on November 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season, Current roster, Squad\nAs of July 17, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season, Current roster, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season, Current roster, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202178-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Fire season, Standings, Results summary\nLast updated: October 22, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202179-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Marathon\nThe 2009 Chicago Marathon was the 32nd running of the annual marathon race in Chicago, United States and was held on October 11. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Samuel Wanjiru in a time of 2:05:41 hours and the women's race was won by Germany's Irina Mikitenko in 2:26:31. The competition was originally won by Russia's Liliya Shobukhova in a time of 2:25:56, but she was retrospectively disqualified due to doping violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202180-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Red Stars season\nThe 2009 Chicago Red Stars season was the first season of the soccer club, and it competed in the first season of Women's Professional Soccer league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202180-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Red Stars season, Major events, Team news\nThe Chicago Red Stars team is one of the eight teams in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) League, the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States that began play on March 29, 2009. The WPS is the highest level in the United States soccer pyramid for the women's game. The Chicago Red Stars play at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL - a suburb of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202180-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Red Stars season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202180-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Red Stars season, WPS regular season\nThe Chicago Res Stars' WPS regular season kicked off on 4 April and it concluded on 5 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202181-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Sky season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 4th for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Sky were unable to qualify for the WNBA Playoffs for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202181-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Sky season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Sky's 2008 record, they would pick 3rd in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Sky picked Mistie Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202181-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago Sky season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Sky's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 2009 Chicago White Sox season was the organization's 110th season in Chicago and 109th in the American League. The Sox entered the 2009 season as the defending American League Central champions, attempting to repeat against the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins. The White Sox finished the season 79\u201383 with third place in the American League Central, 7+1\u20442 games behind the AL Central champion Minnesota Twins, were officially eliminated from postseason contention for the first time since 2007, and failed to make the playoffs until the 2020 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season\nOn July 23 Mark Buehrle threw the eighteenth perfect game in Major League history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Off-season\nThe Sox entered the off-season expecting to part ways with 3B Joe Crede, SS Orlando Cabrera, and CF Ken Griffey, Jr. They were expected to move Rookie of the Year runner-up Alexei Ram\u00edrez to shortstop, leaving openings at second base, center field, and third base. There may also be opening in the starting rotation as Jos\u00e9 Contreras is not expected to be back until after the all-star break, as he recovers from a ruptured Achilles tendon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season\nThe White Sox started out the season against the Kansas City Royals on April 7 and they ended the season against Detroit Tigers on October 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, April\nThe White Sox started the season against the Royals on April 7 (originally scheduled for April 6 but postponed due to cold and snow), winning 4\u20132. On April 13 in Detroit, 3rd inning, Jermaine Dye hit his 300th career home run. The next batter, Paul Konerko, hit his 300th career home run. It is the first time in MLB history to have such a back-to-back milestone home runs, and the Sox wins it 10\u20136. On April 25 against the Toronto Blue Jays, Alexei Ram\u00edrez hit a grand slam as the Sox won 10\u20132. The White Sox finished April 11\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, May\nOn May 7 against the Detroit Tigers, Mark Buehrle pitched a no-hitter through seventh inning before Pl\u00e1cido Polanco hit a line-drive double to left field; however the Sox shut out the Tigers 6\u20130. On May 11 against the Cleveland Indians in Progressive Field, Carlos Quentin hit a slump after suffering from plantar fasciitis which hampered his swing. He was forced to miss two games as a result of the injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, May\nOn May 15\u201318, Sox played with Toronto Blue Jays and Sox lost all four games in Toronto for two straight years and lost 10 straight games in Toronto since June 1, 2007. On May 21 against the Minnesota Twins, the Sox had a biggest loss 20\u20131 since May 10, 2002, when Sox lost to Anaheim Angels 19\u20130 in Los Angeles. On May 24 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, in the top of the ninth inning, Jack Wilson hit his first home run of season and tied the game at 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, May\nThe next batter Nyjer Morgan hit a double and then Delwyn Young singled and Morgan scored from second and Sox trailed it 4\u20133. In the bottom of the ninth inning, all batters that Matt Capps faced struck out swinging. The next day in Los Angeles against the Angels, the Sox scored 17 runs in one game, the most runs since the 2006 season. Also on that day, Carlos Quentin suffered his heel injury after he hit a double and he was placed on the 15-day disabled list. The last three games of that month, Sox swept the Royals in Kansas City. The White Sox finished May 13\u201315.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, June\nOn June 1\u20134 against the Oakland Athletics, the Sox won the first game and lost last three, even though Oakland A's had one of the worst records in the American League, although that team is in a 7-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, June\nOn June 9 against the Detroit Tigers in the bottom of the ninth inning, bases loaded, trailing 6\u20134, Paul Konerko doubled down the left field line in which Scott Podsednik and Alexei Ram\u00edrez scored, but DeWayne Wise was called out at home plate even though replays showed that he looked safe since Wise's hand touched the home plate before he got tagged. The next batter, rookie Gordon Beckham struck out swinging with man on second to end the inning. In the top of the tenth inning, Miguel Cabrera hit a solo home run for a shameful loss 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, June\nThe Sox finished 12-game 11-day home stand with a bad record 4\u20138. On June 14 in Milwaukee against the Brewers, Mark Buehrle hit a solo home run in third inning. The Sox defeated the Brewers 5\u20134. On June 16, it was scheduled that Sox should have played with Cubs in Wrigley Field, but it was postponed due to rain, and the make-up date is announced to be September 3. On June 19 against the Reds in Cincinnati, the Sox had a first loss to Reds since 1999 and the Sox finished the record with Reds in this decade 11\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, June\nThe next day with Reds, after the third inning, Sox trailed it 5\u20130 and Sox came back and win it 10\u20138, which is the biggest come back so far this season. On June 24 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sox hit 6 home runs in one game, first time since June 8, 2004 against the Philadelphia Phillies. The homers are ones by Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, Jayson Nix, Alexei Ram\u00edrez, and two by Josh Fields. The Sox beat the Dodgers 10\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0006-0004", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, June\nIn next day, the Sox defeated the Dodgers 6\u20135 for thirteen innings after Scott Podsednik hit a bases-loaded single and Beckham scored. The Sox took 2-out-of-3 in this series against the Dodgers, even though Dodgers had the best record of baseball. On June 27 against the Cubs, this game went back and forth. Finally, Gordon Beckham hit a walk-off RBI in the bottom of the ninth inning and Josh Fields scored to give Sox an 8\u20137 victory. The White Sox finished June 15\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, July\nOn July 7 against the Cleveland Indians, Paul Konerko hit his first career three home runs in one game (one grand slam and two solo home runs), first time for White Sox player since Jos\u00e9 Valent\u00edn did on July 30, 2003, at Kansas City Royals. Typically the Sox took the victory 10\u20136. The starting pitcher Mark Buehrle (9\u20133 as of July 14) went to the All-Star Game on July 14 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, July\nOn July 17 against the Baltimore Orioles, Jim Thome hit a grand slam and a three-run homer in a same game for his career high seven RBIs. On that day, the Sox beat the Orioles 12\u20138. On July 21 against the Tampa Bay Rays, Carlos Quentin was activated from a 15-day disabled list, which he went 1\u20134. On July 23, Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays and second career no-hitter. It is only the second perfect game in White Sox history, first since 1922.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, July\nIt is the 18th perfect game in MLB history, first time since Randy Johnson in 2004 for the Arizona Diamondbacks. On July 31, the day of the trade deadline the White Sox traded away Clayton Richard, Aaron Poreda, Adam Russell and Dexter Carter for former Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy from the San Diego Padres. The White Sox finished July 14\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, August\nOn August 10 the White Sox claimed Alex R\u00edos of the Toronto Blue Jays off waivers. R\u00edos is signed through 2014 for $69.35\u00a0million with a no-trade clause this year and a partial no-trade clause through the rest of his contract. On August 12 against the Seattle Mariners in Safeco Field, the score was 0\u20130 until Ken Griffey, Jr. (former White Sox teammate) hit a walk-off single down the right field line in the fourteenth inning with men on first and second in which Adri\u00e1n Beltr\u00e9 scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, August\nOn August 18, Freddy Garc\u00eda picked up his first start for the White Sox since September 29, 2006. Garc\u00eda get his loss to Kansas City Royals 5\u20134. On August 24 against the Boston Red Sox in third inning, Jos\u00e9 Contreras committed an error while trying to pick up a ball down the first baseline by David Ortiz to assist for a final out, which led to a season high six unearned runs and the Sox loses 12\u20138. On August 31 after the game, the Sox traded away Jim Thome to Los Angeles Dodgers for minor league infielder Justin Fuller and Jos\u00e9 Contreras to Colorado Rockies for minor league pitcher Brandon Hynick. The White Sox finished August 11\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nOn September 2 against the Minnesota Twins at the Metrodome, the Sox trailed 2\u20130 before Gordon Beckham and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back home runs with 2 outs in the ninth inning when both had 3\u20132 accounts off of Joe Nathan. Alexei Ram\u00edrez hit an RBI single and DeWayne Wise scores, and then Carlos Quentin scored on a wild pitch to Alex R\u00edos, which makes it 4\u20132 White Sox and a huge comeback victory to avoid sweep by Twins. On September 3, the interleague game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field was made-up from June 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nThe Sox shutout the Cubs 5\u20130, finishing this year's interleague play 12\u20136 for Sox and 6\u20139 for Cubs, both are identical to last season's interleague play. The White Sox starting pitcher Carlos Torres picked up his first major league victory after he was debuted on July 22. On September 4, the White Sox got 20 hits against the Red Sox, the most hits in a game against that team since 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nOn September 5 against the Boston Red Sox, Gavin Floyd retired the first 17 hitters (broken up by Nick Green's single with 2 outs in the 6th inning) and a career-high 11 strikeouts for 8 innings pitched, which the Sox took the victory 5\u20131. On September 7, Mark Buehrle picked up his first win since the perfect game on July 23. On the next day against the Oakland Athletics, Carlos Torres pitched for just \u2154 inning as he allowed 5 runs on 4 hits with 2 homers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0003", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nIt is the shortest outing by a Sox starter in more than six years. Typically, Sox lost to Oakland 11\u20133. On September 12 at Los Angeles Angels, Scott Podsednik hit an inside-the-park home run, first time for the Sox since Joe Borchard hit that on September 9, 2002, at Kansas City Royals. Typically, Sox defeated the Angels 4\u20133 in ten innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0004", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nOn September 17 against the Mariners in Safeco, with the score 3\u20131 Sox lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, Bobby Jenks allowed two home runs, one by Jos\u00e9 Lopez with nobody out and one by Bill Hall with two outs, which made it 3\u20133. In the bottom of the fourteenth inning, Ichiro Suzuki hit a walk-off single to center field with men on first and second in which Ryan Langerhans scored. On September 19, Jake Peavy got his first start for the White Sox since he started for San Diego Padres on June 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0009-0005", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, September\nPeavy picked up his first victory over the Royals 13\u20133. On September 21\u201323 against the Minnesota Twins, the Sox got swept at home for a first time since August 2007 when they were swept by Red Sox. On September 26 against the Detroit Tigers after 4th inning, Sox led 5\u20130, Tigers came back and defeated the White Sox 12\u20135. With that first loss at home on Saturday this season, the Sox finished the season's home games on Saturdays 11\u20131. The White Sox finished September 13\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season, October\nThe White Sox finished October 2\u20131 after winning two-out-of-three games in a series against the Detroit Tigers in Comerica Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202182-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts; BAA = Batting average against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl\nThe 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Tennessee Volunteers played on December 31, 2009, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. With sponsorship from Chick-fil-A, it was the 42nd edition of the game known throughout most of its history as the Peach Bowl. Virginia Tech defeated Tennessee 37\u201314. The game was part of the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams. The game was televised in the United States on ESPN and the broadcast was seen by an estimated 4.87 million viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl\nEach participating team was selected by the bowl game's selection committee, which had paid contracts with the participating football conferences. The Chick-fil-A Bowl had the second pick of bowl-eligible teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the fifth pick from eligible teams in the Southeastern Conference. In picking Virginia Tech and Tennessee, the selection committee bypassed teams with better or similar records in order to create a matchup appealing to television audiences. Pregame media coverage focused on the close geographic rivalry between the two teams and the success of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin in reversing his team's poor fortune from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl\nThe game kicked off at 7:37\u00a0p.m. EST and Virginia Tech jumped to an early lead with a first-quarter touchdown. Tennessee replied in the second quarter with two touchdowns of their own, but Virginia Tech kept the lead by scoring 10 points in the quarter. At halftime, Tech led 17\u201314. In the second half, Virginia Tech pulled away from Tennessee, scoring 20 unanswered points to win the game 37\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl\nIn recognition of his performance during the game, Virginia Tech running back Ryan Williams was named the game's most valuable player. By the end of the game, he had set a school record for most rushing yards in a season and conference records for most rushing touchdowns and most total touchdowns. Following the game, Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin resigned to become head coach of the University of Southern California Trojans football team. Several players from each team participated in postseason all-star games and a handful were selected to play in the National Football League through the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection\nBeginning with the 2006 game, the Chick-fil-A Bowl purchased the right to select the highest-ranked Atlantic Coast Conference team after representatives from the Bowl Championship Series made their selection. The contract was renewed in 2009, extending that right through 2013. According to the official selection rules used in the 2009\u201310 season, the team chosen to represent the ACC in the Chick-fil-A Bowl had to be within one conference victory of the remaining highest-ranked conference team or ranked more than five spaces ahead of the ACC team with the best conference record available in the final BCS standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection\nFollowing the conclusion of the 2009 college football regular season, the Chick-fil-A Bowl selection committee bypassed the ACC Championship Game loser, Clemson, in order to pick Virginia Tech, which had the same conference record. The committee believed a game featuring Virginia Tech would draw more television viewers and in-person attendance than Clemson, even though the Chick-fil-A Bowl was the third time that season Virginia Tech played a game in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection\nIn choosing the SEC opponent, the Chick-fil-A Bowl selection committee had the right to select the first SEC school after the Bowl Championship Series, Cotton Bowl Classic, Capital One Bowl, and Outback Bowl made their selections. Just as in the ACC, the selection committee could not select an SEC team with two fewer losses than the highest available team. After the 2009 regular season ended, SEC champion Alabama was selected for the national championship game, and SEC runner-up Florida was picked by the Sugar Bowl to fill the SEC's BCS tie-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection\nThe Cotton Bowl selected Ole Miss, the Capital One Bowl picked LSU, and the Outback Bowl took Auburn. For its pick, the Chick-fil-A Bowl bypassed local team Georgia (No. 2 in the SEC's eastern division) for Tennessee (No. 3 in the division) in order to set up a game against two geographic rivals and because Tennessee had defeated Georgia in a head-to-head matchup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection\nThe bowl earned the right to select these teams via its multimillion-dollar payout system, which guarantees a certain amount of money to the participating conferences. Before 2006, the Chick-fil-A Bowl (then known as the Peach Bowl) matched the No. 5 team in the SEC versus the No. 3 team in the ACC. After the bowl increased its payout to $2.8\u00a0million per squad, it then was given the second pick from the ACC, with the Gator Bowl dropping to third. After 2006, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has steadily increased its payouts in order to keep pace with the trend across college football. In the 2009 game, the ACC and SEC split a payout of $6.02 million, with the ACC receiving more because it offered an earlier selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nThe Hokies went 10\u20134 in 2008, concluding the season with a 20\u20137 win in the 2009 Orange Bowl. Before the 2009 season started, Virginia Tech accepted an invitation to play Alabama in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, a game organized by the Chick-fil-A Bowl to pit two high-profile teams against each other to create a bowl game-like atmosphere in the Georgia Dome at the start of the season. Virginia Tech was ranked No. 7 in the preseason polls, while Alabama was No. 5; the game was forecast as a competition between two possible national championship contenders. Alabama defeated Virginia Tech 34-24 and ultimately went on to win the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nTech recovered from the loss by winning its next five games, including a last-second victory over 19th-ranked Nebraska and a 31-7 blowout victory over No. 9 Miami. The victories brought Tech to a 5\u20131 record and a No. 4 national ranking. On October 17, Virginia Tech traveled to Atlanta for the second time that season, this time to play 19th-ranked Georgia Tech. For the first time since 1962, Georgia Tech defeated a top-five team, beating Virginia Tech 28\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nGeorgia Tech's win gave it a tiebreaker against Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings, but Virginia Tech made the tiebreaker moot by losing its next game, an ACC contest against North Carolina. Georgia Tech lost only one ACC game all season, a record that won it the ACC's Coastal Division and the accompanying spot in the ACC Championship Game ahead of Virginia Tech, which was No. 2 in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nVirginia Tech broke its two-game losing streak by defeating non-conference foe East Carolina on November 5. The victory was the start of a four-game win streak that brought Virginia Tech to the end of the regular season and restored its national ranking to No. 12 after falling to No. 23 following the North Carolina loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Tennessee\nThe Tennessee Volunteers entered the 2009 season following a 2008 campaign that ended with a bowl-ineligible 5\u20137 record. After the 2008 season ended, Tennessee fired head coach Phillip Fulmer and replaced him with Lane Kiffin, who promised to turn the program around. Kiffin made an offseason splash by breaking the social norms among SEC head football coaches and violating a handful of NCAA rules. In a season-opening win over Western Kentucky, Kiffin appeared to have made a difference for Tennessee, as the Volunteers had their largest margin of victory in nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Tennessee\nThat victory was followed by consecutive losses, however, against UCLA and No. 1-ranked Florida. Tennessee ended its losing streak with a win against Ohio, then began alternating wins and losses. The victory against Ohio was followed by a loss to Auburn. A win against Georgia preceded a loss to No. 2 Alabama on a last-second blocked field goal and a win against No. 22 South Carolina. After South Carolina, Tennessee beat Memphis to create its first winning streak of the season. That streak abruptly ended the following week, when Tennessee lost to Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Team selection, Tennessee\nThe Volunteers won their last two games of the regular season\u2014against Vanderbilt and Kentucky\u2014bringing them to a record of 7\u20135. At no time during the season was Tennessee ranked in the national top-25 polls, and Tennessee was never in consideration to play in the SEC Championship Game because of its early loss to Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup\nIn the weeks before the game, media coverage focused on the geographic rivalry between the two teams, the controversies surrounding Lane Kiffin, and the performances of the players on each team. Virginia Tech played in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in 2006, losing to Georgia 31\u201324, and the 2009 game was its fourth appearance in the game. It was Tennessee's fifth appearance in the game, and the Volunteers had most recently lost to Clemson in the 2004 contest, 27\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup\nEntering the Chick-fil-A Bowl, Virginia Tech was 0\u20132 in games held in Atlanta during 2010, it had lost four consecutive games to SEC foes, and it had never won back-to-back bowl games (Tech won the 2009 Orange Bowl). Despite those factors, Virginia Tech was an early 4.5-point favorite and was listed as a 5.5-point favorite by spread bettors on the day before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Geographic rivalry\nThe University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech are separated by only 233 miles (375\u00a0km) by road, and no major university lies between the two, creating an intense geographical rivalry in that region of the Appalachian Mountains. As Virginia Tech linebacker Cody Grimm said before the game, \"(In) Southwest Virginia, you are either a Tennessee fan or a Tech fan. Now we actually get a chance to play them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Geographic rivalry\nDespite the proximity of the two schools, the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl was only their eighth football meeting. Tennessee held a 5\u20132 advantage in the series, but before 1994, the last meeting between them was in 1937. The 1994 meeting was in the 1994 Gator Bowl, which the Volunteers won 45\u201323. Each school rapidly sold its allotment of 17,000 tickets, and publicly available tickets were sold out before the matchup was announced. This gave the Chick-fil-A Bowl its 13th consecutive sellout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee coaching turmoil\nIn the weeks leading up to the Chick-fil-A Bowl, the number of controversies surrounding Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin continued to grow. Throughout the regular season, he was linked to violations of NCAA rules and actions that appeared to fall outside the norm for SEC coaches. He was mentioned in a rap song by Lil Wayne, and his combative attitude toward opposing coaches caused friction within the SEC. In the second week of December, he was connected to an ongoing scandal in which Tennessee hostesses allegedly helped lure recruits to Tennessee, violating NCAA rules. Despite these problems, he was a successful recruiter, and gained commitments from sought-after recruits in the leadup to the Chick-fil-A Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee coaching turmoil\nIn addition to the off-the-field issues, Tennessee underwent a pair of coaching changes in the weeks before the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Wide receivers coach Frank Wilson and running backs coach Eddie Gran each decided in the first days of December to leave Tennessee for other SEC teams. In interviews, Kiffin said the coaching changes and stories surrounding him were not a distraction from his team's bowl preparation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech offense\nDuring the 2009 season, Virginia Tech was 28th nationally in scoring offense (number of points scored) and 55th in total offense. Most of the Hokies' success came on the ground: Tech was 16th nationally in rushing offense but 98th in passing offense. A large reason for Virginia Tech's offensive success was running back Ryan Williams, who broke Virginia Tech's single-season rushing record that year. Entering the Chick-fil-A Bowl, he had 1,538 yards, only 110 short of the record. Tech running back Darren Evans, who tore his left anterior cruciate ligament before the season began, was held out of the Chick-fil-A Bowl, even though his recovery had progressed to the point that he could have participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech offense\nVirginia Tech also was rated higher than Tennessee in every major special teams category. The Hokies were in the top 25 in both kickoff return yardage defense and kickoff returns and were No. 16 nationally in turnover margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee offense\nAt the conclusion of the 2009 regular season, Tennessee's offense was the 32nd most successful squad in the nation, scoring an average of 30.58 points per game. In terms of yardage gained, Tennessee was 48th. There wasn't much difference between the success of the rushing offense (43rd) and the passing offense (47th). Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton, after struggling in 2008, improved significantly in 2009, when he passed for 2,565 yards and 26 touchdowns. In 2008, the Volunteers were 11th in the SEC in offense, averaging 145.8 yards per game. In 2009, they were third, averaging 225.6 yards per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee offense\nIn addition to Crompton, running back Montario Hardesty also improved his performance from 2008 to 2009. In the season leading up to the Chick-fil-A Bowl, he had 1,306 rushing yards, just 158 short of the single-season Tennessee record, and 12 touchdowns. Entering the Chick-fil-A Bowl, Hardesty hoped to match the team's rushing record, but doubted he would be able to because of past knee injuries that made it difficult to run on artificial turf. Volunteers tight end Luke Stocker, who caught 27 passes for 370 yards and six touchdowns in 2009, was a player Virginia Tech's defense focused on in pregame preparation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee offense\nBecause Tennessee's placekicking had been erratic during the regular season, Tennessee's head coach held an open competition among his three kickers to compete for the starting placekicking job in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech defense\nIn 2009, Virginia Tech was ranked 14th in total defense, sixth in passing defense, and 52nd in rushing defense. In scoring defense, the Hokies were 11th nationally, permitting an average of 15.75 points per game. The top individual performer on the defense was linebacker Cody Grimm, who tied for the most forced fumbles in college football during the regular season, with seven. In recognition of the achievement, he earned the Dudley Award, given annually to the top Division I football player in Virginia, and was named a first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech defense\nCornerback Stephen Virgil, a starter for the Hokies in 10 of their regular-season games, was declared ineligible for the Chick-fil-A Bowl because of poor grades. Defensive coordinator Bud Foster was wooed by several other teams between the conclusion of the regular season and the Chick-fil-A Bowl, but Foster remained at Tech after the school created an annuity for Foster, granted if he remained with the team for five more years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee defense\nTennessee's defense was prized for its success against opponents' passing game. In 2009, the Volunteers were 10th nationally against the pass, permitting an average of 165.92 yards per game. Against the run, they were 58th. When both facets were combined, the defense was 16th, permitting an average of 308.83 yards per game. Much of the reason for Tennessee's success against the pass was star safety Eric Berry, only the second player in Tennessee history to be named a unanimous All-American twice. He won the Jim Thorpe Award, given each year to the best defensive back in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Pregame buildup, Tennessee defense\nJoining Berry in the defensive secondary was Janzen Jackson, who returned to the field following three missed games caused by his alleged involvement in an armed robbery. Countering Jackson's return, Tennessee lost defensive back Brent Vinson, who was dismissed from the team for reasons unrevealed at the time. Two months after the Chick-fil-A Bowl, Vinson was charged with tampering with evidence related to a murder investigation. Tennessee defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, interviewed 10 days before the game, said Virginia Tech's offensive strength presented problems for Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary\nThe 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl kicked off at 7:37\u00a0p.m. EST on December 31, 2009, in the Georgia Dome, Atlanta. Bowl officials announced 73,777 people attended the game, but that figure was based on the number of tickets sold rather than actual turnstile attendance. That attendance figure was the fourth-largest in Chick-fil-A Bowl history, including when the game was known as the Peach Bowl, and it was the 13th consecutive sellout for the game. The game was broadcast in the United States by ESPN, and was watched by an estimated 4.87 million people, earning it a Nielsen Rating of 4.2. That figure was the 10th highest among bowl games that season, and was a 36 percent increase from the previous year's rating. The sportscasters for the broadcast were Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, and Holly Rowe. Because the game was played indoors, weather was not a factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 895]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary\nThe ceremonial playing of the national anthem was performed by trumpeter Dan Oxley. The game's referee was Ed Ardito, its umpire was Greg Adams, and its linesman was Jim Laborde, all of Conference USA. A military veteran from each school was invited to the ceremonial pregame coin toss to determine first possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nTennessee won that ceremonial coin toss and chose to kick off to begin the game, ensuring the Volunteers received the ball to begin the second half. Tennessee placekicker Chad Cunningham delivered the ball from the tee, and Virginia Tech's Dyrell Roberts returned it to the Tech 26-yard line, where Virginia Tech began the game's first offensive drive. Two running plays by Tech's Ryan Williams gained 4 yards, then Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor completed a seven-yard pass for the game's initial first down. Tech advanced as far as its 43-yard line, but a five-yard false-start penalty prevented the Hokies from gaining another first down. They punted the ball to Tennessee, which began its first drive of the game from its 11-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nTwo running plays gained 11 yards and a first down, then Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton began throwing the ball. His first pass the game fell incomplete, and his second was intercepted by Virginia Tech defender Rashad Carmichael, who ran it back to the Tennessee 44-yard line. Tech's second drive of the game thus began in Tennessee's defensive half. The first play of the drive was a 20-yard throw from Taylor to wide receiver Jarrett Boykin. That completed pass was the longest play of the drive, which continued through short rushes and passes. On the seventh play after the interception, Williams ran the ball forward one yard, crossing the goal line for the game's first touchdown. Tech placekicker Matt Waldron successfully converted the extra point, and with 6:56 remaining in the first quarter, Tech led 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 876]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nVirginia Tech's post-score kickoff was returned to the Tennessee 25-yard line, but the Volunteers failed to gain a first down on their second drive of the game, going three-and-out. They punted, returning the ball to Virginia Tech at the Hokies' 31-yard line. Taylor completed a 14-yard pass to Roberts and a 10-yard throw to Marcus Davis for two first downs, advancing the Hokies into Tennessee's half of the field, but Virginia Tech's drive petered out after Williams was tackled for a three-yard loss and the Hokies were unable to regain the lost yardage. Tech punted to the Tennessee 10-yard line, where the Volunteers took over on offense with 1:16 remaining in the quarter. Crompton completed a passing play that lost three yards, then Tennessee regained two of those yards with a running play as time expired in the quarter with Tech leading, 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 905]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe second quarter began with Tennessee facing third down and 11 from its 9-yard line. The first play of the quarter ended in a two-yard loss for Tennessee, and the Volunteers punted after their second consecutive three-and-out. Starting at Tennessee's 46-yard line after the punt, Tech quarterback Taylor completed a 42-yard pass to Danny Coale on the Hokies' first play of the quarter, giving Virginia Tech a first down at the Tennessee 4-yard line. There, however, Tennessee's defense stiffened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTech was stopped for no gain on consecutive plays, but on third down the Volunteers committed a facemask penalty, giving Virginia Tech a first down at the 1-yard line. Even then, it took Ryan Williams two plays to gain the momentum needed to cross the goal line for Virginia Tech's second touchdown. The score and subsequent extra point gave the Hokies a 14\u20130 lead with 11:56 remaining before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nVirginia Tech's kickoff was downed for a touchback, and Tennessee started its drive from its 20-yard line. On the second play of the possession, Crompton completed a 40-yard pass to wide receiver Denarius Moore. The play gave Tennessee its first plays inside Virginia Tech territory, and the Volunteers capitalized on the field position. After two rushing plays were stymied for no gain or losses, Crompton completed a 15-yard pass to wide receiver Gerald Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nCrompton was sacked on the next play, but two plays later completed a 20-yard throw to Jones, who ran out of bounds at the Tech 4-yard line, giving Tennessee another first down. Two plays later, running back Montario Hardesty ran forward four yards into the end zone, halving Virginia Tech's lead. After the extra point, Virginia Tech still led, 14\u20137, with 6:43 remaining in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nFollowing Tennessee's score, the two teams traded possessions as each offense went three-and-out. Virginia Tech's offense then began a drive from its 40-yard line with 3:21 remaining in the half. Williams gained a first down with a pair of five-yard running plays, and Taylor gained 21 yards on another running play. Tech advanced to the Tennessee 31-yard line, where Taylor was sacked for a loss of nine yards. In an effort to recover the lost field position, Taylor threw a pass downfield, but the ball was intercepted by Tennessee's Janzen Jackson, who returned it to the Tech 48-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTennessee's offense entered the field of play with 1:11 remaining in the quarter, and it moved quickly. On the first play of the drive, a Crompton pass was caught by Hardesty for a 47-yard gain. Two plays later, Crompton completed a two-yard toss to Moore for a touchdown. The extra point tied the game at 14 with 18 seconds remaining before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTennessee's post-touchdown kickoff was returned to the Tech 33-yard line, but Virginia Tech decided to not run an inconsequential play to drain the final seconds from the clock and enter halftime. On the first play after the kickoff, Taylor threw a surprise pass downfield to Boykin, who was tackled at the Tennessee four-yard line. Instant replay revealed there were two seconds remaining on the game clock after the play, and Virginia Tech placekicker Matt Waldron came onto the field to complete a 21-yard field goal as time expired. The Hokies thus regained a 17\u201314 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nBecause Virginia Tech received the ball to begin the game, Tennessee received the ball to begin the second half. After a short return, Tennessee's offense started the half from its 30-yard line. Crompton completed passes of 11 and 8 yards, then Virginia Tech's defense halted the Tennessee advance and forced a punt. Virginia Tech's offense began its first drive of the second half at its 26-yard line, with 13:02 remaining in the quarter. From the 26, Tech began an eight-play drive that saw Ryan Williams carry the ball on seven consecutive plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nOnly the final play of the drive, a one-yard touchdown run by Tyrod Taylor, didn't feature the Tech running back. Williams opened the drive with a 21-yard sprint and had a 32-yard run during the possession that ended with Taylor's touchdown at the 8:42 mark in the quarter. The touchdown and extra point extended Tech's lead to 24\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nTennessee attempted to answer Tech's score in its following possession. The Hokies' kickoff resulted in a touchback, so the Volunteers began from their 20-yard line. Montario Hardesty gained a first down with a 10-yard run, then Crompton gained another first down with an 11-yard pass. Tennessee continued to advance on running plays and a 14-yard pass by Crompton, pushing the ball inside the Tech 30-yard line. Once there, however, the Hokies rallied by sacking Crompton for a seven-yard loss. A two-yard run and an incomplete pass kept Tennessee from gaining another first down, setting up a fourth down. Rather than try an offensive play and possibly gain a first down or turn the ball over on downs, Tennessee punted, forcing Virginia Tech's offense to start from its 11-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nBuilding on the rushing success of its previous drive, Virginia Tech used fullback Josh Oglesby in tandem with Williams, who also figured prominently in the team's second possession of the half. The two men combined for 19 yards on the first three plays of the drive, then Williams exited the game because of an injury. After play resumed, Taylor gained 10 yards on a rushing play and completed a 23-yard pass before Oglesby carried the ball again. When the third quarter ended, Virginia Tech faced second down at the Tennessee 30-yard line, still leading 24\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nVirginia Tech began the quarter in possession of the ball in Tennessee territory, attempting to capitalize upon a drive begun in the third quarter. Tennessee's defense, however, allowed only one yard on the first two plays of the quarter, and Tech placekicker Waldron returned to the field to convert a 46-yard field goal, extending Virginia Tech's lead to 27\u201314 with 13:33 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nAfter Virginia Tech's post-score kickoff and a short return, Tennessee's offense started from its 31-yard line. A five-yard penalty against Virginia Tech was followed by a five-yard first-down run by Hardesty. Tennessee attempted to move its offense quickly in order to maximize the chances of closing Virginia Tech's lead by scoring fast. Crompton completed an 18-yard pass, advancing the Volunteers into Tech territory, but he was sacked by the Tech defense and Tennessee committed a five-yard false start penalty, forcing the Volunteers to punt. The kick rolled into the end zone for a touchback, and Tech's offense returned to the field at its 20-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nAs in the previous two drives, Virginia Tech relied upon its rushing offense: The first five plays of the drive were runs by David Wilson, who gained 26 yards. The Hokies then switched gears, surprising Tennessee, whose defense allowed a 30-yard pass completion from Taylor to Boykin. Tech reverted to running plays, but Tennessee again allowed a long gain, as Roberts advanced 21 yards on a run, then Wilson ran three yards into the end zone. The touchdown and extra point gave Virginia Tech a 34\u201314 lead with 5:14 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nTech's kickoff was returned to the Tennessee 25-yard line, but on the first play of the Volunteers' drive, Crompton was sacked by Jason Worilds and fumbled the ball. The loose ball was recovered by Virginia Tech's John Graves at the Tennessee 13-yard line. The Hokies' offense returned to the field and began running out the clock with running plays, which keep the game clock ticking as long as the ball carrier is tackled in the field of play. Three rushing plays failed to gain a first down, but they drained more than two minutes from the game clock, and Tech's Waldron extended the Hokies' lead to 37\u201314 with a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nTennessee had one final opportunity to score after receiving Virginia Tech's kickoff with 2:38 remaining. Jonathan Crompton threw several passes downfield, completing throws of 9, 9, 8, and 26 yards, advancing the Volunteers toward the end zone. Inside the Virginia Tech red zone, however, the Volunteers found less success. They committed a false start penalty, advanced the ball with a five-yard run, then Crompton threw two incomplete passes. On fourth down, Crompton was sacked for a 14-yard loss, the Volunteers' final play of the game. Virginia Tech knelt on the ball to run the final seconds off the clock and clinch the 37\u201314 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Statistical summary\nIn recognition of his performance, Virginia Tech running back Ryan Williams was named the game's most valuable player. On 25 carries, Williams accumulated 117 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Williams also caught two passes: one that gained six yards and one that lost six yards. Williams' performance, coupled with success early in the season, allowed him to set Tech's single-season rushing record with 1,655 yards. The game was Williams' 10th of at least 100 yards that season. Williams also set two ACC records: His touchdowns gave him 21 rushing touchdowns on the season and 22 total touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Statistical summary\nAlone, Williams had more rushing yards than all of Tennessee's players combined. Tennessee's leading rusher was Montario Hardesty, who carried the ball 18 times for 39 yards and a touchdown. Hardesty had 1,345 rushing yards on the season, the fourth-highest season total for any player in Tennessee's history. Tennessee's No. 2 rusher was Tauren Poole, who gained 15 yards on 3 carries. Collectively, Tennessee had just five yards net rushing, the second-least ever in a Tennessee bowl game and the least allowed by Virginia Tech in a bowl game. Most of Tennessee's rushing gains were negated when quarterback Jonathan Crompton was sacked six times, losing 55 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Statistical summary\nThough ineffective on the ground, Crompton outperformed Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor in the passing game. Crompton completed 15 of 26 pass attempts for 235 yards, one touchdown, and one interception. Crompton finished the season with 27 touchdown passes, third-most in school history, and had the fourth-most pass attempts, ninth-most completions, and eighth-most yards for a Tennessee season. Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor completed 10 of 17 passes for 209 yards and one interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Statistical summary\nTennessee's Herman Lathers led all defenders with 12 total tackles, including 2 tackles for loss, both career highs. The game's No. 2 tackler was Tennessee's Dan Williams, who tied a career-high by recording nine tackles, including half a sack. Virginia Tech's leading tackler was Lyndell Gibson, who had eight tackles, including half a tackle for loss. Virginia Tech's John Graves, participating in his first game of the season, had two tackles for loss, including a sack, and forced a fumble. Virginia Tech's other forced turnover was an interception caught by cornerback Rashad Carmichael. Tennessee's Janzen Jackson had the Volunteers' only interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Statistical summary\nVirginia Tech kicker Matt Waldron set a school record for most field goals in a bowl game (3) and tied the school record for the longest bowl-game field goal with his 46-yard kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Postgame effects\nVirginia Tech's victory gave the team its sixth consecutive 10-win season and brought the Hokies to a final 2009 record of 10\u20133. It was the first time in school history that Tech won bowl games in consecutive years. Tennessee's loss dropped it to 7\u20136, and the Volunteers remained unranked in the final college football polls of the year. Virginia Tech was credited for its bowl-game win and rose to 10th in both the Associated Press and coaches' polls. Visiting fans generated an estimated $31.2 million in business for the Atlanta area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Postgame effects\nSeveral players from each team participated in all-star games following the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Virginia Tech's Kam Chancellor, Sergio Render and Stephan Virgil played in the 2010 East\u2013West Shrine Game. Tennessee's Morgan Cox, Chris Scott and Dan Williams played in the Senior Bowl, while Jonathan Crompton and Vladimir Richard participated in the Texas vs The Nation game. These all-star games were a chance for graduating players to highlight their skills before the 2010 NFL Draft, which took place in April. A handful of players from each team were selected through the draft to play for National Football League teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Postgame effects\nTennessee had six players selected, including two in the first round: safety Eric Berry was the fifth selection overall, followed by Dan Williams (26), Montario Hardesty (59), Jacques McClendon (129), Chris Scott (151), and Jonathan Crompton (168). Virginia Tech had five players selected: Jason Worilds was picked 52nd overall, followed by Kam Chancellor (133), Ed Wang (140), Brent Bowden (172), and Cody Grimm (210).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Postgame effects\nIn addition to player changes, Tennessee saw coaching changes. Two weeks after the Chick-fil-A Bowl defeat, Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin announced he was leaving the team to become the new head coach of the University of Southern California football team. The decision shocked Tennessee administrators and fans, who believed Kiffin would stay longer than one season. To replace Kiffin, Tennessee hired Derek Dooley, who had been coaching football at Louisiana Tech. Defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron also left with Kiffin. They were replaced by Justin Wilcox and Chuck Smith, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202183-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl, Postgame effects\nDooley also changed position coaches, naming Terry Joseph defensive backs coach and Eric Russell special teams coach. To coach quarterbacks, he brought in Darin Hinshaw of Memphis. He hired Charlie Baggett to coach wide receivers and serve as assistant head coach, and added assistant coach Harry Hiestand and strength and conditioning coach Bennie Wylie. He retained offensive coordinator Jim Chaney from Kiffin's staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202184-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chihuahua Express\nThe third edition of the Chihuahua Express started on March 27 and finished on March 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Chile on December 13, 2009, in conjunction with the presidential election. The totality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 18 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election\nThe centre-right Coalition for Change improved on the Alliance for Chile's result in 2005 by winning 58 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, while the governing center-left Concertaci\u00f3n (CPD) was reduced to 57 seats. The election was notable because the election of three communist MP's (Jorge Teillier, Hugo Guti\u00e9rrez and Lautaro Carmona) and the defeat of the current Speaker of the Chamber Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez (UDI) in hands of a younger (RN) Marcela Sabat. Also is disappointing to the Government not to be able to break the dubbing of the center-right in Las Condes. In the career to the Senate the surprise was Joaqu\u00edn Lav\u00edn's defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Legislation\nAccording to the Chilean Constitution, the citizens could exercise the right to suffrage, or, those who have expired 18 years of age and have not been condemned to a sorrow superior to 3 years of prison (a distressing sorrow). To take part in the elections it was needed to be before inscribed in the electoral records and to present the bond of identity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Legislation\nThe requirements to register were a 18-year-old major being in the day of the election and to have Chilean nationality or to be a resident foreigner for more than five years in the country (that one credits with a certificate expressed by the respective provincial governor). The right to vote was remaining suspended by interdiction in case of dementia, for being accused by crime that deserves a distressing sorrow or for crime for terrorism and for sanction of the Constitutional Court (in conformity to the article 19 n. \u00ba 15 clause 7. \u00ba of the Constitution).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Legislation\nIn agreement to the legislation of the epoch, the process of inscription in the electoral records was voluntary, but after having registered, the elector was forced to support to perpetuity and only it could apologize for reasons of health or for being located to more than 300 kilometres of distance of the place of voting, fact of the one that can leave witness him in the Carabineers' most nearby unit of Chile. In case of not helping or not to take up office as member of table, the electors could be condemned to the payment of fines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Legislation\nThough on March 27, 2009 there was promulgated by the chairwoman Michelle Bachelet the law that establishes the automatic inscription of the voters and that allows the voluntary voting of these, 4 the entry in force of the above mentioned regulation was not applicable in these elections due to the lack of the law that was regulating sayings procesos.5 The election with voluntary vote materialized in the municipal elections of 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy\nThe A list conformed after the union of two political coalitions that had taken part separately in the elections of 2005. On one hand the Concert of parties for democracy, which was grouping to the center-left parties that since 1990 governed the country. In the other hand the left-wing Together We Can More, that it suffered an internal division after the exit of the Humanist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy\nThe reason of this strange union was, the Binomial System that get out the political left from the National Congress since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy\nThe largest party inside the A list was the Christian Democrats, with the leadership of Juan Carlos Latorre who was chief of the Eduardo Frei's presidential campaign. The Socialists joined with the senator Camilo Escalona, PPD with the deputy Pepe Auth. The Radicals led by Senator G\u00f3mez, and the Communist Party with the leadership of Guillermo Teillier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Coalition for Change\nThe Alliance for Chile for the elections of 2009, began with an important step, by means of I arrive of two precandidates, one of them the senator Pablo Longueira, and the mayor of Concepci\u00f3n, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, both of the Independent Democratic Union, who demonstrated his availability of postulating to this post, using the regular conduits inside the coalition, nevertheless, both rejected such an option to present only a presidential candidate, who would be Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Coalition for Change\nIn March, 2009, two Congressmen of the Alliance for Chile obtained the speaker of the Senate and the speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, by means of an agreement with the independent bench and with the Concert, respectively. The above mentioned agreements were not lacking in polemic, since the Senator who postulated the alliance to preside at the above mentioned organism, Jovino Novoa, was duramente criticized for personeros of the Concert in view of his past as member of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Coalition for Change\nIn spite of the critiques, the Alliance for Chile awarded a political victory on having presided at both chambers of the National Congress and some of the most influential commissions of the same one, which, they waited in the conglomerate opponent, he was benefiting Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, Coalition for Change\nAfter having integrated the list Clean Chile, Vote Happy, one was generated fail between the charter members of ChileFirst with regard to the position that would take the party opposite to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2009. Whereas Jorge Schaulsohn and Senator Flores supported the candidate of the Alliance for Chile Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era, the deputy Esteban Valenzuela rejected to join with the center-right and resigned ChileFirst to endorse Marco Enr\u00edquez-Ominami's candidacy. The support to Pi\u00f1era on the part of ChileFirst was made official on May 6, 2009, when one presented the \"Coalition for the Change\", electoral agreement between the Alliance for Chile, ChileFirst and other political minor movements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202185-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Chilean parliamentary election, Candidates, New Majority for Chile\nNew Majority for Chile was a political coalition that grouped the Ecologist party of Chile, the Humanist Party of Chile, and diverse political and independent movements that supported the candidacy of the independent Marco Enr\u00edquez-Ominami for the presidential election of 2009. Between the movements and groups without political legal constitution that they it shaped are the Regionalist Movement, the Movement Unified of Sexual Minorities (MUMS), the Movement SurDA and the Progressist Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202186-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chile\u2013Peru espionage scandal\nThe 2009 Chile\u2013Peru espionage scandal was a diplomatic crisis that occurred when a Peruvian court ordered the arrest of two Chilean military officers over allegedly bribing Peruvian air force officer Ariza Mendoza. The charges against the Peruvian  air force officer were: revealing national secrets, espionage and money-laundering. Mendoza was purportedly receiving between $5,000 and $8,000 per month in return for reporting national secrets to Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202186-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chile\u2013Peru espionage scandal\nPeruvian President Alan Garcia left Singapore just before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in order to return home to deal with the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202186-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chile\u2013Peru espionage scandal\nThe American ambassador in Lima, P. Michael McKinley, wrote in a leaked cable that the \"Peruvian reaction seems exaggerated given the relatively limited scale of the espionage, and suggests political opportunism along with an instinctive reaction to any problem involving Chile.\" Ambassador McKinley further stated that the timing of the scandal was unfortunate because  Peru had \"begun to more seriously focus on defeating Shining Path narco-terrorists in the Apurimac-Ene River Valley\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202187-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Baseball League season\nThe 2009 China Baseball League season saw the Beijing Tigers defeat the Guangdong Leopards in 1 games to win the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One\nThe 2009 China League One is the 6th season since the establishment. League kicked off on 28 March 2009 and is scheduled to end on 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One\nWinners and runners-up promotes to Chinese Super League next season and the last placed team was relegated to League Two. League One expands to 14 teams next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One\nZhu Zhengrong of Shanghai East Asia scored the first hat-trick of the season against Sichuan at Shanghai Stadium on 28 Aug 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One\nLeonardo of Shenyang Dongjin scored the second hat-trick of the season against Nanchang at Shenyang Olympic Stadium on 10 Oct 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One\nMartin of Nanchang Bayi Hengyuan scored the third hat-trick of the season against Nanjing at Bayi Stadium on 25 Oct 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202188-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 China League One, Promotion and Relegation\nAfter 2008 season, Jiangsu Sainty and Chongqing Lifan were promoted to Chinese Super League 2009 and Yantai Yiteng were relegated to China League Two 2009. They were replaced by Guangdong Sunray Cave and Shenyang Dongjin which promoted from League Two 2008 and Liaoning Whowin who relegated from Super League 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202189-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China League Two\nThe 2009 China League Two season is the 20th season since its establishment. League kicked off on 9 May 2009 and ended on 28 November 2009 with the play-off final. Winners and runners-up promotes to China League One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202190-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Masters Super Series\nThe 2009 China Masters Super Series was a top level badminton competition which was held from September 15, 2009 to September 20, 2009 in Changzhou, China. It was the seventh BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker)\nThe 2009 Bank of Beijing China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 30\u00a0March and 5\u00a0April 2009 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The event was sponsored by Bank of Beijing and Hyundai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker)\nThe defending champion was Stephen Maguire, but he lost in the first round 0\u20135 against Dave Harold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker)\nPeter Ebdon won in the final 10\u20138 against John Higgins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker), Prize fund\nWinner: \u00a352,000Runner-Up: \u00a325,000Semi-Finalists: \u00a39,000Quarter-Finalists: \u00a35,775Last 16: \u00a35,000Last 32: \u00a33,450Last 48: \u00a32,050Last 64: \u00a31,400", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202191-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (snooker), Qualifying\nThese matches took place between 21 and 24 January 2009 at the Pontin's Centre, Prestatyn, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202192-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (tennis)\nThe 2009 China Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the China Open for the men (13th for the women), and was part of the ATP 500 Series of the 2009 ATP Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events were held at the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from October 2 through October 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202192-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (tennis), WTA entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202192-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (tennis), ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202192-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (tennis), Champions, Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan def. Mark Knowles /  Andy Roddick, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202192-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open (tennis), Champions, Women's Doubles\nHsieh Su-Wei /  Peng Shuai def. Alla Kudryavtseva /  Ekaterina Makarova, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202193-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open Super Series\nThe 2009 China Open Super Series was a top level badminton competition which was held from November 17, 2009 to November 22, 2009 in Shanghai, China. It was the twelfth BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202194-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nStephen Huss and Ross Hutchins were the defending champions, but they chose to participate at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202194-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Mark Knowles and Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202195-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAndy Roddick was the defending champion, but he lost in the first round against \u0141ukasz Kubot. Novak Djokovic won in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134), against Marin \u010cili\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202196-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAnabel Medina Garrigues and Caroline Wozniacki were the defending champion, but Wozniacki chose not to participate this year. Medina Garrigues partnered with Virginia Ruano Pascual, but they lost in the second round against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Yanina Wickmayer. Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131 against Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202196-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202197-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 was the defending champion, but lost in the second round against Peng Shuai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202197-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSvetlana Kuznetsova won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska to win the tournament for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202197-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis tournament saw a WTA tour record, with world No. 226 Zhang Shuai defeating then world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the second round, and as such becoming the lowest-ranked player to ever defeat a reigning world No. 1. Serena Williams replaced Safina as world No. 1 following the tournament by virtue of winning her second round match, though Williams herself would lose in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202197-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 China Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe four Tokyo semifinalists received a bye into the second round. They are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202198-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from  13 May to 17 May 2009 in Jinan, Shandong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202199-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Chinese Figure Skating Championships were held on 7\u201310 January 2009 at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium in Beijing. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. In addition to the short program and free skating, single skaters also performed a 3:30 minute interpretive exhibition program, for which music with vocals was permitted. The results were among the criteria used to choose the Chinese teams to the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 Four Continents Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202199-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Figure Skating Championships\nThese Championships were distinct from the National Games of China, although they served to qualify some skaters for the National Games. Some of the top Chinese pair skaters did not participate in the national championships, preferring to compete solely at the National Games instead, for which they received byes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Chinese Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 19 April 2009 at the Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. It was the third race of the 2009 Formula One season, a change from previous years, when it took place towards the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix\nSebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing won the race after starting from pole position. Both the race win and pole position were the first for Red Bull team. Mark Webber, also of Red Bull, finished second followed by the two Brawn GP's of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton finished fifth and sixth, ahead of Toyota's Timo Glock and Scuderia Toro Rosso's S\u00e9bastien Buemi in seventh and eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Background\nHeading into the event, Jenson Button of Brawn GP led the Drivers' Championship by 5 points from team-mate Rubens Barrichello and by a further 1.5 points from Jarno Trulli of Toyota. Brawn GP led Toyota by 8.5 points in the Constructors' Championship, with Renault and BMW Sauber a further 12.5 points behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Background\nPrior to the race, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) International Court of Appeal confirmed the legality of the diffuser designs on the Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota team cars. Following this ruling, Renault and McLaren decided to run an updated diffuser design on their cars during the race. It was a hurried move by both teams, with Renault fitting it to Alonso's car for the first time on the Saturday before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Background\nFerrari announced that its team manager Luca Baldisserri was taken off the track operations to be replaced by race engineer Chris Dyer. The reshuffle was undertaken after Ferrari failed to score a point in the first two races of the season. Ferrari also announced that both its drivers, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Felipe Massa, would not use the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) in the race, citing reliability and safety issues. BMW Sauber, on the other hand, declared that Robert Kubica would use KERS for the first time during the Friday practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Background\nKubica had not used the system in the first two races as there were concerns that the additional weight would put him at a disadvantage. However, Kubica opted not to run the device any further after Friday practice, as did the Renault team, reducing the number of KERS-equipped cars to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Background\nItalian teams and drivers indicated their support for the victims of 2009 L'Aquila earthquake through charity initiative \"Abruzzo nel cuore\" (Abruzzo in my heart) led by Italian drivers Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella. Ferrari displayed the writing \"Abruzzo nel cuore\" on their cars while Trulli wore the logo on his overalls. The Toro Rosso cars had the message \"Vicini All'Abruzzo\" (All neighbouring Abruzzo) on their cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\n\"The car instantly felt a bit better. I can feel more stability and downforce from the front. We've definitely made a step forward for this race. The car feels much stronger through the corners and I think we've got a very positive baseline for the rest of the weekend. My first run on the options felt quite consistent\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nLewis Hamilton, on the performance his car during Friday's practice sessions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held prior to the race; two sessions on Friday April 17, 2009, each lasting 90 minutes, and one 60 minute session on Saturday April 18, 2009. World Champion Lewis Hamilton's McLaren was fastest at the end of the first practice session on Friday morning ahead of the Brawn GP cars of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. Hamilton's McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen was fourth fastest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nHamilton, whose McLaren MP4-24 car was fitted with a new interim diffuser and front wing, clocked his fastest lap of 1:37.334, around a tenth of a second clear of Button, around sixty minutes into the session. Red Bull's Mark Webber was fifth in the session, with Toyota's Trulli and Timo Glock sixth and eighth. Fernando Alonso, Nico Rosberg and S\u00e9bastien Bourdais completed the top ten lap times of the first session. Button was the fastest in Friday afternoon's second practice session, followed by Rosberg and Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nRed Bull drivers Webber and Sebastian Vettel who headed the time-sheets during the initial phases of the session were eventually classified fourth and fifth fastest respectively. Toyota cars once again managed a competitive result as Trulli and Glock finished sixth and eighth with Williams' Kazuki Nakajima splitting them. The two McLarens could not recreate their results from the morning session with Kovalainen finishing ninth fastest and Hamilton 13th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nWilliams' Rosberg was quickest in the practice session on Saturday morning. Rosberg, who slid off the track onto the gravel at the start of the session, timed 1:36.133 to top the timesheets, followed by Trulli and Hamilton. Button finished fourth with Renault's Nelson Piquet, Jr. clocking the fifth fastest lap time for the session. Piquet's team-mate Fernando Alonso on the other hand, whose Renault R29 car was fitted with new diffuser and without the KERS, could only manage a time good enough for 19th fastest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nBMW Sauber's Robert Kubica who also removed his KERS for this session, improved significantly from his results in the earlier two sessions. Timo Glock's Toyota TF109 car faced gearbox problems early in the session and had to change the gearbox for the upcoming qualifying session. Glock received a five-place grid penalty for this gearbox change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\n\"...if you only have one lap and if you have [sic] any mistake, you go wide or whatever, there is no second chance and it means it is the end. It was not so easy but I am very, very happy. Unbelievable we made it to pole position in the end.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nThe qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. Sebastian Vettel achieved his second career pole position \u2013 and the first for his Red Bull Racing team \u2013 at the end of the session. Vettel, who ran only one flying lap each in the final two parts of qualifying, due to problems with the driveshafts of his car, edged out Fernando Alonso by two-tenths of a second in the final part of qualifying. Red Bull's other driver Mark Webber finished third, immediately ahead of Brawn GP cars of Barrichello and Button.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Practice and qualifying\nKimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, after a disappointing performance during practice, secured eighth position behind Trulli in sixth and Rosberg in seventh place. Hamilton and Toro Rosso's S\u00e9bastien Buemi completed the top ten on the grid. Nick Heidfeld, Heikki Kovalainen, Felipe Massa, Timo Glock and Kazuki Nakajima made up 11th to 15th on the grid. Drivers eliminated in the first qualifying session and classified 16th to 20th were S\u00e9bastien Bourdais, Nelson Piquet, Jr., Robert Kubica, Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella. Due to his five-place penalty, Glock was placed 19th and Nakajima, Bourdais, Piquet, Kubica and Sutil were each promoted by one position in the revised starting grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nRobert Kubica and Timo Glock started from the pit lane. Due to heavy rain, the first eight laps of the race were run under the safety car. Sutil, Rosberg and Alonso made their first pit stops during the safety car period so they were at the back of the pack when the green flag was shown. Lewis Hamilton made early progress and overtook Jarno Trulli and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, before he spun on lap 12 and dropped back to 10th. Meanwhile, Jenson Button overtook Rubens Barrichello for third after the Brazilian ran wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nTrulli and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen were quite slow in the early laps and they dropped back. Hamilton made progress once again and was 7th on lap 11 before another mistake which dropped him one place down. Webber made his first scheduled stop on lap 14 and Vettel on the following lap. At this point, Button led from Barrichello, Vettel, Buemi, Massa and Webber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nOn lap 17, Robert Kubica crashed into Jarno Trulli on the run to the last corner. Kubica damaged his front wing and Trulli his rear wing, which caused him to crawl one lap slowly into the pits to retire. The safety car was deployed due to debris left on the track. While avoiding the slowing Trulli, Vettel suffered a minor collision with Buemi, who damaged his front wing in the process. Buemi made his pit stop at that point, along with both Brawn GP drivers and Sutil, who had his second stop at this point and was set to finish the race from this point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nFelipe Massa suffered an electrical problem during the safety car period and he stopped on the back straight. At the restart, S\u00e9bastien Bourdais spun before the green flag and dropped a number of places. The race continued with Vettel leading from Button while Webber, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Hamilton, Barrichello, Kovalainen and Buemi rounded out the top eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nPiquet crashed on lap 28 and damaged his front wing but was able to continue. Button missed his braking point at the hairpin on the following lap, allowing Webber through. Webber ran wide two laps later and Button was ahead again, until Webber passed him from the outside in turn 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nHamilton made his only scheduled stop on lap 33, and his team-mate Kovalainen followed a lap later. Vettel stopped on lap 37 and Webber on lap 39, while two Brawn cars ran until laps 42 (Button) and 43 (Barrichello). Buemi was the last driver to make a scheduled stop, on lap 45 and after that race order was: Vettel, Webber, Button, Barrichello, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Sutil and Heidfeld. Nico Rosberg had tried intermediate tyres on his second stop but he spun soon after and pitted again for full wets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nHamilton continued with a lot of mistakes so Kovalainen and Sutil were able to pass him. Then on lap 51, Sutil crashed heavily before turn 5, ending his race. Heidfeld had to avoid Sutil's tyre which had bounced back to the track and Glock and Buemi went past him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nVettel stayed in the lead until the end, taking his second Grand Prix victory and his first for Red Bull Racing. His team-mate Webber achieved his best career result with second place while Button got his third successive podium with third place. Barrichello finished fourth, Kovalainen fifth, Hamilton sixth, Glock seventh and Buemi eighth. A total of 17 drivers were classified, including Sutil who had retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202200-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Grand Prix, Event report, Race\nOn the podium, there was confusion when \"God Save the Queen\", the British national anthem was played for winning constructor Red Bull instead of \"Land der Berge, Land am Strome\", the Austrian national anthem. Red Bull Racing is based in the UK, but is registered with the Austrian national racing authority, reflecting its Austrian ownership. When Vettel recorded Red Bull's second win at the 2009 British Grand Prix, the Austrian anthem was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202201-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Super League\nThe 2009 Chinese Super League season was the sixth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the sixteenth season of a professional football league and the 48th top-tier league season in China. Beijing Guoan won their first ever Chinese Super League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202201-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Super League\nThe events during the 2008 season saw Liaoning relegated and Wuhan withdrawn. They were replaced by the promoted teams Jiangsu Sainty and Chongqing Lifan. Zhejiang Greentown which is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang were renamed to Hangzhou Greentown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202201-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Super League\nEach team is allowed to register a maximum of five foreign players and field four of them in starting line-up this season, one of whom must be from an AFC country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202201-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Super League\nThe league title sponsor is Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli. A three-year deal was announced on March 20, 2009. Nike have renewed sponsorship deal with Super League before season starts. CCTV, SMG and Sina became league partners and will broadcast live matches on TV and online across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202201-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese Super League, H1N1 flu pandemic\nChongqing Lifan reported an 8-player and 3-crew infection of H1N1 flu virus on 10 September. Its matches in Round 22, 23 and 24 were postponed by Chinese FA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202202-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal\nThe 2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal occurred in the Shaanxi province of China when pollution from a lead plant poisoned children in the surrounding area. Over 850 were affected. Villagers have accused the local and central governments of covering up the scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202202-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal, History\nIn 2003 the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Company set up a factory in the Changqing township near the city of Baoji, describing it in brochures as \"a garden-like factory\". Soon \"100,000 tons of lead and zinc a year and 700,000 tons of coke\" were being produced. In 2008 it paid more than \u00a310m in taxes to the local government, 17% of the administration's total income, and provided jobs for 2,000 households. Local parents however noticed that children were showing signs of illness - such as nose bleeds and memory problems. 851 children from seven villages surrounding the plant displayed up to 10 times the level of lead in their blood deemed safe by Chinese authorities. Over 170 of the children had to be hospitalised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202202-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal, History\nLocal villagers protested to authorities but claim they were ignored. On 17 August 2009 they attacked the plant causing the managers to flee. The plant has now been closed down, but according to Western reports all coverage in the Chinese media of events has now been banned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202202-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal, History\nChinese lead supplies the country's battery industry, the world's largest. Lead poisoning can lead to anaemia, muscle weakness and brain damage and damages the nervous and reproductive systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202202-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Chinese lead poisoning scandal, Similar events\nThe Times reported in September 2009 that \"similar protests broke out in three other provinces, where horrified parents living near smelters of lead, copper and aluminium also learnt that their children had been poisoned\u20141,300 of them in one city alone\". Villages that suffer from such pollution are often dubbed 'cancer villages\". Child health is an important issue in China, where many families are restricted to just one child. Nearly 2,000 children were poisoned in the Shaanxi and Hunan provinces. Parents and villagers rioted in the Hunan province after the mass poisonings became known. The government promised to move villagers to a new, safer living location, but plans for the move were postponed when the new location was found also to be contaminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202203-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chitrakoot shootout\nA shootout took place on 17 June 2009 between the Indian dacoit Ghanshyam Nishad alias Naam and 400 members of the local police force of the Chitrakoot village in Jamauli in Uttar Pradesh. An initial force of 3 constables who attempted to arrest Nishad were stuck in the same building with him and one of them was killed. The 48-hour siege ended on 19 June with 5 dead including the perpetrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202203-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chitrakoot shootout, Background\nGhanshyam Nishad had been on the run for many years and the government had put up a 50,000 bounty on his capture. Nishad also headed a gang that operated in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and was wanted for various crimes including murder and abductions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202203-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chitrakoot shootout, Standoff\nThe standoff began when the Special Operation Group of Chitrakoot Police received a tip that Nishad was in the village of Jamauli for the birthday of his relative Raj Karan Nishad. When police raided the village at 11 am on Tuesday, Ghanshyam hid in a house and fired at them. Armed with grenades and rifles, he managed to kill a constable, Shameem, and injured another two operatives. By evening, the entire village was evacuated. The under-equipped police had to stall their operations on Wednesday night due to a lack of night-vision equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202203-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chitrakoot shootout, Standoff\nOn Wednesday, Nishad shot dead PAC company commander Bani Madhav Singh and Mohd Iqbal, the driver of DIG Chitrakoot. He also injured the IG, DIG and the STF in-charge. More than a dozen policemen, including two senior officers, were injured in the exchange of bullets. Inspector General (IG) of the PAC B.K. Gupta and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Banda range S.K. Singh were injured on Wednesday afternoon and were rushed to Allahabad by helicopter. Police later burned nearby thatch houses in an attempt to flush him with smoke. He was seen changing houses twice, but the police were unable to stop him. He was finally shot dead on 19 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202204-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chivas USA season\nThe 2009 Chivas USA season was the fifth season of the team's existence. It began on March 21 with a 2-1 home win over the Colorado Rapids, and ended with a 3-2 aggregate loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy in the first round of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202204-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chivas USA season, Competitions, MLS, League table\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202204-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chivas USA season, Competitions, MLS, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202205-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chonburi F.C. season\nThe 2009 season is Chonburi's 4th season in the Thai Premier League of Chonburi Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202206-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chongqing mine blast\nThe 2009 Chongqing mine blast was a gas explosion that occurred at a coal mine in Southwestern China in Qijiang County, Chongqing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202206-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chongqing mine blast, Explosion\nThe accident happened on 30 May 2009 around 11 a.m. at Tonghua Coal Mine in Qijiang County, when 131 miners were working underground. The Tonghua mine is affiliated with the state-owned Songzao Mining Bureau of Chongqing. The death toll reached 30 people and 101 miners were rescued, according to state media. Of those rescued, 59 were injured, including four in serious condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202206-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chongqing mine blast, Explosion\nThe cause of the accident was an illegal practice which violated mining rules, and an excessive amount of explosives directly triggered the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202206-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Chongqing mine blast, Explosion\nPolice detained three people: the owner of the coal mine, chief engineer, and project manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202207-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party leadership election\nA leadership election for Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-\u010cSL) was held on 30 May 2009. Cyril Svoboda was elected leader of the party. Incumbent leader Ji\u0159\u00ed \u010cunek was eliminated in the first round. Other candidates were Jan B\u0159ezina and Michael \u0160ojdrov\u00e1. Svoboda's victory was welcomed by Social democratic leader Ji\u0159\u00ed Paroubek because Svoboda represents left wing in the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 85], "section_span": [85, 85], "content_span": [86, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202208-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup\nThe 2009 Christy Ring Cup is the 5th annual second-tier hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. Eight county teams participate in the competition. The teams are Carlow, Derry, Down, Kerry, Mayo, Kildare, Westmeath and Wicklow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202208-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup\nThe winning team was promoted to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2010 and played for the Liam MacCarthy Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202208-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup\nOn 11 July, Carlow retained the cup with a 1-15 to 0-14 victory over Down at Croke Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202208-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup, Structure\nThe tournament has a double elimination format - each team will play at least two games before being knocked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202208-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup, Knockout phase\nWicklow are relegated to the Nicky Rackard Cup 2010 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nThe 2009 Christy Ring Cup final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 11 July 2009 to determine the winners of the 2009 Christy Ring Cup, the 5th season of the Christy Ring Cup, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams. The final was contested by Carlow of Leinster and Down of Ulster, with Carlow winning by 1-15 to 0-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nThe Christy Ring Cup final between Carlow and Down was the third cup meeting between the two teams, with Down recording two victories to Carlow's lone success. Carlow were hoping to make history by becoming the first team to retain the Christy Ring Cup title. Down were appearing in their second cup final and were hoping to claim their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nCarlow began in determined fashion when Shane Kavanagh sent over the opening score from a \u201865'. The early scoring opportunities fell the Barrowsiders\u2019 way, with points from Paul Braniff and Simon Wilson ensuring a 0-2 to 0-1 lead by the tenth minute. Carlow hit back to score four of the next five points and lead by 0-05 to 0-03 with 14 minutes to go before the interval. Braniff and Wilson were again on target, with the sides level at 0-5 apiece, seven minutes before the break. The sides traded scores on two occasions before the interval, ensuring a deadlock for half-time at 0-7 apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nBraniff and Wilson added early points in the second half before Down defender Se\u00e1n Ennis denied Kehoe after Carlow had won a penalty in the 43rd minute. Carlow bounced back with a brace of points to level the tie for the sixth time. The sides went point for point between the 46th and 67th minutes, until Carlow's late surge left the outcome of this game beyond doubt. The crucial goal arrived three minutes from time when Andrew Gaule dispatched the ball from 65 metres out into full-forward Robert Foley who powered the ball to the net. Although there were calls for a penalty after Foley was swung around in the small square by Down full-back Stephen Murray, the referee applied the advantage rule with Foley turning and planting the ball past goalkeeper Graham Clarke. Craig Doyle added a late point to seal the Carlow victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nCarlow's victory was their second consecutive success. They became the first team to retain the Christy Ring Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202209-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Christy Ring Cup Final\nDown's defeat was their second in a Christy Ring Cup decider. They lost the inaugural final to Westmeath in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202210-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chrono des Nations\nThe 2009 Chrono des Nations was the 28th edition of the Chrono des Nations cycle race and was held on 18 October 2009. The race started and finished in Les Herbiers. The race was won by Alexander Vinokourov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202211-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Chunichi Dragons season\nThe 2009 Chunichi Dragons season resulted in an 81-62-1 record and qualification for the 2009 Central League Climax Series. The team was eliminated in the 2nd stage of the playoffs by the Yomiuri Giants. The season started poorly due to the departure of longtime star pitcher Kenshin Kawakami; as the season progressed, the Dragons' pitching improved, led by Taiwanese pitcher Chen Wei-Yin, Kazuki Yoshimi, Kenta Asakura, and left-handed Yudai Kawai, who won eleven games as starting pitcher, including a streak of eight games in a row, before taking his first loss of the season on August 6. Chen had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher in four decades in Japan (1.54) despite having a relatively poor 8-4 starting record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202211-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Chunichi Dragons season\nOffensively, the Dragons had only two batters with over 500 plate appearances hit over .300 for the season, but Dominican slugger Tony Blanco was a surprising success. Despite striking out far and away the most times of anybody on the team (157 K), he hit 39 home runs and made 110 runs while batting .275. Batters Masahiko Morino and Kazuhiro Wada, hit respectively 23 and 29 home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202211-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Chunichi Dragons season\nChunichi finished second in the Central League in the regular season with an 82-61-1 record, and qualified for the 2009 Central League Climax Series. In the first round of the playoffs, they closely defeated the Yakult Swallows 2-1, but were eliminated in the second stage by eventual 2009 Japan Series champions the Yomiuri Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202212-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Churchill Cup\nThe 2009 Churchill Cup took place between June 6 and June 21, 2009, marking the seventh year of the Churchill Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202212-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Churchill Cup\nFor the first time in the tournament's history, all rounds were held in the United States. This was done in an effort to reduce the cost of the tournament after the discontinued sponsorship by Barclays and to keep the tournament from being suspended for a year. Six rugby union teams took part: Canada, England Saxons, Ireland A, the USA, Argentina Jaguars, and for the first time in the tournament, the Georgia national team. Tickets for the event went on sale to USA Rugby members on April 2, 2009, and general sales tickets went on sale on April 24, 2009. The matches were broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK and Setanta Sports North America in the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202212-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Churchill Cup, Winners\nThe Main Cup was won by Ireland A (who beat the England Saxons in the Cup Final), the Plate Competition was won by the Argentina Jaguars (who defeated Canada in the Final), and the Bowl Competition was won by the USA (who beat Georgia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202212-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Churchill Cup, Format\nThe teams played in a round-robin format between two pools to decide the elimination matches which took place on June 20, 2009. All six teams participated on the finals day: the two pool winners competed in the Cup Final, the two runners-up played in a Plate Final, and the two bottom-placed teams met in the Bowl Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202212-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Churchill Cup, Venues\nAfter the 2008 tournament, which was played both in Canada and the United States, in 2009 all rounds of the tournament as well as the Finals Day were played around the Denver, Colorado area which is the future home for the tournament for the next three years. The first three days of round-robin play were at the modern, purpose-built rugby stadium Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado on the south side of Denver. The finals were held at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, which is home to Denver's MLS team, the Colorado Rapids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202213-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cidade de Guimar\u00e3es Trophy\nThe 2008 Cidade de Guimar\u00e3es Trophy was a Portuguese football competition that took place between 31 September and 2 August 2009 and featured Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es, Benfica, and Portsmouth F.C.. Benfica won in the final match against Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202214-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cinchona earthquake\nThe 2009 Cinchona earthquake occurred at 1:21:35\u00a0pm local time on January 8 with an Mwc magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The shock took place in northern Costa Rica, 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi) north-northwest of San Jos\u00e9 and was felt throughout Costa Rica and in southern central Nicaragua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202214-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cinchona earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake took at least 34 lives, including at least three children, left about 64 people missing, and injured at least 91. Hundreds of people were trapped and two villages were cut off. Most of the victims died when a landslide occurred near the La Paz waterfall by the Po\u00e1s Volcano, and 452 people including 369 tourists were evacuated from the area in helicopters. 1,244 people were displaced in the immediate aftermath. In addition, a hotel, houses, roads, and vehicles were damaged, and several bridges were also destroyed. The town of Cinchona was heavily hit, and all of the buildings there were heavily damaged. Power was temporarily disrupted in San Jos\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202214-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cinchona earthquake, Aftermath\nThe Costa Rican Red Cross sent at least 400 people to assist in the recovery. The agency said, \"Some 42 communities were affected and sustained serious impacts on civil and electrical infrastructure... [ They] are going to need a lot of help.\" Four helicopters were also dispatched in order to help aid efforts. The Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Emergencias (National Emergency Commission) requested private helicopters to help with the aid. Additionally, the United States and Colombia dispatched helicopters with aid to assist with the relief and recovery efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202214-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cinchona earthquake, Aftermath\nOn January 12, President Oscar Arias declared a five-day period of national grieving out of respect for the victims, and asked the organizers of the Fiestas de Palmares to postpone them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202214-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cinchona earthquake, Aftermath\nOn January 13, the Banco de Costa Rica announced that it would offer home financing credit to homeowners who want to rebuild or fix their home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe 2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team represented the University of Cincinnati in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team, coached by Brian Kelly, played its home games in Nippert Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe 2009 season was arguably the best in Cincinnati's 125-year football history. The Bearcats won a school-record 12 games and finished the regular season fourth in both major media polls, their highest ranking ever. They won their second consecutive Big East Conference championship and played in their second consecutive Bowl Championship Series game, the Sugar Bowl vs Florida. It was also the second BCS bowl appearance in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe Bearcats finished third in the 2009 Bowl Championship Series rankings. The Bearcats became the first team from a BCS conference to finish the regular season unbeaten and be left out of the BCS Championship Game since Auburn in 2004. However, had Texas lost the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game, the Bearcats would have had a realistic shot at playing in the BCS National Championship Game, since they would have been one of only two undefeated teams left from an AQ conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nHead coach Brian Kelly resigned at the end of the regular season to take the head coaching job at Notre Dame. Offensive coordinator Jeff Quinn coached the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl. Butch Jones began coaching the team in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe Bearcats were defeated by Florida 51\u201324 in the Sugar Bowl to end their undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202215-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nA heart-warming element of this amazing 2009 team was their adoption of Mitch Stone, a 12-year-old cancer patient, called \"a key to this special season\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe 2009 Cincinnati Bengals season was the 40th season for the team in the National Football League and their 42nd overall. They finished the season at 10\u20136\u20130, and sweeping the entire AFC North division, they improved on their 2008 record of 4\u201311\u20131, winning the AFC North Division and making the playoffs for the first time since 2005. Their season ended with a 24\u201314 loss against the New York Jets in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe head coach was Marvin Lewis, who has coached the team since 2003. He was chosen by the Associated Press as its NFL Coach of the Year following the season. Lewis was recognized for turning around the Bengals in the face of serious off-the-field adversity. First, three players were personally affected by the tsunami that hit American Samoa in late September. Shortly after this disaster, Vikki Zimmer, the wife of defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, unexpectedly died. Finally, wide receiver Chris Henry, who suffered a season-ending injury in Week 9, died in December from injuries suffered when he fell from the back of a pickup truck during a domestic dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Off-season, Free agents\nThe following players who were on the Bengals' 2008 roster were eligible for free agency in 2009 or have been released by the team. A green background indicates that the player re-signed with the Bengals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Bengals began their season in a Week 1 duel with the Denver Broncos. Both teams' defenses held each other in check, with Broncos kicker Matt Prater scoring the game's only points through three-quarters. Prater scored on a 48-yard field goal in the second quarter and a 50-yard field goal in the third to give Denver a 6-0 lead heading into the game's final quarter. The Bengals' first points of the game came when RB Cedric Benson scored a game-tying touchdown on a 1-yard run with just 38 seconds remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Shayne Graham PAT attempt was good, giving the Bengals a 7-6 lead. On the ensuing possession Broncos WR Brandon Stokley caught a pass off a deflection by Bengals CB Leon Hall and raced into the end zone for an improbable 87-yard touchdown reception in the game's final seconds. Bengals QB Carson Palmer had one last pass attempt on the final play of the game, but his desperation pass was intercepted sealing the victory for Denver. With the loss, Cincinnati started the season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nHoping to rebound from a tough last-second loss to the Broncos, the Bengals flew to Lambeau Field for a Week 2 interconference duel with the Green Bay Packers. Cincinnati delivered the first score in the opening score as quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laveranues Coles. The Packers would respond as quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donald Driver, followed by running back Ryan Grant getting a 4-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, the Bengals tied the game as Palmer got a 1-yard touchdown run. Green Bay would reply with cornerback Charles Woodson returning an interception 37 yards for a touchdown. Cincinnati would end the half as Palmer completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Henry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nThe Bengals would take the lead in the third quarter as Palmer completed a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. In the fourth quarter, Cincinnati pulled away as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 40-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Packers delivered their only response as kicker Mason Crosby got a 45-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Green Bay Packers\nWith the win, the Bengals improved to 1\u20131. This was the first game the franchise had ever won in Green Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nComing off the win the previous week in Green Bay, the Bengals faced the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers back home in Cincinnati. The game was scoreless until halfway into the opening quarter, when Steelers kicker Jeff Reed kicked a 19-yard field goal to put the Steelers on the scoreboard 3\u20130. 6 minutes later, Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to RB Willie Parker to increase Pittsburgh's lead to 10\u20130 at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThey would add to that lead 3 minutes into the second quarter with another field goal by Reed, this one from 24 yards. Not until the final seconds of the first half would the Bengals make a mark on the scoreboard, with a 34-yard field goal by Cincinnati K Shayne Graham. At halftime the score was 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn the second half, the Bengals took advantage of the Steelers mistakes, when Bengals CB Johnathan Joseph intercepted a Ben Roethlisberger pass, returning it 30 yards for a TD. The PAT would not be successful because of a bad snap by Bengals LS Brad St. Louis. The Bengals had cut down the Steeler lead to 4 points, 13\u20139. At the 3-minute mark in the third quarter the Steelers would extend the lead on a quarterback sneak by Roethlisberger to put Pittsburgh ahead by 11 points, 20\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn the fourth quarter, with 9 minutes left in the game, Bengals RB Cedric Benson ran 23 yards for a Bengals touchdown, cutting the deficit to 5 points, 20\u201315. In the final two minutes of the game, Bengals QB Carson Palmer drove his team down the field converting both fourth down opportunities, one being a 4th and 10 completion to RB Brian Leonard for 11 yards. With 18 seconds left in the game, on the Steeler 4, Carson Palmer threw a touchdown pass to WR Andre Caldwell, putting the Bengals in the lead for good, with a successful two-point conversion by Leonard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the win, not only did the Bengals improve to 2\u20131, but they acquired their first home victory against the Steelers since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Cleveland Browns\nEmerging from their divisional home win over the Steelers, the Bengals flew to Cleveland Browns Stadium for a Week 4 AFC North duel with the Cleveland Browns in Round 1 of 2009's Battle of Ohio. Cincinnati would start out fast in the first quarter with quarterback Carson Palmer's 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. In the second quarter, the Bengals would add to their lead with defensive end Robert Geathers returning a fumble 75 yards for a touchdown. The Browns would then close out the half with quarterback Derek Anderson's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Steve Heiden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Cleveland Browns\nCleveland would tie the game in the third quarter with Anderson's 1-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, the Browns would take the lead with kicker Billy Cundiff's 26-yard and 31-yard field goals. Afterwards, Cincinnati would tie the game with Palmer and Ochocinco hooking up with each other again on a 2-yard touchdown pass (yet the following PAT was blocked). In a back-and-forth overtime, both Ohio teams fought each for possession. In the end, the Bengals would emerge on top as kicker Shayne Graham kicked the game-winning 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, Cincinnati improved to 3\u20131, and, with the Baltimore Ravens loss later that day, tied the Ravens for first place in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Cleveland Browns\nFollowing this victory, the Bengals earned the nickname the \"Cardiac Cats\" for pulling through in the clutch and coming from behind in three straight games for a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Cleveland Browns\nFor three Bengals players, this game was overshadowed by events that took place thousands of miles away. Jonathan Fanene, Rey Maualuga, and Domata Peko all have family in American Samoa, which was hit by a major tsunami the Tuesday before the game. All three struggled to contact their families in the aftermath of the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their overtime win over the Browns, the Bengals looked to win for Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer who had lost his wife during the week as they flew to M&T Bank Stadium for a Week 5 AFC North duel with the Baltimore Ravens. The winner of this game would take the lead in the division after five weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Baltimore Ravens\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, the Bengals would trail in the second quarter with Ravens safety Ed Reed returning an interception 52 yards for a touchdown. Cincinnati would begin to build steam as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 32-yard field goal. The Bengals would take the lead in the third quarter with a 28-yard touchdown run from running back Cedric Benson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Baltimore Ravens\nBaltimore then came back in the fourth quarter when Ray Rice caught a screen pass and ran it 48 yards for the go-ahead touchdown, but with 27 seconds left, Cincinnati would complete their comeback with a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Carson Palmer to wide receiver Andre Caldwell, which led to Gus Johnson's line, \"The Cardiac Cats strike again.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Baltimore Ravens\nWith the win, not only did the Bengals take the division lead at 4\u20131, but Benson (27 carries, 120 yards, 1 TD) would snap the Ravens defense's 40-game streak of not allowing a 100-yard rusher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Houston Texans\nComing off their thrilling road win over the Ravens, the Bengals went home for a Week 6 duel with the Houston Texans. Cincinnati would trail in the first quarter as Texans quarterback Matt Schaub hooked up with tight end Owen Daniels on a 12-yard touchdown pass. The Bengals would get on the board in the second quarter with running back Cedric Benson's 10-yard touchdown run. Houston would retake the lead with Schaub's 38-yard touchdown pass to running back Steve Slaton, yet Cincinnati would get the halftime lead with quarterback Carson Palmer's 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laveranues Coles and kicker Shayne Graham's 50-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Houston Texans\nHowever, the Texans struck back in the third quarter as Schaub completed a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jacoby Jones, followed by a 7-yard touchdown pass to Daniels. Try as they might, the offense could not produce another miraculous win as Houston's defense held on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Chicago Bears\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Texans, the Bengals stayed at home for a Week 7 inter conference duel with the Chicago Bears. In the first quarter, Cincinnati got off to a fast start as quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Henry and an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Bengals would continue their dominating day in the second quarter as Palmer found tight end J.P. Foschi on a 3-yard touchdown pass and wide receiver Laveranues Coles on an 8-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Shayne Graham booting a 29-yard field goal. The Bears would close out the half with a 22-yard field goal from kicker Robbie Gould.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfterwards, Cincinnati would pull away Palmer finding Ochocinco again on a 13-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, followed by former Chicago running back Cedric Benson's 1-yard touchdown run. The Bears would then end the game with quarterback Jay Cutler hooking up with wide receiver Devin Hester on a 5-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Chicago Bears\nWith the win, the Bengals went into their bye week at 5\u20132. And also surpassed their win total from last season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their bye week, the Bengals stayed at home for a Week 9 AFC North rematch with the Baltimore Ravens. Cincinnati would get off to a fast start in the first quarter as quarterback Carson Palmer hooked up with wide receiver Andre Caldwell on a 6-yard touchdown pass, while running back Cedric Benson got a 1-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, the Bengals would add onto their lead as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Ravens tried to strike back in the fourth quarter with running back Ray Rice getting a 2-yard touchdown run, yet Cincinnati's defense held on for the victory. Chad Ochocinco jokingly flashed a $1 bill at a referee during the third quarter, and was subsequently fined $20,000 by the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nWith the seasonal sweep over the Ravens for the 2nd time in 3 seasons, the Bengals improved to 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nBenson (34 carries, 117 yards, 1 TD) would join Jerome Bettis in 1997 as the only running backs to run for over 100 yards against the Ravens twice in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThis turned out to be Chris Henry's final game, as he was injured during the game and was placed on season-ending injured reserve. He was killed by injuries relating to a fall from a pick-up truck a month later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nComing off their season-sweeping home win over the Ravens, the Bengals flew to Heinz Field for a Week 10 AFC North rematch with the Pittsburgh Steelers with 1st place in the division on the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nCincinnati would trail in the first quarter as Steelers kicker Jeff Reed got a 28-yard field goal. The Bengals would immediately strike back as rookie running back Bernard Scott returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, Pittsburgh would retake the lead with Reed's 33-yard and 35-yard field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nCincinnati would regain the lead in the third quarter with kicker Shayne Graham getting a 23-yard and a 32-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers would tie the game with Reed booting a 34-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Bengals would pull away with Graham nailing a 32-yard and a 43-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the win, not only did the Bengals improve to 7\u20132, but they acquired their first season-sweep over Pittsburgh since 1998 as the Steelers fell to 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Oakland Raiders\nComing off their road win over the Steelers, the Bengals flew to Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum for a Week 11 duel with the Oakland Raiders. In the first quarter, the Bengals have the early lead as QB Carson Palmer scrambled 1 yard to the end zone for a touchdown. In the second quarter Palmer again made a 1-yard touchdown run. The Oakland would reply with QB Bruce Gradkowski making a 10-yard touchdown pass to TE Zach Miller, and kicker Sebastian Janikowski hitting a 52-yard field goal in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Oakland Raiders\nTo rap up the third quarter kicker Shayne Graham made a 25-yard field goal for the Bengals. In the fourth quarter Oakland rallied as Gradkowski hooked up with WR Louis Murphy on 29-yard touchdown pass to tie the game and eventually the Raiders pulled out the win as Sebastian Janikowski hit the game winning 33-yard field goal with 12 seconds left to give Cincinnati a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Cleveland Browns\nHoping to rebound from their week 11 loss to Oakland, the Bengals stayed home for round two of the 2009 Battle of Ohio against the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals' first score came when Shayne Graham kicked a 37-yard field goal with 8:48 left in the first quarter, to make the score 3\u20130. With 6:38 left in the second quarter, J.Foschi caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from Carson Palmer to make the Bengals lead 10\u20130. The score at halftime was 13\u20130, after Shayne Graham kicked a 53-yard field goal with 0:21 left in the 2nd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns' first and only score of the game was a 9-yard touchdown run by Brady Quinn, to make the score 13\u20137. The Bengals got a field goal in the 3rd quarter to make the score 16\u20137. The final score of the game was Bengals 16, Browns 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, not only did the Bengals improve to 8\u20133, but they won all of their division matches for the first time in franchise history. Also, this would be the first season since the 2006 season where the Bengals won both games against the Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Detroit Lions\nAfter the week 12 win over the Cleveland Browns, the Bengals stayed home for a game against the Detroit Lions. The first and only score of the first quarter for both teams came when the Lions' Calvin Johnson caught a 54-yard pass from Matthew Stafford for a touchdown, which made the Lions lead 7\u20130 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, with 11:50 left, Jonathan Fanene got a 45-yard interception pass for a touchdown, which tied the game 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Detroit Lions\nLater in the 2nd quarter, with 5:50 left, Chad Ochocinco caught a 36-yard pass from Carson Palmer for a touchdown, which made the Bengals lead by 7. In celebration, he donned a poncho and sombrero, for which the NFL handed him another $20,000 fine. A 44-yard field goal by Shayne Graham with 0:09 left in the half made the halftime score 17\u20137. A 39-yard field goal by Shayne Graham was the only score for both teams in the 3rd quarter. With 8:11 left in the 4th quarter, Shayne Graham kicked a 23-yard field goal, to make the score 23\u20137. The Lions later had a 2-yard touchdown run by Kevin Smith with 1:36 left in the game. The Lions then attempted a 2-point conversion, but failed, making the final score 23\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith the win, the Bengals improved to 9\u20133 and secured only their third winning season in nineteen years .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Minnesota Vikings\nFollowing the Week 13 win over the Detroit Lions at home, the Bengals traveled to the Metrodome, looking for a big win over the Minnesota Vikings. In the opening quarter of the game, no one scored. The Vikings scored a field goal about 40 seconds into the second quarter, making them lead 3\u20130. Later in the second quarter, Sidney Rice caught a 9-yard touchdown pass from Brett Favre to make the score 10\u20130. The Bengals also scored in the second quarter with a 15-yard touchdown pass caught by Chad Ochocinco from Carson Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings got two more field goals in the first half, making the score at halftime 16\u20137. The first and only score in the third quarter came for the Vikings when Adrian Peterson had a 1-yard touchdown run, to extend the Vikings' lead to 23\u20137. In the final quarter of the game, Shayne Graham Got a 22-yard field goal to make the score 23\u201310. The field goal was followed by a 3-yard touchdown run by Adrian Peterson for the Vikings, to make the final score 30\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Minnesota Vikings\nCedric Benson had 96 yards rushing. Chad Ochocinco had 27 yards receiving and one touchdown, and Andre Caldwell had 25 yards receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 15: at San Diego Chargers\nStill looking to clinch the AFC North Division after a disappointing road loss in Minnesota, the Bengals traveled west to take on the San Diego Chargers at Quallcomm Stadium. During the week, Chris Henry had died, and to honor him, the team all wore the number 15 on their helmets. Chad Ochocinco paid tribute to his teammate by kneeling for a prayer after he scored a touchdown in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 15: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Chargers were the first to score, when Antonio Gates caught a 3-yard touchdown pass from Philip Rivers. The Bengals answered back with a 26-yard field goal by Shayne Graham to make the score 7\u20133. In the second quarter, Chad Ochocinco caught a 49-yard touchdown pass from Carson Palmer, and the Bengals took the lead, 10\u20137. Following the Bengals' touchdown, the Chargers also got a touchdown, to put the Chargers back on top, 14\u201310. Near the end of the first half, Shayne Graham kicked another field goal, this time from 25 yards, to make the score 14\u201313 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 15: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Bengals could not manage to score in the 3rd quarter, while the Chargers got a touchdown and a field goal. The score was 24\u201313 at the end of the 3rd quarter. The Bengals finally managed to score in the 4th quarter when Laveranues Coles caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Carson Palmer. The Bengals went for a two-point conversion, and were successful, making the score 24\u201321. Later in the quarter, Shayne Graham kicked another field goal, tying the game at 24 points for each team. The Chargers were then able to reach field goal range, and Nate Kaeding kicked a long 52-yard field goal to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 15: at San Diego Chargers\nDue to the Baltimore Ravens win over the Chicago Bears, The Bengals were unable to claim the AFC North Division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nStill looking to win the AFC North division after a disappointing Week 15 loss at San Diego, the Bengals went back home to Cincinnati to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. The first quarter was quiet, with neither team managing to get any points. Near the end of the first half, the Chiefs got a penalty for a bad snap before a punt. The ball went over the kicker's head, and resulted in a 1st and Goal for the Bengals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nCarson Palmer then threw a touchdown pass to Chad Ochocinco, but the touchdown was reversed because he went out of bounds before he made the catch. The Bengals were then forced to settle for a 29-yard field goal by Shayne Graham, to make the score 3\u20130 Bengals. At the end of the first half, Ryan Succop kicked a 30-yard field goal for the chiefs, making the halftime score a tie, 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Bengals' offense did better at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, getting into the red zone in their first drive of the second half. Carson Palmer then threw a touchdown pass to Laveranues Coles, to put the Bengals on top, 10\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nEight seconds into the 4th quarter, Tim Castille caught his first career touchdown, a 20-yard reception, to tie the score again, 10\u201310. The Bengals got yet another touchdown in the 4th quarter, and won the game 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nWith the win, the Cincinnati Bengals clinched the AFC Northern Division Title and improved their regular season record to 10\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 17: at New York Jets\nAfter clinching the AFC north the previous week, the Bengals traveled to take on the New York Jets on Sunday Night Football. This would prove to be the final game to ever be played at Giants Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 17: at New York Jets\nThe Bengals did not score in the first quarter, while the Jets had a 1-yard touchdown run by Thomas Jones to put the Jets up 7\u20130. The Bengals also failed to score in the 2nd quarter, while the Jets' offense had a very productive 2nd quarter, scoring 20 points. The Jets got a 20-yard field goal, to make the score 10\u20130 Jets. Brad Smith then had a 32-yard touchdown run to make the score 17\u20130. The Jets then got another touchdown run by Jerricho Cotchery. to make the score 24\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 17: at New York Jets\nThe Jets finished the half with another field goal, to make the halftime score 27\u20130 Jets. The only score of the 3rd quarter came when J. Feely got a 40-yard field goal, to make the score 30\u20130. The Jets finished the game with another touchdown run by Thomas Jones, this time from 2 yards. The final score was Jets 37, Bengals 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season results, Week 17: at New York Jets\nWith the shutout loss, the Bengals finished the 2009 regular season with a record of 10\u20136. By far, this is the only time in the Marvin Lewis era that the team has been shutout and suffered their first regular season shutout loss since 2001 when they lost 16\u20130 to the Ravens which was also a road game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Post season results, AFC Wild Card Game: vs. New York Jets\nIn the wild card round of the playoffs, the Jets now had to travel to Paul Brown Stadium. The Bengals scored first when Carson Palmer threw an 11-yard TD pass to Laveranues Coles. In the second quarter, Jets RB Shonn Greene ran 39 yards for a TD, and Carson Palmer threw an interception that was returned for 20 yards. Mark Sanchez passed to Dustin Keller for a 45-yard TD, and the next scoring drive would come in the third quarter when Thomas Jones made a 9-yard TD run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Post season results, AFC Wild Card Game: vs. New York Jets\nCedric Benson made a 47-yard TD in the fourth quarter, and the Jets responded with a 20-yard FG by Jay Feely. They halted any further attempts by the Bengals at a scoring drive, sacking Carson Palmer twice. The Jets ran out the clock for the last two minutes to end the game at 24\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202216-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Bengals season, Post season results, AFC Wild Card Game: vs. New York Jets\nThe Bengals on defense against the Jets in the wild card game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202217-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Cincinnati Reds' 2009 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Cincinnati Reds attempting to win the NL Central after finishing fifth in the division the previous year. For the second year, the Reds were managed by Dusty Baker. The Reds played their seventh season of home games in Great American Ball Park. The Reds finished the 2009 season 78-84, only four wins more than the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202217-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202217-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202218-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati mayoral election\nThe 2009 Cincinnati mayoral election took place on November 3, 2009, to elect the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Usually a nonpartisan primary is held where the top two candidates move on to the general election, however, incumbent mayor Mark Mallory and Brad Wenstrup were the only two candidates to file, so no primary election was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202218-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cincinnati mayoral election\nWhile the election was nonpartisan, Mallory was a known Democrat and Wenstrup was a known Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202219-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citizens' Action Party presidential primary\nA primary election was held for the first time among the members of Costa Rica\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Action Party (PAC), known as the Citizens' National Convention (Convenci\u00f3n Nacional Ciudadana) for the selection of the party's candidate in the 2010 general election. This was a closed primary, as potential electors were required to register before the election up till April 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202219-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Citizens' Action Party presidential primary\nPAC is one of Costa Rica's major parties and was for this time the main oppositional political force, but unlike other major parties, has never until then held a primary for the nomination of the party's candidate, as previous candidate Ott\u00f3n Sol\u00eds was chosen by the party's National Assembly for the 2002 and 2006 general elections and was regarded as almost indisputable party leader (and de facto Leader of the Opposition).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202219-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Citizens' Action Party presidential primary\nAfter negotiations with other party members interested in the nomination, most noticeable former deputy and vice-president nominee Epsy Campbell and businessman and scientist Rom\u00e1n Macaya, the convention's date was established on May 31 of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202219-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Citizens' Action Party presidential primary\nSeveral debates among PAC and PLN's candidate were organized in different colleges, NGOs and news networks. In PAC's case the most noticeable were May 17 in Repretel Canal 6, May 24 in Teletica Canal 7 and May 28 in government's own Canal 13, three of Costa Rica's main television channels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202219-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Citizens' Action Party presidential primary\nThe polls were open from 6 am to 8 pm and although 67.170 were registered to vote only 22.450 did so. The results was a landslide victory for Sol\u00eds achieving over 71% of the votes. Campbell received 18% and Macaya 9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202220-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Caltanissetta\nThe 2009 Citt\u00e0 di Caltanissetta was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Caltanissetta, Italy between 16 and 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202220-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Caltanissetta, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202220-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Caltanissetta, Champions, Men's doubles\nJuan Pablo Brzezicki /  David Marrero def. Daniele Bracciali /  Simone Vagnozzi, 7\u20136(5), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202221-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Caltanissetta \u2013 Singles\nGianluca Naso was the defending champion, but he lost to Alexander Flock in the first round. Jesse Huta Galung defeated his compatriot Thiemo de Bakker in the final (6\u20132, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202222-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger\nThe 2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Como, Italy between 31 August and 6 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202222-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202222-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202222-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMarco Crugnola /  Alessandro Motti def. Treat Conrad Huey /  Harsh Mankad, 7\u20136(3), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202223-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMariano Hood and Alberto Mart\u00edn were the defending champions, but they didn't try to defend their title. Marco Crugnola and Alessandro Motti won this tournament, by defeating Treat Conrad Huey and Harsh Mankad 7\u20136(3), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202224-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Citt\u00e0 di Como Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDiego Junqueira was the defending champion, but he chose to not participate this year. Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. defeated Juan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren 7\u20135, 7\u20136(5) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202225-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 City of London Corporation election\nThe 2009 City of London Corporation election took place on 15 March 2009 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. These elections take place every four years. 128 candidates contested 100 seats. This yielded only 13 wards where an election was needed to determine who should take the position. As in the previous election, most Council members were elected as independents. The election was the first to ever be contested by the Labour party, who claimed to have decided to run in order to provide voters a choice, and that residents were often overlooked in favour of the business lobby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike\nThe 2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike (also known as the 2009 Toronto strike) was a legal strike action that was undertaken by the Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416 and CUPE Local 79, two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the city of Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Background\nOn June 22 at midnight Toronto municipal workers belonging to 2 separate unions (CUPE Local 416 - representing the outside workers, and CUPE Local 79 - representing the inside workers) went on strike following six months negotiating with the municipality over contract renewal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Issues\nThe union said that the main issue for the strike were requests, from the city, for concessions from the union in the new contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Issues\nAccording to the CBC, the main issues were regard changes to job security, seniority and the banking of sick days. The previous contract allowed some union members to bank unused sick days and cash them out upon retirement. The city proposed contract was to disallow the practise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Issues\nCUPE Local 79 President, Ann Dembinski was quoted as saying \"This is about getting a fair deal similar to what everyone else got. Everyone else was able to negotiate a collective agreement without huge takeaways. These are huge concessions. No other City of Toronto workforce has had to negotiate any concessions in order to get a collective agreement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Services affected\nUnion members from Local 416 and Local 79 work in various departments within the city and the work stoppage affected many of their services, including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Services affected, Garbage collection\nThe cessation of garbage collection was one of the more noticeable effects of the labour disruption. Four days into the strike the city announced 19 temporary garbage drop off locations for residential waste. This decision proved controversial in the neighbourhoods containing the sites as residents expressed concerns about pesticide and rodenticide spraying, as well as odour and leaching caused by the piles of garbage. Junk removal entrepreneurs took the opportunity to increase their customer base, specifically because plenty of residents were left without options to deal with their garbage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 93], "content_span": [94, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Final resolution\nOn July 27, after extensions to a union-imposed midnight deadline to reach an agreement, CUPE local 416 President Mark Ferguson announced that the union had \"the basis for a deal\" with the City of Toronto. Ferguson exhorted the city to turn its attention to resolving outstanding issues with the city's inside workers represented by 416's sister local, local 79.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202226-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike, Final resolution\nThe final vote by the council on the agreement put forward by the mayor resulted in 21 \"yes\" votes, 18 \"no\" votes, and 6 absences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202227-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 City of Windsor inside and outside workers strike\nThe 2009 City of Windsor inside and outside workers strike was a stop-work action undertaken by the Canadian Union of Public Employees' local unions in the city of Windsor, Ontario held from April 15, 2009, to July 24, 2009. The over-15-week-long strike was the result of a proposal by the city to not offer post-retirement benefits for new employees of the city. The strike impacted various city services, including most prominently garbage pickup and parks and recreation, leading to illegal dumping of trash and unmaintained grass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202228-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez prison riot\nA prison riot occurred at the CERESO state prison in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on March 4, 2009. During the riots, at least 20 people were killed and 15 were injured. Although a police spokesman stated that no police or jail guards were killed during the riots, the Red Cross said that two policemen had been killed. The riot was a fight among several rival gangs, the \"Barrio Azteca,\" \"Los Mexicles\" and \"Artistas Asesinos\" (AA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202228-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez prison riot\nThe riots began at roughly 7 AM local time (2 PM UTC), and lasted for about two hours. 14 members of the Aztecas \"subjugated\" a prison guard with knives and stole the guard's keys. The gang then opened several cells, releasing 170 prisoners. The prisoners forced their way into an area where members of the Mexicles and AA were meeting with family and friends during conjugal visits, and attacked them. During the riots, prisoners set blocks of prison cells on fire, stabbed each other with knives, or were beaten. Other prisoners used rifles and iron pins as weapons. In addition, some prisoners were thrown from the second story of buildings. Two of the 20 prisoners died at a local hospital, while the remainder died in the prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202228-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez prison riot\nAt least 50 members of the Mexican Army and 200 police were deployed to end the riots. An airplane and two helicopters were also used to quell the violence. Earlier in the day, 1,500 troops began entering the city in an effort to reduce drug-and-gang-related violence, which, over the last year, took the lives of 2,000 people in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202229-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clare County Council election\nAn election to Clare County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 32 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202230-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clarkson Cup\nThe 2009 Clarkson Cup was contested at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario. The Minnesota Whitecaps competed versus the Montreal Stars in the championship game. It was the first time that the Clarkson Cup was contested. At the time of the NHL lockout, Adrienne Clarkson suggested that women should play for the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202230-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Clarkson Cup, Championship game\nMontreal beat the Minnesota Whitecaps by a 3-1 tally at the K-Rock Centre. handed the trophy to the Stars. The Stars goal scorers included Shauna Denis, Sabrina Harbec, and Caroline Ouellette. Three-time American Olympian Angela Ruggiero logged the lone tally for the defeated Whitecaps. Harbec scored the game-winning goal against Minnesota goalie Sanya Sandahl. Ouellette's goal was assisted by Marie-Philip Poulin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield\nThe 2009 Diamond Anniversary Claxton Shield was the 75-year anniversary of the Claxton Shield and was held from 2 December 2008 to 8 February 2009 and was the Shield's Diamond anniversary. The Perth Heat won the tournament after defeating the New South Wales Patriots 3\u20132 in the third game of a best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Overview\nThe 2009 Shield series excluded the Australian Provincial baseball team and consisted of four, three game series against each team including a two home, two away and a bye round for each of the teams. On top of this to start off the tournament, there was also a showcase round where each team played each other once. To celebrate the 75th anniversary, the showcase round also hosted a variety of other events such as a Home Run Derby. Teams that competed in the 2009 Claxton Shield were the New South Wales Patriots, Queensland Rams, Perth Heat, Victoria Aces and the South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Overview\nThe competition served as the primary selection trial for the national team to compete in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The first round of the WBC commenced Mexico City on 8 March 2009, a month after the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Teams, Venues\nThe 2009 Claxton Shield will be competed between 5 teams from around Australia in 13 different venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Championship series\nThe 2009 Claxton Shield finals series will have the top three teams after regular fixtures qualify. The team who finishes first will auto-qualify for the final where they will meet the winner of the 2nd vs 3rd. Both semi-finals and finals are best of three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Conditions\nBlacktown Baseball Stadium experienced quite warm December summer weather for New South Wales. Although the average maximum temperature is 25\u00a0\u00b0C (77\u00a0\u00b0F), most games were above this, with Game 8 of the showcase round between South Australia and Victoria Aces hitting 32\u00a0\u00b0C (90\u00a0\u00b0F) during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Conditions\nOn 7 December, the temperature dropped to a maximum of 22\u00a0\u00b0C with a strong breeze over Blacktown as well as clouds, however, no rain fell and the games finished as scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Conditions\nA large low-pressure system and long periods of rain forced the postponement of both games on 12 December in Altona, Victoria and Canberra. Games the next day were rescheduled to allow for 7-inning double headers. Game 1 between Queensland Rams and Victoria Aces was relocated to Mildura, Victoria where Game 2 and 3 were also being played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Conditions\nOn 3 January, the New South Wales Patriots vs Queensland Rams second game at Baxter Field, Lismore was delayed during the 6th inning due to a small stint of heavy rain. Drizzle was present throughout the game, but was only delayed for approximately ten minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202231-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield, Fielders Choice Player of the Series\nThis is awarded recognition of outstanding individual performances each round of the 2009 Claxton Shield by the Australian Baseball Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202232-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield regular season\nThe 2009 Claxton Shield regular season was held from 2 December 2008 through to 18 January 2009, followed by a two-week finals series from 23 January to 8 February 2009. The season started with a showcase round featuring all five teams in a single round-robin series of matches at Blacktown Olympic Park. This was followed by five rounds of home and away games, with each team playing four 3-game series, one against each other team, two at home and two away. As there was an odd number of teams, each team also had a bye round. At the end of the home and away season, the top three teams qualified for the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202233-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Claxton Shield team rosters\nThe 2009 Claxton Shield was the 56th edition of the premier baseball competition in Australia, contested between teams representing the five mainland states: New South Wales Patriots, Queensland Rams, defending champions Perth Heat (representing the state of Western Australia), South Australia and Victoria Aces. During each series of the season, teams nominated a 19\u2013player roster of active players. Only players on the active roster could participate in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team\nThe 2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team represented Clemson University in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team played their home games at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team\nThe team was coached by Jack Leggett in his sixteenth season at Clemson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Preseason\nOn January 27, 2009, the coaches in the ACC picked Clemson to finish second in the Atlantic Division behind Florida State. Overall, the Tigers were picked third behind North Carolina and Florida State respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Regular season\nOn March 5, 2009, Head Coach Jack Leggett announced that Fifth-year shortstop Stan Widmann had left the team due to personal reasons. Widmann, who graduated from Clemson with a degree in sport management the previous December, had withdrawn from school to pursue job opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Regular season\nOn Wednesday, March 18, pitchers Justin Sarratt, Scott Weismann, Kyle Deese, Tomas Cruz, and Matt Vaughn combined to pitch a no-hitter in Clemson's 14\u20130 victory over USC Upstate at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. It was the Tigers' 14th no-hitter in school history and first since the second game of a doubleheader on March 6, 1984, when Scott Parrish no-hit The Citadel in a seven-inning game. It was also just the second no-hitter involving multiple pitchers in Tiger history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Regular season\nOn Tuesday, April 21, sophomore outfielder Jeff Shaus hit a walk-off grand slam to lift the Tigers to a 5\u20133 victory over the visiting Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. It was Clemson's first walk-off home run since April 27, 2007, when Doug Hogan hit a walk-off solo homer to top Georgia Tech 3\u20132 in 11 innings. It was also the second walk-off grand slam in Tiger history, matching the walk-off grand slam hit by Tyler Colvin in the Tigers' 11\u20138 win over Oral Roberts in the 2006 Clemson Super Regional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Postseason, ACC Tournament\nClemson went 1\u20132 in the 2009 ACC Baseball Tournament with losses to 7-seeded Duke and eventual champs, 6-seeded Virginia. On May 23, in their final game of the tournament, Clemson beat 2-seeded and top-five nationally ranked North Carolina in eleven innings in front of a crowd of 6,956. This set a record for the highest attendance ever at a college baseball game in the state of North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nClemson was awarded a host site for the regional round of the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. After beating 4-seeded Tennessee Tech in their first game of the regional, the Tigers would lose their next game to the 3-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys. Clemson then proceeded to win their next three games to advance out of the loser's bracket and on to the Super Regional round of the tournament. With the win, Jack Leggett extended his streak to 11\u20130 in home games that clinch a regional or super regional championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Postseason, NCAA Tournament\nIn the Super Regionals, Clemson traveled to Tempe, Arizona to take on the number five national seed Arizona State. The Sun Devils defeated Clemson in the first two games of the best-of-three series, earning a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The losses ended Clemson's season with a record of 44 wins and 22 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202234-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team, Rankings\n1- USA Today / ESPN did not release a poll after the first weekend of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Dabo Swinney, who was in his first full season as head coach. The Tigers played their home games in Memorial Stadium. The Tigers won the ACC Atlantic Division, but after securing the title lost to in\u2013state rival South Carolina in the Palmetto Bowl 34\u201317, before losing for the second time in the season to Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship Game. Clemson closed the season with a win over Kentucky in the Music City Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, Notable\nIn the Tiger's 40\u201324 victory over the Florida State Seminoles on November 7, 2009, running back C. J. Spiller and wide receiver Jacoby Ford became the leading all-purpose yardage duo in NCAA history (a record previously held by Marshall Faulk and Darnay Scott of San Diego State).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, Notable\nC. J. Spiller was named as one of the three finalists for the 2009 Doak Walker Award. Spiller, along with Mark Ingram of Alabama and Toby Gerhart of Stanford, was selected by a vote of the 130\u2013member Doak Walker Award National Selection Committee. On December 2, 2009, Spiller was voted the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year. The all-purpose threat was named as the league's top player following a vote of 40 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Spiller received 29 votes to outdistance Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt, who had eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, Notable\nVirginia Tech running back Ryan Williams, the league's rookie of the year, had two votes and Yellow Jackets defensive end Derrick Morgan had one. Spiller was the nation's only player this season to account for touchdowns five different ways \u2013 rushing, passing, receiving, and on kick and punt returns \u2013 and had passing, rushing and receiving TDs in one game, a victory against North Carolina State. He returned four kickoffs and a punt for scores this year and has eight total returns for TDs during his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, Notable\nHe scored at least once in every game this season while leading Clemson to the Atlantic Division title and a spot in the league title game against Georgia Tech. Spiller led the ACC with an average of nearly 184 all-purpose yards and was the league's fourth-leading rusher, averaging 76 yards. Spiller is the seventh Tiger to be named player of the year and the first since Michael Dean Perry in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, #17 jersey\nOn July 25, it was announced that sophomore linebacker Stanley Hunter was forced to quit playing football due to medical reasons. Hunter, who led the 2008 team in fewest plays per tackle, was suffering from an increase in seizures due to epilepsy. On August 18, Coach Swinney announced that several players would alternate wearing #17 during the season as a way to honor Stanley Hunter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, #17 jersey\nThree of the players who wore #17 (Korn, Diehl, and Dye) were also teammates with Hunter at James F. Byrnes High School in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Stanley Hunter remains a member of the Clemson team, serving as a student-coach this season for the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, #6 jersey\nCornerback Chris Chancellor, whose normal number is #38, wore #6, the normal number of wide receiver Jacoby Ford, for the Miami game. (Under college football rules, two or more players on a team can wear the same number as long as only one is on the field at a time.) Chancellor, a native of Miami, made the change with the blessing of both Ford and Swinney in memory of his former high school teammate Jasper Howard, a cornerback who wore #6 for Connecticut and was murdered in the early morning of October 18 following UConn's game against Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, #28 jersey\nAt the end of the season, Head Coach Dabo Swinney announced that they would retire the #28 jersey worn by C. J. Spiller at a ceremony when the Tigers play Maryland at home on Oct. 16, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, Depth chart\nThese are the starters, primary backups, and key reserves as of September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202235-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Clemson Tigers football team, 2010 NFL draft\nClemson had five players selected in the 2010 NFL draft. C. J. Spiller went in the first round as the ninth overall pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season\nThe 2009 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 61st season as a professional sports franchise and its 57th season as a member of the National Football League (NFL). The team placed fourth in the AFC North with a record of 5\u201311, improving upon its 2008 record of 4\u201312, after winning their last four games of the season after a 1\u201311 start. This season marked George Kokinis and Eric Mangini's first seasons as the team's general manager and head coach, respectively; however, Kokinis was fired on November 2 during the team's Week 9 bye week. The Browns played all of their home games at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season\nThe Browns missed the playoffs for the seventh straight season, tying a record set between 1973\u201379.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn December 29, 2008, the Cleveland Browns announced that the team had fired general manager Phil Savage and head coach Romeo Crennel after spending four seasons together in Cleveland. Crennel, who joined the Browns with Savage in 2005, left Cleveland with a record of 24\u201340 (.375) and an 0\u20138 record against the division rival Pittsburgh Steelers. The team's best record under Crennel was 10\u20136 during the 2007 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn January 7, 2009, the Browns announced that the team had found its replacement for Crennel and that it had reached a contractual agreement with former New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini, who was fired after three seasons in New York. Mangini, who joined the Jets in 2006, left New York with a record of 23\u201325 (.479), including a 10\u20136 record and a playoff appearance in his first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn January 14, the Browns announced that Mangini had named his coordinators: Brian Daboll was hired as the offensive coordinator; Rob Ryan as the defensive coordinator; and Brad Seely as the special teams coordinator and assistant head coach. Daboll was most recently the quarterbacks coach for the Jets from 2007\u20132008; Ryan was the defensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders from 2004\u20132008; and Seely was the special teams coach for the New England Patriots from 1999\u20132008. All three worked with Mangini from 2000\u20132003 as members of New England. Daboll, Ryan and Seely replace Rob Chudzinski, Mel Tucker and Ted Daisher, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn January 22, the Browns hired five assistant coaches: Bryan Cox was hired as the defensive line coach; Andy Dickerson as the defensive quality control coach; Jerome Henderson as the defensive backs coach; Rick Lyle as an assistant strength-and-conditioning coach; and Carl Smith as the quarterbacks coach. Cox, Dickerson, Henderson and Lyle spent the past three seasons with Mangini in New York. Smith was the Browns' quarterbacks coach from 2001\u20132003 and was most recently the offensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2005\u20132006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn January 25, the Browns hired former Baltimore Ravens director of pro personnel George Kokinis as general manager. Kokinis spent five seasons in the Browns' scouting department from 1991 to 1995, and after the team moved to Baltimore, he was a member of the Ravens' scouting department from 1996\u20131999. He was the Ravens' assistant director of pro personnel from 2000\u20132002 and was the director of pro personnel from 2003\u20132008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn February 4, the Browns hired three more assistant coaches: Alan DeGennaro was hired as an assistant strength-and-conditioning coach; Tom Myslinski as the strength-and-conditioning coach; and George Warhop as the offensive line coach. On February 11, the Browns hired George McDonald as the offensive quality control coach. On February 17, the Browns hired Gary Brown as the running backs coach and Steve Hagen as the tight ends coach. On February 22, the Browns hired Matt Eberflus as the linebackers coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Personnel changes\nOn May 6, the Browns promoted McDonald to wide receivers coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Roster changes, Trades\nOn February 27, the Browns traded tight end Kellen Winslow to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for its second-round selection in the 2009 NFL Draft (50th overall, used to select Mohamed Massaquoi) and its fifth-round selection in the 2010 NFL Draft. Winslow was selected sixth overall by the Browns in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft and played five seasons with the team. During his career with the Browns, he accumulated 219 receptions for 2,459 yards (11.2 YPC) and had eleven touchdown receptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Roster changes, Trades\nOn April 25, during the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft, the team traded its first-round selection (5th overall) to the Jets for its first- and second-round selections (17th and 52nd overall), defensive end Kenyon Coleman, safety Abram Elam and quarterback Brett Ratliff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Roster changes, 2009 draft class\nThe Browns did not have third-, fifth-, or seventh-round selections in the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Legal troubles for WR Stallworth\nOn March 14, Browns wide receiver Dont\u00e9 Stallworth was involved in a fatal accident in which he struck and killed pedestrian Mario Reyes with his car in the early morning in Miami, Florida. Stallworth then stopped his vehicle and called 9\u20131\u20131. Reports showed that Stallworth was driving under the influence; his blood-alcohol level was 0.12%, above Florida's legal limit of 0.08%. He was charged with DUI manslaughter and a warrant was issued for his arrest on April 1 and he surrendered to police on April 2. On June 16, Stallworth pleaded guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Legal troubles for WR Stallworth\nHe was sentenced to 30 days in prison, two years' house arrest and eight years' probation. Many believed that the sentence Stallworth received was too lenient as he could have served up to 15 years in jail. Stallworth also reached an undisclosed financial settlement with the victim's family. On June 18, the NFL suspended Stallworth indefinitely On August 13, the NFL officially suspended Stallworth for the entire 2009 season and made plans to reinstate him after the Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Offseason, Uniform changes\nIn 2009, the Cleveland Browns wore brown pants for games in which they wear white jerseys. These were worn in the 2008 pre-season. New additions to this uniform combination are striped socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Preseason, Releases\nOn September 4 and 5, the Browns released the following players to get down to the 53-player limit: S Hamza Abdullah, FB Charles Ali, CB Brandon Anderson, QB Richard Bartel, CB Tra Battle, LB Beau Bell, T Branndon Braxton, LB Titus Brown, C Dustin Fry, RB Noah Herron, DT Adam Hoppel, WR Paul Hubbard, CB Corey Ivy, RB Chris Jennings, WR Lance Leggett, G Pat Murray, WR Jordan Norwood, WR David Patten, G Kurt Quarterman, DE Brian Schaefering, G Isaac Sowells, DE Santonio Thomas and TE Aaron Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Preseason, Captains selected\nOn September 9, the team elected six players to be captains. RB Jamal Lewis and T Joe Thomas were chosen as offensive captains, LB D'Qwell Jackson and LB Eric Barton as defensive captains, and KR Josh Cribbs and K Phil Dawson as special teams captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Browns opened their season at home against the Minnesota Vikings trying to improve on their 4\u201312 record from last season. After trading field goals in the first quarter, RB Adrian Peterson scored the first touchdown of the game, giving Minnesota a 10\u20133 lead. But K Phil Dawson kicked his second field goal and WR Josh Cribbs returned a punt for a touchdown and the Browns took a 13\u201310 lead into halftime. However, the second half was controlled completely by the Vikings, with QB Brett Favre connecting with WR Percy Harvin for Favre's first touchdown pass as a Viking. In the 4th quarter, QB Brady Quinn completed a touchdown pass to TE Robert Royal, the first touchdown by Cleveland's offense since the 4th quarter of Week 11 in 2008, ending a span of 416 offensive plays without a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Denver Broncos\nHoping to rebound from their home loss to the Vikings, the Browns flew to Invesco Field at Mile High for a Week 2 duel with the Denver Broncos. After recovering a fumble on the opening kickoff, the Browns started with a short field but couldn't capitalize, settling for a 22-yard field goal by kicker Phil Dawson. Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Scheffler for the game's first touchdown, and after a 47-yard field goal by Cleveland, the game was 7\u20136 after the first quarter. However, Cleveland's offensive struggles continued. Meanwhile, in the second and third quarter, kicker Matt Prater gave Denver a 23-yard and a 38-yard field goal. Afterwards, in the fourth quarter, the Broncos took control with touchdown runs by Peyton Hillis and Correll Buckhalter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Broncos, the Browns flew to M&T Bank Stadium for a Week 3 AFC North duel with the Baltimore Ravens. Cleveland trailed early in the first quarter as Ravens running back Willis McGahee got a 7-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Steven Hauschka getting a 36-yard field goal. The Browns' deficit increased in the second quarter as Hauschka nailed a 33-yard field goal, while McGahee got a 15-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nIn the third quarter, things continued to get worse for the Browns as running back Ray Rice got a 9-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, Cleveland managed to get on the board as kicker Billy Cundiff made a 29-yard field goal. Afterwards, Baltimore closed out the game as quarterback Joe Flacco completed a 72-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Derrick Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Baltimore Ravens\nStarting quarterback Brady Quinn (6 of 8, 34 yards, 1 INT) was benched after a dismal first half performance, while Derek Anderson (11 of 19, 92 yards, 3 INTs) did not perform much better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nStill looking for their first win of the season, the Browns went home for a Week 4 AFC North duel with the Cincinnati Bengals in Round 1 of 2009's Battle of Ohio. Due to quarterback Brady Quinn's poor performance in the season thus far, head coach Eric Mangini named quarterback Derek Anderson the starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nCleveland trailed early in the first quarter as Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. The Browns continued to struggle in the second quarter as defensive end Robert Geathers returned a fumble 75 yards for a touchdown. Cleveland responded with Anderson completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Steve Heiden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Browns tied the game in the third quarter with Anderson's 1-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Cleveland took the lead in the fourth quarter with a 26-yard and a 31-yard field goal from kicker Billy Cundiff. However, Cincinnati answered with Palmer hooking up with Ochocinco again on a 2-yard touchdown run (with a blocked PAT). In overtime, both teams went back and forth with their possessions. In the end, the Bengals emerged victorious with kicker Shayne Graham kicking the game-winning 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, WR Edwards traded\nOn October 7, the Browns traded WR Braylon Edwards to the New York Jets for WR Chansi Stuckey, LB Jason Trusnik, and third- and fifth-round selections in the 2010 NFL Draft. The third-round selection would have become a second-round selection if Edwards met certain performance criteria with the Jets, but he did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Buffalo Bills\nAfter a heartbreaking loss to the Bengals, the Browns headed to Buffalo, the site of their last win in Week 11 of the 2008 season, trying to avoid tying a franchise record 11 straight losses. In very windy conditions, the Browns' hero was punter Dave Zastudil who pinned the Bills within their 5-yard line three times. After trading field goals in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, the Browns recovered a fumble on a punt return by WR Roscoe Parrish, and kicker Billy Cundiff secured the victory with a short field goal. The Browns won despite QB Derek Anderson completing only 2 of 17 passes (11.8%) for 23 yards, setting a record for lowest completion percentage in a win since the AFL-NFL merger. This also marked Eric Mangini's first win as head coach of the Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Buffalo Bills\nWith the win, the Browns improved to 1\u20134. Zastudil was named the AFC special teams player of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nAfter securing their first win of the season, the Browns went on the road to take on their archrival Pittsburgh Steelers. The Browns came into the game having lost their last 11 games against the Steelers. The Steelers struck first with two touchdown passes from Ben Roethlisberger in the 2nd quarter. Josh Cribbs ran a kickoff back 98 yards for a touchdown to get the Browns within 7. However, the Browns could never close the gap and fell to the Steelers, 27\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Green Bay Packers\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Steelers, the Browns went home for a Week 7 interconference duel with the Green Bay Packers. After a scoreless first quarter, Cleveland began the second quarter with kicker Billy Cundiff's 22-yard field goal. However, the Packers took charge with quarterback Aaron Rodgers completing a 45-yard touchdown pass to tight end Spencer Havner and a 71-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donald Driver, followed by a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Ryan Grant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Green Bay Packers\nAfterwards, Green Bay pulled away in the second half with kicker Mason Crosby booting an 18-yard field goal in the third quarter and Rodgers finding wide receiver James Jones on a 5-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Chicago Bears\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Browns flew to Soldier Field for a Week 8 interconference duel with the Chicago Bears. The Browns' defense held up well early, limiting the Bears to three field goals by kicker Robbie Gould (a 37-yard and a 29-yard in the first quarter and a 32-yard in the second). However, the Browns could not manage to get on the board and Chicago RB Matt Forte scored on a 1-yard run, putting the Browns down 16 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Chicago Bears\nThe Browns struck first in the third quarter on a one-yard run by QB Derek Anderson, but the PAT was blocked. Forte scored again in the third with a 10-yard touchdown run and the Bears put the Browns away with a 21-yard interception return for a touchdown by CB Charles Tillman in the fourth quarter. Late in the fourth, Derek Anderson was benched for Brady Quinn after going 6 of 17 (35.2%) for 76 yards and 2 interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Chicago Bears\nWith the loss, the Browns went into their bye week at 1\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, GM Kokinis fired\nOn November 2, the Browns fired general manager George Kokinis after getting off to a disappointing 1\u20137 start. The Browns' statement said that Kokinis \"is no longer actively involved with the organization.\" Owner Randy Lerner reportedly asked for his resignation, and when Kokinis refused, sought a dismissal \"for cause.\" Head coach Eric Mangini was told by Lerner that his job was safe for the moment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Browns came out of their bye week with Brady Quinn as the starting quarterback again and looking to turn around their disappointing season. They hosted the Baltimore Ravens on Monday Night Football. Both teams played a scoreless first half, the first scoreless half in the NFL this season and only the ninth ever in 620 Monday Night Football games. The Ravens took over in the third with two touchdowns in 15 seconds (a 13-yard touchdown run from running back Ray Rice and safety Dawan Landry's 48-yard interception return for a touchdown). Kicker Steven Hauschka added a 44-yard field goal and the Browns could not score. This was the Browns' first shutout of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Detroit Lions\nLooking to snap a four-game losing streak, the 1\u20138 Browns flew to Ford Field for a Week 11 interconference duel with the 1\u20138 Detroit Lions. Both teams began the game with field goals, as Cleveland kicker Phil Dawson made a 44-yard field goal while Lions kicker Jason Hanson got a 31-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Browns' offense exploded as quarterback Brady Quinn completed a 59-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi, a 40-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chansi Stuckey and a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Josh Cribbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Detroit Lions\nDetroit answered with quarterback Matthew Stafford completing a 26-yard touchdown pass to running back Aaron Brown. The Lions tied the game in the second quarter as Stafford hooked up with running back Kevin Smith on a 25-yard touchdown pass, followed by a 75-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Afterwards, Cleveland ended the half with Dawson nailing a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Detroit Lions\nAfter Detroit took the lead in the third quarter with Stafford's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Will Heller, the Browns picked up a safety after Stafford was called for intentional grounding from his own end zone. In the fourth quarter, Cleveland regained the lead with Quinn's 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Michael Gaines (followed by running back Jamal Lewis getting a 2-point conversion run). The Lions took over, and with no time left, Browns safety Brodney Pool intercepted the ball. However, cornerback Hank Poteat was flagged for pass interference in the end zone. Since the game cannot end on a defensive penalty, Detroit was given one untimed down from the Browns' 1-yard line and Stafford completed the game-winning touchdown pass to tight end Brandon Pettigrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Detroit Lions\nWith the loss in the 1\u20138 battle, Cleveland fell to 1\u20139, assuring a last-place finish in their division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Browns headed to Cincinnati to face their in-state rivals in Week 12. The Bengals struck first with 2 field goals by Shayne Graham and a touchdown reception by J. P. Foschi in the first half. Brady Quinn had a touchdown run in the third, but another Bengals field goal and defense put the Browns away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the loss, the Browns fell to 1\u201310 and were officially eliminated from postseason contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe Browns stayed home in Week 13 to take on the San Diego Chargers. The Browns struck first with an 11-yard touchdown reception by Mohamed Massaquoi. The Chargers took the lead back in the first on a field goal by Nate Kaeding and a long touchdown reception by Mike Tolbert. San Diego scored 17 more in the second and third, seemingly putting the game out of reach. The Browns managed to get within a touchdown but their comeback ran out of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 93], "content_span": [94, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Browns hosted the rival Pittsburgh Steelers on a night with subzero wind chills for a Week 14 duel. In windy conditions, Phil Dawson hit a pair of 29-yard field goals and Chris Jennings had a 10-yard touchdown run to put the Browns up 13. Jeff Reed nailed a field goal before the half to draw the Steelers within 10 and hit another in the third to bring them within a touchdown. However, a scoreless fourth by both teams led the Browns to their first win against the Steelers since 2003, and the Browns became only the fourth team in NFL history to be at least 10 games under .500 and defeat the defending Super Bowl champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the win, the Browns improved to 2\u201311, snapped a twelve-game losing streak against the Steelers and won against them for the first time since 2003 when they defeated the team 33\u201313 in Pittsburgh. The team also won their first home game since an October 2008 victory, against the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. KR Josh Cribbs was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Browns headed into Kansas City for their last road game of the year to take on the Chiefs in Week 15. The Browns and Chiefs traded field goals in the first quarter and then Josh Cribbs returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, setting an NFL record with his 7th kickoff return for a touchdown. After another Phil Dawson field goal in the second, the Chiefs scored three straight touchdowns to take a 24\u201313 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Kansas City Chiefs\nHowever, Cribbs again ran a kickoff back for a touchdown, this time for 103 yards and extending his NFL record to eight kickoff return touchdowns. In the second half, Jerome Harrison rushed for three touchdowns and amassed a majority of his 286 rushing yards. This set a Browns' rushing record for a single game, was the record for most rushing yards in the NFL this season, and was the third most rushing yards in a game in NFL history. Matt Cassel's final desperation pass ricocheted off the cross bar, and the Browns defeated the Chiefs 41\u201334, with their highest point total of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Kansas City Chiefs\nWith the win, the Browns improved to 3\u201311 and finished the season 2\u20136 on the road. Cribbs was named the AFC special teams player of the week for the second straight week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Holmgren hired as president\nOn December 21, Mike Holmgren was hired by the Browns to take over as their president. His duties included personnel management, and he also had the power to replace Eric Mangini as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 89], "content_span": [90, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Browns stayed home in Week 16 for a match with the Oakland Raiders, trying to extend their two-game winning streak. The Browns struck first with a 17-yard run by Jerome Harrison and a 42-yard field goal from Phil Dawson. Oakland kicker Sebastian Janikowski hit three field goals in the first half, including a 61 yarder to close out the half. However, the Browns led at halftime, 17\u20139. The Browns held the Raiders scoreless in the second half and Dawson hit two more field goals to lead the Browns to a 23\u20139 victory, their third in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Browns closed out their season at home with a contest against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who came into the game with an outside chance of making the playoffs. Cleveland and Jacksonville traded field goals in the first quarter, but Josh Cribbs broke the tie in the second with a 14-yard touchdown run and Phil Dawson added another field goal to give the Browns a 10-point lead at the half. In the third, Jerome Harrison added a 6-yard touchdown run to push the lead to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 95], "content_span": [96, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nIn the fourth, Zach Miller caught a 6-yard pass from David Garrard to close within 10, but Dawson added another field goal. On the final play of the game (and the season), Miller caught another touchdown pass from Garrard but it was not enough and the Browns won 23\u201317. The Browns' 4-game winning streak was the longest since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 95], "content_span": [96, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win, the Browns improved to finish the season at 5\u201311, a one-win improvement over the 2008 campaign. They finished 3\u20135 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 95], "content_span": [96, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, Regular season, Game summaries, KR Cribbs honored\nOn January 6, WR/KR Josh Cribbs was named AFC special teams player of the month for December. During the month, Cribbs earned AFC special teams player of the week honors twice and set an NFL record with eight career kickoff returns for touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202236-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Browns season, 2010 Pro Bowl\nKR Josh Cribbs and T Joe Thomas were recognized for individual accomplishments as they were named to the AFC roster for the 2010 Pro Bowl. Cribbs, who made his second appearance, was the starting kick and punt returner. Thomas, who made his third consecutive appearance in the game, was selected as the reserve offensive tackle, but started in the game because of an injury to Jake Long of the Miami Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season\nThe 2009 Cleveland Indians season marks the 109th season for the franchise, with the Indians attempting (but failing) to improve on their 81-81 record and third-place finish in the AL Central in 2008. The team played all of its home games at Progressive Field (formerly known as Jacobs Field).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season\nThe season began on April 6 with a 9\u20131 loss to the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Home Opener was on April 10 with the Indians losing 13\u20137 to the Toronto Blue Jays. The season ended on October 4 against the rival Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season\n2009 is the first year that the Indians held Spring training in Goodyear, Arizona. Goodyear replaces Winter Haven, Florida after 15 years of Spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season\nThe Indians ended their season at 65-97. For the Indians, this marks their first season since 1987 (the infamous \"Indian Uprising\" season) that they were below .500 for the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, April\nThe Indians struggled at the beginning of the season, losing their first five and seven of their first eight games. They finished with an 8-14 record in April, and were in last place in the AL central for the entire month. One of the few highlights of the month was the Tribe defeating former Indian CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees 10-2 in the first game ever at the new Yankee Stadium. Starting pitcher Cliff Lee had his first win of the season in that game. Two days later, the Indians defeated the Yankees 22-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, May\nThe Indians went 14-16 in May, but were in last place in the division throughout the entire month. The Indians struggled on many fronts, including an ineffective bullpen and poor hitting. Several players were sent to the disabled list including Travis Hafner, Grady Sizemore, and Asdr\u00fabal Cabrera. The poor play and injuries allowed many minor league players to come up from AAA Columbus and contribute to the Indians. A turning point came in the season when on May 25, when the Indians defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 11-10 after coming back from a 10-0 deficit. The Indians rallied to win 5 of the final 7 games in the month", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202237-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202238-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cleveland mayoral election\nThe 2009 Cleveland mayoral election took place on November 3, 2009, to elect the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan, with the top two candidates from the September 8 primary advancing to the general election, regardless of party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202239-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clipsal 500\nThe 2009 Clipsal 500 was the first race of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of 20\u201322 March around the inner city streets of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202239-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Clipsal 500, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Friday 20 March, and was split into two sessions. Session one lasted for 34 minutes, 15 seconds and saw the top ten drivers qualifying for the Top Ten Shootout, with positions 11\u201330 being set by times in the session. In this first session, reigning series champion Jamie Whincup set the pace, setting a new qualifying lap record of 1:21.2773. Although he was some half a second slower in the Shootout, Whincup was still quick enough to lead a Triple Eight Race Engineering 1\u20132 with Craig Lowndes 0.2545 seconds behind. Mark Winterbottom and Lee Holdsworth had both gone faster than Lowndes but both drivers lost their respective times due to excessive use of kerbing during their hot laps. Garth Tander was top Holden in third, with James Courtney qualifying fourth, in his first session as a Dick Johnson Racing driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202239-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Clipsal 500, Post-race\nRussell Ingall and James Courtney were given ten-point deductions after the weekend for careless driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season\nF.C. Atlas debuted the Apertura 2009 on July 25, 2009, with a 1-0 win over Pumas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, Summer transfers\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, Summer transfers\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nAtlas debuted the Apertura 2009 with a 1-0 victory over Pumas. Atlas showed a great performance in the first half. At the 45' minute marked the first goal of the game and season for Atlas, scored by Edgar Ivan Pacheco with a header, assisted by a long pass from Daniel Osorno. Apertura 2009 will be coached by Ricardo La Volpe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nJornada 2, Atlas visited Monterrey. A poor performance by Atlas led them to lose to Monterrey 3-0. Goals scored by Monterrey were an own goal by Edgar Pacheco, Sergio Santana, and Humberto Suazo. Atlas' defense left many open spots in the defense which led Monterrey to shoot many shots. Canales was a huge factor in Monterrey's third, in which he came out and ended up leaving the goal, open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nJornada 3, Atlas at home takes a 2-1 victory over Santos. Atlas with a much better improvements from last week. On Atlas' side, Ismael Fuentes scored the first on a corner, passed by Dario Botinelli. Gerardo Espinoza scored a very well goal. Dario Botinelli with a long pass for Daniel Osorno who makes a fast run for the ball and then re-passes the ball into the area where Espinoza gets the ball and shoots into the far angle of the goal. For Santos, Juan Carlos Mosqueda scored, but it wasn't enough for Atlas won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nJornada 4, Atlas loses against the home team America. Atlas showed some poor performances on the defense. Now starting to show in need of a forward. Cabanas scored first for Club Am\u00e9rica with a very good goal, with errors by Hugo Ayala and Luis Robles. Atlas tied the game with a corner by Edgar Pacheco and Fuentes scores with a hard header and injures himself by bumping his head into Mosquera's head. Second Half, America again taking the lead. After a shot bounced off the crossbar, Beausejour picks up the ball and scores on Barbosa with a weak shot. Atlas had chances to score like a shot by Botinelli in which goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa blocks and hits the crossbar. Another good opportunity by Pacheco which hits the crossbar as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nJornada 5, Atlas takes a loss at home against Morelia, 2-0. Sabah scored 2 goals for Morelia. Atlas, who showed great work on the field, but made few mistakes in which Morelia capitalized in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202240-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Atlas season, 2009 Mexico Apertura\nJornada 6, Atlas takes an away tie, 1-1 with Indios. It was a well-deserved result. Both sides gave their all and Pacheco scored a header, assisted by Mario P\u00e9rez. Indios scored a penalty, which was kicked by Edwin Santibanez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202241-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Le\u00f3n season, Current roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season\nThe following is a summary of the 2009 season by Paraguayan football (soccer) club Olimpia Asunci\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season\nOlimpia participated in the following competitions in 2009: Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura (pertaining to the Paraguayan first division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season, Torneo Apertura 2009\nOlimpia started the year 2009 with the same coach as 2008, Ever Hugo Almeida. However, after only 4 rounds the directive board decided to replace Almeida with Uruguayan Gregorio P\u00e9rez, despite the team being in second position with an undefeated record of two wins and two draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season, Torneo Apertura 2009, Transfers\nThe following transfers occurred prior to the start of the Apertura tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season, Torneo Apertura 2009, Team roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202242-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Olimpia season, Torneo Clausura 2009\nThe Torneo Clausura is to be played in the second half of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202243-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Premium Open\nThe 2009 Club Premium Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Quito, Ecuador between 28 September and 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202243-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Premium Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202243-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Premium Open, Champions, Doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Fernando Vicente /  Michael Quintero, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20133]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202244-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Premium Open \u2013 Doubles\nHugo Armando and Leonardo Mayer were the defending champions. Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Travis Rettenmaier defeated Michael Quintero and Fernando Vicente 1\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20133] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202245-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Club Premium Open \u2013 Singles\nGiovanni Lapentti tried to defend his 2008 title, but he was eliminated by Santiago Giraldo in the quarterfinals. Carlos Salamanca became the new champion, after beating Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud 7\u20136(4), 6\u20137(5), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202246-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season\nThe 2009 season is the 114th year in the club's history, the 98th season in Clube de Regatas do Flamengo's football existence, and their 39th in the Brazilian S\u00e9rie A, having never been relegated from the top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202246-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, First-team squad\nAs of December, 2010, according to combined sources on the official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202246-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202246-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Transfer, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202246-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Transfer, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202247-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda\nThe 2009 Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda was the 24th edition of the Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda cycle race and was held on 1 March 2009. The race started in Puebla de V\u00edcar and finished in Almer\u00eda. The race was won by Greg Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202248-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n\nThe 2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n was the 29th edition of the Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n road cycling race. It took place on 1 August 2009, and was the tenth event of the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the eighteenth in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series. It began and ended in San Sebasti\u00e1n, in the Basque Country, Spain. The race covered 237 kilometres (147\u00a0mi), mainly to the south and east of the city, and entirely within the province of Guip\u00fazcoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202248-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n, Teams and riders\nAs the race was under the auspices of the UCI ProTour, all eighteen ProTour teams were invited automatically. An additional wildcard invitation was given to Contentpolis-Ampo, a Professional Continental team, to form the event's 19-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202248-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n, Teams and riders\nTeams consisted of up to eight riders, and 143 riders started the event. The event takes place less than a week after the conclusion of the 2009 Tour de France, and many of the riders who took part in that event, were scheduled for this race, including all but three of the top fifteen finishers, although a number of the higher profile riders withdrew in the last few days before the event, including the suspended local rider, Mikel Astarloza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202248-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n, Route\nThe route is an anticlockwise loop, heading southwest from San Sebasti\u00e1n, reaching its highest point, and its farthest from the city at the Alto de Udana (574 m). It then heads back towards the southern suburbs of the start town, before heading east through the Jaizkibel mountains to Hondarribia on the French border, and then back to San Sebasti\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202248-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n, Categories\nAs well as the overall race, there are prizes available for amassing most points at five intermediate sprints around the course, and for gaining points at the top of six mountain passes and hilltops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202249-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team\nThe 2009 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Chanticleers were led by seventh-year head coach David Bennett and played their home games at Brooks Stadium. Coastal Carolina competed as a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 5\u20136 with a 3\u20133 record in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600\nThe 2009 Coca-Cola 600 was the twelfth stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the fiftieth iteration of the event. It was held on May 25, 2009, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina after being postponed on May 24 because of inclement weather. Scheduled for 400 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) quad-oval, the race was won by David Reutimann of Michael Waltrip Racing after being shortened to 227 laps because of poor weather conditions. Ryan Newman finished second ahead of Robby Gordon, Carl Edwards, and Brian Vickers, who completed the first five positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600\nFox Sports televised the event in the United States, while the race was broadcast on radio by Performance Racing Network (over-the-air) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600\nOn the day of the race, 1.33 inches of precipitation were recorded around the speedway; a significant amount of rain for the Charlotte area for the month of May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Background\nLowe's Motor Speedway, now called Charlotte Motor Speedway, is one of ten intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. The standard track at Lowe's Motor Speedway is a four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km)-long, quad-oval track. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees; both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch (opposite the front) have a five-degree banking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Background\nThe Coca-Cola 600 was conceived by race car driver Curtis Turner who built the Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was first held in 1960 in an attempt by NASCAR to stage a Memorial Day weekend race to compete with the open-wheel Indianapolis 500; the two races were held together on the same day starting from 1974. The race is the longest (in terms of distance) on the NASCAR calendar and is considered by several drivers as one of the sport's most important races alongside the Daytona 500, the Brickyard 400 and the Southern 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Background\nThe event was known as the World 600 until 1984 when The Coca-Cola Company purchased the naming rights to the race and renamed it the Coca-Cola World 600 in 1985. It has been called the Coca-Cola 600 every year since 1986 except for 2002 when the name changed to Coca-Cola Racing Family 600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Pre-race festivities\nAir Force Tops in Blue sang the national anthem. Bobby Allison, the race's grand marshal, gave the command to start engines. (It was not televised on Monday, instead, it was preempted by commercials.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nRyan Newman and Kyle Busch started on the front row followed by Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin in the second one, and Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne in the third. Newman decided to start the race from the outside, switching positions with Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nAt 12:12\u00a0pm EDT, the green flag waved marking the start of the 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600. After lap 1, Newman led the first lap with Busch in 2nd and Martin in 3rd. Two laps later, Busch took the lead from Newman while out of turn 4. On lap 7, the first caution flag was waved for light rain. Before the caution, Brian Vickers was in 5th after starting in 8th and Denny Hamlin was in that position after starting 13th. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., starting in 27th, was in 31st. Eleven drivers entered pit road. Among them were Earnhardt, Jr.; Kevin Harvick; Michael Waltrip; Greg Biffle; and Matt Kenseth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nWhen the restarted on lap 12, Busch had the lead followed by Newman, Martin, Kahne, and Vickers behind him. Shortly after, Harvick and Sam Hornish, Jr. made contact on the backstretch. On lap 17, Harvick made contact with the outside wall entering turn 1, causing damage to his car and bringing out a caution. Busch reported an electrical problem with his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nOn lap 19, the race restarted with Busch, Newman, Martin, Kahne, and Gordon in the Top 5. By lap 35, Busch had opened a 2-second lead over Martin, who was 2nd. Tony Stewart, starting in 28th, was now in 15th. During pit stops on lap 42 after a competition caution, Johnson had the lead off pit road and gained 16 positions, followed by Busch and Martin. Newman had to come back to pit road for a lugnut replacement and Mike Bliss drove his car to the garage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nThe race restarted on lap 45 with Johnson, Busch, Martin, Kurt Busch, and Denny Hamlin rounding out the Top 5. On lap 51, Ky. Busch took the lead away from Johnson with Martin still in 2nd. By lap 55, Johnson, with a loose car, had fallen to the 6th place. Rain returned by lap 71, resulting in yet another caution. After pit stops that followed, Carl Edwards gained 10 positions, Jamie McMurray gained 16, Reutimann gained 7, and Martin Truex, Jr. gained 13. Vickers lost 6. Martin's crew lost a tire from their pit, resulting in a penalty for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nRobby Gordon stayed out and led a lap. Waltrip and Scott Riggs also stayed out. Approximately 55 minutes after the start of the race, the red flag was waved on lap 74 for rain. R. Gordon, Waltrip, Riggs, KY. Busch, Edwards, Reutimann, McMurray, Joey Logano, Kahne, and Juan Pablo Montoya made up the Top 10 at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nThis red flag period lasted 54 minutes before caution laps resumed. R. Gordon, Waltrip, and Riggs made pit stops under the caution. Each of the three had a led at least a lap. The restart on lap 79 with Ky. Busch, Edwards, Reutimann, McMurray, and Logano in the Top 5. Martin served a penalty from the last pit stop and dropped to 37th place. By lap 87, Ky. Busch opened a two-second lead over second place Reutimann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nOn lap 93, McMurray dropped from fourth to 10th and Reutimann fell two spots from 2nd after making contact with the outside wall of Turn 4. Meanwhile, Earnhardt, Jr. continued to fight an ill-handling car and on lap 111 Ky. Busch, who was leading, put him a lap down. On lap 120, Vickers took the lead from Ky. Busch. As of lap 122, Joe Nemechek, Waltrip, Harvick, and Max Papis, running 38th through 41st respectively, were a lap down. Green flag pit stops began at that point. On lap 129, Montoya took second from KY. Busch. Logano led lap 131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap\nReutimann and David Gilliland were deemed too fast on pit road and served penalties. Meanwhile, Dave Blaney led two laps under green flag pit stops. Blaney's stop on lap 134 ended the cycle and Ky. Busch regained the lead, followed by Vickers, Montoya, Kahne, and Johnson. Vickers took the lead on lap 146, and by lap 161, he had opened a 2.2-second lead over Montoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Historic moment of silence\nOn lap 163, race officials threw the red flag, and ordered the cars to shut down the engines on the front stretch for a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the service of America's military. This moment took place at 3:00\u00a0pm EDT; the time was chosen because it coincides with that traditionally set aside by American tradition on Memorial Day. Members of pit crews and fans stood in observance, while drivers quietly reflected in their cars. Although this moment was not originally planned\u00a0\u2014 and indeed would not have occurred if the race had not been postponed the day before\u00a0\u2014 it reportedly met with praise from drivers, crews and fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Pit stops and resumption of race\nDuring the pit stops, Edwards gained six spots, Jeff Gordon gained twelve spots, Montoya lost three positions, and Vickers lost nine spots. The rain came and delayed the waving of the green flag. On lap 177, the red flag was waved for rain for the second time in the race three hours and eight minutes since the start. Kyle Busch, Kahne, Johnson, Edwards, Montoya, Logano, Kenseth, Jeff Gordon, Hamlin, and Vickers are in the top ten when the red flag waved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Pit stops and resumption of race\nThe field restarted on lap 180 at 3:42\u00a0pm. EDT. Twenty-six cars were on the lead lap as they took the green flag. On lap 182, Logano took fifth from Montoya and Johnson took second from Kahne. Seven laps later, Montoya, running in 7th, reported his car has tightened up. Kurt Busch, running in 15th, entered pit road for a two-tire change on lap 193 because of vibrations. Kurt Busch re-entered the race in 38th, one lap down. On lap 208, seven laps after halfway, Kyle Busch had a 2.4-second lead over Kasey Kahne. Kyle's brother, Kurt, advanced four spots from 38th since the pitstop for vibrations. On lap 213, Kenseth, running in 7th, reported his car has tightened up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Pit stops and resumption of race\nEight laps later, rain hit the track again and forced another yellow flag for rain. On the ensuing stops, Edwards gained two spots, Vickers five spots, and Labonte seven spots. Johnson lost four spots. Reutimann, Newman, and Robby Gordon stayed on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Pit stops and resumption of race\nOn lap 227, the third red flag of the race was waved with Reutimann, Newman, Robby Gordon, Edwards, Vickers, Kyle Busch, Kahne, Montoya, Logano, and Kenseth in the top ten. Hours later the race was called official giving Reutimann his first Cup series win in 76 starts. Newman, the polesitter, finished in second in his Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. Robby Gordon finished third, his first top 5 finish since the 2007 Watkins Glen race Carl Edwards had the highest finishing Ford in fourth place. Kyle Busch had led the most laps (173), finished sixth. Kasey Kahne, the defending winner, had the highest finishing Dodge in seventh. Rookie Joey Logano finished ninth. Bill Elliott, in his 800 career start, finished 15th. Marcos Ambrose, the last driver on the lead lap, came in 26th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202250-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Coca-Cola 600, Race recap, Firsts\nDavid Reutimann won his first race in the Sprint Cup Series. It was also the first win for Michael Waltrip Racing in the Sprint Cup Series and the first for Michael Waltrip as an owner. This was the first win for a car with the number 00 in Sprint Cup history and the first win for Toyota at Lowe's Motor Speedway in the Cup series. Also, due to the rainout, this marked the first time the actual race was held on Memorial Day. Also, this was the first Sprint Cup race at Charlotte to be held during the day since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400\nThe 2009 Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola was the eighteenth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, marking the halfway point of the season, and the third of four restrictor plate races on the season slate. The 160 lap, 400 miles (640\u00a0km) event was held on Saturday night, July 4 (Independence Day in the USA) at the 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400\nThe race was broadcast on TNT with pre-race activities beginning at 6:30 PM US EDT, and radio being handled by Sirius XM Radio (satellite) and MRN (over-the-air) starting at 7 PM US EDT. The green flag waved shortly after 8:15 PM US EDT in front of a live audience of 115,000 people with the checkered flag coming out sometime after 11:08 PM US EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Historic date\nThis marked the first time that the race was run on Independence Day since 1992. The 1998 event, which was to have been run on Independence Day, was postponed due to the wildfires in Florida that year and was raced in October. The event also commemorated the 25th Anniversary to the date of Richard Petty's 200th \u2013 and final \u2013 victory in this race in 1984. Before 1988, the race had always been held on the morning of the birthdate of the United States; since then, it has been held on the Saturday night closest to the Independence Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying\nQualifying was rained out for the second straight weekend, so again, the NASCAR rulebook was used to set the order of the field, and Tony Stewart would be on the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying\nMax Papis and the Germain Racing Toyota team and Mike Wallace and the Gunselman Motorsports Toyota team would miss the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nThe invocation and the national anthem were preempted in favor of the trailer for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, causing an outrage among NASCAR fans. The first big one happened in the second half of the race, when Kasey Kahne got into David Stremme, bouncing him off the wall and collecting at least a dozen cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nTony Stewart led the most laps, with Denny Hamlin leading the second-most, combining to lead all but eleven of the 160 laps. Like the prior super speedway race at Talladega, a car was wrecked on the last lap. Kyle Busch ended up being the victim of this wreck. Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch made contact, sending Busch spinning hard into the outside wall. After hitting the wall, Busch was rammed hard from behind by Kasey Kahne, destroying Busch's in-car camera. He then was hit hard by his teammate, Joey Logano, on the driver's side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nAt least a dozen cars wrecked before and after the start/finish line as the race officially ended under caution, with Stewart picking up his second points race victory of the 2009 season, extending his points lead over Jeff Gordon by 180 points. Eight cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for a duration of 30 laps; the average green flag run was approximately 14 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nInstantly after stopping a stunned, dazed, irritated, impatient Kyle Busch climbed out of his car and tried to follow Tony to victory lane for confrontation but was led away by officials. In victory lane Tony Stewart was unexcited on his victory. He said with a disappointed tone, \"Well... I am not proud of what I did back there. I went where I had to go and he went where he had to go. I got into the back of him without thinking... I don't like winning 'em like that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nI wish I could enjoy my win but it does not feel good when you have a good day and you wreck someone out of a good day, especially how Kyle helped me the whole race. You want him to have a good day too, and I couldn't just give the win to him so I tried to make my move, he went up to block us and I was already there. I am sorry. I may be too hard on myself but I do not feel like I am... I am sorry but I am thankful for my nice Stewart-Haas Racing team who brought me here today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202251-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Coke Zero 400, Race recap\nWhen Kyle Busch's friend/boss Joe Gibbs was asked about the finish he said, \"I think Kyle did good today. The fact that he gave it all he could and was willing to get us to victory lane shows a true winner in him.\" Kyle contended that his friend intentionally crashed him but changed his mind in 2010 after a talk with Tony and deciding it was best to put it behind them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202252-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colgate Raiders football team\nThe 2009 Colgate Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Colgate tied for second in the Patriot League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202252-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colgate Raiders football team\nIn its 14th season under head coach Dick Biddle, the team compiled a 9\u20132 record. Pat Simonds was the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202252-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colgate Raiders football team\nThe Raiders outscored opponents 342 to 246. Colgate's 4\u20132 conference record placed it in a three-way tie with Lafayette and Lehigh for second in the Patriot League standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202252-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Colgate Raiders football team\nDespite tying for second place, Colgate had the best overall record among Patriot League teams, sweeping its non-league opponents. A seven-game win streak to start the season saw the team enter the weekly national rankings at No. 25 at the end of September, rising as high as No. 17 before settling at No. 21 in the final poll of the year. The Raiders did not qualify for the FCS playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202252-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Colgate Raiders football team\nColgate played its home games at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202253-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colima state election\nA local election  was scheduled to be held in the Mexican state of Colima on Sunday, July 5, 2009. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202253-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colima state election, Gubernatorial election\nBoth national parties and one local party contested the gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202253-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colima state election, Gubernatorial election\nMario Anguiano Moreno was elected Governor with 50.9% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202254-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 College Baseball All-America Team\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202254-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 College Baseball All-America Team\nThe NCAA recognizes four different All-America selectors for the 2009 college baseball season: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947), Baseball America (since 1981), Collegiate Baseball (since 1991), and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (since 2001).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202255-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 College Basketball Invitational\nThe 2009 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or the 2009 National Invitation Tournament. The opening round began Tuesday, March 17. A best-of-three championship series between Oregon State and UTEP resulted in an Oregon State victory on April 3. The 2009 CBI marked the first ever postseason tournament championship for Oregon State as well as a successful conclusion to head coach Craig Robinson's first year. The Beavers were honored with a visit to the White House with president Barack Obama; Robinson is the brother of First Lady Michelle Obama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202255-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 College Basketball Invitational, Bracket\nThe bracket for the 2009 College Basketball Invitational was announced on March 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team for a specific season composed of the best amateur players at each position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in American team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team\nThe College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp. In 1950, the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled the first list of All-Americans including first-team selections on teams created for a national audience that received national circulation with the intent of recognizing selections made from viewpoints that were nationwide. Since 1952, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the NCAA as well as National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics athletes, covering all NCAA championship sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 958]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team\nThe 2009 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), Pro Football Weekly (PFW), ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), College Football News (CFN), Rivals.com, and Scout.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team\nCurrently, NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. Football consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is recognized as a consensus first-team all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine consensus All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team, Honorees' statistics\nFor the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the following players were unanimous first-team selections on the twelve nationwide lists exhibited below:  Eric Berry, Drew Butler, Joe Haden, Russell Okung, C. J. Spiller, Ndamukong Suh and Golden Tate. Of the unanimous selections, Spiller was the only player selected at multiple positions: running back by Pro Football Weekly and Kickoff returner by all other selection committees. In addition, Toby Gerhart, Jerry Hughes, Mark Ingram Jr., Rolando McClain and Colt McCoy were unanimous first-team selections by the five NCAA-sanctioned selectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team, Honorees' statistics\nMike Johnson, Mike Iupati and Earl Thomas were selected to the most (10 each) first team lists without being unanimously selected by all five of the NCAA-sanctioned first team lists. Danario Alexander was selected to the four lists without being chosen to any of the NCAA-sanctioned first team lists, while Kellen Moore and Brandon Graham were each selected to three unsanctioned first team lists. Colt McCoy has the distinction of being selected to the fewest lists (8) while being selected to all five sanctioned first teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team, Honorees' statistics\nZane Beadles, who was a 2009 second team Academic All-America selection, is the only player to make one of the 2009 College Football All-America Teams and the 2009 College Football Academic All-America Team. Tim Tebow, who was a 2007 and 2008 College Football All-America Team selection, was a first team 2009 College Football Academic All-America Team selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202256-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 College Football All-America Team, Academic All-America\nThe following players were selected to the University Division Academic All-America first and second teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202257-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament\nThe 2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that was won by Old Dominion. Old Dominion defeated Bradley 66\u201362 in the tournament final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202257-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament\nThe 16 selected teams were from a pool that were not invited to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or the 2009 National Invitation Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202257-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament\nThe tournament began with first round games on March 17, 2009 and concluded with the championship game on March 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202257-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, Bracket\nBracket is for visual purposes only. The CIT does not have a set bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting\nThe Collier Township shooting, also referred to as the LA Fitness shooting, was a mass shooting and murder-suicide that took place on August 4, 2009, in an LA Fitness health club in Collier Township, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The attack resulted in four deaths, including that of the perpetrator, who took his own life. Nine other people were injured. The fitness center is approximately 10 miles (16\u00a0km) south of Pittsburgh, in the Great Southern Shopping Center, a strip mall located in the Kirwan Heights section of Collier Township.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Details\nThe shooting occurred at a women's aerobics class at the LA Fitness center at approximately 8:15\u00a0p.m. The shooter entered the class, placed a duffel bag on the ground, turned off the lights, took out two handguns and began firing, police said. According to police, the gunman fired 52 shots with two Glock 9\u00d719mm semiautomatic pistols before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head with a .45-caliber revolver. A .32-caliber semiautomatic pistol found in his pocket was not used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Details\nThree women and the gunman died, and about nine other people were injured. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office identified the three women who died as Heidi Overmier, 46, of Collier Township; Elizabeth Gannon, 49, of Green Tree, Pennsylvania; and Jody Billingsley, 38, of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nGeorge Sodini (September 30, 1960 \u2013 August 4, 2009), a 48-year-old systems analyst at the law firm of K&L Gates and a resident of Scott Township, was identified as the perpetrator. He had written about contemplating carrying out a shooting, which he referred to as the \"exit plan\", while also revealing that he \"chickened out\" of carrying out such a shooting earlier in the year. His website states that he was \"never married\" and concludes \"Death Lives!\" Sodini states, \"Probably 99% of the people who know me well don't even think I was this crazy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nSodini is reported to have left a note inside the gym bag stating his hatred for women. Nearly a week after the murders, it was revealed that Sodini had brought an inert grenade on a Port Authority bus on July 28, 2009. After a passenger sitting next to him notified police, he was questioned about the incident but no charges were filed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nOn a website registered in his name, Sodini chronicled over a nine-month period his rejections by women and his severe sexual frustration. \"Who knows why? I am not ugly or too weird. No sex since July 1990 either (I was 29)\", he writes. \"Last time I slept all night with a girlfriend it was 1982. Girls and women don't even give me a second look ANYWHERE\". About his problems with women, he wrote: \"Women just don't like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US (my estimate) and I cannot find one\". In 2008, Sodini posted online videos, in which he discusses his emotions, along with a tour of his home, the latter which was a homework assignment from \"a self-help seminar [he] had attended on how to date women\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nTGSCOM Inc., an online gun wholesaler based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, sold Sodini an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus used in the attack. TGSCOM sold a used handgun to Seung-Hui Cho, who subsequently used it during the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. TGSCOM also sold an empty magazine and a holster to Steven Kazmierczak, who shot and killed five people at Northern Illinois University in 2008. TGSCOM closed in 2012, having become the subject of investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau, and Green Bay police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nOn August 18, it was revealed that Sodini bequeathed his estate, valued at $225,000, to his alma mater the University of Pittsburgh. A spokesperson for the university stated that it had \"no interest in receiving any such distribution\" and requested that it go to the victims and the victims' families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Perpetrator\nIn March 2012, State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. filed a legal motion attempting to preemptively seek exemption from liability under Sodini's $100,000 personal liability policy. Victims of the shooting claim that the insurance company neglected to ensure Sodini got mental health care.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202258-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Collier Township shooting, Aftermath\nOn August 6, 2009, approximately 75 people, including friends, women's rights advocates, clergy members, and local officials, held a vigil at the Pittsburgh City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh in honor of the shooting's victims. In the aftermath, some feminist groups attributed misogyny and toxic masculinity as a contributing factor. George Sodini has since widely been discussed online by the incel movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202259-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colo-Colo season\nThe 2009 season is Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo's 78th season at Chilean Primera Divisi\u00f3n. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club have played during the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202259-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colo-Colo season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202260-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament was held at Brooks Field in Wilmington, North Carolina from May 21 through May 24. The event determined the champion of the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2009 season. Second-seeded Georgia State won the tournament for the first (and only) time and earned the CAA's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202260-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament\nEntering the event, former member East Carolina had won the most championships, with seven. Among active members, VCU led with four titles, Old Dominion had won three titles while George Mason and UNC Wilmington had won twice each and James Madison and William & Mary had each won once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202260-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe top six teams from the CAA's round-robin regular season qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. They played a double-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 74], "content_span": [75, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202260-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nBradley Logan was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Logan was an infielder for Georgia State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 97], "content_span": [98, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202261-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Buffaloes football team\nThe 2009 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Buffaloes were led by fourth-year head coach Dan Hawkins and played their home games at Folsom Field. The Buffaloes finished the season with a record of 3\u20139 and 2\u20136 in Big 12 play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202262-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Ice season\nThe 2009 Colorado Ice season was the team's third season as a professional indoor football franchise and first in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of nineteen teams that competed in the IFL in the 2009 season, the Fort Collins-based Colorado Ice were members of the Intense Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202262-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Ice season\nFounded in 2007 as part of United Indoor Football, the Colorado Ice became charter members of the IFL when the UIF merged with the Intense Football League before the 2009 season. In their third season under head coach Collins Sanders, the team played their home games at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202263-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Mammoth season\nThe Colorado Mammoth are a lacrosse team based in Denver, Colorado playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 23rd in franchise history and 7th as the Mammoth (previously the Washington Power, Pittsburgh Crossefire, and Baltimore Thunder).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202263-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Mammoth season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202263-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Mammoth season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202263-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Mammoth season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202263-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Mammoth season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Mammoth selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202264-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rapids season\nThe 2009 Colorado Rapids season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence. It began on March 21 with a 2-1 loss at Chivas USA and ended on October 24 with a 3-0 loss to Real Salt Lake. The result put RSL in the playoffs as the 8th seed and kept Colorado out on goal differential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202264-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rapids season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202264-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rapids season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202264-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rapids season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season\nThe 2009 Colorado Rockies entered the season attempting to improve on their 74\u201388 record from 2008. They lost 28 of their first 46 games, but following the hiring of interim manager Jim Tracy, the Rockies came back to win their third Wild Card title, and second in three years. The team drew 2,665,080 fans for the season, their highest total since 2002. The average home attendance was 32,902 fans. Their 92 regular season wins is currently the most in a single season in Rockies franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202265-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado Rockies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202266-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Colorado State Rams football team\nThe 2009 Colorado State Rams football team  represented Colorado State University as member of the Mountain West Conference in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado and were led by second-year coach Steve Fairchild. The Rams finished the season 3\u20139 overall and 0\u20138 in Mountain West play place last out of nine teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202267-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbia Lions football team\nThe 2009 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Columbia tied for fourth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202267-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbia Lions football team\nIn their fourth season under head coach Norries Wilson, the Lions compiled a 4\u20136 record but outscored opponents 225 to 220. Alex Gross, Taylor Joseph, Austin Knowlin, Lou Miller, M.A. Olawale and John Seiler were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202267-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbia Lions football team\nThe Lions' 3\u20134 conference record placed them in a tie with Princeton for fourth in the Ivy League standings. Columbia outscored Ivy opponents 151 to 146.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202267-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbia Lions football team\nColumbia played its homes games at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202268-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbus Crew season, Review\nThe 2009 Columbus Crew season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence. It started with a 1-1 draw at the Houston Dynamo on March 21, 2009, and ended on November 5, with a 3-2 playoff loss to Real Salt Lake. The Crew lost 4-2 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202268-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbus Crew season, Roster\nAs of June 20, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202268-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbus Crew season, Competitions, MLS, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202268-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Columbus Crew season, Competitions, MLS, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202269-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Comerica Bank Challenger\nThe 2009 Comerica Bank Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. This was the twenty-second edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aptos, United States between 13 and 19 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202269-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Comerica Bank Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202269-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Comerica Bank Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nCarsten Ball /  Chris Guccione def. Sanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202270-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Comerica Bank Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nNoam Okun and Amir Weintraub were the defending champions, but they didn't start this year. Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione won the tournament, after defeating Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202271-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Comerica Bank Challenger \u2013 Singles\nKevin Kim was the defending champion; however, he was eliminated by Takao Suzuki already in the first round. Chris Guccione defeated Nick Lindahl in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202272-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Commodore Cup National Series\nThe 2009 Commodore Cup National Series was the 16th running of the Commodore Cup. It began on 26 April 2009, at Wakefield Park and ended on 29 November 2009, at Sandown Raceway. The series was won by Brett Holdsworth, who won three of the six rounds. The other rounds were won by Nick Parker and Jason Domaschenz, who shared the victory at Winton with his brother Craig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202272-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Commodore Cup National Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers and teams competed in the 2009 Commodore Cup National Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202272-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Commodore Cup National Series, Calendar\nThe 2009 Commodore Cup National Series consisted of six rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions\nThe 2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions was a singles-only tennis tournament that was played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions and was part of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Bali International Convention Centre in Bali, Indonesia, from November 4 through November 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nThe 10 highest-ranked players who have captured at least one International tournament during the year and who are not participating in singles at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha will qualify for the event, along with two wildcards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nMarion BartoliCompleting her fourth straight season as a member of the world's Top 20, France's Bartoli won her fourth and fifth Tour singles titles in 2009 \u2013 at the inaugural Monterrey Open defeating Li Na 6\u20134, 6\u20133 and at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, where she defeated World No. 3 Venus Williams in the final 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20134. Bartoli also reached the final at the Brisbane International losing to Victoria Azarenka 6\u20133, 6\u20131. Her best Grand Slam performance came at the Australian Open, where she advanced to the last eight losing to Vera Zvonareva 6\u20133, 6\u20130, and achieved her second win over a reigning World No. 1, when she defeated Jelena Jankovi\u0107 in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nSamantha Stosur2009 was a career year for the Australian, she had her breakthrough at the Sony Ericsson Open, where she reached the Quarterfinals defeating then world no. 2 Dinara Safina en route. She then advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal at Roland Garros losing to eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6\u20134, 6\u20137(5), 6\u20133 defeating Elena Dementieva 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20131 en route. She then advanced to her first final of the year LA Women's Tennis Championships falling to Flavia Pennetta 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nShe then won her maiden Tour singles title at the HP Open defeating Caroline Wozniacki 6\u20130, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the Semifinals and Francesca Schiavone 7\u20135, 6\u20131 in the Final. She also broke into the Top 15, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 13. Stosur also had a strong year in doubles with partner Rennae Stubbs, reaching finals at Wimbledon, the Rogers Cup and the Aegon International (Eastbourne), earning the pair a spot at the Sony Ericsson Championships\u2014Doha 2009 as one of the four best doubles teams in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nYanina WickmayerA rising star from Belgium, Wickmayer had a bad start of the WTA season achieving a 1\u20135 record before claiming her first two titles at the Estoril Open defeating Ekaterina Makarova 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in the final and at the Generali Ladies Linz upsetting no. 1 Flavia Pennetta 7\u20136(5), 6\u20133 in the semifinal and defeating Petra Kvitov\u00e1 6\u20133, 6\u20134 both International events on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour calendar. She was also able to reach the finals of the Ordina Open losing to Tamarine Tanasugarn in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nShe also reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open (losing to Caroline Wozniacki), the Belgian's best effort at a Grand Slam to date. As a result, Wickmayer made her Top 20 debut the week of October 19, 2009, and the second youngest player ranked in the Top 20 (after Wozniacki).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nSabine LisickiGermany's Lisicki had a breakthrough season winning her maiden Tour title at the Family Circle Cup defeating three Top 10 players en route to the trophy (Venus Williams, Marion Bartoli and Caroline Wozniacki). After Charleston, Lisicki's ranking surged from No. 63 to No. 43, then a career high. She also reached another final at the BGL Luxembourg Open losing to Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nIn addition, Lisicki enjoyed two wins during Germany's triumph over China in Fed Cup and had her best performance at a Grand Slam by reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova and Caroline Wozniacki but falling to top seed Dinara Safina 6\u20137(5), 6\u20134, 6\u20131. Lisicki made her career Top 30 debut on July 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nAnabel Medina GarriguesFor the sixth successive year, Medina Garrigues captured a Tour title, winning the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem dominating Ekaterina Makarova 6\u20130, 6\u20131. Following the win in Fes, the 27\u2013year-old Spaniard reached a career-best ranking of No. 16 and is set for her third Top 30 finish in the last four years. Additionally, Medina Garrigues was a finalist at the Hansol Korea Open losing to comeback player Kimiko Date-Krumm 6\u20133 6\u20133, and matched her best Grand Slam performance by reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open. She also won her second career Grand Slam doubles title (and 13th Sony Ericsson WTA Tour doubles title overall), successfully defending her Roland Garros trophy with partner Virginia Ruano Pascual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nMar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchezSince turning professional in 1996, Spain's Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez is having the most successful season of her career, winning two International events this season \u2013 the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas defeating Gisela Dulko 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final and the Swedish Open upsetting Caroline Wozniacki 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nIn 2009 she enjoyed three wins against Top 10 ranked opponents, defeating then No. 10 Nadia Petrova (Rome), in addition to two victories over Caroline Wozniacki (ranked No. 9 at B\u00e5stad and No. 5 at Beijing), and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 31 on October 26, 2009. She was also involved in a controversial match against Serena Williams at the third round of the Roland Garros losing 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, when she was accused of cheating. Together with countrywoman Nuria Llagostera Vives, Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won six doubles titles in 2009, more than any other team on tour, and the pair also won the Sony Ericsson Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nShahar Pe'erIn September, Pe'er won back-to-back International events \u2013 the Guangzhou International Women's Open defeating Alberta Brianti 6\u20133, 6\u20134 and the Tashkent Open defeating Akgul Amanmuradova 6\u20133, 6\u20134 \u2013 her 4th and 5th Tour singles titles. As her first three career titles came in 2006, the win in Guangzhou broke a three-year title drought. Pe'er was also a three-time semifinalist this year \u2013 at Pattaya Women's Open, and Estoril Open and BGL Luxembourg Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nRepresenting Israel in Fed Cup in an away tie against the Ukraine, Pe'er won both her singles matches against Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko, each in three sets, although Israel lost the tie 3\u20132. Pe'er also teamed with Gisela Dulko to reach the doubles final at the BNP Paribas Open in March. She was also involved in a controversy in Dubai when she was denied a visa, which led to a penalty to the tournament and the withdrawal of then-defending Men's champion Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nMelinda CzinkHungary's Czink won the first Tour singles title of her career at the Bell Challenge defeating Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final in September, dropping only one set all week. As the result, she made her Top 40 ranking debut, rising from No. 52 to No. 37, having started the year ranked outside the Top 100. She also reached the last four at the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, but was forced to retire against eventual champion Medina Garrigues, and was a four-time quarterfinalist this season. Czink achieved her career-first Top 10 win this season, defeating world No. 10 Nadia Petrova at the Family Circle Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\n\u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vaySz\u00e1vay had a bad run at the beginning of the year losing her first four matches. She however produced her best results of 2009 on clay and collected her third career title at the GDF Suez Grand Prix defeating Patty Schnyder 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final in her native Hungary in July, becoming the first Hungarian to win the title. her luck turned things around after she decided to play qualifying at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nShe won two qualifying matches, then as a lucky loser advanced to the quarterfinals losing to eventual champion Venus Williams 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20131. After that, Sz\u00e1vay went on to reach the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open and the round of 16 at Roland Garros. She scored three wins against Top 10 players this year \u2013 Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka and Ana Ivanovic \u2013 bringing her career total to seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nAravane Reza\u00efTwenty-two-year-old Reza\u00ef began the year with a Semifinal appearance at the ASB Classic losing to eventual champion Elena Dementieva 6\u20132, 6\u20132. She then broke through for her first Tour singles title at the Internationaux de Strasbourg defeating Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 7\u20136(2), 6\u20131 in the final in May, and carried her strong form into the following week at Roland Garros, advancing to the fourth round losing to Dinara Safina 6\u20131, 6\u20130 and equaling her best result at a Grand Slam. The French player achieved her career-best win at the Rogers Cup in August when she eclipsed the world No. 1 Dinara Safina in three sets. During the 2009 season, Reza\u00ef's singles ranking rose to a career-high world No. 36.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nMagdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1Slovakian Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 collected her first career Tour title in 2009, winning on grass at the Aegon Classic defeating Li Na 6\u20130, 7\u20136(2), and reached two semifinals earlier in the season \u2013 at the Moorilla Hobart International and the Pattaya Women's Open. Additionally, she was a quarterfinalist at the Gastein Ladies and the Pilot Pen Tennis, and equaled her career-best Grand Slam showing at the US Open by reaching the third round losing to Venus Williams 6\u20132, 7\u20135. She broke into the Top 40 for the first time during the week of June 22, 2009. Prior to 2009, she reached the quarterfinals of a tournament only once, at the 2008 Tashkent Open. Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 also recorded six wins over Top 20 ranked players this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nKimiko Date-KrummSince turning pro in 1989, Date-Krumm won eight Tour singles titles and one doubles title. After playing in her second Olympics, Date-Krumm announced her retirement on September 24, 1996, yet came back to the Tour nearly 12 years later, announcing an unexpected comeback in April 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nAfter the return, Date-Krumm has won several ITF titles prior to capturing a trophy at the Hansol Korea Open upsetting top-seed Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 7\u20136(3), 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the Quarterfinals before defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the finals, thus becoming the second-oldest player in the Open Era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Qualifiers\nVera Dushevina Dushevina will also come to Bali to serve as an alternate. Dushevina won her maiden title at the \u0130stanbul Cup dominating Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 6\u20131, 6\u20130. She was also able to reach 5 quarterfinals in the entire year, in Pattaya Women's Open, Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open, Aegon International, Hansol Korea Open, Kremlin Cup. She claimed one top 10 win this year over Nadia Petrova at the Aegon International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nThe draw was made for the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, with round-robin matches taking place from Wednesday 4th until Friday 6 November. The 12 players are split into four groups of three, with one each of the top four seeds placed into Group A, B, C and D in order of ranking. The next four players based on ranking were then drawn and placed in each group, followed by the final four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nGroup A featured 2007 Wimbledon Finalist Marion Bartoli, Israeli Shahar Pe'er and rising star Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1. As their head-to-heads are broken down Pe'er has the bets overall record she is 6\u20131 against her group, with all win and loss coming against Bartoli, with their last meeting coming at this year at the second round of Indian Wells with Pe'er coming on top 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135, Bartoli's only win was in the 3rd round of 2007 Wimbledon where she won 6\u20133 6\u20132 and eventually reach the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nThe next match-up was Bartoli and Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1, where Bartoli led 2\u20131, with all meeting came in 2009; their last meeting was 2009's first round China Open with Bartoli winning 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1's win came at the year's second round New Haven winning 1\u20136, 7\u20136(5), 2\u20130 ret. This tournament featured the first meeting between Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 and Pe'er.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nGroup B featured Hungarian \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay and top doubles players Samantha Stosur and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. Between the three of them there has been only one encounter, dating back to 2007 at the first round of New Haven between Sz\u00e1vay and Stosur where Sz\u00e1vay won 6\u20132, 6\u20134. This will be Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez' first meeting against her group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nGroup C feature a mix of players as a hot rising star in Yanina Wickmayer, top doubles player Anabel Medina Garrigues and Returning Japanese Players Kimiko Date-Krumm. Wickmayer and Medina Garrigues, met only once in this year's Internationaux de Strasbourg with Medina Garrigues winning 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133. On the other hand, Date-Krumm and Medina Garrigues has met twice both this year With their first meeting coming to Medina Garrigues at the first round of Guangzhou International Women's Open 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 6\u20134. Their last meeting was in the final of Hansol Korea Open with Date-Krumm winning 6\u20133, 6\u20133. This will feature the first meeting between Date-Krumm and Wickmayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Groupings\nThe last group, Group D features French Aravane Reza\u00ef, Hungarian Melinda Czink and Wildcard recipient Sabine Lisicki. Czink and Lisicki has met twice both in 2008 and has split it 1\u20131 at the qualifying round of the Australian Open with Lisicki prevailing 6\u20137(4), 6\u20130, 6\u20132 and at the 1st round of the Bell Challenge with Czink prevailing 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20133. The meetings between Reza\u00ef and Czink also came in 2008 and both in qualifying rounds. The first at the Toray Pan Pacific Open with Reza\u00ef winning 6\u20134, 6\u20132 and at the China Open with Czink prevailing 6\u20132, 1\u20130 ret. Lisicki and Reza\u00ef has only met once at this year US Open first round with Lisicki winning 7\u20136(4), 6\u20137(4), 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Prize money and points\nThe total prize money for the 2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions is 600,000 United States dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Prize money and points\n1 A player get 70 points for competing and 90 for each RR win", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nThe first day of the 2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, started with Group D, with German Sabine Lisicki taking on Aravane Reza\u00ef. The first set was a complete domination by the German, breaking in the second and sixth games to win the first set. The German also only lost 3 points on serve and did not face a single break point. In the second set Reza\u00ef called for her coach and after that came back with more confidence, and started playing more aggressively in the second set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nHer forehand winners and unforced errors from Lisicki helped Reza\u00ef jump out to a 3\u20130 lead and hold on serve to level the match. A moment of controversy turned the third set. The players traded breaks in the first four games before Reza\u00ef broke again and held to lead 4\u20133. Lisicki looked distressed late in the set when she insisted a Reza\u00ef shot down the line was out. Hawk-Eye showed otherwise, and Reza\u00ef took a 5\u20133 lead and won the match 6\u20134 in the third. Reza\u00ef saved 7 of 8 break points on the deciding set. The German did not hide her unhappiness after the match. Reza\u00ef commented after the match that she found it strange that there was no doubles line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nThe next match on court was between Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm and a player 2 decades younger than her, Yanina Wickmayer. In the first set saw Date-Krumm breaking the serve of Belgian player, just give the break right back twice, that pushed it to a tie-break, which the Belgian won 7\u20135. The second set saw the veteran player run of to a 3\u20130 lead and in the fourth game had 4 break points just to have them all saved by Wickmayer. After the fourth game Wickmayer, Date-Krumm's unforced errors started filling up as Wickmayer rallied to 5 game streak to win the match 7\u20136(5), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nThe 3rd match saw top seed Marion Bartoli and Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 aiming to gain an early lead in their group. The match was well contested by the two ladies. The first set saw Bartoli break early and never looked back, even though being herself Bartoli broke right back to take the set 6\u20134. the second saw the same feature some good tennis, in the first game of the second set saw Bartoli take a 0\u201340 just to have Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 save all three and hold the game. The important break came to the Frenchwoman at the ninth game when she broke the Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 serve and served the match out 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in 98 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nThe last match of the day saw a fast-rising Australian second seed Samantha Stosur and \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay. The second seed make a good start, while Sz\u00e1vay obviously had a nervous beginning as Stosur won the first set 6\u20132 and did not face a single break point on her serve. The second set was more of a contest as Stosur struggled on her serve and saw Sz\u00e1vay taking full advantage and take the set 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 1\nIn the deciding set however, Stosur improved her serve as she served 6 of her 10 aces and did not face a single break point, and breaking Sz\u00e1vay twice, with a little help from the Hungarian as she serve half of her 12 double faults in the set Stosur took the set 6\u20131 and the match. The last three matches all took 98 minutes on court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe first match of the day began with the group A as Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 looking on winning her first match in the tournament and Shahar Pe'er playin her first match. Pe'er comfortably won the first 6\u20131 by serving 74% of first serve and converting her 2 break points in the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe second looked the same as the first in the beginning, leading Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 4\u20131 with two breaks of serve, however Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 change her style of play as she became more aggressive to win the next 4 games to lead 5\u20134, but it was too late as Pe'er stopped her run to hold for 5\u20135, and then edged the tiebreak 7\u20134. Shahar Pe'er match with Marion Bartoli will declare the group's representative in the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe match was followed by Frenchwoman Aravane Reza\u00ef and Melinda Czink of group D. Czink made a good start and led the first set 2\u20130, however Reza\u00ef returned the favor by taking the next two games, they then both held serve at 3\u20133. However at the 7th game, in Czink' serve she scored a double faults on break point that eventually led to Reza\u00ef claiming a 4\u20133 lead, and that was proven enough as she hold serve and broke again to win the set 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe second set looked like it was going to a decider as Reza\u00ef piled up the double faults and Czink improves her serve to take a 5\u20131 and a set point, however her error on the forehand saw that set point lost. from then on as fast as she took the 5\u20131 lead in vanished even faster as Reza\u00ef won the next 6 games and the set 7\u20135 and the match. Reza\u00ef will now be the first to advance to the semifinals with two wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe match between Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez and \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay followed. Sz\u00e1vay took the first set comfortably 6\u20134. However, in the second as the same as her match with Stosur, she cost herself the match as she committed 7 double faults to give the set to Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez 6\u20134. The deciding set was a one way affair as Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez blasted Sz\u00e1vay of the court winning the last set 6\u20130. This win meant that Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez match with Samantha Stosur will declare the group's representative in the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 2\nThe last match saw Kimiko Date-Krumm taking on Anabel Medina Garrigues. In the first set Krumm broke Garrigues serve early but failed to keep the advantage; however in the 9th game Date-Krumm broke the Medina Garrigues serve and eventually won the set 6\u20134. The second set then saw the two players trade breaks in the first four games, and then hold their respective serves for a 3\u20133. As Date-Krumm became more aggressive she broke the Medina Garrigues serve to lead 4\u20133 then broke again to win the set and match 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nThe first match was between two doubles players Samantha Stosur and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez who was competing for a semifinal berth. Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez had quite a battle as she struggled to beat Samantha Stosur 7\u20136, (7\u20134), 7\u20135 to win Group B. The first set went with serve, although Stosur had to save two break points at 2\u20132 and another at 3\u20133. In the second set, Stosur broke for 1\u20130 but dropped her own serve in the next game. Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez then broke again to lead 4\u20132, held for 5\u20132, and then held two match points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nBut Stosur wasn\u2019t going down without a fight. She hit a couple of forehand winners to escape that crisis, and then pulled the set back to 5\u20135 to leave her opponent worried about going to a third set. That didn\u2019t happen though, as Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez broke again for the match with a smash. Stosur served a 208\u00a0km/h, which is the fastest serve on the women's game, but is still to be reviewed. The second set also saw Stosur serve 5 double faults in 2nd set, which was costly for the Australian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nThe second match featured Sabine Lisicki and Melinda Czink who was fighting only for points as Reza\u00ef has already advance in their Group. The first set looked good for the 4th seed German as she won the set 6\u20132 serving 3 aces, However, in the second set even though serving 4 aces, she also served 4 doubles and only serve 44% of 1st serve, she eventually lost the set at a tie-break 7\u20131. The third set saw Lisicki came back and dominate as she serve an impressive 8 aces in the set alone and convert 2 of 7 break opportunities to win the set 6\u20134 and then the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nThe third match saw Marion Bartoli trying to advance with a second victory over Shahar Pe'er in 8 meeting. The first set Marion Bartoli cruising through the first set breaking the Pe'er serve twice in the first set and did not face a single break point. The second set saw the same feature as Bartoli raced through a 3\u20130 lead breaking Pe'er in the second game, from then on the two players held there serve for four consecutive games up until the last game, where Bartoli broke for the match at 0\u201340. This win is only Bartoli's second win against the Israeli player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nThe last match, which featured Wickmayer's replacement Vera Dushevina and Anabel Medina Garrigues, also didn't have an effect in the semifinals as Date-Krumm advanced to the semifinals by virtue of Wickmayer's withdrawal and her win over Medina Garrigues. At first it looked like Medina Garrigues was going to run away with the match as she broke the Dushevina serve in the first game and then held off two break points to secure a 2\u20130 lead. Then in the 5th game Medina Garrigues broke at her second chance to lead 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Round robin, Day 3\nMedina Garrigues then served out the set after cancelling another 3 break points to win the set 6\u20132. However the second set was a total reversal as Dushevina broke the Medina Garrigues serve twice at the 4th and 6th game, and improved her 1st serve percentage in virtue did not face a single break point to win the set 6\u20131. The deciding set was a lot more competitive than the other two as they both held serve at the first 6 games up until the 7th game, when Dushevina broke to lead 4\u20133. When it was 5\u20134, Dushevina was serving for the match but got broken by Medina Garrigues. But it didn't rattle Dushevina as she won the next two games to win the match at her 2nd match point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 4\nThe first Semifinal match saw Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli and veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm. The first set was a total domination by the Frenchwoman as she broke all of the Japanese service game with her own serve getting broken once as she rallied to win the first set 6\u20131. The second set was the same as Bartoli raced off to a 5\u20130 lead, however Krumm became more aggressive winning the next three games, to push it to 5\u20133; however she lost to Bartoli 6\u20133 in the second set. Krumm committed 41 unforced errors to Bartoli's 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 4\nThe second match saw another French player in Aravane Reza\u00ef taking on Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. The first set saw Reza\u00ef dominating the Spanish player as she broke Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez twice in the first and fifth game, and lost only four points on serve and did not face a single break point. The second set was no different as Reza\u00ef threatened the Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez serve early to lead 0\u201340 but Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez held her serve. Reza\u00ef then won the next three games even, holding at love at the second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 4\nThe two then exchanged service holds up until the last game at 5\u20133. As Reza\u00ef took a \u201340 lead and 3 match points, which she eventually converted to win the match 6\u20133. The match saw Reza\u00ef unbothered by the left-handed serve as she fired out return winners one after another. Reza\u00ef also significantly made more winners 24 to 8 and less unforced errors 14 to 21. Reza\u00ef lost only seven points on serve in the entire match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 5\nThe finals saw an all-French final since February 2006, when Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo won over Mary Pierce. This was between top seed Marion Bartoli who claimed victories over Shahar Pe'er and Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 in her Round Robin matches and Kimiko Date-Krumm in semifinals, and hasn't drop a set yet in the tournament. She is facing a hot rising player in Aravane Reza\u00ef who had wins over Sabine Lisicki and Melinda Czink in the Round Robin and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez in Semifinals, Reza\u00ef on the other hand hasn't lost a set since the first set lost against Lisicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 5\nWith a win in the match Bartoli will enter the top 10. Bartoli is leading their head-to-head 2\u20130 with their last meeting coming from the years Toray Pan Pacific Open 6\u20134, 6\u20132. The first 3 games saw both players holding their serve comfortably. However, after that Reza\u00ef struggled with her serve as she needed as 1st serve every time as Bartoli was hitting return winners from the Reza\u00ef second serve. Thee next Three game went to Bartoli to lead 4\u20132 in the set. Then Reza\u00ef and Bartoli both held comfortably to push it 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0036-0002", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 5\nAt the 5\u20133 in the Reza\u00ef serve she faced a set point after pushing a backhand down the line out but eventually led for a 5\u20134 set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202273-0036-0003", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Finals, Day 5\nThe next two game saw Reza\u00ef resurging to claim the next two games and push it to 15\u201340 in the Bartoli serve, from their Bartoli had a left leg issue which was checked by the medic as she Bartoli received a Medical timeout, however Bartoli wasn't able to continue as she doubled faulted due to her left leg injury in 15\u201340 to give the set to Reza\u00ef, she was then seen limping and retiring from the match. This is Reza\u00ef's second title of the year and her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202274-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions \u2013 Singles\nAravane Reza\u00ef won in the final, after Marion Bartoli retired due to a leg injury when trailing 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202274-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202274-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202274-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group C\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202274-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group D\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the 21st Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, between 27 and 29 November 2009, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Patrick Manning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe host country of the 2011 meeting was also discussed. It had been slated to be hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the renewal of the Sri Lankan civil war, and related allegations of human rights abuses, caused some governments, including those of United Kingdom and Canada, to call for a reassessment. This led to the CHOGM being given to Perth, Australia, instead. Sri Lanka was reassigned the CHOGM for CHOGM 2013, and Mauritius was pencilled in as the host of the 2015 CHOGM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was reconstituted and strengthened. The Heads of Government agreed to expand the offences that it would be able to investigate to all breaches of the Harare Declaration, rather than just the overthrow of democratic governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Global warming\nThe summit was dominated by the issue of global warming, as it was held just before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The countries agreed a \u00a36bn-a-year climate change fund to promote low-carbon emission development and adaptation in developing countries, to be funded by developed Commonwealth members and France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Global warming\nThe 2009 summit was attended by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was attempting to rally support in the build-up to the Copenhagen summit. It was seen as an indication of reconciliation between France and the Commonwealth, particularly over the issue of Rwanda's prospective membership of the Commonwealth. The meeting was also attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish Prime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Rwanda\nThe 2009 CHOGM was the first opportunity for countries to accede to the Commonwealth after the 2007 CHOGM accepted the report by the Committee on Commonwealth Membership, which established the current membership criteria. After the 2007 CHOGM, the Commonwealth sent a team to Rwanda to examine its eligibility, and recommended it be discussed at the 2009 meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Rwanda\nRwanda was admitted despite the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) finding that \"the state of governance and human rights in Rwanda does not satisfy Commonwealth standards\u201d, and that it \u201cdoes not therefore qualify for admission\". CHRI also commented that: \"It does not make sense to admit a state that already does not satisfy Commonwealth standards. This would tarnish the reputation of the Commonwealth and confirm the opinion of many people and civic organisations that the leaders of its governments do not really care for democracy and human rights, and that its periodic, solemn declarations are merely hot air.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Rwanda\nIn Port of Spain, the Heads of Government agreed to accept Rwanda as a member, making it the 54th member, and the second without a direct constitutional tie to an existing member. Several other countries were expected to submit official applications to join, including Algeria, Madagascar, Sudan, and Yemen, but they were not considered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202275-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Rwanda\nCHRI, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House have all found that the protection of democracy and human rights in Rwanda have declined since the country joined the Commonwealth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202276-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup\nThe 2009 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the seventeenth edition of the competition between the champions of former republics of Soviet Union. It was won by Sheriff Tiraspol for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202277-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in the Comoros on 17 May 2009. The constitutional amendments were approved with 93.9% in favour, with a turnout of 51.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202277-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian constitutional referendum, Background\nPresident Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi proposed extending his term for two years in order to hold all elections simultaneously in 2011, as well as to reform the constitutional structure of the Comoros to save money. However, opposition parties and those from other islands were opposed to this, seeing it as a ploy to extend his term of office at the expense of the other two islands. Other constitutional amendments would make Islam the state religion and downgrade the status of the presidents of the constituent islands to governors, as well as allowing the president to dissolve the Assembly of the Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202277-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian constitutional referendum, Background\nThe referendum was originally scheduled for 22 March 2009, but was postponed due to disagreements over the content.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202278-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Comoros on 6 December 2009, with a second round on 20 December. The elections were originally scheduled for July 2009, but were postponed until after a constitutional referendum was held in May 2009. They were then scheduled to take place on 29 November, but were delayed again. The result was a victory for the Baobab Movement, a coalition supporting President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202278-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian legislative election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held using the two-round system with 24 single-member constituencies. The remaining nine seats in the Assembly of the Union were filled by appointees from the assemblies of the autonomous islands of the Comoros, Grande Comore, Moh\u00e9li and Anjouan, with each island selecting three members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202278-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Comorian legislative election, Campaign\nMost candidates supporting President Sambi campaigned as the Baobab coalition, named after their identifying symbol, the Baobab tree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary\nThe presidential primaries of the Concertaci\u00f3n de Partidos por la Democracia of 2009 were the method of election of the presidential candidate of such a Chilean coalition for the 2009 presidential election. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile (1994-2000), a member of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and candidate for his party, the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) and the Party for Democracy (PPD), and Jos\u00e9 Antonio G\u00f3mez, a militant and candidate of the Radical Social Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary\nAfter having established different regional dates, on the condition that the candidate was immediately proclaimed winner of the contestant by twenty percentage points or more, only the first date, on April 5, 2009, was made in the Region of O'Higgins and in the Maule Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary\nEduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, who was proclaimed candidate of the Concertaci\u00f3n that same night, was elected by 64.9% of the votes, becoming in this way the only militant of the conglomerate that has won two primaries, and therefore, the only one who has been a presidential candidate in two elections, having defeated Ricardo Lagos with a similar percentage in the 1993 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary\nFrei would obtain 29.6% in the presidential election, happening to the balotaje of the 17 of January 2010 together with Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era, candidate of the Coalition for the Change. However, Pi\u00f1era was elected in the second round with 51.61% of the preferences, compared to 48.39% obtained by the Concertaci\u00f3n candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Background\nAlready since the beginning of the government of Michelle Bachelet, the first candidates of the ruling party for the 2009 elections were outlined, including the senator and former presidential candidate in 2005, Soledad Alvear, OAS Secretary General Jos\u00e9 Miguel Insulza and former President Ricardo Lagos. Despite leaving with advantage, over time Alvear lost ground in polls, leaving Lagos as the best positioned to face Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era, candidate of the Alliance for Chile, which would later be called Coalition for Change. However, some leaders raised the idea that if the last two presidents had been the so-called \"Progressive wing\" of the Concertaci\u00f3n (PS-PPD), the coalition candidate in the 2009 election should be a Christian Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Background\nAfter the municipal elections, where the Alliance won the Concertaci\u00f3n for the first time in an election since the return of democracy, Soledad Alvear resigned as President of the Christian Democrats and his pre-presidential candidacy. This situation catapulted the pre-candidate of the senator and former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle as the candidate of the PDC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Background\nRicardo Lagos during the month of October announced that he would not run for the presidency, leaving Jose Miguel Insulza as the main letter of the \"progressive wing\", but his lack of decision as to whether he would accept the nomination and resign his position in Washington DC, It implied to lose the support of the PPD and even of part of its party, the PS. The polls showed a clear advantage of Frei over Insulza and he would finally give up the possibility of participating in a presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Background\nThe Radical Social Democratic Party (PRSD), meanwhile, announced that for the first time it would participate with a pre-candidate in the Concertaci\u00f3n primaries process, raising the nomination of its president and senator for the Antofagasta Region, Jos\u00e9 Antonio G\u00f3mez. 2008 had given a glimpse of a possible candidate, only with the fall of Insulza became a real alternative against Frei, which had the support of the three major parties of the Concertaci\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Format\nUnlike the previous processes, the Concertaci\u00f3n parties agreed to carry out \"staggered\" primary elections, that is, divided into different dates for each group of regions, in a manner similar to the system used by United States parties. This would have as main advantages, that the candidates could cross the regions in a more detailed way, and the savings to carry out campaign at national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Format\nIt was established that in the event that on one of the dates any of the candidates exceeded the other by 20% or more, the following dates would not be made and at that moment would be proclaimed candidate of the Concertaci\u00f3n who had complied with the requirement. The dates originally scheduled were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Format\nThe \"census\" or electoral census used for the primaries was that of the Electoral Service, from which all the people militants in political parties outside the Concertaci\u00f3n were excepted. Those who were not registered in a party were also entitled to vote. The list established for the first scheduled date included a total of 924,465 people, distributed between the O'Higgins Region (421,662) and the Maule Region (502,803)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nFollowing the registration of the candidates on January 26, 2009, the first step in the primaries was the election of April 5 in the regions of O'Higgins and Maule. In them, Frei had to secure a difference of more than 20% with his adversary, or else he would confront Gomez in the Great North, who could have greater support in that area because he was a senator from the Antofagasta Region (elected In the parliamentary elections of 2005, in which it defeated the sister of Frei, Carmen).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nDespite this, the general panorama gave Frei a wide advantage, since in both regions, of the total communes (63, 33 in O'Higgins and 30 in Maule), 20 were led by mayors of the PDC-PPD-PS block, While only 2 mayors were from the PRSD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nIn the legislative sphere, there were 3 senators of the Concertaci\u00f3n, all socialist militants (Juan Pablo Letelier, Jaime Gazmuri and Jaime Naranjo), and of the 7 deputies of the Concertaci\u00f3n, three were Christian Democrats (Juan Carlos Latorre, Roberto Le\u00f3n and Pablo Lorenzini ), two of the PPD (Jorge Tarud and Guillermo Ceroni) and one of the PS (Sergio Aguil\u00f3), compared to the only one belonging to the radicals (Alejandro Sule).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nThe campaign began at different times, as G\u00f3mez began touring the communes of O'Higgins and Maule in February 2009, when Frei toured Spain, where he met with King Juan Carlos I, the minister Pedro Solbes, and the Popular Party president, Mariano Rajoy. Frei formally began his campaign on March in Talca, accompanied by the presidents of the parties that backed him, Juan Carlos Latorre (PDC), Pepe Auth (PPD) and Camilo Escalona (PS). Frei's campaign closing ceremony, held in Rancagua on April 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nOn 30 March, both candidates participated in a debate held at the Extension Center of the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Maule in Talca. The transmission of the event, which was conducted by the public broadcaster Televisi\u00f3n Nacional de Chile, was restricted to the regions corresponding to the First primary (O'Higgins and Maule). He was led by Montserrat \u00c1lvarez, and the questions were addressed to journalists Rodrigo Siderakis (for TVN Red O'Higgins) and Esteban S\u00e1ez (for TVN Red Maule).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nSome of the issues addressed were the economic crisis, collusion of pharmacies, and political corruption, and although in general there was not much confrontation between the candidates, but the criticisms were concentrated in the Alliance for Chile, there were points of discordance, as in the decriminalization of induced abortion, and in the use of energy sources, whose emblematic case was the Hidroays\u00e9n project. A post-debate survey, conducted by El Mercurio, gave Frei a winner with 49% of preferences, compared to 23.9% G\u00f3mez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Campaign\nThe first days of April were closed the campaigns. Jos\u00e9 Antonio G\u00f3mez finished his tour for the first date of the primaries in the medialuna of the city of Santa Cruz, Region of O'Higgins, accompanied by the musical group Los Hermanos Campos. Eduardo Frei, meanwhile, held an event in Talca on April 2 with the participation of Inti-Illimani, while the next day he closed his campaign in a gymnasium in Rancagua, together with the presidents of the PS and the PDC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Reactions\nSince Jos\u00e9 Antonio G\u00f3mez announced his candidacy for the presidency of Chile, he had to overcome the pressures of some leaders of the three major parties of the Concertaci\u00f3n (DC, PPD, PS) that sought to withdraw before the primary, as he did voluntarily Soledad Alvear in the same process of 2005. One of them was the helmsman of the Socialist Party, Camilo Escalona,  who during Frei's proclamation on April 5, 2009 in Rancagua, rebuked and insulted G\u00f3mez, accusing him of wanting to divide the Officialdom with his candidacy. The altercation was spread by all media, and generated criticism to Escalona, who must have apologized for what happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Reactions\nThe process was widely criticized by parties that do not belong to the Concertaci\u00f3n, even being described as a \"failure.\" Most of the criticisms pointed to the fact that after the election was closed after the first date, the rest of the regions were prevented to give their opinion, contrary to what happened in the two previous primaries (1993 and 1999), in which voting was simultaneous throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Reactions\nThis is in addition to the low participation that was in contrast to the previous primaries; 39 in the 2009 primary election voted (in the Maule and O'Higgins regions) 36.34% of those who participated in the same process of 1999 (where Ricardo Lagos and Andr\u00e9s Zald\u00edvar clashed), reflecting a deterioration Of the Concertaci\u00f3n, and in general, of the entire political spectrum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Candidacy of Enr\u00edquez-Ominami\nSocialist deputy Marco Enr\u00edquez-Ominami initiated a presidential candidacy in January 2009, which was not supported by his party, since he had already committed his support to Eduardo Frei. After having closed the inscriptions to the Concertaci\u00f3n primaries Enr\u00edquez-Ominami confirmed on January 26, without being included as a candidate, by means of a video on the YouTube website that would nominate the Presidency of Chile as independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202279-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Concertaci\u00f3n presidential primary, Candidacy of Enr\u00edquez-Ominami\nIn the following months, the candidacy of Enr\u00edquez-Ominami grew considerably in the surveys, and it added support of diverse sectors. In this context, the deputy proposed the idea of a new primary - which he called \"refoundational\" - to face him with Frei, but this was discarded by the Christian Democrat. According to a survey by the Universidad del Desarrollo and La Segunda newspaper, published on May 15, 48% of Concertaci\u00f3n voters supported the idea of a new primary, and if it had been done, Enr\u00edquez-Ominami would have won. After his proposal for new elections was denied Marco Enr\u00edquez-Ominami resigned from the Socialist Party on June 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202280-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n\nThe 2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain between 17 and 23 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202280-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 96], "content_span": [97, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202280-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n, Champions, Doubles\nJonathan Eysseric /  Romain Jouan def. Pedro Clar-Rossell\u00f3 /  Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas, 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202281-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n \u2013 Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez and Gabriel Trujillo-Soler were the defending champions, but L\u00f3pez chose to not participate this year. Trujillo-Soler competed with Guillermo Olaso, but they were eliminated already in the first round. Jonathan Eysseric and Romain Jouan won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Pedro Clar-Rossell\u00f3 and Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202282-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 San Sebasti\u00e1n \u2013 Singles\nPablo And\u00fajar tried to defend his 2008 title; however, he was eliminated by Pedro Clar-Rossell\u00f3 in the quarterfinal. Thiemo de Bakker defeated Filip Krajinovi\u0107 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202283-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo\nThe 2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Vigo, Spain between 10 and 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202283-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202283-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo, Champions, Doubles\nThiemo de Bakker /  Raemon Sluiter def. Pedro Clar-Rossell\u00f3 /  Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas, 7\u20135, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202284-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo \u2013 Doubles\nAlessandro Motti and Marco Crugnola were the defending champions, but they did not start in this tournament. Thiemo de Bakker and Raemon Sluiter defeated Pedro Clar-Rossell\u00f3 and Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202285-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Concurso Internacional de Tenis \u2013 Vigo \u2013 Singles\nPablo And\u00fajar tried to defend his 2008 title, but he was eliminated by Thiemo de Bakker in the semifinal. de Bakker won in the final 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, against Thierry Ascione.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202286-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference Premier play-off Final\nThe 2009 Conference Premier play-off Final, known as the 2009 Blue Square Premier play-off Final for sponsorship purposes, was a football match between Cambridge United and Torquay United on 17 May 2009 at Wembley Stadium in London. It was the seventh Conference Premier play-off Final and the third to be played at Wembley Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202286-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference Premier play-off Final\nTorquay won the match 2\u20130 to secure promotion to League Two, thus returning to The Football League after a two-year absence. Following their victory, Torquay United announced an open-top bus parade which took place on Thursday 21 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202287-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Conference USA Baseball Tournament was the 2009 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from May 20\u2013May 24, 2009. Rice won their third C-USA tournament, and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams, with two double-elimination brackets, and a single-game final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202287-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Baseball Tournament, Finish order\n\u2020 - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. # - Received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202288-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Football Championship Game\nThe 2009 Conference USA Football Championship Game was played on December 5, 2009 between the East Carolina Pirates, the champion of Conference USA's East Division, and the West Division champion Houston Cougars at Dowdy\u2013Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina. The game kicked off at 12:00 pm EST and was televised by ESPN. The Pirates were looking to be the first team in C-USA history to win back to back conference championships, while the Cougars led by Case Keenum looked to win their 2nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202288-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Football Championship Game, Game summary\nUnder conference rules, the game is held at the home field of the team with the best record in conference play; since East Carolina finished C-USA play at 7\u20131, better than Houston's 6\u20132, the game was held at the Pirates' home field, Dowdy\u2013Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202289-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 11\u201314, 2009 at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202290-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2009 Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament was the fifteenth edition of the Conference USA Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Conference USA champion and guaranteed representative into the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament was hosted by the University of Tulsa and the games were played at the Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202291-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Conference USA football season\nThe 2009 Conference USA football season was the 15th season of the conference's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202292-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Connacht Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Connacht Senior Football Championship was that year's installment of the annual Connacht Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Connacht GAA. It was won by Mayo who defeated Galway in the final. The final was considered a weak affair by commentators. The winning Mayo team received the J. J. Nestor Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team\nThe 2009 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Big East Conference. The team was coached by Randy Edsall and played its home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. The team finished with a record of 8\u20135, 3\u20134 in Big East play and won the PapaJohns.com Bowl 20\u20137 against South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nConnecticut lost its offensive coordinator of the previous three years when Rob Ambrose left the school to become the head coach at Towson. He will be replaced by Joe Moorhead, who was hired from Akron, where he held the same position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Key losses\nFour players on the 2008 Connecticut Huskies football team were selected in the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25, 2009. Donald Brown was selected at No. 27 by the Indianapolis Colts, Darius Butler was selected by the New England Patriots at No. 41, Will Beatty and Cody Brown were selected late in the 2nd round at No. 60 (Will Beatty, New York Giants) and No. 63 (Cody Brown, Arizona Cardinals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Key losses\nAfter the Draft, four other Huskies signed free agent contracts with NFL Teams. Those Huskies include: Julius Williams (Jacksonville Jaguars), Dahna Deleston (Chicago Bears), Tyler Lorenzen (Jacksonville Jaguars), and Keith Gray (Carolina Panthers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Key losses\nOn May 2, 2009, Senior Martin B\u00e9dard was taken in the second round of the CFL Canadian Football League Draft by the Montreal Alouettes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nOn February 4, 2009, Randy Edsall announced that 21 student-athletes had signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Connecticut. Three; Keensen Chambers, Jesse Joseph and Trevardo Williams; entered school in January to participate in spring practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Spring practice\nConnecticut kicked off spring practice with the first of fifteen practices on March 17, 2009. Among the priorities set by the coaching staff are to have the team learn the newly installed up-tempo offensive game plan, determine how the running backs would replace Donald Brown, and take steps in determining who would replace Tyler Lorenzen as the starting quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Spring practice\nThe annual Blue-White Spring Game, which concludes spring practice, was held on April 18, 2009 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, CT. The game featured a modified scoring system, which would pit the offense directly against the defense. The offense prevailed, 83\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Preseason, Awards watchlists\nThe players listed below have been named to the following preseason award watch lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Roster\nClasses Key:Fr \u2013 Freshman; first year player. So \u2013 Sophomore; second year player. Jr \u2013 Junior; third year player. Sr \u2013 Senior; fourth year player. Bold \u2013 Team captain. RS \u2013 Previously used a redshirt. \u2013 Redshirt during 2009 season. \u2013 Injured for entire or majority of season and is eligible for a medical redshirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nThe Huskies were led by 157 yards rushing from Jordan Todman, as they defeated the Ohio Bobcats 23\u201316 in front of a record crowd at Peden Stadium. They were able to overcome four turnovers and a missed field goal with a solid running game and stout defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nUConn opened the scoring with a four-yard touchdown pass from Zach Frazer to fullback Anthony Davis in the first quarter. The score culminated a 91-yard drive which began following an Ohio turnover. The Bobcats found the scoreboard for the first time in the second quarter when quarterback Boo Jackson found Taylor Price for a 43-yard touchdown. The Huskies, however, answered with a 35-yard touchdown pass from Frazer to Brad Kanuch on the subsequent drive. Lindsey Witten sacked new Ohio quarterback, Theo Scott in the endzone for a safety to provide the only scoring in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nA four-yard touchdown run from Todman increased the Huskies lead to 23\u20137. The Bobcats attempted to make a fourth quarter comeback with a touchdown pass from Scott to Riley Dunlop, and a 50-yard field goal from Matt Weller. However, the comeback was thwarted when the Huskies recovered an onside kick with under three minutes in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nAndre Dixon joined Todman by also rushing for 100 yards. It was the first time that two Huskies rushed for 100 yards in the same game since November 11, 2006, in a double overtime win against Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nAfter the victory, game balls were awarded to Dixon (offense), Witten (defense) and Robbie Frey (special teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nFor his performance, Lindsey Witten was awarded the Big East Defensive Player of the Week. Jordan Todman was named to the weekly honor roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nThe game was the second and final in a two-game series between the two schools. The first game of the series was played on September 21, 2002 at Memorial Stadium in Storrs, Connecticut. Connecticut is 2\u20130 all time against Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nAided by a late holding penalty which resulted in a safety, the North Carolina Tar Heels escaped their first visit to Rentschler Field with a narrow 12\u201310 victory. Both teams were powered by stout defenses and provided rough going for both offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nThe Huskies reached the scoreboard first when David Teggart kicked a 47-yard field goal at the end of the first half. Following Twyon Martin's first career interception, the Huskies scored the game's first touchdown on a four-yard run by Jordan Todman. However, North Carolina quickly responded in the fourth quarter with a 22-yard field goal, and, after a Huskies punt, followed with a two-yard touchdown pass from T. J. Yates to Zack Pianalto, which tied the game at 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nFacing a third and long from their own eight-yard line, the Huskies' Dan Ryan was called for a holding penalty in the end zone, resulting in a safety, and a two-point Tar Heel lead. UConn's Alex Molina recovered the ensuing on-side kick, but the Huskies were unable to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nThe Huskies' Lindsey Witten recorded four sacks, bringing his season total to seven through two games and placing him first in the FBS in that category. He was named to the Big East weekly honor roll for his performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nInjuries played a large role in the game for the Huskies. They played without starting linebacker, Scott Lutrus, who was out with a shoulder injury. During the game, starting quarterback, Zach Frazer, and starting tight end, Ryan Griffin were both lost to injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nThe game was the second and final in a two-game series between the two schools. The first game of the series was played on October 4, 2008 at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Connecticut is 0\u20133 all time against North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nThe Huskies overcame multiple injuries to defeat the Baylor Bears 30\u201322. They were led by a strong rushing game, led by the tandem of Andre Dixon and Jordan Todman, and a stout defense. Dixon scored his first touchdown since 2007, and had his first multi touchdown game as he rushed for 149 yards and 3 touchdowns. The UConn defense was able to force three Bear turnovers, and held vaunted Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin in check for most of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nFor the second time in three games in 2009, the Huskies had two rushers eclipse the 100-yard mark, as Todman gained 103 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nUConn played the game without starting quarterback Zach Frazer, tight end Ryan Griffin and linebacker, Scott Lutrus missed his second consecutive game with a shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nAfter the victory, game balls were awarded to Dixon, Lawrence Wilson, Desi Cullen and Jasper Howard. Dixon was also named to the Big East's weekly honor roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nThe game was the second and final in a two-game series between the two schools. The first game of the series was played on September 19, 2008 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. Connecticut is 2\u20130 all time against Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rhode Island\nThe Huskies overcame seven fumbles to beat Rhode Island 52\u201310 before a crowd of 38,620 at Rentschler Field. The game was the 1000th played in Connecticut football history, which dates back to 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rhode Island\nThree Huskies set career highs in the game \u2013 Redshirt sophomore quarterback Cody Endres (Washington, Pa.) set career-highs in completions and passing yards and threw the first two touchdowns of his career. Sophomore wide receiver Michael Smith (Houston, Texas), who set career standards with eight catches and 82 receiving yards. Sophomore running back Jordan Todman, who rushed for 70 yards on 15 carries and registered a career-best three rushing touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rhode Island\nFor his performance, Lawrence Wilson was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. The Huskies improved to 3\u20131 on the season, while the Rams dropped to 1\u20132 with the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nUConn took a 21\u20136 lead with 3:56 to go in the third quarter after Andre Dixon scored on a two-yard run that capped an eight-play, 61-yard drive. The Panthers then came right back to make it 21\u201313 as they had an eight-play 74-yard TD drive in the final moments of third quarter. Stull completed a 26-yard TD pass to Jonathan Baldwin for the score. Pittsburgh tied the game at 21\u201321 with 7:35 to go on a 27-yard TD pass by Stull to Dorin Dickerson. In the final seconds of the game, University of Pittsburgh kicker Dan Hutchins knocked in an 18-yard field goal to give the Panthers the 24\u201321 comeback lead and the victory in front of 44,893 at Heinz Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nDespite the loss, and largely due to his two interceptions and one touchdown, Robert Vaughn was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week. Connecticut dropped to 3\u20133 all time against Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nIn the homecoming game the Huskies scored in every quarter to win the game 38\u201325. Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season. Another Husky who had a great game was junior cornerback Jasper Howard, who had 11 tackles and recovered a fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nIt would prove to be Howard's last game. He was stabbed to death at an official function in UConn's Student Union just after 12:30\u00a0am the next morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nWith a season high 16 tackles, Lawrence Wilson was named Big East Defensive Player of the Week, the second consecutive recognition for a Husky. Andre Dixon was named to the weekly honor roll. Connecticut improved to 3\u20133 all-time against Louisville and 3\u20132 in Big East Conference contests against the Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe game had an emotional start as there was a moment of silence for Connecticut junior cornerback Jasper Howard. Following the moment of silence both teams had a pregame handshake at midfield. The Huskies had a sticker of Jasper's initials put on each of their helmets to honor him. West Virginia got off to a quick 7\u20130 lead as Tavon Austin returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown in the fastest score against the Huskies in the FBS era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nUConn then scored the next 10 points of the game as Jordan Todman scored his seventh TD of the season on a five-yard run that wrapped up a nine-play, 67-yard drive with 5:46 left in the first quarter. UConn took a 17\u201314 lead into halftime. A 56-yard touchdown run by Noel Devine with 2:10 remaining in the game gave West Virginia a 28\u201324 lead and the victory over the University of Connecticut football team before a crowd of 58,106 at Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rutgers\nJust like in the previous game against West Virginia, UConn had the lead in the fourth quarter but with 22 seconds left in the game Tim Brown scored on an 81-yard pass from Tom Savage to give Rutgers a 28\u201324 victory. The loss drops the Huskies to 4\u20134 on the season, 1\u20133 in conference play. The Scarlet Knights improve to 6\u20132, 1\u20132 in league action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Rutgers\nRobbie Frey was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nBoth teams used their backup quarterbacks due to injuries to the starting quarterbacks. Zach Frazer for the Huskies and Zach Collaros for the Bearcats. The two teams traded touchdowns on their opening possessions as the Bearcats drove down the field 80 yards on eight plays to score on a one-yard run by Isaiah Pead less than three minutes into the game. The Huskies came right back and moved the ball 79 yards in 11 plays as Todman had his first score of the night on a six-yard run to tie the game at 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nCincinnati scored the next 10 points on a 41-yard field goal by Jacob Roberts with 4:57 to go in the first quarter and a four-yard TD run by Collaros to complete a 10-play, 87-yard drive 48 second into the second quarter. Cincy took a 30\u201310 score into the half. UConn scored two touchdowns coming out of the half to cut the Cincinnati lead down to eight. On a fourth and one with a little more than five minutes remaining in the game, Todman recorded his career best fourth touchdown run of the game to pull the Huskies within two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0038-0002", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nFrazer dropped back to pass on the two-point conversion but was knocked down by Curtis Young as Cincy kept their lead heading into the final minutes of the fourth quarter. It looked like the Huskies had stopped Cincinnati on their final drive of the game when junior Lawrence Wilson (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) put pressure on the running game to force a fourth down. But the Bearcats went for it and Isaiah Pead broke free from the UConn defense to run in a 14-yard score putting Cincy back up by nine with just 1:52 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0038-0003", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nEasley brought the Huskies within three points with 13 seconds remaining in the game scoring his first touchdown of the night on a nine-yard pass from Frazer. Teggart tacked on the extra point to bring the Huskies within two. UConn's on side kick attempt was fielded by Charley Howard to seal the Cincinnati victory. UConn fell to 4\u20135 on the season and 1\u20134 in the BIG EAST while the fifth-ranked Bearcats improved to 9\u20130 and 5\u20130 in the BIG EAST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nWith 162 rushing yards and four touchdowns, Jordan Todman was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. The Huskies dropped to 1\u20135 against the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nClausen got the Irish on the board first with an eight-yard touchdown pass to Tate with 10:59 to play in the opening quarter. The score would remain 7\u20130 until the 14:32 mark of the second quarter, when Clausen capped an 11-play, 80-yard scoring drive with a one-yard scoring plunge to put Notre Dame on top, 14\u20130. The Huskies cut the deficit to 14\u20137 on their next possession, when Todman broke free for a 43-yard touchdown run. UConn made it a 14\u201310 game late in the second quarter on a 39-yard field goal by Dave Teggart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nThe Irish pushed their lead back to seven after David Ruffer kicked a 20-yard field goal at the 9:29 mark of the third quarter. But Todman returned the ensuing kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown to make it a 17\u201317 game. After the teams traded field goals in the fourth quarter, the UConn defense recovered a fumble at the Notre Dame 41 with 49 seconds to play. Teggart had a chance to give UConn the victory at the end of regulation, but his 37-yard field goal sailed wide left as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0040-0002", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nEach team scored a touchdown in the first overtime and at the end of the OT the teams were tied and went to a second OT. The Irish were not able to move the chains to open the second overtime, and they had to settle for a Ruffer field goal. Andre Dixon scored on a four-yard touchdown run in the second overtime, as the Connecticut Huskies finally pulled out a close game and beat Notre Dame, 33\u201330 at Notre Dame Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nJordan Todman was named the Big East Conference Special Teams Player of the Week. Andre Dixon and Lawrence Wilson were also named to the Weekly Honor Roll. Connecticut is 1\u20130 against Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nAfter the victory, Randy Edsall sent the game ball to the family of Jasper Howard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nThe Huskies became bowl eligible for the third consecutive season with a 56\u201331 win over Big East foe Syracuse. The Huskies scored on their first possession after holding Syracuse to a three-and-out on the game's opening possession and Orange punter Rob Long's punt got caught up in the brisk wind that plagued the contest and went just 13 yards. Eight plays later, Dixon scored from the four to put the Huskies in front and give them a lead they would never relinquish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nAfter a Syracuse field goal, Mike Lang returned the ensuing kickoff 80 yards for the Huskies' third kickoff return for a touchdown of the season. Syracuse then scored a touchdown to make the score 14\u201310. Later in the second quarter, Twyon Martin recovered a Delone Carter fumble setting up the Huskies at the Syracuse 43. One play later, sophomore running back Jordan Todman rambled in from the 37 to put the Huskies ahead, 21\u201310. The run gave Todman exactly 1,000 rushing yards this season and the score was Todman's 15th touchdown on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0043-0002", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nThe Huskies took a 28\u201317 lead into the locker room. The Huskies continued their offensive domination in the second half when they marched 80 yards in 15 plays that saw Frazer hit Easley with an 8-yard touchdown pass. Paulus hit Lavar Lobdell with a 12-yard touchdown pass on the first play of the fourth quarter, but Connecticut answered right back when Dixon scurried in from the 45 to give the Huskies a 42\u201324 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0043-0003", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nCarter capped an 84-yard drive with a 10-yard scoring run, but late in the game, with Huskies facing a fourth-and-11 from the Syracuse 28, Frazer connected again with Easley on a touchdown pass to put the Huskies back safely ahead, 49\u201331. Syracuse wide receiver Antwon Bailey caught a pass from Paulus and tried to lateral to Lemon, but the ball was fumbled and Connecticut's Dwayne Gratz scooped up the errant ball and took it to the end zone with the recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nWith 17 tackles, Lawrence Wilson was named to the Big East's Weekly Honor Roll. Connecticut improved to 4\u20132 against the Orange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, South Florida\nSouth Florida came from warm and sunny Tampa, Florida to cold and snowy East Hartford, Connecticut, but that did not stop the Bulls as they marched down the snowy field and were up 27\u201326 with 40 seconds left to go in the game. After the Bulls failed to make the 2-point conversion the Huskies were still in the game. Quarterback Zach Frazer made completions to Ryan Griffin, Andre Dixon and Kashif Moore put the Huskies at the USF 26, and Dixon ran the ball to the middle of the field to set up kicker Dave Teggart's winning attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, South Florida\nBy then the snow slowed down and Teggart who missed a 46-yard field goal earlier in the game made a 42-yard field goal as time expired to give Connecticut a 29\u201327 football victory over South Florida before a crowd of 35,624 at Rentschler Field. The game was Senior Night for 16 Huskies who played their final game for Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, South Florida\nAfter the victory, game balls were awarded to Zach Frazer (offense), Scott Lutrus (defense) and Dave Teggart (special teams). The three were also named to the Big East's weekly honor roll. Connecticut is 3\u20134 all time against South Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nAndre Dixon rushed for 126 yards and one touchdown as the Huskies defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks in the fourth annual PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. It was the Huskies third bowl victory in four attempts, and their first ever win over an opponent from the Southeastern Conference. The UConn defense came up strong by forcing two Gamecock turnovers, and holding the South Carolina offence to 205 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nDixon, who was awarded the Fred Sington Most Valuable Player trophy, eclipsed 1000 rushing yards for the year during the game, joining Jordan Todman. The Huskies joined Georgia Tech and Nevada as the only Football Bowl Subdivision teams with two runners with at least 1000 rushing yards. It was also the first time that UConn accomplished the feat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202293-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Huskies football team, October stabbing\nOn October 18, the morning after the Louisville game starting cornerback Jasper Howard was killed after being stabbed during a fight on the university's campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202294-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Sun season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 11th season for the Connecticut Sun franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is their seventh in Connecticut. The Sun attempted to advance to the WNBA Playoffs for the seventh consecutive season, but did not qualify for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202294-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Sun season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Sun's 2008 record, they would pick 10th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Sun waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202294-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut Sun season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Sun's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202295-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut vs. Syracuse men's basketball game\nThe 2009 Connecticut vs. Syracuse men's basketball game was a quarterfinal game of the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament between the No. 18 Syracuse Orange (No. 6 seed in Big East Tournament) and No. 3 Connecticut (UConn) Huskies. The 2009 UConn\u2013Syracuse basketball game took place on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, more specifically in Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202295-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut vs. Syracuse men's basketball game\nThis quarterfinal game of the 2009 Big East Tournament went to six overtimes, resulting in a 127\u2013117 Syracuse victory. The Orange won the game without leading at any time during the first five overtimes. The game began at 9:36\u00a0p.m. and ended at 1:22\u00a0a.m. on March 13, 2009, spanning 3 hours and 46 minutes. During the game, 244 total points were scored (102 scored during overtime), 211 field goals were attempted (103 attempted in overtime), 93 free throws were attempted, 66 fouls were committed, and eight total players fouled out (four from each team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202295-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Connecticut vs. Syracuse men's basketball game\nThis game was the second-longest in college basketball history and the longest in Big East history. The longest game in college basketball history was the 1981 Cincinnati vs. Bradley game in which Cincinnati beat Bradley 75\u201373 on December 21, 1981. That game took place before the implementation of the shot clock. Two other men's basketball games that involved teams now in NCAA Division I reached six overtime periods, both occurring in the era before the NCAA officially split into competitive divisions. Niagara defeated Siena 88\u201381 in 1953, and Minnesota defeated Purdue 59\u201356 in 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202296-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Continental Indoor Football League season\nThe 2009 Continental Indoor Football League season was the league's fourth overall season. The regular season began on Friday, March 6. The league champion was the Chicago Slaughter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202297-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season\nThe 2009 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season was the ninth running of the Grand Am Cup Series. It began on January 22 and ran for ten rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202298-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cook Islands Round Cup\nThe 2009 season of the Cook Islands Round Cup was the thirty sixth recorded season of top flight association football competition in the Cook Islands, with any results between 1951 and 1969 and also in 1986 and 1988\u20131990 currently unknown. Nikao Sokattack won the championship, their sixth recorded championship. Tupapa Maraerenga were runners-up, with Arorangi finishing in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202298-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cook Islands Round Cup, League table\nNikao Sokattack won the league, which was played on a single round robin basis due to a late start in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202299-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Aerosur & del Sur\nLa Copa Aerosur 2009 is the seventh edition of the summer soccer tournament sponsored by Aerosur. Involved six teams of core cities in Bolivia: Bolivar and The Strongest of La Paz, Cochabamba Aurora and Wilstermann, Blooming and Oriente Petrolero of Santa Cruz. The tournament began on January 18, 2009 and culminate on February 4 of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202299-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Aerosur & del Sur\nThe 2009 version of the cup had three novelties: [1] defined by shootout in case of ties in all instances of the tournament, the implementation of a tournament U-18 parallel to the official tournament, and a recoil to be played between the champion Aerosur Cup, the champion of the Copa Aerosur del Sur and two foreign expos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202299-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Aerosur & del Sur\nCup champion will have free passage on Aerosur to travel to play their games during the 2009 season of the Bolivian Professional Football League, while the runner will have a 75% discount. The other participants may access the 50% discount on tickets if they agree to bring the airline's logo on his uniform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202299-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Aerosur & del Sur\nIn this Edition the teams (Copa Simon Bolivar 2008) with the best average qualified to the first round of this edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202299-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Aerosur & del Sur, Group A\nIn this group Nacional Potosi qualified anyway as the copa simon bolivar 2008 winners", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202300-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Am\u00e9rica de Ciclismo\nThe 9th edition of the Copa Am\u00e9rica de Ciclismo was held on 2009-01-04 in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. The Copa Am\u00e9rica opened the Brazilian season and took place at the Formula One-track, a circuit of 4.3\u00a0km (2.7\u00a0mi), in the city of S\u00e3o Paulo-Interlagos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202301-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Cafam\nCopa Internacional Cafam 2009 was a football pre-season international tournament. It was played in Estadio El Camp\u00edn of Bogot\u00e1, Colombia between January 28 and February 1, 2009. In the tournament, there were three teams from Colombia and one from Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile\nThe 2009 Copa Chile was the 30th edition of the competition. The competition started on May 10, 2009 with the Preliminary Round and concluded on November 15, 2009 with the Final. The winner qualifies for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile, Teams\nA record 82 clubs were accepted for the competition; one club, Luis Matte Larrain, folded before the fixtures were released, leaving 81 clubs to appear in the draw. The teams for this edition are the teams from the Primera Division, Primera B, Tercera Division, regional amateur club champions, and selected amateur teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile, First round\nThis round comprised the 2009 Tercera B teams (except one), one Regional Amateur Champion, plus five of the winners of the Preliminary Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile, Second round\nThis round comprised the winners of the First Round (except one), the remaining 2009 Tercera B team, and one Regional Amateur Champion team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile, Third round\nThis round comprised the winners of the Second Round (except two), the remaining winner of the First Round, the 2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n teams, plus two Regional Amateur Champion teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202302-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Chile, Fourth round\nThe Fourth Round marks the beginning of the competition for professional teams. The draw for the Fourth Round was held on July 31, 2009 and was conducted by the \"Manager of National Tournaments\", Ren\u00e9 Rosas. This round comprised the winners of the Third Round, the 2009 Primera B teams, Primera Divisi\u00f3n team Colo-Colo, and special invitee Selecci\u00f3n Rapa Nui (the Easter Island Team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia\nThe 2009 Copa Colombia football tournament, officially the 2009 Copa Postob\u00f3n for sponsorship reasons, was the seventh edition of the Copa Colombia, the national football cup competition for clubs of Colombia's DIMAYOR league. It began on March 4 and ended on November 18. Santa Fe won the tournament for their 2nd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Format\nThe format for 2009 remains the same as last year's. The winner of will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Phase I, Group C\nGroup C comprises teams from Santander, Norte de Santander, and Boyac\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Phase I, Group F\nGroup F comprises teams from Cundinamarca and the western part of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Phase II\nPhase II began on August 26 and ended on September 2. Team #2 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Phase III\nPhase III began on September 16 and ended on September 23. Team #2 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Semifinals\nThe semifinals began on October 28 and ended on November 4. Team #2 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202303-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Colombia, Finals\nThe finals was played on November 11 and November 18. Team #2 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3\nCopa Constituci\u00f3 2009 is the seventeenth season of Andorra's football knockout tournament. The competition started on 17 January 2009 with the first round games and will end on 24 May 2009 with the Final. The defending champions are UE Sant Juli\u00e0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3\nThe winners will earn a place in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3, Results\nOn 9 December 2008 Andorran Football Federation announced the First Round fixtures and dates for all remaining rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3, Results, First round\nThis round was entered by teams from 2008\u201309 Segona Divisi\u00f3 season placed second to seventh after 6 rounds played. The matches were played on 17, 18 and 19 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3, Results, Second round\nThe winners from the previous round competed in this round, as well as one remaining team from Segona Divisi\u00f3, first placed FC Encamp. The teams from this year's Primera Divisi\u00f3 placed fifth to eighth after 7 rounds played \u2013 CE Principat, Inter Club d'Escaldes, FC R\u00e0nger's, and UE Engordany \u2013 also entered in this round. The matches were played from 20\u201323 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe winners from the previous round competed in this round for turkey and together with the teams from Primera Divisi\u00f3 placed first to fourth after 7 rounds played \u2013 FC Santa Coloma, UE Sant Juli\u00e0, UE Santa Coloma, and FC Lusitanos. The first legs were played on 1 February 2009 while the second legs took place on 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202304-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Constituci\u00f3, Results, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on 10 May 2009 while the second legs took place on 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202305-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Indonesia Final\nThe 2009 Copa Indonesia Final was a football match that took place on 28 June 2009 at Jakabaring Stadium in Palembang. It was the fourth final of Piala Indonesia and  contested by Sriwijaya FC and Persipura Jayapura. It was Sriwijaya's second consecutive final having won the title last year. For Persipura, this was their third successive final appearance having lost their previous two, including a penalty shootout defeat to Sriwijaya in their most recent final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202305-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Indonesia Final\nPersipura walked out of the match in the 60th minute to protest the officiating when Sriwijaya were leading 1\u20130. In the aftermath, Sriwijaya were awarded a 4\u20130 win and retained their title. As winners, they gained entry to the 2010 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores\nThe 2009 Copa Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica (officially the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica for sponsorship reasons) was the 50th edition of the Copa Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica, CONMEBOL's premier annual international club tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores\nThe tournament was won by Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata, who achieved their fourth Copa Libertadores title and first in 39 years. Since the inception of a preliminary round in 2004, they are the first club to start in that round and win the Copa Libertadores. Estudiantes earned a berth to play in 2010 Recopa Sudamericana and in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup but lost both titles to LDU Quito and Barcelona respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Round and draw dates\nThe calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw. All events occurred in 2009 unless otherwise stated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Tie-breaking criteria\nAt each stage of the tournament teams receive 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and no points for a loss. If two or more teams are equal on points, the following criteria will be applied to determine the rankings in the group stage:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Tie-breaking criteria\nFor the first stage, round of 16, quarterfinals, and semifinals, the fourth criteria is replaced by a penalty shootout if necessary. The finals have their own set of criteria; see the finals section for more details.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, First stage\nIn the First Stage, twelve teams played a two-legged tie (one game at home and one game away) against another opponent. The winner of each tie advanced to the Second Stage. Team #1 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Second stage\nA total of 26 teams qualified directly to this phase and were joined by six teams from the First Stage, bringing the total to 32 teams. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Third Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages\nThe last four stages of the tournament (round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals) form a single-elimination tournament, commonly known as a knockout stage. Sixteen teams advanced into the first of these stages: the third stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Seeding\nThe 16 qualified teams were seeded according to their results in the Second Stage. The top teams from each group were seeded 1-8, with the team with the most points as seed 1 and the team with the least as seed 8. The second-best teams from each group were seeded 9-16, with the team with the most points as seed 9 and the team with the least as seed 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Round of 16\nThe first match of the Round of 16 began on 5 May, with the last match played on 21 May. Team #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Quarterfinals\nTeam #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202306-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores, Knockout stages, Semifinals\nTeam #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina\nThe 2009 Copa Libertadores de F\u00fatbol Femenino (officially Copa Santander Libertadores de F\u00fatbol Femenino 2009) for sponsorship reasons) was the first edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina, CONMEBOL's premier annual international women's club tournament. The competition was played in Santos, S\u00e3o Paulo and Guaruj\u00e1, Brazil, from October 3 to October 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina\nSantos defeated Universidad Aut\u00f3noma 9\u20130 to win their first Copa Libertadores Femenina title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Format\nThe cup was played by ten teams: one from each CONMEBOL country. The ten teams were divided in two groups of five clubs each for the First Stage. The two best-placed teams of each group qualified to play the semifinal and the winners then played the final, while the losers played the third-place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina, Round and draw dates\nThe draw for the competition took place at Est\u00e1dio Urbano Caldeira on September 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage\nThe top two teams from each group advance to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage, Group 1\nAll Group 1 matches were played at Est\u00e1dio Urbano Caldeira (better known as Vila Belmiro) in Santos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202307-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina, First stage, Group 2\nGroup 2 matches were played at Est\u00e1dio Municipal Ant\u00f4nio Fernandes (Guaruj\u00e1), Est\u00e1dio Ulrico Mursa (Santos) and Est\u00e1dio Urbano Caldeira (Santos).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals\nThe 2009 Copa Libertadores Finals was the final two-legged tie to determine the 2009 Copa Libertadores champion. It was contested by Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata and Brazilian club Cruzeiro. The first leg of the tie was played on 8 July at Estudiantes' home field, with the second leg played on 15 July at Cruzeiro's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals\nCruzeiro and Estudiantes played in their 4th and 5th Copa Libertadores finals, respectively. Cruzeiro last appearance was in 1997, in which they beat Sporting Cristal for their second title. Estudiantes returned after a 39-year absence. Their last finals appearance was in 1971, in which they lost to Uruguayan club Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals\nEstudiantes de La Plata won the tie 4 points to 1 to earn their fourth Copa Libertadores title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Rules\nThe final will be played over two legs, each at a finalists home venue. The higher seeded team will play the second leg at home. The team that accumulates the most points \u2014three for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss\u2014 after the two legs will be crowned the champion. Unlike the previous rounds, the away-goals rule will not be used. Should the two teams be tied on points after the second leg, the team with the best goal difference will win. If the two teams have equal goal difference, extra time will be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Rules\nThe extra time will consist of two 15-minute halves. If the tie is still not broken, a penalty shoot-out, consisting of a maximum of five penalties per team, will ensue according to the Laws of the Game (although it is possible to win the penalty shootout before the fifth penalty kick is taken). If there is no clear winner after the 10 penalty kicks, then a sudden-death penalty shootout will ensue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals\nCruzeiro qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores as the 3rd place team in the 2008 S\u00e9rie A. This gave them the Brazil 3 spot and a direct qualification into the Second Stage. Estudiantes qualified into the Argentina 5 spot by having the 2nd best average of the 2007 Apertura, 2008 Clausura, & 2008 Apertura tournaments. The spot qualified them into the First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Estudiantes in the First Stage\nEstudiantes started this year's Copa Libertadores run in the First Stage in a two-legged tie against Peruvian club Sporting Cristal for a spot in Group 5. Sporting Cristial took the first leg, played in Lima, 2\u22121. Enzo P\u00e9rez scored the lone goal for Estudiantes. In the second leg, Estudiantes' Ram\u00f3n Lentini scored the lone goal of the match, assuring that Estudiantes advanced to the Second Stage on the away goals tie-breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Group 5 of the Second Stage\nCruzeiro was drawn into Group 5, with Estudiantes advancing into it. They were joined by the defending Ecuadorian champion, Deportivo Quito, and the Bolivian 2008 Apertura champion, Universitario de Sucre. Their first group match was against each other in Belo Horizonte. Cruzeiro won 3\u22120 with goals by Fernandinho and Kl\u00e9ber (two). The next group match between the both of them was their respective fifth group-play match. Playing in La Plata, Estudiantes won 4\u22120 with goals by Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Ver\u00f3n, Gast\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez, and Cristian S\u00e1nchez Prette (two).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Group 5 of the Second Stage\nCruzeiro second group match was on the road against Deportivo Quito. Ramires scored for Cruzeiro before Giovanny Caicedo tied it for Deportivo Quito. They stayed on the road (to Sucre) to play Universitario. Thiago Ribeiro scored the lone goal of the match to get the win. The next two game Cruzeiro played were at home. Universitario visited first and lost the match thanks to two goals by Wellington Paulista. In Cruzeiro's last match of group play, they played host to Deportivo Quito, whom they beat 2\u22120 with goals by L\u00e9o Fortunato and Wagner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Group 5 of the Second Stage\nEstudiantes continued group play by hosting Universitario. Juan Manuel Salgueiro scored the only goal for Estudiantes, and subsequently the win. They then went to Quito to play Deportivo Quito. Estudiantes lost the match 1\u22120. Deportivo Quito then visited Estudiantes for their next match. Estudiantes soundly won the match 4\u22120 thanks to a goal by Enzo P\u00e9rez and a hat-trick by Mauro Boselli. Estudiantes' last match of group play ended in a scoreless tie against Universitario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Group 5 of the Second Stage\nCruzeiro and Estudiantes finished 1 & 2, respectively, which advanced them to the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Cruzeiro in the knockout stages\nCruzeiro was seeded 5 for the last stages of the tournament. In the round of 16, they played against Chilean club Universidad de Chile (seeded 12). The first leg was played in Santiago. Cruzeiro won the match 1\u22122 with goals by Soares and Marquinhos Paran\u00e1. second leg, played at home, was won by a lone goal from Kl\u00e9ber. Cruzeiro advanced on points 6\u22120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Cruzeiro in the knockout stages\nCruzeiro's quarterfinal match-up was against fellow Brazilian side S\u00e3o Paulo (seeded 4). The first leg, played at home, was won 2\u22121 with goals by Leonardo Silva and Z\u00e9 Carlos. The second leg, played in S\u00e3o Paulo, was also won 0\u22122 with goals by Henrique and Kl\u00e9ber. Cruzeiro advanced on points 6\u22120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Cruzeiro in the knockout stages\nCruzeiro's semifinal match-up was against another Brazilian side, top-seeded Gr\u00eamio. Cruzeiro won the first leg 3\u22121 thanks to goals by Wellington Paulista, W\u00e1gner, and Fabinho. The second leg, played in Porto Alegre, ended in a 2\u22122 tie. Wellington Paulista scored twice for Cruzeiro in as many minutes, but Gr\u00eamio came back and tied it in the second half. Cruzeiro advanced 4\u22121 on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Cruzeiro in the knockout stages\nAs of the finals, Cruzeiro is the most effective team in the tournament, with an efficacy rating of 80.56% (9 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Estudiantes in the knockout stages\nEstudiantes was seeded 10 for the last stages of the tournament. Estudiantes' round of 16 match-up was against Paraguayan club Libertad. Seeded 7, Libertad was the first team to advance to the round of 16. Estudiantes won the first match 3\u22120 with goals by Gast\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez (with the fastest goal of the tournament) and Mauro Boselli (2). A 0\u22120 tie was enough in the second leg to advance Estudiantes 4\u22121 on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Estudiantes in the knockout stages\nThe quarterfinals match-up was against Uruguayan club Defensor Sporting (seeded 15). Estudiantes won both legs 1\u22120 with goals by Leandro Des\u00e1bato (first leg) and Leandro Ben\u00edtez (second leg). Estudiantes advanced 6\u22120 on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Estudiantes in the knockout stages\nIn the semifinals, Estudiantes met another Uruguayan club, 3 seeded Nacional. In the first leg, played at home, Estudiantes won with a lone goal by Diego Galv\u00e1n. In the second leg, Estudiantes won 1\u22122 with a pair of goals by Mauro Boselli. Estudiantes advanced 6\u22120 on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202308-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Finals, Route to the Finals, Estudiantes in the knockout stages\nAs of the finals, Estudiantes has an efficacy rating of 69.05% (9 wins, 2 draws, 3 loss). Striker Mauro Boselli is currently tied as the top-scorer of the tournament, with 7 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202309-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage\nThe First Stage of the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores ran from January 27 to February 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202309-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage, Format\nTwelve teams qualified into this rounds and each will play a two-legged tie, one at home and one away. The winner of each tie will advance to the Second Stage. The teams will earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 for a loss. The team with the most points advances. The following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202310-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage\nThe Second Stage of the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores was a group stage. It was played from February 10 to April 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202310-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage, Format\nTwenty-six teams qualified directly into this round, plus six that advanced from the First Stage. This brings the total number of teams in the Second Stage to 32. The teams were drawn into eight groups of four. The teams in each group will play each other in a double round-robin format, playing the other teams in the group once at home and once away. Teams will be awarded 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202310-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage, Format\nThe top two teams from each group advance to the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages\nThe last four stages of the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores are the knockout stages: the Round of 16, the Quarterfinals, the Semifinals, and the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format\nThe remaining stages of the tournament constitute a single-elimination tournament. In each stage, the teams will play an opponent in a two-legged tie on a home-away basis. Each team will earn three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. The team with the most points at the end of each tie will advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format, Tie-breaking\nThe following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Format, Seeding\nThe 16 qualified teams in the knockout round will be seeded according to their results in the group stage. The top teams from each group are seeded 1-8, with the team with the most points as seed 1 and the team with the least as seed 8. The second-best teams from each group are seeded 9-16, with the team with the most points as seed 9 and the team with the least as seed 16. Teams with a higher seed will play the second leg of each tie at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Round of 16\nThe Round of 16 began on May 5. Team #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Round of 16, Second leg\nSport Recife 3\u20133 Palmeiras on points, Sport Recife & Palmeiras tied on goal difference and goals scored. Palmeiras won 3\u20131 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Round of 16, Second leg\nCaracas 3\u20133 Deportivo Cuenca on points. Caracas won +3 on goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Quarterfinals\nTeam #1, as the higher seed, will play the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Quarterfinals, Second leg\nNacional 2\u20132 Palmeiras on points. Nacional and Palmeiras tied on goal difference and goals scored. Nacional advances on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202311-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages, Quarterfinals, Second leg\nGr\u00eamio 2\u22122 Caracas on points. Gr\u00eamio and Caracas tied on goal difference and goals scored. Gr\u00eamio advances on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202312-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Pachuca\nXIV Cuadrangular Cuna de Futbol Mexicano Banorte or simply known as Copa Pachuca is the 14th edition of the Copa Pachuca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe 2009 Copa Per\u00fa season (Spanish: Copa Per\u00fa 2009), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football, started on February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe tournament has 5 stages. The first four stages are played as mini-league round-robin tournaments, except for third stage in region IV, which is played as a knockout stage. The final stage features two knockout rounds and a final four-team group stage to determine the two promoted teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe 2009 Peru Cup started with the District Stage (Spanish: Etapa Distrital) on February. The next stage was the Provincial Stage (Spanish: Etapa Provincial) which started, on June. The tournament continued with the Departamental Stage (Spanish: Etapa Departamental) on July. The Regional Staged followed. The National Stage (Spanish: Etapa Nacional) started on November. The winner and runner-up of the National Stage will be promoted to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Departmental Stage\nThe following list shows the teams that qualified for the Regional Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage\nEach region had two teams qualify for the next stage. The playoffs only determined the respective regional winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region I\nRegion I includes qualified teams from Amazonas, Lambayeque, Tumbes and Piura region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region II\nRegion II includes qualified teams from Ancash, Cajamarca, La Libertad and San Mart\u00edn region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region III\nRegion III includes qualified teams from Loreto and Ucayali region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region IV\nRegion IV includes qualified teams from Lima and Callao region. This region played as a knockout cup system and the finalists qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region V\nRegion V includes qualified teams from Jun\u00edn, Pasco and Hu\u00e1nuco region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region VI\nRegion VI includes qualified teams from Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Ica region. Two teams qualified from this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region VII\nRegion VII includes qualified teams from Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, Regional Stage, Region VIII\nRegion VIII includes qualified teams from Apurimac, Cusco, Madre de Dios and Puno region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202313-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Per\u00fa, National Stage\nThe National Stage started on November 8. This stage had two knockout rounds and four-team group stage. The winner will be promoted to the First Division and the runner-up of the National Stage will be promoted to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n Peruana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202314-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay between 12 and 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202314-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202314-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202314-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n, Champions, Doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez /  Eduardo Schwank, 6\u20133, 0\u20136, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202315-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n \u2013 Doubles\nAlejandro Fabbri and Leonardo Mayer were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate this year. Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura won in the final 6\u20133, 0\u20136, [10\u20138], against M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez and Eduardo Schwank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202316-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Asunci\u00f3n \u2013 Singles\nMart\u00edn Vassallo Arg\u00fcello chose to not defend his 2008 title. Ram\u00f3n Delgado won the tournament in his own country, after defeating Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7\u20136(2), 1\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202317-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1 was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor Clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia between 21 and 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202317-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202317-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1, Champions, Doubles\nAlejandro Falla /  Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez def. Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud /  Diego \u00c1lvarez, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202318-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1 \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Alejandro Falla were the defending champions, but Cabal didn't start this year. Falla partnered with Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez and they won this tournament, after defeating Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud and Diego \u00c1lvarez 5\u20137, 6\u20134, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202319-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Bogot\u00e1 \u2013 Singles\nMarcos Daniel was the defender of title, but he chose to not participate this year. Carlos Salamanca won in the final 6\u20131, 7\u20136(5), against Riccardo Ghedin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202320-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor Clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 28 September and 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202320-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202320-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires, Champions, Doubles\nBrian Dabul /  Sergio Roitman def. M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez /  Lucas Arnold Ker, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202321-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires \u2013 Doubles\nM\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto were the defending champions, but they didn't participate together this year. Prieto played with Horacio Zeballos, but they were eliminated by Juan Pablo Brzezicki and David Marrero already in the first round. Gonz\u00e1lez played with Lucas Arnold Ker and they reached the final, where they lost to Brian Dabul and Sergio Roitman 4\u20136, 5\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202322-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Buenos Aires \u2013 Singles\nMart\u00edn Vassallo Arg\u00fcello chose to not defend his 2008 title. Horacio Zeballos won in the final 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, against Gast\u00f3n Gaudio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202323-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Montevideo, Uruguay between 5 and 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202323-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202323-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo, Champions, Doubles\nJuan Pablo Brzezicki /  David Marrero def. Mart\u00edn Cuevas /  Pablo Cuevas, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202324-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo \u2013 Doubles\nFranco Ferreiro and Fl\u00e1vio Saretta were the defending champions, but they didn't start this year. Juan Pablo Brzezicki and David Marrero defeated Mart\u00edn Cuevas and Pablo Cuevas 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202325-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Montevideo \u2013 Singles\nPeter Luczak chose not to defend his 2008 title. Pablo Cuevas became the new champion, after beating Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti 7\u20135, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202326-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Santiago de Chile, Chile between 19 and 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202326-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202326-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago, Champions, Doubles\nDiego Crist\u00edn /  Eduardo Schwank def. Juan Pablo Brzezicki /  David Marrero, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202327-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago \u2013 Doubles\nDiego Crist\u00edn and Eduardo Schwank won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20135, against Juan Pablo Brzezicki and David Marrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202327-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nThe top seed received a bye to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202328-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras Santiago \u2013 Singles\nEduardo Schwank defeated Nicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202329-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo\nThe 2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil between 26 October and 1 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202329-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202329-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202329-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo, Champions, Doubles\nFranco Ferreiro /  Ricardo Mello def. Diego Junqueira /  David Marrero, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202330-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Doubles\nJuan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren and Franco Ferreiro were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete together. Aranguren partnered with Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud, but they lost to Ricardo Hocevar and Jo\u00e3o Souza in the quarterfinal. Ferreiro decided to play with Ricardo Mello. They reached the final, when they won 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Diego Junqueira and David Marrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202331-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Petrobras S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Singles\nPaul Capdeville was the defending champion, but he was eliminated by Franco Ferreiro in the second round. Thomaz Bellucci defeated Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202332-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez\nThe Copa Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez 2009 season (officially \"XIII Copa Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez \") started on January 2009. On 26 February 2009 Millenium was crowned champions after defeating El Tecal 5-4 after extra time. Due to the expansion of Primera A, both teams were promoted and will participate in the 2009 season. Jos\u00e9 Tobio was the top goal scorer in this 2009 season with 9 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202333-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sevilla\nThe 2009 Copa Sevilla was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor yellow clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sevilla, Spain between 7 and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202333-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sevilla, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202333-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sevilla, Champions, Doubles\nTreat Conrad Huey /  Harsh Mankad def. Alberto Brizzi /  Simone Vagnozzi, 6\u20131, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202334-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sevilla \u2013 Doubles\nDavid Marrero and Pablo Santos were the defending champions of the Copa Sevilla men's doubles tennis tournament. They chose to compete this year, but were eliminated by Enrico Burzi and Pavol \u010cerven\u00e1k already in the first round. Treat Conrad Huey and Harsh Mankad defeated Alberto Brizzi and Simone Vagnozzi 6\u20131, 7\u20135 in the final and won \u20ac 2,650 in prize money and 80 ranking points..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202335-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sevilla \u2013 Singles\n5th-seeded Pere Riba successfully defended his 2008 title, winning 7\u20136(2), 6\u20132, against qualifier Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202336-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar (Bolivia)\nThe 2nd tier in the Bolivian Football pyramid consists of 9 regional leagues (one for each department), the number of participants varies depending on the department,  It usually has between 8 and 12 teams. Both winner and runner-up of each league compete in the Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, with the winner of such tournament gaining promotion to the 1st Division, and the runner-up playing a play-off match with the 11th placed team in the 1st Division. Until 1976 all 8 regional championships (Pando didn't have an organized tournament at the time) were the top in the national football pyramid, with the winner of the Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar being crowned as national champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202336-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar (Bolivia)\nThe oldest regional championship is the one played in La Paz, it started in 1914 and it was considered for many years as the top Bolivian league, even more when it turned into a semi-pro tournament in 1950 and started including teams from Oruro and Cochabamba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202336-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar (Bolivia)\n6 teams with the best average qualify for Aerosur Cup 2010 Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202336-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar (Bolivia), Group phase, Quarterfinals\nThe ties are played in two legs, with the first leg taking place on 31 October 2009 and the second leg being played on 7 November 2009. Each club will play one leg at home. The winners on aggregate will advance to the semifinals. In case of both teams being tied on aggregate after both matches a penalty shootout will be conducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202337-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas\nThe 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 12th edition of the Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, and was on the International category of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Club Campestre El Rancho in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, from February 14 through February 22, 2009. This was the first year it was sponsored by Sony Ericsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202337-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas\nWorld No. 11 Flavia Pennetta was the top-seeded player. Also in the field were 2008 semifinalist Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro, Argentine Gisela Dulko, defending champion Nuria Llagostera Vives, Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1, Mathilde Johansson, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, and Lourdes Dom\u00ednguez Lino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202337-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, Finals, Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Gisela Dulko /  Flavia Pennetta 7\u20135, 3\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202338-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas \u2013 Doubles\nIveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Bethanie Mattek were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202339-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas \u2013 Singles\nNuria Llagostera Vives was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Patricia Mayr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana\nThe 2009 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes (officially the 2009 Copa Nissan Sudamericana de Clubes for sponsorship reasons) is the 8th edition of the CONMEBOL's secondary international club tournament. Internacional were the defending champions, having won the trophy the previous season. Ecuadorian side LDU Quito won the 2009 tournament, becoming the first Ecuadorian winners of the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana\nFrom this edition onward, CONCACAF teams, which have participated in the tournament since 2005, will no longer be participating because of the format change in the CONCACAF Champions League, which conflicted with scheduling. This will also mark the last tournament in which Argentine clubs River Plate and Boca Juniors will be invited to participate without qualification. Further changes include the additional allocation of berths (1) to all the countries except Brazil and Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana, First stage\nThe first stage began on August 4, and ended on September 17. Team #1 played the first leg at home. All teams, except for defending champion Internacional, entered the tournament in the First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Round of 16\nThe first leg of the round of 16 was played from September 22 to September 24. The second leg was played from September 30 to October 1. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Quarterfinals\nThe first leg of the Quarterfinals was played from October 20\u201322. The second leg was played from November 4\u20135. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Semifinals\nThe first leg was played from November 11\u201312. The second leg was played from November 18\u201319. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202340-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana, Final stages, Finals\nThe Finals were played on November 25 and December 2. Just like the 2008 Copa Libertadores Finals, both teams played against each other in a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals\nThe 2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2009 Copa Sudamericana champion. It was contested by Ecuadorian club LDU Quito and Brazilian club Fluminense. Both teams were playing in their first Copa Sudamericana finals. The first leg was played in Estadio Casa Blanca in Quito on 25 November, and the host team LDU Quito won 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals\nThe second leg was played in Est\u00e1dio M\u00e1rio Filho, better known as Maracan\u00e3, in Rio de Janeiro on 2 December and the host team Fluminese won 3\u20130, but LDU Quito won 5\u20134 on aggregate and was thus crowned the champions. Coincidentally, the finals were a rematch of the 2008 Copa Libertadores Finals, which were contested under similar circumstances 17 months prior to the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Rules\nThe final was played over two legs; home and away. The higher seeded team played the second leg at home. The team that accumulated the most points \u2014three for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss\u2014 after the two legs was crowned the champion. The away-goals rule was not used. Should the two teams be tied on points after the second leg, the team with the best goal difference won. If the two teams had equal goal difference, extra time would be used. The extra time consisted of two 15-minute halves. If the tie was still not broken, a penalty shoot-out would ensue according to the Laws of the Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals\nBoth teams entered the competition in the First Stage. Fluminense qualified after finishing 14th in the 2008 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A. LDU Quito qualified after finishing second in the First Stage of the 2009 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, Fluminense's route\nFluminense's First Stage was bitter cross-town rival Flamengo. Both matches of the Fla-Flu in the tournament were held Maracan\u00e3, and both ended in a draw (0\u20130 and 1\u20131, respectively). Fluminense, as the designated away in the second leg, advanced on an away goal by Roni. For winning Qualifier O5 of the First Stage, Fluminense was awarded the 5 seed for the Round of 16 onward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, Fluminense's route\nTheir Round of 16 rival was Peruvian club Alianza Atl\u00e9tico. The first leg, held in Estadio Miguel Grau in Piura, ended in a 2\u20132 draw. Flu's goals were scored by Luiz Alberto and Conca. The second leg, held in Maracan\u00e3, ended in a decisive 4\u20131 for Fluminense. Conca, Alan, and Ade\u00edlson (twice) made the scores for the Brazilians, and passage to the Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, Fluminense's route\nTheir Quarterfinals rival was Chilean club Universidad de Chile. The first leg, at Maracan\u00e3, ended in another draw (2\u20132). Fred scored twice for Fluminense. In the second leg, held at Estadio Santa Laura in Santiago, Fred scored the lone goal of the match to give Fluminense passage to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, Fluminense's route\nFluminense's Semifinal rival was Paraguayan club Cerro Porte\u00f1o. The first leg was held at Estadio General Pablo Rojas, nicknamed La Olla, in Asunci\u00f3n, and ended in a 1\u20130 for Fluminense. Fred scored his fourth goal in three matches for the advantage. In the second leg at Maracan\u00e3, Fluminense trailed for most of the game thanks to a Cerro Porte\u00f1o goal by Luis C\u00e1ceres. However, Gum and Alan each scored a goal for Fluminense in stoppage time of the second half to give Flu the win and passage to the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, LDU Quito's route\nLDU Quito's First Stage rival was Paraguayan club Libertad. The first leg, held in Estadio Casa Blanca in Quito, ended in a 1\u20130 win for Liga. Team captain N\u00e9icer Reasco scored the goal for the home team. The second leg, held back in Asunci\u00f3n at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco, ended in a 1\u20131 tie. \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez scored the come from behind goal for Liga to give them passage to the Round of 16, and the 10 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, LDU Quito's route\nLiga played the Round of 16 against Argentine club Lan\u00fas. The first leg, held in Quito, was a goal-fest for Liga. A hat-trick by Claudio Bieler and a goal by \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez gave LDU Quito a 4\u20130 win and a significant advantage in the next leg. The second leg, held in Estadio Ciudad de Lan\u00fas, ended in a 1\u20131 draw. Claudio Bieler again scored for Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, LDU Quito's route\nLDU Quito Quarterfinal rival was defending Argentine champion V\u00e9lez Sarsfield. The first leg, held in Estadio Jos\u00e9 Amalfitani in Buenos Aires, ended in a 1\u20131 draw. Claudio Bieler again scored for Liga, who were trailing to give them the draw. The second leg, held back in Quito, ended in 2\u20131 win for the home team. Initially trailing 1\u20130, goals by Enrique Vera and Carlos Esp\u00ednola gave LDU Quito passage to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Route to the finals, LDU Quito's route\nLiga's Semifinal rival was Uruguayan club River Plate. The first leg, held at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, ended in a 2\u20131 loss for LDU Quito. \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez scored the lone goal for Liga. The second leg, held back in Quito, ended in a hugely one-sided 7\u20130 win for LDU Quito. The goals were provided by Claudio Bieler (hat-trick), Carlos Esp\u00ednola, Miller Bola\u00f1os, \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez, and Ulises de la Cruz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, First leg\nThe first leg, played at Estadio Casa Blanca in Quito, began much like it did in 2008: with a quick goal. This time, Fluminense quickly struck first with a goal by Marquinho in the first minute. Liga answered back with a hat-trick by \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez, who made two powerful long-range shots (21st and 44th minutes) and a header (60th minute). He later assisted Franklin Salas' goal in the 78th minute. Ulises de la Cruz capped off the scoring with another long-range shot from outside the box in the 87th minute. The win gave Liga a favorable 4-goal advantage going into the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, First leg\nMan of the Match: \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez (LDU Quito)Assistant referees: Pablo Fandi\u00f1o W\u00e1lter RialFourth official: Dar\u00edo Ubr\u00edaco", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, Second leg\nThe match started with a goal scored by Diguinho in the 14th minute. When LDU Quito player Ulises de la Cruz was given a red card in the 18th minute, Fluminense increased the pressure on the Ecuadorians. Two minutes before half-time, Fred scored the second for Fluminense. At half-time, Fluminense curiously stayed on the pitch. The second half continued with Fluminense continuing the pressure. Gum scored the third for the Brazilian side in the 72nd minute. The match grew more intensive as time went on. Fluminense captain Fred was sent-off in the 76th minute for arguing and touching the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, Second leg\nLDU Quito defender Jairo Campos was shown his second yellow card 82nd minute and was ejected. With LDU Quito left with 9 players and Fluminense left with 10, Fluminense continued their search for the fourth goal, which would have sent the game into extra time. Fluminense never got the goal, and LDU Quito were crowned Copa Sudamericana champions for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202341-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana Finals, Matches, Second leg\nMan of the Match: Claudio Bieler (LDU Quito)Assistant referees: Emigdio Ruiz Roa Nicol\u00e1s Yegr\u00f3sFourth official: Antonio Arias", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages\nThe last four stages of the 2009 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes are the Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Bracket, Seeding\nTeams from the Round of 16 onwards were seeded depending on which First Stage qualifier they won (ex: the winner of First Stage Qualifier O1 were given the 1 seed). The lower seeded team will play the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Round of 16\nThe first leg of the Round of 16 was played from September 22 to September 24. The second leg was played from September 30 to October 1. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals\nThe first leg of the Quarterfinals was played from October 20\u201322. The second leg was played from November 4\u20135. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Quarterfinals, Match S3\nRiver Plate and San Lorenzo tied on points and goal difference. River Plate advanced 7\u20136 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Semifinals\nThe first leg of the Semifinals was played from November 11\u201312. The second leg was played from November 18\u201319. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202342-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana final stages, Finals\nThe finals were played on November 25 and December 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202343-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana first stage\nThe First Stage, or the Preliminary Phase, of the 2009 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes was the first round of the tournament. It was contested by 30 teams in 15 two-legged ties. The winners of each tie advanced to the Second Stage (also known as the Round of 16).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202343-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches\nThe first stage began on August 4, and ended on September 17. Team #1 played the first leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202343-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Sudamericana first stage, Matches, Qualifier O3\nVit\u00f3ria and Coritiba tied on points (3 each), goal difference (0 each), and away goals (0 each). Vit\u00f3ria advances 5\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202344-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex\nThe 2009 Copa Telmex was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 12th edition of the Copa Telmex, and was part of the International Series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from February 16 through February 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202344-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex\nThe singles line up is led by world no. 10 and defending champion David Nalbandian, Nicol\u00e1s Almagro and 2009 Costa do Sau\u00edpe champion Tommy Robredo. Other top seeds are Carlos Moy\u00e1, 2009 Vi\u00f1a del Mar finalist Jos\u00e9 Acasuso, Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s, Marcel Granollers and Eduardo Schwank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202344-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex, Finals, Doubles\nMarcel Granollers /  Alberto Mart\u00edn defeated  Nicol\u00e1s Almagro /  Santiago Ventura, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202345-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex \u2013 Doubles\nAgust\u00edn Calleri and Luis Horna were the defending champions of the 2008 Copa Telmex men's doubles tennis tournament, but did not play together that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202345-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex \u2013 Doubles\nAgust\u00edn Calleri partnered with Potito Starace, but lost in the semifinals to Marcel Granollers and Alberto Mart\u00edn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202346-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex \u2013 Singles\nDavid Nalbandian was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202346-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Telmex \u2013 Singles\nTommy Robredo won in the final 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), against Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202347-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Venezuela\nThe 2009 Copa Venezuela was the 40th staging of the Copa Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202347-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Venezuela\nThe competition started on September 2, 2009 and concluded on December 2, 2009 with a two leg final, in which Caracas FC won the trophy for the fifth time with a 3-0 win away and a 1-0 win at home over Trujillanos FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202347-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Venezuela, Second round\nOne leg - 2A/2B Division Teams v/s 1 Division Teams. The matches were played on 5\u20136 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202347-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Venezuela, Second round\nTwo legs - 1 Division Teams v/s 1 Division Teams. The matches were played on 5-9 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202347-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa Venezuela, Finals\nNB: Caracas FC qualify to Copa Sudamericana 2010 as cup winners", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202348-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa de Espa\u00f1a de Futsal\nThe 2009 Copa de Espa\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol Sala is the 20th staging of the Copa de Espa\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol Sala. It was held in the Palacio Municipal de Deportes de Granada, in Granada, Spain, between 26 February and 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202349-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa de la Reina de F\u00fatbol\nThe 2009 Copa de la Reina is the 27th edition of the competition, taking place between May 24 and June 21, 2009. The final was held in La Romareda, in Zaragoza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202350-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 2009 Copa del Rey Final was the 107th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The final was played at Mestalla in Valencia on 13 May 2009. The match was won by FC Barcelona, who beat Athletic Bilbao 4\u20131. This was the first title of Barcelona that year, before winning La Liga and the UEFA Champions League to earn their first treble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202350-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey Final, Anthem controversy\nThe pre-match playing of the Spanish national anthem prompted widespread booing from Catalan nationalist fans of FC Barcelona and Basque nationalist fans of Athletic Bilbao. Televisi\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola (TVE) cut away from its coverage as soon as this started and consequently did not show the playing of the anthem live, instead showing it at half time with the booing edited out. Afterwards, its director Javier Pons apologised for the \"mistake\", and Julian Reyes, the head of sports news, was fired as a result of the censorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202351-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey Juvenil\nThe 2009 Copa del Rey Juvenil was the 59th staging of the tournament. The competition began on 17 May and ended on 27 June with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202352-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto\nThe Copa del Rey 2008-09 was the 73rd edition of the Spanish basketball Cup. It was managed by the ACB and was disputed in Madrid, Community of Madrid in the Palacio de Deportes between days 19 and 22 of February. The winning team was TAU Cer\u00e1mica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano\nThe 2009 edition of Copa del Rey de Balonmano took place in Granollers, city of the autonomous community of Catalonia. This tournament was played by the 8 first of the Liga ASOBAL when reached the half of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano\nAll matches were played in Palau D'Esports de Granollers with capacity of 8,300 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, Quarterfinals\n(8) Octavio Pilotes Posadas 34-36 (7) CAI BM Arag\u00f3n: (19:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, Quarterfinals\n(4) Reale Ademar Le\u00f3n 28-32 (1) BM Ciudad Real: (21:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, Quarterfinals\n(3) Portland San Antonio 32-30 (5) Pevafersa Valladolid: (19:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, Quarterfinals\n(6) Fraikin Granollers 25-30  (2) Barcelona Borges: (21:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, SemiFinals\n(7) CAI BM Arag\u00f3n 29-33 (1) BM Ciudad Real: (18:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, SemiFinals\n(3) Portland San Antonio 26-35 (2) Barcelona Borges: (20:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202353-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa del Rey de Balonmano, Bracket, Final\n(1) BM Ciudad Real 26-29 (2) Barcelona Borges: (18:00, GTM+1) ()", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil\nThe 2009 Copa do Brasil was the 21st edition of the Copa do Brasil. It began on February 18 and ended on July 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil, Format\nThe tournament is played in six stages, with two teams playing a two-legged tie in each stage. In the first two rounds, if the away team wins the first match by at least a 2-goal difference, it will move towards next round. The away goals rule is also used in the Copa do Brasil. The winner will qualify to the 2010 Copa Libertadores, which prevents them from participating in next year's Copa do Brasil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams\nThe 2009 edition was contested by 64 teams. 54 clubs qualified through their respective state championship or some other competition. The number of berth given to each state (one, two, or three) is determined through CBF's state ranking. Criteria may vary, but usually state federations indicate clubs with best records in the state championships or other special competitions organized by such institutions. The remaining ten clubs qualified through CBF's club ranking. Clubs that participated in the 2009 Copa Libertadores did not take part in the competition because of scheduling conflicts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil, Qualified teams, Qualified by state championships and other competitions\n1 2008 State Championship winners Palmeiras qualified to 2009 Copa Libertadores2 2008 Copa Rio winners Nova Igua\u00e7u withdrew. 3 2008 State Championship winners Cruzeiro qualified to 2009 Copa Libertadores. 4 2008 Ta\u00e7a Minas Gerais winners Tupi qualified via State Championship. 5 2008 State Championship winners Sport qualified to 2009 Copa Libertadores. 6 2008 Copa Governador Jo\u00e3o Alves winners Confian\u00e7a already qualified via State Championship. 7 2008 State Championship winners Ulbra Ji-Paran\u00e1 is now defunct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil, Stages 1\u20134\nTeams that play in their home stadium in the first leg are marked with \u2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202354-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil, Stages 5 and 6\nTeams that play in their home stadium in the first leg are marked with \u2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202355-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino\nThe 2009 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino was the third staging of the competition. The competition started on September 24, 2009, and concluded on December 5, 2009. 32 clubs of all regions of Brazil participated of the cup, which is organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). The winner of the cup represented Brazil in the 2010 Copa Libertadores de F\u00fatbol Femenino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202355-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino, Competition format\nThe competition was contested by 32 clubs in a knock-out format where in the first three rounds was played over two legs and the away goals rule was used, but if the away team won the first leg with an advantage of at least three goals, the second leg would not be played and the club automatically qualified to the next round. The fourth round was played in one leg. The final and the third-place game was played in one leg in a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final\nThe 2009 Coppa Italia Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Coppa Italia, the 62nd season of the top cup competition in Italian football. The match was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 13 May 2009 between Lazio and Sampdoria; Lazio won 6\u20135 on penalties after the match ended 1\u20131 after extra time. Hugo Campagnaro missed his spot kick for Sampdoria and  allowed Ousmane Dabo to slot home the winner for Lazio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Pre-match, Team selection\nGoran Pandev and Pasquale Foggia both returned to fitness for Lazio in the lead up to this match; however, they had to do without the services of their Brazilian midfielder Matuzal\u00e9m, who missed out through suspension. Sampdoria welcomed back defensive duo Pietro Accardi and Stefano Lucchini, as well as Paolo Sammarco, who passed a late fitness test, to assure him of a spot in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Pre-match, Team selection\nSampdoria coach Walter Mazzarri said that the final should be played in a neutral venue, and that it would give more balance to the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nAlthough the usual capacity of the Stadio Olimpico is over 72,000, not every single ticket has been sold. In fact, Lega Calcio decided to sell about 20,000 tickets for each club, and the remain tickets at the neutral public (even if they had been bought for the most part from Lazio fans because the final was in Rome). Lazio fans took place in \"Curva Nord\", while the Sampdoria ones at the opposite side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nBetween Lazio fans and Sampdoria fans a sector, the \"Distinti Sud Est\", has been left empty to leave a large space between the \"Curva Sud\" and the \"Tribuna Tevere\", due to avoid fights between fans. That space was occupied in part by children of the youth Lazio teams. At the end of the match, it has been counted about 50,000 Lazio fans and 18,000 Sampdoria fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Pre-match, Kits\nHaving been designated as the official \"home\" team, Lazio could wear their usual kit, that is the light-blue one. Nevertheless, Sampdoria could wear their home kit too, but with blue shorts instead of white ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Post-match\nAfter the match, some Lazio players wore a T-shirt to joke A.S. Roma rivals with written on it Io campione, tu zero titoli (I'm a champion, you have no honours), quoting a sentence said by Jos\u00e9 Mourinho who had, earlier in the season, correctly predicted that Milan, Juventus and Roma would have completed the season with no honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Post-match\nLazio captain, Tommaso Rocchi, has been rewarded by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano in front of the \"Tribuna Montemario\", and gave him the trophy that Rocchi lifted with the captain of that match, Cristian Ledesma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Post-match\nCristian Brocchi and Lorenzo De Silvestri dedicated the victory to Gabriele Sandri, a fan who was killed last season, and coach Delio Rossi said that the triumph was also dedicated to the fans and everyone who had made many sacrifices to get the team to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202356-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Coppa Italia Final, Post-match\nAfter the match, a minority of Lazio fans clashed with police and tried to smash shops in Rome city centre following the win over Sampdoria, according to a statement on 14 May 2009. Police said three arrests had been made before and after the final and added that five police officers had been injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202357-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork City Council election\nAn election to Cork City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 31 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202358-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork County Council election\nAn election to Cork County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 48 councillors were elected from ten electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202359-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 100th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 13 December 2008. The championship began on 2 May 2009 and ended on 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202359-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 13 September 2009, Valley Rovers won the championship after a 1\u201317 to 1\u201313 defeat of Kilworth in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1989. Delanys returned to junior status for the first time in 21 years after suffering a five-point defeat by Ballygarvan in a relegation play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202359-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nKilworth's Adrian Mannix was the championship's top scorer with 2-49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202360-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship was the 112th staging of the Cork Junior A Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1895. The championship began on 10 October 2009 and ended on 1 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202360-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship\nOn 1 November 2009, Fermoy won the championship following a 1-14 to 0-10 defeat of Cloughduv in the final. This was their first championship title in the grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202360-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship\nCastlemartyr's Evan O'Keeffe and Cloughduv's Darragh Ring were the championship's top scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202361-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship was the fourth staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2006. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 13 December 2008. The championship began on 1 April 2009 and ended on 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202361-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nSt. Finbarr's and Youghal left the championship after their respective promotion and relegation to different grades. Bantry Blues and Valley Rovers joined the championship. Killavullen were relegated from the championship after being beaten in a playoff by Mayfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202361-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nThe final was played on 18 October 2009 at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh in Cork, between Valley Rovers and Clyda Rovers. Valley Rovers won the final by 0-07 to 0-05 to claim their first championship title in the grade and a second successive promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202361-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship\nGlanmire's James Murphy was the championship's top scorer with 2-25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202362-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the sixth staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2004. The championship began on 30 April 2009 and ended on 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202362-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 17 July 2009, St. Catherine's were relegated from the championship following a 1-10 to 0-9 defeat by Mallow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202362-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 11 October 2009, Douglas won the championship following a 0-20 to 0-16 defeat of Ballymartle in the final. It remains their only championship title in this grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202362-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship\nNewcestown's Daniel Twomey was the championship's top scorer with 3-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202362-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship, Teams\nA total of 16 teams contested the Premier Intermediate Championship, including 14 teams from the 2008 premier intermediate championship, one relegated from the 2008 senior championship and one promoted from the 2008 intermediate championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202363-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 121st staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening fixtures took place on 14 December 2008. The championship began on 18 April 2009 and ended on 9 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202363-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Football Championship\nNemo Rangers entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Carbery at the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202363-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 27 September 2009, Clonakilty won the championship following a 1-13 to 1-12 defeat of St. Finbarr's in the final. This was their 9th championship title overall and their first title since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202363-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Football Championship\nDuhallow's Donncha O'Connor was the championship's top scorer with 3-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202364-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 121st staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the 2009 opening round fixtures took place at the County Convention in December 2008. The championship began on 2 May 2009 and ended on 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202364-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 4 September 2009, Castlelyons were relegated from the championship following a 3-9 to 3-12 defeat by Carrigtwohill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202364-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 11 October 2009, Newtownshandrum won the championship following a 3-22 to 1-12 defeat of Sarsfields. This was their fourth championship title overall and their first in four championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202364-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nCarrigtwohill's Niall McCarthy was the championship's top scorer with 4-27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202365-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork county hurling team season\nThe 2009 season was the Cork senior hurling team's 122nd consecutive season appearing in the Championship, and their 78th season appearing in the National Hurling League. The season has, for a second year running, began badly as the hurling panel withdrew their services because their confidence in manager Gerald McCarthy has been eroded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202365-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cork county hurling team season, Panel statistics, Management teams\nFollowing the resignation of Gerald McCarthy and his selectors, the following management team was put in place on a temporary basis on 12 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202366-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 2009 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 2\u20138 overall and 1\u20136 in Ivy League play to place eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202367-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cornwall Council election\nThe Cornwall Council election, 2009, was an election for all 123 seats on the council. Cornwall Council is a unitary authority that covers the majority of the ceremonial county of Cornwall, with the exception of the Isles of Scilly which have an independent local authority. The elections took place concurrently with other local elections across England and Wales as well as the UK component of the elections to the European Parliament. Cornwall had seen its district and county councils abolished, replaced by a single 123-member Cornish unitary authority, for which councillors were elected for a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202367-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cornwall Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202367-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Cornwall Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202368-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Costa Book Awards\nThe Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202368-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Costa Book Awards\nThe shortlists were announced on 25 November 2009. The winners in each category were announced on 4 January 2010 on the BBC Radio 4 Front Row programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was the 73rd edition of the annual college football bowl game that was part of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was one of 34 games in the 2008\u201309 bowl season. The game featured the Ole Miss Rebels of the Southeastern Conference and the Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. Ole Miss won the game 47\u201334, in what turned out to be the highest scoring game in front of the largest Cotton Bowl Classic crowd in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe game was played on January 2, 2009, at the self-named stadium in Dallas, Texas, and was televised in the United States on FOX. This was the final Cotton Bowl Classic to be played at the stadium in the home of the State Fair of Texas, Fair Park. Since 2010, the game has been played at Cowboys Stadium in nearby Arlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, First half\nTexas Tech was able to convert a pair of early turnovers into an early lead. The Raiders had the first two scores (both touchdowns) of the game with a 35-yard pass from Graham Harrell at the 6:31 mark of the first quarter and a Darcel McBath 45 yard interception return at the 5:22 mark of the first quarter to start the game with a 14-0 lead over the Ole Miss Rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, First half\nHowever, Ole Miss quarterback Jevan Snead was able to lead the Rebels to touchdowns on their next three drives, and a late field goal by Joshua Shene put the Rebels up 24-21 going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, Second half\nThe second half began with a Marshay Green 65-yard interception return for the Rebels which gave them a 10-point lead, 31-21. Ole Miss would remain in the lead over Texas Tech for the rest of the game, ending with a final score of 47-34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary, Second half\nBy the end of the game, fans were chanting \"S-E-C! S-E-C!\" in reference to the Southeastern Conference, which Ole Miss is a part of, and the perceived rivalry with the Big 12 Conference, with which Texas Tech is a part of. This had another meaning, as it foreshadowed the next week in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game, which pitted the Florida Gators, also of the SEC, against the Oklahoma Sooners, also of the Big 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Records\nThe game was the highest scoring game in Cotton Bowl history, until the Baylor-Michigan State game on January 1, 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Records\nAfter the game, the Rebels are 20-12 all-time in bowl games, with this being their fourth Cotton Bowl appearance. In their last appearance, they beat Oklahoma State by three points in the 2004 Cotton Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Records\nAfter the game, Texas Tech is now 10-21-1 all-time in bowl games. Ole Miss had 223 yards of rushing offense compared to 105 for Texas Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202369-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Cotton Bowl Classic, Records, Graham Harrell record\nIn the game, Graham Harrell broke the record for more touchdown passes thrown than anyone in major-college history. Harrell first tied, then broke, the record with two scoring passes. The record-setting 132nd touchdown pass was a two-yard slant to Michael Crabtree early in the second quarter. (Colt Brennan had previously held the record with Hawaii, having 131 from 2005 to 2007.) Harrell passed for 364 yards, which is a Cotton Bowl record, and finished his collegiate career with 15,793 yards passing and 134 TDs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202370-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Council of the Isles of Scilly election\nElections to the Council of the Isles of Scilly, a sui generis unitary authority in the far southwest of England, were held on 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202370-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Council of the Isles of Scilly election\nThe whole council of 21 members was up for election, with thirteen members elected in the St Mary's electoral division and another eight from the 'Off Islands', being two each from Bryher, St Martin's, St Agnes and Tresco. All eight seats for the 'Off Islands' were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202370-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Council of the Isles of Scilly election\nAs with other unitary elections in England, these local elections in the Isles of Scilly took place on the same day as the European elections of 2009. The previous election, in 2005, coincided with the 2005 United Kingdom general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202371-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Country Music Association Awards\nThe 2009 Country Music Association Awards, 43rd Annual Ceremony, was held on November 11, 2009, at the Sommet Center (later the Bridgestone Arena) in Nashville, Tennessee and was hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood for the second time. Taylor Swift became the youngest person in CMA history to be nominated for and win Entertainer of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202372-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 County Championship\nThe 2009 County Championship season, known as the LV County Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the 110th County Championship season. It was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team played all the others in their division both home and away. The top two teams from Division Two were promoted to the first division for the 2010 season, while the bottom two sides from Division 1 were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202372-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 County Championship\nDurham County Cricket Club won the Championship for the second consecutive season. Worcestershire and Sussex were relegated from Division One, with Kent and Essex promoted in their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202372-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 County Championship, Standings\nFourteen points were awarded for each win, four points were awarded for a draw or abandonment. Defeats scored no points. Teams were awarded bonus points during the first 130 overs of their first innings; one bowling point for every three wickets taken (up to three points available), and one batting point gained when teams reached 200, 250, 300, 350 and 400 runs (up to five points available).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202373-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe Internationale de Nice\nThe 2009 Coupe Internationale de Nice (English: 2009 International Cup of Nice) was the 14th edition of an annual international figure skating competition held in Nice, France. It was held between November 4 and 8, 2009. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the levels of senior and junior. Unlike most other competitions, there was no compulsory dance segment in the ice dancing competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final\nThe 2009 Coupe de France Final was the 91st final of France's most prestigious cup competition, the Coupe de France. The final was played at the Stade de France in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on 9 May 2009 and was contested between Rennes of Ligue 1 and Guingamp of Ligue 2. Guingamp earned its first Coupe de France trophy after defeating Rennes 2\u20131 through two second-half goals from Eduardo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Background\nThis was Rennes' fifth appearance in the final, having won the cup in 1965 and 1971, and finishing as runners-up in 1922 and 1935. It was Rennes' first final playing under its new emblem and name having achieved the previous honours under the Universit\u00e9 Club emblem. This was Guingamp's second appearance in the final, having previously appeared in the 1997 final, losing to Nice on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Background\nThis was the first final since 1956 in which both finalists were based in the same region of France, Brittany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Background\nRennes was designated as the home team and wore their original red and black kit. Due to Guingamp having similar colours, both for home and away, they turned out in an all-white kit for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Match report\nThe first half of the 91st final of the Coupe de France was relatively equal early on, but it was Guingamp who attacked early on, with striker Eduardo forcing a fingertip save from Nicolas Douchez after he dislodged defender Rod Fanni in the 12th minute. This was followed up by a long-range chance from midfielder Lionel Mathis, which sailed wide left. Rennes was primarily held to taking long-range shots, however Moussa Sow tested Guillaume Gauclin in the 23rd minute, producing a shot which went just wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Match report\nThe best chance of the first half would come for Guingamp in the 31st minute when Wilson Oruma' cross into the box found an un-marked Richard Soumah, who forced a tremendous save from Douchez. Rennes responded in the 40th minute with J\u00e9r\u00f4me Leroy taking an unexpected shot from nearly 30 metres from goal; the shot went past goalkeeper Gauclin, but struck the post going out of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Match report\nThe second half began with a quick attack from Rennes. Capitalizing on a Guingamp turnover, Rennes started a counterattack led by Moussa Sow. Their chance, taken by Leroy, was shot straight at the Guingamp goalkeeper. In the 53rd minute, Rennes almost scored the first goal of the match again when Leroy found Sow. For the second time in the match, however, the shot from Sow hit the post after beating the goalkeeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Match report\nLeroy and Sow would be involved in another chance again from Rennes in the 65th minute: after a cross into the box, Sow attempted an overhead kick, but instead knocked the ball into the air and into the path of Leroy, who again blew a chance, sending the ball into the stands despite being about ten metres from goal. Rennes would finally score goal, following a free-kick into the box. The ball travelled passed everyone save for Carlos Bocanegra, who headed the ball past Gauclin to give Rennes a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202374-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Coupe de France Final, Match report\nWithin minutes, however, Guingamp would respond: following a Felipe Saad cross into the box, the ball landed at the feet of Peter Hansson who inadvertently redirected it into the path of Eduardo, who converted to even the match at 1\u20131. Ten minutes later, Eduardo would strike again when, after a scramble in the box, he found the ball at his feet and proceeded to take a driven, right-footed shot which ran under Douchez to give the Ligue 2 side a 2\u20131 lead. The goal eventually turned out to be the winner, giving the second division side its first ever Coupe de France title. Guingamp's victory also earned the club an appearance in the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202375-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de la Ligue Final\nThe 2009 Coupe de la Ligue Final was the 15th final in this young cup's history. The final was played at the Stade de France in Paris on 25 April 2009 was contested between FC Girondins de Bordeaux of Ligue 1 and Vannes OC of Ligue 2. This was the first meeting between the two clubs. This was Bordeaux's fifth appearance in the final having won in 2002 and 2007 and losing in the 1997 and 1998 editions of the cup. This was Vannes's first ever appearance in the cup final. With their appearance, Vannes were the first ever club to reach the final after beginning from the 1st round. Bordeaux won the match 4\u20130 after getting off to a fast start scoring their first three goals inside of 13 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202375-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Coupe de la Ligue Final, Match Report\nBordeaux got off to a fast start, in all aspects of the match, scoring in just the 2nd minute with the Brazilian Wendel chipping the ball over Vannes keeper Christophe Revel. Bordeaux then tripled their lead in a span of two minutes with Marc Planus scoring on a header off a corner kick from Wendel in the 10th minute and Yoan Gouffran scoring just his second goal for Bordeaux in the 12th minute off a free kick from Yoann Gourcuff, though the latter was first credited with the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202375-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Coupe de la Ligue Final, Match Report\nHowever, after looking at the replay, it was determined that Gouffran got a slight head on the ball redirecting it slightly. Gourcuff would get his goal in the 40th minute scoring on a right footed shot just outside the box. The ball deflected off a Vannes defender before going into the back off the net. This goal gave Bordeaux a 4\u20130 lead heading into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202376-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cowansville municipal election\nThe 2009 Cowansville municipal election was held on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Cowansville, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Arthur Fauteux was re-elected over former Brigham mayor Andr\u00e9 Leroux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202377-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup\nThe 2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Campos do Jord\u00e3o, Brazil between 3 and 9 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202377-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202377-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202377-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup, Champions, Doubles\nJoshua Goodall /  Samuel Groth def. Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva /  J\u00falio Silva, 7\u20136(4), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202378-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nBrian Dabul and Marcel Felder were the defending champions, but only Felder tried to defend his title. He partnered with Juan-Pablo Amado, but they lost to Joshua Goodall and Samuel Groth in the semis. Goodall and Groth won this tournament, by defeating Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva and J\u00falio Silva 7\u20136(4), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202379-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nBrian Dabul was the defending champion, but he chose to not participate this year. Horacio Zeballos defeated Thiago Alves 6\u20137(4), 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nThe 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that took place in April 2009 in South Africa. It was the final part of the Cricket World Cup qualification process for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nThe tournament is the renamed version of the ICC Trophy, and was the final event of the 2007\u201309 ICC World Cricket League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nThe following teams, who attained One Day International status from the previous World Cup, and who made up Division One of the World Cricket League qualified automatically. Kenya did not play in the last 2 qualifying tournaments as they were the first associate team to gain ODI status and thus qualified for the last 2 World Cups automatically but are no longer guaranteed ODI status and will once again need to compete in the qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nThe top four teams (previously 6) from this tournament qualified for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, while the top six teams gained One Day International or maintained One Day International status for the following four years and also automatically qualify for the ICC Intercontinental Cup. The bottom two teams were relegated to 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three. The final and the play-offs for third and fifth place were official ODIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nIreland won the tournament after beating Netherlands. Ireland, Netherlands, Canada and Kenya all qualified for the 2011 ICC World Cup. Despite not qualifying for the World Cup Afghanistan and Scotland secured ODI status and competed for 5th spot, with Afghanistan winning the playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams\nAs a result of the tournament, Afghanistan gained ODI status for the first time. Afghanistan had begun the ICC World Cricket League 2007-09 in the bottom division, but won the Division Five, Division Four and Division Three tournaments to qualify for this event, and ultimately win ODI status. Afghanistan replaced Bermuda as the sixth Associate Nation with ODI status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, Status of games\nAll matches played in this tournament have List A cricket status. Additionally, some matches have One Day International status; these matches are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, Status of games\nNone of the Super Eight matches were considered ODIs, even if played between teams who started or finished with ODI status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202380-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Teams, Status of games\nSignificantly, this meant that Afghanistan's Group Stage matches were not considered ODIs, but its 5th place playoff match against Scotland was considered an ODI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9\nThe 2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 was the 61st edition of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 stage race. It took place from 7 June to 14 June, and was part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar. It began in Nancy, France with an individual time trial, and ended in Grenoble. It began with a time trial, two flat stages and another time trial, and ended with four consecutive mountain stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Teams\nAs the Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 is a UCI ProTour event, the 18 ProTour teams are invited automatically. They were joined by BMC Racing Team, a Professional Continental team, to form the event's 19-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 1\n7 June 2009 \u2013 Nancy, 12.1\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 1\nThe course for the opening individual time trial was mostly flat, with the category four C\u00f4te du Haut-du-Li\u00e8vre coming after 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi). Three of the favourites for the final classification took the podium places, benefiting from improving weather after Iv\u00e1n Guti\u00e9rrez had held the lead for nearly an hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 2\n8 June 2009 \u2013 Nancy to Dijon, 228\u00a0km (142\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 2\nThis was the longest stage of the 2009 Dauphin\u00e9, and its profile is mostly flat. It saw very gentle undulation until the fairly steep descent from the category four C\u00f4te de Montcharvot, 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) from the finish. There was one other fourth-category climb on the stage. A group of five riders held an advantage over the peloton that reached more than six minutes, but they were caught in the last 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi). David Millar attempted a late escape, but he was overhauled by the sprinters, including stage winner Angelo Furlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 3\n9 June 2009 \u2013 Tournus to Saint-\u00c9tienne, 182\u00a0km (113\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 3\nThis was another largely flat stage, with four small category four climbs, including a relatively steep (though short) one about 40\u00a0km (25\u00a0mi) from the finish. A group of five riders escaped after 34\u00a0km (21\u00a0mi), and were able to stay more than a minute and a half clear of the main group to the finish. Niki Terpstra won in a sprint finish over his fellow escapees, and took the yellow leader's jersey from Cadel Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 4\n10 June 2009 \u2013 Bourg-l\u00e8s-Valence to Valence, 42.4\u00a0km (26.3\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 4\nThe second individual time trial is very similar to the first in profile, featuring only a single fourth-category climb. Bert Grabsch, the current time trial world champion, won the stage. Cadel Evans won the yellow jersey back beating last stage's yellow jersey winner Niki Terpstra, who fell and finished on a replacement bike, by over 5 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 5\n11 June 2009 \u2013 Valence to Mont Ventoux, 154\u00a0km (96\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 5\nThe first of the 2009 Dauphin\u00e9's four straight mountain stages sees the peloton ascend to the peak colloquially known as \"Mount Baldy\", some six weeks before the mountain hosts a critical stage finish in the 2009 Tour de France. There are three fourth-category climbs and a third-category climb on course, while the finish itself to Mont Ventoux is an Hors Categorie, or outside categorization climb. Sylwester Szmyd and Alejandro Valverde managed to break away on the ascent of Mount Ventoux, and worked to gain over a minute lead to Haimar Zubeldia. Szmyd took the stage win, while Valverde took the yellow jersey from Cadel Evans, who finished just over 2 minutes behind. After the stage, Ivan Basso dropped out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 6\n12 June 2009 \u2013 Gap to Brian\u00e7on, 106\u00a0km (66\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 6\nThis short stage features another outside categorization climb, the Col d'Izoard, which is visited 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) before the finish line. The fourth-category C\u00f4te du Ch\u00e2teauroux-les-Alpes is visited earlier on in the stage, and the finish into Brian\u00e7on is also a categorized climb. Fourteen men formed a breakaway early in the stage, and Pierrick F\u00e9drigo, Jurgen Van de Walle, St\u00e9phane Goubert and Juan Manuel G\u00e1rate broke free of the lead group on the ascent on Col d'Izoard. F\u00e9drigo won the stage, and Alejandro Valverde finished together with Cadel Evans, defending the yellow jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 7\n13 June 2009 \u2013 Brian\u00e7on to Saint-Fran\u00e7ois-Longchamp, 157\u00a0km (98\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 7\nThis is the queen stage of the 2009 Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, with two outside categorization climbs on course and a first-category climb to the finish in Saint-Fran\u00e7ois-Longchamp. The first of those outside categorization climbs is the Col du Galibier, which at 2,556\u00a0m (8,386\u00a0ft) is the highest point of the 2009 Dauphin\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 8\n14 June 2009 \u2013 Faverges to Grenoble, 146\u00a0km (91\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202381-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Stages, Stage 8\nThis is branded as a mountain stage, but it is significantly less imposing than the previous three stages. There are two third-category climbs within the first 57\u00a0km (35\u00a0mi) of the stage, along with the first-category Mont\u00e9e de Saint-Bernard-du-Touvet coming 27\u00a0km (17\u00a0mi) from the finish. After a rapid descent from that climb, there is a stretch of 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) to the finish that is mostly flat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202382-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Croatian Figure Skating Championships (Croatian: Prvenstvo Hrvatske za 2009) took place between December 20 and 21, 2008 in Zagreb. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202383-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian Football Cup Final\nThe 2009 Croatian Cup Final was a two-legged affair played between Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb. The first leg was played in Zagreb on 13 May 2009, while the second leg on 28 May 2009 in Split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202383-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian Football Cup Final\nDinamo Zagreb won the trophy after the penalty shoot-out after was an affair finished on aggregate result of 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202384-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian local elections\nThe 2009 Croatian local elections were held on 17 May, with the second round held on 31 May where necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202384-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian local elections\nThe elections were held to elect members of city councils, mayors, members of county councils and county prefects. These were the first elections in which mayors and county prefects were elected directly by popular vote, rather than by a majority coalition in the council. The new system allowed many independent politicians to run against big party nominees. Many cities elected independent mayors, most notable being Split, Croatia's second largest city and Ka\u0161tela. As a result many cities and counties elected opposite lists for mayoral and council elections causing a larger number of cohabitation local governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202384-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Croatian local elections, Election results\nThe Croatian Democratic Union won the largest number of cities and counties carrying ten prefect elections, thirteen in coalition, and fifteen council elections largely in coalition with the Croatian Peasant Party and the Croatian Social Liberal Party. The Social Democratic Party of Croatia won five prefect elections, seven in coalitions, and six council elections mostly in coalition with the Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats and the Istrian Democratic Assembly. The social democrats fared better in mayoral elections as well as in city council elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202384-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Croatian local elections, Election results\nThey made considerable gains in Dalmatia winning certain traditionally HDZ leaning cities such as Dubrovnik, \u0160ibenik and Trogir and also managed to win Vukovar, a city that was almost destroyed in the Croatian War of Independence and was since a HDZ stronghold. They also kept economically the most powerful parts of the country, Zagreb, Rijeka and, in coalition, Istria. HDZ lost Split and Osijek, the second and the fourth most populous cities in the country respectively, but held Zadar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202385-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThe 2009 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 43rd in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202385-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games\nThe 2009 CrossFit Games were the third annual CrossFit Games held on July 10-12, 2009 at a ranch in Aromas, California. The men's competition, with a field of 74 competitors, was won by Mikko Salo. The women's, with a field of 72, was won by Tanya Wagner. The team competition by Northwest CrossFit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games\nQualification events called the Regionals were introduced this year as the number of athletes who wanted to participate in the Games increased. 150 athletes qualified for the individual events, while nearly 100 teams in the Affiliate Cup which required no qualification. The Affiliate Cup became an official team competition this year with its own separate team-based events. Cuts in the number of athletes in the Games were introduced this year to reduce the field during the course of the competition. Each winner of the individual competitions received a prize of $5,000. This was also the first time steroid testing was included at the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Qualification\nDue to the increasing number of competitors, qualification events were initiated this year for individual athletes: 17 Regionals were held worldwide so competitors can qualify for the Games. This year there was also a \"last chance online qualifier\" \u2013 athletes who missed the Regionals can submit their videoed workouts via email. Among those who qualified this way was this year's podium finisher, Tommy Hackenbruck. Special invites were also given to the top 5 men and women from the 2008 Games and the champions of the 2007 Games. No qualification was required for the team events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition\nThe first five events took place Saturday, July 10, 2009, followed by the last three events on Sunday. For the first time, the number of athletes was cut during the Games. There were 74 men and 72 women at the start of the competition, and they were reduced progressively \u2013 the bottom 10 men and 10 women were cut after the Deadlift event and after the Row/Hammer Stake event, and only 16 men and 16 women were left after the fifth event Couplet to compete in the last three events on Sunday. This year the scoring system was changed to points awarded exactly the same as the placing, i.e. one point for first, two for second, etc. The competitor with the lowest total would be the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 1: Run\nDuring the run, the previous year's champion Jason Khalipa blacked out, collapsing a few times, but recovered enough to complete the race third from last. Chris Spealler won the men's event, and Sarah Dunsmore won the women's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 2: Deadlift\nA deadlift ladder \u2013 In 30-second intervals each competitor completes one deadlift in increasing 10 pound increments until they are unable to complete the lift or finish the ladder. The men started at 315 pounds and went up to 505 pounds while the women started at 185 pound and went up to 375 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 2: Deadlift\nDespite collapsing in the first event, Khalipa managed to win the Deadlift event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 3: Sandbag Hill Sprint\nA 170-meter hill sprint while carrying 35-pound sandbags, two bags for men and one for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 4: Row / Hammer Stake\nEach competitor completed a 500-meter row on a Concept-2 rowing machine, hammered a stake into the ground (4-foot for men and 3-foot for women), and then finished with another 500-meter row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 5: Couplet\nThis event consisted of three rounds of 30 wallballs and 30 squat snatches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 7: Triplet\nEach competitor had to complete as many rounds as possible in 8 minutes with each round consisting of 4 handstand  push-ups, 8 kettlebell swings, and 12 GHD sit-ups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Individual Competition, Event 8: Chipper\nThe competitors progressed through this event by completing the required number of repetitions of each movement before moving to the next movement. The event consisted of 15 cleans, 30 toes-to-bar, 30 box jumps, 15 muscle-ups, 30 dumbbell push press, 30 double-unders, 15 thrusters, 30  pull-ups, 30 burpees, and 300-foot walking lunges with a barbell plate held overhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Affiliate Cup\nFor the third annual CrossFit Games, the Affiliate Cup was awarded using a separate team based competition instead of awarding it to an affiliate with the top individual competitors. Teams only had to register in order to compete without the need to qualify prior to the games, and 96 teams competed. Team workouts consisted of two men and two women and the teams were allowed two substitute competitors on their roster. Scoring is the same as for the individual events, i.e. lowest points total wins the Games. The first three events took place on Friday, July 10, 2009, and the final event was on Sunday, July 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Affiliate Cup, Stadium Workout\nThe first movement was 30 wallballs completed relay style by all four competitors. Then each competitor had to simultaneously complete a 300 meter row on a Concept-2 rowing machine, 30 twenty-four inch box jumps, 30 kettlebell swings, and 30 dumbbell push press or push jerks with one competitor at each station at a time. Once each competitor had finished all movements the team moved on to the deadlift station where they each had to complete 30 deadlifts in a relay style.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Affiliate Cup, Hill Workout\nAn approximately 2500 meter hill run. Each competitor completes a 500 meter leg of the run followed by a final 500 meters run by the entire team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Affiliate Cup, North Pad Workout\nMaximum weight 3-repetition overhead squat plus maximum repetitions of  pull-ups combined over three attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202386-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 CrossFit Games, Affiliate Cup, The Final\nA combined chipper style workout consisting of 75 squat cleans, 150 toes-to-bar, 150 box jumps, 75 thrusters, 35 muscle-ups, 150 burpees, 150 double-unders, and 300-foot walking lunges with a 35lb. plate overhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202387-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Crown Royal 200 at the Glen\nThe 2009 Crown Royal 200 at the Glen was the ninth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Watkins Glen International on August 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202388-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russ Friedman 400\nThe 2009 Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400 was the tenth race in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, which took place on May 2, 2009 at the Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202388-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russ Friedman 400, Race recap\nBrian Vickers won his second pole position of the season. Kyle Busch won the 400 lap race in his Toyota on his 24th birthday, with Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, and Ryan Newman following. In total, there were 15 caution flags during the course of the race. Busch also won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race the previous day. This would also be the final start for Jeremy Mayfield, as he was suspended by NASCAR soon after for failing the drug policy rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202388-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russ Friedman 400, Television coverage\nThe race was telecast on Fox/Speed starting at 7 PM US EDT, because of baseball with radio coverage on Sirius Satellite Radio and MRN beginning at 7:30 PM US EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Transfers, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202389-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube season, Campeonato Brasileiro, League table, Results summary\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202390-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Crystal Skate of Romania\nThe 2009 Crystal Skate of Romania was the 10th edition of an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Romania. It was held between November 27 and 29, 2009 in Gala\u021bi. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202391-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cuban government dismissals\nIn March 2009, President Ra\u00fal Castro of Cuba dismissed numerous government ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202391-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cuban government dismissals, Theories, Economic reforms\nIn an article \"Purge Aims to Halt Cuba's Economic Free Fall\", written by Frances Robles and Wilfredo Cancio and published in the Miami Herald in March 2009, the authors suggested that the purge was to get rid of the people who may have stood in the way of economic reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202391-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cuban government dismissals, Theories, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\nFormer Mexican foreign minister Jorge Casta\u00f1eda Gutman, in his Newsweek article published in the March 23, 2009 issue, suggested that Hugo Ch\u00e1vez was plotting a coup in Cuba due to concerns that Raul Castro would make concessions that would betray the 50-year-old Cuban Revolution. However, \"long-time Cuba watchers expressed skepticism\" about this claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202391-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cuban government dismissals, Theories, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\nAccording to his thesis, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez asked Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the Dominican Republic to support the plot, but he declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election\nAn election to Cumbria County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. All 84 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. They coincided with an election for the European Parliament. All 84 seats in the Council were up for election, and a total of 301 candidates stood. The total number of people registered to vote was 392,931. Prior to the election local Conservatives were leading a coalition with the Liberal Democrats with the Labour party as the council's official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nIn the previous election, held on 5 May 2005, the Labour Party won 39 seats, the Conservative Party 32, the Liberal Democrats 11, and independents two. By the end of this term, the Liberal Democrats had lost one councillor, and there were three independents. As in the 2001 election, the Council was left hung. For most of these eight years, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition, although Labour is running a minority administration going into the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nOn a national level, the Conservative Party are polling well and have targeted Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness, although Richard Moss, BBC Political Editor for the North East and Cumbria, has said that an absolute majority is unlikely. It is considered to be a \"safer area\" than some of the other councils up for election in 2009, but the Liberal Democrats have also been making a push in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nIn 2008, the Council rejected the idea of having a directly elected mayor, instead opting for a cabinet-style administration that resembled the previous system. The new model will be adopted after this election. A proposal for the Council to become a unitary authority was made in 2007, and Cumbria went into consultation stage, although the idea was rejected. The plan was opposed by the district councils\u2014which would have disappeared under the arrangement\u2014of Carlisle, Allerdale, Eden, Copeland, South Lakeland, and Barrow-in-Furness, and Carlisle MP Eric Martlew, who believed that a referendum should have been held on the same day as the district council elections of 3 May 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nOther parties fielding candidates in the election included the British National Party (BNP), the Green Party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), and the People's Party, which had seen success in Barrow previous years, where all six of its candidates were standing. The BNP is set to stand in 42 wards, after fielding none in the 2005 election. The leaders of the Council's Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and People's Party groups all said that they felt the BNP would be unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nChristian church leaders also criticised the BNP for appealing to Christians in its campaigns, saying that the party was trying to stir up \"racial and religious hatred.\" Mike Ashburner, Barrow and South Lakeland organiser for the BNP and the party's Hawcoat candidate, denied that the BNP was a racist party, and said that the reason for standing in Cumbria was \"simply that our policies are so popular with people.\" In a 2007 by-election for the Kells and Sandwith (Whitehaven) ward, the party's candidate gained 40.1% of the vote, narrowly losing to the Labour candidate. Coming into the European elections, the BNP was perceived as having the best chance, nationally, to win a seat in the North West England constituency, where party leader Nick Griffin is running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nIn the Labour Party's manifesto, plans were set out to cap council tax increases at three per cent in each of the next four years; Council leader Stewart Young justified this by saying that people were not prepared to pay above the rate of inflation any more. The party promised improvements to schooling and roads, and Young said that he hoped the party would be judged on its record in office, and not by the performances for the incumbent UK Labour government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202392-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Cumbria County Council election, Background\nThe Conservatives pledged to have a blanket 30\u00a0mph speed limit in any village big enough to display a name sign, improved roads, and said that they would \"remodel\" Cumbria Care so that fewer elderly people felt the need to move into care homes. The Liberal Democrats said that they would introduce cheaper bus fees for young people, a clampdown on speeding, a review of road maintenance and the introduction of four new transport schemes, and schemes designed to give communities greater access to the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202393-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cup of China\nThe 2009 Cup of China was the third event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on October 29 \u2013 November 1. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202394-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 2009 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the 71st final of Romania's most prestigious cup competition. The final was played at the Stadionul Tudor Vladimirescu in T\u00e2rgu Jiu on 13 June 2009 and was contested between Liga I sides FC Timi\u015foara and the defending champions CFR Cluj. The final whistle saw CFR Cluj winning the cup after a three goals to nill margin and also defending last season trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202395-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cura\u00e7ao status referendum\nA status referendum was held in Cura\u00e7ao on 15 May 2009. The referendum was on whether to accept the proposed agreement on becoming an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands as part of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. It was approved by 51.99% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202396-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup First Division\nThe 2009 Absa Currie Cup First Division season was contested from 11 July through to 16 October. The Currie Cup is an annual domestic competition for provincial rugby union teams in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202396-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup First Division\nThe Currie Cup tournament (also known as the Absa Currie Cup for sponsorship reasons) is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202396-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup First Division\nThe 2008 Champions The Griffons won their first Currie Cup First Division trophy by winning the Currie Cup First Division Final, against the Platinum Leopards in Potchefstroom on 10 October 2008, by 31 \u2013 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202396-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup First Division\nThe 2009 Champions The Pumas won their second Currie Cup First Division trophy by winning the Currie Cup First Division Final, against the SWD Eagles in Witbank on 16 October 2009, by 47 - 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202396-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup First Division, Promotion/Relegation Matches, Round 2\nThe Pumas are promoted to the Premier Division while the Boland Cavaliers are relegated to the First Division. The Platinum Leopards retain their place in the Premier Division while the SWD Eagles remain in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202397-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup Premier Division\nThe 2009 Absa Currie Cup Premier Division season was the 71st season in the competition since it started in 1889. The competition was contested from 10 July through to 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202397-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup Premier Division\nIt was won by the Blue Bulls, who defeated the Free State Cheetahs 36-24 in the final at Loftus Versfeld. The Boland Cavaliers, who finished bottom of the Premier Division, were relegated after losing their promotion-relegation playoff to the First Division Champions, the Pumas, while the Leopards, who finished second from bottom in the Premier Division, narrowly retained their place in the top division after defeating the South Western District Eagles in the other playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202397-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Currie Cup Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation Matches, Round 2\nThe Pumas are promoted to the Premier Division while the Boland Cavaliers are relegated to the First Division. The Leopards retain their place in the Premier Division while the SWD Eagles remain in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202398-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis\nThe 2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil between 19 and 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202398-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202398-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis, Champions, Doubles\nTomasz Bednarek /  Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver /  Pere Riba, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202399-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis \u2013 Doubles\nRog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva and J\u00falio Silva were the defending champions, but only Dutra da Silva competed this year. He partnered with Andr\u00e9 Baran, but they lost to Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk in the semifinals. Polish pair won this tournament, after defeating Daniel Gimeno-Traver and Pere Riba 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202400-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyclus Open de T\u00eanis \u2013 Singles\nNicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa was the defending champion, but he chose to not compete this year. Guillaume Rufin won this tournament, after beating Pere Riba 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202401-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyprus Rally\nThe 2009 Cyprus Rally, officially 37th FxPro Cyprus Rally, was the third round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and was held between March 13 and March 15, 2009 in Limassol, Cyprus. S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Daniel Elena claimed the title and won the WRC's first mixed-surface round since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202401-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyprus Rally\nThe Cyprus Rally was last held in 2006, but was dropped along with Rally Australia in favour of new rallies such as Rally Norway, and Rally Ireland, and the returning Rally de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202401-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyprus Rally\nIts format changed to a mixed surface rally format from all-gravel rally. The Cyprus Rally was the first rally since Rallye Sanremo - Rallye d'Italia in 1996 to host a mixed surfaced event. Day 1 was contested on tarmac, while days 2 & 3 were contested on rough gravel roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202402-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Cyprus Women's Cup\nThe 2009 Cyprus Women's Cup was the second edition of the Cyprus Women's Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Cyprus. The tournament was won by England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202403-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Czech Lion Awards\n2010 Czech Lion Awards ceremony was held on 5 March 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 80]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202404-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 14\u201316 August 2009 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno. The MotoGP race was won by Valentino Rossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202404-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202405-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Czech Social Democratic Party leadership election\nThe Czech Social Democratic Party (\u010cSSD) leadership election of 2007 was held on 21 March 2009. Ji\u0159\u00ed Paroubek was reelected as party's leader when he received 74%. Paroubek was the only candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202406-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 C\u00f4te d'Ivoire Premier Division\nThe 2009 C\u00f4te d'Ivoire Premier Division season was the 49th edition of the top-tier competition of C\u00f4te d'Ivoire football. The season concluded on the 1 November 2009. ASEC Mimosas were crowned as the Champions for 22nd time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season\nThe 2009 D.C. United season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence. It began on March 22, 2009 with a 2-2 draw at the Los Angeles Galaxy and ended on October 22, 2009 at the Kansas City Wizards by the same 2-2 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season, Off-season, Draft\nThe 2009 MLS SuperDraft took place on January 15, 2009. With draft order determined by regular and post-season record, United received the sixth pick in each round. Additionally, United acquired the Colorado Rapids' first-round pick (#7 overall) and Houston Dynamo's second-round (#26 overall). United's fourth-round (#51 overall) pick went to Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season, Squad, First-team squad\nAs of August 25, 2009. For recent transfers, see List of transfers for the 2009 Major League Soccer season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202407-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 D.C. United season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202408-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 D1 Grand Prix series\nThe 2009 Gran Turismo D1 Grand Prix series was the ninth season for the D1 Grand Prix series and the fourth for the D1 Street Legal spinoff series. This year saw the return of the US series after its cancellation last year, its second season. The series began on March 29, 2009 at Ebisu Circuit for the D1GP and April 11 for D1SL at Bihoku Highland Circuit. The USA series consisted of four rounds and the first round was on May 2, 2009. The series concluded on December 5 as a D1SL point scoring round. Youichi Imamura took advantage of a non-score by Tsuyoshi Tezuka at the final round to claim the D1GP title in his Nissan Silvia. Meanwhile, in D1SL, Naoki Nakamura claimed that championship, also in a Silvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202409-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 DD45\n2009 DD45 is a very small Apollo asteroid that passed near Earth at an altitude of 63,500\u00a0km (39,500\u00a0mi) on 2 March 2009 at 13:44 UTC. It was discovered by Australian astronomers with the Siding Spring Survey at the Siding Spring Observatory on 27 February 2009, only three days before its closest approach to the Earth. Its estimated diameter is between 15 and 23 metres. This is about the same size as a hypothetical object that could have caused the Tunguska event in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202409-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 DD45\nBBC News Online cites the minimum distance as 72,000\u00a0km (45,000\u00a0mi) (about 1/5 lunar distances). 2009 DD45 passed farther away (40 thousand miles versus 4 thousand miles) but was substantially larger than 2004 FU162, a small asteroid about 6\u00a0m (20\u00a0ft) across which came within about 6,500\u00a0km (4,000\u00a0mi) in 2004, and is more similar in size to 2004 FH. With an observation arc of 7 days and an uncertainty parameter of 3, the asteroid will make its next close encounter with Earth on 29 February 2056 and then potentially around 3 March 2067.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea\nThe July 2009 cyberattacks were a series of coordinated cyberattacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States. The attacks involved the activation of a botnet\u2014a large number of hijacked computers\u2014that maliciously accessed targeted websites with the intention of causing their servers to overload due to the influx of traffic, known as a DDoS attack. Most of the hijacked computers were located in South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea\nThe estimated number of the hijacked computers varies widely; around 20,000 according to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, around 50,000 according to Symantec's Security Technology Response group, and more than 166,000 according to a Vietnamese computer security researcher who analyzed the log files of the two servers the attackers controlled. An investigation revealed that at least 39 websites were targets in the attacks based on files stored on compromised systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea\nThe targeting and timing of the attacks\u2014which started the same day as a North Korean short-range ballistic missile test\u2014have led to suggestions that they may be from North Korea, although these suggestions have not been substantiated. Researchers would later find links between these cyberattacks, the DarkSeoul attacks in 2013, and other attacks attributed to the Lazarus Group. This attack is considered by some to be the beginning of a series of DDoS attacks carried about by Lazarus dubbed \"Operation Troy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Timeline of attacks, First wave\nThe first wave of attacks occurred on July 4, 2009 (Independence Day holiday in the United States), targeting both the United States and South Korea. Among the websites affected were those of the White House, The Pentagon, the New York Stock Exchange, the Washington Post, the NASDAQ, and Amazon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Timeline of attacks, Second wave\nThe second wave of attacks occurred on July 7, 2009, affecting South Korea. Among the websites targeted were the presidential Blue House, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the National Intelligence Service and the National Assembly. Security researcher Chris Kubecka presented evidence multiple European Union and United Kingdom companies unwittingly helped attack South Korea due to a W32.Dozer infections, malware used in part of the attack. Some of the companies used in the attack were partially owned by several governments, further complicating attribution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Timeline of attacks, Third wave\nA third wave of attacks began on July 9, 2009, targeting several websites in South Korea, including the country's National Intelligence Service as well as one of its largest banks and a major news agency. The U.S. State Department said on July 9 that its website also came under attack. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said: \"I'm just going to speak about our website, the state government website. There's not a high volume of attacks. But we're still concerned about it. They are continuing.\" U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Amy Kudwa said that the department was aware of the attacks and that it had issued a notice to U.S. federal departments and agencies to take steps to mitigate attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Effects\nDespite the fact that the attacks targeted major public and private sector websites, the South Korean Presidential office suggested that the attacks were conducted with the purpose of causing disruption, rather than stealing data. However, Jose Nazario, manager of a U.S. network security firm, claimed that the attack is estimated to have produced only 23 megabits of data per second, not enough to cause major disruptions. That being said, web sites reported service disruptions for days following the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Effects\nLater, it was discovered that the malicious code responsible for causing the attack, Trojan. Dozer and its accompanying dropper W32.Dozer, was programmed to destroy data on infected computers and prevent the computers from being rebooted. It is unclear if this mechanism was ever activated. Security experts said that the attack re-used code from the Mydoom worm to spread infections between computers. Experts further shared that the malware used in the attack \"used no sophisticated techniques to evade detection by anti-virus software and doesn't appear to have been written by someone experienced in coding malware.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Effects\nIt was expected that the economic costs associated with websites being down would be large, as the disruption had prevented people from carrying out transactions, purchasing items or conducting business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nIt is not known who is behind the attacks. Reports indicate that the type of attacks being used, commonly known as distributed denial-of-service attacks, were unsophisticated. Given the prolonged nature of the attacks, they are being recognized as a more coordinated and organized series of attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nAccording to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, the source of the attacks was tracked down and the government activated an emergency cyber-terror response team who blocked access to five host sites containing the malicious code and 86 websites that downloaded the code, located in 16 countries, including the United States, Guatemala, Japan and the People's Republic of China, but North Korea was not among them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nThe timing of the attack led some analysts to be suspicious of North Korea. The attack started on July 4, 2009, the same day as a North Korean short-range ballistic missile launch, and also occurred less than one month after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1874, which imposed further economic and commercial sanctions on North Korea in response to an underground nuclear test conducted earlier that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nSouth Korean police analyzed a sample of the thousands of computers used by the botnet, stating that there is \"various evidence\" of the involvement of North Korea or \"pro-North elements,\" but said they may not find the culprit. Intelligence officials with the South Korean government warned lawmakers that a \"North Korean military research institute had been ordered to destroy the South's communications networks.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nJoe Stewart, researcher at SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit, noted that the data generated by the attacking program appeared to be based on a Korean-language browser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nVarious security experts have questioned the narrative that the attack originated in North Korea. One analyst thinks that the attacks likely came from the United Kingdom, while technology analyst Rob Enderle hypothesizes that \"overactive students\" may be to blame. Joe Stewart of SecureWorks speculated that attention-seeking behavior drove the attack, though he notes that the breadth of the attack was \"unusual.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202410-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 DDoS attacks against South Korea, Perpetrators\nOn October 30, 2009, South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, named North Korea as the perpetrator of the attack. According to head of the NIS Won Sei-hoon, the organization found a link between the attacks and North Korea via an IP address that the North Korean Ministry of Post and Telecommunications allegedly \"[was] using on rent (from China).\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202411-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe final of the 2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal season was held on 30 May 2009 at the Olympiastadion, Berlin. Werder Bremen won with a 58th-minute goal from midfielder Mesut \u00d6zil. This was the club's sixth DFB-Pokal in its history, after victories in 1961, 1991, 1994, 1999 and 2004. This was Bayer Leverkusen's DFB-Pokal final loss of the decade, the other occurring in 2002. Werder Bremen lost the 2009 UEFA Cup final ten days prior to the DFB-Pokal final, losing to Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202411-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202411-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202412-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 DPR Korea Football League\nStatistics of DPR Korea Football League in the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202412-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 DPR Korea Football League, Overview\nP'y\u014fngyang City won the championship. Chadongch'a and W\u014flmido were relegated to the 2nd level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202412-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 DPR Korea Football League, Cup competitions\nApril 25 won the seventh edition of the Man'gy\u014fngdae Prize, whilst second division side Ky\u014fnggong'\u014fp defeated Amrokkang 1-0 to win the Republican Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202413-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 DSB Bank\u2013LTO season\nThe 2009 season was the fifth for the DSB Bank-LTO cycling team, which started as DSB Bank in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202413-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 DSB Bank\u2013LTO season, Results in major races, Women's World Cup 2009\nMarianne Vos finished 1st in the individual and the team finished 2nd in the teams overall standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202413-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 DSB Bank\u2013LTO season, UCI World Ranking\nThe team finished 3rd in the UCI ranking for teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season\nThe 2009 season was Daegu F.C. 's 7th season in South Korea's K-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nThis season would transpire to be one of the worst, if not the worst, in the club's history. In a now expanded league of 15 clubs, thanks to new entrant Gangwon FC, Daegu would finish last. Jang Nam-Seok, who had played for the club since 2006 and has been a prolific scorer for the club, was appointed captain for the 2009 season. While defensively, there had been improvements, the club lost its attacking focus of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nThe leading scorer of the previous season, Lee Keun-Ho had completed his contract and moved to Japanese club J\u00fabilo Iwata and Eninho, who had been one of the club's best performing imports, transferred to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. Their replacements, \u00c9mile Mbamba and Lazar Popovi\u0107, were not of the same calibre, and would be released mid-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nOnly five games were won all season in the K-League. That even five games were won was fortunate, and this number is somewhat deceptive as it was as late as the 21st round that the club had but a single win. It was only a late season string of four consecutive wins that saved the club's blushes. This late season revival was far too late to lift the club from the foot of the table, from where it had been anchored since round 11 of the competition. An midseason incoming transfer, Leo would score four goals while midfielder draftee Lee Seul-Ki scored three goals from 25 games. That a midfielder playing as an occasional part-time forward would be the club's second highest scorer only highlighted the club's lack of offensive penetration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nIn the FA Cup, Daegu made it to the quarterfinals, beating Gyeongnam FC in a penalty shootout in the round of 16. In the quarterfinal itself, against Daejeon Citizen, the game finished as a one all draw, Daegu's goal coming from Lee Seul-Ki. For the second consecutive match, the result would come down to a penalty shootout. This time, Daegu lost out. In the league cup, now known as the Peace Cup Korea 2009 finished third in their group, one point away from qualifying for the knockout phase of the cup. Cho Hyung-Ik, another midfielder, would be the club's highest scorer in the competition with three goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nOff the field, Park Jong-Sun was elected as the third representative director of Daegu FC on 11 May 2009. Lee Dae-Sub and Choi Jong-Joon were the preceding representative directors. Daegu FC also signed a memorandum of understanding with the regionalised 4th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino B side Deportivo Coreano on 31 August 2009. It was hoped that this will lead to promising Argentinean players playing for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nThe 2009 season also saw a change in the club's kit provider; Joma replaced previous supplier Lotto Sport Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Season summary\nOn December 22, 2009, Daegu FC appointed Lee Young-jin as manager to lead the club for the 2010 season. Lee, who has previously coached FC Seoul, replaced Byun Byung-Joo who had been manager since 2006. Byun resigned after being embroiled in a scandal involving a player's agent and payoffs for selecting specific players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202414-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Daegu FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202415-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dahsyatnya Awards\nThe 2009 Dahsyatnya Awards was an awards show for Indonesian musicians. It was the first annual show. The show was held on April 19, 2009, at the Ancol Dome Carnaval Beach in Pademangan, North Jakarta. The awards show was hosted by Luna Maya, Raffi Ahmad, and Olga Syahputra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202415-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dahsyatnya Awards\nD'Masiv and Nidji led the nominations with four categories, followed by Peterpan, Project Pop and The Changcuters with three nominations. Peterpan was the biggest winner of the night, taking home two awards for Outstanding Band and Outstanding Video Clip for \"Walau Habis Terang\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202416-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dahuk governorate election\nGovernorate or provincial elections are due to be held in Dahuk Governorate in 2009 to replace the governorate council elected in the Iraqi governorate elections of 2005. The remaining governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan held elections on 31 January 2009. The election will follow the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally\nThe 2009 Dakar Rally was the 31st running of the Dakar Rally. In addition to motorcycle, automobile, and truck categories, a separate quad (all-terrain vehicle) class was added for the first time. The race began on 3 January 2009, and took place across Argentina and Chile. The rally was for the first time to take place outside of Europe and Africa as the location was changed by organizers due to concerns about possible terrorist attacks that resulted in the cancellation of the 2008 Dakar Rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally\n\u00c9tienne Lavigne, the race director of the rally, first announced the new race location in February 2008 around the same time as the replacement Central Europe Rally was held for competitors. He said, \"Dakar competitors are going to discover new territory, new scenery, but with the same spirit of competition and adventure, with very hard stages.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Entrants\n540 teams from 50 nations are competing in the race. Teams underwent administrative and technical checks in Buenos Aires between 31 December and 2 January. Afterwards, 217 motorcycles, 25 all-terrain vehicle, 177 cars, and 81 trucks driven by a total of 837 people were approved to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Route\nThe race began in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a symbolic start that took place on 2 January in downtown Buenos Aires, attracting an estimated crowd of 500,000 fans. The total racing distance is more than 9,578 kilometres (5,951\u00a0mi), of which 5,652 kilometres (3,512\u00a0mi) is timed special stage. There will be a rest day in Valpara\u00edso, Chile on 10 January. There are ten stages in Argentina, and three in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Route, Stages\nDue to heavy fog and the need to cross the border between Chile and Argentina, the competitive element of Stage 11 was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Stage results, Trucks\nTrucks did not compete in Stage 7. The timed part of Stage 11 was cancelled due to bad weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Accidents\nDuring the first stage of the rally, British driver Paul Green and co-driver Matthew Harrison were seriously injured when their Rally Raid UK car overturned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Accidents\nOn 7 January 49-year-old French motorcycle rider Pascal Terry was found dead in a remote area. He had been missing since the second stage of the rally, and the cause of death was determined as a pulmonary edema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Accidents\nOn the tenth stage on 13 January 48-year-old Spanish motorcyclist Crist\u00f3bal Guerrero was seriously injured after a heavy crash. 24 hours after the accident, he was reportedly still in a coma and in a critical condition. Guerrero's son Crist\u00f3bal junior competes in the World Enduro Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Accidents\nDuring stage twelve of 15 January, rally leader Carlos Sainz rolled his Volkswagen Toureg into a ravine, ending the race for the Spaniard and his French co-pilot, Michel Perin, who received a shoulder injury during the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Winners\nSpanish rider Marc Coma won his second Dakar Rally in the motorbike class while KTM scored their ninth consecutive win in the event, which also includes the Central Europe Rally in 2008 that KTM had won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Winners\nJosef Mach\u00e1\u010dek of the Czech Republic won the quad class driving a Yamaha vehicle. It was the first time in Dakar Rally history that the quad category competition was held in a separate class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Winners\nGiniel De Villiers of South Africa and his German co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz won the car category with Volkswagen. It was their first Dakar Rally victory and Volkswagen's second, the first since 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202417-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Dakar Rally, Winners\nThe Russian Kamaz crew of Firdaus Kabirov, Aydar Belyaev, and Andrey Mokeev won the truck category for their second time with Kamaz scoring their eighth victory and their first since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe 2009 Dallas Cowboys season was the 50th anniversary for the team in the National Football League. It was the team's first season playing at Cowboys Stadium. Their victory over the Oakland Raiders on November 26 extended their Thanksgiving winning streak to four in a row and also ended a three-game losing streak to the Raiders. They also ended the Saints' bid for a perfect season after a 13\u20130 start with a 24\u201317 victory on December 19, 2009. The Cowboys earned a playoff spot on December 27 after beating the Washington Redskins 17\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season\nOn January 3, 2010, the Cowboys clinched their division with a win over the Philadelphia Eagles, 24\u20130. In the wild-card round of the playoffs, the Cowboys once again defeated the Eagles, 34\u201314, to score their first playoff win since December 28, 1996 and finish the season sweep of all three games played against Philadelphia. They lost 34-3 to the Minnesota Vikings in the divisional round of the playoffs, ending their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Offseason\nThe 2009 NFL draft was one of the worst in the history of the Dallas Cowboys, with many experts comparing it unfavorably to the 1995 \"backup draft\", by calling it the \"special teams draft\". Entering the season, the team considered their special teams a glaring weakness, so they hired a new coach (Joe DeCamillis) and focused on drafting players who could contribute immediately on this unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Offseason\nThe Cowboys started the day without a first-round draft choice (part of the price to acquire Roy Williams) and then traded out of the second round after they couldn't draft center Max Unger, reaching a total of 12 picks, which was their most selections since the 1992 NFL draft. The eventual result was that the team couldn't find a starter in the group and most of the players drafted were waived by the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Offseason\nOn May 2, 2009 during the rookie mini-camp, the Cowboys air-supported roof practice field (a tent-like structure) collapsed during a storm that turned into a microburst. At the time of the incident, there were around 70 people inside (team personnel, coaches, rookie players and media), leaving 12 people injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Offseason\nThe most serious injuries were suffered by scouting assistant Rich Behm, who was left paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed, DeCamillis, the special teams coach, fractured one of his cervical vertebrae and Greg Gaither, the assistant athletic trainer, sustained a fracture to the tibia and fibula in his right leg. The facility was completely destroyed and was never rebuilt. After the incident fallout, Summit Structures, its parent company Cover-All Building Systems and the consulting firm JCI (helped design reinforcements) all filed for bankruptcy after serious structural flaws were found with the construction and manufacturing of the facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Cowboys began their season at Raymond James Stadium for a Week 1 duel with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the first quarter, Dallas shot first as kicker Nick Folk got a 51-yard and a 22-yard field goal. The Buccaneers responded in the second quarter as running back Carnell \"Cadillac\" Williams got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Cowboys regained the lead as quarterback Tony Romo completed a 42-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nDallas increased their lead in the third quarter as Romo completed a 66-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roy Williams. In the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay answered with running back Derrick Ward getting a 1-yard touchdown run, yet the Cowboys struck right back with Romo completing an 80-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Crayton, along with running back Marion Barber getting a 6-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Tampa Bay's rally only produced a 2-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Byron Leftwich to tight end Kellen Winslow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. New York Giants\nComing off their road win over the Buccaneers, the Cowboys would play their very first regular season home game at the new Cowboys Stadium. With an NFL-record regular season crowd on hand, Dallas would play a Sunday night game against their NFC East rival, the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. New York Giants\nIn the first quarter, Dallas trailed early as Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes got a 30-yard field goal. Dallas responded with running back Marion Barber getting a 2-yard touchdown run, but New York retook the lead as cornerback Bruce Johnson returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, the Giants added a Tynes 28-yard field goal to make the score 13\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. New York Giants\nThe Cowboys responded with a 1-yard Tony Romo touchdown pass to tight end Jason Witten, yet New York went back on top as quarterback Eli Manning completed a 22-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mario Manningham, this pass however was juggled but still ruled as a touchdown. Dallas closed out the half as kicker Nick Folk made a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. New York Giants\nThe Cowboys would regain the lead in the third quarter as Romo ran for a 3-yard touchdown. However, in the fourth quarter, the Giants again got the lead as Manning completed a 22-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith, followed by Tynes kicking a 36-yard field goal. Dallas responded with a 7-yard touchdown run from running back Felix Jones. The Giants would respond with a game-winning drive capped by a Lawrence Tynes field goal with no time left to seal a Giants victory and hand the Cowboys their first loss in their new stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Carolina Panthers\nHoping to rebound from their tough divisional loss to the Giants, the Cowboys stayed at home for a Week 3 Monday night duel with the Carolina Panthers. After a scoreless first quarter, Dallas trailed in the second quarter as Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dante Rosario. The Cowboys took control in the third quarter as kicker Nick Folk nailed a 24-yard field goal, followed by running back Tashard Choice getting a 5-yard touchdown run. Dallas pulled away with Folk's 19-yard field goal and cornerback Terence Newman returning an interception 27 yards for a touchdown (with Choice getting the 2-point conversion run).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Denver Broncos\nComing off their Monday night home win over the Panthers, the Cowboys flew to Invesco Field at Mile High for a Week 4 interconference duel with the Denver Broncos. Dallas would deliver the opening shots in the first quarter with kicker Nick Folk making a 49-yard field goal, followed by running back Marion Barber's 1-yard touchdown run. The Broncos would answer in the second quarter with quarterback Kyle Orton completing a 9-yard touchdown pass to running back Knowshon Moreno. After a scoreless third quarter, Denver would take control in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Denver Broncos\nThe Broncos would tie the game with a 28-yard field goal from kicker Matt Prater, and then they would take the lead with Orton's 51-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Marshall. The 'Boys would get a late game drive all the way down to Denver's 1-yard line, but the Broncos' defense would hold on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Kansas City Chiefs\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Broncos, the Cowboys flew to Arrowhead Stadium, donned their throwback uniforms, and played a Week 5 interconference duel with the Kansas City Chiefs. After a scoreless first quarter, Dallas would trail in the second quarter as Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop booted a 47-yard field goal and quarterback Matt Cassel hooked up with linebacker Mike Vrabel on a 1-yard touchdown pass. The Cowboys would close out the half with a 22-yard field goal by kicker Nick Folk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Kansas City Chiefs\nKansas City came out in the third quarter with Succop's 38-yard field goal, yet the Cowboys began to take control as running back Tashard Choice got a 36-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, Dallas took the lead as Folk nailed a 28-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Tony Romo completing a 59-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin. However, the Chiefs would tie the game with Cassel's 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe. In overtime, the 'Boys came out on top as Romo hooked up with Austin again on a game-winning 60-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Kansas City Chiefs\nAustin finished the game with 250 yards on 10 catches along with the two touchdowns, a Cowboy receiving record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Kansas City Chiefs\nWith the win, the Cowboys went into their bye week at 3-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nComing off their bye week, the Cowboys went home for a Week 7 duel with the Atlanta Falcons. Dallas would trail in the first quarter as Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan found wide receiver Roddy White on a 4-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, the Cowboys came out shooting as kicker Nick Folk made a 38-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Tony Romo completing a 59-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin and a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Crayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAtlanta tried to catch up in the third quarter with running back Michael Turner's 2-yard touchdown run, yet Dallas answered with Romo finding Austin again on a 22-yard touchdown pass. The Cowboys would increase their lead in the fourth quarter with Folk nailing a 46-yard field goal and Crayton returning a punt 73 yards for a touchdown. The Falcons tried to come back with Ryan's 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Eric Weems, yet Dallas closed out the game with Folk's 34-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their win over the Falcons, the Cowboys stayed at home for a Week 8 duel with the Seattle Seahawks. Dallas would trail early in the first quarter as Seahawks kicker Olindo Mare nailed a 43-yard field goal, yet the Cowboys answered with quarterback Tony Romo completing a 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sam Hurd. In the second quarter, Dallas increased their lead as running back Marion Barber got a 2-yard touchdown run. The Seahawks would reply with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck's 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Deion Branch, yet the Cowboys came right back with Romo's 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roy Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nDallas would greatly increase their lead in the third quarter with Romo hooking up with wide receiver Miles Austin on a 3-yard touchdown pass, followed by wide receiver Patrick Crayton returning a punt 82 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, the Cowboys solidified their win with kicker Nick Folk nailing a 40-yard field goal. Seattle would close out the game's scoring with Hasselbeck's 4-yard touchdown pass to fullback Justin Griffith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nCrayton would join \"Bullet Bob\" Hayes as the only Cowboys to have back-to-back games with a punt return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off their home win over the Seahawks, the Cowboys flew to Lincoln Financial Field for a Week 9 NFC East duel with the Philadelphia Eagles with both teams fighting for the division lead. Dallas would deliver the opening shot in the first quarter as running back Tashard Choice got a 2-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would answer in the second quarter as kicker David Akers made a 45-yard and a 48-yard field goal, yet the Cowboys came right back with a 22-yard field goal from kicker Nick Folk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Philadelphia Eagles\nPhiladelphia would take the lead in the third quarter as quarterback Donovan McNabb completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek. Afterwards, Dallas would regain the lead in the fourth quarter as Folk booted a 33-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Tony Romo hooking up with wide receiver Miles Austin on a 49-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles tried to rally as Akers nailed a 52-yard field goal, yet the 'Boys would run out the clock and grab the lead in the NFC East. This win was only the Cowboys third win in the last eleven games at Philadelphia and avenged a 44\u20136 blowout loss at Lincoln Financial Field in the 2008 season finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Green Bay Packers\nComing off a huge divisional win over the Eagles, the Cowboys flew to Lambeau Field for a Week 10 duel with the Green Bay Packers. After a scoreless first quarter, the Packers would acquire the only points of the opening half as kicker Mason Crosby booted a 48-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, Green Bay would extend their lead in the fourth quarter as quarterback Aaron Rodgers got a 1-yard touchdown run and threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Spencer Havner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Green Bay Packers\nDallas tried to rally as quarterback Tony Romo hooked up with wide receiver Roy Williams on a 9-yard touchdown pass, but the Packers' defense would shut down any further attempt. In this game, the Cowboys avoided a shutout in the final minutes. Their previous shutout was in 2003 against the New England Patriots in which they lost 12\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Washington Redskins\nHoping to rebound from their frustrating loss to the Packers, the Cowboys returned home for their Week 11 NFC East rivalry match against the Washington Redskins. After a scoreless first quarter, Dallas trailed early after Redskins kicker Shaun Suisham nailed a 45-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Suisham booted a 31-yard field goal to keep the Redskins in front, yet in the fourth quarter, Dallas took the lead with quarterback Tony Romo completing a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Crayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Oakland Raiders\nComing off their win over the Redskins, the Cowboys stayed at home for a Week 12 Thanksgiving duel with the Oakland Raiders. In the first quarter, Dallas began their dominating day with kicker Nick Folk booting a 36-yard field goal. The Cowboys would add onto their lead in the second quarter as running back Felix Jones got a 46-yard touchdown, followed by quarterback Tony Romo finding wide receiver Miles Austin on a 9-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Raiders would try to rally in the third quarter as quarterback Bruce Gradkowski completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, yet Dallas would pull away in the fourth quarter as Romo hooked up with wide receiver Roy Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Oakland Raiders\nRomo (18/29, 309 yards, 2 TDs), Austin (7 receptions, 145 yards, 1 TD), & tight end Jason Witten (5 receptions, 107 yards) were named CBS's All-Iron Award winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 13: at New York Giants\nComing off their Thanksgiving win over the Raiders, the Cowboys went to Giants Stadium for the final time to face off against their NFC East rival the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 13: at New York Giants\nWith a scoreless first quarter the Cowboys scored a field goal and touchdown by Tony Romo to Roy Williams. However, the Giants countered by scoring two touchdowns in the second quarter. Nick Folk missed a 57-yard field goal just before halftime. In the third quarter, both teams scored touchdowns and Nick Folk missed a 42-yard field goal which would have put the Cowboys in front. In the fourth quarter the Giants scored two touchdowns, one being a 79-yard punt return by Domenik Hixon. Dallas would score a late touchdown from Romo to Miles Austin but the game ended with the Giants sweeping the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New Orleans Saints\nHoping to end the two-game skid from their tough losses to the New York Giants and San Diego Chargers, the Cowboys went to the Superdome to take on the undefeated New Orleans Saints. The Cowboys took the lead in the first half by scoring two touchdowns with a 49-yard pass from Tony Romo to Miles Austin and a 3-yard touchdown run by Marion Barber. Outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware made a big play as he sacked Saints quarterback Drew Brees and caused the ball to be fumbled. Anthony Spencer recovered the ball to put it in Dallas' hands. The Saints only points of the half were from a 43-yard field goal by Garrett Hartley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New Orleans Saints\nIn the second half, the Cowboys scored their only touchdown in the third quarter with a two-yard touchdown run by Marion Barber. Finally in the fourth quarter New Orleans got a touchdown when running back Mike Bell scored from one yard out to make a 24\u201310 Dallas lead. Drew Brees also made a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lance Moore. After that, Nick Folk attempted a 24-yard field goal, but the kick was no good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New Orleans Saints\nWith a big advantage to take the lead as the clock was expiring, the Saints were driving for the game-tying score, but DeMarcus Ware made his second sack on Drew Brees, which again caused the ball to be fumbled. This time the ball was recovered by nose guard Jay Ratliff. With the ball in possession, Dallas took a knee to conclude the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 15: at New Orleans Saints\nWith a huge win over the once-undefeated Saints, the Cowboys extended their chances to make the playoffs and ended a two-game losing streak. They improved their record to 9\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Washington Redskins\nComing off a win over the New Orleans Saints, the Cowboys went to FedExField to take on the Washington Redskins. In the first quarter, Tony Romo made a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roy Williams. In the second quarter, Marion Barber made a 3-yard touchdown run. The Cowboys ended the first half of the game holding Washington to no points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Washington Redskins\nThe Cowboys got a 23-yard field goal in the second half by their new kicker Shaun Suisham who had played for the Redskins prior to the game. The Redskins continued to be scoreless and ended the game being shut out. This was the first shutout victory over the Redskins since the Cowboys beat them 27\u20130 on December 14, 2003, and the first time they swept the Redskins since the 2004 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Washington Redskins\nWith the victory, the Cowboys clinched a spot in the playoffs and improved from their final 9\u20137 record from the previous season. The win also closed the door on the 8\u20137 New York Giants, who had a 41\u20139 loss to the Carolina Panthers earlier that day. With the win, the Cowboys improved to 10\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off their shutout victory against Washington, the Cowboys stayed home for their regular season finale against the Philadelphia Eagles in a regular season-sealing claim for the NFC East crown. The Cowboys scored their first touchdown of the game when Tony Romo completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jason Witten in the first quarter. In the second quarter, wide receiver Patrick Crayton completed a 14-yard touchdown pass from Tony Romo. Shaun Suisham also nailed a 44-yard field goal. The Cowboys scored their final touchdown of the game when running back Felix Jones ran a 49-yard touchdown. The Eagles could not score the entire game with quarterback Donovan McNabb getting sacked four times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the victory, the Cowboys once again reclaimed first place in their division and improved to 11\u20135 to top off their regular season. This is the first time the Cowboys have swept the series since 2005, and also to snap Dallas's 9-regular season finale losing streak, as well as being the first time the Cowboys won a January game since 2000. The Cowboys would face off with the Eagles again in their first game of the playoffs the next week. This is also the first time Dallas posted back to back shutouts and Tony Romo broke his old team record for single season passing. They finished the regular season with an 11\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Wild-Card Game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nEntering the playoffs as the NFC's No. 3 seed, the Cowboys began their postseason run at home in \"Round 3\" against their rival, the No. 6 Philadelphia Eagles, in a rematch of their week 17 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Wild-Card Game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Dallas delivered the opening shot in the second quarter with quarterback Tony Romo completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end John Phillips. The Eagles responded with quarterback Michael Vick's 76-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jeremy Maclin when cornerback Mike Jenkins fell on the route. Then the Cowboys exploded with points, starting with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Tashard Choice, a 25-yard field goal from kicker Shaun Suisham, Romo's 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin and Suisham's second field goal of the quarter, from 48 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Wild-Card Game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nDallas went back to work in the third quarter with running back Felix Jones' 76-yard touchdown run. Philadelphia tried to rally in the fourth quarter as quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson, but the 'Boys would drain every last bit of hope needed for a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Wild-Card Game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Cowboys and Eagles combined to set an NFL record for the most penalty yards in a playoff game, ever. The two teams were penalized 23 times for 228 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Wild-Card Game: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the win, not only did the Cowboys improve to 12\u20135 and sweep three games from the Philadelphia Eagles, they finally won their first postseason game since 1996, and head coach Wade Phillips finally got his first postseason win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Divisional: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nComing off their three-game sweep over the Eagles, the Cowboys flew to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the NFC Divisional Round against the No. 2 Minnesota Vikings. Dallas would trail in the first quarter as Vikings quarterback Brett Favre completed a 47-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sidney Rice. The Cowboys would respond in the second quarter with kicker Shaun Suisham making a 33-yard field goal, but Minnesota struck again as Favre found Rice again on a 16-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Ryan Longwell getting a 23-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the Vikings pulled away in the fourth quarter with Longwell booting a 28-yard field goal, followed by Favre' 45-yard touchdown pass to Rice and an 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Post-season results, NFC Divisional: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith the loss, the Cowboys' season ended with an overall record of 12\u20136 and their first playoff win since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Movement\nAfter news reports about a 2007 shooting allegation surfaced, the Cowboys released talented but controversial cornerback Adam Jones on February 9, 2009. Their next move was to release backup quarterback Brad Johnson on February 26, 2009 and not to re-sign QB Brooks Bollinger. The Cowboys had been 1\u20133 when Johnson started in 2008. Two days later, the Cowboys traded starting cornerback Anthony Henry, age 32, to the Detroit Lions in exchange for quarterback Jon Kitna to back up starting quarterback Tony Romo. The same day the team signed five-time Pro Bowl, two-time second-team All-Pro linebacker Keith Brooking away from the Atlanta Falcons. The 33-year-old Brooking had led the Falcons in tackles the previous eight seasons, and he signed a three-year deal worth $7.8\u00a0million and includes $2.5\u00a0million guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 865]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Movement\nThe team lost starting defensive end Chris Canty to the New York Giants on March 1, 2009. To fill the need left by Canty's departure, the team signed former Chargers defensive end Igor Olshansky to a four-year, $18\u00a0million contract, with $8\u00a0million guaranteed on March 6, 2009. Linebacker Matt Stewart, who played for Wade Phillips in Atlanta, and had 108 tackles in 2003, signed a one-year contract on March 3, 2009. Stewart helped replace free-agent linebacker Kevin Burnett, who signed a two-year contract worth $5.5\u00a0million with a $2\u00a0million signing bonus to play for the San Diego Chargers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Movement\nOn March 4, 2009, the Cowboys cut Terrell Owens, a five-time All-Pro wide receiver who ranks second in NFL history in career touchdowns. The next morning, the team also released five-time Pro Bowl strong safety Roy Williams. Williams had struggled to excel in the 3\u20134 defense Phillips installed when he became head coach. The Cowboys bolstered its secondary in the wake of Williams' departure by signing strong safety Gerald Sensabaugh, who started 13 games in 2008 for the Jacksonville Jaguars, to a one-year, $1.75\u00a0million deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Movement\nIn April, the Cowboys addressed their restricted free agents, whose signing period ran through April 17, 2009. Offensive lineman Cory Procter signed a one-year tender offer on April 4, 2009. Defensive end Stephen Bowen also signed a tender offer two days later. Wide receiver Sam Hurd signed a one-year offer worth $1.545\u00a0million on April 20, 2009. The team signed their final restricted free agent, wide receiver Miles Austin, and both exclusive-rights free agents, running back Alonzo Coleman and tight end Rodney Hannah, to one-year contracts worth $1.54\u00a0million, $385,000, and $310,000 respectively on April 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Movement\nThe team released thirty-four-year-old, Pro-Bowl defensive end Greg Ellis on June 2, 2009. The move saved the Cowboys $4.15\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202418-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cowboys season, Players, Free agents in 2009\nRFA: Restricted free-agent, UFA: Unrestricted free-agent, ERFA: Exclusive rights free agent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202419-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dallas Cup\nThe 2009 Dallas Cup will be the 30th since its establishment, 12 teams entering in the tournament. The competition is sponsored by Dr Pepper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202420-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dally M Awards\nThe 2009 Dally M Awards were presented on Tuesday 8 September 2009 at the State Theatre in Sydney and broadcast on Fox Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202420-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dally M Awards, Dally M Awards\nThe Dally M Awards were, as usual, conducted at the close of the regular season and hence do not take games played in the finals series into account. The Dally M Medal is for the official player of the year while the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' of \"people's choice\" player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202421-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Damallsvenskan\nThe 2009 Damallsvenskan was the 22nd season of the Damallsvenskan, the highest level of professional women's football in Sweden, with 12 teams competing. The season ran from 25 March to 7 November. For the first time in five years the league had a new champion in Link\u00f6pings, as Ume\u00e5 IK did not manage to win the league for a fifth time in a row. Newly promoted Pite\u00e5 and Stattena were both relegated. G\u00f6teborg's Linnea Liljeg\u00e4rd finished as the season's top scorer with 22 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum\nA referendum on changing the Danish Act of Succession, the rules governing the succession to the Danish throne, was held in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland on 7 June 2009, simultaneously with the election to the European Parliament, in Denmark proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum\nThe law, which passed with 85.4% of the popular vote, eliminates male-preference primogeniture in favour of absolute primogeniture, resulting in sons losing precedence over daughters in the line of succession. The law did not affect anyone in the line of succession at the time of the referendum: the Queen's two children are both male, as is the Crown Prince's eldest child, born in 2005. However, had the referendum not been successful, Prince Vincent, who was born in 2011, would have been higher in the line of succession than Princess Isabella, born in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, In parliament\nUnder the rules for change of constitution, the law must be passed by two Parliaments, before and after an election, and then approved by a referendum. The law was passed in 2006 with only one abstention (Simon Emil Ammitzb\u00f8ll of the Social Liberal Party, who later formed his own party, Borgerligt Centrum). The law was passed again by the new Folketing elected in 2007 on 24 February 2009 with two abstentions (of the left-wing Enhedslisten). It was then submitted to a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Relation to constitution\nNo changes would be made to the constitution and \u00a72 would continue to refer to the Act of Succession of 1953 even though that reference would become invalid. Jens Peter Christensen, then Professor of administrative law at the University of Aarhus and now a member of the Danish Supreme Court, has described this as \"a mess\" and as an \"overly clever\" way for then\u2013Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to signal that the government  will oppose any other changes to the constitution. At the same time Christensen emphasizes that he has no doubt that the procedure is legal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Prognosis for referendum\nChanges to the act of succession in Denmark follow the same rules as changes to the constitution. First, it must be passed by parliament, then passed in unchanged form by the next parliament following parliamentary elections, and then be submitted to a public referendum. In order for the law to be approved in the referendum, it must get both a majority of votes cast in favour and at least 40% of all eligible voters voting in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Prognosis for referendum\nAlthough an opinion poll from May 2005 showed a majority of 77% in favour of the change, it would not guarantee passage of the bill. In fact turnout at the preceding European Parliament elections in 2004 was so low (47.6%), that even a 77% margin in favour would not take the proposal past the 40% threshold. However, turnout increased and at midnight on the election night with most votes counted, the threshold had been passed and the law was certain to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Campaign and positions\nIn late May, the government launched an official campaign, costing 5 million kroner. It was instantly criticised for being one-sided, undemocratic and patronising. The Prime Minister's Department admitted the official campaign video is an imitation of a sketch from the British comedy show Harry Enfield's Television Programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Campaign and positions\nAccording to historian Steffen Heiberg in a Ritzau story on 1 June 2009, Queen Margrethe II herself is \"rather opposed\" to the change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Results\nAs the electorate was 4,042,185, and the minimum threshold of passing was 40 percent of the electorate, at least 1,616,874 people must have voted in favor of the change, while maintaining a majority in votes cast. 85.4% voted for the change, whilst 14.6% voted against change. The referendum had a 58.3% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Results\nThe number of blank and invalid votes was much higher in big cities, especially Copenhagen. If based on the local results from Copenhagen alone, the change would not have passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202422-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum, Results\nPrime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen stated that the referendum \"was important for gender equality\" and \"a strong signal that shows that we want to be a society where men and women have the same opportunities, whether it is for ordinary people or princes and princesses\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202423-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Cup Final\nThe 2009 Danish Cup Final was the final and deciding match of the 2008\u201309 Danish Cup. It took place on Thursday 21 May 2009 at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. The then-leader in the Superliga F.C. Copenhagen met AaB, who was in 7th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202423-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Cup Final\nF.C. Copenhagen won the match 1\u20130 on a 31st-minute goal by midfielder William Kvist, securing the club their fourth cup title after they won in 1995, 1997 and 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202423-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Cup Final\nThe two clubs also met in the 2004 final, that also ended in a 1\u20130-win for Byens Hold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202423-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Cup Final\nPeter Rasmussen refereed the match in front of a crowd of 29,249 in a Parken being rebuilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202424-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Danish Figure Skating Championships (Danish: Danske Mesterskaber 2009) was held at the Esbjerg Sk\u00f8jtehal in Esbjerg from 5 to 7 December 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the levels of senior, junior, novice, and the pre-novice levels of debs, springs, and cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202425-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Individual Speedway Championship\nThe 2009 Danish Individual Speedway Championship was the 2009 edition of the Danish Individual Speedway Championship. The final was staged over two rounds, at Vojens and Fjelsted, and was won by Nicki Pedersen. It was Pedersen's sixth national title, taking him level with Hans Nielsen in second place on the all-time list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202425-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish Individual Speedway Championship, Event format\nThe competition started with two quarter finals, with four progressing to the semi-final from each. The top six then officially qualified from the semi-final, joining nine seeded riders and a wild card in the final series. The final series was held over two rounds, with the top four scorers from the two rounds then competing in a Grand Final. The points from the Grand Final were then added to the total score and the overall winner was the rider with the most total points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections\nThe Danish local elections of 2009 were held on 17 November 2009. Councils were elected in Denmark's 98 municipalities and the five regions. 2468 seats were contested in the municipal elections (previous election: 2522 seats). 205 seats were contested in the regional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections, Legal basis\nThe electoral details are laid down in the municipal and regional electoral act. The elections are overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections, Results, Results of regional elections\nThe Ministry of interior informed that voter turnout was 65.7%. The regions are not municipalities, and are not allowed to levy any taxes, but are financed only through block grants from the central government and the municipalities within each region. The results of the regional elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections, Results, Results of municipal elections\nThe Ministry of interior informed that voter turnout was 65.8%. The results of the municipal elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections, Results, Results of municipal elections, Mayors in the municipalities\nThe mayors (Danish:Borgmester; plural:Borgmestre) of the 98 municipalities heads the council meetings and is the chairman of the finance committee in each of their respective municipalities. Only in Copenhagen, this mayor - the head of the finance committee and council meetings - is called the Lord Mayor (Danish:Overborgmester).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 98], "content_span": [99, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202426-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Danish local elections, Results, Old and new mayors in the municipalities\nThe term of office for the mayors elected by the majority of councillors among its members in each municipal council is the same as for the councils elected. The correct name for the municipality on the somewhat remote island of Bornholm is Regional Municipality, because the municipality also handles several tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202427-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Danmark Rundt\nThe 2009 Danmark Rundt was a men's road bicycle race held from 29 July to 2 August 2009. It was the 19th edition of the men's stage race, which was established in 1985. The race was won by Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang of Team Saxo Bank, making this his second consecutive victory in the race. Maurizio Biondo of Ceramica Flaminia finished second by just three seconds with Roger Hammond of Cerv\u00e9lo third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202427-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Danmark Rundt, Teams\nFifteen teams took part in the 2009 race. Team Columbia-HTC was due to compete but withdrew as it was unable to field a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202427-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Danmark Rundt, Final classifications\nDanish rider Jakob Fuglsang won the race by three seconds from Maurizio Biondo after a solo victory in stage 3 on the Kiddersvej climb in Vejle. Although Biondo was able to contest the race on the individual time trial, Fuglsang was able to maintain his lead on the final stage. Roger Hammond was placed third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202427-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Danmark Rundt, Final classifications\nThe points winner was Matti Breschel with Troels Vinther the winner of the mountains classification for best climber. Rasmus Guldhammer won the white jersey for the best young rider award and Allan Johansen was awarded the fighters award for the race. Team Saxo Bank won the overall team competition by seven seconds from Cerv\u00e9lo with Team Capinordic in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202428-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dartmouth Big Green football team\nThe 2009 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Dartmouth tied for second-to-last in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202428-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dartmouth Big Green football team\nIn their fifth consecutive year under head coach Eugene \"Buddy\" Teevens, his 10th year overall, the Big Green compiled a 2\u20138 record and were outscored 282 to 161. Tim McManus and Peter Pidermann were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202428-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dartmouth Big Green football team\nThe Big Green's 2\u20135 conference record tied with Yale for sixth place in the Ivy League standings. Dartmouth was outscored 170 to 118 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202428-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dartmouth Big Green football team\nDartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202429-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors\nThe 2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 40th edition of the event known that year as the Davidoff Swiss Indoors, and was part of the 500 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, from 2 November through 8 November 2009. Novak Djokovic won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202429-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202429-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202430-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nMahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20133, against Bob and Mike Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202431-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but he lost in the final against Novak Djokovic 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 2\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup\nThe 2009 Davis Cup was the 98th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. Sixteen teams participated in the World Group and more than one hundred other took part in different regional groups. Spain won their fourth Davis Cup trophy, defending the title they had won the previous year. It is the first year that the ITF awarded ATP rankings points to the players competing in the World Group and related Play-Offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, World Group Play-offs\nThe eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties, and eight winners of the Group I second round ties compete in the World Group Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Europe/Africa Zone, Group III\n\u2020 Relegations to Group IV were ultimately not enforced, as Groups III and IV were reorganized into Group III (Europe) and Group III (Africa) for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\nThe Davis Cup World Group and World Group Play-Off matches awarded ATP Ranking points from 2009 to 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\nOnly live matches earn points; dead rubbers earn no points. If a player does not compete in the singles of one or more rounds he will receive points from the previous round when playing singles at the next tie. This last rule also applies for playing in doubles matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\n1 A player who wins a singles rubber in the first day of the tie is awarded 5 points, whereas a singles rubber win in tie's last day grants 10 points for a total of 15 available points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\n2 For the first round only, any player who competes in a live rubber, without a win, receives 10 ranking points for participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\n3 Team bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 7 live matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\n4 Performance bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 8 live matches in a calendar year. In this case, no Team bonus is awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202432-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup, Point Distribution\n5 Team bonus awarded to an unchanged doubles team who wins 4 matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202433-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone is one of three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202434-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202434-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group I\nIn the Americas Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202435-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202435-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II\nIn the Americas Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202436-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202436-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III\nIn the Americas Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202436-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Format\nThere will be a Round Robin with eight teams. The eight nations will be divided into two pools of four. The top two teams in each pool will advance to the Final Pool of four teams from which the two highest-placed nations are promoted to Americas Group II in 2010. The bottom two teams of each pool of the Round Robin will compete against each other in the Relegation Pool. The two lowest-placed nations are relegated to Americas Group IV in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202437-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV\nThe Americas Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202437-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV\nIn the Americas Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202437-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV, Format\nThe five teams will compete against each other in a Round Robin pool. The top two nations will be promoted to Americas Group III in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202438-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone\nThe  Asian and Oceanina zone is one of three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202438-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group III\nTop two teams advance to 1st\u20134th Play-off, bottom two teams advance to 5th\u20138th Play-off. Scores in italics carried over from pools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202439-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I\nThe Asian and Oceanian Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202439-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I\nIn the Asian and Oceanian Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202439-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I, Third Round Matches, Australia vs. India\nAustralia refused to play the tie due to security concerns in Chennai, so India advance to the World Group Playoffs via forfeit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202440-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II\nThe Asian and Oceanian Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202440-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II\nIn the Asian and Oceanian Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202441-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III\nThe Asian and Oceanian Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202441-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III\nIn the Asian and Oceanian Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202441-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Format\nThere will be a Round Robin with eight teams. The eight nations will be divided into two pools of four. The top two teams in each pool will advance to the Final Pool of four teams from which the two highest-placed nations are promoted to Asia and Oceania Group II in 2010. The bottom two teams of each pool of the Round Robin will compete against each other in the Relegation Pool. The two lowest-placed nations are relegated to Asia and Oceania Group IV in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202442-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV\nThe Asian and Oceanian Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202442-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV\nIn the Asian and Oceanian Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202442-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Format\nThere will be a Round Robin where the twelve teams will compete in two pools. The winner of each pool will be promoted to the Asia and Oceania Group III in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202443-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone\nThe European and African Zone is one of three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202444-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I\nThe European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202444-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I\nIn the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202445-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II\nThe European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202445-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II\nIn the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202446-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III\nThe European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202446-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III\nIn the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202446-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Format\nThe fourteen teams will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. There will be a Round Robin with eight teams in each section. The eight nations will be divided into two pools of four. The top two teams in each pool will advance to the Final Pool of four teams from which the two highest-placed nations are promoted to Europe and Africa Group II in 2010. The bottom two teams or the bottom team of each pool of the two Round Robins will compete against each other in the Relegation Pool. The lowest-placed nations are relegated to Europe and Africa Group IV in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202447-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV\nThe European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202447-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV\nIn the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202447-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV, Format\nAll seven nations will play in a Round Robin. The top four nations will be promoted to the Europe and Africa Group III in 2010. After Uganda and Gabon withdrew, the format did not change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202448-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup World Group\nThe World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2009. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, and the winners progress to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinalists were guaranteed a World Group spot for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202448-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup World Group, First round, Sweden vs. Israel, Controversy and riots\nSweden attracted controversy when they forbade fans from seeing the matches inside the Baltic Hall, fearing anti-Israeli violence. Several Swedish politicians, including the mayor of Malm\u00f6 and the head of the Green Party, said that they wanted to cancel the match instead of having an Israeli team play in the city, but after it was strongly pointed out that Sweden would suffer a forfeit loss and immediate elimination from the Cup tournament, the prospect of a cancellation was nixed. A proposal to move the matches to Stockholm fell through because of limited preparation time. Israeli player Andy Ram condemned the switch, calling it a \"stupid decision\". In the end, anti-Israel protesters rioted outside the stadium while the Swedish team was stunned when Israel defeated them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202448-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup World Group, First round, Sweden vs. Israel, Controversy and riots\nThe Davis Cup fined the Swedish tennis federation $25,000 and ordered them to pay an additional $15,000 in what would have been gate receipts. The city of Malm\u00f6 was also banned from hosting Davis Cup matches for the next five years, and Sweden will lose its choice of venue if it happens again, being required to guarantee that future matches will be open to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202449-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs\nThe World Group Play-offs were the main play-offs of 2009 Davis Cup. Winners advanced to the World Group, and loser were relegated in the Zonal Regions I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202449-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, Teams\nBold indicates team has qualified for the 2012 Davis Cup World Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500\nThe 2009 Daytona 500, the 51st running of the event, was held on February 15, 2009, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first points-paying race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the last 500 of the 2000s decade. The race was won by Matt Kenseth, making a car numbered 17 winning the race for the first time in 20 years since Darrell Waltrip's win back in 1989 and the first Daytona 500 win for Roush Fenway Racing. The race was called off with 48 laps to go after a severe rainstorm that had been lingering throughout the area hit the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500\nThis marks the first Daytona 500 without The Petty family and the first without Dale Jarrett since 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Defending champions\nFor the first time since 1981, the defending race champion driver and the team have been split. Ryan Newman, the champion driver, drove for Stewart Haas Racing in the No. 39 Chevrolet Impala. The team that he won with, Penske Racing, fielded the No. 12 Dodge Charger with David Stremme behind the wheel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Defending champions\nThe last time a driver and team split was when Buddy Baker drove for Harry Ranier Racing in winning the 1980 event, but the next year was the driver of Hoss Ellington's No. 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Defending champions\nFormer winners Kevin Harvick (2007), Michael Waltrip (2001, 2003), Jeff Gordon (1997, 1999, 2005), Bill Elliott (1985, 1987), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2004), Jimmie Johnson (2006), and Ryan Newman (2008) did race in the event finishing second, seventh, thirteenth, twenty-third, twenty-seventh, thirty-first, and thirty-sixth respectively. Derrike Cope (1990) and Geoff Bodine (1986), also former winners, failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nThe Daytona 500 is the only event with a unique qualifying system on the NASCAR circuit. In the primary qualifying, only the front row (the pole position and the second-fastest driver) are locked into the race positions. Since 2005, NASCAR's top 35 owners points standings from the previous season automatically qualify those teams (not the drivers) into the event. The top two teams that are not within the owners' Top 35 automatically qualify in the Gatorade Duels, a pair of 150 miles (240\u00a0km) races. This is followed by a combination of last years' owners' points, pole qualifying speed and if needed, a past champions' provisional fills out the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nQualifying\u2022 One round of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series timed qualifying will be held. Each team may run two laps with the fast lap setting the qualifying time. The two fastest qualifiers set starting positions one and two and are the only guaranteed positions, filling the front row for the Daytona 500. \u2022 The Gatorade Duels, the 150-mile qualifying races, will determine starting positions for the Daytona 500 beyond the front row. In the event of cancellation, the field will be set according to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rule Book.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nGatorade Duel Assignment\u2022 The eligible highest ranked 35 in 2008 car owner points will be assigned to Gatorade Duel races based on their standing in the 2008 final car owner points. Odd-numbered owner points will compete in the first Gatorade Duel; even-numbered owners will compete in the second. The only exception is that the fastestqualifier will start on the pole in the first Gatorade Duel and the second-fastest will start on the pole in the second, regardless of 2008 car owner point standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\n\u2022 Owners who failed to finish in the top 35 of the 2008 car owner points will be assigned to a Gatorade Duel based on qualifying times\u00a0\u2013 the highest qualifying owner to the first Duel; the next to the second and alternating through the remaining entries. Starting positions for the Gatorade Duels are based onqualifying times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nDaytona 500 Lineup\u2022 Finishing positions in the Gatorade Duels will determine starting positions in the Daytona 500 once the two fastest qualifiers will start on the front row of the Daytona 500 based on their qualifying times, regardless of their finish in the Duels. Based on their finish in the first Duel, the eligible highest ranked 35 in car owner points plus the two highest finishing non-top 35 teams will be lined up in the odd-number starting positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nBased on their finish in the second Duel, the eligible highest ranked 35 in car owner points plus the two highest finishing non-top 35 teams will be lined up in the even-number startingpositions. \u2022 The remaining positions will be filled based on qualifying times beginning with the next available position. \u2022 The composition of the front row will reduce the above numbers. If there are top-35 teams on the front row, the number of guaranteed starters is reduced accordingly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nIf there are no top-35 teams on the front row, the number of cars that get in based on time is reduced accordingly. \u2022 The 43rd starting position will be assigned to any car owner who has the most recent eligible past NASCAR Sprint Cup champion as long as the past champion competed in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. If the 43rd position is not used by a past champion, it will be assigned to the next highest qualifying time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Qualifying\nRecapThe bottom line\u00a0\u2013 for the 2009 Daytona 500\u00a0\u2013 is that the top-two qualifiers are in. The remaining top-35 guaranteed starters are in. Four drivers will make the field based on their performance in the duels and the remaining positions will be filled based on qualifying times or being a past champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Pre-Race\nCountry singer Keith Urban performed a concert on the infield singing \"Days Go By\", \"Sweet Thing\", and \"Better Life\". Urban tossed his guitar pick into the crowd at the end of his performance. The first episode of the miniseries \"The Adventures of Digger and Friends\" premiered during the FOX pre-race coverage; Keith Urban's \"Little Digger,\" the theme song to \"The Adventures of Digger and Friends,\" also premiered. However, from there on, Digger would draw much opposition, including sites, forums, and blogs warning FOX about his use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Pre-Race\nThe Grand Marshal was the Florida Governor Charlie Crist. RCA Records recording artist Gavin DeGraw sang the USA National Anthem, and actor Tom Cruise drove the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro pace car to the start of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nDuring the drivers' meeting, NASCAR announced there would be a competition caution on lap 25 because of overnight rain. Despite threatening weather, the race started at 3:30\u00a0pm, with the green flag at 3:41\u00a0pm, waved by three-time champion Bobby Allison as the \"Martin and Martin\" front row led the field to the start of the race. Martin Truex, Jr. led the first lap and Mark Martin led the next one before being passed by Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nThe first caution came out on lap 9 when Aric Almirola got tapped from behind by David Ragan and spun near the entrance to pit road, nearly collecting Travis Kvapil. The race restarted on lap 11, with Busch still leading; Busch would remain there until lap 53 when Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed him for the lead. With the help of his Busch (his former teammate), Tony Stewart passed Earnhardt, Jr. for the lead while entering turn 4. Shortly after, Travis Kvapil smacked the wall twice on lap 55, bringing out the third caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nEarnhardt, Jr. missed his pit stall and lost a lap because he was forced to pit again. Tony Stewart came out of the pits with the lead, until being passed by Jeff Gordon on lap 70. On lap 72, Ryan Newman was in the pits changing tires under green flag conditions when somehow the car fell off the jack while changing the left-side tires. Newman's crew had to use two jacks to lift the car off the ground and complete the pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0012-0003", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nOn lap 80, Daytona 500 rookie Joey Logano avoided Scott Speed losing control out of turn 4 but made contact with the front of Greg Biffle's car, causing him to crash head-on into the inside retaining wall on the front stretch, ending his day. Busch won the race off pit road edging ahead of his teammate Denny Hamlin by over half a car length, while Hermie Sadler reported bad weather about 40 minutes away from the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nGreen flag pit stops began on lap 113 when Gordon over tire wear concerns, and his crew changed tires on lap 113, with the rest of the field on lap 119. David Stremme blew a tire on pit road as soon as his teammates Reed Sorenson and Elliott Sadler exited. Sadler wound up in 2nd and Sorenson in 3rd while the entire field had to pit one lap later. Earnhardt, Jr. mistakingly made his second pit stop in Lap 121 by completing his pit stop with his right front tire over the outside boundary line of his pit box, resulting in a one-lap penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nOn lap 124, the race for the beneficiary resulted in the \"Big One\". This began when Earnhardt, Jr. spun Brian Vickers into traffic toward the end of the backstretch, collecting race dominator Busch and his brother Kurt, Robby Gordon, Jamie McMurray, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Scott Speed, and Earnhardt, Jr.'s teammate Jimmie Johnson. R. Gordon's car slid in front of Earnhardt, Jr. within a couple of feet of contact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nMany of Earnhardt Jr.'s fans, the Daytona 500 participants, and the drivers believed that the contact was done intentionally; and many fans (including those of the No. 88 fans) and drivers (such as Vickers, Ku. and Ky. Busch, R. Gordon, Hamlin, and McMurray gave NASCAR requests and calls to black-flag Earnhardt, Jr.  Earnhardt was penalized on two counts by NASCAR; first, he was sent to the tail end of the longest line for overaggressive driving, and the ensuing penalty meant he was not granted the beneficiary as a result. (A driver cannot cause the caution to be granted the beneficiary.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nBrian Vickers was angry and said when interviewed \"To wreck somebody intentionally like that in front of the entire field is really kind of dangerous. That's my biggest problem with it. But, apparently, (Earnhardt, Jr.) wanted a caution pretty bad.\" Both Vickers and Earnhardt, Jr. were a lap down before the wreck occurred, and Earnhardt, Jr. was unaware that he was battling Vickers for the position. At this time, Kevin Harvick pushed Matt Kenseth into a battle for first between Kenseth and Sadler. On lap 138, Jeff Burton smacked the wall, collecting Paul Menard. Burton was then black-flagged for having a piece of sheetmetal hanging from his bumper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nOn lap 146, Matt Kenseth took the lead from Sadler a lap after the action resumed. Almirola was then spun by Kasey Kahne after Almirola made contact with Sam Hornish, Jr. on the backstretch. At this time, rain began to fall on the track under the yellow. On lap 152, the cars came into pit road under the red flag. Some drivers exited their cars while others, including Kenseth, remained in theirs. During the red flag period, asked what happened with Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. said, \"I got a run on him and he (Vickers) saw me coming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nI had a big old run on him and I went to the inside. I didn't try to make any late move and make some kind of surprise or anything. I just kind of ease on over and he went to block me and hit me in the fender sending us both off, sent me down into the grass and I tried to recover my car. I got back into him coming back into the racetrack.\" When asked what happened was accidental, Earnhardt, Jr. was unrepentant and said, \"Yeah, it was accidental. I didn't want to wreck the field.\" Later that week, Earnhardt Jr. gave a public apology for the incident and decided that he should have thought before he made his move that obviously would have crashed Vickers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nAt 6:49\u00a0pm. EST, sixteen minutes after the start of the red flag, NASCAR officials decided to call the race declaring Kenseth as the winner. \"It's going to be really wet out here because I'm crying like a baby,\" said Kenseth moments after the race was called. \"I tell you what, after last year, winning a race means a lot to me,\" Kenseth later said who was winless in 2008. Harvick, winner of the Bud Shootout, was second. Richard Petty Motorsports drivers A. J. Allmendinger (#44), Sadler (#19), and Reed Sorenson (#43) finished 3rd, 5th, and 9th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Race\nMichael Waltrip had the best finishing Toyota in the 7th. Stewart was 8th in his first race as a driver and team owner. Truex, Jr. finished 11th, J. Gordon (Gatorade Duel No. 1 winner) finished 13th, Marcos Ambrose (in his first 500 starts) finished 17th, Johnson (the defending Series champion) finished 31st, Speed (the high-finishing rookie) finished 35th, Ryan Newman (the defending 500 winners) finished 39th, Ky. Busch (who led the most laps at 88 and won Gatorade Duel #2) finished 41st because of him being involved in the lap 124 multi-car crash, and Logano (also in his first Daytona 500 start also) finished 43rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202450-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona 500, Race summary, Starting lineup\n* \u2013 NASCAR rules state that if a car, engine, or transmission change is made by the team, that car starts the race in the back of the field. For the Daytona 500, the rule applies to a car if a crash takes place in the Gatorade Duel or in the Friday or Saturday practice. An engine or transmission change is permitted after the Gatorade Duel, so the engine and transmission used in Friday practice must be used in Saturday practice and the race. The penalty for an engine or transmission change applies only if a second engine change is made after the Gatorade Duel once Friday practice begins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202451-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona AMA Superbike Championship round\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Tassedethe (talk | contribs) at 21:15, 20 June 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202451-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona AMA Superbike Championship round, Schedule\nWednesday March 49:00am  \u2013 9:30am Practice   SuperSport (SC)9:45am \u2013 10:45am Practice    American Superbike (SC)11:15am \u2013 12:15pm Practice   SunTrust Moto-GT (LC)12:30pm \u2013 1:30pm Practice  Daytona SportBike (LC) 1:30pm  \u2013 2:30pm Mid -day Break2:30pm  \u2013  3:30pm Practice   SuperSport3:45pm  \u2013  4:45pm Practice   American Superbike with Safety Car5:15pm  \u2013  6:15pm Practice   SunTrust Moto-GT6:30pm  \u2013  8:00pm Practice  Daytona SportBike with Safety CarThursday March 58:00am \u2013 9:00am Qualifying  SunTrust Moto-GT9:15am \u2013 9:45am Basic Qualifying Daytona Sportbike10:15am \u2013 10:45am Basic Qualifying American Superbike11:00am \u2013 11:30am Qualifying  SuperSport11:45pm \u2013", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202451-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona AMA Superbike Championship round, Schedule\n12:30pm SuperPole American Superbike12:30pm \u2013 1:30pm Mid-day Break12:40pm Autograph Session \u2013 American Superbike, Daytona Sportbike and SunTrust Moto-GT in the Sprint FANZONE1:30pm  Opening Ceremonies - SuperSport2:00pm 35-Mile Race SuperSport3:00pm  Opening Ceremonies - American Superbike3:30pm  50-Mile Race American Superbike6:30pm SuperPole Daytona SportBikeFriday March 62:00pm \u2013 2:30pm Warm-Up  SunTrust Moto-GT2:45pm \u2013 3:15pm Warm-Up  Daytona SportBike3:30pm Opening Ceremonies - SunTrust Moto-GT4:00pm 2  Hour Race SunTrust Moto-GT7:15pm Opening Ceremonies - Daytona SportBike8:00pm Daytona 200 By Honda Cumguzzler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202451-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Daytona AMA Superbike Championship round, AMA Pro American Superbike, Results\n1. Mat Mladin (Suz GSX-R1000), 15 laps2. Neil Hodgson (Hon CBR1000RR), -1.027 seconds3. Tommy Hayden (Suz GSX-R1000), -1.0284. Larry Pegram (Duc 1098R), -10.1175. Blake Young (Suz GSX-R1000), -16.0086. Ben Bostrom (Yam YZF-R1), -16.2137. Aaron Yates (Suz GSX-R1000), -16.3638. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), -28.358, ran off track9. Michael Laverty (Suz GSX-R1000), -28.43310. Geoff May (Suz GSX-R1000), -31.58411. Jeff Wood (Suz GSX-R1000), -47.20112. Aaron Gobert (Hon CBR1000RR), -57.27013. Hawk Mazzotta (Suz GSX-R1000), -58.85714. Chris Ulrich (Suz GSX-R1000), -58.95015. Jeff Tigert (Hon CBR1000RR), -58.97016. Scott Jensen (Suz GSX-R1000), -67.58617. Barrett Long (Duc 1098R), -67.62218. Scott Greenwood (Suz GSX-R1000), -67.94219.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202451-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Daytona AMA Superbike Championship round, AMA Pro American Superbike, Results\nShane Narbonne (Suz GSX-R1000), -68.04620. Mark Crozier (Yam YZF-R1), -71.55621. Brett McCormick (Suz GSX-R1000), -77.90722. Brad Hendry (Duc 1098R), -79.44023. Dean Mizdal (Suz GSX-R1000), -93.97324. Reno Karimian (Suz GSX-R1000), -93.94425. Shawn Higbee (Buell 1125R), -1 lap26. Johnny Rock Page (Yam YZF-R1), -1 lap, 17.135 seconds27. Josh Graham (Yam YZF-R1), -1 lap, 27.72528. David Loikits (Suz GSX-R1000), -1 lap, 41.84729. Davie Stone (Hon CBR1000RR), -2 laps30. David Anthony (Suz GSX-R1000), -7 laps, DNF31. Taylor Knapp (Suz GSX-R1000), -11 laps, DNF, mechanical32. Jake Holden (Hon CBR1000RR), -12 laps, DNF33. Ryan Elleby (Suz GSX-R1000), -13 laps, DNF", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202452-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dehradun encounter case\nThe Ranbir Singh fake encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in the Uttarakhand state of India, took place on 3 July 2009, and involved fake encounter killings of Ranbir Singh, a 22-year-old MBA graduate in Dehradun. Delhi court has convicted 17 officers of the Uttarakhand Police for killing in a 2009 fake encounter that had rocked the hill state. This is the highest number of police personnel to be convicted in a fake encounter case in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202452-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dehradun encounter case, Detail\nRanbir Singh was a 22-year-old MBA graduate from Ghaziabad, who went to Dehradun on 3 July 2009 to take up a job. Where, he caught with his friends at Mohini Road in Dehradun and allegedly trying to commit a crime by Uttarakhand Police. According to Ranbir's father Ravindra Singh his son had been shot 29 times by the police. Police later held a press conference where they claimed to have murdered a gangster who escaped into the forest after snatching the revolver of a policeman who stopped his bike at a checkpost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202452-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dehradun encounter case, CBI enquiry and conviction\nThe 18 cops had been chargesheeted by the CBI in December 2009. On 9 June 2014, all guilty policemen had been sentenced for life imprisonment. Earlier on 6 June 2014 court had found seven of them guilty for murder, 10 of them for criminal conspiracy and kidnapping to murder and another one was convicted only for destruction of evidence. On 6.2.18 the Hon'ble Delhi High Court in appeal confirmed life sentence of 7 policemen out of 17 which were originally given life sentence by trial court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe 2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and played their home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. Their record of 6\u20135 (4\u20134 CAA) was an improvement upon 2008 in which the team had its worst season by losses in its 117-year football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Recruiting\nThe biggest coup for the University of Delaware in the off-season was the addition of quarterback Pat Devlin, a transfer from Penn State and former high school All-American out of Downingtown East High School. In high school Devlin is Pennsylvania's all-time leading passer with 8,162 yards. He was named the 2005 Pennsylvania Class AAA Player of the Year and the Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year and earned a No. 4 ranking among prep quarterbacks nationally by Scout.com. He also was a named a Parade magazine All-American and played in the prestigious Big 33 Football Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Recruiting\nDelaware also signed 20 recruits including four defensive linemen, four offensive linemen, three defensive backs, three linebackers, two runningbacks, two wide receivers, one quarterback, and one tight end. The recruits hail from seven states, including five from Pennsylvania, four each from New Jersey and Florida, three from Maryland, two from Virginia, and one each from Delaware and New York. The 2009 class matched the all-time high total of 20 signed by Coach Keeler in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, West Chester\nAfter two years as a backup quarterback at Penn State, Pat Devlin made his debut as starting quarterback for the Blue Hens. Devlin completed 12 of 15 passes for 227 yards with two touchdown passes and also ran for a third. The Fightin' Blue Hens defense held the West Chester offense, ranked #17 in Division 2, to 176 total yards while securing the shutout. Mark Mackey led the team with 83 receiving yards, while redshirt freshman David Hayes rushed for 57. With a comfortable 35\u20130 lead in the third quarter, the Blue Hens brought out the backups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Richmond\nDelaware squared off against #1 Richmond on Saturday September 12 in front of 20,000 plus fans, with the Spiders coming off a big win over the Duke Blue Devils. Delaware's defense opened the scoring by forcing a punt which resulted in a muffed snap that went over the Richmond punters head in the end zone. The punter kicked the ball out of the back of the end zone to prevent a Delaware touchdown, and UD took a 2\u20130 lead. On the ensuing drive the Blue Hens managed to get into field goal range and made the score 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Richmond\nAfter another UD field goal put them up 8\u20130, Richmond drove down the field with the half winding down and scored a touchdown to cut the lead to 8\u20137. After trading defensive stops, UD forced a fumble in the red zone and the offense punched it in for touchdown putting Delaware up 15\u20137. Richmond was able to drive down the field in the 4th quarter for a touchdown and went for a 2-point conversion to tie it, but the conversion failed and Delaware led 15\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Richmond\nRichmond again managed to get down the field and the Delaware defense again held them to a field goal, putting Richmond ahead 16\u201315. After defensive stops by both teams, the Richmond punter muffed a punt that failed to cross the 50. With the excellent field position, Pat Devlin completed a pair of passes to get Delaware to the 12-yard line with under 2 minutes to play. After three straight rushing plays to run time off the clock, UD set up for the field goal with 32 seconds to play. The Richmond defense however was able to block the 29-yard field goal attempt to preserve a close 16\u201315 win in a hard fought CAA game. The blocked field goal made ESPN's Top Ten Highlights for Saturday as the #2 play of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Delaware State\nIn the first regular season meeting between the two schools in the new Route 1 Rivalry, over 20,000 fans were in attendance for the noon kickoff of the intrastate game. The first quarter saw UD score a touchdown on their opening drive, a 1-yard rush by quarterback Pat Devlin at the 7:41 mark of the first quarter. The drive had initially stalled and kicker John Striefsky had missed a 42-yard field goal attempt wide left, however, the Delaware State Hornets were called for a personal foul on the play, giving UD 15 yards and a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Delaware State\nThe Hornets answered by driving down the field themselves, but had to settle for a 42-yard field goal by kicker Riley Flickinger, a career long. After trading punts several times and a 44-yard field goal attempt by Delaware State missed wide right, the Blue Hens were able to move the ball to the 1-yard line with 1.5 seconds left in the first half. The Blue Hens decided to go for the touchdown and the Hornets made a goal line stop as time expired in the first half with the aid of a questionable call by the officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Delaware State\nIn the second half the offenses again moved the ball up and down the field but were still unable to punch it in for a score, with Delaware State reaching the Blue Hens 18-yard line before an interception. Late in the third Delaware took over the ball at their own 30-yard line after stopping the Hornets on downs and executed a 4 play 70-yard drive for a touchdown that again ended with a Pat Devlin 1-yard run to extend the lead to 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Delaware State\nDelaware State again moved into Blue Hens territory for the third straight time, but again turned the ball over as a fumble by Jason Randall on the Delaware 25-yard line was recovered by UD and returned to the 41. The Hens then drove down the field on five plays ending with a Pat Devlin 17-yard touchdown pass to freshman Rob Jones, increasing the lead to 21\u20137. Delaware State attempted to answer back, driving down the field into scoring range only to turn the ball over again after a Flickinger's 35-yard field goal attempt was blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0004-0004", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Delaware State\nDelaware State finally got a break, however, as on the ensuing drive Pat Devlin's pass went off the hands of a receiver and was intercepted by free safety Jerome Strums who raced 71 yards down the field for the Hornets first touchdown, cutting into the lead 21\u201310. After an excellent kickoff return, UD needed just 3 plays to pick up 23 yards for another touchdown as Leon Jackson rushed for a 3-yard touchdown making it 27\u201310 with 3:36 left in the game. Delaware State was able to muster one final drive as Delaware State quarterback Anthony Glaud kept the ball himself for a 1-yard rushing touchdown with 31 seconds left in the game to complete the scoring at 27\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, William & Mary\nThe #5 William & Mary Tribe put up 458 total yards of offense, including a 91-yard touchdown pass to set a record as the longest in school history, in their 30\u201320 victory over UD. The Tribe scored first on the 91-yard pass as W&M receiver Chase Hill got by the Blue Hens corner Marcus Burley, who was making his first career start in place of the injured Tyrone Grant. Hill would again beat Burley for the Tribe's second touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, William & Mary\nThe Fightin' Blue Hens were held to \u22122 yards rushing, the first time they were held to negative yardage rushing since a playoff game against Grambling in 1973. Although statistically Pat Devlin had a good performance, finishing 33\u201349 for 302 yards and 3 touchdowns, Delaware scored only 1 touchdown before the final 2:37 of the game. The William & Mary defense forced Delaware to punt 9 times in their first 11 possessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Maine\nThe Fightin' Blue Hens managed to bounce back from a their loss to William & Mary and secure their first conference win in Orono, Maine against the Black Bears. UD quarterback Pat Devlin passed for 329 yards and a touchdown, a 79-yard pass in the first quarter to Mark Duncan who had missed the previous game to William & Mary. Duncan finished with four receptions for 145 yards to lead all UD receivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Maine\nRunning back David Hayes led the way for the Hens ground game with 106 yards rushing including a 25-yard touchdown, while Leon Jackson added 61 yards on 23 carries for two touchdowns, including the go ahead score on a 2-yard run to put Delaware in the lead for good. Maine quarterback Warren Smith was 23-for-36 with 258 yards passing, and threw two touchdowns but had two interceptions for the Black Bears. Landis Williams led the Maine offense catching 10 passes for 104 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Massachusetts\nPat Devlin threw four touchdown passes as the unranked University of Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens defeated the #12 Massachusetts Minutemen 43\u201327. The scoring began with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Mark Mackey, however, UMass was able to block the PAT. Three minutes later, Delaware again drove down the field ending with a 22-yard touchdown pass to Mark Duncan. On the ensuing UMass drive, Marc Burley recovered a fumble and returned it 42-yards for a touchdown to give Delaware a 20 to 0 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Massachusetts\nOn their final drive of the quarter, UMass was able to drive down the field and set up Armando Cuko for a 51-yard field goal to bring the score to 20\u20133. The second quarter saw UD's Jon Striefsky hit a 22-yard field goal to bring the score to 23\u20133 heading into halftime. In the third quarter, Armando Cuko hit a 37-yard field goal to bring the score to 23\u20136. Delaware quickly answered with Pat Devlin throwing a 4-yard touchdown pass to Trevor Mooney and a 27-yard touchdown pass to Mark Duncan, giving Delaware a 37\u20136 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Massachusetts\nIn the fourth quarter, UMass got the offense going with mainly backups playing. Kyle Havens threw a 4-yard touchdown to Andrew Krevis early in the fourth and Delaware drove back down the field leading to another Striefsky field goal from 24 yards out, making the score 40\u201313. Emil Igwenagu then caught a 52-yard pass from Kyle Havens as UMass closed the gap to 40\u201320, but UD was able to use up several minutes of the game clock as the drove down the field for a 23-yard Striefsky field goal to give Delaware a 43\u201320 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Massachusetts\nWith under a minute to play, UMass scored for the final time on a 20-yard pass from Scott Woodward to Aaron Frears to end the scoring at 43\u201327. Striefsky's three field goals tied the schools season game record on the same night he set the record for most field goals in a career with 33. The win snapped an 8-game losing streak to top 25 opponents for the Blue Hens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Towson\nThe #23 Fightin' Blue Hens cruised to a 49\u201321 victory over Towson in the rain on October 17. The Blue Hens were up 49\u20130 before Towson scored their first points in their homecoming game. Quarterback Pat Devlin completed 9 of 15 passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Leon Jackson scored three rushing touchdowns, including a 2-yard run on the opening drive that completed an 11-play 80-yard drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Towson\nAfter forcing Towson to punt from their own 6, Delaware started from the Towson 26-yard line and Devlin found wide receiver Mark Duncan on the next play for a 14\u20130 lead with 12:57 remaining in the half. On the ensuing drive, Delaware drove down the field and Jackson again punched it in from 2-yards out. Delaware scored again on a 43-yard pass from Devlin to Duncan and capped the first half when free safety Charles Graves returned an interception 90 yards for a touchdown and a 35\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, Towson\nTo open the second half, Delaware's Jerry Butler returned the kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown. At the end of the third quarter Jackson rushed 1-yard to end Delaware's scoring with a 49\u20130 lead. Tigers running back Dominique Booker and backup quarterback Tom Chroniger each got their first career touchdowns for Towson in the fourth quarter. Tremayne Dameron later added a 1-yard touchdown run to finish the game at 49\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, James Madison\nQuarterback Pat Devlin was sacked eight times and intercepted twice as the #16 Blue Hens playoff chances were dealt a major blow in a rainy homecoming game. The James Madison Dukes came into Delaware Stadium with a 1\u20135 record and had not won in Newark since 1994. The only scoring in the first half for either team came on a 34-yard field goal early in the second quarter by Delaware's John Striefsky. Early in the first quarter the Blue Hens had attempted a fake field goal from the James Madison 9-yard line, but were stopped short of the first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, James Madison\nThe Dukes took a 7\u20133 lead on the first drive of the third quarter when quarterback Justin Thorpe rushed into the endzone on a 12-yard option keeper to close a six-play, 75-yard drive. Striefsky kicked a 31-yard field goal to bring Delaware back within 7\u20136, however JMU answered back, with Thorpe throwing 7 yards to tight end Charlie Newman with 3:18 left in the third quarter for the touchdown. A 53-yard pass to Rockeed McCarter set up the touchdown, however the Dukes missed the extra point and led 13\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Game summaries, James Madison\nJames Madison drove 83 yards on 14 plays to score on Jamal Sullivan's 3-yard rush with under 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter to stretch the lead to 20\u20136. The Dukes defense then held off the Blue Hens offense and an intentional safety by the Dukes completed the scoring for a 20\u20138 loss for the Blue Hens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202453-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, Roster\nJim HofherOffensive coordinator / quarterbacksDamian WroblewskiOffensive line / Assistant head coach", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202454-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, and was part of the International Series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida, United States, from February 23 through March 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202454-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships\nThe field was headlined by ATP No. 21 and San Jose finalist Mardy Fish, Auckland finalist Sam Querrey, and 2008 Moscow titlist Igor Kunitsyn. Other top seeds competing were Ernests Gulbis, Steve Darcis, Florent Serra, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy and Lu Yen-hsun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202454-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a special exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202454-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Marcelo Melo /  Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202455-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nMax Mirnyi and Jamie Murray were the defending champions, but did not compete together that year. Mirnyi partnered with Ashley Fisher, but lost in the first round to Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan. Murray partnered with Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107, but lost in the quarterfinals to Rajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, over Marcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202456-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nKei Nishikori was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202456-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nIn the final, Mardy Fish defeated Evgeny Korolev, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election\nThe 2009 Democratic Party leadership election was held in July\u2013November 2009, following the resignation of Walter Veltroni in February 2009, after 16 months as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election\nPier Luigi Bersani, a former minister in several centre-left governments hailing from the Italian Communist Party (then Democratic Party of the Left and Democrats of the Left), was elected secretary in an open primary on 25 October. Three million Democratic supporters turned out to vote and it was a real fight between three candidates, with Bersani winning with only 53% of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election\nBersani was declared new secretary of the party during the first meeting of the party's new national assembly elected on 7 November 2009. On that occasion Rosy Bindi was elected president of the party (with Marina Sereni and Ivan Scalfarotto vice-presidents), while Enrico Letta and Antonio Misiani were nominated deputy-secretary and treasurer, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Background and rules\nVeltroni, a former leader of the Democrats of the Left and Deputy Prime Minister in Prodi I Cabinet, was elected in an open primary election in 2007 by a landslide, but left the post of leader after a series of electoral defeats one and a half years before the natural conclusion of his term. He was replaced by his deputy, Dario Franceschini, a former left-wing Christian Democrat hailing from Democracy is Freedom \u2013 The Daisy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Background and rules\nCandidates were required to present their candidacies by 31 July 2009. From that point til the end of September party members voted in local conventions, choosing between the candidates and electing the delegates for the national convention. Under party rules the candidates who receive the support of at least the 15% of voting party members in local conventions or in any case the three most voted candidates, provided that they had received at least 5% of the vote, qualify for the second round of the race and have the chance to present their platform at the national convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Background and rules\nAfter the national convention, that was scheduled on 11 October, the selected candidates stood in an open primary election, held on 25 October, with all Italian citizens aged at least 16 and non-Italian legal residents being eligible to vote. Voters elected also the national assembly of the party and the regional secretaries and assemblies. If no candidate was to get more than 50% of the vote, a run-off between the two most voted candidates would have taken place in the national assembly, scheduled within two weeks from the primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Candidates\nThe candidacy of Marino might have prompted an alternative bid of Paola Binetti, leader of the socially conservative Teodems, but she finally chose to support Franceschini, along with Rutelli, as also Ermete Realacci, leader of the Democratic Ecologists did.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Candidates\nMario Adinolfi, a former Christian Democrat, journalist and blogger who ran also in 2007 (gaining a mere 0.2%), announced his candidacy on 30 June, proposing \"direct democracy\" and a \"radical renewal\", but finally withdrew in favour of Franceschini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Candidates\nRenato Nicolini, architect, university professor and former culture councillor of Rome under three Communist mayors (1976\u20131985), announced his bid on 21 July, but he later withdrew from the race after failing to collect the required signatures in support of his bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Candidates\nBeppe Grillo, popular comedian and blogger, announced his bid on 12 July, but its candidacy was rejected by the party's electoral commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Opinion polls\nAccording to an opinion poll taken on 13 July 2009 by Crespi Ricerche, a 33.4% of Democratic voters would have voted in the primary election. Under the same poll, Franceschini was backed by a 27.1% of respondents, Bersani by a 25.4%, Grillo by a 19.8% and Marino by a 15.2%; a 12.5% was undecided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Opinion polls\nAnother poll by IPR Marketing, published on 11 August, put Bersani largely ahead with 54%, Franceschini distant second with 35% and Marino third with 11%. According to this poll a 56% of Democratic voters (that is to say 19% of the whole electorate) are likely or sure to go to the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Opinion polls\nA poll published by Crespi Ricerche on 10 September put Bersani and Franceschini neck and neck, respectively at 43.7% and 39.6%, with Marino distant third with 9.2% and 7.5% of voters who declared themselves as undecided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Results, Vote by party members\nOn 8 October 2009 the party's electoral commission released the results of the vote among party members. In the local congresses a 56.4% of party members got out and vote. Bersani was by far the most voted candidate with 55.1% of the vote, largely ahead of Franceschini (37.0%) and Marino (7.9%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 81], "content_span": [82, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Results, Primary election\nOn 25 October 2009 more than 3 million voters turned out to vote in an open primary. Bersani was elected new secretary of the party with 53.2% of the popular vote, Franceschini came second with 34.3% and Marino third with 12.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202457-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, Results, Primary election\nThe following results refer to the 100% of ballots counted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202458-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) leadership election\nA leadership election was held in the Democratic Party of Japan on 16 May 2009 after the incumbent party leader Ichir\u014d Ozawa announced that he would resign in early May 2009. Ozawa had been expected to lead the DPJ into a possible election victory over the long-time incumbent Liberal Democratic Party later in 2009, but a corruption scandal had forced him to resign in order to save the party's chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202458-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) leadership election\nPossible replacements included the perceived frontrunner Katsuya Okada (known especially for his support of tougher climate policies), current deputy leaders and former leaders Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama, as well as the conservative security policy expert Seiji Maehara. Okada (who was seen as a reformer) and Hatoyama (seen as likely to continue Ozawa's policies) officially announced their candidacies on 14 May 2009. According to surveys, Okada was more popular with the voters, while Hatoyama had more support from DPJ lawmakers, who were to make the decision. As predicted, Hatoyama was elected with 124 votes over Okada's 95.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202459-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections\nGubernatorial elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were scheduled to be held in 2009, either before or after the creation of fifteen new provinces in February that year. There were delays in creating the new provinces, and the elections were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202460-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Denmark Open darts\n2009 Denmark Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Denmark in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202461-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Denmark Super Series\nThe 2009 Denmark Super Series was a top level badminton competition held from October 20, 2009 to October 25, 2009 in Odense, Denmark. It was the ninth BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season\nThe 2009 Denver Broncos season was their 40th season in the NFL and 50th season overall. The Broncos started 6\u20130, but lost 8 of their next 10 games after coming off bye week. They matched their 8\u20138 regular season record from 2008 and missed the playoffs for the fourth straight season. The Broncos welcomed many new defensive players signed during free agency, including veteran Eagles safety Brian Dawkins. This was their first season without head coach Mike Shanahan since 1994, as he was fired on December 30, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season\nOn January 12, 2009, Denver hired former New England Patriots' offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as their new head coach. At the time of his hiring, McDaniels was the youngest head coach in any of the four major North American professional sports and the fifth-youngest NFL head coach ever, though less than a week later the Tampa Bay Buccaneers named the even-younger Raheem Morris as their head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season\nAccording to the 2012 Football Outsiders Almanac, the 2009 Broncos had the second-largest improvement in defensive efficiency from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Jay Cutler controversy\nAfter head coach Josh McDaniels was hired, rumors eventually surfaced that there was a three-way trade involving McDaniels' former team, the New England Patriots, and a third potential team (Detroit Lions or Tampa Bay Buccaneers) that would have sent quarterback Jay Cutler to the Lions or Buccaneers and the Broncos would receive Matt Cassel, who worked with McDaniels during the previous season, from the Patriots. After the trade talks surfaced, Cutler was angered and infuriated by the rumors because he didn't think he was going to be traded, and he refused to talk with either McDaniels or general manager Brian Xanders after both had denied the rumors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Jay Cutler controversy\nSeveral teams became interested in trading for Cutler after it was apparent he was upset about this situation, though McDaniels had stated, \"We are not trading Jay Cutler-Period.\" McDaniels insisted that Cutler is their quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Jay Cutler controversy\nOn March 11, 2009, Cutler and McDaniels agreed to meet for the first time since the incident. After having a conference call between them, sources said that the two sides drifted further apart, although the team refused to comment. Cutler eventually requested to be traded some time afterward, feeling that the \"trust\" between the organization and himself were all but gone, and missed one of Denver's voluntary training camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Jay Cutler controversy\nOn April 2, the Broncos traded Cutler, along with one of their two fifth-round selections (No. 140 overall) in the 2009 NFL Draft, to the Chicago Bears in exchange for quarterback Kyle Orton, the Bears' first- (No. 18 overall) and third (No. 84th overall) picks in 2009, and their 2010 first-round selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Roster changes, Jay Cutler controversy\nOn June 12, the Broncos named Orton as their starting quarterback. This ended speculation of a competition between Orton and Chris Simms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThe game began with little action. Denver and Cincinnati both traded possessions to begin the game. However, on the Bengals' second possession they were able to drive deep into Denver territory, reaching the 11-yard line before setting up for a short field goal. However, the field goal snap was fumbled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter the flubbed field goal, both teams entered a period of offensive ineptness \u2013 Denver had four consecutive one-and-done drives, while Cincinnati was forced to punt, then had a promising drive end with a Carson Palmer interception after Denver cornerback Champ Bailey tipped the ball into the air and Wesley Woodyard recovered the interception. Denver was finally able to put together a drive at the end of the first half that finished with a Matt Prater 48-yard field goal as time ran out. Despite being out-gained in all offensive indicators, Denver took a 3\u20130 lead into halftime due to Cincinnati mistakes, including the fumbled field goal, interception, and multiple dropped passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cincinnati Bengals\nDuring the third quarter, neither team was able to sustain an offensive drive \u2013 Cincinnati punted 3 times, while Denver punted 2 times. However, Denver's defense showed improvement, including one Cincinnati drive that ended after two consecutive sacks of Carson Palmer. Denver was able to put together another field goal drive at the end of the third quarter, with Matt Prater this time kicking a 50-yard field goal to put the Broncos on top 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThe fourth quarter continued in much the same vein. Denver made it into field goal range again before a 5-yard penalty and 7-yard sack forced them to punt it away again. However, Cincinnati was able to put together their first sustained drive of the entire game during the second half of the quarter \u2013 the Bengals gained 90 yards on 11 plays over 5:40. This culminated with a 1-yard Cedric Benson touchdown run that avoided a Bengals shutout and put them on top for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cincinnati Bengals\nDenver regained control of the ball at their own 13-yard line with 38 seconds remaining. After an incomplete pass, Kyle Orton attempted a pass to Brandon Marshall with 28 seconds remaining. The ball was tipped into the air by Bengals defensive back Leon Hall and into the hands of Denver wide receiver Brandon Stokley, who then took it untouched 87 yards to the end zone with 11 seconds remaining. Records showed that this was the longest play from scrimmage in NFL history with less than 1 minute remaining in the game. The play was referred to by some as \"The Immaculate Deflection\" after The Immaculate Reception. Denver took a 12\u20137 lead but failed a two-point conversion. A desperation hail mary pass by Carson Palmer was intercepted in the end zone with 5 seconds to play by Denver tight end Tony Scheffler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 896]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Cleveland Browns\nComing off their last-second victory over the Bengals, the Broncos would play their Week 2 home opener against the Cleveland Browns. In the first quarter, Denver would trail early as Browns kicker Phil Dawson got a 22-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Broncos took the lead as quarterback Kyle Orton completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Scheffler. Cleveland would creep close as Dawson made a 47-yard field goal, but Denver would answer as kicker Matt Prater got a 23-yard field goal in the second quarter and a 38-yard field goal in the third quarter. In the fourth, the Broncos pulled away as fullback Peyton Hillis got a 2-yard touchdown run and running back Correll Buckhalter got a 45-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Oakland Raiders\nAfter Oakland began the game with a 3-and-out, Denver sustained a long drive deep into Oakland territory. However, the Raiders orchestrated a successful goal-line stand, forcing Denver to turn the ball over on downs after a fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line was stopped. Two plays later, however, Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell was intercepted by Denver safety Renaldo Hill after throwing from his own end zone. The Broncos then drove 23 yards in 6 plays, scoring on a 2-yard Kyle Orton pass to Brandon Marshall. The next Raiders drive lasted just 3 plays after Russell was intercepted again, this time by Broncos cornerback Andre Goodman. This led to a 48-yard field goal by Broncos kicker Matt Prater, giving them a 10\u20130 lead going into the 2nd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Oakland Raiders\nOakland's first drive of the second quarter was also their most successful. They went 56 yards in over 8 minutes, leading to a 48-yard Sebastian Janikowski field goal. Denver then drove 76 yards, although Oakland again held Denver out of the end zone, leading to a 21-yard Prater field goal and giving the Broncos a 13\u20133 lead going into halftime. Denver then opened the half with another scoring drive, this time going 80 yards in 8 plays and scoring on a 7-yard run by rookie running back Knowshon Moreno. It was the first touchdown of Moreno's NFL career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Oakland Raiders\nOakland was forced to punt on their next drive. However, on Denver's first play from scrimmage, running back Correll Buckhalter fumbled the ball at their own 16-yard line, giving Oakland the ball in Denver territory for just the 3rd time on the day. However, 2 plays later, Raiders running back Darren McFadden fumbled the ball for the second time on the day (the first time was recovered by Oakland), giving Denver the ball back at their own 11. They then drove 88 yards in 16 plays and over 8 minutes, although the Raiders again held them out of the end zone, leading to a Prater 24-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 3: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Broncos won the game primarily on the strength of their running game and the defense. Correll Buckhalter ran 14 times for 108 yards, while rookie Knowshown Moreno ran 21 times for 90 yards. Overall, the Broncos had 215 yards rushing on the day. The defense held the Raiders to just 137 total yards and 9 first downs, caused 2 interceptions and 1 fumble, and also sacked JaMarcus Russell 3 times, 2 of them by star defensive end Elvis Dumervil (who had 4 in the previous game against the Cleveland Browns). Russell had just 61 yards passing on 21 attempts with 2 interceptions, giving him a quarterback rating of 22.6. Kyle Orton had 157 yards passing on 23 attempts with 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, giving him a respectable 92.1 rating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nComing off their divisional road win over the Raiders, the Broncos went home for a Week 4 interconference duel with the Dallas Cowboys. Denver would struggle out of the gates in the first quarter, as Cowboys kicker Nick Folk got a 49-yard field goal and running back Marion Barber would acquire a 1-yard touchdown run. The Broncos would start to gain some momentum in the second quarter with quarterback Kyle Orton's 9-yard touchdown pass to rookie running back Knowshon Moreno. After a scoreless third quarter, Denver would take command of the game in the fourth quarter. The Broncos would get a 28-yard field goal from kicker Matt Prater, followed by Orton's 51-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Marshall. Afterwards, the defense would manage to hold off a late Dallas drive that actually made it to their 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 912]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith the win, the Broncos would acquire their first 4\u20130 start since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. New England Patriots\nComing off of a home win against the Cowboys, the Broncos stayed at home, donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for a Week 5 AFL Legacy game with the New England Patriots. This would mark the highly anticipated match-up between Denver head coach Josh McDaniels and New England's head coach Bill Belichick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Broncos would trail in the first quarter as Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hooked up with wide receiver Wes Welker on an 8-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Stephen Gostkowski getting a 53-yard field goal. Denver would answer in the second quarter as quarterback Kyle Orton connected with wide receiver Brandon Marshall on an 11-yard touchdown pass, but New England would close out the half with Brady's 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Benjamin Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Broncos would tie the game in the second half as kicker Matt Prater nailed a 24-yard field goal in the third quarter, followed by Orton finding Marshall again on an 11-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. In overtime, Denver won possession and never relinquished possession as Prater booted the game-winning 41-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. New England Patriots\nWith the win, the Broncos improved to 5\u20130 for the first time since the team's Super Bowl run of 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 6: at San Diego Chargers\nComing off an impressive home win over the Patriots, the Broncos flew to Qualcomm Stadium, donned their throwbacks again, and played a Week 6 AFL Legacy game with the San Diego Chargers on Monday night. Even though the Chargers kicked off the first quarter with a 20-yard field goal from kicker Nate Kaeding, the Broncos immediately struck back with wide receiver Eddie Royal returned the kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown. San Diego would then close out the opening period with quarterback Philip Rivers hooking up with wide receiver Vincent Jackson on a 3-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 6: at San Diego Chargers\nDenver would take the lead in the second quarter with kicker Matt Prater making a 34-yard field goal, followed by Royal returning a punt 71 yards for a touchdown. Afterwards, the Chargers closed out the half with Kaeding nailing a 44-yard field goal and running back Darren Sproles returning a punt 77 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 6: at San Diego Chargers\nEven though San Diego increased their lead in the third quarter with Kaeding's 50-yard field goal, the Broncos regained it with quarterback Kyle Orton completing a 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Scheffler. In the fourth quarter, Denver closed out the game with Prater's 29-yard field goal and Orton's 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Stokley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 6: at San Diego Chargers\nWith the win, the Broncos went into their bye week at 6\u20130, which is the franchise's best start since their Super Bowl season of 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: at Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their bye week, the Broncos flew to M&T Bank Stadium for a Week 8 duel with the Baltimore Ravens. Denver would trail in the first quarter as Ravens kicker Steven Hauschka nailed a 43-yard field goal in the first quarter, followed by a 35-yard field goal in the second quarter. In the third quarter, the Broncos' deficit immediately climbed as cornerback Lardarius Webb returned the second half's opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 8: at Baltimore Ravens\nDenver would answer with a 1-yard touchdown run from rookie running back Knowshon Moreno, Baltimore came right back with Haushchka booting a 31-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Ravens would pull away in the fourth quarter with quarterback Joe Flacco's 20-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Derrick Mason and running back Ray Rice getting a 7-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Ravens, the Broncos went home for a Week 9 Monday night duel with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Denver would begin the first quarter with kicker Matt Prater making a 40-yard field goal, yet the Steelers responded in the second quarter with safety Tyrone Carter returning an interception 48 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Broncos would regain the lead in the third quarter as defensive end Kenny Peterson forced a fumble during his sack of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. It allowed rookie linebacker Robert Ayers to return the fumble 54 yards for a touchdown. However, Pittsburgh came right back with Roethlisberger's 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hines Ward. Afterwards, the Steelers would pull away in the fourth quarter as Roethlisberger completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mike Wallace and a 3-yard touchdown pass to Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nMaking an appearance during the game was American Nordic combined skier Johnny Spillane, a Steamboat Springs, Colorado native, who would go on to win three silver medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver three months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at Washington Redskins\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Broncos flew to FedExField for a Week 10 interconference duel with the Washington Redskins. In the first quarter, Denver struck first as quarterback Kyle Orton found wide receiver Brandon Marshall on a 40-yard touchdown pass. The Redskins would respond as quarterback Jason Campbell completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Todd Yoder, yet the Broncos would answer with Orton going right back to Marshall again on a 75-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at Washington Redskins\nWashington would tie the game again in the second quarter with a trick play as punter Hunter Smith completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to fullback Mike Sellers. Denver would close out the half with a 24-yard field goal from kicker Matt Prater but on the previous play Orton (11/18 for 193 yards, 2 TDs) left the game with an ankle injury. This injury would prove costly not only in this game but the next for the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 10: at Washington Redskins\nChris Simms replaced Orton at quarterback but was unable to get anything going on offense for the Broncos, going a dismal 3/21 for 13 yards with 1 INT. After a scoreless third quarter, the Redskins would take the lead in the fourth quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Ladell Betts and a 35-yard field goal from kicker Shaun Suisham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. San Diego Chargers\nIn the first half, the Chargers got off to a great start when QB Philip Rivers got a 2-yard touchdown pass to WR Legedu Naanee. Then kicker Nate Kaeding hit a 28 and a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. San Diego Chargers\nIn the third quarter the Broncos scored their only points of the game when kicker Matt Prater got a 23-yard field goal, yet the Chargers replied and started to rally with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard touchdown run, and in the fourth quarter Kaeding making a 28 then a 19-yard field goal, and finally FB Mike Tolbert ran 8 yards to the end zone for a touchdown (With PAT kick blocked).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. San Diego Chargers\nWith the fourth straight loss, the Broncos fell to a 6\u20134 record as the Chargers improved to a 7\u20133 record and took the divisional lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants\nTrying to avoid a five-game losing streak, the Broncos went home for a Week 12 Interconference Duel against the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants\nIn the first quarter the Broncos got on the board with kicker Matt Prater making a 26-yard field goal and then a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter. The Broncos kept on top with RB Knowshon Moreno making a 1-yard touchdown run. After that Matt Prater made a 47-yard field goal to end the half. In the third quarter the Giants replied with kicker Lawrence Tynes nailing a 39 then a 52-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter Denver increased their lead with QB Kyle Orton making a 17-yard touchdown pass to WR Brandon Stokley, and Prater making a 24-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Indianapolis Colts\nComing off a two-game winning streak, the Broncos headed to Lucas Oil Stadium to play the undefeated Colts. In the first half, the Colts jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead. Denver finally scored when Kyle Orton found Brandon Marshall in the end zone going to the locker rooms trailing 21\u20137. For most of the second half, the Colts offense sputtered. In a long drive, Orton found Marshall for his second touchdown, however, the two-point conversion was no good, making the score 21\u201316. Then the Colts offense got things going late in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 14: at Indianapolis Colts\nAfter a long drive, Manning found Dallas Clark in the end zone for his third touchdown of the day, putting the Colts on top 28\u201316 with under three minutes left in the game. On a long fourth down, Orton found Marshall who lateraled the ball to a lineman who was tackled short of the first down. With the win, the Colts broke an NFL record with 23 straight wins. Though despite the loss, Broncos WR Brandon Marshall had a record of his own with 21 catches beating Terrell Owens' record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nGoing into week 17, Denver could have made the playoffs if they won in these scenarios-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\n1) A New York Jets loss and either a loss by the Baltimore Ravens or the Pittsburgh SteelersOR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\n2) A New York Jets loss and a win by the Houston TexansOR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\n3)A Baltimore Ravens loss and a Pittsburgh Steelers loss or a Houston Texans win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nAlso, Denver could have made the playoffs even with a loss to Kansas City in these scenarios-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\n1) Losses by Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston, and the Jacksonville JaguarsOR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\n5) Losses by New York, Baltimore, Houston, Jacksonville, and the Miami Dolphins", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the days prior to the game, Coach Josh McDaniels got into an injury-related dispute with receiver Brandon Marshall and deactivated Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the game, Chiefs' running back Jamaal Charles had a franchise record 259 yards rushing yards on 25 carries and two touchdowns (Including runs of 52 and 56 yards). Kyle Orton, who had thrown only 9 interceptions all year, threw 3: 2 to Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson, both returned for scores, and another in the end zone to Brandon Flowers. Orton did finish with a career-high 431 yards through the air on 32/56 passing. Jabar Gaffney, replacing the inactive Brandon Marshall, had a career-high 14 receptions for 213 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202462-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Broncos season, Schedule, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nBoth career days were empty, as the Chiefs beat the Broncos, ending their season at 8\u20138. The Broncos became the seventh team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to miss the playoffs after a 6\u20130 start and the first since the 2003 Minnesota Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202463-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Outlaws season\nThe 2009 Denver Outlaws season was the fourth season for the Outlaws in Major League Lacrosse. Coming off of their second championship loss and an 8\u20134 record in the previous year, the Outlaws were looking to avenge themselves. They would end up finishing with a 9\u20133 record and clinch a playoff spot for the fourth consecutive time. However, they would end up losing in the championship game for the third time to the Toronto Nationals by a 10\u20139 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202463-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Denver Outlaws season, Offseason\nThe Outlaws acquired Max Seibald, the 2nd overall pick out of Cornell, 7th overall pick Shane Walterhoefer out of North Carolina, and 8th overall pick Dan Hardy from Syracuse in the 2009 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202464-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dera Ghazi Khan bombing\nA car bombing occurred on 15 December 2009 in a market located in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in the southern region of Pakistan's largest province, Punjab. At least 33 people were reported killed and 50 more injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202464-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dera Ghazi Khan bombing, Bombing\nThe blast happened at around 2:45\u00a0pm local time. About 1,000\u00a0kg of explosives were estimated to have been used. The bomb exploded  in front of the main gate of the house belonging to Zulfiqar Ali Khosa a senior adviser to the chief minister of Punjab and a politician belonging to Pakistan Muslim League (N). However, he was not at home and was not injured. Mr. Khosa had recently presided over a meeting of religious leaders that had called suicide-bombing un-Islamic. The bomb caused the whole market to collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202464-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dera Ghazi Khan bombing, Aftermath\nHassan Iqbal, the town commissioner, said \"There are many people trapped in the rubble after the powerful blast demolished some 10 shops ... The rescue work is under way and we fear the toll may go up.\" Forty-six people were taken to the local hospital while seven critically wounded were shifted to the hospital in the nearby city of Multan. The chief minister announced financial aid of Rs 500,000 to the families of the dead, Rs 75,000 to those who were injured and Rs 50,000 to those with minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202465-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Derbyshire County Council election\nElections to Derbyshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202465-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Derbyshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202465-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Derbyshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202465-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Derbyshire County Council election\nPrior to the election local Conservatives were leading a coalition with the Liberal Democrats while the Labour Party served as the council's official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202465-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Derbyshire County Council election, Summary\nThe election was won by the Conservatives who were elected with a small overall majority. It ended 28 consecutive years of local governance by the Labour Party", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship\nThe NMF Properties Derry Senior Football Championship 2009 is the 2009 installment of the annual Derry Senior Football Championship run by the Derry GAA. Ballinderry are the current holders - beating Slaughtneil in the 2008 final at Celtic Park. The winners will be awarded the John McLaughlin Cup and will go on to represent Derry in the 2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Round 1\nThe draw for the first round took place on 3 March 2009 at the Owenbeg Centre of Excellence (outside Dungiven), along with the draws for the other Derry adult football and hurling championships. The 2009 Championship started on 1 May with the meeting of Ballinascreen and Castledawson at Shamrock Park, Ballinderry. Six games were played on 3 May, with double-headers at Foreglen, Ballymaguigan (originally scheduled for Magherafelt) and Glenullin. The last first round tie was played in P\u00e1irc Se\u00e1n de Br\u00fan, Bellaghy on Monday 4 May. There were two shocks results in the first round, with Lavey defeating reigning Championships Ballinderry and Swatragh beating local rivals and 2008 runners-up Slaughtneil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Round 2\nThe draw for the second round took place on 5 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Round 3\nThe draw for the third round took place after the last Round 2 game (Ballinderry versus Banagher).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Quarter-finals\nThe four teams who won both their first and second round matches were drawn against the four winners from the Round 3 \"qualifiers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Quarter-finals\nThe draw for the quarter-finals was originally supposed to occur after the last third round game (Ballinascreen versus Ballinderry) at Bellaghy. However the draw could not take place because of Lavey's draw with Eoghan Rua. Teams who have already met earlier in the championship could not be paired with each other again in the quarter-finals - the number of such permutations meant the draw was delayed until after the Lavey versus Eoghan Rua replay at Glenullin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Quarter-finals\nThe Round 3 replay and delayed draw also led to the quarter-finals being postponed for a week. They were originally intended to be played a week after the third round, but the delayed draw meant teams would not know their opponents until Wednesday 12 August, which did not give them sufficient notice to play that weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Quarter-finals\nThe Ballinderry versus Glenullin match was billed beforehand as tie of the round, and the game everyone wanted to see in the final. It did not disappoint. It was described as \"one of the best games seen in this county for years\". An L\u00fab beat Newbridge in a \"dogged\" encounter, while Bellaghy survived a late Magherafelt comeback to secure their place in the semis. The Dungiven and Eoghan Rua game was supposed to take place on 23 August at 2.00pm at Foreglen. However, before throw-in the game was postponed due to a water-logged pitch. It was rescheduled for two days later in Celtic Park. Dungiven won the game by six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202466-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry Senior Football Championship, Semi-finals\nThe semi-final draw took place at Celtic Park after the quarter-final tie between Ballinderry and Glenullin. It pitted Glenullin against the winners of Dungiven and Eoghan Rua (which turned out to be Dungiven) and Bellaghy against An L\u00fab. The game are scheduled to take place on 12/13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season\nThe following is a summary of Derry county football team's 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season, Dr McKenna Cup\nDerry were drawn in Section A of the 2009 Dr McKenna Cup along with Donegal, Femanagh and University of Ulster, Jordanstown (UUJ). New manager Damian Cassidy originally named a 27-man panel for the competition Dr McKenna Cup. It was a very experimental panel, including many newcomers, with only a handful of players having previous inter-county experience. A few other players were called into the panel later in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season, National Football League\nDerry announced a 34-man panel for the 2009 National League on 22 January 2009. Many of the more experienced players were re-called for the competition, along with some new players who impressed during the McKenna Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season, Championship\nIn May 2009 manager Damian Cassidy announced a 35-man panel for 2009 Championship campaign. The Championship panel is much the same as that for the league, with a few additions and omissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season, Minor & Under-21, Under-21\nThe Derry Under 21 team were managed by Senior manager Damian Cassidy in 2009, and his backroom team consisted of Enda Gormley, Barry Dillon, P. Mullan, Kevin O'Neill and Martin McConnell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202467-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Derry county football team season, Minor & Under-21, Under-21\nThe Under-21s were drawn with Donegal in the quarter-final of the 2009 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship. Donegal emerged victorious to knock Derry out of the Championship on a scoreline of 0\u201312 to 0\u201306.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202468-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas\n2009 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas was the fifth edition of Desafio Internacional das Estrelas (International Challenge of the Stars) with Rubens Barrichello as the defending champion. The races were held on a newly built track that had been designed by race participant Lucas di Grassi. The event was won by Michael Schumacher after he won Race 1 and came 2nd in Race 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season\nThe 2009 Detroit Lions season was the franchise\u2019s 80th season overall in the National Football League. It was the first season with the Lions for new head coach Jim Schwartz, and most of his new coaching staff. The Lions also introduced slightly new uniforms and logos. The Lions improved upon their 0\u201316 record from the previous season. However, they missed the playoffs for the 10th straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Offseason, Repercussions of 2008 season\nOn December 29, 2008, the day after the last game of the 0\u201316 2008 season, Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. announced head coach Rod Marinelli had been fired. His record with the Lions was 10\u201338 in three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, New uniform and logo designs\nThe Lions officially unveiled a somewhat new logo design and uniforms on April 20, 2009 at a public press conference at a local Dunham's Sports store. The Lion on the helmet now has a flowing mane and fangs, and the font of \u201cLions\u201d is more modern and stylish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, New uniform and logo designs\nThe Lions\u2019 throwback uniforms that were used in 2008 became their official third uniform, however they were not used in 2009. The black jerseys used from 2005\u20132007 were officially discontinued on February 9, 2009, according to Lions team president Tom Lewand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nOn March 1, 2009 it was reported that free agent defensive end Corey Smith (who played for the Lions from 2006\u20132008) boarded a fishing boat off the Gulf Coast of Florida with former teammate Marquis Cooper (most recently of the Oakland Raiders) and former University of South Florida players Nick Schuyler and William Blakely on February 28. Smith and Cooper played together on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004. They did not return as expected and the men and their boat were searched for by the U.S. Coast Guard for three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nThe National Weather Service said waves were about two to four feet Saturday morning and increased to between three and five feet in the afternoon. Late Saturday night, a small craft advisory was issued, when winds were around twenty knots and waves were up to seven feet or more. On March 2, at approximately 1:30\u00a0pm, Coast Guard Petty Official James Harless reported that Schuyler had been found alive \"clinging to an overturned vessel\". He was later diagnosed with hypothermia and dehydration. On March 3, the Coast Guard called off the search. Later that day, the Lions released this statement:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nToday\u2019s news is a sobering reminder about how truly precious and fragile life can be. We will continue to pray for a miracle, though we fully understand and respect the decision of the Coast Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nWe were thrilled yesterday with the news of Nick\u2019s rescue, and it gave all of us hope that Corey, Will and Marquis would also be found alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nWhile we still have that hope, we have begun to cope with the grim reality of this sad and tragic situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nWe cannot adequately express our heartfelt appreciation to the Coast Guard and all the Florida authorities involved in the rescue mission. Their heroic efforts saved at least one life, and we know they did everything possible for Corey, Will and Marquis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nWe also want to thank everyone across the country for their expressions of support. We ask that you join us as we continue to pray for Corey, Will, Marquis and their families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nA private search led by the families of the still missing men began on March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, Corey Smith disappearance\nThe Lions also announced that Smith\u2019s jersey number, 93, would not be issued for the 2009 season. The Lions also wore a 93 on the back of their helmets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, 2009 NFL Draft\nWith their league worst record in 2008, the Lions secured the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. Detroit also had the No. 20 overall pick in the first round, which they received from the Dallas Cowboys as part of the Roy Williams trade in 2008. The trade also gave them additional picks in the 3rd and 6th rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Lions traded its 2009 fourth-round selection (101st overall) and its 2008 third-round selection (111th overall, which was traded to Cleveland) to Dallas for its 2008 third-round selection (92nd overall, used to select Cliff Avril).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Personnel, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Lions selected University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford for the No. 1 overall pick. The six-year contract reportedly contained $41.7 million in guaranteed money, which was the most guaranteed to any player in NFL history up to that point, and carried a total value of up to $78 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Lions began their season down south, taking on the New Orleans Saints. The Saints struck first with just over 12 minutes left in the first quarter with a 9-yard TD catch by Marques Colston from Drew Brees. They made it 14\u20130 3 minutes later when Robert Meachem caught a 29-yard TD pass by Brees. The Lions got on the board with just over 5 minutes left in the first quarter with a 47-yard Jason Hanson field goal. They scored again just after the start of the second quarter when Kevin Smith ran in a TD from 4 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints responded 10 minutes later with 2 back to back touchdowns by Jeremy Shockey: from 1 yard and 15 yards respectively, putting the Saints up 28\u201310 at halftime. After the break, Lions QB Matthew Stafford ran a TD in himself from 1 yard out. The Saints responded a few minutes later with a 39-yard field goal by John Carney. The Lions countered with a 24-yard Jason Hanson field goal 3 minutes later. Less than 20 seconds later, the Saints\u2019 Devery Henderson caught a 58 TD-yard pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Lions responded when Louis Delmas picked up a Saints fumble and ran it back 65 yards for a TD. The only score of the 4th quarter was a 13-yard TD catch by Heath Evans of the Saints. With this loss, the Lions began 2009 0\u20131 which brought their losing streak to eighteen consecutive regular season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nFor their home opener, the Lions hosted division rivals the Minnesota Vikings. The Lions struck first with a 30-yard Jason Hanson field goal in the first quarter. They went ahead 10\u20130 in the second quarter when Calvin Johnson caught an 8-yard TD pass from Matthew Stafford. The Vikings got on the board a few minutes later when Visanthe Shiancoe caught a 1-yard TD pass from Brett Favre. The third quarter was all Minnesota: first a  26-yard field goal by Ryan Longwell, then a 27-yard TD run by Adrian Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings added to their lead in the fourth quarter with another field goal, this one from 46 yards out; then a 3-yard TD catch by Percy Harvin. The Lions got their only points of the second half with a 48-yard field goal. With their 19th straight regular season loss, the Lions fell to 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Washington Redskins\nIn week 3, the Lions hosted the Washington Redskins. The first half was all Detroit. After a goal line stand on a Redskins 4th and 1, the Lions drove 99 yards and scored with a Bryant Johnson 21-yard TD catch. Next in the second quarter were two field goals by Jason Hanson, from 39 yards and 26 yards out respectively, putting the Lions up 13\u20130 at halftime. The Redskins got on the board in the third quarter with a 57-yard TD catch by Santana Moss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Washington Redskins\nThe Lions scored next with a 2-yard TD run by Maurice Morris but failed on the 2-point conversion. The final score of the game was a 4-yard TD pass by Rock Cartwright. The Lions defense prevented the Redskins\u2019 comeback, stopping a touchdown drive in the final seconds of the game. This win was the Lions\u2019 first regular-season victory since December 23, 2007, and improved the team\u2019s record to 1\u20132. It ended a franchise-record nineteen consecutive losses, which was also the second-longest losing streak in NFL history behind the 1976\u201377 Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 streak of twenty-six straight losses. Lions radio play-by-play man Dan Miller said of the win and end to the streak, \u201cNightmare over.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Chicago Bears\nIn week 4, the Lions flew to The Windy City for a NFC North duel with the Chicago Bears. Detroit threw the opening punch in the first quarter with running back Kevin Smith\u2019s 1-yard touchdown run. The Bears would respond with quarterback Jay Cutler\u2019s 5-yard touchdown run, yet Detroit answered with rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to tight end Will Heller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Chicago Bears\nChicago took the lead in the second quarter with Cutler's 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Davis and a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen, but the Lions would tie the game prior to halftime with Smith's 3-yard touchdown run, capping off a 98-yard drive. However, in the third quarter, the Bears would set the tempo for the second half. It immediately began with wide receiver Johnny Knox returning the half's opening kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown, followed by a 52-yard and a 22-yard field goal from kicker Robbie Gould.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Chicago Bears\nDetroit tried to rally in the fourth quarter with kicker Jason Hanson\u2019s 35-yard field goal, but Chicago pulled away with running back Matt Fort\u00e9\u2019s 37-yard touchdown run and running back Garrett Wolfe\u2019s 2-yard touchdown run. Stafford (24-of-36, 296 yards, TD, INT) left the game during the fourth quarter with a knee injury. With the loss, the Lions fell to 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn week 5, the Lions hosted the defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers. The Lions scored first with a 46-yard Jason Hanson field goal. The Steelers responded with a 7-yard TD run by Rashard Mendenhall. The Lions replied with another 46-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Pittsburgh scored first with a 15-yard TD catch by Heath Miller from Ben Roethlisberger. The Lions retaliated with a 38-yard interception run for a touchdown by William James. Hines Ward of the Steelers next got a touchdown of his own, a 17-yard catch, making the halftime score 21\u201313 Pittsburgh. After the break, Mike Wallace of Pittsburgh caught a 47-yard TD pass. The final score of the game was a 25-yard catch by Detroit\u2019s Dennis Northcutt. Lions backup QB Daunte Culpepper was sacked 7 times in the loss, 3 of which were on consecutive downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 917]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Green Bay Packers\nIn week 6, the Lions traveled to Green Bay, Wisconsin to take on NFC North Division foes the Green Bay Packers. They were shut out for the first time since 2001, and the first time by the Packers since 1946. The Packers scored two touchdowns in the first quarter: a 47-yard catch by James Jones from Aaron Rodgers, then a 1-yard catch by John Kuhn. In the second quarter Mason Crosby kicked 3 field goals from 46, 28 and 31 yards respectively. The only score of the second half was a 26-yard field goal. The loss made the losing streak in Wisconsin 18 games, dating back to 1992. Despite the loss, the Lions defense recorded 5 sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs St. Louis Rams\nIn week 8, the Lions hosted the then winless St. Louis Rams. The Rams got on the board first in the first quarter with a 41-yard field goal by Josh Brown. In the second quarter, the Lions' Matthew Stafford threw an interception into the end zone to James Butler but he was tackled by running back Kevin Smith for a Lions safety. Near halftime, the Rams performed a successful fake field goal when kicker Josh Brown passed it to Daniel Fells and he ran it in 36 yards for a touchdown. Both teams went scoreless in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Lions\u2019 QB Matthew Stafford ran it in himself from 4 yards out for a TD, and tied it up with a 2-point conversion catch by Maurice Morris. The Rams took the lead near the end though with a 25-yard run by Steven Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs St. Louis Rams\nThis would prove the Rams\u2019 only victory of the season, preventing them from duplicating the Lions\u2019 dubious accomplishment of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Seattle Seahawks\nIn week 9, the Lions traveled to Seattle, Washington to take on the Seattle Seahawks. The Lions took an early lead in the first quarter, scoring 17 unanswered points. First came 2 TD's: a Brandon Pettigrew 7-yard catch, then a Bryant Johnson 29-yard catch, and afterward was a 41-yard field goal. The Seahawks responded in the second quarter with a TD and 2 field goals. First the TD, a 3-yard run by Julius Jones. The field goals by Olindo Mare were both from 37 yards out. In the 3rd quarter came another Seattle field goal, from 24 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Seattle Seahawks\nThen, T.J. Houshmandzadeh scored on a 2-yard TD catch to give Seattle the lead. However, the fake field goal for a 2-point conversion was no good. The Lions' only score of the second half was a 50-yard field goal. The Seahawks sealed their win with a 61-yard interception for a TD by Josh Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Minnesota Vikings\nIn week 10, the Lions traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota for a rematch with NFC North foes the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings scored the only points of the first quarter with a 22-yard Ryan Longwell field goal. They added to their lead in the second quarter with a 22-yard TD run by Adrian Peterson. The Lions' only score of the first half was a 38-yard Jason Hanson field goal just before halftime. In the 3rd quarter the Vikings further added to their lead with a 1-yard run by Adrian Peterson, his 2nd TD of the game. The Lions responded with an 8-yard TD from Matthew Stafford to Will Heller. The Vikings sealed their win with a TD and field goal in the 4th. First an 8-yard TD catch by Jeff Dugan from Brett Favre, and finally a 35-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 834]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nIn Week 11, the Lions hosted the Cleveland Browns in an interconference shootout. The Browns built a big lead in the first quarter, scoring first with a 44-yard field goal by Phil Dawson. After a 31-yard Jason Hanson field goal, Cleveland scored 21 points on Brady Quinn touchdowns to Mohamed Massaquoi (59 yards), Chansi Stuckey (40 yards), Joshua Cribbs (four yards). The Lions answered with three consecutive TD passes from Matthew Stafford to Aaron Brown (26 yards) and Kevin Smith (25 yards) and a 75-yard catch and run TD for Calvin Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns responded with a 29-yard field goal just before halftime. In the 3rd quarter Will Heller of the Lions caught a one-yard TD pass. The Browns received a safety when Stafford was tackled in his own end zone and called for intentional grounding. The Browns retook the lead on a two-yard TD catch by Michael Gaines and a Jamal Lewis two-point conversion. Stafford was intercepted on the next Lions possession, but the Lions stopped the Browns on 4th and 5. Then they drove 88 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nWith 2 seconds left, Stafford raced out of the pocket and threw a pass into the end zone which was intercepted by Brodney Pool, but the pick was nullified on a Hank Poteat pass interference penalty, giving the Lions one more play with no time left on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0025-0003", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nStafford was brutally hit by two Browns defenders on the play, and suffered what turned out to be a major shoulder separation of his left (non-throwing) arm; he had to come out for the final play and backup Daunte Culpepper went in, but the Browns called time-out; under NFL rules injured players must come out for one play, and the Browns timeout thus made Stafford eligible to return to the field; he told the coaches he wanted to return for the final play (pleading to coaches \u201cIf you need me to throw the ball, I can throw the ball\u201d) and was allowed to go back in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0025-0004", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nHe then threw a touchdown to Brandon Pettigrew, and Jason Hanson tacked on the extra point for the win. Stafford became the youngest QB to throw five touchdown passes in a game since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. He also set a record for passing yards in a game by a rookie with 422. For his performance, Stafford won NFC Offensive Player of the Week and Pepsi Rookie of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 11 vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe game was made into an NFL Film, with Matthew Stafford mic'ed up. It was shown on NFL Network's NFL Replay and Wired for Sound and became a segment in the \u201cQuarterback Duels\u201d episode of NFL Top 10, as well as Showtime's Inside the NFL. The company's founder Steve Sabol said the Lions' game-winning drive was the most dramatic film he has seen in over 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers (Thanksgiving Day game)\nFor their 70th annual Thanksgiving Day game, the Lions hosted a rematch with division rivals the Green Bay Packers. Detroit got an early lead when Matthew Stafford threw a 1-yard TD pass to Calvin Johnson, the only Lions score of the first half. The Packers responded with a TD of their own, a 7-yard toss to Donald Lee. The Packers then kicked 2 field goals: first a 20 yarder and just before halftime a 25 yarder. The Packers scored 2 touchdowns in the 3rd quarter. First a 7-yard catch by Donald Driver, then a 21-yard catch by James Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 105], "content_span": [106, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers (Thanksgiving Day game)\nThe Lions picked up a safety when the Packers Ryan Grant had his left arm down before he fumbled the ball in their own end zone in the fourth quarter. They then kicked a 22-yard field goal. The Packers sealed their win when Charles Woodson intercepted a Stafford pass and ran it back 38 yards for a touchdown. The Thanksgiving Day losing streak for the Lions is now six, the longest in franchise history. With the loss combined with the Eagles win over the Redskins, the Lions were officially eliminated from postseason contention. This would also become the Packers' 9th straight victory over the Lions, dating back to the second game between the teams in the 2005 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 105], "content_span": [106, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Cincinnati Bengals\nIn week 13, the Lions traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio for an interconference contest with the Cincinnati Bengals. Detroit got an early lead in the first quarter with a 54-yard catch and run by Calvin Johnson. The Bengals tied it up in the second when Jonathan Fanene caught a tipped Matthew Stafford pass and ran it back 45 yards for a touchdown. Cincinnati then took the lead and didn't give it back when Chad Ochocinco caught a 36-yard TD. The Bengals closed out the first half with a 44-yard field goal by Shayne Graham. In the second half the Bengals scored 2 more field goals, from 39 and 23 yards respectively. The Lions scored the game\u2019s final points late in the 4th quarter with a 2-yard run by Kevin Smith. The Lions went for a 2-point conversion but failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Baltimore Ravens\nIn week 14, the Lions traveled to rainy Baltimore, Maryland for an interconference duel with the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore led for almost the entire game. They scored first late in the first quarter with a 38-yard field goal by Billy Cundiff. They added to their lead with a 62-yard catch and run TD by Derrick Mason from Joe Flacco. The Lions scored their only points of the game near the end of the second quarter with a 22-yard Jason Hanson field goal. A minute later the Ravens responded with a 59-yard rushing TD by Ray Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Baltimore Ravens\nBaltimore finished out the first half with a 25-yard field goal. In the second half the Ravens scored 4 consecutive touchdowns. First a Le'Ron McClain 3-yard run. Then 2 by Willis McGahee: first an 8-yard run, then a 19-yard run. In the fourth quarter, the Ravens capped off their huge victory when Troy Smith ran in a TD from 15 yards. Lions backup quarterback Daunte Culpepper completed less than half of his passes (16 for 34) and threw 2 interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 79], "content_span": [80, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nIn week 15, the Lions hosted the defending the NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals. The first half was all Arizona. First was a Larry Fitzgerald 1-yard catch from Kurt Warner. Next in the second quarter a 48-yard field goal by Mike Nugent. Then near halftime a 1-yard rush by Tim Hightower. After his unproductive first half (6 for 12 and only 64 yards passing and an interception) Lions backup quarterback Daunte Culpepper was replaced by third stringer Drew Stanton who breathed some life into the offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nFirst though came an interception and 100 yard Lions TD run by Louis Delmas, a tie for the third longest interception TD in team history. A few minutes later Detroit's Maurice Morris ran in a career-high 64 yard TD. In the 4th quarter, the Cardinals responded with an 18-yard Chris Wells TD run. The Lions tied it back up when Stanton ran in his first career rushing TD from 1 yard out. The Cardinals sealed their victory though with just under 2 minutes left when Anquan Boldin caught a 5-yard TD pass. The Lions attempted to tie it back up soon after but were stopped on 4th and 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 16: at San Francisco 49ers\nFor their last road game of the season, in week 16 the Lions traveled west to San Francisco to play the San Francisco 49ers. The Lions took an early lead midway through the first quarter with a 27-yard Jason Hanson field goal. The 49ers tied it up at the end of the first quarter with a 33-yard field goal by Ricky Schmitt. The only score of the 2nd quarter was a 39-yard 49ers field goal just before halftime. In the third quarter came 2 San Francisco TD's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 16: at San Francisco 49ers\nFirst a 2-yard catch by Vernon Davis, then a 1-yard run by Frank Gore. The Lions kicked another field goal late in the 4th quarter from 38 yards out. The Lions road losing streak now stands at 20. And for the win, the 49ers improved their record to 7-8. With the loss, the Lions dropped their record to 2-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs Chicago Bears\nFor their season finale, the Lions hosted a rematch with division rivals the Chicago Bears. The Bears started the scoring in the first quarter with a 44-yard field goal by Robbie Gould. The Lions responded with a 42-yard field goal of their own. Then in the second quarter the Bears kicked another field goal, from 28 yards out. The Lions then took the lead with a 12-yard Bryant Johnson TD catch. The Bears took it back just before halftime with a 7-yard Greg Olsen TD catch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs Chicago Bears\nIn the third quarter the Bears added to their lead with a Devin Aromashodu 9-yard TD catch. The Lions responded with a 48-yard field goal. Later, in the fourth quarter, the Lions tied it up with a 5-yard Calvin Johnson TD catch. The Bears took the lead back though with a Desmond Clark 1-yard TD catch. The Lions then scored their final points of the season, a 32-yard field goal. The Bears responded with another Devin Aromashodu TD catch, this one from 12 yards. The Bears closed out the scoring with a 34-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs Chicago Bears\nThe loss allowed the Lions to clinch the second overall selection in the 2010 NFL Draft behind the St. Louis Rams, who finished 1\u201315, with their lone victory at Detroit\u2019s expense in week 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202469-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Lions season, Local TV Blackouts\nIn the 2009 season, the Lions had four of their 8 home games televised on local TV. The Lions sold out their home opener against the Vikings, as well as a week 5 match up against the Steelers, the Thanksgiving Classic against Green Bay, and their season finale against the Bears. Both of the Lions wins in 2009  were blacked out on local television (the Detroit, Flint/Tri-Cities, Lansing/Jackson and Toledo markets) because the game didn't sell out by the 72-hour deadline. In the games that Detroit didn\u2019t sell out, the attendances were announced at just over 40,000 and quite often, the stadium looked only half full. Since the Lions 0\u201316 season in 2008, popularity in the team has decreased and the Lions have struggled to sell tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202470-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Shock season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 12th for the Detroit Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association in the United States. The Shock attempted to win the WNBA Finals, tying the record for most championships with the Houston Comets (4), but failed in the conference finals. On June 15, 2009, head coach Bill Laimbeer resigned as head coach of the Detroit Shock, due to family reasons and the desire to become an NBA head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202470-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Detroit Shock season\nThough he was unable to secure an NBA head coaching position, ESPN reported on August 30 that Laimbeer was offered, and accepted, an assistant coach position with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Despite the early struggles, the 2008 champion Detroit Shock reached the playoffs for the seventh straight year. It would be the final year in Detroit, as the Shock were purchased by Tulsa Hoops, and new ownership moved the team to Tulsa for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202470-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Shock season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Shock's 2008 record, they could have picked 11th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Shock waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202470-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Shock season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Shock's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 2009 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 109th season. The Tigers' new slogan for 2009 was \"Always a Tiger.\" It replaced the 2006\u20132008 slogan \"Who's Your Tiger?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season\nThe Tigers ended the season on October 6 with a 6\u20135 loss in 12 innings to the Minnesota Twins in the tie-breaker game to win the AL Central. The Tigers spent 146 days in first place and became the first team in Major League history to lose a three-game lead with four games left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Trades\nOn July 30, the Tigers traded outfielder Josh Anderson to Kansas City for cash considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Trades\nOn July 31, the Tigers traded rookie left-handed pitcher Luke French and left-handed pitcher Mauricio Robles to Seattle for veteran left-handed starting pitcher Jarrod Washburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Trades\nOn August 17, the Tigers traded pitcher Brett Jacobson to Baltimore for Aubrey Huff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nThe Tigers' home opener was on April 10 against the Texas Rangers. The Tigers won that game 15\u20132, which included a grand slam by Miguel Cabrera and finished the series with a sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nThe Tigers swept their rivals the Indians in Cleveland during the second weekend of May. The Tigers also completed back-to-back sweeps in May, against the Athletics and the Rangers. The Tigers also completed back-to-back sweeps in late June, over the Brewers and Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nOn May 15, the Tigers hit 2 grand slams in a game, only the third time in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nOn June 19, Instant replay was used twice in the Tigers' 10\u20134 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Comerica Park, the first time that's happened in league history. Miguel Cabrera's third-inning single off the top of the wall is called a home run after instant replay review shows that it had actually cleared the wall. Contrarily, Dusty Ryan's fourth-inning home run was overturned to a ground rule double. Later that weekend, the Tigers won the series with a sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nOn May 19, Dontrelle Willis and four relief pitchers combined to throw a one-hitter in a 4\u20130 Tigers Victory. Willis had a stretch in which he retired 17 straight batters", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nThe Tigers completed back-to-back sweeps against the Indians and Rays in early September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nThe Tigers held the 1st-place position from May 8 until they lost it to the Twins in the tiebreaker game on October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202471-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit Tigers season, Season highlights\nThe Tigers swept the Indians for the third time of the season in late September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202472-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral election\nThe Detroit mayoral election of 2009 took place on November 3, 2009. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Dave Bing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202472-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral election\nThe election followed a special election held earlier that year to fill the vacancy created when Kwame Kilpatrick resigned as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202472-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral election, Results, Primary election results\nIn the August 4 primary, Mayor Dave Bing captured nearly 74% of the vote. He and businessman Tom Barrow advanced to the November 3 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election\nThe Detroit mayoral special election of 2009 took place on May 5, 2009. It was a special election to fill the remainder of the term of Kwame Kilpatrick  who had resigned as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election\nThis special election was mandated by Detroit's City Charter in order to determine who will serve out the remaining months in the term of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election\nIncumbent mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who was previously president of the Detroit City Council, had become acting mayor upon Kilpatrick's resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election, Candidates\nIncumbent mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who as president of the Detroit City Council became acting mayor upon Kilpatrick's resignation, was seeking reelection. Other candidates included Dave Bing, a community leader and former NBA professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons, Freman Hendrix, former deputy mayor and a mayoral candidate in 2005, Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election, Results, Primary\nDave Bing and incumbent mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. won the top two spots in the special primary on February 24 and proceeded to contest the special general election on May 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202473-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Detroit mayoral special election, Results, General election\nBing won this election with 52% of the vote and was sworn in as mayor on May 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters\nThe 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the twenty-third season of premier German touring car championship and also tenth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. The series began on 17 May at Hockenheim and finished on 25 October at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters\nTimo Scheider successfully defended his championship title, taking his Audi A4 to a five-point series win over Mercedes-Benz driver Gary Paffett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Teams and drivers\nOf the nineteen drivers that competed in the 2008 season, only Bernd Schneider and Christijan Albers did not return. Rookies in 2009 are the Kolles Futurecom trio of Christian Bakkerud, Johannes Seidlitz and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kostka. The following manufacturers, teams and drivers competed in the 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Driver changes\nKatherine Legge moved from the Futurecom-TME team to a team created for her at Audi Sport Team Abt Lady Power, gaining a later model Audi with the change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Driver changes\nChristian Bakkerud joined the series coming from GP2 Series along with Formula Renault BARC driver Johannes Seidlitz both joining the Colin Kolles owned Futurecom-TME team with Czech Touring Car Championship racer Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kostka joining sister-team Futurecom-BRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Driver changes\nChristijan Albers left DTM to pursue sports car racing with Kolles' Le Mans Series team and the most successful driver in the history of DTM, four-time champion Bernd Schneider retired from the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Technical changes\nThe series adopted new rule changes, as announced on 21 April 2009. Qualifying consisted of four sessions, rather than two in 2008. The minimum weights of the cars were also altered, with 2009 cars topping the scales at 1050\u00a0kg, 2008 cars at 1030\u00a0kg and 2007 machinery at 1010\u00a0kg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Race calendar and results\nTo avoid a clash of coverage times with the 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, the season opener traditionally held at Hockenheim took place on 17 May, three weeks later than originally planned. Consequently, the EuroSpeedway round that had been scheduled for this date was moved to 31 May. The Brands Hatch round was also moved back a week due to the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, from 30 August to 6 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Race calendar and results\nFrench circuit Dijon-Prenois made its maiden appearance on the DTM calendar holding the penultimate round of the season on 11 October. Italian circuit Mugello was dropped from the calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Season results\nTimo Scheider won his second DTM series crown for Audi team Abt Sportsline. With season long rival, Mercedes-Benz driver Gary Paffett taking four wins through the season, and with Scheider disqualified from the results at Zandvoort mid-season, left Scheider behind Paffett for much of the season. Schieder finished first or second in all bar one event for the remainder of the season after Zandvoort including victories at Oschersleben and Catalunya in an irresistible charge to the title. By the time Paffett returned to the podium with wins in the last two races of the year Scheider had built a points buffer large enough to secure the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Season results\nPaul di Resta stood on the podium three times in the final four races, including a win at Brands Hatch to emerge from the pack in third place in the series pointscore, four points ahead of Bruno Spengler and Mattias Ekstr\u00f6m. Apart from Scheider, Paffett and di Resta, race wins were taken by Tom Kristensen at the Hockenheim season opener, his last ever touring car victory before semi-retirement; Jamie Green at the Norisring street circuit and by Martin Tomczyk at the N\u00fcrburgring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202474-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Season results\nThe combined efforts of Paffett and Spengler saw the HWA run Salzgitter / Mercedes-Benz Bank team claim the teams prize at season's end, 100 points to 85 points of the Abt Sportsline team of Scheider and Kristensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202475-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Devon County Council election\nAn election to Devon County Council took place on 7 May 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The elections had been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 62 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005. No elections were held in Plymouth and Torbay, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202475-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Devon County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202475-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Devon County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202475-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Devon County Council election, Summary\nThe election saw the Liberal Democrats lose control of the council to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats were reduced to the second largest party and hence the official opposition. Devon was one of 2 county councils controlled by the Liberal Democrats, the other being Somerset County Council, both were lost to the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202476-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dhi Qar governorate election\nThe Dhi Qar governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202478-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Diamond Head Classic\nThe 2009 Diamond Head Classic was a mid-season eight-team college basketball tournament played on December 22 , 23, and 25 at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was the first annual Diamond Head Classic tournament and was part of the 2009\u201310 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. USC defeated No. 20-ranked UNLV to win the tournament championship. Mike Gerrity was named the tournament's MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500\nThe 2009 Dickies 500 was the 34th stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the eighth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 8, 2009 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas before a crowd of 167,000. The 334-lap race was won by Kurt Busch of the Penske Racing team after he started from third position. Denny Hamlin finished second and Matt Kenseth came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500\nJeff Gordon won the pole position, although he was almost immediately passed by Kasey Kahne at the start of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, including Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards encountered problems during the race. Kyle Busch was leading the race with three laps remaining but ran out of fuel, giving the lead, and the win, to Kurt Busch. There were a total of eight cautions during the race and thirteen lead changes among four different drivers during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500\nThe race was Kurt Busch's second win of the 2009 season, his first at the Texas Motor Speedway, and the 20th of his career. The result advanced Busch to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 171 points behind the leader Johnson and seven ahead of Tony Stewart. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, fifty-five ahead of Toyota, eighty-nine ahead of Ford, and ninety-six in front of Dodge. The race attracted 5.82 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Background\nThe Dickies 500 was the 34th of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the eighth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 8, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas at Texas Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that hold NASCAR races. The standard track at Texas Motor Speedway is a four-turn quad-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch have a five degree banking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Background\nOne team chose to replace their regular driver with a substitute. Penske Championship Racing driver David Stremme (who was unable to secure a top-ten finish) was replaced by the 2009 Aaron's 499 winner Brad Keselowski for the final three races of the 2009 season, so Keselowski would gain experience before driving full-time with the team the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Background\nBefore the race, Jimmie Johnson led the Drivers' Championship, with 6,248 points, with Mark Martin in second and Jeff Gordon third. Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart were fourth and fifth, and Kurt Busch, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin and Brian Vickers rounded out the top twelve drivers competing for the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet were leading with 244 points, sixty-two points ahead of their rivals Toyota. Ford with 145 points, were nine points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Edwards was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, while the second session lasted 45 minutes. The third and final session lasted 60 minutes. In the first practice session, Clint Bowyer was fastest, placing ahead of Biffle in second, and Johnson in third. Gordon was fourth fastest, and Edwards placed fifth. Kurt Busch, David Ragan, Jeff Burton, Keselowski and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Practice and qualifying\nMax Papis damaged the right-hand side of his car when he hit the turn two wall; Jamie McMurray, David Reutimann and Mike Bliss also hit the turn two wall. Bliss went to a back-up car because the right side of his car was heavily damaged. John Andretti's engine failed during the early phase of the session, and Andretti changed engines. Burton switched to a back-up car after he collided with the turn two outside wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Practice and qualifying\nForty-seven drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday afternoon; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Gordon clinched his second pole position of the season, with a time of 28.255. He was joined on the grid's front row by Kahne. Kurt Busch qualified third, Stewart took fourth, and Kyle Busch started fifth. Edwards qualified sixth, while Martin set the seventh fastest time. Biffle qualified eighth, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. ninth and Clint Bowyer tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Practice and qualifying\nThe four drivers that failed to qualify were Tony Raines, Dave Blaney, Papis and Mike Bliss. Derrike Cope withdrew from the race prior to qualifying. After the qualifier Gordon said, \"Our efforts here have improved because we've really focused on it, They started with qualifying, and luckily last time they showed up in the race. ... So we certainly hope we can take this qualifying effort and create those types of results as well.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, David Reutimann was fastest in the second practice session, ahead of Stewart in second, and Montoya in third. Kyle Busch was fourth quickest, and Kurt Busch took fifth. Kahne managed sixth. Matt Kenseth, Hamlin, Martin and Johnson followed in the top ten. Of the other drivers in the Chase, Gordon set the eleventh fastest time, while Biffle was placed thirteenth. Later that day, Johnson paced the final practice session, with Edwards in second, and Hamlin in third. Biffle was fourth quickest, and Bill Elliott took fifth. Ragan managed sixth. Robby Gordon was seventh fastest, Earnhardt eighth, Reutimann ninth, and Martin Truex, Jr. tenth. Other Chase drivers included Montoya in fourteenth and Newman in sixteenth. Harvick collided with the turn two wall; he sustained minor damage, allowing his team to repair his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nThe race began at 3:15\u00a0p.m. Eastern Standard Time and was televised live in the United States on ABC. At the start of the race, weather conditions were cloudy. Dr. Roger Marsh began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. The Texas Christian University Marching Band performed the national anthem, and rock band ZZ Top gave the command for drivers to start their engines. During the pace laps, two drivers moved to the back of the grid due to unapproved changes: Bill Elliott because of a transmission change, and Andretti because he changed his engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nJeff Gordon retained his pole position lead into the first corner. Reutimann made contact with Johnson, forcing him to collide with the wall and damage his car's suspension on lap two. The first caution of the race was subsequently given. None of the leaders elected to make pit stops during the caution, and Johnson drove to his garage to change his front and rear suspension. Jeff Gordon maintained his lead on the lap eight restart. Kurt Busch passed Jeff Gordon on the low side of the track for the lead position four laps later. After starting twenty-ninth, Robby Gordon had moved up thirteen positions to sixteenth by lap 34. One lap later, Johnson's car was fitted with a new driveshaft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nEarnhardt had moved into fourth by lap 38 and was closing the gap to Gordon in third. Six laps later, Kurt Busch was leading by more than three seconds from Kyle Busch. By the 48th lap, Reutimann, who started thirteenth, had moved into the third position. Green flag pit stops for tires, fuel and car adjustments began on lap 52, when Elliott Sadler became the first driver to pit. Stewart became the new leader after Kurt Busch came onto pit road. Stewart made his pit stop on lap 56, handing the lead to Michael Waltrip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nAfter the leaders made their pit stops, Kyle Busch claimed the lead on lap 58. Six laps later, Kyle Busch had a 2.5 second lead over Kurt Busch. On lap 70, Jeff Gordon fell to eleventh position due to a slow pit stop. Two laps later, Marcos Ambrose, who started thirty-fifth, had moved up twenty-nine positions to sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nBy the 84th lap, Kyle Busch's lead was half a second from Kurt Busch. Two laps later, Sam Hornish, Jr. collided with the wall and suffered three flat tires, prompting the second caution. During the caution, most of the leaders made pit stops. Kyle Busch remained the leader after the pit stops and maintained it at the lap 91 restart. Montoya moved into ninth, as Stewart passed Reutimann for third on the same. Two laps later, Jeff Gordon had moved up into ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nSunlight came off the track surface by lap 99, causing track temperatures to cool and drivers were reminded by their crew chiefs to drive cautiously in the turns. Martin moved into the thirteenth position by lap 102. Ambrose had moved into third nine laps later. On lap 113, Johnson rejoined the track, albeit without his car's rear bumper. Kyle Busch had built up a one and a half second lead over Kurt Busch by lap 116. Johnson drove to pit road to resolve tire rubbing problems two laps later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nMartin moved into the top ten positions by lap 122, as Gordon fell down to fourteenth four laps later. On lap 134, Johnson moved back on track, however he returned to pit road eight laps later as the green flag pit stop period began. Hamlin gained the lead on lap 146. After pit stops, Kyle Busch reclaimed the first position. Drivers reported track conditions were changing as cooler air came over the circuit by lap 148. Jeff Gordon reported seeing debris at turn one on the 165th lap, which triggered the third caution. Some of the leaders chose to make pit stops during the caution as race officials cleaned the debris. Kyle Busch maintained his lead at the restart, ahead of Kurt Busch and Earnhardt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nThe fourth caution was given on lap 174 when Montoya collided with the wall, damaging his car. Edwards, who was hit by Montoya, had sustained a similar amount of damage to his car. Keselowski was caught up in the crash, and Jeff Gordon was forced to spin sideways. None of the leaders made pit stops during the caution. Officials cleared the surface at turn one and checked turn two for a brake motor. The race restarted on lap 181 with Kyle Busch leading, ahead of Kurt Busch, and Reutimann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nFive laps later, Kyle Busch had built up a 1.4 second lead. On lap 206, Reed Sorenson damaged his car, after colliding with the wall, which caused the fifth and final caution. Most of the leaders made pit stops for fuel and car adjustments during the caution. Kyle Busch led on the restart on lap 212, followed by Kurt Busch and Reutimann. Seven laps later, Kahne moved into ninth position. On lap 221, Earnhardt. dropped two positions to seventh. Eight laps later, Martin moved into the fifth position. On lap 238, Martin passed Stewart to claim fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nKyle Busch maintained a 1.4 second lead over Kurt Busch by the 249th lap. Three laps later, Keselowski drove out of his garage to rejoin the race. By lap 262, drivers reported their cars were sliding in the corners as their tires became worn. Green flag pit stops began on lap 265; Kyle Busch maintained the lead at the end of the cycle, ahead of Reutimann and Kenseth. On the 290th lap, Kurt Busch's crew reported to him that he was running two laps short of fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nSix laps later, Kyle Busch started to slow in the corners to conserve fuel. On the 298th lap, Martin dropped one position to run fifth. By the 302nd lap, overall speeds had dropped due to drivers starting to conserve fuel. Green flag pit stops began on lap 311, as Truex made a stop for fuel. Kyle Busch elected not to make a pit stop and increased his lead to four seconds by lap 314. Eight laps later, Kyle Busch was told by his team to reduce his speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race\nOn lap 330, Kyle Busch drove to pit road, having run out of fuel, handing the lead to Kurt Busch. One lap later, Ambrose ran out of fuel, as Kurt Busch held the lead to win his second race of the 2009 season. Hamlin finished second, ahead of Kenseth in third, Martin in fourth, and Harvick in fifth. Stewart, Bowyer, Biffle, Burton and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\n\"This is the first time Kyle and I raced each other hard. It\u2019s bittersweet. I was rooting for him, but at the same time, this is for us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\nKurt Busch appeared in victory lane to celebrate his second win of the season, and his first at the Texas Motor Speedway, in front of 167,000 who attended the race. Busch also earned $440,575  in race winnings. Afterward, he said, \"I knew what we had for fuel mileage \u2013 I was confident in our guys' numbers. They gave me what I needed to win [Sunday]. We were fast, we were playing cat-and-mouse with Kyle on restarts \u2013 you know, it's the first true time that Kyle and I have raced each other hard for a victory like this.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\nHamlin, who finished second, said \"Hats off to Mike (Ford, crew chief) and this whole FedEx Office Camry team. We have a really good car, we just had to learn to stay in the pits. We just lost too many spots on pit road that we couldn't overcome that track position. I was trying to make something happen and got in the wall which ended up killing our car. The good part about that is I was able to save fuel because there was no pressure from behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\nI was able to save fuel and our Camry got the best fuel mileage it got all day.\" Kyle Busch's crew chief Dave Rogers said of his drivers' performance, \"I think he handled it well \u2013 it's tough. You lead all these laps and he could have gone for the clean sweep this weekend \u2013 win all three in a row. He deserved to win all three in a row and to get beat \u2013 it's tough. \", he continued, \"We're disappointed \u2013 this Toyota deserved to be in Victory Lane. I thought we had one of the best cars throughout the entire race, but it just didn't work out that way. We were a little short on fuel.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\nTwo days after the race, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing were given penalties for Martin Truex, Jr.'s car. Earnhardt Ganassi Racing's penalty, for actions \"detrimental to stock car racing\", race equipment that did not conform to NASCAR rules, and for the ride height of Truex's car being too low, included a fine of $50,000 for crew chief Kevin Manion, and the loss of 50 owner and driver points for Teresa Earnhardt and Truex. Manion was also placed on probation until December 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202479-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Dickies 500, Race, Post-race\nThe race result left Johnson leading the Drivers' Championship with 6,297 points. Martin stood in second, seventy-three points behind Johnson, and thirty-nine ahead of Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch who finished first, moved into fourth position with 6,126 points. Stewart was fifth, as Montoya, Biffle, Hamlin, Newman, and Kahne followed in the top ten positions. The final two positions available in the Chase for the Sprint Cup was occupied with Edwards in eleventh and Vickers in twelfth. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained their lead with 247 points. Toyota remained second with 192 points. Ford followed with 158 points, seven ahead of Dodge in fourth. 5.82 million people watched the race on television. The race took three hours, twenty-four minutes and eighteen seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 25.686 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202480-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Division 1 (Swedish football)\nThe 2009 Division 1 was contested by 28 teams divided into two groups geographically. Degerfors IF and \u00d6sters IF won their respective groups, and were thereby qualified for play in the 2010 Superettan. IK Brage who finished second in their group were also promoted after winning their playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202480-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Division 1 (Swedish football), Young Player Teams Of The Year\nAt the end of each Division 1 season an all-star game is played called \"Morgondagens Stj\u00e4rnor\" (English: \"The Stars Of Tomorrow\"). The two teams playing against each other consist of the best young players from each of the two leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202481-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Diyala governorate election\nThe Diyala governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202481-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Diyala governorate election, Campaign\nA Sunni Arab candidate from the National Reform Trend was killed near the disputed town of Mandali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202481-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Diyala governorate election, Results\nImmediately after the election, the Iraqi National List and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front claimed victory in Diyala. The final results saw them both winning seats, but no part having an overall majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202481-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Diyala governorate election, Results\nA month after the vote, 2000 supporters of ISCI protested at the results, saying internally displaced refugee supporters had been unable to vote, and a large number of their supporters had turned up to vote to find their names were not on the electoral roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202481-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Diyala governorate election, Results\nIn March, the INDF said they would form an alliance with the State of Law Coalition and the Iraqi Islamic Party allied with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202482-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season\nDjurg\u00e5rden will in the 2009 season compete in the Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen. Djurg\u00e5rden sacked both managers after the terrible 2008 year, Siggi J\u00f3nsson and Paul Lindholm. The new coaches were presented on December 12, 2008, Andre\u00e9 Jeglertz and former DIF-manager and two times Swedish champion with Djurg\u00e5rden, Zoran Lukic. Djurg\u00e5rden finished at place 14 after winning all the three last games and played Assyriska in qualification for Allsvenskan. Assyriska won the first game at home with 2\u20130, but Djurg\u00e5rden came back and won 3\u20130 at home in extra time, which means that Djurg\u00e5rden will play Allsvenskan 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202482-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season\nOn June 3, 2009, Zoran Lukic left the club. Andre\u00e9 Jeglertz is still in the club. On June 12 former-Djurg\u00e5rden player Steve Galloway returns to the club as assistant manager. On November 11 Former club director Tommy Jacobson was selected as new club director. 25 million Swedish crown is coming with him to the club, and 15 of that 25 million is going to be spent on new players for next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202482-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Club, Other information\nUpdated to match played 25 JanuarySource:\u00a0Djurg\u00e5rdens IF and Stockholm Stadion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202482-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Djurg\u00e5rdens IF season, Friendlies\nLast updated: 23 January1Djurg\u00e5rden goals come first.Country's flag depict country of foreign team to that of Djurg\u00e5rden.2 Ground: H = Home; A = Away; N = Neutral; HR = Home replacement; AR = Away replacement; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202483-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dominican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Dominica on 18 December 2009, to elect the 21 Representatives of the House of Assembly. The incumbent Dominica Labour Party increased its majority to 18 of 21 seats, winning a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202484-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Donegal County Council election\nAn election to Donegal County Council took place on 2 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202485-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Donington Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Donington Formula Two round was the fifth round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 16 August 2009 at Donington Park in North West Leicestershire, United Kingdom. The first race was won by Andy Soucek, with Mikhail Aleshin and Tobias Hegewald also on the podium. The second race was won by Julien Jousse, with Kazim Vasiliauskas and Mirko Bortolotti also on the podium. Only 24 cars competed at the event, after Henry Surtees' fatal accident at Brands Hatch left a vacant slot that was unfilled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202486-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round\nThe 2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round was the third round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on 2 August 2009. Support race events included the Historic Formula One Championship, British Superkart and Formula Jedi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202486-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round, Report, Qualifying\nAnt\u00f4nio Pizzonia took a fortunate second pole of the season, as qualifying was canned after the group stages due to heavy rain at Donington. As his lap time with much faster than the time of Davide Rigon, the quickest driver of Group B, he was given the benefit of pole position. Rigon will line up second, as all the Group B cars will fill that side of the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202487-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Donington Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Donington Superbike World Championship round was the ninth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 26\u201328 June 2009 at Donington Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202488-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dorset County Council election\nElections to Dorset County Council took place on 4 June 2009. The vote was delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. A key issue in the election was an Audit Commission report on social care which reported a decline in standards since 2006, however the Conservative party responded that their administration was the best performing county council in England. There were fears however that voter turnout would be a record low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202489-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Down Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Down Senior Football Championship was the 2009 instalment of the annual Gaelic football club championship in Down. The tournament is a straight knockout competition between the 16 elite clubs in Down. The 2008 holders of the championship were Mayobridge. The competition ran from 6 August to 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202489-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Down Senior Football Championship, Tournament Qualification\nThe teams chosen to play in this competition are decided as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202490-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Down county football team season\nThe following is a summary of Down county football team's 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202490-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 3\nCompete in Division 3 final and automatic promotion to Division 2\u00a0\u00a0Automatic relegation to Division 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202491-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dr McKenna Cup\nThe 2009 Dr McKenna Cup was a Gaelic football competition played under the auspices of Ulster GAA. The tournament was won by Donegal, their first McKenna title since 1991. They defeated Queen's in the final, after extra-time, with goals from David Walsh and Ryan Bradley. Donegal were captained by Rory Kavanagh. Queen's had earlier knocked out title holders Down with a six-point win. They were also the first university side to reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202491-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dr McKenna Cup, Format\nA group-based format was used, with the twelve teams divided into three groups of four. Each group included a University team, and three inter-county teams. Each team played three matches, with two points acquired for a win, one for a draw, and no points for a loss. The winner of each group, plus the best runner-up, qualified for the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals played each other in the Final at Casement Park in February. format was used, with the twelve teams div", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202491-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dr McKenna Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the 2009 McKenna Cup was made in the Armagh City Hotel, Armagh on Wednesday 11 November 2008. The competition will start on the weekend of 3 and 4 January 2009. In addition to weekend matches, some games will be played midweek, so the competition is completed before the start of the 2009 National League in early February. Television broadcaster TG4 has pledged to screen a minimum of four live games from the competition. The winners of Group B will play the winners of Group C in the semi-finals, while the Group A winners will face the best runners-up of the three groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour\nThe 2009 TOYO Tires Dubai 24 Hour was the 4th running of the Dubai 24 Hour endurance event. The race was held at the Dubai Autodrome and was organized by the promoter Creventic. The official event commenced on 8 January and finished on 10 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Overview\nPractice days for the event began on 5 January 2009, followed by qualifying on 8 January which decided the grid positions for the race. The 24-hour event began on January 9 and finished on January 10. A total 78 entrants from all over the world participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Qualifying\nQualifying began on January 8 on a sunny afternoon. The cars from the A6 class dominated the top of the time table, and it was no surprise when one of the Porsche 997 GT3 cars occupied Pole Position. Apart from this, a notable curb in the domination of the Porsches was in the shape of a 3-Year Old M\u00e9gane driven by the Equipe Vershuur Team which took 3rd place on the grid with a stunning lap of 2:04.168, beating some of the more agile vehicles on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Qualifying\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nAfter 24 hours of racing at the Dubai Autodrome, only 49.676 seconds separated the 1st and second 2nd cars in the fourth running of the TOYO Tires Dubai 24 Hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nThe final hour of the race that saw no less than three changes of the lead, the Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, entered by German team Land Motorsport and driven by Carsten Tilke, Gabri\u00ebl Abergel, Andrzej Dzikevic and Niclas Kentenich, came out on top, only just defending its lead from the charging Al Faisal Racing Team\u2019s BMW Z4 Coup\u00e9 M that was shared by Abdualziz Al Faisal, Paul Spooner, Claudia H\u00fcrtgen and Stian Sorlie. 3rd was taken by another Porsche, the Besaplast Racing Team entry of Martin Tschornia, Franjo Kovac, former DTM-champion Kurt Thiim and the father-and-son pairing of Roland Asch and Sebastian Asch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nThe Autorlando Porsche, which started from pole-position with Richard Lietz behind the wheel, and the identical Land Motorsport entry, driven by Marc Basseng, were able to pull a gap over Claudia H\u00fcrtgen with the Al Faisal Racing BMW Z4 Coup\u00e9 M on the first few laps. On lap seven, there was the first lead change as Basseng managed to overtake Lietz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nLater on, the Autorlando Porsche lost about 45 minutes in the pits when the rear section of the car needed repair after another driver had run into it. There was a close battle between the Al Faisal Racing BMW and the ARC Bratislava Porsche (Miroslav Konopka, Jiri Janak, Mauro Casadei, Rudiger Klos) for many hours during the night. Around 05.00 h, the BMW took the lead, partly as a result of its slightly better fuel-efficiency, and stayed there for the next couple of hours, with the ARC Bratislava-Porsche and the Porsches of the Besaplast Racing Team and Land Motorsport following closely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nLater in the morning, the battle between the Al Faisal Racing BMW and the ARC Bratislava Porsche heated up again. With 1 hours and 10 minutes remaining the BMW came into the pits with a puncture and resulting damage to the right rear bodywork of the car, which handed the lead to the ARC Bratislava Porsche. That team stayed in front for a while and looked on its way to victory, especially as the BMW team were given a one lap penalty because of taking a shortcut. However, with 42 minutes remaining, the Porsche came in for another fuel stop and soon after that came in with apparent suspension problems, losing more valuable time and dropping back to fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202492-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai 24 Hour, Race\nAt that time, the Land Motorsport Porsche found itself in the lead with Niclas Kentenich behind the wheel, but the young German was put under massive pressure by Claudia H\u00fcrtgen in the Al Faisal Racing BMW Z4 Coupe M, who was lapping up to twelve seconds per lap faster than the Porsche. Eventually, Kentenich drove the victory home for the Land Motorsport Porsche team, finishing just 49.676 seconds ahead of the BMW. The Besaplast Racing Porsche finished third, although finishing driver Sebastian Asch had to overcome massive brake problems in his final stint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202493-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Sevens\nThe Dubai Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2009 competition was held on December 4 and December 5 at The Sevens. It is the first of eight events in the 2009\u201310 IRB Sevens World Series. New Zealand won the tournament with a 24\u201312 victory over Samoa in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202493-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Sevens\nThis was the second edition of the Dubai Sevens to be held at The Sevens. Previous editions were held at the Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202493-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Sevens, Format\nThe tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships was a 500 Series event on the 2009 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both of the events took place at The Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament took place from 15 to 21 February 2009, while the men's tournament will takefrom 23 to 28 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships\nThe men's draw was led by only 3 of the world's Top 10 men: ATP No. 3 Novak Djokovic, Doha, Rotterdam champion Andy Murray and ATP No. 8 Gilles Simon. Australian Open runner-up and four-time champion Roger Federer was scheduled to take part, however he was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to a back injury. ATP No. 1, Rotterdam finalist, 2006 titlist & recent Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal was also due to compete but was also forced to withdraw from the event due to a knee injury sustained at the previous event in Rotterdam. Defending champion Andy Roddick withdrew from the event due to the Shahar Pe'er incident and chose not to defend his title as a protest. Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Verdasco were also scheduled to play but withdrew due to injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships\nIn the women's event, nine of the ten highest ranked players participated. The top four seeds were Serena Williams, the 2009 Australian Open champion, Dinara Safina, the 2009 Australian Open runner-up, Jelena Jankovi\u0107, a former World No. 1, and Elena Dementieva, the runner-up at the recent Open GDF SUEZ tournament in Paris. Also in the field were Vera Zvonareva, a 2009 Australian Open semifinalist and winner of the recent Pattaya Women's Open, Venus Williams, the reigning Wimbledon champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Ana Ivanovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships, Shahar Pe'er controversy\nThe tournament became embroiled in controversy when the Dubai government refused to grant a visa to Israeli player Shahar Pe'er, denying her the ability to take part in the 2009 Dubai Tennis Championships. The refusal to allow Pe'er to participate drew immense criticism from top seed players. WTA chief executive Larry Scott said the women's tour was \"deeply disappointed\" by the decision. \"Ms. Pe'er has earned the right to play in the tournament and it's regrettable that the UAE is denying her this right\", he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships, Shahar Pe'er controversy\n\"Ms. Peer and her family are obviously extremely upset and disappointed by the decision of the UAE and its impact on her personally and professionally.\" Scott said the WTA would \"review appropriate future actions with regard to the future of the Dubai tournament\". In reaction to the move, the Tennis Channel decided not to televise the event, and The Wall Street Journal dropped its sponsorship. In response to the move by the UAE, the Dubai Tennis Championship was fined a record US$300,000. Pe'er was awarded US$44,250, an amount equal to the average prize money she earned per tournament in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships, Shahar Pe'er controversy\nA number of highly ranked tennis players, including 2008 winner Andy Roddick, pulled out of the men's ATP tournament in Dubai in protest. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal also pulled out of the tournament, although they both cited injury as their reason for withdrawal, not the incident involving Pe'er. The WTA Tour Board also demanded that Dubai organizers confirm that qualifying Israeli players will get visas at least eight weeks in advance for the 2010 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nRik de Voest /  Dmitry Tursunov defeated  Martin Damm /  Robert Lindstedt 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202494-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nCara Black /  Liezel Huber defeated  Maria Kirilenko /  Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202495-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Rik de Voest and Dmitry Tursunov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202495-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRik de Voest and Dmitry Tursunov won the final against Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202496-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nAndy Roddick was the defending champion, but chose not to participate to protest the United Arab Emirates decision to deny Israeli player Shahar Pe'er a visa to enter the country for the women's tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202496-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nIn the final, Novak Djokovic defeated David Ferrer, 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202497-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions, and won in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, over Maria Kirilenko and Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202497-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202498-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElena Dementieva was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Venus Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202498-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nVenus Williams won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, over Virginie Razzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202498-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202499-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai World Cup\nThe 2009 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse on Saturday 28 March 2009. It was the 14th running of the Dubai World Cup. It was the last edition of the Dubai World Cup to be run on dirt at Nad Al Sheba before being switched to the synthetic Tapeta surface at Meydan Racecourse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202499-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai World Cup\nThe winner was WinStar Farm's Well Armed, a six-year-old bay gelding trained in the United States by Eoin Harty and ridden by Aaron Gryder. Well Armed's victory was the first in the race for his jockey, trainer and owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202499-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dubai World Cup\nWell Armed had been trained in England by Clive Brittain in the early part of his career before being transferred to the Harty's American stable in 2007. Racing in California, he showed his best form on synthetic tracks winning the San Antonio Handicap, the San Diego Handicap and the Goodwood Stakes. In the 2008 Dubai World Cup he finished third behind Curlin and Asiatic Boy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202499-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Dubai World Cup\nIn the 2009 Dubai World Cup he started at odds of 10/1 and won by a record margin of fourteen lengths from the French-trained Gloria de Campeao, with the South African-bred, Saudi Arabian-trained runner Paris Perfect four and a half lengths away in third. The 2/1 favourite Asiatic Boy finished twelfth of the fourteen runners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202500-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Central by-election\nA by-election was held in the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Dublin Central constituency in Ireland on Friday, 5 June 2009, following the death of the Independent Teachta D\u00e1la (TD) Tony Gregory on 2 January 2009. The by-election was held on the same day as the 2009 European and local elections. A by-election was held in the Dublin South constituency on the same date. There was no legal requirement on when to hold a by-election in Ireland in 2009 but they were generally held within six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202500-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Central by-election\nThe independent candidate Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory's former election agent, was elected on the eighth count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202501-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin City Council election\nAn election to Dublin City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 52 councillors were elected from thirteen electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship is the inter club Gaelic football competition between the top teams in Dublin GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, First round\nThe winners of the first round progress to the second round, the losers go on to a backdoor round with a chance to progress to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Qualifier Round\nThe Backdoor round or the qualifier round features  all the teams who lost in the first round of the championship. It gives each team a second chance to progress in the championship by moving on to the third round. The losers of the backdoor games will go on to the relegation playoffs with the eventual loser moving to the Dublin Intermediate Football Championship. The teams taking part in the backdoor round are Whitehall Colmcille, St Annes, Ballyboden St Endas, Erins Isle, St Marks, Kilmacud Crokes, St Brigids, UCD, Raheny, Naomh Olaf, St Sylvesters, Trinity Gaels, Parnells, Naomh Mearn\u00f3g, Templepgue Synge Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs\nThe teams fighting for survival in the 2009 championship are: Whitehall Colmcille, Fingal Ravens, Templeogue Synge Street, Naomh Olaf, St Annes, Naomh Mearn\u00f3g and Fingallians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Third round\nThe third round will be contested by the teams that won their respective backdoor games and the teams who lost their second round games. The winners of the third round progress to the last sixteen of the Dublin football championship. The teams taking part are UCD, Clontarf, St Marks, Parnells, St Brigids, Na Fianna, Raheny, Naomh Maur, Thomas Davis, Ballyboden St Endas, Erins Isle and Ballinteer St Johns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Last 16\nRound Towers, Clondalkin, Lucan Sarsfields, Ballymun Kickhams, St Vincents, St Judes, St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh, O'Tooles, Kilmacud Crokes, St Brigids, Ballyboden St Endas, UCD, St Sylvesters, St Marys, Saggart, Parnells, Raheny and Peregrines are in the last 16 of the 2009 championship. The biggest upset of the round was St Mary's of Saggart's win over 2008 All-Ireland club champions St Vincents. O'Tooles, Parnells, St Brigids, Round Towers, Clondalkin, St Peregrines, St Vincents, St Sylvesters and Raheny all exited the competition at the Last 16 stage but retain their place in the Senior Championship for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Quarter finals\nUCD, Kilmacud Crokes, Lucan Sarsfields, St Judes, Ballyboden St Endas, St Marys and St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh have qualified for the last eight the first time of asking. The game between Ballymun Kickhams and Parnells finished all level and the replay was played at Parnell Park on Wednesday September 9. Ballymun won the replay setting them up with a quarter final game against reigning champions Kilmacud Crokes. St Mary's were the first team to qualify for the semi finals of the Dublin Championship in a tight encounter with UCD. UCD, Ballymun Kickhams and Lucan Sarsfields were knocked out of the Dublin senior football championship at the quarter final stage. Underdogs St Judes beat St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh by three points after a replay at Parnell Park on September 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 850]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Semi finals\nBallyboden St Endas, Kilmacud Crokes, St Judes and St Mary's, Saggart have qualified for the semi finals of the Dublin Senior Football Championship. All teams remaining in the competition are from South Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football Final\nTeam:D WalshC DolanI ClarkeM O'SullivanD NelsonJ O'HaraS DurkinMD MacAuleyD. O'MahonyS LambertD DaveyC SmythC KeaneyK NaughtonA Kerin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football Final\nSubstitutes:P Galvin for Davey (42), D Shovlin for Lambert (50), P OBrien for OSullivan (54).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football Final\nMatch rules:60 minutes. Replay if scores still level. Maximum of 5 substitutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football Final\nTeam:P CopelandC McBrideS BrehenyC GuckianP CunninghamN O'SheaS RyanC MurphyA GloverR O'BrienB McManamonB MonaghanJ DonnellyD DonnellyK McManamon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202502-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football Final\nSubstitutes:S Gallagher for Donnelly (ht), R Joyce for O'Brien (23), M Lyons for Monaghan (46), C Voyles for B McManamon (55).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship is a Dublin based GAA club competition between the top clubs in Dublin Hurling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Semi finals\nThe semi finals will feature O'Tooles, Lucan Sarsfields, Ballyboden St Enda's and Craobh Chiar\u00e1in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Club Hurling Final\nTeam:G. MaguireJ. DuffyS. PerkinsA. RyanM. TraversD. SpainT. SweeneyS. DurkinD. O'ConnorD. SweeneyD. CurtinC. KeaneyP. RyanS. LambertN. McMorrow", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Club Hurling Final\nSubstitutes:M. O'Sullivan for A. Ryan (51)E. Carroll for McMorrow (57)M. Griffin for O'Connor (58)J. Doody for T. Sweeney (58)B. Kennedy for Curtin (64)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Club Hurling Final\nMatch rules:60 minutes. Replay if scores still level. Maximum of 5 substitutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202503-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Club Hurling Final\nTeam:S ChesterDamien OReillyE FarrellD ShanleyD KellyDerek OReillyG KellyK ElliottA McCrabbeP OBoyleK McGuirkD KirwanK WarrenD KeaneS McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202504-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin South by-election\nA by-election was held in the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann Dublin South constituency in Ireland on Friday, 5 June 2009, following the death of the Fianna F\u00e1il Teachta D\u00e1la (TD) S\u00e9amus Brennan on 9 July 2008. As Brennan was a Fianna F\u00e1il TD, that party had the responsibility of deciding when the by-election should take place. It was held on the same day as the 2009 European and local elections. There was no legal requirement on when to hold a by-election in Ireland in 2009 but it was generally held within six months. A by-election in the Dublin Central constituency was held on the same date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202504-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin South by-election\nEight candidates contested the vacant seat, with victory going to the Fine Gael candidate, George Lee who was elected on the first count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202504-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin South by-election, Result\nGeorge Lee resigned from D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann on 8 February 2010 after serving 8 months as a TD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202505-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dublin county football team season\nThe following is a summary of Dublin county football team's 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool\nThe 2009 Duel in the Pool was a swimming competition between a team from the United States and a combined British, German and Italian \"E-Stars\" team held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 December 2009 at the Manchester Aquatics Centre, United Kingdom. The naming rights are held by Mutual of Omaha and British Gas in the United States and Europe respectively \u2013 the event was therefore promoted as the 2009 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool and 2009 British Gas Duel in the Pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool\nThe duel was won by the United States with a final score of 185\u201378, with eight short course world records broken \u2013 all by the USA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Background\nIn March 2009 it was announced that British Swimming were looking at proposals to host a Duel in the Pool style meet between the US and a combined European team in Manchester, dubbed the Ryder Cup of swimming. On 21 October 2009, it was announced that a Duel in the Pool will take place between a \"European select team\" and the US in Manchester on 18 and 19 December 2009. This event will include the first competitive performance by Michael Phelps in Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Teams, E-Stars\nThe E-Stars team was announced on 25 November following a delay in confirming availability of some of the originally selected swimmers. It was originally intended that the European team would include 12 swimmers from each of the three participating nations, however the team list included fourteen each from Great Britain and Italy, with just eight from Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Teams, E-Stars\nMiddle-distance freestyle swimmers Joanne Jackson (GBR) and Federica Pellegrini (ITA) were originally included on the team list, however their withdrawals were announced on 4 December \u2013 Jackson due to recovering from a lung infection, and Pellegrini due to a clash with an awards dinner in Italy. Jackson's position in the team was filled by Jazmin Carlin (GBR). German Steffen Deibler was present on the original team list, however he withdrew from the event due to illness on 14 December and was replaced by Marco Orsi of Italy. Alessia Filippi (ITA) also withdrew due to illness on this date. Keri-Anne Payne (GBR) was drafted into the team as a replacement for Filippi just a few days prior to the start of the competition. The final team list consisted of 13 Italian, 7 German and 15 British members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Teams, United States\nUSA Swimming announced their team list on 28 October. Ryan Lochte pulled out of the team on 11 December due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Format\nThe competition followed the format of previous Duel in the Pool events, and were held in a short course (25\u00a0m) pool. Up to three swimmers from each team competed in each of the twenty-six individual events \u2013 thirteen each for men and women. Points were awarded to the top 3 finishers in each individual event \u2013 five points for the gold medal finisher, three for silver and one for bronze. Swimmers in fourth to sixth position were awarded no points. The winning team in each of the relay events were awarded seven points, with none for the losing team. In the event of a tie, a mixed 4\u00d750\u00a0m medley relay would have been held with a single decisive point to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Format\nGold medallists in each event received a prize of 1,000 US Dollars, with world record swims receiving a bonus of 15,000 US Dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Format\nEvents were swum in the following order, with women followed by men in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Venue\nFollowing Manchester's successful hosting of the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) at the Manchester Evening News Arena, the Manchester Aquatics Centre (which was the training and warm up venue for the 2008 championships) was chosen to host the 2009 Duel in the Pool. The venue was also that used for the aquatic sports at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Venue\nThe main pool was used for the 2009 Duel in the Pool \u2013 it was converted to the short course (25\u00a0m) format with temporary seating for 3000 positioned atop of the moveable floor sections of the diving pool and Oxford Road end of the main pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Results\nThe results for each event are shown below. World (WR), European (ER) and United States national (AM) records are indicated in the notes column as per the official results sheets, whilst British (BR), Italian (IR) and German (GR) national records are individually referenced where the time was not also a world or European record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Results, 400 m freestyle\nAfter day 1 of the Duel, USA were leading the E-Stars 89\u201333.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Results, Final points tally\nLegend: WR \u2013 World record; ER \u2013 World record; AM \u2013 United States record; BR \u2013 British record; GR \u2013 German record; IR \u2013 Italian record; DSQ \u2013 Disqualified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Broadcast\nIn the United Kingdom the event was broadcast live on the BBC's channels and via its website. Friday's session was on BBC Three, and Saturday's on BBC One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202506-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Duel in the Pool, Broadcast\nNBC broadcast highlights of the event on 27 December in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202507-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Duhamel municipal election\nThe 2009 Duhamel municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Duhamel, Quebec. David Pharand was elected as the community's new mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202507-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Duhamel municipal election, Results\nSource: ; Affaires municipales, R\u00e9gions et Occupation du Territoire, Government of Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202508-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 2009 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was Duke's 57th season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and fifth in its Coastal Division. The Blue Devils were led by second-year head coach David Cutcliffe. Duke finished the season 5\u20137 overall and 3\u20135 in ACC play, failing to qualify for a bowl game for the 15th straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400\nThe 2009 Dunlop Townsville 400 was the sixth race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Racess 11 and 12 of the series and was held on the weekend of 11\u201312 July at Townsville Street Circuit, in Townsville in Queensland, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, New event\nThe 2009 Townsville 400 is the inaugural running of this race. The first time a major motorsport has been held in North Queensland, the race has been assembled around a specially created street circuit, as no permanent racing facilities exist in north Queensland, apart from clay surface speedway circuits. Apart from Speedway racing, the largest event previously held in this part of Australia have been rounds of the Queensland Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, New event\nThe race will follow V8 Supercar's most familiar street circuit format with two races evenly split over the Saturday and Sunday of the event. Similar to the Hamilton 400 event the races will be 200 kilometres in length, rather than those of the Adelaide 500 which are 250 kilometres long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, New event\nThe 2.85 kilometre Townsville Street Circuit becomes the sixth race track in Queensland to host a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship (of which the V8 Supercars form a part of its history), following Lowood circuit, Lakeside Raceway, Surfers Paradise Raceway, Queensland Raceway and most recently the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, New event\nThe race also represents an important litmus test for V8 Supercar, as this is the second time they have attempted to grow a street race event in a region where motor racing had not previously had a following, after the failure of the Canberra 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, Changes\nMark McNally makes his V8 Supercar series debut, replacing Dale Wood in the #16 Kelly Racing Holden Commodore. Wood remains with the team, although it has not yet been confirmed that Wood will form part of the team's endurance racing squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202509-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop Townsville 400, Changes\nJason Bright debuts his new race car, the first built by his new team. Stone Brothers Racing. The Ford FG Falcon replaces the Ford BF Falcon that Bright brought to the team from his former team, Britek Motorsport. The only drivers left in the series still running the older BF Falcons now are PCR's Michael Patrizi and the car of Marcus Marshall whose proposed sale of the team to Grant Sherrin of Sherrin Motorsport fell through since the previous round of the series at Hidden Valley Raceway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202510-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge\nThe 2009 Dunlop World Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Toyota, Japan between 23 and 29 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202510-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202510-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge, Champions, Doubles\nAndis Ju\u0161ka /  Alexandre Kudryavtsev def. Alexey Kedryuk /  Junn Mitsuhashi, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202511-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge \u2013 Men's Doubles\nFrederik Nielsen and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, who were the defending champions, chose to not play this year. Andis Ju\u0161ka and Alexandre Kudryavtsev defeated Alexey Kedryuk and Junn Mitsuhashi 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202512-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge \u2013 Men's Singles\nGo Soeda, the 2008 champion, tried to defend his title, but retired due to fatigue in the first round match against Yuichi Ito. Uladzimir Ignatik won the tournament after beating Tatsuma Ito 7\u20136(7), 7\u20136(3) in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202513-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dunlop World Challenge \u2013 Women's Singles\nAyumi Morita, the 2008 champion, tried to defend her title, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic . Kimiko Date won the tournament after beating Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202514-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Duramed Futures Tour\nThe 2009 Duramed Futures Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through September 2009 in the United States. The Futures Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the \"official developmental tour\" of the LPGA Tour. In 2009, total prize money on the Futures Tour was $1,795,000, the highest in the 29-year history of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202514-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Duramed Futures Tour, Leading money winners\nThe top ten money winners at the end of the season gained membership on the LPGA Tour for the 2010 season, with those finishing in the top five positions gaining higher priority for entry into events than those finishing in positions six through ten. Finishers in positions six through ten had the option to attend LPGA Qualifying School to try to improve their membership status for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202514-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Duramed Futures Tour, Schedule and results\nThe number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Futures Tour including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202515-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Durand Cup\nThe 122nd edition of the Durand Cup began on September 11 at the Dr. Ambedkar Stadium, Delhi. Nine I-League teams were scheduled to take part. The qualifiers were held starting on September 2, with the final on September 20. Two teams from the qualifier joined to make it a 12 team battle in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202515-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Durand Cup\nParticipating teams included reigning champions Mahindra United, Churchill Brothers SC, Army XI, Sporting Clube de Goa, Air India FC, Dempo SC, JCT FC and newly promoted Shillong Lajong FC. Mohun Bagan AC and East Bengal FC had not been part of the Durand Cup in previous years, but according to DFTS Secretary General Major S.S. Maan, they were expected to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202515-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Durand Cup, Qualifying Round One\n16 teams played a one-off match to determine the 8 clubs to reach the second qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202515-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Durand Cup, Qualifying Round Two\n8 teams play a one off match to determine 4 clubs to advance to the third qualifying stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202515-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Durand Cup, Qualifying Round Three\n4 clubs remain, 2 will advance to the Group Stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202516-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Durham mayoral election\nThe 2009 Durham mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009 to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Bill Bell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202517-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Dutch Championships took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and it served as the National Championships for the gymnasts from the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202518-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Dutch Figure Skating Championships took place between 19 and 21 December 2008 in Heerenveen. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and synchronized skating across the levels of senior, junior, novice, and the pre-novice level debs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202519-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Road Race Championships \u2013 Women's road race\nThe Women's road race of the 2009 Dutch National Road Race Championships cycling event took place on 27 June 2009. The race started in the province Limburg in Heerlen and finished in Landgraaf, the Netherlands. The competition was run over a 117\u00a0km course. 64 women's finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202520-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Time Trial Championships \u2013 Women's time trial\nThe Women's time trial of the 2009 Dutch National Time Trial Championships cycling event took place on 27 August 2009 in and around Zaltbommel, Netherlands. The competition was run over a 22.3\u00a0km flat course and the first rider started at 17:10. Riders started 1 minute apart from each other. 35 cyclists participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202520-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Time Trial Championships \u2013 Women's time trial\nRegina Bruins won the time trial in a time of 29' 06.55\", ahead of Kirsten Wild and Ellen van Dijk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202521-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships\nThe 2009 Dutch National Track Championships were Dutch national Championship for track cycling. There were separate championships for endurance and sprint disciplines. The endurance disciplines (individual pursuit, scratch race, points race and madison) took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar in Alkmaar, the Netherlands from October 9 to October 11. The sprint disciplines (sprint, time trial and keirin) took place from December 28 to December 30. Competitions were held of various track cycling disciplines in different age, gender and disability categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202522-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe women's individual pursuit at the 2009 Dutch National Track Championships in Alkmaar took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar on October 10, 2009. 10 athletes participated in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202522-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nKirsten Wild won the gold medal, Vera Koedooder took silver and Amy Pieters won the bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202522-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Preview\nTitleholder Ellen van Dijk took not part in this competition. Two weeks before the national championships she rode the time trial at the Road World Championships. Van Dijk wanted to take some rest in preparation for the qualification moment for the Track World Championships during the World Cup competitions in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202522-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Competition format\nThe tournament started with a qualifying round. The two fastest qualifiers advanced to the gold medal final. The numbers three and four competed against each other for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 88], "content_span": [89, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202522-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch National Track Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit, Race\nKirsten Wild rode in the qualification round with 3:44 the fastest time, a second faster than the number two Vera Koedooder. In the gold medal match, Kirsten wild rode more than 2 seconds faster than Vera Koedooder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 74], "content_span": [75, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202523-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch Open (darts)\nThe 2009 Dutch Open was the 37th edition of the Dutch Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202524-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch TT\nThe 2009 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 25\u201327 June 2009 at the TT Circuit Assen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202524-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch TT\nValentino Rossi won the MotoGP race, his 100th career victory, ahead of teammate Jorge Lorenzo, with Australia's Casey Stoner, who led early on, finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202524-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Dutch TT, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202525-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Dwars door Vlaanderen\nThe 2009 Dwars door Vlaanderen was the 64th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 25 March 2009. The race started in Roeselare and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Kevin van Impe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202526-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 D\u00fan Laoghaire\u2013Rathdown County Council election\nAn election to D\u00fan Laoghaire\u2013Rathdown County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 28 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202527-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen\nThe 2009 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen was the 52nd edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 28 March 2009. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Filippo Pozzato of Team Katusha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202528-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy\nThe 2009 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy was a cricket tournament organised by the EAP for Under-19 teams from its member nations. The event also served as qualification for the 2009 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier. Five teams took part in the tournament, which was held from 30 May-8 June in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea, won the tournament with runner-up Vanuatu joining them in qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202528-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy, Matches\nThe teams played one another on a round-robin basis. The teams were then ranked based on number of wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202529-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 48th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 21, 2009. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Yale received the ECAC Hockey automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202529-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth, sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest ranked first round winner, the second seed and second lowest ranked first round winner, the third seed and second highest ranked first round winner, and the fourth seed and highest ranked first round winner play a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202529-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nIn the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202529-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202530-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open\nThe 2009 ECM Prague Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the ECM Prague Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from July 13 through July 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202530-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202530-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open, Finals, Doubles\nAlona Bondarenko /  Kateryna Bondarenko defeated  Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 /  Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202531-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open \u2013 Doubles\nAndrea Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 was the defending champions, but lost in the semifinal with Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202531-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open \u2013 Doubles\nAlyona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20132, against Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202532-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open \u2013 Singles\nVera Zvonareva was the defending champion, but was sidelined due to an ankle injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202532-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ECM Prague Open \u2013 Singles\nSybille Bammer won in the final 7-6(4), 6-2 against Francesca Schiavone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly\nThe 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly was the eleventh biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It convened in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from August 17\u201323, 2009. The Churchwide Assembly is the 'highest legislative authority' of the ELCA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly\nAt the time of the Assembly, the ELCA consisted of nearly 4.6 million members organized into nearly 11,000 congregations. The Assembly consisted of 1,045 voting members and was chaired by The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the ELCA from 2001\u20132013. David Swartling, the Secretary of the ELCA from 2007\u20132013, served as secretary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly\nThe 2009 Assembly was dominated by debate on the proposed Social Statement,  and its accompanying Recommendations for Ministry Policies. The Statement allowed for differing understandings of same-gender sexual relationships within the ELCA. The Recommendations proposed the development of a process in which congregations, synods, and churchwide units that chose to do so could call pastors and other officially recognized church leaders who were in publicly accountable same-gender lifelong monogamous relationships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly\nThe assembly's agenda also included a proposed agreement of full communion between the ELCA and the United Methodist Church, the UMC's first such agreement, along with other business matters, including: the passage of the ELCA Churchwide organization's budget, elections of officers and committee members, reports from Churchwide units and greetings from ecumenical partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly\nNevertheless, \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust\" is the legacy of the 2009 Assembly. Its eventual adoption, with its recommendations, opened the way for people in same-sex relationships to serve as pastors and other rostered leaders in the ELCA. After its adoption, many congregations and pastors who believed that such relationships were contrary to Holy Scripture, the tradition of the Church, and the Lutheran Confessions left the ELCA. The 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly reshaped American Lutheranism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nThe conservative Judeo-Christian understanding is that sexual relationships between people of the same sex are not part of God's intention for humanity and are an expression of sinful human desire (citation needed). The Biblical texts which are most commonly interpreted as proscribing homosexual activity are  and . Conservative Jews and Christians see there being a divine intention for sexual intimacy between a man and a woman in  and .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nDebates about human sexuality, specifically the legitimacy of homosexual sexual relationships for Christians, had been on the ELCA's agenda for almost two decades. 1990's 'Vision and Expectations,' the standards for ELCA pastors, stated 'Pastors who are homosexual in their self-understanding are expected to abstain from homosexual sexual relationships.' This statement reaffirmed the teaching statements of two of the predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the Lutheran Church in America and the American Lutheran Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nIn 1993, a draft Social Statement, \"The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,\" which took a permissive view on same-sex relationships, was leaked to the press, resulting in many parishioners being upset with what was misunderstood as new ELCA policy and was withdrawn. In 1996, the ELCA Church Council adopted \"Sexuality: Some Common Convictions,\" which articulated shared understandings of ELCA Lutherans regarding human sexuality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nThe issue continued to simmer while full-communion agreements with the Presbyterian Church USA, Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and Episcopal Church (United States) were debated and adopted in 1997 and 1999. As a response to the 1999 adoption of full communion with the ECUSA, a congregationally centered organization called Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) was formed in 2001 for congregations that did not agree with the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nGroups such as Lutherans Concerned/North America continued to advocate for full inclusion of LGBT persons in the life of the ELCA. In 2003, the Episcopal Church (United States) ordained an openly gay man in a same-sex relationship, the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson, as Bishop of New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nBy a 581-386 vote, the 2001 Churchwide Assembly acted \"to initiate a process in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to develop a social statement on human sexuality.\" Over the next two years, a Task Force on Human Sexuality developed resources for study in the ELCA. Over 28,000 responses were received to the study documents, The Task Force put forth three recommendations to the 2005 Churchwide Assembly. The third recommendation would have retained the current ministry standards 'on the books,' but allowed congregations the discretion to call leaders in same-sex relationships 'for the sake of mission.' This recommendation of the Task Force, which would have required a two-thirds majority to pass, failed at the 2005 Churchwide Assembly, 490-503. A renewal group, Lutheran CORE, organized to advocate defeat of the recommendations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 949]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Process leading to the Social Statement\nAt the 2007 Churchwide Assembly, many memorials from ELCA synods urged the Assembly to open the way for LGBT persons to serve as leaders in the ELCA. These memorials were debated but ultimately defeated. However, the Assembly adopted a resolution for the Task Force to make specific recommendations regarding ministry standards to go with the 2009 Social Statement, and also adopted a resolution to encourage restraint in discipline of those congregations and pastors who were not abiding by the ministry standards,. These resolutions set the stage for change at the 2009 Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nIn the ELCA, Social Statements \"are teaching documents that assist members in their thinking about social issues. They are meant to aid in communal and individual moral formation and deliberation. Social statements also set policy for this church and guide its advocacy and work in the public arena.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nIn 2008, the Task Force on Human Sexuality released a draft of \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.\" As eventually adopted, the Statement claims a 'distinctly Lutheran approach,' building on Lutheran principles of justification by grace and Christian freedom to serve the neighbor. It emphasizes that central to human vocation, in relation to human sexuality, is the building and protection of trust in relationships. It affirmed that human beings are called to be trustworthy in the exercise of human sexuality and to build social institutions and practices in which trust and trustworthy relationships can thrive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nRegarding marriage, the adopted Statement recognizes that 'The historic Christian tradition and the Lutheran Confessions have recognized marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman.' Nonetheless, the statement continues, \"Recognizing that this conclusion differs from the historic Christian tradition and the Lutheran Confessions, some people, though not all, in this church and within the larger Christian community, conclude that marriage is also the appropriate term to use in describing similar benefits, protection, and support for same-gender couples entering into lifelong, monogamous relationships. They believe that such accountable relationships also provide the necessary foundation that supports trust and familial and community thriving.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nRecognizing the lack of consensus within the ELCA, the Statement opens the way for congregations to publicly recognize same-sex relationships and LGBQT persons to serve as pastors and other leaders by appealing to a theological concept of 'bound conscience'. The concept recalls Martin Luther's statement at the Diet of Worms: 'it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.' The Statement recognizes that members of the ELCA are bound by conscience to differing understandings of the legitimacy and desirability of same-sex sexual relationships in Christian life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nThose different understandings may be lived out within the Church, and the differing opinions need not be church-dividing. Instead of having a definitive teaching regarding homosexual practice, the ELCA recognizes a varied but limited range of opinions on the matter, and leaves the decision to Christian freedom and the individual Christian, with all members of the ELCA respecting the other's bound consciences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nThe Ministry Recommendations appealed to the bound consciences of believers with regard to same-sex relationships. Congregations, synods, and churchwide units that chose to do so would be permitted to recognize and celebrate such relationships and call leaders either in such relationships or seeking such relationships. Persons or congregations would also be free to understand same-sex activity as sinful, to refuse to bless them, and to refuse to call leaders in same-sex relationships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nTwo dissenting positions were attached to the Statement and Recommendations. Dissenting Position One urged retention of the existing ministry standards proscribing homosexual practice. Dissenting Position Two argued for a more unequivocal statement of full inclusion for LGBQT persons in the life of the ELCA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Social Statement\nIn the months and weeks leading to the Assembly, the Statement and Recommendations were discussed and debated by theologians, seminary professors, pastors, ethicists, and advocacy groups, and debated in Synod Assemblies. The  was devoted to discussion of the Ministry Policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nThe Assembly opened on the evening of Monday, August 17, with a strong media presence. Advocacy groups from all over the nation were present, including Soulforce and representatives from the Westboro Baptist Church. Lutheran CORE and Goodsoil, a group of Lutherans Concerned/North America, represented the two key ELCA advocacy groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nThe Assembly began with a fierce debate on the adoption of the Rules of Procedure which would be key to the events that followed. Although a two-thirds vote on a Social Statement is necessary for passage, passage of the Social Statement alone would not have changed ministry standards. Therefore, the debate was over whether a two-thirds majority would be required for both the Statement and Recommendations, or for the Statement alone. The Rules eventually adopted required a simple majority for the Recommendations if the Statement passed. This was a defeat for Lutheran CORE, which had argued strenuously against a simple majority deciding a matter of such importance. However, some who supported the recommendations also desired a 2/3 majority, for the sake of the unity of the ELCA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 904]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nDebate on the Statement and Recommendations was reported to be generally respectful. Those in favor urged adoption for some of the following reasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nThose against urged defeat for some of the following reasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nOn Wednesday, August 19, the Assembly adopted the Social Statement as amended by a vote of 676-338: precisely the two-thirds majority needed for passage. On Thursday, August 20, the assembly also adopted 15 implementing resolutions by a vote of 695-285.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nAmong the implementing resolutions were resolutions that: asked the Presiding Bishop's office to explore the feasibility of developing liturgical rites for use at the time of divorce; affirmed the 2001 ELCA Message \"Commercial Sexual Exploitation,\" and called upon churchwide units to implement the statement and report to the Church Council by 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nFrom Thursday, August 20, to Friday, August 21, voting members debated and adopted the four resolutions proposed by the Church Council based on those contained in the \u201cReport and Recommendation on Ministry Policies.\u201d The assembly adopted the resolutions in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, Debate and Adoption of Statement and Recommendations\nResolutions 1 and 2 passed by less than a 2/3 majority. Therefore, had the Rules of Procedure been adopted to require a 2/3 majority for the Recommendations, the standards for ministry would have remained the same regardless of the adoption of the Social Statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 116], "content_span": [117, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Full Communion with the United Methodist Church\nFull communion is not a church merger, but rather \"when two churches develop a relationship based on a common confessing of the Christian faith and a mutual recognition of baptism and sharing of the Lord\u2019s Supper... In reaching agreements, churches also respect differences. These denominations likewise jointly worship, may exchange clergy, and also share a commitment to evangelism, witness and service in the world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Full Communion with the United Methodist Church\nThe ELCA had previously entered into five full communion agreements: with Reformed church bodies (PCUSA, UCC, RCA) in 1997; and with the Episcopal Church, U.S.A. in 1999 and Moravian Church in America in 1999. Of those full communion agreements, the one with the ECUSA was the most controversial, as a condition of that agreement was the inclusion of future Lutheran bishops and clergy into the Episcopalian apostolic succession. This agreement was seen by some Lutherans as violating the Lutheran Confessions and spurred the creation of LCMC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Full Communion with the United Methodist Church\nThe UMC approved the full communion agreement in 2008; it was the UMC's first such agreement. Although some debate occurred, the adoption of the agreement was not nearly as controversial as the agreements of 1997 and 1999, passing by a vote of 958-24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Other actions\nCarlos Pe\u00f1a was re-elected to a second term as vice-president of the ELCA. The church adopted an HIV/AIDS funding proposal, and the Assembly approved the Lutheran Malaria Initiative. By a vote of 754-176, the Assembly requested the development of a Social Statement on justice for women in church and society to be brought before the 2015 Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 19th tornado event\nOn August 19, disturbances in the jet stream caused severe thunderstorms to form in Iowa and the Dakotas. The storms moved to the north and east during the day, spreading into Wisconsin and Minnesota. At 1:50 pm CDT, an EF0 tornado touched down in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, uprooting trees and causing minor structural damage to buildings, including Minneapolis' neo-Gothic-styled Central Lutheran Church. The tornado continued north-northwest for 4.5 miles (7\u00a0km) before dissipating near the Minneapolis Convention Center in downtown Minneapolis where the Churchwide Assembly was being held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, August 19th tornado event\nThe coincidence of this tornado with the day of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly's vote on the Social Statement \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust\" sparked an increased interest in the Assembly across social media, local print and broadcast news, the religious blogosphere, and a few national-level media outlets including the magazine Christianity Today and a blog by the religion editor of The Washington Times. While this was the first significant tornado to strike the city of Minneapolis since June 14, 1981, ten additional tornadoes also touched down that day in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nWhile some believed that the Statement did not go far enough in its support for sexual minorities, the adoption of the Statement and Recommendations was hailed by many within the ELCA as a long-overdue redress of justice for LGBT Christians. In 2010, many pastors who had been removed from their positions were reinstated, including Anita C. Hill and Bradley Schmeling. The way was opened for LGBT persons to enter candidacy for ministry. ' Vision and Expectations' was revised to allow for people in publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-sex relationships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nLutherans Concerned/North America and Goodsoil continue to advocate for full inclusion of LGBT people in the life of the ELCA. The 2011 Churchwide Assembly passed an 'anti-bullying' memorial which was supported by Goodsoil and passed in many ELCA Synods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nAlso in 2011, Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson participated in the 'It Gets Better' campaign, recording a YouTube video and contributing to the book. The ELCA Youth Ministry page also linked to the \"It Gets Better\" campaign and The Trevor Project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nIn matters unrelated to \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust,\" the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted the ELCA Malaria Initiative, pulling out of the shared relationship with Lutheran World Relief, the Lutheran Church\u2013Missouri Synod, and the United Nations. It also took action to put further social statements on hold until a review of the process for social statements is sent before the 2012 Church Council, and after 2013, Churchwide Assemblies will be held every three years instead of every two. While work continues on the Justice for Women Social Statement, it will not come before an Assembly until at least 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nThose who opposed the Statement's adoption responded in many different ways. After the 2009 Assembly, several hundred pastors and congregations left the ELCA for new and existing Lutheran church bodies. Other pastors and congregations remained in the ELCA but in various degrees of tension with the current situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nMany congregations who were voting to leave the ELCA affiliated with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) or other smaller Lutheran 'micro-synods.' Other congregations desired to be part of a church body with more accountability and less congregationally based. In response, Lutheran CORE proposed a new church body, the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), for congregations that had left or were planning to leave the ELCA, while continuing Lutheran CORE as a 'community of confessing Lutherans' across judicatorial lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nThe constituting convention of the NALC was held in Grove City, Ohio, in August 2010. The Rev. Paull Spring, a former ELCA synodical Bishop, was elected Bishop for a provisional one-year term. In September, 2011, The Rev. John Bradosky was elected to a four-year term as Bishop. As of September 2012, the NALC has more than 125,000 baptized members in over 300 congregations across North America. As of October 2010 LCMC has over 550 congregations with 500 in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, In the ELCA\nAt the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, it was reported that in 2010, the ELCA had a net membership loss of 270,349, or 5.95% of its baptized membership, and a net loss of 340 congregations. From the years 2000 to 2010, the baptized membership of the ELCA had decreased from 5,125,919 to 4,272,688, and the number of congregations decreased from 10,816 to 10,008. Most mainline Protestant denominations have decreased in numbers in the past half-century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, Inter-Lutheran Reaction\nOther Lutheran denominations, such as the Lutheran Church\u2013Missouri Synod(LCMS), the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), the Lutheran Church Canada (LCC), and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), expressed serious disagreement with the passage of \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, Inter-Lutheran Reaction\nThe Lutheran Church\u2013Missouri Synod retreated further from its already limited cooperation with the ELCA. In July 2011, LCMS President Matthew C. Harrison announced the end of cooperative ministry, including cooperative training, between ELCA and LCMS military chaplains, beginning in 2012. President Harrison wrote, \"Today, like two ships at sea sailing apart on different compass headings, the ELCA and the LCMS have lost sight of each other,\" also citing the decision of the ELCA and ECUSA to pursue cooperative training for their chaplains. The cooperative ministry had been in existence between the LCMS and the ELCA's predecessor bodies since May 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202533-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, After the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, Inter-Lutheran Reaction\nIn October 2009, the board of one of the ELCA's partner churches, the board of the Evangelical Mekane Yesus Fellowship in North America, voted to declare disunity with the ELCA. An announcement stated the board was no longer \"in good conscience able to commune and partner with ELCA Church that has willfully disobeyed the word of God and regrettably departed from the clear instructions of the Holy Scriptures,\" since the Word of God \"declares marriage is only between a man and a woman.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202534-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 EMCO Gears Classic\nThe 2009 EMCO Gears Classic was the sixth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on June 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202535-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ENnie Award winners\nThe following are the winners of the 9th annual ENnie Awards, held in 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League\nThe 2009 ESC Youth League was the inaugural season for the ESC Youth League in 10 metre air rifle and 10 metre air pistol, for shooters born 1991\u20131995. Three regional competitions were held in May, and six teams per event advanced to the final round, held in Helsing\u00f8r, Denmark, on 3\u20134 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Eastern region\nThe Eastern regional qualification groups were held in Belgrade on 30 and 31 May. Russia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria had entered teams in both events, Bosnia and Herzegovina only in air rifle, and Romania only in air pistol. Thus, no teams had to be eliminated prior to the qualification stage. Romania and Bulgaria withdrew before the qualification stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Eastern region\nSerbia and Croatia advanced in air rifle, while the Russians won both their air pistol matches 3\u20130 and advanced together with Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Northern region\nIn the Northern region, Poland (1168), Norway (1167), Finland (1166), Denmark (1163) and Sweden (1163) qualified from the 2008 preliminary air rifle rounds while Latvia (1142) and Lithuania (1139) were eliminated. In air pistol, all five teams (Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Finland and Norway) qualified. Finland, while qualified in both events, withdrew from the competition before the qualification stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Northern region\nThe Northern regional qualification groups were held in Rottne, Sweden, on 23 and 24 May. The air rifle group was dominated by Sweden, achieving the highest possible total (9\u20130), with Poland finishing second; the same teams advanced in air pistol, although in reversed order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Western region\nIn the Western region, joint preliminary rounds were held in 2008 at Nitra (Slovakia) and Fleury-les-Aubrais (France). In air rifle, Spain (1166), Italy (1164), Hungary (1163), Slovakia (1159) and Slovenia (1157) qualified for the group stage while France (1153), Austria (1148), Luxembourg (1111) and Belgium (1096) were eliminated. Slovakia withdrew prior to the qualification stage and were replaced by France. Spain (1116), Italy (1100) and Slovenia (1094) also had qualified in air pistol, along with Belgium (1096) and France (1094). Slovakia (1083) and Hungary (1078) were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Western region\nThe Western regional qualification groups were held in Milan on 30 and 31 May, just after Milan's 2009 ISSF World Cup competition. Hungary and Slovenia advanced to the finals in air rifle, Spain and Italy in air pistol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Finals\nThe finals were held in Helsing\u00f8r, Denmark, on 3\u20134 October. They were originally scheduled for Copenhagen but had to be moved because of weapon regulations surrounding the 13th Olympic Congress, held simultaneously in the capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Finals\nThe top two teams from each region qualified for the finals, where they were divided into two groups of three teams each. Round-robins were held in these groups on Saturday. The next day, the group runners-up faced each other for the bronze medals, and the group winners competed for the gold medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202536-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ESC Youth League, Finals, Air pistol, group 2\nSerbia had qualified for this group but withdrew; to compensate for this, the remaining teams faced each other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202537-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ESPY Awards\nThe 2009 ESPY Awards (for the 2008 Olympics and the 2009) were announced from Nokia Theatre on July 15 and showed during the telecast on ESPN, July 19. It was co-presented by Under Armour and Land Rover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202537-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ESPY Awards, Voting\nThe ESPY nomination show was televised on Friday, June 26, 2009 at 8p.m. ET on ESPN2. Fans voted online at www.espys.tv or via mobile phone at www.espn.mobi. The voting started on June 25 and ended on July 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202537-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ESPY Awards, Categories\nThere are 37 categories and 3 special awards. The winners are listed first in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202538-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 EU Cup Australian rules football\nThe 2009 EU Cup of Australian rules football was held in Samobor (Croatia) from 3 till 9 October 2009, with 15 national teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202538-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 EU Cup Australian rules football, Venue\nMatches were played on the small stadium of NK Samobor (main and auxiliary ground).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202538-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 EU Cup Australian rules football, Final standings\n1. England (EU Cup Winners)2. The Netherlands (Silver)3. Croatia (Bronze)4. Spain5. Scotland (Plate Winners) 6. Ireland7. Finland8. Germany9. Iceland (Bowl Winners) 10. EU Crusaders 11. Andorra12. France 13. Italy 14. Austria 15. Czech Republic", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202538-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 EU Cup Australian rules football, Final standings\nEU Cup Best & Fairest: Tomas Lundon (Ireland) & Josip Kravar (Croatia) \u2013 16 votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl\nThe 2009 EagleBank Bowl was a college football bowl game. It marked the second edition of the EagleBank Bowl, played at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The game, in which UCLA of the Pacific-10 Conference defeated Temple of the Mid-American Conference, 30\u201321, started at 4:30 PM US EST on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN and was organized by the DC Bowl Committee, Inc., the Washington Convention and Sports Authority, and its title sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Teams\nThe 2009 edition of the EagleBank Bowl was originally to match Army and the eighth team selected from the ACC. Army finished the regular season at 5\u20137 after failing to defeat rival Navy to become bowl eligible. Only seven teams from the ACC finished with bowl-qualifying regular season records (6\u20136 or better.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Teams, Temple Owls\nA number of teams were up for consideration. The matchup was originally planned to be Army vs. a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference. If Army were not bowl-eligible (at least 6\u20136), a team from Conference USA would have been selected as the opponent for the ACC team. All of the bowl-eligible teams from the ACC and Conference USA were selected by bowls with a higher selection priority. The Bowl was also under partnership with the MAC to select a team if neither an ACC or a C-USA team is available. Under this provision, the bowl selected the Temple Owls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Teams, UCLA Bruins\nWith the 7\u20135 teams all selected from the Football Bowl Subdivision, the 6\u20136 teams from other conferences are available to be selected. Notre Dame was a likely choice, but the team would not participate in a bowl following the firing of Charlie Weis. The choice then ultimately fell to UCLA, which would take Army's spot if Army did not defeat Navy and finish 6\u20136. UCLA was permitted to practice for the bowl, per NCAA rules, since they were eligible to participate in a bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Teams, UCLA Bruins\nArmy was required to beat Navy on Saturday, December 12, 2009, in order to qualify for the bowl. Army fell short by losing 17\u20133 in the Army-Navy game, thereby allowing UCLA (6\u20136) to play Temple (9\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Game summary\nTemple wore their home cherry jerseys and UCLA wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Game summary\nUCLA rallied from a 21-10 halftime deficit to defeat Temple for their first winning season in 3 years. Temple did not score in the second half of the game after star tailback Bernard Pierce left the game with an injured shoulder. Pierce had recorded 53 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries before his early exit. UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince completed 16 of 31 passes for 221 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. His counterpart, Vaughn Charlton, had more interceptions (two) than completed passes (one) in the second half. Bruins linebacker Akeem Ayers returned an interception 2 yards for a go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter and was named the game's MVP for his efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202539-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 EagleBank Bowl, Game summary\nThe temperature was 32 degrees at kickoff with the wind chill at 19, and it only got colder as the evening wore on, leading many (including Temple alumnus Bill Cosby) to assume UCLA would struggle with the conditions. The game drew 23,072 to RFK Stadium, a decline of more than 5,000 from last year's inaugural game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games\nThe 2009 East Asian Games (simplified Chinese: 2009\u5e74\u4e1c\u4e9a\u8fd0\u52a8\u4f1a; traditional Chinese: 2009\u5e74\u6771\u4e9e\u904b\u52d5\u6703; pinyin: \u00c8r l\u00edng l\u00edng ji\u01d4 ni\u00e1n D\u014dngy\u00e0 y\u00f9nd\u00f2nghu\u00ec; Jyutping: ji6 ling4 ling4 gau2 nin4 dung1 ngaa3 wan6 dung6 wui2), officially known as the V East Asian Games, was an international multi-sport event that hosted by Hong Kong, China, between 5 December and 13 December 2009. A total of 2,377 athletes from 9 East Asian national competed in 262 events in 22 sports. It was the biggest sporting event ever held in the territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Bid\nIn 2003 Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and Mongolia entered the bidding process as potential host cities for the 5th East Asian games. Mongolia subsequently withdrew. On 3 November 2003 at a meeting in Macau, Hong Kong was selected as the host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Bid\nJune 2004 saw the formation of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong East Asian Games, chaired by Timothy Fok, president of Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Costs\nOn 13 January 2006 the Legislative Council had approved the government spending of HK$123 million for the games. The total expenditure for the games is estimated to be HK$240 million. The estimated total revenue is also HK$240 million, including HK$123 million government funding, HK$43 million from ticket and merchandise sales and HK$74 million from cash sponsorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Emblem\nDuring the 2005 East Asian Games in Macau, a competition was held to determine the logo for the 5th East Asian Games. On 11 July 2005 a fireworks emblem, designed by Clement Yick Tat-wa, was selected. The design makes reference to the five Olympic rings, and the sparkling fireworks symbolise the energy of athletes striving to fulfill their potential and to achieve sporting excellence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Slogan\nA slogan contest was held at the Asian Games in 2006 and the winning suggestion was \"Be the Legend\" (Chinese: \u5275\u9020\u50b3\u5947\u4e00\u523b; Jyutping: cong3 zou6 cyun4 kei4 jat1 hak1); fitting well with the ideals of athletes reaching their potential and achieving legendary victories. This slogan was submitted by secondary school student Choi Sau-chu (\u8521\u79c0\u73e0). The event song is You are the Legend (Chinese: \u885d\u51fa\u4e16\u754c; Jyutping: cung1 ceot1 sai3 gaai3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Mascot\nThe event has two fluffy mascots, \"Dony\"(Chinese: \u6771\u4ed4; Jyutping: dung1 zai2) and \"Ami\"(Chinese: \u4e9e\u59b9; Jyutping: ngaa3 mui6). Fire and lion are the creative elements for the design. Fire has many different forms and radiates light and heat, representing the flexibility of Hong Kong people. Lion is the symbol for strength and confidence. Below the Lion Rock, Hong Kong people nurtured a mutually helping and continuously striving spirit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Organisation, Stamps\nA set of \"Heartwarming Stamps\" were released in March and another set was available in August while commemorative stamps were issued on the opening day of the event, 5 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Countdowns, One year\nThe 1 year countdown to the 2009 East Asian games began with Hong Kong Chief executive Donald Tsang inaugurating a special countdown clock in Hong Kong Cultural Centre on 5 December 2008. The ceremony was also attended by chairman of the East Asian Games planning committee Timothy Fok and heads of delegations of the nine countries. The countdown clock is based on the Mascot \"Dony\". The Cantonese version of the theme song You are the Legend was also performed for the first time by 30 Hong Kong singers including Alan Tam. Representatives of the Hong Kong 18 district councils were also present. For the 300-day countdown, 24 athletes were invited to sing the theme song at the Alan Tam Hacken Lee concert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Countdowns, 200 days\nA flower show was opened to the public on 13 May at Victoria Park. The show lasted 10 days featuring 60,000 pots of themed flower. Around 200 organizations from 20 countries participated in the show. The new Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground was opened on 19 May to celebrate the 200 days count down. A relay race was held between the HK police, HK immigration department, Leisure and Cultural department, HK Fire service, Customs and Exercise department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Sai Kung District sports association. There was a dragon and lion dance performance and a tree planting ceremony. A cheerleading competition was also held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Torch relay\nA torch relay was held on August 29 as part of the 100-day Countdown. The relay held the theme \"Light the way to the EAG\". The torch is a curvy cylinder with a square top and round bottom. It resembles the horn of an ox as 2009 is the year of the Ox. They create the patterns of \"Lucky Clouds\" to put forward the concept of yin and yang. This also convey the message that Hong Kong is a place where the Chinese and Western cultures meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Calendar\nIn the following calendar for the 2009 East Asian Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Games, Opening ceremony\nState Councilor Liu Yandong graced the official opening ceremony on December 5, which featured an extensive firework display and a large scale music and dance performance at Hong Kong Cultural Centre section of Victoria Harbour. IOC President Jacques Rogge and some IOC members also attended the ceremony. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, in his speech said in part: \"Through sport, we will celebrate the cultural diversity, friendship and indomitable spirit of our region. Hong Kong extends the hand of friendship to all our guests and visitors.\" Following this, the torch was brought into Victoria Harbour and the cauldron was lit, signalling the climax of the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Games, Sports\n2009 East Asian Games featured 262 events in 22 sports (including 16 Olympics sports), a new record of East Asian Games history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony took place on 13 December at Kowloon Hong Kong Coliseum. After the country entrances, the event featured a host of performance art section on stage and the transfer of the East Asian Games flag to the host of the next host Tianjin. Three sections including Color, Flower and Ocean were on display along with a host of international popstars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Games, Medal table\nA total of 262 gold medals are presented in East Asian Games. The following table shows the Final Medal Tally of regions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202540-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games, Participation\nAll of the 9 East Asian Games Association (EAGA) that existed as of 2009 participated in the 2009 East Asian Games. China had the largest team, with 474 athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony\nThe 2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony was an event that took place on 13 December 2009 at Kowloon Hong Kong Coliseum on the last day of the hosting of the 2009 East Asian Games. The show is 2 hours long. The ceremony cost HK$3 million, while the admission cost was HK$200, $400 or $600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony, Entrances\nCountries entered in this order: China, North Korea, Japan, South Korea, Macau, Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony, Entrances\nEast Asian games president Timothy Fok began with an opening statement; Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing followed with another statement. Chief executive of Hong Kong Donald Tsang announced that the official closing ceremony had begun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony, Entrances\nHK squash player Rebecca Chiu carried out the East Asian games flag onto the stage. She passed it to Timothy Fok, who then passed it to Tsang Tak-sing and finally to Tianjin mayor Huang Xingguo who is scheduled to host the 2013 East Asian Games. He then handed the flag to Liu Feng-shan (\u5289\u9cf3\u5c71), secretary of the next East Asian Games organising committee. The flag was then wrapped up by members of the Hong Kong police. A \"Meet Tianjin\" (2013\u76f8\u7d04\u5929\u6d25) video is broadcast. Tianjin, the city, was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony, Performing arts\nA group of stage dancers from Tianjin began the performance art section on stage. This was split into three sections. First was the Color segment which contained elements of Beijing opera. It was performed by 30 artists including famous opera actor Meng Guanglu. The Flower segment featured dancers performing a number of moves. The angels represent the mascot of the next East Asian Games. The Ocean segment had the dancers dressed in the color of water. They danced on stage and finished this section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202541-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony, Finale\nA tribute was paid to the athlete's sportsmanship and spirit. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, led by conductor Yan Hui-chang (\u95bb\u60e0\u660c), played the song \"My Pride\". PRC's Dadawa then performs \"Heaven sing\" (\u5929\u5531). Kousuke Atari of Japan then performs (\u5404\u81ea\u9060\u98ba). Richie Ren of Taiwan performed \"Friend, change you have not\" (\u670b\u53cb\uff0c\u4f60\u8b8a\u4e86\u6c92\u6709). Chae Yeon of South Korea then performed \"Opening\" (\u71b1\u529b\u958b\u5834). This is completed by Hong Kong's Eason Chan \"Road, to this point\" (\u8def\uff0c\u4e00\u76f4\u90fd\u5728). An international version of You are the Legend was performed by all five singers together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony\nThe 2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony was held on December 5, 2009 at Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The opening began at 8pm at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on a floating stage set up at Victoria Harbour. The production team was the same one that ran the 2008 Beijing olympics opening ceremony. The ceremony involved 44 decorated vessels and cost HK$40 million (about US$5 million) to stage, lasting 90 minutes. Tickets to the opening ceremony was sold at HK$1000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Leader entrances\nSpecial guest People's Republic of China State Councilor Liu Yandong is first introduced. Chief executive of Hong Kong Donald Tsang, IOC President Jacques Rogge and East Asian games president Timothy Fok are then introduced. They are seated among a panel of VIPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Fireworks & entrances\nFireworks at the harbour begins. Then Ode to the Motherland is played while the Hong Kong police parade in. The HKSAR and PRC flag is raised to the national anthem March of the Volunteers. The theme song \"Be the Legend\" (\u5275\u9020\u50b3\u5947) is played. Then the different countries enter via the harbour by boat accompanied by fireworks. They enter alphabetically by English characters. The You are the Legend theme song is also played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Part 1\nThe \"Fishing lights on Fragrant waters\" (\u9999\u6c5f\u6f01\u706b) took place on a floating stage with colourful night view with dance scene. It plays the popular HK song \"Below the Lion Rock (\u7345\u5b50\u5c71\u4e0b). The song was performed many years ago by Cantopop singer Roman Tam. These are accompanied by sailboat and wave dances. This portion represents HK history with the junk sailing ships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Part 2\nThe (\u6d3b\u529b\u90fd\u6703) part then focus on a more modern HK. On the floating stage Joey Yung sang the song \"Run forward\" (\u8dd1\u6b65\u6a5f\u4e0a). She is accompanied by dancers. The junk boats then use a more modern lighting. This part ends with five firework shots display.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Part 3\nThe \"Blessings for Hong Kong\" (\u795d\u798f\u9999\u6e2f) section is then opened up by Andy Lau. He sings \"If one day\" (\u5982\u679c\u6709\u4e00\u5929) accompanied by violin virtuoso Li Chuan Yun. This part also ends with five firework shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Part 4\nThe \"Conglomeration of the Nine Dragons\" (\u4e5d\u9f8d\u532f\u805a) section celebrate the nine participating countries. Usually nine dragons represent Kowloon. Alan Tam performs the song You are the Legend. He is accompanied by HK students. Afterwards the 10 male, 14 female group Phoenix music troupe (\u9cf3\u6a02\u5718) perform the \"Nine nation drum beats\" (\u4e5d\u570b\u9f13\u6a02). Flag waving performers then come out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, National flag bearers\nThe athletes of the 9 nations then come out onto the stage. The host region Hong Kong marched last. Guam entered as the penultimate region, as it is a member of the Oceania National Olympic Committees and an invitation team. Other countries and regions entered in English alphabetical order of their Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) designated names. Whilst most countries entered under their short names, a few entered under more formal or alternative names, sometimes due to political disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, National flag bearers\nTaiwan (Republic of China) entered with the compromised name and flag of \"Chinese Taipei\" under T so that they did not enter together with conflicting \"China\", which entered under C. Similarly, South Korea entered as \"Korea\" under K while North Korea entered as \"Democratic People's Republic of Korea\" (shortened as DPR Korea on the placard).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Speech\nDonald Tsang then gave a speech. It was the first large scale international games ever hosted in HK. It was also the largest east Asian games. Timothy Fok then followed up with a speech. They both gave their speech first in English, then again in Cantonese. State Councilor Liu Yandong then opened the games up with a statement in Mandarin. The firework displays begin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Games flag bearer\nThe flag of East Asian games enters the stage carried by eight HK athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Games flag bearer\nThe flag is then raised and the East Asian games song is played. HK ping pong player Li Ching (\u674e\u975c) takes an oath. Gary Au Yeung Kwok-kei (\u6b50\u694a\u570b\u68cb) then take an oath. Lee Lai-shan and Wong Kam-po arrives with the torch from the 2009 East Asian Games torch relay. They join Cheung King-wai, Hannah Wilson and Chan Hei-man (\u9673\u665e\u6587). They all light the wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202542-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony, Performances, Fireworks\nFinal major firework display is accompanied by live singing from the float performed by artists such as Yumiko Cheng, Nicholas Tse, Vincy Chan, Priscilla Chan. The ceremony finishes with You are the Legend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202543-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games torch relay\nThe 2009 East Asian Games torch relay was the torch relay portion prior to the opening of the East Asian Games. It took place on 29 August 2009 on the 100th day countdown to the games. About 500 local schools held torch relay activities from September 2009 to November 2009 prior to the start of the games in December. The torch pipe was designed by HK designer Kan Tai-keung (\u9773\u57ed\u5f37). The relay held the theme \"Light the way to the EAG\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202543-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games torch relay, Torch\nThe torch is a curvy cylinder with a square top and round bottom. It resembles the horn of an ox as 2009 is the year of the Ox. They create the patterns of \"Lucky Clouds\" to put forward the concept of yin and yang. This also convey the message that Hong Kong is a place where the Chinese and Western cultures meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202543-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games torch relay, Torch relay route\nThe relay point begins at Kowloon Park that travels to Austin Road and Nathan Road. Then it turns to Salisbury Road and Tsim Sha Tsui East before reaching the Avenue of Stars and Kowloon Public Pier. The bearers then cross Victoria Harbour by water and reach Expo drive east on the other side of the harbour. It continues to Harbour Road before going to Expo drive and finish at the Golden Bauhinia Square with the last torch bearer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202543-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 East Asian Games torch relay, Torchbearers\nThere were a total of 65 torchbearers. The route was divided by 3 sections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 2009 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and played their home games in Dowdy\u2013Ficklen Stadium. The team was coached by Skip Holtz, who was in his fifth and final year with the program. The 2009 Pirates were defending their first ever Conference USA Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe Pirates finished the season 9\u20135, 7\u20131 in CUSA play, winning the East Division in their final regular season game against the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles 25-20, and won their second consecutive CUSA Championship Game 38\u201332 against the Houston Cougars in Dowdy\u2013Ficklen Stadium. The Pirates were invited to their second consecutive Liberty Bowl where they were defeated by Arkansas 20\u201317 in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Before the season, Purple/Gold Spring Game\nThe annual Purple/Gold Spring Game was held in the spring during the PirateFest and Pigskin Pigout weekend activities on April 18 in downtown Greenville, NC and put the \"Pirates\" team led by Redshirt Freshman Quarterback Josh Jordan against the \"ECU\" team led by Senior Quarterback Patrick Pinkney. The ECU team defeated the Pirates team 31-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Appalachian State\nThe Pirates renewed their rivalry with their former Southern Conference opponent for the first time since 1979. The Mountaineers led the all-time series 19-10, but the two schools had only played once since the split of Division I college football, with the Pirates defeating the Mountaineers 38-21 in 1979. This marked the first time since 2001 that the Pirates have played a school from the Football Championship Subdivision. After being dominated in the first half, Appalachian State staged a comeback but fell short after a sack and a blocked pass with seconds left in the 4th Quarter. ECU would hold on to win 29-24, improving their record against the Mountaineers to 11-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe Pirates went to Morgantown, WV to take on the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl Champion West Virginia Mountaineers, who remained undefeated at home in this series and led the all-time record 17-3. Last year, East Carolina blew out West Virginia 24-3 in Greenville. After going up 10-0 early in the first half, the Pirates would enter the second half trailing by 1, but the Mountaineers would pull ahead to win 35-20, improving their record to 18-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nThe Pirates travel to Chapel Hill, NC to face their in-state rival North Carolina. In 2007, the Pirates beat the Tar Heels with a last second field goal to win the game 34-31. The Tar Heels lead the all-time series, 8-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, UCF\nThe Pirates face the 2007 Conference USA champion UCF Knights in Greenville, NC. Last year, the Pirates beat the Knights in Orlando, FL 13-10 in overtime and lead the all-time series 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nThe Pirates head back to West Virginia to face the Thundering Herd of Marshall. The Pirates won last year 19-16 in Greenville, NC after one overtime and lead the all-time series 7-3. In 2007, the Herd spoiled the Pirates' hopes in Huntington for a spot in the Conference USA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe Pirates face the Mustangs of Southern Methodist in Dallas, TX. The last time the two schools played was in Greenville, NC in 2006, where the Pirates won 38-21. East Carolina has won both games played in this series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Pirates face the 2008 Texas Bowl Champion Rice Owls at home. The two teams are tied in the series 1-1 after the Owls spoiled the Pirates' hopes to clinch the Conference USA East Division and participate in the Conference USA Football Championship in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nThe Pirates travel to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, TN to face the Tigers of Memphis. The Pirates won last year in Greenville, NC 30-10 and lead the all-time series 11-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nFor the first time since 2000, the 2009 Orange Bowl Champion Hokies make the trip to Greenville, NC. Last year, the Hokies and Pirates squared off in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, with the Pirates winning 27-22 after a Pontiac Game Changing Performance nominated blocked punt was returned by T.J. Lee. The Hokies lead the all time series 9-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nIn a rematch of the 2008 Conference USA Football Championship, the Pirates travel to Tulsa, OK to face the Golden Hurricane. Last year, the Pirates defeated the Golden Hurricane 27-24. Tulsa leads the all-time series 5-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, UAB\nThe Pirates faced the UAB Blazers at home in Dowdy\u2013Ficklen Stadium. In 2008 the Pirates defeated the Blazers in Birmingham, AL for the first time in this series' history. The two schools are tied in the all-time series 4-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202544-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 East Carolina Pirates football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nThe Pirates will be hosting the rival Golden Eagles of Southern Miss. Of the 34 games played in this series, the Pirates have only won 8. Last year, the Golden Eagles beat the Pirates 21-3 in Hattiesburg, MS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202545-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Sussex County Council election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by The- (talk | contribs) at 20:05, 19 November 2019 (\u2192\u200eOverall Results). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202545-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Sussex County Council election\nThe East Sussex County Council election, 2009 took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. All 49 seats of this council were up for election. The councillors were elected from 44 electoral divisions, which accordingly return one or two by first-past-the-post voting, for a four-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202545-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East Sussex County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202545-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 East Sussex County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202546-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East Timorese local elections\nLocal elections were held in East Timor on 9 October 2009 to elect for Village Chiefs (Chefe do Suco) and delegates for Village Councils (Conselho do Suco) in 442 sucos (villages). It included the election of Hamlet Chiefs (Chefe do Aldeia) in aldeias (communities). Elected officials will serve a six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202546-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East Timorese local elections\nOn 13 October 2009, although no official parties participated in the election as electoral laws prohibited candidates from representing any political parties, Fretilin claimed victory in the said election saying that they \"picked up 56% of positions with another 10% of positions being taken by FRETILIN and allied party shared tickets. In Dili FRETILIN won 60% of the Suco leadership positions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202547-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Easter Island immigration referendum\nA referendum on restricting immigration was held in Easter Island on 24 October 2009. It followed protests in August 2009 when protestors blocked the runway at Mataveri International Airport in protest at immigration from Chile. The proposal was approved by over 90% of voters. As a result of the vote, the Chilean government introduced a  Special Visitor's Card for visitors to the island. However in October 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that the card violated the constitutional right to free movement. In August 2018, a law took effect prohibiting non-residents from staying on the island for more than 30 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive\nThe 2009 Eastern Congo offensive was a joint Congo-Rwanda military offensive against the Hutu FDLR rebel group descended from those groups that carried out the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Two operations were carried out, 'Kimia II' and 'Umoja Wetu.' 'Kimia' can be translated as 'calm.' \"Umoja Wetu\" is Swahili for \"Our Unity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive, Timeline\nRwanda and the DRC made an agreement to rout out elements of the FDLR from eastern Congo. On 20 January 2009, 1,000 Rwandan soldiers poured over the border into eastern Congo near Goma and were working, according to United Nations officials, as advisers for the Congolese troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive, Timeline\nOn 23 January 2009, some rebels had started to surrender to Rwandan and Congolese troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive, Timeline\nFirst reports of fighting came on 24 January 2009, when the Congolese army reported they killed nine FDLR militiamen. In response the rebels claimed they didn't lose any men and that the Congolese military itself suffered nine soldiers killed and one wounded in a clash with a group of Mai-Mai militiamen. By this time the FDLR was in retreat from Southern into Northern Kivu province and the number of Rwandan soldiers in the region reached 5,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive, Timeline\nOn 26 January 2009, rebels tried to retake the village of Kasinga, but were repulsed by Congolese and Rwandan soldiers in fighting that killed four militiamen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202548-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Congo offensive, Timeline\nOn 18 February 2009, air strikes killed 40 rebels 5 kilometers west of Goma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202549-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team\nThe 2009 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by Dean Hood, the 2008 Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Roy Kidd Coach of the Year. Hood was in his second season as head coach. The season marked the Colonels' 100th season of play. The Colonels played their home games at Roy Kidd Stadium in Richmond, Kentucky. The team finished the season with a record of 5\u20136 overall and 5\u20133 in OVC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nThe 2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Eastern Michigan competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division and played their home games in Rynearson Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nFollowing the firing of Jeff Genyk during the 2008 season, Eastern Michigan hired Ron English, who had formerly been the defensive coordinator at the University of Michigan and the University of Louisville, as the team's head coach. The coaching change initially brought excitement to the program, as English hired a new staff, including former University of Michigan, New York Giants, and Oakland Raiders running back Tyrone Wheatley, and replaced Genyk's spread offense with a pro-style offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nHowever, the change in offense proved difficult for senior quarterback Andy Schmitt, and he was largely ineffective in the first several games of the season. In the second game of the year, the Eagles traveled to Northwestern, and after trailing 21\u20130 in the second quarter, they tied the game at 24 with 2 minutes left, before Northwestern kicked a game-winning field goal in the closing seconds. The following week, they had another trip just across the county to play Michigan. Similar to their 2006 game at Michigan State, they played a very competitive first half, only trailing by one score. But like many times before, they couldn't put two good halves together. In the second half, the Eagles were outscored 21\u20130 and Andy Schmitt suffered a season-ending knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nThe rest of the season they used former starting quarterback Kyle McMahon, and freshman Alex Gillet. Eastern scored no more than 12 points in any of the next three games, including a 56\u20138 loss at Central Michigan. The week after that, they nearly beat Ball State who was also winless at the time. The difference was a safety in the fourth quarter. Next, they had one more non-conference game as they traveled to Arkansas. This game was the opposite of the Michigan game\u00a0\u2014 bad first half, good second half. They were down 42\u20130 before eventually losing 63\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nFor the rest of the year, they were only close in the finale at Akron, losing by 7. In previous years, Eastern was able to get at least a few wins because of a high scoring offense. Schmitt's injury ended that, and their defense was among the worst in the nation. Eastern gave up 3,321 rushing yards (276.8 per game), more than any other team in the nation, which was their downfall. They statistically appeared to have one of the best passing defenses, allowing 150.5 passing yards per game, second only to Air Force, but this was mostly an illusion. Everyone knew they couldn't stop the run, so opponents just didn't call many pass plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202550-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team\nEastern finished the season without a win, their first winless season since 1981. The Eagles were one of two winless FBS teams (Western Kentucky was the other).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team\nThe 2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team represented Eastern Washington University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They played their home games at Woodward Field in Cheney, Washington. The team finished 8\u20134 (6\u20132 Big Sky) and improved on their record from 2008 in which they finished 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Matt Nichols\nNichols now has twelve 300-yard passing games in his 35-game career and 14 performances with at least 300 yards of total offense. On EWU's career passing lists, Nichols ranks in the top five in all categories, including second in total offense (9,376) and second in passing yards (8,786) The record holder for both passing yards and total offense is 2005 Payton Award winner Erik Meyer (2002\u201305) with 10,261 passing yards and 10,942 yards of total offense. Meyer is the player Nichols replaced in 2006 as Eastern's starting quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Matt Nichols\nNichols now owns the school record with 1,150 career pass attempts, and also ranks fifth in efficiency rating (136.0), second in touchdown passes (63, ranking only behind the 84 of Meyer), second in completions (698) and third in interceptions (40). With 590 rushing yards in his career, Nichols is approaching the EWU career record for a quarterback of 681 set by Meyer. Nichols has been a part of four of the 36-longest pass plays in school history of 70, 78, 80 and 85 yards, but just the 80-yarder was a touchdown. Nichols has the most starts among returning players in 2009 with 33. At the beginning of the 2009 season Nichols was again, named to the Walter Payton Award watchlist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Western Oregon\nSophomore Taiwan Jones scored on an 87-yard run on his first carry as an Eastern Washington University running back. But it wasn't that easy the rest of the way in EWU's 35\u201314 non-conference college football victory against Western Oregon Saturday (September 5) at Woodward Field in Cheney, Washington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Western Oregon\nThe Eagles, ranked 18th in the preseason NCAA Football Championship Subdivision rankings, scored 14 fourth-quarter points on a pair of Matt Nichols-to-Nathan Overbay touchdown passes as they survived for the win over the NCAA Division II Wolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, #10 California\nEastern Washington scored on an 83-yard drive in the first quarter, but the California Bears performed as advertised after that to score 52 unanswered points and record a 59\u20137 victory over Eastern Washington Saturday (September 12) at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California. In a match-up between the Big Sky Conference and the Pacific-10 Conference, Eastern entered the game ranked 18th in the Sports Network FCS poll. Cal, meanwhile, was ranked 10th in the Associated Press poll in the NCAA Football Bowl Division and represented the second-highest ranked team EWU has ever played (West Virginia was sixth when they beat EWU 52\u20133 in 2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, #10 California\nHeisman Trophy candidate Jahvid Best rushed for 144 yards on 17 carries and scored twice for the Golden Bears, who are now 2\u20130. The Eagles, now 1\u20131, were out-gained 392\u201314 on the ground. In all, California had 507 yards of offense to EWU's 235.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Northern Colorado\nThe defense forced four turnovers and was equally effective on fourth down as Eastern Washington University shut-out Northern Colorado 16\u20130 Saturday (September 19) in the Big Sky Conference football opener for both schools at Woodward Field in Cheney, Washington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Northern Colorado\nThe Eagles recovered three fumbles and had an interception in Eastern's first shutout at Woodward Field since 1983. The Eagles have had six other shutouts since then either on the road or in Spokane, including a 34\u20130 win over UNC in 2006. Eastern also held the Bears to a 0-of-4 performance on fourth down and had four sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Sacramento State\nHornet Stadium is definitely a home-away-from-home for the Eastern Washington University football team. The Eagles are now a perfect 10\u20130 against the Hornets in Sacramento, and avenged a 15\u201313 home setback to the Hornets last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Sacramento State\nThe 19th-ranked Eagles scored 35 first-half points and went on to hold-off Sacramento State 56\u201330 Saturday (September 26) in sweltering heat at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California The win puts the Eastern Washington Eagles in first place in the Big Sky Conference, and also makes a statement in FCS play as EWU is now ranks #17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Idaho State\nRunning back Taiwan Jones had another big day, but so did quarterback Matt Nichols and wide receiver Aaron Boyce as Eastern Washington remained unbeaten in the Big Sky Conference football standings with a 38\u20133 victory over Idaho State Saturday (Oct. 3) at Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho. Jones rushed for 168 yards and three touchdowns on just 14 carries (12.0 per rush), including a school-record 96-yard rush for a score in the third quarter. He broke the previous record of 95 yards set by John Ditz against Lewis & Clark in 1954. Last week, Jones had 190 yards and four touchdowns against Sacramento State to earn national player of the week honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202551-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Eastern Washington Eagles football team, Schedule, Idaho State\nNichols completed 27-of-38 passes for 293 yards and a pair of touchdown passes to Boyce, who caught 10 passes for 149 yards. Nichols came up just short of his 13th 300-yard passing performance in his career, but it was the 12th 100-yard receiving output for Boyce. Eastern, which entered the game ranked 17th in the Sports Network NCAA Football Championship Subdivision poll, is now 4\u20131 overall, and has its third 3\u20130 start in Big Sky history (1992, 2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202552-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe 2009 East\u2013West Shrine Game was the 84th staging of the all-star college football exhibition game featuring NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision players. The game featured over 100 players from the 2008 college football season, and prospects for the 2009 Draft of the professional National Football League (NFL). In the week prior to the game, scouts from all 32 NFL teams attended. The proceeds from the East\u2013West Shrine Game benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202552-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe game was played on January 17, 2009, at 3\u00a0p.m. CT at Robertson Stadium on the campus of the University of Houston, and was televised by ESPN2. The game was won by the East team, 24\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202552-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 East\u2013West Shrine Game\nThe offensive MVP was Marlon Lucky (RB, Nebraska), while the defensive MVP was Michael Tauiliili (LB, Duke). The Pat Tillman Award was presented to Collin Mooney (FB, Army); the award \"is presented to a player who best exemplifies character, intelligence, sportsmanship and service\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis\nThe 2009 Ecuador electricity crisis was caused by a severe drought that depleted water levels at hydroelectric plants. Ecuador experienced rolling blackouts for two to six hours per day that lasted from November 2009 until January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis, Background\nThe electricity crisis arose from Ecuador's worst drought in 40 years, which began in September 2009. Government experts attributed the drought to the El Nino phenomenon. Because of the drought, water levels at the Paute River dam\u2014which normally supplies 40% of Ecuador's power\u2014were extremely low. The reservoir's water level is normally 1,991 meters above sea level, but on November 10 was only 1,968 meters above sea level. The minimum level is 1,965 meters. As of November 11, only two of the dam's 10 turbines were functioning. Normally, the dam can supply up to 1,000 megawatts (MW), but the dam's output was only 200 MW on this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis, Effects\nBeginning November 5, rolling blackouts took place across Ecuador for two to six hours per day. Government officials also urged citizens to conserve energy. Economic losses from the blackouts are estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars; factory output slowed, and storage of perishables was disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis, Effects\nOn November 6, the government declared an emergency in the power sector, which was expected to \"allow the Finance Ministry to seek to guarantee fuel imports for thermoelectric plants\". The government also agreed to purchase additional electricity from Peru and Colombia. Government officials aimed to end power rationing before Christmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis, Effects\nThe power crisis led to criticism of the Correa administration's management of the power sector as water levels of the reservoirs became depleted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202553-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuador electricity crisis, Effects\nIn mid-January 2010, the blackouts were \"suspended indefinitely\", following increased water levels and the acquisition of several generators. In February, Ecuador stopped the import of electricity from Colombia and Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202554-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuadorian general election\nAn early general election was held on 26 April 2009 in Ecuador following the approval of a new constitution in a referendum held on 28 September 2008. President Rafael Correa ran for his first term under the new constitution. The election was initially expected to be held in October 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202554-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuadorian general election\nAmong the candidates for President were current President Rafael Correa, supported by his PAIS Alliance and the Socialist Party; \u00c1lvaro Noboa ran under the banner of the PRIAN and had the support of the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Christian Democratic Union. Former president Lucio Guti\u00e9rrez ran as the candidate of the January 21 Patriotic Society Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202554-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuadorian general election\nPreliminary results suggested that Correa had won reelection in the first round easily, surpassing 50% of the vote, followed by Guti\u00e9rrez coming in second with about 28% of the vote. Correa's came short of having an absolute majority in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202554-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuadorian general election\nIn addition Correa became the first sitting president to be reelected since Garc\u00eda Moreno since 1875.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202554-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ecuadorian general election\nThe full results of the seat distribution was still known, though it was assumed that PAIS would have 59 seats, PSP 19, PSC/MG 11, PRIAN 7, MPD 5, the Municipalist Movement 5, and others less than 5 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202555-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Edinburgh Sevens\nThe Edinburgh Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2009 competition, which took place on 30 May and 31 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, was the eighth and final Cup trophy in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202555-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Edinburgh Sevens\nOn the first day of the competition, South Africa advanced to the quarterfinals of the Cup competition, thereby assuring them of the overall season title; they needed only to finish within the top nine teams to make it impossible for second-place England to catch them on the season log. South Africa went on advance to the Cup finals, where they were defeated 20\u201319 by Fiji, who passed England for second place on the season log in the process. Last year's series champions New Zealand won the second-level Plate competition, with England winning the Bowl and the USA winning the Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202555-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Edinburgh Sevens, Format\nThe tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in Cup semi-finals and the losers competing in Plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in Bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in Shield semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202556-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Eskimos season\nThe 2009 Edmonton Eskimos season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 61st overall. The Eskimos finished the season in third place with a 9\u20139 record. They appeared in the West Semi-Final where they lost to the Calgary Stampeders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202556-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Eskimos season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. Due to trades, the Eskimos did not have a pick until the second round, when they selected tackle Gordon Hinse, eleventh overall from the University of Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202556-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Eskimos season, Off-season, Notable transactions\n*Later traded to the BC Lions**Later traded back to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202556-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Eskimos season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import player updated 2009-10-08 \u2022 46 Active, 14 Inactive, 9 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202556-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Eskimos season, Playoffs, West Semi-Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 15, 4:30 PM Mountain Standard TimeVenue: McMahon Stadium, Calgary, Alberta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season\nThe Edmonton Rush are a lacrosse team based in Edmonton playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 4th in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Transactions, Trades\n*Later traded to the Chicago Shamrox**Later traded to the Washington Stealth***Later traded to the Minnesota Swarm****Later traded to the Boston Blazers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Rush selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202557-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Edmonton Rush season, Transactions, Entry draft\n#\u00a0 Denotes player who never played in the NLL regular season or playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202558-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Edward Jancarz Memorial\nThe 12th Edward Jancarz Memorial was the 2009 version of the Edward Jancarz Memorial. It took place on 9 August in the Stal Gorz\u00f3w Stadium in Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski, Poland. The Memorial was won by host pair Stal Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski: Rune Holta and Thomas H. Jonasson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202558-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Edward Jancarz Memorial, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202559-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ekiti State gubernatorial by-election\nThe 2009 Ekiti State gubernatorial election occurred on April 25, 2009. It was, however, not until May 5, 2009, that the exercise was concluded due to electoral violence. Incumbent PDP Governor Segun Oni won re-election in the supplementary election, defeating AC Kayode Fayemi candidate to emerge winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202559-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ekiti State gubernatorial by-election\nSegun Oni emerged winner in the PDP gubernatorial primary election. His running mate was Sikiru Tae Lawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202559-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ekiti State gubernatorial by-election, Electoral system\nThe Governor of Ekiti State is elected using the plurality voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202559-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ekiti State gubernatorial by-election, Results\nThe two main contenders registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the re-run election were PDP Governor Segun Oni, who won the contest, and ACN's Kayode Fayemi, who follows closely. The election results were later legally contested by the Fayemi in the court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202560-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 El Ayyat railway accident\nThe El Ayyat train collision killed at least 50 people and injured 30 others on 24 October 2009. The incident occurred in El Ayyat, 6th of October Governorate, located 50\u00a0km south of Cairo. The official death toll has increased and might increase further. One of the trains was going southward to visit the Asyut and Aswan, popular tourist destinations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202560-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 El Ayyat railway accident\nA second train slammed into the first, which had stopped to allow an animal, described by various witnesses and officials as either a cow or a water buffalo, to make its way safely across. The second train was first class and had many passengers aboard; the first one was traveling light. It was thought that two carriages were wrecked completely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202560-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 El Ayyat railway accident\nReports described passengers jumping out of the train, but one carriage fell on another and the two had to be separated by a crane. Attempts to find survivors in the two carriages were eventually halted when rescuers concluded there were no further survivors in or under either car. Carriages were cut to reach the passengers. Casualties were hospitalised. Searches continued throughout the night after the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202560-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 El Ayyat railway accident\nEgyptian railway authorities immediately announced an investigation into the crash. The Egyptian government was criticised for its reaction by some of the surviving passengers. Dubai's daily newspaper Gulf News and Israeli publication The Jerusalem Post both suggested officials on-scene had been forbidden from speaking to the media about the incident. The crash was first reported on Twitter, with news networks initially reluctant to provide coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202561-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 El Paso mayoral election\nThe 2009 El Paso mayoral election was held on May 14, 2009 to elect the mayor of El Paso, Texas. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor John Cook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202561-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 El Paso mayoral election\nNo runoff was required, as Cook secured a majority of the vote in the initial round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202562-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides\nThe 2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides occurred November 6\u20139 affecting areas including San Salvador, La Paz, Cuscatlan, Usulutan and San Vicente. The disaster was triggered by a low-pressure system from the Pacific, and flooding from heavy rains caused mud and rock slides that killed approximately 130 people and left 60 missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202562-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides, Meteorological history\nIn early November, an area of low pressure formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Central America. The low pressure system in the Pacific moved closer to the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala triggering light to moderate rainfalls beginning on November 6 and continuing through November 7. 355\u00a0mm of rain accumulated in 24 hours, and the total amount of rainfall reached approximately 483\u00a0mm near the Saint Vincent Volcano and between 75\u00a0mm and 350\u00a0mm in other parts of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202562-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides, Damage\nA total of 108 landslides occurred causing 209 buildings to be destroyed and damaging 1,835 more. The floods and mudslides accounted for 130 deaths and 60 people missing. The most affected regions were La Libertad, San Salvador, San Vicente, Cuscatlan and La Paz. Verapaz was also heavily affected by a landslide from the Chichontepec volcano which damaged 300 homes. Several rivers rose above flood levels, and 18 bridges were affected. The United Nations World Food Programme reported the floods washed entire harvests and up to 10,000 people were in need of food assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season\nThe 2009 Elite League speedway season (also known as the Sky Sports Elite League for sponsorship reasons) was the 75th season of the top division of UK speedway and the 13th since its establishment as the Elite League in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, Summary\nThe first fixtures of the season took place on 30 March and the season ended on 12 October. The Poole Pirates were the defending champions from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, Summary\nLeigh Adams had a stellar season, he once again topped the league averages and became the Australian Champion for the 10th time. He also won the Elite League Riders Championship and nearly led Swindon to a title success, before losing in the play off final to Wolverhampton Wolves. Wolves continued their success of recent years courtesy of heavy scoring throughout the season by Freddie Lindgren, Peter Karlsson and their new signing Tai Woffinden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, Summary\nLee Richardson top scored for the Lakeside Hammers during the season and the team claimed their first top tier trophy in their history when winning the Knockout Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, League table\nHome: 3W = Home win by 7 points or more; 2W = Home win by between 1 and 6 points Away: 4W = Away win by 7 points or more; 3W = Away win by between 1 and 6 points; 1L = Away loss by 6 points or lessM = Meetings; D = Draws; L = Losses; F = Race points for; A = Race points against; +/- = Race points difference; Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, Elite League Knockout Cup\nThe 2009 Elite League Knockout Cup was the 71st edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202563-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Elite League speedway season, Elite League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg\nThe Lakeside Hammers were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 108-77.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nThe 2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs was the 37th time a spot in the Norwegian top flight was decided by play-off matches between top tier and second level clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nAt the end of the 2009 season, Bod\u00f8/Glimt and Lyn were relegated directly to the 2010 1. divisjon, and was replaced by Haugesund and H\u00f8nefoss who were directly promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Background\nThe play-offs between Eliteserien and 1. divisjon have been held every year since 1972 with exceptions in 1994 and 2011. In 2009, the play-offs took place for the two divisions following the conclusion of the regular season and were contested by the fourteenth-placed club in Eliteserien and the three clubs finishing below the automatic promotion places in 1. divisjon. The fixtures were determined by final league position \u2013 two semifinals: 14th in Eliteserien v 5th in 1. divisjon and 4th in 1. divisjon v 5th in 1. divisjon, and the winners then played each other to determine who played in Eliteserien the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams\nFour teams entered a play-off for the last Eliteserien spot for the 2009 season. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Qualified teams\nThe four teams first played single game knockout semifinals, and the winners (Kongsvinger and Sarpsborg 08) advanced to a two-legged final for the 16th and last spot in the 2010 Tippeligaen season. Kongsvinger were promoted to the top flight with a 5\u20134 win on aggregate against Sarpsborg 08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Matches, Final\nThe two winning sides from the first round, Sarpsborg 08 and Kongsvinger, took part in a two-legged play-off to decide who would play in the 2010 Tippeligaen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202564-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Eliteserien Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Matches, Final\nKongsvinger won 5\u20134 on aggregate and were promoted to the 2010 Tippeligaen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl\nThe 2009 Emerald Bowl was the eighth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California. The game started at 5:00 PM PST on Saturday, December 26, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN. USC defeated Boston College 24\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl\nThe presenting sponsor of the 2009 Emerald Bowl was Diamond Foods, promoting its Emerald Nuts brand of snack foods. The company had served as title sponsor of the game for all eight years of the bowl's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl, Teams\nThis marked the first time USC had played in the bowl. The Trojans had played in a BCS bowl game each of the past seven years and had hopes to make it back there again this season before dropping three of their last five games. First, Oregon defeated USC 47\u201320, USC's worst loss under Pete Carroll up to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl, Teams\nThis was followed by an even worse loss against Stanford in the Coliseum by a 55\u201321 margin that eliminated USC from Rose Bowl contention for the first time in seven years as well as its worst loss in 43 years while Stanford's 55 points were the most points ever scored by an opponent against USC. USC's final regular season game was a 21\u201317 loss to Arizona. USC fell out of the AP Top 25 for the first time in eight years after the loss to Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl, Teams\nBoston College was making its 11th straight bowl appearance. The Eagles were the first team to play in the Emerald Bowl twice, beating Colorado State 35\u201321 in the 2003 San Francisco Bowl (the former name of the Emerald Bowl). Boston College went 8\u20131 in bowl games in the first decade of the 21st century. This was the third meeting between the two schools and the first one in the post-season. USC had won both games in the series, a 23\u201317 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34\u20137 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl, Game summary\nUSC wore their home cardinal jerseys, and Boston College wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202565-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Emerald Bowl, Game summary\nUSC freshman quarterback Matt Barkley threw touchdown passes to Stanley Havili on the Trojans first two possessions and added a touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Barkley finished the game with a total of 350 yards passing. Of his 350 yards, Damian Williams accounted for 189 of them on 12 catches. Williams was named the game's MVP for his efforts. Boston College was led by tailback Montel Harris, who rushed for 102 yards and also added a touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup\nThe 2009 Emir of Qatar Cup was the 37th edition of a cup tournament in men's football (soccer). It is played by the 1st and 2nd Level divisions of the Qatari football league structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup\nThe top four sides of the 2008\u201309 Qatari League season enter at the Quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup\nThe winners of this knockout tournament should enter the AFC Champions League 2010 Asian club tournament, but due to Al-Gharafa winning the tournament, league runners up Al Sadd qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup, Fixtures and results, Round 1\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 24 & 25 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup, Fixtures and results, Round 2\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Ties played over 29 & 30 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup, Fixtures and results, Quarter-Finals\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the Semi-finals. Ties played on 9 & 10 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202566-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Emir of Qatar Cup, Fixtures and results, Semi-Finals\n4 teams play a knockout tie. 2 clubs advance to the final. Ties played on 13 May 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup\nThe 2009 Emirates Cup was a pre-season football friendly tournament hosted by Arsenal at its home ground, the Emirates Stadium. It was the third Emirates Cup, an invitational competition inaugurated in 2007. Held on the weekend of 1\u20132 August 2009, the participants were Arsenal, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, Rangers, and Paris Saint-Germain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup\nThe competition follows a point scoring system much like the Amsterdam Tournament, whereby each team plays two matches, with three points awarded for a win, one point for a draw and none for a loss. An additional point is awarded for every goal scored. Arsenal did not face Paris Saint-Germain, and Rangers did not play against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. On the first day of the tournament, Rangers beat Paris Saint-Germain by a single goal, while Arsenal defeated Atl\u00e9tico 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup\nOn day two, Paris Saint-Germain and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid played out a draw and Arsenal convincingly won 3\u20130 against Rangers, regaining the competition's trophy in the process. Midfielder Jack Wilshere was voted man of the match in both of Arsenal's matches, while Andrey Arshavin received the Emirates Player of the Tournament award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Background\nThe Emirates Cup was inaugurated in July 2007 after Arsenal finalised plans to stage a pre-season competition at its home ground. The competition is named after Arsenal's main sponsor Emirates; the airline's association with the football club began in 2004. Arsenal won the first tournament, which was attended by over 110,000 people across the two days. The 2009 edition was televised live in the United Kingdom on Sky Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nThe opening match of the tournament saw Scottish champions Rangers taking on French side Paris Saint-Germain. Rangers manager Walter Smith set his team up in a 4\u20131\u20134\u20131 formation, with a four-man defence, Lee McCulloch in front of a four-man midfield and Kenny Miller playing as the lone striker. Paris Saint-Germain's first eleven included former Chelsea midfielder Claude Mak\u00e9l\u00e9l\u00e9, who shielded their defence. Before kick-off, a minute's applause was held in tribute to former manager Sir Bobby Robson who died on 31 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nNeither Rangers or Paris Saint-Germain scored in the first half but the game was not incident free \u2013 Miller's attempt on goal in the early minutes was wide, and he nearly capitalised on goalkeeper Gr\u00e9gory Coupet leaving his goal line moments later as his cross almost looped into the net. Mevl\u00fct Erdin\u00e7 had Paris Saint-Germain's best chance after 30 minutes, but failed to connect to Jean-Eudes Maurice's cross. The winning goal, scored by Rangers, came after the interval; from a corner, defender Madjid Bougherra rose highest and headed the ball past Coupet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nArsenal faced Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the day's late kick-off. Midfielder Tom\u00e1\u0161 Rosick\u00fd returned to the Arsenal team for the first time since January 2008 after a lengthy injury spell, while club captain Cesc F\u00e0bregas was named on the substitutes' bench. The side lined up in a 4\u20133\u20133 formation, which Wenger introduced earlier in pre-season to get the best out of his attacking players. Atl\u00e9tico meanwhile started former Manchester United striker Diego Forl\u00e1n up front, and former-Arsenal player Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes on the right-hand side of midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nThe visitors started well and almost made a perfect start when Reyes came close to scoring inside six minutes. Florent Sinama Pongolle and Forl\u00e1n steered their headers wide, but despite the chances Atl\u00e9tico created, Arsenal dictated much of the play in the first 45 minutes. The introduction of academy graduate Jack Wilshere in the second half added fluency to Arsenal's game; reporter Amy Lawrence noted his touches of the ball received \"unabashed excitement from the Emirates crowd.\" Arsenal scored with four minutes of normal time remaining when substitute Andrey Arshavin volleyed in from F\u00e0bregas' cross. Germ\u00e1n Pacheco equalised for Atl\u00e9tico on the counter minutes later, but Arshavin in stoppage time scored again \u2013 this time profiting from defensive error, to give Arsenal a 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain played each other on the second day; both clubs made a number of changes to their team from their first game. Sergio Ag\u00fcero, who started against Arsenal, gave Atl\u00e9tico the lead when he converted a penalty kick which was awarded after the forward was brought down by Albert Baning. Paris Saint-Germain played the remainder of the game with 10 men as Baning was sent off for his foul on Ag\u00fcero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Summary\nDespite the man disadvantage, they equalised in the second half as a well-worked move forced goalkeeper Roberto Jim\u00e9nez Gago out of his position; Ludovic Giuly scored an open goal. The match ended 1\u20131, keeping Arsenal at the top of the table. The hosts later beat Rangers 3\u20130, with Wilshere scoring twice. Arsenal manager Ars\u00e8ne Wenger lauded his performance over the two days, telling reporters: \"When he starts to go past people in the final 20 yards you can always say there is something special.\" Wilshere's performance was watched by England manager Fabio Capello, but Wenger restrained talk of his involvement in the national side: \"Let\u2019s be calm and quiet, the World Cup is next year. Let\u2019s first see how he improves and plays; how consistent he is.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202567-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Emirates Cup, Standings\nEach team plays two matches, with three points awarded for a win, one point for a draw, and a point for every goal scored. For the first time in the competition total shots on target over two days are used as a tiebreaker, if teams are tied on points, goal difference and goals scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202568-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Emperor's Cup\nThe 89th Emperor's Cup began on September 19, 2009 and ended on January 1, 2010 with the final at National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Gamba Osaka won the title for two years in a row. Since Gamba already confirmed 2010 AFC Champions League berth, the last spot of ACL for J.League club is awarded to Sanfrecce Hiroshima, which finished as 4th place of 2009 J.League Division 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202568-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Emperor's Cup, Participants, Starting in the Second Round\n\u203bClubs ranked from first to fourth at the end of the 17th week of 2009 Japan Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202569-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Emperor's Cup Final\n2009 Emperor's Cup Final was the 89th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 2010. Gamba Osaka won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202570-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Empress's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 32 teams, and Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202571-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Empress's Cup Final\n2009 Empress's Cup Final was the 31st final of the Empress's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 2010. Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202571-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Empress's Cup Final, Overview\nDefending champion Nippon TV Beleza won their 10th title, by defeating Urawa Reds 2\u20130 with Shinobu Ono and Homare Sawa goal. Nippon TV Beleza won the title for 3 years in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour\nThe 2009 Eneco Tour was the fifth edition of the Eneco Tour cycling stage race. It took place from 18 August to 25 August 2009 in the Benelux. Like the previous years, parts of the Netherlands and Belgium were covered. It was part of the inaugural UCI World Ranking. It began with a short individual time trial in Rotterdam and ended with a longer one in Amersfoort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Teams\nAs the Tour of Benelux is a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Three UCI Professional Continental teams, Skil\u2013Shimano, Topsport Vlaanderen\u2013Mercator, and Vacansoleil were also invited to the race, for a total of 21 teams. Each team was allowed eight riders, though Euskaltel\u2013Euskadi sent only seven and Team Milram had a rider who planned to start withdraw due to injury before the prologue, meaning 166 riders began the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Prologue\nThe course for the prologue time trial was a quick, flat trip through downtown Rotterdam, taking a lap around the city's Southern Park. The course was not at all technical; it contained only gentle turns to form a rectangle, along with long straightaways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Prologue\nQuick Step's Sylvain Chavanel picked up his second victory of the season in the prologue. Chavanel was one of the first men to take the course, and had to wait for ninety minutes to see if his time would hold up. His biggest threat came from Garmin-Slipstream rider Tyler Farrar, who clocked in .23 seconds slower than Chavanel. The Frenchman took the first leader's white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 1\n19 August 2009 - Aalter (Belgium) to Ardooie (Belgium), 185.4\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 1\nThe first mass-start stage was flat, with a couple of small rises in elevation near the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 1\nA five-rider breakaway formed after 18\u00a0km in the saddle, involving Lars Bak, Maciej Bodnar, Yukiya Arashiro, Wim De Vocht, and Pieter Vanspeybrouck. Their maximum advantage over the peloton was 3'50\". The top teams in the general classification, Quick Step and Garmin-Slipstream, worked to bring the breakaway back, since they also had strong sprinters who they wanted to try for the stage win. At the 85\u00a0km mark, Bobbie Traksel, Luis Pasamontes and Wim Stroetinga crashed, and Pasamontes and Stroetinga had to leave the race with injuries. The breakaway gradually fragmented because of the pace and the day's heat. Bodnar was the last escapee to be caught, with 5\u00a0km to go before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 1\nThe mass sprint finish was won by Tyler Farrar, who became the new race leader. The sprint was perhaps overshadowed, however, by a dramatic crash that took place right behind it. About ten riders deep in the bunch, two riders collided, and the remainder of the peloton, in full sprint, had no chance to avoid them, leading to further crashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 1\nAll 144 riders who started the sprint together were given the same finishing time as Farrar, but five riders were injured, most notably Silence-Lotto's Gorik Gardeyn, who was taken to a hospital with four or five broken ribs, and a double fracture of his right shoulder blade. Fran\u00e7aise des Jeux's Yoann Offredo sustained a left shoulder injury. Maxime Vantomme, Sebastien Turgot, and Koen de Kort also sought medical attention, but their injuries weren't considered serious enough for them to have to leave the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 2\n20 August 2009 - Ardooie (Belgium) to Brussels (Belgium), 178.1\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 2\nThis stage is undulating, with numerous small raises in elevation, including the Muur van Geraardsbergen, used yearly in the Tour of Flanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 2\nThe heat combined with the many small climbs caused many riders to drop out of the race. A notable rider to abandon was Astana's Andreas Kl\u00f6den due to injuring his wrist after crashing going around a roundabout. A 5-man breakaway formed after 18\u00a0km, comprising Juan Jos\u00e9 Haedo, Mathew Hayman, Tanel Kangert, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Roy, and David Deroo. Their maximum advantage was just under two minutes, and they began to splinter 76\u00a0km from the finish. By that point, the leading peloton in pursuit of the breakaway was only about 80 riders strong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 2\nSeveral riders from that leading peloton tried to counterattack as the morning's breakaway was caught, and a group including Edvald Boasson Hagen was able to get away briefly. As Boasson Hagen began the stage fourth overall, the contenders weren't willing to let him get very far up the road, and limited the advantage of this breakaway to just 48 seconds before it was caught. Numerous other breakaways saw riders briefly get away, and Nick Nuyens had a gap of 20 seconds inside the final kilometer, but a mass sprint finish still took place. The sprint was won by race leader Tyler Farrar, who extended his overall lead, though he expressed doubt in his ability to hold it when asked after the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 3\n21 August 2009 - Niel (Belgium) to Hasselt (Belgium), 158.3\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 3\nThis course is similar in profile to the one previous, bumpy but without any imposing rises in elevation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 3\nA breakaway formed 39\u00a0km into this stage, with Romain Villa, Niki Terpstra, and Albert Timmer the escapees. Their maximum advantage was about three minutes before the Quick Step and Garmin Slipstream-led peloton set to reeling them in. Timmer and Terpstra eventually dropped Villa after repeated attacks and counterattacks, but the peloton was all one with 6\u00a0km left to ride. Liquigas\u2013Doimo was the first team to try to deploy their leadout train, working for Francesco Chicchi, but they were quickly overwhelmed by Garmin, Quick Step, and Team Columbia-HTC. Edvald Boasson Hagen attacked within the final kilometer, on the last turn before the finish, but the mass sprint took him back in. The first across the line was Belgian national champion Tom Boonen, gaining his first victory with that jersey on his shoulders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 4\n22 August 2009 - Hasselt (Belgium) to Libramont (Belgium), 221.2\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 4\nThis is the Eneco Tour's longest stage, and it is the only one with any real heights to speak of. It begins at a higher point than is previously reached in the Tour and climbs in several places, including a slight uphill to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 4\nThis stage began very quickly, with the first hour of racing covering almost 50\u00a0km. At the 60\u00a0km mark, Damien Gaudin broke away and was the lone leader for a time before being joined by Reinier Honig and Niki Terpstra. Their maximum advantage over the peloton came at the 90\u00a0km mark, an advantage of 7' 45\". Garmin-Slipstream and Rabobank drove the peloton to catch the breakaway, and they easily did, with over 50\u00a0km left to race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 4\nSeveral further breakaways were attempted, and the pace needed to bring them back combined with the stage's hilly terrain made it so the leading group was for a time only about 30 riders strong. Top contenders Bradley Wiggins, Vincenzo Nibali, and Sylvain Chavanel, among with many others, all tried to break away after the morning's initial escapees were caught, but none ultimately succeeded. A group of 79 was together for a surprising mass sprint finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 4\nThough this was thought to be the first stage that would not end in a field sprint, race leader Tyler Farrar and other sprint specialists like fellow stage winner Tom Boonen never lost contact with the leading peloton. It was initially thought that Edvald Boasson Hagen had won the sprint, but close examination of the photo finish showed that Farrar in fact was the first across the line, for his third stage win of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 5\n23 August 2009 - Roermond (Netherlands) to Sittard (Netherlands), 204.3\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 5\nThis course is jagged, beginning at near sea level but including a number of rises, with gradients reaching as high as 7.3%. The final 25\u00a0km to the finish are either flat or on rises of less than 4% gradient. It is thought of as the Tour's most difficult stage, and it has been called a \"little Amstel Gold Race.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 5\nTwo kilometers into the stage, three riders broke clear of the main field. These were Sergio De Lis, David Deroo, and Jens Mouris, and they obtained a maximum advantage of close to 18 minutes, at the 75\u00a0km mark. By the 105\u00a0km mark, it had fallen all the way to 10 minutes, as the peloton began their chase in earnest and the terrain became difficult for the escapees. A 15-man chase broke clear of the peloton 20\u00a0km later, headed by Columbia-HTC, Rabobank, and some other overall contenders. Race leader Tyler Farrar and teammate Bradley Wiggins, who had been thought to be a contender for the race overall, were not in the chase and neither were any of their teammates. Wiggins would end up finishing the stage 10'21\" behind the stage winner and dropping well away from contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 5\nThe leading groups continued to attack one another and splinter, and by 48\u00a0km to go, the original three breakaway riders were brought back into the fold. Thirteen riders were together for the final 20\u00a0km circuit in Sittard, and though their advantage continually fell as they neared the line, they finished with a 31-second advantage over the main chase group, that included Farrar. The decisive attack for the stage win came with about 1\u00a0km to go. Lars Bak sprinted out of the leading group and went \u00e0 bloc to survive to the line, saying later that he felt faint for a while after the stage win. Edvald Boasson Hagen assumed the race overall leadership, by 15 seconds over Farrar and Bak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 6\n24 August 2009 - Genk (Belgium) to Roermond (Netherlands), 163.3\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 6\nThis stage was flat. Vincenzo Nibali, who had been in fifth overall and was considered an important rider for Italy at the world championships, did not start this stage due to a season-ending broken collarbone sustained the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 6\nThis was a very straightforward day of racing. A three-man breakaway, comprising Rick Flens, Huub Duyn, and Alexander Serov, came clear after 34\u00a0km. The peloton kept their advantage under tight control, as it did not extend beyond 90 seconds at any point. The catch easily occurred at the 12\u00a0km to go mark. The two Italian teams, Lampre\u2013NGC and Liquigas\u2013Doimo, drove the peloton in the stage's final kilometers, to try to weaken the field to the advantage of their sprinters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 6\nTeam Columbia-HTC came forward inside the final kilometer and race leader Edvald Boasson Hagen jumped from an early leadout, just after a right-hand turn in the road, to sprint away to the stage win. Tyler Farrar had been caught off guard, and could not make up the ground to Boasson Hagen, finishing third as the young Norwegian took the stage win. Boasson Hagen, like Farrar before him, expressed his doubts after the stage that he could hold on for the overall win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 7\nThe course for the second time trial is more challenging and technical than the first. There are several sharp turns and curves in the road, and only one long straightaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 7\nThe early best time was set by Saxo Bank rider Alex Rasmussen. An hour after Rasmussen's ride, Tony Martin and Thomas De Gendt both bettered his time by a few seconds, as rain began to fall. Bradley Wiggins, who had fallen well out of contention on Stage 5 but would figure to be a favorite in any time trial, had the best time at the intermediate time check. He did not, however, finish the course, opting instead to simply pull off shortly after the 5.9\u00a0km mark, as the rain continued to fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202572-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Eneco Tour, Stages, Stage 7\nThe rain caused Joost Posthuma to spin out and crash after a right-hand turn, costing him such time that he fell from fifth on GC all the way to 11th after the stage. Race leader Edvald Boasson Hagen was the last man to take the course and managed to just beat the times set by the Rabobank duo of Sebastian Langeveld and Maarten Tjallingii set shortly before his run to win the stage. Tyler Farrar, who had been in second overall, decided to skip this time trial in order to better concentrate on the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. The win sealed the first-ever stage race victory for Boasson Hagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202573-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 2009 Blue Square Greyhound Derby took place during May with the final being held on 30 May 2009 at Wimbledon Stadium. The winner Kinda Ready received \u00a3100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202573-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\nNeck, 3, 1\u00bd, 1\u00be, 1\u00bd (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202573-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Race report\nIt took five rounds of action to narrow down the field to the final six greyhounds. Kinda Ready was the eventual winner, after picking up Fear Zafonic near the line. The rest of the field encountered crowding leaving the front two to battle it out. An April 2007 whelp, Kinda Ready was the youngest in the final, and was also the biggest price winner in the history of the Derby at Wimbledon. And biggest since 1975 at White City the previous home of the derby. This year also saw no Irish trained greyhounds in the final with last year's Irish Greyhound Derby winner Shelbourne Aston bowing out in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202574-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 2009 English National Badminton Championships were held at the Manchester Velodrome, in Manchester, from 30 January - 2 February, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202575-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 English cricket season\nThe 2009 English cricket season was the 110th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. Four regular tournaments were played: The LV County Championship (first-class), Friends Provident Trophy (50 Over), NatWest Pro40 League (40 Over) and the Twenty20 Cup (T20). All four tournaments featured the eighteen classic county cricket teams, although the Friends Provident Trophy also featured sides from Ireland and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202575-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 English cricket season\nOn the international scene England hosted the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Australia toured England to compete for the Ashes; it was the 74th test series between the two sides with England winning 2-1. The West Indies also toured losing the Wisden Trophy test series 2-0 to England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy\nAllegations of tapping up in English football came to light in 2009 after accusations were made by French and English football clubs that a number of Premier League clubs had been enticing their youth players to join them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy\nThe controversy started when RC Lens midfielder Ga\u00ebl Kakuta breached his contract in order to join Chelsea. A number of other French clubs and an Italian club soon reported to FIFA that other Premier League clubs, including Manchester United and Manchester City, had been tempting their youngsters away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Chelsea and RC Lens\nThe issue was first introduced into the public eye in September 2009 when, after being reported by RC Lens, FIFA banned Chelsea from any transfer activity until January 2011 and also ordered \u20ac130,000 to Lens as compensation. The player in question, French midfielder Ga\u00ebl Kakuta, was also ordered to pay \u20ac780,000 to Lens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Chelsea and RC Lens\nChelsea soon appealed to FIFA's actions in \"the strongest possible way\" under the grounds that it was Kakuta's mother who had signed the pre-contract, not her son; UEFA had assured Chelsea that they could sign the Frenchman as he wasn't a registered player at Lens and also because the London club believed there may was a statute of limitations on such 'illegal transfers'. Club CEO Peter Kenyon also commented that people need to \"understand this is something that happened two years ago\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Chelsea and RC Lens\nOn 4 February 2010, Chelsea were cleared of any wrongdoing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. That decision was recognized by FIFA, and Lens's complaint was withdrawn, resulting in the ban being overturned. The CAS's decision read \"The CAS has noted that, in the agreement, the two clubs and the player have recognised that the contract between the player and RC Lens was not valid. Accordingly, the player could not have terminated it prematurely and without just cause and FC Chelsea cannot therefore be liable for inducing a breach of contract. As a consequence, in light of these new circumstances, the sanctions imposed upon Chelsea FC and the player by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber had to be lifted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Manchester United, Le Havre and Fiorentina\nFollowing the implications against Chelsea, a further two Premier League clubs were reported in the press by French clubs for \"poaching\" their youth players. Le Havre soon reported Manchester United for enticing their midfielder Paul Pogba to the club. In a statement released on their official website, it was commented that \"The player [Pogba] and his parents refused to keep the arrangement because Manchester United offered very high sums of money to the parents of the [player] with the aim of obtaining the transfer of their son\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Manchester United, Le Havre and Fiorentina\nUnited soon threatened to sue the French club, commenting that they believed the transfer was legal and within guidelines set out by FIFA who have yet to receive an objection from the French club over the transfer. Manchester United were eventually cleared of wrongdoing by a judge appointed by FIFA. Despite this, Le Havre insist that \"Contrary to what Manchester United state on their official website FIFA have not validated the transfer of Paul Pogba but, as they normally do in this type of case, have issued a provisional international certificate. The decision of the international body is therefore a non-event and is normal procedure.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Manchester United, Le Havre and Fiorentina\nItalian club ACF Fiorentina contacted FIFA soon after Le Havre's allegations in the media, claiming United had \"stolen\" 16-year-old defender Michele Fornasier. No further comments from either side have been made about the issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Manchester City and Rennes\nThe second club to be named were United's neighbours Manchester City for allegedly signing one of Rennes youth players J\u00e9r\u00e9my H\u00e9lan and have reported the matter to FIFA under grounds that the Frenchman had signed a pre-contract with Rennes when he was thirteen and have called for the governing body to impose the same ban that Chelsea have been given. City have commented that the transfer was perfectly legal, \"We are comfortable that we have acted within the rules throughout the process and in no way induced any breach of contract by J\u00e9r\u00e9my Helan\" read an item on the club's official website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Crewe Alexandra\nIn the wake of the controversy, Crewe Alexandra technical director Dario Gradi also revealed that the club, known for producing young talented players, were losing a lot of their players to bigger clubs. Gradi commented that he \"lost a 12-year-old to Everton. He was our best 12-year-old. The lure is that the bigger clubs pay big expenses\", before continuing \"This kid will be getting several hundred pounds a week in expenses. We pay expenses but nothing like that. It's more a case of giving out \u00a320 if someone can pick a kid up en-route\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Events, Crewe Alexandra\nIn the same interview, Gradi also revealed a Premier league club had attempted to poach one of their 15-year-old players. Reports in the media suggested that it was striker Max Clayton, son of former Alex player Paul, and that the club in question was Liverpool who had offered the Cheshire club a sum of around \u00a31 million for the player's services two years ago. Neither Gradi nor Crewe had confirmed who the player is and which Premier League club was involved, the Merseyside club have failed to comment on the issue and the Football League have not received any complaint from the League Two club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Reactions\nIn reaction to FIFA's ban on Chelsea, PFA chairman Gordon Taylor revealed he was in favour of a transfer ban on players under the age of 18 years, \"There's been a general feeling that a ban on movement of players under the age of 18 would be better for the game\" he commented in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, \"You need to encourage clubs, if they're going to have youth development programmes, to be able to pick out the lads and have some time with them\" he added. Taylor conceded that players will move on, but he felt a better system for compensation for the selling club should be introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Reactions\nArsenal manager Ars\u00e8ne Wenger argued against this proposal, however, contending that the movement of young players allows them to receive a better quality of coaching and education. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson pointed out the anomaly that prevents clubs from signing young players from beyond a certain distance within England, but does not prohibit them from signing young foreigners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202576-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 English football tapping up controversy, Reactions\nFurther to his allegations, Dario Gradi also said he was delighted with FIFA's actions against Chelsea, \"at least Fifa have given the smaller clubs hope\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby\nThe 2009 Epsom Derby was a horse race which took place at Epsom Downs on Saturday 6 June 2009. It was the 230th running of the Derby, and it was won by Sea the Stars. The winner was ridden by Michael Kinane and trained by John Oxx. The pre-race favourite Fame and Glory finished second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Full result\n* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter \u2013 nse = nose; shd = short-head; hd = head; nk = neck\u2020 Trainers are based in Great Britain unless indicated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Two-year-old races\nNotable runs by the future Derby participants as two-year-olds in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, The road to Epsom\nEarly-season appearances in 2009 and trial races prior to running in the Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Subsequent Group 1 wins\nGroup 1 / Grade I victories after running in the Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Subsequent breeding careers, Sires of Classic winners\nSea The Stars (1st) Sire of fourteen individual Group/Grade One winners including six classic winners as of August 2020", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 71], "content_span": [72, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Subsequent breeding careers, Sires of Group/Grade One winners\nRip Van Winkle (4th) - Later exported to New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 79], "content_span": [80, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202577-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Epsom Derby, Subsequent breeding careers, Other Stallions\nMasterofthehorse (3rd) - Flat and jumps winnersGolden Sword (5th) - Exported to South AfricaCrowded House (6th) - Exported to Australia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Equatorial Guinea on November 29, 2009. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has been President since 1979, ran for another term and won re-election with 95.8% of the vote, according to official results. Opposition leader Pl\u00e1cido Mic\u00f3 Abogo placed second with 3.6%. However, international observers and the main opposition candidate questioned the legitimacy of this election, noting the poor management which created an unfriendly field for other candidates to take part, media manipulation and the unbalanced results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Background\nAccording to a presidential decree issued on February 29, 2008, the election was planned for 2010. However, it was announced on October 16, 2009, that the election would be held on November 29, 2009. Mic\u00f3 Abogo criticized the election date, arguing that the government intended to deprive the opposition of adequate time to prepare for the election by announcing the date only 45 days in advance. He said that his party, the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), would participate in the election, along with other opposition parties, although he alleged that the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) was planning fraud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Campaign\nCampaigning began on November 5. The Equatoguinean Ambassador to the United States, Purificacion Angue Ondo, stressed that the government was \"committed to holding fair and democratic elections. As part of our reform efforts we aim to ensure all voices are heard. We view open access of the media to political candidates as crucial in this process. We are committed to ensuring all of our candidates are able to exercise their right to speak to the press.\" The government pointed to an interview given by Mic\u00f3 Abogo on the Spanish International Channel, which was broadcast on television in Equatorial Guinea, as a sign of its commitment to openness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Campaign\nParties running candidates in the election were to receive public funds for campaigning purposes. There were about 291,000 people registered to vote. There is substantial variation in estimates of the total population, with low estimates of around 600,000 people and high estimates of more than one million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Campaign\nFive candidates stood in the election, although two of them were characterized by the international press as mere proxies for President Obiang. Obiang's campaign presented him as the candidate representing continuity and successful management of Equatorial Guinea's lucrative oil industry, promising redistribution of oil wealth and economic development. Declaring himself to be \"the candidate of the people\", Obiang said that no one could contradict the will of the people and expressed confidence that he would win more than 97% of the vote (he officially won the previous presidential election, held in 2002, with 97.1%). Meanwhile, Mico Abogo denounced the government as oppressive and said that it won elections only through fraud. He also said that oil wealth had only served to enrich the small elite surrounding Obiang and that it helped to reinforce the regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 926]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Campaign\nAccording to a diplomat posted in Malabo, who pointed to Mic\u00f3 Abogo's severe criticisms of the government, the campaign had been marked by an increased \"freedom of tone\" for the opposition. Noting that the government wanted the election to appear credible, he believed that the increased degree of freedom was the result of negotiations with the government. The active participation of the opposition in the campaign was nevertheless considered limited by Almani Cyllah of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems: \"These elections would have been a turning point if the opposition had actually participated. We would have felt that yes, things are moving in the right direction. But the opposition felt that the elections were not going to be free and fair.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 825]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Campaign\nPopular Action of Equatorial Guinea candidate Carmelo Mba Bacale announced on 28 November that he had decided to boycott the election. He alleged that the PDGE was planning fraud, saying that PDGE members were heading polling stations as well as the electoral commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Conduct\nOn election day, 29 November, voter turnout was reportedly low. Mico Abogo denounced the conduct of the election, saying that fraud and manipulation were rife, and he declared that he would not accept the official results. Observers noted irregularities in the election. Abogo also claimed that \"government agents voted in place of the public and some polling stations closed early.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Conduct\nAbogo's allegation of fraud came amidst international observations that the media had been subjected to manipulations throughout the election, including the refusal of visas for the press and enhanced public relations activity by a private firm supporting President Obiang. Soon after the election, Human Rights Watch said \"In recent weeks it [the government] has stifled and harassed the country's beleaguered political opposition ... [ and] imposed serious constraints on international observers.\" With similar observations and accounts in mind, IFES commentator Almani Cyllah said that \"it is a little difficult to see how we can say that those elections are free and fair.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Results\nNearly complete provisional results were released by 1 December, showing Obiang winning 95.19% of the vote; Mic\u00f3 Abogo was credited with 4.05%, while Popular Union candidate Archivaldo Montero was credited with 0.39%, Party of the Social Democratic Coalition candidate Bonaventura Monsuy Asumu was credited with 0.19%, and Mba Bacale (who had announced a boycott the day before the election) was credited with 0.17%. 292,585 people were said to have voted, a figure that slightly exceeded the official number of registered voters (about 291,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Results\nAccording to official results, Obiang's lead increased slightly when the final results were released on 3 December. According to those results, Obiang received 95.8% of the vote, Mic\u00f3 Abogo received 3.6%, Montero received 0.34%, and Monsuy Asumu received 0.17%. Speaking to a gathering of thousands of supporters in Malabo on 3 December, Obiang declared that the people had chosen \"progress and peace\" by re-electing him. He vowed \"to focus on health and education\" as well as more training for women and the youth, while stressing the importance of spending the country's oil wealth responsibly. The official results were inconsistent, with the total of votes received by candidates (271,992) being 28 higher than the published total valid votes (271,964).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202578-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Aftermath\nObiang was sworn in for his new seven-year term in a ceremony at the Palace of Congress in Bata on 8 December 2009; various other African heads of state were in attendance. On the occasion, Obiang spoke of a \"bright and promising future\". He also said that he would promote cooperation between parties so that there could be a political consensus for the good of the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202579-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Erie RiverRats season\nThe 2009 Erie RiverRats season was the third season for the American Indoor Football Association (AIFA) franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202579-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Erie RiverRats season\nIn August, 2008, Liotta resigned as coach of the RiverRats and left to coach the Wheeling Wildcats. In September 2008, the RiverRats named Steven G. Folmar as the franchise's second head coach. In December 2008, owner Jeff Hauser sold the team to a group of local businessmen, headed by Jeff Plyler, Bob Foltyn and Frank Herman. The RiverRats had to replace many players on the roster, as most of the 2008 roster followed Liotta to Wheeling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202579-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Erie RiverRats season\nAs a result of all the changes, the RiverRats struggled all season to score points, resulting in offensive coordinator Paul Pennington's resignation after an 0\u20133 start. After dropping to 0\u20137, the RiverRats got their first win of the season on a last second field goal by Joe Lindway. The RiverRats ended up finishing with a 3-11 record, and missing the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202580-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Esiliiga\nThe 2009 season of the Esiliiga (the second league of the Estonian football system).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202580-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Esiliiga, Results\nEach team will play every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202581-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Espinar bus crash\nThe 2009 Espinar bus crash occurred in Espinar (near Cuzco), Peru, on 24 December 2009, when a bus rolled over the edge of a cliff, killing 41 and injuring 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202581-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Espinar bus crash\nThe bus had been transporting passengers between the provinces of Arequipa and Chumbivilcas in Southern Peru. While travelling a mountain road in the Andean Mountains along the Altoandiana highway, the bus veered off the road and plunged down a 200-metre ravine. The cause was believed to be a wet road due to heavy rains, technical failure, and speeding. 40 passengers were found dead, and 22 were injured, one fatally. 10 of the injured were taken to a hospital in Espinar and 12 were taken to a hospital in Velille. One of the injured later died in the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election\nAn election to Essex County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The elections had been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 75 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election, Summary\nThe Conservatives were re-elected with an increased majority. As in several other Tory councils, the Liberal Democrats replaced Labour as the main opposition party as Labour lost all but one seat, reflecting the Labour Party's declining national popularity at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election, Summary\nA notable feature of this election was the number of minor parties and local groups. These included right wing and anti-European parties, that appear to have siphoned support from the main parties and, in some divisions, out-polled them. Local groups enjoyed strong local support, challenging the successful candidates and winning seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202582-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Essex County Council election, Results summary\nIn summaries, Labour and Labour Co-operative results are amalgamated. In multi-member divisions, the \"majority\" is the number of votes by which the loser with the highest number of votes fell short of being elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202583-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Esso Cup\nThe 2009 Esso Cup was Canada's inaugural national women's midget hockey championship, played April 19\u201325, 2009 at the Max Bell Centre in Calgary, Alberta. The Westman Wildcats from Manitoba defeated the Scarborough Sharks from Ontario to win the first gold medal. The host Calgary Flyers defeated their provincial rival, the Edmonton Thunder, to take the bronze. Calgary's Brittany Styner was named the tournament's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202583-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Quebec\nQuebec did not field a team in this year's Esso Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 43], "content_span": [44, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202584-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estonian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Estonian Figure Skating Championships (Estonian: Eesti Meistriv\u00f5istlused 2009) were held between 6 and 7 December 2008 in Tartu. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels. The results were used to choose the teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202584-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Estonian Figure Skating Championships\nSkaters from Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland competed as guests and their results were discounted from the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202585-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estonian municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in Estonia on 18 October 2009, with advance voting between 8 and 14 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202586-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open\nThe 2009 Estoril Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the Estoril Open for the men (the 13th for the women), and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the International-level tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, Portugal, from 2 May through 10 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202586-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open\nThe men's draw was headlined by Gilles Simon, former 2002 and 2006 champion David Nalbandian and 2003 champion Nikolay Davydenko. Other players included David Ferrer, Mardy Fish and 2001 champion Juan Carlos Ferrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202586-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open\nThe women's draw was headlined by 2004 and 2008 finalist Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and 2008 champion Maria Kirilenko. Other players included Shahar Pe'er and Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202586-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nEric Butorac /  Scott Lipsky defeated  Martin Damm /  Robert Lindstedt, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202586-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nRaquel Kops-Jones /  Abigail Spears defeated  Sharon Fichman /  Katalin Marosi, 2\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202587-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie were the defending champions, but Coetzee chose not to participate that year. Moodie partnered with Dick Norman, but lost in the semifinals to Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202588-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but chose not to play that year. Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s won the title, notably by saving match points in quarterfinal and final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202589-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMaria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta were the defending champions, but Pennetta chose not to participate this year. Kirilenko partnered with Sorana C\u00eerstea, but lost to Julie Coin and Marie-\u00c8ve Pelletier in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202590-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMaria Kirilenko was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Ekaterina Makarova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202590-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nYanina Wickmayer defeated Ekaterina Makarova in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20132. It was Wickmayer's first career title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202591-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Superleague Formula round\nThe 2009 Estoril Superleague Formula round was the fourth round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on September 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202591-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Superleague Formula round, Report, Qualifying\nSC Corinthians (Ant\u00f4nio Pizzonia) took his 3rd Superleague Formula pole of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202591-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nPolesitter SC Corinthians (Ant\u00f4nio Pizzonia) went too slowly at the start and got passed by Olympiacos CFP (Esteban Guerrieri). When the pitstops came around Liverpool F.C. (Adri\u00e1n Vall\u00e9s) passed the Olympiacos CFP car in the pitstops. During SC Corinthians pitstop the car left with the rear jack still attached to the car. Ant\u00f4nio Pizzonia managed to shake it off before getting back on track. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Mar\u00eda de Villota) got into the side of F.C. Porto (\u00c1lvaro Parente) ending F.C. Portos race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202591-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Estoril Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nWith 12 minutes to go Olympiacos CFP passed SC Corinthians to go into 2nd place and with 3 minutes on the clock remaining Olympiacos CFP passed Liverpool F.C. to get into 1st and get their first ever Superleague Formula win. Liverpool F.C. came 2nd and SC Corinthians finished 3rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202592-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ethias Trophy\nThe 2009 Ethias Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mons, Belgium between 5 and 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202592-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ethias Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202592-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ethias Trophy, Champions, Doubles\nDenis Istomin /  Evgeny Korolev def. Alejandro Falla /  Teymuraz Gabashvili, 6\u20137(4), 7\u20136(4), [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202593-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ethias Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nMichal Merti\u0148\u00e1k and Lovro Zovko were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete this year. Denis Istomin and Evgeny Korolev won the final 6\u20137(4), 7\u20136(4), [11\u20139], against Alejandro Falla and Teymuraz Gabashvili.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202594-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ethias Trophy \u2013 Singles\nTeymuraz Gabashvili tried to defend his 2008 title but he was eliminated by Xavier Malisse in the second round. Number 1 seed Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 won this tournament, defeating unseeded Sergiy Stakhovsky in the final, 7\u20136(4), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202595-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup\nThe 2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the eleventh Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's three major beach soccer championships of the 2009 beach soccer season, held in May 2009, in Rome, Italy. Spain won the championship for the third time, with former champions Switzerland finishing second. Six time champions Portugal beat Hungary in the third place play off to finish third and fourth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202595-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup\nEight teams participated in the tournament who played in a straightforward knockout tournament, starting with the quarter finals, with extra matches deciding the nations who finished in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202595-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Matches, Fifth to eighth place deciding matches\nThe following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League\nThe 2009 Euro Beach Soccer League, was the twelfth edition of the Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL), the premier beach soccer competition contested between European men's national teams, occurring annually since its establishment in 1998. The league was organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) between July 10 and August 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League\nIn 2009, BSWW introduced major changes to the EBSL. This included the reintroduction of Divisions A and B to the league, and making the Superfinal a Division A only event; the opportunity for Division B teams to qualify for the Superfinal was replaced with having the nations of the second division aim to qualify for a new additional post season event instead, the Promotion Final, in which nations would compete to try and earn promotion to Division A, as well as other changes explained later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League\nPortugal were the defending champions but fell short in the championship match of the Superfinal, losing to Russia who claimed their first European title. Meanwhile, in Division B, Romania were promoted after winning the inaugural edition of the Promotion Final, with Norway relegated from Division A in return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League, Format changes\n2009 saw the introduction of major changes to the format of this and future seasons of the EBSL which have remained almost unchanged to date (2017). The following decisions were made:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League, Teams\n2. Turkey were supposed to compete with Austria and another, as of then, unconfirmed team as part of stage 4. Ultimately Austria pulled out and no other team entered meaning Division B did not materialise during stage 4. Turkey therefore automatically qualified for the Promotion Final and consequently did not compete during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202596-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 (Minehead, 17\u201319 July), Division A\nNorway are ranked ahead of France based on their head-to-head result", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202597-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 EuroLeague American Tour\nThe 2009 Euroleague American Tour inaugurated a yearly basketball exhibition Tour organized by the Euroleague in the United States. The aim of the Euroleague American Tour is to expose to American basketball fans a different basketball approach than the one presented by the NBA, a lot more similar to the NCAA one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202597-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 EuroLeague American Tour\nThe Euroleague teams that participated in that first edition were Partizan Belgrade, Olympiacos and Maccabi Tel Aviv. On the other hand, the NBA franchises that played against them were the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The NBA rules that applied to the event combined with the fact that the opponents were all top class NBA teams led to consecutive losses for the Euroleague representants. In Partizan's case, things were even worse as they competed without future All-Euroleague point guard Bo McCalebb and power forward Lawrence Roberts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202597-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 EuroLeague American Tour\nOverall, in spite of the fact that Euroleague teams seemed unable to threaten their NBA competition within the United States, they demonstrated some of the advantages that make them high-class basketball organizations: Solid fundamentals, outstanding team play and some of the best players of FIBA Basketball like Theo Papaloukas, Milo\u0161 Teodosi\u0107, Aleks Mari\u0107, Ioannis Bourousis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis to name a few.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202598-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0\nThe 2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the nineteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Circuit de Catalunya on April 18 and finished at the Ciudad del Motor de Arag\u00f3n on October 25, after fourteen rounds. This season was the last for the current specification Tatuus chassis introduced in 2000, as a new chassis will be introduced for the 2010 season. Albert Costa won the title holding off the challenges of Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne and Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa, who finished tied on points, with Vergne finishing second on a tie-breaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202598-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Championship standings, Drivers\n\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202599-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Eurocup M\u00e9gane Trophy\nThe 2009 Eurocup M\u00e9gane Trophy season was the fifth Eurocup M\u00e9gane Trophy season. The season began at Circuit de Catalunya on 18 April and finished at the Ciudad del Motor de Arag\u00f3n on 25 October, after seven rounds and fourteen races. Mike Verschuur won the title, having battled Jonathan Hirschi for the entire campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202600-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroleague Final Four\nThe 2009 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding Euroleague Final Four tournament of the 2008\u201309 Euroleague season. It was held on May, 2009. All of the games were held at the O2 World, in Berlin Germany. Panathinaikos won the title, which was their fifth at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202601-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European 10 m Events Championships\nThe 2009 European 10 m Events Championships was held in Prague, Czech Republic, form 19 to 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202602-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European 10,000m Cup\nThe 2009 European 10,000m Cup, was the 13th edition of the European 10,000m Cup took place on 9 June in Ribeira Brava, Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202602-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European 10,000m Cup, Team\nIn italic the participants whose result did not go into the team's total time, but awarded with medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe 2009 European Amateur Team Championship took place 30 June \u2013 4 July at Conwy Golf Club in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales, United Kingdom. It was the 27th men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nConwy Golf Club was formed in 1890. Its links course was designed by Jack Morris, club professional at Royal Liverpool Golf Club and nephew of Old Tom Morris, the first nine holes in 1875 and additional nine holes in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nEach team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nTeam Norway won the opening 36-hole competition, with a 30-under-par score of 690, three strokes ahead of team Italy. Neither host nation Wales or defending champions Ireland mad it to the quarter finals, finishing 10th and 11th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nThere was no official award for the lowest individual score, but tied individual leaders were 16-year-old Matteo Manassero, Italy and Pontus Widegren, Sweden, each with a 10-under-par score of 134, one stroke ahead of Andrea Pavan, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team were drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Teams knocked out after the quarter finals played one foursome game and four single games in each of their remaining  matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight teams placed 9\u201316 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe four teams placed 17\u201320 formed flight C, to play each other in a round-robin system, with one foursome game and four single games in each match, to decide their final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nTeam Scotland won the gold medal, earning their sixth title, beating team England in the final 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship\nTeam Italy, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Norway 5\u20132 in the bronze match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams\n20 nation teams contested the event, the same number of teams as at the previous event one year earlier. Each team consisted of six players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\n* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202603-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\nNote: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202604-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 3rd Individual European Artistic Gymnastics Championships for both men and women were held in Milan, Italy, on 29 March to 5 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202605-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe 30th European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena which has a seating capacity of 6,700 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202605-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nIt was the fourth time that the championships were held in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00202606-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe Men's 1500 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202606-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202607-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe Men's 3000 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202607-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202608-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe Men's 4 x 400 metres relay event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202609-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe Men's 400 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202609-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202609-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 84], "content_span": [85, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202610-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres\nThe Men's 60 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202610-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202610-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 4 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202611-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles\nThe Men's 60 meters hurdles event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 178]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00202612-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe Men's 800 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202612-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202612-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 84], "content_span": [85, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202613-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's heptathlon\nThe Men's heptathlon event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202614-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe Men's high jump event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202614-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Results, Qualification\nQualification: Qualification Performance 2.30 (Q) or at least 8 best performers advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 86], "content_span": [87, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202615-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe Men's long jump event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202615-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Results, Qualification\nQualifying perf. 8.00 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 86], "content_span": [87, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202616-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe Men's pole vault event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202616-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Results, Qualification\nQualification: Qualification Performance 5.75 (Q) or at least 8 best performers advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 87], "content_span": [88, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202617-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe Men's shot put event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202617-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Results, Qualification\nQualifying perf. 19.80 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 85], "content_span": [86, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202618-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe Men's triple jump event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202618-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification\nQualifying perf. 16.85 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 88], "content_span": [89, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202619-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe Women's 1500 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202619-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Doping\nAnna Alminova won the event and was awarded the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2014 after the IAAF in 2014 handed her a doping ban caused by abnormalities in her biological passport profile. All her results from 16 February 2009 onwards were annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 74], "content_span": [75, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202619-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Doping\nNatalia Rodr\u00edguez (gold), Sonja Roman (silver) and Ro\u00eds\u00edn McGettigan (bronze) received their medals by mail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 74], "content_span": [75, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202619-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202620-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres\nThe Women's 3000 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202620-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Doping\nAnna Alminova originally came sixth in the race, but was disqualified in 2014 after the IAAF handed her a doping ban caused by abnormalities in her biological passport profile. All her results from 16 February 2009 onwards were annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 74], "content_span": [75, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202620-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202621-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe Women's 4 x 400 metres relay event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202622-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe Women's 400 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202622-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202622-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202623-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres\nThe Women's 60 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202623-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202623-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 4 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202624-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles\nThe Women's 60 metres hurdles event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202624-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202624-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 4 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 93], "content_span": [94, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202625-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe Women's 800 metres event  at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202625-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202625-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 of each semifinals qualified directly (Q) for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202626-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe Women's high jump event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 7\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202626-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Results, Qualification\nQualification Performance: 1.94 (Q) or at least 8 best performers advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 88], "content_span": [89, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202627-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe Women's long jump event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202627-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Results, Qualification\nQualifying performance: 6.55 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 88], "content_span": [89, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202628-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon\nThe Women's pentathlon event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202629-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault\nThe women's pole vault event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 6 and 7 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202629-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification\nQualification: Qualification Performance 4.45 (Q) or at least 8 best performers advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 89], "content_span": [90, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202630-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe Women's shot put event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202630-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Results, Qualification\nQualifying perf. 18.00 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 87], "content_span": [88, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202631-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump\nThe Women's triple jump event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202631-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification\nQualifying perf. 14.15 (Q) or 8 best performers (q) advanced to the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 90], "content_span": [91, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202632-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Junior Championships\nThe 20th European Athletics Junior Championships were held between 23 and 26 July 2009 in the Stadion Kara\u0111or\u0111e in Novi Sad, Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202632-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics Junior Championships\nGermany topped the medal table with 25 medals overall, including 10 golds, ahead of Russia and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202633-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships\nThe 7th European Athletics U23 Championships were held between 16 and 19 July 2009 in the S. Darius and S. Gir\u0117nas Stadium  in Kaunas, Lithuania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202633-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 901 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202634-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres\nThe men's 10,000 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202634-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202635-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe men's 100 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202635-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202635-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202636-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles\nThe men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202636-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 2 each heat and 2 best to final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202636-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202637-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202637-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 4 each heat and 4 best to final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 77], "content_span": [78, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202637-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202638-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 20 kilometres walk\nThe men's 20 kilometres race walk event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202638-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 20 kilometres walk, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202639-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres\nThe men's 200 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202639-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 3 each heat and 4 best to Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202639-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202640-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [74, 74], "content_span": [75, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202640-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 4 each heat and 4 best to Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 90], "content_span": [91, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202640-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 74], "section_span": [76, 89], "content_span": [90, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202641-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe men's 4 x 100  metres relay event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202641-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Heats\n19 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202641-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202642-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 x 400  metres relay event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202642-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Heats\n18 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202642-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 47 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202643-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202643-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 each heat and 4 best to Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202643-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202644-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles\nThe men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16, 17, and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202644-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\n17 JulyQualified: first 3 each heat and 2 fastest to Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 89], "content_span": [90, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202644-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 each heat and 4 best to Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 84], "content_span": [85, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202644-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202645-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202645-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202646-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202646-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 2 each heat and 2 best to Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 76], "content_span": [77, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202646-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202647-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon\nThe men's decathlon event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202647-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202648-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw\nThe men's discus throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202648-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202649-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw\nThe men's hammer throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202649-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202650-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202650-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202651-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw\nThe men's javelin throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202651-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202652-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202652-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202653-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202653-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202654-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202654-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202655-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202655-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202656-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 10,000 metres\nThe women's 10,000 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202656-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 10,000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202657-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe women's 100 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202657-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals\n16 Julyfirst 3 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202657-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202657-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202658-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles\nThe women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202658-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\n17 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 91], "content_span": [92, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202658-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202658-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202659-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202659-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\n17 JulyQualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202659-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202660-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 20 kilometres walk\nThe women's 20 kilometres race walk event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202660-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 20 kilometres walk, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202661-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres\nThe women's 200 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202661-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats\n18 JulyQualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202661-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202662-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202662-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 91], "content_span": [92, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202663-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe women's 4 x 100  metres relay event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202663-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Results, Heats\n19 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202663-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 87], "content_span": [88, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202664-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 x 400  metres relay event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202664-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Results, Heats\n18 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202664-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 87], "content_span": [88, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202665-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202665-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202665-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202665-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202666-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles\nThe women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16, 17, and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202666-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\n17 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 91], "content_span": [92, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202666-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202666-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202667-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 metres\nThe women's 5000 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202667-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 5000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202668-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202668-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\n16 JulyQualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to the Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202668-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202669-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw\nThe women's discus throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202669-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202670-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's hammer throw\nThe women's hammer throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202670-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's hammer throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202671-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's heptathlon\nThe women's heptathlon event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202671-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's heptathlon, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202672-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202672-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202673-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThe women's javelin throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202673-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202674-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 18 and 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202674-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202675-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault\nThe women's pole vault event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202675-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's pole vault, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202676-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202676-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202677-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump\nThe women's triple jump event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Gir\u0117no stadionas (Darius and Gir\u0117nas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202677-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Athletics U23 Championships \u2013 Women's triple jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202678-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe 2009 European Canoe Slalom Championships took place at the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom between May 28 and 31, 2009 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 10th edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202679-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship (darts)\nThe 2009 PartyPoker.net European Championship was the second edition of the PDC tournament, the European Championship, which allows the top European players to compete against the highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit. The tournament took place from 29 October\u20131 November 2009 at the Claus Event Center in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. It featured a field of 32 players and \u00a3200,000 in prize money, with \u00a350,000 going to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202679-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship (darts)\nWorld number one and defending champion Phil Taylor successfully defended his title, defeating Steve Beaton 11\u20133 in the final with a record tournament average of 111.54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202679-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship (darts), Qualification\nThe top 16 players from the  after the Players Championship double-header in Nuland automatically qualified for the event. The top 8 from these rankings were also the seeded players. The remaining 16 places went to the top 8 non-qualified players from the , and then to the top 8 non-qualified players from the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202679-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship (darts), Draw and results\nScores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202680-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering\nThe 2009 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering (Italian: Campionati Europei di Sci alpinismo 2009) was the eighth European Championship of ski mountaineering and was held in Alpago (Tambre, Italy) from February 19, 2009 to February 24, 2009. The competition was organized by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF), successor organization of the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202680-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering, Results, Combination ranking\ncombined ranking (results of the individual, team and vertical race events)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 European Cross Country Championships was a continental cross country running competition that was held on 13 December 2009 near Dublin city, Fingal in Ireland. Dublin was selected as the host city in 2007 and the event was the first time that a major European athletics championships took place in Ireland. The six men's and women's races in the championship programme took place in Santry Demense on a looped course with flat and grassy ground. The 16th edition of the European Cross Country Championships featured 323 athletes from 30 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships\nAlemayehu Bezabeh upset the defending champion (Serhiy Lebid) to win the men's senior race: it was his first medal at a major international competition and he was the first Spanish runner to win in the history of the championships. In the women's senior competition, Hayley Yelling was a surprise winner, having come out of her competitive retirement just weeks before the race. The much favoured Portuguese team (which included Jessica Augusto and In\u00eas Monteiro) did not reach the individual podium but they took the gold in the team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships\nNoureddine Sma\u00efl and Hassan Chahdi took gold and silver in the men's under-23 competition, leading the French to a team victory. Jeroen D'Hoedt was the winner of the men's junior race. Sultan Haydar won the women's under-23 race while Karoline Bjerkeli Gr\u00f8vdal added to her junior honours with a gold in the women's junior race, becoming the first Norwegian gold medallist of the championships' history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships\nAlmost 7000 spectators attended the championships and, in Europe, it was broadcast live on television for free by RT\u00c9, the Irish state broadcaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Bidding\nIreland's bid for the competition was first discussed in 2006 when Liam Hennessy, president of Athletics Ireland, proposed the idea at the European Athletics conference that year. After the proposal had gained the support of the Athletics Ireland board, Fingal County Council and the Irish Sports Council, the state broadcaster (RT\u00c9) agreed to show the event live on television for free across Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Bidding\nThe bidding process concluded in October 2007 at a presentation to the European Athletics Association in Malta. The Irish bid to host the championships was led by Mary Coghlan (Chair of Finance & Risk AAI), Senan Turnbull (Fingal Council's director of community, culture and sports), Liam Hennessy (President of AAI), Paddy Marlay (Competition Committee of AAI) and beat proposals from France and Poland. Ireland had hosted the World Cross Country Championships in 1979 and 2002, but this was the first time that Ireland had ever hosted a major European athletics competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Course\nThe course was situated in Santry Demense Park adjacent the national track and field stadium, Morton Stadium, which is the home stadium for Clonliffe Harriers \u2013 the oldest athletics club in Ireland. The course's looped design allowed for races of varying lengths through the use of laps. The four race lengths were: 9,997 metres (6.212\u00a0mi) for the senior men's race, 8,018 metres (4.982\u00a0mi) for the senior women's and men's under-23 competitions, 6,039 metres (3.752\u00a0mi) for the under-23 women and junior men, and finally 4,039 metres (2.510\u00a0mi) for the women's junior race. The ground of the course was grassy throughout and, while it did contain some slight dips and uphills, it did not feature any severe obstacles or inclines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition\nPrior to the championships, eight-time gold medal winner Serhiy Lebid was the favourite for the men's race, with Great Britain's Mo Farah representing the greatest challenge to him. For the women's race, reigning champion Hilda Kibet had decided not to compete. This left the women's senior competition without a clear favourite: Portugal's Jessica Augusto and In\u00eas Monteiro, along with former champions Hayley Yelling and Tetyana Holovchenko, comprised the likely medallists, while Mary Cullen was the home favourite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition\nOn the day of the race, an estimated 7000 spectators were in attendance and a total of 323 athletes represented 30 European nations. Although the championships only accepts athletes who are citizens of European countries, African-born athletes were highly represented among those who reached the podium: Ethiopian-born runners Alemayehu Bezabeh and Sultan Haydar Sultan, and Algerian-born Noureddine Sma\u00efl all took gold medals, while Atelaw Yeshetela and Somalian-born athlete Mo Farah won minor medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Men's race\nThere was a slow start to the men's senior race, with a large leading pack reaching the 2.5\u00a0km mark. However, soon after that point, Mo Farah made clear his intention to win the race, increasing the pace and accelerating away from the pack. He remained the leader for the first half of the race, with Alemayehu Bezabeh following closely and Lebid a little further behind. Bezabeh, competing in only his second European championships, overtook Farah in the fourth lap and began to create a lead for himself. Farah made ground on the leader in the final lap, but he tired towards the end. Bezabeh went on to win his first major title, becoming the first Spaniard to win the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Men's race\nComing in second place, Farah collapsed after the finish line and missed the medal ceremony as he received medical assistance. Although ahead of the rest of the pack, Lebid was a clear third and was some way off the two frontrunners \u2013 an injury two weeks prior to the race had affected his preparations and he was pleased to receive the bronze medal. Spanish runners Sergio S\u00e1nchez and Ayad Lamdassem took fourth and fifth places, all but guaranteeing Spain the men's team gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Women's race\nThe women's senior race also had an unexpected winner: Hayley Yelling of Great Britain (the 2004 championships winner) had retired from athletics after a poor showing at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships, but she returned to competition in December 2009 with a win at the British selection race for that year's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Women's race\nYelling started with a quick pace, rapidly building up a lead over the pack of runners in the early stages of the race. During the second lap, the Portuguese runners, along with Rosa Mar\u00eda Morat\u00f3 and Adri\u00ebnne Herzog, remained in pursuit but Ireland's Mary Cullen had faded behind. Yelling, still leading, maintained her fast speed after the halfway point while Augusto and Morat\u00f3 filled out the medalling positions. Morat\u00f3 pulled away from Augusto, but never managed to make up the six-second gap between her and Yelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Women's race\nThe Briton took the gold medal and Morat\u00f3 was next to come in, receiving the silver medal. Meanwhile, Herzog overtook a tired Jessica Augusto for the bronze. Augusto, Monteiro, and Ana Dulce F\u00e9lix of Portugal filled out the top six finishers; although they had failed to reach the individual podium, the trio and tenth-placed Sara Moreira won the team gold medals by a significant margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Under-23 and junior races\nIn the men's under-23 race, there was a large group of runners at the front up until the 3.5\u00a0km mark, at which point a pack of three runners led the race throughout: Atelaw Yeshetela of Belgium, and Hassan Chahdi and Noureddine Sma\u00efl of France. The three took turns in leading the race and remained close. However, in the final lap, Sma\u00efl broke away from the other two runners and was unchallenged at the finish line, proving his abilities after a disappointing race in 2008. Chahdi was the silver medallist and Yeshetela took third place, while Frenchman Florian Carvalho was fourth, setting up France as the team gold medallists of the race. Great Britain and Belgium took the team silver and bronze respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Under-23 and junior races\nAs she had done in the previous year's competition, Sultan Haydar of Turkey took the lead early on in the women's under-23 competition. By the halfway mark she was thirteen seconds clear of the other runners, but her pace started to slow. Irina Sergeyeva quickly reduced the Turkish runner's lead and on the final lap she threatened to take first place. However, Sergeyeva was beaten by Haydar's sprint finish in the final home straight. Jessica Sparke took the bronze, and her teammates Charlotte Browning and Hollie Rowland followed shortly after to continue Great Britain's unbeaten run of gold medals in the women's under-23 team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202681-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cross Country Championships, Competition, Under-23 and junior races\nIn the junior races, Karoline Bjerkeli Gr\u00f8vdal became the first Norwegian to win at the European Championships. The European Junior Champion quickly took control of the women's race and managed to hold off Gulshat Fazlitdinova to win the title. Kate Avery was the bronze medallist in the individual race, and Russia, Great Britain and Germany were the team medallists. Gr\u00f8vdal's compatriot Sondre Nordstad Moen failed to make it a junior double for Norway in the men's race. Moen led the race for the first three laps with a comfortable pace, but Jeroen D'Hoedt pulled ahead for the final lap. Nick Goolab made up significant ground to pip teammate James Wilkinson for the silver at the finish line. Moen ended up fourth, but he won a team bronze with Norway. Britain and France won the gold and silver team medals, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 911]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202682-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup\nThe 2009 European Cup, known as the rugbyleague.com European Cup due to sponsorship, was a rugby league football tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202682-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup\nThe revamped European Cup 2009 involved six teams competing in two groups of three. Participating teams were: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Serbia, Lebanon and Italy. Russia were scheduled to take part in the competition, but were forced to pull out due to board restructuring within the Russian Rugby League Federation. They were replaced by the RLEF European Shield winners, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202682-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup, Finals, 3rd Place Match\nMansour (9)Travis Robinson (12, 27)Clark (22)Reece Robinson (40, 75)Chiha (48)Goals: Clark (0/2)Reece Robinson (4/5)Travis Robinson (0/1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nThe 2009 European Cup Winter Throwing was held on 14 and 15 March at the Estadio de Los Realejos in Tenerife, Spain. It was the ninth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events and was organised by the European Athletics Association and the Real Federaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Atletismo (Spanish athletics federation). The competition featured men's and women's contests in shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw. In addition to the senior competitions, there were also under-23 events for younger athletes. A total of 226 athletes from 29 nations entered the competition. It was the first time that Spain hosted the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nOn the first day of competition, Anita W\u0142odarczyk had a world-leading and personal best mark of 75.05\u00a0metres to win the women's hammer throw. Nicoleta Grasu was dominant in the women's discus, while Lajos K\u00fcrthy edged the host's Manuel Mart\u00ednez in the men's shot put by six centimetres (both reached the 20-metre mark). Tino H\u00e4ber took the men's javelin title with his first throw of 77.78 m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nThe highest calibre performance on the second day came from Gerd Kanter, whose throw of 69.70\u00a0m won the men's discus by nearly five metres \u2013 only he threw further in the event that year. In the men's hammer, a close contest between Kriszti\u00e1n Pars and Marco Lingua resulted in the season's first throw over eighty metres, with Pars taking the win with 80.38\u00a0m. Nadzeya Astapchuk also had a duel against Anca Heltne in the women's shot put \u2013 in spite of being in comparatively poor form Astapchuk still won by a margin of four centimetres. Mariya Abakumova won the women's javelin, which had only moderate performances in the still conditions in Los Realejos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nIn the under-23 section, Yury Shayunou's hammer throw of 78.59\u00a0m would have ranked him third in the senior competition. Meanwhile, in the under-23 women's javelin, the world junior record holder Vira Rebryk won by almost five metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nDue to the number of entrants in some events (men's shot put, discus and hammer/women's discus, hammer and javelin), \"A\" and \"B\" fields competed separately, with higher ranked athletes going in the \"A\" category. The performances of each field were combined for the final standings. Three \"B\" group competitors reached the top three of their events: Markus M\u00fcnch, Vera Begi\u0107 and \u00c1sd\u00eds Hj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir. Three national records were broken during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202683-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 European Cup Winter Throwing\nPetros Sofianos improved the Cypriot record in the men's hammer to 65.05\u00a0metres, while in the women's javelin \u00c1sd\u00eds Hj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir set an Icelandic best of 60.42\u00a0m ahead of Elisabeth Pauer's Austrian record of 58.37\u00a0m. Javier Cienfuegos, an eighteen-year-old Spaniard, achieved a national junior record in winning the javelin \"B\" competition with his throw of 73.18\u00a0m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202684-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Curling Championships\nThe 2009 Le Gruy\u00e8re European Curling Championships were held in Aberdeen, Scotland from 4 to 12 December 2009. The A-Group tournament took place at the Linx Ice Arena, and the B-Group are playing at Curl Aberdeen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202684-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Curling Championships\nA total of 51 teams from 30 European countries were competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202685-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Diving Championships\nThe 2009 European Diving Championships was the first edition of the European Diving Championships and took part from 1\u20135 April 2009 in Turin, Italy. For the first time, the event was held separately from the European Swimming Championships. The event was held on Monumentale Diving Stadium. The former capital of Italy was hosting European Diving Championships for the third time after 1954 and 2009. A total of ten disciplines was on the schedule. Additionally, there was a team event on the first day of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202686-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Drift Championship season\nThe 2009 European Drift Championship season is the third season of the European Drift Championship. The championship was won by Mark Luney after he narrow snatched the title from the then championship leader, Phil Morrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202687-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European F3 Open Championship\nThe 2009 European F3 Open Championship was the first season with the new championship denomination after eight seasons of the Spanish Formula Three Championship. It began on 2 May 2009 in Valencia and will end on 1 November in Montmel\u00f3 after 16 rounds in five different countries. The main Class A title was claimed by Bruno M\u00e9ndez, holding off Celso M\u00edguez by just two points. Callum MacLeod won the secondary Copa F306/300, as well as finishing ninth in the overall championship. M\u00e9ndez's team Campos Racing also claimed the teams title, beating main rivals Drivex by seven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202688-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Fencing Championships\nThe 2009 European Fencing Championships was held at the International Fair Plovdiv in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The event took place from July 14 to July 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202689-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2008\u201309 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held from January 20 to 25, 2009 at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202689-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification\nThe competition was open to skaters from European ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2008. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2009 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria. Based on the results of the 2008 European Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. The following countries earned more than the minimum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202689-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes\nBrian Joubert won his third European title, as did Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy in the pairs event. It was the first time at the top of the podium for Laura Lepist\u00f6 and Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202689-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Figure Skating Championships, Competition notes\nLepist\u00f6 became the first Finn to win the ladies' single title, and second overall after Susanna Rahkamo / Petri Kokko's 1995 ice dancing title. With Susanna P\u00f6yki\u00f6 winning bronze, it was also the first time Finns took two spots on the European podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix\nThe 2009 European Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Telef\u00f3nica Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race held on 23 August 2009 at the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain. It was the 11th race of the 2009 Formula One season. The race was contested over 57 laps, an overall race distance of 308.9\u00a0km (191.9\u00a0mi). The winner was Rubens Barrichello for Brawn GP after starting from third on the grid. The 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton finished second for McLaren-Mercedes, while 2007 world champion Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished in third for Ferrari. Championship leader Jenson Button finished in seventh for the second race in a row, but extended his lead as Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel both failed to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix\nIt was Barrichello's first Grand Prix victory since the 2004 Chinese Grand Prix, 85 races before, while he was still driving for Ferrari. He also marked the 100th victory for a Brazilian driver in F1. Hamilton's second place granted him another podium, while R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's third place was his second podium in a row. The race saw the debut of GP2 Series driver Romain Grosjean. He replaced Nelson Piquet Jr. at Renault. This race also saw the Grand Prix return of Luca Badoer who had not raced since the 1999 Japanese Grand Prix. He replaced the injured Felipe Massa at Ferrari. Also, Timo Glock scored his first, and Toyota's last, fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJenson Button headed into the weekend still on top of the Drivers' Championship by 18.5 points in front of Mark Webber who had jumped ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who was on 47 points was only 3 points ahead of Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn GP still lead the Constructor's Championship by 15.5 points from Red Bull Racing, with a further 58.5 points separating them from defending champions Ferrari. Ferrari had jumped Toyota after Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen has finished 2nd place in the previous race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nLewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes won the last race in the championship, 4 weeks previously in Budapest for the Hungarian Grand Prix. He qualified 4th on the grid and won the race in dominating style to take his first race victory since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton's win also marked the first victory for a car equipped with KERS. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen earned second place, his best result of the season. This however was only his second podium and his fourth points scoring finish of the season. Mark Webber finished third, Jenson Button finished 7th, and Rubens Barrichello came 10th while Sebastian Vettel retired because of suspension damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\n\"I did not have a holiday. I just worked very hard in a physical way because after Felipe\u2019s accident and Michael tried to drive the car it was very clear for us that, if Michael was not able, then it was my turn. I kept really concentrating and thinking about everything I could do to be in the best position for the race. I did really a lot of training. I drove a go-kart because I think it is very good for general training. Obviously I did the special training for the neck with my special machine to improve all the muscle and the resistance of the heart, so I was pushing really hard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nFelipe Massa dominated the 2008 race, leading 50 of 57 laps from pole and setting the fastest lap in the process. Former European Grand Prix winners Rubens Barrichello and Fernando Alonso were also racing, though Massa is the only winner at Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nMassa would miss the Grand Prix after he underwent surgery following an accident in the second part of qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix. He had life-threatening injuries including a fractured skull, and it was expected that he would be in recovery for at least six weeks. Consequently, this Grand Prix would see the return of Luca Badoer to Formula One in order to replace Massa. Badoer has the record for most races in Formula One without points with 48; he was perhaps closest to scoring points when he retired from fourth in the 1999 European Grand Prix for Minardi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nMeanwhile, Renault announced on 4 August that Nelson Piquet Jr.'s contract with the team had been terminated with immediate effect; this decision was made after Piquet had not scored a single point all season. His replacement Romain Grosjean was announced on 18 August. It was believed that he would be racing for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Background\nRenault had initially been suspended from the Grand Prix as a result of the events that led to a wheel coming off Alonso's car during the Hungarian Grand Prix. However, Renault appealed to the FIA Court of Appeal, who overturned the suspension, and enabled Alonso to race at his home Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the start of qualifying; the first was held on Friday morning and the second in the afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes with weather conditions dry throughout, as the air temperature at 27\u00a0\u00b0C (80\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature at 36\u00a0\u00b0C (97\u00a0\u00b0F) in session one. Session two saw the air temperature at 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature rise dramatically to 52\u00a0\u00b0C (125\u00a0\u00b0F) in session two. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted 1 hour; it was also dry throughout with the air temperature at 28\u00a0\u00b0C (82\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature at 41\u00a0\u00b0C (106\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"It was a positive day for us with some good laps and the car performed well right from the start of the first session. We worked on the set-up throughout the day and now we\u2019re pretty much happy with what we have so I think we are in good shape for the rest of the weekend. The incident with Nick Heidfeld this afternoon was a normal incident that can happen during racing or free practice. For tomorrow, we will try our best to get on the front row of the grid with the objective of scoring points on Sunday\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nBrawn came back to form with the track temperature higher than at other circuits making Barrichello the pace-setter with the two McLarens behind him. Kovalainen and Hamilton were only separated by 0.018 seconds. Nico Rosberg who has topped most Friday practice sessions throughout the season struggled in his Williams coming 14th in session 1, 1.3 seconds off Barrichello, while team-mate Kazuki Nakajima fared better, coming 7th. However both Rosberg and Nakajima got into the top five in the second session. Fernando Alonso in his home grand prix topped the second session while Hamilton came last after spinning out early on and damaging his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRenault's Romain Grosjean had a solid two sessions, coming 17th and 13th respectively, although Alonso outpaced him in each by over a second. Luca Badoer came 20th and 18th in the two Friday sessions as he continued to struggle with the car as team-mate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was 11th and 10th in the two sessions. The Toyotas struggled in session 1 with Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock coming 18th and 19th respectively. Although there was a small piece of hope as Trulli in the second session came 12th and Glock came 15th, 0.225 seconds behind his team-mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nForce India's big updates were showing improvements as Adrian Sutil came 6th in the first session, while in the second session Sutil came 6th again while Giancarlo Fisichella showed a bit of form when he came in 8th. BMW Sauber were still struggling as they came 12th and 15th. But Robert Kubica was hopefully showing a light at the end of the tunnel as he came 7th in the second session, splitting the two Force Indias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRed Bull seemed to be struggling in the hotter conditions as they were outpaced in both sessions by title challengers Brawn. Vettel (5th and 9th) and Webber (8th and 14th) were hopeful things would improve on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nIt was a surprise result on Saturday as Adrian Sutil topped the time sheets, as Vettel's engine blew halfway through the session causing it to be red-flagged as oil was on the track. The other Force India, Fisichella, was 0.621 seconds behind his team-mate in P6. Kazuki Nakajima came in 2nd with Robert Kubica coming in 3rd. Heikki Kovalainen was the only one of the major contenders for pole in the top 5 as he came in 4th ahead of Nico Rosberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe Brawns were a little off the pace as Button (7th) and Barrichello (12th) were hoping for better. Both Red Bull cars were in the bottom 5 as Vettel (18th) and Webber (17th) continued to struggle in the hot conditions. Luca Badoer continued to be well behind the pace as he came in at 20th, 3.055 seconds behind session winner Adrian Sutil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"Well, I clearly went over the limit. In hindsight you can always argue and think you could have done it a bit better. But in qualifying you have to go for it. It was incredibly close. Had I not pushed to the absolute limit I could have dropped three or four places easily, so I went for it. It didn\u2019t work out this time but luckily I did not lose more than one place, so it is fine. It is absolutely a great place to start tomorrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nI think we have done a good improvement from Hungary on my side of the garage, so I think everybody can be very pleased in the garage and also back in Woking. We have been working very hard this week since the shut-down and fingers crossed it is paying off now.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"We haven\u2019t seen this for a long time. Last year and in 2007 there were times where we only had to do one run in qualifying. This year we have had to go in all guns blazing and use up every minute and every second of the qualifying session. But very fortunately I managed to do a couple of good laps, so I did not have to do too many. But it can always be improved, so for sure going into tomorrow we stand in the best position for myself and Heikki for a podium. But it all depends on strategy and how the start goes and how the rest of the race goes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three\u00a0parts. The first part ran for 20\u00a0minutes, and cars that finished the session 16th or lower were eliminated from qualifying. The second part of qualifying lasted 15\u00a0minutes and eliminated cars that finished in positions\u00a011 to 15. The final part of qualifying determined the positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position. Cars which failed to make the final session could refuel before the race, so ran lighter in those sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nCars which competed in the final session of qualifying were not allowed to refuel before the race, and as such carried more fuel than in the previous sessions. Weather conditions for the session saw the air temperature at 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature at 39\u00a0\u00b0C (102\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe first part of qualifying saw Button top the time sheets, with a lap of 1:38.531. With all the optimism of the pace of the Force India, Fisichella came 16th and was knocked out. Another big name that failed to make it was Kazuki Nakajima who came 2nd in practice just a few hours beforehand. Trulli, Alguersuari and Badoer were the others that joined them in not making it through to Q2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe second session was topped by the other Brawn, Rubens Barrichello, a time of 1:38.076; half a second quicker than the quickest time in Q1. Sebastian Buemi came bottom of the session, half a second behind d\u00e9butante Romain Grosjean in 14th. Glock, Sutil and Heidfeld were the others eliminated. Robert Kubica ended a long drought and made it to Q3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe final 10-minute shoot-out began with very close lap times. As the chequered flag fell everyone was on their final lap. Button was the first of the main contenders to cross it for the final time and he didn't improve and stayed 5th. Next was Barrichello as he crossed the line and didn't improve and stayed 2nd. Kovalainen looked set for pole position but a lockup and a slide in the final corner could only get him up into second, so Hamilton didn't feel the need to complete his lap with no one else on fast laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nHamilton got his first pole position of the season, but more importantly, it was a McLaren 1\u20132. Barrichello came third and a surprise 4th for Vettel as he split the Brawns. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen even with race fuel on board posted a lap time that was 1.279 seconds quicker than Luca Badoer's time in Q1 on low fuel. This was also the first time Lewis Hamilton had been on pole since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton became the first driver to take pole position with a KERS car. This was also the first instance of an all KERS front row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe fuel-adjusted times showed that Barrichello was actually the fastest in qualifying with Kovalainen 0.216 seconds behind him. Hamilton was third with Button in fourth and Vettel in 5th. Even though it had been an encouraging sign to see BMW in the top 10, the fuel-adjustments showed that even with fuel taken into account, the BMW was still 1.114 seconds slower than the Brawn of Rubens Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAround 12:00 (UTC) the formation lap for the Grand Prix started with race starting a few minutes later. With the air temperature at 31\u00a0\u00b0C (88\u00a0\u00b0F) and the track temperature at 49\u00a0\u00b0C (120\u00a0\u00b0F), it looked like the conditions were favouring the Brawn cars. The race started with Lewis Hamilton, Heikki Kovalainen and Rubens Barrichello as the top three after the first lap. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen had a good start making his way to fourth from sixth on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nJenson Button had a poor start dropping to ninth in the first few corners, while Luca Badoer starting from the back of the grid jumped six positions to 14th at the start. Romain Grosjean then tapped the rear of Badoer's Ferrari, causing the Italian to spin. Grosjean had to pit for repairs, as did Timo Glock after he and S\u00e9bastien Buemi collided, the Swiss driver also pitting for a new nose. Mark Webber down in ninth got on the radio claiming that Button had cut the chicane to stop Webber's attempt of a pass. Button then fell behind Webber although it is unclear whether it was a legitimate pass or Jenson let the Red Bull driver through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap 15, Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel came into the pits. Hamilton rejoined in sixth place but Vettel's fuel pump failed to work so he had to come in again. Kovalainen came in a lap later while Barrichello was pushing to try and build a gap. Button and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen pitted on lap 18, the Finn coming out in eighth while Button rejoined in 11th. Barrichello came in on lap 19, the Brazilian had made a lot of ground as he rejoined just behind Lewis after being around 10 seconds adrift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBut most importantly for Brawn he had jumped the other McLaren of Kovalainen. On lap 24, a lot of smoke was pouring from the rear end of Vettel's car and he retired with a suspected engine failure. Hamilton was ordered over the radio to try to cool down his rear brakes as the temperature were getting out of control, but he was unable to shake off the challenge of Barrichello in second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\n\"It has been fantastic. It has been a weekend that I will never forget especially because after five years you don\u2019t forget how to do it, but it is tough. In the middle of the race they were telling me push, push, push and although you are pushing like hell there are some things that go through your mind. You know that you cannot commit any mistakes and you want to do it for yourself, you want to do it for your country and you want to do it for your family. There was a lot going through my mind but the car has been perfect and I want to thank the team for that because it wasn\u2019t just me. The car was really brilliant.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nRubens Barrichello, reflecting on a weekend that he will never forget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton seemed to have found some pace but he pitted soon after on lap 37. He came in but his new tyres were still in their blankets and a lot of time was wasted. Barrichello came in three laps later on lap 40 and came out in first. Button came in on lap 41 along with Alonso leaving Webber to tackle a bit of traffic. Webber pitted and the traffic had cost him as he came out behind Button and Kubica leaving himself out of the points. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen also jumped Kovalainen in the second round of stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAs the race was heading into the closing stages, Hamilton seemed to be on a charge to try to catch the leading Brawn but in reality it looked only a mistake would stop the Brazilian winning. As Button was lapping a second off the pace just making sure his car got to the end. Kubica was catching Button at a high rate of knots but it seemed a long shot if Button was going to lose them two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBarrichello took the chequered flag to win his first grand prix since the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix in 2004, and record the 100th win by a Brazilian driver in Formula One (including the victories of Emerson Fittipaldi, Jos\u00e9 Carlos Pace, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Felipe Massa and Barrichello). Hamilton came second, while Finn R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen came home in third. Kovalainen came fourth, while Nico Rosberg had a reasonably quiet race as he came home in fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202690-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 European Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFernando Alonso came sixth in his home race, championship leader Jenson Button came seventh, while Robert Kubica came eighth, only his second points scoring finish so far this season. Neither Red Bull's Vettel or Webber scored a point, while Barrichello moved into second place in the drivers championship. Button kept his lead although he only added two points to his tally. Brawn edged further ahead in the constructors' championship by scoring 12 points with Red Bull not scoring a single point this weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202691-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Judo Championships\nThe 2009 European Judo Championships were held at the Sports Palace, in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 24 to 26 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202692-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Junior Badminton Championships\nThe 2009 European Junior Badminton Championships were held in Federal Technical Centre - Palabadminton, Milan, Italy, between April 3 and April 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202693-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Junior Baseball Championship\nThe 2009 European Junior Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held at Baseballstadion Bonn-Rheinaue in Bonn, Germany from August 3 to August 9, 2009. It features teams from Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202693-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Junior Baseball Championship\nIn the end, the team from Italy won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202694-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Junior Swimming Championships\nThe 2009 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 8\u201312 July 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The age groups for this event are girls born in 1993 or 1994 and boys born in 1991 and 1992. The tournament is organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and was held in a 50\u00a0m pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202695-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships\nThe 2009 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, Slovakia from 22 to 26 July 2009 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA) at the Ondrej Cibak Whitewater Slalom Course. It was the 11th edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 7th edition for the Under 23 category. A total of 16 medal events took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202696-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Juveniles Baseball Championship\nThe 2009 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Dupnitza and Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from July 13 to 18, 2009. It featured teams from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202696-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Juveniles Baseball Championship\nIn the end the team from Czech Republic won the tournament with ease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202697-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Karate Championships\nThe 2009 European Karate Championships, the 44th edition, were held at the Dom Sportova in Zagreb, Croatia from 8 to 10 May 2009. A total of 479 competitors participated at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202698-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mixed Curling Championship\nThe 2009 European Mixed Curling Championship was held from September 26 to October 3, 2009 at the Curling Hall Roztyly in Prague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202698-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mixed Curling Championship\nScotland, skipped by Tom Brewster won its second title, defeating Denmark in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202699-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships\nThe 2009 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships were held at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England, from 10-15 February, and were organised by the Badminton Europe and the Badminton England. It was the 20th edition of the tournament. Denmark was the defending champion. This is the first edition of European Mixed Team Badminton Championships which is not held together with the individual European Championships. The event also saw two bronze medals awarded for both losing semifinalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202699-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships\nDenmark defeated England in the final 3\u20132 to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202700-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mountain Running Championships\nThe 2009 European Mountain Running Championships were held on 12 July in Telfes im Stubai, Austria. They were that year's area championships for mountain running, held by the European Athletic Association. The 2009 edition saw the introduction of two under-20s competitions into the championships programme, complementing the usual men's and women's senior races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202700-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 European Mountain Running Championships\nThe men's race was 11\u00a0km long and featured a total climb of 1300\u00a0m in altitude, while the women's and under-20s men's competitions were over 9.5\u00a0km and scaled a height of 950\u00a0m. The women's junior competition was held over 4\u00a0km with a total climb of 400\u00a0m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202700-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Mountain Running Championships\nTurkish runner Ahmet Arslan retained his European title for a second time in the men's senior race, following wins in 2007 and 2008. In the women's senior race, Martina Str\u00e4hl took the honours over home favourite Andrea Mayr. Italian athletes dominated the team competitions at the championships, taking the gold medals in the senior men's and women's races, as well as the men's under-20s event. Turkish runners topped the podium in both the under-20s contests; Yusuf Alici and Derya Altintas won the boys and girls titles respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202701-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Pairs Speedway Championship\nThe 2009 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the sixth edition of the UEM European Pairs Speedway Championship. The Final was held on 26 September 2009 in Miskolc, Hungary; it was second Final in Hungary, but first in Miskolc. The championship was won by Czech Republic pair and they beat Russia and the defending Champions Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202701-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Results\nIn the Final will be the defending Champion Poland, Czech Republic (2nd place in 2008 Final), Russia (3rd place), host team Hungary (4th place) and Latvia (5th place). A last finalist will be determined in one Semi-Final. In Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 13 will be Austria (6th place), Germany (7th place), Ukraine, Finland, host team Slovenia, Italy and Croatia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202701-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Semi-Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202701-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election\nElections to the European Parliament were held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history. An additional 18 observers (\"virtual MEPs\") were (supposed to be) pre-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election\nThe majority of MEPs were elected on Sunday 7 June, but because of traditional polling days varying from country to country according to local custom, some countries held their elections in the three preceding days:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election\nIn seven EU member states, other votes occurred alongside the elections to the European Parliament: a general election in Luxembourg; local government elections in Latvia, part of the United Kingdom, parts of Germany, Italy, Malta, and Ireland (as well as two by-elections in Ireland, in Dublin Central and Dublin South); regional elections in Belgium; and a referendum on reforming the monarchical rules of succession in Denmark that would give women the same rights through equal primogeniture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election\nThis was the first European Parliament election in which Bulgaria and Romania participated at the same time as the other member states. When those countries joined the EU in 2007, they held elections for MEPs outside the normal electoral calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Opinion polls\nA poll sampling nineteen national polls predicted the following results: EPP 265 seats, PES 195, ALDE 95, GUE\u2013NGL 40, Greens-EFA 35, UEN 35. The remaining 70 MEPs were not predicted, but about 20 were expected to be gained by far-right or Libertas candidates. IND/DEM was predicted to fade away due to Libertas' expected success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Opinion polls\nA prediction by political scientists Simon Hix (London School of Economics), Michael Marsh (Trinity College Dublin) and Nick Vivyan (London School of Economics) foresaw little change in the distribution of seats, predicting 249 seats for the EPP, 209 for the PES, 87 for ALDE, 58 for UEN or the European Conservatives, 48 for GUE\u2013NGL, 39 for Greens\u2013EFA, 17 for IND/DEM (resulting in its dissolution) and 29 NI; Libertas was not expected to win any seats. A later prediction saw 262 seats for the EPP, 194 for the PES, 85 for ALDE, 53 for UEN or the European Conservatives, 40 for GUE\u2013NGL, 50 for Greens\u2013EFA, 23 for IND/DEM (resulting in its dissolution) and 29 NI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Apportionment of seats\nAt the previous election member states were granted a fixed allocation of seats for election as determined under the provisions of the Treaty of Nice (current allocation is in the 2007 column below). The admission of Bulgaria and Romania midway through the previous Parliament's term had increased the overall size of the assembly to 785, and under the terms of the Treaty of Nice it was mandated that the seat allocations be modified for this election, dropping 49 seats to keep the overall size of the Parliament down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Apportionment of seats\nIt had been the stated desire of the member-state governments to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon before the election so that its articles governing the European Parliament could enter force as of this election. However, this was blocked by the Irish rejection of the treaty in a referendum. Under Lisbon, there would be a somewhat different allocation of seats, with fewer seats eliminated, leading to a slightly different distribution totalling 751 MEPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Apportionment of seats\nWere the Lisbon Treaty to be subsequently ratified, it was planned to give in advance, prior to the next elections, the additional seats to the countries that were to see an increase in representation under the provisions of Lisbon; this would bring the number of MEPs to 754 for a transitional period until 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Apportionment of seats\nTo have the additional MEPs ready at hand, 18 \"phantom MEPs\" were supposed to be elected at the election (which, however, did not happen in France). These were expected to get observer status in the European Parliament and full payment from the day the Lisbon Treaty entered into force (which did not happen either), but only to become full members of parliament if an additional protocol were ratified. The latter was to require a decision by the European Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Apportionment of seats\n\u2020 \u2013 Includes Gibraltar, but not any of the other overseas territories or Crown dependencies. Italicised countries are divided into sub-national constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign\nMany of the national parties running in the election are affiliated to transnational pan-European political parties known as political parties at European level. Those pan-European parties are EPP, PES, ELDR, EFA, European Greens, AEN, PEL, EDP and EUD. The question of which was the first to campaign transnationally is the subject of some debate, with the European Greens stating that they were the first in 2004. New parties that aspired to pan-European status during the 2009 elections include Newropeans, Europe United, Europe \u2013 Democracy \u2013 Esperanto and Libertas Party Limited. The role for pan-European political parties has been expanded by changes enacted by the European Commission in 2007 under the direction of Margot Wallstr\u00f6m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign\nFour incumbent European Commissioners were to run as candidates in the election: Viviane Reding (Luxembourg, information society & media, Christian Social People's Party/EPP), Louis Michel (Belgium, development & humanitarian aid, Reformist Movement/ELDR), Danuta H\u00fcbner (Poland, regional policy, Civic Platform/EPP), Meglena Kuneva (Bulgaria, consumer protection, National Movement for Stability and Progress/ELDR). J\u00e1n Fige\u013e (Slovakia, education, training & culture, Christian Democratic Movement/EPP) was tipped to run but ultimately did not, instead seeking to become the new chairman of his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign\nKuneva later decided not to take up her seat in the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign, Issue-based campaigns\nThese divide into EU-wide and nationally based campaigns, often by non-governmental organisations focussed on specific policy areas. They are designed to influence MEP candidates, those with a strong interest in the issue, and voters in general. Examples of nationally based campaigns include those of the Royal College of Nursing and British Overseas NGOs for Development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign, Media coverage\nThe European Parliament, National broadcasters, the EBU, with the cooperation of the Communication Commissioner, Margot Wallstr\u00f6m, are jointly working to make the 2009 election more interesting to the public and increase turnout. Previously, diverse news media in the European Union, and the fact that the election takes place over several days, have made it hard to attract viewers. The media consortium is hoping to focus the 2009 election more towards the EU level and the European Parliament itself, hoping to make the election more interesting and cosmetically appealing for television viewers. Members of the European Parliament (MEP) also started initiatives in late 2007 to make the election more interesting to voters in a bid to increase turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Campaign, Media coverage\nFrom 1 April Parliament started putting up election posters, internet banners and billboards encouraging people to vote, with messages such as \"How much should we tame financial markets?\" to demonstrate the role of Parliament. The same 10 posters, designed by Berlin-based advertising company Scholz & Friends Group, were translated into all 23 languages and have been deployed across the whole of the EU. However, some posters are put up more in countries where the issues they present are of more significance and the most posters will be put up in those countries which had the lowest turnout in 2004. The end slogan is \"Use your vote in the European Parliament Elections\" with the date of the election in that country. The entire campaign costs 18 million euros, or 0.05 euros per eligible voter, with Germany, Spain and Italy donating some advertising space free of charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 938]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Role of the Treaty of Lisbon\nIt had initially been foreseen that the Treaty of Lisbon would have entered into force by the time of these elections, making them the first to be held under its provisions. However, primarily because of the No vote in the referendum in Ireland, the framework established by the Treaty of Nice will be used again. Amongst other differences, the number of MEPs to be returned depends upon which rules are in effect: while 736 MEPs will be elected under the Nice rules, this number would have increased to 751 if the Lisbon Treaty were in force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Role of the Treaty of Lisbon\nA further change that Lisbon would have brought was an increase to the powers of Parliament, including powers over the appointment of the President of the European Commission. It had been suggested by some that political parties could run with candidates for the Commission President; with leaders now linking the post to elections and that convention having been enshrined in the Constitution, further encouraging the possibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Role of the Treaty of Lisbon\nIn 2007, it emerged that current Commission President Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso would likely seek a second term, which he confirmed on 19 July 2008, and he received the backing of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In beginning to formalise the emerging party-political nature of the office, in early 2009 the centre-right People's Party backed Barroso as their candidate and the centre-left socialists opposed, however they did not put forward their own formal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results\nThe national results as of 8 June 2009 are as follows. (based on predictions, to be confirmed)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results, Full members\n736 members with full voting rights (the groups used are the groups they had been associated with directly prior to the elections):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results, Full members\nNB: \"Adjusted\" figures restate group numbers to proportionately reflect the reduction of the Parliament's size by 49, and to reflect the following political group movements announced prior to the election: DIKO (CY) from ALDE to Other; ODS (CZ) from EPP to Other; FF (IE) from UEN to ALDE; AN (IT) from UEN to EPP; PD (IT) from PES and ALDE to Other; PiS (PL) from UEN to Other; and Conservatives/UCUNF (UK) from EPP to Other. Note:Postal votes missing from Slovenia. Complete results were supposed to be announced on 15 June", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results, Observers\n18 additional seats were designated to be filled by \"observers\" when the Lisbon treaty goes into force, to account for new seat distribution with the Lisbon Treaty. On 23 June an intergovernmental conference (IGC) of EU member states amended a protocol attached to the Lisbon treaty on transitional arrangements. Those transitional arrangements were originally envisaged as taking the total number of MEPs from 785 to 751 for the 2009 elections. The amended text says that the protocol \"shall enter into force if possible on 1 December 2010\". Germany is allowed to retain its three additional MEPs until the next elections in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results, Observers\nThe member states entitled to observer seats were supposed to make provisions before the 2009 elections for who would get the additional seats in the European Parliament. However, this was not done by France. This created a limbo for the observers elected from other countries, since all observers are supposed to start their work at the same time. In December 2011, they took their seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Results, Observers\nNote that this table already includes the grouping changes announced by the parties and reflected in the section below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes\nTraditionally, realignment between the different political groups and European political parties occurs in the runup to the election and in the time between the election and the first sitting of the European Parliament, when the political groups are constituted; the first sitting of the EP elected in 2009 is set for 14 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes\nNew rules regarding the minimum number of members needed for a political group will come into effect following the 2009 election. The PES and EPP\u2013ED had initially proposed to raise the limit for groups in the EP from 20 MEPs and one fifth of member states to 30 MEPs and a quarter of member states, which would effectively close down UEN (only MEPs from six countries) and I/D (only 22 MEPs). All five smaller groups (UEN and I/D plus ALDE, Greens\u2013EFA and GUE\u2013NGL) protested against these proposed changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes\nThe proposal was voted down 15 to 14 in committee, and in an eventual compromise, new rules were approved in plenary on 9 July 2008 which require 25 MEPs from at least a quarter of the member states (i.e. seven member states).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes\nAlthough UEN and I/D still fail to meet the basic requirements of the new rules, the adopted compromise also included a provision allowing the continued existence of a group which had fallen below the threshold, but only if it still had members from at least a fifth of the member states and only if it had been founded at least a year before dropping below the threshold; if there is \"sufficient evidence\" of the abuse of this provision, it need not be applied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Union for Europe of the Nations\nThe Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) was a parliamentary group which traced its ancestry back to its origins as a Gaullist ideological alignment. It was not reconstituted following this election. The associated Alliance for Europe of the Nations (AEN) party lost MEPs to other groupings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Union for Europe of the Nations\nThe largest single contributor of MEPs to the UEN group, the Italian National Alliance, merged with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party to form the People of Freedom (PdL) on 29 March 2009. The combined party belonged to the EPP and the MEPs elected in 2009 sat in that parliamentary grouping. This move came after a series of attempts by National Alliance to abandon more staunchly national conservatism and Eurosceptic parties and move towards the moderate European centre-right, including a previous application for EPP membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Union for Europe of the Nations\nIreland's Fianna F\u00e1il joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) on 16 April 2009. Fianna F\u00e1il has long been a proponent of European integration and was openly uncomfortable about its European affiliation, with former leader Bertie Ahern often distancing his party from the right-wing positions of his groupmates and describing UEN as purely a \"technical arrangement.\" Fianna F\u00e1il very nearly joined ALDE during the group reshuffle after the 2004 European elections, and had also previously explored seeking membership in ELDR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Union for Europe of the Nations\nOther significant sources of the group's MEPs were Poland's Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland party and Latvia's For Fatherland and Freedom party subsequently joined the European Conservatives and Reformists group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, European Democrats\nThe European Democrats group, which had previously sat with the European People's Party's parliament group was dissolved after the election. The group's three political parties:  the United Kingdom's Conservatives and Ulster Unionists and the Czech Civic Democrats, left to found the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. The group's only other MEP, an Italian from the Pensioners' Party, failed to win reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Socialist Party\nThe Italian Democratic Party was founded in 2007 from two parties in the Olive coalition decided to merge: Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom \u2013 The Daisy a socialist and a liberal party respectively. The merged resulted in disagreements over which European political party the Democratic Party would belong to, with many former members of the Daisy party objection to member of the Party of European Socialists (PES). Eventually it was agreed that the party would sit with the PES in the European Parliament but not join the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Socialist Party\nThe new parliamentary grouping was originally going to be called the \"Alliance of Socialists and Democrats for Europe\", but this name was too similar to the name of the liberal group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, so the name was changed to Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Group changes, Socialist Party\nThe Democratic Party (DIKO) of Cyprus, which had previously sat with Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe joined the S&D after the 2009 elections but remained outside of a pan-European political party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Parliamentary groups 2009\nThe following changes occurred, which makes the make-up of the groups as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Parliament president\nIn the first vote of the new Parliament Jerzy Buzek (EPP, Poland) was elected Parliament President, winning with 555 to 89 votes over his opponent Eva-Britt Svensson (EUL-NGL, Sweden).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Parliament president\nMEPs voted in a secret ballot on Tuesday morning 14 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Parliament president\nThe two largest groups in Parliament, the EPP-ED and PES, agreed to share the post of President of the European Parliament as they have done for all but two terms of Parliament. The first half of the term was taken by Jerzy Buzek MEP of the EPP, who was the first MEP from Eastern Europe to hold the post. He passed it over to Martin Schulz MEP, the current leader of PES. The deal got support form The ALDE group (their candidate Graham Watson dropped out from the race).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202702-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election, Parliament president\nThe other official candidate was Eva-Britt Svensson, nominated from EUL-NGL. She campaigned with the slogan \"a different voice\". She was the first MEP from Sweden to candidate to the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202703-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Aosta Valley\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009. The Aosta Valley coalition, hegemonized by the Valdostan Union, was the most voted in Aosta Valley with 37.1%, but received no seats, while Autonomy Liberty Democracy came distant second (18.5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Austria was the 2009 election of the delegation from Austria to the European Parliament. Austria will have 17 seats in the European Parliament, instead of the 18 that the country had before the re-allocation of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria\nThrough the Lisbon Treaty, the number of seats was graded to 19, so the SP\u00d6 and BZ\u00d6 parties got additional seats, which are currently Observer MEPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, SP\u00d6\nThe SP\u00d6 announced that their frontrunner will be current MEP Hannes Swoboda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, \u00d6VP\nThe \u00d6VP surprisingly selected former Interior Minister Ernst Strasser to lead their party. 2004 frontrunner and MEP Othmar Karas, initially the favourite for the first place on the \u00d6VP party list, was listed in second place. Nonetheless, a large number of famous \u00d6VP members, including all living former \u00d6VP chairmen, launched a supporting committee for Karas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, FP\u00d6\nAndreas M\u00f6lzer was selected to lead the FP\u00d6's lists again, and Heinz-Christian Strache claimed that up to 30% were possible; M\u00f6lzer stated that he wanted to reach 17.5% again, as in the 2008 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, Die Gr\u00fcnen\nAt the Greens' party congress on 17\u201318 January 2009, long-time MEP Johannes Voggenhuber was not selected for the first place on the party list, with Ulrike Lunacek being elected instead; Voggenhuber had announced he would not stand in any other place on the list and thus will withdraw from politics after the election. However, in the days after the decision, it was not ruled out that Voggenhuber might run on his own; he later emphatically stated he would not do that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, Die Gr\u00fcnen\nIt was announced in late January that he might stand in the 16th place on the list, making it possible for him to be ranked first in preferences with more than 7% of the Greens' votes in the election. The party leadership rejected this possibility in a meeting on 30 January 2009, angering many of the Greens' supporters. Cyriak Schwaighofer, the Greens' leader in Salzburg, then stated he would do what he could to get Voggenhuber on the list as a regional MEP candidate for Salzburg, but the Greens' leadership again rejected this idea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, BZ\u00d6\nThe BZ\u00d6 picked Ewald Stadler to head their list; they did not want to run together with the Libertas Party, but stated that they were interested in cooperation after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, Hans-Peter Martin\nMEP Hans-Peter Martin, who got 14% of the vote in the 2004 elections as an Independent, announced on 27 April that he would run again, stating he was sure he would defend his strong third-place showing in the 2004 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, Young Liberals\nLiberal Forum MEP Karin Resetarits gave the Young Liberals (a sub-organisation of the LIF, both its youth party and its student organisation) the possibility to contest the election. It later emerged that the LIF would in fact have liked to contest the election, but that it had counted on Resetarits' signature in order to contest the election; as she had given it to the Young Liberals, they could stand in the election while the LIF could not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202704-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Austria, The parties, KP\u00d6\nThe Communist Party of Austria announced on 7 March that it will participate in the elections under the list name \"Communist Party of Austria \u2013 European Left\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Belgium was on Sunday 7 June 2009 and was the election of the delegation from Belgium to the European Parliament. The elections were on the same day as regional elections to the Flemish Parliament, Walloon Parliament, Brussels Parliament and the Parliament of the German-speaking Community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium\nAs a result of the Treaty of Nice \u2013 that became active in November 2004 \u2013 the number of Belgian delegates in the European Parliament decreased from 24 (in 2004) to 22 delegates: 13 delegates were elected by the Dutch-speaking Electoral College, 8 delegates by the Francophone Electoral College and 1 by the German-speaking Electoral College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium, Linguistic controversy, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency\nGenerally in Belgium, residents of Flanders can only vote for a party list that runs in Flanders, and in Wallonia residents may only pick a Walloon list. In practice this means residents will only be able to vote for a party representing the official language group of the region. (French-speakers in Flanders have, however, joined up in the cross-party Union des Francophones with one seat in the Flemish Parliament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium, Linguistic controversy, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency\nIn the capital Brussels, which is officially bilingual, people can choose either a French- or a Dutch-speaking party list. However, the area surrounding Brussels is part of Dutch-speaking Flanders, but is joined with the Brussels constituency in elections for the European Parliament and the Belgian Parliament. This bilingual constituency, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, has been declared unconstitutional and has been a source of controversy for years. Flemings fear the bilingual constituency leads to increased francisation of the Dutch-speaking area surrounding Brussels, while French-speakers claim it is their basic right to vote for a French-speaking party. Some Dutch-speaking municipalities decided to boycott the EU Parliament election for reason of the unconstitutionality, but elections were carried out anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 927]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium, Linguistic controversy, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency\nAs in previous elections, Francophone parties campaigned outside of the Francophone area, leading to measures from Flemish authorities. Affligem and Halle are located in Dutch-speaking Flanders (although a substantial minority of Francophones also live there) but belong to the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency. Politicians in Affligem and Halle have objected to French-speaking campaigners in Flanders, and billboard space has been denied by the municipal authorities. In Affligem, French-language posters that had already been put up were covered with white paper. The Francophone party Humanist Democratic Centre has condemned it as an attack on \"the fundamental rights of French speakers on the periphery [of Brussels]\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202705-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Belgium, Linguistic controversy, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency\nThe municipalities of Merchtem, Beersel, Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Machelen, Ternat, Meise, and Grimbergen also said that they would not provide billboard space, in the hope of avoiding French-language posters. In Steenokkerzeel, Ternat, and Grimbergen stickers were distributed, to be placed on mailboxes, requesting that only Dutch flyers are accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Bulgaria was held on Sunday 7 June 2009 and was the election of the delegation from Bulgaria to the European Parliament. As a result of the Treaty of Nice \u2013 that became active in November 2004 \u2013 the number of Bulgarian delegates in the European Parliament decreased from 18 (in 2007) to 17 delegates. When the Treaty of Lisbon was ratified, the number of Bulgarian Delegates increased to 18 again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Background\nThis election is the first one, in which Bulgaria elects MEP for the full five-year term. Most political analysts viewed these elections as a rehearsal to the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election. It was speculated that if similar results were obtained on the latter elections, that the formation of government would be extremely difficult. This did not turn out to be the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n5 MEPs from GERB that joined the European People's Party group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n4 MEPs from the Coalition for Bulgaria that joined the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n3 MEPs from Movement for Rights and Freedoms that joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n2 MEPs from National Movement for Stability and Progress that joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n1 MEP from Union of Democratic Forces that joined the European People's Party group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202706-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, Elected MEPs\n1 MEP from Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria that joined the European People's Party group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202707-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Cyprus\nThe 2009 European Parliament election in Cyprus was the election of the delegation from Cyprus to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Denmark was the election of the delegation from Denmark to the European Parliament on 7 June 2009. The number of Danish MEPs elected was 13 (previously it was 14). The election was held simultaneously with a referendum on changing the Danish Act of Succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark, Parties\nAll Danish parties which were represented in the European Parliament announced they would take part in the election. These were the Social Democrats, Venstre (Liberal Party), Conservative People's Party, June Movement, Socialist People's Party, Danish People's Party, Social Liberal Party and the People's Movement against the EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark, Parties\nAs in the last election, several electoral coalitions were agreed to before the vote. The Social Democrats sided with the Social Liberal Party and the Socialist People's Party, while Venstre teamed up with the Conservative People's Party and Liberal Alliance. EU-critics JuniBev\u00e6gelsen and the People's Movement against the EU were also in a coalition, meaning that the only party not in a coalition was the Danish People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark, Parties\nUnder the Danish electoral code for European Parliament elections, parties that surpassed the 2% threshold in the last Folketing elections may also take part in the European elections, should they wish so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results\nTurnout figure includes blank and invalid votes, but these are excluded from the total. The final list of MEP were determined by a recount of votes on individual politicians:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202708-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Denmark, Results\nAfter the election, both head of the June Movement Keld Albrechtsen and lead candidate Hanne Dahl announced that they intended to disband the movement after failing to obtain a seat at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Estonia was the election of the delegation from Estonia to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nThe election day was 7 June 2009. Turnout was 43.9% \u2013 about 17.1% higher than during the previous election five years before. The turnout was also slightly above the European average of 42.94%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nSix seats were up for taking in this election: two of them were won by the Estonian Centre Party. Estonian Reform Party, Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica, Social Democratic Party and an independent candidate Indrek Tarand all won one seat each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nThe election result was remarkable in that the independent candidate Indrek Tarand gathered the support of 102,460 voters, only 1,046 votes less than the winner of the election, Estonian Centre Party, surpassing the results of all other major and minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nAnother independent candidate, eurosceptical Martin Helme, surprised also in gaining 9,832 votes and thus surpassing one parliament party - People's Union of Estonia - and gaining only 1,019 less than the next best on the list, Estonian Greens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia\nThe election was conducted using the D'Hondt method with closed lists. The success of independent candidates in this election has been attributed both to general disillusionment with major parties and use of closed lists which rendered voters unable to cast a vote for specific candidates in party lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202709-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Estonia, Elected Members of the European Parliament\nEdgar Savisaar renounced his mandate, leaving his seat to the third candidate in the party's list \u2013 his wife Vilja Savisaar. She was confirmed as a Member of the European Parliament on 7 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202710-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Finland\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Finland was the election of the delegation from Finland to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202710-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Finland\nFinland uses the open list D'Hondt method, where voters vote for an individual, but the individual's vote is counted primarily for the party and secondarily for the candidate. Parties receive seats in proportion to their share of the vote, and candidates from those parties are selected based on the votes they received individually. In European Parliament elections, the whole country forms a single constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202710-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Finland, Result\nCompared to the 2004 European Parliament election in Finland, the three major parties National Coalition Party, Centre Party, and Social Democrats (SDP) each lost a seat. Moreover, the most popular candidate on the SDP list was the independent Mitro Repo. The Left Alliance lost their only seat. The Greens gained a seat, the Christian Democrats regained the seat they had lost in the previous period, and the True Finns achieved their first entry to the European Parliament with one seat. The Swedish People's Party kept their single seat. No extraparliamentary party gained any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France\nEuropean elections to elect 72 French Members of the European Parliament were held on Sunday 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France\nDue to the entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union in 2007, the number of seats allocated to France was revised from 78 to 72 seats, a loss of 6 seats. France now represents only 9.8% of all European MEPs compared to 12.5% in 2004 and 19.8% in 1979, following the first European election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France\nThe turnout in European elections in France has almost always declined, with the sole exception of an increase in 1994, falling from 60.7% turnout in the 1979 election to 43.1% in the latest election in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France, Results\nNicolas Sarkozy's governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) won a pleasing result, the first time the presidential party had won since the first European elections in 1979. Compared to the party's disastrous 2004 result, it gained 12 seats and over 11% in the popular vote. However, many have said that the UMP is the only governing party in France, making its position very weak compared to the combined opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France, Results\nLed since the tumultuous Reims Congress by Martine Aubry, the main opposition party, the Socialists, won a very bad result: only 16.48% and suffering a loss of 17 seats. Prominent Socialist MEPs, including defeated leadership candidate Beno\u00eet Hamon, lost their seats. The Socialists lost most votes in middle-class urban areas, while holding their ground better in their rural strongholds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France, Results\nThe Europe Ecology was the surprise of these elections, with a remarkable 16.28% and the same number of MEPs as the Socialist Party. The green coalition's result was the best result ever for any French Green party, beating out the previous record set by Antoine Waechter in the 1989 European elections \u2013 10.59%. The gains made by the Greens also came from the centrist MoDem led by Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou. The MoDem won only 8.45%, a surprisingly low result for the centrist party, thought to be France's third party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France, Results\nThe far-right FN suffered loses, being reduced to only 3 MEPs. The conservative nationalist Libertas coalition formed around Philippe de Villiers's Movement for France, but also including the smaller agrarian Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition, suffered losses compared to the two parties' combined 8% showing in 2004. De Villiers was re-elected, becoming the only Libertas.eu MEP elected in the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202711-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in France, Results\nOn the left of the PS, the new Left Front formed around the French Communist Party and the smaller Left Party surpassed Olivier Besancenot's New Anticapitalist Party. The Left Front and an ally overseas won 6.47% and 5 seats, while Besancenot's NPA won only 4.88% and no seats (despite polling better on aggregate than Libertas, which did win a seat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202712-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Friuli-Venezia Giulia\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202712-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Friuli-Venezia Giulia\nThe People of Freedom was largest party in Friuli-Venezia Giulia with 31.8%, followed by the Democratic Party (25.6%) and Lega Nord (17.5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Germany was the German part of the 2009 European Parliament election. The voting was held on Sunday, 7 June. A total of 26 parties competed for the 99 seats reserved for Germany in the European Parliament. In the previous election of 2004, the six parties which were represented in the German national parliament (Bundestag) from 2005 to 2013, had entered the European Parliament by overcoming the 5% election threshold. The same parties entered the European Parliament this time. None of the other parties managed to gain more than 1.7%, but together the small parties exceeded 10% for the first time. At 43.3%, the voter turnout was just over the all-time low in the previous European election in Germany (43.0%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Background\nFrom the 2004 European elections, the CDU had emerged as the strongest party vote, together with the CSU had achieved 44.5% of the vote and 49 of the 99 German mandates. In contrast, the SPD lost heavily and only came to 23 seats (21.5% of the vote). Third strongest party were the Greens with 13 seats (11.9%), followed by PDS (Party of the predecessor left ) and the FDP with 7 seats (6.1%). Since the turnout in European elections is traditionally low, some significant differences can be attributed (e.g. in federal elections) including the respective importance generally attributed to the various constituencies parties European elections of the results at national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Background\nThe 2009 European elections fell in Germany in the pre-election campaign for the 2009 federal election . It was therefore often regarded as a \"test vote\" for this, in which the various parties first position and, for example, could test the response to specific campaign issues. In the media, however, the European elections was initially compared with other events, such as the election of the President 23 May 2009, rather little present; and the election campaign of the parties was rather unspectacular.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Background\nAttention was a campaign of SPD in which these slogans as would choose FDP financial sharks or hot air would choose the Left parties other attack directly. Although there are some historical examples (such as the Red Sock Campaign of the CDU 1994), this form of negative campaigning is otherwise rather unusual in elections in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Electoral system\nLegal basis for the European elections in Germany is the European Elections Act, which in many areas of the Federal Electoral Act refers. The choice is a proportional representation, that is, each party gets seats in proportion to their share of the nationwide valid votes allocated. However, only parties were considered, at least nationwide five percent of the valid votes reached. (The five-percent hurdle in 2011 was declared unconstitutional in retrospect, but this did not lead to a redistribution of seats. The 2014 European elections took place in Germany without a restrictive clause.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Electoral system\nUnlike the federal election the voter has only one vote, with whom he a in the European election party can vote or other political association. Most parties entered with nationwide electoral lists to merely CDU and CSU presented regional lists. The 15 Official lists of CDU were connected, that is, the votes obtained were added for the total number of seats for the CDU and the seats then further distributed to the individual lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Electoral system\nThe CSU only occurred in Bavaria, but to overcome the five-percent hurdle counted their share of the vote nationwide, they therefore had 33.4% of the Bavarian votes win, with 48.1% she reached the Approximately 36% of the Bavarian votes still would have been necessary because the turnout in Bavaria in 2004 a lot was below the national average for the same turnout in Bavaria and in the rest of Germany as each of the 2004 European elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Electoral system\nThe allocation of seats was introduced in 2009 are no longer following the Largest remainder method, but for the first time after the Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method . The electoral lists were closed; that is, the amounts attributable to the nominations seats were occupied exactly in the manner specified in the list order. The voters could (unlike, for example, in some local elections do not change the order).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Electoral system\nActive and passive right to vote in Germany were all those EU citizens who have reached the age of 18 years at the latest on election day and the German citizenship or have a residence in Germany. German citizens living in other EU countries, as well as EU foreigners living in Germany had to decide whether they wanted to vote in their home country or country of residence. EU foreigners who wanted to vote in Germany, had to leave this app previously in the electoral register.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202713-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Germany, Opinion polls\nOf particular interest in the European elections was the performance of the conservative CSU. The party only stands for election in the state of Bavaria, instead of its nationwide \"sister party\", CDU, where it has traditionally been the dominating party, winning absolute majorities for decades. As the CSU's share of votes has to be above 5% on the national level to gain seats in the European Parliament, it must gain at least 35% of the Bavarian electorate to pass this threshold. While the CSU had still won 58% in the 2003 Bavaria state election, in the state elections in 2008, its share plummeted to only 43.4%, which was only about 6% on the national level. Despite these fears, in this European election, the CSU gained 7.2% on the national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202714-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Gibraltar\nThe British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar was part of the European Parliament constituency of South West England and Gibraltar. For elections to the European Parliament in 2009, the vote in the region took place on 4 June 2009, with the results announced on 7 June 2009. The Conservatives won with 51% of the votes. Turnout was 35% in Gibraltar, below the 39% for the electoral region as a whole. The turnout in the territory was significantly lower than the percentage from 2004, which was 58%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202715-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Greece\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament in 2009 took place on 7 June 2009. The election system used in Greece is party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party. The number of seats allocated to Greece declined from 24 to 22, as a result of new member states joining the European Union (EU). Consistent with EU-wide rules, Greek citizens resident in another of the 26-member states were permitted to vote in the place where they currently reside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202715-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Greece, Participating parties\nOn 24 May, the Greek Court of Cassation, the country's supreme court, accepted the applications of 27 of the 33 parties which applied to contest the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202715-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Greece, Participating parties\nIn addition, the court ruled that the following parties could not participate as part of the Coalition of the Radical Left:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202715-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Greece, Participating parties\nA judicial dispute ensued, when Drasi filed a petition before the Council of State to annul the ministerial decision, through which the time for political advertising spots on the radio and television would be allocated, since it disproportionately favoured established parties. A preliminary ruling sent the dispute to the Council of State's plenary session, which will hear the petition for annulment on 25 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202716-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Hungary\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Hungary was the election of the delegation from Hungary to the European Parliament in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202716-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Hungary, Election\nThe election in Hungary took place according to the 2003 CXIII. law about European election and the 1997 C. election law. According to this the country consists of a single election district and those parties will be put on the ballot who could collect 20,000 proposal coupons. Eight qualified lists were approved by Hungarian authorities to be put on the ballot, of which two of them were shared lists. Fidesz shared its party list with the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) to create a joint Fidesz-KDNP list, and Politics Can Be Different shared its party list with the Humanist Party to create a joint LMP-HP list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202716-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Hungary, Results, Party list results by county\nThe European Parliament elections' biggest winners were the centre-right opposition Fidesz party, which won 56.4% of the vote and 14 seats. The far-right Jobbik (\"For a Better Hungary\") party also performed stronger than expected. The Hungarian Democratic Forum also gained 1 seat, so the former finance minister Lajos Bokros could travel to Brussels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202716-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Hungary, Results, Party list results by county\nThe liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) was almost wiped off the political map, attracting only 60,000 votes or 2.2%, compared to more than a million in the country's first free elections 19 years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202716-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Hungary, Consequences\nAlliance of Free Democrats Party leader G\u00e1bor Fodor announced that he will offer his resignation in case his party will not reach the 5% limit needed for representation in the European Parliament (the same limit is applied in national elections). After the election results were published Fodor repeated his statement promising to offer his resignation to the party congress the following day. The election result ultimately caused mass resignations including Fodor in the leadership of SZDSZ and internal turmoil in the party. The election results prompted an intense debate about the future of the party in MSZP as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202717-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Ireland\nThe 2009 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2009 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 5 June 2009, coinciding with the 2009 local elections. Two by-elections (Dublin South and Dublin Central) were also held on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202717-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Ireland, National and regional summaries\nThe governing Fianna F\u00e1il party lost one MEP and a significant share of the vote, in line with the day's other election results. Fine Gael increased its national vote share but lost a seat. The Labour Party, which increased its delegation from one MEP to three, was the only major party to make seat gains. Sinn F\u00e9in lost its only MEP in the Republic of Ireland, and the Socialist Party won a seat for the first time. One independent MEP lost her seat. The Green Party's vote was halved, and the pan-European Libertas party, based in Ireland, also failed to make a breakthrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202717-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Ireland, National and regional summaries\nIn Dublin, Gay Mitchell of Fine Gael and Proinsias De Rossa of Labour were re-elected, while Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party defeated the incumbent Fianna F\u00e1il and Sinn F\u00e9in MEPs to take the third seat. In the East constituency, Mairead McGuinness of Fine Gael and Liam Aylward of Fianna F\u00e1il were re-elected. Nessa Childers of Labour took the vacant final seat. North-West re-elected independent ALDE MEP Marian Harkin and Jim Higgins of Fine Gael, while the Fianna F\u00e1il seat was retained by former MEP Pat \"the Cope\" Gallagher. In South, Brian Crowley of Fianna F\u00e1il was re-elected, Se\u00e1n Kelly won a seat from his Fine Gael colleague Colm Burke, and Labour's Alan Kelly took the last seat in a tight contest between him, Sinn F\u00e9in's Toir\u00e9asa Ferris and the incumbent Independent Kathy Sinnott in the final count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 895]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202717-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Ireland, Constituency changes\nIn accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Nice, the number of MEPs from Ireland in the European Parliament was reduced from 13 to 12 for this election. The Dublin constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3, and the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from the East constituency to the North-West constituency. The election was conducted under the single transferable vote in Ireland; the only other constituencies to elect their MEPs under STV are Malta and Northern Ireland, with the rest of Europe using variants of the list system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Italy was held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June 2009, as decided by the Italian government on 18 December 2008. Italy elected 72 members of the European Parliament (MEPs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Electoral system\nThe party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic from its establishment in 1946 to 1994, therefore it was also adopted to elect the Italian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) since 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Electoral system\nTwo levels were introduced: a national level to divide the seats among parties and a constituency level to distribute them among candidates in open lists. Five constituencies were established, each including 2\u20135 regions and each electing a fixed number of MEPs. At national level, seats are divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. Seats are allocated to parties and then to their most voted candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Electoral system\nIn the run-up of the election, the Italian Parliament has introduced a national threshold of 4% in the electoral law for the European Parliament. An exception was granted for parties representing some linguistic minorities as such lists can be connected with one of the major parties, combining their votes, provided that those parties reach the 4% threshold and that candidates from minority parties obtain a sufficient number of votes, no less than 50,000 for the main candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Main parties and leaders, Outgoing MEPs\nThis is a list of Italian delegations sitting at the European Parliament before 6 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 83], "content_span": [84, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Main parties and leaders, Summary of parties\nIn the following table the main parties/lists participating in the election are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 88], "content_span": [89, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Results\nThe parties that passed the national electoral threshold at 4% were The People of Freedom (PdL), Democratic Party (PD), Northern League (LN), Italy of Values (IdV) and Union of the Centre (UdC). This election was a victory for the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: the parties supporting his government (The People of Freedom and Northern League) won 38 seats, while the opposition (Democratic Party, Italy of Values and Union of the Centre) obtained 34 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202718-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Italy, Results\nOn 1 December 2009, after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the italian seats in the European Parliament increased from 72 to 73. The additional seat was assigned to the Union of the Centre (that went from 5 to 6 seats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202719-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Latvia\nThe 2009 European Parliament election in Latvia involved the election of the delegation from Latvia to the European Parliament in 2009. 17 lists containing a total of 185 candidates were registered for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202719-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Latvia\nThe election was conducted according to the party-list proportional representation system, with at least 5% of votes necessary to gain seats in the parliament. Voters were given 17 ballot papers, one for each party and had the opportunity to approve of candidates on their chosen list by adding a plus or disapprove by crossing out candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202720-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Lithuania\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Lithuania  was the election of the delegation from Lithuania to the European Parliament in 2009. It was a part of the wider 2009 European Parliament election. The Homeland Union (European Peoples Party) doubled their representation from 2 to 4, whilst Labour shrank from 5 to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202720-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Lithuania, Results\n15 political parties were competing in the elections, of which 6 won seats. Lithuania has 12 seats in the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202721-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Lombardy\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202721-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Lombardy\nThe People of Freedom (33.9%) was the largest party in Lombardy, ahead of Lega Nord (22.7%) and the Democratic Party (21.3%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202722-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Luxembourg\nThe 2009 European Parliament election in Luxembourg was the election of the delegation from Luxembourg to the European Parliament in 2009. It was held on the same day as the elections to the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202722-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Luxembourg, Parties\nThe election was contested by the same eight parties that contested the simultaneous election to the Chamber. These included the seven parties that ran in the 2004 election: Christian Social People's Party (CSV), Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), the Greens, the Democratic Party (DP), the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR), the Left, and the Communist Party (KPL). The addition for the 2009 election is the Citizens' List, which was led by current independent deputy Aly Jaerling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202723-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Malta\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Malta was the election of the delegation from Malta to the European Parliament in 2009. The elections were held on 6 June on the same day as the 2009 Maltese local council elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202723-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Malta, Results\nThe turnout was 78.81%. The Partit Laburista garnered 54.77% of first-count votes and the Partit Nazzjonalista garnered 40.49%; 2.31% of votes cast were invalid. Simon Busuttil MEP was the only candidate to be elected on the first count with 68,782 (27.72%) single votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202724-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Piedmont\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202724-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Piedmont\nThe People of Freedom (32.4%) was the largest party in Piedmont, ahead of the Democratic Party (24.7%) and Lega Nord (15.7%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202725-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Poland\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Poland was the election of the delegation from Poland to the European Parliament in 2009 which took place on 7 June 2009. On 13 February the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) accepted a proposal for an amendment to the electoral court act to allow voting for the European Parliament election of 2009 to take place over 2 days i.e. the 6 and 7 June 2009. However, on 5 March, the proposal was referred to the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland by the Polish President, Lech Kaczy\u0144ski. The Polish electorate elected 50 MEPs. In the 27 EU Member States, at total of 736 MEPs were elected from 4\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202725-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Poland\nAs anticipated, the Civic Platform (PO) won a significant victory, winning more than 44% of the vote and gaining half of the total seats. PO's vote was higher than their 41.5% achieved at the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, and to date was the highest vote achieved by a Polish political party to either the Sejm (national legislature) or the European Parliament. Law and Justice (PiS), came second (27.4%), having more than doubled their vote and seats won as compared to the 2004 EU election, but their vote fell, in comparison to the national elections of 2007. PO polled strongest in the western half of Poland, whilst PiS polled best in the eastern half, particularly the south-east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202725-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Poland\nThe largest grouping on the left, the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union (SLD-UP) came in at a distant third with 12.3% of the vote and seven seats. At one time, the biggest party in Poland, the Democratic Left Alliance's vote was fairly static over the past five years, and they have been unable to challenge the dominance of PO and PiS, since 2005. The Polish People's Party (PSL) came fourth with 7% of the vote, and won three seats. The remaining parties failed to reach the 5% threshold required to win seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202725-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Poland\nThe election result demonstrated a stability in voting patterns in the country. Previously, especially prior to 2005, the political environment in Poland was rather unpredictable, with big swings away from established parties, towards alternative parties, and ongoing splits and mergers of key parties. In 2009, however, the voting pattern did not vary too substantially from the 2007 elections, with the large parties consolidating their positions, and smaller parties failing to make a breakthrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Portugal was the election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament held on 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal\nThe election was a huge setback for the Socialist Party (PS), which lost almost 18 percentage points. Basically all predictions that said that the PS would win comfortably the election, were wrong. As a result, the party also lost five of its twelve MEP's. The Social Democrats (PSD) were the big winners in these elections, surprising pundits and analysts who predicted a very complicated result for the PSD leader, Manuela Ferreira Leite. The PSD won 31.7% of the vote and 8 seats. It was the first victory of the PSD, in European elections, since 1989. The People's Party (CDS-PP) also had a surprising result, winning 8% of the vote and electing 2 MEP's. Both PSD and CDS-PP, who ran in a joint list in 2004, increased sharply their scores and together they won more than 40% of the vote and 10 MEP's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 851]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal\nOn the left, both the Left Bloc (BE) and Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU) achieved very good results with the historic fact that BE surpassed CDU in term of votes and seats for the first time, although only just. Both parties increased their scores at the expense of the Socialist Party. The Left Bloc won 10.7% of the vote and 3 MEP's, their best score in EU elections to date, and CDU surpassed once again the 10% mark winning 10.6% of the vote, but maintaining the 2 MEP they got in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal\nTurnout in the elections was quite low, as only 36.78% of the electorate cast a ballot, a slightly lower share than in the 2004 election. Although the number of ballots cast was higher than in 2004, the number of registered voters increased considerably in these elections, making the final turnout share lower than in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal, Electoral System\nThe voting method used, for the election of European members of parliament, is by proportional representation using the d'Hondt method, which is known to benefit leading parties. In the 2009 EU elections, Portugal had 22 seats to be filled. Deputies are elected in a single constituency, corresponding to the entire national territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202726-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Portugal, Opinion Polling and preliminary exit polls\nExit polls from the three major television networks in Portugal, RTP1, SIC and TVI were given precisely at 20:00\u00a0pm (local time) on 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Romania was the election of the delegation from Romania to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Candidates and elected MEPs\nAmong those expected to take up seats are (listed in the order they appear on the ballot):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Candidates and elected MEPs\nFor the Alliance PSD+PC (electoral alliance of PSD + PC):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Candidates and elected MEPs\nThe other three electoral candidates did not pass the threshold:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Results\nThe European Parliament election results confirmed the recent tendency that Romania's political scene is slowly but certainly transforming into one with two major parties. While country-wide each of the two parties has won slightly less than 1/3 of the votes (in the end each got 1/3 of the seats in the EP), the two became the main political contestants in almost every county. Discounting the votes received by Elena B\u0103sescu who afterwards re-joined PDL, PSD won the first place in 17 counties (with PDL arriving second in all of them), and PDL won the first place in 18 counties (with PSD arriving second in all of them but one).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Results\nUDMR, fourth-largest party country-wide, won the first place in six counties, trailed in the second place five times by PSD, and one time by PDL. PNL, the third largest party country-wide rose above that level only in Ilfov County, where it obtained the second place after PDL. PRM, the fifth party, was unable to arrive first or second in any of Romania's counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Results, Results by county\nIn the capital city of Bucharest, PDL won with 28.28% of the votes, with PSD in second with 27.87%. Four of the six sectors of the city were won by PDL and two by PSD, with the other party in second place:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202727-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Romania, Results, Results by county\n\u2020Combined 2007 vote of Democratic Party (Romania) and Liberal Democratic Party (Romania) before merger", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202728-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sardinia\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202728-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sardinia\nThe Democratic Party allied with Italy of Values, and the Radicals was the largest party coalition with 47.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202729-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sicily\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202729-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sicily\nThe People of Freedom was largest party in Sicily with 36.4%, largely ahead of the Democratic Party (21.9%), the Movement for the Autonomies (15.6%), that ran in list within The Autonomy coalition, and the Union of the Centre (11.9%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Slovakia was the election of the delegation from Slovakia to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia\nThe turnout, although increased compared to the previous election, was 19.63%, the lowest of any nation involved in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Division of seats\nThe system of dividing seats to the different lists is somewhat different in Slovakia, compared to some other countries. Firstly the election authorities count the total number of valid votes for parties who have gained more than 5% of the total. In this case there were 709004 such votes (85.75% of the total). This number is divided by 14 (13 seats plus one) to create the RVC (republic election number) or quota, in this case 50643 (6.13% of all valid votes cast). Parties are assigned one seat for the number of times they fill the quota. At this initial stage 5 seats were awarded to SMER, 2 to SDKU, 1 to SMK, 1 to KDH and 1 to HZDS leaving 3 seats still unfilled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Division of seats\nIn Slovakia's system of proportional representation, the parties needing the fewest votes to get to their next quota are given the remaining seats. In this case those seats went to SMK, KDH and SNS. This is described in more detail at", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Division of seats\nIn the D'Hondt method of proportional representation (as used for example in British Euro elections), the quota is progressively reduced until it reaches a number at which the correct number of candidates is elected. If this system had been applied in Slovakia, it would have resulted in the quota being reduced to 45960 (5.55% of the total), with the remaining 3 seats going to SDKU, SMK and SNS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates\nEach voter who voted for a party was also allowed to select two candidates from that party. The seats were awarded to candidates in order of the number of preference votes they received, provided that they received preferences from at least 10 percent of all the voters who chose the particular party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, Direction \u2013 Social Democracy (SMER)\nMonika Fla\u0161\u00edkov\u00e1 \u2013 Be\u0148ov\u00e1, Boris Zala and Vladim\u00edr Ma\u0148ka were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of SMER's voters. The remaining seats were awarded on the basis of the party list ordering, the fourth seat going to Monika Smolkov\u00e1, (who was also coincidentally in fourth place in terms of personal preferences) and the fifth seat going to Katar\u00edna Neve\u010falov\u00e1 (who was actually tenth in order of personal preference votes).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 115], "content_span": [116, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, Slovak Democratic and Christian Union \u2013 Democratic Party (SDK\u00da-DS)\nEduard Kukan and Peter \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SDKU's voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 146], "content_span": [147, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK)\nEdit Bauer and Alajos M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SMK's voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 118], "content_span": [119, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)\nAnna Z\u00e1borsk\u00e1 and Miroslav Mikol\u00e1\u0161ik were awarded seats they had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the KDH's voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 115], "content_span": [116, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, People's Party \u2013 Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (\u013dS-HZDS)\nSergej Kozl\u00edk was awarded the seat as he had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of HZDS's voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 141], "content_span": [142, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, Slovak National Party (SNS)\nJaroslav Pa\u0161ka was awarded the one SNS seat, as he had the most personal preference votes and had received those votes from at least 10 percent of the SNS's electors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 107], "content_span": [108, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, The overall effect of preference voting and the 10% rule\nOf the 13 candidate elected, 11 were elected due to the number of personal preference votes they were given, and 2 were elected due to their positions on the party lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, The overall effect of preference voting and the 10% rule\nThe 11 candidates elected due to personal preferences included 3 (KDH's Anna Z\u00e1borsk\u00e1 and Miroslav Mikol\u00e1\u0161ik as well as SNS's Jaroslav Pa\u0161ka) whose list positions did not in themselves justify a seat so could be said to have been elected solely by preferential voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, The overall effect of preference voting and the 10% rule\nThe remaining 8 candidates (SMER's Boris Zala, Vladim\u00edr Ma\u0148ka and Monika Fla\u0161\u00edkov\u00e1 \u2013 Be\u0148ov\u00e1, the SDKU's Eduard Kukan and Peter \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd, the SMK's Edit Bauer and Alajos M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros as well as the HZDS's Sergej Kozl\u00edk) all would have been elected anyway if there was no preference voting in the system (as in some other member states) and the party list ordering had been used alone. It is important to note however, that these 8 people would not have been elected if their personal voters had chosen other candidates, so they were not in any way guaranteed seats as a result of their list positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202730-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia, Awarding of seats to candidates, The overall effect of preference voting and the 10% rule\nThe two candidates elected due to their positions on the party lists were from SMER. One (Monika Smolkov\u00e1) would also have been elected due to her personal preferences if the 10 percent rule had not been in operation but the other (Katar\u00edna Neve\u010falov\u00e1) was elected solely as a result of her position on the party list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202731-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Slovenia\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Slovenia was the election of the delegation from Slovenia to the European Parliament in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nThe 2009 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 7 June 2009, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 7th European Parliament. All 50 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice\u201454 after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011\u2014were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nThe election saw the first national victory for the People's Party (PP) since the 2000 Spanish general election, scoring 42.1% of the share in its best showing in a European Parliament election to date, as well as its third best in a national election overall. The ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), on the other hand, fell to second place with 38.8% of the votes after a cycle of electoral victories starting in 2004. As in the previous election, the result was close, as both parties came within three percentage points of each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nThe Coalition for Europe (CEU), the alliance of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties that came to succeed the late Galeusca\u2013Peoples of Europe coalition, remained in third place with 5.1% of the votes, whereas United Left (IU)\u2014which ran under The Left banner\u2014saw its worst showing in a nationwide election up to that point, barely surpassing 3.7% of the share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nOn the other hand, the new Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) party had a strong performance by comfortably doubling its result from the 2008 Spanish general election, being the only national party that saw a net gain of votes compared to that electoral contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0001-0003", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nThe abertzale left-supported Internationalist Initiative\u2013Solidarity among Peoples (II\u2013SP) candidacy, which had been initially banned from running by the Supreme Court of Spain but later allowed by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that there was not enough evidence of its ties to the ETA terrorist group, scored 1.1% of the votes nationwide but failed to secure any parliamentary representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain\nAs the 2009 election was held under the provisions of the Treaty of Nice, Spain was allocated 50 MEP seats which, come Election Day, were distributed as follows: PP 23, PSOE 21, CEU 2, IU\u2013ICV 2, UPyD 1 and EdP\u2013V 1. After the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011, Spain's delegation was increased to 54, granting additional seats to the PSOE (two) and to PP and CEU (one each) according to their June 2009 election results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain, Electoral system\nThe 50 members of the European Parliament allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with no electoral threshold being applied in order to be entitled to enter seat distribution. Seats were allocated to a single multi-member constituency comprising the entire national territory. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals and resident non-national European citizens over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The use of the D'Hondt method might result in an effective threshold depending on the district magnitude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain, Parties and candidates\nThe electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain, Parties and candidates\nIn order to be entitled to run, parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least 15,000 registered electors; this requirement could be lifted and replaced through the signature of at least 50 elected officials\u2014deputies, senators, MEPs or members from the legislative assemblies of autonomous communities or from local city councils. Electors and elected officials were disallowed from signing for more than one list of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain, Parties and candidates\nBelow is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202732-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Spain, Opinion polls\nThe table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The \"Lead\" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Sweden was held on 7 June 2009 and determined the makeup of the Swedish delegation to the European Parliament. The election was held using a modified form of the Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method of party-list proportional representation using the entire country as a single electoral constituency. There is a threshold limit of 4 percent for Swedish elections to the European Parliament, so that any party not receiving at least four percent of the votes will not be allocated any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden\nSweden will be allocated 18 seats in the European parliament for this term, a reduction from the 19 they were allocated in the 2004 election. From December 2011 Sweden has 20 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden\nThe new Pirate Party polled at 7.1%, giving it one seat, and from December 2011 two seats after the Treaty of Lisbon. The eurosceptic June List saw the biggest slump in support, falling nearly 11% and losing all 3 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden\nTurnout increased compared to the last election, from 37.9% to 45.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden, Results\nThe final results were published by the Swedish Election Authority on 11 June 2009. From December 2011, the Pirate Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party had one more seat each after the Treaty of Lisbon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden, Results, Municipalities\nMunicipalities in which European party groups received the most votes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202733-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Sweden, Pre-election polls\n* Based on delta of +0.3% in 29 May poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202734-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202734-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol\nThe Democratic Party was the most voted list in Trentino (27.9%), narrowly ahead of The People of Freedom (26.3%), while the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) came first as usual in South Tyrol (52.1%) and got its leading candidate Herbert Dorfmann elected to the European Parliament. In the Province of Trento the Union for Trentino supported both the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party and the Union of the Centre, that both had good results, 8.2% and 6.1% respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202735-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Veneto\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 took place on 6\u20137 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202735-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in Veneto\nThe People of Freedom (29.3%) and Lega Nord (28.4%) were tied at the top in Veneto, while the Democratic Party (20.3%) was a distant third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in Czech Republic was the election of the delegation from Czech Republic to the European Parliament in 2009. The Civic Democratic Party has won the election with a surprisingly strong lead against the Czech Social Democratic Party. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia came third and the Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party became the last party to enter the Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic\nTwo newly founded right-wing parties, the Czech wing Libertas.cz of Declan Ganley's Libertas founded by Vladim\u00edr \u017delezn\u00fd and the Party of Free Citizens, ran in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Background\nPrevious election was held in 2004. It was won by the Civic Democratic Party that won 30% of votes ahead of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia which received 20% of the votes. Czech Social Democratic Party of Prime Minister Vladim\u00edr \u0160pidla was heavily defeated receiving only 9% of votes finishing fourth. \u0160pidle resigned after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Background\nCivic Democrats joined European People's Party group after the election as a member of European Democrats. ODS the cooperated with British Conservative Party to establish new Eurosceptic faction within European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Background, Procedure\nThe 22 of Czech delegation in the European parliament are elected using open list proportional representation, in which they can give preferential votes for up to two candidates on their chosen list. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5% nationwide for single parties. Candidates who receive preferential votes from more than 5% of voters are moved to the top of their list, and in cases where more than one candidate receives over 5% of the preferential votes, they are ranked in order of votes received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 78], "content_span": [79, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nFirst candidates were introduced on 9 February 2009. Jan Zahradil became electoral leader. Other candidates included Ev\u017een To\u0161enovsk\u00fd, Old\u0159ich Vlas\u00e1k etg. Party also launched its election website on the same day. Zahradil stated that ODS will be forced to use negative campaign as reaction to strateg of its opponents. Remaining candidates were introduced on 16 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 89], "content_span": [90, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nCampaign of Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was launched by electoral leader Jan Zahradil on 13 February 2009. ODS stated that it would invest 40 million CZK to the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 89], "content_span": [90, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nODS started negative campaign against \u010cSSD as response to Social Democratic campaigns from previous years. Civic Democrats founded Blue Team to help the party with campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 89], "content_span": [90, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Civic Democratic Party\nThe Civic Democratic Party was active on internet and used social media during its campaign while its main rival and election front-runner Social Democratic Party underestimated internet campaign and Civic Democrats got to lead as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 89], "content_span": [90, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Czech Social Democratic Party\n\u010cSSD planned to invest 30 million CZK. Czech Social Democratic Party was led by Ji\u0159\u00ed Havel. Party decided to focus on Financial crisis and domestic issues during its campaign. Social Democratic Party was considered front-runner as it was leading in polls but the lead narrowed as the election date was getting closer. The Civic Democratic Party was active on internet and used social media during its campaign and eventually. Social Democrats on the other hand underestimated internet campaign and Civic Democrats got to lead as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 96], "content_span": [97, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia\nMiloslav Ransdorf was announced as electoral leader on 18 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 105], "content_span": [106, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 People's Party\nChristian Democrats launched election campaign on 9 March 2009. They introduced their candidates on 20 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 114], "content_span": [115, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Campaign, Green Party\nGreens voted Jan Dus\u00edk as its electoral leader on 28 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 78], "content_span": [79, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Results\nThe Civic Democratic Party (ODS) has won the election with 30% and 9 seats. Party's chairman Mirek Topol\u00e1nek stated that the election showed that ODS is once again an equal rival to Social Democrats. Czech Social Democratic Party finished second with 22% of votes and 6 seats. Party was dissatisfied with the result as it expected a better result. Chairman Ji\u0159\u00ed Paroubek stated that party was damaged by low turnout but noted that it is improvement as the party received only 8.8% in 2004 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202736-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Results\nCommunist Party of Bohemia and Moravia considered the result as an improvement from 2006 parliamentary election. Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 People's Party was pleased with the result as the party showed stable support. Other parties failed to reach 5% threshold. Green Party received only 2% of votes. Chairman Martin Burs\u00edk decided to resign as a result. Czech Sovereignty led by MEP Jana Bobo\u0161\u00edkov\u00e1 received 4% and narrowly failed to win any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands\nThe European Parliament election of 2009 in the Netherlands took place on 4 June 2009. Seventeen parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for the available 25 seats (down from 27). For the first time, all Dutch residents of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba were also entitled to vote in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Political co-operation\nThe Christian Union and SGP formed a common list Christian Union-SGP for the European Parliament election. Moreover, several parties formed an electoral alliance:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 88], "content_span": [89, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Political co-operation\nAll three alliances would be eligible for a remainder seat, because all the parties involved won a seat in the European Parliament. Without the alliance between the Dutch Labour Party and Greenleft, GreenLeft would have only two seats and PVV would have five seats. The other electoral alliances had no effect on the overall seats awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 88], "content_span": [89, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, New electorate\nThe Netherlands Antilles and Aruba were granted the right to vote in the European Parliament election by a verdict of the Council of State which stated that it is illegal to differentiate in law between people with Dutch nationality in Europe and outside. The government granted all persons of Dutch nationality voting rights for European elections. Before the verdict, only people who had lived in the Netherlands for 10 years or longer were allowed to vote. This ruling increased the number of people entitled to vote by 210,000. Only 20,944 people registered to vote from the islands in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, New electorate\nThe turnout of registered voters in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba was 77% (rest of the world 66%.) This new voting right does not change the position of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. They are not considered to be part of the European Union and they do not need to adopt European law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, New electorate\nBefore this election, people placed under a guardian were not allowed to vote. Usually a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for their own interests. A ruling of the Council of State decided that this was not allowed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is not known how many people this affected, as there is no central register for individuals under guardianship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Treaty of Lisbon\nUnder the Treaty of Lisbon, the Netherlands was to get a 26th seat in the European Parliament. Because this treaty had not yet been ratified by all member states at the time of the elections, this seat could not be given to a party at that time. The State Secretary for the Interior, Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, made a proposal for allocating it if the Lisbon treaty were to be ratified by all member states, but this had not been accepted by parliament at the time of the election. According to the proposal made by the government, the seat would be awarded to the Party for Freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Treaty of Lisbon\nThe Party for the Animals contested this proposal, claiming that the minister ignored part of the Electoral Council's opinion. They raised their objection after the official results came in. Under the Electoral Council's opinion, the Party for the Animals should have gained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Treaty of Lisbon\nSeveral parties in the States-General had already stated that this changed the election rules after the elections, and, if the rules were to be changed, the opposition had missed their chance by not contesting them before the elections. They had thus de facto agreed to the proposal. Advice had been requested from the Council of State on the matter. If the election had been for 26 seats rather than 25 from the start, the 26th seat would have been awarded to the Party for Freedom. On 9 October, the Dutch cabinet announced that the 26th seat would be awarded to the Party for Freedom. This would give them a total of 5 seats when the Lisbon treaty came into effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Background, Treaty of Nice\nAt present, the exact number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treaty of each new member. This last adjustment occurred with the enlargement in 2007. Hence no change to the seats occurs without ratification by all member states. According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732. However, allocation does not take into account any enlargements to the European Union expected during the Parliamentary term. Hence, when Romania and Bulgaria joined the union in 2007, the number of seats temporarily rose to 785, but later dropped back to 736 at time of the 2009 election. Because of this, the Netherlands had 27 seats in 2004 but only 25 in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Turnout\nThe voter turnout was 36.75%, a little lower than turnout in 2004 (39.26%.) A total of 12,445,497 people were entitled to vote. Of these 4,573,743 did so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Electoral quota\nThe electoral quota is the number of votes needed for one seat. It is the total valid number of votes divided by the number of seats. For this election it was 4,553,864 valid votes, divided by 25 seats. The electoral quota was established as: 182,154", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 95], "content_span": [96, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Electoral alliances\nThe results of the electoral alliances. Both parties of both alliances reached the electoral quota and are eligible for remainder seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Assigning full seats\nFull seats are assigned by number of votes divided by the electoral quota. Electoral alliances are marked as a letter, instead of a number. Any seats left over are not yet assigned to a specific party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 100], "content_span": [101, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Remainder seats\nThe remaining, or left over, seats are awarded sequentially to the lists with the highest average number of votes per seat. Only lists that reached the electoral quota are eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 95], "content_span": [96, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Awarding seats within electoral alliances\nTo decide the seats per party for electoral alliances, the combination quota is first determined. Combination quota for electoral alliances are determined by the total number valid votes divided by the awarded seats. The party with the most votes left after the full seats are assigned gets the seat remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 121], "content_span": [122, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Awarding seats within electoral alliances\nList AFor list A, there were 1,223,773 votes divided by 7 seats. The combination quota was established as: 174,824 votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 121], "content_span": [122, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Awarding seats within electoral alliances\nList BFor list B, there were 952,711 votes divided by 6 seats. The combination quota was established as: 158,785 votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 121], "content_span": [122, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Seat assignment, Awarding seats within electoral alliances\nList CFor list C, there were 1,034,065 votes divided by 6 seats. The combination quota was established as: 172,344 votes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 121], "content_span": [122, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Final results\nThe Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) remained the biggest party (5 seats), despite losing 2 seats. The biggest winners were the Party for Freedom (up 4 seats) and Democrats 66 (up 2). The biggest loser was the Labour Party, which lost more than half its seats (down 4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 76], "content_span": [77, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, European groups\nThe Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe became the biggest group in the Netherlands, after an electoral loss for the parties in European People's Party\u2013European Democrats and European Socialists group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, European groups\nThe European Greens\u2013European Free Alliance lost a seat, despite GreenLeft winning a seat. This was because Europe Transparent, which sat in the European Greens-EFA group, did not take part in this election. Newcomer Party for Freedom is not part of a European group and is under Non-Inscrits. The Christian Union-SGP was in the Independence/Democracy group, but this group did not meet the requirements to be a group in the European Parliament and was dissolved. The Christian Union and SGP entered talks with the European Conservatives after the elections. The SGP was asked to change their stance on women's issues, but declined. After that the Christian Union joined the European Conservatives on its own. After 25 years of co-operation, the Christian Union and Reformed Political Party split into two groups in the European parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Elected members\nTwenty members were elected by preference vote. Twenty-four people got this amount, but not all could be appointed because either the party did not get enough seats or they got no seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, Results, Elected members\nBelow are all the elected members of European parliament for the Netherlands. Members elected by preference votes are in bold. The following 25 MEPs were officially announced by the Central Electoral Commission on 11 June 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202737-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, MEPs in 2009\u20132014\nBelow is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 2009\u20132014 as a result of this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom\nThe European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total, 72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom\nNotable outcomes were that the Labour Party \u2013 which came third \u2013 suffered a significant drop in support, and that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) finished second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of it in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom\nThe British National Party (BNP) also won two seats, its first ever in a nationwide election. It also marked the first time the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland, and the first time Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election since 1918. It was the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)'s worst ever European election result, and also the first time an Irish Republican party, Sinn F\u00e9in, topped the polls in Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Background, Electoral system\nThe United Kingdom elected 72 Members of the European Parliament using proportional representation. It was divided into twelve multi-member constituencies, or regions. The eleven of these regions which form Great Britain used a closed-list party list system method of proportional representation, calculated using the D'Hondt method. Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Background, Electoral system\nThe experimental use of all-postal ballots in four regions in 2004 was not repeated, resulting in a sharp reduction in turnout in those regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Background, Constituencies and representation\nAs had been the case since 1999, the electoral constituencies were based on the government's nine English regions, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, creating a total of 12 constituencies. The Treaty of Nice fixed the number of MEPs for the whole European Parliament at 736; as a consequence of the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007, the number of seats allocated to the United Kingdom was reduced from 78 to 72. If the Treaty of Lisbon had entered into force by June 2009, this figure would have been 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 102], "content_span": [103, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Background, Constituencies and representation\nOn 31 July 2007, in line with the required reduction in representation from the United Kingdom, the number of members elected from each region was modified by the Boundary Commission and Electoral Commission, based on the size of the electorate in each region. The recommended changes were approved by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 102], "content_span": [103, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Background, Constituencies and representation\n1Includes Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory which was then part of the EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 102], "content_span": [103, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Opinion polls\nIn the run up to the election, several polling organisations carried out public opinion polling in regards to voting intentions in Great Britain. Results of such polls are displayed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Opinion polls\nComRes, ICM, Populus and YouGov are members of the British Polling Council, and abide by its disclosure rules. BPIX is not a member of the BPC, and does not publish detailed methodology and findings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, United Kingdom\n\u2021 As the number of seats was reduced, these are notional changes estimated by the BBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, United Kingdom\n1Joint ticket, ran in England as: The Christian Party - Christian Peoples Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\nTurnout in Great Britain was 34.3%, with 15,137,202 votes out of a total electorate of 44,171,778. Most of the results of the election were announced on Sunday 7 June, after similar elections were held in the other 26 member states of the European Union. Scotland declared its result on Monday 8 June, as counting in the Western Isles was delayed due to observance of the Sabbath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\nGreat Britain kept to the Europe-wide trend towards the right. The Labour Party, which was in its twelfth year of government of the United Kingdom, polled third and suffered a significant drop in support; UKIP finished second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of it in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\nThe Conservatives won in every region in Great Britain except the North East, where Labour won, and Scotland, where the SNP won. Labour suffered most notably in Cornwall, where it came sixth behind Mebyon Kernow, and in the wider South West region and South East, where it polled fifth behind the Green Party. The BNP won two seats, its first ever in a national election. The share of the vote achieved by the English Democrats doubled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\nThe turnout in Scotland was the lowest in the United Kingdom at 28.8%, with 1,104,512 votes out of a total electorate of 3,872,975. In Scotland it was the first time the SNP won the largest share of the European election vote. The SNP share of the vote rose by 9.4% points compared to 2004; this was the biggest positive swing for any party in any region in Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\nIn Wales it was the first time since 1918 that Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election, dropping 12.2%. In Wales the Conservative Party topped the poll, with the nationalist Plaid Cymru coming a close third. UKIP took the fourth Welsh seat, the first time Wales had elected a UKIP MEP. Both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party polled their lowest regional shares in Wales, thoughWales was the only region where the Liberal Democrat share of the vote rose compared with 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\n\u2020Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 2004 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Great Britain\n1Joint ticket, ran in England as: The Christian Party - Christian Peoples Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Gibraltar\nGibraltar is a British overseas territory (BOT) and therefore is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom but does not form part of it. Gibraltar was, however, part of the EU, the only BOT to be so, and participated as part of the South West England constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 75], "content_span": [76, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Gibraltar\nTurnout was 35% in Gibraltar, below the 39% for the South West England electoral region as a whole and significantly lower than the turnout in Gibraltar in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 75], "content_span": [76, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Gibraltar\nThe Conservatives won with 53.3% of the votes. Labour narrowly retained second place achieving 19% to the Liberal Democrats' 18.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 75], "content_span": [76, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Results, Northern Ireland\nIt was the DUP's worst ever European election result: the party had previously topped the poll in every European election in Northern Ireland since the first one in 1979. It was also the first time an Irish Republican topped the poll, Bairbre de Brun of Sinn F\u00e9in coming first with 125,000 votes. The share of the votes for most parties in Northern Ireland remained essentially unchanged, the main exceptions were the DUP where their share of the vote fell by 13.8%, and the TUV, a party created by former DUP MEP Jim Allister whose share of the vote rose 13.7%. The DUP's decreased vote share was largely blamed on the TUV splitting the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 82], "content_span": [83, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Aftermath\nGordon Brown faced calls for him to resign as Prime Minister after Labour's defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Aftermath\nDuring the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election, David Cameron argued for withdrawal of the Conservatives from EPP-ED and for the formation of a new group. After the European election it was announced that the Conservatives were leaving the EPP-ED and forming a new group, the European Conservatives and Reformists. On 22 June 2009, the first official list of the new group's members was released. The group held its inaugural meeting on 24 June, during which Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope was named interim leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Aftermath\nThe first election for the group leadership was also scheduled for 14 July, pitting interim leader Kirkhope against fellow Briton Geoffrey Van Orden. However, both Conservative leadership candidates were forced to forfeit the leadership in order to prevent the group from collapsing, when then-Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott defied his party whip and stood for one of the vice-presidency posts despite pledges the previous week that Polish MEP Michal Kaminski would be backed for it. Kaminski's bid for Vice-President of the European Parliament subsequently failed, and the Poles threatened to abandon the new caucus unless Kaminski was made the group leader in the parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Aftermath\nSimilarly, UKIP helped found a new European Parliament Group, Europe of Freedom and Democracy, after the other parties in UKIP's pre-election European parliamentary grouping, Independence/Democracy, had polled badly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202738-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, Aftermath\nSummary of the post-election European Parliament Groupings of each party", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 66], "content_span": [67, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202739-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Race Walking Cup\nThe 8th edition of the European Race Walking Cup took place in the French city of Metz on Sunday May 24, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202739-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Race Walking Cup\nComplete results were published. The junior events are documented on the World Junior Athletics History webpages. Medal winners were published on the Athletics Weekly website,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202739-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Race Walking Cup, Participation\nThe participation of 228 athletes (140 men/88 women) from 26 countries is reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202740-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Racquetball Championships\nThe XV Racquetball European Championships were held in Nanterre, near Paris, (France) from August 3 to 9 2009, with seven men's national teams and three women's national teams in competition. On August 6 started the individual, doubles, senior and junior competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202740-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Racquetball Championships\nThe venue was the Forest-Hill City Form, in Nanterre, with 4 regulation racquetball courts. The 7 men's teams were Belgium, Catalonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and The Netherlands and the 3 women's teams were Catalonia, Germany and Ireland. More than 50 players were in the singles, doubles, junior and senior competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202740-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Racquetball Championships\nThe opening ceremony was on August 2 with the president of European Racquetball Federation, Erik Meyer, and the president of Paris Racquetball Association, Jean-Pierre Boudart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202741-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Rally Championship\nThe 2009 European Rally Championship season was the 57th season of the FIA European Rally Championship. The season had 11 rallies, of which Giandomenico Basso won 7 and thus claimed his second European rally championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202741-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Rally Championship, Calendar and winners\nFor the 2009 season, the number of rounds was increased from 9 to 11. The calendar featured 3 new rallies (in Spain, Greece and Switzerland), whereas Rally Poland was a round of the World Rally Championship in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202741-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Rally Championship, Championship standings\nFor the final classification in a rally, the winner was awarded 10 points, the runner-up 8 and the third placed driver 6. Drivers ranked 4 to 8 got 5\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 point(s). Additionally, the top three of every leg got 3\u20132\u20131 point(s). Only drivers who participated in least 6 events qualified for the championship ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202742-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships\nThe 2009 European Road Championships were held in Hooglede-Gits and Ostend, Belgium, between 1\u20135 July 2009. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men and women under 23 and juniors. The championships were regulated by the European Cycling Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202743-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 road race\nThe Women's U23 Individual road race at the 2009 European Road Championships took place in Hooglede, Belgium on 4 July over a course of 135.3\u00a0km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202744-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 time trial\nThe Women's under-23 time trial at the 2009 European Road Championships took place on July 1. The Championships were hosted by the Belgian city of Hooglede-Gits. The course was 28.1\u00a0km long and had stone sections that were also uphill. The uphill part was seen as an important part of the course where you could easily lose seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202744-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 time trial\nTeam Columbia-HTC's Dutch women Ellen van Dijk won the U23 women's individual time trial for the second consecutive year. Van Dijk completed the 28-kilometre course in  a time of 36:41 (41.1\u00a0km/h), beating Swedish Emilia Fahlin, her teammate, by 20 seconds. She was very happy with the result because she suffered a concussion in April and was unable to cycle for almost six weeks, lowering her expectations for success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202744-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 time trial, Reactions\n\"I am very happy, of course, I was very insecure about my fitness, but it seems I was able to succeed today, even after the lost training time. The course was quite long, with a couple of stone sections that were also uphill, and it was very hard near the end. The uphill was at a very important part of the course where you can easily lose a couple of seconds, but the wind was behind me, so that was a bit of help.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202744-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Road Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 time trial, Final classification\nIn the time trial event competed in total 40 athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 84], "content_span": [85, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202745-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Rowing Championships\nThe 2009 European Rowing Championships were held in Brest, Belarus, from 18 to 20 September 2009. They were the third European Rowing Championships after the decision was made in May 2006 by the FISA to re-establish them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202746-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Senior Tour\nThe 2009 European Senior Tour was the 18th season of the European Senior Tour, the professional golf tour for men aged 50 and above operated by the PGA European Tour. Sam Torrance won one event and his third Order of Merit title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202746-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Senior Tour, Tournament results\nThe numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the European Senior Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for players who are members of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202746-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Senior Tour, Tournament results\nFor the tour schedule on the European Senior Tour's website, including links to full results, click .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202746-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Senior Tour, Leading money winners\nThere is a complete list on the official site .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship\nThe 2009 European Sevens Championship was a rugby sevens competition, with the final held in Hanover, Germany. It was the eighth edition of the European Sevens championship and was organised by rugby's European governing body, the FIRA \u2013 Association of European Rugby (FIRA-AER).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship\nThe tournament differed from the previous seasons event as the number of participating men's teams had been reduced from twelve to ten. Instead, a women's tournament was held alongside the men's, also consisting of ten teams. The men's tournament was won by Russia, while England took out the women's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Tournament history\nFrom 2002, FIRA, the governing body of European rugby, has been organising an annual European Sevens Championship tournament. A number of qualifying tournaments lead up to a finals tournament, which functions as the European championship and, in 2008, also as the qualifying stage for the Sevens World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Tournament history\nThe first European Championship was held in 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany, and was won by Portugal, the team that won every men's championship since except 2007 and 2009, when Russia won. In 2003,  the tournament was again held in Heidelberg and, in 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain was the host. From 2005 to 2007, Moscow was the host of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Tournament history\nHanover held the tournament for the first time in 2008 and did so again in 2009. In 2010, the tournament will return to Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Finals stadium\nThe 2008 and 2009 finals tournaments were held at the AWD-Arena in Hanover, home ground of the football club Hannover 96. The stadium holds 50.000 spectators, 43,000 of them on seats, the rest standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Qualifying\nA qualifying competition was held for the men's teams, with points allocated according to final placings in each tournament. Each nation was required to play two qualifying tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202747-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Sevens Championship, Qualifying\nTen teams qualified through the six qualifying tournaments, held at the following locations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202748-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Shield\nThe 2009 Shield featured the same teams as participated in 2008. In the 2009 fixture, Italy became the first nation to win back-to-back European Shields. As a result they were drafted into the 2009 European Cup, following Russia's withdrawal from that competition. The Czech Republic also reached a milestone, recording their first win in the competition, beating Germany 30 - 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships\nThe 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 December 2009. A temporary swimming pool was built within the Abdi \u0130pek\u00e7i Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships\nThe event was held over four days with: heats, semifinals and a final for the 50\u00a0m and 100\u00a0m events and heats and a final for all other events with the exception of the women's 800\u00a0m and men's 1500\u00a0m freestyle which were heat declared winners. Heats were held in the morning, with semifinals, finals and the fastest heat of the distance freestyle events in the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships\nEach nation was permitted to enter three swimmers into each individual event, however only the fastest two were able to progress to the semifinal and/or final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Participating nations\nOf the 51 member nations of LEN, 41 participated in the championships. Albania and Liechtenstein made their European Short Course Championships debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Medal summary, Men's events\nLegend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Medal summary, Women's events\nLegend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202749-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Records\nThe table below lists the world (WR), European (ER) and Championships (CR) records broken at the meet. Times displayed in shaded cells were subsequently broken later in the meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202750-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2009 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 16 and 18 January 2009 in Turin, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202751-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speed Skating Championships\nThe 2009 European Speed Skating Championships were held at the indoor ice rink of the Thialf in Heerenveen (the Netherlands) on 9\u201311 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202751-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speed Skating Championships, Men's championships, Allround results\nNQ = Not qualified for the 10000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)DQ = Disqualified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202751-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speed Skating Championships, Women's championships, Allround results\nNQ = Not qualified for the 5000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)DQ = Disqualified", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202751-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nAll 24 participating skaters are allowed to skate the first three distances; 12 skaters may take part on the fourth distance. These 12 skaters are determined by taking the standings on the longest of the first three distances, as well as the samalog standings after three distances, and comparing these lists as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202752-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup\nThe 2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup will be the 12th UEM European Speedway Club Champions' Cup season. The Final take place on 19 September 2009 at the MotoArena Toru\u0144 in Toru\u0144, Poland. The meeting was won by Kaskad Rivne who beat host time Unibax Toru\u0144, Vostok Vladivostok and Simon & Wolf Debrecen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202752-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup, Heat details, Semi-Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202752-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup, Heat details, The Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202753-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Table Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 European Table Tennis Championships was held in Stuttgart, Germany from 13\u201320 October 2009. Venue for the competition was Porsche-Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships\nThe first European Athletics Team Championships took place on 20 and 21 June 2009. The track and field athletics tournament run by European Athletics was the successor of the old European Cup competition which was held annually until 2008. The Championships saw a number of new rules introduced, which were criticised by some athletes and observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, New rules\nThe European Team Championships modified and added to the rules of its predecessor competition, the European Cup. Men and women's team competed under one unified national banner for the first time. Furthermore, the competition was opened to all European Athletics member states and was divided into four leagues: the Super League, First League, Second League, and Third League. The top two leagues each comprised twelve competing nations, while the Second and Third Leagues had eight and fourteen teams, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, New rules\nElimination rules were added to the 3000 metres, 3000 metres steeplechase, and 5000 metres races. In the shorter races, the athlete in last place when five, four, and three laps were remaining was eliminated. In the 5000\u00a0m the cut off points were at seven, five, and three laps remaining. The rule change caused some confusion in the women's 3000\u00a0m when Spain's Natalia Rodriguez was eliminated with three laps remaining, but carried on running and eventually won the race. She was disqualified, however, and Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova was announced as the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, New rules\nRodriguez said that she thought the elimination stage came at a later point in the race, and winner Galkina-Samitova was critical of the change, stating \"This new elimination rule shouldn't exist. Everyone should race till the end\". Further problems arose in the men's 5000\u00a0m, when four athletes reached the five laps remaining mark at the same time. The group slowed, unable to tell who was eliminated, and while awaiting the photo-finish the four dropped away from the other runners. Race winner Mo Farah complied with the elimination rule but stated that every athlete had a right to finish, branding the rule change as \"strange\". Sections of the press also expressed reservations about the changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, New rules\nOther rule changes included a 'no false start rule' in all the track events. (Any athlete false starting would have been immediately disqualified and received no points, but this did not occur at the inaugural championships). Athletes in the high jump and pole vault events were permitted a maximum total of four fouls throughout the day's competition. Also, the jumping and throwing events featured elimination rounds: athletes had two trial attempts, then the six best-ranked athletes had a third attempt, then finally the top four athletes had a fourth attempt. The elimination rounds caused some upsets, with highly rated Russian hammer thrower, Aleksey Zagornyi failing to progress beyond the trial rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, New rules\nMany athletes did not fully support the new regulations, and European Athletics President Hansj\u00f6rg Wirz accepted that the rules needed refinement. However, he was pleased with the competition's reception and stated that the rule changes would make athletics more accessible to a wider audience. Portugal's Rui Silva, who won the 1500 metres, remarked that although the regulations had unusual outcomes, a positive approach to the rules, and further refinement, would be beneficial to the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, League positions\nThe leagues for the 2009 competition were formed by combination of each country's men and women's performances in the European Cup 2008. As the teams were 46, the winning team received 46 points, the second 45 and so on. The leagues were formed as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202754-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships, Third League, Participating countries\nAthletic Association of Small States of Europe(\u00a0Liechtenstein, \u00a0Malta, \u00a0Monaco, \u00a0San Marino)\u00a0Andorra\u00a0Armenia\u00a0Azerbaijan\u00a0Bosnia and Herzegovina\u00a0Denmark", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202755-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships Super League\nThe 2009 European Team Championships Super League was the Super League of the 1st edition of the European Team Championships (European Athletics Team Championships from 2013 edition), the 2009 European Team Championships, which took place on 20 and 21 June 2009 in Leiria, Portugal. A couple of rules were introduced applying specifically to this competition, some of which were discarded or altered for the subsequent editions. See the main article for more details.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202755-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Team Championships Super League, Women's results, Javelin throw\nJune 20 Than the new ranking after IAAF decision for doping disqualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour\nThe 2009 European Tour was the 38th series of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972. There were major changes for the 2009 season as the tour entered a partnership agreement with Dubai based Leisurecorp. The Order of Merit was renamed the Race to Dubai with the addition of a new season ending tournament, the Dubai World Championship, being contested by the leading 60 players after the penultimate event for a US$7.5 million prize fund and a US$7.5 million bonus pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour\nThe Race to Dubai was won by Lee Westwood, who finished as European number one for the second time. He won the season ending Dubai World Championship to overtake Rory McIlroy in the standings. Westwood was also named Golfer of the Year, with Chris Wood being named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year, having recorded a 3rd-place finish in The Open Championship on his way to 44th on the end of season money list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Major tournaments\nFor a summary of the major tournaments and events of 2009, including the major championships and the World Golf Championships, see 2009 in golf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 2009 season schedule, which began with five events in late 2008 and consisted of 54 official money tournaments. This was an increase of four from the previous year, although three events were ultimately cancelled, and included the four major championships and four World Golf Championships, which are also sanctioned by the PGA Tour. 27 events took place in Europe, 14 in Asia, 6 in the United States, 3 in South Africa and 3 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Schedule\nChanges from the 2008 season included two new tournaments, the Moravia Silesia Open in the Czech Republic and the Dubai World Championship, the addition of the Singapore Open, and the return of the World Match Play Championship after being cancelled in 2008. In addition, as a result of plans to realign the schedule with the calendar year for 2010, the HSBC Champions, Hong Kong Open and the Australian Masters were held twice during the 2009 season. The HSBC Champions became a World Golf Championships event effective with its November 2009 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Schedule\nIn December 2008 the Indian Masters, scheduled for February, was cancelled due to fallout from the ongoing financial crisis, and then in January 2009 it was announced that the revival of the English Open, scheduled for August, would be postponed for at least two years after developers of the St. Mellion International Resort ran into financial difficulties. In May it was announced that due to lack of sponsorship the British Masters had also been dropped from the schedule, with the Austrian Open being rescheduled from June to take its place on the calendar in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Race to Dubai\nIn 2009, the Order of Merit was rebranded as the Race To Dubai, with a bonus pool of $7.5 million (originally $10 million) to be distributed among the top 15 players at the end of the season, of which the winner received $1.5 million (originally $2 million). The new name reflects the addition of a new season ending tournament, the Dubai World Championship, held at the end of November in Dubai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Race to Dubai\nThe tournament also had a $7.5 million prize fund (originally $10 million), and was contested by the leading 60 players in the race following the seasons penultimate event, the Hong Kong Open. The winner of the Race To Dubai also receives a ten-year European Tour exemption, while the winner of the Dubai World Championship tournament receives a five-year European Tour exemption. The reduction in prize money, announced in September 2009, was due to the global economic downturn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Race to Dubai, Final standings\nThe following table shows the final Race to Dubai standings for 2009, including the top 15 players who qualified for the bonus pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202756-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour, Awards, Golfer of the Month\nThe winners of the European Tour Golfer of the Month Award were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202757-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 31 players who earned their 2010 European Tour card through Q School in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202757-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2010 Results\n* European Tour rookie in 2010T = Tied \u00a0 The player retained his European Tour card for 2011 (finished inside the top 117). The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2011, but retained conditional status (finished between 118-150). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2011 (finished outside the top 150).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202757-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2010 Results\nOhlsson, Johansen, and Coetzee regained their cards for 2011 through Q School, while Gagli regained his by finishing 17th in the Challenge Tour rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202758-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Touring Car Cup\nThe 2009 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the fifth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It was held on 25 October 2009 at the Circuito Vasco Sameiro near Braga in Portugal. James Thompson won the event after winning the second race. Norbert Michelisz won the first race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202758-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Touring Car Cup, Entry list\n\u2020 Although in attendance, Radermecker did not compete due to a technical problem with his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202758-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Touring Car Cup, Report, Qualifying\nSEAT Leon Eurocup champion Norbert Michelisz took pole position from Franz Engstler at the very end of the session. Bamboo Engineering pairing Duarte F\u00e9lix Da Costa and Harry Vaulkhard locked out the second row of the grid. Pre -event favourites James Thompson and Michel Nykj\u00e6r qualified down in sixth and eighth respectively. Vincent Radermecker was forced to sit out the session due to problems with his Chevrolet Lacetti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202759-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Truck Racing Championship\nThe 2009 FIA European Truck Racing Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for production based trucks held across Europe. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of two-axle tractor units which conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It was the 25th European Truck Racing Championship season and began at Assen on May 10, with the finale at Jarama on October 4 after nine events. The championship was won by David Vr\u0161eck\u00fd, taking his second title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202759-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Truck Racing Championship, Teams and drivers\nRace drivers without fixed number, whose number is defined race by race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202759-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Truck Racing Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship\nEach round or racing event consisted of four races. At the races 1 and 3, the points awarded according to the ranking was on a 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top 10 finishers \u2013 at the races 2 and 4 with reversed grid, the points awarded were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1  (rank 1 - 10) respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202760-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European U17 Badminton Championships\nThe 2009 European U17 Badminton Championships were held in Medvode, Slovenia, between November 11 and November 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship\nThe 2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship was the sixth annual international rugby union competition for Under 18 national rugby union teams in Europe. The event was organised by rugby's European governing body, the FIRA \u2013 Association of European Rugby (FIRA-AER). The competition was contested by 32 men's junior national teams and was held in early April 2009. It was hosted by the French region of Var - C\u00f4te d'Azur, with the final held in Toulon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship\nThe tournament was won by France, who won its fourth European championship and its third in a row, with England finishing runners-up. The tournament marked forty years of international age grade rugby on the European continent, 1969 having been the year when the first European Under 19 competition was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship\nIt was sponsored by French company Justin Bridou and therefore officially called the 2009 Justin Bridou European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, History\nThe European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship was first held in 2004, in Treviso, Italy. It replaced the previously held European Under-18 Emergent Nations Championship, which had first been held in 2000. The first championship in 2004 was won by France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, History\nThe following two championships, held in Lille, France in 2005 and again in Treviso in 2006, were won by England. Alternating between France and Italy, the next three championships were held in Biarritz, Treviso again, and Toulon in 2009. All three were taken out by France, but of Europes top rugby playing nations, Wales and Scotland did not take part in the latest editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nThe championship, similar to previous editions, was organised in an A, B, C and D Division, with A being the highest and D the lowest. Each division consisted of eight teams and each team played three competition games, with a quarter final, semi final and final/placing game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nThe quarter finals were played according to a seeding list, with the winners moving on to the first to fourth place semi finals while the losers would enter the fifth to eighth place semi finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nThe winners of the semi finals one to four would play in the division final while the losers would play for third place. Similarly, the winners of the fifth to eighth semi finals would play for fifth place while the losers would play for seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nThe winner of the A division was crowned European champions while the eighth placed team would originally be relegated to the B division. Similarly, the winner of B, C and D division would move up a division for 2010 while the last placed teams would nominally be relegated. This meant, France was crowned European champions while Italy finished on the relegation spot, but was reprieved of relegation by England choosing not to participate in the 2010 tournament. Germany won the B division, Czech Republic the C division and Luxembourg the D. The last placed teams, for the same reason as Italy, were all spared relegation, too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nWith a C\u00f4te d'Azur Selection, a non-national team took part to provide even numbers in all four divisions. With Armenia and Monaco, two teams took part that hadn't taken part in previous editions and would not do so again in 2010, while Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had played the previous two tournaments, did also not take part in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format\nThe teams of England, Italy and Ireland at the tournament were B selections, as these nations had committed themselves to an Under-18 Festival in Parma, Italy, where Wales and Scotland also took part. The French team however opted to take part in the European Championship instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202761-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Venues\nThe games of the 2009 championship were played at the following locations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202762-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe Men's 2009 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships was held at the Odense Sports Centre in Odense, Denmark from June 14 to June 21. The 7th edition of the annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202763-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 2009 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Bucharest, Romania from 3 April to 12 April 2009. It was the 88th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202764-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women Sevens Championship\nThe 2009 European Women Sevens Championship was the seventh edition of the European Women's Sevens Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202764-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women Sevens Championship, F-EN Tournament 2009\nParticipants: Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia, with guests Bosnia-Herzogovina and Serbia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202764-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women Sevens Championship, FIRA-AER Tournament 2009 - Division B\nVenue/Date: 6\u20137 June 2009, Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was replaced in 2008 by World Cup qualifying. Slovenia, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia and Greece were expected to join this tournament in 2008. The plans of Slovakia and Greece aren't yet known. (Source Fira-Aer)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202764-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women Sevens Championship, F-EN Finals 2009\nParticipants are Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia, with guests Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202765-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women's Fistball Championship\nThe 2009 Women's European Fistball Championship was held in Zofingen (Switzerland) from August 14 to 15, with five women's national teams: Austria, Catalonia, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202765-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Women's Fistball Championship\nThe first round was played as the best of 3 sets (11 points) and the rest of competition was played as the best of 5 sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202766-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Wrestling Championships\nThe 2009 FILA European Wrestling Championships were held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The event took place from 31 March to 5 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202766-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Wrestling Championships, Bids\nFive countries showed interest in hosting the tournament, but only two were shortlisted: Vilnius (Lithuania) and Antalya (Turkey). CELA picked Vilnius at 2008 in Tampere and FILA confirmed the choice in Beijing during Olympic games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202767-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Baseball Championship\nThe 2009 European Youth Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Brno, Czech Republic from July 7 to 11, 2009. It featured teams from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202767-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Baseball Championship\nIn the end the team from Italy won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202768-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival\nThe 2009 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held between 15 and 20 February 2009 in Poland. The host cities are 5 cities in the Silesian province of Poland, namely Bielsko-Biala, Cieszyn, Szczyrk, Tychy, and Wisla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202768-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, Schedule\nThe competition schedule for the 2009 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202769-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival\nThe 2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Tampere, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202769-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, Mascot\nThe mascot for the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival is Finx, a Eurasian lynx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202769-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, Venues\nEight venues were used in this edition of European Youth Olympic Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods\nThe 2009 European floods were a series of natural disasters that took place in June 2009 in Central Europe. Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey were all affected. The heavy rains caused overflowing of the rivers Oder, Vistula, Elbe and Danube. At least 12 people were killed in the Czech Republic and one in Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods\nThe floods were the worst natural disaster in the Czech Republic since 2002, when floods killed 17 people and caused billions of dollars of damage in Prague. Those same floodwaters from the Czech Republic also affected Germany, with Dresden being hit by its worst flooding for over a century and three thousand people evacuated from areas where water was said to be waist-deep. Austria also experienced its heaviest rainfalls in half a century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Weather\nJune 2009 was one of the rainiest months of June for Austria since weather records have been kept. After a very dry April, May had already been wet, and in the middle of June, low pressure areas and thunderstorms followed. Quinton Low ensured strong rainfall in the Eastern Alps, the southern Carpathians, and from the middle of the Balkan Peninsula to the Crimea and Baltic Sea regions between 20 and 30 June. It moved slowly over the Adriatic Sea toward the Black Sea forming an upper low \u2013 despite the typical muggy movement from the southeast and build-up of precipitation from the east and northeast, a classic flood situation that was missing the Genoa low of a ground low core.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Weather\nThe Quinton Low formed from 20 to 22 June, through constriction of an upper low over the Alps towards the southeast. An Atlantic infusion of cold air had brought heavy precipitation with snowfall down to elevations of 1500m. The separated upper low shifted over the mid-Adriatic on 20 and 21 June and the central Balkans on 22 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 European floods, Weather\nIts front system, which was occluded from the east and then was guided to the northeast towards Central Europe, drove from 22 to 24 June from the Lower Inn Valley to the Vienna Basin with heavy precipitation of over 100mm/48h, with 207mm/48h in Lunz am See. Locally, this phase was similar to the 2005 European floods, although in that year there was a faster rise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Weather\nStarting on 25 June, the low moved over the Black Sea. On 25 and 26 June, the precipitation was concentrated in the area around Belgrade and Southern Hungary. In Austria and the Czech Republic, the situation eased. On 27 and 28 June, a front moved towards Southern Poland and the Baltic states, and further precipitation-heavy air masses once again struck the Czech Republic, Austria, and Serbia, as well as Central Bulgaria and Moldova on 29 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Weather\nThe stable and stationary weather situation did not disintegrate until after 29 June. However, the air mass over Central and Eastern Europe remained extremely moist and unstable such that heavy thunderstorms repeatedly drove further local floods in the following days. Local areas of heavy rain of up to 50mm in a few hours were recorded across Central Europe until the first two weeks of July. The end of the weather phase did not occur until the passing of the low Rainer over England and the North Sea and low Steffen over Southern Scandinavia, which the slowly advancing weather system surrounded from 3 to 9 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn Tuesday 23 June, the strong rise began to impact the tributaries that lead from the south to the Danube, and flood warnings were triggered on the night of 24 June in many places in the Upper and Lower Austrian Prealps. The state warning centers were reinforced. By the morning of 24 June, about 4,000 firefighters were already operating in Upper Austria and Lower Austria. Armed Forces helicopters were also in use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nIn Upper Austria, the Krems and Traun rivers partially came together at the banks. The level of the tributaries was rising while the Danube was steady. Seven districts in Lower Austria were already affected. The rivers Ybbs, Melk, Erlauf, Traisen, and Perschling were especially flooded. Ybbsitz had been closed off from the outside world since 3AM. At the Danube (Strudengau, Wachau), the available mobile flood prevention equipment was assembled as much as possible. In Styria, only individual actions were reported, mainly pumping operations but also elimination of mudslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nBy 25 June, the persistent rainfall was over. Instead, increasingly short heavy rains with large masses of water were recorded. Since the ground was no longer receptive to water, the aftereffects of these precipitations were similarly devastating. In Upper Austria, the situation calmed because the level of the tributaries was slowly falling towards normal levels. In Steyr, the level had sunk to the quay, 1.4m less than the previous day. The Danube had reached its highest level of 6.9m overnight in Mauthausen and also sank slowly. The center of the flood shifted towards Wachau as the precipitation itself moved towards the east. 253 of the 326 fire departments in Burgenland were called on for flood operations within 24 hours. The Albertina Museum in Vienna evacuated 950,000 artworks by artists such as Monet and Renoir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 870]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn 26 June further floods affected areas stretching from Mostviertel to Burgenland, particularly in the G\u00fcssing District where whole tracts of land were under up to a meter of water, while Strem was surrounded by masses of water. The Armed Forces assisted the fire departments with 200 men. In the Lower Austrian Klingfurth near Wiener Neustadt, homes threatened by a landslide had to be evacuated. The Adria-Wien Pipeline, which lies in the affected hillside, had to be turned off for security reasons. In Styria, in which about 400 landslides were recorded since the beginning of the storm, the situation calmed a bit as the day turned to evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn Saturday 27 June, two dams of the Leitha river in Bruck an der Leitha District were broken open, allowing water to flow into an uninhabited area so as to relieve the river. On Sunday night, a fatality was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nFurther installments of rain were encountered after the weekend. The assistance of the Armed Forces concentrated on the areas around Feldbach District and F\u00fcrstenfeld District. Upper Styria was also increasingly affected. The village of Radmer was without power and completely inaccessible after heavy mudslides. Floods and obstructions also surrounded Mariazell and Hieflau. The situation at the Enns intensified again. On the afternoon of Monday 29 June the level of the Steyr was again over 4m. Wachau also went into another flood warning. On the night of 30 June the Alpine railway station was flooded for the second time in the span of a few days after the strongest-ever measured rainfall in St. P\u00f6lten. The \u00d6BB again closed down the operation of the Mariazellerbahn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn Tuesday, further landslides were able to be stopped with the help of Czech hedgehogs. Nevertheless, numerous buildings could still not be cleared as habitable. Due to scattered storms in Graz-Umgebung District, there were also frequent lightning strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn Friday 3 July Wachau was affected by the storm for the second time within two weeks. Spitz, which had been previously flooded by the Danube, was flooded this time by the usually only 30\u00a0cm deep Spitzerbach, which swelled to 4m after thunderstorms. An 81-year-old man who was swept away was not found until 12 July in the Danube. Also, in Waldviertel and Steyr-Land District, severe thunderstorms occurred with heavy precipitation, which again required the use of over 2,000 firefighters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn Monday 6 July the strongest rainfall in 200 years began in the afternoon hours. Parts of Lower Austria, Vienna, and Northern Burgenland were especially affected. St. P\u00f6lten was again declared a disaster area, as large parts of the metropolitan area were flooded. The Nadelbach flooded the cadastral communities Nadelbach and Hafing. The surroundings of the Alpine Railway Station were yet again under water. Areas that had never before had to suffer through flooding were also unexpectedly under water on 6 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nEuropaplatz and Schie\u00dfstadtring in St. P\u00f6lten had to be closed off; a 7m-wide stream had carved itself out leading from the Alpine Railway Station to the center of the city. The regional court and the prison were also threatened by high water. A further danger existed at the EVN Group substation as the water level had almost brought power production to a halt. The B1a tunnel under the government Landhaus district was blocked due to the flood. The Western Railway had to be closed down for two hours in the evening. Additional problems arose due to the rise of the groundwater level associated with the flooding, which also reached a historical peak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nSevere weather warnings were issued on Thursday 7 July that were similar in scope to the days before. This time however, the storm affected the Upper Austrian area more, where especially extensive damage had been done by hail in agricultural areas in Gmunden, V\u00f6cklabruck, and Wels. In D\u00fcrnstein in Wachau, there were rockslides at Vogelbergsteig, which blocked both the Danube Highway and the Danube Railway. The B3 became once again freely passable on 10 July, after explosions that removed loose rock from the wall. However, the Danube Railway required longer repair work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria\nOn 10 July the situation in Styria again took a turn for the worse. There was further rainfall, especially in Feldbach District. There were about 600 landslides in Styria around this timeframe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria, Precipitation in Austria\nFrom 7:00AM on 22 June to 7:00AM on 24 June, several places in Austria received over 150L/m2 of rainfall. Below is the total monthly precipitation for June 2009 \u2013 from Upper Austria to Northern Burgenland, 200-300% of the average monthly precipitation totals were recorded, with Spitzenwert in St. P\u00f6lten at 388%, almost four times the normal amount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria, Precipitation in Austria\nThe precipitation persisted even into the first half of July. Spitzenwerte was reached on 6 July. Places where the level reached over 50L/m2:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria, Damage and relief efforts\nDamage estimates were first released after two weeks. The damage in Burgenland amounted to over \u20ac2,500,000. In Lower Austria, about 3,000 claims were registered with a total claim amount of about \u20ac60,000,000. Because of this, the assistance for Lower Austria was increased from an estimated \u20ac2,500,000 to \u20ac10,000,000. In Upper Austria, damage claims were expected to be about \u20ac20,000,000. In Styria, the amount was about \u20ac10,000,000. The other federal states did not report damage totals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria, Damage and relief efforts\nSince disaster management in Austria takes place mainly at the federal state level, figures for all of Austria are not readily available. Countrywide figures were only released for the Armed Forces. 137,000 relief hours were worked in the assistance operation from 23 June to 9 July. On average, about 700 soldiers were deployed at any time countrywide. 311,000 relief hours were worked by firefighters and disaster assistance services in the largest federal state Lower Austria alone. The Austrian Red Cross also helped with many volunteers and crisis intervention teams. Likewise, Team Austria volunteers were put to work in the relief effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Austria, Damage and relief efforts\nThe fact that at the beginning of August in Lower Austria alone twelve streets and three railways were obstructed shows how extensive the infrastructure damage was. The repair work took weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nIn the Czech Republic, persistent heavy rainfall beginning on 22 June led to the rise of smaller Vltavan tributaries in the Bohemian Forest and the Nov\u00e9 Hrady Mountains. A flood warning was issued for the South Bohemian Region. The highest level was reached in the rivers Mal\u0161e, Blatnice, and \u010cern\u00e1. \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice was also affected by the warning. In the evening, the Ro\u017enovsk\u00e1 Be\u010dva rose about 1.2m in Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Mezi\u0159\u00ed\u010d\u00ed and its water level at the estuary in the Be\u010dva rose to ten times normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nThe Vset\u00ednsk\u00e1 Be\u010dva also swelled and several streets were flooded in Vset\u00edn, Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Mezi\u0159\u00ed\u010d\u00ed, and Ro\u017enov pod Radho\u0161t\u011bm. In Zub\u0159\u00ed, numerous cars were overcome by the water. There were fatalities in \u010cernot\u00edn and Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Mezi\u0159\u00ed\u010d\u00ed. In \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov, the Vltava reached six times the normal water amount, with 63 m3/s. Near V\u011bt\u0159n\u00ed, a dinghy containing three occupants capsized, one of which drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nThe floods in North Moravia and Silesia took on a different character. In the span of two hours on 24 June, strong rainfall brought flash floods with up to 80L/m2 of rain at the streams Ji\u010d\u00ednka and Zrz\u00e1vka. The level of the Ji\u010d\u00ednka swelled to 5.5m and thereby exceeded the 1997 Central European flood by 2m. In Jesen\u00edk nad Odrou, the brook Luha rose to 2m in the span of a half-hour; four people died in that community, three by drowning. People also died in Nov\u00fd Ji\u010d\u00edn, Bernartice nad Odrou, \u017divotice u Nov\u00e9ho Ji\u010d\u00edna, and Kun\u00edn. The floods also created extensive damage in districts of Nov\u00fd Ji\u010d\u00edn such as Bludovice, \u017dilina, Hodslavice, and Mo\u0159kov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nOther rivers temporarily rose over their banks after strong local rainfall. In Bohemian Switzerland, the Kamenice flooded parts of Jansk\u00e1 on the evening of 1 July. On 6 July sudden thunderstorms hit \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem Region, where a state of emergency had to be called in some places. West and South Bohemia were also severely threatened in places like T\u00e1bor. The authorities feared a burst of dams of artificial lakes and considered evacuating the affected villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nParts of West and South Bohemia as well as Central Moravia were also greatly affected by the flood. In the region, dams of a series of artificially created lakes threatened to break. The authorities considered the evacuation of more villages on Tuesday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nOverall, fourteen people died in the Czech Republic due to the impact of the flooding. The Olomouc Region and the Moravian-Silesian Region were particularly affected in the drainage basins of the Oder and the Morava where numerous streets and rail lines were disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nIn the first estimates, the total damage was estimated to be 5-6 billion Czech koruna (about \u20ac230,000,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nHepatitis vaccinations were commenced for children in severely affected areas in order to prevent an outbreak of the disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Czech Republic\nOn 24 July the lowest flood warning level was lifted in Nov\u00fd Ji\u010d\u00edn Region. Criticism of the speed of response by firefighters and municipalities was prevalent, as citizens were not informed about impending floods. The Environmental Minister Ladislav Miko confirmed that the meteorological internet server broke down at a critical time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Germany\nBy 23 June the first warnings in Bavaria had already come, as precipitation amounted to 70L/m2 in 24 hours. In the mountains, snowfall was observed. On the Zugspitze, 60\u00a0cm of new snow fell. The first floods came at the Inn. Alt\u00f6tting, Berchtesgadener Land, Cham, and particularly Traunstein were affected by the flooding owing to rising tributaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Germany\nOn Thursday night, 25 June, the level of the Danube rose in Passau, such that the warning level reached 3 (definition: individual built-up properties or basements are flooded, blocking of local transport channels, or isolated use of water or dam defense is required). On Thursday, the flooding of the Danube and the Isar moved the warning level to 2 (definition: agriculture and forestry land is flooded or light traffic delays on main traffic roads and local roads). Throughout Thursday, the water level sank in Passau, however the recession was slow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Hungary\nThe first flood notifications in Hungary came on 25 June. The R\u00e1ba reached the highest ever measured level in Szentgotth\u00e1rd on Thursday morning. This was about 30\u00a0cm higher than in a large flood in 1965. Due to the temporary expansion of flood protection and because the high water level did not persist, there was no expected risk. The Hungarian Western Railway still had to close down operation between Szentgotth\u00e1rd and Jennersdorf because the rails were undermined in numerous places. In Kom\u00e1rom-Esztergom County, the first flood warning level was called. The Leitha in Hungarian territory was not affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Hungary\nOn 26 June a cautious all-clear was announced for the Danube between Esztergom and Budapest because the water levels remained lower than had been feared. The peak was expected on the night of 27 June into the 28th and was estimated to be 40\u201350\u00a0cm deeper than in the devastating floods of 2006. Nevertheless, precautions were taken in numerous important locations, such as Szentendre Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Hungary\nOn the morning of Sunday 28 June the Danube reached its high point, which was 25% less than the floods in 2006. Flood warnings were in effect for a stretch of 528 kilometers of the Danube in Hungary. In Nagymaros, the level rose 5.33m, while the level in Budapest rose 6.96m. The increase had been expected to be 7.04m for a short time. In the upper Danube areas, the level sank noticeably around this time. In Budapest alone, the floods led to the blockage of the two quays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Hungary\nOn 2 July there were alerts along 853 kilometers. 36 kilometers of third degree alerts near the river Lajta, second degree on the Danube at Dunakiliti, Gy\u0151r, Kom\u00e1rom, Esztergom, Budapest and on the river R\u00e1ba at S\u00e1rv\u00e1r, first degree alerts from the Ipoly river mouth to the southern border of Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Poland\nOn 23 June smaller rivers rose in the area of Rzesz\u00f3w and in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. After strong rain fell in the Owl Mountains (at the rate of 60mm/h in Walim, for example), flood warnings were called for the Pi\u0142awa at Mo\u015bcisko (Faulbr\u00fcck) and the Bystrzyca \u015awidnicka at Lubach\u00f3w (Breitenhain). In \u015awidnica, Bystrzyca Street flooded. Further damage was seen in Wa\u0142brzych and Jelenia G\u00f3ra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Poland\nThe Polish National Security Center stated that rivers exceeded warning levels in forty-three areas, whilst alarm levels were exceeded in a further twenty places. A total of fifty families were evacuated in Krak\u00f3w. Water submerged a railway station in Upper Silesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Romania\nFlood warnings were issued for 22 and 23 June for 21 counties. Amidst rain and hail, warnings were also issued for the Buz\u0103u and Ialomi\u0163a rivers for 29 and 30 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Serbia\nSerbia was also hit with heavy rainfall by the storms. Places like Belgrade and Novi Sad in the north of the country were mainly affected, but Valjevo was also affected 90\u00a0km southeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Slovakia\nFlood warnings were issued for parts of Northwest and far West Slovakia on 24 June and extended to the Danubian Lowland on the 25th. They became effective on 26 June for the entire length of the Danube and at the Morava. In \u010cir\u010d in the Pre\u0161ov Region near the Polish border, two people had already been killed on 23 June. A brother and sister drowned as the sister tried to rescue her brother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Slovakia\nIn Dev\u00edn, a suburb of Bratislava, the level of the Danube was 8.3m on 26 June. Alongside Dev\u00edn, Petr\u017ealka, \u0160ari\u0161, and Dunajsk\u00e1 Streda were affected by a storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Slovakia\nOn 27 and 28 June the flood shifted to Bardejov, Tvrdo\u0161\u00edn, and N\u00e1mestovo. The communities of Rab\u010da and Oravsk\u00e1 Polhora were particularly at risk as two bridges had been destroyed. On the 29th, Ke\u017emarok, Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Bel\u00e1, \u013dubica, Star\u00e1 Bystrica, and Rad\u00f4stka were affected by landslides and flooding and there were additional storms in Senica and Skalica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Slovakia\nA 20-year-old Slovak drowned in the Ru\u017e\u00edn reservoir. A Czech died as a tourist raft sank in the border river Dunajec. One person also died in Star\u00e1 \u013dubov\u0148a near the Polish border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Turkey\nA flash flood in Istanbul started on 9 September. Heavy rains caused water levels to rise six feet, flooding a major highway and commercial district in the city's Ikitelli district. Hundreds of people climbed onto rooftops, and many desperate motorists struggled to escape their vehicles and run to safety. Others drowned in their own vehicles. Many people taking refuge on rooftop of them were airlifted to safety by rescue helicopters. Rescue workers using inflatable boats also travelled through the flooded streets, picking up survivors. Some rescuers used ropes to drag people across the torrent to safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 European floods, By country, Turkey\nFour helicopters and eight boats were used for rescue work. Istanbul firefighters recovered seven bodies at a truck parking lot littered with upended trucks. The bodies of seven women were found in a van outside a textile factory. The van had been taking them to their jobs, when the flood hit. Police were deployed throughout the city to prevent looting. Two other people died in Istanbul's Catalca suburb and six others were swept away by the flood. 20 people died, 8 were listed as missing, and 20 were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Further storms\nStorms followed this series of floods that had no connection with the weather referenced above but mostly affected the same areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Further storms\nOn the night of 23 July a storm front moved from Germany into Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland that arose due to previously prevalent unusually high temperatures. It impacted the area through hail and storms and partially also through heavy rainfall. In Lower Austria, where such fronts usually dissipate, the front strengthened and the storms hit the Vienna metropolitan area. The population was completely unprepared when the storm struck because it did not appear in any weather models. People were injured or even killed mainly by uprooted trees. Agriculture was also hit hard with damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 European floods, Further storms\nWidespread power outages were recorded. The Austrian insurance companies faced damages of around \u20ac20,000,000 in the agricultural industry alone. The Austrian hail insurance companies also faced the largest single event in the last 60 years from a cost of damages perspective. On 25 July the emergency personnel of firefighters and the Armed Forces was still engaged in partially repairing an estimated 500 destroyed houses in the Flachgau Region in order to achieve renewed rainfall resistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202770-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 European floods, Further storms\nIn Poland, eight people were killed and 34 people were injured by uprooted trees. Two people were also killed in the Czech Republic. Power was still not completely restored by 25 July in the surrounding areas of Liberec and Bohemia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal\n\"UEFA will be demanding the harshest of sanctions before the competent courts for any individuals, clubs or officials who are implicated in this malpractice, be it under state or sports jurisdiction.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal\nThe 2009 European football betting scandal was an attempt to influence the outcome of professional association football matches in Europe, and to defraud the gambling industry by betting on the results. The investigation centres on around 200 fixtures, including domestic league games in nine European countries: Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria. It also involved twelve qualifying matches in the UEFA Europa League, and three in the UEFA Champions League. Peter Limacher, a spokesman for European football's governing body UEFA, described it as \"the biggest match-fixing scandal ever to hit Europe.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\n\"If results are fixed in advance, football has no further reason to exist.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nThe 2009 European football betting scandal was considered to be the biggest affair in European football since the 2005 football scandal of referee Robert Hoyzer and the Bundesliga-scandal in the 1970/71 season when numerous players, coaches and officials were involved in game shifts. The extent and effects were regarded as even greater than in the previous manipulations in football. Some newspapers refer to this scandal as the \"biggest fraud scandal of all time\" and Peter Limacher, head of the disciplinary department of UEFA, spoke of it as the \"biggest fraud scandal ever in European football\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nAccording to information from the Bochum prosecutor's office on 20 November 2009, at least 200 football matches had been manipulated in nine European countries since the beginning of 2009. The fraudsters had bribed players, coaches and officials to influence gameplay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nThe two Croatian brothers Ante and Milan Sapina were arrested on 19 November 2009 and held responsible for fraud involving the betting manipulated games in Asia (provider: SBOBET with license in the Philippines and Europe, totaling about 10 million Euro. They had already been given a prison sentence after the 2005 football scandal. A further 15 persons were arrested in Germany. More than 50 house searches were carried out in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Switzerland, Austria and the United Kingdom. Cash and assets of more than one million Euro were seized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nThe UEFA European Football Association suspended the Ukrainian referee Oleg Orijechow, in connection with the betting scandal, and who had supposedly been in personal contact with a member of the betting mafia, according to Spiegel Online. He was summoned to Nyon for a personal hearing at the Federation Center following an investigation by UEFA's anti-corruption unit. UEFA revealed in March 2009 that they were bringing charges against an unnamed European club, later revealed to be Macedonian side FK Pobeda. Pobeda were found guilty of match-fixing in a tie against Armenian club Pyunik in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nAs a consequence, the club was handed an eight-year ban from all European competitions, and club president Aleksandar Zabr\u010danec and former captain Nikolce Zdravevski were given lifetime European football bans. UEFA president Michel Platini revealed that his organisation were stepping up their efforts to eradicate match fixing in the game, and that 27,000 fixtures would be monitored in the 2009\u201310 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Background\nThe fraud was discovered through telephone tapping of organized crime activities and has been investigated by the Prosecutorial Office at Bochum, Germany. On 19 November 2009 a series of raids were conducted in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Austria in relation to the betting investigation. They resulted in fifteen arrests in Germany, and a further two in Switzerland, as well as the seizure of cash and property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nIn Germany at least 32 games from the 2. Bundesliga to the junior area were manipulated. Including four games of the 2. Bundesliga, three games of the 3. Liga, 18 games in the Regionalliga, Oberliga games and two games from the U-19 division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nIn September 2010, the public-law TV magazine Fakt reported that thirteen 2nd and five 3rd league games, 20 regional league games, five league games, as well as, two games in the DFB-Pokal, five U-19 games and other individual friendly games, were under suspicion of manipulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nA DFB referee was also accused of having been bribed by the alleged fraudulent betters in a regional league game in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nIn course of the investigation, basketball player of the Brose Baskets from Bamberg, Ivan Pavi\u0107, and the W\u00fcrzburger landes league player, Kristian Spre\u0107akovi\u0107, were also arrested on 19 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nFour games of the SSV Ulm 1846 in the final phase of the Regionalliga season 2008\u201309 were under suspicion of manipulation. On 27 November 2009, the club announced the denunciation of the Croatian players Davor Kraljevi\u0107, Marijo Marinovi\u0107 and Dinko Radojevi\u0107 in association with the match-fixing scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nOn 24 November 2009, Regionalliga club SC Verl suspended midfielders Patrick Neumann and Tim Hagedorn from games and training. The club received indications of attempted tampering for the game against Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach II (4\u20133 win) and 1. FC K\u00f6ln II (1\u20130 loss) in the 2008\u201309 season. On 28 November 2009, Neumann admitted to Bochum prosecutor's office that he received 500\u20ac, making him the first professional to sign a confession in the match-fixing scandal. However, he continued to deny any activity in the manipulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Germany\nMarcel Schuon confirmed to the Bochum prosecutor's office, that during his time at VfL Osnabr\u00fcck, manipulation took place in a 3\u20130 defeat to FC Augsburg on 17 April 2009 in the 2. Bundesliga. He refused to inform anyone of until after the game. Schuon was issued a five-digit fine. At the beginning of the 2009\u201310 season, Schuon switched to 3. Liga team SV Sandhausen, where he was removed by the team  at the end of November 2009 due to his involvement in the match-fixing scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Austria\nIn Austria, 11 matches of the Bundesliga and the First League were affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Austria\nAccording to UEFA, no Austrian clubs were specifically involved in the betting scandal. Only two European League qualifying matches of the SK Rapid Wien against KS Vllaznia Shkodra (5\u20130 and 3\u20130 for Rapid) were suspected of manipulation according to press reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Austria\nAt the beginning of March 2011, betting allegations about the Austrian Bundesliga club Kapfenberger SV were announced, where, according to various media reports, players of the club had been handed large sums of money, and accused of having perilously lost the 2009\u201310 season games against FC Red Bull Salzburg (4\u20130 loss), Rapid Wien (1\u20130 loss) and Austria Wien (1\u20130 loss). Also at this time, a defensive player from Kapfenberg, among others, was reported to have received \u20ac200,000 through a middleman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Switzerland\nIn Switzerland, 22 matches of the Challenge League and six test games were affected. At least one attempt to manipulate games of the Super League had occurred, but the addressed player reported the bribery attempt to the federation. Two suspects have been arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Switzerland, Suspicions towards games of FC Thun\nThe federal prosecutor suspected FC Thun players to have manipulated the game against Yverdon Sport FC on 26 April. The suspicion was that FC Thun should lose the game with four goals difference, and the game actually ended 5-1. The Thun striker Pape Omar Faye was interrogated by the police, the week before the trophy game against Winterthur (22 November 2009) and then suspended by the club. Since a striker, from his playing position, can hardly be responsible for five goals against, other players were suspected of having received several 10,000 euros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 122], "content_span": [123, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Switzerland, Suspicions towards games of FC Gossau\nFC Gossau suffered a striking series of defeats at the end of the 2008/09 season. The federal prosecutor suspected specifically players of FC Gossau of having manipulated the games against FC Locarno on 24 May 2009 and against Servette FC. FC Gossau was expected to lose the game against Locarno with at least four goals difference and the game actually ended 0-4. The then goalkeeper of Gossau, Darko Damjanovic, was said have been taken into custody by police, but went undercover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Switzerland, Suspicions towards games of FC Gossau\nGossau\u2019s midfielder, Mario Bigoni, publicly stated that a previous season's game was \"not clean\" and that he had received a bid from a fellow player. Although it was not known if Bigoni had accepted the offer, he was suspended by his club. Also supposedly Gossau received tens of thousands of euros, 20,000 alone for the game against Locarno. On 26 October 2011, the police confirmed that Bigoni had been found dead three days earlier in the Alter Rhein near Rheineck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 124], "content_span": [125, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Switzerland, Test game\nThe Bosnian club, NK Travnik, completed a training camp in Switzerland in the summer of 2009, with test matches against the clubs Neuch\u00e2tel Xamax (2-3), Servette FC Gen\u00e8ve (1-3) and FC Sion (1-4). It became known that a betting syndicate from Asia was financially involved in the costs of the training camp. The president of FC Sion, Christian Constantin, publicly voiced the suspicions that the Bosnians let win FC Sion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 96], "content_span": [97, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, China\nThe Chinese police arrested a total of 16 people, including 12 club members and four high-ranking football officials, including the former vice president of the Chinese Football Association, Yang Xu, on 25 November 2009, in the wake of the international inquiries of the betting scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Affected games and suspects, Matches investigated by UEFA\nUEFA revealed on 25 November 2009 that seven matches played in UEFA competitions would be investigated in further detail, and that five clubs were under investigation; KF Tirana, FC Dinaburg, KS Vllaznia, NK IB Ljubljana and Budapest Honv\u00e9d. It also revealed that it was conducting its own investigation of three referees and one other individual connected with UEFA in relation to these games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 102], "content_span": [103, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Betting Scandal in Italy\nIndependent from the investigations conducted by the Bochum prosecutor's office, another betting scandal was reported in Italy on 23 November 2009. The President of the Italian football club Potenza, Giuseppe Postiglione, and eight other officials (including Antonio Lopiano and Antonio De Angelis) of Potenza, and Antonio Possidente, a member of the Mafia, were arrested by the Carabinieri for tampering Football matches. The several month long investigation involved a game of the Serie B in the 2007/08 season, as well as, seven games of the Lega Pro Prima Divisione in the 2008/09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Legal proceedings\nOn 14 April 2011, the 13th Criminal Court of the Bochum District, sentenced better Tuna A. and the betting office operator Stevan R., to three years and eight months and three years and eleven months, on the account of fraud. Betting office operator N\u00fcrretin G. was given a three-year prison sentence on the account of fraud. Tuna A. and Nurretin G. had already spent 13 months of their sentence while being held during examination. In the course of the trial, all three defendants had admitted to the manipulation of 32 games and of having bribed players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Legal proceedings\nIn May 2011, Ante Sapina was sentenced to five and a half years' imprisonment by the District Court of Bochum. Marijo Cvrtak was also sentenced to five and a half years' imprisonment and Dragan M. received a probation sentence of one year and six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Legal proceedings\nIn December 2012, the Federal Court of Justice declared the previous rulings against Sapina and an accomplices for non-appealable and dismissed them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Legal proceedings\nIn March 2013, Milan Sapina was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment by the district court of Bochum, the sentence was largely waived in March 2014, leaving only a four-month imprisonment time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202771-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 European football match-fixing scandal, Legal proceedings\nIn April 2014, Ante Sapina was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the District Court of Bochum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202772-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroseries 3000\nThe 2009 Euroseries 3000 began on 16 May at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal and finished at Monza in Italy on 18 October after 14 races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202772-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroseries 3000\nIn February, 2009, series organisers Coloni Motorsport announced that the first-generation A1 Grand Prix chassis, the Lola B05/52, would be introduced into the championship to replace the previous Lola B02/50 model. It was also announced that online gambling site PartyPoker.com will become the title sponsor of the series for the next three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202772-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroseries 3000\nAs a result of the sponsorship deal, the winner of the drivers' championship won a free season in the GP2 Series for 2010. It also allowed them to participate in the 2009\u201310 GP2 Asia Series and their official testing sessions on 23 and 24 October, less than a week after winning this title. Will Bratt claimed that honour, after his second place in the final race broke a tie with Marco Bonanomi as both drivers finished level on points and victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202772-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroseries 3000, Teams and drivers\n\u2020 FMS International became Coloni Motorsport prior to round three in Zolder. \u2021 Teamcraft Motorsport were taken over in the series by Team Costa Rica prior to round three in Zolder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202772-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Euroseries 3000, Race calendar\nRounds denoted with a blue background are a part of the Italian Formula 3000 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202773-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards\nThe 2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 2009. The shortlist was revealed on 2009 and the longlist on 2 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202774-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 F1 Powerboat World Championship\nThe 2009 UIM F1 H2O World Championship was the 26th season of Formula 1 Powerboat racing. The calendar consisted of sixteen races, two per event, beginning in Portim\u00e3o, Portugal on 4 April 2009, and ending in Sharjah, UAE on 11 December 2009. The format of two races per weekend was a new feature for 2009, introduced by series promoter Nicolo di San Germano at the official pre-season meeting in March. Guido Cappellini, driving for Zepter Team, was drivers' champion, securing an unprecedented tenth championship crown before retiring at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202774-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Season calendar\nThe most significant change for the 2009 season was the introduction of a two-race format for each event making up the championship. With eight rounds confirmed by the UIM prior to the season's start the season would be made up of a total of 16 points-scoring races, the highest in its history. Only the thirteen races in 2000 came close in the previous 10 years. Initial reaction to the new format was positive, with drivers and fans commending the decision following its debut at the Grand Prix of Portugal. However whilst it increased the spectacle and offered teams and drivers more opportunities for success, costs were forced upwards and the format wasn't retained for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202774-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Season calendar\nThe initial calendar for the 2009 season featured the Grand Prix of Russia in St Petersburg as the second round of the championship, taking place on 5 and 6 June. However the race was postponed, with an announcement made on 22 April that it would instead be moved to the second week of August, with the Grand Prix of Finland becoming the second round, on 12 and 13 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202774-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Results and standings\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. A maximum of two boats per team were eligible for points in the teams' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202774-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Results and standings, Teams standings\nOnly boats with results eligible for points counting towards the teams' championship are shown here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202775-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 F2000 Championship Series\nThe 2009 F2000 Championship Series season was the fourth season of competition in the series. It consisted of 12 rounds (six double-race weekends), beginning April 10 at Virginia International Raceway and concluding August 16 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Chris Miller driving for JDC MotorSports won four races and on his way to the close fought championship over the St. Clair Motorsports entry of Matthew Inge as well as other contenders Remy Audette and Benjamin Searcy. Tom Fatur won the Masters' championship over Tim Minor by only 7 points despite Minor competing in only six races and Fatur driving the entire schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202775-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 F2000 Championship Series, Championship results\nThis list only contains drivers who registered for the championship. (M) indicates driver is participating in Masters Class for drivers over 40 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202776-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Community Shield\nThe 2009 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 87th FA Community Shield, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. The match was contested at Wembley Stadium, London, on 9 August 2009, and contested by 2008\u201309 Premier League champions Manchester United, and Chelsea as the winners of the 2008\u201309 FA Cup, a repeat of the 2007 match. The game ended in a 2\u20132 draw \u2013 the goals coming from Nani and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United, and from Ricardo Carvalho and Frank Lampard for Chelsea \u2013 with Chelsea winning 4\u20131 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202776-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Community Shield\nThis was also the first time since 1998 that Chelsea had won a professional match on penalties; The last instance was a League Cup quarter-final against Ipswich Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final\nThe 2009 FA Cup Final was the 128th final of the world's oldest domestic football cup competition, the FA Cup. The final was played at Wembley Stadium in London on 30 May 2009 and marked the third time that the final has been staged at the stadium since it was rebuilt. The match was contested by Chelsea, who beat Arsenal 2\u20131 in their semi-final, and Everton who beat Manchester United 4\u20132 on penalties after a 0\u20130 draw after extra time. After Louis Saha opened the scoring after just 25 seconds, the fastest ever goal in an FA Cup Final, Didier Drogba equalised in the 21st minute before Frank Lampard scored the winner with 19 minutes left to play to give Chelsea their fifth FA Cup success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Background\nChelsea went into the match as four-time FA Cup winners, having previously won in 1970, 1997, 2000 and 2007, while Everton had won the competition five times previously, having won in 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984 and 1995. Coincidentally, both teams' most recent titles came in the FA Cup, both teams beating Manchester United in the final; Everton in 1995 and Chelsea in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Background\nThe two teams drew 0\u20130 in both meetings during the 2008\u201309 Premier League season, at Goodison Park in December and at Stamford Bridge in April. Prior to the 2009 final, the two teams had never met in the FA Cup Final; their most recent meeting in the FA Cup came in the Fourth Round of the 2005\u201306 competition, when Chelsea won 4\u20131 in a replay at Stamford Bridge after a 1\u20131 draw at Goodison Park. In 157 matches between the two sides in all competitions, Chelsea had recorded 61 wins, Everton had won 49, and 47 matches finished as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nEverton and Chelsea were each allocated 25,109 tickets for the final. Having sold over 32,000 for their semi-final win over Manchester United, Everton were unhappy and disappointed with this allocation. The match was Everton's first FA Cup final in 14 years and Everton chief executive Robert Elstone predicted that the club could have sold in excess of 70,000 tickets for this game. Chelsea also said that the size of their allocation meant that it was unlikely that there would be sufficient tickets for all of their hospitality and non-hospitality season ticket holders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nClub Wembley ten-year season ticket holders were also guaranteed a ticket for the match. After those tickets were allocated, 70% of the remaining tickets were distributed amongst the clubs that had competed in the 2008\u201309 competition, with the other 30% given to those involved in grassroots football and the \"football family\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Kits\nSince both finalists' first-choice kits are predominantly blue, a coin was tossed to determine which team would have the first choice of kit. Everton won the toss and chose to wear their traditional blue kit, meaning that Chelsea would wear their all-yellow third-choice kit. Chelsea were nevertheless given the \"home\" dressing room, i.e. that used by the England national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Match ball\nThe official match ball of the 2009 FA Cup Final was the Umbro Dynamis. The Dynamis uses a 20-panel configuration, as opposed to a more traditional 32-panel design, which allegedly makes the ball faster. The surface of the ball is made from a Teijin microfibre material. The Dynamis was also used in the 2008 final, but the 2009 version has a gold colourway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nThe traditional FA Cup Final song, Abide With Me, was performed by the London Community Gospel Choir. The trophy was then brought out onto the field, followed by the two teams, before the Chief Guest of the final \u2013 former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan \u2013 was introduced to the managers and players of both teams, as well as the match officials. The introductions were immediately followed by the singing of the national anthem, \"God Save the Queen\", sung by Britain's Got Talent 2008 finalist, 13-year-old Faryl Smith, making her the youngest performer of the national anthem at the FA Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Match, Team selection\nEverton were without long-term injury victims Phil Jagielka, Mikel Arteta, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Victor Anichebe and Nuno Valente. On-loan Brazilian striker J\u00f4 was cup-tied. Andy van der Meyde, who set up the winning goal in the fourth round tie with Liverpool, had since been released by the club. This meant that there was a place on the Everton bench for 17-year-old winger Jose Baxter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary, First half\nLouis Saha scored for Everton with a left-footed shot to the bottom-left corner just 25 seconds into the match, the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history. The previous fastest goal was by Bob Chatt of Aston Villa 30 seconds into the 1895 final. Tony Hibbert received a yellow card for tripping Florent Malouda in the eighth minute. Didier Drogba levelled the match for Chelsea in the 21st minute with a header set up by a left-wing cross from Malouda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202777-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nTony Hibbert was replaced by Lars Jacobsen for Everton to begin the second half, and two minutes in, Toffees captain Phil Neville was booked. Chelsea replaced Michael Essien with Michael Ballack in the 61st minute, followed two minutes later by a yellow card for Mikel John Obi. Frank Lampard scored the winning goal for Chelsea in the 72nd minute with a left foot shot. Five minutes later, a shot from Malouda appeared to crash down off the bar and over the line, but it was not given. Everton replaced Saha with James Vaughan at that point. Dan Gosling was the last substitute for Everton in the 81st minute, replacing Leon Osman. Lampard received a yellow card in the 84th minute, while in the fourth minute of added time, Leighton Baines of Everton was booked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202778-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Trophy Final\nThe 2009 FA Trophy Final was the 39th final of The Football Association's cup competition for levels 5\u20138 of the English football league system. It was contested by Stevenage Borough, who won the competition in 2007, and York City on 9 May 2009 at Wembley Stadium in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202778-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Trophy Final\nStevenage won the match 2\u20130 to win the competition for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202779-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Vase Final\nThe 2008\u201309 FA Vase Final was the 35th final of the Football Association's cup competition for teams at levels 9-11 of the English football league system. The match was contested between Glossop North End, of the North West Counties League Premier Division (level 9), and Whitley Bay, of the Northern League Division 1 (level 9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202779-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Vase Final, Background\nWith a maximum of 9 rounds needed to reach the Final \"the Hillmen\" played in every round. They played three away ties and five home matches plus the semi-final round, winning each round without need of a replay and outscored their opponents with 33 goals for and 11 conceded. Their semi final matches against Chalfont St Peter was a fascinating affair. With the first leg drawn 3-3, it was 1 - 1 at the end of 90 mins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202779-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 FA Vase Final, Background\nIn extra time K Lugsden scored with the last kick of extra 30 mins to draw the match 2 - 2 sending it into penalties. Glossop won the shootout with Rick Bailey keeping his nerve, slotting home the seventh taken penalty to decide the sudden death kick 6 - 5. \"The Seahorses\" on the other hand had a much easier time reaching the final only playing in six of the rounds, receiving a bye into Second Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202779-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 FA Vase Final, Background\nThey were drawn with two away ties and three home matches, again beating all opponents at a first attempt, and narrowly winning their semi 3 - 2 on aggregate. It was not Whitley Bays' first visit to Wembley, their last visit was in 2002 when they won the FA Vase Final. In comparison, this was Glossops' first ever visit to the home of football. As could be expected, the town of Glossop was gripped in a Wembley fever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202780-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Women's Cup Final\nThe 2009 FA Women's Cup Final was the 39th final of the FA Women's Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. It was the 16th final to be held under the direct control of the Football Association (FA). The final was contested between Arsenal and Sunderland at Pride Park Stadium in Derby on 4 May 2009. Arsenal won the game 2\u20131 to secure their fourth successive FA Cup triumph and their tenth in total. The match was attended by a crowd of 23,291.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202780-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary\nArsenal, managed by Vic Akers, reached their fourth FA Women's Cup final in succession after a 3\u20131 victory against Everton in the semi-finals, while Premier League Northern Division side Sunderland, managed by Mick Mulhern, reached their first ever final in the competition after beating Chelsea 3\u20130 at the Stadium of Light, becoming the first team from outside the top flight to do so since Fulham in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202780-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary\nArsenal, who came into the game as favourites, dominated the vast majority of the match, with Gemma Davison and Kim Little creating several chances in the opening minutes. Sunderland created their first half chance as Sophie Williams chased a long ball down the left and crossed, but Niamh Fahey's challenge was enough to prevent Jordan Nobbs getting in a clean shot on goal. Arsenal hit back with Little striking over from distance and Davison drawing a save from Sunderland goalkeeper Helen Alderson after cutting in from the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202780-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary\nAn angled shot from Suzanne Grant slid underneath Alderson, but Lucy Bronze managed to prevent Rachel Yankey from scoring with a last-ditch clearance. Arsenal took the lead just after the half hour, when Alderson failed to hold Davison's shot and Katie Chapman followed up to score from the rebound. The Gunners had a chance to double their lead two minutes ahead of the break, when Little slotted a good ball through to Grant, but her shot went wide of the far post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202780-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary\nArsenal had most of the possession in the second half, but their second goal came in injury time, when Chapman chipped the ball into the path of Little, who got round Alderson before tucking the ball into the empty net. Kelly McDougall pulled one back for Sunderland in the seventh minute of stoppage time, whose length was dictated by Sophie Williams having to receive more than five minutes of treatment after suffering a seizure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup\nThe FAI Cup 2009 was the 89th season of the national football competition of the Republic of Ireland. It began on the weekend ending 26 April 2009 and ended on 22 November 2009 with the final taking place for the first time at Tallaght Stadium. The winner - Sporting Fingal - earned spots in both the second qualifying round of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League and the 2010 Setanta Sports Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, First round\nThe first round matches were played on the weekend ending 26 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, First round, First Round Replays\nThe matches were played on the weekend ending 3 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, Second round\nThe matches were played on the weekend ending 24 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 26], "content_span": [27, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, Third round\nThe matches were played between 9 and 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, Third round, Third round replays\nThe matches were played between 15 and 17 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 46], "content_span": [47, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, Fourth round\nThe matches were played the weekend ending 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 26], "content_span": [27, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202781-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup, Fourth round, Fourth Round Replays\nThe matches were played between 18 August and 7 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202782-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FAI Cup Final\nThe 2009 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 2009 FAI Cup and was contested by Sligo Rovers and Sporting Fingal. Fingal were 2\u20131 winners in only their second year in the League of Ireland. The game took place at the Tallaght Stadium on 22 November 2009. Alan Kelly refereed the game in front of 8,105 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202783-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Bunyodkor season\nThe 2009 FC Bunyodkor season was the 3rd season in the Uzbek League in Uzbekistan. Bunyodkor competed in Uzbek League, Uzbekistani Cup and AFC Champions League tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202783-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Bunyodkor season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202783-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Bunyodkor season, Competitions\nBunyodkor was present in all major competitions: Uzbek League, the AFC Champions League and the Uzbek Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202784-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Dallas season\nThe 2009 FC Dallas season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence. It began on March 21 with a 3\u20131 home loss to the Chicago Fire and ended with a 2\u20131 away loss to Seattle Sounders FC on October 24. A win in that game would have sent the team to the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202784-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Dallas season, Squad, First-team squad\nAs of June 20, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202784-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Dallas season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 67], "content_span": [68, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202784-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Dallas season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 24, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202785-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Gold Pride season, Personnel\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202785-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Gold Pride season, Preseason\nFC Gold Pride played two scrimmages against the Los Angeles Sol, losing both. They posted a 6-1 win over the University of California women's soccer team and a 3-0 win over an \"All-Star\" team of local college players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202786-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Honka season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202787-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Lokomotiv Astana season\nThe 2009 Lokomotiv Astana season was the club's first season, during which they played in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. They finished the season in second place, but were denied a license by UEFA to play in the UEFA Europa League the following year. In the Kazakhstan Cup, Lokomotiv Astana were knocked out in the Second Round by FC Aktobe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202787-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Lokomotiv Astana season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202787-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Lokomotiv Astana season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202787-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Lokomotiv Astana season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202787-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Lokomotiv Astana season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202788-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Moscow season\nThe 2009 FC Moscow season was the club's 6th, and final season as a professional team. They finished the season in 6th place, reached the Semi-final of the 2008\u201309 Russian Cup and the Quarterfinal of the 2009\u201310 Russian Cup. Prior to the start of the 2010 Russian Premier League season, on 5 February 2010, FC Moscow announced that would not participate in the Russian Premier League with the club being officially excluded from the season on 17 February 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202788-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Moscow season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202788-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Moscow season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202789-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rostov season\nThe 2009 FC Rostov season was the club's first season back in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their relegation at the end of the 2007 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202789-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rostov season, Season events, New Contracts\nOn 1 October, Du\u0161an An\u0111elkovi\u0107 signed a new three-year contract with Rostov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202789-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rostov season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202790-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rubin Kazan season\nThe 2009 FC Rubin Kazan season was the club's 7th season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202790-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rubin Kazan season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202790-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Rubin Kazan season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202791-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Seoul season, Players, Team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202791-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Seoul season, Players, Out on loan & military service\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202791-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Seoul season, Tactics, Starting eleven and formation\nThis section shows the most used players for each position considering a 4-4-2 formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202791-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Seoul season, Tactics, Starting eleven and formation\nSource: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202791-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Seoul season, Tactics, Substitutes\nSource: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202792-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Spartak Moscow season\nThe 2009 FC Spartak Moscow season was the club's 18th season in the Russian Premier League season. Spartak finished the season in 2nd place, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2008\u201309 Russian Cup, where they were knocked out by Dynamo Moscow, and the Last 16 of the 2009\u201310 Russian Cup where FC Moscow knocked them out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202792-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Spartak Moscow season, Season events\nOn 15 April, Michael Laudrup was sacked as manager, with Valeri Karpin being appointed as his replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202792-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Spartak Moscow season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202792-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Spartak Moscow season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202793-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Terek Grozny season\nThe 2009 Terek Grozny season was the 2nd successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia, in which they finished 12th. They also took part in the 2009\u201310 Russian Cup, reaching the Round of 32 where they were defeated by Mordovia Saransk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202793-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Terek Grozny season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202793-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Terek Grozny season, Squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202794-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Tokyo season\nThe 2009 FC Tokyo season was the team's 11th as a member of J.League Division 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202795-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season\nThe 2009 Zenit St.Petersburg season was the club's fifteenth season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. Zenit finished third in the Russian Premier League, progressed to the quarterfinal of the 2009\u201310 Russian Cup, reached the Round of 16 in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup and the Playoff Round of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202795-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202796-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FDB Insurance Ras\nThe 2009 R\u00e1s Tailteann was the 57th edition of the R\u00e1s Tailteann cycle race. The race took place over 8 days between 17\u201324 May 2009. The race was sponsored by FBD Insurance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202797-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI European Championships\nThe 2009 FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships, also known as the 2009 Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships, is the 30th edition of the European Show Jumping Championships and the 26th edition of the European Dressage Championship. It was held at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, from August 25 to August 30, 2009. For the first time, the European Jumping Championships and the European Dressage Championship are being held at the same time. 92 competitors from 24 nations will compete in the jumping competition, while 54 competitors from 19 nations will compete in the dressage competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202797-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI European Championships, Medal summary, Medalists\nPius Schwizer on Ulysse Daniel Etter on Peu \u00e0 Peu Steve Guerdat on Jalisca Solier Clarissa Grotta on West Side v. Meerputhoeve", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202797-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI European Championships, Medal summary, Medalists\nJuan-Carlos Garcia on Hamilton de Perhet Giuseppe d'Onofrio on Landzeu Natale Chiaudani on SNAI Seldana di campalto Piergiorgio Bucci on Kanebo", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202797-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI European Championships, Medal summary, Medalists\nMarcus Ehning on Plot Blue Carsten-Otto Nagel on Corradina Thomas M\u00fchlbauer on Asti Spumante Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum on Checkmate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League\nThe 2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League is the 2009 edition of the secondary international team Grand Prix show jumping competition run by the FEI. It is the follower of the (old) Nations Cup series. France won the (old) Nations Cup in the previous year. Sweden having been relegated from the 2008 Super League. because of new rules Sweden also start in the 2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League\nCanada waived its right to participate in the 2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup, so also Italy have been promoted to the 2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League\n2009 is the first FEI Nations Cup Promotional League season with a Final. It was located at the CSIO Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, the location of the Samsung Super League Finals (2003 to 2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League, Promotional League Europe\nThe 2009 Nations Cup event in Athens-Markopoulo (October 1, 2010 to October 4, 2010) because of time reasons part of the 2010 Promotional League Europe. The six best-placed teams in the final raking have the chance to start in the 2009 Promotional League Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League, Promotional League North and South America\nThe best-placed team of the 2009 Promotional League North and South America have the permission to start in the 2009 Promotional League Final. Only teams from North and South America (without Meydan FEI Nations Cup-Teams) can count points in the Promotional League North and South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League, Promotional League North and South America\nThe 2009 Promotional League North and South America consists only of the Nations Cup of the United States in Wellington, Florida. The Nations Cups of Canada and Argentina are because of time reasons part of the 2010 Promotional League North and South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League, Promotional League Final\nThe two best-placed teams in the 2009 Promotional League Final move into the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup. The national equestrian federation of Canada refrained the start in the Meydan FEI Nations Cup second time after 2009, so Spain and Poland moved into the Meydan FEI Nations Cup for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202798-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League, Promotional League Final\nAustria and Denmark were qualified for the 2009 Promotional League Final. They didn't start, so Hungary have the chance to start in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202799-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FEI World Cup Jumping Final\nThe 2009 FEI World Cup Jumping Final was the 31st final of the FEI World Cup Jumping show jumping series. It was held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States from April 15 to April 19, 2009 for the fifth time following 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2007. Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum of Germany was the defending champion, having won the 2008 final in Gothenburg, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202800-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FFAS Senior League\nThe 2009 season of the FFAS Senior League was the twenty ninth season of association football competition in American Samoa. Black Roses won the championship, their first recorded title, with the winners of the 1998 league competition and a number of previous seasons unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202800-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FFAS Senior League\nThe league was initially intended to consist of a round robin group stage where all teams would play each other once. The top four teams would then qualify for one-legged semi finals to decide the two teams that would compete in the final for the championship. However, the final two rounds of the regular stage as well as the playoffs were cancelled. This was decided by the respective club presidents on October 13, 2009 due to damage at Pago Pago, the only regulation pitch, caused by the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami. Additionally four of the clubs are based in the villages: Fagasa, Leone and Pago Pago, were badly damaged by the tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202801-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FFSA season\nThe Football Federation South Australia 2009 season was the fourth season under the previous competition format in South Australia. The competition consisted of three divisions across the State of South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202801-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FFSA season, 2009 FFSA Super League\nThe 2009 South Australian Super League (also known as the Devine Homes Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth edition of the South Australian Super League, the top level domestic association football competition in South Australia, and was the second season to use the McIntyre Final Five finals system introduced the previous year. Ten teams competed, with the two worst finishing being relegated to the 2010 Premier League. The league was won by the North Eastern MetroStars after they beat Adelaide City 1\u20130 in the Grand Final, becoming just the second team (apart from Adelaide City) to finish top of the league or win the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202801-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FFSA season, 2009 FFSA Premier League\nThe 2009 FFSA Premier League was the fourth edition of the FFSA Premier League as the second level domestic association football competition in South Australia. 10 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 18 rounds, with the top five at the end of the year qualifying for the McIntyre final five finals system to determine 1st to 5th place. The League winners (The Cobras) and Grand Final winners (Cumberland) were promoted to the 2010 FFSA Super League, and the last placed team (South Adelaide) were relegated to the 2010 FFSA State League. At the end of the season, the S.A.S.I. withdrew from the official competitions to participate in the Super League Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202801-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FFSA season, 2009 FFSA State League\nThe 2009 FFSA State League was the fourth edition of the FFSA State League as the third level domestic association football competition in South Australia. 11 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 20 rounds, with the top five at the end of the year qualifying for the McIntyre final five finals system to determine 1st to 5th place. The League winners and Grand Final winners were promoted to the 2010 FFSA Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202802-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Alternative Energies Cup\nThe 2009 FIA Alternative Energies Cup was a season of the FIA Alternative Energies Cup, a world championship for vehicles with alternative energy propulsion organized by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile. The season consisted of six rallies, beginning with Rally Montecarlo on 29 March, and ended with Green Prix Eco Targa on 9 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202802-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Alternative Energies Cup\nFrance's Raymond Durand won the Drivers championship, and Toyota secured their third Manufacturers' title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship\nThe 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season was the first year of the relaunched FIA Formula Two Championship. The championship began on 30 May at the Circuit de Valencia and finished on 1 November at the Circuit de Catalunya, after eight double-header rounds. Andy Soucek was a dominant champion, finishing over 50 points clear of runner-up Robert Wickens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship\nThe season was overshadowed by the death of Henry Surtees during the second race at Brands Hatch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Background & championship format\nThe series saw the drivers using a chassis that was built at the WilliamsF1 team's headquarters at Grove in Oxfordshire. It was named as the JPH1, incorporating the initials of series boss Jonathan Palmer and Patrick Head, engineering director for Williams. The car was given two shakedown tests at Palmer's Bedford Autodrome by Steven Kane, before the car was officially launched on 2 March at Brands Hatch\u00a0\u2013 the headquarters of MotorSport Vision, who run all the cars in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Background & championship format\nAt each event there were two 30-minute practice sessions, two 30-minute qualifying sessions and two races of varying length; the distances for each announced prior to each race weekend. Points were awarded to the top eight drivers in the race, and were awarded in the same system as Formula One: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1, and only a driver's best fourteen scores counted towards the championship. That said, no driver had to drop scores in the championship due to all of them having two or more non-points-scoring races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Background & championship format\nThe winner of the FIA Formula Two Championship received a full test with the AT&T Williams F1 team, which was run in such a way as to seriously evaluate the driver with regard to their potential as a Formula One driver. Drivers finishing in the first three places in the final classification of the Formula Two Championship qualified for an FIA Super Licence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Drivers, Driver changes\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Surtees was fatally injured after an accident, during the second race at the fourth round at Brands Hatch. Surtees' slot was filled by Ollie Hancock after round five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Testing Results\nThe first group test was held on 6 May, at Snetterton in Norfolk. In the morning, 21 of the series' 24 drivers were within a second of each other. Two sessions were held, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. There was another group test at Silverstone on 18 May, with two dry sessions and one wet session. Two other test days were held during the session, one at Donington Park, and one at Circuit de Catalunya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202803-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nThe Formula Two calendar consists of eight rounds with two races at each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202804-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Adria 2 Hours\nThe 2009 FIA GT Adria 2 Hours is the second round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Adria International Raceway, Italy, on 16 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202804-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Adria 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying\nThe #14 K plus K Motorsports Saleen initially qualified on pole position, but was disqualified for failing technical inspection. The #77 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari was also disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202804-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Adria 2 Hours, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202805-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Algarve 2 Hours\nThe 2009 FIA GT Algarve 2 Hours was the sixth round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve, Portugal on 20 September 2009. Selleslagh Racing Team won their first race of the season while their driver James Ruffier's won his first race in FIA GT. Pekaracing earned second place while the No. 2 Vitaphone Racing car completed the podium with a pass on the second to last lap of the race. The No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari won in GT2 followed by the No. 60 Prospeed Competition Porsche and No. 77 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202805-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Algarve 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying results\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202805-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Algarve 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying results\n\u2020 \u2013 The No. 2 Vitaphone Maserati was penalized five grid spots after causing an avoidable accident at the 2009 Budapest City Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202805-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Algarve 2 Hours, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship\nThe 2009 FIA GT Championship season was the thirteenth season of the FIA GT Championship for grand tourer cars competing in the GT1 and GT2 categories. The season began 3 May, and ended 25 October after eight races. This was also the final season of a combined GT1 and GT2 championship before the launch of the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship\nVitaphone Racing Team Maserati drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini successfully defended their GT1 Championships, pulling clear of the rivals in the final two events of the season after a close battle with the Peka Racing Chevrolet team of Anthony Kumpen and Mike Hezemans. Bartels and Bertolini won races at Adria International Raceway and Hungaroring in the way to the title, a third championship each for the pair. With the assistance of Miguel Ramos and Alex M\u00fcller in the team's second Maserati MC12 GT1, Vitaphone Racing Team also secured the Teams Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship\nIn the lower specification GT2 category, former Porsche Supercup champion Richard Westbrook won the GT2 championship, driving a Prospeed Competition Porsche. Westbrook won the title by just two points over AF Corse Ferrari pairing of Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander. Controversially Westbrook was split from his season long partner Emmanuel Collard at the final round, swapping cars with Brixia Racing driver Marco Holzer in a successful attempt to maximise Porsche's chances of defeating the Ferrari pairing. AF Corse, with the help of the team's second car of \u00c1lvaro Barba and Niki Cadei, did defeat Prospeed in the teams championship. CRS Racing driver Chris Niarchos was awarded the Citation Cup for amateur drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Schedule\nThe 2009 schedule was initially announced by the FIA on 5 November 2008, with seven events consisting of two-hour races, the Bucharest City Challenge of two separate one-hour races, and the Spa 24 Hours. Adria's event was once again scheduled to take place at night. However at a further meeting of the FIA on 17 March 2009 the calendar was set at eight rounds, with the cancellation of the Potrero de los Funes event and the inclusion of Circuit Paul Ricard. This decreased the number of two-hour races from seven to six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Schedule\nOn 16 June the Bucharest Ring, Romania cancelled their planned FIA GT event. The series therefore replaced the fifth round with an event at the Hungaroring in Hungary which would return to the normal two-hour race format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Championships\nPoints were awarded to the top eight finishers in the order of 10\u20138\u20136\u20135\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131. Cars which failed to complete 75% of the winner's distance were not awarded points. Drivers who did not drive for at least 35 minutes do not receive points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Championships, Driver championships, Citation Cup\nNew for 2009, the Citation Cup involved amateur drivers in the GT2 category rather than the GT1 category used since 2007. Drivers rated as bronze by the GT Bureau driver classification system were allowed to enter the Citation Cup if they competed in a car which was homologated before 2009. Points in the Citation Cup were awarded at every FIA GT round except for the Spa 24 Hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Championships, Team championships, GT1 standings\nThe Nissan Motorsports entry was not allowed to score championship points due to being run as a factory team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202806-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Championship, Championships, Manufacturers Cups\nResults of the GT2 Manufacturers\u2019 Cup were as follows. Although a GT1 Manufacturers\u2019 Cup was listed in the Sporting Regulations for the 2009 FIA GT Championship, no points table for this award was published. An award was given only for the manufacturers in the GT2 category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202807-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours\nThe 2009 FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours is the third round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. The took place at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Germany on 21 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202807-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\n\u2020 \u2013 #59 Trackspeed Racing was disqualified from the GT2 Pole Position after it was found that they had used incorrect tires and that the airbox was not sealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202807-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours, Report, Race report\nThe No. 61 Prospeed Competition Porsche was disqualified from the race after it was discovered in post-race technical inspection that part of its engine did not conform to the homologation requirements for the 997 GT3-RSR. Prospeed, who had finished second in the GT2 category, appealed the decision, but this appeal was later rejected by the FIA and the results were finalized in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202807-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours, Report, Race report, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202808-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours\nThe 2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours was the seventh round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on 4 October 2009. The race was won by the Corvette of Enrique Bernoldi and Roberto Streit for Sangari Team Brazil, ahead of the No. 2 Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati and Selleslagh Racing Team Corvette. In the GT2 category, Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni won from pole position in the AF Corse Ferrari, leading the Prospeed Competition Porsche and the second AF Corse Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202808-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours\nVitaphone Racing Team and AF Corse both secured the FIA GT Teams Championships for the GT1 and GT2 categories in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202808-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying was led by the No. Sangari Corvette of Enrique Bernoldi, however the car had been given a five grid spot penalty prior to qualifying for causing an avoidable accident during pre-qualifying practice. This moved the Sangari car back to sixth, and moved Alex M\u00fcller to pole position and allowing Vitaphone Racing Team to lock out the front row. In the GT2 category Gianmaria Bruni of AF Corse secured an all Ferrari front row alongside CRS Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202808-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying results\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202808-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202809-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy\nThe 2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy was the first round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season and the 62nd running of the RAC Tourist Trophy. It was held at the Silverstone Circuit, United Kingdom on 3 May 2009. It featured the race debut of the Ford GT and the Nissan GT-R in the GT1 category in preparation for their entry in the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202809-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy, Report, Qualifying\nThe #80 Hexis Racing Aston Martin was moved to the back of the starting grid after failing post-qualifying technical inspection. The car was found to be below the minimum ride height and carrying components of an incorrect size.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202809-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202809-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy, Report, Race\nAustrian Karl Wendlinger and Brit Ryan Sharp won their second successive RAC Tourist Trophy after having won the event the previous year for Jetalliance Racing. The GT2 category was led by the Porsche of Prospeed Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202809-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Tourist Trophy, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202810-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours\nThe 2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours is the eighth and final round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at Zolder, Belgium on 25 October 2009. It was also the final race held under the FIA GT Championship banner before the introduction of the FIA GT1 World Championship and FIA GT2 European Championship in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202810-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours\nThe race was won by the No. 33 Vitaphone Racing Team DHL Maserati of the Italians Alessandro Pier Guidi and Matteo Bobbi, leading the No. 4 Peka Racing Corvette and No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati. Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini secured the GT1 Drivers' Championship with their third-place finish. Richard Westbrook and Marco Holzer won the GT2 category in the No. 60 Prospeed Competition Porsche, with Westbrook securing the GT2 Drivers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202810-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying\nAnthony Kumpen qualified the No. 4 Peka Racing Corvette on pole position ahead of the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati. However the two cars on the front row were penalized for setting their fastest lap while a portion of the track was under yellow flag conditions. Both were moved back five grid spots, promoting the No. 33 Vitaphone Maserati to pole at the race start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202810-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying results\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202810-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT Zolder 2 Hours, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship\nThe 2009 FIA GT3 European Championship season was the fourth season of the FIA GT3 European Championship. The season began on 2 May at Silverstone and will end on 14 November 2009 at Zolder. The season featured six double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 60 minutes. Most of the events were support races to the 2009 FIA GT Championship season, the 2009 GT4 European Cup and the 2009 Lamborghini Super Trofeo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship\nPhoenix Racing pairing Christopher Haase and Christopher Mies claimed the overall title, with a fourth place in the final race of the season at Zolder. In the Teams Championship, Hexis Racing were champions ahead of Matech Racing and Team Rosberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship, Entries and drivers\nTwo new manufacturers join the FIA GT3 category in 2009. Audi, with their V10-powered R8 LMS, and Alpina's B6, based on the 6-Series. The Ford Mustang FR500GT3 does not return in 2009. Ferrari replaces its previous F430 GT3 with the new 430 Scuderia GT3, while Morgan's Aero 8 is replaced by the Aero Super Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship, Entries and drivers\nAlso new for 2009 is an alteration in the structure of teams and manufacturers. Although manufacturers will still be allowed a maximum of six cars, teams are only limited to two cars. There is therefore a maximum of three teams which can campaign a single manufacturer. The manufacturers of Ascari, Dodge, Jaguar, Lamborghini, and Morgan will not be eligible for the Manufacturers Cup due to not supplying the minimum of four cars required to enter the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship, Entries and drivers\n\u2020\u00a0\u2013 JMB Racing were allowed by the FIA to use a 2008 Ferrari F430 GT3 for their #14 entry at Silverstone due to not having a second 430 Scuderia GT3 prepared in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship, Championships\nPoints are awarded to the top eight finishers in the order 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. Cars which failed to complete 75% of the winner's distance are awarded half the points awarded for completing the 75% race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202811-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA GT3 European Championship, Championships, Manufacturer Cups\nThe Manufacturer Cups are open to any manufacturer who supplies at two or more teams in the full season. Points are awarded based on the driver's position within that manufacturer's class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Brazil) was the first round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held on March 8, 2009 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional de Curitiba near Curitiba, Brazil. It was the fourth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil\nThe two races were won by SEAT's Yvan Muller and Gabriele Tarquini, with SEAT filling both podiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Background\nThe race marked the arrival of a fourth manufacturer, with Lada giving full backing to the Russian Bears Motorsport team, forming the Lada Sport team. SEAT, BMW and Chevrolet returned for their fifth seasons in the series, with Chevrolet introducing the new Cruze model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Background\nReigning Independents Trophy champion Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez had joined BMW Team Italy-Spain from Scuderia Proteam Motorsport, swapping seats with fellow Spaniard F\u00e9lix Porteiro. After a one-off appearance for the team in 2008, Tom Boardman joined SUNRED Engineering full-time, while Marin \u010colak joined the series, forming his own team. Stefano D'Aste had returned to Wiechers-Sport, while Kristian Poulsen had joined Liqui Moly Team Engstler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Testing and free practice\nSEAT Sport driver Tarquini was fastest in the Friday test session. His fastest time was less than a tenth of a second faster than the BMW pair of Augusto Farfus and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller. Behind them were five SEATs led by Yvan Muller, while the new Chevrolet Cruze was ninth in the hands of Nicola Larini. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver Porteiro was the fastest driver in the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. Jaap van Lagen was the fastest Lada driver. SUNRED driver Tom Coronel stopped early on in the session when his engine failed while Engstler Motorsport driver Poulsen didn't get any running due to a fuel pump failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Testing and free practice\nDefending champion Yvan Muller led a SEAT 1\u20132\u20133\u20134\u20135 in the Saturday morning practice session with Farfus sixth as the best BMW runner. Porteiro was once again the fastest independent driver while Larini was the fastest Chevrolet. BMW Team UK driver Andy Priaulx finished 17th having suffered from brake problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Testing and free practice\nJ\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was fastest in the second free practice session ahead of earlier pace setter Yvan Muller. Priaulx was third after his brake problems in the morning session, while Alain Menu put his Chevrolet in seventh. Coronel missed more practice time due to a clutch problem on his Sunred SEAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Qualifying\nFor the first time qualifying was split into two sessions. The first determined the top ten, who would go through to the second session. The first session was red-flagged after five minutes when Kristian Poulsen crashed heavily into the wall at the final turn. Yvan Muller was fastest in the session, ahead of Gabriele Tarquini. Amongst those that went out in Q1 were Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez, Rob Huff and Alex Zanardi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Qualifying\nMuller also set the fastest time in Q2, winning pole position ahead of his teammates, Jordi Gen\u00e9, Tarquini, Tiago Monteiro and Rickard Rydell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Warm-Up\nJ\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was the fastest driver in Sunday mornings warm up session, leading a BMW 1\u20132\u20133 ahead of Farfus and Priaulx. Pole sitter Yvan Muller was fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Race One\nThe first race was dominated by Muller, as he led from the beginning until the end. SEAT teammates Gen\u00e9, Rydell and Tarquini finished in second, third and fourth respectively. Alain Menu retired following a collision on the opening lap, involving him and the BMWs of J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Andy Priaulx. M\u00fcller spent five laps in the pits before rejoining the race, while Priaulx went on to climb from 21st to ninth. The safety car was introduced on lap six, following a crash for Stefano D'Aste. Nicola Larini finished the race in fifth, scoring the first points for the new Chevrolet Cruze. Augusto Farfus finished sixth ahead of Hern\u00e1ndez and Monteiro. F\u00e9lix Porteiro won the Independents\u2019 class, finishing tenth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Race One\nAfter the race, Larini and Monteiro were given 30-second penalties after overtaking during the safety car period, dropping them to 15th and 16th respectively. Jaap van Lagen and George Tanev were also given the same penalties. Andy Priaulx and Porteiro inherited seventh and eighth places respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202812-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil, Report, Race Two\nSEAT encored in race two, once again placing four drivers in the top four positions. The race started behind the safety car on a track flooded by a violent thunderstorm, withF\u00e9lix Porteiro who had inherited pole position after Tiago Monteiro\u2019s penalty. In the early stages the BMW drivers - F\u00e9lix Porteiro, Andy Priaulx, Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez and AugustoFarfus \u2013 set the pace, but soon the SEAT tide became unstoppable. Gabriele Tarquini, Rickard Rydell, Jordi Gen\u00e9 and Yvan Muller jumped on top to stay, while Porteiro repeated his success in the Independents\u2019 class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of France was the fourth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the fifth running of the FIA WTCC Race of France. It was held on 17 May 2009 at the temporary Circuit de Pau street circuit in Pau, France. It was the headline event of the 2009 Pau Grand Prix. Both races were won by Chevrolet with Robert Huff winning race one and Alain Menu winning race two. The second race was notable for a collision between race leader Franz Engstler and the safety car at the end of the first lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Background\nYvan Muller had established an outright lead in the drivers' championship after the previous round in Morocco, twelve points clear of SEAT Sport teammate Gabriele Tarquini. F\u00e9lix Porteiro was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Background\nSUNRED Engineering expanded to three cars for the Pau event, Tom Coronel was joined by Tom Boardman who returned after missing the previous round and former European Touring Car Championship driver \u00c9ric Cayrolle. With both George Tanev and Vito Postiglione being forced to miss the round, Scuderia Proteam Motorsport ran just one car for independents' championship leader Porteiro. Local French GT Championship regular Laurent Cazenave joined Wiechers-Sport for the weekend alongside full-time driver Stefano D'Aste.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Free practice\nJ\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was fastest in the first practice session, Augusto Farfus was second and Yvan Muller was third. Alain Menu was the fastest Chevrolet driver in sixth. The petrol SEAT cars were mainly faster than the SEAT Sport run diesel cars. Marin \u010colak, Coronel and Boardman finished the session seventh, eighth and ninth ahead of Jordi Gen\u00e9, Tiago Monteiro and Rickard Rydell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Free practice\nBMW were quickest once again in free practice two, Andy Priaulx was quickest for BMW Team UK. He was ahead of morning pacesetters M\u00fcller and Farfus while Coronel in fourth was the fastest independent. Menu was fifth for Chevrolet and the fastest factory SEAT was Rydell fourteenth, one place behind the Lada of Jaap van Lagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Qualifying\nPriaulx claimed his first pole position since the 2006 Guia Race of Macau. The BMW Team UK man was among the front runners during both practice sessions and qualifying and put in a time of 1:22.462 in Q2. He demoted BMW teammate Farfus by just 11 thousandths of a second. Coronel defied odds in taking part in Q2 after the front of his car was severely damaged in Q1. However, attention from his team and he lined up in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Qualifying\nWhile it was a BMW at the top of the timesheet for the majority of the Q1, on the last lap Huff and Chevrolet stormed through with a 1:22.900 stealing the quickest time away from Priaulx by 0.042 of a second. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller (1:22.960) and Farfus (1:23.201) went into Q2 as third and fourth best. Coronel was sitting fifth at the end of Q1. However, at this time his team was repairing his car for Q2 after he incurred damage with seven minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Qualifying\nLeading man Huff\u2019s teammates Larini and Menu both made the cut after claiming the sixth and seventh best times. Independent drivers Porteiro and Engstler along with Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez made up the top ten, narrowly denying Alessandro Zanardi and D\u2019Aste progression into Q2. All the five SEAT Sport turbodiesel cars remained out of the Q2 for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Qualifying\nIn Q2, Coronel was the man to beat for the opening half of the session after he clocked a 1:22.917. However, Farfus knocked the Dutchman off provisional pole by a sturdy four tenths of a second. The Brazilian\u2019s time of 1:22.473 seemed good enough to set him up at the front for Race 1 until Priaulx bettered it by just 0.011 seconds. Coronel\u2019s time secured third place on the grid alongside J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller. A trio of Chevrolets followed from fifth to seventh; Huff (1:23.097), Menu (1:23.128) and Larini (1:23.282).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Warm-Up\nPole sitter Farfus was fastest in the warm\u2013up session on Sunday morning with J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller second and Priaulx third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Race One\nHuff took his second win in three races for Chevrolet. The Briton got a great start from third and overtook Farfus who hit some oil and went wide at Pont Oscar on lap 2. Huff led the pack for the remaining 17 laps with Farfus and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller having to settle for second and third despite applying constant pressure on the front man. Perseverance paid out for Priaulx who crossed the line fourth, having passed Menu on lap 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Race One\nSpaniard Hern\u00e1ndez made good progress in the second half of the race to secure fifth place overall with fellow countryman Porteiro winning the independent category in sixth overall, however he was eventually excluded by the stewards for hitting Coronel. Engstler inherited the independents\u2019 victory and sixth place, while Menu came home eighth to start race two on pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Race Two\nChevrolet achieved their fourth consecutive win and this time it was Menu on the top podium spot. He was joined by teammate Huff who crossed the line third and Farfus from BMW Team Germany took second place just as in race one. The race was suspended when Engstler collided with the safety car. During the first lap Porteiro hit Hern\u00e1ndez with the later not being able to rejoin. Porteiro was given a drive-through penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202813-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of France, Report, Race Two\nJ\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Priaulx also made contact with each other in lap one. While Priaulx continued and crossed the line fourth, M\u00fcller received a drive-through penalty for pitting during the suspension of the race and finished 18th. Zanardi stormed through the pack to achieve fifth place and SEAT Sport men Gabriele Tarquini and Yvan Muller scored points in sixth and seventh. The race ended under the red flags with one lap remaining after Cayrolle and Larini, who were battling for eighth spot, were involved in a collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany was the ninth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season, and the fifth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Germany. It was held on 6 September 2009 at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben near Oschersleben, near Magdeburg in Germany. The races were won by BMW drivers Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Background\nSEAT Sport driver Yvan Muller arrived at Oschersleben after a seven-week break with a five-point lead over teammate Gabriele Tarquini, with Augusto Farfus a further point behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Background\nA field of 27 cars made the trip to Oschersleben. Making their World Touring Car Championship debuts in Germany were reigning European Touring Car Cup champion Michel Nykj\u00e6r for Perfection Racing in a Chevrolet Lacetti, and fellow Danish Touring Car Championship frontrunner Jason Watt in a privately run SEAT Le\u00f3n. Driving the SUNRED Engineering guest car for SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup drivers was Jean-Marie Clairet. Meanwhile, James Thompson missed the event as he prepared for the Phillip Island 500K V8 Supercar race. This meant that regular Lada Sport drivers Jaap van Lagen and Kirill Ladygin were driving the new Priora model for the first time along with team principal Viktor Shapovalov, who returned to driving duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Free Practice\nThe first free practice session took place on a damp track between 08:45 and 09:15 local time on Saturday 5, with BMW Team Germany's Augusto Farfus quickest with a time of 1:50.841. Chevrolet's Rob Huff was second ahead of SEAT Sport's Tiago Monteiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Free Practice\nThe second free practice session took place between 11:00 and 11:30 local time on a drying track, with Farfus quickest again with a time of 1:36.760. His teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was second, with Yvan Muller third for SEAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying began at 15:15 local time, and with rain falling after less than five minutes into the opening session. This meant that the top 10 drivers for the second session were effectively decided in the first two flying laps. Gabriele Tarquini was fastest and amongst those who joined him were Lada Sport driver Jaap van Lagen and independents Tom Coronel and Marin \u010colak. Andy Priaulx and Yvan Muller were only 15th and 17th fastest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying 2 began at 15:40. Augusto Farfus and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller were initially quickest on wet tyres, but as the track dried those who gambled on slick tyres went much faster. Tarquini took the pole for SEAT with a time of 1:39.866. \u010colak was second fastest, at his first event since the Czech Republic race. Rickard Rydell qualified third, ahead of the Lada of van Lagen, the first time he has driven the new Priora model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Qualifying\nRob Huff and Kristian Poulsen were both given 10 place grid penalties. Huff was demoted from 6th to 16th after an engine change in his Chevrolet Cruze after Sunday morning warm up. Poulsen started from the back after ignoring yellow flag rules in Saturday's practice sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Warm Up\nAndy Priaulx was fastest in Sunday morning warm up, ahead of BMW teammates J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Augusto Farfus. The top three were separated by just 0.088 seconds. They were followed by the five SEAT Sport drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One\nRace one began shortly before 13:00 local time. At the first chicane J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was spun round and hit by BMW Team Germany teammate Augusto Farfus, with Rob Huff and Jordi Gen\u00e9 also involved. Andy Priaulx moved from 14th to 4th during the first lap. He then passed Tom Coronel and Rickard Rydell before passing polesitter Gabriele Tarquini for the lead. From there he controlled the race, setting the fastest lap on his way to the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One\nBehind Tarquni, Rydell and Independent class winner Coronel who finished second, third and fourth respectively, the main battle was for fifth. Lada Sport driver Jaap van Lagen was due to score the team's first points in fifth, having held off pressure from a convoy of Nicola Larini, Farfus and Stefano D'Aste. However, at the last corner van Lagen was hit from behind by the Chevrolet of Larini, sending the Lada into the gravel. Larini took fifth, narrowly ahead of Farfus at the line, while van Lagen could only rejoin and finish 11th. D'Aste scored his first points of the season in seventh, while fellow independent BMW driver Franz Engstler was set to start race two on pole position after finishing in eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One\nTarquini took the lead of the championship after SEAT Sport teammate Yvan Muller broke his right front wheel and suspension after clipping the tyre stack on the inside of the first chicane having been passed for tenth by Farfus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One\nLarini was later given a 30-second penalty for the clash with van Lagen, which demoted him from fifth to fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race Two\nRace two began at 15:08 local time. Front-row starting independents Engstler and D'Aste led Farfus for the first lap, but Farfus passed D'Aste for second at the start of the second lap before passing Engstler three laps later. Farfus remained in the lead until the finish. He was followed home by fellow BMW driver Priaulx, who had made up three places on the opening lap and passed Larini, D'Aste and Engstler to secure second place, scoring the fastest lap once again. A drive-through penalty for D'Aste and a mechanical failure for Engstler allowed Tarquini to score his second podium finish of the day, which means he left Germany leading the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202814-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race Two\nJ\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez made their way up from further back on the grid to finish fourth and fifth ahead of Larini in sixth. Yvan Muller made his way up to seventh from a grid position of 21st. Coronel benefitted from the misfortunes of D'Aste and Engstler to take the independent class victory in eighth, with the Chevrolets of Rob Huff and Alain Menu rounding out the top 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC Stihl Race of Italy) was the tenth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season, and the fifth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Italy. It was held on 20 September 2009 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari near Imola, in Italy. It was the first time the Race of Italy was held at the circuit, although it had previously held races in 2005 and 2008, under the Race of San Marino and Race of Europe titles respectively. The races were won by SEAT Sport drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Yvan Muller who both finished second to their teammate in the other races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Background\nGabriele Tarquini arrived at his home race in Italy as the new championship leader, with a one-point lead over BMW Team Germany's Augusto Farfus. Previous series leader Yvan Muller was a further six points behind for SEAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Background\nThere were 25 cars taking part at the event. Making his World Championship debut for Proteam was Fabio Fabiani, the reigning European Touring Car Cup champion in the Super Production class. Returning to the series after limited races in 2005 was Andrea Larini, younger brother of Chevrolet driver Nicola, in the SUNRED-run SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup prize car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Background\nJames Thompson returned to the Lada Sport team, taking his Priora back off team principal Viktor Shapovalov, who stood in for Thompson in Germany due to commitments in V8 Supercar. Also returning was Mehdi Bennani and the Exagon Engineering team after missing the previous two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Free Practice\nChampionship leader Tarquini was fastest in the first practice session, ahead of BMW Team Italy-Spain's Alessandro Zanardi and Yvan Muller. Independent's Trophy leader Tom Coronel was fourth fastest ahead of Farfus and Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Free Practice\nJordi Gen\u00e9 was fastest in the second session for SEAT, ahead of teammate Rickard Rydell and BMW Team UK's Andy Priaulx. The session ended a couple of minutes early as the red flag was brought out after a collision between independent BMW drivers Stefano D'Aste and Fabio Fabiani, which left Fabiani stranded in the gravel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Qualifying\nThe first session decided which ten drivers would make it through to the second session. Tarquini was fastest as all five SEAT drivers made it through to Q2. Only two BMW's made it through, with Farfus and Priaulx joined by all three Chevrolet drivers. D'Aste was the fastest independent in 14th, one place ahead of Thompson's Lada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Qualifying\nThe second session determined the starting positions of the top ten. The five SEATs followed each other round to gain a slipstreaming benefit. Tarquini was the fastest of the train, ahead of Yvan Muller and Rydell. Rob Huff was fourth fastest for Chevrolet, ahead of SEAT driver Tiago Monteiro and Farfus. Priaulx, Gen\u00e9 and Chevrolet's Nicola Larini were seventh, eighth and ninth. The third Chevrolet driver Alain Menu did not take part in Q2 after his car returned to the pits at the end of Q1 spewing out oil. He was later given a ten-place grid penalty for an engine change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One\nTarquini led from the start of the race until the finish, although it was a busy race for those behind him. Several front-runners were taken out of contention on the opening lap at the first Tamburello chicane. Jordi Gen\u00e9 triggered the accident when he hit Rob Huff's Chevrolet under breaking. Huff lost control and made contact with Rickard Rydell, who then hit his SEAT teammate Gen\u00e9 and then Augusto Farfus. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Tiago Monteiro also suffered damage in the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One\nAll except Monteiro were able to make it to the pits and return to the action later in the race. Tarquini led from Yvan Muller, Huff, and Alex Zanardi. Tom Coronel and James Thompson were able to make up a host of places after avoiding the carnage by running through the gravel at the chicane, and finished in fifth and sixth. A train formed behind Thompson's Lada, and Stefano D'Aste ran off the track after out-breaking himself trying to pass Thompson. He made contact with Alain Menu's Chevrolet on rejoining the circuit, tipping D'Aste into a spin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One\nElsewhere, Kristian Poulsen tapped Jaap van Lagen into a spin, which resulted in van Lagen's Lada hitting a tyre wall and then flipping through the gravel trap, which brought out the safety car. Poulsen was then hit by teammate and team owner Franz Engstler. Andy Priaulx lost out in the fight for the eighth place, going off the circuit twice before eventually finishing fifteenth. Guest driver Andrea Larini was black-flagged for not wearing fire-proof underwear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race Two\nYvan Muller ended a run of poor results in race two by winning ahead of SEAT Sport teammate Tarquini. Muller had started seventh but he was able to pass race leader Menu on the third lap and led the rest of the way. Tarquini made contact with the Chevrolet car of Huff but remained on the tail of Muller. Tarquini fought for the lead but bumped into the back of Muller in trying to do so. Down the field, SEAT driver Gen\u00e9 attempted a pass on Hern\u00e1ndez but misjudged it and spun the BMW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202815-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race Two\nFellow SEAT driver Monteiro also clipped another car, this time the SUNRED Engineering car of Tom Boardman. Monteiro went off the track as a consequence, cutting the corner at Rivazza and almost hitting Boardman as he rejoined the track. At the end Yvan Muller was first ahead of Tarquini and Menu while Thompson finished sixth in the Lada. Farfus was the final points scorer while D'Aste was the independents' trophy winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC Kenwood Race of Japan) was the eleventh round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Japan. It was held on 1 November 2009 at the Okayama International Circuit near Mimasaka, Japan. The two races were won by BMW drivers Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus. The race was supported by the 2009 1000 km of Okayama, the inaugural event of the Asian Le Mans Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Background\nGabriele Tarquini arrived in Japan with a seven-point lead over SEAT Sport teammate Yvan Muller. BMW Team Germany driver Augusto Farfus was the only other driver that could still win the title. He was eighteen points behind Tarquini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Background\nSUNRED Engineering placed Japanese-based Brazilian Jo\u00e3o Paulo de Oliveira in their third car for the race, taking it over from Andrea Larini. Japanese drivers Seiji Ara and Nobuteru Taniguchi also made their championship debuts, for Wiechers-Sport and Proteam Motorsport respectively, while Masaki Kano returned to Liqui Moly Team Engstler, the team with which he made his series debut in 2008. Macau's Henry Ho also drove for Engstler, making his series debut. Independent SEAT drivers Marin \u010colak and Mehdi Bennani did not travel to Japan, while Fabio Fabiani did not follow-up his one-off drive for Proteam at the previous race in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice\nYvan Muller was quickest in Friday's test session, ahead of Farfus and the SEAT trio of Tiago Monteiro, Rickard Rydell and Gabriele Tarquini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice\nFarfus set the fastest time in Saturday morning's free practice session, ahead of fellow BMW driver Andy Priaulx and SEAT drivers Jordi Gen\u00e9, Yvan Muller and Tiago Monteiro. Stefano D'Aste crashed ten minutes into the session, bringing out the red flags and stopping the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice\nFarfus was also the quickest in the second practice session, ahead of BMW Team Germany teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and his namesake Yvan. Robert Huff for Chevrolet and Tarquini were fourth and fifth quickest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Qualifying\nTarquini took his third straight pole position and his fifth of the season in the qualifying session. He will start ahead of Priaulx, J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, Rydell and Farfus. Yvan Muller will start in seventh place. Tom Coronel was the quickest of the Independent runners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Warm-Up\nFarfus set the quickest time in the Sunday morning warm-up, ahead of Gen\u00e9, J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, Rickard Rydell and Tiago Monteiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race One\nA heavy downfall of rain before the first race meant that the field began behind the safety car. The safety car came in at the end of the first lap, with polesitter Tarquini leading the pack. However, he drifted wide at Turn 2 through the gravel trap. This left Priaulx to lead until the end of the race, despite pressure from BMW teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller. Despite dropping back after his off-track excursion, Tarquini came back through the field to finish in fifth behind Huff and Yvan Muller, ahead of SEAT teammates Gen\u00e9 and Monteiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race One\nFarfus had gone off at the same time as Tarquini on lap 3, but he fought his way through to finish eighth and securing pole position for Race Two after pushing Alain Menu wide on the penultimate lap, continuing his habit this season off recovering from early Race One incidents to finish eighth and start Race Two on pole. Coronel took the Independents' class victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202816-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race Two\nRace Two began with J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller starting quickly, causing a bunch-up at Turn 1 that resulted in M\u00fcller spinning Monteiro off the track. Tarquini joined him in running off, although he was able to rejoin the circuit. M\u00fcller received a drive-through penalty for causing the incident. Many other drivers ran wide at Turn 2 in the treacherous conditions. Farfus lead Priaulx home to give another one-two finish for BMW, ahead of Yvan Muller. The three Chevrolets finished next, with Menu ahead of Nicola Larini and Huff. Gen\u00e9 and Rydell sacrificed their positions on the last lap to give teammate Tarquini a seventh-place finish. D'Aste took the Independents' win, finishing tenth overall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Mexico) was the second round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held on 22 March 2009 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Miguel E. Abed near Puebla, Mexico. It was the fourth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico\nThe two races were won by SEAT Sport's Rickard Rydell and Yvan Muller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Background\nAfter the first round of the year in Brazil, defending champion Yvan Muller was tied on points with SEAT Sport teammate Gabriele Tarquini at the top of the drivers' championship. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport's F\u00e9lix Porteiro was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Testing and free practice\nThe test session on Friday saw joint championship leader Yvan Muller go fastest. BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx set the pace early on before SEAT drivers Rickard Rydell and Tarquini went quicker. With a minute before the end of the session, Muller set the fastest time. Porteiro was the fastest independent driver in sixth while none of the Chevrolet drivers got into the top ten with Nicola Larini the fastest of the trio in twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Testing and free practice\nRydell led the opening free practice session on Saturday morning, the first of a SEAT 1\u20132\u20133\u20134. Farfus was the fastest BMW in fifth and Larini was the fastest Chevrolet down in thirteenth. Robert Huff was unable to set a time due to an oil leak on his Chevrolet Cruze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Testing and free practice\nThe second free practice session saw Rydell go quickest once again. The BMWs of Farfus and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller were second and third ahead of the SEAT Sport pair of Yvan Muller and Tarquini. The final two factory SEATs were Tiago Monteiro and Jordi Gen\u00e9 were eighth and thirteenth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Qualifying\nAugusto Farfus, Andy Priaulx and BMW pushed to the limit and interrupted SEAT\u2019sdomination that lasted since the test session in Curitiba. Farfus won pole position, posting the fastest time of the session with a lap of 1:37.981, the first driver to break the 1:38 wall so far. He beat Priaulx by only 0.045 seconds, while Gabriele Tarquini saved SEAT\u2019s honour claiming third position with a one-tenth gap. BMW and SEAT cars equally shared the ten positions giving access to Q2. Although they sat in the pits until halfway through the session, all five SEAT Sport drivers managed to make the top-ten, with Gabriele Tarquini in second with a gap of 0.065 seconds after having clocked a provisional fastest lap at 1:38.047.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Qualifying\nF\u00e9lix Porteiro topped the Independents again and also managed to advance to Q2 setting the 10th fastest lap at 1:38.972. Chevrolet and LADA drivers remained all out of Q2; Nicola Larini missed the top-ten by 18 thousandths of a second, while Jaap van Lagen\u2019s session ended prematurely because of an engine leak. In Q2, Yvan Muller was the first to post a quick lap at 1:37.924, but the reigning worldchampion was immediately ousted by Farfus with the time of 1:37.682. Jordi Gen\u00e9, F\u00e9lix Porteiro, Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez and Andy Priaulx were the last to join the session. In the dying seconds Priaulx managed to jump into second with a lap of 1:37.727, a time whichresisted to Tarquini\u2019s last attempt that was worth third place (1:37.793). Porteiro completed a lap of 1:38.525 that gave him a brilliant eighth position on the grid for Race 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 885]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Warm-Up\nPole sitter Farfus topped the times in Sunday morning's warm\u2013up session, ahead of Priaulx and Rydell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Race One\nRickard Rydell forced his way through the BMW front row to claim SEAT\u2019s third consecutivevictory in three rounds. Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx put a lot of pressure on the Swedish driver and eventually settled in second and third respectively, the first podium results for BMW in the season so far. While SEAT and BMW men were fighting for the top positions, Nicola Larini managed to defend his eighth place, scoring the first point for the new Chevrolet Cruze. F\u00e9lix Porteiro won the Independents\u2019 class once again, recovering from the 14th position where he had fallen after being involved in a collision at the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202817-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico, Report, Race Two\nThe second race was another SEAT vs BMW fight. The reigning world champion Yvan Muller claimed his second victory of the season as he managed to keep at bay the former world champion Andy Priaulx. Jordi Gen\u00e9 took the lead at the start, but then, in a breathtaking succession of overtaking manoeuvres, J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, Tarquini, Yvan Muller, Priaulx, Rydell and Farfus overturned the order completely. M\u00fcller and Tarquini however, had to leave the company after they clashed on lap 6 and slipped down. All the three Chevrolet cars completed the race, with Larini\u2019s in tenth position, and so did the LADA cars, with Jaap van Lagen\u2019s in 17th. Porteiro claimed a fourth consecutive win in the Independents\u2019 trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Morocco) was the third round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held on 3 May 2009 at the Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco. It was the inaugural running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco\nThe two races were won by Chevrolet's Robert Huff and Nicola Larini, the former taking the first win for the Chevrolet Cruze in the World Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Background\nAfter the previous round in Mexico, Yvan Muller was tied at the top of the drivers' standings with SEAT Sport teammate Rickard Rydell. F\u00e9lix Porteiro had established a 23 point lead over Tom Coronel in the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Background\nThis was the first FIA World Championship race to be held in Morocco since the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix. The WTCC saw its first North African driver participate in an event when Mehdi Bennani joined the grid in an Exagon Engineering run SEAT Le\u00f3n 2.0 TFSI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Background\nOther changes were made to Scuderia Proteam Motorsport expanded to three cars for Morocco to run a BMW 320si for Vito Postiglione, and Tom Boardman requested a new car which wouldn't have been ready for the Moroccan event so he elected to skip the round and focus on returning for the Race of France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice\nYvan Muller topped the times as the WTCC cars took to the Marrakech Street Circuit for the first time in Friday's test session. He was closely followed by Chevrolet's Alain Menu and SEAT Sport team mate Rydell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice\nSEAT Sport stayed on top in free practice one on Saturday morning, forming a SEAT 1\u20132\u20133\u20134\u20135 with Menu sixth. Coronel in seventh was the fastest independent driver and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller in eighth was the fastest factory BMW car, Nicola Larini and Stefano D'Aste rounded out the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice\nYvan Muller topped the afternoon session with SEATs filling the top six places. Menu was sixth ahead of Huff and the fastest BMW was that of independent driver Franz Engstler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Qualifying\nChevrolet's Huff beat practice pace setters SEAT in qualifying to claim pole position, the first for the new Cruze car. Gabriele Tarquini started second and Yvan Muller third. Despite setting the second fastest lap, Menu was demoted to 10th because the Stewards disallowed his Q2 qualifying times after his car did not restart following a mandatory visit to the weighing bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Qualifying\nIn Q1, SEAT had company at the top of the qualifying timesheet in the form of Chevrolet. While Tiago Monteiro initially made claim to pole with a 1:51.086, Menu (1:50.271), Larini (1:50.723) and Huff (1:50.817) stole the top spots. The end of the session saw Andy Priaulx miss his braking point at turn 1 and clash with Hern\u00e1ndez who had come off his line to let Zanardi through. Due to the fact he received external aid to restart, Priaulx was not permitted to take part in Q2 and therefore qualified ninth following Menu's penalty. All of the LADA drivers remained out of Q2. Despite not making Q2, Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani put in a strong performance to qualify 14th overall and second of the Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Qualifying\nIn Q2, the session ended prematurely for J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller who suffered a rear left puncture after six minutes. He did not post a competitive qualifying time and lined up eighth for Race 1. The pack was tight and at one point during the session just four tenths of a secondsplit the top six. On the last lap Huff charged to the front with a 1:49.789. Tarquini clocked a 1:50.086 on his last lap to secure a front-row place and Muller's best time was 1:50.156. Muller lined up third followed by Jordi Gen\u00e9, Larini and Monteiro. Engstler qualified as best Independent and BMW driver in seventh, while Menu's qualifying session ended when he hit the wall at turn 2 on his lastlap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Warm-Up\nYvan Muller topped the warm\u2013up session on Sunday morning with fellow SEAT drivers Gen\u00e9 second, Coronel third, Tarquini fourth and Monteiro fifth. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was the leading BMW while pole sitter Huff was eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One\nRobert Huff converted his pole into a win for Chevrolet, the first for the new Cruze car in its fifth race. Huff led the field from the start to finish with Gabriele Tarquini behind him the whole way to take second. Jordi Gen\u00e9 overtook Yvan Muller on the penultimate lap to secure third. Farfus' team-mate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller was the fastest BMW and his eighth place finish meant pole in Race 2. Fellow BMW driver Alessandro Zanardi retired from the race on lap four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One\nThe safety car was deployed at the end of the first lap after an incident involving M\u00fcller, Alain Menu and Rickard Rydell resulted in Rydell being squeezed into the wall at turn two and incurring race-ending damage to his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One\nMoroccan driver Mehdi Bennani was best Independent in ninth overall, while Augusto Farfus was challenged hard by Tom Coronel for 12th position, but in the end, Coronel made a mistake at turn 11 on lap 10 and lost the battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race Two\nThe second race saw Nicola Larini celebrate his first ever WTCC win. Yvan Muller took second place ahead of Race 1 winner Robert Huff. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller led until lap eight when he went wide at turn 15 allowing Larini, Muller and Huff through. The BMW Team Germany driver eventually finished fourth ahead of Tarquini, Farfus and Monteiro. Franz Engstler took the final point in eighth as well as the Independent win. Andy Priaulx was in contention for points until lap 11 where he missed the braking point at turn 7 \u2013 he retired to the pits on the next lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202818-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race Two\nMehdi Bennani also went straight at the same point on lap 11 but continued to finish 10th and third independent. The safety car was deployed for two laps at the start after Hern\u00e1ndez's car was stranded in an unsafe place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal was the seventh round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the third FIA WTCC Race of Portugal. It was held on 5 July 2009 at the temporary Circuito da Boavista street course in Porto, Portugal. The first race was won by Gabriele Tarquini for SEAT Sport and the second race was won by Augusto Farfus for BMW Team Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Background\nThe second race of the day was the 100th World Touring Car Championship race since its reintroduction at Monza in 2005. It also saw the debut of the new Lada Priora, with former race-winner James Thompson behind the wheel for LADA Sport. Diego Puyo made his series debut for SUNRED Engineering, after scoring more points than any other driver in the SEAT Leon Eurocup round at Brno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Testing and Free Practice\nTesting took place on Friday afternoon, with Augusto Farfus quickest in the half-hour session for BMW Team Germany. The first free practice session took place on the Saturday morning, with Farfus quickest again. Chevrolet's Rob Huff was quickest in the second practice session shortly after midday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Qualifying\nQualifying took place on the Saturday afternoon. SEAT Sport's Yvan Muller was quickest in Qualifying 1, after which the fastest ten drivers go through to Qualifying 2. Gabriele Tarquini took pole position for SEAT Sport, with Huff second and Yvan Muller third. Tom Coronel was the fastest independent in Qualifying, starting from 12th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Warm Up\nThe fifteen-minute Sunday morning warm-up session took part on a wet track, with Rob Huff fastest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race One\nRace 1 started on a drying track at 11:34 local time. The red flag was brought out and the race was suspended at the end of the first lap for two separate incidents on the opening lap. As the leaders made their way away from the grid, the BMW of Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez and the Lada of Jaap van Lagen, who started 17th and 18th respectively tangled after the rolling start, pitching Hernandez in the concrete barrier. Hernandez was subsequently taken to hospital for checks on his ankle. Later on in the lap, Farfus collided with Alain Menu, spinning Menu into the wall. Nicola Larini tagged Tiago Monteiro as they tried to avoid the incident. The track became blocked as Mehdi Bennani ran into Menu's stationary Chevrolet Cruze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race One\nAfter the restart Tarquini led Huff and Yvan Muller to victory. On the last lap, Andy Priaulx, running in fourth, and Jorg Muller, running seventh, slowed to allow BWW teammate Farfus (who had served a drive-through-penalty for the first lap incident with Menu) past them to allow him to finish eighth, securing one championship point and pole position for the second race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race One\nStefano D'Aste was the leading independent, finishing in tenth place. Tarquini recorded the fastest lap of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two\nRace 2 started at 16:50 local time. The unusually large gap in time between the two races was to allow for TV broadcaster Eurosport to cover the Tour de France. On the third lap Rob Huff passed teammate Nicola Larini for sixth. Gabriele Tarquini tried to make a late move down the inside of Larini to follow Huff past but the two Italian veterans collided and both ended up in the tyre wall on the exit of the turn. As the field went on by, Mehdi Bennani ran wide and as he picked his way through the middle of the two stranded cars he rejoined the racing line in the path of fellow SEAT driver Tom Boardman. The safety car was deployed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two\nFarfus was still leading when the race was red-flagged following a crash involving Alain Menu and Franz Engstler on lap 10, which left Menu's car stranded in the middle of the narrow track. Farfus completed the two laps after the stoppage to win the 100th WTCC race ahead of four SEATs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202819-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two\nStefano D'Aste was once again the independents\u2019 winner and Farfus took the fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain\nThe FIA WTCC Race of Spain 2009 was the fifth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the fifth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Spain. It was held on 31 May 2009 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Cheste, near Valencia in Spain. The first race was won by Gabriele Tarquini for SEAT Sport and the second race was won by Augusto Farfus for BMW Team Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Background\nSEAT Sport driver Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship coming into the event, BMW driver Farfus was six points behind in second and Gabriele Tarquini was a further five points behind. Franz Engstler was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy with F\u00e9lix Porteiro second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Background\nHaving missed the previous round at Pau due to damage sustained at the Race of Morocco, Vito Postiglione returned to the championship with Scuderia Proteam Motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Background\nAfter a disappointing performance at Pau, the SEAT Le\u00f3n TDIs were given a 0.2 bar increase in boost pressure for the Race of Spain to return the diesels to competitive form.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Free Practice\nYvan Muller set the pace in the opening free practice session, the increase in boost pressure for the TDI engine produced a SEAT 1\u20132\u20133 result. Tom Coronel was the leading petrol car, Nicola Larini was the leading Chevrolet car and the heavier BMWs were led by Farfus in ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Free Practice\nSEAT stayed on top in the second practice session, this time courtesy of Tiago Monteiro. Farfus was second for BMW and Larini was third for Chevrolet. Jaap van Lagen did not participate in the session, as the engine was changed in his LADA Sport Lada 110 2.0. The session was interrupted with a red flag when Jordi Gen\u00e9 went off the circuit and left gravel on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Qualifying\nTarquini set pole position on his final timed lap, to achieve his first pole since the 2007 Race of Germany. SEAT Sport locked out the first two rows of the grid at their home event with Yvan Muller second, Gen\u00e9 third and Monteiro fourth. SEAT driver Rickard Rydell was fastest in Q1 at the head of a 1\u20132\u20133 for the marque, while Farfus was the only BMW to escape Q1. All three Chevrolet drivers progressed to Q2 while both LADAs lined up near the back of the grid. With SEAT claiming the first four positions in Q2, Farfus separated them from the leading Chevrolet of Alain Menu. SUNRED Engineering's Tom Coronel was the only independent driver to make it into Q2, and he lined up tenth for the first race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Warm-Up\nRydell was fastest in Sunday morning warm up session with pole sitter Tarquini thirteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Race One\nYvan Muller made a good start to take the lead from Tarquini straight away, while Monteiro also passed Tarquini to finish second. Having dropped out in Q1, triple champion Andy Priaulx battled through from fourteenth to fifth while the leading BMW of Farfus had a difficult race amongst the SEATs. He recovered after Gen\u00e9 pushed him wide, he then dropped down to seventh when he was involved in a tangle with Rydell, Menu and Gen\u00e9 but he then climbed up the order to claim fourth. This was helped by J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller dropping two places at the final corner. Coronel was the independent winner having finished seventh while further down the order, BMW Team Italy-Spain driver Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez and Wiechers-Sport's Stefano D'Aste battled over the eighth place which would become pole position for race two, with Hern\u00e1ndez coming out victorious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202820-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Race Two\nThe second race saw a 1\u20132 finish for BMW Team Germany, with Farfus winning and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller second. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller had started from third and took the lead of the race which he held until the third lap, when Farfus assumed the race lead. The leading pair distanced themselves from the rest of the field which was being led by Tarquini and Priaulx in the battle for the third and final podium spot. Ultimately, it was Tarquini to finish third, to deny BMW a 1\u20132\u20133 finish. Coronel started on the front row but could not match the start of the rear-wheel drive BMW of pole sitter Hern\u00e1ndez. Coronel finished tenth and Hern\u00e1ndez sixth, while D'Aste took the independent win with ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC Marriott Race of UK) was the eighth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the fifth FIA WTCC Race of UK. It was held on 19 July 2009 at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, England. The first race was won by Alain Menu for Chevrolet and the second race was won by Augusto Farfus for BMW Team Germany. The round was overshadowed by the death of Henry Surtees in the second FIA Formula Two Championship support race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Background\nYvan Muller arrived at Brands Hatch with a 14 point lead over SEAT Sport teammate Gabriele Tarquini, with BMW's Augusto Farfus a further point behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Background\nThe race saw four new drivers for the 2009 season. ADAC Procar Series champion Philip Geipel joined Liqui Moly Team Engstler in a third BMW 320si. Meanwhile, Swedish team Polestar Racing entered two Volvo C30s for Robert Dahlgren and WTCC newcomer Tommy Rustad, however both Volvos were ineligible to score championship points. Norbert Michelisz drove the SUNRED Engineering-run SEAT Leon Eurocup prize car, as he did at Okayama in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Free Practice\nAugusto Farfus went quickest in the first free practice session on the Saturday morning. The Brazilian BMW Team Germany driver then went quickest in the second session later in the morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Qualifying\nFarfus went quickest in the first qualifying session. Amongst those who failed to make it through into the second session were Yvan Muller and Jordi Gene. Chevrolet's Alain Menu and Rob Huff locked out the front row of the grid after the second session, with the BMWs of Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus. Guest independent SEAT driver Norbert Michelisz qualified tenth, the leading independent. Jorg Muller, Robert Dahlgren, Jordi Gene and Kristian Poulsen all received grid penalties ahead of the first race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Qualifying\nMuller received a five-place penalty for driving in the fast lane of the pits before the pit lane had been opened at the beginning of the session. Dahlgren had all his times disallowed because his team worked on the car during the parc ferme conditions between Q1 and Q2. The Swede dropped from 13th to the back of the grid. Gene also had his times disallowed because the engine speed sensor of his car's data logging system was disconnected, and he also dropped to the back row of the grid. Poulsen received a 10-place grid drop after having the engine in his BMW changed, although he had only qualified 22nd anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Warm Up\nAndy Priaulx went fastest in the Sunday morning warm-up session. The major story though was James Thompson setting the eighth quickest time in the Lada Priora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One\nThe first race started with a multi-car accident at the Druids hairpin as Yvan Muller and Augusto Farfus tangled. Felix Porteiro and Norbert Michelisz were also heavily involved with many others taking to the grass on the inside and outside of the corner in avoidance. The incident brought the safety car out. Huff lead Menu from the restart, although Menu re-passed Huff for the lead on lap five. The two Chevrolet drivers remained out in front until the end of the race, although Priaulx pushed Huff for second in the final laps, having passed Gabriele Tarquini for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One\nThe safety car made a second appearance later in the race as Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez, Vito Postiglione and  Tommy Rustad tangled at Surtees. Farfus made his way through the field after his first lap incident to claim eighth place and pole position for Race 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One\nStefano D'Aste won the Independents Trophy from Tom Coronel and Tom Boardman. Menu set the fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race Two\nRace two was won by pole-sitter Augusto Farfus from BMW Team Germany teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller. SEAT Sport drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Rickard Rydell finished third and fourth ahead of Andy Priaulx. Yvan Muller battled through from the back of the field to take seventh place in an otherwise uneventful race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202821-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race Two\nTom Boardman took his first ever Independent's Trophy win in tenth overall. J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller set the fastest lap of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic\nThe 2009 FIA WTCC Marriott Race of the Czech Republic was the sixth round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the fourth running of the FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic. It was held on 21 June 2009 at the Masaryk Circuit near Brno, Czech Republic. BMW Team Italy-Spain won both races with Alex Zanardi winning the first race and Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez winning the second race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Background\nComing into the round, SEAT Sport driver Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship by a three-point margin over BMW Team Germany's Augusto Farfus. Tom Coronel was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Background\nTom's twin brother Tim Coronel joined SUNRED Engineering for the event to make his WTCC debut. Exagon Engineering and their driver Mehdi Bennani missed the round before returning at the Race of Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Free practice\nBMW cars dominated first practice taking the top five positions on Saturday morning. In wet conditions, Andy Priaulx was fastest just under 0.15s ahead of Zanardi. Rickard Rydell was the fastest SEAT drive in sixth place and the fastest Chevrolet was that of Nicola Larini in seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Free practice\nBMW filled the top four places in the second free practice session with Farfus setting the fastest time. SEAT cars filled the next five places, led by Gabriele Tarquini while the fastest Chevrolet was Robert Huff in tenth. The track was still damp after the morning but it was drying as the session progressed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Qualifying\nFarfus took his third pole position of the year with Priaulx alongside him on the front row. Behind them were Zanardi and the fastest Chevrolet of Larini. Only two SEATs made it through to Q2, Rydell lined up fifth and Tarquini sixth. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver F\u00e9lix Porteiro was the fastest independent lining up tenth. Priaulx had been fastest in Q1 but changing weather conditions favoured Farfus later on. Out in Q1 were SEAT Sport drivers Tiago Monteiro, Jordi Gen\u00e9 and points leader Yvan Muller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Warm-Up\nFarfus was quickest in Sunday mornings warm up session with BMW cars in the top five positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Race One\nFarfus moved to the left at the start, collecting Priaulx, Huff, Larini and Gen\u00e9 before beaching himself in the gravel trap. Priaulx limped back to the pits minus his front bumper and with broken front suspension while Farfus, Huff and Larini were stuck at turn one. The incident allowed Tarquini and Zanardi to pass up the inside and continue. Tarquini led away from the restart before Zanardi quickly passed the SEAT and pulled away into the lead. Zanardi took victory at Brno for the second consecutive year while J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller had climbed up from eleventh to second ahead of Tarquini. Porteiro was the winning Yokohama Independent driver and Yvan Muller finished eighth to secure pole position for race two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202822-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Race Two\nStarting on the front row, Porteiro moved into the lead at the start while Hern\u00e1ndez then took second from pole sitter Yvan Muller. The leading pair ran close together and on lap three Hern\u00e1ndez made his move to take the lead. Porteiro dropped down to fourth on lap four when he was passed by Muller and Monteiro. Behind them, a battle for fifth place was developing between BMW pair Priaulx and M\u00fcller and SEAT pair Tarquini and Rydell. While the BMW duo were contesting fifth place, Tarquini and Rydell overtook the pair of them. At the line Hern\u00e1ndez took his first ever WTCC win with Muller second and Monteiro third, fourth place for Porteiro secured him the independents' win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202823-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Women is the 19th continental championships held by FIBA Africa. The championship will serve as a qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic. The tournament took place at the Palais des Sports, Antananarivo, Madagascar from October 9 to October 18. Senegal defeated Mali in the final to capture its tenth FIBA Africa Championship for Women. Both teams qualified for the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202823-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Women, Final standings\nSenegal rosterAwa Gueye, Aya Traor\u00e9, Aminata Dieye, Aminata Nar Diop, Bineta Diouf, Fatou Dieng, Fatou Thiam, Fatoumata Diango, Mame Diodio Diouf, Mame Marie Sy, Nd\u00e8ye S\u00e8ne, Oumoul Sarr, Coach:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202824-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Women squads\nThis article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202825-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup\nThe 2009 FIBA Africa Basketball Club Championship (24th edition), was an international basketball tournament  held in Kigali, Rwanda, from December 13 to 22, 2009. The tournament, organized by FIBA Africa, and hosted by APR, was contested by 9 clubs split into 2 groups, the first four of which qualifying for the knock-out stage, quarter-finals, semifinals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202825-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup\nThe tournament was won by Primeiro de Agosto from Angola, thus defending its title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202825-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, Draw\nASPAC Co-op Bank Inter Club Brazzaville Primeiro de Agosto Warriors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202825-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, Final standings\nPrimeiro de Agosto rosterArmando Costa, Carlos Almeida, Felizardo Ambr\u00f3sio, Filipe Abra\u00e3o, Joaquim Gomes, M\u00e1rio Correia, Miguel Lutonda, Rodrigo Mascarenhas, Vladimir Ricardino, Coach: Lu\u00eds Magalh\u00e3es", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202826-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying rounds for the 2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup were played in a round-robin system, in the various FIBA Africa zones, each zone qualifying two teams for the final round, played in Kigali, Rwanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202827-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Men (alternatively the Afrobasket U16) was the 1st U-16 FIBA Africa championship, played under the auspices of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body and qualified for the 2010 World Cup. The tournament was held from September 19\u201326 in Maputo, Mozambique, contested by 9 national teams and won by Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202827-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship\nThe tournament qualified the winner for the 2010 U17 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202827-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship, Final standings\nEgypt rosterAhmed Gamal, Ahmed Hamdy, Ahmed Karoura, Ahmed Mostafa, Assem Gindy, Khaled Moftan, Mostafa Abousamra, Moustafa Ghazi, Omar Mohamed, Omar Yasser, Seif Samir, Youssef Shousha, Coach: Hesham Aboserea", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202828-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women (alternatively the Afrobasket U16) was the 1st U-16 FIBA Africa championship for women, played under the auspices of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body and qualified for the 2010 World Cup. The tournament was held from August 30\u2013September 5 in Bamako, Mali, contested by 8 national teams and won by Mali.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202828-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women\nThe tournament qualified the winner for the 2010 U17 World Women's Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202829-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women squads\nThis article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202830-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship squads\nThis article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202831-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup\nThe 2009 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup (15th edition), was an international basketball tournament  held in Cotonou, Benin, from November 13 to 22, 2009. The tournament, organized by FIBA Africa and hosted by Energie, was contested by 10 clubs split into 2 groups, the first four of which qualifying for the knock-out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202831-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup, Draw\nA Polit\u00e9cnica Abidjan Basket Club Energie First Bank Kenya Ports Authority", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202831-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup, Draw\nAlexandria SC Club Sportif d'Abidjan Desportivo de Maputo First Deepwater Interclube", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202831-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup, Final standings\nFirst Bank rosterAdeola Olanrewaju, Brisa Silva, Chioma Udeaja, Danielle Green, Funmilayo Ojelabi, Mfon Udoka, Rashidat Sadiq, Coach: Adewunmi Aderemi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Americas Championship, later known as the FIBA AmeriCup, was the continental championship held by FIBA Americas, for North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. This FIBA AmeriCup championship served as a qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey. Each of the top four finishers in the quarterfinal round robin qualified for the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship\nBrazil won the gold medal, after beating host Puerto Rico, 61\u201360, in the title game. This was Brazil's fourth FIBA AmeriCup title, and second in the last three tournaments. At the time FIBA world number 1 ranked Argentina claimed the bronze medal, over fourth placed Canada. By making the quarterfinals, all four teams qualified for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The tournament's leading scorer, Luis Scola, was named MVP of the tournament, after he rallied Argentina from an 0\u20132 start, to the bronze medal, by leading his team in scoring, in nine out of ten games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Host\nThe hosting privileges were originally awarded to Mexico but were later removed by FIBA Americas due to issues involving the sponsorship of the event. The other countries that already qualified were then informed by FIBA of the announcement, with Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Canada all expressing interest of hosting the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Host\nOn May 29, 2009, it was announced that Puerto Rico was selected as the new host of the championships, with the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as the venue. Puerto Rico had previously hosted the 1980, 1993, 1999 and the 2003 Tournament of the Americas (prior to the tournament being renamed the FIBA Americas Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Venues\nAll games were played at Roberto Clemente Coliseum, which hosted games in each of Puerto Rico's previous four times hosting the FIBA Americas Championship. The 10,000-seat arena also hosted the final round of the 1974 FIBA World Championship after construction was completed in January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Qualification\nQualification was done via FIBA Americas' sub-zones. The qualified teams are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Qualification\nThe draw was done on June 9, at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. Panama replaced Cuba after the latter withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Qualification\nThe United States, which had qualified for the World Championship with a gold-medal performance in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, skipped this tournament, opening the slot for another team from the Centrobasket championship to qualify. Besides the United States, every participating nation from the FIBA Americas Championship 2007 qualified for this tournament, although Panama only returned by virtue of Cuba's withdrawal. The Dominican Republic returned to the tournament for the ninth time after failing to qualify in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Draw\nThe draw ceremonies were held at San Juan on June 9, 2009. The results, with the FIBA World Rankings prior to the draw, were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Draw\nNote: Cuba had 0 ranking points and was therefore ranked after the last ranked team. However, once Cuba withdrew, Panama, ranked 30th, took Cuba's spot in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Format, Tie-breaking criteria\nTies are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Squads\nEach team had a roster of twelve players. Seven players currently on NBA rosters played in the tournament. The Dominican Republic led the way with three: Francisco Garcia, Al Horford, and Charlie Villanueva. Brazil (Anderson Varej\u00e3o, Leandro Barbosa), Canada (Joel Anthony), and Argentina (Luis Scola) also called up NBA players to their rosters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Preliminary round, Group A\nIn Group A, hosts Puerto Rico stormed through to the quarterfinals undefeated, winning each game by double digits. On the fourth day of group play, surprising Uruguay stunned Canada, which had won its previous two games by a combined 75 points, for second place in the group after Martin Osimani hit a three with 21 seconds that gave the Uruguayans a 71\u201369 victory. Mexico dominated the second half against the Virgin Islands en route to a 17-point victory and the final quarterfinal spot out of Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Preliminary round, Group B\nGroup B began with a shocker as Venezuela dominated world number one ranked Argentina, forcing 23 turnovers en route to a 16-point victory. Group winner Brazil was the only consistent team in the group, winning all of its games by at least nine points. The Dominican Republic, sporting a roster that included a tournament-high three NBA players, qualified to the quarterfinals with a 2\u20132 record. Argentina, buoyed by tournament scoring leader Luis Scola, rebounded from an 0\u20132 start to win its last two games and qualify for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Preliminary round, Group B\nVenezuela could not capitalize on its victory over Argentina and was sent home after losing to Panama. The Venezuelans could have advanced on a tiebreaker had Argentina lost to the Dominicans, but Charlie Villanueva missed a three-pointer at the buzzer in overtime and Argentina escaped with an 89\u201387 victory in the final game of group play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Quarterfinals\nIn the quarterfinals, Brazil and Puerto Rico easily clinched a semifinal berth and qualification for the 2010 FIBA World Championship when both teams won their first two quarterfinal games to run their records to 5\u20130. World number one ranked Argentina also qualified, winning all four of their quarterfinal games to erase an 0\u20132 start and escape a nearly disastrous result. All three teams finished 6\u20131. Argentina handed Puerto Rico its first loss of the tournament, 80\u201378, when Pablo Prigioni hit two free throws with four seconds left in the game. Puerto Rico then handed the Brazilians their first loss in the tournament, after the Puerto Ricans took a 16-point fourth quarter lead and withstood a late charge to win by four. A tiebreaker gave Brazil the top seed in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Quarterfinals\nUruguay could not continue its momentum from its surprising 3\u20131 start, losing all four of its quarterfinal games. With Panama and Mexico already eliminated from semifinal contention, a Uruguay loss to Argentina on the final day of group play meant that the winner of the Canada-Dominican Republic game would advance to the semifinals and claim the final 2010 FIBA World Championship berth from the Americas. The Canadians slipped through with a four-point victory over a Dominican team that was playing without its star player, Francisco Garcia, after he broke a finger in quarterfinal play. Canada advanced to the World Championship despite a 1\u20134 start to the round after winning their last two quarterfinal games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Knockout round, Semi finals\nIn the first semifinal, top seeded Brazil faced a surprising challenge from fourth seeded Canada. The Brazilians only led by one at halftime before blowing the game open in the second half, jumping out to a 17-point fourth quarter lead before the Canadians went on a late run to cut the final deficit to eight. In the second semifinal, Puerto Rico erased a nine-point deficit in a five-point victory over Argentina. The host team avenged a quarterfinal loss to the Argentine team despite Luis Scola's tournament-high 31 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Knockout round, Third place\nIn the bronze medal match, Argentina never trailed while jumping out to a 31-point halftime lead. The over-matched Canadians could not cut the lead below double digits at any time after the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, Knockout round, Final\nBrazil claimed the gold medal over the host Puerto Ricans in a 61\u201360 thriller. The Brazilians took a 13-point lead into the fourth quarter and led by 11 with 5:45 left before the Puerto Ricans began a frantic run to get back in the game. After Carlos Arroyo hit a basket with 35 seconds left to pull the Puerto Ricans within two at 61\u201359, Puerto Rican youngster Angel Vassalo stole the ball and was fouled. After hitting the first, Vassalo missed the second free throw; the Puerto Ricans did get the ball back, but Carlos Arroyo missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer and Brazil hung on for a 61\u201360 victory to claim its fourth FIBA Americas Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, All-Tournament Teams\nThe following players were voted to the All-Tournament Teams by latinbasket.com (unofficial):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, All-Tournament Teams, First Team\nG \u2013  Carlos ArroyoG \u2013  Leandro BarbosaF \u2013  Al HorfordF \u2013  Luis Scola (Tournament MVP)C \u2013  Esteban Batista", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, All-Tournament Teams, Second Team\nG \u2013  Pablo PrigioniG \u2013  Larry AyusoF \u2013  Danilo PinnockF \u2013  Charlie VillanuevaC \u2013  Anderson Varej\u00e3o", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202832-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship, All-Tournament Teams, Third Team\nG \u2013  Jermaine AndersonG \u2013  Leandro GarciaF \u2013  Hector RomeroF \u2013  Joel AnthonyC \u2013  Peter John Ramos", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202833-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship for Women\nThe FIBA Americas Championship for Women 2009 is the continental championships held by FIBA Americas for North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The championship will serve as a qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic. The tournament will be held on Gin\u00e1sio Aecim Tocantins in Cuiab\u00e1, Brazil from September 23 to September 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification\nQualifying for the 2009 FIBA Americas Championship the basketball championships for the Americas (North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America) began on August 12, 2007 at the FIBA CBC Championship for national teams from the Caribbean. Three teams qualified from that tournament to the 2008 Centrobasket, from which four automatic berths are available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification\nSouth American teams qualified via the 2008 South American Basketball Championship, held at Puerto Montt, Chile. North American teams (Canada and the United States) automatically qualify to the championship, which will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The top four teams from the 2009 Championships qualify automatically to the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey, with FIBA handling out four more wild card entries to complete the 24-team tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification\nWith the United States winning the gold medal at the 2008 men's Olympic basketball tournament, another slot was opened for a Centrobasket participant, when the United States decided to skip qualification since their gold medal provided them automatic qualification to the 2010 FIBA World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2007 CBC Championship\nThe 2007 CBC Championship was held from August 6 to 12, 2007, at Caguas, Puerto Rico. The top three teams at the end of the tournament qualify for the 2008 Centrobasket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2007 CBC Championship, Group A\n*Points between games of tied teams, then goal averages between the games of tied teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2008 Centrobasket\nThe 2008 Centrobasket was held from August 27 to 31, 2008, at Chetumal and Cancun, Mexico. The top four teams automatically go to the Tournament of the Americas. With the US not participating, the fifth-placed team also qualifies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2008 Centrobasket, Group A\n*Points between games of tied teams, then goal averages between the games of tied teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2008 South American Basketball Championship\nThe 2008 South American Basketball Championship was held from July 1 to 6, at Puerto Montt, Chile. The top four teams qualify to the Tournament of the Americas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 90], "content_span": [91, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202834-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship qualification, 2008 South American Basketball Championship, Preliminary round\n*Points between games of tied teams, then goal averages between the games of tied teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202835-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Americas Championship squads\nThese are the team rosters of the 10 teams competing for the FIBA Americas Championship 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202836-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Champions Cup\nThe FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2009 was the 20th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was held in Jakarta, Indonesia between May 12, 2009 and May 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the biennial Asian continental championship and also served as the FIBA Asia qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The tournament was held from August 6 to 16, 2009 in Tianjin, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship\nIran managed to win its second straight FIBA Asia Championship by defeating China 70\u201352 in the final, although China's premier NBA superstar Yao Ming did not play due to an injury in the 2008-09 NBA season, which caused him to not play in that year's FIBA Asia Championship for China. Jordan defeated Lebanon 80\u201366 in the bronze medal game to claim the third and final automatic bid for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship\nBoth Iran and Jordan qualified for the FIBA World Championship for the first time while China qualified for the eighth time in the last nine World Championship tournaments, this time without center Yao Ming. Lebanon failed to qualify automatically for a third consecutive world championship, although FIBA later awarded them a wild card to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship\nIranian center Hamed Haddadi was named Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive tournament after leading Iran to its second consecutive title by averaging 15.8 points, 13.1 rebounds, and 4 blocks per game during the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\nAccording to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (China) and Stankovi\u0107 Cup champion (Jordan) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2008 FIBA Asia Stankovi\u0107 Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\n* \u00a0Chinese Taipei, which finished fourth behind Korea, Japan and China in the East Asian qualifiers, was given a wild card entry into the championship following the withdrawal of Gulf representatives Bahrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\nQualifying was done via the 2008 FIBA Asia Stankovi\u0107 Cup where the champion automatically qualified, and from different FIBA Asia sub-zones. As hosts, China automatically qualified to the championship. In West and Middle Asia, no actual qualifying tournament was done as only a few teams on those sub-zones registered to participate in a qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\nWith the withdrawal of Bahrain, FIBA Asia chose Chinese Taipei as the final participant to the 16-team field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\nThis is the first championship where Hong Kong would not participate; they were consistent participant since the inaugural tournament in Manila. Only Hong Kong and Syria did not return from the FIBA Asia Championship 2007. They were replaced by Uzbekistan, returning to the tournament after a four-year absence, and Sri Lanka, making its first appearance since 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Qualification\nThis is also the third time in the 21st century in which the championships were held in the People's Republic of China; Shanghai was the host for 2001, and Harbin was the host in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202837-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship, Squads\nEach team has a roster of twelve players. Only one naturalized player per team is allowed by FIBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202838-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Women is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the World Championship 2010 at Czech Republic. The tournament will be held on Chennai, India from September 17 to September 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202838-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Women\nThe championship is divided into two levels: Level I and Level II. The two lowest finishers of Level I meets the top two finishers to determine which teams qualify for Level for 2011's championship. The losers are relegated to Level II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202838-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Women, Qualifying round\nWinners are promoted to Level I for the 2011 championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification\nThe 2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification was held in early 2009 with the Gulf region, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Middle Asia (Central Asia and South Asia) each conducting tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, Qualified teams\n* \u00a0Chinese Taipei, which finished fourth behind Korea, Japan and China in the East Asian qualifiers, was given a wild card entry into the championship following the withdrawal of Gulf representatives Bahrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, East Asia\nThe East Asia Basketball Championship for Men 2009 is the qualifying tournament for the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship. It also serves as a regional championship involving East Asian basketball teams. the two best teams excluding China qualifies for 2009 FIBA Asia Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, Middle Asia\nAll the others withdrew, so \u00a0India, \u00a0Kazakhstan, \u00a0Sri Lanka and \u00a0Uzbekistan qualified automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, Southeast Asia\nA tournament was held to determine Southeast Asia's two representatives to the FIBA Asia Championship. The qualifying tournament also served as the zonal championship, which held in Medan, Indonesia from June 6 to 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202839-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, West Asia\nAll the others withdrew, so \u00a0Iran and \u00a0Lebanon qualified automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202840-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Championship squads\nThese are the team rosters of the 16 teams competing in the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202841-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the Under-17 World Championship 2010 at Hamburg, Germany. The tournament was held on Johor Bahru, Malaysia from November 19 to November 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202841-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship, Draw\n* Saudi Arabia withdrew from the tournament; Consequently, hosts Malaysia who were earlier drawn in Group C moved to Group D. But Saudi Arabia later decided to participate and replaced Myanmar in Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202842-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the Under\u201317 World Championship for Women 2010 at Rodez and Toulouse, France. The tournament was held on Pune, India from November 30 to December 6. China defeated Japan to notch their maiden title in the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202843-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA EuroChallenge Final Four\nThe 2009 FIBA EuroChallenge Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 2008\u201309 FIBA EuroChallenge. BolognaFiere Virtus won its first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202844-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women was the first edition of the FIBA Europe SuperCup Women. It was held on 20 October 2009 in Vidnoye Sport Palace, Vidnoye, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202845-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 23rd edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The city of Kaunas, in Lithuania, hosted the tournament. Spain won their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202845-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Preliminary Round\nIn this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three will qualify for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group will play for the 13th\u201316th place in the Classification Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202845-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Qualifying Round\nThe twelve teams remaining will be allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams will advance to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group will play for the 9th\u201312th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202845-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Classification Round\nThe last teams of each group in the Preliminary Round will compete in this Classification Round. The four teams will play in one group. The last two teams will be relegated to Division B for the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202846-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B was an international basketball competition held in Portugal in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202847-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B was the 6th edition of the Division B of the European basketball championship for women's national under-16 teams. It was played in Tallinn, Estonia, from 30 July to 9 August 2009. Netherlands women's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202847-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B, Preliminary round\nIn the Preliminary round, the teams were drawn into four groups. The first two teams from each group will advance to the 1st\u20138th place qualifying round (Groups E and F), the third and fourth teams will advance to the 9th\u201316th place qualifying round (Groups G and H) and the other teams will advance to the 17th\u201319th place classification (Group I).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 78], "content_span": [79, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202847-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B, 1st\u20138th place qualifying round\nIn this round, the teams play in two groups of four. The first two teams from each group will advance to the Semifinals and the other teams will advance to the 5th\u20138th place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202847-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B, 9th\u201316th place qualifying round\nIn this round, the teams play in two groups of four. The first two teams from each group will advance to the 9th\u201312th place playoffs and the other teams will advance to the 13th\u201316th place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 92], "content_span": [93, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202848-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was the 26th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. The competition was held in Metz and nearby Hagondange,  France, from July 23 to August 2 and featured 16 teams. Serbia won the title after beating France in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202848-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Preliminary round\nIn this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three qualified for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group played for the 13th\u201316th place in the classification games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202848-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Qualifying round\nThe twelve teams remaining were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams advanced to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group played for the 9th\u201312th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202848-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Final standings\nNemanja Jaramaz, Aleksandar Ponjavi\u0107, Petar Torlak, Milo\u0161 Tripkovi\u0107, Nikola Vukasovi\u0107, Mili\u0107 Blagojevi\u0107, Danilo An\u0111u\u0161i\u0107, Lazar Radosavljevi\u0107, Nemanja Be\u0161ovi\u0107, Nikola Rondovi\u0107, Branislav \u0110eki\u0107, and Dejan Musli. Head Coach: Vlada Jovanovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202849-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B\nU18 European Championship Men 2009 - Division B was an under-18 men's basketball tournament that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July/August 2009. The tournament was won by Sweden who beat Poland 87-71 in the final. Sweden and Poland were promoted to Division A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202850-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division C\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division C was the 7th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U18 European Championship, the third tier of the European men's under-18 basketball championship. It was played in Valletta, Malta, from 20 to 25 July 2009. The host team, Malta, won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202851-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Women's Championship or simply known as the 2009 Youth EuroBasket, was the 26th edition of the Under-18 European Championships. This tournament was hosted by Sweden for the first time in the history of the championships. The tournament was awarded to Spain for the third time after defeating the France in the final, 64\u201354. The hosts, Sweden clinched the bronze medal after beating Czech Republic, 67\u201354.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202851-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women, Classification Playoffs, Group G\nThe last placers of each group in the preliminary round will have the chance to win 13th place. This shall be played in a single round-robin classification. All games for this stage were held in Rosenborg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202852-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women Division C\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women Division C was the 7th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U18 Women's European Championship, the third tier of the European women's under-18 basketball championship. It was played in Malta from 14 to 18 July 2009. Luxembourg women's national under-18 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202853-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 12th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The cities of Rhodes and Ialysos, in Greece, hosted the tournament. Greece won their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B was the 5th edition of the Division B of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, the second-tier level of European Under-20 basketball. The city of Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia, hosted the tournament. Netherlands won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B\nThe Netherlands and the Czech Republic were promoted to Division A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, Preliminary round\nThe seventeen teams were allocated in four groups (one groups of five teams and three groups of four). The two top teams of each group advanced to the Qualifying Round. The last three teams of each group advanced to the Classification Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, Qualifying round\nThe eight top teams were allocated in two groups of four teams each. Teams coming from the same initial group didn't play again vs. each other, but \"carried\" the results of the matches played between them for the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, Classification round\nThe last three teams of each of the preliminary round groups were allocated in three groups of three teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 71], "content_span": [72, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202854-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, Final classification round\nThe nine teams of the Classification Round were allocated in another three groups of three teams, depending on their position in the previous round. Group J determined positions 9th to 11th, Group K determined positions 12th to 14th and Group L determined positions 15th to 17th (last).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 77], "content_span": [78, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202855-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women was the eighth edition of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Gdynia, Poland, from 9 to 19 July 2009. France women's national under-20 basketball team won the tournament and became the European champions for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202855-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women, First round\nIn the first round, the teams were drawn into four groups of four. The first three teams from each group advance to the quarterfinal round, the last teams will play in the classification round for 13th\u201316th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 61], "content_span": [62, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202855-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women, Second round\nIn the second round, the teams play in two groups of six. The first four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals, the other teams will play in the 9th\u201312th place playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202856-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B\nThe 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B was the fifth edition of the Division B of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, from 6 to 15 July 2009. The Netherlands women's national under-20 basketball team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202856-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B, First round\nIn the first round, the teams were drawn into two groups. The first four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals, the other teams will play in the classification round for 9th to 11th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 72], "content_span": [73, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202857-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Oceania Championship\nThe FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 2009 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey. For the first time, the tournament featured a best-of-two, home-and-away series between Australia and New Zealand. Game one was held in Sydney, New South Wales followed by the second game in Wellington. The two countries split the series, and the tiebreaker, which was won by New Zealand, was the aggregate score. This was New Zealand's second title in an Oceania tournament contested by Australia and third title overall. Australia and New Zealand both qualified for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202857-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Oceania Championship, Results\nIn Game 1, Australia squeezed out a seven-point home victory after trailing by three going into the fourth quarter. Joe Ingles scored ten straight points in a 90-second span in the fourth quarter to help the Boomers take control of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202857-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Oceania Championship, Results\nIn Game 2, New Zealand needed to win by eight or more to capture the Oceania title. Trailing by two at halftime, the Tall Blacks blew the game open in the third quarter by outscoring the Australians 36-15. Mika Vukona had 25 points and 12 rebounds and Kirk Penney added 24 points, 7 rebounds, and 10 assists to lead the Tall Blacks to their biggest win ever over Australia. With the victory, New Zealand took home the Al Ramsey Shield, given to the Oceanian champions, and will receive a higher seed than the Aussies at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202858-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women was the 13th edition of the tournament. The tournament featured a two-game series between Australia and New Zealand. Game one was held in Wellington, New Zealand and game two in Canberra, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202859-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Oceania Championship squads\nThese are the team rosters of the 2 teams competing for the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202860-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Stankovi\u0107 Continental Champions' Cup\nThe 2009 FIBA Stankovi\u0107 Continental Champions' Cup, or 2009 FIBA Mini World Cup, was the fifth edition of the FIBA Stankovi\u0107 Continental Champions' Cup tournament. It was held in Kunshan, China, from August 28 to August 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202860-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Stankovi\u0107 Continental Champions' Cup, Results\nAll 4 teams played a round-robin tournament first. The top 2 teams advanced to final while the other 2 teams fought for 3rd place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202861-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship\nThe 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Maori: 2009 FIBA I-Raro I Te 19 Tau Toa o Te Ao) was an international basketball competition held in Auckland, New Zealand from July 2, 2009 until July 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202862-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women\nThe 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women (Thai: \u0e1a\u0e32\u0e2a\u0e40\u0e01\u0e15\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e2b\u0e0d\u0e34\u0e07\u0e0a\u0e34\u0e07\u0e41\u0e0a\u0e21\u0e1b\u0e4c\u0e42\u0e25\u0e01\u0e23\u0e38\u0e48\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22\u0e38\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e40\u0e01\u0e34\u0e19 19 \u0e1b\u0e35 2009) was hosted by Thailand from July 23 until August 2, 2009. Teams played a round robin schedule, with the top four teams of the eighth-final four advancing to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202862-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women, Overview\nThe United States won their fourth title. The other medalists in the tournament were Spain (silver) and Argentina (bronze). Spain's Marta Xargay was chosen as the tournaments MVP with an average of 15.4 PPG. Australia also had a strong tournament led by Elizabeth Cambage and had a solid 8-1 record at the end of the tournament. Unfortunately they dropped the one match by one point to Canada in the Quarter-Finals. Eventually they finished 5th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202862-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women, Overview\nIn the Gold Medal Game, the United States defeated Spain 87-71 despite losing the previous time they met at the tournament 86-90. In the Bronze Medal Match Argentina slipped a victory against the Canadians 58-51.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202862-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women, Overview\nThe host nation Thailand suffered in the tournament despite the home crowd finishing 16th in the 16 team tournament. They finished with a final record of 0-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202862-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women, Venues\nThe tournament was played in one venue. It was held at the Thai-Japanese bangkok Youth Center. The center had two arenas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup\nThe 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, governed by FIFA. Overall, this was the 15th edition of a world cup in beach soccer since the establishment of the Beach Soccer World Championships which ran from 1995\u20132004 but was not governed by FIFA. It took place in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates between 16 November and 22 November 2009. It was the second tournament to take place outside Brazil, first to be played in Asia, and the last tournament to take place on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup\nThe winners of the tournament were Brazil, who won their fourth consecutive FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup title and their thirteenth title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, African Zone\nThe qualifiers to determine the two African nations who would play in the World Cup took place in Durban, South Africa for the fourth year running between 1 July and 5 July. Nine nations took part in the competition, which eventually saw Nigeria claim their second title, qualifying for the first time since 2007, with the Ivory Coast finishing in second place, qualifying for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, Asian Zone\nThe Asian qualifiers were held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, from 7 to 11 November. With only seven teams attending the qualifiers, the United Arab Emirates stepped in as the eighth side to even the two groups in the group stage. Japan qualified for the fourth time after beating Bahrain in the final of the championship, who qualified for their second World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, European Zone\nUEFA held the second European tournament dedicated to World Cup qualification in Castell\u00f3n, Spain, between, 7 June and 14 June. Hosts Spain won the championship, with Russia finishing second. Switzerland beat Portugal in the third place play off, but regardless of the result, both teams qualified to the World Cup, along with the finalists. Italy beat France in the fifth place play off to qualify as the fifth European nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, North, Central American and Caribbean Zone\nThe North, Central America and the Caribbean Zone qualifiers took place between 17 June and 21 June, after being postponed in May due to the 2009 swine flu pandemic, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for the second year running. El Salvador and Costa Rica were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup; El Salvador for the second time and Costa Rica for the first. El Salvador defeated Costa Rica in the final to win their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 95], "content_span": [96, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, Oceanian Zone\nThe qualifiers to decide the one nation from Oceania that would be competing in the World Cup took place in Moorea, Tahiti, between 27 July and 31 July. Despite Vanuatu winning the group stage, they lost in the final to the Solomon Islands, who claimed their third title and qualification for a fourth year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Qualifying Rounds, South American Zone\nThe South American qualifiers took place between 11 March and 15 March, in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Brazil and hosts Uruguay were the two finalists, meaning they both qualified for the World Cup. Brazil defeated Uruguay in the final to win the title. Argentina and Ecuador were knocked out in the semi finals and played each other in the third place play off. Argentina beat Ecuador to claim the third berth at the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Teams\nThese are the teams that qualified for the World Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Venues\nTwo venues were used in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates at Jumeirah Beach during the World Cup with matches split between them as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Groups\nThe 16 teams present at the finals in Brazil were split into 4 groups of 4 teams. Each team played the other 3 teams in its group in a round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the quarter finals. The quarter finals, semi finals and the final itself was played in the form of a knockout tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Groups\nAll matches are listed as local time in Dubai, (UTC+4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202863-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Top scorers\nThere were 284 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 8.88 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202864-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final\nThe 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final took place between Switzerland and Brazil on 22 November 2009 at Jumeirah Beach, Dubai. Brazil were the winners, winning by ten goals to five. Brazil have beaten fifteen other teams to be crowned FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2009 Winners. It was Brazil's fourth title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202864-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final, Roads to the final, Switzerland\nSwitzerland started their campaign in group D, along with winners Brazil, with a close win against the Bahrain, winning 6-5. Switzerland confirmed their place in the quarter-finals by beating Nigeria in their second game 7-2 and taking themselves up to 6 points. In Switzerland's final they lost 4-2 to Brazil suggesting a Brazil win for the final. Therefore, Switzerland finished second in group D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202864-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final, Roads to the final, Switzerland\nAs Switzerland were the runners-up of group B, they met the winners of group C, Russia in the quarter-finals. The game was closely tied but Switzerland sealed their victory with a late goal to win 4-2. This saw Switzerland move on to play Uruguay national beach soccer team in the semi-finals. The semi-final was a stronger performance by the Swiss. Going into the third period with a 4-1 lead, they never looked like the team that would lose and despite Uruguay's best efforts, they never even got back on level terms allowing Switzerland to win 7-4 and move on comfortably into the final against 12-time winners, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202864-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final, Roads to the final, Brazil\nBrazil started their world cup campaign as defending champions, in group D, along with Switzerland, comfortably beating Nigeria 11-5, with a hat-trick from Bruno and seven different scorers in all. Brazil continued to perform with an 8-1 win against Bahrain, the same result as against Japan at this stage of the competition in 2008, with Buru this time claiming four goals. Finally, Brazil finished off with a decent 4-2 win against Switzerland, who they would eventually beat in the final, finishing on top of the group with 9 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202864-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final, Roads to the final, Brazil\nIn the quarter-finals, Brazil played the runners-up of group C, Italy, who they beat in last years final. Italy may have been up for revenge but despite a challenge for Brazil, a hat-trick from Andr\u00e9 helped Brazil onto a 6-4 win to progress on into the semi-finals. In the semi-finals Brazil met Portugal, again, at the same stage they did last year. However, despite the epic 5-4 win for Brazil last time, this match was much more one sided and with seven unique scorers yet again, Brazil eased past Portugal, 8-2, to make it to another final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202865-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA)\n2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA) was a tournament played in Castell\u00f3n from June 7 to June 14 to determine five teams that qualified to the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup\nThe 2009 FIFA Club World Cup (officially known as the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota for sponsorship reasons) was a football tournament played from 9 to 19 December 2009. It was the sixth FIFA Club World Cup and was played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Australia, Japan and Portugal also placed bids to host the tournament, but Portugal later withdrew from the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup\nManchester United were the defending champions, but could not defend their title after losing the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup\nThe final was played on 19 December 2009 and was won by European champions Barcelona, who came from behind to defeat the South American entrants, Estudiantes, 2\u20131 after extra time. Mauro Boselli put Estudiantes ahead in the 37th minute, but Pedro equalised with one minute left in normal time before Lionel Messi scored the winning goal five minutes into the second half of extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup\nThis win made Barcelona the first Spanish side to win the FIFA Club World Cup, and it also meant that they had won a total of six competitions in the 2009 calendar year, beating Liverpool's European record of five trophies won in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup, Venues\nAll of the matches at the tournament were played in Abu Dhabi, with three matches at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium and five at the Zayed Sports City Stadium, including the final and the play-offs for third and fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup, Match ball\nThe Adidas Jabulani, the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, served as the match ball of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202866-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup, Matches\nThe official draw was held in Abu Dhabi on 12 November 2009 to decide the opposition to be faced by the three teams that begin the tournament at the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202867-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup Final\nThe 2009 FIFA Club World Cup Final was the final match of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup, a football tournament for the champion clubs from each of FIFA's six continental confederations. The match took place at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, on 19 December 2009, and pitted Estudiantes of Argentina, the CONMEBOL club champions, against Barcelona of Spain, the UEFA club champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202867-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup Final\nEstudiantes forward Mauro Boselli opened the scoring in the 37th minute, but Pedro equalised for Barcelona with one minute left in regulation time. Lionel Messi scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of the second half of extra time, securing Barcelona's record sixth trophy for the 2009 calendar year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202867-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)Fourth official:Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)Reserve assistant referee:Abdukhamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads\nThe 2009 FIFA Club World Cup took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 9 December to 19 December 2009. Each of the seven teams involved were required to submit a provisional 30-man squad list (including a minimum of three goalkeepers) by 29 October 2009. The final 23-man squads had to be submitted by 25 November, with all members of the final squad taken from the provisional list. All players were required to be registered with squad numbers between 1 and 23, unless they were registered for their domestic league with a different number. In the event of an injury to one of the players on the final list, that player may be replaced with a player from the provisional list no less than 24 hours before his team's first match in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Al-Ahli\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Atlante\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Auckland City\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Barcelona\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Estudiantes de La Plata\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, Pohang Steelers\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202868-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Club World Cup squads, TP Mazembe\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup\nThe 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was the eighth Confederations Cup, and was held in South Africa from 14 June to 28 June 2009, as a prelude to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The draw was held on 22 November 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The opening match was played at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. The tournament was won by Brazil, who retained the trophy they won in 2005 by defeating the United States 3\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the competition was held on 22 November 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Each team was represented in the draw by its competitor in the Miss World 2008 competition, except for Iraq, which was represented by Miss World 2007, Zhang Zilin, from China. The teams were divided into two pots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Draw\nTeams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group, therefore Egypt was drawn into Group B. Also as result, Italy and Spain were drawn into different groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Match ball\nThe official match ball for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was the Adidas Kopanya. The name means \"join together\" in Southern Sesotho, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The panel configuration of the ball is the same as that of the Teamgeist and Europass balls that came before it. The ball is white, accentuated with bold black lines and detailed with typical Ndebele designs in red, yellow, green and blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Venues\nFour cities served as the venues for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. All four venues were also used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Venues\nOriginally, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth was also chosen as a venue. On 8 July 2008, however, Port Elizabeth withdrew as a host city because its stadium was deemed unlikely to meet the 30 March 2009 deadline for completion. The Nelson Mandela Bay stadium was subsequently completed before the Confederations Cup and was opened on 7 June 2009. It acted as a venue for the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa on 16 June. All of these stadia hosted matches during the Lions tour, but a minimum of nine days was allowed for pitch recovery between a rugby match and a Confederations Cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Match officials\nThe referees were announced on 5 May. Two referee teams (led by Carlos Batres and Carlos Amarilla respectively) withdrew due to injuries. Replacements from the same confederation, led by Benito Archundia and Pablo Pozo, were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Group stage\nThe ranking of each team in each group was determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Group stage\na) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;b) goal difference in all group matches;c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Group stage\nHad two or more teams been equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings would have been determined as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Group stage\nd) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nLu\u00eds Fabiano received the Golden Shoe award for scoring five goals. In total, 44 goals were scored by 27 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202869-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Statistics, Tournament ranking\nPer statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final\nThe 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final was an association football match that took place on 28 June 2009 to determine the winners of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. It was played at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was contested by the United States and Brazil. The United States, playing in their first major men's tournament final, took a 2\u20130 lead in the first half, but Brazil scored three unanswered goals after half-time to win 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final\nThe United States and Brazil qualified for the tournament as winners of their respective continents in 2007 and were drawn into Group B alongside African champions Egypt and reigning World Cup champions Italy. Brazil comfortably qualified for the knockout round by winning all three of their matches, including a 3\u20130 victory over the United States, while the Americans finished second in the group on the goals scored tiebreaker ahead of Italy. The United States upset European champions Spain in the semi-finals with a 2\u20130 victory, while Brazil defeated hosts South Africa 1\u20130 in the other semi-final fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final\nThe match drew a television audience of 3.9\u00a0million viewers in the United States, surpassing the record for a non-World Cup fixture. The U.S. team would go on to play in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, where they were given a special exception to roster size limits to prevent player fatigue, and reached the tournament's final before losing to Mexico. Both finalists made it to the knockout stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals and the United States exited in the Round of 16. Brazil went on to win the next edition of the Confederations Cup, which it hosted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final\nThe FIFA Confederations Cup was a quadrennial international competition between eight men's national teams who had won the respective championships of the six continental confederations, along with the host country and the reigning FIFA World Cup champion. The finalists of the 2009 Confederations Cup, the United States and Brazil, had previously met thirteen times, including at the Confederations Cup group stage in 1999 and 2003 and in the knockout stage of the 1994 World Cup. Brazil won twelve of the fixtures, while the sole U.S. victory over Brazil came in the semi-finals of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, in which the American goalkeeper Kasey Keller made several saves to keep the score at 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final\nThe United States qualified for their fourth stint in the competition after winning the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, while Brazil's victory in the 2007 Copa Am\u00e9rica granted them a sixth berth in the Confederations Cup. Brazil had also previously won the Confederations Cup on two occasions, in 1997 and 2005, while the United States were appearing in their first final in a senior men's competition outside of their home region. Both teams were drawn into Group B of the Confederations Cup, alongside African champions Egypt and reigning World Cup champions Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nBrazil began their defence of the Confederations Cup title by playing Egypt in Bloemfontein. Kak\u00e1 opened the scoring in the fifth minute with a series of controlled chips past three defenders, but Egypt's Mohamed Zidan scored an equaliser four minutes later on a header. Brazil regained and extended the lead by half-time through two headed goals by Lu\u00eds Fabiano in the 11th minute, finishing a free kick taken by Elano, and by Juan in the 37th minute from a corner kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nEgyptian midfielder Mohamed Shawky scored from outside the box in the 54th minute and was followed a minute later by a second goal for Zidan, levelling the score at 3\u20133. The match remained tied until a handball in the box by substitute Ahmed Elmohamady led to a penalty kick, which was converted in the 90th minute by Kak\u00e1 to win the match for Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nThe Americans played their first match against Italy and held the World Cup champions to a scoreless first half, despite a red card being shown to midfielder Ricardo Clark, who tackled Gennaro Gattuso in the 33rd minute. A challenge by Giorgio Chiellini on Jozy Altidore earned a penalty for the United States, which was scored by Landon Donovan in the 41st minute and gave them a half-time lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nThe Italians equalised in the 58th minute through a 30-yard (27\u00a0m) strike by American-born striker Giuseppe Rossi, who had been substituted a minute before and stole possession from Benny Feilhaber in the midfield to set up the shot. The team then took the lead through another long-distance shot in the 72nd minute by Daniele De Rossi and finished their 3\u20131 victory with a second goal for Rossi in extra time following a chipped cross by Andrea Pirlo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nThe eventual finalists faced each other at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on the second matchday, which ended in a 3\u20130 victory for Brazil. Maicon took a free kick from 35 yards (32\u00a0m) that found Felipe Melo, who headed it from the box to score the opening goal in the seventh minute. The lead was extended in the 20th minute after DaMarcus Beasley lost possession after a U.S. corner, which was dribbled up field by Ramires and passed to Robinho, whose shot went past Tim Howard into the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nU.S. midfielder Sacha Kljestan was sent off for a foul in the 57th minute and the team lost momentum that they had gained in the second half before conceding a final goal to Brazil five minutes later through a shot by Maicon from a narrow angle near the touchline. Although the U.S. lost their first two matches, they were still eligible to advance following an upset victory for Egypt over Italy that kept them from being mathematically eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nBrazil finished their group stage run with a 3\u20130 defeat of Italy, denying the reigning World Cup champions a berth in the semi-finals by scoring three times in the first half. After several chances for Brazil that went wide of the goal, Lu\u00eds Fabiano opened the scoring in the 37th minute after collecting a mis-hit shot by Maicon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nFabiano added a second goal six minutes later that was assisted by Kak\u00e1 and dummied by Robinho, who created the third goal two minutes later by passing a ball into the Italian box on a counterattack, which was deflected into the goal by defender Andrea Dossena. The Italians failed to score a consolation goal in the second half, which doomed them to fall short of the United States on goal difference and goals scored in the tie-breakers for runners-up in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nIn their final group stage match against Egypt, the United States took the lead in the 21st minute following a mistake by goalkeeper Essam Al Hadary that allowed Charlie Davies to score from the loose ball in the box. Midfielder Michael Bradley then scored in the 63rd minute following a series of give-and-go passes with Landon Donovan, and Clint Dempsey added a third by heading in a cross from Jonathan Spector in the 71st minute. With their 3\u20130 victory, the United States were tied on three points with Italy and Egypt and tied the former with a goal difference of \u22122. The United States were able to advance on the second tie-breaker (goals scored), having scored four goals to Italy's three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nThe United States faced Group A winners Spain, the reigning European champions and a favourite to win the 2010 World Cup. The Americans earned an upset 2\u20130 victory in the semi-finals, breaking Spain's 35-match unbeaten streak that began in November 2006, and qualified for their first final at a major intercontinental men's tournament at the senior level in what was dubbed the \"miracle on grass\" by The New York Times. The Americans opened the match with early attacking pressure and disrupted Spain's midfield possession style.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nJozy Altidore scored the first goal of the match in the 27th minute, shooting from the top of the box and benefiting from a pair of deflections off the gloves of Iker Casillas and the goalpost. The U.S. held on, despite being outshot 18\u20139 by Spain, and earned a second goal in the 74th minute with a pass by Landon Donovan that deflected off defenders Gerard Piqu\u00e9 and Sergio Ramos and fell to Clint Dempsey, who turned his body and shot from short range to make it 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nBrazil played hosts South Africa, the Group A runners-up, in the other semi-final fixture a day later, winning 1\u20130. The match remained scoreless for 88 minutes, despite several chances for Brazil that went wide and two saves by goalkeeper J\u00falio C\u00e9sar on a Siphiwe Tshabalala free kick and a long-range shot by Steven Pienaar. The deadlock was broken by substitute Dani Alves, who took a free kick that reached the far corner to beat goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Venue\nThe final was played at Ellis Park Stadium in central Johannesburg, which also hosted four earlier matches and the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final. It primarily serves as the home of Orlando Pirates F.C. and underwent minor renovations for the Confederations Cup and World Cup, raising its capacity to 61,000 spectators. The stadium's pitch was damaged by an international rugby fixture two weeks before the start of the tournament, requiring emergency work by grounds crews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Pre-match, Closing ceremony\nThe tournament's closing ceremony took place at Ellis Park Stadium prior to the final match and was produced by VWV Group and Till Dawn Entertainment, later chosen for the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony. The Confederations Cup ceremony featured 150 drummers, 150 choir singers from local churches, and 20 professional dancers, performing under a large ball with images of the tournament projected onto its surface. Zenani Mandela, the thirteen-year-old great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, carried the Confederations Cup trophy to the podium prior to the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Pre-match, Officials\nSwedish referee Martin Hansson was selected by FIFA to lead the officiating team for the Confederations Cup final, his first assignment in a tournament final. Hansson had previously been in charge of the tournament's opening match and at several youth tournaments for FIFA. His compatriots Henrik Andr\u00e9n and Frederik Nilsson served as assistant referees, while Mexican referee Benito Archundia was the fourth official. H\u00e9ctor Vergara served as the reserve assistant referee (also called the fifth official).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBrazilian manager Dunga chose to use the 4\u20132\u20133\u20131 formation that the team had used in their previous matches, while U.S. coach Bob Bradley used an adapted 4\u20134\u20132; midfielder Michael Bradley was suspended due to his red card in the semi-final and was replaced by Benny Feilhaber in the starting lineup. At a pre-match ceremony, FIFA honoured Cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9, who died of a heart-related disease during a 2003 Confederations Cup semi-final match. Marc-Scott Fo\u00e9 read a commemorative message in tribute to his father's memory while both teams stood together at the centre circle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe United States took an early lead in the 10th minute, following a free kick taken by Jonathan Spector that was crossed into the path of Clint Dempsey, who struck the ball with his right foot. Goalkeeper Tim Howard then made several major saves to preserve the lead amid several Brazilian attacks; the Americans took advantage of a counterattack, with Ricardo Clark running upfield and passing to Landon Donovan, shooting from just inside the box to score in the 27th minute. The team entered half-time with a 2\u20130 lead, described as a shock upset by commentators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBrazil reduced the lead in the first minute of the second half, as Lu\u00eds Fabiano scored in the penalty area by controlling the ball while turning around defender Jay DeMerit. In the 60th minute, Kak\u00e1 headed the ball past the goal line, but it was knocked away by Tim Howard; replays showed that the ball had crossed the line, but it was not called in Brazil's favor. The equalising goal was scored in the 74th minute, following a cross by Kak\u00e1 that was shot into the crossbar by Elano and ricocheted toward Fabiano, who headed the ball into the net. Elano's corner kick in the 84th minute was headed into the goal by Brazilian captain L\u00facio, who had  beaten Clint Dempsey to the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Henrik Andr\u00e9n (Sweden)Fredrik Nilsson (Sweden)Fourth official:Benito Archundia (Mexico)Fifth official:H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Post-match\nBrazil became the second country to win consecutive editions of the Confederations Cup, following France's victories in 2001 and 2003 before the tournament switched to a quadrennial schedule. Kak\u00e1 was named the man of the match for his performance and also won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player. His teammate Lu\u00eds Fabiano won the Golden Shoe, having scored five goals in five matches, and the Silver Ball. American goalkeeper Tim Howard won the tournament's Golden Glove award for his performances, including five saves in the first half of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Post-match\nIn the 2010 World Cup, Brazil finished atop their group and defeated Chile in the Round of 16 before being eliminated by the Netherlands in the quarter-finals. Brazil hosted the next edition of the Confederations Cup in 2013 and became the first team to win three successive Confederations Cups by defeating Spain 3\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Post-match\nThe U.S. broadcast of the match on ESPN was watched by an audience of 3.9\u00a0million people, the largest figure for a non-World Cup fixture on the network and among the largest ever for the U.S. men's national team. The United States returned home to contest the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, which began less than a week after the final, but were granted an expanded roster by CONCACAF to prevent player fatigue. The Gold Cup roster was primarily drawn from Major League Soccer, with only four members of the Confederations Cup squad who were retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202870-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, Post-match\nThe U.S. team advanced to the Gold Cup final, where they lost 5\u20130 to rivals Mexico and were unable to defend their continental title. The United States also topped their group in the 2010 World Cup, winning once and drawing twice, but were eliminated in the Round of 16 by Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A\nGroup A of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup took place from 14 to 20 June 2009 in Bloemfontein's Free State Stadium, Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, and Rustenburg's Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The group consisted of Iraq, New Zeland, host nation South Africa, and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, South Africa vs Iraq\nAssistant referees:Pablo Fandi\u00f1o (Uruguay)Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Fourth official:Martin Hansson (Sweden)Fifth official:Henrik Andr\u00e9n (Sweden)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, New Zealand vs Spain\nAssistant referees:Komi Konyoh (Togo)Alexis Fassinou (Benin)Fourth official:Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)Fifth official:Matthias Arnet (Switzerland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, Spain vs Iraq\nAssistant referees:Matthew Cream (Australia)Ben Wilson (Australia)Fourth official:Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)Fifth official:Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, South Africa vs New Zealand\nAssistant referees:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)Fourth official:Pablo Pozo (Chile)Fifth official:Patricio Basualto (Chile)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, Iraq vs New Zealand\nAssistant referees:Peter Kirkup (England)Michael Mullarkey (England)Fourth official:Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)Fifth official:Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202871-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group A, Spain vs South Africa\nAssistant referees:Patricio Basualto (Chile)Francisco Mondria (Chile)Fourth official:Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)Fifth official:Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B\nGroup A of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup took place from 15 to 21 June 2009 in Bloemfontein's Free State Stadium, Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, Pretoria's Loftus Versfeld Stadium and Rustenburg's Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The group consisted of defending champions Brazil, Egypy, Italy, and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, Brazil vs Egypt\nAssistant referees:Peter Kirkup (England)Michael Mullarkey (England)Fourth official:Matthew Breeze (Australia)Fifth official:Matthew Cream (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, United States vs Italy\nAssistant referees:Patricio Basualto (Chile)Francisco Mondria (Chile)Fourth official:Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)Fifth official:Evarist Menkouande (Cameroon)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, United States vs Brazil\nAssistant referees:Matthias Arnet (Switzerland)Francisco Buragina (Switzerland)Fourth official:Coffi Codjia (Benin)Fifth official:Alexis Fassinou (Benin)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, Egypt vs Italy\nAssistant referees:Henrik Andr\u00e9n (Sweden)Fredrik Nilsson (Sweden)Fourth official:Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)Fifth official:Pablo Fandi\u00f1o (Uruguay)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, Italy vs Brazil\nAssistant referees:Marvin Torrentera (Mexico)H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)Fourth official:Coffi Codjia (Benin)Fifth official:Alexis Fassinou (Benin)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202872-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Group B, Egypt vs United States\nAssistant referees:Jan Hendrik-Hintz (New Zealand)Mark Rule (New Zealand)Fourth official:Matthew Breeze (Australia)Fifth official:Matthew Cream (Australia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage\nThe knockout stage of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup began on 24 June and concluded on 28 June 2009 with the final at the Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg. It was the second and final stage of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, following the group stage. The top two teams from each group (four teams in total) advanced to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A third-place match was included and played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage (including the final), if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods (15 minutes each) would be played. If the score was still level after extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Spain v United States\nAssistant referees:Pablo Fandi\u00f1o (Uruguay)Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay)Fourth official:Coffi Codjia (Benin)Fifth official:Alexis Fassinou (Benin)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Semi-finals, Brazil v South Africa\nAssistant referees:Matthias Arnet (Switzerland)Francesco Buragina (Switzerland)Fourth official:Benito Archundia (Mexico)Fifth official:H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Match for third place\nAssistant referees:Matthew Cream (Australia)Ben Wilson (Australia)Fourth official:Coffi Codjia (Benin)Fifth official:Alexis Fassinou (Benin)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Final\nThe 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final was held at Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 28 June 2009 and was contested by the United States and Brazil. This was the first appearance ever for the United States in the final of a FIFA men's competition. This was Brazil's fourth appearance in a Confederations Cup final (after 1997, 1999 and 2005). Brazil won their third Confederations Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Final\nPrior to the match, FIFA honoured Cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9, who died of a heart-related disease during a FIFA Confederations Cup match in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202873-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup knockout stage, Final\nAssistant referees:Henrik Andr\u00e9n (Sweden)Fredrik Nilsson (Sweden)Fourth official:Benito Archundia (Mexico)Fifth official:H\u00e9ctor Vergara (Canada)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202874-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup squads\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation who competed at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa from 14 June to 28 June 2009, as a prelude to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Each squad consisted of 23 players, three of which had to be goalkeepers. Replacement of injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team's game. Players marked (c) were named as captain for their national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202874-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup squads\nCaps, goals and ages as of 14 June 2009, before 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202874-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup squads, Player statistics\n* Nations in italics are not represented by their national teams in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202875-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA Confederations Cup statistics\nThese are the statistics for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, an eight-team tournament running from 14 June 2009 through 28 June 2009. The tournament took place in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup\nThe 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the thirteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Nigeria from 24 October to 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup\nThe tournament was won by Switzerland, beating the host team and holders, Nigeria. The Golden Ball to the Best Player was given to Nigerian Sani Emmanuel; the Golden Shoe for top scorer was given to Spaniard Borja, with five goals (although he tied with Nigerian Sani Emmanuel, Uruguayan Sebasti\u00e1n Gallegos, and Swiss Haris Seferovic); the Golden Glove was given to Swiss Benjamin Siegrist; finally, the FIFA Fair Play Award was given to Nigeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Player eligibility\nTo be eligible to play, a player must have been born on or after 1 January 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Venues\nOn 21 May 2009, FIFA gave Nigeria a \"Yellow Card\" as FIFA noted a significant delay in the preparations for the tournament. While Abuja and Lagos were ready, FIFA vice-president Jack Warner gave four other venues (Enugu, Calabar, Ijebu-Ode and Kano) a month to get 100 percent ready or the tournament would be moved. One potential venue (Warri) was removed after recent violence flared up in the Niger Delta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Threats to the tournament\nThe 2009 edition was under increasing threats from the armed rebel group, The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and warned FIFA against hosting the tournament in Nigeria. However, the militants were offered amnesty in exchange for laying down their weapons, and the tournament went on smoothly without any incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Teams\nThe final draw for group stage was held on 7 August 2009 at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Allocation of teams to groups\nTeams were allocated to groups on the basis of geographical spread. Teams were placed in four pots, and one team was drawn from each pot for each group. Pot 1 contained the five African teams plus one from CONMEBOL; Pot 2 contained the remaining teams from the Americas excluding one CONCACAF team; Pot 3 consisted of teams from Asia and Oceania plus the remaining CONCACAF team; Pot 4 consisted of teams from the European confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202876-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Allocation of teams to groups\nIran \u00a0Japan \u00a0South Korea \u00a0United Arab Emirates \u00a0Honduras \u00a0New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup\nThe 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup which was hosted by Egypt from 24 September to 16 October 2009. The tournament was initially going to take place between 10 and 31 July, however the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was played mid year resulting in both the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the FIFA U-17 World Cup being played towards the end of the year. The cup was won by Ghana after they defeated Brazil on penalties in the final, becoming the first African team to have won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Player eligibility\nOnly players born on or after 1 January 1989 were eligible to compete in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Qualification\nTwenty-three teams qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. As the host team, Egypt received automatic entry to the cup, bringing the total number of teams to twenty-four for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Allocation of teams to groups\nTeams were allocated to groups on the basis of geographical spread. Teams were placed in four pots, and one team was drawn from each pot for each group. Pot 1 contained the five African teams plus one from CONMEBOL; Pot 2 contained the remaining teams from the Americas excluding one CONCACAF team; Pot 3 consisted of teams from Asia and Oceania plus the remaining CONCACAF team; Pot 4 consisted of teams from the European confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Allocation of teams to groups\nUnited Arab Emirates\u00a0South Korea\u00a0Uzbekistan\u00a0Australia\u00a0Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0Tahiti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stages was held on 5 April 2009 at Luxor Temple. Each group winner and runner-up teams, as well as the best four third-placed teams, qualified for the first round of the knockout stage (round of 16).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202878-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Knockout stage, Final\nAssistant referees:Peter Hermans (Belgium)Walter Vromans (Belgium)Fourth official:Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)Fifth official:Ferm\u00edn Mart\u00ednez (Spain)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202879-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup squads\nPlayers name marked in bold went on to earn full international caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202880-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIFA World Player of the Year\nThe 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year awards took place on 21 December 2009 at the Kongresshaus Z\u00fcrich, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. Shortlists of 23 men and 10 women were announced on 30 October 2009. The final five contenders for this year\u2019s FIFA World Player of the Year and FIFA Women\u2019s World Player of the Year awards were announced on 7 December 2009. Lionel Messi was announced as the World Player of the Year with a record points total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202881-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series\nThe 2009 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series was a series of stages where events in men's and women's artistic gymnastics were contested. For the first time since the creation of the World Cup, no World Cup Final event was held; this makes 2009 the first year when the World Cup was competed as a yearly series of stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202882-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series\nThe 2009 FIG World Cup circuit in Rhythmic Gymnastics includes six category A events and two category B events. With stopovers in Europe only, the competitions took place on March 6\u20138 in Budapest (HUN), April 4\u20135 in Saint Petersburg (RUS), April 16\u201319 in Portim\u00e3o (POR), April 25\u201326 in Maribor (SLO), April 30 \u2013 May 2 in Pesaro (ITA), May 8\u201310 in Corbeil-Essonnes (FRA), August 15\u201317 in Kiev (UKR) and August 21\u201323 in Minsk (BLR). Two events were open only to individual athletes (Maribor and Corbeil-Essonnes), while six were open to both individual athletes and groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202882-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series\nIn all of the events, all-around competitions served as qualifications for the finals by apparatus. The world ranking points collected by the competitors at their best four World Cup events added up to a total, and the top scorers in each event were crowned winners of the overall series at the final event in Minsk, Belarus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202883-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 53rd F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season. Antonio Cairoli won the MX1 title for Yamaha, Marvin Musquin claimed the MX2 title for KTM and Pierre Renet triumphed in MX3 for Honda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202883-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIM Motocross World Championship, Overview\nThe 2009 season started on 29 March in Faenza, Italy and finished on 13 September in Canelinha, Brazil. The fifteen races of the season were held in fourteen countries, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Nederlands (2x), Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, France, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Belgium, Czech Republic and Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202884-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup\nThe 2009 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup was the eleventh season of the FIM Superstock 1000 championship, the fifth held under this name. The FIM Superstock 1000 championship followed the same calendar as the Superbike World Championship, missing out the none European rounds of the championship. 2009 saw very little change from the previous season, with no new European circuits on the calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202884-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup\nThe title was eventually won by Belgium's Xavier Sim\u00e9on, who did not in the 10 races of the season finish out of the first 2 positions. Sim\u00e9on took 5 wins and 5 second positions to take the championship by 57 points from Claudio Corti. Simeon's performance meant that Ducati took the manufacturers' championship by 53 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League\nThe 2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the eighth edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. After a preliminary round organized by continent, the Super Final was held in Podgorica, Montenegro, from 16 June to 21 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League\nThe field included 19 teams, following the withdrawal of two teams. Two nations, South Africa and Libya, had their World League debut, with Libya competing in its first major international tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Preliminary round, Africa\nThe African tournament will be held in Casablanca, Morocco, from 22 May to 24 May. One team from the group of four will advance. South Africa and Libya will make their World League debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Preliminary round, Asia/Oceania\nThe Asia and Oceania region will feature a two-legged tournament, in Adelaide, Australia (22\u201324 May), and Auckland, New Zealand (29\u201331 May). The four teams will play a round robin in each location, with the results from both legs combined. The top two teams from the group of four will advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Preliminary round, Europe\nEurope is divided into three groups, with qualifying spots for the winner of each group as well as Super Final host Montenegro. The initial plan was for each group to have four teams. However, Great Britain and Hungary have dropped out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Preliminary round, Europe\nRather than the condensed tournament style competition of the other continents, the European matches will be played in a home-and-away format over five months. The pool-based nature of the qualification process, however, continues to be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Preliminary round, Europe, Europe B\nGreat Britain was to have been the fourth member of this group, but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202885-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Men's Water Polo World League, Super Final\nThe Super Final will be held in Podgorica, Montenegro, from 16 June to 21 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup\nThe 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of five short course (25\u00a0m) swimming meets, held in October and November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Meets\nThe 2009 World Cup was staged at five venues on three continents, with each meet following a morning heats and evening finals format for all events, with the exception of the 800\u00a0m and 1500\u00a0m freestyle and 400\u00a0m individual medley events which were heat-declared winners. The order of events at each meet was the same. A sixth meet originally scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 23\u201325 October was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Results, Overall World Cup\nAt each meet of the World Cup circuit in 2009, the FINA Points Table was used to rank all swim performances at the meet. The top 10 men and top 10 women were then be awarded World Cup points. Bonus points were awarded for a world record broken (20 points) or equalled (10 points). The number of World Cup points awarded was doubled for the final meet of the World Cup in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Results, Event winners, 50 m breaststroke\n* Jessica Hardy set a new world record of 28.96 seconds in the heats of this event in Stockholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Results, Event winners, 200 m breaststroke\n* Neil Versfeld set a new World Cup record of 2:02.56 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 72], "content_span": [73, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Results, Event winners, 100 m individual medley\n* Therese Alshammar set a new world record of 58.51 seconds in the heats of this event in Durban. * * Sergey Fesikov set a new world record of 50.95 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202886-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Swimming World Cup, Results, Event winners, 400 m individual medley\nLegend: WR \u2013 World record; (WR) \u2013 World record when swum (earning bonus World Cup points); WC \u2013 World Cup record; (WC) \u2013 World Cup record when swum", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 77], "content_span": [78, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202887-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Women's Water Polo World League\nThe 2009 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the 6th edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). After playing in groups within the same continent, eight teams qualified to play in a final tournament, called the Super Final in Kirishi, Russia from 9 to 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202887-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FINA Women's Water Polo World League, Super Final, Final ranking\nBetsey Armstrong, Heather Petri, Brittany Hayes, Brenda Villa (C), Lauren Wenger, Tanya Gandy, Kelly Rulon, Jessica Steffens, Elsie Windes, Alison Gregorka, Kami Craig, Annika Dries, Jaime Komer, Erika Figge, Lolo Silver. Head coach: Adam Krikorian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy\nThe 2009 FIRA tournament acted as the continent's 2010 World Cup qualifying tournament. The top four nations from the 2009 Six Nations had automatically qualified, but nations finishing fifth and sixth (Scotland and Italy) joined Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium to decide the final two places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy\nThe teams were divided into two pools, the \"seeding\" broadly based on FIRA rankings, with the pool winners qualifying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy\nAfter the completion of the pool phase, the tournament itself did not have a \"final\", nor any other classification games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy\nAs expected, Scotland qualified from Pool A with no problems - but it always looked a tougher prospect for fellow Six Nations team Italy, in Pool B, as they would have to beat Spain - something they had never managed before. But when it came to the event neither Italy nor Spain were to qualify, but rather hosts and sixth seeds Sweden, who shocked everyone by first beating Italy and then Spain - in both cases coming from behind in the dying minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy\nOther games in the tournament followed the seedings - and were embarrassingly one-sided in many cases - demonstrating the gulf that continues to exist between the leading eight or nine nations in Europe and the rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202888-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIRA Women's European Trophy, Point Scorers, Other point scorers\n14 points: Ulrika Andersson Hall (Sweden)10 points: Natalia Alexeeva (Russia), Dorien Eppink (Netherlands), Veronica Fitzpatrick (Scotland), Silvia Peron (Italy), Isabel Rodr\u00edguez (Spain), Wikke Tuinhout (Netherlands), Paola Zangirolami(Italy)8 points: Marina Apfel (Germany)6 points: Marina Bravo (Spain), Claire Paris (Belgium)5 points: Sara Barattin (Italy), Martina Barbini (Italy), Jessica Berntsson (Sweden), Marlieke Broer (Netherlands), Lana Blyth (Scotland), Emma Evans (Scotland), Lucia Gai (Italy), Elena Gamova (Russia), Tanya Griffith (Scotland), Sylke Haverkorn (Netherlands), Erin Kerr (Scotland), Madeleine Lahti (Sweden), Rebecka Lind (Sweden), Jennifer Lindholm (Sweden), Alexia Mavroudis (Netherlands), Paula Med\u00edn(Spain), Elke van Meer (Netherlands), Louise Moffat (Scotland), Suzi Newton (Scotland), Agurtzane Obregozo (Spain), Silvia Pizzati (Italy), Marta Pocurull (Spain), Aitziber Porras (Spain), Johanna van Rossum (Netherlands), Corinne Sailliez (Belgium), Maria Sanfilippo (Italy), Pien Selbeck (Netherlands), Elena Smirnova (Russia), Laura Steven (Scotland), Olga Sychugova (Russia)4 points: Erika Andersson (Sweden), Anastasiya Mukharyamova (Russia)2 points: Louise Dalgliesh (Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 1286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202889-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix\nThe 2009 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix was the 16th Summer Grand Prix season in ski jumping on plastic. Season began on 8 August 2009 in Hinterzarten, Germany and ended on 3 October 2009 in Klingenthal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202889-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix\nOther competitive circuits this season included the World Cup and Continental Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202890-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIU Golden Panthers football team\nThe 2009 FIU Golden Panthers football team represented Florida International University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mario Cristobal and played their homes games at the on-campus FIU Stadium. The Golden Panthers finished the season 3\u20139 and 3\u20135 in the Sun Belt Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202891-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship\nThe 2009 FIVB Volleyball Boys' Youth World Championship was held in Jesolo and Bassano del Grappa, Italy from 28 August to 6 September 2009. 16 teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202892-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship\nThe 2009 FIVB Girls Youth Volleyball World Championship was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 3 to 12 July 2009. 16 teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202893-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship\nThe 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship was the 5th edition of the event. It was held in Doha, Qatar from 3 to 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202893-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, Golden formula\nFor the first time in an FIVB tournament, a new rule trialled during the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship Doha 2009 in order to \u201ckeep the ball flying\u201d and add value to a rally for the spectator. The Golden Formula playing system requires that the first attack for each team begins from the back row in an attempt to produce longer rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202894-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship\nThe 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's Junior World Championship was held in Pune, India from 31 July to 9 August 2009. Brazil won the tournament after defeating Cuba 3-2 in the final. Maur\u00edcio Borges Silva was elected the Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202895-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup\nThe 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup was held in Osaka and Nagoya, Japan from 18 to 23 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202895-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup, Competition formula\nThe competition formula of the 2009 Men's World Grand Champions Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays once against each of the 5 remaining teams. Points were accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing was determined by the total points gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Brazil\nThe following is the Brazil roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 67], "content_span": [68, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Cuba\nThe following is the Cuba roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 65], "content_span": [66, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Egypt\nThe following is the Egypt roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Iran\nThe following is the Iran roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 65], "content_span": [66, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Japan\nThe following is the Japan roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 66], "content_span": [67, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202896-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup squads, Poland\nThe following is the Poland roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 67], "content_span": [68, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202897-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship\nThe 2009 FIVB Women's Junior Volleyball World Championship was held in Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico from July 16 to 25, 2009. 16 teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202898-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup\nThe 2009 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup was held in Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan from November 10 to November 15, 2009. Italy won the tournament with perfect record and Simona Gioli was selected Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202898-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup, Competition formula\nThe competition formula of the 2009 Women's World Grand Champions Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays once against each of the 5 remaining teams. Points are accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing is determined by the total points gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 75], "content_span": [76, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202898-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup, Final standing\nTeam RosterCristina Barcellini, Immacolata Sirressi, Giulia Rondon, Jenny Barazza, Paola Cardullo, Serena Ortolani, Francesca Piccinini, Valentina Arrighetti, Eleonora Lo Bianco, Antonella Del Core, Lucia Bosetti, Simona GioliHead Coach: Massimo Barbolini", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202899-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix\nThe FIVB World Grand Prix 2009 is a women's volleyball tournament that was played by 12 countries from 31 July to 23 August 2009. The finals were held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Brazil, United States, Dominican Republic and  Puerto Rico qualified for the tournament at the 2008 Women's Pan-American Cup in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202899-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, Preliminary rounds, Ranking\nThe host Japan and top five teams in the preliminary round advance to the Final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202900-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League\nThe 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League was the 20th edition of the annual men's international volleyball tournament, played by 16 countries from 12 June to 26 July 2009. The Final Round was held in Belgrade, Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202900-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League, Pool standing procedure\nMatch won 3\u20130 or 3\u20131: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3\u20132: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads\nThis article show all participating team squads at the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League, played by 16 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Argentina\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Brazil\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Bulgaria\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, China\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Cuba\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Finland\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, France\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Italy\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Japan\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, South Korea\nThe following is the roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Netherlands\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Poland\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Russia\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Serbia\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, United States\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202901-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Volleyball World League squads, Venezuela\nThe following is the  roster in the 2009 FIVB Volleyball World League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202902-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup, held from November 10 to November 15, 2009 in Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads\nThis article show all participating team squads at the 2009 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix, played by twelve countries with the final round held in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Brazil\nThe following is the Brazil roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, China\nThe following is the China roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Dominican Republic\nThe following is the Dominican Republic roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Germany\nThe following is the Germany roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Japan\nThe following is the Japan roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, South Korea\nThe following is the South Korea roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Netherlands\nThe following is the Netherlands roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Poland\nThe following is the Poland roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Puerto Rico\nThe following is the Puerto Rico roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Russia\nThe following is the Russia roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, Thailand\nThe following is the Thailand roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202903-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 FIVB World Grand Prix squads, United States\nThe following is the United States roster in the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202904-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FORU Oceania Cup\nThe 2009 Oceania Nations Cup doubled as the first round of Oceania's qualifying tournament for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. By winning the Oceania Nations Cup, Papua New Guinea advanced to face Samoa in the Oceania qualification final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202904-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FORU Oceania Cup\nTahiti and New Caledonia were originally slated to participate, but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge\nThe 2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge was the fourth race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 7 and 8 of the series and was held on the weekend of May 29\u201331 at Symmons Plains Raceway, near Launceston, in northern Tasmania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Rule change\nThe new race formats for 2009 saw a 100 kilometre race held as Race 7 on Saturday, with a 200 kilometre race held on Sunday as Race 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Race 7\nThe first race was held on Saturday May 30. Garth Tander was able to break the year long stranglehold Team Vodafone has held on the 2009 series, taking a narrow victory over Russell Ingall after an innovative use of tyre tactics saw Ingall get much better tyre life out of his set of soft, sprint, tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Race 7\nInstead of changing tyres at his pitstop to a set of the harder, slow tyres, Ingall rotated his tyres, swapping the tyres diagonally front/rear and left/right, giving him the best grip of any of the front runners in the races late stages and it was only Tander's ability to put lapped traffic between himself and Ingall that gave the Holden Racing Team driver the race victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Race 7\nSteven Johnson continued his best ever V8 Supercar season with a third place, and best of the Ford drivers. It was Johnson's second podium result of the year after claiming third at Race 4 at the Hamilton 400. Will Davison backed up Tander's win in fourth place, making it the best day of the season for HRT ahead of Todd Kelly, his best result of the year to date, and Stone Brothers race Shane van Gisbergen. Team mates Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup followed with a much improved Greg Murphy ninth and a disappointing Lee Holdsworth scraping into the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Race 7\nJames Courtney had a miserable day, involved in several on track skirmishes, including receiving a puncture and pitting on the very lap that his team mate Steven Johnson was already in the pits having his scheduled pitstop, forcing Courtney to lose yet more time waiting for his team to service Johnson's #17 Ford. He finished, but finished last on a day when all 30 cars saw the chequered flag. His championship hopes are effectively extinguished and his hopes for a good season will now hinge on his ability to win races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202905-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Falken Tasmania Challenge, Results, Race 8\n* Penalties were applied to Tim Slade and Marcus Marshall. Slade was relegated from ninth to 14th. Marshall was relegated from 22nd to 24th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202906-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Falkland Islands general election\nThe Falkland Islands general election of 2009 was held on Thursday 5 November 2009 to elect members to the Legislative Assembly. It was the first general election in the Falkland Islands since the new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009, which replaced the old Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly. Chief Executive Tim Thorogood acted as Returning Officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202906-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Falkland Islands general election\nEight MLAs were elected through universal suffrage using block voting, five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency. Each elector in Stanley could vote for five candidates, and in Camp each elector could vote for three candidates. In total 4,989 votes were cast in the election, relating to a turnout of 1,232 (77.7% of the electorate). As no political parties are active on the Islands, all the candidates stood as nonpartisans. The election result was said to be an 'upset' as none of the incumbent MLAs kept their seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202906-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Falkland Islands general election, Results\nCandidates in bold were elected. Candidates in italic were incumbents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202907-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup\nThe 2009 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis event on the 2009 WTA Tour, which took place from April 13 to April 19. The event was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It was the second and last event of the clay court season played on green clay. The total prize money offered at this tournament was US$1,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202907-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup, Finals, Doubles\nBethanie Mattek-Sands /  Nadia Petrova defeated  L\u012bga Dekmeijere  /  Patty Schnyder, 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20132, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202908-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup \u2013 Doubles\nKatarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202909-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup \u2013 Singles\nSerena Williams was the defending champion, but withdrew due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202909-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup \u2013 Singles\nSabine Lisicki won her maiden WTA tour title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202909-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup \u2013 Singles\nDinara Safina gained the World No. 1 ranking for the first time at the conclusion of this tournament, despite not participating. This is because Williams' withdrawal, and loss of her championship ranking points, allowed her to be superseded by Safina in the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202909-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Family Circle Cup \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202910-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Faroe Islands Cup\nThe Faroe Islands Cup 2009 started on March 28, 2009 and ended on July 29, 2009. The defending champions were two-time winners EB/Streymur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202910-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Faroe Islands Cup\nOnly the first teams of Faroese football clubs are allowed to participate. The Preliminary Round involved only teams from first, second and third deild. Teams from the highest division entered the competition in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202911-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Faroe Islands Premier League\n2009 Faroe Islands Premier League, also known as Vodafonedeildin for sponsoring reasons, was the sixty-seventh season of top-tier football on the Faroe Islands. It began on 4 April 2009 and ended on 3 October 2009. EB/Streymur were the defending champions. The league was won by HB T\u00f3rshavn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202911-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Faroe Islands Premier League, Team changes from the previous season\nB71 Sandoy and Sk\u00e1la \u00cdF were relegated to 1. deild after finishing 9th and 10th in the 2008 season. They were replaced by 1. deild champions 07 Vestur and runners-up AB Argir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202911-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Faroe Islands Premier League, Results\nThe schedule consisted of a total of 27 games. Each team played three games against every opponent in no particular order. At least one of the games was at home and one was away. The additional home game for every match-up was randomly assigned prior to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202912-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fayetteville, North Carolina mayoral election\nThe 2009 Fayetteville mayoral election took place on November 8, 2009 to elect the mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Tony Chavonne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202913-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Featherstone Rovers season\nThe Featherstone Rovers competed in the Co-operative Championship in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202913-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Featherstone Rovers season, Table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup\nThe 2009 Fed Cup was the 46th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup\nThe final took place at the Circolo del Tennis in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on 7\u20138 November. The home team, Italy, defeated the United States, 4\u20130, giving Italy their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup, World Group Play-offs\nThe four losing teams in the World Group first round ties (China, France, Argentina and Spain), and four winners of the World Group II ties (Slovakia, Germany, Serbia and Ukraine) entered the draw for the World Group Play-offs. Four seeded teams, based on the latest Fed Cup ranking, were drawn against four unseeded teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup, World Group II\nThe World Group II was the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2009. Winners advanced to the World Group Play-offs, and losers played in the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup, World Group II Play-offs\nThe four losing teams from World Group II (Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, and Israel) played off against qualifiers from Zonal Group I. Two teams qualified from Europe/Africa Zone (Estonia and Poland), one team from the Asia/Oceania Zone (Australia), and one team from the Americas Zone (Canada).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 38], "content_span": [39, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup, Americas Zone, Group II\nVenue: Parque del Este, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (outdoor hard)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202914-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup, Rankings\nThe rankings were measured after the three points during the year that play took place, and were collated by combining points earned from the previous four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202915-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2009 Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202915-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone, Group I\nThe six teams were divided into two pools of three teams. The top team of each pool played against one other to decide which nation progresses to the World Group II Play-offs. The four nations that came either second or third in each pool then played-off to determine which two teams would be relegated down to Group II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202915-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone, Group II\nThe nine teams were divided into one pool of four teams and one pool of five. The top two teams of each pool played-off against each other to decide which two nations progress to the Group I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202916-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs\nThe Play-offs of the 2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from the Americas. Using the positions determined in their pools, the six teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I, the top countries of each pool played for first to second, while the bottom two of each pool competed for fifth to eighth. The top team advanced to the World Group II, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Group II for the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202916-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional Play-Offs\nThe top team of each pool was placed against each other in a head-to-head round. The winner of the round advanced to World Group II for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202916-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation Play-Offs\nThe last two placed teams of each pool were drawn against each other in two head-to-head rounds. The losing team was relegated to Group II for the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202917-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom teams faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202918-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom teams faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202919-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of two pools in Group II of the Americas zone of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advancing to Group I for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202920-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group II was one of two pools in Group II of the Americas zone of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advancing to Group I for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202921-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone\nThe Asia/Oceania Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2009 Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202921-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group I\nThe eight teams were divided into two pools of four teams. The teams that finished first in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group II Play-offs. The two nations coming last in the pools also played-off to determine which would be relegated to Group II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202921-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group II\nThe four teams played in one pool of four, with the team placing first advancing to Group I for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202921-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, Group II, Pool\nPreviously, Pacific Oceania, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syria and Turkmenistan had also been listed to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202922-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs\nThe play-offs of the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I zonal competition involving teams from Asia and Oceania. Using the positions determined in their pools, the eight teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I. The top team advanced to the World Group II, and the bottom team were relegated down to the Group II for the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202922-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional play-offs\nThe first placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in a head-to-head round. The winner of the rounds advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they would get a chance to advance to the World Group II for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 73], "content_span": [74, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202922-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Third to fourth play-offs\nThe second-placed teams from each pool were drawn in head-to-head rounds to find the third and fourth placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 77], "content_span": [78, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202922-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Fifth to sixth play-off\nThe third placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in a ties. The winner of the tie was allocated fifth place in the Group while the loser was allocated sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202922-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation play-offs\nThe last placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in a head-to-head round. The losing team was relegated to Group II for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202923-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom teams faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202924-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom teams faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202925-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II \u2013 Pool\nThe Pool of the 2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II composed of four teams competing in a round robin competition. The top two teams qualifying for Group I next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202926-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone\nThe Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2009 Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202926-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group I\nThe fifteen teams were divided into three pools of four teams and one pool of three. The four pool winners took part in play-offs to determine the two nations advancing to the World Group II Play-offs. The nations finishing last in their pools took part in play-offs, with the two losing nations being relegated to Group II in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202926-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group II\nThe six teams were divided into two pool of three teams each. The winner of each pool played the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations will be promoted to Group I in 2010. The bottom nation in each pool will be relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group III in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202926-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, Group III\nThe eleven teams were divided into one pool of five teams and one pool of six. The top two teams of each pool progressed to Group II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202927-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs\nThe Play-offs of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the sixteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. The top two teams advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II for the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202927-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional Play-Offs\nThe first placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two head-to-head rounds. The winner of the rounds advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they would get a chance to advance to the World Group II for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202927-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Fifth to Seventh Play-Offs\nThe second placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two ties. The winner of each tie was allocated fifth place in the Group while the losers were allocated seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202927-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Ninth\nDue to the fact that there were an odd number of teams in Pool D (three), as opposed to the four teams in the other pools, all the teams that placed third in the pools with four teams (\u00a0Netherlands, \u00a0Romania and \u00a0Slovenia) were allocated ninth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202927-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Play-offs, Relegation Play-Offs\nThe last placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two ties. The losing team of the rounds were relegated to Group II for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202928-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202929-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202930-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool C\nGroup C of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202931-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I \u2013 Pool D\nGroup D of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 2009 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202932-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs\nThe Play-offs of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II Zonal Competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Those that placed first and second in their respective pools competed for promotion, while those that placed third were automatically relegated down to Group III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202932-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Play-offs, Promotional Play-Offs\nThe first placed teams of each pool were placed against the second placed teams of the other pools. The winner of the rounds advanced to the Group I for next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202933-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of two pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II of the 2009 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to Group I, while the bottom team faced relegation to Group III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202934-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of two pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II of the 2009 Fed Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to Group I, while the bottom team faced relegation to Group III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202935-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool A\nGroup A of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III was one of two pools in Group III of the Europe/Africa zone of the 2009 Fed Cup. Five teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advanced to Group II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202936-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III \u2013 Pool B\nGroup B of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III was one of two pools in Group III of the Europe/Africa zone of the 2009 Fed Cup. Five teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advanced to Group II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202937-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup World Group\nThe World Group was the highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2009. Eight nations competed in a three-round knockout competition. Russia was the two-time defending champion, but they were defeated by Italy in the semifinals. The Italian team went on to win, defeating the United States in the final, 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202938-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup World Group II\nThe World Group II was the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2009. Winning nations advanced to the World Group Play-offs, and the losing nations were demoted to the World Group II Play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202939-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup World Group II Play-offs\nThe 2009 World Group II Play-offs were four ties which involved the losing nations of the World Group II and four nations from the three Zonal Group I competitions. Nations that won their play-off ties entered the 2010 World Group II, while losing nations joined their respective zonal groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202940-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs\nThe World Group Play-offs were four ties which involved the losing nations of the World Group first round and the winning nations of the World Group II. Nations that won their play-off ties entered the 2010 World Group, while losing nations joined the 2010 World Group II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs\nThe 2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, began on August 27 and ended on September 27. It included the following four events:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs\nFor the second time in the three-year history of the playoffs, Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs\nThese were the third FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007. Substantial changes were made to the point structures, playoff reset of points, and field sizes for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Barclays\nThe Barclays was played August 27\u201330. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, only one did not enter\u2014Paul Casey (18), due to a rib injury. Of the 124 entrants, 77 made the second-round cut at +5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Barclays\nHeath Slocum, who only made the top 125 and the tournament field by two FedEx Cup points, won by sinking a 20-foot (6 m) par putt on the final hole, putting him one shot ahead of a distinguished group consisting of Ernie Els, P\u00e1draig Harrington, Steve Stricker, and Tiger Woods. The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, Deutsche Bank Championship\nThe Deutsche Bank Championship was played September 4\u20137. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, only one did not enter\u2014Paul Casey (27), due to a rib injury. Of the 99 players who entered the tournament, 73 of them made the 36-hole cut at one-under-par. Steve Stricker won by one stroke over Jason Dufner and Scott Verplank and took the lead in the FedEx Cup standings. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nThe BMW Championship was played September 10\u201313. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only one did not enter\u2014Paul Casey (36), due to a rib injury. With a field limited to 70, and 69 actually playing, there was no cut. The top 30 players in FedEx Cup points after this event advanced to the Tour Championship and also earned spots in the 2010 Masters, U.S. Open, and (British) Open Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nTiger Woods blew away the field in Saturday's third round with a course-record 62 and cruised from there to win by eight shots over Jim Furyk and Marc Leishman. Woods retook the lead in the FedEx Cup standings going into the Tour Championship. Furyk moved from 18th in the standings to third, putting him into position to claim the FedEx Cup with a win in the Tour Championship. Leishman, who only made the field for the BMW Championship by making an eagle on the final hole of the Deutsche Bank Championship, placed himself in the field for the Tour Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nThe real drama was for the 30th and final spot in the Tour Championship. Brandt Snedeker was in the final 30 until disaster struck on the final hole. Needing only a bogey to secure his place in Atlanta, and on the green of the par-4 hole in three, he missed his par putt from 12\u00a0feet and then had his 3-foot putt for bogey lip out. Snedeker then two-putted from tap-in range. That opened the door for John Senden and Ian Poulter, but both seemingly tried to throw away their shots at a trip to Atlanta. Senden badly chucked his approach shot to the par-5 15th, and hit a bunker shot into the water on 17 for a double-bogey, but Snedeker's mistake allowed him to sneak into the top 30 by 0.46 points over Poulter, who hit his approach on the 18th hole into the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, BMW Championship\nWith the FedEx Cup points reset after the BMW Championship, all 30 remaining players had at least a mathematical chance to secure the season crown, and any of the top five players could claim the FedEx Cup with a win in the Tour Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Tour Championship\nThe Tour Championship was played September 24\u201327, after a one-week break. All 30 golfers who qualified for the tournament played, and there was no cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Tour Championship\nPhil Mickelson claimed his first PGA Tour title since his wife and mother were both diagnosed with breast cancer in spring 2009. This was also his second Tour Championship title, as he won the 2000 edition, also held at East Lake. Mickelson entered the final round four shots behind Kenny Perry, but shot 65 while Perry faded to a 74.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202941-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 FedEx Cup Playoffs, The Tour Championship\nThree golfers\u2014top seed Tiger Woods, second seed Steve Stricker, and Mickelson\u2014had a reasonable chance of claiming the FedEx Cup entering the final nine holes, but consecutive birdies by Woods on the 15th and 16th holes secured his second-place finish for the tournament, three shots behind Mickelson. Since Mickelson was not among the top five seeds entering the Tour Championship, this was enough for Woods to secure the FedEx Cup and its $10 million prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202942-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fergana Challenger\nThe 2009 Fergana Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Fergana, Uzbekistan between May 18 and May 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202942-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fergana Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202942-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fergana Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nPavel Chekhov /  Alexey Kedryuk vs  Pierre-Ludovic Duclos /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202943-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nKonstantin Kravchuk and \u0141ukasz Kubot didn't defend their 2009 title. Kubot chose to not play and Kravchuk (who partnered up with Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko) lost to more late champions - Pavel Chekhov and Alexey Kedryuk in the quarterfinals. Chekhov and Kedryuk became the new masters, after their won against Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202944-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fergana Challenger \u2013 Singles\nPavel \u0160nobel was the defender of title; however, he lost to Evgeny Kirillov in the first round. Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko became the new champion, after he beat Samuel Groth in the final (4\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(4)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl\nThe 2009 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns on Monday, January 5, 2009, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl\nTexas participated in the Fiesta Bowl because the Big 12 champion University of Oklahoma Sooners were participating in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game; however the bowl kept its ties to the Big 12 by selecting the Longhorns, who did not play in the championship game as they beat Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry, 45\u201335, then lost to Texas Tech and Texas Tech in turn lost to Oklahoma and dictated that a tiebreaker would decide that the highest BCS ranked team for the Big 12 South the week of November 28, 2008 would be in the title game. The Buckeyes were chosen as an at-large school as co-champions of the Big Ten Conference, having lost the right to play in the Rose Bowl due to a 13\u20136 loss to Penn State on October 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl\nThe Fiesta Bowl served as the penultimate contest of the 2008\u20132009 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams involved. This 38th\u00a0edition of the Fiesta Bowl was televised in the United States on FOX. It was the third meeting in the history of the two schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl\nThe Longhorns (variously \"Texas\" or \"UT\" or the \"Horns\") are coached by head football coach Mack Brown and led on the field by quarterback Colt McCoy. The Buckeyes (variously \"Ohio State\" or \"OSU\" or the \"Bucks\") are coached by Jim Tressel and led on the field by Terrelle Pryor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl\nThe victory by Texas gave Ohio State their third straight bowl loss, their longest such streak since the early John Cooper era (when they lost 4 bowls in a row from 1989\u201392). This follows a four-game bowl winning streak which tied for longest in OSU history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl, The Ohio State and Texas football programs\nThe Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns are two of the most storied programs in college football. Before 2005 each school had participated in college football for more than 100\u00a0years. They are home to nationally known traditions from the Buckeye leaf stickers and the O-H-I-O chant at Ohio State to Bevo and the Hook 'em Horns of Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl, The Ohio State and Texas football programs\nOne of the three most victorious programs in college football history as judged by either number of wins or winning percentage, the University of Texas has traditionally been considered a college football powerhouse. From 1936 to 2004, the team finished the season in the top ten 23\u00a0times, or one-third of the time, according to the Associated Press. The team that coach Mack Brown fielded in 2005 has been called one of the most memorable in college football history by College Football News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl, The Ohio State and Texas football programs\nLike the Longhorns, the Buckeyes are an elite football program. The Buckeyes program has produced 164\u00a0first-team All-American players, including seven\u00a0Heisman Trophy winners. The Buckeyes rank fifth in college football history in terms of both total wins and winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl, The Ohio State and Texas football programs, Previous meetings\nTexas and Ohio State have two of the longest-running programs in college football, but they have played each other only twice. Texas won the 2005 game en route to winning their most recent national championship (in the process becoming the first visitor to win a night game at Ohio Stadium). In the 2006 game, which was won by Ohio State, OSU and Texas were ranked #1 and #2 respectively. It was only the 36th time that the top two teams in college football had ever faced each other outside of the BCS National Championship . OSU later played against #2 Michigan Wolverines in the Buckeyes' regular season finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 79], "content_span": [80, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202945-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiesta Bowl, Leading into the game\nAfter being passed over in the selection for the 2009 BCS National Championship Game, the Longhorns were selected to represent the Big 12 Conference as host team in the Fiesta Bowl. The Buckeyes were selected as an \"at-large\" school from among the eligible teams. The day the bowl bids were announced the sports betting line opened with Texas as ten-point favorites, the most of any of the 2009 BCS bowls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202946-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard court. It was a sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lexington, United States between 20 and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202946-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202946-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships, Champions, Doubles\nKevin Anderson /  Ryler DeHeart def. Amir Hadad /  Harel Levy, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202947-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nAlessandro da Col and Andrea Stoppini were the defending champions. Kevin Anderson and Ryler DeHeart won in the final 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20136], against Amir Hadad and Harel Levy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202948-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nSomdev Devvarman was the defending champion, but he decided not to start this year. Harel Levy defeated 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132 Alex Kuznetsov in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202949-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was the 13th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit, a tier below the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held in Lexington, Kentucky, United States from 20 to 26 July 2009 on outdoor hardcourts. The prize money for women was US$50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202949-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMelanie Oudin was the defending champion, but decided not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202949-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nSania Mirza won in the final, defeating top seed Julie Coin 7-6(5), 6-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis\nThe Fijian constitutional crisis of 2009 began on Friday, 10 April 2009. Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced on a nationwide radio broadcast that he was abrogating the Constitution of Fiji. He dismissed all judges and constitutional appointees and assumed all governance in the country after the Court of Appeal ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was illegal. Iloilo reinstalled Bainimarama as PM and his Cabinet members to their positions. He also instituted emergency rule which increased police powers and allowed media censorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Background\nOn Thursday, 9 April 2009, the Court of Appeal, the second highest in Fiji, issued a ruling stating the illegality of the 2006 Fijian coup d'\u00e9tat, which removed the government of Laisenia Qarase from power, replacing it with military rule. The court also called the interim government established in January 2007 \"invalid.\" The ruling legally dissolved the current parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Background\nThe Court of Appeals ordered President Iloilo to appoint a \"distinguished person\" to act as a caretaker Prime Minister and oversee the dissolution of parliament. The court further ordered that Iloilo was forbidden from appointing either current Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama or former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as the caretaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Background\nThe Court of Appeals ruling \"prompted\" the Prime Minister to step down from power. Iloilo had sworn Bainimarama into office in January 2007. Bainimarama immediately reverted to his former position as army commander. His cabinet also resigned after the court's ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nPresident Iloilo issued a statement the following day saying, \"I hereby confirm I have abrogated the 1997 constitution and appointed myself as head of state in the new order.\" Iloilo immediately assumed all political power in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nIn his statement, Iloilo fired the Fijian judiciary and nullified all judicial appointments. He stated that \"All judicial appointments are no longer in place. New appointments are to be made for judges, magistrates and other judicial officers. I will soon be inviting suitable individuals to join or rejoin the bench under the new order.\" He also decreed that all existing laws would remain in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nIloilo announced that Fiji would hold democratic elections in September 2014 \"at the latest.\" He also promised to appoint an interim prime minister. To that end, he issued a decree which allowed him to appoint a Prime Minister by decree. Parliament had not met since the 2006 coup. He subsequently re-appointed Frank Bainimarama as the \"new\" Interim prime minister. Bainimarama later reinstalled all of his previous Cabinet members to their same positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nIn a 17 April speech to civil servants Bainimarama announced that his government was not an interim one and that elections would not be held before 2014: \"A new Legal Order means there is no longer the old. There is no need to speculate as to what happened, how it happened, what should have happened or what should not have happened. What is, is now, and the future.\" Iloilo's announcement of a new judiciary clarified that the abrogation of the constitution would not be subject to any judicial review.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nFiji was placed under a \"Public Emergency Regulation\", putting the country under emergency rule for 30 days. This regulation gave the police the right \"to control the movement of people\" and to stop any broadcast or publication it deemed \"could cause disorder, promote disaffection or public alarm or undermine the government or state of Fiji\". On some key roads, police had established roadblocks but the military was not involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nPolice \"postponed\" any assemblies of more than 100 people and revoked permits already issued including the annual meeting of the Fiji Nursing Association and perhaps the elections of the Fiji Teachers Union. In July, the annual Methodist general meeting was not given a permit. Several Methodist Church leaders and a village high chief who was providing space for the meeting were arrested and released on condition that they not appear in public. The Methodist annual meeting scheduled for August was later cancelled by church leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nAll positions established under the 1997 Constitution were held to be vacant. In the following days, some of these office holders were reinstalled into the same offices, including the Commissioner of Police, the Commissioner of Prisons, the Commander of the RFMF, the Solicitor General. Others were not reappointed as in the case of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji who was replaced by the Deputy Governor. Other positions were not immediately refilled, such as the courts, the Constitutional Offices Commission, the Judicial Service Commission, the Disciplined Services Commission and the Human Rights Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suspension of Constitution\nOn 31 July, President Iloilo, 88 years old and thought to be ill, retired after having served since 2000 through all the coups, except for one month in 2006 when Bainimarama gave himself Presidential powers. Iloilo was replaced by the Vice-President, Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, a former military commander. Under the 1997 Constitution, the President was supposed to be appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs, but with the Constitution suspended, Bainimarama announced that a replacement would be appointed by himself and his Cabinet at a time suitable for the regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Economy\nAs well as the rest of the world, Fiji had been influenced by the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 before the constitutional crisis began. Fiji's foreign currency reserves had fallen by 1/3 during 2008 and, in February 2009, Standard and Poor's downgraded Fiji's long term credit rating from stable to negative. Exports increased in 2008 and inflation declined; however, cashflow suffered from the global financial crisis and imports increased leading to a larger negative balance of trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Economy\nAfter the constitutional crisis began, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji was removed from his position, as were all other people appointed to positions under the 1997 Constitution. The Reserve Bank quickly made several major moves, imposing currency exchange restrictions and devaluing the currency by 20% to benefit exporters and tourism. On 16 April, the Bank ordered Australian banks operating in Fiji to limit interest rates and institute microlending programs. Standard and Poor's lowered Fiji's credit rating on 16 April, with short term credit falling to a C from a B rating. On 21 April, Moody's lowered Fiji's government bond, foreign currency bank deposit and foreign currency bond ratings, into junk bond status, stating \"Political instability is weakening Fiji's long-term economic strength\" among other reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Economy\nIn a move claimed to be aimed at cutting public corruption, Bainimarama announced \"As a first up, from next week, all government vehicles being driven after hours will need to carry permits.\" Soldiers and police would be empowered to check for these permits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Economy\nAs a cost-cutting measure, the mandatory retirement age for civil servants was reduced to 55, with 30 April 2009 set as the retirement day for any over that age. Since 2007, the Fiji Teacher Association had been fighting the order to lower the retirement age from 60 to 55; the Public Service Association had later joined as a party to the lawsuit. Certain high-level positions were given a retirement age of 65, including the position of Commander of the Military Forces held by Bainimarama who will turn 55 three days before the decree goes into effect. The decree was expected to force the retirement of over 800 teachers and about 100 nurses. (Another 40 nurses had already moved overseas during 2009 before the decree.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nReports indicated that as part of the Emergency Regulation \"a Ministry of Information officer and a plain-clothed policeman would be stationed in every newsroom\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nThe Permanent Secretary of the Department of Information explained the policy, saying that media are to \"refrain from publishing and broadcasting any news item that is negative in nature, relating to the assumption of executive authority on 10 April...and the subsequent appointments...\" Immediately after the decree as a form of protest, Fiji One TV did not run its evening news program and the Fiji Times went to press with large blank spaces where censored articles were removed. The Fiji Sun announced that it would no longer run any political stories of any sort. The Fiji Daily Post mocked the restrictions, publishing stories under \"Man gets on bus\" and \"Breakfast as usual\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nOn 13 April two of the last remaining foreign journalists in Fiji were called to Government House by the Ministry of Information. ABC Pacific Correspondent Sean Dorney was asked to voluntarily leave Fiji\u2014which he refused citing his valid visa\u2014and TV3 reporter Sia Aston's footage was confiscated by Fijian authorities. Both Dorney and Aston were deported from Fiji on 14 April, with Aston and TV3 cameraman Matt Smith banned from ever returning to Fiji, with the interim Government stating that all three had breached their visa conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nEdwin Nand, a local journalist for Fiji TV, was imprisoned for 36 hours after he interviewed Dorney. Fijian Military spokesman Neumi Leweni stated that foreign journalists were welcome in Fiji, but must first apply and that \"the invitation is decidedly conditional.\" However, during an interview with Radio New Zealand, Bainimarama said it was not necessary for their reporter to visit Fiji: \"You just ask me the questions, I will give you the answers.\" On 17 April, military spokesman Neumi Leweni said foreign media personnel would have to apply to his office for visas and approval would be \"based on how they have reported about Fiji in the past, if they have, or on the undertaking that they will report accurately and responsibly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nFijian media outlets and journalists have also come under government scrutiny. There were rumours of the imminent deportation of Anne Fussell, the publisher of the Fiji Times newspaper. Three newspaper editors had been deported in the 14 months before the crisis. Fijian journalists working for international media outlets have also been called before the military to explain reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nThe Government has also shut down two ABC FM transmitters, meaning that both ABC and Radio New Zealand International are only available to Fiji via the shortwave service. Internet cafes have also become a target because of independent news bloggers, with many having to shut down. Networks, software and archives are inspected by government officials, with Commodore Bainimarama saying that free speech \"causes trouble\" and must be curbed in order for the Government to carry out reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Suppression of the Media\nThe Pacnews wire service announced they will no longer cover Fiji stories after police and censors required them to remove a story on the UN statements about the crisis. The announcement followed the detention of journalist Pita Ligaiula, a writer for Pacnews and correspondent for the Australian Associated Press, who was arrested by two police officers and an official for the Ministry of Information on 15 April 2009. Matai Akauola, of the Pacific Islands News Association, reported that one of Ligaiula's bylines may have violated Fiji's current media restrictions. Pacnews has announced that it has no plans to relocate from its headquarters in Suva, Fiji, to another country due to the restrictions on reporting Fijian domestic news.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Local political reaction\nThe Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua party declared that the suspension of the constitution was another coup. The National Federation Party also condemned the President's actions. The Fiji Labour Party said that the country could not sustain a five-year wait for elections and urged elections to be called sooner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nThe UN Secretary General called for the \"restoration of a legitimate government\". The U.S. spoke of \"deep disappointment\" and Australia called the situation \"grave and unwelcome\". New Zealand's Foreign Minister referred to the situation as \"a sorry recipe that has been tried by dictators in a number of other countries, always with tragic consequences.\" New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said that \"the reality is that unless there is some miraculous turn around of events, Fiji is going to be suspended by the [Pacific Islands] forum in roughly two weeks,\" and that he would back immediate action. The forum's chair, Niue's Premier Toke Talagi, also advocated immediate suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nSamoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele took a particularly strong stance, saying \"But one day soon the puppets will grow a brain and see Frank for the evil puppeteer he really is. It is then the curtains will fall on Frank.. The whole thing is a political charade and the whole world is watching. Nobody is fooled and no one is laughing. Frank is only fooling himself..Go put back on his military uniform or..maybe, he\u2019d look better in a prison uniform.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nThe United Nations Security Council issued a statement: \"The members of the Security Council are deeply concerned about the situation in Fiji, where undemocratic decisions were made, including the abrogation of the constitution. The members of the Security Council express hopes that Fiji will make a steadfast advancement towards democracy and that fair elections will be held as soon as possible.\" The United Nations also said that it would not increase the number of Fijian police or soldiers involved in its peacekeeping operations, or deploy them on any future missions, although it would continue to use them in its existing operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nOn 1 May, the Pacific Islands Forum suspended Fiji's membership as they had threatened months before if Fiji had not scheduled elections by that date. The 2009 suspension marked the first time that a country had been suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum in the history of the 38-year-old organization. As part of its suspensions, Fiji was also excluded from the discussions on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) and the Pacific Free Trade Agreement (PICTA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nThe Commonwealth of Nations suspended Fiji from its councils. In August, the Commonwealth gave Fiji until 1 September to announce scheduled elections to occur no later than October 2010. Failing that, Fiji would be \"fully suspended\" from the Commonwealth, a threat that was carried out when no such announcement was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202950-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, International reaction\nAustralia and New Zealand suspended diplomatic relations in 2009. Full diplomatic relations were restored on 30 July 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202951-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Final Four (baseball)\nThe 2009 \"Final Four\" was an international baseball competition held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 20\u201321, 2009, between four teams from the professional leagues in Italy and the Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202951-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Final Four (baseball)\nCaff\u00e8 Danesi Nettuno from Nettuno, Italy won its second straight title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202952-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Final Four Women's Volleyball Cup\nThe 2009 Final Four Women\u2019s Volleyball Cup Chinalco Cup was the second edition of the annual Women's Volleyball Tournament, played by four countries from September 9\u201313, 2009 in Lima, Peru. The teams qualified through the 2009 Pan-American Cup, held in Miami, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202953-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Final Four Women's Volleyball Cup squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 Final Four Women's Volleyball Cup, held from September 9 to September 13, 2009 in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202954-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fingal County Council election\nAn election to Fingal County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202955-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Finlandia Trophy\nThe 2009 Finlandia Trophy was the 14th edition of an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Finland. It was held at the Valtti Areena in Vantaa between October 8 and 11, 2009. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202956-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Finnish Athletics Championships were held in the Lepp\u00e4vaaran stadion in Espoo from July 31 to August 2, 2009. The event served as a qualification tournament for the 2009 World Championships staged from August 15 to August 23, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup\nFinnish Cup 2009 (Finnish: Suomen Cup) was the 55th season of the main annual football (soccer) cup competition in Finland. It is organized as a single-elimination knock\u2013out tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup\nParticipation in the competition is voluntary. Veikkausliiga side IFK Mariehamn, for example, decided not to register for the tournament, as well as some Ykk\u00f6nen teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup\nA total of 356 teams registered for the competition. They entered in different rounds, depending on their position within the league system. Clubs with teams in Kolmonen (level IV) or an inferior league, as well as Veterans and Junior teams, started the competition in Round 1. Teams from Ykk\u00f6nen (level II) and Kakkonen (level III) entered in Round 4. Veikkausliiga clubs started in Round 5 with the exception of Inter Turku, FC Honka, FC Lahti and HJK Helsinki. These four teams entered in Round 6 because they qualified for European competitions after the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup\nThe tournament started on 28 March 2009 with the First Round and concluded with the Final on 31 October 2009 at Finnair Stadium, Helsinki. Inter Turku defeated Tampere United 2\u20131, giving them a place in the second qualifying round of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League. They have since been promoted to the third qualifying round because Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, winners of the 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League, are now assured of qualifying domestically for the 2010\u201311 Europa League, either as winners of the 2009\u201310 Copa del Rey or losing finalists to a Champions League-qualified Sevilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 1\nThe draw for this round was conducted on 12 March 2008. 102 teams were drawn into 51 matches for this round. 213 teams received a bye into the next round. The matches were played between 28 March and 14 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 2\nThe draw for this round was conducted on 12 March 2009. The 51 winners of the First Round, along with 213 teams who received a bye, were drawn into 132 matches for this round. The matches were played between 2\u201324 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 3\nThe draw for this round was conducted on 16 April 2009. The 132 winners of the Second Round were drawn into 66 matches for this round. The matches were played between 25 April\u20133 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 4\nThis round included the 66 winners from the previous round and the 28 clubs from the Ykk\u00f6nen 2009 and Kakkonen 2009 seasons that entered into the competition. These clubs were drawn into 47 matches that took place between 5 and 26 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 5\nThis round included the 47 winners of the previous round and the 9 Veikkausliiga 2009 clubs that entered this competition who were not involved in European competitions for the 2009-10 cycle. This included all the clubs in the league competition except for Inter Turku, FC Honka, FC Lahti and HJK Helsinki, who entered the competition in the round following this one, and IFK Mariehamn who decided not to participate in this competition. These 28 matches were played between 1 and 12 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 6\nThis round included the 28 winners from the previous round and the 4 Veikkausliiga 2009 clubs involved in European competition in the 2009-10 cycle: Inter Turku, FC Honka, FC Lahti and HJK Helsinki. These matches were played on 8 and 9 July 2009 except for the match between FC Viikingit and FC Lahti, which took place on August 12 due to Lahti's involvement in the Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Round 7\nThis round included the 16 winners of the previous round. These matches were played on 29 and 30 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202957-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Cup, Quarter-finals\nThis round included the eight winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202958-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Finnish Figure Skating Championships (Finnish: SM2009, yksinluistelu ja j\u00e4\u00e4tanssi) took place between December 19 and 21, 2008 at the Helsingin j\u00e4\u00e4halli in Helsinki. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels. The results were one of the criteria used to choose the Finnish teams to the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 European Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202958-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish Figure Skating Championships\nThe senior compulsory dance was the Finnstep and the junior compulsory dance was the Paso Doble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202959-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish League Cup\nThe 2009 Finnish League Cup was the 13th season of the Finnish League Cup, Finland's second-most prestigious cup football tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202959-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish League Cup\nThe cup consisted of two stages. First there was group stage that involved 14 Veikkausliiga teams divided into two groups. The top four teams from each group entered the one-legged elimination rounds \u2013 quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202959-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Finnish League Cup, Group stage\nEvery team played every other team of its group once, either home or away. The matches were played from 25 January to 24 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake\nThe 2009 Fiordland earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand with a magnitude of 7.8 at 9:22\u00a0pm (NZST) on 15 July. The earthquake was centred in the remote region of Fiordland, with the epicentre located 150\u00a0km (93\u00a0mi) west-north-west of Invercargill near Dusky Sound in Fiordland National Park, at a depth of 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi). It is among the largest New Zealand earthquakes to occur, including the Culverden/Kaikoura earthquake in 2016 and the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which both had a magnitude of 7.8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake\nThe main shock was a reverse fault (thrust), with the Indo-Australian Plate subducting beneath the Pacific Plate. The earthquake lifted a large area of land around the epicenter approximately 1 metre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake\nNew Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Science) initially measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.6, but later revised the magnitude to 7.8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake\nThe reported energy release was compared to \"500 million tonnes of TNT,[and] 25,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake\nThe quake twisted New Zealand's South Island, with Puysegur Point, on the Southwestern tip of the island, moving 30\u00a0cm closer to Australia (westward); Te Anau moved 10\u00a0cm, Bluff 3\u00a0cm and Dunedin 1\u00a0cm. It is also believed to have caused an increased stress in the southern, offshore part of the Alpine Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake, Effects\nThe earthquake was felt throughout the South Island, and in the lower North Island as far as New Plymouth. No injuries or fatalities were reported, and it caused only minor damage. Power outages were experienced in several parts of the South Island. Over 200 claims for damage have been listed with the Earthquake Commission, New Zealand's agency for earthquake compensation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake, Effects\nLandslides in the Fiordland National Park near Dusky Sound cleared large tracts of forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202960-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Fiordland earthquake, Earthquake, Tsunami\nTsunami warnings were issued soon after the earthquake by authorities in New Zealand and Australia, as well as the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. Civil defence officials in Southland also issued a 'potential tsunami' warning, stating their concerns about widely varying measurements of the earthquake. Reacting to the Pacific warnings, about fifty residents and tourists on Lord Howe Island were evacuated, and in Sydney a theatre in Bondi Beach was evacuated, and residents told to keep away from the shore. In the event, waves recorded along New Zealand's western coastline measured at one metre, peak to trough, in the Haast area. (An amplitude of 17\u00a0cm) The tsunami warnings were subsequently cancelled or reduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202961-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Firestone Indy 300\nThe 2009 Firestone Indy 300 was the final race of the 2009 IndyCar season. This 297-mile (478\u00a0km) race took place on October 10, at the 1.485-mile (2.390\u00a0km) Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida near Miami. The race was telecast by Versus. Scotland's Dario Franchitti benefitted from late pit-stops for rivals Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe to take his second IndyCar Series title by ten points. This race is also the fastest 300 mile oval race in IndyCar history owing to no caution flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202961-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Firestone Indy 300, Race\nAll cars utilized Dallara chassis, Honda engines, and Firestone Firehawk tires", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202962-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 First Division (Gambia)\nThe 2009 GFA League First Division season was the 41st of the amateur competition of the first-tier football in the Gambia. The competition was governed by the Gambian Football Association (GFA) . The season began on February 20 and finished earlier on May 23. The (Gambian) Armed Forces FC won the second title after finishing with 44 points and qualified into the 2010 CAF Champions League the following season. Wallidan FC was also winner of the 2009 Gambian Cup, runner up was Samger, not even that club qualified and competed in the 2010 CAF Confederation Cup due to financial problems. It was the first season featuring twelve clubs, up from ten last season. The last two positions received relegation into the GFA League Second Division in the following season, they were Africell and Tallinding United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202962-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 First Division (Gambia), Overview\nThe season featured a total of 132 matches and scored a total of 228 goals, more than last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202962-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 First Division (Gambia), Overview\nReal de Banjul was again the defending team of the title. 25 goals were the highest scored both by the Armed Forces and 10th placed Brikama which had a club scored the most that was above the relegation zone, fourth was 22 goals scored by Bakau United, fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202962-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 First Division (Gambia), Overview\nFour clubs finished with 31 points and were fourth place Bakau United, Hawks, Gamtel and seventh placed Samger, the only difference was Bakau scored 22 goals, Hawks and Gamtel had 17 goals, Hawks conceded 13 and Gamtel conceded 16 and Samger scored 16 goals. Also Hawks, Gamtel and Samger had 8 wins and 7 draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202963-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Flea Market Cup\nThe 2009 Flea Market Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Chuncheon, South Korea between 2 and 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202963-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Flea Market Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202963-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Flea Market Cup, Champions, Doubles\nAndis Ju\u0161ka /  Dmitri Sitak def. Lee Hsin-han /  Yang Tsung-hua, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20132]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202964-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Flea Market Cup \u2013 Doubles\nRik de Voest and Ashley Fisher were the defending champions, but only de Voest tried to defend his title. He partnered with Frederik Nielsen. However, they lost to Andis Ju\u0161ka and Dmitri Sitak in the quarterfinal. Ju\u0161ka and Sitak won this tournament, by defeating Lee Hsin-han and Yang Tsung-hua 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20132] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202965-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Flea Market Cup \u2013 Singles\nIvo Min\u00e1\u0159 chose to not defend his 2008 title. Lu Yen-hsun defeated Igor Sijsling 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202966-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Atlantic Owls football team\nThe 2009 Florida Atlantic University Owls football team represented Florida Atlantic University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Howard Schnellenberger and played their home games at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Owls were in their fourth season of competition in the Sun Belt Conference. The Owls finished the season 5\u20137 and 5\u20133 in Sun Belt play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202966-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Preseason\nThe Florida Atlantic Owls entered the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season hoping to rebound on what was considered a disappointing 2008 campaign. The 2008 team ended the season 7\u20136 (4\u20133 SBC), despite returning an overwhelming majority of starters from the 2007 conference champion team. Quarterback Rusty Smith entered his senior season. The 2009 team looked to rebuild on defense, losing defensive star, Frantz Joseph, and a number of other key starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202966-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Preseason\nThe Owls looked to shoot for their third-consecutive bowl appearance, as the 2008 squad defeated the Central Michigan Chippewas in the 2008 Motor City Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202966-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Atlantic Owls football team, Preseason\nThe Owls also had to deal with a new offensive system, as Gary Nord, offensive coordinator for Florida Atlantic since 2004, took the same job at Purdue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202967-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators baseball team\nThe 2009 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2009 college baseball season. The Gators competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The team was coached by Kevin O'Sullivan, who was in his second season at Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team\nThe 2009 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 2009 college football season. The Gators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. They were led by fifth-year head coach Urban Meyer, who coached the Gators to a first-place finish in the SEC East, a 51\u201324 Sugar Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats, and an overall win-loss record of 13\u20131 (.929).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team\nWith senior quarterback Tim Tebow and eleven defensive starters returning, the Gators had hoped to repeat as back-to-back national champions following their BCS National Championship at the end of the 2008 season. They finished with an undefeated 12\u20130 regular season, their first since 1995, but the Gators' 32\u201313 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship Game derailed their national title hopes, and forced them to settle for a berth in the Sugar Bowl. At the conclusion of the 2009 season, the Gators were ranked No. 3 in both major polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team\nOn December 26, 2009, Gators athletic director Jeremy Foley announced that Urban Meyer would step down as the team's head coach for health and family reasons. The following day, Meyer stated that he would instead take an indefinite leave of absence, allowing him to resume his position as the head coach. Meyer returned to coach the Gators in spring practice in March 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Previous season\nIn the 2008 season, the Gators went 11\u20131 in the regular season, suffering their only loss to Ole Miss in Gainesville. Their post-season success included a win over No. 1\u2013ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2008 SEC Championship Game, followed by a win over the No. 1\u2013ranked Oklahoma Sooners in the 2009 BCS Championship Game. The Gators finished the 2008 season with a 13\u20131 record and ranked No. 1 in the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls. It was the third national championship for the Gators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Pre-season\nOn January 11, 2009 during the national championship celebration at the University of Florida, quarterback Tim Tebow announced his intention to return for his senior season, followed on January 15 by linebacker Brandon Spikes intention to return as well. With Spikes' return, the entire two-deep of the Gators defense was set to return for the 2009 season. One major loss was All-America wide receiver Percy Harvin, who opted to leave the University of Florida to enter the 2009 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Pre-season\nThe Gators also lost offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Dan Mullen, who became the head coach at Mississippi State following Sylvester Croom's resignation. Former offensive line coach Steve Addazio was named as Mullen's replacement, with Scot Loeffler hired to take on the role of quarterback coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Pre-season\nThe Gators played their spring scrimmage on April 18, 2009, with the Orange winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Pre-season\nFlorida was voted #1 in both the preseason USA Today Coaches' Poll and the AP Poll. The Gators received the highest ever percentage of preseason #1 votes in the history of the AP Poll, which began in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Charleston Southern\nIn the season opener, the Gators met the Charleston Southern Buccaneers in Gainesville. In a game that was never close, the Gators won 62\u20133. John Brantley threw for 67 yards and 2 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Troy\nThe Florida Gators met the Troy Trojans in Gainesville, Florida. After a slow start, the Gators scored four times in the second quarter before cruising to a 56\u20136 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nIn what may have been the most talked about game all pre-season, the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers met in Gainesville, Florida. Most of the pre-game talk surrounded comments made by Volunteer's head coach Lane Kiffin. The game remained close until the end with the Gators holding on for a 23\u201313 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nIn their first road game of the season, the Florida Gators traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to face the Wildcats. The Gators quickly took at 31\u20130 lead in the first quarter before going on to win 41\u20137. The biggest news story to come out of the game was a concussion suffered by Tim Tebow during the third quarter. Tebow spent the night in a Lexington hospital; returning two weeks later for Florida's 13\u20133 win at LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Florida State\nIn the regular season finale, the Gators blew by the Seminoles 37\u201310. A new attendance record at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium was set with 90,907 present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202968-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, SEC Championship Game vs. Alabama\nIn a rematch of last year's SEC Championship Game, the Crimson Tide handed the Gators their only loss of the season. Alabama running back Mark Ingram scored three touchdowns in the 32\u201313 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team\nThe 2009 Florida Gators softball team represented the University of Florida softball program for the 2009 NCAA softball season. The Gators compiled an overall record of 63-5 and completed its SEC regular season with a record of 26-1. They finished second in the nation after losing to the Washington Huskies in the WCWS Championship Series. The 2009 team broke the SEC single-season home runs record (86) and several school records including grand slams in a season (12), total shutouts (39), and consecutive shutouts (11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team\nAja Paculba set the single season stolen base record (27), Francesca Enea broke the career home run record (41), and the Florida pitching staff threw three no-hitters in the regular season (Stephanie Brombacher vs. Coastal Carolina and Stacey Nelson vs. Ole Miss and Arkansas). Stacey Nelson was named the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award winner and the SEC Pitcher of the year for the second straight year, and five Gators were given Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-American honors. Stacey Nelson was named to the first team (pitcher), and Stephanie Brombacher (pitcher), Francesca Enea (outfielder), Kelsey Bruder (outfielder), and Aja Paculba (second baseman) were named to the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Previous Season\nThe 2008 Gators went 70-5 overall and 27-1 in SEC play. The 70 wins set an NCAA single season record and Florida, named the #1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, advanced to the semifinals of the Women's College World Series. They also were the SEC regular season and tournament champions. Five Gators were named All-Americans (Stacey Nelson, Kim Waleszonia, Aja Paculba, Francesca Enea, and Ali Gardiner) and Junior pitcher Stacey Nelson was the SEC Pitcher of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Pre-season\nWith all but one starter from the 2008 team returning, the Gators were voted the pre-season #1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 1)\nThe season opener for both squads stayed scoreless until the bottom of the 2nd when Francesca Enea, on third base because of a walk and a single from Tiffany DeFelice, scored on a passed ball. Hilberth also scored on a passed ball, this time in the bottom of the 3rd, after singling, stealing second, and advancing to third on an error by catcher Jordan Vannatta. Number 2 hitter Aja Paculba was walked in between strike outs by Kim Waleszonia and Ali Gardiner, and successfully stole second during the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 1)\nShe advanced to third on the same passed ball that scored Hilberth, and after Enea was intentionally walked, the Gators attempted a double steal, but caught in a pickle between 3rd and home, Paculba was caught for the final out of the inning. The Gators only other run of the night came on a solo shot from right fielder Kelsey Bruder (graduated senior Mary Ratliff's replacement and only new starter from the previous season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 1)\nBaylor threatened in the top of the 4th when Alex Colyer and Courtney Oberg consecutively singled, then both advanced on a sacrifice bunt from Tiffany Wesley. The Gator defense forced a ground out and line out to retire the side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 2)\nThe Gators got on the board early when Francesca Enea homered to left field, also bringing home Aja Paculba who was walked and Ali Gardiner who singled. Then, in the 2nd, Corrie Brooks doubled, Megan Bush hit a sacrifice bunt to move her to third, and Michelle Moultrie hit a sacrifice fly to left field to bring her home. Center fielder Kim Waleszonia immediately homered, making the game 5-0 in favor of Florida. Two innings later, in the bottom of 5th, Paculba added to the Gators' home run total, bringing the lead to six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 2)\nGardiner was hit by a pitch, Lauren Heil (who was pinch running for Gardiner) stole second, and advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Courtney Oberg. After Kelsey Bruder was walked, Brooks singled and both she and Bruder advanced an extra base as the Bears attempted, but failed to prevent Heil from scoring. In the bottom of the 6th, Alicia Sisco pinch hit for Moultrie and got her first collegiate hit. Paculba doubled to center field to score Sisco after she advanced to second on a walk of Hilberth. Up by eight, the game ended because of the mercy rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 2)\nBaylor never threatened as Gator pitcher Stephanie Brombacher held them to one hit, one walk, and one hit by pitch. She also had 8 strikeouts in 6.0 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Baylor (Game 3)\nAlthough the Gators had chances in this game, namely in the bottom of the 1st with two runners in scoring position and 1 out, they were not able to capitalize. The game was methodical for innings two through four, but the top of the fifth saw Baylor take its first lead in the three-game series. Catcher Courtney Oberg singled to left field, left fielder Tiffany Wesley reached on an error by pitcher Stacey Nelson while Oberg's pinch runner made it to third, and she scored after the second error of the inning by shortstop Megan Bush. Nelson quickly forced Meagan Weldon into a groundout to limit the damage to one run. The only offense generated by the Gators after that was a single by Bush in the bottom of the 5th. Nelson took the loss for the Gators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Jacksonville\nThe Gators bounced back from their first loss of the season, scoring 11 runs in 6 innings. The first scoring of the day happened in the top of the third when Kim Waleszonia, Aja Paculba, and Ali Gardiner had back-to-back-to-back singles, the third of which scored Waleszonia. Two innings later, Megan Bush took a lead-off walk, was moved over to 2nd on a sacrifice bunt by Michelle Moultrie and to 3rd on a groundout by Waleszonia. All the small ball proved unnecessary as Paculba homered to left field, increasing Florida's lead to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Jacksonville\nThe Gators proved that their entire lineup is dangerous at the plate in the top of the sixth. Francesca Enea took first on a hit by pitch to start off the inning, and Brooke Johnson, who was brought in to pinch run, stole second. Tiffany DeFelice was walked, Kelsey Bruder singled to left to score Johnson, Corrie Brooks, Bush, and pinch hitter Kristine Priebe were all consecutively walked to bring in 2 runs, and Brooks scored on a wild pitch. Waleszonia then successfully bunted and Paculba singled to score two more runs and keep the bases loaded. Enea's double brought in Priebe and Waleszonia and put both herself and Paculba in scoring position. After DeFelice singled and Paculba scored, the Bears were able to finally end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nIn only 4 innings of offense, the Gators managed to match their season best in runs with 11. In order to breathe some life into the lineup, Aja Paculba moved to the leadup spot and Kim Waleszonia moved behind her. The switch brought instant results in the first inning as Paculba took walk, Waleszonia singled, and Francesca Enea doubled to score them both. After failing to score in the second, Florida repeated their 8-run performance from the Jacksonville game in the third. Waleszonia bunted, and Ali Gardiner homered to start off the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nTiffany DeFelice got to first on a walk, and then to third on a double by Kelsey Bruder. Both scored on the follow-up double from third baseman Corrie Brooks. After Megan Bush was hit by a pitch, Hilberth singled to score Brooks, and Paculba singled to score Bush, Waleszonia was able to get on-board and Hilberth scored because of an error on Red Raider third baseman Danielle Matthews. Gardiner's single set the final run of the frame across the plate as a fielder's choice and a 6-2-5 double play would end the inning. The Gators scored in the 4th on a single from Bruder, walk on Brooks, fielder's choices from Bush and Hilberth, and double from Paculba that would allow Brooks's pinch runner to get home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nStacey Nelson recorded the win for the Gators and only gave up a single hit while walking none, hitting none, and striking out eight. Also, if not for the one hit, Nelson would have pitched a perfect game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Coastal Carolina (Lipton Invitational)\nIn another mercy-rule-ended game, Florida Sophomore pitcher Stephanie Brombacher threw a no-hitter for the first time in her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Coastal Carolina (Lipton Invitational)\nIn the top half of the first, Aja Paculba was walked and stole second, then made it to third on a passed ball, and Kim Waleszonia tripled to score her. Waleszonia scored on a sacrifice fly from Francesca Enea to make it 2-0 in favor of the Gators. In the second, Kristine Priebe hit a 2 RBI homer to center field before Paculba and Waleszonia basically mimicked their performances from the first. Paculba was walked and stole second, but instead of advancing to third on a passed ball, she passed the base on her way home after Waleszonia tripled again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Coastal Carolina (Lipton Invitational)\nShe would get home on Francesca Enea's single. At the start of the third, Kelsey Bruder doubled, and Corrie Brooks was hit by a pitch before they successfully completed the double steal. They would both score on an error by the Chanticleers' shortstop. The game ended after five innings with Florida taking the game 8-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida Atlantic (Lipton Invitational)\nThe Florida Atlantic Owls managed only two hits against Florida pitcher Stacey Nelson and failed to get any runs on the board. The Gators on the other hand, continued their streak of mercy-rule finishes, beating FAU 13-0. After scoring a single run in the first by way of an Aja Paculba homer, Florida poured it on in the second. Owl pitcher Amber Barton surrendered a leadoff walk that became a run after Megan Bush doubled to center field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida Atlantic (Lipton Invitational)\nAfter catcher Kristina Hilberth singled and Paculba walked, the bases were loaded for Francesca Enea, who proceeded to knock one over the center field wall for a grand slam. Kristine Priebe followed suit a few batters later, but not before Kelsey Bruder and Corrie Brooks got on base with a walk and a single respectively. The Gators added to their already impressive lead in the bottom of the third after loading the bases again. Hilberth and Paculba singled, and Kim Waleszonia reached on a fielder's choice so that when Ali Gardiner and Enea consecutively singled, two runs scored for the home team. Then Bruder sacrificed herself to bring Waleszonia home, and Priebe singled to do the same for Gardiner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, South Alabama (Lipton Invitational)\nThe 13-0 win against the South Alabama Jaguars marked Florida's fifth straight shutout and fourth straight five-inning game. In the top of the first, the \"visiting\" Gators got two runs off four singles from Kim Waleszonia, Ali Gardiner, Kelsey Bruder, and Corrie Brooks. Waleszonia and Gardiner came back in the third with back-to-back triples, allowing the former to easily score. Florida scored six more times in the fourth, including Francesca Enea's second grand slam of the day (the first coming in the game against Florida Atlantic).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, South Alabama (Lipton Invitational)\nShortstop Megan Bush, catcher Kristina Hilberth, and second baseman Aja Paculba were all walked with one out. Pinch hitter Michelle Moultrie was then hit by a pitch and Gardiner reached on a fielder's choice that still allowed Hilberth to score. That was when Enea stepped to the plate and homered very close to the foul poll. She became the first player in Florida history to hit two grand slams on the same day. An inning later, the scoring parade continued for the Gators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, South Alabama (Lipton Invitational)\nLe-Net Franklin, who stayed in the game for Bush, Hilberth, and Paculba all singled to start off the inning, and after a fielder's choice forced Franklin out at the plate, Gardiner singled to score Hilberth. Enea hit a single to right center to allow Paculba to score, Bruder reached on an error by the Jaguar shortstop to score Moultrie, and Brooks scored Gardiner on a fielder's choice that forced out Bruder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Georgia Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nIn the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba drew a lead-off walk on a full count. After Kim Waleszonia flew out to center, Ali Gardiner belted a double into left field, scoring Paculba and giving the Gators an early 1-0 lead. In the second, Corrie Brooks started things off with a single before Megan Bush sacrificed herself to move Brooks to second. Paculba then knocked a 2 RBI home run over the left field fence to give Florida a 3-run lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Georgia Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nAfter Waleszonia was plunked in the back by a pitch, Gardiner then doubled again, this time to right field, easily scoring Waleszonia. Francesca Enea sent the first pitch she saw over the left field wall for her fifth home run of the season. Georgia Tech's only run of the game and Florida's first earned run of the season came in the fourth on Tiffany Johnson's one-out bases-loaded fielder's choice to score Kelly Eppinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Georgia Tech (Lipton Invitational)\nFlorida tacked on yet another run in the bottom of the third when Megan Bush doubled on a blooper to shallow left field. Kristina Hilberth then shot a sharp-hit single to center. As Bush slid into home for a play at the plate, the Yellow Jackets\u2019 catcher was called for interference, awarding Bush the run. The Gators ended the game on the mercy rule when Brooks bombed one to dead center with the bases loaded for her first career grand slam. Gardiner and Enea walked and Kelsey Bruder singled to load the bases for Brooks, who had Florida 3rd grand slam of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Fresno State (Cathedral City Classic)\nIn their first game of the Cathedral City Classic, the Gators forced another mercy-ruled ended game, this time against the No. 14 Fresno State Bulldogs. In the first, after Aja Paculba drew a lead-off walk and two quick outs, left fielder Francesca Enea belted one over the fence in left center. In the bottom of the inning, the Bulldogs managed to get their first two batters on board with back-to-back singles, but three straight outs ended the threat. Florida scored again in the second to make it 3-0 when Kim Waleszonia singled to center with runners on first and second because of a hit by pitch and a walk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Fresno State (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe Gators put the game away in the top of the fifth inning, recording five runs all with two outs. Enea drew a walk to get things started. Brooke Johnson pinch ran for her and immediately stole second to put herself in scoring position. Kelsey Bruder smacked a single to left field to move Johnson to third. Then, Corrie Brooks came through, slamming one to center field to drive in Johnson and Bruder. Kristine Priebe was sent to pinch hit for Michelle Moultrie and walked. That's when Megan Bush hit her first home run of the year with a three-run bomb to left, nailing \"Fenway Park's\" Green Monster replica. With an eight-run lead after the fifth, the game ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona State (Cathedral City Classic)\nAfter the defending champion Sun Devils loaded the bases in the top of the first with a hit by pitch, an error by third baseman Corrie Brooks, and a walk, pitcher Stacey Nelson struck out cleanup hitter Krista Donnewirth to get the first out of the inning. Katelyn Boyd then recorded the first hit for Arizona State to allow Jessica Maples to score. Kaylyn Castillo then reached on a fielder's choice grounder that forced Lesley Rogers out at home, and Caylyn Carlson struck out swinging to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona State (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe score remained 1-0 in favor of the Sun Devils until a huge 8-run 5th put the Gators on top for good. First up to the plate for Florida in the fifth was Sophomore shortstop Megan Bush. Bush sent the ball over the left field wall to tie the game at 1-all. Catcher and number nine hitter Kristina Hilberth reached second on a two-base error on Sun Devil center fielder Kaitlin Cochran. Aja Paculba and Kim Waleszonia both grounded out, but Waleszonia's allowed Hilberth to move on to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona State (Cathedral City Classic)\nAli Gardiner earned herself an RBI when she hit a single into left field to score Hilberth. Pitcher Megan Elliott unintentionally walked cleanup hitter Francesca Enea to move Michelle Moultrie, pinch runner Gardiner, into scoring position. Making up for her error earlier, Brooks put the Gators up 4-1 when her double down the left field line allowed Moultrie and Enea to score (Ami Austin came in to pinch run for Brooks). Elliot next put herself in a jam that would be cleaned-up by Bush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona State (Cathedral City Classic)\nAfter Elliot walked Kelsey Bruder and hit Kristine Priebe with a pitch to load the bases, Bush blasted her first pitch over the wall in center field for a grand slam. Hilberth doubled and Paculba flied out to center to end in the marathon inning that saw Florida take a 7-run lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona State (Cathedral City Classic)\nArizona State managed to score a run in the final inning with Rogers's two-out double that scored Maples, who was on base because of a walk. Nelson struck out Cochran to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 85], "content_span": [86, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Nevada (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe Gators scored their first runs in the top of the second when Corrie Brooks walked and moved to second on a single to left field by Kelsey Bruder. Kristine Priebe laid down a sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position. Megan Bush walked to load the bases, and Aja Paculba recorded her first hit of the tournament on a two-out single (she had 2 at-bats in 8 plate appearances), scoring Brooks. A throwing error by the center fielder moved the runners along, including Bruder, who crossed the plate to give the Gators a 2-0 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Nevada (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe Gators added another run its next time up as Ali Gardiner belted one to deep center field. The ball hit off the outfield fence as Gardiner rolled into second base for her third double of the season. Francesca Enea was walked and both runners were replaced on the base path by pinch runners Lauren Heil and Brooke Johnson. After a pitching switch, Brooks grounded back to the pitcher to advance the runners to second and third. Bruder stepped up to the plate and nailed a two-RBI single. The Gators tallied their final run in the fourth. Paculba singled up the middle and stole second to put herself in scoring position. Kim Waleszonia smoked a triple to deep right-center field, allowing Paculba to cross the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Nevada (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe Wolfpack's biggest scoring threat came in the top of the second. With bases loaded off a fielder's choice and two singles, Stephanie Brombacher got out of the jam able by forcing the nine-spot hitter out on a fly ball to second baseman Paculba. In the fifth, two singles put runners on first and second with only one out. Brombacher forced the following two batters to ground out to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe Gators' offense came up short in this 9-inning pitcher's duel. Senior Stacey Nelson lost her second 1-0 game of the season as her teammates could not muster enough hits against Washington's ace Danielle Lawrie. Kim Waleszonia was the only Gator to have any success against the Canadian Olympian, earning two base hits. It took nine innings for Washington to score the only run of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (Cathedral City Classic)\nIt was Kimi Pohlman, who was 0-for-2 with two strikeouts against Nelson, who came up for the Huskies, singling to center field to score Amanda Fleischman, who started on second due to extra-inning tournament rules. The Gators kept it to the lone run as Francesca Enea made her second diving catch of the night to record the first out. With two outs, Ashlyn Watson hit a grounder up the middle, but second baseman Aja Pacubla made the grab and fired to Corrie Brooks, who found catcher Kristina Hilberth to get Pohlman at the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (Cathedral City Classic)\nIn the bottom of the ninth with Paculba placed at second, Waleszonia recorded her second single against Lawrie, bunting for a base hit and moving Paculba to third. Waleszonia used her speed to steal second. With runners in scoring position, Enea grounded to the second baseman who threw home to tag Paculba out at the plate. Lawrie ended the game by striking out Brooks. The Gators\u2019 largest threat came in their first at bat as Paculba drew a lead off walk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0025-0003", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe speedster stole second and moved to third as the Huskies\u2019 catcher threw to an empty bag and the ball headed into center field. Ali Gardiner walked to put runners on the corner and Lauren Heil came in to pinch run. A failed double steal found Paculba picked off at third while stood Heil at second. Enea popped out to end the inning and the Gators\u2019 threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, UNLV (Cathedral City Classic)\nThe first runs of the game came in the top of the third when Michelle Moultrie earned her first career hit, nailing one to deep right field. The right fielder could not handle the hard-hit ball and Moultrie used her speed to hustle home for an inside-the-park home run. Aja Paculba followed with a base hit through the left side and Kim Waleszonia bunted her way onto first. Paculba moved to third on an error by the Rebel third baseman and Waleszonia stole third to put two Gators in scoring position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, UNLV (Cathedral City Classic)\nAli Gardiner was walked to load the bases and Francesca Enea was hit to force in Florida's second run. Corrie Brooks drew a walk to give Florida a 3-0 lead. Stacey Nelson relieved Stephanie Brombacher in the fifth. With a runner on third in the sixth because of a hit by pitch, a groundout, and a wild pitch, Jaci Hull smacked one to deep center field to get the Rebels there only run of the game. The Gators would add some insurance, however, in the top of the seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, UNLV (Cathedral City Classic)\nPaculba singled up the middle and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Waleszonia. Gardiner walked, and Enea singled to score Paculba and move Gardiner to third. After Corrie Brooks was walked and a new pitcher was brought into the game, an illegal pitch moved all runners up and scored Gardiner. A double play would end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan\nThe Gators had few problems against starting pitcher Nikki Nemitz, tallying 5 hits and a walk through 9 at-bats. In the bottom of the first, second baseman Aja Paculba had a lead-off single to right field. After Kim Waleszonia struck out, first baseman Ali Gardiner was walked to move Paculba into scoring position. Clean-up hitter Francesca Enea then hit a blooper to shallow right that barely hit the ground around the outstretched glove of Michigan right fielder Angela Findlay. Gardiner, who had to remain close to her bag in case the ball was caught, was easily forced out at second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan\nEnea then successfully stole second, her first stolen base of the year, causing some confusion as she jogged to second on whether it was a dead ball. Designated played Tiffany DeFelice scored both runners when she hit a single barely over the leaping shortstop's glove. Right fielder Kelsey Bruder ended the inning on a strike out. The bottom third of the Gators' lineup tallied two more hits against Nemitz in the bottom of second causing Michigan to send in Sophomore right-hander Jordan Taylor. With the exception of a 2 RBI single from Waleszonia to score hitters 7 and 9 (Corrie Brooks and Kristina Hilberth) and a double from Bruder in the fifth, Taylor held the Gators' offense in check.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan\nMichigan threatened to break-up the shutout in the top of the sixth when shortstop Teddi Ewing was tagged out at the plate. She reached on a fielder's choice, moved to second on a groundout to second base, and attempted to come around on a single from Molly Bausher. However, as Ewing rounded third base, an alert Bruder sent a perfect throw to Hilberth who was easily waiting at home for her to apply the tag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Pacific (Cox Invitational)\nIn their opening game of the Cox Invitational, Florida uncharacteristically allowed five earned runs, but still managed to get the win. Corrie Brooks started off the scoring slowly with a solo shot in the top of the second inning. Three more came in the third off the bat of Kelsey Bruder, who homered to left, bringing home Francesca Enea and Tiffany DeFelice, who both singled. They'd add one more an inning later after Kim Waleszonia was hit by a pitch with one out. Waleszonia stole second and Enea got the RBI on a single to left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Pacific (Cox Invitational)\nPacific scored all five of their runs in the next half-inning. Paige Emerson reached base on a bunt single, Nicole Matson singled, and Amanda Collier walked to load the bases. A single from Briana Santos moved everyone forward 60 feet, and Stephanie Brombacher allowed her first run of the year. Three more singles would tie the game at five, but not for long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Pacific (Cox Invitational)\nMegan Bush lead of the fifth with a solo homer that would put the Gators on top for good. In the top of the sixth, Ali Gardiner doubled to left center to start off the inning. With pinch runner Ami Austin on third and Enea on second after a single and the throw to third, DeFelice grounded to short to score Austin. Then, Bruder walked, and Brooks hit an RBI single, chasing Tiger pitcher Chelsea Engle from the game. The new pitcher allowed a sacrifice fly, a single, a walk, and threw a wild pitch before Michelle Moultrie was caught stealing to end the inning. Although the Gators threatened in the top of the seventh, the score would stand at 10-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 1)\nIn a surprising mercy-rule-ended game, Florida scored nine earned runs and hit 12 times off Alabama's Kelsi Dunne. However, it was the Crimson Tide who scored first. In the top of the fifth, Alabama loaded the bases with no outs on two walks and a single. A hit by pitch brought in the first run of the game and left the bases loaded. A fielder's choice grounder to third baseman Corrie Brooks allowed Ashley Holcombe to reach, but forced the runner out at home. Catcher Kristina Hilberth then picked off the runner at third for the second out. Stacey Nelson struck out Brittany Rogers to keep the scoring at one run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 1)\nThe Gators would not stay behind for long, as Aja Paculba doubled, Kelsey Bruder walked, and Ali Gardiner singled all with one out to load the bases. With two outs and the bases still loaded, Brooks hit a single to the shortstop that scored two and put Florida on top. Megan Bush singled through the right side to score Gardiner, and Hilberth walked to load the bases again, but a harmless fly to right left them that way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 1)\nWhile the Tide tried to counter, loading the bases with one out, a force out at home and a fly out back to Nelson kept Alabama from scoring. In the bottom of the sixth, Alicia Sisco hit a lead-off single to the left side, but her pinch runner was caught stealing. Paculba then singled, and Bruder flied out. As the Gators had all season, they rallied with two outs, starting with a walk to Gardiner. Francesca Enea homered for three more runs, and Brooks made it 7-1 with another home run. Then, Bush and Hilberth singled and Tiffany DeFelice walked to load the bases. Pinch hitter Shaunice Harris walked to bring in pinch runner Lauren Heil, and Paculba ended the game early on an RBI single to left field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 2)\nAlabama scored first again in game two, but again got run-ruled, this time in five innings. Stephanie Brombacher walked Brittany Rogers to lead off the game, but was caught stealing by Kristina Hilberth. Kelley Montalvo followed with a triple, and Charlotte Morgan got the RBI on a sacrifice fly to center field. In the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba led off with a solo home run to tie the game. The Gators took the lead in the bottom of the second with another solo shot, this time from Megan Bush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 2)\nThe third inning, however, was when Florida took control of the game. Alicia Sisco and Paculba consecutively singled to put two runners on with no one out. A Kelsey Bruder home run scored three more, giving Florida a 5-1 lead. With one out, three straight Gators walked before Michelle Moultrie hit a single that scored two and moved the remaining runner to third. Moultrie then stole second, and Hilberth scored from third on an error by the catcher. Sisco, batting for the second time in the inning, doubled to score Moultrie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 2)\nAfter Morgan walked Paculba, the Tide replaced her in the circle with Amanda Locke. Locke gave up a single to Bruder that allowed Sisco to score, but then got Gardiner to fly out to finally end the third inning. Neither team scored in the remaining inning and a half, ending the game 10-1 in favor of the Gators after 4\u00bd innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 3)\nFor the first time in the series, Florida scored first, but for the third time in the series, the team that scored second won. In the bottom of the first with one out, Kelsey Bruder singled and stole second, and Ali Gardiner walked. With two on and two out, Corrie Brooks singled up the middle to score Bruder. Alabama didn't make up that run until the top of the fourth. With one out, Ashley Holcombe singled through the right side and Kellie Eubanks walked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 3)\nAfter an outless fielder's choice loaded the bases, Brittany Rogers hit a fielder's choice that scored the runner from third and forced out the runner from second. A strike out ended the threat, but Alabama would score three more in the following inning. Alabama again loaded the bases, this time with no outs, before Whitney Larsen struck out and Holcombe reached on a fielding error by Brooks that allowed the Tide to score again. Eubanks struck out looking for the second out, but a 2 RBI single from Jazlyn Lunceford gave Alabama a 4-1 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 3)\nStephanie Brombacher relieved Stacey Nelson in the top of the sixth, but she couldn't keep Alabama off the scoreboard either. She hit the first batter she faced with a pitch and allowed her to advance to second on an illegal pitch. Morgan and Cassie Reilly-Boccia each followed up with strike outs, but the runner scored on Lauren Parker's RBI single. The Crimson Tide scored once more to make it a 6-1 game in the top of the seventh on a one-out triple from Lunceford and a double from Rogers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Game 3)\nFlorida did not give up in the bottom of the seventh, beginning their rally with a walk for Aja Paculba. Bruder doubled to put them both in scoring position, and with one out, Francesca Enea hit a 3-run homer to left center, shrinking Alabama's lead to two. After Brooks and Bush consecutively walked, Hilberth struck out, and Michelle Moultrie hit a fly to deep right that was about five feet from going out of the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Auburn (Game 1)\nFlorida's offense sputtered against Auburn pitcher Anna Thompson; all three RBI came on two home runs. In the top of the third, Kelsey Bruder hit a two-out single down the right field line. Ali Gardiner then took her first pitch over the left field wall to give Florida a 2-0 lead. The Gators had two hits in the final four innings combined, but the hit from pinch hitter Michelle Moultrie in the top of the seventh was a solo homer to right center. Stacey Nelson got the win for the Gators, throwing a compact 72-pitch, two-hit shutout while striking out nine and walking none. Conversely, Thompson gave up three earned runs on five hits and four walks and struck out four on 134 pitches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Auburn (Game 2)\nAlthough Auburn committed three errors, none of them led to the Gators' seven runs as Florida had eight hits and drew three walks. After three straight innings of trading zeros, Florida and Auburn traded ones instead. In the top of the inning, Corrie Brooks hit a two-out double to right field and came home when Megan Bush repeated the feat to center. Auburn responded immediately when their lead off batter hit a homer off Stephanie Brombacher. Brombacher then allowed a single and a walk, making way for Stacey Nelson to replace her in the circle. After a sacrifice bunt moved both runners over, Nelson struck out the next to batters, ending the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Auburn (Game 2)\nIn the fifth, Florida countered with four more runs. Aja Paculba started things off with a one-out single through the left side, then stole second, and advanced to third on a throwing error by the catcher. Tiffany DeFelice and Ali Gardiner both walked, loading the bases for Francesca Enea, who hit a grand slam home run to left center. The following inning, pinch hitter Michelle Moultrie doubled with two outs and stole third. Paculba walked and stole second before DeFelice hit a single down the left field line to score both runners. Nelson got the win for Florida, while Jenee Loree took the loss for Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 1)\nFlorida dominated Mississippi State in this five-inning contest. Although they scored only once on an RBI single from Kelsey Bruder in the first inning, the Gators ran away with the game in the second. The inning saw eight Gator runs score on five hits, including a single and 3-run homer from shortstop Megan Bush, and a Bulldog error. In the third, first baseman Ali Gardiner pushed the lead to 11 when she sent her 0-1 pitch to left center, scoring Aja Paculba and pinch runner Ami Austin, who were both on base because of singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 1)\nSenior pitcher Stacey Nelson let up on the Bulldogs in the top of the fourth, allowing four hits and two runs, reducing the Gators' lead to nine. Mississippi State managed their only back-to-back hits in the half-inning, scoring on an RBI single from Sammie Jo Bailey and a wild pitch from Nelson. Nelson struck out 10 batters in her five innings pitched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 2)\nIn sharp contrast to game one, the second game against Mississippi State ended with a walk-off grand slam from sophomore right fielder Kelsey Bruder. Florida managed to score a single run in the bottom of the second when third baseman Corrie Brooks hit an RBI double to score Francesca Enea, who was on base because of a walk. Unfortunately for the Gators, their bats would go silent for the next four innings thanks to a dominating performance by Bulldogs pitcher Lindsay Dunlap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 2)\nThe Bulldogs, however, would score twice in the top of the third to take their only lead of the series. Starter Stephanie Brombacher walked the leadoff batter, then committed an error that allowed batter Chelsea Bramlett to reach and the other runner to advanced all the way to third. With runners on the corners, Bramlett attempted to steal second, and was caught in a pickle that resulted in an error on shortstop Megan Bush and an unearned run for the Bulldogs. Bramlett advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a single from Ka'ili Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 2)\nThe two teams traded zeros in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, Florida trailing 1-2. The Gators wouldn't quietly take a defeat though. With one out, Kristina Hilberth and Paculba hit back-to-back singles to put the tying run in scoring position. Designated player Tiffany DeFelice grounded into what was almost a double play, if not for a great slide from Paculba, tripping the Bulldogs shortstop and allowing DeFelice to reach. With the tying run now 60 feet from home and two outs, Ali Gardiner hit an RBI single to center, and both runners moved up on the throw to home. Mississippi State elected to intentionally walk clean-up hitter Francesca Enea to get a more favorable left-on-left matchup with Bruder, who then hit a bases-loaded, bottom-of-the-seventh, full-count grand slam to right field to end the game with a Florida victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 3)\nThe three runs scored by Florida in the bottom of the second inning were all they needed to secure the win. Stacey Nelson pitched a seven-inning, three-hit shutout while striking out seven and walking none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Mississippi State (Game 3)\nThe Gators' only runs all came with two outs: the first a solo shot from Corrie Brooks, and the final two on a triple down the right field line from Michelle Moultrie that scored Megan Bush (walked on five pitches) and Kristina Hilberth (singled to left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida State\nThe Gators scored twice early in the game, both in quite unconventional ways. In the bottom of the first, sophomore Aja Paculba led off with a single up the middle and stole second. She moved to third on an Ali Gardiner ground out and scored on a wild pitch. In the third, with one out, freshman Michelle Moultrie laid down a bunt single to get on base. After a quick fly out, Moultrie attempted to steal second, and due to confusion on the call, began walking back to the dugout behind third base. After she was already several steps off the bag, she was judged safe by the umpire and took off for third. Florida State second baseman Kristie McConn attempted to throw her out, but the ball sailed far right of the third baseman. Moultrie scored on the throwing error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 829]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida State\nFlorida's starting pitcher Stephanie Brombacher, who had pitched five scoreless innings to that point, allowed a 2-run homer to Kaleigh Rafter in the top of the sixth that tied the game. In the top of the seventh, Brombacher gave up a solo home run to Michelle Snyder. With two quick outs in the home half of seventh and Florida down by one, sophomore Megan Bush stepped into the batter's box and nailed the scoreboard in left center with her 2-2 pitch, sending the game into extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida State\nWith one down in the top of the eighth, Stacey Nelson came in to relieve Brombacher. After the Gators and Seminoles traded zeros in the eighth, Nelson allowed a hit to leadoff batter Jessica Gilmore in the ninth, but Florida State couldn't manufacture anything else. Then, in the bottom of the inning, Florida's leadoff batter, Francesca Enea, ended the game in walk-off fashion with her 12th homer of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Kentucky (Game 1)\nIn game one against the Wildcats, the potent Florida offense managed only one hit against freshman Rachel Riley, but that was all they needed. In the top of the ninth, with a runner on and nobody out, Ali Gardiner broke up the no-hitter with a single through the left side. A Francesca Enea groundout moved both runners over, and a sacrifice fly from Kelsey Bruder scored Florida's only run of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Kentucky (Game 1)\nStacey Nelson bailed out her offense, holding Kentucky scoreless for the entire nine-inning affair. The Wildcats, however, did threaten. In the second, they had the bases loaded with one out, but Nelson caught left fielder Annie Rowlands looking and forced right fielder Destinee Mordecai to ground out. They had a runner on third with one out again in the fourth, but Nelson recovered with 2 of her 12 strikeouts on the day. All together, the Wildcats left nine runners on base and six of them in scoring position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Kentucky (Game 2)\nFlorida offense didn't wait nine innings to plate a run in game two; in the top of the first, left fielder Francesca Enea tied the school record for career home runs with a two-run bomb to left field. She would break the record in the fifth with a solo shot to center. In the second, shortstop Megan Bush singled and moved over to second on a Kristina Hilberth sacrifice bunt. Second baseman Aja Paculba scored Bush on an RBI double to right field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Kentucky (Game 2)\nUp 4-0 in the sixth, Florida added to its lead on a costly error by Kentucky right fielder Destinee Mordecai. With catcher Kristina Hilberth on first, nine-hole hitter Michelle Moultrie singled to right. Mordecai misplayed the ball, allowing it to roll all the way to the fence and Hilberth and the speedy Moultrie to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Kentucky (Game 2)\nStephanie Brombacher seemed back to her dominant self after a bout of the flu, striking out a career-high-tying 12 batters and walking none in seven innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Central Florida\nIn a game that coach Tim Walton used to preview next year's squad, Florida managed three runs on five hits and shutout their opponent for the 25th time this season. The third inning was eerily similar in the top and bottom: both pitchers seemed to have trouble with their control as Florida's Stephanie Brombacher and UCF's Magon Paul both hit two consecutive batters. The Knights were unable to capitalize as Brombacher forced two groundouts, but the Gators scored twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Central Florida\nAfter Michelle Moultrie and Alicia Sisco were both hit, Aja Paculba reached on a fielder's choice that allowed Moultrie to move to third. Moultrie and Paculba both moved forward a base on a passed ball, giving Florida their first run of the game. Paculba would score from second on a single to center from Francesca Enea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Central Florida\nIn the bottom of the sixth, with runners on first and second with one out, Moultrie hit a grounder to Central Florida's shortstop. As she was fielding the ball, she and pinch runner Le-Net Franklin collided, but the third base umpire made no call. After a quick flip to the third baseman, Franklin was called out, which infuriated Walton. He was ejected after a lengthy argument that included him throwing his hat to the ground. Sisco, the next Gator batter, fed off this energy, singling to score pinch runner Lauren Heil from second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Central Florida\nBrombacher pitched seven scoreless innings, only allowing three hits, walking none, and striking out ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 1)\nBefore this series, Tim Walton had never won in Baton Rouge. That all changed with another shutout from Stacey Nelson and a first-inning 2-run homer from Francesca Enea. With two outs in the top of the first, Ali Gardiner singled immediately before Enea hit her 15th home run of the season. Even though the Gator bats were relatively quite, they did manage to push another run across the plate in the fourth. Corrie Brooks walked to lead off the inning and was pushed to second on a sacrifice bunt from Megan Bush. Kristina Hilberth slapped a single to advance Brooks to third, making it to second on the throw home. Michelle Moultrie then hit a deep fly ball to right, scoring Brooks on a sacrifice fly. Hilberth was stranded on third when Aja Paculba flied out to left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 1)\nAlthough they outhit Florida 5-4, LSU was never able to get anything against the Gator's ace. Their best shot at a score came in the bottom of the seventh when a single, a groundout, a popup, and a second single gave LSU runners on the corners with two outs. Unfortunately for the Tigers, third baseman Jessica Mouse fouled out to her counterpart to end the game. Nelson pitched seven innings, allowed five hits, walked one, and struck out six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 2)\nAlthough the Gators left nine runners on base in game two against the Tigers, they did manage to score once, in the top of the fourth and prevented LSU from scoring for the second straight game. The one score came off Kelsey Bruder's lead off single. With one out, Megan Bush's sacrifice bunt moved Bruder to second. Kristina Hilberth followed up with a bouncing single up the middle to score her. Even though Hilberth moved to second on the throw home and to third on a passed ball, a Michelle Moultrie fly out left her stranded at bag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 2)\nStephanie Brombacher throw six innings before being relieved by Stacey Nelson, who earned the save. Brombacher allowed only two hits, but walked three and only struck out four. Nelson struck out two of the three batters she faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 3)\nThe Gators broke out of their hitting slump in a game that swept LSU in Baton Rouge for the first time in school history. In the top of the first, Aja Paculba, who had gone 0-for-8 in the previous two games against the Tigers, led off with a single. After Paculba stole second (tying the single season stolen base record with 24), catcher Kristina Hilberth attempted to move her to third, but popped her bunt up to the third baseman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0063-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 3)\nPaculba would make it to third, however, on her way home when Ali Gardiner hit a home run to left, putting the Gators up 2-0. In the bottom of the inning, LSU would threaten, getting the bases loaded, but with two outs already on the board they couldn't capitalize. Stacey Nelson forced first baseman Anissa Young to slap one back to her to keep the Tigers off the board. In the second, the Gators would lead off with another single, this time from shortstop Megan Bush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0063-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 3)\nAfter an out from Alicia Sisco, Michelle Moultrie singled as well, moving Bush to second. Both runners would score on an error bye the Tiger shortstop, who allowed Hilberth's grounder to roll through her legs. Gardiner then hit her second home run of the game, bringing the Florida lead to six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 3)\nThe Gators would score six more, all unearned, in the fourth. With one out, Paculba singled to left and Hilberth would reach again on a fielding error, this time by the pitcher. After Gardiner flew out to left, Francesca Enea hit an RBI single up the middle and advanced to second on the throw home. Kelsey Bruder cleared the bases with a homer that barely snuck over the right field wall. The final two runs of the game would come when Bush hit the fourth home run of the game to score herself and Corrie Brooks, who singled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, LSU (Game 3)\nNelson pitched five more scoreless innings, walked only one, allowed five hits, and struck out seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 1)\nFlorida got on the board in the bottom of the first when Francesca Enea hit a line-drive homer to center that also scored Aja Paculba, who walked. In the second, the Gators loaded the bases with a single from Alicia Sisco, another Paculba walk, and a single from Kristina Hilberth. Ali Gardiner scored Sisco and Paculba on a single to center, but Razorback pitcher Layne McGuirt reloaded the bases when she walked Enea. Bruder was walked to bring in Hilberth and Corrie Brooks scored Gardiner when the shortstop mishandled her grounder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 1)\nMichelle Moultrie's groundout to short brought in Bruder and increased the Florida lead to seven. Former starter Kim Waleszonia, who missed 30 games due to a knee injury she sustained in the Cox Communications Invitational against Texas Tech, then replaced Sisco in the designated player spot. She flew out to the right fielder, who was standing on the warning track when she made the catch, to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 1)\nFlorida scored twice in both the third and fourth innings. Paculba led off the third with a single and was moved to third by a double from Hilberth. With two outs, Bruder scored them both on a stand-up double to right center. In the fourth, Megan Bush drew a lead-off walk and pinch hitter Tiffany DeFelice doubled. Waleszonia sent them both home on a single up the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 1)\nStacey Nelson got the start and pitched three innings, allowing two hits and striking out three. Stephanie Brombacher came into the game in the top of the fourth, pitched two innings of hitless relief, and struck out two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 2)\nFlorida broke the single season home run record with Kelsey Bruder's grand slam in the second and tied the school record for shutouts in a single season with their 30th. Stacey Nelson pitched the first four innings of game two, allowed only one hit, and struck out five. Stephanie Brombacher allowed one hit as well in her single inning of work and finished with one 'K'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 2)\nOffensively, the Gators were very impressive, going 12-for-24 as a team, walked twice, and not one batter struck out. In the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba, Francesca Enea, and Kelsey Bruder all singled with Paculba and Enea scoring runs. Corrie Brooks laced a single of her own at the beginning of the next frame. After Alicia Sisco was hit by a pitch, Brooks would score on a Paculba double. Kristina Hilberth walked to load the bases before Ali Gardiner singled to score Sisco and keep the bases full. That's when Bruder nailed her 12th home run of the season to stretch the lead to eight. Florida scored their final three runs in the third inning on a homer from Gardiner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 3)\nIn Florida's ninth straight shutout, senior Stacey Nelson pitched her second career no-hitter and Aja Paculba broke the single-season stolen base record with 25. Nelson also struck out eight, which brought her total career strikeout total to 1,007, and walked one. The only number the Razorbacks managed to get on the board was an error in the first when their left fielder ran past an Ali Gardiner single, allowing Paculba to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0071-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arkansas (Game 3)\nThe Gators scored again in the third on a two-run home run from Kelsey Bruder and in the fourth on a single that drove in pinch-runner Michelle Moultrie, who stole second after Kim Waleszonia was walked. An inning later, Bruder was walked with one out and moved to second on a single from Megan Bush. Moultrie hit a single of her own to bring home Bruder. The Gators scored their final run in the sixth; Paculba led off with another single and advanced to second on a passed ball. Gardiner moved her to third with a base hit, and Francesca Enea got the RBI on a groundout to short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 1)\nFlorida used two big offensive innings and a one-hitter from Stacey Nelson to beat Longwood in five innings on senior day. Nelson allowed her only hit of the game to the first batter she faced, but two strikeouts and a fly out left the runner stranded. In the bottom of that inning, with Kristina Hilberth on base with one out due to a walk, Ali Gardiner hit a single through the right side. Kelsey Bruder brought in the first run of the game on her own single, and both remaining runners moved into scoring position on the throw home. Corrie Brooks followed with a similar play that scored Gardiner from third and allowed her to take second. Kim Waleszonia sent both runners home on yet another single, and Le-Net Franklin cleared the bases with her first career home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 1)\nIn the bottom of the fourth, up 6-0 with two outs, the Gators loaded the bases with two singles and a walk. After Bruder walked to score a run and keep the bases full of Gators, Brooks drilled her eighth home run and fourth grand slam of the year. Up by 11, the game ended via mercy rule and gave Florida their 32nd shutout of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 2)\nThe Gators won game two against the Lancers using small ball and scattered scoring along with a two-hit pitching performance from Stephanie Brombacher. In the first, Aja Paculba led off with a walk and stole second. Kim Waleszonia moved her to third on a sacrifice bunt, and Francesca Enea scored her with a sacrifice fly to deep center, Enea's 11th career sac fly and a new school record. Megan Bush led off the following inning with a double to right center before Tiffany DeFelice sacrificed to moved her to third. Alicia Sisco got the RBI on a groundout to second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 2)\nAfter a one-two-three third inning, Florida put two runners on with nobody out when Kelsey Bruder was hit by a pitch, and Corrie Brooks singled. Bush advanced them both with yet another Florida sacrifice bunt. Tiffany DeFelice scored Bruder on a groundout before Alicia Sisco struck out to end the inning. The sixth was the biggest offense inning for the Gators, who scored three and left three on-base. Enea walked to start off the inning and was replaced with pinch runner Brooke Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0075-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 2)\nAfter a Bruder strike out, Brooks and Bush consecutively singled to score Johnson, but Brooks was caught in a pickle between second and third for the second out. DeFelice hit her first and the Gators' 69th home run of the year to make it 6-0. Pinch hitter Ali Gardiner walked, Le-Net Franklin singled, and pinch hitter Kristina Hilberth singled to load the bases. However, Michelle Moultrie, who replaced Waleszonia on the bases paths an inning earlier, popped up to first to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 3)\nThe Gators squandered countless scoring opportunities in a 3-1 regular-season-ending win that saw 14 Florida runners stranded on base. Longwood ended a 74-inning stretch where Florida's pitching staff had not allowed a single run. The run came in the top of the third on a controversial play in which Stacey Nelson overthrew Aja Paculba, who was covering first. With a runner already on first via a single, the Lancer second baseman laid down a bunt, reached on Nelson's error, and both runners advanced two bases when the ball bounced all the way to the rolled-up tarp in right field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0076-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 3)\nKristina Hilberth picked off the pinch runner at third for the first out, and Nelson struck out the next two batters. Florida responded in the bottom of the inning with two runs. Francesca Enea led off with a four-pitch walk, Kelsey Bruder, who was nearly hit by a pitch in her first at bat, was pegged on the elbow, and Corrie Brooks doubled to bring in pinch runner Brooke Johnson and tie the game at 1-all. Hilberth put the Gators ahead for good with a game-winning RBI single up the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Longwood (Game 3)\nFlorida scored their final run in the bottom of the sixth on a Bruder solo home run to right. After both Ali Gardiner and Enea flew out to deep left and center fields, respectively, Bruder, who had been hit by a second pitch in her previous at-bat, gave the Gators their 70th home run of season. In the top of the final inning, Nelson hit Lancer pitcher Briana Wells before striking out her 10th and 11th batters and exiting the game to a standing ovation along with fellow seniors Gardiner and Hilberth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Auburn (SEC Tournament)\nIn the first round of the SEC Tournament, Florida scored early and used good defense and pitching to close out Auburn. The Gators scored in the first when Francesca Enea doubled to deep left center, scoring Aja Paculba and Kristina Hilberth. Paculba lead off with a walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Hilberth's single did not advance her to third, but both moved up on another wild pitch. Paculba homered to start off the bottom of the third, and the Gators would hold on from there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Auburn (SEC Tournament)\nStacey Nelson, the SEC Pitcher of the Year for the second straight year, threw seven scoreless innings allowing two hits, a walk, and struck out five. The closest the Tigers got to a run was in the top of the fourth when Auburn got two runners on with no outs. Florida got the force out at third and a groundout to the pitcher on the next two plays, and both runners were stranded on a pop up to shortstop Megan Bush who ended the threat with an off-balance catch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Tennessee (SEC Tournament)\nFlorida started badly when Megan Bush committed an error on a hard-hit grounder, allowing the runner to reach. Then, with two outs, starting pitcher Stephanie Brombacher walked clean-up hitter Jessica Spigner. The next batter scored Tennessee's first run on a single, which also moved the other runner to third. After a double from right fielder Erin Webb scored both runners and a walk, Brombacher forced a pop-up to Bush for the third out. With Tennessee leading 3-0, the Gator offense put Florida back on top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0080-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Tennessee (SEC Tournament)\nAja Paculba led off with a double to left center, and after a groundout from Kristina Hilberth moved Paculba to third, Ali Gardiner brought the Gators back to within one with a homer to left. With two outs, Kelsey Bruder was hit on the helmet with a pitch. Corrie Brooks brought her home with a triple, and Brooks gave Florida the lead with an RBI single from Bush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Tennessee (SEC Tournament)\nStacey Nelson relieved Brombacher in the second and managed out of a bases-loaded jam in which she walked three Volunteer batters. In the bottom of the second, Tennessee brought in a new pitcher of their own in the bottom of the inning, but it made no difference. With two outs, Gardiner walked and Francesca Enea hit her 17th home run of the season, tying her own Florida single season home run record and breaking the single season RBI record she set in the previous season. The Gators followed up Enea's homer with two more from Bruder and Brooks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0081-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Tennessee (SEC Tournament)\nWith Nelson in the circle keeping Tennessee scoreless for the remainder of the game, Florida scored a run in each of the final innings, ending with an 11-3 mercy rule victory. In the third, Tiffany DeFelice started off the inning with a single, and Michelle Moultrie moved her to second on a bunt single. A wild pitch advanced both runners, and Hilberth's groundout scored pinch runner Le-Net Franklin. Bruder walked with no outs in the fourth, moved to third on a wild pitch and a Brooks's single, and Franklin got the RBI on a groundout to the pitcher. Florida ended the game in walk-off fashion when Bruder hit a double that scored pinch runner Ami Austin, who was on second base after a Gardiner fielder's choice and an Enea walk, from second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (SEC Tournament)\nThe Gators won their second straight SEC Tournament Title in a surprisingly high-scoring game with the Crimson Tide. Stacey Nelson and Alabama's Kelsi Dunne gave up a combined 10 earned runs and 11 hits, and both defenses committed uncommon errors, the first of which led off the game. Brittany Rodgers reached for the Tide on a throwing error by catcher Kristina Hilberth. Hilberth, however, would rectify the situation when she caught Rodgers stealing during the next at-bat. The Tide loaded the bases with one out when Nelson walked two and allowed a hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0082-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (SEC Tournament)\nNelson hit Ashley Holcombe to give Alabama a run and a wild pitch allowed them to score a second time. The remaining two runners were stranded in scoring position when Nelson struck out SEC Freshman of the Year Amanda Locke and Whitney Larsen. In the bottom of the first inning, the Gators responded much like they did in their previous game against Tennessee. Aja Paculba reached first on a hit by pitch before Tiffany DeFelice's at-bat ended prematurely on a diving catch in foul territory from Alabama third baseman Kelley Montalvo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0082-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (SEC Tournament)\nAli Gardiner and Francesca Enea loaded the bases when they were walked and hit by a pitch, respectively. Kelsey Bruder walked to cut the lead to one, and Corrie Brooks reached on a fielder's choice that forced Gardiner out at the plate. With two outs and bases loaded, Megan Bush fought through a 15-pitch at-bat that ended in her second grand slam of the season and a 5-2 Gator lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (SEC Tournament)\nThe score remained unchanged until the bottom of the fourth when Florida increased their lead to five. Paculba tripled to start off the half-inning and scored on a suicide squeeze from DeFelice. With two outs, Enea was hit by a pitch for the third straight time. Pinch runner Brooke Johnson scored on the next play when Bruder doubled to left center. Alabama designated player Charlotte Morgan narrowed the margin to four in the top of the fifth with a solo home run, the first of the season given up by Nelson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (SEC Tournament)\nIn Florida's last offensive inning, they scored one final insurance run on a Bruder RBI single with runners on first and second. In the top of the seventh, the Tide tried to mount a comeback, but fell short. Lauren Parker led off with a single, and Morgan reached base on an error by Bush. After both advanced on a wild pitch, Nelson walked Cassie Reilly-Boocia to load the bases with no outs. One run scored on each of two groundouts, narrowing the margin to three runs, but Nelson struck out Larsen to end the game with a Gator win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 2)\nFlorida sailed in their NCAA Tournament opener against Florida A&M. Stephanie Brombacher threw a two-hit, five-inning shutout and the Gator offense hit three home runs. In the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba led off with a home run, Kristina Hilberth followed up with a high chopper up the middle, and Ali Gardiner walked. With one out, Kelsey Bruder hit an RBI double that moved Gardiner to third. A sacrifice fly from Corrie Brooks scored her but left Bruder at second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0085-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Florida A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 2)\nMegan Bush brought her home in the following at-bat with the Gators' second home run of the game, upping the Florida lead to five. The second inning was more of the same; with Paculba (walk), Hilberth (single), and Gardiner (walk) all on base, Florida's all-time RBI leader got two more with a single to center field. Brooks cleared the bases two batters later on a homer to left center, increasing the lead to 10. The final scores for Florida came on Paculba's two RBI single that brought home Bush, who was on third after a walk, and Kim Waleszonia, who was on second after a double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 3)\nThe Gators won game two of the Gainesville Regional behind 14 strike outs from Stacey Nelson, stellar defense, and timing hitting. Florida scored single runs in each of the first two innings on a Kelsey Bruder two-out RBI single that scored Kristina Hilberth, who doubled, and an Aja Paculba two-out RBI single that scored Megan Bush, who doubled and moved to third on a sacrifice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 3)\nTexas A&M was aggressive on the base paths, leading to two pick-offs. In the top of the second, after Rhiannon Kliesing doubled and Bailey Scroeder struck out, Alex Reynolds singled to shallow left field. Kliesing tried to take third on the play, but Francesca Enea threw a strike to Corrie Brooks, who got the tag in plenty of time. In the top half of the third, Natalie Villareal led off with a single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0087-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 3)\nMacie Morrow singled to right in the next at-bat, and Villareal went to third on the play; right fielder Kim Waleszonia threw the ball to third trying to get Villareal, but the throw was not in-time. Brooks quickly threw back to second, and Bush, who was covering, got the tag on Morrow. Texas A&M did score in the fifth on back-to-back doubles from Villareal and Morrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 3)\nFlorida immediately responded in the bottom of the inning. Paculba started things off with a single, and Hilberth reached on a fielder's choice in which they failed to get Paculba in time. Enea double with one out to score Paculba and move Hilberth to third. Bruder brought in Hilberth on a sacrifice fly to deep right field. Florida scored three more times in the bottom of the sixth thanks to missed assignments defensively by the Aggies. Tiffany DeFelice hit a one-out single, and Le-Net Franklin came in to pinch run for her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0088-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Texas A&M (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 3)\nMichelle Moultrie laid down a bunt that spun around the batter's box, but never went foul. The Aggie first baseman came in to cover the bunt, and no one went to cover first, so when the catcher finally picked up the ball and threw there, it rolled into right field. Moultrie stayed on first until she realized that no one was covering second anymore, and Franklin went home from third because the right fielder inexplicably held onto the ball. Hilberth singled again and stole second, putting two runners in scoring position with two outs, and both were brought home on Ali Gardiner's first hit of the weekend in the Gator's next at-bat, a 2-RBI single that put Florida ahead by the final margin, 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Lehigh (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 6)\nIn their regional championship game, the Gators turned yet another close game into a rout. Florida got one base runner through the first three innings (a Megan Bush walk in the third) before they made the adjustments against Lehigh pitcher Lisa Sweeney. Kristina Hilberth led off the top of the fourth with a double to left center and moved to third on Ali Gardiner's groundout to second. Francesca Enea scored Hilberth on a double to center field and Kelsey Bruder scored Enea with an RBI single to right field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0089-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Lehigh (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 6)\nIn the sixth inning, the Gators put the game out of reach. With Aja Paculba on base due to a walk from Sweeney, Hilberth singled, and Gardiner grounded into a fielder's choice that moved Paculba to third. Enea walked to load the bases for Bruder, who singled, scoring Paculba and pinch runner Lauren Heil. After pinch runner Brooke Johnson was thrown out trying to steal, Corrie Brooks hit a two-run homer to clear the bases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0089-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Lehigh (NCAA Gainesville Regional - Game 6)\nThe seventh saw lead-off pinch hitter Alicia Sisco start things off with a double to left center and advance to third on pinch hitter Kim Waleszonia's groundout to second. Paculba then hit a single to score Sisco. With two outs, Gardiner and Enea singled, loading the bases yet again for Bruder, who doubled, scoring Paculba and Gardiner. Senior pitcher Stacey Nelson pitched seven scoreless innings for her 19th shutout of the year. She also only allowed three hits, struck out seven, and walked none in a tidy, 72-pitch performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, California (NCAA Gainesville Super Regional - Game 1)\nFlorida scored one run in each of the first two innings, which turned out to be all they needed as Stacey Nelson allowed three hits and struck out 13 batters. In the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba led off with a solo homer after fouling off several pitches. The Gators' other run came in the bottom of the second, beginning with a single from Megan Bush. Bush moved to second and then third on two sacrifice bunts from Tiffany DeFelice and Kim Waleszonia. She came home on a wild pitch from California pitcher Marissa Drewery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, California (NCAA Gainesville Super Regional - Game 2)\nAfter allowing the Bears to score (unearned) in the bottom of the first inning, Florida scored two runs in the third to take the lead, 2-1. Stephanie Brombacher walked the leadoff batter, who was thrown out on Shannon Thomas's fielder's choice. Thomas stole second, then moved to third on a ground out. An error from shortstop Megan Bush allowed Samoe Kekahuma to get on base and Thomas to get home. Stacey Nelson came into the game in the third and shut down the Bears' offense, allowing 3 base runners the rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, California (NCAA Gainesville Super Regional - Game 2)\nThe two runs for Florida came in the top of the third. Bush and Tiffany DeFelice got on base via a hit by pitch and a walk. Kim Waleszonia moved both runners into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt, and Aja Paculba got the two RBIs on a double to left center. Although Kristina Hilberth followed Paculba with a single, a ground out and a strike out left them both on base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona (Women's College World Series - Game 4)\nIn Florida's opening game in the 2009 Women's College World Series, Francesca Enea and Megan Bush hit homers to give Stacey Nelson her 40th win of the season. After Nelson gave up two hits to start the game, the Wildcats could not manage another one against her. Only three more Wildcats got on base for the rest of the game, all via walk, but 12 strike outs and the flawless Gator defense left them all on first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Arizona (Women's College World Series - Game 4)\nIn the bottom of the first, Aja Paculba led off with a walk, and Kristina Hilberth's chopper to short put two runners on with no outs when the shortstop looked to get the lead runner. After Ali Gardiner grounded into a 5-3 double play, Enea hit her school-record 18th home run of the season to put Florida up 2-0. Bush hit her solo shot to begin the second inning for the Gators' only other run of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan (Women's College World Series - Game 6)\nIn their second game at the WCWS, Florida's only run came off the bat of Megan Bush, who homered in the top of the sixth. The one run stood because of another outstanding pitching performance from Stacey Nelson, who allowed one hit (a single), struck out nine, and walked none in her 22nd shutout of the season. Both teams had their chances to score, but neither could convert them into runs. In the top of third, Kristina Hilberth led off with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Kim Waleszonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0095-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan (Women's College World Series - Game 6)\nAja Paculba flew out to deep left for the second out, and although Tiffany DeFelice drew a two-walk, a force out at third off a fielder's choice kept Florida from scoring. In the fourth, Kelsey Bruder led off with a double, but when Bush struck out and Ali Gardiner grounded out, Bruder found herself on third with two outs. Brooks fouled out to right to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan (Women's College World Series - Game 6)\nMichigan's scoring opportunity came in the bottom of the fourth when Bree Evans led off with a single that barely got past the glove of Bush. Angela Findlay laid down a bunt for the sacrifice, but Nelson unsuccessfully went to second, trying to get the lead runner. Amanda Chidester laid down a sacrifice bunt that moved both runners into scoring position with one out. Nelson struck out Roya St. Clair and Maggie Viefhaus for the second and third outs of the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0096-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Michigan (Women's College World Series - Game 6)\nFlorida countered again in the following half inning with a one-out single from Waleszonia and a subsequent walk to Paculba. Defelice grounded out to the first baseman, but was able to moved both runners. Nikki Nemitz, who came in to relieve Jordan Taylor, intentionally walked Francesca Enea to bring up Bruder, who struck out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Women's College World Series - Game 12)\nIn their fifth meeting of the season with Alabama, Florida used a walk-off grand slam from Ali Gardiner to send themselves to the WCWS Championship Series. Alabama scored first, as the eventual loser had done in each of the previous meetings, when Kelley Montalvo hit an RBI single up the middle to score Jennifer Fenton from third. Fenton singled to left to lead of the third, advanced to second on a fielding error by Francesca Enea, and moved to third on a groundout. In the bottom of the fourth, Enea drew a lead off walk, and Kelsey Bruder hit a homer to give Florida the lead back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Women's College World Series - Game 12)\nHowever, Alabama would go on a two-out rally in the top of the fifth, starting with Brittany Rogers. Rogers barely beat out an infield hit and wasted no time stealing second. She tied the game when Lauren Parker hit a singled to score her. After Montalvo singled and Charlotte Morgan walked to load the bases, Stacey Nelson hit Cassie Reilly-Boccia to bring in the runner at third. Ashley Holcombe doubled to score two more runs and give the Tide a 5-2 lead. Unfortunately for Alabama, in the bottom of seventh, Kelsi Dunne walked the lead off batter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0098-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Alabama (Women's College World Series - Game 12)\nThen, with one out, Enea hit a single to left center. With two outs, Megan Bush drew a five-pitch walk, loading the bases for a slumping Gardiner, who took the 2-1 pitch over the left field wall for her first career grand slam and a 6-5 Florida win. Stephanie Brombacher got the win for Florida as Nelson was pulled from the game after the fifth inning. Brombacher pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0099-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nFlorida lost the first game of the Women's College World Series championship series, 8-0, to Washington in a game where the Gators never looked like the team that previously had been undefeated in the postseason. Stacey Nelson recorded only her fourth loss of the season, allowing five hits and six runs, four earned. The righty walked only two and struck out five in the outing. Danielle Lawrie recorded the win for the Huskies, striking out 12, walking three and allowing two Gator hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0100-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nCorrie Brooks and Michelle Moultrie recorded the hits for the Gators, as Brooks tallied an infield single in the third and Moultrie nailed a single to left field in the sixth. Washington, on the other hand, wasted no time getting on base in the first, but the Gators squashed the Huskies\u2019 attempts to cross the plate. Ashley Charters started the game off with a high chopper back to the mound and beat Nelson's throw to first. She then advanced to third on a Gator error on Kimi Pohlman's grounder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0100-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nWith two runners in scoring position, Jennifer Salling grounded to sophomore second baseman Aja Paculba, who fired home to Kristina Hilberth to tag out Charter and keep the Huskies off the board. Nelson went to work, getting the next batter swinging and next to ground out to end the inning and leave runners stranded at the corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0101-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nThe Huskies tallied four runs in the third to take the lead. Niki Williams led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on a stolen base. Charters followed with a hard-hit single to second and Pohlman hit a chopper to Megan Bush, who looked Williams back at third, but could do nothing with the ball. With the bases loaded, Salling nailed a single up the middle, scoring Williams and Charters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0101-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nKim Waleszonia fired home to try to get Charters on a close play at the plate and Hilberth then tried to catch Salling advancing to second, but the ball sailed over Bush's head and both runners were able to hustle home to give Washington a 4-0 lead. After a lead-off walk in the fifth, the Gators got the next two lead runners at second on groundouts. Lawrie singled up the middle to put runners on first and second and Morgan Stuart nailed her fourth double of the WCWS, a new record, to score her teammates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0102-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 1)\nStephanie Brombacher relieved Nelson in the sixth. After recording two outs, she gave up her fifth home run of the season to Charters to plate two more Huskies and give UW an 8-0 lead. Brombacher allowed two hits, two walks and the two runs in two innings of work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0103-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 2)\nStacey Nelson struck out five and allowed one walk and six hits in her fifth loss of the season. Nelson and sophomore Megan Bush were named to the WCWS All-Tournament team for their performances. Danielle Lawrie earned both win against the Gators. She struck out eight on the night and allowed seven hits and one earned run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0104-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 2)\nThe Gators took the lead early, tallying two runs in the first to start the game. Aja Paculba led off with a triple to center field and then scored on passed ball on the very next pitch. Kristina Hilberth reached on an error by the shortstop and moved to second an infield single to third by Francesca Enea. After a double steal, both Gators moved into scoring position. Kelsey Bruder drew a walk to load the bases and Bush recorded her second sacrifice fly of the season to bring Hilberth home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0105-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Game notes, Washington (WCWS Championship Series - Game 2)\nThe Huskies evened the score in the bottom of the inning. They tallied two singles before Nelson got Jennifer Salling looking. Lawrie singles through the right side to score one and move a runner to third. A wild pitch tied the score at two apiece. Nelson forced the next two Huskies to ground out to end the inning. Washington then took the lead in the third loading the bases with only one out on an error and two singles. Morgan Stuart hit a dribbler back to the mound, which Nelson could not pick up to score Kimi Pohlman to give the Huskies a 3-2 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0106-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Roster\nThe 2009 Florida Gators softball team has 7 seniors, 2 juniors, 7 sophomores, and 4 freshmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0107-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Coaching staff\nHead Coach: Tim Walton (4th season)Assistant Coaches: Jennifer Rocha (4th season), Jenny Gladding (3rd season)Student Coach: Mary Ratliff (1st season)Athletic Trainer: Eric KingStudent Trainer: Melissa RosenStrength & Conditioning Coordinator: Steven OrrisAcademic Counselor: Tony MeachamCommunications: Zanna OlloveProgram Coordinator: Brittany SouilliardManagers: Jessica Drew, Alex Dorsh, and Katherine Gladding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0108-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Statistics\nKey: BA = Batting Average, GP-GS = Games Played-Games Started, AB = At Bat, R = Runs Scored, H = Hits, 2B = Doubles, 3B = Triples, HR = Home Runs, RBI = Runs Batted In, Slg% = Slugging Percentage, BB = Walks, HBP = Hits By Pitch, SO = Strikeouts, OB% = On-Base Percentage, SB-Att = Stolen Bases-Attempted Stolen Bases, PO = Putouts, A = Assists, E = Errors, Fld% = Fielding Percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202969-0109-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Gators softball team, Statistics\nKey: ERA = Earned Run Average, W-L = Wins-Losses, APP-GS = Appearances-Starts, CG = Complete Games, SHO = Shutouts/Combined Shutouts, SV = Saves, IP = Innings Pitched, H = Hits Against, R = Runs Against, ER = Earned Runs Against, BB = Walks, SO = Strikeouts, 2B = Doubles Against, 3B = Triples Against, HR = Home Runs Against, AB = At-Bats, B/AVG = Opponent's Batting Average, WP = Wild Pitches, HBP = Hits By Pitch, BK = Balks", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season\nThe 2009 Florida Marlins season was the 17th season for the Major League Baseball franchise. The Marlins played their home games at Sun Life Stadium. Fredi Gonz\u00e1lez returned for his third straight season as manager. The Marlins failed to make the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Regular season, April\nOpening Day showcased the Marlins\u2032 new emphasis on pitching and speed, although several home runs were hit too. New leadoff hitter Emilio Bonifacio had three stolen bases and an inside-the-park home run, going 4-for-5. A grand slam by Hanley Ram\u00edrez, and homers by Jorge Cant\u00fa and Jeremy Hermida capped a spectacular performance in a 12\u20136 win over the Washington Nationals. The 12 runs set a franchise record for most runs scored on Opening Day. Following an opening series sweep of Washington, the Marlins won two of three games against the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Regular season, April\nNext, Florida had a nine-game road trip, visiting Atlanta, Washington, and Pittsburgh for three games each. The Marlins swept both the Braves and Nationals to earn a franchise-best 11\u20141 record to open a season. But then they stumbled in Pittsburgh, losing all three games to the Pirates. Then the Marlins returned home to meet the Phillies, and lost all three games there too. In the final game against Philadelphia, outfielder Cody Ross pitched an inning of relief, becoming the first Marlins position player to pitch since Jason Wood did so in 2007. The Marlins closed April with three straight wins on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Regular season, May\nThe Marlins opened the month by losing the final three games of a four-game series at the Chicago Cubs. This was the beginning of one of the worst months in Marlins history going 5\u201420. Ricky Nolasco never returned to his 2008 form and was sent down to AAA. Worse yet, their number three starter An\u00edbal S\u00e1nchez got injured and the Marlins experimented with different pitchers including John Koronka, Graham Taylor, and even tried starting relievers Hayden Penn and Burke Badenhop before finally settling for Sean West. For the second time in 2009 a position player, Ross Gload pitched a hitless 9th inning in a 15\u20142 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. After being 11\u20141 near the end of April the Marlins finished May with a 23\u201428 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Regular season, June\nIn June the Marlins slowly were able to climb back to a 40\u201439 record. Rookie pitcher Sean West went into the seventh inning against his childhood idol Randy Johnson and the San Francisco Giants with a no-hitter before \u00c9dgar Renter\u00eda hit a single. and Ricky Nolasco returned from the Minors and was better than ever. Hanley Ram\u00edrez started to play like an MVP, by hitting 2 grand slams in one series against the Baltimore Orioles, his second and third of the year, then continued to have RBIs for 10 straight games into July 2 for a Florida Marlins franchise record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Regular season, July\nIn the beginning of July Hanley Ram\u00edrez was voted as the starting shortstop for the National League in the 2009 MLB All-Star Game. Teammate and pitcher Josh Johnson joined him but was not named a starter. At the All-Star Game, Ram\u00edrez went 0 for 3 with 3 ground balls. Johnson did not get the opportunity to pitch. Coming out of the All-Star Break, the Marlins ran in the Philadelphia Phillies with a four-game series. Since the 3rd game got rained out, they only lost all 3 games. No. 5 starter Sean West was sent to the minors and Rick VandenHurk was called up to make his 2009 Marlins debut. Also, their No. 4 starter Andrew Miller was sent down and Gaby S\u00e1nchez joined the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202970-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Marlins season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H =Hits; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed;  K = Strikeouts; ERA = Earned run average;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202971-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 2009 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. They were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference ACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202971-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida State Seminoles football team\nHead coach Bobby Bowden retired at the end of the 2009 season after 34 seasons at the helm for Florida State and 33 consecutive winning seasons. Offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher was named his successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202971-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida State Seminoles football team, Previous season\nFlorida State entered the 2009 season coming off a 2008 season that ended with a 9\u20134 record (5\u20133 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) and a Champs Sports Bowl victory over Wisconsin. Florida State also won a share of the ACC Atlantic Division, but due to the head-to-head record versus Boston College, the Eagles represented the Atlantic Division in the Championship Game held in Tampa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202971-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida State Seminoles football team, Game capsules, Jacksonville State\nPregame line: Lines are not released when an FCS team plays an FBS team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season\nThe 2009 Florida Tuskers season was the first season for the Florida Tuskers. In the UFL's Premiere Season, the Tuskers put together a league-best, undefeated 6\u20130 record. In the championship game however, they lost to the Las Vegas Locomotives in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season\nThe Tuskers played three home games in the six game regular season. Two games were played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, and one was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season\nFollowing the conclusion of the season, quarterback Brooks Bollinger was named season MVP, and head coach Jim Haslett was given the Coach of the Year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Prior to season\nJim Haslett, former NFL head coach of the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams, was named head coach of the then unnamed franchise, on March 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Prior to season\nThe team name, uniforms, and colors were unveiled on August 12, 2009. On the same day it was announced that the Tampa Bay Rays had bought interest in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Draft\nThe draft took place on June 19, 2009. Those selected were among participants in earlier workouts held in Orlando as well as Las Vegas. Once a player was picked by a team, his rights were held by that team should he elect to play in the UFL. With their first selection, the Tuskers picked former Arkansas nose tackle Fred Bledsoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Personnel, Roster\nRookies in italicsRoster updated November 17, 200952 Active, 2 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New York Sentinels\nThe Tuskers opened the season with a convincing 35\u201313 win over the New York Sentinels. Quarterback Brooks Bollinger threw for 225 yards and four touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Las Vegas Locomotives\nOn the road, Bollinger would surpass his total from a week before with 310 yards. Through the first three quarters, the Tuskers had kept the Las Vegas Locomotives from scoring, and led by 22 points. Kicker Matt Bryant connected on three field goals in the game, won by the Tuskers 29\u201315. With the win, the Tuskers moved into first place by themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. California Redwoods\nBack in Orlando for Week 3, the Tuskers routed the California Redwoods 34\u20137, and improved to 3\u20130 on the season. The Tusker defense held the Redwoods to only 196 yards and forced five turnovers, including four interceptions. Taye Biddle was the Tuskers' leading receiver with 133 yards on five receptions, however no touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Las Vegas Locomotives\nThe Tuskers traveled to their secondary home stadium for Week 4, Tropicana Field, normally known as the home to the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. The Tuskers hosted the Locomotives, who were coming off of their bye week and facing the Tuskers in their second consecutive game. In contrast to the teams' previous game, the game was tied at 24\u201324 late in the 4th quarter. Matt Bryant nailed a 40-yard field goal to give the Tuskers the lead with 4:38 to play. Las Vegas would get the ball back with just under two minutes left, but Florida's defense held strong and the Tuskers remained undefeated with their fourth win of the season. With the victory, the Tuskers clinched a spot in the 2009 UFL Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 6: at New York Sentinels\nComing off of their bye week, the Tuskers were on the road against the Sentinels in Week 6. The game was close in the 1st half, with the Tuskers holding a slight 10\u20136 lead at halftime. However, the Tuskers defense kept New York out of the end zone the entire night. Also behind Brooks Bollinger's arm, throwing for 215 yards and two touchdowns, the Tuskers won 24\u20136, keeping the undefeated season alive at 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 7: at California Redwoods\nIn Week 7, the Tuskers played their final game of the regular season in California. After both of the Tuskers' first two scores in the first quarter, they boldly attempted an onside kick and successfully recovered both. In the 1st quarter, both teams traded a field goal and a touchdown, but the Tuskers were down at halftime 24\u201320. After that, the Tuskers defense stood tall as they had in the previous week, only allowing a 3rd-quarter field goal in the entire 2nd half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 7: at California Redwoods\nStill down 27\u201320, Brooks Bollinger put together a 67-yard drive capped off by a touchdown pass to Jayson Foster on the first play of the 4th quarter. Foster was drilled by a Redwoods defensive player immediately after making the catch, but Foster held on to the ball for the score to tie the game. Later in the 4th quarter, California moved the ball to the Tuskers' 33-yard line, but cornerback Darius Vinnett intercepted the ball for the Tuskers and returned it 58 yards to the Redwoods' 8-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Game summaries, Week 7: at California Redwoods\nA few plays later, running back Michael Pittman dove over the goal line for the touchdown, putting the Tuskers ahead 34\u201327. The Redwoods would punt the ball back to Florida on the ensuing drive, and with a chance to ice the game on 3rd down with only a yard needed for the 1st down, Pittman fumbled, and California came up with the ball. However, the Redwoods were unable to capitalize on the turnover, as Josh Cooper recovered his own forced fumble on Redwoods quarterback Shane Boyd, sealing the win for the Tuskers. The game was considered as one of the most entertaining of the season. The Tuskers remained undefeated at the conclusion of the regular season, finishing with a 6\u20130 record going into the championship game against Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Championship Game\nThough it was announced as the location of the championship game before the two teams clinched a spot, the Tuskers traveled back to Las Vegas to play the Locomotives at Sam Boyd Stadium, attempting to beat them for the third time in the season. It was a defensive battle through the first three quarters, until both teams' offenses came alive in the fourth quarter. Tied with 17 points each at the end of regulation, the game went to overtime, the first overtime game in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202972-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Florida Tuskers season, Championship Game\nThe Tuskers won the coin toss and received the ball first in OT, but Brooks Bollinger threw an interception deep in Tuskers territory. The Locos ran one play to line the ball in between the goal posts, and kicker Graham Gano made the game-winning field goal just inside the right upright to win the championship for Las Vegas, and end the Tuskers' chance at a perfect season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500\nThe 2009 Food City 500 was the fifth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. This 500 lap, 266.5 miles (428.9\u00a0km) race took place on March 22 of that year at the 0.533 miles (0.858\u00a0km) Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, and was telecast on Fox beginning at 1:30 PM US EDT, with radio broadcasting being handled by Performance Racing Network (terrestrial) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite) beginning at 1 PM US EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500\nThis race was the last to use the 2008 season Top 35 in owners points rule. Beginning with the next race, the Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500, each week's current standings will be used to determine automatic qualifiers for each week's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500, Qualifying\nMark Martin won his second pole in a row. He will start alongside Ryan Newman and teammate Jimmie Johnson in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500, Race recap\nBobby Allison, a NASCAR Cup Series driver who drove in the formative years in NASCAR, became the honorary starter for this race. He would give out the green flag and later surrendered his \"duty\" to the regular starter for the other flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500, Race recap\nThe pundits predicted that Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch would be triumphant in the race while Mark Martin, Jamie McMurray, David Ragan and Brian Vickers didn't have much of a chance to finish the race in a respectable position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202973-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Food City 500, Race recap\nKyle Busch led 378 laps en route to his second victory of 2009. JGR teammate Denny Hamlin finished second, while Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon finished third and fourth, while Kasey Kahne rounded up the top 5. Jeff Gordon still led the points standings, and got his 4th top-10 and 3rd top-5 of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202974-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships were held in San Diego, California on December 12, 2009. It was the twentieth edition of the championships, held in Balboa Park for the eighth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final\nThe 2009 Football League Championship play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 25 May 2009 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Burnley and Sheffield United. The match was to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football, to the  Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final\nThe top two teams of the 2008\u201309 Football League Championship season gained automatic promotion to the Premier League, while the clubs placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; Sheffield United ended the season in third position while Burnley finished fifth. The winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2009\u201310 season in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final\nThe 2009 final, refereed by Mike Dean, was watched by a crowd of more than 80,000 people. Burnley won 1\u20130, with the only goal of the game coming from Wade Elliott in the first half. Substitute Jamie Ward was sent off in the second half following two deliberate handballs, while his teammate Lee Hendrie was also dismissed after the final whistle. Victory for Burnley meant they returned to top flight football for the first time in 33 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final\nBurnley ended the next season in 18th place in the Premier League and were relegated back to the Championship. Sheffield United finished the following season in 8th place, five points outside the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nSheffield United finished the regular 2008\u201309 season in third place in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, two places and four points ahead of Burnley. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic places for promotion to the Premier League and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team. Sheffield United finished three points behind Birmingham City (who were promoted in second place) and ten behind league winners Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nBurnley faced Reading in their play-off semi-final, the first leg of which took place at Turf Moor. Reading dominated the match, but Kevin Doyle's shot was blocked on the line; he was later substituted having suffered an Achilles tendon injury. The game was decided late in the second half when Graham Alexander scored for Burnley from the penalty spot after a foul Steven Thompson by Reading's defender Andr\u00e9 Bikey. Late into injury time, Bikey was sent off for stamping on Burnley's Robbie Blake, and the match ended 1\u20130. The second leg, at the Madejski Stadium, was played three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nGoalless at half time, with Reading limited to few chances, a 51st minute strike from 25 yards (23\u00a0m) by Martin Paterson put Burnley 1\u20130 up in the game and 2\u20130 ahead on aggregate. Seven minutes later, Thompson with a looping volley from outside the left-hand corner of the penalty box doubled Burnley's lead but despite further chances for them, no more goals were scored and the semi-final ended 3\u20130 on aggregate to Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Route to the final\nIn the other play-off semi-final, Sheffield United's opponents were Preston North End, with the first leg being played at Deepdale. The home team took the lead in the first half after Sean St Ledger scored, but the tie was level soon into the second half, with a volley from Brian Howard 21 seconds after kick-off. No further goals were scored and the match ended as a 1\u20131 draw. The return leg at Bramall Lane was decided by a single goal: Greg Halford's 59th minute header secured a 1\u20130 win for United on the night, and a 2\u20131 aggregate victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nThis was Burnley's first Championship play-off final, although they had won the third-tier 1994 Football League Second Division play-off Final 2\u20131 against Stockport County the old Wembley Stadium. Sheffield United had lost both the 1997 and 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Finals. During the regular season, Burnley had won both matches, 3\u20132 away in December 2008 and 1\u20130 at home the following April. It had been 33 years since Burnley last played top-flight football in the 1975\u201376 Football League First Division, while Sheffield United had been most recently relegated from the highest tier in the 2006\u201307 FA Premier League. Paterson was Burnley's top scorer with twelve goals in the regular season, followed by Alexander with nine, while Craig Beattie led the scoring charts for Sheffield United with twelve. This was Burnley's 61st competitive match of their season, and Paterson was ever present throughout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 994]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nThe referee for the final was Mike Dean of the Wirral District Football Association, with assistant referees Darren Cann and Mick McDonough, and Lee Probert acting as the fourth official. Dean's appointment was not without controversy: he had officiated the match in which Sheffield United were relegated from Premier League in 2007 and refereed the 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final when Kevin Blackwell, the Sheffield United manager, was in charge at Leeds United who lost the match 3\u20130. Blackwell described the appointment as \"inexplicable\" and that he was \"amazed at the stupidity of it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nHe went on to say that he was \"very, very angry about people who run the game not using their common sense and putting Mike Dean in what could be a very embarrassing position\". Both managers had appeared at the old Wembley Stadium as players: Owen Coyle played, and scored, in Bolton Wanderers' 4\u20133 victory over Reading in the 1995 Football League First Division play-off Final while Blackwell featured for Boston United who lost against Wealdstone in the 1985 FA Trophy Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Background\nBoth managers named starting line-ups unchanged from the second legs of their semi-finals. Burnley were playing in their away kit of light blue, while Sheffield United wore their traditional home strip of red and white stripes. Before kick-off, both teams were presented to members of the military and former Conservative Member of Parliament and Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nSheffield United kicked the game off around 3\u00a0p.m. in sunny conditions front of a Wembley crowd of 80,518. After early pressure, United's Kyle Walker struck the first shot on target from 20 yards (18\u00a0m) which was saved by Burnley's goalkeeper Brian Jensen. Five minutes later, Blake's weak shot was easily saved by Paddy Kenny in the Sheffield United goal. Two minutes later, a Matthew Kilgallon free kick was blocked by the Burnley wall but not cleared, allowing Howard to shoot from the edge of the penalty area which was saved by Jensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nOn 13 minutes, Wade Elliott took the ball around the halfway line and started a run towards the Sheffield United goal. He passed to Chris McCann who was tackled, but the ball fell to Elliott whose first-time strike from 25 yards (23\u00a0m) flew into the top-left corner of Kenny's net, making the score 1\u20130 to Burnley. Two minutes later, Alexander brought down Howard as he ran into the box, but the appeals of the Sheffield United players for a penalty were dismissed by Dean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, First half\nIn the 19th minute, McCann headed over the bar from inside the six-yard box while Howard's free kick two minutes later was too high. The first yellow card of the game was shown to Burnley's Clarke Carlisle after he fouled Halford. Burnley were forced to make the first substitution of the afternoon on 27 minutes after McCann failed to recover from a knee injury he sustained clearing the ball, with Joey Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson coming on to replace him. Paterson went close on 31 minutes, curling the ball just wide of Kenny's post from 20 yards (18\u00a0m). Heading towards half time, the game became patchy with neither side creating clear-cut chances, but on 45 minutes, Thompson's looping header went wide. Three minutes of additional time were played and the half ended 1\u20130 to Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nBurnley kicked off the second half and three minutes in, they were awarded a corner which Michael Duff toe-poked just wide of the post. Stephen Quinn's run was brought to a halt by an Alexander tackle before Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson's tap-in attempt was cleared by United's Nick Montgomery. In the 58th minute, Sheffield United made their first substitution of the game, with David Cotterill being replaced by Jamie Ward. Eight minutes later, Walker played Thompson onside, who picked out Blake. A last-second tackle from Walker did enough to distract Blake whose shot from 8 yards (7.3\u00a0m) went wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nUnited appealed for another penalty in the 69th minute when Walker was seemingly brought down by Christian Kalvenes, but it was not awarded. A minute later, Burnley made their second substitution with Blake, suffering from a hamstring injury, being replaced by Chris Eagles. In the 72nd minute, a break from Ward allowed him to shoot from a tight angle but Jensen deflected the strike. Burnley's final substitution was made in the 74th minute with Jay Rodriguez coming on for Thompson. A minute later, Ward was booked after a deliberate handball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Match, Second half\nOn 77 minutes, an Eagles pass found Paterson on the wing who cut inside to shoot, but it was blocked by Kyle Naughton. Ward was shown a second yellow card for another intentional handball in the 79th minute. Arturo Lupoli was then brought on by Sheffield United to replace Howard, before Quinn was substituted by Lee Hendrie on 85 minutes. In the last minute of regular time, Morgan and Kalvenes clashed heads and the latter was booked. The resulting free kick was struck into the wall allowing Burnley to break but they failed to score as Montgomery cleared a poor pass from Paterson. Deep into additional time, Lupoli was booked for a foul on Elliott, and the final whistle was blown, with Burnley winning the match 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Post-match\nHendrie was shown a straight red card by the referee after the match ended for foul and abusive language. The Burnley manager Owen Coyle remarked \"the players were magnificent. It was a great game, end-to-end. Sheffield United were brave and were coming at us even after they went down to 10 men. There's now a great adventure to look forward to. Regarding bringing in players, everybody knows our revenue. We may not have quantity but we have quality.\" His chairman Barry Kilby stated: \"After 33 years out of the top flight, we're back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Post-match\nHalf the population of the town were here today, and this is for them. Owen Coyle has done a fantastic, superb job on a small budget, and I'm sure he's looking forward to pitting his wits against the Premier League managers next season\". The Sheffield United manager Kevin Blackwell noted \"It doesn't get any easier to take, but we have to take it on chin and move forward. But I gave my congratulations to Owen Coyle. I'm going to go home and think of what to do now.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202975-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Championship play-off Final, Post-match\nBurnley ended the next season in 18th place in the Premier League, five points from safety and relegated back to the Championship for the 2010\u201311 season. Sheffield United finished the following season in 8th place, five points outside the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final\nThe 2009 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Football League Cup, the 49th season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. The match was played at Wembley Stadium on 1 March 2009, and was contested by Tottenham Hotspur, who won the competition in 2008, and Manchester United, who last won the competition in 2006. The two joint-top goalscorers played for each of the finalists. Roman Pavlyuchenko of Tottenham Hotspur, who scored in every match in which he played in the tournament up to the final, and Manchester United's Carlos Tevez; both players had six goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final\nManchester United won 4\u20131 on penalties, after the match ended as a goalless draw in normal time. United converted all four of their penalties, while Tottenham missed two of their three. It was only the second time that the League Cup Final had been decided by a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final\nThe man of the match was Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster, who became the first goalkeeper since Jerzy Dudek in 2003 to win the Alan Hardaker Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final\nRetrospectively, the result of this game would have significant implications for the following season's UEFA Europa League. In winning the tournament, the qualifying spot for the League Cup went to the seventh-placed team in the Premier League by default, as Manchester United would later win the League and therefore qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Fulham, who finished seventh in the league, went on to progress to the final of the 2009\u201310 Europa League. Had Tottenham won the League Cup, they would have qualified in Fulham's place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final, Match, Team selection\nSir Alex Ferguson promised before the game that he would give places in the Manchester United starting line-up to the young players who had played a part in getting them to the final, with Darron Gibson in the centre of midfield and Danny Welbeck up front. He also said he would make several changes from the team that drew away to Internazionale in the Champions League earlier in the week, citing the need to rotate players in the modern game. Goalkeeper Ben Foster, who had played in the fifth round against Blackburn Rovers and the second leg of the semi-final against Derby County, expressed a desire to play in the final as a way of making up for an injury-beset previous 12 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202976-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Cup Final, Match, Team selection\nTottenham manager Harry Redknapp named Heurelho Gomes as his goalkeeper for the final, despite the Brazilian having made several high-profile errors, as the club's number-one 'keeper, Carlo Cudicini, was cup-tied; Cudicini was signed from Chelsea during the January transfer window and had appeared for the Blues in the League Cup earlier in the season. Defender Jonathan Woodgate, who scored the winning goal in the 2008 final, suffered a head wound in a 2\u20131 win over Hull City the week before the game; he declared himself fit the next day, but was ultimately left out of the squad. Striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, however, was selected for the game, despite his earlier fears that he might miss out if Redknapp opted to play Darren Bent as a lone striker; in the end, Pavlyuchenko and Bent started together up front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final\nThe 2009 Football League One play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 24 May 2009 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Millwall and Scunthorpe United to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from Football League One to the Football League Championship. The top two teams of the 2008\u201309 Football League One season, Leicester City and Peterborough United, gained automatic promotion to the Championship, while those placed from third to sixth in the table took part in play-off semi-finals. The winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2009\u201310 season in the Championship. The losing semi-finalists were Milton Keynes Dons and Leeds United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final\nThe game was played in front of 59,661 spectators and was refereed by Michael Oliver. In the 6th minute, Matt Sparrow put Scunthorpe ahead with a right-footed shot into the top-left corner of the Millwall goal from around 6 yards (5.5\u00a0m). Gary Alexander levelled the match with a long-range strike in the 37th minute. Two minutes later, he doubled his tally with a header into the bottom-left corner of the Scunthorpe goal from 12 yards (11\u00a0m). With 20 minutes remaining, Sparrow struck from around 20 yards (18\u00a0m) to restore parity at 2\u20132 and 15 minutes later, Martyn Woolford put Scunthorpe ahead with a left-footed strike from 12 yards (11\u00a0m). The final score was 3\u20132 to Scunthorpe who were promoted to the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final\nScunthorpe's next season saw them finish in 20th position, two places above the relegation zone. Millwall ended their following season in third place in the table to qualify for the play-offs where they defeated Swindon Town in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nMillwall finished the regular 2008\u201309 season in fifth place in Football League One, the third tier of the English football league system, one position ahead of Scunthorpe United. Both therefore missed out on the two automatic places for promotion to the Football League Championship and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the third promoted team. Millwall finished seven points behind Peterborough United (who were promoted in second place) and fourteen behind league winners Leicester City. Scunthorpe United ended the season six points behind Millwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nScunthorpe United's opponents in their play-off semi-final were Milton Keynes Dons and the first match of the two-legged tie took place at Glanford Park in Scunthorpe on 8 May 2009. A volley from Martyn Woolford put the home side into the lead early in the match after Willy Gu\u00e9ret failed to properly clear a shot from Paul Hayes. Aaron Wilbraham scored the equaliser with a header in the 27th minute: no further goals were scored and the match ended 1\u20131. The second leg of the semi-final was held a week later at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nRegular time ended goalless, sending the match into extra time where the closest chance fell to David Mirfin whose shot struck the Millwall goalpost. With the tie ending 1\u20131 on aggregate, a penalty shootout was required to decide the winners. The first six penalties were scored before Cliff Byrne missed his for Scunthorpe. Jason Puncheon's spot kick was then saved but with the next two penalties being scored, the shootout went to sudden death. Matt Sparrow and Jude Stirling both missed before the next four were scored. Ian Morris converted his side's ninth penalty and then Tore Andr\u00e9 Flo missed to give Scunthorpe a 7\u20136 penalty win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nIn the second play-off final, Millwall faced Leeds United with the first leg being played at the New Den on 9 May 2009. After a goalless first half, Neil Harris scored in the 70th minute from a Gary Alexander cross to give Millwall a one-goal lead to take into the second leg. The second leg, at Elland Road in Leeds, took place five days later. Millwall goalkeeper David Forde made a double-save from Jermaine Beckford and Fabian Delph before denying Beckford's second-half penalty after Sam Sodje was pulled back in the area by Andy Frampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Route to the final\nIn the 53rd minute, Leeds took the lead when Luciano Becchio scored from a Ben Parker cross to level the aggregate score. Lewis Grabban then passed to Djimi Abdou who scored from close range to make it 1\u20131 on the day. With no further goals, Millwall won the tie 2\u20131 on aggregate and progressed to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nScunthorpe had played in League One for a single season having been relegated from the Championship in the 2007\u201308 season. They had featured in the play-offs six times, including four times in five years between 1988 and 1992, but had reached the final just twice. In 1992, they lost in a penalty shootout to Blackpool in the final of the fourth tier play-offs at the old Wembley Stadium before gaining promotion to the third tier with victory over Leyton Orient in the 1999 Football League Third Division play-off Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nEarlier in the season, Scunthorpe had already played at the renovated Wembley Stadium in the Football League Trophy Final, where they lost 3\u20132 to Luton Town after extra time. Millwall had played in League One since being relegated in the 2005\u201306 season. They had qualified for play-offs four times since the inception of the post-season competition but had failed to progress beyond the semi-finals on any occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nIn the two games between the sides during the regular season, Scunthorpe had won both, with a 3\u20132 victory at home in October 2008 and a 2\u20131 win at the New Den the following January. Scunthorpe's top scorer for the regular season was Gary Hooper with 28 goals (24 in the league and 4 in the FA Cup) followed by Hayes with 16 (all in the league). Alexander led the scoring charts for Millwall with 13 goals (11 in the league, 2 in the FA Cup) followed by Harris on 10 (8 in the league, 2 in the FA Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Background\nThe referee for the match was the 23-year-old Michael Oliver. The day before the League One play-off final, his father, Clive Oliver, refereed the League Two play-off final. It was anticipated by Mikey Stafford in The Observer that around 45,000 Millwall supporters would attend the match, outnumbering their opposition fans by four-to-one. The match was broadcast live in the UK on Sky Sports. Millwall were considered narrow favourites to win promotion according to bookmakers. Scunthorpe's Hooper was expected to be fit following a groin injury but Ben May was unavailable with a damaged thigh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Summary\nThe match kicked off around 1\u00a0p.m. on 24 May 2009 in front of 59,661 spectators. In the 6th minute, Sparrow put Scunthorpe ahead with a right-footed shot into the top-left corner of the Millwall goal from around 6 yards (5.5\u00a0m). Four minutes later, Scunthorpe's Sam Togwell became the first player to be shown a yellow card for unsporting behaviour. On 16 minutes, Sparrow was also booked, also for unsporting behaviour. Alexander levelled the match with a long-range strike in the 37th minute. Two minutes later, Alexander doubled his tally with a header into the bottom-left corner of the Scunthorpe goal from 12 yards (11\u00a0m). The referee blew the whistle to signify half-time with the score at 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Match, Summary\nMillwall made the first substitution of the match at the interval when Abdou was replaced by Marc Laird. Nine minutes later, Scunthorpe's Togwell was substituted for Liam Trotter. In the 63rd minute, Chris Hackett came on for Grabban. With 20 minutes remaining, Sparrow struck from around 20 yards (18\u00a0m) to restore parity at 2\u20132. Ten minutes later, Scunthorpe's Forte came on for Hooper before Millwall's Tony Craig was shown a yellow card for unsporting behaviour. In the 85th minute, Woolford put Scunthorpe ahead with a left-footed strike from 12 yards (11\u00a0m). In the last minute Millwall made their final substitution with Paul Robinson coming on for Frampton. The referee blew for full time with the final score 3\u20132 to Scunthorpe who were promoted to the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Post-match\nNigel Adkins, the winning manager and former club physiotherapist, noted: \"In the end fortunes favoured us and we've got the result we needed. At the end of the day it was one game of football for the whole season\u00a0... This season I've thought this is the transition from being physio and I've put a suit on and I've felt very comfortable with it.\" He reflected on his club's immediate return to the second tier: \"It's a fantastic achievement to bounce straight back to the Championship\u00a0... In a challenging economic climate we have tried to provide an entertaining product and we deserve to go up.\" Millwall's manager Kenny Jackett was gracious in defeat: \"It was a 50\u201350 game\u00a0... Scunthorpe put their chances away, so congratulations to them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202977-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League One play-off Final, Post-match\nScunthorpe's next season saw them finish in 20th place, two positions above the relegation zone. Millwall ended their following season in third place in the table to qualify for the play-offs where they defeated Swindon Town in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final\nThe 2009 Football League Trophy Final was the 26th final of the domestic football cup competition for teams from Football Leagues One and Two, the Football League Trophy. The final was played at Wembley Stadium in London on 5 April 2009, the second time that the final had been staged at the stadium since it was rebuilt. The match was contested between Luton Town and Scunthorpe United. Luton won the match 3\u20132 with Claude Gnakpa scoring the winner five minutes into extra-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final\nLuton's victory was a single positive note in an otherwise terrible season for the club. They started the season with a 30-point deduction imposed by the Football League and Football Association for various financial irregularities, despite the fact that these misdemeanours were carried out by the club's previous owners who had not been in charge since January 2008. Despite accumulating enough points to mathematically remain in League Two, they were twelve points from safety when the final was played and were ultimately relegated out of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final\nThey became the first club to win the Football League Trophy and suffer relegation from the Football League in the same season. As the competition is usually only contested by teams from Leagues One and Two, it was uncertain whether Luton could defend their trophy. On 15 June 2009, Luton's request to play in the competition in 2009\u201310 was denied by the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final, Background\nLuton and Scunthorpe went into the match in vastly different positions. Scunthorpe were in the play-off positions in League One and hoping to secure both promotion to the Football League Championship and claim the Football League Trophy in the same season. Luton, on the other hand, were bottom of The Football League and facing relegation into non-League football, having been given a 30-point deduction at the beginning of the season for financial irregularities. Both teams were playing in their first Football League Trophy final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final, Match details, Protests\nDuring the match, many of Luton's 40,000 fans unfurled flags featuring the slogans \"Thanks for Sweet FA\" and \"The FA & Football League \u2013 Killing Small Clubs Since 1992\" in protest at the actions taken against the club from the footballing authorities. Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney was widely booed, among other less savoury chants, for his part in the club's demise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final, Post-match\nLuton manager Mick Harford paid tribute to his players, saying \"the players knew when they came to the club that they could be non-League players next season. They put their necks on the line. Today their camaraderie, spirit and togetherness was there for all to see.\" He also praised the \"special\" Luton fans, saying \"They've had it tough down the years, with [the club] being in and out of administration and having sanctions put upon them. We have the second-highest league attendance in League Two and the highest away following, and they've turned out again today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final, Post-match\nScunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins congratulated Luton on their victory but also lamented his own side's shortcomings, saying after the match \"Credit to Luton. I congratulate Mick Harford, but we have to learn from this negative experience and use it in a positive way. I will make sure [the players] will remember this because it's not nice... We will draw a line under it and make sure we come back to Wembley in the play-off final \u2013 and make sure we win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202978-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Trophy Final, Post-match\nLuton were relegated on 13 April 2009, only a week after their Football League Trophy victory. Their relegation was confirmed when they could only manage a draw against Chesterfield, while the only club they could catch, Grimsby Town, won against Notts County. Cliff Byrne secured a place in the League One play-offs for Scunthorpe at the expense of Tranmere Rovers with a goal two minutes from the end of their final game. They returned to Wembley for the League One play-off Final and won promotion in May, beating Millwall 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final\nThe 2009 Football League Two play-off Final was an association football match played at Wembley Stadium on 23 May 2009, to determine the fourth and final team to gain promotion from League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, in the 2008\u201309 season. Gillingham, who had finished fifth during the league season, faced Shrewsbury Town, who had finished seventh. The match was Shrewsbury's second appearance at the new Wembley Stadium and Gillingham's first, although both clubs had played at the previous stadium of the same name. The teams reached the final by defeating Rochdale and Bury respectively; the semi-final between Shrewsbury and Bury had to be decided by a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final\nThe final drew a crowd of just under 54,000 and was refereed by Clive Oliver. Gillingham were the stronger team in the first half but only came close to scoring a goal once and at half-time the score was 0\u20130. Both teams attacked more strongly in the second half, requiring both goalkeepers to make saves, but the match remained scoreless until the last minute, when Simeon Jackson headed in Josh Wright's corner kick to give Gillingham the lead; Shrewsbury made a last-ditch attack but were unable to equalise. Gillingham thus won the match 1\u20130 to gain promotion back to League One one year after being relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final\nPost-match analysis showed that referee Oliver had wrongly awarded the corner kick from which the goal was scored, but defeated manager Paul Simpson chose not to criticise the decision in his post-match comments. Gillingham spent only one season at the higher level before being relegated back to League Two. After their Wembley defeat in 2009, Shrewsbury spent three further seasons in League Two before gaining promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nIn the 2008\u201309 Football League season, the teams finishing in the top three positions in Football League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, gained automatic promotion to League One. Champions Brentford, Exeter City, and Wycombe Wanderers were promoted automatically. The teams finishing between fourth and seventh inclusive competed in the play-offs for the fourth and final promotion place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nGillingham finished the season in fifth place with 75 points, three points outside the automatic promotion positions; Shrewsbury Town finished two places lower with 69 points. Shrewsbury had only qualified for the play-offs by defeating Dagenham & Redbridge in the final match of the regular season, enabling them to overtake their opponents in the league table and leave them in eighth place, one point outside the play-off places. In the play-off semi-finals, Gillingham were paired with sixth-placed Rochdale and Shrewsbury with fourth-place finishers Bury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nEach semi-final was played on a two-legged basis, with one game at each team's home stadium and the result determined based on the aggregate score of the two games. The first leg of Gillingham's semi-final, played at Rochdale's Spotland Stadium on 7 May 2009, finished in a 0\u20130 draw; BBC Sport commented that \"the two sides largely cancelled each other out\". The first leg of the other semi-final, played on the same day at Shrewsbury's home ground, New Meadow, was decided by a late own goal from Shrewsbury's Neil Ashton, who accidentally lobbed the ball over his own goalkeeper Luke Daniels to give Bury a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nThe second-leg matches took place three days later. At Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium, Simeon Jackson scored from a cross by Andy Barcham to give Gillingham the lead in the 13th minute, only for Chris Dagnall to equalise for Rochdale in the 36th minute. Jackson scored a second goal with a penalty kick in the 58th minute after John Nutter had been fouled by Rory McArdle. Gillingham thus won the match 2\u20131 and won their semi-final on aggregate by the same score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nGillingham manager Mark Stimson was quoted as saying that reaching the final was just reward for his players' commitment throughout the season. At Bury's Gigg Lane, Shrewsbury goalkeeper Daniels saved a penalty kick by Bury's Phil Jevons and Kevin McIntyre scored a goal for the away team in the 88th minute to level the aggregate score at 1\u20131 and require extra time to be played. Shortly after the start of the extra period, Shrewsbury's Steve Leslie was sent off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final\nWith no further goals being scored in extra time, the semi-final ended in a draw and a penalty shoot-out was required to decide which team would advance to the final. Daniels saved penalty kicks from Bury's Andy Bishop and Danny Racchi and Shrewsbury won the shoot-out and thus reached the final. Shrewsbury manager Paul Simpson singled out Daniels for praise and commented on his team's \"sheer guts and determination\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\nThe match was Gillingham's first appearance at the new Wembley Stadium, which opened in 2007, although the club had played at the previous stadium of the same name in play-off finals in 1999 and 2000. Shrewsbury had previously played at the new Wembley in the 2007 League Two play-off Final and at the original in the 1996 Football League Trophy Final. The teams had met twice during the regular season. In September, Shrewsbury defeated Gillingham 7\u20130 at New Meadow, the largest margin of victory achieved by any team in League Two during the season. The return match in March at Priestfield Stadium ended in a 2\u20132 draw. Shortly before the start of the final, sports betting organisation Sky Bet gave identical odds of 6/4 on both teams to win, with 9/4 on a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\nThe match drew an attendance of 53,706, the third-largest crowd ever to watch a Gillingham match and a figure significantly higher than the 35,715 registered at the previous year's League Two play-off final. The match referee was 48-year-old Clive Oliver representing the Northumberland Football Association. His 24-year-old son Michael took charge of the League One play-off final the following day, the first time that a father and son had refereed Football League play-off finals in the same season. Pre", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\n-match entertainment included teams from Killamarsh Junior School and Thurlby Community Primary School competing in the final of the Football Association Community Cup, a parade by members of the British armed forces, and a performance of the National Anthem led by operatic vocalist Will Martin. The guests of honour were Lord Mawhinney, the chairman of the Football League, and Mark Osikoya, Head of Marketing Assets for the League's sponsors, Coca-Cola. The match was broadcast live in the United Kingdom on the Sky Sports 1 television channel with commentary provided by Garry Birtles and Bill Leslie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\nGillingham manager Stimson selected the same eleven players in his starting line-up as had started the second leg of the semi-final against Rochdale. Adam Miller, who had missed both legs of the semi-final due to injury, was fit again, but Stimson named him as one of the substitutes. Four of Gillingham's players had played at Wembley two years earlier for Stevenage Borough in the 2005 FA Trophy Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\nVeteran Nicky Southall, the only member of the Gillingham squad to have played in the club's appearances at the old Wembley in 1999 and 2000, was not included in the starting line-up or among the substitutes. Shrewsbury manager Simpson made two changes from the team which had started the second leg of the semi-final against Bury, replacing David Worrall and Omer Riza with Chris Humphrey and Nick Chadwick; both Worrall and Riza dropped to the substitutes' bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Background\nSteve Leslie was not available for selection as he was serving a suspension after being sent off against Bury and both Mike Jackson and David Hibbert had failed to recover from injuries sustained earlier in the season. Prior to the match, Jackson was Gillingham's top goalscorer with 20 goals; Shrewsbury's Grant Holt was the season's leading scorer among all League Two players with 28 goals: 20 in the league, 1 in the Football League Cup, and 7 in the Football League Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nAfter the players were presented to the guests of honour, Shrewsbury kicked off the match at 3:00\u00a0pm. After less than a minute, Gillingham defender Barry Fuller was forced to hack the ball clear of his penalty area after confusion among his teammates. Gillingham were awarded three free kicks in the first five minutes; the third of these was played to Barcham in a position close to the Shrewsbury goal, but his header made only glancing contact with the ball and it went wide of the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nMoments later, Fuller challenged Shrewsbury's Ben Davies for the ball in the Gillingham penalty area and appeared to catch him on the upper body with his boot, but the referee did not penalise him for it. Early on, both teams concentrated their attacking play on the left-hand side of the pitch from their respective points of view, with Barcham and Davies featuring prominently in those areas. In the 12th minute, Davies attempted to run past Fuller, who was forced the kick the ball out of play, resulting in a throw-in for Shrewsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nThe ball was quickly played out again for a second throw-in to the same team. Ashton threw the ball in to Holt, who passed it back to him, but Ashton's subsequent long ball into the penalty area evaded all his team-mates and went out for a goal kick to Gillingham. Shortly afterwards, Gillingham defender Nutter made a long run into an attacking position but his shot rebounded off the back of Shrewsbury's Graham Coughlan. Holt was again involved in an attack on the 15-minute mark but Gillingham's Garry Richards pressured him into kicking the ball out of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nAs the opening quarter of an hour ended, Gillingham began to dominate play, repeatedly sending the ball into the Shrewsbury penalty area from long range; goalkeeper Daniels was able to gather the ball on two occasions and on a third the defenders were able to kick it clear of the area. In the 19th minute, Chadwick was again forcefully challenged by a Gillingham player, this time Simon King, but referee Oliver ruled that no offence had been committed and allowed play to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nGillingham gained a corner kick midway through the first half, which reached Josh Wright on the edge of the penalty area, but his shot went high over the crossbar. Gillingham continued to have the greater share of possession of the ball leading up the half-hour mark, with Shrewsbury's only attacking opportunity resulting in a free kick from McIntyre which flew high into the Gillingham penalty area but was easily caught by goalkeeper Simon Royce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nThe first shot of the game to be on target came in the 31st minute; Gillingham's Wright took a corner kick which was met by Nutter, whose fierce shot for goal was palmed over the crossbar by Shrewsbury goalkeeper Daniels. Two minutes later, Gillingham's Richards caught Shrewsbury's Chadwick with his elbow as the two players both jumped for a high ball. Chadwick was forced to leave the pitch for a short time to receive medical attention, but was able to return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nFollowing the foul on Chadwick, Davies took a free kick from a position approximately 40 yards (37\u00a0m) from the Gillingham goal but it passed outside the left-hand goalpost. Three minutes later, Holt took a shot which went high and wide of the goal. On 39 minutes, Gillingham striker Jackson had his first goalscoring chance, but his shot was off target. Shrewsbury's Coughlan was able to close down attacking moves by Gillingham's Dennis Oli and Curtis Weston, leading Sky Sports online reporter Richard Bailey to say that the defender had been \"immense\" for his team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, First half\nWith only moments remaining before the half-time break, a Gillingham throw-in was cleared by the Shrewsbury defence but fell to Wright; he hit a hard shot along the ground, but Daniels dived low to his right to make what commentator Leslie called a \"really good instinctive save\". At half-time the game remained goalless; Paul Fletcher of BBC Sport noted that Gillingham were the better team in the first half and that the Shrewsbury players had looked nervous and struggled to keep possession of the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nNeither team made any substitutions during the half-time interval. Gillingham kicked off the second half, and began the second period strongly; Barcham quickly had a goalbound shot tipped away by goalkeeper Daniels. In the 49th minute, Shrewsbury's Ashton fouled Oli, resulting in a free kick to Gillingham, who sent a number of defenders forward to join the attack; Nutter took the kick but it was intercepted by Langmead, who played the ball behind the goal line for a corner kick to Gillingham. As the kick came in, Daniels was able to punch the ball clear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nShortly afterwards, Coughlan tangled with Gillingham's Weston, resulting in the referee showing both players a yellow card. Shrewsbury's Murray was also cautioned moments later, after fouling Jackson. Gillingham were struggling to retain possession of the ball and Shrewsbury had a number of attacking opportunities: Royce dived at the feet of Humphrey to gather the ball, and shortly afterwards saved a header from Chadwick. Holt became the third Shrewsbury player to be cautioned after he tripped up Gillingham's Stuart Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nOn the one-hour mark, Gillingham goalkeeper Royce made his first significant save of the match, stopping a left-footed shot from Shrewsbury's Davies; moments later Oli attempted to set up Jackson but Shrewsbury's Coughlan intercepted the ball. In the 64th minute, Shrewsbury's Kelvin Langmead played the ball to McIntyre, but he was unable to capitalise on what reporter Bailey considered the best opportunity of the game and his header went wide of the target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nShrewsbury continued to apply pressure; Gillingham's King cut out a pass from Ashton to Chadwick and Davies had a shot saved by Royce and shortly afterwards was tackled by Richards when in an attacking position. After 73 minutes, Shrewsbury manager Simpson used the first of his three permitted substitutions, bringing on Worrall in place of Paul Murray. At this point, the pace of the game was slowing and the players were beginning to exhibit signs of fatigue. Worrall quickly received the ball and eluded a Gillingham defender but lingered on the ball for too long and the attacking opportunity passed. Shortly afterwards, Holt met a pass from Ashton with a header but Royce was first to the ball and caught it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nIn the 78th minute, Simpson brought on Riza as a substitute in place of Chadwick; Riza immediately got involved in the action, but was penalised for fouling Gillingham's Richards. Gillingham defender Lewis attempted to launch the next attack, but he took too long to pass to Jackson, who was caught in an offside position. Jackson was involved in several more attacks over the subsequent ten minutes, but each time the Shrewsbury defenders were able to close down the move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Second half\nIn the final minute of the game, Barcham tussled with a Shrewsbury defender; the ball went out of play and the referee awarded a corner kick to Gillingham. Wright took the corner and Jackson headed the ball into the goal to give Gillingham the lead. Defender Ashton, standing on the goal line, attempted to keep the ball from entering the goal but was unsuccessful. Shrewsbury launched a last-ditch attack in a bid to equalise, and Davies crossed the ball to team captain Coughlan in a potential goalscoring position, but his header went over the crossbar and Gillingham held on to claim victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nAfter the match, Gillingham captain Fuller received the winners' trophy from the guests of honour and the club's players and officials celebrated on the pitch. Despite his team having been defeated, BBC Sport's interactive Player Rater, which allowed fans to award marks out of 10 to players, rated Shrewsbury goalkeeper Daniels the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nPost-match analysis showed that referee Oliver had wrongly awarded the corner kick from which the winning goal was scored, as the ball had last made contact with Gillingham's Barcham before going out of play, and therefore a goal kick should instead have been awarded to Shrewsbury. Paul Simpson referred to this in his post-match comments, but said that \"if we look at things like that we will be clutching at straws\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nHe also conceded that \"over the 90 minutes they passed the ball better than us and created the better opportunities so I have to take my hat off to them\". Mark Stimson stated that he would need to improve the quality of his playing squad for the subsequent season at the higher level and highlighted the financial benefits of his team's promotion, noting that large crowds would be expected for matches in League One against Leeds United, Norwich City and Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0015-0003", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nPaul Doyle, writing for The Guardian, predicted that promotion would be worth an additional \u00a31\u00a0million in revenue for the club. Two days after the final, the victorious players took part in a celebratory open-top bus parade from Rochester Castle to Priestfield Stadium. The leader of Medway Council attended the event and told the press \"I think that this is a tremendous result, a tremendous fillip for the club and also for Medway as a whole\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202979-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match\nAs a result of their victory, Gillingham gained promotion back to League One a year after being relegated at the end of the 2007\u201308 season. The team spent only one season at the higher level, however, before once again being relegated to League Two, after which manager Stimson was dismissed from his job. Shrewsbury initially challenged for promotion in the 2009\u201310 season but a series of bad results in the latter stages of the season meant that the team finished in mid-table, after which manager Simpson had his contract terminated. Shrewsbury spent two further seasons in League Two before gaining automatic promotion in the 2011\u201312 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs\nThe Football League play-offs for the 2008\u201309 season were held in May 2009, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One tables, and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in League Two. The semi-final winners progressed to the finals, with the winner of each match earning promotion for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs\nBurnley and Sheffield United contested the Championship play-off final, having defeated Reading and Preston North End respectively in the semi-finals. Burnley secured promotion to the Premier League with a 1\u20130 victory, courtesy of a goal from Wade Elliott. In the League One final, Scunthorpe United won 3\u20132 against Millwall; Leeds United and MK Dons were the other teams to reach the play-offs. In League Two, Gillingham won their semi-final against Rochdale and then secured promotion with a 1\u20130 victory against Shrewsbury, who had beaten Bury in their semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs, Background\nThe Football League play-offs have been held every year since 1987. They take place for each division following the conclusion of the regular season and are contested by the four clubs finishing below the automatic promotion places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs, Background\nIn the Championship, Sheffield United, who had been relegated from the Premier League under controversial circumstances in 2007, finished 3 points behind second placed Birmingham City, who in turn had finished 7 points off the champions Wolverhampton Wanderers. Reading - who were aiming to return to the Premier League at the first attempt - were in fourth place in the table. Burnley and Preston North End were only a couple of points further back on 76 and 74 respectively. Neither of the latter had played in the Premier League before, with Preston's last spell in the top division ending in 1961. Burnley were relegated from in the top flight in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs, League One, Semi-finals\nMilton Keynes Dons 1\u20131 Scunthorpe United on aggregate. Scunthorpe United won 7\u20136 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202980-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Football League play-offs, League Two, Semi-finals\nBury 1\u20131 Shrewsbury Town on aggregate. Shrewsbury Town won 4\u20133 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202981-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Football NSW season\nThe Football NSW 2009 season was the top flight football competition format in New South Wales. The competition consisted of four divisions across the State of New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202981-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2009 NSW Premier League\nThe 2009 NSW Premier League season was played over 22 rounds, beginning on 1 March 2009, with the regular season concluding on the 9th of August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202981-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2009 NSW Super League\nThe 2009 NSW Super League season was played over 22 rounds, beginning on 24 March with the regular season concluding on 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202981-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2009 NSW State League Division 1\nThe 2009 NSW State League Division 1 season was played over 22 rounds, beginning on 14 March with the regular season concluding on 16 August 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202981-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2009 NSW State League Division 2\nThe 2009 NSW State League Division 2 season was played over 22 rounds, beginning on 28 March with the regular season concluding on 30 August 2009. There were 16 teams divided into two conferences, North and South. There were 14 rounds of conference games followed by 8 rounds of combined conference games. The top five teams on a combined ladder competed in the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400\nThe 2009 Ford 400 was the thirty-sixth and final stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as well as the tenth and final race of the season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 22, 2009 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, in Homestead, Florida before a crowd of 70,000 people. The 267-lap race was won by Denny Hamlin of the Joe Gibbs Racing team after starting from thirty-eighth position. Jeff Burton finished second and his teammate Kevin Harvick came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400\nJimmie Johnson won the pole position and maintained his lead on the first lap of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, including Johnson, Kurt Busch and Mark Martin, were in the top ten for most of the race, although some encountered problems in the closing laps. Kyle Busch was leading the race with forty-four laps remaining, giving the lead to Hamlin who maintained it to win the race. There were seven cautions in the race, as well as eighteen lead changes among ten different drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400\nThe race was Hamlin's fourth win in the 2009 season, and the eighth of his career. Johnson became the first driver to win four consecutive Drivers' Championships and was 141 points ahead of Mark Martin. Johnson's team owner Jeff Gordon won the Owners' Championship. Chevrolet won the Manufacturers' Championship with 262 points, fifty-five points ahead of Toyota and ninety-eight ahead of Ford. The race attracted 5.60 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Background\nThe Ford 400 was the 36th and final race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the last of the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 22, 2009, in Homestead, Florida, at Homestead Miami Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The race was held on the standard track at Homestead Miami Speedway; a four-turn oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked from 18 to 20 degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch are banked at three degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Background\nBefore the final race of the season, Jimmie Johnson led the Drivers' Championship with 6,492 points; Mark Martin was second with 6,384 points, 92 points behind Johnson. A maximum of 195 points were available for the final race. Johnson could win the title if he finished 25th or higher, while Martin had to win the race and for Johnson to place 30th. Behind Johnson and Martin in the Drivers' Championship, Jeff Gordon was third with 6,323, and Kurt Busch was fourth with 6,281 points. Chevrolet had already secured the Manufacturer's Championship, and entered the race on 256 points, 58 points ahead of Toyota on 198 points, with a maximum of nine points available at the Ford 400. Carl Edwards was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Background\nIn the title battle, Johnson was vying to become the first driver to win four consecutive Cup Series championships while his teammate Martin would be the oldest driver to claim the title. Johnson commented on his mindset: \"I am out of emotion, There is no emotion. It's all business. It's about showing up tomorrow, putting in the best lap I can, driving the car as hard as can I on Saturday, making sure the car is set up right, and doing my job on Sunday. I am not allowing my mind to slip any.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Background\nMartin said he had an unchanged mindset for each race in 2009 and was unworred about his championship prospects: \"I'm sure that we could wind up fourth in the points, which is something no one has even considered. But I'm not thinking about that. I'm neither worried about that or Jimmie.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second 45 minutes. The final session lasted 60 minutes. In the first practice session, Kurt Busch was fastest, placing ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya in second and Clint Bowyer in third. Ryan Newman took fourth position and Joey Logano placed fifth. Tony Stewart, Edwards, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kevin Harvick and David Reutimann rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Practice and qualifying\nForty-eight drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday afternoon; due to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Johnson clinched his fourth pole position of the season, with a time of 31.049. He was joined on the grid's front row by Scott Speed. Marcos Ambrose qualified third, Martin took fourth and Stewart started fifth. Harvick, Newman, Greg Biffle, Bill Elliott and Bowyer completed the top ten fastest qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Practice and qualifying\nKurt Busch, one of the drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, qualified twelfth, while Jeff Gordon set the twentieth fastest time. The five drivers who failed to qualify were Joe Nemechek, Dave Blaney, Mike Skinner, Max Papis and David Stremme. After the qualifier Johnson said, \"I had a talk with myself to do what I could today and don't freak out if it's not as good as what Mark [Martin] ran. I kept my emotions in check and drove the car with the right touch and feel, and that comes from being relaxed, so it went well.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Martin was fastest in the second practice session, ahead of Denny Hamlin in second, and Johnson in third. Newman was fourth quickest, and Kyle Busch took fifth. Jeff Burton managed sixth. Biffle, Kasey Kahne, Joey Logano and Martin Truex, Jr. followed in the top ten. Of the other drivers in the Chase, Jeff Gordon finished with the seventeenth fastest time, while Stewart set the twenty-fourth fastest time. Burton paced the final practice session, with Harvick and Martin followed in second and third respectively. Truex was fourth fastest, ahead of Newman and Logano. Johnson was scored seventh, Casey Mears eighth, Brad Keselowski ninth and Hamlin tenth. The other Chase drivers, Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch were scored fifteenth and eleventh respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nThe race, the last in the 2009 season, began at 3:15 pm Eastern Daylight Time and was televised live in the United States on ABC. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were partly cloudy with the air temperature 28\u00a0\u00b0C (82\u00a0\u00b0F). Fidel Gomez, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Actress Anika Noni Rose performed the national anthem, and Actor Mike Rowe commanded the drivers to start their engines. During the pace laps,  Robby Gordon had to move to the back of the grid because of him changing his engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nJohnson retained his pole position lead into the first corner, with Speed behind him. Two laps later, Harvick had moved into fourth position; Jamie McMurray, who began the race in eleventh, had moved up four positions to seventh place. By lap six, Ambrose began to reduce the lead of Johnson, and Martin got loose on the same lap but regained control of his car. On lap nine, Stewart passed Martin for fourth. One lap later, Ambrose passed Johnson to become the new race leader. On lap 13, Johnson retook the lead off Ambrose. After having made three positions early, Harvick moved up into second position by passing Ambrose. On lap 16, Ambrose's car suffered a flat tire and came into the pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nEarnhardt who began the race in thirty-second, had moved up nineteen positions to thirteenth by lap 24. Two laps later, Ambrose began to slow and made a pit stop three laps later to change his car's battery. On lap 33, Stewart passed Johnson to become the new race leader while Ambrose's car went into his garage. Three laps later,  Earnhardt had passed McMurray for tenth position. On lap 38, Clint Bowyer passed Martin for fourth position, as Ambrose rejoined the race four laps later. On lap 47, Kurt Busch passed Martin to claim sixth position. Three laps later, green flag pit stops began, as Matt Kenseth and Martin were the first to pit. Johnson made his pit stop one lap later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nOn lap 53, Kurt Busch became the new race leader after Stewart came into his pit stall. One lap later, Kurt Busch came onto pit road and Bowyer became the new race leader. On lap 57, Harvick passed Bowyer to clinch the lead. Two laps later, Bowyer moved into second position by passing Stewart. Four laps later, Stewart reclaimed the lead after passing Harvick. On lap 64, Johnson passed Martin to move into ninth. By lap 73, Stewart had a 2.4 second lead over Harvick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nOne lap later, Newman collided with the wall, falling to eleventh place, and escaped with minor damage. On the 79th lap, Truex moved into seventh after passing Jeff Gordon. Two laps later, Ambrose spun at turn four but avoided contact with the barriers, causing the first caution of the race, and the pace car came out on track. During the caution, most of the leaders made pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nStewart maintained his lead on the restart, but Harvick reclaimed the lead immediately afterward, and Stewart was passed by Bowyer for second. One lap later, Stewart dropped to sixth as he was passed by Johnson, Montoya and Kurt Busch. On lap 89, Montoya passed Kurt Busch to move into fourth position. Two laps later, Montoya moved into third position after passing Johnson. On lap 92, Montoya passed Bowyer for second,  as Burton moved into third. Three laps later, Kurt Busch moved up into sixth after passing Johnson. On lap 101, John Andretti collided with the wall, causing the second caution of the race. As with the first caution,  most of the leaders made their pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nHarvick maintained his lead on the restart. Three laps later, Ambrose collided with the wall which prompted the third caution. Most of the drivers stayed on track during the caution, allowing Harvick to remain the leader on the restart. A collision involving Montoya and Stewart occurred on lap 116 and the third caution was given as a result. Harvick led on the restart, although he was passed by Kurt Busch within eleven laps. By lap 143, Kurt Busch had a 1.5 second lead over Harvick. Two laps later, Hamlin passed Harvick to claim second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nOn lap 156, Montoya made rear-end contact with Stewart, sending the latter into the inside retaining barrier, and prompting the fifth caution. During the caution, all of the leaders made pit stops and Montoya was black-flagged for two laps. On lap 158, Hamlin reclaimed the lead, followed by Kurt Busch and Burton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nOn lap 165, Johnson moved into seventh. Afterward, Johnson passed Jeff Gordon for sixth position. Seven laps later, Kurt Busch reclaimed the lead off Hamlin. During the 184th lap, Burton passed Hamlin for second. Ten laps later, a sixth caution came out as Robby Gordon spun sideways. All leading cars made pit stops, with Hamlin maintaining his lead until Burton passed him on the restart. By lap 205, Burton had a lead of over two seconds. On lap 217, debris was spotted on the track and the seventh and final caution was prompted. The lead drivers made their pit stops. One lap later, Michael Waltrip became the new leader, followed by Andretti. Kurt Busch regained the lead one lap later, when Waltrip and Andretti made their pit stops. Kyle Busch immediately passed Kurt Busch on the restart for the lead. One lap later, Hamlin reclaimed the lead off Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race\nOn lap 229, Jeff Gordon passed Johnson for the seventh position. Seven laps later, Martin moved into twelfth. After 247 laps, Hamlin's lead over Kyle Busch was 2.3  seconds. During the 249th lap, Edwards passed Bowyer for eighth. Six laps later, Kurt Busch passed Kyle Busch for third, and Kyle Busch lost fourth place to Johnson on lap 256. Hamlin maintained the lead to win his fourth race of the 2009 season, his second in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and the eighth of his career. Burton finished second, ahead of Harvick and Kurt Busch. Johnson, who finished fifth, became the first driver to clinch four consecutive Drivers' Championships, overtaking Cale Yarborough's streak of three successive titles from 1976 to 1978. Gordon,  Edwards, Kyle Busch, Truex and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 19], "content_span": [20, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\n\"History, boys, No one ever \u2013 ever! I don't know how to thank you guys. Thank you so much.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\nJimmie Johnson, speaking on his team radio after winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\nHamlin appeared in victory lane to start celebrating his fourth win of the season in front of 70,000 who attended the race. Hamlin also earned $347,975 in race winnings. After winning the race, Hamlin described his disappointment by saying, \"The car took off and it was game-over, Everyone's got a little fight in them, especially when they get done wrong. After our performance today, it's easy to put yesterday behind me.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\nAfterward, Johnson began celebrating his fourth consecutive Sprint Cup Series championship. During the celebration, Johnson was delighted with his performance, saying, \"The truth of it is, to do something that's never been done in this sport \u2013 to love the sport like I do and respect it like I do \u2013 and the greats: Petty, Earnhardt, Gordon ... to do something they've never done is so awesome. To win four championships in eight years, what this team has done ... I don't know where to start. It's unbelievable.\" Burton, who finished second, commended Johnson's achievements saying, \"It\u2019s hard to say he\u2019s the best when you\u2019re out there racing against him, but you have to put him on the list.\u201d Martin, who finished second in points, said,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\n\"Our car didn't work well [Sunday], It didn't work well, and we really struggled with it. And as the sun went down, we went to the back. We came in and pitted and tried to do some work on it to try to improve it, and it didn't really improve it a whole lot, so then we were stuck with sorry track position on top of not having a great race car. We just fought and fought and fought, and actually the last adjustment perked it up, and we drove from 21st to 10th, and then right at the end a couple of the guys got the high line going and got me back.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202982-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Ford 400, Race, Post-race\nIn the Drivers' Championship, Johnson finished first with 6,652 points, one-hundred and forty one ahead of Martin in second. Jeff Gordon followed in third with 6,473. Kurt Busch and Hamlin rounded out the top five positions with 6,446 and 6,335 points respectively. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet won with 262 points, fifty-five ahead of Toyota and ninety-eight ahead of Ford. Dodge finished fourth with 159 points. 5.60 million people watched the race on television. The race took three hours, six minutes and eighteen seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 2.632 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202983-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fordham Rams football team\nThe 2009 Fordham Rams football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. In its fourth season under head coach Tom Masella, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record (2\u20134 against conference opponents) and played its home games at Jack Coffey Field in The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202983-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fordham Rams football team\nThe team was led on offense by six-foot, five-inch quarterback John Skelton. In a game against Cornell on October 17, 2009, Skelton passed for 420 yards and was responsible for six touchdown (five passing and one rushing). During the 2009 season, Skelton led the NCAA FCS in passing yards (337 yards per game) and total passing yards (3,708). He finished his Fordham career as the school's all-time leader in pass completions, passing yards, and touchdown passes; he was inducted into the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017. Skelton went on to play in the National Football League for the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, and Tennessee Titans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202983-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fordham Rams football team\nThe team's other statistical leaders included Xavier Martin with 700 rushing yards and Jason Caldwell with 79 receptions for 1,252 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202984-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formul'Academy Euro Series\nThe 2009 Formul'Academy Euro Series season was the seventeenth season of the series for 1600cc Formula Renault machinery, and the second under the Formul'Academy Euro Series guise. The season began on 3 May at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain and ended on 25 October at Ciudad del Motor de Arag\u00f3n in Alca\u00f1iz, also in Spain; and consisted of fourteen races at seven meetings. Benjamin Bailly became series champion, only the fourth time that a non-French driver had won the series that began as Formula Renault Campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202985-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula 3 Euro Series\nThe 2009 Formula 3 Euro Series season was the seventh championship year of the Formula 3 Euro Series. The series consisted of ten double-header meetings beginning at Hockenheim on 16 May and ending at the same venue on 25 October. Jules Bianchi claimed the title for ART Grand Prix, winning his eighth race of the season at Dijon-Prenois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202985-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula 3 Euro Series, Season standings, Drivers Standings\n\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202986-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula 3 Sudamericana season\nThe 2009 Formula 3 Sudamericana season was the 23rd Formula 3 Sudamericana season. It began on 6 June 2009, at Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Bras\u00edlia and ended on 22 November at Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional de Curitiba. Brazilian driver Leonardo Cordeiro won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202987-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Americas season\nThe 2009 Formula BMW Americas season was the sixth, and final, season of the Formula BMW Americas series. The championship was contested over fourteen races at six meetings, supporting various series such as the World Touring Car Championship and the American Le Mans Series. Gabriel Chaves was the final series champion, having finished in the top three in all fourteen races. The series was cancelled on July 31, 2009 as a result of a tough economic climate, which also led to the discontinuation of BMW's Formula One outfit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202988-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Europe season\nThe 2009 Formula BMW Europe season was the second season of Formula BMW Europe championship. The championship was contested over sixteen races at eight meetings: seven of which supported Formula One Grands Prix and a meeting at the Masters of Formula 3 event at Zandvoort. Felipe Nasr won the title at Monza, having finished fourteen of the sixteen races in the top two and won the title by 104 points. Two months after the season's finish, all results were confirmed after M\u00fccke Motorsport's appeal over a breach of technical regulations was rejected by the FIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202988-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Europe season, Standings, Drivers\n\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202989-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Pacific season\nThe 2009 Formula BMW Pacific season was the eighth Formula BMW Pacific season. It began on May 2 in Sepang and ended on November 22 in Macau after 15 rounds in five countries. Rio Haryanto became champion with one race to spare, having won the title at Okayama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202989-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Pacific season, Calendar\n* At the last three rounds, guest drivers started from pole position, setting the fastest lap before winning the race. In Singapore, Felipe Nasr achieved that before Facundo Regalia (Okayama) and William Buller did so in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202989-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula BMW Pacific season, Standings\nNote: In the second race at the Sepang F1 support event, due to insufficient distance covered, half points were awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202990-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula D season\nThe 2009 Formula D season (officially titled Formula Drift Professional Championship) was the sixth season for the Formula D series. The series began April 11 and concluded on October 11. Chris Forsberg took his first series title in a Nissan 350Z; the third season in succession in which a Nissan car had won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202991-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Le Mans Cup\nThe 2009 Formula Le Mans Cup season was the only season of the Formula Le Mans Cup, a support series for the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. All competitors utilized the Oreca FLM09 spec prototype. The season featured ten races held over six events from 10 May to 20 September 2009. Nico Verdonck claimed the title ahead of Gavin Cronje, despite the drivers sharing a car all season. Verdonck benefitted from points awarded for pole positions and fastest laps, giving him a four-point advantage of Cronje. Their team, DAMS, also won the teams championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202991-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Le Mans Cup, Race calendar and results\nThe Formula Le Mans Cup schedule consisted of several types of events. Four events, held in support for the Le Mans Series, featured two races of 60 minutes each. A fifth event at the 24 Hours of Le Mans utilized only a single 60 minute race. The final event of the season at Magny-Cours featured three 60 minute races in succession with a winner determined only at the end of the third race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202991-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Le Mans Cup, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top ten finishers in the order 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202991-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Le Mans Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' standings\nAn additional bonus point was available for individual drivers at each race; these could be earned by winning pole position or by setting the fastest lap of the race. A championship was also awarded to the best amateur driver over the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202992-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Lista Junior season\nThe 2009 Formula Lista Junior season was the tenth Formula Lista Junior season. It began on April 11 at Dijon-Prenois and ended on September 27 at Monza after twelve races. Kevin Giovesi was crowned series champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202993-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Nippon Championship\nThe 2009 Formula Nippon Championship was the 23rd season of the premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing series. The series for Formula Nippon racing cars was contested over eight rounds. Nakajima Racing's Lo\u00efc Duval claimed four victories en route to the championship, ending a six-year streak of championships by the Impul team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship\nThe 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 63rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 60th Formula One World Championship which was contested over 17 events commencing with the Australian Grand Prix on 29 March and ending with the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on 1 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship\nJenson Button and Brawn GP secured the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship titles respectively in the Brazilian Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season. It was both Button and Brawn's first championship success, Brawn becoming the first team to win the Constructors' Championship in their debut season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship\nButton was the tenth British driver to win the championship, and following Lewis Hamilton's success in 2008 it was the first time the championship had been won by English drivers in consecutive seasons, and the first time since Graham Hill (1968) and Jackie Stewart (1969) that consecutive championships have been won by British drivers. Also notable was the success of Red Bull Racing, as well as the poor performance of McLaren and Ferrari compared to the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship\nTen teams participated in the championship after several rule changes were implemented by the FIA to cut costs to try to minimise the financial difficulties. There were further changes to try to improve the on-track spectacle with the return of slick tyres, changes to aerodynamics and the introduction of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) presenting some of the biggest changes in Formula One regulations for several decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship\nThe Brawn team, formed as a result of a management buyout of the Honda team, won six of the first seven races, their ability to make the most of the new regulations being a deciding factor in the championship. The Red Bull team caught up in an unpredictable second half of the season, with the season being the first time since 2005 that all participating teams had scored World Championship points. Sebastian Vettel and Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello were his main challengers over the season, winning six races between them to finish in second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers competed in the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship: Teams competed with tyres supplied by Bridgestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes\nHonda withdrew ahead of the 2009 season, and the team was bought by a consortium led by team principal Ross Brawn. Brawn renamed the team Brawn GP, and raced with Mercedes engines, but retained Honda drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. Force India also raced with Mercedes engines, after running with Ferrari engines in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nThe only offseason driver change was following the retirement of Red Bull's David Coulthard after 14 years in Formula One. He was replaced by Sebastian Vettel, who had raced for Toro Rosso in 2008. Vettel's seat at Toro Rosso was taken by the Swiss driver S\u00e9bastien Buemi, who was Red Bull's test driver in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nFollowing the German Grand Prix, Toro Rosso's S\u00e9bastien Bourdais was dropped by the team, with Toro Rosso principal Franz Tost claiming that the partnership had not met his expectations. Bourdais was replaced by Jaime Alguersuari ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Alguersuari had been racing in Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2009, and had only signed a deal to replace Brendon Hartley as Toro Rosso's test driver two weeks prior. Bourdais was advised by counsel to file suit for breach of contract by Toro Rosso. Toro Rosso settled the matter with a $2.1 million payment to Bourdais to avoid litigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nAfter sustaining an injury during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari's Felipe Massa missed the remainder of the season. He was replaced for the next two races by Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer, but after Badoer failed to score a single point in his two races, Ferrari replaced him with Giancarlo Fisichella who had signed a deal to be a Ferrari test driver for 2010 and had driven for Force India throughout the 2009 season. Fisichella's seat at Force India was taken by Vitantonio Liuzzi, who was Force India's test driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nFollowing the Hungarian Grand Prix, Renault parted ways with Nelson Piquet Jr. as he had failed to score a single point and allegations that he had intentionally crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix surfaced. Piquet was replaced by Romain Grosjean, who was Renault's test driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes\nIn qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix, Toyota's Timo Glock crashed heavily at the last corner and was airlifted to hospital with a leg injury. As he was not fit to race, Jarno Trulli was the only driver representing Toyota at the Japanese Grand Prix. On 11 October, Toyota confirmed that its test driver Kamui Kobayashi would make his race debut in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Glock had suffered further complications from his accident, resulting in a cracked vertebra and he would not be guaranteed to be fit in time to race in Brazil. Kobayashi retained the seat in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar\nThe following rounds were included on the provisional calendars published by the FIA but were cancelled:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Rule changes\nThe FIA released preliminary technical regulations for the 2009 season on 22 December 2006, and were revised several times to accommodate the findings of the Overtaking Working Group (formed in response to concerns that passing in wheel-to-wheel racing was becoming increasingly rare) and the increasing need for cost-cutting in the sport to minimise financial costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nFIA President Max Mosley announced dramatic rule changes for the 2009 season in a bid to improve the spectacle of the sport, with the cars undergoing major changes in an effort to increase overtaking. The design changes significantly altered the design of the cars, incorporating wider and lower front wings, taller and narrower rear wings, and a reduction on aerodynamic bodywork. Also introduced were slick tyres and Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, as well as implementing cost-cutting measures in a response to the rising costs of competing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nHonda announced in December 2008 they would be leaving Formula One with immediate effect, as a result of the automotive industry crisis. After a winter of uncertainty, it was confirmed on 5 March 2009 that the team would compete in the 2009 season as Brawn GP, with Mercedes engines, following a management buyout led by team principal Ross Brawn, and would retain the services of both Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello as drivers. Anthony Davidson, who competed for the Honda-backed Super Aguri team before their early withdrawal in 2008, joined Brawn as a test driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nForce India joined Brawn GP in using the Mercedes engines by signing a five-year deal until 2013, having ended their previous supply contract from Ferrari. The retirement of Red Bull Racing driver David Coulthard led to the appointment of Sebastian Vettel as his replacement, who left the Scuderia Toro Rosso team after a successful previous season including winning the Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nToro Rosso, a team designed to develop new Formula One drivers, saw co-owner Gerhard Berger sell his half-stake back to Red Bull, claiming that the new regulations would \"leave no room for improvement for a small team like STR\", Franz Tost took over as team boss. Filling Vettel's race seat in Toro Rosso was S\u00e9bastien Buemi, who as part of the Red Bull Junior Team competed for Trust Team Arden in the GP2 Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nThe World Drivers' Championship would be decided in the traditional manner of points scored after Bernie Ecclestone's idea that the driver who won the most races be declared as the champion was scrapped following protests from the Formula One Teams Association. The teams were less successful in their attempts to have the long-running French and Canadian Grands Prix kept on the calendar, with the organisers of both events pulling out due to financial issues. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix made its d\u00e9but appearance as the last round of the season, at the Hermann Tilke-designed Yas Marina Circuit. The race, starting at sunset, was Formula One's first day-night race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nThe first multi-team testing session took place at Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona in November 2008, two weeks after the end of previous season. All teams, except Toyota, took part in the testing session where some teams tested their new aerodynamics package and slick tyres. The new look cars did not suit everyone's taste, with BMW Sauber's test driver, Christian Klien, labelling the car the ugliest car he'd ever seen. On 9 March, testing at Barcelona featured for the first time Brawn GP, who made an immediate impact by leading the times early in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nThe test, the first in which all teams used their 2009 cars, had BMW Sauber leading the times while Brawn GP finished fourth. On day three, Brawn GP's Jenson Button was fastest by just over one second to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, while Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello went even faster the next day. At the other end of the timing sheets, reigning champion Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team were struggling to adapt to the new regulations, often 1.5 seconds off the pace. Massa stated he had never seen McLaren so far behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nA major source of controversy throughout the winter season were the rear diffusers. Three teams \u2013 Toyota, Williams and Brawn GP \u2013 launched their cars with a diffuser that uses the rear crash structure in order to generate additional downforce, labelled \"double diffusers\". These designs were quickly protested, and just days after the cars were unveiled, rival teams asked the FIA for a clarification on the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season\nOn the Wednesday of the season opening race in Australia, an official complaint was launched by the seven other teams against the rear diffusers of the Williams FW31, Toyota TF109 and the Brawn BGP 001 saying that they were illegal. The FIA scrutineers disagreed, declaring the cars legal. The other six teams filed an unsuccessful appeal which was heard on 14 April 2009\u00a0\u2013 the week prior to round three of the championship, the Chinese Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nThe season opened at the Australian Grand Prix, won by Jenson Button with teammate Rubens Barrichello in second, giving the team a 1\u20132 on its d\u00e9but. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel had been running in second until he collided with BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica. The accident meant the race finished behind the safety car, with Toyota's Jarno Trulli eventually classified third despite McLaren's false protest he had illegally overtaken Lewis Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nReigning champion Hamilton was disqualified from the Australian race for lying to the stewards and at the following Malaysian Grand Prix there were reports he was on the verge of quitting. The race was equally dramatic, being stopped because of monsoon-like conditions, meaning only half points were awarded for only the fifth time in F1 history. Button mastered the changing conditions for his second win, while quick starting Nico Rosberg dropped to eighth when the race was stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nIn the interval between races, the controversial double diffusers, used by Brawn, Williams and Toyota, were declared legal by the FIA, ending the fight over their use. The Chinese race also took place in wet conditions, with the rain throughout the duration of the race necessitating a safety car start and causing several accidents. Vettel led teammate Mark Webber to Red Bull's first win in Formula One, ahead of the two Brawns and McLarens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nDry conditions at Bahrain saw the Toyota team gain the front of the grid, but Button managed to fight up from a fourth-place start, and overtook race leader Timo Glock on his first pit stop. Hamilton and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, in fourth and sixth respectively, gave their 2008 championship winning teams the best finishes of a disappointing season start. The Spanish Grand Prix was a battle between the Brawn teammates, with Barrichello getting ahead of polesitter Button while a first lap incident forced the retirement of four drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nButton followed a different pit-stop strategy and passed Barrichello during his stop, leading Brawn's second one-two of the season. Red Bull was the closest team to Brawn finishing third and fourth, while Felipe Massa's fuel shortage lost him places as he slowed to finish the race. Button won in dominant fashion at Monaco, leading the majority of the race from pole position ahead of his teammate Barrichello and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, who scored Ferrari's first podium in 2009. At the Turkish Grand Prix Vettel started on pole but lost the position to Button on the first lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nButton went on to win, followed by Webber and a closely pursuing Vettel. Barrichello's car developed a gearbox problem, and incidents with Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil resulted in  Brawn's first retirement of the season. By winning six out of the first seven races, Button had opened up a 26-point lead on his teammate, with Vettel a further six points behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nThe British Grand Prix was seen as a turning point, being dominated by Red Bull with Vettel leading home Webber, in dry conditions. Button was not on the podium for the first time this season, finishing sixth. Red Bull also dominated the following German Grand Prix with Webber taking his first pole and race win, despite being given a drive through penalty. Ferrari were also showing signs of improvement, Felipe Massa finishing third in what would be his final race of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nHe was hospitalised after being hit on the helmet by a flying spring when he was travelling at 162 mph in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The accident overshadowed the race, with a lightly-fueled Fernando Alonso on pole retiring early in the race, which was won by Lewis Hamilton. Jaime Alguersuari finished his d\u00e9but race ahead of Buemi, the Toro Rosso test driver replacing the fired S\u00e9bastien Bourdais. Post-race, the Renault team received a suspension for the European Grand Prix, for an incident where Alonso's tyre came loose on the race track following a pit-stop error. An appeal overturned the decision, and the team raced in Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nDuring the summer break, BMW Sauber announced their withdrawal from Formula One racing due to poor results and lack of financial sustainability. The team would compete until the end of the season, while BMW attempted to sell the organisation. Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher was originally set to replace the injured Massa, but the seat was taken by test driver Luca Badoer due to Schumacher's neck injuries. Also replaced was Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr., who complained of unfair treatment by team management, in favour of GP2 driver Romain Grosjean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nThe European Grand Prix in Valencia provided the first win for Rubens Barrichello after Hamilton lost the lead with an error in the pits; he finished second while both Red Bulls failed to score. At the Belgian Grand Prix Giancarlo Fisichella gained Force India's first pole position, and his second-place finish behind Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen gave their first points. Button's title charge was undermined by poor qualifying and a crash, involving him, Hamilton, Alguersuari and Grosjean, ending their races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nFollowing the race Badoer, who had qualified and finished last in both races, was replaced with Giancarlo Fisichella after his performance at the Belgian race. Vitantonio Liuzzi in turn took the vacant Force India drive. Brawn returned to form in Italy, with Barrichello leading home the team's fourth 1\u20132 of the season. Lewis Hamilton crashed on the penultimate lap, but came back by winning the next race at Singapore. Webber's crash ended his chance of winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0024-0002", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nVettel kept the opportunity of winning the Drivers' title with a dominant display in the Japanese Grand Prix, with Toyota's Trulli gaining what would prove to be Toyota's final podium before their withdrawal at the end of the season. Toyota teammate Glock was injured during qualifying, and a cracked vertebra meant he was replaced by reserve Kamui Kobayashi for the final two races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nThe Drivers' and Constructors' championships were both decided at the penultimate race in Brazil. Storm-affected qualifying at Interlagos gave Barrichello pole during Formula One's longest qualifying session, while title rivals Button and Vettel started from 14th and 16th respectively. During the first lap, three incidents led to the retirement of three cars and a fire in the pit-lane, with Button taking advantage to move up the grid. Button fought up to fifth position by the race end, securing enough points to clinch the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report\nMark Webber took the lead after Barrichello pitted and won the race, followed by Robert Kubica, to give BMW Sauber their joint best result of their final season and his only podium result in 2009. Lewis Hamilton completed the top three after starting 17th on the grid, moving him and McLaren above Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Ferrari respectively in the championships. The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, taking place at sunset, rounded out the season, with another win for Vettel and Red Bull's fourth 1\u20132 result of the year, awarding Vettel and the team second place in both championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report, 2008 race fixing controversy\nIn a scandal dubbed \"Crashgate\" by the media, allegations of race-fixing during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix emerged during the second half of the 2009 season from former Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. Over the course of the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Piquet, who had been sacked weeks earlier by Renault, claimed he was asked to crash at the Singapore race in a strategy designed to aid teammate and eventual race winner Fernando Alonso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Report, 2008 race fixing controversy\nRenault were handed a two-year suspended ban from the sport after the FIA World Motor Sport Council decided the team's managing director, Flavio Briatore and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds had asked Piquet to crash. Both had left the team before the WMSC hearing, where they were given life and five-year suspensions respectively. It had been rumoured Renault were prepared to quit the sport at the end of the 2009 season had the team been heavily punished, but the FIA found Briatore and Symonds solely to blame and chose to suspend Renault's ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202994-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system\nIf two or more competitors had the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the championship were fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places, and so on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202995-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Palmer Audi season\nThe 2009 Formula Palmer Audi season was the twelfth Formula Palmer Audi season. It began on May 2 at Brands Hatch and finished on October 18 at Snetterton. It consisted of twenty rounds all held in England. The championship was won by Richard Plant in his third FPA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202995-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Palmer Audi season\nIn a new incentive for 2009, the winner of this season's championship received a \u00a350,000 scholarship prize towards a Formula Two drive, and the top three all received a F2 test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202996-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup\nThe 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the fourth Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season. The season began at Zandvoort on 12 April and finished on 4 October at Spa, after sixteen races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202996-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup\nMotopark Academy driver Ant\u00f3nio F\u00e9lix da Costa won the NEC championship title, having won nine races during the season, bringing the team their fourth successive drivers' championship title. His team-mates, Danish drivers Kevin Magnussen and Marco S\u00f8rensen, completed the top three, for the team's third consecutive championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202997-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship\nThe 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship was the 21st British Formula Renault Championship. The season began at Brands Hatch on 5 April and ended at the same venue on 4 October, after twenty rounds held in England. Dean Smith won the title, despite missing the opening rounds of the series. Harry Tincknell won the Graduate Cup for first-year drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202997-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship, Formula Renault UK season, Background\nDespite initial fears of the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 causing a lack of entries into the championship, the series' grid increased from the previous season with a total of 26 entries prior to the championship's opening race at Brands Hatch. Most of the pre-season anticipation centred around the two championship favourites: Fortec Motorsport's James Calado and Alpine Motorsport's Dean Stoneman, both in their second season and boasting victories in their d\u00e9but season in the series, with pre-season testing further backing media predictions that the championship would most likely be decided between the pair. The series swelled to 29, for the second meeting at Thruxton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202997-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship, Formula Renault UK Winter Series\nThe 2009 Formula Renault UK Winter Series was the 12th British Formula Renault Winter Series. The series began at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit on 31 October and ended at Rockingham Motor Speedway on 7 November, after four races at two rounds held in England. Harry Tincknell won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series\nThe 2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series was the fifth Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. It began on 18 April at the Circuit de Catalunya and finished on 25 October at the brand-new Ciudad del Motor de Arag\u00f3n in Alca\u00f1iz. It was the fifth season of the Renault-backed single-seater category. International DracoRacing driver Bertrand Baguette won the championship by a comfortable margin, having dominated the second half of the season. His team won their respective championship, ahead of Carlin Motorsport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Technical\nAfter debuting in the 2008 season, the aerodynamics of the current Dallara chassis underwent \"minor enhancements inspired by the 2009 F1 regulations\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Sporting\nA number of changes were made to the sporting regulations in order to reduce costs and better showcase drivers' talent:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Sporting\nIn addition, at the halfway point of the season (after the Hungaroring round) the championship leader got the opportunity to demonstrate a Renault R28 F1 car at a World Series meeting. After the seventh race of the season both Marcos Mart\u00ednez and Bertrand Baguette were tied at the top of the standings, but by virtue of his three race wins, Mart\u00ednez received the prize drive during the next round at Silverstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Sporting\nAnd just like in previous years, the eventual champion earned a full test with the ING Renault F1 team at the end of the season. Baguette won the title at the N\u00fcrburgring, to earn that test with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Race calendar and results\nSeven rounds formed meetings of the 2009 World Series by Renault season, with additional rounds supporting the Monaco Grand Prix and the 1000 km of Algarve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Season results\nIn addition, a bonus point will be awarded to the driver who climbs the most places in the race order during each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Season results\nThe maximum number of points a driver can earn each weekend (except Monaco) is 32 and the maximum number for a team is 57. At Monaco and Portim\u00e3o, a different point system was implemented, with the qualifying points awarded to each group as there is no Super Pole session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202998-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Season results, Drivers' Championship\nBold\u00a0\u2013 PoleItalics\u00a0\u2013 Fastest Lap\u2020\u00a0\u2013 Retired, but classified*\u00a0\u2013 Hard charger1 \u2013 3 Points for Pole2 \u2013 2 Points for P23 \u2013 1 Point for P3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons\nThis article describes all the 2009 seasons of Formula Renault series across the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Calendar\nThis table indicates the round number of each Formula Renault series according to weekend dates. The dark note indicates Winter Series dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 3.5L, Collective test for notable 2.0L drivers\nEach year, Renault Sport Technologies invite the best Formula Renault 2.0L and some other drivers to test the Formula Renault 3.5L car. This season, the test occurred in October on the new Motorland Arag\u00f3n track in Spain. The table present all invited drivers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup season\nhis is the second season of the WEC series. It include the French Formula Renault championship rewarding the best French driver (F) and reward also the Rookies driver (R).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 101], "content_span": [102, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK season, 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Cup\nThe Formula Renault UK Winter Cup and Formula Renault BARC Winter Cup are held in same time, but with separated classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 126], "content_span": [127, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2009 Formula Renault BARC season\nThe final standing was established with the best 10 results of the season. A Club Class (c) classification is also established for young drivers  they participe on the same race as the FR2000 series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden season\nThis is the first season of the series. Point system\u00a0: 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 10th. No points for Fastest lap or Pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2009 Asian Formula Renault Challenge season\nThe Asian Challenge Category (A) reward the best Asian driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 95], "content_span": [96, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 GP2 Series seasons\nThe GP2 Series and GP2 Asia Series are powered by 4 litre Renault V8 engines and Bridgestone tyres with a Dallara chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 102], "content_span": [103, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 Austria Formel Renault Cup season\nThe season is held on 12 rounds in 6 venues in Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. The races occur with other categories cars: Austrian Formula 3, Formelfrei and Formula 3,5L like (Renault 3,5L from Words Series, Lola Cosworth). This section present only the Austrian Formula Renault 2.0L classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 117], "content_span": [118, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 Formula 2000 Light season\nThis is the second season of the Formula 2000 Light held in Italy. The series use Tatuus Formula Renault or Dallara Formula 3 chassis with 2000 cc maximum engines and Michelin tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 109], "content_span": [110, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 Formula 2000 Light season\nThe rounds a and b held on Magione, March 7\u20138 are the opening venue doesn't reward points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 109], "content_span": [110, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 LATAM Challenge Series season\nThis is the second season of the Latin American (LATAM) Challenge Series held mainly Mexico. The series use Tatuus Formula Renault 2.0L F4RS engines and Kumho tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 113], "content_span": [114, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 LATAM Challenge Series season\nFreddy Zebede from the team Team Costa Rica/Uno Express Racing/PartyPokerRacing is crowned Rookie of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 113], "content_span": [114, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 Super F\u00f3rmula 2.0 Brasil season\nThe season include 10 races but the lack of participants force to cancel the series as it was the past year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 115], "content_span": [116, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 F\u00f3rmula Renault Plus season\nThe series is held partially on the same rounds than its secondary series F\u00f3rmula Renault Interprovencial. It use Crespi chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 111], "content_span": [112, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 F\u00f3rmula Renault Interprovencial season\nThe series is held in the same rounds than its main series F\u00f3rmula Renault Plus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 122], "content_span": [123, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00202999-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2009 F\u00f3rmula Metropolitana season\nThis is the second season of the F\u00f3rmula 4 Metropolitana series held on Argentina. Cars use Renault Clio K4M engine (1598cc) with low power than the former F\u00f3rmula 4 Nacional series held in 2007. Teams can choose chassis manufacturer (Crespi, Tulia, Tito...).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 112], "content_span": [113, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203000-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula V6 Asia Championship\nThe 2009 Formula V6 Asia season was the fourth Formula V6 Asia championship. The season started on the weekend of May 29\u201331 at Sepang, but the series was eventually cancelled after four races, making Hamad Al Fardan, who won all four races, the season champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203000-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Formula V6 Asia Championship, Full Series Results\nPoints are awarded in both races as following: 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 for 9th and 1 bonus points for pole position in the first of the two venue races but only awarded to drivers, not for teams. Only the drivers that achieve races are awarded by points. The team standing is obtained with the best two drivers of each team at each race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting\nOn November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting\nHasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. Hasan was arraigned by a military court on July 20, 2011 and was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. His court-martial began on August 7, 2013. Due to the nature of the charges (more than one premeditated, or first-degree, murder case, in a single crime), Hasan faced either the death penalty or life in prison without parole upon conviction. Hasan was found guilty on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder on August 23, 2013, and was sentenced to death on August 28, 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting\nDays after the shooting, reports in the media revealed that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been aware of a series of e-mails between Hasan and the Yemen-based Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been monitored by the NSA as a security threat, and that Hasan's colleagues had been aware of his increasing radicalization for several years. The failure to prevent the shootings led the Defense Department and the FBI to commission investigations, and Congress to hold hearings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting\nThe U.S. government declined requests from survivors and family members of the slain to categorize the Fort Hood shooting as an act of terrorism, or motivated by militant Islamic religious convictions. In November 2011, a group of survivors and family members filed a lawsuit against the government for negligence in preventing the attack, and to force the government to classify the shootings as terrorism. The Pentagon argued that charging Hasan with terrorism was not possible within the military justice system and that such action could harm the military prosecutors' ability to sustain a guilty verdict against Hasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Preparations\nAccording to pretrial testimony, Hasan entered the Guns Galore store in Killeen on July 31, 2009, and purchased the FN Five-seven semi-automatic pistol that he would use in the attack at Fort Hood. According to Army Specialist William Gilbert, a regular customer at the store, Hasan entered the store and asked for \"the most technologically advanced weapon on the market and the one with the highest standard magazine capacity\". Hasan was allegedly asked how he intended to use the weapon, but simply repeated that he wanted the most advanced handgun with the largest magazine capacity. The three people with Hasan\u2014Gilbert, the store manager, and an employee\u2014all recommended the FN Five-seven pistol. As Gilbert owned one of the pistols, he spent an hour describing its operation to Hasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Preparations\nHasan left the store, saying he needed to research the weapon. He returned to purchase the gun the next day, and visited the store once a week to buy extra magazines, along with over 3,000 rounds of 5.7\u00d728mm SS192 and SS197SR ammunition total. In the weeks prior to the attack, Hasan visited an outdoor shooting range in Florence, where he allegedly became adept at hitting silhouette targets at distances of up to 100 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nAt approximately 1:34\u00a0p.m. local time, November 5, 2009, Hasan entered the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where personnel receive routine medical treatment immediately prior to and on return from deployment. He was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan with his unit and had been to the Center several times before. He was armed with the FN Five-seven pistol, which he had fitted with two Lasermax laser sights: one red, and one green. A Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver (an older model) was later found on Hasan's person, but he did not use it to shoot any of the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nAfter entering the building, Hasan went to the first desk to the right of the North doors and asked to see Major Parrish. MAJ Parrish worked in the building (and had been assisting Hasan in his deployment preparations). The worker went down the hall to get Parrish. According to eyewitnesses, Hasan then went around behind the desk and bowed his head for several seconds, before he suddenly stood up, shouted \"Allahu Akbar\u200a!\" and opened fire. Witnesses said Hasan initially \"sprayed bullets at soldiers in a fanlike motion\" before taking aim at individual soldiers. Eyewitness SGT Michael Davis said: \"The rate of fire was pretty much constant shooting. When I initially heard it, it sounded like an M16.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nArmy Reserve Captain John Gaffaney tried to stop Hasan by charging him, but was mortally wounded before reaching him. Civilian physician assistant Michael Cahill also tried to charge Hasan with a chair, but was shot and killed. Army Reserve Specialist Logan Burnett tried to stop Hasan by throwing a folding table at him, but he was shot in the left hip, fell down, and crawled to a nearby cubicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nAccording to testimony from witnesses, Hasan passed up several opportunities to shoot civilians, and instead targeted soldiers in uniform, who \u2013 in accordance with military policy \u2013 were not carrying personal firearms. At one point, Hasan reportedly approached a group of five civilians hiding under a desk. He looked at them, swept the dot of his pistol's laser sight over one of the men's faces, and turned away without firing. While this was going on, an Army Specialist broke a window in the back of the building where MAJ Parrish worked. Two soldiers and Parrish exited the building through the broken window on the east side of the building and escaped to the parking lot, though one soldier severely cut his hand on broken glass. All of this happened as Hasan was still roaming the building and shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 893]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nBase civilian police Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who had rushed to the scene in her patrol car, encountered Hasan in the area outside the Soldier Readiness Processing Center. Hasan fired at Munley, who exchanged shots with him using her 9mm M9 pistol. Munley's hand was hit by shrapnel when one of Hasan's bullets struck a nearby rain gutter, and then two bullets struck Munley: the first bullet hit her thigh, and the second hit her knee. As she began to fall from the first bullet, the second bullet struck her femur, shattering it and knocking her to the ground. Hasan walked up to Munley and kicked her pistol out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nAs the shooting continued outside, nurses and medics entered the building. An unidentified soldier secured the south double doors with his ACU belt and rushed to help the wounded. According to the responding nurses, there was so much blood covering the floor inside the building that they were unable to maintain balance, and had difficulty reaching the wounded to help them. In the area outside the building, Hasan continued to shoot at fleeing soldiers. Herman Toro, Director of the Soldier Readiness Processing Site, arrived at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nHasan had gone around the building and was out of sight, but still shooting. Toro and another site worker rushed to assist Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Warman, who was down on the ground north of the medical building. They both took her by the arms and tried to carry her to safety when Hasan returned and aimed his red laser across Toro's chest, but did not fire. Toro took cover behind an electrical box and saw civilian police Sergeant Mark Todd arrive and shout commands at Hasan to surrender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nTodd said: \"Then he turned and fired a couple of rounds at me. I didn't hear him say a word, he just turned and fired.\" The two exchanged shots, Hasan emptying his pistol in the process. He stopped, turned, and reached into his pocket for a new magazine before being felled by five shots from Todd. Todd then ran over to Hasan, kicked the pistol out of his hand, and put handcuffs on him as he fell unconscious. LTC Tom Eberhart, Deputy Director of Human Resources, Fort Hood, arrived and entered the Medical Building to help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Soldier Readiness Processing Center shootings\nHe had to step over bodies to enter the building's north entrance. He assisted another soldier in performing CPR on one of the wounded soldiers at the building's waiting area. Folding chairs were scattered all around. He noticed a soldier outside the south doors of the building and went to help, removing the belt from the door. The downed soldier was Staff Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, a medical assistant from the building. He had two wounds in the abdomen and a wound to the scalp. He was unconscious and LTC Eberhart went back into the building to retrieve a folding table. Other soldiers assisted in getting SSG Lunsford onto the table and around the building to the triage area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nAn investigator later testified that 146 spent shell casings were recovered inside the building. Another 68 casings were collected outside, for a total of 214 rounds fired by the attacker and responding police officers. A medic who treated Hasan said his pockets were full of pistol magazines. When the shooting ended, he was still carrying 177 rounds of unfired ammunition in his pockets, contained in both 20- and 30-round magazines. The incident, which lasted about 10 minutes, resulted in 13 killed\u201412 soldiers and one civilian; 11 died at the scene, and two died later in a hospital; and 30 people wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nInitially, officials thought three soldiers were involved in the shooting; two other soldiers were detained, but subsequently released. The Fort Hood website posted a notice indicating that the shooting was not a drill. Immediately after the shooting, the base and surrounding areas were locked down by military police and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) until around 7\u00a0pm local time. In addition, Texas Rangers, Texas DPS troopers, deputies from the Bell County Sheriff's Office, and FBI agents from Austin and Waco were dispatched to the base. U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident and later made a statement about the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nOn November 5, 2010, one year later, 52 individuals received awards for their actions in the shooting. The Soldier's Medal was awarded posthumously to Captain John Gaffaney, who died trying to charge the shooter; fifty other medals were presented to other responders, including seven others who were awarded the Soldier's Medal. The Secretary of the Army Award for Valor was awarded to police officers Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd, for the roles they played in stopping the shooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nOn May 23, 2011, the Army Award for Valor was posthumously awarded to the civilian physician assistant Michael Cahill, who died trying to charge the shooter with a chair. In May 2012, Senator Joe Lieberman and Representative Peter T. King proposed legislation that would make the victims of the shooting eligible for the Purple Heart. In the 113th Congress, Representative John Carter introduced legislation to change the shooting designation from \"workplace violence\" to \"combat related\" which would make the victims of the shooting eligible to receive full benefits and the Purple Heart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nIn July 2014, a memorial for those killed during the attack began to be built in Killeen. The dedication ceremony for the memorial was held in March 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nOn February 6, 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a press release, in which Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh announced that he was approving the awarding of the Purple Heart and its civilian counterpart, the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom, to victims of the shooting. This is a result of Congress expanding the eligibility requirement under a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. On April 10, 2015, nearly 50 awards were handed out to dozens of survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shootings, Aftermath\nIn October 2018, the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University published a case study about the radicalization of Nidal Hasan . The report is based on previously unpublished as well as new sources including primary source documents, discussions with those close to Hasan, and interviews with Hasan himself. The paper concludes that his faith was fundamental to the development of his worldview and his pathway towards radicalization, and that his radicalization followed a linear pathway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Casualties\nThirteen people - 12 soldiers and 1 civilian - were killed in the attack. Over thirty people were wounded; some from gunshots, others from falls or other injuries incurred during the incident, and many suffered psychological trauma or shock. The Army, press, and investigative bodies have reported several numbers for the total number of injured, without indicating what sorts of injuries they were counting, nor how: 29; 30; 31; 32; 38; and 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Casualties\nHasan, the gunman, was taken to Scott and White Memorial Hospital, a trauma center in Temple, Texas, and later moved to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he was held under heavy guard. Hasan was hit by at least four shots. As a result of bullet wounds to his spine, he is now paraplegic. He was later held at the Bell County jail in Belton, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Casualties\nTen of the injured were also treated at Scott and White. Seven wounded victims were taken to Metroplex Adventist Hospital in Killeen. Eight others received hospital treatment for shock. On November 20, 2009, it was announced that eight of the wounded service members would deploy overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nDuring his court-martial on August 6, 2013 before a panel of 13 officers, Major Nidal Malik Hasan declared that he was the shooter. Hasan is unmarried and was described as socially isolated. Born in the United States, Hasan is a practicing Muslim who, according to one of his cousins, became more devout after the deaths of his parents in 1998 and 2001. His cousin did not recall him ever expressing radical or anti-American views.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nAnother cousin, Nader Hasan, a lawyer in Virginia, said that Nidal Hasan's opinion turned against the United States after he heard stories from his patients, who had returned from fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because of what Hasan said was discrimination and his deepening anguish about serving in a military that fought against Muslims, he told some members of his family that he wanted to leave the military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nFrom 2003 to 2009, Hasan was stationed at Walter Reed Medical Center for his internship and residency; he also had a two-year fellowship at USUHS completed in 2009. According to National Public Radio (NPR), officials at Walter Reed Medical Center repeatedly expressed concern about Hasan's behavior during the entire six years he was there; Hasan's supervisors gave him poor evaluations and warned him that he was doing substandard work. In early 2008 (and on later occasions), several key officials met to discuss what to do about Hasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nAttendees of these meetings reportedly included the Walter Reed chief of psychiatry, the chairman of the USUHS Psychiatry Department, two assistant chairs of the USUHS Psychiatry Department (one of whom was the director of Hasan's psychiatry fellowship), another psychiatrist, and the director of the Walter Reed psychiatric residency program. According to NPR, fellow students and faculty were \"deeply troubled\" by Hasan's behavior, which they described as \"disconnected\", \"aloof\", \"paranoid\", \"belligerent\" and \"schizoid\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nOnce, while presenting what was supposed to be a medical lecture to other psychiatrists, Hasan talked about Islam, and said that, according to the Koran, non-believers would be sent to hell, decapitated, set on fire, and have burning oil poured down their throats. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience raised his hand, and challenged Hasan's claims. According to the Associated Press, Hasan's lecture also \"justified suicide bombings\". In the summer of 2009, after completion of his programs, he was transferred to Fort Hood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nAt Fort Hood, Hasan rented an apartment away from other officers, in a somewhat rundown area. Two days before the shooting, Hasan gave away furniture from his home, saying he was going to be deployed. He also handed out copies of the Qur'an, along with his business cards, which gave a Maryland phone number and read \"Behavioral Heatlh  [sic] \u2013 Mental Health \u2013 Life Skills | Nidal Hasan, MD, MPH | SoA(SWT) | Psychiatrist\". The cards did not reflect his military rank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nIn May 2001, Hasan attended the funeral of his mother, held at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which has 3,000 members. He may also have occasionally prayed there but, for a period of ten years, he prayed several times a week at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, closer to where he lived and worked. He was regularly seen at the Muslim Community Center by the imam and other members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nHis attendance at the Falls Church mosque was in the same period as that of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, two of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks, who went there from April 2001 to later in the summer. A law enforcement official said that the FBI will probably look into whether Hasan associated with the hijackers. A review of Hasan's computer and his e-mail accounts revealed he had visited radical Islamist websites, a senior law enforcement official said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nHasan expressed admiration for the teachings of Anwar al-Awlaki, the imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia between 2000 and 2002. Awlaki had been the subject of several FBI investigations, and had helped hijackers al-Hazmi and Hanjour settle, and provided spiritual guidance to them when they met him at the San Diego mosque, and after they drove to the east coast. Considered moderate then, Al-Awlaki appeared to become radicalized after 2006 and was under surveillance. After Hasan wrote nearly 20 e-mails to him between December 2008 and June 2009, Hasan was investigated by the FBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nThe fact that Hasan had \"certain communications\" with the subject of a Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation was revealed in an FBI press release made on November 9, 2009, and reporting by the media immediately revealed that the subject was Awlaki and the communications were e-mails. In one, Hasan wrote: \"I can't wait to join you\" in the afterlife. Lt . Col. Tony Shaffer, a military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, suggested that Hasan was \"either offering himself up or [had] already crossed that line in his own mind\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter\nArmy employees were informed of the contacts at the time, but they believed that the e-mails were consistent with Hasan's professional mental health research about Muslims in the armed services, as part of his master's work in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry. A DC-based joint terrorism task force operating under the FBI was notified, and the information reviewed by one of its Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) employees, who concluded there was not sufficient information for a larger investigation. Senior officers at the Department of Defense stated they were not notified of such investigations before the shootings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nImmediately after the shooting, analysts and public officials openly debated Hasan's motive and preceding psychological state: a military activist, Selena Coppa, remarked that Hasan's psychiatrist colleagues \"failed to notice how deeply disturbed someone right in their midst was\". A spokesperson for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, one of the first officials to comment on Hasan's background, told reporters that Hasan was upset about his pending deployment to Afghanistan on November 28. Noel Hamad, Hasan's aunt, said that the family was not aware he was being sent to Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nThe Dallas Morning News reported on November 17 that ABC News, citing anonymous sources, reported that investigators suspect that the shootings were triggered by superiors' refusal to process Hasan's requests that some of his patients be prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him. Dallas attorney Patrick McLain, a former Marine, said that Hasan may have been legally justified in his request, but he could not comment without knowing what soldiers had said. Fellow psychiatrists complained to superiors that Hasan's actions violated doctor-patient confidentiality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nDuane Reasoner, a convert to Islam whom Hasan was mentoring in the religion, said the psychiatrist did not want to be deployed. \"'He said Muslims shouldn't be in the U.S. military, because obviously Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims. He told me not to join the Army.'\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nSenator Joe Lieberman called for a probe by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which he chairs. Lieberman said \"it's premature to reach conclusions about what motivated Hasan\u00a0... I think it's very important to let the Army and the FBI go forward with this investigation before we reach any conclusions.\" Two weeks later, when opening his committee's hearings, Lieberman labeled the shooting \"the most destructive terrorist attack on America since September 11, 2001\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nMichael Welner, M.D., a leading forensic psychiatrist with experience examining mass shooters, said that the shooting had elements common to both ideological and workplace mass shootings. Welner, who believed Hasan wanted to create a \"spectacle\", said that a trauma care worker, even under mental distress, would not normally be expected to be homicidal toward his patients unless his ideology trumped his Hippocratic Oath\u2013Welner thought Hasan expressed this in shouting, \"Allahu Akhbar,\" as he shot unarmed men. An analyst of terror investigations, Carl Tobias, opined that the attack did not fit the profile of terrorism, and was more similar to the Virginia Tech massacre, committed by a student believed to be severely mentally ill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nMichael Scheuer, the retired former head of the Bin Laden Issue Station, and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey have called the event a terrorist attack, as has the terrorism expert Walid Phares. Retired General Barry McCaffrey said on Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0 that \"it's starting to appear as if this was a domestic terrorist attack on fellow soldiers by a major in the Army who we educated for six years while he was giving off these vibes of disloyalty to his own force\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nSome of Hasan's former colleagues have said he performed substandard work and occasionally unnerved them by expressing fervent Islamic views and deep opposition to the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others were more concerned about his apparent mental instability and paranoid behaviors. Throughout his years at Walter Reed, heads of departments had regularly discussed his mental state, as they were \"deeply concerned\" about his behavior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nBrian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism wrote that the case sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress. He compared the possible role of religion to the beliefs of Scott Roeder, a Christian who murdered Dr. George Tiller, who practiced abortion. Such offenders \"often self-radicalize from a volatile mix of personal distress, psychological issues, and an ideology that can be sculpted to justify and explain their anti-social leanings\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Possible motives\nAt his trial in June 2013, Hasan declared his motive as wanting to defend the lives of the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. Army prosecutors said that he sought to align himself with Islamic extremists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Hasan's description of motives\nIn August 2013, Fox News released documents from Hasan in which he explained his motives. Most of the documents included the acronym \"SoA\", which is considered shorthand for \"Soldier of Allah\". In one document, Hasan wrote that he was required to renounce any oaths that required him to defend any man-made constitution over the commandments mandated in Islam. In another document, he wrote \"I invite the world to read the book of All-Mighty Allah and decide for themselves if it is the truth from their Lord. My desire is to help people attain heaven by the mercy of their Lord.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Hasan's description of motives\nIn another document, Hasan wrote that there is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between American democracy and Islamic governance. Specifically:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Hasan's description of motives\n... in an American democracy, 'we the people' govern according to what 'we the people' think is right or wrong, even if it specifically goes against what All-Mighty God commands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Shooter, Hasan's description of motives\nHe further explained that separation of Church and State is an unacceptable attempt to get along with unbelievers, because \"Islam was brought to prevail over other religions\" and not to be equal with or subservient to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction\nMany have characterized the attack as terrorism. Two weeks after recommending no conclusions be drawn until after the investigation was completed, Senator Joe Lieberman called the shooting \"the most destructive terrorist attack on America since September 11, 2001.\" Michael Scheuer, the retired former head of the Bin Laden Issue Station, and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey also described it as a terrorist attack. A group of soldiers and families have sought to have the defense secretary designate the shooting a \"terrorist attack;\" this would provide them with benefits equal to injuries in combat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction\nThe FBI found no evidence to indicate Hasan had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot, classifying him as a homegrown violent extremist. Conversely, the Defense Department currently classifies Hasan's attack as an act of workplace violence and would not make further statements until the court martial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, President Obama\nThe U.S. President's initial response to the attack came during a scheduled speech at the Tribal Nations Conference for America's 564 federally recognized Native American tribes. Obama was criticized by the media for being \"insensitive\", as he addressed the shooting only three minutes into his prepared speech, and then for not according it sufficient gravitas. Later, the President delivered the memorial eulogy for the victims. Reaction to his memorial speech was largely positive, with some deeming it one of his best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, President Obama\nThe speech was criticized by a reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who found the speech largely absent of emotion, while a National Review columnist criticized Obama for refusing to acknowledge Islamic terrorism as having a role in the shooting. On December 6, 2015, in his speech addressing terrorism, Obama included the Fort Hood shooting among Islamic inspired terrorist incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Fort Hood personnel\nRetired Army colonel Terry Lee, who had worked with Hasan, said the psychiatrist expressed the hope that Obama would withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and argued with military colleagues who supported the wars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nA spokesman for the Defense Department called the shooting an \"isolated and tragic case\", and Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged that his department would do \"everything in its power to help the Fort Hood community get through these difficult times.\" The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, and numerous politicians, expressed condolences to the victims and their families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated \"we object to\u2014and do not believe\u2014that anti-Muslim sentiment should emanate from this\u00a0... This was an individual who does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith.\" Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr. said \"I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers\u00a0... Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nIn January 2010, a senior Obama administration official, who declined to be named, referred to the shooting as \"an act of terrorism\", although other administration officials have not referred to the shootings as a terrorist event. Several people, including Senator Joe Lieberman and General Barry McCaffrey, have called the event a terrorist attack. The United States Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies had classified the shootings as an act of workplace violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nThis was changed by the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act which broadened the criteria for awarding the Purple Heart to include \"an attack by a foreign terrorist organization\u2026.if the attack was inspired or motivated by the foreign terrorist organization.\" This allowed the Army to award the Purple Heart, and its civilian equivalent, The Defense of Freedom Medal, to victims of the attack. The U.S. government declined requests from survivors and family members of the slain to categorize the Fort Hood shooting as an act of terrorism, or motivated by militant Islamic religious convictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0047-0002", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nIn November 2011, a group of survivors and family members filed a lawsuit against the government for negligence in preventing the attack, and to force the government to classify the shootings as terrorism. The Pentagon argued that charging Hasan with terrorism was not possible within the military justice system and that such action could harm the military prosecutors' ability to sustain a guilty verdict against Hasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nVictims of the shooting were denied Purple Hearts as well as associate benefits. In 2013, during the 113th United States Congress, Representative Carter submitted the Honoring the Fort Hood Heroes Act for consideration. The bill was referred to committee. In 2015, a similar bill was introduced in the legislature of Texas, to award the Texas Purple Heart Medal to the shooting victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nThe National Defense Authorization Act 2015 authorizes the Department of Defense to award Purple Heart Medals to those wounded during the attack. The award was previously denied due to the categorization of the event as \"workplace violence\". The law requires that the Department of Defense to define the event as an \"international terrorist attack\". In February 2015, the Department of the Army approved awarding of the Purple Heart to those injured by Hasan during the shooting, providing those injured with a higher degree of services from the Veterans Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, U.S. Government\nThe Army planned to present the Purple Hearts in April 2015; which was carried out on 10 April 2015. Following the awarding benefits for those wounded in hostile-fire were extended to the Purple Heart recipients, and it was announced that those killed and injured during the 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting would also receive the Purple Heart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Veteran groups\nVeterans groups across the United States expressed condolences for victims of the attack. American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill stated, \"The American Legion extends condolences to the victims and the families of those affected by the shootings at Fort Hood.\" Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander Thomas J. Tradewell Sr. states, \"The entire military family is grieving right now. I just want them to know they do not grieve alone. Our hearts and prayers are with them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Military policy on bases\nThe Army places strict restrictions on personal firearms carried onto Fort Hood and other bases. Military weapons are used only for training or by base security. Personal weapons brought on base are required to be secured at all times and must be registered with the provost marshal. Specialist Jerry Richard, a soldier working at the Readiness Center, said he felt this policy left the soldiers vulnerable to violent assaults: \"Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself.\" Jacob Sullum, an opponent of gun control, described the base as a \"gun-free zone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Hasan's family\nA spokeswoman for the Hasan family said that the actions of their cousin were \"despicable and deplorable\", and did not reflect how they were raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, American Muslim groups\nThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the shooting and noted that it was not in keeping with Muslim teachings. The spokesman asked Americans to treat it as an \"isolated incident of a deranged individual.\" He pointed out that disturbed individuals could use any religion for their own purposes, but the Muslim community condemned this violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, American Muslim groups\nSalman al-Ouda, a dissident Saudi cleric and former inspiration to Osama bin Laden, condemned the shooting, saying the incident would have bad consequences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, American Muslim groups\n...undoubtedly this man might have a psychological problem; he may be a psychiatrist but he [also] might have had psychological distress, as he was being commissioned to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, and he was capable of refusing to work whatever the consequences were.\" The senior analyst at the NEFA Foundation described Ouda's comments as \"a good indication of how far on a tangent Anwar al-Awlaki is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Anwar al-Awlaki\nSoon after the attack, Anwar al-Awlaki posted praise for Hasan for the shooting on his website. He wrote, \"Nidal Hasan is a hero, the fact that fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims.\" In March 2010, Al-Awlaki alleged that the Obama administration tried to portray Hasan's actions as an individual act of violence from an estranged individual, and that it was trying to suppress information for the American public. He said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Anwar al-Awlaki\nUntil this moment the administration is refusing to release the e-mails exchanged between myself and Nidal. And after the operation of our brother Umar Farouk the initial comments coming from the administration were looking the same \u2013 another attempt at covering up the truth. But Al Qaeda cut off Obama from deceiving the world again by issuing their statement claiming responsibility for the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Anwar al-Awlaki\n(Note: The US investigation found no evidence that ties Hasan to al-Qaeda. See section below.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Reaction, Anwar al-Awlaki\nOn April 6, 2010, The New York Times reported that President Obama had authorized the targeted killing of al-Awlaki, who had been hunted by the Yemen government since going into hiding. On September 30, 2011, two Predator drones fired missiles at a vehicle with al-Awlaki aboard, killing him and Samir Khan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nThe criminal investigation was conducted jointly by the FBI, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, and the Texas Rangers Division. As a member of the military, Hasan is subject to the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (military law). He was initially represented by Belton, Texas-based John P. Galligan, a criminal defense attorney and retired US Army Colonel. Hasan regained consciousness on November 9, but refused to talk to investigators. The investigative officer in charge of his article 32 hearing was Colonel James L. Pohl, who had previously led the investigation into the Abu Ghraib abuses, and is the Chief Presiding Officer of the Guantanamo military commissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nOn November 9, 2009, the FBI said that investigators believed Hasan had acted alone. They disclosed that they had reviewed evidence which included 2008 conversations with an individual that an official identified as Anwar al-Awlaki, but said they did not find any evidence that Hasan had received orders or help from anyone. According to a November 11 press release, after preliminary examination of Hasan's computers and internet activity, they had found no information to indicate he had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot, stressing the \"early stages\" of the review. They said no e-mail communications with outside facilitators or known terrorists were found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nInvestigators were evaluating reports that, in May 2001, Hasan had attended a mosque in Virginia for the funeral of his mother, which was attended that spring and summer by two of the 9/11 hijackers. The imam was the American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, then considered a moderate. Awlaki has since been accused of aiding the 9/11 plot and since 2006\u20132007 has been identified as radicalized. Investigators were trying to determine if al-Awlaki's teachings influenced Hasan. For ten years, Hasan prayed several times a week at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, closer to where he lived and worked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nArmy officials said, \"Right now we're operating on the belief that he acted alone and had no help\". No motive for the shootings was offered, but they believed Hasan had written an Internet posting that appeared to support suicide bombings. Sen. Lieberman opined that Hasan was under personal stress and may have turned to Islamic extremism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nIn pressing charges against Hasan, the Department of Defense and the DoJ agreed that Hasan would be prosecuted in a military court. Observers noted this was consistent with investigators' concluding he had acted alone. During a November 21 hearing in Hasan's hospital room, a magistrate ruled that there was probable cause that Hasan committed the November 5 shooting, and ordered that he be held in pre-trial confinement after being released from hospital care. On November 12 and December 2, respectively, Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder by the Army; he may face additional charges at court-martial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution\nProsecutors did not file a count for the death of the Francheska Velez's three-month old fetus. Such a charge is available to prosecutors under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and also Article 119a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If civilian prosecutors indicted him for being part of a terrorist plot, it could have justified moving all or part of his case into federal criminal courts under U.S. anti-terrorism laws. The military justice system rarely carries out capital punishment\u2014and no executions have been carried out since 1961, though Ronald Gray came close to execution in 2008. Neither has any incident of mass murder been prosecuted by the military since then. (From 1916 to 1961, the U.S. Army executed 135 people.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nIn late January 2011, Hasan was judged sane for trial by an Army sanity board, normally composed of doctors and psychologists. This allowed a capital trial, and more information about his mental state at the time of the shootings was able to be introduced by the defense during the trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nHe was formally arraigned on July 20, 2011. He did not enter a plea, and the judge granted a request by Hasan's attorneys that a plea be entered at a later, unspecified, date. The judge initially set a trial date for Maj. Hasan's court-martial for March 5, 2012. Later, the court-martial date was pushed back after Hasan switched lawyers, to provide them time to prepare his defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nHaving previously instructed Hasan to follow Army regulations and shave a beard he had grown, the judge, Colonel Gregory Gross, found him in contempt in July 2012 and fined him. His court-martial was set to begin on August 20, 2012. He was fined again for retaining his beard, and warned that he could be forcibly shaved prior to his court-martial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOn August 15, Hasan was scheduled to enter pleas to the charges brought against him before the beginning of the court-martial; he would not be allowed to plead guilty to the premeditated murder charges as the prosecution is pursuing the death penalty in his case. Hasan objected to being shaved against his will, and his attorney's appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Hasan said having a beard was part of his religious belief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOn August 27, the Appeals Court announced that the trial could continue, but did not rule whether Hasan could be forcibly shaved. The Appeals court has rejected previous attempts by Hasan to receive \"religious accommodation\" from Army Regulation to wear his beard. On September 6, Gross ordered that Hasan be shaved after it was determined that the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act did not apply to this case; however, it will not be enforced until his appeals are exhausted, further delaying the trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nDuring the hearing on September 6, 2012, Hasan twice offered to plead guilty; however, Army rules at the time prohibited the judge from accepting a guilty plea in a death penalty case. On September 21, defense attorneys of Hasan filed two appeals with the Army Court of Criminal Appeals regarding his beard, postponing the trial. Residents of Killeen were upset about the delays in going to trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nIn mid-October, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Colonel Gross' decision that Hasan could be forcibly shaved. Hasan's attorneys filed an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces seeking to overturn the lower court, and to have Gross removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOn Tuesday, December 4, 2012, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces vacated Major Hasan's six convictions for contempt of court and removed the judge, Colonel Gregory Gross, from the case, stating he had not shown the requisite impartiality. The Court of Appeals overturned an order to have Hasan's beard be forcibly shaven; it did not rule on whether Hasan's religious rights had been violated. The Court of Appeals additionally ruled that it was the military command's responsibility, not the military judge, to ensure Hasan met grooming standards. The Army's Judge Advocate General appointed a new judge to replace Gross. The ruling was called \"unusual\" by Jeffrey Addicott of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University, and called \"rare\" by military defense attorney Frank Spinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nColonel Tara A. Osborn was appointed as the new judge for the trial on the same day that Gross was removed. In 2011 Osborn presided over a death penalty case, the court martial of SGT Joseph Bozicevich, who was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for killing his squad leader and another soldier. In January 2013, Osborn was deliberating whether to remove the death penalty, due to the Defense attorney's claim that LTG Campbell was not impartial when it was decided that Hasan would face the death penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0074-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOn January 31, Osborn ruled that a capital murder trial was constitutional, based on a 1996 Supreme Court case regarding Dwight J. Loving; Osborn additionally ruled that her court did not have jurisdiction regarding Hasan's beard, and it was a matter to take up with Hasan's chain of command. As of February 2013, the court-martial had been set to start on May 29, 2013, with jury selection to begin on July 1, 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOn June 3, 2013, a military judge gave approval for Hasan to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial. His attorneys were to remain on the case but only if he asked for their help. Jury selection started on June 5 and opening arguments took place on August 6. U.S. Army Judge Colonel Tara Osborn ruled on June 14, 2013 that Hasan couldn't claim as a part of his defense that he was defending the Taliban. The trial was scheduled to begin on August 6. During an exclusive interview with Fox News, Hasan justified his actions during the Fort Hood shooting by claiming that the US military was at war with Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nDuring the first day of the trial on August 6, Hasan\u2014who was representing himself\u2014 admitted that he was the gunman during the Fort Hood shootings in 2009 and stated that the evidence would show that he was the shooter. He also told the panel hearing that he had \"switched sides\" and regarded himself as a Mujahideen waging \"jihad\" against the United States. By August 7, disagreements between Hasan and his stand-by defense team led Judge Osborn to suspend the proceedings. Hasan's defense attorneys were concerned that his defense strategy would lead to him receiving the death penalty. Since the prosecution had sought the death penalty, his defense team sought to prevent this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Trial\nOverall, the trial cost almost $5 million, with the largest expense being transportation, followed by expert witness fees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Conviction and sentencing\nOn August 23, 2013, he was convicted on all charges after the jury deliberated for seven hours. Five days later, a U.S. military court sentenced him to death for the shootings. At the time of his sentencing, he became the sixth person on military death row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nThe FBI noted that Hasan had first been brought to their attention in December 2008 by a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Communications between Hasan and al-Awlaki, and other similar communications, were reviewed and considered to be consistent with Hasan's professional research at the Walter Reed Medical Center. \"Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nOn December 2009, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed William Webster, a former director of the FBI, to establish a commission to conduct an independent review of the FBI's handling of assessing the risk that Hasan posed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nOn January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense released the findings of its investigation, which found that the Department was unprepared to defend against internal threats. Secretary Robert Gates said that previous incidents had not drawn enough attention to workplace violence and \"self-radicalization\" within the military. He also suggested that some officials may be held responsible for not drawing attention to Hasan prior to the shooting. The Department report did not touch upon Hasan's motives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nJames Corum, a retired Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel and Dean at the Baltic Defence College in Estonia, called the Defense Department report \"a travesty\", for failing to mention Hasan's devotion to Islam and his radicalization. Texas Representative John Carter criticized the report, saying he felt the government was \"afraid to be accused of profiling somebody\". John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission and Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, said he felt that the report \"shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become.\" The columnist Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in an opinion piece: \"Even ... if the report's purpose was to craft lessons to prevent future attacks, how could they leave out radical Islam?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nThe leaders of the investigation, former Secretary of the Army Togo West and retired Admiral Vernon Clark, responded by saying their \"concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations\", and that they did not want to conflict with the criminal investigation on Hasan that was under way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nIn February 2010, The Boston Globe obtained a confidential internal report detailing results of the Army's investigation. According to the Globe, the report concluded that officers within the Army were aware of Hasan's tendencies toward radical Islam since 2005. It noted one incident in 2007 in which Hasan gave a classroom presentation titled, \"Is the War on Terrorism a War on Islam: An Islamic Perspective\". The instructor reportedly interrupted Hasan, as he thought the psychiatrist was trying to justify terrorism, according to the Globe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0084-0001", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nHasan's superior officers took no action related to this incident, believing Hasan's comments were protected under the First Amendment and that having a Muslim psychiatrist contributed to diversity. The report noted that Hasan's statements might have been grounds for removing him from service, as the First Amendment did not apply to soldiers in the same way as for civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nIn July 2012, the Webster Commission's final report was submitted. Webster made 18 recommendations to the FBI. The report found issues in information sharing, failure to follow up on leads, computer technology issues, and failure of the FBI headquarters to coordinate two field offices working on leads related to Hasan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nIn August 2013, Mother Jones magazine described multiple intercepted e-mails from Hasan to Awlaki. In one 2008 e-mail, Hasan asked Awlaki whether he considered those who died attacking their fellow soldiers \"Shaheeds\", or martyrs. In a 2009 e-mail, Hasan asked Awlaki whether \"indiscriminately killing civilians\" was allowed. Both e-mails were forwarded to the Defense Criminal Investigative Services (DCIS). However, DCIS failed to connect the two e-mails to each other, and the 2008 e-mail was given only a cursory investigation. A DCIS agent later explained that the subject was \"politically sensitive\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Investigation and prosecution, Internal investigations\nIn November 2013, Army Secretary John M. McHugh is quoted as writing that he has \"directed my staff to conduct a thorough review of the record of trial in the court-martial of Major Hasan to ascertain if those proceedings revealed new evidence or information that establishes clearly the necessary link to international terrorism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Lawsuit\nA lawsuit filed in November 2011 by victims and their family members alleges that the government's failure to take action against Hasan before the attack was willful negligence prompted by \"political correctness\". The 83 claimants seek $750 million in compensation from the Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Lawsuit\nAs of 2012, the Department of Defense classifies the case as one of workplace violence. A spokesman for the Department stated,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Lawsuit\nThe Department of Defense is committed to the integrity of the ongoing court martial proceedings of Major Nadal Hasan and for that reason will not further characterize, at this time, the incident that occurred at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. Major Hassan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder, and 32 counts of attempted murder. As with all pending UCMJ matters, the accused is innocent until proven guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Lawsuit\nA group of 160 victims and family members have asked the government to declare the Fort Hood attack an act of terrorism, which would mean that injuries would be treated as if the victims were in a combat zone, providing them more benefits. US Representatives John R. Carter and Michael T. McCaul wrote, \"Based on all the facts, it is inconceivable to us that the DOD and the Army continue to label this attack 'workplace violence' in spite of all the evidence that clearly proves the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terror.\" Carter and McCaul drew their conclusions from their interpretation of existing investigations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203001-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Hood shooting, Lawsuit\nOn November 5, 2012, 148 plaintiffs, including victims and families of victims, filed a wrongful death claim against the United States Government, Hasan, and the estate of Anwar al-Awlaki. Their lawsuit alleges there were due process violations, intentional misrepresentation, assault and battery, gross negligence, and civil conspiracy. The lawsuit was featured on ABC News on February 12, 2013, but was placed on hold pending the conclusion of Hasan's court martial. As of June 2016, the stay on the civil suit remains in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203002-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election\nThe 2012 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election was held on February 13, 2009  to elect the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It saw the election of Jack Seiler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203002-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election\nHaving served six consecutive terms, incumbent mayor Jim Naugle was term-limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203003-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Worth mayoral election\nThe 2009 Fort Worth mayoral election took place on May 9, 2009, to elect the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan. The election saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Mike Moncrief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203003-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fort Worth mayoral election\nIf no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election, a runoff would have been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203004-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships an international figure skating competition in the 2008\u201309 season. It was held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada on February 2\u20138. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The compulsory dance was the Finnstep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203004-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Notes\nSkaters who reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2008 were eligible to compete. Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed three entries in each discipline, regardless of its skaters' performance in the previous year's championships. The corresponding competition for European skaters was the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203004-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Notes\nThis event served as the Olympic test event for figure skating for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games although the rink was NHL-sized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203004-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ladies\nKim Yuna set a new world record for the short program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203005-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Four Nations Tournament (women's football)\nThe 2009 Four Nations Tournament was the ninth edition of this invitational tournament, held at Guangdong Olympic Stadium, in the city of Guangzhou, China. The tournament was won by China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election\nThe 2009 Fremantle state by-election was held in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly district of Fremantle on 16 May 2009. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Jim McGinty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election\nThe Labor Party was defending a seat that they had held continuously since 1924. The by-election was held in conjunction with the state referendum on daylight saving hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election\nThe Greens candidate, Adele Carles, won the by-election, and in doing so became the first Greens candidate to be elected to an Australian state lower house of parliament in a single-member seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election, Background\nFirst elected to parliament at the 1990 Fremantle state by-election, McGinty became a minister in the Labor government of Carmen Lawrence in 1991. He held several portfolios until Labor's defeat at the 1993 state election. In Opposition, McGinty succeeded Ian Taylor as Labor leader in 1994, only to be replaced by Geoff Gallop prior to the 1996 state election. After Labor returned to power at the 2001 state election, McGinty again became a minister. Most significantly he served for seven and half years as Attorney-General in the Labor governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election, Background\nFollowing Labor's defeat at the 2008 state election, speculation among media and political commentators was that McGinty, by then almost 60 years of age, would resign his seat before the end of the term. He confirmed that speculation on 3 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election, Candidates\nNominations closed on 17 April 2009. Later that day, the Western Australian Electoral Commission revealed the names of the candidates who nominated. They are as follows, in ballot paper order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203006-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Fremantle state by-election, Results\nThe Greens' win in Fremantle was the first time a Greens candidate was elected to an Australian state lower house of parliament in a single-member seat. It was also the first time they had outpolled the Labor Party on the primary vote in any Labor-held seat. Carles became the first Green to sit in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, and with five members in the Parliament as a whole, the Greens achieved official parliamentary party status in Western Australia, giving them access to additional allowances, monies and staff. Carles later quit the party to sit as an independent after the publication of an affair with Liberal treasurer Troy Buswell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203007-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 French Athletics Championships was the 121st edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for France, organised by the French Athletics Federation. It was held on 23\u201325 July at the Stade du Lac de Maine in Angers. A total of 38 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over the three-day competition. Hind Dehiba won a women's middle-distance double while Vanessa Gladone won both the horizontal jumps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes\nThe 2009 French Caribbean general strikes began in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe on 20 January 2009, and spread to neighbouring Martinique on 5 February 2009. Both islands are located in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. The general strikes began over the cost of living, the prices of basic commodities, including fuel and food, and demands for an increase in the monthly salaries of low income workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes\nStores and gas stations in the private sector, and public sector services including education, public transportation, and sanitation, were temporarily closed in Guadeloupe and Martinique due to the strikes. The strikes ended when the French government agreed to raise the salaries of the lowest paid by \u20ac200 and acceded to the strikers' top 20 demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes\nThe strikes exposed deep ethnic, racial, and class tensions and disparities within Guadeloupe and Martinique and devastated the tourism industry of both islands during the high season. The islands were believed to have lost millions of dollars in tourism revenue due to cancelled vacations and closed hotels. Guadeloupe and Martinique had the second and third highest unemployment rates in the European Union as of 2007, according to Eurostat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background\nResidents of Guadeloupe and Martinique, whose economies are dependent on tourism, have a very high cost of living. Many residents feel that their salaries are not keeping up with the rising cost of food, utilities and other necessities. The prices of basic commodities and food staples are much higher in Guadeloupe and Martinique than in Metropolitan France. The high prices are caused by the higher costs of importing products into the islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background\nThe average salary in Guadeloupe, the cause of the first general strike, is lower than in Metropolitan France although the unemployment and poverty rates on both islands are twice as high. Both islands are supported by subsidies from the French government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background\nFour French overseas territories had the highest unemployment rates in the European Union in 2007: R\u00e9union, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana. Guadeloupe also has the highest youth unemployment rate in the European Union, with 55.7% in the 15-to-24-years age group unemployed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background, Race\nThe structure of the economy of the French Caribbean, a legacy of the colonial era, complicated the 2009 crisis. Most of Guadeloupe's and Martinique's largest land and business assets are controlled by the \"b\u00e9k\u00e9s\", the white European descendants of the islands' settlers. The b\u00e9k\u00e9s' ancestors had been the islands' colonists and slave holders. The majority of the Guadeloupean and Martiniquean populations, who are of Black African or mixed race descent, live in relative poverty (to the b\u00e9k\u00e9s). For example, the b\u00e9k\u00e9s of Martinique comprise 1% of the island's 401,000 population, and control most of the island's industries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background, Race\nThe residents of both Guadeloupe and Martinique are considered to be full French citizens. The euro is the official currency on both islands. The government and the day-to-day decisions affecting both islands are made in Paris, located thousands of miles away. Working families, especially lower-income families, have complained that it is difficult to pay for basic necessities due to the high cost of living. 70% of residents in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre, Guadeloupe's largest city, currently reside in public housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Background, Race\nThe islands are also afflicted by a number of other societal problems. The homicide rate in Guadeloupe is four times higher than that of Metropolitan France. Protesters in Guadeloupe and Martinique accused the French government of ignoring their economic and political concerns in the face of the looming global financial crisis of 2008\u20132009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nThe protests initially began in Guadeloupe on 20 January 2009. An umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon (LKP) called for a \u20ac200 (US$260) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers. The protesters proposed that authorities \"lower business taxes as a top up to company finances\" to pay for the \u20ac200 pay raises. Employers and business leaders in Guadeloupe said that they could not afford the salary increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nApproximately 50,000 Guadeloupeans were reported to have taken part in the demonstrations. The Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon (LKP), which launched the protests, is also known as the \"Stand up against exploitation\" in English or the \"Collectif contre l'exploitation outranci\u00e8re\" in French.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nThe government of France sent the Junior Minister of Overseas France Yves J\u00e9go to Guadeloupe to negotiate with disgruntled employees and protesters. He proposed a deal to increase the salaries of 45,000 Guadeloupean workers by about $300. J\u00e9go triggered much criticism among Guadeloupean strikers when he suddenly returned to Paris on Monday 9 February for a crisis meeting with French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Fillon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nJ\u00e9go's departure for the meeting in Paris with Prime Minister Fillon and other ministers was denounced by union leaders as a sign of \"contempt\" for LKP and their supporters during a time of crisis. Demonstrations erupted across Guadeloupe in response to J\u00e9go's trip to France. More than 10,000 people marched in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre, the largest city in Guadeloupe, while an additional 1,500 protesters gathered in Basse-Terre, the capital city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nProtesters chanted, \"la Gwadloup se tan nou, la Gwadloup a pa ta yo, yo peke fe sa yo vle an peyi an nou\", which translates to \"Guadeloupe is ours, it is not theirs, they will not do what they want in our country.\" Demonstrators forced the closure of local stores and businesses in those cities. However, the stores reopened as soon as the protesters passed by.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nJ\u00e9go returned to Guadeloupe (and Martinique) later in the week. Guadeloupean protesters remained angered by his perceived slight. A leader of the LKP, \u00c9lie Domota, told France Inter radio that, \"The mediators have nothing new to tell us. They came supposedly to bring the parties closer together but they know nothing about the situation here. We are saying that the state has to help small Guadeloupe businesses to develop, to have access to bank credits, and also to pay for our wage increases.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nJ\u00e9go's original proposal, which would have increased the salaries of at least 45,000 workers by nearly US$300 per month, quickly fell apart. The unions demanded that the government alleviate extra cost by slashing payroll taxes. The French government flatly rejected the idea of cutting payroll taxes. The LKP thus suspended negotiations with mediators on Thursday 12 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nGeorge Pau-Langevin, a French Socialist MP who was born in Guadeloupe but represents a portion of Paris, said that Guadeloupeans were not just protesting low incomes, but also \"the indecent profits of big fuel and import-export companies.\" Guadeloupean deputy Victorin Lurel denounced the high price of fuel on the island as a \"scandal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nThe main shipping container terminal at the port in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre was closed and barricaded by protesters. Most Guadeloupean banks, schools, and government offices remained closed throughout the duration of the strike. All of Guadeloupe's 115 gas stations were closed in response to the strike. The strikes resulted in sporadic power outages and limited running water as utility workers walked off their jobs to join the protests. Supermarkets remained closed, and food imports were halted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe\nThe strikes hit at the height of Guadeloupe's main tourism season. Guadeloupe depends on tourists, especially from France, for a significant portion of its economic income. Several hotels closed temporarily and charter flights from France and other parts of the Caribbean were canceled. Club M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, known more widely as Club Med, closed its main hotel on Guadeloupe in late January. Thousands of French tourists canceled their vacations to Guadeloupe as a result of the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nAfter four weeks, the general strike on Guadeloupe escalated into rioting on Monday, 16 February 2009. Protesters clashed in several municipalities across the island, including the largest city, Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre, and the northern town of Sainte-Rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nGuadeloupe's main airport, Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre International Airport, was closed because debris was thrown on the runway, causing American Airlines to cancel all flights. Cars and trees were set on fire in the centre of Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre. A group of about sixty protesters clashed with two squadrons of police, who responded by firing tear gas. Police arrested approximately fifty people after protesters threw stones at them as the police tried to remove makeshift barricades in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre. Most of those who were detained were later released after large crowds gathered outside the city's main police station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nProtesters wearing hooded sweatshirts burned pallets and trashcans to block roads around the southern town of Le Gosier. Victorin Lurel, the Socialist leader of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, described the situation on Guadeloupe as \"on the verge of revolt.\" French Interior Minister Mich\u00e8le Alliot-Marie called for \"calm, responsibility and restraint.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nArmed \"youths\" manning a makeshift roadblock shot and killed a local union representative in the city of Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre just after midnight on Wednesday, 18 February 2009. The victim, Jacques Bino, a 50-year-old tax agent and union member who was returning home from protests elsewhere, was the first person killed during the strike. Bino's car was hit three times by 12-gauge Brenneke-style shotgun slugs. Several police officers were also injured in the overnight violence. Unions leading the strikes called for a deescalation of violence on the island. Elie Domota, a leader of the LKP, told protesters, \"Don't put your life in danger \u2013 don't endanger the lives of others.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nThe situation across the island continued to deteriorate throughout the day on Wednesday, 18 February. The mayor of Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre, Jacques Bangou, reported that three policemen were wounded by gunfire in the Cite Henri IV section of the city. Police fired tear gas to break up rioters, but Mayor Bangou told the AFP that there were still \"exchanges of gunfire\" in the neighborhood. A correspondent for AFP reported hearing more \"blasts\" in the city just before 0400 GMT on Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nElsewhere, looters attacked a shopping center and ransacked a perfumery and a tire store. A number of police officers were also injured when a group of up to 100 youths \"rampaged\" though the commercial district of Destrelland in the town of Baie-Mahault and fired guns at police, according to Baie-Mahault's mayor, Ary Chalus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Escalation\nMore than 500 French police officers arrived in Guadeloupe on 19 February in an attempt to quell the ongoing violence following Bino's death. The deployment occurred after a third straight night of violence. Dozens of police officers landed in the southern town of Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, where protesting youths stormed and occupied the town's city hall. Sainte-Anne Mayor Richard Yacou said that the city hall was not damaged, but nearby businesses in the town were looted and burned. Rioters also fired weapons at police and burned at least five stores and restaurants in Le Gosier. Police dismantled the barricades leading to the main airport, which allowed tourists to leave the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Negotiations resume\nVictorin Lurel, the president of Guadeloupe's regional council, demanded that the French government stop the violence and address underlying tensions. In response to the riots, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a meeting of the elected leaders of the French overseas territories \"to respond to the anxiety, the worry and a certain form of despair of our compatriots overseas.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Guadeloupe, Negotiations resume\nOn 19 February, it was reported that the French government had offered to increase low earners' income by almost \u20ac200, in line with unions' demands. Negotiations between the government and the LKP were suspended on Friday, 25 February, partially in response to the funeral of Jacques Bino over the weekend. Talks resumed the following Monday. Representatives of the LKP met with French officials and business leaders in the city of Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre. Outside hundreds of demonstrators gathered, chanting, \"We're here to negotiate\" and \"Guadeloupe belongs to us, it's not theirs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nThe strike spread to neighbouring Martinique beginning on 5 February 2009. Protesters paralysed Martinique's capital city, Fort-de-France. An estimated 11,000 people had taken part in the demonstrations on Martinique in the first seven days of the strike, according to the local police. Martiniquean unions disagreed with the estimates, arguing that the protesters had numbered at least 25,000 individuals. Demonstrators carried pro-trade union signs and wore red shirts, representing the official color of the local unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nProtesters in Martinique demanded a monthly salary increase of nearly US$580 for all workers earning minimum wage on the island. They also called for a reduction in monthly electricity and water bills for Martinique residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nGovernment and transportation leaders reportedly agreed to reduce freight costs. In response, business leaders on Martinique agreed to lower the prices of 100 basic products, including food, by 20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nMartiniquean residents were reportedly shopping only at small, family-run grocery stores, as most large stores remained closed during the protests. Demonstrators were reported to have stormed most major chain supermarkets and forced them to close. Gas stations, which were closed in response to the strike, were serving only medical and emergency workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nColonel Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Bourges, the police chief of Martinique, said that ten people had been arrested for stealing gasoline or looting. France deployed 130 riot police from mainland France to Martinique on 12 February 2009, to \"ensure that order is maintained.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nThe tourism industry on Martinique grew increasingly impatient with the strikers and the lack of basic services. Benoit Le Cesne, the president of Martinique's hotel association, expressed concern over the potential negative effects on the tourism industry, \"There are basically no more supplies, neither of gas nor food, and laundry services are no longer operating. If this continues, professionals will no longer be able to guarantee services promised to tourists.\" Unlike in Guadeloupe, the Club Med Buccaneer's Creek resort in Martinique remained open through the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nOn Monday, 16 February, protesters allowed 28 of Martinique's 85 gas stations to reopen and be resupplied. Residents and tourists lined up for hours to fill their cars' gas tanks. All small businesses who had reopened over the weekend were forced to close again. Protesters also blocked industrial areas of the island and the city centre in Fort-de-France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique\nOn Thursday, 20 February 2009, Fort-de-France Mayor Serge Letchimy announced the cancellation of Martinique's annual four-day Carnival, citing the ongoing general strike and the death of union activist Jacques Bino on neighboring Guadeloupe. Martinican police had criticized Letchimy's decision to hold the Carnival, saying that they did not have enough time to prepare due to the strike. The Carnival would have begun on 22 February. The annual carnival usually attracts 50,000 people to Fort-de-France. It was the first time in history that the festival had been cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique, Martiniquan racial tensions\nThe protests in Martinique began to take on racial and class undertones due to the economic stresses. The b\u00e9k\u00e9s, descendants of French European settlers, continue to hold most of the island's industrial capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique, Martiniquan racial tensions\nRacial tensions rose during the first week of February after an hour long documentary, entitled The last masters of Martinique (Les derniers ma\u00eetres de la Martinique in French), was broadcast on a French television channel. The premise of the documentary was that the ethnically white French community had continued to dominate Martinique's economy throughout its history. Tensions were especially inflamed when a French businessman, Alain Huygues-Despointes, was quoted as saying that historians should explore \"the positive aspects of slavery\" and that Martinique's mixed-race families lacked \"harmony.\" Following those statements, Martinique's Prefect Ange Mancini, who had been renting a home from Huygues-Despointes, announced that he had terminated a lease agreement with Huygues-Despointes and had moved to a new residence. The French government announced that it would open a criminal investigation into Huygues-Despointes following his controversial remarks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 1046]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Martinique, Martiniquan racial tensions\nOn Friday 13 February 2009, approximately 2,000 protesters marched while chanting slogans against Martinique's b\u00e9k\u00e9 minority. The marchers, who were predominantly of the African majority descent, chanted, \"Martinique is ours, not theirs!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 78], "content_span": [79, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Reaction of French government\nFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy did not mention those events in his one-hour-and-a-half television talk of 5 February 2009. He acknowledged later the grievances of the strikers in his first remarks on the crisis, \"There cannot be a two-speed society in which one part gets richer while the other stagnates and depends on benefits\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Reaction of French government\nSarkozy ordered the government on 13 February 2009 to begin a review of France's policies towards its overseas territories. Sarkozy simultaneously announced the creation of a new government council to review policy toward all French overseas territories, a promise that he had made during the presidential campaign of 2007. He called for a \"distribution des richesses\" (distribution of wealth) to alleviate the societal and economic ills afflicting Guadeloupe and Martinique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Reaction of French government\nFrench government ministers were asked to propose new long-term measures intended to modernise and stimulate the economies of both islands. Sarkozy suggested that the government may open up the islands' economies to more economic competition but did not appear strongly to support the wage increases demanded by protesters; \"We should beware of false good ideas for a short-term end to the conflict\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Reaction of French government\nSarkozy sought to reassure residents that the government was not ignoring their concerns. He said that \"Guadeloupe and Martinique are part of France\" and that the islands' residents \"have the sentiment that they are not always heard. We should continue to fight, every day, so that the country makes a larger place for those who represent the diversity of France\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Ending the strikes: the Jacques Bino Accord\nThe strikes ended on 4 March 2009, when the French government agreed to raise the salaries of the lowest paid by \u20ac200 and granted the LKP their top 20 demands. The agreement was named the \"Jacques Bino Accord\" to commemorate the union activist killed during the strike. According to the Australian Green Left Weekly, 30,000 people marched through the streets of Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre on 7 March to celebrate the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Ending the strikes: the Jacques Bino Accord\nFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Martinique and Guadeloupe in June 2009, as part of an effort to heal the rifts caused by the strikes. While ruling out full independence, which he said was desired neither by France nor by Martinique, Sarkozy offered Martiniquans a referendum on the island's future status and degree of autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Ending the strikes: the Jacques Bino Accord\nDuring his visit to Guadeloupe, Sarkozy likewise asserted that \"Guadeloupe is French, and will remain French.\" LKP representatives refused to meet him. LKP calls for anti-Sarkozy demonstrations met with little response, with no more than 1,000 people attending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Other French protests\nA coalition of labour unions in R\u00e9union, a French overseas region in the Indian Ocean located thousands of miles from Guadeloupe and Martinique, announced their own general strike scheduled for 5 March 2009, in support of the Caribbean strikes. An alliance of unions in French Guiana, which is located in South America, also threatened to strike, saying their workers suffered the same low wages and low quality of life as those in Guadeloupe and Martinique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203008-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 French Caribbean general strikes, Other French protests\nMartine Aubry, the leader of the French Socialist Party, warned of the risk that the protests could spread further to mainland France in an interview with Le Parisien. Following the settlement ending the strikes, trade unions in the French mainland were reported to \"have rejected the idea of trying to bring about in mainland France what has happened in Guadeloupe\". Far-left leader Olivier Besancenot, however, was happy to cite the strikes in Guadeloupe as an inspiration and \"an example to reflect on and follow\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203009-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 French Figure Skating Championships took place between 19 and 21 December 2008 in Colmar. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior level. The results were one of the criteria used to choose the French teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203009-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Figure Skating Championships\nThe junior level synchronized championships were held during this competition; junior and novice level competitions for the other disciplines were held separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open\nThe 2009 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 113th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, from May 24 through June 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open\nRafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic were the defending champions. Both failed to defend their titles, losing to Robin S\u00f6derling and Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round, respectively. Nadal's loss to S\u00f6derling was his first defeat in the tournament since debuting in 2005, and would remain his sole loss at the tournament until the 2015 French Open. S\u00f6derling proceeded to defeat Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez on his way to the final, where he was defeated by Roger Federer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open\nBy winning the French Open, Federer equalled Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 Grand Slam titles, and completed his Career Grand Slam by winning the tournament; he had lost the previous three finals to Nadal. Svetlana Kuznetsova, the runner-up to Justine Henin-Hardenne in 2006, was the women's champion this year. She defeated World No. 1 Dinara Safina in the final, avenging a semi-final loss to the same opponent in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Notable stories, Rafael Nadal record winning streak, and loss to Robin S\u00f6derling\nEntering the tournament, four-time champion Rafael Nadal was unbeaten in French Open singles matches, having won every match and tournament since his debut in 2005. His victory against Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in the second round on May 27 was his 30th consecutive win, breaking the record for the longest French Open winning streak by a man or woman, held by Chris Evert, who won 29 consecutive matches. Nadal extended the record to 31 consecutive matches by beating Lleyton Hewitt on May 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 98], "content_span": [99, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Notable stories, Rafael Nadal record winning streak, and loss to Robin S\u00f6derling\nIn his fourth round match on May 31, Nadal was defeated by World No. 23 Robin S\u00f6derling in four sets, 2\u20136, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20137. The upset result ended Nadal's French Open winning streak at 31 matches. S\u00f6derling had never previously reached the fourth round of any Grand Slam tournament, and had never previously beaten Nadal in three attempts, although he had taken him to five sets at Wimbledon in 2007. S\u00f6derling proceeded to reach the final, defeating Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets and Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez in five sets before losing to Roger Federer in his first Grand Slam final appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 98], "content_span": [99, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Notable stories, Rafael Nadal record winning streak, and loss to Robin S\u00f6derling\nOf the upset result, former three-time French Open champion Mats Wilander stated that \"Everybody's in a state of shock, I would think. At some point, Nadal was going to lose. But nobody expected it to happen today, and maybe not this year. Now it's a matter of: There's a tournament to be won.\" Nadal would begin another streak the next year, and did not lose another match at the tournament until the 2015 French Open, when he lost to Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 98], "content_span": [99, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Notable stories, Maria Sharapova's comeback\nAfter nearly a year out of the sport due to a serious shoulder injury which forced her to miss the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2008 US Open and her Australian Open title defence, Maria Sharapova, who started at World No. 53 by the time the entry list was released, then plummeted to as low as World No. 126 during her time away from the sport, entered the tournament ranked World No. 102 at the start of the tournament, and surprised many by reaching the quarter-finals, where she was defeated 6\u20130, 6\u20132 by Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1 (Sharapova had to defend a match point at 0\u20136, 0\u20135 down). Sharapova, unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since 2003, had won all of her first four matches in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Notable stories, Federer's Career Grand Slam\nRoger Federer won the finals, against Robin S\u00f6derling to finally win the French Open tournament for the first time in his career, after he was beaten in three previous finals by Nadal. With this win, he completed his career Grand Slam, titles in all four Grand Slam tournaments in his career. He became the third male player in the Open era (after Rod Laver and Andre Agassi) and sixth male player in tennis history overall to accomplish the feat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (May 24)\nAndrey Golubev of Kazakhstan became the first male winner at this year's French Open. French favourites Julie Coin and Mathieu Montcourt enjoyed safe passages through to the second round, but compatriot Mathilde Johansson was unable to use the crowd's advantage, falling to Vitalia Diatchenko 2\u20136, 6\u20132, 10\u20138. Lleyton Hewitt came from 2 tiebreak sets down, taking a third set tiebreak and eventually the match over the 26th seeded Croat Ivo Karlovi\u0107, winning 6\u20137(1), 6\u20137(4), 7\u20136(4), 6\u20134, 6\u20133, to cause the first upset of a seed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (May 24)\nKarlovic set the new record for the greatest number of aces in the match, serving 55, but couldn't find a way to win. French wildcard Josselin Ouanna came from two sets to one behind to defeat Marcel Granollers, 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20131. However, Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo lost to Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld 6\u20134, 6\u20133, to add to her history of early-round exits at Roland Garros. However, seventh seed Gilles Simon recovered from a tight clash with Wayne Odesnik, 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20133. Former French Open champion Gast\u00f3n Gaudio made a disappointing start to his grand slam comeback, losing in straight sets to Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (May 25)\nWorld number one and top seed Dinara Safina thrashed British Number one Anne Keothavong, 6\u20130, 6\u20130 in the first match on Philippe Chatrier, followed by ATP World Tour Champion and four-time defending champion, top seed Rafael Nadal defeating Brazilian qualifier Marcos Daniel 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 6\u20133. Second seed Roger Federer followed with a comfortable victory over Alberto Mart\u00edn 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 6\u20132. Third seed Venus Williams struggled against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but won 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (May 25)\nFrench wildcard Guillaume Rufin, who turned 19 on day 3, upset Eduardo Schwank, who reached the second week last year, 6\u20131, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 to the delight of French fans. However, fans were disappointed to see their Nicolas Devilder fall in five sets (despite holding a two sets to love lead) to seventeenth seed Stanislas Wawrinka, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. More disappointment came when Romain Jouan, another wildcard, fell 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 to sixth seed Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (May 25)\nHowever, more good news for American fans followed when Fed Cup heroine Alexa Glatch stunned Flavia Pennetta 6\u20131, 6\u20131, to advance to the second round. Kateryna Bondarenko upset Patty Schnyder, and 13th seed Marion Bartoli recovered in an all-French affair to beat Pauline Parmentier 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20133. Two more French wild cards fell as Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova defeated Irena Pavlovic and Australian Jarmila Groth beat Kinnie Laisn\u00e9. Seeds Nikolay Davydenko, Robin S\u00f6derling, and Zheng Jie also advanced. Another of the day's upsets came at the hands Colombia's Mariana Duque Mari\u00f1o, who beat former Top 5 player and 26th seeded Russia's Anna Chakvetadze, winning 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (May 26)\nSerbs Jelena Jankovi\u0107 and Novak Djokovi\u0107 had no problems in their first round matches, beating Petra Cetkovsk\u00e1 and Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti respectively. Serena Williams came through a tough tie \u2013 in which she squandered eight match points \u2013 against Czech Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1 to win 6\u20133, 6\u20137(5), 6\u20134. All French seeds came through unscathed with victories for Marion Bartoli, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Ga\u00ebl Monfils. The United States' hopes of having a French Open champion took a big blow as James Blake and Mardy Fish both lost to Argentinian opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (May 26)\nFish lost to M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4), and Blake, the highest seed to fall on Day 3, was beaten convincingly by Argentinian qualifier Leonardo Mayer 7\u20136(6), 7\u20135, 6\u20132. Number 27 seed Rainer Sch\u00fcttler was comprehensively beaten by home favourite Marc Gicquel 6\u20130, 6\u20130, 6\u20134 and Chinese number 31 seed Peng Shuai was the only women's seed to go out, as she lost to Spain's Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134. There were victories for 10th seeded Dane Caroline Wozniacki, former finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova, Olympic gold medallist Elena Dementieva and World No. 5 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nDay 4 saw the start of the second round matches in both the men's and women's draws. The first match up on Court Philippe Chatrier was world number 3 Andy Murray, who he faced Italian world number 104 Potito Starace. Murray was made to work hard, as Starace took control of the tie and levelled the match at one set all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nAt 5\u20131 in the third set, Murray worked his way back to reel of 6 games in a row, and went on the win 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134. World number 1 Dinara Safina was first up on Court Suzanne Lenglen, and made light work of Vitalia Diatchenko, winning 6\u20131, 6\u20131. Defending women's champion Ana Ivanovic also won comprehensively, beating Tamarine Tanasugarn to enter the third round. French tennis fans had reason to cheer as number 15 seed Aliz\u00e9 Cornet resumed her match from day 3, and beat Maret Ani 6\u20134, 7\u20135 to advance to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nAnother Frenchwoman, Aravane Reza\u00ef beat Slovenian qualifier Polona Hercog to book a tie with Portuguese qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito in the third round, who beat number 15 seed Zheng Jie earlier in the day. Unseeded Maria Sharapova faced number 11 seed Nadia Petrova in her first match against a top 20 player since her 10-month absence from the tour due to injury. A gutsy Sharapova came through with a 3 sets victory, 8\u20136 in the third. Gilles Simon was the only seeded Frenchman playing on day 4, and made swift work of American Robert Kendrick 7\u20135, 6\u20130, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0010-0003", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nDefending champion Rafael Nadal made history by becoming the first person to win 30 consecutive matches at Roland Garros by beating Teymuraz Gabashvili. French wildcard Josselin Ouanna caused perhaps the biggest upset of the day by beating number 20 seed Marat Safin in an epic five set match, in which he won the final set 10\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nThe first matches of the doubles competition were played, with World No. 1 team Liezel Huber and Cara Black, Kv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond, defending champions Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, and Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs were amongst the first to advance to the second round of the women's doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (May 27)\nOn the men's side, defending champions Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes, Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski all advanced to the second round. However, number 7 seeds Andy Ram and Max Mirnyi and number 10 seeds Marcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 suffered shock first-round defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nDay 5 got off to a slow start from a French perspective, as number 13 seed and home favourite Marion Bartoli succumbed to Tathiana Garbin of Italy in straight sets on Court Philippe Chatrier. And the day got worse for France as number 21 seed Aliz\u00e9 Cornet could not find her way past Romanian teenager Sorana C\u00eerstea. However, they did have some consolation, as Virginie Razzano navigated her way past Anabel Medina Garrigues, and booked a place in the third round to play Bartoli conqueror Garbin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nOn Court Suzanne Lenglen, Serb Jelena Jankovi\u0107 had little problem in seeing off Slovakian opponent Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1, 6\u20131, 6\u20132. Venus Williams was made to work very hard to make the third round, as she went the distance with Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1, narrowly winning the final set 7\u20135. There were also victories for Elena Dementieva, Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, former finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova and 2002 champion Serena Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nMeanwhile, in the men's draw, Roger Federer was first up on Court Philippe Chatrier as he faced clay court specialist Jos\u00e9 Acasuso. Roger narrowly won the first set 7\u20136(8) in a first set tie-break, but Acasuso was not ready to falter, and came back stronger in the second set and eventually winning 7\u20135. Acasuso continued to put up strong resistance and took Federer to a third set tie-break, however Federer was too strong and won, from thereon Federer had little problem dispatching Acasuso winning the match 7\u20136(8), 5\u20137, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nFederer's victory set him up with a third round tie with Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu. After disappointed from the French ladies, the men did not disappoint. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Ga\u00ebl Monfils and J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy and Marc Gicquel all advanced to the third round. No seeds were knocked out, as there were victories from number 5 seed Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Andy Roddick and Tommy Robredo, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Igor Andreev and J\u00fcrgen Melzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nThere was only one shocking exit from the men's doubles on the day, as Jeff Coetzee and Jordan Kerr were knocked out by the hands of Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd and Igor Zelenay. Bob and Mike Bryan, Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107, Rik de Voest and Ashley Fisher, and \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach all secured places in the second round of the doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nThere no upsets in the women's doubles, as all seeds made safe progress through to the second round including Serena and Venus Williams, and Kv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (May 28)\nOn day 5, the mixed doubles got under way, which saw just one upset. Nenad Zimonji\u0107 and Yan Zi fell to the hands of Bruno Soares and Alisa Kleybanova. Cara Black and Leander Paes, Lisa Raymond and Marcin Matkowski, Nadia Petrova and Max Mirnyi, and Elena Vesnina and Daniel Nestor all advanced to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (May 29)\nThere were mixed French fortunes on Day 6. Aravane Reza\u00ef beat Michelle Larcher de Brito to move into the fourth round. The newest French star, Josselin Ouanna, saw his run come to an end at the hands of 12th seeded Chilean Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, 7\u20135, 6\u20133, 7\u20135. Following that, Gilles Simon, seeded 7th, suffered a collapse to 30th seed Victor H\u0103nescu 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20132. Rafael Nadal, the four-time defending champion and World Number 1, looked in stellar form as he continued his undefeated run against Lleyton Hewitt, a former holder of the top ranking, 6\u20131, 6\u20133, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (May 29)\nStanislas Wawrinka was eliminated in four sets by tenth seeded Nikolay Davydenko, whilst Fernando Verdasco beat countryman Nicol\u00e1s Almagro and Robin S\u00f6derling, the 23rd seed, set up a clash with Nadal by beating David Ferrer in four sets. \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay stunned third seed Venus Williams 6\u20130, 6\u20134, and Novak Djokovic beat Sergiy Stakhovsky. Additionally, defending champion Ana Ivanovic, \u0110okovi\u0107's compatriot, advanced convincingly over Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1, seeded 32nd, 6\u20130, 6\u20132. Andy Murray led Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 two sets to love before the Serb retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (May 31)\nDay 8 saw Rafael Nadal lose his first ever match at French Open to Swede Robin S\u00f6derling, which ended his streak of 31 wins in a row at Roland Garros. Also out was defending women's champion Ana Ivanovic. Former world number 1 Maria Sharapova continued her miraculous run by defeating Li Na 6\u20134, 0\u20136, 6\u20134 to reach the quarterfinals, after returning from nine months away from the game. Nikolay Davydenko beat Fernando Verdasco to advance to the quarters with S\u00f6derling. Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez beat Victor H\u0103nescu in straight sets to set up a quarterfinal with number four Andy Murray, a winner over Marin \u010cili\u0107 in tight but straight sets. World Number 1 Dinara Safina continued her dominant run of losing just 5 games all tournament against Aravane Reza\u00ef, winning 6\u20131, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Day-by-day summaries, Day 15 (June 7)\nThe men's singles final was briefly interrupted as Jimmy Jump carrying a FC Barcelona banner ran onto the court during the second set, running around Roger Federer and even putting a cap on him, then jumping over the net before being taken out by security. This is the first time this has ever happened at the French Open, however the occurrence did not seem to throw off Federer, as he won the set, and eventually the match. Federer also completed a career Grand Slam and tied Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam titles after winning the French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd /  Leander Paes defeated  Wesley Moodie /  Dick Norman, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nAnabel Medina /  Virginia Ruano Pascual defeated  Victoria Azarenka /  Elena Vesnina, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nLiezel Huber /  Bob Bryan defeated  Vania King /  Marcelo Melo, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(5), 10\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Juniors, Boys' doubles\nMarin Draganja /  Dino Marcan defeated  Guilherme Clezar /  Huang Liang-chi, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Juniors, Girls' doubles\nElena Bogdan /  Noppawan Lertcheewakarn defeated  T\u00edmea Babos /  Heather Watson, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Other events, Legends under 45 doubles\nPaul Haarhuis /  C\u00e9dric Pioline defeated  Pat Cash /  Emilio S\u00e1nchez, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Other events, Legends over 45 doubles\nAnders J\u00e4rryd /  John McEnroe defeated  Mansour Bahrami /  Henri Leconte, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Other events, Wheelchair men's doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet /  Micha\u00ebl Jeremiasz defeated  Robin Ammerlaan /  Maikel Scheffers, 6\u20132, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Other events, Wheelchair women's doubles\nKorie Homan /  Esther Vergeer defeated  Annick Sevenans /  Aniek van Koot, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Wildcard entries\nBelow are the lists of the wildcard awardees entering in the main draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Protected ranking\nThe following players have been accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203010-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open, Media coverage\nIn the US, coverage was provided by The Tennis Channel. In France, the French Open is broadcast live by France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions and Eurosport. In the UK and Republic of Ireland it is broadcast live by BBC and Eurosport, Irish viewers can also watch live on TG4. In Switzerland it is broadcast live by SF, Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana and T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse Romande. In Serbia, it is broadcast live by RTS and Eurosport. In Sweden (Robin S\u00f6derling's home country), it is broadcast live by Eurosport and SVT also broadcast the men's final live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203011-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nHenri Kontinen and Christopher Rungkat were the defending champions, but did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203011-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nMarin Draganja and Dino Marcan won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132, against Guilherme Cl\u00e9zar and Huang Liang-chi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203012-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nYang Tsung-hua was the defending champion, but did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203012-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nDaniel Berta won in the final 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, against Gianni Mina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203013-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nPolona Hercog and Jessica Moore were the defending champions, but did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203013-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nElena Bogdan and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 10\u20138, against T\u00edmea Babos and Heather Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203014-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nSimona Halep was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203014-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nKristina Mladenovic won the tournament, defeating Daria Gavrilova in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203015-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles\nAnders J\u00e4rryd and John McEnroe were the defending champions, and won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20131, against Mansour Bahrami and Henri Leconte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203015-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203015-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Over 45 Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203016-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles\nGoran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 and Michael Stich were the defending champions, but lost in the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203016-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles\nPaul Haarhuis and C\u00e9dric Pioline won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Pat Cash and Emilio S\u00e1nchez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203016-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203016-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Legends Under 45 Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 4) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203017-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPablo Cuevas and Luis Horna were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Igor Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203017-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 against Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203018-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer defeated Robin S\u00f6derling in the final 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20134 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2009 French Open. It was Federer's first French Open title and 14th major title overall, completing the career Grand Slam and equaling Pete Sampras' then-record of 14 Major titles. This was also Federer's fourth consecutive French Open final, having lost the previous three to Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203018-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNadal was the four-time defending champion, but he lost in the fourth round to S\u00f6derling. This marked Nadal's first defeat at the French Open, having won the title in all four of his previous appearances since debuting in 2005 and winning his first 31 matches. His loss guaranteed a first-time French Open champion. In the ten-year span from 2005 to 2014, this was the only edition of the French Open not won by Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203018-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nUntil the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, this was the last Major where Novak Djokovic failed to reach the quarterfinals. He lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203018-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThis was the last Major tournament for 2004 French Open champion and former world No. 5 Gast\u00f3n Gaudio, and the last French Open for 2002 semifinalist and former world No. 1 Marat Safin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203018-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203019-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nThis article displays the qualifying draw for men's singles at the 2009 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final\nThe 2009 French Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2009 French Open. It was contested by three-time finalist Roger Federer and Robin S\u00f6derling of Sweden. After years of heartbreak in Paris, Federer finally lifted the Coupe des Mousquetaires and solidified his position in the mind of many tennis observers as the greatest male player of all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final\nThis match was historic as it was Federer's fourteenth major title, which brought him to a tie with Pete Sampras for the all-time record of Grand Slam championships. He also became only the third man in the Open Era to complete the career Grand Slam of capturing the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nAfter falling to three time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten in 2004, Federer's frustration in Paris was due solely to his arch-rival Rafael Nadal. They first played in the 2005 semifinals and then again in the finals in 2006, 2007, and 2008. During this four year period Federer compiled a 23\u20130 record against all other players at Roland Garros and an 0\u20134 record against Nadal; whose high bouncing lefty forehand to Federer's one handed backhand ground him down on the dirt year after year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nFederer entered the tournament with some momentum having defeated Nadal on clay for the first time since 2007 in the previous tournament at the Madrid Masters. However, the four-time reigning champion Nadal was a massive favorite still never having been defeated in Paris. Federer struggled through difficult matches in the early rounds, while Nadal bulldozed his way into the last 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nThe entire complexion of the tournament changed when Nadal was blitzed off the court in four sets by a six foot, four inch Swede Robin S\u00f6derling, who took Nadal's high bouncing shots at chest height and punished them for winners. Many observers labeled this match one of the most shocking results in, not just tennis, but sports history. With Nadal's early exit, all the pressure was suddenly on Federer to capture the French Open without having to face his kryptonite on clay (this would prove to be the only year Nadal did not make the finals between 2005\u20132014).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nThe next day Federer came out tight against German Tommy Haas and was virtually buried being down 0\u20132 in sets and 30\u201340 at 3\u20134 in the third set. Federer then hit an inside-out forehand on the line to save the break point and went on the complete a miraculous 5 set comeback 6\u20137(4\u20137), 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20130, 6\u20132. After dismissing Gael Monfils in the quarterfinals, Federer faced rising star Juan Martin del Potro in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nFederer again in trouble, losing two of the first three sets, before again bearing down to come through in another five set thriller 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134. With this victory Federer reached his fourth consecutive final in Paris and first against someone other than Nadal. S\u00f6derling had backed up his momentous victory over Nadal with wins over Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Gonzalez to meet Federer in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nUnlike the three previous years Federer had been in the final, the day was overcast and soggy, creating slower conditions and lower bounces. Federer started strongly capturing the first set 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nThe second set was interrupted with S\u00f6derling serving on serve in the fourth game, when a member of the crowd charged onto the court and ran towards Federer waving a flag and placing a jesters hat upon the Swiss player's head. The fan then evaded security and leapt over the net and ran towards S\u00f6derling before being tackled by a security guard and removed from the court. This was a serious violation, especially following the on-court stabbing of Monica Seles by a spectator in 1993. Following the interruption both players held serve in the set and it went to a tiebreaker. Federer then played what he later described as the greatest tiebreaker of his career, taking it by a score of 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nThe third set opened with Federer breaking the S\u00f6derling serve. Both players then held serve for the next nine games, culminating in Federer serving out the match. In the final game Federer faced a break point and said in his post match press conference that the emotions in the final game made \"it almost unplayable.\" Directly after the conclusion of the match the rain began to pour, which meant if S\u00f6derling had broken back and forced it to a fourth set the match would have been suspended to the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nDuring the trophy ceremony Federer was presented with the trophy by American legend Andre Agassi who, along with Rod Laver, was the only other man in the Open Era to complete the career Grand Slam. As the Swiss national anthem played Federer was overcome with emotion after finally capturing the elusive title at Roland Garros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThis match was momentous in the history of tennis. After missing the chance to equal Pete Sampras' then-record of fourteen Grand Slam championships of all time when he lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open earlier in the year, Federer finally did so by winning the French Open for the first time. Sampras himself commented on Federer following the victory saying, \"Regardless he [Federer] goes down as the greatest ever. This just confirms it.\" Federer also filled the only void on his resume by capturing the French Open and becoming only the third man in the Open Era to capture the career Grand Slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nMany tennis analysts and commentators proclaimed Federer the greatest male player of all-time, including tennis legend John McEnroe who called the match for NBC. The call by Eurosport on match point was thus: \"Federer wins the French Open for the first time in his career; and in addition must surely be regarded now as the greatest male player of all-time.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203020-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThis tournament also transformed S\u00f6derling's career as he went from a top thirty player to a perennial top ten player, reaching a high of number 4 in the world. S\u00f6derling remained a fixture in the top ten from 2009\u20132011 until he was forced to stop playing, while still ranked number 5 in the world, and ultimately had to retire after contracting a serious case of mononucleosis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203021-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nIn the 2009 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles event Victoria Azarenka and Bob Bryan were the defending champions, but Azarenka chose not to participate, and only Bryan competed in the tournament. Bryan partnered with Liezel Huber and won in the final 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 10\u20137, against Vania King and Marcelo Melo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203022-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nShingo Kunieda and Maikel Scheffers were the defending champions. They were both present but did not compete together. Kunieda partnered with Stefan Olsson, but lost in the semifinals to Robin Ammerlaan and Maikel Scheffers. Scheffers partnered with Robin Ammerlaan, but St\u00e9phane Houdet and Micha\u00ebl Jeremiasz defeated them 6\u20132, 7\u20135, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203023-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nShingo Kunieda was the defending champion, and won in the final 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, against St\u00e9phane Houdet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203024-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nJiske Griffioen and Esther Vergeer were the defending champions. They were both present but did not compete together. Griffioen partnered with Florence Gravellier, but lost in the semifinals to Annick Sevenans and Aniek van Koot. Vergeer partnered with Korie Homan, and they won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20133, against Annick Sevenans and Aniek van Koot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203025-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nEsther Vergeer was the defending champion, and won in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20135, against Korie Homan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203026-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAnabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203027-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSeventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Dinara Safina in 74 minutes, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2009 French Open. Kuznetsova had been runner-up to Justine Henin in the 2006 final. It was the third all-Russian final in Grand Slam history, and the first since 2004. Kuznetsova won her first Grand Slam since the 2004 US Open, where she also won in an all-Russian final over Elena Dementieva, and second overall. Safina fell to 0\u20133 in Grand Slam finals with the loss. The match was also the conclusion of a series of matches between them during the preceding clay court season, with Kuznetsova beating Safina to win the title in Stuttgart, and Safina avenging the loss by beating Kuznetsova in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203027-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nAna Ivanovic was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Victoria Azarenka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203029-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Road Cycling Cup\nThe 2009 French Road Cycling Cup was the eighteenth edition of the French Road Cycling Cup. The 2009 calendar saw a reduction in events from 14 to 11, with the Tour du Haut Var, the Grand Prix de Rennes and Paris\u2013Bourges losing their places on the calendar. The defending champion was J\u00e9r\u00f4me Pineau, who won the series for Bouygues T\u00e9l\u00e9com but moved on to the Belgian team Quick-Step, and so did not feature much in the series. French rider Jimmy Casper of Besson Chaussures-Sojasun won the series, having led it throughout and winning three races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203030-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French Super Series\nThe 2009 French Open Super Series was a top level badminton competition which was held from October 27, 2009, to November 1, 2009, in Paris, France. It was the tenth BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203031-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 15\u201317 May 2009 at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans, France. Jorge Lorenzo moved one point clear at the top of world championship standings after winning the MotoGP race ahead of Marco Melandri and Dani Pedrosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203031-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203032-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 French riots\nA series of riots took place in July 2009 in France. On Bastille Day in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris, French youths set fire to 317 cars. Thirteen police officers were injured. On July 9, many youths started a protest in Firminy near Saint-\u00c9tienne, after the death of a young Algerian man, Mohamed Benmouna, in police custody. Benmouna's parents rejected the official account of suicide. Riots on Bastille day are a frequent occurrence in France as the disaffected protest high unemployment rates and failed integration policies for minorities. More than 240 people had been arrested near Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203032-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 French riots\nThe injured officers suffered mainly from hearing difficulties after having been targeted by youths armed with fireworks and small-scale home-made explosives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203033-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 Fresno State football team represented California State University, Fresno and in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by 13th-year head coach Pat Hill. 2009 was the Bulldogs' 29th in their current home of Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, California. The Bulldogs finished the season 8\u20135, 6\u20132 in WAC play and lost to Wyoming 35\u201328 in two overtimes in the New Mexico Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203033-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, UC Davis\nRyan Colburn wins the starter role at Quarterback after a long offseason battle with Ebahn Feathers and Derek Carr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203034-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Friends Provident Trophy\nThe 2009 Friends Provident Trophy was an English county cricket tournament held between 19 April and 25 July 2009. The competition was won by Hampshire Hawks who beat the Sussex Sharks by 6 wickets at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203034-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Friends Provident Trophy, Format\nThe eighteen first-class counties, joined by the Scottish and Irish national teams were divided into four groups. Each team plays each other twice, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the quarter-final stage. Group winners gain a home draw for the quarter-final. During the group stage, teams are awarded two points for a win, one point for a tie, abandonment or a no result, with no points awarded for a defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203034-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Friends Provident Trophy, Format\nTeams level on points at the end of the group stage were separated by most wins, followed by results between the two teams, net run rate, followed by most wickets taken per balls bowled in matches achieving a result. Teams that were victorious in the quarter-finals then proceeded to the semi-finals and winners from the semi-finals progressed to the final which was held on 25 July, at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election\nA by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Frome on 17 January 2009. This was triggered by the resignation of former Premier and state Liberal MHA Rob Kerin. The seat had been retained by the Liberals at the 2006 state election on a 3.4 per cent margin, and at the 2002 state election on an 11.5 per cent margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election\nThe writ for the by-election was issued on 28 November, with the rolls closing on 8 December. Candidate nominations closed 18 December at midday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election\nIndependent candidate Geoff Brock ended up winning the seat from the Liberals in a very close contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Background\nKerin was first elected as the member for the new rural Port Pirie-based seat of Frome at the 1993 state election where the Liberals won government. From 1995 he held various ministries in the Brown and Olsen Liberal governments until he became Premier of South Australia in October 2001, before losing government to the Mike Rann-led Labor Party at the March 2002 state election. Kerin remained Liberal leader until after the 2006 state election when he resigned the leadership to make way for Iain Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Background\nThe state by-election was the first to be held since the 1994 Taylor by-election, when another former Premier, Lynn Arnold, retired from politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Candidates\nThe Family First Party and the Australian Democrats, who ran candidates in the previous election, polling 5.2 percent and 2 percent respectively, did not nominate a candidate to contest the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Issues\nOf concern to the electorate was the potential closure of the Nyrstar smelter in Port Pirie due to the federal government's emissions trading scheme known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, however it won special exemption from the scheme on 17 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Issues\nPort Pirie Mayor and Independent candidate Geoff Brock was considered a possibility for winning the seat, with a strong local profile, and receiving preference recommendations in how-to-vote cards (HTVs) from Labor and the Nationals, whilst the Greens did not recommend preferences. Brock's own HTV recommended preferences to the Nationals, Labor, Liberal, Green, and One Nation, in that order. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon also campaigned for Brock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Results\nThe by-election was closely contested, with the result being uncertain for over a week. Initial reports suggested a slight swing to the Liberals on the two-party preferred count against Labor, but with Independent candidate Geoff Brock not far behind Labor. By 21 January 2009, both the ABC's Antony Green and the State Electoral Office were indicating a two percent swing against the Liberals toward Labor, but not enough to lose the seat. Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith claimed victory on behalf of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Results\nThe result hinged on the performance of Brock against Labor in the competition for second place. Brock polled best in the Port Pirie area, and received enough eliminated candidate preferences to end up ahead of the Labor candidate by 30 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Results\nBrock received 80 percent of Labor's fifth count preferences to achieve a two-candidate preferred vote of 51.72 percent (a majority of 665 votes) against the Liberals, despite a slight improvement in the Liberal primary vote since the previous count. This was announced by the Electoral Commissioner, Kay Mousley, at 8:30\u00a0pm local time on 24 January 2009, but without a formal declaration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Results\nThe commissioner rejected a request for a recount by Boylan, with a formal request being lodged by the Liberals, which was also rejected, after which the Liberals ruled out a possibility of taking the result to the Court of Disputed Returns. A formal declaration of the by-election outcome was made by the State Electoral Office on 29 January. The by-election saw a rare two-party swing to an incumbent government, and was the first time an opposition had lost a seat at a by-election in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203035-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Frome state by-election, Results\nThe result in Frome at the 2010 state election saw Brock increase his primary vote by 14.1 percent to a total of 37.7 percent and his two-candidate vote by 6.5 percent to a total of 58.2 percent. Despite a statewide swing against Labor at the election, Labor again increased its two-party vote in Frome by 1.8 percent to a total of 50.1 percent, coincidentally by 30 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series\nThe 2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series was the tenth running of the V8 Supercar Development series. It supported the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, beginning on 19 March at the Clipsal 500 and ending on 6 December at the Sydney 500 after seven rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series\nWith one race to spare, Jonathon Webb secured the series, in doing so becoming the first driver from MW Motorsport to win the title after having competed in the very first series for second-tier V8 Supercars. James Moffat took second place from David Russell at the final race of the series. Ford drivers filled the top seven places with Grant Denyer, Daniel Gaunt, Brad Lowe and Damian Assaillit filling those positions. The first Holden driver was Sam Walter, over 900 points behind Webb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series\nWebb did not win a race until the fifth round of the series at Queensland Raceway, but from there won every race bar one, where he was second, an irresistible charge for the series that neither Moffat nor Russell had any answer to after the three drivers had been close for the first half of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, Calendar\nThe 2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series on consisted of seven rounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers have competed during the 2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203036-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, Points system\nPoints are awarded to any driver that completes 75% of race distance and is running on the completion of the final lap. These are the points awarded for each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203037-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season\nThe 2009 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season featured the Hawks quest to win their first Pacific League title since 2003. For the first time since 1994, the Hawks had a new manager in Koji Akiyama, who replaced the legendary Sadaharu Oh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203037-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season\nSoftBank absorbed more injuries from Opening Day starter Tsuyoshi Wada, but saw the continued dominance of Toshiya Sugiuchi, and the emergence of foreign pitchers D.J. Houlton and Justin Germano, who stabilized the starting rotation. More foreign help came in the person of 201\u00a0cm-tall reliever Brian Falkenborg. Together with Rookie of the Year Tadashi Settsu and closer Takahiro Mahara, the Hawks had one of the most reliable bullpens in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203037-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season\nThe Hawks had one of the older offenses in the league, still anchored by Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Hiroki Kokubo. Yuya Hasegawa had a breakout season (.312, 7HR, 44RBI) after suffering injuries in the previous two seasons. Hitoshi Tamura came back in mid-May and hit .283 with 17 home runs, which helped to make up for a disappointing season from Munenori Kawasaki, who batted a career-low .259 despite career highs in games played (143) and stolen bases (44).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203037-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season\nFor the second year in a row, the Hawks won the Interleague tournament. However, the team could not sustain their success as they stumbled in September, finishing 3rd and exiting in the first round of the play offs, at the hands of the rival Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203038-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 F\u00f3rmula Truck season\nThe 2009 F\u00f3rmula Truck season was the 14th F\u00f3rmula Truck season. It began on March 8 at Guapor\u00e9 and ended on December 13 at Bras\u00edlia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203038-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 F\u00f3rmula Truck season, Calendar and results\nAll races were held in Brazil, excepting round at Aut\u00f3dromo Juan y Oscar G\u00e1lvez, that was held in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit\nThe 2009 G20 London Summit was the second meeting of the G20 heads of government/heads of state, which was held in London on 2 April 2009 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre to discuss financial markets and the world economy. It followed the first G20 Leaders Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy, which was held in Washington, D.C. on 14\u201315 November 2008. Heads of government or heads of state from the G20 attended, with some regional and international organisations also represented. Due to the extended membership, it has been referred to as the London Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit\nThe policing tactics at the event raised some controversy, particularly over the death of Ian Tomlinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit\nIt was revealed in June 2013 that the Government Communications Headquarters, an intelligence agency of the British government, had intercepted phone calls and monitored computers used by foreign delegates at the summit. Their actions were sanctioned by the British government, and intelligence was passed to British government ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Agenda\nAs hosts, the British Treasury produced an extended agenda pamphlet proposing the issues to be addressed at the London Summit. The explicit goal was \"to start the process of reform so as to manage globalisation as a force for good in the medium term.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation\nLeaders of the member countries began to prepare for the London Summit months before the effective date, notably with two official meetings dedicated to that preparation, one held in Berlin, Germany, on 22 February 2009 for European leaders, and another in Horsham, Sussex, United Kingdom, on 14 March 2009 for Finance Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, European leaders summit\nLeaders of the four European Union member countries of the G20, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy along with the two largest European non-members, Spain and the Netherlands, met in Berlin on 22 February 2009 to prepare for the London Summit and to co-ordinate their actions. The meeting was organised at the initiative of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, European leaders summit\nThe leaders agreed that markets, financial institutions and the wide range of financial assets they create, and hedge funds should be subject to appropriate control. In addition, they called for effective sanctions against tax havens. They also agreed to impose sanctions against countries that intend to undermine their work. Finally, they advocated the doubling of funds available to the IMF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, Finance ministers summit\nFinance ministers and central bankers of the G20 met in Horsham on 14 March 2009 to prepare for the London Summit. To restore global growth as quickly as possible, the participants decided to approve coordinated and decisive actions to stimulate demand and employment. They also pledged to fight against all forms of protectionism and to maintain trade and foreign investments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, Finance ministers summit\nThe members also committed themselves to maintain the supply of credit by providing more liquidity and recapitalising the banking system, and to implement rapidly the stimulus plans. As for central bankers, they pledged to maintain low-rates policies as long as necessary. Finally, the leaders decided to help emerging and developing countries, through a strengthening of the IMF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, Finance ministers summit\nTo strengthen the financial system, the participants proposed to regulate appropriately all important financial institutions, to register all hedge funds or their managers and to force them to provide appropriate information as to the risks they take. They proposed to implement regulation to prevent the systemic risks and to curb business cycles, including the limitation of the leverage effect, which amplifies cycles. They announced new measures to prevent and resolve crises, through the strengthening of the IMF and the FSF. They agreed to control credit-rating agencies and their compliance with the Code of Conduct of the International Organization of Securities Commissions; off-balance-sheet vehicles; credit-derivatives market; and non-cooperative territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, Gordon Brown's pre-summit meetings\nIn the weeks before the London Summit, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited several countries on three continents to try to secure backing for his goals at the London Summit. During the trip Brown was forced to re-clarify his position on fiscal stimulus after criticism from the Governor of the Bank of England. While speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, he was challenged by a Member of the European Parliament over his spending plans. He also visited the US, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He strongly attacked protectionism saying \"One of the messages that must come from next week's summit is that we will reject protectionist countries, we will monitor those countries and name and shame if necessary countries that are not following free trade practices\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Preparation, Gordon Brown's pre-summit meetings\nIn the weeks leading up to the London Summit, there had been a growing difference of opinions on the question of implementing further fiscal stimulus. The British and the American leaderships were in favour of another round of stimulus packages to try to stimulate the global economy, while the French and German leaderships remained strongly opposed to such measures because of the increased levels of debt which this would cause. On 26 March 2009 the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek strongly criticised the economic expansion policies of US President Barack Obama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 71], "content_span": [72, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Attendance\nG20 leaders began gathering in London on 1 April 2009. Before leaving for the London Summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that if a meaningful deal was not agreed France would walk out of the summit echoing the \"empty chair\" gesture of then-French President Charles de Gaulle in 1965. At a joint press conference in London, Brown and Obama said that suggestions of a rift were exaggerated. Sarkozy attended a separate press conference with Merkel in which both repeated calls for the summit to agree on more stringent regulation of financial markets and restated their firm opposition to further financial stimulus packages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Attendance\nOn the evening of 1 April the leaders attended a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by Elizabeth II. During a photograph she lightly rebuked the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for shouting too loudly in an effort to attract the attention of President Obama. The story was featured heavily in the Italian media, and was used by opponents to lambast Berlusconi. After the palace reception, the leaders dined at 10 Downing Street where the food was cooked by Jamie Oliver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Attendance\nThe summit proper began on the morning of 2 April and took place at the Excel Centre in Custom House, east London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Attendance, Core participants\nThe following participants of the London summit include the core members of the G20, which comprises 19 countries and the European Union which is represented by its two governing bodies, the European Council and the European Commission, as well as other nations and regional organisations invited to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Security operation\nThe security operation, Operation Glencoe headed by Commander Bob Broadhurst, was projected to cost \u00a37.2 million. Six police forces were used during the operation: the Metropolitan Police, the City of London Police, British Transport Police and the forces of Essex Police, Sussex Police and Bedfordshire Police. Furthermore, some units from the Ministry of Defence Police have been used. It is the highest security expenditure in British history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Security operation, GCHQ interception of foreign politicians communications\nIn June 2013 The Guardian revealed that the intelligence agency of the British government, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spied on foreign politicians visiting the summit by intercepting phonecalls, emails and monitoring computers, in some cases even ongoing after the summit via keyloggers that had been installed during the summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 99], "content_span": [100, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Protests\nThe summit became the focus of protests from a number of disparate groups over various long standing and topical issues. These ranged from disquiet over economic policy, anger at the banking system and bankers remuneration and bonuses, the continued war on terror and concerns over climate change. Although the majority of the protests and protestors were peaceful, instances of violence and criminal damage led to the use of kettling to contain protestors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Protests, Death of Ian Tomlinson\nIan Tomlinson, a newsagent in the City of London, died within a police cordon of the G20 Meltdown protest near the Bank of England. Initially the City of London Police denied that any incident with the police had occurred. However video, photographic and eyewitness evidence was published in the media, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed that Tomlinson had been pushed back by police officers minutes before he collapsed and died of a heart attack. Further allegations that Tomlinson had been hit with a baton were supported when additional video footage became public. The IPCC then later ordered a second post mortem and an independent criminal inquiry, with the second post mortem finding that although \"there is evidence of coronary atherosclerosis\" it was \"unlikely to have contributed to the cause of death\" and that \"the cause of death was abdominal haemorrhage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 958]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome\nThe London summit was a preliminary step in the process through which the G20 evolved to become \"the premier forum for discussing, planning and monitoring international economicco-operation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome, Financial commitments\nThe G20 leaders reached an agreement which, in principle, provides US$1.1 trillion to various programs designed to improve international finance, credit, trade, and overall economic stability and recovery. There was some dispute about how best to move forward. On one hand, the UK and the US wanted a large financial stimulus. On the other hand, France and Germany wanted stricter financial regulation. Programs include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome, Regulation\nAn agreement was also reached to attempt to bring wider global regulation of hedge funds and credit-rating agencies, a common approach to cleaning up bank toxic assets. The G20 leaders also agreed to establish a financial stability forum working with the IMF to ensure wider global co-operation and to provide an early-warning system for future financial crises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome, No green policies\nDespite calls for a green new deal from Greenpeace and others and general political hype regarding environmental concerns, none of the US$1.1 trillion stimulus package was allocated for environmental investment, and no other environmental agreements were made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome, Decreased influence of the United States\nOne of the general agreements at the London Summit is that there needs to be more government regulations over businesses, and there was a perception that the US would no longer be as dominant as it has been previously. Commenting on the summit, Robert Hormats, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International, said \"The U.S. is becoming less dominant while other nations are gaining influence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203039-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit, Outcome, Influence of China\nThe influence of China was very apparent during the G20 with some commentators saying that the G20 was more like a G2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests\nThe 2009 G20 London summit protests occurred in the days around the 2 April 2009 G20 London summit. The summit was the focus of protests from a number of groups over various long-standing and topical issues. These ranged from disquiet over economic policy, anger at the banking system and bankers' remuneration and bonuses, the continued war on terror and concerns over climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests\nAlthough the majority of the protests and protesters were peaceful, the threat of violence and criminal damage were used by police as a reason to detain, or \"kettle\", protesters as part of Operation Glencoe. A bystander, Ian Tomlinson, died shortly after being pushed to the ground by a police officer. A second post-mortem revealed that Tomlinson may have died from an abdominal haemorrhage. The inquest into Tomlinson's death found that he was unlawfully killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nTheir 12-point economic plan for democratic governance demanded democratised financial institutions to deliver secure jobs and public services, an end to global poverty and inequality, and a green economy. The movement was initiated by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, Trade Justice Movement, British Overseas NGOs for Development and TUC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nA peace activist climbed over the railings into the Houses of Parliament as a symbolic gesture of \"power to the people\". When arrested by police he explained that \"This is the people's parliament, and I am one of the people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nAround five thousand people joined the \"G20 Meltdown\" protest outside the Bank of England. G20 Meltdown was a radical anti-capitalist, socialist organisation conceived in Paris and formed in London in January 2009 prior to the G20 summit. As well as the protest, they organised four nearby squats. Much of the protest, which was \"kettled\", was peaceful although there were violent confrontations. The police used batons and dogs and at least one policeman was injured; some protesters broke into a branch of Royal Bank of Scotland and a bystander, Ian Tomlinson, died after being hit with a baton from behind by a police officer near the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nAbout two to three thousand people joined the \"Climate Camp in the City\" outside European Climate Exchange on Bishopsgate, which was peaceful except for when minor scuffles occurred after riot police \"kettled\" the event at 7:30\u00a0pm. The street was cleared at about 2\u00a0am the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nSeveral hundred people joined a peaceful Stop the War Coalition march from the American embassy in Grosvenor Square to Trafalgar Square which brought together protesters from the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, The British Muslim Initiative, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nAn \"alternative G20 Summit\" with speakers including Tony Benn, Ken Loach, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas was scheduled to take place at the University of East London which was close to the main G20 Summit venue. At the last minute the university announced that the whole university would close for the duration of the summit on safety grounds, also that Prof Chris Knight, an anthropologist at the University for 20 years, had been suspended and the alternative summit was cancelled. In the event, the summit did go ahead and was held on the lawns of the university and started an hour later than planned and an attendance of 200\u2013300 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\nAround 200 people gathered for a vigil outside Bank following news of Ian Tomlinson's death, and were subjected to a police \"kettle\" despite the vigil being peaceful. 200 anti-war protesters from the Stop the War Coalition protested at the ExCeL Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Timeline of the protests\n\"Spiderman\", the French climber Alain Robert, climbed the Lloyd's building and unfurled a banner saying \"100 months to save the world\" in reference to the urgency of tackling climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Put People First\nOn 28 March 2009, 35,000 people marched through London. At a rally in Hyde Park, they were addressed by Global Call to Action Against Poverty co-chair Kumi Naidoo, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber, environmentalist Tony Juniper, activist comedian Mark Thomas, and global justice author Susan George amongst others. They heard calls for international action to deliver tax justice, trade justice and a Green New Deal in both rich and poor countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Put People First\nThe Put People First alliance of more than 160 unions, development, faith and environment groups called on the G20 leaders to recognise that \"only just, fair and sustainable policies can lead the world out of recession, and that a return to 'business as usual' \u2013 with the associated poverty, inequality and climate change \u2013 is not an option\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Put People First\nChristian NGOs including World Vision and Tearfund organised an ecumenical service on the day at Methodist Central Hall, overseen by the Bishop of London. Delegations joined the march from around the world, including Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Korea, USA, Australia, South Africa, Zambia, Canada and the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nThis protest took place outside the Bank of England. The aim was to \"create a carnival outside the bank\" and to \"overthrow capitalism\". Protesters referred to the day as \"Financial Fools' Day\", a reference to the protest taking place on April Fools' Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nThe protest started at 11:25 as four planned marches, each led by one of the \"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse\", converged on the Bank: the red horse against war approached from Moorgate; the green horse against climate chaos from Liverpool Street station; the silver horse against financial crimes from London Bridge and the black horse against land enclosures and borders from Cannon Street. Protesters were at the Bank of England by 11:53. Protest chants included \"build a bonfire, put the bankers on the top\", and some protesters shouted \"jump\" and \"shame on you\" at bankers watching from windows. The police cordoned off thousands of protesters at 12:52 and many of those within the cordon were not allowed to leave for up to seven hours. Tom Brake, a Member of Parliament and legal observer who was among those \"kettled\", has criticised this tactic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 900]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nThe windows of a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland were broken by a group of protesters at 13:45, some of whom entered the building and looted office equipment and papers and threw smoke grenades, chairs and eggs There was intense media attention to this event, with a ring of photographers surrounding the people breaking the windows and David Howarth MP later commented that one of the unresolved mysteries of the day was why the moment that a masked person threw the first piece of scaffolding through the window it was observed by hundreds of photographers and film crews already in position. Four people, including a 17-year-old girl, have been charged in connection to this damage. RBS has asked for \u00a340,000 in damages from the teenage girl, who has admitted burglary and criminal damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nFollowing the damage to the bank there were violent confrontations with the police with police using batons against the protesters while trying to push them back. Some protesters fought back, including one masked protester who hit police with a pole, resulting in one injury and a smoke or flour bomb was also thrown. A branch of HSBC also had windows smashed. A journalist reported that the police \"were spat on, hit and had vile abuse screamed into their faces from inches away.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nA professional photographer saw what they described as \"agents provocateurs\" instigating violence. One who was throwing bottles was challenged by protesters, who accused him of being a police officer. He ran to police lines and was allowed through after showing I.D. Tom Brake MP has also said that members of the crowd told him about suspected agents provocateurs who had been encouraging the crowd to throw objects at the police. A police spokesman said that \"We would never deploy officers in this way or condone such behaviour.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nWithout alternative facilities, people used the entrances to Bank Underground station as a urinal, although the police said that temporary toilets and water were made available to protesters. As people were eventually allowed to leave at about 20:00, they were asked for their names and addresses, and required to have a photograph taken. They are, under the law, obliged to provide their name and address, however they did not need to provide the photograph, but those who refused were put back in the pen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown\nCommander Bob Broadhurst, the officer in charge of policing the G20 protests, said that the \"overall mood\" of the 1 April demonstrations was good although \"unfortunately small groups of protesters intent on violence mixed with the crowds of lawful demonstrators.\" A bystander, Ian Tomlinson, died after being pushed to the ground by a police officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown, Squats\nProtesters set up four squats as bases close to the Bank of England on 31 March. The police raided an occupied derelict pub in Shoreditch on the evening of the 31st which had been publicised as a \"convergence space for protesters\"; they stopped and searched people entering the building and arrested three people, one on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, G20 Meltdown, Squats\nOn 1 April Payne House on Earl Street near Liverpool Street Station was promoted as venue for workshops, films and accommodation with space to house \"many, many people\". The venue was advertised as a drug-free and alcohol-free centre with no photography allowed without permission. Police later raided a large Victorian office building in Earl Street and another squatted building, the RampART Social Center, in Whitechapel on 2 April, detaining a total of at least 80 people and arresting four. A video of the raid allegedly shows an officer pointing a Taser at protesters who are lying on the floor, which would be against police guidelines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nThe \"Camp in the City\" () on 1 April 2009 aimed to draw attention to carbon trading, claiming that far from being a way of reducing release of climate change gasses in the atmosphere it is used as an excuse to continue doing just that. The camp took place outside the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nPrior to the actual camp a group of participants had played a game called \"capture the flag\" in the area on 27 March which was used by the protesters to familiarise themselves with the locale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nClimate Camp organisers agreed to meet with police and exchange contact details shortly before the protest. The meeting was arranged by Liberal Democrat MP David Howarth, who was to mediate at the meeting which was to take place at the House of Commons. Scotland Yard confirmed that a meeting was to take place with police Commander Bob Broadhurst and Chief Superintendent Ian Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nThe camp, which was intended to last for 24 hours, started at 12:30\u00a0pm when a camp was established in a section of Bishopsgate between Threadneedle Street and London Wall with tents set up and bunting across the road reading \"Nature doesn't do bailouts\". There were solar-powered sound systems, musicians and a food stall and some 1,000-plus relaxed people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nThe atmosphere was still relaxed at about 5\u00a0pm when police with helmets, shields and batons began to surround areas of the camp using section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nAt about 7\u00a0pm the police stopped allowing people to enter or leave the protest. The police advanced on protesters who put their hands in the air and passively resisted while chanting \"This is not a riot\", a tactic that emerged over the course of a number of Camp for Climate Action gatherings. There were scuffles with the police in which several protesters were hit and kicked by the police and one policewoman needed medical attention. Within the cordon people carried on playing music and preparing food and until the police began letting people leave at about 11:30\u00a0pm and cleared the area of the last protesters at about 2\u00a0am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Climate Camp\nOrganizers of the Climate Camp have released a report of the protests and the police response, \"Demonstrating Respect for Rights\", which includes allegations of police using violence to clear the camp after journalists had left. The camp legal team also released a video of the protests, which includes footage of a demonstrator being struck on the head by a police riot shield, and of another man being punched in the face as the crowd retreats from police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Alternative London Summit\nAn \"alternative G20 Summit\" with speakers including Tony Benn, Ken Loach, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas was scheduled to take place at the University of East London, which is close to where the main G20 Summit was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Alternative London Summit\nAt the last minute the university announced that the whole university would close for the duration of the summit on safety grounds, also that Prof Chris Knight, an expert in anthropology at the University for 20 years, had been suspended for \"inciting criminal action, specifically violence against policemen and women and damage to banking institutions\", and that the alternative summit was cancelled. In the event, the summit did go ahead and was held on the lawns of the university and started an hour later than planned; 200\u2013300 people attended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nScotland Yard officers drew up Operation Glencoe, the plan to protect the summit and prevent disorder. The overall commander (the Gold commander) was Commander Bob Broadhurst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nBefore the event Commander Simon O'Brien said that the capital would see \"almost unprecedented level of activity\" of protest activity with seven officially notified demonstrations and possibly many more they don't know about. Scotland Yard described the G20 policing plan as one of the largest, most challenging and complicated public order operations it has ever devised. They said that the level and style of activity on the internet suggested a re-emergence of groups with similar aims to the anti-globalisation protesters who turned to violence in 2000 and 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nThey said they were determined to avoid the violent scenes of the 2001 G8 in Genoa in which one protester was killed and hundreds more injured. In the days leading up to the summit, the Metropolitan police warned protest groups that the protests on 1 April would be \"very violent\" and that they were \"up for it, and up to it\" in the event of trouble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nThe police used the crowd-control tactic known as containment or the \u201ckettle\u201d, to hold 5,000 people inside a police cordon without food, drink or lavatory facilities. This combined with riot police pushing into crowds with shields and batons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nIan Tomlinson died after being shoved and struck by a police officer within a police cordon of the G20 Meltdown protest near the Bank of England. Initially, the City of London Police denied that any incident with the police had occurred, and the death was attributed to natural causes. One week, later video evidence emerged of a Metropolitan police officer pushing Tomlinson to the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nIncluding a number of raids on squats on 2 April 2009, the police made over 100 arrests and said they had identified and would track down those who had broken the law. A teenage girl was convicted of criminal damage An estimated 5,000 people took part in the protests. The Daily Telegraph suggested that the policing of the event would turn out to have been the most expensive police operation in British history at an estimated cost of up to \u00a38 million, or \u00a31,600 per protester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Operation Glencoe\nOne raid on a climate change group the day after the main protests was ruled to have been illegal in March 2010, the Met Commissioner said that it was unlawful to arrest and search protestors and to force them to be recorded on film. Two protesters were each awarded \u00a33000 compensation after the Met admitted the operation was unlawful as there were no reasonable grounds for suspicion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nThe police choice of \"Operation Glencoe\" as a codename was linked with the Glencoe Massacre. In the buildup to the protests the chairman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Andrew Dismore, MP, said that \"The police have a duty under the Human Rights Act to facilitate protest and not frustrate it. If they act in a confrontational way and use confrontation language, they will start to provoke the kind of behaviour they are seeking to prevent. There may well be a fringe element that want to incite violence. But that doesn't mean police should criminalise every protester.\" David Howarth, a Liberal Democrat MP, said: \"I am increasingly worried that what the police are saying about the protests will end up in a self-fulfilling prophecy. By talking up the prospect of violence they [the police] will put off peaceful demonstrators and start to attract other sorts.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 942]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nJenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said of reports of police brutality that \"If the police were hitting people who were sitting down with their hands up, we have entered a new era of overt violent policing in Britain that will deter people from protesting and cut back our civil liberties\". A police Commander said that their \"tactics were proportionate and worked\". Jean Lambert, MEP, of the London Green Party, wrote an open letter to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner after the event asking for an explanation of the police tactics at the climate camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nA number of allegations of police misconduct have been reported, including by a press photographer. The IPCC has received 185 complaints relating to police actions at the demonstrations, 40 of which were ineligible and 80 of which concern violence. An officer is being investigated and has received a written warning after writing \"Rob Ward can't wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20\" as a Facebook status update on the evening of 1 April. Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne has noted \"the canteen culture of some parts of the Met\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nThe National Union of Journalists has considered taking legal action after Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 was used against journalists covering the protests on 2 April. The City of London police asked them to leave the area at the Royal Exchange for half an hour, and threatened arrest if they refused. Section 14 is to prevent \"serious public disorder, serious criminal damage or serious disruption to the life of the community\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nThe police earlier apologised to journalists reporting the 1 April protests at the Bank of England: \"Section 14 was applied outside the Bank of England to disperse protesters. There may have been some photographers caught up in that. If so we apologise. We respect the right of photographers to cover current events.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nSir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, expressed \"concern that the video footage of some police actions are clearly disturbing and should be thoroughly investigated\", and a need to be reassured that the use of the containment, or kettling tactic \"remains appropriate and proportionate\". Denis O'Connor has said that some police behaviour \"fell short of the police medal promise to \"guard my people\".\" Others have defended the policing of the protests. Sir Ken Jones, the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers, has criticised the lack of objectivity which he perceives has been shown by the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nJones went onto question the views put forward by Nick Hardwick, the Chair of the IPCC. Jones also stated that he \"can't think of any other country that doesn't use water cannons, CS gas, rubber bullets\". The Police Federation has also criticised the IPCC, making a formal complaint about the \"deplorable behaviour\" of Nick Hardwick, Chairman of the IPCC, for passing \"lofty and withering judgment on London's police officers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0040-0002", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Response to police tactics\nHome Office Minister Lord West said in the House of Lords that \"thousands of officers acted absolutely professionally and proportionately, thousands were actually able to demonstrate peacefully on our streets, criminal activity in the rest of the metropolis was kept to an absolute minimum and the police also maintained high levels of security. And I think we should be extremely proud of them. This does not excuse acts which are criminal and there are now investigations taking place for those particulars.\" The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has defended the police, and said that \"I worry that there are large sections of the media that are currently engaged in a very unbalanced orgy of cop bashing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Nicola Fisher video\nOn 14 April, media outlets published video taken during a vigil for Ian Tomlinson on 2 April outside the Bank of England, near to where he died. A sergeant with the Territorial Support Group is seen slapping a woman who was arguing with him, Nicola Fisher, across the face, then striking her legs with his baton. The officer's identification number was concealed. The IPCC said it would investigate, and the officer was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Nicola Fisher video\nSir Paul Stephenson said that uniformed officers should always display their shoulder identification numbers, as \"The public has a right to be able to identify any uniformed officer whilst performing their duty.\" In September 2009, the officer was named as Sgt Delroy 'Tony' Smellie, and the CPS announced that it would charge him with assault. The court case against Delroy Smellie commenced in March 2010 and he has been found not guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Nicola Fisher video\nAnother demonstrator, Katie Surridge, has alleged that she was pushed to the ground from behind on 1 April by the same officer who later struck Nicola Fisher. That incident has also been reported to the IPCC. IPCC have announced that there is no case to answer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Review of the policing of public events\nOn 15 April 2009, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson asked the Chief Inspector of Constabulary to review policing tactics in the policing of public events. Denis O'Connor will review the policing of public events following allegations of two assaults by police during the G20 protests in London on 1 April. He will also assess whether the tactic of containment or kettling is appropriate and proportionate to ensuring people have the right to protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Review of the policing of public events\nHe said the event was a \"complex policing operation\", and that footage of clashes with police will be reviewed to check if other incidents need to be examined. Sir Paul stressed that all uniformed officers must wear shoulder identification numbers to be easily identifiable by the public. Among the tactics being reviewed is the crowd-control tactic known as the \u201ckettle\u201d, used to pen in protesters. Bob Broadhurst, the commanding officer during the protests, blamed any misconduct of officers on the lack of training they receive in crowd control and on fear. He revealed during a Commons Home Affairs Committee that officers only receive 2 days of training a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Review of the policing of public events\nOn Tuesday 25 January 2011, Broadhurst apologised to the home affairs select committee for telling then in May 2009 that no plain-clothes officers were present at the demonstrations; He admitted that numerous City of London police officers had been present at the demonstration, along with more than one Met officer, including PC Mark Kennedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Policing, Review of the policing of public events\nOn 14 April 2011 the high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law in the way they \"kettled\" protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009, and also criticised the use of force by officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Death of Ian Tomlinson\nIan Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor in the City of London, died within a police cordon of the G20 Meltdown protest near the Bank of England. Initially the City of London Police denied that any incident with the police had occurred, and the death was attributed to natural causes. Days later, The Guardian published video showing Tomlinson had been pushed by a Metropolitan Police Service officer and hit with a baton minutes before he collapsed and died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203040-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 London summit protests, Death of Ian Tomlinson\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) subsequently ordered a second post mortem and set up an independent criminal inquiry to determine whether Tomlinson was assaulted by police, and whether that assault contributed to his death. The results of this second post mortem have revealed that Tomlinson actually died from an abdominal haemorrhage. A police officer was questioned under caution about Tomlinson's death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nThe 2009 G20 Pittsburgh Summit was the third meeting of the G20 heads of state/heads of government to discuss financial markets and the world economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nThe G20 is the premier forum for discussing, planning and monitoring international economic cooperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nThe summit was held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on September 24\u201325, 2009. Announced shortly after the April 2009 G20 London summit, U.S. President Barack Obama volunteered to host this summit, initially planning to hold it in New York City and coordinating it with the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nHowever, due to coordination issues, on May 28, 2009, the Obama Administration announced a change of venue to Pittsburgh in order to highlight the city's economic recovery following the collapse of its manufacturing sector in the latter half of the 20th century. In response to the Global credit crisis, a G20 summit in one year was proposed shortly after the London summit in April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nAmongst the issues discussed was a proposal to radically reform the International Monetary Fund (IMF). French President Nicolas Sarkozy also suggested that there would be an evaluation of measures already taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit\nThe primary venue of the summit was the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, which was at one point the largest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified building in the world. A working dinner for world leaders was held at the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, chosen to highlight its environmentally friendly features including an earth-sheltered welcome center and a Tropical Forest Conservatory described as the world\u2019s most energy efficient. Other venues used around the city include The Andy Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and Rosemont, the working farm of Teresa Heinz Kerry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Preparations\nIn the weeks leading up to the conference, many measures were taken to prepare Pittsburgh for the conference. Many streets in Downtown Pittsburgh were re-paved and a pre-season National Hockey League hockey game for the Pittsburgh Penguins at nearby Mellon Arena was rescheduled. During the week of the G20, many streets were closed, and traffic patterns were adjusted. Many public schools, universities and nearby businesses were closed, canceling classes or working remotely for the duration of the conference. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl also attempted to alleviate problems by meeting beforehand with some of the groups expected to protest during the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Preparations, Security\nThousands of protesters were expected during the week of the Summit, which was classified as a National Special Security Event. Security was coordinated by the United States Secret Service, working in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Police. It is estimated that 4,000 police officers were requested, and the city only had 900 police officers at the time of the event. The Pennsylvania State Police committed more than 1,000 officers for the downtown event, including SWAT, helicopter, mounted, undercover, bicycle and motorcycle officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Preparations, Security\nAllegheny County had 75 officers specifically trained by and embedded into the Pittsburgh Police Bureau for the event since June. New York City and Baltimore also committed some officers, as well as Pittsburgh suburbs. Some officers from Chicago traveled to assist, taking vacation days from their department. All officers, regardless of department, were under the command of the Secret Service for the event days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Preparations, Security\nChinook and Black Hawk helicopters, armored Humvees and crews of U.S. Army soldiers, as well as 10 25-foot boats with M240 machine guns from the Coast Guard, were on hand in the event of large-scale violent protests or a terrorist attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Attendance\nG20 leaders began gathering in Pittsburgh on September 24, 2009. On the evening of September 24, the leaders attended a reception at Phipps Conservatory in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Attendance\nThe Summit proper began on the morning of September 25 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, downtown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Attendance, Core participants\nThe following participants of the Pittsburgh summit represented the core members of the G20, which includes 19 countries and the European Union which is represented by its two governing bodies, the European Council and the European Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nAfter numerous denials of permits for groups such as Code Pink and Three Rivers Climate Convergence to assemble peaceful demonstrations, the ACLU of Pennsylvania successfully sued to force the city of Pittsburgh to allow demonstrations around the G20 Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nParticipants in the protests surrounding the summit included peace, environmental, labor and social justice organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThe first of the alternate events was a Peoples' Summit, involving an all-day session of speakers, panels and workshops on September 19, the Saturday before the G20 Summit, drawing about 500 participants, and continuing on Monday and Tuesday evenings, each drawing between 100 and 200. The Peoples' Summit included outright opponents of the G20 (such as radical historian Howard Zinn, who addressed the gathering via special video) as well as some who hoped to influence it in what they considered to be \"progressive\" directions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThe Pittsburgh City Council proclaimed \"that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby commend the Peoples\u2019 Summit, all associated institutions and organizations, and the citizen volunteers who worked tirelessly to make it a success. Their outstanding efforts are certain to create a greater understanding about the challenges we face, the solutions we should explore and the social dialogue that is necessary for the realization of a better world. Furthermore, the citizens of our region are encouraged to seize the opportunity to participate in this significant and historic event.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThe Peoples\u2019 Summit itself advanced some of the themes that surfaced in protests when the G20 Summit actually met: \"We envision a world in which basic rights\u2014freedom of expression, freedom of thought and religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want\u2014are enjoyed by all people. This is not the reality of our world today. Yet, in our diversity and plurality of orientations, inspired by mutual respect and the spirit of solidarity, we share the conviction that another world is possible.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThis was followed by a number of tent cities, demonstrations and other summits. There was also an alternative conference on Tuesday called the Freedom Conference 2009, stressing conservative grassroots solutions and free-market approaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nAt around 10:15\u00a0a.m. on Wednesday, September 23, Greenpeace activists hung a banner, warning of the dangers of increased CO2 emissions, from the deck of the West End Bridge facing downtown Pittsburgh over the Ohio River. While traffic was held up for a period, all eight activists were placed under arrest after surrendering peacefully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nOn Thursday, September 24, the Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project held a march and a day of direct action at Arsenal Park in the city's Lawrenceville neighborhood. Police fired pepper spray at a crowd of an estimated 500 demonstrators to disperse a protest march a few hours before the start of the Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nPolice also used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to remove protesters from an area after warning them several times to disperse. This was believed by city officials to be the first time that an LRAD had been used to disperse protesters within the United States. Since then, LRADs have been used to peacefully disperse crowds on several occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nLater in the evening, another small crowd gathered in Schenley Plaza, as world leaders met that evening at the Phipps Conservatory nearby for a working dinner. Hundreds of police swarmed and encircled the peaceful crowd, which spilled over onto Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard near the Cathedral of Learning. An estimated 300 riot police lined the sidewalk behind the William Pitt Union, with 200 more officers blocking Forbes Avenue nearby to contain the protesters. However, the crowd quickly grew to about 500 as nearby University of Pittsburgh students\u2014evident by shouts of \"Let's Go Pitt!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nheard\u2014curious about the sirens and police presence, joined the crowd. Police shot several rounds of pepper spray into the crowd. Nearby businesses along Forbes Avenue and Craig Street were also vandalized after the police attempted to break up the demonstration. The University of Pittsburgh alerted students via text message that, \"Conditions may be deteriorating in Oakland. Students are advised to remain near their residences.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThe Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project called for \"Everywhere Protests\" at various locations and businesses (mostly banks and large corporations) throughout the city Friday morning (September 25). These were not very large scale protests. Some protesters wore black and twirled hula hoops at Forbes Avenue and Atwood Street in the Oakland neighborhood. There was also a small gathering of protesters at a Starbucks Coffee on Centre Avenue in the city's East Liberty neighborhood as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nYet Friday also saw massive actions involving a broad coalition headed by the pacifist-oriented Thomas Merton Center. As one speaker emphasized at the action\u2019s start, said, \"I remind you, this is a peaceful, permitted march. We're confronting G20 policies, not police.\" This \"Peoples' March\" (linked in the minds of many with issues raised in the earlier Peoples' Summit) was punctuated by three rallies (following the route of the march, in Oakland, in downtown Pittsburgh on the steps of City Hall, and on Pittsburgh's North Side), with an estimated 5000 to 8000 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nThe demonstration was quite diverse, including religious and community activists, anarchists, socialists, environmentalists, human rights advocates, opponents of war, trade unionists, veterans, and others. The mood of the action tended to be uncompromisingly critical of the G20, of big corporations, and of capitalism as such. \u201cWe\u2019re rallying here just a few miles from where the corporate robber barons have settled down to divide up the planet, that group of bankers, financiers and political leaders who have wreaked havoc upon our world,\u201d proclaimed one of the speakers, urging listeners to \u201cfight for another world, put people before profits.\u201d The crowd roared with approval, and others spoke in a similar vein, but the assembly was completely free from violence and arrests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 818]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nMuch of the news media tended to minimize peaceful protests, however, and gave greater attention to arrests. These included controversial police actions of Friday evening, after the G20 Summit and the organized protests had ended. Taking place in Schenley Plaza and at the nearby University of Pittsburgh campus, they involved more sweeping arrests, and more charges of police violence, than had been the case the night before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nAccording to police accounts, about 4,500 people participated in protests throughout the city, with 190 arrests being made. Approximately $50,000 worth of damage was caused to area businesses, with $15,000 worth being attributed to one individual, David Japenga of California, accused of breaking 20 windows and doors in Oakland on Thursday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests\nNew York City activist Elliott \"Smokey\" Madison used Twitter to report an order to disperse message from the Pittsburgh police during the protests. Police raided Madison's hotel room, and one week later Madison's New York home, , was raided by FBI agents. Police claim Madison and a co-defendant used computers and a radio scanner to track police movements and then passed on that information to protesters using cell phones and the social networking site Twitter. Madison was charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility, and possession of instruments of crime. All protesters that were arrested were processed and held at the State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Protests, Response\nDozens of University of Pittsburgh students who say they were wrongfully arrested and subjected to heavy-handed police tactics during the G20 meeting called for an investigation into the police actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203041-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit, Outcome\nOne of the first major announcements to come out of the meeting was that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation. This means that the much larger G20 meeting will essentially replace the smaller G8, which will continue to meet on major security issues but will carry reduced influence. This decision will help to include major developing nations \u2013 such as China, India and Brazil \u2013 which were originally not included in the G8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203042-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GCC U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 GCC U-17 Championship took place in the UAE between September 5, 2009 and September 14, 2009. Six nations have entered the tournament, two more than the previous tournament held in Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203043-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix\nThe 2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 15th edition of the Budapest Grand Prix, an International-level tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 4 July until 12 July 2009. \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203043-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix, Entrants, Seeds\n* Seedings are based on the rankings of June 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203043-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203043-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles\nAlisa Kleybanova /  Monica Niculescu defeated  Alona Bondarenko /  Kateryna Bondarenko, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20135)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203044-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix \u2013 Doubles\nAliz\u00e9 Cornet and Janette Hus\u00e1rov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but Hus\u00e1rov\u00e1 chose not to participate this year. Cornet partnered with Eleni Daniilidou, but lost in the first round to Sharon Fichman and Katalin Marosi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203044-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix \u2013 Doubles\nAlisa Kleybanova and Monica Niculescu won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20135) against Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203045-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\nAliz\u00e9 Cornet was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Shahar Pe'er.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203045-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GDF Suez Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\n\u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay won in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Patty Schnyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203046-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GEMAX Open\nThe 2009 GEMAX Open was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia between 16 and 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203046-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GEMAX Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203046-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 GEMAX Open, Champions, Men's Doubles\nMichael Kohlmann /  Philipp Marx def. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi /  Lovro Zovko, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203047-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GEMAX Open \u2013 Doubles\nFlavio Cipolla and Konstantinos Economidis were the defending champions; however, they chose to not defend their 2008 title. Michael Kohlmann and Philipp Marx won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 10\u20138, against Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Lovro Zovko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203048-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GEMAX Open \u2013 Singles\nRoko Karanu\u0161i\u0107 was the defending champion, but he chose to not participate this year. Viktor Troicki won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Dominik Hrbat\u00fd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203049-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GMAC Bowl\nThe 2009 GMAC Bowl was the tenth anniversary edition of the GMAC Bowl, an American college football bowl game. The contest was played on January 6, 2009, as part of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season at Ladd\u2013Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and featured the Tulsa Golden Hurricane playing the Ball State Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203049-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GMAC Bowl\nThe game, which was played in a second-half driving rainstorm, was won by Tulsa, 45\u201313. This was Tulsa's second consecutive GMAC Bowl victory, having defeated Bowling Green in the 2008 GMAC Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203050-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in\nThe 2009 GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in was the 56th edition of the GP Miguel Indur\u00e1in cycle race and was held on 4 April 2009. The race started and finished in Estella. The race was won by David de la Fuente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203051-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GP Ouest\u2013France\nThe 2009 GP Ouest-France was a one-day road race which took place on 23 August 2009 in Plouay, France. The race was held over 229 kilometres (142\u00a0mi), which is 12 laps of a circuit. 2009 was the fifth time that the race has been part of the UCI ProTour, but the race can be dated back to 1931 at its present location. The race was won by the Australian Simon Gerrans, his first victory in a major one-day race. Frenchman Pierrick F\u00e9drigo came in second, with Paul Martens of Germany coming in third. Gerrans won a sprint from a five-man breakaway group which also included Anthony Roux of France and Dan Martin of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series\nThe 2009 GP2 Series season was the forty-third season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also fifth season under the GP2 Series moniker. The season consisted of twenty races at ten rounds, beginning on 9 May at the Circuit de Catalunya and finishing on 20 September at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve. The Algarve circuit hosted its first GP2 weekend, and was the only new circuit on the calendar. The N\u00fcrburgring also returned as part of its rotation with Hockenheim as the home of the German Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series\nThe title was won by German rookie Nico H\u00fclkenberg at the penultimate round of the championship at Monza, the first time the series had been won before the final round. His team ART Grand Prix claimed the teams title in the Algarve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series\nBarwa Addax's title contender Romain Grosjean left the series mid-season to join the Renault for the remainder of the Formula One season following Nelson Piquet Jr.'s sacking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series\nChampion H\u00fclkenberg, runner-up Petrov and 3rd place Lucas di Grassi all drove in the 2010 Formula One season for Williams, Renault and new team Virgin Racing respectively. 16th place Kamui Kobayashi took part in the final two races of the 2009 Formula One season for Toyota following Timo Glock's injury in the Japanese Grand Prix while 18th place Karun Chandhok joined new Formula One team HRT in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series, 2009 Schedule\nThe 2009 calendar was announced on 16 December 2008. The final round of the championship will be the first GP2 race to take place at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve. Also, the German Grand Prix was moved from Hockenheim to the N\u00fcrburgring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203052-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 GP2 Series, Championship standings\nPoints are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 6 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203053-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 GT4 European Cup\nThe 2009 GT4 European Cup season was the third season of the GT4 European Cup. It began on May 3 at Silverstone, before finishing on September 13 at Portimao after twelve races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203054-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese Eurocopter AS 532 crash\nThe 2009 Gabonese helicopter crash occurred in the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon at 8:08\u00a0p.m. on January 17, 2009. Ten soldiers were in the Eurocopter AS 532 when it crashed, leaving eight military personnel dead. Three soldiers initially survived the French military helicopter crash which occurred shortly after take-off from the amphibious assault ship FS Foudre. One of the rescued soldiers died from injuries at Libreville Hospital. The helicopter came down off the coastal city of Nyonie between Port-Gentil and Libreville during a joint exercise with Gabonese troops. The cause of the crash is  not known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203054-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese Eurocopter AS 532 crash\nFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy immediately ordered his Minister of Defence, Herv\u00e9 Morin, to fly to Gabon to oversee the rescue mission. Morin visited friends and relatives of the missing at Camp De Gaulle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203054-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese Eurocopter AS 532 crash\nAfter the crash, FS Foudre was the first ship at the scene, and picked up some of the injured. Two helicopters, several ships, as well as underwater robots were sent by the French oil company Total S.A. to assist with rescue efforts. On January 18, the wreckage of the helicopter was discovered 35 metres (115\u00a0ft) underwater. Gabon Interior Minister Andre Mba Obame said, \"Gabon is doing all that it can to help with the search.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203054-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese Eurocopter AS 532 crash, French presence in Gabon\nFrance has maintained a military base in Gabon since its independence in 1960. The French military regularly conducts military exercises with the Gabonese army. French presence is known to have reduced tensions among various groups that operate in the three small islands of Gabon. These islands are rich in oil reserves found in surrounding off-shore waters. Islands are claimed by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election\nEarly presidential elections were held in Gabon on 30 August 2009. They took place due to the death of incumbent President Omar Bongo on 8 June, after more than 41 years as the sole president of Gabon. While the constitution stated that interim President Rose Francine Rogomb\u00e9 should organise elections within 30 to 45 days, the Constitutional Court accepted the government's request for a delay due to the circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election\nA total of 23 candidates were approved to contest the elections, although six of them withdrew immediately before election day, reducing the field to 17 candidates. Despite the large number of candidates, three of them were considered the key contenders for the Presidency; Ali Bongo Ondimba, the son of Omar Bongo, who was the candidate of the long-ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG); Pierre Mamboundou, a radical opposition leader who was backed by a coalition of parties; and Andr\u00e9 Mba Obame, a former PDG member who ran as an independent and won the backing of several other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election\nAccording to official results announced on 3 September 2009, Bongo won the elections with a plurality of 41.7% of the vote, while Mba Obame and Mamboundou both trailed with about 25% each. Opposition supporters reacted violently to the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nIn the aftermath of Omar Bongo's death, reports suggested that, due to the need to update the voters' roll, the elections might not be held within the 45-day period. Rogomb\u00e9 said on 20 June that preparations for the elections would involve a \"broad consultation with the active forces of the nation\" and that her decisions would be made \"under the triple seal of the constitution, consultations and consensus\". In an interview on 22 June, Prime Minister Jean Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong appeared to confirm this speculation, saying that \"it seems certain that it will take us more than 45 days\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nUnder the constitution, a delay beyond 45 days is legally permissible in a case of force majeure. Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong also said in the same interview that he would consider standing as a presidential candidate if he felt he had the necessary support. The news agency Agence France-Presse reported that sources variously expected that elections could be held in September 2009, in the last quarter of 2009, or as late as 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nRogomb\u00e9 held talks regarding the organization of the elections with leaders of the Presidential Majority coalition on 23 June, and then with opposition party leaders on 24 June. One of the key opposition leaders, Zacharie Myboto of the Gabonese Union for Democracy and Development (UGDD), said that he thought it was \"physically impossible\" to hold the elections within the constitutional 45-day timeframe and spoke of instead holding elections in five to six months. Also on 23 June, opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou alleged that a coup was being prepared and denounced it. The Defense Ministry denied the existence of coup plot, and some suspected Mamboundou made the allegation in hopes of encouraging a delay in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nOn 6 July, the government requested that the Constitutional Court delay the elections beyond the 45-day deadline, although it did not specify how long of a delay it wanted. The Court, observing that time had been needed to organize Bongo's funeral in June, ruled on 8 July that a delay was acceptable due to force majeure, but it said that the elections should still be held no later than 6 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nUGDD President Myboto said in mid-July that he felt that the Constitutional Court's decision to allow a 45-day extension still did not allow enough time, but he also called for UGDD militants to register to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nIt was reported on 15 July that the Autonomous and Permanent National Electoral Commission (CENAP) had proposed to the government that the elections be held on 30 August; candidates would submit their nominations from 17 July to 22 July, and campaigning would begin on 15 August. The government officially adopted those dates on 16 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nAfter Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong's resignation on 17 July, Rogomb\u00e9 promptly appointed Paul Biyogh\u00e9 Mba, a PDG member who had been the Minister of Agriculture, as Prime Minister later on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nThe composition of Biyogh\u00e9 Mba's government was announced on the evening of 22 July. It was composed of 44 members, slightly smaller than the previous government under Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong. Six ministers were dismissed, including two party leaders (Mba Abessole and Pierre-Andr\u00e9 Kombila) and three presidential candidates (Mba Abessole, Oy\u00e9 Mba, and Mba Obame). Kombila had chosen to support Mamboundou's candidacy. Two presidential candidates, Ali-Ben Bongo and Pierre-Claver Maganga Moussavou, were retained in their posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nLaure Olga Gondjout, the Minister of Communication, defended the inclusion of two presidential candidates in the government, saying that there was no law against it. She said that Maganga Moussavou had been retained in the government as Minister of Technical Education because it was important for him to continue his work in the education sector while student exams took place. Mba Abessole criticized the two candidates' inclusion and called for them to leave the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nThe UGDD expressed a similar sentiment, stating on 24 July that the inclusion of Bongo and Maganga Moussavou \"calls into question the equal treatment of candidates and impartiality expected of the State during the election campaign\". RNB President Kombila said that Biyogh\u00e9 Mba was in office merely \"to organize the victory of a candidate\" and that he should resign along with his government; he also said that Rogomb\u00e9 should meet with the political class to discuss setting up a different structure to organize the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nOn 27 July, eight candidates\u2014Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende (the Congress for Democracy and Justice candidate), Mamboundou, Mba Abessole, Luc Bengono Nsi (the Movement for National Rectification candidate), Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong, Mba Obame, Oy\u00e9 Mba, and Anna Claudine Ayo Assayi\u2014jointly called for the resignation of Bongo and Maganga Moussavou from the government. Bourdes-Ogouliguende, describing the situation as unacceptable, expressed particular concern about the power Bongo wielded as Minister of Defense, worrying that he could use that power to influence the outcome of the elections. PDG Secretary-General Boukoubi, echoing Gondjout's earlier statement, said on 29 July that the demands for the resignation of the two ministers were not based on any \"legal premise\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nFollowing the criticism, Maganga Moussavou said that he would resign from the government on 14 August, one day before the beginning of campaigning; he asked Bongo to do the same, concerned that Bongo's failure to do so could make opposition claims that he intended to use his post to give himself an advantage appear more credible. The Patriotic United Forces (FPU), an opposition group, announced on 29 July 2009 that it was supporting Oy\u00e9-Mba's candidacy. It described him as a \"man of integrity, peace, and experience\" and \"the true candidate of consensus\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nAt its Fourth Extraordinary Congress, ADERE declined to endorse any candidate, with ADERE President Divungi Di Ndinge calling on party activists to vote according to their conscience at the conclusion of the congress on 2 August 2009. Also on 2 August, Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong denied claims that he resigned to stand as an independent candidate because he was a \"sore loser\"; he said that in fact he did so \"because it was time that I listened to my conscience\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nMaganga Moussavou announced his resignation from the government on 6 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nOn 7 August, violent demonstrations shook Libreville as protesters demanded that Bongo resign from the government; Gabonese authorities had previously banned the march, in which about 10,000 protesters reportedly participated. Protesters threw stones at police and police used tear gas against the protesters. Many presidential candidates were reportedly present at the march: Mamboundou, Mba Abessole, Myboto, Bourdes-Ogouliguende, Oy\u00e9 Mba, Bengono Asi, Ayo Assayi, and Bruno Ben Moubamba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nVarious candidates met with Interim President Rogomb\u00e9 in Libreville on 12 August to discuss issues related to the electoral process; Prime Minister Biyogh\u00e9 Mba was also present at the meeting. At the meeting, candidates complained about problems in the electoral process, including the possibility that the electoral lists were unreliable. 11 candidates announced after the meeting that they wanted the elections to be delayed and would take the matter to the courts; according to one of the candidates, Bourdes-Ogouliguende, \"in the current climate, the irregularities and disparities are too flagrant.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nBiyogh\u00e9 Mba said that a delay was not necessary and that the electoral lists were being properly scrutinized; according to Biyogh\u00e9 Mba, 120,000 duplicate names had been detected on the electoral lists by that point. Also on 12 August, Biyogh\u00e9 Mba reiterated that no law required Bongo to resign from the government and that if Bongo decided his ministerial position was incompatible with his candidacy, then he would have to make an individual decision to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Background\nOn 14 August 2009, the former minister Jean R\u00e9my Pendy Bouyiki, who was a member of the PDG Political Bureau, announced that he was leaving the PDG and creating a new party, the Democratic Party for Action and Freedom. The new party was part of the Presidential Majority, and Pendy Bouyiki planned for it to work to defend Ali-Ben Bongo and the PDG against the \"very offensive\" opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates\nThe period for the submission of candidate applications ended on the evening of 22 July. By that time CENAP had reportedly received about 30 applications; this was higher than the number of people who had publicly announced intentions to run. The period for voter enrollment was also intended to conclude at the same time; it had been extended by 24 hours, but the UPG and the PSG opposition parties sought a further one-week extension to facilitate full enrollment of everyone who wanted to vote. On 23 July CENAP released the list of the 18 candidates allowed to run for president. Ayo Assayi, Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong, Duboze Lasseni, Mba Abessole, and Mehdi Teale all withdrew in favor of Andr\u00e9 Mba Obame on 28 August, two days before the elections. Casimir Oy\u00e9-Mba withdrew on 30 August, the day of the elections, thereby reducing the list to 17 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 898]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, PDG\nDaniel Ona Ondo, the First Vice-President of the National Assembly, said on Radio France International on 25 June that he intended to seek the PDG's nomination as its presidential candidate. He was the first person to confirm that he intended to seek the ruling party's nomination, although Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong and long-time minister Casimir Oy\u00e9-Mba had previously signalled that they might do so. Although Ona Ondo said that he intended to only run if he won the PDG nomination, it was noted that he made the announcement publicly without adhering to party guidelines intended to ensure unity and discipline. Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong had already expressed concerns that Bongo's death could lead to a dangerous weakening of party unity if PDG members announced their candidacies without internal party consultations. The Regional Director of Health in the north, Sany Megwazeb, also stated early on that he would seek the PDG nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 971]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, PDG\nThe deadline for applications for the PDG's nomination was midnight on 4 July. The PDG subsequently announced that ten individuals had applied for the party's presidential nomination. The four key contenders for the nomination were Bongo's son, Ali-Ben Bongo, who was Minister of Defense and a Vice-President of the PDG, Prime Minister Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong, who was also a Vice-President of the PDG, Casimir Oy\u00e9-Mba, who was Minister of State for Mines and Oil and a member of the PDG Political Bureau, and Daniel Ona Ondo, who was First Vice-President of the National Assembly. The other candidates for the nomination were former minister Christiane Bitougah, gynecologist St\u00e9phane Iloko Boussi\u00e9gui, journalist Thiery Kombila d'Argendieu, National Assembly Deputy Santurel Mandoungou, banker Christian Raphael Gondjout, and Regional Director of Health Sany Megwazeb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 912]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, PDG\nNine of the ten contenders for the PDG nomination were present for hearings before the Standing Committee of the PDG Political Bureau on 6 July; Christian Raphael Gondjout was absent. PDG Secretary-General Faustin Boukoubi announced on 7 July that the party's chosen candidate would not be made known on 8 July as previously planned; this was due to Gondjout's absence as well as the fact that the 30-day mourning period for Bongo ended on that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, PDG\nBongo was officially designated as the PDG candidate at an extraordinary party congress on 19 July. Stressing the importance of national unity, he vowed to battle corruption and \"redistribute the proceeds of economic growth\". PDG Secretary-General Boukoubi described Bongo as the \"most dynamic candidate, one who is the most likely to make the necessary changes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, PDG\nPDG Deputy Secretary-General Angel Ondo announced on 16 July that the party leadership had chosen Ali-Ben Bongo by consensus as the PDG candidate, although this decision still needed to be formally confirmed at a party congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Other parties\nThe Rally for Gabon (RPG), which was part of the Presidential Majority coalition (and formerly an opposition party), held its 11th Extraordinary Congress in Libreville on 12 July 2009 and unanimously chose its President, Deputy Prime Minister Paul Mba Abessole, as its candidate. He was immediately backed by three other parties: the Movement for National Rectification (MORENA) and the National Rally of Woodcutters (RNB), both part of the Presidential Majority, as well as the Party of Equal Opportunity (PEC), an opposition party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Other parties\nThe RPG stressed that it had no intentions of leaving the Presidential Majority, but also that Mba Abessole would not withdraw in favor of the PDG candidate prior to the elections. On 12 July, another Presidential Majority party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), nominated its leader, the government minister Pierre-Claver Maganga Moussavou, as its candidate for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Other parties\nOn 19 July, opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou\u2014who placed second in the 1998 presidential elections and the 2005 presidential elections\u2014was designated as the candidate of the Alliance for Change and Restoration coalition. Aside from Mamboundou's own party, the Union of the Gabonese People (UPG), this coalition included the National Alliance of Builders (ANB), the Union for the New Republic (UPRN), the National Rally of Woodcutters (RNB), and the Gabonese Socialist Party (PSG).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Other parties\nUGDD President Myboto announced on 20 July that he would stand as a candidate \"for a transition\" and that he intended to serve only one term if elected. Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge, the Vice-President of Gabon and the President of the Democratic and Republican Alliance (ADERE), said on 21 July that he would not be a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Independents\nFormer PDG Senator Victoire Lasseni Duboze announced on 7 July that she would stand as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Independents\nHaving failed to win the PDG nomination, Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong announced on 17 July that he was resigning as Prime Minister and would stand as an independent candidate. Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong said that he made his decision because there had not truly been a consensus in favor of Bongo, and that therefore the proper procedure was not respected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Independents\nOn 17 July, Andre Mba Obame, the Minister of Government Coordination, announced in Barcelona that he would stand as a presidential candidate. According to Mba Obame, he was ready to be President \"after twenty-five years of learning and working closely alongside the late President Omar Bongo\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Independents\nCasimir Oy\u00e9-Mba\u2014who had failed in his bid to win the PDG nomination\u2014announced on 21 July that he would stand as an independent candidate; he questioned the circumstances of Bongo's selection and said that he wanted to be \"the true candidate of consensus\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates, Rejected candidates\nCENAP received 28 applications in total, but it rejected five of them (all independent candidates: Ela Martin Edzodzomo, Daniel Mengara, Ignace Totapen Myogo, Arlette Ngombomoye, and Joseph Nkorouna) upon examination on 23 July; all of the rejections were either partially or wholly related to non-payment of the bond necessary to stand in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nIn a message to the nation on 14 August, immediately prior to the beginning of the campaign period, Rogomb\u00e9 urged calm and called for the candidates to be \"worthy\" of the votes they would receive. She also said that the two candidates still serving in the government would be replaced so that all candidates would be on an equal footing for the elections, thereby fulfilling a key opposition demand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nIn a minor reshuffle of the government on 15 August, Biyogh\u00e9 Mba announced that Interior Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Ndongou was taking over from Bongo as Minister of Defense in an interim capacity, while the Minister of Urban and Regional Planning and the Craft Industry, Norbert Diramba, was taking over from Maganga Moussavou as Minister of Technical Education in an interim capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nThe Alliance for Change and Restoration opposition coalition, which had nominated Mamboundou as its candidate, declared at the beginning of its campaign that other candidates were welcome to join the coalition and that it was not too late. On 15 August, four minor candidates\u2014Mauro Nguema, Jean Ntoutoume Ngoua, Claudine Ayo Assayi, and Marcel Ntchoreret\u2014announced that they would be willing to withdraw in favor of a single opposition candidate. Meanwhile, the independent candidate Bruno Ben Moubamba started a hunger strike to demand that the elections be postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nMamboundou said on 20 August that Gabon did not need a Senate and that he would seek the abolition of the Senate through referendum if he were elected. Speaking in Port-Gentil on 21 August, Bongo condemned criticism of his father's presidency, saying that the critics had lived well for years under his father, but after his death they claimed \"with Bongo I had nothing, I didn't eat, there was nothing...\" He thus alleged that the critics were \"ungrateful ... traitors\" who were \"telling lots of lies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nContinuing in his hunger strike in front of the National Assembly to press his demands for the resignation of the government and a delay in the elections, Moubamba's condition had sufficiently deteriorated by 22 August that he fainted and was involuntarily hospitalized by his campaign workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nIn an interview with Radio France Internationale on 24 August 2009, Myboto reiterated his \"solemn commitment\" to serving only one term of seven years if he won the elections; he said that he would use that time to \"put Gabon on track\" and then \"pass the baton\" to a \"properly elected and credible\" successor. Pointing to his resignation from the government in 2001, he stressed that in order to discourage the tendency of politicians to try to remain in office \"forever\", it was necessary to lead by example.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nMyboto also said that he would reform the constitution to restore the presidential two-term limit and \"end the life presidency in Gabon\". In the same interview, Myboto expressed grave doubts about the fairness of the elections, saying that the electoral list was seriously inflated and fraudulent; nevertheless, he said it was still worthwhile to participate in the elections so as to do \"everything possible\" to prevent \"monarchy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nDuring campaigning, the major candidates, including Bongo and the key opposition candidates, tended to stress the importance of better management of the country's wealth, including wealth redistribution. Oy\u00e9-Mba criticized the uneven distribution of wealth in Gabon: \"60 percent of Gabonese live below the vital minimum income threshold ... and only two percent of the population really benefits from the wealth of our country\". Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong sharply criticized \"the Bongo system\", declaring that the people wanted \"new governance\" and an end to the \"embezzling of public funds and illicit enrichment\". Nevertheless, despite widespread criticism of the way Omar Bongo had maintained support through handouts of money, it was observed that this practice was deeply ingrained in Gabonese society, and some believed it would be a difficult habit to break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nAgence France-Presse described Bongo as \"the overwhelming favorite\" because he was the candidate of the most powerful and established political party in Gabon and because he had massive campaign resources at his disposal. During the campaign, his image was described as ubiquitous in Libreville. The opposition adopted the slogan \"anyone but Ali\". On 25 August 2009, Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong called for the opposition candidates to join together in support of a single candidate to face Bongo. The opposition candidates gathered for negotiations at a meeting chaired by Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong and held a secret ballot to choose a joint candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nThe vote concluded early on 28 August and Andr\u00e9 Mba Obame was declared the victor. A statement was then sent to the press announcing that 11 candidates were withdrawing from the elections and rallying behind Mba Obame's candidacy. However, several of the candidates\u2014Oy\u00e9-Mba, Bourdes-Ogouliguende, Victoire Lasseni Duboze, and Ben Moubamba\u2014promptly denied this, saying that they were still running and did not support Mba Obame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign\nAfter a brief period of confusion, five candidates publicly rallied behind Mba Obame, withdrawing their own candidacies: Mba Abessole, Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong, Mehdi Teale, Claudine Ayo Assayi, and Jean Ntoutoume Ngoua. Praising the withdrawing candidates, Mba Obame called them a \"dream team\" and declared that with their support he could not lose. A representative of Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong said that the withdrawing candidates were putting the call of the people ahead of their own egos. Gondjout, the Minister of Communication, initially said that the withdrawing candidates would have to remain on the ballot, but CENAP subsequently said that their names would be removed. Meanwhile, speaking to the press at his last campaign rally, Bongo expressed confidence and satisfaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Conduct\nVoting on 30 August proceeded in a generally peaceful atmosphere with high voter turnout. Some isolated violence was reported. Oy\u00e9-Mba withdrew his candidacy on election day, citing his concerns about the possibility of violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nFollowing the vote on 30 August, Mamboundou's campaign promptly declared that he was \"ahead by a long way\", holding the lead in eight of Gabon's nine provinces; Mamboundou discussed his economic plans as if victory were a foregone conclusion. Mba Obame was also quick to predict his own victory, saying that \"it will take a miracle to stop us\"; he claimed to have the lead in four provinces, while saying that Mamboundou was ahead in three provinces and Bongo was ahead in two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nMba Obame's television channel, TV+, was prevented from broadcasting; the opposition alleged that this was done for political reasons. Mamboundou claimed to have won the elections with 39.13% of the vote (as the elections were to be decided on a first past the post basis, a plurality was sufficient for victory), while Mba Obame claimed to have won a simple majority, 50.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nBongo, speaking on 31 August, then announced that \"information received from various constituencies across Gabon and abroad make me easily the winner\"; he dismissed the other candidates' claims, saying that it was predictable that they would claim victory. He also said that he hoped to meet his target of obtaining 50% of the votes, while PDG Secretary-General Boukoubi predicted \"a victory, a big victory\". Also on 31 August, Myboto claimed that in 75% of the country the people had \"voted overwhelmingly for change\", and he called on state institutions, including CENAP and the Constitutional Court, to \"respect the Constitution and the will of the people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nR\u00e9n\u00e9 Abogh\u00e9 Ella, the President of CENAP, said on 31 August that official results might not be announced until 2 September. He also criticized the candidates for prematurely declaring victory. Both Mamboundou and Mba Obame expressed concern that CENAP and the Interior Ministry could produce fraudulent results in Bongo's favor. Mamboundou supporters gathered at the UPG headquarters in Awendje, Libreville, determined to protect the party's polling station reports, while Mba Obame supporters similarly gathered around his home. Late on 2 September, Mamboundou denounced the conduct of the elections; \"It's not just a possibility of fraud. It's fraud pure and simple. The Gabonese people do not want a dynasty. Forty-two years of President Bongo is enough.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nOfficial results announced by Interior Minister Ndongou on 3 September 2009 gave Bongo 41.7%, Mba Obame 25.8% and Mamboundou 25.2%. This announcement sparked immediate unrest; the French consulate in Port-Gentil was burned, and offices belonging to the French oil industry companies Total and Schlumberger were also attacked by angry protesters, as was a prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nMuch of the protesters' anger was directed at France due to that country's historically warm relationship with the Bongo regime and a belief that it had assisted in rigging the elections; chants of \"death to the whites\" were reported, and the French government said that French citizens living in Gabon should stay indoors. The results announced by Ndongou were promptly confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 4 September and Bongo was designated as President-elect with 41.73% of the vote. Turnout was officially placed at 44.24%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0044-0002", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nOnly Bongo, Mba Obame, and Mamboundou won significant shares of the vote; with the exception of Zacharie Myboto, who placed fourth with 3.94%, all of the other candidates received less than 1% each. On 4 September, 17 candidates\u2014every candidate except Ali Bongo\u2014presented a united front by issuing a joint statement denouncing the election results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nThe Constitutional Court announced the results of the recount on 12 October 2009. It again declared Ali Bongo the winner, although the percentages of votes changed slightly as a result of the recount: Bongo was credited with 41.79% of the vote, a slight increase, while Mamboundou moved up to second place with 25.64% and Mba Obame fell to third place with 25.33%. Boukoubi expressed \"full satisfaction\", saying that \"right and the law have prevailed\" and that Bongo would \"get down to all the problems of the Gabonese people and make Gabon into an emerging country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Results\nYvette Rekangalt, a minor opposition candidate, dismissed the ruling, saying that the Constitutional Court was \"like the Leaning Tower of Pisa\u2014always tilted in one direction.\" Eyegh\u00e9 Ndong, speaking on behalf of an opposition coalition that included four of the candidates, denounced the recount results and declared that no one would believe that the Court made its decision in good faith. He urged \"the Gabonese people to fight injustice and other moves aimed at muzzling democracy and undermining its sovereignty\", although he did not specify what form that resistance should take. Furthermore, he requested the assistance of \"the African Union and other international institutions to revive a terminally ailing Gabon\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nDespite a curfew imposed by the government, violence and looting continued in Port-Gentil in the days after the announcement of results. By 5 September, two people were reported killed there and Total evacuated most of its foreign employees to Libreville. Also on 5 September, Bongo attended a Cameroon\u2013Gabon football match at the Omar Bongo Stadium in Libreville and then spoke to Radio France Internationale, stressing the importance of calm and saying that his opponents should pursue legal avenues if they had complaints. Meanwhile, Mba Obame and Myboto emerged from hiding to attend an opposition meeting, although Mamboundou did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nAccording to Mamboundou ally Louis-Gaston Mayila, Mamboundou suffered an arm injury at a demonstration in Libreville, during which the police fired tear gas, and then went into hiding. Communications Minister Gondjout said that Mamboundou was unharmed, however. Although protesters burned cars and set up barricades in Libreville, security forces were in clear control of the streets by the end of the day. Additional violence was reported in Nkembo, located east of Libreville. Meanwhile, Gabonese students in Dakar set fire to Gabon's embassy in Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nIn mid-September, opposition leaders called for the people to stay home and observe a three-day general strike, while Interim President Rogomb\u00e9 urged the people to ignore the opposition leaders and continue with their lives as normal. The strike was largely ignored and business proceeded as usual in Libreville and Port-Gentil. The French news agency AFP reported that people\u2014even those who were supportive of the opposition\u2014appeared unwilling to participate in the strike due to personal economic concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\n11 requests for the results to be annulled were received by the Constitutional Court, and on 26 September 2009 it was announced that the Constitutional Court would conduct a recount beginning on 29 September by reviewing each polling station's official report. According to Constitutional Court President Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo, it would do so \"in the presence of bailiffs appointed by the plaintiffs\". Boukoubi, the PDG Secretary-General, maintained that \"the election took place openly\" and that \"whether you recount once or 100 times, it doesn't change the results\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nMborantsuo said that each party would have one representative who would act as both its envoy and its bailiff, but the opposition parties objected, saying that they wanted two representatives each, and boycotted the recount as a result. Since opposition representatives would not be present, the PDG was also barred by the Constitutional Court from having a representative, and the recount began on 30 September. It was announced on 3 October that there would be no preliminary results from the recount and that the outcome would therefore not be publicized until final results were released, which was expected to occur in mid-October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nBongo said that he was and would \"always be the president of all the people of Gabon... I am and I will always be at the service of all, without exclusion\". Mba Obame continued to claim victory and denounced the results as \"an electoral coup d'\u00e9tat\". He was sworn in as President at a ceremony on 16 October; various African presidents were present for the occasion. Bongo expressed a commitment to justice and the fight against corruption at the ceremony and said that fast action was needed to \"give back confidence and promote the emergence of new hope\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nHe also alluded to his father's governing philosophy of preserving stability through regional, tribal, and political balance in the allocation of power, while also stressing that \"excellence, competence and work\" were even more important than \"geographical and political considerations\". Later in the day, he announced the reappointment of Biyogh\u00e9 Mba as Prime Minister; he made the announcement personally \"to underline the importance of this moment\". According to Bongo, Biyogh\u00e9 Mba had the necessary experience and managerial competence \"to lead us through the next stage\", and he said work would start \"immediately\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203055-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath\nThe composition of Biyogh\u00e9 Mba's new government was announced on 17 October; it was reduced to only 30 ministers, thus fulfilling Bongo's campaign promise to reduce the size of the government and thereby reduce expenses. The government was also mostly composed of new faces, including many technocrats, although a few key ministers, such as Paul Toungui (Foreign Minister), Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Ndongou (Interior Minister), and Laure Olga Gondjout (Communications Minister), retained their posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203056-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese protests\nThe 2009 Gabonese protests was rioting and popular disturbances with immediate unrest and violent opposition-led street demonstrations and growing civil disobedience movement across Port Gentil and Libreville in Gabon after the immediate results of the 2009 Gabonese presidential election was announced. Tow were left dead amid the unrest, clashes and fighting between the rival forces. French interference in the actions sparked national outrage, one of the causes if the immediate unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203056-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese protests, Background\nThe protests began as an opposition attempt to protest a gay at electoral difficulties, widespread irregularities and corruption in the election campaigns, according to the opposition, gained support of the president Ali Bongo and the votes was forced to be in favour of his own party (he is the son of former president Omar Bongo). The nationwide and widespread social protests and anti-election protests was caused by the results, sparking tensions and violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203056-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese protests, Protests\nSecurity forces fired Tear gas at opposition rallies in Port Gentil, the epicentre of the massive demonstrations against the results of the elections, despite police presence. Thousands of demonstrators set fire to tires and trash boxes, while in Libreville, protesters chanted slogans against the president and the results, and called for fresh elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203056-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese protests, Protests\nAll of its 10,000 citizens were told to stay in lockdown despite the violence, and France ordered troops into the cities. The protests continued for the next two days, with two killed in the battles with police and protesters on 5 September. Prisoners was also released, seeing the invasion of opposition-inmates in prison camps. Large-scale violence (by Riot police) and the mass demonstrations was largely ignored by the government-sponsored media, however, other media outlets did full coverage on the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203056-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gabonese protests, Protests\nProtests over the disputed elections resumed on 4-5 September, despite severe lockdown and clashes. Strikes paralysed most of the eastern city of Port Gentil and two were killed in the citywide uprising. The movement called for stronger elections, the cancellation of the vote, recount of the election despite widespread irregularities. Electoral Commission reported widespread fraud during the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203057-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gagarin Cup Finals\nThe 2009 Gagarin Cup Final was a best-of-seven playoff series that determined the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) champion for the 2008\u201309 season. As a culmination of the 2009 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Ak Bars Kazan defeated Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, four games to three, and were awarded the Gagarin Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election\nThe 2009 Galician regional election was held on Sunday, 1 March 2009, to elect the 8th Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election\nThe election saw the People's Party (PP) retake control of the parliament from the coalition of the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG\u2013PSOE) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), with a majority of 1 seat. As a result, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feijoo became the new President of Galicia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Parliament of Galicia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nVoting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Galicia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The 75 members of the Parliament of Galicia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes\u2014which included blank ballots\u2014being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of A Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 10 seats and the remaining 35 being distributed in proportion to their populations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of the Parliament of Galicia expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Galicia (DOG), with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication. The previous election was held on 19 June 2005, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 19 June 2009. The election decree was required to be published in the DOG no later than 26 May 2009, with the election taking place up to the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Saturday, 25 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date\nThe president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Galicia and call a snap election, provided that it did not occur before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution under this procedure. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates\nThe electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates\nBelow is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Opinion polls\nThe table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The \"Lead\" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203058-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Galician regional election, Opinion polls\nPoll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls\u00a0\u00a0Exit poll", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203059-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Galway City Council election\nAn election to Galway City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203060-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Galway County Council election\nAn election to Galway County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 30 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203061-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Game Show Awards\nThe American 2009 Game Show Awards were presented on Saturday, June 6, 2009, at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills, California. Howie Mandel was the host for the ceremony. The awards show was also a game show. Games were played with members of the audience, giving away cash and prizes worth $100,000. The trophies were designed to look like buzzers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203061-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Game Show Awards\nThe Game Show Awards was not an annual event, as there were no plans for a future version of the awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203061-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Game Show Awards, Winners and nominees\nListed below are the nominees in each award category, with award winners listed first and denoted in bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe\nThe 2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, also known as the XIIIth Games of the Small States of Europe were held in June 2009 among the participant nations in the Games of the Small States of Europe. The opening ceremonies were on June 1, and the closing ceremonies on June 6. The games were held in Cyprus, twenty years after the first Games held there in 1989. Malta was scheduled for 2009 in the rotation, but were selected to host the games early in 2003. The organizing committee estimates the cost at 1.5 million euros for all events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Overview\nThe opening ceremony took place at the New GSP Stadium. A world premiere composed by David Foster was performed by tenor Mario Frangoulis on Monday 1 June 2009. The principal sponsor of the event was Coca-Cola in a deal worth \u20ac140,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Participants\nMontenegro, although eligible, did not participate. A record 1,500 athletes were expected to participate in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Official logo and mascot\nThe official logo and the mascot, Tefkros the dove were revealed on the official website on May 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Events\nNumbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Venues\nThe majority of events (6 of 12) were held in venues in Nicosia. The southern city of Limassol hosted Beach Volleyball, Gymnastics, Sailing and Swimming, whilst the Mountain Bike events were held at the National Park of Machairas at an average altitude of 700m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203062-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, Media coverage\nLumiere TV and  the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation covered the event. Live transmission through Hellas Sat of many events was covered in High Definition. Two daily summaries were also released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203063-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gangwon FC season\nThe 2009 season was Gangwon FC's first ever season in the K-League in South Korea. Gangwon FC competed in K-League, League Cup and Korean FA Cup. In K-League, they won two consecutive games at first, but failed to win any of their following eight matches. They were eliminated from the League Cup as of May 5, 2009 after losing to Incheon United by 2-3. Gangwon won three games consecutively in the league by June 27. In Korean FA Cup 2009, however, they lost to Chunnam Dragons on 1 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203063-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gangwon FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203064-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies\nThe 2009 Gastein Ladies was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the Gastein Ladies, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held in Bad Gastein, Austria, from 20 July until 26 July 2009. Andrea Petkovic won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203064-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203064-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies, Finals, Doubles\nAndrea Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 /  Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 defeated  Tatjana Malek /  Andrea Petkovic, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203065-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies \u2013 Doubles\nAndrea Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 were the defending champions, and won in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against Tatjana Malek and Andrea Petkovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203066-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies \u2013 Singles\nPauline Parmentier was the defending champion, but she was defeated in the second round by Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203066-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gastein Ladies \u2013 Singles\nAndrea Petkovic won in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133, against Ioana Raluca Olaru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203067-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatineau municipal election\nA municipal election was held in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on November 1, 2009 in conjunction with municipal elections across Quebec on that date. Elections were held for Mayor of Gatineau as well as for each of the 18 districts on Gatineau City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203067-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatineau municipal election, Controversies\nSigns in the Gatineau area-sponsoring Lucerne District Councillor candidate Barbara Charlebois posters were removed and vandalized due to her election poster being primarily in English. A similar act of vandalism was perpetrated on the offices of the Regional Association of West Quebecers, a not-for profit organization that support English-Speakers in the community,  of which Charlebois is vice-president. Jean-Roch Villemaire, a former provincial candidate for the extreme-separatist Parti ind\u00e9pendantiste, took responsibility for both situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203067-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatineau municipal election, Mayoral race\nAt 8:59 pm, CBC reported that Marc Bureau, the incumbent mayor of Gatineau had won the Gatineau mayoral race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl\nThe 2009 Gator Bowl was played on January 1, 2009, as part of the 2008 College Football season. It featured the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who finished tied for first in the Big 12 Conference's North Division with Missouri, and the Clemson Tigers, who finished fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Atlantic Division. Nebraska scored 16 unanswered points to beat Clemson after being down 21\u201310 in the third quarter. This game was the first meeting between the Clemson Tigers and the Nebraska Cornhuskers since the 1982 Orange Bowl where Clemson defeated Nebraska for their first national title. This was the second game between both schools with Nebraska evening up the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl\nThe Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. It is one of the oldest college bowls, held continuously since 1946. This edition's full name was the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl after its sponsor, Konica Minolta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Overview\nThe Gator Bowl has tie-ins from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 Conference, and Big East Conferences, as well as independent Notre Dame. They have the right to the third pick of a team from the ACC, and have the option to offer the other spot to the second pick from the Big East, the fourth pick from the Big 12, or Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Overview\nThe 2009 game featured the ACC's Clemson Tigers, who finished the 2008 season with an overall record of 7-5 (4-4 in the ACC) playing the Big 12's Nebraska Cornhuskers, who finished the 2008 season with an overall record of 8\u20134 (5\u20133 in the Big 12). Clemson went to the Chick-fil-A Bowl in 2007, while Nebraska did not qualify for a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Teams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhuskers\nNebraska opened up the season with 3 straight wins against Western Michigan, San Jose State, and New Mexico State. Bo Pelini's arrival saw a renewed interest and optimism in Nebraska football, as evidenced by their record Pay-Per View buys. Nebraska then proceeded to lose a close game to Virginia Tech, while getting beat by Missouri the next week. Hitting the road for the first time of the season, the Huskers lost to Texas Tech in overtime. Then the Huskers traveled to Ames, Iowa and beat Iowa State University in a dominant fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Teams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhuskers\nThey came back home and won against the Baylor Bears. Pelini's Huskers then lost on the road the following week to the Oklahoma Sooners. This game marked the first time Pelini went up against Bob Stoops who he formerly worked under as defensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Teams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhuskers\nOn November 8, Bo Pelini's Nebraska Cornhuskers won against Kansas, making them bowl eligible, something his predecessor, Bill Callahan, was able to accomplish only twice in four years. On November 28, 2008, the Cornhuskers faced the Colorado Buffaloes. This game proved to be a close one, with Nebraska getting win #8, 40\u201331 with the help of a school record 57\u00a0yard field goal by Alex Henery and an interception by Ndamukong Suh which was run back for a touchdown. This victory tied Nebraska with Missouri for first in the Big 12 North, although Missouri represented the division in the conference championship game because of its tie-breaking, head-to-head win over the Huskers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Teams, Clemson Tigers\nThe season started with head coach Tommy Bowden, who resigned six games into his tenth season with a 3-3 record in 2008. The interim head coach Dabo Swinney took over the team and had a 4-2 record going into the Gator Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Recap\nAfter both teams traded punts throughout most of the first and second quarters, DeAndre McDaniel of Clemson scored on a 28\u00a0yard fumble return, with 4:52 in the second, after he batted down a pitch by Joe Ganz. The Cornhuskers battled back, and were able to tack on a 48\u00a0yard Alex Henery field goal with 1:10 left in the first half. Clemson was driving for another score before the half when Cullen Harper's pass was deflected and picked off by Nebraska. On the next play, Joe Ganz threw an interception right back to Clemson. Clemson capitalized with a 25\u00a0yard touchdown catch by Aaron Kelly with just 0:35 left in the half. Clemson took a 14\u20133 lead into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Recap\nQuarterback Joe Ganz drove the Huskers the length of the field on Nebraska's first possession of the second half, capping off with a 17\u00a0yard touchdown catch by Nate Swift to bring the Huskers within four. After Nebraska receiver Niles Paul botched the punt return, Clemson's Jacoby Ford caught a 41\u00a0yard touchdown pass to put Clemson up 21\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Recap\nNebraska struck back with Joe Ganz eventually finding receiver Todd Peterson from 17\u00a0yards out for a touchdown to bring the Huskers within four points of Clemson at 21-17. Nebraska's Blackshirt defense intercepted Clemson quarterback Cullen Harper on the next drive. The turnover led to an Alex Henery 28-yard field goal to bring Nebraska within one point at 21\u201320. Clemson went three-and-out on their next four drives while Nebraska managed two field goals to bring the score to a 26\u201321 Nebraska lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Recap\nDespite the success of the Nebraska defense, Clemson held one more drive for a go-ahead touchdown. With no timeouts, Clemson converted on a third down and later a fourth down until they eventually drove down to the NU 10\u00a0yard line for a 1st & Goal situation. On 2nd & Goal, Nebraska cornerback Eric Hagg sacked Cullen Harper for 16\u00a0yards back at the NU 26. On 3rd & Goal, Harper found his tailback C.J. Spiller in the endzone, only to have the ball knocked from Spiller's hands by Cornhusker safety, Matt O'Hanlon. Facing a 4th & Goal, Harper threw an incomplete pass to end their drive, giving the ball back to Nebraska with no way to stop the clock. Nebraska kneeled on the ball three times, ending the game and giving the Huskers the 26-21 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203068-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Gator Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach Bo Pelini continued his perfect postseason record to 2-0. Pelini's 2008 regular season record of 9-4 was the highest among all 28 Division 1A teams with new head coaches and staffs that year. Ndamukong Suh was named to the all Bowl team award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels\nThe 2009 Gatorade Duels were a pair of 150 miles (240\u00a0km) qualifying races for the 2009 Daytona 500, and were held on February 12, 2009, at the 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels\nThe races set the field for the 51st running of \"The Great American Race\", and are the only races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup that qualifies drivers and their teams for a points-paying race. The top 35 drivers from the previous season automatically made \"The Great American Race\" regardless of position. Race one sets the field for spaces on the inside of the pole sitter (in this case, Martin Truex, Jr.), which is locked in via the traditional two-lap process on February 8, while race two sets the field on the outside behind other front row driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels\nThe field for race one consisted of the cars that qualified in odd-numbered positions (1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc.) and race two conversely saw cars that qualified in even-numbered positions (2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, etc.). All starting positions for the 500 were determined by the duels, except for the front row which is locked in after qualifying. In the races, the top two finishers not in the Top 35 from the previous season automatically qualify. The remaining cars are locked in via qualifying speeds, point owners exemptions and (if needed) a past champion's provisional going to the most recent past champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels\nFor the third consecutive year, a driver each from Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports won the Duels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels\nBoth races had spectacular finishes. In the first duel, Jeff Gordon beat out Tony Stewart, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Aric Almirola. That group was within .40 of a second within each other on the last lap. Race two had Kyle Busch holding off Mark Martin and Brian Vickers by .26 of a second over Martin and .264 of Vickers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203069-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gatorade Duels, Results\nThose in boldface were qualified as top two finishers not in 2008 owner points top 35 exemptions. Also making race on speed:  Bill Elliott (#21), Regan Smith (#78), Travis Kvapil (#28). Making race using champions provisional: Terry Labonte (#66).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203070-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 2009 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 110th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong won the 2009 NAB Cup, their third night series/pre-season premiership, defeating Collingwood by 76 points, and finished the regular season in second position on the ladder, resulting in qualification for the 2009 AFL finals series. Geelong's regular season record (18 wins, four losses) was the first time a team had won 18 or more matches in the VFL/AFL's regular season for three consecutive seasons (2007, 2008, 2009). Geelong then proceeded to win its qualifying and preliminary finals in succession to earn a place in the 2009 AFL Grand Final against the minor premiers St Kilda. Geelong won the 2009 Grand Final over St Kilda by 80 points to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203071-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 General Cup International\nThe 2009 General Cup was an invitational professional snooker tournament that took place between 13\u201317 July 2009 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203071-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 General Cup International\nRicky Walden won in the final 6\u20132 against Liang Wenbo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203071-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 General Cup International, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203072-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz\nThe 2009 Generali Ladies Linz was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Generali Ladies Linz, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, from October 10 through October 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203072-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz, WTA Players, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203072-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz, Champions, Doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld /  Katarina Srebotnik def. Klaudia Jans /  Alicja Rosolska, 6-1, 6-4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203073-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz \u2013 Doubles\nKatarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions, but Sugiyama retired from the sport on October 2, 2009, and only Srebotnik competed that year. Srebotnik partnered with Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld, and they won in the final 6-1, 6-4 against Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203074-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz \u2013 Singles\nAna Ivanovic was the defending champion, but she decided not to compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203074-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Generali Ladies Linz \u2013 Singles\nYanina Wickmayer won the title, defeating Petra Kvitov\u00e1 in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203075-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Golden Tornadoes football team\nThe 2009 Geneva Golden Tornadoes football team represented Geneva College in the 2009 NCAA Division III football season and finished as NCCAA champions. The Golden Tornadoes played their home games at Reeves Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203075-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Golden Tornadoes football team\nThe season began with a non-conference game against Frostburg State, followed by a non-conference game against conference opponent and fellow provisional NCAA Division III member Saint Vincent. Following eight conference games in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, the Golden Tornadoes played Greenville in the 2009 Victory Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203075-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Golden Tornadoes football team, Coaching staff, Head coach\nThe head coach was Geno DeMarco, who was in his 17th season at the helm of the Golden Tornadoes. DeMarco also worked as the offensive coordinator for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203076-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Grand Council election\nThe 2009 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 October 2009. All 100 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203076-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Grand Council election\nThe Liberal Party remained the largest party, with twenty seats, having lost three since 2005. The centre-right 'Entente', between the Liberals, Free Democratic Party, and Christian Democrats lost a total of five seats. The main winners were the populist Geneva Citizens' Movement, who almost doubled their number of seats to draw level with the Green Party as the second-largest contingent. The far left alliance between solidarit\u00e9S and the Swiss Party of Labour failed to overcome the 7% threshold for representation, despite each having each separately received more than 6% at the 2005 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203076-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Geneva Grand Council election, Footnotes\nThis Swiss elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203077-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 2009 Gent\u2013Wevelgem took place on 8 April 2009. It was won by Edvald Boasson Hagen in a sprint finish. The race was the seventh event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203078-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgetown Hoyas football team\nThe 2009 Georgetown Hoyas football team was an American football team that represented Georgetown University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by Kevin Kelly, in his fourth season as head coach. The Hoyas played their home games at Multi-Sport Field in Washington, D.C.  Georgetown failed to win a game, a first since 1885. However, they still filled their stadium past capacity for half their home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203079-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs competed in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). This was the Georgia Bulldogs' ninth season under head coach Mark Richt. The Bulldogs finished the season 8\u20135, 4\u20134 in SEC play and won the Independence Bowl, 44\u201320, against Texas A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203080-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Southern Eagles football team\nThe 2009 Georgia Southern Eagles team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Eagles were led by third-year head coach Chris Hatcher, who was fired following the conclusion of the season, and played their home games at Paulson Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 5\u20136, 4\u20134 in Southern Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by second year head coach Paul Johnson. Georgia Tech played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Grant Field in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe Yellow Jackets finished the season 11\u20133, 7\u20131 in ACC play, represented the coastal division in the ACC Championship Game where they defeated Atlantic Division champion Clemson 39\u201334 to earn the ACC's automatic bid to the BCS. The Yellow Jackets would be invited to the FedEx Orange Bowl where they lost 24\u201314 to Iowa. Later in 2011 the ACC Championship was vacated by the NCAA due to the circumstances surrounding an improper benefits investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Previous season\nThe previous season ended with a 9\u20134 record under first-year head coach Paul Johnson, including a share of the ACC Coastal Crown and continuing 12-year bowl streak with an invite to the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl. The Jackets ended a 13-game losing streak against Florida State with a 31\u201328 win in Atlanta, and ended a seven-game losing streak to rival Georgia by 45\u201342 in Athens. Tech finished the season ranked 22 in the AP and the USA Today Coaches' Poll. Johnson was named ACC Coach of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference Media Association and 2008 National Coach of the Year by CBSSports.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Preseason\nThe 2009 squad returns ACC Player of the Year and All-American B-Back Jonathan Dwyer, Quarterback Josh Nesbitt, A-Back Roddy Jones, WR Demaryius Thomas, and the entire offensive line from the bowl game. Tech adds Louisville transfer Anthony Allen to the backfield. On defense, Tech returns eight of eleven starters including All-ACC players Morgan Burnett and Derrick Morgan. Tech returns nineteen starters to a squad that defeated three ranked teams in 2008. Johnson signed a recruiting class of 21 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville State\nGeorgia Tech rushed for nearly 300 yards behind Jonathan Dwyer's 96 yards on just 7 carries. On the first play of the season, the former ACC Player of the Year took a Josh Nesbitt pitch 74 yards down the sideline for a touchdown. Dwyer was untouched on the carry. The B-Back, Tech's feature back in the offense, carried the ball six more times in the game, finishing with seven carries. Josh Nesbitt connected on a touchdown with Anthony Allen. In Tech's home opener, Demaryius \"BayBay\" Thomas posted a 100-yard receiving performance, catching the ball four times for 101 yards. All-American candidate Morgan Burnett listed an interception, his first of 2009 and 11th of his career. Coach Johnson earned his 10th win at Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 82], "content_span": [83, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nGeorgia Tech earned a second half scare by Clemson. However, Scott Blair connected on three field goals for the Yellow Jackets to seal the win. Tech scored on three plays in the first half. Louisville transfer Anthony Allen took a Josh Nesbitt pitch 82 yards down the sideline to score Tech's first touchdown on its opening possession. Jerrard Tarrant returned a punt 65 yards to increase the Tech lead to 14\u20130. Following a Scott Blair field goal, Tech on its ensuing possession marched the ball downfield only to have itself stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nOn 4th down, Tech ran onto the field with its kicking unit, but instead of kicking the field goal, Blair took the snap, finding \"BayBay\" Thomas down the sideline, earning a 40-yard touchdown score for the White and Gold. While Tech led 24\u20137 at the half, the Tech defense gave up 27 unanswered points. Clemson took the lead 27\u201324 in the 4th quarter. Tech, who was 0\u20139 on third down attempts early in the 4th, converted three in a row late in the 4th quarter with Josh Nesbitt earning two consecutive field goals. Anthony Allen ran for 127 yards on 5 carries, 25.4 yards per carry. The Tech Defense intercepted Kyle Parker twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami\nGeorgia Tech traveled to Land Shark Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida to compete against the University of Miami. Offensive Coordinator Mark Whipple and Miami Quarterback Jacory Harris prepared a game plan against Dave Wommack and the Georgia Tech Defense. Miami threw the ball for 300 yards. Tech managed to run for only 180 yards, and it earned merely 250 yards of total offense. Josh Nesbitt and Demaryius Thomas hooked up for a touchdown late in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Miami\nOn just Tech's third possession of the game, a 40-yard Roddy Jones touchdown was nullified on a block in the back call by walk-on Kevin Cone. The crucial call nullified a 14\u201310 score midway through the second quarter. The Tech offense stalled out on the same drive, attempting a 40-yard field goal which was missed by PK Scott Blair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nGeorgia Tech bounced back the following week in Atlanta against the University of North Carolina. Butch Davis and the Tar Heels came in ranked in the Top 20. The Tech defense held North Carolina to just 154 yards of total offense, including only 17 on the ground. The Tech offense, led by Jonathan Dwyer, rushed for 317 yards. Josh Nesbitt showed improvement in the air, earning a completion\u00a0% of 60. He connected with Demaryius \"BayBay\" Thomas for a touchdown. Jonathan Dwyer finished with 157 yards on 17 carries. Josh Nesbitt ran for two touchdowns and Roddy Jones ran one in from 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nGeorgia Tech was 2\u20130 against Mississippi State University in the all-time series going into the October 3 contest between the two schools. On the first possession of the game, former Tulsa DE and current Georgia Tech End Anthony Egbuniwe sacked MSU QB Tyson Lee, stripping the ball from Lee's possession and gaining possession for Georgia Tech. Stephen Hill took a 30-yard reverse to the house on Tech's opening drive. Josh Nesbitt threw 266 yards on 11 of 14 completions and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nNesbitt led the Tech offense all the way to MSU's goal line on its second possession with his throwing. Jonathan Dwyer ran the ball in from two yards to improve the Tech lead to 14\u20130. MSU responded with a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Tech was slated to go up 21\u20137 when Jonathan Dwyer fumbled the ball around Tech's goal line and MSU recovered, earning a touchback and possession of the football. On the ensuing drive, Lee and Anthony Dixon fumbled; DB Jerrard Tarrant picked it up, returning it 35 yards to the house. Tech won the contest by a score of 42\u201331. The Tech defense gave up 497 yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Florida State\nGeorgia Tech ran for 401 yards en route to defeating Florida State 49\u201344 at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. Tech had never defeated the Seminoles in Tallahassee previously. Jonathan Dwyer ran for a couple scores, one of which was a 69-yard memorable dart downfield on the first play of Tech's third possession. A-Backs Anthony Allen, Marcus Wright, and Embry Peeples posted stellar games. Allen took a pitch 60 yards down the sideline on Tech's second drive to set up a Josh Nesbitt one yard touchdown. Tech had four possessions in the first half, scoring on each of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Florida State\nIt finished with 49 points. Nesbitt added two more touchdowns, the final coming late in 4th quarter. On the game-winning drive, Roddy Jones dropped a Josh Nesbitt pitch, and FSU picked it up, maintaining possession. However, Nesbitt used both of his hands to take the football back before the FSU player was down, regaining possession for Tech. Nesbitt later scored on a 25-yard scamper that same drive, sealing victory for the White and Gold. The epic scamper increased the Tech lead to 11 at 49\u201338. While the Tech Offense posted a career day, the Tech defense struggled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Florida State\nIt gave up 550 yards of total offense, 408 coming in the first half. Christian Ponder had a career day, throwing for five touchdowns. FSU punted once all game, Tech never punted. Paul Johnson and his spread option offense posted its third 400 plus yard rushing performance at Georgia Tech. The other two came in Johnson's first season at Tech, against Miami (FL) in Atlanta and Georgia in Athens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nJosh Nesbitt scored three touchdowns and Georgia Tech ran for 306 yards to upset #4 Virginia Tech on a cold, memorable night in Atlanta. For the second straight week, head coach Paul Johnson led the #19 Yellow Jacket squad to a victory, earning a win that ended a 17-game losing skid to top five opponents played at Bobby Dodd Stadium since 1962. Jason Peters batted down and intercepted Tyrod Taylor in the 1st quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nJosh Nesbitt ran in a couple scores from inside the five, and Sophomore Marcus Wright scored from 13 yards out in the third quarter to increase the Tech lead to 11. The Georgia Tech Defense played effectively, limiting an elusive Tyrod Taylor and the Virginia Tech offense to only 342 yards of total offense. Taylor scored on a 3rd quarter scamper. However, on 3rd and 7 with 3:02 remaining in the final quarter, Josh Nesbitt had a 33-yard game icing stiff arm and score to increase the Tech lead to 28\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nFollowing the announcement of a 28\u201323 final tally, Grant Field was swarmed. Steven Sylvester and Derrick Morgan each recorded a sack. Jonathan Dwyer and Anthony Allen combined for 150 yards on the ground to set up Josh Nesbitt and the Georgia Tech offense. The win over Frank Beamer's #4 Hokies improved Paul Johnson's record to 10\u20131 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\n\"...with the caliber of players they have \u2013 Nesbitt is unbelievable, they've got Dwyer \u2013 it's just exhausting.\" - Torrian Gray", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nGeorgia Tech defeated Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia for the first time since 1990 by a score of 34\u20139. Tech had two 100 yard rushers in the game. Jonathan Dwyer led the team with 125 yards while Anthony Allen followed with 111 yards and two touchdowns. Josh Nesbitt ran in two touchdowns from inside the five. Redshirt Freshman Malcolm Munroe forced a fumble by Virginia punt returner Chase Minnifield. The Tech offense accumulated 447 yards of total offense. The Tech Defense held Virginia to 198 yards. ...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nTech's time of possession today was the highest in at least 20 years; the next closest in the last 20 years was 42:10 vs. Wake Forest on September 14, 1996 and 42:06 vs. North Carolina earlier this season... Tech had two 100-yard rushers in a game for the second time this season... Tech had over 400 yards total offense for the sixth time this season... Tech rushed for more than 300 yards for the sixth time this season... Georgia Tech has outscored opponents 79\u201331 in the first quarter this season...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Virginia\nWhen Tech's fake punt in the first quarter failed, it ended a streak of six consecutive fourth-down conversions; it was the Jackets' first failed fourth-down attempt since September 17 (vs. Clemson)... Georgia Tech attempted its first field goal since September 26 (vs. North Carolina)... 139 consecutive games without returning a kickoff for a touchdown... 27 consecutive starts by senior guard Cord Howard... back-up DT Jason Peters (r-So.) did not travel to Virginia (sick)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nPaul Johnson and his #11 ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will travel to Nashville, Tenn. to compete against Vanderbilt University on Halloween night, 2009. Tech leads the series with the Commodores 18\u201315\u20133 in 36 contests. Tech comes in averaging nearly 295 yards on the ground. Tech holds a #11 ranking in the AP, Coaches', and BCS polls, its highest mark since 1998. A win over Bobby Johnson and the Commodores could mean Tech's highest ranking since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nJonathan Dwyer rushed for a career-high 186 yards and three touchdowns while Josh Nesbitt added 2 touchdowns on the ground and 2 in the air as Georgia Tech routed Vanderbilt 56\u201331 in Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt led 31\u201328 with twelve minutes left in the 3rd quarter, but a series of turnovers allowed Georgia Tech's high powered offense to score four more touchdowns. Josh Nesbitt threw an 87-yard touchdown to sophomore Embry Peeples in the 4th quarter to increase the Tech lead to 18 at 49\u201331. The win marked Tech's fourth victory on the road, its most since 2000. It also elevated the Jackets to a #10 BCS ranking, its highest ranking in November since 1990. Paul Johnson posted his fifth 400 plus yard rushing attack at Georgia Tech, as the Yellow Jackets ran up and down Nashville, Tenn. for 404 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 881]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\n\"There is no way to figure it out.\" \u2013 Bobby Johnson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe Yellow Jackets, ranked in the Top 10 for the first time since 1999, hosted the Demon Deacons in Atlanta. The game got off to a quick start as Tech jumped out to a quick 10\u20130 lead helped by Preston Lyons first career TD. But the Deacons controlled the rest of the first half scoring 17 unanswered points. The Yellow Jackets kept committing penalties, contributing to all of Wake Forest's points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nThe offense also had its share of mistakes, getting called three times for chop blocks as the officials seemed to pay close attention to the interior line after opponents complained of dirty blocking tactics. After trailing 17\u201310 at the half, Tech's Jonathan Dwyer broke off a 59-yard TD run on Georgia Tech's first offensive snap of the second half, tying the game at 17. Wake Forest managed only one first down on its four possessions after halftime, and Georgia Tech went ahead 24\u201317 when Josh Nesbitt scored on a 12-yard run with 8:19 left in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nWake Forest QB Riley Skinner drove the Deacons down late in the 4th quarter and threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Devon Brown with 4:27 remaining. After Georgia Tech was stopped again on fourth down, Wake Forest appeared to be driving into range for a winning field-goal attempt. But Skinner was sacked by Derrick Morgan on third-and-7 from the Georgia Tech 35, and Wake Forest decided to punt it away and settle for OT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0016-0003", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nIn the first period of OT, the Yellow Jacket defense was able to hold Wake Forest to a field goal helped by a Derrick Morgan sack on Riley Skinner on a 3rd and seven. On the Jacket's OT possession, Georgia Tech drove to the 5 where it faced fourth-and-less-than-a-yard. The Yellow Jackets initially tried to draw Wake offsides, but was forced to burn a timeout when that didn't work. Deciding to go for the first instead of kicking a field goal, Josh Nesbitt got the first down on a QB sneak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0016-0004", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nOn the very next play, the Jackets were able to get into the endzone thanks to another Josh Nesbitt sneak and was able to seal the victory. The victory lifted Tech to a 9\u20131 record and dropped the Deacons to 4\u20136. The Yellow Jacket offense, also known as the Nesbone, rumbled up and down Grant Field for 412 yards, Coach Johnson's sixth 400 plus rushing yard performance in two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Duke\nGeorgia Tech surged to the top of the ACC Coastal division behind the performance of All American Tailback Jonathan Dwyer, who carried the ball 14 times for 110 yards and two touchdowns. Josh Nesbitt connected with true Freshman Stephen Hill and veteran Junior Demaryius \"BayBay\" Thomas for a couple of scores en route to a 49\u201310 romp of Duke University at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina The Yellow Jacket defense allowed 10 points early before shutting out the Blue Devil Offense the remainder of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Duke\nJunior Defensive Tackle Ben Anderson received ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week honors after his dominating performance in the trenches recording 2 sacks, 3 tackles for loss and 5 tackles. The Yellow Jacket offense was the story of the game after falling behind 10\u20130 in the first quarter. The high powered triple option offense scored forty nine consecutive points to wrap up the Coastal Division for Paul Johnson and the Yellow Jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nGeorgia Tech was outgained by the Bulldogs both rushing (349\u2013209) and time of possession, which had been key components to the Yellow Jackets' success throughout the season. Georgia tailbacks Washaun Ealey and Caleb King both had breakout performances, running for 183 and 166 yards, respectively, both career highs. Georgia Tech had a chance to take the lead late in the game, but Demaryius Thomas dropped a pass on fourth down which would have resulted in a first down, securing Georgia's 30\u201324 victory. This game dropped Georgia Tech's record against Georgia coach Mark Richt to 1\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, ACC Championship Game\nGeorgia Tech defeated Clemson 39\u201334 to win the ACC conference championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203081-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, ACC Championship Game\nGeorgia Tech was forced to vacate this game and their ACC championship on July 14, 2011 due to NCAA sanctions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations\nIn 2009, a mass rally by a coalition of opposition parties in took place in Georgia against the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Thousands of people demonstrated, mainly in the capital, Tbilisi, starting on 9 April 2009, demanding Saakashvili's resignation. On the first day of demonstrations, up to 40,000 people gathered in Tbilisi. Opposition activists had expected some 100,000 \u2013 150,000 participants. Protests continued for over three months, although fewer people participated as time passed than during the first days. On 26 May 2009, the Georgian Independence Day, 60,000 protesters took part. Although peaceful at first, there were incidents of fighting between the Georgian police and protesters. The daily rallies gradually dwindled and ended, without achieving any tangible results, on 24 July \u2013107 days after they kicked off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Opposition plans\nOn 27 March 2009, 13 opposition parties agreed to hold a joint rally to demand Saakashvili's resignation in an announcement named Manifesto of Unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Opposition plans\nIt was signed by Alliance for Freedom (uniting Party of Freedom; Party of Women for Justice and Equality; Traditionalists and Party of Future); Conservative Party (leaders \u2013 Kakha Kukava and Zviad Dzidziguri); Democratic Movement\u2013United Georgia (led by Nino Burjanadze); Georgia's Way (led by Salome Zourabichvili); Industrialists Party (led by Zurab Tkemaladze and beer magnate Gogi Topadze); Movement for United Georgia (founded by ex-defense minister Irakli Okruashvili); Party of People (led by Koba Davitashvili); and the Alliance for Georgia, uniting New Rights, Republican Party and a political team of Irakli Alasania, who had earlier showed reservations about joining the manifestations. Levan Gachechiladze, a former opposition presidential candidate, has joined the document as an individual politician.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Opposition plans\nAccording to Eka Beselia, a spokeswoman for the For a United Georgia party, the protest is intended to change power in a constitutional way. \"The action will be halted only when the power of Saakashvili comes to an end. We'll force him by a peaceful but nation-wide protest to resign,\" Beselia said on 13 March. Salome Zourabichvili stressed on 8 April, that the demonstrators will remain on the streets until the president steps down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Opposition plans\nThe date of 9 April 2008, was chosen because it will be the 20-year anniversary of the day when 20 people died as Soviet Red Army troops dispersed a pro-independence rally in Tbilisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Opposition plans\nOpposition parties have accused Saakashvili of concentrating power to himself, using riot police to crush opposition rallies in 2007 and for the disaster of the 2008 South Ossetia war. \"I don't think that it should be a surprise that after we lost 20% of Georgian territory and have no democracy in the country, we are asking for the resignation of the president,\" opposition leader Nino Burjanadze said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Preparations\nOn 8 April, the Tbilisi-based pro-opposition Maestro TV aired a brief video, informing the public that the opposition and their supporters will start gathering at three various venues in the capital city \u2013 in Avlabari Square, Tbilisi State University and at the public broadcaster's office subsequently to join outside the Parliament in Rustaveli Avenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Preparations\nForeign diplomats have called for a dialogue between the government and opposition, and the Georgian Orthodox Church has urged the opposition, the government and the Georgian army not to resort to force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Preparations\nOn 8 April 2009, Georgian police set up a Monitoring Center to oversee the rallies and invited foreign diplomats to keep a close eye on police and protesters' actions. The office of Georgian public defender Sozar Subari and a group of local non-governmental organizations will also monitor the events. Irakli Alasania, leader of the Alliance for Georgia, said that the opposition was willing to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies to provide security during the rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Preparations\nPresident Saakashvili has stated there was \"no alternative to dialogue\" and the government was ready to talk even \"with the smallest and the most radical group\". The Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said that the authorities would show \"maximum tolerance\" towards the protesters and police would retaliate in case of the opposition attempts at storming the government buildings. Fire crews and hundreds of police in full riot gear were positioned on the courtyard of the parliament in central Tbilisi in early 9 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, First day of demonstrations\nOn the morning of 9 April, the Democratic Movement\u2013United Georgia party claimed that 60 of its members had been arrested in overnight raids. Up to 40,000 people gathered in Tbilisi on 9 April. The protesters gave Saakashvili time until 11:00 GMT on Friday, 10 April to stand day and agree to the demands. A few hundred protesters stayed the night outside the parliament. Opposition leaders asked people to meet again at afternoon next day. Eka Beselia said he did not expect Saakashvili to adhere to the deadline, and that concrete action was planned for Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Second day of demonstrations\nOn 10 April, about 20,000 people took part in the rally in Tbilisi. The opposition announced the start of a national disobedience campaign. Major roads in Tbilisi were blocked off for six hours, causing the traffic in the city to paralyze. The opposition said that the same action will be repeated every day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nThe Georgian opposition said on 12 April 2009 it would continue its peaceful protest demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, despite its previous decision to hold a break for a religious holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nOn 13 April 2009 the protesters set up camp outside President Saakashvili's office. and the opposition leaders stated they were ready to hold talks with the president but that an election was the only way out of the deadlock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nOpposition leaders have pledged to keep the protests peaceful but on 6 May 2009 protesters and police clashed near a police base. The Interior Ministry said 22 protesters and six policemen were injured. The opposition said several of its leaders were also treated in hospital. Protesters appeared to have converged on the police base to demand the release of three opposition activists detained over the beating of a journalist on 5 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nOn 26 May 2009, the Georgian independence day, 60,000 protesters gathered to demand Saakashvili's resignation. The opposition has also forced the government to cancel the annual military parade. Opposition leaders still insisted that protests will continue until Saakashvili resigns. Saakashvili, on his part, reiterated his refusal once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nOn 28 May 2009, several protesters and five policemen were injured in a clash close to the protest venue outside the Parliament. According to the Georgian government, least one police officer was stabbed and others were beaten. However, the opposition denied the report, saying some 20 plainclothes police attacked its supporters with batons. Television pictures aired by Maestro TV showed dozens of men in civilian clothing clashing with each other on a small street near the Parliament. Opposition leader Kakha Kukava said the clash was \"a provocation by a group of policemen who started beating people.\" Television pictures showed several wounded protesters, one with blood streaming from his head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Continued protests\nMid June 2009 Georgian police clashed violently with opposition protesters in Tbilisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, International response\nAt a meeting of the 28 NATO states and their Georgian counterpart in Brussels on 5 May 2009 NATO called for dialogue between Georgia's government and opposition, for reforms to ensure freedom of media and assembly, and for the government to avoid violence against protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203082-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian demonstrations, Effects on the Georgian economy\nOn 7 April 2009, Fitch Ratings had warned that Georgia's long-term credit could be downgraded because of the political instability ahead of the planned protests. 9 April 2009 the Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri warned that political standoff and protest rallies in the country would hit the Georgian economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny\nThe 2009 Georgian mutiny was a mutiny by a Georgian Army tank battalion based in Mukhrovani, Georgia, 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi) east of the capital Tbilisi on 5 May 2009. It is not yet known how many soldiers took part. Later that day, the Georgian Ministry of Interior announced that the mutineers had surrendered. Some of its leaders, including the battalion's commander, were arrested; others managed to escape. The mutiny broke out after the government announced that it had uncovered what it claimed was a Russian-backed plot to destabilize Georgia and assassinate President Mikheil Saakashvili. Later, Georgian authorities retracted their accusations of an assassination plot and allegations of Russian support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Background\nGeorgia has been affected by unrest since the 2008 South Ossetia war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Background\nSince April 2009, protests have called for the resignation of the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. In March, nine members of the political party Democratic Movement \u2013 United Georgia were arrested after allegedly purchasing automatic weapons ahead of more anti-government demonstrations, a claim described by its leader as \"absurd\". Several senior government figures recently defected to the opposition, claiming Saakashvili started an unwinnable war that left the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia further in Russian control. In May 2009, Russia decided to take control of South Ossetia's border with Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Background\nThe mutiny took place a day before the planned NATO exercises in Georgia. NATO drills were condemned by Russia, which referred to them as an \"attempt to cheer up the Saakashvili regime\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny\nThe mutiny erupted on the morning of 5 May, after a Georgian Army tank battalion stationed in Mukhrovani, 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi) from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, began to disobey orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny\nAccording to the mutineers statement, circulated by local media, they were not planning any military action, and urging for dialogue between the government and the opposition during ongoing political crisis. Colonel Mamuka Gorgishvili, commander of the Mukhrovani Tank Battalion, stated: \"Watching the country being torn apart by the current standoff is unbearable. There is a possibility of this standoff turning violent\". Police then barred reporters from approaching the base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny\nAccording to the Minister of Defense, Vasil Sikharulidze, the plotters' minimum goal was to undermine the NATO military exercises beginning in May 2009. Sikharulidze also mentioned to the Rustavi 2 television that the rebellion was also \"an attempt of a military coup.\" In response to the mutiny, the Georgian Army deployed troops, military police, helicopters, and 30 tanks and armored vehicles, alongside Georgian Police units, some equipped with armored vehicles, to the base. In a televised address, the President of Georgia said the mutineers had been given a deadline to surrender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny\nAlthough not specifying when the deadline would expire, he did say that an order \"to act appropriately\" has been given out to the law enforcement agencies if the negotiations would fail. President Saakashvili also suggested that the mutiny was part of a wider Russian-orchestrated plan to disrupt the upcoming NATO military exercises \"Cooperative Longbow - Cooperative Lancer 09\" in Georgia, scheduled to start on 6 May and Georgia\u2019s joining with EU's Eastern Partnership. The soldiers at Mukhrovani quickly surrendered after Saakashvili entered the base accompanied by heavily armed bodyguards to negotiate with the mutineers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny\n21 of the mutiny plotters were put to trial. The trial concluded on 11 January 2010. Colonel Koba Otanadze was given 29 years in prison, while Rangers' Battalion Commander Levan Amiridze was given 28 years, and Tank Battalion Commander Shota Gorgiashvili was given 19 years. All three had been charged with attempting to overthrow the government. National Guard Commander Koba Kobaladze was sentenced to eight months and six days imprisonment for the illegal purchase and possession of weapons. The remaining defendants were tried for various crimes including disobedience and illegal weapons possession, and given sentences ranging from three to fifteen years of imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, The mutiny, Military coup attempt suspicion\nThe Georgian Interior Ministry has expressed concerns about a large scale military mutiny that was to be planned in the Georgian Army by some former military officials, who were in coordination with Russia. Shota Utiashvili, head of the information and analytical department of the Georgian Interior Ministry, said that the mutiny seems to be coordinated with Russia and aimed at minimum thwarting NATO military exercises and maximum organizing full-scale military mutiny in the country. Later, Georgian authorities retracted accusations of Russian support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Aftermath\nOn May 5, 2009, the Interior Ministry of Georgia released video footage, recorded apparently with a body-worn covert camera and showing a man, purportedly the retired major Gia Gvaladze, talking to several persons whose faces were blurred in tape and naming several former senior military and security officials, including David Tevzadze, Jemal Gakhokidze, Koba Kobaladze, and Gia Karkarashvili as supporters of the planned mutiny. Kobaladze, Gvaladze, and the Mukhrovani battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Mamuka Gorgiashvili, as well as dozens of military personnel and civilians were arrested by the police \"in connection with the Mukhrovani incident\". Kharkharashvili and Tevzadze have rejected any links with the plot. Two other former army officers, Koba Otanadze and Zaza Mushkudiani, are wanted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Aftermath\nLater that day Gia Karkarashvili released video footage showing him talking with Koba Melikidze who allegedly was trying to persuade him to take part in the mutiny. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs expressed its gratitude to Karkarashvili for information provided by him as it helped to arrest Melikidze and prevent an assassination attempt on Vano Merabishvili.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Aftermath\nOn May, 6, Georgian authorities stepped back from accusations of an assassination plot against Mikheil Saakashvili and allegations of Russian support of the mutiny. At this stage, Georgian authorities claimed the army mutiny was mainly aimed at disrupting NATO exercises starting on May 6, 2009. Saakashvili's official site states the mutiny was inspired by a group of disgruntled Georgian army officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203083-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Georgian mutiny, Aftermath\nThe principal suspects \u2013 Gia Krialashvili, Koba Otanadze, and Levan Amiridze \u2013 remained at large after the Mukhrovani incident. On May 20, 2009, Krialashvili was killed, and Otanadze and Amiridze were wounded and delivered to hospital in a shootout with police at the outskirts of Tbilisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203084-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 German Athletics Championships were held at the Donaustadion in Ulm on 4\u20135 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203085-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen) took place on December 18\u201321, 2008 at the Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf in Oberstdorf. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior, junior, and novice levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203086-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Formula Three Championship\nThe 2009 ATS F3 Cup was the seventh edition of the German F3 Cup. It commenced on 12 April and ended on 18 October. Belgian driver Laurens Vanthoor (Van Amersfoort Racing) won the title with two rounds to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203086-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German Formula Three Championship, Calendar\nFive rounds were part of the ADAC Master Weekend with rounds supporting 24 Hours N\u00fcrburgring in May, FIA GT Oschersleben 2 Hours in June, Rizla Race Day and 1000 km N\u00fcrburgring in August. With the exception of round at TT Circuit Assen, all rounds took place on German soil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix\nThe 2009 German Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2009)  was the ninth race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was held on 12 July 2009 at the N\u00fcrburgring in N\u00fcrburg, Germany; the earliest German Grand Prix on the calendar (a feat since beat by the 2013 race), since 1926.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix\nAustralian Mark Webber took both his first pole position and his first Grand Prix win, with Sebastian Vettel coming in second, giving Red Bull their third 1-2 of 2009. Championship leader Jenson Button could only manage fifth. This was the last race for Toro Rosso driver S\u00e9bastien Bourdais who was dropped in favour of test driver Jaime Alguersuari for the Hungarian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Background\nIn the lead-up to the race, despite 6th place at the British Grand Prix, Jenson Button maintained a 23-point lead over Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello in the Drivers' Championship. Barrichello was 2 points further in front of Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel, winner of the British Grand Prix. Brawn GP had a sizeable lead of 30.5 points in the Constructors' Championship with Red Bull Racing in second place. Toyota were 30 points behind the Austrian Red Bull team, with only Force India yet to score a point. The three former World Champions in the F1 field, Fernando Alonso, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Lewis Hamilton were 9th, 10th and 11th in the Championship, with 11, 10 and 9 points respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Background\n2008 champion Lewis Hamilton won the 2008 German Grand Prix for McLaren-Mercedes, at Hockenheim. Former German Grand Prix winners in the field for 2009 include Fernando Alonso of Renault and Rubens Barrichello of Brawn GP. Barrichello and Alonso have also been successful at the N\u00fcrburgring when the circuit hosted the European Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe N\u00fcrburgring has the unique honour of hosting three different Formula One Grands Prix (see List of races at the N\u00fcrburgring): the German Grand Prix on the old track in the 1950s, 60s and 70s as well as on the GP track in 1985 and on the revised circuit in 2009; the European Grand Prix in 1984 and from 1995 to 2007, with the exception of 1997 and 1998, when it was the Luxembourg Grand Prix. Rubens Barrichello, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jarno Trulli have raced all three at the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nQualifying saw drivers switch strategies to using wet weather tyres due to the rain and wet track. The track was dry as the drivers headed out for the first session. This yielded no surprises as the two Toro Rossos of S\u00e9bastien Buemi and S\u00e9bastien Bourdais were eliminated along with Giancarlo Fisichella's Force India, and the consistently underperforming Toyota of Timo Glock and BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica. Glock was later given a three place grid drop for blocking Renault's Fernando Alonso, but since he qualified 19th anyway this sent him to the back of the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nIn the second session, the rain began to fall. This gave us some more interesting results, with both Williams cars going out. Both Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima said that they would have done better had it not been for the rain. They were joined in elimination by Alonso, Jarno Trulli's Toyota and Nick Heidfeld, who did well to qualify 11th in the other BMW Sauber. The German claimed he could have done even better, but the rain upset his strategy as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nNelson Piquet Jr in the other Renault made the final session for the first time in 2009, but only managed 10th as the rain eased off again in the last ten minutes. The Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen were disappointing, only managing 8th and 9th respectively. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's race engineer Chris Dyer said that they didn't have any soft tyres left for the last qualifying lap, which cost them very dear. Adrian Sutil did excellently in the Force India to qualify not only in the top 10 for the first time, but ahead of the Ferraris in 7th. The McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen came 5th and 6th respectively, and both thanked the upgrades to the car for their improved performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Practice and Qualifying\nThen came the fight for pole, which was solely between the four championship contenders - the Brawns of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello and the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Webber was the first to cross the line in 1:32.230. Then Vettel did well to do 1:32.480, but it was a surprise for him to be beaten by his teammate. This looked to be the order, but Barrichello and Button both crossed the line in the dying seconds to split the Red Bulls, so Webber claimed the first pole position of his career. He described it as a \"special day\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMark Webber and Rubens Barrichello were side by side coming to the first corner where Webber clashed wheels with the Brazilian, for which he later received a drive-through penalty. The Brawn driver still managed to jump the Red Bull driver to take the lead. Lewis Hamilton also made a fast start in the McLaren and challenged for the lead, but he made slight contact with Webber at the first corner and received a puncture, ending his chance for points. He lost a lap in the pits, ultimately finishing 18th, still one lap down. Jarno Trulli also collided with Kazuki Nakajima's Williams at the first corner, and the Italian had to pit for a new nosecone for his Toyota, leaving him at the back of the field with Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nWebber retook the lead on lap 15 as Barrichello pitted and soon after pitted but returned in the lead, which was a good job as he pitted again for the drive through penalty soon after that, which dropped him to eighth. This left Felipe Massa in the lead in the Ferrari followed by Barrichello and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBourdais retired due to hydraulic problems on his lap 19, in what would ultimately be his final race at Scuderia Toro Rosso. Adrian Sutil in the Force India climbed into second before his first pitstop, but as he emerged from the pits he collided with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's Ferrari. The German had to pit again for a new nosecone, and lost several places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBarrichello retook the lead after Massa's pitstop, but lost it again to an impressively recovering Webber in the second stops. Teammate Sebastian Vettel also briefly led before everything settled down with Webber in the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nR\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen retired with a radiator problem on lap 35, briefly promoting Giancarlo Fisichella into the points, but the Italian failed to score his first points for Force India, as his pitstop allowed former teammate Fernando Alonso into the points in his Renault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAlonso made a late charge as Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello struggled for grip, but he could not find a way past. Despite the drive through penalty for impeding Barrichello on the first lap, Webber came home to claim his maiden victory and become this first Australian winner in almost thirty years. He was followed home by Vettel, who was over nine seconds behind. Massa came home a distant but impressive third, his first and only podium of the year as he was injured during qualifying for the next race and didn't race again for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nJenson Button had managed to jump teammate Barrichello during the second stops and came home fifth with the Brazilian very close behind, and also closely followed by Alonso. The Spaniard had made a charge in the closing stages but was unable to find a way past the Brawns, despite setting the race's faster lap, who were struggling for grip. Heikki Kovalainen occupied the final points paying position in an ultimately disappointing race for McLaren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203087-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 German Grand Prix, Report, Race\nWebber said it was an \"incredible day\" for him, and his sentiments were echoed by Red Bull sporting director Christian Horner, who described his team's 1-2 finish as a \"brilliant team performance\". Webber's win was the first for an Australian driver since 1980 World Champion Alan Jones won the 1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203088-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Skeleton Championship\nThe 43rd German Skeleton Championship in 2009 was organized on 15 November 2008 in Winterberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203089-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German Supercup\nThe 2009 German Supercup, known as the Volkswagen SuperCup for sponsorship reasons, was an unofficial edition of the German Supercup, a football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203089-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German Supercup\nThe match was played at the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg, and was contested by 2008\u201309 Bundesliga winners VfL Wolfsburg, and 2008\u201309 DFB-Pokal winners Werder Bremen. Bremen won the match 2\u20131 to claim the unofficial title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election\nFederal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election, and the three parties announced their intention to form a new centre-right government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. Their main opponent, Frank-Walter Steinmeier's Social Democratic Party (SPD), conceded defeat. The Christian Democrats previously governed in coalition with the FDP in most of the 1949\u20131966 governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard and the 1982\u20131998 governments of Helmut Kohl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Campaign\nSince the 2005 election, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had governed in a grand coalition with the SPD. However, it was her stated goal to win a majority for CDU/CSU and FDP (the CDU/CSU's traditional coalition partner) in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Campaign\nForeign minister and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) was formally nominated as his party's chancellor-candidate at a convention on 18 October 2008. He aimed to form a government in which the SPD was the strongest party, but which also excluded the left-socialist party The Left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Campaign\nThe election campaign was considered exceptionally boring, which may be attributable to a perceived lack of charisma on the part of the leaders of the CDU and SPD. Another reason pointed to for the sedate campaign is that the CDU and SPD both defended the record of their grand coalition, as well as facing the possibility of having to continue the grand coalition in a friendly manner. Merkel was content with the low-key campaign style, which was largely seen as benefiting her party because of her high approval ratings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Campaign\nOne of the lighter moments in the campaign came when CDU candidate Vera Lengsfeld released a campaign poster featuring herself and Merkel in a way that emphasised their cleavage. The poster bore the slogan \"We have more to offer\" (German: \"Wir haben mehr zu bieten\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Campaign\nThe federal election was the final and most important election in what is called a Superwahljahr (super election year) in Germany. In addition to the election of a new Bundestag, also scheduled for 2009 were the election to the European Parliament on 7 June, seven local elections on the same day, five state elections and an additional local election in August and September and the election of the President of Germany by the Federal Assembly on 23 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Opinion polls\nThe CDU/CSU and FDP, with an average vote share of around 50% in pre-election polling during the weeks before the election, were clearly ahead of the other traditional coalition partners in Germany, SPD and the Greens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Results\nThe Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) were able to form a centre-right government, with Angela Merkel of the CDU continuing as the Chancellor and the leader of the FDP, Guido Westerwelle, becoming Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Results\nThe CDU/CSU received a slightly lower proportion than in the previous election, with the Bavarian CSU receiving its lowest vote share in decades. Overall, the CDU/CSU had their worst vote share in 60 years. In contrast, their preferred coalition partner, the liberal FDP, gained nearly 5% points to give it 14.6% of the vote, the best result of its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Results\nThe big loser of the election was the SPD, which received its worst result ever in a federal election, receiving only 23% of the total party vote and suffering the biggest percentage loss of any party in German federal election history in 60 years. The two other parties represented in the Bundestag, the Left and the Greens, both made large gains and received the highest vote share of their respective histories. For the first time, The Left won constituency seats outside its traditional stronghold of East Berlin. As a result of the losses by the SPD and the gains by the FDP, the alliance of the CDU/CSU and FDP received an outright majority of seats, ensuring that Angela Merkel would continue as Chancellor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203090-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 German federal election, Results\nHad the CDU/CSU and FDP failed to win a majority of seats, possible alternative coalitions may have included a continuation of the grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD. A traffic light coalition (SPD\u2013FDP\u2013Greens) was specifically ruled out by FDP leader Guido Westerwelle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203091-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 17\u201319 July 2009 at the Sachsenring, located in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203091-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe MotoGP race was won by Valentino Rossi who finished ahead of teammate Jorge Lorenzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203091-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 German motorcycle Grand Prix, 250 cc classification\nThe 250cc race was originally scheduled to run for 29 laps, but due to heavy rain it was red-flagged and then restarted, with the new distance consisting of 19 laps only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203091-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 German motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203092-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 German presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election (officially the 13th Federal Convention) was held in Germany on 23 May 2009. The President of Germany is elected by the Federal Convention, which is made up of the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203092-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 German presidential election\nThe incumbent Horst K\u00f6hler (supported by CDU/CSU and FDP) stood for reelection and faced Gesine Schwan (supported by SPD and Alliance '90/The Greens).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203092-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 German presidential election\nThe Left (successor of the Party of Democratic Socialism) indicated they might be prepared to support Schwan if the SPD agreed to be open to cooperation with the Left on the federal level, but ultimately decided they would present their own candidate. The party nominated party activist and TV actor Peter Sodann on 14 October 2008; and it was left undecided whether the party would support Schwan if Sodann was eliminated after the first round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203092-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 German presidential election\nFrank Rennicke was nominated as the joint candidate of the far-right parties NPD and DVU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203092-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 German presidential election\nFollowing the Hesse state elections in January 2009, which strengthened CDU and FDP, and the Free Voters' promise to support K\u00f6hler, his reelection was seen as likely; however, CDU/CSU, FDP and Free Voters only had a slim majority in the Federal Assembly (50.16%), which made the election very competitive. In the end, K\u00f6hler was reelected in the first round of voting by 613 votes, which was exactly the minimum number of votes necessary. His nearest rival's, Social Democrat Gesine Schwan, received 503 votes making a second round unnecessary. It has been seen by some as an important indicator for the federal elections in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203093-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open\nThe 2009 Gerry Weber Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 17th edition of the event known that year as the Gerry Weber Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, from 6 June through 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203093-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open\nThe singles draw featured Miami, Monte Carlo and Rome finalist, Dubai and Belgrade titlist Novak Djokovic and 2008 Davis Cup winner, Brisbane runner-up Fernando Verdasco. Also seeded were Johannesburg and Marseille winner Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Munich champion Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, Dmitry Tursunov, J\u00fcrgen Melzer and Rainer Sch\u00fcttler. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 2 Roger Federer, reigning US Open champion, winner of the Madrid Open and runner-up in the 2009 Australian Open, was initially in the draw as the top seed, but pulled out before playing a match, citing fatigue after winning the French Open the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203093-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open\nThe doubles draw was led by 2009 French Open champions, US Open, Rotterdam, and 2008 Halle finalists Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes. Also present were Acapulco winners Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k, Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt, and Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203093-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open\nThe singles event was won by German Tommy Haas, who had earned a wildcard entry into the main draw, over Djokovic in three sets. The doubles were won by the unseeded German pair of Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets over the wildcard pair of German Andreas Beck and Swiss Marco Chiudinelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203093-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open, Finals, Doubles\nChristopher Kas /  Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated  Andreas Beck /  Marco Chiudinelli, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203094-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Doubles\nMikhail Youzhny and Mischa Zverev were the defending champions, but Youzhny chose not to participate, and only Zverev competed that year. Zverev partnered with Nicolas Kiefer, but they withdrew before their semifinal match against Andreas Beck and Marco Chiudinelli, due to an abdominal muscle tear for Kiefer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203094-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Doubles\nChristopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Andreas Beck and Marco Chiudinelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203095-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer was the defending champion, but withdrew due to fatigue, after winning the 2009 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203095-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gerry Weber Open \u2013 Singles\nTommy Haas won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20131, against Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203096-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Geylang United FC season\nThe 2009 S.League season is Geylang United's 14th season in the top flight of Singapore football and 34th year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident\nThe 2009 Gianh River boat accident occurred on 25 January 2009 on the Gianh River near Qu\u1ea3ng H\u1ea3i Village, in the Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ea1ch District of Qu\u1ea3ng B\u00ecnh Province in Vietnam. A wooden boat sank 20 meters from the shore in strong currents during windy conditions. There were reportedly over 80 people on board, yet the boat was capable of carrying only 20. The accident caused 42 deaths and five people were missing. The Prime Minister of Vietnam sent his condolences to the victims' families. The government of Qu\u1ea3ng B\u00ecnh Province decided to cancel the fireworks supposed to take place at midnight the same day, on the eve of T\u1ebft, the New Year Day in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident, Background\nOn January 25, 2009, approximately 40 people drowned when an overloaded ferry sank in the Gianh River early in the morning. According to witnesses, the small ferry was carrying about 80 people, though it was only meant to carry 20. Most of the victims were women and children, including 3 women that were pregnant. At least 36 passengers survived, a few by swimming to shore and others being rescued, but several are still missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident, Background\nAccording to Luong Ngoc Binh, provincial communist party chief, \"The waves on the river were big, the wind was strong and it was cold, so it was very difficult for people to survive.\" The boat was crowded because people were trying to cross the river to get to the market. They were rushing to buy things for the Lunar New Year festivities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident, Background\nThe tragedy happened on the eve of the Tet Lunar New Year, the biggest annual festival in Vietnam. It was supposed to reunite families for celebration meals and to pray for good luck in the year ahead. According to Phan Lam Phuong, the governor of Quang Binh, \u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy for the province, it should have been time to celebrate the Lunar New Year.\u201d  The provincial government decided to cancel the Lunar New Year fireworks show. It was one of the worst ferry accidents in Quang Binh province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident, Background\nAccording to Vietnamese News Agency, following the event, the Ministry of Transport suggested that the Chairman of Quang Binh region determine who was to blame for the tragedy. Some families of the victims were upset that the construction of a bridge was supposed to be finished two years before the accident. The bridge was to be constructed around one kilometer from the accident site and might have prevented the tragedy. Phan Thanh Ha, provincial police chief of Quang Binh said, \u201cAuthorities will give 10 million dong ($600) to the families of each victim.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203097-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gianh River boat accident, Background\nGianh River is a river located in the Quang Binh region of Vietnam's North Central Coast. It is the biggest river in Quang Binh, so the residents call it the mother river. Gianh River's water can be clear and still, but its average steepness is 19.2%. So, throughout the flood season from September to November, the stream is brutal. According to the magazine Vietnam Heritage, \u201cQuang Binh people say only those who have witnessed the crest of its floods know its power and ferocity.\u201d The river may be dangerous when it comes to flooding, and in 2009, 40 lives were lost due to a boat capsizing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203098-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election\n2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Elections was an election held in the province of Gilgit-Baltistan for the first time to elect the first Assembly of Gilgit-Baltistan. Polling took place in 12 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203098-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Background\nThe region of Gilgit-Baltistan was formerly known as Northern Areas. The Northern Areas were formed by joining Gilgit Agency and Baltistan regions in 1970 but the Northern Areas were ruled directly from Islamabad. In 2009 the Government of Pakistan passed an Autonomy Order known as Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-governance Order, 2009 which was signed by the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari on September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203098-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Campaign and Polling\n264 candidates out of which 99 from 10 different political parties and 165 independent candidates contested for 24 seats across Gilgit-Baltistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203098-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Campaign and Polling\nVoting took place on 12 November 2009 on Morning 9 AM to 4 PM without any break. 1022 polling stations were set up across Gilgit-Baltistan out of which 200 polling stations were considered sensitive. 5000 law enforcement personnel was hired for security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203098-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Result\nPakistan People's Party emerged as the largest party in the assembly by winning 20 seats out of 33. The assembly members took oath on 10 December 2009 and Syed Mehdi Shah became the 1st Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203099-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ginetta G50 Cup\nThe 2009 Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup was the second Ginetta G50 Cup. The season began at Brands Hatch on 4 April and finished after 28 races over 10 rounds also at Brands Hatch on 4 October, supporting rounds of the British Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203100-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ginetta Junior Championship\nThe 2009 Ginetta Junior Championship was the fifth season of the Ginetta Junior Championship. The season began at Brands Hatch on 4 April 2009 and concluded after 20 races over 10 events also at Brands Hatch on 4 October 2009. This was the last season that the drivers raced Ginetta G20 cars. They were replaced with the G40 in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203101-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Girabola\nThe 2009 Girabola was the 31st season of top-tier football in Angola. The season ran from 21 February to 25 October 2009. Petro Atl\u00e9tico were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203101-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Girabola\nThe league comprises 14 teams, the bottom three of which will be relegated to the 2010 Gira Angola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203101-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Girabola\nPetro Atl\u00e9tico de Luanda were crowned champions,  while Acad\u00e9mica do Lobito, Primeiro de Maio and Kabuscorp were relegated. David Magalh\u00e3es of Petro Luanda finished as top scorer with 19 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203101-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Girabola, Changes from 2008 season\nRelegated: Benfica do Lubango, Petro do Huambo, Sagrada Esperan\u00e7a Promoted: Acad\u00e9mica do Lobito, Acad\u00e9mica do Soyo, Recreativo da Ca\u00e1la", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia\nThe 2009 Giro d'Italia was the 92nd running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It was held from 9 to 31 May 2009, and marked the 100th year since the first edition of the race. Starting in Venice and finishing in Rome, 22\u00a0teams competed over 21\u00a0stages. Four of the top ten finishers in this edition later had their results voided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia\nThe Giro was raced on a unique path through Italy, taking the peloton to some historic cities and towns in Italian cycling. Though the route lacked any well-known, storied climbs, the many intermediate and mountain stages in the second and third weeks of the race proved deceptively difficult. The 10th and the 16th stages were both called the race's queen stage, as both contained multiple difficult mountain climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia\nRiders protested during the ninth stage, a criterium in Milan. This protest was nominally about the overall safety conditions of the stage, and was sparked by life-threatening injuries sustained by Pedro Horrillo the day before. In the protest, riders declined to contest the stage except for a final sprint finish, a decision that proved controversial with race organizers and fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia\nDenis Menchov won the race, having taken the lead in a long time trial in stage 12, and defended vigorously against attacks by his closest challenger, Danilo Di Luca, during the mountain stages of the final week. Di Luca came in second, 41\u00a0seconds behind the winner, and won the mauve jersey as points classification winner. Subsequent to the Giro, both he and third-place finisher Franco Pellizotti became embroiled in doping scandals, were given bans, and had their results stripped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nTwenty-two teams were announced for the Giro. These included fifteen ProTour teams, and seven Professional Continental teams. Three ProTour teams did not wish to participate, and were thus not invited: Cofidis, Euskaltel\u2013Euskadi, and Fran\u00e7aise des Jeux. Conversely, the organizers of the race originally declined to invite Fuji\u2013Servetto, but changed this decision on 23 April, inviting them as the Giro's 22nd and final team. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 198\u00a0cyclists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nThe 22\u00a0teams that took part in the race were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 71]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nThe Astana team did not include 2008 race champion Alberto Contador, who chose not to defend his championship, but did include Lance Armstrong, who had recently returned from retirement. Though his appearance was put in doubt after he crashed out of stage 1 of the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n and broke his collarbone, Armstrong announced on 16 April that he would start the Giro despite undergoing surgery for his injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nSilence\u2013Lotto star Cadel Evans was originally announced to be taking part in the Giro, but he publicly announced shortly afterward that he would not ride it, and accused RCS Sport (the organizers of the race) of using his name to promote the event. Contador and Evans both chose to focus on the Tour de France later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nMany riders were named as contenders, including Ivan Basso, Levi Leipheimer, Armstrong, Damiano Cunego, Carlos Sastre, Gilberto Simoni, Danilo Di Luca, Marzio Bruseghin, and Denis Menchov. Before his collarbone injury, Armstrong was considered an overall favorite, and it was also noted that three time trials, including the insertion of an unusually long time trial mid-race, might favor him. Pre -race analysis noted that Armstrong, when on his best form, would be a rider very likely to gain from having such a long race against the clock included in the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nFormer winner Stefano Garzelli named Leipheimer as the favorite, as did some American media outlets. Armstrong considered Basso to be the favorite when speaking about the Giro in December 2008. Other news outlets also referred to Basso as the pre-race favorite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nOnly a small number of stages were expected to end in a sprint, barring a successful breakaway. Sprinters in the event included Mark Cavendish, Alessandro Petacchi, Allan Davis, Filippo Pozzato, Robert Hunter, Robert F\u00f6rster, Tyler Farrar, Juan Jos\u00e9 Haedo, and Oscar Gatto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe first Giro d'Italia was held in 1909, and the 2009 route was designed to commemorate the 100th anniversary, though interruptions due to World War\u00a0I and World War\u00a0II meant this was only the 92nd race. Milan, which had for years been the city in which the Giro concluded, was the site of a ten-lap criterium on the same circuit that began the first Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nEvery city that hosted a stage start or finish in the first Giro was visited in 2009 with the exception of Genoa, although Arenzano (in the province of Genoa) hosted the finish to stage 11. The 11th stage also went over the Passo del Turchino, a climb used every year in the classic cycling race Milan\u2013San Remo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe tenth stage was planned to mimic stage 17 of the 1949 Giro d'Italia, which was won by Italian cycling legend Fausto Coppi en route to the overall victory. That route originally included the Col d'Izoard, a climb in France which has been featured in the Tour de France numerous times. Race organizers were forced to alter this stage to cover only the Italian side of the Alps rather than also visit France, as there were concerns over radio communication in the area, and the roads stood the risk of landslides. It was subsequently made longer than first planned, with an additional, shorter climb added. Stages 10 and 16, the latter of which went over Monte Petrano and two other first-category climbs, were both called the race's queen stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe route received a small amount of criticism for failing to include any well-known and especially difficult climbs such as the Passo del Mortirolo or Monte Zoncolan, instead including stages featuring multiple climbs with lesser ascents. Race director Angelo Zomegnan responded to the criticism by saying, \"I won't follow the philosophy that the selection of climbs has to be determined by their names.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe 21\u00a0stages of the 2009 Giro d'Italia were divided into five categories: one team time trial, seven flat stages, four intermediate stages, seven mountain stages and two individual time trials. The type of stage together with the average speed of the winner decided how much time each cyclist would be allowed to finish that stage before being eliminated from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe Giro began with a team time trial in Lido, a barrier island in the city of Venice. The starting order of the teams was decided by a random draw. Team Columbia\u2013High Road, the first team to take the course, won the stage, giving their star sprinter Mark Cavendish the first pink jersey as leader of the race. Cavendish was defeated in a sprint finish the following day by Italian Alessandro Petacchi, who was riding for the LPR Brakes\u2013Farnese Vini team. Petacchi became the next wearer of the pink jersey, after he won the Stage 3 sprint into Valdobbiadene. Cavendish went on to win three mass-start stages, but Team Columbia\u2013High Road's success was not limited to Cavendish's victories nor the team time trial, as Edvald Boasson Hagen and Kanstantsin Sivtsov also took stage wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe first two high mountain stages of the Giro revealed the men who would battle for the overall race title. Danilo Di Luca of LPR Brakes\u2013Farnese Vini took the win in Stage 4, and put himself just 2\u00a0seconds off the pink jersey. The next day, he claimed the jersey, when he was second to stage winner Denis Menchov at Alpe di Siusi as an elite group of favorites emerged including Menchov, Di Luca, and others who had performed well on the climb and were in high places in the overall standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nMenchov was fifth after Alpe di Siusi, but rose to second before stage 12, the very long and hilly individual time trial in Cinque Terre. There, he claimed a convincing victory; only Levi Leipheimer finished within a minute of Menchov's winning time. Di Luca was nearly two minutes slower than him, finished sixth on the stage, and fell to second overall, with Menchov assuming the race lead. Di Luca tried repeatedly to shed Menchov during the remaining mountain stages to make up the time difference, which was never more than a minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe two riders were involved in sprints for time bonuses at the finish line in stages 16 and 17, as well as an intermediate sprint in stage 20. Menchov was consistently quicker than Di Luca in these sprints. With his superior time-trial skills providing the difference in the final stage, the Russian was able to emerge as Giro champion, despite a dramatic fall in the final kilometre before the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nStefano Garzelli was the winner of the mountains classification, gaining points for consistent high placings on the summit stage finishes, as well as a brief breakaway on the mountainous stage 10. The points classification was won by Di Luca, after he finished in the top ten in eight of the road stages. The youth classification was won by Kevin Seeldraeyers, who remained consistent after Thomas L\u00f6vkvist lost nearly 25 minutes on stage 16. L\u00f6vkvist had, for one day earlier in the race, led not just the youth but also the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nControversy arose during the ten-lap Milan criterium of the ninth stage, when the riders staged a protest over what they viewed as unsafe riding conditions in that stage and those that preceded it. The most visible cause for the protest was Rabobank rider Pedro Horrillo's accident during the eighth stage; Horrillo sustained numerous fractures and head injuries after tumbling over a barricade on the roadside while descending the Culmine di San Pietro. Horrillo fell more than 60\u00a0m (200\u00a0ft), and nearly died as a result of his injuries. After spending five weeks in hospitals in both Italy and his native Spain, Horrillo eventually recovered, though the day on the Culmine di San Pietro was his last as a professional cyclist, as he retired before the 2010 season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe protest at first only involved the criterium being neutralized\u00a0\u2013 that is, the race director agreed that each rider would receive the same finishing time as the stage winner regardless of when they actually crossed the line. After the riders rode a lap of the course, they decided instead not to contest the stage at all, riding the first six circuits 20\u00a0km/h (12\u00a0mph) slower than previous stages. After four laps, they stopped altogether as race leader Di Luca addressed the unhappy crowd to explain their actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe times for the stage did not count, and there was no aggressive riding until a final sprint finish. Along with Di Luca, Lance Armstrong was considered the principal voice speaking for the peloton on this day. Although the protest was referred to by some as \"unanimous,\" cyclists such as Filippo Pozzato, who was himself bearing injuries sustained in a crash that would later force him to leave the race, said the riders had been too hasty in their decision, and that it should have been made conclusively before the stage began. Armstrong apologized to the fans for the effect the protest had on what was supposed to be a grand spectacle, but also contended that it was the correct decision for the peloton to make.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nSuccess in stages was limited to a few teams. Though there were nearly as many stages (21) as teams in the event (22), only eight teams ultimately came away with stage victories. Six different riders won multiple stages\u00a0\u2013 Cavendish, Petacchi, Menchov, Di Luca, Carlos Sastre, and Michele Scarponi. Teammates of Sastre, Scarponi and Cavendish were also stage winners; Sastre's Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam provided the winners to stages 14 (Simon Gerrans) and 21 (Ignatas Konovalovas), and Scarponi's teammate Leonardo Bertagnolli was the winner of stage 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe only teams to be single stage winners were Liquigas with Franco Pellizotti in stage 17, and Silence\u2013Lotto with classics specialist Philippe Gilbert three days later in a stage thought to resemble a classic. Pellizotti was also the third-place overall finisher. With wins for Quick Step's Seeldraeyers in the youth classification, Garzelli of Acqua & Sapone in the climbers' competition, and Astana in the Trofeo Fast Team ranking, 11 teams\u00a0\u2013 half of the total entries\u00a0\u2013 won significant prizes during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Aftermath\nAbout two months after the event concluded, on 22 July, it was announced that second place overall finisher and points classification winner Di Luca had given two positive tests for continuous erythropoietin receptor activator (CERA, an erythropoietin derivative) on 20 and 28 May, before the Cinque Terre time trial and the Mount Vesuvius stage in the race's final week. He was provisionally suspended with immediate effect by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's governing body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Aftermath\nIt was announced on 8 August that the analyses of the B-samples from those controls confirmed the initial results, making it likely that Di Luca will be stripped of some or all of his results from the race. LPR Brakes\u2013Farnese Vini fired him on 13 August. Di Luca at first maintained his innocence and claimed a conspiracy against him by the labs handling the tests. A period of legal maneuvering between Di Luca and the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Aftermath\nCONI officials asked their anti-doping tribunal (TNA) to suspend Di Luca for three years\u00a0\u2013 while two years is a customary ban for a doping positive, CONI prosecutors sought a third year for recidivism, stemming from Di Luca's previous doping incident two years earlier. He was given a two-year suspension, retroactive to July 2009, and indicated that he would appeal it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In October 2010, Di Luca was reinstated to active status by CONI, due to his cooperation with several ongoing doping investigations, though his results were indeed stricken from the record. On 10 January 2011, he signed with Team Katusha and indicated that he would return to the Giro in 2011 to support Katusha team leader Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Aftermath\nFive days before the start of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, 2009 podium finisher Pellizotti was identified as a rider of interest to the UCI's biological passport program due to irregular blood values. He was removed from his team's start list for the Giro and provisionally suspended. The UCI asked that CONI open disciplinary proceedings against him, which had no resolution until after the 2010 season finished. TNA cleared him on 21 October and declared him free to race, at which time the Liquigas team intended to re-sign him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Aftermath\nThe UCI decided in January 2011 to appeal his case to the CAS. The hearing was held in March, and Pellizotti asked for a quick resolution, with plans to return with Movistar Team in the 2011 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico if he were cleared. The court reached its decision after five days, upholding the UCI's appeal, handing Pellizotti a two-year ban, and stripping all his results from this Giro and the 2009 Tour de France. Consequently, Pellizotti has said he is quitting the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nIn the 2009 Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages, the leader received a pink jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Giro d'Italia, and the winner is considered the winner of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a mauve jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. The stage win awarded 25\u00a0points, second place awarded 20\u00a0points, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10, and one point fewer per place down the line, to a single point for 15th. In addition, points could be won in intermediate sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere was also a mountains classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized as either first, second, or third category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. The highest point in the Giro (called the Cima Coppi), which in 2009 was Sestri\u00e8re in stage 10, afforded more points than the other first-category climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, which awarded a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1984 were eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere were also two classifications for teams. The first was the Trofeo Fast Team. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The Trofeo Super Team was a team points classification, with the top 20\u00a0placed riders on each stage earning points (20 for first place, 19 for second place and so on, down to a single point for 20th) for their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, Minor classifications\nOther less well-known classifications, whose leaders did not receive a special jersey, were awarded during the Giro. These awards were based on points earned throughout the three weeks of the tour. Each mass-start stage had one intermediate sprint, the Traguardo Volante, or T.V. The T.V. gave bonus seconds towards the general classification, points towards the regular points classification, and also points towards the T.V. classification. This award was known in previous years as the \"Intergiro\" and the \"Expo Milano 2015\" classification. It was won by Italian Giovanni Visconti, of ISD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, Minor classifications\nOther awards included the Combativity classification, which was a compilation of points gained for position on crossing intermediate sprints, mountain passes and stage finishes. Mountains classification winner Stefano Garzelli won this award. The Azzurri d'Italia classification was based on finishing order, but points were awarded only to the top three finishers in each stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, Minor classifications\nIt was won, like the closely associated points classification, by Danilo Di Luca. Additionally, the Trofeo Fuga Cervelo rewarded riders who took part in a breakaway at the head of the field, each rider in an escape of ten or fewer riders getting one point for each kilometre that the group stayed clear. Quick-Step's Mauro Facci was first in this competition. Teams were given penalty points for minor technical infringements. Silence\u2013Lotto and Quick-Step were most successful in avoiding penalties, and so shared leadership of the Fair Play classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203102-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, World Rankings points\nThe Giro was one of 24\u00a0events throughout the season that contributed points towards the 2009 UCI World Ranking. Points were awarded to the top 20\u00a0finishers overall, and to the top five finishers in each stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile\nThe 2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, or Giro Donne, was the 20th running of the Giro d'Italia Femminile, one of the premier events of the women's road cycling calendar. It was held over nine stages from 3\u201312 July 2009, starting in Scarperia and finishing in Grumo Nevano. It was won by Claudia H\u00e4usler of Garmin\u2013Cerv\u00e9lo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Teams\nEighteen teams were invited to the Giro d'Italia Femminile. These teams were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership\nThere were four different jerseys awarded in the 2009 Giro Donne. These followed the same format as those in the men's Giro d'Italia. The leader of the General classification received a pink jersey. This classification was calculated by adding the combined finishing times of the riders from each stage, and the overall winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership\nSecondly, the points classification awarded the maglia ciclamino, or mauve jersey. Points were awarded for placements at stage finishes as well as at selected intermediate sprint points on the route, and the jersey would be received by the rider with the most overall points to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership\nIn addition to this, there was a mountains classification, which awarded a green jersey. Points were allocated for the first few riders over selected mountain passes on the route, with more difficult passes paying more points, and the jersey would be received by the rider with the most overall points to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203103-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership\nFinally, there was the jersey for the Best Young Rider, which was granted to the highest-placed rider on the General classification aged 23 or under. This rider would receive a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe 2009 Giro d'Italia began on 9 May, with Stage 11 occurring on 20 May. The first stage, like it had been since 2007, was a team time trial, a stage where each member of the team raced together against the clock. Like most cycling Grand Tours do, the beginning of the 2009 Giro included a string of flat stages that were contested by sprinters. These stages were contested by Alessandro Petacchi and Mark Cavendish, among others, with Petacchi in victory becoming one of the only riders to defeat Cavendish in a sprint in the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nAt the end of the race's first week and beginning of its second were three hilly medium-mountain stages. These stages took the Giro through Austria and Switzerland before returning to Italy. Each of these stages took more than five hours to complete, and the rain that fell each day combined with the difficulties presented by the numerous ascents and descents made the courses potentially unsafe in the riders' opinion. This opinion was perhaps validated by the life-threatening injuries sustained by Pedro Horrillo in the eighth stage after he crashed while descending a mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nWhile the ninth stage was meant to be a showy criterium in celebration of this being the 100th anniversary of the Giro d'Italia, the riders collectively protested the safety conditions of that stage and the ones before it. This meant it would be neutralized, with every rider receiving the same finishing time as the stage winner regardless of when they finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe tenth stage was the longest of this year's Giro, and one of its most mountainous. It, along with a stage later in the race, were both called the race's queen stage, its most difficult stage. Danilo Di Luca won this stage to pad his overall lead going into the second half of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\n9 May 2009 \u2014 Lido (Venice), 20.5\u00a0km (12.7\u00a0mi) (team time trial)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nThe 2009 Giro began, as it had since 2007, with a team time trial (TTT). The 20.5\u00a0km (12.7\u00a0mi) ride over a perfectly flat course in Venice decided who would wear the first pink jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nTeam Columbia\u2013High Road was the first team to ride the course, and wound up being the stage winners. They all finished together, which is relatively uncommon (especially for a winning team: only Caisse d'Epargne, which took the course nearly a minute slower, managed to also have all nine riders cross the finish line together).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\nGarmin\u2013Slipstream, who had said previously it was their goal to replicate their TTT victory from the 2008 Giro d'Italia, finished officially 6 seconds back of Team Columbia\u2013High Road, but they had only the minimum of 5 riders finishing together (the team's time is taken for the fifth rider to cross the line). As the first Team Columbia\u2013High Road rider to cross the line, Mark Cavendish was awarded the first pink jersey as general classification (GC) leader; he was also awarded the white jersey as youth classification leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\n10 May 2009 \u2014 Jesolo to Trieste, 156\u00a0km (97\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nThis stage was very flat. It had only one categorized climb, at low elevation, near the end. This climb award the first points in the mountains classification and thus, the first green jersey awarded to its leader. The riders took three laps of an 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) finishing circuit in Trieste, with the points for the climb taken on their second time over the hill at Montebello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nLeonardo Scarselli was free of the main field for most of the stage after escaping early in the morning. The bunch caught him with 31\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) to race, though. David Garc\u00eda won the climb in Trieste to become the first wearer of the green jersey, and Alessandro Petacchi won the group sprint to the line, narrowly edging out race leader Mark Cavendish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\nA crash on the third pass over the Montebello hill meant the field was broken, with only 51 riders together for the sprint finish. The rest of the peloton finished 13 seconds back, and since this crash occurred outside 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) from the finish line, all time lost stood as lost. Notables among those who lost 13 seconds were Levi Leipheimer and Ivan Basso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\n11 May 2009 \u2014 Grado to Valdobbiadene, 198\u00a0km (123\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\nThis stage was also flat, and ended in a mass sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\nA five rider breakaway, which had a maximum advantage of seven minutes, took the points at the one intermediate sprint and the one categorised climb of the day, but were caught with some 38\u00a0km (24\u00a0mi) remaining. A number of crashes occurred starting at the 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) remaining mark, and a series of attempted breaks meant that the peloton was fragmented, and Alessandro Petacchi took a second successive stage from a depleted group sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\nThe biggest victim of the repeated crashes was Garmin\u2013Slipstream leader Christian Vande Velde, who had to retire from the Giro with a broken rib and a hairline fracture of his pelvis. The crashes also made it so Mark Cavendish was not with the main peloton as it approached the finish line; he came to within 15 seconds of the group before abandoning the attempt to reach them, and essentially conceding the pink jersey. Petacchi's second straight stage win gave him the race leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\n12 May 2009 \u2014 Padova to San Martino di Castrozza, 162\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nThis was the first mountain stage of the Giro, with a high climb coming at 123\u00a0km (76\u00a0mi) and a mountain finish at San Martino di Castrozza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nA group of 6 riders escaped after just 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi). This group comprised Serafin Martinez, Francesco Bellotti, Davide Vigan\u00f2, Ian Stannard, Francesco De Bonis, and Jens Voigt. They attained a maximum advantage of six and a half minutes, and with a healthy pace of 45\u00a0km/h (28\u00a0mph) through the stage's first three hours, it appeared possible that one of them would be the stage winner. The pace caught up with the group as they reached the foot of the day's final climb, and only Voigt and Bellotti remained together as the climb began. Two kilometers into the climb, Voigt attacked again and tried to solo to victory over the last 8\u00a0km (5.0\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nThe top GC men in the peloton and the specialist climbers formed a chase group that overhauled Voigt in the final 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi). The attacks of Colombian climber Mauricio Soler had been responsible for driving this group to catch the remnants of the breakaway, and he attacked again in the final 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi), quickly getting a gap over the competition and appearing poised for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4\nAs Soler had been the one who caused the crash that kept Mark Cavendish from potentially defending the pink jersey the day before, his combativeness on this stage was described as his \"redemption\". 2007 Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca timed his sprint to the line just right and overtook Soler for the victory. Sixteen riders finished with the same time as Di Luca, ten more were six seconds back, and a further 26 were inside a minute of his winning time. Thomas L\u00f6vkvist, who finished in the same group as Di Luca, took a narrow lead in the overall classification after the stage. However, Di Luca later tested positive for EPO and was stripped of his victory. The stage win was subsequently awarded to Stefano Garzelli, the runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\n13 May 2009 \u2014 San Martino di Castrozza to Alpe di Siusi, 125\u00a0km (78\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\nThis was one of the shortest road race stages in the 2009 Giro, but its profile was quite unusual. It saw the riders start where they ended the previous day, on the mountaintop at San Martino di Castrozza, climb some 400\u00a0m (1,300\u00a0ft) for a categorized climb at Passo Rolle, and then descend over 1,700\u00a0m (5,600\u00a0ft) before climbing most of that distance right back for another mountaintop finish at Alpe di Siusi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\nA seven-man breakaway was clear over the Passo Rolle climb and took a maximum lead of four and a half minutes in the valley between peaks. Giovanni Visconti was briefly race leader on the road, as he began the stage just under three minutes behind pink jersey wearer Thomas L\u00f6vkvist in the General Classification. The peloton, paced by Liquigas, caught them without about 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) left to race, leading the way for Sylwester Szmyd and then Ivan Basso to try to fracture the field before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\nSix riders were able to keep his pace to the finish, with Denis Menchov the first to Alpe di Suisi for the stage win. The other six in the leading group kept close to the stage winner, with only Carlos Sastre losing more than ten seconds. Danilo Di Luca became the new race leader after his second place on the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\nDamiano Cunego, Lance Armstrong and Stefano Garzelli, all of whom had been considered as possible favorites for overall victory in the Giro, all lost more than two minutes on this stage, being unable to take Liquigas' pace on the way up to Alpe di Suisi. As they, along with Michael Rogers, had shown weakness on the climb, one report named as the only remaining possibilities for Giro champion Menchov, Di Luca, L\u00f6vkvist, Basso, Levi Leipheimer, and Sastre. The victory gave Menchov stage wins in all three Grand Tours for his career, and his team Rabobank its first ever Giro d'Italia stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\n14 May 2009 \u2014 Brixen to Mayrhofen (Austria), 248\u00a0km (154\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThis stage was one of the longest in the 2009 Giro. The first half of the stage was undulating, without a categorized climb. The second half featured two short climbs with a flat 22\u00a0km (14\u00a0mi) valley in between them. The descent from the second climb, Gerlospass, left a flat 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) to race before the finish in Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThe day's breakaway comprised five riders, and it formed after 55\u00a0km (34\u00a0mi) in the saddle. Their maximum advantage was just under eight minutes. Michele Scarponi and Vasil Kiryienka shed their mates on the second climb of the day, about 60\u00a0km (37\u00a0mi) from the finish. Scarponi dropped Kiryienka 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) later and went it alone for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\nThe pink jersey group absorbed all the other members of the morning breakaway and finished half a minute behind Scarponi, with six from that group gaining four seconds on race leader Danilo Di Luca at the finish. Lance Armstrong lost even more time, finishing 43 seconds behind second place man Edvald Boasson Hagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n15 May 2009 \u2014 Innsbruck (Austria) to Chiavenna, 244\u00a0km (152\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\nThe race returned to Italy, after also passing through Switzerland, in another long stage. The one climb of the day occurred a little over 200\u00a0km (120\u00a0mi) into the stage, the Passo Maloja. The entire stage to that point was on a slight increase in elevation, while the finish was on a long and drastic descent into Chiavenna. Its profile made it seem an inviting stage for breakaway attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\nThis stage saw numerous breakaways get away and stay away for a time. The first of them comprised four riders, coming clear after 24\u00a0km (15\u00a0mi). This group attained a maximum advantage of over nine minutes, but the peloton was able to catch them before the Passo Maloja. Right at the summit, Alessandro Bertolini attacked and came free for a time. He was able to lengthen his escape somewhat by descending the Passo Maloja in an extremely aerodynamic position, out of the saddle with all his weight over the handlebars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\nA crucial four-man break took place 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) from the finish line, with Bertolini able to stay with them as they caught him, making it a five-man leading group. Andriy Hryvko tried to make his way up to them after they were well away, but could not make it. Despite the presence of more experienced riders and riders noted as sprinters in the break, it was young Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen who made it to the line first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\nControversy had arisen before the Giro when it was revealed that many of Astana's sponsors in Kazakhstan had not paid their full obligations to the team, and that the riders had therefore not been paid their full salaries to that point in the season. In protest, the team wore new jerseys beginning with this stage, that had the names of those underpaying sponsors faded out to the point of being unreadable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n16 May 2009 \u2014 Morbegno to Bergamo, 209\u00a0km (130\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nThere were two categorized climbs on this course, including a fairly tall and steep one at Culmine di San Pietro after 64\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi). However, the amount of flat racing after the descent suggested that the type of finish this stage would see was far from certain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nBetween the 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) and 40\u00a0km (25\u00a0mi) marks in this stage, a ten-man breakaway slowly formed. Their maximum advantage was just over four minutes as they neared the day's second climb, the Colle del Gallo. A group of GC favorites and domestiques from their teams were first over this climb, with race leader Danilo Di Luca not among them at first, almost a minute back. As the leading group seemed unwilling to work together, Di Luca was able to bridge the gap and make it to them. Kanstantsin Sivtsov made the decisive attack of the day, coming clear some 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) from the line, and though he never held even half a minute's advantage, he managed to stay away for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nThis stage also saw a dramatic and life-threatening crash from Pedro Horrillo, on the Culmine di San Pietro. His bike skidded on wet leaves during the descent, causing him to lose control of his machine, slide into a guardrail, and tumble head over heels down the mountainside. Horrillo fell 60\u00a0m (200\u00a0ft) and sustained fractures to his thighbones, kneecaps, and T12 and C3 vertebrae, as well as a punctured lung and internal bleeding. He was airlifted off the mountain and was then taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nHorrillo woke up in the ambulance, but was put in a chemically induced coma to aid his treatment. He was taken out of the coma the next day, with scans revealing no brain damage. The peloton's protest of Stage 9 the next day was largely in reaction to Horrillo's serious injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\nAfter spending some five weeks in hospitals both in Italy and his native Spain, Horrillo eventually recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n17 May 2009 \u2014 Milan, 165\u00a0km (103\u00a0mi) (Milano Show 100)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThis stage was a circuit race. The field took 10 laps of a 16\u00a0km (9.9\u00a0mi) course in Milan (there was a 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi) run-in before the circuits began). The course was flat, and the stage figured to be a major sprinters' battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThe character of this stage changed drastically after the dramatic injury sustained by Pedro Horrillo the day before brought attention to safety conditions on this and other courses in the Giro. With the course passing over numerous different surfaces, including tram tracks and cobblestones, the peloton collectively protested racing this course, and as such it was neutralized, with everyone receiving the same time as the stage winner and no points were awarded for the points classification as had been planned. There were also parked cars at the side of the road in many places, forcing the riders into narrow tunnels to get through them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nOriginally, the result of the riders' protest was only that the stage times would not count. The peloton rode the first four laps very slowly, about 20\u00a0km/h (12\u00a0mph) slower than previous stages, and at the end of the fourth lap, the race stopped altogether as race leader Danilo Di Luca took a microphone to address the crowd and explain why they were riding so slowly. Lance Armstrong, who along with Di Luca had been considered the voice of the peloton in the protest, apologized to the fans for the effect it had on what was supposed to be a grand spectacle, but also contended that it was the correct decision for the peloton to make.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\nThe pace did eventually pick up, on the last lap, and the finish was contested in a bunched sprint, won by Mark Cavendish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n19 May 2009 \u2014 Cuneo to Pinerolo, 262\u00a0km (163\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nAfter the rest day, the riders were faced with the Giro's longest stage, with numerous high mountain climbs along the course and the distinction of being the race's queen stage. It was originally scheduled to include the Col d'Izoard, which has been featured numerous times in the Tour de France as an Hors Categorie climb. Race officials later decided to alter the course, staying on the Italian side of the Alps, believing the stretches that were to take place in France were too remote and that radio communication in the area could not be assured. The course as it originally was designed mimicked exactly a course used in the 1949 Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe resulting alterations caused the course to be even longer than first planned, 262\u00a0km (163\u00a0mi) rather than 250\u00a0km (160\u00a0mi), with a small categorized climb just under 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi) from the finish. This came after a 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) long descent from what became the course's principal climb, Sestri\u00e8re. The race's overall contenders were expected to distinguish themselves on this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nA surprisingly fast beginning to the stage, with a first hour that covered over 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi), managed to keep any breakaways from going clear for over two hours. Twelve eventually came ahead of the peloton, with seven in the lead and five chasing between the leaders and the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe third group on the road eventually dwindled to a select contingent of overall favorites, which included race leader Danilo Di Luca. Former Giro champion Stefano Garzelli attacked from this group on the day's first climb and got to the leading group of five before the summit, claiming maximum points on it and on Sestri\u00e8re to gain leadership of the mountains classification at the end of the day. Garzelli's maximum advantage, at the summit of Sestri\u00e8re, was just over six minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nA group of most of the top riders in the GC, paced by the race leader himself, caught every one of the twelve initial leaders, and subsequently Garzelli just before the day's last climb, Pr\u00e0 Martino. Di Luca's aggressive descent of Pr\u00e0 Martino gave him a gap over the elite group of riders who had been able to hold his wheel to that point, and the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\nThe day saw a big winner in time gains and a big loser: Lance Armstrong finished 29 seconds behind Di Luca in the same group as the man finishing sixth on the stage, gaining seven places in the GC, while Thomas L\u00f6vkvist lost over a minute and fell from second to eighth in the GC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n20 May 2009 \u2014 Turin to Arenzano, 214\u00a0km (133\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nThe Passo del Turchino, famous for its use every year in the classic one-day race Milan\u2013San Remo, was visited 19\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) from the end of this stage. The climb is not difficult enough to be at all selective, so pre-stage analysis led to expectations that either a mass sprint would occur or a breakaway of riders deep down in the GC would finish first on this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nAstana rider Chris Horner did not start the stage due to a leg injury sustained in a fall in Stage 10, leaving Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong without their usual support rider. At the 56\u00a0km (35\u00a0mi) mark, Caisse d'Epargne rider Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez dropped out after a 9th-place finish in the previous stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nA break formed after 65\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi), including Gustavo C\u00e9sar, Cameron Meyer, Dmytro Grabovskyy and Alessandro Donati. Soon after, Levi Leipheimer crashed, but was unhurt. The break was caught, and a solo break was formed by Vladimir Isaichev. Astana drove the peloton up the Turchino, the day's lone climb, with Armstrong leading the descent and race leader Danilo Di Luca somewhat surprisingly coming forward to hold Armstrong's wheel. Some riders tried to escape for victory on the way into Arenzano, but the sprinters' teams worked to keep the field together, and Mark Cavendish took another bunched sprint win over Tyler Farrar and Alessandro Petacchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203104-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\nIt was after this stage, on the eve of the Cinque Terre time trial, that Danilo Di Luca gave his first of two positive tests for continuous erythropoiesis receptor activator (CERA), the results of which became public after the Giro was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nStage 12 of the 2009 Giro d'Italia took place on 21 May; the race concluded with Stage 21 on 31 May. The second half of the Giro began with a long and challenging individual time trial in Cinque Terre. It was in this time trial that Denis Menchov took the overall lead in the race. This was followed by a flat stage, after which most of the sprinters in the Giro withdrew from the race, as they did not figure to be in contention in the hilly and mountainous stages to follow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThe sixteenth stage was considered to be one of two queen stages, most difficult stages, of this Giro, as it contained many high mountain climbs and the Giro's most difficult summit stage finish. After the second rest day came an unusual stage, one that was very short in terms of sheer distance but on par with previous mountain stages in terms of difficulty. These stages were won by Carlos Sastre and Franco Pellizotti, respectively, who fought for the third step on the Giro's podium behind Menchov and previous race leader Danilo Di Luca. Though Sastre went on to win another stage, to Mount Vesuvius, it was Pellizotti who finished the Giro third overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThe Giro concluded, as it had in 2008, with another individual time trial, this time in the city of Rome. Despite a dramatic and much-replayed crash in the stage's final kilometer, Menchov preserved his overall lead through this stage and thus, the conclusion of the Giro, winning his third career Grand Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\n21 May 2009 \u2014 Sestri Levante to Riomaggiore, 60.6\u00a0km (37.7\u00a0mi) (individual time trial)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nThe first individual time trial (ITT) of the 2009 Giro was a difficult one, long with quite a lot of climbing. There were two categorized climbs on the course, a quick, intense descent between them and no flat stretches at all. Lance Armstrong, who rode the Giro for the first time in 2009, described the ITT as \"wicked hard\". Reigning Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara called it \"crazy\" and laughed when asked if he would be a contender for victory. Cancellara was in fact the only rider who was still in the race to this point who did not attempt the time trial, instead abandoning the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nMany riders used normal road race bikes for this stage, as the course is highly atypical for a time trial, with roads that were not flat and straight. Most of those riders altered their road race bikes with the aerodynamic handlebars of a time trial bike, but some, including race leader Danilo Di Luca, did not. The climbs in the stage increased the overall chances for strong climbers who are relatively weak time trialists, such as Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nAcqua & Sapone rider Dario Andriotto set the early time to beat. After a while, Yuriy Krivtsov bested his time. Several different riders in succession then posted successively (but, in the first few cases, marginally) better times than the best time that had come before them. Alessandro Bertolini, David Millar, Marco Pinotti, Giovanni Visconti, Bradley Wiggins, and Stefano Garzelli were all briefly the stage leader after they crossed the finish line. Bertolini in particular was stage leader for about three minutes, as Millar started just behind him and barely beat his time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nThe fourth- and second-to-last riders to leave the starthouse, Levi Leipheimer and Denis Menchov, put up the best rides of the day, with Menchov between 30 seconds and a minute better than Leipheimer at the three intermediate time checks, and 20 seconds better at the line for the stage win. Menchov's ride propelled him into the pink jersey, while Leipheimer narrowly missed taking enough time out of Di Luca to move past him in the general classification. Di Luca finished sixth on the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12\nA surprising rider to lose considerable time was three-time former world time trial champion Michael Rogers, who was almost three minutes off Menchov's winning time and slipped from third to sixth in the general classification. Reigning Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre was also unimpressive, 2'18\" behind Menchov, but took advantage of Rogers' bigger misstep to move up to fifth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\n22 May 2009 \u2014 Lido di Camaiore to Florence, 176\u00a0km (109\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nThe riders got some respite in this short, flat stage. There were a few short hills in the first 60\u00a0km (37\u00a0mi) of the stage and one small categorized climb, but after the 60 kilometer mark the course did not so much as undulate, and a sprint finish was the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nThree riders broke free of the peloton after 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) \u2014 Mikhail Ignatiev, Leonardo Scarselli, and Bj\u00f6rn Schr\u00f6der. Their maximum advantage was 5'20\", but the peloton had no trouble catching them. Ignatiev and Scarselli were absorbed with 32\u00a0km (20\u00a0mi) left to race, while Schr\u00f6der fought on alone, being caught at around 6\u00a0km (3.7\u00a0mi) to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nDespite being seven riders deep in the bunch with under 1\u00a0km (0.62\u00a0mi) to go, Mark Cavendish was able to get a successful leadout from Edvald Boasson Hagen and Mark Renshaw to pick up his third stage win of the Giro. The leadout was so fast that only 21 riders had the same time as the stage winner \u2014 another 89, including each of the top ten in the General classification (GC), were eight seconds back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13\nCavendish actually missed the start of the stage, after becoming stuck in the race village due to his habit of lining up on the start of the race at the last minute to avoid press. He was picked up by a Rabobank team car, which was also running late, and brought back to the field by them. He went on to win the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\n23 May 2009 \u2014 Campi Bisenzio to Bologna, 172\u00a0km (107\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nThis was a hilly stage, with four categorized climbs on the course and a finish on a short (but categorized) climb as well. Pre -race analysis of the stage expected relentless attacks beginning from the first climb of the day, after 24\u00a0km (15\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nFourteen riders representing twelve teams broke away after 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi). They stayed clear as a group through the four climbs on course before they started to splinter. Danilo Di Luca's LPR team drove the peloton most of the day, because the finish figured to favor Di Luca more than race leader Denis Menchov or the man in third, Levi Leipheimer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nHowever, one team pulling at the front of the peloton proved to be no match for a 14-man breakaway working cohesively, and by the time the peloton reached the descent of the fourth climb, the last before the summit finish, it was clear the breakaway would not be caught. The breakaway was still twelve strong as it began the last climb of the day. Andriy Hryvko was the first to attack for the stage win, but he was caught well before the summit, and wound up finishing in the pink jersey group a minute behind the stage winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14\nThe decisive attack came from Simon Gerrans, who no one could match, giving the Cerv\u00e9lo rider the stage win. Leipheimer and Ivan Basso were both dropped from the pink jersey group just before the summit of the climb and the end of the stage, losing three potentially valuable seconds to the other highly placed riders in the GC. Michael Rogers was a further three seconds back of Leipheimer and Basso, causing him to drop from sixth to seventh in the GC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\n24 May 2009 \u2014 Forl\u00ec to Faenza, 161\u00a0km (100\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\nThe peloton faced four categorized climbs in this stage, though none were considered difficult enough to be truly selective. Also on the profile were three uncategorized hills that simply were not as steep. With a 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi) flat section at the end of the stage, a breakaway finish was likely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\nThe day began with 16 riders from 14 teams breaking away, after about 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi). They attained a maximum advantage of about six minutes, and race leader Denis Menchov's Rabobank team seemed content to let them go, since no real GC threat was posed: Jos\u00e9 Serpa was the best placed man in the break, ten minutes back of Menchov. For a while, it seemed that the stage would progress this way to its conclusion, with the breakaway up ahead and the peloton not really chasing very hard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\nThings changed when Ivan Basso's team came forward on the third climb of the day to set a much faster pace in the peloton, and Basso himself attacked and came free, with only Stefano Garzelli holding his wheel. They caught some members of the morning breakaway, as that group also splintered, but were eventually themselves caught. Danilo Di Luca launched an attack on the fourth climb of the day, and for a time he and Menchov were clear of the other GC contenders, but they were also caught \u2014 the top seven in the GC were unchanged after this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15\nAfter the 16-man leading group began splintering, only two were left out front \u2014 Leonardo Bertagnolli and Serge Pauwels. For unclear reasons, Pauwels sat up (abandoned the breakaway attempt) in the final kilometers of the stage and left Bertagnolli to take the stage win uncontested. Pauwels joined two behind him who were chasing, as several riders who had been in the pink jersey group but were not overall threats had been allowed to attack on the way into the finish. The pink jersey group finished 1'56\" behind the stage winner, with another 13 riders about 7 minutes back, and the majority of the field between 18 and 26 minutes back, after the peloton had been one cohesive group for close to two-thirds of the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\n25 May 2009 \u2014 Pergola to Monte Petrano, 237\u00a0km (147\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nThis stage was extremely climbing-intensive, with three categorized high mountains, including a mountaintop finish with a very difficult gradient at Monte Petrano, and a smaller climb about a third of the way into the stage. It also had five short uncategorized hills. Following the alterations to Stage 10, this was also called the queen stage of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nA large early breakaway began the stage, for the third day in a row. This breakaway numbered 20, which after the first category one climb was whittled down to three, as some riders dropped because of the pace and others, from the teams of race leader Denis Menchov and other contenders, were called back by their sporting directors to stay with their team leaders. The three left out front were Yaroslav Popovych, Damiano Cunego, and Gabriele Bosisio. Eventually, Popovych shed his last remaining breakaway mates and for a time appeared poised for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nThe pink jersey group absorbed every member of the morning's breakaway except Popovych and Cunego by the time they began the Monte Petrano climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nLevi Leipheimer, who had previously stated that this was the day he might attack to move up the general classification, was dropped on Monte Petrano and despite the efforts of Lance Armstrong and Janez Brajkovi\u010d to pace him back into the pink jersey group, Leipheimer wound up finishing nearly three minutes behind the stage winner, falling from third to sixth in the general classification and effectively eliminating any designs he may have had on the pink jersey. Armstrong had been near the leaders on the climb, but dropped back to help Leipheimer, who would later say that Armstrong saved him \"minutes and minutes\" by shepherding him to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nDanilo Di Luca tried to attack from the pink jersey group a few times at the foot of the climb, but Menchov answered each time. When Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre attacked, Menchov and Di Luca let them go, seeming fixed solely on one another. Sastre's attack proved to be the crucial one, as he seemed quite fresh for having been climbing for over seven hours, staying clear of the pink jersey and blowing past Popovych to claim the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nWith the time gained on the road as well as bonus seconds at the line, Sastre moved up to third in the overall classification. Menchov outsprinted Di Luca to the finish line, gaining one second on the road and four bonus seconds to slightly pad his lead over Di Luca. Thomas L\u00f6vkvist, who had been in the white jersey as best young rider, was dropped very early on in this stage and finished 24 minutes behind the stage winner. He wound up dropping all the way to fifth in the youth classification, with Quick Step rider Kevin Seeldraeyers, 15th overall, assuming the white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16\nThe weather was also a major factor on the day, with the temperature topping out at over 35\u00a0\u00b0C (95\u00a0\u00b0F). It caused riders all throughout the race to lose contact with various groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\n27 May 2009 \u2014 Chieti to Blockhaus, 83\u00a0km (52\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nAfter the second rest day, the peloton faced the Giro's shortest stage. It was originally scheduled to include the highest point in the 2009 Giro, but the route was changed from the published maps due to the amount of snow at the top of the Blockhaus mountain pass, with 4\u00a0km (2.5\u00a0mi) of climbing replaced by an equivalent addition to the flat section at the beginning of the stage. The first 44\u00a0km (27\u00a0mi) of this course were almost perfectly flat, followed by a slight increase in gradient for the next 16\u00a0km (9.9\u00a0mi), followed by an exceptionally steep final 23\u00a0km (14\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nThomas Voeckler started the day's breakaway after about 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi). Nine riders followed him, and their maximum advantage was just under three minutes, with the chase beginning in earnest very early on this stage due to its short length. Many of the riders in the break were unable to maintain the pace set by Voeckler at the foot of the Blockhaus for very long, as only Voeckler, F\u00e9lix C\u00e1rdenas, and Giuseppe Palumbo were left out front as the climb began. The subsequent attacks from the pink jersey group absorbed the three of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nWhen Sylwester Szmyd attacked from the pink jersey group as the climb began, Franco Pellizotti followed him and was able to get clear, as Szmyd paced him to sizable gap over the pink jersey group before hitting the wall. Lance Armstrong tried to follow, but could not reach Pellizotti, as Pellizotti decided not to wait for Armstrong and chose to race the climb like a time trial. His strong, steady climb was good for the stage win. Armstrong finished the stage in the third group on the road, along with Levi Leipheimer and Carlos Sastre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nSastre's team had been the one setting the pace in the peloton just before the climb, but fell off when Philip Deignan spun out and tumbled off the road into a ditch. Deignan's bike was damaged and he sustained numerous visible scrapes and bruises, but he managed to continue and finish the stage with the last gruppetto. Sastre himself seemed to be off the form he had had before the rest day, and by virtue of Pellizotti's stage win and two-minute gap over the reigning Tour de France champion, he fell from third to fifth in the overall classification with Pellizotti moving up to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17\nA quartet of riders made the climb in second position on the road behind Pellizotti: race leader Denis Menchov, Danilo Di Luca, Ivan Basso, and Stefano Garzelli. Di Luca rode with a very high cadence in an attempt to separate himself from Menchov, but was unable to until the sprint for the finish line. By virtue of the time bonuses gained for third place as well as the gap on the road, Di Luca closed his deficit to Menchov to under 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\n28 May 2009 \u2014 Sulmona to Benevento, 182\u00a0km (113\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\nThe field faced a climb after just 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) in this stage, but following a long and technical descent, the course was gently undulating without any other categorized climbs. Due to the absence of climbs, the stage was expected to favor the Giro's remaining sprinters, but it wound up being contested by a breakaway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\nThe stage began with the largest successful breakaway of the Giro, 25 riders representing 18 teams. The only teams that missed the break were Milram, Ag2r, Fuji\u2013Servetto, and the team of the race leader, Rabobank. They worked together as a cohesive unit for much of the stage, gaining a maximum six-minute advantage over the peloton. Seven of the 25 broke free with 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) left to race, and they contested a final sprint for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\nThe first rider to try to take the win was Dries Devenyns, but he was quickly overtaken by F\u00e9lix C\u00e1rdenas, who was in turn passed by Danny Pate. Pate, however, had the breakaway's most experienced rider, Michele Scarponi, in his slipstream, and it was Scarponi who timed his sprint just right to take the stage win. The high-placed riders in the general classification all finished with the peloton, 3' 57\" behind the stage winner, so there was no change to the top ten overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18\nIt was after this stage, on the eve of the Mount Vesuvius stage, that Danilo Di Luca gave his second positive test for continuous erythropoiesis receptor activator (CERA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\n29 May 2009 - Avellino to Mount Vesuvius, 164\u00a0km (102\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nThe first 151\u00a0km (94\u00a0mi) of this stage saw rough undulation, with many uncategorized hills, including one at almost 500\u00a0m (1,600\u00a0ft) in elevation. The final 13\u00a0km (8.1\u00a0mi) saw a steep climb up to the famous Mount Vesuvius at 1,000\u00a0m (3,300\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nThe breakaway on this stage comprised only two riders, both representing ProTour teams that were without a stage victory in this year's Giro \u2014 Mauro Facci of Quick Step and Yuriy Krivtsov of Ag2r\u2013La Mondiale. Their maximum advantage over the peloton was just over seven minutes, but the pink jersey group of overall contenders and their teammates had no trouble catching them, as they did in the little town just before the Mount Vesuvius climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nLiquigas tried the same tactic they had employed on the Blockhaus, when Franco Pellizotti took the stage win, as Valerio Agnoli was the first to attack and get clear of the pink jersey group. He was joined soon after not by one of his team leaders, Pellizotti or Ivan Basso, but by Lampre\u2013NGC rider Paolo Tiralongo, as the overall contenders did not respond. These two wound up being absorbed by the subsequent attack from Carlos Jos\u00e9 Ochoa, who drew Basso and Stefano Garzelli with him, as they took an appreciable lead on the pink jersey group. Carlos Sastre attacked solo from the pink jersey group next and quickly passed all other riders on the road, and stayed out front to claim his second stage win of this Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nMuch as they had in previous stages, race leader Denis Menchov and the man in second place Danilo Di Luca stayed right with one another all through the climb, as Di Luca tried repeatedly to shed Menchov with attacks, but was unable to. Pellizotti, who had also been holding their wheels, took the opportunity with the two of them taking energy out of each other, to come clear and move into third position on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19\nBasso, who was up the road, dutifully sat up and waited for his better-placed teammate and paced him to a small gap over Menchov and Di Luca before cracking. It was enough to ensure Pellizotti second on the stage, to keep him third in the overall classification. Di Luca managed to outsprint Menchov to the line and claim 8 bonus seconds to narrow his deficit to 18 seconds, but with only a flat stage and an individual time trial remaining the superior time trialist Menchov had the advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\n30 May 2009 \u2014 Naples to Anagni, 203\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\nThis stage was flat, with only a climb to short elevation near the end. A preview predicted a sprint finish, but a late attack decided the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\nDanilo Di Luca made it clear that he was aiming for the time bonuses available in this stage, both at the finish line and the intermediate sprint. As such, his team worked to bring the morning's breakaway back well before the end of the stage. Just as he had in the mountains, race leader Denis Menchov stayed right with Di Luca, and the two of them contested the intermediate sprint, with Di Luca's team trying to give him a successful leadout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\nThey mistimed it, however, and Menchov was able to come around Di Luca and beat him to the line (Di Luca's teammate and accomplished sprinter Alessandro Petacchi managed to beat Menchov in the sprint to limit Di Luca's losses). Both Menchov and Di Luca got time bonuses, but Menchov got 4 for second in the sprint and Di Luca 2 for third, padding Menchov's lead in the overall classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20\nThe pace in the peloton was more lax after the intermediate sprint, and two riders came clear to form another breakaway. They were caught just before the first lap of the 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi) finishing circuit in Anagni. Another four riders tried to break away for the stage win, but they were caught during the second and final lap. With just over 1\u00a0km (0.62\u00a0mi) to go, Silence\u2013Lotto rider Philippe Gilbert attacked and got a gap, staying away for the stage win. Thomas Voeckler tried to follow, but could not reach Gilbert's slipstream, finishing 2 seconds behind him. The peloton finished 7 seconds back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\n31 May 2009 \u2014 Rome, 14.4\u00a0km (8.9\u00a0mi) (individual time trial)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nThe 2009 Giro ended, as it had the previous year, with an individual time trial. The course was flat, though the road did twist in several places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nThe winning time was set early on in the stage, by Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam rider and reigning Lithuanian national time trial champion Ignatas Konovalovas. Konovalovas, the 79th man to leave the starthouse, was one of the last riders to take the course before it started to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nGarmin's Bradley Wiggins started his ride not long after, and though he had the best time at the second and third intermediate time checks, he was slowed by the rain he encountered on the last part of the course as well as a stopped Bbox Bouygues Telecom team car attending to Matthieu Sprick, who had crashed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nThe rainfall lightened almost as soon as it began, but the top riders in the general classification still faced a course made more difficult by the rain. Most of them rode conservatively, to keep their positions intact rather than aim for the stage win, but Danilo Di Luca did not. Di Luca attacked the course, riding with a high cadence from the outset. He had the best time at the first intermediate time check, but he lost energy and faded away as the course went on, finishing 45 seconds slower than the stage winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203105-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21\nGiro champion Denis Menchov was the last man to take the course. The rain started again as he and Di Luca were the last ones on course. He was on pace to win the stage, but he dramatically crashed in the final kilometer, with his bike skidding well out in front of him on the wet cobbles. Support staff from his team car gave him a very quick bike change and he was back up in moments, finishing 24 seconds back on the stage to preserve his overall victory in the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203106-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro del Trentino\nThe 2009 Giro del Trentino was the 33rd edition of the Tour of the Alps cycle race and was held on 22 April to 25 April 2009. The race started in Torbole and finished in Pejo Fonti. The race was won by Ivan Basso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203107-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro dell'Emilia\nThe 2009 Giro dell'Emilia was the 92nd edition of this single day road bicycle racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203108-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile \u2013 Memorial Michela Fanini\nThe 2009 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile \u2013 Memorial Michela Fanini was the 16th edition of the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile \u2013 Memorial Michela Fanini, a women's cycling stage race in Italy. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and was held between 15 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203109-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 2009 Giro di Lombardia was the 103rd edition of this single day road bicycle racing monument race, colloquially known as the \"Race of the Falling Leaves\". The event was run on 17 October 2009. It was the final event of the 2009 UCI World Ranking and the final major event of the 2009 road racing season. For the third consecutive year, the race was 242 kilometres long and depart from Varese to its finish in Como.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203109-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Giro di Lombardia\nNotable features of this race include the fact that it is run around picturesque Lake Como in Northern Italy and includes the Madonna del Ghisallo climb (511m of elevation gain). At the top of this climb sits the shrine of Madonna del Ghisallo (the patron saint of cyclists) that contains a large amount of cycling memorabilia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election\nThe 2009 Glasgow North East by-election was a by-election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's House of Commons constituency of Glasgow North East. The by-election was held on 12 November 2009 following the resignation of Michael Martin as an MP and as Speaker of the House of Commons following the MPs' expenses scandal. Martin was the first Speaker since Sir John Trevor in 1695 to be forced from office. Willie Bain, the Scottish Labour Party candidate, won with 59% of the vote. Just 33% of the electorate voted, which is the lowest ever percentage turnout in a Scottish by-election to the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election\nThere was a longer than normal gap between a seat falling vacant and the by-election. On 22 July, during a brief debate in the House of Commons, the UK Government refused to move the writ before the summer recess.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election\nIt is a convention (not always observed in practice) that mainstream political parties do not contest elections against sitting Speakers of the House of Commons. As such, Michael Martin won Glasgow North East without his former Labour Party label, and neither the Conservative nor Liberal Democrat parties had fought the constituency (or its predecessor, Glasgow Springburn) in either 2001 or 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nLabour selected Willie Bain, a law lecturer and Constituency Labour Party secretary, as their candidate. Michael Martin's son Paul Martin, the MSP for the roughly equivalent Glasgow Springburn Scottish Parliament constituency, had ruled himself out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Scottish National Party (SNP) selected David Kerr. They had previously selected James Dornan, their leader on Glasgow City Council, but on 12 July he announced that he was withdrawing as a candidate following allegations in the Sunday Herald over past financial difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative Party selected Ruth Davidson, a journalist and broadcaster, as well as a Territorial Army volunteer and Sunday school teacher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats selected the South Lanarkshire councillor Eileen Baxendale as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Scottish Socialist Party decided to stand Kevin McVey, a party organiser from Cumbernauld who promised to reject the \u00a364,000 MP's salary and \"live instead on the average skilled worker's wage - not a penny more\". On the ballot paper the party opted to use the description \"Scottish Socialist Party \u2013 Make Greed History\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nSolidarity initially called on the SSP, the Socialist Labour Party and themselves to adopt a \"left unity\" candidate. However, they later announced that they had selected Tommy Sheridan to fight the by-election, claiming he might have stood down in favour of a left unity candidate. On the ballot paper the party used the full description \"Solidarity \u2013 Scotland\u2019s Socialist Movement\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nFormer Big Brother housemate Mikey Hughes stood as an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe British National Party (BNP) selected Charlie Baillie as their candidate who stood as second candidate on the list for Scotland in the 2009 European Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Jury Team, an umbrella organisation aiming to support Independent candidates in UK elections, selected John Smeaton, the former Glasgow Airport baggage handler who became known for his intervention during the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack as its first candidate for a Westminster election. On declaration of his candidacy in September, he was given the third shortest odds to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nDavid Doherty, an environmental protection graduate of the University of Strathclyde, was the Scottish Green Party candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nThe Socialist Labour Party stood Louise McDaid, who topped their party list for Scotland in the 2009 European Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nMev Brown stood as an independent candidate. Colin Campbell stood for The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203110-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Glasgow North East by-election, Candidates\nOfficial candidate names and ballot paper descriptions were confirmed by Glasgow City Council on 28 October 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour\nThe 2009 Global Champions Tour was the 4th edition of the Global Champions Tour (GCT), an important international show jumping competition series. The series is held mainly in Europe, one competition and also the final are held outside of Europe. All competitions are endowed at least 285000 euros. All GCT events were held as CSI 5*.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour\nThe competitions was held between May 2, 2009 and August 23, 2009. The final was held in Doha, Qatar from  November 11, 2009 to November 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour\nThe champion of the Global Champions Tour Final of this year is Michel Robert of France on Kellemoi de Pepita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions\nAll competitions are held as competition over two rounds against the clock with one jump-off against the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions\nThe placement of the riders, who are not qualified for the jump-off, results of the number of penalties of both rounds and the time of the second round. The placement of the riders, who are not qualified for the second round, results of the number of penalties and the time of the first round. Competitors who are not qualified for the second round, placed behind the riders who compete in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 1st Competition: Global Champions Tour of Italy\nApril 2, 2009 to April 5, 2009 - Arezzo, \u00a0ItalyCompetition: Saturday, April 4, 2009 - Start: 5:30 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 2nd Competition: Global Champions Tour of Spain\nMay 8, 2009 to May 10, 2009 - Museo de las Ciencias Pr\u00edncipe Felipe, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ci\u00e8ncies, Valencia, \u00a0SpainCompetition: Saturday, May 9, 2009 - Start: 4:00 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 3rd Competition: Global Champions Tour of Germany\nMay 21, 2009 to May 24, 2009 - Hamburg (German show jumping and dressage derby), \u00a0GermanyCompetition: Saturday, May 23, 2009 - Start: 1:30 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 4th Competition: Global Champions Tour of France\nJune 11, 2009 to June 13, 2009 - Cannes, \u00a0FranceCompetition: Saturday, June 13, 2009 - Start: 6:00 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 5th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Monaco\nJune 25, 2009 to June 27, 2009 - shore at the marina \u201ePort Hercule\u201c, Monte Carlo, \u00a0MonacoCompetition: Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Start: 6:00 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 6th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Portugal\nJuly 9, 2009 to July 11, 2009 - Hip\u00f3dromo Manuel Possolo, Cascais near Estoril, \u00a0PortugalCompetition: Saturday, July 11, 2009 - Start: 7:00 pm, prize money: 400000 \u20ac (show jumping grand prix with the highest prize money in Europe)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 7th Competition: Global Champions Tour of Brasil\nJuly 31, 2009 - August 2, 2009 - equestrian facility of the Sociedade H\u00edpica Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro (Athina Onassis International Horse Show), \u00a0BrazilCompetition: Saturday, August 1, 2009 - Start: 1:45 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Competitions, 8th Competition: Global Champions Tour of the Netherlands\nAugust 20, 2009 - August 23, 2009 - Valkenswaard, \u00a0NetherlandsCompetition: Saturday, August 22, 2009 - Start: 1:45 pm, prize money: 285000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 99], "content_span": [100, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Global Champions Tour Final, Final\nNovember 11, 2009 to November 14, 2009 - Doha, \u00a0Qatar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Global Champions Tour Final, Final, First round\nCompetition: Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Start: 9:00 pm, prize money: 50000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203111-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Global Champions Tour, Global Champions Tour Final, Final, Final result after second round and jump-off\nCompetition: Saturday, November 14, 2009 - Start: 8:00 pm, prize money: 900000 \u20ac", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 108], "content_span": [109, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203112-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gloucestershire County Council election\nElections to Gloucestershire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. All of the Council's 62 seats were up for election. Most divisions returned one County Councillor under the first past the post system which is used for most local government elections in England and Wales. However, some divisions especially those that were based upon towns too small for two divisions but too large for one returned two Councillors using the block vote variant of FPTP used for some English and Welsh local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203112-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gloucestershire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203112-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Gloucestershire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203112-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gloucestershire County Council election, Results by Division, Forest of Dean\nNote: Alan Preest stood as the Conservative candidate in 2005. Both his and David Cooksley's change in vote shares are shown in relation to Preest's 2005 vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203112-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gloucestershire County Council election, Results by Division, Tewkesbury\nNote: The Liberal Democrats had previously gained Brockworth in a by-election. They here consolidated this gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots\nThe 2009 Gojra riots were a series of attacks targeting Christians in Gojra town in Punjab province of Pakistan. These resulted in the deaths of eight Christians including four women and a child.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Background\nChristians make up 1.6% of Pakistan's predominantly Sunni Muslim population of 210  million people. Gojra, which is located in the Toba Tek Singh District of Pakistan's Punjab province, has a relatively high number of Christians. Minorities also face intimidation at the hands of discriminatory laws, including a blasphemy law that carries the death penalty for using derogatory language against Islam, the Qur'an and Muhammad. The law is often misused to settle personal scores and rivalries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Background\nThese attacks came less than a month after a mob attacked 100 houses belonging to Christians in Kasur District of Pakistan, destroying many of them and injuring many people after a blasphemy charge. According to Nadeem Anthony, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, there is a link between violence against Christians and the US-led war in Afghanistan. Joseph Francis of the Christian Nationalist Part stated that the Muslim mob in Gojra had been incited with hate-speech that called Christians \"America's dogs\", he added since \"9/11, we've felt a lot more at risk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Background\nIslamic militants in Pakistan target other minority groups as well, including Shias and Ahmadiyya Muslims, groups they consider heretics. According to Minority Rights Group International, Pakistan had the world's highest increase of threats against minorities last year and was ranked the sixth least dangerous country for minorities overall. Pakistan was ranked after Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Attacks\nThe attacks were triggered by reports of desecration of the Qur'an. It was reported that Mukhtar Maseeh, Talib Maseeh and his son Imran Maseeh had desecrated the papers inscribed with Qur'an verses at a wedding ceremony. District Police Officer Inkisar Khan said a case had been registered under section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code against Mukhtar Maseeh, Talib Maseeh and Imran Maseeh without any arrest. Forty houses and a Church were set ablaze by a mob on August 1, 2009. Most of the houses were burnt by youths who had their faces covered with veils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Attacks\nThe victims were all burnt alive. 18 others were injured. Televised footage showed burning houses and streets strewn with blackened furniture and people firing at each other from their rooftops. The dead were identified as Hameed Maseeh, 50, Asia Bibi, 20, Asifa Bibi, 19, Imamia Bibi, 22, Musa, 7, Akhlas Maseeh, 40, and Parveen, 50. According to Rafiq Masih, a resident of the predominantly Christian colony \u201cThey were shouting anti-Christian slogans and attacked our houses.\u201d  Residents said that police stood aside while the mob went on the rampage. \u201cWe kept begging for protection, but police did not take action,\u201d  Masih said. According to Pakistan government they had received information that a group of armed \u2018miscreants\u2019, with masked faces had come from Jhang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nLaw minister Rana Sanaullah, who is also responsible for security matters of Punjab, condemned the attack and ordered an inquiry. A contingent of Pakistan Rangers was sent to the city on orders of federal government. He stated that a preliminary investigation showed there was no desecration of the Qur'an. \"It was just a rumor which was exploited by anti-state elements to create chaos,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nPresident Asif Ali Zardari expressed grave concern over the incidents and directed federal minister for minority affairs Shahbaz Bhatti to remain in Gojra until the situation becomes normal and also asked him to take steps for the security of people's life and property. Police lodged cases against 17 known and 783 unknown suspects following these attacks. Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif  announced US$ 6,000 for each bereaved family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nAccording to Shahbaz Bhatti, the federal minister for minorities, the attackers belonged to Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a banned militant group which has carried out attacks against security forces and bombings in recent years. This group was originally an anti-Shiite organization and was funded in the past by Pakistan's intelligence services to wage war in Kashmir. Police arrested more than 65 people for their alleged involvement in the violence under anti-terrorism laws. The arrested men include Qari Abdul Khaliq Kashmiri, a leader of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nFollowing the riots relatives of the slain protested by blocking the  Multan-Faisalabad railway line for six hours, which passes through Gojra, by placing coffins of those killed on the tracks. On Sunday representatives of the protesters met with government ministers in talks to end the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nThe blockade of the railway only ended when provincial minister Kamran Michael showed the protesters a copy of a First Information Report  (FIR) apportioning blame onto the District Coordination Officer  and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for negligence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nKamran Michael, the provincial Minister for Minority Affairs, who himself is Christian, said that there \"is too much fear among the Christians\", he added that \"the situation is tense in the city, but security has been enhanced to keep the situation under control.\" Christian schools closed for three days to mourn the victims of these attacks. Christians in Gojra will mark August 11, traditionally celebrated as Pakistan's minority day, as a \"black day\" of mourning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nAccording to Iqbal Haider, co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the attacks are an indication of the unchecked growth of religious extremism in Pakistan. \"This has to be a wake-up call for the government. The Gojra tragedy is just the latest, this is a direct consequence of the religious fanaticism that is rampant now all over Pakistan. These extremists are hell-bent upon killing every person who does not support their religious views,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nOn August 4, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif visited the city and, speaking to the media from a church in the city, strongly condemned the acts of violence and promised that members of the Muslim League will stay in the area for rehabilitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Aftermath\nAfter these attacks Prime Minister Gilani hinted that Pakistan may review its Blasphemy laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Reaction, Domestic\nAltaf Hussain of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement strongly condemned the attacks and called upon the government to quickly arrest the culprits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203113-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Gojra riots, Reaction, Domestic\nSherry Rehman of Pakistan Peoples Party  calling for repeal of the blasphemy laws stated \u201cPakistan Peoples Party has always sought to protect the minorities, but it is General Zia\u2019s black laws that are used to target innocent civilians on trumped-up ruses. Nobody should demonize what is sacred to another, and Islam is clear on this issue, but nobody must be allowed to exploit and misuse laws, such as the Blasphemy Law, which were ordered into law by a dictator, who politicized religion to make up for his own lack of legitimacy.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season\nThe 2009 Gold Coast Titans season was the third in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 3rd (out of 16), and for the first time reached the finals only to be knocked out by eventual grand finalists, the Parramatta Eels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season, Available 2009 Players\nWingers Jordan Atkins Ben Jeffery Brenton Bowen Shannon Walker Chris Walker Kevin Gordon David Mead", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season, Available 2009 Players\nHalves Scott Prince (c) Mat Rogers Brad Davis Jackson Nicolau Jordan Rankin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season, Available 2009 Players\nProps Luke Bailey (c) Brad Meyers Michael Henderson Matthew White Aaron Cannings Selasi Berdie Will Matthews Bodene Thompson Siosaia Vave", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season, Available 2009 Players\nSecond Rowers/Locks Anthony Laffranchi Mark Minichiello Ashley Harrison Luke O'Dwyer Daniel Conn Sam Tagataese", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203114-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gold Coast Titans season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nThe 2009 Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Z\u0142oty Kask, ZK) is the 2009 version of Golden Helmet organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on 30 April 2010 in Zielona G\u00f3ra. The Golden Helmet was won by Janusz Ko\u0142odziej who beat Piotr Protasiewicz and Krzysztof Kasprzak. It was his second winning (after 2005 season). Ko\u0142odziej also who the 2010 Golden Helmet host on September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nLike in 2008 Final, top three riders was automatically qualify for 2011 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification in 2010 season without Domestic Qualifications. Because Ko\u0142odziej (1st) and Grzegorz Zengota (4th) won the qualify in the Domestic Final, Adrian Miedzi\u0144ski (5th) was qualify also. Because all top five riders get the quality, Kasprzak (3rd) and Miedzi\u0144ski (5th) did not ride in the Run-Off heats and lost chance for the highest place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland), Date controversy\nOriginal date of Final was October 10, 2009, but one day later in Zielona G\u00f3ra was expected Speedway Ekstraliga Final. Main Commission of Speedway Sport (GKS\u017b) decided about change date to October 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland), Date controversy\nHowever, the meeting was cancelled because the track was deemed unsafe (after the rain) by the Referee and was delayed to October 14. After that, GKS\u017b, moved the Final' date to October 15. On this day, meeting was cancelled again, because the track was deemed unsafe (after the rain again). Because, the Ekstraliga Final at Zielona G\u00f3ra, was delay 4 time, the GKS\u017b decided about hosting the Golden Helmet Final in 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland), Date controversy\nIn 2010 season, original date was March 27, but was moved to April 17, because the Zielona G\u00f3ra stadium was remounted. But three days before the Final, GKS\u017b decide about not hosting 2009 edition. One week later, GKS\u017b change a decision and expected the Final' day to April 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203115-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Helmet (Poland), Results\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203116-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Golden Spin of Zagreb\nThe 2009 Golden Spin of Zagreb (Croatian: Zlatna pirueta Zagreba) was the 42nd edition of an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia. It was held at the Dom Sportova on December 10\u201312, 2009. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203117-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gomelsky Cup\n2009 Gomelsky Cup tournament was held from October 2 till October 3, 2009. Four European teams competed against each other for the Gomelsky Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203118-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500\nThe 2009 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 was held on March 29, 2009 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia; it was the sixth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season . Jimmie Johnson, who led forty-two laps, won the race, while Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart finished second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203118-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500\nNo time trials took place because of rain during the previous days. A live audience of 63,000 people attended the event, which lasted three hours and twenty-seven minutes. Last-place finisher Todd Bodine quit on lap 3 due to a problem with his engine. Robby Gordon, Joe Nemechek and Dave Blaney also failed to finish the race. 13% of the race was run under caution; the average green flag run lasted approximately 33 laps. Most of the incidents that brought out the yellow flag were crashes. Five drivers failed to qualify for the race including Sterling Marlin, Tony Raines and Dennis Setzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203118-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500\nJeff Gordon often battled Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer for the lead. Gordon finished fourth, while Hamlin took second place and Bower finished in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203118-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500, Qualifying\nQualifying was rained out. By owner's points, Jeff Gordon would win the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary\nThe Gosport Conservative Party parliamentary primary of 2009 was the 1st open primary election used to select the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Gosport. The election was held on Friday 4 December 2009 under the first-past-the-post system. The incumbent MP, Sir Peter Viggers, had announced his intention to decline re-election following the parliamentary expenses scandal, in which he gained huge media attention for attempting to claim \u00a31,645 for a duck house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary, Background\nOn 21 May 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Sir Peter Viggers, MP for Gosport, had claimed over \u00a330,000 in gardening expenses over three years. Details of a \"pond feature\" worth \u00a31,645, identified as a \"floating duck island\", were also published. On hearing that the national newspaper would be running the story on the front page the next day, Viggers announced that he would resign at the next election. The floating duck house claim later became a symbol of the Westminster expenses scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary, Background\nThe Chairman of the Gosport Constituency Conservative Association was accused of sexism after he told Channel 4 News that he would happily appoint a female candidate if she were attractive. This followed remarks by a local councillor, saying that his application to succeed Viggers had been rejected by Conservative Campaign Headquarters, perhaps because he was \"a man and too old\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary, Background\nFollowing the successfully high turnout at the Totnes primary, David Cameron announced that further open primary elections would be used to select parliamentary candidates. On 28 October, it was revealed that Gosport would hold an open primary in December, following a public hustings in the final fortnight of the campaign. Party Chairman Eric Pickles confirmed the news and noted that, \"it is vital to empower local people and allow them to have the final say\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary, Campaign\nThe procedure for the primary process determined that the number of candidates would be shortlisted to six, by the Gosport Constituency Conservative Association. A second shortlist would then be drawn up, eliminating two candidates. The four remaining candidates would appear on the ballot. Ballot papers were sent to every registered voter in the Gosport constituency via a postal vote, regardless of their political affiliation on 12 November. On 20 November, a public hustings involving the four candidates took place. The deadline for the return of ballot papers was established to be three weeks after their initial launch on 4 December - the result was declared on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203119-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gosport Conservative primary, Candidates, Criticism\nThe first shortlist was met with criticism due to the lack of candidates from the borough of Gosport. Conservative Party members in Gosport were reported in the local media to be angered that CCHQ had used the primary election to select A-List candidates to a safe Conservative seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203120-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Governor General's Awards\nThe shortlisted nominees for the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles will be announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry). Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a copy of their book bound by Montreal bookbinder Lise Dubois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery\nThe Graff Diamonds robbery took place on 6 August 2009 when two men posing as customers entered the premises of Graff Diamonds in New Bond Street, London and stole jewellery worth nearly \u00a340 million (US$65 million). It was believed to be the largest ever gems heist in Britain at the time, and the second largest British robbery after the \u00a353 million raid on a Securitas depot in Kent in 2006. The thieves' haul totalled 43 items of jewellery, consisting of rings, bracelets, necklaces and wristwatches. One necklace alone has been reported as being worth more than \u00a33.5m. Britain's previous largest jewellery robbery also took place at Graff's, in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nThe robbers used the services of a professional make-up artist to alter their skin tones and their features using latex prosthetics and to be fitted with professional wigs. The artist took four hours to apply the disguises, having been told that it was for a music video. Viewing the results in a mirror, Aman Kassaye commented: \"My own mother wouldn't recognise me now,\" to which his accomplice is reported to have laughed and replied: \"That's got to be a good thing, hasn't it?\" The same make-up studio had unwittingly helped disguise members of the gang that robbed the Securitas depot in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nOn 6 August 2009 at 4:40\u00a0pm, two sharply dressed men arrived at the Graff Diamonds jewellery store by taxi and once inside produced two handguns which they used to threaten staff. They made no attempt to conceal their faces from the premises' CCTV cameras due to their elaborate disguises. Even though one of the robbers was wearing leather gloves, store security allowed him entry, being used to the eccentric behaviour of some super-wealthy clients.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nPetra Ehnar, a shop assistant, was forced at gunpoint to empty the store's display cabinets. A total of 43 rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches were taken. She was briefly held hostage at gunpoint and was forced into the street during the getaway. She testified that the robbers told her that she would be killed if she did not carry out their demands. After releasing the hostage outside the store, one of the robbers fired a shot into the air to create confusion, and both escaped the scene in a blue BMW vehicle. This vehicle was abandoned in nearby Dover Street, where a second gunshot was fired into the ground while the robbers switched to a second vehicle, a silver Mercedes. They again switched vehicles in Farm Street, after which there was no further information regarding their whereabouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nAll of the diamonds had been laser-inscribed with the Graff logo and a Gemological Institute of America identification number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nDetectives investigating the robbery stated: \"They knew exactly what they were looking for and we suspect they already had a market for the jewels.\" The suspects' details were circulated to all ports and airports but police believed they would have an elaborately prepared escape route and had already left the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery\nThe robbery was being investigated by Barnes Flying Squad, headed by Detective Chief Inspector Pam Mace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, The robbery, Financial loss to Graff Diamonds\nThe financial loss to Graff Diamonds was more than US$10 million (\u00a36.6 million). The actual value of the pieces for insurance purposes, was put at $39 million (\u00a326 million). But according to Nicholas Paine, the company secretary, the syndicate that insured Graff was only liable for $28.9 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, Arrests and charges\nThe robbers were caught shortly after police searched one of the getaway cars abandoned by the robbers. A pay-as-you go mobile phone was discovered that robbers Aman Kassaye and Craig Calderwood left in the car after ramming into a black cab. After the collision, in their haste to transfer to a second vehicle, the robbers forgot the mobile phone that was wedged between the driver's seat and the handbrake. Anonymous numbers stored on the mobile phone quickly allowed police to discover the identity of the robber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, Arrests and charges\nOn 20 August 2009, two men, Craig Calderwood, 26, of no fixed abode, and Solomun Beyene, 24, of Lilestone Road, London NW8, were charged in connection with the robbery. On 21 August, a third man, Clinton Mogg, 42, of Westby Road, Bournemouth, was also charged, and Calderwood and Beyene were remanded in custody by Westminster Magistrates' Court. On 22 August, Mogg appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. All three were remanded in custody to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 1 September. A fourth man, aged 50, was arrested and bailed. By mid-October, ten male suspects had been arrested in connection with the robbery. Charges brought against the individuals include conspiracy with others to commit robbery, attempted murder, holding someone hostage, possessing firearms and using a handgun to resist arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, Arrests and charges\nAman Kassaye, who planned and executed the heist, was found guilty of conspiracy to rob, kidnap and possession of a firearm after a three-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court. On 7 August 2010, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Three other men \u2013 Solomun Beyene, 25, of London, Clinton Mogg, 43, of Bournemouth, and Thomas Thomas, 46, of Kingston upon Thames \u2013 were each jailed for 16 years after also being convicted of conspiracy to rob. Craig Calderwood was finally jailed for 21 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203121-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Graff Diamonds robbery, Arrests and charges\nAs of March 2011, none of the stolen jewellery has been recovered. Experts believe the jewellery has probably been broken up so the precious stones could be anonymously resold after being recut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National\nThe 2009 Grand National (officially known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 162nd running of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National\nA 100/1 outsider, the French-bred Mon Mome, ridden by Liam Treadwell, won the race by 12 lengths from the previous year's winner Comply or Die (14/1) in a time of 9 minutes 34 seconds. Mon Mome became the first 100/1 shot to win since Foinavon in 1967. He also became the first winner of the race to have been bred in France for 100 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National\nMon Mome was trained by Venetia Williams at her Herefordshire stables and was owned by Vida Bingham of East Sussex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National\nSeventeen runners completed the 4-mile 4 furlong course over Aintree's National circuit. Hear The Echo collapsed during the latter stages of the race and later died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Race card\nNote: Trained in Great Britain unless otherwise stated in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\n2007 Irish Grand National winner Butler's Cabin was made the favourite having fallen in the previous year's National when going well and in addition he had champion jockey Tony McCoy in the saddle. The favourite was still among a group of sixteen horses who still held serious chances with four fences to jump but he made a mistake at the 27th and was always struggling to get back on terms with those at the head of the group. After the race, jockey Tony McCoy said: \"He ran OK. He's probably still a bit high in the handicap. From Becher's on the second circuit he was just starting to get a little bit tired and he made a lot of little mistakes late on.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nMy Will was made favourite for the race after finishing fifth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup but was sent off as joint-second favourite on the day with two-time winning rider Ruby Walsh in the saddle. Despite a series of jumping errors the horse turned for the home straight marginally leading an unusually large contending pack of sixteen horses and briefly looked to be on the way to victory at the penultimate flight. The horse was quickly passed by the eventual winner and took the last flight in third place where he remained, finishing 13\u00bc lengths behind the winner. Jockey Ruby Walsh said: \"He was just hitting the fences low and I was really having to work hard at keeping him upright. We did well to stay on our feet.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nRambling Minster was identified as the 'trend' horse after winning the Blue Square Gold Cup at Haydock two months before the National. Despite ticking all the boxes the tipsters looked for in a potential National winner, he proved very disappointing in the race itself and was well to the rear when he was almost brought down at the 18th fence and was pulled up soon after. Jockey James Reveley said afterwards: \"He didn't take to it and just didn't like it. He jumped OK until he made a mistake down the back and he was looking after himself after that so I pulled up going down the back on the second circuit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nBlack Apalachi had been a faller in the 2008 Grand National but became popular when he won the Becher Chase over one circuit of the course in November and followed that by winning the Bobbyjo Chase in February. He went straight to the front from the start, taking the lead at the third fence where he remained for over a circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nHe was still three lengths clear and going well when he stumbled on landing over Becher's Brook and threw his rider Denis O'Reagan, who later said: \"It was very disappointing \u2013 he was travelling well and jumping from fence to fence. I don't know what happened until I see a replay.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nComply Or Die was the defending champion and came within 12 lengths of being the first horse for over thirty years to win back-to-back Nationals. The horse jumped alongside Mon Mome at the final flight but was outpaced on the run-in. After, jockey Timmy Murphy said: \"He ran a blinder. Apart from failing to get 10 lengths closer to the winner I have no complaints whatsoever.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nState Of Play had won the 2006 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup but appealed to his backers after winning the Charlie Hall Chase in November at Wetherby. The horse was among the leading eight throughout the race and was among four who shared the lead jumping the penultimate fence. He was unable to mount a challenge after that and finished fourth, 14 lengths behind the winner. Jockey Paul Moloney said of his race: \"There was a moment when I thought I was going to win going to two out. You can't do it without the horse and I had a lot of confidence in him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nBig Fella Thanks was backed after winning the Sky Bet Chase in January and on race day ran a textbook National in mid-division on the first circuit before moving into a challenging position at the Canal Turn on the second circuit. The horse was always having to find a few lengths and was never quite able to get on terms with the leader before finishing sixth. Jockey Christian Williams regarded the race as a prep for a bigger bid next year, saying: \"He'll be a year older next year, and perhaps on softer ground you never know.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nHe's only a baby. I had AP [McCoy, on Butler's Cabin] upsides me so I knew I was in the right place. He's got a slight cut on his hind leg and that may have made a slight difference, but if he improves again and comes back with a nice weight next year he could go close.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Leading contenders\nMon Mome was among the less-considered outsiders at 100\u20131 despite a good racing pedigree that had seen him sent off as favourite in the Welsh National in December. A disappointing run there and subsequent loss of form, in addition to his regular rider opting to ride Stan instead led the public to ignore the credentials which were seen as obvious after the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Broadcasting\nBBC commentator Jim McGrath describes the climax of the 2009 Grand National", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Broadcasting\nThe Grand National was accorded status as an event of national interest, listed on the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, therefore ensuring that the event is broadcast live on terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. The BBC broadcast the race for the 50th consecutive year. The winner, Mon Mome, was not mentioned in commentary at any stage on the first circuit, being named for the first time when in 12th place as the runners started the second circuit. The commentary team for the sixth consecutive year was Ian Bartlett, Tony O'Hehir, Darren Owen, and Jim McGrath who called the winner home for the 12th consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Broadcasting\nThe programme was presented by Clare Balding. 1,477 people lodged complaints to the BBC when, after the race, she asked winning rider Liam Treadwell to show his teeth to the camera and then suggested he would be able to get them \"fixed\" with his prize money. Balding later issued a public apology. On the evening before the following year's race, Treadwell was again interviewed by Balding for the BBC's The One Show in which he thanked her for her comments as it had led to him getting free dentistry resulting in a perfect smile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Broadcasting\nTreadwell said of his winning ride: \"It's an absolutely unbelievable finish, I had the perfect run through the race, he jumped brilliant for me. A couple of times loose horses fell upsides me and went under his legs but it didn't really affect the horse. He gave me such a great ride. He was an absolute pleasure to ride. He is so genuine.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Broadcasting\nTrainer Venetia Williams said: \"How can you ever expect that in a race like this? I'm so proud of the horse. I'm so proud of Liam for giving him such a good ride, and the girl who looks after him as well. I'm so proud of everyone in the yard \u2013 I never get chance to praise them and give them the credit they deserve, it is all a team effort.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Aftermath\nHear The Echo and Butlers Cabin both collapsed, the former on the run-in and the latter shortly after passing the finishing post. Both required oxygen treatment but Hear The Echo did not respond and died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Aftermath\nBookmakers were delighted by the race result with a 100/1 winner. Ladbrokes spokesman David Williams said: \"It was better than we could ever have dreamed of. Liam Treadwell was our saviour. A win for Walsh or McCoy would have seen a multi-million pound turnaround. The sun shone on Aintree and the sun shone on the bookies. If last year was one for the punters, 2009 was very much one for us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Quotes\nTony McCoy was the most experienced rider in the race for the third consecutive year, having taken over from Carl Llewellyn after the 2006 race, though he had previously shared the honour with Mick Fitzgerald and Paul Carberry. McCoy was having his fourteenth ride in the race, joining an exclusive club of just thirteen riders to have reached that landmark, however he also shared the unwanted record with Jeff King of being the only two riders among the thirteen not to have won or been runner-up in any of their fourteen rides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203122-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand National, Quotes\nEight riders made their Grand National debut, including Liam Treadwell, the twenty-second rider to win at the first attempt and the second in the 21st century. Paul Townend and Philip Enright also completed the course while at the other extreme, Phil Kinsella got no further than the second fence. Emmett Mullins, Mark Walsh, James Revely and Derek Lavery also took their first rides in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker)\nThe 2009 Grand Prix was a professional ranking tournament that took place between 3\u201311 October 2009 at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker)\nNeil Robertson won in the final 9\u20134 against Ding Junhui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker), Main draw\nThe draw for round one was made on the evening of 24 September 2009 at Pontins in Prestatyn and was streamed live by 110sport.com. The draw from round two up to and including the semi-finals was made on a random basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker), Main draw\nThe order of play and table numbers for all matches up to the semi-finals was determined once the draw for that round was made and published by the Tournament Director.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker), Main draw\nAll matches up to and including the quarter-finals were best of 9 frames, the semi-finals were best of 11 frames and the final was the best of 17 frames. (Seedings in parentheses, all times are BST.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203123-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix (snooker), Qualifying\nThese matches took place from 21 to 24 September 2009 at Pontins in Prestatyn, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203124-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix Hassan II\nThe 2009 Grand Prix Hassan II was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 25th edition of the Grand Prix Hassan II, and was an ATP Tour World 250 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Complexe Al Amal in Casablanca, Morocco, from April 6 through April 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203124-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix Hassan II, Finals, Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot /  Oliver Marach defeated  Simon Aspelin /  Paul Hanley, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 3\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203125-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix Hassan II \u2013 Doubles\nAlbert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s and Santiago Ventura were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203127-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem\nThe 2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 9th edition of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, and was on the International category of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Fes, Morocco, from April 27 through May 2, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203127-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Finals, Doubles\nAlisa Kleybanova /  Ekaterina Makarova defeated  Sorana C\u00eerstea /  Maria Kirilenko, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203128-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Doubles\nSorana C\u00eerstea and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the defending champions. Both were present that year, but competed with different partners. Cirstea partnered with Maria Kirilenko, but lost in the final to Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 10\u20138. Pavlyuchenkova partnered with Aravane Reza\u00ef, but were forced to concede to a walkover before the first round match against Polona Hercog and Ioana Raluca Olaru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203129-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Singles\nGisela Dulko was the defending champion, but chose to participate in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix which was held the same week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203129-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem \u2013 Singles\nIn the final, Anabel Medina Garrigues defeated Ekaterina Makarova, 6\u20130, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203130-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Denain\nThe 2009 Grand Prix de Denain was the 51st edition of the Grand Prix de Denain cycle race and was held on 16 April 2009. The race started in Raismes and finished in Denain. The race was won by Jimmy Casper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203131-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Futsal\nThe 2009 Grand Prix de Futsal was the fifth edition of the international futsal competition of the same kind as the FIFA Futsal World Cup, but with invited nations and held annually in Brazil. It was first held in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203132-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon\nThe 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France, from 26 October through 1 November 2009. Tird-seeded Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203132-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, Finals, Doubles\nJulien Benneteau /  Nicolas Mahut defeated  Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment /  S\u00e9bastien Grosjean 6\u20134, 7\u20136(8\u20136)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203132-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203133-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon \u2013 Doubles\nMicha\u00ebl Llodra and Andy Ram were the defending champions, but Ram chose to participate at the St. Petersburg Open instead. Llodra partnered up with Marc Gicquel, but they lost in the quarterfinals against Simone Bolelli and Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107 Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(8\u20136) against Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and S\u00e9bastien Grosjean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203134-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon \u2013 Singles\nRobin S\u00f6derling was the defending champion, but he decided not to compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203134-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon \u2013 Singles\nIvan Ljubi\u010di\u0107 defeated Micha\u00ebl Llodra 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season\nThe 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 61st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The season consisted out of 17 races for the MotoGP class and 16 for the 125cc and 250cc classes, beginning with the Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix on 12 April 2009 and ending with the Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix on 8 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Preseason, Cost-cutting measures\nAs announced during 2008, MotoGP class switched to a single-tyre manufacturer. The move was made to try to improve safety by reducing cornering speeds, and in a marginal way for cost reasons; the winner was decided by bid. Michelin, one of the two tyre suppliers in 2008, decided not to bid for the supply, effectively declaring Bridgestone the winner, which was confirmed on 18 October 2008. Bridgestone will be the sole tyre supplier from 2009 to 2011. Only race spec tyres will be provided to the teams, eliminating qualifying tyres, in use until 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Preseason, Cost-cutting measures\nOther cost-cutting manoeuvers were made during the winter prior to the season, to try to contain the rising costs of the sport, especially during a period of economic downturn. FIM was especially concerned, fearing that defections among private and factory teams could leave the grid with 14 bikes only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Preseason, Cost-cutting measures\nAfter negotiations between FIM, Dorna and MSMA (the manufacturers' association), new measures were adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Preseason, Cost-cutting measures\nThe Friday morning free practice session was eliminated, limiting the Friday practice time to a single 45-minute session (later brought to a 1-hour session from the French GP onwards); a limit of 5 engines was imposed for the last 7 races, with a 10-point penalty for each additional engine used; ceramic composite materials for brakes were banned; electronic assistance was reduced with the ban of electronic controlled suspensions and launch control systems; Monday tests will be cancelled except for Catalunya and Brno, where only test riders will be allowed to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Preseason, Kawasaki withdrawal and return\nWith a somewhat unexpected announcement, Kawasaki made public its intention to withdraw from MotoGP immediately on 9 January 2009, citing the global economic downturn as the main cause of the decision. Initial negotiations between Dorna and Kawasaki aimed to run the two bikes with the private Aspar team, but after further talks, on 26 February 2009 Kawasaki announced its decision to remain in the category, running a single bike team with Marco Melandri, effectively leaving John Hopkins without a contract. The team ran under the Hayate Racing banner, as announced on 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season review, MotoGP\nValentino Rossi won his sixth MotoGP title, seventh in the top class and ninth title in total after getting the better of teammate Jorge Lorenzo in a season-long battle. The season was marked by the dominance of Yamaha duo Rossi and Lorenzo, with occasional wins for Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner. Riding the factory Ducati, 2007 champion Stoner won the opener in Qatar as well as a rain-hit race in Italy to open up a championship lead after six rounds. Inconsistent handling from the Ducati as well as health problems for Stoner causing fatigue saw him drop out of the title fight by mid-season, whereas Pedrosa and Lorenzo crashed more often than Rossi who built up a sizeable lead to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season review, 250cc class\nIn the final 250cc championship (it was replaced by the Moto2 class in 2010), Hiroshi Aoyama became the third Japanese rider to win that title, after Tetsuya Harada and Daijiro Kato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season review, 125cc class\nIn the 125cc class, Juli\u00e1n Sim\u00f3n won the title after taking seven victories during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2009 Grand Prix season calendar\nThe following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2009 Grand Prix season calendar\nThe 2009 revised race schedule was released on 24 October 2008. A Hungarian round was originally scheduled for 20 September 2009 but the organizers asked Dorna to postpone the event to 2010 due to delays in the construction of the Balatonring circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2009 Grand Prix season calendar\nDue to adverse weather conditions, the Qatar MotoGP race was postponed until 13 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes\nThe following changes are made to the regulation for the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nFor the Free Practice one sessions on Friday, the times are now as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nFor the Free Practice two and Qualifying Practice sessions on Saturday, the times are now as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nFor the Warm-Up and Race sessions on Sunday, the times are now as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nThese rules were additionally added on the 25th of July 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nThe same goes for the winter period. It is forbidden to use contracted riders to practice with MotoGP at any circuit. The following exceptions apply to this rule if:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations\nThis rule was additionally added on the 24th of August 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Technical regulations\nThese rules were additionally added on the 25th of July 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Technical regulations\nTeams are allowed to replace all the parts which can be accessed without having to remove the sealing wiring. If the sealing wiring is broken or removed without direction by the Technical Direction, the engine will be considered \"rebuilt\" and engines with broken or missing security seals will be treated as a wholly new engine in the allocation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Technical regulations\nIf a competitor, for any reason (mechanical failure, crash, major damage and so on) has to use another engine above their allocation, the Technical Director has to be informed before said engine can be used so that the Race Direction can apply the proper penalty. The damaged engine will be removed from the allocation and, if it is to be used again, will be treated as a new engine with the fitting penalty applied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Technical regulations\nThere is no limit to the number of times a sealed, allocated engine can be fitted to and used in a bike, on the condition that the security seal is not broken or removed. Replacing an engine with another sealed engine, be it new or used, from the rider's allocation is allowed and no penalty shall be given if done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0019-0003", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Regulation changes, Technical regulations\nTo prevent the running of a used, allocated engine outside of any MotoGP races, all the allocated engines will have security seals placed over either the exhaust or inlet ports (on at least one cylinder bank if the engine is a V-type) before it can leave the circuit. If a team wants to re-use such an allocated an sealed engine, it must first request to the Technical Director to remove all security seals. If the Technical Director or his staff discover that the security seals are not intact, the engine will be branded as a new engine in the allocation and a penalty will be handed out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Participants, MotoGP participants\nNote 1: Mika Kallio replaced Casey Stoner in Czech GP, Indianapolis GP and San Marino GP. Note 2: Michel Fabrizio replaced Mika Kallio in Czech GP. Note 3: Aleix Espargar\u00f3 replaced Mika Kallio in Indianapolis GP and San Marino GP. He also replaced Niccol\u00f2 Canepa in Malaysian GP and Valencian GP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, MotoGP riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, 250cc riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, 125cc riders' standings\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, 125cc riders' standings\n\u2020 Half-points awarded in Qatar, as the riders did not complete the sufficient distance for full points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 76], "content_span": [77, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, Constructors' standings, MotoGP\n\u2020 Following Loris Capirossi's engine change, Suzuki was given a ten-point penalty in the constructors' championship at the Australian Grand Prix because of the new for 2009 MotoGP engine change limit rule which restricts each rider to five engines for the final seven rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203135-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Standings, Constructors' standings, 125cc\n\u2020 Half-points awarded in Qatar, as the riders did not complete the sufficient distance for full points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203136-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix of Mosport\nThe 2009 Grand Prix of Mosport presented by Mobil 1 is the eighth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Mosport International Raceway, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on August 30, 2009. David Brabham and Scott Sharp won their second straight ALMS race for Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing Acura, while drivers Adrian Fern\u00e1ndez and Luis D\u00edaz and the Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing Acura team secured their respective LMP2 championships with victory at Mosport, their seventh of the season. Corvette Racing earned their first victory since the team moved to the GT2 category two rounds prior. The ALMS Challenge category did not participate in this event due to the high speed differences between various classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203136-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix of Mosport, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203136-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Prix of Mosport, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts\nThe 2009 PartyPoker.com Grand Slam of Darts was the third staging of the darts tournament, the Grand Slam of Darts organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 14 to 22 November 2009 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England. Television coverage of the tournament was covered by ITV Sport, with live coverage on ITV4 and highlights on ITV1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts\nDespite being beaten by Vincent van der Voort in the group stages, Phil Taylor won a third consecutive Grand Slam with a 16\u20132 victory over Scott Waites, who became the first BDO player to reach the final of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Prize money\nThe prize fund increased to \u00a3400,000 for the 2009 edition of the tournament, an increase of \u00a344,000 from the 2008 edition, \u00a310,000 more for the runner up, \u00a35,000 more for the semi finalists and \u00a32,500 more for the quarter finalists. Players who failed to make it past the group stage in the last tournament got \u00a34,000. However, players who finished 3rd would earn \u00a31,000 more but players who finished bottom of a group would get \u00a31,500 less. Also the player with the highest checkout would not be rewarded. Instead, the group winners would earn \u00a32,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying\nThere were numerous tournaments that provided qualifying opportunities to players. Most tournaments offered a qualifying position for the winner and runner-up of the tournament, however the World Championships and the Grand Slams offers a place in the tournament to all semi-finalists. There are also various other ways of qualifying for overseas players, including those from Australia and the United States, as well as a wildcard qualifying event open to any darts player. Some minor changes were made to the qualifying criteria from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying\nThe winner and the runner-up of the 2009 would be invited, whilst it was announced that only the winner of the 2008 World Masters would be invited (though runner-up Scott Waites was invited anyway due to the withdrawal of Martin Adams). It was also announced that the winner of the 2009 US Open would be invited, though this was later withdrawn from the qualification criteria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nPhil Taylor (1) Ted Hankey (2) James Wade (3) Raymond van Barneveld (4) Mervyn King (5) Terry Jenkins (6) Gary Anderson (7) Tony O'Shea (8)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nSteve Beaton Darryl Fitton Adrian Lewis Colin Osborne John Part Robert Thornton Mark Webster Simon Whitlock", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nAndy Hamilton Colin Lloyd Wayne Mardle Kevin Painter Co Stomp\u00e9 Vincent van der Voort Darin Young Steve Maish", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools\nAnastasia Dobromyslova Francis Hoenselaar Kevin McDine Gary Mawson Denis Ovens Kirk Shepherd Scott Waites Brian Woods", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stages\nall matches first-to-5/best of 9.NB in Brackets: Number = Seeds; BDO = BDO Darts player; Q = QualifierNB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/- = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Average \u2013 3-dart average; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203137-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stages, Group H\nWith Andy Hamilton and James Wade finishing level on points and leg difference, a nine-dart shootout between the two took place, to see who would play Terry Jenkins in the second round. The match took place after the conclusion of the group stages. The shootout occurred exactly one year to the day after a similar situation at the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts where Hamilton beat Alan Tabern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203138-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts ITV Wildcard Qualifier\nThe 2009 Grand Slam of Darts ITV Wildcard Qualifier was the qualifying event for the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts which was held at the Magnum Centre in Irvine on 6 November 2009. 21st seed Steve Maish won the event after beating unseeded Arron Monk 5-3 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203138-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Slam of Darts ITV Wildcard Qualifier, 2009 Grand Slam of Darts\nSteve Maish was placed in Pool Three and draw in Group C along with 2009 Premier League runner up Mervyn King, 2009 BDO World Championship semi finalist Darryl Fitton and 2008 PDC World Championship runner up Kirk Shepherd. In his first Group C match, he was up against Darryl Fitton and comfortably won 5-1. In his next Group C match, he was up against Mervyn King and despite being the better player in terms of three dart average narrowly lost 5-4. In his last Group C match, he was up against Kirk Shepherd and lost 5-3 and was eliminated from the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203139-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Valley State Lakers football team\nThe 2009 Grand Valley State Lakers football team was an American football team that represented Grand Valley State University in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) during the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. In their sixth season under head coach Chuck Martin, the Lakers compiled a 13\u20132 record (9\u20131 against conference opponents), won the GLIAC championship for the fifth consecutive season, and qualified for the NCAA Division II playoff for the ninth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203139-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Valley State Lakers football team\nIn the playoffs, the Lakers received a bye in the first round and won in the second round, quarterfinals, and semifinals before losing to Northwest Missouri State in the national championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203139-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Valley State Lakers football team\nStatistical leaders included James Berezik with 1,280 rushing yards, Brad Iciek with 3,194 passing yards, Blake Somlen with 917 receiving yards, and Justin Trimble with 107 points scored (18 field goals and 53 points after touchdown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203139-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Grand Valley State Lakers football team\nThe team played its home games at Lubbers Stadium in Allendale Charter Township, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods\nThe 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods were a weather event that affected parts of Great Britain and Ireland throughout November and into December 2009. November was the wettest month across the United Kingdom since records began in 1914 and had well above average temperatures. The worst affected area in Great Britain was the English county of Cumbria. The Irish counties of Clare, Cork, Galway and Westmeath were among the worst affected areas of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods\nEuropean windstorms bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds caused damage and flooding to the south of Great Britain on 13\u201314 November. Unsettled weather continued across the south and later to the north. On 19\u201320 November, many towns and villages in Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway were affected. A number of bridges collapsed, one of which led to the death of a police officer, who was standing on the bridge when it collapsed. Another death occurred on 21 November as a canoeist was trapped against a tree near Poundsgate, on Dartmoor in Devon. In Powys, there were two deaths, at Newtown and Talybont-on-Usk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods\nAmong the many places severely flooded was the Republic of Ireland's second largest city, Cork. For more than ten days, 40 per cent of its population were without running water after a treatment plant was affected by several metres of flood water. University College Cork was damaged and at least a week of lectures was cancelled. Courts were also disrupted, with some eventually being moved to a hotel. At the time, Taoiseach Brian Cowen described the situation in Ireland as an \"ongoing emergency\" that was going to get worse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Event\nBefore the severe gales affecting the United Kingdom on 13 November, unsettled weather had been affecting all of the United Kingdom since 12 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Event\nOn 13 November an area of low pressure developed to the south-west of Ireland. It moved north-eastwards across the Irish Sea and west Scotland on 14 November. Weather fronts bringing heavy rain swept across the west and south of the United Kingdom. 30 millimetres (1.2\u00a0in) of rainfall in three hours was recorded in some parts of Sussex and Hampshire. The wind, coming from the south, reached gale to severe gale strength on 13 November; gusting between 65 miles per hour (105\u00a0km/h) and 75 miles per hour (121\u00a0km/h) in some areas. On 14 November, strong winds and showers affected southern Great Britain, with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour (80\u00a0km/h) and 90 miles per hour (140\u00a0km/h) on the coast. A tornado was reported to have occurred in the east of England on 14 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Event\nOver the night of 19\u201320 November 2009, a forecast depression tracked northwest over Ireland, the Isle of Man, Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway. Rainfall in a 24-hour period was recorded at 71.6 millimetres (2.82\u00a0in) at Shap and 64.2 millimetres (2.53\u00a0in) at Keswick. At Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale, rainfall was recorded at 314.4 millimetres (12.38\u00a0in) in a 24-hour period which the Met Office state is provisionally a UK record for any single location. At Penrith a multi-agency co-ordination centre was established. The floods were described as \"the worst in 55 years\". The Met Office reported that at Eskdalemuir, the amount of rainfall recorded in a 24-hour period exceeded the previous record set in 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Event\nHeavy rain across Devon on 21 November caused the River Dart on Dartmoor to swell. A group of canoeists on the river were treated for hypothermia and one of the members died after being trapped against a tree at Poundsgate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 1\u201312 November\nThe Met Office predicted that an area of low pressure would \"explosively deepen close to the UK on Sunday 1 November,\" which resulted in heavy rain across the country. Thirteen people were rescued from homes and vehicles in more than 100 flooding incidents across Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 1\u201312 November\nIn Scotland on 1 November, Angus and Aberdeenshire were badly hit by flooding, causing transport disruption, burst pipes and the evacuation of hundreds of homes. The coastal town of Arbroath was one of the worst affected, being virtually cut off by severe flooding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 1\u201312 November\nIn Northern Ireland, villages near the County Tyrone-County Londonderry border were hit by heavy rainfall the night of 4 November causing several families to be evacuated, and more than a dozen homes flooded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 1\u201312 November\nSligo was heavily flooded on 9 November. Passage West in County Cork was subjected to a thirty-minute flash flood on 12 November, causing an estimated \u20ac100,000 worth of damage and wrecking ten cars and several homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 13\u201315 November\nThe area of low pressure affecting southern Great Britain on 13\u201314 November caused some surface water flooding and damage from gales. Surface water flooding affected Devon and Cornwall. The gale-force winds across the counties brought down trees, branches, power cables and roofs. Local authorities and the Highways Agency were strained in maintaining traffic flow. Dorset reported coastal flooding as severe gales occurred during high tide. Some residents across the Welsh counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire were rescued by Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Flooding was widespread in the Conwy Valley, with homes in Betws-y-Coed, Llanrwst and nearby villages affected. Twelve people were rescued from a coach trapped in floodwater at Haverfordwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 13\u201315 November\nThe Environment Agency issued 110 flood warnings prior to the storm reaching Great Britain on 13\u201314 November. Peak gusts reached 100 miles per hour (160\u00a0km/h) at The Needles lighthouse, Isle of Wight. A tornado developed in Benfleet, Essex, damaging 60 homes. Another tornado in Lowestoft, Suffolk brought down a tree trapping a woman in a car. In Haywards Heath, West Sussex, people were rescued from units on an industrial estate which was 60 centimetres (2\u00a0ft) deep in water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nIn Lancashire, firefighters had to rescue schoolchildren trapped in a bus stranded by floodwater at Sawley, and flooding occurred in Barnoldswick, Blackburn, Burnley and Rossendale. Workers at Kippax Mill in Crawshawbooth were evacuated when the building was hit by a landslide as the hill collapsed under the weight of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nMany properties were flooded in Ambleside, leaving the main road impassable for most vehicles. Over 200 people in Cockermouth were rescued from their homes by the emergency services. About 75 people were accommodated overnight in Cockermouth School and the Shepherds Hotel (known locally as the Sheep & Wool Centre). Search and rescue helicopters from RAF Valley, RAF Boulmer and RAF Leconfield rescued approximately 50 people, with the remainder being rescued by boat, particularly by the RNLI, and HM Coastguard. A Coastguard helicopter was deployed to the area from Stornoway to supplement the military SAR assets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nWater levels in the town centre were reported to be as high as 2.50 metres (8\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in), resulting in the collapse of Lorton Bridge, and over 1,200 properties losing their electricity supply. Coniston Water burst its banks and submerged roads, fields and local premises. Electricity supply was lost to 349 properties in Keswick. About 50 people were accommodated overnight in Keswick's Convention Centre, as well as the Skiddaw Hotel and St Joseph's School. Several homes were also flooded in the town after the River Greta burst its banks, rising 1.5 metres (4\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) above normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nIn south Ulverston, a number of residents had to be evacuated\u00a0\u2013 around 80 homes were flooded on North Lonsdale Road and the surrounding areas, with many accommodated at Ulverston Victoria High School. A number of A roads in the surrounding area had to be closed off and some train services were disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nIn Workington, the Northside Bridge over the River Derwent collapsed. The bridge carried the A597, its collapse cut off gas supplies to the town. Bill Barker, a police constable, died in the bridge collapse, following a called-off lifeboat search. The replacement for Northside Bridge has been finished in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nThe Southwaite Footbridge on the trackbed of the dismantled Cockermouth and Workington Railway collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nThe bridge over the River Cocker in Low Lorton was also destroyed. Its replacement opened on Monday 31 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nOn Windermere in the Lake District approximately 20 boats sank due to the floods. The boats were all moored to a fixed pier, and could not rise with the rising water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nAlso in Workington, Calva Bridge was reported on 22 November to have dropped by about 300 millimetres (1\u00a0ft). Police warned that it could collapse too. The bridge was later condemned, leaving residents in Northside a 40 miles (64\u00a0km) journey to get into Workington. Calva bridge had been built in 1841 by Thomas Milton. It was designed by Thomas Nelson. The bridge is a Grade II listed building. Although badly damaged, it was decided that the bridge could be repaired, as work carried out in 2005 to waterproof the deck had strengthened the bridge too. The contract for the repair work was awarded jointly to Balfour Beatty and Mouchel. Engineers warned that there was a 50% chance that the bridge could collapse during repairs. Two-thirds of the central pier's foundations had been washed away during the flood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nThe Dock Bridge, which carries the railway line linking Workington Docks and the steelworks, was badly damaged. Photographs show that at least one of the concrete trestles has been washed away, dislodging the rails on the bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nNewlands Beck Bridge, Braithwaite, near Keswick, collapsed, as did Camerton footbridge near Workington. A suspension footbridge over the River Eamont at Dalemain also collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nThe Whitesands area of Dumfries was affected by flooding when the River Nith burst its banks. Five people were rescued by firefighters, and another two were rescued by boat from a stranded car. In the Scottish Borders several homes were flooded in Ettrick and Yarrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nIn Wales, a woman was reported missing in Brecon on 21 November, having apparently fallen into the River Usk after crossing a bridge that had a 1.83 metres (6\u00a0ft) gap in the railings. Dyfed-Powys Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service started a search which was called off overnight. It was resumed the next morning. A body was recovered from the River Usk at Talybont-on-Usk on 24 November. At Newtown, Powys, the body of a pensioner was found on the banks of the River Severn on 23 November. She had been reported missing on 21 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Great Britain\nIn Shropshire flood defences were deployed along the Severn Valley and some minor roads were closed due to flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Isle of Man\nOn the Isle of Man, there were power cuts in Ballaragh and Laxey but Manx Electricity restored power to all affected properties by the afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Ireland\nIn the Republic of Ireland; a family of five were winched to safety by helicopter in County Galway, and damage was caused to the Lake Hotel at Killarney in County Kerry. About 40 families at Ballinasloe in County Galway had to be evacuated by boat after the River Suck burst its banks. The centre of Cork was flooded by the River Lee to a depth of 1 metre (3\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in), and the nearby towns of Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway and Skibbereen were inaccessible. University College Cork sustained widespread damage, prompting it to cancel all lectures for at least one week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Ireland\nThousands of homes across the country were left with boiled-water notices, and over 40,000 homes were left without any water supply. In Cork City, over 18,000 homes on the city's north and inner south-sides were left without water for up to ten days. This was as a result of flood damage to the city's water treatment plant. The Irish Army was deployed to deal with rising floodwaters at Ennis, County Clare and Clonmel, County Tipperary. Electricity supplies were cut off in Bandon, Cork and east County Galway. The house of one old lady in Athlone was even reported to have been the victim of flooding. A lorry driver had to be lifted from his vehicle in County Roscommon after it became struck in water beneath a bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Ireland\nThe floods affected a nationwide pre-planned strike action, with members of trade unions SIPTU, IMPACT and the TEEU postponing the unrest it had scheduled for County Cork, County Clare and County Galway on 24 November so that they could assist with giving as much relief as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 18\u201325 November, Ireland\nIn Northern Ireland, the low-lying areas around the River Bann in County Armagh as well as the Strabane, Ards, Cookstown, Lisburn and Magherafelt districts were affected by flooding. County Fermanagh sustained the worst levels of flooding, with water levels on Lough Erne at their highest since first being recorded in 1956, owing to 35 consecutive days of rain. The floods affected many areas close to the shore of the lough including Lisnaskea and the county town, Enniskillen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 25\u201329 November\nThe plight of Athlone, County Westmeath came to light at this time when water levels at the town's lock reached around 50 centimetres above the previous record water level, six of these centimetres occurring during one night. Farms and housing estates were isolated, with the west side experiencing some of the worst flooding and a school being forced to close for several days. Some residents were cautiously evacuated from Limerick's Ardnacrusha district and eight homes were evacuated in Clonlara, County Clare. Farmland between Ballina and Foxford in County Mayo was flooded. Waterways Ireland claimed on 25 November that the water level of the River Shannon (Ireland's largest river) had become \"unmanageable\", with 33 per cent of the usual annual rain dropping in November alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 25\u201329 November\nThe water level of Lough Derg had broken all previous records by 26 November. This caused the purposeful release of more water downstream which subsequently flooded these areas by around 10 more centimetres of water. Further evacuations took place in County Clare and the city of Limerick. The Irish Army continued to patrol Ennis. Waters continued to rise in County Galway as well at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 25\u201329 November\nOn 28\u201329 November torrential downpours and heavy winds spread across Devon and Cornwall, causing flooding and damage. Four people were rescued by firefighters from cars across Devon. Street-water levels reached 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) near Exeter and 3 feet (0.91\u00a0m) near Sparkwell. Properties were flooded across the City of Plymouth and Ivybridge. Winds brought down an electricity pole in Millbrook, Cornwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 25\u201329 November\nIreland's flooding shifted to the east of the country on 29 November. Dublin's River Liffey burst its banks on 29 November, flooding several areas. Towns in County Kildare which were near the Liffey, were damaged by floods, including Ballymore Eustace, Kilcullen, Newbridge, Clane, Celbridge, Naas and Leixlip. A Clane nursing home was evacuated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 25\u201329 November\nCourts scheduled for Cork and Skibbereen were adjourned for several days due to flooded courthouses. Circuit court cases scheduled for Cork were moved to a hotel and High Court cases were moved to Clonmel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 30 November \u2013 4 December\nOn 30 November, firefighters had to pump water from one estate in Sallins from which 104 families were subjected to an emergency evacuation. The River Liffey was still impassable at Strawberry Beds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 30 November \u2013 4 December\nOn 1 December, there was more torrential rain in the west, with drinking water supplies to 6,000 buildings in Galway reported to have been contaminated by human faeces and water undrinkable in more than 500 homes in Clare and Limerick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Damage, 30 November \u2013 4 December\nOn 2 December, thousands of acres of Irish farmland remained underwater, floodwaters were still rising in some Galway villages and roads in Clare and Galway were still impassable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 13\u201314 November\nThe Gloucester to Newport Line through Wales and England was closed at Chepstow after heavy rain caused a rockslide on 13 November. Several roads across Cornwall were flooded under 60 centimetres (24\u00a0in) of water. The Tamar Bridge connecting Devon and Cornwall was closed to bicycles, motorbikes and high-sided vehicles. Ferries between England and France were cancelled during the storm and the Port of Dover was closed during part of 14 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nServices on the West Coast Main Line were temporarily suspended after a landslip between Carlisle and Penrith. Services resumed by midday on 20 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nServices between Glasgow and Dunblane were suspended. The West Coast Main Line was flooded between Carlisle and Carstairs and was closed as a result. Services were reduced between Edinburgh and Glasgow and also Edinburgh and Dunblane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nThe Cambrian Line was closed between Newtown, Powys and Machynlleth as a result of severe flooding on the River Dyfi. Replacement buses were provided by the service's operator, Arriva Trains Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann rail services were suspended between Galway and Athlone; Limerick and Ennis; Carrick-on-Shannon and Longford; Dublin and Maynooth; and Wicklow and Gorey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nOn 18 November, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company cancelled the morning ferry service from Douglas to Heysham and consequently the return service was also cancelled. The first service from Heysham was cancelled on 19 November. Services resumed with the 08:45 sailing from Douglas to Heysham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nIn Kent, ferry services from Dover were affected by strong winds on 18 November. Services operated by LD Lines, Norfolkline, P&O Ferries and Seafrance were subject to delay. Kent Police implemented phase one of Operation Stack, using the M20 to park lorries on until they could be accommodated on a ferry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nOn 21 November, Irish Ferries cancelled all sailings due to have been performed by HSC Jonathan Swift on the Dublin \u2013 Holyhead route. Passengers were accommodated on MV\u00a0Ulysses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nIn Workington, the collapse of Northside Bridge carrying the A597 road and the condemnation of Calva Bridge carrying the A596 resulted in a 40 miles (64\u00a0km) journey from Northside to the town centre. Network Rail constructed a temporary railway station, Workington North, to help Northside residents get into and out of town. The Royal Engineers from 170 (Infrastructure Support) and 3 Armoured Engineer Squadron are to install a temporary footbridge upstream of Calva Bridge, scheduled to open on 5 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 18\u201323 November\nIn County Fermanagh, high water levels on Lough Erne resulted in the closure of most bridges that link the east and west sides of the county. Diverted traffic was thus forced to pass through the county town of Enniskillen, itself sited on an island in the lough, causing major delays. Away from the lough, the town of Lisnaskea as well as the villages of Derrylin and Boho also saw severe flooding, resulting in several road closures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Transport disruption, 24\u201329 November\n25 November saw fierce winds rattle Dublin Airport leading to the diversion of ten Aer Lingus, Delta Air Lines, Etihad Airways and Ryanair aircraft\u2014seven aircraft to Shannon Airport and three aircraft to Manchester Airport. Some of the affected aircraft were transatlantic flights from destinations such as Chicago and New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Sports disruption\nAll horse races scheduled for Naas racecourse on 25 November were cancelled because of waterlogging. A horse race scheduled for 28 November at Wexford was cancelled four days earlier as the course was waterlogged. The Naas and Wexford events were rescheduled for 3 and 7 December respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nMy thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been affected and whose homes and livelihoods have been damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nWhat you've done in the last few days is tackle one of the greatest rainfalls we've seen in our country and you've done it with such superb organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nOn 21 November, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Cumbria Police headquarters, near Penrith, to meet members of the emergency services before travelling to Cockermouth where he met people who had been evacuated from their homes. He pledged an additional \u00a31,000,000 would be made available in aid for the affected areas when it was noted that the damages could well run into \u00a350\u00a0million to \u00a3100\u00a0million mark. During his visit, Gordon Brown ordered checks to be made on all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria. It was feared that Calva Bridge in Workington would also collapse. Bridge inspections will be carried out by the Highways Agency and the Department for Transport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nCockermouth MP Tony Cunningham said that the buildings in Cockermouth may be broken, but the people were not. Following the death of the police officer, Cumbria Constabulary stated that over 10,000 people had signed a tribute on its Facebook page. The Queen praised emergency workers for the support they had provided. The ABI stated that the cost of the floods in Cumbria and Scotland could exceed \u00a3100,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nIn Republic of Ireland, the Taoiseach Brian Cowen stated that the Government's priority was the provision of shelter and safe drinking water for those affected by the flooding. He chaired two sessions of the Emergency Response Co-Ordination Committee on the weekend following the outbreak of the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nBrian Cowen embarked on the first of his visits to Ireland's flood-affected areas on 23 November when he visited Clonmel, Cork, Ennis and Ballinasloe. The Taoiseach, taking a further half-day trip around Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath to inspect flood-affected regions on 26 November, was confronted by the angry residents of Athlone who said he was using their plight as a \"publicity stunt\". Cowen refused to visit some of the most badly flooded areas of Athlone despite being offered a pair of waders and even a rowing boat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nI have the waders in my hand. We had a boat there ready for him. And he goes to a house there with just puddles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nOn 27 November, The Prince of Wales visited the areas of Cumbria affected by the flooding, where he expressed \"nothing but the greatest possible sympathy\" for the victims of the flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Reaction\nOn 21 December, President Mary McAleese embarked on a two-day visit of flooded areas, praising the \"utterly selfless\" acts of those who were assisting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nAs a result of the loss of all road and footbridges in Workington, it was announced that a new temporary railway station, Workington North, would be built on waste land leased for two years from Allerdale Council. The station opened on 30 November with services provided by Northern Rail. and remained open for a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nConstruction work began in late November on Barker Crossing, a temporary footbridge, constructed by the British Army's Corps of Royal Engineers involving over two hundred soldiers. The bridge was expected to take ten days to complete. It was constructed to provide a link across the River Derwent after the Northside Bridge collapsed and the Calva Bridge was condemned. The replacement bridge is 52 metres (171\u00a0ft) long, and weighs about 110 tonnes (108 long tons). It was prefabricated at Halton Camp, near Halton-with-Aughton and was erected on-site in early December. The bridge was opened to pedestrians on 7 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nOn 26 November, three vehicles were observed driving over the closed Calva Bridge, Workington. The bridge had been closed by the use of temporary barriers. As a result of the incident, more substantial barriers were installed to prevent vehicles accessing the bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nHundreds of mourners attended the funeral of PC Bill Barker in Egremont on 27 November 2009. Barker died after the collapse of a bridge in Workington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nIn December 2009, Tesco built a new temporary store in north Workington. People living in that part of town were finding it difficult to access the main store, which lies south of the River Derwent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Aftermath of UK floods\nOn 22 October 2012, Princess Anne opened the new permanent road bridge on the site of the original Northside Bridge almost three years after its collapse. There had been calls to name the new bridge after PC Bill Barker however after the Town Council ran a local poll it was discovered that the residents would rather have it reverted to the old bridge's name, Northside Bridge. The final decision was then taken to PC Barker's widow who let the people of Workington decide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Relief effort in Ireland\nAn initial emergency relief fund of \u20ac10 million plus an extra \u20ac2 million especially for farmers was announced by the Irish government on the afternoon of 24 November. In Ireland's Budget 2010, delivered by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on 9 December 2009, a further minimum amount of at least \u20ac70 million was put towards those affected by the floods and to the prevention of similar disasters in future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203140-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, Relief effort in Ireland\nThe Irish Red Cross stated that it expected to raise \u20ac1 million for survivors of the flooding and that it was starting to take applications for assistance from them on 12 December 2009. The organisation announced it had reached this total on 10 January 2010. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul had two warehouses in Galway to collect aid for survivors. The Cork Flood Appeal Benefit Night was one fund-raising event which was held on 15 December 2009. Home Athlone was another event held on 21 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203141-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season\nThe 2009 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season was the eighth season of the Greek Ice Hockey Championship. Seven teams participated in the league, and Iptameni Pagodromoi Athen won their fifth league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires\nThe 2009 Greek forest fires were a series of massive wildfires that broke out across several areas in Greece during the summer of 2009. The fires began in Grammatiko, about twenty-five miles north-east of the Greek capital, Athens on 21 August 2009 and spread quickly towards the suburbs, engulfing fourteen towns within the next three days. 10,000 residents of Agios Stefanos were asked to evacuate the area. Approximately 600 firefighters and soldiers, twelve fire-fighting aircraft and nine helicopters were deployed to extinguish the fire. These fires are the worst since 2007, though no casualties have been reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nThe fires of 2009 began on the night of August 21, 2009 and burned over the next four days, covering approximately 21,000 hectares of pine forest, olive groves, shrub land and farmland. The fires affected 15 municipalities and communities and destroyed 60 homes, damaging another 150. The fires began in Grammatiko village, about 40\u00a0km north-east of Athens, and spread to the mountains of eastern Attica. Around 72 houses were damaged in Grammatiko and other badly hit communities were Stamata and Rodopoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nMore than 1,000 fire-fighters and soldiers were placed on duty over the weekend, and a total of 19 planes and helicopters worked to fight the fires, dropping around 14,000 tonnes of water on one day alone (24 August 2009). Aircraft were drafted-in from Italy, France and Cyprus. The cost of hiring the fire services 14 helicopters for about 120 flying hours is estimated at 30 million euros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nAccording to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Greece, The destruction from three days of intense forest fires \u201cconfirms the inability of the state to effectively manage the country\u2019s forests\u201d. Unlike the 2007 Greek forest fires, the 2009 fires took place in eastern Attica, which is a forested-suburban region known for its illegal ribbon development, where thousands of illegal homes have been legalised ahead of successive elections by incumbent governments. This area is also expected to undergo further development and population increase as a result of new urban plans for the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nGavril Xanthopoulos, a scientist at the Greek Forest Research Institute in Athens, and one of the country\u2019s leading forest fire experts is quoted as saying: \u201cThese areas are what we call a wildland\u2013urban interface, which are not just peculiar to Greece, but exist in all European Mediterranean countries\u201d. The mix of homes and forest can drain fire resources, because the fight is targeted at burning homes and property, allowing forest fires to spread faster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nXanthopoulos claims to have alerted civil protection authorities a fortnight before the fires warning that the drought in vegetation had reached the levels of 2007, that there was an extreme likelihood of fires occurring and that this was reflected in the area\u2019s fire danger map. The meltemi winds, typical of this time of year made the fires head south, which was a predictable trajectory for the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nWWF has called for radical reform of the fire service, which has been weakened, since 1981, by political interference in recruitment and promotion, bureaucratisation, the removal of fire-fighting responsibilities from the forestry service and abolition of the dasokommando, which is a Greek   specialised fire-fighting unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Background and result of destruction from the fire\nAccording to Konstantinos Liarikos, environmental programme director of WWF, part of the existing fire service needs to be especially dedicated to forest fire-fighting, and emphasis should be on suppression rather than prevention:  the cost of hiring an Erickson Air-Crane Helitanker fire-fighting helicopter is 800,000 euros a season, and is equivalent to the cost of hiring 800 seasonal fire-fighters, which WWF claims would be more effective. In addition, citizen awareness programmes are needed to educated suburban residents about fire prevention and fire-fighting. For example, the connection of electric pumps to swimming pools to help residents to use water for dousing fires. Planting fire-resistant tree species in gardens, such as bay laurel, poplar, acacia and oak, can also help save homes. In 2007, fires spread more slowly in rural areas of the Peloponnese where a farming population kept areas well-managed and clear of grass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 75], "content_span": [76, 1018]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Effect on wildlife\nAbout half the burnt woodlands should be able to recover because they are mature pine forests. The other half, are low in regenerative capacity due to repeated burning. Countless animals have perished in the fires, tortoises being the most easily visible, due to their burnt-out shells. Birds and faster-moving animals can flee, but will now over-burden nearby eco-systems. Surviving animals may suffer from burns and smoke inhalation. Re -colonisation of burnt areas will be slow, commencing with insects, lizards and birds, with hares, partridges and foxes only arriving after the first rain has led to new growth. Lack of forest cover will make it easier for predators to locate certain prey species. The Association for the Protection and Welfare of Wildlife (Anima) operate a 24-hour call centre at telephone: 210-951-0075 or 6972 664 675 (www.wild-anima.gr) for animal casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 930]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Effect on cultural heritage\nThe antiquities linked to the battle of Marathon were not directly damaged, although the physical setting of the sites has been destroyed. The sites include the Marathon battle site, Tomb of the Marathon Warriors, the Marathon Museum, Tomb of the Plataeans, and Ramnous. The sites were saved, due to the fight of local residents during the night of 23\u201324 August, and the assistance of a northerly wind that helped contain the fires and avoid catastrophe to the ancient monuments and ecologically important area of Schinias. Marathon residents had already been fighting the construction of a land-fill site outside Grammatiko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nSince the fires some areas, for example, around Lake Marathon, have been reported as being subject to grazing by flocks of goats. The goats are wandering freely over the burnt-out forest areas. Grazing goats is forbidden in Attica under a law of 1993. After the fires of August 2009, the grazing of other types of animals in forest areas, such as sheep and cattle, was also forbidden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nThe burnt areas of forest appear to be unmonitored by forest patrols. There are only 49 forest guards in Attica, which means that each guard must patrol an area of 83,000 stremmata. A modern stremma is approximately 1,000 square metres and thus .1 hectares or .247 acres. The total forested extent of Attica is 3,500,000 stremmata. In some areas, olive trees have been planted within the burnt forest areas. This is one of the first illegal steps in transforming unmonitored forested areas into cultivated land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nMr Nikos Chlikas, a forester and environmentalist, has emphasised that about 90,000 to 100,000 stremmata in north-east Attica have been burnt for a second or third time, out of the total of 210,000 stremmata, which was burnt in August 2009. In these areas, it is essential that there is intervention by the authorities to help forest regeneration because the pine trees are very young and do not have the capacity to create cones. This forest cannot regenerate by itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nIn addition, the number of small trees which are, at the moment, in the nursery at Amigdales will have difficulty covering 3,000-4,000 stremmata, for this reason money needs to be allocated for new trees, so that planting can take place over the next few years. According to Nikos Chlikas, the cost of reforestation is around 500 euro for each stremma, including the cost of caring for the trees for at least two years. However, in 2008 less than 10,000 stremmata were reforested in the whole of Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nAs part of the post-fire protection work, the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece (\u03a4\u03bf \u0393\u03b5\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03c7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bb\u03b7\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1\u03c2 (\u0393\u0395\u03a9\u03a4.\u0395.\u0395.)) with the aim of taking measures to protect the area have placed logs and matted branches along the ground in burnt forest areas, in order to slow down runoff and so reduce erosion. In some areas, cement dams have been constructed at some points, although experts question the logic of this, and claim that it is an excessive intervention into the environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Aftermath\nIn the secondary and tertiary burnt areas there are, however, insufficient logs of the right size for creating barriers to run-off erosion. Mr Antonis Angelopoulos, a geologist and vice-president of the Geotechnical Chamber of Greece, Eastern Mainland Greece section, agrees that some of the interventions into the environment have been excessive. For example, in Agia Varvara, the permanent cement structures that have been made were probably unnecessary, because the area has already got at least two old, stone dams, which could have been recycled. However, on the gulley of Agiou Stefanou, the anti-runoff work has been positive, because dams have been constructed from boxes made out of wire. This is friendlier to the environment, because these dams hold back rain-washed matter, but allow water to pass through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Proposed legislation\nThe new Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Tina Birbili, has created a new draft bill which was announced on 27 October 2009. This legislation would suspend all construction activity on burned forestland in Attica and other parts of Greece until authorities draw up comprehensive forest maps. The ban will be imposed on the issuing of construction licences except for the repair of homes and public buildings destroyed in the fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Proposed legislation\nThe Hellenic Mapping and Cadastral Organization (HEMCO), established in 1986, will soon start operating a sophisticated system of forest land on the outskirts of Attica, with the aim of reporting back to the authorities the appearance of every new structure outside the town plan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203142-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek forest fires, Proposed legislation\nThe bill is to be submitted to the Greek Parliament in the first week of November 2009 and provides for the creation of a special state agency which will demolish illegally built homes on burned forest land and fine offenders. The ministry\u2019s environmental inspectors would have the responsibility of locating and demolishing illegal constructions. The 2003 reform introduced by the former Agriculture Minister Giorgos Drys, under the Panhellenic Socialist Movement's previous administration, which required at least one-quarter of a piece of land must be covered by forest for it to qualify as forest land. The new bill will reinstate the original 15% requirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election\nEarly parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 4 October 2009. Elections were not required until September 2011, but on 2 September 2009 Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis of New Democracy announced that he would request President Karolos Papoulias dissolve Parliament and call elections. Parliament was dissolved on 9 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election\nThe result was a victory for the opposition PASOK party led by George Papandreou, who became the new Prime Minister. New Democracy lost 61 of its 152 seats, with its vote share dropping by over 8 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election\nVoting was mandatory; however there are no sanctions or penalties for not voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election, Participating parties\nA total of 23 parties participated in the elections. Six of them participated in only one or two parliamentary constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election, Exit polls and projections\nThe initial results of the exit poll conducted jointly by pollsters Alco, GPO, MARC, Metron Analysis, MRB, Opinion, and RASS were made public at 7 PM Eastern European DST:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election, Exit polls and projections\nThe revised results of the exit poll conducted jointly by pollsters Alco, GPO, MARC, Metron Analysis, MRB, Opinion, and RASS were made public at 8:50 PM Eastern European DST. The margin of error claimed is less than 0.5%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203143-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Greek legislative election, Exit polls and projections\nThe statistical projections by Singular Logic and the Ministry of Interior, based on actual returns, were made public at 9 PM Eastern European DST. The margin of error claimed is 0.3%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 2009 Green Bay Packers season was the team's 91st season overall and their 89th in the National Football League. The Packers finished with an 11\u20135 record but lost in the wild card round of the playoffs to the Arizona Cardinals. They scored a franchise record 461 points (currently the third best behind the 2011 and 2014 teams) besting the 1996 Super Bowl team's 456. Charles Woodson was named Defensive Player of the Year for the season, leading the league with 9 interceptions. The defense ranked 2nd overall in the league (1st against the run; 2nd against the pass).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nAfter finishing the 2008 season with a 6\u201310 record, the Packers held the 9th selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. With the pick they selected nose tackle B. J. Raji of Boston College. After selecting Raji, they then traded picks 2\u201341, 3\u201373 and 3\u201383 to the New England Patriots for picks 1\u201326 and 5\u2013162. With pick 1\u201326, the Packers selected outside linebacker Clay Matthews of USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nAfter the rest of the first day of the draft had passed in which the Packers held no selections, the Packers started the second day of the draft by selecting OG/OT T. J. Lang of Eastern Michigan with pick 4\u2013109. In the following round the selected FB Quinn Johnson of LSU with pick 5\u2013145 and OT Jamon Meredith of South Carolina with pick 5\u2013162. In the sixth round they selected DE Jarius Wynn of Georgia with pick 6\u2013182 and CB Brandon Underwood of Cincinnati with pick 6\u2013187. With their final pick of the draft they selected LB Brad Jones of Colorado with pick 7\u2013218.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft, Undrafted free agents\nFollowing the 2009 NFL Draft, the Packers signed 11 undrafted free agents. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft, Undrafted free agents\nOn May 4, the Packers signed Cornerback Trevor Ford, Punter Adam Graessle, Defensive lineman Dean Muhtadi and Offensive tackle Dane Randolph (Maryland) after they attended a minicamp on a tryout basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nAfter a struggling 2008 season on defense and special teams, head coach Mike McCarthy decided in January to fire most of the defensive coaching staff. The coaching staff changes made during the offseason are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Switch from 4\u20133 to 3\u20134 defense\nOn January 18 it was announced that with the hiring of defensive coordinator Dom Capers that the Packers would switch  their base defensive scheme from a 4\u20133 to a 3\u20134 scheme which implements three down linemen and four linebackers instead of four down linemen and three linebackers in the traditional 4\u20133. While the defense will now be based out of the 3\u20134, head coach Mike McCarthy stated that they will also use some four man fronts thus being more of a hybrid 3-4/4-3 defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Switch from 4\u20133 to 3\u20134 defense\nIn a February 3 press conference to introduce the new assistant coaches to the media, McCarthy was asked if defensive end Aaron Kampman would play outside linebacker in the new 3\u20134 defense. He responded: \"Well, it depends on what personnel we have on the field. When we line up in the first base defense, yeah, Aaron will be an outside linebacker.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Switch from 4\u20133 to 3\u20134 defense\nAnother notable question was which position group has to make the biggest transition,  he replied: \"Terminology-wise, they're learning a new language ... and I think that's good for everybody. That touches every player. Technique-wise, there's definitely going to be some carryover \u2013 there always is, particularly in sub-fronts. You may look at some of our subpackages, and you may not think there's a whole lot of difference compared to what we've done in the past.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Switch from 4\u20133 to 3\u20134 defense\nHe was also asked, is change good, he replied: \"Change creates excitement. ... The Green Bay Packers organization will never lack for energy. It's such a great place to work from a culture standpoint, the passion of all the people that work here. But there's definitely a ton of energy on the third floor right now. Today's exciting. We're finally all back. Everybody's here, our staff is complete. So, you can just tell by the response of the players and the people close to the football team, everybody's excited about our new direction.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nThe Packers held their training camp sessions at the newly constructed Ray Nitschke Field behind the Don Hutson Center. Practices will be moved inside the Don Hutson Center during inclement weather. St. Norbert College served as the team base for all living arrangements for the 52nd consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nThere were competitions for starting jobs on the offensive line due to the team looking for stability on the offensive line at center and right guard, and a replacement for longtime starter at right tackle, Mark Tauscher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nOn defense, the main competition for starting jobs in the new 3\u20134 scheme took place at outside linebacker position opposite Aaron Kampman. Second-year pro defensive end turned linebacker Jeremy Thompson was initially placed as the starter for right outside linebacker, although rookie Clay Matthews III competed for the position as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nOn special teams, punters Jeremy Kapinos and Durant Brooks competed for the Packers punting job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nOn August 8 the Packers scheduled a \"Family Night\" inter-squad scrimmage at 7:30\u00a0pm CST at Lambeau Field, but due to inclement weather the event was canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nAfter the canceled scrimmage, the Packers released their first depth chart of the season. In the position battles listed above, Allen Barbre was listed as the starting right tackle. At the center position, Scott Wells was listed as the starter with Jason Spitz starting at his normal right guard spot on the line. As stated above, Jeremy Thompson was listed as the starting right outside linebacker. In the highly contested battle between punters Jeremy Kapinos and Durant Brooks, Kapinos was listed as the starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nDuring the morning practice on the Monday after their second pre-season matchup vs the Buffalo Bills, It became apparent that Scott Wells had lost his starting center position to Jason Spitz, with Josh Sitton replacing Spitz at right guard and Allen Barbre continued to hold the starting reps at right tackle. These changes were also later reflected on the teams depth chart on Packers.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nAnother change on the depth chart was Johnny Jolly replacing rookie first round draft pick B. J. Raji and Justin Harrell at left defensive end due to Jolly's explosive performance in the first two preseason contests of the season, which included two sacks and a forced fumble vs Buffalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nThe third change of note made was Brady Poppinga regaining his starting outside linebacker spot on the depth chart ahead of Jeremy Thompson and rookie first round pick Clay Matthews. Thompson and Matthews though still have a chance to take the starting spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Training camp\nThe punter contest doesn't still have a clear leader after two pre season contests. Brooks' chances diminished a bit when an old hip flexor injury  popped up last week, bringing his durability into doubt. Kapinos has shown that he doesn't have Brooks' leg strength but has shown that he still is a viable option to get the job done. The Packers' have looked at other teams roster for another punter, but due to a pretty weak crop of solid punters in the NFL, the chances aren't promising of finding a better punter than the two current punters on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Starters, Defense and special teams\nNote: This chart depicts the amount of 1st string appearances during the season. Actual starts in the NFL are credited to any player on the field during the first offensive and defensive play regardless of formation. Italics denote rookie and first year players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Packers' 2009 season started at home against their hated division rival, the Chicago Bears, on Sunday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Packers received the ball first but had to settle for a 49-yard field goal attempt on their first drive of the season, but kicker Mason Crosby failed to convert the kick wide left. After the missed attempt the Packers new 3\u20134 defense took the field for the first time in the regular season and held Jay Cutler and the Bears to a 3 and out. After a minimal drive by the Packers, following the Bears punt, the Bears retook possession of the ball at the Chicago 18-yard line. After moving the ball to the Bears 31-yard line, Cutler forced a throw into coverage intended for tight end Desmond Clark. Safety Nick Collins intercepted the pass and returned the ball to the Packers 43-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nBoth teams continued to trade fairly ineffective offensive series  throughout the first half up until 8:22 in the second quarter where Mason Crosby converted a 52-yard field goal to give the Packers the early 3\u20130 lead. On the Bears next drive, Cutler completed a 68-yard pass to wide receiver Johnny Knox down to the Packers 8-yard line. With the Bears looking to score in the red zone, the Packers pressured Cutler enough to force an errant throw into the Packers defensive line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nDefensive end Johnny Jolly intercepted the pass and returned the ball for two yards to the Packers 14-yard line. Though the interception prevented a possible Bears touchdown, three plays later Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was sacked in the end zone by safety Danieal Manning for a Bears safety decreasing the Packers lead to a 3\u20132 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfter the safety, the ball was punted back to the Bears and returned to the Bears 44-yard line by return man Devin Hester. On third down of the Bears next possession, cornerback Tramon Williams intercepted another forced Cutler throw and returned the ball to the Bears 1-yard line. On the next play, Packers running back Ryan Grant rushed left end for 1 yard and scored the Packers first touchdown of the season to take a 10\u20132 lead. Both teams exchanged offensive possessions for the last 4:40 of the half but neither managed to add any more points to the score. The Packers went into the half with a 10\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfter the half, the Bears received the ball. Ten plays into the Bears drive, Jay Cutler connected with Devin Hester on a 36-yard pass down the right sideline for their first touchdown of the season. With the touchdown and the extra point, the Bears decreased the Packer lead to 10\u20139. After the Bears touchdown, the Packer offense still seemed to have trouble moving the ball and had to settle for punting the ball after a sack and two incomplete passes. On the next Bears drive, the Bears converted a 47-yard field goal to take a 12\u201310 lead over the Packers. The Packers offense took the field aiming to retake the lead, but stalled again around midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nIn the fourth quarter, with the Packers offense unable to move the ball and the defense lacking the plays that it made in the first half, it looked like the tides were turning in the Bears favor. The Bears then took over the ball at their own 27-yard line, but the Packers defense held stout and forced the Bears to punt. Before the punt though, the Bears center was watching rookie first round pick Clay Matthews III run of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThinking that there were 12 Packers on the field, he snapped the ball to the Bears running back Garrett Wolfe who then tried to advance the ball, but was stopped by the Packers. Bears coach Lovie Smith challenged that the Packers had too many players on the field, but instant replays showed that Matthews got off the field of play before the ball was snapped thus giving the Packers the ball at the Bears 26-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfter a couple of plays and a holding penalty on the Packers, they had to settle for the field goal in which Mason Crosby converted to give the Packers a slim 13\u201312 lead. On the Bears next drive, they matched the Packers recent score on a 21-yard field goal to regain the lead from the Packers at 15\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nWith 2:35 remaining in the game, the Packers received the ball. after a couple of decent gains the Packers offense looked slightly more confident than their previous series in the game. The dagger was then put into the Bears heart when quarter back Aaron Rodgers connected with Greg Jennings on a 50-yard touchdown pass paired with a Jennings two-point conversion reception gave the Packers a 21\u201315 lead in the dying minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Bears offense took the field in a last attempt to win the game, but Jay Cutler's debut start for the Bears would get even worse when his first pass of the drive was intercepted by cornerback Al Harris and returned to the Bears 14-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe Packers then lined up in the victory formation to take a nail biting and sloppy 21\u201315 win against their division rival Chicago Bears to start the season with a 1\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Chicago Bears\nDuring the contest, Packers starting safety Atari Bigby injured his knee and is expected to miss at least four weeks. Bears star linebacker Brian Urlacher also dislocated his wrist and will reportedly miss the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter defeating the Bears in their season opener, the Packers faced the 0\u20131 Cincinnati Bengals in a week 2 contest at Lambeau Field. During the week leading up to the game, Bengals star wide receiver Chad Ochocinco said in an interview that he'll do a celebratory \"Lambeau Leap\" into the end zone seats if he scores in Sunday's game at Lambeau Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Packers started the contest with the ball, but could only manage to move the ball to mid field before they settled for a punt. The Bengals offense then took to the field at their own 37-yard line and after moving the ball into the Packers red zone, Carson Palmer managed to hit Laveranues Coles on a short 5-yard pass in the center of the end zone to take an early 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Packers managed to match the Bengals drive though, by capping an 11-play, 80-yard drive with a 3-yard pass by Aaron Rodgers to Donald Driver along the right sideline of the end zone. The score was now tied a 7\u20137. The Bengals regained possession after the Packers touchdown, but on the first play of their corresponding drive Carson Palmer attempted a pass to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco along the right sideline, but Packers cornerback Charles Woodson stepped in front of Ochocinco and intercepted the attempted pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0031-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nWoodson then returned the ball down to the Bengals 11-yard line for a return of 22 yards. Two plays later, Packers running back Ryan Grant scored a touchdown on a 4-yard run outside of the left guard to take a 14\u20137 lead. After the Grant touchdown, both teams exchanged possessions into the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nOn the Bengals second drive after the Ryan Grant touchdown run, quarterback Carson Palmer capped the Bengals drive with a 1-yard sneak up the middle for a touchdown to re-tie the contest at 14\u201314. The Packers offense again sputtered and couldn't find the rhythm that the offense once possessed a season ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter the punt, Carson Palmer was sacked for a loss of 8 yards and then on the next play Charles Woodson intercepted another pass along the right sideline from Palmer and returned the ball 37 yards for the Packers first defensive score of the season to retake the lead 21\u201314. On the Bengals next drive though, they would then retake the lead again on a 5-yard Palmer pass to Chris Henry in the back of the end zone. The score was now tied 21\u201321. The Packers offense retook the field aiming to break the tie before halftime, but only could manage to give kicker Mason Crosby a 55-yard attempt in which he missed as the clock expired. The teams went into the half tied at 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nAfter the half, the Bengals offense took to the field first but was forced to punt. The Packers responded by moving the ball quite efficiently, but their drive came to an end when Ryan Grant fumbled after pulling in a short Aaron Rodgers pass. The Bengals then managed to capitalize on the Packers first turn over of the season by putting together a 12-play, 62-yard drive capped by another Carson Palmer touchdown pass, this time to wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. After the touchdown, Ochocinco ran behind the endzone looking for a place to Lambeau Leap finally settling for a group of Bengals fans in the right corner of the endzone. Both teams exchanged possession without scoring through the end of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nWith both teams unable to score into the fourth quarter, the Bengals finally converted a field goal with 2 minutes left in game. to take a 31\u201321 lead. After the field goal, the Packers took over and managed to get the ball into field goal range in which Packers coach decided to kick the field goal to decrease the lead to 7 needing an onside kick recovery to tie the game anyway. The Mason Crosby kick was successful and the Packers special teams unit then lined up in the onside kick formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nMason Crosby kicked the ball the right side and the ball hopped right to Packers corner back Tramon Williams for the recovery. With 45 seconds remaining, The Packers offense took the field with no timeouts. Rodgers then completed a couple of passes and moved the ball past midfield with 16 seconds remaining. Rodgers then completed a 25-yard strike to Donald Driver in the center of the field for 25 yards down to the Bengals 10-yard line. Hurrying down field the Packers snapped the ball with 1 second remaining but the Packers were flagged for a false start. With the penalty the remaining time was run off the clock and the game ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nWhat could have been a memorable comeback ended in defeat with the Packers suffering their first loss of the season 31\u201324 to bring their record to 1\u20131. This was the first time the Packers had lost to the Bengals at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nDuring the contest, Packers starting safety Nick Collins injured his shoulder and veteran starting left tackle Chad Clifton injured his ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nA week after losing to the Cincinnati Bengals, the Packers traveled down to St. Louis, Missouri to face the 0\u20132 St. Louis Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe game started with the Rams offense in possession after Danny Amendola returned the initial kickoff to the Rams 43-yard line. The Rams moved the ball down to the Packers 31-yard line but had to settle for the field goal. The attempt though was blocked by the Packers Johnny Jolly and recovered by Will Blackmon. Blackmon returned the ball to the Packers 43-yard line and the Packers offense took to the field. The Packers offense fluttered out at the Rams 30-yard line in which the Packers field goal unit took to the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nKicker Mason Crosby converted the 48-yard field goal for the Packers to take the early 3\u20130 lead. The game then resumed with the Rams in possession. after an initial holding penalty on first down, Steven Jackson then ran for no gain and caught a pass for 4 yards. On third down Rams quarterback Marc Bulger was hit by Aaron Kampman in which Bulger fumbled the bal. Defensive end Johnny Jolly then recovered the fumble at the Rams 15-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0038-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Packers offense then took to the field in the Rams red zone, but after a short run by Ryan Grant and an incomplete pass to Donald Driver, Aaron Rodgers was sacked for a loss of 12 yards and the Packers had to settle for a 38-yard field goal attempt in which Mason Crosby successfully converted to extend the Packers lead to 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0038-0003", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Rams then took to the field looking to make up for the turn over, but the Rams luck took another turn for the worse on the first play of the drive in which running back Steven Jackson was stripped by Cullen Jenkins. The fumble was then recovered by Packers cornerback Al Harris. The Rams quarterback Marc Bulger was injured on the play and did not return to the game. Similar to the last time the Packers took over possession in the red zone, the offense failed to move the ball much and had to settle for another field goal. Crosby's third field goal of the day was successful to give the Packers a 9\u20130 lead to end the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nOn the first Rams possession of the 2nd quarter, the offense now led by backup quarterback Kyle Boller managed to get two first down's, but came up short on an incomplete pass to Steven Jackson and had to settle for a punt. The Packers took to the field and on the second play of the drive, Aaron Rodgers threw deep left to Donald Driver in which he made a miraculous one handed grab for 46 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nAfter a 12 pass completion to Jordy Nelson  a 12-yard scramble by Aaron Rodgers and a 5-yard run by Ryan Grant, Rodgers handed the ball off to fullback John Kuhn up the middle followed by a fake pitch right to Ryan Grant. The defense was sold by the fake pitch and John Kuhn charged forward into the end zone for the game's first touchdown. The extra point was successful and the Packers took a 16\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0039-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Rams then responded though on their corresponding drive by completing a 16-yard pass from Kyle Boller to Daniel Fells for the touchdown to decrease the Packers lead to 16\u20137. On the Packers next drive, Rodgers completed a 50-yard pass to Greg Jennings down the right sideline and capped the drive with a 21-yard pass to a streaking Donald Driver in the left corner of the end zone. Crosby converted the extra point and the lead was extended to 23\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0039-0003", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the Packers in a prevent defense, the Rams managed to move the ball quite successfully down the field down to the Packers 19-yard line with 8 seconds remaining in the half. The Rams then scored another touchdown when Kyle Boller connected again for 19 yards to Daniel Fells, this time in the left side of the end zone just inside the goal line. This would be the last score of the half and the Packers went into the half with a 23\u201314 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Packers didn't manage to move the ball much on the first possession of the third quarter and had to settle for their first punt of the game. The Rams move the ball down to the Packers 35-yard line, but in the end had to settle for a 53-yard field goal decreasing the Packers lead to 23\u201317. Both teams didn't manage to move the ball much and traded punts throughout the rest of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nOn the first play of the fourth quarter though, Rodgers connected with Greg Jennings again deep middle for 53 yards down to the Rams 17-yard line. Four plays later, Aaron Rodgers scampered up the middle on a four-yard run for a touchdown. Mason Crosby missed the extra point though, raising the Packer lead to 29\u201317. The Rams took to the field but didn't manage to convert a first down and punted the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Packers didn't manage much either on their next drive converting only one first down, a came up a yard short for a second first down and settled for a punt. The Rams took over on their own 15-yard line, but on a third a six at their 19-yard line, Charles Woodson stepped in front of Danny Amendola crossing the middle of the field and intercepted the Kyle Boller pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0041-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nAfter a 13-yard pass to Donald Driver and a 5-yard run by Ryan Grant, Aaron Rodgers hit John Kuhn in the right side of the end zone for Rodgers second touchdown pass of the day. The Packers took the 36\u201317 lead with the added extra point. The Rams couldn't convert on fourth down of their following drive and the Packers took over own downs. The Packers offense then took to the field and after five Ryan Grant runs, Aaron Rodgers kneeled twice to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 3: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the 36\u201317 win over the St. Louis Rams, the Packers increased their record to 2\u20131 heading into a Monday Night Football showdown against the 3\u20130 Minnesota Vikings led by longtime former Packers starting quarterback Brett Favre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nWith both teams coming off of wins, the 2\u20131 Green Bay Packers will travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota to face the 3\u20130 Minnesota Vikings in a Monday Night Football showdown. The Vikings will be led by starting quarterback Brett Favre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe game started with the Packers in possession. After the offense moved the ball consistently down field down to the Minnesota 24-yard line, but Aaron Rodgers was then sacked by two Vikings defenders for a 9-yard loss and fumbled the football. The ball was recovered by Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway at the Vikings 33-yard line. After the turnover, Brett Favre took to the field clad in purple. The Vikings too seemed to also be able to move the ball just as effectively with multiple short runs by running back Adrian Peterson and throws by Brett Favre. The Vikings finally capped the 12-play, 67-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown pass short left from Brett Favre to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. With the score, the Vikings took the early 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers then took to the field looking to make up for the turnover on their first possession of the game. On 3rd and 5 after an incompletion to Greg Jennings and a 5-yard run by fullback John Kuhn, Aaron Rodgers fired a pass to second year tight end Jermichael Finley deep middle in which he caught around the Vikings 35-yard line and then ran the ball the rest of the way into the end zone for a Packers 62-yard touchdown. With the extra point the game was now tied 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings took to the field again, but after two incompletions and a completion for a 5-yard loss the Vikings were forced to punt. The Packers then took over at the Minnesota 43-yard line. The Packers again managed to move the ball quite effectively against the Vikings defense but like the first drive of the game, the drive ended with a turn over. This time it was an attempted short right pass to Greg Jennings from Aaron Rodgers that was intercepted by Antoine Winfield at the Vikings 23-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nSimilar to the last drive after the Packers turned over the ball, the Vikings managed to move the ball effortlessly down to the Packers 14-yard line in which Brett Favre then connected with wide receiver Sidney Rice for Favre's second touchdown strike against the Packers. With the score the Vikings retook the lead at 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers then took to the field looking again to make up for another costly turnover, but the offense failed to move the ball and Aaron Rodgers was sacked on 3rd down forcing the Packers to punt. The Packers would level the score though on the Vikings next offensive play of the game. Vikings running back Adrian Peterson ran wide left and was stacked up behind the line of scrimmage. While he was being stopped, Packers rookie linebacker Clay Matthews ripped the ball away from Peterson and returned the ball untouched 42 yards for the Packers tying touchdown at 14\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn the Vikings next possession looking to retake the lead, Favre and company compiled together a drive highlighted by a 43-yard pass from Brett Favre to Percy Harvin down to the Packers 3-yard line. On the next play, Favre dropped back to pass and the ball was intercepted by Packers cornerback Charles Woodson in the center of the end zone but the play was nullified by a defensive pass interference call paired with a defensive offside penalty. The pass inference penalty was accepted and the ball was placed on the Packers 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn the next play Vikings running back Adrian Peterson rushed up the middle for the score to give the Vikings a 21\u201314 lead. The Packers took over with little time remaining but still attempted to put points on the board. After a 14-yard pass to Greg Jennings down to the Vikings 48-yard line, Aaron Rodgers took the team's final timeout with 1 second remaining. On the final play of the half Rodgers tossed a deep ball into a group of players the right corner of the end zone but the ball fell incomplete ending the half 21\u201314 in favor of the Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings received the ball at the start of the second half, and managed to still move the ball effectively against the Packers defense that was getting virtually no pressure on Brett Favre. On second and ten at the Green Bay 44-yard line, Brett Favre connected with Jeff Dugan to the Green Bay 31 for 25 yards and then capped the drive with a 31-yard strike to receiver Bernard Berrian deep left for a touchdown to extend the Vikings lead to 28\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers then took to the field and managed to move the ball down field highlighted by a 24-yard pass to Donald Driver and a 20-yard pass to Ryan Grant down to the Minnesota 5-yard line setting the team up first and goal at the Vikings 5-yard line. On first down Ryan Grant ran up the middle for a four-yard gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn second down the Packers tried a trick play that looked like a run wide right for Grant, but Rodgers handed the ball off to fullback John Kuhn who ran up the middle but the Vikings were not fooled and Kuhn's attempt to score a touchdown was stopped when his knee hit down at the line of scrimmage before lunging into the endzone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0050-0002", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn third down, Rodgers connected with tight end Jermichael Finley who ran an out route to the right, but was tackled right after the reception at the line of scrimmage by Vikings linebacker Ben Leber for no gain. The Packers then choose to go for it on fourth down rather than settling the field goal. On the play, Rodgers looked right, then back left and passed to Packers tight end Donald Lee short middle, but Lee failed to catch the pass resulting in loss of downs and the Vikings took over possession at their 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn the Vikings next drive that continued on into the final quarter of play, the Vikings managed to move the ball out of their own end zone down to their own 37-yard line, but the drive stalled on a 5-yard completed screen pass short of the first down marker on 3rd and 10. The Packers took over at their own 15-yard line, and Rodgers was sacked on first down. On second down Ryan Grant ran up the middle for 10 yards making up for the lost yardage on the sack and more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe drive came to an end though on the next play when quarterback Aaron Rodgers pretended to walk toward the sideline and the ball was directly snapped to backup running back DeShawn Wynn. Wynn managed to gain 6 yards on 3rd and 7, but falling a yard short on the trick play the Packers were forced to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Viking offense then took to the field again, but the Packers defense held the Vikings on third down and they too were forced to punt. After another stellar punt by Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, the Packers were again pinned deep in their own end at their own 1-yard line. After two unsuccessful plays for no gain on first and second down, Aaron Rodgers was sacked by Jared Allen at the goal line and fumbled the football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe ball was recovered by the Vikings, but the ruling on the field was challenged by the Packers that the ground had caused the fumbled. The ruling on the field was then changed to a safety rather than giving the Vikings the ball at the Packers 1-yard line and the Vikings extended their lead to 30\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nAfter the safety the Packers kicked off and the Vikings took over at their 40-yard line. The Packers managed to again hold the Vikings defense to a three and out and the ball was punted back to the Packers. On the Packers next possession, Ryan Grant started off the drive with a 15-yard run, and Jermichael Finley caught a 37-yard pass from Rodgers two plays later. Three plays later after an 11-yard rush by Aaron Rodgers and an incomplete pass, Rodgers connected with second year wide receiver Jordy Nelson for a 33-yard touchdown strike. After a failed two-point conversion pass to Ryan Grant the Vikings lead was decreased to 30\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers then tried a failed onside kick and the Vikings took over the ball with 3:39 remaining in the game, but due to poor clock management by the Vikings they were held to a three and out and only had run 29 seconds off of the game clock after the punt. The Packers took over at their own 18-yard line with 3:10 remaining in the contest. On first play of the drive, Rodgers connected with Donald Driver for 10 yards which with the reception tied Sterling Sharpe's club career high receptions total with 595.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nOn third and 12 at their own 26-yard line, Rodgers hit James Jones in the middle of the field in which he then took the ball to the Minnesota 40 for 34 yards. Five plays later after Rodgers threw the ball away on third down, Mason Crosby converted a 31-yard field goal to decrease the Vikings lead to 30\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers attempted their second onside kick of the game with 55 seconds remaining, but the kick was again recovered by the Vikings ending all chances of a comeback. The Vikings then lined up in the victory formation and ran out the clock to defeat the Packers 30\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nDuring the contest, Packers return specialist Will Blackmon suffered a season ending knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 4: at Minnesota Vikings\nWith the loss, the Packers go into their bye week with a 2\u20132 record sitting in third place in the NFC North behind the 4\u20130 Minnesota Vikings and the 3\u20131 Chicago Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nAfter the bye week, the Packers returned home to face the 1\u20134 Detroit Lions. Offensive tackle Chad Clifton returned to the starting lineup along with safety Atari Bigby after each had missed the last two and three games respectively. Starting center Jason Spitz was inactive with an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nStarting off the contest, the Packers received the ball in which kickoff returner Jordy Nelson returned 99 yards for a touchdown, but the score was nullified by a holding penalty and the offense took to the field starting at their own 20-yard line. On the opening drive, quarterback Aaron Rodgers converted the first third down of the drive with a 26-yard pass to Greg Jennings to the Packers 49-yard line. Three plays later on the second third down of the drive, Rodgers hit James Jones who was wide open along the right sideline underneath the safety's coverage . Jones then evaded the last defender and scored the first touchdown of the day to give the Packers an early 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nOn the Lions first possession of the game, backup quarterback Daunte Culpepper who started in place of the Lions rookie starting quarterback Matthew Stafford was pressured on their first third down and forced a short errant pass intended for Lions running back Kevin Smith. The pass was intercepted by the Packers defensive end Cullen Jenkins at the Detroit 21 and returned to the 17 for 4 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nStarting in the red zone after the turnover, Packers wide receiver Donald Driver caught a pass on the left sideline on second down for 5 yards down to the Detroit 6-yard line for a 1st down but an unnecessary roughness penalty moved the Packers back 15 yards to the Detroit 21-yard line. The reception was significant though in that with the reception Donald Driver passed former Packers wide receiver Sterling Sharpe on the club's all time receptions list to take top honors. The drive then continued with an 8-yard reception from Jermichael Finley a four-yard run by Ryan Grant and another 8-yard reception by Finley. The drive was then capped off with a 1-yard touchdown pass short left to fullback John Kuhn. With the score the Packers took a 14\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nBoth teams then went on to exchange possessions with no real key moments on into the second quarter. The Lions failed to move the ball with any effectiveness while the Packers key downfall were penalties that set the offense up in unfavorable down and distance situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith 10:26 remaining in the half, the Packers offense took to the field and the first play of the drive was a 17-yard pass to Greg Jennings down to the Lions 29-yard line. The drive stalled though three plays later when Aaron Rodgers was sacked for no gain on third down and the Packers had to settle for a 46-yard field goal in which kicker Mason Crosby converted successfully. The score was now 17\u20130 in the Packers favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nOn the Lions next drive, Lions running back Kevin Smith ran for 19 yards on second down which moved the ball out to the Detroit 38, but Daunte Culpepper was sacked on third down for a 4-yard loss by rookie linebacker Clay Matthews and they were forced to punt. The Packers took to the field in excellent field position after the punt was returned by Tramon Williams to the Lions 29-yard line. After minimal success in the red zone again, the Packers failed to convert on third down and had to settle for another field goal to increase the lead to 20\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nOn the Lions next possession, they failed to convert on third down yet again and set up a 4th and 3 at their own 45-yard line. Unhappy with the team's offensive struggles the Lions choose to go for it on fourth down but were shut down by the Packers defense for a 1-yard loss. The Packers offense then took to the field in their opponents end for the second straight drive. The drive was started with two receptions by tight end Jermichael Finley a 5-yard catch and then a 30-yard catch down to the Detroit 8-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0065-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nAaron Rodgers spiked the ball to stop the clock with 19 seconds remaining in the half. On the next offensive play though, Rodgers was sacked for a 5-yard loss forcing them to use their last timeout. On third and three at the Lions 13-yard line, Rodgers attempted a pass to the right side of the end zone to wide receiver Brett Swain but the pass was out of reach and the Packers had to settle for yet another field goal in which Crosby converted to extend the lead to 23\u20130 right before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nOn the first drive of third quarter, Daunte Culpepper scrambled out of the pocket and ran for 5 yards. On the run, Daunte noticeably slowed before running out of bounds and was later replaced by Lions third-string quarterback Drew Stanton. After a Stanton incomplete pass, the Lions punted the ball on fourth down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Packers offense took to the field and Rodgers and Driver connected multiple times during the drive for gains of 18 and 27 yards. Donald Lee also had an 18-yard grab. On third and five at the Detroit nine-yard line, Rodgers passed short to Driver and only managed to advance the ball for one yard before being tackled. The offense yet again stalled and had to settle for yet another Mason Crosby field goal to extend the lead to 26\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nDetroit then took to the field again with Drew Stanton still leading their offense. On the second play of the possession, Stanton passed deep left to tight end Brandon Pettigrew in which the pass hit the receiver but popped up into the air and fell into the waiting arms of Packers cornerback Al Harris for the interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Packers then took over and managed to move the ball effectively yet again with the drive highlighted by an amazing one hand catch by Donald Driver for 37 yards down the left sideline. The great catch was then followed by a 9-yard grab by Spencer Havner and a 9-yard grab by Greg Jennings which set the Packers up 1st and goal at the Lions three-yard line. On first down though Rodgers dropped back to pass but was hit and sacked by Julian Peterson. Rodgers fumbled and the ball was recovered by Larry Foote at the Detroit 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nOn the Lions next possession which extended into the fourth quarter, the Packers put the pressure on Drew Stanton sacking him twice with the second sack by Al Harris on third down ending the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Packers then took to the field running the ball looking to run out the clock and possibly ignite their previously ineffective running game. After a couple of decent carries by Ryan Grant, Rodgers then dropped back to pass and threw a pass short middle that was intended for wide receiver James Jones. Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy who was in front of Jones intercepted the pass at the Lions 40 and returned it to the 45 for 5 yards. He then fumbled the ball but recovered his own fumble for no gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nAfter the interception, running back Kevin Smith rushed for 20 yards on 2nd down. In what was the best Lions attempt to put points on the board of the day, moving the ball all the way to the Packers 9-yard line Stanton forced a throw to Lions tight end Brandon Pettigrew in the center of the end zone and Packers safety Atari Bigby intercepted the pass in the end zone for a touchback and the Packers offense took to the field at their own 20-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Packers then ran the ball multiple times with Ryan Grant and Brandon Jackson to try to run down the clock. Jackson fumbled after a five-yard gain but the ball was fortunately recovered by Packers Jermichael Finley. Rodgers scampered for a 10-yard gain on the next play, but the yardage gained was nullified by a penalty an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Donald Driver after Rodgers had slid to the ground. Ryan Grant then rushed for a 22-yard gain followed by a couple more short rushes to run the play clock under 2 minutes. Rodgers then took two kneel downs and the game clock expired to give the Packers a 26\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nChad Clifton suffered another injury setback during the contest late in the second half and was held out of the rest of the game. Wide receiver Jordy Nelson also injured his right leg in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith the win, the Packers increased their record to 3\u20132 on the season and move ahead into second place in the division (based on head to head, division and conference records)  ahead of the 3\u20132 Chicago Bears who lost to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday Night Football. Both teams still trail behind the 6\u20130 Minnesota Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nIn week seven, the Packers traveled to Cleveland, Ohio to face the 1\u20135 Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Browns Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns started off the contest with the ball at their own 45-yard line after Packers kicker Mason Crosby kicked the ball out of bounds on the opening kickoff. The Browns couldn't manage to move the ball effectively on their first possession though failing to convert their first third down of the game and had to settle for a punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nAfter the punt the Packers took over at their own 14-yard line and ran the ball on ten of the eleven plays of their first drive, moving the ball all the way down to the Cleveland 32-yard line where backup running back Brandon Jackson came up a yard short on a third and three. The Packers offense stayed on the field and quarterback Aaron Rodgers attempted a quarterback sneak up the middle but the attempt failed to gain any yards and the ball was turned over on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nCleveland's second drive of the game was more successful than the previous, with the biggest gain of the drive coming on a 22-yard pass from quarterback Derek Anderson to wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi who beat Packers cornerback Al Harris on a square in route. Harris also grabbed Massaquoi's face mask on the tackle and the Packers were penalized 15 yards for the infraction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0079-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns managed to advance the ball down deep into the red zone, but the Packers defense held the Browns out of the end zone and forced them to settle for a 22-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter that hit the upright but deflected through to give the Browns an early 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nOn the Packers' next drive, Aaron Rodgers and company moved the ball down to the Cleveland 48-yard line with a short pass to Donald Lee, a 13-yard pass to Donald Driver and a 6-yard pass to Greg Jennings. The drive was capped off with a short right pass from Aaron Rodgers to linebacker turned tight end Spencer Havner. Havner pulled in the pass and ran down the right sideline 45 yards for a touchdown to claim a 7\u20133 Packers lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns then took over on offense trying to reclaim the lead from the Packers. After two incompletions and a 5-yard pass completion the Browns failed to reach the first down marker and looked to end the offensive series on a three and out. On the punt however, the Packers were penalized 5 yards for having 12 men on the field of play which gave the Browns a first down. The Browns still failed to capitalize on the Packers mistake by only gaining 4 yards on the next three plays and settled for another punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Packers offense took over again at their own 14. On first down, running back Ryan Grant rushed for 6 yards and 4 on second down, but tight end Donald Lee was flagged for holding on the second rushing attempt, moving the Packers back 10 yards. Lee made up for his mistake on the new play though, hauling in a 19-yard reception for a first down. On the next play, Rodgers dropped back to pass and hit Donald Driver in stride between two defenders. Driver accelerated down field past an oncoming safety and into the end zone for a 71-yard touchdown to increase the Packers lead to 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns offense took to the field to try to out-fox the Packers defense. On the sixth play of the drive though, quarterback Derek Anderson was intercepted by Packers cornerback Charles Woodson in which he returned down to the Browns 15-yard line for a 25-yard return. Ryan Grant then rushed the ball for nine yards on second down to the Browns 3-yard line to set up first and goal at the three. After an incomplete pass to Greg Jennings, Ryan Grant rushed for 2 more yards on second down falling a yard short of the touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0083-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nRodgers then passed to Donald Driver on third and one but the pass was incomplete. Fortunately, the Browns defender covering Driver was flagged for pass inference and the Packer were rewarded with a first and goal at the 1-yard line. After a Grant run for no gain and a John Kuhn rush for no gain, Ryan Grant then managed to break the goal line on third down to score a touchdown for the Packers extending the lead even more to 21\u20133. The Browns took over with less than a minute remaining in the half but managed to have to settle for one final hail Mary attempt into the end zone which was batted down incomplete to end the half with the Packers leading 21\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nAfter the half, the Packers started out with possession and managed to move the ball down to the Browns 37-yard line with multiple short yardage gains both passing and rushing. After an offensive pass interference penalty on Donald Lee, the Packers failed to convert on third and 20 and had to settle for a 55-yard field goal attempt on which kicker Mason Crosby missed wide left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns then took over after the missed attempt and running back Jamal Lewis rushed for 4 yards on first and 4 on second down to set the Browns up with a 3rd and 2 on the Packers 47. On third down, Anderson dropped back to pass and threw a ball short right to wide receiver Josh Cribbs. Charles Woodson immediately hit Cribbs knocking the ball out of his possession. The ball was recovered by the Packers at the Packers 48 by Packers linebacker Brandon Chillar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Packers offense then got into another string of multiple rushing attempts in which was started out with a 15-yard carry by Grant. Rodgers also completed a 16-yard pass to Donald Lee on the drive which stalled when a short pass to Ryan Grant on third down  and four only gained three yards down to the Browns 1-yard line. Crosby came onto the field and converted a chip shot field goal to extend the Packers lead to 24\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Browns managed to move the ball much more effectively than previous attempts on their corresponding drive moving the ball all the way down into the red zone. In the drive that in which extended into the fourth quarter, The Browns offense was held on four straight attempts inside the Packers four-yard line. The drive ended when the Browns choose to go for it on fourth down at the one, but the Anderson pass flew over wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi and out of the back of the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Packers then took over at their own 1-yard line and managed to move the ball 99 yards for another touchdown. The drive was highlighted by an 18-yard pass to Jennings, a 14-yard pass to Spencer Havner and a 19-yard scamper by Aaron Rodgers down to the Browns 39-yard line. Ryan Grant broke loose on the next play of the drive for 37 yards down the right sideline to the Browns 5-yard line. Rodgers then connected with James Jones in the lower left corner of the end zone for the final touchdown of the game, which extended the lead to 31\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nBoth teams then continued to exchange rather meaningless possessions with the Packers offense now being run by backup quarterback Matt Flynn. The Packers final drive of the game started with 5:52 remaining on the clock and multiple rush attempts along with a Flynn pass to Jennings for 12 yards ran the clock down to 35 seconds. The Browns took over and rushed the ball once in which the game clock then expired to give the Packers their second successive victory, this time 31\u20133 over the Cleveland Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nDuring the contest second-year tight end Jermichael Finley and fourth-string wide receiver Brett Swain both were removed for the game because of knee injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 7: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, the Packers increased their record to 4\u20132 to hold onto second place in the division behind the Minnesota Vikings at 6\u20131, who lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers and ahead of the 3\u20133 Chicago Bears who also were defeated by the Cincinnati Bengals later in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nComing off their road win over the Browns, the Packers went home for the highly anticipated Week 8 divisional rematch with the  Minnesota Vikings, as former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre made his return to face his former team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers got the game off to quick start in the first quarter as kicker Mason Crosby made a 37-yard field goal, but the Vikings responded with running back Adrian Peterson's 1-yard touchdown run. Things got worse for Green Bay in the second quarter as Favre completed a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe, followed by kicker Ryan Longwell (another former Packer) nailing a 41-yard field goal. The Packers would end the first half with 48 yards of offense, the lowest in over 10 years for a Packers team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nMinnesota would add onto their lead in the third quarter as Favre found wide receiver Percy Harvin on a 51-yard touchdown pass as 3 Packer defenders collided and hit the ground. Yet Green Bay began to rally as Crosby booted a 26-yard field goal, followed up by quarterback Aaron Rodgers completing a 16-yard and a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Spencer Havner. The Vikings would answer in the fourth quarter as Favre hooked up with tight end/fullback Jeff Dugan on a 2-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0094-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Packers tried to rally as Rodgers connected with wide receiver Greg Jennings on a 10-yard touchdown pass (with a failed 2-point conversion), but Minnesota would put the game out of reach as Favre hooked up with wide receiver Bernard Berrian on a 16-yard touchdown pass. Favre threw 4 TD's with 0 INT, and had a passer rating of 128.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith the loss, Green Bay fell to 4\u20133 and were swept by the Vikings for the first time since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 9: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nHoping to rebound from their home loss to the Vikings, the Packers flew to Raymond James Stadium for a Week 9 duel with the throwback-cladded Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who were looking for their first win of the season. In the first quarter, Green Bay struck first as quarterback Aaron Rodgers hooked up with wide receiver James Jones on a 74-yard touchdown pass. The Buccaneers would respond with quarterback Josh Freeman's 6-yard touchdown pass to running back Derrick Ward, yet the Packers regained the lead with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Ryan Grant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0096-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 9: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nTampa Bay would tie the game again as cornerback Ronde Barber returned a blocked punt 31 yards for a touchdown, yet Green Bay kept replying as Rodgers completed a 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donald Driver. The Buccaneers would close out the half as kicker Connor Barth nailed a 38-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 9: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Rodgers would give the Packers 12-yard touchdown run to begin the fourth quarter. However, Tampa Bay would take the lead as Freeman completed two 7-yard touchdown passes to tight end Kellen Winslow (with a failed two-point conversion) and wide receiver Sammie Stroughter (with a successful two-point conversion pass to wide receiver Michael Clayton). Green Bay tried to rally, but the Buccaneers would seal the win with safety Tanard Jackson returning an interception 35 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 9: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith the loss, the Packers fell to 4\u20134. This would be the last time Rodgers threw a pick-six until Week 3 of the 2017 season and the last time he threw three interceptions in a single game until Week 15 of the 2017 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0099-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 10: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Packers went home for a Week 10 duel with the Dallas Cowboys. Green Bay would get the only points of the first half in the form of a 48-yard field goal from kicker Mason Crosby. After a scoreless third quarter, the Packers would take a huge lead in the fourth quarter with quarterback Aaron Rodgers' 1-yard touchdown run and his 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Spencer Havner. The Cowboys would try to rally with quarterback Tony Romo's 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roy Williams, Green Bay's defense would hold strong for a huge victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0100-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 10: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith the win, not only do the Packers improved to 5\u20134, but also the Packers finally beat Dallas for revenge after 5 years of losing since their meeting with the Cowboys in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0101-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 11: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their win over the Cowboys, the Packers stayed at home for a Week 11 duel with the San Francisco 49ers. In the first quarter, Green Bay began the game with a 23-yard field goal from kicker Mason Crosby. The 49ers would respond with kicker Joe Nedney nailing a 46-yard field goal, yet the Packers came back with Crosby's 27-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Green Bay would add onto their lead as quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 64-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Jennings and a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jordy Nelson. Afterwards, Crosby would end the half with a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0102-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 11: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nSan Francisco would begin to rally in the third quarter as quarterback Alex Smith completed a 38-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Michael Crabtree, yet the Packers would answer in the fourth quarter as running back Ryan Grant got a 1-yard touchdown run. The 49ers tried to come back as Smith threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis and a 10-yard touchdown pass to running back Frank Gore, yet Green Bay's defense would prevent any further progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0103-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 12: at Detroit Lions\nComing off their win over the 49ers, the Packers flew to Ford Field for a Week 12 Thanksgiving duel with their NFC North rival, the Detroit Lions. Green Bay would trail in the first quarter as wide receiver Jordy Nelson fumbled on the game's opening kickoff, which allowed Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford to find wide receiver Calvin Johnson. The Packers would answer in the second quarter as quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Donald Lee, followed by kicker Mason Crosby booting a 20-yard and a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0104-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 12: at Detroit Lions\nIn the third quarter, Green Bay would add onto their lead as Rodgers hooked up with wide receiver Donald Driver on a 7-yard touchdown pass, followed by wide receiver James Jones on a 21-yard touchdown pass. Detroit tried to come back in the fourth quarter as safety Louis Delmas tackled running back Ryan Grant in his own endzone for a safety, followed by kicker Jason Hanson nailing a 22-yard field goal. Fortunately, the Packers would pull away as cornerback Charles Woodson returned an interception 38 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0105-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 12: at Detroit Lions\nDonald Driver (7 receptions, 142 yards, 1 TD) was named Fox's winner of the 2009 Galloping Gobbler Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0106-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 13: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nAfter the win over the Lions, The Packers are back at home for a week 13 Monday night duel with the Baltimore Ravens. First quarter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0107-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Week 15: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nDuring the 37\u201336 win, Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger threw for 503 passing yards. In doing so he became just the 10th quarterback since 1950 to throw for 500 or more yards in a game and the first Steeler to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0108-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Wildcard Round: at Arizona Cardinals\nEntering the playoffs as the NFC's No. 5 seed, the Packers began their postseason run at the University of Phoenix Stadium for the NFC Wild Card game against the No. 4 Arizona Cardinals, in a rematch of their Week 17 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0109-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Wildcard Round: at Arizona Cardinals\nGreen Bay would trail in the first quarter as early turnovers led to the Cardinals getting a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Tim Hightower, followed by quarterback Kurt Warner finding wide receiver Early Doucet on a 15-yard touchdown pass. Arizona would add onto their lead with kicker Neil Rackers making a 23-yard field goal. The Packers would answer in the second quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from quarterback Aaron Rodgers, but the Cardinals came right back with Warner's 15-yard touchdown pass to Doucet. Green Bay would close out the half with kicker Mason Crosby getting a 20-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0110-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Wildcard Round: at Arizona Cardinals\nArizona would add onto their lead in the third quarter as Warner completed a 33-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, yet the Packers continued to hang tough as Rodgers found wide receiver Greg Jennings on a 6-yard touchdown pass. Then, after a successful surprise onside kick, Green Bay continued to rally with Rodgers finding wide receiver Jordy Nelson on a 10-yard touchdown pass. However, the Cardinals continued to torture the Packer defense with Warner's 11-yard touchdown pass to Fitzgerald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0110-0001", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Wildcard Round: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn the fourth quarter, the Packers would tie the game as Rodgers connected with wide receiver James Jones on a 30-yard touchdown pass, followed by fullback John Kuhn getting a 1-yard touchdown run. However, Arizona's offense continued its dominating play with Warner's 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Breaston. Despite that, Green Bay would come up with another tie as Rodgers found tight end Spencer Havner on an 11-yard touchdown pass. However, despite getting the ball to begin overtime, the Cardinals would get the last laugh as linebacker Karlos Dansby returned a fumble 17 yards for the game-ending touchdown. With the heart-crushing loss, the Packers closed out their season with an overall record of 11\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0111-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Wildcard Round: at Arizona Cardinals\nThe game set numerous NFL postseason records. The 96 combined points scored by the Packers and Cardinals is the most in NFL postseason history, surpassing the previous mark of 95 (Eagles 58, Lions 37 in 1995). The two offenses combined for 1,024 yards (tied for third most in postseason history) and 62 first downs (Packers 32, Cardinals 30), breaking the record of 59 set in a 1981 divisional game between the Chargers and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0112-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Records, 2010 Pro Bowl selections\nThe Packers 2010 Pro Bowl selections were announced on December 29 during a special NFL Total Access 2010 NFL Pro Bowl Selection Show on NFL Network. Aaron Rodgers is going to the pro bowl, along with Charles Woodson and Nick Collins. Rookie Clay Matthews was later added after Bears linebacker Lance Briggs dropped out because of an injury. After the NFC championship Aaron Rodgers was promoted to starter due to New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees declining to participate in the Pro Bowl due to playing in the Super Bowl the following week and Brett Favre also declined to play due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203144-0113-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Bay Packers season, Records, 2009 All-Pro selections\nThe following is a list of players that were named to the Associated Press 2009 All-Pro Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203145-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election\nThe Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2009 was held on 5 December 2009. Ond\u0159ej Li\u0161ka defeated Mat\u011bj Stropnick\u00fd and became the new Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203145-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Background\nMartin Burs\u00edk resigned on the position of leader after debacle in 2009 European election. Ond\u0159ej Li\u0161ka became acting leader. Election was set for December 2009. Li\u0161ka decided to run for the position of the Leader. Mat\u011bj Stropnick\u00fd became his main rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203145-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Voting\nThere were 4 Candidates - Ond\u0159ej Li\u0161ka, Mat\u011bj Stropnick\u00fd, Josef Jadrn\u00fd and Jan Linhart. Jadrn\u00fd withdrawn from election before the election. Li\u0161ka then defeated both Stropnick\u00fd and Linhart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203146-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe 2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election took place November 13\u201315, 2009 in London, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203146-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election\nLongtime Green Party of Ontario leader Frank de Jong told the GPO convention on May 16, 2009, that he would be stepping down as leader of the party. De Jong was the founding leader of the party, and although he was never able to win a seat for the party, under his leadership its share of the vote rose from 0.34% in 1995 to 8.1% in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203146-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election\nAt the close of nominations, Mike Schreiner was the sole candidate who had submitted nomination documents. Per party rules, Schreiner still had to run in the leadership convention, however, his only opponent on the ballot was \"none of the above\". Schreiner's election was confirmed on November 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203146-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election, Registered candidates\nMike Schreiner,  policy director for the GPO, and the candidate for the Haliburton\u2014Kawartha Lakes\u2014Brock 2009 by-election, in which he finished in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203146-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Green Party of Ontario leadership election, None of the above\nThe None of the above ballot option was available to members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203147-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship\nThe 2009 Coca-Cola GM was the 39th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Qeqertarsuaq from August 10 to 15. It was won by G-44 Qeqertarsuaq for the first time in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203147-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Qualifying Stage, Disko Bay\nNagdlunguaq-48 and Kangaatsiaq BK 84 qualified for the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203147-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Qualifying Stage, Disko Bay\nNB G-44 Qeqertarsuaq qualified for the Final Round as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203147-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Final round, Pool 1\nNB Teams tied on points were separated by head-to-head record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203147-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Final round, Pool 2\nNB Teams tied on points were separated by head-to-head record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election\nGeneral elections were held in Greenland on 2 June 2009. Prime Minister Hans Enoksen announced the election date on 15 April 2009, stating that he would prefer for a newly elected parliament to administer Greenland when the self-government reform took effect on 21 June 2009. The reform gave more power to the Greenlandic parliament with decisions on most issues being devolved to the parliament but defence and foreign affairs remaining under the control of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election, Results\nThe pro-independence, left-wing opposition party, Inuit Ataqatigiit led by Kuupik Kleist emerged as the largest party with 43.7% of the vote. Kleist set a new record for most votes in a Greenlandic election with 5,461 received. This compares with Akitsinnguaq Olsen who was elected with just 112 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election, Results\nThe governing Siumut led by Prime Minister Hans Enoksen received 26.5% of the vote and lost control of the government for the first time in 30 years. Former Siumut leader and Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt failed to be re-elected for the first time since 1971, receiving just 91 votes . Enoksen stated that he would step down as party leader, a position he had held since 2002, if his colleagues wished him to. Siumut was believed to have lost votes over a series of scandals, including one over expenses, and concerns over its ability to manage with greater autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election, Results\nThe newly formed Sorlaat Partiiat gained just 383 votes in the election and dissolved shortly afterwards. The party stood on a platform of huge spending reductions and opposed Greenland rejoining the EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election, Aftermath\nSiumut was considered likely to be left out of government as both the Inuit Ataqatigiit and Demokraatit parties ruled out the possibility of working with them. Siumut's former coalition partner, Atassut, gained too few seats to make a new coalition powerful enough to challenge for the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203148-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Greenlandic general election, Aftermath\nOn 7 June 2009, Inuit Ataqatigiit announced that it would form a coalition with the Democrats and the Association of Candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203149-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nThe 2009 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 43rd edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 6 September 2009. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Sebastian Langeveld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203150-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guadiana Trophy\nThe 2009 Guadiana Trophy competition has taken place between 16-18 July 2009 and featured Benfica, Olhanense, Athletic Bilbao and Anderlecht. Benfica won in the final against Olhanense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203151-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings\nThe 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings were several shootouts that occurred on August 6, 2009 in Mexico between police and gunmen resulting in the seizure by police of 1.2 million pesos (more than $92,000), cocaine, assault rifles, police uniforms, bulletproof vests, handcuffs, hand grenades, and a variety of other military weapons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203151-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings\nAt the time of one of the incidents, Hidalgo state police had been searching for federal agents who had been reported missing. The federal agents were found in the Mineral de la Reforma municipality of Hidalgo alive and well. Acting on a tip, police stopped four trucks carrying the assailants, who opened fire on police and fled. Upon pursuing the suspects, a firefight erupted which lasted 20 minutes. Over a dozen people were killed and 22 injured including several police agents in Pachuca, the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203151-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings\nIn Guanajuato state, the cities of Silao and Irapuato suffered grenade and heavy-weapon attacks on police stations which killed a bystander, one police officer and injured 18 others. The police station in Silao was attacked with hand grenades, an AK-47, a 7.62\u00d739mm caliber rifle and an AR-15 killing two and injuring ten people. In the city of La Calera, nine cartel suspects were killed. In the city of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, gunmen shot and killed a police investigator later that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203151-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings\nThere were similar assaults on police stations in July 2009 in several Michoac\u00e1n state cities by the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel seeking retaliation after Mexican federal police arrested one of their top drug cartel leaders. The Mexican Drug War, which began at the end of 2006, has seen more than 10,000 fatalities, about 10% of these police officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203152-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangdong\u2013Hong Kong Cup\nThe 31st Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup was held on January 2009. Defending champions Hong Kong played against Guangdong at Yuexiushan Stadium on 1 January in the first leg and the second leg was played at Mong Kok Stadium on 4 January. Hong Kong football representative team represented Hong Kong Team this year instead of Hong Kong League XI and 2008 Chinese third-tier league runners-up Guangdong Sunray Cave (Guangdong U19s) replaced Guangzhou FC as Guangdong Team to participate in this tournament. Hong Kong won 5\u20134 on aggregate and were crowned their 13th Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203153-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open\nThe 2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open (also known as the TOE Life Ceramics Guangzhou International Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament on outdoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the Guangzhou International Women's Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, from September 14 through September 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203153-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Champions, Doubles\nOlga Govortsova /  Tatiana Poutchek defeated  Kimiko Date-Krumm /  Sun Tiantian 3\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203153-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203153-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received lucky loser spot in the Main Draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203154-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nMariya Koryttseva and Tatiana Poutchek were the defending champions, but Koryttseva chose not to participate that year. Poutchek partnered with Olga Govortsova, and they won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20132, [10\u20138], against Kimiko Date-Krumm and Sun Tiantian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203155-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nVera Zvonareva was the 2009 defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203155-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nShahar Pe'er won the title, defeating Alberta Brianti in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203156-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical F.C. season\nThe 2009 season is the 56th year in Guangzhou Football Club's existence, their 42nd season in the Chinese football league, also the 21st season in the top-flight, the 2nd consecutive year. The club participated in the Chinese Super League. Although finished the 9th place of the league, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical relegated to China League One at the end of the season due to match fixing scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203156-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical F.C. season, Kits and sponsors\nThe team kits for the 2009 season are produced by Nike. The title sponsor is Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and the shirt sponsors are Zhongyi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (front) and Baiyunshan Hutchison Whampoa Co., Ltd. (back).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203156-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical F.C. season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203156-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical F.C. season, Squad stats\nUpdated to games played on 31 October 2009.To see the table ordered by certain column title click that column header icon  once or twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau\nThe 2009 Guia Race of Macau (formally the 2009 Marriott Guia Race of Macau) was the twelfth and final round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was the fifth running of the Guia Race of Macau as a World Touring Car Championship round. It was held on 22 November 2009 on the temporary Guia Circuit around the streets of Macau. The race was part of the Macau Grand Prix weekend, headlined by the Formula Three event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau\nRace One was won by Chevrolet's Robert Huff, while BMW Team Germany driver Augusto Farfus won Race Two. SEAT Sport driver Gabriele Tarquini won the 2009 championship after finishing fifth in Race Two. SEAT beat BMW to the Manufacturer's title, and Tom Coronel won the Independent's Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Background\nGabriele Tarquini went to Macau with a two-point lead over SEAT Sport teammate and reigning champion Yvan Muller. Thirteen points behind Tarquini was BMW Team Germany driver Augusto Farfus. In the Manufacturers' Championship, SEAT had a three-point lead over BMW. In the Independents' Trophy, Tom Coronel had a thirty-point advantage over F\u00e9lix Porteiro, although double points were available for Independents in Macau in addition to the bonus points for a top-eight overall finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Background\nFive local drivers raced in Macau. Guia regular Andr\u00e9 Couto replaced Jo\u00e3o Paulo de Oliveira in the third SUNRED Engineering car. Liqui Moly Team Engstler ran five cars in Macau, with regulars Franz Engstler and Kristian Poulsen joined by Henry Ho, who raced for the team at the previous round in Japan, and series debutants Alex Liu and Joseph Rosa Merszei. Masaki Kano, who drove for the team in Japan, did not race in Macau. Lei Kit Meng made his debut in a BMW 320si run jointly by China Dragon Racing and RPM Racing Team. Also, Takayuki Aoki replaced fellow Japanese driver Seiji Ara in the second Wiechers-Sport car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Testing and Free Practice\nAugusto Farfus topped the test session on Thursday ahead of BMW Team Germany teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, ahead of Chevrolet's Rob Huff. The same three drivers filled the top three positions in the same order in the first practice session on Friday. Huff set the quickest time in the second session ahead of BMW Team UK driver Andy Priaulx, M\u00fcller and Farfus. The session was red-flagged in the final minutes of the session after Gabriele Tarquini crashed his SEAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying\nHuff took pole position, ahead of Priaulx and Farfus. Championship rivals and SEAT Sport teammates Tarquini and Yvan Muller crashed in the second session that determines the starting order for the top ten positions. Muller lost control on cement dust that had been laid on the track following an earlier accident for James Thompson. Unsighted by the dust, Tarquini hit Muller's car, and the pair were then hit by Alain Menu. The three drivers lined up seventh, eighth and ninth, ahead of Rickard Rydell who suffered engine problems at the end of Q1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying\nLada Sport teammate Thompson crashed into the abandoned Wiechers-Sport car of Stefano D'Aste during Q1. Thompson was taken to hospital and although he was later released he had suffered bruising to his feet, stopping him from competing in the races. He would not have been able to race anyway as his car was too badly damaged in the crash. D'Aste also missed the races as his car was also badly damaged, as did Thompson's teammate Kirill Ladygin who also crashed during qualifying. Muller and Tarquini were also taken to hospital following their accident, but both were cleared to race after their cars were repaired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race One\nRob Huff took a commanding victory for Chevrolet from pole position in the first race. His fellow front-row starter Andy Priaulx dropped back from the rolling start and ran wide at the first turn, hitting the wall. Tiago Monteiro moved up to second place, while Gabriele Tarquini made his way from seventh to third. On lap eight Monteiro slowed, teammate Tarquini passing him for second place. Jordi Gene finished third, ahead of Alain Menu. Monteiro also allowed title contender Yvan Muller through, before BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller also dropped back to finish seventh and eighth, giving them a front-row start for Race Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race One\nTom Coronel finished 13th overall, beating rival Felix Porteiro to the Independents' class victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race Two\nFarfus led away from pole position to win the final race of the season, while Tarquini took the 2009 title after finishing fifth. BMW Team Germany teammate J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller held off pressure from SEAT drivers Yvan Muller and Tiago Monteiro, while Tarquini had moved up to fifth position. A crash for Tom Boardman brought out the safety car on the third lap. The race was red-flagged at the end of lap eight after a major accident at the final turn involving Felix Porteiro, Franz Engstler and Andr\u00e9 Couto. Porteiro ran wide and hit the barriers, before being hit by Engstler. Engstler's car was left stranded in the middle of the track, where he was collected heavily by Couto. Engstler suffered a broken collarbone in the accident. The race was halted, and eventually it was decided that it would not be restarted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203157-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race Two\nAs the results were taken from the end of lap seven, Porteiro was given the Independents' victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203158-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea mine collapse\nIn the 2009 Guinea mine collapse in May 2009, a cave-in at a gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, killed 20 people, injured five and left ten missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 28 June 2009 following the assassination of President Jo\u00e3o Bernardo Vieira on 2 March 2009. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a second round was held on 26 July 2009 between the two leading candidates, Malam Bacai Sanh\u00e1 of the governing African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) and opposition leader Kumba Ial\u00e1. Sanh\u00e1 won with a substantial majority in the second round, according to official results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Background\nAt Vieira's funeral on 10 March 2009, interim President Raimundo Pereira said that meeting the 60-day deadline for holding a new election was \"one of our greatest challenges.\" Cape Verde's Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves, stated on 27 March 2009 that it was logistically and economically impossible for Guinea-Bissau to hold the election on time, and that it should aim to hold them in June or November (before or after the rain season). Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior announced on 31 March that the election would be held on 28 June, with the agreement of \"all the parties, the government, the interim president and political classes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Background\nForeign donors paid the entire cost of the election, about 5.1 million euros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Candidates\nIn April 2009, the Social Renewal Party (PRS), Guinea-Bissau's main opposition party, designated its President, Kumba Ial\u00e1 (who was previously President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003), as its candidate for the presidential election. Some in the party who opposed Ial\u00e1's \"system of monopoly\" instead proposed the candidacy of Baltizar Lopes Fernandes, but they were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Candidates\nSix candidates sought the presidential nomination of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the ruling party. PAIGC President Carlos Gomes Junior backed Pereira. On 25 April 2009, the PAIGC Central Committee chose Malam Bacai Sanh\u00e1, who was interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 1999 to 2000, as the party's presidential candidate. He received 144 votes, while Pereira received 118; another unsuccessful candidate for the nomination was former Prime Minister Manuel Saturnino Costa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Candidates\nAristides Gomes, who was Prime Minister from 2005 to 2007 and led the Republican Party for Independence and Development (PRID), submitted a candidate application. Francisco Fadul, who was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 and is currently the President of the Tribunal of Accounts, also submitted an application to stand as the candidate of his party, the African Party for Development and Citizenship (PADEC). Henrique Rosa, who was Interim President from 2003 to 2005, sought to run as an independent candidate, as did the Minister of Internal Administration, Baciro Dab\u00f3. In total, 20 candidates submitted applications to the Supreme Court of Justice, 13 representing political parties and seven independents. Zinha Vaz ran as the candidate of the Guinean Patriotic Union (UPG), and was the only female candidate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 884]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Candidates\nOn 14 May, the Supreme Court announced that 12 candidacies had been approved and eight had been rejected. The candidacies of Sanh\u00e1, Ial\u00e1, and Rosa were among those accepted. Fadul's candidacy was rejected on the grounds that he was still President of the Tribunal of Accounts and a member of the Bar, which the Supreme Court judged to be legally incompatible with his presidential candidacy. The candidacy of Aristides Gomes was also rejected on the grounds that he had been out of the country during the 90 days before he filed his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Candidates\nPrior to the election, three of the 11 remaining candidates were considered the key contenders for the Presidency: PAIGC candidate Sanh\u00e1, PRS candidate Ial\u00e1, and independent candidate Rosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Campaign\nDoubting that Ial\u00e1 would be able to garner much more support than he obtained in the first round, analysts judged that Sanh\u00e1 was the clear favorite for the second round. Various minor candidates\u2014Luis Nancassa, Paulo Mendon\u00e7a, Francisca Vaz Turpin, and Braima Alfa Djalo\u2014endorsed Sanh\u00e1 after the first round. In mid-July, New Democracy Party candidate Iaia Djalo, who placed fourth with 3.11%, also urged his supporters to vote for Sanh\u00e1 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Campaign\nDuring the second round campaign, Ial\u00e1 blamed PAIGC for Guinea-Bissau's problems and alleged that it was responsible for Vieira's assassination. Warning against the use of such inflammatory rhetoric, the army stressed that it would not allow national stability to be endangered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Conduct\nOn 5 June, one day before election campaigning was due to start, Dab\u00f3 was fatally shot in his home, possibly in order to prevent him from ordering a prosecution against President Vieira's killers if he won the election. It was nevertheless decided that the election would proceed as planned on 28 June. Another independent candidate, Paulo Mendon\u00e7a, said that the election could not legally go ahead on schedule because the constitution required a delay in case of the death of a candidate, and he took the matter to the Supreme Court. Rosa said that his campaign would be initially subdued and would not begin in earnest until seven days after Dab\u00f3's death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Conduct\nTurnout was reportedly low when voting took place on 28 June. Electoral observers from the European Union were present at 80 of the 2,700 polling stations, and the head of the EU mission, Johan Van Hecke, said that \"rain played a role\" but that it was not solely to blame for the low turnout. He also said that voting proceeded \"in a calm and orderly way\" and that \"not a single incident or complaint was reported to us\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Results\nDesejado Lima da Costa, the head of the National Electoral Commission, announced provisional results on 2 July 2009. These results showed Sanh\u00e1 with 133,786 votes or 39.59% of the vote, Ial\u00e1 with 99,428 votes or 29.42%, and Rosa with 24.19%; turnout was around 60%, with 593,782 of the nation's 1.4 million eligible voters participating. As a result, Sanh\u00e1 and Ial\u00e1 were to proceed to a second round on 2 August. Although Rosa was positioned to make a potentially crucial endorsement for the second round, he declined to do so. The National Electoral Commission announced on 5 July that the second round date was being moved forward from 2 August to 26 July, as the latter date was deemed more compatible with the agricultural harvest season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203159-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Results\nOn 25 July, Sanh\u00e1 and Ial\u00e1 agreed that they would both respect the results of the second round and that any dispute over the results would be handled through the legal process. They also agreed that the losing candidate would enjoy various privileges as a former head of state, including personal security and transportation. Following the second round on 26 July, the National Electoral Commission announced on 29 July that Sanh\u00e1 had won with 63.52% of the vote (224,259 votes), while Ial\u00e1 received 36.48%. Turnout was placed at 61%. Ial\u00e1 said that he accepted the results, urging Sanh\u00e1 \"to work for the development of Guinea-Bissau\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests\nThe 2009 Guinean protests were an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on Monday, 28 September 2009, with about 50,000 participants protesting against the the junta government that came to power after the Guinean coup d'\u00e9tat of December 2008. The protest march was fueled by the indication of junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara breaking his pledge to not run in the next presidential vote due in January 2010. The government had already banned any form of protests until 2 October, and when the demonstrators gathered in a large stadium, the security forces opened fire at them. At least 157 demonstrators were killed, 1,253 injured and 30, including Cellou Dalein Diallo, the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UDFG), were arrested and taken away in lorries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests\nOn the same day in 2018 six human rights organizations demanded justice to be done for perpetrators. The organizations were the Association of Victims, Parents and Friends of the 28 September Massacre (AVIPA), the Guinean Human Rights Organization (OGDH), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests\nSidya Tour\u00e9, former Prime Minister and now an opposition leader, was also injured in the shootings and spoke to the BBC secretly from a hospital's restroom. Opponents have accused the junta of limiting freedom of speech and violating human rights. Camara said that the troops responsible for the shooting spree were out of his control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Background\nOn 24 December 2008, about six hours after the death of Lansana Cont\u00e9, a statement was read on state radio announcing a military coup d'\u00e9tat by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara on behalf of a group called the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), which said that \"the government and the institutions of the Republic have been dissolved.\" The statement also announced the suspension of the constitution \"as well as political and union activity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Background\nAccording to Captain Camara, the coup was necessary because of Guinea's \"deep despair\" amidst rampant poverty and corruption, and he said that the existing institutions were \"incapable of resolving the crises which have been confronting the country.\" Furthermore, Camara said that someone from the military would become president, while a civilian would be appointed as Prime Minister at the head of a new government that would be ethnically balanced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Background\nInitially when Camara took over power there was some support, the public being tired of Lansana Cont\u00e9's 24-year-long authoritarian rule. Camara promised a smooth transition of the country to democracy and a presidential election in which he would not stand. He gained much popularity by cracking down on drug dealers, including Ousmane Cont\u00e9, son of the former president, and by making them admit wrongdoing on his television show. Later, Camara lost support because of his dictatorship-like rule and abusive behavior by him and his forces that indulged in violence, robberies and rapes. He himself humiliated several foreign ambassadors, politicians and leaders by telling them to \"shut up or leave\" from meetings. This had a negative impact on his image in public, and garnered him criticism for the erratic behavior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Protest\nThe opponents had decided to stage a demonstration on 28 September against the likely participation of Camara in the next presidential election, and despite the government's ban on protests, they decided to carry on with their scheduled protest. A crowd of around 50,000 people gathered at the Stade du 28 Septembre on the day, carrying signs that read \"Down with the army in power\" and calling for an end of the \"Dadis show\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Protest\nAccording to eyewitness accounts, the elite Presidential Guard, commonly known as the \"Red Berets\", came in trucks and threw tear gas on the crowd at first, but later opened fire. In the atmosphere of terror and panic, people started running, falling and getting hit. Youssouf Koumbassa, an eyewitness, claimed that the troops stripped down some female protesters. The equipment of a French journalist was seized and smashed. Protesters fled the stadium and poured into the streets, where they were pursued and fired on by troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Protest\nAfter the shooting incident, soldiers were seen publicly raping women, killing people, and looting stores. According to one eyewitness, soldiers asked people if they supported Camara, and those who did not were summarily executed, that some women were raped with guns, and shot dead, and that civilians were beaten and old men yanked by their beards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Protest\nThe wounded were taken to hospital, where they were visited by human rights activists. Although many had gunshot wounds, some were found to have been severely beaten. The dead were taken to a mortuary, and soldiers stood guard outside. Relatives were called in to collect the dead. According to many victims' families, the military secretly disposed of over 100 bodies, as many had found that the bodies of their relatives had disappeared. Many witnesses reported seeing presidential guards loading some of the bodies into trucks. Images showing dozens of bodies lined up on the street were uncovered, and human rights groups used them as evidence to show that the death toll was much higher than government figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Protest\nIn the aftermath of the protests, hundreds of protesters who had taken part were arrested and imprisoned without charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Government reaction\nCamara, in an interview to Radio France Internationale (RFI) said that the troops responsible for the killings were \"uncontrollable elements in the military\" and \"Even I, as head of state in this very tense situation, cannot claim to be able to control those elements in the military\". He also denied any responsibility for the killings, claiming that he did not issue any shooting orders, and was in his office. Camara has also denied knowledge of sexual assaults by soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Government reaction\nHe later called for a UN investigation into the incident, an African mediator between the various Guinean political parties and a national unity government. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) dispatched President Blaise Compaor\u00e9 of Burkina Faso to act as a mediator. The proposal for national unity government was rejected by the opposition, calling it a tactic to divert attention from the massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Government reaction\nOn 7 October, Camara announced a 31-member commission, including 7 judges from the Justice Ministry, to investigate the details behind the incident. Camara claimed that it would be an independent inquiry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, Death toll controversy\nThree days after the incident, the junta stuck to asserting a death toll of 56, while they were accused of secretly burying several bodies in the Alpha Yaya Diallo military camp. Both, Guinean Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights (OGDH) and African Assembly for the Defense of Human Rights (RADDHO) confirmed that it had received requests from families to look into the alleged clandestine burials performed by the military. The cold rooms at a hospital were opened for journalists on 1 October. Dr. Hassan Bah, the forensic expert who allowed the media into the morgues denied the occurrence of any secret burials by soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nChile \u2013 The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Chile issued a statement, that \"facing a wholesale slaughter of people for political reasons, atrocities and extreme violence, Chile demands from the authorities of Guinea immediate action leading to prosecution of perpetrators, the release of opposition leaders, the restoration of order and respect for civil and political rights so as to ensure a peaceful transition to democracy soon\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nFrance \u2013 France, in its statement initially condemned the violent nature of the protests by the opposition demonstrators, but later suspended its military ties with Guinea and called for a European Union (EU) meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nUnited States \u2013 The United States urged the junta government to \"stand by its promise to hold free, fair, timely and transparent elections in which no member of the ruling junta will participate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nThe African Union was concerned about the  \"deteriorating situation\" in the country, and indicated their intent to impose sanctions against Guinea if Camara ran in the next presidential elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nEuropean Union \u2013 Javier Solana, the foreign policy chief of EU, called for the immediate release of arrested pro-democracy leaders and urged the government to \"exercise maximum restraint and ensure a peaceful and democratic transition\". On 21 October, the EU Council announced an arms embargo and sanctions against individuals in the junta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nLiberia- The president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has called for an ECOWAS summit on this matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International reactions\nOn account of aggravation of political tension in Guinea due to this incident, FIFA decided to change the venue of the 2010 World Cup qualifier between Guinea and Burkina Faso, citing safety concerns. The game was played in Accra, Ghana instead of Conakry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International inquiries\nHuman Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report in December 2009 implicating several CNDD leaders in the massacre, and indicating that the events may constitute crimes against humanity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203160-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Guinean protests, International inquiries\nThe United Nations released a 60-page report in 2009, describing the violence carried against protestors especially women. According to the U.N panel, 109 women and girls had been raped or sexually mutilated. The U.N Commission reached the same conclusion of the HRW by stating that it is \" reasonable to conclude\"  that violence observed during the attack constitutes crimes against humanity. The report was also sent to the security council, The African Union, Guinea's government and ECOWAS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak\nThe 2009 Gujarat hepatitis B outbreak was a cluster of hepatitis B cases that appeared in Modasa, northern Gujarat, India in 2009. Over 125 people were infected and up to 49 people died. Several doctors were investigated and arrested after the outbreaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak, Hepatitis B\nThe hepatitis B virus infects the liver  and causes an inflammation called hepatitis. It is a DNA virus and one of many unrelated viruses that cause viral hepatitis. The disease, originally known as \"serum hepatitis\", has caused epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa, and it is endemic in China. About a third of the world's population, more than 2 billion people, have been infected with the hepatitis B virus. This includes 350 million chronic carriers of the virus. The acute illness causes liver inflammation, vomiting and jaundice. The infection is preventable by vaccination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak, Hepatitis B\nTransmission of hepatitis B results from exposure to infectious blood or body fluids containing blood. Possible forms of transmission include (but are not limited to) unprotected sexual contact, blood transfusions, re-use of contaminated needles & syringes, and vertical transmission from mother to child during childbirth. HBV can be transmitted between family members within households, possibly by contact of nonintact skin or mucous membrane with secretions or saliva containing HBV. However, at least 30% of reported cases of hepatitis B among adults cannot be associated with an identifiable risk factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak, Arrests\nThe doctors were accused of re-using syringes, which had been contaminated with hepatitis B virus, to treat other patients. Eight medical practitioners, including doctors Govind and Chintal Patel, were arrested under the Indian Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after allegedly re-using infected syringes. One of them was also charged with attempted murder. Most of the people affected had received medical treatment from Dr. Patel in the last six months. Medical officials conducted a raid on Patel's clinic and found several used syringes and other medical waste.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak, Reaction\nThe Government of Gujarat started a mass immunization drive under strict medical supervision in Modasa, which set up 60 booths in Modasa and nearby cities. 224 medical teams, including some from All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences and National Institute of Virology have set up camps in Modasa, and will remain there for at least a month. According to the officials 25,000 vaccines were sent to the most affected area and 600,000 more vaccines are being arranged from Hyderabad. In addition, the government distributed 30,000 pamphlets and mounted a campaign to inform residents about the disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203161-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak, Reaction\nThe Health Department of the Gujarat government have sent 600,000 doses of vaccine to the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203162-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Gulf Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship\nIn 2009 the Gulf Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship was won by the Al-Ahli Saudi Football Club team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings\nThe 2009 Guwahati bombings occurred on 1 January 2009 in Guwahati, Assam, India. They occurred a few hours before Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was due to travel to the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings\nThe bombing was carried out by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and left 6 people dead and a further 67 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Details\nPolice confirmed that  first blast took place near Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi TB Hospital at Birubari at 2.35pm, injuring five people, including a 10-year-old child. Another blast at the busy Bhootnath market near the famous Kamakhya Temple, killed two people instantaneously and injured at least 25 others. Police said that a bomb was placed on a bicycle. Incidentally, P Chidambaram was to pass Bhootnath on his way from the airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Details\nThe third blast occurred outside a Big Bazaar retail outlet at Bhangagarh, a commercial area near Guwahati Medical College (GMCH), at 5.45 pm. Bhangagarh is one of the poshest areas in Guwahati and is home to many shopping malls. Three of the 34 people injured in the blast succumbed to their injuries in hospital. Police suspected that the bomb was kept inside a pan shop in the area. Another person died in the hospital making the death toll 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Details\nAll three blasts were low intensity, carried using Improvised explosive devices (IED). Police say that the a biker placed the first bomb in a dustbin, the second one was placed on a cycle and third on the roadside. The second blast was the most powerful one. The third blast ignited a fire due to its proximity to a kerosene source.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Details\nThe injured were admitted to the GMCH and Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital (MMCH) and are reported to be in critical condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Investigation\nThe United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is suspected of having carried out the bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203163-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Guwahati bombings, Reactions\nAssam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi admitted security lapses and expressed the need of strengthening the state police force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203164-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger\nThe 2009 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. This was the sixth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 20 July and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203164-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203164-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received special exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203164-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nFrederik Nielsen /  Joseph Sirianni def. Adriano Biasella /  Andrey Golubev, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203165-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nBenedikt Dorsch and Bj\u00f6rn Phau were the defending champions, but chose to not participate this year. Frederik Nielsen and Joseph Sirianni won in the final 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20136], against Adriano Biasella and Andrey Golubev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203166-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Guzzini Challenger \u2013 Singles\nThe 2009 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. This was the sixth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 20 July and 26 July 2009. In the singles competition, Horacio Zeballos chose to not defend his 2008 title. St\u00e9phane Bohli defeated Andrey Golubev in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season\nThe 2009 H1 Unlimited season is the fifty fourth running of the H1 Unlimited series for unlimited hydroplane, jointly sanctioned by APBA, its governing body in North America and UIM, its international body. It is the first season to run under its new name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season\nThe season began in July with the Madison Regatta, held in Madison, Indiana, United States, throughout the season, the series will consist of six races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season\nThe finale of the season was in November with the Oryx Cup, held in Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar. The 2009 Oryx Cup was the seventeenth running of the UIM World Championship for unlimited hydroplanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season\nFor 2010, Oh Boy! Oberto (Miss Madison) was the National High Point Team Champion, while Steve David was the National High Point Driver Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season, Name change\nThe series became H1 Unlimited prior to the Oryx Cup, in a bid to internationalise the series, until then, the series was known as ABRA Unlimited (American Boat Racing Association) for five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season, National High Point Champions, Team Champion\nFor the 2009 Season, Oh Boy! Oberto (Miss Madison) was the National High Point Team Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203167-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 H1 Unlimited season, National High Point Champions, Driver Champion\nFor the 2009 Season, Steve David was the National High Point Driver Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203168-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 HKFC International Soccer Sevens\n2009 HKFC International Soccer Sevens is the 10th staging of this competition. It was held on 29\u201331 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203169-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open\nThe 2009 HP Open (also known as the 2009 HP Japan Women's Open Tennis) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the HP Open, and was classified as an WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was played in Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203169-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open, Finals, Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung /  Lisa Raymond  defeated  Chanelle Scheepers /  Abigail Spears 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203169-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open, Players, Seeds\nseeds are based on the rankings of October 5, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 79]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203169-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open, Players, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203170-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open \u2013 Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung and Lisa Raymond won in the final 6-2, 6-4 against Chanelle Scheepers and Abigail Spears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203171-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 HP Open \u2013 Singles\nSamantha Stosur won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20131 against Francesca Schiavone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election\nSenate elections for a third of the seats in the Senate of Haiti were held on 19 April 2009 (they were scheduled for March or April 2008, but were postponed), with a run-off to be held on 21 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election\nPer the Constitution of Haiti, voters should renew ten of the thirty seats in the Senate, but as Pierre Emmanuel Limage (representing Fwon Lespwa, the party of President Ren\u00e9 Pr\u00e9val, for Artibonite), died in a car accident and Ultimo Comp\u00e8re (representing Fwon Lespwa for Centre; his term would have expired in 2008 regularly) and Rudolph H. Boulos (representing the Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats for Nord-Est) resigned, there were twelve open seats instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Background\nThe seats for which elections were held were divided among parties as follows prior to the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Candidates\n40 candidates were not allowed to contest the election, including Guy Philippe and all 17 from Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas, reportedly due to procedural mistakes and missing signatures or possibly even two lists of candidates submitted in some constituencies. 79 candidates were approved. The disqualification was strongly criticised by local and international organisations alike, with some even claiming that the elections were not really democratic. A majority for president Pr\u00e9val's Fwon Lespwa party could aid him in amending the constitution to increase the president's power and allowing a second consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Results\nTurnout was very low. Run-off elections were expected for many seats due to the high number of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Results\nVoting for Ultimo Comp\u00e8re's vacant seat in the Centre department had to be rescheduled after voters ransacked polling places and a poll supervisor was shot in Mirebalais. Results took a few days, as they were all be tabulated in Port-au-Prince and therefore all ballots had to arrive there before they can be counted. None of the candidates in any of the departments managed to get more than half of the votes in the first round, so the two candidates in each departments were set to face each other in a run-off on 7 June 2009. Turnout for the first round was around 11%. The run-off was on 13 May 2009 announced to have been postponed to 21 June 2009, due to legal problems with election challenges; by that date, no date had been set for the re-run of the election in the Centre department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Results\nAccording to final results including annulment of illegal votes, the following parties had candidates in the run-off:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203172-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Haitian Senate election, Results\nIn the second round, LESPWA won five seats, and five parties won one seat each (OPL, AAA, FUSION, KONBA, UCADDE), as well as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203173-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nMardy Fish and John Isner were the defending champions, but neither participated this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203173-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nJordan Kerr and Rajeev Ram won the title, defeating Michael Kohlmann and Rogier Wassen 6\u20137(6\u20138), 7\u20136(9\u20137), [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203174-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nFabrice Santoro was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Sam Querrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203174-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nRajeev Ram won the title, defeating Querrey 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season\nIn 2009 Halmstads BK competed in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen, the club also had the possibility to play in the newly formed UEFA Europa League due to the team's 4th place in the Swedish fair-play table, Kalmar FF, Helsingborgs IF and IFK G\u00f6teborg where already qualified for European cups through the league and national cup, however Norway, Denmark and Scotland came ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season, Squad, First-team squad\nAs of 29 July 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season, Squad, Youth squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203175-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Halmstads BK season, Transfers, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza\nThe 2009 Hamas political violence took place in the Gaza Strip during and after the 2008\u20132009 Israel\u2013Gaza conflict. A series of violent acts, ranging from physical assaults, torture, and executions of Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the Israel Defense Forces, as well as members of the Fatah political party, occurred. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 32 people were killed by these attacks: 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward, and several dozen more were maimed, many by shots to the legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Suspected collaborators\nMany of the attacks were against people suspected of being informants during the war. Hamas has denied its connection to these attacks, although it admitted that it had been making related arrests in an attempt to re-assert its authority over Gaza. According to a Hamas spokesperson, \"The internal security service was instructed to track collaborators and hit them hard. They arrested dozens of collaborators who attempted to strike at Hamas by giving information to Israel about the fighters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Suspected collaborators\nAnother Hamas official said, \"Maybe some of them were killed because they were acting against the population, against the resistance.\" A report in the Qatar-based newspaper Al-Sharq quoted Moussa Abu Marzuk, a high-ranking Hamas official, as confirming that the organisation had killed known collaborators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Suspected collaborators\nHa'aretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported on January 30 that a number of Palestinian spies working in Gaza for Israel had been \"intercepted\" by Hamas. The information these agents fed to the Israeli military was said to have been used \"carelessly\", and this may have led to their exposure and subsequent executions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Suspected collaborators\nA human rights group based in Ramallah decried the attacks, releasing a statement that read, \"A number of citizens have been extra-judicially executed during and after the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip... Fire was opened on affected citizens at a close distance. In addition, individuals in official uniform or masked persons opened fire on people's legs, severely beat others, imposed house arrests, and threatened to punish citizens along with their families if they would not comply.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Suspected collaborators\nHaidar Ghanem, a Palestinian journalist who was a former employee for the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, was accused of \"collaborating with Israel\" during Operation Cast Lead and was executed by Hamas on January 7, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to The Jerusalem Post, \"the PA state security court had sentenced Ghanem, a father of two, after holding only two brief sessions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Fatah\nAfter Hamas won a majority of legislative seats during the 2006 Palestinian elections, tensions between Hamas and Fatah became increasingly violent. In 2007, both parties engaged in a military conflict, in which Hamas won control over the Gaza Strip and forced Fatah into the West Bank. Since the 23-day Israeli assault on Gaza, Hamas has accused Abbas of backing Israel, calling him a traitor and collaborator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Fatah\nFatah said 19 of its officials were executed and many more tortured. Gaza residents say Hamas used schools and other public buildings in Gaza City, and the towns of Khan Yunis and Rafah, as detention centers to interrogate members of Fatah. They said three men have been blinded during questioning and over 60 of them shot in the legs as punishment. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights stated that \"Hamas operatives killed six members of Fatah\" and that \"[another] 35 were shot in the knees or beaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Fatah\nReuters reported that Hamas leadership in Gaza \"denied the allegations [from Fatah] but said [Hamas] authorities had begun tracking down suspected 'collaborators' with Israel.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203176-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza, Dissenters\nTestimonies from Gaza civilians documented in the course of Gaza War imply that people do not dare to speak out openly against Hamas; those who tried to object were shot by Hamas operatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400\nThe 2009 Hamilton 400 was the second race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of 17\u201319 April around the inner city streets of Hamilton, in New Zealand. The 2009 Hamilton 400 was the second running of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Rule change\nThe qualifying procedure was changed with a qualifying session to be held for each of the two races, instead of one session for both races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 3, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Saturday 18 April, and was split into two sessions and followed with a top ten shootout. Jamie Whincup was fastest in qualifying for Team Vodafone but Mark Winterbottom secured his ninth pole position by just seven 10,000ths of a second. Steven Johnson and Michael Caruso produced unexpectedly good lap to qualify on the second row, particular for Caruso to be the top Holden on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 3, Race\nJason Bright changed his engine after qualifying and stalled on dummy grid. Fiore and D'Alberto started from the pitlane. Caruso was slow away from the second row as Winterbottom stormed away from Whincup, Johnson, Tander, Holdsworth, Lowndes and Courtney. Whincup dived into the lead at turn 6 to lead the opening lap. D'Alberto crashed on the third lap at turn 7. D'Alberto restarts but the following lap Murphy and Slade, separately, crashed at the same point. Murphy was out with bent steering. A safety car was called for D'Alberto's car prior to the Nash Commodore restarting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 3, Race\nPerkins spun at the restart trying to avoid Dumbrell. Dumbrell had a spin a lap later, tangling with Van Gisbergen. Pitstops began around lap 20, beginning with Jason Bright. Craig Lowndes was an early stopper. James Courtney and Fabian Coulthard were big climbers through the field before Courtney stopped early on lap 24. Tander stalled in his pitstop and was passed by four cars as he exited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 3, Race\nLowndes brushed the wall at turn 7 on lap 37, causing him to pit into the garage for mechanical work and rejoined losing some laps. Marcus Marshall also had an engine fail late in the running after clobbering a tyre bundle on the back chicane. Fiore retired after a clash with Cameron McConville, while Ingall slowed in late lap with mechanical problems. A shambolic safety car restart that saw faster cars mixed up with the mechanically wounded cars of Ingall and Caruso caused Courtney to hit the back of Tander's Commodore, slowing both cars in the later laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 3, Race\nWhincup stormed away at the final restart to win from Winterbottom with Lee Holdsworth continuing his early season good form to finish third ahead of the consistent Steven Johnson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Qualifying\nThe new format for Sunday qualifying made its debut, a return to traditional qualifying methods with all cars on the track together. The session was red flagged late in the session with many of the faster runners caught out just warming up for their final runs at pole after Tim Slade crashed. Steven Johnson was fastest at the time, securing only his second pole position, his previous, Canberra in 2001, also a street circuit. Team mate James Courtney started alongside as Ford dominated the timesheet occupying eight of the top ten position with the only Holdens the garry Rogers Motorsport duo of Michael Caruso and Lee Holdsworth occupying the third row of the grid behind Steven Richards and Jamie Whincup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Race\nDean Fiore started from pitlane while Tim Slade's car was too heavily damaged to continue. Johnson ran away from the start to lead while Steven Richards jumped past James Courtney for second as the safety car came out to attend a collision between Mark Winterbottom and the wall. Todd Kelly, being pressured by Jason Bargwanna, then struck Winterbottom. Kelly limped back to the pits while Winterbottom was stranded on the track with broken steering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Race\nWhincup, unable to make progress against Johnson, Richards and Courtney, pitted early to try to get clear air, but it was a slow stop. Johnson slow built up a lead with Courtney moving into second on lap 22. Richards, suffering rear tyre problems, soon succumbed to Holdsworth and Caruso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Race\nBy lap 24 leading cars were pitting in numbers. Johnson pitted on lap 26 from the lead. Johnson rejoined behind Whincup but ahead of Holdsworth. Caruso pitted from second on lap 28, stalling briefly, rejoining behind Lowndes and Richards, just ahead of Coulthard. Coulthard claimed a position up the back straight from Caruso. Todd Kelly crashed the wall with steering, already repaired once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Race\nCourtney finally pitted from the lead on lap 32, rejoining behind Whincup, in front of Johnson and Holdsworth. Richards was now holding fifth ahead of Lowndes and Coulthard. Richards spun off track on lap 46, dumping a number of positions. Two laps later Shane van Gisbergen took Rick Kelly off track with an overtaking move gone wrong at the hairpin. Both recovered. Lowndes broke the front left corner of the car, leaving suspension and wheel deranged after clipping the tyre bundle at the back straight chicane. Ingall pulled into the pits trailing smoke with just two laps to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203177-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton 400, Race 4, Race\nWhincup cleared out to win from the Dick Johnson Racing pair of Courtney and Johnson with Holdsworth's fourth position vaulting him past Will Davison into second place in the championship pointscore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203178-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 2009 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 60th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished the season in second place in the East Division with a 9\u20139 record and qualified for the Grey Cup playoffs for the first time since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203178-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. The Tiger-Cats selected tackle Simeon Rottier from the University of Alberta first overall. They originally also had the third overall pick as well but traded that to the BC Lions for sixth and thirteenth overall picks so the Lions could select their desired player, Jamall Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203178-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import player updated 2009-10-29 \u2022 46 Active, 13 Inactive, 9 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203178-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Playoffs, East Semi-Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 15, 1:00 PM Eastern Standard TimeVenue: Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203179-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hampshire County Council election\nAn election to Hampshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 78 councillors were elected from 75 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005. Elections in Portsmouth and Southampton do not coincide with this set, being unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203179-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hampshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203179-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Hampshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203179-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hampshire County Council election, Summary\nThe election saw the Conservatives retain control of the council and increase their majority from 14 seats to 24 seats. As the largest opposition party, the Liberal Democrats lost seats overall, while Labour were reduced to holding just one seat (Basingstoke North). The Community Campaign in Hart also won a seat in Church Crookham and Ewshot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203179-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hampshire County Council election, Results by district\nHampshire County Council is split into 11 Districts, each district is further split into wards, the following are the results for these wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast\nThe 2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast occurred on 10 August 2009 roughly 330 metres (1,080\u00a0ft) underground in Trencin Region, Slovakia at Hornonitrianske Bane Prievidza, a.s.s (HNB) coal mine located in the town of Handlov\u00e1. 20 people were killed, nine others suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment. Some historians have called the disaster the largest mining tragedy in Slovakia\u2019s history. The deadly explosion, probably caused by flammable gases, occurred after mine rescuers had earlier been deployed to extinguish a fire in the Eastern shaft of the mine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast\nThe incident is the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history since the country's independence in 1993. Only 12 people had been killed while mining in Slovakia during the previous twelve years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast\nAn official investigation into the disaster concluded in 2011, that several factors caused the explosion, but was unable to determine if any breaches of safety regulation had occurred. There employees with the mining company were eventually charged with negligence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Background\nHornonitrianske Bane (HNB) Prievidza, a.s coal mine in Handlov\u00e1 is known as a rich source of Slovakia\u2019s best-quality brown coal, however it also ranks among the most dangerous mines in the country because it is literally full of methane, a very explosive gas. The mine is equipped with sensors to monitor the concentration of methane in the air and whenever the concentration rises to an explosive level, the electrical installation in the whole mine is switched off and miners are signalled to leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Background\nCoal extracted from mines in the Upper Nitra region is also 10 times younger than the hard black coal in the Ostrava region, which means that it is considerably less stable and poses a higher risk of rock-slides. The latter is what happened in nearby Nov\u00e1ky where four miners died in 2006. Coal extraction at Handlov\u00e1 ceased in 1990 and the mine was closed down by a government decision was made for economic reasons rather than safety concerns. Coal mining was restarted in 2003, based on a decision of the Slovak government made in 1993. The state has been supporting mining as a source of jobs in this relatively poor region of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Background\nCoal mining companies received subventions worth more than \u20ac3.2 million from the state budget in 2008 and the privately owned HNB company received almost \u20ac500,000 of that sum. The state also guarantees demand for coal extracted from Slovak mines. For instance, the former state energy company, Slovensk\u00e9 elektr\u00e1rne is obliged to buy coal for its power plant in Nov\u00e1ky, the only one fired with brown coal, exclusively from domestic sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, The explosion\nThe incident happened in the old abandoned underground eastern shaft of the mine, belonging to Hornonitrianske Bane (HNB) Prievidza, a.s., the largest mining company in Slovakia, located at approximately 330 metres (1,080\u00a0ft). In the morning of August 10 at around 07:00, a fire broke out in the shaft, which had been out of production since 17 June. Initially, a fire-fighting team of nine miners was dispatched to extinguish the blaze. Shortly after, a second team consisting of an additional 11 miners was dispatched to reinforce the first team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, The explosion\nAt around 08:30 local time, flammable gases, which had accumulated secondarily due to the fire, ignited. The resulting explosion ripped through the mine and killed both fire-fighting teams instantly. The blast was so significant, that it reached air shafts located several hundred meters away, collapsing much of the tunnel-network of the mine. In addition to the 20 killed, another nine miners were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Rescue and recovery\nRescue efforts were launched immediately, with three rescue units entering the mine. During a press conference in the evening, Economy Minister \u013dubom\u00edr Jahn\u00e1tek and the director of the mining company, Peter \u010ci\u010dmanec announced that most likely none of the unaccounted employees had survived the explosion. Six bodies were found around 65 metres from the supposed epicentre of the explosion. Even 14 hours after the explosion the conditions in the area were incompatible with life, with high temperatures, a low concentration of oxygen and levels of carbon dioxide so high that it could not be measured. During the next 24 hours three more bodies were recovered. By August 12, rescuers had recovered the bodies of 16 of the 20 deceased. The next day, the last four bodies were recovered as rescuers braved temperatures of 50 degrees, and near-zero visibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 903]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Rescue and recovery\nRelatives have gathered to see the bodies of their loved ones be recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Reactions\nThe Slovakian Government met at an extraordinary session on 11 August 2009. Prime Minister Robert Fico declared an official day of mourning for the following day and gave orders for an investigation into the incident to take place, calling it \"a huge tragedy\". State flags were lowered at half mast during the mourning period. It was the fourth national day of mourning in Slovakia's history and the first since a killer bus crash in February 2009. Relatives of the victims will also be compensated by the government. Most people in the town of Handlov\u00e1, which has a population of 18,000, know someone who works in the mine. A black flag hung in the town after the incident as the townspeople remembered the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Reactions\nUkrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sent a telegram of condolence: \"I wish to share the pain of loss as Ukraine has experienced similar catastrophes not once. On behalf of the Government and from me personally I ask to retell the words of compassion and support to the families and relatives of the deceased miners\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203180-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Handlov\u00e1 mine blast, Reactions\nThe incident happened near Nov\u00e1ky where four miners were killed by a shaft collapse in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203181-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hanshin Tigers season\nThe 2009 Hanshin Tigers season features the Tigers quest to win their first Central League title since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203182-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hansol Korea Open\nThe 2009 Hansol Korea Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the event known that year as the Hansol Korea Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul, South Korea, from September 21 through September 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203182-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hansol Korea Open, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203182-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hansol Korea Open, Finals, Doubles\nChan Yung-jan /  Abigail Spears defeated  Carly Gullickson /  Nicole Kriz, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203183-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hansol Korea Open \u2013 Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung and Hsieh Su-wei were the defending champion, but Hsieh chose not to participate that year. Chuang partnered with Yan Zi, but they lost in the semifinals against Chan Yung-jan and Abigail Spears. Chan Yung-jan and Abigail Spears won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134 against Carly Gullickson and Nicole Kriz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203184-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hansol Korea Open \u2013 Singles\nMaria Kirilenko was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals against Kimiko Date-Krumm. Kimiko Date-Krumm won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133 against Anabel Medina Garrigues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203185-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Harlequins Rugby League season\nThe 2009 Harlequins Rugby League season was the thirtieth in the club's history and their fourteenth season in the Super League. The club was coached by Brian McDermott, competing in Super League XIV, finishing in 11th place and reaching the Fourth round of the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203185-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Harlequins Rugby League season\nHarlequins RL \u2013 the only team in the Super League based in a capital city (London) attracted an average home crowd of just under 3,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203185-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Harlequins Rugby League season, 2009 Fixtures and results\n: Game rearranged to make Harlequins RL available for a Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles' warm-up game for the 2009 World Club Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203185-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Harlequins Rugby League season, Super League XIV table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths\nThe 2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths occurred in late May and early June 2009 in Free State province, South Africa. At least 82 miners, many from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, died from inhalation of poisonous gasses created by a May 18 fire in the mineshaft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths\nCritically, the ranks of unemployed, independent and redundant miners are unofficially tolerated within unsecured, less-profitable mines. Consequently, in reports from Africa the dead are being officially defined as \"illegal miners\" \u2014 or \"trespassers\" \u2014 onto the mineral-claims of the larger corporate mining operators and market consortiums which traditionally depend on government-supported mineral-extraction concessions and export rights granted in areas such as Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths\nA former police officer with 12 years' experience in cases of \"illegal mining\" said he feared that hundreds more bodies of \"illegals\" could still be underground in mines in the city of Welkom, according to a report in the leading Afrikaans daily, Beeld. He estimated that about 3,000 illegal miners work underground in the mines in Welkom alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths\nThe affected mine (the Eland shaft) is owned by Harmony Gold. Africa's third-largest gold producer and the fifth-largest in the world, Harmony is especially exposed to trespassers because the company followed a strategy of buying up old, abandoned or marginally productive mines (alongside controversial, environmentally expensive extraction techniques), which fell into disuse when gold prices were lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Deaths\nThe deaths were initially thought to have been caused by a fire. One miner who escaped had reported seeing smoke and running. Harmony states that the dead were members of an illegal mining syndicate commonly referred to as Zama-Zamas. The syndicate allegedly raid Harmony's mines regularly, 'armed' with explosives. However explosives are historically a necessary technology of mining; and Harmony has not related the deaths to an attack or explosion. Harmony did initially propose a theory that mercury used to coagulate  gold combined with Zama-Zamas' explosives, and led to the fire. But the dead were not found in a burnt condition, indicating their deaths may be from gas or smoke inhalation, also common effects of fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Deaths\nThe numerous deaths occurred within passable sections of a mine which Harmony defined as \"closed-up\". Initially, 36 people were reported as dead. Fellow illegals requested body bags in which to place the bodies of their companions; these were provided by Harmony and the 36 were brought to the surface between 31 May and 1 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Deaths\nA further twenty-five dead were pulled from \"closed-up\" sections of the mine on 2 June 2009. These were located by other illegals who searched when it was determined by Harmony that the \"closed\" sections occupied by illegals were too dangerous to be entered by any of the firm's staff. 63 corpses had been found by 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Deaths\nBoth Harmony and the South African government have since said they will not compensate the families of the suffocated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Deaths\nOn Thursday 28 September 2017 at around 6pm the regional manager of Harmony Gold, Simphiwe Kubheka was shot dead at Harmony Mines in Welkom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Previous incidents\nThe corpses of illegal miners are regularly found in the same mine shaft but this is the first time such a high death toll has been recorded from one incident. Five dead were found fourteen days before this incident and twenty-five more were recovered following a fire in 2007. South African miners typically enter one mine shaft and then exit from another one several miles away. Harmony described all the miners as \"criminals\", issuing an initial statement reported by Reuters: \"The bodies of 36 criminal miners have been brought to surface at the shaft during the past weekend by fellow criminal miners\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Previous incidents\n294 illegal miners were arrested in the same province in the previous month and another 114 in March 2009. These figures included miners from Harmony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\nOn June 5, 2009, Harmony suspended 77 Harmony employees and 45 contractors who allegedly had helped the illegal mining activities, and 100 implicated employees have been arrested. According to Mining Weekly Online, 114 arrests were made, including those of another 19 Harmony employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\nRegularly employed miners and mine security personnel, some of whom earn only 4,000 Rands per month, or about $496/month (basis 6/6/2009), could be bribed to bring in needed provisions and supplies to the illegal miners, who live underground, and later help deliver the gold to the surface. The gold is smelted and transported to big cities, including Johannesburg, where the buyers wait with cash. \u201cEveryone gets paid. The guys in the underground can make more than R10000 a week,\u201d a resident of Welkom said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\nThe National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) urged Harmony to take responsibility for the deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\n\u201cThe NUM believes that if the company has had good security on its operations, particularly world-class security systems, these deaths could have been avoided. At the heart of the problem lie lax security and unwillingness on the part of the company to invest in proper security systems. The company needs to further investigate itself with the assistance of law enforcement agencies on the possibilities that its own personnel may have been involved in allowing these so-called \u201cillegal\u201d mineworkers underground,\u201d NUM spokesperson Lesiba Seshoka said in a statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\nThe Congress of South African Trade Unions and Solidarity both called for a thorough investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Responsibility\nMalaisha Kipastofile, president of the Association of Informal and Illegal Miners of SA, called on the mines minister to enforce a code of practice that will ensure illegal miners can ply their trade safely. He said the reason for the illegal mining activities must be laid squarely at the door of the government and the unions, which have followed protectionist policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Government response\nSusan Shabangu, South Africa's Minister of Mining, visited the mine on 2 June 2009. She condemned the act of mining illegally but expressed her sympathies with the relatives of the victims:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Government response\nThe government will not condone illicit mining, but these are human lives that have been lost. Children have been orphaned and women have been widowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203186-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths, Government response\nThe government has refused to compensate the families of the dead miners, only providing government mortuary facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203187-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 2009 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Crimson finished second in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203187-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203188-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election\nThe Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2009 was held on 13 October 2009, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 22 October 2009. Indian National Congress got 40 seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was reelected for second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203189-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawaii Bowl\nThe 2009 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl was the eighth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawaii. The game started at 3:00 pm local time (8:00 pm EST) on Thursday, December 24, 2009, with the SMU Mustangs of Conference USA beating the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Western Athletic Conference, 45\u201310. The game was sponsored by Sheraton Hotels and Resorts and was televised on ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203189-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawaii Bowl\nThe 2009 Hawai\u02bbi Bowl was SMU's first bowl bid since playing in Hawaii in the 1984 Aloha Bowl, as well as their first since the program was relaunched in 1989 after being shut down for two years due to massive NCAA rules violations. Head coach June Jones made his first appearance as a coach in Aloha Stadium since leaving Hawai\u02bbi in 2008 to take over the SMU football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203189-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawaii Bowl\nSMU freshman starter Kyle Padron, who was a backup until an injury earlier in the season to then starter Bo Levi Mitchell, was named the game's MVP after throwing for 460 yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203189-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawaii Bowl\nThe two teams met for the first time since 2004 when they were both members of the WAC. They previously played five times from 2000 to 2004, with Nevada having led the series with a 3\u20132 record. Prior to this game, their last meeting was a 38\u201320 victory by SMU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203190-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawaii Warriors football team\nThe 2009 Hawaii Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were leadby second-year head coach Greg McMackin The Warriors finished the season 6\u20137 and 3\u20135 in Western Athletic Conference (WAC) play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203191-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 2009 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 85th season in the Australian Football League and 108th overall. Hawthorn entered the season as the defending AFL Premiers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203192-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hazfi Cup Final\nThe 2009 Hazfi Cup Final was a two-legged football tie in order to determine the 2008\u201309 Hazfi Cup champion of Iranian football clubs. Rah Ahan faced Zob Ahan in this final game. The first leg took place on May 18, 2009 at 17:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Rah Ahan Stadium in Ekbatan and the second leg took place on May 22, 2009 at 17:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Foolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203192-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hazfi Cup Final, Format\nThe rules for the final were exactly the same as the one in the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after extra time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship\nThe 2009 Heartland Championship is the 4th provincial rugby union competition in New Zealand since the 2006 reconstruction, involving the 12 amateur rugby unions. The round-robin ran from 29 August to 17 October with 30 games in round one and 18 games in round two for a total of 48 games being played through the round-robin, after which the teams went into the playoffs. In the playoffs, the top four teams from each pool in round two went on to semifinals, and then a grand final for each pool was played on 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship\nWanganui won their second consecutive Meads Cup, each coming by defeating Mid Canterbury in the final. Wanganui was a Meads Cup finalist in each of the first four years of the Heartland Championship. North Otago defeated West Coast in the Lochore Cup final. North Otago is the only team to win both the Meads Cup (2007) and the Lochore Cup. This was West Coast's first finals appearance in any provincial championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Pool Stage\nThe 2009 Heartland Championship Pool Stage ran for 8 weeks from 29 August to 17 October. Teams were assigned to Pool A or Pool B, based on their performance in the 2008 season. The Pool Stage was split into two rounds, Round One ran for five weeks with each team playing five games. Round Two ran for over three weeks. The top three teams from each pool qualified for the Meads Cup pool and the bottom three teams from each pool qualified for the Lochore Cup pool. Teams faced the three other teams that they did not play in Round One. Competition points were carried over from Round One to Round Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Pool Stage, Round one\nRound One ran for 5 weeks with every team facing the other teams in their pool once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Pool Stage, Round one, Fixtures\nThere will be a total of 48 matches throughout the pool stage in the 2009 Heartland Championship, 30 in Round 1 and 18 in Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Pool Stage, Round two\nWith the teams split into their respective cup pools, the teams faced each opponent that they did not play in Round One, with the top four teams moving on to the semifinals of their respective groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Statistics\nSo far this season there have been 1559 points scored over 36 games with an average of 43.3 points per game, there have also been 167 tries scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Statistics\nNorth Otago has scored the most points this season with 206 points, they have also, along with Wanganui, have scored the most tries with 29 while Wairarapa Bush have given up the fewest points so far with 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Statistics, Points\nThe table showing how many points scored by each team (white) and how many points each team was scored against them (grey) in the 2009 Heartland Championship. North Otago have currently scored the most points with 206, while Wairarapa Bush have given up the fewest points with 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203193-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Heartland Championship, Statistics, Tries\nThe list of how many tries each team has scored in the 2009 Heartland Championship. Wanganui and North Otago have scored the most tries this season with 29, while East Coast and Thames Valley have scored the fewest tries with four each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion\nThe 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion (Chinese: \u9e64\u5c97\u65b0\u5174\u7164\u77ff\u7206\u70b8\u4e8b\u6545; pinyin: H\u00e8g\u01ceng X\u012bnx\u012bng m\u00e9iku\u00e0ng b\u00e0ozh\u00e0 sh\u00ecg\u00f9) was a mining accident that occurred on November 21 2009, near Hegang in the Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, which killed over 108 people. A further of 29 people were hospitalised. The explosion occurred in the Xinxing coal mine shortly before dawn, at 02:30 CST, when 528 people were believed to be in the pit. Of these, 420 are believed to have been rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion, Location and explosion\nThe mine, located close to the China\u2013Russia border, is owned by the state-run Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co., Ltd., which has been open since 1917, and produces 12 million tons of coal per year, making it one of the largest and oldest coal mines in the country. The explosion itself, a preliminary investigation concluded, was caused by trapped, pressurised gases underground, caused by poor ventilation in the mine shaft. The blast was powerful enough that it was felt six miles away. Many nearby buildings were damaged, including one next to the mine whose roof was blown off. The director of Hegang General hospital, where the injured were being treated, told the Xinhua News Agency that \"most of the injured are suffering from compound injuries, such as respiratory injuries, broken bones and gas poisoning\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 884]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion, Response\nA Chinese official said rescue efforts were being impeded by gas and debris from collapsed tunnels. The death toll makes it the worst accident of its type within the past two years. While hope for those trapped was fading, a Chinese official stated that the effort was still a rescue operation. San Jingguang, a mining company spokesman stated that \"if we haven't found them, to us that means they are still alive.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion, Response\nChinese Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang visited the site to inspect rescue efforts on the afternoon of November 21, while President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are both said to have \"made instructions on the rescue work\". Both have also expressed condolences for those killed. Meanwhile, Li Zhanshu, the governor of Heilongjiang called for increased safety standards in Chinese mines, and the provincial work safety bureau vowed to step up its mining reform programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion, Response\nChinese state television initially reported that the death toll was 31. It later reported the number of dead had more than doubled over the extremely cold night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203194-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion, Response\nAs a result of the accident, the director, vice director and chief engineer of the mining company are reported to have been removed from their individual posts. The Chinese state prosecutor is investigating the possibility that criminal negligence was responsible for the disaster. Chinese state media reported on November 23, 2009, that an investigation had concluded poor management was to blame for the incident. Relatives of the deceased also claimed on November 23 that officials did not notify them of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final\nThe 2009 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Heineken Cup, the 14th season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 23 May 2009 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh; this was the second time that the Heineken Cup final had been held at Murrayfield after the 2005 final, when Toulouse beat Stade Fran\u00e7ais 18\u201312 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final\nThe match was contested by Leicester Tigers of England and Leinster of Ireland. While Leinster were making their first appearance in the Heineken Cup final, Leicester were playing in their fifth, having won the competition twice, though not since 2002; they did, however, finish as runners-up in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final\nLeinster won the match 19\u201316; Leinster took the lead via an early drop goal from Brian O'Driscoll, only for Julien Dupuy to equalise with a penalty a couple of minutes later. Leinster then moved 9\u20133 ahead with a drop goal from the halfway line and a penalty from Jonathan Sexton. However, after Stan Wright was sin-binned on the half-hour mark for an off-the-ball challenge on Sam Vesty, Leicester reduced the deficit to three points with another Dupuy penalty, before taking a 13\u20139 half-time lead via a converted try from Ben Woods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final\nDupuy increased Leicester's lead to seven points with a third penalty goal just after the interval, but a converted try from Jamie Heaslip brought the teams level with half an hour left to play. Then, with ten minutes left on the clock, Jonathan Sexton squeezed a penalty inside the right-hand upright to win the match for Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Background\nMurrayfield Stadium was chosen as the venue for the 2009 Heineken Cup Final on 19 May 2008. The 2009 final was the second Heineken Cup final to be hosted by the 67,778-capacity stadium, following the 2005 final, when Toulouse beat Stade Fran\u00e7ais 18\u201312 after extra time in front of 51,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Background\nThe 2009 final was Leinster's first Heineken Cup final, although they had reached the semi-final stage on three other occasions: in 1995\u201396, 2002\u201303 and 2005\u201306, when they were knocked out by Cardiff RFC, Perpignan and Munster respectively. Leicester, however, had reached the final on four other occasions: 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2007; they won the competition in 2001 and 2002, beating Stade Fran\u00e7ais and Munster, but lost out to Brive in 1997 and London Wasps in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Background\nNigel Owens of Wales was named as the match referee for the 2009 final on 13 May 2009, making him the second official to referee consecutive Heineken Cup finals after England's Chris White. Frenchman Christophe Berdos was appointed as fourth official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leinster\nFor the pool stage draw, the 24 entrants were divided up into four tiers based on their European Rugby Club ranking; each group would consist of one team from each tier, and no country could have more than one team in the same group \u2013 with the exception of France, which would have two teams in one group. Leinster was placed in Tier 2, which would mean that they would avoid being drawn with teams like Gloucester, Sale Sharks and the Scarlets, but they could still be drawn with Toulouse, Stade Fran\u00e7ais, the Ospreys and the Cardiff Blues. They ended up being drawn in Pool 2 alongside London Wasps, Castres and Edinburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leinster\nLeinster won four of their pool stage matches, but a Matchday 5 defeat to Wasps meant that they had to equal or better the London side's result on the final matchday to be guaranteed a place in the knockout stage as group winners. In the end, Leinster's 12\u20133 win over Edinburgh was sufficient as Wasps were defeated in Castres and Leinster qualified as the sixth seeds for the quarter-finals, meaning that they would have to play away to third seeds Harlequins in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leinster\nLeinster's quarter-final against Harlequins was the last of the quarter-finals to be played, and also the lowest-scoring: Harlequins responded to two first-half penalties from Felipe Contepomi with a 65th-minute try from Mike Brown; Chris Malone had the chance to give Harlequins the lead, but his conversion attempt went wide of the far post. Brown also missed with a long-range penalty, while an injured Nick Evans, who had come on as a blood replacement under dubious circumstances, sent a last-minute drop goal attempt wide to give Leinster a 6\u20135 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leinster\nThe draw for the semi-finals was also made in January 2009, with the winners of Leinster's quarter-final due to play against either Munster or the Ospreys. Munster came through their quarter-final comfortably, beating the Ospreys 43\u20139 to set up an all-Irish semi-final. As Heineken Cup holders and newly crowned champions of the Celtic League, Munster went into the game as favourites, but Leinster drew first blood with an early drop goal from fly-half Felipe Contepomi. Ronan O'Gara equalised with a penalty shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leinster\nSeveral minutes later, Leinster suffered a major blow when Contepomi went down with what proved to be a cruciate ligament injury. A penalty from Contepomi's replacement, Jonathan Sexton, and an unconverted try from Gordon D'Arcy gave Leinster an 11\u20133 lead; a second penalty from O'Gara reduced Leinster's half-time lead to 11\u20136. Another try for Leinster, this time from Luke Fitzgerald, just after the interval put them two scores ahead, before Brian O'Driscoll intercepted a pass from Ronan O'Gara to score under the posts and round off a 25\u20136 win for Leinster. The match marked the first time that a club rugby match had been played at Croke Park, and the 82,208 attendance for the match set a new world record in club Rugby Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nBased on their European Club Rugby ranking, Leicester Tigers were placed in Tier 1 for the pool stage draw, meaning that they would avoid being drawn with Toulouse, Stade Fran\u00e7ais and holders Munster. They were eventually drawn into Pool 3 with Perpignan, the Ospreys and Benetton Treviso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nFour wins in their first five matches meant that Leicester went into their final pool match against the Ospreys needing only a point to reach the knockout stage. Within 15 minutes of the match kicking off, they were already 6\u20133 down; the score remained that way until half-time, after which the two teams continued to trade penalties, resulting in a final score of 15\u20139 to the Ospreys. The six-point margin gave the Tigers the losing bonus point they needed and they qualified for the quarter-finals as pool winners. Their pool record meant that they were given the fourth seed for the quarter-finals, meaning that they would face a home match against the fifth seeds, Bath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nLeicester went into the quarter-finals as the joint-top try scorers from the pool stage, while Bath had the second-lowest number of tries. Nevertheless, it was Bath substitute Shaun Berne who scored the first try of the quarter-final, going 7\u20136 up after Sam Vesty had scored two penalties in the first quarter of the game. After half-time, the two teams traded penalties before Joe Maddock crossed for Bath's second try in the 64th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nVesty levelled the scores at 15\u201315 soon after, but just as the match looked like it was heading to extra time, Leicester's replacement scrum-half Julien Dupuy feinted to pass back to Vesty in the pocket for a match-winning drop goal before scurrying through a gap at the base of the ruck on the edge of Bath's 22-metre line to score a try. Leicester's 20\u201315 win secured them a place in the semi-finals, where they would play the Cardiff Blues, who had beaten Toulouse 9\u20136 earlier that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nThe Blues were the only team to come through the pool stage unbeaten and, going into the quarter-finals, they were the joint-top try scorers in the competition, along with Leicester themselves. Ben Blair gave Cardiff the lead with a penalty before the 15-minute mark, but Leicester responded with a converted try from Scott Hamilton and a Julien Dupuy penalty to take the score to 10\u20133. Cardiff hit back with three penalties of their own before Dupuy slotted over to give Leicester a 13\u201312 half-time lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nAfter half-time, Leicester increased their lead with a converted try from Geordan Murphy and two more penalties from Dupuy; however, only a few minutes later, the Tigers were hit with two quick-fire sin-binnings, and the Blues took full advantage by scoring two converted tries from Jamie Roberts and Tom James to tie the scores at 26\u201326 and send the game into extra time. Aside from two missed drop goal attempts from Johne Murphy and Aaron Mauger, extra time was largely uneventful and the match went to the first penalty shootout in Heineken Cup history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Route to the final, Leicester Tigers\nThe first seven kicks in the shootout were all successful, giving Cardiff a 4\u20133 lead before Johne Murphy stepped up; however, the Irish winger missed the target, giving Tom James a chance to win the shootout for the Blues, only for the Welshman to miss his kick, allowing Scott Hamilton to convert and take the shootout to sudden death. Both teams successfully converted two more kicks before Martyn Williams wildly hooked his attempt wide and Jordan Crane slotted over to send Leicester into the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Match\nLeinster beat Leicester 19\u201316. They led Leicester 9\u20133 within 30 minutes following drop goals by Brian O'Driscoll and Johnny Sexton and a penalty by Sexton. They then had Stan Wright sin-binned, with Leicester moving into a 13\u20139 lead at half-time thanks to a Ben Woods try. Leinster's Jamie Heaslip scored a try to level the scores in the second half, with Sexton scoring another penalty to win the match ten minutes before the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Reaction\nIreland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen attended the match and said he was \"absolutely delighted\" and that it was a \"real pleasure\" to be present at a \"hugely exciting match\". He said it had been part of \"a golden year\" for the sport in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Reaction\nJohn Gormley, leader of the Irish Green Party, said the team deserved \"the country's fullest praise and admiration\" for lifting themselves \"to the very heights of the international game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Reaction\nThe British media reported in the aftermath that \"everything Irish rugby touches at the moment turns to gleaming silver\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Reaction\nThe Leinster team were welcomed back at a special ceremony in their regular home ground, the RDS Arena, on 24 May 2009. Spectators did not have to pay to attend this celebration, which also featured live music and family activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203195-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Cup Final, Reaction\nLeicester were reported to have taken \"their considerable disappointment on the chin\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203196-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open\nThe 2009 Heineken Open is a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is the 34th edition of the Heineken Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 12 January through 17 January 2008. First-seeded Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203196-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open\nThe announced singles field is headlined by Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, David Ferrer, and Robin S\u00f6derling. Also announced are defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber, Nicol\u00e1s Almagro, Sam Querrey, Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s and Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203196-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open, Finals, Doubles\nMartin Damm /  Robert Lindstedt defeated  Scott Lipsky /  Leander Paes, 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203197-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open \u2013 Doubles\nLuis Horna and Juan M\u00f3naco were the defending champions, but Horna chose not to participate, and only M\u00f3naco competed that year. M\u00f3naco partnered with Agust\u00edn Calleri, but lost in the quarterfinals to Paul Hanley and Jordan Kerr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203197-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open \u2013 Doubles\nMartin Damm and Robert Lindstedt won in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, against Scott Lipsky and Leander Paes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203198-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open \u2013 Singles\nPhilipp Kohlschreiber was the defending champion, but withdrew in the quarterfinals due to a shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203198-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heineken Open \u2013 Singles\nIn the final, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated Sam Querrey, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203199-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hel van het Mergelland\nThe 2009 Hel van het Mergelland was the 36th edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 4 April 2009. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Mauro Finetto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203200-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Helsingborgs IF season\nHelsingborgs IF had a disappointing season, losing to Sarajevo in the UEFA Europa League and only just finished in the top half, causing the resignation of coach Bosse Nilsson. The club's marquee player Henrik Larsson chose to retire from professional football aged 38, taking over Landskrona as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203201-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi season\nThe 2009 season was Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 79th competitive season, 29th consecutive season in the Veikkausliiga, and 102nd year in existence as a football club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203201-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi season\nThe 2009 season would see Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi claim a 22nd Veikkausliiga title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203202-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nThe 2009 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event held on August 10, 2009 at Watkins Glen International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203202-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nThe race was rained out on the original scheduled day of August 9. The race was won by points leader Tony Stewart, his third win of the year. Stewart scored his fifth win at Watkins Glen. With that win, he passed Jeff Gordon as the all time NASCAR winner at the Glen. As of 2019, that record still stands. Also with his win in that race, Tony Stewart would score his seventh career road course win, breaking him out a four-way tie for second in all time road course wins with Bobby Allison, Rusty Wallace, and Ricky Rudd. Stewart would win an additional road course race at Sonoma in 2016, the year he retired. As of 2019, Tony Stewart is currently in second place with eight road course wins, as Jeff Gordon currently holds the all-time record with nine wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203202-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nDuring the race, a hard crash involving Sam Hornish Jr., Jeff Gordon, and Jeff Burton, left the drivers shaken but alright. Kasey Kahne got loose under Hornish and Hornish slid hard into the tire barrier. Then Hornish spun back onto the track and Gordon had no way to avoid him and they made hard contact sending Gordon head on into the Armco barrier and Hornish into Jeff Burton, which nearly sent Hornish on his side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203202-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nIn the late stages of the race, fuel mileage was an issue but no one had any problems. Stewart held off a strong Marcos Ambrose for the win. Drivers from five different countries were in the race including the United States of America, Australia, Colombia, Italy and Canada. An incredible crowd of 85,000 live spectators were enthralled by this 146-minute racing event where the average green flag run was almost 13 laps long. Owing to the high number of accidents and resulting amount of debris, more than 14% of the event was raced under a caution flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203203-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Henan mine disaster\nThe 2009 Henan mine disaster took place on 8 September 2009 in Pingdingshan city, in Henan province in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203203-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Henan mine disaster\nThe gas explosion took place around 1 a.m. Tuesday in the Xinhua No.4 pit in Xinhua District of Pingdingshan City. 93 men were working underground, of which 14 managed to escape to safety. Initial report said 35 were confirmed dead and 44 were missing. On 9 September, the death toll rose to 44, while 35 were still missing. On 27 September, the total death toll was confirmed 67, while 9 people remained missing. Each family of the dead or missing workers was compensated 400,000 yuan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire\nThe ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, took place on Friday, June 5, 2009. Forty four children died that day and the death toll subsequently rose as additional children succumbed to their injuries. As of June 7, 44 toddlers and infants were reported killed as a result of the blaze. Five additional children died in the coming weeks, raising the final death toll to 49. Over 40 infants and toddlers and six adults were hospitalized with burns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nThe blaze started at 3pm (2200 GMT) on Friday, June 5, 2009. It was initially reported that the fire began in a tire warehouse next door and then spread to the child care center. Further investigation revealed that the actual source was a different warehouse, one operated by the state government. Within just a few minutes the fire caused the collapse of a roof section which fell on the children, infants and employees below. One of the first responders on the scene reported that all children were unconscious or dead and there were no sounds of children crying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nFirefighters took two hours to contain the blaze. \"They told me that this happened in a matter of five minutes,\" said Hermosillo Mayor Ernesto G\u00e1ndara. \"According to what our people saw, there was an explosion followed immediately by flames,\" reported Daniel Karam, the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). \"We began to smell smoke and the alarm went off. But it was explosive and there was no chance to get more children out,\" stated Mar\u00eda Adriana Gasca Sandoval, a daycare aide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nOver 142 children were attending the day care center at the time of the blaze, according to Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours, \"There were 142 children in the nursery, 35 have died, and another 41 are hospitalized.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nThe daycare center had passed an inspection on May 26, the week prior to the blaze. The number of enrolled children, 142 as well as the 6 staff members providing care for them were also within the approved ratio of caregiver to children for day care centers. Reports two days after the blaze revealed, however, that although the warehouse had windows, they were mounted too high and did not provide access to the daycare center for rescue operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nA fire department officer unofficially reported that the converted warehouse building had only one operational exit. One mother claimed a second exit was locked and the key could not be found. A desperate passerby, Francisco Manuel Lopez Villaescusa, drove his Silverado truck through the walls to gain entrance and knocked three holes into the building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Fire\nBy Sunday, Sonora state Health Minister Raymundo L\u00f3pez Vucovich announced, \"In the past few hours three more have died. Twelve of the 22 hospitalized children are in a dangerous condition.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Subsequent hospital care\nMany of the injured were cared for in hospitals in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Although 15 medical specialists were flown in to treat the victims, some children were moved to hospitals in other cities in the state of Jalisco which had doctors with specialties in children's burns. One boy could not be moved for further treatment as he has been declared brain dead. Two children were taken to a Shriner's burn hospital in Sacramento, California, USA, for treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Subsequent hospital care\n\"A lot of it is how deep the burn is and where it's located and how bad is the smoke inhalation,\" said Dr. Tina Palmieri, assistant chief of burns for the hospital. She reported that there was only a 50 per cent chance of survival for one of the three-year-old girls who sustained burns to over 80 per cent of her body. This girl was accompanied by her father and arrived in California by Mexican military transport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Subsequent hospital care\nHer mother, who had herself been working in the day care center, was taken to a Ciudad Obreg\u00f3n hospital after pulling her daughter and several other children out of the fire. The second patient, a young boy, began a series of skin graft surgeries on Sunday June 7, reported Dr. David Greenhalgh, chief of burn treatment at the Sacramento hospital. Both of these patients were listed in critical condition, monitored for infection, and unable to talk because breathing tubes had been inserted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Subsequent hospital care\nIn the aftermath Sonora state Health Minister Raymundo L\u00f3pez Vucovich issued updates. He reported that some of the hospitalized children had been suffering from kidney failure due to severe loss of body fluids caused by the burns. Others in the hospital had respiratory symptoms from smoke inhalation. The burns on some of the victims were so bad authorities had problems identifying them. Javier Alexis Pacheco, aged two, was rushed to the hospital for treatment for burn injuries. There were communication mishaps, however. Four-year-old Herm\u00e1n V\u00e1squez, with burns on 75 per cent of his body, was rushed to Ch\u00e1vez Hospital but his family did not find out where he was until 6 p.m. that evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Remembrances of victims\nDeaths occurred from smoke inhalation, burns, and trauma from the roof collapse. Stories of the victims appeared in news stories. Camila, a three-year-old girl perished in the fire from asphyxiation. Mar\u00eda, Julio, F\u00e1tima, Carlos, Sof\u00eda and Dafne were among the 41 pre-schoolers who were mourned at several funeral ceremonies that took place on the Saturday following the blaze. The parents of two-year-old Mar\u00eda Magdalena Mill\u00e1n, among those buried Saturday, attached a Dora the Explorer balloon to the cross marking her grave, while her mother cried out, \"I love you and I don't want to leave you here!\" Germ\u00e1n Le\u00f3n battled his injuries, but died Saturday morning, just days after his fourth birthday. The family of 2-year-old Daniel Alberto Goyzueta Cabanillas, who died of smoke inhalation, held a funeral late Saturday afternoon for the boy. The family of 2-year-old Camila Fuentes Cervera also held her funeral Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 986]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Grief and bereavement\nPope Benedict XVI sent a telegram to Archbishop of Hermosillo Jos\u00e9 Ulises Mac\u00edas Salcedo offering his condolences, \"Together with spiritual closeness, concern, and wishes for a speedy and total recovery of those injured in the lamentable incident.... With these sentiments, the Supreme Pontiff, in these moments of sadness, imparts from the heart the comfort of an apostolic blessing, as a sign of comfort and hope in the Risen Lord.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Grief and bereavement\nMexican President Calder\u00f3n stated, \u201cI want to express in the name of the federal government, of all Mexicans and of me personally, our condolences to the mothers and fathers for this tragic accident.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Grief and bereavement\nNeighbors conducted a candlelight vigil the morning of June 7 at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Day care center ownership\nGovernor Bours quickly admitted that the daycare's owners had familial ties to state government officials, state PRI party officials and First Lady Margarita Zavala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Day care center ownership\nThe daycare was federally funded but privately operated. The government's Social Security Institute provided a contact for operation. Two state officials resigned in the aftermath of the incident but were not arrested. Their two wives co-owned the daycare center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nPresident Felipe Calder\u00f3n placed federal attorney general Eduardo Medina-Mora in charge of the investigation to ascertain the cause of the fire. The President visited the scene and was said to be \"enormously saddened.\" \"This has been a painful tragedy for all Mexicans. I have ordered the federal prosecutor to as soon as possible carry out investigations to help us know exactly what and how it happened, and to work out corresponding responsibility,\" said Calder\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nThe investigation determined that the cause of the fire was a malfunctioning of the air conditioning unit in the neighboring warehouse. Additionally, the warehouse was not equipped with fire extinguishers or smoke alarms. \"The fire was caused by the overheating of an air conditioner due to continuous and prolonged use,\" said Attorney-General Eduardo Medina Mora. The air conditioner melted its aluminum housing and spread to license plates and paper work in the state government warehouse, which was closed and empty when the fire started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nThe investigation revealed that the child care center's fire alarms did not alert staff to the fire because they were installed below a brightly colored ceiling tarpaulin. It is believed that smoke filled the area between the warehouse's high roof and the false ceiling created by the tarp. When the tarp caught fire, smoke and flames collapsed onto the slumbering daycare infants and instantly filled the daycare with thick smoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nInvestigations further revealed that in 2005 the day care center owners had been advised by the IMSS to remove the tarp, widen the main entrance, and increase auxiliary fire exits to bring them up to fire regulation size. Subsequent safety inspections passed without the work being carried out and contracts were re-awarded for the continued operation of the center. Sonora attorney general Abel Murrieta Guti\u00e9rrez went on a media campaign accusing the IMSS of criminal negligence, stating that they had been aware of safety violations in the building ever since they had sent the warning letter in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nThe center was not equipped with water sprinklers which would have automatically engaged in the event of a fire. A marked emergency exit was bolted shut and one mother at the child care reported that no one was able to obtain the key. Hermosillo Fire Department Chief Mart\u00edn Lugo reported that, although the facility had recently passed a safety inspection, the fire alarms for the building were not installed correctly. Parents stated that although the daycare had 20 on staff, only six were on duty on the Friday of the blaze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nIn addition, the center was set up for pre-school children aged two to four, but Governor Bours had reported that younger infants were being cared for in the center. \"We always have to be open to improvements, especially when we have a tragedy that has so moved us,\" said IMSS director Kara, who admitted that their security requirements may need to be overhauled in light of the fact that the daycare passed safety inspection on May 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Investigation\nThere were later suspicions that the warehouse fire was started intentionally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Aftermath\nFourteen northern Sonora state finance department officials came under investigation and seven were arrested in connection with the fire for negligent homicide. \"They are employees and officials with the Finance Department who have a direct responsibility for the warehouse where the fire started.\" Two IMSS workers were also among those arrested. All seven state employees would be released on bail, along with all three co-owners. The only person to serve any time was Delia Irene Botello Amante, an IMSS local coordinator who was the last government employee to visit to the daycare before the fire. She was arrested in 2011 and released on January 1, 2014 due to technical issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Aftermath\nThe state Finance Department filed a negligence civil lawsuit against the day care owners and the Social Security Institute. The highest official in the Social Security Institute resigned and others were suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Aftermath\nIn September 2016 it came to light that the alleged letter sent to the daycare center in 2005 had been falsified by state officials in an attempt to divert attention from the government, since the fire had actually began in an adjacent warehouse used by the state ministry of finance to store documents. A theory that was investigated was that the fire was intentionally started in the warehouse with the purpose of destroying potential evidence of excessive debts incurred by Eduardo Bours during his term as governor. A federal judge ordered the Sonora Attorney General's office to launch an investigation into both Bours and his former Attorney General Murrieta Guti\u00e9rrez for document falsification as well as altering the scene of the crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203204-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Aftermath\nThe IMSS sued Bours on May 22, 2019 for negligence in the investigation of the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203205-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hertfordshire County Council election\nAn election to Hertfordshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 the date of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The whole elected council was up for election. The councillors were elected from the 77 wards, which return one each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The wards were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203205-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hertfordshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203205-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Hertfordshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203205-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hertfordshire County Council election, Summary\nThe Conservative Party retained and reinforced its control of the council with a net gain of 9 seats, and maintained an electoral stranglehold on the east of the county winning all seats in Broxbourne District, East Herts District, Hertsmere District & North Herts District. The Conservative party made significant gains in Stevenage District (3 seats), Dacorum District (3 seats), Welwyn Hatfield District (2 seats), Hertsmere District (2 seats) and North Herts District (2 seats). The Labour Party lost 13 seats, notably 3 in Stevenage District. This result left them with only 3 seats at County Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203205-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Hertfordshire County Council election, Summary\nThe Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats overall with a particularly strong performance in St Albans District at the expense of the Conservatives. The British National Party gained a seat in South Oxhey at the expense of Labour. It is also notable that the BNP came 2nd in the popular vote in Broxbourne District. The Green Party retained the seat gained in 2005 at Callowland Leggatts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203206-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hessian state election\nThe 2009 Hessian state election was held on 18 January 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The election was called after the failure of all government formation attempts conducted after the 2008 state election held a year earlier. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered major losses, falling from an effective tie with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to a 13.5-point deficit. The Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens were the primary beneficiaries of the SPD's decline. After the election, the CDU formed a coalition government with the FDP, and Roland Koch was elected Minister-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203206-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hessian state election, Background\nThe result of the 2008 Hessian state election was inconclusive, as neither the CDU\u2013FDP or SPD\u2013Green blocs had won a majority. This was due to the entry of The Left into the Landtag, with which the SPD was unwilling to cooperate, though both The Left and Greens supported a red-red-green coalition between the three parties. While a grand coalition between the CDU and SPD would command a comfortable majority, this option was very unpopular and was rejected by the SPD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203206-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hessian state election, Background\nIn October 2008, SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti attempted to negotiate a red-red-green coalition, reneging on a pledge made earlier in the year not to do so. This caused an revolt within the Hessian SPD, resulting in Ypsilanti being deposed and the new leadership under Thorsten Sch\u00e4fer-G\u00fcmbel seeking fresh elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203206-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hessian state election, Background\nCDU leader Roland Koch had served as Minister-President prior to the 2008 election, and continued in office in a caretaker capacity between the 2008 and 2009 elections. He could not be unseated due to the inability of the SPD to form a new government; in Hesse, the motion to remove a serving government simultaneously invests confidence in a proposed new government, and requires an absolute majority to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203206-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hessian state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Hesse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt\nThe 2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt involved the arrest of 49 men by Egyptian authorities in the five months preceding April 2009. Egypt accused them of being Hezbollah agents planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula. The arrests led to tensions between the Egyptian government and Hezbollah, as well as between Egypt and Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt\nTension had been high since Israel's Gaza War. Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah had accused Egypt of being a partner to the killing of Palestinians there, saying if it did not open the Rafah crossing it would be considered a \"partner in the killing of Palestinians by the IDF.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt\nThe plot prompted the Egyptian government to officially designate Hezbollah a \"terrorist group\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Activities\nIn Port Said, a cell was set up to monitor ship activity in the Suez Canal. The cell was to buy a boat as well as set up a fish shop in order to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Activities\nReports said the men had planned three major bomb attacks in Taba, popular with Israeli tourists, using explosive belts and car bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Reaction, Egyptian\nEgypt's reaction was hostile. President Hosni Mubarak issued a strong statement denouncing the Lebanese group and its supporters. \"They [Hezbollah and Iran] aspire to impose their influence on our Arab world by introducing hostile elements into the region, in efforts to threaten Egypt's national security,\" Mubarak said. He added, \"[W]e will uncover their plot; beware of Egypt's wrath.\" In addition, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram claimed that Iran, Syria, and Qatar were working to overthrow the Egyptian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Reaction, Hezbollah\nHezbollah said one of the men was indeed one of their operatives, but that he had been trying to smuggle weapons into Gaza for Hamas. The group said the terror plot claims were \"fabricated\" to \"sully Hezbollah\u2019s image\" and that the allegations were retaliation for Hezbollah's comments during Operation Cast Lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Reaction, Sudan\nA Sudanese official claimed rebel groups had collaborated with Hezbollah in smuggling weapons to Egypt. He condemned \u201cany sabotage to a country\u2019s sovereignty under any circumstances\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Convictions\nOn April 28, 2010, 26 men were convicted of planning the attacks and given sentences from six months to life imprisonment. Four men were convicted in absentia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203207-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hezbollah plot in Egypt, Escape\nIn the midst of the 2011 Egyptian protests, the cell's ringleader and 21 other Hezbollah suspects escaped from the Wadi El Natrun prison north of Cairo. Some later appeared back in Beirut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election\nThe 2009 Higgins by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives Division of Higgins on 5 December 2009. This was triggered by the resignation of former Treasurer and former Liberal Party deputy leader Peter Costello. The by-election was held on the same day as the Bradfield by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election\nIt was contested on the same boundaries drawn for Higgins at the 2007 federal election. At that election, the Liberal Party won the seat over the Labor Party with 57.04 per cent of the vote on a two-party-preferred basis, the closest result in the seat's 60-year history. The Liberal candidate has never had to go to preferences to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election\nThe writ for the by-election was issued on 30 October, with the rolls closing on 9 November. Candidate nominations closed 12 November, and were announced the following day. The Labor Party did not nominate a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election\nBoth the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections were the last by-elections for the House of Representatives until the 2014 Griffith by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Background\nCostello first won the seat of Higgins at the 1990 federal election, and retained the seat in the six subsequent elections. At the 2007 federal election, the opposition Kevin Rudd-led Labor Party defeated the incumbent John Howard-led Liberal-National coalition government. This marked the first change of government in over 11 years. Costello was deputy Liberal leader since 1994, firstly under Alexander Downer and then under John Howard, and was Treasurer in the Howard government from its formation in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Background\nOn the defeat of the Howard government in 2007, Costello declined to become Liberal leader and a position in the shadow ministry and returned to the backbenches. Costello had initially indicated (15 June 2009) he would stay as the member until the next election, at which time he would retire from parliament. However, on 7 October 2009, Costello announced he would be resigning from Parliament when it resumed later in the month. He resigned on 19 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Campaign\nThe Labor Party did not nominate a candidate for the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Campaign\nThe Higgins and Bradfield by-election campaigns were overshadowed by Liberal infighting over Labor Party government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, culminating in the replacement of Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott as Liberal leader. Although fairly safe on paper, some commentators including Malcolm Mackerras tipped the Greens to defeat the Liberals in Higgins, and force the Liberals to preferences in Bradfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Campaign\nLiberal Party candidate Kelly O'Dwyer focussed her campaigning on local issues and attempted to distance herself from federal affairs, whereas the Greens Clive Hamilton campaigned primarily for stronger action on climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203208-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Higgins by-election, Candidates\nThe following table is the order and party affiliation of each candidate that has nominated to contest the seat of Higgins. Candidates are placed in the order of the ballot paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203209-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hiroshima Toyo Carp season\nThe 2009 Hiroshima Toyo Carp season features the Carp quest to win their first Central League title since 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203210-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 21, 2009 at campus locations and at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston University won their seventh Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the Lamoriello Trophy and received Hockey East's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203210-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured three rounds of play. The teams that finish below eighth in the conference are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a best-of-three with the winner advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single-elimination game, with the winner advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203210-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203211-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season\nThe 2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season was the 64th season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203211-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season, Awards\nVarious Fighters players won awards for their regular season performances. Five players were selected for the Best Nine Award: Yu Darvish, Shinji Takahashi, Kensuke Tanaka, Atsunori Inaba and Yoshio Itoi. Shinya Tsuruoka and Eiichi Koyano joined Best Nine winners Takahashi, Tanaka, Inaba and Itoi to take seven of the nine available PL Golden Glove Awards. Darvish was voted the PL Most Valuable Player as well as the PL Most Valuable Pitcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl\nThe 2009 Holiday Bowl was the thirty-second edition of the college football bowl game and was played at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. The game started at 5:00 PM US PST on Wednesday, December 30, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN. The Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the Arizona Wildcats 33\u20130 for the first shutout in the history of the bowl. This was a rematch of the two teams, who faced each other in the 1998 Holiday Bowl, where Arizona defeated Nebraska 23\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Background\nThe game featured the 2nd pick from the Pac-10 and the 3rd pick from the Big 12. The game had recently become a type of \"upset\" bowl. In previous years, teams rejected by the BCS had lost to heavy underdogs. In 2005, a 10\u20131 Oregon team (favored by 3 points while ranked 6th in the nation) playing without its star quarterback Kellen Clemens lost 17\u201314 to a surging Oklahoma squad that had won six out of its last seven. In 2004, one-loss California was defeated by Big 12 Texas Tech, 45\u201331. In 2003, Big 12 representative Texas was knocked off by Pac-10 representative Washington State, led by Matt Kegel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Background\nThe Wildcats drew the bid the day they wrapped up an 8-4 season with a 21\u201317 victory at USC, a win that gave Arizona a share of second place (along with Oregon State and Stanford) in the Pac-10 with a 6\u20133 conference record. Nebraska lost a 13\u201312 heartbreaker to Texas in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Cornhuskers won the conference's North Division with a 6\u20132 record. The 1998 meeting between the two teams was the only time that either school had appeared in the Holiday Bowl. The only other meeting between the two schools was a 14\u201314 tie in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Background\nOn December 8, 2009, the Holiday Bowl committee announced a marketing campaign with fast food franchise Jack in the Box where Jack Box, the fictional Chairman and CEO of the company and star of its marketing campaigns, would be the Honorary Chairman of the game and the Grand Marshal of the Port of San Diego Big Bay Balloon Parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Game summary\nNebraska wore their home red jerseys, and Arizona wore their white away jerseys with their newly introduced white helmets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Game summary\nNebraska's 33\u20130 defeat of Arizona was the first and, to date, only shutout victory in the Holiday Bowl. Prior to the 2009 Holiday Bowl no team had scored fewer than 10 points in a game. The Wildcats were held to just 109 total yards of offense and just 6 first downs. The Cornhuskers were led on offense by wide receiver Niles Paul who hauled in 4 catches for 123 yards, including a touchdown, which accounted for 74 of his receiving yards. Quarterback Zac Lee threw for 173 yards and the TD to Paul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203212-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Holiday Bowl, Game summary\nRex Burkhead of Nebraska led all rushers with 89 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries. This also marked the first time in Nebraska's 46 bowl game history that it has shut out a team in postseason. However, this was the third time in Arizona's bowl history that they have been shut out, the second time in a game in San Diego. The Wildcats lost the 1921 San Diego East-West Christmas Classic to Centre College 38\u20130 and the 1990 Aloha Bowl to Syracuse 28\u20130. The game also marked Nebraska's first 10-win season since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203213-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Holland Ladies Tour\nThe 12th edition of the annual Holland Ladies Tour was held from September 1 to September 6, 2009. The women's stage race with an UCI rating of 2.2 started in Nuenen, and ended on the Cauberg in Valkenburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203214-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Holland Series\nIn the 2009 Holland Series DOOR Neptunus defeated the Konica Minolta Pioniers, 3 games to 1, to win the club's 12th Dutch Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203215-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 2009 Holy Cross Crusaders football team represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Tom Gilmore and played their home games at Fitton Field. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 9\u20133, 5\u20131 in Patriot League play to finish in first place and won the conference title. They went to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Villanova, 38\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203216-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger\nThe 2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Carson, United States between January 26 \u2013 February 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203216-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203216-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger, Champions, Men's doubles\nScott Lipsky /  David Martin def. Lester Cook /  Donald Young, 7\u20136(3), 4\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203217-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nCarsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier were the defending champions, but Ball chose to not participate this year. Rettenmaier partnered up with Brett Ross. They lost to Luka Gregorc and Andrea Stoppini in the first round. Scott Lipsky and David Martin won in the final 7\u20136(3), 4\u20136, 10\u20136, against Lester Cook and Donald Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203218-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Home Depot Center USTA Challenger \u2013 Singles\nAmer Delic was the defending champion, but he chose not to compete this year. Wayne Odesnik won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Scoville Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203219-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda 200\nThe 2009 Honda Indy 200 presented by Westfield Insurance was the thirteenth round of the 17-race 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on August 9, 2009 at the 2.258-mile (3.634\u00a0km) Mid -Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203219-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda 200\nThe race saw the return of Oriol Servi\u00e0, who replaced Robert Doornbos in the #06 Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing machine. Doornbos moved to the #33 car run by HVM Racing, with whom he had success with in the 2007 Champ Car season. Paul Tracy replaced Mario Moraes in the #5 car for KV Racing Technology, as Moraes was in Brazil following the death of his father.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203219-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda 200\nScott Dixon won his 20th IRL-sanctioned race, after dominating the race for the last 49 laps, winning by nearly half a minute from championship rivals Ryan Briscoe and Dario Franchitti. Dixon's win gave him the championship lead by three points from Briscoe, and also saw him surpass Sam Hornish, Jr.'s tally of 19 career IRL victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203220-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg\nThe Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was the opening round of the 2009 IndyCar Series on April 5, 2009. It was the first time in IndyCar Series history that the season begins on a road course and not an oval. The race saw 4 drivers make their debuts in the championship: Stanton Barrett, Mike Conway, Robert Doornbos and Raphael Matos. The race was contested over 100 laps of the 1.80 mile street course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203220-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg\nGraham Rahal started from the pole but a poor start meant that he dropped back and out of contention for the victory. Defending champion Scott Dixon crashed out on lap 80, a poor start to his defence of the title, which left Penske's Ryan Briscoe to take the chequered flag from Ryan Hunter-Reay who finished 2nd and Justin Wilson who came home 3rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203221-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda Indy Toronto\nThe 2009 Honda Indy Toronto was the tenth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season and took place on July 12, 2009 at the 1.755-mile (2.824\u00a0km) Exhibition Place temporary street circuit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dario Franchitti won the race, to join Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon as the only three-time winners in the 2009 season. Franchitti also regained the points lead from Dixon, leading the championship by two points as the championship heads to Edmonton. Ryan Briscoe finished second for the fifth time in the last six races, with Penske Racing teammate Will Power third on his return to the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203221-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honda Indy Toronto\nThe 2009 race was a resumption of the Toronto Grand Prix after a one-year hiatus due to the unification of the Champ Car World Series into IndyCar during the 2008 season, during which a Toronto Grand Prix was not held due to scheduling conflicts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis\nThe 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis was a political dispute over plans to either rewrite the Constitution of Honduras or write a new one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis\nHonduran President Manuel Zelaya planned to hold a poll on a referendum on a constituent assembly to change the constitution. A majority of the government, including the Supreme Court and prominent members of Zelaya's own party, saw these plans as unconstitutional as they could lead to presidential reelection, which is permanently outlawed by the Honduran constitution. The Honduran Supreme Court upheld a lower court injunction against a 28 June poll. However, the constitutional process for dealing with this situation was unclear; there were no clear procedures for removing or prosecuting a sitting president. The crisis culminated in the removal and exile of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military in a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis\nOn the morning of 28 June 2009, approximately 100 soldiers stormed the president's residence in Tegucigalpa and put him on a plane to San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica. Zelaya immediately called this a  \"coup\" upon his arrival. Later that day, the National Congress voted to remove Zelaya from office, having read without objection a purported letter of resignation. Zelaya said the letter was forged. Roberto Micheletti, the President of Congress and next in the presidential line of succession, was sworn in as interim president and declared a \"state of exception\" suspending civil liberties on 1 July and various curfews were imposed, some nationwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, State of emergency\nOn 21 September 2009, Zelaya returned in secret to Honduras, after several attempts to return had been rebuffed. It was announced that he was in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. The next day, the Micheletti government declared a state of emergency and suspended five constitutional rights for 45 days, specifically:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, State of emergency\nThe decree suspending human rights was officially revoked on 19 October 2009 in La Gaceta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Reaction\nThese events garnered widespread condemnation as a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. The United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union condemned the removal of Zelaya as a military coup, and some of these condemnations may still remain unretracted. The OAS rejected an attempt by Honduras to withdraw from the organisation and then suspended the membership of Honduras the following day. Domestic opinion remained very much divided, with demonstrations both for and against Zelaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Reaction\nEfforts by Costa Rican President \u00d3scar Arias and the United States to effect a diplomatic solution between Micheletti and Zelaya initially resulted in a proposal by President Arias calling for Zelaya's return to the presidency, albeit with curtailed powers. Arias's proposal also stipulated political amnesty and moved the Honduran general elections up by a month, pushing them to take place in October. The US supported the San Jos\u00e9 Accord, but negotiations ultimately broke down. The two parties were unwilling to come to any lasting agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Election\nZelaya (elected in January 2006) insisted that the elections of 29 November should not be a precondition to his return to power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Election\nHonduran leaders refused to reinstate Zelaya, pending the elections, but international support for the elections remained scant leading up to the polls. Many Hondurans sought to move past the crisis with the elections, which had been scheduled previous to Zelaya's ouster. Zelaya urged a boycott of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Election\nInitial returns indicated a larger than usual turnout, around 60%, a figure subsequently revised downward to 49%. Zelaya also disputed those figures at the time. Some Honduran activists ended their daily protests demanding the reinstatement of Zelaya because he was ousted in a coup, since Congress voted to keep Manuel Zelaya out of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Election\nThe crisis drew to a close with the inauguration of the newly elected president, Porfirio Lobo, on 27 January 2010. A deal allowed Zelaya to leave the Brazilian embassy and go into exile in the Dominican Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Political and socioeconomic divide in Honduras\nTwo-thirds of Honduras citizens live below the poverty line, and unemployment is estimated at 28%. It has one of Latin America's most unequal distribution of wealth: the poorest 10% of the population receives just 1.2% of the country's wealth, while the richest 10% collect 42%. Approximately twenty per cent of the nation's GDP comes from remittances of workers from abroad. The BBC called the huge wealth gap in a poor country as one of the reasons why the relations between the president and the other institutions were so strained and that his leftward movement alarmed certain sectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Political and socioeconomic divide in Honduras\nZelaya pushed for a referendum, insisting that Honduras' grinding poverty stemmed from a constitution written in 1982 at the height of that country's brutal repression of leftists \u2013 that rigs the game for the most powerful families and interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Political and socioeconomic divide in Honduras\nZelaya supporters, largely from labour unions and the poor, claim conservative business leaders are actually concerned because Zelaya had sharply increased the minimum wage. V\u00edctor Meza, formerly Zelaya's interior minister, stated that:  \"The impression that stuck with the traditional political class and with the most conservative business leaders of the country was that Zelaya had taken a dangerous turn to the left, and therefore that their interests were in jeopardy.\" \"We underestimated the conservatism of the Honduran political class and the military leadership.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Political and socioeconomic divide in Honduras\nJohn Donaghy of Caritas has said that the real conflict in Honduras is between the poor and wealthy: \"It's a system that has kept the poor down for years.\" To some members of Honduras's small upper class, Zelaya was ousted because of his blossoming leftist alliance with President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez of Venezuela which they recognised as a threat to their interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Political and socioeconomic divide in Honduras\nTo the working-class, it appeared Zelaya was ousted because the elite felt threatened by his efforts to improve their lives \u2013 most notably with a 60% increase in the minimum wage to about US$9.60 a day from about $6 a day. Some who protested in support of Zelaya had never voted for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Zelaya presidency\nManuel Zelaya, a businessman born into a wealthy Honduran family, was elected in 2005 as the candidate of the country's historically powerful Liberal Party. Zelaya's economic and social policies earned him praise from labour unions and civil society groups, but alienated him from parts of his own party. which were particularly upset by Zelaya's forging a regional alliance with the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), established by Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and other leaders in Latin America as a counter to the trade and security policies sponsored by the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Zelaya presidency\nZelaya also planned to convert the Soto Cano Air Base (\"Palmerola\"), where one of the three United States Southern Command Task Forces is located, into a civilian airport (it was already in use for many civilian flights because of safety concerns about Toncont\u00edn International Airport), partly using financing from ALBA and Petrocaribe. The New York Times reported that much of Zelaya's support was derived from labour unions and the nation's poor, while the middle and upper class feared Zelaya was seeking to establish Hugo Ch\u00e1vez's type of socialist populism with a powerful leader in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Zelaya presidency\nZelaya's government was accused of harassing journalists and also accused by The Organization of American States (OAS) of imposing \"subtle censorship\" in Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Zelaya presidency\nAccording to The Economist, \"Mr. Zelaya's presidency has been marked by a rise in crime, corruption scandals and economic populism.\" By April 2009, a Mitofsky opinion poll showed that, of those consulted, only one in four respondents approved of Zelaya \u2013 the lowest approval rating of 18 regional leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Alliance with ALBA\nOn 22 July 2008, Zelaya announced plans to incorporate the country into the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA), an organisation founded by Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, and that the country had been an \"observer member\" for \"four or more months\". The Associated Press, citing Manuel Orozco of the Inter-American Dialogue, said his \"campaign for changing the constitution has energized his support base of labour groups, farmers and civil organisations who have long felt marginalized in a country where a wealthy elite controls the media and much of politics\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Alliance with ALBA\nThe Honduran right opposed the ALBA alliance, and feared that Zelaya would move to eliminate the presidential term limit as other ALBA leaders had, whom they considered would-be dictators. According to National Party analyst Ra\u00fal Pineda Alvarado, Zelaya's attempt to modify the constitution was a \"carbon copy\" of what had happened in Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua. US Republican Newt Gingrich wrote in the Washington Examiner that Ch\u00e1vez had used ALBA to create \"a tide of incipient dictatorship\" flowing out of Venezuela into other countries in Latin America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Background, Alliance with ALBA\nHe noted that Ch\u00e1vez had subverted democracy in Venezuela to ensure his rule would be uncontested for decades, and \"one-by-one, each of the members of ALBA have followed Chavez's lead and changed their constitutions to remove limits on the number of terms their presidents can serve.\" However, the notion of extending term limits in Latin America is not unique to ALBA countries, as efforts in Colombia have been made towards allowing President \u00c1lvaro Uribe seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans\nAs early as August 2006, Central America Report stated that \"liberal sectors\" were proposing to reform \"obsolete articles\" in the constitution, including one against presidential re-election. The Report said that this was causing controversy. Debate regarding the convening of a constituent assembly took place in Honduras, with support from many groups. \"The constitution has since 1980 been tweaked in other areas around thirty times, to the point where politicians of all camps are convinced that the document is no longer adequate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans\nThis is where the formal change proposed by Manuel Zelaya comes in: that in the November 2009 election-round, the voters will be presented with four ballot-boxes \u2013 the fourth one being used for a referendum on the question: \"Do you agree with convening a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans\nOn 11 November 2008, President Zelaya announced a non-binding referendum to see if the people wanted to have a fourth ballot box (or \"Cuarta Urna\") during the November 2009 election. The fourth ballot would ask voters whether they wanted to hold a National Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution. Zelaya, whose presidential term was to expire on 27 January 2010, would be ineligible, under the term-limitations of the present constitution, to run in the 2009 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans\nOn 22 December 2008 Zelaya issued two emergency executive agreements (\"acuerdos\"), both numbered 46-A-2008, which each authorised transfer of L\u00a030,000,000 of public money to advertising of his fourth ballot box. Only one was published in the official Gazette. The supposed advertisers paid no sales tax. The Supreme Audit Court's investigation of the advertising money raised concerns of irregularities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans\nOn 17 February 2009, at a public showcasing of tractor equipment received from Venezuela, Manuel Zelaya stated that he would propose a fourth ballot box. On 24 March 2009, Zelaya called for a preliminary poll to be held on 28 June 2009 to gauge popular support for including the Constituent Assembly question in the November 2009 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Constitutionality of referendum\nThe President of the Congress, Micheletti, observed that Article 374 of the constitution states that no referendum can be used to alter the entrenched articles in the constitution that are specified in article 384. He went on to insist that even to announce such a referendum privately is a crime (\" . . . porque eso, incluso, anunciarlo privadamente es un delito.\")", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Constitutionality of referendum\nArticle 373 of the Constitution of Honduras states that the constitution can be modified by a two-thirds majority of the National Congress. However, Article 374 specifies that several articles are permanently entrenched; that is, they cannot be modified under any circumstances (Spanish: \"en ning\u00fan caso\"). The entrenched clauses include those on the system of government that is permitted, and the presidential succession. Article 239 specifically prohibits the president from attempting to amend restrictions on succession, and states that whoever does so will cease \"immediately\" in his or her functions. Zelaya's statement \u2013 \"[t]he only one who can't be re-elected is the President, but re-election is a topic of the next National Constitutional Assembly\" \u2013 is a declaration that some have argued violates Article 239. Article 239, however, is not mentioned at all in the judicial case file.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 995]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nOn 25 March, the Attorney General's office formally notified President Zelaya that he would face criminal charges of abusing power if he proceeded with the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nIn late May, the court of contentious administration ruled the poll illegal. Honduras' Supreme Electoral Tribunal also ruled that such a poll would be illegal. The lower court's injunction, against the poll, was upheld by the Supreme Court. In late June, the intended consultative poll was also rejected by Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nOn 3 June, Congress passed a resolution warning Zelaya to correct his administrative conduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nOn 11 June, the Bar Association of Honduras unanimously agreed that Zelaya was violating the law. It asked Zelaya to stop the illegalities and recommended officials not follow his illegal orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nOn 23 June 2009, Congress passed a law forbidding holding official polls or referenda less than 180 days before the next general election, which would have made 28 June poll illegal. Since this bill was passed after the poll was scheduled, Zelaya rejected its applicability to this case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nThe military is in charge of security and logistics in elections in Honduras. Zelaya asked them to perform their election role for the poll, but the head of the military command, General Romeo V\u00e1squez Vel\u00e1squez, refused the order to pass out the poll materials because the Supreme Court had ruled the poll to be illegal. On 24 June, Zelaya fired him. Later that day, the defence minister and heads of the army, navy and air force resigned. On 25 June, the Supreme Court ruled 5\u20130 that General Vel\u00e1squez be reinstated. Tribunal member David Matamoros affirmed the Electoral Tribunal's support for the military's actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nOn 24 June, surveillance cameras captured how about US$2,000,000 in cash was withdrawn from the Central Bank of Honduras and allegedly driven to the office of Enrique Flores Lanza, Zelaya's chief of staff. The suspicious money was possibly used to finance the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Court ruling\nJust days before the referendum, Zelaya published executive decree PCM-019-2009, which revoked the earlier decree PCM-05-2009. Zelaya issued a new executive decree PCM-020-2009, another attempt to legalise the referendum. According to a legal analysis by former Supreme Court President Vilma Morales, Zelaya stopped being President of Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Seizure of ballots\nBallots arrived from Venezuela on a plane and the ballot boxes were kept at the Tegucigalpa airport. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ordered the illegal ballots to be confiscated. Investigators from the Ministerio P\u00fablico and the Honduran attorney general's office arrived at the airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Seizure of ballots\nZelaya led several hundred people to an air force base and took possession of the disputed poll ballots, which were then kept in the presidential palace to avoid their destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Seizure of ballots\nIn late June, there were large marches both for and against the proposed fourth ballot box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Constitutional assembly plans, Seizure of ballots\nThe Supreme Court, Congress, and the military and the National Human Rights Commissioner recommended that voters stay home because the poll would be neither fair nor safe for voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Supreme court detention order\nOn 27 May 2009, the Administrative Law Tribunal issued an injunction against holding the poll at the request of Honduran Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi. On 16 June the Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the 27 May injunction. On 18 June, the Administrative Law Tribunal ordered Zelaya to comply with the ruling in writing within five days. On 26 June the Supreme Court unanimously found that the president had not complied with 18 June order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Supreme court detention order\nIt also found he was answerable to charges, brought by the Attorney General, for the crimes against the form of government, treason to the motherland, abuse of office and usurpation of functions that damaged the administration. To initiate the case, the Supreme Court appointed member Tom\u00e1s Arita Valle, who, on 26 June, issued a sealed (secret) order to detain Zelaya for the purposes of taking a statement. Some pro-Zelaya supporters have sought to cast doubt on the Supreme Court's documentation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and first exile\nSoldiers stormed the president's residence in Tegucigalpa early in the morning of 28 June, disarming the presidential guard, waking Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica. In San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, Zelaya told TeleSUR that he had been awakened by gunshots. Masked soldiers took his cell phone, shoved him into a van and took him to an air force base, where he was put on a plane. He said he did not know that he was being taken to Costa Rica until he landed at the airport in San Jos\u00e9. To the media, he described the events as \"a coup\" and \"a kidnapping\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and first exile\nTanks patrolled the streets and military planes flew overhead. Soldiers guarded the main government buildings. The government television station and a television station that supported the president were taken off the air. Television and radio stations broadcast no news. The electrical power, phone lines, and international cable TV were cut or blocked throughout Honduras. Public transportation was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and first exile\nLater that day, the Supreme Court issued a statement that it had ordered the army to arrest Zelaya. On 30 June, the military's chief lawyer, Colonel Herberth Inestroza, showed Judge Arita's arrest order. Colonel Inestroza later stated that deporting Zelaya did not comply with the court order, but that military leadership had decided to do so to avoid violence in Honduras, asking \"What was more beneficial, remove this gentleman from Honduras or present him to prosecutors and have a mob assault and burn and destroy and for us to have to shoot?\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and first exile\nInestroza also stated that Zelaya's allegiance to Ch\u00e1vez was hard to stomach and \"It would be difficult for us, with our training, to have a relationship with a leftist government. That's impossible. I personally would have retired, because my thinking, my principles, would not have allowed me to participate in that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and first exile\nRam\u00f3n Custodio, the head of the country's human rights commission, said that Zelaya's exile was a mistake and that the military made an \"error\" sending Zelaya into exile rather than holding him for trial. Honduras's Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by a group of lawyers and judges arguing that the military broke the law taking Zelaya out of the country. In August 2009, Micheletti himself said that a mistake was made when Zelaya was exiled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Alleged impeachment and presidential succession\nA document purporting to be a resignation letter written by President Zelaya, dated 25 June, was read to congress. Zelaya has said he did not write the letter. Later that day, in an extraordinary session Congress voted to remove Zelaya for manifest irregular conduct and putting in present danger the state of law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 97], "content_span": [98, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Alleged impeachment and presidential succession\nThe President of the National Congress was the next on the presidential line of succession because theVice-President had earlier quit to run in the 2009 elections. The President of the National Congress was Roberto Micheletti, a member of Zelaya's party. By a show of hands, the National Congress \u2013 the majority of whom belonged to Zelaya's own Liberal party \u2013 named Micheletti to complete the remaining months of the presidential term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 97], "content_span": [98, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Alleged impeachment and presidential succession\nAt around 12:37 the Honduran National Congress unanimously agreed to:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 97], "content_span": [98, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Alleged impeachment and presidential succession\nHonduran institutions, including the National Congress, the Supreme Court, and the interim government, maintain Zelaya was replaced constitutionally. Arguments that Zelaya's ouster was illegal because the proper legal procedures were not used has been advanced by several lawyers. Acting Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said forcing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country, instead of arresting him, was a mistake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 97], "content_span": [98, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Emergency measures by the interim government\nActing President Roberto Micheletti ordered a curfew which initially lasted for the 48 hours from Sunday night (28 June) and to Tuesday (30 June). The curfew law was not published in the official journal La Gaceta and was not approved by Congress. Originally the curfew ran from 9:00\u00a0p.m. to 6:00\u00a0a.m. That curfew was extended, changed, or renewed several times, in ways Amnesty International and the International Observation Mission called \"arbitrary\". On 1 July, Congress issued an order (decreto ejecutivo N\u00b0 011-2009) which extended restrictions between 22:00 and 05:00 local time and also suspended four constitutional guarantees, including freedom of transit, due process, and freedom from unwarranted search and seizure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Emergency measures by the interim government\nThe ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua stated that on 29 June that they were detained and beaten by Honduran troops before being released. Also, several allies of Zelaya were taken into custody by the military. Among them were: Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas; the mayor of the city San Pedro Sula, Rodolfo Padilla Sunseri; several congressmen of the Democratic Unification Party (PUD); and several other government officials. A dozen former ministers from the Zelaya government, as well as PUD presidential candidate Cesar Ham, went into hiding. A Venezuelan state-owned media outlet claimed that Tom\u00e1s Andino Menc\u00edas, a member of the party, said that PUD lawmakers were led away by the military when they tried to enter the parliament building for 28 June vote on Zelaya's deposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 889]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Emergency measures by the interim government\nSeveral TV stations, radio stations, and newspaper's websites were temporarily shut down. The Miami Herald reported that the \"crackdown on the media\" began before dawn on the 28th. It said that only pro-Micheletti stations were allowed to broadcast and that they carried only news friendly to the new government. Associated Press personnel were detained and removed from their hotel, but later released. A number of local reporters and media sources reported on harassment and restrictions. Alejandro Villatoro, director of Radio Globo, said that he was arrested and \"kidnapped\" for some hours by the military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, Emergency measures by the interim government\nHonduran newspaper La Prensa reported on 30 June that an armed group of Zelaya supporters, attacked its main headquarters by throwing stones and other objects at their windows, until police intervened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 94], "content_span": [95, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nProtests against the coup began almost immediately, as several thousand Zelaya supporters gathered near the Presidential Palace, confronting the guarding soldiers and lit tires on fire. In response to daily pro-Zelaya protests, Congress approved a decree on 1 July that applied an overnight curfew and allowed security forces to arrest people at home and hold them for more than 24 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nOn 30 June, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution which called for the reinstatement of Zelaya as the President of Honduras. Zelaya spoke in front of the General Assembly where he was applauded several times. In his speech, Zelaya promised not to seek another term as President and said that he would not accept a second term if he were asked to serve again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\n30 June also saw the first rally in support of Zelaya's removal take place in the capital, as thousands of Zelaya opponents took to the main square. Roberto Micheletti made an appearance and said that the November general elections will be held as scheduled and that a new president will be sworn in on 27 January 2010. General Romeo V\u00e1squez Vel\u00e1squez also attended and spoke at the rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nHonduras was formally suspended from the Organization of American States on 4 July, after the Micheletti government ignored an ultimatum by the OAS to re-instate Zelaya as president. OAS Secretary General Jos\u00e9 Miguel Insulza had arrived in Honduras the previous day to negotiate Zelaya's return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nZelaya met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on 7 July. At this meeting, Zelaya agreed to a US-backed proposal for negotiation talks with Micheletti government representatives in Costa Rica set for 9 July. The talks, with Costa Rican President \u00d3scar Arias serving as mediator, proved unsuccessful, as both sides remained far apart according to regional leaders. The participants only agreed to meet again sometime in the future, as Zelaya left Costa Rica to gather more international support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nMeanwhile, Micheletti announced that he accepted the resignation of his Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez, who, in a TV interview, had called US President Barack Obama \"[un] negrito que no sabe nada de nada\" (\"a little black man who knows nothing about nothing\"). The US Embassy in Honduras strongly condemned the comments, which Micheletti described as \"a scandalous epithet\". However, Micheletti immediately reinstated Ortez as Minister of Government and Justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nIn mid-July Honduran Roman Catholic Cardinal \u00d3scar Andr\u00e9s Rodr\u00edguez Maradiaga said that he supported Zelaya's removal from office, saying that Zelaya now \"doesn't have any authority, moral or legal\", while opposing his expulsion from the country. On 15 July 2009, interim president Roberto Micheletti stated he would be prepared to step down \"if at some point that decision is needed to bring peace and tranquility to the country, but without the return, and I stress this, of former President Zelaya\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nIn a 16 July interview President \u00d3scar Arias said that he had a mandate from 34 world governments to restore constitutional order in Honduras, by which he meant restore President Zelaya. He rejected Micheletti's proposal to step down if Zelaya did not return to power. He said, \"we will see if we can talk of an amnesty, and for whom, over political crimes (veremos si se puede hablar de una amnist\u00eda, y para qui\u00e9nes, sobre delitos pol\u00edticos)\". \"Zelaya must abandon his goal of installing a fourth ballot box\", he continued. Arias indicated he intended to propose a reconciliation government headed by Zelaya combined with political amnesty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June\nMeanwhile, both pro- and anti-Zelaya demonstrations continued on an almost daily basis throughout the deeply polarised country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba\nAfter Zelaya's exile, Chavez alleged that the Venezuelan ambassador was assaulted by Honduran soldiers; Chavez said that if the ambassador were killed or the Venezuelan Embassy were violated, this would constitute an act of war requiring a military response. On 2 July, Honduran police arrested several Cubans and Nicaraguans present at demonstrations, and police sources claimed Venezuelans were active in the anti-coup movement. On 5 July, Venezuelan media showed Hugo Ch\u00e1vez watching Zelaya's attempt to land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba\nAccidentally visible in Ch\u00e1vez's office was the text \"051345JUL09 Swarm of africanized bees, Presidential Podium, wounded by stings and desperation of the people\", the military-style code for 5, 13 July:45 coincided with a violent confrontation in Honduras. On 8 July, Colombia arrested 80 Venezuelans who attempted to travel to Honduras. On 27 July, police confiscated a booklet in a car owned by Carlos Eduardo Reina, a leader of pro-Zelaya operations. It allegedly contained a list of 15 receipts, dated 24 July, and references to a meeting near Nicaraguan border. The receipts totalled 160,000 US dollars. Hugo Ch\u00e1vez allegedly made payments to ambassadors of Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba\nIn October 2009, Daniel Ortega hinted that the \"Resistance\" is searching for weapons and training centres. Hugo Ch\u00e1vez said \"I'm just warning... no one to be surprised if there is an armed movement in the mountains of Honduras\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Opposition to the interim government\nMuch of the opposition to the de facto Micheletti government and its actions were co\u00f6rdinated through a wide coalition of grassroots organisations and political parties and movements formerly known as Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado en Honduras (FNGE), now Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular. The FNGE aimed to restore elected President Manuel Zelaya in replacement of the de facto Roberto Micheletti government, which is perceived by the participating organisations as a dictatorship, considering the documented human rights violations since the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and the reappearance of figures involved in disappearances and torture in former coups d\u2019\u00e9tat. The FNGE supports a process of participatory democracy that should lead to a national constituent assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Opposition to the interim government\nFNGE held marches every day since 28 June, except the days when a curfew was imposed, where demonstrations took place in grassroot neighbourhoods. Notable marches on 5 July 15 September, and 27 January involved over 200,000 people per day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nA number of groups have published reports, including COFADEH, International Federation of Human Rights, \"La Misi\u00f3n Internacional de Solidaridad, Observaci\u00f3n y Acompa\u00f1amiento a Honduras\", \"Quixote Center Emergency Delegation of Solidarity, Accompaniment and Witness\", Amnesty International, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and Human Rights Watch that documented instances of sexual violence, excessive use of military force, arbitrary detentions, threats at gunpoint against judges responsible for habeas corpus detention and beating members of the media and several confirmed deaths and disappearances allegedly attributable to the de facto government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\n19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo Menc\u00edas was shot in the head on 5 July when Zelaya's plane was trying to land at Toncontin Airport; Roger Iv\u00e1n Bados, former union leader, member of the Democratic Unification Party and Bloque Popular, shot dead on 11 July while entering his home in San Pedro Sula; 40-year-old campesino leader and Democratic Unification Party member Ram\u00f3n Garc\u00eda on 12 July, after he was forced by unknown people to get off a bus; 23-year-old Pedro Magdiel Mu\u00f1oz Salvador, allegedly detained by police during anti-coup protests and taken to an El Para\u00edso police station on 24 July, was allegedly found at 6:30\u00a0am the following morning with 42 stab wounds; 38-year-old high school teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano, shot in the head allegedly by security forces during protests on 31 July, died on 1 AugustOn 3 July, Radio Am\u00e9rica journalist Gabriel Fino Noriega was murdered near La Ceiba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 991]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nOn or just before 4 August 2009, the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) terminated Radio Globo's transmission frequency rights. The Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders released a statement on 29 June stating that, \"The suspension or closure of local and international broadcast media indicates that the coup leaders want to hide what is happening.\" Carlos Laur\u00eda of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said: \"The de facto government clearly used the security forces to restrict the news... Hondurans did not know what was going on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0065-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nThey clearly acted to create an information vacuum to keep people unaware of what was actually happening.\" However, in an interview published on 9 July 2009 in The Washington Post, Ram\u00f3n Custodio L\u00f3pez, Honduras's human rights ombudsman, said he had received no official complaints from journalists: \"This is the first I have heard about an occupation or military raid of a station,\" he said. \"I try to do the best job I can, but there are things that escape my knowledge.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nOn 21 August 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) dispatched a six-member delegation which reported accusations it received. The delegation was told of alleged violent confrontations and arbitrary arrests. Someone even accused police of rape. Some alleged that judges were threatened \"at gunpoint\". According to the received allegations, 3,500 and 4,000 people had been arrested. The IACHR also received accusations that the government has threatened, detained and beaten members of the media. Based on the statements it received, the delegation concluded that there was \"an atmosphere of intimidation that inhibits the free exercise of freedom of expression\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nOn the same day, 93 academics and authors, mostly from United States universities, criticised Human Rights Watch's lack of statements and reports on Honduras between 8 July and 21 August. Four days later, Human Rights Watch published a summary of the IACHR report and stated that it had published reports up to 8 July and that human rights supporters had encouraged the IACHR to \"directly [intervene]\". ABC News (United States) claimed that HRW had \"commissioned\" the IACHR report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nViolent confrontations with media continued from both Zelaya supporters and opponents during the week of 12 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Human rights complaints\nOn 10 October, Honduras' interim leaders put in place new rules that threaten broadcasters with closure for airing reports that \"attack national security\", further restricting media freedom following the closure of two opposition stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nZelaya made two initial, open attempts to return to his country, which were rebuffed. On 5 July he attempted to return by air, and the Micheletti government responded by closing Toncont\u00edn International Airport and sending the military to guard the runways. As thousands of Zelaya supporters gathered at the airport to meet him, one was confirmed dead and scores injured, when \"several soldiers walked through [the crowd] and began firing indiscriminately\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nOn 26 July, Zelaya briefly entered into Honduran territory, at a border crossing between Honduras and Nicaragua near Las Manos in El Para\u00edso Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nOn 21 September 2009, Zelaya and his wife arrived at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya stated that to reach the embassy he travelled through mountains for fifteen hours, and took back roads to avoid checkpoints, but he did not state from which country he entered Honduras. He stated to Canal 36 that \"I am here in Tegucigalpa. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nMichelletti initially denied that Zelaya had returned. After admitting the return, he issued a curfew and asked the Brazilian government to put Zelaya in Honduran custody to be put on trial. Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim stated that Brazil did not aid Zelaya's return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nThousands of Zelaya supporters soon congregated around the embassy. Security Vice-Minister Mario Perdomo ordered checkpoints to be placed on highways leading to Tegucigalpa, to \"stop those people coming to start trouble\". Defense Minister Lionel Sevilla suspended all air flights to Tegucigalpa. Late that day, Honduran security forces used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowds outside the Brazilian embassy. The interim government also surrounded the area with military and several agencies reported that 'hooded men' had stormed the building next to the embassy. About 50 pro-Zelaya supporters have been reported wounded by police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nElectricity was cut off to the embassy area and Canal 36 TV; however, Radio Globo sent out a broadcast that included a call for generators and a pledge by the head of the electrical workers union to send technicians which shortly led to power being restored to the immediate area. The curfew was then extended until 6:00\u00a0pm the following day, a drastic measure because it means that all workplaces will be closed during daylight hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nInstalled inside the embassy, Zelaya complained of harassment from the Micheletti government aided by Israeli mercenaries. He claimed they had installed a mobile phone jammer, which he showed to the press, and assaulted the occupants of the embassy with toxic gases and radiation, which allegedly caused nose or stomach bleeding or related symptoms in over 25 people inside the embassy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nOn 24 September, Brazil called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim told the Security Council that \"since the day it has sheltered President Zelaya at its premises, the Brazilian Embassy has been virtually under siege\" and that \"it has been submitted to acts of harassment and intimidation by the de facto authorities\". The UN Security Council defended the inviolability of Brazilian embassy and \"called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy and to provide all necessary utilities and services, including water, electricity, food and continuity of communications\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nAmnesty International representative Susan Lee described human rights violations by Micheletti's security forces following Zelaya's return as \"alarming\". These included a \"sharp rise in police beatings\" and hundreds of arrests of political demonstrators throughout Honduras, and intimidation of human rights defenders by police firing tear gas canisters into the building of the human rights NGO Comit\u00e9 de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH), at a moment when about 100 people were in the COFADEH office, many who were in COFADEH to report human rights violations earlier that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0077-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nDozens of the protestors detained were held in unauthorised detention sites in Tegucigalpa on 22 September. Amnesty International also reported limits imposed by the de facto authorities on free speech, in which Radio Globo and the TV channel 36 \"suffered power stoppages or constant interruptions to their transmissions which prevented them from broadcasting\". Susan Lee stated \"The only way forward is for the de facto authorities to stop the policy of repression and violence and instead respect the rights of freedom of expression and association.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nOn 28 September 2009, after pressure from home and abroad, Micheletti said that he would lift his decree suspending civil liberties. As of 2 October 2009, Mr. Micheletti had not done so, but told a visiting delegation of Republican members of the US Congress that he would lift the decree and restore civil liberties by Monday, 5 October 2009 at the latest, according to a spokesman for a member of the delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0078-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's secret return to Honduras\nOn 5 October 2009, Micheletti said that he was lifting the decree but also said that the pro-Zelaya media that had been closed down by the de facto government, Radio Globo and Canal 36 TV, would have to appear before the courts to regain their broadcast permits. On 19 October 2009, the decree was reversed in the official gazette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Negotiations and accord\nOn 29 October 2009, the de facto Micheletti government signed an agreement with Zelaya's negotiators that would allow the Honduran Congress to vote on whether the ousted president would be restored and allowed to serve out the few remaining months of his term. Zelaya chose not to give a list of candidates for the unity government to Micheletti, arguing that the Congress was unacceptably delaying the agreed-upon vote on his restoration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Negotiations and accord\nWhen Micheletti announced he had, unilaterally, formed the unity government without input from Zelaya, Zelaya declared the agreement \"dead\" early on 6 November. The United States sent diplomats to help to resurrect the pact, but Zelaya insisted that he would not accept any deal to restore him to office if it meant he must recognise the elections of 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Elections\nWith Micheletti indicating that he would temporarily step down to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections, and congressional and judicial leadership refusing to reinstate Zelaya before the elections, Panam\u00e1, Costa Rica, and the United States indicated that they would support the outcome, but international support for the elections remained scant leading up to the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Elections\nIn the days preceding the elections, United States, Israel, Italy, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Germany, Costa Rica and Japan also announced their intentions to recognise the results of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Elections\nOrganisations and individuals in Honduras, including the National Resistance Front against the coup d\u2019\u00c9tat in Honduras, Marvin Ponce of the Democratic Unification Party, and Bertha Oliva of Comit\u00e9 de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, and internationally, including Mercosur, President Cristina Kirchner of Argentina andthe Union of South American Nations, said that elections held on 29 November under Micheletti would not be legitimate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Elections\nOn 29 November 2009, a presidential election was held, according to the Honduran constitution. Five candidates ran for president. Early returns indicate that conservative Porfirio Lobo was elected with around 55% of the votes. Official numbers for the turnout of the election placed it at around 60%, which was subsequently officially revised down to 49% \u2013 a considerable decline on the 55% 2005 election turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Elections\nThe European Parliament did not send observers. However, observers were sent by the centre-right European People's Party, who reported a \"high degree of civic maturity and exemplar democratic behaviour\" during the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya-reinstatement proposal rejected by Congress\nOn 2 December, the National Congress debated regarding the possible reinstatement of Zelaya to the presidency. A vast majority of the lawmakers voted against Zelaya's reinstatement. The 128 member Congress voted 111 to 14 against reinstating Zelaya, affirming its 28 June decision. This decision was made as part of the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accord, and called on the International Community to respect the decision. Almost all congressmen from Zelaya's own political party as well as the opposition National Party voted against the reinstatement, and supported the victory of Porfirio Lobo Sosa as the new president of Honduras in the November 2009 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 109], "content_span": [110, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya-reinstatement proposal rejected by Congress\nZelaya criticised the vote and urged governments not to restore ties with the incoming administration of Porfirio Lobo. \"Today, the lawmakers at the service of the dominant classes ratified the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in Honduras,\" Zelaya said in a statement released shortly after the vote. \"They have condemned Honduran to exist outside the rule of law. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 109], "content_span": [110, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya-reinstatement proposal rejected by Congress\nOn 4 December, Juan Barahona-led activists ended five months of daily protests demanding the reinstatement of Zelaya, saying they are moving on now that Congress has voted to keep Manuel Zelaya out of office. Juan Barahona, who had been leading protests since late June when Zelaya was forced out of the country, said that his supporters are \"closing that chapter\" of their struggle. Barahona said it's time for Hondurans who support policies in favour of the poor and other themes that Zelaya espoused to shift their focus to the 2013 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 109], "content_span": [110, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Second exile\nOn 20 January 2010, the Dominican Republic and President-elect Porfirio Lobo agreed to a deal that would allow Zelaya to be transported safely from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa where he had been, to the Dominican Republic upon Lobo taking office on 27 January. Lobo stated that he would ensure Zelaya would leave safely and \"with dignity\". Lobo negotiated with Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez. Lobo also discussed the situation with former presidential candidates who signed a statement on the agreement, as well as requesting that sanctions placed against Honduras as a result of the incident be lifted. The next day, Zelaya agreed to the deal, while a close advisor said he would remain politically active and hope to later return to political activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Events after 28 June, Zelaya's return after charges dropped\nIn May 2011 a court in Honduras dropped all corruption charges against Zelaya, allowing him to return to Honduras. He did so on 28 May 2011 to a massive reception at Toncontin International Airport. On 1 June the OAS voted to re-admit Honduras into the OAS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 96], "content_span": [97, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, International reaction\nNo foreign government recognised Micheletti as president. US President Barack Obama, along with leaders and officials of governments throughout the hemisphere and the rest of the world, condemned the removal of President Zelaya as undemocratic and called the action taken against him a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0091-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, International reaction\nHowever, in the United States, the Congressional Research Service (a nonpartisan entity within the Library of Congress working on behalf of the United States Congress), after studying the relevant texts of Honduran law, determined that \"The Supreme Court of Honduras has constitutional and statutory authority to ... request of the assistance of the public forces to enforce its rulings,\" and did not misapply its authority in this case: \"Available sources indicate that the judicial and legislative branches applied constitutional and statutory law in the case against President Zelaya in a manner that was judged by the Honduran authorities from both branches of the government to be in accordance with the Honduran legal system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, International reaction\nAmericas-based international organisations such as the Organization of American States, Mercosur, and the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas also condemned the events. Over ten Latin American countries, as well as all European Union countries, agreed to withdraw their ambassadors from Honduras until Zelaya is returned to power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203222-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, International reaction\nReactions of individual countries are dealt with in the International reaction to the 2009 Honduran coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, part of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, occurred when the Honduran Army on 28 June 2009 followed orders from the Honduran Supreme Court to oust President Manuel Zelaya and send him into exile. Zelaya had attempted to schedule a non-binding poll on holding a referendum on convening a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. Zelaya refused to comply with court orders to cease, and the Honduran Supreme Court issued a secret warrant for his arrest dated 26 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat\nTwo days later, Honduran soldiers stormed the president's house in the middle of the night and detained him, forestalling the poll. Instead of bringing him to trial, the army put him on a military aeroplane and flew him to Costa Rica. Later that day, after the reading of a resignation letter of disputed authenticity, the Honduran Congress voted to remove Zelaya from office, and appointed Speaker of Congress Roberto Micheletti, his constitutional successor, to replace him. It was the first coup to occur in the country since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat\nInternational reaction to the 2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat was widespread; the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union condemned the removal of Zelaya as a military coup. On 5 July 2009, all member states of the OAS voted by acclamation to suspend Honduras from the organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat\nIn July 2011, Honduras's Truth Commission concluded that Zelaya broke the law when he disregarded a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to cancel the referendum, but that his removal from office was also illegal and a coup. The Commission found Congress' designation of Roberto Micheletti as interim president had been unconstitutional, and the resulting administration a \"de facto regime.\" Former Guatemalan Vice-President Eduardo Stein chaired the commission and presented its report to the then Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, the head of the Supreme Court, Jorge Rivera Avilez and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nPresident Zelaya was promoting a controversial nonbinding poll on whether to include a fourth ballot box in the November elections on convening a constitutional convention to rewrite the constitution to give the President more terms in office. He had ignored a restraining order in this regard. Some claim his goal in doing so was to extend his term. But as the scheduled balloting would have been simultaneous with the election of his successor, his term would have ended long before any possible constitutional changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Executive decrees and their legal consequences\nJust days before the date for the scheduled illegal survey, decree PCM-019-2009, revoking decree PCM-05-2009 and was issued (but not published) in May, was published in the official paper of record for the government policy, La Gaceta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Executive decrees and their legal consequences\nZelaya then issued a new executive decree PCM-020-2009 (La Gaceta article number 31945) which annulled decrees PCM-05-2009 and PCM-019-2009. The new decree called for a \"Public Opinion Survey Convening a Constitutional Assembly\" and referred to it as \"an official activity of the Government of the Republic of Honduras\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Executive decrees and their legal consequences\nAccording to a legal analysis by former Supreme Court President Vilma Morales, Zelaya automatically ceased being President of Honduras with the publication of decree PCM-020-2009 and thus no coup d'\u00e9tat existed. However, PCM-027-2009 was never processed by the Honduran courts. This new decree published in La Gaceta 26 June 2009 explained further the purpose, form and objectives of the opinion poll, to be carried out by the National Institute of Statistics. But the courts had already made up their minds about every attempt that had to do with this issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Executive decrees and their legal consequences\nZelaya's lawyers were also denied the possibility to participate in the process. PCM-027-2009 was sheltered in article 5 of the \"Law of Citizen Participation\" and articles 2 and 5 of the Honduran Constitution. Zelaya defined his actions as a non-binding opinion poll, but his political opponents presented his actions as a binding referendum oriented at reforming articles in the Honduran Constitution concerning forms of government and re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Attorney General's office acts\nOn 27 May 2009, the Administrative Law Tribunal issued an injunction against holding the referendum at the request of the Honduran Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi. On 16 June the Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the 27 May injunction. On 18 June, the Administrative Law Tribunal ordered Zelaya to comply with the ruling in writing within five days. The Attorney General's office filed a request for arrest and search warrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Supreme Court issues arrest and search warrants\nOn 26 June, the Honduran Supreme Court unanimously found that the Presidency had not complied with 16 June court order. It also found he was answerable to charges for crimes against the form of government, treason to the motherland, abuse of office and usurpation of functions that damaged the administration. It appointed Supreme Court Justice Tom\u00e1s Arita Valle to try the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 86], "content_span": [87, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Supreme Court issues arrest and search warrants\nOn 26 June, the Supreme Court issued a sealed (secret) arrest warrant for President Zelaya, signed by Justice Tom\u00e1s Arita Valle. The interim government confirmed that the Supreme Court of Justice unanimously voted to appoint Tom\u00e1s Arita Valle to hear the process in its preparatory and intermediate phases; and that he lawfully issued an arrest and raid warrant. The government also states that an investigation was conducted under the auspices of the Honduran Supreme Court that lasted for weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 86], "content_span": [87, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Background, Supreme Court issues arrest and search warrants\nSome Zelaya supporters have sought to cast doubt on the Supreme Court's documentation. Jari Dixon Herrera Hern\u00e1ndez, a lawyer with the Attorney General's office, said the order to arrest Zelaya came a day after the coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 86], "content_span": [87, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nSoldiers stormed the president's residence in Tegucigalpa early in the morning of 28 June, disarming the presidential guard, waking Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica. Colonel Bayardo said, \"It was a fast operation. It was over in minutes, and there were no injuries, no deaths. We said, 'Sir, we have a judicial order to detain you.' \" In Costa Rica, Zelaya told the Latin American channel TeleSUR that he had been awakened by gunshots. Masked soldiers took his cell phone, shoved him into a van and took him to an air force base, where he was put on a plane. He said he did not know that he was being taken to Costa Rica until he landed at the airport in San Jos\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nWithin hours, Zelaya spoke to media in San Jos\u00e9, calling the events \"a coup\" and \"a kidnapping\". He said that soldiers pulled him from his bed and assaulted his guards. Zelaya stated that he would not recognise anyone named as his successor, that he would be meeting with diplomats and that he wanted to finish his term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nTanks patrolled the streets and military planes flew overhead. Soldiers guarded the main government buildings. The government television station and a television station that supports the president were taken off the air. Television and radio stations broadcast no news. The electrical power, phone lines, and international cable TV were cut or blocked throughout Honduras. Public transportation was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nLater that day, the Supreme Court issued a statement that it had ordered the army to remove Zelaya from office. The Supreme Court stated \"The armed forces, in charge of supporting the constitution, acted to defend the state of law and have been forced to apply legal dispositions against those who have expressed themselves publicly and acted against the dispositions of the basic law\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nOn 30 June, the military's chief lawyer, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza Membre\u00f1o, showed a detention order, signed 26 June by a Supreme Court judge, which ordered the armed forces to detain the president, identified by his full name of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Zelaya Rosales, at his home in the Tres Caminos area of the capital. It cited him for treason and abuse of authority, among other charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nColonel Inestroza later stated that deporting Zelaya did not comply with the court order: \"In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime. Because of the circumstances of the moment this crime occurred, there is going to be a justification and cause for acquittal that will protect us.\" He said the decision was taken by the military leadership \"in order to avoid bloodshed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nHe said \"What was more beneficial, remove this gentleman from Honduras or present him to prosecutors and have a mob assault and burn and destroy and for us to have to shoot?\" Colonel Inestroza also commented that Zelaya's allegiance to Hugo Ch\u00e1vez was hard to stomach and \"It would be difficult for us, with our training, to have a relationship with a leftist government. That's impossible. I personally would have retired, because my thinking, my principles, would not have allowed me to participate in that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Zelaya's detention and exile\nRam\u00f3n Custodio, head of the country's human rights commission, said that the military made an \"error\" in sending Zelaya into exile rather than holding him for trial. \"I didn't know they would take Zelaya out of the country,\" Custodio said in an interview in the week of 13 August at his Tegucigalpa office. Honduras's Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by a group of lawyers and judges arguing that the military broke the law taking Zelaya out of the country. On 17 August 2009, President Micheletti also said that putting Zelaya on a plane to Costa Rica instead of holding him for trial had been a mistake: \"It wasn\u2019t correct. We have to punish whoever allowed that to happen. The rest was framed within what the constitution requires.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Congress removes Zelaya from office\nThe National Congress the following morning voted to accept Zelaya's resignation letter, dated 25 June, which Zelaya had denied signing. It studied a special report on Zelaya, and by a show of hands, the National Congress \u2013 the majority of whom belonged to Zelaya's own Liberal party \u2013 appointed the President of the National Congress Roberto Micheletti, a member of Zelaya's party, to succeed Zelaya. Some felt that the president had changed his politics during his administration, from right to left, which earned him the antipathy of his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nMany governments, media, and human-rights organisations outside Honduras have termed the ouster a coup. The United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union condemned the removal of Zelaya as a military coup. On 5 July 2009, the Organization of American States OAS, invoking for the first time Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, voted by acclamation of all member states to suspend Honduras from the organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nSoon after the coup, U.S. President Barack Obama stated: \"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there.\" He stated: \"It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nSecretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, equivocated, saying that \"We do think that this has evolved into a coup\" and noting that under U.S. law, officially declaring a coup would oblige the U.S. to cut off most foreign aid to Honduras.\" Cutting off aid was seen as a possibility in the days after the coup, and State Department Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter urged Clinton to \"take bold action\" and to \"find that [the] coup was a 'military coup' under U.S. law.\" Nevertheless, Clinton did not do so, and the U.S. never formally declared that a coup had occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nBy November 2009, the U.S. \"focused on pushing for elections\" in the country. In September 2009, the Board of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, headed by Clinton, cut off $11 million in aid to the Honduran government in the wake of the coup, and suspended another $4 million in planned contributions to a road project. From 2009 to mid-2016, however, the U.S. provided about $200 million in military and police aid to Honduras, a controversial decision given the violence in Honduras and the government's human rights violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nArguments that Zelaya's removal was illegal have been advanced by several lawyers. The Supreme Court never ruled on any of the charges filed by the public prosecutor on 26 June. The arrest warrant was issued for the purposes of taking a deposition from him. According to Edmundo Orellana, the events were constitutionally irregular for several reasons: because Zelaya was captured by the armed forces, not the national police (Art. 273, 292); and because the Congress, not the courts, judged Zelaya to have broken the law (Arts. 303 and 304).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nOrellana concluded, \"Violations of the Constitution cannot be put right with another violation. The Constitution is defended by subjecting oneself to it. Their violation translates into disregard for the State of Law and infringes on the very essence of the Law. Therefore, a coup d'Etat never has been and should never be the solution to a political conflict.\" Other civic and business leaders, even those opposed to Zelaya's referendum efforts, agreed that Zelaya was deprived of due process in his ouster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nStill, many people in Honduras, including most of the country's official institutions, claimed that there was a constitutional succession of power. In a statement to a subcommittee of the US House Committee on International Affairs, former Honduran Supreme Court Justice, Foreign Affairs minister, and law professor Guillermo Perez Cadalso said that all major governmental institutions agreed that Zelaya was violating the law. Supreme Court Justice Rosalinda Cruz said that, as a sovereign and independent nation, Honduras had the right to freely decide to remove a president who was violating Honduran laws. She added: \"Unfortunately, our voice hasn\u2019t been heard.\" She compared Zelaya's tactics, including his dismissal of the armed forces chief for obeying a court order to impound ballots to be used in the vote, with those of Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez: \"Some say it was not Zelaya but Ch\u00e1vez governing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 961]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nThere is a small amount of middle ground between those who term the events a coup and those who call them a constitutionally-sound succession of power. On the one hand, several supporters of Zelaya's removal, including Acting Honduran President Roberto Micheletti and the top army lawyer, have admitted that sending Zelaya out of the country was illegal, although they argue it was justified by the need to prevent violence. Micheletti said forcing deposed President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country, instead of arresting him, was a mistake. On the other hand, a fraction of those who oppose the events consider the arrest warrant against Zelaya to be legal, although they say he was denied a fair trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nAccording to an opinion of an employee of the US Law Library of Congress which was published September 2009 in Forbes, the military's decision to send Zelaya into exile was illegal, but the judicial and legislative branches applied constitutional and statutory law in accordance with the Honduran legal system. This conclusion was disputed by lawmakers, Honduran constitutional law experts, and government officials, who requested that the LLoC report be retracted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nIn 2010 WikiLeaks published a classified cable from 24 July 2009 sent by the US Ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, finding that the removal of President Zelaya was a coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster\nThe Embassy perspective is that there is no doubt that the military, Supreme Court and National Congress conspired on 28 June in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup against the Executive Branch, while accepting that there may be a prima facie case that Zelaya may have committed illegalities and may have even violated the constitution. There is equally no doubt from our perspective that Roberto Micheletti's assumption of power was illegitimate. Nevertheless, it is also evident that the constitution itself may be deficient in terms of providing clear procedures for dealing with alleged illegal acts by the President and resolving conflicts between the branches of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster, Independence of judiciary\nA lack of an independent, professional judiciary was a factor in the inability of the Honduran government to process Zelaya through a political or criminal trial. The Honduran judiciary remains deeply politicised, with the highest judicial offices still being distributed between the two main parties. Requiring judges to stand for re-election makes them subject to the policies of their sponsoring party. Eight of the judges were selected by the Liberal Party and seven by the National Party. According to a report by Heather Berkman of the University of California. the politicisation of the justice system, including the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Public Security and the Public Ministry, inhibits the due process of law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster, Independence of judiciary\nJos\u00e9 Tom\u00e1s Arita Valle, who signed the arrest warrant for Zelaya, had been vice-minister for foreign affairs in the National Party government of President Ricardo Maduro. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Guti\u00e9rrez Navas, in 1998, spoke at the UN General Assembly, representing the Liberal Party government of Carlos Roberto Flores, at a session to commemorate fifty years of human rights. Oscar Fernando Chinchilla Banegas and Gustavo Enrique Bustillo Palma were National Party alternate members of Congress (2002\u20132006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Legality of ouster, Independence of judiciary\nThe US State Department noted in 2004 that the judiciary and Attorney General's office is subject to corruption and political influence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nIn response to the events, a number of demonstrations were held, some opposing the coup and some supporting it. Some of these are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 28 June, hundreds of demonstrators against the coup put up roadblocks in the capital Tegucigalpa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 29 June, about 2,000 anti-coup demonstrators spent the day in the city's main square.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 30 June, demonstrations in favour of Zelaya's removal were held. In an emotional speech, Armeda Lopez said \"Chavez ate Venezuela first, then Bolivia, but in Honduras that didn\u2019t happen. Here we will not let anyone come to rule us\". Signboards included \"Enough to illegality\", \"I love my constitution\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 1 July, at around 10 in the morning, white-dressed coup supporters emerged in the capital city Tegucigalpa. \"Mel out, Mel out!\u201d \"Democracy yes, dictatorship no!\u201d, \"Romeo, friend, the people are with you!\u201d People from the religious sector, women's organisations, politics, and government gave speeches in favour of Zelaya's removal. Jorge Yllescas Olive said \"Hondurans have saved our country, justice is on our side and we are demonstrating it to the world\". Demonstrators also expressed opposition to Hugo Ch\u00e1vez's threats against Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 3 July, around 70,000 people demonstrated in favour of the new government and against Zelaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 30 July, some thousands marched in protest against the coup in El Durazno, Tegucigalpa. They were dispersed violently by police, according to Amnesty International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nOn 22 September, some hundreds of anti-coup protesters demonstrating outside the Brazilian embassy, where Zelaya had taken refuge, were dispersed by police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Demonstrations surrounding Zelaya\u2019s removal\nGovernment opponents say that the pro-coup demonstrations were staged and/or paid for by the government, giving evidence in some cases. It is claimed that pro-coup demonstrators were bused to the capital Tegucigalpa from all over the country, whereas similar buses with anti-coup demonstrators from the countryside were not allowed to enter the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nDe facto President Roberto Micheletti ordered a curfew which initially lasted for the 48 hours from Sunday night (28 June) and to Tuesday (30 June) and has continued since then in an arbitrary way. According to Amnesty International and the International Observation Mission for the Human Rights Situation in Honduras, the curfew law was not published in the official journal La Gaceta and was not approved by Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nOriginally the curfew ran from 9:00\u00a0pm to 6:00\u00a0am That curfew was later revised to be in effect from 10\u00a0pm to 5\u00a0am, was extended twice, ended on 7 July, and was restarted again on 15 July. Amnesty International and the International Observation Mission stated that curfew implementation was arbitrary, with curfew times announced on radio stations, changing randomly each day and between different regions of Honduras. On 1 July, Congress issued an order (decreto ejecutivo N\u00b0 011\u20132009) at the request of Micheletti suspending four constitutional guarantees during the hours the curfew was in effect. The \"state of exception\" declared on 1 July is equivalent to a state of siege. It suspended civil liberties including freedom of transit and due process, as well as permitting search and seizure without a warrant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nThe ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua on 29 June were detained and beaten by Honduran troops before being released. Venezuela's ambassador to the OAS announced before the OAS that those ambassadors and Patricia Rodas, the Zelaya government's Foreign Minister, had been captured. Minutes later, Armando Laguna, the Venezuelan ambassador in Tegucigalpa, reported that he and the other ambassadors had been freed. Laguna said that he and the other diplomats had been seized when they visited Rodas, and that Rodas was forced into a van and had been transferred to an air base. Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez stated that the Venezuelan ambassador was assaulted by Honduran soldiers and left by the side of a road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nAllies of Zelaya, among them several government officials, were taken into custody by the military. Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and the mayor of the city San Pedro Sula, Rodolfo Padilla Sunseri, were detained at military bases. According to a Narconews blog, several congressmen of the Democratic Unification Party (PUD) were arrested and the party's presidential candidate, C\u00e9sar Ham, went into hiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nAccording to the Venezuelan government's ABN news service, Tom\u00e1s Andino Menc\u00edas, a member of the party, reported that PUD lawmakers were led away by the military when they tried to enter the parliament building for 28 June vote on Zelaya's deposal. A dozen former ministers from the Zelaya government went into hiding, some in foreign embassies, fearing arrest. Local media reported that at least eight ministers besides Rodas had been detained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Human rights abuses of the interim government\nHugo Ch\u00e1vez and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez separately claimed that Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas was detained by the military. Rodr\u00edguez said that the Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan ambassadors to Honduras had tried but were unable to protect Rodas from a group of masked soldiers who forcibly took her from their grasp. Rodas was sent to Mexico, which offered her asylum and help to resolve the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nReuters on 29 June 2009, describing the situation in Honduras as a \"media blackout\", reported that the military had shut down several TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers' websites. Among the TV stations closed were CNN en Espa\u00f1ol, TeleSUR, and \"a pro-Zelaya channel\". Reuters said that \"the few television and radio stations still operating on Monday [the 29th] played tropical music or aired soap operas and cooking shows\", and \"made little reference to the demonstrations or international condemnation of the coup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nA government health worker interviewed by Reuters said that the anti-Zelaya newspapers El Heraldo and La Tribuna, and \"some television channels controlled by the opposition\" were the only ones still broadcasting on the morning of the 29th. The Miami Herald reported that the \"crackdown on the media\" began before dawn on the 28th. It said that only pro-Micheletti stations were allowed to broadcast and that they carried only news friendly to the new government. On 29 June, four Associated Press personnel were detained and removed from their hotel, but then released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nTeleSUR journalist Adriana S\u00edvori, who was in Tegucigalpa reporting the clashes between the police and protesters, reported that she was arrested by the military under threat and that her passport was seized. Her detention was confirmed by the Associated Press. As soon as the international community learned of the detention, and after the quick intervention of the Venezuelan ambassador in Honduras, the journalist and the staff who accompanied her were released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nAccording to Diario El Tiempo, there was also some information about the developments that the newspaper Diario El Tiempo had been prohibited to broadcast. Canal 11, located in Colonia de Miramontes, was also prohibited from broadcasting information about the developments. The Cable Color buildings, which also broadcasts programming from CNN and teleSUR, were surrounded by military forces. On 29 June, soldiers shut down Channel 8, a government station which was pro-Zelaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nChannel 36 was raided by soldiers minutes after the coup and remained off the air for a week; the Miami Herald of 1 July quoted owner Esdras L\u00f3pez as saying that the building's occupants were detained during the raid. Channel 66 was raided and was off the air for a short time; according to some journalists, however, a Channel 66 program by Eduardo Maldonado, a popular radio and TV commentator who is pro-Zelaya, remained off the air for days. Maldonado went into hiding. The  Miami Herald noted that Channel 21's signal was briefly interrupted while it was broadcasting a plea against censorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nOn Monday 29 June, in a replay of the military raids on the Jesuit radio station in El Progreso of the 1960s and 1970s, the Jesuits' progressive radio broadcasts were abruptly pulled off the air at four in the morning. On Sunday evening at 6\u00a0pm, just an hour after the coup government's curfew began, a military contingent broke into Radio Progreso's headquarters. With guns pointed, they shouted: \"We\u2019ve come to close down this piece of ****!\u201d One broadcaster locked himself in to keep broadcasting throughout the night. Shortly after, another military convoy stopped outside Radio Progreso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nA group of soldiers approached the radio station's guard and asked him if there were any people still working inside. When the guard said no, the soldier in charge told him: \"If we find someone inside, you will regret it\". And while the coup government, led by Roberto Micheletti, a native of El Progreso, threatened to shut down the station with violence, popular organisations resisting the undemocratic change in their government criticised the station for \"watering down\" its reporting of the tense and dynamic situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nAccording to a press release published on the website of Radio Globo Honduras, which had long sided with Zelaya, a group of 60 soldiers took the radio off the air and the employees, including Alejandro Villatoro, were allegedly threatened and intimidated. The station was allowed to resume transmission, but staff had to follow some rules which they believed limited freedom of expression. The website of the radio was down but was re-established. Alejandro Villatoro said he was arrested and kidnapped by military forces. On or just before 4 August 2009, the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) terminated Radio Globo's transmission frequency rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\n\"Honduras' two leading radio networks, Radio Am\u00e9rica and Radio HRN, urged Hondurans to resume their normal routine and not to protest\". Honduran newspaper La Prensa reported on 30 June that an armed group of Zelaya supporters attacked its main headquarters by throwing stones and other objects at their windows, until police intervened. According to the paper, it was discovered that the group was led by Venezuelan and Nicaraguan nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nThe Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders released a statement on 29 June stating that, \"The suspension or closure of local and international broadcast media indicates that the coup leaders want to hide what is happening\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Media restrictions\nCarlos Laur\u00eda of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said: \"The de facto government clearly used the security forces to restrict the news... Hondurans did not know what was going on. They clearly acted to create an information vacuum to keep people unaware of what was actually happening\". However, in an interview published on 9 July 2009 in The Washington Post, Ram\u00f3n Custodio L\u00f3pez, Honduras's human rights ombudsman, said he had received no official complaints from journalists: \"This is the first I have heard about an occupation or military raid of a station\", he said. \"I try to do the best job I can, but there are things that escape my knowledge\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThere were demonstrations supporting and opposing Zelaya's removal from power. The Zelaya administration was investigated and prosecuted in the absence of Zelaya. Some organisations reported human rights violations and media restrictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nZelaya made two open attempts to return to the country, which were rebuffed; he eventually returned clandestinely and sought asylum in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Negotiations between the coup government and those seeking Zelaya's restitution continued a rocky path; although both sides signed the San Jos\u00e9-Tegucigalpa-Guaymuras Accord both had differing interpretations as to the implications for Zelaya's restitution. Some Hondurans hoped to move past the coup through the elections of 29 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nOn June 2019, Zelaya presented in Tegucigalpa a book describing his ouster entitled \"El Golpe 28J\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nIn May 2011, after more than one and a half years in exile in the Dominican Republic, Zelaya was allowed to return to Honduras. Following his return on 28 May, the Organization of American States was to vote on readmitting Honduras to its body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nIn July 2011, Honduras's Truth Commission concluded that Zelaya broke the law when he disregarded the Supreme Court ruling ordering him to cancel the referendum, but that his removal from office was illegal and a coup. The designation by Congress of Roberto Micheletti as interim president was ruled by the commission as unconstitutional and his administration as a \"de facto regime.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nAs of 2014 the coup had weakened democratic institutions such, that along with corruption and police impunity, state security forces persecuted coup opponents, peasants, indigenous protesters and others, and the crime rate increased massively. In this context more than 13,000 Honduran children crossed U.S. borders from October 2013 until May 2014, a 1272% increase compared to 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThat same year, Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin asked the U.S. Defense Department Office of the Inspector General to investigate charges that the  , the educational arm of U.S. Southern Command located at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., had actively promoted the coup declared illegal by President Obama but remained unpunished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nFollowing the coup trends of decreasing poverty and extreme poverty were reversed. The nation saw a poverty increase of 13.2 percent and in extreme poverty of 26.3 percent in just 3 years. Furthermore, unemployment grew between 2008 and 2012 from 6.8 percent to 14.1 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, WikiLeaks documents\nOn 28 November 2010, the organisation WikiLeaks began releasing 251,287 confidential documents, which detail correspondence between the U.S. State Department and U.S. embassies around the world. Among these is a cable written by U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens in late July 2009, which analyzes the legality of the removal of Zelaya under the Honduran constitution. Llorens concluded that although Zelaya might \"have committed illegalities and...even violated the constitution\", \"there is no doubt that the military, Supreme Court and National Congress conspired on June 28 in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup against the Executive Branch\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, WikiLeaks documents\nThe US Congressional Research Service, a non-partisan congressional committee, however found the interpretation and application of the Honduran constitution that led to the removal of Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales to be\u00a0legal. Emails released later show that the 2009 removal was supported by Hillary Clinton's State Department by not recognizing it as coup in order to maintain U.S. aid to the Honduran people. Clinton and her team worked behind the scenes to stall military and economic efforts by neighboring countries through the Organization of American States to restore Manuel Zelaya to office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203223-0059-0002", "contents": "2009 Honduran coup d'\u00e9tat, WikiLeaks documents\n\"The OAS meeting today turned into a non-event \u2015 just as we hoped,\" wrote one senior State Department official, celebrating their success in defusing what they judged would have been a violent or destabilizing restoration. Secretary Clinton had also helped organize elections where she, Latin American leaders and diplomats, in her own words \"strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election\nGeneral elections were held in Honduras on 29 November 2009, including presidential, parliamentary and local elections. Voters went to the polls to elect:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election\nThe possibility of having a \"fourth ballot box\" (Spanish: cuarta urna) at the 29 November election regarding the convocation of a National Constituent Assembly constituted a major element of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Campaigning\nPreceding the planned November elections, the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis (ouster of president Manuel Zelaya) occurred, bringing the legitimacy of the elections into doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Campaigning\nCampaigning by candidates took place for the three months prior to 29 November in the context of conflict between the de facto government, the de jure government, and resistance to the de facto government, mostly coordinated by the National Resistance Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Campaigning\nNearly one month of this campaign period was covered by the Micheletti de facto government Decree PCM-M-016-2009, signed on 22 September 2009 and rescinded on 19 October 2009. The decree suspended five constitutional rights: personal liberty (Article 69), freedom of expression (Article 72), freedom of movement (Article 81), habeas corpus (Article 84) and freedom of association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Campaigning\nHundreds of candidates, including presidential candidate Carlos H. Reyes, renounced their candidacy citing scepticism that the same military that overthrew the elected president could be trusted to run a free and fair election five months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Presidential candidates\nThe candidates of the two main political parties were former presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the National Party and former vice-president Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party. The trade unionist Garifuna leader Bernard Mart\u00ednez Valerio was the Innovation and Unity Party (PINU) candidate. Mart\u00ednez was the first black presidential candidate in the history of Honduras, according to PINU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Presidential candidates\nAnother trade union leader, Carlos Humberto Reyes, one of the coordinators of the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de Estado en Honduras, was an independent candidate for the election but formally withdrew in order not to legitimise the coup d'\u00e9tat and what he and his supporters perceived would be fraudulent elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Presidential candidates\nThe table below shows all six continuing and withdrawn candidates, in the order published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Presidential candidates, Opinion polls\nA pre-election poll conducted between 23 and 29 August 2009 by COIMER & OP showed a relative majority (41%) who would not declare a voting preference or would not vote in favour of any of the six candidates. By mid-October this had dropped to a minority (29%) according to a CID-Gallup poll. Porfirio Lobo's support increased from 28% in August to 37% in October, and Elvin Santos' support increased from 14% to 21%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Presidential candidates, Opinion polls\nAccording to the two polls, Carlos H. Reyes' support dropped from 12% to 6%, while the other three candidates increased from 1\u20132% support in August to 2\u20133% in October. A popularity rating question in the COIMER & OP August poll, concerning positive, average and negative opinions towards presidential candidates and other prominent people, found that Porfirio Lobo had more negative than positive popularity (34% versus 30%), as did Elvin Santos (45% versus 19%) and the de facto President Roberto Micheletti (56% versus 16%) and C\u00e9sar Ham (20% versus 16%). Carlos H. Reyes had more positive than negative ratings (25% versus 14%), as did de jure President Manuel Zelaya (45% versus 26%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nOver thirty thousand security personnel were involved in running the election, including 12,000 military, 14,000 police officers and 5000 reservists. Mayors were requested by the army to provide lists of \"enemies\" (Spanish: enemigos) of the electoral process in order to \"neutralise\" them (Spanish: neutralizarlos).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nAmnesty International protested to the Honduran de facto government about violations of habeas corpus on 28 and 29 November. One of the people who were disappeared was Jensys Mario Umanzor Gutierrez, last seen in police detention early on the morning of 30 November. Amnesty International (AI) stated that no courts, including the Supreme Court, were available to receive a petition for habeas corpus. AI also referred to two men arrested under terrorism charges and beaten, and 14 minors detained under decree PCM-M-016-2009 for gathering in groups of more than four persons, and later freed without charges. AI also said that human rights organizations in Honduras \"suffered attacks and acts of intimidation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nOn election day, police and military suppressed an anti-election rally in San Pedro Sula, with reports of one death plus injuries and arrests. There were also reports that employees of government agencies and private businesses were being told that they would be fired if they did not vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nThe European Parliament did not send observers. However, observers were sent by the centrist European People's Party, who reported a \"high degree of civic maturity and exemplar democratic behaviour\" during the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nDespite few outside legal observers, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute were there as American observers. The IRI supported the projections of 61% from the interim government and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The NDI has so far not commented on their projection of the vote turnout, however have commented on an independent, local Honduran observer part-funded by USAID, the Hagamos Democracia who put the turnout on 48%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nThe NDI commented that they had a low margin of error on what percentage of the votes were allocated to the candidates as they had successfully projected the vote's outcome: 56 percent for Lobo and 38 percent for Santos. He also said a 48 percent turnout would be consistent with a trend of increasing abstention in Honduras. Turnout was 55 percent in the 2005 election that brought Zelaya to office, 10 percentage points lower than in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Conduct\nOfficial turnout was revised down to 49%, a figure consistent with the TSE's own internal figures on election day but over which it had preferred to announce the entirely unfounded but rather more politically convenient 61%, as was caught on video at the time. 49% incidentally, is also a decline on the 55% 2005 election turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Results, President\nPorfirio Lobo Sosa, popularly known as Pepe Lobo, of the opposition conservative National Party was elected to succeed Micheletti. Early reports gave Lobo over 50% of the popular vote, with Elvin Santos the closest opponent with around 35%. While some regional nations did not accept the election as valid, others including the United States have supported its legitimacy. While exiled President Manuel Zelaya called for a boycott of the election, turnout ranged from around 30% in poorer areas to 70% in more wealthy communities. Lobo previously served in the Honduran Congress. He has hinted that charges against Zelaya will be dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions\nOrganisations and individuals in Honduras, including the National Resistance Front against the coup d'\u00c9tat in Honduras, Marvin Ponce of the Democratic Unification Party, and Bertha Oliva of Comit\u00e9 de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, and internationally, including Mercosur, President Cristina Kirchner of Argentina andthe Union of South American Nations, said that elections held on 29 November under Micheletti would not be recognized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nHundreds of people made a noisy drive-by protest in Tegucigalpa on 1 December to symbolise their rejection of the elections and to highlight that the turnout estimates of over 60% were inaccurate. Zelaya's aide Carlos Reina called for the elections to be cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nIn early November 2009, Dagoberto Suazo of the National Resistance Front against the coup d'\u00c9tat in Honduras asked for the international community to continue to refuse to recognise the planned 29 November elections. Marvin Ponce, a member of Congress from the Democratic Unification Party, said that it was not possible to hold the elections in the aftermath of the coup d'\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nBertha Oliva of COFADEH criticised the United States government for stating that Honduras could hold \"free elections in less than three weeks\" when \"Hondurans [were being] subjected to arbitrary arrest, the closure of independent media, police beatings, torture and even killings by security forces\". Oliva claimed that it was not possible to have an election campaign when the right to freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and press freedom were absent. She called for elections to be delayed until at least three months after human rights and democracy are restored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nOn 6 November 2009, following the failure of Micheletti and Zelaya to together create a \"unity cabinet\", Zelaya called for a boycott of the 29 November election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nOn 9 November 2009, following a national meeting of leaders of the National Resistance Front against the coup d'\u00e9tat, presidential candidate Carlos H. Reyes declared the withdrawal of his candidacy, on the grounds of not legitimising the coup d'\u00e9tat and fraudulent elections. At the time of Reyes' withdrawal, the Honduran newspapers El Tiempo and La Tribuna showed Reyes' right hand in a plaster cast due to an injury sustained during his 30 July beating by Honduran security forces under the control of the de facto Micheletti government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nAt least 30\u201340 candidates from various parties and independent candidates, including at least one National Party candidate, Mario Medrano in San Manuel, Cort\u00e9s, also withdraw in protest. Mario Medrano stated that he withdrew his candidature in order not to legitimise the coup d'\u00e9tat, that this was independent of party membership, and that anyone elected could be removed [if the coup d'\u00e9tat remained legitimate].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nCanadian investigative journalist Jesse Freeston released a series of three videos before and after the elections them of being \"coup laundering\". In the final video, \"Honduran Elections Exposed\", Freeston separately interviews two members of the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The engineer in charge of the count says that 49% of Hondurans had turned out to vote. Meanwhile, the spokesman for the tribunal told Freeston that roughly 65% had turned out. Freeston concludes that nobody knows how many Hondurans turned out, since all four major international election observers (UN, EU, Carter Center, and OAS) all refused to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, Honduras\nThe videos also exposed the police attack on an anti-election protest in San Pedro Sula, the arrest of a man for possession of anti-election posters in Tegucigalpa, a letter the military sent to all the mayors in Honduras seeking contact information of anyone involved in the National People's Resistance Front, the shutting down of anti-coup media outlets Radio Globo and Canal 36, and the targeted assassinations of anti-coup community organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nMercosur declared on 24 July 2009 that it would not recognise the results of the planned November elections or any other elections organised under Micheletti. President Cristina Kirchner of Argentina stated, \"We must condemn any benevolent coup attempt, that is, when through a civilian-military coup legitimate authorities are ousted followed by attempts to legalize the situation by calling new elections. This would be the death kiss for the OAS democratic charter and turning the Mercosur democratic charter in mere fiction\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nOn 10 August, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) also declared that it would not recognise the results of elections held while the de facto Micheletti government remained in power. On 17 August, President Felipe Calder\u00f3n of Mexico, together with Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, made a similar statement. On September 3, the US State Department issued a statement revoking all non-humanitarian assistance to Honduras and said, of the November 29 elections \"At this moment, we would not be able to support the outcome of the scheduled elections\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nThe U.S. has since changed position and announced that it will recognize the results of the election as a part of the San Jose-Tegucigalpa Accord. Prior to the elections, the OAS advanced a resolution that would have refused to recognize its results. Initially, the U.S. administration pushed for the return of Zelaya, however, subsequently back-tracked on a threat not to recognize the election. The OAS resolution was ultimately blocked by the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nThe U.S. State Department rejected appeals by other Organization of American States (OAS) member nations to condemn what many perceived to be a fraudulent election and, instead, declared the contest \"free, fair and transparent.\u201d  The International Republican Institute, an organization linked to the United States Republican Party, also declared the elections had been \"free of violence and overt acts of intimidation\". The victory of Porfirio Lobo Sosa was quickly recognized by the United States, which increased military and police aid to the government, despite much of Latin America continuing to view him as an illegal pretender to the Honduran presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nIn the days preceding the elections, Israel, Italy, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Germany, Costa Rica and Japan also announced their intentions to recognize the results of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203224-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Honduran general election, Reactions, International\nOn 30 November at the 19th Ibero-American Summit in Estoril, Portugal the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela announced they would not recognize the elections whereas Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama said that they would. On 7 December the five Mercosur member states once again ratified their decision of not recognizing the election of Porfirio Lobo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203225-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority forum\n2009 Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority forum was a public forum held on the night of July 14, 2009 by the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority. The forum gave the citizens a chance to provide feedback and comments about the two free Hong Kong TV station TVB and ATV. A large number of questions and complaints were directed at the station representatives. Starting from issues of self-censorship, the forum soon escalated to chaos including heated comments toward TVB general manager Stephen Chan Chi Wan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203225-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority forum, Background\nBoth ATV and TVB's current broadcast license went into effect on 1 December 2003. Traditionally TVB news used the slogan (\u7121\u7dab\u65b0\u805e\uff0c\u4e8b\u4e8b\u95dc\u5fc3), which means \"TVB News, care about events\". In June 2009 people became dissatisfied with how the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were being reported locally. Thus the phrase (\u7121\u7dab\u65b0\u805e\uff0c\u4e8b\u4e8b\u65e6\u65e6) became a new protest spinoff phrase. On June 5, a day after the Tiananmen square 20th anniversary, all the TV stations were analyzed for their handling of the Tiananmen broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203225-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority forum, Background\nTVB, which has the largest viewership and largely regarded as a monopoly, broadcast only 8 minutes of the event well after a number of lesser important programs. Some of the programs that came before Tiananmen news included students abusing drugs in Tin Shui Wai, and lesser important news regarding Legco and the Hong Kong subway. This led TVB to be labeled as CCTVB by the critics, which is a knockoff of the People's Republic of China's censored state-run station CCTV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203225-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority forum, Forum\nOn July 14, 2009 the forum had about 350 participants. The forum originally began with the complaints of self-censorship being practiced by both stations along with other broadcast freedom issues. The questions later spiraled to issues of monopoly, controlling of celebrities etc. Each citizen had 3 minutes to ask questions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203226-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Community Shield\n2009 Hong Kong Community Shield was the first edition of the Hong Kong Community Shield. The game was a football match between the winners and the runners-up of the previous season's Hong Kong First Division League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203226-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Community Shield\nThe match was played in Hong Kong Stadium, on 17 August 2009. The two opposing teams were 2008\u201309 Hong Kong First Division League winners South China and runners-up Kitchee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203226-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Community Shield\nBecause of Typhoon Morakot, which was currently affecting Taiwan, a part of the ticket revenue was donated to two charities, the Hong Kong Red Cross and United Christian Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203226-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Community Shield\nThe game was won by Kitchee with a 2\u20130 victory over South China. The game's two goals were made by Spanish player Albert Virgili and Equatoguinean player Baruc Nsue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes\nThe 2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes was the fifteenth contesting of the tournament, taking place at Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong. Eight nations competed in twenty-two matches over two days, 31 October \u2013 1 November 2009. South Africa won the tournament, narrowly defeating hosts Hong Kong in the final, after Farhaan Behardien hit the required six off the last ball of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes\nDespite losing in the final, Hong Kong's Irfan Ahmed was awarded the Ben Hollioake Trophy, given to the player of the tournament. He played in all seven of Hong Kong's matches, and finished with 163 runs, which was bettered only by England's Peter Trego. He also claimed three wickets in the tournament, at an economy of 13.63 runs per over, ranking him fifth of all bowlers for economy. South Africa's David Wiese claimed the most wickets, taking seven in his seven matches. Peter Trego topped the batting charts with 184 runs, boosted by a top-score of 65* after returning to bat in England's third match after they'd lost four wickets. His 21 sixes were also the most scored by a batsman in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, Rules and regulations\nAll standard laws of the game as laid down by the MCC applied with the following significant differences:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, Rules and regulations, General\nGames are played between two teams of six players, and consist of five overs of six balls, with the exception of the final which consists of five overs of eight balls. Each member of the fielding side, with the exception of the wicket-keeper shall bowl one over. Wides and no-balls count as two runs to the batting side, plus an extra ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, Rules and regulations, Last man stands\nIf five wickets fall (not including batsmen retiring not out) before the allocated overs have been completed, the remaining batsman continues, with the last batsman out remaining as a runner. The not out batsman shall always face strike, and shall be declared out if his partner is declared out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203227-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, Rules and regulations, Batsman retire\nA batsman must retire not out on reaching 31 runs, but not before. He may complete all runs scored on the ball on which he reaches his 31, and retire immediately after. If one of the last pair of batsmen is out, any remaining not out batsman may resume his innings. In the case where there is more than one, they must return in the order they retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203228-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Games\nThe 2009 Hong Kong Games, officially known as The 2nd Hong Kong Games (Chinese: \u7b2c\u4e8c\u5c46\u5168\u6e2f\u904b\u52d5\u6703), was a major multi-sport event in Hong Kong. The games were staged between 9 May and 31 May 2009, with participation from 2307 athletes. The awards included 80 gold medals, 80 silver medals and 81 bronze medals. The ultimate tournament victor was the Yuen Long District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203228-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Games, Purpose\nExpanding on the 2007 Hong Kong Games, the event aimed to popularize sports participation in the Hong Kong area. Also, with the staging of 2009 East Asian Games in December of the same year, the Hong Kong games acted as a precursor to this larger event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203228-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Games, Event\nThe 2009 Hong Kong Games included 6 separate events: athletics, basketball, badminton, swimming, table tennis and tennis. Swimming and tennis were featured for the first time in the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203228-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Games, Opening ceremony\nThe Opening Ceremony was held on 9 May in Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203228-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Games, Closing ceremony\nThe Closing Ceremony was held on 31 May in Kowloon Park Sports Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203229-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Sevens\nThe Hong Kong Sevens, referred to as the Cathay Pacific Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens for sponsorship reasons, is the 5th stop on the IRB Sevens World Series. The 2009 event was played between the 27\u201329 March, and was won by Fiji. Unlike the 7 other tournaments, Hong Kong contains 24 teams to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203229-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Sevens, Standings after Tournament\nSouth Africa, who finished second in this tournament, went to the top of the IRB Sevens World Series. England, who were joint-first with South Africa before, dropped to second place, with Fiji going to third and New Zealand fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203230-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong Super Series\nThe 2009 Hong Kong Super Series was a top level badminton competition which was held from November 10, 2009 to November 14, 2009 in Hong Kong. It was the 11th BWF Superseries competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203231-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hong Kong\u2013Macau Interport\nThe 65th Hong Kong Macau Interport was held in Hong Kong on 20 June 2009. Hong Kong captured the champion by winning 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203233-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hopman Cup\nThe Hopman Cup XXI (also known as the Hyundai Hopman Cup for sponsorship reasons) corresponds to the 21st edition of the Hopman Cup tournament between nations in men's and women's tennis. The tournament was held from 3 January through 9 January 2009 at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203233-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hopman Cup\nEight nations competed. They were formed of one man and one woman from the same nation. The nations were split into two pools of four in a round robin format, with the group winners contesting the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203233-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hopman Cup\nThe United States were the defending champions and they were invited to compete again. Chinese Taipei qualified for the event by winning the Asian Hopman Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203233-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hopman Cup\nSlovakia won their third title, defeating Russia in the final 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203234-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the end of the 2008\u20132009 regular season. The better seed hosted each first round match. The second and third rounds were played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The championship game was played at the home court of the highest remaining seed, also Hinkle Fieldhouse, the home court of the Butler men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203234-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket\nFirst round games at campus sites of lower-numbered seedsSecond round and semifinals will be hosted by Butler. Championship will be hosted by lower-numbered remaining seed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing\nThe 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing was a suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 3 December 2009. The bombing killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government, and injured 60 more, making it the deadliest attack in Somalia since the Beledweyne bombing on 18 June 2009 that claimed more than 30 lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing\nThe hall had been brightly decorated, and there was a feeling of excitement \u2013 such ceremonies rarely happen in Mogadishu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing\nThe attack took place inside the meeting hall of the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu during a commencement ceremony for medical students of Benadir University and was carried out by a suicide bomber dressed as a woman, \"complete with a veil and a female's shoes\", according to Minister of Information Dahir Mohamud Gelle. According to witnesses, the bomber approached a speakers' panel, verbally greeted them with the phrase \"peace\", and detonated his explosives belt. Former Minister of Health Osman Dufle, who was speaking when the blast happened, reported that he had noticed an individual wearing black clothing moving through the audience immediately before the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing\nThe ceremony\u2014the second since Benadir University was formed in 2002 and a rare event in war-torn Somalia\u2014had attracted hundreds of people. In attendance were the graduates and their family members, University officials, and five ministers of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Security inside the meeting hall was light and all of the ministers' bodyguards were outside the hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing, Casualties\nSuddenly, the hall shook and I heard a PAW! sound from the front of the ceremony, where most government officials and dignitaries were sitting. I got down on the ground and looked back. Dozens of people were on the ground under a huge cloud of smoke. Others were stampeding to the exit for safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing, Casualties\nThe bombing killed 24 people and injured 60 others. Most of those killed were students, but also among the dead were two doctors, three journalists, and three government ministers\u2014Minister of Education Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Minister of Health Qamar Aden Ali, and Minister of Higher Education Ibrahim Hassan Addow were killed. Minister of Sports Saleban Olad Roble was critically injured, and was hospitalised. He was later reported to have been flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment, where he died on 13 February 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing, Casualties\nThe three journalists killed in the bombing were: Mohamed Amiin Abdullah of Shabelle Media Network, a Somali television and radio network; freelance photographer Yasir Mairo, who died of injuries in hospital; and a cameraman alternately identified as freelancer Hassan Ahmed Hagi and Al Arabiya cameraman Hassan Zubeyr or Hasan al-Zubair. Their deaths raised to nine the number of journalists killed in Somalia during 2009, including four for Radio Shabelle. The explosion also injured six other journalists, including two\u2014Omar Faruk, a photographer for Reuters, and Universal TV reporter Abdulkadir Omar Abdulle\u2014who were taken to Medina Hospital in critical condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, The bombing, Casualties\nThe dean of Benadir University's medical college was among the wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath\nNo one immediately claimed responsibility for orchestrating the bombing, but Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the President of Somalia, blamed the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath\nIn a news conference held in the Hotel Shamo after the attack, President Ahmed called for international assistance to Somalia. He also displayed, according to a local journalist, what he identified as the bomber's body and remains of an explosive belt and a hijab. The Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende reported the bomber was a 23-year-old citizen of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath\nAccording to Idd Mohamed, a senior Somali diplomat, the attack was carried out to foster \"terror\" and \"panic\" and undermine the legitimacy of the Transitional Federal Government. Wafula Wamunyini, the acting head of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), expressed a similar opinion, claiming that the attack had the purpose of \"intimidat[ing] and blackmail[ing]\" the Somali government. Stephanie McCrummen of The Washington Post described the attack as \"the worst blow in months\" to the United Nations-supported government of Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nThe attack drew condemnation from a number of organisations, including the African Union (AU), the European Union, the United Nations Security Council, and the National Union of Somali Journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nAMISOM described the bombing as \"inhumane and cowardly\", and characterised it as a \"heinous [crime] against humanity\". AMISOM also promised to \"spare no efforts\" to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack, and stated that the attack would not deter the AU from continuing to carry out its mission in Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nBaroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy for the European Union (EU), echoed AMISOM's sentiment, calling the bombing a \"cowardly attack against civilians including students, doctors and journalists\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nThe UN Security Council president Michel Kafando labelled the attack an act of terrorism and a \"criminal act\", called for a \"thorough investigation\", and conveyed \"sympathies and condolences\" to the victims of the attack, their families, the TFG, and the Somali people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nA joint statement by the UN, the EU, the Arab League and the United States affirmed that the international community would continue its support of the Transitional Federal Government; however, a senior European diplomat indicated that any additional military support to the TFG was unlikely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203235-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Hotel Shamo bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement expressing condolences to the families of the three journalists killed in the bombing and noted that the attack \"cemented\" Somalia's \"position as the deadliest country in Africa for journalists\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203236-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede\nThe 2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede occurred on 29 March 2009 in the Stade F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny in Abidjan, Ivory Coast before a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Malawi and Ivory Coast. Nineteen people were killed and 135 were injured. In an attempt to control a stampede police fired tear gas into the crowds, who had begun jostling with each other at least 40 minutes before kick off. The match was particularly popular among locals, with world stars such as Didier Drogba, Sol Bamba and Salomon Kalou due to play for Ivory Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203236-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede, Overview\nThe match was the first match in Group 5 of Round 3 of the CAF zonal qualifying. It was played despite the deaths occurring before kick off, and was won 5\u20130 by Ivory Coast. Officials have said that ticketless football fans were to blame for the stampede. Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro held a crisis meeting with ministers and football officials on 30 March to discuss the tragedy. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said: \"I wish to express extreme sorrow and extend our condolences to the Ivorian football community and, most importantly, to family, friends and loved ones following the tragic deaths in Abidjan yesterday. FIFA has also launched an inquiry into how the tragedy happened\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203236-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede, Overview\nOn 9 May 2009 FIFA decided to extend its investigation into the event, they interviewed members of the Ivorian Football Federation, police and other local and national organisations. FIFA had not given a deadline for the conclusion of the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203236-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede, Overview\nOn 22 July 2009, FIFA fined the Ivorian Football Federation $47,000 following the enquiry into the stadium tragedy. Football's world governing body imposed a series of safety measures after concluding the long investigation. FIFA also announced a donation of $96,000 to a fund set up for the families of the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203236-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny stampede, Overview\nEarlier casualties at incidents at football matches in Africa included 127 people killed in 2001 in the AccraSports Stadium crowd stampede in Ghana, 11 people killed in rioting in September 2008 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and eight crushed to death in June 2008 in Liberia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season\nThe Houston Astros' 2009 season is the 48th season for the franchise in the National League in Houston, Texas and their 10th season at Minute Maid Park. The Houston Astros attempted to win the NL Central for the fifth time (1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001), but failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season, Regular season, April\nThe Astros lost their season opening series against the Cubs, their one win coming off of former Cincinnati Red Jeff Keppinger's tenth inning RBI single in his first at bat with the club. They were then swept by the Cardinals in St. Louis in a three-game series, giving up 19 runs while only being able to score 5 runs. The team then traveled to Pittsburgh where they lost the first game 0\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season, Regular season, April\nThe next day, Mike Hampton won his second start of his second stint with the franchise with an 8 strikeout, 6 inning outing for the win over the Pirates. Lance Berkman's 6th inning 3 run home run helped the Astros win the third game of the series against the Pirates. The Astros then returned home to Minute Maid Park, where they had three good outings against the Reds by ace Roy Oswalt, journeyman Wandy Rodr\u00edguez and Triple-A Round Rock call-up Felipe Paulino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season, Regular season, April\nJos\u00e9 Valverde gave up a 2-run home run in the top of the ninth inning to Ram\u00f3n Hern\u00e1ndez for the loss in Oswalt's game on April 17, Rodriguez's got the win with a strong offensive outing by the Astros led by Geoff Blum with 3 RBIs on April 18, and Geoff Geary gave up a two-run double to Micah Owings in the top of the seventh inning for the loss in Paulino's game on April 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0001-0003", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season, Regular season, April\nIn the fourth game of the series, Lance Berkman and Carlos Lee's back to back solo shot home runs were not enough to beat the Red's Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n's 2 RBI single and Joey Votto's 2 RBI double to give the Red's the series, 3\u20131. The Houston Astros are an even 451 wins and 451 losses to the Chicago Cubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203237-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 2009 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the University of Houston in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the 64th year of season play for Houston. The team was coached by second year head football coach, Kevin Sumlin. The team played its home games at Robertson Stadium, a 32,000-seat stadium on campus in Houston. The Cougars finished the season 10\u20134, 6\u20133 in CUSA play, were co\u2013champions of the west division and lost to East Carolina 38\u201332 in the CUSA Championship Game. They were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl where they lost to Air Force 47\u201320. It was the second consecutive year that they had played Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Previous season\nThe 2008 season was head coach Kevin Sumlin's inaugural season with the Cougars. The Cougars finished 3rd in Conference USA's West division with a 6\u20132 conference record and 8\u20135 overall record. The Cougars ended their season with a win against the Air Force Falcons in the Armed Forces Bowl. This marked the first time since 1980 that the Cougars won a bowl game, and ended their eight-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Previous season\nIn addition, the Cougars defeated two nationally ranked teams: #23 East Carolina and #25 Tulsa; the former of which was on the road. It was the first time the Cougars had defeated a ranked opponent in an away game since the 1984 season. Another first since then was the defeat of two nationally ranked teams in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Previous season\nAt the conclusion of the post-season, offensive lineman Sebastian Vollmer graduated from Houston, and was drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft. Phillip Hunt was also signed to the Cleveland Browns. Houston's starting quarterback Case Keenum held the number two rank for passing yards in the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nThe Cougars held Spring practices from March 24 to April 18, 2008. On April 4, the team played a public scrimmage. The Cougars' annual Red-White Game, which was the conclusion of the Spring practices, was abruptly halted after the first ten minutes of gameplay due to rainy weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State\nThe Northwestern State Demons of the Southland Conference traveled to Houston to meet with the Cougars for the first time in school history. Head coach Bradley Dale Peveto, a former Houston defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, led the Demons in his first game ever. With the first five touchdowns for Houston resulting from the Cougars' first five possessions, the Demons' first first down occurred only after the score was 28\u20130 in the home team's favor. With the game well in hand for the Cougars in the third quarter, starting quarterback Case Keenum was rested for the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nThe Cougars traveled to Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater to face Oklahoma State (ranked 5th in the AP football poll and 6th in the Coaches' Poll). Houston came out of the gate with a touchdown and field goal in the first quarter, but Oklahoma State responded with a drive to the endzone in the beginning of the second quarter. However, Houston parlayed an onside kick into two more touchdowns to close the half. In the third quarter, Oklahoma State dominated, with touchdowns coming from rushes by Keith Toston and Beau Johnston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nA punt return for 82 yards by Dez Bryant yielded another touchdown for Oklahoma State. However, the Cougars clawed back in the final quarter, with the help of a Case Keenum pass that turned into a tipped ball caught by Bryce Beall, and a Zac Robinson interception that was returned for a touchdown. Following the win, Houston was launched into the #21 ranked spot in the AP Poll, which marked the first time since 1991 in which the Cougars had been ranked in the top 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nHouston faced-off against former Southwest Conference rivals, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, for the first time since the demise of that athletic conference following the 1995 season. The game also marked the first time that Houston hosted Texas Tech on-campus, as the Astrodome had served as the previous home for the Cougars during that era. During Houston's bye the week prior, AP and Coaches' Poll voters ranked the Cougars ahead in the polls to #17 and #23 respectively. It was the first time in eighteen years that Houston entered a game as a nationally ranked team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nAlthough attempting to recover from a loss to #2 Texas the week before, Texas Tech's starting quarterback Taylor Potts had passed for a career record of 46 passes for 420 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe game received heavy media coverage, and was broadcast nationally on ESPN2. After a complete sell-out of public game tickets by Houston athletics, 1,500 student guest tickets went on sale the Monday morning before the game. With students arriving around midnight to await box office opening, all student guest passes were gone within three hours. The game marked a record attendance of 32,114 at Robertson Stadium in its current seating capacity including an appearance by U.S. Senator for Texas and gubernatorial candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nFollowing a similar phenomenon from Monday, 5,500 students were allowed general admission into the game for no charge on gameday. Houston businessman Jim McIngvale donated a 9'x16' LED screen displaying the ESPN2 broadcast for use in the stadium parking lot during the game to accommodate the remainder of the University of Houston's 37,000 student enrollment who were unable to gain entry. UH Alumnus Hakeem Olajuwon facilitated the pre-game coin toss. Fellow alumnus and former Cougars basketball coach Clyde Drexler was also in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nAlthough prior to the win, Texas Tech had been victors of the previous five meetings, the all-time record between the teams was updated to 18\u201310\u20131 with Houston leading. The Cougars' record improved to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nFollowing the home victory, Houston went on the road to El Paso, Texas to face conference foe UTEP for the seventh time in school history. Having moved five spots up to #12 in the AP Poll prior to the game, the undefeated Cougars were heavily favored to win. UTEP's record was 1\u20133, and were coming off a 64\u20137 loss to Texas. Despite a remarkable attempt by Houston, where Case Keenum threw for a career record of 536 passing yards with 5 touchdowns, the Cougars could not contain UTEP's run-style offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nUTEP running back Donald Buckram ran for a career-high of 262 yards against Houston as the Miners completed a 58-41 upset. Houston's all-time record against UTEP fell to 3\u20134. The Cougars would fall completely out of both the AP Poll and Coaches' Poll top 25 rankings, but continued to receive votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nHouston attempted to begin rebuilding after the UTEP upset in Starkville, Mississippi meeting with the Mississippi State Bulldogs. It was the fifteenth meeting between the two teams, where the Cougars held an 8\u20136 record over the Bulldogs who first competed against each other in 1956. The last time Mississippi State defeated Houston was in 1972, as the Cougars won the last two meetings. The game was nationally televised on ESPNU. The Bulldogs were able to contain Houston's offense to 17 points in three quarters and enter the fourth quarter in a tie game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nThe Cougars offense scored two touchdowns in rapid succession with six and four minutes to go in the game, and then conceded a touchdown run to Anthony Dixon with 1:22 to play. However, the Cougars were able to recover a Mississippi State onside kick attempt and went on to win the game. Following the win, the Cougars regained a place in the top 25 list for both the AP Poll and Coaches' Poll with a ranking of #23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nHouston completed its three-game road trip in New Orleans, Louisiana against the Tulane Green Wave. With a record of 5-1 after completing the game, Houston was off to the best start of a season since 2003. Having competed against each other for the first time in 1968, the Cougars held a 10-4 all-time record against Tulane, and had won their last seven games against the Green Wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nHeavily favored Houston started off the game slowly against Tulane's pass defense which stood as the best in Conference USA at the time, and the Cougars went into halftime leading only 9-6 against the Green Wave. However, in the second half the offense exploded for 20 unanswered points in the third quarter and 15 points in the fourth while conceding 10, and Houston left the Superdome a 44-16 winner. Following the game, Houston rose to #17 in the AP Poll and to #18 in the Harris and Coaches' Polls. When the initial BCS ranking came out the following Sunday Houston secured the #17 spot, marking the first week the Cougars were ranked in the BCS poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe Cougars returned to play in Houston for the first time since its September victory over Texas Tech to face the SMU Mustangs in their homecoming game. Another former Southwest Conference opponent, SMU was coached by second-year head coach June Jones. It was the 25th meeting between the teams, where Houston held a 15-9-1 record in the all-time series. The game was nationally televised on the CBS College Sports network. Houston took advantage of two SMU turnovers early in the game and utilized an effective running game to take a 24-3 lead into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, SMU\nSMU's turnover issues continued into the second quarter as Houston kept going to freshman Charles Sims on the ground. Sims finished the game with 15 carries for 105 yards and two touchdowns. Case Keenum finished with comparatively light duty, only collecting 233 yards and two touchdowns on 36 completions as Houston dispatched SMU 38-15. Following the victory, Houston moved up to #15 in the AP poll and to #16 in the Coaches' and Harris polls, but moved down to #18 in the BCS poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nThe Cougars continued the 2009 season with a Halloween showdown versus conference rival Southern Miss. Houston came into the game at 7-1 and on its best start since 1990, in the days of the Southwest Conference. The two teams last met in the 2006 Conference USA Football Championship. The game turned into a shootout early as neither defense proved able to slow down quarterbacks Martevious Young and Case Keenum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nSouthern Miss led early 13-7 at the end of the first quarter, but Houston collected 23 points on three touchdowns and a returned blocked extra point to go into halftime leading 30-22. The game slowed down somewhat in the second half as Houston extended the lead to 40-22 in the fourth quarter, but Southern Miss's Young led the Golden Eagles to a late game comeback, scoring three touchdowns in eight minutes to tie the game at 43 with only 57 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nHowever, Houston's Keenum calmly led the Cougars down the field in a scene reminiscent of the Texas Tech game and needed only 36 seconds to complete a game-winning touchdown drive. Keenum passed for a career record 559 yards that day. Houston escaped out of Robertson Stadium that day with a 50-43 victory. The following day, Houston found itself ranked 13th in the AP poll, 15th in the Coaches', 14th in the Harris, and 15th overall in the BCS poll, an improvement in all rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nThe 8-1 Cougars took to the road the following week to take on the ever-dangerous Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Houston came into the game with an 18-16 record all time versus Tulsa. The game took mostly the form of the previous game against Southern Miss, where neither team's defense were effective against potent passing attacks. The Cougars utilized a strong first half from wide receiver James Cleveland to go into halftime leading 24-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nHouston's defense nearly collapsed completely in the third quarter as Tulsa QB G.J. Kinne tore the Cougars apart in the air and on the ground, scoring three individual touchdowns in the third quarter. Houston's offense were able to keep up mostly with Tulsa, and the quarter ended with a 38-34 score favoring Tulsa. Tulsa's defense solidified somewhat in the fourth quarter, holding Houston out of the end zone on a goal line stand early and making Houston settle for a 26-yard field goal with eight minutes to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTulsa's offense then churned out one last scoring drive with three and a half minutes to play to bring the score to 45-37. Houston needed a touchdown with a two-point conversion on its last drive to tie the game. Keenum again led the Cougars down the field and threw a third touchdown pass to James Cleveland to bring UH to 45-43, but Keenum was sacked on the two-point conversion attempt. With only 21 seconds to play, Houston attempted a last gasp onside kick attempt which was successfully recovered by Tim Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0016-0003", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nKeenum quickly brought the offense 27 yards down the field in three plays and then retired to give walkon freshman kicker Matt Hogan a chance to win the game on his leg. It was the first time Hogan had tried a field goal longer than 50 yards, but he booted the field goal down the middle as Houston escapes being upset once again, winning 46-45. The victory was the first one by game-winning field goal in school history. After the thrilling comeback, the Coaches' poll moved Houston to #12, the Harris to #13, and the BCS ranking remained unchanged at #15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Central Florida\nWith visions of a possible top 10 ranking in the near future, the 9-1 Cougars traveled to Orlando, Florida to play the Knights of Central Florida. UCF had met Houston only two times before, each team winning a game. The game began as though heavily favored Houston would win in less dramatic fashion than normal, easily taking a 10-0 lead to the second quarter. However, in the second quarter UCF began going to the ground and exploiting serious weaknesses in the run defense exposed by games against Texas Tech and UTEP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Central Florida\nUCF ground out yards and jealously kept the ball out of the hands of the dangerous Houston offense. Unable to cope with the punishing ground game, Houston scored only one kickoff return touchdown in the next two quarters and UCF took a 23-17 lead into the fourth quarter. UCF scored two more touchdowns, one rushing and one passing, early in the fourth to move to 37-20 while grinding down clock and keeping the ball in UCF possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Central Florida\nHouston's offense broke out only with three and a half minutes to play by way of a touchdown pass, and then another one with only ten seconds to play to bring the game to 37-32. However this time, Houston would not recover the last second onside kick and UCF completed the upset. The victory by UCF was the first against a Top 25 ranked opponent in school history. After the loss, Houston dropped far in the polls to #22 in the Coaches' and #23 in the Harris, with the BCS dropping Houston further to #24. Not only had any vision of a BCS Bowl for the Cougars disappeared, even the possibility of a conference title began to come into doubt as the loss put SMU in the lead for the CUSA West division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nHouston returned to Robertson Stadium to lick their wounds of the previous week. The 1-9 Memphis Tigers were in town. Houston struck first, quickly, and often in the first half; Keenum completed 29 passes for 405 yards and 5 touchdowns before retiring just after halftime. Houston took a commanding 42-14 lead into halftime, and Houston tacked on two more touchdowns by way of a touchdown pass from backup quarterback Cotton Turner and a Charles Sims touchdown run to easily win 55-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nMemphis's two touchdowns came by way of running back Curtis Steele, indicating Houston had not fixed their major ground game issues. With the victory and a loss by SMU to Marshall earlier in the day, Houston ended the week as leader of CUSA West with only one game remaining. Houston's ranking recovered slightly the following day; the Coaches' and Harris polls placed the Cougars at #20 and the BCS at #23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe final game of the season was a Thanksgiving renewal of the rivalry with Rice, with the two teams playing for the Bayou\u00a0Bucket. Houston came into the game with a 27-9 record versus the crosstown Owls. Much like the Memphis game, Houston's offense scored at will versus the Rice defense. Case Keenum scored only two touchdowns on 323 yards passing before hitting the showers at halftime, his Cougars leading 59-0. The game slowed down somewhat in the third quarter, and Houston extended its lead to 65-0 before Houston's reserves conceded two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Rice\nHouston's reserves added two touchdowns of their own, and the Cougars defended the Bayou\u00a0Bucket 73-14. The 73 points was the most scored by any team in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS season. The victory also sealed a CUSA West title for the Cougars - though SMU won earlier in the day, Houston owned the tiebreaker by way of defeating the Mustangs in October. Houston's ranking improved two spots in all polls; the Coaches' and Harris polls placed the Cougars at #18 and the BCS at #21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, East Carolina (C-USA Championship)\nThe Cougars, representing CUSA West, traveled to Greenville, North Carolina for the Conference USA Championship against defending champion East Carolina. ECU employed the same strategy used by conference mates UTEP and UCF in their upsets of the Cougars - run the football often and grind the clock. Alongside that, the ECU run defense stopped the Cougar running game completely cold (only 30 yards total rushing), leaving Houston to rely on the skills of Case Keenum to carry them through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, East Carolina (C-USA Championship)\nThe Cougar passing game did have success for a while as Houston led at halftime 19-14, but the Pirate defense became more and more stifling as the day wore on, finally Keenum threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter which after translating to two ECU rushing touchdowns put the game out of reach. ECU became the first school to successfully defend a Conference USA title by a score of 38-32. With this loss, the Cougars dropped to #25 in the Harris and Coaches' polls and out of the BCS poll completely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, East Carolina (C-USA Championship)\nRumors persisted that Coach Sumlin was leaving for a position at Texas A&M. He continually denied those rumors which were proved true. The rumors of Sumlin leaving deeply affected how the Cougars played and it contributed to its loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, East Carolina (C-USA Championship)\nLater in December, it was announced Houston accepted an invitation to play in the 2009 Armed Forces Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Air Force (Armed Forces Bowl)\nThe 2009 Armed Forces Bowl was a rematch of the previous year's matchup between Houston and Air Force, which was itself a rematch of a 2008 regular season game. Houston won the bowl the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203238-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Cougars football team, Game summaries, Air Force (Armed Forces Bowl)\nHouston's inability to stop a running game was exploited worst of all by Air Force, who features a running-heavy triple offense. Air Force running backs marched up and down the field and chewed up 41 minutes of game time while the Air Force's pass defense, statistically #1 in the nation, sat back and intercepted Case Keenum's passes seemingly at will - Air Force collected six interceptions in all, a career worst for Keenum. Air Force led comfortably 24-6 at halftime and Houston proved little resistance in the second half, losing in all 47-20. Houston had now lost nine of ten bowl games dating back to 1980. The loss removed Houston from every end-of-season poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season\nThe 2009 Houston Dynamo season was the fourth season of existence for the Houston franchise since joining Major League Soccer (MLS) prior to the 2006 season. It was the team's fourth season with head coach Dominic Kinnear, majority owner Philip Anschultz, president Oliver Luck, and chief operating officer Chris Canetti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season\nThe Dynamo qualified for the MLS Cup Playoffs for the fourth consecutive year after finishing 2nd in the Western Conference during the regular season. In the playoffs, Houston defeated the Seattle Sounders 1\u20130 over two legs in the Conference Semifinals before losing 2\u20130 to the Los Angeles Galaxy in the Conference Final. In the U.S. Open Cup, the Dynamo reached the semifinals, where they lost 2\u20131 to the eventual champion Seattle Sounders. The Dynamo also competed in the CONCACAF Champions League, losing to Atlante 4\u20131 on aggregate in the quarterfinals of the 2008\u201309 Champions League while also finishing third in their group for the 2009\u201310 Champions League, failing to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season, Final roster\nAppearances and goals are totals for MLS regular season only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season, Player movement, In\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season, Player movement, Out\nPer Major League Soccer and club policies terms of the deals do not get disclosed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203239-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Dynamo season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season\nThe 2009 Houston Texans season was the franchise's 8th season in the National Football League and the 4th under head coach Gary Kubiak. The Texans improved upon their 8\u20138 record in 2008 and claimed their first winning season in franchise history. However, 4 straight heartbreaking division losses came back to haunt them, as they narrowly missed making the playoffs, being the first team out in a series of tiebreakers, and due to the Cincinnati Bengals and rival Indianapolis Colts resting their starters against the New York Jets after clinching the AFC North and No. 1 AFC seed, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nHead coach Gary Kubiak entered his fourth year as the Texans' head coach. Frank Bush, who had served as the Texans senior defensive assistant since 2007, was promoted to defensive coordinator on January 13, 2009 after the firing of Richard Smith. Smith was terminated shortly after the conclusion of the 2008 season. David Gibbs, son of NFL coach Alex Gibbs, was hired on January 19, 2009 as the new defensive backs coach after previously serving in the same role for the Kansas City Chiefs since 2006. Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Houston Oilers offensive lineman Bruce Matthews enters his first season as a coach in the NFL, filling one of the offensive assistant coach positions for the Texans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Offseason, NFL draft\nThe Texans had eight selections for the 2009 NFL Draft. They received an additional fourth-round pick (selection 122 overall) in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for quarterback Sage Rosenfels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Offseason, NFL draft\nThe team signed undrafted Tennessee running back Arian Foster after the draft, and signed him to the practice squad, and he made his NFL debut mid-season. Foster would go on to win the NFL rushing title the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. New York Jets\nThe Texans began their season with a Week 1 showdown with the New York Jets. Houston would trail in the first quarter as Jets kicker Jay Feely nailed a 24-yard field goal. The Texans' deficit would increase in the second quarter as quarterback Mark Sanchez completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chansi Stuckey. Things only got worse for Houston in the third quarter when running back Thomas Jones scored on a 1-yard touchdown run. The Texans would get on the board as safety Dominique Barber returned a fumble 48 yards for a touchdown, but New York would seal the win with Jones' 38-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Tennessee Titans\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Jets, the Texans flew to LP Field for a Week 2 divisional battle with the Tennessee Titans. Houston would trail early in the first quarter as Titans running back Chris Johnson got a 57-yard touchdown run. The Texans would respond with quarterback Matt Schaub completing a 19-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Johnson, but Tennessee replied with quarterback Kerry Collins completing a 69-yard touchdown to Johnson. The Titans would add onto their lead in the second quarter as Collins completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Tennessee Titans\nAfterwards, Houston would take the lead as Schaub completed a 72-yard touchdown pass to Johnson and a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jacoby Jones, along with kicker Kris Brown making a 38-yard field goal. Tennessee would tie the game to end the half as kicker Rob Bironas made a 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Tennessee Titans\nIn the third quarter, the Titans got their lead again as Johnson got a 91-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, the Texans would tie the game as Schaub completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Owen Daniels. In the fourth quarter, Houston would take the lead as Brown nailed a 23-yard field goal. Afterwards, the defense prevented Tennessee from rallying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Tennessee Titans\nWith the win, the Texans improved to 1\u20131. It was the first road win against Tennessee since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nComing off their hard-fought road win over the Titans, the Texans went home, donned their Battle Red uniforms, and prepared for a Week 3 AFC South showdown with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Even though the Jaguars got the first points of the game with kicker Josh Scobee's 52-yard field goal, Texans quarterback Matt Schaub got his team the lead with an 18-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jacoby Jones. Afterwards, a back-and-forth second quarter commenced. Jacksonville quarterback David Garrard would get a 2-yard touchdown, yet Houston wide receiver Kevin Walter came through with a 9-yard touchdown reception. The Jaguars would deliver a big strike with running back Maurice Jones-Drew's 61-yard touchdown, but the Texans once again got the lead as tight end Owen Daniels got a 2-yard touchdown reception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 896]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nJacksonville would get the lead again in the third quarter as Jones-Drew got a 1-yard touchdown run, followed by Houston kicker Kris Brown tying the game with a 27-yard field goal. However, in the fourth quarter, the Jaguars delivered a huge strike as Jones-Drew got an 8-yard touchdown. The Texans tried to rally, but the Jaguars' defense stood firm and prevented any kind of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Oakland Raiders\nHoping to rebound from their divisional loss to the Jaguars, the Texans stayed at home for a Week 4 duel with the Oakland Raiders. Houston delivered the opening shot of the first quarter with kicker Kris Brown's 26-yard field goal, followed by the Raiders tying the game with a 46-yard field goal from kicker Sebastian Janikowski. The Texans would take full command in the second quarter as Brown nailed a 34-yard field goal, followed by running back Steve Slaton getting a 32-yard touchdown run and catching an 18-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Matt Schaub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Oakland Raiders\nOakland would close out the half with Janikowski's 33-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Houston would continue its domination with rookie linebacker Brian Cushing tackling Raiders running back Justin Fargas in his own endzone for a safety, immediately followed by wide receiver Jacoby Jones returning a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Arizona Cardinals\nComing off their home win over the Raiders, the Texans flew to the University of Phoenix Stadium for the first time ever for a Week 5 interconference duel with the Arizona Cardinals. Houston would trail in the first quarter as Cardinals running back Tim Hightower got a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, followed by quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 9-yard and a 26-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Afterwards, the Texans began to rally as running back Chris Brown got a 1-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Arizona Cardinals\nThen, quarterback Matt Schaub would hook up with wide receiver Andre Johnson on an 11-yard and a 17-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. However, Arizona would strike on two key plays. First, Cardinals cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie would intercept a pass from Schaub and return it 49 yards. Second, Arizona's defense held Houston's offense 1 yard out of the endzone three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Cincinnati Bengals\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Cardinals, the Texas flew to Paul Brown Stadium for a Week 6 duel with the Cincinnati Bengals. Houston would get off to a fast first quarter start as quarterback Matt Schaub found tight end Owen Daniels on a 12-yard touchdown pass. The Bengals answered in the second quarter with a 10-yard touchdown run from running back Cedric Benson, yet the Texans would reply with Schaub completing a 38-yard touchdown pass to running back Steve Slaton. Cincinnati would close out the half with quarterback Carson Palmer's 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laveranues Coles, followed by kicker Shayne Graham nailing a 50-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Cincinnati Bengals\nIn the third quarter, Houston stormed right back with Schaub completing a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jacoby Jones and a 7-yard touchdown pass to Daniels. Afterwards, the defense held to preserve the 11-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their impressive road win over the Bengals, the Texans went home for a Week 7 interconference duel with the San Francisco 49ers. Houston would get off to a fast start in the first quarter as running back Steve Slaton got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Texans would add onto their lead in the second quarter as quarterback Matt Schaub completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Slaton and a 42-yard touchdown pass to tight end Owen Daniels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nHowever, the 49ers began to rally in the third quarter with quarterback Alex Smith hooking up with tight end Vernon Davis on a 29-yard touchdown pass. In the fourth quarter, San Francisco continued to catch up as Smith found Davis again on a 14-yard touchdown pass. Houston would respond with kicker Kris Brown booting a 50-yard field goal. The 49ers tried to come back as Smith connected again with Davis on a 23-yard touchdown pass, yet the defense halted San Francisco's rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nComing off their home win over the 49ers, the Texans flew to Ralph Wilson Stadium for a Week 8 duel with the Buffalo Bills. Houston would trail in the first quarter as Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens got a 29-yard touchdown run. The Texans would get on the board in the second as kicker Kris Brown nailed a 42-yard and a 22-yard field goal. Buffalo would close out the half with a 21-yard field goal from kicker Rian Lindell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nThe Texans would creep closer in the third quarter with Brown booting a 26-yard field goal. Afterwards, in the fourth quarter, Houston took the lead for good as running back Ryan Moats got an 11-yard (followed by quarterback Matt Schaub's 2-point conversion pass to wide receiver Andre Johnson), a 1-yard, and 3-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nWith the win, the Texans would improve to 5\u20133, their best start in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Indianapolis Colts\nComing off their road win over the Bills, the Texans flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for a Week 9 AFC South duel with the Indianapolis Colts. Houston would trail early in the first quarter as Colts quarterback Peyton Manning found running back Joseph Addai on a 7-yard touchdown pass, followed by a 22-yard field goal from kicker Matt Stover. Indianapolis would increase their lead in the second quarter with Stover's 37-yard field goal, yet the Texans closed out the half with kicker Kris Brown nailing a 56-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Indianapolis Colts\nIn the third quarter, Houston began to gain ground as quarterback Matt Schaub completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to running back Ryan Moats. The Texans would take the lead in the fourth quarter as running back Steve Slaton got a 1-yard touchdown run, but the Colts retook the lead with running back Joseph Addai getting a 2-yard touchdown run. Houston had a chance to tie the game with one second left in regulation, but Brown's 42-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Indianapolis Colts\nIn what was another close game resulting in a tough loss, the Texans went into their bye week at 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Tennessee Titans\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Colts, the Texans went home for an AFC South rivalry match against the Tennessee Titans. In the first quarter Houston got on the board first as QB Matt Schaub got a 3-yard touchdown pass to RB Steve Slaton. In the second quarter the Titans replied with QB Vince Young completing a 13-yard touchdown pass to WR Kenny Britt. Then Houston tried to pull away as Schaub hooked up with WR Andre Johnson on a 13-yard touchdown pass, until the Titans replied again with RB LenDale White making a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Texans fell behind in the third quarter as kicker Rob Bironas made a 50-yard field goal, but came back to tie the game when kicker Kris Brown made a 26-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter the Titans scored for the win when Bironas got a 53-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Texans were primed for an upset, heading to the lockers with a 20-7 halftime lead. But a big second half for the Colts ruined things as the Texans fell to 5-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203240-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston Texans season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. New England Patriots\nHouston earned its first ever winning season after 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Tom Brady left and re-entered the game after reports that he had been playing for the past several weeks with three broken ribs emerged. Wes Welker received an injured knee early in the first quarter. This was the Texans' lone win versus New England until 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections\nThe 2009 Houston elections took place on May 9, June 12, and November 3, 2009. All City Council Posts, the City Controller, and the Mayor all had elections. All positions are non-partisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, Mayor\nCandidates listed in order of how they appear on the official ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Controller\nIncumbent Controller Annise Parker was unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. She is ran for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 1\nIncumbent Peter Brown did not be seek a third term because he was running for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 3\nIncumbent Melissa Noriega will be seeking a second full term. So far she is unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council At-large 4\nIncumbent Ronald Green will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. He is running for City Controller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District A\nIncumbent Toni Lawrence will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District B\nIncumbent Jarvis Johnson will be seeking a third term. So far he is unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District C, Candidates\nThere also is an official write-in candidate for the District C race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District F\nIncumbent M. J. Khan will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. He is running for City Controller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District G\nIncumbent Pam Holm will be unable to run for a fourth term due to term limits. She is running for City Controller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District H\nBefore the end of his term, Adrian Garcia resigned to become the Harris County sheriff. After a crowded special election, Edward Gonzalez and Maverick Welsh went into a runoff. Gonzalez won the runoff and now is going to general election unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203241-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston elections, City Council District I\nIncumbent James Rodriguez will be seeking a second term. So far he is unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203242-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston mayoral election\nThe Houston mayoral election of 2009 took place on November 3, 2009, to elect the successor to incumbent Mayor Bill White. White was ineligible for re-election, having served three terms. The race is officially nonpartisan. After no candidate received a majority of the votes, the top two candidates \u2013 City Controller Annise Parker and former City Attorney Gene Locke \u2013 faced each other in a runoff election on December 12, 2009. On November 11, councilman Peter Brown (who finished third in the first round) publicly endorsed Parker in the Mayor's race. Annise Parker won the run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203242-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston mayoral election\nWith the election, Houston became the largest city to elect an openly gay mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203242-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston mayoral election, Candidates\nCandidates listed in order of how they appear on the official ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203242-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Houston mayoral election, Aftermath\nParker was re-elected in 2011 and 2013. Locke served as Harris County interim commissioner in 2016, finishing the term of El Franco Lee, who had died unexpectedly in January of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203243-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hualien earthquake\nThe 2009 Hualien earthquake occurred  on December 19 at 21:02:14 (local time) with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The oblique-slip event took place off the coast of Hualien, Taiwan. Strong shaking could be felt in Hualien City (Shindo 5 according to Central Weather Bureau) and Taipei (Shindo 4 according to Central Weather Bureau). The earthquake could also be felt in Hong Kong and Xiamen, China, and on several islands between Yonaguni and Tarama, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203243-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hualien earthquake, Casualties and damage\nTwo cars were damaged by fallen water towers in Taipei. Ten people were hospitalized following a chlorine leak in a hotel in Hualien. The outer decorative wall of a restaurant in Hualien collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203244-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Huddersfield Giants season\n2009 was the Huddersfield Giants' 146th year in rugby league, entering their eleventh Super League season and the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203244-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Huddersfield Giants season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision\nOn August\u00a08, 2009, at 11:53\u00a0a.m. (15:53\u00a0UTC), nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey. The aircraft were in an area known as the \"Hudson River VFR Corridor\", which extends from the surface of the river to altitudes of 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460\u00a0m) at various locations along the Hudson River in the immediate area of New York City. Within this corridor, aircraft operate under visual flight rules (VFR), under which the responsibility to see and avoid other air traffic rests with the individual pilots rather than with the air traffic controller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision\nBecause of the heavy commercial air traffic into Newark, LaGuardia, and Kennedy airports, an air traffic control clearance is required to operate in much of the airspace around the city. Since ATC is often unwilling to grant this discretionary VFR clearance because of traffic volume, many airplanes that need to transit the New York metro area use the VFR corridor as an alternative to going east of the city (over water) or west (toward Pennsylvania). The corridor is also heavily used by helicopter tour companies, which take passengers on sight-seeing tours of the New York skyline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Background\nVisual flight rules on the river corridors by Manhattan have been subject to considerable debate since the 2006 New York City plane crash, in which New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into an apartment building while flying using visual flight rules on the East River. This was the first aircraft collision over the Hudson River since 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Background\nThe collision, which occurred opposite 14th Street in Manhattan, was about 40 blocks south of where US Airways Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River on January\u00a015, 2009, with no loss of life, after the plane suffered a complete loss of thrust following a bird strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nThe light aircraft was a 6-seat Piper PA-32R-300 Cherokee Lance built in 1976 piloted by Steven Altman with two passengers. Altman was given clearance from the tower at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, at 11:48\u00a0a.m. to take off. It departed at 11:49\u00a0a.m., and was headed for Ocean City, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nThe helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 carrying five Italian tourists and its pilot, took off from the West 30th Street Heliport at 11:52\u00a0a.m. At about the same time, Teterboro tower radioed Altman in the Piper at take-off requesting him to pick his flight path towards Ocean City, and indicate whether he wished to head there via the Hudson River, or take a southwest tack. Altman replied \"Either\". \"Let me know\" was the response from the tower, with Altman answering \"OK, tell you what, I will take down the river.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nAltman was then instructed to contact Newark Liberty International Airport, a directive he agreed to. However, he did not contact the tower at Newark. It later transpired that, in acknowledging the instruction to contact Newark, Altman had read back the wrong frequency (127.8\u00a0MHz instead of 127.85), an error that the controller did not correct. Soon after, a controller at Newark who was concerned about aircraft in the Piper's path contacted the Teterboro controller and asked the him to attempt to re-establish contact. All attempts to contact Altman and change his aircraft's heading were unsuccessful. After the failure to contact Altman, a radar alert about a possible collision occurred in both the Newark and Teterboro towers. However, the two controllers did not remember seeing or hearing this alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nWhile heading south down river, the airplane was seen to be behind the sightseeing helicopter, which was going about half the speed of the airplane. The pilot of another helicopter (who was refueling at the heliport) saw the impending accident, and attempted to warn both the airborne helicopter and the plane by radio, but received no response. At 11:53:14\u00a0a.m., the Piper's left wing crashed into the Eurocopter, severing the left wing of the airplane and rotor blades from the helicopter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nMost witnesses reported the plane entering a nose dive while spiraling into the river, while the helicopter dropped into the water. The collision occurred at approximately 1,100 feet (340\u00a0m) MSL altitude and was caught on tape by an Italian tourist. Less than a minute after the collision occurred, the Teterboro controller contacted the Newark tower to inquire about the airplane, and was told that the airplane had not contacted Newark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nNine people were killed in the collision. All recovered victims died from blunt trauma to the head, torso and extremities, according to the NYC medical examiner's office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nNational Weather Service weather conditions at noon in New York City stations on the day of the collision were described as \"sunny\" or \"partly sunny\" with a temperature of between 73 and 75\u00a0\u00b0F (23 and 24\u00a0\u00b0C) and variable wind speed of 3\u201310\u00a0mph (5\u201316\u00a0km/h; 3\u20139\u00a0kn).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Collision\nAuthorities said the Piper's \"low wing\" design made it difficult to see below the aircraft and the helicopter's rotors make it difficult to see above. In addition, neither small aircraft was required to have a flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Rescue\nImmediately following the accident, the Coast Guard had reported that the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) had rescued one survivor from the Hudson River; however, this report was shown to be incorrect. In addition to FDNY, six rescue boat crews from Coast Guard Station New York, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, several Coast Guard Auxiliary assets, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), New Jersey State Police, and local emergency services all participated in the rescue effort. The Red Cross and the New York Harbor Police also assisted in the efforts. At about 3:00\u00a0p.m., Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, addressed questions in a press conference. Calling the crash \"an accident which we do not believe was survivable,\" Bloomberg announced that the mission was no longer a rescue mission, but rather a recovery mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 956]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Rescue\nOn the night of August 8, 2009, the US Coast Guard maintained a two-mile safety zone from the Holland Tunnel to the Lincoln Tunnel, requiring vessels to move slowly and stay within 400\u00a0yards of the Manhattan side while passing through the area. The safety zone was maintained by the Coast Guard cutter Penobscot Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Recovery\nOn the afternoon of the crash, divers had recovered two bodies from the water. By the next morning, a total of four bodies had been found, while the other five victims were presumed dead. Meanwhile, the helicopter's wreckage was found in about 30 feet (9\u00a0m) of water, far from the wreckage fields of the plane. Aided by a sonar, investigators attempted to discover the plane's debris in deeper water near the mid-channel point of the Hudson. Their efforts were hindered, however, by poor visibility underwater and a storm on August 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Emergency response, Recovery\nThe efforts succeeded on August 10, when the plane's wreckage was discovered in approximately 60\u00a0ft (18\u00a0m) of water, and was recovered from the river on the afternoon of August 11. Additionally, the last few bodies were found in the wreckage of the plane, ending the search for bodies. The recovery effort was led by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with the aid of NYPD boats, New Jersey State Police divers, and the FDNY.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation\nOn August 14, 2009, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report regarding the incident. The report discussed several aspects of the collision, including locations of origin of the aircraft, planned destination, and air traffic control communications. In addition, the report discussed how one of the controllers at Teterboro Airport was on a phone call and did not warn the airplane pilot of the potential conflict. The National Air Traffic Controller's Union (NATCA) then issued their own press release disputing some of the phrasing in the NTSB's report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation\nThe NTSB then retracted some of its statements regarding the controller's part in the crash, saying that the controller could not have warned the plane about the tour helicopter because the tour helicopter was not on the controller's radar. The NTSB also removed NATCA as a party to the investigation as a result of NATCA's press release, as parties to NTSB investigations agree to let the NTSB control publicity during the investigation. NATCA may still submit information to the board regarding the accident, but they will not hold a seat on the investigation board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation\nDue to the accident, the FAA put the Teterboro controller and his supervisor on leave and made comments about the phone call, which was deemed improper behavior. However, the NTSB rebuked the FAA for doing so, stating that only the NTSB has the authority to determine the controller's contribution to the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Investigation\nOn September 14, 2010, the NTSB released its final report on the incident. The report cited two primary causes of the accident: (1) the \"inherent limitations\" of the see-and-avoid concept, which meant that from the airplane pilot's point of view, the helicopter would have appeared as a small, stationary object against a backdrop of the New York City skyline until the final seconds before the collision; and (2) the Teterboro controller's personal phone call, which distracted him from his air traffic control duties and prevented him from correcting the airplane pilot's incorrect readback of the Newark control tower's radio frequency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction\nReaction from government officials, aviation industry groups, and individuals has been widespread. The FAA convened a \"New York Airspace Working Group\" on August 14, 2009. The group will solicit comments from helicopter and aircraft operators, and will review the operating procedures of the Hudson and East River VFR corridors. They will report to FAA administrator Babbitt on August 28. A NOTAM issued on August 11, 2009, advises pilots flying in the area to turn on their lights, use the designated self-announce radio frequencies, and fly at a speed of 140 knots or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction\nFifteen members of Congress, led by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), sent a letter to FAA administrator J. Randolph Babbitt calling for \"immediate action to provide greater oversight of small aircraft operations\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, Reaction\nIn a press conference on August 8, 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (an airplane and helicopter pilot himself) stated that \"Until the National Transportation Safety Board makes a determination, nothing is a fact\", and stressed that the investigation will take weeks or months before those facts are known. Representatives from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), including AOPA President Craig Fuller, have appeared on numerous news programs and collaborated with news sources to explain the workings of the Hudson River VFR corridor and the safety record of flights in that area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations\nThe NTSB issued a \"Safety Recommendation\" to the FAA on August 27, 2009. Because of the accident airplane's intended flight path, the NTSB believes that the pilot may have wanted to climb out of the uncontrolled VFR corridor into the controlled Class B airspace above. However, for reasons unknown as yet, he was not in communication with any air traffic controllers after he switched frequencies from Teterboro tower. He also apparently was not communicating on the Corridor's self-announce frequency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations\nThe NTSB recommended that the FAA revise the procedures for ATC facilities in the area to facilitate the process for VFR traffic that wishes to transit Class B airspace. This included establishing procedures to coordinate such requests between facilities; requiring controllers to instruct pilots to self-announce on the VFR corridor frequency if they are unable to immediately enter Class B airspace; adding information to area Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) broadcasts reminding pilots to use the self-announce frequency; and ensuring that pilots are provided with traffic advisories if they are in contact with a controller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, NTSB recommendations\nAdditionally, the NTSB recommended that ATC controllers and supervisors be briefed in the circumstances of this accident; that a Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) be established for the location requiring special training for pilots transiting the area; and that helicopters be required to operate at lower altitudes than airplanes in the corridor to minimize the speed differences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, FAA changes\nOn September 2, 2009, the FAA announced a plan to improve safety of flights in the corridor. The proposed changes include standardizing the height of the VFR corridor to 1,300 feet (400\u00a0m). In addition, many existing procedures that have been treated as \"Suggested\" items for flying the corridor will now be mandatory, including operating landing lights; maintaining a speed of 140 knots (160\u00a0mph) or less while flying in the corridor; monitoring and announcing on the area Common Traffic Advisory Frequency; and travelling along the west shore when southbound and along the east shore when northbound. Pilots will be required to have appropriate charts available, and to familiarize themselves with the applicable rules before flying in the corridor. Additionally, pilot training courses for both transient pilots and charter helicopter pilots will be developed. An implementation timeline was not initially announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 979]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203245-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, Aftermath, FAA changes\nThe FAA instituted new rules for the Hudson River corridor beginning November 19, 2009, establishing three air traffic zones. Under 1,000 feet (300\u00a0m), planes and helicopters for sightseeing and lingering would be allowed. From 1,000 to 1,300 feet (300 to 400\u00a0m), aircraft would be allowed to fly without air traffic control handling. Above 1,300 feet (400\u00a0m), aircraft would be allowed to traverse the corridor under the handling of air traffic control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203246-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull FC season\nIn 2009, Hull F.C. competed in their twelfth Super League season, in their 145th year after the club's foundation in 1865. They also competed in the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203246-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull FC season, Transfers\n\u2020: Subject to successful visa application. This process was initially delayed due to Crocker's past conviction of affray in 2005. On 29 January 2009, Hull FC confirmed Crocker's visa application had been rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203246-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull FC season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203247-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season\nIn 2009, Hull Kingston Rovers, competing in their 128th season, played in their third Super League season, as well as the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203247-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season, Fixtures and results\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203247-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hull Kingston Rovers season, Notes\nNote A: Warrington won 24\u201325 via the golden point rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl\nThe 2009 Humanitarian Bowl was the thirteenth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho, on the campus of Boise State University. The game started at 2:30 pm MST on Wednesday, December 30, 2009, and was telecasted on ESPN. Idaho defeated Bowling Green 43\u201342.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl\nAs of this game, the Humanitarian Bowl was the longest continuously running cold weather bowl. The 2009 game was Idaho's first bowl game in more than a decade, when they defeated Southern Mississippi in the 1998 Humanitarian Bowl. Bowling Green, in its debut at the Humanitarian Bowl, filled a spot usually reserved for the Mountain West Conference; however, the MWC champion TCU was selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl and the conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill out its usual bowl commitments. Bowling Green played in the GMAC Bowl the previous season, where it lost 63\u20137 to Tulsa. The game also marked the first time the two schools had met in competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl\nBoth teams entered the game with 7-5 records in the regular season: Idaho began the 2009 season at 6\u20131, but lost four of its last five. Meanwhile, Bowling Green was 1\u20134 early in the season, but won six of its last seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nIdaho wore their home black jerseys with gold pants. Bowling Green wore their away white jerseys with white pants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nA bowl game that promised much offense certainly delivered, with just one turnover and a blocked field goal, both in Idaho's favor. The teams traded touchdowns all day and Idaho won its first bowl game in 11 years in one of the most exciting bowl games of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nTied in the final minute and with 3rd down and 11 at their own 49, the Falcons took a 42-35 lead with 32 seconds left on a 51-yard pass from Tyler Sheehan to Freddie Barnes, who easily slipped behind the Idaho secondary for his 17th catch of the game and number 155 in his record-setting season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nAfter the ensuing kickoff, the Vandals had 24 seconds to work with and completed an incredible 46-yard pass for a first down at the BGSU 16-yard line. After an incomplete pass stopped the clock with 8 seconds remaining, wide receiver Max Komar cradled a sliding 16-yard touchdown catch with 4 seconds left to put the Vandals within a point. Head coach Robb Akey decided to go for the win and forego overtime; QB Nathan Enderle found Preston Davis alone in the back of the end zone for the two-point conversion to seal the comeback victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nDe'Maundray Woolridge carried Idaho with 126 yards on 22 rushes and two third-quarter touchdowns. Enderle finished the game completing 15 of his 28 passes for 240 yards and four touchdowns, after starting the game 1 of 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203248-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Humanitarian Bowl, Game summary\nSheehan was 33 of 47 for 387 yards and four touchdowns for Bowling Green, but it was the 14th consecutive bowl loss for the Mid-American Conference. For their efforts on offense, Woolridge and Barnes were named MVP's for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203249-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) resumed sponsoring football as of the 2009 season, so Humboldt State no longer competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203249-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 2009 Lumberjacks were led by second-year head coach Rob Smith. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5\u20135, 1\u20135 GNAC). Each team played the other conference teams twice during the season (home and away). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 276\u2013220 for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203249-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Humboldt State players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203250-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hun Sen Cup\nThe Hun Sen Cup is the main football knockout tournament in Cambodia. The 2009 Hun Sen Cup was the 3rd season of the Hun Sen Cup, the premier knockout tournament for association football clubs in Cambodia involving Cambodian League and provincial teams organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203250-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hun Sen Cup\nPhnom Penh Crown were the defending champions, having beaten Preah Khan Reach 1\u20130 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203250-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hun Sen Cup, Group stage\nThe matches were arranged in four regions, two groups in each region. The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the eight groups in Group stage progressed to the Round of 16 playing in Phnom Penh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203251-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships (Hungarian: Senior Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g 2009) took place between December 20 and 21, 2008 at the Budapest Gyakorl\u00f3 J\u00e9gp\u00e1lya in Budapest. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Hungarian teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagyd\u00edj 2009) was a Formula One motor race held on 26 July 2009 at the Hungaroring in Mogyor\u00f3d, 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi) north of Budapest, Hungary. It was the tenth race of the 2009 Formula One season. The 70-lap race was won by 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton for McLaren-Mercedes, after starting from fourth place on the grid. The 2007 world champion Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen finished second for Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber finishing third. Championship leader Jenson Button had a poor race to finish seventh, losing ground to Webber in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix\nHamilton's win was his first since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, which was also the last time he had appeared on the podium. The result also marked the first time that a car equipped with a regenerative brake system (KERS) had won a race. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's second place was Ferrari's best result of the season so far, but his teammate Felipe Massa suffered a serious accident during the second part of the Saturday afternoon qualifying session which left him with a fractured skull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix\nThe race also saw the debut of World Series by Renault racer and 2008 British Formula Three champion Jaime Alguersuari, who became the youngest Formula One driver in the championship's 59-year history, at the age of 19 years and 125 days, and the first to be born in the 1990s. He replaced the fired S\u00e9bastien Bourdais at Scuderia Toro Rosso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nHeading into the weekend, Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship on 68 points for Brawn GP, 21 points clear of Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel. Vettel's teammate Mark Webber, who signed a new one-year contract before the race weekend, was 1.5 points behind Vettel and an equal number ahead of Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nBrawn GP also held the lead in the Constructors' Championship, with a lead of 19.5 points from a resurgent Red Bull Racing, who were a further 48 points clear of Toyota. Toyota held an advantage of only 1.5 points over defending champions Scuderia Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nWebber won the previous race in Germany from pole position, to claim his first win at the 130th attempt. Despite an early drive-through penalty assessed for a dangerous manoeuvre to keep the Brawn GP car of Barrichello behind him at the start, the Australian driver had enough time in hand to rejoin out front and win by nearly ten seconds from Red Bull Racing teammate Vettel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\n\"I don't really care what all the people say, I just do my work. I do what I know, to be honest. I am here because Red Bull just asked me to, as I do Formula 3 or World Series or GP2, I don't care. I just drive the cars. That's my job and that's what I enjoy doing in life. I'm here because Red Bull just sent me a message telling me that I have to drive this car so I'm here. I don't care what other people say, that's the main thing, first of all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nAnd the second thing is that I know what my expectation is, I know what my target is. I know that today I didn't make any mistakes and I hope tomorrow I don't and even in the race and that's how I work at the end. My target here is to drive the car and not make mistakes. Then we will talk about times and about speed. But I don't feel I am a danger, not really.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nJaime Alguersuari, who was unfazed by the criticism directed at him for being too inexperienced for Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nFelipe Massa was third, to earn his first podium of the 2009 season to date. Championship leader Button could only muster a fifth-place finish, after being overhauled by the one-stopping Williams of Nico Rosberg, who finished fourth having started fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nPrior to the race, the Hungarian Grand Prix had produced different winners for each of the last seven years, with Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes; 2008), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren\u2013Mercedes; 2007), Button (Honda; 2006), Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen (McLaren\u2013Mercedes; 2005), Michael Schumacher (Ferrari; 2004), Fernando Alonso (Renault; 2003) and Barrichello (Ferrari; 2002) taking the chequered flag. The Hungaroring had also been the scene of the maiden victories of Button, Alonso and Kovalainen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Background\nMuch of the talk prior to the weekend was about the appointment of Jaime Alguersuari to replace S\u00e9bastien Bourdais at Scuderia Toro Rosso. Alguersuari did not have any circuit testing experience in a Formula One car, and had only undertaken straight-line aerodynamic tests the week before the Grand Prix, in Faenza. Felipe Massa felt that Alguersuari\u2014who had 118 prior single-seater races under his belt, with 17 wins\u2014was too young and inexperienced to be driving a contemporary Formula One car. Mark Webber and Jenson Button also expressed their fears about Alguersuari driving at the Hungaroring. However, Sebastian Vettel came to the support of the Spaniard, saying that he should take his time to build up speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\n\"I\u2019ve got the full upgrade package that Lewis raced at the Nurburgring and the car now feels much better to drive. We\u2019ve got a new floor, new front wing, updated bodywork and some small changes to the suspension. It\u2019s a big package\u2014and I know how hard the team has worked to get everything here. There are still components arriving at the circuit today! The grip level is so much higher now. Stability under braking is much better, and the guys have done a fantastic job to improve the balance at the rear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nWe still have to keep working hard to make further improvements\u2014but this is a great starting point. I still think we need to look at the data and analyse the strength of the opposition. Of course, it would be fantastic to carry this over into qualifying and the race, but we need to be realistic: I\u2019m sure tomorrow morning will give us a much clearer idea of the position of the Brawns and the Red Bulls. But after today\u2019s performance, I\u2019ll definitely be going for it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nThree practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1\u00a0hour and 30\u00a0minutes with weather conditions dry throughout, the air temperature at 24\u00a0\u00b0C (75\u00a0\u00b0F), and the track temperature at 30\u00a0\u00b0C (86\u00a0\u00b0F). for session one. Session two saw the air temperature at 28\u00a0\u00b0C (82\u00a0\u00b0F), and the track temperature at 45\u00a0\u00b0C (113\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nThe third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an\u00a0hour, and was also dry throughout, with the air temperature at 21\u00a0\u00b0C (70\u00a0\u00b0F), and the track temperature at 26\u00a0\u00b0C (79\u00a0\u00b0F). McLaren were the pace-setters in both Friday practice sessions, with Kovalainen topping the first and Hamilton topping the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nApart from the upturn in McLaren's performance, the usual Friday pace-setters were also competitive, with Williams drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima both setting times that were good enough for top five positions in both sessions. The Red Bull of Mark Webber was also in the top five in both sessions, as he continued his recent good form.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nBrawn GP implemented their usual strategy of running with fuel during Friday practice sessions. In the first session, Jenson Button was tenth and Rubens Barrichello was thirteenth. In the second session, Barrichello improved to seventh place, while Button dropped back to thirteenth. That said, Button's lap time was only 0.727 seconds off the fastest time of Hamilton, in an extremely tight session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nJarno Trulli was the top Toyota in both sessions, finishing up sixth and eighth, beating teammate Timo Glock, who was fourteenth and tenth. Renault had a mixed session, with Alonso and Nelson Piquet Jr. struggling to get the ideal setup for the car. Alonso was seven tenths of a second off in both sessions, while Piquet improving to just a tenth and half behind his teammate. Massa and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen posted times good enough for P7 and P8 in the first session, but were adrift in the second session, with neither driver in the top ten, which left the Ferrari drivers disappointed with the lack of pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nBMW Sauber were another team to struggle in practice, with times some six tenths of a second off the pace, which left both drivers unhappy with the setup. Nick Heidfeld's time in the second session was their best showing, ending up in ninth position. Force India outpaced Toro Rosso in both sessions, with both cars lapping within a second of the best times. Giancarlo Fisichella (16th and 17th) and Adrian Sutil (18th and 16th) were both confident that they could improve on those times on Saturday. S\u00e9bastien Buemi found himself doing much of the setup work for the Italian outfit, improving his lap time by eight tenths of a second, between sessions. Alguersuari produced a solid performance in both sessions, but still ranked last in both sessions. Each driver completed 82 laps over the two sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice\nMcLaren again topped the times during the Saturday practice session with Hamilton posting the best time. Heidfeld was a surprise second for BMW Sauber, with Nico Rosberg in third. Kovalainen was fourth, ahead of the Toro Rosso of Buemi and the Toyota of Glock. Glock's session was far from trouble-free, as his Toyota developed a hydraulic leak during its first flying lap. He returned to the track just before the end of the session, to record the sixth best time. Only seven tenths of a second split Heidfeld in second from Barrichello's Brawn in thirteenth. At one point, Jaime Alguersuari was as high as second position, before falling down to 18th by the end. Both Force Indias lapped slower than the teenager, with Sutil also having an incident, misjudging turn eight and hit the barrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\n\"It was quite a stressful qualifying to be honest. In Q1 we had the yellow flag from Toro Rosso I think in turn 13, so we were P15 at that moment and we had to get the lap to go through turn one. We did it at the end and then in the end in Q3 as you said the times were not working, so we were waiting in parc ferme, chatting between us drivers, asking what time you did, what time you did and try to find in which position you were.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nNow confirmation arrived that we are on pole. A fantastic effort from the team. We put some new stuff on the car at the N\u00fcrburgring that worked very well and here we confirmed that we made a step forward. But, obviously, it is not enough. We need to keep working but finally we found the direction to go.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nFernando Alonso, after taking Renault's first pole position since the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThe qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three\u00a0parts. The first part ran for 20\u00a0minutes, and cars that finished the session 16th or lower were eliminated from qualifying. The second part of qualifying lasted 15\u00a0minutes and eliminated cars that finished in positions\u00a011 to 15. The final part of qualifying determined the positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position. Cars which failed to make the final session could refuel before the race, so ran lighter in those sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nCars which competed in the final session of qualifying were not allowed to refuel before the race, and as such carried more fuel than in the previous sessions. Weather conditions for the session saw the air temperature at 23\u00a0\u00b0C (73\u00a0\u00b0F), and the track temperature at 41\u00a0\u00b0C (106\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThe first part of qualifying saw Rosberg top the times, with a lap of 1:20.793, towards the end of the session. Hamilton and Webber were the only other drivers to record laps in the 1:20s. Alguersuari, who was 19th with several minutes remaining, slowed out of turn 12 with a hydraulic failure that left him unable to return to the pits. He fell to 20th and last on the grid, after Sutil (who moved up to 18th) lapped quicker than he did. The two were joined on the sidelines by the BMW Saubers of Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, and the second Force India of Fisichella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nAfter a seven-minute break, the second part of the qualifying session got underway. With just a second covering the fifteen remaining drivers, many drivers set their quickest laps in the final few minutes of the session. As the session ended, the Ferrari of Massa, who was sixth at the time, was involved in a serious accident at turn four. Replays showed debris striking his Schuberth helmet, 1 inch above the left eye, when he was travelling at 261\u00a0km/h (162\u00a0mph). The impact knocked him unconscious, with his car straying towards the grass verge on the inside of turn four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThe onboard footage from his car showed that he had his feet on both the accelerator and the brake pedals. The Ferrari decelerated at a force of between 0.6 and 1.4g and impacted with the barrier at 100\u00a0km/h (62\u00a0mph). After the car imbedded itself in the tyre barrier, the engine could be heard still revving on the limiter, indicating that Massa's foot was still pressing the accelerator and that he was thus unconscious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nThis accident came just six days after FIA Formula Two Championship driver Henry Surtees was fatally injured after being struck on the head by a wheel bouncing across the circuit at the Brands Hatch track in the United Kingdom, and provoked some discussion about the safety of open cockpit racing cars. The debris, a spring from the rear suspension damper (weighing around 800\u00a0grams), was suspected of having come from the car of Barrichello, who had reported that something had come loose minutes beforehand. Brawn confirmed the part had indeed come from Barrichello's car, and changed the same part on teammate Button's car ahead of the race. It was also subjected to an inspection during the third qualifying session, leaving Button with only one run for qualifying, due to the lengthy inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nDespite Massa's accident, some drivers improved their times towards the end of the session as they had passed the zone before the accident, meaning that Massa fell to eighth position. Button and Nakajima both progressed into the third part of qualifying, with their times set despite the yellow flag at turn four for Massa's accident. Barrichello's problem meant that he and the Brawn team missed out on the top ten shootout for the first time this season. He was joined on the sidelines by Buemi, Glock, Nelson Piquet Jr. and Trulli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nEven though Massa's time was quick enough to progress to Q3, his crash ruled him out of any further participation in the session. He was slowly extricated from his damaged Ferrari, and taken to the infield medical centre, where he was stabilised before being airlifted to hospital. This meant that there were only nine drivers in the final part of qualifying, which was delayed by twenty minutes due to the lengthy amount of time taken to remove Massa, repair the tyre barrier and check the track for any further debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nWith qualifying nearing its conclusion, the official timing system malfunctioned, leaving the drivers bemused in the pit lane afterwards, asking each other their times for comparisons. The problem was later revealed by Formula One Management and LG as being a broken cable. When the timing system came back online, Fernando Alonso discovered that he had set the fastest time, recording his first pole since the 2007 Italian Grand Prix. Joining him on the front row was Vettel, with Webber and Hamilton on row two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nOn row three were Rosberg, who was top when the system went down, and defending race-winner Kovalainen. When the cars' starting weights were released post-qualifying, Alonso was light compared to all those around him. He was some 17.5\u00a0kg lighter than Vettel, and at the extreme, 27\u00a0kg lighter than Button, who qualified eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying\nFerrari latterly confirmed that Massa would miss the Grand Prix due to his accident. He suffered a head cut, bone damage to his skull and a concussion, and remained under observation in intensive care, in the \u00c1llami Eg\u00e9szs\u00e9g\u00fcgyi K\u00f6zpont military hospital in Budapest. He underwent successful surgery for the injuries he suffered in his accident. This meant that for the first time since the 2005 United States Grand Prix, a field of fewer than 20 drivers took part in a Grand Prix. It was also the first time that Ferrari fielded only one car in the race since the 2002 French Grand Prix when Rubens Barrichello failed to start due to ignition problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nThe conditions on the grid were dry before the race, the air temperature at 26\u00a0\u00b0C (79\u00a0\u00b0F), and the track temperature at 43\u00a0\u00b0C (109\u00a0\u00b0F). The formation lap for the race began at 14:00 local time (UTC+2), with the race beginning a couple of minutes later. Alonso retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by a fast-starting Hamilton, Webber, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Vettel, who had made a slow start from the \"dirty\" side of the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nHamilton and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen nearly touched on the run to turn one, which in effect slowed the Finn slightly and allowed Webber to maintain third. Hamilton ran slightly wide on the exit of the first corner, which allowed Webber to challenge him. The counter-effect caused R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Vettel to stack up, with the German's Red Bull making slight contact with the rear of the Ferrari. Vettel lost further places to Rosberg and Kovalainen as a result of the incident. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen would latterly be investigated after the race for both of his first lap incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nAt the end of the first lap, Sutil came into the pits from 19th place with water pressure problems. The problem was terminal and he became the first retirement of the afternoon. Alonso started to pull away from the field, setting his fastest lap of the race (1:23.529) on lap four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nPositions remained static until the start of lap five. Hamilton pressured Webber in turn one, and with the aid of the KERS button, overtook the Australian before turn two. Once clear of Webber, Hamilton started to cut into the gap that Alonso had built up at the front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nAlonso's Renault was suffering from graining on its rear tyres (when the tyres shed little bits of rubber before sticking to the tread of the tyre, effectively separating the tyre from the track surface very slightly), and also a fuel pump problem, which forced him to change to a different fuel setting on the car. Alonso pitted on lap twelve, and was stationary for 6.4 seconds. However, he was released with his front right wheel incorrectly attached, causing the wheel-mounted brake duct or \"spinner\" to rotate while the wheel was turning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nThe duct then fell off and disintegrated at turn four, as Alonso continued to go round the circuit. The wheel then parted from the car at turn nine, and Alonso drove the car back to the pits on three wheels. The missing wheel was replaced, enabling him to continue in the race, but he returned to the pits on the following lap, as the earlier fuel pump problem proved terminal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nWith Hamilton extending his lead to almost six seconds\u2014including his fastest lap of 1:22.479 on lap sixteen\u2014R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Webber both pitted on lap nineteen. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was at a standstill for 8.3 seconds, while a slight problem with the fuel rig cost Webber valuable seconds. He was eventually released just as the Ferrari was trundling down the pit lane. The two cars just avoided a collision, which almost caused the Red Bull to career into a number of the Williams mechanics, who were standing in the pit lane at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nHamilton pitted the following lap, but was slightly delayed by Rosberg's Williams, which had entered the pit lane as Hamilton was about to exit the McLaren pit box. This promoted Kovalainen into the lead, followed by Vettel but both drivers pitted at the end of lap 21, to hand the lead back to Hamilton. Vettel's sluggish pit-stop cost him track position, as he filtered out behind Rosberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nDuring Hamilton's stint on a second set of super-soft tyres, he was told by race engineer Phil Prew to look after his tyres as he had a comfortable gap of 15\u00a0seconds over R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. Championship leader Button, who was heavily fuelled at the start, had improved up to second by the time of his first stop on lap 25. Vettel was struggling with his car, and was passed for eighth position by Barrichello on lap 27. He then reported to his race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin that something was broken on his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nHe pitted at the end of the lap from eleventh position, having lost more places, and his pit crew routinely replaced the nosecone and took a detailed look at the rear suspension. He rejoined a lap down before retiring on lap 30. Debutant Alguersuari made his first Formula One pit stop on lap 28, when running in thirteenth place. Glock also moved into the points-scoring positions at this stage of the race by using the strategy of a long 32-lap first stint. Buemi spun at turn two on lap 38, and subsequently rejoined the circuit behind his teammate Alguersuari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nHamilton was left unchallenged for the rest of the race, making his final pit stop on lap 46, and came home to win his first race as World Champion. This was his first victory since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, his tenth in total, and also the first time that he had won at a circuit twice, having won at nine different circuits previously. This was also the first occasion on which a KERS car had won a Grand Prix; R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen (in another KERS car) came in second, setting his fastest lap on the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Race\nWebber finished third, a result which moved him into second in the championship standings past Vettel. Webber also recorded the first fastest lap of his career, with a lap of 1:21.931 on lap 65. Rosberg finished fourth for the third race in succession, heading home Kovalainen, Glock, Button and Trulli rounded out the top eight point scorers. Outside the point-scoring positions were Nakajima, Barrichello (the first time that a Brawn car had finished a race outside the points), Heidfeld, Piquet, Kubica, Fisichella and the Toro Rossos of Alguersuari and Buemi. With Button's seventh place, his lead in the drivers' championship over Webber was cut by four points, to 18.5 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\n\"Yeah, I was able to manage them quite well but something I want to say is that yesterday was, I think, and maybe I can speak for all of us drivers, quite a sad day to see Felipe not with us here today. Hopefully I speak on behalf of all of us when I say we miss him and wish him well and wish him a speedy recovery. But back to the car, it was just fantastic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nThe team asked me to look after the tyres in which through all the great experiences I have had\u2014good or bad\u2014I was able to apply that today, so really a big thank you to all the guys and all the fans that have always given me support and never gave me up and to all my family.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nLewis Hamilton, reflecting on how well his car looked after its tyres, and also the previous day's events with Felipe Massa's accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nThe top three finishers appeared on the podium and in the subsequent press conference, where Hamilton was overjoyed at being back at the front of the field: \"It\u2019s an incredible feeling to be back here after what feels such a long time away and with such a struggle with me and my team. But as I said on the in lap I am just so proud of the guys, as I go into the factory and I see how hard everyone is pushing. Everyone wants to win just as much as I do and they never gave up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nThey have never given up which is something very rare to see in such a large group of people. I am very, very proud of them. We didn\u2019t expect to win this weekend. Undoubtedly we have caught up quite a bit but we never felt we had the pace to win. But the car felt fantastic and it is incredibly special to get back up here, not only on the podium, but to get a win. It is amazing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nR\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen also achieved his best result of the 2009 season to date, but was unaware that the moves that he made at the start of the race were under investigation, to be looked at after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nI don\u2019t know about the whole thing, so if you can tell me what it\u2019s about that would be nice...I haven\u2019t even noticed if I touched somebody. I was in-between, I think, Mark and somebody else but I don\u2019t know what is going on. That is the first time when you told me but I didn\u2019t feel any touching or anything, so I cannot comment on that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nWebber's podium finish moved him into second place in the championship standings. He was surprised, however, at the way proceedings played out, describing his result as \"a little bit of a surprise. I think we expected to be a little bit quicker after our running on Friday but to be honest we knew these guys would be around us. It was a pretty difficult venue for us and we knew that we didn\u2019t have the advantage maybe that we had in the last few events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nAll in all for me I am still pretty happy to get the result we did. I think we had a better chance to fight Kimi if maybe we did a slightly different pit stop and maybe chose a different tyre but that was my call. I was worried about how long the length of the stint was and it was quite difficult to know which tyre to put on but overall we still have a lot of positives. We are still up here. We haven\u2019t been blown away by any means. We are in the hunt and we can take our car to a lot of venues and be competitive, so our guys and Renault have a lot to be proud of. We are still very much a force, so it is still a positive day for us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nTwo hours after the race's conclusion, representatives of Ferrari, Red Bull and Renault were summoned to see the race stewards due to the various incidents that occurred during the race. Ferrari and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen were cleared of any wrongdoing in either of his incidents with race-winner Hamilton and Vettel on the first lap of the race. Red Bull were given a reprimand for the second race running, due to the unsafe release of Webber into the direct path of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in the pit lane, at the first round of pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nRed Bull had been in a similar situation at the German Grand Prix, when Vettel was released unsafely into the path of Kazuki Nakajima during qualifying, and the team were given a \u20ac10,000 fine. Renault received the harshest punishment of the three incidents, in the form of a suspension from the next race of the season, the European Grand Prix. The race stewards felt that Renault \"knowingly released car no. 7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0036-0002", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\n[Alonso] from the pitstop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely in position, this being an indication that the wheel itself may not have been properly secured. Being aware of this, [Renault] failed to take any action to prevent the car from leaving the pitlane. [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0036-0003", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nRenault] failed to inform the driver of this problem or to advise him to take appropriate action given the circumstances, even though the driver contacted the team by radio believing he had a puncture, resulting in a heavy car part detaching at Turn 5, and the wheel itself detaching at Turn 9.\" which was in breach of Articles 3.2 and 23.1.i in the Sporting Regulations. Within half an hour of the decision, Renault filed the mandatory cost of \u20ac6,000 to appeal against the decision. The International Court of Appeal heard the case on August 17; the Monday before the European Grand Prix and the court upheld bid for the suspension to be overturned. The team was fined $50,000 for the breach of the regulations in Hungary, and were allowed to race at Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\n\"I don't remember anything and that's why what the doctors did had to be explained to me. When I saw Rob [Smedley], he asked me if I remembered Rubens, but the last thing I remembered was when I was behind him at the end of my fast lap in Q2, and then it's blank. It's difficult to explain. I'm feeling much better now and I want to recover as soon as possible to get back behind the wheel of a Ferrari.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nMassa's condition continued to improve over the course of the weekend, the Brazilian having been sedated in a coma for 48 hours. After being visited by Ferrari and Fiat president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and also Rubens Barrichello, doctors from the \u00c1llami Eg\u00e9szs\u00e9g\u00fcgyi K\u00f6zpont military hospital released a statement saying that Massa could make a full recovery. Massa could be released from hospital within a week to ten days, depending on how well he progresses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nMassa's doctor, Dino Altmann, also told the media that he is certain that Massa will race again, having stated that the trauma suffered by the Brazilian was not as bad as first thought, and that his condition has improved rapidly, taking his first steps since the crash, when he left the intensive care unit. Massa left hospital on August 3, returning home to Brazil to recuperate. He checked into the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein in S\u00e3o Paulo for a series of medical tests that would allow him to recuperate at home, rather than in hospital. All the results of the tests for abnormalities came back negative, and Massa was given the all-clear to continue his recuperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\n\"Whoever sits in the car at the next race in Valencia, it will not be Michael Schumacher. I am not 100 per cent sure; I am 200 per cent sure. The pressure on him would be huge. He would be expected to win, but he has not driven this car. When Michael was racing he would get as close to perfection as possible. In this case, it would not be perfection; it would be a gamble\u2014and that's not Michael's style.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nWilli Weber, on rumours that Michael Schumacher would be replacing Massa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nRumours began circulating that any one out of Ferrari advisor Michael Schumacher, and the team's two test drivers Luca Badoer and Marc Gen\u00e9 would be replacing Massa for the European Grand Prix, and the succeeding events. On July 29, Schumacher agreed to drive the car until Massa was fit enough to return, subject to medical tests. However, Schumacher called off his return on August 11, due to a lingering neck injury which he had suffered six months earlier, while testing a Honda CBR1000RR motorcycle at Circuito Cartagena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nBadoer replaced Massa in Valencia, and competed in his first Grand Prix since 1999. The gap of nine years, nine months and 24 days was the second-longest gap between Grands Prix competed, with only Jan Lammers (ten years, three months; when he returned to Formula One in 1992), having a lengthier spell between races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203252-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Post-race\nThe Hungarian Grand Prix was also the last race for Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr. as he parted company with the team on August 3, 2009 and he would not race in a Formula One Grand Prix again. Romain Grosjean was announced as his replacement, with his GP2 Series team Barwa Addax signing up Davide Valsecchi to replace him; ending his title aspirations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203253-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Hungarian GP2 round was the sixth round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on July 25 and July 26, 2009 at Hungaroring at Budapest, Hungary. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203253-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round\nLucas di Grassi got his first ever pole position in GP2, despite being in the series for three years. Nico H\u00fclkenberg won the first race, the German's third win in succession. Giedo van der Garde got the first points for iSport International since Spain with seventh, and followed that up with victory in the sprint race, his first victory in GP2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203253-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Hungaroring GP2 Series round\nH\u00fclkenberg left Hungary with 57 points, still in the lead of the championship. ART Grand Prix and Barwa Addax Team were separated by 2 points in the teams championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203254-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Hypo-Meeting\nThe 35th edition of the annual Hypo-Meeting took place on 30 and 31 May 2009 in G\u00f6tzis, Austria. The track and field competition, featuring a decathlon (men) and a heptathlon (women) event, was part of the 2009 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election\nThere was a by-election in France for the municipality of H\u00e9nin-Beaumont held on 8 July. It was triggered after the mayor, G\u00e9rard Dalongeville, was convicted for embezzlement of public funds, corruption, forgery in private writing, favoritism and conceal of favoritism. The election was notable due to the fact that Steeve Briois, a Front National councillor for the town made it to the second round where he was eventually beaten by a coalition against FN. Steeve Briois was eventually elected mayor in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Background\nIn the 2008 municipal elections, Parti Socialiste candidate, G\u00e9rard Dalongeville got 44.30% in the first round followed by Steeve Briois with 28.48% Daniel Duquenne got 19.23% in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Background\nOnly a year later on 7 March 2009, G\u00e9rard Dalongeville was placed in custody in Lille under claims that he had committed embezzlement and as the case developed, he was suspended from PS on 21 April and then on 27 April was suspended as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round\nIn the first round, there were 9 candidates standing for Mayor with Steeve Briois and Daniel Duquenne appearing as the front runners after a poll from La Voix du Nord shown that Steeve Briois had 35% of the vote, an increase of 7% from 2008 and Daniel Duquenne close behind", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round\nOn the night of 28 June, the Front National came in 39% of the vote, an 11% increase from 2008 and 800 more votes. This was followed by Daniel Duquenne and Pierre Ferrari, who obtained 20.19% and 17.01% respectively. After the FN got into the second round, numerous mainstream politicians called for citizens of H\u00e9nin-Beaumont to vote against Steeve Briois. This included Herv\u00e9 Morin, Xavier Bertrand, Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Cop\u00e9. In reaction to the UMP endorsement of Duquenne, Briois said \"It's like the cherry on top\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, First round\nFrench actor, Dany Boon called for people to vote against FN saying that \"the National Front conveys ideas to the opposite of the Nord-Pas de Calais\" To this statement, Marine Le Pen replied saying that he was a good actor but he didn't understand the situation of the people in H\u00e9nin-Beaumont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Second round\nAs the second round started, candidate for the PS and Modem offered Pierre Ferrari to ally with Daniel Duquenne, Duquenne refused and after realizing the endorsements were in Duquenne's favor, he dropped out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203255-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 H\u00e9nin-Beaumont mayoral by-election, Second round\nOn 5 July 2009, Daniel Duquenne won the election with 6,054 votes or 52.38% where Steeve Briois who obtained 5,504 votes or 47.62% came second. Following this defeat, Marine Le Pen said \"there are defeats that are extremely honorable and this one of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203256-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 I-League 2nd Division\nThe 2009 I-League 2nd Division season ran from February 2009 to April 19, 2009. Initially 15 teams were divided in three groups of five teams and then the top two teams in each group were advanced to final round of qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203256-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 I-League 2nd Division\nFour teams were promoted to I-league 2010 season. Promoted teams include Pune FC, Lajong SSC, Viva Kerala and Salgaocar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203257-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF Golden League\nThe 2009 Golden League is the 12th edition of the IAAF's annual series of six athletics meets, held across Europe, with athletes having the chance to win the Golden League Jackpot of $1 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203258-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF Road Race Label Events\nThe 2009 IAAF Road Race Label Events were the second edition of the global series of road running competitions given Label status by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). All five  World Marathon Majors had Gold Label status. The series included a total of 49 road races, 19 Gold and 30 Silver. In terms of distance, 34 races were marathons, 8 were half marathons, 5 were 10K runs, and 2 were held over other distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203259-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Final\nThe 7th IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 12 and September 13, 2009. The competition represented the culmination of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, a selection of athletics meetings which began on September 20, 2008 at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. The Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association (SEGAS) won the rights to hold the event in April 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203259-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Final\nThe competitors in each event were decided by the final standings of the 2009 World Athletics Tour. Having scored points for their performances at specified meetings throughout the season, the seven athletes with the most points in each event qualified to compete, while eleven athletes were selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to take the place of qualified athletes who could not attend the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203260-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Final \u2013 Results\nThese are the results of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 12 and 13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203260-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Final \u2013 Results\nThe year's top seven athletes, based on their points ranking of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, qualified to compete in each event, with an extra four athletes selected for races of 1500 metres and above. One additional athlete, a wildcard, was allocated to each event by the IAAF and replacement athletes were admitted to replace the qualified athletes that could not attend the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203261-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour\nThe 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour was the fourth and final edition of the annual global circuit of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series featured 25 one-day meetings, consisting of the six meetings of the 2009 IAAF Golden League, five IAAF Super Grand Prix meetings, and fourteen IAAF Grand Prix meetings. In addition, there were 29 Area Permit Meetings that carried point-scoring events. The series culminated in the two-day 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 12\u201313 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203261-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour\nRussian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva scored the most points during the circuit, with a total of 106. Five other athletes achieved a total of 100 points: distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, hurdler Dayron Robles, sprinters Kerron Stewart and Sanya Richards, and high jumper Blanka Vla\u0161i\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203261-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, Points standings\nAthletes earned points at meetings during the series. The following athletes were the top performers for their event prior to the World Athletics Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 28, 2009. The races were held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races encompassed both individual and team competition. Amman is also only the second occasion on which Asia has hosted the World Cross Country Championships, which are the oldest IAAF World Athletics Series event, first celebrated under the IAAF banner in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes\nThe senior male team for Kenya won their 22nd team title in 24 years despite the fact that no senior male runner from Kenya has won an individual title since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes\nFlorence Kiplagat was the first Kenyan senior women's winner since Helen Chepngeno in 1994. She was quoted saying, \u2018\u2019I would like to thank God,\u201d she said. \u201cKenya has not won since 1994. We are determined to perform at the same level as Kenyan men.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Competition notes\nFurther race reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Senior men's race (12 km)\nComplete results for senior men and for senior men's teams were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 84], "content_span": [85, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Junior men's race (8 km)\nComplete results for junior men and for junior men's teams  were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Senior women's race (8 km)\nComplete results for senior women and for senior women's teams were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Race results, Junior women's race (6 km)\nComplete results for junior women and for junior women's teams were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203262-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 459 athletes from 59 countries participated, two athletes less (senior women) than the official number published", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203263-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior men's race\nThe Junior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203263-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior men's race, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 119 athletes from 29 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203264-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior women's race\nThe Junior women's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203264-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior women's race, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 99 athletes from 27 countries participated in the Junior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203265-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior men's race\nThe Senior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203265-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior men's race, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 145 athletes from 44 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from \u00a0Zimbabwe did not show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203266-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior women's race\nThe Senior women's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times and for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203266-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior women's race, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 96 athletes from 34 countries participated in the Senior women's race, two athletes less than the official number published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships\nThe 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom on 11 October 2009. It was the final event of the International Association of Athletics Federations' 2009 World Athletics Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation\nThe city of Birmingham was selected by the IAAF Council after a presentation by UK Athletics and the Birmingham City Council. It was the third time the championships were held in Great Britain, after the 1992 event on Tyneside and the 2001 edition in Bristol. A number of events were scheduled to coincide with the Championships: a three-day convention for Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, as well as an IAAF press conference to discuss the future and progression of the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation\nIn addition to the main World Championship races, the Birmingham Half Marathon started thirty minutes after the women's World Championship race. Organised by Birmingham City Council and sponsored by EDF Energy, it was the second edition of the mass race which attracted over 9000 runners in 2008. A total of 12,068 people signed up to run the Birmingham Half Marathon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Organisation\nA total of 47 IAAF member federations sent athletes to the championships, the highest number since the 2002 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Course\nThe men's race and women's race started at BST 9.00\u00a0am and 9:30\u00a0am, respectively. The course passed through Birmingham city centre and the city's southern suburbs, Centenary Square acting as the start and end point of the race. Highlights along the route included Cannon Hill Park, Cadbury World and the Bournville model village, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Victoria Square and the Bull Ring. The course is largely straight and flat, although there is an abrupt descent and ascent at the start and finish of the route, and slight rises and falls between the 10 and 16\u00a0km marks around Selly Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race\nEritrean runner Zersenay Tadese, who had won the last two World Half Marathons as well as the 20\u00a0km race in 2006, announced that he would attempt to defend his title and his chances improved after world leader Patrick Makau Musyoki was not listed from the Kenyan squad. The defending women's champion Lornah Kiplagat did not attempt to defend her title due to a knee injury, and three-time champion Paula Radcliffe filled the void, aiming for a record fourth title. However, she too withdrew from the event due to tonsillitis, dealing a blow to the host nation's chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race\nTadese was the outright favourite of the men's race, with his greatest challenge coming from Kenyans Sammy Kitwara, Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich and Bernard Kiprop Kipyego, Ethiopians Tilahun Regassa and Dereje Tesfaye. Dathan Ritzenhein, Fabiano Joseph Naasi and Marilson dos Santos were other outside chances. The Kenyan and Eritrean men's teams were favoured for the gold and silver team medals, while the team's from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda were suggested as possible bronze medallists. Unusually, Qatar (whose team placed third in 2008) did not send any runners to the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race\nIn the women's race, Kenyan Mary Jepkosgei Keitany was the favourite in the absence of Kiplagat and Radcliffe. Keitany went into the championships as the world's leading half marathon runner, having run 1:07:00\u00a0seconds earlier in the season, and the race was seen as a chance for her to make her mark over the distance. The next fastest runner that season was her compatriot Philes Ongori, although her time of 1:07:50 was some way off Keitany's. Two more possible medallists, Filomena Cheyech and Caroline Cheptanui Kilel rounded out a strong Kenyan squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race\nThe Ethiopian team was missing two of their best runners (Dire Tune and Aselefech Mergia), but Abebu Gelan and Aberu Kebede were still in medal contention. The Japanese athletes, Yukiko Akaba and Yurika Nakamura, looked to maintain Japan's past podium form in the team competition. New Zealand's Kim Smith was regarded as an unknown quantity, as she was moving to the road competitions after much success on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Competition, Pre-race\nAt the pre-race press conference the IAAF General Secretary, Pierre Weiss, lamented the relative lack of interest in the competition, vocalising the IAAF's dissatisfaction with the number of competing athletes and federations. He acknowledged that the competition's prize money was not at parity with other top level marathons. Wilson Kipketer, the 800 metres world record holder, pointed out that the standard of Europe's long-distance runners had been largely surpassed by other region's athletes, most notably by Africa. Kipketer argued that Europeans were not making the most of their sporting facilities and were \"not training properly or timing and planning their seasons properly\". Ed Warner, chairman of UK Athletics, agreed that a rethink was needed in terms of training and mindset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Medallists\nDetailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given bothfor the men's race and for the women's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Race results\nComplete results were published for the men's race, for the women's race, for men's team, and for women's team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Race results, Women's\n\u2020: Inga Abitova from \u00a0Russia was initially 9th(1:09:53), but her competition results were annulled, beginning October 10,2009, because of breaking anti-doping regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Team results, Women's\n\u2020: The team from Russia was initially ranked 3rd (3:31:23), but fell behind Japan after the disqualification of Inga Abitova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203267-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Participation\nThe participation of 157 athletes (98 men/59 women) from 39 countries is reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships\nThe 2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships were a series of two events that served as qualification for the 2009 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The first stage of the championship saw the affiliate nations competing for a place in the finals. This competition was held from 27 February to 5 March in Maputo, Mozambique. Initially it was intended for two teams to go through but due to concern over Kenya's ability, they were included in the qualifying finals limiting the free spaces to one. As a result, only the champions, Sierra Leone, made it through into the eight team finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships\nThe finals were held from 27 April to 4 May in Lusaka, Zambia. The top two teams qualified for the international qualifier and these were Uganda and surprisingly, the affiliate team of Sierra Leone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Affiliates, Teams\nSix African affiliate nations participated in this competition and these were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Affiliates, Matches\nThe teams played each other in a round robin format with the final placings being decided by wins and then run rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 95], "content_span": [96, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Finals, Teams\nEight teams competed in the second part of the competition, these being the seven associate nations plus the winners of the affiliate tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203268-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Africa Under-19 Championships, Africa Under-19 World Cup Qualifier Finals, Matches\nThe teams played one another in a round robin format with the final placings being decided by wins and then net run rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203269-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship\nThe 2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship was an event organised by the Americas Cricket Association for the top Under-19 teams from its member nations. The tournament also served as qualification for the 2009 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier to which the top two teams would progress. It was held from 6\u201312 July in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Six teams participated with Canada emerging as champions and second placed USA joining them in qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203269-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship, Teams\nAll the associate members of the ACA took part alongside affiliate side Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203269-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Americas Under-19 Championship, Matches\nThe teams played one another in a round-robin format with the final placings being decided by wins, followed by net run rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards\nThe 2009 ICC Awards were held on 1 October 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa before the semi-finals of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Nominations were announced in Mumbai in early September while short lists were announced on 15 September. These awards were given on the performance of the players between 13 August 2008 and 24 August 2009 and were presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). Performances from both players and officials were taken into account during this period of time for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards\nThe ICC had been hosting ICC Awards since 2004, which were now into their sixth year. Previous events were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006) and Dubai (2008), with Johannesburg also hosting in 2007. The ICC awards the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy to the Cricketer of the Year, which is considered to be the most prestigious award in world cricket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, Sponsors\nAs the logo of these awards suggests, LG, one of the world's leading electronic brands, sponsored these awards along with other ICC sponsors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, Selection Committee\nChaired by ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Clive Lloyd, the ICC Selection Committee was charged with two main tasks. Using their experience, knowledge and appreciation of the game, they selected the ICC World XI Teams and provided a long list of nominations to the 25 members of the voting academy to cast their votes in the individual player award categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC Test Team of the Year\nMS Dhoni was selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the Test Team of the Year. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, ICC World XI Teams, ICC ODI Team of the Year\nMS Dhoni was also selected as both captain and wicket-keeper of the ODI Team of the Year. Other players are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, Short lists\nThe short lists for the 2009 ICC Awards were announced by the ICC on 15 September 2009 directly from Dubai. They are the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203270-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Awards, Nominations\nThe following are the nominations for the 2009 ICC Awards in different categories. They were announced by Virender Sehwag and Ravi Shastri in the presence of ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy\nThe 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International cricket tournament held in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October, at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Gauteng province. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan in 2008, but due to security concerns it shifted to South Africa. It was the sixth ICC Champions Trophy, and was previously known as the ICC Knock-out. Two teams from two groups of four qualified for the semi-finals, and the final was staged in Centurion on 5 October. Australia successfully defended the title by beating New Zealand by six wickets in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, History\nThe Champions Trophy was the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was ICC president in the late 1990s. It had a dual aim of spreading the game to emerging nations and raising money for the ICC in between World Cups, thus enabling it to pump more cash into those fledgling cricket countries. The first tournament, labelled as a mini World Cup, was staged in Dhaka in October 1998 and raised more than \u00a310 million. The second, in Nairobi, was a commercial success although the crowds stayed away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, History\nBy the time the 2002 event was held \u2013 and there was disquiet as it was so close to the World Cup five months later \u2013 the idea of playing in developing nations had been ditched and as revenue-generation was the main raison d'etre, it needed to be in one of the main countries as this allowed the format to be expanded. In 2004 the jamboree moved to England and it became clear the format of group games led to too many meaningless games. By the time the 2006 tournament in India came into view, the event was under fire from some quarters, and at one time there were even hints that India might decline to take part in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Schedule and location\nThe tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Pakistan between 11 and 28 September 2008 in Lahore and Karachi. The ICC postponed the tournament due to security fears expressed by several participating countries; On 24 July 2008, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would take place in Pakistan after all despite players from Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand raising concerns over touring the country. On 22 August 2008, South Africa announced that it would not take part in the Champions Trophy due to security concerns. Two days later, on 24 August 2008, after speculation that the tournament would be held elsewhere (England, Sri Lanka, or South Africa), the ICC announced that the tournament would be postponed until October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Schedule and location\nAt its meeting in February 2009, the ICC board decided to move the tournament out of Pakistan on security concerns. At the time, Sri Lanka was the favoured alternate host. In March 2009, the ICC Chief Executives' Committee recommended to the ICC board that the tournament be held in South Africa as there were concerns that the weather in Sri Lanka during September and October could result in too many games being washed out. The ICC board ratified the recommendation, and the event took place in South Africa between 22 September and 5 October 2009. Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Johannesburg area, were announced as venues for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Rules and regulations\nThe 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was contested by the top eight teams (previously 10) that had been seeded and divided into two groups. No associates nations participated in this tournament. Each team played every other team in its group once. Points were allocated for each match in accordance with the system described below which applied throughout the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203271-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy, Rules and regulations\nFollowing the group stage, the top two teams from each group progressed to the semi-finals, where the winner of Group A played the runner up of Group B (in the 1st semi-final) and the winner of Group B played the runner up of Group A (in the 2nd semi-final). The winners of the semi-finals contested the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203272-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final\nThe final of the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament was played on 5 October 2009 between New Zealand and Australia at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. Australia qualified into the final by defeating England in the first semi final while New Zealand defeated Pakistan in the second semi final. Australia won the final by 6 wickets, their second consecutive Champions Trophy final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203272-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Road to the Final, First Semi-Final\nThe first semi final was played between Australia and England on 2 October 2009 at the SuperSport Park, Centurion. England batted first and set target of 258 which Australia achieved in 41.2 overs. Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting scored 136 and 111 runs\u2014both not out\u2014sharing 252 runs from 242 balls, Australia highest partnership in One Day Internationals (ODIs). Watson was given man of the match award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203272-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Road to the Final, Second Semi-Final\nNew Zealand played Pakistan in the second semi-final at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, and defeated them by 5 wickets. Achieving the target of 234 runs, New Zealand highest scorer was Grant Elliott, with 75 not out. Daniel Vettori earned the man of the match award for his all-round performance; he took 3 wickets for 43 runs in 10 overs and scored 41 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203272-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Result\nThe final of the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy was played between Australia and New Zealand at the SuperSport Park on 5 October 2009. Batting first after winning the toss, New Zealand posted a total of 200 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. Australia, in the reply, were initially restrict to 41 runs for 3 wickets in 18 overs, and the Kyle Mills and Shane Bond appeared with bowling figures like: 6\u20132\u20138\u20131 and 5\u20132\u20139\u20131 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203272-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, Result\nShane Watson and Cameron White were playing in a \"Test match-mode\", but got momentum later with White scoring 61 runs off 102 balls and Watson 105 not out from 129 balls. With back-to-back sixes, Watson completed his century and achieved the target. Australia reach the target in 45.4 overs losing 4 wickets. This was the second consecutive occasion for Watson earning man of the match award in the final of ICC Champions Trophy. It was Australia's fifth consecutive win after becoming finalists in multi-team tournaments since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads\nThis is a list of the squads picked for the men's 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. This was the sixth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament and took place in South Africa between 24 September and 5 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Australia\nAustralia named their 15-man squad on 22 August 2009. Brad Haddin withdrew from the squad on 3 September 2009 following finger surgery; he was replaced by Tim Paine. Coach: Tim Nielsen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, England\nEngland named their 15-man squad on 17 August 2009. Andrew Flintoff was named in the original squad but withdrew on 23 August in order to undergo exploratory surgery on his knee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, India\nIndia named their 15-man squad on 16 August 2009. Yuvraj Singh was replaced by Virat Kohli after he fractured his little finger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, New Zealand\nNew Zealand named their 15-man squad on 23 August 2009. Jesse Ryder cramped in a match. Daryl Tuffey and Jacob Oram were also injured. Thus New Zealand team lost three of their mainstream players. Scott Styris was also called from New Zealand for replacements in the final or semi-final of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Pakistan\nPakistan named their 15-man squad on 21 August 2009. Mohammad Asif got selected after his ban after a year and a half. Also the three players from ICL Imran Nazir, Mohammad Yousuf and Naved-ul-Hasan made their way into the squad after issuing the photocopies of NOC to the PCB. Shahid Afridi acted as captain in their first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, South Africa\nSouth Africa named their 15-man squad on 20 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, Sri Lanka\nSri Lanka named their 15-man squad on 25 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203273-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Champions Trophy squads, West Indies\nWest Indies named their 15-man squad on 17 August 2009. Despite some negotiations with the West Indian players the Board named their A-team players for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203274-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)\nThe 2009 East Asia-Pacific Trophy was an international cricket tournament played in ODI format at Apia, Samoa between 19\u201325 September 2009. Eight men's national teams participated in the tournament which was split into two divisions; the three nations from the World Cricket League played in division one, and the remaining five nations played in division two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203274-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)\nIn the division one competition, after a round robin group stage of four matches, Papua New Guinea easily beat the Fiji in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203274-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day)\nIn the division two competition, after a round robin group stage of four matches, Vanuatu easily beat the Samoa in the final. As a result of winning the tournament, Vanuatu earned promotion to both Division Eight of the World Cricket League and Division One of the EAP Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203274-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy (One day), Play-offs\nThere were four play-off matches to decide the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203275-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nThe 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 competition took on a different format from that of the men's, having eight teams split into two pools followed directly by the semi-finals and final. All pool stage matches were played at the County Ground in Taunton. The women's competition was also shorter, running for 10 days as opposed to 16 for the men's tournament, however the women's semi-finals and final were held on the same days and at the same venues as those of their male counterparts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203275-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20\nEngland and New Zealand contested the final at Lord's, with the host nation bowling out New Zealand for 85 thanks to Player of the Match Katherine Brunt's opening spell of 3 for 6. Player of the Series Claire Taylor saw England home to a comfortable six wicket victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203275-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Statistics, ICC Team of the Tournament\nAfter the tournament's conclusion an ICC panel of experts picked the best composite XI from the players in the Women's World Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three\nThe 2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three was a cricket tournament in Malawi, taking place between 3 and 7 October 2009. It gave six African Associate and Affiliate members of the International Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and formed part of the global World Cricket League structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three\nThe top two teams, Malawi and Sierra Leone was promoted to Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Teams\nThere were 5 teams that played in the tournament, Morocco withdrew due to visa problems. These teams were non-test member nations of the African Cricket Association. The teams that played were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 65], "content_span": [66, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads\nMoses BadjanMoses BahoumPeter CampbellAniru ContehBakary DarboeMbye DumbuyaGeorge GreywoodeAbdoulie JohnsonPrince JohnsonGabriel NjieMelville Williams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads\nLehlomela KhubetsoanaLeokaoke LebonaRalintsi LemphaneThapelo LintsiThabang MaferekaAtanase MohapiBongane MosiuoaMalebanye NkokoMosokotso SelloMasiu TolofiTsabanyeNkhashe Tsooanyane", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads\nAkbar BhanaKaramutallah ChaudryNaeem ChaudryIshtaq KhanDanish JakhuraSheilandra JeenaFaraz JunejoArjun KamleshImran KhanMuzakkir KhanMushaid QureshiZafarullah SukheraTariq Mohamed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads\nEmmanuel ByiringiroEric DusabemunguEric DusingizimanaShijith KaladaAndre KayiteraPraveen MenonDennis MukamaEvode MutuyimanaSubhasis SamalBob SonghaJoseph TuyishimireSrinath VardhinenCoach: William Kamanyi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203276-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Africa Region Division Three, Squads\nJulius BrewahOlu CokerIbrahim KabiaMustapha KallonAbubakarr KamaraAlie John KamaraEmmanuel KamaraEdward KamaraIbrahim KamaraLansana LaminMohamed MansarayEdward MarahLuseni SenesieBamie Williams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 66], "content_span": [67, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203277-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven\nThe 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven was a cricket tournament held in May 2009 in Guernsey. The tournament was the first stage of qualification structure for the 2015 World Cup as well as part of the wider ICC World Cricket League. The two leading teams of the tournament were promoted to Division Six later the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203278-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Six\nThe 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Six was a cricket tournament held from 29 August to 5 September 2009 in Singapore. The tournament was the second stage of the qualification structure for the 2015 World Cup as well as part of the wider ICC World Cricket League. The two leading teams of the tournament were promoted to Division Five in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three\nThe 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three was a cricket tournament that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from  24 to 31 January 2009. It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualifying for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three\nThe tournament was won by Afghanistan, with Uganda coming in second. Those teams qualified for the 2011 World Cup qualification tournament. Both won four matches and lost one, as did Papua New Guinea; the rankings tie was broken by net run rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three\nPapua New Guinea were the first to reach four wins, as Afghanistan and Uganda both had their fifth matches abandoned due to rain and had to replay them the next day. The rain also resulted in the cancellation of the finals round ranking matches (which would not affect promotion or relegation in any case), and the group round result table was the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Teams\nThe teams for the tournament have been decided according to the results of Division Two and Division Three in 2007, and Division Four in 2008, and are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Teams\nThe top two teams from this tournament qualified to play in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203279-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, Final and Playoffs\nThe playoff matches were cancelled after the abandonment of fifth-round group matches led to replays on the day the playoff matches were scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20\nThe 2009 ICC World Twenty20 was an international Twenty20 cricket tournament which took place in England in June 2009. It was the second ICC World Twenty20 tournament, following the inaugural event in South Africa in September 2007. As before, the tournament featured 12 male teams \u2013 nine of the ten Test-playing nations and three associate nations, which earned their places through a qualification tournament. Matches were played at three English grounds \u2013 Lord's and The Oval in London, and Trent Bridge in Nottingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20\nThe tournament was organised in parallel with the women's tournament, with the men's semi-finals and final being preceded by the semi-finals and final from the women's event. The final took place at Lord's on Sunday 21 June with Pakistan beating Sri Lanka by eight wickets and England beating New Zealand by six wickets in the women's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background\nIn June 2006, The Daily Telegraph reported that the Marylebone Cricket Club and Surrey CCC had put in a joint bid to host the tournament at Lord's and The Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background\nIn December 2007, the ICC provisionally approved a Women's World Twenty20 to run alongside the men's event which, subject to the approval of the ICC's finance and commercial affairs committee, would come into effect for the 2009 tournament in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background\nIn early January 2008, speculation arose that the tournament could be held elsewhere as the British government have banned Zimbabwe from touring England in 2009. However, it was later confirmed that the tournament would definitely take place in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Background\nIn April 2008, the third venue was confirmed as Nottingham's Trent Bridge; the 17,500 seater stadium was chosen to hold one of the semi-finals, among other earlier matches. Lord's and The Oval are the two other confirmed venues, with the opening match and final being played at Lord's. Old Trafford Cricket Ground had bid for the third venue, but Trent Bridge was chosen for its closer proximity to the two London grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Qualification\nAlthough early reports suggested the 2009 event may involve just eight teams in a nine-day event, the full twelve-team tournament was confirmed, featuring the Test-playing nations and two qualifying associate nations. However, in July 2008 Zimbabwe, under pressure from South Africa and England over political matters related to Robert Mugabe, pulled out of the tournament of their own volition, creating an additional space for an associate nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Qualification\nQualification was achieved by the finalists of an ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier held in Belfast from 2\u20134 August 2008, between Kenya, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Canada and Bermuda. Ireland and the Netherlands, having reached the final, qualified outright, while Scotland won the third place playoff beating Kenya to also qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Rules and regulations\nDuring the group stage and Super Eight, points are awarded to the teams as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Rules and regulations\nIn case of a tie (i.e. both teams score exactly the same number of runs at the end of their respective innings), a super-over decides the winner. This is applicable in all stages of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Rules and regulations\nWithin each group (both group stage and Super Eight stage), teams are ranked against each other based on the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Rules and regulations, Groups\nThe groups were announced on 31 October 2007, based on finishing positions at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and the successful qualifying associate nations. The initial four group format is the same as that used at the 2007 tournament. Team seed in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Fixtures, Super 8s\nThe Super 8s consisted of two groups: Group E and Group F. Group E consisted of A1, B2, C1, D2 and Group F consisted of A2, B1, C2, D1, where X1 is the first seed from Group X and X2 is the second seed from Group X. The seedings were based on performance in the last ICC T20 (2007). If a non-seeded team knocks out a seeded team, the non-seeded team inherits the seed of the team it knocked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Fixtures, Knockout stage, Final\nIn the final at Lord's, the home of cricket in London, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. The first over was bowled by Mohammad Amir. After failing to score off the first four balls \u2013 all short \u2013 Dilshan went for his scoop and mistimed it, resulting in him being caught at short fine-leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Fixtures, Knockout stage, Final\nSoon after this, Jehan Mubarak top edged a delivery by Abdul Razzaq which went high in the air and was caught by Shahzaib Hasan, leaving Sri Lanka at 2 for 2. Sanath Jayasuriya was able to stabilise the innings for Sri Lanka hitting 17 runs off 10 balls, however, Jayasuriya soon fell as he dragged a good length ball back on to the stumps. Mahela Jayawardene followed after edging a shot into the hands of Misbah-ul-Haq, leaving Sri Lanka on 32/4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Fixtures, Knockout stage, Final\nSangakkara and Chamara Silva added further runs, before the latter was caught by Saeed Ajmal playing a pull shot off the bowling of Umar Gul. Shahid Afridi soon after, took the wicket of Isuru Udana with a googly which drifted into the right-hander, knocking the off-stump. This brought in Angelo Mathews, who along with Sangakkara took the score from 70/6 to 138/6, with 17 runs being scored off the last over bowled by Mohammad Amir. Sri Lanka finished on 138/6 from 20 overs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203280-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20, Fixtures, Knockout stage, Final\nPakistan started off well with openers Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan adding 48 runsfor the 1st wicket, before Kamran Akmal was stumped by Kumar Sangakkara by the first delivery of Sanath Jayasuriya. Pakistan reached the target in 18.4 overs, with Shahid Afridi, who hit the winning runs, earning Man of the Match while Tillakaratne Dilshan was declared Man of the Series for his 317 runs at an average of 63.40. Pakistan's win, often cheered on by crowds of fans from England's Pakistani communities, marked its first world title since Imran Khan's \"cornered tigers\" had won the 1992 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final\nThe 2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final was played between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Lord's in London on 21 June 2009. This was the 2nd ICC World Twenty20. Pakistan won the match by eight wickets, its first World Twenty20 victory, after being the runners-up at the very previous tournament at 2007 Pakistan became the 2nd team to win this title after India. This was the second consecutive time where both the finalists were Asian teams. In the stadium, the match was watched by 28,000 spectators and almost 32 million people watched it on TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Background\nPrior to this match Sri Lanka and Pakistan played 4 times against each other in Twenty20s, where both teams won 2 times each. Their most recent meeting was in that same event where Sri Lanka won by 19 runs. Including that they also met another time in the World Twenty20, which was in the previous event at 2007. Pakistan won by 8 wickets in that match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Road to the final, Sri Lanka\nSri Lanka had a very smooth tournament excluding the final match. They were the only unbeaten team at that stage. They won against West Indies in the group stage and eliminated Australia in the group stage by beating them by six wickets. They were the group champions of Group C. In Super8s they were potted in the Group F. They won against Pakistan, Ireland and New Zealand to become the group topper of this group. Dilshan's unbeaten 96 helped Sri Lanka to beat the West Indies team by 57 runs and qualify for their first ICC World Twenty20 Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Road to the final, Pakistan\nDespite entering the tournament with a number of the players who had finished second to India during the inaugural World T20, including all-rounders Shahid Afridi and captain Shoaib Malik, fast bowler Umar Gul and batsman Misbah-ul-Haq \u2013 supported by teenage but promising left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir \u2013 Pakistan's road to the final wasn't smooth like the Lankans. They were in the clinch of elimination at group stage, but a massive 82 runs win against the Netherlands washed out all the tensions for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Road to the final, Pakistan\nThough the loss against host England made them stay behind of the hosts at Group B. Still the tournament system made them the B1 of group B. In the Super 8s, they lost to the Sri Lankan team by 19 runs at their first match. which led them to another tension situation. But another gigantic and dominating win against New Zealand helped them to release the pressure, punctuated by Gul becoming the first bowler to record a five-wicket haul in a T20 international.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Road to the final, Pakistan\nAn easy win against Ireland \u2013 redemption for a number of the Pakistani players who had been in the ODI team that had lost to the Irish in Jamaica in the 2007 World Cup that not only knocked them out of the tournament but proved to be Bob Woolmer's final match coaching Pakistan before his death \u2013 helped Pakistan to board on the semi final being the second of Group F next to Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Road to the final, Pakistan\nIn the first semifinal at Trent Bridge in front of a crowd including many Pakistanis living in Britain, they faced South Africa, who had come into the tournament as favorites and had lived up to the billing to that point, entering the match unbeaten. Afridi rose to the challenge, earning Man of the Match first with the bat thanks to 51 off 34 as Pakistan reached 149/4 during their 20 overs and then with the ball as he took 2\u201316 in his four overs after bowling both Herschelle Gibbs and AB De Villiers playing on. Supported by clutch death bowling from Gul and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, Pakistan held on to secure an upset, winning by 7 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Team Composition\nBoth teams were unchanged from their previous match at the semis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Toss\nSri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and chose to bat first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Match Summary\nThe first over was bowled by Mohammad Aamer. After failing to score off the first four balls \u2013 all short \u2013 Dilshan went for his scoop and mistimed it, resulting in him being caught at short fine-leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Match Summary\nSoon after this, Jehan Mubarak top edged a delivery by Abdul Razzaq which went high in the air and was caught by Shahzaib Hasan, leaving Sri Lanka at 2 for 2. Sanath Jayasuriya was able to stabilise the innings for Sri Lanka hitting 17 runs off 10 balls, however, Jayasuriya soon fell as he dragged a good length ball back on to the stumps. Mahela Jayawardene followed after edging a shot into the hands of Misbah-ul-Haq, leaving Sri Lanka on 32/4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Match Summary\nSangakkara and Chamara Silva added further runs, before the latter was caught by Saeed Ajmal playing a pull shot off the bowling of Umar Gul. Shahid Afridi soon after, took the wicket of Isuru Udana with a googly which drifted into the right-hander, knocking the off-stump. This brought in Angelo Mathews, who along with Sangakkara took the score from 70/6 to 138/6, with 17 runs being scored off the last over bowled by Mohammad Aamer. Sri Lanka finished on 138/6 from 20 overs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Match Summary\nPakistan started off well with openers Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan adding 48 run for the 1st wicket, before Kamran Akmal was stumped by Kumar Sangakkara by the first delivery of Sanath Jayasuriya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203281-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final, Match details, Match Summary\nPakistan reached the target in 18.4 overs, with Shahid Afridi, who hit the winning runs, earning Man of the Match while Tillakaratne Dilshan was declared Man of the Series for his 317 runs at an average of 63.40. Pakistan's win, often cheered on by crowds of fans from England's Pakistani communities, marked its first world title since their \"cornered tigers\", captained by future Prime Minister Imran Khan, had won the 1992 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203282-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 officials\nAleem Dar and Daryl Harper are among the 16 officials who will share umpiring duties during the ICC World Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203282-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 officials\nThe ICC has announced the umpire and match referee appointments for the group stages of the World Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203282-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 officials\nUmpiring duties will be shared by all 12 members of the elite panel - Mark Benson, Billy Bowden, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis, Asoka de Silva, Billy Doctrove, Ian Gould, Daryl Harper, Tony Hill, Rudi Koertzen, Asad Rauf and Simon Taufel - along with Nigel Llong, Marais Erasmus, Amish Saheba and Rod Tucker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203282-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 officials\nThe match referees\u2019 responsibilities throughout the tournament will be shared between Ranjan Madugalle, Chris Broad and Alan Hurst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203282-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 officials\nAppointments have also been made for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s warm-up matches at Lord\u2019s, The Oval and Trent Bridge from June 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads\nThis is a list of the squads picked for the men's 2009 ICC World Twenty20. This was the second ICC World Twenty20 tournament and was held between 5 and 21 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, Australia\nAustralia named their 15-man squad on 5 May 2009. On 4 June 2009 Andrew Symonds was dropped from the team and replaced by Cameron White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, India\nIndia named their 15-man squad on 4 May 2009. On 9 June 2009, the injured Virender Sehwag was replaced by Dinesh Karthik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, New Zealand\nNew Zealand named their 15-man squad on 7 April 2009. On 11 June 2009, Aaron Redmond was called up to cover for the injured Jesse Ryder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, Pakistan\nPakistan named their 15-man squad on 4 May 2009. On 21 May 2009, Shoaib Akhtar was withdrawn and replaced by Rao Iftikhar Anjum. During the tournament, Abdul Razzaq was called up to replace the injured Yasir Arafat on 10 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, South Africa\nSouth Africa named their 15-man squad on 4 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, Sri Lanka\nSri Lanka named their 15-man squad on 4 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, West Indies\nWest Indies named their 15-man squad on 9 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, Scotland\nIn July 2008 Zimbabwe, under pressure from South Africa and England over political matters related to Robert Mugabe, pulled out of the tournament of their own volition, creating an additional (third) space for an associate nation. Scotland won the third place playoff to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203283-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ICC World Twenty20 squads, Scotland\nKyle CoetzerGavin Hamilton (c)Neil McCallumNavdeep PooniaFraser WattsRyan WatsonMajid HaqJan StanderCraig WrightColin Smith (wk)John BlainGordon DrummondRichie BerringtonGlenn RogersDewald Nel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nThe 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held on 9\u201313 September 2009 at Parc Ol\u00edmpic del Segre in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 32nd edition. La Seu d'Urgell hosted the event previously in 1999. A demonstration event for women's single canoe (C1W) took place that was swept by Australia. Slovakia was the top medal winner with six, including three golds. Germany and Great Britain each won four medals with a gold medal each. Host nation Spain won their first medals ever at the championships with four (none gold).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Schedule\nOpening ceremonies took place on 9 September at 8 PM CEST. Heats took place on 10\u201311 September for individual events. Team events took place on 12 September. The finals for all individual events took place on 13 September 2009 from Noon to 2:30 PM CEST. Medal and closing ceremonies took place on 13 September at 2:10 PM CEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Technical officials\n42 officials from 24 countries and the International Canoe Federation (ICF) were involved in the event judging. The five-member jury is chaired by ICF official Richard Fox of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Nations\nA total of 60 nations were scheduled to participate at the championships. The opening ceremonies on 9 September had over 300 athletes from 55 countries, including Nepal and Uganda making their debuts at the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Athletes\nPrior to the start of the meeting, several slalom canoers had a discussion with the ICF on the future of slalom canoeing. Among those in the discussion were ICF President Perurena, Slalom Championships jury chair Fox, and slalom canoers Tony Estanguet (France), Michal Martik\u00e1n (Slovakia), Pavol Hochschorner (Slovakia), Peter Hochschorner (Slovakia), Elena Kalisk\u00e1 (Slovakia), and David Florence (Great Britain).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Event ticket prices\nTicket prices for the heat events on 10\u201311 September were \u20ac10 while it was \u20ac15 for the finals on 12\u201313 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Accommodations\nAccommodations took place in La Seu d'Urgell and surrounding areas. Besides hotels, other accommodations include rural rooms, rent a house, and rural apartments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Event innovations\nAt these championships, there was an automatic timing system that was both on the slalom canoer's bib and on the course itself. There were a total of ten antennas on the course that once an electronic marker in a canoer's bib approaches an antenna, it triggered video camera and timing controls. These course antennas were located at the start line, the finish line, and eight points in between. This system was used as video feed for the championships. It was an automatic system that times in the 1/100ths of a second and is uploadable on any Windows or Mac computer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Media coverage\nBesides using the traditional coverage of television, the championships were also covered by Twitter and Blogspot. Live streaming was done on both the ICF website and the event website. Live internet results were shown from the official championships website. Another Internet site covering the championships with the ICF was KayakSession.com. Televised coverage was also provided by UniversalSports.com and premiered on the Universal Sports broadcast channel in early October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Medal summary, Men's, Canoe\nSlovakia won the most medals with five. The Hochschorner twins wach won two golds, so they were the big medal winners in this discipline at these championships. France and Germany each won two medals with Tony Estanguet being the only non-Slovakian to win gold in this discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Medal summary, Men's, Kayak\nSpain won the most medals in this discipline though they were both bronzes. The Czech Republic and Slovenia each won gold while France and Great Britain each won silver. Carles Juanmart\u00ed had the most medals in this discipline with two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Medal summary, Women's, Kayak\nGermany and Great Britain each won two medals at this discipline with Jasmin Schornberg of Germany and Lizzie Neave of Great Britain each winning a gold and a bronze being the top individual medal winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203284-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, Medal summary, Exhibition, Women's canoe\n20 women from 12 nations competed in this exhibition event. This event became an official event at next year's world championships in Tacen, Slovenia. Australia swept the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe 2009 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 12\u201316 August 2009 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Lake Banook. The Canadian city was selected to host the championships in October 2003 after having done so previously in 1997. Final preparations were made after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, with competition format changed for the first time since the 2001 championships. Four exhibition events for both paddleability and women's canoe were added. Sponsorship was local within the province of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality. Media coverage was provided from Canada, Europe and the United States on the Internet, television and mobile phone. 669 canoeists from 68 nations participated at the championships themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nGermany won the most medals with 18 medals and seven golds. Men's canoe's overall winner was Russia with seven medals (one gold, five silver and one bronze). In men's kayak, the big winner was Germany with five medals (three golds, one silver and one bronze). Hungary won medals in all nine events of women's kayak. Athlete comments ranged from disgust over the format adjustment made to the canoe sprint program for the 2012 Summer Olympics to not being upset at all. Paddleability's success at these championships will hopefully push for inclusion into future Paralympic level events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nWomen's Canoe events were introduced for the first time at an ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2009 as exhibition events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Explanation of events\nCanoe sprint competitions are broken up into canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayaks (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200 metres (660\u00a0ft), 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft), or 1,000 metres (3,300\u00a0ft) long. When a competition is listed as a C-2 500 m event as an example, it means two people are in a canoe competing at a 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft) distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event\nDartmouth was awarded the 2009 championships at an ICF Board of Directors meeting in Madrid, Spain, on 23 October 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Event format changes\nAt the 2008 ICF Congress in Rome, a new program for the championships was approved. This marked the first change in the program since the addition of the K-4 1000 m women's event at the 2001 championships in Pozna\u0144. Men's C-4 500 m, men's K-4 500 m, women's K-4 1000 m events were replaced by C-1 4 \u00d7 200 m relay (men only) and K-1 4 \u00d7 200 m relay (both men and women). Women's C-1 200 m, C-1 500 m, C-2 200 m and C-2 500 m events were shown as exhibition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Event format changes\nPaddleability exhibition events of K-1 200 m LTA (men & women), K-2 200 m TA&A (mixed), and C-2 200 m LTA&A (mixed) also took place (LTATA \u2013 Legs, Trunks, and Arms or Trunks and Arms; LTA \u2013 Legs, Trunks, and Arms; and TA&A \u2013 Trunks and Arms, or Arms). Support for women's Canadian and the paddle ability events were confirmed at an ICF Board of Directors meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 18\u201320 March 2009. A training camp was held for women's canoe in conjunction with the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Official meetings\nIn January 2009, ICF Secretary General Simon Toulson visited Halifax for three days and was impressed with the history of canoeing in the area and the development of future canoeists for Canada. Two public meetings were held in Dartmouth and Halifax on 24 and 26 March regarding the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 88], "content_span": [89, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Facility\nDuring the end of 2008, Lake Banook had its canoe course upgraded by Dexter Construction Limited. Water that had been pumped out of lake ceased on 15 December 2008, allowing the lake to rise back to its regular level by February 2009. Cleanup, restoration and landscaping was completed in the spring of 2009. By May 2009, this construction included new concrete abutments at the 1,000 metres (3,300\u00a0ft), 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft), 200 metres (660\u00a0ft), and finish points, debris and abutment cleanup, ten new lane wires, four new cross wires, and 800 new buoys. Starting gates were tested during the second national team trials held at the lake on 27\u201328 June 2009. Temporary grandstands for 20,000 spectators per day were also constructed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Facility\nAdditional changes were for environmental reasons. This included the Halifax Regional Water Commission, Conserve Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia Environment providing water stations for athletes, spectators and volunteers to fill up reusable water bottles which were purchased on site. It eliminated 100,000 disposable bottles and 1,400 kilograms (3,100\u00a0lb) of plastic waste. Dalhousie University's residence halls used energy efficient lighting and cleaning products. The university's cafeteria eliminated the use of trays, lessening food waste, energy consumption and daily water usage by 4,000 litres (880\u00a0imp\u00a0gal; 1,100\u00a0US\u00a0gal). A buy local policy and delivery truck that ran entirely on vegetable oil fuel was also used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Facility\nAccording to a 10 August 2009 press release, the staging area was at Birch Cove Park in Halifax. 669 from 68 countries competed at the championships with an estimated 100,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 79], "content_span": [80, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Sponsorships\nThe Atlantic Lottery Corporation presented the \"Women in Canoe\" program that included 21 female canoeists from 12 different countries. Festival entertainment was sponsored by the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation, including a \"Concert on the Lake\" by Matt Mays on 14 August that drew 10,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Preliminaries to the event, Sponsorships\nOther sponsors include Bell Aliant as presenters, silver sponsors were The Chronicle Herald of Halifax, CFRQ Q104 FM radio, CBC Sports and the Halifax Water Authority; the bronze sponsors were NOREX, Helly Hansen, Conserve Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia environment, Mills fashion and NELO; government sponsorship of Department of Canadian Heritage, Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection, and the Halifax Regional Municipality; other supporters of Mic Mac Mall, CBS Outdoor, Metro Transit of Halifax, and Office Interiors; and friends of Ambassadors, Priority Management, KayakPro, the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, and The Cider House Company Limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Participating nations\n68 nations were listed on the preliminary entry list. The numbers in parentheses shown are for men and women who competed for each respective nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Participating nations\nRussia had the most overall attendees with 46 while Canada topped the number of women competing with 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Participating nations\nThe media guide listed 71 nations as participating, but seven nations listed did not compete (Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Montenegro, Nigeria, South Korea, Togo and Uganda) while four nations who competed were not listed (Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal and Tajikistan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Participating nations\nThe ICF sponsored ten athletes in a development program in Romania in early 2009 that allowed them to compete at the world championships. These countries included Algeria, Armenia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Coverage\nMedia coverage was provided by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Sports in Canada, Eurosport, and Universal Sports in the United States. Live results were provided onsite from the official website that was sponsored by Bell Aliant which ran 9\u00a0am to 4:30\u00a0pm AST on 13 August, 9 AM to 3:55\u00a0pm AST on 14 August, 8:44\u00a0am to 5:45\u00a0pm AST on 15 August 2009, and 8:30\u00a0am to 3:46\u00a0pm AST on 16 August. Championship information was also available on Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Coverage\nCBC Sports had broadcast times of 2\u20133 PM AST on 15 August 2009 followed by late night coverage at 12:30\u00a0am AST on 16 August 2009 along with coverage on the web at . Universal Sports telecasted the finals for both the 15th and the 16th live and are now seen on demand on their website. A total of 30 million people from 36 countries worldwide watched the event on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Coverage\nResults were transmitted for free with mobile web application named ZAP result. This mobile widget was developed by Norex.ca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Schedule, Opening and closing ceremonies\nOpening ceremonies took place at 8\u00a0pm AST on 12 August. 10,000 people watched 68 countries participate in the opening ceremonies that included Canoe'09 chair Chris Keevill, ICF President Jos\u00e9 Perurena, and Sport Canada minister Gary Lunn. The Concert on the Lake took place at 8\u00a0pm AST on 14 August with over 10,000 attendees. Closing ceremonies occurred on 16 August at 4\u00a0pm AST. Medals were presented in Mi'kmaq baskets for gold medalists, traditional European baskets for silver medalists, and in traditional African Nova Scotian baskets for bronze medalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Schedule, Opening and closing ceremonies\nMi'kmaq is a territory in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada prior to the settlement by the French in the 17th century. The settlement was rotated between the French and British between 1627 and 1755 before the British took over the area after the French and Indian War. Africans settled in Nova Scotia during the Atlantic slave trade that ran from the 16th to 19th centuries. The closing ceremonies on 16 August included passing the ICF flag from Dartmouth to the 2010 world championship hosts in Pozna\u0144.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Schedule, Festival performances\nFestivals for all four days started 30 minutes before the first race and ended 30 minutes after the last race each day. Live entertainment took place each of the days along with vendors, displays and exhibits. Boating safety was discussed along with interactive exhibits on canoe construction and allowing to touch live animals from around the world, including tarantulas and a 12 feet (3.7\u00a0m)-long python.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results\nThe preliminary draw was released on 9 August. This was updated again on 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results, Men's, Canoe\nRussia was the top winner with seven medals with Nikolay Lipkin winning five medals. Belarus won three gold medals. Azerbaijan won a complete set of medals in the canoe discipline while Uzbekistan won its first ever gold medal at the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results, Men's, Kayak\nGermany won five medals in the men's kayak. Ronald Rauhe's three medals for Germany at these championships pushed his career total to 20, tying him with Torsten Gutsche (East Germany-Germany: 1989\u201399). Belarus won four golds with Vadzim Makhneu and Raman Piatrushenka each winning four of those golds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results, Women's, Kayak\nHungary medaled in all nine events with Natasa Janics and Katalin Kovacs each winning five medals. Kovacs' five medals pushed her total medal count to 35, three behind Birgit Fischer's 38 (East Germany-Germany: 1978\u20132005). Bridgette Hartley's bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event was the first for both South Africa and Africa at the world championships. Josefa Idem's bronze in the K-1 500 m event makes her the oldest medalist in the history of the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results, Exhibition, Women's canoe\nHost nation Canada won all four of the exhibition events. Jenna Marks won three of these events (C-1 200 m, C-2 200 m, C-2 500 m). Other nations with top three finishes included Brazil, Ecuador, Great Britain and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Results, Exhibition, Paddleability\nItaly had four top three finishes to lead all nations in this event while the United States was second with three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Aftermath, Athlete comments\nAustralia's Wallace commented that he was upset at the ICF's decision that was made during the championships to replace the men's 500 m events (C-1, C-2, K-1 and K-2) at the Summer Olympics with the 200 m events (men's C-1, K-1 and K-2; and women's K-1) for the upcoming Summer Olympics in London. Kovacs of Hungary stated that the addition of the women's K-1 200 m event for the 2012 Olympics will not change her training routine. Italy's Idem, who was competing in her 20th world championships, stated that she was just as \"...nervous when ...[ she]... was a 13-year-old girl (1977) and ...[ she was]... the same today.\" Germany's Rauhe expressed his love for Canada by \"...going on holiday now.\" in the host nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Aftermath, Paddleability's (Paracanoe's) future\nIn a 25 August 2009 ICF article, ICF Canoeing for All Committee and Canoe Kayak Canada's Domestic Development Director John Edwards thanked efforts of the paddlers involved in the paddleability events for the 2009 championships. Edwards stated that the efforts for paddleability's success are twofold. The first is for inclusion into the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Once this is recognized, the next goal is to get Special Olympic programs at a national level for inclusion into the 2016 Summer Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203285-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Aftermath, Paddleability's (Paracanoe's) future\nThe second, a shorter-term one, is to have 24 nations from three continents participate at next year's canoe sprint world championships in Pozna\u0144. Besides the medalists from this year's world championships being from Italy, the United States, Canada, Brazil and France, other participants included Great Britain and Portugal. The process to include paddleability into the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil began on 1 October 2009 and approval was reached on 16 July 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203286-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IF Elfsborg season\nIF Elfsborg had another decent season, finishing in third of Allsvenskan, and having a decent run in the UEFA Europa League, knocking Braga out, before losing to Lazio prior to the group stage. Having been tipped for domestic glory, heavy defeats to IFK G\u00f6teborg and Malm\u00f6 FF within a couple of weeks meant the team got to far behind to mount a serious challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203287-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFA Shield\nThe 2009 IFA Shield was an association football tournament organised by the Indian Football Association. Most of the teams came from the I-League 1 & 2, with  AS Douanes (Dakar) invited from Senegal and Tata Football Academy qualifying by winning the Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy. The Shield was won by Churchill Brothers SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203287-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFA Shield\nThe teams were divided into 4 groups of 3 teams each. The winner of each group will qualify for the semifinals. The tournament started on 30 August and the final was played on 12 September. ESPN televised the two semifinals and final live from the Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Saltlake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203287-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IFA Shield\nThe probable venues would be Mohun Bagan ground, East Bengal ground, Howrah Municipal Stadium, Barasat Stadium and Kalyani Municipal Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203288-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFAF Junior World Championship\nThe IFAF Junior World Cup took place in 2009 at Canton, Ohio. JWC games between the world\u2019s eight best high school-aged (19 and under) national teams from five continents were played at Canton\u2019s historic Fawcett Stadium, home of the NFL\u2019s annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, adjacent to the Hall. The action began on Saturday, June 27 and continued on Wednesday, July 1 and Saturday, July 4, before the Championship Game on Sunday, July 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203288-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFAF Junior World Championship, Qualifying\nEurope: The European teams qualified via the 2008 EFAF European Junior Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203289-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFK G\u00f6teborg season\nIFK G\u00f6teborg had a near-miss season, losing a decisive match against AIK, where a win would have clinched the title. In spite of Thomas Olsson giving Bl\u00e5vitt the lead, goals from Ant\u00f4nio Fl\u00e1vio and Daniel Tjernstr\u00f6m saw the grip slip out of IFK's hands. Adding to the misery, AIK also won the cup final clash between the sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203289-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFK G\u00f6teborg season\nMost notable in the season was the success of Tobias Hys\u00e9n, scoring 18 goals in the league, the highest number for the club for more than ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203290-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships\nCoordinates: 2009 IFMAR 1:10 scale Electric Off-Road World Championships was the 13th running of the IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship for 1:10 radio-controlled electric off-road buggies sanctioned by the International Federation of Model Auto Racing (IFMAR) that ran over two separate classes (2WD and 4WD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203290-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships\nThe national sanctioning body, South African Radio Driver's Association (SARDA) acted as a host nation on behalf of Fourth Association of Model Auto Racing (FAMAR) with Tshwane Raceway and Promotions (TRAP) acting as the host organization for the championship. taking place at the TRAP R/C Venue, located in Koedoespoort, Pretoria, in which they own. In traditions with the other championships, the warm-up event was integrated into the host's national championship, the 6th African Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203290-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships\nThe event along with the 1:5 Large Scale Worlds, also hosted by TRAP the previous month, would be remembered for being heavily boycotted by factory teams and drivers over security issues, as competitors were concerned for their safety following a number of incidents in 2002, notably involving Masami Hirosaka and the future IFMAR president Dallas Mathiesen, resulting to the assailant being swiftly dealt with and handed over to the police by the latter. This meant that a majority of entries consisted of South African drivers and three international entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203290-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships\nAs a result of this, for the Electric On-Road Worlds (ISTC and 1:12 On-Road) due to take place in South Africa the following year, IFMAR stripped the organizer of its hosting rights and reallocated to MAC Burgdorf in Germany. At the time when the IFMAR ISTC World Championship was still in session in 2016; with South Africa being the only FAMAR bloc nation to apply, they were awarded hosting rights to host the Electric On-Road events for 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203290-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championships\nThe 2WD and 4WD championships was won by Martin Achter, driving an Associated RC10B4 and Durango DEX410CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)</ref> respectively; despite the circumstances, he became the third driver to win both titles in a single host Worlds and second in the off-road Worlds. This became his only international championship A-main appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203291-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Championships\nThe 2009 IFSC Climbing World Championships, the 10th edition, were held in Xining, Qinghai, China from 30 June to 5 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203291-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Championships\nThe competitions were held for lead, bouldering, and speed (10m and 15m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe 2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 14 locations. Bouldering competitions were held in 5 locations, lead in 6 locations, and speed in 4 locations. The season began on 11 April in Kazo, Japan and concluded on 15 November in Kranj, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe top 3 in each competition received medals, and the overall winners were awarded trophies. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup\nThe winners for bouldering were Kilian Fischhuber and Akiyo Noguchi, for lead Adam Ondra and Johanna Ernst, for speed Sergei Sinitcyn and Edyta Ropek, and for combined Adam Ondra and Akiyo Noguchi, men and women respectively. The National Team for bouldering was France, for lead Austria, and for speed Russian Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nIn bouldering, at the World Cup in Hall, Austria, Akiyo Noguchi of Japan and Anna St\u00f6hr of Austria flashed all boulders in the final round, and because they were tied on countbacks too, they did a super final round where they both also flashed the boulder problem, eventually making them both joint winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nIn lead climbing, at the World Cup in Puurs, Belgium, Johanna Ernst of Austria, Jain Kim of South Korea, and Maja Vidmar of Slovenia were tied in the final round and tied on countbacks too, so they did a super final round where Johanna Ernst took the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203292-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup, Highlights of the season\nAdam Ondra of Czech Republic, at age sixteen, made his debut in the World Cup circuit in bouldering competition in Hall, Austria, placing third. He then competed in lead climbing, won 4 out of 6 Lead World Cups and the overall men's lead title of the season. He also won the men's combined title of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203293-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia\nThe 2009 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 15 March to 20 March. It was the second annual event, and was run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). United Arab Emirates won the championship, winning all five of its games and defeating Thailand in the final 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203293-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia, Group stage\nEight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the teams move to the preliminary round to decide the final ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship\nThe 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship was the 13th  IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The World Championship runs alongside the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament and took place between 6 and 13 June 2009 in Ingolstadt, Germany and the Saturn Arena. The tournament was won by Sweden, earning their third straight World Championship title and fifth overall. The United States finished in second place and Germany in third after defeating Finland in the bronze medal match. Slovakia, after losing the 7th/8th game against Canada was relegated to Division I for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Qualification\nSeven of the eight teams automatically qualified for the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship while the eighth spot was awarded to the winner of the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. Six nations from Europe, and two nations from North America were represented. The 2008 Division I tournament was won by Canada who defeated Great Britain to earn promotion to the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Seeding and groups\nThe seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournaments. The World Championship groups are named Group A and Group B while the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament uses Group C and Group D, as both tournaments were held in Ingolstadt, Germany. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Preliminary round\nEight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advance to the playoff round. The last team in each group compete in the qualifying round where they face-off against the top ranked teams of Group C and Group D from the Division I tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Qualifying round\nCanada and Slovakia advanced to the qualifying round after finishing last in Group A and Group B respectively. Canada faced off against Austria, who finished first in Group C of the Division I tournament, and Slovakia was drawn against Brazil, who finished first in Group D of the Division I tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Both Canada and Slovakia won their matches and advanced to the Top Division playoffs, while Austria and Brazil advanced to the Division I playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Playoff round\nCanada and Slovakia advanced to the playoff round after winning their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the placement round. Slovakia was relegated to Division I after losing the 7th/8th game against Canada, while Slovenia finished fifth after defeating the Czech Republic in the 5th/6th game. In the semifinals the United States defeated Finland and Sweden beat Germany, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Finland and Germany played off for the bronze medal with Germany winning 9\u20135. Sweden defeated the United States 7\u20136 in the gold medal game, earning their third straight World Championship title and fifth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 911]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 83], "content_span": [84, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203294-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I\nThe 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 7 and 13 June 2009 in Ingolstadt, Germany at the Saturn Arena and Saturn Rink 2. The tournament was won by Austria who upon winning gained promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While South Africa and Chinese Taipei were relegated to the continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, Qualification\nThree teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified based on their results from the 2008 Championship and 2008 Division I tournaments. Chinese Taipei qualified as the Asian-Oceanian qualifier. South Africa qualified after defeating Namibia on aggregate in a best-of-two qualification series. The games were held on 24 and 30 August 2008 in Namibia and South Africa with South Africa winning the first 3\u20132 and tying the second 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, Seeding and groups\nThe seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, and the qualification tournaments. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Ingolstadt, Germany. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, Preliminary round\nEight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, Qualifying round\nAustria and Brazil advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively. Austria faced off against Canada, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Brazil was drawn against Slovakia, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Both Austria and Brazil lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, while Canada and Slovakia advanced to the Top Division playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203295-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, Playoff round\nAustria and Brazil advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round. In the relegation round Chinese Taipei and South Africa lost their games to Australia and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications. In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Austria beat Hungary, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Brazil and Hungary played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4\u20133. Austria defeated Great Britain 2\u20131 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 904]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship\nThe 2009 IIHF World Women's Championships was held in H\u00e4meenlinna, Finland, from April 4 to 12, 2009. This was the 12th women's championship run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The defending champions United States defeated Canada 4\u20131 in the final match to win the gold medal and retain their top standing another year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship\nThis was the last world championships with nine teams in the Top Division. Two teams\u2014Japan and China\u2014were relegated to Division I, replaced by only one\u2014Slovakia\u2014promoted from there. Division I also relegated two, Czech Republic and France, while receiving only one team through promotion, Latvia, along with the two from the top division. Division II only relegated one team, the Netherlands, but did not receive any promoted teams from the lower divisions. The lower divisions of III, IV, and V, were canceled for the 2009 cycle, with the lowest seeded team in each to be dropped down one division. The final result was that the Top Division will be reduced in size by one team for 2011, while the lowest division (Division V) will increase by one team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Top Division, Qualifying round, Group D (1st\u20133rd place)\nUnited States and \u00a0Canada advance to the final. Finland plays in the bronze medal game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Top Division, Group F (7th\u20139th place)\nChina and \u00a0Japan are relegated to Division I for the 2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 173]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division I\nThe following teams took part in the Division I tournament which was held in Graz, Austria, from April 4 to April 10, 2009. The winner of the group gets promoted to the Top Division for the 2011 championships, while the two bottom teams in the group are relegated to Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division I\nSlovakia is promoted to the Top Division for the 2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships, winning the head-to-head tie-breaker over \u00a0Germany. Czech Republic and \u00a0France are relegated to Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division I, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division II\nThe following teams took part in the Division II tournament which was held in Torre Pellice, Italy, from April 12 to April 18, 2009. The winner of the group was promoted to Division I for the 2011 championships, while the last-placed team in the group was relegated to Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division II\nLatvia was promoted to the Division I for the 2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships. Netherlands was relegated to Division III. Denmark was to have been relegated but since Division III was not played, no one was promoted to take their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division II, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division II, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203296-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF Women's World Championship, Division III, Division IV and Division V\nThe Division III, Division IV and Division V did not play this year. The respective tournaments were cancelled. The reasons seem to be multiple. No country wanted to assume the financial costs of the tournaments. The tournaments will be scheduled for 2011. It has the effect the following changes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship took place in Switzerland from 24 April to 10 May. The games were played in the PostFinance Arena in Bern and Schluefweg in Kloten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship\nThe PostFinance Arena in Bern was renovated and accommodates an attendance of 17,000. The Eishalle Schluefweg in Kloten was expanded for the 2008\u201309 season to a capacity of 9,000 people. Switzerland gained the right to host the World Championship for the 10th time. \"Live for the Action\" by Swiss hard rock veterans Krokus was named the official anthem of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship\nRussia won the championship, winning all its matches and defeating Canada in the final 2\u20131. Ilya Kovalchuk was named the best forward and the most valuable player of the tournament. Over 17 million people watched the televised final around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Preliminary round\nSixteen participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the qualifying round. The last team in each group competed in the relegation round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Preliminary round\nGroups A and D were played in Kloten, groups B and C in Bern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Qualifying round\nThe top three teams in the standings of each group of the Preliminary Round advanced to the qualifying round, and were placed in two groups: teams from Groups A and D went to Group F, while teams from Groups B and C went to Group E.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Qualifying round\nEach team played three games in this round, one against each of the three teams from the other group paired with theirs. These three games, along with the two games already played against the other two advancing teams from the same group in the Preliminary Round, counted in the qualifying round standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Qualifying round\nThe top four teams in both groups E and F advanced to the playoff round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Relegation round\nThe bottom team in the standings from each group of the Preliminary Round played in the relegation round. Germany, as hosts of the 2010 tournament, were guaranteed to stay in the top division. Denmark, the best ranked team in the group from the other three teams, stayed in the top division for 2010, while Austria and Hungary were relegated to the Division I tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Final standings\n* Hosts of the 2010 WC, therefore exempt from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are left out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203297-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship, Ranking and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nTOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203298-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division I\nThe 2009 IIHF Division I World Championship was an ice hockey tournament under the authority of the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested from April 11\u201317, 2009. The tournament was played amongst two separate groups. Group A's tournament was held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Group B games was hosted by Toru\u0144, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203298-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division I, Group B Tournament, Fixtures\nNote: OT indicates that the game was won in overtime. SO indicates that the game was won through a shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203299-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division I rosters\nThis page lists the rosters for the 2009 IIHF World Championship Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203300-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division II\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship Division II  was an international Ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 6\u201313, 2009. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Novi Sad, Serbia. Group B's games were played in Sofia, Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203300-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division II, Group A Tournament, Fixtures\nNote: OT indicates that the game was won in overtime. SO indicates that the game was won through a shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203301-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division III\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested on April 10\u201316, 2009 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Mongolia withdrew from the tournament and therefore forfeited all of their games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203301-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division III, Venue\nAll matches were contested at the Dunedin Ice Stadium, St. Kilda, Dunedin. This venue is the home ice of the Dunedin Thunder ice hockey team. The Dunedin Ice Stadium was used later the same month for the 2009 World Senior Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203301-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division III, Ranking and statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are left out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203301-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Division III, Ranking and statistics, Leading goaltenders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 86], "content_span": [87, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship Final was an ice hockey match that took place on 10 May 2009 at the PostFinance Arena in Bern, Switzerland, to determine the winner of the 2009 IIHF World Championship. Russia defeated Canada 2\u20131 to win its 3rd championship and its 2nd consecutive championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final, Background\nThis was the second consecutive year that Russia and Canada had met in the final of a World Championship. It was Russia's fourth finals appearance, and they were defending champions having won in 2008, against Canada in a hard-fought 5-4 overtime win. It was Canada's sixth appearance in the finals in seven years. Leading up to the final, both Canada and Russia had a perfect 3 win group stage, and in the qualifying round they both topped their groups. In the semifinals, Russia narrowly defeated the United States with a goal with only about a minute remaining. Canada defeated Sweden 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final, Venue\nThe PostFinance Arena in Bern was determined to host the final of the championship. Previously at the tournament, the venue hosted the both semi-finals, and the Bronze medal match. In the final, the attendance was 11,454.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final, The Match, Summary\nCanada struck first, when at 5:37 into the first period Jason Spezza scored just outside the crease on a pass from Shane Doan, who had only seconds ago come out of the penalty box. For several minutes the Canadians pressured, but Ilya Bryzgalov remained strong. Braydon Coburn took a penalty mid-way through the period, which led to a Russian power play. On the PP, Vitali Atyushov took a shot from the point, which was deflected by Oleg Saprykin through traffic past Dwayne Roloson, to tie up the game for team Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final, The Match, Summary\nOn a 2-on-1, after a Canadian error on the blue line, Alexander Radulov carried the puck in and fired a shot on the far side which beat Roloson, at 14:50 in the second. This would end up as the winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203302-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship Final, The Match, Summary\nIn the third period team Canada brought up the offensive, with 16 shots in the third alone, and a total of 38 on the night, compared with only 19 shots total from Russia. However Bryzgalov was solid in net for Russia. With the 2-1 victory, Russia won its first ever consecutive championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203303-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship rosters\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship rosters consisted of 396 players from 16 national ice hockey teams. Run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the 2009 IIHF World Championship, held in Berne and Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland, was the 73rd edition of the tournament. Russia won the championship, the third time they had done so; it was their 25th championship if it is included with those won by the Soviet Union team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203303-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship rosters\nBefore the start of the championship, each participating nation had to submit a list of players for its roster. A minimum of fifteen skaters and two goaltenders and a maximum of twenty skaters and three goaltenders had to be selected. A country that had selected fewer than the maximum allowed must have chosen the remaining players prior to the start of the tournament. After the start of the tournament, each team was allowed to select an additional two players to their roster, for a maximum of 25 players. Once players were registered to the team, they could not be removed from the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203303-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship rosters\nTo qualify for a national team under IIHF rules, a player must meet several criteria. He must be a citizen of the nation, and be under the jurisdiction of that national association. Players are allowed to switch which national team they play for, providing they fulfill the IIHF criteria. If participating for the first time in an IIHF event, the player would have had to play two consecutive years in the national competition of the new country without playing in another country. If the player has already played for a national team before, he may switch countries if he is a citizen of the new country, and has played for four consecutive years in the national competition of the new country. This switch may happen only once in the player's life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203303-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Championship rosters\nIlya Kovalchuk of Russia was named the tournament's most valuable player and top forward by the IIHF directorate. Canadian Shea Weber was named top defenceman and Andrei Mezin of Belarus was selected as top goaltender. Canada's Martin St. Louis and Chris Mason were the tournament's leading scorer and goaltender in save percentage respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203304-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I\nThe 2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was an international under-18 ice hockey competition organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Both Division I tournaments made up the second level of the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus, and the Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy. Belarus and Latvia won the Group A and B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Top Division of the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203304-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I, Group A\nThe Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus at the Ice Palace from 6 to 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203304-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I, Group A\nBelarus is promoted to Top Division  for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships \u00a0Ukraine is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203304-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I, Group B\nThe Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy at PalaOdegar from 29 March to 4 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203304-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I, Group B\nLatvia is promoted to Top Division  for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships \u00a0Italy is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203305-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II\nThe 2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II was an international under-18 ice hockey competition organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Both Division II tournaments made up the third level of competition of the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 22 and 28 March 2009 in Maribor, Slovenia and the Group B tournament took place between 16 and 22 March 2009 in Narva, Estonia. South Korea and Great Britain won the Group A and B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division I of the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203305-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II, Group A\nThe following teams took part in Group A of Division II tournament, which was played in Maribor, Slovenia at Tabor Ice Hall from March 22 through March 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203305-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II, Group A\nSouth Korea is promoted to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships \u00a0Mexico is relegated to Division III for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203305-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II, Group B\nThe following teams took part Group B of the Division II tournament, which was played in Narva, Estonia at Kreenholm Ice Hall from March 16 through March 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203305-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II, Group B\nGreat Britain is promoted to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships \u00a0China is relegated to Division III for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203306-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III\nThe 2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III was an international under-18 ice hockey competition organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Both Division III tournaments made up the fourth level of competition of the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 27 February and 5 March 2009  in Taipei, Chinese Taipei and the Group B tournament took place between 9 and 15 March 2009 in Erzurum, Turkey. Australia and Iceland won the Group A and B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division II of the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203306-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III, Group A\nThe following teams took part in Group A of Division III tournament, which was played in Taipei, Chinese Taipei at Tapei Annex Ice Rink from February 27 through March 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203306-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III, Group A\nAustralia is promoted to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203306-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III, Group B\nThe following teams took part Group B of the Division III tournament, which was played in Erzurum, Turkey at GSIM Yeni\u015fehir Ice Hockey Hall from March 9 through March 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203306-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III, Group B\nIceland is promoted to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships\nThe 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota, United States. The championships ran from April 9 to April 19, 2009. Games were played at the Urban Plains Center in Fargo and the Moorhead Sports Center in Moorhead. Fargo-Moorhead defeated Providence, Rhode Island and St. Cloud, Minnesota for the rights to host the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships\nThe United States, as the host country, won their third gold medal in five years, defeating Russia 5\u20130 in the final. Finland rounded out the podium with a 5\u20134 shootout win over Canada in the bronze medal game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Relegation round, Results\nNote: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Top Division, Final standings\nNorway and \u00a0Germany are relegated to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division I\nThe following teams took part in the Division I tournament. Group A was played in Minsk, Belarus between April 6 and April 12, 2009. Group B was played in Asiago, Italy between March 29 and April 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division I, Group A\nBelarus is promoted to Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships. Ukraine is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division I, Group B\nLatvia is promoted to Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships. Italy is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division II\nThe following teams took part in the Division II tournament. Group A was played in Maribor, Slovenia between March 22 and March 28, 2009. Group B was played in Narva, Estonia between March 16 and March 22, 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division II, Group A\nSouth Korea is promoted to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships. Mexico is relegated to Division III for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division II, Group B\nGreat Britain is promoted to Division I for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships. China is relegated to Division III for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division III\nThe following teams took part in the Division III tournament. Group A was played in Taipei, Chinese Taipei (Republic of China) between February 27 and March 5, 2009. Group B was played in Erzurum, Turkey between March 9 and March 15, 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division III, Group A\nAustralia is promoted to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203307-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World U18 Championships, Division III, Group B\nIceland is promoted to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship\nThe 2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship was the second holding of the World Women's U18 Championships, the premier International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) tournament for top division national women's junior ice hockeyteams. It was held from 5 January through 10 January 2009, in F\u00fcssen, Germany. Eight teams competed in the Top Division tournament. Team USA won the tournament for the second time and the Swiss national U18 team was relegated to Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship\nThe 2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship \u2013 Division I was the first holding of an IIHF World Women's U18 Championship for the newly formed Division I. It was held from 28 December 2008 through 2 January 2009, in Chamb\u00e9ry, France. Five teams competed in the Division I tournament. The Japanese national U18 team won the tournament and gained promotion to the Top Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Placement Round, 7th place game\nSwitzerland is relegated to the 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship \u2013 Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nList shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2212 = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = PositionSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nOnly the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Top Division, Statistics, Goaltending leaders\nTOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Division I\nThe tournament was held in Chamb\u00e9ry, France, from December 28, 2008 to January 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203308-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Division I\nJapan is promoted to the Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203309-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship \u2013 Division I\nThe 2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division I tournament was held in Chamb\u00e9ry, France, from 28 December 2008 to 2 January 2009. This was the first junior female Division One ice hockey world championship in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203309-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship \u2013 Division I, Final standings\nJapan is promoted to the Top Division of the 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203310-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships\nThe 2009 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships were held at High 1 resort, Pyeongchang, South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203311-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships\nThe 5th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships took place in early 2009. The competition was divided into two tournaments, with Tournament B held from 15 to 21 March in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and Tournament A held from 9 to 16 May in Ostrava, the Czech Republic. A total of thirteen teams participated; eight in Tournament A and five in Tournament B. The top six teams from Tournament A automatically qualified for the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The remaining two teams from Tournament A and the top two teams from Tournament B will play in the 2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Paralympic Qualifier to determine who will take the remaining two Paralympic slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203311-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, A Tournament\nThe A Tournament was held between the eight top-ranked national teams. The tournament was further divided into two groups of four teams each. Group A included Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan. Group B included Italy, Norway, South Korea, and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203311-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, B Tournament\nThe B Tournament was held between five lower-ranked national teams: Estonia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships\nThe 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition. It was held in Reykjavik, Iceland and ran from 18 to 24 October. Around 650 athletes from 37 different countries attended. Great Britain finished top of the medal tables with 39 golds and 94 medals, both greater than any other country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships\nThe 2009 Championships was the first IPC-run event where intellectual disability athletes were allowed to compete since the 2000 Summer Paralympic controversy. In the 2000 Sydney Games cheating by the Spanish basketball team resulted in the banning of all events for athletes with intellectual disabilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, Venue\nThe Championship was staged at the Laugardalslaug located in the north of Reykjavik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, Events, Classification\nAthletes are allocated a classification for each event based upon their disability to allow fairer competition between athletes of similar ability. The classifications for swimming are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, Events, Classification\nClassifications run from S1 (severely disabled) to S10 (minimally disabled) for athletes with physical disabilities, and S11 (totally blind) to S13 (legally blind) for visually impaired athletes. Blind athletes must use blackened goggles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, Medal table\nGreat Britain led the 2009 Championships in both medals won and number of gold medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203312-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, Participating nations\nBelow is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203313-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre backstroke\nThe men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203314-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre breaststroke\nThe men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203315-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre butterfly\nThe men's 100 metre butterfly at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203316-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metre freestyle\nThe men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203317-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 150 metre individual medley\nThe men's 150 metre individual medley at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203318-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre freestyle\nThe men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203319-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metre individual medley\nThe men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203320-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay\nThe men's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 226]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203322-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 50 metre freestyle relay\nThe men's 4 x 50 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 224]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203324-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metre freestyle\nThe men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 206]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203331-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metre butterfly\nThe women's 100 metre butterfly at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203333-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 150 metre individual medley\nThe women's 150 metre individual medley at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203334-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre freestyle\nThe women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203335-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metre individual medley\nThe women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 78], "section_span": [78, 78], "content_span": [79, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203336-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay\nThe women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 80], "section_span": [80, 80], "content_span": [81, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203337-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre medley relay\nThe women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 77], "section_span": [77, 77], "content_span": [78, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203338-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 50 metre medley relay\nThe women's 4 x 50 metre medley relay at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203339-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metre freestyle\nThe women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203340-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre backstroke\nThe women's 50 metre backstroke at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203341-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre breaststroke\nThe women's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203342-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre butterfly\nThe women's 50 metre butterfly at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203343-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming European Championships \u2013 Women's 50 metre freestyle\nThe women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was held at Laugardalslaug in Reykjavik from 18\u201324 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203344-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m\nThe 2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m were held from 29 November \u2013 5 December in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the first ever world-level short course paralympic swimming competition organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203344-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m, Participating nations\nCompetitors representing thirty-one National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) attended the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203345-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Open\nThe 2009 IPP Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Helsinki, Finland between 23 and 29 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203345-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203345-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Open, Champions, Doubles\nRohan Bopanna /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi def. Henri Kontinen /  Jarkko Nieminen, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203346-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Open \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, who were the defending champions, decided to not compete this year. Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi defeated Henri Kontinen and Jarkko Nieminen 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203347-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Open \u2013 Singles\nDmitry Tursunov was the defending champion; however, he didn't play this year. Qualifier Micha\u0142 Przysi\u0119\u017cny won this tournament, after defeating St\u00e9phane Bohli 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203348-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Trophy\nThe 2009 IPP Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the twenty-second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Geneva, Switzerland between 17 and 23 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203348-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Trophy, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203348-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Trophy, Champions, Doubles\nDiego \u00c1lvarez /  Juan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren def. Henri Laaksonen /  Philipp Oswald, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20132]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203349-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel K\u00f6llerer and Frank Moser were the defending champions, but they didn't try to defend their title. Argentinian pair Diego \u00c1lvarez and Juan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren defeated Henri Laaksonen and Philipp Oswald 6\u20134, 4\u20136, [10\u20132] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203350-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IPP Trophy \u2013 Singles\nKristof Vliegen chose to not defend his 2008 title. Dominik Meffert won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20131, against Benjamin Balleret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203351-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Junior World Championship\nThe 2009 IRB Junior World Championship (known as the 2009 IRB Toshiba Junior World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the second annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, this competition replaces the now defunct under 19 and under 21 world championships. The event was organised by rugby's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB). The competition was contested by 16 men's junior national teams and was held in June 2009. It was hosted by Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203352-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy\nThe 2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy is the second edition of the second-tier world championship for Under 20 national teams. The event is organised by rugby's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB). This competition, which is contested by eight men's junior national teams, was held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 21 to May 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203352-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy\nThe competition was won by Romania. Original plans called for them to receive an automatic berth into the following year's edition of the IRB Junior World Championship, the top tier of the IRB under-20 championship; however, Romania ultimately did not receive that berth after the Junior World Championship was reduced from 16 teams to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203353-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Nations Cup\nThe 2009 IRB Nations Cup was the fourth edition of the international rugby union tournament, a competition created by the International Rugby Board. It pits the \"A\" Teams of the stronger (Tier 1) rugby nations (France A, Italy A and Scotland A) against some of the Tier 2 and 3 nations (Romania, Russia and Uruguay).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203353-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Nations Cup\nFor the third consecutive year the event was held in Bucharest, Romania. Emerging Springboks did not return to defend their title. Scotland A were the overall winners of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203353-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Nations Cup\nThe competition format was a modified round-robin whereby each team played 3 of the other 5 teams. The competition was played over three match days, with three matches played consecutively on each day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203354-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup\nThe 2009 Pacific Nations Cup is a rugby union tournament held between five national sides on the Pacific Rim: Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and the Junior All Blacks. The New Zealand M\u0101ori team that won the tournament last year will no longer take part in this competition because of a decision taken by the New Zealand Rugby Union. Australia A has also decided to pull out due to a similar decision. The inaugural competition was held in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203354-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup\nThis year the tournament will begin on June 12 and ends on July 3, 2009 and most of the matches will be hosted by Fiji. The awarding of the key international tournament to the Fiji Rugby Union represents a further boost to the continued development of rugby in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203354-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup\nThe two opening round matches will be played outside of Fiji with Samoa hosting the Junior All Blacks in Apia and Tonga entertaining the Fijians in Nuku\u02bbalofa the following day before the tournament moves to Fiji for a 17-day festival of international rugby spread across three match venues: the ANZ National Stadium (Suva), Churchill Park (Lautoka) and Lawaqa Park (Sigatoka).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203354-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup\nThe tournament is a round-robin where each team plays all of the other teams once. There are four points for a win, two for a draw and none for a defeat. There are also bonus points offered with one bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match and one bonus point for losing by 7 points or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203355-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup\nThe 2009 ISSF World Cup is the twenty-fourth annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Four qualification competitions are held in each event, spanning from April to June, and the best shooters will qualify for the ISSF World Cup Final, which will take place in China in October. The shotgun finals were originally scheduled for Istanbul, but were later moved to the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field, while the rifle and pistol events will be held at a range in Wuxi. Apart from those who qualify through the 2009 World Cup competitions, the defending champions and the reigning Olympic champions will also be invited to the final. The host country may also participate with at least two shooters regardless of qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203355-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup\nFor the first time, the traditional World Cup competition at the Olympic shooting ranges in Munich included shotgun events contested at the new facilities built for the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203355-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup\nIn 2008, it was decided not to give out any quota places for the shooting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London during the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203356-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup Final (rifle and pistol)\nThe 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in rifle and pistol events was scheduled to be held 26\u201328 October 2009 in Wuxi, China, as the conclusion of the 2009 World Cup season. It will be the first time the final is held in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203356-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup Final (rifle and pistol)\nThere are ten spots in each of the ten events. The defending champion from the 2008 World Cup Final and the reigning Olympic champions qualify automatically. The remaining eight qualify through a special point-awarding system based on their best performance during the World Cup season, skipping past automatic qualifiers. Not counting the defending and Olympic champions, there will be a maximum of two shooters per event from the same country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203356-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ISSF World Cup Final (rifle and pistol)\nThe qualification system awards a win with 15 points, a silver medal with 10, a bronze medal with 8, a fourth place with 5, a fifth with 4, a sixth with 3, a seventh with 2 and an eighth place with 1 point. It also gives out points for qualification scores within a certain range from the current world record: from 1 point for fourteen points off the record, to 15 points for equalling or raising it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203357-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating\nThe 2009 ISU World Team Trophy was an international figure skating competition in the 2008\u201309 season. The six countries with the best results during the season \u2013 in descending order of finish: the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Russia and China \u2013 selected two men's single skaters, two ladies' single skaters, one pair, and one ice dancing entry to compete in a team format. The planned Olympic team event will have one entry per discipline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203357-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating\nThe country with the most points after all disciplines was awarded the trophy. The Japan Skating Federation (JSF) paid the prize money for the ISU World Team Trophy in 2009. Total prize money in 2009 was US$1,000,000, the highest ever at an ISU event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203358-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ITF Men's Circuit\nThe 2009 ITF Men's Circuit was the 2009 edition of the third tier tour for men's professional tennis. It was organised by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the ATP Challenger Tour. The ITF Men's Circuit consisted of 493 'Futures' tournaments played year round across six continents, with prize money ranging from $10,000 to $15,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203359-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ITF Women's Circuit\nThe ITF Women's Circuit is the second-tier tour for women's professional tennis organised by the International Tennis Federation, and is a tier below the WTA Tour. The ITF Women's Circuit includes tournaments with prize money ranging from $10,000 up to $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203360-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ITU Triathlon World Cup\nThe 2009 ITU Triathlon World Cup was a series of triathlon races organised by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) for elite-level triathletes to be held during the 2009 season. For 2009, five races were announced as part of the World Cup series. Each race was held over a distance of 1500\u00a0m swim, 40\u00a0km cycle, 10\u00a0km run (an Olympic-distance triathlon). Alongside a prize purse, points were awarded at each race contributing towards the overall ITU Triathlon World Championships point totals; which was a change in format to the World Cup series of prior years. The number of world cup races in 2009 were reduced as the ITU shifted focus to the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203361-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 ITU World Championship Series\nThe 2009 ITU World Championship Series was a series of seven triathlon events leading to a Grand Final held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in September 2009. The series was organised under the auspices of the world governing body of triathlon \u2013 the International Triathlon Union (ITU) \u2013 and was sponsored by Dextro Energy. The 2009 World Championship Series (WCS) was the first year of a change in format replacing the single World Championship race of prior years. Additionally, points accumulated in 2009 ITU Triathlon World Cup events would contribute to an athlete's overall point total in the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203361-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 ITU World Championship Series, Series events\nThe series featured on four continents in the inaugural year, stopping in some locations previously used as successful World Cup race destinations, as well as the first chance for athletes to try out the venue of the 2012 Olympic Triathlon at Hyde Park in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203361-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 ITU World Championship Series, Series events, Prize purses\nThe prize purses offered to the top performers during the series were significantly greater than previous World Championship events, with a total of US$700,000 being distributed. Additionally $150,000 was distributed at each of the 2009 World Championship Events, and $250,000 at the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203361-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 ITU World Championship Series, Results, Overall world championship\nPoints were distributed at each World Championship Event to the top 40 finishers in the men's and women's elite races, and to the top 50 finishers at the Grand Final. Points towards the ITU World Championship ranking could also be obtained at the World Cup events. The sum of each athlete's best four points scores in the World Championship and World Cup Events (maximum of two World Cup scores) and the points score from the World Championship Grand Final determined the final ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup\nVisa-Bikar 2009 is the 50th season of the Icelandic national football cup. It began on 22 May 2009 and ended with the final on 3 October 2009 at Laugardalsv\u00f6llur. The winners qualified for the second qualifying round of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, First round\nThe First Round consists of 32 teams from lower Icelandic divisions. The matches were played between 23 and 25 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Second round\nThe Second Round includes the 16 winners from the previous round as well as 24 teams from the second and third division. The matches were played on 1 and 2 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Third round\nThe Third Round include the 20 winners from the previous round and the 12 teams from the \u00darvalsdeild. These matches were played on 17 and 18 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Fourth round\nThis round consists of the 16 winners of the previous round. These matches were played on 5 and 6 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Quarterfinals\nThis round consists of the 8 winners of the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Semifinals\nThe semifinal matches took place at Laugardalsv\u00f6llur on 12 and 13 September 2009 and involved the four winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203362-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Cup, Final\nThe Final took place at Laugardalsv\u00f6llur on 3 October 2009 and was contested between the winners of the Semifinal matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203363-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup\n2009 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup was the 14th season of the Icelandic Men's League Cup, a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. The competition started on 20 February 2009 and concluded on 1 May 2009. FH beat Brei\u00f0ablik 3\u20130 in the final and won their fifth League Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203363-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup\nThe 24 teams were divided into 4 groups of 6 teams. Every team played every other team of its group once, either home or away. Top 2 teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203363-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup, Group stage\nThe games were played from 20 February to 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203363-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals\nThe games were played on 22, 23 and 24 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests\nThe 2009\u20132011 Icelandic financial crisis protests, also referred to as the Kitchenware, Kitchen Implement or Pots and Pans Revolution (Icelandic: B\u00fas\u00e1haldabyltingin), occurred in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis. There had been regular and growing protests since October 2008 against the Icelandic government's handling of the financial crisis. The protests intensified on 20 January 2009 with thousands of people protesting at the parliament (Althing) in Reykjav\u00edk. These were at the time the largest protests in Icelandic history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests\nProtesters were calling for the resignation of government officials and for new elections to be held. The protests stopped for the most part with the resignation of the old government led by the right-wing Independence Party. A new left-wing government was formed after elections in late April 2009. It was supportive of the protestors and initiated a reform process that included the judicial prosecution before the Landsd\u00f3mur of the former Prime Minister Geir Haarde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests\nSeveral referenda were held to ask the citizens about whether to pay the Icesave debt of their banks. From a complex and unique process, 25 common people, of no political party, were to be elected to form an Icelandic Constitutional Assembly that would write a new Constitution of Iceland. After some legal problems, a Constitutional Council, which included those people, presented a Constitution Draft to the Iceland Parliament on 29 July 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nConcerned with the state of the Icelandic economy, H\u00f6r\u00f0ur Torfason staged a one-man protest in October 2008. Torfason stood \"out on Austurv\u00f6llur with an open microphone and invited people to speak\". The following Saturday a more organised demonstration occurred, and participants established the Raddir f\u00f3lksins. The group decided to stage a rally every Saturday until the government stepped down. Torfason led the protest from a stage near the front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nSpeakers, voices of the people (Icelandic: Raddir f\u00f3lksins) were: Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason, author; Arnd\u00eds Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, teacher; Bj\u00f6rn \u00deorsteinsson, philosopher; Dagn\u00fd Dimmbl\u00e1, student; Einar M\u00e1r Gu\u00f0mundsson, writer; Ger\u00f0ur Kristn\u00fd, writer; Ger\u00f0ur P\u00e1lmad\u00f3ttir, business woman; Gu\u00f0mundur Gunnarsson, president of RS\u00cd; Halld\u00f3ra Gu\u00f0r\u00fan \u00cdsleifsd\u00f3ttir, teacher, artist, and graphic designer; H\u00f6r\u00f0ur Torfason, musician and trubator; Illugi J\u00f6kulsson, author; J\u00f3n Hrei\u00f0ar Erlendsson; Katr\u00edn Oddsd\u00f3ttir, lawyer; Krist\u00edn Helga Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, author; Krist\u00edn T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir, health consultant; L\u00e1rus P\u00e1ll Birgisson, orderly; Lilja M\u00f3sesd\u00f3ttir, economist; P\u00e9tur Tyrfingsson, psychologist; Ragnhei\u00f0ur Gestsd\u00f3ttir, author; Ragnhildur Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, historian; Sigurbj\u00f6rg \u00c1rnad\u00f3ttir, journalist; Sindri Vi\u00f0arsson, historian; Stef\u00e1n J\u00f3nsson, teacher and theatre director; Vi\u00f0ar \u00deorsteinsson, philosopher; \u00deorvaldur Gylfason, economist; \u00der\u00e1inn Bertelsson, author. Formal address by Ernesto Ordiss, and \u00d3skar \u00c1st\u00fe\u00f3rsson, kindergarten teacher. Impromptu speakers were Birgir \u00de\u00f3rarinsson, Sturla J\u00f3nsson, and Kolfinna Baldvinsd\u00f3ttir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 1204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nThe protests were a feature of the traditional New Year's Eve comedy revue, \u00c1ram\u00f3taskaupi\u00f0, in 2008. The sketches included one of J\u00f3n Gnarr playing a strait-laced middle-aged protester struggling to express his indignation at the crisis and eventually coming up with a sign reading Helv\u00edtis fokking fokk!! This phrase soon came to be used in real-life placards and wider discourses surrounding the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nOn 20 January 2009, the protests intensified into riots. Between 1,000 and 2,000 people clashed with riot police, who used pepper spray and batons, around the building of the parliament (Althing), with at least 20 people being arrested and 20 more needing medical attention for exposure to pepper spray. Demonstrators banged pots and honked horns to disrupt the year's first meeting of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and the Althing. Some broke windows of the parliament house, threw skyr and snowballs at the building, and threw smoke bombs into its backyard. The use of pots and pans saw the local press refer to the event as the \"Kitchenware Revolution\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nOn 21 January 2009, the protests continued in Reykjav\u00edk, where the Prime Minister's car was pelted with snowballs, eggs and cans by demonstrators demanding his resignation. Government buildings were surrounded by a crowd of at least 3,000 people, pelting them with paint and eggs, and the crowd then moved towards the Althing where one demonstrator climbed the walls and put up a sign that read \"Treason due to recklessness is still treason.\" No arrests were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nOn 22 January 2009, police used tear gas to disperse people on Austurv\u00f6llur (the square in front of the Althing), the first such use since the 1949 anti-NATO protest. Around 2,000 protesters had surrounded the building since the day before and they hurled fireworks, shoes, toilet paper, rocks, and paving stones at the building and its police guard. Reykjav\u00edk police chief Stef\u00e1n Eir\u00edksson said that they tried to disperse a \"hard core\" of a \"few hundred\" with pepper spray before using the tear gas. Stef\u00e1n also commented that the protests were expected to continue, and that this represented a new situation for Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nDespite the announcement on 23 January 2009 of early Parliamentary elections (to be held on 25 April 2009) and the announcement of Prime Minister Geir Haarde that he was withdrawing from politics due to esophageal cancer and would not be a candidate in those elections, protesters continued to fill the streets, calling for a new political scene and for immediate elections; Haarde (Independence Party) announced on 26 January 2009 that he would hand in his resignation as PM shortly, after talks with the Social Democratic Alliance on keeping the government intact had failed earlier the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nThe Social Democratic Alliance formed a new government on minority coalition with the Left-Green Movement, with the support of the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party, which was sworn in on 1 February. Former Social Affairs Minister J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir became Prime Minister. The three parties also agree to convene a constitutional assembly to discuss changes to the Constitution. There was no agreement on the question of an early referendum on prospective EU and euro membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2008\u20132009: Protests and Government change\nThe parliamentary election was held in Iceland on 25 April 2009 following strong pressure from the public as a result of the Icelandic financial crisis. The Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement, which formed the outgoing coalition government under Prime Minister J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, both made gains and an overall majority of seats in the Althing (Iceland's parliament). The Progressive Party also made gains, and the new Citizens' Movement, formed after the January 2009 protests, gained four seats. The big loser was the Independence Party, which had been in power for 18 years until January 2009: it lost a third of its support and nine seats in the Althing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2009\u20132010: Citizen forums and Constitutional changing\nTaking its cue from nationwide protests and lobbying efforts by civil organisations, the new governing parties decided that Iceland's citizens should be involved in creating a new constitution and started to debate a bill on 4 November 2009 about that purpose. Parallel to the protests and parliament deliverance, citizens started to unite in grassroots-based think-tanks. A National Forum was organised on 14 November 2009 (Icelandic: \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0fundur 2009), in the form of an assembly of Icelandic citizens at the Laugardalsh\u00f6ll in Reykjav\u00edk, by a group of grassroots citizen movements such as Anthill. The Forum would settle the ground for the 2011 Constitutional Assembly and was streamed via the Internet to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2009\u20132010: Citizen forums and Constitutional changing\n1,500 people were invited to participate in the assembly; of these, 1,200 were chosen at random from the national registry, while 300 were representatives of companies, institutions and other groups. Participants represented a cross section of Icelandic society, ranging in age from 18 to 88 and spanning all six constituencies of Iceland, with 73, 77, 89, 365 and 621 people attending from the Northwest Constituency, Northeast Constituency, South Constituency, Southwest Constituency and Reykjav\u00edk (combined), respectively; 47% of the attendants were women, while 53% were men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2009\u20132010: Citizen forums and Constitutional changing\nOn 16 June 2010 the Constitutional Act was accepted by parliament and a new Forum was summoned. The Constitutional Act prescribed that the participants of the Forum had to be randomly sampled from the National Population Register, \"with due regard to a reasonable distribution of participants across the country and an equal division between genders, to the extent possible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2009\u20132010: Citizen forums and Constitutional changing\nThe National Forum 2010 was initiated by the government on 6 November 2010 and had 950 random participants, organized in subcommisions, which would present a 700-page document that would be the basis for constitutional changes, which would debate a future Constitutional Assembly. The Forum 2010 came into being due to the efforts of both governing parties and the Anthill group. A seven-headed Constitutional Committee, appointed by the parliament, was charged with the supervision of the forum and the presentation of its results, while the organization and facilitation of the National Forum 2010 was done by the Anthill group that had organized the first Forum 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 107], "content_span": [108, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2010\u20132011: Constitutional Assembly and Council\nThe process continued in the election of 25 people of no political affiliation on 27 November 2010. The Supreme Court of Iceland later invalidated the results of the election on 25 January 2011 following complaints about several faults in how the election was conducted, but the Parliament decided that it was the way, and not the elects, that had been questioned, and also that those 25 elects would be a part of a Constitutional Council and thus the Constitutional change went on. On 29 July 2011 the draft was presented to the Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Chronology, 2012: Referendum on the new Constitution\nAfter the draft of the Constitution was presented on 29 July 2011, the Al\u00feingi, the Icelandic parliament, finally agreed in a vote on 24 May 2012, with 35 in favor and 15 against, to organize an advisory referendum on the Constitutional Council's proposal for a new constitution no later than 20 October 2012. The only opposing parliament members were the former governing right party, the Independence Party. Also a proposed referendum on discontinuing the accession talks with the European Union by some parliamentaries of the governing left coalition was rejected, with 34 votes against and 25 in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Banking debt referenda\nThere were several referenda to decide about the Icesave Icelandic bank debts. The first Icesave referendum (Icelandic: \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0aratkv\u00e6\u00f0agrei\u00f0sla um Icesave), was held on 6 March 2010. The referendum was resoundingly defeated, with 93% voting against and less than 2% in favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Banking debt referenda\nAfter the referendum, new negotiations commenced. On 16 February 2011 the Icelandic parliament agreed to a repayment deal to pay back the full amount starting in 2016, finalising before 2046, with a fixed interest rate of 3%. The Icelandic president once again refused to sign the new deal on 20 February, calling for a new referendum. Thus, a second referendum was held on 9 April 2011 also resulting in \"no\" victory with a lesser percentage. After the referendum failed to pass, the British and Dutch governments said that they would take the case to the European courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, PM trial\nThe Althing (Iceland's parliament) voted 33\u201330 to indict the former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, but not the other ministers, on charges of negligence in office at a session on 28 September 2010. He would stand trial before the Landsd\u00f3mur, a special court to hear cases alleging misconduct in government office: it will be the first time the Landsd\u00f3mur has convened since it was established in the 1905 Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, PM trial\nThe trial began in Reykjav\u00edk on 5 March 2012. Geir Haarde was found guilty on one of four charges on 23 April 2012, for not holding cabinet meetings on important state matters. Landsd\u00f3mur said Mr. Haarde would face no punishment, as this was a minor offence and the Icelandic State was ordered to pay all his legal expenses. Mr. Haarde decided, as a matter of principle, to refer the whole case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg where it was eventually dismissed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nRoger Boyes of The Times argued the protests were part of a \"new age of rebellion and riot\" in Europe, in the background of similar protests caused by the financial crisis in Latvia, Bulgaria and the civil unrest in Greece, triggered by the police killing a teenager, but with deeper roots related to the financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nLondon School of Economics professor Robert Wade said that Iceland's government would fall within the coming days and Fredrik Erixon of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy compared the current situation with the French Revolution of 1789.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nEirikur Bergmann, an Icelandic political scientist, wrote in The Guardian that \"While Barack Obama was being sworn into office on Capitol Hill yesterday, the people of Iceland were starting the first revolution in the history of the republic. The word \"revolution\" might sound a bit of an overstatement, but given the calm temperament that usually prevails in Icelandic politics, the unfolding events represent, at the very least, a revolution in political activism.\" Valur Gunnarsson, also of The Guardian, writes that \"Iceland's government was last night scrambling to avoid becoming the first administration to be ousted by the global financial crisis.\" He also writes that \"The protesters have begun referring to their daily attempt to oust the government as a 'saucepan revolution', because of the noise-inducing pots and pans brought along to the protests.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nEva Hei\u00f0a \u00d6nnud\u00f3ttir studied the demography of the protesters to see whether participants in the Austurv\u00f6llur protests came from groups with greater histories of political participation and greater access to political resources than non-participants, but found that this was not a determining factor: rather, participants were simply more likely to have a direct personal incentive to protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nWriting in the wake of the 2013 Icelandic parliamentary election, which returned to power the parties most closely associated with Iceland's banking boom, G\u00edsli P\u00e1lsson and E. Paul Durrenberger concluded that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203364-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Commentary\nWhile the grassroots movement that overthrew the government after the crash remains disillusioned and disappointed, its impact should not be under-estimated. One important development in its wake, and an important emerging theme for further research, is a series of experiments with direct democracy and social media. Soon after the crash, a crowd-sourcing company drew upon social media to prepare for a National Meeting (\u00dej\u00f3\u00f0fundur) of 1,000 participants for outlining a new constitution. While the end result of this work remains unclear, and much depends on the formal, indirect democracy of the Parliament, it seems safe to say that the public has been sensitized to new avenues for democracy and alerted to potential signs of corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election\nSnap parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 April 2009, following strong pressure from the public as a result of the Icelandic financial crisis. The Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement, which formed the outgoing coalition government under Prime Minister J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, both made gains and formed an overall majority of seats in the Althing (Iceland's parliament). The Progressive Party also made gains, and the new Citizens' Movement, formed after the January 2009 protests, gained four seats. The big loser was the Independence Party, which had been in power for 18 years until January 2009: it lost a third of its support and nine seats in the Althing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background\nThere had been weekly protests in front of the Althing since the collapse of Iceland's three commercial banks in October 2008. These protests intensified with the return of the Althing from Christmas recess on 20 January 2009. Three days later, Prime Minister Geir Haarde of the Independence Party announced that he was withdrawing from politics for health reasons (he had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer), and promised early elections for 9 May. However, the Independence Party wished to retain the Prime Minister's post, which proved unacceptable to their coalition partners the Social Democratic Alliance: the government collapsed on 26 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background\nAfter consultations with all the political parties represented in the Althing, the President asked the Social Democratic Alliance to form a new government. This proved to be a minority coalition with the Left-Green Movement, with the support of the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party, which was sworn in on 1 February. Former Social Affairs Minister J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir became Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background\nThe date of the elections was one of the agreements between the coalition partners. The Social Democrats preferred 9 May, while the Left-Greens wanted elections in early April: the intermediate position of the Progressive Party, 25 April, was adopted. The three parties also agree to convene a constitutional assembly to discuss changes to the Constitution. There was no agreement on the question of an early referendum on prospective EU membership, an issue which divided the coalition partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Parties\nThe Progressive Party was the first of the historic parties to change leadership after the 2008 financial crisis, when Gu\u00f0ni \u00c1g\u00fastsson resigned as both party leader and Althing member on 17 November 2008. Sigmundur Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Gunnlaugsson was elected party chairman on 18 January 2009, despite not being a member of the Althing at the time. One of Sigmundur Dav\u00ed\u00f0's first actions as party leader was to call for early elections and to offer the support of the party's seven Althing members to an interim coalition of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Parties\nIndependence Party chairman Geir Haarde announced his retirement from politics on 23 January 2009, revealing that he had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer which required urgent treatment. He was succeeded by Bjarni Benediktsson at the party's convention on 29 March 2009. The party also proposed to call for two referendums on the EU \u2013 one on starting entry talks (which could be held by summer 2010), and another on membership after negotiations are over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Parties\nSocial Democrat leader Ingibj\u00f6rg S\u00f3lr\u00fan G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir had also been unwell since September 2008 with a benign brain tumour which had kept her out of the public eye for much of the financial crisis. Although initially she had planned to remain in control of the party while fellow Social Democrat J\u00f3hanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir served as Prime Minister, Ingibj\u00f6rg S\u00f3lr\u00fan announced on 8 March 2009 that she could not guarantee that her health was good enough to  continue to serve the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Parties\nJ\u00f3hanna had previously stated she did not want to become party leader, but changed her mind in mid-March and announced she would stand for party leadership, citing strong encouragement from many party members as the reason. She was elected, as expected, with a strong majority of 97% of the vote at the party congress of 27\u201329 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Parties\nTwo new parties were formed in the aftermath of the January protests: the Citizens' Movement (Borgarahreyfingin) and the Democratic Movement (L\u00fd\u00f0r\u00e6\u00f0ishreyfingin). Both contested all six constituencies in the 2009 elections. A third new party, L-List of Sovereignty Supporters (L-listi fullveldissinna), withdrew its candidacy on 3 April. The Icelandic Movement \u2013 Living Land (\u00cdslandshreyfingin \u2013 lifandi land), which had unsuccessfully contested the 2007 election on a green platform, merged into the Social Democratic Alliance at the March 2009 party congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background, Campaign\nJust a week before the election, the Independence Party announced that its party committee on Europe had decided to call for steps to adopt the euro as Iceland's currency (with the help of the IMF). Shortly before the election, Johanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir stated that her priority, if returned to government, would be EU membership (she stated she was certain that there would be an agreement with the Left-Green Movement on EU membership), and she predicted that Iceland would adopt the euro within four years. (see Iceland and the European Union).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies\nThere are 6 constituencies in Iceland. According to the Law on Parliamentary Elections (nr.24/2000), each constituency is granted 9 seats decided by proportional voting in the constituency, and finally 9 special Leveling seats (either 1 or 2 per constituency, depending on their population size) will work to adjust the result, so that proportionality is also ensured according to the overall number of party votes at the national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies\nThe number of constituency seats shall however be adjusted ahead of the next election, if the fraction of residents with suffrage per available seat in the constituency became more than twice as big in the latest election, when comparing the constituency with the highest fraction against the one with the lowest fraction. In that case a constituency seat shall travel from the constituency with the lowest figure to the one with the highest figure, until the result of the equation comply with the rule. However, the total number of seats (including leveling seats) must never become less than six in any constituency. The box below display the number of available seats in each constituency at the 2009 parliamentary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nThe available constituency seats are first distributed to each party according to the D'Hondt method, so that proportional representation is ensured within each of the constituencies. The next step is to apportion these party distributed seats to the candidates within the party having the highest \"vote score\", after counting both direct candidate votes and their share of party votes in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nIn Iceland the \"candidate vote system\" is that, for each constituency, each party provides a pre-ranked list of candidates beneath each party name (listed according to the preferred order decided by the party), but where the voters voting for the party can alter this pre-ranked order by renumbering the individual candidates and/or crossing out those candidates they do not like, so that such candidates will not get a share of the voter's \"personal vote\" for the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nAs a restriction on the possibility of re-ranking candidates, it is however only possible to alter the first several candidates on the list. The borderline for alterations is drawn for the first three candidates if the party only win one of the total seats in the constituency, or if more than one seat is won the borderline shall be drawn at the pre-ranked number equal to twice the total number of seats being won by the party in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nSo if a party has won two seats in a constituency, then the voter is only allowed to re-rank the top four ranked candidates on the list, with any rank altering by voters below this line simply being ignored when subsequently calculating the candidate vote shares within each party. Final calculation of the candidate vote shares is always done according to the Borda method, where all candidates above the previously described borderline in the ranking are granted voting fraction values according to the voters noted rank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nIf the number of considered candidates consist of four (as in the given example), then the first ranked candidate is assigned a value of 1 (a so-called full personal vote), the next one get the value 0.75 (1/4 less), followed likewise by 0.50 and 0.25 respectively for the two last candidates. If the number of considered candidates instead had been six (due to winning 3 seats), then the first ranked candidate in a similar way would be assigned a value of 1 (a so-called full personal vote), with the following five candidates receiving respectively 5/6, 4/6, 3/6, 2/6 and 1/6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nAs mentioned above, crossed out names will always be allocated a 0.00 value. The accumulated total score of the candidates voting fractions, will be used in determining which candidates receive the seats won by their party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0011-0004", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of constituency seats\nNote that candidate vote scores are not directly comparable to candidates from other parties, as how many seats are being won in a constituency by a particular party will effect how their candidates receive voting fractions (like in the above examples, where a candidate ranked number four for a party winning two seats would receive a voting fraction of 0.25, compared to 0.50 for an equally ranked candidate belonging to a party winning 3 seats)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 101], "content_span": [102, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nAfter the initial apportionment of constituency seats, all the parties that exceed the election threshold of 5% nationally will also qualify to potentially be granted the extra leveling seats, which seek to adjust the result towards seat proportionality at the national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nThe calculation procedure for the distribution of leveling seats is, first, for each party having exceeded the national threshold of 5%, to calculate the ratio of its total number of votes at the national level divided by the sum of one extra seat added to the number of seats the party have so far won. The first leveling seat will go to the party with the highest ratio of votes per seat. The same calculation process is then repeated, until all 9 leveling seats have been allocated to specific parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nA party's \"votes per seat\" ratio will change during this calculation process, after each additional leveling seat being won. The second and final step is for each party being granted a leveling seat to pin point, across all constituencies, which of its runner-up candidates (candidates that came short of winning direct election through a constituency seat) should then win this additional seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nThis selection is made by first identifying the constituency having the strongest \"relative constituency vote shares for this additional seat of the party\", which is decided by another proportional calculation, where the \"relative vote share for the party list in each constituency\", is divided with the sum of \"one extra seat added to the number of already won constituency seats by the party list in the constituency\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0013-0003", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nWhen this strongest constituency has been identified, the leveling seat will be automatically granted to the highest placed unelected runner-up candidate on the party list in this constituency, who among the remaining candidates have the highest personal vote score (the same figure as the one used when ranking candidates for constituency seats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Constituencies, Method for apportionment of leveling seats\nThe above described method is used for apportionment of all the party allocated leveling seats. Note that when selecting which of a party's constituencies shall receive its apportioned leveling seat, this identification may only happen in exactly the same numerical order as the leveling seats were calculated at the party level. This is important because the number of available leveling seats are limited per constituency, meaning that the last calculated leveling seats in all circumstances can never be granted to candidates who belong to constituencies where the available leveling seats already were granted to other parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Results, MPs\nFor the parties having qualified with a national result above the 5% election threshold, the 9 leveling seats (L1-L9) were first distributed party-wise according to the calculation method in this particular order (where the party's total number of national votes was divided by the sum of \"won seats plus 1\" - with an extra leveling seat granted to the party with the highest fraction - while repeating this process until all 9 leveling seats had been determined).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Results, MPs\nAt the next step, these leveling seats were then by the same order distributed one by one to the relative strongest constituency of the seat winning party (while disregarding the constituencies that already ran out of vacant leveling seats). At the third step, the specific leveling seat is finally granted to the party's highest ranked runner-up candidate within the constituency, according to the same accumulated candidate vote score as being used when apportioning the constituency seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Results, MPs\nThe table below display how the leveling seats were apportioned, and the \"relative constituency strength\" figures for each party, which is measured for each constituency as the \"party vote share\" divided by \"won constituency seats of the party +1\". To illustrate how the selection method works, each party in a constituency being apportioned a leveling seat, have got their figure for relative strength (vote share per seat) bolded in the table, with a parenthesis noting the number of the leveling seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Results, MPs\nDue to the fact that constituencies run out of available leveling seats one by one as the calculation progress, it can sometimes happen that the constituency with the highest relative strength needs to be disregarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203365-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Icelandic parliamentary election, Results, MPs\nIn example, if there had been no restrictions to the available number of leveling seats in a constituency, then the table below would have distributed the Left-Green Movement's L3-seat to its relative strongest South Constituency with an 8.5574% vote share per seat; But as the one and only leveling seat of this constituency had already been granted to the Citizens Movement (who won the L1-seat), then the L3-seat instead had to be granted only to the second strongest constituency of the Left-Green Movement - namely the Reykjavik North constituency with an 8.0028% vote share per seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203366-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 2009 Idaho Vandals American football team represented the University of Idaho during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Vandals, led by third-year head coach Robb Akey, were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203366-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Idaho Vandals football team\nBy winning seven games, the Vandals achieved a winning record for the first time since 1999 and were bowl eligible for the first time since 1998. The Vandals won six of their first seven games in 2009, but lost four of five WAC games to finish 7\u20135 in the regular season and placed fourth (4\u20134) in the nine-team WAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203366-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Idaho Vandals football team\nThey were invited to the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, in which they defeated the Bowling Green Falcons (7\u20135) of the MAC on December 30, by a score of 43\u201342. This was the Vandals' second bowl invitation since returning to Division I-A (FBS) in 1996; Idaho won the 1998 Humanitarian Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203366-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Idaho Vandals football team, Schedule\nIdaho's home attendance in 2009 was 75,273 for six games, an average of 12,545 per game. The maximum was 16,000 for the Colorado State game on October 3,the minimum was 8,532 for the Utah State game on November 28, two days after Thanksgiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203367-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 If Stockholm Open\nThe 2009 If Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 41st edition of the event known that year as the If Stockholm Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden, from 17 October through 25 October 2009. Unseeded Marcos Baghdatis won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203367-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 If Stockholm Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203367-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 If Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles\nBruno Soares /  Kevin Ullyett defeated  Simon Aspelin /  Paul Hanley, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203368-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 If Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nJonas Bj\u00f6rkman and Kevin Ullyett were the defending champion, but Bj\u00f6rkman was retired in November 2008.Ullyett partnered up with Bruno Soares, and they won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134) against Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203369-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 If Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nDavid Nalbandian was the defending champion, but did not defend his title due to a hip injury. Marcos Baghdatis won in the final 6\u20131, 7\u20135 against Olivier Rochus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203370-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 2009 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head football coach was Ron Zook. The Illini played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. This was Ron Zook's fifth season as the Illini head coach. The Illini finished the season 3\u20139 (2\u20136 Big Ten).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203370-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe Illini failed to live up to the lofty preseason expectations, receiving almost enough votes in the AP Poll to be ranked (and were said to be the unofficial #26 ranked team in the AP Poll because of this), and even were considered a dark horse candidate for the Big Ten championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203370-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nBut after their blowout loss to Missouri, they failed to receive any votes, and failed to show any improvement until the Michigan State game, which followed blowout losses to Penn State and Ohio State, but by late in the season, they were able to upset Michigan and Minnesota while also giving Cincinnati a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203371-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois State Redbirds football team\nThe 2009 Illinois State Redbirds football team represented Illinois State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Brock Spack and played their home games at Hancock Stadium. Illinois State was a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Redbirds finished the season with an 6\u20135 record overall and a 5\u20133 record in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nA special election was held in Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. On April 7, Democratic nominee Michael Quigley defeated Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green nominee Matt Reichel. Quigley was sworn in on April 21 and served out the congressional term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nEmanuel officially resigned from the House of Representatives, effective January 2, in a letter to his constituents and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Emanuel was named White House Chief of Staff by incoming President-elect Barack Obama. Emanuel was first elected to Congress from Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2002. His resignation followed being re-elected to a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nThe governor's office announced that a special primary election would be held on March 3 and special general election would be held on April 7. State law requires the governor to set a date for a congressional special election within five days of a vacancy being created. State law mandates that a general election must be held within 115 days of the vacancy. In an effort to cut costs and help save money, the date of the special general election coincided with municipal elections scheduled in Chicago, Cook County, and surrounding metropolitan areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nThere were 24 candidates representing three political parties in the March 3 special primary election. The Democrats had 13 candidates; the Republicans had six candidates; and the Greens had five candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nQuigley, a 50-year-old Cook County commissioner, won the Democratic Party's primary with 22% of the vote. He defeated a strong field of Democrats, including state representatives John Fritchey (District 11) and Sara Feigenholtz (District 12), physician Victor Forys, and Chicago City Council alderman Patrick J. O'Connor (40th Ward).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nPulido, a Mexican-American and director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, won the Republican Party's primary with 25% of the vote. She defeated a handful of local businessmen, including Tom Hanson, David Anderson, Gregory Bedell, Daniel S. Kay, and Jon Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nReichel, a 27-year-old activist and political operative, won the Green Party's primary with 34% of the vote. He defeated four other candidates for the party's nomination. Reichel's margin of victory over fellow Green Party nominee Deb Gordils was extremely small\u2014only 11 votes. Reichel won with 166 compared to Gordils' 155.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nNearly a month after the primaries, the three candidates took part in the April 7 special general election. Democratic Party candidate Michael Quigley defeated Republican Party candidate Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel. Quigley won with 30,561 votes (69.2%); Pulido had 10,662 (24.2%) and Reichel had 2,911 (6.6%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203372-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election\nThe election did not receive a great deal of coverage, due to the district's heavy Democratic lean. The Republican Party did not put up a top-tier candidate, acknowledging that they were not even focusing on the race  This is highlighted in the fact that the Republican nominee was the founder of an anti-illegal-immigration group, running in a district that is one-quarter Hispanic. The real fight was for the Democratic nomination, which would almost assure being elected to Congress. In fact, over 12,000 more votes were cast in the Democratic Primary than there were in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203373-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Imola Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Imola Formula Two round was the seventh and penultimate round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 19 and 20 September 2009 at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari at Imola, Italy. The first race was won by Kazim Vasiliauskas, with Mirko Bortolotti and Andy Soucek also on the podium. The second race was won by Andy Soucek, with Robert Wickens and Milo\u0161 Pavlovi\u0107 also on the podium. Soucek's third place in race one earned him the championship, as Wickens and Mikhail Aleshin had insufficient points to overhaul the Spaniard's point tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203374-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Imola Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Imola Superbike World Championship round was the twelfth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of September 25\u201327, 2009, at the Imola circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203375-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team\nThe 2009 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team represented the University of the Incarnate Word in the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by first-year head coach Mike Santiago. The 2009 season was the inaugural season for UIW football and they competed as an NCAA Division II Independent, meaning they had no athletic conference affiliation in football for the season. Home games were played on campus at Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium. They finished the season 5\u20135 in their first season of intercollegiate play as a Division II Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203375-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Incarnate Word Cardinals football team, TV and radio\nAll Incarnate Word games were broadcast on ESPN 1250 The Zone with the voices of Paul Alexander and Trey Ware. The weekly Mike Santiago Coach\u2019s Show was also aired live by ESPN 1250 The Zone. Coach Santiago was heard each Thursday for 13 weeks of the season beginning at 7 p.m.  carried all Cardinals football games live while KUIW TV streamed the games live as part of the simulcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl\nThe 2009 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl was the thirty-fourth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The game started at 5:00 PM US EST on Monday, December 28, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN2 and the Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Texas A&M Aggies by a score of 44-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl\nThe game was Georgia's second appearance in the bowl game. Their previous appearance in the game was a 24\u201315 victory over the University of Arkansas in 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl\nAs for Texas A&M, the Aggies made their third appearance in the Independence Bowl and now hold an overall record of 1\u20132. Their last appearance resulted in a 43\u201341 overtime loss to Mississippi State on December 31, 2000, a game since nicknamed the \"Snow Bowl\" due to the unusual amount of snowfall Shreveport received that day. The entire game was played under extremely wintry conditions, a rarity for Shreveport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl\nThe game was the fifth time that the two schools have faced each other in a game. Texas A&M previously held the series advantage 3\u20131 (now 3-2). The last time, prior to the bowl that the two teams met was a 42\u20130 victory by Georgia in 1980. The two teams have played in a bowl game against each other once before, as they met in the 1950 Presidential Cup Bowl. The game, which was played in College Park, Maryland, was the only ever edition of the Presidential Cup Bowl, and Texas A&M was victorious by a score of 40\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl, Game summary\nGeorgia wore their home red jerseys, and Texas A&M wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl, Game summary\nGeorgia's quarterback, Joe Cox, threw for 157 yards and two touchdowns as the Bulldogs dominated Texas A&M to win their fourth straight bowl game. Tight End Aron White caught both of Cox's touchdown passes, one from 24 yards out and the other a two-yard catch, on his way to being named the game's offensive MVP. Caleb King paced the Bulldogs rushing game with 61 yards on 16 carries and two touchdowns. Special teams also played a huge part in the Georgia victory. The Bulldogs scored their first touchdown of the game on a kickoff return for a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203376-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Independence Bowl, Game summary\nGeorgia also blocked a punt and a field goal attempt, and recovered a bad snap on a punt at the Texas A&M 24-yard line. Aggies quarterback Jerrod Johnson passed for 360 yards and two touchdowns, but also threw two costly interceptions. Jeff Fuller led A&M with 7 receptions for 101 yards in the losing effort. Georgia's six touchdowns tied an Independence Bowl record. And Georgia's 30 second-half points established a new record for points scored in a half for the Independence Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203377-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Cup (Albania)\nThe 2009 Independence Cup was the inaugural men's association football friendly tournament organised by the Albanian Football Association on 28 November to commemorate Albanian Independence Day. Flamurtari of Albania, Shk\u00ebndija of Republic of Macedonia and Prishtina of Kosovo were invited to compete in the tournament, which was held at the Flamurtari Stadium in Vlor\u00eb, near the site of the Albanian Declaration of Independence on 28 November 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203377-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Independence Cup (Albania)\nMatches lasted 45 minutes each and the competition followed a point scoring system, whereby each team plays two matches, with three points awarded for a win, none for a loss with penalty shootouts determining the winners of drawn matches. All three matches finished in goalless draws and were all decided through penalty shootouts, with Flamurtari winning the tournament after defeating Shk\u00ebndija and Prishtina 11\u201310 and 3\u20132 on penalties, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203378-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 India Open Grand Prix\nThe 2009 India Open Grand Prix also known as Jaypee Cup Syed Modi Memorial India Grand Prix was a badminton tournament which took place at Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, India from 15 to 20 December 2009. It is the first time this tournament was ranked as BWF Grand Prix event with a total purse of $50,000. It was the last tournament of the 2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203379-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 India Open Grand Prix Gold\nThe 2009 India Open Grand Prix Gold (officially known as the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2009 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at G.M.C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India from 24 to 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203380-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 India floods\nThe 2009 India floods affected various states of India in July 2009, killing at least 36 people in Orissa and 13 in Kerala. The most affected states were Karnataka, Orissa, Kerala, Gujarat and North-East Indian states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203380-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 India floods\nFloods triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 36 people in the eastern Indian state of Orissa alone and inundated half a million homes. On 13 July, seven people were killed and many others missing when a bus fell into a rivulet after being swept away by flood waters in Nayagarh district in Orissa. Nayagarh is 87\u00a0km from the Orissa state capital, Bhubaneswar. The world-famous Sun Temple at Konark is also water-logged, causing hardship for tourists. The most flood affected districts in Orissa are Nayagarh, Cuttack, Ganjam, Keonjhar, Koraput and Kandhamal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203380-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 India floods\nSeveral parts of Kerala were affected with the torrential rains with losses amounting to crores of rupees. At least 13 people in Kerala state are reported dead due to floods in the state. The most affected districts of Kerala are Kannur, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kollam Thrissur, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Alappuzha districts. A number of relief camps are opened throughout the state. The Revenue Minister of Kerala state, K. P. Rajendran at Kozhikode has convened a meeting on 20 July 2009 to review the damage caused by rain. District Collectors and officials of the various departments of Kasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Palakkad districts are likely attend the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203380-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 India floods\nOver three lakh people have been hit after incessant rains in Assam and other north eastern states of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203380-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 India floods\nAt least 10 people, including four children and two women, were killed and nine others injured on 27 July 2009 when a wall collapsed due to heavy rains in the satellite township Noida of the national capital of Delhi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League\nThe 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18 April and 24 May 2009. It was the second biggest cricket tournament in the world, after the Cricket World Cup, and was forecast to have an estimated television audience of more than 200 million people in India alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League\nAs the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, in the aftermath of the 3 March 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team the Government of India refused to commit security by Indian paramilitary forces. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the second season of the league outside India. On 24 March 2009, the BCCI officially announced that the second season of the IPL was to be held in South Africa. Though India did not host the second season, the format of the tournament remained unchanged from the 2008 season format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League\nThe IPL injected approximately US$100 million into South Africa's local economy. In addition, the BCCI signed an \u20b9 82\u00a0billion (US$1.63 billion) contract with Multi Screen Media to broadcast matches live from South Africa to India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League\nThe IPL was hosted successfully in South Africa and was hailed as an \"extraordinary\" accomplishment. The tournament was particularly praised for globalizing cricket and had set record television viewership. The tournament was won by Deccan Chargers, who beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Rules and regulations\nSome of the rules were changed for the 2009 edition of the IPL. The number of international players allowed in any one squad was increased from 8 to 10 although the number allowed in any playing 11 remained at 4. The IPL sanctioned franchises to spend a further US$2 million during the auction taking the total salary cap for each franchise to US$7 million for the 2009 tournament. The BCCI also negotiated with England Cricket Board (ECB) to allow English cricketers to participate in the tournament. English players were allowed to play for 21 days in between their tour to West Indies and the subsequent return tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Rules and regulations\nAt the halfway point of each innings, a seven-and-a-half-minute television timeout was now held. The change proved controversial, as critics and players felt that it broke the flow of the game, and because two-thirds of the break were devoted purely to additional advertising time. The timeout rules were revised for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Rules and regulations\nThe format is the same as previous season. Points in the group stage were awarded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Rules and regulations\nIf the match ends with the scores tied and there must be a winner, the tie is broken with a one over per side \"Eliminator\" or \"Super Over\":", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Warm-up game\nThe match between Cape Cobras and Rajasthan Royals was billed as the \"Clash of the Champions\" due to both teams being champions of their country's Twenty20 leagues. However, as an IPL warmup, both teams fielded understrength teams in order to try out new blood, with only 4 of Rajasthan's 2008 title-winning team playing the warm-up. Cape Cobras were the victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Statistics, Attendance\nThe attendance was expected to be lower in the second edition due to the lower capacities of South African grounds . Total attendance is expected to be a maximum of 1.4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Other awards\nPlayer of the grand final: Anil Kumble - Royal Challengers Bangalore", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Other awards\nU-23 success of the tournament: Rohit Sharma (333 runs, 11 wickets) - Deccan Chargers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Other awards\nHighest score of the tournament: Manish Pandey (114*) - Royal Challengers Bangalore", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203381-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League, Franchise earnings\nThe second season that concluded on 24 May 2009 was hugely profitable for the IPL compared to the previous edition. In the 2009 season all the franchises made a profit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final\nThe 2009 Indian Premier League Final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match played between the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 24 May 2009 at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to determine the winner of the 2009 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India. It ended as the Chargers defeated the Royal Challengers by six runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final\nThe Chargers, captained by Adam Gilchrist, came fourth in group stage table, whereas the Royal Challengers, led by Anil Kumble, stood at the third position. They had defeated the Delhi Daredevils and the Chennai Super Kings respectively in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final\nWinning the toss, Royal Challengers captain Anil Kumble opted to field first. The Chargers scored 143 runs in 20 overs with a loss of 6 wickets. Batting at opening, Herschelle Gibbs top scored for the Chargers with 53 runs. Royals' bowler Anil Kumble took four wickets for 16 runs. The Royal Challengers failed to build a good opening partnership. However, due to contributions from the middle order, it reached 129/9 in the last over But Royal Challengers failed to take 15 runs from the last over bowled by RP Singh. They took 8 and the match ended with Royal Challengers 137/9. Chargers won the match by 6 runs and earned 2009 Indian Premier League title. Kumble, who was the best performer for the Royal Challengers Bangalore was named the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nThe Chargers started its campaign with four consecutive wins, but lost its next three matches to the Daredevils, the Royals and the Kings. It qualified for the semifinals after losing its last two league matches. The Royal Challengers won its first match in the group stage to the Royals. But, it lost all of its next four matches. Then, it won three consecutive league matches against Knight Riders, Kings XI and Indians. But again lost two. Then it won the last 4 matches of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Group stage\nThe two teams faced each other in two matches of the group stage, The two matches were won by the two teams for 1 times.,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nThe Chargers played the Daredevils in the first semi-final. The Chargers won the toss and decided to field first. The Daredevils failed to make an opening partnership. Gautam Gambhir was out on the 5th ball of the match with a zero run in scorecard for him and the team. And the Daredevils got a big shock when David Warner followed Gambhir in the very next ball. Daredevils were 0/2 after Over 1. But Virender Sehwag and Tillakaratne Dilshan added 85 runs in the 3rd wicket partnership. At the 85 run Sehwag was out scoring 39 from 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nAfter that the middle and lower middle batting order took the run to 150's. Daredevils scored 153 for 8 after 20 overs. Tillakaratne Dilshan scored the highest run for his team. He scored 65 from 51. Chargers pacer Ryan Harris was the most successful bowler with a 3/27 figure in 4 overs. After coming to bat Chargers lost their first wicket in 22 runs. But captain's 85 from 35 made the target easier and Charger reached the target in 17.4 overs with 6 wickets in hand. Adam Gilchrist was the man of the match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nIn the second semi-final, Super Kings played the Royal Challengers . The Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to field first. After making 26 runs at the 61 runs opening partnership Mathew Hayden was out. Then MS Dhoni came to bat. But his slow 28 from 30 made the innings slow. The middle order player Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel tried to score quickly. But they could make 146 for 5 in 20 overs. Parthiv Patel was the highest scorer for Super Kings with 36 from 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Route to the final, Semi-finals\nVinay Kumar was the most successful bowler with 4 from 38 runs in 4 overs. Royal Challengers lost early wickets. They lost Jacques Kallis at the 17 runs. At 22 runs they lost Roelof van der Merwe. But 70 runs at 3rd wicket made the way easier for Royal Challengers. With 92 runs on the board, Manish Pandey departed. After 18 runs at the 4th wicket, with 110 runs on the board Rahul Dravid also departed. Then Virat Kohli and Ross Taylor didn't do any mistake to get the winning runs. Royal Challengers chased 146 with 7 balls and 6 wickets in hand. Manish Pandey was the highest scorer for RCB, scoring 48 from 35 for Royal Challengers while Muttiah Muralitharan took 1 for 15 in 4 overs. Manish Pandey was named the man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Match, Scorecard\nFall of wickets: 1-0 (Gilchrist, 0.3 overs), 2-18 (Suman, 3.3 overs), 3-58 (Symonds, 8.5 overs), 4-110 (R Sharma, 16.2 overs), 5-115 (V Rao, 16.6 overs), 6-134 (Bilakhia, 19.1 overs)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203382-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Premier League Final, Match, Scorecard\nFall of wickets: 1-20 (Kallis, 3.3 overs), 2-36 (Pandey, 6.1 overs), 3-57 (van der Merwe, 8.3 overs), 4-79 (Dravid, 11.4 overs), 5-99 (Taylor, 14.2 overs), 6-99 (Kohli, 14.3 overs), 7-107 (Boucher, 15.5 overs), 8-110 (Praveen Kumar, 16.4 overs), 9-129 (Vinay Kumar, 18.6 overs)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203383-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2009, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held  to elect respectively four members from Jammu and Kashmir, three members from Kerala and one member from Pondicherry for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203383-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections\nElections were held to elect members from states of J&K, KL, PY.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203383-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections, Members elected\nThe following members are elected in the elections held in 2009. They are members for the term 2009-2015 and retire in year 2015, except in case of the resignation or death before the term. The list is incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203383-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Bye-elections\nThe bye-elections were also held for the vacant seats from the State of Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election\nGeneral elections were held in India in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009 to elect the members of the 15th Lok Sabha. With an electorate of 716\u00a0million, it was the largest democratic election in the world until surpassed by the 2014 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election\nBy constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be held every five years or when Parliament is dissolved by the president. The previous elections were held in May 2004 and the term of the 14th Lok Sabha would have naturally expired on 1 June 2009. Elections are organised by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and are normally held in multiple phases to better handle the large electorate and security concerns. The 2009 elections were held in five phases. In February 2009, Rs.11.20\u00a0billion ($200.5\u00a0million) was budgeted for election expenses by parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election\nA total of 8,070 candidates contested 543 seats elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. Voter turnout over all five phases was around 58%. The results of the election were announced within three days of phase five, on 16 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election\nThe United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Indian National Congress formed the government after winning a majority of seats, with strong results in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Manmohan Singh became the first Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962 to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. The UPA was able to put together a comfortable majority with support from 322 of the 543 elected members. External support was provided by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and other minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election\nSingh was sworn in as Prime Minister on 22 May 2009 at the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Background\nThe election, while following the normal five-year cycle, came after a break in the old UPA alliance after the left parties withdrew support of the Indo-US nuclear deal forcing a vote of confidence (which the government won).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Delimitation\nThe 2009 elections adopted re-drawn electoral constituencies based on the 2001 census, following the 2002 Delimitation Commission of India, whose recommendations were approved in February 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Delimitation\nIn the 2009 general elections, 499 out of the total 543 Parliamentary constituencies were newly delimited constituencies. This affected the National Capital Region of Delhi, the Union Territory of Puducherry and all the states except Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Manipur and Nagaland. While comparing election results, it must be borne in mind that in many instances a constituency with the same name may reflect a significantly different population demographic as well as a slightly altered geographical region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Electronic voting machines\nAs in the 2004 election, this election was also conducted completely using electronic voting machines (EVMs), with 1,368,430 voting machines deployed across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 74], "content_span": [75, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Polling stations\nThere were 828,804 Polling Stations around the country \u2013 a 20% increase over the number from the 2004 election. This was done mainly to avoid vulnerability to threat and intimidation, to overcome geographical barriers and to reduce the distance travelled by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Polling stations\nThe CEC announced that the polling station in Banej village in the Una segment of Junagadh, Gujarat had the unique claim to being the only polling station in the country that catered to a single elector \u2013 Guru Shree Bharatdasji Bapu, a priest of a Shiva temple in the middle of the Gir Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Electoral rolls\nThe electoral rolls had to be completely updated because of the delimitation that took effect from February 2008. The process of updating the electoral rolls continued until the last date of filing nominations. 714\u00a0million people were eligible to vote in 2009, up 6.4% (43\u00a0million) from 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Electoral rolls\nThis election also saw the entire country except the states of Assam, Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir use photo electoral rolls. This meant that the photo of each elector was printed on the electoral rolls and this was intended to facilitate easy identification and prevent impersonations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Electoral issues, Electoral rolls\nIn addition to the photo electoral rolls, the electors also needed to provide separate photo identification. Those electors who had already been issued Electoral Photo Identification Cards (EPIC) were only permitted to use the EPIC for identification at the polling station. According to the EC, 82% of the country's electors (except those in Assam) have been issued EPIC before the 2009 election was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nThe Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC), N. Gopalaswami, had stated on 28 December 2008, that the elections were likely to be held between April and May 2009. He attributed this schedule to the examination period from February to March, making polling places unavailable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nOn 31 January 2009, fractures within the Election Commission came to the fore when Gopalaswami recommended to President Pratibha Patil that Election Commissioner Navin Chawla be sacked for behaving in a partisan manner. This recommendation in itself was controversial, as it was unclear if a CEC had the legal and constitutional right to provide such a unilateral recommendation. Chawla refused to resign as he was expected to take over the post of Chief Election Commissioner a few months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nThis controversy also resulted in speculation that the Election Commission was unable to agree on the actual polling dates, with the incumbent CEC Gopalaswami preferring that at least one phase of elections be held before his retirement on 20 April 2009. Navin Chawla, on the other hand, wanted the election to only start after Gopalaswami retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nEventually, on 1 March 2009, President Patil rejected Gopalaswami's recommendation to remove Chawla after the Government advised her to do so. Soon after the above announcement by President Patil, the Election Commissioners got together to announce the details of the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nThe polling schedule for the 2009 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 2 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Polling schedule, Background\nSubsequently, the President's House announced on 4 March 2009 that CEC Gopalaswami would retire as scheduled on 20 April 2009 and Navin Chawla would take over as CEC starting 21 April 2009. It was the first time in the history of Indian politics that two different people oversaw different phases of the same election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions\nThe 2009 general election saw three main national pre-poll alliances. Given the volatile nature of coalition politics in India, many parties changed alliances before, during and after the elections. The two larger coalitions, UPA and NDA, had clearly indicated their prime ministerial candidates during campaigning for the election. The Third Front announced repeatedly through the campaigning period that their prime ministerial candidate would only be decided after the election results came out. In Indian parliamentary system, the announcement of Prime Ministerial candidates prior to elections is not required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, United Progressive Alliance\nThe United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed after the 2004 general election to bring together parties that either allied with the Congress in various states, or were willing to support a Congress-led national government. Though the UPA never enjoyed a clear majority on its own in the 14th Lok Sabha, it managed to complete its five-year term from 2004 to 2009 by securing outside support from the left parties (CPI(M), CPI, AIFB, RSP), Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party at different times during this tenure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, United Progressive Alliance\nFollowing the August 2008 confidence vote victory for the current government, a statement by Congress President Sonia Gandhi caused speculation that the UPA would project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the Prime Ministerial candidate in the next elections. While Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader M. Karunanidhi supported Manmohan Singh as the PM candidate, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar tried to project himself as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate as well. On 24 January 2009, Manmohan Singh underwent a cardiac bypass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, United Progressive Alliance\nFollowing the surgery, speculation of alternate PM candidates arose both within the Congress and amongst coalition partners. In an attempt to quell such speculations, Sonia Gandhi on 6 February 2009, confirmed that Manmohan Singh would be the UPA's PM candidate by writing so in the Congress party magazine Sandesh. This was the first time in the history of Indian elections that the Congress party had declared its Prime Ministerial candidate prior to the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, National Democratic Alliance\nPrime Minister candidate: Lal Krishna Advani (Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, National Democratic Alliance\nThe National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was the first large national coalition formed by a national party supported by various regional parties. It was formed after the 1998 general election and the NDA formed the Government led by BJP's Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The government collapsed a few months later, but the NDA returned to power after the 1999 general election and this time the Vajpayee-led Government completed its full term from 1999 to 2004. Due to the volatile nature of coalitions, NDA won 181 seats after the 2004 election, but due to parties changing alliances, before the 2009 election they had 142 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, National Democratic Alliance\nThe main opposition party, BJP, and its NDA coalition partners announced on 11 December 2007 (more than a year before the election) that their candidate for prime minister would be BJP party leader Advani who was the Leader of the Opposition at the time. On 23 January 2008, leaders from BJP and other NDA parties convened in the capital to officially elect him as their candidate for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, Third Front\nSeats: The newly formed alliance carried with them 109 seats before the 2009 election. The CPI(M) led the formation of the Third Front for the 2009 election. This front was basically a collection of regional political parties who were neither in UPA nor in the NDA. Most of the constituents of this Third Front were those who were part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Coalitions, Fourth Front\nSeats: The newly formed alliance carried with them 64 seats before the 2009 election. The Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Lok Janshakti Party failed to reach seat sharing agreements with the Congress and decided to form a new front, hoping to be kingmakers after the election. Despite announcing this front, the constituent parties continued to declare their support for the UPA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, United Progressive Alliance\nThe Congress party bought the rights for the Oscar-winning soundtrack \"Jai Ho\" from the movie Slumdog Millionaire, which was used as the official campaign tune by the party. The song title \"Jai Ho\" translates to 'Let there be victory', and the Congress hoped that the popular song would galvanise the masses during the almost one-month-long election season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, United Progressive Alliance\nOn 24 March 2009, Congress President Sonia Gandhi released the party's manifesto for the 2009 election. The manifesto highlighted all the achievements of the UPA Government over the last five years in power and identified improving various policies to favour more rural & under-privileged sections of the Indian society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, United Progressive Alliance\nThe Congress campaign ran into trouble when the Election Commission took exception to a full page advertisement on the 2010 Commonwealth Games taken out in major Delhi newspapers. The EC served notice to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Cabinet Secretary and the Chief Secretary of Delhi, stating that the advertisement was a clear violation of the model code of conduct since it enumerated the achievements of the UPA Government. The EC has also asked the violators to pay from their own pockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, National Democratic Alliance\nTo counter the Congress' selection of \"Jai Ho\" as their official anthem, the BJP coined the phrase Kushal Neta,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, National Democratic Alliance\nOn 3 April 2009, BJP released its election manifesto in New Delhi. The party was taking on the incumbent UPA Government on the three fronts of Good Governance, Development and Security. The manifesto highlighted all the different NDA policies that the UPA reversed over the last five years. The manifesto laid a lot of importance on requiring strong, POTA-like anti-terrorism laws and vowed to make India a safer place if the BJP is elected. The full text of the manifesto is available at the BJP website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, National Democratic Alliance\nThe BJP campaign faced its biggest controversy when the EC directed the District Magistrate of Pilibhit to lodge a criminal case against the BJP's candidate Varun Gandhi for his allegedly inflammatory speech against minority communities made on 7 March 2009. This decision was taken after the EC had earlier issued a notice to Varun Gandhi and the BJP. After reviewing the incident, the EC found Varun Gandhi guilty of violating the model code of conduct by creating feeling of enmity and hatred between different communities and issued a recommendation the BJP to drop him from their list of candidates. The BJP however came out in support of Varun and refused to drop him as a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, Third Front\nThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) formed a Third Front. The Third Front tried to contest the election, hoping to create a non-BJP, non-Congress government, by attracting many local and regional parties, that were once with the other two alliances. The Third Front came into the alliance with 83 MPs, and various polling conducted before the election projected the alliance of getting over 100 seats. The CPI(M) created a campaign website hosting its campaign information to attract sympathisers among the netizen public to vote for the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Campaign, Innovative technology usage during campaigning\nDuring this election, political parties used technology in innovative ways to reach out to the voters. Although SMS had been used during prior elections, political parties had realised that the rural and illiterate voters which form a majority could not read. Young and technology savvy politicians quickly realised that voice was the way to reach out to the rural community as they could speak their language. This turned out to be very interesting as two voice companies from India, TringMe and VoiceHawk played the pivotal role in reaching out to the billion people of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Opinion polling\nMost opinion polls conducted by major agencies gave the UPA an edge over the NDA, but none were predicted to get absolute majority. The UPA including the Fourth front was, however, predicted by a few to get seats close to majority. The opinion polls reckoned that other regional parties would play an important role by winning a substantial number of seats. In results where the \"Fourth Front\" is indicated, the SP, RJD and LJP are not being counted in the UPA figure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Opinion polling, Exit polls\nIn February 2009, the ECI banned the publishing of all exit polls starting 48\u00a0hours before Phase 1 of the election until the end of Phase 5. This was intended to prevent exit polls from earlier phases affecting voter decisions in later phases. The ban ended with the close of Phase 5 voting at 5:00\u00a0pm IST on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 1 \u2013 16 April 2009\nThe first phase of the 2009 election took place on Thursday, 16 April with elections in 124 constituencies across 15 states and 2 union territories. There were incidents of violence in a few places in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and between 17 and 19 people were killed in Naxal attacks. The dead included five poll officials and 10 security personnel, whose families received a compensation of Rs 1\u00a0million. Naxals set fire to voting machines, attacked voters, security personnel and polling workers, and destroyed vehicles. According to one news source, \"It was apparent that the Naxals had clearly planned to disrupt the polls.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 1 \u2013 16 April 2009\nDespite these incidents, the ECI expressed satisfaction about the conduct of the polls due to peaceful polling in many other parts of the country. Initial reports from the ECI place the voter turnout for this phase at approximately 60\u00a0percent. This phase of the election was held in 185,000 polling stations, serving an electorate of over 143.1\u00a0million deciding the fate of 1,715 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 1 \u2013 16 April 2009\nThe ECI ordered repoll in 46 polling booths across 7 of the states where polling took place in the first phase. These include 29 polling booths in Andhra Pradesh, 5 each in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, 3 in Nagaland, 2 in Kerala and 1 each in Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh. The repoll in all these polling booths were held on 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 1 \u2013 16 April 2009\nOne of the positive stories emerging from this phase of election was from Kandhamal district, where refugees of the 2008 Kandhamal riots came out in huge numbers to exercise their franchise. It is estimated that there was a turnout of 90% amongst Kandhamal refugees and 50% across the entire district. The administration had earlier identified large parts of the area as naxal affected and vulnerable. Hence, the administration had deployed extra security in the area and the ECI has arranged for special transport to shuttle the refugees from the refugee camps to the polling booths. Both of these actions helped achieve the high turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 2 \u2013 22 April 2009 and 23 April 2009\nThe second phase of the 2009 election was spread across Wednesday, 22 April (Phase 2A) and Thursday, 23 April (Phase 2B). Phase 2A saw election in a single constituency in Manipur as it was a state holiday on 23 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 2 \u2013 22 April 2009 and 23 April 2009\nAccording to the EC, the election in Manipur in Phase 2A was peaceful and witnessed a voter turnout of about 62%. Following the election, though, the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Manipur People's Party (MPP) have alleged vote rigging by Congress workers during the polls in Phase 2A. The MPP claimed that the Congress workers captured 11 booths in the Andro Assembly segment of Imphal East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 2 \u2013 22 April 2009 and 23 April 2009\nPhase 2B saw polling in 12 states for 140 constituencies \u2013 the most in any phase of this election. This phase was largely peaceful and saw about 55% turnout. There were stray incidents of violence in areas with active Naxalite groups in Jharkhand and Bihar. The poor turnout in this phase was blamed on a heat wave sweeping the country that took the noon-time temperature on election day up to between 42 and 46\u00a0degrees Celsius in various parts of the country. Two polling officials even died due to sun stroke in Orissa with two also falling ill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 3 \u2013 30 April 2009\nThe third phase of the 2009 election was held on Thursday, 30 April with elections in 107 constituencies spread across nine states and two union territories. The fate of 1,567 candidates was decided in this phase including those of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, BJP's Prime Minister candidate L.K. Advani and former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) President Deve Gowda. This phase included voting in Mumbai where the turnout was relatively low. The voter turnout around the country was moderate and this was primarily blamed on the extreme heat on election day. Voting was largely peaceful all across the country. However, Maoist guerrillas exploded a landmine in West Bengal's Purulia district, injuring a paramilitary trooper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 4 \u2013 7 May 2009\nThe fourth phase of the election was held on Thursday, 7 May with elections for 85 seats across eight states involving 1,315 candidates. The phase's high-profile candidates included External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and former chief ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rajnath Singh, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Farooq Abdullah. Apart from bomb attacks in West Bengal's Asansol and Murshidabad districts that killed one person each and some violence in Rajasthan, this phase was relatively peaceful. This phase saw voting in the nation's capital Delhi where the voter turnout was around 53%, much higher than the previous two elections in Delhi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 5 \u2013 13 May 2009\nThe fifth and final phase of the 2009 election was held on Wednesday, 13 May with voting across seven states and two union territories for 86 constituencies. Overall the turnout was 62%. Numerous cases of voter omissions were reported in Tamil Nadu which had 39 seats up for grab. In Jammu & Kashmir, two polling stations could not be reached by the polling officials due to extreme snow which prevented their helicopters from landing at the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Election phases, Phase 5 \u2013 13 May 2009\nThe polling officials were forced to trek through deep snow to reach the polling stations and polls took place 2\u00a0days later on 15 May in these two stations. A few cases of violence were also reported in this phase. One DMK official was stabbed to death in Tamil Nadu in a clash between the political parties and another person was killed in West Bengal in clashes between Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) party workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Results\nVote counting took place on 16 May and the result were declared the same day. The EVMs were localised to 1,080 centres across the country and counting started at 08:00\u00a0hrs. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) took early lead and maintained it to emerge victorious. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajnath Singh said that the BJP's performance in the election was very unexpected and the success of the NDA that had been hoped for had not materialised. The CPI (M) led third front later said that it was ready to sit in the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Results, By states and territories\nThe UPA carried 18 states, while the NDA and the Third Front carried 8 and 2 respectively. Source: Election Commission of India", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Analysis\nThis election defied the predictions made by pre-poll predictions and exit polls and gave a  mandate in favour of incumbent UPA government. According to many analysts after the election, many factors can be attributed for a landslide. According to the National Election Study 2009, published in The Hindu newspaper after the election, the victory to the UPA government is attributed to saturation of caste-based identity politics, the focus on good governance and BJP's limitations, gave Congress the edge. Another factor is the vote-splitting by the Third Front, especially the BSP and MNS in Maharashtra, which resulted in the Indian National Congress gaining many of its seats without getting a majority in the corresponding constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Formation of the new government\nThe President, Pratibha Patil dissolved the 14th Lok Sabha with immediate effect on 18 May. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh submitted the resignation of his Council of Ministers to the President, for him to be re-elected as the Prime Minister as well as for a new Council of Ministers to be elected. On 19 May, Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi were re-elected as party leader and chairperson respectively of the Congress Parliamentary Party. This effectively made him the prime minister-elect of the new government. President Pratibha Patil invited Singh to then form the new government on 20 May. The new government was sworn in on 22 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Formation of the new government, Government formation\nDue to the fact that UPA was able to get 262 seats \u2013 just short of 10 seats for a majority \u2013 all the external support came from parties who gave unconditional support to Manmohan Singh and the UPA. The Janata Dal, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party all decided to do so to keep out any possibility of a BJP government in the next 5\u00a0years. Nagaland Peoples Front, Sikkim Democratic Front, and Bodaland Peoples Front, each with an MP, decided to join and support the UPA government. The three independent candidates to extend support for UPA were all from Maharashtra, and they were Sadashiv Mandlik, from Kolhapur constituency, Raju Shetty, from the political party Swabhimani Paksha, who won from Hatkandagle and Baliram Jadhav from Bahujan Vikas Aghadi party who won the Palghar constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Formation of the new government, Government formation\nOn 21 May, it was announced that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) had decided to leave and give outside support to the UPA government, due to failed talks between the Congress and the DMK on cabinet positions. After many deliberations between DMK and Congress, the DMK agreed to 3 cabinet ministers and 4 ministers of state. Kanimozhi, daughter of the DMK leader M. Karunanidhi, decided not to join the new government cabinet, instead she wanted to focus on improving the parties image.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203384-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election, Formation of the new government, Government formation\nThe two incumbent cabinet ministers from DMK, Dayanidhi Maran and A. Raja joined the cabinet, but due to concerns raised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on T.R. Baalu, he was dropped from the cabinet, and Karunanidhi's son M.K. Azhagiri, replaced him as part of a compromise. On 25 May 2009, DMK decided to join the UPA government, reversing the decision made in prior days to extend outside support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203385-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election campaign controversies\nThe 2009 Indian general election was held in five phases between 16 April \u2013 13 May 2009. During the course of the campaign, several controversies arose, with parties being accused by one another and the Election Commission of India of violating the model code of conduct that was in force during the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203386-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh\nThe 2009 Indian general election polls in Andhra Pradesh were held for 42 seats in the state. The major contenders in the polls were the Third Front, Indian National Congress and Praja Rajyam. The assembly elections were held simultaneously with the general elections in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203386-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh\nTelugu Desam Party (TDP) left the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after the losses in 2004, and now joined the Third Front. Telangana Rashtra Samithi who were part of the UPA, in the 2004 election, also now allied with the Third Front. But after voting took place in Andhra Pradesh, and before votes were counted, the TRS joined the NDA. These were the first elections for the movie star Chiranjeevi led Praja Rajyam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203386-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh\nThe results were a repeat of the last election, where the Indian National Congress and the UPA, won 34 out of 42 seats, resulting in a landslide victory. The popularity of Chief Minister Rajasekhar Reddy earned him a landslide victory in the national election and winning his re-election, in the state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203387-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Arunachal Pradesh\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Arunachal Pradesh were held for 2 seats. Indian National Congress won both the seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203388-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Assam\nThe 2009 Indian general election polls in Assam were held for 14 seats in the state. United Progressive Alliance won 7 of the 14 seats, these all 7 seats were won by Congress. The NDAs Bharatiya Janata Party won 4 seats and Asom Gana Parishad won one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203389-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Bihar\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Bihar were held for 40 seats with the state going to polls in the first four phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),Indian National Congress and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203389-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Bihar\nThe results indicated the complete reversal of the last election, where the NDA won this state in a landslide securing 32 out of 40 seats. The victory is mostly credited to the work of Nitish Kumar and JD(U), and this is the only state where the NDA has had the most success since, they were defeated by Congress and allies, in all the other states, leading to their heavy losses for the NDA in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203389-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Bihar\nAfter disagreement with the UPA on seat sharing, Lalu Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal joined hands with Lok Janshakti Party and Ram Vilas Paswan, and joined the Fourth Front, with Samajwadi Party. This move proved to be disastrous, since LJP couldn't win a single seat, and RJD were reduced to 4 seats in the Lok Sabha. After the election Laloo Prasad Yadav, admitted that it was a mistake to leave the UPA, and gave unconditional support to Manmohan Singh and the newly formed UPA government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203390-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Chhattisgarh\nThe 2009 Indian general election polls in Chhattisgarh were held for eleven seats in the state. Ten seats were won by  the Bharatiya Janata Party for the National Democratic Alliance and one by the Indian National Congress for the United Progressive Alliance in first-past-the-post elections. Voting in the state took place on 16 April. The election was marred by Naxalite violence in several of the state's constituencies. Out of approximately 15.4 million eligible voters 55.29 percent exercised their right to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203391-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Delhi\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Delhi, occurred for 7 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203392-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Goa\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Goa, occurred for 2 seats in the state. Both UPA and NDA won one seat each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203393-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Gujarat\nIn the 2009 Indian general election for Gujarat were held for 26 seats in the state. The major two contenders in the state were Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203393-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Gujarat, Voting and Results, Results by Party\nThe Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 15 seats and the Indian National Congress won  11 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203394-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Haryana\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Haryana, occurred for 10 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203395-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Himachal Pradesh were held for 4 seats. Bhartiya Janata Party won 3 seats. While Indian National Congress won 1 seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203396-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir to the 15th Lok Sabha were held for 6 seats. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference won 3 seats. Indian National Congress won 2 and one was won by an Independent politician Hassan Khan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203397-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Jharkhand\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Jharkhand, was held for 14 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203398-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Karnataka\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Karnataka, occurred for 28 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203399-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Kerala\nThe 2009 Indian general election polls in Kerala were held for 20 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203399-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Kerala, Alliances\nUnited Democratic Front (UDF) is a Kerala legislative alliance and is allied to United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Lok Sabha. LDF comprises primarily of CPI(M) and the CPI, forming the Left Front in the national level. National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested in all 20 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203400-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh\nThe 2009 Indian general election for Madhya Pradesh polls were held for 29 seats in the state. The major two contenders in the state were Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC). The BJP was expected to perform well as it had won the assembly elections conducted in the state during November\u2013December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203400-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Madhya Pradesh, Voting and Results\nThe Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 16 seats, Indian National Congress (INC)  12 seats whereas the Bahujan Samaj Party won one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203401-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Maharashtra\nThe Indian general election, 2009 in Maharashtra were held for 48 seats with the state going to polls in the first three phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA). UPA consisted of the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party whereas the NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. The Shiv Sena contested on 22 seats in the state and the BJP over 25 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203401-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Maharashtra\nSimilarly, the NCP contested on 21 seats and the Indian National Congress contested on 25 seats. Other parties in the fray included the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Bahujan Samaj Party which fielded candidates on 47 seats, and the Fourth Front. The MNS which was contesting its first general elections fielded candidates on 11 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Manipur, occurred for 2 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur\nCandidates of the Indian National Congress triumphed in the election to both the Parliamentary constituencies with Dr Thokchom Meinya Singh retaining the Inner seat and Thangso Baite wresting the Outer Parliamentary seat from Mani Charenamei of the People's Democratic Alliance. After completion of counting of votes cast by the electorates of Manipur in the 15th Lok Sabha elections, Dr Meinya defeated his nearest rival Dr Moirangthem Nara Singh of CPI by 40,960 votes with Thangso Baite favoured by 344,517 voters compared to 224,719 votes cast for Charenamei. Thangso Baite's victory margin by 119,798 votes over Charenamei is also more than the figure of defeat suffered by the Congress candidate to the same rival in the previous poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Inner manipur parliamentary Constituency\nOut of the 32 assembly segments in the Inner Manipur Parliamentary constituency, Dr Meinya received maximum mandate of 16,280 votes out of the total strength of 22,726 electors in Andro assembly constituency whereas 16,136 voters of Thoubal AC stamped their approval to the eventual winner. The third highest votes gained by the Congress MP was in Khundrakpam AC where 10,393 voted in his favour. Dr Meinya, who elicited significant support in all the 32 assembly segments got the fewest  2626 votes from the electorates of Singjamei AC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Inner manipur parliamentary Constituency\nThe Congress candidate had won the same parliamentary seat in the previous Lok Sabha election (2004) with a victory margin of a little over 49,000. Dr nara was the nearest rival at that time, too. In the recent hustings, Dr Nara generated fair support in all the assembly segments where the average voting trend was over the 3000 mark with the exception of Nambol AC where he was preferred by only 1618 adults. Maximum number of Nambol electorates favoured former Parliamentarian Thounaojam Chaoba Singh. Chaoba who contested the 15th Lok Sabha election on MPP ticket polled 10,988 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Inner manipur parliamentary Constituency\nThe figure, in his home polling station, was also the most chaoba polled in the election. In spite of being the consensus candidate of a handful of national as well as regional political parties Chaoba finished a distant third tipping the one lakh barrier by only 1787 votes. Out of the total of 199,916 votes polled by Dr Nara, the CPI stalwart received maximum support of Lilong AC electorates with 10,898 from a total of 21,451 votes favouring the former Art and Culture Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0002-0003", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Inner manipur parliamentary Constituency\nMandate of Thongju AC electorates too tilted heavily in favour of Dr Nara with 10,142 votes cast for the CPI nominee out of the total of 18,210. Election to the Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency for the 15th Lok Sabha was held on 22 April with a total of seven candidates in the fray. Former Chief Minister and BJP nominee W Nipamacha, L Kshetrani devi (RBCP), Abdul Rahman (Independent) and N Homendro (Ind) were the other candidates. Dr Meinya also led in all the four districts where franchise for the inner Parliamentary Constituency was conducted. The difference of victory margin between Dr Meinya and Dr Nara was the largest in Imphal East district with 10,298 votes separating the winner and nearest vanquished. On the other hand, Imphal West witnessed the fiercest contest between the two as the difference stood at only 2144 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 939]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency\nOut of 28 assembly segments in the Outer seat, Thangso Baite received mandate of 344,517 voters to represent them in the Parliament. Outer Parliamentary Constituency is also composed of six assembly segments of Thoubal district and Jiribam subdivision of Imphal East district, and Scheduled Tribe assembly segments spread across Tamenglong, Chandel, Ukhrul, Senapati and Churachandpur districts. Thangso, who faltered against Mani Charenamei in the 14th Lok Sabha election by 82,193 votes secured the maximum of 27,516 votes from electorates of Saikul AC against 15,607 for Charenamei in the 15th Lok Sabha election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency\nCompared to his nearest rival, Thangso was least influential among Mao AC electors where only 850 votes were polled for the INC candidate. On the other hand, the sitting MP was heavily favoured by the electors of Chingai AC in Ukhrul district as the maximum of 22,194 votes were cast for the PDA nominee. The least vote Charenamei managed from among the 28 assembly segments was in Sugnu AC under Thoubal district with only 106 voters choosing the PDA candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203402-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Manipur, Details, Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency\nThe INC candidate had substantial lead in 17 of the ACs whereas Charenamei led in eight, LB sona of the Nationalist Congress Party in two and Loli Adanee of the BJP in one. Election for the Outer Manipur Parliamentary (ST) Constituency was held on 16 April with a total of nine candidates in the fray. The other candidates are BJP's D Loli Adanee (93,052), NCP's LB Sona (79,849), RJD's MY Haokip (4859), LJP's Thangkhagin (1252), Valley Rose (Ind/4735), M Rose Haokip (Ind/1128) and L Gangte (Ind/2070).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203403-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Meghalaya\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Meghalaya, occurred for 2 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203404-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Mizoram\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Mizoram, occurred for 1 seat in the state. The only seat, Mizoram (Lok Sabha constituency) was won by C. L. Ruala, an Indian National Congress candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203405-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Nagaland\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Nagaland saw C M Chang of the Nagaland People's Front win the Nagaland's single seat in the Lok Sabha with almost 70% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203406-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Odisha\nThe Indian general election, 2009 in Odisha were held for 21 seats with the state going to the polls in the first two phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the Third Front, Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The third front parties c", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203406-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Odisha\ncontesting in the state were the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Left parties and the Nationalist Congress Party. The assembly elections were held simultaneously with the general elections in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203406-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Odisha\nA few weeks before the elections, seat sharing talks broke down between the BJD and its long-time ally BJP. Then the BJD joined the Third Front. The BJD leader Naveen Patnaik said that he broke the alliance with BJP over the Kandhamal riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203407-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Puducherry\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Puducherry, occurred for 1 seat in the territory. The seat is part of the Puducherry constituency. The UPA, fielded Narayanswamy, of the Indian National Congress, while the Third Front fielded PMK incumbent candidate M. Ramadass. Due to the high Vanniyar population in Puducherry, many expected that it will be a bitter contest, unlike the previous election, when PMK was part of the UPA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203407-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Puducherry\nThe results reflected the general trend shown in Tamil Nadu, where DMK and its alliance UPA, were able to beat its rival ADMK and its allies which are part of the Third Front. The results here also reflects the poor performance of PMK in this election, losing all 7 seats, it contested in Tamil Nadu, as opposed to winning all of its 6 seats in the last election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203408-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Punjab\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Punjab, occurred for 13 seats in the state. Punjab went for the Lok sabha elections in two phases-7 May and 13 May. There were 13 parliament seats from Punjab and the elections were held for 4 seats on 7 May and remaining 9 on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203408-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Punjab, Results\nIndian National Congress got majority of 8 seats. Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party got 4 and 1 seats respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203409-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Rajasthan\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Rajasthan, occurred for 25 seats in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203409-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Rajasthan, Result\nIndian National Congress won 20 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party won 4 seats and remaining 1 seat was won by an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nThe 2009 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu was held for 39 seats in the state. There was a radical change in the alliances in this election compared to the last election, reminiscent of the 1999 election in Tamil Nadu. In this election the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) decided to stay with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), but the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK (breakaway)), and the left parties decided to ally itself with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the newly formed Third Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nAfter counting on 16 May 2009, the results to everyone surprise, showed the DMK and its allies, Indian National Congress and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, winning in a landslide victory, securing 27 out of 39 seats. DMK and its allies were also able to hold on to Pondicherry, which has one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nMany expected, before the election, through opinion polling and voters on the ground, that AIADMK, and its allies, who were formerly with the UPA (PMK, MDMK, Left Front) in 2004, would win in a landslide, but due to the late surge of support for the DMK, and the nationwide support of the UPA government, the DMK and its allies, ended up winning the most seats, and this victory, proved crucial, for Congress to form the government on its own, without the Left Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nM.K. Azhagiri, son of DMK leader Karunanidhi, ran in the Madurai, and won his debut run in national politics. Out of the 24 incumbents from the 2004 Election, who ran again in this election, only 10 incumbents won, with 7 of the members from the DMK and 3 of the members from the Indian National Congress (INC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nEven though it was a big victory for DMK and allies, Congress fared poorly in the state compared to DMK, where cabinet minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who has been in power in Mayiladuturai constituency for 10 years, was defeated and P. Chidambaram, who has been in power in Sivaganga constituency, for past 25 years, lost according to the first counting, and won during the recount, barely winning his constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nEven though the opposition party failed to get more seats than the DMK and its allies, AIADMK, improved its tally to 9 seats, from winning no seats in 2004. But the opposition allies (PMK, MDMK and Left Parties), significantly lost seats compared to the 2004 election, when they allied with DMK. PMK especially lost all 6 of its seats that it got in the last Lok Sabha, coming out as the biggest loser of this election in Tamil Nadu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, Voting and results, Results by Pre-Poll Alliance\n\u2020: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election.\u2021: Vote\u00a0% reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote\u00a0%, reflects the\u00a0% of votes the party received per constituency that they contested. Sources: Election Commission of India", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 92], "content_span": [93, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, List of elected MPs\nSource: Election Commission of India24 Incumbents (7 (DMK), 8 (INC), 5 (PMK), 1 (MDMK), 1 (CPM) from the 2004 Lok Sabha election ran in this election, either for the same constituency, or a different constituency. Since the UPA and the Left Front swept the last election, all of the incumbents were either from UPA or Left Front. 15 of them are now currently running for the UPA, while the other 7 candidates, from PMK, MDMK and CPM, are running for the Third Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, List of elected MPs\n* \u2013 represents incumbents in previous Lok Sabha (2004\u20132009) from Tamil Nadu. a \u2013 Defeated candidate and party represents candidate and party that got the second most votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203410-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu, Ministers of State\n[ 1] \u2013 Due to his involvement with the 2G spectrum allocation case, A. Raja resigned as cabinet minister and MP on 14 November 2010. (See Spectrum Scandal)[2] \u2013 Resigned on 7 July 2011 due to the CBI investigation on his involvement as Telecom minister in 2006. [ 3] \u2013 Resigned on 20 March 2013 as party withdraw from the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 120], "content_span": [121, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203411-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Tripura\nThe 2009 Indian general election in the state of Tripura was held in April with two seats being contested. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) held both seats, receiving a total of 1,084,883 votes with a state-wide share of 61.69%. Congress and the BJP received 31% and 3% of the state-wide vote, respectively, and won no seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203412-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203412-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh\nAfter counting on 16 May 2009, to everyone's surprise, national parties, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, did extremely well, while regional parties, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, did worse than expected. The results showed a split between SP, BSP and INC, leading each of them winning a fair share of seats in the state. The campaigning by Rahul Gandhi proved to be very effective and his decision for Indian National Congress, to go alone in Uttar Pradesh, worked in their favour, since they ended up picking up 21 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203412-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh\nAfter the election, the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to UP BJP leader was, the split of the Muslim votes away from SP to Congress, due to Kalyan Singh supporting the SP and the division of Dalit votes between BSP and Congress, led to success for BJP and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal. This split also benefited Congress, since they were able bag many seats, that are usually won by either SP or BSP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203412-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh, Voting and results, List of elected MPs\nNote that almost all the constituencies here were seriously overhauled afterthe delimitation commission. Hence the results for 2009 reflect a differentdemographic distribution. The winner from 2004 has been reported if theconstituency name is the same, but this may reflect a completely differentbasket of districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 86], "content_span": [87, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203412-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh, Voting and results, List of elected MPs\nSources: Winner 2009 data (first 3 columns): ECI website; Winner 2004 data from 14th Lok Sabha page; sometimes these MPs may have been elected in a later by-election. Margin is from .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 86], "content_span": [87, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203413-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, occurred for 5 seats in the state. All 5 seats were won by the Indian National Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203413-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, By-election\nBy-elections were held in 2012 for Tehri Garhwal constituency as Elected MP Vijay Bahuguna became the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203413-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, By-election\nIn the election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah defeated Saket Bahuguna, son of Vijay Bahuguna by margin of over 22,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203414-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in West Bengal\nThe Indian general election, 2009 in West Bengal were held for 42 seats with the state going to polls in the last three phases of the general elections. There was pre-poll alliance in the state between the Indian National Congress and the Trinamool Congress against the Left Front. Indian National Congress contested on 14 seats across the state whereas the Trinamool Congress contested on 27 seats and SUCI(C) contested one seat. The alliance was largely successful as the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the SUCI(C) won 19, 6 and 1 seat respectively, dislodging the Left Front, which won only 15 seats out of 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203415-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indian general election in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands\nThe 2009 Indian general election in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, occurred for 1 seat in the state. BJP candidate Bishnu Pada Ray won the election from the only seat. Ray defeated Congress candidate Kuldeep Rai Sharma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203416-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indiana Fever season\nThe 2009 Indiana Fever season was their 10th season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Fever attempted to advance to the WNBA Playoffs for the fifth consecutive season and were successful. The Fever reached their first WNBA Finals, but fell short in 5 games to the Phoenix Mercury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203416-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indiana Fever season, Offseason, Dispersal draft\nBased on the Fever's 2008 record, they would pick 6th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Fever picked Erica White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203416-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indiana Fever season, Offseason, WNBA draft\nThe following are the Fever's selections in the 2009 WNBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203417-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 2009 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hoosiers were led by Bill Lynch, who was in his third season as head coach. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers finished the season 4\u20138 (1\u20137 Big Ten).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500\nThe 93rd Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday May 24, 2009. It was the 14th Indy 500 sanctioned by the Indy Racing League, and the premier event of the 2009 IndyCar Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500\nH\u00e9lio Castroneves, a native of Brazil, won the race from the pole position, his third of four Indy 500 victories. He became the first foreign-born three-time winner of the race, and tied a record by winning the race three times in the same decade (2001, 2002, 2009). The win was car owner Roger Penske's 15th Indy 500 triumph, extending his team's own record. Former winner Dan Wheldon of England came second, with Danica Patrick third, the best finish ever by a female driver. There were eight crashes, with V\u00edtor Meira and Tony Kanaan both suffering non-permanent injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500\nThe 2009 Indianapolis 500 began a three-year Centennial Era celebration which marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the first Indy 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500\nThe victory by Castroneves marked the milestone 60th Indianapolis 500 victory for Firestone. It came less than two months after Castroneves was acquitted of federal charges of tax evasion and conspiracy. The IRS filed the charges against Castroneves in the fall of 2008, and the trial was held in March 2009 at the U.S. District Court in Miami. A guilty verdict in the trial would have likely sent Castroneves to prison, and ended his driving career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Schedule\n* Includes days where track activitywas significantly limited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Entry list\nThe official entry list was released April 20. The initial list includes 77 cars for 40 entries. 32 driver\u2013car combinations have already been announced, as of Monday, May 4. Among the participants include five former winners (Lazier, Castroneves, Wheldon, Franchitti, Dixon), and six rookies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Entry list\nPaul Tracy, the runner-up of the controversial 2002 race, returned for the first time since that race, and Scott Sharp also returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Time trials \u2013 Weekend 2, Sunday May 17 \u2013 Bump day\nShortly before midnight on May 17, Conquest Racing announced that Alex Tagliani, who had failed to qualify, would replace Bruno Junqueira in the No. 36 car. Because of the replacement, the car was moved to the last spot in the starting grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Carb Day, Pit Stop Contest\nTeam Penske won the 32nd annual pit stop contest, their record tenth overall victory in the event. The teams of H\u00e9lio Castroneves and Marco Andretti met in the finals with Castroneves and his chief mechanic Rick Rinaman winning the $40,000 first prize after a 7.962-second pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Carb Day, Pit Stop Contest, Qualification round\nNote: Positions 5\u20138 are eliminated from the competition. Positions 3\u20134 advance to the quarterfinals. Positions 1\u20132 received a bye for the quarterfinals, and advanced directly to the semi-finals. Ryan Briscoe and Graham Rahal were randomly selected to bypass the qualifying round and advance directly to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 70], "content_span": [71, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nThe green flag was waved off on the first attempt after H\u00e9lio Castroneves hit the accelerator in the middle of turn four and the field did not maintain its traditional three-row lineup. The second attempt, although similar in formation, was given the green flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nDuring the first lap entering the first short chute, Mario Moraes squeezed Marco Andretti into the wall, crashing both drivers out. Both drivers were out, but Andretti returned briefly later in the race. Moraes held the view that Andretti ran into him, and both drivers expressed their frustration to the TV crews. Andretti said that Moraes is \"clueless,\" while Moraes believed that Andretti checked down on him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nRyan Hunter-Reay also had a crash on lap 20 which saw his car slide into the pit lane. This capped a brutal month of May for the Vision Racing driver, in which his car never seemed to get up to speed, and he barely even made the 500 field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nGraham Rahal and Davey Hamilton had similar crashes on laps 56 and 83 respectively. Both slowed their cars between turns 3 and 4, drifted up the track, and hit the wall on the front straightaway. Rahal had a similar crash in the 2008 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nOn lap 98, while running third Tony Kanaan suffered a driveshaft failure while at speed in the back stretch, pitching his car into the wall. Kanaan's steering was largely incapacitated and the Brazilian bounced off the backstretch wall and then hit the turn 3 wall. In television interviews, Kanaan appeared visibly shaken. The next day, Tony stated the hit was recorded at 175 G's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nDuring the first half of the 200-lap event, Scott Dixon, Castroneves and Dario Franchitti swapped the lead with the Dixon\u2013Franchitti Target Chip Ganassi team leading much of the laps. Dixon led laps 91 through 141, with Franchitti close behind to protect him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nDrivers Robert Doornbos, Nelson Philippe, and Justin Wilson, all former Champ Car World Series race winners, had incidents in the middle-to-late stages of the race that ended their respective days. Under the caution for the Philippe incident, Franchitti's fueler got stuck in his car, causing him to lose track position. With nobody to block for him, Dixon was powerless on the restart to stop Castroneves from passing him. The Penske Dallara-Honda cleared Dixon before the cars even entered turn 1. It turned out to be the winning pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nThe scariest incident of the day occurred on lap 173, when V\u00edtor Meira and Raphael Matos collided in turn 1. Both had heavy contact with the wall. Meira's car also flipped on its side and slid along the wall for hundreds of feet before falling back to all four wheels on the track. Meira was taken to Methodist hospital after the incident. Meira broke two vertebrae in his back and spent the next two days in the hospital being fitted for a back brace. Matos suffered a bruised right knee in the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nRyan Briscoe had fallen back to the middle of the pack with a bad set of tires, but short-fueled in a late round of pit stops to claim second place, behind teammate Castroneves. Eventually Briscoe attempted to take the lead, with the intention of pulling Castroneves along, in order to help the Brazilian save fuel by using the draft. However, he had to pit during the Meira\u2013Matos caution and was never a factor to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nIn the final 15 laps, Castroneves maintained a gap over Dan Wheldon, Danica Patrick and Townsend Bell. Castroneves and Wheldon kept similar lap speeds of 218\u00a0mph through the last 15 laps, but with a gap of roughly eight car lengths and Patrick on his tail, Wheldon could not catch the pole-sitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race\nCastroneves won the event as his sister, Kati, and mother celebrated. The driver and his crew engaged in his traditional victory celebration, climbing the frontstretch catch fence, to the delight of the crowd. It was his third career Indianapolis 500 victory, with the others coming in 2001 and 2002. He is the sixth driver to win three 500s and the first foreign-born driver to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Race, Race results\nAll cars utilized Dallara chassis, Honda engines, and Firestone Firehawk tires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe race was televised in high definition in the United States on ABC, the 45th consecutive year on that network. ABC Sports signed a four-year extension to continue covering the Indianapolis 500 through 2012. Marty Reid served as anchor for the fourth year. For the fourth time, the telecast utilized the Side-by-Side format for commercial breaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nTime trials and Carb Day were shown live in high definition on Versus, part of a new ten-year contract with the network and the Indy Racing League. Bob Jenkins served as anchor, along with Robbie Buhl and Jon Beekhuis as analysts. Jack Arute, Robbie Floyd, and Lindy Thackston covered the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was broadcast on radio by the IMS Radio Network. Mike King served as anchor. For the first time, three living \"Voices of the 500\" joined together to offer commentary during the pre-race. King, Paul Page, and Bob Jenkins recollected their experiences on network. Page remained in the booth to offer commentary and observations throughout the race. Jenkins, who had returned as a turn reporter in 2007-2008, was unable to serve during the race due to his commitments with Versus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nJake Query moved from the pits to take the turn two location. For 2009, there were only three regular pit reporters, but they were joined by Dave Wilson, who moved from the booth to cover the garage area and infield hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nFor 2009, as a gesture to the Centennial Era, a special change was made for the famous out-cue \"Stay tuned for the greatest spectacle in racing.\" The out-cues for each commercial break were recordings of previous renditions by the former \"Voices of the 500.\" Each commercial break would feature a different chief announcer, rotating through Sid Collins, Paul Page, Lou Palmer, Bob Jenkins, and Mike King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nChief Announcer: Mike KingDriver expert: Johnny ParsonsHistorian: Donald DavidsonLive in-car reports: Davey HamiltonCommentary: Paul PageCommentary: Bob Jenkins", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: Jerry BakerTurn 2: Jake QueryTurn 3: Mark JaynesTurn 4: Chris Denari", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203418-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nDave Argabright (north pits)Kevin Olson (center pits)Kevin Lee (south pits)Dave Wilson (garages)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season\nThe 2009 Indianapolis Colts season was the franchise's 57th season in the National Football League and the 26th in Indianapolis. It was the first season since 2001 that the Colts did not have Tony Dungy on their coaching staff, due to his retirement from coaching. The 2009 Indianapolis Colts improved upon their 12\u20134 record from 2008 as well as winning their sixth AFC South division championship in seven years with a 14\u20132 record. The Colts also clinched the top seed in the AFC. The Colts were the sole undefeated team after Week 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season\nThe following week, the Colts lost to the New York Jets after benching their starters. The Colts were aiming to end their three-year Super Bowl drought. During the playoffs, the Colts defeated the Baltimore Ravens in the divisional round and the New York Jets in the AFC Championship game and represented the AFC in Super Bowl XLIV. The 14\u20132 Colts lost to the 13\u20133 New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV, 31\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Offseason, Head coach announcement\nOn January 12, 2009, Head Coach Tony Dungy announced his retirement from coaching in the National Football League. Two days later, then-Assistant Head Coach and Quarterbacks Coach Jim Caldwell was formally announced as Dungy's successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win the Colts started out the season 1\u20130 and improved their regular season winning streak to 9 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Miami Dolphins\nWith the win, not only did the Colts improve to 2\u20130, but Peyton Manning's 119th career victory would surpass Johnny Unitas for the most quarterback wins in franchise history. The win also helped the Colts' improved their winning streak to 10 games in the regular season. The Colts' offense would make the most of its time on the field, as they were only in the game for 14:53.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Arizona Cardinals\nWith the win the Colts improved to 3\u20130 and their regular season winning streak to 11 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nWith the win, the Colts improved to 4\u20130 and made their record 12 straight regular season games. Colts QB Peyton Manning would tie Fran Tarkenton for the third\u2013most career touchdown passes in NFL history (342), behind only Brett Favre and Dan Marino. Also, Colts head coach Jim Caldwell would become the franchise's first rookie head coach since Lindy Infante in 1996 to win their first four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Tennessee Titans\nWith the win the Colts improved to 5\u20130 into their bye week and increased their winning streak to 13 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 7: at St. Louis Rams\nComing off their bye week, the Colts flew to the Edward Jones Dome for a Week 7 interconference duel with the St. Louis Rams. Indianapolis came out of the gates early in the first quarter as quarterback Peyton Manning completed a six-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne. The Rams would respond with a 30-yard field goal from kicker Josh Brown, yet the Colts answered with Manning hooking up with tight end Dallas Clark on a 22-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, running back Joseph Addai would acquire the only score of the second quarter with a six-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 7: at St. Louis Rams\nSt. Louis would begin the third quarter with Brown booting a 45-yard field goal, yet Indianapolis calmly responded with rookie cornerback Jacob Lacey returning an interception 35 yards for a touchdown. Afterwards, the Colts closed out the game with Manning finding rookie wide receiver Austin Collie on an eight-yard touchdown pass and running back Chad Simpson getting a 31-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 7: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, Indianapolis improved to 6\u20130 and increased their winning streak to 14 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Colts began three straight home games in Week 8 with an interconference duel against the San Francisco 49ers. Indianapolis would find themselves trailing in the first quarter as 49ers running back Frank Gore got a 64-yard touchdown run. The Colts answered with kicker Matt Stover getting a 38-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Indianapolis crept closer as Stover made a 33-yard field goal, yet San Francisco answered with quarterback Alex Smith completing an eight-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis. The Colts closed out the half with a 31-yard field goal from Stover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nIn the second half, Indianapolis narrowed San Francisco's lead to two as Stover booted a 40-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, they executed a halfback option play as running back Joseph Addai's threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne. Afterwards, the defense held off against the various comeback attempts from the 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nWith the win, the Colts improved to 7\u20130 for the fourth time in five seasons and they set a franchise record with 15 consecutive regular season wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nAlso, quarterback Peyton Manning (31/48 for 347 yards) joined Dan Marino, Brett Favre, and John Elway as the only players in NFL history to complete 4,000 career passes. In addition, he became the fastest to reach the milestone as he reached it in 183 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nComing off their win over the 49ers, the Colts stayed at home for a Week 9 AFC South duel with the Houston Texans. Indianapolis would get off to a fast start in the first quarter as quarterback Peyton Manning completed a seven-yard touchdown pass to running back Joseph Addai, followed by kicker Matt Stover nailing a 22-yard field goal. The Colts would add onto their lead in the second quarter as Stover booted a 37-yard field goal, while the Texans would close out the half with a 56-yard field goal from kicker Kris Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nIn the third quarter, Houston began to rally as quarterback Matt Schaub found running back Ryan Moats on a one-yard touchdown pass. The Texans would take the lead in the fourth quarter with a one-yard touchdown run from running back Steve Slaton, yet Indianapolis regained the lead with Addai's two-yard touchdown run. The Texans attempted to force the game into overtime with a 42-yard field goal attempt, which went wide left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nWith the win, the Colts improved to 8\u20130 for the third time in five seasons as well as increasing their winning streak to 16 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nPeyton Manning (34/50 for 318 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) would become the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 40,000 yards in one decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Houston Texans\nJim Caldwell would become the first rookie head coach to start 8\u20130 since Potsy Clark in 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots set up for their rivalry game at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts came in at 8\u20130 while the Patriots came in 6\u20132, both shooting for home field advantage during the playoffs. The Colts struck first with a 15-yard pass from Manning to Addai. However New England answered with 24 unanswered points in the first and second quarter. The Colts finally got back into the game with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Wayne towards the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. New England Patriots\nThe third quarter was scoreless with the Colts still trailing by 10, but the Patriots started the fourth with a touchdown pass to Randy Moss with the Patriots now leading 31\u201314. The Colts came back quickly scoring a touchdown, making it 31\u201321. After a New England field goal, the Colts scored a touchdown on an Addai run. The Patriots were still in the lead 34\u201328, however the Colts were hot with Peyton Manning ready to lead them to a win if the defense could hold the Patriot offense for one more drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. New England Patriots\nWith less the two and a half minutes remaining in the game, the New England Patriots were faced with a fourth and two on their own 28-yard line. Bill Belichick decided to go for it on a controversial play, where Brady threw to Kevin Faulk, who gained control of the ball behind the first down marker, forcing the Patriots to turn the ball over on downs. Having wasted their last time out on the preceding play and the play occurring before the two-minute warning, the Patriots couldn't challenge the ruling on the field. With a minute left Peyton Manning found Reggie Wayne for the touchdown to seal a 35\u201334 victory over the Patriots as the team improved to 9\u20130 and their winning streak continued with 17 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Baltimore Ravens\nFollowing their comeback win over the Patriots, the Colts flew to M&T Bank Stadium for a Week 11 duel with the Baltimore Ravens. In the first quarter, Indianapolis got on the board first with quarterback Peyton Manning passing to tight end Dallas Clark for a three-yard touchdown. Baltimore would respond as kicker Billy Cundiff made a 46-yard and a 44-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Ravens took the lead with Cundiff nailing a 38-yard field goal, until the Colts came right back when running back Joseph Addai's five-yard touchdown run. The Ravens would close out the half with Cundiff booting a 36-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Baltimore Ravens\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Cundiff's 20-yard field goal gave the Ravens the lead again in the fourth quarter. Fortunately, Indianapolis would regain the lead again as former Baltimore kicker Matt Stover booted a 20-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Baltimore Ravens\nWith the win, the Colts would improve to 10\u20130, which includes a franchise-best nine-straight road win dating back to last season well as 18 straight wins overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Baltimore Ravens\nDallas Clark (1 reception for 3 yards and 1 TD) would break John Mackey's record for the most receptions by a Colts tight end with 321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Houston Texans\nComing off their road win against the Ravens, the Colts flew to Reliant Stadium for an AFC South showdown with the Texans, their second meeting of the season. Houston dominated throughout the first half, scoring 17 points. The Colts took over from there, scoring 35 points, one of which was an interception returned 27 yards by Clint Session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Houston Texans\nWith the win, the Colts went to 11\u20130and their winning streak improved to 19 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Houston Texans\nAlso, with the win and Jacksonville's loss to San Francisco, the Colts clinched the AFC South division title, the first team to clinch a playoff berth this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Tennessee Titans\nComing off their come-from-behind road win against Houston, the Colts went home for a divisional duel with the 5\u20136 Tennessee Titans. Indianapolis started off the scoring with an eight-yard run from Joseph Addai. The Titans came back with a 20-yard field goal by Rob Bironas. Indianapolis struck again in the second quarter on another Joseph Addai run, then again on a four-yard pass to Austin Collie. The Titans would hit paydirt next with 0:20 left in the half, but Indianapolis would close out the first half with a 43-yard field goal by Matt Stover. After a scoreless third quarter, the Colts would strike next on another field goal, this time from 36 yards. The Titans scored again on a 17-yard pass to Bo Scaife. The Titans regained possession on an onside kick, but the Colts Defense kept the Titans from scoring again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 77], "content_span": [78, 903]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 13: vs. Tennessee Titans\nAlso with the win, the Colts tied the 2006\u20132008 Patriots record for most consecutive regular season wins with 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 77], "content_span": [78, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Colts improved their season record to 13\u20130 and broke the 2006\u20132008 Patriots record for most consecutive regular season wins with 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win the Colts improved to 14\u20130 and their winning streak improved to 23. Also, with the Saints' loss the Colts became the NFL's only undefeated team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Colts also became the first team since the 2007 Patriots to start a season at 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. New York Jets\nWith this loss, the Colts ended their perfect season run and had a record of 14\u20131 heading into the last week of the regular season. The Colts also ended their 23\u2013game regular season winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Buffalo Bills\nWith the loss, the Colts finished the season with a league-best 14-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, AFC Divisional vs. Baltimore Ravens\nEntering the postseason as the AFC's #1 seed, the Colts began their playoff run at home in the AFC Divisional Round against the #6 Baltimore Ravens. Indianapolis would open the first quarter with a 44-yard field goal from former Ravens kicker Matt Stover. Baltimore would reply with a 25-yard field goal from kicker Billy Cundiff. In the second quarter, the Colts would deliver a big punch as quarterback Peyton Manning hooked up with rookie wide receiver Austin Collie on a 10-yard touchdown pass and then found wide receiver Reggie Wayne on a three-yard touchdown pass. After a scoreless third quarter, Indianapolis would add onto their lead with Stover's 33-yard field goal. From there, the defense kept forcing turnovers to prevail. Manning ended up yelling at Donald Brown during a play at the beginning of the fourth quarter, which became a meme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 932]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, AFC Championship vs. New York Jets\nComing off their divisional win over the Ravens, the Colts would stay at home for the AFC Championship Game against the #5 New York Jets. After a scoreless first quarter, Indianapolis would begin the second quarter with a 25-yard field goal from kicker Matt Stover. However, the Jets responded with quarterback Mark Sanchez completing an 80-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Braylon Edwards. The Colts would come right back with Stover's 19-yard field goal, but New York answered with Sanchez's nine-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dustin Keller, followed by kicker Jay Feely making a 48-yard field goal. Fortunately, Indianapolis would strike back as quarterback Peyton Manning found rookie wide receiver Austin Collie on a 16-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, AFC Championship vs. New York Jets\nThe Colts would take the lead in the third quarter with Manning hooking up with wide receiver Pierre Gar\u00e7on on a four-yard touchdown pass. Indianapolis would add onto their lead in the fourth quarter as Manning hooked up with tight end Dallas Clark on a 15-yard touchdown pass, followed by Stover's 21-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, AFC Championship vs. New York Jets\nWith the win, not only did the Colts improve their overall record to 16\u20132, but they would advance to their second Super Bowl in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, AFC Championship vs. New York Jets\nThe game served as Peyton Manning's last playoff win as a Colt and the team's last playoff win until their comeback win at home against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Wildcard Round of the 2013 playoffs. This would serve as the team's last appearance in the AFC Championship Game until the 2014 playoffs. Manning would win his next playoff game in the Divisional Round of the 2013 playoffs as a member of the Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, Super Bowl XLIV vs. New Orleans Saints\nAfter the coin toss, the Saints wanted the ball first; however, this didn't help their first drive. The Colts drove the ball down the field with an attempt to score the first touchdown but was denied and forced Matt Stover to kick a 38-yard goal. But the Colts were not finished: on their next possession, Pierre Gar\u00e7on caught a 19-yard TD pass from Peyton Manning, and the Colts led 10\u20130 after fifteen minutes. In the second quarter, the Saints were forced to look upon Garrett Hartley for two field goals \u2013 a 46 yarder and a 44 yarder respectively \u2013 and the deficit was reduced to four points by halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, Super Bowl XLIV vs. New Orleans Saints\nKicking off the second half, the Saints caught Indy by surprise with the \"Ambush\" play (an onside kick in kickoff formation), which the Saints recovered, shifting the momentum to them. Pierre Thomas caught a 16-yard screen pass from Drew Brees and NO had their first lead of the game, 13\u201310 after the extra point. The Colts would not be denied from scoring again with the rushing attack of Joseph Addai, capping off the scoring drive with a 4-yard run. From here, however, the Colts would be denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Postseason, Super Bowl XLIV vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints still stood by Hartley to keep the game close with a 47-yard field goal, taking the score to 17\u201316. In the fourth quarter, Jeremy Shockey caught a two-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees with Lance Moore catching a two-point conversion and the Saints led 24\u201317. In the end, it was the defense that came through when Tracy Porter intercepted and returned 74 yards for a touchdown to seal the win and the first Super Bowl title for the New Orleans Saints in their 44-year existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Criticism\nIn week 16, the Indianapolis Colts faced off against the New York Jets with an undefeated record of 14\u20130, having already clinched home\u2013field advantage throughout the playoffs. In the third quarter with a 15\u201310 lead, head coach Jim Caldwell benched Peyton Manning for Curtis Painter. The Jets forced Painter to fumble, then recovered it for a touchdown and turned into an 18\u201315 lead. Indianapolis never recovered, never put Manning into the game, and lost 29\u201315, ending the Colts' chance at an undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203419-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Colts season, Criticism\nManning's reaction was, \"Until any player in here is the head coach, you follow orders and you follow them with all of your heart.\" On fans' reaction to the game, Jeff Saturday stated,  \"I don't blame them a bit, man.. I probably would have booed, too. I don't blame them. They pay to come see us win games, and we didn't get it done.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203420-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships (also known as the Indianapolis Tennis Championships presented by Lilly for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition of the event known that year as the Indianapolis Tennis Championships and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, from July 20 through July 26, 2009. The Indianapolis Tennis Championships was the first ATP stop of the 2009 US Open Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203420-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203420-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships, Champions, Doubles\nErnests Gulbis /  Dmitry Tursunov def. Ashley Fisher /  Jordan Kerr, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203421-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nAshley Fisher and Tripp Phillips were the defending champions, but Phillips chose not to participate, and only Fisher competed that year. Fisher partnered with Jordan Kerr, but lost in the final to Ernests Gulbis and Dmitry Tursunov,  6\u20134, 3\u20136, [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203422-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nGilles Simon was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203422-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nRobby Ginepri won in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against Sam Querrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203423-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Indianapolis Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of August 28\u201330, 2009 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The MotoGP race was won by Jorge Lorenzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203423-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203424-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Ice Racing World Championship\nThe 2009 FIM Ice Speedway World Championship was the 2009 version of FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship season. The world champion was determined by eight races hosted in four cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203425-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe 2009 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship was the 39th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203425-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe world title was won by Gerd Riss of Germany for the eighth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203426-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway European Championship\nThe 2009 Individual European Championship will be the 9th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship season. The final took place on 23 August, 2009 in Tolyatti, Russia. The championship was won by Renat Gafurov (Russia), who beat Andriej Karpov (Ukraine) and Ale\u0161 Dryml, Jr. (Czech Republic) in Run-Off. The defending champion, Matej \u017dagar, lost in Semi-Final 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203426-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway European Championship, Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203427-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship\nThe 2009 European Individual Speedway Junior Championship will be the 12th UEM Individual Speedway Junior European Championship season. The Final will be place on 11 July 2009 in Tarn\u00f3w, Poland; it will be fourth Final in Poland, but first time in Tarn\u00f3w. Defending European Champion is Artur Mroczka from Poland who won in 2008 Final in Stralsund, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203427-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship, Domestic Qualifications, Poland\nThe Final of Domestic Qualification to Individual Junior European Championship (Polish: Fina\u0142 krajowych eliminacji do Indywidualnych Mistrzostw Europy Junior\u00f3w) was canceled. Main Commission of Speedway Sport (part of Polish Motor Union) nominated seven riders and one reserve:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203427-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship, Final, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203428-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship\nThe 2008 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship (Polish: M\u0142odzie\u017cowe Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, MIMP) is the 2009 version of Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on 7 August 2009 at Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno. The Championships was won by Patryk Dudek who beat S\u0142awomir Musielak and Dawid Lampart. The defending Champion, Maciej Janowski, finished eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203428-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship, Qualifying Rounds, Ostr\u00f3w Wlkp.\nNo . 17 Karol Sroka (OST) and No. 18 Adrian Osm\u00f3lski (CZE) did not started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 84], "content_span": [85, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203428-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship, Final, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship\nThe 2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 33rd edition of the FIM World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship\nThe final took place on 4 October, 2009, in Gori\u010dan, Croatia. It was first final to be held in the Balkans and the Championship was won by Australian rider Darcy Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Domestic Qualifications\nDeutscher Motor Sport Bund nominated eight riders and two track reserve in February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Domestic Qualifications, Czech Republic\nAutoklub of the Czech Republic nominated five riders in October 2008: Filip \u0160itera, Mat\u011bj K\u016fs, Martin Gavenda, Michael H\u00e1dek and Jan Holub III. A sixth rider will be nominated in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 91], "content_span": [92, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Domestic Qualifications, Poland\n32 riders to Domestic Semi-Finals was nominated by Main Commission of Speedway Sport. Semi-Finals took place on 17 April in Pozna\u0144 and Rzesz\u00f3w. The top eight riders from each Domestic Semi-Finals will qualify for the Domestic Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Semi-Finals, Miskolc\nTai Woffinden (No 3 in SF-2) was nominated as track reserve at British Grand Prix (27 June). Woffinden and Kildemand (No 16 in SF-1) were changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203429-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203430-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Polish Championship\nThe 2009 Individual Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP) was the 2009 version of Individual Speedway Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The defending Champion esd Adam Sk\u00f3rnicki, who finished sixth. The Final took place on 25 July 2009 at MotoArena Toru\u0144 in Toru\u0144. The Final was won by Tomasz Gollob, who beat Krzysztof Kasprzak and Janusz Ko\u0142odziej. It was eight title for Gollob.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203430-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Polish Championship, Semi-Finals\n2009 Speedway Grand Prix permanent riders and the top 8 riders from 2008 Individual Polish Championship Final are expected to participate in the Semi-Finals:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203430-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Individual Speedway Polish Championship, Final, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203431-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesia National Badminton Championship\nThe 2009 Indonesia National Badminton Championships were held due to schedule difficulties finally in January 2010 in Surabaya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203432-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesia Super League U-21 Final\nThe 2008\u201309 Indonesia Super League U-21 Final was a football match which was played on 20 May 2009. It was the 1st final of the Indonesia Super League U-21. The match was played at the Jalak Harupat Stadium in Soreang, Bandung Regency and was contested by Persita U-21 of Tangerang and Pelita Jaya U-21 from Karawang. Pelita U-21 and Persita U-21 was a debutant of the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203433-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesia Super Series\nThe 2009 Indonesia Open Superseries was the sixth tournament of 2009 BWF Superseries badminton tournament. It was held from June 16 to June 21, 2009 in Indonesia. Bolded names below indicate champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203434-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesia national football team results\nThis article details the fixtures and results of the Indonesia national football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203435-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash\nOn 6 April 2009, a Fokker F27-400M Troopship of the Indonesian Air Force crashed into a hangar at Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Witnesses stated that lightning struck the aircraft before the crash. The aircraft was carrying 18 passengers and 6 crew when it crashed. There were no survivors among the 24 people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203435-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash, Flight\nThe aircraft took off at 08:40 WIB from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta. The aircraft later landed at Husein Sastranegara International Airport in Bandung at 09:00. Two sessions of parachute jumps from the aircraft were planned. The first session occurred at 09:30 for 17 parachutists, all jumped safely. Seventeen parachutists and an instructor were on board the aircraft for the second session at 12:36. However, the flight crew was aware that the weather in the airport were deteriorating, deciding to return to base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203435-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash, Flight\nThe aircraft was hit by lightning, nose dived and crashed into the hangar, killing everyone on board. Rescue teams found that all of the victims had suffered extreme injuries, making identification difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203435-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash, Flight\nBecause the accident occurred at lunch time, the hangar was relatively empty and nobody on the ground was injured. However, the F27 impacted four aircraft inside the hangar: a NC-212 and a Boeing 737 belonging to Batavia Air, seriously damaging both; an Adam Air Boeing 737 and an Indonesian Aerospace CN-235 received minor damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203436-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash\nOn 20 May 2009, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed L-100-30(P) Hercules was carrying 112 people (98 passengers and 14 crew) and crashed at about 6:30 local time (23:30 UTC), while flying from Jakarta to eastern Java. The crash resulted in 99 deaths, 2 of which occurred on impact when the aircraft struck at least four houses before skidding into a rice paddy, in the village of Geplak. and at least 70 others were taken to a local hospital. Authorities believe that there is still 1 missing body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203436-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash\nThe airplane, a civilian Lockheed L-100-30(P) version of the C-130 Hercules, registration A-1325 had been on a normal flight transporting military personnel and their families from Jakarta to a military base in eastern Java. The plane was attempting to land at Iswahyudi Air Force Base, but instead crashed about 5.5 kilometres (3.4\u00a0mi) northwest of the north end of the runway, bursting into flames upon impact. Flying conditions were good and the weather was clear at the time of the crash. The cause of the accident has not yet been determined, and the investigation is still in a preliminary state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203437-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Community Shield\nThe 2009 Indonesian Community Shield was the inaugural edition of the Indonesian Community Shield. It was a match played by the 2008-09 Indonesia Super League winners Persipura Jayapura and 2008-09 Copa Indonesia winners Sriwijaya FC. It took place on 7 October 2009 at the Andi Mattalatta Stadium in Makassar, Indonesia. Persipura won the match 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203438-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Movie Awards\nThe 3rd Annual Indonesian Movie Awards was held on May 15, 2009, at the Tennis Indoor Senayan, Central Jakarta. The award show was hosted by Luna Maya, Ruben Onsu, and Raffi Ahmad. And the nominations have been announced for the category of Favorite, which will be chosen by the public via SMS. As for the category of Best, will be selected by a jury that has been appointed. For the category which contested are the same as last year's celebration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203438-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Movie Awards\nSelection of winners for all categories of Best determined by the jury consisting of Ratna Riantiarno, Niniek L. Karim, Didi Petet, El Manik, Darwis Triadi, and Jajang C. Noer. While the category of Favorite, determined based on SMS polling majority of public. Of the 42 films were registered following the 2009 of celebration, only 16 film titles were entered into nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203438-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian Movie Awards\nLaskar Pelangi and Perempuan Berkalung Sorban is the film with the most awards this year, respectively taking home five and four awards. Gara-Gara Bola won two awards, and other films taking home one award each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Indonesia on 9 April 2009 for 132 seats of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) and 560 seats of the People's Representative Council (DPR). A total of 38 parties met the requirements to be allowed to participate in the national elections, with a further six contesting in Aceh only. The Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the largest share of the vote, followed by the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party \u2013 Struggle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Background\nOn 5 October 2004, three regencies were carved out of the province of South Sulawesi to form West Sulawesi as the 33rd province of Indonesia. Because this occurred after the 2004 legislative election, West Sulawesi was not represented in the DPD during the 2004\u20132009 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Background\nThere were talks on increasing the number of seats in the DPR as early as September 2007. In a meeting of a committee to draft changes to the Constitution, various factions within the government proposed an increase to between 560 and 600 seats total. On 18 February 2008, the committee agreed on a 10-seat increase in the council to 560 total seats in order to accommodate for the new province of West Sulawesi and population increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Schedule\nUnder General Election Commission (KPU) Regulation No. 20/2008, the first phase of the election was finalising the list of voters. This was completed on 24 October 2008 with 170,022,239 people announced as eligible voters. However, a month later, the KPU announced that due to errors in entering data, and after eliminating multiple counting, the final total was 171,068,667, including 1,509,892 overseas voters. It changed the final count once again on 12 March 2009 to 171,265,442 national and overseas voters after investigating allegations of voters left unregistered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Schedule\nThe election campaign began on 12 July 2008 and ran until 5 April 2009, followed by a \"quiet period\" of three days, during which all election posters, banners and other materials had to be removed from public places. However, TV advertising was permitted to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Schedule\nThe legislative election took place on 9 April, and results were announced one month later. The new members of the DPD and the DPR will be sworn in on 1 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Parties\nOver 60 parties registered for the elections, but only 34 originally met the eligibility requirements. However, on 15 August 2008, following a successful legal challenge, another four parties were permitted to join the contest, making 38 in total. A total of 11,219 candidates vied for seats in the DPR, and 1,116 candidates vied for seats in the DPD. Among the requirements for parties is that 30% of candidates are women. The Constitutional Court also lifted the restriction on former members of the Indonesian Communist Party to stand as candidates in the legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Parties\nOnly parties or coalitions of parties tallying 25% of the national vote or winning 112 seats (20%) in the 560-member DPR may nominate a candidate in the presidential election to be held in July 2009. The introduction of a parliamentary threshold also meant that only parties receiving more than 2.5% of the popular vote would be seated in the DPR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign\nAlthough the election campaign began on 12 July 2008, before 16 March, it was limited to invitation-only meetings, advertisements in the media and the distribution of campaign materials. The public campaign ran until 5 April 2009. Participants in the campaign were banned from calling into question the ideological or constitutional basis of the state as well as its form as a unitary republic. Campaign donations for DPR candidates were limited to one billion Indonesian rupiah from individuals and Rp5 billion from organisations, while the corresponding limits for DPD candidates were Rp250 million from individuals and Rp500 million from organisations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign\nIn contrast to previous parliamentary elections that were closed list, Indonesia instituted an open list system for this election. Individuals campaigned not only as members of their political party but also on their own merits, and some who were not listed at the top of the party's list won seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Controversies\nThe introduction of a parliamentary threshold rule met objections from smaller political parties. By limiting seating in the DPR to parties receiving 2.5% of the popular vote, smaller parties would be at a disadvantage. A request filed by 11 parties to review the rule was rejected by the Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Controversies\nOn 28 April, lawmakers from six parties in the DPR submitted a formal proposal to investigate negligence and discrimination during voter registration as the KPU continued to dismiss challenges to results of its vote count. The KPU also requested that any investigation by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on the failure of the Rp40 billion (US$3.68 million) electronic vote-counting system to be postponed until after presidential elections in July. Despite these allegations, the Constitutional Court declined to open hearing to disputes regarding the voter list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Controversies\nAn investigation by the country's National Commission on Human Rights estimated that between 25 and 40% of eligible voters were not able to exercise their constitutional right to vote during the legislative elections. The commission's report pointed out weaknesses in the organisational structure of the KPU and the lack of a budgetary policy for organising elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Controversies\nIn order to continue updating the voter registration list for the July presidential election, the Ministry of Finance provided the KPU with an additional Rp19.34 billion (US$1.9 million) in funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Election day\nPolling stations were scheduled to open at 7\u00a0am and to remain open until noon local time on 9 April. However, several stations experienced delays with the opening time and had to extend polling hours in order to accommodate voters who had not yet cast their ballots. Each polling station was scheduled to begin counting election results at noon local time and report them to the KPU. Ballot counting continued until 9 May, when the KPU would certify its results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Election day\nIn Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam eight international organisations observed the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Coalition talks\nPreliminary results indicated that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party led the popular vote over Golkar, the party of incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and the Indonesian Democratic Party \u2013 Struggle of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Coalition talks\nIt initially appeared that Golkar would enter into a coalition with the Indonesian Democratic Party \u2013 Struggle to challenge the Democratic Party in the July presidential election. However, talks were broken off on 13 April 2009, with Golkar reportedly more interested in continuing the coalition with Yudhoyono rather than risk being cut off from power completely. Yudhoyono was also in talks with Islamist parties in a bid to form a coalition controlling more than half the seats in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Coalition talks\nBy late April 2009, Golkar was in talks with smaller parties to gain the votes it lacked to be able to nominate Kalla as a presidential candidate. A ten-party coalition was formed on 1 May, consisting of Golkar, the Indonesian Democratic Party \u2013 Struggle, the Great Indonesia Movement Party, the People's Conscience Party, the Prosperous Peace Party, the Reform Star Party, the Ulema National Awakening Party, the National People's Concern Party, the Labor Party and the Indonesian Nahdlatul Community Party. Two parties who had been considering joining the coalition, the National Mandate Party and the United Development Party, in the end, decided not to join.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Grand total\nThe number of registered voters was finalised at 171,265,442, which is a 15.7% increase from the 2004 legislative election. This number represents almost 74% of the total population of Indonesia A total of 121,588,366 ballots were cast, of which 14.4% were declared invalid. According to the KPU, the number of registered votes who did not vote increased from 15.93% to 29% compared to the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Electoral disputes\nPopular vote results were certified as scheduled on 9 May by the KPU, which also announced that only nine parties would gain seats in the DPR based on rules of the parliamentary threshold. However, party seating could not be certified immediately after several parties raised concerns over the KPU's vote-counting methods. Seating distribution was eventually revised on 14 May after the KPU admitted to \"human error\" when displaying the original results. These results will be certified at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Electoral disputes\nThe Constitutional Court began its hearings for approximately 620 election disputes on 18 May. Cases involved both elections for DPR and DPD candidates. A lawyer for a DPD candidate stated that all but two of the political parties accepted the results of that election in the province of Papua. On 11 June, the Court ordered the KPU to revise its calculations for allocating seats in the DPR on the grounds that the KPU has misinterpreted its own regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Electoral disputes\nThough the KPU initially refused to abide by the Court's ruling, it reversed its decision less than 24 hours later but would not begin work on the revision before 24 June. As many as 16 candidates who have been declared as victors in their respective districts could lose their seats, including DPR Speaker Agung Laksono.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Electoral disputes\nElection reruns will also be held in parts of the provinces of Papua and North Sumatra on 8 July, the same day as the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Analysis\nElection results saw a drop in votes for Islamic parties compared to 2004 when they collected a total of 38% of votes. Although 87% of Indonesia's population are followers of Islam, the four Islamic parties in this election (the United Development Party, the National Mandate Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, and the National Awakening Party) only collected 24% of votes. The Prosperous Justice Party gained 12 seats but fell short of its goal of garnering 15% of total votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Analysis\nIn addition to growing concerns for the economy, observers believed that many voters shied away from Islamism after several local elections resulted in victories for Islamic parties. Once elected, these officials began experimenting with sharia, or Islamic law, prompting resistance among the local population. Most notably, legislators had proposed an anti-pornography bill in 2006 to gain the favour of religious groups. However, the bill's vagueness meant that practising yoga could be construed as a pornographic action. Additionally, several corruption charges were brought against officials representing Islamic parties, which had previously been considered clean compared to other political parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Election results, Analysis\nThe trend of voting for secular parties was not limited to Islam-based parties. The Christianity-based Prosperous Peace Party received only 1.48% of votes, and Catholicism-based Indonesian Democratic Party of Devotion received 0.31%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nThe Democratic Party was the only party to have fulfilled the requirements needed to nominate its own candidates for president and vice president in the July election. It won 150 seats in the DPR, well over the 112 needed to nominate a candidate. No party met the criterion of achieving 25% of the popular vote. By 16 May, three coalitions submitted candidates for the presidential election. The coalition led by the Democratic Party submitted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Bank Indonesia Governor Boediono as running mates. Golkar and the People's Conscience Party submitted Vice President Jusuf Kalla and retired General Wiranto as running mates. Finally, the coalition led by the Indonesian Democratic Party \u2013 Struggle and the Great Indonesia Movement Party submitted former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and retired General Prabowo Subianto as running mates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 921]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nMembers of the new legislature took the oath of office on 1 October for a five-year term in an inauguration ceremony whose cost was estimated at US$4.7 million. The DPR elected Marzuki Alie of the Democratic Party as its Speaker and announced a total of nine factions in the legislature. West Sumatra representative Irman Gusman was elected chairman of the DPD for the new five-year term. At the same time, several party coalitions discussed nominations for MPR Chairman, including Taufiq Kiemas, husband of former President Megawati Sukarnoputri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203439-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nHe was elected to the position on 3 October after receiving support from all nine political parties which were allocated seats in the DPR. The majority of DPD members walked out of the election after a proposal for two of the four deputy seats to be allocated solely to DPD members was rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Indonesia on 8 July 2009. The elections returned a president and vice president for the 2009\u20132014 term. Incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, elected with a 20% margin in the 2004 election, sought a second term against former President Megawati Sukarnoputri in a rematch of the 2004 election, as well as incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election\nSecuring a majority of the votes in a landslide victory in the first round, Yudhoyono was re-elected without the need to proceed to a second round, scheduled to be held on 8 September if no candidate received a majority of the popular vote. Yudhoyono was officially declared the victor of the election on 23 July 2009, by the General Election Commission (KPU). At the time of his re-election victory, Yudhoyono, with nearly 74 million votes in his favour, held the record for the highest number of votes for a single person in any democratic election in history. His record was surpassed by his successor Joko Widodo who won 85 million votes in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Background\nThis was the second election in which Indonesians elected their President and Vice President directly. In 2004, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in a run-off election. Polls through early January 2009 saw Yudhoyono leading a large field of potential presidential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Background\nIncumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced in February 2009 that he would not be returning as a vice presidential candidate with Yudhoyono. Instead, he was ready to challenge Yudhoyono should Golkar, the party which he chaired, nominate him as a presidential candidate. Other individuals interested in becoming presidential candidates included former President Abdurrahman Wahid, former People's Representative Council (DPR) Speaker Akbar Tandjung, Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengkubuwana X, and former Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Background\nOn 17 February, the Constitutional Court ruled that independent candidates would not be allowed to run in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nFollowing legislative elections held on 9 April, coalitions of political parties began to emerge in order to nominate candidates for President and Vice President. Under the 2008 Presidential Election Law, the candidates must be nominated by a party or coalition that won at least 25% of the popular vote or 112 (20%) of 560 seats of the DPR. Indonesia's Constitutional Court also ruled that independent candidates would not be allowed to run. Candidates had to officially register with the KPU by midnight of 16 May in order to appear on the ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nIt initially appeared that Golkar, the party of incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla, would enter into a coalition with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI\u2013P) of former president Megawati Sukarnoputri to challenge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party. However, talks were broken off on 13 April 2009, with Golkar reportedly more interested in continuing the coalition with Yudhoyono rather than risk being cut off from power completely. Yudhoyono was also in talks with Islamist parties in a bid to form a coalition controlling more than half the seats in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nBy late April 2009, Golkar was in talks with smaller parties to gain the votes it lacked to be able to nominate Kalla as a presidential candidate. A ten-party coalition was formed on 1 May, consisting of Golkar, PDI\u2013P, the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Prosperous Peace Party (PDS), the Reform Star Party (PBR), the Ulema National Awakening Party (PKNU), the National People's Concern Party (PPRN), the Labor Party and the Indonesian Nahdlatul Community Party (PPNUI). Two parties who had been considering joining the coalition, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the United Development Party (PPP), in the end, decided not to join. Shortly after the ten-party coalition was announced, incumbent Vice President Kalla announced a joint ticket with former Indonesian military leader Wiranto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 903]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nThe PDI\u2013P selected former president Megawati as its presidential candidate on 7 May but did not immediately announce a running mate. The possibility of Gerindra leader Prabowo Subianto becoming Megawati's running mate had been favoured by PDI\u2013P leadership, but the two parties had yet to come to an agreement two days before the 16 May candidate registration deadline. After plans to announce the pair's candidacy were postponed to allow for continuing negotiations, both parties eventually declared on 15 May the nomination of Megawati and Prabowo as candidates for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nIn the scenario that either Kalla or Megawati would have lost his or her bid for the presidency in the first election round, one candidate would have supported the other in the second round, as agreed upon by the grand coalition formed to oppose incumbent President Yudhoyono.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Coalition talks\nOn 12 May 2009, Yudhoyono chose Boediono, the governor of Bank Indonesia (Indonesia's central bank), as his running mate. Four parties which had planned to form a coalition with Yudhoyono's Democratic Party (PAN, PPP, the National Awakening Party (PKB), and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)) had expected that the vice presidential nominee would come from one of their parties. Although they threatened to form their own coalition with Gerindra and present their own candidate, PKB became the first party in the coalition to support Yudhoyono's decision. The remaining three parties eventually agreed to support the Yudhoyono\u2013Boediono ticket and attended the nomination ceremony in Bandung on 15 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Candidates\nNominees for president and vice president registered their candidacy at the central KPU office in Jakarta on 16 May. Candidates underwent physical and psychological evaluations at Gatot Subroto Army Hospital following registration. Personality tests were also conducted using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Candidates, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Prabowo Subianto\nThe pair of Megawati Sukarnoputri and Prabowo Subianto is referred to colloquially by the Indonesian media as Mega\u2013Pro. These two candidates belong to opposing ideological backgrounds. Prabowo's father, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, was a political enemy of Megawati's father, former President Sukarno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 93], "content_span": [94, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Candidates, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Boediono\nInitially, the pair of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Boediono was referred to colloquially by the Indonesian media as SBY Berbudi. Three days after the slogan was announced, the campaign team had changed its name to SBY\u2013Boediono due to concerns that the term berbudi was not as well known outside Java.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Candidates, Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto\nThe pair of Jusuf Kalla and Wiranto is referred to colloquially by the Indonesian media as JK\u2013Win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Schedule\nCandidates had to register from 10\u201316 May, with medical checks, which they all passed, from 11\u201315 May. The candidates were officially announced on 28 May and drew their ballot numbers at the KPU building on 31 May. Megawati\u2013Prabowo drew number 1, SBY\u2013Boediono number 2 and Kalla\u2013Wiranto number 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Schedule\nThe presidential election campaign began on 2 June and ran until 4 July, with mass rallies allowed from 12 June onwards. Those participating in the campaign were not allowed to question the basis of the Indonesian state, insult the race or religion of candidates, use threats or violence or give financial or material incentives to voters. There were a series of debates between 18 June and 2 July that were carried live on Indonesian television, three between the presidential candidates and two between the vice-presidential candidates. The topics for these two-hour debates were agreed in advance, and by common consent, did not explicitly include human rights issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203440-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indonesian presidential election, Schedule\nAfter a two-day \"silent period\", voting took place on 8 July. National election results are due to be announced between 27 and 29 July. Following a period to allow for legal challenges, the final results will be announced between 1 and 12 August. If the election goes to a second round, the second campaign period will run from 15 July \u2013 7 September, with the vote on 8 September. The final result is due to be announced on 8 October, with the president and vice-president being sworn before the general session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) in 20 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup\nThe 2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the tournament and took place between 11 and 17 October 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. The event is notable as the first international indoor cricket event to take place there since the merger of Indoor Cricket Australia and Cricket Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup\nAustralian Cricket hall of fame member and former test cricketer Ian Healy served as ambassador for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup\nThe 2009 Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket took place alongside this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Host Selection\nThe World Cup was awarded to Australia by the WICF at the conclusion of the previous World Cup. As a result, Australia became the second nation to host the World Cup twice, having hosted the 1998 Indoor Cricket World Cup at the Glass House in Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Host Selection\nAs the national body for both traditional cricket and indoor cricket, Cricket Australia is the first unified national body to host an international indoor cricket event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Host Selection, Venue\nCricket Australia determined that Brisbane West Indoor Sports Centre in Darra, Brisbane would host all World Cup matches and Brisbane became the host city as a result. Cricket Australia relocated the 2009 Australian Open Indoor Cricket Championships from Campbelltown to Brisbane to serve as a test event for the new venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Media coverage, Television\nCricket Australia has arranged for limited delayed telecast of the finals series on Fox Sports in Australia. This represents the first mainstream television coverage of an Indoor Cricket event (international or otherwise) in a decade. Fox Sports will broadcast highlights packages for the finals series and will broadcast the Men's final in full approximately two weeks after the conclusion of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Media coverage, Online Coverage\nCricket Australia provided online coverage including news and results on the official World Cup Website. Action Sports South Africa provided full results details (including scoresheets and statistics) on their website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Media coverage, Online Coverage\nA number of players, officials and spectators also provided coverage for friends and members of the public via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Participants\nIndia and Pakistan were also entered in the Men's division but were forced to withdraw just days before the commencement of the tournament due to issues entering Australia. The withdrawal was at such short notice that the tournament program still contains the team listings and player photographs for both sides, and includes the original draw featuring their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Round Robin tournament, Day One\nThe entirety of day one was a \"ticketed session\" in that only ticket holders were allowed into the venue. The theme for the day was \"Trans Tasman Day\" and featured Australia vs New Zealand in the evening match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Round Robin tournament, Day Two\nThe evening session on was ticketed and in keeping with the theme of \"Aussie Juniors Night\" featured few matches from the open divisions and instead focused on the simultaneously run 2009 Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket. Most open matches therefore took place whilst free entry to the venue was permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Round Robin tournament, Day Three\nDay three featured both free and ticketed matches. The theme of \"Ashes Night\" saw Australia take on England in the ticketed evening session, whilst the daytime games were held during free admission periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Round Robin tournament, Day Four\nDay four featured both free and ticketed matches. The theme of \"Green and Gold Rivalry Night\" saw Australia take on South Africa in the ticketed evening session, whilst the daytime games were during free admission periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Round Robin tournament, Day Five\nDay five featured both free and ticketed matches. The theme of \"World Cup Men's Night\" saw a full round of Men's matches played during the ticketed session, whilst the daytime Men's games and all Women's games were during free admission periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Finals, Semi finals\nDay six of the tournament featured all of the semi finals from both divisions and followed a top four format. The first and second-placed sides contested the Major Semi Final with the winner progressing to the World Cup Final whilst the loser contested the Preliminary Final against the winner of the Minor Semi Final featuring the third and fourth-placed sides. All matches took place during ticketed sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Finals, Semi finals\nThe semi finals saw both the Australian men and Australian women suffer their first losses of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203441-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup, Finals, World Cup Final\nThe seventh and final day of the tournament featured the World Cup Finals. Both the Australian Men and Australian Women won their respective finals in close matches and kept Australia's flawless World Cup title record intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203442-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Football League season\nThe 2009 Indoor Football League season is the inaugural season of the Indoor Football League, a league formed as a merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. The regular season began on Friday, March 13 and ended on Saturday, July 11. The league champions were the Billings Outlaws, who defeated the RiverCity Rage in the 2009 United Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203442-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indoor Football League season, Standings, Intense Conference\nz=clinched top seed in conference, x=clinched division, y=clinched wild card spot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203443-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma\nThe 2009 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma was the fourteenth round of the 17-race 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on August 23, 2009 at the 2.303-mile (3.706\u00a0km) Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Will Power and Nelson Philippe both missed the race, after they were hospitalized after a practice accident on Saturday. Philippe spun at the blind turn 3A, and stalled the car on-track. E. J. Viso hit the Frenchman's car, before Power t-boned it a few seconds later. Power suffered fractures to two lumbar vertebrae, Philippe fractured his left foot and Viso escaped uninjured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203444-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indy Japan 300\nThe 2009 Indy Japan 300 was the sixteenth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on September 19, 2009 at the 1.520-mile (2.446\u00a0km) Twin Ring Motegi, in Motegi, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203445-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Indy Lights\nThe 2009 Indy Racing League Firestone Indy Lights season began April 4 in St. Petersburg, Florida, where it ran a double-header weekend in support to the season-opening IndyCar Series event. The schedule took place over 14 race weekends in support of the IndyCars, with 15 total races. Unlike the 2008 season, the St. Petersburg weekend will be the only double-header the series has announced. J. R. Hildebrand ended the season as champion for Andretti Green-AFS Racing, winning the championship by nearly 100 points ahead of Vision Racing's James Davison and his AGR-AFS Racing team-mate Sebasti\u00e1n Saavedra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203445-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Indy Lights, Schedule\nThe season consisted of fifteen races, including a mix of ovals, temporary street circuits and road courses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nThe 2009 IndyCar Series was the 14th season of the IndyCar Series. The 17-race season began on April 5, and its premier event, the 93rd Indianapolis 500 was held May 24. All races were broadcast on ABC or Versus in high-definition. It represented the 98th recognized season of top-level American open wheel racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nOn July 30, 2008, the 2009 schedule for the IndyCar Series was officially released. New to the schedule were Long Beach and Toronto, with Nashville having been removed to make way for the new events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nDario Franchitti won his second IndyCar Series championship, putting a disappointing foray into NASCAR in 2008 behind him. Franchitti took his Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara-Honda to victory at Long Beach, Iowa Speedway, Toronto and Infineon Raceway in a season long battle with his Chip Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon and Team Penske driver Ryan Briscoe. Dixon led the series heading into the final round, but Franchitti's win at the series finale at Homestead pushed the British driver eleven points clear at season's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nDixon, who took five wins, held second place by a solitary point over Briscoe. Briscoe, with three wins, had his best ever season leading Team Penske after H\u00e9lio Castroneves's abbreviated start to the season from his tax-evasion trial. The Brazilian recovered by winning his third Indianapolis 500 before taking a win a Texas Motor Speedway a month later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nThe Ganassi and Penske teams dominated the season, only two race victories were taken by drivers other than the four regulars from these two teams, and one of them, at Edmonton, was claimed by part-time Penske driver Will Power. The only other winner was Justin Wilson, scoring Dale Coyne Racing's first victory at Watkins Glen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nThe Andretti Green Racing team had their first ever season without a win. Drivers Danica Patrick, Tony Kanaan and Hideki Mutoh each scored podium finishes, and Patrick finished fifth in the season points, setting a new record for highest points finish by a female driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nBrazilian racer Raphael Matos claimed rookie of the year honors for the Luczo-Dragon Racing team, finishing thirteenth in the season point score, 29 points clear of Robert Doornbos with a season best result of sixth at Milwaukee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series\nOriginally Honda was supposed to end their IndyCar Series single engine supplier after 2009. But on September 23, 2009, it was confirmed that Honda renewed their single engine supplier until the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203446-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 IndyCar Series, Team and Driver Chart\nAll entrants competed in Dallara IR5 chassis, powered by Honda HI9R V8 engines, and utilize Firestone Firehawk tires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl\nThe 2009 Insight Bowl was the 21st edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The game matched the Iowa State Cyclones against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and kicked off at 6:00 PM US EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009. The game was telecast on the NFL Network and simulcast in Iowa State's home market (Ames/Des Moines, Iowa) by WOI-DT, the ABC affiliate formerly owned by the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl\nThe game marked the Cyclones' first postseason trip since 2005, and Minnesota's third Insight Bowl appearance in the last four years. The Gophers lost in 2008 to Kansas and in 2006 to Texas Tech. Iowa State played in the 2000 Insight Bowl, beating Pittsburgh 37\u201329. Cyclones first-year coach Paul Rhoads turned around a team that finished 2\u201310 in 2008 and was winless in eight Big 12 games. Iowa State's last bowl appearance was a 27\u201324 loss to TCU in the 2005 Houston Bowl, now the Texas Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl\nGiven the relative close proximity between them, the two schools have played each other a total of 25 times. Minnesota has dominated the matchup holding the series lead 22\u20132\u20131 until the bowl game. However, only one of the games has been played in Iowa and the two teams have only played each other three times since 1924, due to the discontinuation of the series after the controversial death of Jack Trice (the first African-American to play for the then Big 6 Conference), which was caused by the injuries he suffered during the 1923 game between these two teams. The last meeting between the opponents was a 53\u201329 Gophers victory in 1997. This was the first bowl game played between the two schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl, Game summary\nThe Gophers were paced by receiver Da'Jon McKnight, who led both teams with seven catches for 124 yards. With only a few minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster replaced starting quarterback Adam Weber with backup MarQueis Gray in order to run a play out of the Wildcat formation, in which the Gophers had used Gray with some success during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl, Game summary\nWhile running a bootleg play, Gray fumbled the ball at the Iowa State 15-yard line; the fumble was recovered by Iowa State defensive back Ter'ran Benton, preventing Minnesota from taking a late fourth-quarter lead with either a field goal or a touchdown, and allowing Iowa State to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl, Game summary\nIowa State quarterback Austen Arnaud threw for 216 yards and a touchdown, adding 77 rushing yards and an additional touchdown and tallying a passer rating of 140.2, as the Cyclones got their first bowl win since the 2004 Independence Bowl. Weber finished the day with 261 passing yards, one touchdown, one interception, and a passer rating of 128.8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203447-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Insight Bowl, Game summary\nThe game was Minnesota's third straight bowl loss, a streak that eventually extended to seven before the Gophers defeated Central Michigan in the 2015 Quick Lane Bowl. The game was also Minnesota's third straight loss in the Insight Bowl in particular, a new record for that bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203448-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Inter-Provincial Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Interprovincial Hurling Championship, known as the 2009 M Donnelly Hurling Interprovincial Championship due to the tournament's sponsorship by businessman Martin Donnelly, was the 82nd series of the Interprovincial Championship. The annual hurling championship between the four historic provinces of Ireland was contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The championship was won by Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203449-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 InterLiga\nThe 2009 InterLiga was the 6th edition of the tournament that determined the last two Mexican spots in the 2009 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203449-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 InterLiga, Qualification\nThe eight qualified teams were the eight best-positioned teams in the 2008 Apertura general table who did not qualify for the 2009 Copa Libertadores (San Luis) directly and did not qualify for the 2008\u201309 CONCACAF Champions League from the previous season (Atlante, UNAM, Cruz Azul, and Santos Laguna).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League\nThe 2009 Intercity Football League season is the third since its establishment in 2007. It started from February 14, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League\nAt the end of 2008, the Chinese Taipei Football Association decided to merge the Enterprise Football League into the Intercity Football League, and therefore the latter became the highest-ranked football league in Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League\nThe league included two divisions. Division A consisted of six teams, and the remaining teams participated in Division B. The last-placed team in Division A would be relegated to Division B while the champion of Division B would move up to Division A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League\nNew league regulations required each team to be named after the administrative division in which they were located. Each team also needed two-thirds of its players to reside in the area for at least one month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League, Qualifications\nTaipei City Tatung, Tainan County, and Kaohsiung Taipower automatically qualified for Division A after finishing in the top four places in the 2008 season. The remaining three Division A places were decided via a qualification tournament, which took place at the Pailing Sport Park January 1-4, 2009. There were six teams competing in the tournament: Miaoli County, Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung City Yoedy (\u9ad8\u5e02\u8000\u8fea), Yilan County, Taipei County Hanchuang (\u5317\u7e23\u608d\u5275), and Tainan City. Taipei County Hanchuang, Kaohsiung City Yaoti, and Kaohsiung City qualified for Division A after finishing in the top 3 places in the qualification tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203450-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercity Football League, Relegation/Promotion playoffs\nTaipei County Hanchuang won the playoff 25-0 in aggregate and remained in Division A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203451-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge\nThe 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge was the fourth season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consists of twelve rounds and began on January 21, with the 77\u00b0 Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo. The season ended on November 21, at the inaugural RAC Rally of Scotland. With four wins, Kris Meeke won the championship ahead of Jan Kopeck\u00fd and Freddy Loix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203451-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Calendar\nThe calendar had been increased from 10 events in 2008, to twelve in 2009. Out went the Istanbul Rally, the Rally de Portugal, the Rallye International du Valais and the China Rally. To be replaced by the Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, the Rally Internacional de Curitiba, the Safari Rally, the Rallye A\u00e7ores, Rally Japan and the Rally of Scotland. Rally Japan was later cancelled, mainly because the major manufacturers looked unlikely to travel to Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl\nThe 2009 International Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies (UConn) and the Buffalo Bulls at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada, on January 3, 2009. The game was the final contest of the 2008 NCAA Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-FBS) football season for both teams, and ended in a 38\u201320 victory for Connecticut. UConn represented the Big East Conference (Big East) in the game; Buffalo entered as the Mid-American Conference (MAC) champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl\nConnecticut was selected as a participant in the 2009 International Bowl following a 7\u20135 regular season where they won their first five games, only to lose five of their last seven contests. Facing the Huskies were the Buffalo Bulls with a regular season record of 8\u20135, highlighted by an upset win over then-No. 12 and undefeated Ball State in the 2008 MAC Championship Game. Pre -game media coverage focused on the legacy of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls, the first team from the university to be invited to a bowl game. When told that the two African-American members of the team would not be allowed to play because of segregation, the team elected to refuse the bowl bid. Buffalo would not play in a bowl until this game, 50\u00a0years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl\nThe game began at 12:00\u00a0PM EST. Connecticut, led by running back Donald Brown's 208\u00a0yards rushing, dominated the first half statistically, but found themselves down 20\u201310 midway through the second quarter because they committed six fumbles, five of which were recovered by Buffalo. UConn would close the gap to 20\u201317 by halftime, and take the lead for good late in the third quarter off a 4-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Tyler Lorenzen to tight end Steve Brouse. The Connecticut victory was sealed when, late in the fourth quarter, Buffalo quarterback Drew Willy threw a pass that was intercepted by UConn safety Dahna Deleston and returned 100\u00a0yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl\nUConn junior running back Donald Brown was named player of the game. He finished with 261\u00a0rushing yards and one\u00a0touchdown; his 2,083\u00a0rushing\u00a0yards for the 2008 season was best in the NCAA. Following the game, Brown declared his eligibility for the 2009 NFL Draft; he would become the first Connecticut player ever drafted in the first round. Three other UConn players were drafted in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection\nThe International Bowl had contracts with the Big East and Mid-American Conferences that allowed them to select one team from each conference to participate in their annual game. By virtue of being the Big East champion Cincinnati was awarded an automatic Bowl Championship Series berth; they would play in the 2009 Orange Bowl. The Gator Bowl and Sun Bowl shared the second pick of Big East teams; after the Gator Bowl opted to select Big 12 member Nebraska and the Sun Bowl learned that they would not be allowed to select Notre Dame, Pittsburgh received the Sun Bowl invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection\nThe Meineke Car Care Bowl, which had the third selection, picked West Virginia. The fourth, fifth, and sixth selections of Big East teams belonged collectively to the International Bowl, PapaJohns.com Bowl, and St. Petersburg Bowl, which, in consultation with the Big East, decided which schools were the best fit for each bowl. There were three remaining bowl-eligible Big East teams: Connecticut, Rutgers, and South Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection\nThe previous season, Rutgers had played in the International Bowl and South Florida had appeared in the PapaJohns.com Bowl; bowls in general dislike inviting the same team in consecutive years, on the theory that fans are less likely to want to travel to the same destination they were at the year before. Additionally, the St. Petersburg Bowl, in its inaugural year, sought to have local team South Florida play in their game to drive local attendance. Therefore, the teams were apportioned among the bowls as follows: South Florida to the St. Petersburg Bowl, Rutgers to the PapaJohns.com Bowl, and Connecticut to the International Bowl. On December 7, 2008, UConn formally accepted the bowl invitation, the third in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection\nBuffalo accepted an invitation to the International Bowl following their victory over then-undefeated Ball State in the 2008 MAC Championship Game. Although in past years the MAC champion had been invited to the Motor City Bowl, Buffalo preferred to go to the International Bowl due to Toronto being closer to the school than Detroit, the home of the Motor City Bowl. The game marked the first bowl for the Bulls after their first MAC Championship since moving to Division I-A and joining the MAC in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection\nThe Bulls and Huskies had been frequent opponents during the previous decade as both programs made the transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A. The two teams played each other in six consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2005, with Connecticut winning five of the six contents. The 2005 game, won by UConn 38\u20130, was the most recent meeting between the two teams. Overall, the Huskies and Bulls had played each other 16 times since their first meeting in 1939, with Connecticut holding a 12\u20134 advantage in the all-time series. Prior to the 2008 season, Buffalo and UConn had signed a contract to play a four-game, home-and-home series beginning in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nEntering 2008, the Bulls sought to build off of their 2007 season, where they shared the MAC East championship but did not appear in the championship game due to a 31\u201328 loss to fellow division co-champion Miami (Ohio). Their 5\u20137 final record, while not good enough to qualify for a bowl game, was still the best by a Buffalo team since they had moved up to Division I-A in 1999. With 10 starters returning on offense and eight on defense, the 2008 team was predicted to be perhaps the most talented team in Bulls history; however, due to their challenging schedule, their final record was predicted to be no better than 3\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nBuffalo opened the season stronger than expected, with a dominant home win over the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), 42\u201317. This was followed by a closer-than-predicted loss at heavily favored Pittsburgh, 27\u201316. Buffalo's third game and conference opener, versus Temple, was a back-and-forth contest that came down to the final play of the game. Keeping the game within seven points for the first three quarters, the Bulls first took the lead with 2:27 left in the fourth quarter, on a 25-yard field goal by A.J. Principe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nTemple responded with a nine-play, 74-yard drive capped by an 11-yard touchdown catch by wide receiver Bruce Francis, his second score of the game, to take a 28\u201324 lead with only 38\u00a0seconds remaining. Taking over at their own 40-yard line after the kickoff went out of bounds, the Bulls drove down the field, scoring the game-winning touchdown on a 35-yard desperation heave from Drew Willy to wide receiver Naaman Roosevelt with no time remaining on the clock. Buffalo's record following the last-second win was 2\u20131, marking the first time since 1969 that the Bulls had a record over .500 beyond Week 1 as a Division I-A team. The last time the Bulls had started a season 2\u20131 was 1998, while they were still playing in Division I-AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nThe Bulls proceeded to lose their next three games. Buffalo was unable to keep up with No. 5-ranked Missouri, losing 42\u201321 in a game that Missouri saw as a tuneup for their later season. In the next contest, against MAC opponent Central Michigan, down nine\u00a0points with under three\u00a0minutes left Buffalo scored on a 65-yard pass to James Starks, recovered an onside kick to retain possession, and attempted a game-winning field goal\u2014but A.J. Principe's 46-yard kick hit the right goalpost to give Central Michigan the victory. In the next game, against the Western Michigan Broncos, also in the MAC, Buffalo squandered a two-touchdown advantage with just over five minutes left, allowing the Broncos to win the game in overtime. Buffalo's overall record fell to 2\u20134, 1\u20132 in the MAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 829]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nBouncing back, Buffalo won their next five games. Against Army, Buffalo reversed the result of the Western Michigan game, coming back from a two-touchdown deficit to win in overtime. Handling conference opponents Ohio and Miami (Ohio) with relative ease, Buffalo continued conference play by beating Akron in a four-hour, four-overtime slugfest, 43\u201340, in Akron's final football game at the Rubber Bowl. In their next game, against Bowling Green, the Bulls found themselves down 21\u20130 midway through the third quarter, but still managed to come back for their third overtime win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nWith the win, Buffalo clinched the MAC East championship and ensured that they would have their first winning regular season since moving to Division I-A; the final regular season game, a 24\u201321 loss to Kent State, was only a formality. The Bulls finished the regular season with an overall record of 7\u20135, 5\u20133 within the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nBuffalo's opponent in the 2008 MAC Championship Game would be the No. 12-ranked Ball State Cardinals, who had gone undefeated in winning the MAC West. Ball State was a two-touchdown favorite entering the game; Buffalo in its history was 0\u20135 against the Cardinals. The Bulls struck first with a touchdown late in the first quarter; Ball State responded with a touchdown and a field goal in the second quarter to take a 10\u20137 lead at the half. The two teams traded touchdowns early in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Buffalo\nDisaster then struck for Ball State: on two consecutive possessions late in the third quarter, after having driven into the red zone, the Cardinals fumbled the ball. Buffalo returned both of these fumbles for touchdowns and took a lead they would not surrender. The Bulls won the game 42\u201324, earning their first-ever MAC Championship as well as their first-ever win over a ranked opponent in nine attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nThe Huskies entered 2008 seeking to prove their success the previous season was no fluke. In 2007, Connecticut earned their first Big East co-championship, albeit after losing to their fellow co-champion, West Virginia, 66\u201321. A loss to Wake Forest in the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl\u2014the team's second bowl appearance all-time\u2014gave the Huskies a final 2007 record of 9\u20134. In the Big East preseason media poll, UConn was picked to finish 6th overall in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nUConn started the season strong, winning their first five games. The Huskies easily won their first game 35\u20133 against Division I-Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-FCS) opponent Hofstra. The second game, at Temple, was played as the remnants of Hurricane Hanna hit Philadelphia. UConn won 12\u20139 in overtime as Donald Brown ran for a then-career high 214\u00a0yards and scored the game-winning touchdown. Connecticut next avenged their loss to Virginia from 2007, winning the rematch 45\u201310. Baylor was next on the schedule; the Huskies pulled out the win in a back-and-forth game, 31\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nConnecticut opened Big East conference play in their next game against Louisville. The game was not decided until UConn linebacker Lawrence Wilson returned an interception for a touchdown with 2:45 left in the fourth quarter, giving the Huskies a 26\u201321 lead they would not relinquish. This was the second straight season where Connecticut won their first five games; before 2007, they had not opened a season so successfully since 1995, when they won their first six straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nFollowing the game, UConn achieved their first and only ranking of the year, appearing at No. 24 in the Associated Press (AP) and Harris polls and No. 23 in the Coaches' poll. However, starting quarterback Tyler Lorenzen broke his foot in the Louisville game; the Huskies would be forced to rely on backup Zach Frazer for the next few games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nThe Huskies were unable to match their early success in the second half of the season, losing five of their next seven games. Everything went wrong for UConn in their game at North Carolina, as Frazer was intercepted three times and three Connecticut punts were blocked; North Carolina won in a blowout, 38\u201312. Against Big East rival Rutgers, UConn lost 12\u201310 as kicker Tony Ciaravino missed three field goals, including one with 1:09 left in the game that hit the right goalpost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Team selection, Connecticut\nThe Huskies bounced back in their next game against eventual Big East champion Cincinnati, winning in a blowout 40\u201316. While not ranked in any of the polls, after the win Connecticut found itself No. 25 in the BCS standings. The Huskies would promptly give up that honor, losing to West Virginia 35\u201313 after leading 10\u20130 at the end of the first quarter and 13\u20137 at halftime. UConn would win the next week at Big East bottom-dweller Syracuse, 39\u201314, as Lorenzen returned from his injury. This would prove to be their last win of the regular season, as the Huskies finished with losses to South Florida (17\u201313) and No. 23-ranked Pittsburgh (34\u201310). Connecticut ended the regular season with a record of 7\u20135, 3\u20134 within the Big East conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup\nIn the weeks leading up to the game, media coverage focused on the achievements of the Buffalo Bulls. Buffalo had been one of the least successful programs in college football from their transition to Division I-A in 1999 to 2006, during which they had a cumulative record of 12\u201379.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup\nIn 2008, the Bulls had their first winning season since 1996, won five games in a row for the first time since 1986, beat a ranked team for the first time in program history with their upset victory over Ball State in the MAC Championship Game, and would be making the first bowl appearance in school history. The turnaround of the Buffalo program brought acclaim to Bulls head coach Turner Gill, who had taken over the team in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup\nComparatively, Connecticut was an afterthought heading into the game. Pre -bowl coverage of UConn focused on NCAA rushing leader Donald Brown, who was considering foregoing his senior season to enter the 2009 NFL Draft. Brown indicated before the game that he had decided to return to UConn for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Coaching change rumors\nFollowing the regular season, speculation surrounded whether Turner Gill would leave Buffalo for another school's head coaching position. He was identified as a candidate at two schools: Syracuse and Auburn. In neither case was Gill hired; Syracuse opted for New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator Doug Marrone, while Auburn passed him over in favor of Iowa State head coach Gene Chizik, a move that prominent former National Basketball Association (NBA) player, Basketball Hall-of-Famer, and Auburn alumnus Charles Barkley claimed was due to racism. Gill ended up signing a contract extension with Buffalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Coaching change rumors\nUConn head coach Randy Edsall, who had been with the Huskies since 1999, was also rumored to be a candidate for the Syracuse job. Edsall, a Syracuse alumnus, denied any interest. Offensive coordinator Rob Ambrose accepted the head coaching position at Towson, his alma mater; he would stay to coach UConn during the bowl game, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Legacy of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls\nWhile the 2009 International Bowl marked the first appearance of the Buffalo Bulls in a bowl game, it was not the first time the school had been invited to a bowl. Fifty years earlier, the 1958 Buffalo Bulls team finished with a record of 8\u20131. They were awarded the Lambert Cup, given to the best small college team in the eastern US, and received a bid to play in the 1958 Tangerine Bowl, where they would face Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Legacy of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls\nThere was one catch: the team's African-American players\u2014starting running back Willie Evans and backup defensive end Mike Wilson\u2014would not be allowed to play. The Tangerine Bowl stadium was controlled by the Orlando High School Athletic Association, who prohibited integrated football games. University officials and the coaching staff decided to allow the team to vote on whether they would accept the bowl bid. Before secret ballots could be passed out, the players unanimously decided to reject the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Legacy of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls\nSurviving members of the 1958 Bulls team were invited to the 2009 International Bowl and were honored before the game. The Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the kickoff luncheon prior to the game, paying tribute to the legacy of the 1958 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Buffalo offense\nBuffalo featured a high-powered, high-tempo, balanced offense that was good at not committing turnovers. During the regular season the Bulls averaged 380.5\u00a0offensive\u00a0yards per game, 45th\u00a0best in the nation, and scored an average of 31.3\u00a0points per game, 31st\u00a0best. Buffalo's turnover margin was 6th\u00a0best in the nation, at +1.15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Buffalo offense\nThe Bulls were led offensively by the triple threat of quarterback Drew Willy, running back James Starks, and wide receiver Naaman Roosevelt. The three combined to break 14\u00a0single-season school records, including most points scored in a season (404). Willy, heading into his final game as a Buffalo Bull, had already surpassed the 3,000-yard mark in passing on the season, throwing for 25\u00a0touchdowns against only five\u00a0interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Buffalo offense\nStarks, while not seen as the same caliber of player as UConn's Donald Brown, had run for over 1,300\u00a0yards and caught 41\u00a0passes for 340\u00a0yards, scoring 16\u00a0touchdowns on the year. Roosevelt was seen as the top playmaker, going over the 100-yard mark in each of Buffalo's last five\u00a0games and scoring at least once in his last seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Connecticut offense\nEspecially compared to Buffalo, the UConn offense was extremely unbalanced; the Huskies ranked 19th in the nation in running, averaging 204.6\u00a0yards per game, but only 106th in the nation in passing, averaging 147.3\u00a0yards per game. Connecticut's offense was centered around running back Donald Brown. Described as \"the ultimate workhorse\", Brown led the NCAA in rushing going into the game with 1,822\u00a0yards. He had already tied the school single-season rushing touchdown record with 17 scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Connecticut offense\nHis dominant performance led to him being named the Big East offensive player of the year as well as an All-American by multiple organizations. Somewhat surprisingly, he was not a finalist for the Doak Walker Award, annually given to the best running back in college football; the award was eventually won by Shonn Greene of Iowa. UConn's rushing attack was supplemented by the efforts of quarterback Tyler Lorenzen and running back Jordan Todman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Offensive matchups, Connecticut offense\nThe Huskies struggled to pass the ball all season, only completing four touchdown passes as a team heading into the International Bowl. Lorenzen completed under half of his passing attempts on the season. He threw for 820\u00a0yards with more interceptions (eight) than touchdowns (two). Nevertheless, before the game Randy Edsall confirmed that Lorenzen would be the starting quarterback for UConn in the International Bowl. This would be his ninth appearance at quarterback on the season; he missed four games with a broken right foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Defensive matchups, Buffalo defense\nThe Buffalo defense was described as \"among the worst in the MAC, meaning it's among the worst in college football\". In Division I-FBS, the Bulls ranked 84th in total defense, allowing an average of 408\u00a0yards per game. Buffalo's run defense was 83rd in the country, allowing 141.1\u00a0yards per game; their pass defense was ranked 97th, allowing almost 250\u00a0yards per game. The Bulls allowed other teams to score an average of 27\u00a0points against them per game, which ranked 73rd in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Defensive matchups, Buffalo defense\nBuffalo did have one strength on defense: forcing turnovers. The Bulls recovered 20\u00a0fumbles and caught eight\u00a0interceptions on the year. Buffalo's turnover margin of +1.15 was 6th\u00a0best in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 77], "content_span": [78, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Defensive matchups, Connecticut defense\nConversely, UConn boasted one of the better defenses in the country. The Huskies allowed the 10th-fewest yards per game in the nation with 281\u00a0yards allowed. Connecticut was especially good against the pass; they allowed an average of only 165\u00a0yards per game, seventh-best in the country. No UConn opponent passed for more than 259\u00a0yards during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Pregame buildup, Defensive matchups, Connecticut defense\nThe Huskies had several standout players on defense. One was defensive end Cody Brown, who led UConn with 14\u00a0tackles for a loss (TFL) and nine\u00a0sacks while also being named to the All-Big East first team. Cornerback Jasper Howard was another standout player: he had 37\u00a0tackles and four\u00a0interceptions on the year while also leading the Big East in punt returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary\nThe  2009 International Bowl kicked off on January 3, 2009, at 12:00\u00a0PM in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Official attendance was listed at 40,184, the highest in the history of the International Bowl. The attendance record was largely due to Buffalo fans; an estimated 30,000 attended the game. John Saunders, Jesse Palmer, and Doug Flutie, all with ties to Canada, were the announcers for the television broadcast, which aired on ESPN2. The game was watched by over 2\u00a0million\u00a0households with a rating of 2.12, both the highest in International Bowl history. Prior to the game, spread bettors favored Connecticut to win by four\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0half\u00a0points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nBuffalo received the ball first to begin the game, and returned the opening kickoff to their own 24-yard line. They were unable to move the ball in three\u00a0plays, and punted the ball to Connecticut. The Huskies took possession on their own 18-yard line and drove down the field with alternating rushes by running back Donald Brown and quarterback Tyler Lorenzen, earning two first downs. On 2nd\u00a0down\u00a0and\u00a05 from the UConn 49-yard line, Lorenzen was sacked by Buffalo's Sherrod Lott and fumbled; the ball was recovered by UConn right tackle Mike Hicks, allowing the Huskies to retain possession. A holding penalty on the next play called on UConn left tackle William Beatty set up 3rd-and-24. Donald Brown rushed for fifteen\u00a0yards but was unable to reach the first-down marker, forcing UConn to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nBuffalo took over at their own 19-yard line and promptly earned their 1st\u00a0first\u00a0down of the game on a 10-yard\u00a0pass from quarterback Drew Willy to wide receiver Naaman Roosevelt. The Bulls' drive stalled from there, forcing them to punt. The punt struck the ground and hit UConn's Jonathan Jean-Louis, who was attempting to block for the punt return; Buffalo recovered the loose ball, giving them back possession at the Connecticut 23-yard line. The Bulls were unable to move the ball any closer to the end zone, and settled for a 38-yard field goal by kicker A. J. Principe, giving them a 3\u20130 lead with 4:26 remaining in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nThe ensuing kickoff was returned by UConn running back Jordan Todman 45\u00a0yards to the Buffalo 45-yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, Donald Brown broke through the Buffalo defense and ran the length of the field for the first touchdown of the day. UConn kicker Dave Teggart's extra point attempt was good, giving UConn their first lead of the day, at 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nBuffalo got the ball back at their own 21-yard line and were only able to advance it to their 34-yard line before punting the ball back to Connecticut. UConn cornerback Jasper Howard returned the ball 26\u00a0yards to the Bulls' 41-yard line. The Huskies handed the ball to Donald Brown for five straight running plays, advancing the ball to the Buffalo 19-yard line as the first quarter clock expired. At the end of the first quarter, UConn held a 7\u20133 lead and looked to be in position to score more when the second quarter began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nUConn began the second quarter by having Tyler Lorenzen rush the ball for four yards. On 3rd and 7, Lorenzen attempted his first pass of the game, which was behind Husky wide receiver Michael Smith. Dave Teggart kicked a 32-yard field goal to increase Connecticut's lead to 10\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe Bulls began their next drive at their own 26-yard line, but went three-and-out. Buffalo punter Peter Fardon kicked the ball over the head of UConn returner Jasper Howard; rather than let the ball go, he ran backwards chasing after it. Trying to grab the ball over his shoulder, he muffed the catch, and the ball bounced into the end zone, where it was recovered by Buffalo's Ray Anthony Long for a Bull touchdown. The special-teams miscue by Howard allowed Buffalo to tie the game at 10\u201310 with 11:36 remaining in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nUConn's turnover woes continued on their next possession when, on their second play from scrimmage after receiving Buffalo's kickoff, Tyler Lorenzen was sacked, causing him to fumble the ball. The Bulls recovered and drove down the field to the UConn 12-yard line where they were stopped. Principe kicked a 29-yard field goal giving Buffalo back the lead, at 13\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe ensuing kickoff saw yet another Connecticut special-teams blunder. UConn running back Robbie Frey misplayed the ball off of the kickoff, letting it roll back into the end zone. Frey recovered the loose ball; if he had simply taken a knee, by rule it would have been a touchback and the Huskies would have gotten the ball at their own 20-yard line. Instead, Frey carried the ball out of the end zone, was hit at the 4-yard line, and fumbled. Buffalo recovered and promptly scored on a 4-yard touchdown run by Bull running back James Starks, giving themselves a 20\u201310 lead. UConn had committed its fifth fumble of the game, four of which were recovered by Buffalo. All of Buffalo's 20 points were directly off of UConn turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nConnecticut fumbled the ball for the sixth time on the next possession; this time Donald Brown was responsible for dropping the ball. Buffalo recovered for the fifth time, but was unable to score, punting to ball back to UConn with 4:37 left in the half. Brown made up for his earlier mistake by breaking off a 75-yard run before being caught from behind. On the next play Tyler Lorenzen ran the ball into the end zone from 13\u00a0yards out. Neither team scored for the remainder of the first half, making the score 20\u201317 Buffalo going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nConnecticut received the ball to start the third quarter and drove down the field on rushing plays by Donald Brown, Jordan Todman and Tyler Lorenzen, before the drive stalled at the Buffalo 36-yard line. UConn punter Desi Cullen's punt was downed at the Buffalo 1-yard line, pinning them against their own end zone. The Bulls were unable to move the ball, punting the ball back to UConn after three plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nStarting from their own 44-yard line, the Huskies drove to within the Buffalo 10-yard line; an offside penalty on Buffalo's Jerry Housey gave UConn a 1st-and-goal at the Buffalo 4-yard line. Connecticut used a play-action pass, only their second pass attempt of the game, to fool the Bulls; UConn tight end Steve Brouse was wide open in the end zone, catching the ball for the touchdown and giving Connecticut back the lead at 24\u201320 with 5:22 left in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nBuffalo received the ball off the kickoff on their own 28-yard line. Losing eight\u00a0yards on their three\u00a0plays, Buffalo once again punted the ball to Connecticut. UConn drove to the Buffalo 25-yard line and attempted a 42-yard field goal; the kick by Dave Teggart was blocked. Buffalo got the ball back with less than a minute left in the quarter and completed two\u00a0passes, moving the ball 13\u00a0yards down the field before the quarter expired. The score remained in Connecticut's favor, 24\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nBuffalo began the final quarter with the ball in a 2nd-and-11 situation and were unable to convert the first down. UConn received Buffalo's punt and were also unable to move the ball, going three-and-out and punting back to the Bulls. On their next possession Buffalo managed to get a first down off of a Drew Willy pass to tight end Jesse Rack, but were unable to move the ball further than UConn's 49-yard line and punted again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nConnecticut took over at their own 32-yard line and, after throwing only two\u00a0passes in the first three\u00a0quarters, completed three\u00a0passes over 10\u00a0yards apiece to move down the field. On a 2nd-and-5 from the Buffalo 15-yard line, Tyler Lorenzen scored his second rushing touchdown of the game. UConn's lead was extended to 31\u201320 with less than five\u00a0minutes left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nReceiving the ball at their own 8-yard line following a penalty on the kickoff return, Buffalo began to move down the field, with Drew Willy completing a 38-yard pass to wideout Brett Hamlin and a 29-yard pass to Naaman Roosevelt. On 3rd-and-4 from the Connecticut 19-yard line, Willy completed a ten-yard pass to James Starks, giving the Bulls a 1st-and-goal. Starks rushed for four\u00a0yards on first\u00a0down; on second\u00a0down, Willy threw an incomplete pass intended for Roosevelt. On 3rd-and-goal from the Husky 5-yard line, Willy attempted a pass that was deflected and intercepted by UConn safety Dahna Deleston, who returned the ball 100\u00a0yards for the game-sealing touchdown. UConn won the game 38\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Final statistics\nFor his performance in the 2009 International Bowl, Connecticut running back Donald Brown was named the player of the game. Brown rushed for 261\u00a0yards and one\u00a0touchdown on 29\u00a0attempts. He finished the 2008 college football season with 2,083\u00a0rushing\u00a0yards, which led the nation. Brown set several new UConn school records, including the single-season records for rushing yards (2,083), attempts (367), and yards per game (160.2), the career records for rushing yards (3,800) and attempts (698), and the record for consecutive games with at least 100\u00a0yards\u00a0rushing (8). His performance did not break the International Bowl rushing record, however; the previous year Rutgers running back Ray Rice ran for 280\u00a0yards and four\u00a0touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Final statistics\nBrown's dominant rushing performance was supplemented by RB Jordan Todman's 62\u00a0yards on seven\u00a0attempts, QB Tyler Lorenzen's 32\u00a0yards on twelve\u00a0attempts, including two\u00a0touchdowns, and fullback Anthony Sherman's three\u00a0yards on one\u00a0attempt; in total Connecticut ran for 358\u00a0yards. The Huskies attempted to pass only six times during the game; Lorenzen completed four of them for 49\u00a0yards and a touchdown. Four different UConn receivers caught one pass each: wide receiver Kashif Moore (18\u00a0yards), cornerback and sometime wide receiver Darius Butler (16\u00a0yards), fullback Anthony Sherman (11\u00a0yards), and tight end Steve Brouse (4\u00a0yards and a touchdown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Final statistics\nBuffalo's offensive performance was in some ways the opposite of Connecticut's: while UConn dominated on the ground and barely passed the ball, Buffalo struggled with the run but had a good day passing. The Bulls ran for a total of 24\u00a0yards on the game; James Starks accounted for 25\u00a0yards on thirteen\u00a0carries and scored a touchdown, while RB Brandon Termilus ran three\u00a0times for five\u00a0yards. Their total was partially offset by Drew Willy, who lost six\u00a0yards on three rushing attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Final statistics\nWilly had a much more successful day passing, completing 29 out of 43\u00a0passes for 213\u00a0yards and one\u00a0interception. Namaan Roosevelt led the Buffalo receivers with 90\u00a0yards on eight\u00a0catches; of the five other Bulls who received passes, WR Brett Hamlin caught four\u00a0passes for 54\u00a0yards, TE Jesse Rack caught three for 22\u00a0yards, RB Starks caught 11 for 21\u00a0yards, WR Ernest Jackson caught two for 17\u00a0yards, and WR Gary Rice caught one for 9\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Final statistics\nConnecticut dominated Buffalo statistically in the first half, gaining 225\u00a0yards to the Bulls' 94, led by Donald Brown's 208\u00a0yards\u00a0rushing. Buffalo won the turnover battle however, recovering five UConn fumbles. The Bulls scored 20\u00a0points off UConn turnovers in the first half, but were held scoreless in the second half when the Huskies stopped turning the ball over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Aftermath\nConnecticut's win gave the team a final record of 8\u20135 and back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2003\u201304. Buffalo's final record fell to 8\u20136, which still marked the first winning season for the Bulls since transitioning to Division I-A football in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Aftermath\nIn a press conference after the game, Brown announced that he would not return for his senior season and enter the NFL Draft, saying he told the media he said he was staying to take the focus off of himself prior to the game. Brown was drafted 27th overall by the Indianapolis Colts, becoming the first UConn player ever drafted in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Aftermath\nThree other UConn players were drafted in the second round: Darius Butler 41st overall by the New England Patriots, Will Beatty 60th overall by the New York Giants, and defensive end Cody Brown 63rd overall by the Arizona Cardinals. Tight end Martin B\u00e9dard was drafted 15th overall in the second round of the Canadian Football League's (CFL) 2009 Draft. Buffalo did not have any players drafted by either league in 2009; in the 2010 NFL Draft James Starks was selected in the sixth round, 193rd overall, by the Green Bay Packers. UConn cornerback Robert McClain was also drafted by the NFL in 2010, in the seventh round, 249th overall, by the Carolina Panthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Aftermath\nIn the offseason Connecticut hired Joe Moorhead as their new offensive coordinator, replacing the departed Rob Ambrose. Turner Gill returned to coach Buffalo in 2009. Following that season, however, he left to take over the football program at the University of Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203452-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 International Bowl, Aftermath\nConnecticut and Buffalo resumed their rivalry on September 25, 2010, playing a regular season game  at UConn's Rentschler Field. Although the score was tied 14\u201314 at halftime, the Huskies pulled away in the second half after changing quarterbacks, winning the rematch 45\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203453-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Challenge Cup\nThe 2009 International Challenge Cup (also called the AEGON Challenge Cup after its title sponsor) was held between March 4 and 8, 2009 at the De Uithof in The Hague. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating, across the levels of senior, junior, novice, and the pre-novice discipline called \"Debs\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203454-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Formula Master\nThe 2009 International Formula Master was the third International Formula Master season. The season consisted of eight double-header events, beginning on May 16 at Pau and ending on September 20 at Imola. The series supported the World Touring Car Championship at all European rounds except the Race of Portugal, and supported Formula One at the Hungarian Grand Prix and at the Belgian Grand Prix. Fabio Leimer claimed the title for Jenzer Motorsport, winning his seventh race of the season at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203454-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Formula Master, Prize Tests\nLike the previous season, the top drivers in the International Formula Master series standings at the end of the year will be awarded with a wide range of prize tests in various other racing categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203454-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International Formula Master, Prize Tests\nAs champion, Fabio Leimer received a GP2 Series test with French team DAMS, with Leimer, Sergey Afanasyev and Josef Kr\u00e1l all earning the chance to use the chassis simulator of Formula One team Red Bull Racing for a day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203454-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International Formula Master, Prize Tests\nIn addition, tests have also been confirmed with Indy Lights team Sam Schmidt Motorsports and with the Chevrolet Cruze used in the World Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203455-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International GT Open\nThe 2009 International GT Open season was the fourth season of the International GT Open. The season began on April 18 and ended on November 8, 2009. Jo\u00ebl Camathias and Marcel F\u00e4ssler claimed both the Super GT title and the overall title, beating Autorlando Sport's Richard Lietz and Gianluca Roda in both standings. GTS champions were the Kessel Racing pairing of Micha\u0142 Broniszewski and Philipp Peter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203455-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International GT Open, Championships\nPoints are awarded to the top five finishers in the order 10-8-6-4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203456-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open\nThe 2009 International German Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 103rd edition of the event known that year as the International German Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from 20 July through 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203456-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203456-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open, Champions, Doubles\nSimon Aspelin /  Paul Hanley defeated  Marcelo Melo /  Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203457-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open \u2013 Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203457-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open \u2013 Doubles\nSimon Aspelin and Paul Hanley won in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Marcelo Melo and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203458-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open \u2013 Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203458-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open \u2013 Singles\nNikolay Davydenko won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Paul-Henri Mathieu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203458-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International German Open \u2013 Singles, Qualifying\nThe top two seeds received a bye into the qualifying competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing\nAt least six people, including three women, were killed, and as many as 29 people injured, 25 of them women, in twin suicide attacks at International Islamic University, Islamabad in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Police say the blasts at the university were caused by suicide bombers. This was the first-ever attack on students in the country since the start of 21st century terrorism in Pakistan in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Background\nThe university is located in Islamabad's sector H-10. Eyewitnesses told DawnNews that there were between 3\u20134,000 students present at the time of the blast. The blasts took place at both the boys and girls campuses of the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Background\nThe attack came as the Pakistani Army continued its offensive against militants in South Waziristan, in the country's north-west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Background\nA string of attacks rocked Peshawar, Swat, Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Islamabad dating back to 5 October, killing more than 250 people. The bombings have made October one of the bloodiest months since the beginning of the terrorist attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Attacks\nThe first attack occurred adjacent to the cafeteria near the girls' hostel, while the second attack occurred in the Sharia and Law Department a few minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Attacks\nDeputy Commissioner Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmad told news reporters that the deceased were identified as Sidra Khalid (student), Hina (student), Pervaiz Masih (sanitary worker), Shaukat Bhatti (security guard), Amna (worker) and Khalil-ur-Rehman (student). Students said Masih, prevented the bomber from entering the cafeteria of the girls school and saved many lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Domestic reactions\nInterior Minister Rehman Malik said, \"These people have attacked Islamic University which proves their NO affiliation with Islam. They are neither sincere with Islam nor Pakistan's friends.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Domestic reactions\nRehman Malik after a meeting on the security of schools and universities said, 'We have solid evidence that not only in Balochistan but India is involved in almost every terrorist activity in Pakistan.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203459-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 International Islamic University bombing, Aftermath\nThe attacks prompted authorities to close schools and colleges throughout the country. The Sindh Education Department announced the closure of all government and private schools in the province until 25 October (Sunday), adding that universities would remain closed on 21 October (Wednesday) only. The NWFP and Balochistan governments have also announced the closure of all education institutions until Sunday. Educational institutions in the federal capital had already been shut down until 25 October. In Punjab, a private TV channel, it was reported that all government and private education institutions would remain closed until further orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season\nThe 2009 International League season began on Thursday, April 9, with all fourteen teams competing on opening day. The regular season ended on Monday, September 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season\nIn the semifinal playoff rounds, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees defeated the Gwinnett Braves 3-1 and the Durham Bulls defeated the Louisville Bats 3-2. The Bulls swept the Yankees 3-0 in the championship series to win the Governors' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, Affiliation changes\nBefore the 2009 season, three IL teams signed player development contracts (PDC) with different parent clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, Affiliation changes\nThe Columbus Clippers signed a four-year PDC with the Cleveland Indians through 2012 on September 18, 2008. The Clippers had previously been affiliated with the Washington Nationals for two years after ending their 28-year partnership with the New York Yankees. The Indians become the Clippers' third affiliate in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, Affiliation changes\nThe Syracuse Chiefs signed a two-year PDC with the Washington Nationals through 2010 on September 20, 2008. The Chiefs had previously been affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays since 1978 and had been the only Triple-A affiliate in Toronto's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, Affiliation changes\nThe Buffalo Bisons signed a two-year PDC with the New York Mets through 2010 on September 21, 2008. The Bisons had previously been affiliated with the Cleveland Indians for 14 seasons, winning three league championships (2 in the IL, 1 in the AA). The Bisons adopted a new logo and the Mets' team colors as their own to reflect the new partnership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, Team changes\nAfter 43 seasons and 5 Governor's Cup championships, the Richmond Braves moved to Lawrenceville, Georgia becoming the Gwinnett Braves. One factor in the franchise's decision to relocate was reportedly a failure to reach an agreement on building a new ballpark in Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, New stadiums\nThe Columbus Clippers moved from Cooper Stadium to Huntington Park in Columbus' Arena District. The stadium, which cost $56 million and will seat 10,000, opened on April 18 as the Clippers hosted their rival Toledo Mud Hens. Columbus-based bank holding company Huntington Bancshares Inc. bought the stadium's naming rights $12 million over 23 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Before the Season, New stadiums\nThe newly relocated Gwinnett Braves (formerly Richmond Braves) moved into Gwinnett Stadium in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The 10,000 seat stadium is a focal point of a planned mixed-use entertainment district and opened on April 17 as the Braves host the Norfolk Tides. As of February 2009,the naming rights to the stadium have not been sold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Regular season, Opening Day\nApril 9 is the Opening Day of the 2009 International League season. The following games are scheduled:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Regular season, All-star game\nThe 2009 Triple-A All-Star Game was the 22nd meeting between all-stars of the International and Pacific Coast leagues, with the game taking place on July 17 at PGE Park in Portland, Oregon. For the twelfth time, the International League would field a team of its best players to compete against the host Pacific Coast League's best players. The International League would even up the All-Star Game series, with a 6-5 win over the Pacific Coast League all-stars. The PCL held a six games to five lead over the IL before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203460-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 International League season, Playoffs\nThe 2009 International League playoffs will take place at the conclusion of the regular season in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations\nThe International Rally of Nations is an international Rally event held in M\u00e9xico for the first time in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations\nAccording to the organization, \"the idea of this event is to bring the emotional side of the Olympic Games or the world cup to the automobile world with the possibility of several teams per country.\" The idea for the event came after the Rally Mexico was not included in the 2009 World Rally Championship due to the rotation system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations\nThe event was won by Spain's Xavier Pons and Daniel Sol\u00e0, with the two drivers amassing a total of 1067.5 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations, Format\nThis Rally has a special format since, unlike other rallies, time will not be added stage by stage. Each Special Stage will give points to the top 16 drivers. A team representing a nation will consist of two cars and the points scored by each driver will be added together to determine the Nations Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations, Format\n\"Points will be awarded to each member of a Team per each Special Stage or Super Special Stage completed. The best-classified crew of each Team will be awarded points as Car 1, the second crew as Car 2. Each crew will be awarded points according to its overall position in the stage classification from the eligible crews (Competing for the Rally of Nations) in each Super Special Stage or Special Stage according to the following scale:\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations, Format\nThe Team scoring the most points at the end of the Rally will be declared theWinner of the Rally of Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203461-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rally of Nations, 2009 Entries\nThere are some very important drivers, including former and/or World Rally Championship, Production World Rally Championship and NACAM Rally Championship champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203462-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rules Series\nThe 2009 International Rules Series (officially the 2009 Coca-Cola International Rules Series) was to have been the 15th International Rules Series football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203462-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Rules Series\nOn 28 July 2009 the Australian Football League (AFL) informed the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) that due to economic conditions in Australia they would not be travelling to Ireland for the series in October. GAA President Christy Cooney and Ireland's international rules team manager Sean Boylan both expressed their disappointment at the AFL's decision. The AFL committed in writing that it would travel to Ireland for the series in 2010, and the Gaelic Grounds and Croke Park would host those two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203463-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 International Women's Football Tournament of City of S\u00e3o Paulo\nThe 2009 Torneio Internacional Cidade de S\u00e3o Paulo was the FIRST edition of the Torneio Internacional Cidade de S\u00e3o Paulo de Futebol Feminino, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Brazil. It began on 9 December and ended on 20 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203463-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 International Women's Football Tournament of City of S\u00e3o Paulo, Format\nThe four invited teams were in. In the first phase, the teams played each other within the group in a single round. The two teams with the most points earned in the respective group, were qualified for the next phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 75], "content_span": [76, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203463-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 International Women's Football Tournament of City of S\u00e3o Paulo, Format\nIn the final stage, the first and second teams placed in Group. Played only one match, becoming the champion, the winner team. If the match ends in a tie, will be considered champion, the team with the best campaign in the first phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 75], "content_span": [76, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203463-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 International Women's Football Tournament of City of S\u00e3o Paulo, Format\nThe third and fourth teams placed in the group. Played in one game, becoming the third-placed, the winner team. If the match ends in a tie, will be considered champion, the team with the best campaign in the first phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 75], "content_span": [76, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203464-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie\nThe 2009 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part off the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Noum\u00e9a, New Caledonia between 5 and 11 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203464-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 85], "content_span": [86, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203465-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie \u2013 Singles\nFlavio Cipolla was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Brendan Evans won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Florian Mayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203466-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg\nThe 2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, and was part of the International-level tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Centre Sportif de Hautepierre in Strasbourg, France, from 18 May until 23 May 2009. Aravane Reza\u00ef won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203466-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Finals, Doubles\nNathalie Dechy /  Mara Santangelo defeated  Claire Feuerstein /  St\u00e9phanie Foretz, 6\u20130, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203467-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Doubles\nIn the doubles event at the 2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg women's tennis tournament played in Strasbourg, France, the winning pair was Nathalie Dechy of France and Mara Santangelo of Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203468-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Singles\nAnabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion, but retired in the second round against Kristina Barrois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203468-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux de Strasbourg \u2013 Singles\nAravane Reza\u00ef won the title, defeating Lucie Hradeck\u00e1 in the final 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203469-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9\nThe 2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9 was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Besan\u00e7on, France between 23 February and 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203469-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 96], "content_span": [97, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203469-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9, Champions, Men's Doubles\nKarol Beck /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd def. David \u0160koch /  Igor Zelenay, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 10\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 78], "content_span": [79, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203470-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9 \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya were the defending champions; however, they chose to not participate this year. Karol Beck and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd won in the final 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 10\u20137, against David \u0160koch and Igor Zelenay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203471-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internationaux du Doubs \u2013 Open de Franche-Comt\u00e9 \u2013 Singles\nMarc Gicquel was the defending champion; however, he didn't take part in these championships this year. Kristof Vliegen defeated 6\u20132, 6\u20137(6), 6\u20133 Andreas Beck in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203472-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo\nThe 2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo is a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 22nd edition of the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, and is part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Palermo, Italy, from July 13 through July 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203472-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203472-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Champions, Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez def. Mariya Koryttseva /  Darya Kustova, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203473-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo \u2013 Doubles\nSara Errani and Nuria Llagostera Vives were the defending champions. Both were present that year, but chose to compete with different partners. Errani partnered with Lourdes Dom\u00ednguez Lino, but lost in the quarterfinals to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. Llagostera Vives, partnered with Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, defeated Mariya Koryttseva and Darya Kustova in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203474-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo \u2013 Singles\nSara Errani was the defending champion, but Flavia Pennetta defeated her in the final 6-1, 6-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203475-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria\nThe 2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Todi, Italy between 14 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203475-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203475-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203475-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Fischer /  Philipp Oswald def. Pablo Santos /  Gabriel Trujillo-Soler, 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203476-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria \u2013 Doubles\nGianluca Naso and Walter Trusendi were the defending champions, but only Trusendi chose to compete this year. He partnered with Thomas Fabbiano. They reached to the quarterfinals, where he lost to Kevin Anderson and Harsh Mankad. Martin Fischer and Philipp Oswald defeated Pablo Santos and Gabriel Trujillo-Soler 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203477-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis dell'Umbria \u2013 Singles\nTomas Tenconi was the defending champion; however, he was eliminated by Andrea Arnabold in the second round. Simon Greul won in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(6), against Adrian Ungur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203478-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo\nThe 2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bergamo, Italy between 9 and 15 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203478-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203478-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203478-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo, Champions, Men's Doubles\nKarol Beck /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd def. Chris Haggard /  Pavel V\u00edzner, 7\u20136(6), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203479-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo \u2013 Doubles\nSimone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi chose to not defend their 2008 title. Karol Beck and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd won in the final 7\u20136(6), 6\u20134, against Chris Haggard and Pavel V\u00edzner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203480-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo \u2013 Singles\nAndreas Seppi was the defending champion; however, he didn't take part in these championships this year. Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol won in the final 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(3), against Benedikt Dorsch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203481-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open\nThe 2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Talheim, Germany between 26 January and 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203481-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203481-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open, Champions, Men's Doubles\nKarol Beck /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd def. Benedikt Dorsch /  Philipp Petzschner, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203482-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open \u2013 Doubles\nRik de Voest and Bobby Reynolds were the defending champions. They chose to not defend their 2009 title. Karol Beck and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132, against Benedikt Dorsch and Philipp Petzschner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203483-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Intersport Heilbronn Open \u2013 Singles\nEvgeny Korolev was the defending champion. He didn't take part in these championships this year. Benjamin Becker defeated 6\u20134, 6\u20134 Karol Beck in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203484-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzb\u00fchel\nThe 2009 Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzb\u00fchel is a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 29th edition of the tournament and was part of the World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Tennis stadium Kitzb\u00fchel in Kitzbuehel Austria from 16 May until 23 May 2009. Unseeded Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203484-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzb\u00fchel, Finals, Doubles\nMarcelo Melo /  Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 defeated  Andrei Pavel /  Horia Tec\u0103u, 6\u20137(9\u201311), 6\u20132, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203485-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzb\u00fchel \u2013 Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203486-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Corn Indy 250\nThe 2009 Iowa Corn Indy 250 was the seventh round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on June 21, 2009 at the 0.894-mile (1.439\u00a0km) Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, United States. The race was broadcast on ABC. It received a 0.8 rating on the Nielsen ratings scale, down from a 1.1 rating from the 2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa and the Iowa Hawkeyes athletic program during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played its home games at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. 2009 marked Kirk Ferentz's 11th year as head coach of Iowa. The Hawkeyes finished the season as the 2010 Orange Bowl Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe Hawkeyes came off a 9\u20134 season in 2008, including a win over South Carolina in the Outback Bowl and a 24\u201323 upset of Big Ten champion of Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Season, Schedule\nThe Hawkeyes played 13 opponents in the 2009 season, finishing 11\u20132 (6\u20132 in conference play) and defeated Georgia Tech in the 2010 Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Iowa\nThe Hawkeyes struggled early, gaining just 104 yards of total offense in the first half. After trading field goals, UNI took a 10\u20133 lead after quarterback Pat Grace threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Mahaffey. The Hawkeyes woke up in the second half, going 70 yards in six plays and getting an 11-yard touchdown run from Adam Robinson with under 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter. Iowa would regain the lead early in the fourth quarter when Tony Moeaki caught a touchdown pass from Ricky Stanzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Iowa\nAfter a Billy Hallgren field goal, the Panthers threatened late in the game, with Grace leading them down the field in the final minutes to set up a potential game-winning kick and an upset. Hallgren's first attempt was blocked, but the officials ruled the ball went behind the line of scrimmage and UNI recovered with one second left. Jeremiha Hunter blocked the second kick, sealing the victory for the Hawkeyes. This was the first time in FBS history that a team had blocked two field goals on consecutive plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northern Iowa\nDespite the win, Iowa's struggle against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent knocked them out of both the Associated Press and USA Today Top 25 polls until their upset of #5 Penn State at the end of the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe Cyclones scored first with a 46-yard field goal from Grant Mahoney in the first quarter. But Iowa was able to capitalize on good field position resulting from an onside kick attempt by Iowa State and took the lead for good on a one-yard pass from Ricky Stanzi to Brett Morse. The Hawkeyes benefitted from six turnovers, scoring four more touchdowns off Cyclone mistakes. Tyler Sash had three of Iowa's five interceptions, tying a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nThe Hawkeyes scored on the opening drive, with a 2-yard touchdown run by Adam Robinson. But Arizona tied the score at 7 after Trevin Wade returned a Ricky Stanzi interception 38 yards into the end zone. Iowa's defense would again prove to be the difference-maker in this game, not allowing a touchdown until 1:53 was remaining in the game, with the Hawkeyes well ahead. Tyler Sash also netted his seventh interception in five games (dating back to last year).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nESPN's College GameDay was in State College for the Saturday night Big Ten opener. The Hawkeyes fell behind early, 10\u20130, after a 79-yard pass from Daryll Clark to Chaz Powell on Penn State's first play from scrimmage and then a 20-play drive by the Nittany Lions that led to a Collin Wagner field goal. But Iowa would score 21 unanswered points after that to stun Penn State for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe defense shut down the Nittany Lions in the final three quarters, forcing four turnovers, and the turning point in the game came when Penn State punted, clinging to a 10\u20135 lead in the fourth quarter, Adrian Clayborn blocked a punt and ran it back 53 yards for a touchdown to give the Hawkeyes the lead. With the momentum changed, they were more easily able to move the ball on their final two drives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nFor many Penn State fans, the way the game played out reminded them of the games from their dismal 3\u20139 (1\u20137) season with many close losses in 2003, but for many Iowa fans, the way the game played out also brought back memories of 2003, reminding them of their 2003 season where they finished #8 in the nation and beat Penn State 26\u201314 at home, during a span of three years (2002, 2003, 2004) where they were #8 for three consecutive years and won a share of the conference championship in two of those years (2002 and 2004).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe win at Penn State on prime-time network television catapulted Iowa to a number 13 ranking in the AP Poll and a number 17 ranking in the Coaches' Poll. At year's end, it would also prove to be a selling point for choosing the Hawkeyes over the Nittany Lions for an at-large bid in the Bowl Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State\nIowa jumped out to a 14\u20130 lead behind two touchdown passes by Ricky Stanzi. Unlike Stanzi, the offense would stall, however, which allowed the Red Wolves back into the game before the first half ended, with quarterback Corey Leonard connecting with Brandon Thompkins for a score. The Hawks would answer back in the second half, as Tyler Sash's fifth interception on the year set up a 43-yard TD pass from Stanzi to Marvin McNutt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State\nStanzi was then picked off twice, the second interception going 75 yards for a touchdown (Stanzi's 2nd pick-six this year). Daniel Murray extended the lead to 10 with a 20-yard field goal, but Arkansas State wouldn't go away. They took the ball 68 yards in a 17 plays and nearly 8 minutes to close the gap within 3. The Hawkeyes would hold on though to improve their record to 5\u20130, with Michigan coming to town in a prime-time national telecast next.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe scoring began with Stanzi's third pick-six of the year, with cornerback Donovan Warren taking the intercepted pass 40 yards to give Michigan an early 7\u20130 lead. Iowa would respond, however, with Stanzi finding tight end Tony Moeaki for a touchdown to cap a nine-play, 57-yard drive. The Wolverines committed five turnovers to the Hawkeyes' one, the most crucial being an interception by Brett Greenwood with 46 seconds remaining in the game to seal Iowa's 10th consecutive victory, the second-longest winning streak in the nation behind Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, the Badgers jumped to a 10\u20130 lead after freshman running back Montee Ball scored from 10 yards out. Then, in a scene reminiscent of Iowa's effort at Penn State three weeks earlier, the Hawks rattled off 20 unanswered points, while the defense intercepted Wisconsin QB Scott Tolzien three times. Also similar to the win over Penn State, Tolzien was picked off two times on Wisconsin's final drives that threatened to put Wisconsin in the game again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nUnlike that night, Iowa was not trailing in the 4th quarter, they took a 17\u201310 lead early in the 4th and nearly scored once more up 20\u201310 in the red zone, but couldn't convert a 4th down. Despite this, the 10-point lead was more than enough for the Hawkeyes to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nThe win, paired with Ohio State's loss at Purdue, gave Iowa sole possession of first place in the Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Michigan State\nIt was a defensive battle for 58 minutes, with both teams getting very close to the goal line, only to come away with field goals. Down 9\u20136 in the fourth quarter, the Spartans scored on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Kirk Cousins to Blair White with 1:37 left in the game. But the Hawkeyes would respond by taking the ball down the field. Finally, on 4th and goal at the 7-yard line with 2 seconds remaining, Ricky Stanzi connected with Marvin McNutt for the game-winning touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Michigan State\nThe win gave the Hawkeyes its best start in school history at 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nThe Hawkeyes' perfect season and hopes at a national championship were in serious jeopardy for three quarters, as Indiana went into the locker room ahead 21\u20137 at the half thanks to an opening-drive score and special teams miscues by the Hawkeyes (a 9-yard punt and a fumble on a punt return deep in Iowa territory). The Hoosiers looked to extend the lead to three scores when Tyler Sash somehow managed to intercept a Ben Chappell pass and take it 86 yards the other way for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nRicky Stanzi had perhaps his worst game as Iowa's quarterback, throwing five interceptions, four in the third quarter as the Hawkeye offense played into a strong wind from the north. He and his team were able to recover in the fourth quarter, however, as Stanzi found Marvin McNutt for a 92-yard touchdown pass then on the next offensive play, connected with Derrell Johnson-Koulianos for a score from 66 yards out that would put Iowa up for good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nIn all, the Hawkeyes scored 28 unanswered points in the final 15 minutes after trailing 24\u201314 to improve their record to 9\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nIn the first quarter, Ricky Stanzi quickly rattled off 10 points for the Iowa offense, putting them in the lead early. However, those would be the only points the Hawkeyes would score all day, and, as the second quarter drew to a close, the Hawkeyes would find themselves without their starting quarterback, as Stanzi went down with a high ankle sprain, effectively ending his season, and forcing untested backup, freshman James Vandenberg into the spotlight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nThe spotlight would prove to be too much for Vandenberg, as he could never mount an effective enough drive to overcome the suddenly mounting score. Iowa would eventually lose the game and their number 4 ranking in the BCS poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nDevin Barclay kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime to defeat the injured but spirited Iowa Hawkeyes 27-24. James Vandenberg would make his first start in place of injured Ricky Stanzi in this battle for the Big Ten championship and the conference's automatic bid, which would put the winner in the Rose Bowl. Vandenberg showed remarkable poise playing such a big game in a tough environment in Columbus, completing 20 of his 33 passes for two touchdowns, including the game-tying score to Marvin McNutt with 2:42 left in regulation. Derrell Johnson-Koulianos also helped in the Hawks' comeback with a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown after Ohio State extended its lead to 24\u201310 on a 49-yard Brandon Saine run following a Vandenberg interception. Iowa would not score in its overtime possession however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nIt was a battle of defenses on Senior Day in Iowa City, as both the Hawkeyes and Gophers combined for 372 total yards and 17 punts, more than the total number of points. The game's lone touchdown came on a 1-yard run by Brandon Wegher with 52 seconds left in the first half. The Hawkeye defense also turned the Gophers away after having four chances to make it a game with the ball on Iowa's 2-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nWith the win, Iowa finished the regular season at 10\u20132 and a final BCS ranking of number 10. On December 6, 2009, they were selected to play the Atlantic Coast Conference champion Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the 2010 Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida on January 5, marking the Hawkeyes' second postseason visit to South Florida in seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Orange Bowl\nThe Hawkeyes came into the 76th Orange Bowl as underdogs to Georgia Tech, but were able to set the tempo at the very beginning. The Hawkeyes brought a piece of Iowa with them to South Florida, the temperature was 49 degrees at kickoff, making it the coldest Orange Bowl on record. After a Marvin McNutt fumble on the game's opening drive led to good field position for the Yellow Jackets' dangerous triple-option attack, the Iowa defense was able to force a 3-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Orange Bowl\nOn the next two offensive drives, quarterback Ricky Stanzi, who had surgery to repair a ligament tear that was a result of his injury against Northwestern, led the Hawkeyes into the end zone, throwing a 3-yard touchdown pass to Marvin McNutt and a 21-yard pass to Colin Sandeman to give Iowa the early 14\u20130 advantage. But as he had done three times already in 2009, Stanzi also threw an interception that resulted in six points for the other team, with Jerrard Tarrant scoring from 40 yards on the return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Orange Bowl\nAfter getting manhandled in the first half, Georgia Tech's offense would wake up, getting into scoring position on their first drive but unable to put points on the board, then getting a one-yard score from Anthony Allen to cap an 11-play, 71-yard drive and bring the Jackets to within a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Orange Bowl\nNorm Parker's defense, however, was once again able to stop Tech after that, and a 32-yard touchdown by Brandon Wegher with 1:56 remaining would seal Iowa's first major bowl victory since the 1959 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203487-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football team, Game summaries, Orange Bowl\nDefensive end Adrian Clayborn, who announced he would return to the Hawkeyes next season, was named the Orange Bowl's Most Valuable Player. He had 9 tackles and 2 sacks. The Iowa defense limited Georgia Tech to 143 yards rushing, less than half of their average for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203488-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 2009 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by first year head coach Paul Rhoads. They played their home games at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. The Cyclones finished the season 7\u20136, 3\u20135 in Big 12 play and beat Minnesota 14\u201313 in the Insight Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203488-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nThe Cyclones entered Memorial Stadium without their leading quarterback and rushing threat and subsequently played an error-free game. The solid effort was enough to put up 9 points in the first half to lead Nebraska by 2, which concluded the game's scoring. The 9 points turned out to be sufficient to win against the poor Cornhusker offensive effort, which turned over the ball a school-record eight times (including four inside of Iowa State's five-yard line). The turnovers negated Nebraska's 362\u2013239 edge in yards gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203488-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nThe Cyclones enjoyed their first win in Memorial Stadium since 1977. First-year Head coach Paul Rhoads said about the game, \"When you don't win in a stadium on the road since 1977, it's big.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203488-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa State Cyclones football team, After the season, Awards, Big 12 player of the week\nAlexander RobinsonOn September 28, Alexander Robinson was declared the Big 12 Co-Offensive player of the week after recording 178 yards of total offense and three touchdowns in Iowa State's win over Army. Robinson is the first Iowa State running back since Ennis Haywood in 2000 to record three consecutive 100- yard games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203489-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa special elections\nThe 2009 Iowa state special elections were held throughout 2009. These elections were to fill vacancies in various state and local positions, most notably in the Iowa House of Representatives. In 2009, neither special election had the potential to change partisan control of the Iowa House, though such races may nonetheless be viewed as predictors for future elections. As of November\u00a04, 2009, there have been two resignations from the Iowa House in 2009, resulting in special elections in House Districts 33 and 90.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203489-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa special elections, Iowa House District 90 special election\nDistrict 90 Representative John Whitaker (D) announced on July 17, 2009, that he was resigning from the Iowa House to become U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Administration Director in Iowa. Governor Chet Culver signed a proclamation on July 20 setting a special election to fill the vacancy for September 1, 2009. Democrat Curt Hanson won the election, beating Republican Stephen Burgmeier, Fourth of July Party candidate Dan Cesar, and Independent Douglas William Philips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203489-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iowa special elections, Iowa House District 33 special election\nDistrict 33 Representative Dick Taylor (D) announced on October 12, 2009, that he was resigning from the Iowa House for family reasons. Culver signed a proclamation on October 13 setting a special election to fill the vacancy for November 24, 2009. The candidates for the seat are Republican Joshua Thurston and Democrat Kirsten Running-Marquardt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203490-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division\nThe 2009 Iranian Futsal 2nd Division will be divided into two phases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203490-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division\nThe league will also be composed of 20 teams divided into two divisions of 10 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 18 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial\n2009 Iran poll protests trial refers to a series of trials conducted after 2009 Iranian presidential election. Over 140 defendants, including prominent politicians, academics and writers, were put on trial for participating in the 2009 Iranian election protests. The defendants were accused of orchestrating \"colour revolution\" in Iran, and \"exposing cases of violations of human rights.\" The trials were widely condemned by world leaders both in Iran and worldwide as a \"Show trial\" with coerced confessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Accused\nOn August 1, 2009 110 people were put on trial, including prominent reformists, journalists and writers. Among them were former Vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and Industry Minister Behzad Nabavi, reformist lawmaker Ali Tajernia, Shahaboddin Tabatabaei, journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi, and others. Other people put on trial include French Embassy employee, Nazak Afshar, nine British Embassy employees, including the Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, Hossein Rassam, Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari, and French academic Clotilde Reiss. On August 16, 25 more defendants were added to the trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Accused\nThroughout the trials, family members of the defendants and others gathered in front of the court to condemn the trial. Witnesses reported that riot police attacked the protesters outside the court. The wife of detained reformist lawmaker Ali Tajernia was arrested while outside the court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Accused\nOn August 28, President Ahmadinejad called on judiciary officials to \"decisively\" and \"mercilessly\" prosecute those \"who organized, incited and pursued the plans of the enemies,\" remarks called \"clearly aimed at Mir Hussein Moussavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Mohammad Khatami, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Charges and confessions\nThe charges included \"rioting\", \"vandalism\" and \"acting against national security\", \"disturbing public order,\" having ties with counter-revolutionary groups according to official sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Charges and confessions\nIn a press conference shown on state television several of the defendants \u2013 Abtahi, Kian Tajbakhsh, Maziar Bahari \u2013 made confessions and withdrew charges against the election results that some of them had made earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Charges and confessions\nCritics of the prosecution and the confessions by the accused, such as Pamela Kilpadi, say the confessions, \"have been forced under duress from (people) being held in an undisclosed location without access to a lawyer, family, or friends, in violation of the human rights treaties to which Iran is supposedly a signatory,\"  Prosecutors have warned against questioning the legitimacy of the trial, threatening to prosecute doubters. The prosecutor read an indictment on August 8, 2009, that accused United States and Britain of stoking the unrest in an attempt to create a \"soft overthrow\" of the Iranian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution\nThe prosecution is led by Saeed Mortazavi, the Prosecutor General of Tehran, who has been called a \"hardliner\" for his role in the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, and the shutting down of 60 pro-reform newspapers. The sentences for the charges range from a short imprisonment to capital punishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Complaints about access and rights\nAccording to journalist Borzou Daragahi, \"only reporters with news organizations controlled by Ahmadinejad or his loyalists were granted access to the courtroom.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Complaints about access and rights\nSaleh Nikbakht, who represents some of the most prominent defendants, has complained of being sidelined from the trial. He told Radio Farda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Complaints about access and rights\n\"I have repeatedly notified the judiciary that I have agreed to represent the defendants at their request, but I was never granted permission to see the detainees and I wasn't notified about today's trial. ... I first heard about the trial today at 11:30 a.m. on television. When I went there, the doors were closed and they did not let me in.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Complaints about access and rights\nThe families of the detained have also complained about the lack of openness in the trial. According to the website Norooznews.ir in a letter to judiciary chief Sadegh Larijani they said", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Complaints about access and rights\n\"The lawyers are not even informed of where the hearings are held, nor have they studied the dossiers, ... We ask you, as Iran's top judge, to bring the ongoing judicial case back on the right track to keep the judiciary from losing more face.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Sentences\nSo far, five people have received death sentences for their parts in the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Sentences\nTwo people were convicted for being members of a monarchist group and a third was convicted for his alleged ties to a terrorist group and for links to the People's Mujahedin of Iran. The other two were convicted of ties to armed opposition groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prosecution, Sentences\nIran's former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi was sentenced to six years in prison for taking part in the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nOpposition leaders have claimed that the prisoners have been tortured and raped in prison. UN human rights experts, opposition leaders, and world leaders condemned the abuse, which has been compared to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nFormer Prime Minister and presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has called the treatment of prisoners on trial \"medieval torture\". Former chairman of Iranian parliament Mehdi Karroubi has stated that male and female prisoners have been raped in the prison and their genitals torn. In a letter to the head of Assembly of Experts he asked the head of the assembly to investigate abuses. Amnesty International's secretary general has also called for an investigation into allegations of torture and rape in detention. Iran's police chief, Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, acknowledged that the prisoners had been abused and raped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nAli Larijani, Iran's parliament speaker, has denied that prisoners were abused. In response to denials, several journalists and activists who were detained in the prisons, reported their own personal experience. On August 16, 2009, Fereshteh Ghazi, in an article in Rooz, wrote about her time in prison, describing the torture and sexual violence in Iranian prisons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nAdditionally, several of the prisoners died while in prison. Authorities claimed that they had \"pre-existing conditions\" that led to their deaths, however, examining of the bodies would show signs of torture and broken bones. At least three of the detained protesters have died while in prison at the Kahrizak detention center. One prisoner, 24-year-old Amir Javadifar was clubbed by so badly that he was taken to a hospital and treated before being taken to Evin Prison. He would die while in prison and his father was later called to collect his corpse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nMedical reports on his body would show that he had been beaten, had several broken bones and his toenails had been pulled out. Another detainee, Amir Hossein Tufanian, who was in the Kahrizak detention center died while there. After his death, police allegedly demanded that his family pay thousands of dollars for his body. When the family protested that they had no money, they were told they could have it for free if they did not discuss it to anyone. Examinations would show that he had been tortured and had two broken arms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nThe mysterious death of an Iranian prison doctor on November 10, 2009, continued to raise suspicions. The doctor, Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, was the only doctor serving at the Kahrizak detention center. He came under scrutiny of the Iranian government when he refused to change the death certificate of Mohsen Rouhalamini, a protester detained at Kahrizakt, to meningitis rather than from torture and beatings. Conflicting reports from Iranian authorities regarding Dr. Pourandarjani's death led to massive outcries from opposition leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nMany prisoners were raped while detained. In Tehran, at least 37 men and women claim to have been raped by their jailers. Doctors' reports say that two males, aged 17 and 22, died as a result of internal bleeding from being raped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nThere is some question as to the effectiveness of the confessions to turn public opinion in Iran. One observer has stated that \"so far,\" the trials \"have failed to accrue\" the \"fearsome power\" of the Moscow show trials or earlier public confessions of Iranian secular leftists and MeK guerrillas in 1982, due to broad public support for the prisoners' cause and the \"subversive\" power of parodies and criticism of the trials on the Internet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, Prisoner abuse\nOn November 28, 2018 guards in Khoy female prison, north west of Iran attacked inmate Zeynab Jalalian and confiscated all her belongings. She was arrested in February 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, International response\nHuman rights activists and Iranian intellectuals wrote a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay calling the trials \"crimes against humanity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, International response\nU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the trials a \"sign of weakness\" and that it shows Iran \"is afraid of its own people\" in an interview with CNN. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband condemned the trial and said that accusing British Embassy staff of stoking the unrest \"only brings further discredit to the Iranian regime.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, International response\nThe Swedish Presidency of the European Union expressed concern over the trial and demanded that the prisoners be released promptly, saying \"The Presidency reiterates that actions against one EU country \u2014 citizen or embassy staff \u2014 is considered an action against all of EU, and will be treated accordingly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203491-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Iran poll protests trial, International response\nOn September 24, 2009, demonstrators from around the world gathered in New York City to protest against Ahmadinejad's speech to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident\nThe 2009 Iranian Air Force Il-76MD Adnan 2 accident of 22 September 2009 resulted in the destruction of Iran's only functional airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft,  an Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2. Sources conflict on the cause of the loss, with some stating that there was a mid-air collision with an Iranian Air Force Northrop F-5E Tiger II or a HESA Saeqeh, and others stating that the rotodome detached from the aircraft, striking and removing the tailplane while the aircraft was maneuvering for an emergency landing following an engine fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Accident\nA military parade was held in Tehran on 22 September 2009 to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1980\u20131988 Iran\u2013Iraq War, and was a send-off for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was to give a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 23 September. A flyby by the Iranian Air Force was part of the parade involving the AWACS-equipped Ilyushin-76MD as well as Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs and HESA Saeqeh aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Accident\nSources vary on the cause of the accident. Some state that a fire developed in one of the engines, and that the radome detached when the aircraft was attempting to make an emergency landing on runway 29L at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport. The detached radar dome struck the tail fin, removing it and caused loss of control which led to the aircraft crashing. Other sources state that the Il-76MD and one of the escorts collided in mid-air over the site of the tomb of former Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Accident\nThe Ilyushin subsequently crashed in flames 15\u00a0km northwest of Varamin, killing all seven crew members on board. Some reports state that no mayday call was made, indicating a sudden event while other reports indicate that there was an emergency call from the aircraft with the pilot reporting an engine fire and calling for an emergency landing. The accident was initially reported on the Islamic Republic News Agency website, but was withdrawn 5 hours later. A video of burning wreckage from the military aircraft surrounded by fire trucks was also shown on state TV. However, president Ahmadinejad made no mention of it during his speech at the parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Accident\nA video of the crash appeared on YouTube on 3 June 2011 uploaded by user Pooya Afaghi, showing the stricken IL-76MD with its rear fuselage missing, spiraling down out of control and then impacting the ground. The appearance of the video was reported in the Huffington Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Aircraft involved, IL-76\nThe aircraft involved was an Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2, a Soviet-built transport aircraft, later converted to an AWACS system by the Iraqi Military Industrialization Corporation for the Iraqi Air Force called the Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2. It had been flown from Iraq to Iran in 1991 during the First Gulf War, given serial number 5-8209 and renamed from \"Baghdad\" to \"Simorgh\" (a flying creature of Iranian fable which performs wonders in mid-flight). After arrival in Iran, Russian technicians had reportedly upgraded the aircraft and installed a newer Iranian-made radar, which could trace flying objects within a 1,000 kilometres (540\u00a0nmi) range. The aircraft came into service in April 2008 and was the only AWACS-equipped Iranian aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203492-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident, Aircraft involved, Possible second aircraft\nIf a mid-air collision was the cause of the accident, some sources state that the second aircraft involved was a Northrop F-5E Tiger II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast. There were large irregularities in the results and people were surprised by them, which resulted in protests of millions of Iranians, across every Iranian city and around the world and the emergence of the opposition Iranian Green Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nMany Iranian figures directly supported the protests and declared the votes were fraudulent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nAmong them, many film directors like Jafar Panahi (who was consequently banned from making movies for 20 years and condemned to six years imprisonment), Mohammad Rasoulof (also condemned to 6 years imprisonment), actors and actresses like Pegah Ahangarani (who was consequently imprisoned), Ramin Parchami (who was consequently condemned to one year imprisonment), sportsmen like the whole Iran national football team who wore green wristbands in their game against South Korea to support the movement, scholars like Mostafa Tajzadeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, Akbar Ganji, Mohsen Sazegara, many religious figures like Mohsen Kadivar, Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi, traditional singers like Mohammad Reza Shajarian, defected Basij and Iranian Revolutionary Guards like Amir Farshad Ebrahimi and those who confessed with covered faces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nThe European Union and several western countries expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote, and many analysts and journalists from the United States and United Kingdom news media voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nMousavi issued a statement accusing the Interior Ministry, which was responsible for conducting the election, of widespread election fraud and urged his supporters to engage in peaceful protests. He also lodged an official appeal with the Guardian Council for new and more transparent elections. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad, labeling his victory as a \"divine assessment\". Khamenei then announced there would be an investigation into vote-rigging claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nOn 16 June, the Guardian Council announced it would recount 10% of the votes and concluded there were no irregularities at all, dismissing all election complaints. However, Mousavi stated that a recount would not be sufficient since he claimed 14 million unused ballots were missing, giving the Interior Ministry an opportunity to manipulate the results. On 19 June, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the pro-Mousavi demonstrations as illegal, and protests the next day were met with stiff resistance from government forces, with many reported deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election\nThe Green Movement of Iran continued its peaceful protests until 14 February 2011 and radicalized itself demanding a total regime change and departure of Khamenei from power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Background\nAhmadinejad became President of Iran after the 2005 election. The losing candidates at that time claimed irregularities at the polls, but the charges were not investigated. A formal protest to the Guardian Council was made and the group dismissed it without comment. His victory had surprised most observers of the campaign. At that time the reformist camp had mostly either boycotted elections entirely or held back out of disillusionment with past lack of progress. The voting for the 2009 election was scheduled for 12 June 2009 and ended up being extended until midnight that day because the turnout was unexpectedly high. Voting ended up proceeding four hours longer than originally scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Background\nThe President is elected by direct vote, however candidates for the presidency must be approved by the 12-member Council of Guardians. Candidates need to win a majority (more than half) to become President. Iran has a two-round system: if none of the candidates wins the majority in the first round, the top two candidates will go to a run-off. The first round was held on 12 June 2009; the run-off would have been held one week later, on 19 June 2009. All Iranian citizens of age 18 and up are eligible to vote. Both the Iranian Center for Statistics and the Iranian Ministry of the Interior stated that there were around 46.2\u00a0million eligible voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Candidates\nOn 20 May 2009, the Guardian Council officially announced a list of approved candidates, while rejecting a number of registered nominees. Only four candidates were approved by the Guardian Council, out of the 476 men and women who had applied to seek the presidency of Iran in the 2009 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Candidates, Declined candidates\nThe following people were said to be possible candidates in the election, but did not register within the five days allowed for registration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Candidates, Declined candidates\nAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President and chairman of the Assembly of Experts, would have been over 75 years old on the election day and therefore ineligible to run by election law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nThe incumbent was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian reform movement attempted to unite behind a single candidate; former President Mohammad Khatami was the leading opponent to Ahmadinejad in some opinion polls, until he withdrew and endorsed former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Former Speaker of the Majlis Mehdi Karroubi, another Reformist, was also running; as was the former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rezaee, a conservative with a reputation for political pragmatism. The election marked a return to public spotlight for Mousavi, who had not received much attention since he served as Prime Minister in the 1980s. Reformist opinions galvanized around him as the election grew nearer. He became the symbol for a groundswell of youthful democratic sentiment, despite his personal background and political views.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 902]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nThe Telegraph described the campaign as \"unusually open by Iranian standards, but also highly acrimonious\". It was marked by heated rhetoric between the incumbent and his challengers. Mousavi and two other candidates said Ahmadinejad lied about the state of the economy, which was suffering from high inflation and a fall in oil revenues from last year's record levels. Ahmadinejad responded by comparing his opponents to Adolf Hitler, adding they could be jailed for their comments: \"No one has the right to insult the president, and they did it. And this is a crime. The person who insulted the president should be punished, and the punishment is jail ... Such insults and accusations against the government are a return to Hitler's methods, to repeat lies and accusations ... until everyone believes those lies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nDebates about the economy played the biggest role in the campaign, with the global economic recession looming in peoples' minds. About one in five Iranians lived under the poverty line, inflation was about 25 percent and unemployment over 12.5 percent (some unofficial estimates reported 30%). Mousavi advocated further privatisation of the economy towards a free market, with a tight monetary policy in comparison to Ahmadinejad's populist fiscal policy. Ahmadinejad's measures to fight poverty were a central issue of his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nMousavi drew his electoral base from the middle and upper classes, while Ahmadinejad drew support from the urban poor and rural residents. Civil servants, police officers, pensioners and others dependent on the government, also contributed to Ahmadinejad's base. He turned the financial support of the business class opposing him into a theme of attack. BBC News described his campaign as \"one that foresees the death of capitalism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nMousavi criticized Ahmadinejad for diplomatically isolating Iran by denying the Holocaust and making anti western speeches. He opposed the government's current strict enforcement of Islamic dress and social behavior, calling for an end to the regime's 'Vice Police'. He advocated letting private individuals and groups own Iranian media. Both candidates strongly supported further development of the Iranian nuclear program. However, Mousavi advocated a less combative and tense tone with other nations about it. He floated the idea of an international consortium overseeing uranium enrichment in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nThe BBC stated about Mousavi: \"[i]n foreign affairs, he seems to be offering little change on major issues\". Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, Mohamad Bazzi, stated: \"if Mousavi wins, it could create a new opening for dialogue with the United States. Ahmadinejad's continued presence would be a major obstacle\". Robert Fisk also remarked a Mousavi victory would mean closer ties with the U.S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Background\nThe campaign was the most expensive in the Islamic Republic's history, with the two main candidates spending over tens of millions of dollars in a bid to convince voters. Funds were spent on, among other things, mass distribution of digital propaganda such as CDs and DVDs. Another interesting phenomenon taking place during the campaign was a dramatic rise in text messages sent to Iranian cell phone subscribers \u2013 between 60\u00a0and 110 million. Mousavi adopted the traditional islamic color of green as his campaign theme. Young male supporters wore green ribbons tied around their wrists and young female supporters wore green headscarves. Activists used the term 'change' as their primary slogan, chanting \"green change for Iran\", \"together for change\" and \"vote for change\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Debates\nFrom 2 to 8 June 2009 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting reported nightly debates on TV channel IRIB 3 between two candidates at a time, with each candidate facing the others once. This was the first time Iran had held televised debates between candidates. Each debate lasted for around one and a half hours. During the debate on 3 June between President Ahmadinejad and reformist rival, former Prime Minister Mousavi, Ahmadinejad made accusations regarding former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the Iranian Revolution. Rafsanjani responded to these charges on 9 June in an open letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei requesting that he stepped in to rebuke Ahmadinejad for his comments at the debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nThe opinion polls within Iran were considered unreliable. A number of polls conducted between relatively small voting groups, like university students and workers, were reported as election propaganda. More general polls reported in the media did not state the polling organization nor the basic facts about the methodology. The results showed a high variance and depend heavily on who was reporting the poll. In 2002, the polling organization Ayandeh and another polling organization was closed and its directors were arrested. The director of Ayandeh, Abbas Abdi, spent several years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nMousavi's and Karroubi's campaign posters in Tehran claimed that a high turnout would reduce Ahmadinejad's chance of winning the election. Karroubi's campaign manager, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, claimed that the chance of Ahmadinejad losing the election would be over 65 percent if over 32\u00a0million people voted, but less than 35 percent if less than 27\u00a0million people voted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nAn independent poll, conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion, a nonprofit institute that researches attitudes toward extremism, found that Ahmadinejad was leading by a margin of 2 to 1. 34% said they would vote for Ahmadinejad, 14% favored Mousavi, 2% favored Karroubi, 1% favored Rezaee and 27% were undecided. The poll was taken from 11 to 20 May. The poll was carried out by a company whose work for ABC News and the BBC in the Middle East has received an Emmy award. Polling itself was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nWriting in The Washington Post, pollsters Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty have used this to suggest that Ahmadinejad's apparent victory might reflect the will of the Iranian people. The poll was quoted by Reuters, Khaleej Times and Jim Muir of BBC News. However, the Irish Times, while quoting the poll, also pointed out that it was taken three weeks before the election, and electoral campaigning in Iran is only allowed for a period of 30 days prior to the election date, which means this poll was conducted only one week into the campaigning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nAnother critic of the poll, Mansoor Moaddel, pointed out that of \"1,731 people contacted [by the poll], well over half either refused to participate (42.2%) or did not indicate a preferred candidate (15.6%).\" For comparison, the average response rate in US for such telephonic surveys does not exceed 30%, while the minimum response rate for an opinion poll to be considered scientific by many leading academic journals is 50%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Campaign, Polling\nA post-election national poll was conducted in late August and early September 2009 by the American polling agency, World Public Opinion, which is affiliated to the University of Maryland. Of the initial 46% respondents of the poll, 27% did not state their chosen candidate, 55% said that they had voted for Ahmadinejad. Both Mr Karroubi and Mr Rezai received minimal support. 87% of respondents replied that they had voted compared to 85% according to the official figures, which is within the margin of error provided. Also, the survey found that 62% of Iranians had \"strong confidence\" in the election result whilst 64% expressed a similar feeling towards the incumbent president. This finding almost exactly matches up with the proportion of the vote that Ahmadinejad received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Irregularities, Pre-election violence\nOn 1 June, a campaign office of Ahmadinejad's primary opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was torched. The office was located in the city of Qom. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. At the same time, it was reported that an assassination had been attempted against former president Mohammad Khatami by means of a bomb placed on an aircraft he was to board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Irregularities, Blocking of communications\nMobile phone communications were interrupted in Tehran on election day and the BBC has stated that \"heavy electronic jamming\" was being used to halt their broadcasts. On 23 May 2009, the Iranian government temporarily blocked access to Facebook across the country. Gulf News reported that this move was a response to the use of Facebook by candidates running against Ahmadinejad. PC World reported that Mousavi's Facebook page had more than 6,600 supporters. Access was restored by 26 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Irregularities, Alleged vote rigging or coup attempt\nThe New York Times quoted an unnamed employee of the Interior Ministry claiming that \"the government had been preparing its fraud for weeks, purging anyone of doubtful loyalty and importing pliable staff members from around the country.\" The New Yorker stated that \"dissident employees of the Interior Ministry... have reportedly issued an open letter\" saying that the election was stolen. The Guardian has also mentioned \"reports of a leaked interior ministry figures allegedly suggesting Mousavi had won\", although the article questioned the credibility of the report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Irregularities, Alleged vote rigging or coup attempt\nThe Guardian reported on 17 June 2009 that an Iranian news website identified at least 30 polling sites with turnout over 100% and 200 sites with turnout over 95%. On 21 June 2009, a spokesman from the Guardian Council (an organ of the Iranian government) stated the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters in no more than 50 cities. The Council argued this was a normal phenomenon, which had also taken place in previous elections, as people are not obliged to vote where they had been born/registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Irregularities, Alleged vote rigging or coup attempt\nOn 18 June, Iranian film makers Marjane Satrapi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeared before Green Party members in the European Parliament to present a document allegedly received from a member of the Iranian electoral commission claiming that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had actually won the election, and that the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had received only 12% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 88], "content_span": [89, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nAccording to Reza Esfandiari and Yousef Bozorgmehr, the election data is consistent with a natural outcome in a statistical sense, allowing for some possible fraud at the local level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nMohtashami, former interior minister of Iran, who was in the election monitoring committee of Mousavi's campaign claimed that according to official censuses, the number of counted votes in 70 municipalities were more than the number of eligible voters who lived in those regions. In all those cities Ahmadinejad won by 80% to 90% However, \"excess votes\" have been common in all Iranian elections partly due to the way eligible voters are counted. For example, the Interior Ministry based their calculation of eligible voters on birth certificate registrations. Iranians do not register to vote and hundreds of thousands regularly vote outside their own regions. Shemiran, which had the highest excess voter turnout (13 times the number of eligible voters), overwhelmingly voted for Mousavi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nOn 17 June, Tabnak, the news agency close to defeated candidate Mohsen Rezaei whose official vote tally was 678,240 votes in the election, stated that \"Mohsen Rezaei, until yesterday afternoon, found evidence that proves at least 900,000 Iranians, who had sent in their national ID card numbers, voted for [him].\" However, there is no way of independently verifying whether those who disclosed their ID numbers had actually voted for Rezaei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nBBC Iranian affairs analyst Sadeq Saba found abnormalities in the way results were announced. Instead of results by province, the \"results came in blocks of millions of votes,\" with very little difference between the blocks in the percentages going to each candidate. This suggested that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did equally well in rural and urban areas, while his three opponents did equally badly in their home regions and provinces as in the rest of the country. This contradicted \"all precedent in Iranian politics\", where Ahmadinejad had been very popular in rural areas and unpopular in the big cities, where ethnic minorities had favored anti-establishment candidates, and where candidates had tended to carry their home provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nAnother anomaly, according to British-based researcher Ali Alizadeh, is that a large turnout did not favor the opposition, since in elections, both in Iran and abroad, \"those who usually don\u2019t vote, i.e. the silent majority, only come out when they want to change the status quo.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nAccording to modern Middle Eastern and South Asian historian Juan Cole, there were several anomalies in the election results. Official reports gave Ahmadinejad 50% of the vote in Tabriz despite the fact that this was the capital of Mousavi's home province, Eastern Azerbaijan, where Mousavi's rallies were well attended and which has traditionally given good turnouts for even \"minor presidential candidates\" who came from the province. Ahmadinejad also won Tehran province by over 50%, but crucially lost to Mousavi in the actual city of Tehran and was also soundly beaten in the affluent suburb of Shemiran to the north of the capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Result, Analysis\nStatistical analyses of the official election results were published in Journal of Applied Statistics, an online note, in blogs and in The Washington Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Protests\nClashes broke out between police and groups protesting the election results from early morning on Saturday onward. Initially, the protests were largely peaceful. However, as time passed, they became increasingly violent. Some protesters began to get violent after the results of the election were announced. Angry crowds in Tehran broke into shops, tore down signs, and smashed windows. Civil unrest took place as protesters set fire to tyres outside the Interior Ministry building and others formed a human chain of around 300 people to close off a major Tehran street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Protests\nThe demonstrations grew bigger and more heated than the 1999 student protests. Al Jazeera English described 13 June situation as the \"biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution.\" It also reported that protests seemed spontaneous without any formal organization. Two hundred people protested outside Iran's embassy in London on 13 June. Ynet stated that \"tens of thousands\" protested on 13 June. Demonstrators chanted phrases such as \"Down with the dictator\", \"Death to the dictator\", and \"Give us our votes back\". Mousavi urged for calm and asked that his supporters refrain from acts of violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Protests\nYnet reported on 14 June that two people had died in the rioting so far. That day, protests had been organized in front of the Iranian embassies in Turkey, Dubai, Paris, Berlin, London, Rome, Sydney, Vienna and The Hague. In response to the reformist protests, tens of thousands of people rallied in Tehran on 14 June to support the victory of Ahmadinejad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Protests\nOn 15 June, Mousavi rallied, with anywhere from hundreds of thousands to three million, of his supporters in Tehran, despite being warned by state officials that any such rally would be illegal. The demonstration was Mousavi's first public appearance after the election. Protests focused around Azadi Tower, around which lines of people stretched for more than nine kilometers met. Gunshots were reported to have been fired at the rally, where Mousavi had spoken to his supporters saying, \"The vote of the people is more important than Mousavi or any other person.\" All three opposition candidates appeared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Protests\nCompeting rallies for Mousavi and for Ahmadinejad took place on 16 June. The pro-Ahmadinejad protesters, chanting the phrases \"Death to America!\" and \"Death to Israel! \", outnumbered their opponents, but they did not match the numbers of opponents who had protested the day before. Reports from the state media and elsewhere stated on 16 June that seven people have died in all of the protests so far. However, The Times quoted a Rasoul Akram Hospital nurse that day who asserted that 28 people have suffered from \"bullet wounds\" and eight have died so far. Over half a million reformist Iranians marched silently from Haft-e-Tir Square to Vali Asr Square on 17 June. That day, the Iranian opposition group, \"Human Rights Activists News Agency\", stated that 32 people had died protesting during the events of 24 and 25 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Arrests\nOn the weekend of 13 and 14 June, in a series of raids across Tehran, the government arrested over 170 people, according to police officials. Among them were prominent reformist politicians, including MIRO founder Behzad Nabavi, IIPF leader Mohsen Mirdamadi, and former president Mohammad Khatami's brother Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who was later released. Also arrested were Mostafa Tajzadeh and Mohsen Aminzadeh, whom the IRNA said were involved in orchestrating protests on 13 June. Anonymous sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the IIPF and arrested a number of people. Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin claimed that Mousavi was put under house arrest, although officials denied this. An estimated 200 people were detained after clashes with students at Tehran university, although many were later released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 913]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Arrests\nActing Police Chief Ahmad-Reza Radan stated via the state press service on the 14th that \"in the interrogation of related rebels, we intend to find the link between the plotters and foreign media\". A judiciary spokesman said they had not been arrested but that they were summoned, \"warned not to increase tension,\" and later released. Intelligence minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei linked some arrests to terrorism supported from outside Iran, stating that \"more than 20 explosive consignments were discovered\". Others, he said, were \"counter-revolutionary groups\" who had \"penetrated election headquarters\" of the election candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Arrests\nOn 16 June, Reuters reported that former vice-president Mohammad-Ali Abtahi and former presidential advisor Saeed Hajjarian had been arrested. Human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, who had been demanding a recount of all votes, was also arrested on the Tuesday according to Shirin Ebadi, who said that security officials had posed as clients. Over 100 students were arrested after security forces fired tear gas at protesters at Shiraz university on the same day. Reporters Without Borders reported that 5 of 11 arrested journalists were still detention as of 16 June, and that a further 10 journalists were unaccounted for and may have been arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Arrests\nOn 17 June, former foreign minister and secretary-general of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Ebrahim Yazdi, was arrested while undergoing tests at Pars hospital in Tehran. He was held overnight in Evin Prison before being released and returning to hospital, where according to Human Rights Watch he remained under guard. In Tabriz, other Freedom Movement activists and eight members of the IIPF were arrested, with reports of at least 100 civic figures' arrests. The total number of arrests across Iran since the election was reported as 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Arrests\nAaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the international campaign for human rights in Iran, stated that \"Iranian intelligence and security forces are using the public protests to engage in what appears to be a major purge of reform-oriented individuals whose situations in detention could be life-threatening\". In Isfahan Province, prosecutor-general Mohammadreza Habibi warned that dissidents could face execution under Islamic law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Censorship allegations\nAccording to the Telegraph, on 14 June \"Iran's regime was doing its utmost to choke off the flow of news from its capital.\" Reporters from the Italian public television broadcaster RAI stated that one of its interpreters was beaten with clubs by riot police and the officers then confiscated the cameraman's tapes. The Al Arabiya's offices in Tehran were closed on 14 June for a week by Iranian authorities, who gave no explanation for the decision. Meanwhile, the director of BBC World Service accused the Iranian Government of jamming its broadcasts to the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 89], "content_span": [90, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Censorship allegations\nPeter Horrocks said audiences in Iran, the Middle East and Europe had been affected by an electronic block on satellites used to broadcast the BBC Persian Television signal to Iran, adding: \"It seems to be part of a pattern of behaviour by the Iranian authorities to limit the reporting of the aftermath of the disputed election\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 89], "content_span": [90, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Censorship allegations\nAl Jazeera English leveled allegations of direct media censorship by the Iranian government, stating that \"some of the newspapers have been given notices to change their editorials or their main headlines\". BBC correspondent John Simpson was arrested, his material confiscated, and then released. NBC News offices in Tehran were raided, with cameras and other equipment confiscated. ABC News reporter Jim Sciutto also has had material taken. People from the German public broadcasters ZDF and ARD have been harassed as well, with men carrying batons and knives reportedly storming the ARD's Tehran office. A BBC corporate official has referred to the network's conflict with the regime as 'electronic warfare'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 89], "content_span": [90, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Censorship allegations\nOn 13 June 2009, when thousands of opposition supporters clashed with the police, Facebook was filtered again. Some news websites were also blocked by the Iranian authorities. Mobile phone services including text messaging also stopped or became very difficult to use. Specifically, all websites affiliated with the BBC were shut off, as were ones with The Guardian. Associated Press labeled the actions \"ominous measures apparently seeking to undercut liberal voices\". The restrictions were likely intended to prevent Mousavi's supporters from organizing large-scale protests. The protesters used phone calls, e-mails and word of mouth to get around the measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 89], "content_span": [90, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Censorship allegations\nAhmadinejad has responded to concerns by saying, \"[d]on't worry about freedom in Iran... Newspapers come and go and reappear. Don't worry about it.\" In response to the crackdown, anti-regime activists have repeatedly taken down Ahmadinejad's and Khamenei's websites. According to CNN, the United States State Department has worked with Twitter to expand the website's access in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 89], "content_span": [90, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Recount\nDue to opposition protests, the Supreme Leader approved a partial vote recount. This was random, counting 10% of ballots. In order to create transparency, a 12 member council showed the recount on TV and concluded President Ahmadinejad led Mousavi after the recount. The Guardian council certified the election and concluded no evidence of irregularities, closing the election's dossier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Scapegoats\nThe Iranian government blamed the unrest on a variety of targets, including the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed Faith who served as \"canaries in the coal mine of Iran\u2019s theocracy\" as Iran's largest religious minority by their state sanctioned persecution and as \"scapegoats\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, Government actions, Scapegoats\nGholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, a Member of Parliament (and previously the Speaker of Parliament) even claimed that BBC stands for Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed Broadcasting Company and made other allegations of Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed involvement with outside parties like the Israeli, British and American governments, though some claim that these accusations had little to do with the religion and rather seemed to be a part of an Islamic repertoire of what a heresy is supposed to look like, and are \"categorically rejected\" by the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00eds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203493-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election, Aftermath, International reactions\nMany western countries expressed doubt about the result and/or reacted in favour of protestors. Other countries, namely Brazil and some other Asian countries, amongst others, welcomed the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests\nProtests against the results of the highly controversial 2009 Iranian presidential election, a disputed victory by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, occurred in major cities nationwide from 2009 into early 2010. The protests were titled the Iranian Green Movement (Persian: \u062c\u0646\u0628\u0634 \u0633\u0628\u0632\u200e Jonbesh-e Sabz) by its proponents, reflecting Mousavi's campaign theme, and Persian Awakening, Persian Spring or Green Revolution, reflecting the \"Persian identity\" of Iranians and the so-called \"colour revolution\" theme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests\nProtests began the night of 12 June 2009, following the announcement that incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won nearly 63 percent of the vote, despite several reported irregularities. However, all three opposition candidates claimed the votes were manipulated and the election was rigged, with Rezaee and Mousavi lodging official complaints. Mousavi announced he \"won't surrender to this manipulation\", before lodging an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered an investigation into the claims of electoral fraud and irregularities, as requested by Green Movement leaders. Ahmadinejad called the election \"completely free\" and the outcome a \"great victory\" for Iran, dismissing the protests as akin to little more than \"passions after a soccer match\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 863]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests\nDue to the sporadic cases of violence present at the protests, the government had the police and paramilitary Basij violently suppress them; protesters were beaten, pepper sprayed, arrested and tortured, and even shot in some cases. The most widely known firearm victim was Neda Agha-Soltan, whose last moments were uploaded to YouTube and broadcast around the world. Opposition groups also reported thousands more were arrested and tortured in prisons around the country, with former inmates alleging mass rape of men, women and children by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in prisons such as Kahrizak and Evin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests\nThe Iranian government confirmed the deaths of 36 people during the protests, while unconfirmed reports by Mousavi supporters allege at least 72 deaths (over twice as many) in the three months following the election. They claimed relatives of the deceased were forced to sign documents citing death by heart attack or meningitis. Iranian authorities closed universities in Tehran, blocked websites, cutoff mobile signals and banned rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests\nThe creation of the Iranian Green Movement developed during these protests. It was also termed the \"Twitter Revolution\", due to protesters' reliance on Twitter and other social media to communicate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nSince 1980 following the collapse of the Shah's regime in 1979. The government is based on the concept of Velayat-e Faqih, which is a system of governance in which a faqih was to serve as the Supreme Leader. However, following calls that this idea was undemocratic, the system was moderately altered into the current \"Islamic Republic\", in which a council of clerics, who are elected by the people, choose the Supreme Leader who, per the constitution, has to be a cleric (though this was altered in 1988).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nThe Supreme Leader, in turn appoints the members of the twelve member Guardian Council, who approve laws and candidates for elections, even at the presidential level. The President of Iran is not the commander-in-chief, and the control of the military, police, and the parallel Revolutionary Guards is under the control of the Supreme Leader. The Revolutionary Guards is a constitutionally protected paramilitary force that operates alongside the regular Armed forces, whose primary function is to protect the Islamic Republic. The Revolutionary Guards also have an auxiliary wing called the Basij, who provide support in enforcing religious laws and suppressing dissidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nThey are not considered full members of the Revolutionary Guards, and lack the training given to full-time members, although they can be called up at any time to assist the regular forces in times of trouble. Though Ayatollah Khomeini and his successor Ayatollah Khamenei, claimed that this system was democratic and the Revolutionary guards are necessitated to protect the government from military coups and foreign interference, critics contend that this system only serves to keep like-minded conservatives in power and marginalize any opposition, while using the Revolutionary guards to silence any dissidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nThe Islamic Republic has not escaped popular opposition in the past. During the 1980s, the Marxist-Islamist, Mojahedin Khalq was instrumental in opposing Ayatollah Khomeini through large protests and bombings against politicians such as Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Shahid Beheshti, and Khamenei himself, who escaped an assassination attempt that left his right arm paralyzed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nFollowing the 1981 Hafte Tir bombing, Ayatollah Khomeini declared the Mojahedin and anyone opposed to the Islamic republic, \"enemies of god\" and pursued a mass campaign of torture, rape, and execution against members of the Mojahedin, Fadaiyan, and Tudeh parties as well as their families, close friends, and even anyone who was accused of insufficient Islamic behavior, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Iranians who were usually tried in secret kangaroo courts run by hard line clerics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nFollowing Operation Mersad in 1988, Khomeini ordered all prisons to execute those still in captivity, resulting in an estimated 3,000 to 30,000 dead. Since then, no organized opposition has surfaced in Iran and following this experience, the Iranian Government usually employs heavy handed tactics to marginalize any attempt at regime removal and usually justifies this with the \"enemy of god\" classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nIn 1997, following the unexpected victory of a before-little-known reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami, there was a revival of a moderate faction within the government whom the public believed had the ability to reform and curb the power of the conservatives and make the system somewhat democratic, and that Khamenei was willing to trust this faction in the hopes that it could recover the country after the eight-year war with Iraq, which Rafsanjani and the conservatives had failed to do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nHowever, rather than promoting a reform of the system, the reformists began questioning the concept of the Islamic republic itself and following the exposure of the murders of dissidents by the intelligence services in reformist newspapers (which were run by former Revolutionary Guards and intelligence agents now turned reformists), the government began to distrust Khatami and his faction, a conflict which reached the breaking point after the 1999 student protests, after which hardliners such as Mohammad Ali Jafari, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Qasem Soleimani were promoted to take control of the Revolutionary Guards and the Security Services to crack down on most reformist movements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Prior to 2005\nDespite reformists gaining a majority in the Majlis in 2000 and Khatami winning the 2001 election as well, Khamenei would oppose any attempts at liberalization of the government or society. Most Iranians and observers in general have regarded the reform movement to have been a failure with Saeed Hajjarian, the main theorist behind the movement, declaring in 2003 that \"the reform movement is dead. Long live the reform movement\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Ahmadinejad's first term\nIn 2005, Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected to the presidency, defeating now reformist Ali-Akbar Rafsanjani, placing the conservatives in charge of the government once more. Ahmadinejad would focus his presidency on confronting Israel. His speeches gained international infamy, which usually called for the destruction of Israel and claimed that the Holocaust was fabricated. The funding of anti-Israeli groups went up exponentially, particularly towards Hamas and Hezbollah, which have been labeled as terrorist groups by the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Ahmadinejad's first term\nDespite Iran's huge oil and gas reserves, those sectors have been relatively neglected in favor of a nuclear energy program that has cost billions of dollars and has been condemned by Israel and the United States, who claim that the program is a cover up for a much larger nuclear weapons program. As a result, the United Nations has placed sanctions on the Iranian government, which has had a heavy impact on the economy, reducing the value of the rial from a low of 8,000 to the dollar in 2005 to 10,000 to the dollar in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Ahmadinejad's first term\nIran has been experiencing high birth rates since 1988, both due to an increase in standard of living and government encouragement of large families, with an estimated 60 percent of the country being under the age of 30. However, the economy has failed to keep pace with the number of people entering the job market and Iran has been experiencing high unemployment rates since early 2000. Ahmadinejad began a campaign of privatization of state enterprises, but most companies ended up in the hands of government-connected officials and foundations (bonyads) operated by wealthy clerics and the Revolutionary Guards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, Ahmadinejad's first term\nEstimates by the Los Angeles Times suggest IRGC has ties to over one hundred companies and annual revenue in excess of $12\u00a0billion, particularly in construction. The Ministry of Petroleum awarded IRGC billions of dollars in contracts as well as major infrastructure projects. Most government-issued contracts were awarded to these companies, and private enterprise in Iran has been struggling heavily against these groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, The election\nThe election of the president of Iran in 2009 was preceded by many Iranian surveys and a survey by the US-based Terror Free Tomorrow organization. The Terror Free Tomorrow opinion poll, conducted from 11 to 20 May 2009, predicted the high participation and showed similar ratios for the candidates to the later official result, with over a quarter yet undecided. The many Iranian surveys show a wide range of differing results. An opinion in the New York Times claims that this is due to the high fluctuation among voters during the campaign season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, The election\nThe election for presidency took place on 12 June 2009. Unlike the election in 2005, the 2009 election featured high participation. The results of the elections were announced only 2 hours after the end of the votes, which may seem impossible. The official results were rejected by all three opposition candidates, who claimed that the votes were manipulated and the election was rigged. The last presidential election had already been controversial, but this time it escalated. Candidates Mohsen Rezaee and Mousavi have lodged official complaints. Mousavi announced that he \"won't surrender to this manipulation\" before lodging an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Background, The election\nAccording to an analysis by Professor Walter R. Mebane Jr. from the Department of Statistics of the University of Michigan, considering data from the first stage of the 2005 presidential election produces results that \"give moderately strong support for a diagnosis that the 2009 election was affected by significant fraud\". The UK-based think-tank Chatham House also suspected fraud in the voting process for a number of reasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn Saturday 13 June after election results announced that Ahmadinejad had won, supporters of Mousavi took to the streets to protest. The next day, protests grew, as did violence. On the night of 14 June the pro-Ahmadinejad Basij paramilitary group raided Tehran University, injuring many. On 15 June millions of protesters marched on Azadi street and Mousavi made his first post-election appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn 16 June, protests continued, and the Guardian Council announced a partial recount would be conducted; however, the vote was not annulled. On Wednesday 17 June another large protest occurred; some members of the Iranian national football team wore green wristbands in support of Mousavi during their game against South Korea. On Thursday, 18 June more than 100,000 protesters held a candlelight vigil in Tehran following Mousavi's call for a day of mourning for those killed in protests. The Guardian Council invited the three major challengers to meet to discuss their grievances. Several protesters supporting Moussavi swapped their green clothes for black attires in honor of protesters who lost their lives, according to CNN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn Friday, 19 June, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini spoke during religious services, saying the election was legitimate and called the large voter turnout and resulting victory (for Ahmadinejad) a \"divine assessment\" and that protests would no longer be tolerated. However, the opposition did not accept this and the protests occurred, albeit on a smaller scale. The next day, 20 June, fewer protesters took to streets. At the protests that did occur, said to number in the tens of thousands of people, much violence occurred, causing many would-be protesters to stay in their homes the next day, Sunday, 21 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn 20 June, a young Iranian woman, identified as Neda Agha-Soltan, was shot and died in front of cameras on Kargar Avenue in Tehran. Highly graphic amateur videos of the killing rapidly spread viral across the Internet after being posted to Facebook and YouTube. On 22 June, riot police broke up the main rally in Tehran with tear gas and live fire into the air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nDuring Friday, 26 June, prayers were broadcast live on television, and Ahmad Khatami is reported to have said that \"Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction\" and called for the execution of leading demonstrators as they are \"people who wage war against God\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn Monday, 29 June, the Guardian Council certified the results of the controversial election. This set off a wave of protests, disregarding the Iranian government's ban on street marches. The Iranian intelligence chief alleged that western and \"Zionist\" forces were responsible for inciting the protests. Four of the nine British officials arrested on 28 June 2009 remain in custody under those charges. According to Aljazeera, the arrest of the British officials was described by the Britain as harassment and intimidation, as well as urging their release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nLate July, protest had reportedly entered a \"Phase II\", using tactics such as the boycott of goods advertised on state-controlled television; attempting to deny power to state-run TV evening news broadcasts by turning on all electric appliances just before the news; \"blitz\" street demonstrations \"lasting just long enough to chant 'Death to the dictator!' several times\", but not long enough for security forces to arrive; identifying paramilitary Basij vigilantes linked to the crackdown and putting marks in the opposition color green, or pictures of protest victims in front of their homes; scribbled anti-regime slogans on money. The new protest is reportedly based on the idea of Mohandas Gandhi that \"even the most powerful cannot rule without the cooperation of the ruled.\" Iranian authorities, in an attempt to stop Moussavi's supporters from hosting a news conference, sealed off his campaign headquarters, according to the BBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 992]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nOn 5 August, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for his second term as President of Iran in an official inauguration in Tehran. Protests were held outside the Parliament during the inauguration, with protesters chanting \"death to the dictator\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nMajor protests would continue after the inauguration as well. Among the largest were protests that were held on Iranian holidays, such as Quds Day on 18 September, 13th of Aban on 4 November and Iranian Students Day on 7 December. According to The Guardian, it was projected that more than 500,000 people participated in the 2009 presidential election protest. According to the Associated Press, it is speculated that the protests may be connected to the country's economy and corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Timeline\nAnother wave of protests occurred following these election protests across Iran in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn the weekend of 13/14 June, in a series of raids across Tehran, the government arrested over 170 people, according to police officials. Among them were prominent reformist politicians, including MIRO founder Behzad Nabavi, IIPF leader Mohsen Mirdamadi, and former president Mohammad Khatami's brother Mohammad-Reza Khatami, who was later released. Also arrested were Mostafa Tajzadeh and Mohsen Aminzadeh, whom the IRNA said were involved in orchestrating protests on 13 June. Unidentified sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the IIPF and arrested a number of people. Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin claimed that presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi was put under house arrest, although officials denied this. An estimated 200 people were detained after clashes with students at the University of Tehran, although many were later released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 953]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nActing Police Chief Ahmad-Reza Radan stated via the state press service on 14 June that \"in the interrogation of related rebels, we intend to find the link between the plotters and foreign media\". A judiciary spokesman said they had not been arrested, but that they were summoned, \"warned not to increase tension\", and later released. Intelligence minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei linked some arrests to terrorism supported from outside Iran, stating that \"more than 20 explosive consignments were discovered\". Others, he said, were \"counter-revolutionary groups [who had] penetrated election headquarters\" of the election candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nRelatives of several detained protesters have confirmed that the interrogation of prisoners is now being headed by Saeed Mortazavi, a figure already known for alleged involvement in brutal interrogations and torture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nMojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Khamenei, has emerged as one of the driving forces behind the government's crackdown, diplomats and observers said. He is reported to have a strong influence over his father and is talked about as his possible successor. Mojtaba is affiliated with former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 16 June, Reuters reported that former vice-president Mohammad-Ali Abtahi and former presidential advisor Saeed Hajjarian had been arrested. Human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, who had been demanding a recount of all votes, was also arrested on that Tuesday according to Shirin Ebadi, who said that security officials had posed as clients. Over 100 students were arrested after security forces fired tear gas at protesters at Shiraz University on the same day. Reporters Without Borders reported that 5 of 11 arrested journalists were still in detention as of 16 June, and that a further 10 journalists were unaccounted for and may have been arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 17 June, former foreign minister and Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Ebrahim Yazdi, was arrested while undergoing tests at the Tehran hospital. In Tabriz, other Freedom Movement activists and eight members of the IIPF were arrested, with reports of at least 100 civic figures' arrests. The total number of arrests across Iran since the election was reported as 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nAaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the international campaign for human rights in Iran, stated that \"Iranian intelligence and security forces are using the public protests to engage in what appears to be a major purge of reform-oriented individuals whose situations in detention could be life-threatening\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nIn Esfahan Province, prosecutor-general Mohammadreza Habibi warned that dissidents could face the death penalty under Islamic law. He also accused the protesters of being a \"few elements controlled by foreigners [who were] disrupting security by inciting individuals to destroy and to commit arson\" and urged them to stop their \"criminal activities\". It was not clear if his warning applied only to Isfahan or to the country as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 20 June, Committee to Protect Journalists reported that LIFE Magazine photographer Amir Sadeghi was arrested by Iranian authorities. According to a CPJ report, he was released from Evin Prison on 28 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 21 June, Iranian officials detained Iranian-born, Canadian citizen, and Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari. He was later forced to confess in a series of trials for the detained protesters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 22 June, The Guardian's live blog reported that at approximately 1:30\u00a0pm, General Ali Fazli, the newly appointed commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran province, had been arrested for refusing to carry Khamenei's order to use force against demonstrators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Arrests\nOn 11 August 2009, the Iranian government confirmed that 4,000 were detained in the protests", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence\nBasij members were filmed firing into crowds and breaking into houses. A number of hospital staff protested after people were transported to the hospitals dead or in critical condition with gunshot wounds. The IRGC and the Basij also attacked Universities and students' dorms at night and destroyed property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence\nThe Los Angeles Times reported that militiamen from the hard-line Iran-based Ansar-e Hezbollah group \"warned that they would be patrolling the streets to maintain law and order\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Casualties\nWhile the death of Neda attracted widespread media attention, The Guardian is also maintaining a list of numerous other people who have ostensibly been either killed or arrested since the election. The government has issued very little official information on who has been killed or arrested (except Neda Agha-Soltan, whose video circulated quickly on the Internet). Hospitals were prohibited from registering the dead bodies or injured people, as a medical student at Rasoul-Akram hospital witnessed on the night of 15 June: \"Nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Casualties\n[the government] removed the dead bodies on back of trucks, before we were even able to get their names or other information... No one was allowed to speak to the wounded or get any information from them.\" Hospital staff protested due to the restrictions. The government admitted to at least 27 fatalities in Tehran, while CNN and other news organizations reported 150 unconfirmed casualties from 20 June protests. International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran counted 34 of them, claiming to have eyewitness reports of much higher numbers. Human rights activists in Iran called for independently collecting information about the killed, injured, and arrested people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Casualties\nAmong those who were killed by the government forces, names such as Sohrab Aarabi, Naser Amirnejad, Masoud Hashemzadeh, and Mohammad Kamrani are confirmed. Among them, the death of Sohrab Aarabi received special news attention, after Mousavi and Karroubi visited his family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Casualties\nThe families of those who died were allegedly subjected to penalties and bureaucratic red tape, such as being asked to sign paperwork that they do not have complaints against the government prior to being allowed to claim bodies. When the death was due to gunshot wounds, some were reportedly asked to pay a $3,000 fee, ostensibly for the bullet used by security forces. Restrictions on burial locations have also been reported, and the Iranian government did not permit a memorial service for Neda Agha-Soltan. Time speculates that the Shi'ite cycle of mourning on the third (23 June), seventh (27 June), and 40th (30 July) day after a person's death may give the protests sustained momentum, similar in fashion to what occurred during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 94], "content_span": [95, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nOpposition leaders have claimed that the prisoners have been tortured and raped in prison. Opposition leaders and world leaders condemned the abuse. However, Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, denied that prisoners were abused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nFormer chairman of Iranian parliament Mehdi Karroubi stated that male and female prisoners have been raped in the prison and their genitals were torn, but it is not yet proven. He asked the head of the assembly to investigate the issue in a letter to the head of Assembly of Experts. Iran's police chief, Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, acknowledged that the prisoners had been abused and raped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nAdditionally, several of the detained died while in prison. Authorities claimed that the deaths were caused by \"pre-existing conditions\". However, examinations of the bodies showed signs of torture, including broken bones, finger nails torn off, and rape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nIranian film maker Reza Allamehzadeh made a documentary about Azar Al-Kanan, a prominent Iranian human rights activist and former political prisoner in Iran who became one of the victims of torture, sexual abuse, and finally, rape. The documentary was released after ex-chairman of Iranian parliament Mehdi Karroubi called for investigation of sexual abuse of protesters in prisons by Iranian police and the judicial system, both under the responsibility of the Supreme Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nKarroubi's letter angered conservatives and the head of Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, and senior cleric and representative of the Supreme Leader, Ahmad Khatami, denied the reports of sexual abuse. Following the denials, on 16 August 2009, Fereshteh Ghazi, in an article in Rooz, wrote her story and described the torture and sexual violence in Iranian prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Militia violence, Torture of prisoners\nTestimonies from victims of rape by the Iranian regime's agents in jail can be downloaded here:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 104], "content_span": [105, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nAccording to the Telegraph, on 14 June \"Iran's regime was doing its utmost to choke off the flow of news from its capital\". Al Jazeera English has leveled allegations of direct media censorship by the Iranian government, stating that \"some of the newspapers have been given notices to change their editorials or their main headlines\". The Al Arabiya's offices in Tehran were closed on 14 June for a week by Iranian authorities, who gave no explanation for the decision. NBC News offices in Tehran were raided, with cameras and other equipment confiscated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nMeanwhile, the director of BBC World Service accused the Iranian Government of jamming its broadcasts to the country. Peter Horrocks said audiences in Iran, the Middle East, and Europe had been affected by an electronic block on satellites used to broadcast the BBC Persian Television signal to Iran, adding: \"It seems to be part of a pattern of behaviour by the Iranian authorities to limit the reporting of the aftermath of the disputed election\". A BBC corporate official has referred to the network's conflict with the regime as 'electronic warfare'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nOn 15 June, Belgian national television reporter Jef Lambrecht from the Flemish public television broadcaster VRT and his sound technician, Vandervorst, were arrested in Tehran. They had been doing a story on the riots and had gotten caught in the middle of the violence. While Lambrecht had taken a punch, Vandervorst was arrested by riot police. When Lambrecht went to check where Vandervorst was being taken, he was promptly arrested as well. Both were taken to the Ministry of Information and detained in the basement. They were both released after two hours with strict instructions not to make any photos or film recordings of the protests. At the same time, two Dutch reporters from Nova were also arrested and deported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nOn 16 June, the Ministry of Culture issued a directive banning all foreign media from leaving their offices. This directive stipulated that international news outlets could still talk about rallies in their live reports, however, they were not allowed to leave their hotel rooms and offices to witness the protests. Iranian government-run television was not affected by the restrictions. On 20 June, the Ministry of Culture intensified the restrictions by banning international media from reporting on the demonstrations altogether unless they received permission from Iranian authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nOn 5 August, the Association of Iranian Journalists was forcibly closed when its offices in Tehran were raided by government security forces. The International Federation of Journalists released a statement criticizing the Iranian government for the forcible closure of the Association of Iranian Journalists and calling for freedom of the press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nBBC correspondent John Simpson was arrested, his material confiscated, and then released. Reporters from the Italian public television broadcaster RAI stated that one of its interpreters was beaten with clubs by riot police and the officers then confiscated the cameraman's tapes. ABC News reporter Jim Sciutto has also had material taken. People from the German public broadcasters ZDF and ARD have been harassed as well, with men carrying batons and knives reportedly storming the ARD's Tehran office and taking the technician for further questioning (who was released the day after).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nAhmadinejad responded to civil liberties concerns by stating Iranians enjoyed \"absolute freedom\" of speech. \"Don't worry about freedom in Iran ... Newspapers come and go and reappear. Don't worry about it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, News media\nOn 5 July 2009, the Sunday Times reported that the Iranian state media have been transmitting \"confessions\" by demonstrators against the alleged rigging of the presidential vote claiming they did so under the influence of the Voice of America, the BBC, and other foreign media agencies. Their faces have been obscured in the TV broadcasts, which the newspaper claims, after speaking to witnesses, is due to facial bruising resulting from torture whilst in custody, which included several instances of male rape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 88], "content_span": [89, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, Internet censorship\nOn Saturday following the elections, Mir-Hossein Mousavi's supporters started DDoS attacks against president Ahmadinejad's site and exchanged attack tools through sites such as Facebook and Twitter. After the attacks, the government stopped Internet access. On 13 June, as the election results were being announced, Iran shut down all Internet access for about 45 minutes, then restarted it apparently with lower bandwidth; this may have been in order to set up filters to block sites like YouTube that could be used for political purposes. When thousands of opposition supporters clashed with the police on 13 June, Facebook was filtered again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 97], "content_span": [98, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, Internet censorship\nSome news websites were also blocked by the Iranian authorities. Mobile phone services including text messaging also had stopped or had become very difficult to use since the day before the election. Specifically, all websites affiliated with the BBC were blocked, as well as those affiliated with The Guardian. Iranian Internet users used social media to trade lists of open web proxy servers as a means of getting around the restrictions, but the Iranian authorities monitoring these media gradually blocked these proxies, so that after two weeks very few proxies were still working in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 97], "content_span": [98, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0050-0002", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, Internet censorship\nAssociated Press labeled the actions as \"ominous measures apparently seeking to undercut liberal voices\". An anti-censorship software, Freegate, developed by Global Internet Freedom Consortium, was widely used and proven effective. The software was developed by oversea Chinese scientists to allow mainland Chinese users to break through the \"great firewall\" in China, and was also found to be very effective in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 97], "content_span": [98, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Government reaction, Censorship, Internet censorship\nIran was known to operate one of the world's most sophisticated Internet filtering systems, with widespread blockades on specific websites. During the protests, operation of this system dramatically intensified. Yet, Iranian Green Movement online activists continued their political activism and resisting online repression by adopting different strategies such as: \"(1) de-identification, (2) network reformation, (3) circumvention, (4) self-censoring, and (5) being inconspicuously active\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 97], "content_span": [98, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Alleged foreign involvement\nOn 26 August, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a statement through Iranian state television. He said that although he did not believe opposition leaders were working as agents of foreign governments, he did believe that the protests were organized and planned, possibly without the knowledge of the Iranian political opposition. He said that \"This plot was defeated, since fortunately our enemies still do not understand the issue in Iran\", specifically pointing to foreign involvement in the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Alleged foreign involvement\nOn 16 June, Der Spiegel cited Voice of America as reporting that the Iranian government had recruited as many as 5,000 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters to clash with protesters. On 19 June, CNN reported that, according to media reports and online chatter, the Basij \"seem to have added some Arabic-speaking members \u2013 suspected of being [Lebanese] Hezbollah fighters.\" In response, a spokesman for Hezbollah denied any involvement with the turmoil in Iran and stated that Hezbollah is not taking sides in what it considers to be an internal Iranian affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Alleged foreign involvement\nOn 17 June, The Jerusalem Post quoted two Iranian protesters who claimed that \"Palestinian forces\" (which the article states are members of Hamas) were working with the Basij in helping crush the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Hunger strike\nA number of Iranian intellectuals organized a three-day hunger strike in front of the United Nations. The invitation was signed by 42 scholars. The event was scheduled for 22\u201324 July 2009. Iranian journalist and writer, Akbar Ganji, spearheaded the strike to call for the release of all those who have been arrested in Iran following the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Hunger strike\nAmong the intellectuals that signed the invitation are: Abdolkarim Soroush, Hamid Dabashi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abdol Ali Bazargan, and Janet Afary. Among the supporters of the initiative are Reza Baraheni and pop singers Ebrahim Hamedi, Googoosh, and Shohreh Aghdashlou. U.S. citizen Noam Chomsky was present at the hunger strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Hunger strike\nA number of Iranians organized a two-day strike at Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany. The event was scheduled for 24\u201325 July 2009. The invitation had a list of over twenty people as strikers so far and a considerable list of supporters. Among the strikers was Daryush Shokof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Hunger strike\nThe number of cities joining the Iranian global hunger strike reached over fifty with Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, as well as Italy, Australia, and Ireland. The hunger strikes are for freedom of all Iranian political prisoners and for \"not\" recognizing the presidential elections and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Hunger strike\nRobert Redford joined and supported the hunger strike in Washington on 20 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, International response\nBBC News has described the overall reaction by the international community to the 2009 Iranian presidential election as \"muted\". Mir-Hossein Mousavi has not asked for any kind of foreign assistance or called on other leaders to comment. His spokesperson, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for maintaining that the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi \"may not be as great as has been advertised.\" Makhmalbaf retorted, \"Does he like it himself [when someone is] saying that there is no difference between Obama and [George W.] Bush?\" He also said that other nations must \"not recognize the government of Ahmadinejad as a legitimate government\" and that \"it's not only an internal matter- it's an international problem\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, International response\nHowever, in international popular culture, the protest has \"morphed in the global consciousness, to the point that U2 and Madonna have adopted the cause of Iranian democracy,\" according to The New York Times Protesters have gathered in cities all over the world to protest the violence and election results. One of the largest protests was organized by United For Iran and held on 25 July 2009 in over 100 cities all over the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, International response\nAlthough the 2009 Iranian presidential election was widely disputed, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a traditional congratulatory message to Ahmadinejad upon his inauguration. He kept silent over the request of Shirin Ebadi to visit Iran after the crackdown on peaceful post-election protests by the Iranian police. During the election protests, more than 4,000 were arrested and nearly 70 were killed (with some sources, including Mohsen Kadivar, citing hundreds of killed), some while being held in prison. In another incident, prominent activisit Akbar Ganji went on a hunger strike for three days in front of the UN. The incident was followed by an official request by more than 200 intellectuals, human rights activists, and reformist politicians in Iran for a reaction from the UN. Ban, however, took no action to help end the violence in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 924]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, International response\nAbout eight players in the Iran national football team playing in their World Cup qualifier wore green wristbands in support for Mousavi for the first half of their game. During the break, they were ordered to remove them, seven of the eight complied. They were subsequently suspended. Likewise, Italian footballer Francesco Totti sent a message of greeting to the Iranian youth during the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, International response\nA group of Iranian \"artists and writers in exile\" published an open letter in support of the protests. Significant protests have been held in major cities all throughout the world. Demonstrators in Los Angeles have protested daily calling not only for election reform but complete regime change. Demonstrators have been seen holding signs stating, \"No Ahmadi(nejad), no Mousavi, no Islamic Republic!,\" \"No more Islamic Republic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Use of religion\nThe Economist reported that supporters of Mousavi have enlisted religious symbolism on their side. This directly appeals to the notion of injustice and redemption at the heart of Shia Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Use of religion\nFor Iran, one of the links of communication exist solely because of the ideology the revolutionary movement was based upon Islamism (Poursaied, p.\u00a0136). The religious institutions were used to communicate from one revolutionary group to another. These institutions consist of \"mosques, ritual centres, and even charity funds, and these venues allowed people to gather right under the nose of the government in order to become organised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Use of religion\nProtesters have deliberately dressed modestly. The marches in Tehran saw women in chadors and turbaned clerics, some of whom were seen thronging Mousavi's car during the 15 June rally at Revolution Square. According to Anna Johnson of Associated Press, conservative women in black chadors have joined the liberal youth for the common goal of trying to get their voices heard. The Time reported that some protesters believed they had a religious duty to protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Use of religion\nProtesters have also made use of slogans such as \"Allahu Akbar\" (a common Islamic Arabic saying that translates to \"God is great\") from the revolutionary era. Protesters on Twitter have urged marchers to carry copies of the Qur'an with them, citing its verses bringing about peace. When mourning the deaths of slain protesters, the marchers chanted \"Peace be upon (Prophet) Mohammed and his family.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Use of religion\nA bystander, Neda Agha-Soltan, who was killed by authorities, has been mythologised by the opposition as a martyr. The status of a martyr is revered in Shia Islam. To prevent this from happening, the authorities have tried to call off funeral services for her, which according to Shia Islam, must be held on the third, seventh, and 40th day after the martyr's passing. Robert Tait and Matthew Weaver of The Guardian noted that it was funeral processions on the 40th day of mourning of fallen protesters in 1979 that created momentum in toppling the shah's regime. The idea of martyrdom resonates deeply amongst the Shiite Muslim population of Iran. The Shiite faith was founded on the idea of self-sacrifice in the cause of justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203494-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian presidential election protests, Legacy\nAccording to the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at the time of the protests\u2014General Mohammed Ali Jafari\u2014the problem of the election was not that the reformers had been denied victory but that they had challenged the tenets of the Islamic Revolution, and that the system of the Islamic Republic could no longer depend on popular support. In a leaked video of a meeting of the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard he stated, \"It was a blow that weakened the fundamental pillars of the regime. ... Anyone who refuses to understand these new conditions will not be successful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203495-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian university dormitory raids\nThe 2009 Iranian university dormitory raids took place on 14 June 2009 (or 24 Khordad in the Iranian calendar) at various university dormitories throughout Iran. The raids were carried out by the state-sponsored Basij militiamen against students suspected of having participated in the ongoing election protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203495-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian university dormitory raids, Raids\nThe dormitories of the University of Tehran, the largest general university in the Islamic Republic of Iran, were raided by Basij militiamen. At least 3 men and two women, were reported to have been killed or wounded by the Basij.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203495-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian university dormitory raids, Raids\nUnrest between students and Basij also took place at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Razi University in Kermanshah, and University of Mazandaran; Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, in particular, was the scene of violence between students and members of both the Basij and the Ansar-e-Hezbollah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203495-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian university dormitory raids, Reaction\n119 members of the University of Tehran faculty resigned en-masse on 15 June 2009 in protest of the raid. Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian Majlis, condemned the raid and blamed the Interior Ministry for the raids; the Interior Ministry, in turn, ordered a probe into the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203495-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iranian university dormitory raids, Reaction\nThe Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) wrote a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemning Iranian officials for the university raids and arrest of students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections\nGovernorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. 14,431 candidates, including 3,912 women, contested 440 seats. The candidates came from over 400 parties, 75% of which were newly formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Legal framework\nIn February 2008, the Iraqi Parliament passed a Provincial Powers Act by a majority of one, with many members of parliament not present at the proceedings. It included giving the Prime Minister the power to dismiss a governor of a province, a measure that would have left considerable power in the hands of the Shi'a dominated central government in Baghdad. The Act required a Provincial Elections Law to be passed within the next 90 days and for elections to be held no later than the beginning of October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Legal framework\nThe Presidency Council initially referred the law back, saying it did not comply with the constitutional rights of governorates. It was reported that vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, whose Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council party is strong in many southern Iraqi governorate councils, particularly objected. However, the Council reversed its position following protests from the Sadrist Movement, saying they would instead seek changes to the law before it came into force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Legal framework\nIn July 2008 the Iraqi Election Commission proposed postponing the elections until December because delays in passing the election law had left too little time to prepare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Legal framework\nThe Provincial Elections bill was eventually approved by the Council of Representatives on 22 July 2008 despite a walkout by members of the Kurdistani Alliance over a clause making Kirkuk Governorate council a power-sharing arrangement. The next day the Presidency Council of Iraq, consisting of President Jalal Talabani, who is Kurdish, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite Arab, and Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Arab, unanimously agreed to reject the bill because of the Kirkuk clause, and send it back to the Council of Representatives to reconsider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Legal framework\nThe second draft was ratified by the Presidency Council on 7 October 2008, who stated that a minority clause may be added later. A minority clause was added on 3 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Kirkuk Governorate\nThe original draft proposed delaying the election in Kirkuk Governorate until after the referendum to decide its precise status has been held. However, a group of Turkmen and Arab MPs proposed a power-sharing clause, establishing a provincial council consisting of ten Kurds, ten Arabs, ten Turkmens and two Assyrians. This clause was included in the draft election bill put to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in July 2008, and led to the Kurdish parties walking out in protest, complaining \"If you already pick the seats before the election, why vote?\" The law was nonetheless approved on 22 July 2008. However, President Jalal Talabani, who is Kurdish, and Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite Arab, have agreed they would reject the bill, and hence it would be sent back to the Council of Representatives to reconsider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 886]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Kirkuk Governorate\nParliamentary summer recess started on 30 July 2008, but a special session was called for 3 August 2008 to find a solution to the Kirkuk issue. At that meeting, no solution was reached; at another meeting on 4 August 2008, lawmakers postponed the session to 5 August 2008, and on that date to 6 August 2008. It was then postponed to 9 September 2008, with a committee working on a compromise solution until then. At that session, no resolution was reached, and negotiations continued on 10 September 2008 in the form of a special six-member panel formed for this occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Kirkuk Governorate\nThe law was finally passed on 24 September 2008 and the election is expected to be held by 31 January 2009; the compromise was that Kirkuk would be dealt with separately, and elections in Kirkuk and the three Kurdish autonomous provinces will be held at a later time. A special panel was to work on a solution on Kirkuk and report back by 31 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Kirkuk Governorate\nThe United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, Staffan de Mistura proposed holding elections in all governorates except Kirkuk, and deferring the Kirkuk elections for six months in order to find an acceptable compromise. A draft bill based on this proposal was debated on 6 August and accepted by the Kurdistani Alliance but opposed by the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Iraqi Accord Front and Sadrist Movement who objected to the draft law's reference to the Kirkuk status referendum and insisted on delaying the entire elections until a solution was found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Minorities\nUnder Article 50 of the draft Elections law, religious minorities such as Christians and Yazidis would be reserved a number of seats in the provincial assemblies. This clause was removed in the final draft, with legislators citing a lack of census data for determining the appropriate number of seats. Five thousand Christians demonstrated in Mosul against this change, saying it was a \"marginalisation of their rights\" and the head of the Assyrian Church of the East wrote to the Presidency Council asking them to veto the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Minorities\nPrime Minister al-Maliki said he was concerned and called on parliament and the Iraqi High Electoral Commission to \"remove all the concerns, injustice and the sense of exclusion felt by some segments of Iraqi society\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Minorities\nKurdish MP Mahmoud Othman called on the Presidency Council of Iraq to use its review process to force an amendment to include a minority quota, saying \"The rule of the majority means there should be protection of the minorities\" A Sadrist leader also said Christians should be allowed to \"contribute to the building of the Iraqi state\" and the removal of this clause \"threatened the unity of Iraq\" The UN Special Envoy also criticised the removal of the minorities clause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Minorities\nA minority clause was added on 3 November 2008, although it only provided for six special seats (three for Christians, one each for Yazidi, Mandean and Shabak) instead of twelve as recommended by the UN. The Christians got a seat each in Baghdad, Nineveh, and Basra, the Yazidi and Shabak in Nineveh, and the Mandeans in Baghdad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Female quota\nOriginal drafts of the Election law included a guarantee that the elected councils would contain at least 25% women. However, the law passed stated instead that there would be \"a woman at the end of every three winners\". The Electoral Commission has interpreted this to mean that where a list wins more than two seats in a particular governorate, the third seat will be awarded to a woman on the party's list. Given the large number of parties contesting the election, many of whom are expected to win one or two seats, female MPs raised concerns that the change in language has weakened this provision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Electoral system\nThe previous Governorate and national elections in Iraq have been held under a \"Closed list\" electoral system, whereby voters select a party or coalition and the party or coalition selects the individual parliamentarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Electoral system\nThe new election will be held under an \"Open list\" system, whereby voters may select either a party or an individual candidate; the candidates elected from a list will be those that get the most individual votes from among that list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Electoral system\nThe system also promotes the representation of women, for if the top two people elected from a list are men, the subsequent person elected will be the woman with the most votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Militias\nIn March, the government of Nouri al-Maliki moved against militias allied to the Sadrist Movement in Basrah Governorate. Sadrists accused Maliki of trying to weaken them ahead of the polls, but Maliki claimed he was just targeting \"criminal gangs\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Militias\nFollowing this, Maliki said he would disqualify any parties from the election who refused to disband their militia. In April the cabinet agreed on a draft elections law, which included a clause banning parties with militias. The Sadr Movement however, still ran in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign\nThe security situation in this election was much better than in previous elections. Security was provided by the Iraqi security forces with the Multinational force in Iraq playing no role for the first time. Candidates felt safe enough to canvass for votes, while the 2005 elections saw little public campaigning. Nonetheless, eight candidates were killed during the campaign, borders were closed for voting and curfews and vehicle bans were put in place. However, this compared favourably to the 2005 elections when over 200 candidates were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign\nEarly voting took place on Wednesday 28 January for 614,000 soldiers, police, prisoners, patients and internally displaced people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Sunni Arab areas\nThe current Governorate councils were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections, which were boycotted by Sunni Arabs, resulting in several Sunni Arab-majority provinces such as Nineveh Governorate and Saladin Governorate being run either ethnic Kurdish parties, or multi-ethnic parties of Shia faith. As Sunni Arab parties have since decided to participate in elections, these elections are expected to give them more representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Sunni Arab areas\nThe elections are also expected to develop electoral competition within the Sunni Arab population between the pro-government Iraqi Accord Front and the new political groups formed out of the anti-al-Qaeda Awakening movement militias. A leading member of the Awakening movement in Baghdad, Abu Azzam al-Tamimi, has formed the Iraqi Dignity Front to contest the elections. The Awakening movement in Anbar has formed the National Front for the Salvation of Iraq. These parties are expected to sweep the Sunni Arab vote in Anbar, Salahuddin, Diyala, and Baghdad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Sunni Arab areas\nIn Ninawa, the Sunni Arab-majority al-Hadba party\u2014which is also backed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki\u2014complained of being targeted by Kurdish security forces. A candidate for the Sunni Arab \"Iraq for Us\" coalition in Ninawa was killed by a gunman who walked into a caf\u00e9 and shot him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Shiite Arab areas\nOne senior government official said the elections would \"redraw the political map of Iraq\" while Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi described them as a \"major rehearsal for the parliamentary elections\" due in 2009\u20132010. An expert from the International Crisis Group predicted a \"big shift\", with the existing parties established by exiles losing ground to more recently formed parties of people who stayed in Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Shiite Arab areas\nThere is also expected to be significant electoral competition between two main Shiite Islamist parties in the government\u2014the Islamic Dawa Party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council of Vice-President Adil Abdul-Mahdi. Following the Battle of Basra (2008), the Prime Minister created \"support councils\" to help with security in the southern provinces and Maliki was accused of using these support councils to build a political base. The Presidency Council of Iraq publicly criticised the Prime Minister in November 2008, saying these support councils were illegal, should be suspended and the money used to support the regular Army and Police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Shiite Arab areas\nCompetition is also expected between the government Islamist parties and the opposition Sadrist Movement, with some commentators saying Sadrists were expected to win a majority of seats in southern Iraq and parts of Baghdad. The Sadrist Movement supported the Blamelessness and Reconstruction (376) list and the Independent Trend of the Noble Ones (284)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Shiite Arab areas\nSome commentators predicted there would be a backlash against the incumbent religious parties in favour of more secular parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Campaign, Shiite Arab areas\nShortly before the election, an initiative was started in Basra Province to convert the province into a Region. The initiative failed to reach 10% of eligible voters in the specified period, meaning it fell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Results\nThere were 15 million eligible voters, but hundreds of thousands of voters were omitted from the ballot lists. Mithal al-Alusi, an Arab nationalist MP, complained that there were \"many mistakes\" by the Commission and Iranian diplomats had been allowed entry to polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Results\nThere were international observers in every one of the 712 constituencies\u2014the first election since the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be fully observed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Results\nUnlike the 2005 election, there was no boycott by any significant political movement; however, turnout was down on the previous election at slightly over 51%. ISCI blamed the election day vehicle ban, which meant voters often had to walk long distances to the polling centres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Results\nOfficial results were not expected until days after the election. The Islamic Dawa Party turned as largest party in Shi'a south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Results, Karbala Governorate\nNote: While Youssef al-Haboubi got the most votes, he stood as independent candidate, thus only winning one seat for himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nAfter the elections, the National Reform Trend said it has formed an agreement with the State of Law Coalition to ally in all provinces where they had won seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Al Anbar, Qasim Al-Fahdawi, an independent from the Sahwa list was elected governor, he formed an administration with all parties in Anbar (most important being his own Sahwa list and al-Mutlaq's NIPG), except the Iraqi Islamic Party, which previously ruled the local government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Diyala the winning Iraqi Accord Front joined into a coalition with the Kurdistan Alliance, together holding a 15-seat majority out of the governorates 29 seats, they were also backed by the National Diyala Alliance, an ISCI affiliated list which held 2 seats. The Accord Front member Abdulnasir al-Muntasirbillah was elected as governor while Taleb Mohammed Hassan from the Kurdistan Alliance was made chairman of the provincial council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Saladin, where Tawafuq also came out first they tied in number of seats with the Iraqi National List, which forged an alliance with State of Law and the National Iraqi Project Gathering, they were however eventually forced to include Tawafuq into this alliance in order to get a majority. Tawafuq member Mutashar al-Aliwi became governor while an INL member became chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Muthanna were State of Law and ISCI's al-Mehraab list each won 5 seats both parties created their own alliance forming blocs of 13 seats. State of Law formed a Coalition with the National Reform Trend (3 seats), Sadrists (2 seats) and the Middle Euphrates Gathering (2 seats) while ISCI created an alliance within the al-Jumhur List (3 seats), the Gathering for Muthanna (2 seats), and the Independent National List (2 seats). The Independent Iraqi Skills Gathering which had 2 seats was split between these two blocs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nHowever Ibrahim Salman al-Miyali, an independent which ran as part of the State of Law Coalition left and joined ISCI's block because Maliki hadn't nominated him for any important position. This gave the ISCI block a 14-seat majority and led to his election as governor and ISCI member Abd al-Latif Hassan al-Hassani being elected as chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Maysan and Wasit, the State of Law Coalition formed a coalition with ISCI. Though in most governorates State of Law tried to leave ISCI out of local governments in Maysan where they won an equal amounth of seats they decided to align with them electing Muhammad al-Sudani of the Dawa Party as governor and Hashim al-Shawki of the Iraqi Hezbollah (which was part of ISCI's List) as chairman. In Wassit, State of Law first tried to create an alliance with the Sadrists but after this broke down, they formed an alliance with ISCI. Sadrist governor Latif Hamid Turfa was re-elected as governor and ISCI's Mahmoud Abdulrida Talal was made chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Basra, State of Law's clear cut majority allowed them to form an administration on their own, appointing Jabbar Amin, as chairman and Dr. Sheltagh Aboud Sherad as governor, both were members of the Da'wa party (although Jabbar Amin belongs to the Iraq Organisation branch). However, despite their 20-seat majority in the 35-seat council, they reached out to other parties including all other parties which won seats in the Basra local council in a local unity government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn the remaining five Shi'a governorates, State of Law succeeded in creating coalitions without ISCI. In Babil State of Law created a broad coalition with the Sadrists, the National Reform Trend, the Iraqi National List, al-Mutlaq's bloc and local parties, ISCI forming a 7-seat opposition bloc with the 2 man Independent Ansar Bloc. To create this alliance however, State of Law gave Hasan al-Zarqani and Kadum Majid Tuman, two Sadrists, the positions of governor and chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Dhi Qar State of Law aligned itself with the Sadrists and the National Reform Trend, creating a 24-seat majority in the 31-seat council, ISCI and Fadhila being left out. A Dawa member: Taleb al-Hassan was appointed governor and NRT member Qusai al-Ibadi became chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0039-0002", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Karbala, the only Shi'a province were SOL did not come out first place, they aligned themselves with al-Haboubi an independent which won the most votes, the second place Hope of Al-Refedein and the Independent Free Movement, two Sadrist blocs which together took 13 seats, only ISCI's 4-seat bloc was left out of the local government. Amaleddin Majeed Hameed Kadhem of the Dawa party became governor while Mohammed Hamid al-Musawi, a Sadrist was elected chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0039-0003", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Coalitions\nIn Najaf, SOL and ISCI tied with 7 seats each however SOL managed to create a 15-seat majority bloc with the NRT and two local parties, leaving the Sadrists and ISCI in the opposition. SOL member Fayad al-Shamari was appointed chairman and despite strong opposition, Adnan al-Zurfi from one of the local parties became the new governor, prompting Asaad Abu Gulal the former ISCI governor to start a legal battle against al-Zurfi. In al-Qadisiyah SOL formed a bloc with the Iraqi National List, leaving ISCI, Fadhila and the Sadrists in the opposition. Da'awa members Salim Hussein and Jubeir al-Juburi were appointed governor and chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nAllegations of election fraud came from both Sunni and Shi'a political parties. The most complaints came from Ayad Allawi's al-Iraqiya list which claimed election fraud had taken place, mostly in Baghdad, Salahaddin and al-Anbar, a spokesman of the group: Ali Nesaif claimed that \"Some boxes were stolen from polling centers in Salahaddin as well as Diyala,\" while Kadhim Turki another Allawi ally said that they were not satisfied with the final results\u2014particularly in Baghdad and Basra.\" They accused the counties powerful parties of vote rigging.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nThe Sadr Movement also complained about the election results, Amir Tahar al-Kinani a Sadrist spokesman released the following statement: \"We have been mistreated in this election. IHEC was not fair\u2014it was biased in favor of other lists, in the final results, we dropped to third position, while SIIC took second place. How can that happen? Our bloc and SIIC won an approximately equal number of votes in Maysan\u2014yet we only got seven seats, while they got eight.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nKinani also said their votes in Baghdad suspiciously dropped after the final results came in and he accused the Independent High Electoral Commission of making late changes to the law which benefited Maliki. He also claimed that: \"There are huge differences between results announced by the electoral commission and the figures we have from our observers in some provinces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nThe Iraq Awakening Coalition alleged election fraud in al-Anbar province claiming they had hundreds of documents to prove the fraud. Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi called for a vote recount in al-Anbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nMeanwhile, radical Arab Nationalist and Sunni MP Mithal al-Alusi claimed that hundreds of thousands of voters had been denied the right to vote. This was confirmed by Ahmad Challabi who claimed it was not intentional but \"a shortcoming in the electoral commission's preparations\". Al-Alusi however also alleged Iranian diplomats were allowed into Iraqi polling stations and accused them of interfering in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203496-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Iraqi governorate elections, Fraud allegations\nBoth the al-Iraqiya list and the Sadr Movement contested the results in court while the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council contested the results in Baghdad while the Awakening Movements contested the results in Al Anbar. In total election commity officials received 1,000 complaints of irregularities, including 20 serious allegations of fraud and that serious violations had been reported in Anbar, Diyala, Mosul, Muthanna and in Baghdad. He however claimed that most lists provided no proof for their fraud allegations. Some voters however claimed to have witnessed fraud at the polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203497-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Classic\nThe 2009 Irish Classic (often known as the 2009 Lucan Racing Irish Classic for sponsorship and promotion purposes) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 24 and 26 July 2009 at the Celbridge Snooker Club in Kildare, Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203497-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Classic\nJoe Swail won in the final 5\u20130 against Fergal O'Brien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 73]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 2009 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during August and September with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 12 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe winner College Causeway won \u20ac175,000 and was trained by Pat Buckley, owned by the Mike & Vincent McKenna and bred by Frank Culloty. The race was sponsored by the Paddy Power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nCollege Causeway (a 2008 semi-finalist) broke the track record setting a new mark of 29.21 in the first round and is cut from 16-1 to 8-1 to win the competition. Defending champion Shelbourne Aston went out in round two. The challenge of Scottish Greyhound Derby winner Cabra Cool ended in round two and Champion stakes winner Fatboyz Nodrog was eliminated in round three but Easter Cup champion Droopys Joel made it to the quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThree of the quarter finals were won by Royal Tornado, Cashen Legend and Oran Classic with Droopys Noel managing only fourth. College Causeway continued his winning ways and securing a fourth successive victory in 29.47, the best of the round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the semi-finals College Causeway beat Shaneboy Lee and Oran Classic; Slip the Lark was eliminated as was Mid West Blue who went out at the same stage as he did the previous year. Cashen Legend defeated Faypoint Man and Belvedere Champ in the second semi-final in a time of 29.87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203498-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nWhen the traps opened in the final Oran Classic from trap two forged out a good lead by halfway, Cashen Legend was prominent but College Causeway was positioned last out of the second bend before slipping inside some of the field by halfway. Oran Classic had a good lead but by the fourth bend College Causeway was making ground. College Causeway went passed Oran Classic on the run-in to complete an unbeaten campaign. Buckley dominated throughout the derby having 5 of the 8 heat winners in the 3rd round while College Causeway remained unbeaten throughout the derby and broke the track record in the opening round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget\nThe 2009 Irish emergency budget refers to the delivery of an emergency government budget by the Government of Ireland on 7 April 2009, its second in six months. It was also the second overall budget to be delivered by Fianna F\u00e1il's Brian Lenihan as Minister for Finance. The emergency budget announcement involved significant tax rises and a decrease in public spending. Prior to its unveiling, it was predicted to be the most severe budget in decades, with The Independent suggesting in its aftermath that it was the most severe in the country's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Background, 2008 emergency budget\nThe Irish government budget for 2009 was delivered on 14 October 2008, as the first budget in the tenure of Brian Lenihan as Minister for Finance and the first of the Taoiseach Brian Cowen's tenure. It was brought forward from its usual December date due to the global financial crisis. The budget, labelled \"the toughest in many years\", included a number of controversial measures such as a proposed income levy which was eventually restructured and the withdrawal of previously promised HPV vaccines for schoolgirls. Other results of the budget included a new income levy being imposed on all workers above a specified threshold and the closure of a number of military barracks near the border with Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Budget summary\nThe April 2009 emergency budget introduced a number of new measures. The announcements included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Details\nThe cabinet met on the afternoon of 6 April 2009 to finalise the emergency budget. The budget was preceded by an announcement that all twenty of Ireland's Ministers of State were to resign to be replaced by fifteen within a fortnight. A proposal was also announced which would see the transfer of approximately \u20ac80\u201390 billion of bad loans from Irish banks to a new National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) The Department of Transport announced a reduction in funding of \u20ac315 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Details\n\u20ac150 million would be deducted from the \u20ac448 million earmarked for local and regional roads, with a further \u20ac150 million deducted from funds set aside for public transport infrastructure. The typical person on the minimum wage of \u20ac17,500 per annum would have to pay 2% taxes, a person on \u20ac50,000 per annum would have to pay 4% taxes and a person on \u20ac300,000 per annum would have to pay 9% taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Details\nThe Taoiseach Brian Cowen called the budget one of the toughest in several years but insisted that the emergency measures were necessary. He defended the taxation increases by stating that high earners would pay a significant amount of the new taxes. Brian Lenihan said \"fairness means you cannot shuffle off responsibility to somebody else.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, Details\nIn its analysis, The Irish Times compared the budget to that of Ernest Blythe, who served as finance minister in W. T. Cosgrave's first government in 1923 and attempted to cut the old age pension, as well as to Lenihan's own October 2008 budget which led to him retracting his attempts to abolish automatic free healthcare for over seventies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, International reaction\nThe 2009 emergency budget received widespread international coverage. The Times featured a brief video clip on its website, describing what the \"bust budget\" would mean for the economy of the United Kingdom. The economics editor of the BBC reported that there were lessons for the United Kingdom to learn from this emergency procedure. The Financial Times stated that the increased taxes contained within the budget would mainly affect the \"middle classes\" of Ireland. Reuters reported that the European Commission viewed the budget as a form of \"decisive action\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203499-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Irish emergency budget, International reaction\nThe Independent described Ireland's financial situation as \"the dismal business of adjusting to a generational drop in living standards with the end of the Celtic Tiger boom and the prospect of a new era of austerity\". The Independent also carried a cartoon of Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen measuring a lifeless Celtic Tiger before deciding that it would have to go on a diet at the present time. Meanwhile, The Irish Times disagreed with an assessment on the website of the Toronto Star which said the budget was a \"painstakingly negotiated plan\" which involved \"hefty hikes in income tax and service spending cuts\" which it said were intended to restore confidence in the \"shaky finances of debt-stricken Ireland\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203500-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish local elections\nThe 2009 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of the Republic of Ireland on Friday, 5 June 2009, on the same day as the European Parliament election and two by-elections (Dublin South and Dublin Central).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203500-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish local elections, Overview\nThe election results were significant for a number of reasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203500-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish local elections, Results\nThe total number of the Irish electorate eligible to vote in the election was 3,259,253. A total of 1,880,589 first preference votes were cast, representing a turnout of 57.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203500-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish local elections, Results\nThe Progressive Democrats and Independent Fianna F\u00e1il did not compete in the elections. As they competed in the previous elections, totals for vote and seat changes may not total zero. People Before Profit Alliance figures are compared to Socialist Workers Party figures from the previous local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203500-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Irish local elections, Results, Detailed results by council\nFollowing the June 2009 local elections Fine Gael were the largest political party on 24 councils, the Labour Party on 4 councils, Fianna F\u00e1il on 3 councils, Independents on 2 councils and Sinn F\u00e9in on 1 council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203501-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship\nThe 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was a triathlon competition held in Clearwater, Florida on November 14, 2009. The race was sponsored by Foster Grant and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation. The championship race is the culmination of the Ironman 70.3 series of races that take place during the 12 months prior leading up to the event. Athletes, both professional and amateur, earn a spot in the championship race by qualifying in races throughout the 70.3 series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203501-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, Qualification\nThe 2009 Ironman 70.3 Series features 34 events that enable qualification to the 2009 World Championship event. Some 70.3 events also act as qualifiers for the full Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship\nThe 2009 Ford Ironman World Championship was held on October 10, 2009 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. It was the 33rd such Ironman Triathlon World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978. The champions were Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington. The championship was organised by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Race highlights\nA total of 1,778 athletes from more than 48 countries started the race and 1,653 (1,200 men and 453 women) finished, 3 were disqualified. Hot and humid weather conditions prevailed with temperatures well above 90\u00a0\u00b0F (32.2\u00a0\u00b0C) during the bike and run portions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Race highlights\nBoth Chrissie Wellington (3rd consecutive win) and Craig Alexander (2nd consecutive win) continue their current reigns as Ironman World Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Race highlights\nChrissie Wellington set a new women's course record of 8:54:02, breaking Paula Newby-Fraser's 17-year-old women's course record. She finished 22nd overall among the pro men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Race highlights\nMirinda Carfrae set a new women's course run record of 2:56:51 in her very first Ironman World Championship, breaking the women's course run record that Chrissie Wellington set one year ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Qualification\nTo enter for the 2009 World Championship race, athletes were required to qualify through performance at an Ironman or selected Ironman 70.3 race, through Hawaii residency, through a random allocation lottery, or by invitation from the WTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Qualification\nThe Ironman 2009 Series consisted of 21 Ironman qualifying races plus the Ironman World Championship 2008 which was itself a qualifier for the 2010 Ironman World Championship. The series started with Ironman Wisconsin 2008 held on September 7, 2008, and in total 1,800 athletes qualified for the World Championship race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203502-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ironman World Championship, Qualification, Qualifying Ironmans\nThe fastest time of 7:59:16 was set by Timo Bracht during the Ironman European Championship 2009 at Frankfurt, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203503-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post bombing\nThe 2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post bombing was a suicide attack that took place on the Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC) post, a  paramilitary forces of Pakistan, at Jinnah Super Market in Sector E/7 of the Margallah area of Islamabad on Saturday, 4 April 2009. Five people have died with 5 injured. Policemen were taking dinner at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203503-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post bombing, Reaction\n\"The suicide bomber came from behind the bushes when the FC personnel broke for dinner and got a chance to detonate the device\" said Interior Advisor Rehman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203504-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Island Games\nThe XIII Island Games were held in \u00c5land, Finland, June 27-July 4, 2009. For the 13th edition of the Games, 25 teams competed in 14 different sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203504-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Island Games, Participating Countries\n24 islands competed in the 2009 Island Games. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203504-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Island Games, Participating Countries\nPrince Edward Island were set to participate, but a lack of funding from their government caused their withdrawal from the event, and subsequent resignation from the International Island Games Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT\nThe 2009 Isle of Man TT Festival was held between Saturday 30 May and Friday 12 June on the 37.733-mile (60.725\u00a0km) Mountain Course. The 2009 TT races again include a second 600\u00a0cc Supersport Junior TT race and the Lightweight TT and Ultra-Lightweight TT races held on the 4.25-mile (6.84\u00a0km) Billown Circuit in the Isle of Man. A new event for the 2009 Isle of Man TT races was the one-lap TTXGP for racing motorcycles \"to be powered without the use of carbon based fuels and have zero toxic/noxious emissions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT\nThe Blue Riband event of TT Race week was won by Steve Plater claiming victory in the Senior TT and also winning the prestigious Joey Dunlop TT Championship. There were two race wins in a day for Ian Hutchinson with the Supersport Race 1 and the Superstock TT race. The Superbike TT Race was won by John McGuinness and Michael Dunlop was a popular first time winner of the Supersport Race 2. The Sidecar Race 'A' was won by local Isle of Man crew of Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT\nThe subsequent Sidecar Race 'B' was abandoned after a serious crash to Nick Crowe/Mark Cox near Ballaugh Bridge on lap 1. The inaugural TTXGP race was won by Rob Barber and Chris Heath was first in the TTXGP Open Class. With three race wins on the Billown Circuit it was Ian Lougher that went on to win the Ultra-Lightweight TT and Lightweight TT Races. The 2nd leg of the Ultra-Lightweight Race was won by Chris Palmer on the Billown Circuit, the 1000\u00a0cc Support Race was won by John Burrows with Roy Richardson first in the 600\u00a0cc class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe first practice session for 2009 Isle of Man TT races featured an evening untimed practice session and newcomers control lap on Saturday 30 May 2009 held in almost perfect weather conditions. The first practice session suffered a 40-minute delay due to livestock too close to the course at Ballacrye Corner near Ballaugh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe Newcomers Control Lap was led away from the TT Grandstand by the TT Travelling Marshals and a steady pace set by the accompanying experienced Isle of Man TT competitors including former TT winner and rider's lasion officer Richard Quayle and former Manx Grand Prix winners Nigel Beattie and Paul Duckett. The newcomers control group included a number of new competitors from the United States, Marc Fissette from Belgium, Luis Carreira from Portugal and the Japanese rider Yoshinari Matsushita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe newcomers control group also included one female competitor, Jenny Tinmouth, and a number of outfits for the Sidecar TT accompanied by experienced TT sidecar competitors Roy Hanks/Dave Wells and Tony Baker/Fiona Baker-Milligan. The first competitor away from the TT Grandstand in the main solo class for the first untimed practice session was the Gary Johnson riding a 1000\u00a0cc Honda and the 2008 Senior TT winner John McGuinness also riding a 1000\u00a0cc Honda set an unofficial lap at an average speed of 125\u00a0mph on the Snaefell Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0002-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nAfter suffering a minor oil leak and completing only two laps, McGuinness stated, \"I'm glad to get that one out of the way. The first two laps settled me. I've had butterflies in my stomach all day. I was a bit nervous.\" The new Norton motorcycle entry ridden by Michael Dunlop suffered mechanical problems and stopped at Glen Helen on the first lap of practice for the motorcycle as did the LCR 600\u00a0cc Honda outfit of former TT sidecar winner Nick Crowe/Mark Cox near the 2nd Milestone. The 2009 TT newcomer Scott Jensen from Colorado slipped off at Union Mills and Steve McDonald at Braddan Bridge and both were taken to Nobles Hospital to be later released after a medical check-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nPractice at the 2009 Isle of Man TT races continued on Monday 1 June 2009 with a 40-minute delay to reorganise TT Marshals on the Mountain Section of the Snaefell Mountain Course. The German TT newcomer, Rico Penzofer and triple 2008 Manx Grand Prix winner Dan Kneen completed their control-lap before the start of main evening practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe winner of the 2007 Supersport TT Race, Ian Hutchinson pulled in at Ballacraine on the first lap of Monday practice and John McGuinness recorded a lap of 124.35\u00a0mph after a broken gear-lever on the high speed Crosby section left his Honda motorcycle jammed in 6th gear. The 2009 Sidecar TT winner Nick Crowe/Mark Cox again failed to record a time on Monday practice after continuing problems with the engine ignition system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe evening practice for Tuesday 2 June 2009 was held in slightly cooler weather conditions and the problems for the first two sessions of glaring sun and flies were reduced for competitors. It was again McGuinness that dominated practice in the Superbike class with a lap of 17 minutes 27.56 seconds an average speed of 129.661\u00a0mph. The sidecar TT class was led by Nick Crowe/Mark Cox with a lap of 19 minutes 39.43 seconds an average speed of 114.697\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0003-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe Suzuki sidecar outfit of Tim Reeves/Patrick Farrance stopped at Keppel Gate on Monday evening practice with a blocked fuel lift pump and then stopped again on Tuesday evening practice at Sulby crossroads with a snapped throttle cable, although completing the lap after borrowing a new cable from a local lawnmower dealer. The American Isle of Man TT newcomer James Vanderhaar slipped-off at Sulby Bridge and Roger Maher hit the bales at Glen Helen. The 600\u00a0cc LCR Honda sidecar outfit of David Wallis/Sally Wilson crashed at the 13th Milestone and the crew evacuated by the Medical Helicopter to Nobles Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe Wednesday evening practice session was again dominated by John McGuinness riding a 1000\u00a0cc in the Superbike class, unofficially breaking the lap record with a time of 17 minutes and 23.46 seconds an average speed of 130.171\u00a0mph. This was only the second lap at an average speed exceeding 130\u00a0mph and was completed after a heavy landing at Ballaugh Bridge by John McGuinness that his crash helmet collided with the fairing and McGuinness said later;- \"I rode the remainder of the lap with a broken screen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nIn the Supersport Junior TT class, Michael Dunlop riding a 600\u00a0cc Yamaha jumped into 2nd place on the practice leaderboard with a time of 18 minutes 5.88 seconds an average speed of 125.085\u00a0mph. The 2007 Lightweight Manx Grand Prix winner, Olie Linsdell crashed on the bumpy Glentramman section during Wednesday evening practice. After being stranded at Parliament Square on Wednesday evening with a loose battery, Cameron Donald riding a 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki lapped faster than McGuinness in a time of 17 minutes 13.25 seconds an average speed of 131.457\u00a0mph in the Thursday evening practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nA third lap of over 130\u00a0mph for the 2009 Isle of Man TT races was recorded by his Suzuki teammate, Bruce Anstey in 17 minutes 23.79 seconds an average speed of 130.129\u00a0mph. In the Supersport class, Michael Dunlop set an even faster time for the Junior TT during Thursday practice in 17 minutes and 55.45 seconds an average speed of 126.299\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe practice for the Sidecar TT class was red-flagged after a few competitors had left the TT Grandstand after the outfit 600\u00a0cc DMR Honda of Karl Bennett/Lee Cain caught fire at Douglas Road Corner in Kirk Michael. Also an oil-spillage on Bray Hill caused a high speed spin for the sidecar of David Atkinson/Jane Wheatcroft at St Ninian's Crossroads which led to the session being halted. The Friday evening practice of 5 June 2009 was held in the same hot weather, with a strong north-west wind on the Mountain Section of the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0004-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Practice Week 2009\nThe sidecar practice was extended by 30 minutes after the Thursday night postponement, although the times for both solo and sidecar classes were not generally as fast as the previous evening. After setting the fastest time on Thursday evening practice, Cameron Donald missed a gear change on the approach to Keppel Gate, running wide onto a grass bank and crashing on the uneven surface. A dislocated left shoulder and back injury forced Cameron Donald out of the 2009 Isle of Man TT Races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe 2009 Superbike TT Race was scheduled for mid-day start on Saturday 6 June 2009 and to be flagged away by the former world motorcycling champion Giacomo Agostini and was delayed 48 hours due to inclement weather conditions. The pole time for the Superbike TT race was set by the Australian Cameron Donald in 17 minutes, 13.25 seconds an average speed of 131.457\u00a0mph riding a 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki motorcycle. The hot weather of TT practice week returned for the 6 lap (226.38 miles) Superbike TT Race held on Monday 9 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe first competitor flagged away at the start at the TT Grandstand was the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Gary Johnson from Brigg followed by the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of John McGuinness with a 10-second starting interval. Starting at number 5 with a 40-second start interval, Bruce Anstey the Suzuki teammate of injured Cameron Donald was the first to hit mechanical problems with a slight engine mis-fire at the bottom of Bray Hill and Bruce Anstey retired his 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki at Ballacraine on lap 1 with a fuel sensor problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nIt was the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of John McGuinness that led lap 1 at the first official timing point at Glen Helen by 1.91 seconds from Conor Cummins riding a 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki motorcycle followed by the Honda brigade of Ian Hutchinson in 3rd place, Gary Johnson, Steve Plater and Guy Martin in 6th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0005-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe lead at Parliament Square, Ramsey was increased by McGuinness to 5 seconds over Conor Cummins and Guy Martin leap-frogging the other competitors to 3rd place and the leading group was joined by the 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha of Ian Lougher in 7th place making his 100th Isle of Man TT race start. Over the Mountain Section of the course, John McGuinness maintained a 5.14 second lead over Conor Cummins at the end of lap 1in a time of 17 minutes, 26.61 seconds an average speed of 129.779\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe pace continued on lap 2 with McGuinness increasing his lead with Guy Martin moving into second place and Steve Plater in third with the unfortunate Conor Cummins slipping down to 4th place. With pits-stops at the end of lap 2, John McGuinness now led by 10.79 seconds and set a new outright course record of 17 minutes, 21.29 seconds an average speed of 130.442\u00a0mph. A slow pit-stop by Conor Cummins caused by the chain on his 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki caused him to slip down the leaderboard to sixth place behind the Honda of Gary Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe TT Grandstand stop box was overshot by Keith Amor riding a 1000\u00a0cc Honda motorcycle on lap 2 incurring a 10-second race penalty. An engine mis-fire forced Keith Amour to retire at Ballacraine on lap 3. After pushing-in on lap 2 the 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha of Michael Dunlop retired at the pits and a further retirement at the TT Grandstand was the 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Ryan Farquhar with an oil leak from a replacement TT Superstock engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nAt Glen Helen on lap 3, McGuinness led Steve Plater by 7.91 seconds with Guy Martin in third place over 10 seconds adrift of the leader. The rest of the chasing pack at Glen Helen on lap 3 included the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Gary Johnson followed by Conor Cummins, Ian Hutchinson, Ian Lougher and the triple 2008 Manx Grand Prix winner Dan Kneen making the top dozen competitors on his debut Isle of Man TT race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe local Isle of Man competitor Gary Carswell and the former winner of the Senior 1997 Manx Grand Prix crashed heavily at the jump at the exit of Ballacrye Corner and was evacuated to Nobles Hospital on lap 3 with foot, rib and knee injuries and a series of minor fractures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe eight second lead was maintained during lap 4 by the 1000\u00a0cc Honda Superbike of John McGuinness over Steve Plater and Guy Martin in 3rd place. The 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha of Michael Rutter retired on lap 4 at Parliament Square, Ramsey with a broken gear-lever. At the pit-stops at the end of lap 4, John McGuinness increased his lead slightly to 9.14 with a lap averaging 129.318\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nWith an extra burst of speed McGuinness increased his lead over Steve Plater to 11 seconds on lap 5 and to 19.57 seconds at the official timing point at Ramsey on the last lap. The 2009 Superbike TT Race was won by John McGuinness in a new race record of 1 hour, 46 minutes and 7.16 seconds at an average race speed of 127.996\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThis provided John McGuinness with a historic 15th win and speaking after the race, McGuinness said;- \"I don't know what to say about being ahead of Hailwood, Mike Hailwood is the hero of the people of my dad's generation.\" In celebrating their 50th Anniversary of Isle of Man TT Racing for the Honda marque, McGuinness mentioned that;- \"I had to admit that I was feeling the pressure a bit with so many functions going on and so many Honda people over here expecting the victory....", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nIt is great to repay them with a victory and also for Honda to have a 1-2-3 finish in the race.\" In second place Steve Plater commented about the Superbike TT that \"I made improvements in my lap times and I am happy with the way I rode \u2013 you never stop learning around here and it is a different mind set to riding the short circuits, which I'done at Thruxton ten days earlier.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0007-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nIn contrast, Guy Martin in third place explaining that he thought that his front suspension forks required further adjustment mentioned that \"The bike is great in straight lines, but not in corners \u2013 I've had cracking pit stops, the bike has not missed a beat, so it is down to me and I'm not here to make up the numbers \u2013 I wanted the win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Ian Hutchinson finished in fourth place after the Kawasaki machine of Conor Cummins suffered an engine failure on the Verandah on the last lap. The fifth-place finish in the Superbike TT went to the Honda of Gary Johnson with Adrian Archibald the first Suzuki finisher in sixth place and Ian Lougher finishing seventh after making his 100th Isle of Man TT race start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nThe 2008 Senior Manx Grand Prix winner, Adam Barclay crashed at Glen Helen in the early stages of the Superbike TT and the TT newcomer Adrian Clark crashed at Sulby Bridge and both were uninjured. At Guthrie's Memorial the TT competitor Roger Wibberley slipped off his motorcycle as did Derek Brien the 2007 Junior Manx Grand Prix winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nAfter finishing in twelfth place, William Dunlop after the Superbike TT race while on an impromptu testing session on public roads crashed at 120\u00a0mph suffering extensive friction burns and Dunlop explained \"....I decided to take the 250 Honda up a wee winding road near Port Erin and sort out a few problems....I had just clicked into fifth gear when I lost it and hit a dry stone wall.... I had no leathers on and was just riding in my jeans and a top, but thankfully I had my leathers on.\" The 250\u00a0cc Honda motorcycle was broken into two pieces in the accident and required extensive repairs to compete in the Lightweight TT Race at Billown, Castletown later in TT Race Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nAfter the Superbike TT race the former World Motor-Cycling champion and Isle of Man TT winner Giacomo Agostini completed a demonstration parade lap of Snaefell Mountain Course riding a MV Agusta motorcycle accompanied by the current world champion Valentino Rossi riding a 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha R1 motorcycle. Both Giacomo Agostini and Valentino Rossi had watched the 2009 Superbike TT race from a vantage point on Quarterbridge Road in Douglas and Valentino Rossi described the experience as;- \"Watching from Ago's Leap is impressive, speed is unbelievable even from the outside but I think it feels more fast from the outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superbike TT Race\nWith the walls and houses it is a great show and it feels like a GP from 30 years ago...\" Afterwards, Valentino Rossi made the presentations to the winner John McGuinness of the Superbike TT race and congratulated McGuinness by saying;- \"You are a true gladiator of the sport to ride that fast at the TT.\" Describing the parade lap, Giacomo Agostini said that;- \"We went as fast today as I used to when I raced here.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe pole time for the 2009 Sidecar TT Race 'A' was set by the 600\u00a0cc LCR Honda outfit of Nick Crowe/Mark Cox at an average speed of 116.063\u00a0mph during the Wednesday evening practice session. On lap 1 the race was led at Ballacraine by the Honda of Nick Crowe/Mark Cox from the 600\u00a0cc DMR Suzuki sidecar of Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle by 1.39 seconds with John Holden/Andy Winkle in third place. This was followed in fourth place by the former World Sidecar Champion outfit of Klaus Klaffenbock/Darren Hope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nAt the official timing point at Ballaugh Bridge on lap 1 the lead was reduced by Molyneux/Sayle to less than one second, drifting back to 2.25 seconds at the Ramsey Hairpin and Holden/Winkle a further 5.1 seconds adrift. The 600\u00a0cc Suzuki sidecar of Simon Neary/Stuart Bond moved into fourth place at the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 1 and Tim Reeves/Patrick Farrance into 5th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe lead for Nick Crowe/Mark Cox at the TT Grandstand at the end of lap 1 was 3.99 seconds from the Suzuki outfit of Molyneux/Sayle. The opening lap was an average speed of 115.419\u00a0mph for Honda outfit the leaders and news soon filtered through that the 600\u00a0cc LCR Honda of Crowe/Cox had retired at Greeba Bridge on lap 2, followed shortly by John Holden/Andy Winkle at the Black Dub on the same lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe new leaders were Molyneux/Sayle with a lead 28 seconds from the 600\u00a0cc Ireson Honda of Phillip Dongworth/Gary Partridge in second place with Neary/Bond now in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe lead was increased to 42 seconds by Molyneux/Sayle at the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 2 and completing the second lap in 19 minutes 30.83 seconds an average speed of 116.010\u00a0mph and just 0.34 of a second short of the 2005 lap record..\" The sidecar of Phillip Dongworth/Gary Partridge had a minor collision with the outfit of Klaffenbock/Hope at Tower Bends on lap 2 with Klaus Klaffenbock suffering a minor hand injury and he stopped at the Gooseneck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe local Isle of Man crew of Karl Bennett/Lee Cain retired at Glen Vine on lap 2 after repairing their 600\u00a0cc DMR Honda which caught fire at Douglas Road Corner during Thursday evening practice. The 600\u00a0cc LCR Suzuki outfit of Jean-Claude Huet/Jonathan Huet crashed at Brandywell on lap 2 with the sidecar passenger suffering a broken ankle. The 600\u00a0cc Honda sidecar of Greg Lambert/Dipash Chauhan retired at the TT Grandstand on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe lead on the 3rd lap was now 50.67 second for Molyneux/Sayle increasing to 57 seconds at the official timing point at Ramsey Hairpin. The 2009 Sidecar TT race was won by Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle in 58 minutes and 59.28 seconds at an average race speed of 115.132\u00a0mph and was a new race record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nAfter competing in special gold-flake sprayed helmets to commemorate his first sidecar TT win in the 1989, Dave Molyneux commented on his 14th TT win and equalling the record set by Mike Hailwood, he said that \"I guess that I've been racing round here longer than Mike did....\"    and he said \"....Not bad for some old bugger.... My bones are a bit stressed now....I've had a hell of a year, but things came good today. Pretty Mint.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nThe new race record was 7.15 seconds faster than the previous 2005 race record and the first Sidecar TT race under 59 minutes for the 3 lap and 113.00-mile event. It was Dan Sayle that commented that Dave Molyneux rebuilt the engine the night before from the parts from 3 engines using the Suzuki workshop engine manual;- \"...the outfit felt a lot looser today, skitting around on the road, but Dave's some boy. He only decided to build a fresh motor last night \u2013 and believe me he's no engine builder. But it was obviously worth it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0012-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'A'\nIn second place for 2009 Sidecar TT Race 'A' was Phillip Dongworth/Gary Partridge at an average race speed of 113.404\u00a0mph and Phillip Dongworth said that;- \"I've been trying for 9 or 10 years to get to the podium and I'm delighted with our final lap of more than 114 mph too. The final podium place went to the 600\u00a0cc Suzuki of Simon Neary/Stuart Bond in third place with an average race speed of 112.600 mph. After being made redundant earlier in the year, Simon Neary nearly missed the 2009 Isle of Man TT Races; \u2013 \"I only decided to come at the last minute . We did our sums and managed to do it on a tight budget.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nWith the delayed Superbike and Sidecar Race 'A'  the race to be held on Monday were moved to Tuesday 9 June 2009 with an amended race schedule with the first race being held was the 4 lap (150.73-mile) Supersport Race 1. The pole time for the Supersport race was set by Michael Dunlop at an average speed of 126.299\u00a0mph. In what was considered to be a highly contested race it was the unfortunate Michael Dunlop that was the first retirement on lap 1 at Snugbrough near the 2nd Milestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nDespite only setting fifth fastest in practice it was Bruce Anstey riding a 600\u00a0cc Suzuki that led at the official timing point at Glen Helen by 1.73 seconds from the 600\u00a0cc Honda of Guy Martin with Ian Hutchinson just 0.5 second behind in third place also riding a Honda motorcycle. A further gaggle of riders covered by five seconds included the Honda of John McGuinness in fourth place followed by the Kawasaki of Conor Cummins then Keith Amor with the 600\u00a0cc Yamaha of Ian Lougher in seventh place at Glen Helen on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nThe places were reversed at the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 1 with Guy Martin now leading Bruce Anstey by 0.3 seconds. The first lap of the Supersport Race 1 was completed by Guy Martin in 18 minutes and 3.37 seconds at an average speed of 125.375 and Ian Hutchinson passed Bruce Anstey for second place on the Mountain Section of the course on corrected time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nIn third place at the beginning of lap 2, Bruce Anstey increased his pace passing Ian Hutchinson on corrected time and closed the gap to 0.46 seconds from the leader Guy Martin at Ballaugh Bridge. At the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 2, Bruce Anstey was now leading by 3.35 seconds and the New Zealander shattered the lap record with a lap of 17 minutes and 53.32 seconds an average speed of 126.549\u00a0mph and was now leading by 6.86 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nAfter the pit-stops at the end of lap 2 it was Ian Hutchinson that moved into second place leading Guy Martin by 0.3 seconds in third place followed by the Honda riders of McGuinness, Keith Amor and Steve Plater. The pace continued by Bruce Anstey on the third lap with a slightly increased lead of 8.63 seconds and a lap with an average speed of 120.660\u00a0mph and increasing the lead to 10.55 seconds at the official timing point at Ballaugh Bridge on lap four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nMaintaining his lead at the Ramsey Hairpin on the last lap, it dropped to 7.14 seconds at the Bungalow the 600\u00a0cc Suzuki of Bruce Anstey was beginning to slow and was forced to retire at Brandywell with a broken wire leading to an amplifier. This elevated Ian Hutchinson to first place and winning the 2009 Supersport Race 1 in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 56.58 seconds at an average race speed of 121.141\u00a0mph. The racing had been close and the winner Ian Hutchinson said;- \"Bruce and I were touching fairings going into the Gooseneck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nIt was enjoyable but frustrating....\" In second place was Guy Martin completing the race with a blown head gasket and mentioned that;- \"Conditions were nearly 100% but there wasn't the grip there was on Monday. We're chipping away at it. I'm just pleased to finish second. After having trouble with the bike on lap 2, I was looking for a decent pub to pull up at.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0014-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nThe third place went to the 600\u00a0cc Honda of Keith Amor after a previous third place in the 2008 Supersport Race 1 was handed to him after a technical enfridgment following the exclusion of Bruce Anstey motorcycle and Amor said with this in mind that;- \"It's a nice feeling to be finally stepping up onto the podium, though it was hard work. At times we were almost touching, it was so close but I was determined to hang in for third.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nContinuing with the amended race schedule on Tuesday 9 June 2009 the 4 lap (150.73 miles) Superstock TT, the fastest time in practice was set by Steve Plater with an average speed of 126.938\u00a0mph. It was the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Keith Amor that held a 1-second lead over the Honda of John McGuinness and a further 1.3 seconds over Ian Hutchinson in third place at Glen Helen on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nIn fourth place was the 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Conor Cummins followed by the Kawasaki of Ryan Farquhar and the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Steve Plater in sixth place and only 0.82 seconds on corrected time covering the battle for fourth place. By the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 1, it was McGuinness that had moved into the lead by 0.5 seconds from Keith Amor with Ian Hutchinson in third and Guy Martin moving into fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nThe places changed again on the Mountain Section of the course on lap 1 with John McGuinness setting a new lap record from a standing start for the Superstock class in 17 minutes and 36.72 seconds an average speed of 128.538\u00a0mph and leading Ian Hutchinson by 0.95 of a second with Keith Amor in third place at the end of lap 1. A former winner of the Superstock class, Bruce Anstey retired his 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki at the TT Grandstand at the start of lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nIn a highly contested Superstock TT race it was now Guy Martin leading at Glen Helen on lap 2 by 0.23 of a second from Keith Amor also leading McGuinness by 0.5 seconds and Ian Hutchinson in fourth place. At the official timing point at Ballaugh Bridge on lap 2, it was Ian Hutchinson's turn to leap-frog into second place then moving into the lead by 0.5 of a second from Guy Martin and Keith Amor in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nRacing to the pits-stops at the end of lap 2, Ian Hutchinson set a new lap record and the first 129\u00a0mph lap for the Superstock class of 17 minutes and 31.20 at an average speed of 129.212\u00a0mph and Guy Martin also recorded a lap of 129.212\u00a0mph inside the short-lived new recorded set by McGuinness on lap 1. The 2.03 second lead held by Ian Hutchinson at the end of lap 2 rapidly disappeared when the filler-cap jammed in the fuel-tank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nIt was Guy Martin that now in the lead on lap 3 by seven seconds after the fumbled pit-stop by Ian Hutchinson, although this lead was reduced to 2.99 seconds on corrected time at Ballaugh Bridge on lap 3 and just 0.3 of a second at Ramsey Hairpin. At the start of the last lap, Guy Martin was determined to hold and lead Hutchinson by 0.05 of a second with Keith Amor in third place over 10 seconds adrift of the leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nAt Glen Helen on lap 4, Guy Martin increased the lead to 0.88 of a second over Ian Hutchinson and pulling-out a slight margin of 1.2 seconds at the Ballaugh Bridge. The positions were reversed at Ramsey Hairpin on the last lap with Ian Hutchinson now leading by 1.26 seconds over Guy Martin increasing to 5.0 seconds at the official timing point at the Bungalow. The 2009 Superstock TT race was won by Ian Hutchinson with a new race record of 1 hour, 10 minutes and 57.54 seconds at an average race speed of 127.612\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nAfter winning two Isle of Man TT races in one day, Ian Hutchinson said;- \" I can't believe it....I didn't feel I was on the pace to start with, but I got stuck in and had a much better second lap. We filled the tank right to the brim at the fuel stop and coundn't get the filler cap back in. I considered going off without it, but that would have been stupid.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0005", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nIn second place with an average race speed of 127.349\u00a0mph was the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Guy Martin who commented;-  \"Fair play to Ian, there were a few back-markers in the way on the final lap, but he had to deal with them as well, 129 mph \u2013 thats going some.\" The final podium place was filled by Keith Amor with an average race speed of 127.103\u00a0mph who commented on the race conditions after the delayed start as;- \"It was like night-time racing, quite dark under the trees, but I cannot believe the speeds.\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0016-0006", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Superstock TT Race\nThe 2009 Superstock TT race provided a new women's lap record for the Snaefell Mountain Course with TT newcomer Jenny Tinmouth lapping in 19 minutes and 26.08 seconds an average speed of 116.483\u00a0mph on the last lap and beating the previous time of 19 minutes 43.8 seconds held by Maria Costello from the 2004 Production TT race. The Japanese rider and TT newcomer Yoshinari Matsushita crashed at the Stonebreakers Hut on lap 3 of the Superstock TT race suffering multiple fractures to both legs and a shoulder injury. A further incident occurred between races to John McBride a TT Travelling Marshal after crashing at Keppel Gate suffering multiple injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nThe pole time for the Supersport race was set by Michael Dunlop at an average speed of 126.299\u00a0mph set on the Thursday evening practice for the 4 lap (150.73-mile) Supersport Race 2. After the Supersport TT Race 2 was delayed for nearly 4 hours due to rain on some parts of the course between Greeba Bridge and Kirk Michael including hail showers. Despite the mixed road conditions it was the 600\u00a0cc Yamaha of Michael Dunlop that was in the lead at Glen Helen by 3 seconds from the 600\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Ryan Farquhar on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nThis was followed by the 600\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Conor Cummins just 0.11 of a second down in third place, followed by the 600\u00a0cc Suzuki of Bruce Anstey and the 600\u00a0cc Yamaha of Ian Lougher in fifth place. At the Ramsey Hairpin on lap 1, Conor Cummins passed his fellow Kawasaki rider on corrected time, to lead Ryan Farquhar by 3 seconds, but still 11 seconds adrift of the leader Michael Dunlop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nAn indication of the mixed condition, Michael Dunlop completed lap 1 in 18 minutes and 54.33 seconds an average speed of 119.743\u00a0mph leading Conor Cummins by 10.12 seconds and the 600\u00a0cc Honda of Guy Martin that was 8.96 seconds adrift in third place. Retirements at the TT Grandstand at the end of lap 1 included the 600\u00a0cc Yamaha of William Dunlop, the 600\u00a0cc Suzuki of Adrian Archibald and the 600\u00a0cc Honda of the 2005 Junior Manx Grand Prix winner Ian Pattinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nOn lap 2 at Ballaugh Bridge, Michael Dunlop had increased his lead to 14.76 seconds over Conor Cummims with Bruce Anstey now in third place. At the end of lap 2, Michael Dunlop had increased the lead to 15.4 seconds and lapped at an average speed of 122.692\u00a0mph as conditions on the course improved. The lead increased to 16.6 seconds for Michael Dunlop on lap 3 at Glen Helen with Conor Cummins ahead of the Suzuki of Bruce Anstey by 7.1 seconds and Guy Martin in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nAt the Bungalow on lap 3 the lead had increased to 18 seconds for Michael Dunlop completing the lap in 19 minutes 7.45 seconds an average speed of 118.373. As Conor Cummins crossed the finish-line at the end of lap 3 his 600\u00a0cc Kawasaki cut-out and he coasted the length of the pit-straight with a dead engine and the TT Grandstand speed-trap recording a speed of 98\u00a0mph. Passing the pit-lane exit, the engine restarted and second place was lost to Bruce Anstey on corrected race-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nOn the last lap, Michael Dunlop was now leading the Suzuki of Bruce Anstey by 26.48 seconds at Glen Helen and Conor Cummins had recovered from his engine mishap to be 7 seconds adrift of second place. At the Bungalow on lap 4, the lead had increased to 31 seconds for the 600\u00a0cc Yamaha of Michael Dunlop as Bruce Anstey in turn had to fight off a late challenge over the Mountain Section of the course by Conor Cummins the local Isle of Man rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nThe 2009 Supersport Race 2 was won by Michael Dunlop in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 34.80 seconds at an average race speed of 121.416\u00a0mph. In the mixed race conditions Michael Dunlop commented that;- \"My dad gave me the knowledge. I went as quickly as I dared in the damp conditions later on. I had to go for it. It was my spare bike, my better one blew-up in the first couple of miles yesterday. This makes up for all the disappointment....I have been pretty relaxed apart from that. It's been like Paddy's on Tour.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nThe 2009 Supersport TT Race 2 was the second win on the Snaefell Mountain Course after Michael Dunlop had won the 2006 Newcomers Manx Grand Prix and was the 34th win for the Dunlop family over a period of 32 years. In second place was the New Zealander Bruce Anstey at an average race speed of 120.580\u00a0mph the margin just 0.71 seconds from the late challenge from Conor Cummins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nAlso, Bruce Anstey reflected about the mixed conditions and after three non-race finishes said;- \"We finally got the gremlins sorted out and I was just glad to cross the finish line \u2013 the conditions were very wet and slippery early on but got drier as the race went on. Michael got the move on the first lap and there was no getting him back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0019-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Supersport TT Race 2\nIn third place was Conor Cummins at an average speed of 120.561 and said of the lap 3 problem;- \"I'm really not sure what went wrong with the bike at the end of lap three but it seems OK now. I'm delighted with third but it would be nice to go two better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'B'\nThe weather delays to the running of the Supersport Race 2 that the 3 lap (113.00 miles) Sidecar Race 'B' was postponed to early evening. The leaders on the road and on corrected race time on lap 1 at Glen Helen were the 600\u00a0cc LCR Honda outfit of Nick Crowe/Mark Cox by 0.65 of a second from the 600\u00a0cc DMR Suzuki of Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle. On approaching Ballacobb near Ballaugh Bridge the Honda sidecar of Nick Crowe/Mark Cox crashed heavily and caught fire. The two crew were airflifted to Nobles Hospital by the Medical Helicopter with extensive injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Sidecar TT Race 'B'\nThe Sidecar Race 'B' was red-flagged and the following sidecar competitors were stopped at various points of the course before Ballaugh Bridge. These sidecar crews were escorted back to the TT Grandstand in the reverse direction by the TT Travelling Marshals to restart the race and later a decision was made by the organisers to abandon the 2009 Sidecar TT Race 'B'. It is believed that the onboard camera on the outfit of Nick Crowe/Mark Cox shows a Brown Hare running in front of the sidecar immediately before the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe first race to be held on Senior Race day was TTXGP \u2013 (Time Trial Xtreme Grand Prix) for racing motorcycles \"to be powered without the use of carbon based fuels and have zero toxic/noxious emissions.\" The race for mainly two types of battery powered electric motorcycles for 1 lap (37.733 miles) of the Snaefell Mountain Course and the fastest time in practice was set Rob Barber in 26 minutes and 41.39 seconds an average speed of 84.819\u00a0mph in the 3a PRO Class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe inaugural lap of the \"Electric TT\" the race leader at the official timing point at Glen Helen on lap 1 was Rob Barber with a Team AGNI electric motorcycle and described by the Sports Editor of an Isle of Man Newspaper as;- \"For all the world it sounded like a milk float without the chink of glass bottles....the UK-India alliance AGNI team machine, ridden by the fastest man in training Rob Barber, whirred its way to Glen Helen in six minutes, the kind of time perhaps expected from Artie Bell on his winning ride in the 1950 Junior.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nIn second place at Glen Helen was Thomas Schoenfelder and the XXL machine and 28 seconds down on the leaders time with James McBride and the Isle of Man-based ManTTx Racing in the Open Class a further 9 seconds behind. A change in the leaderboard positions at Ballaugh Bridge as Rob Barber was now leading James McBride by 46 seconds and the XXL entry of Thomas Schoenfelder relegated to third position. The Kingston University entry ridden by George Spence was forced to stop at Crosby Crossroads to recharge the batteries at the Crosby Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe official speed-trap on Sulby Straight recorded a speed of 106.50\u00a0mph for the XXL machine for Thomas Schoenfelder, a speed of 99\u00a0mph for James McBride in the Open class and 97.9\u00a0mph for the PRO Class AGNI bike of Rob Barber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0022-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe fast pace was too much for the Open Class entry of ManTTx Racing, and the bike stopped with an overheated electric motor at Glen Duff and a retirement for James McBride, a replacement for Dan Kneen after a crash at the Black Dub during the Supersport TT Race 2, which resulted in a broken ankle for the 2008 Manx Grand Prix winner. The leader in TTXGP reached Ramsey Hairpin in 15 minutes and 56 seconds an average speed of 87\u00a0mph and Rob Barber maintained a lead over Thomas Schoenfelder with the American rider Thomas Montano over 2 minutes off the pace of the leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe winner of the 2009 TTXGP was the AGNI entry of Rob Barber in 25 minutes and 53.50 seconds an average race speed of 87.434\u00a0mph. After lapping at 112\u00a0mph in the Supersport TT race 2, Rob Barber was pleased to be the inaugural winner of the TTXGP and said; \"It is the best experience of my life.... The volt meter is running quite low as the battery started to run out in the final few miles, but I have the win and the record lap, which I wanted \u2013 Fantastic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe winning Anglo-Indian AGNI PRO class entry was based on a 600\u00a0cc Suzuki GSX frame and incorporating the Cedric Lynch designed axial gap brushed DC Lynch motor. The second place in the PRO class was the XXL entry of Thomas Schoenfelder in 29 minutes and 4.93 seconds an average race speed of 77.841\u00a0mph. The XXL machine was based on 650\u00a0cc Laverda using a 120\u00a0hp Siemens motor and an electric regulator from an Audi hybrid car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nThe third-place finisher was Mark Buckley with the Brammo/BIKE entry on the 3a PRO class in 30 minutes and 2.64 seconds at an average race speed of 75.350\u00a0mph. The Brammo entries based in Oregon, USA and Mark Buckley said that; \" Every time I ride this bike it just gets better. It just like a GP 250.\" The Open class winner was Chris Heath with the Electric Motorsport entry in 34 minutes and 17.30 at an average race speed of 66.022\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0023-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, TTXGP Race\nIn second place was Chris Petty at an average race speed of 62.219\u00a0mph and third place with the TORK entry was John Crellin at an average race speed of 60.475\u00a0mph. There was confusion at the end of the Open class as the winner Chris Heath was briefly excluded and then reinstated after the rider was unaware of a TTXGP regulation that competitors must sound the machines' electric horn if a yellow flag is displayed by a race marshal. After discussion with ACU stewards and the TTXGP organisers, Chris Heath was reinstated as winner of the Open class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThe Blue Riband event of TT Race week was the Senior TT race over 6 lap (226.38\u00a0miles) of the Snaefell Mountain Course held on Friday 12 June 2009. The pole time for the Senior TT race was set on Thursday evening practice by the Australian Cameron Donald in 17 minutes, 13.25 seconds an average speed of 131.457\u00a0mph riding a 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki motorcycle. A non-qualifier for the Senior TT was the official Norton Motorcycle Company and a single entry Wankel-engined 588\u00a0cc NRV motorcycle ridden during practice by Michael Dunlop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nAfter a 30 minutes delay due to a light rain shower, the leader of the 2009 Senior TT on lap 1 at the official timing point at Glen Helen was the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of John McGuinness by 2.42 seconds from Steve Plater and the 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Conor Cummins down by 1.75 seconds on the two Honda teammates. The 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Ian Hutchinson was 3.8 seconds behind in 4th place, followed by the 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki of Bruce Anstey, the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Gary Johnson and Guy Martin in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThe Honda of McGuinness completed lap 1 in 17 minutes and 17.23 seconds an average speed of 130.953\u00a0mph from a standing race start to lead Steve Plater at the TT Grandstand by 3.68 seconds. An early retirement was the 1000\u00a0cc Kawasaki of Ryan Farquhar explaining that;- \"There is no high-speed stability.\" The lead was extended by John McGuinness on lap 2 to 10 seconds at the Ramsey Hairpin and Steve Plater held a 5.8 second margin over Conor Cummins in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThe second lap was completed by John McGuinness in 17 minutes and 12.30 seconds at an average speed of 131.578\u00a0mph and McGuinness was on course to complete his fifth straight Senior TT win. The New Zealander Bruce Anstey retired his Suzuki at the 33rd Milestone and Ian Lougher retired his 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha with handling problems. At Glen Helen on lap 3, the Honda of John McGuinness was leading his teammate by 18.5 seconds with Conor Cummins holding third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0025-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nOn the same lap while exiting Parliament Square, Ramsey the chain on the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of John McGuinness snapped and he coasted to a halt at Cruickshanks Corner. This dramatically handed the lead to Steve Plater with an 11-second lead over Conor Cummins at Ramsey Hairpin on lap 3 with the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Guy Martin moving into third place. At the end of lap 4, Conor Cummins posted his first 130\u00a0mph lap in 17 minutes and 23.02 seconds an average speed of 130.225\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0025-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nFurther drama in the pit-lane at the TT Grandstand at the end of lap 4 with Guy Martin in third place pulling-out of his pit the chain on his 1000\u00a0cc Honda also snapped forcing him into retirement. The 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Keith Amor was another retirement with a jammed rear-wheel spindle which would not allow the rear-tyre to be changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThe lead on lap 5 was extended by Steve Plater to 15.6 seconds at the Ramsey Hairpin over Conor Cummims with 29.2 seconds separated Ian Hutchinson in third place. A crash near the Alexander Road Junction with the Quarterbridge Road for the 1000\u00a0cc Suzuki of the American competitor Mark Miller and he slid downhill with his machine all the way to the Quarterbridge. This left oil on the racing line from the damaged motorcycle and despite the efforts of the race marshals the 1000\u00a0cc Yamaha of William Dunlop slid-off at the same place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThis was followed by Ian Hutchinson crashing-out of third place of the Senior TT on the same oil at the Quarterbridge and also losing his lead in the Joey Dunlop TT Championship. This moved the 1000\u00a0cc Honda of Gary Johnson into third place on the last lap of the Senior TT Race. The winner of the 2009 Isle of Man TT Race was Steve Plater in 1 hour, 45 minutes and 53.15 seconds at an average race speed of 128.278\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nAlso winning the prestigious Isle of Man TT Championship, Steve Plater said that;- \"This means a massive amount to me. It probably won't sink in until I manage to get some time to myself but I don't know were to go from here.\" In second place was the Isle of Man competitor Conor Cummins at an average race speed of 127.884\u00a0mph and was the best result for a local competitor in the Senior TT since Tom Sheard won the 1923 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0003", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nDescribing the race, Conor Cummins said that; \"I rode with all my heart today....I remember watching the TT as a lad from the end of the road near Milntown, but I never in a million years did I think I would get two podium finishes in one week.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0004", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nThe third-place finisher was Gary Johnson at an average race speed of 126.875\u00a0mph and included a 10-second stop-box penalty at the pit stop at the end of lap 2. Delighted with his first podium place Gary Johnson said; \"It has been a difficult week for us, but the team pulled together to enable me to pull this result out of the bag. I have served my three-year apprenticeship. The TT is an endurance race and you've got to be on it on the last lap to get a result.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0026-0005", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, TT Race Week 2009, Isle of Man Senior TT Race\nIt is later announced by race organisers that John Crellin fatally crashed at the 27th Milestone on the Mountain Mile on lap 5 of the 2009 Senior TT Race. A local Isle of Man motorcycle competitor and experienced mountaineer, John Crellin had finished in third place in the Open Class for the 2009 TTXGP earlier in the same day. The newly formed manufacturers award was won by Honda. Fittingly in their 50th Racing year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Practice Times, Practice Times & Leaderboard Supersport Junior TT\nFor 600\u00a0cc motorcycles conforming to the 2009 MCRCB Supersport Regulations. Plate Colour; White on Blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 95], "content_span": [96, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Practice Times, Practice Times TTXGP\nFor Carbon free emission motorcycles in classes 3a-3d and Open class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Superbike TT final standings.\nFastest Lap and New Class Record: John McGuinness \u2013 130.442\u00a0mph (17' 21.29) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Sidecar TT Race 'A' TT final standings\nFastest Lap: Dave Molyneux/Dan Sayle  \u2013 116.010\u00a0mph (19' 30.83) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 87], "content_span": [88, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Supersport Junior TT Race 1\nFastest Lap and New Lap Record: Bruce Anstey \u2013 126.549\u00a0mph (17' 53.32) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Superstock TT final standings.\nFastest Lap and New Lap Record: Ian Hutchinson \u2013 129.746\u00a0mph (17' 26.88) on lap 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 79], "content_span": [80, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Supersport Junior TT Race 2\nFastest Lap: Steve Plater \u2013 125.384\u00a0mph (18' 03.30) on lap 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 TTXGP PRO Classes final standings.\n12 June 2009 1 Lap (37.733\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course. TTXGP for Carbon free emission motorcycles in PRO classes 3a-3d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 TTXGP OPEN Class final standings.\n12 June 2009 1 Lap (37.733\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course. TTXGP for Carbon free emission motorcycles in OPEN class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 82], "content_span": [83, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Senior TT final standings.\nFastest Lap, New Lap and Course Record: John McGuinness \u2013 131.578\u00a0mph (17' 12.30) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Senior TT final standings.\nNote: Experienced rider John Crellin died after crashing on the fifth lap of this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Ultra-Lightweight TT Race 1 final standings.\n13 June 2009 Race 1; 1st leg 8 Laps (34.00\u00a0Miles) Billown Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Ultra-Lightweight TT Race 1 final standings.\nFastest Lap and New Lap Record: Ian Lougher \u2013 94.911\u00a0mph (2' 39.291) on lap 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Lightweight TT Race 1 final standings.\n13 June 2009 Race 2; 1st leg 8 Laps (34.00\u00a0Miles) Billown Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 87], "content_span": [88, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Lightweight TT Race 1 final standings.\nFastest Lap and New Lap Record: Chris Palmer, 102.638\u00a0mph (2' 29.068) on lap 5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Billown TT 600\u00a0cc/1000 Support Race final standings.\n13 June 2009 Race 3; 8 Laps (34.00\u00a0Miles) Billown Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 101], "content_span": [102, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Billown TT 600\u00a0cc/1000 Support Race final standings.\nFastest Lap: Mark Parrett, 106.125\u00a0mph (2' 26.125) on lap 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 101], "content_span": [102, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Ultra-Lightweight TT Race 2 final standings.\n13 June 2009 Race 4; 2nd leg 8 Laps (34.00\u00a0Miles) Billown Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Ultra-Lightweight TT Race 2 final standings.\nFastest Lap;- Chris Palmer \u2013 95.291\u00a0mph (2' 40.561) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Lightweight TT Race 2 final standings.\n13 June 2009 Race 5; 2nd leg 8 Laps (34.00\u00a0Miles) Billown Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 87], "content_span": [88, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Race results, 2009 Lightweight TT Race 2 final standings.\nFastest Lap;- William Dunlop, 102.077\u00a0mph (2' 29.887) on lap 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 87], "content_span": [88, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203505-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Man TT, Results, Isle of Man TT Championship Points Standings\nIntroduced in 2009, the 2009 Isle of Man TT points championship will award points to the best 15 riders in each of the five solo races. The winner of this championship will win the Joey Dunlop TT Champion Trophy and a prize of  \u00a310,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203506-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Wight Council election\nThe 2009 Isle of Wight Council elections were held on Thursday 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203506-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Wight Council election\nAfter a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, the number of seats on the council was reduced from 48 single-member wards, to a 40-member council, consisting of 38 single member wards, and one double-member ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203506-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Isle of Wight Council election, Overview\nThe result of the election was 'no change', with the Conservatives retaining an overall majority by winning twenty-four of the forty seats available. Of the sixteen remaining seats, ten went to independents, five to the Liberal Democrats and just one to the Labour Party. Although the Conservatives managed to retain control, the Isle of Wight was still the only council in England in which they lost seats. Among the factors which could have led to this relatively poor performance are the recent education reforms on the Isle of Wight, which led to protests over the closure of island primary schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203506-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Isle of Wight Council election, Overview\nThe \"Standards not Tiers\" independent candidate Chris Welsford beat the sitting Conservative councillor Jonny Fitzgerald-Bond by 141 votes in the Ventnor East ward. In the Cowes West and Gurnard ward, which was at the heart of education reforms, sitting Tory councillor Alan Wells was beaten by independent candidate Paul Fuller. The large numbers of independent candidates standing at this election and the increased level of support for them could also be attributed to the ongoing United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, pushing voters away from the mainstream political parties represented in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203507-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Israel Open\nThe 2009 Israel Open was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ramat HaSharon, Israel between 4 and 10 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203507-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Israel Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203507-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Israel Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nGeorge Bastl /  Chris Guccione def. Jonathan Erlich /  Andy Ram, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203508-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Israel Open \u2013 Doubles\nJonathan Erlich and Andy Ram were the defending champions; however, they lost to George Bastl and Chris Guccione in the final. The new champions won 7\u20135, 7\u20136(6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203509-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Israel Open \u2013 Singles\nMarsel \u0130lhan was the defender of championship title, however he lost to Simon Stadler in the quarterfinal. In the final Benjamin Becker retired when the result was 6\u20133, 3\u20131 and Lu Yen-hsun became the new champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203510-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli Basketball League Cup\nWinner Cup 2009 was the 4th edition of the Israeli basketball pre-season tournament Winner Cup. It was played between  October 4 and October 8 in Jerusalem at the Malha Arena, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Hapoel Jerusalem has won the cup after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv 86-80 in the final. MVP was Tre Simmons (Hapoel Jerusalem).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203510-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli Basketball League Cup, Tournament Bracket\nThe teams were seeded according to their last season standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election\nElections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government. Had Olmert remained in office or had Livni formed a coalition government, the elections would have been scheduled for 2010 instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election\nAlthough the incumbent prime minister's party, Kadima, won the most seats in the parliament, the Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was able to form a majority coalition government and become the new prime minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Background\nOn 17 September 2008, Kadima held a leadership election, which was won by Tzipi Livni. Following Livni's victory, former party leader Ehud Olmert (who did not run in the contest) resigned as Prime Minister. Livni was given six weeks to form a coalition, but set a deadline of 26 October for parties to agree to join the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Background\nAlthough the Labor Party agreed to join, current coalition member Shas rejected the opportunity; Livni claimed that it had made \"economically and diplomatically illegitimate\" demands (including a reluctance to increase child benefits, and rejection of the possible division of Jerusalem in a deal with the Palestinians). It was reported that Shas had rejected almost one billion shekels in child allowances offered to it as part of the coalition negotiations. Gil and United Torah Judaism had both rejected offers to join, while negotiations with Meretz-Yachad were still ongoing. On 26 October, Livni recommended to President Shimon Peres that early elections be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Background\nPresident Peres had three days to consult on the recommendation, after which there was a period of three weeks in which other Knesset members could have offered to form an alternative coalition, but no such alternative was brought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Background\nThe election would have to be held within 90 days after the end of that period. Although Kadima submitted a bill to the Knesset on 27 October to call early elections and bypass the three-week period, Peres' announcement to the Knesset that there was no chance of forming a government meant that the full waiting period stood. Ehud Olmert was to remain the caretaker Prime Minister until a new government was formed after the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Background\nThe traditional distinction between the Israeli left and the right had become blurred, with both the voters and the main candidates gravitating toward the center. Israelis, who had always been highly politicized, were switching affiliations more easily. On the Palestinian front, stark differences among the parties still remained. Kadima was committed to continuing talks for a two-state solution. Labor did not believe that bilateral Israeli\u2013Palestinian negotiations could succeed under the current circumstances, and advocated a more comprehensive, regional approach to peace. Likud said it would promote an \"economic peace\" with the Palestinians and also hold political negotiations, although it was not clear about what.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Procedures\nElections to the Knesset allocate 120 seats by party-list proportional representation, using the D'Hondt method. The election threshold for the 2006 election was set at 2% (up from 1.5% in previous elections), which is a little over two seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Procedures\nAfter official results are published, the President delegates the task of forming a government to the member of Knesset with the best chance of assembling a majority coalition (usually the leader of the largest party, but not required). That member has up to 42 days to negotiate with the different parties, and then present his or her government to the Knesset for a vote of confidence. Once the government is approved (by a vote of at least 61 members), he or she becomes Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parliament factions\nThe table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 17th Knesset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties\nBy 23 December 2008, a record 43 parties had registered with the parties registrar, compared to 31 for the 2006 elections, although in the end, only 34 parties submitted a list of candidates, and only 33 ran on election day. On 12 January 2009, Balad and the United Arab List\u2013Ta'al alliance were disqualified by the Central Elections Committee on the grounds that they failed to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and called for armed conflict against it. Balad and Ta'al were also disqualified from the 2003 election, but won a Supreme Court case which allowed them to run. On 21 January 2009, the Supreme Court again revoked the ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, Alliances\nThe Labor\u2013Meimad alliance, in existence since 1999, was ended prior to the elections. Labor ran on its own, and Meimad ran a joint list with the new Green Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, Alliances\nMeretz and Tnu'a HaHadasha, a new movement of left-wing activists led by Tzali Reshef, ran a joint list, with Tnua'a HaHadasha representatives getting third, seventh, and eleventh spots on the alliance's list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, Alliances\nThe anti-West Bank barrier movement Tarabut was merged into Hadash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, Alliances\nThe religious Zionist Ahi party, previously part of the National Union alliance, merged into Likud in late December 2008. Ultra-Orthodox parties Agudat Israel and Degel HaTorah agreed to continue their alliance, United Torah Judaism, for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, New parties\nSeveral political parties had been established since the 2006 elections. The first was Social Justice, founded by billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak in February 2007 (which in the end did not run in the election), and Yisrael Hazaka was established by the former Labor member of the Knesset, Efraim Sneh, in May 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, New parties\nAfter the announcement of elections in late October 2008, the Tkuma and Moledet factions of the National Union and the National Religious Party merged into a single party in early November 2008, which was later named The Jewish Home. However, the National Union was re-established after the Moledet and Tkuma factions broke away from the party and agreed to an alliance with Hatikva headed by Aryeh Eldad and Eretz Yisrael Shelanu (Our Land of Israel) headed by Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo and Baruch Marzel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Parties, New parties\nMember of the Knesset Abbas Zakour left the United Arab List to establish the Arab Centre Party in early December 2008. However, he later joined the Balad list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation\nOn 20 February, President Shimon Peres announced that Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu would be given the task of forming a government. This is the first time in which the president had not appointed the head of the largest party for this task, although there had already been several cases in which the Prime Minister was not the head of the largest party. Such a case occurred in the 1996 elections, when Netanyahu himself was elected Prime Minister by direct vote, although his Likud party won fewer seats than Shimon Peres's Labor party. Peres's motivation in nominating Netanyahu was likely based upon the judgement that Netanyahu was in a better position numerically to put together a coalition. Likud's potential partners on the political right won more seats than the parties of the centre-left, who would more likely support Kadima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 891]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation\nLabor and Kadima initially stated they would not join a Likud-led government, although both parties scheduled further talks. Polls at the time showed that the public supported a national unity government between Likud and Kadima, with either Yisrael Beiteinu or Labor as the third senior coalition member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation\nOn 16 March 2009, Netanyahu signed a coalition agreement with Yisrael Beitenu. Following an extension of the coalition negotiation deadline from 20 March to 3 April 2009, he then signed a coalition agreement with Shas on 22 March 2009, and on 24 March 2009, he secured the support of the Labor Party, with Labor's central committee approving the deal by 680 votes to 507. However, large parts of the party remained sceptical, accusing Ehud Barak of only being interested in his own benefits under the deal. On 25 March, the Jewish Home also joined the coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation\nOn 30 March, in accordance with the Israeli Basic Law, Netanyahu informed Peres and acting Knesset speaker, Michael Eitan, that he was able to form a government and the Knesset was set to convene on 31 March 2009, in order to vote on the government in a \"Vote of Confidence\" and to be sworn in thereafter. The country's 32nd government was approved that day by a majority of 69 lawmakers, with United Torah Judaism joining the following day, expanding the coalition to 74 MKs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation, Unity Government 2012\nOn 27 March 2012, the Opposition party Kadima called for leadership primaries, pitting its leader Tzipi Livni against Shaul Mofaz. Mofaz won with 62% of the vote. Livni resigned from the Knesset in May 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation, Unity Government 2012\nEarlier, Netanyahu defeated his rival Moshe Feiglin, winning 77% of the vote in the primaries for the Likud leadership held on 31 January 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation, Unity Government 2012\nOn the eve of 7 May 2012, after weeks of deliberation and rumours, Netanyahu called for an early general national election and proposed 4 September as the election day, a notion which seemed inevitable\u2014but in a dramatic turn of events, that very night, he announced that he had forged a unity government with the Kadima Party, effectively retracting the earlier call for early elections. The next afternoon, Likud and Kadima signed a coalition agreement placing Kadima's 28 Knesset members in the government, with Mofaz appointed as Active Vice Premier (in case of Netanyahu's absence) and Minister Without Portfolio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203511-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Israeli legislative election, Government formation, Unity Government 2012\nThis agreement bolstered the government to the widest government in Israel's history, with a coalition of 94 seats and an opposition of only 26. However, on 17 July, Kadima voted to pull out of the coalition\u2014which, all the same, retained a majority of seats even without that party. The reduced coalition was now divided between nationalist groups, such as Yisrael Beiteinu, and Haredi groups, such as Shas, which are on opposite sides of the universal draft issue. This led some commentators to suggest that the coalition's complete break-up was imminent, and that new elections would take place by January 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack\nIn November 2009, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a bus and set ablaze in Istanbul. 17-year old Serap Eser was badly burnt and died in the hospital, after a while in coma. The Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) was blamed and still to this day some Turkish officials and pro-Turkey media outlets accuse them. In 2015, former Interior Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin later stated \u201cI have unfortunately learned that the people who sabotaged the bus, throwing Molotov cocktails, were members of M\u0130T\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack\nThe newspaper Daily Vatan (which has since ceased publication in 2018) reported that a suspect in the case stated, they were member of M\u0130T (Turkey's intelligence agency, sometimes involved in clandestine events) and that the MIT also had responded to the court confirming this, saying the suspect known as \"A.S.\" had been used as an intelligence operative in a number of incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack\nIn 2012, the then Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta\u015f stated that the MIT was responsible for the killing and also responsible of other acts. The Main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) also raised questions about the incident in 2015 at the Turkish parliament. In the same year members of the CHP Youth Organization marched in front of the Galatasaray High School, chanting slogans and showing signs reading \"The murderer state will be accountable\", \"The Molotov MIT Official Who Killed Serap Eser 241 Children were Murdered under AKP rule. We will ask for an account. \", Sezgin Tanr\u0131kulu, Deputy Chairman and G\u00fcrsel Tekin General Secretary of the CHP were supportive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack, The attack\nIn November 8, 2009 Molotov cocktails were thrown at a bus and set ablaze, a 17 year old teenager, Serap Eser was onboard among others on her way home, she was badly burnt, dying a month later in hospital while in a coma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack, Aftermath\nFour who were under the age of 18 when the attack occurred were sentenced for being a member of a terrorist organization and intentional homicide. After Interior Minister \u0130dris Naim \u015eahin statements, four of who were accused of carrying out the attack, filed a complaint to the Bak\u0131rk\u00f6y Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office on the 23rd of January 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack, Aftermath\nIn 2014, Alevi Bektashi Federation chairman Selahattin \u00d6zel stated regarding the incident \u201cThe PM and his spokespeople are continuously trying to correlate Alevis with terror groups. They are holding Alevis together with terror organizations. Previous to this incident, a girl of ours died in a molotov cocktail [attack] which was thrown at a bus. M\u0130T came out behind this and [the AKP] let them go.\" A Turkish court dismissed all claims of involvement with the Turkish M\u0130T involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203512-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Molotov Bus Attack, Aftermath\nIn 2011, a case in which two Kurds were sentenced to over 12 years in prison for being in possession of a Molotov cocktail, the court case referred back to this incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203513-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Turkish GP2 Race was the third race of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on June 6 and 7, 2009 at Istanbul Racing Circuit in Tuzla, Turkey. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 Turkish Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203513-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round\nThe Feature race was won by Vitaly Petrov after an eventful Race which saw many safety car periods. Championship leader Romain Grosjean did not finish, like almost half the field. Lucas di Grassi of Racing Engineering won his first race of the season in Sprint Race after being given pole due to penalties issued after the feature race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203513-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round\nKarun Chandhok set the fastest lap in the Sprint Race, but he was not awarded a point for it. This is because he finished outside the top ten. The point for the fastest lap of the race goes to the driver inside the top ten, who was fastest around the circuit, in this case Vitaly Petrov. This allowed the Russian to increase his lead with an extra point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203514-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul mayoral election\nThe Istanbul mayoral election, 2009 for the office of mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkish: \u0130stanbul B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediye Ba\u015fkanl\u0131\u011f\u0131) was held on 29 March 2009 and was won by the Justice and Development Party candidate, the incumbent Kadir Topba\u015f.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203514-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Istanbul mayoral election\nThe closely fought contest was noticeable in that it helped launch the national political career of Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who would go on to assume the leadership of his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203515-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Italian Athletics Championships (Italian: Campionati italiani assoluti di atletica leggera 2009) was the 99th edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Grosseto from 31 July - 2 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203516-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n2009 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 40th edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Turin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203517-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Italian Figure Skating Championships (Italian: Campionati Italiani Assoluti 2009 Pattinaggio Di Figura Su Ghiaccio) was held in Turin from December 18 through 21, 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the levels of senior and junior. The results were used to choose the teams to the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 European Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203518-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Formula Three Championship\nThe 2009 Italian Formula Three Championship was the 45th Italian Formula Three Championship season. It began on May 9, 2009 in Adria and ended on October 18 in Monza. Italian driver Daniel Zampieri won the title at the last round in Monza. Zampieri also sealed the Rookie Cup title during the same race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2009) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 September 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy. It was the 13th\u00a0race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was contested over 53 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix\nIt was the last win for Brawn GP and for team driver Rubens Barrichello. Teammate and Championship Leader Jenson Button came in second, completing Brawn's fourth (and last) one-two finish of the season, while the Ferrari of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen came third after reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton crashed on the final lap. Hamilton's crash meant the race officially finished behind the safety car, despite the safety car not picking up the leader. Adrian Sutil, who finished in fourth place, recorded the first fastest lap of his career, and the first for the Force India team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix\nAs of 2021, this is the last race win for a Brazilian Formula One driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJenson Button led the Drivers Championship by 16 points from Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello, who led Red Bull's third placed man Sebastian Vettel by 3 points. Brawn led the Constructors Championship by 23\u00bd points from Red Bull who were a further 48\u00bd points ahead of winners of the previous race, Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nVettel won his maiden Formula One race in the 2008 race for the Toro Rosso team, that made him the youngest driver to win a Formula One race, in the first race won by both the Toro Rosso team since they were formed as Minardi and by a customer Ferrari engine. The only other Italian Grand Prix winners in the field are Fernando Alonso and Barrichello. No Italian has won his home Grand Prix since Ferrari's Ludovico Scarfiotti won his only race at the 1966 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJarno Trulli, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Giancarlo Fisichella were the only current Italians in the field this year, with Luca Badoer replaced as Ferrari's stand-in by Fisichella. Fisichella became the first Italian since Ivan Capelli in 1992 to race for Ferrari at Monza, after terminating his Force India contract. Fisichella was replaced by Force India test driver Liuzzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nRenault decided to use KERS for the first time since Spanish Grand Prix weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe first session of the Italian GP finished with the McLarens on top with Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen first and second fastest, respectively. Force India's Adrian Sutil finished the session in third. Renault's Fernando Alonso finished fourth while teammate Romain Grosjean finished fifteenth. Fischella, driving for Ferrari for the first time in his career, finished eighth ahead of teammate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen who ended the session in tenth. Toyota's Trulli and Timo Glock were at the back of the pack. Championship leader Jenson Button ended seventh while his Brawn teammate Rubens Barrichello finished twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nIn the second session Force India's Adrian Sutil was fastest, ahead of the two Renaults of Grosjean and Alonso. Hamilton was eleventh with Kovalainen coming in fourth. Button in a Brawn finished 19th, with only Fisichella separating him from last place. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel came eighteenth, and Mark Webber in fourteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe final practice session ahead of Qualifying again saw Sutil fastest, ahead of the Brawn of Jenson Button with teammate Barrichello in fourth. The two McLarens ended fifth and sixth, with Fisichella's replacement at Force India, Vitantonio Liuzzi, in seventh. The two Red Bulls ended the session 17th and 18th. Fisichella ended the session last, with R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's other Ferrari in twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe first session, lasting 20 minutes, decided the final five places on the grid. Five minutes into the session Liuzzi ran off the track but did not damage his car and managed to proceed through to the next part of qualifying. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen topped the session ahead of Hamilton and Kovalainen. Both Toro Rossos and both Williams cars were knocked out along with the Toyota of Timo Glock. Fisichella made it through to the next session, making it the first time since the Hungarian Grand Prix that both Ferraris had made it through to Q2. Grosjean also progressed to Q2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe second session, lasting 15 minutes, decided positions 11 to 15. Five minutes into the session Nick Heidfeld's BMW engine gave way to leave him in 15th for the race. Seven minutes later, the other BMW of Robert Kubica appeared to have the same problem and pulled off with engine problems just before the first corner. This left Kubica qualifying in 13th. Fisichella was unable to make it through to the final session of qualifying. Button topped the session, with Hamilton in second and Force India's Adrian Sutil in third. After the chequered flag had fallen Liuzzi was the final driver to post a time moving from 13th into the top 10. The other drivers not to make it were Grosjean and Trulli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe final session, lasting ten minutes, decided the top ten positions. Early on, Alonso set the fastest time in the first sector, but it was R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen who had the best time overall. Very soon afterwards Hamilton set the fastest lap, while Webber, Alonso, Sutil and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen traded second place. The chequered flag fell and very few cars were still out, but it was Hamilton who came out on top to snatch pole from Sutil. Although Button qualified sixth and his teammate Barrichello in fifth, they looked well-placed after the fuel loads were released and both were on a one stop strategy, while Hamilton, Sutil and R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen were all on a two stop strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the start, Lewis Hamilton held onto his lead with Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in second, ahead of Adrian Sutil. Heikki Kovalainen, on a one-stop fuel strategy was overtaken by the similarly fuelled Brawns of Rubens Barrichello, off the start line, and Jenson Button, through the second Lesmo. Championship contender Mark Webber was spun by Robert Kubica at Della Roggia on the opening lap and was forced to retire. By Lap 15, Kubica had also retired with an oil leak. Before this, on lap 9, Kubica was shown the black flag with orange circle because he damaged his front wing during his contact with Webber, meaning he was summoned to the pits to repair it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe battle for the lead was tactical, with the Brawn cars stopping only once while Hamilton was on a two-stop strategy. Barrichello and Button were able to lap consistently faster than Hamilton despite their heavier fuel load, meaning when Hamilton emerged from his second pit stop he found himself behind both Brawns in third position. Reigning World Champion Hamilton tried in vain to overtake Championship leader Button over the final few laps before crashing into the barriers at the second Lesmo as he attempted to catch Button.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton's crash left debris across the race track, meaning the safety car was deployed despite it being the final lap of the race. The safety car was therefore unable to pick up the leader, Barrichello, before he took the chequered flag as he would take Brawn's eighth win of the season and his third win at Monza. This race had also proven to be the 11th and last victory, as well as the last podium for Rubens Barrichello's very long, very distinguished and very up-and-down career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe safety car ended a race long battle between the similarly fuelled R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Sutil. Sutil was able to keep up with the Ferrari driver throughout the race. Both made their second and final pit stop at the same time, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen coming out of the pits first despite a delay leaving his garage after Sutil drove too fast into his box, knocking over a mechanic, who was unhurt. Despite Sutil's pressure over the closing stages, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen held to inherit third place. Sutil did have the consolation of claiming the fastest lap of the race, Force India's first in Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFernando Alonso finished fifth, ahead of Kovalainen despite the Finn being on the race-winning one-stop strategy. Nick Heidfeld finished seventh after working his way through the field from fifteenth on the grid. Sebastian Vettel took the final point, ahead of Ferrari debutant Giancarlo Fisichella. Fisichella's replacement at Force India, Vitantonio Liuzzi, retired with a mechanical problem while challenging for the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Post race\nThe poor performance from the Red Bull cars, combined with Brawn's 1-2 finish, meant the Drivers Championship became effectively a two-horse race between Button, who led Barrichello by 14 points with four races to go. Vettel was 26 points behind Button with Webber a further 2.5 points adrift. Brawn team boss Ross Brawn said after the race he would allow his drivers to compete amongst themselves for the Drivers Championship, as his team was virtually assured of the Constructors Championship. Barrichello admitted he was relishing the prospect of a straight title fight after playing second fiddle to Michael Schumacher whilst the German won five world championships at Ferrari. A visibly more relaxed Button was magnanimous in defeat and happy to face a battle from within.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Post race\nWebber admitted frustration at his first non-finish of the year following such a \"small\" accident, while Vettel insisted his Championship chances were not over. McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh did not criticise Hamilton for his last lap crash, stating the accident was a result of the Briton's \"never-give-up attitude, his unquenchable desire to fight until the very last metre of the very last lap.\" The focus of the F1 paddock after the race, however, was on the looming Crashgate hearing at the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris the following week. This was to determine whether Renault had asked former driver Nelson Piquet, Jr. to crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, to aid teammate Fernando Alonso ultimately win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Report, Post race\nLewis Hamilton  mathematically conceded the defence of his 2008  World Championship following the result of this race as only Jenson  Button, Rubens Barrichello, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were  mathematically able to win the Championship. 2007  World Champion Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen  also mathematically conceded the World Championship as a result of this  race, while 2005 and 2006  World Champion Fernando Alonso  was already out of contention before this race. As a result, it meant  following this race a brand new World Champion was guaranteed to be  crowned for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203519-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Grand Prix, Classification, Race\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203520-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 2009 Italian Open (also known for 2009 Rome Masters and its sponsored title 2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 66th edition, and was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier-level tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, with the men playing from April 25 through May 4, 2009, and the women from May 3 through May 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203520-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Bob Bryan  /  Mike Bryan, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203520-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nHsieh Su-wei /  Peng Shuai defeated  Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 /  Ai Sugiyama, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20135)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203521-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, and Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated them in the final, 7\u20136(5), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203522-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal defeated the defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20132 to win the Men's Singles title at the 2009 Italian Open. It was his record fourth Italian Open title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203522-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203523-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nChan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203523-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai won in the final, beating Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203523-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203524-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Svetlana Kuznetsova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203524-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nWorld No. 1 Dinara Safina won in the final, beating Kuznetsova 6\u20133, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203524-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum\nThree abrogative referendums on the electoral law were held in Italy on 21\u201322 June 2009. They were promoted by Mario Segni, Giovanni Guzzetta, Arturo Parisi, Antonio Martino and Daniele Capezzone. With a turnout of 23.31% / 23.84%, the referendums did not reach the necessary quorum of 50% voters, so were not valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum\nThe three questions were about giving the majority prize to the most voted list in the Chamber of Deputies (question 1, purple ballot) and in the Senate (question 2, yellow ballot) as opposed to the most voted coalition, as is the current law, and about preventing politicians from standing in multiple constituencies at the same time (question 3, green ballot).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum\nThe Promoting Committee and Democratic Party (PD) had proposed holding the referendums together with European Parliament elections, whereas The People of Freedom (PdL) as its main ally, the Lega Nord, opposed the referendums and answered that never, in Italian history, an election and a referendum were jointly celebrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum\nSeveral PdL party officials had long supported the referendums, the main long-term goal of the PdL being to transform Italian politics into a two-party system. The PD saw the referendums as an opportunity to overcome its current political hard times and to divide the centre-right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum, Results\nThe referendums did not reach the quorum required by law for their validity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum, Results, First question\nItalian Chamber of Deputies\u00a0\u2014 Abrogation of the connection between lists and of the attribution of the majority prize to a coalition of lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum, Results, Second question\nItalian Senate\u00a0\u2014 Abrogation of the connection between lists and of the attribution of the majority prize to a coalition of lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203525-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian electoral law referendum, Results, Third question\nItalian Chamber of Deputies\u00a0\u2014 Abrogation of the possibility for a candidate to stand for election in more than one constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203526-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 29\u201331 May 2009 at the Mugello Circuit. The Moto GP race was won by Casey Stoner with Jorge Lorenzo second and Valentino Rossi in third place. This broke Rossi's sequence of seven consecutive victories at this event. During the weekend, Dani Pedrosa recorded the fastest speed ever for a motorcycle grand prix bike, with 349.3\u00a0km/h (217.0\u00a0mph) breaking Makoto Tamada's record of 343.7\u00a0km/h (213.6\u00a0mph) set in 2006. Mika Kallio and Rossi also recorded speeds above the previous benchmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203526-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203527-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament\nThe 2009 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament was an under-18 ice hockey tournament held in B\u0159eclav, Czech Republic and Pie\u0161\u0165any, Slovakia from August 11\u201315, 2009. The two venues were Alcaplast Arena in B\u0159eclav and Patr\u00edcia Ice Arena 37 in Pie\u0161\u0165any. Canada captured their fifth championship in six years and fourteenth gold medal of the tournament overall, defeating Russia 9\u20132 in the gold medal game. Sweden defeated the United States by an identical 9\u20132 score to earn the bronze medal. The tournament marked the second straight year that Canada, Russia and Sweden medalled in that order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203530-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series\nThe 2009 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, New Hampshire on May 2 and 3, 2009. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Dartmouth, the winner of the series, claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Dartmouth's first Championship Series victory, coming in their fifth appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203530-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series\nCornell defeated Princeton in a one-game playoff to advance to the Championship Series and represent the Lou Gehrig Division. The playoff was held on April 29, 2009 at Hoy Field in Ithaca, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203531-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Cup\nThe 2009 J.League Cup, more widely known as the 2009 Nabisco Cup, is the 34th edition of Japan soccer league cup tournament and the 17th edition under the current J.League Cup format. The championship started on March 25, 2009 and ended on November 3, with F.C. Tokyo defeating Kawasaki Frontale 2-0 in the Final. They qualified for the 2010 Suruga Bank Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203531-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Cup\nTeams from the J1 will take part in the tournament. Kashima Antlers, Kawasaki Frontale, Nagoya Grampus and Gamba Osaka were given a bye to the quarter-final due to the qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage. The rest of 14 will start from the group stage, which divided them into two groups. The group winners and the runners-up of each group will qualify for the quarter-final along with the four teams which qualified for the AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203532-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Cup Final\n2009 J.League Cup Final was the 17th final of the J.League Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on November 3, 2009. FC Tokyo won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1\nThe 2009 J.League Division 1 season is the 45th season of the top-flight club football in Japan and the 17th season since the establishment of J1 League. The season started on March 7, 2009 and ended on December 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1\nA total of eighteen clubs participated in double round-robin format. At the end of the season, top three clubs received automatic qualification to the following years' AFC Champions League. Also starting this season, the bottom three clubs were relegated to J2 League by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1\nKashima Antlers became the first Japanese club win J.League Championship in three straight seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1, Clubs\nThe following eighteen clubs will play in J.League Division 1 during the 2009 season. Of these clubs, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Montedio Yamagata are the newly promoted clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1, League format\nEighteen clubs will play in double round-robin (home and away) format, a total of 34 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1, League format\nA draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The bottom three clubs will be relegated to J2. The top three clubs will qualify to AFC Champions League in the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203533-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 1, Attendance\nUpdated to games played on December 5, 2009Source: Notes:\u2020 Team played previous season in J2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2\nThe 2009 J. League Division 2 season was the 38th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 11th season since the establishment of J2 League. The season started on March 7 and ended on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2\nIn this season, the number of participating clubs was increased by three, making the total number, eighteen. The clubs played in triple round-robin format. Starting this season, all top three clubs were promoted by default and Pro/Rele Series was eliminated accordingly. There were no relegation to the third-tier Japan Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2, Clubs\nEighteen clubs played in J. League Division 2 during the 2009 season. Of these clubs, Consadole Sapporo and Tokyo Verdy were relegated from Division 1 last year. Tochigi S.C., Kataller Toyama, and Fagiano Okayama newly joined from Japan Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2, League format\nEighteen clubs will play in triple round-robin format, a total of 51 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2, League format\nA draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The top three clubs will be promoted to J1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203534-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 J.League Division 2, Attendance\nUpdated to games played on December 5, 2009Source: Notes:\u2020 Team played previous season in J1.\u2021 Team played previous season in JFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203535-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 JB Group Classic\nThe 2009 JB Group Classic is a women's exhibition (no points for the world ranking can be earned) team tennis tournament organized at the beginning of each season. Unlike previous years, the tournament is played in a round robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203537-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana\nThe 2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Champaign, United States between 16 and 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203537-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203537-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana, Champions, Doubles\nBrian Battistone /  Dann Battistone def. Treat Conrad Huey /  Harsh Mankad, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203538-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Doubles\nRajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds were the defending champions, but Reynolds decided to not compete due to injury. As a result, Ram partnered with David Martin, however they were eliminated by brothers Battistone in the quarterfinals. Brian and Dann Battistone won in the final match 7\u20135, 7\u20136(5), against Treat Conrad Huey and Harsh Mankad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203539-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 JSM Challenger of Champaign\u2013Urbana \u2013 Singles\nKevin Anderson, who was the defending champion, lost to qualifier Ri\u010dardas Berankis in the second round. Michael Russell defeated his compatriot Taylor Dent 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203540-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jackson mayoral election\nThe 2009 mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi took place on June 2, 2009, alongside other Jackson municipal races. Former mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. was elected after defeating councilman Marshand Crisler and incumbent mayor Frank Melton in the primary. Melton died on May 7, 2009, two days after not making the runoff in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203541-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jacksonville Dolphins football team\nThe 2009 Jacksonville Dolphins football team represented Jacksonville University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Dolphins were led by third-year head coach Kerwin Bell and played their home games at D. B. Milne Field. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 7\u20134 overall and 6\u20132 in PFL play to tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203542-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jacksonville Jaguars season\nThe 2009 Jacksonville Jaguars season was the franchise's 15th season in the National Football League and the 7th under head coach Jack Del Rio. This was the first season for new general manager Gene Smith, who hoped to usher in a \"rebuilding\" era for the Jaguars franchise. The Jaguars improved upon their 5\u201311 record in 2008, however, they failed to qualify to play in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203542-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jacksonville Jaguars season\nThe team unveiled a new uniform design for the 2009 season. Team owner Wayne Weaver reportedly wanted to \"clean up\" the look, feeling that the team had too many uniform styles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203542-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jacksonville Jaguars season, Local television blackouts\nIn 2009, the Jaguars had 7 of their 8 regular season home games blacked out on local TV. Due to an NFL rule, in order for a home game to be televised in a team's market, all non-premium tickets must be sold within 72 hours of kickoff. Many factors lead to a decrease in ticket sales for the Jaguars, including Jacksonville being a small market, a bad local economy, and low expectations for the team coming into the season. The Jaguars drew attendances under 50,000 in their first six home games. The only game that was televised in the Jacksonville market in 2009 was the final home game of the season when the Jaguars played the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday Night Football. Through the 2019 season, the Jaguars have not had any games blacked out since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203543-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by InternetArchiveBot (talk | contribs) at 02:35, 19 November 2019 (Rescuing 0 sources and tagging 1 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0) (GreenC - 4635). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203543-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation\nThe 2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation (Chinese: 2009\u5e74\u5ea6\u5341\u5927\u52c1\u6b4c\u91d1\u66f2\u9812\u734e\u5178\u79ae) was held on January 16, 2010 at the Kowloon Hong Kong Coliseum. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203543-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, Special situation\nThis award was particularly controversial with the ongoing HKRIA tax case. Singers from Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group were not allowed to attend this award show. As a result, the majority of awards went to singers from EEG and other smaller companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 74], "content_span": [75, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203543-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, Special situation\nEMI also no longer represent any local HK singers, since Gold Typhoon took over the domestic division. EMI HK is now present as a copyright agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 74], "content_span": [75, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203543-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, Top 10 song awards\nThe top 10 songs (\u5341\u5927\u52c1\u6b4c\u91d1\u66f2) of 2009 are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 75], "content_span": [76, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire\nThe Jaipur oil depot fire broke out on 29 October 2009 at 7:30 PM (IST) at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) oil depot's giant tank holding 8,000 kilolitres (280,000\u00a0cu\u00a0ft) of petrol, in Sitapura Industrial Area on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan, killing 12 people and injuring over 300. The blaze continued to rage out of control for over a week after it started and during the period half a million people were evacuated from the area. The oil depot is about 16 kilometres (9.9\u00a0mi) south of the city of Jaipur", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire\nThe incident occurred when petrol was being transferred from the Indian Oil Corporation's oil depot to a pipeline. There were at least 40 IOC employees at the terminal (situated close to the Jaipur International Airport) when it caught fire with an explosion. The Met department recorded a tremor measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale around the time the first explosion at 7:36 pm which resulted in shattering of glass windows nearly 3 kilometres (1.9\u00a0mi) from the accident site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nThe fire was a major disaster in terms of deaths, injury, loss of business, property and man-days, displacement of people, environmental impact in Jaipur, the capital city of the Indian state of Rajasthan and a popular tourist destination. As per eyewitnesses having factories and hotels around Indian Oil's Sitapura (Jaipur) Oil Terminal they felt presence of petrol vapour in the atmosphere around 4:00\u00a0p.m. on 29 October 2009. Within the next few hours the concentration of petrol vapour intensified making it difficult to breathe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nThe Ayush Hotel in the vicinity of the terminal asked all its guests to vacate the hotel to avert any tragedy. Adjacent to the terminal wall was the workshop of Morani Motors (P) Limited where as per eyewitnesses cars parked on the roof top were thrown up into the air to about 10 feet and 35 new Hyundai brand cars were completely destroyed. The police, civil administration and fire emergency services were oblivious to the situation developing in the Indian Oil Terminal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nAround half past six the staff in the terminal who had contained the leak and flow of petrol panicked and reported the matter to nearby Sanganer Sadar Police Station. Within the next 30 minutes the local police chief and District Collector were on the spot along with the terminal's general manager, but with no plan to deal with the situation. The nearby industries, which were running second shifts, were cautioned to vacate the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nAt 7:35\u00a0p.m. a huge ball of fire with loud explosion broke out engulfing the leaking petrol tank and other nearby petrol tanks with continuous fire with flames rising 30\u201335\u00a0m (98\u2013115\u00a0ft) and visible from a 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) radius. The traffic on adjacent National Highway No.12 was stopped leading to a 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) long traffic jam. The Jaipur International Airport is just 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi) away from the accident site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nBoth the army and experts from Mumbai were employed on 30 October 2009 to contain the fire in the Sitapura Industrial Area. The district administration disconnected electricity and evacuated nearby areas to limit the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nThe fire still raged on 31 October. By then, the accident had already claimed eleven lives and seriously injured more than 150 people. The District Administration and Indian Oil Corporation had no disaster management plan to deal with this kind of calamity. The local fire officers were ill-equipped to deal with fire accidents of this magnitude. They remained onlookers and no efforts were made to breach the terminal wall to get closer to kerosene and diesel tanks to cool them with water jets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2009 fire\nThe fire was blamed on non-observance of normal safety procedures. The depot fire raged for 11 days, killed 11 people in all and resulted in losses worth Rs 2.80\u00a0billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2012 fire\nA major fire broke out at a petrol storage tank of state\u2014owned Indian Oil Corp's (IOC) Hazira terminal in Gujarat. No casualties were reported immediately. Local authorities and the company rushed fire tenders to douse the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2012 fire\nOfficials said the fire was reported in the afternoon at one of IOC's five petrol storage tanks at the Hazira depot. The tank had held almost 5,000 kilolitre of petrol, half of its capacity, when it caught fire. Senior IOC officials rushed to Hazira to supervise operations and an inquiry was ordered to ascertain its causes. The depot was a so-called 'white-oil terminal', housing a tank farm to store petrol and five diesel tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2012 fire\nFire brigade personnel from Surat and nearby cities. IOC sent fire tenders from its Koyali refinery to help douse the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2012 fire\n\"The fire has been isolated\", a company official said. \"A high-level team has been constituted to investigate the cause of the fire but our first priority is to put out the fire...efforts are on at war footing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, 2012 fire\nThis was the second major fire at an IOC storage depots in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Inventory\nThe following products were stored in eleven tanks inside the terminal:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Aftermath\nAbout 12 people lost their lives due to burns and asphyxia and more than 300 suffered injuries. Many of the dead were the employees of Indian Oil Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Disaster Management Plan\nTHE DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACT, 2005 envisages that each revenue District must have a Disaster Management Plan. While 31 revenue Districts of Rajasthan had placed the Disaster Management Plan on Rajasthan Government website Jaipur District did not have any Disaster Management Plan. A Disaster Management Plan for Jaipur District has been put on Internet on 17 November 2009 i.e. 20 days after the accident took place on 29 October 2009. In the meanwhile Jaipur suffered two more disasters when Swine Flu infected a number of school children prompting Government to order closure of schools, and derailment of a Train Mandore Express killing six persons and injuring more than 50 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board Report\nA Legal Notice has been issued to Indian Oil Corporation for violating The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974, The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, and The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) Report\nAir pollution across Jaipur was way above maximum permitted limits when the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot on the edge of the city was caught fire. It significant effect on the air in Delhi or Agra, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reported. Almost 60,000 kilolitres (2,100,000\u00a0cu\u00a0ft) of oil in 11 storage tanks went up in flames on the evening of 29 Oct and the blaze raged till 6 Nov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Investigations\nThe Petroleum Minister of India Murli Deora had appointed a 5-member committee to investigate the causes of Fire and submit its report within 60 days. The Industries & Education Institutions in Sitapura Industrial Area have filed about 150 complaints with Sanganer Sadar police station about deaths, injury and loss of property due to negligence of Indian Oil Corporation Limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Central Bureau of Investigation Case\nVariation in stock of liquid petroleum products due to temperature variation, evaporation, handling (and also due to pilferage) result in what is known as stock loss. Percentage stock loss for every product for every depot is fixed based on historical operating data. Monitoring of stock loss is done on shift basis daily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Central Bureau of Investigation Case\nAbnormal variation in stock loss beyond permitted limit invites explanation and even disciplinary actions for the officers at the Depots and Terminals. The Competent Authorities for such chargesheeting for Depot level Officers for such lapses are Executive Director (Supplies) and Director (Marketing) who prefer to selectively issue chargesheets to defaulting officers to protect their favourites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, First Information Report\nThe Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jaipur City, Jaipur Mr. Mahaveer Swami ordered registering of a number of First Information Report (FIR) against Indian Oil Corporation Limited officers and Civil Administration for non-performance of statutory duty and negligence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Civil Administration\nThe Director General of Police, Rajasthan to investigate against Mr. B. L. Soni, Inspector General of Police Jaipur Range I, Mr. Kuldeep Ranka, District Collector, Jaipur and Mr. Biju George Joseph, Superintendent of Police Jaipur (East) for commission of offences u/ss 120B, 166, 167, 201, 202, 203, 204, 217, 218, 221 IPC. The order was passed on 10 December 2009, a month after the fire got extinguished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\nAs per the orders passed on 4 December 2009 by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jaipur Mr. Mahaveer Swami, the Police Station Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur has registered FIR 337/09 under sections 166, 304A, 511, 120B against 20 accused;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\n(1) Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death, 2[imprisonment for life] or rigorous imprisonment for a term of two years or upwards shall, where no express provision is made in this Code for the punishment of such a conspiracy, be punished in the same abetted such offence. (2)\tWhoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy other than a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable as aforesaid shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine or with both.]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\nSection 166: Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will, by such disobedience, cause injury to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\nIllustration A, being an officer directed by law to take property in execution, to satisfy a decree pronounced in Z's favour by a Court of Justice, knowingly disobeys that direction of law, with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A has committed the offence defined in this section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\nSection 304A: Causing death by negligence Whoever causes the death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Indian Oil Corporation Limited\nSection 511: Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonmentWhoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with 1[imprisonment for life] or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempts does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with 2[imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence], or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Sanganer Sadar Police Station\nIn addition to the above two more FIR 241/09 dated 2 November 2009 by Mr. Prit Pal Singh of Genus Overseas an Industrial unit in Sitapura and FIR 242/09 dated 3 November 2009 by Mr. B. L. Meharada of BLM Institute have been registered against Indian Oil by Police Station Sanganer Sadar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Sanganer Court\nA city court in Sanganer has ordered registering of FIR on the complaint of Ayush Hotel Sitapura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Arrests\nOn 2 July 2010, eight months after the devastating fire at an Indian Oil Corp (IOC) fuel depot that killed 11 people, police arrested 9 senior company officials including its general manager on charges of criminal negligence. IOC general manager for Rajasthan Mr. Gautam Bose and 8 other officers were arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including section 304-II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). Section 304-II of IPC carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Arrests\nThose arrested in connection with the fire caused by leakage of petrol during transfer from storage tank, included chief of operations at IOC's Jaipur Office, Mr. Rajesh Sayal. The others arrested are Mr. Shashank Shekhar, Manager Operation, Mr. K S Kanojia, Senior Terminal Manager, Mr. Arun Poddar, Manager Terminal, Mr. Kapil Goyal, Deputy Manager Terminal, Mr. Ashok Gupta, Operation Officer, Mr. Kailash Nath Agarwal, Chargeman, and Mr. S S Gupta, DGM Pipeline who is presently posted in Ghaziabad. While eight accused have been enlarged on bail, Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta is still in judicial custody after 4 months. The next hearing in the matter is fixed on 11 November 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Widows request compensation\nMs. Savita Saroha and Ms. Alka Kumar whose husbands Mr. S. K. Saroha and Mr. Ravindra Kumar died in the Fire on 29 October 2009 have moved to Rajasthan High Court for equitable and fair compensation. The duo allege that they were not given the compensation of Rs. 1,000,000 (One million rupees) promised by Mr. Murli Deora the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. The widows are also upset that the company Indian Oil and the arrested officers have tried to pass on blame on their husbands. They are now opposing the accused officers in High Court against quashing of First Information Report and grant of bail to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Compensation\nThe State Government promptly announced a cash compensation of Rs. 2,000,000.00 to the dead and in addition Indian Oil Corporation paid Rs. 10,000,000.00 to the next of the kin of dead and varied amount of compensation between Rs. 1,000,000.00 and 2,000,000.00 to the injured. It has been decided to review the location of all Oil Terminals throughout India and shift these terminals beyond city limits within a period of next 12\u201318 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Compensation, Sitapura Industries Association\nThe SITAPURA INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION has 1383 units, consisting of 325 garment, 115 jewellers, 110 handicraft, and other units like chemical, cable, manufacturing, IT, BPO, Auto parts, Educational Institutes and Hospitals having an investment of over 750\u00a0billion. The SITAPURA INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION have played an important part in shaping the economy of the State of Rajasthan and generation of employment (approximately 1,000,000 direct/indirect workers). The SITAPURA INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION has played an important role in exports and generation of foreign exchange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Compensation, Sitapura Industries Association\nThat on 29 October 2009 at about 4:00\u00a0p.m. some leakage of Petrol started in IOC Terminal and by 6:00\u00a0p.m. the fumes had spread far and wide in and around the Indian Oil Corporation terminal. That a huge explosion and fire erupted at 7:35\u00a0p.m. and the noise and shock waves were so intense that it gave an impression of an earthquake to the Industries of the area. The neighbouring industries adjacent to the Indian Oil Corporation terminal suffered major structural damages, loss of inventory, equipment, and finished goods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0034-0002", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Compensation, Sitapura Industries Association\nAs a consequence of the Fire and associated hazards the District Collector, Jaipur declared a 5\u00a0km. zone as dangerous area and prohibited entry of the persons and vehicles in the area. The SITAPURA INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION claims to have lost Rs. 4000\u00a0million worth of property, equipment and inventory instantaneously on 29 October 2009. Thereafter the loss of production, dispatch and consequent loss of goodwill is valued at Rs. 2000\u00a0million per day. The industries were allowed free access to their units since 5 November 2009. The total estimated loss is valued at 18000\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0034-0003", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Compensation, Sitapura Industries Association\nAs an EPZ is part of the SITAPURA INDUSTRIAL AREA it houses a number of export-oriented units. The peak season for the export oriented units was at handshake. Due to fire and subsequent pollution and dispersion of carbon soot particles in atmosphere almost 100% finished garments would fail in stringent quality test and would have to be dumped in the domestic market at throwaway prices. As the industries are most likely to falter on their export commitment, the loss of Goodwill will takes years to rebuild.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203544-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Jaipur fire, Government report\nOn 10 December 2009, the Indian Minister of State of Petroleum and Natural Gas Jitin Prasada said the government today ruled out a C.B.I. / \u0915\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930\u0940\u092f \u0905\u0928\u094d\u0935\u0947\u0937\u0923 \u092c\u094d\u092f\u0942\u0930\u094b probe into the November fires and informed the Lok Sabha and the Indian press that a Committee had- 'ruled out sabotage or terrorism', blamed both 'corporate neglect' and 'severe radiant heat' from the October fires, and denied any connection with a similar, but smaller blast that month in Kashmir./", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings\nThe 2009 Jakarta Bombings were a terrorist attack which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia on 17 July 2009. At around 07:47 until 07:57 WIB (00:47-00:57 UTC), the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, were hit by separate bombings five minutes apart. Nine people were killed, of whom three were Indonesian, three were Australians, two were from The Netherlands, and one was from New Zealand. More than 50 people were injured in the blasts. Both blasts were caused by suicide bombers, who checked into the hotels as paying guests several days earlier. The twin suicide bombings came four years after the previous serious terrorist attack in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Background\nSince the 2002 Bali bombings, in which 202 were killed, Indonesia had stepped up attempts to crack down on terrorism. An anti-terrorism law was confirmed by the Indonesian legislature in 2003. The 2002 attack was carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah, a group previously linked to al-Qaeda and later to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and seeking to unite Indonesia, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines as an Islamic state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Background\nThe Marriott had previously been the target of a suicide bombing in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks\nThe Marriott bombing occurred first and was followed five minutes later by the Ritz bombing. Police moved to seal off the surrounding area. At noon local time, an unexploded bomb was found in room 1808 of the Marriott, together with bomb-making equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks\nThe Ritz-Carlton explosion is thought to have originated in the Airlangga Restaurant on the second story, where people were eating breakfast. There was said to be glass everywhere. A part of the facade of the Ritz Carlton was blown away by the blast and windows had been blown out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks\nThe Marriott bombing occurred during one of a series of periodic breakfast meetings of CEOs and other prominent (and predominantly expatriate) members of the Jakarta business community hosted by James Castle, president of AmCham Indonesia, a branch of the United States Chamber of Commerce in Jakarta. The Marriott bomb was detonated in a small breakfast room rented for the event, and not in the main restaurant. One witness said the lobby of the neighboring Plaza Mutiara building was destroyed in the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks\nThe unexploded bomb in room 1808 of the JW Marriott hotel was programmed to go off prior to the other bomb there, but its timer malfunctioned. The Indonesian police believe the bomb was intended to create an atmosphere of panic, causing guests to flee their rooms to exit the hotel, and generating a significant crowd in the lobby. Had this occurred as planned, the lobby bomb may have taken a much greater toll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks, Casualties\nThere were nine fatalities; three Australians, one New Zealander, two Dutch tourists, and three Indonesians (including two suicide bombers). The Australians killed were Austrade official Craig Senger, mining executive Garth McEvoy and Perth businessman Nathan Verity. New Zealander Tim Mackay died; he was president and director of PT Holcim Indonesia and a master mariner. Indonesians killed included Evert Mokodompis, a waiter at the JW Marriott Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, The attacks, Casualties\nSixteen foreigners were treated at Metropolitan Medical Center (MMC) hospital. A New Zealander, a Canadian, an Indian and 3 Dutch men were reported injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Investigation\nPolice believe planning for the bombings was led by Noordin Mohammad Top. The first meeting had been held on 30 April. Ibrohim, a florist who worked for a florist company which had stores in both the bombed hotels, was another key organiser. Ibrohim was recruited in 2000 by Saifudin Jaelani, his brother-in-law, while he was working as a florist at the Hotel Mulia in Jakarta. In 2005, Ibrohim and Jaelani were inaugurated as members of Noordin's special forces. Ibrohim set strategies, conducted surveys of the locations and smuggled the bombs into the hotels. Saifudin Jaelani is believed to have also recruited the suicide bombers for the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Investigation\nThe bombs were smuggled into the JW Marriott one day before the blast through the hotel's loading dock using a pick-up truck rented by Ibrohim. The bomb design and materials of an unexploded bomb found by Police in room 1808 were identical to those used by Jemaah Islamiyah in previous attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Investigation\nThe suicide bomber of the JW Marriott Hotel was Dani Dwi Permana, an 18-year-old graduate of a private senior high school in Bogor, West Java. The suicide bomber of the Ritz-Carlton hotel was Nana Ikhwan Maulana, a 28-year-old former resident of Pandeglang, Banten. Dani rented room 1808 in the JW Marriott. The room was paid for by Amir Abdillah, who was arrested on 5 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Investigation\nOn 7 August, police raided a house in Temanggung, Central Java. Three people were arrested and one person was killed, later identified to be Ibrohim. On 8 August, police raided a house in Bekasi, West Java, killing two people believed to be preparing to attack the Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with a truck bomb near his private residence in Bogor, West Java.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Investigation\nFunding for the bombings is believed to have been provided from the Middle East. A number of suspects, including a Saudi Arabian national, have been arrested by Indonesian police for their involvement in handling the funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Aftermath\nThe bombings were deplored by numerous governments\u2014in Indonesia, elsewhere in the region, and around the world. United States president Barack Obama, who spent a portion of his childhood in Jakarta, said, \"I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred this morning in Jakarta, and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved ones. The US government stands ready to help the Indonesian government respond to and recover from these outrageous attacks as a friend and partner.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Aftermath\nManchester United, which had been scheduled to play an exhibition football match in Jakarta on 20 July 2009 and had booked rooms at the Ritz Carlton, cancelled the Jakarta leg of its tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203545-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Jakarta bombings, Reopening\nThe hotel was closed for 2 weeks and reopened to the public on Monday, 3 August 2009 at 10:00 WIB. The 17th United States Ambassador to Indonesia's Cameron R. Hume attended the reopening of Hotel J.W. Marriott and Ritz Carlton on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 in Jakarta. The ambassador visited both hotels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203546-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 James Madison Dukes football team\nThe 2009 James Madison Dukes football team represented James Madison University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. JMU finished the season 6\u20135 with a record of 4\u20134 in the Colonial Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing\nThe 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing occurred on 27 March 2009, in Jamrud in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas during Friday prayers. The local police immediately claimed a casualty count of 48 while adding that the death toll could reach as high as 70. A hundred wounded were also taken to hospital. It was reported that about 250 worshippers were present during prayer time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Background\nJamrud (Urdu: \u062c\u0645\u0631\u0648\u062f) is a town located in the Khyber Agency, one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The town is of strategic importance, as the doorway to the Khyber Pass, part of the Hindu Kush range, which leads into Afghanistan. The Khyber Pass has been a principal route for resupplying NATO forces in the current Afghan theatre of conflict. In February 2009, a bridge 15 miles northwest of Peshawar was blown up by militants presumably sympathetic to or sponsored by the Taliban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Background\nThe bombing of the Jamrud mosque came at a time of increased uncertainty in Pakistan following a high-profile attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team as well as more tense moments as former PM Nawaz Sharif threatened to join the lawyers' Long March to Islamabad although he had been placed under 'house arrest at his family's compound Raiwind, with the stated aim of reinstating the sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhary as promised,  although this calls for a new \"revolution\" was also a direct response to, his  being barred, along with his brother, from ever running for any government office again, and the consequent dismissal of the Punjab government led by his brother. There was also talk of an increased American drone bombing campaign into other areas of Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Background\nAl Jazeera English reported that \"rising violence in Pakistan's northwest [was] fueling doubts about the country's ability to counter Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.\" Jamrud also lies in the Khyber region, where fighters have intensified attacks on lorries carrying supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Background\nThis attack came a day after at least 11 people were killed at a restaurant in the same northwest region in the Jandola district of South Waziristan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Background, Follow-up\nThe next day a supply base for NATO troops was attacked and 12 containers were damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Attack\nThe attack occurred  just after the muezzin's call to prayer. As a result of the attack the upper floor of the  mosque collapsed on the worshippers below. A photo showed that three columns supporting a beam connected to the Mosque's Minarettes at either side of the structure was all that remained of the Mosque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Responsibility\nThough there was no immediate claim of responsibility, other details have raised speculation. The mosque is near a police checkpoint where \"people in that checkpoint usually pray in this mosque\"; there were rumours that suggested foreign hands were responsible. A tribal policeman also made an early claim that pro-Taliban fighters were guilty of carrying out the bombing after a recent offensive aimed in part at protecting a supply route for NATO and US troops operating in Afghanistan. He said that \"Residents of this area had co-operated and helped us a lot. These infidels had warned that they will take revenge. They are the enemy of Pakistan. They are the enemy of Islam.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Responsibility\nA report said a commander of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Agency chapter had warned through the media of attacks if the security forces did not vacate the Frontier Corps  checkposts in Jamrud and Landikotal by 20 February. Khassadars at the village of Bagyari (the site of the blast) told reporters that a Taliban commander Nazeer Afridi from the Sepah tribe in Bara had issued the warning through letters, saying they would not allow the Peshawar-Torkham route to be used by vehicles carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan. Afghanistan-bound Nato convoys and truck terminals in Peshawar and Khyber Agency have been attacked in recent months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203547-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, Reaction\nPakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani  \"strongly condemned the suicide attack\" while vowing that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Asfandyar Wali Khan was quoted as saying 'The bomber and his operatives have once again demonstrated that this is not a war for Islam and Shariah, this is not jihad, but war against humanity.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League\nThe 2009 Japan Football League (Japanese: \u7b2c11\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30d5\u30c3\u30c8\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u30ea\u30fc\u30b0, Hepburn: Dai J\u016bikkai Nihon Futtob\u014dru R\u012bgu) was the eleventh season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Overview\nAt the end of the 2008 season, three new clubs were promoted from the Japanese Regional Leagues by virtue of their final placing in the Regional League promotion series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Overview\nMachida Zelvia and V-Varen Nagasaki were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Overview\nSagawa Shiga won their second championship title since 2007 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Attendance\nSource: , Notes:\u2020 Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Promotion and relegation\nDue to Kitakyushu being promoted and Mitsubishi Mizushima being relegated, the Regional League promotion series winner and runner-up, Matsumoto Yamaga and Hitachi Tochigi Uva respectively, were promoted automatically. Third-placed team, Zweigen Kanazawa were set to play FC Kariya in the promotion and relegation series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203548-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Football League, Promotion and relegation\nZweigen Kanazawa won the series at 2\u20131 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. F.C. Kariya relegated to T\u014dkai regional league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203549-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Golf Tour\nThe 2009 Japan Golf Tour season was played from 16 April to 6 December. The season consisted of 24 official money events in Japan as well as the four majors and the four World Golf Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203549-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Golf Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows the 2009 schedule. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Japan Golf Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Japan Golf Tour members. All tournaments are played in Japan (does not include the major golf championships and the World Golf Championships).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series\nThe 2009 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 2009 season. It was the 60th Japan Series and featured the Pacific League Climax Series champions, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, against the Central League Climax Series champions, the Yomiuri Giants. The series is the second time the two teams played each other in the championship series, the last time being 1981. Played at Sapporo Dome and Tokyo Dome, the Giants defeated the Fighters four games to two in the best-of-seven series to win the franchise's 21st Japan Series championship. Giants' captain Shinnosuke Abe was named Most Valuable Player of the series. The series was played between October 31 and November 7, 2009, with home field advantage going to the Pacific League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nAfter a scoreless first inning, Yoshitomo Tani hit a home run off of Fighters' starter Masaru Takeda to put the Giants up 1\u20130 in the top of the second inning. During the bottom half of the inning, however, Terrmel Sledge tied the game after hitting a solo home run off of Giants' starter Dicky Gonzalez. Hayato Sakamoto broke the tie in the fifth inning when he hit a double off the left field wall, scoring Tani and Shinnosuke Abe, who singled to open the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nGonzalez was relieved by Tetsuya Yamaguchi in the sixth inning after he allowed Fighters' hitters to reach first and second with one out. The Giants' lead was then cut to one after Yamaguchi gave up an RBI single to Tomohiro Nioka before retiring the next two batters. The Giants responded when Yoshinori Tateyama relieved Takeda to start the seventh inning. Tateyama gave up a single to Tani before being replaced by Masanori Hayashi who immediately gave up a single to Abe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nWith runners at first and third, Noriyoshi Omichi was brought in as a pinch hitter, and Fighters' manager Masataka Nashida responded by bringing in Shintaro Ejiri. After this pitching change, Giants' manager Tatsunori Hara switched pinch hitters and sent Lee Seung-Yeop to the plate instead of Omichi. Ejiri gave up an RBI single to Lee then retired the next two batters, finishing out the top half of the inning with the Giants leading 4\u20132. Ejiri continued to pitch through a scoreless eighth inning and was followed up by Naoki Miyanishi, who kept the Giants hitless in the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nAfter Yamaguchi pitched through a scoreless seventh inning, Daisuke Ochi put together a hitless eighth. In the ninth inning, the Fighters put the leadoff man on first against Giants' closer Marc Kroon. With two outs, Shinji Takahashi cut the Giants' lead to one run when he doubled off the wall in center. Kroon then put the winning run on first after he walked Sledge but earned a save after striking out the next batter, resulting in Gonzalez's first career postseason win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nDespite experiencing back soreness and shoulder fatigue, Yu Darvish started Game 2 for the Fighters. Darvish had not pitched since September 20, 43\u00a0days before his surprising Game 2 start. A week before the series, trainer Seiichiro Nakagaki stated that it would be \"virtually impossible for him to pitch in the series\". Pitching coach Masato Yoshii echoed this belief when he stated that he would require a \"miraculous recovery\" to pitch in time for the series. Darvish was seen practicing before Saturday's series opener, however, prompting some speculation that he would make an appearance in the series. During the game, spectators noticed that Darvish had altered his pitching form\u2014he shortened his stride to prevent aggravating his lower back injury. After the series, Darvish assessed his health and believed that he was \"about 50 percent\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 889]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Giants started Tetsuya Utsumi, who had not pitched since a regular season game on October 12. He pitched into the third inning, where, with two outs, he gave up a solo home run to Atsunori Inaba. Shinji Takahashi then doubled and quickly scored on an RBI single by the next batter, Terrmel Sledge. The Fighters continued to produce offense as Eiichi Koyano reached base on an infield single. Sledge and Koyano both scored on Yoshio Itoi's right field double. Utsumi was then relieved by Shun Tono, who ended the Fighters' four-run third inning. The Giants cut the Fighters' lead in half by scoring two runs in the top of the fourth inning. With two outs, Alex Ram\u00edrez singled before Yoshiyuki Kamei hit a home run off the left field foul pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nDarvish continued to pitch into the sixth inning after getting out of a fifth inning bases-loaded situation by striking out former teammate Michihiro Ogasawara. Relieving Darvish at the start of the seventh inning, Naoki Miyanishi pitched a scoreless inning, while Takayuki Kanamori followed it up with a scoreless inning of his own. Closer Hisashi Takeda then earned a save after completing a scoreless ninth to secure the win for the Fighters 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nWearing a Giants' jacket, former U.S. President and US Major League Baseball team owner George W. Bush threw the ceremonial first pitch to Giants' catcher Shinnosuke Abe prior to Game 3. Bush watched the game from a private box with former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, U.S. Ambassador John Roos and former Giants' player and manager Sadaharu Oh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nIn the first inning, Atsunori Inaba hit a solo home run off Giants' starter Wirfin Obispo. Eiichi Koyano put the Fighters up 2\u20130 with a solo home run of his own in the second. The home runs continued during the Giants' half of the inning when both Lee Seung-Yeop and Shinnosuke Abe hit solo shots off Fighters' starter Keisaku Itokazu. A Michihiro Ogasawara home run then gave the Giants a one-run lead in the bottom of the third. After a scoreless fourth inning, Kensuke Tanaka tied it up with the game's final home run in the fifth. Both teams' combined six home runs narrowly missed tying the Japan Series record of seven achieved by the Giants and Kintetsu Buffaloes during 1989's Game 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nWith two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning, Itokazu walked Hayato Sakamoto then gave up a single to Tetsuya Matsumoto. Ogasawara brought in both runners when he doubled to left-center field, putting the Giants up 5-3. Masanori Hayashi replaced Itokazu at the start of the sixth to retire three straight Giants batters. After relieving Obispo to start the seventh, Daisuke Ochi pitched a scoreless half-inning. Brought in to pitch in the eighth inning, Tetsuya Yamaguchi hit the first batter, Tanaka; two consecutive errors then allowed Tanaka to score, cutting the Giants' lead to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nFighters pitcher Kazumasa Kikuchi, who had pitched a scoreless seventh inning, was relieved by Shintaro Ejiri in the eighth after putting two batters on base. Abe gave the Giants two insurance runs when he drove home both of Ejiri's inherited runners with a two-out single. Kroon was brought in to start the ninth; despite allowing a base runner on the Giants' third error of the game, Kroon preserved the team's three-run lead. The win marked the Giants' 100th Series victory in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nFor Game 6, the Giants decided to skip starting pitcher Tetsuya Utsumi after he allowed four runs in two and two-thirds innings in game two; pitcher Shun Tono started the game in his place. However, after facing four batters, Tono was forced to leave the game in the first inning after a hit by Shinji Takahashi struck him on his right wrist. Inheriting runners on second and third with two outs, Utsumi entered the game and retired Terrmel Sledge for the final out of the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nIn the top of the second inning, Yoshiyuki Kamei reached base with a one-out double off of Fighters' starter Masaru Takeda and advanced to third base on a Yoshitomo Tani ground out. Kamei then scored when Shinnosuke Abe doubled to deep center field, giving the Giants the lead. In the top of the sixth inning, Takeda gave up a two-out single to Tetsuya Matsumoto. Fighters right fielder Atsunori Inaba then fell down while attempting to field a ball hit by Michihiro Ogasawara, resulting in the game's only error. This error allowed Matsumoto to score from first base. Utsumi continued to pitch into the bottom of the inning until he was relieved by Kiyoshi Toyoda. Utsumi's scoreless four and two-thirds innings (eventually resulting in a win) was seen as a redemption after his short Game 2 outing and four previous Japan Series losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nTakeda pitched a scoreless seventh inning, followed by Giants reliever Tetsuya Yamaguchi who did the same in the bottom of the inning. Takeda pitched into the eighth inning until he was relieved by Shintaro Ejiri, who closed out the top of the inning. In the bottom of the inning, Daisuke Ochi surrendered a leadoff single followed by two strikeouts and a walk. Kroon was then brought in to face pinch hitter Tomochika Tsuboi who grounded out to finish the eighth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203550-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Japan Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nAfter Fighters closer Masanori Hayashi held the Giants to two runs in the final inning, Kroon gave up a leadoff double to Tomohiro Nioka and allowed the pinch runner to reach third later in the inning. He then struck out Inaba and Takahashi to achieve the four-out save and secure the series. Despite having runners on base every inning and leaving a total of 13 on base, the Giants completed a six-pitcher shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203551-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan Super Series\nThe 2009 Japan Open Super Series was a top level badminton competition which was held from September 22, 2009 to September 27, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. It was the eighth BWF Super Series competition on the 2009 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203552-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan national football team\nThis page records the details of the matches played by the Japan national football team during 2009. In 2009 the Japan national football team competed in the fourth round of the AFC 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifications, the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification, and the 2009 Kirin Cup, amongst other friendly matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203553-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japan women's national football team\nThis page records the details of the Japan women's national football team in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203554-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Formula 3 Championship\nThe 2009 Japanese Formula 3 Championship was the 31st edition of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship. It commenced on April 4, 2009 and ended on September 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203554-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Formula 3 Championship\nMarcus Ericsson became the first Swedish champion, after a title battle which went down to the final round in Sportsland SUGO. Ericsson won with 112 points, beating his teammates Takuto Iguchi with 103 points, and Yuji Kunimoto with 97 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was the fifteenth round of the 2009 Formula One season. The race was held at the Suzuka Circuit on 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix\nSebastian Vettel of Red Bull won the race ahead of Toyota's Jarno Trulli and 2008 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, leading through the whole race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix\nWith two races remaining in the 2009 season, Vettel's win maintained his slim hopes of winning the Drivers Championship, with Championship leader Jenson Button finishing eighth, one place behind Rubens Barrichello. The result left Button and Barrichello's Brawn team half a point away from clinching the Constructors Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJenson Button led Brawn GP teammate Rubens Barrichello by 15 points going into the race, with Sebastian Vettel 10 points further back driving for Red Bull Racing. Mark Webber could no longer win the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn also led Red Bull by 42\u00bd points in the Constructors' Championship, and only needed to maintain this lead to take the trophy. McLaren and Ferrari were 3 points apart in the Constructors' Championship in 3rd and 4th, with their lead drivers Lewis Hamilton and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen also separated by 3 points in 5th and 6th in the Drivers' Championship; Ferrari led on both counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Background\nFernando Alonso won the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix for Renault, which was held at Fuji Speedway. Alonso also won the last race at Suzuka, in 2006. Other former winners lining up include Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and World Champion Lewis Hamilton. It was the first time since 1991 that a Schumacher (Michael or Ralf) was not on the grid at Suzuka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Background\nEight of the drivers had not raced at Suzuka in Formula One before, owing to the Fuji Speedway having hosted the Japanese Grand Prix in 2007 and 2008. Those drivers included Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Heikki Kovalainen, local driver Kazuki Nakajima, Adrian Sutil, S\u00e9bastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari and Romain Grosjean. However, both Vettel and Sutil had driven the circuit in practice sessions before when they served as test drivers in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe 2009 Japanese Grand Prix saw Lewis Hamilton, Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil all start their fiftieth race in Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe Friday practice sessions were dominated by heavy rain that severely reduced running time. Toyota's Timo Glock was advised not to drive as he was suffering from a fever, and was replaced by GP2 driver Kamui Kobayashi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe first practice session saw Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton set the early pace, with lap times rapidly falling as the track dried out. The second half of the session was dominated by local driver Kazuki Nakajima, who narrowly missed out on setting the fastest time after McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen set a time three tenths of a second quicker in the final phase. Championship contenders Rubens Barrichello, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button finished 10th, 17th and 18th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe rain increased markedly for the second session, which saw very limited running in the first hour with Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari and S\u00e9bastien Buemi being the only drivers to set times. Owing to poor visibility and limited tyre allocations, many of the drivers elected to do only a handful of laps; Nico Rosberg did just seven in comparison to the twenty he had done in the first session, a pattern followed by many other drivers. Heikki Kovalainen and both Brawn GP drivers elected not to take to the circuit. Adrian Sutil went on to set the fastest lap of the session with Sebastian Vettel in second, both of them some seven seconds slower than Kovalainen's first session time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nSaturday's third and final practice session started with contact between championship leader Button and Alguersuari that saw the Brawn driver require a replacement front wing. The session was largely dominated by Alguersuari's Toro Rosso stablemate Buemi, with fellow Red Bull compatriot Sebastian Vettel a close second until Jarno Trulli set a time six hundredths of a second quicker on his final lap. The hour-long session was dry, with Trulli's 1:31.709 almost ten seconds faster than Heikki Kovalainen's FP1 time and 17 seconds quicker than Adrian Sutil in FP2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nAt the end of the hour, championship contenders Vettel, Barrichello and Button were fourth, seventh and ninth respectively and separated by just over two hundredths of a second; just one second ultimately covered the top 16 drivers. Elsewhere, Timo Glock returned to his seat whilst Romain Grosjean out-paced Renault teammate Fernando Alonso. Red Bull's Mark Webber crashed near the Degner Corner, damaging his car to such an extent that he was unable to take part in qualifying. As the damage was heavy enough to require the chassis to be re-built, Webber had to start the race from the pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nWith Webber unable to take part in qualifying, only four drivers would be eliminated in the first session. An early spin into the barriers by S\u00e9bastien Buemi looked as if that number would become three, but his team repaired the car in time for him to do a single fast lap. The early pace-setter was Sebastian Vettel, who exchanged blows with the Toyota of Trulli before ultimately coming out on top by the end of the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nMeanwhile, Jaime Alguersuari made the second part of qualifying for the first time in his short career, with Giancarlo Fisichella, Kazuki Nakajima, Romain Grosjean and Vitantonio Liuzzi joining Webber in an early exit from qualifying. The second session was dominated by two accidents that both resulted in red flags. The first was Jaime Alguersuari, who speared off at the Degner Curve, the same place as Webber in the earlier practice session and the scene of Buemi's off-track excursion in the first segment of qualifying. The second accident was more serious, with Timo Glock crashing heavily at the final corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe session was stopped for some time as medics attended to him and his car was removed. The session resumed with eight minutes remaining and saw a final push by the Brawn drivers to make it into the top ten shootout. The final moments were marked by another off by Buemi at Spoon, which left debris on the circuit as he limped back to the pits. Glock was flown by helicopter to hospital during Q3 with a wound on his left leg, and back pain. The times set by the Brawn drivers were threatened should someone protest following an incident where they set their best \u2013 and only \u2013 times during a yellow flag period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nHeikki Kovalainen joined the growing list of drivers who crashed at the Degner Curve early in the third part of qualifying, though the damage was minimal and the circuit quickly cleared. The damage to S\u00e9bastien Buemi's car after his earlier off was deemed too great to be able to repair in time, and like Kovalainen, he failed to set a time, meaning that Q3 would be contested by eight drivers. When the track had re-opened after Kovalainen's accident, there were just five minutes remaining on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nSebastian Vettel once again topped the timing sheets, putting him in a strong position to keep his title campaign alive, while rival championship contenders Barrichello and Button could only manage fifth and seventh respectively. Jarno Trulli qualified the sole remaining Toyota in second in his team's home race, with reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nAfter qualifying, Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica, Fernando Alonso and Adrian Sutil were all called before the stewards on charges of speeding during the yellow-flag caused by S\u00e9bastien Buemi's off in the final moments of Q2. Buemi himself was later summoned on the charge of driving a damaged car. All of the drivers except for Heidfeld and Kubica were given five-place grid penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nSebastian Vettel led the race from the start; aside from a brief attempt by Lewis Hamilton at passing him into the first corner, the Red Bull driver would remain relatively unthreatened. The opening lap was clean, with the only major changes in position coming from S\u00e9bastien Buemi, who nearly stalled, and Jenson Button, who fell from 10th down to 12th behind the BMW Sauber of Robert Kubica and the Ferrari of Giancarlo Fisichella. Button subsequently reclaimed those positions within the opening laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHamilton slotted into second place while Jarno Trulli assumed third. Further back, Mark Webber, having started from the pit lane, pitted three times in the opening four laps; the first two due to his headrest coming loose, and the third for new tyres after he picked up a puncture. Most of the overtaking in the early stages of the Grand Prix took place with the first wave of stops, Vettel remaining unchallenged for the lead. An incident at the Casio Triangle saw Adrian Sutil and Heikki Kovalainen collide at relatively low speed, allowing championship leader Button to sneak through into a points position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe middle stint of the race was as quiet as the first, with the only passes being Kovalainen out-dragging Fisichella in the pit exit lane, and a mistake from Hamilton allowing Trulli to pass him as he emerged from the pits. A problem with the KERS unit on his car meant that Hamilton subsequently struggled to stay in touch with the Toyota driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMeanwhile, the Toro Rosso drivers had not fared well, with a clutch problem spelling an early retirement for Buemi, whilst Jaime Alguersuari lost control after touching the astro turf on the outside of 130R which resulted in a spin into the tyre wall and the safety car being deployed ten laps from the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBy the time the wreckage from Alguersuari's accident was cleared away and the track considered safe for racing once more, there were just five laps remaining. Vettel continued to put as much space between him and second place as possible, while ninth-placed Kubica threatened Jenson Button in an attempt to wrest the single championship point for eighth place away from him. Button prevailed after deciding not to challenge teammate Rubens Barrichello for seventh. He later protested to the stewards that Williams' Nico Rosberg had been speeding under the safety car \u2013 though Rosberg was acquitted after a stewards' hearing found mitigating circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel ultimately won the race from Trulli and Hamilton with Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen in fourth. Mark Webber, although down in last and 2 laps down, took the fastest lap on the last lap by 0.002 seconds to deny Vettel a Grand Chelem. His victory and subsequent ten championship points meant Vettel stayed in contention for the drivers' title, 16 points adrift of Button, who kept a 14-point lead over Barrichello going into the penultimate race. Vettel was confident he could make up the large points difference, saying his Red Bull team had the momentum, while Button admitted he would be focusing on an error-free end to the season to try to clinch his first Driver's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203555-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Classification, Race\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203556-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Football League Competition\nThe 33rd annual Japanese Regional Football League Competition took place from 21 November 2009 to 6 December 2009. It took place across the prefectures of Fukushima, Toyama, Tottori, K\u014dchi and Nagano. It is the tournament which decided promotion to the Japan Football League for the 2010 season. The top two teams in this competition Matsumoto Yamaga F.C. and Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club) were given promotion to the Japan Football League. Third place Zweigen Kanazawa achieved promotion via a two-leg play off with F.C. Kariya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203556-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Football League Competition, Tournament outline\nPreliminary round - Four groups of four teams play each other once in a round-robin tournament. The top placed team in each group advances to the final round. Final Round - The four winners from the preliminary round play each other once in a round-robin tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203556-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Football League Competition, Tournament outline\nThree points are awarded for a win in standard time and zero for a lose. If at the end of standard time the result is a tie, a penalty shoot-out is held; the winning team is awarded 2 points and the losing team 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203556-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Football League Competition, Tournament outline\nIf the number of points are the same, the league position is ordered by goal difference, then the number of goals scored, and finally the result between the respective teams. If the 1st-place position cannot be decided by these factors, a play off will be contested between top two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203556-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Football League Competition, Participating teams, Runner-Up from selected leagues\nRegional Leagues whose representative reached the final round in 2008, are eligible for a second team to represent them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 104], "content_span": [105, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokkaido\n2009 was the 32nd season of Hokkaido League. The season started on May 10 and ended on September 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokkaido\nIt was contested by six teams and Sapporo University GP won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokkaido\nAfter the season, Barefoot Hokkaido and Toyota Motor Hokkaido were relegated to the Block Leagues. They were replaced by Blackpecker Hakodate and Maruseizu FC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Division 1\n2009 was the 33rd season of Tohoku League. The season started on April 12 and ended on October 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Division 1\nIt was contested by eight teams and Grulla Morioka won the championship for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Division 1\nAfter the season, Sendai Nakada were relegated to the second division (south group) and Cobaltore Onagawa took their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Division 2\n2009 was the 13th season of Tohoku League Division 2. North and South groups were won by Fuji Club 2003 and Cobaltore Onagawa respectively, and in post-season playoff series the latter earned promotion to Division 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Tohoku Promotion and Relegation Series\nIn order to decide the direct exchange between two divisions, two D2 winners played against each other in two-legged series. Cobaltore Onagawa defeated Fuji Club 2003 and received direct promotion to Division 1, replacing the bottom-placed Sendai Nakada, while Fuji Club 2003 were scheduled to face Shiogama Wiese in another two-legged series. By overall result, Shiogama Wiese have saved their Division 1 position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Tohoku, Tohoku Promotion and Relegation Series\nThe bottom-placed teams in both groups of Division 2 were directly relegated to the prefectural leagues, though in the north FC Shiwa have escaped relegation because of post-season disbandment of Grulla Istria. Their spots were filled by Omiya FC and Scheinen Fukushima, respectively. Second to last finishers, ReinMeer Aomori and Soma SC were scheduled to play against Hokuto Bank S.C. and Sakata Migaku Club, respectively, and both won their challenges, thus remaining in the Regional League for another year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Kanto, Division 1\n2009 was the 43rd season of Kanto League. The season started on April 4 and ended on September 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Kanto, Division 1\nIt was contested by eight teams and YSCC Yokohama won the championship for the second time in their history after two-year pause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Kanto, Division 1\nAfter the season, Hitachi Tochigi Uva were promoted to Japan Football League. Because of that, only Honda Luminozo Sayama were relegated to the second division, and both its winner and runner-up, Vertfee Takahara Nasu and Tonan Maebashi were promoted automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Kanto, Division 2\n2009 was the 7th season of Kanto League Division 2. It was won by Vertfee Takahara Nasu who earned promotion to Division 1 along with runners-up Tonan Maebashi. On the other end of the table, Yono Shukonkai were relegated and SG System and TM & NF Insurance were promoted from prefectural leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokushin'etsu, Division 1\n2009 was the 35th season of Hokushin'etsu League. The season started on April 11 and ended on August 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokushin'etsu, Division 1\nIt was contested by eight teams and Japan Soccer College won the championship for the third time in their history after two-year pause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokushin'etsu, Division 1\nAfter the season, Zweigen Kanazawa and Matsumoto Yamaga were promoted to Japan Football League. Because of that, no one were relegated. Because D2 champions, CUPS Seiro, were reserve team of Japan Soccer College, the promotion was given to the runner-up and third-placed team, Antelope Shiojiri and Teihens FC respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokushin'etsu, Division 2\n2009 was the 6th season of Hokushin'etsu League Division 2. It was won by CUPS Seiro, but being a reserve team of Japan Soccer College, they were not eligible to promotion. Instead, the runner-up and the third-placed team, Antelope Shiojiri and Teihens FC respectively, were promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203557-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Regional Leagues, Hokushin'etsu, Division 2\nDue to no team being relegated from D1, no relegation occurred in D2 either. After the season, Fukui KSC and Artista Tomi were promoted from Prefectural leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203558-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese Super Cup\n2009 Japanese Super Cup was the Japanese Super Cup competition. The match was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on February 28, 2009. Kashima Antlers won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Japan on August 30, 2009 to elect the 480 members of the House of Representatives. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Party) in a sweeping victory, winning 221 of the 300 constituency seats and receiving 42.4% of the proportional block votes for another 87 seats, a total of 308 seats to only 119 for the LDP (64 constituency seats and 26.7% of the proportional vote).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election\nUnder Japan's constitution, this result virtually assured DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama would be the next Prime Minister of Japan. He was formally named to the post on September 16, 2009. Prime Minister Tar\u014d As\u014d conceded late on the night of August 30, 2009, that the LDP had lost control of the government, and announced his resignation as party president. A leadership election was held on September 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election\nThe 2009 election was the first time since World War II that voters mandated a change in control of the government to an opposition political party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election\nIt marked the worst defeat for a governing party in modern Japanese history, was only the second time that the LDP had not been able to form a government after an election since its formation in 1955, and was the first time that the LDP lost its status as the largest party in the lower house; the only other break in LDP control since 1955 had been for a 3-year period from 1993 to 1996 (first 11 months in opposition, then participating in a coalition government under a socialist prime minister).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nThe last general election took place in 2005 in which the LDP, led by popular prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, received 38.2% of the proportional block votes and 47.8% of the district votes cast (the next largest party, the DPJ, received 31% in the proportional and 36.4% in the district vote). Due to the characteristics of the Japanese election system, the LDP ended up with 296 seats in the Lower House (61.6%), which enabled Koizumi to complete the privatization of Japan Post. Since then Japan had three further prime ministers (Shinz\u014d Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and Tar\u014d As\u014d) who came to power without there being a general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nOn September 1, 2008, Yasuo Fukuda abruptly announced he was retiring as leader. Taro Aso won the subsequent LDP leadership election, which was held on September 22, 2008. Media sources speculated that, in the wake of a recent change in leadership, Prime Minister Taro Aso might call elections in late October or early November 2008 while his popularity was still high,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nThere were expectations that the steady decline and numerous scandals of the LDP might lead to the complete extinction of the party and the creation of a new political system, with actual ideologically coherent parties emerging instead of the current system of a shared interest in power with stark ideological differences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nIn late June 2009, there were rumours of a planned election date in early August 2009. In prefectural elections in Tokyo, the LDP again lost a lot of seats and was for the first time since 1965 not the largest party in the prefectural assembly. The next day, Aso confirmed these rumours by calling for an election on August 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nAs soon as the election was called, a campaign was underway by a group of LDP Diet Members to replace Aso as leader. Fully one-third of the parliamentary party (including finance minister Kaoru Yosano) were reported to have signed a petition calling for an urgent party meeting to discuss the issue. The BBC reported LDP critics of Aso asserting that an election with him still as leader would be \"political suicide\". Prime Minister Aso dissolved the House of Representatives on July 21, 2009. The official campaign started on August 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Background\nFormer LDP minister Yoshimi Watanabe announced the foundation of a new party, Your Party, on August 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Campaign\nThe DPJ's policy platforms include: a restructuring of civil service; a monthly allowance for families with children (at 26000 yen per child); a cut in the fuel tax; income support for farmers; free tuition for public high schools; the banning of temporary work in manufacturing; raising the minimum wage to 1000 yen; and the halting of any increase in sales tax for the next four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Campaign\nThe LDP's policy platforms are similar to the DPJ's. A The New York Times article on August 28, 2009 noted both platforms offer little on economic policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Opinion polls\nBefore the dissolution of the lower house, National weekly magazines had been citing analysts predicting a big loss for the ruling coalition which held two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives. Some (e.g., Sh\u016bkan Gendai) warned that the LDP could lose as much as half of that. Many based their predictions on the low approval rating of the Prime Minister Taro Aso and the devastating loss that the LDP suffered in the earlier prefectural election in Tokyo. On August 20 and 21, 2009, Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, leading national newspapers, and Nikkei Shimbun, a financial daily, reported that the DPJ was poised to win over 300 of the 480 contested seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Opinion polls\nOn August 22, 2009, Mainichi Shimbun went further to predict that the DPJ could win over 320 seats, meaning almost all DPJ candidates would win. Mainichi noted that the DPJ appeared to be doing well in the western part of Japan, a traditional stronghold of the LDP, and that the LDP could lose all of its single-member constituency seats in 15 prefectures, including Hokkaid\u014d, Aichi, and Saitama. Also, according to Mainichi, the Japanese Communist Party will probably retain its previous 9 seats, while the Komeito Party and the Social Democratic Party may lose some of their shares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Opinion polls\nAccording to a poll conducted on August 22, 2009 by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, 40 percent said they would vote for the DPJ, while 24 percent for the LDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nThe DPJ swept the LDP from power in a massive landslide, winning 308 seats (out of a total of 480 seats), while the LDP won only 119 seats - the worst defeat for a sitting government in modern Japanese history. This was in marked contrast to the 1993 election, the only other time the LDP has lost an election. In that election, the LDP remained by far the largest party in the House with well over 200 seats, despite losing its majority. However, in the 2009 election the LDP was nearly 200 seats behind the DPJ. Of 83 Koizumi Children who became new LDP representatives in 2005, only 10 were reelected. The unprecedented number of urban voters who were won by Koizumi's 2005 landslide mostly abandoned the LDP in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nThe DPJ won a strong majority in the House of Representatives, thus virtually assuring that Hatoyama would be the next prime minister. Under the Constitution, if the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors cannot agree on a choice for prime minister, the choice of the House of Representatives is deemed to be that of the Diet. Hatoyama was nominated as prime minister on September 16 and formally appointed later that day by Emperor Akihito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nHowever, the DPJ was just short of a majority in the House of Councillors, and fell just short of the 320 seats (a two-thirds majority) needed to override negative votes in the upper chamber. Hatoyama was thus forced to form a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and People's New Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nThere were a number of factors at play in the DPJ's unprecedented success. In addition to the unpopularity of LDP politicians and some of its policies, such as medical policies and 2000's neoliberal economic reforms leading to widening income inequality, Japanese politics had seen a declining importance in local support groups (koenkai) which have allowed local LDP politicians in the past to stay in power even if the incumbent prime minister or the LDP was suffering from low approval ratings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nThe DPJ also benefitted from being a large and unified opposition party unlike in the past when the opposition tended to be splintered and lead to vote splitting losses for the opposition; in addition, the Japanese Communist Party, which normally fields candidates in every single district, fielded an historically low number of candidates, leading to a slight increase in votes for the DPJ in single-seat constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Results\nHad the parties nominated a sufficient number of candidates on their proportional \"block\" lists, the election result would have given the DPJ two additional seats in Kinki, the YP one in Kinki and one in T\u014dkai. In Kinki, two seats went to the LDP, one to K\u014dmeit\u014d, in T\u014dkai one to the DPJ. For the same reason, one Democratic Kinki proportional seat fallen vacant in 2010 (Mitsue Kawakami) cannot be filled until the next general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203559-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese general election, Aftermath\nIn March 2011, the Supreme Court decided that the malapportionment of electoral districts in the 2009 election had been in an unconstitutional state. As in previous such rulings (elections of 1972, 1980, 1983 and 1990), the election result is not invalidated, but the vote weight disparity must be reduced by the National Diet soon. The 2009 election has been the first House of Representatives election ruled unconstitutional since the electoral reform of the 1990s and the introduction of parallel voting in single-member districts and proportional \"blocks\". The two major parties want to use the reform to also significantly reduce the number of proportional seats as both had promised in their 2009 campaigns, but meet resistance from the smaller parties that depend on proportional seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203560-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24\u201326 April 2009 at the Twin Ring Motegi, located in Motegi, Japan. The MotoGP race was the 700th premier class race in the history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race ahead of teammate Valentino Rossi to take the overall lead in the world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203560-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix, Qualifying\nAll qualifying sessions for MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc were cancelled due to adverse weather conditions and grid positions for Sunday's races were defined according to combined free practice times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203560-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203561-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Japanese television dramas\nThis is a list of Japanese television dramas (often called doramas by fans) broadcast in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round\nThe 2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round was the sixth round and last of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on November 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Qualifying\nFor the final round of the year, 4 time Champ Car World Series champion and Formula One pointscorer S\u00e9bastien Bourdais clinched his first pole position in the Superleague Formula series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nAt the start of the race FC Midtjylland (Kasper Andersen) and Rangers F.C. (John Martin) both ran off into the gravel trap at turn 1. This left FC Midtjylland stuck and Rangers F.C.s race severely compromised. Olympiacos CFP (Esteban Guerrieri) lost it on the exit of the corner, spinning out and nearly hitting the barrier, they rejoined the race within seconds. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Mar\u00eda de Villota) spun out of the race on lap 2. Galatasaray S.K. (Ho-Pin Tung) were in 3rd place in the opening stage of the race before going straight on at turn 1 with reported brake failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nSevilla FC (S\u00e9bastien Bourdais) built up a comfortable 3 second lead in the opening stage of the race, but spun the car before the first round of pit stops - amazingly still keeping his lead. Sevilla FC went to the pits one lap before R.S.C. Anderlecht (Yelmer Buurman) and when Anderlecht came out from their pit stop the two teams went side by side into the first corner. The Sevilla FC mysteriously slowed up midcorner giving R.S.C. Anderlecht a lead they would never relinquish, finishing ahead of Sevilla by 14 seconds. A.C. Milan (Giorgio Pantano) clinched the last podium spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nA couple of laps before the end of the race SC Corinthians (Ant\u00f4nio Pizzonia) suffered a suspected puncture after making contact with A.S. Roma which led to A.S. Roma (Julien Jousse) crashing into the back of him, while FC Basel 1893 (Max Wissel) had to take avoiding action allowing title challenger Tottenham Hotspur(Craig Dolby) to pass 3 cars to keep his slim title bid alive. Both A.S. Roma and SC Corinthians were given grid penalties for the 2nd race of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 2\nAt the start of the race there were more problems. Olympiacos CFP (Esteban Guerrieri) locked up and went into the side of PSV Eindhoven (Carlo van Dam) and caused mayhem. Rangers F.C. (John Martin) had to take avoiding action and went into the gravel again. Several other cars had to take avoiding action including Tottenham Hotspur (Craig Dolby) and FC Basel 1893 (Max Wissel). SC Corinthians (Ant\u00f4nio Pizzonia) also got tangled up in the mess and were the only retirement on the opening lap with PSV Eindhoven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 2\nGalatasaray S.K. (Ho-Pin Tung) passed FC Midtjylland (Kasper Andersen) on the restart. The race had several passes by the Tottenham Hotspur car including one on Sevilla FC (S\u00e9bastien Bourdais). When the pit stop window opened there was a crash in the pits when R.S.C. Anderlecht (Yelmer Buurman) and Olympique Lyonnais (Nelson Panciatici) collided. Race 1 winner R.S.C. Anderlecht was out the race from the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 2\nIn the end Galatasaray S.K. came home the winners for their first ever Superleague Formula win, Tottenham Hotspur finished 2nd and FC Midtjylland got their first Superleague Formula podium. Liverpool F.C. (Adri\u00e1n Vall\u00e9s) were crowned the 2009 champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203562-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round, Report, Super Final\nThe 100,000 Euro Super Final was the last race of the season. Polesitter Tottenham Hotspur (Craig Dolby) stalled and were effectively out of the race at the start, coming in at the finish 6th and last some way behind. F.C. Porto (Tristan Gommendy) outbraked himself at the first corner and finished 5th. R.S.C. Anderlecht (Yelmer Buurman) jumped up from 5th to 1st at the first corner and would never give up the lead and won the race. Sevilla FC (S\u00e9bastien Bourdais) finished 2nd and the new champions Liverpool F.C. (Adri\u00e1n Vall\u00e9s) finished 3rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203563-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jayco Herald Sun Tour\nThe 2009 Jayco Herald Sun Tour was the 58th edition of the Herald Sun Tour, a six-stage bicycle race held from 11\u201317 October 2009 in Victoria, Australia. The race was won by Bradley Wiggins, ahead of Chris Sutton and Jonathan Cantwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods\nThe 2009 Saudi Arabian floods affected Jeddah, on the Red Sea (western) coast of Saudi Arabia, and other areas of Makkah Province. They have been described by civil defence officials as the worst in 27 years. As of 3 January 2010, some 122 people had been reported to have been killed, and more than 350 were missing. Some roads were under a meter (three feet) of water on 26 November, and many of the victims were believed to have drowned in their cars. At least 3,000 vehicles were swept away or damaged. The death toll was expected to rise as flood waters receded, allowing rescuers to reach stranded vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods\nMore than 70 millimetres (2.76 inches) of rain fell in Jeddah in just four hours on 25 November. This is nearly twice the average for an entire year and the heaviest rainfall in Saudi Arabia in a decade. The flooding came just two days before the expected date of the Eid al-Adha festival and during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to nearby Mecca. Business losses were estimated at a billion riyals (US$270 million). The poorer neighbourhoods in the south of Jeddah were particularly hard hit, as was the area around King Abdulaziz University. The university was closed for vacation at the time of the floods, preventing even higher casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods, Geography and hydrology of Jeddah\nThe city of Jeddah is situated on the Red Sea coast, beneath the northern escarpment of the Red Sea Rift known as the Jabal al Hejaz, which reaches 600\u20131,000 metres (1,800\u20133,000\u00a0feet) in the region. The population of the city is about 3.4 million (2009 estimate) in an urban area of 1,765\u00a0km2 (681\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), giving a population density of 1,900\u00a0hab./km2 (5,000\u00a0hab./sq. mi.). The climate is arid, with most rainfall occurring between November and January, usually as thunderstorms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods, Geography and hydrology of Jeddah\nAt least eleven wadis converge on the city, and localised flooding is common after rain. The municipality is currently investing 1 billion riyals (US$270 million) in storm drains, but the cost of a full system is estimated at an additional 3 billion riyals (US$800 million). In November 2009, only some 30% of the city was protected against flash flooding and then, often with only one-inch (25-millimetre) pipes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods, 2009 Hajj pilgrimage\n25 November was the first day of the annual four-day Hajj pilgrimage to Islamic holy sites in and around Mecca, for which Jeddah is the main entry point for foreign pilgrims arriving by air or sea. The number of foreigners, as well as Saudi citizens, was slightly lower than in previous years, possibly because of health fears due to the pandemic of H1N1 influenza. However, over 1.6 million are still believed to have made the hajj, with 200,000 coming from Indonesia alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods, 2009 Hajj pilgrimage\nAccording to the Saudi Interior Ministry, none of the flood victims were taking part in the pilgrimage. However, the main Haramain expressway between King Abdulaziz International Airport and Mecca was closed on 25 November, stranding thousands of pilgrims. Parts of the 80-kilometre (50\u00a0mi) highway were reported to have caved in, and the Jamia bridge in eastern Jeddah partially collapsed. The highway remained closed on 26 November amid fears that the bridge would collapse completely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203564-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeddah floods, 2009 Hajj pilgrimage\nRain was unusually heavy in Mecca on 25 November, as well as in nearby Mina, where many pilgrims stay in vast tent cities. The weather had improved by 26 November, and pilgrims had to face \"scorching heat\" on the plain of Mount Arafat for the second day of the Hajj. Hassan Al-Bushra, an epidemiologist at the Cairo office of the World Health Organization, said \"there is no evidence\" that the rain would worsen the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, a view shared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203565-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jelajah Malaysia\nThe 2009 Jelajah Malaysia, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It was held from 19 to 26 April 2009. There were eight stages with a total of 1,256.8 kilometres. In fact, the race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.2 category race and was part of the 2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203565-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jelajah Malaysia\nTimothy Roe of Australia won the race, followed by Jai Crawford of Australia second and Ghader Mizbani of Iran third overall. Anuar Manan of Malaysia won the points classification and Abbas Saeiditanha of Iran won the mountains classification. Azad University Iran won the team classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203565-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jelajah Malaysia, List of teams and riders\nA total of 21 teams were invited to participate in the 2009 Jelajah Malaysia. Out of 122 riders, a total of 97 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203566-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jersey City mayoral election\nThe 2009 Jersey City non-partisan mayoral election occurred on May 12, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy (Democrat) won re-election. Former Mayor Bret Schundler (Republican) was going to run, but dropped out in January 2009 for financial reasons. Healy needed a 51% vote to hold off a second round (like the 2004 and 2005 elections). Healy won the election with 53% vote against 4 other candidates. The voter turnout was only 30,658.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie\nThe 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VI\u00e8mes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 6th Francophone Games), were held from 27 September to 6 October in Beirut, Lebanon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization\nThe organization of the Jeux de la Francophonie is entrusted by the local authorities of the hosting country to a national committee \u2013 the Comit\u00e9 National des Jeux Francophones (CNJF). The CNJF must organize and realize the games in conformity with the regulations and under the supervision of an international committee, the Comit\u00e9 international des Jeux de la Francophonie (CIJF). The CNJF particularly deals with hospitality and accommodation, local transportation, the press center, opening and closing events, medical service, safety issues, insurance, the promotion of its national territory, and finally the accreditation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Costs\nCanada, a traditional supporter of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, regularly provides funding for the competition and in September 2009, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and La Francophonie, Jos\u00e9e Verner, stated that Canada was contributing $1\u00a0million towards the costs of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Bid\nLebanon was chosen to host the sixth edition of the Jeux de la Francophonie during the 29th Conference of Youth and Sports Ministers (Conf\u00e9rence des ministres de la jeunesse et des sports) which took place in Beirut in March 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Logo and mascot\nThe official logo featured a stylized image of a phoenix depicted in the colors of the International Organization of the Francophonie. This logo was chosen by the Lebanese organizing committee (CNJF) as the symbol and mascot of the 2009 Games. The phoenix logo was designed by Lebanese caricaturist Armand Homsi and was dubbed C\u00e9drus following a contest organized by the CNJF in which Lara Akiki, a Lebanese citizen was awarded a prize for proposing the name for the mascot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Venues\nThe Jeux de la Francophonie was held in a variety of venues throughout Lebanon. The Lebanese University campus at Hadath hosted all the delegations and the participants in the campus' dorms. The University's sports facilities were used for training and the theaters hosted cultural events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Venues\nThe centerpiece of the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie was the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium. It hosted the opening ceremony, as well as the finals of the athletics and soccer competitions. The boxing tournament was also held here, taking place in the stadium's Pierre Gemayel facility, but the other sports competitions were held elsewhere throughout the coastal cities in Lebanon. The Rafic Hariri Stadium in Sidon and the Beirut Municipal Stadium hosted soccer tournaments. The table tennis tournaments were held in the Homenetmen Beirut club facilities, while Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut's arena hosted the female basketball competition. The Michel el-Murr Stadium in Bauchrieh held the judo competitions and, further north, the Byblos beaches hosted the beach volleyball matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Venues\nCultural events were held in the UNESCO Palace and the Abou Khater and B\u00e9ryte theaters at the Universit\u00e9 Saint-Joseph in Beirut. The UNESCO Palace hosted the dance, painting, photography and sculpture competitions. The Abou Khater and B\u00e9ryte theaters hosted the preliminary phases of literature and song competitions. The final phase of these competitions took place in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL) and at the Casino du Liban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Security\nThe Jeux de la Francophonie were held amidst the crisis of formation of the Lebanese government and ever-present fears of internal turmoil. The Interior Minister, Ziad Baroud, affirmed that the Games would put Lebanon back on the world map and stressed that the country was capable of meeting all its commitments despite its domestic crisis. Security for the event was tight with thousands of soldiers and police deployed around the various venues and at the Lebanese University main campus that hosted the \"Francophone Village\" at the outskirts of Beirut where participants stayed. Prime minister-designate Saad Hariri urged all the political parties to exercise restraint, describing the Games as important for the country's image.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Organization, Media coverage\nThe opening ceremony of the Games was transmitted live and was watched by a television audience of around 70 million spectators across the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Participation\nApproximately 3000 participants from 46 countries competed in the Games. Of these countries, 43 are full members of the International Organization of the Francophonie, two are associate members (Armenia and Cyprus), and Mozambique was the sole observer nation in attendance. Furthermore, two participating governments (New Brunswick and Quebec) also competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony began with performances from the Internal Security Forces marching band, as well as military formation displays by Lebanese Army soldiers. The ceremony was attended by delegates from 44 nations, including French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, Prince Albert of Monaco and Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of the International Francophonie Organization (OIF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Opening ceremony\nLebanese President Michel Sleiman gave a welcoming speech praising Lebanon as a country that exemplifies the International Francophonie Organization's values of \"solidarity, diversity and excellence\"; and officially inaugurated the games in the presence of top Lebanese officials including caretaker Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Opening ceremony\nThe participants in the games paraded in the stadium preceded by their national colors; many teams dressed in traditional national costumes, and some danced to the background music that was specially composed by Lebanese artist Khaled Mouzannar. The flag bearer of the OIF was Maxime Chaya, the first Lebanese mountaineer to climb the Seven Summits. Chaya's speech was followed by the formal athlete's and judge's oath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Opening ceremony\nAn Arabic and Phoenician-style sound and light performance followed; the performance was produced by Daniel Charpentier and featured 1200 musicians, dancers and performers enacting key moments in the cultural history of Lebanon in the form of plays, songs and poetic recitals. The show revolved around a large 9,000 square metres (97,000\u00a0sq\u00a0ft) screen displaying Lebanon's six-millennium history from prehistory, the maritime Phoenician city states in Byblos, Tripoli, Sidon and Tyre, to the Roman period Baalbek relics, the later Arabic arts, and finally the modern and metropolitan Beirut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Opening ceremony\nDance routines included a mass rendition of the traditional Lebanese dance, the Dabke, as well as a troop of whirling dervishes and a contemporary dance performance, specially choreographed for the occasion. Lebanese singer Majida El Roumi sang her homage to the capital city, \"Ya Beirut\", before being joined for a duet with Senegalese artist Youssou N'Dour. The music of world-renowned Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared and Khaled Mouzannar accompanied the ceremony. A fireworks display marked the end of the official opening ceremony, followed by a concert by Youssou N'Dour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Events\nThe 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie featured 13 competitions, 7 sport events and 6 cultural contests. Canadian athlete Jared MacLeod broke the games record in the 110 meters hurdles race, Yahya Berrabah from Morocco scored both a games and a national record in the men's long jump discipline. Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman from Egypt and Lindy Leveau-Agricole from the Seychelles scored new games records respectively for men's and women's javelin throw and Manuela Montebrun from France also broke the game record for women's hammer throw. The Cypriot women's basketball team which had won four matches was disqualified for exceeding the permitted number of naturalized players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203567-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, Games, Closing ceremony\nThe 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie games closing ceremony took place in BIEL, downtown Beirut, on 7 September. The festivities were opened with a classical concert led by conductor Harout Fazlian, followed by a folkloric African music concert specially composed for the occasion. Eliya Francis and Cynthia Samaha interpreted Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne, and the following set by Canzone Napoletana was also interpreted by Francis. A large Zorba ring preceded the concert of the Lebanese pop artist Ragheb Alama accompanied by belly dancers. The festivities ended with an electronic music event by the Franco Elektro competition winner DJ Rio Tony-T, who opened for Antoine Clamaran", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203568-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election\nThe Jharkhand 2009 Assembly elections were seen as a contest between three forces: The Indian National Congress (INC), The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its major ally Janata Dal (United), and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). The poll result was a shock for the incumbent BJP-JD(U) Alliance as they could muster only a quarter of the state assembly's 81 seats. The JMM emerged as a formidable force and finally turned out to be the kingmaker. The election turned out to be a stalemate as many expected because no major party or group was able to come even close to the 42-seat majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203568-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election\nThe JMM has always been an important factor in the state's political scenario even before the creation of the state. It then served as a rallying point for the people who demanded statehood for Jharkhand from Bihar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203568-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, Government Formation\nA compromise formula was worked out between the BJP-JD(U) Alliance and the JMM. These two groups, with the help of independents and other minor parties, had run the state government, and the president rules the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic\nThe 2009 Wuzhou International Group Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4\u20137 June 2009 at the Wuxi Sports Center in Wuxi, China. The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, ten top 16 players. The tournament was renamed the following year to Wuxi Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic\nMark Selby made the 69th official maximum break during his last round robin match against Joe Perry. This was Selby's first official 147 break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic\nMark Allen won his first professional title by defeating defending champion Ding Junhui 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic, Round robin stage, Group 1\n(breaks above 50 shown between brackets)breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic, Round robin stage, Group 2\n(breaks above 50 shown between brackets)breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203569-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jiangsu Classic, Knock-out stages\n* 76\u201351, 0\u201363, (104) 125\u20130, (124) 128\u20131, (97)-0, (72)-0 ** 4\u2013110 (86), 64\u201355, 25\u201366 (61), (74) 83\u20131, 16\u201378 (72), 4\u2013124 (88), 47\u201376", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203570-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Johan Cruyff Shield\nThe fourteenth edition of the Johan Cruyff Shield (Dutch: Johan Cruijff Schaal) was held on 25 July 2009 at the Amsterdam Arena. The match featured the 2008\u201309 Eredivisie champions AZ and 2008\u201309 KNVB Cup winners SC Heerenveen. The match inaugurated the 2009\u201310 season in Dutch football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203571-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jordan Shield Cup\nJordan FA Shield 2009 was the 28th Jordan FA Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 75]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203571-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jordan Shield Cup\nThe 12 teams of Jordan League 2009-10 were divided into two groups, the teams playing against each other once. The two group winners advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203571-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jordan Shield Cup\nIn the final, held on 1 August 2009, Al-Faisaly beaten Al Arabi Irbid 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203572-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season\nThe 2009 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season officially began at the Auckland Open, where he had won his first title at Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203572-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro had a 54\u201316 (77.1%\u00a0of wins) match win-loss record in the 2009 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings was 11\u20139 (55.0%\u00a0of wins). Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203573-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by WOSlinker (talk | contribs) at 21:29, 15 February 2020 (fix small tags). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203573-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom\nThis is a complete list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's opening on 1 October 2009 and the end of that year. Most of the cases were heard in the House of Lords before judgments were given in the new Supreme Court. The court heard 17 cases during this time; they are listed in order of each case's Neutral citation number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203573-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom\nThe table lists judgments made by the court and the opinions of the judges in each case. Judges are treated as having concurred in another's judgment when they either formally attach themselves to the judgment of another or speak only to acknowledge their concurrence with one or more judges. Any judgment which reaches a conclusion which differs from the majority on one or more major points of the appeal has been treated as dissent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203573-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom\nBecause every judge in the court is entitled to hand down a judgment, it is not uncommon for groups of judges to reach the same conclusion (i.e. whether to allow or dismiss the appeal) in materially different ways, for example if a panel of 9 judges heard a case with 4 judges dismissing the appeal, 3 finding for the appellant on one point and 2 on another - the table should show 5 judges as the majority and the 4 judges who actually held the more mainstream view as dissenting. The table also does not reflect how significantly judges differed, or how much of a contribution a particular judge made to the overall judgment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203574-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Judo Grand Slam Paris\nThe 2009 Judo Grand Slam Paris was held in Paris, France, from 7-8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203575-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 June rugby union tests\nThe 2009 mid-year rugby union tests (also known as the Summer Internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) refers to the rugby union Internationals played from 23 May to 4 July 2009, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203575-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 June rugby union tests\nThe main event in the series was the Lions tour of South Africa, which involved three test matches, while France and Italy travelled to Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203575-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 June rugby union tests\nFor Australia, New Zealand and South Africa the Tests also constituted preparation for the 2009 Tri Nations. There was also a short tour for the Barbarians, including their first ever match in Australia. The two main North American sides, Canada and the United States, used the series as preparation for their annual early-summer competition, the Churchill Cup, and for their 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying tie in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203575-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 June rugby union tests\nSouth Africa attempted to schedule two warm-ups for the Springboks before the Lions tour; however, only one eventually materialised, and it was not a full Test. Initial plans were that the Boks would play a late May test against neighbours Namibia at Windhoek, to be followed by a match in Soweto with New Zealand M\u0101ori. The Windhoek match morphed into a fixture between a South Africa XV and a \"Namibian Invitational XV\" made up mostly of South Africans, including five Springboks, won 36\u20137 by the South Africa XV on 29 May. The New Zealand M\u0101ori match went from a Springboks match to a South Africa XV match before being scrapped because the South African Rugby Union could not find sponsorship or a venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203575-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 June rugby union tests\nWith the Lions tour taking place in South Africa, three of the four individual home unions fielded weakened, experimental sides in their matches, with Scotland not playing in this series. England played home friendlies against the Barbarians and Argentina and then travelled to Argentina for a return match with the Pumas, while Ireland and Wales went to North America. The first England-Argentina matchup was notable because the Argentine Rugby Union moved the game to England in effort to raise cash to help support their fledgling professional setup; the move was also convenient for their large contingent of European-based players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203576-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Junior League World Series\nThe 2009 Junior League World Series took place from August 16\u201322 in Taylor, Michigan, United States. Scottsdale, Arizona defeated Oranjestad, Aruba in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203577-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Aracaju, Brazil, November 6\u20138, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203578-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships was held in Havana, Cuba, November 10\u201315, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203579-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Juno Cup\nThe 6th Annual Juno Cup game took place at the UBC Thunderbird Arena on Friday 27 March 2009. That year NHL Greats such as Russ Courtnall, Brad Dalgarno, Mark Napier, Mike Pelyk, Bob Probert and Vancouver Canuck Cliff Ronning laced up against the Rockers. The Rockers gathered an enormous roster with artists such as Barenaked Ladies, Blue Rodeo, Great Big Sea, Kathleen Edwards and Sarah McLachlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event\nThe 2009 Jupiter impact event, occasionally referred to as the Wesley impact, was a July 2009 impact event on Jupiter that caused a black spot in the planet's atmosphere. The impact area covered 190 million square kilometers, similar in area to the planet's Little Red Spot and approximately the size of the Pacific Ocean. The impactor is estimated to have been about 200 to 500 meters in diameter. (For comparison, the one for the Tunguska event was estimated to be in the 60\u2013190 meters range.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Discovery\nAmateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered the impact at approximately 13:30 UTC on 19 July 2009 (exactly 15 years after the Jupiter impacts of comet Shoemaker\u2013Levy 9, or SL9). He was at his home observatory just outside Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia, using stacked images on a 14.5-inch (36.8\u00a0cm) diameter reflecting telescope equipped with a low light machine vision video camera attached to the telescope. Wesley stated that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Discovery\nWhen first seen close to the limb (and in poor conditions) it was only a vaguely dark spot, I [thought] likely to be just a normal dark polar storm. However as it rotated further into view, and the conditions improved I suddenly realised that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Discovery\nWesley sent an e-mail to others including the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California reporting his observations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Findings\nPaul Kalas and collaborators confirmed the sighting. They had time on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii, and had been planning to observe Fomalhaut b, but they spent some of their time looking at the Jupiter impact. Infrared observation by Keck and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at Mauna Kea showed a bright spot where the impact took place, indicating the impact warmed a 190 million square km area of the lower atmosphere at 305\u00b0 west, 57\u00b0 south near Jupiter's south pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Findings\nThe spot's prominence indicated that it was composed of high-altitude aerosols similar to those seen during the SL9 impact. Using near-infrared wavelengths and the IRTF, Glenn Orton and his team detected bright upwelling particles in the planet's upper atmosphere and using mid-infrared wavelengths, found possible extra emission of ammonia gas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Findings\nThe force of the explosion on Jupiter was thousands of times more powerful than the suspected comet or asteroid that exploded over the Tunguska River Valley in Siberia in June 1908. (This would be approximately 12,500\u201313,000 megatons of TNT, over a million times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Impactor\nThe object that hit Jupiter was not identified before Wesley discovered the impact. A 2003 paper estimated comets with a diameter larger than 1.5 kilometers impact Jupiter about every 90 to 500 years, while a 1997 survey suggested that the astronomer Cassini may have recorded an impact in 1690.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Impactor\nGiven the size of the SL9 impactors, it is likely that this object was less than one kilometer in diameter. Finding water at the site would indicate that the impactor was a comet, as opposed to an asteroid or a very small, icy moon. At first it was believed that the object was more likely to be a comet since comets generally have more planet-crossing orbits. At the distance of Jupiter (5.2 AU) most small comets are not close enough to the Sun to be very active, and so would be hard to detect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Impactor\nSmall kilometer-sized asteroids would also be hard to detect, however, and recent work by Orton et al. and Hammel et al. has strongly suggested the impactor was an asteroid, as it left only one impact site, did not reduce Jovian decametric radiation emission by contributing significant dust to the Jovian magnetosphere, and produced high altitude dusty debris full of silica, very different than what was produced by SL9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Impactor\nAs of 2012, the impactor is believed to have been an asteroid with a diameter of about 200 to 500 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203580-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Jupiter impact event, Impactor, Visibility\nAssuming it was an inactive comet (or asteroid) about 1\u00a0km in diameter, this object would have been no brighter than about apparent magnitude 25. (Jupiter shines about 130 billion times brighter than a 25th magnitude object.) Most asteroid surveys which use a wide field of view do not see fainter than about magnitude 22 (which is 16x brighter than magnitude 25). Even detecting satellites less than 10\u00a0km in diameter orbiting Jupiter is difficult and requires some of the best telescopes in the world. It is only since 1999 with the discovery of Callirrhoe that astronomers have been able to discover many of Jupiter's smallest moons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203581-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K League\nThe 2009 K League was the 27th season of the K League. It was held from 7 March to 6 December 2009, and a total of 15 teams contested, including newly formed Gangwon FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203581-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 K League, Top scorers\nThis list includes goals of the championship playoffs. The official top goalscorer was decided with records of only regular season, and Lee Dong-gook won the award with 20 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203581-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 K League, Awards, Main awards\nThe K League Players' Player of the Year was published by Korean edition of FourFourTwo in summer, and was not an official award of the K League, but 143 players participated in the selection process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship\nThe 2009 K League Championship was the 13th competition of the K League Championship, and was held to decide the 27th champions of the K League. The top six clubs of the regular season qualified for the championship. The winners of the regular season directly qualified for the final, and second place team qualified for the semi-final. The other four clubs entered the first round, and the winners of the second round advanced to the semi-final. Each match was played as a single match, excluding the final which consisted of two matches. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors became the champions for the first time by defeating Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 3\u20131 on aggregate in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, First round, Seoul vs Jeonnam\nAssistant referees:Kim Sun-jin (South Korea)Son Jae-sun (South Korea)Fourth official:Choi Myung-yong (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, First round, Seongnam vs Incheon\nAssistant referees:Won Chang-ho (South Korea)Kim Jung-sik (South Korea)Fourth official:Lee Young-chul (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, Second round\nAssistant referees:Kim Sun-jin (South Korea)Won Chang-ho (South Korea)Fourth official:Lee Sam-ho (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, Semi-final\nAssistant referees:Son Jae-sun (South Korea)Jung Hae-sang (South Korea)Fourth official:Lee Sang-yong (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, Final, First leg\nAssistant referees:Kim Sun-jin (South Korea)Kim Yong-soo (South Korea)Fourth official:Choi Gwang-bo (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203582-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 K League Championship, Final, Second leg\nAssistant referees:Won Chang-ho (South Korea)Jung Hae-sang (South Korea)Fourth official:Ko Keum-bok (South Korea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203583-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K3 League\nThe K3 League 2009 was the third season of the K3 League. The 2009 season was known as Daum K3 League 2009 due to the competition's sponsorship by Daum Communications Corp.. In contrast to the previous two years where playoff systems were implemented, 2009 was a straight league season with each side playing each other once home and away. The team at the top of the table after the 32 matches (Pocheon FC) were crowned champions. The four other highest-placed clubs also earned a spot in the 2010 Korean FA Cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203583-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 K3 League\nThe season began on 21 March 2009 and ended on 28 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 79]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203584-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KBO\u2013NPB Club Championship\nThe KBO\u2013NPB Club Championship 2009 was contested between the champions of Nippon Professional Baseball's Japan Series, and the Korea Baseball Organization's Korean Series on Saturday, 14 November 2009. The game was played at the Nagasaki Baseball Stadium. The 2009 Championship was won by Japan's Yomiuri Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203585-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KBS Drama Awards\nThe 2009 KBS Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0KBS \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1) is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) network for the year of 2009. It was held on December 31, 2009 and hosted by Tak Jae-hoon, Lee Da-hae and Kim So-yeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203586-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors\nThe 2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It was taking place in Wroc\u0142aw, Poland between 2 and 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203586-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203586-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors, Champions, Men's Doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana def. Benedikt Dorsch /  Sam Warburg, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 152]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203586-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors, Champions, Men's Doubles\nThis tennis-related competition article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203587-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol were the defending champions. They chose to not participate this year. Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana defeated Benedikt Dorsch and Sam Warburg 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203588-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KGHM Dialog Polish Indoors \u2013 Singles\nKristof Vliegen was the defending champion; however, he did not take part in the 2009 championships. Michael Berrer defeated 6\u20133, 6\u20134 Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203589-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KHL Junior Draft\nThe 2009 KHL Junior Draft was the first entry draft held by the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), taking place on June 1, 2009. Twenty-three teams would take part in the draft, selecting ice hockey players from around the world aged between 17 and 21 years of age. The draft acted as a means to disperse junior players among Russia, as well as create parity for recruiting from non-KHL affiliated hockey schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203589-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 KHL Junior Draft\nAlthough the inaugural KHL season had 24 teams, Khimik Voskrensk was forced to drop out of league activities due to financial constrains. Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg filled this vacancy, however. HC MVD did not make a single selection in the draft, refusing to use any of their draft picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203589-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 KHL Junior Draft\nMikhail Pashnin, a defenceman from HC Mechel, was the first overall selection, chosen by CSKA Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203589-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 KHL Junior Draft, Format\nThe order of the draft was determined through an inversion of the 2009 KHL standings, with the exception of Avtomobilist, which selected last. Teams participating were able to select any player not protected by, or playing for a KHL team, aged 17\u201321. Rights obtained via the draft terminate when a player turns 22 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203589-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 KHL Junior Draft, Format, Eligibility\nTeams may protect up to 15 players currently in their organization from being exposed to the draft. This does not apply to players already signed to a two-way contract with a KHL team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203590-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KK\n2009 KK is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid which was listed for several weeks in May and June 2009 on the Sentry Risk Table with a Torino Scale rating of 1. There was a 1 in 10000 chance of an impact on 29 May 2022. On 22 May 2009, it was listed as one of two near-earth objects assessed above Level 0 for potential impacts within 100 years, the other being 2007 VK184. As of 10 June 2009 it was downgraded to Level 0 as the cumulative Earth-impact probability was assessed as 7.9e-06 or 1 in 127,000. On 17 June 2009, JPL removed 2009 KK from the list of potential Earth impactors. It is now known that on 4 May 2022 the asteroid will be 0.475\u00a0AU (71,100,000\u00a0km; 44,200,000\u00a0mi) from Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203590-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 KK, 2194 passage\n2009 KK may pass as close as 0.006\u00a0AU (900,000\u00a0km; 560,000\u00a0mi) from Earth on 2194-Jun-02. But the nominal solution shows the asteroid passing 0.038\u00a0AU (5,700,000\u00a0km; 3,500,000\u00a0mi) from Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 21], "content_span": [22, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203591-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships\nThe 2009 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships in speed skating were held at the Thialf ice stadium in Heerenveen, Netherlands on 27 and 28 December 2008. The championships were part of the 2008\u201309 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203591-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships\nThe men's and women's winners, Ireen W\u00fcst and Sven Kramer both prolonged their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203592-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships\nThe 2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships was held from Friday 31 October until Sunday 2 November 2008 at the Thialf ice stadium in Heerenveen. Although the championships were held in 2008 it was the 2009 edition as it is part of the 2008\u20132009 speed skating season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203593-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 m\nThe men's 1500 m at the 2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in Heerenveen took place at Thialf on 2 November 2008. 24 athletes participated in the contest.. Simon Kuipers was the title holder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203594-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 m\nThe women's 1500 m  at the 2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in Heerenveen took place at Thialf on 2 November 2008. Although the championships were held in 2008 it is the 2009 edition as it was part of the 2008/2009 speed skating season. The top five speed skaters qualified for the 1500 m at the 2008\u201309 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. The title holder was Paulien van Deutekom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203595-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KNVB Cup Final\nThe 2009 KNVB Cup Final was a football match between Heerenveen and FC Twente on 17 May 2009 at De Kuip, Rotterdam. It was the final match of the 2008\u201309 KNVB Cup competition. Heerenveen beat FC Twente on penalties after the match finished 2\u20132 after extra time. It was the side's first KNVB Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203596-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 KONI Sports Car Challenge\nThe 2009 KONI Sports Car Challenge was the ninth running of the Grand American Road Racing Association's support series. It began on January 22 and ran for ten rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203597-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kagame Interclub Cup\nThe CECAFA organised Kagame inter club cup is an association football competition that is contested between the champions of the CECAFA affiliated countries plus one guest team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203597-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kagame Interclub Cup\nThe 2009 contest will take place between 30 June and 12 July 2009. The Tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Uganda, however the Ugandan authorities did not have the necessary money to host the event and it was handed to Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203597-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kagame Interclub Cup, Knockout stage\nThe teams finishing the group stage in first and second position qualify for the quarter final stage. In addition, the best two third placed teams will also qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203598-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kakkonen \u2013 Finnish League Division 2\nLeague tables for teams participating in Kakkonen, the third tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203599-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kandahar bombing\nThe 25 August 2009 Kandahar bombing killed 43 people and injured at least 65 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban were thought to be responsible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203599-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kandahar bombing\nA wedding hall and a dozen houses were destroyed in the explosion. The target was apparently the headquarters of a Japanese construction company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 2009 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 50th season, and first with head coach Todd Haley at the helm. It was also the first season with Scott Pioli as the team's general manager. The Chiefs attempted to improve on their 2\u201314 record from 2008 with the third overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. In 2009, the Chiefs also honored the induction of Derrick Thomas, the team's former linebacker from 1989 to 1999, into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Thomas' jersey number 58 was officially retired by the franchise after having been unissued since Thomas' death in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe fate of head coach Herman Edwards and his staff remained uncertain after the end of the 2008 season in which the Chiefs finished with a franchise-worst 2\u201314 record. The team was 6\u201326 in the past two years under Edwards, who had one year left on a four-year, $12 million contract and was lobbying to be allowed another year to get his rebuilding movement off the ground. Team owner Clark Hunt voiced his support of Edwards, but he had also said the new general manager Scott Pioli would have \"significant input\" into the decision on whether to retain him. On January 23, the Chiefs fired Edwards, and on February 5, Todd Haley was hired as the 11th head coach in Chiefs franchise history and signed a four-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season\nFor the 2009 season under the Pioli/Haley regime, the Chiefs switched from a 4\u20133 defense to a 3\u20134 defensive strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season\nAlthough finishing the regular season last in the AFC West with a record of 4\u201312, the Chiefs doubled their win record from the previous season. The Chiefs did not have a single player named to the Pro Bowl for the first time since 1978 and only the 3rd time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, AFL anniversary season\nIn select games, the Chiefs, as well as the other founding teams of the American Football League, will wear \"throwback\" uniforms to celebrate the AFL's 50th anniversary and the 1962 Dallas Texans team that won the AFL Championship. The Chiefs \"throwback\" look will feature helmets with gray facemasks and a Texas-shaped decal with a gold star showing the location of the city of Dallas, Texas. From 1960 to 1962, the team was known as the Dallas Texans and played at the Cotton Bowl alongside the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. Jerseys for the club's \"throwback\" games will include a patch that honors the AFL's 50th anniversary. Kansas City will wear these replica uniforms when they host the Dallas Cowboys at Arrowhead Stadium and against two AFC West opponents yet to be determined (one home date and one away date).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, AFL anniversary season\nThe team's decision to wear the Texans' helmets started a controversy with some Chiefs fans who believed the team needed to honor the franchise's years in Kansas City, not Dallas. A petition by Sports Radio 810 WHB in Kansas City states that \"the Chiefs have a responsibility to help promote the state and region that have supported them financially through stadium taxes, ticket sales, parking fees, concessions and merchandise sales for 47 years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, General manager search\n\u2014 Clark Hunt on hiring Scott Pioli as general manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, General manager search\nFollowing the resignation of Carl Peterson, the Chiefs' general manager, chief executive officer, and team president, a search for the team's new general manager began. Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said he intended to split the three jobs that Peterson held for nearly 20 years, looking for \"a shrewd evaluator of football talent\" at the general manager's position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, General manager search\nPossible candidates included former Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer, Indianapolis Colts vice president of football operations Chris Polian, Tampa Bay Buccaneers director of pro personnel Mark Dominik, former Denver Broncos general manager Ted Sundquist, former Tennessee Titans general manager Floyd Reese, San Diego Chargers director of player personnel Jimmy Raye III, Baltimore Ravens director of college scouting Eric DeCosta, and New England Patriots vice president of football operations Scott Pioli. Hunt said he would hire a new person to overlook football operations and a second person to be in charge of the team's business operations. That job, team president, was given to longtime team executive vice president Denny Thum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, General manager search\nPioli reportedly sought \"total control\" of an organization and was also pursued by the Cleveland Browns to be their new general manager. Pioli's supposed intentions of \"total control\" could have possibly eliminated him from the Chiefs' job. Hunt had kept his search almost entirely leak-proof, instructing subordinates that only he is to speak to the situation. Hunt also intended to be thorough and patient in his search for the Chiefs' new general manager. Pioli was reportedly the Chiefs' number one candidate and on January 13 the Chiefs hired Pioli as general manager. The official statement from the Chiefs said that Pioli would \"have final say over all football operations and report directly to (Clark) Hunt.\" The Chiefs introduced Pioli the following day at team headquarters in Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Hiring Todd Haley\nThe decision to hire Scott Pioli as general manager likely meant that head coach Herman Edwards would not return for a fourth season as Chiefs head coach. The Kansas City Star reported that according to two coaches, Edwards and his staff could have been dismissed as soon as Wednesday, January 14, the day when Pioli was introduced in Kansas City. At his press conference, Pioli did not rule out Edwards being retained as the team's head coach. Hunt said publicly that he wanted Edwards to return in 2009, but Pioli would have \"significant input\" in the final decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Hiring Todd Haley\nSeveral candidates were mentioned as possible replacements for Edwards even before he had been fired. The most notable names mentioned were Todd Haley, the offensive coordinator of the 2008 NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, and Mike Shanahan, the former head coach of the Chiefs' rival Raiders and Broncos franchises. Other possible candidates included Jon Gruden, Leslie Frazier, Winston Moss, Kirk Ferentz, Jason Garrett, and even Scott Pioli's father-in-law, Bill Parcells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Hiring Todd Haley\nEdwards was fired on January 23, and ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported later that evening that the Chiefs were targeting Mike Shanahan to become the next head coach. Mortensen initially reported that the Chiefs were negotiating on a contract with Shanahan. The report was later denied by Shanahan himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Hiring Todd Haley\nAfter a long period in which Haley was considered the front-runner for the head coaching position, there was concern as to whether the Chiefs would violate the Rooney Rule by immediately hiring Haley. The Rooney Rule, named after Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, specifies that NFL teams must give fair interviews to minority candidates whenever a head coaching position comes open. Some minority coaches were reportedly turning down offers from the Chiefs since Haley was the presumed target for the coaching vacancy. The Chiefs negotiated with Haley following the Cardinals' loss in Super Bowl XLIII, and Haley accepted the coaching position on February 5. Haley was introduced as head coach the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Hiring Todd Haley\nDefensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham was hired by the Detroit Lions for the same position. Cunningham had been the defensive coordinator for the Chiefs from 1995 to 1998 and 2004 to 2008. He also served as the team's head coach from 1999 to 2000. The Chiefs also lost secondary coach David Gibbs to the Houston Texans and Mike Priefer to the Denver Broncos. Once Todd Haley was hired, the Chiefs fired tight ends coach Jon Embree, defensive assistant/assistant linebacker coach Michael Ketchum, running backs coach Curtis Modkins, offensive assistant/quality control coach Kevin Patullo, and wide receivers coach Eric Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Assistant coaches and administration\nFor Haley's new coaching staff, the Chiefs hired Joel Collier, Gary Gibbs (linebackers), Steve Hoffman (special teams), Bill Muir (offensive line), Clancy Pendergast (defensive coordinator), Pat Perles, Dedric Ward (wide receivers), Ronnie Bradford (defensive assistant), Nick Sirianni (offensive quality control coach), and Maurice Carthon (assistant head coach). From Herman Edwards' staff, Chan Gailey was retained as offensive coordinator, and Bob Bicknell switched from offensive line to tight ends coach, and Joe D'Alessandris was retained as assistant offensive line coach. The Chiefs also relieved duties of several scouts and player personnel assistants once the 2009 NFL Draft concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Assistant coaches and administration\nInitially there were doubts as to whether Chan Gailey would be retained under Todd Haley's coaching staff, as Haley had just concluded a successful stint as offensive coordinator at Arizona. After the Chiefs lost their first three preseason games, Gailey was relieved of duties and Haley was expected to assume offensive play-calling duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands\nImmediately following the Chiefs' 2008 season finale loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, RB Larry Johnson voiced his intention to seek a trade in the offseason. Johnson was involved in legal troubles in 2008 and his production on the field declined. As a result of his legal troubles, in March 2009 Johnson pleaded guilty to the two incidents that occurred in 2008 and was sentenced to two years probation. Johnson served suspensions from the NFL in 2008 and is not expected to receive further punishment from the charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands\nOL Brian Waters had issues with Todd Haley shortly after Haley's hiring, saying the coach had been disrespectful of him during a meeting, then that new general manager Scott Pioli refused to meet with him privately. Waters later told the Kansas City Star that he wanted to be traded and did not attend any of the team's voluntary offseason workouts. Newly acquired LB Mike Vrabel also did not attend offseason workouts citing his rights with the league's collective bargaining agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands\nTE Tony Gonzalez reiterated his intentions for a trade in March 2009 after a failed attempt in October 2008. He was eventually traded in April to the Atlanta Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands\nGonzalez lobbied for the Chiefs to keep Tyler Thigpen as the team's starting quarterback when Gonzalez was still with the team and when Matt Cassel was not yet on the Chiefs roster. Though he appeared to be the Chiefs' lone quarterback who would remain in their plans for 2009, especially after Damon Huard was released Thigpen was not considered a lock for the starting job. Thigpen competed with Matt Cassel for the starting quarterback position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Departures\nIn February, the Chiefs released LB Donnie Edwards, QB Damon Huard, TE Michael Merritt, and CB Patrick Surtain. In March, QB Quinn Gray was released. and in April WR Will Franklin, OT Andrew Carnahan, LB Curtis Gatewood, and WR Kevin Robinson were released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Departures\nOn April 23 the Chiefs traded TE Tony Gonzalez to the Atlanta Falcons in exchange for a second-round draft pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. In 2008 Gonzalez asked Chiefs management for a trade but negotiations failed and new general manager Scott Pioli reiterated that Gonzalez was initially not offered in trades for the 2009 season but agreed when the Falcons offered a second-round pick. Gonzalez had sought a trade in the 2008 season but several attempts failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Departures\nAt the conclusion of the preseason, the Chiefs released 13 players to reach the 53-player limit. Permanently released were S Bernard Pollard, WR Ashley Lelie, WR Taurus Johnson, DT Derek Lokey, S Ricky Price, and LB Zach Thomas. CB Jackie Bates, TE Tom Crabtree, DE Dion Gales, DE Bobby Greenwood, G Darryl Harris, RB Javarris Williams and WR Rodney Wright were added to the practice squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Departures\nAfter the first regular season game, the Chiefs waived LB Turk McBride. After the third game, the Chiefs traded QB Tyler Thigpen to the Miami Dolphins for an undisclosed draft pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nDespite having several needs to be addressed and nearly $35 million in salary cap room, the Chiefs were criticized for being \"quiet\" in free-agency after the Cassel/Vrabel trade, primarily adding back-up players for depth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nIn March, the Chiefs signed LB Darrell Robertson, WR C. J. Jones, CB Travis Daniels, LB Corey Mays, WR Bobby Engram, LB Monty Beisel, WR Terrance Copper. and OL Mike Goff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nIn April, the Chiefs signed WR Rodney Wright, LS Tanner Purdum, LB Zach Thomas, TE Sean Ryan, TE Tony Curtis, and C Eric Ghiaciuc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nIn August, the Chiefs signed WR Amani Toomer but he was later released at the end of the preseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nOn the first day of free agency (February 27), the Chiefs acquired LB Mike Vrabel from the Patriots for an undisclosed draft pick. The Boston Globe speculated that it would be part of a bigger trade involving QB Matt Cassel. The next day, the Chiefs confirmed the acquisition of both Vrabel and Cassel from New England in exchange for their second-round draft selection in the 2009 NFL Draft (#34 overall).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nReactions to the trade were mixed and it was called \"monumentally lopsided\" with the Chiefs \"clearly (getting) the better end of the deal.\" Don Banks of Sports Illustrated called the Chiefs the \"big winners\" of the first weekend of NFL free agency and the Patriots' compensation \"laughably low\", but the best they could get in return. The trade was done mainly because the Patriots could not keep two quarterbacks on their roster that took up $29.2 million of salary cap space, so it was not a matter of if the Patriots would trade Cassel, but when. The Patriots also had Tom Brady under contract, who was recovering from a knee-injury suffered in a 2008 game against the Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, Roster changes and trade demands, Additions\nOn July 15 the Chiefs signed Cassel to six-year contract extension worth a total of $63 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Chiefs selected third overall in the 2009 NFL Draft. After selecting a league-high 13 players in the 2008 Draft, the Chiefs were scheduled to make their standard seven selections pending trades prior to trading away their second-round draft pick to New England for Matt Cassel and Mike Vrabel, leaving them with just six choices. The Chiefs were later awarded the 256th and final selection in the 2009 NFL Draft, making them effectively choose \"Mr. Irrelevant.\" The player chosen was K Ryan Succop, who was the Chiefs' first \"Mr. Irrelevant\" since the 1970 NFL Draft when DB Rayford Jenkins was chosen by the team from Alcorn A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Chiefs selected defensive end Tyson Jackson third overall. Jackson was the third consecutive first-round pick by the Chiefs to have played collegiately for the LSU Tigers. All terms of the contracts for the 2009 draft picks were undisclosed, but ESPN reported that Jackson signed a five-year contract worth $57 million, with $31 million guaranteed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Preseason\nThe Chiefs conducted training camp at the University of Wisconsin\u2013River Falls for the 19th and final consecutive year. The team will move training camp to St. Joseph, Missouri in 2010. They lost all four games in the preseason to the Houston Texans, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, and St. Louis Rams (for the Missouri Governor's Cup). In the Chiefs' game against the Seahawks, QB Matt Cassel suffered a sprained Medial collateral ligament (MCL), leaving his status as starting quarterback for opening day in doubt. The offense for the Chiefs struggled in all four games, scoring only 42 points in four games and the offensive line suffered numerous breakdowns which led to Cassel's injury. The offensive struggles led to offensive coordinator Chan Gailey's firing and head coach Todd Haley assuming playcalling duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season, Schedule\n* These three games were among the 16 that the NFL designated as \"AFL Legacy Games\", in honor of the 50th anniversary of the AFL. The Chiefs (formerly the Dallas Texans) wore their throwback uniforms during those three games, as did the Cowboys, Chargers, and Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Chiefs began their season at M&T Bank Stadium against the Baltimore Ravens. Due to his injured knee, quarterback Matt Cassel was unable to play, so Brodie Croyle got the start. Despite completing 16-of-24 passes for 177 yards and two touchdowns, the Chiefs lost to the Ravens 38\u201324, and Croyle fell to 0\u20139 as a starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Baltimore Ravens\nKansas City trailed in the first quarter as Ravens kicker Steven Hauschka got a 44-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Joe Flacco completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to running back Willis McGahee. In the second quarter, the Chiefs got on the board as safety Jon McGraw recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for a touchdown. In the third quarter, Kansas City took the lead as Croyle completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, yet Baltimore answered with Flacco completing a 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Todd Heap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Baltimore Ravens\nWhat followed was a back-and-forth battle in the fourth quarter. Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop got a 53-yard field goal, but the Ravens replied with fullback Le'Ron McClain getting a 1-yard touchdown run. Kansas City would stay close as Croyle completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Sean Ryan, but Baltimore would pull away as Flacco completed a 31-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mark Clayton and McGahee getting a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Baltimore Ravens\nWith the loss, the Chiefs began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Oakland Raiders\nHoping to rebound from their tough road loss to the Ravens, the Chiefs played their Week 2 home opener against their AFC West foe, the Oakland Raiders. Kansas City would score in the first quarter as rookie kicker Ryan Succop got a 23-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Raiders tied the game as kicker Sebastian Janikowski made a 48-yard field goal. Oakland would take the lead in the third quarter as Janikowski nailed a 54-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Chiefs would retake the lead as quarterback Matt Cassel completed a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe. However, the Raiders sealed the win as running back Darren McFadden got a 5-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Philadelphia Eagles\nStill searching for their first win of the season, the Chiefs flew to Lincoln Financial Field for a Week 3 interconference duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. Kansas City would trail early in the first quarter as Eagles running back LeSean McCoy got a 5-yard touchdown run and quarterback Kevin Kolb got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Chiefs would get on the board with quarterback Matt Cassel's 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mark Bradley, but Philadelphia came right back with Kolb's 64-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson and kicker David Akers' 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Philadelphia Eagles\nKansas City's deficit would increase as Akers nailed a 38-yard field goal in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles would put the game away with Kolb's 35-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek. Afterwards, the Chiefs would end the game with Cassel's 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bobby Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. New York Giants\nAfter a brutal road loss to the Eagles, the Chiefs went home for a Week 4 interconference duel with the New York Giants. Kansas City would trail in the first quarter with quarterback Eli Manning completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith. Afterwards, the Chiefs would get on the board with rookie kicker Ryan Succop's 34-yard field goal. In the second quarter, New York would answer with Manning hooking up with Smith again on a 25-yard touchdown pass. Then, the Giants would close out the half with former Chiefs kicker Lawrence Tynes making a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. New York Giants\nAfter Tynes' 40-yard field goal in the third quarter, New York would finish their scoring in the fourth quarter with quarterback Eli Manning's 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hakeem Nicks. Kansas City tried to rally with quarterback Matt Cassel completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Sean Ryan (followed by a failed 2-point conversion) and a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bobby Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nStill looking to acquire their first win of the year, the Chiefs stayed at home, donned their Dallas Texans throwbacks, and played a Week 5 interconference duel with the Dallas Cowboys. After a scoreless first quarter, Kansas City got out of the gates in the second quarter as kicker Ryan Succop made a 47-yard field goal and quarterback Matt Cassel completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to linebacker Mike Vrabel. Afterwards, the Cowboys closed out the opening half with a 22-yard field goal from kicker Nick Folk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThe Chiefs went back to work in the third quarter with Succop booting a 38-yard field goal, yet Dallas began to rally with a 36-yard touchdown run from running back Tashard Choice. Dallas would take the lead in the fourth quarter as Folk nailed a 28-yard field goal and quarterback Tony Romo found wide receiver Miles Austin on a 59-yard touchdown pass, yet Kansas City would tie the game as Cassel hooked up with wide receiver Dwayne Bowe on a 16-yard touchdown pass. However, the Cowboys won it in overtime as Romo threw the game-ending 60-yard touchdown pass to Austin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Washington Redskins\nFollowing a tough overtime loss to the Cowboys, the Chiefs flew to FedExField for a Week 6 interconference duel with the Washington Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Washington Redskins\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop booted a 39-yard field goal for the only score of the half. In the third quarter, the Redskins took the lead with a 40-yard and a 28-yard field goal from kicker Shaun Suisham, but Kansas City tied it up with Succop's 46-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 6: at Washington Redskins\nIn the fourth quarter, Succop gave the Chiefs the lead with a 46-yard and a 24-yard field, but it was the defense that closed the game out for Kansas City, as DE/OLB Tamba Hali sacked quarterback Todd Collins in his own end zone for a safety with under a minute to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Diego Chargers\nComing off their road win over the Redskins, the Chiefs went home, donned their Dallas Texans throwbacks, and played a Week 7 AFL Legacy game with the San Diego Chargers. Kansas City would find themselves trailing in the first quarter as Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Malcom Floyd, followed by a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. San Diego would add onto their lead in the second quarter with a 20-yard and a 39-yard field goal from kicker Nate Kaeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe Chiefs would get onto the board in the third quarter with quarterback Matt Cassel completing a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, but the Chargers kept their momentum going with Rivers finding running back Darren Sproles on a 58-yard touchdown pass. In the fourth quarter, San Diego sealed the win with Kaeding's 19-yard field goal and fullback Jacob Hester recovering a blocked punt in the end zone for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Diego Chargers\nWith the loss, Kansas City went into their bye week at 1\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. San Diego Chargers, Suspension of Larry Johnson\nLarry Johnson was suspended for two weeks after he made offensive comments about Todd Haley and made offensive comments about homosexuals on Twitter and in public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 115], "content_span": [116, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter their bye week, the Chiefs flew to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for an Intraconference Duel with the Jaguars. While the Chiefs got on the board first with Ryan Succop nailing a 45-yard goal, they fell behind when Rashad Jennings ran from the 28-yard line to the end zone for a touchdown. In the second quarter Ryan Succop made a 21-yard field goal, and then the Jaguars scored when David Garrard completed a 61-yard touchdown pass to Mike Sims-Walker. The only score in the third quarter was when Josh Scobee hit a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nIn the fourth quarter the Chiefs fell further behind when Maurice Jones-Drew got a 10-yard touchdown run. The Chiefs tried to come back with Matt Cassel completing a 54-yard and a 5-yard touchdown pass to Chris Chambers (Second time round the two-point conversion was made when Matt Cassel passed to Jamaal Charles) but couldn't go any further thanks to the Jaguars' defense resulting in a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Oakland Raiders\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Chiefs flew to the Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum, donned their Dallas Texans throwbacks, and played a Week 10 AFC Legacy game with perennial rival, the Oakland Raiders. Kansas City would trail in the first quarter as Raiders running back Justin Fargas got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Chiefs would get on the board with rookie kicker Ryan Succop getting a 50-yard field goal, but Oakland would strike back as kicker Sebastian Janikowski got a 50-yard field goal. Kansas City would take the lead in the second quarter with a 44-yard touchdown run from running back Jamaal Charles, followed by Succop nailing a 25-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, Succop would come through for the Chiefs in the fourth quarter with a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 881]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Chiefs returned home to host the Steelers in an attempt to create the biggest upset of the week and get their first back-to-back wins since 2007. Optimism grew quickly as Jamaal Charles ran the opening kick 97 yards for a touchdown, starting the game with a 7\u20130 Chiefs lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Steelers dominated the rest of the first half with 20:45 time of possession, going into halftime with a 17\u20137 lead. The Chiefs' defense began to pressure Ben Roethlisberger in the third quarter, forcing two interceptions (both by Andy Studebaker in his first NFL start). By the fourth quarter, the Chiefs tied the game up at 17\u201317. The fourth quarter resulted in a touchdown each, sending the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Steelers won the toss in overtime, but failed to get within field goal range. Of note, Roethlisberger suffered a knee to the head concussion and was replaced by Charlie Batch. The Chiefs took over at the 20 and, after a 61-yard catch and run by Chris Chambers, Ryan Succop kicked the winning 22-yard field goal. With the win, the Chiefs improved to 3\u20137 and snapped a 10-game home losing streak, the longest in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 12: at San Diego Chargers\nComing off their win against the Steelers, the Chiefs went on the road for an AFC West rivalry match against the San Diego Chargers. In the first quarter the Chiefs trailed early as QB Philip Rivers got a 19-yard touchdown pass to TE Antonio Gates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 12: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Chiefs would reply to tie the game with QB Matt Cassel making a 7-yard touchdown pass to WR Chris Chambers, until they fell back again with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard touchdown run, then Rivers hooking up with Gates again on a 15-yard touchdown pass, then DB Paul Oliver returned a fumble 40 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 12: at San Diego Chargers\nIn the third quarter the Chiefs' struggle continued as RB LaDainian Tomlinson got a 3-yard touchdown run. They tried to come back with RB Jamaal Charles getting a 2-yard touchdown run, but the Chargers would pull away with kicker Nate Kaeding making a 55-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter the problem got worse when a penalty on Matt Cassel was enforced in the end zone for a safety, giving the Chargers 2 points. The final score was made when Kaeding booted a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Chiefs defense began the game by demonstrating how unpredictable they have been all season. After giving up three plays of 10 yards or more, Mike Brown intercepted what would likely have been a touchdown pass, giving the Chiefs offense a chance to take the field. After a short run and two incomplete passes, the Chiefs punted back to Denver. The Chiefs defense nearly forced the Broncos to a three-and-out, but the drive was kept going by a Ron Edwards face mask call. The end result was a Kyle Orton to Daniel Graham touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe Chiefs offense responded by putting together a relatively long series that began at the KC 31 and lasted 20 plays, ending in a 22-yard Ryan Succop field goal. After a couple possession changes, the Broncos answered with a series that included three Correll Buckhalter rushes for over 10 yards, ending in a Knowshon Moreno rushing touchdown. The Chiefs would respond before the half with another field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Denver Broncos\nThe second began with the Chiefs failing to convert on fourth down and the Broncos scoring on each of their first three possessions. Before the end of the quarter, Matt Cassel was replaced by Brodie Croyle. After the Chiefs lost a Jamaal Charles fumble for a touchdown, they recovered a Kyle Orton fumble and eventually turned it into a Jamal Charles rushing touchdown. The Broncos immediately responded with yet another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns\nThe game was the first home blackout for the Chiefs since 1990. With the loss, the Chiefs fell to 3\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203600-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Chiefs season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Denver Broncos\nWith the win, the Chiefs finished their season at 4\u201312. Also, it was 1 of 3 games to help the Steelers get into the playoffs. However, the Ravens beat the Raiders and the Jets beat the Bengals that same week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 2009 Kansas City Royals season was the 41st season for the franchise, and their 39th at Kauffman Stadium. The season began on April 7 with a game against the Chicago White Sox at U. S. Cellular Field, which Chicago won. On April 10, the Royals hosted the New York Yankees in the first game at the newly renovated Kauffman Stadium for the Royals' home opener. Interleague opponents included the St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros and Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season\nThe Royals looked to improve on their 2008 record of 75\u201387 and sought their first playoff appearance since 1985, as manager Trey Hillman returned for his second season with Kansas City. The Royals' payroll for the 2009 season was $70.5 million, approximately 25 percent higher than their 2008 payroll (and 21st in the major leagues).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season\nThere was much optimism for the Royals heading into the season, with some experts saying they had the potential reach the postseason. After a strong start and 18\u201311 record, the Royals suffered several losing streaks and fell back to a losing record, finishing with a dismal 65-97 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Coaching staff changes\nFollowing the 2008 season, third base coach Luis Silverio and hitting coach Mike Barnett were not retained on Trey Hillman's coaching staff. In October 2008, the Royals hired Kevin Seitzer as the team's new hitting coach and John Gibbons as bench coach. Seitzer served as the hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2008, and Gibbons was the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays for five seasons. Both were dismissed from their respective teams before the 2007 season was completed. Dave Owen, the team's bench coach from 2008, will be the third base coach. Bob McClure (pitching), Rusty Kuntz (first base), and John Mizerock (bullpen) were all retained to complete the six-man staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Winter meetings\nAfter the acquisitions of Mike Jacobs and Coco Crisp, the Royals entered the Winter Meetings not seeking to add another big free agent acquisition like in years past (Gil Meche in 2007 and Jos\u00e9 Guill\u00e9n in 2008). Through trades, Kansas City sought to acquire relief pitching, a middle infielder, and a starting pitcher. The Royals pursued both RHP Kyle Farnsworth and RHP Brandon Lyon, and signed Farnsworth to a two-year contract. The Royals also signed LHP Horacio Ram\u00edrez, who was previously with the team in 2008, and RHP Doug Waechter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Winter meetings\nThe Royals were also one of the final four teams that were in talks with SS Rafael Furcal. The acquisition of Furcal would have resulted in the Royals moving SS Mike Avil\u00e9s to second base. Furcal played with the Atlanta Braves, where Royals general manager Dayton Moore worked prior to joining the Royals' front office. Reports said that Kansas City was maneuvering to clear payroll so that they could sign Furcal, or sign Orlando Cabrera, who was in the Royals' backup plan. Kansas City bowed out of talks with Furcal after they could not work around their payroll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Winter meetings\nThe Boston Globe reported that the Royals had \"serious discussions\" concerning a trade of RHP Zack Greinke to the Atlanta Braves for OF Jeff Francoeur. Reports about Kansas City's purported interest in Francoeur also surfaced weeks before the Winter Meetings but there had been no concrete evidence that the Royals pursued such a deal. Dayton Moore quickly denied the report. Moore showed a reluctance to trade Greinke or outfielders Mark Teahen and David DeJesus, all of whom were attached to rumors throughout the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Roster moves\nKansas City entered the 2008\u20132009 off-season with 15 players eligible for arbitration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Roster moves\nIn October, the Royals acquired 1B Mike Jacobs from the Florida Marlins in exchange for SP Leo N\u00fa\u00f1ez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Roster moves\nIn November, the Royals acquired CF Coco Crisp from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for RP Ram\u00f3n Ram\u00edrez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Roster moves\nIn December, the Royals did not tender contracts to OF Joey Gathright, LHP John Bale, RHP Jairo Cuevas, and 2B Jason Smith. Bale was later re-signed on a one-year deal,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Off-season, Roster moves\nIn January, the Royals agreed to a four-year, $38 million contract with RHP Zack Greinke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nThe Royals' season opener against the Chicago White Sox was originally scheduled for April 6 but was postponed due to snow forecasts in the Chicago area. The game was rescheduled for April 7, which was originally an off-day for both teams. The Royals lost the first game of the season after Kyle Farnsworth gave up a game-losing, three-run homer to Chicago's Jim Thome. After losing the first game to Chicago, the Royals won two of three games against Chicago to open the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nThe Royals played the New York Yankees on April 10 at the newly renovated Kauffman Stadium for their home opener. It was the first game of a three-game series. Kansas City lost the first two games and trailed late in the 8th inning of the third game before Brayan Pe\u00f1a scored a game-tying RBI double and then scored the go-ahead run on Alberto Callaspo's RBI single. Pe\u00f1a is the team's third-string catcher and was listed as designated hitter for the day. The Royals would hold on to the 6\u20134 lead for their third win on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nOn April 17 the Royals began a three-game series with the Texas Rangers and eventually won two of them. On that day, 3B Alex Gordon was placed on the disabled list and was ruled out for at least two months after having surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right hip. Despite the bad news, the Royals beat the Rangers 12\u20133 in the opening game of the series. In the second game against the Rangers (on April 18), RHP Zack Greinke recorded his first career shut-out and extended his scoreless inning streak to 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nThe streak dated back to the 2008 Kansas City Royals season. This brought Greinke's statistics to three wins in three starts and an 0.00 ERA, the best in the American League at the time. Texas' Kevin Millwood, who started for the Rangers, had the American League's second lowest ERA entering the game with a 0.64 ERA. The Royals entered the third game of the series against Texas looking for their first series sweep of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nAfter trailing 5\u20133 in the bottom of the eighth, the Rangers tied the game at 5 by the ninth inning after Royals set up pitchers Ron Mahay and Jamie Wright allowed two runs. Texas' Michael Young hit a game-winning leadoff home run off of reliever Kyle Farnsworth's second pitch of the inning. The loss brought Kansas City down to a three-way tie for first place in the American League Central with Detroit and Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0013-0003", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nRoyals manager Trey Hillman kept closer Joakim Soria in the bullpen for the entire series instead reasoning that he didn't want Soria to be used for more than one inning in the third game. RHP Brian Bannister was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to pitch for Kansas City on April 22 and replaced both the injured Doug Waechter, who was placed on the DL, and the struggling Horacio Ram\u00edrez in the pitching rotation. Bannister and Jamie Wright pitched eight shut-out innings before closer Joakim Soria returned from an eight-day hiatus to close out the 2\u20130 victory. Soria battled injuries for most of the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nZack Greinke's scoreless innings streak ended at 38 when an unearned run was scored after an errant throw by Mike Avil\u00e9s in a 6\u20131 Royals victory over the Detroit Tigers. The run was unearned so Greinke's ERA stayed at 0.00 and his record improved to 4-0 on the season. The game was also Greinke's second complete game of the season. Greinke was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated's May 4, 2009, issue (Volume 110, Issue 18) for a cover story by Joe Posnanski called \"The Best Pitcher in Baseball.\" Greinke is the first Royals player to appear on the magazine cover since pitcher David Cone on April 5, 1993, for the magazine's baseball preview. The last Kansas City player to appear in an in-season cover was back on June 12, 1989, when SI featured outfielder Bo Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, April\nThe team won three of four games against the Toronto Blue Jays, who entered the series with baseball's best record. On April 29 Zack Greinke was the first pitcher of the season to record his fifth win and allowed only two runs to the Blue Jays in an 11\u20133 victory. This brought his ERA for the season from 0.00 to 0.50. By finishing with a 12-10 record for the month, the Royals registered their first winning April since 2003 when they began the season with a 16-7 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nThe Royals entered the month of May in sole-possession of first place in the American League Central. They traveled to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to play the Minnesota Twins in a three-game series to start off the month. The series was hotly contested with the Royals scoring 22 runs and the Twins scoring 19 and several lead changes. The second game of the series was decided in 11 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nIn the third game, the Royals were no-hit by Scott Baker through six innings before an offensive but then suddenly unleashed an offensive flurry in the seventh, scoring five runs to roar ahead and hold on for a stunning 7\u20135 victory. Zack Greinke threw his third complete game in a 3\u20130 shutout of the White Sox on May 4 and improved his record to 6-0 on the year with a 0.40 ERA. Greinke lost his first game of the season to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on May 9 in a 1\u20130 loss. Greinke pitched a complete game and his ERA rose to 0.51.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nJoakim Soria continued to battle injuries to his shoulder and his appearances were limited in the early part of May. He was placed on the disabled list and Sidney Ponson was sent to the bullpen in exchange for Luke Hochevar being called up from Triple-A Omaha. In his first appearance of the season, Hochevar lasted only two innings and allowed eight runs in a 12\u20133 loss to the Oakland Athletics. Entering the game, Kansas City's team ERA led the American League, but took a hit with Hochevar's performance. By the beginning of the fifth inning, Oakland led the game 12\u20130 and the Royals never recovered and dropped their fourth consecutive game. The Royals lost all five games of their road trip against the Angels and Athletics after sweeping their four-game homestand against the White Sox and Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nZack Greinke's eighth start of the season was delayed by two and half hours of rainfall, but the Royals still won the game 8\u20131 against the Baltimore Orioles. The game was held at Kauffman Stadium and had a sell-out crowd of 38,353 along with many other games in the season selling out for Greinke's starts. The Royals split their four-game home series against the Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nOn May 19, Kansas City trailed Cleveland 5\u20132 entering the ninth inning but accomplished their biggest comeback victory of the season. After two consecutive home runs by Mike Jacobs and Mark Teahen, the Royals rallied to a 6\u20135 victory after a sacrifice fly by Willie Bloomquist brought David DeJesus home for the winning run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nKansas City began Interleague play against their cross-state rival St. Louis Cardinals. After losing the first two games of the series by scores of 5\u20130, the Royals fell to a 21-22 record and under the .500 mark for the first time since April 11 when they were 2-3. After optioning three players (Mike Avil\u00e9s, Luke Hochevar, and Robinson Tejeda) to the inactive roster, Kansas City won the final game 3\u20132 and regained a .500 record on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, May\nBy the end of the month, the Royals began to slip from the top of their division standings in the American League Central, especially following a three-game sweep by the Chicago White Sox left the team with a 23\u201327 record. An 11\u201317 record in May dropped the Royals down to fourth place in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, June\nLooking to rebound from a sub-par month of May, the Royals began June with a three-game series at Tampa Bay on June 2, but continued to flounder, dropping all three games. They lost their eighth game in a row on June 5 at Toronto, but broke the losing streak the next day thanks to a strong performance from Luke Hochevar. In the 2009 Major League Baseball draft held on June 9 the Royals selected RHP Aaron Crow with the 12th overall selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Monthly summaries, June\nCrow attended the University of Missouri, was born in nearby Topeka, Kansas, and was a longtime Royals fan prior to being selected with the team. That same day, the Royals' defense and bullpen allowed eight unanswered runs to the Indians in an 8\u20134 loss. The loss dropped the Royals to fifth place in the American League Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203601-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Royals season, Awards and honors, Player of the week\nApril 13\u201319: Zack Greinke, shared with Ian Kinsler (Texas Rangers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season\nThe 2009 Kansas City Wizards season was the club's 14th in MLS and the second season played at their temporary home Community America Ballpark. It started on March 21, 2009 with a 3-2 home loss to Toronto FC and ended on October 22, with a 2-2 draw against D.C. United, also at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Points\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe Wizards broke pre-season camp missing many key components with newly acquired forward Adam Cristman going down with a fifth metatarsal fracture, and defender Chance Myers (1st overall 2008 draft pick) oddly suffering exactly the same injury in the final week of training. Over the first two weeks of the regular season the Wizards would lose the services of seven total players from their normal 18 including the two previously mentioned and; Davy Arnaud, Josh Wolff, Kevin Souter, Eric Kronberg, and Herculez Gomez. These injuries would provide many opportunities for backups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nLance Watson took advantage and found himself playing right back in week 2 @ Colorado and impressed head coach Curt Anolfo enough to secure the spot. Rookie Graham Zusi filled the void out wide in right of midfield and was exposed in the opening loss to Toronto to then rebound in the second match before being sidelined with his own injury, a hamstring strain that would keep him out for all of April. After the disappointing opener the Wizards traveled to Colorado two days behind a blizzard that brought 14\u00a0inches of snow to Denver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe two clubs played in cold temperatures in front of a small crowd (at the same time as the USMNT) before the final whistle signaled a 2-1 victory to the Rapids. The Wizards fielded 4 starters in Colorado who had not even seen the field the week before. The lone goal by the Wizards came from seldom used back-up striker Michael Kraus, his first goal in MLS play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nApril showers brought more bad weather and injuries to the club. Michael Harrington joined Zusi as the most recently injured when he also went down in training with a hamstring strain. The patchwork defense returned home for the first Sunday match of the season featuring rookie and 1st round pick Matt Besler in the back line against a then potent attacking SJ Earthquakes team. For the second week in a row the club faced difficult weather conditions (freezing rain and wind gusts up to 40 MPH).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThey responded with a better effort, shutting out the Quakes and securing their first win of the season 2-0. Week 4 brought a trip to Seattle to face the undefeated expansion Sounders. The Wizards controlled the first half despite not scoring and saw the Sounders go down a man in the 29th minute when goalkeeper Kasey Keller used his hands outside of the box to deflect a scoring chance from the fast breaking Herculez Gomez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe Wizards couldn't capitalize in the first half and the Sounders looked the better side in the second half until Davy Arnaud launched a game-winning missile from 30 yards out in the 80th minute to deliver the first goal surrendered and first loss to Seattle. The road trip continued onto the Eastern Conference leading Chicago Fire. The Fire sharply outplayed the relatively sluggish Wizards for the entire first half and most of the second half, with Brian McBride scoring two early goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nHowever goalkeeper Kevin Hartman made several spectacular saves to prevent Chicago from any further scoring, and the Wizards were able to muster a comeback late in the second half, with Josh Wolff scoring two goals of his own to equalize the match 2-2. The Wizards welcomed New York to town for the first ever ESPN telecast from Community America Ballpark, Red Bull defender Carlos Johnson took Herculez Gomez down in the box just two minutes into the match and received a red card for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0004", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nNeither team played particularly well following the ejection of Johnson but Kansas City got the three points as a result of Claudio L\u00f3pez slotting the resulting penalty kick past newly reinstated Jon Conway, who had served the longest performance-enhancing drug suspension ever in Major League Soccer. Jack Jewsbury didn't make the final road trip of April to Toronto as a result of the concussion he suffered just days earlier. The Wizards missed their holding midfielder as TFC played their first match under interim manager Chris Cummins as John Carver stepped down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0005", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nToronto was also missing star player Dwayne De Rosario (injured) but Danny Dichio's scramble goal in the 54th minute and TFC's clean sheet was enough to end the Wizards 18 regular season game streak of scoring at least one goal (second longest in the team history).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0004-0006", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCurt Onalfo's April ended with his family being in a car wreck on the way to the final home game and him personally being fined for comments he made to the officials following the lost in Toronto which he explained was a result of having his passport stolen just days before the trip and having to fly to Colorado to secure a new one in person(The fine was paid for by the club's supporters group as a sign of respect for all he had been through).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - March & April - Kevin HartmanMLS Player of the Week -  - Josh Wolff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nMay began with disappointment as the club once again fell behind an opponent in the first half to only share the points with a second half equalizer. This first occurrence was when resurgent D.C. United visited for a rare Wednesday night match, despite creating many early chances the Wizards faltered and found themselves behind only to see Josh Wolff rescue a point on a play in which he appeared to be offside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe following Saturday the Wizards would aid Columbus in winning their first match and celebrating the Party like it's 1999 promotion that highlighted the tenth season of Columbus Crew Stadium. Wolff would score his fourth goal of the season but it proved too little too late despite the excellent service from Jack Jewsbury. Goalkeeper Kevin El Gato Hartman tallied 7 more saves as the Wizards surprised host Salt Lake handing them their first ever regular season loss in Rio Tinto Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nInspired striker Josh Wolff remained on fire as he netted his fifth and sixth goals of the season pushing the club to their first win in May and second road shutout victory of the season. (Reserves News) The Swope Park Rangers welcomed back Doug DeMartin beating the Kansas City Brass 7-0, this marked a resurgence as goals came from the likes of struggling first teamers Herculez Gomez (2), Michael Kraus (2), and Graham Zusi returning from injury. There had been some hope that Adam Cristman could see the field but instead Kevin Souter and Abe Thompson appeared up top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe club's final home match of May brought in the league leaders Chivas USA on what also happened to be Dog's Night Out at the stadium. The Wizards, to form, didn't get it going until the second half and took the lead on Claudio L\u00f3pez's Goal of the Week free kick that beat Zach Thornton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0004", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nDespite great shot stopping from Kevin Hartman the Wizards gave up the equalizer just minutes later and were forced to defend when Wolff was ejected for an attempted head-butt in the 68th minute, Santiago Hirsig also found himself hitting the showers early as the team played with 9 men for the final 7 minutes. The draw marked the first time in six appearances that Chivas has gotten a single point from their travels to Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0006-0005", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nGregg Berhalter received a sending off after denying Claudio L\u00f3pez an obvious goal scoring opportunity in the 59th minute when he held Lopez's jersey for dear life, despite the man advantage it took a rather adventitious miss struck header that was redirected by Arnaud to put the club ahead. Arnaud's 84th-minute goal was the club's 7th scored following the 75th minute of matches and the 13th scored in the second half. Both were league records until Jack Jewsbury gave possession away and Edson Buddle brought The Galaxy even three minutes later for the shared points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - May - Josh WolffMLS Player of the Week -  - Josh WolffMLS Seirra Mist Goal of the Week -  - Claudio L\u00f3pezMLS Save of the Week -  - Kevin Hartman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe busy month of June kicked off at home with the defending MLS Cup Champion Columbus Crew sweeping the season series and tie breaker despite playing most of the second half down a man. The Wizards treated the home fans to their best game to date just a week after arguably their worst by defeating the Revs 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nDavy Arnaud's streaking run and finish won goal of the week and launched the club into a first half scoring frenzy, when Emmanuel Osei was ejected in the 31st minute it was the fourth consecutive match that the Wizards had played in where either side had been shown a red card. The game marked the beginning of a three-week league break for play in the Superliga and U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nSuperliga kicked off versus F.C. Atlas in St. Louis as the sister clubs played a scoreless draw out in serious heat on father's day, Roger Espinoza was shown a late red card on a questionable challenge in the attacking end. Game two of Group B brought a visit to New England and one more point away from home as the Wizards equalized late with the own goal to draw the Revs 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0008-0003", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nThe club returned home only needing a draw against Santos Laguna to advance to the knockout round however in front of many away supporters Santos iced the tough fought match with a third goal 6 minutes into stoppage time. The match also marked the seventh consecutive competitive match that the Wizards had played where a red card was shown, in that time period the Wizards were shown 4 while their opponents received a shocking 5. On the final day of June the club managed only their second victory since May 16 by beating USL-1 Minnesota Thunder on PK's in the U.S. Open Cup after the Thunder fought back twice to equalize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - June - Santiago HirsigMLS Seirra Mist Goal of the Week -  - Davy Arnaud", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nIndependence Day saw the club hosting the table leading Houston Dynamo in what would be the latest kickoff time for a home match all season (8:00 PM local). Despite another sell out crowd the team could not score and fell to Houston 1-0. The team would continue to struggle to score goals (missing starters Davy Arnaud (USA), Jimmy Conrad (USA), and Roger Espinoza (HON) who were representing their national teams at the CONCACAF Gold Cup) failing to score in Seattle or New England and being bounced out of the U.S. Open Cup at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nWith nothing left but the League to focus on the team had two full weeks to prepare for David Beckham and LA Galaxy, The Wizards captured the early lead with Claudio Lopez's amazing Goal of the week winning shot from mid field. Landon Donovan would equalize moments later and the Wizards wouldn't see another point earned for 46 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - July - Kevin HartmanMLS Seirra Mist Goal of the Week -  - Claudio L\u00f3pez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCurt Onalfo found himself out of work following the club's 6-0 loss at Dallas. Technical Director Peter Vermes called his own number and took control of the manager duties after releasing Coach Onalfo but he experienced similar results as the club refused to score a single goal through the month of August. Being out scored 10-0 for the month the Wizards dropped home matches to Chicago and Salt Lake while collecting 8 yellows and 2 straight reds, even with the four losses the Wizards remained in sixth place in the east thanks to an even worse season for New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - August - Lance Watson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nA visit to friendly Gillette Stadium was all that the club needed to open up the flood gates. The Wizards moved their all-time record at Gillette Stadium to 7-1-5 with the 4-2 victory over New England. The I-95 Road Trip continued down to the nation's capital mid-week where outplayed D.C. United escaped with three points despite KCW controlling much of the match and nearly scoring a handful of goals. New York welcomed the resurgent Wizards to town and gave them an early Josh Wolff goal that the defense held to steal the 1-0 victory while Kevin Hartman registered his first clean sheet in 7 league matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Summary\nCauldron Man of the Month Award - September -MLS Player of the Week -  - Josh Wolff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Statistics, Goalkeepers\nStatistics accurate as of match played September 13, 2009left club during season*club leader(s) bolded", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Squad, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203602-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas City Wizards season, Squad, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team (variously \"Kansas\", \"KU\", or the \"Jayhawks\") represented the University of Kansas in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, which was the school's 120th season and the eighth and final year under Mark Mangino, who resigned following the season under pressure from both an internal investigation into his treatment of players and discontent from the season's results. It was Ed Warinner's third season as offensive coordinator and fifth year overall. The Jayhawks played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas and were members of the Big 12 Conference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nAfter beginning the season with five victories, the team lost their next seven games to finish the season with a 5\u20137 overall record (1\u20137 in the Big 12 Conference). It was the worst overall record since 2004 (when the Jayhawks won just four games) and the worst conference record since their winless 2002 season (in which they could only win two non-conference games). The season also remains the last season they were ranked at any point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Pre-season, Coaching changes\nLess than a month after being promoted to defensive coordinator at Louisville Bill Miller resigned and joined the Jayhawks as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, replacing previous linebackers coach Steve Tovar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Pre-season, Coaching changes\nTom Sims replaced Joe Bob Clements, who left for Kansas State, as defensive line coach. Sims spent the last four seasons with Illinois. A few weeks earlier, Kerry Locklin of Fresno State accepted the defensive line coaching job, but subsequently accepted a job with the NFL's New York Jets and Sims was hired instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Pre-season, Recruiting\nFollowing the 2009 signing day, the Jayhawks recruiting class was ranked 31st by Rivals and 50 by Scout. Expand the list below to see the full class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Roster\nIn February, reserve quarterback Tyler Lawrence left the team to graduate early. Running back Sean Ransburg was listed as a transfer at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe. Wide receiver Xavier Rambo is listed as a transfer at Delta State University. Running back Jocques Crawford's transfer to an unnamed school was announced July 24. KU announced Ben Lueken's departure August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Northern Colorado\nKansas won its first ever match-up against Northern Colorado in convincing fashion as the 25th ranked team in the nation. This was the sixth straight home-opener win for Kansas. It was also a new attendance record with 52,530 fans in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Northern Colorado\nSenior Quarterback Todd Reesing directed the Kansas offense to success from the start of the game. He threw for 208 yards on 13 attempts and 2 touchdowns. Furthermore, he also ran for 79 yards and scored 2 rushing touchdowns. This was Reesing's most successful game in terms of rushing since the 2007 season. Reesing found numerous opportunities to run as Northern Colorado was preoccupied with slowing Kansas' passing attack. Kansas' passing attack was also hurt by the 1-game suspension of leading wide-receiver Desmond Briscoe. Senior running-back Jake Sharp led Kansas in rushing with 123 yards on 21 carries and 2 touchdowns (1 rushing, 1 receiving). Senior wide-receiver Kerry Meier led the team with 5 receptions for 115 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Northern Colorado\nFreshman running-back Toben Opurum had a notable first game in a Kansas uniform. He ran for 79 yards on 8 carries and scored 2 touchdowns. Backup red-shirt Freshman Quarterback Kale Pick also played his first minutes in a Kansas uniform in the 4th Quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nSenior DE Maxwell Onyegbule and the Jayhawk defense set the tone early as the University of Kansas football team rolled past UTEP 34-7 in front of 31,885 fans in the Sun Bowl. Senior QB Todd Reesing guided the offense to over 575 yards of total offense as KU improved to 2-0 for the sixth straight season, while the Miners fell to 0-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nIn the first half alone, Onyegbule had two sacks and four total tackles for loss to lead a defense that finished the half with five sacks, 11 tackles for loss, an interception and a pair of quarterback hurries. UTEP was forced to punt on six of its seven possessions of the half and mustered just three first downs. For the game, the defense held UTEP to just 208 yards and seven first downs. Seven players recorded tackles for losses led by Onyegbule with five. Add to that line six quarterback hurries, three passes broken up and an interception, and it was a good night for the defense in El Paso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nReesing finished 25-of-41 for 260 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Kansas racked up 576 total yards and outdid the Miners 23-7 on first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nThe win also improved Mark Mangino's overall record to 47-41 at Kansas which tied him with Glen Mason as the second-winningest coach in school history. A.R. Kennedy owns KU's best coaching record at 52-9-4 from 1904-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Duke\nKansas senior quarterback Todd Reesing threw for 338 yards and three touchdowns and also collected 51 yards on the ground to lead Kansas to a 44-16 win over Duke on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. The win improved Kansas to 3-0 on the season, marking the second time in the last three seasons the Jayhawks opened the season with three-consecutive wins. The loss dropped the Blue Devils to 1-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Duke\nReesing completed 28-of-41 passes against the Blue Devils, including touchdowns to three different receivers. His 338 yards in the air marked his seventh-straight game with 200 or more passing yards and his 14th career 300-yard passing game. Briscoe finished the game with 117 yards receiving, his sixth-straight 100-yard receiving game. He now has nine 100-yard receiving games in his career, the most in KU history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Duke\nSenior safety Darrell Stuckey led the Jayhawk defense with a season-high 10 tackles. Freshman linebacker Huldon Tharp recorded a career-high 10 tackles, while junior linebacker Drew Dudley finished with a career-best eight tackles. Sophomore cornerback Daymond Patterson also had eight stops. Senior nickelback Justin Thornton and junior cornerback Chris Harris each added six tackles. KU finished with five sacks on the afternoon, giving the Jayhawks 14 sacks on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nSenior wide receiver Kerry Meier hauled in 10 passes for a career-high 141 yards and two touchdowns and senior quarterback Todd Reesing passed former Texas quarterback Vince Young for seventh on the All-time Big 12 total yards list as No. 19 Kansas defeated Southern Mississippi 35-28 at Memorial Stadium. The victory improved Kansas to 4-0 on the season, marking the second time in the last three seasons the Jayhawks opened the season with four-consecutive wins. The defeat dropped Southern Mississippi to 3-1 ending the nation's second longest winning streak at eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nReesing completed 30-of-41 passes against the Golden Eagles, including touchdowns to two different receivers. His 331 yards in the air marked his eighth-straight game with 200 or more passing yards and his 15th career 300-yard passing game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nThe game was a back-and-forth battle that was tied late in the game when Kansas received ideal field position for the second-straight drive after Darrell Stuckey posted a 50-yard kick return to place the ball at the Southern Miss 40-yard line just before the end of the third quarter. This time the Jayhawks took advantage of the kick return, and Reesing found Meier uncovered for a 12-yard touchdown, his second of the game, to make the score 35-28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nBoth teams traded possessions before Kansas' defense forced Southern Mississippi to punt with three minutes remaining. But the Jayhawks couldn't muster a first down, giving the Golden Eagles an opportunity to tie the game. The Jayhawk defense then stepped up to the challenge as junior defensive end Jake Laptad sacked Davis on third down and sophomore cornerback Daymond Patterson batted down two passes to force a turnover on downs and seal the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nKansas senior wide receiver Kerry Meier set a school record with 16 receptions for 142 yards and two touchdowns, while senior quarterback Todd Reesing tied a school record with 37 completions for a career-high 442 yards and four touchdowns as No. 16 Kansas outlasted Iowa State 41-36. Before a crowd of 48,203 at Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium, Kansas improves to 5-0 for the second time in three years, and 1-0 in Big 12 Conference play. Iowa State drops to 3-3 overall and 0-2 in league play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nReesing's main two targets for the afternoon were Meier, with his record-setting 16 receptions and junior wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe, who had 12 catches for 186 yards and two touchdowns. Meier and Briscoe ended the day as KU's career receptions leaders with Meier first at 167 and Briscoe at 165. For Reesing, it was his second 400-yard passing day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nDespite the offensive firepower displayed by the Jayhawks, the team needed a fourth-down stop at its own 31-yard line to solidify the win. Trailing by five with 2:36 remaining in the game, ISU regained possession on its own 34-yard line and marched to the KU 31 before the Jayhawks' defense held fast to produce a turnover on downs. KU defensive back Chris Harris made a huge tackle of Iowa State receiver Jake Williams on second-and-10 and then broke up the third-down pass, resulting in a fourth-and-nine attempt for the Cyclones. On fourth down, pressure forced ISU quarterback Austen Arnuad's pass to sail incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nDespite erasing a 21-point deficit, the University of Kansas football team could not pull off the win as Colorado escaped with a 34-30 victory over the Jayhawks in front of 51,146 fans in Boulder. KU dropped to 5-1 overall and 1-1 in the Big 12, while Colorado improved to 2-4 overall and 1-1 in the league. The lead changed hands twice in the fourth quarter and Kansas had the chance to win on the final play of the game. In the end, it wasn't meant to be for KU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nKU led 3-0 at the end of the first quarter only to see Colorado score 24 unanswered points. KU closed the gap to 24-10 before the first half ended, but Colorado opened the second half with a 39-yard field goal to extend their lead back to 17 points. Kansas then rallied, dominating on both sides of the ball into the early fourth quarter, scoring 20 straight points to take a 30-27 lead with 12:57 remaining in the game. Not to be outdone, the Buffaloes put together a 10-play, 76-yard touchdown drive to re-take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nKansas had two more chances to score before the game ended, first on a 10-play, 74-yard drive that included a Reesing-to-Meier touchdown pass that would have given the Jayhawks the lead, only it was nullified due to an offensive pass interference call. Ultimately the Jayhawks turned the ball over on downs. They managed to force a Colorado punt and take one final possession with 24 seconds left in the game, but a heavily covered Dezmon Briscoe could not hold on to a Reesing pass in the end zone as time expired. As the game went final, the Colorado fans stormed the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThe loss began what eventually became a 46-game losing streak for games on the road for the Jayhawks. They wouldn't win another road game until 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nDespite holding Oklahoma to just 337 yards of total offense - nearly 100 yards below the Sooners' season average - the Jayhawks suffered a 35-13 loss to OU at Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawks dropped to 5-2 overall and 1-2 in the Big 12, while the Sooners improved to 4-3 and 2-2 in league play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nKansas quarterback Todd Reesing threw for 224 yards, but his three first-half interceptions put the Jayhawks behind 14-0 early, one of OU's touchdowns coming on an 85-yard interception return for a touchdown by Dominique Franks as Kansas was driving deep into Oklahoma territory. Kansas answered with a pair of field goals by junior kicker Jacob Branstetter, including a career-long 57-yarder just before the end of the half, but despite cutting the deficit to a single possession, the Jayhawks could not contain the Oklahoma offense in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners opened the second half with a nine-play, 75-yard drive that culminated with a nine-yard touchdown pass from Landry Jones to senior wide receiver Adron Tennell to give the Sooners a 21-6 advantage. OU extended its lead to 28-6 on its next possession, as Chris Brown hauled in an eight-yard TD pass from Jones. After another Brown touchdown made it 35-6, the Jayhawks scored their only touchdown of the game late in fourth quarter on a run by Reesing. The game remains, as of the 2020 season, the last game the Jayhawks played as a ranked team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nFour turnovers resulting in 28 Texas Tech points spoiled any chance of the University of Kansas football team picking up its sixth win as the Jayhawks fell to the Red Raiders 42-21 in front of 47,291 fans in Jones AT&T Stadium. Kansas fell to 5-3 overall while Texas Tech improved to 6-3 (3-2 Big 12). With four league games still left, KU dropped to 1-3 in the Big 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe first half of the game was an unexpected defensive struggle. At halftime, the teams entered the locker room tied at 14, with Texas Tech outgaining Kansas 127 yards to 106 in the half. Kansas' two first half touchdowns each came after forced fumbles, while Texas Tech was also able to capitalize off of a Kansas turnover deep in KU territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nKU took the lead 21-14 in the closing seconds of the third quarter after orchestrating an impressive 10-play, 81-yard drive. Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing connected with Dezmon Briscoe three times on the drive including a touchdown pass from six yards out. On the play, Reesing twisted around to avoid a sack before finding Briscoe wide open in the endzone. The hookup from Reesing to Briscoe was the 26th time the pair found each other for a touchdown in their careers. No other active tandem in college football has as many touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nTexas Tech responded immediately, tying the game on 80-yard drive capped off by a one-yard touchdown run by Baron Batch. Kansas could not respond, fumbling they ball three times in their next four possessions, each inside their own 30-yard line. Texas Tech capitalized each time, returning one of the fumbles for a touchdown and scoring two other touchdowns on short drives to result in the 42-21 final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nDespite a combined 168 yards receiving for KU senior Kerry Meier and junior Dezmon Briscoe, Kansas fell to Sunflower Showdown rival Kansas State, 17-10, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. After starting the season with five consecutive wins, the Jayhawks dropped to 5-4 overall and 1-4 in the Big 12. K-State improves to 6-4 overall and 4-2 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nKansas quarterback Todd Reesing racked up 266 yards, including 241 through the air, but committed three costly turnovers. The 10 points scored by the Kansas offense was a season low. Reesing completed 27-of-41 passes for 241 yards and a touchdown, while Meier led the receiving corps with eight catches for 92 yards. Senior running back Jake Sharp gained 35 yards on 11 carries, while Reesing ran eight times for 25 yards. Kansas freshmen Huldon Tharp and Lubbock Smith led the defense with nine tackles a piece, while Darrell Stuckey and Drew Dudley chipped in six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nAfter a low scoring three quarters, a fourth-quarter scoring flurry led to a 31-17 Nebraska victory against Kansas on Senior Day at Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium. The loss dropped KU to 5-5 overall and 1-5 in Big 12 Conference action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nKansas senior quarterback Todd Reesing found junior wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe wide open in the middle of the field and Briscoe ran it in for the score from 21 yards out to give Kansas its first lead of the day at 17-16 with 7:34 left to play. The Jayhawks' scoring drive amassed 89 yards on 10 plays capped by KU's first passing touchdown of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nNebraska did not trail for long though. After a 44-yard kick-off return by Niles Paul, Nebraska quickly responded as Helu punched it in from 20 yards out just over a minute later. Nebraska quarterback Zac Lee then found Paul for the two-point conversion to push the `Huskers back into the lead at 24-17 with just over six minutes remaining. After a KU punt, Nebraska took possession with 5:20 remaining on the game clock and burned nearly all of that with a 10-play, 74-yard drive capped by another Helu touchdown run that gave the Cornhuskers a two-touchdown lead with only 23 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nReesing finished the game 19-of-41 passing for 236 yards and one touchdown. He also turned in 42 yards rushing and a second touchdown. Kerry Meier led the Jayhawks in receiving with 10 catches for 127 yards, while Briscoe had four catches for 77 yards and a TD. Freshman running back Toben Opurum recorded 43 yards on the ground on 15 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas\nDespite 245 all-purpose yards from junior Dezmon Briscoe, the Kansas football team could not keep up with the high-powered Texas offense as the No. 3 Longhorns defeated the Jayhawks 51-20 before a sellout crowd of 101,357 at Texas Memorial Stadium. Kansas dropped to 5-6 on the season, including 1-6 in Big 12 play. Texas improved to 11-0 on the season and 7-0 in conference play. The Longhorns\u2019 win secured them the Big 12 South title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas\nFor the game, Texas rolled up 532 yards total offense, while Kansas had 303 yards. Playing in his hometown of Austin, Texas, KU quarterback Todd Reesing ended the game 25 for 39 for 256 yards. Briscoe had five catches for 101 yards, while senior Kerry Meier had a team-high nine receptions 46 yards. Briscoe returned three kickoffs 144 yards, including a 98-yarder for a touchdown in the third quarter to make the score 44-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Texas\nColt McCoy led the Longhorns\u2019 offensive charge by completing 32 passes on 41 attempts for 396 yards and four touchdowns. UT wide receiver James Kirkendoll had eight catches for 86 yards and two touchdowns, while senior Jordan Shipley had 10 receptions for 108 yards and one score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nDespite a record-breaking day for senior quarterback Todd Reesing, Kansas fell to Missouri 41-39 after Reesing was sacked in the final seconds of the annual Border War game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Reesing set a school record for passing yards in a single game with 498 and tied his own school record for completions in a game with 37. Kansas concluded its 2009 season at 5-7 overall and 1-7 in the Big 12, while Missouri improved to 8-4 overall and 4-4 in league play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203603-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe 118th edition of the Border War was a hard-fought battle, with the winner determined in the final seconds as MU kicker Grant Ressel hit a 27-yard field goal as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team\nThe 2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team represented Kansas State University in the NCAA Division I college baseball season of 2009. It was the 109th baseball season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team\nThe team's head coach was Brad Hill who was in his sixth season at Kansas State. He was previously the head coach at Central Missouri State before coming to Manhattan in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team\nKansas State made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. The team finished the season by setting the school\u2019s record for wins, eight more than the previous school record of 35 in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Preseason\nThe Wildcats, who recorded the most conference victories and its highest conference finish (tied for sixth) since 2002, return five pitchers who combined for 21 starts last season. The Wildcats will have junior A.J. Morris and seniors Lance Hoge and Todd Vogel, while sophomore Thomas Rooke, who tied for fifth in school history with 25 appearances out of the bullpen last year, could be called upon to start some games this year for the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Preseason\nOffensively, K-State returns four of its top five hitters from a year ago, including junior infielder Justin Bloxom and senior outfielder Dane Yelovich. Bloxom led K-State in virtually every offensive category last season, including batting average (.288), hits (63), RBI (49), triples (2), total bases (105), total plate appearances (252), at bats (219), games played (58) and games started (57). Yelovich finished with a .286 average and stole 18 bases, good for fourth in the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Preseason\nAlongside Bloxom in the infield is expected to be sophomore Carter Jurica at second base, converted outfielder Jason King at third, while senior Drew Biery will man shortstop for the second-consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Preseason\nThe outfield will feature Yelovich in center field, while fellow senior, Jordan Cruz, will return to right field after beginning the 2008 season as the starter. Left field will be a battle between junior Adam Muenster and true freshman Nick Martini. Muenster, who will be a switch-hitter this season, could also see time at second base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Preseason\nRob Vaughn, a two-year starter at catcher, returns for his senior campaign, while a pair of juniors, Daniel Dellasega and David Masters will also see playing time behind the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Regular season\nHead Coach Brad Hill, in his sixth season at K-State, earned Big 12 Coach of the Year honors as he guided Kansas State to a 39-win season, including 14 conference victories to finish fourth in the league, all school bests. The team also earned their highest ranking in school history as they were number 10 in the Baseball America Top 25 earlier in the season. A.J. Morris won Big 12 pitcher of year, the first Wildcat ever to do so. Morris finished the regular season as the Big 12 leader in both wins (12) and ERA (1.61).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Regular season\nHe was also first in innings pitched (100.2), third in opponent batting average (.203) and tied for fifth in strikeouts (91). Morris became the first player in school history to be named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy. Brad Hill became the first Kansas State coach since Mike Clark in 1990 to be named conference coach of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Regular season\nCarter Jurica earned second-team accolades from the coaches after leading the conference\u2019s top hitting team with a .366 average, which was third in the Big 12 individually. Jurica also finished the regular season third in stolen bases (21), fourth in hits (78), and fifth in both runs scored (57) and on-base percentage (.442). Seniors Drew Biery and Jordan Cruz, junior Justin Bloxom, sophomore Jason King and freshman Nick Martini were each named honorable mention All-Big 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Regular season\nKansas State was tied for 12th nationally with 39 wins. Kansas State has recorded 136 steals this season, the second-most in school history. The Wildcats have recorded 20 triples this season, which are tops in the Big 12, and the most by a K-State team since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Conference Tournament\nThe Wildcats earned a birth in the Big 12 Baseball Tournament for the second year in a row. The tournament was held at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, Conference Tournament\nKansas State first beat Kansas by a score of 5\u20134. They then beat Baylor, 9\u20134. They faced Texas next for the right to play in the tournament championship. The Wildcats fell short, 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Season, NCAA Tournament\nThe Wildcats earned their first ever berth in the NCAA baseball Tournament. They competed in the Houston Regional, with Rice University playing host, at Reckling Park. The other teams were Rice, Xavier, and Sam Houston State. The lost the regional final against Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203604-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team, Wildcats in the 2009 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the 2009 Kansas State Wildcats baseball team were drafted in the 2009 MLB Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team (variously \"Kansas State\", \"KSU\", \"K-State\", or \"Wildcats\") represented Kansas State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games in Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium, in Manhattan, Kansas as they have done since 1968. It was the 114th season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe non-conference schedule kicked off with a home game against the UMass Minutemen, and culminated with the second trip in school history to Los Angeles, California to play UCLA in the Rose Bowl. (They played at USC in 2001). The Big 12 Conference schedule began with a trip to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri to play the Iowa State Cyclones. It was K-State's third trip to Arrowhead Stadium to play a regular season game. They played the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Eddie Robinson Classic in 2000 and the California Golden Bears in the BCA Classic in 2003. Kansas State has also participated in two Big 12 Championship Games at Arrowhead Stadium, in 2000 and 2003. They finished the regular season on November 21 with a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska and faced the Nebraska Cornhuskers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Pre-season\nBill Snyder returned to the sidelines as head coach after three years of retirement. He replaced Ron Prince, the man who replaced him in 2005. This is Snyder's 18th season as the Wildcats' head coach. He was rehired to the position on November 24, 2008, making him one of the few college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. He compiled a 136-68-1 record from 1988\u20132005 in his previous stint, considered by most as the greatest turnaround in college football history. In 57 seasons prior to Snyder's arrival, Kansas State's football program had only been able to muster 137 wins, one more than Snyder won in just 17 seasons there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Pre-season\nKansas State was picked by some publications to have a record of 8-4, or as low as 5-7, with a 2-6 record in conference play. Carson Coffman won the starting quarterback role during the pre-season but lost his job to Grant Gregory at the start of conference play. Deon Murphy left the team in the offseason for personal reasons. The Wildcats lost three-year starter, Josh Freeman who was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the 17th pick in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Massachusetts\nThe season opener against the UMASS Minutemen marked the return of head coach Bill Snyder, and was dubbed as the Kansas State \"Family Reunion\". Over 300 former Kansas State players were in attendance, and 50,750 fans (the largest crowd to witness a season opener in Manhattan) watched the Wildcats beat UMASS 21-17. K-State quarterback Carson Coffman completed 14 out of 27 passes, totaling to 182 yards, including two passing touchdowns and a rushing score. This was the second all-time meeting between the Wildcats and Minutemen, the Wildcats now own the series 2-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nThis was the first ever trip for the Wildcats to Lafayette, Louisiana. K-State was favored by 7 points going into the game. Tyler Albrecht's first career field goal attempt was a memorable one as the junior nailed a 48-yarder with 32 seconds left to give Louisiana-Lafayette a 17-15 victory over Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nThe Ragin' Cajuns, unbeaten through their first two games for the first time since 1990, trailed 15-14 before driving from their 33 to the Kansas State 30. Louisiana-Lafayette had only two first downs in the second half before quarterback Chris Masson completed four passes for 30 yards in the final drive. Kansas State (1-1) rallied from a 14-2 deficit with two fourth-quarter touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nWildcat running back Daniel Thomas threw for one score and ran for one, throwing a 3-yard jump pass to Jeron Mastrud off a direct snap on the first play of the final quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nSeven minutes later, Thomas capped an 86-yard drive with a 3-yard run, and Josh Cherry hit the extra point for the 15-14 lead with 8:08 left. Thomas finished with 136 rushing yards, 92 in the second half. The Wildcats took a 2-0 lead when Masson ran out of his own end zone after a bad snap with 2:43 left in the opening quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nMasson, who finished 20-for-36 for 185 yards, came back to guide the Ragin' Cajuns on a 61-yard drive that was capped by Undrea Sails' 9-yard touchdown run with 9:37 left in the first half. Louisiana-Lafayette drove 73 yards in the final 2:19 of the half to take a 14-2 halftime lead on Masson's 1-yard pass to Luke Aubrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nThe Ragin' Cajuns had three first-half turnovers, but the Wildcats couldn't take advantage despite having five first-half possessions in Ragin' Cajun territory. Kansas State was 0-for-8 on third-down conversions in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nUCLA had a 2-0 record at game time, winning over San Diego State 33-14 at home and beating Tennessee 19-15 on the road. UCLA was favored by 11\u00bd points going into the game in the Rose Bowl. It was the first ever game between the two schools. Senior quarterback Kevin Craft took over from injured Kevin Prince for the Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nCraft passed for 186 yards and a touchdown to lead the Bruins to a 23-9 victory over the Wildcats. Freshman Johnathan Franklin rushed for a career-best 119 yards on 23 carries and Kai Forbath kicked three field goals in the victory. Craft completed 13 of 24 passes with one interception including a game-clinching 51-yard scoring pass to Terrence Austin with 6:18 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nJosh Cherry kicked a 26-yard field goal in the first quarter and Daniel Thomas had a 7-yard run in the third quarter for the Wildcats. Ryan Doerr's PAT pass failed. UCLA's one fumble loss and eight penalties for 80 yards were the ugly part of the victory. The Wildcats had two fumbles and four penalties for 50 yards. Alterra Verner had two interceptions and returned them for 47 yards for the Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nSenior Brandon Banks became the 12th player in NCAA history, including the first Big 12 player, to return two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same game, as Kansas State rolled past Tennessee Tech, 49-7 Bill Snyder Family Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nBanks, whose 303 all-purpose yards ranks fifth in school history, broke a 7-all tie with a 91-yard kick return with 2:28 remaining in the first quarter then jump-started the second half with a 92-yard return to give the Wildcats a 28-7 lead. Banks also had three receptions for 90 yards, including an electrifying 64-yard reception to set up a 2-yard score by junior running back Daniel Thomas in the second quarter. The last player to achieve the feat of two kickoff returns for touchdowns was UCLA's Brandon Breazell against Northwestern in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 30, 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nBanks' banner day overshadowed another fine outing by Thomas, who recorded his third 100-yard rushing game of the season with a career-high 139 yards to go with two touchdowns. Two other rushers - seniors Keithen Valentine (73 yards on 10 carries) and Grant Gregory (58 yards on nine carries) - tallied 50 or more yards to help the Wildcats post their highest rushing total since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nJunior quarterback Carson Coffman was also solid on the day, completing 8-of-9 passes for 131 yards. He also capped K-State's second offensive scoring drive with a 5-yard score in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nBackup signal caller Grant Gregory saw his most significant action of the season, playing most of the third and fourth quarters. Gregory was a perfect 2-of-2 passing for 21 yards to go with 58 yards rushing. He scored his first career touchdown as a Wildcat on a one-yard run with 10:50 left in the fourth quarter that capped the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nThe Kansas State offense finished with a season-high 49 points, which was four more than it had totaled in its three previous games of the season. The squad also collected season bests for total yards (448) and rushing yards (296). The 296 yards rushing were the most since the Wildcats had 305 yards against North Texas on Sept. 24, 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Tennessee Tech\nThe defense was again stellar on the afternoon, holding the Golden Eagles to just 107 yards of total offense including negative 19 yards rushing to go with three sacks. It was the fewest yards yielded an opponent since allowing 53 yards against Ball State on Sept. 16, 2000, while it was lowest rushing output by an foe since Baylor had minus 37 yards rushing on Oct. 26, 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nIowa State was favored by 2 points going into the game. Kansas State sophomore defensive back Emmanuel Lamur blocked the tying extra-point with 32 seconds remaining to help Kansas State earn its first Big 12 win with a 24-23 victory over Iowa State at Arrowhead Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nSenior quarterback Grant Gregory threw two fourth-quarter touchdowns in his first career start as a Wildcat, completing 16 of 23 passes for 206 yards to go with 29 yards rushing on 14 carries and one touchdown. The go-ahead score came with 5:36 remaining in the game in which Gregory rolled out to avoid the rush before hitting senior wideout Brandon Banks on a 54-yard strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nJunior running back Daniel Thomas nearly collected his fourth 100-yard game of the season, posting 96 yards on 25 carries. He also had five catches for 38 yards, including a 13-yard catch. Banks, the reigning Big 12 Special Teams of the Week, totaled 164 of all-purpose yards, including four catches for 66 yards and a touchdown and three kickoffs for 67 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe offenses were nearly identical with Iowa State (3-2, 0-1 Big 12) holding a narrow advantage on total yards, 371-360. The Wildcats (3-2, 1-0 Big 12) had 206 yards passing to go with 154 yards on the ground. Once again, K-State held the edge in time of possession (33:33 to 26:27) and converted eight of 16 third-down conversions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nGregory got the scoring started with a 2-yard run to cap a 13-play, 89-yard drive on its opening possession that consumed seven minutes of the first quarter. Thomas got the ball on the first five possession and totaled 30 yards on seven rushes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nIowa State responded with a 32-yard field goal from Grant Mahoney with 9:39 left in the second quarter then took a 10-7 lead on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Austen Arnaud to Derrick Catlett with 3:55 left in the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nHowever, the Wildcats tied the score at 10-all with a 39-yard field goal from Josh Cherry just five seconds before the half. Gregory was stellar on the 10-play, 48-yard drive, completing four of seven passes for 39 yards. He hit senior Attrail Snipes for a 24-yard touchdown on a key third down play to put the Wildcats in Iowa State territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe third quarter belonged to the Cyclones, who went ahead 17-10 on a 3-yard run by Arnaud that capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nHowever, just minutes into the fourth quarter, sophomore David Garrett forced a fumble after a 12-yard catch by Derrick Catlett and Tysyn Hartman recovered on the Iowa State 36. Seven plays later, on third and goal from the 16, Gregory connected on a 16-yard pass to wideout Lamark Brown tie the game up at 17 apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nK-State then went ahead on the dramatic 54-yard catch by Banks with 5:36 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nAfter the Wildcat defense forced a third-and-out, K-State tried to run out the clock with a six-play drive that cut the time to 1:49. However, Arnaud converted a key 4-and-5 play with a 22-yard pass completion to Marqui Hamilton for a first down at the Kansas State 23. He then connected on a 23-yard strike to Jake Williams over two defenders to cut the deficit to 24-23. On the next play, Lamur blocked the Grant Mahoney's extra point to give the Wildcats the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe defense was led by the play of linebacker Alex Hrebec, who had a team-high eight tackles. Defensive back Joshua Moore had 5\u00bd tackles and a break-up, while Jeffrey Fitzgerald totaled five tackles. Linebacker John Houlik posted 4\u00bd tackles and one fumble recovery and defensive back Stephen Harrison had four stops and two pass break-ups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nTexas Tech was favored by 16\u00bd points going into the game. Tech quarterback Steven Sheffield threw for 490 yards and seven touchdown passes in his first career start to help Texas Tech beat Kansas State 66-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe Red Raiders backup quarterback was 33-for-41 and finished with TDs passes of 52, 6, 4, 72, 28, 12 and 25 yards to five receivers. It was the second time this season that a Texas Tech (4-2, 1-1 Big 12) quarterback notched seven passing touchdowns. Taylor Potts, out with a concussion this week, threw seven in a 55-10 win over Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nTexas Tech put the game out of reach by halftime. The Wildcats (3-3, 1-1 Big 12) got into Texas Tech territory only once in the first half and punted five times. Sheffield, who had 370 yards by halftime, threw two TDs to Detron Lewis and Torres, and one each to Tramain Swindall, Jacoby Franks and Lyle Leong. Sheffield's first-half yardage set a school record, besting the 367 yards thrown by B.J. Symons against Mississippi in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThree Red Raiders receivers tallied 90 yards or more. Lewis caught eight passes for 100 yards, Franks had three passes for 99 yards and Swindall got 97 yards on five catches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nSheffield threw to 11 receivers before leaving the game with about 10 minutes remaining in the game. Texas Tech's running game kept Kansas State off-balance. Baron Batch rushed for 86 yards on nine carries and Harrison Jeffers got 55 yards on seven carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe Wildcats offense was anemic in the first half. They sustained only one drive in the first half, managing four first downs and hanging onto the ball for more than six minutes on their opening possession. Grant Gregory got sacked three times-twice by Brandon Sharpe and once by Ra'Jon Henley-before Carson Coffman replaced him late in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nKansas State's first score came from its defense. Sheffield threw an interception on his first pass of the second half when Wildcats end Jeffrey Fitzgerald stepped in front of a ball meant for Alex Torres and returned it 17 yards to make it 38-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nIt wasn't until quarterback Carson Coffman replaced Gregory that the Wildcats showed some life. He was 11-for-17 and finished with 131 passing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nCoffman found some success in the third quarter but it didn't translate into a touchdown. After a 52-yard pass to Daniel Thomas and a 29-yarder to Jeron Mastrud, the Wildcats failed on a fourth-and-5 and gave the ball back to the Red Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nKansas State scored its second touchdown-and its only offensive one- midway through the fourth quarter when Keithen Valentine ran for an 8-yard touchdown to whittle the margin to 59-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nValentine rushed for a career-high 96 yards on eight carries", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Kansas State Wildcats made a statement in their 62-14 blistering of Texas A&M. Bill Snyder and his team put together a complete performance dominating the Aggies in all three phases - offense, defense and special teams. It was the most points K-State has scored in a Big 12 Conference game since defeating Kansas 64-0 on November 2, 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nAlready ahead 38-0 at the half, K-State (4-3, 2-1 Big 12) got the ball first in the second half and immediately put points on the board. Return specialist Brandon Banks returned his school-record third kickoff of the year for a touchdown to pull ahead 45-0. Then, K-State intercepted a pass and returned it inside the 10-yard line and scored on the first play to put A&M further back, 52-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Wildcats gained 424 yards of total offense on the day and saw a career day from running back Daniel Thomas, as he rushed for 91 yards and scored four touchdowns - all of them coming in the first half. His four TDs were one short of tying a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nTexas A&M (3-3, 0-2 Big 12) could not get anything going on offense as the Wildcats swarmed to the ball on defense and forced a season-high five turnovers on the night. The Aggies gained 301 total yards, and quarterback Jerrod Johnson threw his first three interceptions of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nK-State's defense helped the Wildcats get on the board early in the game forcing a turnover on Texas A&M's second play from scrimmage. Jeffrey Fitzgerald stripped the ball out of Jamie McCoy's arms as the fumble was recovered by Troy Butler. The Wildcats would make quick work of the short field and score in four plays to cover the 29 yards to go ahead 7-0 on a Daniel Thomas touchdown run. It marked the third time this season the Wildcats have scored on their opening possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Wildcat defense came up with another stop after allowing the Aggies to gain one first down on their second possession. A penalty on the punt return by Texas A&M and a pass interference call helped K-State push the ball downfield before a 23-yard field goal by Josh Cherry gave the Wildcats a 10-point advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nK-State's defense continued to pour it on against the Aggies forcing a three-and-out following the field goal. After an incomplete pass, Fitzgerald tallied a tackle for loss on a rushing attempt by the Aggies. Then, Fitzgerald struck again with a sack to put A&M's punter in the shadow of his own goal post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nA big return by Brandon Banks, paired with a face mask penalty at the end of the return, helped set up another quick strike by K-State's offense. Thomas scored his second touchdown of the day on a three-yard pitch-and-run to the right corner of the endzone on the third play of the drive, and the Wildcats went ahead 17-0 with 3:34 remaining in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThomas scored his third touchdown of the day to pull further ahead, 24-0, on a nine-yard rush to the left midway through the second quarter. The 67-yard scoring drive was set up by a 45-yard completion to tight end Jeron Mastrud on the second play. The catch was Mastrud's 100th of his career to put him 10th all-time at K-State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nJust as Texas A&M began to move the ball with its first significant drive of the evening, Tysyn Hartman picked off a pass across the middle in the redzone and the first surrendered by A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson all season. Johnson had thrown 225 passes without being intercepted this season. The pick was Hartman's fourth of the year as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Daniel Thomas show continued heading into the locker room at the half. With just over a minute left in the second quarter, Thomas scored on a 17-yard rush as the quarterback out of the Wildcat formation. The score gave him four touchdowns in the first half alone and gave K-State a 31-0 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nA fumble recovery by Joseph Kassanavoid at the 16-yard line with 15 seconds remaining put K-State in a position to put more points on the board heading into the locker room at halftime. On the ensuing play Grant Gregory found Collin Klein alone in the endzone for a 16-yard touchdown pass and a 38-0 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Wildcats controlled the clock in the second half with its ground game, and the Aggies still could not stop it. Keithen Valentine scored his second touchdown of the game on a 20-yard scamper to the endzone that saw him change directions twice before cutting it across the middle for the score to pull ahead 59-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nA&M scored 14 unanswered points in the third quarter to cut the lead to 59-14, but it would not be enough as the Wildcats continued to milk the clock keeping the ball in bounds and gaining first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nKansas State's defense came up big against Colorado to give the Wildcats a 20-6 homecoming victory and remain atop the Big 12 North standings. K-State limited the Buffaloes to 244 total yards on offense and just 60 on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nWhile the Wildcat defense was able to shut down the Buffalo offense, K-State's own offense controlled the tempo of the game with quick strikes in the first half to build a lead and long clock-eating drives in the second half to hold off the Buffaloes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nAfter Colorado (2-5, 1-2 Big 12) scored on its opening drive, K-State (5-3, 3-1) stifled the Buffaloes the remainder of the game by not surrendering any points. This was the lowest point total allowed to a Big 12 opponent by the K-State defense since Oct. 8, 2005 against Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nWith Colorado threatening to score late in the game on fourth down from the two-yard line, Emmanuel Lamur came up with his second interception of the day to preserve the win. Both of Lamur's interceptions were 50-50 balls where he ripped the ball out of a receiver's hands as they both got to the play at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nRunning back Daniel Thomas carried much of the load for K-State with a career-high 145 yards rushing on 20 carries with one score. Defensively for K-State, Ulla Pomele led with seven tackles, including his first sack of the season. Jeffrey Fitzgerald continued his strong play from a week ago with 1.5 sacks and a number of quarterback pressures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nA 35-yard rush by Thomas down the K-State sideline helped the Wildcats march down the field on their first drive of the game and put points on the board first with a 24-yard field goal by Josh Cherry to cap off the drive of 61 yards. Cherry has converted four straight field goal opportunities and remains perfect in Big 12 action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThe Buffaloes also scored on their first drive of the game to answer K-State's field goal with a touchdown by running back Rodney Stewart. Colorado would miss the extra point, however, to lead 6-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThomas tallied his ninth touchdown run of the season early in the second quarter, as the Wildcats completed a 58-yard drive to reclaim the lead, 10-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nK-State saw the momentum shift to its side with the game's first turnover, when Colorado quarterback Tyler Hansen fumbled the snap on a first-and-20 situation from the Buffaloes' own 15-yard line. Pomele recovered the fumble for the Wildcats, and K-State kicked a 27-yard field goal after the Wildcats could not punch the ball into the endzone to lead, 13-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nAll the swing plays seemed to go K-State's way in the first half with a muffed punt by Colorado gave the Wildcats the ball at the Colorado 20-yard line with 3:35 remaining in the second quarter. After the Buffaloes forced a three-and-out on defense, Jason Espinoza muffed the punt and K-State long-snapper Corey Adams recovered the ball for K-State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThe Wildcats would take full advantage of the turnover this time around, as Gregory punched the ball in on a rush up the middle for five yards to go ahead 20-6 with just over a minute remaining in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nAnother turnover in the closing seconds of the half gave K-State a shot at the endzone to finish the half. Lamur ripped a pass out of the hands of a Colorado receiver for an interception as they both went up for the ball at the same time. The pick gave K-State the ball at its own 46-yard line but could not score heading into the locker room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThe third quarter saw each team's defense shutdown the respective offenses with no points being scored. K-State gained just 49 yards in the third quarter while Colorado could only muster 25 with negative-three yards rushing thanks to a number of sacks and quarterback pressures by K-State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nSenior Brandon Banks tied the K-State school record with 351 all-purpose yards, including 98 on his fifth career kickoff return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough as the Wildcats fell to No. 22 Oklahoma, 42-30 at Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nBanks totaled 195 yards on six kickoff returns to go with nine catches for 156 yards against the Sooners. The 351 all-purpose yards tied Darren Sproles' school record, which he set against Louisiana\u2013Lafayette on Sept. 18, 2004. Banks, who helped the Wildcats' close the gap with his return, increased his Big 12 and school records with his fifth career kickoff return and fourth this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nK-State (5-4, 3-2 Big 12) fell behind 21-0 to Oklahoma (5-3, 3-1 Big 12), but rallied to within five points on two occasions, including 35-30 after Banks' 98-yard return. However, the Sooners put the game away with a 3-yard run by DeMarco Murray with 6:27 remaining in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners stopped Kansas State on downs at the K-State 41 with 4:10 left and Quinton Carter intercepted a pass from Grant Gregory at the Oklahoma 2 with 42 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nDespite the loss, the Wildcat offense totaled 30 points on the stingy Sooner defense, which previous opponent high was 21 points against Miami. The squad tallied 364 yards of total offense, including 215 through the air, and posted 20 first downs. K-State also remained atop the conference's North Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nSenior quarterback Grant Gregory was solid on the night, completing 19-of-30 passes for 174 yards to go with 46 yards on the ground on nine carries. It marked season-high for Gregory in passing yards, completions and attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nJunior running back Daniel Thomas, who is 98 yards from 1,000 yards this season, rushed for 88 yards on 16 carries. He also completed one pass for 41 yards and had a 2-point conversion to Jeron Mastrud on the Wildcats' second touchdown. Senior running back Keithen Valentine had just four carries, but two of those went for scores, including a 14-yard scamper on fourth-and-one in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nOklahoma was led by redshirt freshman quarterback Landry Jones, who completed 26 of 37 passes for 294 yards and four touchdowns. DeJuan Miller, who had 11 catches all season entering the game, led the Sooners with nine for 94 yards, while Ryan Broyles had eight for 91 yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nRunning backs Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray combined for 145 yards rushing for the Sooners, including 83 from Brown on 15 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nOklahoma has won 28 straight home games, the longest active streak in the Bowl Subdivision. Oklahoma was favored by 28 points going into the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThis was the 107th meeting between Kansas and Kansas State. Kansas was favored by 2\u00bd points going into the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203605-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Kansas State Wildcats football team, Coaching staff\nThe following is a list of coaches at Kansas State for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203606-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bank robbery\nThe 2009 Karachi bank robbery occurred on December 13, 2009 when robbers stole US$3.7 million from the main branch of Allied Bank in Karachi, Pakistan. It is considered the biggest bank robbery in history of Pakistan. Police say the gang was led by one of the bank's guards. The robbers broke into the main vault and stole foreign currency worth 10000 million rupees ($3.7 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203606-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bank robbery\nThe main culprit of the robbery was arrested by the police on 19 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing\nThe 2009 Karachi bombing or Ashura attack took place on 28 December 2009 inside a Shi'ite procession commemorating the day of Ashura, at Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road, Karachi. Ashura is the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam and marks the anniversary of the death of Hussain, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was killed at the battle of Karbala in 680. At least 30 people were initially reported to have been killed, later figures revealed even more deaths while dozens were left injured in the wake of the attack. The attacker marched amongst the procession with tens of thousands of people attending the march. There is some speculation amongst officials as to whether the nature of the blast was that of a suicide attack or a remotely detonated or planted bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, The attack\nOn 28 December, a bomb blasted the Shi'ite procession moving across a marked route on the Mohammad Ali Jinnah Road in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city. Of tradition, the procession marked the death anniversary of the third Imam and the grandson of Muhammad. The bomber walked amongst the tens of thousands of Shi'ite followers and attacked from within the walking procession resulting in fatal injuries to 43 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, The attack\nKarachi has been involved in sectarian violence in the past and as a result, the Shia crowd turned hostile and immediately following the blast, turned their anger on the ambulance workers, security forces, and journalists on site. Riots sparked throughout the city as mourners continued to stone ambulances and torch cars. Despite the City Government's appeal for a calmer reaction, the place of the original incident was set ablaze by the angry crowd. Around 3,000 shops in the neighboring markets fell victim to the arson as people looted and then blazed the shops. Aggressive reactions resulted in the destruction of businesses incurring losses of up to a few billion rupees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Aftermath\nIn the wake of the attacks, Pakistani security forces were placed on high alert as Shia Muslims marked the holy month of Muharram. Thousands of police and paramilitary forces were deployed in the city for the fear of further terrorist attacks on the Ashura processions in other parts of the city and the nation. Emergency was declared in all hospitals located in Karachi following the explosion and arson incidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Aftermath\nThe arson was reported to have affected about 3,000 shops and the livelihoods of almost 10,000 people. The total loss incurred was Rs 30 billion in total. The markets that fell victim to the arson attacks included the Bolton, Light House, Paper, and Allahwala markets. Later reports speculated that the loss estimated exceeded to a staggering 4,000 shops and 40,000 affected families. Where eyewitnesses stated that the police and Rangers did not take action against the arsonists and robbers, some people talk of the arson as an elaborate conspiracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Aftermath\nFunerals for the victims were held on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 as most of the city remained closed for business. Government offices remained closed before and after the funerals with an ongoing transport strike. Intermediate (Supplementary), B.Com. and other such examinations were postponed. The Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani provided in aid Rs 100 million ($1,470,913) towards the losses. On 30 December 2009, the city mourned the attack and observed a strike with shops closed throughout Karachi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Aftermath\nOn 31 December 2009, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the bombing. It was reported that Asmatullah Shaheen, militant commander working with the TTP claimed responsibility for the bombings. His interactions were received on a telephone call with news agencies. Shaheen, a top ranking militant commander based in South Waziristan, is wanted by the Government of Pakistan and has a bounty of Rs 10 million ($147,091.30). Shaheen also iterated that the group would carry out more such attacks in 10 days from the 28 December attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Aftermath\nPakistani political and religious leaders called for a strike on Friday, 1 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Investigations\nInvestigators in Karachi fell in doubt regarding the claims and called for experts from NWFP to determine the nature, design, and make of the explosives used in the bombing. In the wake of the attack, Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders called upon President Asif Ali Zardari to constitute an inquiry commission to investigate into the Ashura attack. Lack of forensic and ballistic expertise hampered the initial investigations and four days after the deadly incident, local police had yet not registered or recorded any statements from the survivors of the blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Investigations\nThe case relating to the bombing was registered as an FIR numbered 1439/09 at the Preedy Police Station on behalf of the State under sections 302, 324, 435, 427 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code, sections 3 and 4 of the Explosives Act and section 7 of the Anti- Terrorism Act of 1997. On 3 Jan 2010 Dr Moeed Pirzada in his TV program Dunya Today exposed that Ashura Day Bomb Blast that killed 52 injured 100 injured was not a suicide bombing but a remote-controlled device and that government were lying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Investigations\nOn 4 January, after this program was aired the investigating agencies admitted that the explosion was caused by a bomb planted along the way of the procession instead of a suicide bomber. The explosives were reportedly planted inside a box, near the Light House Signal, nuts and bolts were also recovered from the site of the blast. Further investigation of the bodies revealed that they received cuts from pieces of steel from the box in which the bomb was placed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203607-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Karachi bombing, Investigations\nAnother new source claimed that the mastermind of the Ashura blast was arrested 10 days before the attack by the police. The source also claims that police had managed to hide the arrest and the knowledge thereof. During interrogation, perpetrator Sirajullah using the alias Zeeshan, revealed all the details of the attack, including planning and details of the explosives to be used. The culprit is still in custody and under interrogation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nThe 2009 Karachi floods (Urdu: \u0633\u064a\u0644\u0627\u0628 \u06a9\u0631\u0627\u0686\u06cc \u200e) in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26 people. The death toll is expected to rise, and more than 150 people have been injured in a series of related incidents. The floods are the result of the heaviest rains in the region in thirty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nHundreds of homes were also damaged. Those killed either drowned, were electrocuted or died under collapsing roofs. A bit of a building's sixth floor collapsed in Ramswami\u2014debris dropping onto a nearby house, killing four members of a family and injuring 10. Several others were injured as a result of a roof collapse in the Orangi area and two people died in a similar incident. Eleven people were injured after a house wall fell through in Manghopir. Seven people were electrocuted in separate sections of Karachi. One resident reported the death of his neighbor's son to Reuters, saying he drowned in a drain and his body was pulled out. Knee-deep water stranded several thousand people in their homes for several hours. Commercial markets were waterlogged and several hundred vehicles were trapped on the city's roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nMost of Karachi had no electricity on the night of 18 July 2009. Relief efforts are ongoing as water is removed from residential areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nAccording to Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, the country's chief meteorologist, Pakistan's commercial hub received 14.7\u00a0cm (6\u00a0in) of rain between the evening of 17 July and the morning of 19 July. However, the rains began around two weeks later than usual and thus are expected to lead to a 30% reduction in rainfall for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nBut then another monsoon system was expected to lash the city which was to generate very heavy rains and the citizens  were still recovering from the last monsoon rains which broke the record of 1977 rain in Karachi, which was of 207 millimetres (8.1\u00a0in). However it only dumped 18 millimetres (0.71\u00a0in) rain and the system dissipated quickly on 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203608-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Karachi floods\nThen on August 30 and 31 sudden heavy rains started to lash the city which dumped 147.7 millimetres (5.81\u00a0in) rain, Thus again Karachiites were forced to spend the night sleepless due to power breakdown and thousands were forced to end their fasting in traffic jams, as it was the holy month of Ramadan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203609-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karbala governorate election\nThe Karbala governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203610-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karjala Tournament\nThe 2009 Karjala Tournament took place in Finland from 5 November to 8 November. The tournament is a part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203610-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karjala Tournament\nRussia won the tournament for fourth year in a row, before Finland and Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by OAbot (talk | contribs) at 19:43, 11 April 2020 (Open access bot: doi added to citation with #oabot.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes\nThe 2009 Karonga earthquakes occurred near Karonga, Malawi in December 2009 near the northern tip of Lake Malawi in southeast Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes, Damage\nOver 1000 houses collapsed, 4 people were killed and 300 people were wounded in this earthquake sequence. The majority of the building collapse was caused by liquefaction that occurred within a shallow layer of saturated unconsolidated lake sediments along the shoreline. The locations of ground damage and liquefaction align with the fault that ruptured the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes, Extent\nThe 6.0 earthquake could also be felt in Tanzania and Zambia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes, Geology\nBeing in the southern East African Rift, the 100\u00a0km-long Livingstone Fault marks the limit of the Karonga Basin. The earthquakes, located at about 50\u00a0km west of the Livingstone Fault, occurred along previously unknown buried faults beneath the Quaternary unconsolidated sediments. Satellite-based geophysical investigations indicated that one of the west dipping faults which cut the Karonga Basin might have ruptured during the earthquakes. The studies also estimated a maximum slip of about 120\u00a0cm at 3\u20135\u00a0km depth with no evidence of dike-injection related activity associated with many earthquakes in Eastern Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203611-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Karonga earthquakes, Geology\nAnother study utilized aeromagnetic data to image the basement structure around the rupture area and found that multiple buried faults ruptured during the earthquake among which are the St. Mary Fault (extending over 37\u00a0km in length) and the Kaporo Fault which is 36\u00a0km long and is buried beneath Lake Malawi. Scientists have proposed that the dominance of seismicity in this part of northern Malawi may be due to the presence of pre-existing planes of weakness in the basement rocks that are favorably oriented to the tectonic stress field of the East African Rift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203612-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karshi Challenger\nThe 2009 Karshi Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Qarshi, Uzbekistan between 17 and 23 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203612-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Karshi Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203612-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Karshi Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nSadik Kadir /  Purav Raja def. Andis Ju\u0161ka /  Deniss Pavlovs, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203613-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach chose to not defend their 2008 title. Sadik Kadir and Purav Raja defeated Andis Ju\u0161ka and Deniss Pavlovs 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203614-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Karshi Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDenis Istomin was the champion in 2007 and 2008, but he chose to not compete this year. Rainer Eitzinger won in the final 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 7\u20136(3), against Ivan Sergeyev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup\nThe 2010 Kazakhstan Cup was the 18th season of the Kazakhstan Cup, the annual nationwide football cup competition of Kazakhstan since the independence of the country. The competition started on 24 April 2009 and ended on 15 November 2009. In the final, Atyrau beat Shakhter to win its first cup and earn a place in the second qualifying round of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup, Round 1\nAll 28 teams from both the Premier League and First Division entered in this round. The draw was conducted on 26 March 2009 at the offices of the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. For every match, one First Division team was drawn against one Premier League team, with the First Division team assigned as the home team. The exception was a match between Shakhter and Ekibastuzets which was played at Shakhter's pitch due to insufficient pitch conditions in Ekibastuz. The matches were played on 24 and 25 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup, Round 2\nThe draw was conducted on 29 April 2009 at the offices of the Kazakh Football Federation. The fourteen winners of Round 1 were drawn into six matches. Thereby, Zhetysu and Atyrau received a bye. The first legs were played on 20 May 2009 while the second legs were played on 23 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe draw was conducted on 27 July 2009 at the offices of the Kazakh Football Federation. The first leg was played on 27 August 2009 while the second legs was played on 3 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup, Semifinals\nThe draw was conducted on 21 October 2009 at the offices of the Kazakh Football Federation. The first legs were played on 7 November 2009 while the second legs were played on 11 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203615-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Cup, Final\nThe final was played on 15 November 2009 in the capital city Astana, in the Astana Arena Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203616-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan First Division\nThe 2009 Kazakhstan First Division was the 15th edition of Kazakhstan First Division, the second level football competition in Kazakhstan. Unlike the previous years, number of teams were shortened, due to creation of reserve teams league for Premier League teams. Thus, this season 14 teams started to play against each other on home-away system. The best team gains promotion to the Premier League next season while the runner-up will meet with the 11th placed team of the Top tier for the place in the Premier League. League started on May 1 and finished on October 25", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League\nThe 2009 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 18th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. It started on 7 March 2009 and ended in November 2009. Aktobe were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nEnergetik-2 were relegated to the First Division after finishing in 14th place. FC Atyrau, who originally were going to be demoted as well, were spared because of the withdrawal of Alma-Ata in December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nKazakhmys and Taraz finished the 2008 season of the First Division in first two places and were therefore promoted to the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nAfter the withdrawal of Alma-Ata, the club merged with fellow Almaty team Megasport to create a new side called Lokomotiv. The club is based in Astana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nOn 20 January 2009 Kairat voluntarily withdrew from the league because of financial reasons. On the same day FC Astana-64 also withdrew due to unpaid debts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nOn 29 January 2009, after two withdrawals, one club merger and one name change, FFK board finally decided that the 2009 season would feature 14 instead of 16 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Team changes\nOn 2 March 2009 Kazakhmys withdrew from the league due to financial difficulties caused by global economic crisis. Since there was no time to find a replacement or take any action, FFK board decided that there would be only 13 teams participating in 2009 season of Kazakhstan Premier League. However, on 5 March 2009 Kazakhmys addressed a letter to FFK revoking their decision and stating that they would guarantee financing of the club to participate in the Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, Changes from 2008, Structural changes\nOn 20 March 2009, FFK board decided that the 2010 season will feature 12 clubs. The bottom three teams will be directly relegated while the 11th-placed team will play a relegation play-off against the runners-up of the First division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203617-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan Premier League, League table, Relegation play-offs\nFC Okzhetpes and FC Akzhayik from the First Division competed in a promotion/relegation play-off for one spot in the 2010 season. Akzhayik won 3\u20132 and were promoted to the Premier League. However, Okzhetpes were spared from relegation as well after the license of Vostok was revoked after the Oskemen club failed to pay all its debts by 30 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203618-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan President Cup (football)\nThe 2nd Kazakhstan President Cup was played from April 26 to April 30, 2009 in Almaty. 8 youth teams participated in the tournament (players were born no earlier than 1993.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203618-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Venues\nThe match of opening and the final took place at the Central Stadium. Other matches took place at Football Land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203618-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Format\nThe tournament is held in two stages. At the first stage, eight teams are divided into two qualification groups (A and B). Competitions of the first stage were held on circular system. The winners of the groups advance to the final, while the group runners-up meet to determine third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203618-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kazakhstan President Cup (football), Statistics, Prize money\nAccording to FFK, the prize fund of a tournament will make 20,000 $. \"The teams which took 1, 2 and 3 place will be received, respectively 10,000, 6,000 and 4,000 $.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203619-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kehoe Cup\nThe 2009 Kehoe Cup was an inter-county and colleges hurling competition in the province of Leinster. The competition is ranked below the Walsh Cup and features second and third tier counties from Leinster, Ulster, Connacht and selected university teams. The winners were Westmeath who defeated Carlow 0\u201316 to 0\u201309 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203619-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kehoe Cup, Kehoe shield\nThe Kehoe Shield was also held for the first time in 2009. Participating teams consisted of those teams knocked out of the first round of the Kehoe Cup. The eventual winners were Kildare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203620-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Keihin Suzuka 2 & 4\nThe 2009 Keihin Suzuka 2 & 4 was the second round of the 2009 Super GT season. It took place at Suzuka Circuit on April 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203621-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Keio Challenger\nThe 2009 Keio Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Yokohama, Japan between 16 and 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203621-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Keio Challenger, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203621-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Keio Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nYang Tsung-hua /  Yi Chu-huan def. Alexey Kedryuk /  Junn Mitsuhashi, 6\u20137(9), 6\u20133, [12\u201310]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203622-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Keio Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTom\u00e1\u0161 Cakl and Marek Semjan chose to not defend their 2008 title. Yang Tsung-hua and Yi Chu-huan defeated Alexey Kedryuk and Junn Mitsuhashi 6\u20137(9), 6\u20133, [12\u201310] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203623-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Keio Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLee Hyung-taik was the defending champion, but he retired from playing tournaments before this event. Takao Suzuki won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(5), against Martin Fischer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203624-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelantan FA season\nThe 2009 season is Kelantan FA debut season in the Malaysia Super League. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203624-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelantan FA season, Competitions, FA Cup\nThe 2009 Malaysia FA Cup, known as the TM FA Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by Telekom Malaysia, is the 20th season of the Malaysia FA Cup, a knockout competition for Malaysia's state football association and clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203624-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelantan FA season, Competitions, FA Cup\nThe FA Cup competition has reverted to the old format of play with no more open draws. It will comprise 29 teams 15 Super League and 14 Premier League sides with defending champions Kedah FA, Selangor FA and Terengganu FA receiving byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203624-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelantan FA season, Competitions, Malaysia Cup\nThe 2009 edition of Malaysia Cup started on 26 September 2009. Twenty teams took part in this prestigious competition. The teams were divided into five groups of four. The group leaders and the three best second-placed teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThe 2009 Kelly Cup Playoffs of the ECHL began on April 9, 2009. The 16 teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played a best-of-7 series for division semifinals, finals and conference finals. The conference champions played a best-of-7 series for the Kelly Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThree league records were set during the first round of the playoffs. Game One of the North Division semifinals became the longest game in ECHL history, as the Elmira Jackals defeated the Trenton Devils 5 \u2013 4 in a game that lasted 126:10. Elmira's Josh Aspenlind scored the game-winning goal at 6:10 of the fourth overtime. Previously, the longest game was the Greenville Grrrowl's 3 \u2013 2 four overtime victory against the Louisiana IceGators in Game Two of the 2000 Southern Conference Finals, which lasted 121:24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThe game saw another league record fall, as Elmira and Trenton combined for 145 shots on goal (75 for Trenton, 70 for Elmira), besting the 139 combined shots on goal by Louisiana (82) and the Jackson Bandits (57) in Jackson's 5 \u2013 4 triple overtime victory in Game Two of the 2002 Southwest Division Semifinals. Elmira's goaltender, Michael Teslak made the third most saves in a single game in ECHL history with 71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nApril 22 also went down in the ECHL history books as for the first time in the league's 21-year history, two Game 7s were played on the same day as the Stockton Thunder defeated the Ontario Reign 5 \u2013 4 and the Las Vegas Wranglers defeated the Bakersfield Condors 5 \u2013 1, both games were Pacific Division Semifinals matchups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThe Division finals saw the defending Kelly Cup champion Cincinnati Cyclones and the Alaska Aces cruise to easy Conference finals berths, under completely different circumstances. Cincinnati swept Elmira after both teams went the full seven games in their opening series, while Alaska defeated the Victoria Salmon Kings four games to one with both teams having an extended rest, with Victoria sweeping their opening series and Alaska winning their series in five games. The South Carolina Stingrays required a little more effort to oust the Florida Everblades, who sat atop the league's regular season standings, defeating them in six games to advance to play the Cyclones in the conference finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThree (Alaska, Cincinnati and South Carolina) of the four teams in the Conference Finals were former Kelly Cup Champions. The American Conference finals was a rematch of the 2008 edition with Cincinnati taking on South Carolina and Las Vegas made their second consecutive trip to the National Conference finals, taking on their most heated rival the Alaska Aces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs\nThe South Carolina Stingrays led the Alaska Aces, 3-1, headed to Game 5 before blowing the lead, and having to face a Game 7, where the Stingrays clinched their third Kelly Cup with a 4-2 win, winning the series, 4-3. The Stingrays tied the ECHL record for most ECHL championships, with three. South Carolina would get their revenge on Cincinnati for defeating the Stingrays in the 2008 American Conference finals by sweeping the Cyclones in four games. The National Conference finals had the same results with Alaska sweeping Las Vegas in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the 2008\u201309 ECHL regular season, 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Florida Everblades were the American Conference regular season champions as well as the Brabham Cup winners with the best overall regular season record. The Alaska Aces were the National Conference regular season champions. South Carolina goaltender James Reimer was named the Kelly Cup Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; Yellow shade = team still in playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nThese are the top five goaltenders based on both goals against average and save percentage with at least one game played (Note: list is sorted by goals against average).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (in minutes); Yellow shade = team still in playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, American Conference, South Division\nNOTE:  Neither team's home arena was available in the first week of the ECHL playoffs;  Time Warner Cable Arena was unavailable for this round (final week of NBA games by the Charlotte Bobcats, and the North Charleston Coliseum had rehearsals for a concert tour. The ECHL arranged the playoff series in the following order:  two games at the Extreme Ice Center, three games at the North Charleston Coliseum, and then one game at the Extreme Ice Center. Had a seventh game been necessary, it would have been played at the North Charleston Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 81], "content_span": [82, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203625-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kelly Cup playoffs, Division Finals, National Conference, Pacific Division\nNOTE:  Arena conflicts led to the ECHL shifting the first games of the playoff series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 79], "content_span": [80, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election\nThe Kent County Council election, 2009  was an election to all 84 seats on Kent County Council held on 2 May as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. 84 councillors were elected from 72 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005. No elections were held in Medway, which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election\nThe Conservative Party was re-elected with an increased majority and the Liberal Democrats replaced Labour as the main opposition party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Council Composition\nPrior to the election the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Council Composition\nLD - Liberal DemocratsLab - Labour PartyR - Residents Association", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district\nKent is divided into 12 regions: Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Folkestone and Hythe, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling, and Tunbridge Wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Ashford\nThere are seven single-member constituencies within the borough of Ashford. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Canterbury\nThere are five single-member and two multi-member constituencies within the City of Canterbury, which elect a total of nine councilors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Dartford\nThere are six single-member constituencies within the borough of Dartford. Below are the results", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Dover\nThere are three single-member and two multi-member constituencies within the District of Dover, which elect a total of seven councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Gravesham\nThere is a single-member and two multi-member constituencies within the Borough of Gravesham, which elect a total of five councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Maidstone\nThere are seven single-member and one multi-member constituencies within the Borough of Maidstone, which elect a total of nine councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Sevenoaks\nThere are seven single-member constituencies within the District of Sevenoaks which elect to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Shepway\nThere are six single-member constituencies within the District of Shepway, that elect councillors to Kent County Council. The results are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Swale\nThere are five single-member constituencies and one multi-member constituencies within the Borough of Swale, which elect a total of eight councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Thanet\nThere are two single-member and three multi-member constituencies within the District of Thanet, which elect a total of eight councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Tonbridge and Malling\nThere are five single-member constituencies and one multi-member constituency within the District of Tonbridge and Malling, which elect a total of seven councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203626-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent County Council election, Results by district, Tunbridge Wells\nThere are six single-member constituencies within the Borough of Swale six councillors to Kent County Council. Below are the results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203627-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 2009 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented Kent State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Kent State competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. The team was coached by Doug Martin and played their homes game at Dix Stadium. The team finished with a record of 5\u20137 (4\u20134 MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood\nOn August\u00a04, 2009, at 9:25\u00a0am EDT a major thunderstorm producing large hail and winds in excess of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) advanced at the leading edge of a cold front moving across the American Midwest, causing a flash flood that struck Louisville and portions of the surrounding Kentuckiana region. The National Weather Service estimated that between three to six inches (7.6 to 15.2\u00a0cm) of rain fell across the city in less than one hour, breaking all previous one-hour rainfall records in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood\nMost of the downtown area was underwater, with the deluge reaching four feet (1.2\u00a0m) deep in places. The flood was the third major disaster to strike the region in less than one year. (Winds from Hurricane Ike knocked out the electrical grid, an ice storm took out the electrical grid, then the flash flood.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood\nEarly damage estimates were in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The University of Louisville and the Louisville Public Library's main branch each sustained millions of dollars in damage. On August\u00a012, Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear requested the federal government declare all of Jefferson County, Kentucky a major disaster area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Storm\nA slow moving cluster of thunderstorms descended from central Indiana into south-central Indiana and north-central Kentucky. As it entered the region at the head of a cold front, the storm strengthened significantly and began producing hail, strong winds, and heavy rain. As the storm moved into the Louisville Metropolitan Area, it continued to strengthen as a torrential downpour inundated the area. Within a one-hour period more than six inches (15\u00a0cm) of rain fell on parts of the region, breaking all previous rainfall records for a one-hour period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Storm\nBy the end of the day, more rain fell than is normal for the entire month of August. Downtown Louisville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, and Clarksville were particularly hard hit with water depth surpassing four feet in some areas, resulting in the first ever flash flood emergency being issued for those areas at 9:35 am EDT. Creeks and streams quickly flooded many neighborhoods, and flash floods rendered numerous streets and areas impassable. Severe lightning and wind that accompanied the storm led to more widespread damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Storm\nRain continued throughout the day, letting up at around 1\u00a0pm EDT. The ground had already been saturated from rains in the preceding days causing water levels to drop slower than normal. By 3 pm EDT a light rain resumed, but most of the flood waters had receded in the higher elevations of the city. Deep pools of standing water remained in isolated areas of the city until August 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Travel impact\nThe Louisville International Airport was closed and flights were diverted to Lexington, Kentucky until 1\u00a0pm EDT. Northbound Northwest Airlines flight 2287, traveling from Knoxville to Minneapolis, passed through the storm over Louisville and experienced severe turbulence, injuring two passengers and forcing the plane make an emergency landing at Lexington. The underground levels of all the city parking garages were completely underwater, destroying hundreds of automobiles. TARC, the city's public transportation system, was paralyzed with most buses abandoning their routes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Travel impact\nPartly due to debris washing onto the roadways, numerous automobile accidents, and people abandoning their vehicles because of rising waters, caused I-71, I-64, I-65, and part of the Watterson Expressway (I-264) and The Gene Snyder Freeway (I-265) were shut down. Surrounding cities of New Albany, Jeffersonville, and Clarksville, Indiana were also affected. In New Albany, several parked cars were washed into the Ohio River. Additionally, most city streets were rendered impassable and several other important roadways were closed for hours. Across both Indiana and Kentucky, the massive amount of water entering the cities' underground viaducts caused a pressure build-up, blowing off a number of man-hole covers, which created dangerous road hazards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Emergency response\nAs of 10\u00a0am, additional rain up to a total of 10 inches (25\u00a0cm) was predicted and many downtown areas began to voluntarily evacuate away from the Ohio River and onto the higher levels of buildings. Police and city officials considered ordering an evacuation of the entire downtown area as the city declared a flood emergency, but ordered people to remain in their homes and the highest point possible. Police and emergency responders began rescuing people trapped in cars and homes. Reports were made of people and bodies in the floodwaters during the deluge, but no deaths or injuries were confirmed. Police and emergencies responders from around the region were called in to assist in the relief efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Emergency response\nGovernor of Kentucky Steve Beshear dispatched two fast water boats to assist in water rescues. By 3\u00a0pm EDT, Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels sent two companies of the Indiana National Guard to assist with cleanup among the communities on the Indiana side of the Ohio River. Over two hundred people were rescued from their cars during the course of the day, with about fifty people being rescued from their homes. Most people were able to escape rising waters to higher ground without emergency help. Assistance was also provided to the downtown area to help tens of thousands of people in leaving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nThe National Weather Service in Louisville was struck by lightning at about 9:20\u00a0am EDT, halting all operations at the location. The local emergency broadcast tower was also hit, briefly stopping all emergency communication in the city. The WDRB television news studio had water rise into the building during its newscast, prompting a makeshift water barrier to be erected during the broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nAt 9\u02d055 am EDT, a Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued until 4 pm EDT and at about 10:40\u00a0am EDT, the National Weather Service extended the Flood Warning for the city until 1 pm EDT due to new and heavy bands of thunderstorms entering the area. Lightning struck an apartment complex in the Hurstborne neighborhood, starting a fire that consumed most of the sixteen unit building. A second apartment in the west-end of Louisville was struck by lightning and destroyed by the fire caused by the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nThe University of Louisville, which was closed and evacuated at about 10:45\u00a0am EDT because of rising water on the campus, was among the worst hit. The university sustained over $15 million in damages with five campus buildings sustaining significant flood damage and at least four others sustaining minor damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nThe main branch of the Louisville Public Library was under three three feet (91\u00a0cm) of water destroying tens of thousands of books, including the newly purchased books and donations being sorted in the basement, and destroying dozens of computers; in total causing over $1 million in damage. Many people were stuck in buildings for hours because of high water in surrounding areas. The main branch sustained just over $5 million in damage and was closed for a month of repairs, outlying branches also sustained damage but to a lesser extent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nNumerous other buildings went underwater and had to be evacuated including the Cancer Society, Churchill Downs and the horse barns were under three feet of water at varying points. The trackside barns remained above the water level and 35 horses were moved there. Water rose so high on the south side of Louisville that most cars parked on the street were completely submerged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nAt least 20,000 LG&E customers had power service disrupted in Kentucky. Most LG&E power terminals were underground and at least a dozen were flooded, including the terminal powering their headquarters. Four thousand Duke Energy customer lost power in southern Indiana. Norton Hospital was closed and patients evacuated to upper levels. Three local animal shelters were flooded killing at least nine animals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nHundreds of homes received major water damage in both Indiana and Kentucky including the U.S. Census Bureau building. Most of downtown New Albany was under two to three feet (61 to 91\u00a0cm) of water. Thousands of cars were destroyed around the city, with early damage estimates in the hundreds of millions of dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, Damage\nDuring the first half of August damages were still being calculated. To get assistance for damaged households, Governor Beshear requested Jefferson County be declared a major disaster area by the federal government on August\u00a012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203628-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentuckiana Flash Flood, News coverage\nThe storm and flood received uninterrupted local radio and television coverage beginning around 9:15\u00a0am and continued into the afternoon hours. About 1:15\u00a0pm EDT the flood began to be reported on the national news networks. First on CNN, and later on the evening newscasts of the major networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby\nThe 2009 Kentucky Derby was the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby. The value of the race was $2,177,000 in stakes. The race was sponsored by Yum! Brands and hence officially was called Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands. The race took place on May 2, 2009, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. The Atlanta-based Southern Tourism Society named the Kentucky Derby Festival, which was April 11 to May 1, as one of the top tourist attractions in the Southeast for the first half of 2009. The post time was 6:24\u00a0p.m. EDT (10:24\u00a0p.m. UTC). The official attendance at Churchill Downs was 153,563.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Results\n\u2014NBC Sports race announcer Tom Durkin calling the end of the race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Results\nThe ending of the race came as a shock to those in attendance as Mine That Bird, trained by \"Chip\" Woolley Jr. and ridden by Calvin Borel, running dead last until the final turn, suddenly moved into the lead in the final furlong. He took the lead so fast after the final turn that NBC Sports race announcer Tom Durkin didn't notice the gelding and was still heatedly describing the performance of Pioneerof the Nile and Musket Man despite Mine That Bird already opening a three-length lead over the pack. Mine That Bird won by 63\u20444 lengths for the longest margin of victory in over 60 years. He was the longest-odds horse to win the Derby in over 85 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Payout\nChurchill Downs had scheduled their first futures wager pool for the year to begin on February 12, with two subsequent pools opening on March 12 and April 2. Offering 24 betting options (23 individual horses at odds ranging from 10\u20131 to 50\u20131, and an \"All others\" option at 5-2 odds), favorites include Capt. Candyman Can and Old Fashioned at 10\u20131, followed by Friesan Fire, Midshipman, Pioneerof the Nile, Stardom Bound, This Ones for Phil, and Vineyard Haven at 12\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Payout\nAfter the starter draw for the running, I Want Revenge was installed as the 3-1 morning line favorite. His scratch later in the morning marked the first time that the morning line favorite was scratched on the day of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Payout\nFriesan Fire, winner of the Louisiana Derby, started the race as the 19-5 (3.80-1) favorite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, The Field\nI Want Revenge was scratched on the morning of the race because of lameness issues in the  colt's left front ankle. In addition, Quality Road, who had been an early favorite, was withdrawn from the race on April 27 because of a quarter crack in his right front hoof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Subsequent Grade I wins\nMine That Bird never won another race, though he did finish second in the Preakness to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. Several other horses went on to achieve Grade I success:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Subsequent Grade I wins\nMr. Hot Stuff never won another race on the flat, but did become a notable steeplechaser. He won the Grade I A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase Stakes in 2013 and the American Grand National Hurdle Stakes in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Subsequent breeding careers\nThe most notable progeny of participants in the 2009 Derby are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203629-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Derby, Chief Party Officer\nBuilding on the longstanding tradition of drinking, partying, and general revelry in the infield, Churchill Downs officials announced that they are accepting applications to be the second \"Chief Party Officer.\" According to Chief Marketing Officer Dave Tompkins, \"The non-stop revelry can test the most die-hard partiers, so a CPO candidate must be able to take the reins and lead our infield nation to new heights of fun and frivolity.\" In an effort to promote the position, Tim \"Stymie\" Snyder, the 2008 Chief Party Officer, attended Super Bowl XLIII to personally recruit applicants. The winner was announced March 6, and prizes include use of an RV (billed as a \"luxurious boardroom on wheels\") for the year. This year's Chief Party Officer is Nick Ferrara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203630-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team\nThe 2009 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team represented the University of Kentucky in the sport of baseball during the 2009 college baseball season. The Wildcats competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Cliff Hagan Stadium, on the university's Lexington, Kentucky campus. The team was coached by Gary Henderson, who was in his first season at Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Rich Brooks, in his seventh and ultimately final season at Kentucky, and played its home games at Commonwealth Stadium. The Wildcats competed in the Southeastern Conference in its eastern division. They finished the season with a record of 7\u20136 and 3\u20135 in conference play, and were defeated by Clemson 21\u201313 in the Music City Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nSeveral days after the Cats' bowl appearance, Brooks retired from coaching. He was immediately replaced by offensive coordinator Joker Phillips, who had agreed in 2008 to be Brooks' designated successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Miami (Ohio)\nRandall Cobb scored a touchdown early in the second quarter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Miami (Ohio)\nMike Hartline threw two touchdowns to receiver Randall Cobb and led Kentucky to a 42\u20130 victory. Hartline had a great first game of the season, throwing 18 of 27 for 222 yards. Cobb caught a 27-yard pass for Kentucky's first touchdown. He also took a direct snap from center and ran 11 yards for a third-quarter touchdown. The versatile sophomore had seven catches for 96 yards. Kentucky's defense also performed very well, picking off Miami twice and holding the Redhawks to under 200 yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Miami (Ohio)\nAll-American cornerback Trevard Lindley intercepted a pass in the 3rd quarter and returned it for a 25-yard touchdown. That was Lindley's tenth career interception and his second returned for a touchdown. The pass intercepted was in the second quarter by senior safety Calvin Harrison. Another star of the game was the debut of junior receiver Chris Matthews. Matthews caught a touchdown pass from Hartline late in the 2nd quarter. This was Kentucky's first shut out since 1996 when they shut out Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Miami (Ohio)\nWeek 1 SEC Defensive Player of the Week: Trevard Lindley was named SEC defensive player of the week after intercepting a pass, scoring a touchdown, and breaking up three passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nKentucky wins the 2009 Governor's Cup trophy for the third straight year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nFor the third straight season the Kentucky Wildcats defeated the Louisville Cardinals and won the Governor's Cup. This is Kentucky's longest streak since the rivalry was renewed in 1994. Derrick Locke returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and ran for another. A fumbled kickoff return set up Kentucky's final score late in the 4th quarter, a 12-yard pass from Mike Hartline to a leaping Randall Cobb\u2014his former rival for the starting quarterback job. Prior to that, Louisville (1\u20131) had taken the lead by forcing three consecutive Wildcats turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nThis back-and-forth battle for the Governor's Cup wasn't won until the final 2 minutes when Louisville quarterback Justin Burke was driving for a potential game-winning score, only to have a pass tipped by Corey Peters and picked off by Sam Maxwell. Kentucky had to punt the ball back to Louisville, but Burke's last-second Hail Mary was incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nFor the 9th straight season, the team that rushes for the most yards went on to win the game. Kentucky out gained Louisville running for 168 yards to 133 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nWeek 3 SEC Special Teams Player of the Week: Derrick Locke was named SEC special teams player of the week after returning a kickoff in the first quarter 100 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nKentucky entered the game not having won at Georgia since 1977. Kentucky jumped out to a 6\u20130 lead on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Morgan Newton to Derrick Locke (the conversion failed) but Georgia held a 20\u20136 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIn the third quarter, Randall Cobb scored on a 12-yard touchdown run and LaRod King caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from Newton to draw Kentucky to within 27\u201320. Kentucky shut out Georgia in the fourth quarter and scored two touchdowns on Derrick Locke's 60-yard pass reception from Newton and Cobb's 1-yard run to give Kentucky the 34\u201327 win. Newton finished with 137 yards and 3 touchdowns passing, completing 9 of 17 attempts. Locke had 80 yards rushing and 2 receptions for 80 yards and two touchdowns. Cobb had 40 yards and 2 touchdowns rushing and one reception for 19 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nThe Kentucky defense played a huge role in securing the victory late in the game. Kentucky defensive lineman Shane McCord intercepted a Georgia pass with just under ten minutes remaining in the game. With five and a half minutes left in the game a Georgia quarterback and running back fumbled an exchange at the Kentucky 2-yard line and Kentucky linebacker Danny Trevathan recovered. Kentucky had to punt but linebacker Sam Maxwell intercepted a Georgia pass with 1:45 remaining to seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 557]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Roster, Roster\nBurden, Chandler\tOffensive Tackle\t6-4\t291\tJR-2L\tBlue Ash, Ohio/La Salle24\tBurden, Randall\tCornerback\t6-0\t175\tJR-2L\tLaGrange, Ga./LaGrange18\tCobb, Randall\tWide Receiver/Quarterback\t5-11\t186\tJR-2L\tAlcoa, Tenn./Alcoa97\tCobble, Mister\tDefensive Tackle\t6-0\t321\tFR-RS\tLouisville, Ky./Central84\tCorrell, Gabe\tTight End\t6-5\t231\tSO-SQ\tCincinnati, Ohio/Anderson/Fork Union Military Academy98\tCrawford, Mark\tDefensive Tackle\t6-1\t293\tJR-1L\tIndianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis/Coffeyville CC62\tDavenport, Tyler\tOffensive Line\t6-5\t309\tFR-HS\tHodgenville, Ky./LaRue County61\tDavis, Alvin\tDefensive Line\t6-4\t228\tFR-HS\tJesup, Ga./Wayne County77\tDavis, Marcus\tCenter\t6-1\t283\tSR-2L\tUnion, Ky./Boone County60\tDelic, Nermin\tDefensive Line\t6-5\t259\tFR-HS\tDalton, Ga./Northwest Whitfield50\tDouglas, Mike\tDefensive End\t6-4\t225\tFR-HS\tLargo, Fla./Largo73\tDuff, Stephen\tOffensive Tackle\t6-0\t301\tFR-RS\tLouisville, Ky./Pleasure Ridge Park57\tDufrene, Jacob\tLinebacker\t6-1\t211\tSR-3L\tCut Off, La./John Curtis Christian75\tDurham, Brad\tOffensive Tackle\t6-4\t321\tSR-3L\tMt. Vernon, Ky./Rockcastle County48\tDutton, Alex\tWide Receiver\t5-10\t170\tSO-SQ\tLouisville, Ky./Trinity49\tDutton, Nathan\tWide Receiver\t5-10\t169\tSO-SQ\tLouisville, Ky./Trinity76\tEatmon-Nared, Tevan\tOffensive Line\t6-7\t280\tFR-HS\tBucyrus, Ohio/Wynford55\tEvans, DeQuin\tDefensive End\t6-3\t256\tSR-1L\tLong Beach, Calif./Cabrillo/Los Angeles Harbor College19\tFields, E.J. Wide Receiver\t6-1\t198\tSO-SQ\tFrankfort, Ky./Frankfort29\tGainer, Brandon\tRunning Back\t5-11\t200\tFR-HS\tMiami, Fla./Central25\tGeorge, Jonathan\tTailback\t5-10\t204\tFR-RS\tLincoln, Ala./Lincoln33\tGibbs, Josh\tStrong Safety\t5-10\t210\tJR-JC\tLong Beach, Calif./Valencia/College of the Canyons45\tGlenn, Antwane\tDefensive Tackle\t6-3\t260\tJR-SQ\tPacolet, S.C./Broome64\tGodby, Max\tOffensive Line\t6-4\t267\tFR-HS\tLouisville, Ky./Christian Academy of Louisville21\tGuy Jr., Winston\tFree Safety\t6-1\t215\tJR-2L\tLexington, Ky./Lexington Catholic31\tHarper, Michael\tWide Receiver\t6-1\t182\tSR-SQ\tStone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson/Howard5\tHartline, Mike\tQuarterback\t6-6\t210\tSR-3L\tCanton, Ohio/GlenOak65\tHelton, J.J.\tLong Snapper\t6-3\t225\tSR-3L\tFranklin, Tenn./Franklin90\tHenderson, Justin\tDefensive End\t6-3\t236\tFR-HS\tBamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt70\tHines, Stuart\tOffensive Guard\t6-4\t291\tJR-2L\tBowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green83\tHolloway, Spencer\tDefensive Line\t6-3\t250\tFR-HS\tLouisville, Ky./Trinity37\tHudnell, Christian\tCornerback\t6-0\t202\tFR-RS\tCameron Park, Calif./Jesuit2\tHuzzie, Qua\tLinebacker\t5-10\t210\tFR-RS\tLaGrange, Ga./LaGrange51\tJohnson, Tristian\tDefensive End\t6-1\t259\tFR-RS\tLaGrange, Ga./LaGrange13\tJones, E.J. 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{"id": "enwiki-00203631-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Roster, Roster\nXavierPatterson, Tim\tLinebacker\t6-4\t220\tFR-HS\tLouisville, Ky./Central14\tPhillippi, Ryan\tQuarterback\t5-11\t178\tRS FR-SQ\tLexington, Ky./Henry Clay93\tPorter, Elliott\tDefensive Tackle\t6-3\t290\tFR-HS\tWaggaman, La./Archbishop Shaw1\tPriester, Jerell\tCornerback\t5-9\t170\tFR-HS\tUlmer, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax39\tRatliff, Jewell\tLinebacker\t6-1\t230\tFR-HS\tNew Orleans, La./McDonogh 3535\tRice, Cartier\tCornerback\t5-10\t182\tSO-1L\tDuncan, S.C./Byrnes3\tRoark, Matt\tWide Receiver\t6-5\t209\tJR-2L\tAcworth, Ga./North Cobb89\tRobinson, Tyler\tTight End\t6-3\t243\tFR-HS\tFriendsville, Tenn./Alcoa99\tRumph, Donte\tDefensive Line\t6-3\t265\tFR-HS\tSt. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County/Fork Union Military Academy23\tRussell, Donald\tTailback\t5-11\t209\tSO-1L\tWest Palm Beach, Fla./Dwyer4\tSanders, Raymond\tRunning Back\t5-8\t185\tFR-HS\tStone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson15\tSargent, Tyler\tQuarterback\t6-4\t217\tJR-SQ\tWaynesville, Ohio/Clinton Massie80\tShields, Ronnie\tTight End\t6-5\t220\tFR-HS\tStone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson38\tSimmons, Eric\tDefensive Back\t6-0\t180\tFR-HS\tAtlanta, Ga./Westlake90\tSimmons, Pat\tKicker\t6-2\t204\tSO-SQ\tLaGrange, Ga./LaGrange32\tSimpson, Miles\tRunning Back\t6-2\t210\tFR-HS\tIndependence, Ky./Simon Kenton56\tSimpson, Sam\tCenter\t6-4\t275\tFR-RS\tLexington, Ky./Henry Clay85\tSmith, Alex\tTight End\t6-5\t251\tFR-HS\tCincinnati, Ohio/Lakota West69\tSmith, Matt\tCenter\t6-4\t288\tSO-1L\tLouisville, Ky./St. Xavier6\tSmith, Taiedo\tFree Safety\t6-0\t188\tJR-2L\tDunnellon, Fla./Dunnellon46\tSneed, Ronnie\tLinebacker\t6-2\t233\tJR-2L\tTallahassee, Fla./Florida58\tStackhouse, Sean\tOffensive Guard\t6-4\t265\tSO-SQ\tJacksonville, Fla./Mandarin49\tThomas, Antonio\tLinebacker\t6-1\t236\tJR-SQ\tCowpens, S.C./Broome59\tThomas, Jon\tLong Snapper\t5-11\t231\tJR-SQ\tLouisville, Ky./St.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 1745]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike\nA sex strike, a form of nonviolent protest, was held by Kenyan female activists in 2009 to end the deteriorating relationship between the country's President, Mwai Kibaki, and Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, who agreed to share leadership powers in Kenya. There was a seven-day sex strike, which involved thousands of women and the wives of both the Prime Minister and President, who vowed to withhold sex from their partner. This sex strike was aimed at forcing the leaders to reconcile as they had different views on how Kenya should be run as well as issued conflicting policies that did not focus on urgent issues that mattered in Kenya such as dealing with corruption and poverty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike\nThe goal of the strike was to revive Kenya and fix the bickering leadership. The women had a set of demands they wanted to be fulfilled which involved principles such as respect and good faith from the leaders. The strike lasted seven days, after which it ended with a joint prayer session where the conflicting leaders finally agreed to talk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike, Tribal violence\nIn 2009, Kenya was experiencing an enormous amount of post-election violence once the President and Prime Minister were appointed as leaders. This resulted in communal violence between tribes. Kenya had a disputed election that led to tribal conflict, which killed more than a thousand people and left more than six hundred thousand people homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement\nThe sex strike was enforced by a women's group called Women's Development Organization, a group in Kenya that is a prominent women's rights group. The Women's Development Organization group has been around for the longest in Kenya as a form of women's rights movements. Eleven other women's groups also joined the strike, eventually involving thousands of women. The movement was significant and caused a major challenge because many men in Kenya are polygamous, as it is allowed by law. The sex strike lasted a full week, from May 1, 2009, until May 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement\nThe nonviolent action was the omission of sex by women from men and their husbands. The strike symbolized more than just a hope for cooperation between political leaders, but it also represented the radical progress for women's rights in that the women had the power to decide to withhold sex. Kenya is also very conservative so the fact that women could use sex in their strike and talk about it in public proves the changes and the extent that Kenyan women will go. The women's rights movement is still in its grassroots, but this strike did provide an increase in awareness for the movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203632-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenya sex strike, Movement\nThe act of resisting sex was enough for the government to reconsider the leadership and how Kenya was being run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203633-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal\nThis was a scandal in Kenya that became public in January 2009, over the sale of imported maize. In late 2008, the ban on importation of maize was lifted by the government to allow capable businessmen to import maize to supplement the local produce that was short of the minimum required to satisfy the local market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203633-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal\nIn early 2009 after parliamentary debate on a maize scandal, William Ruto was accused of illegally selling maize by Ikolomani MP Bonny Khalwale (Public Accounts Committee chairman). All the documents bearing the National Cereals and Produce Board seal that linked Mr Ruto to the illegal sale of maize were accepted by Parliament\u2019s deputy speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203633-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal\nThe scandal alleges that the following events might have taken place:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203633-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Maize Scandal\nThe Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission is currently investigating the scandal but is yet to make an official report on its findings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203634-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Premier League\nThe 2009 Kenyan Premier League was the sixth season of the Kenyan Premier League since it started in 2003 and the forty-sixth season of top division football in Kenya since 1963. It began on 7 February with Agrochemical and Red Berets and ended on 21 November with Sony Sugar and Western Stima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203634-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Premier League\nSofapaka had an alarmingly remarkable season, having just been promoted from the Nationwide League for the first time and immediately winning the title. They also won the Kenyan Super Cup the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203634-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Premier League\nBandari and Agrochemical were relegated at the end of the season after replacing previously relegated Mahakama and Mathare Youth. However, Bandari gained promotion again for the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203635-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Super Cup\nThe 2009 Kenyan Super Cup was the inaugural edition of the tournament. The Kenyan football match-up pitted 2008 Kenyan Premier League champions Mathare United against 2008 FKF Cup winners Gor Mahia, who won their ninth title in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203635-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kenyan Super Cup\nMathare United were thrashed 3\u20130, giving Gor Mahia the first ever Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series\nThe 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series was an Australian motor sport competition which began on 25 April 2009 at Wakefield Park and ended on 22 November at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit after five rounds and fifteen races. The series was open to Group 3D Sports Sedans, Tran-Am automobles and New Zealand TraNZam automobiles. It marked the 19th running of a national series for Sports Sedans in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series\nChevrolet Corvette driver Des Wall won the series after a fierce contest between the top three competitors. Winners of the previous two series, Tony Ricciardello (Alfa Romeo Alfetta) and Darren Hossack (Audi A4), competed initially for the race wins, but mechanical unreliability and on-track confrontations, usually with each other, allowed Wall to close the gap. Wall only won three races (compared to Ricciardello's six and Hossack's five) but was only out of the top five race positions once all season with an eighth-placed finish at Oran Park. Ricciardello and Hossack each failed to finish two races during the series. Wall, who has been a Sports Sedan front runner since 1989, claimed his first series win with a twelve-point victory over Ricciardello. Hossack was third, nine points behind Ricciardello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series\nThe only other driver to score a race win was Opel Calibra driver Chris Jackson at Oran Park and he finished fifth in the points chase behind series veteran Kerry Baily (Nissan 300ZX).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series. The series consisted of fifteen races, at five race meetings, held in three states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Race calendar\nThe 2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series consisted of five rounds, three of which were held at Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships meetings and two at other meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Race calendar\nNote: The Clem Smith Cup was awarded to the winner of Race 2 at the Mallala round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203636-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Results and standings, Drivers' points\nPoints were awarded 20-17-15-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the top sixteen race positions in each race. There were two bonus points allocated for pole position. Pole position is indicated in bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203637-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kerry County Council election\nAn election to Kerry County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing\nThe 2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing was a terrorist attack that took place at 6:30\u00a0p.m. local time on 22 February 2009 in Khan el-Khalili, a souq in eastern Cairo, Egypt, killing a 17-year-old French teenager and injuring 24 other people. It was the first of the February 2009 Cairo terrorist attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Attack details\nThe attack took place just after dark in front of a cafe crowded with people gathering to watch a televised football match. There were conflicting reports that the bomb was thrown from a balcony or from a motorcycle, but security officials reported that the bomb had exploded under a bench in a garden in the square. A second bomb failed to detonate and was defused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Attack details\nThe bombs weighed 1.5 kilograms (3.3\u00a0lb) and contained nails and metal fragments. A 17-year-old French girl, who was among a group of 54 teenagers from Levallois-Perret near Paris, was killed. Seventeen French, one German and three Saudi tourists, as well as three Egyptians, were wounded. Early reports suggest the explosive devices were \"primitive\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Responsibility\nAccording to security sources, there was no immediate claim of responsibility by any militant group, but three suspects had been taken into custody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions\nThen French President Nicolas Sarkozy and then Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Fillon condemned the attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions\nThe attack has raised fear of the return of the Islamic militants groups to target Egypt's tourism industry. The attacks were also speculated to be linked to anger over Egypt's role in the Gaza conflict. The bombing caused concern for Cairo authorities, who saw the tourist industry devastated by bombings and shootings by Islamic militants in the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203638-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing, Reactions\nHotels' revenues and occupancy rates fell resulting in the dismissal of workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203639-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Khyber Pass offensive\nThe 2009 Khyber Pass offensive was an offensive military campaign by Pakistani Army against Islamic militants from Lashkar-e-Islam in and near the Khyber Pass. The offensive was launched after a series of suicide bombings, including one at a police station where 17 cadets were killed. After two months, Pakistan Army defeated the militants and cleared the area from the militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203639-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Khyber Pass offensive, Military offensives\nPakistan Army launched an offensive campaign against militants after series of suicide bombings. The Pakistan Army infantry troops quickly launched operation which concluded with destroyed 4 militant bases, killed 40 militants, and captured 43 militants, according to Pakistan Army. Human Rights organizations claim Pakistani security forces executed surrendering militants, a claim which was denied by Pakistan. Outside a press briefing to journalists by local governor Tariq Hayat, a truck loaded with the bodies of militants and weapons seized from militants were displayed outside of the press briefing. Hayat gave no indication whether this would be a sustained offensive. Fighting continued, with large numbers of militants being killed or captured. 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a land mine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203640-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kids' Choice Awards\nThe 22nd Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 28, 2009, on the Nell and John Wooden Court of Pauley Pavilion. Dwayne Johnson hosted this awards show which lasted for more than one and half hours. Voting commenced on March 2, 2009. Performers and presenters have been listed at the official site. The Jonas Brothers sang their song, Lovebug, but changed the line \"catch this lovebug again\" to \"catch this slime time again\". By the end of the program, they were named the \"slime gods\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203640-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Kids' Choice Awards\nThis year marks the last time that the Nickelodeon Orange Blimp was used on the Kids' Choice Awards logo for 4 years. The Nickelodeon Blimp was not used on the Kids' Choice Awards logo again until 2013. This is the last Kids' Choice Awards to air featuring the former Nickelodeon logo before it was changed later in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203640-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kids' Choice Awards\nAccording to Nickelodeon, the show was broadcast in more than \"228 million households across Nickelodeon's 50 channels inEurope, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Latin America.\" It had 7.7 million viewers. More votes than ever were cast for this year\u2019s KCAs. A record 91.1 million votes were cast on Nickelodeon websites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203640-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kids' Choice Awards\nPrior to the live telecast, Lily Collins, Pick Boy and JJ hosted the \"orange carpet\", featuring celebrity interviews and a live performance by Miranda Cosgrove outside Pauley Pavilion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203640-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kids' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nWinners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203641-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kildare County Council election\nAn election to Kildare County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203642-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kilkenny County Council election\nAn election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203643-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 115th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1887. The championship began on 19 September 2009 and ended on 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203643-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 17 October 2009, Young Irelands were relegated from the championship following 0-19 to 0-13 defeat by Tullaroan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203643-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 25 October 2009, Ballyhale Shamrocks won the championship after a 1-14 to 1-11 defeat of James Stephens in the final. It was their 13th championship title overall and their fourth title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203643-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nTullaroan's Shane Hennessy was the championship's top scorer with 1-27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203644-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 King Cup of Champions\nThe 2009 King Cup of Champions, or The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, was the 34th season of King Cup of Champions since its establishment in 1957, and the 2nd under the current edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203644-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 King Cup of Champions\nAl-Shabab won their second title in a row after beating the same team they faced in last season's final Al-Ittihad with a 4\u20130 victory in the final match. Al-Shabab also earned entry into the 2010 AFC Champions League group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203644-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 King Cup of Champions, Participating teams\n* Number of appearance in King Cup of Champions since the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203645-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes\nThe 2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 25 July 2009. It was the 59th King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203645-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes\nThe winner was the Ballymacoll Stud's Conduit, a four-year-old chestnut colt trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Michael Stoute and ridden by Ryan Moore. Conduit's victory was the first for his jockey and the fourth for Stoute after Shergar (1981), Opera House (1993) and Golan (2002). He was the first King George winner to officially race for Ballymacoll Stud although Troy, Ela-Mana-Mou and Golan had won in the same colours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203645-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nThe race attracted nine runners with Michael Stoute and Aidan O'Brien each fielding three runners. The Stoute team consisted of Conduit, the winner of the St Leger Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf in 2008, Tartan Bearer (runner-up in the 2008 Epsom Derby) and the Coronation Cup winner Ask. Conduit and Tartan Bearer were both owned and bred by the Irish Ballymacoll Stud and had shared a paddock as foals before Conduit was removed for his own safety after being \"bullied\" by his companion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203645-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The contenders\nThe O'Brien contenders were the Irish Derby winner Frozen Fire, the Chester Vase winner Golden Sword and Rockhampton who was running as a pacemaker. The other runners were the 2008 Epsom Oaks winner Look Here, the John Gosden-trained Awaary and the 66/1 outsider Scintillo. There were no challengers from continental Europe. Conduit was made the 13/8 favourite ahead of Tartan Bearer (7/2) and Golden Sword (9/2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203645-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race\nRockhampton set the pace as expected from Frozen Fire and Golden Sword, with Conduit towards the rear of the field in the early stages. Golden Sword took the lead on the turn into the straight but the three Stoute runners immediately moved up to challenge. Tartan Bearer gained a slight advantage a furlong from the finish but was quickly overtaken by, Conduit racing on the outside. In the closing stages Conduit drifted to the right, hampering Tartan Bearer before winning by one and three-quarter lengths. Tartan Bearer beat Ask by a head for second place to complete a 1\u20132\u20133 for the Stoute stable. The racecourse stewards conducted an inquiry into the interference caused by the winner to the runner-up, but allowed the result to stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203646-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 King's Cup\nThe 39th King's Cup finals was held from 21 to 23 January 2009 at the Surakul Stadium in Phuket, Thailand. The King's Cup (\u0e04\u0e34\u0e07\u0e2a\u0e4c\u0e04\u0e31\u0e1e) is an annual football tournament; the first tournament was played in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203646-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 King's Cup\nThis edition of the tournament was due to be played at the end of the domestic football season, the Thailand Premier League in October, but was postponed until early 2009 after the Thai national team made other commitments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203646-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 King's Cup\nThe tournament was held in between the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup and the start of qualification for the AFC Asian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203646-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 King's Cup\nThe format of this tournament had also changed from the previous edition, to a knockout basis, starting from the semi-finals, instead of a round robin group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203647-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kiribati ferry accident\nThe 2009 Kiribati ferry accident was the sinking, on 13 July 2009, of an inter-island ferry in the south Pacific nation of Kiribati. The accident is believed to have killed 33 of the ship's 55 passengers and crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203647-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kiribati ferry accident\nThe ferry was a 56-foot-long (17\u00a0m) double-hulled wood catamaran en route between Tarawa and the outlying island of Maiana. It capsized when the captain attempted to turn around to rescue a crew member who had been swept overboard in high seas. The Royal New Zealand Air Force sent a C130 aircraft to aid in air-sea rescue and recovery operations; it aided in recovering twenty survivors, and seven bodies, before calling off the search. A further eighteen bodies were not recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203648-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk bombing\nThe 2009 Kirkuk bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred on June 30, 2009, in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The bombing killed 40 people and injured up to 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203648-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk bombing\nThe bomb, which exploded in a crowded district came as U.S. troops were leaving major urban cities in Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203648-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk bombing\nA brigade from the Peshmerga captured 250\u00a0kg of TNT shortly after the attack. The vehicle was transporting the explosives from Kirkuk to Sulaymaniyah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election\nGovernorate or provincial elections are due to be held in Kirkuk Governorate in 2009 to replace the governorate council elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. The remaining governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan held elections on 31 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay\nThe original draft proposed delaying the election in Kirkuk Governorate until after the referendum to decide its precise status has been held. However, a group of Turkmen and Arab MPs proposed a power-sharing clause, establishing a provincial council consisting of ten Kurds, ten Arabs, ten Turkmens and two Assyrians. This clause was included in the draft election bill put to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in July 2008, and led to the Kurdish parties walking out in protest, complaining \"If you already pick the seats before the election, why vote?\" The law was nonetheless approved on 22 July 2008. However, President Jalal Talabani, who is Kurdish, and Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite Arab, have agreed they would reject the bill, and hence it would be sent back to the Council of Representatives to reconsider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay\nParliamentary summer recess started on 30 July 2008, but a special session was called for 3 August 2008 to find a solution to the Kirkuk issue. At that meeting, no solution was reached; at another meeting on 4 August 2008, lawmakers postponed the session to 5 August 2008, and on that date to 6 August 2008. It was then postponed to 9 September 2008, with a committee working on a compromise solution until then. At that session, no resolution was reached, and negotiations continued on 10 September 2008 in the form of a special six-member panel formed for this occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay\nThe law was finally passed on 24 September 2008 and the election is expected to be held by 31 January 2009; the compromise was that Kirkuk would be dealt with separately, and elections in Kirkuk and the three Kurdish autonomous provinces will be held at a later time. A special panel was to work on a solution on Kirkuk and report back by 31 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay\nThe United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, Staffan de Mistura proposed holding elections in all governorates except Kirkuk, and deferring the Kirkuk elections for six months in order to find an acceptable compromise. A draft bill based on this proposal was debated on 6 August and accepted by the Kurdistani Alliance but opposed by the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Iraqi Accord Front and Sadrist Movement who objected to the draft law's reference to the Kirkuk status referendum and insisted on delaying the entire elections until a solution was found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203649-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kirkuk governorate election, Delay\nThe panel was given a two-month extension to its deadline to 31 May and then a further week to 6 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203650-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Knoxville Challenger\nThe 2009 Knoxville Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Knoxville, United States between 9 and 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203650-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Knoxville Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203650-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Knoxville Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Emmrich /  Andreas Siljestr\u00f6m def. Raven Klaasen /  Izak van der Merwe, 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203651-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nKevin Anderson and G.D. Jones were the defending champions, but only Anderson tried to defend his title. He partnered with Scott Lipsky. They were eliminated already in the first round by Raven Klaasen and Izak van der Merwe. Martin Emmrich and Andreas Siljestr\u00f6m won this tournament, by defeating Klaasen and van der Merwe 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203652-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Knoxville Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBobby Reynolds, who was the defending champion, chose to not compete this year. Taylor Dent won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(6), against Ilija Bozoljac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500\nThe 2009 Kobalt Tools 500 was the fourth stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 8, 2009, in Hampton, Georgia, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, before a crowd of 94,400 attendees. The circuit is an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The 325-lap race was won by Penske Racing Championship's Kurt Busch from a second position start. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports took second, with Roush Fenway Racing driver Carl Edwards in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500\nMark Martin won his first pole position since the 2001 season by posting the fastest lap in qualifying, and he held the lead for the first six laps, until Busch overtook him on the seventh lap. He lost it after the first pit stop cycle to Ryan Newman but he passed him on the 18th lap to retake the position. After that, Busch ceded the lead to Jimmie Johnson after a refuelling problem during a pit stop, but he returned to the lead on lap 103.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500\nAt the green\u2013white\u2013checker restart on lap 330, Edwards was in the first position, but he was passed by Kurt Busch on the outside lane soon after, and the latter held off Gordon for the remainder of the race to win. There were eleven cautions and thirteen lead changes amongst eight different drivers during the course of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500\nThe victory was Busch's first of the season, his second at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the 19th of his career, since he debuted in the 2000 season. The result advanced him from seventh to third in the Drivers' Championship; 46 points behind Gordon (whose second-place finish enabled him to increase his points advantage over Clint Bowyer). In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet lowered Ford's lead to two points, while Toyota and Dodge were tied for third with 33 races left in the season. The race had a television audience of 8,877,000 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background\nThe Kobalt Tools 500 was the fourth out of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 8, 2009, in Hampton, Georgia, at Atlanta Motor Speedway; an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54\u00a0mi (2.48\u00a0km) four-turn quad-oval. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background\nBefore the race, Hendrick Motorsports' Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 459 points, ahead of Clint Bowyer in second, and Matt Kenseth third. Greg Biffle and David Reutimann were fourth and fifth, and Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Bobby Labonte, Kevin Harvick, and Michael Waltrip rounded out the top twelve. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Ford led with 22 points; Chevrolet were in second place with 18 points. Toyota placed third with 16 points, and Dodge were fourth with ten points. Kyle Busch was the race's defending champion from the 2008 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Background\nStarting from the Atlanta round, NASCAR established a regulation that determines how long the restart zone is on each track. This added to a new rule devised by NASCAR at the start of the season, when they created a zone from which the race leader was required to commence the race for better consistency. NASCAR's vice-president of competition Robin Pemberton explained series officials would double the figure of the pit road speed limit, and then establish it as the distance in feet of the restart area, \"It will be twice the pit-road speed. It\u2019s a means to get variable lengths in there for the race track itself. It\u2019s something the garage area asked us to do. Is it perfect; maybe, maybe not. But, it\u2019s a start.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race; one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second, scheduled for 45 minutes, was shortened to 20 minutes because of fog delaying qualifying for the Camping World Truck Series round. The final session ran for an hour. In the first practice session, Mark Martin was fastest with a 30.180 seconds lap, ahead of Harvick in second, and Brian Vickers in third. David Stremme was fourth-fastest, Juan Pablo Montoya placed fifth, and Kasey Kahne sixth. Kurt Busch, Edwards, Marcos Ambrose, and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the session's top ten competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying\nForty-seven drivers attempted to qualify on Friday evening, according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure forty-trhree were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Martin took his first pole position since the 2001 Pontiac Excitement 400, and the 42nd of his career, with a time of 29.640 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Kurt Busch whose best lap was 0.108 seconds behind because of his slower corner entry speed. Jamie McMurray was the highest-placed Ford driver in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying\nMontoya qualified fourth after a minor loss of car control leaving turn four, Biffle took fifth, and Denny Hamlin sixth. Jimmie Johnson, Joe Nemechek (the fastest driver to qualify on merit outside the top 35), Kyle Busch, and Harvick completed the top ten starters. The four drivers who did not qualify were Todd Bodine, Scott Riggs, Jeremy Mayfield, and Geoff Bodine. Tony Raines withdrew prior to qualifying. Martin said afterward, \"I feel like a rookie, I really, really do. I'm still shaking. I thought I ran out of talent in turn four. There was no possible way to hold my foot on the floor and not hit the wall, back end first, in turn four. But that was really fun. I live to scare myself like that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning Biffle was the fastest driver in the second practice session with a time of 30.030 seconds. Edwards was second, and Stremme in third. Hamlin was fourth-fastest, Kenseth came fifth, and Jeff Gordon sixth. Kyle Busch, Montoya, David Ragan, and Johnson followed in positions seven through ten. Later that day, Edwards paced the final practice session with a lap of 30.880 seconds, with Kahne three-hundredths of a second behind in second. Hamlin was third-fastest; Kurt Busch came fourth, McMurray placed fifth, and Biffle was sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Practice and qualifying\nStremme was seventh-fastest, Jeff Gordon eighth, Martin ninth, and Aric Almirola completed the top ten ahead of the race. During practice, Martin Truex Jr. was in pain due to a small kidney stone. He was transported directly to the infield medical centre to undergo an examination, and later to Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin, Georgia for observation and further treatment. Because of NASCAR's drug regulations, he elected to forgo medications while passing the stone so that he could compete in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nLive television coverage of the event, the 100th in NASCAR Cup Series competition at Atlanta Motor Speedway, commenced in the United States on Fox at 1:30\u00a0p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC\u221204:00). Around the start of the race, weather conditions were clear and warm with the air temperature at 73.3\u00a0\u00b0F (22.9\u00a0\u00b0C). Lead pastor Chris Patton of Southside Church in Peachtree City, Georgia began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Country music artist and songwriter Richie McDonald performed the national anthem, and the command for drivers to start their engines was given by Kelly Brown, vice president of merchandising for Lowe's. During the pace laps, Ragan dropped to the rear of the field because of an engine change. Poor track grip caused drivers to battle for control of their cars during the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nThe race commenced at 2:18 local time. Martin maintained the first position on the entry to turn one. The first caution was waved on the next lap as Reed Sorenson made contact with the wall lining the track at turn one after a car component failure. He drove to his garage for repairs. Martin held the lead at the lap six restart, followed by Kurt Busch and McMurray. On the following lap, Kurt Busch passed below Martin to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nLabonte triggered the second caution five laps later, when he spun entering turn three, but avoided damage to his car. During the caution, some drivers including Kurt Busch, made pit stops for tires and car adjustments. Nemechek led for one lap before making his pit stop on the 14th lap. Ryan Newman then took the lead, and held it at the restart on lap 16. Kurt Busch overtook Martin for second place on the next lap. On the 18th lap, Kurt Busch steered right to the outside lane and passed Newman to reclaim the first position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nHamlin got ahead of Newman for second two laps later. Martin attempted to do the same for third, but he was unsuccessful. After starting 16th, Jeff Gordon advanced to ninth by the 23rd lap. Similarly, Edwards was in seventh by lap 31 after beginning from 29th place. Eight laps later, Dale Earnhardt Jr. lost tenth to Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nGreen flag pit stops for tires, fuel, and car adjustments began on lap 53. Fourteen laps later, a tire escaped from Ambrose's pit crew, and rested approximately 70\u00a0ft (21\u00a0m) in the infield. Ambrose's gas man and firefighter Jimmy Watts ran across the grass, and was within 25\u00a0yd (23\u00a0m) of the track when he retrieved the tire. Because Watts ventured into the infield, considered by NASCAR to be part of the track, and with cars leaving turn four at near to 200\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h), series officials waved the third caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nNASCAR officials escorted Watts from pit road, and he was suspended for the remainder of the event. Kurt Busch made a second pit stop after a refuelling problem at a prior stop. The caution meant 15 drivers were on the lead lap, and Johnson led at the lap-74 restart. Two laps later, Jeff Gordon's clutch developed a problem. On lap 78, Edwards overtook Hamlin for second. Edwards got past Johnson on the outside lane for the lead on the 81st lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nThree laps later, Johnson was passed by Hamlin on the inside line while in slower traffic for the third position. On the 103rd lap, Kurt Busch passed Edwards around the outside to claim the first position. Labonte spun on the frontstretch on the lap, necessitating the fourth caution. Under caution, lapped drivers made pit stops for adjustments to their cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nAt the lap 112 restart, Kurt Busch kept the lead over Edwards and Bowyer. Edwards drove on the inside lane, while Kurt Busch ran on the outside line. As some drivers began another phase of green flag pit stops on the 155th lap, the fifth caution came out when fluids were found in turn two. Kurt Busch again held the lead at the lap 162 restart, followed by Bowyer. Two laps later, Bowyer fell to fifth when Jeff Gordon, Johnson, and Edwards got past him. He lost a further position to Martin on lap 166.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nJeff Gordon caught and overtook Kurt Busch for first on the 172nd lap, but he did not hold it, as Kurt Busch re-passed him before crossing the start-finish line. On lap 183, Ambrose's car billowed smoke, and he stopped on the apron below the track. The sixth caution was issued two laps later as debris was located on the track. The leaders elected to make pit stops for tires and car adjustments during the caution. Truex led lap 190 but Kurt Busch was first at the lap 192 restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nRagan made contact with his teammate Biffle on the 196th lap, causing him to go sideways into the wall, and prompting Biffle to regain control of his car. Six laps later, Kurt Busch glanced the wall, and Jeff Gordon passed him for the lead, but lost it to Busch before the conclusion of the lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nOn lap 204, Sam Hornish Jr. collided with the turn one wall, drifted back down the track, and collected Bill Elliott, prompting the seventh caution. The leaders, including Kurt Busch, chose to make pit stops for car adjustments and tires during the caution. Jeff Gordon took the lead and held it at the lap 209 restart, with Kurt Busch in second and Martin third. Five laps later, the eighth caution was given; Martin cut his right-rear tire, and went backward into the turn one barrier. His car sustained heavy rear sheet metal damage but he continued to pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nThe leaders again made pit stops under caution. Jeff Gordon led at the lap 222 restart. Hamlin was passed around the outside by Kurt Busch for third on lap 235. Five laps later, he caught and overtook Johnson for the second position. Kurt Busch narrowed Jeff Gordon's lead, and passed him on the outside lane leaving turn four to retake the lead on the 251st lap. The ninth caution came out nine laps later as debris from Robby Gordon's car was located in turn four. During the caution, the leaders went to pit road for fuel, tires and car adjustments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nThe restart on lap 265 was led by Kurt Busch from Vickers, and Bowyer. On lap 267, Scott Speed hit the wall leaving turn four, and slid into the front of Ragan's car. Biffle was collected by Speed, and was spun into the outside wall, and Jeff Burton went through the grass, activating the tenth caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nFive drivers elected not to make pit stops under caution. Kurt Busch led the field back to racing speed on the lap 275 restart, with Vickers second. Earnhardt was passed by Stewart, and Burton after running close by Almirola on lap 279, and fell to 14th. Vickers reduced the lead of Kurt Busch, when the final caution was necessitated after Robby Gordon's tire shredded and scattered debris on the circuit. All of the leaders, including Kurt Busch, made pit stops for tires and fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race\nEdwards won the race off pit road, and led on the green\u2013white\u2013checker restart (extending the race to 330 laps) on lap 329. Edwards lost the lead on the outside lane to Kurt Busch on the backstretch, and he was then passed by Jeff Gordon. Kurt Busch held off Jeff Gordon on the final lap to take his first win of the season, his second at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the 19th of his career. Jeff Gordon finished second, ahead of Edwards in third. Harvick was fourth, and Vickers fifth. Bowyer, Kahne, Stewart, Johnson, and Truex completed the top ten finishers. There were thirteen lead changes among eight different drivers during the course of the race, Kurt Busch led six times for a total of 234 laps, more than any other driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nRoger Penske on Kurt Busch ending a 22-race winless streak for Penske Championship Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nKurt Busch appeared in victory lane after his Polish victory lap to celebrate his first victory of the season in front of a crowd of 94,400 attendants; the win earned him $164,175. Kurt Busch thanked his team for providing him with a car that won him the race, \"This car was unbelievable. I guess good things come to those who wait. I just drove (against) the track, not the competition, We had strong pit stops, a great-handling car, a strong motor and a great assistant spotter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nJeff Gordon was encouraged with his second-place finish, \"It was a great day for us, though. Just driving to the front, battling up front, leading laps, battling for the lead at times. We lost a little something there in the long runs there, middle of the way on and those guys were a little bit stronger than us. But on the restarts, we were real strong.\" Edwards said of his third-place finish, \u201cThird place, considering our pit debacle down there \u2014 we were boxed in, It was just a bad pit stall selection and it didn\u2019t work out like we planned, but we made the most of it.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nTwo days after the race, it was announced that Watts was suspended for the next four races of the season by NASCAR for transgressing Section 12\u20131: \"actions detrimental to stock car racing\", and Article 9-15-U, a regulation which forbids crew members from entering the boundaries of the track while cars were circulating for any reason. Additionally, he was placed on probation until December 31, 2009. Crew chief Frank Kerr was also put on probation until the end of the year because he was deemed responsible for Watts' actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nNASCAR stated that had Watts not ventured into the infield, they would have waved the caution once all cars had made their pit stops. Watts admitted to reacting inappropriately and apologized for his actions. According to Ambrose, the decision to suspend Watts was the correct move to take, \"It was a disaster. But I think the penalty was a good one. You can't have guys running out to the race track. It's just not the thing to do. Jimmy is a great guy. He went on instinct. You can't blame the guy for that, either. I mean, he just went on a reaction and it was the wrong reaction. He needs to be an example for others not to do the same.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203653-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kobalt Tools 500, Race, Post-race\nThe result of the race meant Jeff Gordon extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 43 points ahead of Bowyer in second place. By winning the race, Kurt Busch advanced from seventh to third, while Edwards' third-place finish meant he was in the third position after being in eighth place going into the race. Kenseth fell to fifth in the standings. Stewart, Kyle Busch, Harvick, Kahne, Biffle, Vickers, and Reutimann rounded out the top twelve drivers. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet cut Ford's lead to two points. Dodge tied with Toyota in third place with 33 races left in the season. The event had a television audience of 8,877,000 million; it took 3 hours, 59 minutes and 1 second to complete the race, and the margin of victory was 0.332 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident\nThe Kokang incident was a violent series of skirmishes that broke out in August 2009 in Kokang in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Several clashes between the Burmese military junta forces (including the Myanmar Armed Forces, also known as Tatmadaw, and the Myanmar Police Force) and ethnic minorities took place. As a result of the conflict, the MNDAA lost control of the area and as many as 30,000 refugees fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Background\nThe civil war in Burma (later Myanmar) began when the first shots were fired by the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in April 1948 in the small village of Paukkongyi in the Pegu District (present-day Bago Region). Since the late 1960s Kokang was under control by some warlords, the first of them were the Communists and later the Kokang nationalists. In March 1989 a group made by Phone Kyar Shin was formed as a splinter group from the CPB called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). The rebels in Kokang made soon after a ceasefire with the Burmese military government; they also were the first armed ethnic group to do so. That same year was the CPB dissolved after a peace agreement was made between them and the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Background\nOther groups like the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) were also formed in 1989. Like the MNDAA they are splinter groups from the CPB and after their splits, they also made ceasefires with the Burmese government. This would be followed by many rebels in the states Kachin, Kayah, Mon and Shan made partial ceasefire agreements in the 1990s. During the truce agreement, the MNDAA was allowed to control their checkpoints and collect taxes from the people. In return the Tatmadaw was allowed to travel freely within the just established Shan State Special Region 1 (SR1). The MNDAA had in 2007 between 3,000 and 4,000 men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Background\nWhen the 2008 constitution was signed as part of the truce agreement, Kokang became one of the five self-administered zones within Myanmar. Since then, the military junta has proposed that the ethnic armies be assimilated into the Tatmadaw and converted into the Border Guard Forces (BGF); almost all of the ethnic armies have opposed this plan, with exceptions of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army and the New Democratic Army - Kachin (NDA-K) who joined the BGF. Observers and activists claim that the junta's motivation for this proposal is to disarm and neutralise the ethnic groups before the Myanmar general election scheduled to take place sometime in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude\nKokang has been ruled since 1989 by the leader of the MNDAA, Peng Jiasheng (also known as Pheung Kya-shin, Its population was in 2005\u20132006 c. 70 per cent Chinese Kokang, 12 per cent Paulang, 3 per cent of each the Miao and Lisu and 2 per cent Wa. Until 2003, the MNDAA officially produced opium but they stopped producing it under Chinese and Burmese pressure. Two years later the Burmese government declared that poppy growing in the Shan State becomes illegal. But even after that there are claims that Kokang has been implicated in illegal drug trade and Drug trafficking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude\nTensions came to a head on 8 August 2009 when the junta military, acting on a tip-off from China, moved into the region for a raid on a gun factory suspected of being a drug front and on Kokang leader Pheung's home. This confrontation, according to the newspaper Shan Herald, was only a \"stand-off\", with no shots being fired; nevertheless, it triggered a mass exodus of locals who were worried about the possibility of violence. and a resident of the Kokang regional capital Laukkai later described the city as a \"ghost town\". Chinese officials had to intervene in the face-off, and by 17 August officials claimed that the situation in Kokang was \"normal\" again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude\nThe MNDAA reportedly has about 1,000 to 1,500 soldiers. Recently there has been an inter-faction split within the army, with Pheung being opposed by deputy chairman Bai Xuoqian\u2014while Pheung has opposed efforts to integrate the Kokang army with the Tatmadaw, Bai has supported it and gained the junta's backing. According to the newspaper Shan Herald, several factions of the Kokang army have become loyal to the junta, and three high-ranking army officials informed the junta government that Pheung was secretly producing illicit weapons and drugs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence\nBy 20 August, however, government troops were beginning to gather near Laukkai, and Kokang leaders reportedly urged residents to \"be prepared\", which prompted even more people to flee. On 24 August, junta troops captured and occupied Laukkai \"without firing a shot\". The anti-junta Kachin News claimed that the takeover was aided by a \"mutiny\" staged by Kokang army leaders who had become loyal to the junta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence\nOn 27 August, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army began to open fire on junta troops outside the city; according to a government statement, the Kokang army raided a police checkpoint near the border. Later Wa, Kachin, and as many as nine other ethnic groups joined in the fighting; the United Wa State Army, Myanmar's largest ethnic military force, was also involved in the fighting, as was the National Democratic Alliance Army (also known as the Mong La Army). On 27 and 28 there were more battles in the villages of Yan Lon Kyaik and Chin Swe Haw, near the Chinese border. Across the border, the Chinese army increased its numbers in attempt to maintain border stability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence\nBy late 29 August, the United States-based Campaign for Burma claimed that as many as 700 Kokang fighters, outnumbered by junta troops, had fled, surrendered to the Chinese, and given up their weapons. Kokang soldiers interviewed in China after surrendering also said they had been overrun. While the Kokang army appears to have been routed, the larger United Wa State Army was still active, and Al Jazeera reported that the government was requesting reinforcements to deal with them; The New York Times, however, reported that the Wa army had withdrawn as early as 28 August. The government issued a statement on 30 August claiming that the fighting had ended, and later formed a new \"Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee\" in Laukkai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Prelude, Violence\nThe Myanmar Army's operation in the incident was overseen by Min Aung Hlaing and he was credited for it by the junta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees\nNo official casualty count was released in the first two days of fighting, although Pheung Kya-shin claimed that his forces had killed over thirty Tatmadaw troops. One Chinese person was killed during fighting when a bomb went over the border. On 30 August, the junta government released its first figures, claiming that the fighting had killed twenty-six junta troops (fifteen police, eleven soldiers) and wounded forty-seven (thirteen police, thirty-four soldiers), and that eight rebel bodies had been found so far; the figures have not been independently confirmed, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees\nFrom 8 to 12 August, as many as 10,000 residents fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China, becoming refugees. The total number of refugees fleeing in the entire month may be as high as 30,000, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and later the Yunnan provincial government. Yunnan's police chief later reported that the number of refugees in Yunnan reached 37,000, including Burmese refugees as well as Kokang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees\nYunnan government officials stated they have established seven locations (particularly near the city of Nansan, where most of the refugees arrived) to house and treat the refugees; some locals, however, claimed that not all the refugees were being housed, or were being housed in unfinished buildings and tents. According to one refugee, about 13,000 of the refugees were housed in the tents, and 10,000\u201320,000 more stayed with friends or family in the area. By 31 August, some refugees (as many as 4,000, according to local officials, or 2,800 according to the junta government) had started returning to Kokang; by mid-September, Chinese officials said over 9,000 refugees had returned and Myanmar officials said over 13,000; many refugees, however, were still afraid to go back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Casualties and refugees\nPheung was also rumoured to have fled Kokang, and is currently in China, although his precise location has not been revealed. Before the Kokang forces surrendered, he claimed that he was still controlling them from abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Reaction\nAlthough China has in the past supported the military junta, during the conflict, it had instead warned Myanmar to end the situation, saying they should \"properly handle domestic problems and maintain stability in the China-Myanmar border region\" and urging Burma to protect \"Chinese citizens in Myanmar\". Chinese officials were said to be \"furious\" and \"extermely [sic] upset\" over not being forewarned about the offensive on the border. Chinese and other analysts expressed concern that this conflict could lead to a civil war in Burma. The Burmese Foreign Ministry later apologised to China about the incident, but also ran a story on the Dalai Lama in the government newspaper the Myanmar Times, the first mention of him in the state controlled Burmese media for 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Reaction\nThe United Nations has also expressed concern about reports of fighting and thousands of refugees fleeing across the border. The United States government also voiced its concern, and called on the junta to end its military campaign against the cease-fire groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath\nAfter the fighting ended, the new Kokang leader claimed that the Kokang people would participate in the 2010 general elections; other cease-fire groups such as the Wa and Kachin still maintain that they will not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath\nBai, vice-president under Peng Jiasheng, became the new head of KoKang with the support of ruling junta in 2009. The portion of the MNDAA loyal to him became Border Guard Force #1006. He is also head of Kokang Self Administered Zone and a member of Myanmar parliament in 2011. The area was peaceful till new clashes between Peng Jiasheng's troops and Myanmar troops erupted in February 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203654-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kokang incident, Aftermath\nMajor General Huang Xing, the former head of the research guidance department at the Chinese Academy of Military Science, was ousted in 2015 because of his relationship with MNDAA during this incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203655-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kolmonen - Finnish League Division 3\nLeague tables for teams participating in Kolmonen, the fourth tier of the Finnish soccer league system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe 2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game was the All-Star game for the inaugural 2008\u201309 Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season. It took place on January 10, 2009, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The World team won 7\u20136 over the Russian team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Nominations\nEach team consisted of 9 forwards, 6 defensemen, and 2 goaltenders. The starting rosters were voted upon on the KHL.ru website. Both team captains were entitled to opt in 2 alternate captains of their choosing. The secondary lines and goaltenders were voted upon by the media and announced December 26, 2008, with the remaining players and reserves announced by January 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Events, Game\nThe format for the game was \"Team Yashin\" (Russia) vs. \"Team J\u00e1gr\" (World). The teams were named after players who are highly recognized in the sport and synonymous with their respective countries. Both players also captained their teams for the event. The format was voted on by the fans, with the alternative being the standard interconference matchup. This is reminiscent of the format introduced for the 48th NHL All-Star Game and will be used as a device to promote the game outside of Russia, as well as to promote the diversity of the league itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n15 - F Jan Marek (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 86 - F Tony M\u00e5rtensson (Ak Bars Kazan) 28 - F Pavel Brendl (Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod) 35 - D Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana) 05 - D Ray Giroux (SKA Saint Petersburg) 31 - G Robert Esche (SKA Saint Petersburg)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n33 - F Maxim Sushinsky (SKA Saint Petersburg) 25 - F Danis Zaripov (Ak Bars Kazan) 95 - F Aleksey Morozov (Ak Bars Kazan) 34 - D Vitali Proshkin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 05 - D Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan) 30 - G Alexander Eremenko (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n98 - F Jarom\u00edr J\u00e1gr (Avangard Omsk) (C) 81 - F Marcel Hossa (Dinamo Riga) (A) 20 - F Jakub Klepi\u0161 (Avangard Omsk) (A) 92 - F Branko Radivojevi\u0107 (Spartak Moscow) 12 - F Esa Pirnes (Atlant Moscow) 21 - F Jaroslav Kudrna (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) ## - F Oleg Antonenko (HC MVD) 06 - D Magnus Johansson (Atlant Moscow) 04 - D Karel Rachunek (Dynamo Moscow) ## - D Ben Clymer (Dinamo Minsk) 01 - G Ray Emery (Atlant Moscow)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n19 - F Alexei Yashin (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) (C) ## - F Andrei Nikolishin (Traktor Chelyabinsk) (A) 32 - F Alexei Kudashov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl) (A) 10 - F Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant Moscow) 27 - F Alexei Tereschenko (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) 47 - F Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa) ## - F Oleg Saprykin (CSKA Moscow) 22 - D Konstantin Korneyev (CSKA Moscow) 77 - D Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow) ## - D Darius Kasparaitis (SKA Saint Petersburg) 84 - G Konstantin Barulin (CSKA Moscow)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203656-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n*International player's flags indicate nation of origin whereas Russian born player's flags indicate the Federal subject of origin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203657-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kor Royal Cup\nThe 2009 Kor Royal Cup was the 76th Kor Royal Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Thailand Premier League competitions. The match was contested at Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, on 1 March 2009, and contested by 2008 Thailand Premier League champions PEA, and Chonburi as the runners-up of the 2008 Thailand Premier League. The game ended in a 1\u20130 winning for Chonburi \u2013 the goal coming from Suree Sukha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse\nThe 2009 Korba chimney collapse occurred in the town of Korba in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 23 September 2009. It was under construction under contract for the Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (BALCO). Construction had reached 240\u00a0m (790\u00a0ft) when the chimney collapsed on top of more than 100 workers who had been taking shelter from a thunderstorm. At least 45 deaths were recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse, Incident and rescue\nPlans specify a 275-metre (902\u00a0ft) chimney for the construction of a thermal power plant by Balco, which is owned by Vedanta Resources. The incident happened during extreme weather conditions involving lightning and torrential rainfall. Workers sought shelter from the rain in a nearby store room, and a lightning strike at approximately 16:00 brought the chimney down on top of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse, Incident and rescue\nA rescue attempt was initiated following the collapse. Ongoing rain obstructed efforts to retrieve the trapped workers. At least seven of the wounded were hospitalised. A Gannon Dunkerley & Co Ltd employee was allegedly lynched by angry workers; his corpse was located near the scene. It was originally thought he had fallen from the chimney, but wounds indicate he was attacked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse, Reaction\nAn investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the collapse. Balco initially did not discuss the incident at length, stating only that \"[t]here is an accident and some people are injured\"; claiming to be too busy with the rescue effort to make a longer statement. The state government believes that Balco had been \"overlooking security aspects\". District superintendent of police, Ratanlal Dangi, described it as \"a massive accident\". Rs.100,000 (US$2084) in compensation will be granted to relatives of each of the dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse, Reaction\nIn November 2009, the project manager from GDCL was arrested, as well as three officials from Vedanta Resources which manages Balco. Later the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur observed that the materials were of substandard quality and technically faulty in design. NIT also concluded that there was improper water curing and that soil at the site was not up to code. Additionally, supervision and monitoring was found to be negligent. On 11 January 2010, as a result of these findings, three senior officials of Sepco, the Chinese company contracted to build the chimney, were arrested and are being held without bail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203658-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Korba chimney collapse, Litigations\nThe 2009 Korba Chimney Collapse case was headed by Judge Mahadev Katulkar. On 26 November 2009, he rejected bail pleas of BALCO officials, including Vice-President and AGM[clarification needed] of BALCO. He then sent the pair into judicial custody. Later, on 18 January 2010, Katulkar rejected the bail pleas of three Chinese nationals who were contracted by SEPCO to build the power plant by BALCO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203659-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korea National League\nThe 2009 Korea National League was the seventh season of the Korea National League. It was divided in two stages, and the top two clubs of the overall table qualified for the championship playoffs in addition to the winners of each stage. The first stage began on 11 April, and ended on 11 July. The second stage started on 21 August, and ended on 22 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203660-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korea National League Championship\nKorea National Championship 2009 was the cup competition of the second-tier N-League in South Korea in 2009. The 6th edition of the Korea National Championship was held from June 1 to June 12 in Yanggu, Gangwon-do. 14 clubs from the N-League and amateurs Gumi Siltron participated for a total of 15 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203660-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korea National League Championship\nGoyang Kookmin Bank won the competition by defeating Daejeon HNP FC in the final on 12 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203661-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korea Open Super Series\nThe 2009 Korea Open Super Series was held from January 13, 2009 to January 18, 2009. It was a part of the 2009 BWF Super Series badminton tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203662-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korea Professional Baseball season\nThe 2009 Korea Professional Baseball season was the 28th season in the history of the KBO League. The Kia Tigers won the regular season and the Korean Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203663-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean FA Cup\nThe 2009 Korean FA Cup, known as the  2009 Hana Bank FA Cup, was the 14th edition of the Korean FA Cup. It began on 1 March 2009, and ended on 8 November 2009. Suwon Samsung Bluewings won their second title, and qualified for the 2010 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203664-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean FA Cup Final\nThe 2009 Korean FA Cup Final was a football match played on 8 November 2009 at Seongnam Stadium in Seongnam that decided the winner of the 2009 season of the Korean FA Cup. The 2009 final was the culmination of the 14th season of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203664-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean FA Cup Final\nThe final was contested by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Suwon Samsung Bluewings. The match kicked off at 14:00 KST. The referee for the match was Choi Kwang-Bo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203665-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean League Cup\nThe 2009 Korean League Cup, also known as the Peace Cup Korea 2009, was the 22nd competition of the Korean League Cup. It began on 25 March 2009, and ended on 16 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203665-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean League Cup, Group stage\nAll K League clubs excluding participating clubs of the 2009 AFC Champions League entered the group stage. Clubs ranked odd-numbered places in the 2008 K League were assigned to the Group A, and even-numbered clubs were assigned to the Group B. The fledgling club Gangwon FC entered the Group A. The top two clubs of each group qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series\nThe 2009 Korean Series was the 27th edition of Korea Baseball Organization's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff is played between the KIA Tigers (1st) and the SK Wyverns (2nd). The KIA Tigers won the series in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nMonday, October 19, 2009 at Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nTuesday, October 20, 2009 at Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThursday, October 22, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 6\nFriday, October 23, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203666-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Series, Game summaries, Game 7\nSaturday, October 24, 2009 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203667-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Tour\nThe 2009 Korean Tour was a season on the Korean Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments. The table below shows the season results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203667-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Tour, Order of Merit\nThe Order of Merit used a points system. Points were awarded based on the player's position in each event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203667-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Korean Tour, Prize money leaders\n'Events' refers to the number of tournaments in which the player won prize money. Prize money won in the Ballantine's Championship did not count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203668-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Korfball European Bowl\nThe 2009 Korfball European Bowl was the qualifying competition for the 2010 European Korfball Championship, split into two divisions: West, in Luxembourg, and East, in Prievidza (Slovakia). 3 best teams of each division will join the 10 qualified-teams-by-ranking for competing in the European Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203668-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Korfball European Bowl, East division\nThe East Division took place in Prievidza (Slovakia) from 31 October to 1 November and the winners were Slovakia. Serbia and Turkey were qualified for European Championships too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203668-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Korfball European Bowl, West division\nThe West Division took place in Luxembourg from 7 to 8 November, and the winners were Wales. Scotland and Ireland were the other teams qualified for the European Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203669-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kosovan local elections\nLocal elections were held in Kosovo on 15 November and 13 December 2009. These were the first local elections to be held after Kosovo declared independence in February 2008. The elections were to elect mayors and municipal councils in 36 municipalities, and were contested by 37 ethnic Albanian parties and 21 Serbian lists. All citizens with a valid ID were able to vote in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203669-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kosovan local elections\nPieter Feith, the European Union Special Representative  in Kosovo, declared before the election that he expected the elections to \"pass the democratic test\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203669-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kosovan local elections\nThe elections were still unfinished two months after starting. Many cities recounted votes or ordered fresh voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203669-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kosovan local elections\nPrizren and Lipljan held their elections on 31 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203670-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open\nThe 2009 Ko\u0161ice Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ko\u0161ice, Slovakia between 8 and 14 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203670-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203670-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203670-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open, Champions, Doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Dominik Hrbat\u00fd /  Martin Kli\u017ean, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203671-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open \u2013 Doubles\nTomasz Bednarek and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions. They didn't participate that year. Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura defeated Dominik Hrbat\u00fd and Martin Kli\u017ean 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203672-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ko\u0161ice Open \u2013 Singles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol was the defending champion; however, he didn't participate this year. St\u00e9phane Robert won in the final 7\u20136(5), 7\u20136(5), against Ji\u0159\u00ed Van\u011bk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203673-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship\nThe 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship was played April 2\u20135 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 38th edition of the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the 27th as a women's major golf championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203673-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship\nBrittany Lincicome, age 23, eagled the final hole to win her first major, one stroke ahead of runner-up Cristie Kerr; the victory was her third on the LPGA Tour. Down a stroke on the 72nd hole, Lincicome's second shot at the 485-yard (443\u00a0m) par-5 stopped within four feet (1.2\u00a0m) of the flagstick and she sank the putt. Defending champion Lorena Ochoa finished eight strokes back, tied for twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203674-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado\nThe 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado was an F3 tornado that occurred on Jun\u0435 3, 2009, in Krasnozavodsk near Sergiev Posad in the Moscow region at 22.15 MST. It was the first powerful tornado in the vicinity of Moscow since the tornado of 1984. By damage registered in photo and video materials, this tornado is categorised at F2 at its rise, and at F3 at maximum stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203674-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Synopsis\nLate on June\u00a03, 2009, a cold-core non-tropical low pressure area located over the Baltic Sea collided with a warm air mass, creating atmospheric instability. The result was a line of severe thunderstorms, also known as a squall line, in the Moscow area. One of the thunderstorms broke off and developed into a supercell thunderstorm about 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) from Moscow, Russia. The supercell spawned a 150\u00a0m (490\u00a0ft) wide tornado in Krasnozavodsk. The tornado reached F3 intensity along its path. The tornado was the first intense tornado to impact the Moscow region in nearly 25 years. Upwards of 38\u00a0mm (1.5\u00a0in) of rain fell throughout the impacted regions. This is roughly half the monthly rainfall average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203674-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Impact\nThe tornado damaged and destroyed numerous homes within the Moscow region. The most severe damage took place in Krasnozavodsk where nine people were reportedly killed, one of whom was later confirmed, and 185 others were injured. The fatality occurred after a boy was pinned underneath a downed tree. Teachers rushed to pull the child from the fallen tree but were unable to free him. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene by the time they arrived. High winds produced by the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado cut power to 40,000 people throughout 250 towns in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203674-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Impact\nLive power lines downed by the tornado sparked fires that destroyed ten structures. Damage from the fires amounted to 170\u00a0million RUB (US$5.3\u00a0million). In Moscow, winds up to 61\u00a0km/h (38\u00a0mph) downed 90 trees, damaged 25 advertisement billboards and several homes. Forty-two homes were damaged by the tornado, ranging from roof damage to severe interior damage, 60 vehicles were either thrown or damaged, and 360 trees were uprooted. Damages from the tornado were estimated at 350\u00a0million RUB (US$11.3\u00a0million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203674-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado, Aftermath\nFollowing the severe weather, emergency response teams were deployed to the affected regions. Cleanup crews also quickly began to remove debris from roadways and rebuild downed power lines. By June\u00a011, all roads were cleared. By June\u00a014, repair to the damaged homes were complete as all the roofs were replaced by city officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203675-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup\nThe 2009 Kremlin Cup was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the Kremlin Cup, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, from 17 October through 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203675-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203675-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203675-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Men's Doubles\nPablo Cuevas /  Marcel Granollers defeated  Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k, 4\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203675-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Women's Doubles\nMaria Kirilenko /  Nadia Petrova defeated  Maria Kondratieva /  Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203676-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSergiy Stakhovsky and Potito Starace were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers won in the final 4\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20138] against Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203677-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Men's Singles\nIgor Kunitsyn was the defending champion, but lost to Evgeny Korolev in the first round. Mikhail Youzhny won in the final 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20130, 6\u20134 against Janko Tipsarevi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203678-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nNadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik were the defending champions, but Srebotnik chose to participate at the BGL Luxembourg Open instead. Petrova partnered up with Maria Kirilenko, and they won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20132 against Maria Kondratieva and Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203679-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 was the defending champion, but she lost in the quarterfinals to Alisa Kleybanova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203679-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kremlin Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nFrancesca Schiavone won the title, defeating Olga Govortsova in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203680-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuala Terengganu by-election\nKuala Terengganu by-election of 2009 was held on 17 January 2009 after the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Razali Ismail. In the 2008 election, Datuk Razali won by a slim 628 vote majority, defeating Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) heavyweight Mohamad Sabu and 89-year-old independent candidate, Maimun Yusuf. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Barisan Nasional were confident that Barisan Nasional would retain the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat. The Prime Minister had rejected the assumption that there would be a big swing by the voters to the Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203680-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Kuala Terengganu by-election\nOpposition leader Anwar Ibrahim stated that Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) would support any candidate that PAS picked. He was optimistic that Pakatan Rakyat would win in Kuala Terengganu if all its coalition parties worked hard against Barisan Nasional. In the 2008 election Razali, a government minister of the UMNO party, defeated a PAS opposition candidate by 628 votes. For the by-election PAS nominated state assemblyman Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut, while Barisan Nasional nominated Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh. Mohd Abdul won the by-election by 2,631 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike\nThe 2009 Kunduz airstrike took place on Friday 4 September 2009 at roughly 2:30\u00a0am local time, 7\u00a0km (4.3\u00a0mi) southwest of Kunduz City, Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, near the hamlets of Omar Kheil by the border of the Chahar Dara and Ali Abad districts. Responding to a call by German forces, an American F-15E fighter jet struck two fuel tankers captured by Taliban insurgents, killing over 90 civilians in the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike\nBecause of the high civilian death toll, the airstrike had political repercussions, especially in Germany. In June 2010 Germany announced it would pay $5,000 to each of the families of over 100\u00a0civilian victims, as an ex gratia payment without admitting liability. The former Afghan Commerce Minister Amin Farhang described the $5,000\u2014equivalent to about 20,000 Afghanis\u2014as a \"laughable\" sum. Earlier, Germany had reclassified the Afghanistan deployment as an \"armed conflict within the parameters of international law\", allowing German forces to act without risk of prosecution under German law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers\nKunduz province, the site of the airstrike, was largely peaceful until Taliban militants started infiltrating the area in 2009. Critics blamed the Germans for allowing the infiltration of the north by the Taliban, although in fact there has been a Taliban presence in the area since the late 1990s and several major battles were fought against them in the area during the US/Northern Alliance invasion in 2001. The Germans insisted that they were taking a more aggressive stance and that they had killed or captured a number of insurgents in recent times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers\nThe events leading up to the American airstrike early Friday morning began the previous evening, as two fuel tankers were transporting fuel from Tajikistan into Afghanistan for NATO along the Northern Distribution Network. According to The Daily Telegraph, it was roughly 22:00 local time when they were approached by a group of Taliban and Chechens (apparently foreign volunteers), who killed several of the tanker drivers by beheading them and seized their vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Stolen tankers\nAccording to the Taliban version of events, they later opened the tankers up to looters to siphon fuel after one vehicle became immobilized in mud at a river crossing. It was at this point that the tankers were located by an American B-1B, and two F-15E Strike Eagles were dispatched there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nWith video of the scene being transmitted from the F-15Es, German Oberst (Colonel) Georg Klein was told by an intelligence officer in contact with a sole informant that all the people around the stationary tankers were insurgents. The German commander ordered that 500-pound GBU-38 bombs be dropped onto each of the two trucks at 2:30\u00a0am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nThe bombs struck two minutes later, exploding the oil tankers in a fireball that incinerated many of those around. The video in the German tactical operations center showed a huge mushroom cloud blanketing the area and revealed only a few fleeing survivors out of the 100 or so people that had previously been present on the screen. Abdul Malek, one of the truck drivers,  was sitting approximately 50 meters from the attack and later described it in an interview:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nAt first, there was a loud droning, like what you hear when a generator short-circuits. Then there was a bright flash. I just let myself fall forward and went down underwater. Even from there, I could feel the shock wave. For a few seconds, it was as bright as day. Even the water was heating up. When I came out of the water, the whole area around the tanker trucks was on fire. It looked like the ground was spitting up fire, though it was just the fuel from the trucks. It was unbearably hot. There were bodies lying everywhere; they were completely carbonized. I believe there were about 120 there before the bombing; only a handful survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nMalek stated that local Taliban had stolen the tankers in order to provide fuel to local villagers, who surrounded the tankers to siphon fuel when they became stuck in the riverbank. By his estimate, between 1/5 and 1/4 of those present were armed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nIt is unknown exactly how many people were killed in the resulting explosions but estimates of the death toll have ranged from 56 to 179. The governor of Kunduz, Mohammad Omar, stated that 90 people had been killed, amongst them a local Taliban commander and four Chechen fighters. An anonymous senior Afghan National Police officer said that around 40 civilians were killed in the blasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nA NATO fact-finding team estimated a day after the incident that about 125 people were killed in the U.S. airstrike, and that at least 24 \u2013 but perhaps many more \u2013 of those killed had been Afghan civilians. A later German investigation found that up to 142 people died in the attack, including over 100 Afghan civilian victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nThe strike occurred as villagers gathered to collect fuel from the tankers. The governor of Kunduz province has said that Taliban leaders are among the dead and was supportive of the ISAF attack. NATO has said its commanders had believed that only insurgents were in the vicinity. German forces had responded to the hijack at 12:30\u00a0pm and exchanged fire with militants within 40\u00a0minutes of arriving, but were unable to reclaim the vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Airstrike\nGerman forces stated that the strike took place after an unmanned surveillance aircraft had determined that there were no civilians in the area. German officials said the strike took place 40\u00a0minutes after the commanders requested it. It is unclear whether civilians began to assemble during that time, but one eyewitness claims that up to 500 people from surrounding villages swarmed the tankers for free fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nReaction to the airstrike was mixed. The French, Italian, and Swedish foreign ministers all generally criticized the airstrike, while German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung emphasized the danger posed by the stolen tankers. General Stanley McChrystal made a statement on Afghan television and visited the site of the bombing the following day; a NATO team charged with investigating the airstrike also arrived at the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nIn an interview with Le Figaro released on September 7, 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nWhat an error of judgment! More than 90 dead all because of a simple lorry that was, moreover, immobilised in a river bed. Why didn't they send in ground troops to recover the fuel tank?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nU.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was quoted by CNN as saying, \"from what I have seen today in going to the hospital, it's clear to me that there were some civilians that were harmed at that site.\" Afghan President Hamid Karzai has long been critical of the high civilian death toll caused by the tactics of the NATO International Security Assistance Force. News investigations called it the bloodiest German military action since World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nWhile initially downplayed by the German government which was busy in an election campaign at the time, the airstrike then dominated political debates in Germany for several months and in November 2009 led to the resignation of German labor minister Franz Josef Jung, who was defense minister during the attack. In early 2010, further material came to light, especially about the political handling in the German government, which brought further pressure on a number of people, including Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the new defense minister. The major German newsweekly Der Spiegel, in an exhaustive research article published in February 2010, called the incident a war crime due to the fact that the attack on the tankers had broken a number of rules of conduct, and had led to a  later cover-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction\nGerman public prosecuting authorities investigated the case, but announced on 20 April 2010 that the investigation was concluded and that no criminal proceedings would be initiated against Colonel Klein and Hauptfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) Wilhelm. They stressed that, according to their findings, neither the German penal code nor international criminal code had been violated; it was found that Colonel Klein and the soldiers under his command acted reasonably according to the information available to them at the time. It was explicitly stressed that later findings about the true situation (namely the presence of civilians) could not make the action illegal in retrospective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nOn the day of the events, September 4, 2009, the Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (CDU) defended the attack that was ordered by the German commander Colonel Georg Klein. On 8 September, NATO admitted that there had been a number of civilian casualties. On September 9, a report was made by the German military police (Feldj\u00e4ger) in which civilian victims are mentioned, including children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nSeveral German officials initially justified the airstrike: including on October 29, the Germany Army's Chief of Staff, General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and on November 6 the newly appointed Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nOn 26 November, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and deputy Defence Minister (Verteidigungs-Staatssekret\u00e4r) Peter Wichert had both resigned over allegations of a cover-up relating to the incident. A local commander was recalled to Germany while the public prosecution authorities investigated if international law had been breached; the commander only had one source of intelligence, who could not see the lorries, which was a violation of the rules of engagement designed to minimise civilian casualties in air attack missions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nOn November 27, Franz Josef Jung submitted his resignation as Germany's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesarbeitsminister), a position he had accepted after the September federal election, after repeatedly denying civilian deaths in the attack. The political parties SPD, Linke and Gr\u00fcne announced the forming of an investigation committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nOn December 3, in the German parliament, Guttenberg calls the airstrike unjustified. On December 9, the German weekly \"Der Stern\" published that Guttenberg had received a report of the International Red Cross already on November 6 in which civilian casualties were mentioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nIn February 2010 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced the Afghanistan deployment was being reclassified as an \"armed conflict within the parameters of international law\", which would allow German soldiers based in Afghanistan to act without the risk of being prosecuted under German law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Reaction, Political consequences\nColonel Georg Klein on the other hand has been promoted and appointed Brigadier General in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties\nInitially, the Bundeswehr did not investigate the results of the air strike, and for months acted as if there had been no civilian casualties. A German lawyer of Afghan descent, Karim Popal, identified 179 civilian victims, threatening legal action. A Bundeswehr investigation then identified 102 families of civilian victims. In June 2010 Germany announced it will pay $5,000 to each of almost all of the identified families, as an ex gratia payment without admitting liability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties\nThe earlier official Afghan report about the incident lists 119 dead. This includes 49 armed militants, 20 unarmed militants, 30 civilians and 20 unidentified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties\nThe first independent estimate of the death toll, on September 7, 2009, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), a prominent Afghan human rights group, said that up to 70 civilians had been killed in the German requested U.S. airstrike. The non-governmental group reached the figure based on interviews with local residents that indicated that 60 to 70 non-combatants had died in the airstrike, as well as more than a dozen armed men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Casualties\nThe Taliban said they had also set up a commission to investigate the incident, and released a list of 79 civilians \u2013 showing name, father's name, and age \u2013 that they claimed had been killed in the airstrike. The list included 24 children under the age of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Bundesgerichtshof Judges' Opinion\nIn 2021 two judges from the German Federal Court of Justice's third senate (which had dismissed damage claims by Afghan families over the incident) wrote a letter to the editor of Neue Juristische Wochenschrift where they complained about the public perception of the affair, describing it as \"ultimately based on a Taliban propaganda victory,\" and decried as highly regrettable how Col. Klein was portrayed in a wrong light as having recklessly ordered a bombing that killed over 100 people, including many civilians and even children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203681-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Kunduz airstrike, Bundesgerichtshof Judges' Opinion\nAccording to their letter, information that had become public in lower courts had been largely ignored by the press, including the confirmed facts that the attacking aircraft had been circling the site at an altitude of only 360 meters for 41 minutes prior to the bombing, and that only around 30 to 40 people were in the vicinity of the tankers when the bombs were dropped; by that point there would not have been any civilians there anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203682-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election\nThe 2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election (Chinese: 2009\u5e74\u4e2d\u570b\u570b\u6c11\u9ee8\u4e3b\u5e2d\u9078\u8209) was held on 26 July 2009 in Taiwan with Ma Ying-jeou as the sole candidate. This was the fourth direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang (KMT) history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203682-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election, Aftermath\nIn his victory speech, Ma promised to enhance cooperation between Kuomintang and the government, deal with party assets and continue efforts to communicate with the opposition Pan-Green Coalition parties. He wished for the KMT to become a party of integrity, democracy and effectiveness. He would be inaugurated as the chairman on the upcoming party congress scheduled on 12 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election\nThe Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote. The elections followed the 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. The parliamentary elections coincided with the direct election of the President of Kurdistan. Unlike the parliamentary elections in 2005, the president of Kurdistan was to be chosen directly through popular votes. A referendum to approve the constitution of Kurdistan Region originally planned for the same day was put back to 1 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election\nCampaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting started. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan Region and 5 polling stations in Baghdad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Supervision\nThe elections for the Kurdistan National Assembly were administered by the Independent High Electoral Commission. In addition, international observers monitored the elections, including from the European Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Supervision\nThe elections were originally scheduled to take place on 19 May, but were delayed until 25 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Minorities\nEleven of the 111 seats are reserved for minorities. Five are reserved for Assyrians, five for Turkmen, and one for Armenians. The Assyrian seats will be contested by four lists, the Turkmen seats by four as well and the Armenian seat by three individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Voting system\nThe voting system to be used is the closed list system, as was used for the 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. The open list system had been introduced for the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections elsewhere in Iraq, and the decision to stay with a closed list was criticised by members of the Kurdistan National Assembly who argued open lists strengthened the relationship between voters and candidates and reduced corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Voting system\nAt least 30% of the candidates on each list must be female.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Electoral candidates\nThere were 509 candidates running in the elections, from 25 parties or lists. Five of these entities were electoral alliances and others were political parties. The two main Kurdish parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq of Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of the President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani - continued their electoral coalition in the Kurdistani List. They were challenged by the Change List led by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the former deputy secretary general of the PUK and Jawhar Namiq, a former secretary general of the KDP and speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly. The Kurdistan Islamic Union and Islamic Group in Kurdistan formed a coalition with two secular parties called the Service and Reform List. The full list of entities, each with their lot number, are listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 905]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign\nDuring the campaign, the electoral commission was reported to have fined the Kurdistani List 3 million riyals for unspecified electoral violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign\nA poll of 1,000 people by the Kurdistan-based Point Organization for Opinion Polls & Strategic Studies found most thought the Change List would pose a serious challenge but 49% thought the Kurdistani List would use \"threats and fraud\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe Change List has accused the ruling parties of sacking regional government employees who had links to their party. They also claimed that a colonel in the peshmerge regional army had been arrested for supporting them. A Kurdistani List candidate responded by saying \"No party allows its members to vote for another list\". The Progress List also accused regional intelligence agents of threatening to kill their supporters. Supporters of the change List were shot at in Kifri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign\nSupporters of the Kurdistani and Change Lists clashed in Sulaimaniyah and were separated by police wielding taser guns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Campaign\nWorker-communist Party of Kurdistan boycotted the elections because conditions and principles for a fair elections were not met.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Results\nInitial reports gave the Kurdistani List 60 percent of the vote, equating to around 55 seats. The Change List claimed it had won around 28 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Results\nAccording to the Los Angeles Times, \"Change mounted a spirited challenge to the monopoly on power of the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, making this the first competitive election the semiautonomous enclave has seen. Turnout was put at 78.5%, an indication of the enthusiasm the contest has generated among Kurds.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203683-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, Results\nThe following tables show the results of the parliamentary and presidential votes by party and by presidential candidate. Seats in yellow indicate reserved minority seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203684-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region presidential election\nThe Kurdistan Region presidential elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote in the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the President of Kurdistan Region was chosen directly through popular votes. People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203684-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region presidential election\nLike the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting starts. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203684-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region presidential election\nHalow Ibrahim Ahmed was seen as the leading challenger to the incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203684-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kurdistan Region presidential election, Results\nA total of 1,819,652 people, approximately 80% of the registered voters, participated in the election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203685-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kutonen\nLeague tables for teams participating in Kutonen, the seventh tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup\nThe Kuwaiti Crown Prince Cup is an end of season cup competition involving teams from the Kuwaiti Premier League and the Kuwaiti Division One league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup\nIn previous editions, the competition has been played over two legs but was altered to one leg for this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup\nAl Kuwait Kaifan, the current holders of the cup and last years finalists Al Qadsia receive a bye to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup, First round\n12 teams played a knockout tie. 6 clubs advanced to the next round. The games were played between 30 April and 2 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup, Quarter-Finals\n8 teams play a knockout tie. 4 clubs advance to the next round. Games played between 10 & 11 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203686-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup, Semi-Finals\n4 teams play a knockout tie. 2 clubs advance to the final. Games played on 14 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203687-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Emir Cup\nThe Kuwaiti Emir Cup is an end of season cup competition involving teams from the Kuwaiti Premier League and the Kuwaiti Division One league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203687-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Emir Cup\nAl Arabi Kuwait is the current holders of the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 71]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203687-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Emir Cup, First round\n12 teams play a knockout tie. 6 clubs advance to the next round. Games played between 18 May and 21 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203687-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait Emir Cup, Final\nThis article about a Kuwaiti football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203688-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait wedding fire\nThe 2009 Kuwait wedding fire was an arson attack that occurred during a wedding ceremony in Oyoun, Jahra Governorate, Kuwait on August 15, 2009. At least 57 people were killed and about 90 others wounded when the groom's 23-year-old first wife, Nasra Yussef Mohammad al-Enezi, to take revenge for her husband taking a second wife, poured petrol on a tent where women and children were celebrating and set it on fire. Within three minutes the whole tent, which had only one exit and did not meet fire safety regulations, was engulfed in flames, trapping many inside. It was the deadliest civilian disaster in Kuwait in the last 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203688-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwait wedding fire\nThere was only one exit. It had been claimed that the temperature inside the tent was above 500 degrees Celsius (930 \u00b0F). Although al-Enezi recanted a confession she had given to police after her arrest, stating in court she had only sprayed the tent with cursed water, but did not set it on fire, she was found guilty of premeditated murder and starting a fire with the intent to kill and sentenced to death on March 30, 2010. She was hanged by the Kuwaiti Central Prison authorities on January 25, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203689-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwaiti general election\nEarly general elections were held in Kuwait on 16 May 2009, the country's third in a three-year period. Kuwait had voted on six occasions between 1991 and 2009. The turnout rate was 50%. The election was notable in that four women were elected for the first time since Kuwait gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203689-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwaiti general election, Background\nThe Constitutional Court dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait on 18 March 2009 over accusations of supposed abuse of democracy and threats to political stability. The government had resigned just two days before to evade questioning in parliament. Suggested solutions to this recurring problem (government resignation) include the formation of a government without any members of the royal family (a so-called \"popular government\"), thus making the possibility of parliamentary questioning a reality, or appointing the crown prince as PM, which would make parliamentary questioning sufficiently unlikely so that it would not be a problem any more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203689-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwaiti general election, Candidates\n210 candidates attempted to win 50 seats. 16 were female.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203689-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwaiti general election, Results\nThe results were announced on 17 May 2009. Liberals won at least 8 seats while Independent candidates won 20 seats. Four elected female MPs won. Four women were elected in the parliament. Aseel al-Awadhi and Rola Dashti were victors in the third district. Also winning were Massouma al-Mubarak and Salwa al-Jassar. When voting was first introduced in Kuwait in 1985, Kuwaiti women had the right to vote. This right was later removed. Women in Kuwait were later re-granted the right to vote and stand in parliamentary and local elections in May 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203689-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kuwaiti general election, Results\nSunni Islamists lost more than 10 seats less than the 2008 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203690-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kvalserien\nThe 2009 Kvalserien was the 35th Kvalserien qualification for Elitserien, played between 13 March and 9 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203690-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kvalserien\nThe 2009 Kvalserien included six teams. In this year's Kvalserien, S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje and R\u00f6gle, who both came from Elitserien, qualified for the 2009\u201310 Elitserien season. It was the first time since 2003 that both teams from Elitserien managed to stay in Elitserien via Kvalserien. AIK made their first Kvalserien qualification for Elitserien since 2004. V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers made their first Kvalserien qualification for Elitserien in the club's history. S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje won the 2009 Kvalserien, ending at 22 points, followed by R\u00f6gle who got 19 points. AIK finished at third place and thus missed promotion to Elitserien, ending at 16 points, 3 points behind R\u00f6gle. Leksand missed Elitserien for the fourth consecutive year, ending at 14 points. V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers ended at fifth place with 10 points, and V\u00e4ster\u00e5s finished last with 9 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203691-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round was the sixth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 15\u201317, 2009 at Kyalami, South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 23 July 2009. The date was set after the constitutional court ruled that the extension of the presidential term from four to five years did not apply until the next presidential election, calling for elections by 25 October 2009; in response, a parliament committee proposed the July election date, which was then passed by the incumbent president Kurmanbek Bakiyev's Ak Jol-dominated parliament. Bakiyev had previously announced his intention to run for reelection. Bakiyev was re-nominated on 1 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election\nOn election day the main opposition candidate, Almazbek Atambayev, withdrew from the contest, citing his belief that fraud was employed extensively and thus considers the election illegitimate. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) also claimed that Bakiyev had unfair advantages in terms of superior media coverage of his campaign, and vote rigging. Eventually, Bakiyev was declared the winner of the election with 76% of the vote. An opposition rally on election day was broken up by Kyrgyz police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Candidates\nOn 20 April 2009, the United Opposition announced its candidate \u2013 Almazbek Atambayev, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, the only opposition party represented in parliament. Another opposition politician, former defence minister Ismail Isakov, announced on 19 May 2009 that he would withdraw from the race to improve Atambayev's chances, reducing the field from 18 to 17 potential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Candidates\nApart from Bakiyev and Atambayev, three more candidacies were approved: Those of Toktayym \u00dcm\u00f6talieva (chairwoman of the Association of Nongovernmental and Nonprofit Organizations), physician Jengishbek Nazaraliev and Temir Sariyev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Candidates\nBakiyev's advertising campaign consisted primarily of television ads, billboards, and paper fliers in windows of stores, companies, and kiosks. Nazaraliev's advertising campaign consisted mainly of propaganda fliers and journals passed out to residences in Kyrgyzstan, as well as small paper advertisements stuck to walls and posts throughout Bishkek. Atambaev held rallies and also had paper advertisements posted. Motuev had at least one billboard, near ZUM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Election day\nOn polling day Atambayev withdrew his candidacy claiming widespread fraud; he stated: \"Due to massive, unprecedented violations, we consider these elections illegitimate and a new election should be held.\" Independent candidate Jenishbek Nazaraliev also withdrew on election day. The OSCE stated that Bakiyev gained an \"unfair advantage\" and that the media bias \"did not allow voters to make an informed choice.\" Additionally, they found that the election was \"marred by many problems and irregularities\", citing ballot stuffing and problems with the vote counting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Election day\nAn opposition rally of 1,000 people in Balykchy during election day was broken up by riot police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Results\nAs of 22:00 local time in Kyrgyzstan on 26 July 2009 (with 2,282 of 2,330 polling districts reporting), Bakiev was reported had won the election with 77.81% of the vote. Earlier in the day (00:40 local time), the results showed the same number of districts reporting, but the numbers were significantly different, showing that Bakiyev had won with 82.62% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203692-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyz presidential election, Results\nThe day after the election the opposition said it planned to hold more protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203693-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyzstan League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 78.1.10.64 (talk) at 20:30, 8 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203693-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyzstan League\nThe 2009 Kyrgyzstan League (Kyrgyz: Vysshaja Liga) was the 18th season of the top-level football league of Kyrgyzstan. It began in May 2009 with the first match of the regular season and finished in November 2009 with a championship decision match between Abdish-Ata Kant and Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203693-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyzstan League, Regular season\nEach team played against every other team once at home and once away for a total of sixteen matches. The best four teams advanced to the Championship Pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203693-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Kyrgyzstan League, Championship Pool, Decision match\nSince Abdish-Ata and Dordoi-Dynamo finished the Championship Pool with an equal number of points, a decision match will determine the 2009 league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203694-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger\nThe 2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kolding, Denmark between 12 and 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203694-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203694-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Fischer /  Philipp Oswald def. Jonathan Marray /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203695-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nBrendan Evans and Chris Haggard were the defending champions, but they chose to not defend their title. Austrian pair Martin Fischer and Philipp Oswald won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Jonathan Marray and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203696-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 K\u00f8bst\u00e6dernes ATP Challenger \u2013 Singles\nRoko Karanu\u0161i\u0107 chose not to defend his 2009 title. Alex Bogdanovic won this tournament, after Ivan Dodig disqualification in the final (when the result was 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500\nThe 2009 L&H 500 was the Race 17 of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of 11 to 13 September at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia. This was the ninth running of the Phillip Island 500 and the second time that Phillip Island had served as the venue for the annual 500 kilometre two-driver V8 Supercar endurance race. Unique to this event, two preliminary 14 lap Qualifying Races were held on Saturday with the two drivers of each car starting one race each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 L&H 500\nA single pitstop by each car in either race was mandated with the combined results of the two races determining the grid for the main 500 kilometre race. The three races all carried championship points and together constituted \"Race 17\" of the championship. However the finishing positions at the end of the 500\u00a0km race were deemed to be the finishing positions of the \"2009 L&H 500\" regardless of the total points scored by drivers over the three individual races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500\nFor the first time since 2004, teams from outside of the V8 Supercar Championship Series were invited to compete in a championship race. Consequently, three single-car teams from the 2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series contested the L&H500, bringing the total entry up to 32 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Saturday 12 September 2009. Driver A Qualifying was interrupted by a red flag after Greg Ritter spun his Garry Rogers Motorsport Commodore in a sensitive position at turn 3 in the middle of the session which upset session plans for many teams. Paul Dumbrell set a time early in the session before the red which ended up standing for the session, taking pole position in his first drive for the Holden Racing Team. Todd Kelly worked down to his time, just one hundredth of a second behind Dumbrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Qualifying\nWill Davison and Steven Johnson also set their best laps early in the session to fill the second row of the grid. Warren Luff ably backed up teammate Johnson to be the fastest of the non-full-time V8 Supercar drivers in fifth position alongside the Ford of Steven Richards. David Reynolds was seventh fastest, a career best, ahead of Craig Lowndes with Dean Canto and Cameron McConville completing the tenth fastest drivers. Of the remaining positions the full-time drivers were generally faster. The best of the three wild card entries was Brad Lowe in 27th while at the tail Andrew Fisher was eighth tenths slower than Leanne Tander. Dean Fiore was excluded from qualifying and started the Driver A race from pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Qualifying\nMark Winterbottom recorded the fastest lap of either session to take Driver B pole position ahead of Fabian Coulthard and Rick Kelly, both of whom were faster than Dumbrell's Driver A pole position. James Courtney, Jason Richards, Jason Bright, Jamie Whincup, Garth Tander, Alex Davison and Jonathon Webb completed the top ten. Webb, matching his co-driver Luff to be the fastest part-time V8 racer. Andrew Thompson was impressive in eleventh. Damian Assaillit was the fastest wildcard driver in 25th, just behind triple touring car world champion Andy Priaulx. The other triple world champ, Superbike's Troy Bayliss was last, the slowest driver of the day and a full second slower than Tony Ricciardello who was 31st in the Driver B session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver A Race\nPoor start by both Dick Johnson Racing Falcons, but particularly Steven Johnson made a mess of the start. Todd Kelly took the early lead from Paul Dumbrell and Will Davison. Craig Lowndes forced past Steven Richards into fourth position with David Reynolds and Dean Canto in close company. Dumbrell lost two spots in the next few laps as Lowndes charged through the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver A Race\nKarl Reindler was spun by Paul Morris on the opening lap while Brad Lowe pitted with a steering problem. Jason Richards, Steven Johnson and Michael Patrizi pitted early in the race getting the compulsory stop for either race out of the way. For Johnson after dropping 20 positions at the start, he had nothing to lose by pitting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver A Race\nKelly and Lowndes raced clear of the field to take the top two positions. Davison was third ahead of Shane van Gisbergen who climbed through the field from outside the top ten to finish fourth. Russell Ingall climbed into fifth while Dumbrell faded to sixth. Reynolds was seventh ahead of Canto, Steve Owen and Dane Allan Simonsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver A Race\nSteven Richards and Cameron McConville were the best finishing drivers who made pitstops, finishing 15th and 16th. Johnson recovered to 19th. Lowe finished four laps down, but did finish with all cars making the finish. Morris was subsequently disqualified for his contact with Reindler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver B Race\nThe first race was held on Saturday 12 September 2009. Jason Richards stalled on the grid, but got going again, Warren Luff was also slow away. Mark Winterbottom led Fabian Coulthard, Rick Kelly, Garth Tander, James Courtney, Jason Bright and Jamie Whincup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver B Race\nTony Ricciardello speared off and beached his Commodore at the final turn of the opening lap and Nathan Pretty pitted with damage and retired without completing a lap. A safety car was called to retrieve Ricciardello. Greg Murphy spun at the restart at Siberia after contact with Jason Bargwanna. Tander and Alex Davison were the first to stop. The Stone Brothers Racing team serviced their car faster, but not by enough, and the pair made contact in pitlane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver B Race\nA broken ballast bracket on Rick Kelly's car broke loose, dragging underneath the car. A black flag was prepared for Kelly and he pitted immediately for repairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, Driver B Race\nWinterbottom dominated the race, and combined with Steven Richards result from the Driver A race secured pole position for the 500 kilometre race on Sunday. Fabian Coulthard's second position was a career best with Jason Bright finishing third. James Courtney was fourth ahead of David Besnard (best part-time racer), Jason Bargwanna, Andrew Thompson, John McIntyre, Jonathon Webb with Jason Richards completing the top ten race positions. Jamie Whincup was the best of the pitstop drivers in 19th position, a result good enough the secure the other front row starting position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nThe 500\u00a0km race was held on Sunday 13 September 2009. Dean Fiore broke an alternator, depriving Troy Bayliss of his first V8 Supercar race start. Whincup won the start with Will Davison forcing past Steven Richards into second position. Alex Davison and Coulthard followed. Youlden was slowing early with bodywork rubbing a tyre after contact in the left rear corner. Coulthard had a mechanical failure in the engine bay causing a fire under the bonnet. Several cars following slid off track from spilt oil. Lap 11 contact between Karl Reindler and Dale Wood made contact and spin off track at turn 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nSteven Richards started losing race positions dropping back to fifth as David Besnard charged through the field in the Garry Rogers Motorsport Commodore, climb to fourth behind the Davison brothers. Greg Murphy pitted early, putting Mark Skaife back into racing in second last position. Alex Davison had a wheel failure due to a loose nut on the front right wheel which has cut the wheel in half causing him to spear off at Lukey Heights whilst defending third from Besnard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nComing down the front straight Steve Owen and Cameron McConville made contact, breaking the steering on McConville's car who then speared straight off the track at turn 1 at high speed and eventually crossed the track again between turns two and three, almost hitting Besnard. Immediately afterwards on camera McConville blamed Owen for blocking several times on the straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nUnder the ensuing safety car approximately 20 cars pitted. After the restart Lowndes and Tander having taken over their cars charged into the race lead, quickly cutting through the slower cars that had worked through to the front of the safety car queue. Further back as the field sorted itself out Lee Holdsworth left the track at turn two after contact with Allan Simonsen. Simonsen received a drive-through penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nOn lap 32 Holdsworth with damaged to the front left corner speared off at turn one after contact on the front straight with Brad Jones. Holdsworth pulled the car up short of crossing the track again and the car limped back to the pits. Jones suffered a puncture in the right rear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nWhincup now led from Will Davison, Johnson and Rick Kelly. Lap 48 saw a power steering failure in Jason Bargwanna's Commodore. Lap 52 saw Johnson pit from third and change to Courtney. A lap later Whincup and Will Davison pitted from first and second with Lowndes rejoining ahead of Tander. Tander immediately closed the gap. Bright became the third car to have a big lose at turn one, this one from brake failure. The front right tyre then punctured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nOn lap 66 Todd Kelly slowed dramatically. Brad Jones finally retired. As the race approached lap 80 Lowndes had built a small gap over Tander with Winterbottom climbing into the podium positions as Courtney lost ground. Tander pitted on lap 82. Lowndes on lap 83, rejoining still ahead of Tander. Winterbottom pitted on lap 84 from the inherited lead. Courtney pitted on lap 85 again from the lead, handing the lead to Todd Kelly. Lap 88 saw Craig Lowndes leave the circuit at turn 2, causing him to lose the lead to Tander. Ten laps later Lowndes took the lead back on the run towards turn three after the pair had a small moment at turn two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203697-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 L&H 500, 500km Race\nLowndes found front right tyre was delaminating with three laps to go. Gradually the car slowed but Tander was able to pounce halfway around the final lap to take the win. Lowndes hung on for second position ahead of Mark Winterbottom and James Courtney. The Kelly brothers finished in fifth position ahead of the best of the part-time combinations, Warren Luff and Jonathon Webb. Russell Ingall and Tim Slade, Craig Baird and Paul Dumbrell, Dean Canto and Luke Youlden and Alex Davison and Shane van Gisbergen completed the top ten race finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake\nThe 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The main shock occurred at 03:32 CEST (01:32 UTC) on 6 April 2009, and was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter magnitude scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together with surrounding villages suffered the most damage. There have been several thousand foreshocks and aftershocks since December 2008, more than thirty of which had a Richter magnitude greater than 3.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake\nThe earthquake was felt throughout central Italy; 308 people are known to have died, making this the deadliest earthquake to hit Italy since the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. In a subsequent inquiry of the handling of the disaster, seven members of the Italian National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks were accused of giving \"inexact, incomplete and contradictory\" information about the danger of the tremors prior to the main quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake\nOn 22 October 2012, six scientists and one ex-government official were convicted of multiple manslaughter for downplaying the likelihood of a major earthquake six days before it took place. They were each sentenced to six years' imprisonment, but the verdict was overturned on 10 November 2014. Criticism was also applied to poor building standards that led to the failure of many modern buildings in a known earthquake zone: an official at Italy's Civil Protection Agency, Franco Barberi, said that \"in California, an earthquake like this one would not have killed a single person\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Cause\nThis earthquake was caused by movement on a NW-SE trending normal fault according to moment tensor solutions. Although Italy lies in a tectonically complex region, the central part of the Apennines has been characterised by extensional tectonics since the Pliocene epoch (i.e. about the last 5\u00a0million years), with most of the active faults being normal in type and NW-SE trending. The extension is due to the back-arc basin in the Tyrrhenian Sea opening faster than the African Plate is colliding with the Eurasian Plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Cause\nThe earthquake occurred at 03:32 CEST (01:32 UTC) at the relatively shallow depth of 9.46 kilometres (5.88\u00a0mi) and with an epicentre at 42.3476\u00b0\u00a0N, 13.3800\u00a0\u00b0E, approximately 90 kilometres (60\u00a0mi) north-east of Rome, near the city of L'Aquila. The earthquake was reported to measure 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Historical context\nEarthquakes mark the history of L'Aquila, a city built on the bed of an ancient lake, providing a soil structure that amplifies seismic waves. The city was struck by earthquakes in 1315, 1349, 1452, 1501, 1646, 1703, 1706 and 1958. The earthquake of February 1703, which caused devastation across much of central Italy, largely destroyed the city and killed around 5,000 people. In addition, a 1915 earthquake that killed more than 30,000 people and obliterated almost every building in Avezzano and several villages around it happened within 35 kilometres (22\u00a0mi) from L'Aquila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nThe earthquake caused damage to between 3,000 and 11,000 buildings in the medieval city of L'Aquila. Several buildings also collapsed. A total of 308 people died in the earthquake, including five Macedonians, five Romanians, two Ukrainians, two Czechs, a Greek, a Moldovan, a Peruvian, an Argentinian, a French, and an Israeli, and approximately 1,500 people were injured. Twenty of the victims were children. Around 65,000 people were rendered homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nThe main earthquake was preceded by two smaller earthquakes the previous day. The earthquake was felt as far away as Rome (92 kilometres (57\u00a0mi) away), in other parts of Lazio, as well as Marche, Molise, Umbria and Campania. Schools remained closed in the Abruzzo region. Most of the inhabitants of L'Aquila abandoned their homes and the city itself; in the city centre of L'Aquila, and the nearby village of Paganica which was also badly damaged, many streets were impassable due to fallen masonry. The hospital at L'Aquila, where many of the victims were brought, suffered damage in the 4.8 aftershock which followed the main earthquake an hour later. Powerful aftershocks, some only slightly weaker than the main shock, were felt throughout the following 2 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nVillages in the valley along Strada Statale 17 just outside l'Aquila suffered the greatest damage while medieval mountain hill towns lying high above the valley suffered little damage. Onna was reported to be mostly leveled with 38 deaths among the 350 residents. The villages of Villa Sant'Angelo and San Pio delle Camere were badly damaged. Fatalities were reported in Poggio Picenze, Tornimparte, Fossa, Totani, San Gregorio and San Pio delle Camere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nMany of L'Aquila's medieval buildings were damaged. The apse of the Basilica of Saint Bernardino of Siena, L'Aquila's largest Renaissance church, was seriously damaged, and its campanile collapsed. Almost the whole dome of the 18th-century church of Anime Sante in Piazza Duomo fell down. The 13th-century Basilica di Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapsed from the transept to the back of the church, and Porta Napoli, the oldest gate to the city, was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nThe third floor of Forte Spagnolo, the 16th-century castle housing the National Museum of Abruzzo, collapsed, as did the cupola of the 18th-century Baroque church of St Augustine, damaging L'Aquila's state archives. This church had been rebuilt after it was destroyed in the 1703 earthquake. The Cathedral of L'Aquila has lost part of its transept and maybe more with the effects of the aftershocks. Slight damage was also reported to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, but other Roman monuments such as the Colosseum and Roman Forum were unharmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects\nWhile most of l'Aquila's medieval structures suffered damage, many of its modern buildings suffered the greatest damage, for instance, a dormitory at the university of l'Aquila collapsed. Even some buildings that were believed to be \"earthquake-proof\" were damaged. L'Aquila Hospital's new wing, which opened in 2000 and was thought capable of resisting almost any earthquake, suffered extensive damage and had to be closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects, Homeless camps\nAround 40,000 people who were made homeless by the earthquake found accommodation in tented camps and a further 10,000 were housed in hotels on the coast. Others sought shelter with friends and relatives throughout Italy. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi caused a controversy when he said, in an interview to the German station n-tv, that the homeless victims should consider themselves to be on a \"camping weekend\" \u2013 \"They have everything they need, they have medical care, hot food... Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. But they should see it like a weekend of camping.\" To clarify his thought, he also told the people in a homeless camp: \"Head to the beach. It's Easter. Take a break. We're paying for it, you'll be well looked after.\" The billionaire prime minister claimed he will offer his own house to some of the survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 901]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects, Building standards\nPoor building standards or construction materials seem to have further contributed to the large number of victims. According to firefighters and other rescuers, some concrete elements of the fallen buildings \"seemed to have been made poorly, possibly with sand\". An official at Italy's Civil Protection Agency, Franco Barberi, said that \"in California, an earthquake like this one would not have killed a single person\". According to Italian media, L'Aquila's chief prosecutor has opened a probe into possible criminal blame for the collapses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects, Luminous phenomena\nMany people reported seeing peculiar sightings of light glows, flashes, lightning, flames and fireballs, all of which were considered candidates for earthquake light. 241 luminous phenomena were collected including photos and videos. At least 99 of such phenomena occurred before the main shock and other strong events of the seismic sequence, whereas globular lights, luminous clouds and diffused light were more frequent before the quakes. Flashes were mostly observed during the main shock. Electrical discharges and flames were observed principally after the main shock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Effects, Luminous phenomena\nMany luminous events were observed before and after the main shock without the ground shaking and were very similar to those reported about two centuries ago. An earthquake alarm system has been proposed, based on a video sensing network to capture earthquake light and provide a warning if observations match threshold characteristics preceding a main shock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe epicentral region saw dozens of significant aftershocks following the main earthquake. The strongest, which hit at 19:47 CEST on 7 April, measured magnitude 5.3 ML\u202f and caused further damage. According to the Italian National Geophysics Institute director Boschi, the aftershock epicentres migrated south-east, thus lessening the risk of further major shocks near populated areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Aftershocks\nAftershocks caused safety problems for rescue crews searching for injured victims trapped in precarious structures in the historic center of L'Aquila, a medieval city. Using cranes and backhoes to remove loose bricks and broken timbers, the crews were aware that even a small aftershock could have triggered the collapse of seriously damaged walls or parapets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe aftershocks also caused sustained psychological trauma to small children and elderly who had already been traumatized by the main earthquake of 6 April 2009. Aware of this, the Italian government temporarily relocated thousands of citizens away from the epicentral area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Aftershocks\nAs a result of aftershocks, the dome of the Anime Sante Basilica in L'Aquila, already heavily damaged by the main shock, almost entirely collapsed. Further buildings collapsed in L'Aquila and in neighbouring municipalities. The largest aftershock was strong enough to be felt in Rome, where it caused an elderly man to die of cardiac arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Aftershocks, List of foreshocks and aftershocks\nOnly shocks with local magnitude 4.0 or higher are listed. There have been dozens of small magnitude aftershocks, ML\u202f 1\u20133, but these generally do not cause further structural damage. Shocks with local magnitude 5.0 or higher are highlighted in blue, and the main shock is highlighted in darker blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 73], "content_span": [74, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Emergency and reconstruction aid, National aid\nMany Italian companies have offered some sort of help. All Italian mobile companies (Telecom Italia Mobile, Vodafone Italy,Wind, H3G), and some Mobile virtual network operators, sent free minutes and credit to all their pre-paid customers in Abruzzo, suspended billing to all post-paid customers and extended their coverage with additional mobile base stations to cover homeless camps. In addition, some companies sent free mobile phones, SIM Cards and chargers for those who lost their mobiles, and set up a national unique number to send donations to, by placing a call or sending an SMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Emergency and reconstruction aid, National aid\nPoste Italiane sent to homeless camps some mobile units acting as Postal Office, to allow people to withdraw money from their accounts as well as their retirement. Many companies, such as pay-tv SKY Italia, suspended billing to all customers in Abruzzo, and offered some decoders to homeless camps to allow them to follow the funerals and the news. Ferrovie dello Stato offered railway sleeping carriages to host some homeless people, and offered free tickets to all people and students living in Abruzzo. AISCAT (Associazione Italiana Societ\u00e0 Concessionarie Autostrade e Trafori) declared that all toll-roads in Abruzzo would be free of charge. All tax billing for all Abruzzo residents has been suspended by the government, as well as mortgage payments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Emergency and reconstruction aid, International aid\nPrime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi refused foreign aid for the emergency, saying that Italians were \"proud people\" and had sufficient resources to deal with the crisis. However he singled out the United States, announcing that he would accept aid for reconstruction: \"If the United States wants to give a tangible sign of its solidarity with Italy, it could take on the responsibility of rebuilding heritage sites and churches. We would be very happy to have this support.\" and suggested the USA help rebuild \"a small district of a town or a suburb\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Emergency and reconstruction aid, International aid\nAid was offered by Austria, Brazil, Croatia, the European Union, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Slovakia, Israel, Portugal, Iran, North Macedonia, Mexico,Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Tunisia, the Turkish Red Crescent, Ukraine, and the United States. Aid was also offered by various organisations, companies, sport clubs and celebrities including ACF Fiorentina, Carla Bruni, Madonna, S.S.C. Napoli, Zastava and Fiat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Emergency and reconstruction aid, International aid\nOn 20 November 2009 in Brussels, Pawel Samecki and Guido Bertolaso who, at that time, were European Commissioner for Regional Policy and commander in chief of the Italian Civil Protection department respectively, signed an agreement to provide 493.7\u00a0million euros from EU solidarity fund to help reconstruction in Abruzzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prior warning\nItalian laboratory technician Giampaolo Giuliani claimed to have predicted a major earthquake on Italian television a month before, after measuring increased levels of radon emitted from the ground. He was accused of being alarmist by the Director of the Civil Defence, Guido Bertolaso, and forced to remove his findings from the Internet (old data and descriptions are still online).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prior warning\nHe was also reported to police a week before the main quake for \"causing fear\" among the local population when the mayor of Sulmona claimed that Giuliani predicted an imminent earthquake in his town, about 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) from L'Aquila, on 30 March, after a 4\u00b0 quake happened (Sulmona later only suffered minor damages from 6 April earthquake). Enzo Boschi, the head of the Italian National Geophysics Institute declared:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prior warning\nEvery time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it. As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prior warning\nPredicting earthquakes based on radon emissions has been studied by scientists since the 1970s, but enthusiasm for it had faded due to inconsistent results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nIn the days following the tragedy, journalists reported that the reconstruction works may have been infiltrated by criminal organizations, the Mafia and Camorra trying to infiltrate the contract procedures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nOn 7 April, a few hours after the main earthquake, journalist Luca Spinelli stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nThe transfers of money necessitated by such a big tragedy are huge: much the same as the cost of running a war. [ ...] Any company would be interested in a turnover and a potential income like this. Surely the \"main Italian company\" will be: a company with a ninety billion annual income, making up to 7% of Italian GDP (Gross Domestic Product): the Mafia. [ ...] Abruzzo and Marsica are known territories of the mafia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nA region which \"attracted the attention of some Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita associates too\", according to Franco Forgione, President of the Parliamentary Antimafia Commission in 2007. A region which, according to the Antimafia District Public Prosecutor's Office of L'Aquila, hosts part of the hidden treasure of mafia boss Vito Ciancimino, reckoned to be around 600 million euros, a region which has seen many recent arrests for mafia infiltration; infiltration in contracts, building permits, the health system, the very things that will be needed for the reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nThe week following the earthquake, on 14 April, journalist and writer Roberto Saviano, author of the bestseller Gomorrah, wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nData demonstrates that the Camorra invasion (in Abruzzo) during these years was enormous. In 2006 it emerged that the ambush against mafia boss Vitale was decided and settled in detail at Villa Rosa in Martinsicuro. On 10 September, Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, the drug dealer deemed among the ten most wanted by the FBI, had one of his bases in Abruzzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nNicola di Villano, cashier in a criminal-entrepreneurial organisation led by the Zagaria family of Casapesenna, repeatedly managed to escape capture and it was discovered that his shelter was located in the Abruzzo National Park, where he had the ability to move freely. Abruzzo has become a junction point for waste traffic. [ ...] Behind it all, obviously, the Camorra clans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nIn the following weeks, even major Italian institutions talked about the danger of criminal infiltration, noting that these risks would have been avoided with adequate supervision and inspections. On 15 April, President of the Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini confirmed the need to \"watch out for mafia infiltrations\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Controversy on reconstruction and criminality\nOn 17 April, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, stated: \"Exploitation will be impossible, we will reconstruct within 6 months keeping out exploitation and the mafia.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, State funeral\nOn the morning of 10 April 2009, which was also Good Friday, a state funeral was held for 205 of the 291 victims of the earthquake. It was attended by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, and many other politicians and church dignitaries. The funeral Mass was led by the Vatican's second highest official, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The Vatican had earlier granted a special dispensation to hold a Mass on Good Friday, the only day on the Roman Catholic calendar on which Mass is not normally held. Near the end, an Islamic rite was held for the Muslim victims. In addition Friday was declared a national day of mourning, with flags flying at half staff, shops lowering their shutters and flights stopping at the airport for one minute of silence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, State funeral\nPope Benedict XVI later visited the areas affected by the L'Aquila earthquake on 28 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, G8 summit\nThe 35th G8 summit took place in the city of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, on 8\u201310 July 2009. It was moved from the Sardinian seaside city of La Maddalena as part of an attempt to redistribute disaster funds after the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nA trial, which lasted from September 2011 until October 2012, found six scientists and a former government official guilty of involuntary manslaughter. According to the prosecution, they had spread \"inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory\" statements after preliminary tremors could be felt on the days before 6 April 2009. While scientists were found guilty for failing to give adequate warning, the full text of the decision said that \"science [was] not being tried for failing to predict the April 6, 2009 earthquake\" (\"Non \u00e8 sottoposta a giudizio la scienza per non-essere riuscita a prevedere il terremoto del 6 aprile 2009\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nThe seven members of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks who were convicted were: Franco Barberi, head of Serious Risks Commission; Enzo Boschi, former president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology; Giulio Lorenzo Selvaggi, director of National Earthquake Centre; Gian Michele Calvi, director of European Centre for Earthquake Engineering; Claudio Eva, physicist; Mauro Dolce, director of the Civil Protection Agency's earthquake risk office; Bernardo De Bernardinis, former vice-president of Civil Protection Agency's technical department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nBoschi had called a major earthquake \"unlikely\", while not entirely excluding the possibility. De Bernardinis had informed the public that there was \"no danger\". The prosecutors cited a scientific opinion that the low-level tremors ahead of 6 April quake were typical of the seismic activity preceding major convulsions, but the defendants had classified them as a \"normal geological phenomenon\". They were criticised in court for being \"falsely reassuring\" and Judge Marco Billi gave them a six-year jail sentence on 22 October 2012, reasoning that they had provided \"an assessment of the risks that was incomplete, inept, unsuitable, and criminally mistaken\". They were also banned from ever holding public office again and had to pay court costs and damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nEnzo Boschi, one of the convicted, said, \"I thought I would have been acquitted. I still don't understand what I was convicted of.\" His co-defendant Claudio Eva said that \"it was a very Italian and medieval decision.\" Their lawyers announced they would appeal the verdict, and it will not be finally decided until it is heard by the appellate court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nThe verdicts were strongly criticised by the British media and public. The journal Nature ran an editorial stating that the \"verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous.\" Malcolm Sperrin, a British scientist, said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nIf the scientific community is to be penalised for making predictions that turn out to be incorrect, or for not accurately predicting an event that subsequently occurs, then scientific endeavour will be restricted to certainties only, and the benefits that are associated with findings, from medicine to physics, will be stalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nThis position was countered by other views. David Ropeik, writing for Scientific American, contested the \"trial against science\" thesis, describing it as \"a judgment not against science, but against a failure of science communication\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nDuring the trial, other scientists attacked the scientific conduct of the commission. Professor Francesco Giovanni Maria Stoppa, a member of the commission until 2003, said: \"They should have given information proportional to our knowledge, which in 2009 spotlighted a criticality in L'Aquila. Under those conditions, there were 5\u20136 days before the quake to give information, and this doesn't mean forecasting earthquakes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nIn protest over the prison sentences handed to his seven colleagues, Luciano Maiani, the head of Italy's disaster body, resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203698-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Prosecutions\nIn November 2014, the scientists' convictions were quashed by an appeals court, except for Bernardo De Bernardinis, whose sentence was reduced. The result of this appeal was definitively confirmed by the Italian Supreme Court, Corte di Cassazione, on 20 November 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open\nThe 2009 LA Tennis Open (also known as the LA Tennis Open presented by Farmers Insurance Group for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 83rd edition of the event known that year as the LA Tennis Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California, United States, from July 27 through August 2, 2009. The LA Tennis Open was the second ATP stop of the 2009 US Open Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open\nIn addition to the singles and doubles events, a Legends Invitational Singles competition was held, featuring Michael Chang, Stefan Edberg and Jim Courier, winner of the competition at the 2008 Countrywide Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open\nThe LA Tennis Open kicked off with the \"Millennium Challenge\" featuring Pete Sampras returning to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to play Marat Safin in a rematch of their 2000 US Open final, won by the Russian 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 6\u20133. Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Sampras, who held the World No. 1 ranking for a record 286 weeks, was recognized as the 2009 LA Tennis Open Tournament Honoree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received special exemptions into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203699-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open, Finals, Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Benjamin Becker /  Frank Moser, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20132)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203700-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nRohan Bopanna and Eric Butorac were the defending champions, but Bopanna did not participate that year. Butorac partnered with Scott Lipsky, but lost in the first round to Denis Istomin and Leonardo Mayer. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20132) against Benjamin Becker and Frank Moser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203701-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203701-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Tennis Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203702-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships (also known as the 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the LA Women's Tennis Championships, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, near Los Angeles, California, United States, from August 3 through August 9, 2009. It was the second women's event on the 2009 US Open Series. Tenth-seeded Flavia Pennetta won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203702-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung /  Yan Zi defeated  Maria Kirilenko /  Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska 6\u20130, 4\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203702-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships, Entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203703-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nChan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung were the defending champions, but Chan chose not to compete that year. Chuang partnered with Yan Zi, and they won in the final, 6\u20130, 4\u20136, 10\u20137, against Maria Kirilenko and Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203704-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nWorld No. 1 Dinara Safina was the defending champion, but she lost in the third round against Zheng Jie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203704-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nFlavia Pennetta won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133 against Samantha Stosur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203704-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203705-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LATAM Challenge Series\n2009 LATAM Challenge Series season was the third season of LATAM Challenge Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203706-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LG Hockey Games\nThe 2009 LG Hockey Games was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 5 to 8 February 2009. The games were hosted in Globen, except one which was played in Prague, Czech Republic. The tournament was a part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2008\u201309. Sweden won the tournament before Finland and Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203707-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LKL All-Star Game\nThe 2009 LKL All-Star Game was played on February 21, 2009, at \u0160iauli\u0173 arena, in \u0160iauliai, home of BC \u0160iauliai. The game was the 15th annual LKL All-Star Game. It was the second time that \u0160iauliai had hosted the basketball showcase, after previously hosting it in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203707-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LKL All-Star Game, The All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe coach for the Vilkai was Lietuvos Rytas head coach Rimas Kurtinaitis. The coach for the Ereliai was \u017dalgiris head coach Gintaras Krapikas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203708-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LKL Finals\nThe 2009 LKL Finals was the championship series of the Lithuanian Basketball League's 2008\u201309 LKL season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. Lietuvos Rytas won the series against \u017dalgiris, 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203709-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Championship\nThe 2009 LPGA Championship was the 55th LPGA Championship, played June 11\u201314 at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre de Grace, Maryland. This was the second of four major championships on the LPGA Tour in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203709-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Championship\nTour rookie Anna Nordqvist, age 22, won her only major title, four strokes ahead of runner-up Lindsey Wright. It was Nordqvist's first career win on the LPGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203709-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Championship\nBeginning in 2005, this championship was played at Bulle Rock for five consecutive seasons, ending with this edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\nThe 2009 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through November 2009. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\n2009 saw a reduction in both the number of tournaments and the total prize money on the Tour. Official prize money was $47.6 million, the lowest total in since 2005. There were 28 official tournaments, the lowest number since at least 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\nRookie Jiyai Shin topped the money list, earning $1,807,334. In addition Shin took Rookie of the Year honors. Shin and Lorena Ochoa each won three tournaments during the season. Ochoa also won the Player of the Year trophy for the fourth consecutive year and the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average, also for the fourth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\nAnna Nordqvist was runner-up in the Rookie of the Year race, topping off a season that began with her having only conditional status on the LPGA Tour. She won the fifth tournament in which she played in 2009, the McDonald's LPGA Championship, a major, and also won the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship, ending the season 15th on the official money list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\nThe four major championships were won by: Brittany Lincicome (Kraft Nabisco Championship), Anna Nordqvist (LPGA Championship), Eun-Hee Ji (U.S. Women's Open), and Catriona Matthew (Women's British Open). All major winners were first-time major winners. Matthew won her the British Open 10 weeks after giving birth to her second child.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour\nThe LPGA experienced a turn-over in leadership in 2009, when commissioner Carolyn Bivens resigned under pressure from players in July. At the time of Bivens' resignation, the tour had only 14 events committed for the 2010 schedule, having failed to sign key long-term tournaments, notably the LPGA Corning Classic. On October 28, the LPGA board of directors announced that marketing executive Michael Whan had been hired as the permanent replacement for Bivens and would assume his duties in January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour, Tournament schedule and results\nThe number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA Tour, including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour, Tournament schedule and results\nAn asterisk next to a tournament name means that the event is unofficial. Tournaments in bold are majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203710-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA Tour, Award winners\nThe three competitive awards given out by the LPGA each year are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203711-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA of Japan Tour\nThe 2009 LPGA of Japan Tour was the 42nd season of the LPGA of Japan Tour, the professional golf tour for women operated by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan. It consisted of 35 golf tournaments, all played in Japan. Shinobu Moromizato and Sakura Yokomine each won six events and Yokomine won the Order of Merit title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203712-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LPGA of Korea Tour\nHana Bank-KOLON Championship is co-sanctioned with LPGA. Daishin Securities-Tomato Tour Korean Ladies Masters is co-sanctioned with Ladies European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team\nThe 2009 LSU Tigers baseball team represented Louisiana State University in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2009. This was the first year for the team in the new Alex Box Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team\nThe 2009 team was coached by Paul Mainieri who was in his third season at LSU. During his first year at LSU, Mainieri's team posted a 29\u201326\u20131 record, but failed to make the SEC Tournament or the NCAA Tournament. The team improved during his second year posting a 49\u201319\u20131 record, while claiming the SEC Western Division Title, SEC Tournament Championship, and earned the No. 7 National Seed for the 2008 NCAA Tournament. They advanced to the 2008 College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nPaul Mainieri completed his second season as head coach at LSU in 2008. The Tigers won the SEC West division title which earned them the No. 2 seed in the 2008 SEC Baseball Tournament. The Tigers would go on to the win the tournament and secure a spot in the NCAA post-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nAfter winning the SEC Tournament, it was announced that LSU was selected as a host site for the 2008 NCAA Tournament for the 18th time in the history of the program and for the first time since the 2005 season. When the full NCAA Tournament bracket was released, LSU was awarded the No. 7 national seed in the tournament, guaranteeing them home field advantage throughout the Super Regionals as long as they won the Regional round. LSU was able to sweep the Baton Rouge regional to secure a spot in the Super Regional round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nUC -Irvine won the Lincoln, NE regional and moved on to the Super Regional to face LSU. After losing the first game, LSU's hopes of a national title were slim going into the 9th inning of game 2. However the Tigers fought back and won the game in comeback fashion by a score of 9\u20137. LSU wasted no time in game 3 cruising to a 6\u20130 lead in the 1st inning and eventually winning the game 21\u20137. The Tigers celebrated the school's 14th trip to the College World Series in what was the last game in the 70-year history of Alex Box Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nLSU faced North Carolina in the first game of the 2008 College World Series. The Tar Heels defeated the Tigers by a score of 8\u20134, giving LSU its 5th consecutive CWS loss and sending them to the losers bracket. The Tigers faced the Rice Owls next and looked to be headed home with an 0\u20132 CWS record again after trailing by a score of 5\u20130, however, in typical Tiger fashion, LSU rallied in the bottom of the 9th inning and won the game on a 3-run double by All-American Blake Dean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nThe Tigers then had to face North Carolina again, who had lost to Fresno State. The game started on June 19, 2008 but was delayed by weather and completed on June 20, 2008. The game went into the top of the 9th inning tied 3\u20133 but a grand slam home run, the first in the College World Series since 2001, gave North Carolina a 7\u20133 lead. LSU was unable to rally in the bottom of the 9th, and their season was ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Previous season\nThe 2008 squad compiled and overall record of 49\u201319\u20131, which included a 23-game win streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nOn June 12, 2008 Terry Rooney was named Head Baseball Coach at the University of Central Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nOn June 23, 2008 it was announced that Cliff Godwin would join Rooney at Central Florida as an assistant coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nOn June 26, 2008 Paul Mainieri announced the hiring of David Grewe as associate head coach. Grewe previously coached under Mainieri at Notre Dame before leaving in 2005 to become the Head Coach at Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nIt was also announced that Javi Sanchez and Will Davis were promoted. Sanchez was promoted from volunteer assistant to a full-time assistant. He replaced Godwin as the Tigers hitting coach and supervisor of base running. Davis was promoted from Director of Baseball Operations to volunteer assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nThe final change to Mainieri's staff that was announced on June 26 was the appointment of Kyle Beerbohm. Beerbohm was appointed as an undergraduate student assistant coach, and is a former Tiger pitcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Coaching changes\nOn August 20, 2008 it was announced that Ross Brezovsky was hired as the Coordinator of Baseball Operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Ranked #1\nOn December 22, 2008, the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper released their NCAA Div. 1 Pre-Season Poll with LSU ranked #1. LSU reached a No. 2 ranking in 2008, but had not been ranked No. 1 in quite some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Pre-Season, Ranked #1\nOn January 22, 2009, LSU was also ranked No. 1 in the USA Today/ESPN baseball pre-season poll. They narrowly beat out North Carolina for the top spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Schedule\n*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the Baseball America poll the week LSU faced each opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, February\nLSU began the season with a three-game home series against Villanova. The start of baseball season, also marked the opening of a brand new stadium for LSU. The new Alex Box Stadium was completed after the 2008 season, and the Tigers moved into the stadium shortly before the 2009 season kicked off. LSU opened the season on February 20 with a 12\u20133 victory behind the right arm of Louis Coleman. LSU won game 2 11\u20131 and completed the sweep winning Sunday's contest 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, February\nThere was little time to rest after the weekend sweep, as the Southern Jaguars made their first trip to the new \"box\" on Wednesday February 25. Freshman Chris Matulis got the start for the Tigers. He pitched five strong innings before turning the ball over to the bullpen with a 4\u20131 lead. LSU was able to hold on to the lead to claim the victory 11\u20135 to improve to 4\u20130 on the young season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, February\nTwo former Tiger assistants returned to the \"box\" for the weekend series against Central Florida, but this time they were in the opposite dugout. Terry Rooney left LSU after the 2008 season to become head coach at UCF and brought former Tiger assistant Cliff Godwin with him. Both coaches were an integral part in LSU's magical run to Omaha during the 2008 season, but UCF had a large hill to climb. The Knights were no match for LSU as the Tigers outscored them 13\u20134, 11\u20132, and 16\u20130 to claim another series sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nLSU entered the last month of the regular season with an overall record of 34\u201311. They were in first place in the SEC Western Division and were tied with Georgia for the overall SEC lead with a record of 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nWith Arkansas only a half game back of LSU for the SEC West lead, the weekend series was pivotal for both teams. Unfortunately, both teams had to wait until Saturday to play the first game due to inclement weather. In game 1 of the Saturday double header, Arkansas fell behind early, but was able to overcome the deficit thanks to a dominating pitching effort by Dallas Keuchel that helped Arkansas take game 1, 11\u20134. Keuchel pitched 8.1 innings and improved to 7\u20131 overall on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nGoing into game 2 of the doubleheader, LSU now trailed Arkansas by a half game for the SEC West lead. Much like game 1, the second game was also dominated by pitching, but this time it was LSU pitching that dominated. Senior RHP Louis Coleman was about nab a complete game, 2-hit shutout as LSU won the game 5\u20130. This placed LSU back at the top of the SEC West standings with a 15\u20138 record in conference play and 35\u201313 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nThe rubber game of the series stayed true to form. LSU was again able to jump out to an early lead, going up 4\u20130 heading into the bottom of the fourth inning. That would be the last runs LSU plated in the game. Arkansas fought back to bring the score to 4\u20133 after the 5th, but LSU starter Austin Ross was able to keep the score there through the 6th. Coach Mainieri went to the bullpen after Ross gave up a leadoff single to begin the 7th. Sophomore Chad Jones came in and shut down the Razorbacks. Coach Mainieri went to the bullpen once again at the beginning of the 8th inning, bringing in freshman closer Matty Ott. Ott struck out the side in the 8th and closed out the game with a 1\u20132\u20133 9th to preserve the victory and give LSU the series 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nFlorida traveled to Baton Rouge for another pivotal SEC series. Going into the weekend, both teams were sitting atop their respective divisions and tied for the overall SEC lead with a record of 16\u20138. In game 1, LSU used a strong outing from Anthony Ranaudo, as well as productive nights at the plate from D.J. LeMahieu and Blake Dean to take game 1 10\u20131. LSU grabbed the lead in the bottom of the third by scoring two runs and added 4 more in the bottom of the fourth to give Ranaudo a 6\u20130 lead. Florida scored their lone run in the top of the fifth. The win pushed LSU's mark to 17\u20138 and gave the Tigers the outright lead in the SEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nIn game 2, LSU received another great pitching performance from senior leader Louis Coleman. Coleman was able to give the Tigers 8 strong innings, allowing only 4 hits, 1 walk, and most importantly 0 runs. LSU plated two runs in the bottom of the first inning to give Coleman the early lead and they never looked back. LSU would score a third run in the bottom of the fourth, and their final run in the bottom of the eighth to win the game 4\u20130 and clinch another SEC series victory. LSU improved to 18\u20138 in the SEC, while Florida fell to 16\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nThe final game of the series was much different from the first two. Florida was able to secure its first lead in the series when they scored 3 runs in the top of the third. LSU was able to cut the deficit to 2 runs twice by scoring a run in the bottom of the fourth and fifth, but Florida was able to add more runs scoring 1 in the top of the fifth, 3 in the top of the seventh, and 2 in the top of the eighth. Florida took game 3 by a score of 9\u20133. The weekend left LSU with an overall record of 38\u201314 and 18\u20139 in the SEC. Even with the game 3 loss, LSU was able to remain atop the SEC standings with a half game lead over Alabama entering the last weekend of both SEC and regular season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nLSU hosted Centenary in the final home game of the regular season, which also marked the completion of their first regular season in the new Alex Box Stadium. The Gents entered the game 28\u201314 on the season, while LSU entered the game 38\u201314 overall. LSU got up early scoring 2 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning, and extended their lead to 5\u20130 after a 3-run home run by freshman CF Mikie Mahtook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nCentenary cut the lead to 5\u20133 in the top of the 5th and made it 5\u20134 in the top of the 8th, but LSU roared back in the bottom of the 8th to score 7 runs. LSU won the game 12\u20134 improving to 39\u201314 on the season. LSU finished the regular season with a 28\u20139 home record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nLSU traveled to Starkville, MS for the final weekend of the regular season. The games for the series followed SEC procedures, and were played Thursday through Saturday, instead of the typical Friday \u2013 Sunday weekend series. The SEC established this procedure to give teams more rest between the end of the regular season and the start of the SEC Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nIn game 1, LSU jumped out to a quick lead behind a first inning Mikie Mahtook solo home run, but LSU would not hold the lead for long. Mississippi St. tied the game in the bottom of the second inning at 1, before taking the lead 4\u20131, in the bottom of the third inning. The Bulldogs would hold on to that lead entering the seventh inning, but the LSU offense erupted for 3 runs to tie the game at 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nIn the top of the eighth inning, LSU used a wild pitch to score what would be the winning the run. LSU received a gutsy performance by starting pitcher Anthony Ranaudo who pitched 7.1 innings before turning the ball over to freshman closer Matty Ott. Ott finished the game to secure his twelfth save of the season as the Tigers improved to 40\u201315 overall and 19\u20138 in SEC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nA win in game 2 would ensure that LSU would at worst share the SEC regular season title. Much like game 1 though, LSU played catch-up most of the game. The Bulldogs jumped out to an early 3\u20130 lead after the first inning. They added a single run in the fourth inning and 3 in the sixth inning to take a 7\u20133 lead into the top of the ninth inning. LSU cut the lead to 7\u20135, but was down to their final out with pre-season All-America selection Blake Dean at the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nDean delivered a two-run home run to tie the game at 7. However, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Bulldogs were able to take advantage of an error to load the bases before Cody Freeman delivered a game-winning single. The Bulldogs evened the series at 1, with a dramatic 8\u20137 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, Regular season, May\nIn game 3, LSU seemed more determined than ever to secure the SEC title. The Tigers jumped out to a 6\u20131 lead after two innings and never looked back. The Tigers endured nearly a two-hour rain delay to win the game by the final score of 15\u20134. The Tigers were led by sophomore outfielder Leon Landry who blasted three home runs in the contest, finishing a 5 for 6 day at the plate with 7 RBIs. With the win, LSU finished the regular season 41\u201315 overall, posting a 20\u201310 mark in conference play. The Ole Miss Rebels also posted a 20\u201310 mark in conference play, but a series victory over the Rebels earlier in the year gave LSU the No. 1 seed in the 2009 SEC baseball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament\nThe 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament will be held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 20 through May 24. The winner of the 2009 tournament will earn the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament\nAfter tying Ole Miss as co-champions for the 2009 SEC regular season title, LSU earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament. LSU earned the No. 1 seed over Ole Miss as a result of head-to-head play during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Vanderbilt\nLSU opened SEC Tournament play against Vanderbilt. After 3 scoreless innings for both teams, Vanderbilt catcher Andrew Giobbi hit a solo home run in the top of the 4th to give the Commodores the lead. Vanderbilt would score another run in the top of the 5th, and add two more in the 7th to extend their lead to 4\u20130. LSU would score their lone run in the bottom of the 7th, but the 4\u20131 deficit would prove to be too much for the top seeded Tigers. Vanderbilt starter Mike Minor threw a complete game to help the Commordores advance in the winner's bracket. LSU fell into the loser's bracket and would face Alabama in an elimination game the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, #18 Alabama\nAfter completing their first game around 2:00\u00a0am CST and losing in extra innings, Alabama had a quick turn around to face LSU in their second game in the tournament with the loser being eliminated. LSU jumped out to 1\u20130 lead after two innings, but in the top of the 3rd Alabama would score 2 runs to take a 2\u20131 lead. LSU would fight right back in the bottom half with 4 runs to retake the lead 5\u20132 and extending it in the 4th by another run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, #18 Alabama\nIn the seventh inning, up 6\u20133, LSU would receive a pinch hit 3-run home run from Senior Derek Helenihi which would ultimately prove to be the winning hit. LSU starter Anthony Ranaudo went 7+ innings allowing only 4 runs, before turning the ball over to the bullpen. Freshman closer Matty Ott entered the game in the 8th inning with the bases loaded and two outs. He got Tyler Odle to ground out to end the inning, and would close the game out in the 9th. The Tigers won 9\u20136 and moved on to face South Carolina in another elimination game. Alabama finished the tournament 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, #25 South Carolina\nAfter beating Alabama in their first game of the tournament, South Carolina lost by a run after Vanderbilt scored in the top of the 9th inning. Much like their first game against Alabama, their second game also went into the early hours of the next day. The game was very much a pitching duel, with senior ace Louis Coleman on the mound for the Tigers and freshman star Nolan Belcher on the mound for the Gamecocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, #25 South Carolina\nNeither team could scratch a run through the first 5 innings, but LSU was able to take advantage of 3 hits in the top of the 6th to take a 2\u20130 lead. LSU extended the lead in the 8th, scoring 2 more runs, which would complete the scoring for the Tigers. Coleman was able to pitch 8 strong innings allowing a single run in the 8th and earning his 11th win on the season. Freshman Matt Ott once again pitched the 9th to secure the victory for the Tigers, 4\u20131. As a result of the flipped bracket format, LSU would face Georgia next. LSU would have to beat the Dawgs twice in order to continue playing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Championship: Vanderbilt\nAfter defeating Georgia twice on Saturday, LSU earned a spot in the SEC Tournament championship game. LSU would face the team it lost to on day 1 of the tournament, Vanderbilt. The Commodores breezed through the tournament, despite being the No. 8 seed, having won their first three games, 4\u20131, 9\u20135, and 11\u20131. Though Vanderbilt had not lost yet in the tournament, the championship game is a winner-take-all format. LSU sent senior LHP Ryan Byrd to the mound, while Vanderbilt countered with Nick Christiani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Championship: Vanderbilt\nLSU wasted no time taking an early lead. Leon Landry opened the game with a lead-off double, and scored 2 batters later. Byrd was able to hold the Commodores offense in check through the first 3 innings, allowing 2 hits, while Christiani settled in as well after Landry's double. In the fourth inning though LSU extended its lead. Another lead-off double by Micah Gibbs, followed by a Mikie Mahtook single, pushed the score to 2\u20130. Mahtook scored as well after a stolen base, infield single, and sac fly to give the Tigers a 3\u20130 lead after 3.5 innings. The fourth inning was also the last inning for Christiani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Championship: Vanderbilt\nVanderbilt was able to cut the lead to 3\u20131 in the bottom half of the fourth off a Steven Liddle solo home run, but the Tigers wasted no time getting the run back. In the 5th, LSU was able to score 2 more runs off a walk, another double by Landry, and sac fly by Blake Dean. LSU now held a 5\u20131 lead and was in complete control of the game. Each team would go on to score another run in the 7th to make the score 6\u20132 which would prove to be the final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Championship: Vanderbilt\nByrd pitched one of the best games of his career. He went 7 innings, allowing 5 hits, 2 earned runs, with 3 strikeouts and 1 walk. If was the first game Byrd has pitched in this year where he factored into the decision. It was the second consecutive SEC Tournament championship for LSU and their record 8th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, SEC Tournament, Championship: Vanderbilt\nAfter the tournament, freshman Mikie Mahtook was named the tournament MVP. In the tournament, Mahtook was 10\u201322 (.454) with 3 RBIs, 2 runs scored, and 17 put outs. Fellow teammates Blake Dean, Austin Nola, and Daniel Bradshaw were also named to the all-tournament team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Regionals\nThe regional round of the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament will be played at various hosts sites from May 29 through June 1. The NCAA announced on May 24, 2009 that LSU was selected as the host site for the Baton Rouge regional. There are 16 total sites with 4 teams playing at each site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Regionals\nOn Monday May 25, 2009 the NCAA released the post-season bracket for the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. LSU was announced as the No. 3 overall seed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Regionals, Southern\nLSU began NCAA tournament play on Friday May 29 against the Southern Jaguars. It didn't take long for Southern to establish a lead. Southern led the game off with a single, followed by a home run to take an early 2\u20130 lead. Southern held onto the 2\u20130 lead until LSU was able to plate a single run in the bottom of the 6th. The 2\u20131 lead would hold only for an inning, as LSU plated 7 runs in the bottom of the seventh to take control of the game. Southern received an excellent outing from starting pitcher Chase Richard who went 6.2 innings giving up 7 hits and allowing 3 runs, 2 earned. LSU would add 2 more runs in the 8th and close out Game 1 of the regional with a 10\u20132 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals\nThe super regional round of the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played from June 5 through June 8 at 8 different sites. The host sites were Austin, Baton Rouge, Chapel Hill, Fullerton, Gainesville, Oxford, Tallahassee, and Tempe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals\nAs a result of earning the No. 3 overall seed and winning the Baton Rouge Regional, LSU hosted the Rice Owls who advanced out of the Houston Regional. Game 1 was played on Friday June 5, while Game 2 was played the following day on Saturday June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 1)\nGame 1 of the Baton Rouge super regional featured two dominant right-handed pitchers. LSU handed the ball to sophomore Anthony Ranaudo, while Rice sent junior Mike Ojala to the mound. Rice was able to take the lead early off multiple LSU errors. Rice scored 2 unearned runs in the 2nd and another unearned run in the 4th. LSU would finally get on the board in bottom of the 4th, scoring a single run, but Rice got the run back in the 5th on a solo home run by Steven Sultzbaugh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 1)\nWith half the game complete, Rice held onto a 4\u20131 lead, but the bottom of the 5th proved to be the turning point. Rice pulled Ojala in favor of Taylor Wall with runners on second and third, no outs and a run already across the plate. Wall was brought in to face lefty Ryan Schimpf, but the move proved to be a costly one. Schimpf sent a ball over the right-center fence to give LSU a 5\u20134 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 1)\nLSU would tack on 2 additional runs to give the Tigers a 7\u20134 lead after 5 innings, a lead the Tigers would not give up. Rice would score 2 runs in the 8th and 3 in the 9th for a total of 9 on the night, but LSU pushed 2 more runs across in the 7th and 3 in the 8th to win the game 12\u20139. LSU would need only one more win to advance to Omaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 2)\nLSU would be the visiting team for the second game of the Baton Rouge super regional. Each team sent their ace to the mound for game 2. LSU was hoping senior RHP Louis Coleman could clinch the super regional for the Tigers while Rice was hoping junior sensation Ryan Berry would extend their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 2)\nLSU would jump out to an early 1\u20130 lead in the 1st inning capitalizing on a double and two walks. Rice would tie the game in the 3rd on a solo home run by Brock Holt, who also homered the night before. LSU took the lead back in the 4th inning, but Rice again tied the game at 2 in the bottom half of the inning. The 5th inning would once again prove to be the decisive one in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 2)\nLSU would score 2 runs in the top half of the inning to take the lead, a lead they would hold onto the rest of the game. Each team would score a run in the 6th inning, bringing the score to 5\u20133. That would be it for scoring in this game. Coleman went 8 strong innings, while Berry only made it through the 5th. LSU freshman closer Matty Ott came in to pitch the 9th, and secure the victory. With the win, LSU advances to the 2009 College World Series. It will be LSU\u2019s 15th appearance at the CWS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: Super Regionals, #6 Rice (Game 2)\nAfter setting an Alex Box record the night before for actual attendance with 9,375, LSU fans once again poured into the stadium to see their Tigers. Game 2 would break the record set the night before as 9,651 witnessed the final game in the new Alex Box Stadium\u2019s inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series\nThe 2009 College World Series was held at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, NE from June 13 through June 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series\nLSU was in Bracket 1 along with Arkansas, Cal St. Fullerton, and Virginia. Bracket 1 began play Saturday June 13. Fullerton squared off with Arkansas in Game 1, with LSU against Virginia in Game 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series\nBracket 2 began play on Sunday June 14 and included Texas, Southern Miss, North Carolina, and Arizona St..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, #5 Virginia\nLSU opened up College World Series play in game 2 on Day 1. LSU squared off against the Virginia Cavaliers. A game that matched LSU head coach Paul Mainieri against one of his former assistants Brian O'Connor. Virginia earned a birth in the 2009 College World Series by winning the Fullerton Regional and defeating Ole Miss in the Oxford Super Regional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, #5 Virginia\nSophomore RHP Anthony Ranaudo opened the game with a 1\u20132\u20133 first inning. In the bottom of the first, after getting the first two batters out, Virginia's Danny Hutzen gave up a double to Blake Dean. Micah Gibbs followed Dean's double with an RBI single to give LSU an early 1\u20130 lead. After both teams failed to score in the second, the Cavaliers were able to take advantage of a couple sacrifices to tie the game at 1. LSU quickly answered in the bottom half of the third scoring 2 runs off 4 hits to regain the lead 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, #5 Virginia\nVirginia added a single run in the 4th to close the gap to a run, and took their first ever lead in the CWS in the top of the fifth scoring 2 runs on 4 hits to lead 4\u20133. Once again though, LSU answered the call. Junior first baseman Sean Ochinko hit a 3-run home run over the left field wall to give LSU a 6\u20134 lead, a lead they would not give up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, #5 Virginia\nThe Cavaliers would cut the lead to 6\u20135 in the 7th inning, but LSU scored 3 more runs in the 8th to extend the lead to 9\u20136 which would prove to be the final score. The two teams combined for 28 hits. The win moved LSU into the winner's bracket, where they would square off against SEC rival Arkansas in the second round. The Cavaliers next faced Cal. St. Fullerton in an elimination game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 104], "content_span": [105, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nLSU and Texas met for only the third time ever in the College World Series with Texas winning the first meeting back in 1987 and LSU winning the second meeting in 2000. The two teams combined for 11 national championships. The 2009 finals marked LSU's first appearance since 2000 in the College World Series finals and the first time they have made the championship series since it became best 2 out of 3. Texas was returning to the finals for the first time since winning it all back in 2005. It was determined that LSU would be the home team for games 1 and 3 via coin flip. LSU was sending senior RHP Louis Coleman to the mound, while Texas countered with sophomore RHP Chance Ruffin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nLSU would jump out to an early 1\u20130 lead in the top of the 1st inning, as Ryan Schimpf crushed a home run over the left-center field fence. After managing only 1 hit in the first 3 innings off Coleman, Texas would get on the board in the bottom of the 4th with 3 solo home runs to take the lead 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0057-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nTexas would hold on to that lead for only 1 inning, as Jared Mitchell came through for the Tigers with a 2 RBI triple in the 6th to tie the game at 3. Texas would fight right back in the bottom half of the inning with another solo home run and a wild pitch to retake the lead 5\u20133. Each team would add a run in the 7th, Texas' another solo home run, to give Texas a 6\u20134 lead. A lead they would hold on to until the top of the 9th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nDown to the last 3 outs, LSU needed to push 2 runs across to tie the game. Jared Mitchell was first up to bat and quickly grounded out to the shortstop. Junior first baseman Sean Ochinko singled through the left side to bring the tying run to the plate. After the single, Texas would make a pitching change to bring in freshman Taylor Jungmann to face senior third baseman Derek Helenihi. Helenihi who was in a 1\u201315 slump in the CWS was able to draw a four pitch walk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nFreshman Tyler Hanover was brought in to pinch hit, but after getting up 2\u20130 in the count, Auggie Garrido once again made a pitching change. Brandon Workman was brought in, and would battle to eventually get Hanover to strike out. Down to their last out in game 1 of the finals, LSU's lead off hitter D.J. LeMahieu stepped to the plate with runners on first and second. LeMahieu wasted no time, crushing the first pitch into the left field corner for a 2 RBI double that tied the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0058-0002", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nAfter Ryan Schimpf was intentionally walked, Workman was able to get Blake Dean to fly out to end the top half of the inning. LSU brought in freshman closer Matty Ott to pitch the 9th. After hitting the first batter, Ott was able to record 3 straight outs to send the game into extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nIn the top of the 10th, LSU loaded the bases with only 1 out, but was unable to push a run across. Ott pitched the bottom half of the 10th, and once again was able to keep the Texas offense in check. D.J. LeMahieu was up first in the 11th, and drew a lead off walk. After getting Schimpf and Dean to fly out, it appeared Workman was going to get out of the inning. With Gibbs up to bat, LeMahieu took off and stole second. A throwing error by the catcher, Cameron Rupp, allowed LeMahieu to advance to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 1)\nWorkman would intentionally walk Gibbs to set up the force play. Freshman Mikie Mahtook came to the plate having struck out 3 times earlier in the game, but delivered the game-winning hit. Mahtook single back up the middle scoring LeMahieu to put the Tigers up 7\u20136. LSU would leave Ott in to pitch his 3rd inning of relief work. Ott struck out the first 2 batters he faced, then got Connor Rowe to ground out to second base to secure the victory for the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 2)\nWith LSU looking to claim their 6th national title and Texas facing elimination, the Longhorns sent freshman Taylor Jungmann to the mound. LSU countered with sophomore Austin Ross who hadn't started a game since game 1 of the Baton Rouge regional. Texas was the visiting team for game 2 and wasted no time taking the lead. The Longhorns pieced together a couple hits to go with a throwing error to take a 1\u20130 lead after the top of the first inning. They added another run in the second off a solo home run by Preston Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 2)\nThe 2\u20130 lead would be all the Jungmann would need. LSU would push their lone run across in the bottom of the second. After singles by Jared Mitchell and Leon Landry, Derek Helenihi hit a ball up the middle that was misplayed by shortstop Brandon Loy. Mitchell would score an unearned run on the play to cut Texas' lead in half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 2)\nRoss was lifted after only pitching 2 innings, but it made no difference. Texas added 3 more runs in the top of third, one coming off a solo home run by Russell Moldenhauer, to extend their lead to 5\u20131. Those runs ended up being the final scoring for the night for both teams. Texas would finish the game with 12 hits in all, while committing 3 errors. LSU would only manage 5 hits on the evening, and never could take advantage of any opportunities. Longhorn starter, Jungmann, would go on to throw a complete game, striking out 9 and only walking 2. The win forced a rubber match the next for, with the winner of the pivotal game 3 being crowned 2009 NCAA Baseball National Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nAfter a complete game effort by Jungmann the night before, Texas was hoping sophomore starter Cole Green would be able to put forth a similar effort. LSU countered with sophomore ace Anthony Ranaudo who was making his third start in the College World Series. LSU was once again the home team, and wasted no time taking the early lead. After recording two quick outs, Green hit Blake Dean with a pitch to keep the inning alive. Junior Sean Ochinko was up next and singled through the left side. First-round draft pick Jared Mitchell stepped to the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nWith one swing of the bat he gave the Tigers the early lead sending a 3-run home run over the right field fence. In the bottom half of the inning, Ranaudo pitched around 2 singles and a walk to get out of a bases loaded jam with no damage done. In the second inning LSU extended their lead to 4\u20130 after piecing together 3 hits in the inning, but the lead did not last long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nTexas took advantage of a couple walks and 2 big hits to cut LSU's lead in half, but Texas once again left the bases loaded. After neither team scored in the 4th inning, it was once again Texas' turn to bat in the 5th still down 4\u20132. A lead-off single by Cameron Rupp brought the tying run to the plate. Kevin Keyes delivered by sending a 2-run home run over the left field bleachers tying the game at 4 runs apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nThe top of the 6th inning proved to be the turning point in the game. LSU took advantage of 2 walks, 2 hit batters, an error, and 2 hits to score a total of 5 runs. LSU now held a 9\u20134 lead, a lead they would not let go of. LSU starter Anthony Ranaudo pitched 5.1 innings, giving up 8 hits, 4 runs, and 5 walks, but still got the win to improve his record to 12\u20133 on the season. Sophomore Chad Jones pitched 1.2 hitless innings while striking out 2 batters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nLSU would extend their lead to 10\u20134 after a double, single, and sac fly in the inning. Coach Mainieri brought in senior Louis Coleman to pitch the 8th inning. Coleman was able to work around a 1-out double to get out of the inning without giving up a run. LSU added another run in the 9th off a solo home run by Ochinko to extend the lead to 11\u20134. Coleman was brought back out to finish the game off. After a lead-off walk, Coleman struck out the side to secure the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, Game Summaries/Recaps, NCAA Tournament: College World Series, Finals: No.\u00a04 Texas (Game 3)\nThe victory marked the 6th national championship for LSU baseball, the first since 2000. It was also the first championship for head coach Paul Mainieri. LSU finished the season 56\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 121], "content_span": [122, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203713-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers baseball team, LSU Tigers in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft\nThe following members and future members (denoted by *) of the LSU Tigers baseball program were drafted in the 2009 MLB Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 2009 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Les Miles who served his fifth year at the helm of LSU football. They played their home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Tigers finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in SEC play, including a loss in the Capital One Bowl, 19\u201317, against Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Previous season\nIn his fourth season as head coach, Les Miles led LSU to a regular season record of 7\u20135, finishing 3\u20135 in the SEC. The Tigers were awarded a berth in the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl where they faced Georgia Tech. The Tigers easily defeated the Yellow Jackets by a score of 38\u20133. Miles improved to 4\u20130 in bowl games as head coach of LSU. LSU completed the 2008 college football season with an 8\u20135 overall record. The bowl victory also marked the 700th win in LSU Tiger football history. The Tigers look to improve on their 8\u20135 season in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season, Coaching changes\nFollowing the 2008 season, co-defensive coordinators, Doug Mallory & Bradley Dale Peveto both left LSU. Mallory moved on to New Mexico to become defensive coordinator of the Lobos' football program, while Peveto took over as the head coach of the Northwestern State Demons. The Tigers replaced Mallory and Peveto with new defensive coordinator John Chavis, who left the University of Tennessee after the departure of head coach Phillip Fulmer. Chavis was a Tennessee alum and held the position of defensive coordinator there since 1995. Chavis will also coach linebackers at LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season, Coaching changes\nRon Cooper was hired as the new defensive backs coach. Previously, Mallory had coached the defensive backs since 2005.   Cooper came to LSU from the University of South Carolina where he spent the past five years coaching on the defensive side of the football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season, Coaching changes\nEarl Lane also left LSU following the 2008. Lane spent 3 seasons as defensive line coach at LSU, but decided it was time to move on. Lane was replaced by Brick Haley. Haley was brought aboard as a veteran defensive line coach who has spent time in both the NFL and the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season, Coaching changes\nFinally, Josh Henson, who left to become co-offensive line coach for Missouri, was replaced by Don Yanowsky. Henson came to LSU with Miles in 2005 and served as the Tight Ends coach and recruiting coordinator for the Tigers. Henson has a reputation as of being one of the best recruiters in the nation. Yanowsky will also serve as the Tight Ends coach and Recruiting coordinator, and comes to LSU from Boston College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203714-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season, Spring game\nThe Tigers held their annual spring game on Saturday April 18, 2009. LSU White defeated LSU Purple 27\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203715-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 2009 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne cycling race  took place on 22 April 2009. It was the 73rd running of the La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne between Charleroi and Huy in Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203715-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nChristophe Moreau and Fumiyuki Beppu took a very early lead, but Moreau eventually dropped Beppu on the second climb up the Mur de Huy and went off by himself. At one point, Moreau had his lead over the peloton up to 15 minutes. He was caught at 24\u00a0km to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203715-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nMany riders tried to open a gap before the final climb of the Mur de Huy, but none were successful. On the Mur, David Le Lay jumped away from the pack, which was led by Cadel Evans. Only a few hundred meters before the finish did the Australian overtake the Frenchman. Andy Schleck and Davide Rebellin followed Evans for some time, before accelerating out of his wheel. Rebellin proved to accelerate quicker than Schleck, so there was no real fight for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203715-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nRebellin's win is in doubt after his re-tested A sample in 2008 Summer Olympics was positive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203716-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies European Tour\nThe 2009 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2009. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203716-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies European Tour\nThe tour featured 21 official money events, as well as the Solheim Cup and the European Ladies Golf Cup. Sophie Gustafson won the Order of Merit with earnings of \u20ac281,315, ahead of Catriona Matthew. Gustafson participated in only four events, and Matthew only three events. Anna Nordqvist won Rookie of the Year honours, after finishing 13th in the Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar\nThe 2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar was the first edition of the Ladies Tour of Qatar cycling stage race. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1, and was held between 8 and 10 February 2009, in Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Stages, Stage 1\nThe sprint of the front group of 21 riders was won by Giorgia Bronzini before Kirsten Wild and Ellen van Dijk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Stages, Stage 3\nTeam Flexpoint split the bunch with about 10 kilometres to go. After the bunch regrouped slightly, Ellen van Dijk attacked with 800 metres to go. The headwind was very strong and Van Dijk couldn\u2019t stay away. The bunch sprint was won by Giorgia Bronzini before Rochelle Gilmore and Kirsten Wild, who won the general and points classification. Ellen van Dijk, finishing 6th, won the Best Young Rider\u2019s classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Classification leadership\nIn the 2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, three different jerseys are awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on each stage and in intermediate sprints, the leader receives a golden jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Tour of Qatar, and the winner is considered the winner of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Classification leadership\nAdditionally, there is a points classification, which awards a silver jersey. In the points classification, cyclists get points for finishing in the top three in an intermediate sprint or the top twenty of a stage. The first in an intermediate sprint gets 3 points, second 2, and third a single point. The stage win affords 30 points, second is worth 27 points, 25 for third, 23 for fourth, 21 for fifth, 19 for sixth, 17 for seventh, 15 for eighth, 13 for ninth, 11 for tenth, and one point less per place down the line, to a single point for twentieth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Classification leadership\nThere is also a youth classification, which awards a blue jersey. This classification is calculated the same as the general classification, but only riders born on or after January 1, 1984, are eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203717-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Final classifications, Youth Classification\nNew Columbia-Highroad women\u2019s team rider Ellen van Dijk secured the Best Young Rider prize. Van Dijk\u2019s consistency after taking the jersey on the first day when she made it into the front group of 21 riders. The last hour of the last stage was a tense affair for the Dutchwoman, when she was caught on the wrong side of a split. She had to get past seven groups and finally crossed the line in sixth place, in the same time as stage winner, and won the Best Young Rider\u2019s classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203718-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 2009 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Lafayette tied for second place in the Patriot League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203718-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe team was led by Frank Tavani, in his 10th season as head coach. The Leopards played their home games at Fisher Stadium in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack\nAt 07:31 on 30 March 2009, the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked by an estimated 12 gunmen. The perpetrators were armed with automatic weapons and grenades or rockets and some were dressed as policemen. They took over the main building during a morning parade when 750 unarmed police recruits were present on the compound's parade ground. Police forces arrived 90 minutes later and were able to take back the building by 15:30. Five trainees, two instructors and a passer-by were killed. A suspect was captured alive in a field near the school. Three of the attackers blew themselves up to avoid arrest while three others were taken into custody as they tried to escape in police uniforms. The four were taken to undisclosed locations for interrogation by the security forces according to local media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 858]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Initial attacks\nThe Manawan Police Academy is a training school of the Pakistan Police located on the outskirts of Lahore. At around 07:30 at least 12 gunmen, some dressed in police uniform, attacked the academy during the morning drill hour when around 750 unarmed police recruits were on parade. The gunmen apparently gained access to the site by scaling the perimeter wall before causing three or four explosions on the parade ground, using grenades or rockets, and opening fire with automatic weapons. Several civilians on the road adjacent to the compound were hit by fire from the gunmen apparently when the gunmen attacked a police guard detachment near to a gate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Initial attacks\nThe academy had only been in a peacetime defensive stance and probably contained just a small armoury of outdated weapons. The attackers proceeded across the parade ground and stormed the academy building, taking hostages from the police trainees and establishing three or four defensive positions including one on the rooftop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Siege\nElite Forces of Punjab Police arrived on the site within 90 minutes of the attack and were cheered on by a crowd of spectators. The security forces took up position on rooftops around the compound, firing on the gunmen and sealing off any escape routes. The gunmen returned fire with automatic weaponry and grenades and also shot at a police helicopter. Several hours into the attack security forces used explosives to storm the building and retake it from the gunmen after ten to fifteen minutes of sustained firing, capturing the building by 15:30. During the course of the attack and siege eight police personnel, two civilians and eight gunmen were killed and 95 people injured. At least four of the gunmen have been captured alive by the security forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Siege\nA curfew was imposed in the area surrounding the academy. Several hundred civilians poured in from close by localities to watch the operation despite the \u2018curfew-like\u2019 conditions in the area. Elite forces declared victory signs on completion of the successful operation. Punjab Police resorted to aerial firing and chanted slogans of Allahu Akbar after the siege successfully ended and hostages were freed and at least three of the would-be suicide bombers were caught alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Claims of responsibility, Baitullah Mehsud\nThe leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud took responsibility for the attack. \"Yes, we have carried out this attack. I will give details later,\" Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked leader based in the Waziristan tribal region told Reuters by telephone. He also said that his next target would be Washington D.C., US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Claims of responsibility, Baitullah Mehsud\nMehsud was also accused by the government of Pakistan for carrying out the attack that killed popular Pakistani political leader, Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Claims of responsibility, Fedayeen al-Islam\nFedayeen al-Islam, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the assault and added that it would carry out more attacks unless Pakistani troops withdraw from the tribal areas near the Afghan border and the end of US drone attacks in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Arrests\nA person named Hijratullah, believed to be part of the group of attackers, was apprehended by local citizens when he was seen hiding in the nearby fields at first and then moving slowly towards the rescue helicopters with two grenades in his hand. He was confirmed by authorities as a resident of Paktika province of Afghanistan. Authorities also confirmed later to have arrested 3 more attackers after the Rangers forced them to lay down their arms. Another gunman Hazrat Gull of Miranshah in Waziristan was also arrested. Ten suspects belonging to a religious organisation were arrested from Sukkur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Arrests\nPolice also arrested Qari Ishtiaq, who was said to be the commander of the Punjabi Taliban. He was arrested from Bahawalpur on the information provided by the Hijratullah who was jailed for 10 years due to his role. Seven other militants were arrested from different parts of Punjab based on his information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Reaction\nPresident Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan both condemned the attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203719-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Lahore police academy attack, Reaction\nInterior Minister Rehman Malik, placed security services on high alert across the country and pointed the finger at extremist groups and hinted Indian involvement. Further he stated that fighters loyal to Baitullah Mehsud were believed to have carried out the attack. Rehman Malik said that all these terrorist outfits were receiving weapons and funds from outside the country. He said \"Some rival country, or some hostile Intelligence agency is definitely out to destabilise our democratic forces\". He said the attack was impeccably planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\nOn 5 September 2009, the Ilinden sightseeing boat with a group of 57 foreign tourists on board, of which 55 were Bulgarian, sank in Lake Ohrid, southwestern Republic of Macedonia. Fifteen people died. The sinking of the Ilinden was the deadliest boat accident in the history of the Republic of Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\nLake Ohrid is the deepest lake in the Balkans, with maximum depth of 288 metres (945\u00a0ft). The Ilinden boat was taking tourists to the Saint Naum Monastery. The boat, built in 1924, had a maximum capacity of 45 passengers. It sank within four minutes, some 200 metres (700\u00a0ft) from the shore, in shallow waters. The boat is said to have sunk around 11:00\u00a0AM local time, in the vicinity of the Ele\u0161ec camping site. Two other boats, the Alexandria and the Kristina, were nearby and were able to assist the passengers of the Ilinden. Most of the tourists on board were senior citizens, many of whom were unable to swim. Victims were from Pirdop, Zlatitsa, Chelopech and particularly Anton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\nThe Republic of Macedonia's top officials visited the place of the accident. Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov ordered that a Bulgarian government aeroplane bring the surviving Bulgarians back home. Another aeroplane, a Bulgarian Air Force C-27J Spartan, transported the corpses of Bulgarian victims. The Minister of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of Macedonia Mile Janakievski offered his resignation over the accident due to moral reasons, which was not accepted by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\n6 September was declared a national day of mourning in the Republic of Macedonia. Similarly, 7 September was declared a national day of mourning in Bulgaria and all official events related to the celebration of the Bulgarian unification on 6 September were cancelled. A minute of silence was observed before Macedonia and Bulgaria's 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers later on 5 September and against Scotland and Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\nA nongovernmental organization, the Bulgarian Cultural Club \u2013 Skopje proposed to Mayor Aleksandar Petreski of Ohrid the erection of a monument commemorating both the victims of the accident and those whose help saved many lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203720-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident\nIn November 2020, a monument in Ohrid to the Bulgarian tourists that died on the ship Ilinden was vandalized and destroyed. On the 28th of November, the mayor of Ohrid, Konstantin Georgieski announced that the plaque had been replaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting\nOn November 29, 2009, four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza (now Blue Steele) Coffee shop, located at 11401 Steele Street #108 South in the Parkland unincorporated area of Pierce County, Washington, near Tacoma. A gunman, later identified as Maurice Clemmons, entered the shop, shot the officers while they worked on laptops, and fled the scene with a single gunshot wound in his torso. After a massive two-day manhunt that spanned several nearby cities, an officer recognized Clemmons near a stalled car in south Seattle. When he refused orders to stop, he was shot and killed by a Seattle Police Department officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting\nFive people, all friends and family of Clemmons, were convicted of crimes associated with aiding his escape and enabling him to elude capture, but most convictions were reversed on appeal, based on court findings of misconduct by the Pierce County Prosecutor's Office, led by Mark Lindquist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Pattern of attacks on police\nClemmons' shooting of the Lakewood officers was initially thought to be have been part of a targeted attack by multiple persons against police officers in the Seattle-Tacoma area, but these actions are now considered unrelated. Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was murdered a month earlier under similar circumstances. Three weeks later on December 21 in Eatonville, two Pierce County sheriff's deputies were shot and critically injured (one later died of his wounds). That gunman was shot dead in return fire. The Lakewood shooting is the most deadly attack on law enforcement in the state of Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Pattern of attacks on police\nAt the time, the Lakewood shooting was both the deadliest attack on law enforcement in the United States since the March 21, 2009, fatal shootings of four Oakland, California, police officers, as well as the deadliest attack on law enforcement in a single incident by a single gunman. The four Lakewood police officers were the first to be killed in the line of duty since the department was established in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator\nMaurice Clemmons (February 6, 1972 \u2013 December 1, 2009) was identified as the shooter in the November 29, 2009 murder of four police officers in Parkland, Washington. After evading police for two days following the shooting, Clemmons was shot and killed by a police officer in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator\nPrior to his involvement in the shooting, Clemmons had five felony convictions in Arkansas and eight felony charges in Washington. His first incarceration began in 1989, at age 17. Facing sentences totaling 108 years in prison, the burglary sentences were reduced in 2000 by Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee to 47 years, which made him immediately eligible for parole. The Arkansas Parole Board unanimously moved to release him in 2000. Clemmons was subsequently arrested on other charges and was jailed several times. In the months prior to the Parkland shooting, he was in jail on charges of assaulting a police officer and raping a child. One week prior to the Parkland shooting, he was released from jail after posting a $150,000 bail bond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator\nAt the time, Clemmons' murder of four police officers represented the largest number of law enforcement officers killed by a lone perpetrator in a single incident in U.S. history. It was surpassed in July 2016 when a mass shooting occurred in Dallas, Texas, resulting in the deaths of five police officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nMaurice Clemmons's father made frames for automobile seats at a Chrysler factory;  his mother, Dorothy Mae Clemmons, worked in a nursing home. He had five siblings. Clemmons lived in Marianna, Arkansas in his early youth, and moved to Little Rock as a teen. He was arrested when he was a junior at Hall High School for carrying a .25-caliber pistol on school property. He claimed to be carrying the gun because he was \"beaten by dopers\", and said he had \"something for them\" if they attacked him again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nClemmons did not return to school, and finished his education at eleventh grade. In 1989, a 17-year-old Clemmons and two other accomplices robbed a woman at midnight in the parking lot of a Little Rock hotel bar. Clemmons pretended to have a gun in his pocket and threatened to shoot her if she did not give him her purse. When she responded, \"Well, why don't you just shoot? \", he punched her in the head and ran off with the purse, which contained $16 and a credit card. A court sentenced Clemmons to 35 years imprisonment for the crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nClemmons was accused multiple times of displaying violent behavior during court appearances. In one incident, he managed to dismantle a metal door stop, hiding it in his sock to use as a weapon. It was discovered and confiscated by a court bailiff. In another incident, he took a lock from his holding cell and threw it at a bailiff, but missed and accidentally hit his mother instead. Clemmons was once accused of reaching for a guard's pistol while being transported to court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nDuring one trial, he was shackled in leg irons and seated next to a uniformed officer because the presiding judge had ordered extra security, claiming Clemmons had threatened him. At age 16, Clemmons's charges were transferred from juvenile court to adult court due to the extremely violent nature of his crimes and his threatening demeanor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nBy 1990, Clemmons was sentenced to 108 years in prison for eight felony charges from his teenage years in Arkansas. The total prison term stemmed from multiple sentences, some of which were concurrent to others, while others were consecutive. The heaviest sentence came in 1990, when he was given a 60-year prison term for breaking into an Arkansas state trooper's home and stealing $6,700 in property, including a gun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Early life and juvenile crimes\nDuring his sentencing on the charges, a circuit judge told Clemmons that he had broken his mother's heart, to which he responded, \"I have broken my own heart.\" In 1989, Clemmons was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his 1989 robbery in the parking lot of the Little Rock hotel bar. Among his other sentences were six years for weapons possession based on his high school arrest and eight years for burglary, theft and probation violation in Pulaski County. He was ineligible for parole until at least 2015. Clemmons was initially held at the Tucker Correctional Facility in Tucker, Arkansas and was eventually transferred to the Cummins Unit near Grady.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nWhere once stood a young ... misguided fool, who's  [sic] own life he was unable to rule. Now stands a 27-year-old man, who has learned through 'the school of hard knocks' to appreciate and respect the rights of others. And who has in the midst of the harsh reality of prison life developed the necessary skills to stand along ([ [sic]]) and not follow a multitude to do evil, as I did as a 16 year old child.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\n\u2014Maurice Clemmons, in his clemency application to Governor Mike Huckabee", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nIn 1999, after having served 10 years of his sentence, Clemmons filed a clemency appeal with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nIn his petition to Huckabee, Clemmons wrote he came from \"a very good Christian family\" and was \"raised much better than my actions speak\". Clemmons claimed he had just moved from Seattle, Washington, to Arkansas as a teenager, and because he had no friends he gave in to peer pressure and \"fell in with the wrong crowd\" to be accepted by his young peers, which led him to commit his crimes. Although he apologized for his actions, Clemmons also complained that he received overly harsh sentences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nHe also claimed to have changed and expressed regret that his mother had recently died without seeing him turn his life around. Clemmons' clemency application was supported by Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Marion Humphrey, who argued the cumulative sentence was excessive and cited Clemmons' young age at the time he committed the crimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nThe decision was made over the objections of some victims and prosecutors involved in Clemmons' previous cases but was supported by the bipartisan parole board and the trial court judge in Clemmons' case. Mark Fraiser, an attorney who prosecuted early cases against Clemmons in Pulaski County, argued Clemmons was extremely likely to commit further acts of violence in the future, and said for a teen to receive such a lengthy prison sentence without committing a murder, \"you've got to be a bad little dude\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Clemency\nOn May 3, 2000, Huckabee commuted Clemmons' 108-year sentence to 47 years, 5 months and 19 days, which made him eligible for parole that day. As a factor in his decision, Huckabee cited the unusually long sentence for Clemmons' age at the time the crimes were committed. The Arkansas Parole Board unanimously approved Clemmons' release on July 13, 2000, and he was set free on August 1, 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nLess than a year after his release, in March 2001, Clemmons violated parole by committing aggravated robbery and theft yet again in Ouachita County. He was convicted on July 13, 2001 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He faced charges of parole violation, but, due to problems with the case, he was not served with the charges until 2004. His attorney argued the parole violation charges should be dropped, as much time had passed; subsequently, those charges were dismissed. Clemmons was granted parole on the robbery charges in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nHe told the parole board he was \"not ready\" the first time he was released, but that he \"[didn't] want to die in prison\" and would \"try to do the right thing\". Clemmons moved to Washington in 2004 while still on parole, which was approved by Arkansas authorities. That year, he married a woman named Nicole Smith; The Seattle Times later reported the relationship had \"been tumultuous\". He was placed under the supervision of the Washington State Department of Corrections and classified as \"high risk to reoffend\". His supervision was to continue until October 2005. He lived in Tacoma, where he ran a landscaping and power-washing business out of his house. Over the next five years, Clemmons was able to purchase six houses, including one in Arkansas and five in Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nFollowing his parole in 2004, Clemmons had no arrests or problems with the law until May 2009. The Seattle Times noted four days in May 2009 as the time when \"Maurice Clemmons' behavior and mental state deteriorated\". On May 9, a Pierce County Sheriff's deputy responded to Clemmons' home after reports he was throwing rocks at houses, cars and people. When the deputy tried to enter the house, one of Clemmons' cousins grabbed his wrist. After a struggle, Clemmons emerged from the house and punched the deputy in the face, then assaulted a second deputy who arrived to help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nClemmons was placed under arrest and taken to Pierce County Jail, where he continued to struggle and told jail workers, \"I'll kill all you bitches.\" He was charged with two felony assault charges and two felony malicious mischief charges, and released from jail the next day after posting a $40,000 bail bond, without ever seeing a judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nOn May 11, around 1 a.m., Clemmons appeared naked in his living room and ordered two female relatives, ages 11 and 12, to fondle him. The two reportedly complied out of fear, and the 11-year-old fled the house afterward. Clemmons took the 12-year-old into his bedroom along with Clemmons' wife. Clemmons repeatedly referred to himself as Jesus, and said his wife was Eve. He released the 12-year-old after his wife begged him to let her go. However, around 4 a.m. that same morning, he gathered his family back into the living room and demanded they strip naked together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nHe later left the house, claiming the world was coming to an end and that he was \"going to fly to heaven\". A family member called 911; police found Clemmons at a nearby second house he was building for himself, but he fled on foot and escaped. Clemmons failed to appear the next day for an arraignment on his May 9 charges. Child Protective Services investigated and substantiated the sexual abuse complaint. Clemmons's sister told authorities he had undergone a change and was \"not in his right mind\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nClemmons was arrested on July 1, 2009, after he appeared in a Pierce County court trying to have his bench warrant thrown out. He was charged with second-degree rape of a child, and with being a fugitive from Arkansas. At the time of his arrest, Clemmons made religiously-themed comments and referred to himself as The Beast. He also told a police officer that then-President Barack Obama and LeBron James were his brothers, and Oprah Winfrey was his sister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nPierce County prosecutors asserted that Clemmons's recent crimes amounted to a violation of Clemmons's parole in Arkansas, and that he faced years in prison if he was returned to that state. However, the Arkansas Department of Community Correction notified Pierce County on July 22 that they did not intend to ask for his extradition and that he should be adjudicated on his Washington charges. Stephen Penner, a deputy prosecuting attorney in Pierce County, said of the Arkansas decision, \"There's a built-in incentive to not following through. In a way, the more violent they are, the less you want them in your community.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nDuring a court-ordered mental health evaluation, Clemmons told psychologists he had experienced hallucinations in May 2009 of \"people drinking blood and people eating babies, and lawless on the streets, like people were cannibals\". He claimed the visions had since passed. He also claimed to have no faith in the American justice system, and thought he was being \"maliciously persecuted because I'm black and they believe the police\". The evaluation, completed by two psychologists from the Western State Hospital on October 19, concluded Clemmons was dangerous and presented an increased risk of future criminal acts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nPierce County Judge John McCarthy set bail for Clemmons's assault charges at $40,000, considerably below the $100,000 prosecutors sought based on Clemmons' history of violence. Pierce County Judge Thomas Felnagle set bail for the child-rape charges at $150,000, lower than the $200,000 sought by prosecutors, but higher than usual for the charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Perpetrator, Later crimes\nAfter a mental evaluation, a psychologist concluded Clemmons was competent to stand trial on the charges, which eliminated him as a candidate for involuntary commitment. An attorney for Clemmons notified the court he planned to pursue an insanity or diminished-capacity defense. On November 23, 2009, Clemmons paid $15,000 for a $190,000 bail bond to secure his release. Two other bail bond agencies had earlier rejected Clemmons's bond request, based on his history of failing to appear in court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Shooting\nOn the morning of Sunday, November 29, 2009, the four officers were working on their laptops at a Forza Coffee Company coffee shop prior to the start of their shift in nearby Parkland, next to McChord Air Force Base. All four were armed and in full uniform, wearing bulletproof vests. Clemmons drove a white pickup truck to getaway driver Dorcus Allen's home, and Allen drove him past the coffee shop. After they saw marked police patrol cars in the parking lot, Allen drove back past the coffee shop and parked nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Shooting\nAt approximately 8:15 AM (UTC-8), Clemmons entered the coffee shop, approached the counter, turned around, and opened fire on the four seated officers with a Glock 17 9mm semi-automatic handgun. He also carried a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver. Sergeant Mark Renninger and Officer Tina Griswold were shot in the head and killed while sitting. Officer Ronald Owens was shot in the neck as he stood up and attempted to draw his weapon. Officer Greg Richards fired his own weapon and hit Clemmons in the abdomen, before succumbing to a shot to the head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Shooting\nClemmons stole Richards's Glock before fleeing the scene with Allen. Clemmons did not harm bystanders. Investigators said the murders were an attack against police officers in general, since none of the four officers was individually targeted, and robbery was ruled out as a motive. Allen later told detectives he stopped at an intersection and abandoned Clemmons and the truck, claiming he \"wanted of no part of this\". But, police found no evidence Allen had abandoned the vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Manhunt\nThe afternoon following the shooting, the Pierce County sheriff identified Maurice Clemmons as the suspected murderer, saying that he had a long, violent, criminal history in Arkansas and Washington. Police confirmed that Clemmons had been shot in the abdomen during the attack, and advised hospitals to be aware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Manhunt\nIn the late evening hours of November 29, Seattle police believed they had Clemmons surrounded in a home in the Leschi area of Seattle. With air support provided by King County Sheriff's Office, SWAT teams from the King County Sheriff's Office, Seattle Police Department, Tacoma Police Department, and other agencies entered the home after a twelve-hour standoff, but they found no one inside. Earlier in the day, Tacoma police served a search warrant on a Tacoma home belonging to a \"person of interest\" and collected evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Manhunt\nAn intense manhunt ensued, and police from agencies in Pierce and King counties conducted searches at the University of Washington campus, Rizal Park, and in Renton, without success. Acting on a tip, King County Sheriff's Deputies and Washington State Patrol troopers were also conducting surveillance and going door to door at Snoqualmie Pass-area homes, 50 miles (80\u00a0km) east of Seattle. After hours of investigating, that search was called off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Manhunt\nThe tip had been one of thousands received by local law enforcement agencies. The police were offering a $145,000 reward for information leading to Clemmons's arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Death of Clemmons\nHaving evaded police for two days, Clemmons was located on December 1. He was shot and killed by a police officer in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Death of Clemmons\nAround 2:45\u00a0a.m. on December 1, Seattle police officer Benjamin L. Kelly was on patrol in the Brighton neighborhood of south Seattle in the Rainier Valley; he came upon a 1990 Acura Integra parked on the street at 44th Place South and South Kenyon Street. It was empty but the hood was raised and the engine running. He ran the vehicle's license plate number and determined that it had been stolen about two hours earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Death of Clemmons\nWhile sitting in his patrol car to report the stolen vehicle, Kelly noticed a man matching Clemmons' description approaching him from behind, walking first on the sidewalk and then in the middle of the street. Police accounts state that Kelly confronted Clemmons and ordered him to stop and show his hands, but Clemmons began to flee around the disabled vehicle and reportedly \"reached into his waist area and moved\" as Kelly was drawing his side arm. Kelly fired three shots at Clemmons, followed by another four shots as the suspect ran away \"in a dead sprint,\" and struck him at least twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Incident, Death of Clemmons\nClemmons reached the sidewalk and collapsed face-down in a walkway leading to a home on Kenyon Street. Kelly retreated behind his patrol car, retrieved his shotgun, and called for backup. Within moments, Seattle police came to the scene. A team of officers approached the suspect, handcuffed him, and took him away from the home. Seattle Fire Department medics responded and pronounced the suspect dead at the scene. Clemmons was carrying a handgun identified as having belonged to a slain officer in the Lakewood shooting. Clemmons had a bullet wound to his abdomen sustained during the shooting in Parkland, which had been stuffed with cotton and gauze and sealed with duct tape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Victims\nAll four officers had been with the Lakewood Police Department from its beginning in 2004. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Victims, Memorial funds raised, stolen\nImmediately following the shootings, the Lakewood Police Independent Guild set up a memorial fund for the officers. As of 2012, about $3.2 million were donated to the fund. In March 2012, Lakewood police officer Skeeter Timothy Manos pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from the account, using funds for his personal use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Weapons\nFederal authorities determined these details regarding the 9mm Glock Model 17 and a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver Clemmons brought to the crime scene:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Trials of accomplices\nOne accomplice has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, while four convicted of rendering criminal assistance, including getaway driver Dorcus Allen, had their convictions reversed on appeal. The trials of accomplices to this crime were marred by prosecutorial misconduct, with many reversals and rebukes from higher courts. By December 2, 2009, six individuals were arrested charged with providing assistance to Clemmons before and after the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Trials of accomplices\nFive were accused of providing such assistance to Clemmons as transporting him to several locations, providing him with money and cell phones, making arrangements for him to flee the state, and treating his gunshot wound from the Lakewood shooting, all with full knowledge of the crime he had committed. In June 2010, Clemmons's sister was sentenced to five years imprisonment for acting as a getaway driver. In December 2010, three of the four other suspects were convicted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Trials of accomplices\nOn January 14, 2011, Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Arend sentenced accomplices Eddie Lee Davis to 10 years, five months; Douglas Edward Davis to seven years, six months; and Letrecia Nelson to six years, two months in state prison. One defendant was acquitted of all charges. All of these convictions and sentences were reversed by the Washington Supreme Court in appeals of 2013 and 2014 because of prosecutor misconduct in the original trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Trials of accomplices\nIn May 2011, Darcus Allen, the remaining suspect, was convicted of four counts of murder as the getaway driver for Clemmons, and sentenced to 420 years in prison the following month. In January 2015, the Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial, citing prosecutor misconduct similar to the earlier reversals. After being convicted in the retrial and sentenced, Allen's sentence was reversed on appeal. The high court ruled that Allen was acquitted of aggravated murder at his second trial, and could not be re-tried for aggravated murder. In response, the prosecutor is re-trying him for first-degree murder. Allen maintains that he did not know Clemmons intended to commit a crime, and believes he has been a scapegoat for the public anguish and outrage evoked by the murders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nMike Huckabee was widely criticized for having commuted Clemmons' sentence and allowed his release from prison in 2000. The evening of the shooting, Huckabee released a statement noting the roles of the parole board that freed him and the criminal justice system, which Huckabee said had repeatedly failed to properly handle Clemmons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nIn his statement, Huckabee said, \"Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State.\" Huckabee, who was considered a favorite for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2012, claimed that the situation was used as a political weapon against him. Clemmons has been compared to Willie Horton, a convicted felon who was furloughed from a Massachusetts prison in 1986 but never returned and committed more violent crimes several months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nThe Horton case eventually factored into the 1988 presidential campaign of Democratic Party candidate Michael Dukakis, who was Governor of Massachusetts at the time and supported the furlough program. Timothy Egan, opinion writer for The New York Times, said of Huckabee's role in Clemmons's release, \"If this case does not sink the presidential aspirations of Huckabee\u2026it should.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nIn his book about the shooting, The Other Side of Mercy, Jonathan Martin of The Seattle Times wrote that Huckabee apparently failed to review Clemmons' prison file, which was \"thick with acts of violence and absent indications of rehabilitation.\" Martin also suggested that Huckabee failed to ensure Clemmons' post-release plan was \"solid, or even factual.\" In an article for the Times, Martin wrote that if Huckabee was serious about running for president in 2016, \"he'll have to answer his Maurice Clemmons problem.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nSome university professors, criminologists, and attorneys speculated that U.S. governors will become more reluctant to grant pardons and clemencies to convicted felons, in order to avoid the negative publicity faced by Dukakis and Huckabee in the Horton and Clemmons cases, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Political fallout\nAccording to several witnesses, local elected prosecutor Mark Lindquist said that the mass-murder was worth \"$100,000 of free publicity\" in a campaign to re-elect him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Officers' memorial service\nA public memorial service for the four slain officers was held December 8, 2009, at the Tacoma Dome. The day began with a 10-mile (16\u00a0km) procession from McChord Air Force Base past the Lakewood police station to the Tacoma Dome. Over 2,000 police and fire vehicles from over 150 different law enforcement and fire agencies participated in the procession, which took five hours to complete. Over 20,000 people, mostly from the law enforcement and firefighting communities, attended the service at the Tacoma Dome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Officers' memorial service\nPolice officers from as far away as New York City and Boston, as well as a large contingent of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, were in attendance. Lakewood's mayor and police chief spoke, followed by eulogies by family, friends, and colleagues of the four officers. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire also spoke, saying, \"We will remember them today. We will remember them always.\" The service concluded with a played recording of a police dispatcher attempting to call each officer with no response, and the dispatcher declaring each officer as \"gone but not forgotten.\" The officers' remains were buried in private ceremonies by their individual families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Officers' memorial service\nThe memorial was logistically complex. The agencies preparing for the memorial services expected 20,000 law enforcement personnel to take part. One thousand emergency vehicles and police cruisers followed the families of the victims to the Tacoma Dome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 61], "content_span": [62, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203721-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Lakewood shooting, Aftermath, Site and memorial\nThe site of the murders reopened two weeks after the shooting. The business later changed ownership and became Blue Steele Coffee Company. A memorial to the slain officers appears near the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203722-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG\nThe 2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the nineteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aachen, Germany between 9 and 15 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203722-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203722-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG, Champions, Doubles\nRohan Bopanna /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi def. Philipp Marx /  Igor Zelenay, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203723-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG \u2013 Doubles\nMichael Kohlmann and Alexander Waske didn't defend their title. Kohlmann participated with Horia Tec\u0103u, but lost to Philipp Marx and Igor Zelenay in the semifinals. Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi defeated Marx and Zelenay 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203724-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lambertz Open by STAWAG \u2013 Singles\nEvgeny Korolev, who was the defending champion, chose to not compete this year. Rajeev Ram won in the final match 7\u20136(2), 6\u20137(5), 7\u20136(2), against Dustin Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election\nA whole-council election to Lancashire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The United Kingdom government department Department for Communities and Local Government  on the issue of moving the elections to the same date as the 2009 European Parliament election, which resulted in the council elections being postponed to June to coincide. 84 councillors were elected for 84 divisions by first-past-the-post' for a four-year term of office. Wards were the same as those at the previous election in 2005. Elections are held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election, Results\nThe overall turnout was 37.99% with a total of 336,261 valid votes cast. A total of 3,311 ballots were rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election, Council composition\nFollowing the last election in 2005, the composition of the council was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203725-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancashire County Council election, Council composition\nG - Green Party I - Independent IT - Idle Toad B - BNP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election\nAn election for mayor of the City of Lancaster in Pennsylvania was held on November 3, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Rick Gray, a Democrat, defeated challenger Charles W. \"Charlie\" Smithgall, a Republican by 313 votes, out of 7,261 cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election\nGray announced his intention to seek a second term as mayor on December 17, 2008. Former two-term mayor Charles W. \"Charlie\" Smithgall, who had initially declined to run, won the Republican primary by write-in vote by supporters. Smithgall, who was in office from 1998 until 2006, was not a declared candidate in the primary. Smithgall announced on June 26, 2009, that he would accept the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, Election background\nSmithgall was first elected to office in 1997, easily defeating his Democratic opponent, attorney Jon Lyons, with 52 to 36 percent of the vote. Smithgall won re-election for a second term in the 2001 mayoral election against Democrat Ed Ruoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, Election background\nSmithgall sought to seek a third term in the 2005 mayoral election. His Democratic challenger during that election was Rick Gray, a lawyer. The 2005 campaign between Smithgall and Gray was the most expensive mayoral election in Lancaster's history. Smithgall and Gray raised a combined $229,000 for their campaigns: Smithgall raised $146,792 and Gray $82,072. In a surprise outcome, Smithgall, an early favorite for re-election, was defeated by Gray by 16 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, 2009 campaign\nGray announced his intention to seek a second term as mayor  on December 17, 2008. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary and initially had no Republican opposition in the general election as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, 2009 campaign\nSmithgall initially declined a potential rematch with Gray, leaving no Republican challenger. However, a grassroots campaign was launched by supporters of the former mayor to support him as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary. Despite the efforts by supporters to draft him into the election, Smithgall remained out of the mayoral race until after the May 2009 primary. Smithgall received 227 write-in votes from supporters in the primary. Smithgall's supporters needed 100 votes to draft him as their write-in candidate and validate a potential candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, 2009 campaign\nAfter some consideration, Smithgall entered the race and officially announced his candidacy on June 26, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203726-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lancaster, Pennsylvania mayoral election, 2009 campaign\nUnlike the 2005 election, Gray has outraised and outspent Smithgall by nearly five times between June 2009 and October 2009. Gray had raised in $33,908 and had approximately $20,805 in cash on hand as of October 19, 2009. By contrast, Smithgall raised just $6,900 and had just $519 in cash on hand during the same time period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203727-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Landshut shooting\nThe 2009 Landshut shooting was a revolver shooting at a courthouse in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany that left the 60-year-old German shooter and one of his sisters-in-law dead. Another sister-in-law and a lawyer were severely injured. It took place on Tuesday April 7, 2009. Leonard Mayer, spokesman for the police, said that he was unaware of any warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203728-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Langerado Music Festival\nThe seventh Langerado Festival was scheduled to be held on March 6\u20138, 2009. The festival was planned to move to Bicentennial Park in Miami, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203728-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Langerado Music Festival\nThis caused controversy among fans who disliked the direction the festival is heading, considering it \"selling out\" and saying it will lose the unique character of the festival. Another concern was the availability of parking and places to stay in Miami, as many people who attended the previous festivals simply camped out at the park or nearby camping sites. On February 3, it was announced that Langerado 2009 would be canceled due to sluggish ticket sales resulting from disenchantment over the new location, atypical lineup, and lack of onsite camping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203728-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Langerado Music Festival, Lineup\nDeath Cab for Cutie \u2022 Snoop Dogg \u2022 Thievery Corporation \u2022 Slightly Stoopid \u2022 Ryan Adams and the Cardinals \u2022 Dashboard Confessional \u2022 The Pogues \u2022 Matisyahu \u2022 Flogging Molly \u2022 Michael Franti & Spearhead \u2022 Broken Social Scene \u2022 Caf\u00e9 Tacuba \u2022 Umphrey's McGee \u2022 The Disco Biscuits \u2022 Robert Randolph & The Family Band \u2022 Pepper \u2022 The Faint \u2022 Cold War Kids \u2022 Steel Pulse \u2022 Public Enemy \u2022 Gym Class Heroes \u2022 Tricky \u2022 Girl Talk \u2022 Chromeo \u2022 Mutemath \u2022 Bad Brains \u2022 Ozomatli \u2022 Against Me!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203728-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Langerado Music Festival, Lineup\n\u2022 George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic \u2022 Tortoise \u2022 DeVotchKa \u2022 Black Kids \u2022 Grupo Fantasma \u2022 Holy Fuck \u2022 Budos Band \u2022 Tokyo Police Club \u2022 Lotus \u2022 The Virgins \u2022 The Gaslight Anthem \u2022 King Khan and the Shrines \u2022 Lucero \u2022 Murs \u2022 Ra Ra Riot \u2022 Tortured Soul \u2022 Rebelution \u2022 K'Naan \u2022 The Egg \u2022 Zac Brown Band \u2022 Tigercity \u2022 The Aggrolites \u2022 Cloud Cult \u2022 Spam Allstars \u2022 Rachel Goodrich \u2022 Blue King Brown \u2022 The Heavy Pets \u2022 Awesome New Republic \u2022 The Postmarks \u2022 Suenalo Sound System \u2022 Live Painting by LEBO \u2022 Modest Mouse \u2022 Gene Ween Band \u2022 Deerhunter \u2022 Alberta Cross", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203729-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Laois County Council election\nAn election to Laois County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic\nThe 2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic (officially the 2009 PartyPoker.com Las Vegas Desert Classic for sponsorship) was a professional darts tournament staged from July 1 to July 5, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the eighth and final staging of the event since the original 2002 edition, and the fourth time it took place at the Mandalay Bay Resort. The tournament was the third of five Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) premier events in the 2009 season. Online gambling website PartyPower.com sponsored the tournament broadcast on Sky Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic\nPhil Taylor, the tournament's defending champion, defeated Raymond van Barneveld by 13 legs to 11 in the final, winning the fifth Las Vegas Desert Classic tournament of his career. He defeated qualifier Jamie Caven in the first round, Dennis Priestley in the second round, Gary Anderson in the quarter-finals and John Part in the semi-finals. Adrian Lewis achieved the tournament's highest checkout, a 164, in the final leg of his first round match against Vincent van der Voort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Background and format\nThe Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) began the Las Vegas Desert Classic in 2002 as its first live televised darts competition in the United States. Players considered the tournament difficult to play because matches were held early in the morning for a European broadcast. The 2009 tournament was held between July\u00a01 to July 5,\u00a0in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was the third of the five PDC-sanctioned premier events in the 2009 season. This was the final year PDC staged the competition because of a lack of public interest. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and featured a 32-player main draw held at the Mandalay Bay Resort for the fourth successive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Background and format\nA total of 20 players, 16 from the PDC Order of Merit following the 2009 UK Open and 4 from the North American Order of Merit, automatically qualified for the main draw. There were 8 seeds assigned according to the PDC Order of Merit after the UK Open: Phil Taylor was seeded first, with James Wade seeded second. Two five-round qualifying tournaments held at the Mandalay Bay Resort from June\u00a028 to 29 decided the remaining 12 places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Background and format\nThe maximum number of legs played in a match increased from 11 in the first round to 15 in the second, 19 in the quarter final, and 21 in the semi-finals leading up to the best-of-25 legs final. Sponsored by the online gambling website PartyPower.com, and broadcast on Sky Sports, it had a total prize fund of \u00a3200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Background and format\nBookmakers installed Taylor as the favorite to win the tournament. Taylor, who hurt his back as he rode a bicycle two weeks before the event, commented on his chances: \"It's going to bring the best out of me. It's what I do for a living. It's my job. I'll play well the rest of the week, especially after getting beat [Tuesday] in a final.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Background and format, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of the 2009 prize money is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Qualification\nThe two qualifying rounds were held on June\u00a028 and\u00a029. Nearly 200 players had applied to enter by the June\u00a024 deadline. The qualifying draw was conducted at 11:00 local time on June\u00a028. All matches were best-of-9 legs, and the first round was played on a 24-board setup in the arena. Players were assigned to six groups and each group winner qualified for the main draw. Both qualifying tournaments featured 24 seeds. The losing players from the first tournament entered the second on June\u00a029 to determine the other six main draw entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Qualification\nJelle Klaasen beat Mark Webster, a former BDO world champion, James Barton and Dennis Smith with checkouts of 146 and 149 in the final two legs of his fifth round match to qualify. Fellow Dutchman Vincent van der Voort was the second qualifier, defeating Louis Blundell, Ian Jopling, Ken MacNeil and Tony Eccles. Co Stomp\u00e9 achieved two 5\u20130 whitewashes before beating Jacko Barry 5\u20132, Michael van Gerwen 5\u20134 and whitewashing Nick Fullwell to qualify. Peter Wright, who entered the top 100 in 2009, beat Andy Smith 5\u20133 to debut in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Qualification\nSimon Whitlock, who was undefeated on the 2009 DartPlayers Australia circuit, won his first three matches over Chris Edwards, Bernard Prenter and Gary Mawson without losing a leg before beating Mark Dudbridge and Barrie Bates to return to PDC competition. Jamie Caven made 14, 11 and 13-dart finishes in his 5\u20134 victory over Shane O'Connor, becoming the last player to qualify from the first day's play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Qualification\nPeter Manley, the 2003 winner, entered the main draw by whitewashing Bryan de Hoog 5\u20130. Colin Monk recovered from losing in the second round of the first qualifiers to defeat Ken MacNeil 5\u20133 in the final round of the second competition. Two-time Las Vegas Desert Classic semi-finalist Wes Newton beat Graham Warburton, Mark Carter, Paul Lim and Roland Scholten to qualify. Gary Anderson beat Dudbridge and Sam Rooney to qualify, and Phillip Hazel and Blundell made their televised debuts after final round wins over Barrie Bates and Mark Lawrence, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nThe draw for the first round of the championship was conducted in the Islander Ballroom at the Mandalay Bay Resort on the evening of June\u00a030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nThe first round of the event, in which the 12 PDC Order of Merit and four North America Order of America entrants played the 12 qualifiers, was held between July\u00a01 and 2. Dennis Priestley won 6\u20131 over Monk and Newton beat Alan Tabern 6\u20133. Colin Lloyd, who had lost in the first round of the last three Las Vegas tournaments, beat Wright 6\u20133. Ronnie Baxter, a UK Open semi-finalist and Las Vegas Players' Championship winner, lost 6\u20132 to Klaasen. Terry Jenkins, the losing finalist at the 2007 event, defeated qualifier Whitlock 6\u20131, and Taylor played through his back trouble to average 102 in his 6\u20133 win over Caven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nAnderson went into his game against Wayne Mardle requiring treatment for an allergic reaction to an energy drink he had the day before and hit six out of seven tries at a double ring to win 6\u20132. John Part, the 2006 winner, defeated the North American Darts Championship victor Scott Burnett 6\u20132. Part took a 4\u20130 lead from finishes of 117 and 90 points and 14 darts before finishes on the double 16 and double 10 rings from Burnett on his television debut made the score 4\u20132. Part took legs seven and eight to enter the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nMervyn King began his third Las Vegas campaign by winning 6\u20133 against Blundell. Tied at 3\u20133, King finished on the double 13 ring to take the lead and made an 11-dart finish in leg eight and finishing on the double four ring in the ninth leg to win after Blundell missed three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nAndy Hamilton, a 2008 quarter-finalist, led 4\u20130 over Chris White before the latter won leg five after Hamilton missed a double ring three times. Hamilton took the next two legs to win 6\u20131. Manley requited him falling out of the world's top 16 by defeating Mark Walsh 6\u20134. Both players shared the first four legs before a 106 checkout and finishes on the bullseye, double eight and 12 rings gave Manley the victory. Stomp\u00e9 beat Colin Osborne 6\u20134; Stomp\u00e9 led 3\u20131 after Osborne missed four darts at a double ring before Osborne tied the match at 4\u20134. He prevented a final leg decider by winning leg 10 after 13 darts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nRaymond van Barneveld won the first two legs of his match against Bill Davis, who claimed the third on the double 10 ring. Van Barneveld took the next two legs before Davis used the former's missed 124 finish to claim leg six. Van Barneveld had finishes on the double 16 and nine rings for a 6\u20132 victory. Wade, the 2009 Premier League Darts champion, overturned a 3\u20133 tie with Hazel from missed hits at a double ring to enter the second round with a 6\u20133 win from finishes on the double 20 and 9 rings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 1\nAdrian Lewis beat Van Der Voort 6\u20135 in a closely contested game. Both players took turns to lead the match, which went to a final leg decider won by Lewis on the bullseye ring from a 164 checkout. In the final first round match, Kevin Painter came from tying 2\u20132 with Darin Young to claim four successive legs and win 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 2\nThe second round on July\u00a03 consisted of eight 15-leg matches. Wade became the first player to go through to the quarter-finals with an 8\u20134 win over Hamilton. The match began with Hamilton leading 2\u20131 before Wade won four legs in a row to go ahead 5\u20132. Hamilton went 6\u20134 behind before Wade completed the victory. Taylor whitewashed Priestley, who had two chances at a double ring, 8\u20130. Taylor said post-match he felt uncomfortable, and it was hard to whitewash another professional player. Lewis beat Manley 8\u20131 in their third meeting in Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 2\nManley took the first leg after Lewis twice missed the double 20 ring. Lewis achieved five maximum scores and used errors from Manley to seal the victory. Part and Klaasen played the fourth second-round match exchanging the lead four times. They went to a final leg decider. Klaasen failed to hit the bullseye ring to complete an 84 checkout and Part finished with an 80-point checkout on the double ten ring to claim an 8\u20137 victory and remain unbeaten in meetings against his opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 2\nAnderson contested the fifth second-round match with Newton. Anderson opened a 4\u20130 advantage, before he missed six darts to lead 5\u20130, with Newton hitting the double eight ring to claim the fifth leg. Finishes on the double eight and four rings gave Anderson two more legs, which Newton followed by clinching the following two legs. Three missed chances to hit a double by Newton allowed Anderson to win 8\u20133. Van Barneveld played fellow Dutchman Stomp\u00e9 and led 5\u20132 when he failed to achieve a nine-dart finish in winning the eighth leg after his ninth dart missed the double 12 ring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Round 2\nHe then won the next three legs to win 8\u20132, and extended his unbeaten career wins record against Stomp\u00e9. Jenkins faced Lloyd and took a 3\u20130 lead. He twice failed to win the fourth leg that Lloyd took on the double four ring. Jenkins struck the double top ring for a 4\u20131 lead before Lloyd won two legs in a row to be 4\u20133 behind. Jenkins clinched the next four legs to go through to the quarter-finals by 8\u20134. The final second-round match saw King and Painter go to a final leg decider won by King 8\u20137 on a 13-dart finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nThe four quarter-finals were played as best-of-19 legs on July\u00a04; the start was delayed by 40 minutes because of the need to reestablish a television feed with Sky Sports in the United Kingdom. Part played Jenkins in the first quarter-final. Part achieved checkouts of 112 and 78 to take a 3\u20130 lead. An 88 checkout gave Jenkins the fourth leg, and he hit the double 14 ring to go 3\u20132 behind. Part won four frames in a row before Jenkins claimed six of the next eight to be 9\u20138 behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nPart won the 18th leg on the double four ring to win the match 10\u20138. Van Barneveld was drawn against King in the second quarter-final. Van Barneveld took a 6\u20130 lead with two 13-dart finishes and hitting the double 20 and 16 rings. King won a single leg in the seventh from a maximum score and hitting the double 16 ring to stop him being whitewashed. Van Barneveld won 10\u20131 to eliminate King from the quarter-finals for the second time in three years with three 13-dart finishes in succession. Van Barneveld, who averaged 104 points in the match, said: \"10\u20131 was a great result but I never thought it would be that easy. I'm happy with this win and hopefully I can play well again on Sunday.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nAnderson and Taylor were the two players in the third quarter-final. Taylor took the first leg with a 13-dart finish before Anderson won the next two legs to go ahead 3\u20131. The match went to 4\u20134 until Taylor made it 6\u20134 and later 8\u20135. Anderson made a 84 checkout to lower the deficit before Taylor prevented him from making a 61 checkout in the 14th leg, which he won. A 14-dart finish and hitting the double 20 ring gave Taylor a 10\u20136 victory. The final quarter-final match was between Lewis and Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nWade held a 3\u20131 lead, and hit the double 20 ring in two of the next three legs to move 5\u20134 ahead. Wade prevented Lewis from tying the game at 5\u20135 by finishing the 10th leg on the double 20 ring before Lewis took the 11 on the double eight ring. He then clinched three legs in succession to move within one leg of victory at 9\u20135. Lewis struck the double 19 ring which kept him in contention until Wade finished on the double 11 ring to win the match 10\u20136 and the final semi-final berth. Wade said it was not \"a vintage performance\" against Lewis and called it \"a battle and I came through it\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nBoth of the semi-finals took place on July\u00a05 and were best-of-21 legs. The first semi-final was between Taylor and Part. Taylor began with a failed attempt to achieve a nine-dart finish in the first leg, which he finished in ten dart throws. Part claimed the second leg with a 117 checkout before Taylor made a 13-dart finish to break the tie. Taylor won the next two legs and used an error by Part in leg five to go 4\u20131 ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nTaylor won the remaining six legs to win the match 10\u20131 with an average of near to 108 and went through to the final; he had a second try at achieving a nine-dart finish by hitting two consecutive maximum scores, but he missed the eighth throw. Taylor said he was delighted to qualify for the final and that he had taken advantage of Part's poor play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nVan Barneveld faced Wade in the other semi-final. Wade took a 2\u20131 advantage, which Van Barneveld cancelled out with eight of the nine following legs. Wade hit the double ten and eight rings to lower his deficit to Van Barneveld before the latter hit the double 16 ring to be within one leg of reaching the final. A finish on the double six ring allowed Wade to reduce the deficit by one leg before Van Barneveld finished on the double 16 ring to win 10\u20136 and requite his loss to Wade in the semi-final of the Premier League Darts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nPost-match, Van Barneveld said he was relaxed throughout the competition and praised the quality of play. He said he was unhappy not to reach the final of the Premier League Darts but believed he could win the Las Vegas Desert Classic, adding: \"Phil will have to play his best darts to beat me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nThe best-of-25 legs final between Taylor and Van Barneveld was held on the afternoon of July\u00a05 before almost 1,000 people. The Sky Sports team called the match \"a dream final\"; the two finalists were ranked first and third in the PDC Order of Merit and noted they had not played each other in a long time since Van Barneveld played in the British Darts Organisation. Eric Bristow, a Sky Sports commentator, observed that Van Barneveld would have to \"play at his very, very, very best\" to defeat Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nThe final began Taylor winning the first leg on a 13-dart finish. Taylor led 3\u20130 after Van Barneveld could not strike the double 18 ring in the third leg. Van Barneveld entered the first interval 3\u20132 behind Taylor with consecutive finishes on the bullseye ring. He achieved two successive 11-dart finishes to lead Taylor 4\u20133 and won a fifth leg in a row on the double two ring. Taylor won the next four legs to reclaim the lead before Van Barneveld finished the double 18 ring in a 13-dart finish to tie the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nTaylor retook the lead with five legs in succession to hold a 11\u20137 advantage. Van Barneveld won the next three legs before Taylor made an 11-dart finish to be within a leg of victory. Van Barneveld finished on the double 16 ring to win an 11th leg and leg 24 saw Taylor obtain a checkout of 104 to win the match 13\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Tournament summary, Semi-finals and final\nIt was Taylor's fifth Las Vegas Desert Classic win, and the third time he had beaten Van Barneveld in the final of a major competition. He earned \u00a330,000 prize money for winning the tournament. Taylor commented on his success: \"I'm delighted. It was a super final to be involved in and, in the end, I broke his spirit I think.\" He added, \"Raymond raised his game and there were times during the early stages when I wasn't even getting a chance at a double.\" Van Barneveld said he was disappointed to have lost in the final. Van Barneveld left the arena upset and his friend apologised to the tournament director for his behaviour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203730-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic, Draw\nNumbers to the left of players' names show the seedings for the tournament's top eight players. The 12 non-automatic qualifiers are indicated by a (Q). The figures in brackets to the right of a competitor's name state their three-dart averages in a match. Names in bold denote match winners of the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203731-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Locomotives season\nThe 2009 Las Vegas Locomotives season was the first season for the Las Vegas Locomotives. In the United Football League's Premiere Season, the Locomotives posted a 4\u20132 record, finishing in second place. They defeated the Florida Tuskers in the 2009 UFL Championship Game in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203731-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Locomotives season, Draft\nThe draft took place on June 19, 2009. Those selected were among participants in earlier workouts held in Orlando as well as Las Vegas. Once a player was picked by a team, his rights were held by that team should he elect to play in the UFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203731-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Las Vegas Locomotives season, Personnel, Roster\nRookies in italicsRoster updated November 19, 200952 Active, 2 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203732-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Latin Billboard Music Awards\nThe 2009 Billboard Latin Music Awards was held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at the BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. It is produced and broadcast lived on Telemundo network. The nominees were announced on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 during a live televised morning show Levantate on Telemundo network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203733-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Latvian Athletics Championships were held in Ventspils, Latvia on July 31 and August 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203734-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Latvian Figure Skating Championships (Latvian: Latvijas \u010cempion\u0101ts dai\u013cslido\u0161an\u0101 2009) was held in Riga from December 19 to 20, 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of ladies' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League\nLatvian Higher League 2009 (Latvian: Virsl\u012bga) was the 18th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 14 March 2009 with the first round of games and ended on 8 November 2009 with the 36th round of matches. Ventspils were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League\nDue to numerous pre-season team changes, such as club mergers and withdrawals, the format of the league was changed. Since there are only 9 clubs that participate in 2009 Virsl\u012bga, every team plays 4 times against every other team, what will make every team playing 32 games. Contrary to the previous season, there is not Championship and Relegation pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nOlimps R\u012bga were relegated after finishing the relegation round in last place. They were replaced by First League champions FK Daugava Riga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nBl\u0101zma won the promotion/relegation play-off against Tranz\u012bts Ventspils with 6\u20131 on aggregate. However, after several mergers and withdrawals Tranz\u012bts were also awarded a place in Virsl\u012bga, as the runners-up of First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nFK R\u012bga withdrew due to unpaid debts. They eventually merged with Olimps R\u012bga and created a new club called Olimps/RFS. The new club plays in Virsl\u012bga, what saved Olimps R\u012bga from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nOn 12 January 2009 Vindava withdrew from Virsl\u012bga due to financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nFK J\u016brmala merged with JFC Kauguri/Multibanka, which is also a merger of JFC Kauguri J\u016brmala and FK Multibanka R\u012bga, to a new club named FK J\u016brmala-VV. The new club carried over the players and other personnel from FK J\u016brmala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Teams\nDaugava Daugavpils and Dinaburg also merged and remained under the Dinaburg FC name. It is not yet certain which club's staff will operate the new club. Dinaburg also took Daugava's 2009\u201310 UEFA Europa League spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Results, Relegation play-offs\nSince there are only 9 clubs participating in 2009 Virsl\u012bga, no teams will be directly relegated. 9th placed Virsl\u012bga team and runners-up of First League will compete in relegation play-offs for one spot in Virsl\u012bga 2010. The other spot will be taken by First League champions. Since one of the teams were excluded from the league, the relegation play-off will be replaced with the direct promotion of the First League team placing second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Team of the season 2009\nGoalkeepers: Viktors Spole  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ), Aleksandrs Vlasovs (Skonto FC )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Team of the season 2009\nDefenders:Oskars K\u013cava  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),Grigori Chirkin  (FK Ventspils ),Deniss Ivanovs  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),David Gamezardashvili  (Skonto FC ),Tomas Tamo\u0161auskas  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),Vit\u0101lijs Smirnovs  (Skonto FC ),Deniss Ka\u010danovs  (FK Ventspils ),Dzintars Zirnis  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Team of the season 2009\nMidfielders:Jurijs \u017digajevs  (FK Ventspils ),Andrejs Prohorenkovs  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),Vit\u0101lijs Astafjevs  (FK Ventspils ),Jevg\u0113\u0146ijs Kosma\u010dovs  (FK Ventspils ),Maksims Rafa\u013cskis  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),Igors Kozlovs (Skonto FC ),P\u0101vels Sur\u0146ins  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),Igor Tigirlas  (FK Ventspils )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203735-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian Higher League, Team of the season 2009\nForwards:Vits Rimkus  (FK Ventspils ),Vladimir Dvalishvili  (Skonto FC ),Kristaps Grebis  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs ),\u0122irts Karlsons  (FK Liep\u0101jas Metalurgs )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax\nThe 2009 Latvian meteorite hoax was a publicity stunt in which Swedish-based telecommunications company Tele2 staged an apparent meteorite landing which was later revealed to be fake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, The \"Meteorite\" incident\nThe drama began at around 17:30 local time (15:30 GMT) in Latvia on Sunday 25 October 2009. Student Ancis Steinbergs reported that a fiery meteor-like object had fallen in a field outside the town of Mazsalaca near the Estonian border. Reports described the object lighting up the evening sky with a blazing trail and hitting the ground with a loud crash, leaving a burning crater claimed to be around 20\u00a0m (66\u00a0ft) wide and from 3\u00a0m (9.8\u00a0ft) up to 10\u00a0m (33\u00a0ft) deep. Fire crews, police and military units attended the site, which was cordoned off while tests were carried out to check radiation levels. The crater quickly attracted scientific and media interest amid widespread speculation about the origin of the object.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, The \"Meteorite\" incident\nSteinbergs also filmed a video in which he and his two companions (his girlfriend and another student) approach the smoking crater and talk to each other excitedly when they apparently discover a burning mass at the bottom of the crater. The deliberately amateur style of the video, with shaky handheld camerawork and apparently spontaneous reactions from the students, has been compared to The Blair Witch Project. The video was published on YouTube and news websites, attracting worldwide interest. Landowner Larisa Gerasimova reportedly charged visitors the equivalent of $2 each to view the crater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Investigation\nThe first scientist to visit the site, Uldis Nulle of the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, said his initial impression was that a meteor impact could have caused the crater. However, when he later examined the site in daylight he concluded it had been faked. Other scientists who inspected the crater confirmed that it was a hoax. Andris Karpovics, a doctoral student of geology at the University of Latvia, described the crater as \"a simple, man-made hole with a substance poured in\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Investigation\nHe told journalists that the hole appeared to have been dug with shovels, and noted that thermite (a mixture of aluminium and iron, possibly with sulfur added), probably caused the increased temperatures observed in the crater. The crater was considerably smaller than initially reported: its actual diameter was around 9\u201310\u00a0m (30\u201333\u00a0ft) and it was about 2\u20133\u00a0m (6.6\u20139.8\u00a0ft) deep. Dr Ilgonis Vilks, chairman of the scientific council at the University of Latvia's Institute of Astronomy, declared \"it\u2019s a fake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Investigation\nIt\u2019s very disappointing, I was full of hope coming here, but I am certain it is not a meteorite\". Dr Vilks pointed out that there was green grass inside the artificial crater, with only a small area at the bottom burnt, and no ejected material or meteorite fragments were found on surrounding land. He described the supposed meteorite as \"a ball of clay that was burning\", and said that samples had been taken for university geologists to examine. He noted \"There was a small blast heard by local people but this was not strong enough to create the crater\". Nature conservationist Dainis Ozols also examined the scene and said he believed that someone had burned a pyrotechnic compound at the bottom of a man-made hole to create the illusion of a meteorite crater. Police warned of a possible criminal investigation into the hoax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Investigation\nCaroline Smith, meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum in London, stated that the pictures and video footage of the burning crater indicated that it was not a meteorite crater: meteorites are not aflame when they strike Earth. Smith also pointed out that there were no other reported sightings of any fireball in the sky, which would have been very clearly visible had the \"meteorite\" been real. It is believed that a meteorite would have to be around a metre or more in diameter to result in a crater of that size. Sizeable meteorites are rare, since most objects which enter the Earth's atmosphere burn up before reaching the planet's surface. The most recent large meteorite known to have landed on Earth struck near Carancas in Peru in 2007, leaving a crater around 15\u00a0m (49\u00a0ft) wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Tele2's admission and aftermath\nOn Tuesday 27 October 2009, Swedish-based telecommunications company Tele2 admitted to perpetrating the hoax as a publicity stunt, and promised to reimburse the Latvian government for expenses incurred in responding to the incident. Spokesperson Vita Sirica representing the Latvian branch of Tele2 said the stunt, which was organised in collaboration with media agency Inspired,was intended \"to draw attention away from Latvia's economic crisis and toward something else more interesting.\" She explained that 9 people had dug the hole and burned chemicals at the bottom to create the elaborate hoax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Tele2's admission and aftermath\nThe meteorite hoax occurred the day before the recession-hit Latvian government approved an austerity budget for 2010, and some officials were not impressed by the stunt. Interior Minister Linda Murniece accused Tele2 of a \"cynical mockery\", and announced that the Government would cancel its contract with Tele2, stating \"The Interior Ministry doesn't want to do business with a firm that promotes itself at our expense\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203736-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Latvian meteorite hoax, Tele2's admission and aftermath\nPernilla Oldmark, spokesperson for Tele2 in Stockholm, said the hoax had been carried out by the Latvian branch of Tele2 though authorised by its head office. She apologised for disruption and said the stunt had been intended to launch a forthcoming marketing campaign, claiming \"The message will become clear as soon as the concept is launched\". Latvian Advertising Association President Girts Ozols said that the situation was unprecedented but the hoax could be considered an ethics violation in professional advertising. Ozols expressed concern that the incident had caused the community to feel insecure, and commented \"If such a prank is pulled, the culprits should not have allowed it to drag on for so long without revealing the truth.\" The Latvian Advertising Association's board is to review the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203737-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Laugavegur Ultramarathon\nThe 2009 Laugavegur Ultramarathon was an ultramarathon race held on July 18, 2009. A total of 321 runners started the race; 313 runners finished, among them 238 men and 75 women. The oldest participants were Gunnar J. Geirsson and Baldur J\u00f3nsson of Iceland, who were born in 1944 and finished the race in 7:13:38 and 8:05:33, respectively; the youngest participant was Karl R\u00fanar Martinsson of Iceland, who was born in 1991 finished the race in 6:35:21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203738-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Laurence Olivier Awards\nThe 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 2009 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203738-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards\nThe following 24 productions, including two ballets and four operas, received multiple nominations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203739-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Laval municipal election\nThe 2009 Laval municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Laval, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203739-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Laval municipal election\nGilles Vaillancourt was elected to a sixth term as mayor, and his municipal party won every seat on city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203740-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Le Mans Series\nThe 2009 Le Mans Series was the sixth season of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Le Mans Series. It was contested over five events between 5 April and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203740-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Le Mans Series\nAston Martin Racing trio Jan Charouz, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Enge and Stefan M\u00fccke finished every race on the podium en route to the LMP1 championship. In LMP2, the pro-amateur pairing of Olivier Pla and Miguel Amaral won the title, with two class wins. Yann Clairay and Patrice Goueslard shared the honours in GT1, driving for former skier Luc Alphand's team. In the tightest battle out of the classes, Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz took GT2 honours by a single point ahead of JMW Motorsport pairing Rob Bell and Gianmaria Bruni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203740-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Le Mans Series, Schedule\nOn 10 October 2008, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) announced a preliminary 2009 schedule consisting of five rounds. The 1000 km of Algarve in Portugal notionally replaced the 1000\u00a0km of Monza, while the rest of the events from 2008 remain. In a first for the Le Mans series, the Algarve ran at night. A second testing event was added to the schedule later, consisting of two days in April at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203740-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Le Mans Series, Championship Standings\nPoints were awarded to the top 8 finishers in the order of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. One bonus point was also awarded for winning pole position (denoted by bold). Cars which failed to complete 70% of the winner's distance were not awarded points. Drivers who did not drive for at least 45 minutes did not receive points. Entries which changed an engine prior to the two race minimum were penalized two points, with a four-point penalty for every subsequent engine change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203740-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Le Mans Series, Teams Championships\nThe top two finishers in each teams championship earned automatic entry to the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup\nThe  2009 EA Sports Cup is the 36th staging of the League of Ireland football knockout competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup\nTwenty nine clubs participated in this year's competition. The ten Premier Division, twelve First Division and the five non-reserve teams from the A Championship were joined by Kildrum Tigers, the 2008 Ulster Senior League champions, and the Kerry District League representative side. For the Preliminary, First and Second Rounds of the competition, all participating clubs were split into 4 regional pools with the further rounds of the competition having an open draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup\nThe 2009 EA Sports Cup kicked off on Monday, 30 March 2009 with the Preliminary Round. The Final was played on Saturday, 26 September 2009, and was won by Bohemians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup, Preliminary round\nThe matches were played on Monday, 30 and Tuesday, 31 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup, First round\nThe matches were played on Monday, 13 and Tuesday, 14 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup, Second round\nThe matches were played on Monday, 4 and Tuesday, 5 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup, Quarter finals\nThe matches were played on Monday, 18 and Tuesday, 19 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203741-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe matches will be played on Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203742-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland First Division\nThe 2009 League of Ireland First Division season was the 25th season of the League of Ireland First Division. The First Division was contested by 12 teams and UCD won the title. Third placed Sporting Fingal also won the 2009 FAI Cup Final, qualified for the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League and were promoted to the Premier Division after winning a promotion/relegation play off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203742-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland First Division, Overview\nThis season saw the division expanded from 10 to 12 clubs. This was because the 2009 Premier Division was reduced to 10 clubs. The regular season began on 6 March and concluded on 7 November. Each team played the other teams three times, totaling 33 games. UCD finished as champions and were automatically promoted to the Premier Division. There was no promotion/relegation play-off between the First Division and the A Championship this season. This was only because Kildare County, who finished bottom of the table, withdrew from the League of Ireland before the play-offs could be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203742-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nThe second and third placed First Division teams, Shelbourne and Sporting Fingal played off to decide who would play the winner of the Premier Division play-off. The winner of this play off would play in the 2010 Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203742-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nSporting Fingal won 4\u20132 on aggregate and were promoted to the Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division\nThe 2009 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 25th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division was made up of 10 teams. Bohemians were champions while Shamrock Rovers finished as runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview\nThe 2009 Premier Division featured 10 clubs. The regular season began on 6 March and concluded on 6 November. Each team played every other team four times, totalling 36 matches. On the final day of the regular season Bohemians were crowned League of Ireland champions for the eleventh time in the club's history after drawing 1\u20131 with Bray Wanderers at the Carlisle Grounds. After the season ended both Derry City and Cork City were expelled from the League of Ireland. Derry City were accused of making extra payments to players using unofficial secondary contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview\nThis was against league rules which placed limits on the amount clubs could spend on players' wages. Cork City had been in serious financial difficulties for several seasons and its holding company was eventually wound up by the High Court. However both clubs were effectively reformed and were subsequently allowed to join the 2010 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nThe ninth and tenth placed teams from the Premier Division, Drogheda United and Bray Wanderers, played off after the regular season was completed. The winner would retain a place in the 2010 Premier Division. The loser would play off against the winner of the 2009 First Division play off. The winner of this match would also gain a place in the 2010 Premier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nDrogheda United retain their place in the 2010 Premier Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203743-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs\nSporting Fingal won 4\u20132 on aggregate and were promoted to the Premier Division. The result of the play off would eventually prove null and void. Despite losing play-off, Bray Wanderers also retained their place in the Premier Division after Cork City and Derry City were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203744-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese Elite Cup\nThe Lebanese Elite Cup 2009 is the 12th edition of this football tournament in Lebanon. It will be held from August 29 to September 13, 2009. This tournament includes the five best teams from the 2008-09 season and the Cup Winner. Since both cup finalists, Al-Ahed and Shabab Al Sahel, finished among the first five in the league, sixth placed Al-Mabarrah qualified as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203744-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese Elite Cup\nThe draw took place on May 29, 2009 in Beirut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 70]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election\nParliamentary elections were held in Lebanon on 7 June 2009 to elect all 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Background\nBefore the election, the voting age was to be lowered from 21 to 18 years, but as this requires a constitutional amendment, it did not happen before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Allocation of seats\nFollowing a compromise reached in the Doha Agreement on May 2008 between the government and opposition, a new electoral law was put in place, as shown in the table below. It was passed on 29 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Results\nPreliminary results indicated that the turnout had been as high as 55%. The March 14 Alliance garnered 71 seats in the 128-member parliament, while the March 8 Alliance won 57 seats. This result is virtually the same as the result from the election in 2005. However, the March 14 alliance saw this as a moral victory over Hezbollah, who led the March 8 Alliance, and the balance of power was expected to shift in its favor. Many observers expect to see the emergence of a National Unity Government similar to that created following the Doha Agreement in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Formation of government\nAs is typical of Lebanese politics political wrangling after the elections took 5 months. Only in November was the composition of the new cabinet agreed upon: 15 seats for the March 14 Alliance, 10 for the March 8 Alliance, and 5 nominated by Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, who has cast himself as a neutral party between the two main political blocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Aftermath\nThe government fell in January 2011 after the March 8 alliance's 11 ministers withdrew from the government over PM Hariri's refusal to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss possible indictments to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203745-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lebanese general election, Aftermath\nThe March 8 alliance formed a new government in the ensuing six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203746-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds Rhinos season\nThis article details the Leeds Rhinos 2009 Super League XIV season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203746-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds Rhinos season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203747-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds refuse workers strike\nThe 2009 Leeds refuse workers strike was an eleven-week industrial dispute in City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England between Leeds City Council and the city's binmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203747-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds refuse workers strike, Background\nThe strike began on 7 September 2009  and was over the city council's plans to equalise the pay of men and women, which some workers argued would see considerable reductions in their wages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203747-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds refuse workers strike, Council reactions\nOn 27 October 2009, with the strike having lasted for eight weeks, the council began advertising for new refuse workers. The council said it was advertising for staff in order to meet its target of a fortnightly black bin collection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203747-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Leeds refuse workers strike, Resolution\nIn November 2009 Leeds City Council put fresh proposals to union members which would see 20 staff getting a pay cut, but most workers receiving small increases. At a secret ballot of about 600 union members on Monday 23 November, 79% voted in favour of the proposals and refuse workers returned to work on the morning of Wednesday 25 November. The first bin collections took place the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup\n2009 Legends Cup was the first edition of the Legends Cup, a tournament for senior retired players (35+). The teams invited to the tournament were Russia, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. The first edition of the Legends Cup, which took place from January 31 to February 1, 2009 in Moscow in the Ice Palace \"Megasport\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup\nAll of the matches were held in the Khodynka Arena, Moscow, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Background\nThe organizer of the tournament which featured European stars was the sports agency NewSport. The tournament was held with the support of the Russian Football Union, the Government of Moscow and the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Accommodation and customer service \u2013 at the Marriott Grand Hotel, which was also the headquarters of the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow. All the games of the tournament took place in the Megasport Sport Palace on the Khodynka Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Regulations\nThe tournament was held in two stages: qualifying games in the subgroups and the final part, drawing places from 1 to 6. On the first day of the tournament on January 31 (Saturday) qualifying games were held in groups, each group consisted of three teams. Games in groups were held in a circular system, each team played 2 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Regulations\nThe duration of one match was 40 minutes, two halves of 20 minutes, a break between halves \u2013 10 minutes. The game was conducted according to the 6-a side scheme: 5 in the field + goalkeeper. The size of the ball is No. 5. The size of the platform is 48 \u00d7 24 meters, the size of the gate is 5 \u00d7 2 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Regulations\nFor the victory, 3 points were awarded, a draw \u2013 1, a defeat \u2013 0. In case of equality of points, two or more teams took into account the following indicators: the results of matches among themselves, the number of wins, the difference of goals scored and conceded, more goals scored. In case of equality of all these indicators \u2013 by lot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Regulations\nOn the second day of the tournament, on February 1 (Sunday), the games of the final stage took place. The teams that took the 3rd place in the groups played 5-6 places. Teams that took the 2nd place in the groups, played 3-4 places. The teams that took the first place in the groups played in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Regulations\nDetermination of the winner in the games of the final stage with equal score occurred through a series of post-match penalties \u2013 five hits from each team, with a draw result \u2013 further to the first miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nItaly: Marco Ballotta, Amedeo Carboni, Lorenzo Amoruso, Demetrio Albertini, Maurizio Ganz, Dario Marcolini, Angelo Carbone, Alessandro Romano, Diego Bonavina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nFrance: Guillaume Warmuz, Christian Karembeu, William Ayache, Patrice Loko, Martin Djetou, Jean-Pierre Cyprien, Jean-Marc Chanelle", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nSpain: Toni Jimenez, Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Guillermo Amor, Jos\u00e9 Emilio Amavisca, \u00c1ngel Cu\u00e9llar, Crist\u00f3bal Parralo, Enrique Romero, Julen Guerrero, Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez Javier P\u00e9rez, Paco J\u00e9mez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nPortugal: Neno, Paulo Futre, Jo\u00e3o Pinto, Jorge Costa, S\u00e1 Pinto, Jos\u00e9 Dominguez, Hugo Porf\u00edrio, Oceano da Cruz, H\u00e9lder, Carlos Xavier, Dimas, Fernando Gomes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nNetherlands: Ronald de Boer, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Richard Witschge, Danny Muller, Frank Verlaat, Regi Blinker, Peter Hoekstra, Bert Konterman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nRussia: Alexander Filimonov, Viktor Onopko, Yuriy Nikiforov, Dmitri Popov, Dmitri Ananko, Akhrik Tsveiba, Dmitri Alenichev, Valeri Karpin, Igor Simutenkov, Konstantin Yeryomenko, Sergei Yuran, Igor Korneev, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Sergei Kiriakov", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203748-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Cup, Squads\nFamous football players and coaches were invited to the tournament as guests: Eus\u00e9bio, Franco Baresi, Fabio Capello, Oliver Kahn, Michael Rummenigge, Rinat Dasayev and other European football legends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203749-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Tour\nThe 2009 Legends Tour was a series of professional golf tour events for women aged 45 and older sanctioned by the Legends Tour. Based in the United States, it is an offshoot of the main U.S.-based women's tour, the LPGA Tour. The tour was founded in 2001, and is intended to allow women to prolong their competitive golf careers on the model of the successful Champions Tour for men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203749-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends Tour, Schedule and results\nThe 2009 Legends Tour consisted of five events. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Legends Tour events she had won up to and including that tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203750-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legends of Snooker\nThe 2009 110sport.tv Legends of Snooker was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 31 October\u20131 November 2009 at Rothes Hall in Glenrothes, Scotland. The tournament was won by Stephen Hendry, who defeated Ken Doherty 5\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203751-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic\nThe 2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic (also known as the 2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic presented by GEICO for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 41st edition of the event known that year as Legg Mason Tennis Classic, and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C., United States, from August 1 through August 9, 2009. The Legg Mason Tennis Classic was the third ATP stop of the 2009 US Open Series. Unlike previous years, the men's event was field 48 players instead of 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203751-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Finals, Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated  Andy Roddick, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203751-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nMartin Damm /  Robert Lindstedt defeated Mariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203751-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, ATP entrants\nList of Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles entrants, as of July 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203751-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203752-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nMarc Gicquel and Robert Lindstedt were the defending champions, but Gicquel chose not to participate that year. Robert Lindstedt partnered with Martin Damm, and won in the final over Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203753-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Legg Mason Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro was the defending champion, and won for the second straight year in the final 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(8\u20136), over Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203754-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team\nThe 2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Lehigh tied for second in the Patriot League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203754-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team\nIn their fourth year under head coach Andy Coen, the Mountain Hawks compiled a 4\u20137 record. B.J. Benning and Matt Cohen were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203754-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team\nThe Mountain Hawks were outscored 234 to 230. All of their losses, however, were to non-conference opponents, and their 4\u20132 conference record placed them in a three-way tie with Colgate and Lafayette for second in the Patriot League standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203754-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team\nLehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203755-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Leicestershire County Council election\nElections to Leicestershire County Council took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. A total of 55 councillors were elected from 52 wards across the county's 7 districts. The Conservatives held control of the council and increased their majority from 5 to 17 seats after gaining many seats from Labour who lost 70% of their seats. The BNP fielded many more candidates than at the last election which caused their vote share to increase dramatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203755-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Leicestershire County Council election, Division results\nResults for individual divisions are shown below. They have been divided into their respective Districts or Boroughs and listed alphabetically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203755-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Leicestershire County Council election, Division results, Borough of Charnwood\nThe Conservative councillor for Syston Ridgeway died on Thursday 18 August 2011. A by-election was held on 3 November 2011 and was won by Stephen John Hampson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203756-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship\nThe Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2009 will be the 42nd staging of the annual Leinster Senior Club Football Championship ran by the Leinster GAA. The competition will see the county champions of eleven counties of Leinsters compete for the title. The Kilkenny Senior Football Championship winners do not take part in the senior championship. The winners will be awarded the Cup and will go on to compete in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The championship is scheduled to start on 25 October 2009 and conclude with the final on 6 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203756-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship\nKilmacud Crokes are the current holders - beating\u00a0? in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2008 final at\u00a0?.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203756-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, Competing teams\nEach county in Leinster holds its own County Championship. The winner of the eleven championships qualify for the Leinster Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203757-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Leitrim County Council election\nAn election to Leitrim County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 22 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203758-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenoir\u2013Rhyne Bears football team\nThe 2009 Lenoir\u2013Rhyne Bears football team represented Lenoir\u2013Rhyne University in the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. The Bears offense scored 293 points while the defense allowed 241 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nThe 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 was the 17th stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on June 28, 2009, in Loudon, New Hampshire, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. 101,000 people attended the race. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Joey Logano won the rain-shortened 273-lap race starting from the 24th position. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports was second, with Penske Racing's Kurt Busch third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nTony Stewart was awarded the pole position after qualifying was rained out and the starting order was determined by owners' points. He was immediately passed by Gordon at the start of the race. Busch took the first position on lap seven, before Gordon retook it on the 20th lap. Gordon lost the lead to Busch twelve laps later. Jimmie Johnson assumed the lead on lap 50, and maintained it for the following 73 laps. He led another 20 laps for a total of 93 laps, more than any other driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nHis teammate Gordon re-assumed the lead following a caution period on the 159th lap and maintained it until Stewart passed him on lap 196. Bobby Labonte led laps 238 to 247 before Ryan Newman became the leader on lap 247. Logano took over first place sixteen laps later when Newman made a pit stop for fuel. The race ended early on the 273rd lap due to earlier rain and Logano was declared the winner. There were 11 cautions and 21 lead changes amongst 14 drivers during the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nIt was Logano's first victory in the Cup Series; at the age of 19 years, 1 month and 4 days, he became the youngest driver in series history to win a race. After the race, Gordon lowered Stewart's advantage in the Drivers' Championship from 84 to 69 points. Johnson, Busch and Edwards rounded out the top five. Chevrolet maintained the Manufacturers' Championship lead with 126 points, 32 ahead of Toyota, 46 in front of Ford, and 52 ahead of Dodge with 19 races to go in the season. The race attracted 5.555 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Background\nThe 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 was the 17th of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on June 28, 2009, in Loudon, New Hampshire, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a four-turn 1.058\u00a0mi (1.703\u00a0km) oval track. Its turns are banked at two to seven degrees; both the front stretch (the finish line) and the back stretch are banked at one degree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Background\nBefore the race, Tony Stewart led the Drivers' Championship with 2,364 points, followed by Jeff Gordon with 2,280 points. Jimmie Johnson was third with 2,207 points, Kurt Busch was fourth with 2,084 points, and Carl Edwards fifth with 2,051 points. Ryan Newman, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin, and Juan Pablo Montoya rounded out the top twelve drivers. Chevrolet led the Manufacturers' Championship with 120 points, 35 points ahead of Toyota in second place. Third-placed Ford had 77 points, and was seven points in front of Dodge in the fourth position. Kurt Busch was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Background\nAhead of the event, the organizers expanded the track's infield section to make more than 400 percent usable land available. Safety changes increased the track's catch fences near the grandstands to more than 21\u00a0ft (6.4\u00a0m) high with the installation of wheel fence arch posts. Six strands of \u215d-inch, high-strength cable supported its lower section, and sixteen strands of \u215c-inch cable composed the upper section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Background\nTed Christopher, a driver who had last started a Cup Series race in the 2006 season, would attempt to qualify for Kirk Shelmerdine Racing. It would be his first time driving the Car of Tomorrow; he had previously competed for the team in three previous races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Christopher said he was looking forward to compete in the event and was asked by team owner Kirk Shelmerdine to undergo a seat fitting, \"I went over to see him last weekend when I was [in North Carolina]. He said come over and try the seat in the car. It fit good and he called me on Monday and said they he [sic] had got a sponsor and wanted me to run his car. I'm looking forward to it. I think I've made the race for him every time we've tried to qualify at New Hampshire.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, the second 50 minutes, and the third 60 minutes. During the first practice session, Kurt Busch was fastest with a 29.149 seconds lap, ahead of David Reutimann in second and Montoya third. Johnson, Reed Sorenson, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano filled positions three to ten. During the session, Stewart lost control of his car, and crashed into the wall at turn two, causing heavy damage to the rear of his car. He used a back-up car for the rest of the session; his team prepared to take the primary car's engine into the back-up vehicle before the race. Martin made contact with a barrier between turns three and four and spun; he sustained no major vehicular damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Practice and qualifying\nA total of 46 drivers entered qualifying on Friday afternoon; due to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, 43 could race. Each driver ran two laps, with pole position to 42nd determined by the competitor's fastest speeds. 43rd position was awarded to the most recent series champion or the next fastest qualifier. Heavy rain caused NASCAR officials to cancel qualifying and used owner points to determine the starting order. Stewart had his second pole position at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He was joined on the grid's front row by Gordon. Johnson, Kurt Busch, Edwards, Ryan Newman, Hamlin, Biffle, Kyle Busch and Kenseth were in positions three to ten. The three drivers who did not qualify were Dexter Bean, Christopher and Mike Wallace; Regan Smith qualified 43rd after Wallace's team withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Sorenson was quickest in the second practice session with a time of 29.647 seconds. Positions two to ten were occupied by Joe Nemechek, Casey Mears, Truex, Reutimann, Johnson, Montoya, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick. Later that day, Truex led the third practice session with a 29.713 seconds lap. Johnson, Biffle, Sorenson, Martin, Harvick. Montoya, Kurt Busch, Reutimann and Bobby Labonte were in positions two to ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nLive television coverage of the race began at 12:30\u00a0p.m. EDT in the United States on TNT. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were cloudy with the air temperature at 68\u00a0\u00b0F (20\u00a0\u00b0C) and the track temperature at 89\u00a0\u00b0F (32\u00a0\u00b0C); a chance of rain showers was forecast. Billy Mauldin, the President and CEO of Motor Racing Outreach began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. The 2009 Miss New Hampshire Lindsey Graham performed the United States National Anthem with Denise Doucette singing the National Anthem of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThe winner of a sponsored sweepstakes competition Pete Dingeman commanded the drivers to start their engines. NASCAR announced that a competition caution would take place on lap 35 due to the forecasted rain, requiring drivers to undertake mandatory pit stops for tire wear analysis. No driver fell to the rear of the field for the beginning of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThe race began at 2:16\u00a0p.m. local time. Jeff Gordon passed Stewart on the outside at the exit of the second turn. Stewart lost two further places further on in the lap. On the second lap, Kurt Busch began challenging Jeff Gordon for the first position, as Stewart dropped to fifth. Edwards moved past Stewart for sixth at the end of lap three. Biffle took third from Newman at turn three on lap four, as Kurt Busch continued his attempts to pass Gordon on the same lap. Kyle Busch fell to tenth when Montoya passed him on lap six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nKurt Busch overtook Jeff Gordon at the first turn for the lead on lap seven. Biffle passed Jeff Gordon for second place one lap later. On lap 16, Patrick Carpentier hit the outside wall at turn four due to a broken brake line, causing the first caution. Some drivers made pit stops for tires under caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThe race restarted on lap 20, with Jeff Gordon passing Kurt Busch on the outside lane at the fourth turn to retake the lead. On the 21st lap, the second caution was waved; Jamie McMurray was hit from behind by Harvick, sending him into the turn four barrier after losing traction in his car. McMurray struck the wall with his vehicle's rear. Under caution, some drivers again made pit stops. Jeff Gordon maintained the lead at the lap 26 restart. A third caution came out on the following lap. A. J. Allmendinger spun in turn two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThis and the following cautions prompted NASCAR to move the competition caution to lap 45, as some drivers again made pit stops under caution. Racing resumed on lap 32, with Kurt Busch overtaking Jeff Gordon on the outside to regain the lead. On lap 41, Reutimann overtook Newman for eighth place. Newman lost the ninth position to Martin who was on the inside line two laps later. On lap 44, Stewart passed Truex for 14th. That same lap, Johnson progressed to the fifth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThe competition caution was waved on the 46th lap. Elliott Sadler staggered his pit stop, allowing him to lead lap 48. After the pit stops, Jeff Gordon returned to the first position for the lap 50 restart. Johnson overtook his teammate Jeff Gordon on the inside for the lead on the lap. Biffle made contact with a barrier at the outside of turn four on lap 53. Three laps later, Kurt Busch passed Martin to move into fourth. On the 60th lap, Sadler lost control of his car in the second turn, hitting Scott Speed's vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThat sent Speed into Michael Waltrip, who hit the wall, and Robby Gordon spun in avoidance, necessitating the fifth caution. During the caution, 16 drivers made pit stops. Johnson led at the restart on lap 64, followed by his teammate Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch. On the next lap, Stewart progressed to fourth on the inside line. Kyle Busch fell to fourth when Jeff Gordon and Stewart overtook him on lap 66. On lap 72, Kenseth passed Bowyer for the tenth position. Edwards turned left to pass Kenseth for 14th 21 laps later. By the 100th lap, Jeff Gordon lowered his teammate Johnson's lead from 2.1 seconds to half a second in slower traffic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nTruex lost 12th place to Montoya 14 laps later. Green flag pit stops began on the 119th lap. Johnson made his pit stop four laps later, handing the lead to Montoya, who held it for seven laps until his own stop. Hamlin, Sorenson, and Robby Gordon each staggered their pit stops, leading one lap each. After the pit stops, Johnson regained the lead. Between laps 145 and 148, Martin and Burton passed Kyle Busch on the inside for seventh and eighth. On lap 151, a sixth caution came out because debris was located in turn two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nSeveral drivers including Johnson made pit stops for tires during the caution. Johnson stalled in the pit road entry and fell to third. His teammate Jeff Gordon led at the lap 159 restart. Leaving the second turn, Jeff Gordon, Johnson, and Kurt Busch ran three abreast; Gordon kept the lead. Two laps later, Dale Earnhardt Jr. used a battle between Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch to move into second on the inside line. Rain was reported during the 162nd lap; NASCAR officials deemed the track safe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nOn lap 164, Johnson got loose on the exit to turn four and avoided hitting a wall. He fell to sixth, behind Stewart and Truex. Five laps later, Paul Menard locked his left-front tire, and he crashed into the turn three wall, prompting the seventh caution. Most drivers stayed on the track during the caution. Racing resumed on lap 175 as Jeff Gordon maintained the lead. On the lap, a multi-car accident triggered the eighth caution and then a 16-minute red flag for track clearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nAfter Earnhardt spun his tires, Truex was hit from behind by an unsighted Kyle Busch into turn one, collecting Burton, Harvick, Mears, Reutimann, Brian Vickers, David Ragan and McMurray. None of the leaders made pit stops when driving resumed. At the end of lap 180, the race resumed with Jeff Gordon leading Kurt Busch and Stewart. Newman continued after he struck a wall on lap 181.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nOn the 183rd lap, Logano's left rear tire burst from contact with Newman and Reutimann between turns three and four; its carcass tore through his car's sheet metal, and he spun near the pit road entrance. The ninth caution came out due to debris on the track. Logano was sent to the end of the longest line for entering pit road when it was closed and for speeding in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nJeff Gordon maintained the lead at the lap 188 restart. Two laps later, Speed collided with a wall between turns one and two, prompting the tenth caution. The leaders remained on the circuit during the caution. Jeff Gordon held the first position from Stewart at the 196th lap restart. Stewart overtook Jeff Gordon at turn two to assume the lead. Earnhardt moved in front of Kahne for eighth on lap 203. Eight laps later, Johnson passed Earnhardt for the eighth position. Earnhardt lost a further position to Kahne on the 216th lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nBy lap 218, Stewart's lead had reduced and Jeff Gordon was close behind. Stewart increased his advantage to 1.1 seconds nine laps later. On lap 231, Martin lost seventh to Johnson. The leaders made pit stops for car adjustments four laps later, handing the lead to Martin and later Biffle. One of Stewart's crew members dropped a lug nut for the right-front wheel at his pit stop. Labonte led laps 238 to 247 before he made his pit stop, promoting Newman to first place. Newman stayed out because his team believed rain would fall. On lap 259, Jeff Gordon overtook Reutimann for third. Four laps later, Newman was low on fuel, necessitating a pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nLogano took the lead after his crew chief Greg Zipadelli instructed him to remain on track as the driver was about to enter pit road for fuel. As Logano was due to make his final pit stop on lap 278, rain showers necessitated the eleventh caution on lap 266. Pace car driver Brett Bodine reported that the rain was falling more heavily on the backstretch. Six laps later, a NASCAR official in turn two reported a saturated track as the rain stopped. Logano switched off his engine to conserve fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nThe race was stopped for a second time on lap 273 out of a scheduled 301. All cars parked on pit road and jet dryers circulated the track to clear water. The race was ended at 5:42\u00a0p.m. local time because of the rain. This gave Logano the victory, his first in the Cup Series. At 19 years, 1 month, and 4 days, he was the youngest driver to win a Cup Series race. Logano bested Kyle Busch's record of 20 years, four months, and two days in the 2005 Sony HD 500 at Auto Club Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race\nJeff Gordon finished second, Kurt Busch third, Reutimann fourth, and Stewart fifth. Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Sam Hornish Jr., Johnson and Kahne completed the top ten. There were 21 lead changes among 14 drivers during the race. Johnson's 93 laps lead was more than any other driver. Logano led once for a total of ten laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nLogano appeared in Victory Lane to celebrate his first career victory in front of a crowd of 101,000 people; the win earned him $276,201. He said of becoming the first rookie driver to win in 71 races, \"This is so special, I think your first win no matter where it is is huge. Obviously it's not the way you want to win your first race, in the rain, but 20 years down the road when you look in the record books, no one will know the difference. I'll take them any way I can.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nJeff Gordon spoke of his happiness that he could challenge for the victory, \"I wasn't very good on the restarts and those guys there, the #2 [Busch] and the #14 [Stewart] and the #48 [Johnson] got me but I could ride right there with him. Then my pit crew, they did the job in the pits and they were phenomenal and got us out front.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nKurt Busch commented on his third-place finish, \"Overall, last year, to drive into Victory Lane and do it in a rain-shortened race and today to have it where we were fast enough to win and not get the win, you know, that\u2019s how this sport evens itself out. You have your good and your bad luck.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nThe event was the third in 2009 after the Daytona 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 to be stopped by inclement weather conditions. Since NASCAR began implementing a television network contract in 2001, the start times of most daytime races were moved to begin later in the day. Kurt Busch said having a consistent start time for races would have potentially allowed competitors to complete all the event's scheduled laps, \"If we had a consistent time for our races, that would be better for our fans. That would create more viewership knowing that they knew when to find the race.\" Ramsey R. Poston, spokesperson for NASCAR, said the organization supported the idea of consistent times for the start of races. He planned to talk about the idea with the sport's broadcasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nKyle Busch apologized for causing the eight-car crash that stopped the race on lap 175, \"I got into Martin and I hate it for him and Jeff Burton and those guys. It was just hard racing on a restart. It looked like the 88 spun his tires a little bit. I went to the middle to go for a lane and these double-file restarts everything is so tight anyways and I just got into the 1 a little bit there and got him sideways.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nVickers stated Kyle Busch should have been disqualified after he reviewed video footage of the accident in the care center, \"That's the second week in a row that stupidity has cost us a race, and it's frustrating.\" Truex said he felt Kyle Busch should have slowed, \"Kyle just lost his head like he usually does when something bad happens. He decided he wasn't going to lift, he was going to turn me on the straightaway for no good reason at all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nBurton said he felt the accident was a consequence of NASCAR's rules on double-file restarts, \"I don\u2019t think the fans want to see more wrecks. But they want to see more aggressive racing so that is the product of that. You can\u2019t change something without there being some kind of negative consequences and this is an example.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203759-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race, Post-race\nStewart continued to lead the Drivers' Championship with 2,524 points, as Jeff Gordon lowered his advantage to 69 points. Johnson maintained third with 2,355 points, Kurt Busch kept fourth with 2,254 points, and Edwards was fifth with 2,157 points. Hamlin passed Ryan Newman for seventh, and Kyle Busch scored more points than Biffle to take over eighth. Kenseth, Martin and Montoya rounded out the top twelve. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship with 126 points. Toyota followed in second with 94 points. With 80 points, Ford was ahead of Dodge in fourth with 74 points. The race had a television audience of 5.555 million. It took two hours, 57 minutes, and 45 seconds to complete; because it concluded under caution, no margin of victory was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203760-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Letterkenny Town Council election\nAn election to Letterkenny Town Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 9 councillors were elected by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. LTC was abolished in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203761-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger\nThe 2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Binghamton, United States between 10 and 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203761-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203761-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203761-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nRik de Voest /  Scott Lipsky def. Carsten Ball /  Kaes Van't Hof, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203762-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nCarsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier were the defending champions, however only Ball tried to defend his title. He partnered with Kaes Van't Hof, but they lost to Rik de Voest and Scott Lipsky 6\u20137(2), 4\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203763-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nPaul Capdeville, the defending champion, defeated Kevin Anderson 7\u20136(7), 7\u20136(11) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203764-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election\nA leadership election was held in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on 28 September 2009 after the incumbent party leader and outgoing Prime Minister of Japan Tar\u014d As\u014d announced that he would resign after losing badly in the general election held on 30 August 2009. As\u014d announced on 8 September he would resign on 16 September 2009, which he did as planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203764-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Candidates\nEndorsement by at least twenty LDP lawmakers is necessary to become a candidate in the election. Since there are 387 LDP Diet members and 141 prefectural LDP representatives (three for each of the 47 prefectural chapters), there is a total of 528 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203764-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Candidates\nFormer finance minister Sadakazu Tanigaki announced on 13 September 2009 he would stand in the election. Tanigaki had also been a candidate in the 2006 leadership election, where he came in third place behind Shinz\u014d Abe and Tar\u014d As\u014d. Yasutoshi Nishimura and Tar\u014d K\u014dno (son of former LDP leader Y\u014dhei K\u014dno) are the other two announced candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203764-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Candidates\nFarm minister Shigeru Ishiba was also considered a possible candidate, but he did not stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203764-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Campaign\nA public debate was held on 19 September 2009. Tanigaki was elected with 300 of 498 ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 67], "content_span": [68, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill\nA leadership spill for the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 1 December 2009. The incumbent leader Malcolm Turnbull was defeated by Tony Abbott on the second ballot; Joe Hockey also stood as a candidate. Abbott thus replaced Turnbull as Leader of the Opposition, and would lead the party to the 2010 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill\nThe spill was the culmination of a dispute within the Liberal Party over its response to the Rudd Government's proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS). Turnbull supported the introduction of an ETS and sought to negotiate amendments to government's proposed legislation. Abbott came to represent many Liberal MPs who were climate change sceptics or otherwise opposed the ETS. After Turnbull survived a spill motion (a motion to declare the leadership vacant) against his leadership in late November 2009, Abbott declared his candidacy and a subsequent spill was moved on 1 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill\nHockey\u2014a moderate who had been a supporter of Turnbull's position on the ETS\u2014also stood. While Hockey had been expected to win, he was knocked out in the first round of voting. Abbott subsequently defeated Turnbull in the second round, 42\u201341. Julie Bishop, who voted for Turnbull, was re-elected unopposed as the party's deputy leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Background\nMalcolm Turnbull was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2004 federal election. In January 2007 he was appointed Minister for the Environment and Water Resources by Prime Minister John Howard. After the Australian Labor Party defeated the Howard government in the 2007 election, Turnbull, Brendan Nelson and Tony Abbott announced they would each contest the Liberal Party leadership. Nelson defeated Turnbull in a ballot after Abbott withdrew his candidacy. Turnbull became the Shadow Treasurer on Nelson's frontbench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Background\nNelson's leadership of the Liberal Party was beset by poor opinion poll numbers. There was speculation that Turnbull would challenge Nelson for the leadership in late 2008; however, Nelson caught Turnbull by surprise by calling a snap spill of the party's leadership positions while Turnbull was returning from an overseas holiday. The spill was moved on 16 September 2008. Turnbull defeated Nelson by four votes, becoming the leader of the Liberal Party and of the Opposition Coalition between the Liberals and the National Party. Nelson later resigned from the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nTurnbull was regarded as a \"believer\" in global warming. As Environment Minister, he had overseen the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) as a policy of the Liberal Party shortly before the Howard government's defeat. However, many of Turnbull's fellow MPs in the Coalition were climate change deniers. Tensions within the Coalition on climate change policy had contributed to the downfall of Nelson's leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nAs leader of the Liberal Party, Turnbull supported the introduction of an ETS. In June 2009, he indicated in principle support for an ETS proposed by the Rudd Government despite the opposition of his Coalition partner, the National Party. Turnbull subsequently outlined the Coalition's position that it would oppose the ETS introduced to Parliament by the government, but would be open to negotiating an amended version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nTurnbull's willingness to negotiate with the government was met with opposition from some Coalition MPs. By September 2009, The Australian was reporting that only 12 of the 59 Liberal backbenchers supported negotiations. On 18 October 2009, Turnbull fronted a meeting of Coalition MPs with a proposal to negotiate amendments to the government's ETS. This meeting supported his proposal, in what was seen as a test of Turnbull's leadership. However, there was speculation that a number of Coalition Senators would defy Turnbull and cross the floor of the Senate to vote against any ETS legislation. The ETS opponents argued that it would be premature for Parliament to pass ETS legislation before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nThe divisions within the Coalition were laid bare in an episode of Four Corners, aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 9 November 2009. The program featured the Coalition's leader in the Senate, Nick Minchin, suggesting that man-made climate change was a conspiracy of the political left and disputing Turnbull's authority to strike a deal with the government on the ETS. Later in the month, Minchin spoke against the ETS in the Senate. Abbott\u2014who had publicly supported the ETS\u2014was now arguing that the Coalition should abandon the policy. Turnbull attacked Abbott's change of mind, stating: \"Tony has expressed a number of views, each of which is at odds with the view he expressed before\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nOn 23 November 2009, the Coalition's climate change spokesman Ian Macfarlane agreed to a deal with the government to amend the ETS legislation. The amendments provided industry with substantial compensation and exemptions from the ETS. Turnbull took the deal to Liberal MPs for formal approval, but a majority of backbenchers opposed it. Turnbull nonetheless claimed he had the Coalition's support, by counting as supporters the 20 members of the Coalition Shadow Cabinet who he argued should be presumed to support the deal. This claim was met with rancour by his opponents in the Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Climate change policy dispute\nAnger at Turnbull's response to the 23 November 2009 meeting triggered a spill motion against his leadership three days later. The motion was moved by Kevin Andrews, a former Minister in the Howard government, but was defeated by a vote of 48 to 35. Andrews was not seen as a genuine prospect for the leadership, so the close vote on the spill motion was considered a blow to Turnbull. While Abbott supported Turnbull at the time of Andrews' spill, he subsequently resigned from the frontbench. Several others joined Abbott in resigning, including Nick Minchin, Eric Abetz, Sophie Mirabella and Tony Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Abbott and Hockey challenges\nAbbott announced on 27 November\u2014one day after Turnbull survived Kevin Andrews' spill motion\u2014that he would challenge Turnbull for the leadership. Abbott committed to withdrawing his candidacy if Joe Hockey was to challenge. Abbott confirmed his opposition to the ETS legislation, questioning why Australia would legislate for a potentially detrimental economic measure before other countries had committed to do the same. A Newspoll released on 30 November placed Hockey at 33%, Turnbull at 30% and Abbott at 19%, when voters were asked who would be the \"best person to lead\" the Liberal Party. Speculation flourished that Hockey would challenge Turnbull, and Hockey consulted senior party dignitaries such as Howard and Costello about whether he should run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Abbott and Hockey challenges\nHockey faced a dilemma. A moderate in the Liberal Party, Hockey had been a consistent supporter of the ETS. Running against Turnbull would mean taking the leadership with the support of the party's right wing and climate change sceptics. Turnbull seized on the dilemma, claiming Hockey had given Turnbull his \"complete support\" and was still a firm supporter of the ETS legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Abbott and Hockey challenges\nHockey attempted to resolve his dilemma by declaring that as leader he would allow a conscience vote on the ETS legislation. Abbott rejected Hockey's declaration, and reneged on his earlier indication that he would withdraw his candidacy for Hockey. Abbott stated: \"It now seems pretty clear we could change the leader to Joe and these offensive bills could still go through the Parliament\". On Hockey's candidacy, Turnbull claimed that Hockey had pledged his opposition to the spill motion. However, it was expected that if the spill motion succeeded, Hockey would stand for the leadership against Turnbull and Abbott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Abbott and Hockey challenges\nHockey was generally expected to win the ballot and become leader. To the end, Turnbull refused to stand aside as leader, insisting he would defeat the spill motion. Hockey later alleged that Turnbull had promised he would not stand against Hockey if the spill motion was successful. Turnbull denied that he had given, and therefore broken, any such undertaking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Results\nOn 1 December 2009, Liberal MPs convened to consider the spill motion to vacate the leadership. The motion passed 48\u201334, following which Turnbull, Hockey and Abbott contested a ballot. Hockey was seen as the favourite to win the ballot, but was knocked out in the first round of voting, receiving 23 votes to Turnbull's 26 and Abbott's 35. A second round of voting ensued, in which Abbott defeated Turnbull by one vote (42\u201341). Fran Bailey, a supporter of Turnbull, was absent for the vote, and there was one vote of \"no\", which was recorded as informal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Results\nJulie Bishop remained the deputy leader of the party, without being challenged for the position. Abbott thus became the third consecutive leader, after Nelson and Turnbull, for whom Bishop would serve as deputy. After the ballots, Bishop declared that she had voted for Turnbull, although Turnbull doubted her loyalty and Bishop resorted to proving it by retrieving her ballot papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nAbbott said he was \"humbled and daunted\" by his unexpected election, while Hockey expressed surprise at his defeat. Upon his election, Abbott acknowledged his propensity for making controversial public statements\u2014which with his Catholicism and background as a trainee priest earnt him the moniker of \"the Mad Monk\"\u2014and apologised for all his \"errors of the past\". A week after the ballot, Abbott named his Shadow Cabinet. Hockey remained in the key position of Shadow Treasurer. Three Howard government veterans\u2014Kevin Andrews, Philip Ruddock and Bronwyn Bishop\u2014were recalled from the backbench, and outspoken National Party MP and climate change sceptic Barnaby Joyce was appointed to the shadow Finance portfolio. Turnbull voluntarily moved to the backbench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nUnder Abbott's leadership, the Liberal Party voted against the ETS legislation in the Senate on 3 December 2009. Two Liberal Senators\u2014Judith Troeth and Sue Boyce\u2014crossed the floor to support the legislation. In February 2010, Abbott outlined his alternative climate change policy, which would directly fund or subsidise emission reduction measures rather than cap emissions from industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nSpeaking in the House of Representatives in February 2010, Turnbull attacked Abbott's climate change policy and praised the government's ETS legislation. He argued that Abbott's subsidy-based policy would be a \"recipe for fiscal recklessness\". Turnbull later announced he would leave Parliament at the end of his term, before changing his mind within weeks. He claimed that his change of mind was the result of his anger at the government's decision to delay its ETS legislation until 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nHe denied being interested in regaining the leadership of the Liberal Party, saying \"I don't think there is any likelihood of that I assure you\". Turnbull subsequently gave qualified support to Abbott's climate change policy, arguing that while it was inferior to an ETS in principle, it was preferable to the government's approach of delaying action until 2013. While it was the third leadership spill motion in three years, the Liberal Party did not attempt another spill motion for six years after, until the February 2015 leadership spill motion which was defeated 61 votes to 39. In September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull called for another spill, directly challenging Tony Abbott in a rematch between the two, and winning the vote 54\u201344 to return to the position of leader of the Liberal Party, and as a result, displaced Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 920]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nFor Hockey it is viewed that his failure to come up with a firm position on the ETS had blown what turned out to be his only chance to become Liberal leader in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203765-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nWhen Prime Minister Tony Abbott's leadership came under question in 2014 and 2015, Hockey now Treasurer was not speculated as a potential successor to Abbott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nThe 2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was prompted by St\u00e9phane Dion's announcement that he would not lead the Liberal Party of Canada into another election, following his party's defeat in the 2008 federal election in Canada. The Liberals, who captured just slightly over 26 per cent of the total votes, scored their lowest percentage in the party's history to that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nThe party's national executive met on November 8, 2008, to set rules for the contest, and chose a date and location for the convention. A biennial and leadership convention was held in Vancouver, British Columbia from April 30 to May 3, 2009, with the new leader being chosen on May 2. Delegates to the convention were chosen from March 6\u201310, 2009, by those Liberal Party members who joined on or before February 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nAs a result of the 2008 Canadian parliamentary crisis, culminating in Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's successful appeal on December 4, 2008, to Governor General Micha\u00eblle Jean to prorogue Parliament until January 26, 2009, there were calls by a number of prominent Liberals, including Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae, for the leadership election process to be accelerated, so that there would be an interim leader in place by the time that Parliament resumed. Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Finance Minister John Manley, writing in The Globe and Mail on December 6, 2008, called for Dion to resign immediately. Dion issued a statement on December 8 agreeing to move up his resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nRae and Ignatieff disagreed on how to accelerate the process, with Ignatieff favouring a vote by caucus on December 10, 2008, to select an interim leader who would then be confirmed as permanent leader in May 2009, and Rae calling for a One Member One Vote method involving the entire Liberal Party membership, to be conducted in January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nOn December 8, 2008, Dominic LeBlanc withdrew from the race and threw his support to Michael Ignatieff. That evening the party executive agreed to a compromise proposal that would widen the leadership consultation process to include riding association presidents, defeated election candidates and others but rejected Rae's OMOV proposal. On December 9, 2008, Bob Rae withdrew from the race, leaving Michael Ignatieff as the presumed victor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nAs well as ratifying Ignatieff's leadership with the support of 97% of delegates, the convention approved an amendment to the party's constitution to institute a One Member One Vote system for the election of future leaders. A proposal to adopt a weighted system where 25% of the vote in leadership elections would be reserved for members of the party's youth wing was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election\nJust exactly two years later, on May 2, 2011, Ignatieff and the Liberals suffered their worst defeat in history, winning only 34 seats and being reduced to third place in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Declared candidates\nThe following candidates declared their intention to run for the leadership:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Declared candidates, Michael Ignatieff\nIgnatieff, 62, was the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke\u2014Lakeshore since  2006; former leadership front-runner in 2006 before being defeated by St\u00e9phane Dion on the final ballot; Deputy Liberal Leader since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 88], "content_span": [89, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Dominic LeBlanc\nLeBlanc, 41, was the Member of Parliament for Beaus\u00e9jour since 2000, fluently bilingual Acadian with deep roots in the party. His father, Rom\u00e9o, was press secretary to Pierre Trudeau, later an MP and cabinet minister, and eventually became Governor General. On October 27, LeBlanc became the first candidate to declare his candidacy for the Liberal Party leadership. On December 8, 2008, LeBlanc withdrew from the leadership race and endorsed Michael Ignatieff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203766-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Bob Rae\nRae, 60, had been the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre since 2008; former Ontario New Democratic Party Premier of Ontario (1990-1995), NDP MP for Broadview-Greenwood (1979\u20131982); former federal Liberal leadership contender placing third in 2003. Rae had been under increasing pressure to bow out of the leadership contest. On December 9, 2008, Bob Rae officially withdrew from the race, leaving Michael Ignatieff the winner by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203768-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberty Bowl\nThe 2009 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 2, 2009. The 50th edition of the Liberty Bowl, it was the first edition ever played in January. With sponsorship from AutoZone, the game was officially the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. The game featured the East Carolina Pirates of Conference USA (C-USA) and the Kentucky Wildcats of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Kentucky overcame a 13-point halftime deficit to win, 25\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203768-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberty Bowl, Background\nEast Carolina accepted an invitation to the bowl after their victory over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in the 2008 C-USA Championship Game. East Carolina entered the game with a record of 9-4 and had been ranked as high as No. 15 in the AP Poll during the season. Kentucky was 6\u20136 and unranked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203768-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nEast Carolina led through much of the game. However, late in the fourth quarter, Kentucky defensive tackle Ventrell Jenkins picked up a fumble and returned it 56 yards for the game-winning touchdown. Jenkins was named the MVP of the game. The fumble recovery and return, marked by a vicious stiff arm Jenkins put on the opposing quarterback, received generous replay during bowl game broadcasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203769-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liberty Flames football team\nThe 2009 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season a member of the Big South Conference. The Flames were led by fourth-year head coach Danny Rocco and played their home games at Williams Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia. They finished the season with an overall record of 8\u20133 and a 5\u20131 mark in the Big South to share the conference championship with Stony Brook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203770-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Libyan Super Cup\nThe 2009 Libyan Super Cup was the 13th edition of the competition. This year's edition was a repeat of the Libyan Cup final of the previous season, which saw Ittihad Tripoli beat Tersanah on penalties. The match took place on September 22, 2009. Ittihad won their seventh consecutive Super Cup title 3-2, stretching back to 2002. It was played at the 11 June Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203771-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liechtenstein general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liechtenstein on 8 February 2009. While polls and pundits predicted few changes, the Christian democratic Patriotic Union (VU) gained an outright majority in the Landtag, whilst the national conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) and the green social democratic Free List (FL) both suffered losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203772-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liechtenstein referendums\nThree referendums were held in Liechtenstein during 2009. The first two were held on 29 March and concerned reforming level I of secondary schooling, which was rejected by voters and the authorization of smoking rooms in restaurants, which was approved. The third was held on 6 December on a law introduced in May 2008 which placed a stricter upper level on the electromagnetic field from phone masts, and was confirmed by voters and was approved by 57% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203773-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock 400\nThe 2009 LifeLock 400 was the fifteenth points race in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. Held on Sunday, June 14 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, it was the first of two races sponsored by the internet protection service LifeLock, the other being the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400\nThe 2009 LifeLock.com 400 was the nineteenth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, marking the start of the second half of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400, Summary\nThis 267 lap 400.5 miles (644.5\u00a0km) event was held on Saturday night, July 11 at the 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) Chicagoland Speedway. This would be the last TV broadcast of the year for the TNT Summer Series, with radio being handled by Sirius XM Radio (satellite) and MRN (over-the-air) starting at 7 PM US EDT. The green flag waved shortly after 8:17 or 8:19 PM US EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400, Summary, Pre-race news\nMichael Waltrip Racing held a press conference on Tuesday July 7, with the announcements being that driver/owner Michael Waltrip will run a limited schedule in 2010, with one of those races being the 52nd Daytona 500, and replacing him as the third full-time driver will be Martin Truex Jr., who will leave Earnhardt Ganassi Racing at the end of the 2009 season, stepping down from the #1 Chevrolet Impala SS to drive the #56 Toyota Camry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400, Summary, Qualifying\nBrian Vickers won his 5th pole of the season with rookie Scott Speed taking 2nd position, marking the first time both Red Bull teammates started a NASCAR race on the front row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400, Summary, Race recap\nMark Martin dominated the race, leading 4 times for 195 laps, but would be passed by Jimmie Johnson on the third to last restart. The race would then have some wild final laps, as Martin went to the lead with 15 laps left after a pass on Brian Vickers when he and Denny Hamlin touched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203774-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 LifeLock.com 400, Summary, Race recap\nJeff Gordon was the highest car with fresh tires, making up six spots in only two laps, but would finish 2nd as Mark Martin pulled away from the rest of the field restarting on the outside lane and would go on to win his 4th race of the season. By finishing 1st and 2nd in both races sponsored by LifeLock this season, Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon win the Musgrave family (no relation to Ted Musgrave) $1,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2009 season was the club's 56th year in professional football, and the 48th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador. The club participated in their 14th Copa Libertadores, where they unsuccessfully defended their 2008 title. The club also participate in, and won, their first Recopa Sudamericana. They also won their first Copa Sudamericana title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nThis season marked the second coaching tenure of Uruguayan Jorge Fossati. He previously led the team between 2003 and 2004, and led the team to their 7th national championship in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information\nNote: Caps and goals are of the national league and are current as of the beginning of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information, Copa Sudamericana squad\n:1. Alex Bola\u00f1os replaced Enrique Vera on November 11 due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Pre-season\nLDU Quito played two preseason friendlies prior to the start of the Serie A season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Pre-season\nLa Noche Blanca is the club's official presentation for the season. They hosted Colombian club Santa Fe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A\n2009 is the club's 48th season in the top-level of professional football in Ecuador. The first game of the season began on January 31, with LDU Quito's first game on February 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A, First stage\nThe first stage was a double round-robin tournament. LDU Quito finished 2nd and qualified to the Third Stage with 2 bonus points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A, Second stage\nLiga was placed into Group 1 with Barcelona, Deportivo Cuenca, El Nacional, LDU Portoviejo, and Macar\u00e1. They will also play Deportivo Quito in a \"cl\u00e1sico\". They finished first in their group and earned an extra bonus point toward the Third Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A, Third stage\nLDU Quito has qualified to the third stage twice, and has earned 3 bonus points for this stage. They are placed into Group 1 with Deportivo Quito, Macar\u00e1, and Manta. This stage is scheduled to begin on October 18 and end on November 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A, Third stage\nLast updated: November 22, 2009. Source: Season's Wikipedia article1. LDU Quito has an additional three bonus points earned in the First and Second Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 85], "content_span": [86, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A, Fourth stage\nLiga qualified to the third-place playoff of the fourth stage. They competed against Emelec for third-place and a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores\nAs the defending champion, LDU Quito automatically earned a berth in this year's tournament. This was the 14th time the club participated in the continent's premier club tournament. They were drawn into the Group 1 along with 2008 Copa do Brasil winner Sport Recife, the Chilean 2008 Clausura champion Colo-Colo, and the winner of the 5th preliminary match Palmeiras. The Group Stage began on February 11, with LDU Quito's first game on February 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores\nLDU Quito started their title defense on a high note with a 3\u20132 home win against Palmeiras. This win was followed by two successive shut-out away losses in Recife and Santiago. A close home draw followed against Colo-Colo. Their last two matches were losses away and at home. They were eliminated from the competition on April 22 when Colo-Colo lost to Sport Recife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Recopa Sudamericana\nAs the 2008 Copa Libertadores champion, LDU Quito qualified for this year's Recopa Sudamericana. They played against the 2008 Copa Sudamericana winner Sport Club Internacional in a two-legged match-up. This is LDU Quito's first Recopa Sudamericana. Internacional previously won the competition in 2007. The first leg was played at Internacional's stadium, Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre. Argentine Claudio Bieler provided the lone goal of the game for Liga. The second leg, played back in Quito at La Casa Blanca, was won decisively by the home team 3 goals to none. Carlos Esp\u00ednola, Claudio Bieler, and recently signed Enrique Vera provided the scores for Liga. The Recopa title is LDU Quito's second international title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\nLDU Quito qualified for the 2009 Copa Sudamericana on July 5. By finishing 2nd in the First Stage of the Serie A, Liga earned the Ecuador 2 berth and started in the First Stage of the competition. Liga's opponent in the First Stage is Paraguayan club Libertad. The first leg was played at home at La Casa Blanca. N\u00e9icer Reasco scored the only goal of the match in stoppage time of the first half. The second leg, played in Asunci\u00f3n on August 25, ended in a draw. Javier Gonz\u00e1lez put the home team ahead in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\n\u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez scored a second half goal to keep LDU Quito the overall advantage. Liga's Round of 16 tie against Lan\u00fas opened at home. Argentine striker Claudio Bieler scored a hat-trick in the first half before \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez scored the final goal at the end of regulation time to give Liga a four-goal advantage going into the second leg. In second leg, Lan\u00fas came out strong, but were unable to get one past goalkeeper Alexander Dom\u00ednguez. Claudio Bieler  finally broke the tie in the 71st minute with a long-range free-kick from outside the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\nSantiago Salcedo tied it for the home team before the end of regulation. LDU Quito advanced to the Quarterfinals 4\u20131 on points. In the Quarterfinals, Liga played V\u00e9lez S\u00e1rsfield, also from Argentina. In both games, Liga came from behind to get favorable results. In the first leg in Buenos Aires, Hern\u00e1n Rodrigo L\u00f3pez scored first for the locals to give them the lead. A brilliant play by N\u00e9icer Reasco led to a pass to Claudio Bieler who scored the equalizer, from the floor after being tripped, to give Liga an away goal and the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0003", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\nThe second leg in Quito started the same after Hern\u00e1n Rodrigo L\u00f3pez scored first for V\u00e9lez to give them the overall advantage. But Enrique Vera and Carlos Esp\u00ednola scored in the second half to give Liga the win and a place in the semifinals. In the Semifinals, Liga played River Plate from Montevideo, Uruguay. The first leg of the semifinal was played at the famed Estadio Centenario. River took the first leg 2\u20131 when Jorge C\u00f3rdoba scored the winner in the second half of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0004", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\nLiga avenged their first loss in the tournament with a lopsided 7\u20130 win at home. Claudio Bieler scored another hat-trick in the tournament, in addition to goals from Carlos Esp\u00ednola, Ulises de la Cruz, Miler Bola\u00f1os, and \u00c9dison M\u00e9ndez. The win at home is officially the most lopsided win in the history of the tournament. Liga will play Brazilian club Fluminense in the Finals. This is a repeat of the 2008 Copa Libertadores Final. The first leg was played at home. Marquinho scored within the first minute of the game for Fluminense to put them ahead early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0015-0005", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana\nHowever, Liga persisted and answered back with a hat-trick by M\u00e9ndez in the 21', 44, and 60'. Franklin Salas and Ulises de la Cruz added two more in the 78' and 87' to give Liga a huge 5\u20131 win and a four-goal advantage going into the second leg. The second leg at Maracan\u00e3 ended the same way it did in 2008: a Fluminense win. This time, Fluminense won 3\u20130 and was unable to overcome the four-goal difference. Liga won the Copa Sudamericana and become the Ecuadorian club to win CONMEBOL's three major tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 82], "content_span": [83, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203775-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Peace Cup\nLDU Quito were invited to participate in the 2009 Peace Cup, a friendly international club tournament organized by Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation, in Spain. For the Group Stage, they were drawn into Group B with Saudi Al-Ittihad and Spanish giants Real Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203776-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Indonesia Premier Division Final\nThe 2009 Liga Indonesia Premier Division Final was a football match which was played on 29 May 2009. Persisam and Persema was a debutant of the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203777-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Nacional de Ascenso\nThe Liga Nacional de Ascenso 2009 season (officially \"Torneo Primera A 2009\") started on February 28, 2009. The defending champion and Apertura winner was R\u00edo Abajo and the Clausura winner was Ori\u00f3n. On December 12, 2009 a grand final was played where R\u00edo Abajo were crowned champions of the Liga Nacional de Ascenso after defeating Ori\u00f3n 3\u20131. However (as it happened in the 2008 edition) R\u00edo Abajo lost the promotion play-off, but this time against Alianza in a 2\u20131 aggregate score, thus failing to promote to the Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203777-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Nacional de Ascenso\nThe champion was be promoted directly without playing a promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203778-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol season\nThe 2009 Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol season was the 22nd season of top-flight football in Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203778-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol season, Apertura II\nThe Apertura II (officially the 2009 Copa Digicel Apertura for sponsorship reasons) was the second tournament of the season. It started August 8 and ended on December 13. \u00c1rabe Unido were crowned champions of the Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol for the fifth time after beating Tauro 3-2 in the final. With this win \u00c1rabe Unido earned a spot in the 2010\u201311 CONCACAF Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203778-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga Paname\u00f1a de F\u00fatbol season, Relegation table\nFor the second year in a row, Alianza had the fewest points at the end of the season and had to face Liga Nacional de Ascenso champion R\u00edo Abajo. Just as last year, Alianza defeated R\u00edo Abajo and stayed in the LPF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season\nThe 2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season was the 33rd of Bolivia's top-flight professional football league. The season was split into two championships\u2014the Apertura and the Clausura\u2014and the Play-off", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Format\nThe 2009 season will be divided into two championships, each with their own format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Format\nThe Apertura championship will be a double round-robin league format. The team with the most points after the twenty-two rounds will be declared the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Format\nThe Clausura championship will be divided into two phases. The first phase will have the twelve team divided into two groups. The teams will play within each group, in addition to a cross-group rivalry (for example: Bol\u00edvar vs. The Strongest). The best three teams in each group will advance to the second phase. In the second phase, the best teams from each group will play  the third best team from each group and the second best teams will play each other. The three winners of each match, plus the best loser, then play each other in the semifinals and will start of a two-legged single-elimination play-off that culminates in a final match-up. The winner of the final is the tournament champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Format\nThe winners of each championship will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores and the runners-up will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Teams\nThe amount of team remains the same for this season. Guabir\u00e1 was relegated at the end of the 2008 season to the regional leagues. They were replaced by Nacional Potos\u00ed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura was the first championship of the season. It began on February 7 and ended on July 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Torneo Clausura is the second championship of the season. It began on July 18 and is scheduled to end in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Clausura, Second phase\nBol\u00edvar, Real Potos\u00ed, Oriente Petrolero, Blooming and The Strongest have advanced to the Second Phase of the championship. All games were played at the UTC-3 time zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Clausura, Semifinals\nAt this stage winner will face the best that qualified as best loser, while the other two qualifiers play each other. The games are round, \"said the chairman of the Technical Committee of the League, Felipe Rodriguez. At this stage remains the system applied in the Copa Libertadores. Bol\u00edvar qualified as the best loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Relegation table, Relegation/promotion playoff\nJorge Wilstermann will compete in a relegation/promotion playoff against the runner-up of the  2009 Copa Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 96], "content_span": [97, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, First round\nThe First Round of the play-off began on October 31 and is scheduled to end on November 5. Team #1 will play the second leg at home. Real Potos\u00ed received a bye into the next round and Nacional Potos\u00ed could not participate since they were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, First round\nTeams in bold advanced to the quarterfinals. Team in italics went to the Loser's Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, Loser's Round\nThe Loser's Round is contested between the four best losers from the First Round. The two winners will advance to the \"regular\" semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, Loser's Round, Semifinals\nThe first leg was played on November 8, with the second leg played on November 14 and 15. Team #1 played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, Loser's Round, Finals\nThe first leg is scheduled for November 18, with the second leg for November 22. Team #1 played the second leg at home. The winner advanced to the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 88], "content_span": [89, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, Quarterfinals\nThe first legs of the quarterfinals is scheduled for November 7 and 8, with the date for the second leg to be determined. Team #1 will play the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203779-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional Boliviano season, Torneo Play-off, Semifinals\nThe Semifinals began on November 21 and is scheduled to end on November 29. Team #1 will play the first leg at home. Unlike in other rounds, if both teams are tied on points, a playoff will be played at a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203780-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino\nThe 2009 Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino was the 41st official season of Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino (English: Female Superior Volleyball League). The 2009 season was dedicated to Rosario Vega de Ra\u00edces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203781-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligas Superiores del Peru\nThe 2009 Ligas Superiores, the fifth division of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by variable number teams by Department. The tournaments were played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The Ligas Superiores was created officially in 2009. For the 2009, they were nine Departmental Confederacies that have determined to adopt them: Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Hu\u00e1nuco, Lambayeque, Pasco, Piura, Puno and Tumbes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203782-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 1 (Senegal)\nThe 2009 Ligue 1 season was the 44th of the competition of the first-tier football in Senegal and the second professional season. The tournament was organized by the Senegalese Football Federation. The season began a little earlier on 2 May and finished on 31 October. It was the first season labelled as a \"League\" (\"Ligue\" in French). ASC Lingu\u00e8re won their first and only title, the next club to win three consecutive titles, and a year later would compete in the 2010 CAF Champions League. ASC Diaraf who won the 2008 Senegalese Cup participated in the 2009 CAF Confederation Cup. Since that season, only one club each would qualify into the continental championship or cup, the winner of each. The West African Cup was again revived and brought two clubs, a second place club from Ligue 1 and a second placed Senegalese Cup club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203782-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 1 (Senegal)\nThe season would have feature 20 clubs, 18 clubs competed instead as ASC Thi\u00e8s and CNEPS Excellence forfeited the season. A total of 128 matches and the playoff system, again, in several seasons, two matches that decided the winner in the most goals, or if a match is scoreless, penalty shootouts. The season scored a total of 227 goals, 101 in Group A and 126 in Group B, no goals scored in the finals which finished in penalty shootouts in the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203782-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 1 (Senegal)\nAS Douanes again was the defending team of the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203782-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 1 (Senegal), Overview\nThe league was contested by 18 teams and two groups, each group contained ten clubs and a final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203783-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 2 (Senegal)\nThe 2009 Ligue 2 season was the first of the professional competition of the second-tier football in Senegal. The tournament was organized by the Senegalese Football Federation  The season began a little earlier on Saturday 2 May and finished on 16 October. It was the first season labelled as a \"League\" (\"Ligue\" in French). AS Pikine and ASC Niarry Tally were promoted into Ligue 1 the following season while ASC Xam Xam was relegated into National 1 the following season. Pikine had the highest with 42 points while ASC Niarry Tally was second with 40 points,  scoring the most goals, numbering 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203783-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 2 (Senegal)\nGeographically almost all clubs were in the western and westernmost parts of the country, two or three of the clubs were not of the Dakar area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203783-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ligue 2 (Senegal)\nUnlike Ligue 1, there was no group system used in the season, the following year, Ligue 2 would have a group system where the club with the highest number of points was elevated into Ligue 1 in the 2011 season and the lowest relegated into National 1 in the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203784-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season\nThe 2009 season was Lillestr\u00f8m SK's 19th season in the Tippeligaen, and their 34th consecutive season in the top division of Norwegian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203784-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lillestr\u00f8m SK season, Pre-season and friendlies\nThe first pre-season friendly is scheduled on January 15 vs Nybergsund IL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203785-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lima Challenger\nThe 2009 Lima Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lima, Peru between 16 and 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203785-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lima Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203785-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lima Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMart\u00edn Alund /  Juan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren def. Crist\u00f3bal Saavedra-Corval\u00e1n /  Guillermo Rivera-Ar\u00e1nguiz, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203786-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lima Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nLuis Horna and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto were the defending champions, but they didn't compete this year. Mart\u00edn Alund and Juan-Mart\u00edn Aranguren defeated Crist\u00f3bal Saavedra-Corval\u00e1n and Guillermo Rivera-Ar\u00e1nguiz 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203787-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lima Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMart\u00edn Vassallo Arg\u00fcello was the defending champion; however, he chose to not defend this 2009 title. 1st seed Eduardo Schwank won in the final match 7\u20135, 6\u20134, against Jorge Aguilar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203788-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Limerick City Council election\nAn election to Limerick City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 17 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203789-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Limerick County Council election\nAn election to Limerick County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 28 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203790-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 115th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203790-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 17 October 2009, Adare won the championship after a 1-17 to 0-03 defeat of Na Piarsaigh in the final. It was their fifth championship title overall and their third title in succession. It remains their last championship triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203791-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lincolnshire County Council election\nElections to Lincolnshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 77 councillors were elected, each electoral division returned either one or two county councillors by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203791-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lincolnshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203791-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Lincolnshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes\nThe 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes were a series of wildcat strikes that affected the energy industry in the United Kingdom in 2009. The action involved workers at around a dozen energy sites across the UK who walked out in support of other British workers at the Total's Lindsey Oil Refinery. The Lindsey Oil Refinery construction workers went on strike because employment was not offered to them on a \u00a3200\u00a0million construction contract to build a hydro desulphurisation unit at the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nOn 28 January 2009, approximately 800 of Lindsey Oil Refinery's local contractors went on strike following the appointment by the Italian construction contractor IREM of several hundred European (mainly Italian and Portuguese) contractors on the site at a time of high unemployment in the local and global economy. The action attracted considerable media interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nWorkers contended that the strike was in defence of a national agreement determining wages and conditions in the industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nThe protests were largely portrayed in the British media as being solely about the use of the European Union's Posted Workers Directive to discriminate against British workers, prompting Unite the union to make a statement on 4 February to refute xenophobic comments in the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nSince European Union law enshrines the right to the freedom of movement for workers between EU member states, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: \"When I talked about British jobs, I was talking about giving people in Britain the skills, so that they have the ability to get jobs which were at present going to people from abroad, and actually encouraging people to take up the courses and the education and learning that is necessary for British workers to be far more skilled for the future.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nAsked for his message to people considering the wildcat strikes, he said: \"That that's not the right thing to do and it's not defensible.\" Italian and Portuguese construction workers, living on barges in nearby docks, were set to starting work there. British trade unions claimed Britons were not given any opportunity to apply for the posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nAdditional contractors at other sites in the United Kingdom also initiated action as a result of the protests. On 30 January, around 700 workers at the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in central Scotland walked out in solidarity with the North Lincolnshire strikers. They were also joined by 50 strikers in Aberthaw, in South Wales, 400 at the ICI site in Wilton, Teesside. and walkouts also took place at British Petroleum in Saltend, Hull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nFollowing several days of talks between representatives from Total and the GMB union which were chaired by Acas, a deal was finally struck on 5 February and workers at the refinery agreed to return to work the following Monday. The deal would see 102 new jobs being created for British workers in addition to the posts awarded to an IREM. An earlier deal that would have seen the creation of 60 British jobs (40 skilled and 20 unskilled) had been rejected. On 16 February an Acas report concluded that Total had not broken the law in employing Italian workers at the refinery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, January 2009 action\nThe strike at Lindsey resumed on 11 June 2009, after a subcontractor at the site laid off a number of employees, later confirmed to be 51. The strike was quickly followed by sympathy strikes at Cheshire's Fiddlers Ferry Power Station on 15 June and Aberthaw on 17 June. The strikes escalated on 18 June, with walkouts at Drax Power Station and Eggborough Power Station in Yorkshire and Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, BP Saltend, and the BOC oxygen plant at Scunthorpe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, June 2009 action\nOn 19 June 2009 nearly 700 construction staff were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery. The sackings came following 1,200 workers walking out unofficially at the plant in a jobs dispute. The following plants walked out in sympathy:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, June 2009 action\nPaul Kenny, General Secretary of the GMB trade union, said: \"GMB condemn the action of Total. Total have for a full week refused to meet the union to resolve the problems through ACAS. It seems pretty obvious that there is a mass case of victimisation taking place here. Locking out the workforce at Lindsay will not solve the problem. It will escalate it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, June 2009 action\nWorkers at the Lindsey refinery were invited to re-apply for their jobs, with managers at Total giving them a deadline of 17:00 on Monday 22 June 2009 to do so. However, angered by the actions of the management, workers burned their dismissal letters at a protest outside the refinery. Around 3,000 workers at other sites around the country also walked out in support of the Lindsey workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, June 2009 action\nNegotiations between Total and representatives of the GMB union were adjourned on Tuesday 23 June with some progress having been made, but sources said a number of \"significant barriers\" remained outstanding before the dispute could be resolved. Talks resumed on 25 June, and an agreement was reached late that evening to end the industrial action, accepted at a mass meeting outside the refinery on the following Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203792-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes, June 2009 action\nThe deal included the reinstatement of the 647 workers at the Lindsey site who had been sacked for taking unofficial action, offers of alternative jobs for the 51 workers laid off, and assurances that workers at power stations and oil and gas terminals who walked out in sympathy would not be victimised. On 29 June workers at the refinery voted to accept the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203793-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Lithuanian Athletics Championships were held in S. Darius and S. Gir\u0117nas Stadium, Kaunas on August 1\u20132, 2009. The Championships was also qualifications for 2009 World Championships in Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203794-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Lithuania on 17 May 2009. A run-off would have been held on 7 June 2009, but was not necessary as Dalia Grybauskait\u0117 was elected with 69 percent of the vote, with voter turnout just over the 50% threshold for the result to be validated. She took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203794-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian presidential election\nThis was only the second time since the restoration of independence that a Lithuanian president was elected without the need for a runoff, the first being in 1993, when Algirdas Brazauskas was elected with 61 percent in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203794-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian presidential election, Candidates\nThe Electoral Commission registered 14 candidates for the elections, whilst Vladimir Romanov's application was rejected. However, six candidates (Jonas Jankauskas, Vytautas Kundrotas, Algimantas Matulevi\u010dius, Algirdas Pilvelis, Vidmantas Sadauskas and Zigmas Vai\u0161vila) failed to collect the 20,000 signatures required, and Seimas Speaker Ar\u016bnas Valinskas (National Resurrection Party) withdrew his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203794-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian presidential election, Candidates\nSeven candidates collected enough signatures to participate in the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203794-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lithuanian presidential election, Opinion polls\nAccording to the opinion polls, Grybauskait\u0117 was the undisputed leader in the race for the Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl\nThe 2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was a National Collegiate Athletic Association bowl game (previously the Motor City Bowl game) played at 1:00 PM EST on December 26, 2009 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan and aired on ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl\nThe game was the 13th installment of the bowl game played in Detroit. The Marshall Thundering Herd of Conference USA defeated the Ohio Bobcats, champion of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference, 21\u201317, giving the Thundering Herd a seven-win season. A lack of eligible teams from the Big Ten Conference made a spot available in the game for Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl\nLine judge Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a college football bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Teams\nThe 2009 game marked an unexpected renewal of the Battle for the Bell, the rivalry between the two nearby teams (about 80 miles (130\u00a0km) apart), which had been on hiatus since Marshall's move from the MAC to C-USA in 2005. The teams were both members of the Mid-American Conference from 1997 to 2004 and were meeting for the 53rd time. Marshall and Ohio planned to renew their rivalry in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Teams\nThis marked Ohio's first trip to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl and only the fourth time in the school's history that they appeared in a bowl game. Marshall was playing in its fifth Little Caesars Pizza Bowl but first since joining Conference USA, as they had qualified for the then-Motor City Bowl in its first four playings as MAC Champions. In those four games Marshall had only lost once. Marshall was coached by its defensive coordinator/interim head coach, Rick Minter. Minter, who was previously the head coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats took over as Marshall's temporary head coach after  Mark Snyder resigned at the conclusion of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Game summary\nOhio wore their home green jerseys and Marshall wore their white away jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Game summary\nDefense dominated the game as Marshall was held to 275 yards of total offense, while Ohio only managed 123, including just 12 yards rushing. Ohio also recovered a fumble for a touchdown and Marshall returned a punt for a score. Marshall's Martin Ward was named the game's MVP as he rushed for 72 yards on nine carries and recorded two touchdowns. Theo Scott threw for 111 yards and a touchdown pass to lead the Bobcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203795-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Game summary\nThe bowl game drew a record-low 30,311 fans. Just two years before, more than twice as many people watched Purdue beat Central Michigan in Detroit. The game attracted fewer than 40,000 only once before when Marshall beat Louisville in 1998 at the Pontiac Silverdome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203796-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League Philippine Series\nThe 2009 Little League Philippine Series was held from April 13 to 19, 2009. The venue of the tournament was the city of Manila. 91 teams joined in the various baseball and softball age divisions of Little League. This is an annual event and winners represent Little League Philippines at the Asia Pacific Regional Tournaments held in June and July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series\nThe 2009 Little League World Series was the 63rd edition of the championship tournament for Little League baseball, held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, from August 21 through August 30, 2009. Eight teams from the United States and eight from the rest of the world competed in the tournament. In the championship game, the United States champions, from Chula Vista, California, defeated the international champions from Taoyuan County, Taiwan. This was the first tournament in which a team representing Chinese Taipei reached the championship game since 1996, and the first championship for a team from the state of California since 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series\nActivision released a video game in advance of the event, Little League World Series Baseball 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series, Results, Pool play\nThe top two teams in each pool moved on to their respective semifinals. The winners of each met on August 30 to play for the Little League World Championship. Teams marked in green qualified to the knockout stage, while the remaining teams were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series, Results, Pool play\nTies were broken based on records in head-to-head competition among tied teams. In the event of a three-way tie for first place, the tie was broken by calculating the ratio of runs allowed to defensive innings played for all teams involved in the tie. The team with the lowest runs-per-defensive-inning ratio was ranked first and advanced. Second place was determined by the head-to-head result of the other two teams. If the three-way tie was for second place, the runs-per-defensive-inning ratio rule was used. The team with the lowest run ratio advanced; the other two teams were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series, Results, Elimination round\nThe United States championship game on August 29 was originally scheduled for 3:00\u00a0pm US EDT. After a pair of lengthy rain delays in the international championship game, maintenance required to repair the field for the next game, and to make sure the field was dry enough to play on, it was rescheduled for later that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series, Champions path\nThe Park View Little League won 18 games and lost 2 games to reach the Little League World Series. Overall, their record was 23\u20133. Their three losses came against Sweetwater Valley LL, Torrance LL (both from California), and McAllister Park American LL (from Texas). Park View became the ninth team and most recent from San Diego County to qualify for the Little League World Series as the last one was Vista, California in 2005. They also were the third team from San Diego County in the past nine years to qualify for the Little League World Series. During the West Regional the team hit 34 home runs in total and was accused of cheating. A Little League Official looked into the allegations but found no evidence to back them up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203797-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series, Legacy\nThe City of Chula Vista organized a celebration parade for the team with the team riding on a fire engine which led them to a rally at Southwestern College. They received a congratulations from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The team also met President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. and gave him a team jersey, team plaque and the key to the City of Chula Vista. A book was written about the Chula Vista team called The Blue Bombers: The True Story of the 2009 Little League World Champions, written by San Diego County Residents. A memorial wall was proposed to commemorate the team in Chula Vista. The team also appeared on The Tonight Show hosted by Conan O'Brien. The team was honored at San Diego Padres and Chargers games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203798-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series qualification\nQualification for the 2009 Little League World Series took place in eight United States regions and eight international regions from June through August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203798-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series qualification, United States, Midwest\nNote: The Dakotas are organized into a single Little League district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203799-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Little League World Series results\nThe results of the 2009 Little League World Series were determined between August 21 and August 30, 2009 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 16 teams were divided into four groups, two with four teams from the United States and two with four international teams each, playing in a round robin format. In each group, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage. The last remaining team from the United States faced the last remaining international team for the Little League World Series Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203800-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 2009 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge monument classic cycling race took place on April 26, 2009. It was the 95th running of Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge. Luxembourg's Andy Schleck produced a solo breakaway to beat a strong field and win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203801-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Loft Law Amendment\nLoft Law Amendment (also referred to as Expanded Loft Law) is a New York law that created a new window period for recognition of loft tenants that previously did not qualify under the original 1982 Loft Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203801-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Loft Law Amendment\nThe purpose of this bill is to extend provisions of the Loft Law to buildings which have been occupied residentially for 12 consecutive months during the period starting January 1, 2008 and ending December 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203801-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Loft Law Amendment, Legislative history\nSenator Martin Malave Dilan introduced the \"Expanded Loft Law\" in the Senate in 2010. The 2010 version of the bill is coded as S7178A. The bill was amended in May 2010 and passed in the New York State Assembly (A05667C) on June 3, 2010. On June 8, 2010, the New York State Senate passed the \u201cExpanded Loft Law\u201d, bill . The bill was signed into law by New York Governor David Paterson on June 21, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203802-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 London Marathon\nThe 2009 London Marathon was the 29th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 26 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Samuel Wanjiru in a time of 2:05:10 hours and the women's race was won by Germany's Irina Mikitenko in 2:22:11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203802-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 London Marathon\nIn the wheelchair races, Australia's Kurt Fearnley (1:28:56) and American Amanda McGrory (1:50:39) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. Fearnley defeated David Weir by one second, taking the Briton's course record in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203802-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 London Marathon\nAround 155,000 people applied to enter the race: 49,995 had their applications accepted and 35,884 started the race. A total of 35,266 runners, 24,228 men and 11,038 women, finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203802-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 London Marathon\nIn the under-17 Mini Marathon, the 3-mile able-bodied and wheelchair events were won by Ronnie Sparke (14:20), Ciara Mageean (16:16), Daniel Lucker (12:30) and Hannah Cockroft (15:42).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203803-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 London Sevens\nThe London Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2009 competition took place on May 23 and May 24 in London, England, and was the seventh Cup trophy in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series. England won the most prestigious Cup trophy, with an extra time 31-26 victory over New Zealand; Fiji won the Plate trophy, Kenya won the Bowl trophy, and Canada won the Shield trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203803-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 London Sevens, Format\nThe tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203804-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Longford County Council election\nAn election to Longford County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203805-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Longueuil municipal election\nThe 2009 Longueuil municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203805-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Longueuil municipal election\nCaroline St-Hilaire was elected to her first term as mayor, and her party won 11 of the 26 seats on Longueuil City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203806-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lory Meagher Cup\nThe 2009 Lory Meagher Cup was the inaugural fourth-tier hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. Seven county teams and one regional team took part in the competition. The teams were Warwickshire, Longford, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Cavan, South Down, Tyrone and Donegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203806-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lory Meagher Cup\nThe winners of the 2009 Lory Meagher Cup were promoted to the 2010 Nicky Rackard Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203806-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lory Meagher Cup\nOn 11 July, Tyrone won the inaugural Lory Meagher Cup, with a 5-11 to 3-16 win over Donegal at Croke Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203806-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lory Meagher Cup, Structure\nThe tournament had a double elimination format - each team played at least two games before being knocked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season\nThe Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's 2009 season was the franchise's 49th season. The Angels began the season as the two-time defending American League West division champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season\nPerhaps the most notable player to depart in the offseason due to free agency was longtime closing pitcher Francisco Rodr\u00edguez, who signed with the New York Mets. Other notable free agent departures were 2008 acquisitions Jon Garland (Arizona Diamondbacks) and Mark Teixeira (New York Yankees). Notable free agent acquisitions included new closer Brian Fuentes, previously of the Colorado Rockies, and Bobby Abreu, previously of the Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season\nTragedy struck the Angels twice this season. Preston G\u00f3mez, the team's special assistant to the general manager, died January 13 of injuries sustained when he was struck by a car in Blythe, California, on March 26, 2008. As a tribute, the Angels began the season wearing black \"PRESTON\" patches on their left sleeve. Then, on April 9, rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a car accident in Fullerton, California, hours after pitching 6 shutout innings against the Oakland Athletics in his first start of the season. As a tribute, the Angels continued to assign a locker to Adenhart at home and on the road, hang a jersey with his name and number in their dugout, and wear black patches with his name and number on their left breast for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season\nOn September 28, the Angels clinched the American League West division title, their eighth in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season, Postseason\nWith their win on Monday, September 28, 2009, the Angels clinched their third straight American League West championship. Also, at that time, the Angels clinched the second-best record in the American League giving them home field advantage for the American League Division Series. Also, with their win on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, the Angels knocked the Rangers out of contention for the American League Wild Card, therefore, the Angels faced the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season, Postseason, American League Division Series\nThe 2009 American League Division Series featured the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Wildcard winner Boston Red Sox. The series began on October 8, 2009, with the Angels winning the first two games at Angel Stadium. On October 11, the series continued to Fenway Park where the Angels had a stunning come-from-behind victory to win 7\u20136 and sweep the Red Sox. This series marks the first time the Angels have beaten the Red Sox in a postseason series as well as the first postseason sweep for the Angels in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season, Postseason, American League Championship Series\nThe 2009 American League Championship Series featured the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the AL East champion New York Yankees. The Yankees won the series 4 games to 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203807-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Angels season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; SV = Saves; SVO = Save Opportunities; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203808-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles City Attorney election\nThe 2009 Los Angeles City Attorney election was held on March 3, 2009, to replace then Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who was unable to run since he had reached his term limit. Leading up to March 3 election, the declared candidates were Michael Richard American, David Berger, Carmen Trutanich, Los Angeles City Council member Jack Weiss, and Noel Weiss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203808-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles City Attorney election\nSince no candidate received a 50% majority of votes, a run-off election was held on 19 May between the top two, Weiss and Trutanich. Trutanich won the run-off election with 55.7% of the votes to become the Los Angeles city attorney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThe 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season saw the team defend their National League West title while earning the best record in the National League, and marked the 50th anniversary of their 1959 World Series Championship. The Dodgers reached the National League Championship Series for the second straight season only to once more fall short in five games against the Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Spring training\n2009 saw the Dodgers open their brand new spring training facility, Camelback Ranch-Glendale. The 13,000-seat stadium and surrounding facilities that the Dodgers share with the Chicago White Sox replaced their former facility at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach, Florida, where the team had trained in the spring since 1948. This also marked the Dodgers debut as a member of the Cactus League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nAs National League West Champions, the Dodgers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the  Division Series and held home field advantage. They swept the Cardinals in three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series, Game 1\nWednesday, October 7, 2009 \u2013 6:37\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series, Game 2\nThursday, October 8, 2009 \u2013 3:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Division Series, Game 3\nSaturday, October 10, 2009 \u2013 3:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe Dodgers advanced to the NLCS and faced the Philadelphia Phillies in a rematch of the 2008 National League Championship Series. However, they again lost to the Phillies in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series, Game 1\nThursday, October 15, 2009 \u2013 5:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series, Game 2\nFriday, October 16, 2009 \u2013 1:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series, Game 3\nSunday, October 18, 2009 \u2013 5:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series, Game 4\nMonday, October 19, 2009 \u2013 5:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Postseason, National League Championship Series, Game 5\nWednesday, October 21, 2009 \u2013 5:07\u00a0p.m. (PT) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; TB = Total bases; BB = Walks; SO = Strikeouts;  SB = Stolen bases; OBP = On-base percentage; SLG = Slugging; Avg. = Batting average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball draft\nThe Dodgers selected 51 players in this draft. Of those, seven of them have played Major League Baseball. They lost their first-round pick as a result of signing free agent Orlando Hudson but gained a supplemental first-round pick and a second-round pick as a compensation for losing pitcher Derek Lowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball draft\nThe Dodgers top pick in this draft was left-handed pitcher Aaron Miller from Baylor University. In five seasons in the minors he was 20\u201319 with a 4.03 ERA in 82 games (65 starts). Midway through the 2013 season, the Dodgers decided to take him off the mound and turn him into a position player. He hit 14 homers and drove in 60 RBI in 2014 in class-A as a designated hitter but retired after the  season without making it to the Majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203809-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Major League Baseball draft\nThey went the opposite direction with outfielder Blake Smith from University of California, Berkeley. Also in the 2013 season they decided to take Smith and make him into a relief pitcher. He was later traded, and eventually made it to the majors with the Chicago White Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203810-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards\nThe 35th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season\nThe 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the 14th season of the team's existence. It began on March 22, 2009 with a 2-2 home draw against D.C. United, and ended on November 22, 2009 with a loss on penalties to Real Salt Lake in the 2009 MLS Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Off-season, Draft\nThe 2009 MLS SuperDraft took place on January 15, 2009, with draft order determined by regular and post-season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Off-season, Draft\nPlayers marked with an asterisk after their previous club affiliation were contracted under the Generation Adidas program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Statistics\nStatistics are from all MLS matches. Ages are as of March 19, 2009 (the date of their season opener).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203811-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203812-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Sparks season\nThe 2009 Los Angeles Sparks season is the 13th season for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. Lisa Leslie announced that the 2009 season would be her last. On June 5, the Sparks and Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced a multi-year marketing partnership that includes a branded jersey sponsorship. The Farmers Insurance branded jersey will be worn by the players for the first time on June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203812-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Sparks season\nAs part of this alliance, the Farmers Insurance name and logo will appear on the front of the Sparks jerseys and will have considerable visibility in the Staples Center during home games. Los Angeles became only the second WNBA team to finalize such an agreement. The Sparks attempted to reach the playoffs and were successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203812-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Sparks season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Sparks' 2008 record, they would pick 9th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Sparks waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203812-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles Sparks season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Sparks' selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203813-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles election\nThe 2009 elections for elected officials in Los Angeles took place on March 3, 2009, with run-off elections on May 19, 2009. The mayor, city attorney, city controller and eight out of the fifteen members of the city council were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203813-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles election, Results, City attorney\nIncumbent Rocky Delgadillo could not stand for re-election due to term limits. Carmen Trutanich was elected after the run-off election on May 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203813-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles election, Results, City controller\nIncumbent Laura N. Chick could not stand for re-election due to term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203813-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles election, Results, City council\nDistrict 5Incumbent Jack Weiss was running for the city attorney post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203814-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 2009 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on March 3, 2009. Incumbent mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa was re-elected overwhelming and faced no serious opponent. Since Los Angeles holds nonpartisan elections, there was no Democratic or Republican primary. Villaraigosa would have faced a run-off against second place-finisher Walter Moore had he failed to win a majority of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203814-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Los Angeles mayoral election\nVillaraigosa won the election despite having generally unfavorable approval ratings. He was credited with winning because more well-known and better-funded candidates, such as developer Rick Caruso, declined to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203815-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Losail Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Losail Superbike World Championship round was the second round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of March 12\u201314, 2009, at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203816-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lotto\u2013Belisol Ladiesteam season\nThe 2009 season was the fourth for the Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam cycling team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203816-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lotto\u2013Belisol Ladiesteam season, Other achievements, Dutch national record, team pursuit\nVera Koedooder, as part of the national team, broke together with Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters the Dutch team pursuit record three times in 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203816-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lotto\u2013Belisol Ladiesteam season, Results in major races, Women's World Cup 2009\nGrace Verbeke finished 9th in the individual and the team finished 7th in the teams overall standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203816-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lotto\u2013Belisol Ladiesteam season, UCI World Ranking\nThe team finished 4th in the UCI ranking for teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203817-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represented Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by third-year head coach Derek Dooley, the Bulldogs played their home games at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech finished the season with a record of 4\u20138 overall and a mark of 3\u20135 in conference play, tying for fifth place in the WAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203817-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Before the season, T-Day spring game\nOn April 11, 2009, the Red Team beat the White Team 21-0 at Joe Aillet Stadium with 3,042 fans in attendance. ESPN Radio's Sean Fox coached the Red Team, and Nick White, also from ESPN Radio, coached the White Team. After a scoreless first quarter, quarterback Steven Ensminger completed a 40-yard pass to tight end Dennis Morris on a trick play to put the Red Team in scoring position. Running Back Daniel Porter scored on a 2-yard touchdown run to put the Red Team up 6-0. Kicker Joel Hall connected on the extra point to make it 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203817-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Before the season, T-Day spring game\nWith 1:08 left in the first half, Ensminger completed a 68-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Cruz Williams to put the Red Team ahead 13-0. Kicker Dale Wallace converted the extra point to make the score 14-0 Red Team going into halftime. Running back Zach Booker scored on a 45-yard touchdown run with 3:28 left in the game to increase the Red Team's lead to 20-0. Hall completed the extra point to make the final score 21-0. Red Team Linebacker Adrien Cole led all tacklers with nine. Red Team Defensive lineman Ramone Randle recorded two sacks, and cornerback Olajuwon Paige recorded two interceptions for the Red Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident\nIn October 2009, Keith Bardwell, a Robert, Louisiana, Justice of the Peace, refused to officiate the civil wedding of an interracial couple because of his personal views, in spite of a 1967 United States Supreme Court ruling which prohibited restrictions on interracial marriage as unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident\nThe story was first publicized by newswriter Don Ellzey of the Daily Star (Hammond, Louisiana). Within a day the story was on the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and was circulated by the Associated Press. Bardwell has asserted that he is not a racist and that he did not prevent the couple from obtaining a license from another justice of the peace. His action was widely criticized, and many public officials in Louisiana called for his resignation. He resigned on November 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Refusal\nOn October 6, an interracial couple, Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, inquired of Bardwell, the justice of the peace for the 8th Ward of Louisiana's Tangipahoa Parish, about getting a marriage license signed. His wife Beth Bardwell reportedly told them that the justice \"does not do interracial marriages\". Justice Bardwell referred the couple to a justice of the peace of a neighboring ward, who performed the wedding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Refusal\nAlthough the news media frequently alleged that Bardwell had refused to issue a marriage license, he has emphasized that he has no authority to \"issue\" a marriage license and that he simply \"recused\" himself from officiating the ceremony. When interviewed, Bardwell said that he had refused applications to four couples over a period of 2\u00bd years before the news of his refusals was publicized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Bardwell's justification\nBardwell justified his refusal to officiate interracial marriages as based on his concern for the children of such marriages, as he believes they are fully accepted neither by black nor white society. Bardwell said, he \"came to the conclusion that most black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society\", and, \"I don't want to put children in a situation they didn\u2019t bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.\" Bardwell asserted that he was not a racist. According to the reporter Tara Bennett, Bardwell was advised by an attorney to say that he was \"busy\" on days when he was requested to officiate interracial weddings, \"but Bardwell refuses to lie and says [that] he will step down\" if obliged to change his policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Bardwell's justification\nOn October 19, Bardwell appeared on the CBS Early Show, where he was interviewed by Harry Smith. Bardwell apologized to the couple for offending them. He maintained that he did not deny the couple from being married but only recused himself from performing the ceremony. As he referred them to another justice to be married, he did not see a problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Legal status of interracial marriages\nState laws prohibiting interracial marriage were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1967 case Loving v. Virginia. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU), via attorney Katie Schwartzman, cited that ruling and said that Bardwell knowingly violated judicial precedent by his action. Calling for Bardwell's removal, the ACLU requested that the Louisiana Judiciary Commission investigate the justice's conduct. The interracial couple filed a civil rights lawsuit with the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, claiming their civil rights were violated. The suit named Beth Bardwell, Keith Bardwell's wife, as co-defendant and sought a monetary settlement, including restitution for emotional distress and mental anguish. Lawyer Laura Lanier Catlett filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 953]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Reactions\nOn the day the story broke, President Barack Obama, the son of an interracial marriage, was at nearby University of New Orleans for a much-heralded \"town hall meeting\" concerning local recovery from the Hurricane Katrina disaster. When asked about Bardwell's statements, Bill Quigley (Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights) and White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said that they had reason to believe a biracial child could do well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Reactions\nA number of state and local public officials criticized Bardwell's actions. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called for Bardwell to be fired: Jindal's office released a statement calling Bardwell's refusal to officiate the civil wedding \"a clear violation of constitutional rights and federal and state law\" and urged that \"[d]isciplinary action should be taken immediately\u2014including the revoking of his license\". In response during an interview, Bardwell pointed out that he was an elected official and that it was not a licensed position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Reactions\nThe Daily Star editorialized that \"Bardwell's personal beliefs are his own, but his responsibility as an elected official is to provide services to the public\" and called on him to resign. Front-page articles in the Daily Star reported the disavowal of Bardwell by state, parish, and municipal officials and summarized the worldwide attention to the story.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Reactions\nBardwell, who had another five years in what he had said would be his last term as a justice of the peace, resigned his post on November 3. Bardwell's resignation was a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne. Bardwell offered no explicit explanation and did not immediately respond to requests for elaboration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203818-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident, Lawsuit\nBardwell continued to face a federal lawsuit, which in 2010 continued with the court's determination of pertinent witnesses. In November, 2010, the lawsuit was dropped by the McKays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203819-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team\nThe 2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at M. L. Tigue Moore Field and were led by fifteenth year head coach Tony Robichaux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203820-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team\nThe 2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Ragin' Cajuns were led by eighth year head coach Rickey Bustle and played their home games at Cajun Field. The Ragin' Cajuns finished the season with a record of 6\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in Sun Belt Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203820-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team\nThe 41,357 attendance at the Hebert Heymann Football Classic against Southern still holds the record for most attendance at Cajun Field", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203821-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team\nThe 2009 Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2009 NCAA Division I softball season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Lamson Park and were led by ninth and tenth year husband and wife head coaching duo Michael and Stefni Lotief, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203822-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team\nThe 2009 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team represented University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Warhawks, led by seventh-year head coach Charlie Weatherbie, played their home games at Malone Stadium. The Warhawks finished the season 6\u20136 and 5\u20133 in Sun Belt play and were bowl eligible but were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203822-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisiana\u2013Monroe Warhawks football team\nHead coach Charlie Weatherbie was fired at the end of the season after seven seasons and a record of 31\u201351 and 24\u201324 in Sun Belt play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203823-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 2009 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinals were coached by Steve Kragthorpe, who was in his third season at Louisville. The Cardinals played their home games at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. The Cardinals finished the season with a record 4\u20138 and 1\u20136 in Big East play. Kragthorpe was fired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203824-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Louth County Council election\nAn election to Louth County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203825-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lunar New Year Cup\nThe 2009 Lunar New Year Cup is a football tournament held in Hong Kong on the first and fourth day of the Chinese New Year of the Earth Ox Year (26 January and 29 January 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203825-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lunar New Year Cup, Format\nThe two semi-finals for the four participating teams will be held on the first day of the Chinese New Year of Ox (26 January 2009). The winning teams will enter the final and the losing teams play the third-place playoff (Both matches on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, i.e. 29 January.) Draw in the semi-finals and third-place playoff would be settled by penalty shootout directly, that means no extra time would be played. For the final, a thirty-minute extra time would be played after a draw. A further draw would lead to the penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203826-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Luoding flood\nThe 2009 Luoding flood (Chinese: \u7f57\u5b9a\u8239\u6b65\u6c34\u707e) was a major flood that occurred in Luoding, Guangdong in the People's Republic of China on the week of September 17, 2009. The water level increased due to rain from Typhoon Koppu. The storm slammed into South China causing torrential rain, mudslides and an oil spill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203826-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Luoding flood, Dam flood order\nThe town most seriously affected was Chuanbu (\u8239\u6b65). Some sources pointed out that the township government was ordered by Guangdong provincial authorities to flood the countryside around Chuanbu to ease the water levels at the Shandong dam. More than 100 people stormed the government offices three times, they were not allowed in. A resident said township officials refused to meet with the villagers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203826-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Luoding flood, Tolls and damages\nSources vary on the damages and tolls. Some sources listed the death toll at seven dead and six missing, while others listed three dead and four missing. More than 100,000 residents had to be evacuated and direct economic losses totaled two billion yuan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games\nThe 2009 Lusophony Games was the 2nd Lusophony Games (Portuguese: 2.os Jogos da Lusofonia), a multi-sport event for delegations representing Portuguese-speaking National Olympic committees. It took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 11 to 19 July 2009. The Pavilh\u00e3o Atl\u00e2ntico acted as the main venue, staging the opening ceremonies and the majority of the sporting events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Host decision\nThe organization was awarded to Portugal during the 6th ACOLOP general assembly, gathered in Macau, on 10 October 2006. Jos\u00e9 Vicente de Moura, president of the Olympic Committee of Portugal and honorary president of the ACOLOP, is also the president of the Organizing Committee for the 2009 Lusophony Games (COJOL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Games, Sports\nOn 21 May 2007, during a meeting between the 2009 Games Organizing Committee (Portuguese: Comit\u00e9 Organizador dos Jogos da Lusofonia 2009, COJOL) and the ACOLOP (Associa\u00e7\u00e3o dos Comit\u00e9s de L\u00edngua Oficial Portuguesa, English: Association of the Portuguese-Speaking Committees), a decision on which should be the ninth sport to be included in the competition program\u2014out of a list that included badminton, canoeing, judo, swimming, and roller hockey \u2014 was delayed due to insufficient survey data from some of the ACOLOP member committees. Later that year, on 12 November the ACOLOP general assembly, gathered in Lisbon, finally decided to add judo to the official program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Games, Sports\nThis edition thus featured nine sports\u2014one more than in the inaugural games in 2006 \u2014 comprising 65 events. Three events for disabled athletes were included in the athletics competition, for a total of 68. One of those disabled athletics events is of demonstration nature and is not included in the medal ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Games, Venues\nMost of the competitions were held in venues within Lisbon, but other sports, like beach and indoor volleyball, were played in the neighbouring municipalities of Oeiras and Almada, respectively. The opening and closing ceremonies were held at Pavilh\u00e3o Atl\u00e2ntico, the largest venue, where four sports took place as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Games, Calendar\nIn this table, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round or group match. The golden boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held. The number indicated in each box represents the number of finals that were to be contested on that day. The sports marked with an asterisk (*) means that it has an event that is a demonstration sport and its champion does not count in the final tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Games, Symbols\nThe image and identity of the Lisbon 2009 Lusophony Games were conveyed by its official logo and mascot. The logo represents an \"athlete, celebrating victory with a multicoloured ribbon, following the motto 'Union stronger than Victory', in an appeal to fair-play and unity between the athletes\". The mascot, representing a youthful humanized flame, is called \"Xama\" (after \"chama\", \"flame\" in English) and embodies the spirit of sport, the athlete's desire to surpass own limits, the \"energy and vivacity\" that give \"body and soul in every heat\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203827-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Lusofonia Games, Medal table\nNote that when each champion is counted, the results will differ from the official results, therefore the following table will not match the official one as shown on the competition's website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election\nGeneral elections were held in Luxembourg on 7 June 2009, together with the 2009 election to the European Parliament. All sixty members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected for five years. The polls were topped by the Christian Social People's Party, which built upon its already high number of seats to achieve a commanding victory, with the highest vote share and number of seats of any party since 1954. Incumbent Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who is longest serving head of government in the European Union, renewed the coalition agreement with Deputy Prime Minister and Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party leader Jean Asselborn and formed the Juncker-Asselborn Ministry II, which was sworn-in on 23 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election, Parties\nSeven parties ran candidates in all four circonscriptions, of which, five were already represented in the Chamber of Deputies: the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), the Democratic Party (DP), the Greens, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR). Two parties that were not then represented also ran: The Left and the Communist Party (KPL). In addition, the Citizens' List, which was headed by current independent deputy Aly Jaerling, ran in two constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election, Results, By locality\nAs in 2004, the CSV won pluralities in each of Luxembourg's four circonscriptions, and pluralities in nearly all of Luxembourg's communes. Only four communes didn't register pluralities for the CSV (down from seven in 2004). Wiltz in the north and Dudelange, Kayl, and Rumelange in the southern Red Lands voted for the LSAP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election, Results, By locality\nThe CSV's performance improved most markedly in Centre, where it increased its vote from 35.5% to 38.6%. In Centre, the CSV received almost twice as many votes as the Democratic Party in, only ten years after the DP won a plurality by over 2%. It gained one extra seat in Centre, and another in Est.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election, Aftermath\nThe CSV's large margin of victory guaranteed that it would form the government once again, with Jean-Claude Juncker appointed as formateur and likely to remain as Prime Minister. Before the election, Juncker, Europe's longest-serving head of government, had told his party that he intended to step down as Minister for Finances, to be replaced by Luc Frieden. This brought into question his chairmanship of the Europe-wide Eurogroup, which he had chaired since 2005. However, he has since stated that he would remain in charge of monetary policy and relations with the European Central Bank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203828-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Luxembourg general election, Aftermath\nThe CSV was in a strong enough position to form a coalition with any one of three parties: LSAP (partner in the Juncker-Asselborn Ministry I), the DP (partner in the Juncker-Polfer Ministry), and the Greens (who had never previously entered the government). However, the DP and Greens had both ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the CSV, leaving only the previous coalition partners, LSAP, in the running. The CSV and LSAP formed a coalition agreement, with Juncker as Prime Minister and Jean Asselborn as Deputy Prime Minister, with the new government forming on 23 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203829-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 L\u00fcderitz oil spill\nThe 2009 L\u00fcderitz oil spill began in April 2009 off the coast of L\u00fcderitz, Namibia. The oil spill directly affected 171 African penguins, with many more possibly threatened. The oil spill is in the area where the fishing trawler Meob Bay sank in June 2002, killing 19 seamen. The boat sank after a rope got caught in the propeller, which then detached causing water to flood into the engine room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203829-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 L\u00fcderitz oil spill\nHowever, an inspection of the site where the vessel had sunk showed that the wreck was not the source of the oil; the source of the spill could not be found but is thought to be bunker oil that was released by a large vessel passing through Namibian waters. In terms of wildlife affected, it was the largest spill in Namibian history according to local residents of L\u00fcderitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203830-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 M-1 Challenge season\nThe 2009 M-1 Challenge season was the second season of the M-1 Challenge series presented by M-1 Global. It started on February 21, 2009 and concluded on December 3, 2009. 16 teams from around the world competed in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season, up from the 9 teams that competed in 2008. The teams typically featured top MMA prospects. The Season was won by the Russian Legion team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203830-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 M-1 Challenge season, Background\nM-1 Challenge is a team-based competition organized with a series of events held in different places around the world where MMA clubs compete against each other. The teams consist of five fighters, one in each of the five major MMA weight classes-  Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203830-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 M-1 Challenge season, Team Results, Finals\nRussian Legion defeats  USA East to claim the second M-1 Challenge (5-0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203831-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament was an NCAA college basketball tournament held at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York on March 6\u20139, 2009, to decide the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion. The winner, Siena advanced to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, a 65-team event to decide the national champion of Division I college basketball. Siena received a No. 9 seed and upset No. 8 seed Ohio State 74\u201372 in double overtime, then were defeated by No. 1 seed Louisville 72\u201379 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203831-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll 10 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top six teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game\nThe 2009 Marathon MAC Championship Game was a college football game played by the Central Michigan Chippewas and the Ohio Bobcats. The game, sponsored by Marathon Oil, was the final regular season contest of the 2009 college football season for the Mid-American Conference. The game was held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, where it was moved to following the 2003 MAC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game\nThe Ohio Bobcats were selected to represent the East Division by virtue of a tie-breaking head-to-head victory against the Temple Owls in the final game prior to the championship game. They ended the season with a 9\u20133 record, including 7\u20131 in MAC play. The West Division is represented by Central Michigan, who had a 10\u20132 record prior to the game, including a perfect 8\u20130 in the MAC. This game was a rematch of the 2006 game, where the Chippewas came out victorious in a 31\u201310 decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process\nThe MAC Championship Game matches the winners of the East and West divisions of the Mid-American Conference. The game began in the 1997 season when the MAC added Northern Illinois and Marshall. This expanded the league to twelve teams, and therefore the conference was able to hold a conference championship game under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process\nThe divisional champions are selected through a lengthy tiebreaker scenario. However, the scenario wasn't required as only two teams were tied in the East Division. Temple and Ohio both ended the season with a 7\u20131 conference record. Ohio's win over the Temple Owls in the final game of the regular season allowed the Bobcats to advance to the Championship Game. In the West Division, only the Central Michigan Chippewas finished the game with an 8\u20130 conference record, and would therefore be the team chosen to represent their division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Central Michigan\nThe Central Michigan Chippewas entered the 2009 college football season after going 8\u20135 during the 2008 season. Although that didn't earn them a bid into the 2008 MAC Championship Game, they were able to go to the 2008 Motor City Bowl, where they would lose to the Florida Atlantic Owls in a 21\u201324 decision. In the MAC Preseason Media Poll, the Chippewas received 154 points, and was chosen to win the West Division of the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Central Michigan\nCentral Michigan began their 2009 season with a 6\u201319 loss to Arizona. However, in their next game against Big Ten opponent Michigan State, the Chippewas came out victorious, thanks to a game-ending field goal. In their home opener against the Braves of Alcorn State, the Chippewas had their way with a 48\u20130 victory, and they would end the first part of their out-of-conference season with a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Central Michigan\nThey began conference play with a 48\u201321 victory over Akron, with starting quarterback Dan LeFevour having a hand in six of the seven Chippewa touchdowns. After that they traveled to Buffalo to post a 20\u201313 win over the Bulls. In the first quarter of the game, LeFevour broke Byron Leftwich's previous MAC record of 939 completions in a career. After victories over Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan, the Chippewas were able to claim the Michigan MAC Trophy for 2009. After a 24\u201310 victory over the Bowling Green Falcons, Central Michigan held a 5\u20130 conference record before traveling to Boston College for their final out-of-conference match-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Central Michigan\nAlthough Central Michigan scored the first points on a 34-yard field goal, Boston College was able to contain LeFevour and the Chippewas. CMU ended up losing the contest to a final score of 10\u201331. The final three games on the Chippewas' schedule were three straight MAC contests, two of them held in Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The first of these three games was a high-scoring 56\u201328 victory over the Toledo Rockets. They followed that with a 35\u20133 victory over Ball State in Scheumann Stadium, and then returned home to defeat Northern Illinois in a 45\u201331 decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Ohio\nAfter finishing the 2008 season with a dismal 4\u20138 record (including 3\u20135 in the conference), the Bobcats were able to make a comeback, finishing this season 9\u20133 with a 7\u20131 record in the conference. In the preseason media poll, the Bobcats were selected fourth in their division, receiving only 116 votes, in comparison to Buffalo, who was selected to win their division, earning 155 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Ohio\nAlong with the Chippewas, the Bobcats began their season with a loss, theirs coming 16\u201323 in the hands of UConn. However, they were able to win their next two out-of-conference games. In a contest against North Texas, the Bobcats were able come back to a 20\u201320 tie at the end of regulation. In the first overtime, both teams managed to score field goals, putting the game at 23\u201323 before the second overtime. In the second overtime, North Texas was able to score first on a 7-yard Cam Montgomery touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Ohio\nOhio answered back on a 15-yard pass from Theo Scott, however instead of a tradition extra point attempt, Ohio went for two points, once again a pass from Scott to wide receiver Taylor Price to seal the victory. In their next game, they faced Cal Poly in Athens and came out with a 28\u201310 victory. The Bobcats finished their out-of-conference season against Tennessee, losing that match 23\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Ohio\nThe Bobcats then began their MAC season against fellow East Division member Bowling Green. With two passing touchdowns and another running touchdown from Scott, Ohio was able to come out victorious with a 44\u201337 final score. Ohio then traveled to InfoCision Stadium, to visit the Akron Zips in their new home. They were able to upset the Zips, leaving with a 19\u20137 victory. After that game, they returned home to face the Miami RedHawks at Peden Stadium, and won 28\u20137. Their one conference loss came at the hands of Kent State, where they lost at home. The only scoring that was allowed by the Flashes was a 22-yard field goal by Matt Weller and an 87-yard punt return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203832-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Championship Game, Selection process, Ohio\nThe final four games of the season proved to be a launching pad for the Bobcats heading into the championship game. In a contest at Ball State, the Bobcats scored a touchdown with three minutes remaining to put them ahead 20\u201317. They were also able to win on the road against Buffalo in a nationally televised contest on ESPN2. The final two games of the Bobcats season were both played at home, where they defeated Northern Illinois by a score of 38\u201331 and Temple with a score of 35\u201317. That victory against Temple also became the tiebreaker which sent Ohio to the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203833-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2008\u20132009 season. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203833-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nEach of the 12 men's basketball teams in the MAC receives a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203833-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top four seeds receive byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division are awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two receives the #1 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203834-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2008\u20132009 season. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203834-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nEach of the 12 women's basketball teams in the MAC receive a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded per division by conference record with the following tie-breakers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203834-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nNote: Once a three-team tie has been reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreakers go in effect. If there are multiple ties, the ties are broken from the top down (e.g. a tie for #3 will be broken before a tie for #5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203834-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top two seeds in each division receive byes into the Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203835-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MBC Drama Awards\nThe 2009 MBC Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0MBC \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1) is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) network for the year of 2009. It was held on December 30, 2009 and hosted by actor Lee Hwi-jae and actress Park Ye-jin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203836-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, the culmination of the 2008\u201309 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball season and a part of the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place from March 10\u2013March 14, 2009, at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The tournament was broadcast on the ESPNU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203836-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe championship game matched Morgan State against Norfolk State, who made its first appearance in the MEAC championship game since it joined the league in 1997. Morgan State won 83\u201369, for its 2nd tournament title, the first won in 1977. As champion, Morgan State received the MEAC's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203837-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MLP Nations Cup\nThe 2009 MLP Nations Cup was the seventh edition of the women's ice hockey tournament. It was held from January 2-6, 2009 in Ravensburg, Germany. Sweden won the tournament by defeating Canada U22 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game\nThe 2009 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 14th annual MLS All-Star Game. The MLS All-Stars faced Everton of the Premier League on July 29, 2009. The match ended in a 1\u20131 draw at full-time and went to an immediate penalty shootout, which Everton won 4\u20133. Everton's Tim Howard--the United States first-choice goalkeeper and a former MetroStars player--was named MVP of the match, after making three saves during the shootout. This was the first win for an international club team in six tries against the MLS All-Stars, and remains Everton's last competitive trophy the club has won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, Host venue\nMajor League Soccer announced on July 9, 2008 that Rio Tinto Stadium, the League's newest soccer-specific venue, would host the 2009 MLS All-Star Game in the summer of 2009. MLS President Mark Abbott joined Real Salt Lake Owner David W. Checketts, Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., and Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan at a press conference at the new Stadium to officially announce the event. This was the first MLS All-Star Game held in Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, MLS All-Stars voting\nLike the previous year, the MLS All-Star First XI was determined by an online fan voting system which accounted for 25% of the total vote, with players, coaches and general managers, and the media each holding 25% of the vote. The fan voting period opened May 13, 2009 and ended July 6, 2009. Two weeks into the fan voting period, Seattle Sounders FC players made up nine of the 11 top vote-getters, with Kasey Keller as the overall leader in total votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, MLS All-Stars voting\nAfter the end of the voting period, Freddie Ljungberg received the most fan votes. The fan's first XI included Kasey Keller(Seattle), Chad Marshall (Columbus), Wilman Conde (Chicago), Geoff Cameron (Houston), Guillermo Barros Schelotto (Columbus), Stuart Holden (Houston), Freddie Ljungberg (Seattle), Shalrie Joseph (New England), Dwayne De Rosario (Toronto), Conor Casey (Colorado), and Landon Donovan (Los Angeles). The additional seven players were chosen by head coach Dominic Kinnear of Houston and the Commissioner Don Garber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\nThe 2009 MLS All-Star First XI was announced in a special episode of MLSnet.com Extra Time, which aired 3 p.m. ET on Monday, July 13, 2009. On the following Monday, July 20, 2009, All-Star coach Dominic Kinnear and his assistants chose five additional players, with MLS Commissioner Don Garber adding the two final players to the 18-man roster. The All-Stars are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\nAs of July 26, 2009. Players in bold denotes First XI status. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n\u2020 - De Rosario was not available for the 2009 MLS All-Star game due to a Toronto FC CONCACAF Champions League game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n\u2021 - Blanco was chosen to take the place of De Rosario, being the next-highest vote getter in the midfield position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n\u2666 - \"Commissioner's Picks\", chosen by MLS Commissioner Don Garber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n% - Johnson is an injury replacement for Joseph who suffered a bone bruise in his right knee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n& - Soumare was a replacement for Ching, who was rested after he competed in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup with the US national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\n^ - Zach Thornton replaced Pat Onstad due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Major League Soccer\nThe following players fell short of the MLS All-Star First XI in voting:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203838-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS All-Star Game, 2009 MLS All-Star Game Rosters, Everton\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203839-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS Cup Playoffs\nThe 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs is the postseason to Major League Soccer's 2009 season. MLS Cup 2009 concluded the season on November 22, 2009 at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington. Real Salt Lake won the Cup in penalties over the L.A. Galaxy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203839-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS Cup Playoffs, Format\nAt the 2009 season's end, the top two teams of each conference made the playoffs; in addition the clubs with the next four highest point totals, regardless of conference, were added to the playoffs. In the first round of this knockout tournament, aggregate goals over two matches determined the winners; the Conference Championships were one match each, with the winner of each conference advancing to MLS Cup. In all rounds, the tie-breaking method was two 15-minute periods of extra time, followed by penalty kicks if necessary. The away goals rule was not used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203839-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS Cup Playoffs, Standings, Overall standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203839-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS Cup Playoffs, Bracket\n1 Real Salt Lake earned the eighth and final playoff berth, despite finishing fifth in the Western Conference. They represent the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference playoff bracket, as only three teams in the Eastern Conference qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203840-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS Expansion Draft\nThe 2009 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 25, 2009, and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Philadelphia Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203841-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS SuperDraft\nThe 2009 MLS SuperDraft took place on January 15, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the tenth annual Major League Soccer SuperDraft. The first selection was owned by the expansion Seattle Sounders FC. Unlike previous years, the SuperDraft was not followed by the Supplemental Draft due to roster changes for the 2009 season decreasing the number of developmental spaces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203841-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS SuperDraft, Player selection\nAny player whose name is marked with an * was contracted under the Generation Adidas program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203841-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MLS SuperDraft, 2009 Supplemental Draft Trades\nIn December 2008 the league decided to cancel the Supplemental Draft, which had typically been held shortly after the annual SuperDraft. Prior to the cancellation a number of trades were made involving 2009 Supplemental Draft picks. It is unknown what compensation, if any, clubs which acquired 2009 Supplemental Draft picks in trades received in lieu of the draft picks. Announced trades involving 2009 Supplemental Draft selections include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203842-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships\nThe 2009 MPS Group Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 30th edition of the MPS Group Championships but first held in its new location, and was part of the International series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, from April 6 through April 12, 2009. Caroline Wozniacki won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203842-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships, Finals, Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung /  Sania Mirza defeated  Kv\u011bta Peschke /  Lisa Raymond, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203843-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships \u2013 Doubles\nBethanie Mattek and Vladim\u00edra Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but Uhl\u00ed\u0159ov\u00e1 chose not to participate this year, and only Mattek competed this year. She played alongside Nadia Petrova but lost in the Quarterfinals to Chuang Chia-jung and Sania Mirza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203843-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships \u2013 Doubles\nChuang and Mirza reached the final where they beat Kv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond to win their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203844-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships \u2013 Singles\nMaria Sharapova was the defending champion, but could not compete due to a long-term shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203844-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MPS Group Championships \u2013 Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki beat Aleksandra Wozniak in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203845-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MSBL season\nThe 2009 MSBL season was the 21st season of the Men's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 13 March and ended on Saturday 18 July. The finals began on Saturday 25 July and ended on Saturday 22 August, when the Lakeside Lightning defeated the Perry Lakes Hawks in the MSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203845-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MSBL season, Regular season\nThe regular season began on Friday 13 March and ended on Saturday 18 July after 19 rounds of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203845-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MSBL season, Finals\nThe finals began on Saturday 25 July and ended on Saturday 22 August with the MSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203846-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTN 8\nThe 2009 MTN 8 was the 35th time that this annual tournament took place. It was contested by the eight top teams of the Premier Soccer League table at the end of the 2008-09 season. The tournament began on 4 August 2009, and ended on 24 October 2009. Golden Arrows beat Ajax Cape Town 6 \u2013 0, in the final at Orlando Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203846-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MTN 8, Teams\nThe eight teams that competed in the MTN 8 Wafa Wafa knockout competition are: (listed according to their finishing position in the 2008\u201309 Premier Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 17], "content_span": [18, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203846-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MTN 8, Teams\nThe draw for the first round took place of 13 July 2009. Games will be played over 4 and 5 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 17], "content_span": [18, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203847-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Europe Music Awards\nThe MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World and Brandenburg Gate on 5 November 2009. The awards ceremony was presented by Katy Perry for a 2nd consecutive year. It was the fourth time that the MTV Europe Music Awards were hosted in Germany and the second time that they were hosted in Berlin, since the inaugural edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards also took place there. Thus Berlin became the first city to host the event twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203847-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Europe Music Awards\nNominations for regional awards were announced on 1 September 2009, followed by those of the main awards on September 21, 2009. Pete Wentz was the host for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards webcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203847-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Europe Music Awards\nThough the MTV EMAs have traditionally been advertised as Europe's premiere music event, few European artists received nominations in key categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203847-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Europe Music Awards\nThe 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards logo and promos were designed in-house by MTV World Design Studio in Milan and Buenos Aires with additional input by Swedish graphic design company Kungen & Hertigen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203848-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Movie Awards\nThe 2009 MTV Movie Awards were presented on Sunday, May 31, 2009, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Andy Samberg served as host for the 18th annual ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards\nThe 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, honoring the best music videos from the previous year between June 2008 to June 2009, were presented on September 13, 2009, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and televised by MTV. The ceremony was hosted by Russell Brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards\nBeyonc\u00e9, Green Day, and Lady Gaga were tied for the most-awarded acts of the night, winning three awards each. Beyonc\u00e9's \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\" would win the award for Video of the Year, while Beyonc\u00e9 and Lady Gaga were both tied for the largest number of nominations with nine, followed by Britney Spears with seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards\nIn the aftermath of his June 2009 death, the show featured various tributes to Michael Jackson, including an opening act featuring a medley of Jackson's biggest hits and a special appearance by Janet Jackson to perform her duet \"Scream\", and the premiere of a trailer for the posthumous documentary film Michael Jackson's This Is It.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards\nThe ceremony was marred when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance of the award for Best Female Video, in order to proclaim that despite her victory, Beyonc\u00e9 still had \"one of the best videos of all time\" (in reference to the aforementioned \"Single Ladies\"). When Beyonc\u00e9 was eventually awarded Video of the Year, she acknowledged the moment when she had won her first VMA as part of Destiny's Child, and invited Swift back to the stage to finish her acceptance speech. The incident was highly publicized after the ceremony, with Rolling Stone naming it the \"wildest\" moment in the history of the Video Music Awards in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards\nThe broadcast  was seen by a total of 9\u00a0million viewers, a 17% increase over 2008, making it the most-watched VMAs since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Performances, House band performances\nRapper Wale and go-go band UCB served as the house band for the show, performing right before, during, and right after commercial breaks. Throughout the show they also had various special guests and performed the following songs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Awards, Best Choreography\nBeyonc\u00e9 \u2013 \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\" (Choreographers: Frank Gatson Jr. and JaQuel Knight)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Awards, Best Editing\nBeyonc\u00e9 \u2013 \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Awards, Best Cinematography\nGreen Day \u2013 \"21 Guns\" (Director of Photography: Jonathan Sela)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Awards, Best Breakout Artist Awards\nEight local MTV VMA Best Breakout Artist Awards were awarded. The table below lists the number of bands considered in each city, the three finalist nominees selected by MTV for each VMA, and the winner in bold. The winners were featured on MTV on local cable during the live VMAs and received featured coverage on MTV and MTV2 (or MTV Tr3\u0301s in the case of the LA contest).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Kanye West incident\nAs Taylor Swift was giving her acceptance speech for Best Female Video for \"You Belong with Me\", Kanye West came on stage, took the microphone from her, and said: \"Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Beyonc\u00e9 had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!\" (West was referring to the music video for \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\".) As the audience booed, West handed the microphone back to Swift, flipped off the crowd, and walked off stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Kanye West incident\nWest was subsequently removed from the show. Later in the show, Beyonc\u00e9 won Video of the Year for \"Single Ladies\" and called Swift back to the stage and to let her finish her speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Kanye West incident\nVarious celebrities and industry figures, and prominent political figures such as U.S. President Barack Obama and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, condemned West for the verbal outburst. West apologized on his blog and during an appearance on The Jay Leno Show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Kanye West incident\nEmil Wilbekin, managing editor of Essence magazine, argued that West may have gone too far with his antics this time: \"I think that it was not Kanye's place to speak for Beyonc\u00e9 or to ruin Taylor Swift's moment... It's OK for Kanye to rattle off about himself, but I think he crossed the line when he decided to speak for other people.\" Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times opined that \"from one vantage point, it was a case of chivalry gone horribly wrong\" as West meant to \"stand up for\" Beyonc\u00e9. She added that when Swift accepted Beyonc\u00e9's invitation to return to the stage, \"The two women [engaged in] a quick sisterly embrace, adding another layer of meaning to an already complicated moment. Now this controversy was about women sticking up for each other, too.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 834]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203849-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift and Kanye West incident\nIn 2013, Rolling Stone named the incident the wildest moment in VMA history. The outburst resulted in an Internet meme which consists of images of West being superimposed onto other images with text in the style of his interruption (\"X is one of the greatest Y of all time\", or variants thereon, in some cases preceded by \"I'm really happy for you\" and/or \"I'mma let you finish\").\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203850-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards Japan\nThe MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009 was broadcast the 8th annual awards show on Saturday, May 30, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama. Gekidan Hitori was host the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203850-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Awards, Best Hip-Hop Video\nTeriyaki Boyz featuring Busta Rhymes and Pharrell \u2014 \"Zock On!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203851-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Brazil\nThe 2009 MTV Video Music Brazil was hosted by Marcelo Adnet and took place at the Credicard Hall. It awarded the best in Brazilian music, popular culture and internet culture in the year of 2009. Despite being a Brazilian awards show, the 2009 VMB included live performances by American rapper Ja Rule (in duet with Brazilian pop singer Wanessa) and Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, who were also nominated in the Best International Act category (but lost to Britney Spears).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203851-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 MTV Video Music Brazil\nThe 2009 VMB had over 20 categories, the largest number in the history of the show; therefore, part of the awards were delivered in a special show named \"VMB Antes\" (\"VMB Before\"), presented some hours before the main event, including small performances by the 2009 VMB Dream Band winners (the last year where the Dream Band category was maintained; in 2010 the category was extinguished) and winners in other categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas\nThe 2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas was an NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS post-season college football bowl game, in which the Brigham Young Cougars defeated the Oregon State Beavers 44\u201320. The game was played on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Whitney, Nevada, and was televised on ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas\nBYU played in the Las Vegas Bowl for the fifth straight year. BYU had gone 2\u20132 against Pac-10 opponents in the last four Las Vegas Bowls. This was the ninth meeting between the two teams, although the first time they met in this bowl game. Prior to the 2009 Las Vegas Bowl, Oregon State had a 5\u20133 lead in the series, winning the last meeting 10\u20137 in 1986. This was the first postseason meeting between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas\nBronco Mendenhall, head coach for Brigham Young, is an Oregon State alumnus and it was revealed during the broadcast that he chose Oregon State specifically because Brigham Young did not recruit him and Oregon State had a game with BYU scheduled for the 1986 season. The 2009 game was the first meeting of two ranked teams in the bowl game's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, Game summary\nBYU wore their alternate royal blue jerseys, and OSU wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, Game summary\nWeather was a significant factor in the game, with wind gusts up to 50\u00a0mph at times. At one point in the game the net used to catch field goals and PAT attempts, blew into the goalpost and became lodged, causing several minutes of delays as the game officials and field workers addressed the problems. ESPN, who was providing television coverage of the game, was forced to take down its Skycam, which traverses above the field, due to safety concerns created by the high winds. Oregon State was also unable to punt very well with the wind. They had 2 punts into the wind which netted 6 yards each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203852-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, Game summary\nBYU was led by Senior Quarterback, Max Hall who threw for 192 yards and three touchdowns on his way to being named the bowl's MVP. Harvey Unga was the leading rusher for the Cougars with 76 yards on the ground to go with one rushing touchdown. BYU was also able to shut down the highly touted Rodgers brothers of Oregon State. RB Jacquizz Rodgers who goes by the nickname of Quizz, finished the season with 1,440 yards rushing and 21 touchdowns was held to a season-low 63 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries. His brother James Rodgers, who finished the season with over 1,000 yards receiving, only had 4 catches for 30 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Macau on 20 September 2009. The official campaign began on 5 September, and several candidates received warnings from the Electoral Affairs Commission for having begun campaign activities beforehand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election\nAs in 2005, there are 29 seats, only 12 of which are elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method. The rest are \"elected\" by the functional \"constituencies\" or appointed by the Chief Executive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists\nThis year, there are four lists advocating universal suffrage and political reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists\nIn both 2001 and 2005, the New Democratic Macau Association, also referred as the democrats by local media, received the highest number of votes. Due to the divisors (1,2,4,8,...) employed in the highest averages method, they only managed to win 2 seats on both occasions (they would have achieved 3 seats had the original d'Hondt formula been used instead). Because of this, they split into two lists, namely Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Pr\u00f3spero Macau Democr\u00e1tico (APMD) and Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Novo Macau Democr\u00e1tico (ANMD), contesting the election with the same manifesto. Similar strategies have been used by the Democratic Party of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong legislative elections, with mixed successes. APMD is led by Antonio Ng while Au Kam San leads ANMD, which means both lists have outgoing deputies (deputados) as their leading candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists\nThe democrats campaign for one man one vote for the CE in 2014 (with nominations from the 300-member election committee) and direct election with public nominations in 2019. For the AL, they suggest abolishing all indirectly elected seats in 2013 and the end of appointed seats by the CE in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists\nAgnes Lam, a local writer and an assistant professor of the University of Macau, leads the newly formed Observat\u00f3rio C\u00edvico campaigning for direct election for the chief executive (CE) in 2019 and a directly elected legislative assembly (AL) by 2023. In addition to universal suffrage, Observat\u00f3rio C\u00edvico also campaigns for reforming the electoral system by introducing multiple votes. She has also spoken against self-censorship in the local media and emphasised the importance of freedom of press. Some have questioned her pro-democracy views, with her being vice president of the pro-Beijing Macao Youth Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists\nAssocia\u00e7\u00e3o de Activismo para a Democracia, the most radical list of the four, concentrates on campaigning for universal suffrage for both CE and AL by 2019, but is less concerned about other issues. Their leading candidates were removed by the security during a CCAC (Comissariado Contra a Corrup\u00e7\u00e3o) rally for \"clean election\", which was represented by all 16 lists, after shouting slogans on stage. They only received 654 votes (0.52%) in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists, Ng Seng Fong's pullout\nThe 4th candidate of Au Kam San's list (Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Novo Macau Democr\u00e1tico or ANDM), Ng Seng Fong has resigned and pulled out from the election on 16 September. A local Chinese language newspaper revealed that Ng was given a 3-year sentence in July for frauds dating back to 2005. Ng claimed that she herself did not know about the said court case and only found out about it on the internet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 83], "content_span": [84, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-democracy lists, Ng Seng Fong's pullout\nIt is unclear how the court case carried out without her knowledge given that she commutes from Zhuhai to Macau frequently using her BIR (Macau ID card) to go through the custom. She has now filed an appeal against the decision. The police has launched an investigation into the leaks of these reports. It is claimed that only a handful of officers have access to the said records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 83], "content_span": [84, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists\nThe pro-Beijing lists can be divided into two categories, the ones with links to the business sector (especially the gaming industry) and those with traditionalist backgrounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists\nThis year, they turn their attention to the economic crisis which has hit the gambling industry of Macau particularly badly. Uni\u00e3o para o Desenvolvimento emphasises on the need to diversify the local economy as well as reforming labour laws. Uni\u00e3o Macau-Guangdong on the other hand campaigns for greater cooperation between Macau and mainland China. Family reunification for immigrants from mainland China is also a campaign issues for various lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists\nSome of the pro-Beijing lists include political reform in their manifestos. However, they do not appear to support universal suffrage in the near future. UPP for example suggests the enlargement of election committee which would continue to elect the chief executive indirectly. AACPP and Alian\u00e7a P\u2019ra Mudan\u00e7a go further by claiming that Macau is \"not ready\" for universal suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists, Gaming industry\nThe gaming industry has a strong presence in the election. Casinos in Macau currently employ 50,000 people, it is therefore expected that at least four seats would go to candidates with links to the industry according to a study carried out by Hong Kong Baptist University. Angela Leong, the director of STDM is expected to be re-elected under the list Nova Uni\u00e3o para Desenvolvimento de Macau. Melinda Chan, the leading candidate for Alian\u00e7a Pr'a Mudan\u00e7a, has also worked in the gaming and hotel industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists, Gaming industry\nShe campaigns against raising tax rates for the casinos and insists that casinos should bare no social responsibilities. Chan Meng Kam, the owner of Golden Dragon casino, together with Ung Choi Kun are running for re-election under the list Associa\u00e7\u00e3o dos Cidad\u00e3os Unidos de Macau. They came second in 2005, but it was later revealed that their list was linked to a vote buying case for which 7 people were sent to prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, The pro-Beijing lists, Gaming industry\nThe election commission ruled that it is illegal to display campaign materials in casinos. However, the list of Angela Leong has ignored this ruling and continued to display political posters in Grand Lisboa, a casino owned by STDM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Macanese candidates\nA unified list consisting of mainly candidates with Portuguese descent (Macanese), some born in Macau and others in Portugal, contests in this legislative election, under the name Voz Plural - Gentes de Macau. The list also has Chinese members. The platform calls for the protection of the heritage of Macau in a modern context of multiculturalism. One of the main issue they campaign for is to protect rights of foreign workers in RAEM, in bid to win votes from the sizeable Philippines and Indonesian communities. Voz Plural is the only list which campaigns in roughly equal proportions in Chinese, Portuguese and English (see below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Macanese candidates\nThe top two candidates of Nova Esperan\u00e7a, Jos\u00e9 Pereira Coutinho and Rita Santos, are both Macanese. However, unlike Voz Plural, Nova Esperan\u00e7a concentrates on issues of labour rights and social issues. The outgoing deputy Jos\u00e9 Pereira Coutinho has proposed, but without success, the trade union bill twice during his time in the assembly so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Macanese candidates\nBoth lists support gradual political reforms and increasing the number of directly elected deputies in AL. However, their programs are less ambitious than the pro-democracy lists. In particular, Voz Plural does not campaign for universal suffrage according to their manifesto, due to a perception that such claim is not realistic for the next 4 years, proposing instead the increase of directly elected members from 12 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Languages\nThere is no restriction on the choice of language used in the campaigns. Traditionally, candidates concentrate on winning votes from the Chinese majority. With the participation of Voz Plural, more efforts are being made to translate manifestos into minority languages this year. For the first time, ANMD (and APMD) will make use of its campaign air time on the Portuguese channel of TDM. Uni\u00e3o Promotora para o Progresso (UPP) also campaigns in both Chinese and Portuguese. Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Apoio \u00e0 Comunidade e Proximidade do Povo (AACPP), Observat\u00f3rio C\u00edvico and Voz Plural all campaigns in three languages (Chinese, Portuguese and English). AACPP even sends out leaflets in Braille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Languages\nThe use of Portuguese became an important election issue this year. During a debate between the two leading Macanese candidates, Casimiro Pinto and Jos\u00e9 Pereira Coutinho, organised by Ponto Final, discrimination against monoglot Portuguese was discussed. Apart from Voz Plural, Alian\u00e7a Pr\u2019a Mudan\u00e7a also supports multilingualism. Their education policies include promoting bilingual (Chinese and Portuguese) teaching in Macau. UPP also supports bilingualism favouring stronger ties with other lusophone trading partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Controversies, UPP's false start\nUni\u00e3o Promotora Para o Progresso (UPP), a list associated to the Kaifong association, has breached election regulations by distributing campaign materials outside the legal campaign period (5 to 18 September). On 20 August, Au Kam San of the ANMD made an official complaint to the electoral commission after UPP distributed leaflets on the street and published campaign advertisements with pictures of the UUP candidates in a local magazine, Uni\u00e3o Geral das Associa\u00e7\u00f5es de Moradores de Macau. The said magazine was published with subsidies from Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Macau. The democrats accused Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Macau of financing \"illegal\" campaigns using public funds. However, the president of the electoral commission, Vasco Fong, ruled that the actions of UUP were due to ignorance and refused to punish the list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Controversies, Internet war\nThere have been reports that some candidates received malicious emails containing a virus that would delete all the data of victims' computers. Observat\u00f3rico C\u00edvico claimed that they received tens of such messages. Many rumours have been spread on various internet forums. Many accusations were made against the democrats on the CTM forums, including claims of Au Kam San's link to Falun Gong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Controversies, Smears against Kwan Tsui Hang\nAnonymous posters were displayed throughout the city making false accusations against the outgoing deputy and the leader of Uni\u00e3o Para o Desenvolvimento, Kwan Tsui Hang. The posters claimed that Kwan was against government's recent cash relief scheme and would rather allocate the funds for corruption purposes. Kwan has denied all such claims. Despite having complained to the election commission, the posters continued to appear on the streets asserting people were making the wrong choice (for electing Kwan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Ballot and Results\nThere are in total 16 lists, down 2 from 2005. In one form or another, 9 lists have contested in the 2005 election. The ballot order was announced on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Ballot and Results\nThe election commissioner delayed the announcement of the final results after recording a large number of spoilt votes. On the first count, there were 6,539 spoilt votes, but 5,467 of them have been validated on the recount. Melinda Chan, the leading candidate of Alian\u00e7a Pr'a Mudan\u00e7a, immediately filed a complaint against the decision arguing that according to electoral law, a tick should be put inside the designated box for the vote to be valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Ballot and Results\nOn 28 September, the court of last repeal (o Tribunal de \u00daltima Inst\u00e2ncia) ruled in favour of Melinda Chan and concluded that only 41 of the original spoilt votes should be valid. The ruling does not change the overall outcome of the election with the 12 original elected deputies remaining elected, but there is a slight change in the \"ranking\" of the lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Ballot and Results\nThe strategies of the democrats paid off, they managed to increase 1 seat which means there will be 4 pro-democracy deputies (including Jos\u00e9 Pereira Coutinho) in the new assembly. The traditionalists lost one seat despite both UPP and UPD increased their number of votes. In fact, UPD received the largest number of votes as a single list and saw the largest increase in votes. For the pro-business camp, there remain 5 deputies, 4 of which from the gaming industry. Analysts pointed out that there has not been a huge change in the make up of the AL which continues to be dominated by the pro-Beijing camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Candidates lists and results, Geographical constituencies (12 seats)\nVoting System: Closed party-list proportional representation with the Highest averages method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 104], "content_span": [105, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203853-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Macanese legislative election, Turnout\n28 polling stations were open from 9am to 9pm. A total of 149,006 (59.91% of registered voters) people voted, a record high. The regional breakdowns are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three was the 56th Macau Grand Prix race held on the streets of Macau on 22 November 2009. It was supported by the 2009 Guia Race of Macau. The TOM'S team were looking for their third Macau win in succession, after Oliver Jarvis and Keisuke Kunimoto won the race in the previous two years. TOM'S did start the weekend well, with Marcus Ericsson taking pole position in the combined qualifying session, but Signature dominated the rest of the weekend, with Jean-Karl Vernay taking the race victory in the qualifying race, and Edoardo Mortara taking the Macau Grand Prix itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nAll-Japan Formula Three champion Marcus Ericsson was immediately on the pace, setting the fastest time in the first half-hour session that was held prior to the first qualifying session. Ericsson's lap was over half a second faster than has nearest rival Edoardo Mortara, with two of the three Carlin cars filling positions three and four, with Brendon Hartley just edging out Daniel Ricciardo by 0.019 seconds. Stefano Coletti and Valtteri Bottas rounded out the top six. During the session, four drivers hit the wall, including all three Fortec Motorsport cars, and the Prema Powerteam machine of Daniel Zampieri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nDaniel Ricciardo, after impressing on his first day's running in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe first qualifying session saw Ericsson on top once again, improving his time by over a second from the practice session; but only secured the top spot, after a late crash by Signature's Laurens Vanthoor at Police, brought out a session-ending red flag. Ricciardo was top rookie as he ended up second, less than a tenth off the Swedish teenager's time. Having been usurped by those late runs, Mortara and Hartley wound up third and fourth, ahead of the first ART Grand Prix car of Sam Bird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nDespite his late accident, Vanthoor finished sixth, ahead of Coletti, Hitech Racing's Mika M\u00e4ki, the third Signature machine of Formula 3 Euro Series veteran Jean-Karl Vernay and Bottas, who like Vanthoor, crashed during the session. Manor Motorsport cars filled row six with Carlos Huertas just shading Roberto Merhi by just 0.027 seconds, which put them ahead of the third Carlin of Max Chilton, the R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen Robertson duo of Renger van der Zande (14th) and Alexander Sims (16th), with somewhat surprisingly, Formula 3 Euro Series champion Jules Bianchi splitting the pair, in fifteenth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nEricsson's team-mate Takuto Iguchi was the fastest of the Japanese trio in seventeenth, ahead of Kei Cozzolino, Wayne Boyd, Koki Saga, Jake Rosenzweig, Yuji Kunimoto (the brother of 2008 winner Keisuke) and the Kolles & Heinz Union pair of Stef Dusseldorp and Alexandre Imperatori. Rounding out the thirty runners were local favourite Michael Ho, British Formula 3 National Class champion Daniel McKenzie, the unwell Henry Arundel, V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda, Kevin Chen and Zampieri, who did not set a time after his crash in the earlier practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nA second thirty-minute practice session was held the following day, with Mortara setting the fastest time; the only driver to break into the 2:10s. His lap of 2:10.593, was an unofficial lap record as it was the fastest lap ever recorded at the Guia Circuit. It was more than a second under Marko Asmer's official lap record, set in 2007. Eight other drivers were also under the old mark, with tenth place Bianchi just outside the record. Ricciardo continued his fine form in second, despite not improving his time after a mid-session setup change. Bottas was third ahead of Hartley, Ericsson, Bird and the rest. Apart from an accident involving Chen at Maternity, this session passed relatively peacefully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nAfter topping the first qualifying session, Ericsson continued his form into second practice, recording the fastest lap in the history of the Macau Guia Circuit. His lap of 2:10.042 put him on pole position, despite hitting the barriers at Matsuya close to the end of qualifying, and damaging his rear wing. After setting the ninth-fastest time during the Thursday qualifying session, Vernay joined Ericsson on the front row after setting a time fractionally slower than his Swedish rival. Bottas lined up third, also moving up seven places from his Thursday position, and was joined on row two by Mortara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nRicciardo wound up in fifth position, after making an error at Lisboa which resulted in his front wing making slight contact with the barriers, and was the only other driver within a second of Ericsson's pace. The two remaining ART Grand Prix cars adorned row four with Bianchi edging out Bird, while the top ten was completed by Coletti and M\u00e4ki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nIguchi again finished up as the top Japanese runner in eleventh position, ahead of Hartley, who did not improve on his Thursday time and thus tumbled from row two to row six, as he recorded the thirteenth fastest time in the session. Merhi's twelfth-fastest time put him thirteenth in the classification, ahead of Sims, van der Zande, Kunimoto, Chilton and Boyd. Huertas held onto nineteenth overall, despite only being 26th in the session after suffering from engine gremlins that restricted him to just one flying lap. Rosenzweig, Cozzolino, Zampieri, Garc\u00eda, Saga, Dusseldorp, Imperatori, Arundel, McKenzie, Ho and Chen completed the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nJean-Karl Vernay, after surprising himself by taking victory and a new outright lap record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nAfter hitting the wall on countless occasions over the previous two days, Chen was withdrawn from the race due to a cracked monocoque. Thus, this left the grid at 29 for the 10-lap race, and Vernay got the jump on Ericsson away from the start-finish line, and took the lead into the first corner, but by the time the drivers had reached Lisboa, Ericsson was back in front just as the safety car came out. Further back, Bianchi rode over the rear wheel of Mortara at San Francisco, causing enough damage for the Frenchman to pit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nRosenzweig collided with the barriers at the Mandarin, which brought the safety car out for three laps. Arundel's Carlin car encountered mechanical troubles under the safety car, after some debris punctured a hole in the radiator of his Volkswagen engine. This left the order as Ericsson, Vernay, Mortara (who moved up despite his collision), Bottas, Ricciardo, Vanthoor, Bird, Coletti, M\u00e4ki and Hartley. Boyd moved up five positions at the start, as he was the biggest winner off the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nAt the lap four restart, Vernay made ground up on Ericsson, and managed to slipstream past the All-Japan Formula Three champion on the run to Lisboa. Ricciardo tried a similar move on Bottas but could not manage to complete the pass, and such was his momentum loss, Vanthoor managed to slip through on the Australian into fifth position. Another Carlin driver in the wars was Hartley, as he clouted Coletti out of eighth position. Over the succeeding laps, Asmer's lap record from 2007 took a pounding as first Mortara and then Vernay took the lap record into the 2:10 bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nHowever, any further progress for the record to fall was halted by a huge accident that befell Boyd on lap seven. Running in eleventh position, the young Ulsterman pulled out to pass his team-mate M\u00e4ki on the exit of the Mandarin, but clipped the car's left rear wheel at 170\u00a0mph. Boyd's Dallara became airborne and was launched into a frightening aerial somersault, landing upside down before righting itself via a hit with the retaining wall. His car rebounded across the circuit, and was luckily avoided by every one of the cars around him on track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Qualification Race\nThe crash meant the last three laps of the race were completed behind the safety car, and pulled in to allow the cars to pass across the line without overtaking. This allowed Vernay to win the race, securing pole position for the main race on Sunday. Ericsson was second ahead of Mortara\u00a0\u2013 once he had returned the place back to the Swede\u00a0\u2013 with Bottas, Vanthoor, Ricciardo, Bird, Iguchi, Merhi and M\u00e4ki completing the top ten. Outside the top ten were van der Zande, Kunimoto, Sims, Garc\u00eda, Chilton, Cozzolino, Dusseldorp, Saga, Huertas, Zampieri, Bianchi and Coletti after their respective collisions, Imperatori, Hartley, McKenzie and Ho rounded out the 26 classified finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Warm-up\nA twenty-minute warm-up session was held on the morning of the main race. Mortara again managed to squeeze out Ericsson to top the timesheets, with Coletti also being within a tenth of a second from the fastest time. Ricciardo was fourth ahead of Bottas, van der Zande, Sims, Chilton, Merhi and the qualification race winner Vernay. Ho and Boyd did not set times during the session, with the Ulsterman's Hitech Racing car looking unlikely to start the race after his accident on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nEdoardo Mortara, on a lap record and his life-changing Macau victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nAfter his victory in the qualification race, Vernay started from pole position with Ericsson starting alongside, with Mortara and Bottas on row two. Due to damage inflicted in his spectacular accident the previous day, Boyd did not start, thus leaving the grid at 28 cars. Once again, Ericsson made an awful getaway, with Bottas and Mortara both slotting in behind a fast-starting Vernay. Into Lisboa, Ricciardo got alongside Ericsson as they battled for fourth with the Australian brushing the wall and the two continued side by side into San Francisco, with Ricciardo again nudging the wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nBehind them, Vanthoor left his braking far too late for Lisboa, and mounted over Chilton, which caused the teenage Briton to retire on the spot. Ricciardo's clip with the wall caused a left-rear puncture, but he managed to carry on up the hill, until he crashed at the entrance to the Solitude Esses. His car rebounded off the wall, and into direct line of the rest of the field. No less than half a dozen cars impacted with the stricken car, and blocked the track which ultimately led to a red flag, and a race suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nAlso taken out in the incident were the third Carlin of Hartley, the Premas of Coletti and Zampieri, the Fortecs of Rosenzweig and McKenzie, and Ho. Imperatori was also involved, returning to the pits for a lengthy period, but returned to complete three laps towards the end. Vanthoor, with a damaged front wheel after his collision with Chilton, stopped just short of the accident site, and was thus able to continue in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nAfter a lap behind the safety car, the field were let loose again at the beginning of lap three. Vernay closed in on his Italian team-mate, slipstreaming past him on the run to the Mandarin, and doing enough to hold off Mortara into Lisboa. For the ensuing laps, Vernay was doing what he had to do to keep his team-mate, who had stepped back from GP2 to rid himself of his close defeat to Keisuke Kunimoto in the previous year's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nFurther back, Bianchi, who had avoided the first lap incidents was quietly moving his way up the field, and was eleventh by the end of lap seven. Sims had also dropped to the tail of the field, after a move on Cozzolino failed, and he made an unscheduled trip up the Lisboa escape road. Mortara started charging back towards Vernay, and in the process, broke the Frenchman's lap record set the day before. Mortara lowered it to a lap of 2:10.732, lapping the circuit at close to 105\u00a0mph, and well under the previous record held by Marko Asmer. Cozzolino exited the race on lap eleven, crashing at Black Sands without the need for the safety car to reappear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nThe race's decisive moment also occurred on lap eleven. Coming out of the Melco Hairpin, Vernay fluffed a gear shift, and Mortara moved within half a second of him. At the line, Vernay's lead was 0.4 seconds, Mortara was in his slipstream, and the pass seemed inevitable. Sure enough, Mortara lined him up, and overtook him into Lisboa. Bird took fourth from Ericsson on the same lap, and looked set to finish behind team-mate Bottas; a far cry from his first-lap exit in 2008 after being taken out by R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen Robertson Racing's Roberto Streit on the run to Mandarin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203854-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Macau Grand Prix, Report, Main Race\nMortara cruised to victory, winning by 1.1 seconds ahead of Vernay. Drama struck Bottas on the final lap, when he encountered a problem with one of his wheels. This cost him a podium, as both Bird and Ericsson managed to pass him. Merhi had been set for sixth, but hit the barriers at Lisboa on the final lap, and ended up being classified seventeenth. This promoted the second TOM'S car of Iguchi into sixth, ahead of van der Zande, M\u00e4ki, Kunimoto and Bianchi, who made the top ten at Merhi's expense, making up eleven positions in fifteen laps. Outside the top ten were Garc\u00eda, Huertas, Vanthoor, Saga, Dusseldorp and Arundel. Missing from the list was Sims, who retired on the final lap with a misfire. He was classified behind Merhi in eighteenth and last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203855-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold\nThe 2009 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold was a badminton tournament which took place at the Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion, Macau on 18 to 23 August 2009 and had a total purse of $120,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203856-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger\nThe 2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Melbourne, Australia between 23 and 29 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203856-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203856-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger, Champions, Men's doubles\nSanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana def. Chen Ti /  Danai Udomchoke, 7\u20136(5), 5\u20137, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203857-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nSanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana won the title after defeating Chen Ti and Danai Udomchoke 7\u20136(7\u20135), 5\u20137, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203858-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabi Men's Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBernard Tomic won in the final of the first edition of these championships. He defeated his countryman Marinko Matosevic in three sets (5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games\nThe 2009 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: \u05d4\u05de\u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4-18 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05ea\u05e9\u05e1\"\u05d8\u200e), the 18th incarnation of the Maccabiah Games, were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Police and Fire Games, and Universiade. On the 13th of July, more than 6,000 Jewish athletes from all over the world joined Team Israel's 3,000 participants at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv District, Israel, for the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, History\nThe Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a \"Regional Sports Event\" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee. The Maccabiah Games are open to Jewish athletes from around the world, as well as to all Israeli athletes regardless of ethnicity or  religion. Arab Israelis have also competed in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nGreco-Roman former world champion wrestler Lindsey Durlacher was the flagbearer for the US, and Olympic pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz was one of the US banner bearers. US Olympic and world champion swimmer Jason Lezak won four gold medals (in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 4\u00d7100m freestyle relay, and 4\u00d7100m medley relay), while setting four Maccabiah records, and was named the most outstanding male athlete of the Games. American basketball player Dan Grunfeld led the US Open Men's Basketball team, which included Bryan Cohen, to a gold medal over Israel, as college basketball coach Bruce Pearl coached the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nAmerican swimmer Andrea Murez won nine medals (five gold and four silver), breaking all-time Maccabiah Games records while winning gold medals in four individual events: 50m freestyle (26.44); 100m freestyle (0:56.44); 200m freestyle (2:03:45); and 200m Individual Medley (2:20.74), and earned her 5th gold medal anchoring the USA 4 \u00d7 100m Freestyle Relay team, which set an all-time Maccabiah Games record (3:53:55). American Max Fried, who in 2017 became a major league baseball player with the Atlanta Braves, won a gold medal with the Team USA Juniors baseball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nAmerican Brian L. Roberts won a silver medal in squash. Zach Test and Shawn Lipman played for the US Maccabiah rugby union team, winning a bronze medal. The American delegation arrived two weeks prior to the games to hold practice sessions at a cost of more than two and a half million dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nIsraeli champion Laetitia Beck won an individual gold medal and a team gold medal in golf at the Games. Israeli fencers who won gold medals were Tomer Or in men's foil, and Ayelet Ohayon in women's team foil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nIsraeli swimmers who won gold medals were Amit Ivry in the Women's 100m  butterfly (with a time of 58.50), Keren Siebner in the 4\u00d7200m freestyle and the 4\u00d7100m medley, Guy Barnea in the Men's 100m backstroke (with a time of 54.22, setting a new Maccabiah Games record and Israeli record), Gal Nevo in the 400m medley, and Alon Mandel in the 100m butterfly (setting a new Maccabiah Games record of 52.99 seconds).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nIsraeli swimmers who won silver medals included Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or in the 100m freestyle (49.02; behind Jason Lezak, and a new Israeli record)  and Vitali  Pushkar in the 50m freestyle behind Jason Lezak. Israeli judokas Or Sasson, a future Olympic bronze medalist, and Golan Pollack, a future world championship bronze medalist, won gold medals at \u2212100\u00a0kg and half lightweight (under 66\u00a0kg). Israeli judokas Yarden Gerbi, a future world champion and Olympic bronze medalist, and Gregory Rudelson won silver medals. Israeli gymnast Valeria Maksyuta won gold on the vault, and silver medals in the all-around and on the uneven bars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nIsraeli runner Maor Tiyouri was the silver medalist in the 1500m and a bronze medalist in the 800m. Israelis Timor Avitan, Tzahi Elihen, Muayan Halaili, Osher Zeitun, and Hana Nasser won a bronze medal in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nBensiyon Songavkar played for Team India and won a silver medal in cricket. Hungarian gymnast Orsolya Nagy won a bronze medal; also a fencer, she won a bronze medal in the individual sabre event at the 2009 World Fencing Championships. Brazilian judoka and future world championship silver medalist and Olympic bronze medalist Felipe Kitadai won a bronze medal, beating Lindsey Durlacher along the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Notable competitors\nChess grandmaster Judit Polg\u00e1r from Hungary, the number 1 rated woman in the world, was named the Maccabiah's most outstanding female athlete of the Games. Russian chess grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, later ranked fourth in the world, won a gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203859-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games, Sports\nThe following are the 31 sports which were contested at these Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203860-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maccabiah Games medal table\nThis is the full table of the medal count of the 2009 Maccabiah Games. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Maccabi Federation). The number of silvers is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Macedonia in 2009. The first round was held on 22 March, alongside local elections. As no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, a run-off round was held on 5 April 2009, which was won by Gjorge Ivanov of the center-right VMRO-DPMNE party. Incumbent President Branko Crvenkovski did not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held using the two-round system; a candidate required a majority of the vote in the first round of voting, with a second round held if no candidate crossed the threshold. There was also a requirement for voter turnout in the second round to be at least 40% to validate the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Candidates\nOn 25 January 2009, the largest party in the Macedonian parliament, VMRO-DPMNE, appointed Gjorge Ivanov as the party's presidential candidate. On 26 January 2009, the biggest opposition party in the country, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, proposed the former Minister of Internal Affairs and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ljubomir Fr\u010dkoski for presidential candidate. The other candidates were the independent Ljube Bo\u0161koski, New Democracy leader Imer Selmani, Nano Ru\u017ein from the Liberal Democratic Party, Agron Buxhaku of the Democratic Union for Integration and Mirushe Hoxha of the Democratic Party of Albanians, the only female candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Opinion polls\nThere was a poll held in January 2009, before any names of candidates for president were made official, according to which 31.2% of the Macedonian citizens would vote for the candidate to be proposed by conservative party VMRO-DPMNE while 11.4% would give their vote to the candidate of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Opinion polls\nA poll from February 2009 saw Ivanov at 27%, Fr\u010dkoski at 13%, Bo\u0161koski at 10%, Selmani at 9% and other candidates together at 18%. In a run-off, Ivanov would win over Fr\u010dkoski with 36% to 21%, with a large number of undecideds, however. A poll from shortly before the election saw Ivanov leading with 23.1% before Selmani with 13.3% and Fr\u010dkoski at 9.7%; 23.9% were undecided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Opinion polls\nA new poll, that was held one week prior to the run-off, saw Ivanov in lead with 25.4% and Fr\u010dkoski at 13.8% (that is, 69% to 31% of decided voters).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Conduct\nNearly 7,000 Macedonian and 500 foreign observers monitored the vote at Macedonia's nearly 3,000 polling stations. A fair and democratic election has been seen as an important factor for Macedonia's induction to NATO and the European Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Results\nIn the first round, Ivanov strongly led in front of the other candidates with 35%, with Fr\u010dkoski getting 20% and coming in second place and advancing to the run-off. New Democracy's Imer Selmani, who had been dubbed the \"Macedonian Obama\" for his ability to transcend the ethnic boundaries and appeal to ethnically Macedonian voters, as well, was by far the most successful candidate, gaining 15% of the vote and coming in third place, closely behind the independent Bo\u0161koski. 103 voting stations could not open due to heavy snowfall; voting was to be rescheduled there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Results\nSome days before the second round of the elections took place, VMRO-DPMNE and the Democratic Union for Integration agreed on supporting each other on both, the local and presidential elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Results\nIn part due to the existence of many voters in the registers who have left Macedonia years ago and live abroad, and in part due to the lack of motivation for ethnic Albanians to participate in the second round, there were fears that the minimum turnout of 40% might not be met in the second round, invalidating the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203861-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Macedonian presidential election, Results\nThere was a significant number of invalid ballots in both rounds, 3.15% in the first round and even 5.87% in the runoff. According to media reports, this was due to voter apathy and disenchantment with the candidates. It is reported that there was a Facebook group \"Vote for Chuck Norris\" with thousands of fans. It was also reported that on thousands of ballots names like \"Chuck Norris\", \"GOD\", \"Jimi Hendrix\" or \"George Bush\" were hand-written by the voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203862-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mackay Cutters season\nThe 2009 Mackay Cutters season was the second in the club's history. Coached by Shane Muspratt and captained by Jardine Bobongie, they competed in the QRL's Wizard Cup. The club finished the season in 14th, last place, winning the wooden spoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203862-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mackay Cutters season, Season summary\nThe 2009 season started strongly for the Cutters, with three straight wins before a run of nine straight losses sunk them to the bottom of the table. A 10\u201334 loss to the Tweed Heads Seagulls in the final game of the regular season saw them finish last on points differential. Local junior Jardine Bobongie joined the club in 2009 and won their Player of the Year award after spending the 2008 season playing for the St George Illawarra Dragons' New South Wales Cup side. He would go on to play an influential role in their maiden premiership four years later, captaining the side in the Grand Final victory. 2009 saw the Cutters have their first Queensland Residents representative, with North Queensland Cowboys contracted prop Dayne Weston being selected in the side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203862-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mackay Cutters season, Squad List, 2009 squad\nThe following players contracted to the North Queensland Cowboys played for the Cutters in 2009: Mitchell Achurch, Ben Farrar, Ben Harris, Shannon Hegarty, Antonio Kaufusi, Donald Malone, Anthony Perkins, Steve Rapira, Grant Rovelli, Anthony Watts and Dayne Weston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203863-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Magny-Cours Superbike World Championship round was the thirteenth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of October 2\u20134, 2009 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203863-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superbike World Championship round, Results, Supersport race classification\nThe Supersport race was red-flagged during the 20th lap, due to an accident occurred to Michele Pirro. The classification was based on the standings after 19 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 92], "content_span": [93, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round\nThe 2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round was the opening round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on 28 June 2009. Liverpool F.C. and A.C. Milan shared the two race wins, with Liverpool also being the Weekend Winner after winning the six-car Super Final. The supporting events were the Euroseries 3000 and the Mitjet Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Qualifying\nAs always, the field was split into two groups for qualifying, with the fastest four qualifiers from each progressing into the knockout stages to decide places 1 to 8 on the grid. Davide Rigon and Max Wissel driving the cars of Olympiacos and FC Basel 1893 both recorded times faster than Group A fourth place, Enrique Bernoldi (CR Flamengo). In the knockout stages, an all-British battle was the highlight of round one, with Rangers' John Martin and Tottenham's Craig Dolby recording the two fastest times of the first round. However, it was Melton Mowbray's Dolby who was faster, by three tenths of a second. Dolby's run ended at the semi-final stage, after spinning during his lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Qualifying\nAnt\u00f4nio Pizzonia of SC Corinthians put paid to his hope, and would face Adri\u00e1n Vall\u00e9s in the Liverpool machine in the final. Pizzonia would come out on top by 0.299 seconds, to take his team's first pole position in Superleague Formula. Post-qualifying, the car of debutants FC Midtjylland, driven by Kasper Andersen was sent to the back of the grid, for failing to complete a round one lap due to a blistered tyre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nPizzonia led away from the start, leading Vall\u00e9s and Dolby before the safety car came out. Last year's champion driver Rigon attempted an over-optimistic passing move on F.C. Porto's Tristan Gommendy. The Italian ran into the back of the R.S.C. Anderlecht car of Yelmer Buurman, the drivers runner-up of last season, and spun at the Adelaide Hairpin. Gommendy and Martin also spun, while other cars had to drive through the gravel trap on the outside of the corner to avoid the hubbub on track. Once the race got under away again, Pizzonia started to pull away from his two chasers, although Vall\u00e9s started to re-catch the ex-Formula One driver, and by lap five had passed him in a similar move to his pass on Dolby on lap one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nDolby then closed to the back of Pizzonia, before the Brazilian pitted at the end of lap nine. A sloppy stop cost him dearly, as Dolby, Buurman and reigning GP2 Series champion Giorgio Pantano, who was making his debut in the series, in the car of A.C. Milan. Vall\u00e9s made his pit stop on lap five, and came out eight seconds to the good from Buurman, which he then extended to twelve seconds at one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 1\nHe did however back off towards the conclusion of the 45-minute race, and won by 6.5 seconds to give Liverpool their third win in Superleague Formula, tying the mark of Beijing Guoan for most wins. Buurman finished second, for Anderlecht's fourth second-place finish without success and Dolby finished third. Pantano had been all set to finish fourth, however a late spin saw him fall to twelfth. Pizzonia finished fourth ahead of Duncan Tappy (Galatasaray S.K. ), Bernoldi, debutant Pedro Petiz (Sporting CP), Andersen, Miguel Molina (Al Ain) and Wissel rounded out the top ten. Gommendy, Martin and Rigon all retired, along with another debutant Jonathan Kennard in the car of A.S. Roma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 2\nIn the reverse grid race, Rigon started from pole position after his first lap antics in race one. However, he was jumped at the start by the fast-starting Martin, with Kennard in third ahead of Pantano. The Italian would take Kennard on lap three, to move into third place. Further back, Dolby (who started 16th after his race one podium) was charging his way through the field, having passed six cars to make the top ten, in as many laps. Pantano closed in on both Martin and Rigon, with Rigon blinking first for the mandatory pit stop. Pantano followed Martin, who pitted on lap nine, but that turned into a calamity for the Australian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Race 2\nPantano gained the advantage after the pit stops, with an advantage of some five seconds over his fellow Italian Rigon. However, the current GP2 racer closed in on Pantano, getting the gap down to as low as 1.9 seconds, before making a crucial error at the Adelaide Hairpin. Pantano thus won the race in only his second race, by 2.2 seconds from Rigon. After Martin's crashing out, Wissel came to clinch third and a spot in the Super Final. Molina was fourth, ahead of Buurman (up from 17th), Vall\u00e9s (up from 18th), Gommendy, Bernoldi, Pizzonia and Dolby (who lost drive on the final lap). Joining Martin on the retirements list were Kennard, Andersen, Petiz and Dominick Muermans (PSV Eindhoven).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Super Final\nNew for 2009, the \"Super Final\" race decides who will pick up a bonus of \u20ac100,000 and the title of \"Weekend Winner\". The top three cars from each race qualify for the event. Originally, the qualifiers were Liverpool, Anderlecht, Spurs, Milan, Olympiacos and Basel, but Spurs failed to take the start due to their sixth gear problem at the end of the second race. Therefore, Corinthians took their place on the six-car grid, for the eight-lap race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203864-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Magny-Cours Superleague Formula round, Report, Super Final\nVall\u00e9s took the lead from pole position, leading from Pantano, Buurman, Rigon, Pizzonia and Wissel. Pizzonia made the first attack, with a move on Rigon at Adelaide on lap one. He succeeded with the move, and set off after Buurman, passing him at the start of lap two. The Dutchman slipstreamed back to the Brazilian and tried to make a move on the Corinthians car, but failed to make it. Rigon had trouble at the start of lap three, dropping to last behind Wissel. Vall\u00e9s continued his speed at the front, and unsurprisingly won the race, beating Pantano by close to five seconds. Pizzonia finished third, ahead of Buurman, Wissel and Rigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203865-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Magog municipal election\nThe 2009 Magog municipal election was held on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in the city of Magog, Quebec. In the mayoral contest, Vicki May Hamm was elected over incumbent Marc Poulin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203866-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo)\nThe 2009 Magyar Kupa, known as (Hungarian: Theodora F\u00e9rfi Magyar Kupa) for sponsorship reasons, is the 83rd edition of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203866-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Quarter-finals\nQuarter-final matches were played on 3 and 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203866-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo), Final four\nThe final four will be held on 21 and 22 November 2009 at the Sz\u0151nyi \u00fati uszoda in Budapest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election\nThe 13th Assembly elections were held in Maharashtra, India on October 13, 2009. The ruling Democratic Front (Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)) contested the elections against the alliance of Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Against the Third Front Known as Republican Left Democratic Front popularly known as RIDALOS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election\nVoters elected the 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in newly organized assembly constituencies after the delimitation approved in 2008. The results were declared on October 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, State on a halt for the most eventful day\nIn view of the General Assembly Elections in Maharashtra, the Government of Maharashtra via its notification dated September 29, 2009 declared the day of Polling i.e. Tuesday, October 13, 2009 a Public Holiday in the State under section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Election day, Overall polling\nAbout 60% of polling was recorded in Maharashtra. In the island city of Mumbai, near about 48% of the total registered voters exercised their franchise. The turnout was slightly better in suburban Mumbai at 52%. Elsewhere in Maharashtra, approximately 60% of the total voters participated in the polling. Congress-MNS worker clashes were reported in Nashik and police had to fire in air to disperse the mob.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Election day, Naxal scare in Gadchiroli\nVoting in at least 11 polling stations in two Assembly constituencies, Aheri and Armori of Gadchiroli District was delayed until 2 pm (14:00 hrs IST) following a scare early on the election day when Naxals opened fire in the area. Around 9:30 hrs IST, Naxals fired in Bondhai village in the district, despite the presence of stringent security in the Maoist infested districts of eastern Maharashtra's Vidarbha region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Predictions\nVarious news agencies and exit polls had predicted the future outcome of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203867-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Election statistics\nIndian National Congress 171, Nationalist Congress Party 112, Shiv Sena 160, Bharatiya Janata Party 119, Republican Left Democratic Front RIDALOS 200, MNS 145, BSP  281, Communist Party of India 21, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 19, RJD <--? ?-->1, Independents + others 2,675", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum\nA referendum on becoming an overseas department of France was held in Mayotte on 29 March 2009. Mayotte had been a departmental collectivity of France since 2001. In contrast to the four other similar regions (Guadeloupe, Martinique, R\u00e9union and French Guiana), Mayotte would not have become an Overseas department (DOM) or an Overseas region (ROM), but would only have had a single assembly; the four other existing DOM/ROM will have the option of changing their status to this format as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum\nAs a result of the yes vote, Mayotte became the 101st French department in 2011, and the first with a population overwhelmingly of the Muslim faith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum\nThe move has been opposed by the African Union and Comoros, who claim it is \"occupation by a foreign power\" and several protests have been held in Moroni, capital of Comoros. The Comoran vice-president said the vote was a \"declaration of war\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background\nThe population of Mayotte was approximately 186,000 at the time of the election. Ninety-five percent of Maorais are Sunni Muslims. Many Maorais are fluent only in local languages, including Shimaore and Bushi, rather than the French language. It is believed that one-third of the population consists of illegal immigrants, mostly from the neighboring, impoverished Comoros islands. Continued political union with France has allowed Mayotte to remain relatively prosperous, at least by regional standards, compared to the independent Comoros. The Comoros, which has suffered from economic and political instability since its independence, continues to claim Mayotte as part of its territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background\nFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy promised a referendum on Mayotte's future status during the 2007 French presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background\nMany Maorais hoped to benefit economically in the future with a possible yes result. The unemployment rate in Mayotte stood at over 25% at the time of the 2009 referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background, Support\nAll of Mayotte's major political parties and politicians, including the General Council President Ahmed Attoumani Douchina, supported the \"yes\" campaign. For example, Abdoulatifou Aly, a Maorais legislator, supported the \"yes\" campaign arguing that Mayotte has a longer history within France than some areas of the mainland in an interview with L'Express, \"We may be black, poor and Muslim, but we have been French longer than Nice.\" The campaign also received strong support from the French government in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background, Support\nPublic opinion polls leading up to the referendum showed strong support for closer political union from the vast majority of Mayotte's citizens, and the \"yes\" campaign was expected to win by a wide margin. Many saw the comparative advantages of full French citizenship as greater than the need to retain some traditional local customs, such as polygamy, which would be eliminated under French law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Background, Local opposition\nSome Islamic imams and religious leaders had urged a \"no\" vote. The imam of Mamoudzou, Mayotte's capital city, campaigned strongly against the referendum due to the expected abolition of polygamy with a \"yes\" victory. \"The law of the Qur'an permits a man to have two or three wives. I'm polygamous. I've already let go of two or three wives in the past.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Results\nEarly poll results indicated that the \"yes\" option had received approximately 95.2% of the total votes cast. The estimated voter turnout was a high 61% of eligible Maorais.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Results\nFrench Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie hailed the results of the landslide election saying, \"This will reinforce the place of Mayotte in the republic, reaffirming our founding values, particularly equality between men and women, the same justice for all, and the place of the French language.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Referendum implications\nWith a yes result, Mayotte, which had been an overseas collectivity, became a French department on 31 March 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Referendum implications\nLocal judicial, economic and social laws and customs were changed to conform with French law. Mayotte banned polygamy before it became a department. Women's rights were increased to French standards. Women did not have equal inheritance rights in Mayotte, which was later modified to comply with the French justice system. The minimum age in which a person can legally marry was raised from 15 to 18 years old. Mayotte legalised same-sex and opposite-sex civil unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Referendum implications\nThe traditional Mayotte local court system, which combined Quranic principles of Islam with African and Malagasy customs, was phased out in favor of the French legal system. Islamic law was abolished and replaced by uniform French civil code. Mayotte had a traditional Islamic legal system consisting of qadis, as religious scholars were known, who acted as judges in cases related to Islamic law. Islamic courts and justice system were replaced by secular courts, though the qadis retained a role as legal consultants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Referendum implications\nAs a department, Mayotte became eligible for expanded French social and economic programs, as well as European Union funds. However, the French government did not immediately extend the social welfare system enjoyed by metropolitan France. Instead, social service benefits were gradually extended to Maorais citizens over a period of 20 years, until they are equal to those enjoyed in metropolitan France. The French government also promised financial support to strengthen Maorais infrastructure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203868-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mahoran status referendum, Referendum implications\nIncome taxes were increased as a result of integration with the French republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203869-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 2009 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. In their 17th season under head coach Jack Cosgrove, the Black Bears compiled a 5\u20136 record (4\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished second in the CAA's North Division. Mike Brusko, Brandon McLaughlin, and Jordan Stevens were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1\nMaine Question 1 was a voter referendum conducted in Maine in 2009 that rejected a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. The measure passed 53%\u201347% on November 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1\nThe outcome of the referendum was reversed by Maine voters three years later when voters approved 2012 Maine Question 1, which legalized same-sex marriage in the state again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Legislation\nIn January 2009, a bill to allow same-sex couples to legally marry in Maine was introduced in the Maine Legislature. On April 30, 2009, the Senate rejected an amendment to put the issue up for a voter referendum 22\u201313 and passed the bill 21\u201314. On May 5, 2009, the Maine House of Representatives passed the bill 89\u201357, and on the following day, Gov. John Baldacci signed the bill into law to take effect 90 days thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Ballot question efforts\nOn May 7, 2009, opponents of the law filed the necessary paperwork to launch a campaign to put the law up for a vote in the November elections, giving them until 90 days after the legislature adjourned to collect at least 55,087 valid signatures to put the measure on the ballot. In June 2009, Stand for Marriage Maine, the coalition group leading the veto effort, announced it had hired Schubert Flint Public Affairs, which had worked on the Proposition 8 effort in California, to handle public relations for the veto effort. In July 2009, No on 1/Protect Maine Equality was formed to oppose the veto. On September 2, 2009, the Secretary of State of Maine verified that the opponents had submitted a sufficient number of valid signatures and certified the ballot question for November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Polling\nQuestion 1 asked: \"Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Results\nThe question posed on the ballot was, \"Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?\" A vote of \"Yes\" would repeal the law, while a vote of \"No\" would uphold the law. The vote was held on November 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Post-election\nJust after midnight on election night, consultant Frank Schubert of Stand for Marriage Maine declared, \"The institution of marriage has been protected in Maine and across this nation.\" The No on 1/Protect Maine Equality campaign conceded defeat two hours later. Supporters of same-sex marriage pledged to continue the fight, while opponents said they would work to introduce a constitutional amendment to keep marriage between one man and one woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203870-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Maine Question 1, Post-election\nA legal battle continued as the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices attempts to force the National Organization for Marriage to respond to subpoenas for the names of its donors in connection with the referendum. The Commission has won consistently in both state and federal courts, most recently on May 29, 2013. On August 4, 2015, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court denied an attempt by the National Organization for Marriage for a stay on releasing the list while its case against a prior Ethics Commission ruling was pending. On August 24, the Donors list was released. Donations were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 80th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 14, 2009, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, the home of the National League St. Louis Cardinals. The game was the first All-Star Game held in St. Louis since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis was the seventh year in which the All-Star Game determined home field advantage in the World Series, with the American League winning all seven games up to and including 2009 under this format. After the game, the National League led the series, 40\u201338\u20132, but had not won since 1996. Fox televised the contest, with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the booth for the game broadcast, joined at the bottom of the 2nd inning by President Barack Obama. Pre -game coverage began at 5 PM US EDT on MLB Network, with ESPN joining in at 7 PM US EDT. Outside the USA, Rogers Sportsnet (Canada) and ESPN America (Europe) carried MLB's international feed with their own video feed and announcers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe Cardinals had hoped to use the event to show off its planned Ballpark Village residential and entertainment complex to be built on the site of the former Busch Memorial Stadium across the street from the new ballpark. However the plans had not materialized by the time of the game and the Cardinals opted to use the site for a softball field and parking lot instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nOn April 22, 2009, All-Star balloting began on MLB.com with eight position players (excluding pitchers and designated hitters) from each of the 30 teams being nominated for fans to vote. As with the prior year, only 25 email ballots could be cast and voting officially ended at 11:59 ET on July 2. Final rosters, with the exception of the final vote, were announced on July 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nFans voted for up to three players per league to participate in the State Farm Home Run Derby. For the first time, the batting practice sessions were telecast on the self-owned MLB Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nBy length of time, this was the shortest MLB All-Star game (2:31) since 1988. At one point during the game, the American League retired 18 straight batters, the second most in All-Star game history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Final roster spot\nAfter the rosters were revealed, a second ballot of five players per league was created for the All-Star Final Vote to determine the 33rd and final player of each roster. The NL Winner was Shane Victorino of the Philadelphia Phillies and the AL winner was Brandon Inge of the Detroit Tigers. Pablo Sandoval and Ian Kinsler finished a close second in their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Coaching staff\nAmerican League team manager Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays selected Kansas City Royals manager Trey Hillman and Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu as coaches for the team along with the rest of his Tampa Bay staff. Both Hillman and Wakamatsu participated in their first All-Star game this year, while Maddon managed the All-Star squad for the first time after participating as a coach in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Coaching staff\nNational League manager Charlie Manuel of the Philadelphia Phillies selected Tony La Russa of the host St. Louis Cardinals and Joe Torre of the Los Angeles Dodgers as his coaches. Torre previously managed the Cardinals from 1990-1995. La Russa has managed an All-Star team five times, and led the 2005 and 2007 NL teams. This was Torre's first NL All-Star coaching position; he has managed an AL All-Star team six times. Manuel previously coached the AL All-Star team in 2002's tie game under Torre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Rosters\nVotes were cast online and at the 30 MLB ballparks. Verizon replaced Monster as the sponsor of the online portion of balloting. There was a limit of 25 votes per e-mail address, but no limit to the number of ballots cast at the stadium. The deadline to cast votes was July 2, and the results were broadcast on the TBS All-Star Selection show on July 5. Albert Pujols was the leading vote-getter in the majors with 5,397,374 votes, while Derek Jeter was the vote leader in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Rosters\nPlayers in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Ceremonies\n\"The Star-Spangled Banner\" was sung by Sheryl Crow for the second year in a row. Stan Musial, a former player for the host St. Louis Cardinals and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, gave the baseball for the ceremonial first pitch to the President of the United States Barack Obama, who threw it to the hometown Cardinals' first baseman and leading All-Star vote-getter, Albert Pujols, while wearing a White Sox jacket. During the seventh-inning stretch, Sara Evans sang \"God Bless America\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Ceremonies\nBy contrast, little attention was paid to the  Canadian national anthem, \"O Canada\". An instrumental version was played through stadium speakers during the opening ceremonies, a move criticized by Canadian player Justin Morneau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary\nThe American League got off to a quick start in the top of the first inning by scoring two runs. Ichiro Suzuki led off the game with a single to right field, then Derek Jeter reached base on a hit-by-pitch. With one out, Mark Teixeira hit a groundball that was misplayed by first baseman Albert Pujols allowing Jeter to score the game's first run. Josh Hamilton later added an RBI groundout. The National League answered in the bottom of the second inning by scoring three runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary\nSingles by David Wright, Shane Victorino and Yadier Molina, plus a ground rule double by Prince Fielder, all with two outs, gave the NL the lead. The American League tied the score at three in the fifth on a two-out double by Joe Mauer off Chad Billingsley, and retook the lead when Adam Jones drove in Curtis Granderson, who tripled off Heath Bell, on a sacrifice fly in the eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary\nAmerican League pitchers at one point retired 18 straight batters (and 22 of the final 24) on just 48 pitches before Joe Nathan walked Adri\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez with two outs in the eighth. Nathan, however, struck out Ryan Howard with runners on second and third to end the threat. Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn a record fourth All-Star Game save. Carl Crawford went 1-for-3 but made a great defensive catch in the seventh inning to rob Brad Hawpe of a home run. Crawford was given the MLB All-Star Game's Most Valuable Player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Game summary\nThis was the seventh straight win for the American League since the All-Star game had first been used to determine home-field advantage for the World Series. The AL improved to 12-0-1 since its 1996 defeat in Philadelphia \u2014 the longest unbeaten streak in All-Star history. It was also the first All-Star game without a home run by either league since the 1999 Midsummer Classic in Fenway Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Broadcasters\nThe game was televised live in the United States, and in Canada through the Fox Network by Fox Sports, with announcers Joe Buck (play-by-play); Tim McCarver (color commentator); and Ken Rosenthal, Chris Rose, and Eric Karros (field reporters). MLB International televised the game in English outside of the U.S., with announcers Gary Thorne (play-by-play) and Rick Sutcliffe (color commentator). The American Forces Network also carried the game to U.S. service personnel stationed around the globe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203871-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Broadcasters\nESPN Radio broadcast the game, with Dan Shulman (play-by-play) and Dave Campbell (color commentator). Peter Pascarelli and John Rooney served as field reporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby (known through sponsorship as the State Farm Home Run Derby) was a home run hitting contest in Major League Baseball (MLB) between four batters each from the National League and American League. The derby was held on July 13, 2009, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, the host location of the 2009 MLB All-Star Game. ESPN (United States), Rogers Sportsnet (Canada), and ESPN America (Europe) telecast the event, while ESPN Radio broadcast on radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby\nThe winner of the event was Prince Fielder of the Milwaukee Brewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Rules\nEach participant is thrown pitches by a pitcher of his choice. The hitter has the option of not swinging at a pitch. If he swings at a pitch and misses or hits the pitch anywhere but in home run territory, it is considered an out. Each player hits until he receives 10 outs in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Rules\nIn the first two rounds, home run totals carried over for those rounds. Should there be a tie after either of the first two rounds, a \"Swing-Off\" takes place. In a Swing-Off, each tied player gets 5 swings to get as many home runs as possible. Home runs hit during a first round Swing-Off does not count towards the player's total going into the second round. All eight players participated in the first round; the four highest totals from round one will move to the semi-finals. The top two totals will face off in the finals, with the scores deleted from the first two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Charitable Initiatives, Gold Ball\nWhen a player reaches nine outs in each round, the \"Gold Ball\" was brought into play. For each Gold Ball hit for a home run, State Farm agreed to donate US $17,000 (one dollar for each of their agents) for each home run hit to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. This marks the fifth Home Run Derby for the Gold Ball rule. Each non-Gold Ball homer was worth $5,000. Overall, $527,000 was raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Charitable Initiatives, Stand Up 2 Cancer\nMasterCard International would have donated $1 million to the Stand Up to Cancer initiative if a player had hit a home run off one of three designated banners in the stadium, which nobody did. Previously, sponsors like MasterCard and Chevrolet had given away 500 airline tickets and automobiles had home run balls hit designated banners. The banners remained in place for the All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203872-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, Results\nNotes:  Advanced after winning swing off. Pujols 2, Pe\u00f1a 1, Mauer 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203873-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball draft\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball draft was held June 9 to June 11 at the MLB Network Studios in Secaucus, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball season began on April 5, 2009; the regular season was extended two days for a one-game playoff between the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins to decide the American League Central Division champion. The postseason began the next day with the Division Series. The World Series began on October 28, and ended on November 4, with the New York Yankees defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. This was the second time the season was completed in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season\nThe only other occasion was the 2001 World Series, because of the delaying of the end of that season due to the September 11 attacks as November baseball would be guaranteed when Game 4 was played on Sunday, November 1. Had the 2009 World Series gone the full seven games, Game 7 would've been played on November 5, the latest date ever scheduled for a World Series game. American League champion had home field advantage for the World Series by virtue of winning the All-Star Game on July 14 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season\nIn addition, the annual Civil Rights Game became a regular season game, and was played June 20 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, when the host Cincinnati Reds lost to the Chicago White Sox in an interleague game, 10\u20138. Both teams wore replicas of their 1965 uniforms in the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Postseason, Bracket\nNote: Two teams in the same division could not meet in the division series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Managing changes, General managers\nThe Seattle Mariners named Milwaukee Brewers scouting director Jack Zduriencik its new general manager on October 22, replacing interim GM Lee Pelekoudas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Managing changes, General managers\nWashington Nationals GM Jim Bowden resigned on March 1 amid allegations that he was skimming bonus money from Latin American players. Team president Stan Kasten first took over the bulk of his duties before transferring them to assistant GM Mike Rizzo, who had served as acting GM, and was named as the full-time general manager on August 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Managing changes, General managers\nDuring the last days of the regular season, two teams fired their general managers, effective at the end of the season. On October 3, the Toronto Blue Jays fired J. P. Ricciardi after eight seasons. The following day, the San Diego Padres axed Kevin Towers, who had been the longest-tenured GM in Major League Baseball at 14 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Managing changes, Field managers, Off-season changes\nCito Gaston and Jerry Manuel both entered their first full season as managers of the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets, respectively, after taking over for managers dismissed in the middle of the 2008 season. Gaston had previously been the Blue Jays' manager from 1989 until 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Rule changes\nOn January 15, the owners of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs approved two rule changes governing the playing of postseason and one-game playoff games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, New stadiums\nThe 2009 season marked the opening of two new stadiums, both in New York City; Citi Field for the Mets and the new Yankee Stadium for the Yankees. They respectively replaced Shea Stadium (which was dismantled during the 2008\u201309 offseason) and the original Yankee Stadium (which became a public park after its demolition). Because of the smaller seating capacities in these new parks, Dodger Stadium is now the largest capacity park in use with 56,000 seats, and is also the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball behind Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, New stadiums\nCiti Field opened with a night game on April 13 as the Mets hosted the San Diego Padres losing 6\u20135. In that game, Jody Gerut of the Padres became the first player in major league history to open a new ballpark with a leadoff homer. Three days later, the Cleveland Indians inaugurated New Yankee Stadium against the Bronx Bombers. The Indians won 10\u20132. On Jackie Robinson Day (April 15), a rotunda at Citi Field was named in honor of Jackie Robinson and was dedicated prior to the Mets\u2013Padres game that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, New stadiums\nThe 2009 season also marked the final season of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome as the home for the Minnesota Twins, where they had played since 1982. In 2010, the team moved to Target Field, their new baseball-only stadium located a short distance across town. Previously, since moving from Washington, D.C. in 1961, the franchise has shared, first Metropolitan Stadium, and then the Metrodome with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings; they also shared tenant rights at the Metrodome with the University of Minnesota's football team. The Golden Gophers started to play on-campus at TCF Bank Stadium in 2009. The Metrodome's last scheduled regular season game was to be played on Sunday, October 4, 2009, but the Twins tied the Detroit Tigers necessitating a one-game playoff between the two teams on October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, New stadiums\nWhile not a new stadium, Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium completed a two-year renovation. The first year saw a new video board dubbed \"Crown Vision\" and refitting of several sections. Improvements for 2009 include a new glass and brick facade to the exterior of the ballpark, newly expanded team Hall of Fame, a new sports bar/restaurant, improved sightlines, new luxury suites and refurbished press and radio/TV facilities to name a few.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, New stadiums\nIn late March, the Florida Marlins had their funding for a new stadium at the former site of the Miami Orange Bowl approved by Miami-Dade County commissioners. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held on July 18, with an opening by 2012, at which time the team will be renamed the Miami Marlins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Broadcasting, Television\nThis would have marked the first full season in the US for baseball games to be telecast as the transition from analog to digital television that was to have been made on February 17. However, the transition took place June 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Broadcasting, Television\nA new entrant in the baseball television rights marketplace debuted on January 1 when the MLB Network, owned by Major League Baseball, joined Fox, ESPN and TBS not only televising games, but also other baseball-related programming from their studio in Secaucus, New Jersey, formerly the studios of MSNBC. MLB was the last of the four major team sports to start its own television channel. The national telecast breakdown, along with the maximum number of appearances per team, is:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Broadcasting, Television\nIn Canada, Toronto Blue Jays games will be televised on Rogers Sportsnet and TSN. RSN also holds the Canadian rights to air the Fox and ESPN/ESPN2 games if they do not conflict with Blue Jays games, as well as the All-Star Game and the entire postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Broadcasting, Television\nIn Australia free to air channel One HD shows up to 5 games live per week, and European channel ESPN America broadcasts games as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Broadcasting, Radio\nESPN Radio served as MLB's national radio network, broadcasting Sunday Night Baseball as well as selected Saturday and holiday games during the regular season, the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game, and all postseason series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Patches\nAs stated earlier, the Mets and Yankees wore patches commemorating the inaugural seasons of their new parks, the Twins wore patches commemorating their final season at the Metrodome, and the Cardinals, hosting the All-Star Game, wore a patch to celebrate that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox led the Majors in wearing throwback uniforms. On May 2 at Safeco Field, the Athletics and Seattle Mariners honored 1939 by wearing special uniforms. The Mariners honored the Seattle Rainiers and the Oakland Athletics honored the Oakland Oaks from that season. Both teams played in the Pacific Coast League that season. The A's then wore a 1980s styled uniform in St. Petersburg on July 11 against the Tampa Bay Rays, who wore uniforms from their inaugural season of 1998 when they were known as the \"Devil Rays\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nFinally, On August 16, the Athletics and White Sox used vintage throwbacks. The A's wore uniforms from their Philadelphia period, with blue caps and a large A on the front of their jerseys. The White Sox wore their jerseys with a large S with a lowercase O in the top loop and a lowercase X in the bottom loop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nOn June 14, the Tigers and Pirates wore throwback uniforms to commemorate the 100th anniversary of both Forbes Field and the 1909 World Series between the two teams. That game also featured a throwback atmosphere: no music or flashy graphics, no mascots (meaning no Jolly Roger or Pirate Parrot), and a hand-operated scoreboard. One modern item occurred in the pre-game: The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins made a surprise visit and brought the trophy with them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nThe Pirates and the Kansas City Royals also honored the Negro leagues on June 26 and 27 with the Pirates wearing the Homestead Grays uniforms and the Royals donning Kansas City Monarchs replicas. The Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds recreated their 1979 National League Championship Series uniforms on August 21 as part of the Buccos' 30th anniversary celebration of their World Series championship. The Bucs wore their gold pillbox hat with a gold jersey and black pants, a faux pas from the uniforms that season as a black cap was worn that year with the gold jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nIn addition to the aforementioned Civil Rights Game and game in Oakland, the White Sox, originators of the genre of replica throwback uniforms, commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of their 1959 American League Championship on June 25 against the team that they played in that World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers, who opted to wear their regular uniforms instead, as manager Joe Torre did not want to create hype of a World Series that was 50 years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203874-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Baseball season, Uniforms, patches, and caps, Uniforms, Turn Back The Clock\nThe Tigers and the Cleveland Indians played in Negro league replicas twice, with the Tigers in Detroit Stars uniforms, and the Indians outfitted in Cleveland Buckeyes replicas. In a \"home-and-home\" style series, the Tigers hosting the Tribe July 11 at Comerica Park, with the Tigers in 1920 Stars uniforms and the Indians in the 1948 Buckeyes road grays, while the Indians played host August 1 at Progressive Field seeing Cleveland wearing Buckeyes home whites and the Tigers in the gray Stars uniform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season\nThe 2009 Major League Lacrosse season was the ninth season of the league. The season began on May 15, 2009 and concluded with the championship game on August 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season, Milestones & events, Rule changes\nMajor League Lacrosse announced some major rule changes in the off-season. The league will introduce a fourth long\u2013stickman to play. For the first eight seasons the league operated, each team could only field three long\u2013stick defenders on the field at a time. This rule was unique from the traditional men's field lacrosse rules played in high schools and colleges. The league will maintain the two\u2013point goal and shot clock that differentiates Major League Lacrosse rules from high school and college lacrosse. In addition, the league announced that each team would be permitted to have one additional roster position to a total of nineteen players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season, Standings\nW = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Back of first place, GF = Goals For, 2ptGF = 2 point Goals For, GA = Goals Against, 2ptGA = 2 point Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season, Standings\nLong Island finished ahead of Boston base on head to head record 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season, All Star Game\nThe 2009 game took place July 16 at Denver's INVESCO Field. The Old School beat the Young Guns 22-21 in overtime. Brian Langtry (Denver) was named the MVP for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203876-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Lacrosse season, Playoffs\nThe 2009 New Balance MLL Championship Weekend took place on Saturday and Sunday, August 22 and 23 at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. The two semifinal games were at 12 PM ET and 3 PM ET on Saturday. The Toronto Nationals and Denver Outlaws won their semi-final matchups and in the Championship game with 45 seconds left, Shawn Williams scored to give the Nationals a 10-9 lead and Toronto won the MLL championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season\nThe 2009 Major League Soccer season was the 14th season of Major League Soccer. The season began on March 19 and ended with Real Salt Lake winning the MLS Cup 2009, on November 22 at Qwest Field in Seattle, defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Competition format, Tiebreakers\nIf more than two clubs are tied, once a club advances through any step, the process reverts to Tiebreaker 1 among the remaining tied clubs  recursively until all ties are resolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Standings\nFor an explanation of the playoff qualifications, see Competition format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Standings, Overall standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Playoffs\n1 Real Salt Lake earned the eighth and final playoff berth, despite finishing fifth in the Western Conference. They represent the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference playoff bracket, as only three teams in the Eastern Conference qualified for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Individual awards, Save of the Week\nSave of the week was first introduced during week 10 of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, International competitions, CONCACAF Champions League\nThe Houston Dynamo continued their CONCACAF Champions League 2008\u201309 campaign that began during the previous season. They were eliminated in the quarterfinals over two legs by eventual champions Atlante.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 108], "content_span": [109, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, International competitions, CONCACAF Champions League\nColumbus (MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield winner), Houston (MLS Supporters' Shield Runner-up), New York (MLS Cup runner-up), and D.C. United (U.S. Open Cup winner), will be the representatives in the CONCACAF Champions League 2009\u201310\u2014an additional slot from Canada was gained by Toronto by virtue of their Voyageurs Cup win. New York and Toronto were eliminated at the preliminary round, while D.C. advanced to the group stage on penalty kicks. Columbus and Houston qualified directly into the Group stage. Houston and D.C. were eliminated during the group stage, with only Columbus progressing to the knockout rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 108], "content_span": [109, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, International competitions, SuperLiga 2009\nChicago, New England, Chivas USA, and Kansas City were MLS's entrants in SuperLiga 2009, based on their finish in the 2008 regular season as the top four teams not already qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League. Chivas U.S.A. and Kansas City were eliminated in the group stage. Chicago eliminated New England in the semi-finals, only to lose to Tigres in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 97], "content_span": [98, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, National competitions, 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\nMLS awarded the top six finishers in 2008, regardless of conference, automatic berths into the 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup's third round. Columbus, Houston, Chicago Fire, New England, Chivas USA, and Kansas City qualified based on their top-six finish. D.C. United and Seattle qualified via an eight team qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 107], "content_span": [108, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, National competitions, 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\nEach of the qualified MLS teams were matched up against the winner of a second-round game, all of whom come from one of the USL's three divisions. Seattle and D.C. eventually emerged to play the final on September 2 at RFK stadium, which Seattle ultimately won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 107], "content_span": [108, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, National competitions, 2009 Canadian Championship\nCanada's top three teams, MLS's Toronto FC, USL-1's Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC competed in the Voyageurs Cup. The tournament was played as a double round robin group from May 6 to June 18, and won by Toronto, who gained Canada's berth into the CONCACAF Champions League 2009-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 104], "content_span": [105, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203877-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Major League Soccer season, Related competitions, All-Star game\nThe 2009 MLS All-Star Game against Everton F.C., of the English Premier League, took place on July 29 from Rio Tinto Stadium home of Real Salt Lake. Everton defeated the MLS All-Stars in a penalty shootout 4-3 after the game was tied 1-1. No extra time was played following regular time. Tim Howard, the Everton and U.S. Men's National Team goalkeeper, was named the game's MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203878-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision\nThe 2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision occurred on 15 January 2009 near 18:00 UTC, when two Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) collided at Uytash Airport serving the city of Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203878-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision\nOne of the aircraft was landing in freezing fog with 31 crew and passengers on board, while the other, having disembarked all of its passengers, was taxiing for take-off. The taxiing Il-76 crossed the taxiway end-line but did not report its position to air traffic control (ATC). ATC gave permission to the approaching Il-76 to land. Due to a sudden gust of wind, the landing aircraft deviated to the right and struck the taxiing Il-76's cockpit with its wing. Both aircraft then caught fire. The airport was closed until the following morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203878-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision\nFour crew members were killed in the taxiing aircraft, and one more was reported missing. There were no fatalities among the occupants of the landing aircraft. 3 passengers on board the taxiing Il-76 survived with major injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203879-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Makin airstrike\n23 June 2009 Makin airstrike was an attack launched by United States drones on a funeral procession in the city of Makin in South Waziristan, Pakistan. The attack targeted a funeral procession of militants killed earlier in the day in a prior similar strike by drones. Over 60 people were reported killed in what is considered perhaps the deadliest strike since the drone attacks started. Other sources claimed up to 83 people were dead. There were reports that Baitullah Mehsud was in the area but escaped unhurt while his deputy Qari Hussain was killed, although this has been disputed. Hussain later phoned reporters to prove he was still alive. The drones fired missiles when Sangeen Khan, an Afghan commander belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, was holding a meeting soon after the funeral of an associate of Baitullah Mehsud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis\nThe 2009 Malagasy political crisis began on 26 January 2009 with the political opposition movement led by Antananarivo mayor Andry Rajoelina, which sought to oust President Marc Ravalomanana from the presidency. The crisis reached its climax in the 2009 Malagasy coup d'\u00e9tat when Andry Rajoelina was declared the president of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar on 21 March 2009, five days after Ravalomanana transferred his power to a military council and fled to South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis\nThe international community immediately condemned the leader and his ascension as unconstitutional, characterising the move as a coup. Financial support and foreign investments stopped, and the country fell into one of the worst economic crises in its history. The SADC and the African Union were designated to supervise Madagascar's political reinstatement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis\nThough the objective of the transitional government was to run presidential elections as soon as possible to relieve the tensions (despite regular delays), its major challenge was to establish an agreement among Madagascar's four key political factions (Rajoelina, Ravalomanana, Zafy and Ratsiraka), some of which were and still are unfriendly to the transitional government. On 11 December 2010, a new constitution was formally approved, launching the Fourth Republic. On 28 October 2011 a consensus Prime Minister, Omer Beriziky, was appointed. Presidential and parliamentary elections were scheduled for 8 May and 3 July 2013 and eventually held in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Origins of the conflict\nIn December 2007, Andry Rajoelina was elected mayor of Antananarivo. Tensions quickly grew between president Ravalomanana and the young mayor over the course of 2008 as Rajoelina became a vocal critic of a series of unpopular policies enacted by the president. He condemned what he called the \"restriction of freedom\" on the island, and criticized the president's plans to lease large parts of land to the Korean industrial company Daewoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Origins of the conflict\nOn 13 December 2008, the Ravalomanana administration decided to shutter Viva TV, a television channel belonging to Rajoelina after broadcasting an interview with the former exiled president Didier Ratsiraka. Other television and radio stations that also aired the interview were not sanctioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Origins of the conflict\nAndry Rajoelina organized a series of rallies in January 2009 that took aim at the Ravalomanana administration and gave voice to growing popular resentment toward the president's increasingly authoritarian policies and a widespread perception that national development had only benefitted an elite minority of which the president was the most visible figurehead. As anti-government frustration transformed into civil unrest, two state television stations were burned by anti-government protesters. At least 130 people were killed in Madagascar during the crisis. The protests were seen as the gravest challenge faced by the Ravalomanana government since he came to office in 2002. President Ravalomanana vowed to restore order \"whatever the cost\", according to a government statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nRajoelina called a general strike during the weekend of 24\u201325 January 2009, in the capital city, Antananarivo, against Ravalomanana, whom he has called a dictator. Ravalomanana, who was in South Africa, cut short his trip to a regional summit in Pretoria, and flew back to Madagascar. In a statement Ravalomanana accused the mayor of attempting a coup saying, \"The call for revolt and civil disobedience... corresponds to a coup d'\u00e9tat...tramples on the values of the constitution and the republic's institutions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nOn 26 January 2009, the protests turned increasingly violent. Demonstrators set fire to the Madagascar state-owned radio building, attacked a private television station owned by Ravalomanana and looted shops and businesses throughout the city. That same day, armed government security agents reportedly disabled the transmitter of Viva Radio, a private radio station owned by Rajoelina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nProtesters ransacked two pro-government television stations in Antananarivo. Thousands of protesters raided and looted the headquarters of the Radio Nationale Malgache and T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Nationale Malgache building around 1\u00a0pm local time on 26 January 2009. About an hour later demonstrators burned down the Malagasy Broadcasting System, a private station owned by President Ravalomanana. A policeman and a fourteen-year-old protester were reportedly killed in the clashes at the Malagasy Broadcasting System attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nFirefighters found the bodies of at least 25 people in the ruins of a burned out, looted department store in downtown Antananarivo. The bodies were thought to be those of looters who became trapped in the burning shop when the roof caved in. In total, 44 people died. Their bodies were taken to a morgue, and all but ten of them were found to be severely burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nIn a show of defiance against the government, Rajoelina called for all Antananarivo residents to stay home on 29 January 2009. This \"ghost town\" (ville morte) protest basically closed all stores and businesses in the capital city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nThe Roman Catholic Cardinal emeritus of Antananarivo Armand Razafindratandra appealed for calm as the protests spread outside of the capital. All state and private radio stations in the country reportedly ceased broadcasting, with the exception of Radio Don Bosco, which is run by the Salesian religious institute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nRajoelina said on 31 January that he was taking control of the country due to the failure of Ravalomanana and the government to fulfil their responsibilities. He said that a request for Ravalomanana's \"immediate resignation\" would be submitted to Parliament \"in order to comply with the legal procedure\". Furthermore, he asked that the central bank withhold money from the government, that all government ministries close, and that the security forces join him. Rajoelina said that he wanted the constitution to be respected and that it was Ravalomanana who had violated the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nAccording to Rajoelina, a new transitional government would soon be appointed under his leadership and a new presidential election would be held within two years. Speaking on the same day, Ravalomanana stated that he was \"still the president of this country\" and that he would \"do what is necessary to develop this nation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nThe African Union (AU) immediately warned Rajoelina that it would not accept an unconstitutional power grab in Madagascar: \"It's totally forbidden to take power by non-constitutional means.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nOpposition leaders allied to Rajoelina filed a petition with the High Constitutional Court on 2 February, asking it to remove Ravalomanana from office. By that point, attendance at Rajoelina's rallies had reportedly decreased. On 3 February, Rajoelina said at a rally that he would announce his new government on 7 February. On the same day, the High Constitutional Court ruled that it had no power to remove the President from office, as that power belonged to Parliament. Also on 3 February, Rajoelina was dismissed as Mayor and a special delegation, headed by Guy Randrianarisoa, was appointed instead. Rajoelina denounced the decision, saying that there was \"no valid reason\" for it and that he was prepared to face arrest if necessary; he warned that the city would \"not accept this decision\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests\nRajoelina held another rally on 4 February, with about 1,500 people in attendance. On that occasion he described the appointment of Randrianarisoa as \"an insult to the people of Madagascar\"; he instead designated Michele Ratsivalaka to succeed him as Mayor and gave her his mayoral scarf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nOn 7 February, an opposition rally was held with twenty-thousand in attendance. The demonstrators marched towards Ambohitsorohitra Palace and crossed the \"ligne rouge\" (red line), the perimeter line around the palace gates that demarcates the zone off-limits to the public. The palace guards responded by firing live ammunition to disperse the crowd. Initial reports counted 83 wounded and 28 people killed, including a local reporter. Some looting was reported afterward. Ambulances took the wounded to hospitals or private clinics, and bodies were seen piled up on the streets before they were taken to the morgue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nThe National Police warned that the death toll could rise, as many of the wounded were in critical condition. The following day it was reported that the death toll had increased to at least 50, with doctors estimating that 180 people had arrived at the city's main Ravoahangy Andrianavalona Hospital. Antananarivo journalist Fanja Saholiarisoa said: \"The mortuary is full and the hospital is full. On TV there is a special announcement calling on people who have cars to come and pick up the injured people from the hospitals\". This brought the number of people killed since the start of the political violence to 130, with 80 people killed before the shooting of the demonstrators, including the people who died in the burned department store.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nAlso on 7 February, Rajoelina said that Roindefo Monja would be prime minister under his transitional authority. According to Rajoelina, each of Madagascar's regions would have representation in the transitional authority. Regarding Ambohitsorohitra Palace, Rajoelina alluded to its history as a mayoral residence prior to 2002 and said that it \"belongs to the people and to the city\", while declaring that he had decided to give the palace to Monja for his use as prime minister. On the same day, Ravalomanana urged \"calm and order\", accusing Rajoelina of \"cross[ing] all limits\", while Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara announced a one-week extension of the curfew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nWhile visiting hospitalized victims of the shooting on 8 February, Rajoelina vowed to continue his struggle and argued that Ravalomanana's answer to the popular call for change was gunfire. He called for a national day of mourning on 9 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nOn 9 February, Defence Minister C\u00e9cile Manorohanta announced her resignation, saying, \"After all that has happened, I decide as of now to no longer remain part of this government.\" Chief of military staff Mamy Ranaivoniarivo was appointed to replace Manorohanta on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\n7 February shooting was thought to have reversed the opposition's declining momentum. Newspapers published on 9 February, strongly denounced the shooting. On 10 February, speaking before a rally of about 5,000 supporters, Rajoelina urged the people to observe a general strike on the next day; he asked that everyone stay indoors and that no one go to work or attend school. Roindefo announced the appointment of four ministers to serve in his transitional government, and he said that the remainder of them would be appointed by the end of the week. Meanwhile, both Ravalomanana and Rajoelina accepted dialogue in principle; Rajoelina said that dialogue would be conditional on the holding of a new presidential election or the formation of a transitional government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nAt a 35,000-strong rally in Antananarivo on 14 February, Ravalomanana said that he would serve out his full term as president, that he was listening to the people, and that he regretted the deaths that had occurred during the protests. On the same day, Rajoelina held a rally nearby, with about 10,000 in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nAt a rally on 17 February, Rajoelina vowed to continue the struggle, and later in the day several thousand of his supporters engaged in sit-ins near key ministries. Representing the government, Defense Minister Ranaivoniarivo invited Roindefo to participate in talks. Rajoelina's supporters took over several important ministries on 19 February, changing the locks and installing Rajoelina's own ministers to work in them. Meanwhile, Ravalomanana appointed a new Minister of the Interior, Rabenja Sehenoarisoa (who had previously served as chief of police in the capital). His predecessor as Interior Minister, Gervais Rakotonirina, was said to have departed the government due to poor health. Only hours after the opposition took over the government ministries, they were removed from the ministries by security forces early on 20 February; about 50 of Rajoelina's supporters were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 962]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Shooting at opposition rally\nRavalomanana and Rajoelina met on 21 February; this meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes, was organized by the Council of Christian Churches in Madagascar. Both Ravalomanana and Rajoelina agreed to five points intended to calm the situation. This was intended as a prelude to more comprehensive dialogue. On 23 February the two met again for about an hour, and they held a third meeting, also lasting an hour, on 24 February. However, Ravalomanana failed to appear for a planned meeting on 25 February, and Rajoelina then announced that he was withdrawing from the talks. Rajoelina criticized Ravalomanana for his absence and furthermore stated that the meetings he had held with Ravalomanana prior to that were disappointing. Odon Razanakolona, who had been mediating the talks, abandoned his role shortly before Rajoelina withdrew from the talks; according to Razanakolona, the talks were fruitless and deadlocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 989]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Post-talks\nA protest in Antananarivo was broken up by the security forces on 26 February. Another protest in Fianarantsoa on 27 February, was also broken up; two deaths and 13 serious injuries were reported in the latter incident. At a 10,000-strong rally in Antananarivo on 28 February, Rajoelina vowed to continue his struggle \"until we end this dictatorship\". He said that, beginning on 2 March, protests would be held in the 13 May Plaza on a daily basis; he also called for the army to support him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Post-talks\nA protest in Ambositra was broken up by police on 4 March, and two people were killed. Also on 4 March, President Ravalomanana declared his intention to \"restore order\" on Radio Mada. In Antananarivo, police blocked roads on 5 March to prevent protests in the 13 May Plaza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Post-talks\nThe security forces unsuccessfully attempted to arrest Rajoelina at his compound late on 5 March; they also raided his Viva media network. Initially they surrounded Viva, and after 30 minutes the staff attempted to evacuate equipment, at which point the security forces stormed the building and confiscated equipment. Rajoelina told Agence France-Presse on 7 March that he was \"now hiding in a safe location where I cannot be attacked\"; it was later acknowledged that he had gone to the residence of the French ambassador on 6 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nSoldiers at a military base in Soanierana district, near Antananarivo, mutinied on 8 March; they objected to the use of force against the opposition. United Nations envoy Tiebil\u00e9 Dram\u00e9 said on 9 March that the UN was placing Rajoelina \"under its protection in a diplomatic residence\". The French Foreign Ministry said on 10 March that Rajoelina had left the French ambassador's residence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nOn 10 March, the chief of staff of the Malagasy army, General Edmond Rasolomahandry, gave political leaders 72 hours to solve the country's problems and return peace, threatening to take over if this did not occur. The same day, Defence Minister Ranaivoniarivo announced his resignation shortly after a number of army officers visited his office to threaten a switch of allegiances to Rajoelina. On 11 March, pro-opposition soldiers from the CAPSAT (Army Corps of Personnel and Administrative and Technical Services) stormed the army headquarters and forced Edmond Rasolomahandry to resign. Analysts stated that civil war seemed a distinct possibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nAndre Andriarijaona replaced Rasolomahandry, apparently as a result of internal army deliberations and not a presidential appointment, and Andriarijaona said that the military would remain neutral and not seize power, thus revoking the 72-hour ultimatum. A spokesman for Rajoelina said on 11 March that Rajoelina would not participate in talks planned to begin the next day; subsequently the Christian Council of Churches announced that the talks would be delayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nOn 12 March, the opposition took over the Ministry of Finance and Budget with the support of the armed forces while the president's prime minister held a ten-minute meeting with the opposition-designated prime minister, who later stated that Rabemananjara had agreed to give up his job to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nThe next day, the chief of the military police stated he was taking orders from Andre Andriarijaona and not from the general appointed by Ravalomanana; this was followed by the sending of army tanks against the Iavoloha Palace of the president, while some 3,000\u20135,000 civilian supporters of Ravalomanana surrounded the palace to counter opposition protests further away from the area. The Ravalomanana supporters, however, were told to clear the road in case the army neared the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nOn 14 March, Monja occupied the prime minister's office while the opposition forces controlled the building. Monja announced that the opposition forces, called the High Authority of Transition, \"is presiding over the destiny of Madagascar\". Rajoelina gave the president four hours, until 6\u00a0pm (1500 GMT), to voluntarily resign, after which a mass civilian march would take place on the presidential palace to put Ravalomanana out of office; he explicitly ruled out a violent overthrow through military means. However, Ravalomanana later emerged from the guarded palace after the deadline had passed, asserting that he was still the legal president and calling for a national conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Protests, Mutiny and military leadership change\nOn 15 March, Ravalomanana offered to hold a referendum on whether he should stay in power or not, which was seen as a sign of the intense pressure placed on his presidency. The following day, Rajoelina rejected this proposal and called on the security forces to arrest Ravalomanana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Coup d'etat and Ravalomanana's resignation\nOn 16 March 2009, one of the palaces of President Ravalomanana, the Ambohitsorohitra Palace, was stormed and taken by soldiers of the Malagasy Army. Reports also indicate the capture of the country's central bank. The president was not in the stormed palace at the time. The African Union condemned the action, calling it an \"attempted coup d'\u00e9tat\". The actions followed an earlier call from opposition leader Andry Rajoelina for the President's arrest; Rajoelina insisted that the palace seizure was not a coup, although he immediately installed himself in the presidential offices of the captured palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Coup d'etat and Ravalomanana's resignation\nHours later, the BBC stated that Ravalomanana was to resign and hand over the powers of both the president and prime minister to a military board headed by Vice Admiral Hyppolite Ramaroson. Ravalomanana later said, \"I never resigned. I was forced to hand power over, at gun point, on March the 17th.\" At the time, Ravalomanana had already moved out of the Iavoloha Palace to an undisclosed location; as of 24 March, he was reportedly in Swaziland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Coup d'etat and Ravalomanana's resignation\nThe military junta, consisting of senior military personnel, would have been charged with organizing elections within 24 months and re-writing the constitution for the \"Fourth Republic\". However, Vice Admiral Ramaroson announced on 18 March that it would transfer power directly to Rajoelina, making him president of the opposition-dominated High Transitional Authority that he had appointed weeks earlier. With the military's backing, the authority was charged with taking up the task previously accorded to Ravalomanana's proposed military directorate. Madagascar's constitutional court deemed the transfer of power, from Ravalomanana to the military board and then to Rajoelina, to be legal. The court's statement did not include any justifications for its decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 844]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Coup d'etat and Ravalomanana's resignation\nRajoelina said that Ravalomanana should be prosecuted for allegedly using lethal force against unarmed opposition demonstrators earlier in the year. Rajoelina is prohibiting Ravalomanana's ministers from leaving the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Coup d'etat and Ravalomanana's resignation\nOn 19 March, Rajoelina suspended both chambers of Parliament. Roindefo responded to international criticism on 20 March, saying that the government will \"explain the real situation. Maybe the way Madagascar acts is not very clear. Things can be a bit specific which may be difficult to follow in every detail.\" According to Roindefo, the transfer of power was not a coup d'\u00e9tat but instead \"the direct expression of democracy, when representative democracy does not express itself through the institutions\". Rajoelina was sworn in as President on 21 March before a crowd of 40,000 supporters. No foreign diplomats were in attendance; Rajoelina's foreign minister said none were invited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nOn the same day, Malagasy navy troops called for Rajoelina's resignation by 25 March, threatening to use force otherwise to protect the constitution of Madagascar. According to their statement, the navy troops \"condemn all violence against civilians\" committed by the army corps in March and denounce Rajoelina for the \"civil war occurring in Madagascar\". The navy troops claimed that there was \"irrefutable\" evidence that Rajoelina had paid the army corps hundreds of millions of ariaries and that they should face trials in accordance with military law. The navy troops called for other nations not to get involved in what they considered a purely domestic affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nIn a recorded message from Ravalomanana played to around 10,000 of supporters on 25 March, Ravalomanana encouraged people to \"save the nation, defend the union and our national unity\" because Rajoelina's government was \"destroying our country with their coup.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nAlso on 25 March, Rajoelina invited Ravalomanana's political party to join other political parties, unions, and business leaders to discuss reconciliation on 2 and 3 April. Rajoelina said the meeting would also include planning for the next elections. Rajoelina said he would appoint the members of the group who would organize the meeting. Ravalomanana's political party, Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM), did not immediately comment on whether it would participate in those meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nOn 26 March, Rajoelina's justice minister said that Rajoelina had given a presidential pardon to 28 \"political prisoners\" and that more would be pardoned in the future. Members of TIM spoke to the crowd. The names of the pardoned individuals were not made public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nAbout 6,000 people who supported Ravalomanana assembled in a park in downtown Antananarivo on 26 March, the fourth consecutive of such protests. Members of TIM spoke to the crowd. Referring to the reconciliation meeting proposed by Rajoelina, the speakers said that Ravalomanana would be involved only if he were recognized at the meeting as Madagascar's elected president and only if the United Nations, Southern African Development Community, or another neutral, international body organized the meeting. The speakers urged Ravalomanana to leave Swaziland, return to Madagascar, and call the bicameral parliament back in session. One speaker said that elections should only be held after Ravalomanana was reinstated as president. Following the speeches, security forces fired tear gas and shot bullets into the air to disperse the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nThe following day, about 6,000 people who supported Ravalomanana assembled again, the fifth such demonstration in five consecutive days. Police used tear gas on the assembled individuals at the end of the event, as they did at the end of the previous day's demonstration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nOn 28 March, between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters assembled for the sixth consecutive day. In a recorded message played to the assembled crowd, Ravalomanana encouraged his supporters to continue protesting and gave assurance that he would return to Madagascar soon. While marching towards the 13 May Plaza, the same location that Rajoelina's supporters had assembled earlier in the year, police fired their weapons into the air and used tear gas to disperse the crowds, resulting in a stampede that injured 34 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nA young protester named \"Razily\", who was seen in a video of 28 March protests carrying the Malagasy flag at the head of the protests before being publicly beaten and carted off by police, became a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre when the video was distributed online; he has not been seen since his arrest. Police said they were trying to keep Ravalomanana's supporters from confronting Rajoelina's supporters. In response to the police actions, Ravalomanana's supporters encouraged a general strike on 30 March, saying, \"Students should not go to school, office workers should stop their work and the private sector should stop paying taxes so as not to support an illegal regime.\" Protests continued nearly every day thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nOn 31 March, Rajoelina announced the individuals who would constitute the cabinet of his transitional administration for 24 months until elections are held. Rajoelina compared himself to Ravalomanana, saying that Ravalomanana was not immediately accepted by world leaders when he came to power in 2002. Rajoelina reiterated his previous statements that other countries should not \"interfere\" with his rise to the presidency of Madagascar. Rajoelina also announced a freeze of all mining contracts with foreign companies, saying that the foreign companies are not paying the fees and royalties that are legally due to Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nStill asserting that he was the legitimate president, Ravalomanana announced from exile that he was appointing Manandafy Rakotonirina as Prime Minister on 16 April. Ravalomanana made this announcement by telephone at a rally of his supporters in Antananarivo, with Rakotonirina in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nOn 20 April, people gathered in Antananarivo to listen to Ravalomanana speak by telephone and protest the closure of two radio stations, Radio Fahazavana and Radio Mada, the latter of which is owned by Ravalomanana. When the protesters began marching to a courthouse in the center of the city, police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and then fired their guns. A BBC reporter witnessed a protester killed after being shot in the back at close range. Another protester was also killed and twenty people went to the hospital for injuries sustained during the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nThe following day, thousands of people assembled to mourn the two deaths. Prime Minister Roindefo Monja announced that \"all demonstrations are banned, including those in support of Andry Rajoelina, in order to restore law and order.\" Despite the ban, a demonstration was held the following day. Over a thousand people assembled to protest, fewer in number and shorter in duration as compared in previous days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nCars and trucks were set on fire and people were looting in Antananarivo on 23 April. Police used tear gas, detonators, and gun fire to break up protests. Six protesters were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash\nAfter Ravalomanana appointed him as Prime Minister, Rakotonirina began working out of the Carlton hotel in Antananarivo, and he appointed ministers to occupy the key government portfolios on 28 April. Soldiers with a warrant for Rakotonirina's arrest stormed the Carlton and arrested him on 29 April; they found him hiding in a bathroom after searching for about an hour. A spokesperson for Rajoelina described Rakotonirina as \"the mastermind of last week's violence\". Also in late April, Rajoelina's government informed the AU that it was prepared to hold an election by the end of 2009, earlier than it had previously stated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash, Reconciliation meeting\nAt a reconciliation meeting that included four former presidents of Madagascar and United Nations negotiators, it was announced on 3 April that a constitutional referendum would be held in September 2009, parliamentary elections in March 2010 and presidential elections in October 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash, Reconciliation meeting\nOn 11 April, Ravalomanana's supporters ended their participation in meetings with Rajoelina's supporters. Ravalomanana's supporters saying that the meetings were not worthwhile because their condition of the Ravalomanana's return to power was not met, nor was the United Nations' special envoy to Madagascar, Ti\u00e9bil\u00e9 Dram\u00e9, acting as an impartial mediator. In response, Dram\u00e9 said he was \"seeking a consensus\" rather than an \"imposed solution\". On the same day, more than 10,000 people assembled in Antananarivo to protest Rajoelina's government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash, Reconciliation meeting\nAt a meeting on 23 May 2009 a breakthrough was reached; a transitional government and a truth and reconciliation commission was agreed to be formed, and all former presidents would be allowed to stand in the presidential elections; this last point was seen as controversial, as it might increase instability. However, on 25 May 2009 the party of Didier Ratsiraka withdrew from the talks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash, Mediation crisis talks\nFormer exiled president of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana, President of the High Authority of Transition of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina, former exiled Madagascar president Didier Ratsiraka and former president of the Malagasy Republic Albert Zafy met on Tuesday 4 August 2009 in Maputo, Mozambican capital, for four-day-long mediation crisis talks with the former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano acting as mediator. Representatives came from the African Union (AU), United Nations (UN), the International Organisation of the Francophonie and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Backlash, Mediation crisis talks\nThe mediation talks hoped to arrive at a way for Ravalomanana to return to Madagascar from his exile in South Africa. The talks were also a trade meeting to begin negotiations on the transition charter to seek new elections in Madagascar. Ratsiraka, who had been exiled in France, saw his amnesty issue resolved at the talks. The four leaders sought to again become a customs union (SADC), and representatives of the United Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Unity government deal\nOn 7 November 2009, the leaders agreed to a power-sharing deal in which Rajoelina stays as president, creation of two co-presidents, Fetison Rakoto Andrianirina, aide to former President Ravalomanana and Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, aide to former President Zafy. Prime Minister Eugene Mangalaza who was appointed on 10 October will be retained heading the 31-member cabinet. The deal also creates a 65-member council of transitional advisers and a transitional parliament composed of 258 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Environmental\nDuring the transition in the government, people have been illegally hunting and logging in Marojejy National Park and other conservation areas in Madagascar. While the new Malagasy government is otherwise preoccupied and some park rangers have left their posts, armed groups are cutting down valuable rosewood trees. Laws prohibiting the export of rosewood were repealed in January 2009, so the illegally acquired logs can be sold and exported for profit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Environmental\nThousands of local people were involved in cutting a documented 123,000 rosewood logs representing an estimated 45,000 rosewood trees from Marojejy, Masoala and Makira National Parks between January\u2013October 2009, with at least 871 containers already exported to China between March\u2013April 2009 alone from the Vohemar and Toamasina ports. Floating the rosewood logs down rivers also requires cutting of 4\u20135 lighter trees, and several rosewood species are endangered or occur at low densities below 1\u20135 trees per hectare. Numerous new access paths are created and some individuals built a 6-kilometer-long road into a remote northern park to transport the logs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0053-0002", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Environmental\nSome ships land directly on the coast to pick up the logs, rather than at government-controlled ports. Bribery of customs officials has been reported. Radio commercials have been aired seeking workers to help in the process. Extracting resources from these conservation areas is likely to threaten already critically endangered species such as the silky sifaka lemur, one of the top 25 most endangered primates in the world. A statement jointly released by several non-governmental organizations criticized the logging and hunting occurring in national parks, illegal mining, and slash-and-burn farming occurring in Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0053-0003", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Environmental\nThe joint statement said that \"These deplorable acts will only further impoverish the country and deprive future generations of the Malagasy people from their unique natural heritage.\" The groups who issued the statement were World Wide Fund for Nature, Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, Missouri Botanical Garden, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environment, The Peregrine Fund, ONG Fanamby, Madagascar Fauna Group, L'Homme et l'Environnement, and Plant Resources for Tropical Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Contracts\nIn 2009, Rajoelina canceled a contract with South Korean company Daewoo. Under the contract, Daewoo would have leased 1,300,000 hectares (13,000\u00a0km2) of land, almost half of Madagascar's arable land, for 99 years to grow corn and palm oil for export to South Korea, a project that might have created as many as 45,000 jobs. On 10 April 2009, Madagascar's Minister of Land Reform confirmed that the contract with Daewoo had been canceled because its \"approach was wrong\", even though \"the project by itself wasn't bad and such a project is welcome\". As of 10 April, Daewoo said it had not been informed of the contract's cancellation and would proceed with the project regardless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Contracts\nOn 17 March 2009, Canadian energy company Sherritt International said its 27-year $4.5-billion nickel-mining project would still begin in 2010 and reach full production in 2013, as scheduled. On 19 March 2009, it said it was likely the project's start date would be delayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Economic\nFinance Minister Benja Razafimahaleo reported a decrease in government revenue of 15 to 20 percent. Ravalomanana owns Tiko, the largest dairy farm in Madagascar. After Rajoelina became president, Rajoelina's supporters looted Tiko dairy farms, resulting in a milk shortage in Madagascar. Revenue from foreign tourists has decreased by 70 percent, in part because some foreign countries are cautioning their citizens against visiting the country About 70 percent of hotels have closed due to the sharp drop in business. One large hotel that has remained open temporarily laid off 150 of its 400 employees and cut the hours and wages of its other 250 employees. Strikes, wage shortages, and cuts in foreign aid are also causing economic problems for the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, Other effects, Sports\nOn 28 January 2009, the Confederation of African Football canceled a match between Madagascar's Academie Ny Antsika and R\u00e9union's Union Sportive Stade Tamponnaise, which was set to be played in Antananarivo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nSince 16 March, Norway has instituted sanctions, mostly consisting of a freeze of economic aid, primarily due to the unstable atmosphere in the country prior to the resignation of Ravalomanana, and it has retained such sanctions for the time being.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nOn 20 March, U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States will suspend all non-humanitarian assistance to Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nThe African Union suspended Madagascar's membership in the organization. The Peace and Security Council of the African Union announced that it would impose sanctions on the Madagascar government if an \"unconstitutional\" transfer of power were to take place, including total expulsion from the African Union. The African Union can enact sanctions if Madagascar does not restore constitutional order within six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nThe African Union's stance was corroborated by Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who stated that the European Union may impose sanctions on Madagascar and not recognize the transfer of power, and the United States Department of State, which indicated a similar response to any \"extra-constitutional\" regime change. The Southern African Development Community will meet in late March to consider sanctions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nOn 31 March, the European Union said it had not suspended its aid to Madagascar, which will continue for the next three years as previously agreed, but it also had no plans for new aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Sanctions and suspensions of aid\nUS President Barack Obama decided to remove Madagascar from the beneficiary of the AGOA African Growth and Opportunity Act. On 23 December of the year 2009, President Obama also terminated the program for Guinea, Niger and Madagascar because of their undemocratic changes of power. The AGOA program has helped created ten of thousands of jobs for middle class Malagasy especially in apparel manufacturing factories, it is feared that most of these jobs will be lost in the near future. Considering the important number of business affected by this decision, the economy of the capital city Antananarivo and Antsirabe will be deeply affected fearing further social tension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Government response\nMost of the government response has been channeled through opposition prime minister Monja Roindefo, who denied that the events leading to Rajoelina's gaining of the presidency was a coup, but rather a \"direct expression of democracy, when representative democracy does not express itself through the institutions\", and called on the European Union to reconsider its reaction to the events. Rajoelina dismissed the condemnations, stating that \"if they haven't understood the process, they may well react. But if they stick to their line after we have spoken, it will be annoying\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Government response\nRajoelina has promised that the high cost of living would decrease because merchants had agreed to decrease the price of bread and cooking oil as of 30 March, and the cost of rice soon thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203880-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Malagasy political crisis, International reactions, Government response\nIn response to the Southern African Development Community's view that Rajoelina's rise to power was unconstitutional and its urging for elections within six months, Rajoelina said that membership in the SADC is \"not in the interests of Madagascar\". He said he would confer with others to decide whether Madagascar would continue to be a member of the SADC. \"The prospect of an SADC intervention is unacceptable. Other states cannot interfere with the decision of (Madagascar's) High Constitutional Court\" that the transfer of power to Rajoelina was constitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malawi on 19 May 2009. Incumbent President Bingu wa Mutharika ran for re-election; his main opponent was John Tembo, the president of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Five other candidates also ran. The election was won by Mutharika, who was re-elected to the Presidency with around two-thirds of the vote. Mutharika's DPP also won a strong parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Electoral system\nVoter registration started in August 2008 and was scheduled to end on 29 November 2008, but on 20 November (by which time 3.5 million voters had been registered) it was announced that registration would be extended into December. This extension was caused by problems related to digital cameras that were necessary to the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Electoral system\nBetween 2 February and 6 February, presidential and parliamentary candidates submitted their nomination papers. The official campaigning period began on 17 March and is scheduled to conclude on 17 May. Parliament was dissolved on 20 March, in accordance with the constitution, and subsequently the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC)will announce which candidates have been deemed eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nOn 22 October 2008, Hetherwick Ntaba, the Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), announced that the DPP national governing council had unanimously endorsed Mutharika as the party's presidential candidate a few days earlier. However, Foreign Minister Joyce Banda said on 16 January 2009 that Mutharika felt the endorsement of the council was inadequate and that he wanted the endorsement of the party's base. Therefore, he sought the backing of the delegates at a DPP convention. Later, as the DPP presidential candidate, Mutharika chose Banda as his vice-presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nBakili Muluzi, who was designated as the UDF's (United Democratic Front) presidential candidate, previously served two terms as president from 1994 to 2004. According to the constitution, a president is allowed to serve no more than two consecutive five-year terms. Because Muluzi had been out of office since 2004, his supporters argued that the term limit should not apply to him, as it did not restrict nonconsecutive terms if interpreted literally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nSpeaking to Capital Radio on 22 February 2009, Muluzi accused the government of using intimidation against his candidacy and warned that such conduct could lead to \"problems\". A few days later, he was charged by the Anti- Corruption Bureau with stealing 12 million dollars of aid money; he appeared before a court in Blantyre and was released on bail. The Electoral Commission stated he was not eligible to run again, but his supporters are calling for an official court decision instead. On 16 May, only three days before the election, the Constitutional Court ruled that Muluzi could not run again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nMCP President John Tembo was considered the main opposition candidate, and the MCP formed an electoral alliance with the UDF prior to the election. Tembo's vice-presidential candidate was Brown Mpinganjira of the UDF. Observing that the DPP had never participated in an election (it was founded in 2005), Tembo argued that he and the MCP had the experience to govern the country properly: \"I belong to the past, I belong to the present and I also belong to the future.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nIndependent candidate James Nyondo submitted his nomination papers on 4 February and claims to have sponsored over 120 independent parliamentary candidates by paying the MK 100,000 ($700 USD) nomination fee. He is the only independent candidate in the 2009 presidential election and has campaigned on the need for a new generation of leadership, a smaller cabinet, and an end to the personal extravagance of the current and previous governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nLoveness Gondwe of the New Rainbow Coalition submitted her presidential candidacy on 3 February, becoming the first woman to run for president in Malawi. She stressed the importance of holding a free and fair election and avoiding the kind of post-election turmoil that affected Kenya and Zimbabwe in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nObservers expected a close election between the two strongest candidates, Mutharika and Tembo. While Tembo enjoyed the united backing of the country's two most established and powerful parties\u2014the MCP and the UDF\u2014he faced an incumbent president who had presided over strong economic growth of 8%, and the outcome was considered uncertain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Campaign\nMutharika, who was 75 years old at the time of the election, said that he would retire from politics if he lost the election and that he would retire in 2014 if he was successful in winning a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Conduct\nOn the day of the election, Joy Radio, which is owned by UDF Chairman Bakili Muluzi, was closed by the police after it broadcast a satire that lampooned Mutharika. Two of the station's presenters and a technician were arrested. Tembo alleged that the government had committed electoral fraud with opposition poll agents being denied access to the vote counting centres. An EU observation team also noted that state television had failed to be neutral during the election campaigns, supporting the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Results\nThe Malawi Electoral Commission declared that Bingu wa Mutharika had won the presidential election on 21 May 2009, after 93% of votes had been counted. Mutharika gained 2.9 million votes with John Tembo, his nearest rival, winning 1.4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Results\nIn the National Assembly elections, the DPP won 114 seats (though the election of the vice president vacated one of those), obtaining a strong majority in the 193-seat National Assembly, while the MCP trailed distantly with 26 seats and the UDF won only 17. Mutharika and the DPP won an overwhelming victory in northern Malawi, but also performed well in the central and southern regions, although those regions have been historically dominated by the MCP and UDF respectively. Some analysts suggested that this election marked a departure from Malawi's traditional voting patterns, which are heavily influenced by region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Results\nUnlike Tembo, Muluzi accepted the official results of the election. 32 independent MPs were elected, though many of those started joining the DPP after the election; one seat was won by the Maravi People's Party (MPP), the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) and the Malawi Forum for Unity and Development (MAFUNDE). In one constituency, the election was postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203881-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Malawian general election, Aftermath\nMutharika and Joyce Banda were respectively sworn in as president and vice-president on 22 May 2009. The MCP boycotted the event, but Muluzi was present. Some in the MCP called for the party to recognize Mutharika's victory and for Tembo to resign as MCP president. Tembo refused and vowed to legally challenge the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203882-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Cup\nThe 2009 Malaysia Cup (Malay: Piala Malaysia 2009) was the 83rd edition of the Malaysia Cup. The competition began on 26 September 2009. Twenty teams took part in the competition. The teams were divided into five groups of four teams. The group leaders and the three best second-placed teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203882-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Cup, Second-placed qualifiers\nAt the end of the group stage, a comparison was made between the second placed teams. The three best second-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203882-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Cup, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals, Second leg\nTerengganu 2 \u2013 2 Selangor on aggregate. Terengganu won 5-4 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup\nThe 2009 Malaysia FA Cup, also known as the 2009 TM Piala FA due to the competition's sponsorship by TM, was the 20th season of the Malaysia FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup\nSelangor has won the title for the fifth time, defeating Kelantan in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Format\nThe Piala FA competition has reverted to the old format of play with no more open draws. It will comprise 29 teams \u2014 15 Super League and 14 Premier League sides \u2014 with defending champions Kedah FA, Selangor FA and Terengganu FA receiving byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Format\nKedah FA, who won back-to-back trebles, will play the winner of the match between Proton FC and UPB-MyTeam FC in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, First round\nThe match first leg match for Harimau Muda and KL PLUS FC played on 24 January 2009. The second leg played on 4 February 2009. The first legs of other match played on 31 January 2009. The second legs played on 3 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Second round\nThe first leg match played on 21 February 2009. The second leg will be play on 24 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Quarter Final\nThe quarter final matches are scheduled to be played on 3 March and the weekend of 7 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Semi Final\nThe first leg matches were played on Tuesday, 7 April 2009, while the second legs were played on Tuesday, 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Final\nThe final was played at National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, 25 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203883-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FA Cup, Top scorers\nBold indicates players whose clubs are still active in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203884-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FAM League\n2009 FAM League is the 57th edition season of current third-tier league competition in Malaysia. The league is called TM Malaysia FAM League for sponsorship reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203884-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FAM League\nThe league winner for 2009 season is Pos Malaysia FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203884-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia FAM League, Teams\nThe following teams participated in the Malaysia FAM Cup 2009. In order by the number given by FAM:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203885-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold\nThe 2009 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold was the inaugural edition of the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold and fourth grand prix's badminton tournament of the 2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held at the Bandaraya Stadium in Johor Bahru, Malaysia from 23 to 28 June 2009 and had a total purse of $120,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203886-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Premier League\nThe 2009 Liga Premier (English: 2009 Premier League), also known as the TM Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the sixth season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203886-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Premier League\nThe season was held from 9 January and concluded on 2 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203886-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Premier League\nThe Liga Premier champions for 2009 season was Harimau Muda. As a development team, Harimau Muda had to stay in Liga Premier while T-Team and Johor promoted to Liga Super as a second and third placed team in the league respectively. Kuala Lumpur was later promoted to Liga Super too to keep the team number balanced after Kuala Muda Naza and UPB-MyTeam withdrawal from Super League for 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203886-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Premier League, Teams\n\u00b9 - Relegated from Liga Super\u00b2 - Promoted from Liga FAM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League\nThe 2009 Liga Super (English: 2009 Super League) also known as the TM Liga Super for sponsorship reasons is the sixth season of the Liga Super, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League\nThe season was held from 3 January and concluded on 3 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League, Teams\nA total of 14 teams compete in the 2009 season which includes the top 12 teams that participated in the 2007\u201308 season and champions and runners-up of the 2007-08 Liga Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League, Teams\nSarawak were relegated at the end of the 2009 Liga Super season after finishing in the bottom place of the league table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League, Teams\nDPMM was excluded from the competition as per FIFA rules after Football Association of Brunei Darussalam was deregistered by the Registrar of Societies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203887-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super League, Teams\n2007-08 Liga Premier champions Kuala Muda Naza and runners-up PLUS secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203888-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysia Super Series\nThe 2009 Malaysia Super Series, not to be confused with the  2009 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold, was a badminton tournament held from January 6 to January 11, 2009 in Putra Indoor Stadium, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 5 April 2009 at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia. It was the second race of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race was due to be contested over 56\u00a0laps, but was stopped after 31\u00a0laps due to torrential rain. Jenson Button, driving for the Brawn GP team, was declared the winner, having started from pole position. Nick Heidfeld was classified second for BMW Sauber with Timo Glock third for Toyota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix\nAs the race did not reach the required 75% distance (42 laps) for full points to be awarded, half-points were given instead, for only the fifth time in Formula One history and the first since the 1991 Australian Grand Prix. The race distance of 171.833\u00a0km (106.772\u00a0mi) was the fifth-shortest ever covered in a World Championship Grand Prix. Brawn GP became only the second constructor to win their first two World Championship Grands Prix since Alfa Romeo won the first two ever, in 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nAfter winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix held one week earlier, Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by two points from his teammate Rubens Barrichello and by four points from Jarno Trulli. Trulli's teammate Timo Glock was fourth and Fernando Alonso completed the top five. Brawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 7 points from Toyota and by 14 points from Renault. Williams and Toro Rosso were fourth and fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe race start time was moved forward two hours, from 17:00 local time (09:00 UTC) to 15:00 local time (07:00 UTC). However, the organisers turned down the possibility of holding a night race, in line with the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, for budgetary reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\n\"This morning we had a problem with the KERS, which cost us a bit of time, but we managed to make up for most of it in the afternoon. We had felt that the situation here could be different to Melbourne, but it is still too early to say where we are up against the opposition. What we can be sure of is that when the car runs trouble-free, we are competitive. We hope we can do a good job in tomorrow's qualifying.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nKimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, after his incident in the first practice session, and after setting the fastest lap in the second practice session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1\u00a0hour and 30\u00a0minutes with weather conditions dry throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an\u00a0hour, and was also dry throughout. Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima secured a Williams one-two in the first session with times of 1:36.260 and 1:36.305 minutes respectively. In the second session, Ferrari's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Felipe Massa went quickest with times of 1:35.707 and 1:35.832 minutes. After 18 laps, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's cockpit began to billow out smoke, and though Ferrari did not give an official statement, there are reports that the car's kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) had overheated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nJenson Button took Brawn's second consecutive pole ahead of Jarno Trulli's Toyota. Rubens Barrichello qualified fourth in the other Brawn (third when Vettel's penalty was taken into consideration), but was demoted five places to eighth after a gearbox change. An error in strategy meant that Massa failed to make it through Q1. In an interview to Rede Globo, the driver said that he and the team thought the initial time posted was enough to qualify for the second session, and refrained from recording additional times to spare the car's engine. However, this was not the case, and Massa was left in 16th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOff the line, there was a clean getaway by all drivers, apart from Robert Kubica, who was forced to retire from engine problems after the first lap. Williams' Nico Rosberg moved from fourth on the grid to lead into the first corner, followed by Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso, who had used his KERS system to good effect to move up from tenth; Jenson Button made a poor start in his Brawn and was down to fourth. Heading into turn five, McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen ran wide onto the track's 'marbles' (fragments of degraded tyre rubber), and spun into early retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAfter a slow start, Button caught and passed the heavier Renault of Alonso at turn thirteen for third place and set off after Trulli. Rosberg and Trulli stopped for fuel earlier than Button, who was able to pass them during the first round of pit stops and take the lead. Evidence of rain was barely noticed, but Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen pitted to switch from dry to full wet tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHowever, his gamble did not pay off, as rain did not come as early as predicted, and he was forced to slow down significantly to delay the rapid wear of the wet tyres. (Without standing water on the track, wet tyres will not maintain structural integrity at high speeds, and will rapidly degrade over the course of a few laps.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBy lap 19, rain had started to fall and most of the drivers pitted for wet tyres. However, at this stage there was no standing water on the track, and so the wet tyres started to wear out very quickly. Timo Glock had been using intermediate tyres which were better suited to the conditions and moved rapidly up to third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe other drivers followed this example and switched to intermediate tyres as well, which the majority of the field stayed on until lap 31 when the downpour finally reached the whole track, and drivers pitted for wet tyres once again. The conditions were proven to be so treacherous that Sebastien Buemi and Sebastian Vettel (who was in 8th position) had both spun out into retirement by lap 31 despite them being on the wet tyres right before the race was stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nDue to the torrential rain, the race was stopped on the 33rd lap and the results were taken from the classification at the end of lap 31 (the penultimate fully completed in accordance with sporting regulation 42.8). Half-points were subsequently awarded to the top eight. The race was the fifth out of six races in Formula One to be abandoned before 75% distance: the others were the 1975 Spanish and Austrian Grands Prix, the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix, the 1991 Australian Grand Prix and the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Race\nButton took his second victory of the season and five points, and it was the first time he had won back to back victories and his third career victory. The victory also meant that Brawn GP became the first team since Alfa Romeo in 1950 to win their first two Grands Prix. Nick Heidfeld was classified second ahead of Toyota's Timo Glock. Heidfeld was the first driver to take a podium position with a KERS-equipped car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nThe drivers generally backed the decision to abandon the race, citing diminishing visibility (due to the later starting time) as well as the heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"The visibility is nothing, [we] could have a serious accident if we restart.\" \u2014 Fernando Alonso before the race was officially called off", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"It was impossible to drive out there, it was very, very dangerous. It's the most dangerous conditions I have ever raced in,\" \u2014 Lewis Hamilton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"It was way too wet out there and the decision to call it off was correct. I would obviously love to have the 10 points, but this is the best we could have done, I think, and realistically it was the right thing to do. I'm sure some people will say 'we didn't see the whole race and it's disappointing' but you have to think about the safety sometimes. When the safety car is pulling away at 20 seconds a lap, you know that it's too wet for an F1 car.\" \u2014 Jenson Button", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"It's dark now at seven o'clock so it was the right call not to make the re-start,\" \u2014 Mark Webber (a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nOfficials in Malaysia also confirmed that they would review the start time of the 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix. Mokhzani Mahathir, chairman of the Sepang International Circuit, said he consulted Bernie Ecclestone after the race and they had agreed to look at the timings. However, Ecclestone revealed he had no qualms about the schedule, stating:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\n\"I just have regrets about the rain, I don't see anything wrong with the start time, we just didn't know about the rain.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Report, Post-race\nMokhzani suggested the possibility of implementing a lighting system (similar to that used in the Singapore Grand Prix) to illuminate the circuit in future races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203889-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, Classification\nCars that used the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203890-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23\u201325 October 2009 at the Sepang International Circuit. In wet conditions the race was dominated by Casey Stoner in a return to form following a mystery illness which ended his hopes of regaining the world championship title. Valentino Rossi finished third, which clinched the 2009 MotoGP championship for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203890-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203891-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament\nStatistics of Second Division Football Tournament in the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203891-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament, Stadiums\nMatches were played at 2 venues; Henveiru Football Ground and Maafannu Turf Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203891-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament, Teams\nTwelve teams compete in the league  \u2013 top 2 teams qualify to play in the 2010 Dhivehi league play-off     and bottom 2 teams will be relegated to Third division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203892-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Maldives on 9 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203892-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian parliamentary election, Background\nPolitical parties in the Maldives were legalised on 2 June 2005 after a unanimous vote in the Majlis which allowed a multi-party system to contest presidential and parliamentary elections after 30 years of autocratic rule by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. On 28 October 2008, Mohamed Nasheed, leader of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) defeated Gayoom in the country's democratic presidential elections. Following the election, Nasheed and Mohammed Waheed Hassan were sworn in as the President and Vice President on 11 November in a special session of the Majlis at the Dharubaaruge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203892-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nOn 10 February 2009, the Majlis voted 36\u20130 (with one abstention) to pass the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill, which Nasheed signed into law later that day. It was the first act he signed as president after being inaugurated in November 2008. In the law, each administrative atoll's population determines how many electoral constituencies will be created. On 9 March 2009, the Elections Commission of the Maldives announced there were 214,405 eligible voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203892-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maldivian parliamentary election, Results\nThe result in constituency N-02 Thimarafushi Dhaairaa was annulled due to irregularities and reported intimidation by the MDP at one polling region; polling was repeated on 11 July 2009. According to preliminary results, the MDP still won the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203893-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 FF season\nThe 2009 season was Malm\u00f6 FF's 98th in existence, their 74th season in Allsvenskan and their 9th consecutive season in the league. They competed in Allsvenskan where they finished in 7th position and Svenska Cupen where they were knocked out in the third round. The season was the club's first at Swedbank Stadion, having moved from Malm\u00f6 Stadion after the 2008 season. The first league match at Swedbank Stadion was played against \u00d6rgryte IS on 13 April and won 3\u20130 by Malm\u00f6 FF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203893-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203893-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Players, Disciplinary record\nSource: Match reports in Competitive matchesOnly competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203893-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Non competitive, Pre-season\nSource: 1Malm\u00f6 FF goals come first.Country's flag depict country of foreign team to that of Malm\u00f6 FF.Ground: H = Home; A = Away; N = Neutral; HR = Home replacement; AR = Away replacement; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203893-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 FF season, Non competitive, Mid-season\nSource: 1Malm\u00f6 FF goals come first.Country's flag depict country of foreign team to that of Malm\u00f6 FF.Ground: H = Home; A = Away; N = Neutral; HR = Home replacement; AR = Away replacement; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots\nThe 2009 Malm\u00f6 Davis Cup riots were anti-Israel riots in the Swedish city of Malm\u00f6 against a Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Israel on 7 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Background\nIn February, the tennis match was decided by Malm\u00f6's red-green city coalition to be closed to the public, a decision that was heavily criticised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The Mayor of Malm\u00f6, Ilmar Reepalu, personally said he thought the game should not be played at all, and the decision was thus considered to be more politically motivated than to do with security concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Riots\nIn anticipation of protests, around 1,000 police officers sanctioned off a large area around the Baltic Hall tennis stadium to keep protesters and rioters away. A reported 170 truck loads of pavement stones were transported out of the area before the protests, and three schools were closed. In addition, for the first time in history, riot vehicles were brought in from Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Riots\nThe match was initially met with protest of around 6,000 to 7,000 anti-Israel demonstrators, with speeches held by the leader of the Left Party, Lars Ohly, who while wearing a Palestinian scarf was seen holding a map of Palestine with Israel eradicated. The demonstrators were joined by several hundred militants of which around 200 to 300 began attacking police with stones, fireworks and paint bombs. The anti-Israel rioters included AFA anti-fascists, militant Islamists, organised neo-Nazis, as well as activists from neighbouring countries. Police eventually detained around 100 rioters, arresting ten. An additional eighteen rioters were later identified and put on trial for their part in the riots, with several convictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 768]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Aftermath\nThe decision to close the tennis match to the public resulted in Malm\u00f6 being banned from hosting tennis matches by the ITF for five years. In addition to having to provide $15,000 in minimum gate receipts for the match, the Swedish Tennis Association was fined an additional $25,000. The Swedish Tennis Association responded by issuing penalties to Malm\u00f6 mayor Ilmar Reepalu for his involvement in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Aftermath\nThe protest and riots led to accusations of antisemitism in Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Aftermath\nSwedish history professor Kristian Gerner described the situation as \"the worst crisis for Jews in Sweden since the Second World War.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203894-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Malm\u00f6 anti-Israel riots, Aftermath\nA 2012 European Men's Handball Championship qualifier between Sweden and Israel set to be played in Karlskrona in June 2011 raised concerns due to the riots, and was considered for moving to another location by Swedish sports authorities. The match was played as scheduled, with a minor anti-Israel demonstration being held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203895-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malone Pioneers football team\nThe 2009 Malone Pioneers football team represented Malone University in the 2009 NAIA football season. The Pioneers played their home games in Fawcett Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203895-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Malone Pioneers football team, Coaching staff, Head coach\nThe head coach for the 2009 season was Mike Gardner, who was in his fourth season directing the Pioneers. Previously he was head coach at Tabor College (where he returned to coach in 2010). Gardner also worked as the defensive coordinator for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203896-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Malta Open darts\n2009 Malta Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Malta in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203897-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maltese local elections\nLocal elections were held in Malta on 6 June 2009, the same day of the European elections. The elections were held in 23 of the 68 Maltese localities. These 23 localities are: Imdina (Citt\u00e0 Notabile), Bormla (Citt\u00e0 Cospicua), Rabat, Gozo, \u017babbar (Citt\u00e0 Hompesch), Birkirkara, Fgura, Gudja, G\u0127arb, G\u0127axaq, Kalkara, Lija, Marsaskala, M\u0121arr, Msida, Imtarfa, Naxxar, Piet\u00e0, Malta, Rabat, Malta, San \u0120wann, Sannat, Tas-Sliema, Tarxien, and Xg\u0127ajra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203897-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maltese local elections, Candidates\nIn total, 272 candidates contested for this election, 133 for Partit Laburista (PL), as well as for Partit Nazzjonalista (PN), three for Alternattiva Demokratika (AD), and other three as independents. The independent candidates contested respectively in M\u0121arr, Tarxien and Mtarfa. The Mtarfa candidate was in the party G\u0127all-Imtarfa A\u0127jar (For Better Mtarfa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203898-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maltese presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in Malta on 12 January 2009. Former Labour Party deputy leader George Abela was elected to become the next President of Malta on 4 April 2009, when the incumbent Eddie Fenech Adami steps down; this marks the first time that a member of the opposition was elected president, as the Nationalist Party controlled the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203899-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mamaia Challenger\nThe 2009 Mamaia Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Constan\u0163a, Romania between 22 and 28 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203899-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mamaia Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203899-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mamaia Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nAdri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda /  David Marrero def. Adrian Cruciat /  Florin Mergea, 7\u20136(5), 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203900-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mamaia Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nFlorin Mergea and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions. Tec\u0103u didn't start this year. Mergea partnered up with Adrian Cruciat. They reached the final, where they lost to Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda and David Marrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203901-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mamaia Challenger \u2013 Singles\nNicolas Devilder was the defending champion, but he chose to not participate this year. Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Julian Reister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203902-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Man Booker Prize\nThe 2009 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 6 October 2009. The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 2 August,  and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 8 September. The Prize was awarded  to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash\nThe Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash occurred in the state of Amazonas in Brazil on February 7, 2009. At 13:50 local time, a Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante twin turboprop, registration PT-SEA, operating as an air taxi flight from Coari (SWKO) to Manaus (SBEG), crashed into the Manacapuru River about 80 kilometers (50\u00a0mi) southwest of its destination, killing the two crew and 22 of the 26 passengers on board. The four surviving passengers, who were seated in the rear, managed to escape the sinking plane and swim safely to shore. Among the passengers were eight small children of whom one survived, and a family of 17, two of whom survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Crash\nThe Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante twin turboprop aircraft, registration PT-SEA and serial number 110352, was carrying twenty-eight people, though it was certificated for twenty-one. Shortly before the crash, the pilot reportedly attempted to turn back to Coari due to heavy rainfall, but then had to make an emergency landing in the Manacapuru River, a tributary of the Amazon located between Santo Antonio and Montecristo. Survivors said they saw one of the airplane's propellers stop rotating before the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Crash\nThe plane plunged into the river at a point about 500 meters from an abandoned runway, and 20 minutes away from its intended destination Manaus, and it submerged to a depth of about five to seven meters. The four survivors (three adults and one nine-year-old child), who were sitting at the rear of the  plane, managed to open an emergency exit and reach the surface; they did not suffer major injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Crash\nNearly forty rescue workers, including nine scuba divers and civil defense officials, spent the night searching through the jungle for survivors. Rescue crews were able to recover all twenty-four bodies; all deaths were attributed to drowning. The victims were fifteen adult passengers, seven children, and the two crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Crash\nThe newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported that the plane was packed with members of one family on their way to Manaus to celebrate the birthday of a relative. Fifteen of the fatal victims and two survivors belonged to this family. Paulo Roberto Pereira, a spokesman for the charter company involved, initially misreported the number of people on board, saying that there had been twenty-two passengers and two crew members aboard but later increased that figure to twenty-six passengers and two crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Investigation\nBrazil's Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) investigated the crash, and issued its final report on July 30, 2010. CENIPA concluded that the twin engine turboprop aircraft took off overweight, and its left engine failed while en route. Unable to maintain level flight on a single engine in its overweight condition, the aircraft crashed while attempting to execute an emergency landing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203903-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Manaus Aerot\u00e1xi crash, Investigation\nAccording to CENIPA, the aircraft departed Coari weighing 549.7\u00a0kg above its maximum certificated takeoff weight, with 28 persons on board, including two crew and 26 passengers, while the aircraft was certificated for a maximum of two crew and 19 passengers. There were only 18 passenger seats installed in the aircraft, so eight passengers traveled as \"lap children\", a situation CENIPA called \"inconsistent with reality\" (situa\u00e7\u00e3o que n\u00e3o condizia com a realidade). CENIPA noted that when the pilot in command contacted Amazonic Center air traffic control by radio, he reported 20 persons on board, instead of the actual 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203904-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manchester Trophy\nThe 2009 Manchester Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Manchester, England, United Kingdom between 11 and 19 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203904-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manchester Trophy, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203904-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manchester Trophy, Champions, Doubles\nJoshua Goodall /  Jonathan Marray def. Colin Fleming /  Ken Skupski, 6\u20137(1), 6\u20133, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203905-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Doubles\nAdam Feeney and Robert Smeets were the defending champions. Feeney chose to not participate and Smeets played with Brydan Klein. They were eliminated by Prakash Amritraj and Dustin Brown in the first round. Joshua Goodall and Jonathan Marray won the final 6\u20137(1), 6\u20133, [11\u20139], against Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203906-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manchester Trophy \u2013 Singles\nBj\u00f6rn Rehnquist was the champion in 2008; however, he chose to not participate this year. Olivier Rochus became the new winner, after won against Igor Sijsling in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack\nOn 24 January 2009, the Sri Ram Sena attacked a group of young women and men in a pub in Mangalore, India. A group of 40 activists of the Sri Rama Sena barged into the pub \"Amnesia\u00a0\u2013 The Lounge\" and beat up a group of young women and men, claiming the women were violating traditional Indian values. Two of the women were hospitalised. The video of the incident has become one of the most watched clips on YouTube, though how the TV crew happened to be ready at the 'unannounced' attack is not known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack\nAccording to statements of staff at the Amnesia Pub at the Hotel Woodside in the busy Balmatta area of Mangalore, two men approached the front desk of the hotel an hour before the actual attack took place at 4:30 pm on Saturday, reportedly claiming rights to inspect the premises. However, local police officials claimed the hotel staff had not made any reference to an extortion attempt or on previous occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack\nThe police also suspect that the real hidden agenda could have been extortion, the fact is that by claiming responsibility, a group will be able to extort money from similar establishments later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack\n\"Whoever has done this has done a good job. Girls going to pubs is not acceptable. So, whatever the Sena members did was right. You are highlighting this small incident to malign the BJP government in the state,\" said founder Pramod Muthalik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack\nIn 2018, Muthalik along with 24 others were acquitted by the court from the charges related to the pub attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Arrests\nThe Karnataka police have picked up Prasad Attavar, the convenor of the Sri Ram Sena, along with Lohith, another member of the outfit. Police sources declared that they were hiding ever since the incident in an area called Adyar in Mangalore. The police is still looking for another key member of the outfit by the name Dinakar, who had claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Arrests\nThe Sri Ram Sena chief Prasad Attavar claimed that these girls are like his sisters and he would not approve of anyone raising their hand on his sisters and this is just a minor incident that has been blown out of proportion. The police sources said that there were 40 persons involved in the attack in all and till now they had picked up 19 of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Arrests\nAround 27 people were arrested related to this incident till now. The Sri Rama Sena, which has 1,000\u20131,500 cadre in the coastal Karnataka region, has threatened to carry out a state-wide bandh if Muthalik is not released by 29 January 2009,Thursday evening A pub attack victim has told NDTV that she received threat calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Public reaction\nThe Pink Chaddi Campaign, nonviolent protest movement was launched in India in response to notable incidences of violent conservative and right-wing activism against perceived violations of Indian culture. The campaign was conceived particularly in protest against a threat by Pramod Muthalik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nOn 3 February 2009, Pravin Valke, founding member of the Sri Rama Sene, told The Indian Express, \"These girls come from all over India, drink, smoke, and walk around in the night spoiling the traditional girls of Mangalore. Why should girls go to pubs? Are they going to serve their future husbands alcohol? Should they not be learning to make chapattis [Indian bread]? Bars and pubs should be for men only. We wanted to ensure that all women in Mangalore are home by 7 p.m.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nShri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik later apologised for the attack on weekend revellers at a Mangalore pub, saying the way the right-wing group acted \"was wrong\" but insisted it was done to \"save our mothers and daughters\". He was later arrested under IPC section 153 by the Karnataka Police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nThe Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa had said the Sriram Sena is not a Sangh Parivar outfit and asserted that stringent action will be taken against the culprits. He also has ruled out banning the Sri Ram Sena even though the outfit's chief admitted to wrongdoing. The Ram Sena chief has threatened a similar protest on Valentine's Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nPramod Muthalik, a full-time Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) man earlier was the Karnataka coordinator of the Bajrang Dal four years ago. Soon he was expelled from the Bajrang Dal after which he joined the Shiv Sena and later he formed his own group. Pramod Multhalik has over 45 cases pending against him. Most of these cases are still under investigation. A look at the chargesheet makes it clear that he has never been arrested for any of these cases. Pramod even recently held a press meet in Bangalore to release the photographs of the members of Hindu suicide squad undergoing training in handling arms and ammunition to take on Muslim Jihadis. According to Mutalik there are 1,132 members in the suicide squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nThe Janata Dal (Secular) chief and the former PM of India, H. D. Deve Gowda on 26 January 2009, accused Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa of being responsible for Talibanisation of Karnataka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nThe mayor of Mangalore filed an FIR against Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury for her reference to the Talibanisation of Mangalore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, Reactions\nToeing the right-wing group Sri Ram Sene Pramod Muthalik's line, Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa has said that pub culture is wrong and should not be permitted. One of the woman victims of the attack on a Mangalore pub on Monday claimed that the Sri Ram Sena activists hurled abuses at them and called them prostitutes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nThe National Commission for Women (NCW) constituted a three-member team to investigate the attack on women in the pub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nIn what was termed a shocking statement, the NCW put the blame on the girls who were beaten. They also implicated the pub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nNirmala Venkatesh, a member of the three-member NCW team, blamed the pub for the attacks, saying they did not have adequate security to protect against a mob of 40 men. She also stated that a live band was playing, and the girls partaking in this could have been another cause. She said her concern was that the media coverage had tarnished the image of Karnataka. She stated that as per information available to her, several of the girls were from north India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\n\"Everybody was dancing wearing so many nude clothes (sic) and all. That is why they did what they did, they (the attackers) said. We women should always try to safeguard ourselves,\" Nirmala Venkatesh said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nAsked for an assessment of the incident, she strangely stated that she has found illegal activities going on in some hotels and pubs in Mangalore, including prostitution. She claimed to have conducted a surprise raid on one of the hotels and found \"that not everything was going on legally.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nNumerous reports have talked about the victims receiving threatening phone calls. The victims are said to be in a state of fear, and have not come forward to register complaints. In relation to this, Nirmala Venkatesh had a different view: \"If the girls feel they were not doing anything wrong why are they afraid to come forward and give a statement?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nShe stated that she was not concentrating on the Sri Ram Sena group, but that she will interrogate the owner of the pub, and the media persons present. She stated that she held the pub's staff culpable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nThe NCW investigation has focused solely on the license and documentation of the attacked pub. The NCW advised the police to look into alleged misuse of the licence. According to Ms. Venkatesh, the NCW will recommend the cancellation of the pub's license. The NCW team is also investigating the register of guests, claiming it is suspicious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nNirmala Venkatesh met with the culprits who perpetrated the attack and provided counselling for them. She has, however, not talked to any of the victims of the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nThe Sri Ram Sena has thanked the NCW for helping spread its message to other states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nIn her report to the commission, Nirmala blamed the owner of the pub for not providing security to women guests, and recommended suspension of its licence. While claiming that she was unable to trace the victims, she met the accused in jail. At one point in time, she even suggested that women refrain from wearing \"skimpy\" and provocative dresses. When her report was not accepted by the Commission, Nirmala even challenged the authority of Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury. Nirmala Venkatesh was removed from her office of National Commission for Women member by the Ministry of Women and Child Development for failing to conduct an unbiased enquiry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203907-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Mangalore pub attack, National Commission for Women controversy\nNirmala Venkatesh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shortly after this, and declared that she was ready to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections if she was given a ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203908-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic\nThe 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic was held October 23-26 at the Fort Rouge Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2009-2010 women's World Curling Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203908-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic\nThe event was previously known as the Casinos of Winnipeg Women's Curling Classic. The event featured 32 teams, 30 of which are from Canada and two from Europe. The total purse for the event was $60,000 with $15,000 going to the winning team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203909-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Manitoba's provincial women's curling championship) was held February 4-8 at the Yellowhead Centre in Neepawa. The winning Barb Spencer team represented Manitoba at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia. The reigning provincial champion, Jennifer Jones, won the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts and thereby had already qualified for the 2009 event as Team Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections\nTwo provincial by-elections were held in the Canadian province of Manitoba on March 24, 2009 to fill vacancies in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Both were won by the governing Manitoba New Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, Elmwood\nThe electoral district of Elmwood became vacant in fall 2008 when incumbent New Democratic Party MLA Jim Maloway resigned from the legislature to run as the federal New Democratic Party candidate in Elmwood\u2014Transcona in the 2008 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, Elmwood\nBill Blaikie, the former MP whose retirement from federal politics opened up the NDP candidacy in Elmwood\u2014Transcona, subsequently announced his intention to stand in the provincial by-election. Two other candidates, Ed Innes and Darryl Livingstone, had submitted nomination papers, but both dropped out before the nomination meeting, and Blaikie was acclaimed as the party's candidate on December 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, Elmwood\nThe Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party chose Adrian Schulz, a 25-year-old businessman who left high school at 14 to start his first computer business, the Manitoba Liberal Party chose Regan Wolfrom, a community activist, and the Green Party of Manitoba candidate was James Beddome, who was selected as the party's new leader in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, Elmwood\nBlaikie won the by-election, marking the first time in his 30-year political career that he will be serving in a governing party caucus rather than an opposition role.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, The Pas\nThe electoral district of The Pas became vacant with the death of incumbent New Democratic MLA Oscar Lathlin on November 1, 2008. The by-election was won by Frank Whitehead, a former chief of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, who ran for the New Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203910-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Manitoba provincial by-elections, The Pas\nThe Liberal candidate was Maurice Berens, a high school teacher from Norway House, and the Progressive Conservatives selected Edna Nabess, a clothing store owner in The Pas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season\nThe 2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 60th in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season the 5th (out of 16). The Sea Eagles were then knocked out in the first week of the play-offs by eventual premiers, the Melbourne Storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season, Season summary\nAs 2008 NRL premiers, the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles started their new season with the 2009 World Club Challenge match in England against Super League's 2008 champions, the Leeds Rhinos. They defeated the Rhinos 28 - 20, putting an end to England club football's 5-year hold on the World Club Challenge trophy before preparing for the start of the 2009 NRL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season, Season summary\nSea Eagles star player Brett Stewart was accused of a sexual assault with a 17-year-old girl, this coming the same day after Manly's infamous season launch on 6 March, where it was believed Stewart got drunk. The NRL suspended Stewart until Round 5 of the competition, but he was still allowed to train with the club. As a result, the club started their premiership defence poorly, with four consecutive losses seeing them at last place after round four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season, Season summary\nThey won their fifth round match so they were the last team to record their first win of the season, against the Wests Tigers. Upon Stewart's return he scored 3 tries in the Sea Eagles' first win of the season. Stewart was exonerated over his sexual assault charge in September 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season, Season summary\nStewart only played four further matches in the 2009 season; he suffered a knee injury in the Sea Eagles' round six victory over the South Sydney Rabbitohs and missed a great deal of football. He returned in round 25, just in time for Manly's charge to the finals; after the Sea eagles initially struggled without him on the field. Manly were eliminated in the first round of finals, going down 40-12 to the Melbourne Storm at Etihad Stadium despite finishing fifth at the end of the regular season. Losses to two of the top three teams were the reasons for Manly's early exit, ending their premiership defence in disappointment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203911-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles season, Table\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203912-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray\nThe 2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Manta, Ecuador between 20 and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203912-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203912-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray, Champions, Doubles\nRicardo Hocevar /  Andr\u00e9 Miele def. Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez /  Horacio Zeballos, 6\u20131, 2\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203913-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray \u2013 Doubles\nAlejandro Gonz\u00e1lez and Eduardo Struvay were the defending champions. Struvay chose to not participate and Gonz\u00e1lez teamed up with Eduardo Struvay, but they lost to Alejandro Fabbri and Guido Pella in the first round. Ricardo Hocevar and Andr\u00e9 Miele defeated Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Horacio Zeballos in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203914-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manta Open \u2013 Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray \u2013 Singles\nGiovanni Lapentti was the title defender, but he retired in the semifinal, when the result was 3\u20136 for Vincent Millot. Horacio Zeballos won in the final 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Vincent Millot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Manx Grand Prix was held between Saturday 22 August and Friday 4 September 2009 on the 37.733-mile Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix\nThe Blue Riband event of race week was won by Michael Russell claiming victory in the Senior. The Ultra-Lightweight race proved to be an historic event with Carolynn Sells becoming the first female solo winner on the Snaefell Mountain Course. A hat-trick of successive race wins was completed by Ryan Farquhar winning the Senior Classic race. The Junior Manx Grand Prix was won by Stephen McIlvenna and Sean Murphy the Newcomers Race with Adrian Kershaw winning Class B. The combined Junior Classic Race was won by Chris McGahan and Ewan Hamilton winning the 250\u00a0cc Class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix\nThere was further race win for Ryan Farquhar in the new Post Classic Race Class with Brian Mateer first in Class (ii). There was a second successive win for Dan Sayle in the Lightweight Manx Grand Prix and second race win on the Mountain Course in 2009 after winning Sidecar TT Race 'A'. Musician Jake Drake-Brockman, a former member with the Liverpool group Echo & the Bunnymen, was involved in a fatal road traffic accident near Orrisdale North when the vintage BSA motorcycle he was riding was in collision with a converted ambulance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1a; Newcomers Race A\nTuesday  1 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course  3 laps \u2013 113.00\u00a0miles (181.96\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1a; Newcomers Race A\nFastest Lap: Sean Murphy \u2013 113.840\u00a0mph (19' 53.15) on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1a; Newcomers Race B\nTuesday  1 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course  3 laps \u2013 113.00\u00a0miles (181.96\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1a; Newcomers Race B\nFastest Lap: Adrian Kershaw \u2013 101.027\u00a0mph (22' 24.47) on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1b; Post Classic Race Class (i)\nTuesday  1 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course  3 laps \u2013 113.00\u00a0miles (181.96\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 81], "content_span": [82, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1b; Post Classic Race Class (i)\nFastest Lap: Ryan Farquhar \u2013 108.045\u00a0mph (20' 57.14) on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 81], "content_span": [82, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1b; Post Classic Race Class (ii)\nTuesday  1 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course  3 laps \u2013 113.00\u00a0miles (181.96\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 82], "content_span": [83, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 1b; Post Classic Race Class (ii)\nFastest Lap: Brian Muir \u2013 103.130\u00a0mph (21' 57.06) on lap 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 82], "content_span": [83, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 2; Junior Manx Grand Prix\nWednesday 2 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 2; Junior Manx Grand Prix\nFastest Lap; Ryan Kneen \u2013 19\u00a0minutes 03.93 seconds  118.738\u00a0mph on lap 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 3a; Senior Classic Race\nWednesday 2 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 3a; Senior Classic Race\nFastest Lap: Ryan Farquhar \u2013 110.984\u00a0mph (20' 23.85) on lap 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 3b; Junior Classic Race\nWednesday 2 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 3b; Junior Classic Race\nFastest Lap: Alan Oversby \u2013 100.383\u00a0mph (22' 33.10) on lap 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 4a; Lightweight Manx Grand Prix\nFriday 4 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 81], "content_span": [82, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 4b; Ultra-Lightweight Manx Grand Prix\nFriday 4 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 87], "content_span": [88, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 5; Senior Manx Grand Prix\nFriday 4 September 2009 \u2013 Mountain Course  Mountain Course 4 laps \u2013 150.92\u00a0miles (242.80\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203915-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Manx Grand Prix, Results, Race Results, Race 5; Senior Manx Grand Prix\nFastest Lap: Michael Russell \u2013 116.110\u00a0mph (19' 29.82) on lap 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 75], "content_span": [76, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Pre-comeback\nAt the beginning of the year, Sharapova was forced to concede the defence of her Australian Open title, a decision which would see her drop out of the WTA's Top 10 for the first time since winning Wimbledon in 2004. Her continued absence from the Tour also cost her the titles she won in Doha and Amelia Island last year; she also missed both the Premier Mandatory events at Indian Wells and Miami, and subsequently saw her world ranking drop to No. 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Pre-comeback\nSharapova first attempted her comeback by playing doubles with Elena Vesnina at Indian Wells (she did not play in the singles tournament). This decision would backfire, as they lost to fellow Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Tatiana Poutchek in three sets in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Comeback to tennis\nIn May, it was announced that she would be making her comeback at the Warsaw Open, which she entered as a wild card entry. She eventually reached the quarter-finals, losing to eventual finalist Alona Bondarenko. In the week during which the tournament was held, though, her world ranking dropped to No. 126, her lowest ranking since 2003, but her run in Warsaw saw her rise to No. 102 in the world rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, French Open\nSharapova entered the 2009 French Open unseeded at a Major for the first time since the 2003 US Open. In the second round, she defeated 11th seed Nadia Petrova 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 8\u20136. She went on to reach the quarter-finals, where she suffered her worst defeat at a Major tournament, losing to Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1 and winning only two games (she had to defend a match point at 0\u20136, 0\u20135 down in the second set, in the process avoiding her second career double bagel defeat). Despite the defeat, Sharapova moved back into the World's Top 100 in the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Grass court season\nSharapova started her grass court season at Birmingham, where she had won her first grass court title five years earlier. Unseeded, she defeated St\u00e9phanie Dubois, Alexa Glatch, seventh seed and future Wimbledon quarter-finalist Francesca Schiavone and Yanina Wickmayer to reach the semi-finals, before being defeated by Li Na there. Her run in Birmingham brought her ranking back into the Top 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Grass court season\nAs it was in 2008, her Wimbledon campaign would once again turn out to be short-lived, as she was defeated in the second round by Gisela Dulko in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open series\nSharapova next played at the 2009 Bank of the West Classic, where she defeated Ai Sugiyama and Nadia Petrova before being defeated by Venus Williams in the final eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open series\nShe next played at Los Angeles, where she recorded her first career victory against Victoria Azarenka before falling in three sets to eventual champion Flavia Pennetta in the semi-finals. She then reached her first final since April 2008 at the Rogers Cup, falling there to Elena Dementieva in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, US Open series\nTo conclude the US Open series, she competed at the US Open as the 29th seed; this was her lowest seeding at a Major tournament since the 2004 Australian Open. She defeated Tsvetana Pironkova and Christina McHale for the loss of three games each in the first two rounds, but was then stunned in the third round by little-known Melanie Oudin in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly summary, Fall series\nSharapova picked up her first title since April 2008, when she won the Toray Pan Pacific Open event in Tokyo after her Serbian opponent Jelena Jankovi\u0107 retired at 2\u20135 down in the first set. This marked her 20th career singles title. At Beijing, her final tournament of the season, she received a bye into the second round, where she defeated Victoria Azarenka in three sets, before falling to Peng Shuai in the third. Her impressive comeback eventually led to her finishing the year ranked World No. 14, having been No. 126 back in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, All matches\nThis table chronicles all the matches of Sharapova in 2009, including walkovers (W/O) which the WTA does not count as wins. They are marked ND for non-decision or no decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203916-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Maria Sharapova tennis season, Yearly Records, Head-to-head matchups\nOrdered by percentage, number of victories to number of losses, then in alphabetical order", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203917-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Marion Mayhem season\nThe 2009 Marion Mayhem season was the fourth season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. The Mayhem finished the regular season with a 9-3 record in 2009. This was good enough to earn them the 2009 CIFL East Division Regular Season Title and the opportunity to host the East Division Championship Game. This was the third season in a row the Mayhem made the playoffs. Their opponent in the East Division Championship Game was the Fort Wayne Freedom (6-5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203917-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Marion Mayhem season\nComing into the game the Freedom had been experiencing money problems and up until three days before the East Division Championship Game the Freedom still were not sure they were going to show up in Marion. But when game time came the Freedom, whom brought a smaller than usual roster that had not practiced regularly for a couple of weeks, played with more heart and determination then the Mayhem and won 49-40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Marshall competed as a member of the East Division of Conference USA, and played their home games at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. The Thundering Herd finished the season 7\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in Conference USA play. They were invited to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, where they defeated Ohio, 21\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nOn November 29, it was announced that Mark Snyder had resigned as head coach. Defensive coordinator Rick Minter was elevated to interim head coach for the bowl game. Marshall hired Doc Holliday as Snyder's permanent replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Southern Illinois\nBrian Anderson threw for 316 yards and three touchdowns to lead Marshall to a 31-28 win over Southern Illinois. Chuck Walker had 119 yards on 10 catches, while Cody Slate caught nine passes for 114 yards and two touchdowns for the Thundering Herd. Marshall gained 388 yards of total offense in the season opener. The Salukis, who had three turnovers, brought the game within 31-28 with 1:40 left on a 5-yard run by Chris Dieker. Marshall recovered the Salukis' onside kick to win for the first time in three meetings between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Hokies sported an unusual look in their home opener\u2014all-white uniforms and a throwback helmet with a white \"V\" below a red \"T.\" The helmet paid tribute to Frank Loria, a Hokies safety in the 1960s who later became an assistant coach with the Thundering Herd and died in the 1970 Marshall plane crash. Virginia Tech's white uniforms caused another unusual sight. Marshall, according to school officials, wore all-green on the road for what was believed to be the first time in modern school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nMarshall's highlights came from two players who returned after serving one-game suspensions for drug arrests. Tailback Darius Marshall had a 61-yard touchdown run and finished with 109 yards rushing, and cornerback DeQuan Bembry had the diving interception in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green\nDarius Marshall rushed for 186 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown run, to lead Marshall to a 17-10 win over Bowling Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green\nThe Thundering Herd trailed 7-0 at halftime after Bowling Green's Chris Wright caught a 50-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Sheehan, who completed 43-of-62 passes for 383 yards. But Marshall answered with 17 straight points and never fell behind again. Brian Anderson connected with Antavio Wilson on an 11-yard touchdown, Marshall scored on his long run and Craig Ratanamorn made a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nDarius Marshall ran for three touchdowns to help Marshall hold off Memphis 27-16 in the Conference USA opener for both teams. Marshall had 25 carries for 203 yards for the Thundering Herd, and also completed a pass for 27 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nWith the Tigers leading 7-3 after the opening quarter, Marshall ran for touchdowns of 2 and 69 yards to take a 17-7 lead late in the second. Matt Reagan kicked a 20-yard field goal to end the first half, then started the second with a 22-yarder to bring Memphis back within 17-13. Marshall ran it in from 5 yards out to give the Herd a 24-13 advantage to start the fourth. Craig Ratanamorn kicked an 18-yard field goal to seal the win for Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nEast Carolina's Dominique Lindsay broke a 7-7 tie before halftime with a 3-yard touchdown run. Marshall pulled ahead 17-14 on Craig Ratanamorn's 28-yard field goal and Darius Marshall's 20-yard TD run in the third, setting up Patrick Pinkney's game-winning run. The Pirates defense held strong in the fourth, as Marshall's Brian Anderson was intercepted early in the fourth by Emanuel Davis and again late by Jeremy Chambliss to help seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nAshton Hall ran 29 yards with a fumble recovery for the tiebreaking touchdown and Marshall kept Tulane out of the end zone for the final 56 minutes to take a 31-10 victory. The score was tied at 7-all when Albert McClellan forced a fumble by Tulane's Jeremy Williams and Hall picked up the football and ran into the end zone with 41 seconds left in the first quarter. The Thundering Herd, pulled away from there, using a goal-line stand and three more takeaways to hold the Green Wave in check and win for the third time in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nMarshall running back Darius Marshall rushed for a season-low 98 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nWest Virginia overcame its first halftime deficit of the season to improve to 9-0 against Marshall in the series between the state's only Football Bowl Subdivision teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nJarrett Brown took a helmet-to-helmet hit on West Virginia's first series and did not return. Coach Bill Stewart said afterward he didn't know the extent of Brown's injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nNoel Devine outdueled Marshall's Darius Marshall in a matchup between two of the nation's top three rushers, although both players struggled to find running room on a cold and wet afternoon. Devine was held 23 yards below his third-best average. Marshall, whose 146-yard average ranked second to Fresno State's Ryan Mathews's 148, was limited to 82 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UAB\nBrian Anderson threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns to lead Marshall to a 27-7 victory over Alabama-Birmingham. Anderson was 25-for-38 for the Thundering Herd, finishing a yard short of his career-high 316 set in the season-opening win over Southern Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UAB\nAnderson completed a 30-yard scoring pass to Cody Slate with 12:30 left in the second quarter, then hit Chuck Walker with a 15-yard pass to give Marshall a 17-0 lead with 1:43 left in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UAB\nDarius Marshall added 133 yards on 32 carries with a 1-yard touchdown for his fifth 100-yard game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UCF\nBrett Hodges threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Rocky Ross with 23 seconds left and Nick Cattoi added the extra point to give UCF a 21-20 victory over Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UCF\nUCF scored twice in the final 8 minutes to overcome a 20-7 deficit and beat Marshall for the fifth straight time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UCF\nTE Cody Slate was the top receiver for Marshall, hauling in five receptions for 80 yards. His touchdown in the second quarter marked the 23rd of his career, tying him for 5th all time with Josh Davis and Tim Martin. Aaron Dobson caught two balls for a career-high 75 yards. UCF wide receiver A.J. Guyton was the leading receiver in the game, catching the ball five times for 100 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UCF\nDarius Marshall rushed for 80 yards in the game, bringing his season total to 1,032. With the effort against UCF, Marshall surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for the second-straight year. He became the first Marshall running back to record consecutive 1,000-yard campaigns since Chris Park did so in 1994 and 1995. Mario Harvey was the top player on defense for the Herd, recording a game-high 11 tackles along with a sack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nSouthern Miss became bowl eligible for the eighth straight season and denied Marshall a chance at becoming bowl eligible for the first time under fifth-year coach Mark Snyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nMarshall lost running back Darius Marshall and tight end Cody Slate, the team's top receiver, to leg injuries. Darius Marshall was limited to 22 yards on 11 carries. As a team, Marshall had 26 yards on 26 carries but outgained Southern Miss overall 363-294.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nSouthern Miss running back Damion Fletcher ran for 55 yards on 13 carries to move into 13th place on the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) all-time career rushing list ahead of Michigan's Mike Hart. Fletcher has 5,076 career rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nThe game was played on the 39th anniversary of the plane crash that killed most of Marshall's football team. Marshall University held a memorial service a few hours before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, SMU\nBrian Anderson threw two second-half touchdown passes to freshman Aaron Dobson to lead Marshall to a 34-31 win over SMU, making the Thundering Herd bowl eligible for the first time under fifth-year coach Mark Snyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, SMU\nMartin Ward ran for 136 yards and a score and Terrell Edwards-Maye added 113 yards for Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, SMU\nSMU fell into a first-place tie in the West Division with No. 24 Houston with one game remaining. Houston holds the tiebreaker after beating SMU 38-15 earlier this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 64], "content_span": [65, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nTrevor Vittatoe passed for 517 yards and five touchdowns as UTEP routed Marshall 52-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nAfter leading 20-14 at the break, the Miners exploded in the second half, adding four touchdowns and a field goal while holding the Thundering Herd to just one touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nBrian Anderson threw for 347 yards and three touchdowns for the Thundering Herd. Anderson found Aaron Dobson, Chuck Walker and Antavio Wilson for scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nMartin Ward's tackle-breaking run and powerful plunge along with a punt return gave Marshall a big lead over Ohio in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nThe game looked like it was going to be a rout when Ward's 2-yard run put Marshall ahead 21-0 with 7:21 left in the first half. He scored on a 12-yard run through more than a few defenders and Andre Booker had 58-yard punt return for a touchdown at the end of the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nThe Bobcats rallied to pull within four points late in the third quarter and had chances to complete the comeback in the fourth, missing a wide-open receiver on a trick play and failing to take advantage of their last two drives before losing 21-17 to Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nDeQuan Bembry's interception with 40 seconds left sealed the victory for the Thundering Herd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nThe schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in \"The Battle for the Bell,\" with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia. They hadn't played since Marshall left the Mid-American Conference for Conference USA in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203918-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ohio (Little Caesars Pizza Bowl)\nSarah Thomas made history during the game, becoming the first woman to officiate a bowl game, according to a Little Caesars Bowl spokesman. She was the first woman to be an official for a major college football game in 2007 and is on the NFL's list of officiating prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 93], "content_span": [94, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in the Marshall Islands on 26 October 2009 following the ousting of incumbent President Litokwa Tomeing in the nation's first successful vote of no confidence on 21 October 2009. Tomeing had been temporarily replaced by Ruben Zackhras as acting president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nOnly two candidates were nominated for President, who is elected by the 33-member Nitijela. The candidates were Speaker Jurelang Zedkaia and former President Kessai Note, who had led the no confidence measure against Tomeing. Tomeing and Kessai had engaged in a power struggle since Kessai had lost his re-election bid in the 2007 election. Under the terms of the Marshallese constitution, the Nitijela had fourteen days to elect a new president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nSpeaker Jurelang Zedkaia won election against former president Kessai Note with 17 to 15 votes. The results gave Zedkaia the one vote-minimum needed to defeat Kessai and win the presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nSenators did not vote along party lines during the election, with several crossing the aisle to vote for the presidential candidates in opposing parties. Nitijela Senator Brenson Wase was quoted as describing the shifting political affiliations of the electors as being as mixed up \"as a fruit salad.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nObservers noted that Zedkaia is an Iroij, or traditional chief, like his predecessor, Litokwe Tomeing. Zedkaia's status as Iroij may have been key to his narrow one-vote victory in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203919-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Marshallese presidential election\nPresident Zedkaia was sworn into office on November 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 2009 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland during its 57th season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Terrapins played in the Atlantic Division of the conference, and competed against all five divisional opponents, two Coastal Division opponents on a rotational basis, and one permanent cross-divisional rival: Virginia. The rotating Coastal Division opponents were Virginia Tech and Duke. In 2009, Maryland played its second game of the home-to-home series against California, this year in Berkeley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe Terrapins finished the season with a record of 2\u201310, and 1\u20137 in ACC play, and failed to qualify for a bowl game. It was the first ten-loss season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Head coach-in-waiting\nOn February 6, 2009, offensive coordinator James Franklin was officially named the head coach-in-waiting to succeed the 61-year-old Ralph Friedgen, who had three years remaining on his contract. ESPN described the move as an effort to ensure Franklin, considered a top recruiter who had had other coaching opportunities, remained with Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Defensive coordinator\nUpon the conclusion of the 2008 regular season, defensive coordinator Chris Cosh announced his resignation. Cosh returned to Kansas State as defensive coordinator and assistant coach to the recently re-hired Bill Snyder, who had been head coach from 1996 to 2005. Cosh previously served under Snyder as linebackers coach from 2004 to 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Defensive coordinator\nOutside linebackers coach Al Seamonson assumed interim defensive coordinator duties for the last game of the 2008 season, the Humanitarian Bowl, and was considered in the running for the job full-time. Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen also contacted Navy defensive coordinator Buddy Green in order to gauge his interest for the position, but he declined in order to remain at Annapolis. South Carolina secondary coach was also considered, but declined in order to take a job at the same position at LSU with a $300,000 salary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Defensive coordinator\nOn January 9, 2009, it was announced that Massachusetts head coach Don Brown had been hired as the new defensive coordinator. Brown had served as head coach for UMass from 2004 to 2008, posting the best five-year record in school history, 43\u201319. His teams were ranked amongst the top-20 defenses in the nation three times: third in 2005, 20th in 2006, and 14th in 2007. The UMass scoring defense was ranked first in 2005 and fifth in 2006. Brown also has prior experience as a head coach at Northeastern and Plymouth State and 11 years as a defensive coordinator. In a move to address criticisms of former coordinator Chris Cosh's defensive system which had been characterized as overcautious, Ralph Friedgen said about Brown:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Defensive coordinator\n\"He's going to be aggressive. He has a very aggressive philosophy, and he plays a different style defense than the norm. He's been successful against a lot of the new offenses that we're seeing, like the spread. He played against Navy and Georgia Southern, so he's faced a lot of the different styles we see, but he has a little different approach to it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 97], "content_span": [98, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Other coaching positions\nFor 2009, new defensive coordinator Don Brown will also oversee the cornerbacks, a role held in the previous season by secondary coach Kevin Lempa. Lempa will now coach only the safeties. Former inside linebackers coach Al Seamonson expanded his role to take over the entire linebacker corps. Friedgen expressed a strong desire to retain Seamonson, who lost out on the race for the defensive coordinator job. Seamonson, as interim defensive coordinator, helped coach Maryland to a 42\u201335 victory in the 2008 Humanitarian Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Coaching changes, Other coaching positions\nMaryland also lost special teams and tight ends coach, Danny Pearman, to Clemson at the end of the 2008 season. Shortly after being selected as Tommy Bowden's permanent replacement, head coach Dabo Swinney hired Clemson alum Pearman. Pearman played at Clemson as a tight end (1984\u20131987) and coached special teams and offensive and defensive tackles while at Alabama (1990\u20131997). Swinney himself played at Alabama during that period as a wide receiver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key losses\nPrior to the 2009 season, Maryland lost a significant amount of experience due to graduation. Thirty seniors, the largest class of Friedgen's tenure, graduated after the 2008 season or otherwise concluded their eligibility. Additionally, the team lost the previous season's receiving leader and feature wide receiver to the NFL Draft. Starting Z-receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey announced that he would forgo his senior year in order to enter the 2009 NFL Draft on January 7, 2009. In just three years, Heyward-Bey had achieved the number-two spot for Maryland career receiving yards (2,089), behind only Jermaine Lewis. It had been widely speculated throughout the 2008 season that the junior would likely leave for the draft, and Rivals.com, College Football News, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN projected him as an early entrant and first-round selection. He was ultimately chosen as the seventh overall pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 975]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key losses\nMobile quarterback Josh Portis transferred to the Division II school California University of Pennsylvania for his last year of eligibility. He had been highly anticipated as a Florida transfer and a dual-threat quarterback, but had seen little action in eight games, almost exclusively put in for one option run at a time. Portis recorded one completion on three pass attempts, 31 rushing attempts for 186 yards and one touchdown. He saw a decrease in game action after the North Carolina game, where he participated in three plays including an incomplete pass to a wide open Darrius Heyward-Bey for a probable touchdown and a fumble on an option run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key losses\nIn February 2009, wide receiver LaQuan Williams became academically ineligible and was dismissed from the team. Friedgen said that Williams could possibly return for the fall. Williams was injured throughout the 2008 season, but recorded a strong 2007 campaign including a crucial reception in the upset win over 10th-ranked Rutgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key losses\nThe following are some of the key players who will no longer play for Maryland in the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key losses\n\u2020 \u2013 Heyward-Bey entered the NFL Draft a year early\u2021 \u2013 Portis transferred to California University of Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Key returns\nMaryland entered the 2009 season with just nine returning starters, the fewest in the ACC, and 56% of its lettermen from the prior year, the lowest of any team other than the service academies. The defensive and offensive lines suffered significant attrition, but the Terrapins are considered deep at the skill positions. Senior quarterback Chris Turner was called a \"big-game performer [with] a chance to leave an imprint on the school record books.\" Maryland returned its three top running backs from 2008: Da'Rel Scott, Davin Meggett, and Morgan Green. Despite the loss of Heyward-Bey, the Terrapins retained a great deal of athleticism at the wide receiver position with Torrey Smith, and Ronnie Tyler replaced Danny Oquendo as a reliable third-down option. In total, Maryland entered the season with ten potential starters at wide receiver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 915]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nMaryland secured several highly touted recruits, and Rivals.com rated the recruiting class as 25th in the nation, while Scout.com ranked it 26th in the nation. Scout or Rivals.com four-star prospects included running backs Caleb Porzel and D.J. Adams, defensive lineman De'Onte Arnett, defensive back Travis Hawkins, and offensive lineman Pete White. The class also included eight linebackers, a position which Maryland had heavily recruited in order to backfill graduated players. Offensive tackle Nick Klemm had originally planned to go to Boston College, but de-committed to sign with the Terrapins after Eagles' head coach Jeff Jagodzinski was fired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nMaryland showed a strong interest in Porzel's Good Counsel classmate Jelani Jenkins, the number-one ranked prospective linebacker in the nation. Jenkins narrowed his possible school selection to a field of fifteen including Maryland, before ultimately signing with Florida. Tavon Austin, a Rivals.com four-star running back from Baltimore, committed to West Virginia despite strong interest from Maryland. On February 2, 2009, three-star offensive tackle Ryan Schlieper de-committed from Maryland and signed with Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nOn National Signing Day, the Terps secured thirteen recruits from Maryland and Washington, D.C. Four of the Rivals.com top-ten prospects in the state signed with Maryland. ESPN graded the class as a \"B\u2212\", with the main criticism being that \"too much good in-state talent has slipped away.\" It also cited a failure to land a highly rated quarterback. During the signing day news conference, Friedgen stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Recruiting\n\"We are very happy with this class. It is a large recruiting class. I feel that it met a lot of our needs. We lost a lot of [linebackers, offensive lineman, and defensive lineman last year]. We were able to fill those needs with this class of players. I think that if you were to describe this recruiting class, they are a big, athletic bunch of athletes who can run and hit. They are also good students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nI am really putting an emphasis on guys who can be successful in life, and who have goals that they want to achieve\u00a0... We have 15 local-area players. There are some others that we would have liked to have, but you are never going to get all of them. We put a lot of stock in trying to recruit the local-area kids.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Schedule\nIn the preseason, the Terrapins were predicted to finish last (sixth) in the ACC Atlantic Division by both Athlon Sports and Phil Steele's, and The Sporting News forecast a fifth-place divisional finish for the Terps. Athlon also ranked Maryland as 57th out of the 120 Division I FBS teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Schedule\nMaryland began the 2009 season with the second game of the home-and-home series at California. In Week 2, they faced James Madison, which in 2008 advanced to the Division I FCS semi-finals. Two more home games, a rematch from 2008 against Middle Tennessee and a game against Rutgers, rounded out Maryland's non-conference schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203920-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Maryland Terrapins football team, Schedule\nOn October 5, 2009, Jack Heise, an influential alumni booster and avid Terrapins fan nicknamed \"Mr. Maryland\", died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The football team honored his memory by wearing Heise's initials on their helmets for the remainder of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker)\nThe 2009 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11 and 18 January 2009 at the Wembley Arena in London, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker)\nThe last 16 match between Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson featured 5 consecutive century breaks between the two players: 3 from Maguire and 2 from Robertson. This is a joint record for a professional match and a standalone record for a best-of-11 frame match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker)\nRonnie O'Sullivan won  his 4th Masters title by beating defending champion Mark Selby 10\u20138 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker), Field\nDefending champion Mark Selby was the number 1 seed with World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan seeded 2. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Judd Trump (ranked 41), and wild-card selection Ricky Walden (ranked 35). Mark Allen, Judd Trump and Ricky Walden were making their debuts in the Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker), Wild-card round\nIn the preliminary round, the wild-card players plays the 15th and 16th seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker), Qualifying\nThe 2008 Masters Qualifying Event was held between 21 and 26 November 2008 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The winner was awarded with a wild-card to the 2009 Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203921-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters (snooker), Century breaks, Televised stage centuries\nJudd Trump's and Mark King's centuries were scored in the wild-card round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203922-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters France \u2013 Draw\nGilles Simon was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203922-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters France \u2013 Draw\nJulien Benneteau won in the final 7\u20136(2), 6\u20132, against Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203922-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters France \u2013 Draw, Draw, Red Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203922-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters France \u2013 Draw, Draw, Blue Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament\nThe 2009 Masters Tournament was the 73rd Masters Tournament, held April 9\u201312 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. \u00c1ngel Cabrera, age 39, won his second major title in playoff over Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry. Cabrera became the first (and only) Masters champion from Argentina and South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament\nThis was the final Masters appearance for three-time champion Gary Player, and one-time champions Raymond Floyd and Fuzzy Zoeller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\nThe Masters has the smallest field of the major championships, and officially remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of all 96 players who qualified to play in the 2009 Masters Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n1. Past Masters ChampionsFred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Trevor Immelman (10,14,16,17,18), Zach Johnson (15,17,18), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,10,14,15,16,17,18), Larry Mize, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,10,14,15,16,17,18), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir (14,16,17,18), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,10,11,14,15,17,18), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n(Past champions who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n2. Last five U.S. Open Champions\u00c1ngel Cabrera (17), Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen (15,17,18), Geoff Ogilvy (14,15,17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n3. Last five British Open ChampionsTodd Hamilton, P\u00e1draig Harrington (4,10,12,13,14,17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n6. Top two finishers in the 2008 U.S. AmateurDrew Kittleson (a), Danny Lee (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n8. Winner of the 2008 U.S. Amateur Public LinksJack Newman (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n10. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2008 Masters TournamentStuart Appleby (14,16,17), Paul Casey (15,17,18), Stewart Cink (14,15,16,17,18), Steve Flesch, Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez (11,17,18), Robert Karlsson (11,17,18), Sean O'Hair (18), Andr\u00e9s Romero (16,17,18), Brandt Snedeker, Nick Watney (15,18), Lee Westwood (11,17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n11. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2008 U.S. OpenRocco Mediate, John Merrick, Carl Pettersson (14,15,16), D. J. Trahan (14,16)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n12. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2008 British Open ChampionshipGreg Norman, Ian Poulter (17,18), Henrik Stenson (13,17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2008 PGA ChampionshipBen Curtis (14,16,17,18), Camilo Villegas (14,15,16,17,18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n14. Top 30 leaders on the 2008 PGA TourRobert Allenby (16,17,18), Stephen Ames (17,18), Chad Campbell (16), K. J. Choi (16,17,18), Ken Duke (16), Ernie Els (16,17,18), Jim Furyk (16,17,18), Dudley Hart (16), Ryuji Imada (15,16), Anthony Kim (15,16,17,18), Justin Leonard (15,16,17,18), Hunter Mahan (16,17), Kenny Perry (15,16,17,18), Steve Stricker (16,17,18), Kevin Sutherland (16), Boo Weekley (15,17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n15. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2008 Masters Tournament and the 2009 Masters TournamentDustin Johnson (18), Pat Perez (18), Chez Reavie, Adam Scott (17,18), Y. E. Yang", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n16. All players qualifying for the 2008 edition of The Tour ChampionshipBriny Baird, Tim Clark (17,18), Billy Mayfair, Bubba Watson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n17. Top 50 on the final 2008 Official World Golf Rankings listAaron Baddeley, Luke Donald (18), Ross Fisher (18), S\u00f8ren Hansen, Shingo Katayama (18), Martin Kaymer (18), S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen (18), Graeme McDowell (18), Rory McIlroy (18), Justin Rose (18), Rory Sabbatini (18), Jeev Milkha Singh (18), Richard Sterne, Lin Wen-tang, Oliver Wilson (18)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Field\n18. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list going into the tournamentMathew Goggin, Prayad Marksaeng, Louis Oosthuizen, \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Par 3 contest\nThe annual par 3 contest was held on Wednesday, April 8. Tim Clark won with a score of -5 (22), two shots better than Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olaz\u00e1bal and Jack Newman. Three players shot a hole-in-one: John Merrick on the second hole, Greg Norman on the sixth, and Clark on the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries\nThe Masters Tournament is played over four days with an 18-hole round being played each day, for a total of 72 holes plus practice rounds and a par-three contest on the neighboring par-three course. Everyone outside the top 44 and ties or outside ten strokes of the leader was \"cut\" after two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, First round\nThe first round weather conditions were sunny and calm. Chad Campbell, scored a 7 under par 65, which included five straight birdies in the first five holes. Campbell finished the day with a one stroke lead over Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan. Larry Mize shot a five under par 67 to be two strokes behind. Mahan led the field in total birdies with 9 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Second round\nCampbell continued his strong play with a 2 under par 70 to remain in the lead at 135 (\u22129) with Kenny Perry, who shot a bogey-free 67. Raymond Floyd, 1976 champion, Fuzzy Zoeller, 1979 champion, and three-time winner Gary Player completed their final rounds at Augusta. Anthony Kim shot the day's low round with a 65, which included a new record for most birdies in a round with eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Second round\nThe cut, the top 44 players and ties, was at 145 (+1), and fifty players advanced to the weekend. In all, 25 players shot sub-par rounds for the day and the scoring average was 73.74. For the tournament, 32 players were under par, and the scoring average was 72.99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Saxton (+3), Newman (+4), Kittleson (+6), Wilson (+10), Lee (+11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Third round\nThird round conditions were sunny, but with gusty winds that made scoring a bit tougher than the previous two days. Perry shot a two-under par 70 to remain in the lead at 205 (-11), with \u00c1ngel Cabrera who shot a 69. Campbell led for most of the day until a double bogey on the 16th hole and carded 72, two strokes back at 207. Jim Furyk finished another stroke back of Campbell. Five players shot the day's low round of 4 under par 68. Those players were: Jim Furyk -8, Steve Stricker -7, Sean O'Hair -4, Ian Poulter -4, and Steve Flesch -3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Final round, Summary\nPhil Mickelson birdied six holes on the front nine to score 30, tying the front-nine tournament record held by Johnny Miller, Greg Norman, and K. J. Choi. Third round co-leader Perry, age 48, led for most of the day; after birdies at 15 and 16, he disappointingly finished with bogeys at 17 and 18. He fell into a three-way tie at 276 (\u221212) with Cabrera and Campbell, leading to a sudden-death playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Playoff\nThe playoff began on the 18th hole and Campbell was eliminated after failing to get up and down from the right greenside bunker. Perry was just off the green to the right, chipped close, and tapped in for par. Cabrera scrambled after an errant tee shot and a recovery shot that ricocheted off a tree, fortuitously into the fairway. His third shot from 114 yards (104\u00a0m) ended 6 feet (1.8\u00a0m) away and he holed the par putt to extend the playoff. The next hole was the 10th, and Perry failed to get up and down from left of the green; Cabrera two-putted from 15 feet (4.6\u00a0m) for par to become the first Argentinian to win the Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Controversies\nRory McIlroy was involved in a controversial incident during the second round. In sixth place on the leaderboard with three holes left to play, McIlroy had double-bogeyed the 16th hole before hitting his approach shot into a bunker on the 18th hole. He failed with his first attempt to get the ball out of the bunker and kicked out at the sand, which could be an offense if it was deemed to be testing the condition of the hazard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Controversies\nHe finished his round at 4:15\u00a0p.m. local time and at 8:40\u00a0p.m. was called to the clubhouse to view footage of the incident. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing, as a player is allowed to smooth over the sand provided that it does nothing to improve the position of the ball with regard to the next shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203923-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters Tournament, Controversies\nAlso during the second round, while putting for birdie on the 15th green, P\u00e1draig Harrington had stepped up to his ball and addressed it, but a gust of wind caused him to step away. The ball then moved, but since he had grounded his club previously, he was deemed to have caused it to move and was penalized one stroke. He sunk the putt and, with the penalty stroke added, scored a par 5 on the hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203924-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters of Formula 3\nThe 2009 Tango Masters of Formula 3 was the nineteenth Masters of Formula 3 race held at Circuit Park Zandvoort on 14 June 2009. The race returned to Zandvoort after a two-year stay at Zolder. It was won by Masters debutant Valtteri Bottas, for ART Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203924-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Masters of Formula 3, Drivers and teams\nAll drivers used Dallara F308 chassis, excepting Stefano Coletti, who used F309 model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203925-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maui Invitational Tournament\nThe 2009 Maui Invitational Tournament, an annual early-season college basketball tournament held in Lahaina, Hawaii, was held at Lahaina Civic Center. The winning team was Gonzaga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Mauritania on 18 July 2009. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who led the 2008 coup d'\u00e9tat, won a narrow first-round majority in the election, according to official results. A second round, if necessary, would have been held on 1 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election\nFollowing the coup which deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on 6 August 2008, the new junta (the High Council of State) promised that a presidential election would be held \"as soon as possible\". The election was subsequently scheduled for 6 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election\nAbdel Aziz, who was President of the High Council of State, stepped down in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate. The opposition initially planned to boycott the election, arguing that the junta pursued a unilateral electoral agenda, and as a result Abdel Aziz was widely expected to win the election. Later, however, the opposition agreed to participate as part of a deal with the junta in June 2009, making the election appear more competitive; as part of the deal, the election was delayed to July and a national unity government was formed to lead the country through the election period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nOn 15 September 2008, the National Assembly adopted plans to hold \"free and fair elections\" within 12\u201314 months, setting the election date in late 2009 at the latest. The chosen date of 6 June 2009 was announced by the official media on 23 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nMonths before the election, it was widely expected that Abdel Aziz would stand as a candidate; Abdel Aziz said that retired officers should be allowed to run, fuelling speculation that he might retire from the army and run as a civilian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nOn 4 February 2009, while still expressing support for the coup and saying that Abdallahi should not be restored to the Presidency, Ahmed Ould Daddah\u2014the country's main opposition leader, who heads the Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD) and placed second in the 2007 presidential election\u2014proposed that the army give up power and that anyone who was serving in the military at the time of the coup should not be allowed to run in the presidential election. Abdel Aziz announced that he would run in the election on 29 March 2009, as was widely expected, and said that he would resign as Head of State (to be succeeded by the President of the Senate) in order to stand as a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nOn 8 April, Abdel Aziz told France 24 that he intended to resign prior to 22 April, as necessary for him to stand as a candidate. He also said that the election would be held as planned on 6 June, contradicting rumors of a delay that could facilitate possible mediation aimed at securing the participation of opposition parties. According to Abdel Aziz, the election was desired by 90% of the population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nLater on 8 April, members of the pro-Abdallahi National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD), including the President of the National Assembly, Massaoud Ould Boulkheir, held a protest in Nouakchott. Boulkheir denounced the \"unilateral electoral agenda of the putschists\" and warned that \"neither tanks, nor guns nor live bullets can stop our fight against the usurpation of power by force\". The announcement of a new electoral commission, headed by Cheikh Saadbouh Camara, also occurred on 8 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nOpposition parties announced they would boycott the elections. The Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal (AJD/MR), led by Ibrahima Sarr, expressed support for the military junta, and Sarr announced on April 11, 2009, that he would be a candidate in the election. Sarr said that \"the conditions are there for a free poll\" and that Mauritania did not have democracy under Abdallahi's presidency. Kane Hamidou Baba, Vice-President of the National Assembly and Vice-President of the RFD, also sought to stand as a candidate, although he did so without the approval of the RFD. Due to Baba's friendly attitude towards the junta, he was expelled from the FNDD coalition. Another candidate was Sghair Ould M'Bareck, who served as Prime Minister under President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya from 2003 to 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nAbdel Aziz resigned on 15 April 2009 and was succeeded by Ba Mamadou Mbar\u00e9 as Acting President. The deadline for the registration of presidential candidacies expired on 22 April; by that point none of the major opposition leaders, including RFD President Daddah, had registered, as they were all participating in the boycott. Observers concluded that the lack of a credible challenger meant that Abdul Aziz would easily win the election, although they noted that the credibility of the election itself could be threatened by the opposition boycott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nThe Constitutional Court approved four candidacies on 27 April: those of Abdel Aziz, Ibrahima Sarr, Kane Hamidou Baba, and Sghair Ould M'Bareck. All of these candidates were sympathetic to the coup. The Union for the Republic (UPR) political party elected Abdel Aziz as its President at the party's constituent assembly on 5 May 2009; the UPR holds a parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nAbdel Aziz met with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and envoys from the African Union on 14 May 2009; although they reportedly wanted the election to be delayed in order to encourage the opposition to participate, Abdel Aziz said after the meeting that there would be no delay. Wade also met separately with Abdallahi and Daddah. Daddah said at a press conference on 26 May that there could be no talks unless the junta agreed to release political prisoners and suspend the electoral timetable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nShortly before the scheduled date of the election, in reconciliation talks on 31 May 2009 it was agreed to postpone the election to 21 July and 4 August; this was later denied by the government, and on 2 June 2009 it was announced that it had been postponed to 18 July and 1 August. A final agreement between the junta and the opposition was signed on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nThe agreement provided for Abdallahi's formal resignation as President, the installation of a national unity government that would serve briefly prior to the election, and set the date of the election as 18 July. As a result of the agreement, all of the major parties were expected to participate in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nEly Ould Mohamed Vall, who headed the 2005\u20132007 military junta, announced on 6 June 2009 that he would be a presidential candidate, running as an independent. He condemned the 2008 coup, asserting that it was \"wrong and there was no reason for it\" and that it had \"provoked a particularly dangerous situation in our country\". He stressed, however, that his candidacy was not directed against any particular individual, and he said that his goal, if elected, was \"to build a reconciled country that is politically and economically viable and stable\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nHe also said that he would \"probably no longer be interested in public affairs\" if not for the 2008 coup. The RFD announced on 9 June that Daddah had been designated as the party's presidential candidate by a special party congress. Observers considered Abdel Aziz, Daddah, and Vall to be the key candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Background\nThe moderate Islamist National Rally for Reform and Development (RNRD), which opposed the coup and participated in the FNDD, designated its President, Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour, as its candidate on 14 June. Although the party chose to run its own candidate, it said that it would continue coordinating with the FNDD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Candidates\nAfter the postponement of the elections and the formation of an interim government, ten candidates registered to run in the election and were approved by the Constitutional Council \u2014 the four candidates who had already registered to run before the Dakar Agreement:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Candidates\nThe main rhetorical theme of the campaign, which was described as \"lacklustre\" by Agence France-Presse, was the need for change and development. Abdel Aziz, also stressing the importance of change, presented himself as a champion of the poor; he had substantially lowered the prices of basic goods and services, engaged in public works projects, and granted land rights. In light of those efforts, as well as a purported tendency among Mauritanians to favor strong rule, analysts judged that he was the front-runner. The New York Times reported that support for Abdel Aziz in Dar Naim, a \"desperately poor\" Nouakchott neighborhood, was \"universal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Candidates\nA survey in the newspaper Le R\u00e9novateur had Abdel Aziz, Daddah, and Boulkheir as the top three candidates. Boulkheir, a black descendant of slaves, notably won support from many white Moors (the traditionally dominant ethnic group), marking a significant change from past attitudes; some compared Boulkheir to United States President Barack Obama. Boulkheir was supported by Abdallahi, and Boulkheir and Daddah agreed that each would support the other if either reached a second round against Abdel Aziz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Conduct\nIn the hours prior to the beginning of voting, a shootout occurred in Nouakchott between police and suspected Islamist militants. Two of the suspects were arrested, and the government said that they were involved in the death of Christopher Leggett, an American who was killed in Nouakchott on 23 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Conduct\nThe election was monitored by more than 200 elections observers, including those from the African Union and the Arab League. Voting opened at 7:00\u00a0a.m. UTC and lasted for twelve hours. Some Mauritanians living outside of the nation who had registered for the election were unable to vote because their names did not appear on voting lists. They say it is because they opposed the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'\u00e9tat. One such Mauritanian, Mohamed Sidatt, said that 300 people, including himself, who had registered to vote did not have their names on the final voting lists. Sidatt said, \"I did [register] and I have a valid Mauritanian passport, but my name did not appear on the final list. And I know it's because I was an active voice against the military coup.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Conduct\nObservers from the African Union, La Francophonie, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, African Arab Maghreb Union, and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States jointly endorsed the conduct of the election as \"satisfactory\". Meanwhile, FNDD spokesman Mohamed Ould Mouloud alleged \"massive fraud\"; he said that the coalition would gather evidence and take the matter to the Constitutional Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Conduct\nAbdel Aziz, voting in Nouakchott, expressed confidence that he would win in the first round, although observers expected that a second round would be necessary. He also said that if he won the election it would mean \"the victory of change for a prosperous Mauritania, worthy of its independence\". Also on election day, Vall alleged fraud, saying that in some cases the votes of whole villages had been bought. Boulkheir, voting in Nouakchott, stressed that the country would \"never turn back\" to dictatorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Results\nPartial results on 19 July, with 61.17% of votes counted, showed Abdel Aziz with a narrow first-round majority of 52.2%; his supporters celebrated in the streets of Nouakchott. Boulkheir and Daddah, the main opposition candidates, trailed distantly with 16.63% and 13.89% respectively. Mansour had 4.66% and Vall had 3.78%. Also on 19 July, Boulkheir, Daddah, Vall, and Meimou jointly denounced the results as fraudulent. Later in the day, the results remained essentially unchanged with 92% of the votes counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Results\nBoulkheir said, \"We refuse to recognize these results and call on the international community to create a commission to investigate to expose this manipulation.\" At a press conference, Abdel Aziz dismissed the claims of fraud, saying that the opposition had not presented any proof. Interior Minister Mohamed Ould Rzeizim then declared Abdel Aziz the winner on the same day, crediting him with 52.58%; Rzeizim placed turnout at 64.58%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Aftermath\nIndependent candidate Kane Hamidou Baba promptly accepted the results and congratulated Abdel Aziz, as did Mansour, the Tawassoul candidate, and Hanenna, the HATEM candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Aftermath\nSid'Ahmed Ould Deye, the President of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), announced on 21 July that Boulkheir, Daddah, Vall, and Meimou had filed complaints regarding the election; on the same day, it was reported that Boulkheir, Daddah, and Vall had appealed to the Constitutional Court regarding the results. Ould Deye resigned on 23 July 2009, stating that he now had doubts about the reliability of the election results. A few hours later, the Constitutional Court confirmed Abdel Aziz's victory. Daddah then called for \"a recount of the votes and a chemical analysis of the ballot papers\", while urging the people \"to reject this new coup d'etat\" and \"use all forms of democratic struggle\". He also expressed praise for Deye's \"refusal to assent to this electoral masquerade\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Aftermath\nAt a press conference on 30 July, Vall said that the election was merely a means of legitimizing the 2008 coup and that it had effectively reverted the country to the authoritarianism it had experienced under President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, who Vall and Abdel Aziz ousted in 2005. He also said that he would continue to struggle against Abdel Aziz's regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203926-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritanian presidential election, Aftermath\nAbdel Aziz was sworn in at a ceremony in Nouakchott on 5 August 2009, one day prior to the first anniversary of the coup that initially brought him to power. About 20,000 people were in attendance, along with several regional leaders: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, and Gambian Vice-President Isatou Njie-Saidy. Representatives of the African Union were also present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203927-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mauritian Cup final\nThe 2009 Mauritian Cup final took place on 17 May 2009 at the Sir Ga\u00ebtan Duval Stadium in Mauritius. The match was contested by Etoile de l'Ouest and Pamplemousses SC. Pamplemousses SC won the final 6-1 with a hat-trick from Hubert Robson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests\nThe 2009 May Day protests were a series of international protests that took place across Europe, Asia and in the other parts of the world due to the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008 and the resulting Great Recession. Several May Day marches, which are traditional events, had turned violent in Germany, Turkey and Venezuela as riot police battled protesters in their respective countries. Banks and shops had been attacked in Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests\nFurther marches had taken place in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong, Cuba, Italy and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Americas, Canada\nApproximately 1,000 radicals and anti-capitalists demonstrated peacefully in front of the Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec building in Montreal. In 2009, the Service de police de la Ville de Montr\u00e9al didn't intervene with riot police to disperse violently the demonstration like it did in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Americas, United States\nIn San Francisco, more than 50 people rioted through Union Square and the financial district, attacking upper-class storefronts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Americas, Venezuela\nParallel marches consisting pro- and anti-government unions and organizations took place around the country. An opposition protest of a few thousand in the capital was dispersed with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons, after organizers expressed their intentions to pass through the barricades, set up several blocks away from the National Assembly -the opposition's intended destination- to deliver a document denouncing supposed actions against labor unions by the Ch\u00e1vez government. Once dispersed, marchers damaged a Pdval food distribution point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, Cambodia\nOver 1,000 textile and hotel workers marched through Phnom Penh to the location of Chea Vichea's 2004 assassination. Vichea led Cambodia's biggest labour union before he was killed in January that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, Hong Kong\nSeveral hundred workers marched peacefully through Hong Kong in protest against job cuts and reduced working hours. Two protests were organised by pro-government and opposition labour unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, Japan\nIn Japan, approximately 36,000 people demonstrated about social welfare benefits in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park. Some people also protested high military spending, about US$48.8 billion in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, Macao\nProtesters (500 according to organizers, 400 according to police) marched to the Government House on issues such as illegal workers and public housing. With the election of the Chief Executive approaching, some protesters raised the banner \"Against Businessmen Ruling Macao\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, South Korea\n8,000 workers and students participated in a rally in a park in Seoul, calling for an end to layoffs and wage cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Asia, Taiwan\nDespite clashes between protesters and police in Taipei, no arrests were reported. In one of the largest May Day protests there in recent times, 10,000 people marched against record high levels of unemployment nearing 6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Austria\nA large crowd gathered at Vienna's city hall. According to the Social Democratic Party of Austria, 100,000 people attended the rally. On the Ringstra\u00dfe, a march organized by the KP\u00d6 (the Communist Party of Austria) took place. Some three to five hundred people showed up. The final rally was held in front of the parliament. There were also other minor marches in Vienna. At a march in Linz, also organized by the KP\u00d6, police and protesters clashed. On both sides, people were injured. Five people were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, France\nFrance's eight major trade unions decided to unite in their May Day rallies for the first time since the end of World War II. Several tens of thousands of people marched in three hundred protests through cities such as Bordeaux, Grenoble, Marseille and Paris. One of Grenoble's Schaeffler worker banners said, \"Work, not death\". Fishermen, hospital and university staff engaged in strike action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Germany\nViolence was expected among far right and far left demonstrators and police. German police arrested twelve people after twenty-nine police were injured by two hundred protesters shouting anti-capitalist slogans in Berlin. Forty-nine demonstrators were arrested after several incidents involving bottle-throwing, rock-throwing, and setting fires. Between Berlin and Hamburg, over fifty riot police were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Iceland\nThe turnout at the May Day rally in Reykjav\u00edk was double the number seen the many last years. Activists from the January uprising, along with anarchists brandishing anarcho-communist flags, booed at Gylfi Arnbj\u00f6rnsson, the leader of the main trade union in Iceland, as he suggested  in his speech that Iceland enter the EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Italy\nL'Aquila was the central meeting point of a rally held by union leaders following a deadly earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Russia\nIn Moscow, approximately 2,000 Communists gathered at a statue of Karl Marx. Police arrested around one hundred members of far right and anti-immigrant demonstrators counter-protesting in Saint Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Spain\nIn protests organized by UGT and CCOO, some of Spain's largest unions, more than 10 thousand demonstrators collected in the centre of Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Europe, Turkey\nAt least eight people, including two police, were injured as police in Istanbul attempted to disperse hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons. Several hundred protesters dispersed authorities with rocks in the \u015ei\u015fli central district. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as \"hand in hand against fascism\", \"repression won't stop us\" and \"long live the revolution and socialism\". The Turkish government bowed to trade union pressure and declared May Day a public holiday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203928-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 May Day protests, Africa, Kenya\nA government official was forced to cut short his speech and abandon the May Day rally as angry workers hurled stones at dignitaries in protest over the government's refusal to deal with difficult living conditions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203929-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mayo County Council election\nAn election to Mayo County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 31 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203930-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Maysan governorate election\nThe Maysan governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\nThe 2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game was an All-star basketball game played on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Florida, home of the University of Miami Hurricanes. The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school boys graduating in 2009. The game was the 32nd annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game first played in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\nThe 48 players were selected from 2,500 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills, but for their performances off the court as well. Coach Morgan Wootten, who had more than 1,200 wins as head basketball coach at DeMatha High School, was chairman of the selection committee. Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, who has been involved in the McDonald's All American Games since its inception, served as chairman of the Games and as an advisor to the selection committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game\nProceeds from the 2009 McDonald's All American High School Basketball Games went to Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of South Florida and its Ronald McDonald House program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2009 Game\nThe 2009 game was held at the BankUnited Center on the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus. The game was played on April 1, 2009 and was nationally televised on ESPN. The All American Boys treated nearly6,000 fans to one of the best All American Games in recent history. The high scoring, back-and-forth game kept everyone on the edge of their seats. It wasn\u2019t until Morgan Wootten Player of the Year Derrick Favors (Georgia Tech) slammed home an alley ooppass from Lance Stephenson, with just 40 seconds remaining, that the East Team felt in control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2009 Game\nTop contributors to the East victory were John R. Wooden MVP Award winner Derrick Favors, with 19 points and eight rebounds, and Dante Taylor (Pittsburgh), with 15 points and six rebounds. Lance Stephenson added a solid performance that consisted of 12 points, four rebounds, six assists and three steals. Peyton Siva (Louisville) put his name in the record books, as he compiled nine assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2009 Game\nThe West Team used a balanced offensive attack that resulted with six players scoring in double figures. Keith Gallon (Oklahoma) was the top performer for the West Squad in both points (20) and rebounds (7), while Naismith Sportsmanship Award winner Avery Bradley, Jr. (Texas) tallied 15 points and six rebounds. John Henson (North Carolina) shot an incredible 70% from the field, which led to 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2009 Game\nThe East Team came back from an eight-point halftime deficit, due in large part to strong second half shooting (60%) and a 19-pointadvantage from their bench players. The 113-110 victory increases the East\u2019s lead to 18-14 in the overall series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203931-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, All-American Week, Schedule\nThe Powerade JamFest is a skills-competition evening featuring basketball players who demonstrate their skills in three crowd-entertaining ways. The slam dunk contest was first held in 1987, and a 3-point shooting challenge was added in 1989. This year, for the first time, a timed basketball skills competition was added to the schedule of events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game\nThe 2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game was an All-star basketball game played on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at the BankUnited Center in Miami, Florida, home of the University of Miami Hurricanes. The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school girls graduating in 2009. The game was the 8th annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game first played in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game\nThe 48 players were selected from 2,500 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills, but for their performances off the court as well. Coach Morgan Wootten, who had more than 1,200 wins as head basketball coach at DeMatha High School, was chairman of the selection committee. Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, who has been involved in the McDonald's All American Games since its inception, served as chairman of the Games and as an advisor to the selection committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game\nProceeds from the 2009 McDonald's All American High School Basketball Games went to Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of South Florida and its Ronald McDonald House program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game, 2009 Game\nThe game was telecast live by ESPN. The West Team grabbed a hard-fought 69-68 victory in the opener at the BankUnited Center. The contest was close throughout and came down to a missed free throw withseconds remaining. Kelly Faris (Connecticut) was fouled as she was forced to take a desperation 3-pointer with two seconds to go. After nailing the first two shots, the third came up short and so did the frantic comeback of the East Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game, 2009 Game\nIn a game that was dominated by defense, the West Squad managed to get double figure scoring from only five players. Taber Spani (Tennessee), Christina Marinacci (USC) and DeNesha Stallworth (California) led the offensive attack with 11 points each, while Gennifer Brandon (California) added 10. Tierra Ruffin-Pratt (North Carolina) poured in 10 points and grabbed a team high 10 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game, 2009 Game\nThe East Team was led by Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame), who scored 18 points, grabbed five rebounds and nabbed three steals. Morgan Wootten Player of the Year Kelsey Bone (South Carolina) and TaShauna Rodgers (Georgetown) contributed with 10 points and five rebounds each. Kelly Faris provided an all-around solid performance, as she paced the East in rebounds with seven, added four points, three steals, three assists and two blocks in just 15 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game, 2009 Game\nFor their efforts, Skylar Diggins and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt were selected as the John R.  Wooden MVP\u2019s of the game. Unable to play due to injury, Stephanie Holzer (Vanderbilt) was given the Naismith Sportsmanship Award for her involvement in the week\u2019s events and for the support she displayed towards her fellow All Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203932-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's All-American Girls Game, All-American Week, Schedule\nThe Powerade JamFest is a skills-competition evening featuring basketball players who demonstrate their skills in two crowd-entertaining ways. Since the first All-American game in 2002, players have competed in a 3-point shooting challenge and a timed basketball skills competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203933-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International\nThe 2009 McDonald's Burnie International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the tournament, and part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. For the first time the tournament also hosted Women's Singles and Women's Doubles events as part of the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Burnie, Australia, between 2 and 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203933-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203933-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International, Champions, Men's Doubles\nMiles Armstrong /  Sadik Kadir def. Peter Luczak /  Robert Smeets, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203933-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International, Champions, Women's Doubles\nAbigail Spears /  Monique Adamczak def. Xu Yifan /  Zhou Yimiao 6\u20132 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203934-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSamuel Groth and Joseph Sirianni were the defending champions, but Groth chose to not participate this year. Sirianni partnered up with Andrew Coelho, but they lost 6\u20137(6\u20138), 4\u20136 against Miles Armstrong and Sadik Kadir in the quarterfinals. Miles Armstrong and Sadik Kadir won in the final 6\u20133, 3\u20136, [10\u20137] against Peter Luczak and Robert Smeets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203935-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McDonald's Burnie International \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlun Jones was the defending champion, but he chose to not participate this year. Brydan Klein won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Grega \u017demlja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203936-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 McNeese State Cowboys football team\nThe 2009 McNeese State Cowboys football team represented McNeese State University as a member of the Southland Conference in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Cowboys were led by fourth-year head coach Matt Viator and played their home games at Cowboy Stadium. They finished the season with an overall record of 9\u20133 and a conference mark of 6\u20131, sharing the Southland title with Stephen F. Austin and losing in the first round of the FCS playoffs to New Hampshire, 49\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203937-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath County Council election\nAn election to Meath County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 83rd edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 15 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThis was Kilmainhamwood's first year in this grade since 1994, after 14 years in the Senior grade since being relegated in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 26 October 2009, Oldcastle claimed their 2nd Intermediate championship title when they defeated Kilmainhamwood 2-11 to 0-6, succeeding St. Ultan's as Intermediate champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nDrumconrath were relegated from this grade, after 13 years as an Intermediate club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2008 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nIn the group stage, there are three groups called Group A, B and C. Two teams from each group go through to finals of the tournament. The three teams that finish last in each group go to the relegation play off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock Out Stage, Relegation Play Off\nThe teams that finished bottom of each group play in the relegation play off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 83], "content_span": [84, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock Out Stage, Relegation Play Off\nGame 1: Clann na nGael 1-10 , 0-8 Castletown, Kilberry, 17/10/2009,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 83], "content_span": [84, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203938-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock Out Stage, Finals\nThe teams in the quarter-finals are the second placed teams from each group and one group winner. The teams in the semi finals are two group winners and the quarter final winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Meath Senior Football Championship was the 117th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 16 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship\nNavan O'Mahonys were the defending champions after they defeated Summerhillin the previous years final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship\nSt. Ultan's were promoted after claiming the 2008 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title, their first ever year in the senior grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship\nOn 26 September 2009, Seneschalstown claimed their 4th Senior Championship title when they defeated Wolfe Tones 2-8 to 1-8 after a replay. Ciaran Macken lifted the Keegan Cup for the Yellow Furze outfit while Damien Sheridan claimed the 'Man of the Match' award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship\nAfter much controversy no team was relegated from the senior grade. Walterstown lost their relegation tie after extra time to Rathkenny, but appealed for a re-fixture on the basis that extra time wasn't agreed beforehand. When Rathkenny refused to fulfill a re-fixture no team was relegated and the Intermediate Champions Oldcastle became the 17th team in the Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 2008 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship, Participating teams\nThe teams taking part in the 2009 Meath Senior Football Championship are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 3 groups called Group A, B and C. The 3 top finishers in Group A and the top 2 finishers in Group B and C will qualify for the quarter finals. Third place in Group B will play third place in Group C for a quarter finals place. The 3 teams that finish last in their groups will play in a round-robin relegation play off. Dunshaughlin defeated Blackhall Gaels in the preliminary quarter finals to qualify in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203939-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off\nIn the relegation match between Rathkenny and Walterstown, Rathkenny won the original match (1-13 to 0-13 AET in Seneschalstown), but Walterstown appealed the result on the basis that the playing of extra-time had not been agreed beforehand. The Leinster Council ruled in their favour at a subsequent appeal, throwing the championship into chaos. Rathkenny wouldn't fulfill a re-fixture so that meant no teams were relegated in 2009, but instead an extra team was added to the Senior Football Championship, bringing the total number of teams from 16 to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash\nA Bell 206L-4 LongRanger helicopter, tail number TC-HEK, operated by Medair while on a charter flight en route from \u00c7a\u011flayancerit in Kahramanmara\u015f Province to Yerk\u00f6y in Yozgat Province, crashed on March 25, 2009 at around 16:00 EET (14:00 UTC) when it struck Mount Ke\u015f in central Turkey. The pilot and four passengers, including the leader of the Great Union Party (BBP) Muhsin Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu, were killed in the accident. Only one passenger survived the crash with injuries and made an emergency call. Due to harsh weather conditions at the crash site, the victims and the wreckage could be recovered only after two days, and the injured passenger was found dead five days later under snow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Flight history\nThe helicopter was chartered by the local leaders of a minor political party, the Great Unity Party (Turkish: B\u00fcy\u00fck Birlik Partisi), to enable their party leader Muhsin Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu to attend political rallies held on the same day in neighboring provinces as part of the campaign for the 2009 local elections. Accompanied by his party's three local leaders from Sivas Province and a news agency reporter, Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu arrived in \u00c7a\u011flayancerit on March 25, 2009 at 13:00 EET (11:00 UCT) by helicopter, to make a speech. He told the crowd of 1,500 people gathered in the town square that it was the first time his party had chartered a helicopter, and this without any financial support from the state treasury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Flight history\nAs the rally in \u00c7a\u011flayancerit was going on, the helicopter was refueled at 13:30 local time at the Kahramanmara\u015f Airport. Piloted by Kaya \u0130stektepe and carrying five passengers, it then lifted off at 14:42 to head for Yerk\u00f6y, where Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011fle had his next speech scheduled at 17:00. The helicopter did not arrive, and the crowd of 3,000 people gathered in the Station Square (Turkish: \u0130stasyon Meydan\u0131) in Yerk\u00f6y became worried. A short time later, the deputy leader of the BBP made the sad announcement that the helicopter carrying Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu and his party members was missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Aircraft\nThe helicopter, a Bell 206L-4 LongRanger with tail number TC-HEK, was produced in 1999. In 2008, it joined the fleet of Medair, a subsidiary company of Esas Holding based in Istanbul. The aircraft had seven-seat capacity for five passengers in addition to two pilots. Powered by one Allison 250-C30P engine, it could remain airborne for two-and-half hours with a maximum range of 508\u00a0km (274\u00a0nmi) and a maximum speed of 234\u00a0km/h (145\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nAs no direct contact with the helicopter could be established, search activities were initiated. At 16:10 local time one of the passengers, \u0130smail G\u00fcne\u015f, a reporter for the Ihlas News Agency from Sivas, called the 112 emergency service from his mobile phone and said that \"the helicopter he was onboard had crashed, he was injured with a broken leg and no one else, as he could see, had survived\". After he added that \"the battery of his mobile was running out, and he was about to die\", his phone went silent. He was unable to give any further information about the location of the crash site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nIn order to locate the crash site, the GSM operator providing G\u00fcne\u015f's mobile phone service was contacted. The calculated geographical coordinates determined the crash site was Mount Berit in the vicinity of Hac\u0131\u00f6mer and Sisne villages, around 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) northeast of the town of G\u00f6ksun in Kahramanmara\u015f Province. At 17:00 hours, search and rescue (SAR) teams were deployed on land and by air. Minister of Transport Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said that \"the rescuers were receiving signals from the mobile phones in the accident area, and they are trying to locate whereabouts of the crash\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nState emergency management officials reported that two military special operations teams of the natural disaster rescue battalion (12 personnel each), civil defense SAR teams from Kahramanmara\u015f (129 personnel, 17 vehicles) and Adana (27 personnel, 8 vehicles and a SAR dog), a gendarmerie unit consisting of 345 personnel, 897 village guards and 60 volunteers of a disaster assistance and rescue team (Turkish: AKUT) headed for the crash site on land, while two military Sikorsky helicopters equipped with night vision devices, one  CASA aircraft of the Turkish Air Force, one police H-60 and one air ambulance helicopter joined the search efforts by air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nTeams of the gendarmerie and the Turkish Road Administration were engaged in opening roadways in the mountainous area under harsh weather conditions, where the temperature fell to \u22125\u00a0\u00b0C (23\u00a0\u00b0F) after midnight. The search operation in the region, at an elevation of around 2,000\u00a0m (6,600\u00a0ft), was hampered by fog, snowstorms and 2\u00a0m (6.6\u00a0ft) of snow on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nThe search efforts, concentrated around Kurucaova village and the foothills of Mount Kaman during the night, were suspended at 04:00 local time, but resumed at 05:30 hours with the sunrise. At around 06:00, the search teams found a group of 22 volunteers in danger of freezing and rescued them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Crash and rescue operation\nMinister of Interior Be\u015fir Atalay rushed to the region and set up headquarters in the nearby village of K\u0131z\u0131l\u00f6z to coordinate the SAR activities. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan also traveled to Kahramanmara\u015f to monitor the SAR activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Recovery\n47 hours after the crash, on March 27, a group of 17 volunteers and village guards from the villages of Kurucuova and D\u00f6ngel southeast of G\u00f6ksun discovered the wreckage amid a snowstorm as they were returning home from a search. The crash site was situated close to the snow-covered summit of Mount Ke\u015f in the region of Sisne and Elmal\u0131, about four walking hours from D\u00f6ngel village. The area was not within the official search zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Recovery\nThe villagers called the authorities by phone from the crash site and stated that, \"they found five victims dead, two of them inside the helicopter's wreckage. They were unable to identify Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu since the corpses were frozen beyond recognition. The aircraft's fuselage was broken into pieces while the tail was almost intact. They searched for the sixth victim around the wreckage without success.\" They added that \"the crash site was located in an inaccessible area and could better be reached by means of helicopter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Recovery\nOfficials redirected the rescuers to the area where the wreckage was found. The next day, now three days after the crash, rescue teams reached the bodies of the five victims: pilot Kaya \u0130stektepe, BBP leader Muhsin Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu, BBP chairman of Sivas Province Erhan \u00dcst\u00fcnda\u011f, his deputy Y\u00fcksel Ya\u011fc\u0131, and Sivas city council candidate Murat \u00c7etinkaya, and transported them by helicopters to the State Hospital in Kahramanmara\u015f. The search for the sixth passenger continued, however with little hope of finding him alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Recovery\nDuring the SAR operation, a Sikorsky military helicopter made an emergency landing in the region due to bad weather conditions and became stuck in snow. There were no casualties in the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Recovery\nSpecial operations SAR teams of the gendarmerie finally recovered the body of the 34-year-old reporter \u0130smail G\u00fcne\u015f on March 30, five days after the accident, covered by snow between two rocks around 500 metres (1,600\u00a0ft) east of the crash site. He had eventually freed himself from the wreckage, where his foot had been wedged, and slid downhill with the help of a seat from the aircraft to seek shelter under a tree beside a rock at Karayakup hill. G\u00fcne\u015f's corpse was flown to the State Hospital in Kahramanmara\u015f, where four forensic experts from Adana conducted an autopsy and found that he had broken his left ankle and two ribs, and the reason for his death was exposure to cold weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Investigation\nAn investigation team of the Turkish Civil Aviation Authority (Turkish: Sivil Havac\u0131l\u0131k Genel M\u00fcd\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011f\u00fc) stated that the crashed helicopter was equipped with an emergency locater transmitter (ELT), contrary to claims that the aircraft lacked one or that it was not functioning. The ELT was not able to send sufficiently strong signals because its antenna had been broken in the crash. The CEO of the holding company affiliated with Medair, Ali Sabanc\u0131, said that the helicopter was regularly maintained and the ELT device was installed one week before the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Investigation\nThe investigation team revealed as its first findings that the helicopter, while cruising at an altitude of about 1,000-1,500\u00a0ft (300\u2013460 m), hit the mountain because of bad weather conditions and fog. The fuselage broke into pieces, and some of the parts spread over an area up to 50 metres (160\u00a0ft) from the impact point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Aftermath\nOut of respect for the BBP leader Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu's death, all the political parties cancelled their rallies ahead of the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Aftermath\nAfter the local elections of March 29, the BBP unexpectedly won the seat of mayor in Sivas Province, the province Muhsin Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu was the deputy for in the parliament as his party's only member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203940-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Medair Bell 206 crash, Aftermath\nIn a press conference, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan expressed his appreciation to the rescue teams for their efforts despite adverse weather conditions at the crash site, and announced initiation of an official investigation into a possible failure of the authorities regarding the length of time the SAR operation had taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203941-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney\nThe 2009 Medibank International Sydney was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 117th edition of the event known that year as the Medibank International Sydney, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia, from 11 through 17 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203941-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney\nThe men's singles line up was headlined by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 3, reigning Australian Open and Indian Wells Masters champion, recent Tennis Masters Cup winner Novak Djokovic, 2008 Australian Open runner-up, Bangkok and Paris Masters titlist, Sydney doubles defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Madrid Masters finalist, Casablanca, Indianapolis and Bucharest champion Gilles Simon. Other top seeds competing were Buenos Aires and Stockholm champion David Nalbandian, Gstaad and Umag finalist Igor Andreev, Richard Gasquet, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, Tommy Robredo and Dmitry Tursunov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203941-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney\nThe women's draw was led by Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No . 2, Wimbledon finalist and US Open champion, Bangalore, Miami and Charleston winner Serena Williams, French Open runner-up, Beijing Olympics silver medalist, Berlin, Los Angeles, Montreal and Tokyo titlist Dinara Safina, and Beijing Olympics gold medalist, Dubai and Luxembourg winner Elena Dementieva. Other players present were WTA Tour Championships runner-up, Prague and Guangzhou titlist Vera Zvonareva, French Open semifinalist Svetlana Kuznetsova, Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, Nadia Petrova and Caroline Wozniacki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203941-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney, Finals, Men's doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Daniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20133)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203941-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney, Finals, Women's doubles\nHsieh Su-Wei /  Peng Shuai defeated  Nathalie Dechy /  Casey Dellacqua, 6\u20130, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203942-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRichard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were the defending champions, but both chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203942-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan won in the final 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20133), against Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203943-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Men's Singles\nDmitry Tursunov was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Richard Gasquet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203943-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Men's Singles\nDavid Nalbandian won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20137(9\u201311), 6\u20132, against Jarkko Nieminen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203943-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203944-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Women's Doubles\nYan Zi and Zheng Jie were the defending champions but both chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203944-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Women's Doubles\nIn the final, Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai defeated Nathalie Dechy and Casey Dellacqua, 6\u20130, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203945-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Women's Singles\nJustine Henin was the defending champion, but retired from the sport on May 14, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203945-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Women's Singles\nElena Dementieva won the all-Russian final, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20131, over Dinara Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203945-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Medibank International Sydney \u2013 Women's Singles\nWorld No. 2 and the first seed Serena Williams was nearly out of the tournament two times. Williams saved four match points in her first round clash against Samantha Stosur & three more against Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinals. Williams was defeated by the eventual champion Dementieva in the semifinals in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games\nThe 2009 Mediterranean Games, officially the XVI Mediterranean Games (Italian: XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo) and commonly known as Pescara 2009, was a multi-sport event held in Pescara, Italy, from 26 June to 5 July 2009. It was governed by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (ICMG) (French: Comit\u00e9 international des Jeux m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ens). A total of 3,368 athletes (2,183 men and 1,185 women) from 23 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Games. Montenegro participated for the first time at the Mediterranean Games, after their independence in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games\nThe program included competitions in 24 different sports, including three non-Olympic sports\u00a0\u2013 bocce, karate, and water skiing\u00a0\u2013 and golf, which will be reinstated as an official Olympic sport in 2016 Summer Olympics. Water skiing was introduced as a demonstration sport. Two disabled sports, athletics and swimming, were also contested in the Games. Italy became the first nation to host the Mediterranean Games three times, having previously hosted them in Naples (1963) and Bari (1997).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games\nPescara was awarded the Games on 18 October 2003 in Almeria, Spain, which was the host of 2005 Mediterranean Games, defeating bids from Rijeka and Patras. The organising committee of the Games, Comitato Organizzatore dei XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo (COJM), was created in 2006 to oversee the staging of the Games. A total of 33 venues were used to host the events, including Stadio Adriatico\u2014 main stadium of the Pescara Games, hosted both the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the athletics competition and football final. Many events took place in several different cities. The official logo of the 2009 Mediterranean Games featured simple graphical illustrations of mountains and sea of the Abruzzo region, and the Marsican brown bear was chosen as the mascot of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games\nAthletes from 21 countries won medals, leaving two countries without a medal; 18 of them won at least one gold medal. A total of 782 medals \u2013 243 gold, 244 silver and 295 bronze \u2013 were awarded. Competitors from the host nation, Italy, led the medal table for the eleventh time in the history of the Games, with 64 gold medals. Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini and Spanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer set new world records in their respective events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Background\nThe Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event, much like the Summer Olympics (albeit on a much smaller scale), with participation exclusively from countries around the Mediterranean Sea where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet. The Games started in 1951 and are held every four years. The idea of holding the Mediterranean Games originated with Muhammed Taher Pasha, who was the chairman of the Egyptian Olympic Committee and the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at a meeting during the 1948 London Olympics. The Games \"were designed specifically to bring together the Muslim and European countries surrounding the Mediterranean basin\" to promote understanding through sporting competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Background\nThe first edition of the Mediterranean Games was held in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 1951, attracting 734 competitors from 10 nations. Female athletes were not allowed to compete. Italy hosted the Games for the first time in 1963 in Naples\u2014the fourth edition of the Games. Naples was the second in Europe (following Barcelona in 1955) to host the Games. Thirty-four years later, another Italian city, Bari, hosted the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Selection of host city\nPescara was elected as the host city for the 2009 Mediterranean Games on 18 October 2003 in Almeria, Spain, defeating bids from Rijeka and Patras. The decision for the host city was made after the voting by members of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games, held in Almeria, host of the 2005 Mediterranean Games. Croatia's bidding city, Rijeka, was the first city to be eliminated, followed by Patras, Greece's bidding city. This was the third time that any Italian city hosted this multi-sport event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Selection of host city\nCroatian delegates were outraged by the final decision, particularly as this was their third bid in recent years; Croatia made bids in 1995 and 1999 for the 1997 and 2001 Mediterranean Games, respectively. Former Prime Minister of Croatia and the president of the Croatian Olympic Committee Zlatko Mate\u0161a expressed his disappointment, \"it just shows, once again, that small countries have no chance of competing with the big ones.\" The Croatian bid was supported by the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration Bernie Ecclestone, 1992 Olympic bronze medallist in tennis Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 and 1998 FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe Award winner Davor \u0160uker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Organising committee\nThe Comitato Organizzatore dei XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo\u00a0\u2013 Pescara 2009 (English: Organizing Committee of the XVI Mediterranean Games\u00a0\u2013 Pescara 2009; abbreviated as COJM) was created in 2006 to oversee the staging of the Games. The committee was in charge of implementing and staging the Games, and to maintain the infrastructure and provide other services. The committee's board of directors consisted of politicians, IOC members from Italy, and presidents of the various Italian sports governing bodies. Mario Pescante was appointed as the Commissioner Extraordinary of the Games in 2008 by the Italian Government. He had held the same office during the 2006 Winter Olympic, held in Turin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Organising committee\nA few weeks before the Games on 18 May 2009, Sabatino Aracu resigned from his post of the president of the organising committee in order to allow its dissolution, which according to him was \"incapable of taking urgent measures.\" Aracu's decision was reportedly motivated by the bureaucratic reasons. He was later appointed Honorary President of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Logo and mascot\nThe official logo of this edition of the Mediterranean Games featured simple graphical illustrations of mountains and sea of the Abruzzo region. Pescara is the capital of Province of Pescara which is situated in the Abruzzo region. The official mascot was a Marsican brown bear, called Aua', wearing a diving mask and flip-flops with swimfins in his hands. The Marsican brown bear is a highly threatened, unrecognised subspecies of the Brown bear, with a range restricted to the Abruzzo National Park. The mascot was unveiled by the Mediterranean Games Executive Committee during their meeting in Pescara from 24 to 28 March 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Medals\nThe medals of the Games were designed and produced by the Italian company, Coinart, specialising in the manufacture of medals, jewellery, badges, plaques, and trophies. The medals were made up of brass, bronze, and gold. The obverse features the Games logo, stylised shape of an athlete posed to plunge into the waves, with the inscription \"Pescara 2009\" and XVI Jeux m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ens in French and the ICMG logo at bottom\u2014three interlocking rings, representing Africa, Asia and Europe. The reverse features the Warrior of Capestrano (Italian: Guerriero di Capestrano), a fourth-century BC statue, measures more than two metres in height. The statue was discovered in 1934 in Capestrano, Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region. It is widely considered to be an archaeological evidence of the pre-Roman settlements in Abruzzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Venues\nThe main stadium of the 2009 Mediterranean Games was Stadio Adriatico. The stadium received major renovations and upgrades at a cost of about \u20ac10 million. It hosted the opening ceremonies as well as the athletics competition and football final. A total of 33 venues were used to host the events during the Games. Many events took place in several different cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Venues\nThe Mediterranean Village provided accommodation and training for athletes of the Games. It was designed by the Italian architect Paolo Desideri, and the total cost of the project was \u20ac150 million. It was located in the municipality of Chieti and was spread over an area of 18 acres (7.3\u00a0ha; 0.028\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), including a 7 acres (2.8\u00a0ha; 0.011\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) public park. More than 450 apartments accommodated athletes and team officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Organisation, Venues\nThe village was designed according to modern architecture and was said to have adopted green features like solar water heating. Key facilities such as a restaurant, medical centre, and a conference hall with a seating capacity of 800 people were hosted there. Rhythmic gymnast Fabrizia D'Ottavio was appointed the mayor of the village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Calendar\nIn the following calendar for the 2009 Mediterranean Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Calendar\nAlthough, the Games officially began on 26 June 2009, the first football games were held on 25 June. Opening ceremony was held on 26 June, and on the same day Tunisian weightlifter Khalil El-Maaoui won the first gold medal of the Games in the men's 56\u00a0kg event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony officially began at 9:00\u00a0pm Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00) on 26 June 2009 in the Stadio Adriatico. Italian entrepreneur Marco Balich, who coordinated the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, was its producer and director, with \"music moments and stage actions\" were developed by the choreography director Doug Jack. K -events (now Filmmaster Events), subsidiary of the Italian holding company Filmmaster Group, was responsible for the organisation of the opening and closing ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Opening ceremony\nThe ceremony, among other dignitaries and guests, included the president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge, president of the ICMG Amar Addadi, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Commissioner Extraordinary of the Games Mario Pescante, president of the Pescara Games organising committee Sabatino Aracu, European Olympic Committee (EOC) president Patrick Hickey, president of the Italian National Olympic Committee (Italian: Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (CONI)) Gianni Petrucci and the EOC and CONI secretary general Raffaele Pagnozzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Opening ceremony\nThe cultures of Abruzzi Region and Mediterranean were highlighted in the two-and-a-half hours long opening ceremony. The stadium was full to its 25,000 capacity. A special tribute was presented to the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, occurred in the region of Abruzzo on 6 April 2009; Italian flag was carried by the Italian Special Forces, \"who were the first to arrive in L\u2019Aquila\". The ceremony featured a special performance by the Italian Air Force. Italian musician and singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti sang \"L'orizzonte\" from his 2009 studio album Ali e radici. The main attraction of the ceremony was the \"Water Ceremony\". The \"water journey\" took place through the villages most stricken by the earthquake and ended at the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Sports\nThe programme for the Pescara Games included 24 sports and 245 events. Two disabled sports\u00a0\u2013 athletics and swimming\u00a0\u2013 were also held, each comprising two events. Three sports were open only to men \u2013\u00a0boxing, football and water polo\u00a0\u2013 while rhythmic gymnastics and two events of fencing (foil and sabre) were open only to women. Equestrian was the only sport in which men and women competed together. Water skiing was added as a demonstration sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Sports\nNumbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Closing ceremony\nThe 2009 Mediterranean Games closing ceremony concluded the Pescara Games on 5 July 2009. It began at 9:00\u00a0pm Central European Summer Time (UTC+2:00), and took place on the streets of the city. The \"main element\" of the ceremony was white, and spectators were asked by the organisers to wear white clothing. The event was directed by Marco Balich and organised by K-events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Games, Closing ceremony\nThe ceremony included the handover of the Games from Pescara to Volos, co-host of the 2013 Mediterranean Games with Larissa. The Italian army's brass band played the Italian national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani. The Mayor of Pescara, Luigi Albore Mascia, then handed the Mediterranean Games flag to the president of the International Committee for the Mediterranean Games, Amar Addadi, who in turn passed it to Aleksandros Voulgaris, the Mayor of Volos. The closing act of the ceremony was the romanza of Mario Cavaradossi \"E lucevan le stelle\", performed by local pop singer Piero Mazzocchetti, who was specially chosen for this purpose by the president of the organising committee Sabatino Aracu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Medal count\nAthletes from 21 countries won medals, leaving two countries without a medal, and 18 of them won at least one gold medal. Andorra and Lebanon did not win any medal. Athens Olympics silver medallist in 200\u00a0metre freestyle, Federica Pellegrini of Italy made a new world record in the 400\u00a0metres freestyle event. Spanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer set a new world record in 100\u00a0metres backstroke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Participating nations\nA total of 3,368 athletes (2,183 men and 1,185 women) from 23 member nations of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games participated (ICMG) in the Games. The number of participating countries was the greatest in Mediterranean Games history (equivalent to Tunis 2005). The total number of female athletes was an all-time high. Women took part in the Games for the first time in 1967. Italy and Greece had the largest teams, with 452 athletes for Italy and 391 for Greece. Andorra sent the smallest delegation of 13 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203946-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games, Participating nations\nAll but one of the 24 National Olympic Committees that were member of the ICMG, as of 2009, participated in the Pescara Games, the exception being Republic of Macedonia. Montenegro, after their independence in 2006, participated for the first time at the Mediterranean Games. The states of Serbia and Montenegro, which participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games jointly as Serbia and Montenegro, competed separately. The Montenegrin Olympic Committee was accepted as a new National Olympic Committee by the International Olympic Committee in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table\nThe 2009 Mediterranean Games, officially known as the XVI Mediterranean Games (Italian: XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo), was a multi-sport event held in Pescara, Italy, from 26 June to 5 July 2009. A record total of 3,368 athletes\u20142,183 men and 1,185 women\u2014representing 23 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Games. The number of competing NOCs was the highest in Mediterranean Games history, alongside Tunis 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table\nAthletes from every participating NOC, except Andorra and Lebanon, won medals. Among the medalling NOCs, 18 won at least one gold medal. Tunisian swimmer Oussama Mellouli won five gold medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Pescara 2009 Games. French gymnast Youna Dufournet won four golds and one silver, becoming the most decorated female athlete at these Games. In the 400\u00a0metres freestyle event, Athens Olympics silver medallist Federica Pellegrini of Italy won gold andbroke the world record. She won a second gold medal as part of the relay team in the 4\u00d7100\u00a0metres freestyle event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table\nSpanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber set a new world record in the 100\u00a0metres backstroke and won four gold medals. Maltese shooter William Chetcuti won his nation's only medal, a silver in the men's double trap. Yann Siccardi won the only medal for Monaco at the 2009 Mediterranean Games, a silver in the men's 60\u00a0kg event of judo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table\nA total of 782 medals (243 gold, 244 silver and 295 bronze) were awarded. Athletics, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling accounted for almost half of the total medals awarded. Five NOCs\u2014Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, Cyprus and San Marino\u2014improved their position in the medal table compared to the 2005 Mediterranean Games. The host nation, Italy, topped the medal table for a record eleventh time in the history of the Games, having collected 64 gold medals; it also secured the most bronze medals (63) and the most medals overall (176).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table\nThe Italian delegation also obtained the most medals in athletics, bowls, boxing, canoeing, fencing, karate, road cycling, rowing, shooting, swimming and volleyball, and tied for the most in football, judo, rhythmic gymnastics and water polo. France led the silver medal count with 53, and with 48 golds, 39 bronzes and a total of 140 medals, finished second on the medal table. Spanish athletes claimed 83 medals in total (including 28 gold), earning third spot on the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table, Medal table\nThe ranking in this table is consistent with Comit\u00e9 international des Jeux m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ens convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a nation is an entity represented by a NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, followed by the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given; they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table, Medal table\nThe total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold or silver medals because two bronze medals were awarded per event in four sports: boxing, judo, karate and wrestling. In the women's 50\u00a0m freestyle event of swimming, a tie for the second position between two swimmers from Italy meant that two silver medals (and no bronze) were awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203947-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Games medal table, Change\nNurcan Taylan DQ and all results were invalidated from 2009-2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck\nOn 27 March 2009, at least one boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy capsized. The boat is believed to have been carrying 250 migrants from Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine and Nigeria. A rescue attempt involving the Italian and Libyan navies rescued 21 survivors from the boat and retrieved 21 bodies. A further 77 bodies subsequently washed up on the shores of Libya before rescue efforts were called off. Two other boats also went missing between Libya and Italy, carrying around 250 more people between them. A fourth boat, carrying 350 people, was rescued by an Italian merchant ship on 29 March in the same area of sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck, Boat confirmed sunk\nOne vessel was confirmed by Libyan authorities to have capsized. It was a wooden fishing boat with a legal capacity of 50 persons and was attempting a crossing from Libya to Italy while carrying around 250 migrants. The boat set off from Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, where survivors have said that it was already in a poor condition and possibly holed. The vessel is thought to have capsized 30 miles (48\u00a0km) off the Libyan coast on 27 March 2009 in high winds and seas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck, Boat confirmed sunk\nA search and rescue attempt was made on 29 March by the Libyan Navy, Italian Navy and local fishing boats, which recovered 21 people alive from the upturned boat and a further 23 bodies. At least 10 Egyptians and 10 Gambians were among the dead, along with Tunisians, Palestinians and Nigerians. Those rescued were returned to Tripoli and 17 were admitted to hospital for treatment. A further 77 bodies washed ashore on beaches to the west of Tripoli, including at Sebrata, on 31 March, the same day that search and rescue efforts were called off and the Libyan authorities made the news public. The remaining passengers were listed as missing, presumed dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck, Other boats\nA second boat, similar to the one that capsized and carrying another 350 people, was rescued by an Italian merchant ship in the same area of sea on 29 March after being spotted by a nearby oil platform. Two more similar boats arrived in Italy in subsequent weeks, and a further two remained missing, having left Libya but never arrived in Italy. Coastguards from the two countries continued to search for the latter two boats. The capsized boat and the two that went missing are thought to have carried at least 500 people, of whom 200 were Nigerian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck, Other boats\nThe smuggling season normally runs from April to October but boats were sailing throughout the winter of 2008-9, which brings poor weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203948-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck, Reaction\nApart from the search attempts, the Italian and Libyan navies agreed to begin joint patrols of the area between the two countries from May 2009 in an attempt to halt the people smuggling operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires\nThe 2009 Mediterranean wildfires were a series of wildfires that broke out across France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Turkey in July 2009. Strong winds spread the fire during a hot, dry period of weather killing at least eight people, six of whom were in Spain. Some of the wildfires were caused by lightning, along with arson and military training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nFour Spanish firefighters died in Catalonia on 21 July, and a fifth member died later from injuries on 23 July, as well as a fire engine driver in Teruel. A further two people died from bush fires in Sardinia. More than 120 people were rescued at Capo Pecora on Sardinia by helicopter and civil protection boats. The Arenas prison complex was evacuated and the inmates were temporarily transferred to the beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nNorthern and central Spain saw temperatures of around 40\u00a0\u00b0C (104\u00a0\u00b0F) on 21 July. Around 2,000 people were evacuated from hills around the town of Collado Mediano, near Madrid. Aircraft with water and firefighters controlled the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nEstimates suggest that 5,000 hectares of forest and bush were affected in the Sierra Cabrera mountain range between Turre and Moj\u00e1car in Spain on 14\u201315 July. 500 people were evacuated, as dozens of firefighters and soldiers controlled the fires, including the use of five helicopters and three aircraft. On 23 July, the fires on the Sierra Cabrera on which Moj\u00e1car sits flared again, causing damage to the village and other houses in the area and the evacuation of around 1,500 residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nOutside the French city of Marseille, 1,300 hectares (3211 acres) were destroyed. In Corsica, wildfires led to the destruction of approximately 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of bush and forest resulting in the injuries of five firemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nMore than 320 wildfires affected patches of forest across Greece, although they did affect buildings. Most of them were located on the island of Euboea and the southern Peloponnese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Effects\nOn 23 July, over 15 hectares of land were destroyed in a landfill site in Bodrum, southwestern Turkey. Over 200 volunteers and 100 firefighters tried to contain the fires across Turkey, which saw temperatures of 48\u00a0\u00b0C (118\u00a0\u00b0F) on 25\u201326 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Causes\nIn the Mediterranean region, the current fire frequency due to human activity is considered much larger than the natural rate. 95% of forest fires in Spain are human-induced. The 2009 Mediterranean wildfires occurred during a particularly hot and dry summer period, increasing the risk of wildfires burning out of control once ignited. Temperatures peaked at 44\u00a0\u00b0C (111\u00a0\u00b0F) in mainland Spain and reached 37\u00a0\u00b0C (99\u00a0\u00b0F) in Gran Canaria. These conditions, combined with insufficient fire-fighting resources and an inadequate official response in some of the affected countries, exacerbated the extent of the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203949-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mediterranean wildfires, Causes\nUncontrolled legal and illegal scrub burning by farmers is a major cause of forest fires in the Mediterranean region. Arson, while still a significant factor, has diminished in Spain and Greece in recent years. Decreasing property values generally and the introduction of legislation in Spain to tackle the issue has diminished the financial incentive to illegally clear forested land for development by burning. Isolated cases of areas in Spain affected by fires caused by lightning strikes include Aragon (Spain), as reported by El Pais and Moj\u00e1car, as suggested by the Spanish Forest Fire Organisation (INFOCA). The wildfires outside of Marseille, France were reported as being caused by military training using tracer bullets. The local government of Corsica believed the fires were caused by arson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203950-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meijer Indy 300\nThe 2009 Meijer Indy 300 presented by Red Baron and Edy's was the twelfth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on August 1, 2009 at the 1.480-mile (2.382\u00a0km) Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl\nThe 2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl was the eighth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The game started at 4:30 PM US EST on Saturday, December 26, 2009, and was telecasted on ESPN and ESPN360. The Pittsburgh Panthers defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 19\u201317 with a 33-yard field goal and .52 seconds remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl\nPitt (9\u20133) finished second in the Big East after losing at home to Cincinnati on December 5 in a game decided by a missed extra point. The Panthers played in the Charlotte bowl (then known as the Continental Tire Bowl) in 2003, losing to Virginia 23\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl\nNorth Carolina (8\u20134) made its third appearance in the bowl game, and its second in a row. They lost to West Virginia in the 2008 game, 31\u201330. A deal was initially in the works to have UNC play fellow traditional college basketball power Kentucky in the Music City Bowl. However, this came undone when all of the ACC's top-tier bowl selections passed on ACC title game loser Clemson, forcing the Music City Bowl to select the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl\nThe ACC's bowl selection rules at the time did not allow the conference title game loser to fall below the Music City Bowl, which has the fifth pick from ACC bowl-eligible teams. This sent the Tar Heels to the Meineke Car Care Bowl, which has the sixth pick. The game will mark the seventh time that the two schools have played each other and the first time they will meet in the post-season. Entering the game, UNC led the series 4\u20132 with the last meeting being a 20\u201317 Tar Heels victory in Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl\nThe Tar Heels' appearances have accounted for two of the game's three sellouts; the 2008 game attracted its largest crowd ever. UNC has a large alumni and fan base in the area, and Charlotte is only two hours south of the UNC campus. However, the 2009 game only attracted a crowd of 50,389, the smallest in the game's eight-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl, Game summary\nNorth Carolina wore their home blue jerseys, Pitt wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203951-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl, Game summary\nPitt freshman tailback Dion Lewis rushed for 159 yards and a touchdown on his way to being named the game's MVP. Lewis also broke the Pitt single season rushing record for a freshman, breaking Tony Dorsett's record of 1,686 in the first quarter of the game. Lewis also passed Craig Heyward for second in terms of overall single season rushing. Lewis finished with 1,799 yards on the season. UNC was led by their junior quarterback, T. J. Yates, who passed for 183 yards and two touchdowns. Pitt finished the season with 10 wins. This was their first 10 win season since 1981, when they were led by quarterback Dan Marino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga\nThe 2009 Meistriliiga was the 19th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. It started on 7 March 2009 and ended on 10 November 2009. Levadia won their seventh title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, Changes from the previous season\nTVMK were disbanded after the end of the previous season. Hence Vaprus, who originally were to be directly relegated, faced Esiliiga side Paide Linnameeskond in a relegation play-off series for one spot in Meistriliiga 2009. With an aggregate 5\u20135, Paide Linnameeskond won the promotion play-off against Vaprus on the away goals rule and play their first season in Estonian top division. Tallinna Kalev, who originally were to participate in the relegation series, were spared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, Changes from the previous season\nKuressaare earned promotion to the 2009 Meistriliiga after finishing in second place in the 2008 Esiliiga; champions Levadia II were not eligible to be promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, Changes from the previous season\nMaag Tammeka changed their name to Tammeka following the loss of a major sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, League table, Relegation play-off\nThe ninth placed team of Meistriliiga and the runners-up of Esiliiga will compete in a two-legged relegation play-off for one spot in 2010 Meistriliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, League table, Relegation play-off\nPaide Linnameeskond wins 2\u20131 on aggregate and retains their spot in next season's Meistriliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203952-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Meistriliiga, Results\nEach team plays every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 4\u20138, 2009. The event was held at the Griffith University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series, and the OAA sub-regional Micronesian and Polynesian Championships. Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Detailed reports were given for the OAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics\nA total of 34 events were contested, 18 by men and 16 by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nComplete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage, and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nIn 100 metres, 400 metres hurdles, long jump and triple jump, as well as in shot put, discus throw, and javelin throw, there were separate open competitions for the Melanesian championships and the OAA Grand Prix Series held on different days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Men\n1. ): In the 400 metres event, Kevin Kapmatana from \u00a0Papua New Guinea was 2nd in 48.05 competing as a guest. 2. ): In the 4 x 100 metres relay event, the B team from \u00a0Fiji was 3rd in 42.30 competing as guests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary, Women\n1. ): In the 400 metres event, Angeline Blackburn from \u00a0Australia was 3rd in 55.85 competing as a guest. 2. ): In the discus throw event, Che Kenneally from \u00a0Australia was 2nd in 35.71m competing as a guest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203953-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Melanesian Championships in Athletics, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 85 athletes from 7 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203954-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Cup\nThe 2009 Melbourne Cup, the 149th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race was run on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, starting at 3:00 PM local time (0400 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203954-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Cup\nThe race was won by Shocking. The 9\u20131 winner, trained by Mark Kavanagh and ridden by Corey Brown, won by three-quarters of a length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season\nThe 2009 Melbourne Football Club season was the club's 110th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season\nMelbourne hosted 10 of its 11 home games at the MCG. For the third year in a row, they played their remaining home game at Manuka Oval in the nation's capital, Canberra, against the Sydney Swans during Round 17. Dean Bailey coached his second year as senior coach at Melbourne. After taking the captaincy from David Neitz in round 6 the year before with Cameron Bruce, James McDonald was made full-time captain for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season\nOn 2 August, Melbourne president Jim Stynes announced he was diagnosed with cancer and would be stepping aside from his duties until the conclusion of the 2009 AFL season. Don McLardy took over as acting president for that period of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season\nMelbourne continued their Debt Demolition campaign in the month of August raising $567,132 and cutting their debt to $1.5\u00a0million. Melbourne also had a yearly profit of $587,183.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season\nMelbourne only won four matches for the year, receiving their 12th wooden spoon. Melbourne came under scrutiny in the later rounds of the season (most notably in round 18 against Richmond) for \"tanking\", i.e. losing games in order to receive a priority draft pick; but, after extensive investigations in 2012 and 2013, the AFL found the club not guilty of these allegations. Because the Demons won four games or fewer for the second year in a row, the club received a priority pick at the start of the 2009 National Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 1\nDebut(s): Jamie Bennell, Kyle Cheney, Neville Jetta, Jake Spencer Milestone(s): Neville Jetta  (1st AFL Goal) Brownlow Votes: Hamish McIntosh (North Melbourne) 3 votes, Leigh Harding (North Melbourne) 2 votes, Nathan Jones (Melbourne) 1 voteRecord: 0 Wins, 1 Loss, 0 Draws (66.34%)Ladder Position: 13th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 2\nMilestone(s): Matthew Bate  (50th AFL Game)Brownlow Votes:  Josh Fraser (Collingwood) 3 votes, Alan Didak (Collingwood) 2 votes,  Aaron Davey (Melbourne) 1 voteRecord: 0 Wins, 2 Losses, 0 Draws (60.1%)Ladder Position: 15th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 3\nDebut(s): John MeesenMilestone(s): Aaron Davey (100th AFL Game) Jamie Bennell (1st AFL Goal)Brownlow Votes: Warren Tredrea (Port Adelaide) 3 votes, Daniel Motlop (Port Adelaide) 2 votes, Danyle Pearce (Port Adelaide) 1 vote Record: 0 Wins, 3 Losses, 0 Draws (60.5%)Ladder Position: 15th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 4\nBrownlow Votes:Matthew Richardson (Richmond) 3 votes, Aaron Davey (Melbourne) 2 votes,  Brock McLean (Melbourne) 1 vote Record: 1 Win, 3 Losses, 0 Draws(70.2%)Ladder Position: 14th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 5\nBrownlow Votes: Simon Goodwin (Adelaide) 3 votes, Ben Rutten (Adelaide) 2 votes, Bernie Vince (Adelaide) 1 vote Record: 1 Win, 4 Losses, 0 Draws (69.9%)Ladder Position: 15th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 6\nMilestone(s): Clint Bartram (50th AFL Game)Brownlow Votes: Paul Chapman (Geelong) 3 votes, Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) 2 votes, Steve Johnson (Geelong) 1 vote Record: 1 Win, 5 Losses, 0 Draws (68.3%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 7\nMilestone(s): Paul Johnson (50th AFL Game)Brownlow Votes: Mark LeCras (West Coast) 3 votes, Nathan Jones (Melbourne) 2 votes, Adam Selwood (West Coast) 1 vote Record: 1 Win, 6 Losses, 0 Draws(71.2%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 8\nBrownlow Votes: Matthew Boyd (Western Bulldogs) 3 votes, Paul Johnson (Melbourne) 2 votes, Jason Akermanis (Western Bulldogs) 1 voteRecord: 1 Win, 7 Losses, 0 Draws (74.0%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 9\nMilestone(s): Stefan Martin (1st AFL Goal)Brownlow Votes:  Colin Sylvia (Melbourne) 3 votes, Jordan Lewis (Hawthorn) 2 votes, Brad Sewell (Hawthorn) 1 voteRecord: 1 Win, 8 Losses, 0 Draws (74.9%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 10\nMilestone(s): James Frawley (1st AFL Goal)Brownlow Votes: Lenny Hayes (St Kilda) 3 votes, Leigh Montagna (St Kilda) 2 votes, Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda) 1 voteRecord: 1 Win, 9 Losses, 0 Draws (73.3%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 11\nDebut(s): Jack WattsBrownlow Votes: Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood) 3 votes, Colin Sylvia (Melbourne) 2 votes, Brad Dick (Collingwood) 1 voteRecord: 1 Win, 10 Losses, 0 Draws (70.4%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 12\nDebut(s): Liam JurrahBrownlow Votes: Jobe Watson (Essendon) 3 votes, Scott Lucas (Essendon) 2 votes, Adam McPhee (Essendon) 1 voteRecord:1 Win, 11 Losses, 0 Draws (69.7%) Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 13\nBrownlow Votes: Simon Black (Brisbane Lions) 3 votes, Jonathan Brown (Brisbane Lions) 2 votes, Luke Power (Brisbane Lions) 1 voteRecord: 1 Win, 12 Losses, 0 Draws (68.1%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 14\nBrownlow Votes: Jack Grimes (Melbourne) 3 votes, Brent Moloney (Melbourne) 2 votes, Nathan Jones (Melbourne) 1 voteRecord: 2 Wins, 12 Losses, 0 Draws (71.5%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 15\nBrownlow Votes: Brent Moloney (Melbourne) 3 votes, Domenic Cassisi (Port Adelaide) 2 votes, Toby Thurstans (Port Adelaide) 1 voteRecord: 3 Wins, 12 Losses, 0 Draws (73.8%)Ladder Position: 15th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 16\nBrownlow Votes: Matthew Scarlett (Geelong) 3 votes, Paul Chapman (Geelong) 2 votes, Gary Ablett (Geelong) 1 voteRecord: 3 Wins, 13 Losses, 0 Draws (72.9%)Ladder Position: 15th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 17\nDebut(s): Jordie McKenzieBrownlow Votes: Ryan O'Keefe (Sydney) 3 votes, Rhyce Shaw (Sydney) 2 votes, Darren Jolly (Sydney) 1 voteRecord: 3 Wins, 14 Losses, 0 Draws (73.0%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 18\nBrownlow Votes: Ben Cousins (Richmond) 3 votes, James McDonald (Melbourne) 2 votes, Brett Deledio (Richmond) 1 voteRecord: 3 Wins, 15 Losses, 0 Draws (74.0%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 19\nDebut(s): Rohan Bail, Tom McNamaraMilestone(s): Lynden Dunn (50th AFL Game)Brownlow Votes: Brent Harvey (North Melbourne) 3 votes, Todd Goldstein (North Melbourne) 2 votes, Drew Petrie (North Melbourne) 1 voteRecord: 3 Wins, 16 Losses, 0 Draws (72.5%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 20\nMilestone(s): Tom McNamara(1st AFL Goal)Brownlow Votes: Aaron Davey (Melbourne) 3 votes, Matthew Bate (Melbourne) 2 votes, Shane Valenti (Melbourne) 1 voteRecord: 4 Wins, 16 Losses, 0 Draws (76.5%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 21\nBrownlow Votes: Chris Judd (Carlton) 3 votes, Brendan Fevola (Carlton) 2 votes, Marc Murphy (Carlton) 1 voteRecord: 4 Wins, 17 Losses, 0 Draws (75.5%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, 2009 season, Home and away season, Round 22\nBrownlow Votes: Nick Dal Santo (St Kilda) 3 votes, Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda) 2 votes, Lenny Hayes (St Kilda) 1 voteRecord: 4 Wins, 18 Losses, 0 Draws (74.7%)Ladder Position: 16th", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, NAB Cup and NAB Challenge\nWeek 1: Melbourne looked to be on the verge of causing an upset over the 2008 Premiers, Hawthorn, leading 1.8.8 (65) to 0.5.2 (32) at three-quarter time. However, the Hawks made a successful comeback, keeping the 2008 wooden spooners goal-less in the final quarter as Jarryd Roughead snatched the lead back for Hawthorn with a mark and a goal 30 seconds from full-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 4: Melbourne registered their first win of the season defeating a winless Richmond by 8 points. Despite holding a 31-point lead at half time, the Demons held off a fast finishing Tigers outfit in the final quarter to secure their first win against a Victorian team since round 22, 2007. It was also Melbourne's first win as the \"away\" side since round 14, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 10: Melbourne put up a brave first half effort against an undefeated St Kilda, trailing by only 8 points at the main break. However, the Saints kept Melbourne goalless in the second half to finish out comfortable winners by 27 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 11: In the Queen's Birthday clash, the 2008 number 1 draft pick Jack Watts made his debut against Collingwood. He received a harsh welcoming to the AFL when he came off from the interchange bench for the first time in the game: Watts was immediately crunched by the larger bodies of three Collingwood players while the ball came his direction, as Melbourne suffered its biggest loss for the season (66 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 12: Liam Jurrah (the first AFL player from a remote tribal community) made his AFL debut, against Essendon. He kicked his first goal with a marking attempt that turned into a falling crumb in the goal-square. This goal was nominated for Goal of the Year. Melbourne were out-classed by the Bombers, losing easily by 48 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 14: On 2 July, in an emotional press conference, Melbourne president Jim Stynes announced that he was diagnosed with cancer and had to step down as president for the rest of the season. Melbourne played its most emotional game of the year against West Coast and recorded its highest first quarter score of the season. Despite a late charge by the Eagles in the final quarter, Melbourne resisted the attack and won the game by 20 points. After the match, the players headed into the dressing rooms holding up Stynes' infamous number 37 guernsey, which he wore during the 1987 Preliminary Final against Hawthorn. Jack Grimes received the NAB Rising Star nomination for round 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 15: Melbourne won consecutive games for the first time since round 11, 2007 when it downed Port Adelaide by 11 points, after holding a 30-point lead midway through the third quarter. Liam Jurrah received the NAB Rising Star nomination for Round 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 18: In a match that was criticised for tanking strategies, Jordan McMahon took a mark in Richmond's forward 50 and goaled after the final siren to give the Tigers a 4-point win. During the game Melbourne coach Dean Bailey placed several players in unusual positions. These included placing ruckman Paul Johnson and midfielder James McDonald in the backline; playing forward Brad Miller in the ruck; placing defenders James Frawley and Matthew Warnock in the forward line, as well as leaving Russell Robertson and Colin Sylvia out of the game for Michael Newton and rookie Jake Spencer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 20: In front of a crowd of only 13,004, Melbourne inflicted its only thrashing of the season against fellow cellar dwellers Fremantle after a blowout in the second quarter to win by 63 points. They would record its first 60-point victory since round 8, 2006 as well as the first time they scored 20 or more goals in a game since round 22, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Notable matches, Home and away season\nRound 22: Veterans Russell Robertson, Paul Wheatley and Matthew Whelan played their last ever AFL match, against ladder leaders St Kilda. Melbourne put on another strong first half performance, trailing by only a goal at half time, which included a backwards goal from Liam Jurrah at the start of the quarter. However, St Kilda ran over the top of Melbourne in the second half, winning comfortably by 47 points to secure the minor premiership. Melbourne, on the other hand, received the wooden spoon and ensured that their priority pick would be safe. They had the first and second picks in the 2009 AFL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nSid Anderson Memorial Trophy (Second in the Best and Fairest) \u2013 Brent Moloney", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nRon Barassi Snr Memorial Trophy (Third in the Best and Fairest) \u2013 Cameron Bruce", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nIvor Warne-Smith Memorial Trophy (Fourth in the Best and Fairest) \u2013 Matthew Bate", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nDick Taylor Memorial Trophy (Fifth in the Best and Fairest) \u2013 Nathan Jones, Colin Sylvia, Matthew Warnock", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nHarold Ball Memorial Trophy (Best First Year Player) \u2013 Liam Jurrah", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203955-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Football Club season, Awards, Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal tally (top 10)\nTroy Broadbridge Trophy (highest polling MFC player in the Casey Best and Fairest) \u2013 Shane Valenti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 88], "content_span": [89, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203956-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Storm season\nThe 2009 Melbourne Storm season was the 12th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 4th out of 16 teams. They then progressed to their fourth consecutive grand final, this time to be played against the Parramatta Eels and won, claiming their second premiership in three seasons, a title later stripped in 2010 after being found guilty of salary cap breaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203956-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Storm season\nA slow start to the season saw Melbourne win just three of their first seven games. However the team rallied, losing just one of their next seven to move into fourth position by Round 14, where they would remain for the rest of the season. The finals series was when Melbourne really hit their straps, winning their first two finals by 28 and 30 points respectively. In the Grand Final, Storm defeated Parramatta 23-16 with Billy Slater named the Clive Churchill Medalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203956-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Storm season, Ladder\n1 The Bulldogs were deducted 2 competition points after an interchange breach in Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203957-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Victory W-League season\nThe 2009 season is the Melbourne Victory's second season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203957-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Victory W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203957-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Victory W-League season, Milestones\nFirst game = 2-0 win home V Perth GloryLargest win = 2-0 away V Adelaide UnitedLargest loss = 0-1 home  V Brisbane Roar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203958-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Vixens season\nThe 2009 Melbourne Vixens season saw Melbourne Vixens play in the 2009 ANZ Championship. With a team co-captained by Bianca Chatfield and Sharelle McMahon, Melbourne Vixens won 12 of their 13 matches during the regular season and finished as minor premiers. Vixens subsequently defeated Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic 58\u201343 in the major semi-final and Adelaide Thunderbirds 54\u201346 in the grand final to finish as overall premiers. Vixens hosted the grand final on Sunday 26 July at Hisense Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203958-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Melbourne Vixens season, Regular season\nMelbourne Vixens won 12 of their 13 matches during the regular season. Their only defeat came in Round 10 against Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, their main challengers for top spot. Vixens had to win their final two home matches with plenty of  goals to guarantee top place. After a 63\u201335 win against Canterbury Tactix in Round 13, Vixens' defeated Central Pulse 80\u201339 in Round 14 to secure the minor premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup\nThe 2009 Memorial Cup was a four-team round-robin format ice hockey tournament played during May 2009 in Rimouski, Quebec. It was the 91st annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announced on April 3, 2008, that the Rimouski Oc\u00e9anic were chosen to host the event at the Colis\u00e9e de Rimouski. Other participants include the Windsor Spitfires, champions of the Ontario Hockey League, the Drummondville Voltigeurs, champions of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and the Kelowna Rockets, champions of the Western Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup\nFive other QMJHL teams submitted a bid to host the event, including the Chicoutimi Saguen\u00e9ens, Halifax Mooseheads, Lewiston Maineiacs, Shawinigan Cataractes, and the St. John's Fog Devils. The Maineiacs bid partnered with the American Hockey League's Portland Pirates, with a plan to host the event in Portland's Cumberland County Civic Center. The QMJHL announced a five-member independent selection committee to evaluate the bids, headed by former New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup\nThe tournament began on May 15, 2009 with Kelowna beating Rimouski 4\u20131. Windsor defeated Rimouski in the tiebreaker and Drummondville in the semifinal, becoming just the second team since the current Memorial Cup tournament format was adopted in 1983 to reach the final after losing its first two games. Windsor then captured the Memorial Cup, defeating Kelowna 4\u20131 on May 24, 2009, becoming the first team in Memorial Cup history to win the tournament after starting 0\u20132, and also the first to win coming out of the tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup, Tournament, Round robin\nNote: Windsor finished 4th based on head to head round robin matchups but defeated Rimouski in the tiebreaker game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nThese are the top skaters based on points. If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Skaters\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nThis is a combined table of the top goaltenders based on goals against average and save percentage with at least sixty minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203959-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial Cup, Statistical leaders, Goaltending\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203960-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner\nThe VII Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner was held in Poland from 20 to 23 August 2009. 6 teams participated in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203960-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner, Qualification\nAll teams except the host must receive an invitation from the organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203961-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Memphis Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Memphis Tigers football team represented the University of Memphis in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Tigers, led by 9th year head coach Tommy West, played their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Memphis finished the season 2\u201310 and 1\u20137 in CUSA play. Head coach Tommy West was fired at the end of the season. Top players included running back Curtis Steele, who was named Offensive Player of the Year for the second season in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203962-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's African Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Men's African Volleyball Championship is played in T\u00e9touan, Morocco, from 27 September 2009 to 5 October with 9 teams participating in the continental championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203963-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships\nThe 2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships were the sixth such championships in men's floorball. They were held from March 25 to March 29, 2009 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. All matches were played at the Lee Chung Gymnasium. Singapore came into the tournament as defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203963-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships\nThe 2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships were just the second to be held outside of Singapore City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203963-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships\nThe tournament was organised by the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203963-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Asia Pacific Floorball Championships\nA new floorball world record was set on March 26, 2009, when Japan defeated India, 59:0. The previous world record was in a women's under-19 friendly, where Poland defeated Ukraine by a score of 50:0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League\nThe 2009 Men's Australian Hockey League was the 19th edition of the men's field hockey tournament. The finals week of the tournament was held in the Tasmanian city of Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League\nThe WA Thundersticks won the gold medal for the eighth time by defeating the QLD Blades 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition format\nThe 2009 Men's Australian Hockey League consisted of a single round robin format, followed by classification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition format\nTeams from all 8 states and territories competed against one another throughout the pool stage in home and away matches. At the conclusion of the pool stage, the top four ranked teams progressed to the semi-finals, while the bottom four teams continued to the classification stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition format, Point Allocation\nAll matches had an outright result, meaning drawn matches were be decided in either golden goal extra time, or a penalty shoot-out. Match points were be as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League, Competition format, Point Allocation\n\u00b7 3 points for a win\u00b7 1 points to each team in the event of a draw\u00b7 0 points to the loser of the match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203964-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Australian Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 258 goals scored in 52 matches, for an average of 4.96 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203965-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 2009 Dunlop British Open Championships was held at the National Squash Centre from 8\u201314 September 2009. Nick Matthew won his second British Open title by defeating James Willstrop in the final. This was the first all English final since the pre-war challenge system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203966-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I\nThe 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I was the third edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I, the third level of the European field hockey Championships organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 25 to 31 July 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203966-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I\nThe tournament also served as a qualifier for the 2011 Men's EuroHockey Championship II, with the finalists, Ukraine and Sweden, qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203966-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I, Qualified teams\nThe following seven teams, shown with pre-tournament world rankings, competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203966-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge I, Results, Fifth to seventh place classification, Pool C\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 97], "content_span": [98, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203967-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge II\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Justwagen (talk | contribs) at 15:59, 2 April 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203967-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge II\nThe 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge II was the third edition of the EuroHockey Nations Challenge II, the fourth level of the men's European field hockey championships organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held in Bratislava, Slovakia from 25 to 31 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203967-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Challenge II\nGibraltar won their first EuroHockey Nations Challenge II title and were promoted to EuroHockey Championship III together with the hosts Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203968-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship\nThe 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 12th edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 22 to 30 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203968-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship\nEngland won the tournament for the first time after defeating Germany 5\u20133 in the final. The hosts and defending champions the Netherlands secured third place after defeating Spain 6\u20131 in the third-place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203968-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 89], "content_span": [90, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203969-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy\nThe 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy was the 3rd edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy, the second level of the European field hockey championships organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 1 to 8 August 2009 in Wrexham, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203969-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy\nThe tournament also served as a qualifier for the 2011 EuroHockey Championship, with the finalists Ireland and Russia qualifying. Ireland won their second EuroHockey Nations Trophy title by defeating Russia 2\u20131 in the final and the hosts Wales won the bronze medal by defeating the Czech Republic 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203969-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy, Format\nThe eight teams were split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advanced to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams played in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams were relegated to the 2011 EuroHockey Championship III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203969-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C\nThe points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203970-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship\n2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship was held from September 3 to September 13, 2009 in \u0130zmir and Istanbul, Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203970-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship\nPoland claimed their first Men's European Volleyball Championship title with an undefeated run. The final was concluded with a 3-1 victory against France. Bulgaria captured the bronze medal after defeating Russia 3-0. Poland's Piotr Gruszka was named the tournament's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203970-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship, Venues\nThe \u0130zmir Halkap\u0131nar Sport Hall in \u0130zmir hosted Pools A, C, and E. Istanbul's Abdi \u0130pek\u00e7i Arena hosted Pools B, D, and F. \u0130zmir also hosted the Semifinals & Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship, held in Turkey from 3 to 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Bulgaria\nThe following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Czech Republic\nThe following is the Czech roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Estonia\nThe following is the Estonian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Finland\nThe following is the Finnish roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, France\nThe following is the French roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Greece\nThe following is the Greek roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Spain\nThe following is the Spanish roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Netherlands\nThe following is the Dutch roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Germany\nThe following is the German roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Italy\nThe following is the Italian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Poland\nThe following is the Polish roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Russia\nThe following is the Russian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Serbia\nThe following is the Serbian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Slovakia\nThe following is the Slovak roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Slovenia\nThe following is the Slovenian roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203971-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship squads, Turkey\nThe following is the Turkish roster in the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203972-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball League\nThe 2009 Men's European Volleyball League was the six edition of the annual Men's Volleyball Tournament, played by twelve European countries from June 5 to July 12, 2009. The Final Four was held in Portim\u00e3o, Portugal from July 18 to July 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203972-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's European Volleyball League\nThe tournament was won by Germany, defeating the Spain by 3\u20132 in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203973-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations was the eighth edition of the Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Africa organised by the African Hockey Federation. It was held alongside the women's tournament in Accra, Ghana from 10 to 16 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203973-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations\nThe four-time defending champions South Africa won their fifth title and qualified for the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup by defeating Egypt 4\u20131 in the final. The hosts Ghana won the bronze medal by defeating Nigeria 3\u20132 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203974-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup was the eighth edition of the Men's Hockey Asia Cup, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Asia organized by the Asian Hockey Federation. It was held from May 9 to May 16, 2009 in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203974-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup\nThe tournament was originally awarded to Dubai, United Arab Emirates by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) in a 2008 meeting. However, it was swapped to Malaysia due to the inability of the hockey facility to be complete in Dubai Sports City on time. The tournament is sponsored by AirAsia with MYR 500,000. South Korea won their third title and qualified for the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi, India, after defeating Pakistan 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203974-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup, Teams\nOnly eight teams were to compete in this tournament, divided by two pools. However, Sri Lanka withdrew from the tournament few days before the commencement, having replaced Oman before the withdrawal. Although the tournament is reduced to seven teams, the format of the competition remains unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203975-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge I\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge was held from December 6 to December 13, 2009 in Salta, Argentina. New Zealand defeated Pakistan to take the title, and promoted to the Champions Trophy tournament in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203976-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge II\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge II. The inaugural tournament saw eight teams compete. It was held from July 6 to July 12, 2009, in Dublin, Ireland, with Poland winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203976-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge II, Teams\nEight teams competed in this tournament, based on ranking in the qualifying tournaments for 2008 Summer Olympics, they were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203977-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 31st edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It was held from 28 November to 6 December 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203977-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, Teams\nThe International Hockey Federation announce the qualified teams for this event on 12 November 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203978-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Hamburg Masters\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey Hamburg Masters was the fifteenth edition of the Hamburg Masters, consisting of a series of test matches. It was held in Hamburg, Germany, from 4\u20137 June 2009, and featured four of the top nations in men's field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203978-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Hamburg Masters, Competition Format\nThe tournament featured the national teams of Australia, England, the Netherlands, and the hosts, Germany, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points were be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203978-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Hamburg Masters, Officials\nThe following umpires were appointed by the International Hockey Federation to officiate the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203978-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Hamburg Masters, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 43 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 7.17 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203979-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup\nThe 2009 Hockey Junior World Cup was the ninth tournament of the Hockey Junior World Cup. The tournament was co-hosted in both Johor Bahru, Malaysia and Singapore from June 7 to June 21, 2009. It was contested by 20 teams with Germany defeating Netherlands in the final to claim their fifth Junior World Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203979-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup, Teams\nThe teams were announced by the International Hockey Federation on November 12, 2008. The teams listed are sorted by the ranking obtained in each qualification tournament. The FIH released the pools on January 26, 2009 and the schedule on February 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203979-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup, Statistics, Final standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203979-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 415 goals scored in 82 matches, for an average of 5.06 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers\nThe 2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers were the 12th edition of the Hockey World Cup qualification tournament. Three events were held between October and November 2009 in France, New Zealand and Argentina and only the winner of each would earn a berth to play in the 2010 World Cup, to be held in New Delhi, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers\nPakistan, New Zealand and Argentina each won one of the three tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers, Qualification\nAll five confederations received quotas for teams to participate allocated by the International Hockey Federation based upon the FIH World Rankings. Those teams participated at their respective continental championships but could not qualify through it, and they received the chance to qualify through this tournament based on the final ranking at each competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers, Qualifier 1, Umpires\nBelow are the 9 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers, Qualifier 2, Umpires\nBelow are the 9 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203980-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers, Qualifier 3, Umpires\nBelow are the 9 umpires appointed by the International Hockey Federation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships was the 73rd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams representing 46 countries participated in four levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for division placements in the 2010 competition. In the Division I Championship held in April, Kazakhstan and Italy were promoted to the Championship division, while Australia and Romania were demoted to Division II. In the Division II competition, Serbia and South Korea were promoted, North Korea and South Africa were relegated to Division III. In the Division III competition, New Zealand and Turkey were promoted to Division II for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 2009 IIHF World Championship was held in Switzerland between April 24 and May 10, 2009 with events being held in both Bern and Kloten. Russia won the championship with a 2\u20131 victory in the final against Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship\nThe Championship division was contested from April 24 to May 10, 2009. Participants in this tournament were placed into groups of four with the top three teams in each group advancing to the qualifying round. Teams which finished last in the group were sent to the relegation round where the top bottom teams were relegated to the 2010 Division I tournament. Within the qualifying round teams where split into two groups of six with the top four advancing to the playoff round and the bottom two eliminated from advancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship\nThe playoff round was a knockout stage towards the gold medal game. The Championship was played in Bern and Kloten, Switzerland. Russia won the gold medal game, defeating the Canada 2\u20131. Although Austria and Hungary were relegated to Division I for 2010. After being out of the Championship division for 70 years Hungary was promoted only to be demoted again for the 2010 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship\n* Hosts of the 2010 WC, therefore exempt from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I\nDivision I was contested from April 11 to April 17, 2009. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Vilnius, Lithuania. Group B's games were played in Toru\u0144, Poland. Kazakhstan and Italy finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to the 2010 Championship division. Although Australia finished last in Group A and Romania last in Group B and were relegated to Division II for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II\nDivision II was contested from April 6 to April 13, 2009. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Novi Sad, Serbia. Group B's games were played in Sofia, Bulgaria. Serbia and South Korea finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to Division I for 2010. Although North Korea finished last in Group A and South Africa last in Group B and were relegated to Division III for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203981-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division III\nDivision III was contested from April 10 to April 16, 2009 in Dunedin, New Zealand. New Zealand won the championship and gained promotion, along with Turkey, into the 2010 Division II tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203982-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Junior World Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Men's Junior World Handball Championship (17th tournament) took place in Egypt from August 5\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203983-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the 21st edition of the Men's Continental Volleyball Tournament, played from October 12 to October 17 at the Coliseo Rub\u00e9n Rodr\u00edguez in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico. The winner qualified for the 2009 FIVB Men's World Grand Champions Cup in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203984-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, held from October 12 to October 17 at the Coliseo Rub\u00e9n Rodr\u00edguez in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203985-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Oceania Cup\nThe 2009 Men's Oceania Cup was the sixth edition of the men's field hockey tournament. It was held from 25 to 29 August in Invercargill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203985-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Oceania Cup\nThe tournament served as a qualifier for the 2010 FIH World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203985-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Oceania Cup\nAustralia won the tournament for the sixth time, defeating New Zealand 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203985-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Oceania Cup, Statistics, Final standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203986-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan American Cup\nThe 2009 Men's Pan American Cup was the third edition of the Men's Pan American Cup, the quadrennial men's international field hockey championship of the Americas organized by the Pan American Hockey Federation. It was held between 7 and 15 March 2009 in Santiago, Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203986-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan American Cup\nThe tournament doubled as the qualifier to the 2010 World Cup to be held in New Delhi, India. The winner would qualify directly while teams ranked between 2nd and 4th would have the chance to obtain one of three berths at the World Cup Qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203986-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan American Cup\nCanada won the tournament for the first time after defeating the United States 2\u20131 in the final, earning an automatic berth at the 2010 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203986-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan American Cup, Umpires\nBelow are the 11 umpires appointed by the Pan American Hockey Federation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203987-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup\nThe 2009 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the fourth edition of the annual Men's Volleyball Tournament, played by seven countries from June 15 to June 20, 2009, in Chiapas, Mexico. The winner of each pool automatically advanced to the semi-finals and the teams placed in second and third met in crossed matches in the quarterfinals round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203988-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup squads\nThis article shows all participating team squads at the 2009 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, held from June 15 to June 20, 2009 in Chiapas, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203989-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Softball World Championship\nThe 2009 ISF Men's World Championship was an international softball tournament. The final was held in Saskatoon, Canada on 26 July 2009. It was the 12th time the World Championship took place. Sixteen nations competed, including defending champions New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203990-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's South American Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Men's South American Volleyball Championship was the 28th edition of the tournament, organised by CSV. It was held in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia from 15 to 21 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203991-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship\nThe 2009 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the first official edition of the men's volleyball tournament, played by eight teams over 7\u201311 November 2009 in Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil. The winning team qualified for the 2009 FIVB Men's Club World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203992-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's World Open Squash Championship\nThe 2009 Men's World Open Squash Championship is the men's edition of the World Open, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in the Kuwait City in Kuwait from 1 to 7 November 2009. Amr Shabana won his fourth World Open title, defeating Ramy Ashour in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203993-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's World Team Squash Championships\nThe 2009 Men's World Team Squash Championships is the men's edition of the 2009 World Team Squash Championships organized by the World Squash Federation, which serves as the world team championship for squash players. The event were held in Odense, Denmark and took place from September 27 to October 3, 2009. The tournament was organized by the World Squash Federation and the Danish Squash Federation. The Egypt team won his second World Team Championships beating the French team in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203993-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's World Team Squash Championships, Participating teams\nA total of 28 teams competed from all the five confederations: Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. For Serbia, it was their first participation at a world team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203994-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Youth World Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Men's Youth World Handball Championship (3rd tournament) took place in Tunisia from July 20\u2013July 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203994-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Youth World Handball Championship\nCroatia is the 2009 Men\u2019s Youth World Champion, after beating Iceland in the final with 40:35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203994-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's Youth World Handball Championship, All-star team\nDuring the victory ceremony the best actors of the tournament were announced. The following players earned a nomination to the tournament's All-Star Team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships\nThe 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships were the fifth world championships in men's under-19 floorball. The tournament took place over May 6\u201310, 2009 in Turku, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships\nSweden defeated Finland 8\u20133 in the final match to win the men's under-19 world floorball championship for the 3rd consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships\nAll matches took place at the Turkuhalli in Turku, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships, Tournament information, Facts and history\nThe 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships were the first men's over-19 floorball championships that were held in the month of May, after the International Floorball Federation (IFF) changed their international tournament calendar format in 2008. Previously, the tournament was hosted in the months of either October or November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships, Tournament information, Facts and history\nSweden came into the tournament as two-time defending champions, after having won the world championship in both 2005 and 2007. The Swedish team had also previously won a championship in 2001, but did not defend their title in 2003, as they would lose in the final to rivals, Finland. The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland remain the only teams to have captured a women's under-19 world floorball championship medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203995-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships, Ranking and statistics\nOfficial 2009 A-Division Rankings according to the International Floorball Federation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203996-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division\nThe 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships were the fifth world championships in men's under-19 floorball. The tournament took place between 6 and 10 May 2009 in Raisio and Turku, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203996-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division\nAll matches except for the final were played in the Kerttulan Liikuntahalli in Raisio, Finland. The B-Division final took place in the Turkuhalli in Turku, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203996-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division, Tournament information, Facts and history\nThe 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships are the first men's under-19 floorball championships that will be held in the month of May, after the International Floorball Federation (IFF) changed their international tournament calendar format last year. Previously, the tournament was hosted in the months of either October or November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 103], "content_span": [104, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203996-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division, Tournament information, Facts and history\nThe tournament is also the first under-19 world floorball championships in which a North American team (Canada) will participate in. In addition to that, it is also the first in which qualifying was needed in order to determine the teams in the B-Division. Hungary and Russia qualified to play in the tournament after finishing in the top 2 during the 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships Qualifying, which took place in Kartal, Hungary from 10 to 14 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 103], "content_span": [104, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203996-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division, Final standings\nEstonia are promoted to the A-division for U19 WFC 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 77], "content_span": [78, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203997-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships qualifying\nThe 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships Qualifying rounds took place over September 10\u201314, 2008 in Kartal, Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203997-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships qualifying\nThe top 2 teams (Russia & Hungary) advanced to play in the B-Division at the 2009 Men's under-19 World Floorball Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides\nThe 2009 Messina floods and mudslides occurred in Sicily on the night of 1\u20132 October, mainly along the Ionian coast in the Province of Messina. They also affected other parts of northeastern Sicily and killed a total of at least 31 people, some of whom were swept out to sea. More than 400 people were left homeless, as many houses collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides\nThe places which suffered the most damage were Giampilieri Superiore, a small frazione 10\u00a0km (6 miles) south of the city of Messina, which was buried in mud; the comune of Scaletta Zanclea; and the frazione of Briga Superiore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides\nTo avoid casualties, when the Messina region received heavy rains in February 2010, the government evacuated one-third of the population most at risk. A mudslide caused property damage, but no casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Storm and mudslide\nOn the night of 1\u20132 October 2009, a sudden downpour of rain, accompanied by strong winds and lightning, caused large mudslides through the valleys of the northeastern coast. The extreme nature of the weather gave people little time to flee buildings or vehicles; mud rapidly swept down from the surrounding hills and cliffs, clogging the streets of these towns with debris and grime, and carrying away people, cars, and dwellings. Officials reported that 230\u00a0mm (9 inches) of rain fell in the space of three hours. In some areas, the mud was 20\u00a0m (66 feet) deep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Storm and mudslide\nThe slide hit so quickly that rescuers later found many people trapped in cars and dwellings. Rail lines were covered with mud and major roads into the area were blocked. One man was found dead in his automobile, which was submerged in mud and water. Another drowned in the flooded cellar of his country home. A man choked to death after taking in mud in when the main piazza was flooded in a suburb of the city of Messina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Storm and mudslide\nA survivor recounted his escape: \"I was driving home when suddenly all this stuff came down on top of me and hit me full on. I managed to climb out of the car. It was a terrible experience\". Cars were swept along by the mud. Many buildings collapsed; some were partially submerged by mud, and engulfed by water and debris. Some people were washed away into the Ionian Sea. At least 100 people evacuated their houses following mudslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Storm and mudslide\nAs of 8 October, seven people were still missing, and at least 450 inhabitants of the comuni were left homeless by the extreme weather. 40 wounded people were hospitalised; at least two of these were said to have serious injuries. Messina has been surrounded by mud and standing rainwater. Parts of Sicily were inaccessible for days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Storm and mudslide\nThe Italian government declared a state of emergency to mobilize emergency rescue and recovery forces. It was the worst landslide disaster in Italy since 1998 during which 137 people died in Sarno, near Naples. The death toll was expected to rise. The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said that it could be as high as fifty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aid\nMany survivors fled to rooftops, where a helicopter lifted them to safety. The first batch of evacuees escaped aboard boats; they were taken to the mainland or safe areas by rescue helicopters. Emergency crews dug through mud and used search dogs in an effort to find survivors. The mud covered roads and disrupted assistance efforts, as many rescue crews had to enter areas on foot. Medical teams were rushed to the scene. Bulldozers were also deployed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aid\nOne rescue worker described it as \"hell\". Many survivors sought refuge in a convent. The railway line connecting Messina to the resort town of Taormina was blocked by debris and mud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aid\nDamage extended to the capital Palermo, where a hospital was partially flooded, and people were found trapped in their vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aid\nGiampilieri Superiore, a small frazione 10\u00a0km (6 miles) south of the city of Messina, was totally buried in mud; the comune of Scaletta Zanclea; and the frazione of Briga Superiore also suffered extensive, irreparable damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 38], "content_span": [39, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Reactions\nAn investigation into the \"culpable disaster\" was quickly underway. The origins of this environmental disaster are believed to result from a lack of forestation in the hills and lower valleys, caused by annual summer brushfires. In addition, according to Guido Bertolaso, director of the Italian Civil Protection Service, illegal construction without permits and in defiance of zoning regulations is widespread in Sicily; many lost homes were built illegally too close to or blocking known torrent beds, creating drainage problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Reactions\nResidents accused the local administration for having failed to secure the nearby hills from the risk of landslides, following mudslides that occurred in October 2007. These had caused property damage but no casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Reactions\nPresident Giorgio Napolitano said: \"We need a serious investment plan to increase safety \u2013 rather than grandiose public works \u2013 in this part of the country, or else tragedies like this one will happen again\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aftermath\nAs of 4 October, many bodies still have not been recovered from the mud and debris. Some of the victims were small children. Silvio Berlusconi visited the afflicted areas on 4 October and met with some of the people left homeless by the disaster. The scenes have been described by a Rai Uno news reporter as \"apocalyptic\". As of 6 October, Director of the Civil Defence Guido Bertolaso amended the number of missing people from 37 to nine. Officials thought some bodies of victims might never be recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aftermath\nOn 10 October 2009, a state funeral was held for the victims at the Cathedral of Messina. It was televised so that the nation could bear witness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203998-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Messina floods and mudslides, Aftermath\nWhen heavy rains struck the region of Messina in February 2010, the government evacuated one-third of the population most at risk by 14 February. A large mudslide destroyed some houses, but caused no casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards\nThe 2009 Meteor Music Awards ceremony took place on 17 March 2009 in the RDS, Dublin. It was the ninth edition of Ireland's national music awards. The event was recorded and it aired on RT\u00c9 Two on 18 March 2009. The awards show was hosted by television presenter Amanda Byram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards\nThe general public were eligible to vote in eight categories - Best Irish Band, Best Irish Male, Best Irish Female, Best Irish Pop Act, Best Irish Album, Best Irish Live Performance, Best National DJ and Best Regional DJ. AC/DC, Coldplay, Elbow, The Killers and Kings of Leon were nominated for Best International Band, whilst Boyzone, The Blizzards, The Coronas, The Script and Westlife were the nominees for Best Irish Pop Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards\nMick Flannery, Damien Dempsey, Duke Special, David Holmes and Richard Egan of Jape were nominated in the Best Irish Male category, whilst Enya, Lisa Hannigan, Gemma Hayes, Imelda May, Tara Blaise and Camille O'Sullivan were nominated in the Best Irish Female category. The Hope for 2009 nominees were announced on 18 February, with public voting commencing on 23 February. Hot Press editor Niall Stokes received an industry award, whilst Father Shay Cullen's PREDA Foundation received \u20ac100,000. The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to traditional folk musician Sharon Shannon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards, Performances\nBoyzone, The Blizzards, Sharon Shannon, Stereophonics and Imelda May performed on the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards, Nominations\nThe nominees were officially announced on 28 January 2009, having initially been published on the official site the night before only to be quickly removed. And the winners are...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards, Nominations, Non-Public Voting Categories, Best International Band\nPresented by Caprice and Laura WhitmoreElbow won the award in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 86], "content_span": [87, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00203999-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Meteor Awards, Multiple nominations\nLisa Hannigan was the only solo artist to be nominated in more than one category. She was nominated in two categories, Best Irish Female and Best Irish Album. She won neither.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204000-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21\u201323, 2009. The top four regular season finishers of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Mercer County Waterfront Park in Trenton, New Jersey. Marist won their fifth tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204000-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top four teams were seeded one through four based on their conference winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204000-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nJacob Wiley was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Wiley was a pitcher for Marist, and recorded three saves in the Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 102], "content_span": [103, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204001-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Manila Film Festival\nThe 35th Metro Manila Film Festival\u2013Philippines was held from December 25, 2009 to January 7, 2010. During this period, no other films are allowed to be screened in Philippine theaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204001-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Manila Film Festival\nAng Panday received the Best Picture Award in the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. According to reports on the festival\u2019s awards, a film's grosses represent about 40% of its merits, so it should be no surprise that Ang Panday is chosen the best film. With revenues estimated at more than P20 million (approx. US$430,000), Ramon \"Bong\" Revilla Jr.'s vehicle has led the Metro Manila festival's box office in its first three days. The film also earned seven other awards including the Best Actor for Revilla, Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor and Child Performer for second consecutive time winners Phillip Salvador and Buboy Villar respectively, and Best Original Theme Song for Ogie Alcasid among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204001-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Manila Film Festival\nMeanwhile, Regal Films' Mano Po 6: A Mother's Love won six awards including the Best Actress for Sharon Cuneta, Best Supporting Actress for Heart Evangelista, Best Director for Joel Lamangan and the prestigious Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards above others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204001-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Metro Manila Film Festival, Awards\nThe awarding ceremony was held on December 28, 2009, at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay. The jury is composed of National Artist for Film Eddie Romero, Cinema Evaluation Board chair Christine Dayrit, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board chair Consoliza Laguardia, festival executive director Rolly Josef, film director Bebong Osorio, Film Editors Guild president Jess Navarro, film producer Simon Ongpin, composer Dero Pedero, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority AGM Planning head Cora Cruz, Manila Bulletin entertainment editor Crispina Belen and Marikina center of excellence head Julie Borje.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204002-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Mexican Figure Skating Championships took place between 8 and 15 November 2008 in Cuautitl\u00e1n Izcalli. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Mexican teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 Four Continents Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204003-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican League season\nThe 2009 Mexican League season was the 85th season in the history of the Mexican League. It was contested by 16 teams, evenly divided in North and South zones. The season started on 24 March with the match between 2008 season champions Diablos Rojos del M\u00e9xico and Sultanes de Monterrey and ended on 29 August with the last game of the Serie del Rey, where Saraperos de Saltillo defeated Tigres de Quintana Roo to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204003-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican League season\nDue to the swine flu pandemic, the league decided to play the matches between 28 and 30 April behind closed doors and suspended all the series from 1 to 5 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204003-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican League season, Standings\nNote: Teams got points based on their position in each one of the two rounds of the tournament. Qualification to the playoffs was determined by the number of points instead of the final position at the end of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections\nA number of elections, both federal and local, were scheduled to take place in Mexico during 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, 2009 Legislative elections\nIn 2009 there was a number of elections going on in Mexico. This included elections from Local governments all the way up the ladder to federal elections. Some state positions, as well as federal positions, were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, 2009 Legislative elections\nThe 2009 legislative elections were held on July 5, 2009. The election that was being decided was 500 new members in the Chamber of Deputies for the 61st Congress. This election was statistically really close. The Elections were won by the PRI party also known as the Institutional Revolutionary Party. They had 12,591,855 Votes resulting in them getting 48.2% of the Chamber of Deputies. The PRI was followed by the PAN party also known as the National Action Party and the PRD party also known as the Party of the Democratic Revolution. They had 9,549,798 and 4,164,393 votes that rewarded them 147 and 72 spots in the chamber of Deputies respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, 2009 Legislative elections\nAs a result of this, the leader of the PRI party Beatriz Parades stated that \"We are the indisputable main force in the country\" This came after they found out that they would be winning the Chamber Of Deputies majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Felipe Calderon Influence\nMany people saw the president Felipe Calderon as a big influence as to why the National Action Party (PAN) finished second in the elections. President Calderon was a part of the PAN party. At the time of the elections, Mexico's economy was weak, which in many eyes hurt his parties chances at winning the election. \"He got a beating because of the economy,\" said Ana Maria Salazar, a television and radio political commentator in Mexico City. \"The government in power pays for it,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Felipe Calderon Influence\nWith all this being said Calderon did acknowledge the fact that his party lost in a triumphant way by saying \"The federal government recognizes the new composition of the Chamber of Deputies since it is a sovereign decision of the citizens. I congratulate who they have chosen,\" he also stated that he'd work with these new representatives that got into office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Local elections\nThroughout 2009 there was 11 local state elections and 1 federal district local election. This Included the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche, Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Quer\u00e9taro, San Luis Potos\u00ed, Sonora, Coahuila, and Tabasco. The federal district of Mexico City also had local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Local elections\nPositions up for elections included Legislative Assembly, State Congress, Governor, Municipalities, and Borough Mayors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Local elections\nThe Majority of these elections took place on July 5, 2009 going hand in hand with the legislative elections but a few were different. Quintana Roo's Election took place on February 1 in 2009. The state of Coahuila took place on September 24 of 2009. The state of Tabasco elections took place on October 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204004-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican elections, Local elections\nMexico Cities federal district was different from the rest as they voted for Legislative Assembly and Borough Mayors rather than state congress and Governors since they technically aren't a state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204005-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Mexico on 5 July 2009. Voters elected 500 new deputies (300 by their respective constituencies, 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 61st Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204005-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican legislative election, Opinion polls\nOpinion polling, by pollster Demotecnia, that was taken less than a month before the election showed the Institutional Revolutionary Party with 36%, the National Action Party with 31%, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution with 16%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204005-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican legislative election, Voto en blanco\nA none of the above movement, dubbed \"voto en blanco\", or \"blank vote\", had arisen in response to the perceived corruption of the three major parties running in this election. Starting as a small group on blogs and YouTube, the movement had expanded its ranks, with politicians and intellectuals, such as Jose Antonio Crespo, supporting the movement. Pollster Demotecnia showed that 3% of the people would be willing to boycott the elections in response to the \"voto en blanco\" movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204005-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mexican legislative election, Voto en blanco\nOpposition to the movement came from organizations such as the Federal Electoral Institute, a government institute who seeks to expand voter participation, who claimed that the response to an unsatisfactory democracy is not to have fewer people vote but to have more people involved in the electoral process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204006-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup\nThe 2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup was the 2009 edition of the FEI Nations Cup, a premier international team Grand Prix show jumping competition run by the FEI and sponsored for the first time by the Meydan Group from Dubai. It was held at eight European venues from May 15 to August 17, 2009. After one year in the (old) FEI Nations Cup the team of France won the series in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204006-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Meydan FEI Nations Cup, Overall standings\nAfter the 2009 season Belgium and Great Britain both are tied on the eight place in final ranking. The rule book have no rule for this situation. The FEI decided, that Belgium, Great Britain and the tenth-placed team from Italy are relegated to the 2010 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League. The Great Britain Federation going to court because of this decision. In follow of this the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has allowed the appeal of the British Equestrian Federation. So ten teams are allowed to start in the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204007-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup\nThe 2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup was played in Miami Beach, Florida, as a World Polo Tour Cup event, from May 1 to May 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204007-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup, Results, Day 1\nMiami Beach Polo World Cup VScores, May 1, 2009Day 1 of 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204007-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup, Results, Day 2\nMiami Beach Polo World Cup VScores, May 2, 2009Day 2 of 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204007-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup, Results, Day 3\nMiami Beach Polo World Cup VScores, May 3, 2009Day 3 of 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204007-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Beach Polo World Cup, Results, Day 3\nBest Playing Pony: Reina, 12-year-old Chestnut mare owned by John and Kathleen Gobin, played by John Gobin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 2009 Miami Dolphins season was the franchise's 40th season in the National Football League, the 44th overall and the second under head coach Tony Sparano. The Dolphins entered the 2009 season as the reigning AFC East champions after posting an 11\u20135 record in 2008. Dropping by four more games, the Dolphins failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007, marking the 25th consecutive year that the region hosting the Super Bowl did not see its host team play in, thus it set off a playoff drought that lasted until 2016. (not counting years where Super Bowls have been played on neutral sites).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Coaching staff\nThe Dolphins fired offensive line coach Mike Maser on January 14, 2009, just one year after he was hired to head coach Tony Sparano's staff. During Maser's lone season with the Dolphins, the team had the 12th-best offense in the league with 345.6 yards per game. A day after firing Maser, the team hired Dave DeGuglielmo, who had been the assistant offensive line coach for the New York Giants, as their new offensive line coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Coaching staff\nAfter kicking coach Steve Hoffman left the team to join the Kansas City Chiefs, the Dolphins hired University of Rhode Island head coach Darren Rizzi as the assistant special teams coach on February 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Players, Free agents\nUFA: Unrestricted free agent, RFA: Restricted free agent, ERFA: Exclusive-rights free agent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Players, 2009 NFL Draft\nOriginally slated to have the 26th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Dolphins' pick moved up one spot to 25th after the Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles made it to the NFC Championship. Both the Cardinals (9\u20137) and Eagles (9\u20136\u20131) were projected to pick before the Dolphins (11\u20135), but with one guaranteed to make the Super Bowl (and thus pick 31st or 32nd depending on the outcome) the Dolphins moved up one position in the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Players, Undrafted free agents\nFollowing the 2009 NFL Draft, the Dolphins signed the following nine undrafted free agents on April 30:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Offseason personnel moves, Players, Undrafted free agents\nThe team later signed guard J. D. Quinn (Montana) on May 11. Two of the undrafted rookies left the team shortly after signing, with Bronson failing to report to training camp on August 2 and Rogers opting for retirement on August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 1: at Atlanta Falcons\nAfter a great season for the Miami Dolphins in 2008, the Dolphins went to the Georgia Dome to take on 2008 playoff contenders, the Atlanta Falcons. After a scoreless first quarter, the Falcons got on the board with a 1-yard touchdown pass from Matt Ryan to fullback Ovie Mughelli in the second quarter. They also got a 36-yard field goal by kicker Jason Elam to make the score 10\u20130 at halftime. In the third quarter, Mike Peterson intercepted a Chad Pennington pass, which set up a 20-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez and a 50-yard field goal by Jason Elam to make the score 19\u20130. Chad Pennington then hit a 9-yard touchdown pass to Ricky Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 1: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe Falcons won the game 19\u20137 as the Dolphins started their season 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 1: at Atlanta Falcons\nIn 2008, no other team turned the ball over less than the Dolphins with only 13 turnovers, but in Week 1 Miami's offense had 4 turnovers, without having a single turnover on defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 2: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nAfter a miserable loss to the Atlanta Falcons, the Dolphins host their home opener to the Indianapolis Colts. On the first play from scrimmage, Peyton Manning threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark. The Dolphins answered with a 14-yard touchdown run by Ronnie Brown out of the Wildcat Offense. The Dolphins and Colts kept going back and forth at each other with two field goals by Dan Carpenter and Adam Vinatieri to make the score 13\u201313 at halftime. After a scoreless third quarter, Ronnie Brown ran 2-yards for a touchdown to put Miami up 20\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 2: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Colts answered back with a 15-yard touchdown run by rookie running back Donald Brown. Miami than hit a 45-yard field goal by Dan Carpenter. But the Colts took the lead thanks to a 48-yard touchdown pass to Pierre Gar\u00e7on. The Dolphins tried to rally at the end of the game but Chad Pennington was intercepted by Antoine Bethea to secure the Colts' victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 2: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Colts won the game 27\u201323 as the Dolphins dropped to 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 2: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Dolphins dominated the game in the time of possession battle, but lost the game with almost 50 minutes of offensive possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 3: at San Diego Chargers\nLooking for their first win of the season, the Dolphins traveled to Qualcomm Stadium to take on the San Diego Chargers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 3: at San Diego Chargers\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Nate Kaeding hit a 25-yard field goal to score the first points of the game. Miami answered with a 24-yard field goal to tie the game at halftime 3\u20133. Miami took the lead after a 23-yard field goal by Dan Carpenter. But the Chargers retook the lead with a 5-yard touchdown run by Philip Rivers. The Chargers pulled away in the fourth quarter with two Nate Kaeding field goals and a 31-yard interception return by safety Eric Weddle. The Dolphins got a 14-yard touchdown run by Ricky Williams, but couldn't make a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 3: at San Diego Chargers\nThe Chargers won the game 23\u201313 as the Dolphins fell to 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 3: at San Diego Chargers\nDolphins quarterback Chad Pennington left the game with a shoulder injury after being hit by linebacker Kevin Burnett and was out for the season. The Dolphins chose Chad Henne to lead the Dolphins for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 87], "content_span": [88, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 4: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe Miami Dolphins came off of a 0\u20133 start and tried to rebound against the Buffalo Bills. After a scoreless first quarter the Dolphins rallied quick with a 23-yard interception return for a touchdown by rookie Vontae Davis and a 1-yard touchdown run by Ronnie Brown along with a 33-yard field goal by Dan Carpenter making the halftime score 17\u20133. Miami continued with a Chad Henne touchdown pass to Brian Hartline and a 1-yard touchdown run by Ricky Williams. Trent Edwards hit Josh Reed for a 3-yard touchdown but Miami ended the game with a 1-yard touchdown run by Ronnie Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 4: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe Dolphins won the game 38\u201310 as the team improved to 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 4: vs. Buffalo Bills\nChad Henne made his first NFL start and threw for 115 yards and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 5: vs. New York Jets\nRonnie Brown ran in for the winning touchdown with just seconds left to send the Dolphins into their bye week at 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 7: vs. New Orleans Saints\nAfter they passed on signing him during the 2006 offseason, this was Saints quarterback Drew Brees' first time playing in Miami. With the surprising loss, the Dolphins dropped to 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 8: at New York Jets\nWith their season sweep over the Jets, the Dolphins improved to 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 17: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe final outcome of this game had somewhat of a domino effect. It resulted in the Dolphins' elimination from the post-season (including Super Bowl XLIV, which they hosted February 8, 2010), and also, by virtue of the final standings' tiebreaker (as the result of the Baltimore Ravens defeating the Oakland Raiders), the Steelers themselves being dethroned of their world title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204008-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game results, Week 17: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Dolphins ended their season in 3rd place in the AFC East as they finished the season 7\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204009-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami FC season\nThe 2009 Miami FC season was the fourth season of the team in the USL First Division. After playing in Miami for three years, the team moved in this period to Fort Lauderdale. This year, the team finished in ninth place for the regular season. They did not make the playoffs. This was the last year of the team in the league as it eventually joined a group of other clubs that would leave the USL to form the new North American Soccer League. However, the team would play the following year in the USSF Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204009-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami FC season, USL First Division Regular season, Standings\nCommissioner's Cup, bye to semifinal round of playoffs\u00a0\u00a0Quarterfinal round of playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204009-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami FC season, USL First Division Regular season, Standings\n\u2020 Austin deducted two points for fielding an ineligible player on July 25, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 2009 Miami Hurricanes football team  represented the University of Miami during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Hurricanes' 84th season of football and 6th as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hurricanes were led by third-year head coach Randy Shannon and played their home games at Land Shark Stadium. They finished the season 9\u20134 overall and 5\u20133 in the ACC to finish in third place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Champs Sports Bowl where they lost to Wisconsin, 20-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nIn the offseason three quarterbacks transferred, including last season's starter Robert Marve. The moves left sophomore Jacory Harris as the starter and true freshman A.J. Highsmith as the backup. The Hurricanes' staff also saw turnover, with a new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple, known for his pro-style offense and a new defensive coordinator, John Lovett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nOn December 29, 2008, Miami fired offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Patrick Nix, two days after the Emerald Bowl. The following day, redshirt freshman quarterback Robert Marve, who had been suspended from the Emerald Bowl due to academic reasons, was granted conditional release from his scholarship and announced he would be transferring. Marve had started 11 of 13 games for Miami in 2008, and his transfer would result in true freshman Jacory Harris officially becoming the team's starting quarterback for 2009. Harris had played in all 13 games in 2008, starting in two of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nOn January 20, 2009, defensive coordinator Bill Young announced his leaving Miami to become the defensive coordinator of his alma mater, Oklahoma State University. This left Shannon with the task of having to replace two coordinators in the same off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nShannon made the first hire on January 27, when Mark Whipple was hired to be the team's new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, as well as being named assistant head coach. On February 12, John Lovett was hired as the team's new defensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nMiami began spring practice on February 24, and held their spring game on March 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nPractice for the fall began on August 8. Several injuries occurred during practices; defensive end Adewale Ojomo suffered a broken jaw during a locker room incident that could have kept him out of the whole season. Defensive end Eric Moncur visited a specialist in Philadelphia on August 19 to have a groin injury examined and was held out of some practices, while defensive end Gavin Hardin was held out of camp with an unknown injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season\nOn August 25, backup quarterbacks Taylor Cook and Cannon Smith both announced that they had requested and obtained a release for transfer to other schools. This left true freshman A.J. Highsmith as the second team backup to Jacory Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season, Roster changes\nStarting tight end Dedrick Epps suffered a torn ACL in practices leading up to the Emerald Bowl in December 2008, keeping him out of spring practice. Jimmy Graham, a former forward on the Miami basketball team, announced in April that he would be joining the football team for the 2009 season as a tight end. Graham had not played football since high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season, Roster changes\nDue to lack of depth at the cornerback position, receiver Sam Shields and safety Ryan Hill were moved to cornerback before the start of spring, where they would remain for 2009. Defensive end Allen Bailey was moved permanently to defensive tackle, and safety CJ Holton was moved from safety to linebacker. Several players from 2008 either transferred or left the team, including quarterback Robert Marve, receiver Jermaine McKenzie, running back Shawnbrey McNeal, and offensive lineman Christopher Barney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Pre-season, Roster changes\nOn February 6, Miami announced its 2009 recruiting class, of which there were 19 members, and six of whom were early enrolees who participated in spring practice. Two signees failed to qualify: offensive tackle Malcolm Bunche and defensive back Prince Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nThe Hurricanes' first game was against Florida State. The lead changed seven times during the game,  and Miami won 38\u201334. The outcome was in doubt until the final play of the game when a pass from Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder bounced incomplete in the Hurricanes' end zone. Miami quarterback Jacory Harris, in only his third career start, completed 21 of 34 passes for 386 yards and 2 touchdowns against 2 interceptions. In the process, Harris set the record for most passing yards by a Miami quarterback against Florida State. Harris also rushed for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nA seesaw first half saw the Hurricanes take a 14\u201310 lead to the locker room on the strength of a 39-yard touchdown pass from Harris to Travis Benjamin and a 6-yard touchdown run by Javarris James. In the third quarter, Florida State outscored Miami 13\u20133 to take a 23\u201317 lead heading into a back-and-forth fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nHarris put the Hurricanes back in front early in the fourth with a 1-yard touchdown off a quarterback sneak, but the lead was short-lived. On the Hurricanes' next possession, Harris was hit as he released the ball and was intercepted by defensive end Markus White, who returned the interception 31 yards for a Florida State touchdown. Florida State then successfully converted a two-point attempt, making up for an earlier missed extra point, and took a 31\u201324 lead. Harris responded by orchestrating a 10-play, 73-yard drive that culminated with a 24-yard game-tying touchdown pass to Graig Cooper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nFlorida State then came back ahead with a 44-yard field goal. Losing by 3, Miami took possession with 4 minutes 11 seconds remaining and after a series of short gains, crossed into Florida State territory. On second-and-five from the Florida State 43-yard line, Harris threw a 40-yard pass to Benjamin, who was able to get behind double coverage, catch the ball in stride near the left sideline, and get one foot down before his momentum took him out of bounds at the 3.   Cooper rushed 3 yards for a touchdown on the next play, putting the Hurricanes back in front, 38\u201334, with less than 2 minutes to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nA 15-yard penalty for excessive celebration and a short kickoff allowed Florida State to start its final drive at the Miami 49-yard line. A 30-yard rush by Ponder on third-and-three gave Florida State a first down from the Miami 12-yard line, and an 8-yard pass brought Florida State down to the Miami 4-yard line. After Ponder was stopped in the backfield for a 1-yard loss on second down and Miami was called for pass interference on third down, Florida State was set up with first-and-goal at the Miami 2-yard line with 14 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nThe Miami defense, however, made a goal line stand and forced two successive incompletions, both intended for Jarmon Fortson. With 5 seconds remaining, Florida State had time for one play. Ponder took the snap from the shotgun formation, rolled right, and, under pressure, fired a low pass to Fortson, who was unable to corral the ball before it short-hopped off the end zone turf as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #19 Florida State\nIn recognition of their performances, Harris was named ACC Offensive Back of the Week and Brandon Harris was selected as ACC Defensive Back of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #13 Georgia Tech\nTen days after their win over Florida State, Miami faced off against Georgia Tech, who had won four consecutive games against the Hurricanes. the previous season, the Hurricanes gave up 472 yards on the ground (most given up by the school since 1944) in a loss 41\u201323, removing them from ACC Championship contention. Georgia Tech won the coin toss and settled for a 32-yard field goal. Miami then proceeded to score on their first three possessions (Harris threw a 40-yard throw to WR LaRon Byrd, 18-yard throw to TE Dedrick Epps and Matt Bosher converted a FG). The Hurricanes led 17\u20133 at the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #13 Georgia Tech\nJavarris James controlled the opening Hurricane drive of the half, first catching a ball for three yards, running for 14, 6 and than 3 to score. The Yellow Jackets' Anthony Allen also had a 3-yard after Georgia Tech QB Josh Nesbitt threw a 39-yard pass to WR Demaryius Thomas. Harris threw his third TD of the night, this time to TE Jimmy Graham for a 31\u201313 score and the resulting kickoff by Alex Uribe resulted in good field position for the Hurricanes' defense. Restricted by their own 23, Georgia Tech lost 23 yards, which resulted in a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #13 Georgia Tech\nThe fourth quarter featured the Hurricanes running the ball and Bosher missed FGs for 26 and 31. Newsbitt threw his only TD pass of the night to Thomas for 56 yards. With the 33\u201317 win, for the first time since 1988, Miami opened their season with back-to-back wins against ranked opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #13 Georgia Tech\nThe school improved to 14\u20132 overall and 10\u20130 at home on Thursday nights. After the large amount of rushing yardage given up in last year's contest, Miami managed to give up 95, 228 total against the Yellow Jackets' triple option. The Hurricanes' defense also contained the ailing preseason All-American and reigning ACC Player of the Year running back Jonathan Dwyer (who had a shoulder injury). Dwyer finished with 7 yards on five carries. With 270 yards and 3 touchdowns, Harris was named ACC Offensive Back of the Week for the second time of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #12 Virginia Tech\nAt Lane Stadium, the Hurricanes were unable to get on track against the Virginia Tech defense, losing their first game of the year, 31\u20137. Jacory Harris struggled with both the wet conditions and the Hokie pass rush, going 9 for 25 for 150 yards with 1 interception and 1 fumble, while the Miami defense was unable to stop the Virginia Tech rushing attack, which achieved 272 yards on 55 attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #12 Virginia Tech\nA strip-sack of Harris on Miami's first possession of the game set-up Virginia Tech's first touchdown, and a 48-yard touchdown pass from Tyrod Taylor on the Hokies' next series put the Hurricanes at 14\u20130 at the end of the first quarter. On The Hurricanes' team Matt Bosher's punt was blocked and returned 1-yard for a Virginia Tech touchdown. The Hurricanes scored a quick touchdown on its opening drive and forcing a three-and-out on Virginia Tech's next possession. Down 21\u20137, Harris then drove the Hurricanes into Virginia Tech territory, but several critical drops by tight end Jimmy Graham defeated the drive and the Hurricanes would not threaten again for the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #8 Oklahoma\nBehind three touchdown passes from Jacory Harris, the Hurricanes overcame a sluggish start and were able to score against Oklahoma (without Sam Bradford) 21\u201320, knocking Oklahoma out of national championship contention, with the Hurricanes having previously been beaten at Oklahoma 51\u201313 in 2007. Playing without defending Heisman Trophy winner Bradford, who missed the game with a sprained shoulder, Oklahoma controlled the early part of the game, intercepting Harris on the Hurricanes' first two possessions and taking a 10\u20130 lead early in the second quarter. On the Hurricanes' next series, Harris shook  threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jimmy Graham to bring the Hurricanes within 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #8 Oklahoma\nThe game seemed to turn on the opening kickoff of the second half when a tackle by special teamer Corey Nelms backed up Oklahoma on its own 15-yard line. Two plays later, cornerback Brandon Harris sacked Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones, causing him to fumble. The ball was recovered at the 11-yard line by Miami's Joe Joseph, and on the next play, Jacory Harris gave the Hurricanes their first lead of the night with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Dedrick Epps. After another Oklahoma punt, Harris put the Hurricanes up 21\u201310 with a 38-yard touchdown pass to a wide open Travis Benjamin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #8 Oklahoma\nOklahoma responded with a 9-play, 81-yard touchdown drive on its next possession (kept alive by a dubious roughing the kicker penalty on a punt) and added a field goal with 4 minutes 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter to cut the score to 21-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #8 Oklahoma\nOklahoma coach Bob Stoops then elected to kick deep rather than attempt an onside kick, and the Hurricanes, behind effective running by Javarris James (15 rushes, 150 yards) and a critical third-down conversion pass from Harris, was able to drive deep into Oklahoma territory and run out the clock for its first win over a top 10 opponent in five tries dating back to 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, #8 Oklahoma\nOffensive tackle Jason Fox graded out at 99 percent, achieved 3 pancake blocks, and did not allow a sack in a performance for which he was given ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nDropped in the rankings by nine spots, Miami headed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina without two starters: LB Sean Spence (who had a knee injury and was replaced by sophomore Ramon Buchanan) and RB Javarris James who had been injured in the lower extremities. Bosher continued his kickoff duties due to Uribe's struggle the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nDespite being outgained 555 to 356 (the most the school had trailed by in nine years) and playing behind most of the game, the Hurricanes managed to win 28\u201327 in BB&T Field after a 13-yard Jacory Harris rainbow pass to Travis Benjamin gave them the lead with 1 minute 8 seconds remaining. It was their sixth straight win against the Demon Deacons and put them 7\u20133 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nHost Wake Forest having lost two straight to Clemson and Navy and scoring a touchdown only once in the last nine quarters. However, they scored the first 17 points, led by QB Riley Skinner who threw 18-for-22 and accounted for two touchdowns. Harris connected with Aldarius Johnson for a 35-yard touchdown. True freshman kicker Jimmy Newman achieved three for Wake Forest with 42 seconds remaining, but a 39-second Hurricane drive culminated in a touchdown after a three-yard run by RB Damien Berry, cutting the once 17-point margin to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nHowever Skinner tossed a 44-yard touchdown to Chris Givens in the third quarter, raising it to 13 and Harris was intercepted on the subsequent drive. Early in the fourth, Deacons redshirt sophomore Devon Brown fumbled a punt after attempting to field it over his shoulder. The Hurricanes recovered at the two and scored on a catch by TE Tervaris Johnson with 11:47 left, cutting the lead to 27\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nMidway through the quarter Riley Skinner left the game after suffering a \"slight concession\" after rushing on a quarterback keeper. Replaced by fifth-year senior Ryan McManus, Wake Forest failed to take enough time and punted with 2 minutes 40 seconds left to play. Starting on his own 18, Harris threw a 29-yard pass to Thearon Collier before being sacked for a loss of six. Facing 4th-and-16 the Hurricanes failed on their first two passes (a drop and an incompletion). Facing 4th and 16, Aldarius Johnson achieved a 29-yard pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nAfter throwing to Travis Benjamin for a 19-yard gain, Harris found him again for 13 yards and the lead with 1 minute 8 seconds remaining, achieving an 82-yard drive in 1 minute and 32 seconds. Downed at their own 21, Wake Forest moved the ball 62 yards to settle for a 60-yard field goal attempt, which went wide right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Wake Forest\nAfter the game, the ACC named Jacory Harris, who was 22-43 with 330 yards, three touchdowns, and an interception, co-Offensive Back of the Week award, shared with Duke QB Thaddeus Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Virginia\nThe Hurricanes hosted the Cavaliers for the first time since the Cavaliers won 48\u20130 at the Orange Bowl in 2007. This time the Hurricanes won  52\u201317 at LandShark Stadium. RB Graig Cooper 152 outgained the Cavaliers (who totaled 149 yards after sitting out starting QB Jameel Sewell) himself with a career-best 152 yards on 18 careers and a touchdown. The Hurricanes defense pressured the Cavaliers into 75 yards passing and 74 rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Virginia\nThe Hurricanes were losing early 10\u20133 after Jacory Harris was intercepted early by Ras-I Dowling and Cavaliers RB Rashawn Jackson ran 34 yards for a score with 2:54 left in the first quarter. 25 seconds later, the Hurricanes tied the game with a 35-yard catch by Leonard Hankerson and went ahead just over a minute later after Thearon Collier returned a punt return for sixty yards. Both teams exchanged touchdowns in the second but running back Damien Berry achieved two short touchdowns after halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, Virginia\nIn the fourth quarter, Cooper achieved his only touchdown of the day in the fourth and true freshman quarterback A.J. Highsmith provided the final margin by throwing his first career touchdown pass; a 15-yarder to redshirt freshman Kendal Thompkins (his first touchdown reception of his career). Coming into the game, the Cavalier defense was ranked fourth in the country in passing touchdowns allowed with 4 after Air Force, Penn State and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Regular season, North Carolina\nThe Hurricanes traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to face the North Carolina Tar Heels, who were 2\u20130 against the Hurricanes. They last competed at Miami on September 27, 2008 in a game won by North Carolina 28\u201324. The Hurricanes were 5\u20137 all time versus North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Champs Sports Bowl, #25 Wisconsin\nThe Champs Sports Bowl took place on December 29, 2009, at 8:00PM in the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando, Florida against the Big Ten Conference representative Wisconsin Badgers. Senior corner back for the Hurricanes Sam Shields returned the opening kick off for a touchdown off a reverse from Graig Cooper. A block in the back penalty against the Canes negated the touchdown, however Cooper scored on the next play on a 15-yard run that gave Miami an early 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Champs Sports Bowl, #25 Wisconsin\nLed by the Big Ten Player of the Year halfback John Clay, Wisconsin handled the Hurricanes up front on both ends of the ball. After the first touchdown by Clay halfway through the first quarter, the two teams swapped field position up until Clay scored his second touchdown of the night giving Wisconsin a 14\u20137 advantage. After holding the Hurricanes on their next two possessions, Wisconsin scored a late field goal to bring the lead to 17\u20137 just before the half was out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204010-0031-0002", "contents": "2009 Miami Hurricanes football team, Champs Sports Bowl, #25 Wisconsin\nFollowing the field goal, Miami's Graig Cooper sustained a major knee injury on the kickoff return that ruled him out of the game for the Hurricanes. Though there was no scoring for Wisconsin in the second half, they outmuscled the Hurricanes up front and controlled the ball for the majority of the second half. The Hurricanes had a slight chance of victory after Jacory Harris found Thearon Collier with a touchdown pass with just over one minute in the game. After recovering the onside kick, Miami could not move the ball and the game ended with a Wisconsin victory, 20\u201314. Player of the Game honors went to John Clay, who had 120 yards rushing and two scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204011-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami RedHawks football team\nThe 2009 Miami RedHawks football team represented Miami University during the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season  They competed in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. The team was coached by Mike Haywood and played their homes game in Yager Stadium. The Redhawks finished the season on November 18 with a record of 1\u201311 (1\u20137 MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204012-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami Valley Silverbacks season\nThe 2009 Miami Valley Silverbacks season was the fourth season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. The Silverbacks planned on sitting out the 2009 CIFL season, but due to the West Virginia Wild getting suspended from the league, the CIFL offered for the Silverbacks to take the place of the Wild. They had been scheduled to play a 12-game season, primarily as a traveling team, only playing two home games at Hobart Arena, but two of their road games were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204012-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Miami Valley Silverbacks season\nThe team hired Derrick Shepard, a former NFL and Arena Football League defensive tackle, to coach the team. On April 14, the Silverbacks announced that a majority of their remaining 2009 season games were to be broadcast live online for free on MCP-TV at www.miamicountypost.com. Professional sports announcer JT Szabo provided the play-by-play. The team finished with a franchise-worst record of 0\u201310, failing to make the playoffs for the third straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204013-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miami mayoral election\nThe 2009 Miami mayoral election took place on November 3, 2009, to elect the mayor of Miami, Florida. The election was officially nonpartisan, and held in conjunction with other city elections City Commissioner Tom\u00e1s Regalado was elected by a large margin over City Commissioner Joe Sanchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204014-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 2009 Michigan State Spartans football team competed on behalf of the Michigan State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Spartans were coached by Mark Dantonio, who was in his third season with the Spartans. Michigan State played their home games in Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204014-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan State Spartans football team, Schedule\nThis season saw the Spartans schedule a Division I FCS opponent (Montana State) for the first time since the NCAA split Division I football in 1978. This left Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, and Washington as the only Division I FBS teams to never have played a lower-division opponent since the split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204014-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan State Spartans football team, Regular season, Michigan\nMichigan came into the game 4\u20130 (1\u20130 Big Ten) and ranked #22, looking to reclaim the Paul Bunyan trophy after losing to MSU the previous year. Michigan State dominated the first 55 minutes of regulation, building a 20\u20136 lead. Michigan rallied with two TDs in the final minutes to send the game to OT, but MSU quickly intercepted a pass and running back Larry Caper rushed 23 yards through multiple tackles for the game-winning score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204014-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan State Spartans football team, Regular season, Iowa\nFinal Seconds: With 2 seconds remaining in the game, on 4th and Goal from the Michigan State 7 and a half yard line, Iowa QB Ricky Stanzi snapped the ball and passed the ball to Iowa WR Marvin McNutt into the end zone as the time expired to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204014-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan State Spartans football team, 2010 NFL Draft\nOnly one Spartan was selected in the 2010 NFL Draft. However, wide receiver Blair White signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan and competed in the Big Ten Conference. The team attempted to rebound from its worst season (loss wise) in its 130-year football history and succeeded at first, starting the season 4\u20130 and earning a No. 20 ranking in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team\nOver the final eight games the Wolverines went 1\u20137 however, ending the season with a 5\u20137 record and failing to qualify for a bowl game for the second straight year. 2008 and 2009 were Michigan's first back-to-back sub-.500 seasons since 1962 and 1963; they also failed to win a road game for the first time since 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team\nHowever, several individuals excelled. Brandon Graham received numerous post-season accolades including Chicago Tribune Silver Football as conference Co-MVP, several first and second team 2009 College Football All-America Team selections, and the 2010 Senior Bowl MVP. Graham was the national statistical champion in tackles for a loss (TFL) and the repeat Big Ten Champion. Zoltan Mesko also received several second team All-American recognitions and was a first team Academic All-American. Mesko was the Big Ten punting average statistical champion. After the season, co-captains Graham, Mesko and leading tackler Stevie Brown were drafted in the 2010 NFL Draft and immediately after the draft Donovan Warren signed as an undrafted free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason preview\nIn 2008 the Michigan Wolverines had possibly the worst season in the history of the program. The team finished with a 3\u20139 regular season record, failing to qualify for a postseason bowl game for the first time in 33 years. The Wolverines struggled to implement first-year head coach Rich Rodriguez's spread option offense; Michigan was last in the Big Ten in passing offense, scoring offense, total offense and turnover margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason preview\nGoing into 2009, there was optimism that Michigan, led by newly recruited mobile quarterback Tate Forcier, would be able to turn things around and have a winning season, or at the very least win their opening game for the first time since 2006. The team had 10 returning offensive starters and 5 returning defensive starters. Although to some Forcier was a foregone conclusion as the starting quarterback, the battle between him, incumbent Nick Sheridan, and Denard Robinson was anticipated to be the most competitive position battle in the Big Ten Conference according to College Football News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason preview\nAlthough the 2008 defense had been a disappointment, Obi Ezeh and Brandon Graham were considered to be a solid nucleus to build around. The team also employed a new defensive coordinator, Greg Robinson, to help guide this defensive turnaround. The key losses for the team were  S Brandon Harrison, DE Tim Jamison, DT Will Johnson, RB Sam McGuffie, DT Terrance Taylor, LB John Thompson, QB Steven Threet, CB Morgan Trent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Recruiting\nThe Wolverines received several commitments from 4-star blue chip players. Among the recruits are Anthony LaLota of the Hun School in Princeton, New Jersey who is ranked as the fourth offensive tackle in the nation by Scout.com and sixth strong side defensive end by Rivals.com. LaLota appeared in the U.S. Army All-American game on January 3, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas. Other top recruits included a top-ten-rated dual-threat quarterback (Tate Forcier \u2013 Rivals #6) to run Rich Rodriguez's spread offense, and Justin Turner who was rated as the No. 3 safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Recruiting\nMichigan's 2009 recruiting class was ranked 7th nationally by Rivals.com, and 10th by ESPN. Eight players initially committed to attend Michigan in 2009 but later decommitted and signed with a different college: Anthony Fera \u2013 K (PSU), Bryce McNeal \u2013 WR (Clemson), Kevin Newsome \u2013 QB (PSU), Dewayne Peace \u2013 WR (Arizona), Jordan Barnes \u2013 LB (Oklahoma State), Pearlie Graves \u2013 DT (Texas Tech), DeQuinta Jones \u2013 DT, and Shavodrick Beaver \u2013 QB (Tulsa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Recruiting\nSeveral recruits participated in the January 3 U.S. Army All-American game during which William Campbell announced his re-commitment to the program. Joining Campbell and LaLota in the All-America game were cornerback/safety Justin Turner, kicker Brendan Gibbons, and receivers Jeremy Gallon and Je'Ron Stokes. Several recruits began early enrollment at Michigan for the Spring 2009 semester, including quarterback Tate Forcier, five-star defensive tackle Will Campbell, running back Vincent Smith, defensive end Anthony LaLota, linebacker Brandin Hawthorne, defensive back Mike Jones and safety Vlad Emilien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Practice time limit investigation\nIn an August 30, 2009 Detroit Free Press article, several current and former players on the 2008 and 2009 teams speaking anonymously said Michigan frequently violated the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) off-season 8-hour-per-week and in-season 20-hour-per-week practice limit. Rodriguez denied all of the allegations at a press conference the next day; The New York Times quoted him as saying \"We know the rules, and we follow the rules.\" The University of Michigan Athletic Department's compliance office notified both the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference of its intentions to investigate itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Practice time limit investigation\nUnlike the University of Michigan basketball scandal where all of the participants had left the school by the time the investigation completed and punishment was handed down, many of the athletes involved in this scandal are still students at the University of Michigan; failure to cooperate with the investigation might result in the NCAA revoking the athletes eligibility to participate in athletic competitions. In November, the university revealed its finding that the team failed to file the proper paperwork to document the team's training schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Practice time limit investigation\nThe NCAA had the right to either accept Michigan's findings once the athletic department's inquiry was completed or to conduct its own investigation. On October 23, 2009 the NCAA notified the school that it had decided to begin a formal investigation into the matter; they expected it to be completed by December 31, 2009. On February 22, 2010, the NCAA accused Michigan of failing to comply with practice time rules and \"failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the football program\" under coach Rich Rodriguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Practice time limit investigation\nThe university had 90 days to respond and appeared at an NCAA hearing on infractions in August. Michigan issued self-sanctions on May 25, 2010, which included cutting practice time and placing itself on two years worth of probation. Michigan did, however, dispute the claim that Coach Rodriguez \"failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance.\" The NCAA handed down their final verdict in the case on November 4, 2010, which accepted almost all of the self-sanctions that Michigan provided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Practice time limit investigation\nMichigan was docked 130 practice hours, which was twice the number of excess hours that the university had exceeded, and placed on three years probation, which was one more than originally proposed; but the university and Rodriguez did, however, escape the most serious charge of \"failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance\", as the NCAA agreed with Michigan's statement that the cases were not deliberate and isolated. This ruling ended the NCAA's investigation of Michigan's football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason award watch lists\nSeveral players excelled individually. The season began with numerous Wolverines on national award preseason watchlists. Brandon Graham led the way with five such recognitions for the Bednarik Award, Hendricks Award, Lombardi Award, Lott Trophy and Bronko Nagurski Trophy. David Molk was on both the Lombardi and Rimington Trophy preseason lists, while Brandon Minor was on both the Maxwell Award and Doak Walker Award lists. Obi Ezeh, Zoltan Mesko, and Stephen Schilling were preseason Butkus Award, Ray Guy Award and Lombardi candidates, respectively. As the season started, Michigan burst out with a 4\u20130 start and saw several players recognized as Big Ten Conference player of the week early in the season: Tate Forcier, Carlos Brown and Mesko. Also, several players earned midseason or finalist watchlist recognitions: Ezeh (Butkus), Mesko (Guy) and Graham (Hendrick).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 940]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason award watch lists\nDuring week 2, Tate Forcier (Offense) and Darryl Stonum (Special teams) were honored by the Big Ten Conference as players of the week (POW). At the same time, Forcier was also named AT&T All-America Player of the Week, as well as the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback of the Week Award and  Rivals.com National Freshmen of the Week and the Rivals.com Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honor. The following week, Carlos Brown earned co-offensive POW honors along with Northwestern's Mike Kafka. Zoltan Mesko was named the special teams player of the week on October 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason award watch lists\nThe only statistical leader for the team was Mesko who in eight conference games averaged 45.2 yards/punt, which was the first time a Michigan punter led the Big Ten in Conference game punting average since Paul Staroba in 1970. Brandon Graham and Mesko were first-team All-Big Ten selections by both the coaches and the media. Donovan Warren was first-team by the media and second-team by the coaches and Stephen Schilling was an honorable mention on both lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason award watch lists\nEzeh was one of sixteen players and three from the Big Ten for the Butkus midseason watch list. Mesko was named one of 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award and one of 12 finalists for the Wuerffel Trophy. Graham was one of seven finalists for the Hendricks Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Radio\nRadio coverage for all games was on The Michigan Wolverines Football Network, and on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, as well as online at The Michigan Sports Network Online Stream. The radio announcers were (WJR talk show host) Frank Beckmann with play-by-play, Jim Brandstatter with color commentary, and Doug Karsch with sideline reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Western Michigan\nIn the season opener, the Wolverines played the Western Michigan Broncos at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines scored first, midway through the first quarter, with a 27-yard touchdown (TD) pass from Tate Forcier to Junior Hemingway. They added to their lead five minutes later when Denard Robinson ran in a TD from 43 yards out. In the second quarter, Michigan added 17 more points: two TDs and a field goal. First was a 7-yard TD pass from Tate Forcier to Kevin Koger. 6 minutes later, Jason Olesnavage kicked a 44-yard field goal. Junior Hemingway scored Michigan's final points when he caught a 44-yard TD pass from Tate Forcier, putting the Wolverines up 31\u20130 at halftime. Western Michigan missed a field goal just before the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Western Michigan\nThe second half was largely uneventful. Michigan was content to hold their lead; they essentially stopped passing in the fourth quarter, with Forcier being replaced by backup David Cone midway through the period. Western Michigan finally got on the board with a fourth-quarter 73-yard TD pass from Tim Hiller to Juan Nunez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Western Michigan\nThe win stopped a streak of two consecutive season opening losses. The 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team, then ranked No. 5 in the nation, lost their season opener in shocking fashion to two-time defending Division I-FCS champion Appalachian State. The 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team lost their opener to Utah, who would go on to finish as the only undefeated team in Division I-FBS, winning the Mountain West Conference and the 2009 Sugar Bowl over Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nIn week 2, Michigan renewed their long-time rivalry with the visiting Notre Dame Fighting Irish. On the opening drive, Notre Dame drove the field for an unsuccessful field goal attempt. Michigan scored first late in the first quarter when Brandon Minor ran in a 2-yard TD. Notre Dame responded with a field goal by Nick Taush. Less than twenty seconds later, however, Michigan answered another touchdown on a 94-yard kickoff return by Darryl Stonum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nNotre Dame came back to take the lead in the second quarter with back-to-back touchdown passes, 4 yards to Golden Tate and 11 yards to Michael Floyd. After another three-and-out by Michigan, the Irish made their way down the field but were stopped by the Wolverine defense, forcing them to kick a 42-yard field goal. Michigan got the ball back with less than 4 minutes in the half and marched down the field, but with little time left on the clock they had to settle to end the first half with a 39-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nMichigan dominated the third quarter, constantly stopping the Irish and controlling the ball most of the period. The Wolverines scored the only points of the quarter on a 3-yard TD pass  to Kevin Koger. Early in the fourth quarter, after another three-and-out by Notre Dame, Forcier ran in a TD himself from 31 yards out on 4th and 3. Notre Dame came back later in the quarter, starting with a 21-yard touchdown pass to Tate. Following the touchdown the Irish attempted and failed to score a two-point conversion, leaving themselves down five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nAfter Michigan had an unsuccessful drive, Notre Dame took the lead with a 2-yard TD run by Armando Allen, who then scored on their second 2-point conversion attempt, putting the Irish ahead with less than 5 minutes remaining. Michigan responded by marching the length of the field, consuming most of the remaining time. They eventually found themselves 5 yards away from the goal line with 22 seconds left. Two plays later the Wolverines would score the game-winning touchdown on a 5-yard pass from Forcier to Greg Mathews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Notre Dame\nThe victory gave the Wolverines their first 2\u20130 start since 2006. Michigan's all-time record versus Notre Dame improved to 21\u201315\u20131 as a result of the victory. This was the highest scoring game in the history of the rivalry, with a total of 72 points between the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Eastern Michigan\nIn week 3, the Wolverines hosted the Eastern Michigan Eagles from nearby Ypsilanti. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 37-yard field goal by Jason Olesnavage. The Eagles tied the score with 43-yard field goal by Joe Carithers. Michigan regained the lead when Carlos Brown ran in a 9-yard TD near the end of the quarter. Eastern Michigan re-tied the score in the second quarter with an 11-yard TD run by Andy Schmitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Eastern Michigan\nMichigan responded with 2 TDs: first a 5-yard TD run by Michael Shaw, then a 90-yard TD run by Carlos Brown, the third longest TD run from scrimmage in Michigan football history. The Eagles scored their final points of the game just before halftime with a 5-yard TD run by Dwayne Priest. Michigan dominated the second half, beginning with a 13-yard TD run by Martavious Odoms. A little over a minute later QB Denard Robinson ran in a 13-yard TD. In the 4th quarter Odoms ran in another TD from 36 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Eastern Michigan\nWith the win Michigan started 3\u20130 for the first time since 2006. The win also made Michigan's all-time record against Eastern Michigan 9\u20130; and 26\u20131 all time against MAC schools. Eastern Michigan would finish the 2009 season with a winless record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Indiana\nOn their homecoming weekend, the Wolverines hosted the Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana opened the scoring with a 25-yard TD run by Tandon Doss. Michigan responded with 2 TDs by Carlos Brown, first a 61-yard TD catch, then a 41-yard TD run. Indiana tied it back up with an 11-yard TD rush by Darius Willis. In the second quarter, Indiana kicked field goals on consecutive possessions, from 24 and 20 yards. Michigan responded with a 12-yard TD run by Brandon Minor. Indiana retook the lead with its 3rd field goal of the quarter, this one from 30 yards, making the halftime score 23\u201321 Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Indiana\nThe only points of the third quarter came from a 32-yard Indiana field goal. Michigan regained the lead in the fourth with a 7-yard rush by Forcier who leaped over a defender into the endzone. He also completed a quarterback sneak for a 2-point conversion the next play, giving Michigan a 29\u201326 lead. Indiana took the lead back on the next offensive play with an 85-yard run for a TD by Darius Willis. Michigan regained the final lead with a 26-yard Martavius Odoms  TD catch, and sealed their win soon after with a controversial interception by Donovan Warren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Indiana\nThis was the 16th consecutive time Michigan has beaten Indiana, and the 24th consecutive conference opening win for the Wolverines at home. Michigan started the season 4\u20130 for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nIn week 5, Michigan took their first road trip of the season to East Lansing, Michigan to play their in-state rivals the Michigan State Spartans for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. After an interception, Michigan scored first with a 36-yard field goal early in the first quarter. The Spartans countered with a 1-yard TD run by Larry Caper. Each team had a field goal in the 2nd quarter: Michigan had a 42-yarder, then State had a 26 yarder, putting the Spartans up 13\u20136 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nMichigan State added to their lead at the start of the 2nd half with a 15-yard TD run by Glenn Winston. Michigan responded in the 4th quarter with a 60-yard touchdown by Darryl Stonum, and tied it up just before time expired with a 92-yard drive capped by a 9-yard TD pass by Forcier to Roy Roundtree, taking the game to overtime. On its opening drive of overtime Forcier led Michigan down to the 8-yard line but then threw a tipped interception in the end zone, ending their threat. MSU's Larry Caper ended the game with a 23-yard TD run on 3rd down and 12, breaking three Michigan tackles that would have forced the Spartans to kick a field goal for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Michigan State\nThe Spartans outgained the Wolverines 417 to 251 in total yards and won the rushing battle 197 to 28. It is the 37th time in the last 40 meetings that the team who has won the rushing battle won the game. Michigan State won by six points: the last six meetings between the two teams in East Lansing have been decided by seven points or less, or a difference of 25 points in all six games combined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Iowa\nWeek 6 brought the Wolverines to Iowa City, Iowa for a primetime duel against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Michigan went up early in the 1st with an interception that was returned 40 yards by Donovan Warren for a touchdown. Iowa responded a few minutes later with a 34-yard TD pass to Tony Moeaki from Ricky Stanzi and took the lead with a 28-yard Daniel Murray field goal soon after. Michigan responded late in the quarter when Brandon Minor ran for a touchdown from 3 yards. Iowa added 10 more points in the 2nd quarter: first a 41-yard field goal, then a 1-yard TD run by Brandon Wegher, making the halftime score 20\u201314 Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Iowa\nThe Hawkeyes opened the third quarter by booting a 40-yard field goal. Michigan responded with a 1-yard TD run late in the 3rd by Minor. Stanzi and Moeaki connected again for a 42-yard Iowa TD in the 4th. Michigan scored on a 3-yard TD run by QB Denard Robinson with about 4 minutes left and held Iowa to a 3-play drive, getting the ball back just down by 2 points (28\u201330). In the final minute of the game, Michigan drove down the field about 30 yards on an attempted drive to kick a game-winning field goal or TD, but Robinson threw a deep interception, sealing the Hawkeyes' victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Iowa\nMichigan turned the ball over five times and fell to 1\u20135 in Big Ten road games under Rich Rodriguez. Michigan QB Tate Forcier left the game with 7 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter; it was later discovered that he sustained a concussion during the game. Backup quarterback Denard Robinson served as an able replacement, leading the Wolverines on the TD drive to bring them to within 2 until he threw the game-losing interception on the final drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Delaware State\nIn week 7, Michigan hosted the Delaware State Hornets from  Division-I FCS, in the first ever meeting between the two teams. Michigan dominated throughout the game. They scored 7 unanswered touchdowns in the first half, four in the first quarter alone: a Michael Shaw 2-yard run, a 6-yard run by Vincent Smith, a blocked punt that was picked up by Brandon Graham for a score, and a 38-yard catch by Kelvin Grady. In the second quarter, the Wolverines added three more touchdowns, on a 4-yard run by QB Denard Robinson, a 28-yard catch by Martell Webb, and a 7-yard run by Kevin Grady. Delaware State finally got on the board just before halftime with a 26-yard field goal by Riley Flickinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Delaware State\nThe second half was more sedate. Neither team scored in the third quarter. In the fourth Delaware State kicked a second field goal, this time from 24 yards. Michigan's Michael Cox responded with two more touchdowns, from 57 and later 3 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Delaware State\nSeveral Michigan school records were broken or tied in the blowout win. The Wolverines' 727 yards of total offense set a new team record; the 442 total offensive yards in the first half alone also set a team record. Their 57-point win tied the second-biggest margin of victory for them since 1950, and tied for the eighth-largest margin of victory in school history. The 49 first half points was the team's second highest ever. The 28 point first quarter also tied a school record. Because of the effectiveness of the offense, the team did not punt the ball once, the first time this has happened since 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Penn State\nIn week 8, Michigan hosted the Penn State Nittany Lions at rain soaked Michigan Stadium. Michigan got an early lead after the first drive of the game when Brandon Minor ran in a TD from one yard out. Penn State tied the score with a 10-yard TD catch by Graham Zug from Daryll Clark, and took the lead for good on a 34-yard field goal by Collin Wagner. In the second quarter Michigan surrendered a safety after a bad snap in the end zone. On the ensuing possession, the Nittany Lions scored on a 60-yard TD pass to Andrew Quarless. Michigan responded with a 23-yard field goal, making the halftime score 19\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Penn State\nPenn State dominated the second half, shutting out the Wolverines. The Nittany Lions added 13 points to their lead off of two Graham Zug TD catches in the third quarter, from 11 and 17-yard respectively. Penn State capped off their victory with a 29-yard field goal in the 4th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Penn State\nMichigan suffered their first home loss of the season. This was the first time the Wolverines had lost to Penn State at home since 1996, ending a five-game losing streak for the Nittany Lions in Ann Arbor. Penn State defeated Michigan for the second straight season, its first win streak versus the Wolverines since a three-game streak from 1994\u201396.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nIn week 9, the Wolverines traveled to Champaign, Illinois for a Halloween afternoon contest with the Illinois Fighting Illini. Illinois scored first midway through the first quarter with a 3-yard TD run by Arrelious Benn. Michigan tied it up with a 2-yard TD run by Carlos Brown. The Wolverines kicked two field goals in the second quarter, from 29 and 42 yards out respectively, making the score at halftime 13\u20137 in their favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Illinois\nFor the second straight game, Michigan was held scoreless in the second half. Illinois held the Wolverines on a goal line stand; on the following possession, Illini RB Mikel LeShoure ran in a 70-yard TD. A few minutes later, London Davis caught a 2-yard TD pass. QB Isiah Williams ran in a TD himself from 3 yards out for Illinois' third score of the quarter. In the fourth quarter, Illinois kicked a 23-yard field goal and capped off their scoring with a 79-yard TD run by Jason Ford. It was Michigan's first loss at Illinois since 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Purdue\nIn week 10, Michigan hosted the Purdue Boilermakers. In the first quarter, Purdue scored first with a 35-yard TD catch by Ralph Bolden. Michigan tied the score with a 29-yard TD run by Brandon Minor. Purdue retook the lead with a 41-yard field goal by Carson Wiggs. Michigan tied the score soon after with a 51-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Michigan scored 2 touchdowns: a 55-yard rush by Brandon Minor, and a 43-yard catch by Ray Roundtree, giving the Wolverines a 14-point advantage at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Purdue\nOnce again, Michigan collapsed in the second half. In the third quarter, Purdue's Ralph Bolden scored his second TD of the game with a 19-yard run. Michigan QB Forcier responded with a 6-yard TD run, but the point after touchdown attempt failed. Ralph Bolden scored his third touchdown of the day soon after with a 10-yard rush. Next, Purdue's Cortez Smith caught a 54-yard TD pass. In the fourth quarter, Purdue QB Joey Elliott ran in an 8-yard TD. Michigan's Minor then ran in a TD from 1-yard out. The Wolverines attempted to tie the game but Forcier failed to reach the end zone on a 2-point conversion, sealing the victory for the Boilermakers. It was Michigan's first home loss to Purdue since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Wisconsin\nFor their final road game of the season, the Wolverines traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to play the Wisconsin Badgers. Wisconsin scored first with a 22-yard TD pass by Scott Tolzien to Garrett Graham. Michigan tied the score with a 21-yard Tate Forcier TD pass to Vincent Smith. In the second quarter, the teams traded the lead. First, Michigan took the lead with a 37-yard Jason Olesnavage field goal. Wisconsin then went ahead with an 8-yard TD pass to Nick Toon. Michigan went back ahead when Ryan Van Bergen picked up Scott Tolzien's fumble (forced by Brandon Graham) and ran it back 14 yards for a touchdown. Wisconsin responded with a 1-yard TD run by John Clay, making the halftime score 21\u201317 Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Wisconsin\nIn the third quarter, Toon scored another TD off a 15-yard catch. Michigan responded with a 10-yard catch by Ray Roundtree. Wisconsin then scored 17 unanswered points, starting with a 7-yard TD catch by Lance Kendricks. In the fourth quarter the Badgers sealed their victory with a 1-yard TD run by Tolzien and a 28-yard field goal by Philip Welch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Wisconsin\nThe game was Michigan's third straight loss at Wisconsin. It was also Michigan's 6th straight conference loss, the first time this has happened since the 1958\u201359 seasons. The Wolverines' record fell to 5\u20136; they needed to win next week to become bowl eligibile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Ohio State\nIn the last game of the season, Michigan hosted their archrivals the No. 9 nationally ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, in the 106th meeting between the two teams. Ohio State scored first when Michigan QB Forcier fumbled while scrambling in the end zone; the ball was recovered by Ohio State's Cameron Heyward for a TD. Michigan's only score of the first half was a 46-yard field goal. Ohio State's Brandon Saine ran in a 29-yard TD late in the second quarter to make it 14\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Ohio State\nIn the third quarter Michigan closed to within four off of Vincent Smith's 18-yard TD catch. Ohio State re-extended their lead to eleven a few minutes later with a 12-yard TD catch by Daniel Herron. Michigan attempted to come back in the fourth quarter, but all of their drives except the last were ended by interceptions. The Wolverines came closest with eight minutes left, when Forcier was intercepted in the end zone by Buckeye CB Devon Torrence. On their last play of the game, the Wolverines were penalized for being in an illegal formation with five players in the backfield; this penalty was declined, giving the ball back to Ohio State on downs and ending the game after the Buckeyes ran out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, vs. Ohio State\nIt was Ohio State's sixth straight win over Michigan, their longest winning streak of the series. QB Tate Forcier had perhaps his worst game this season, throwing four interceptions and turning over a fumble for a TD; prior to this game he had only thrown six interceptions all year. He became just the second Michigan quarterback to throw four interceptions against Ohio State in the last 60 years. Michigan's six-game losing streak to Ohio State is the third-longest streak to a single opponent in school history. The loss left Michigan's final record at 5\u20137, short of the six wins needed for bowl eligibility. During the game, Brandon Graham posted 5 solo tackles for a loss, to clinch the national statistical championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistics\nThe offense rebounded from their 2008 performance to finish third in the Big Ten in scoring. However, Michigan ranked last in the Big Ten and 115th out of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools in turnover margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistics\nGraham was the national statistical champion in tackles for a loss (TFL) per game. Mesko led the Big Ten in punting average and Graham led the conference in total tackles for a loss. Graham posted 26 TFLs in 12 games, which led the nation with 2.17 average tackles for a loss per game (ahead of conference rival O'Brien Schofield who was second with 1.884). Graham also defended his Big Ten total TFLs championship over Schofield by a 26\u201324.5 margin. Mesko led the Big Ten in punting average and was eighth in the nation with a 44.46 average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistics\nThe per game team rankings below include 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams and 11 Big Ten Conference teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistics\nThe per game rankings below include players who have played in 75% of team's games and are ranked in the top 100 national leaders and top 25 conference leaders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason recognition\nAt the conclusion of the season,  Graham earned the Chicago Tribune Silver Football Big Ten co-MVP award. Graham and Mesko earned numerous 2009 College Football All-America Team recognitions. Several Michigan players earned 2009 All-Big Ten Conference recognition: Graham and Mesko were first-team (coaches and media). Donovan Warren (first-team media and second-team coaches) and Schilling (honorable mention coaches and media) were also recognized. Mesko was a first-team Academic All-American. Graham also earned the MVP award at the January 30, 2010 Senior Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason recognition\nGraham was co-winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten co-MVPs with Penn State's Daryll Clark, marking the first time the award has been shared. Three Michigan players, Warren (Junior cornerback), Brandon Graham (Senior defensive end), and Mesko (Senior punter) were named to the All Big Ten First Team, and Stephen Schilling (Senior left guard) received honorable mention. Offensive lineman David Moosman also received the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. Mesko was one of fifteen FBS athletes selected as a first-team Academic All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason recognition\nMichigan had 10 athletes recognized as fall term of the 2009\u201310 Academic All-Conference selections for being letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade point average: Matt Cavanaugh, Jon Conover, John Ferrara, J.B. Fitzgerald, Will Heininger, Zac Johnson, Zoltan Mesko, Tim North, Jason Olesnavage, and Mike Therman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0051-0002", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason recognition\nSeniors Zoltan Mesko (2nd team WCFF, Scout, Rivals, AP; honorable mention SI, CFN, PFW) and Brandon Graham (1st team Scout, Rivals; 2nd team WCFF, AP, SI, CFN;  honorable mention PFW) were named All-Americans by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, Associated Press, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, Rivals.com & Scout.com. Graham was also a first team selection by ESPN and a second team selection by the Sporting News. Brandon Graham earned MVP honors at the January 30, 2010 Senior Bowl with five tackles, two sacks, one forced fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason recognition\nIn December 2009, Warren declared himself eligible for the 2010 NFL Draft. Other athletes to participate at the NFL Scouting Combine were Graham, Mesko and Minor. Graham, Mesko and Stevie Brown were drafted 13th, 150th and 251st overall, respectively. Warren went undrafted but signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, 2010 NFL Draft\nCo-captains Graham, Mesko and Brown were drafted in the 2010 NFL Draft, and immediately following the draft Donovan Warren was signed by the New York Jets. Other draft weekend free agent signees included Mathews and Brandon Minor with the Chicago Bears, Mark Ortmann with the Carolina Panthers, Moosman with the Arizona Cardinals and Carlos Brown with the New Orleans Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204015-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Michigan Wolverines football team, Roster\nOn December 12, 2008 RB Sam McGuffie announced he was leaving Michigan for a school closer to home because of family issues. On February 16, 2009, starting quarterback Steven Threet told Michigan he would transfer before the start of the 2009 season. On October 27, 2009, starting cornerback Boubacar Cissoko was kicked off the team for missing class, workouts and study table according to his high school coach Thomas Wilcher. He also stated that he expected Cissoko to seek a transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204016-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 4\u20138, 2009. The event was held at the Griffith University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series, and the OAA sub-regional Melanesian and Polynesian Championships. Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Detailed reports were given for the OAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204016-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics\nA total of 34 events were contested, 18 by men and 16 by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204016-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nComplete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage, and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204016-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nIn 100 metres, triple jump, and javelin throw, there were separate open competitions for the Micronesian championships and the OAA Grand Prix Series held on different days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204016-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian Championships in Athletics, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 64 athletes from 7 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204017-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 3 March 2009. As there were no political parties, all 21 candidates ran as independents. Three were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204017-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian parliamentary election, Electoral system\nAt the time of the election, Congress consisted of 14 members, of which 10 were elected for two-year terms and four elected for four-year terms. The 2009 elections were for the 10 two-year term seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204017-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian parliamentary election, Conduct\nThe Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) was invited to monitor the elections by the Micronesian government. The APDP sent 18 observers, who reported \"some irregularities and procedural inconsistencies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204017-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results\nThe results from nine constituencies were certified by the National Election Director on 16 March. A recount was ordered for one seat, with the winner confirmed on 24 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204018-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 20\u201323. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams, regardless of division, met in the double-elimination tournament held at V.A. Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. Kent State won their seventh tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204018-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe winners of each division claim the top two seeds, with the next six teams, based on conference winning percentage claim the third through eight seeds. Kent State claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Bowling Green, while Toledo claimed the third seed over Ball State. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament leading to a final matching the winners of each bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204018-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nChris Tremblay won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Tremblay was an infielder for Kent State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season\nThe 2009 Mid-American Conference football season is an NCAA football season that was played from September 3, 2009, to January 7, 2010. The Mid-American Conference consists of twelve full-time members, with Temple University holding an affiliate membership for football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season, Previous season\nBall State entered the 2008 MAC Championship Game undefeated and as the champion of the West Division. This was also their first ever appearance in the game. Ranked #12 in the country, they faced East Division champion Buffalo in the annual contest held at Ford Field. That was Buffalo's first appearance as well. The Bulls upset Ball State and took the MAC Championship, giving Ball State their first loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season, Previous season\nAfter the championship game ended, four MAC football head coaches either resigned or were fired from their teams. This began with Ball State's coach Brady Hoke, who resigned to pursue a head coaching job at San Diego State University. He was replaced by Stan Parrish for the 2009 season. Parrish was promoted internally after serving as Ball State's assistant football coach for four seasons. The only other head coaching change in the West Division was in Eastern Michigan where Jeff Genyk, head coach for the past five years, was fired after a combined 15\u201342 record. He was replaced by Ron English, who served as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan for five years as well as the University of Louisville during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season, Previous season\nIn the East Division, two schools also saw head coaching changes. Miami University's head coach Shane Montgomery resigned after a 2\u201310 record in the 2008 season. His best season at Miami was in 2005 when he led the team to a 7\u20134 overall record and a tie for the MAC East title. However, in that season Akron won the tiebreaker to play in the MAC Championship Game against West champion Northern Illinois. Montgomery was replaced by Mike Haywood who served four years as Notre Dame University's offensive coordinator. At Bowling Green, six-year head coach Gregg Brandon was fired. However, Brandon did find another job in college football when he was named the new University of Virginia offensive coordinator. He was replaced at Bowling Green by Dave Clawson, who was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 910]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll\nThe 2009 MAC Preseason Poll was announced at the Football Media Preview in Detroit on July 31. In the East Division, Buffalo was selected to repeat as divisional champions, and Central Michigan selected to top the West. Also, Central Michigan received 18 votes to win the MAC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204019-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-American Conference football season, Regular season, Week one\nOpening weekend for the Mid-American Conference consisted of six home games and six away games. Also, Miami faced Kentucky in a battle contested at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bowling Green, Kent State, and Buffalo were the only teams to win the opening weekend. Buffalo was also the only team to win an away game as their season opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204020-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 14 and ended on May 17, 2009 at Jackie Robinson Ballpark, on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was a six-team double elimination tournament. Bethune-Cookman won the tournament, as they have done each year but one since the tournament began in 1999. The Wildcats claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204020-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only, with the top seed playing the sixth seed, second seed playing the fifth, and so on for first round matchups. The winners advanced in the winners' bracket, while first round losers played elimination games. The format meant that Coppin State was left out of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204020-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Outstanding Performer\nMarquis Riley was named Tournament Outstanding Performer. Riley was an infielder for North Carolina A&T.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 100], "content_span": [101, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team\nThe 2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Middle Tennessee competed as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The team was led by head coach Rick Stockstill. The Blue Raiders played their home games at Johnny \"Red\" Floyd Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team\nIn February 2009, Tony Franklin, former Troy and Auburn offensive coordinator, was hired to fill the vacant position of offensive coordinator at. He replaced G.A. Mangus who left Middle Tennessee to become the quarterbacks coach at South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team\nThe 2009 schedule featured an opener at Clemson on Saturday, September 5, 2009. The game was followed by an in-state rivalry game against Conference USA member Memphis at Johnny \"Red\" Floyd Stadium. The Blue Raiders returned to Maryland for a third time, and hosted their first ever Southeastern Conference (SEC) opponent, Mississippi State, in school history. Mississippi State was the 3rd BCS opponent (Virginia in 2007 and Maryland in 2008) to visit Middle Tennessee at Johnny \"Red\" Floyd Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team\nThe Blue Raiders ended the 2009 regular season with a 9\u20133 overall record, which was the best record in the FBS era (1999-current), and best overall since 1992. The Blue Raiders accepted a bowl invitation to the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl to face Southern Mississippi who was coached by former Blue Raider offensive coordinator, Larry Fedora. This was the second bowl game for the Blue Raiders in four years. The Blue Raiders won 42\u201332 for their first FBS bowl win in school history, becoming the first team in Sun Belt Conference history to win 10 games in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Clemson Tigers\nMiddle Tennessee fell behind early and could not recover in dropping its season opener, 37-14, to host Clemson as the 95th season of Blue Raider football kicked off Saturday evening in front a crowd of 75,000 at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina The final score was the same as the only other meeting in the series, September 13, 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Clemson Tigers\nDasher eclipsed the 200-yard barrier through the air for the third time in his career with 204 yards on 20-of-42. His 43-yard strike to Blissard was the longest for the Blue Raiders in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Clemson Tigers\nDasher also finished as the team leader with 61 yards on the ground. Middle Tennessee could not get much of a ground attack going, finishing with 92 yards on 37 carries for a 2.5-yard average. Blissard was the MT leader with 68 yards receiving in his first game as a Blue Raider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Memphis Tigers\nBlackout proved once again to be a winning theme for the Middle Tennessee football team as they rode the back of quarterback Dwight Dasher in earning its first victory of the season, a 31\u201314 decision against Memphis, in front of a Floyd Stadium-record 28,105 in attendance in the home opener in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Saturday evening. It kicked off the 74th season of Blue Raider football at its home venue and surpassed the previous stadium attendance mark of 27,568 against Tennessee State September 5, 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Memphis Tigers\nDasher ended the contest with 320 combined yards, including an 18-of-26 and two touchdown effort through the air. He also had a team-best outing of 17 carries for 89 yards on the ground, outgaining the Tiger offense by himself by 101 yards. Through the first two games, Dasher has accounted for 585 of the team's 735 total yards, an 80.0 percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Maryland Terrapins\n\"Middle Tennessee's Alan Gendreau hit a 19-yard field goal as time expired, silencing the crowd of 43,167 at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Maryland\", reported Blueraiders.com, \"as the Blue Raiders defeated Maryland for the second-straight season, 32-31, in a see-saw thriller. It gave Middle Tennessee its first road victory over a BCS-conference opponent since 2005 when it defeated Vanderbilt. The game-winning drive covered 73 yards on eight plays, as quarterback Dwight Dasher was 4-of-4 for 65 yards, including a 35-yard strike to Chris McClover to take the Blue Raiders down to the Terrapin 10-yard line. Dasher completed the contest 27-of-44 for a career-high 324 yards and two touchdowns. He also had one score on the ground. D.D. Kyles paced the Blue Raider ground attack with only 34 yards, while McClover was the leading receiver with seven catches for 110 yards.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 960]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Texas Mean Green\nMiddle Tennessee football opened Sun Belt action by winning its third-straight game and improved on its best start in eight years with a 37\u201321 victory at North Texas Saturday evening in front of 22,346 at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas. The three-game winning streak is the first for the Blue Raiders since they won three late last season, while the 3-1 start is the second best in the school's FBS (1999\u2013present) era, following the 4-0 opening by the 2001 squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 88], "content_span": [89, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Texas Mean Green\nDasher finished with his fourth-straight 200-plus passing outing, completing 21-of-43 for 269 yards and two touchdowns. He was also the team's leading rusher with 75 yards on 16 carries and two scores. Sancho McDonald led the squad with 74 yards receiving on five receptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 88], "content_span": [89, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Texas Mean Green\nDerrick Crumpton paced the defense with eight tackles, leading topping Alex Suber's seven. The defense forced 5 turnovers, while Middle Tennessee had no turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 88], "content_span": [89, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Troy Trojans \u2013 Battle for the Palladium\nMiddle Tennessee could only score once, a third-quarter touchdown, and host Troy rolled to a 31\u20137 win in front of a crowd of 17,108 at Movie Gallery Stadium in Troy, Ala., plus countless others watching live nationally on ESPN2 Tuesday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 105], "content_span": [106, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Troy Trojans \u2013 Battle for the Palladium\nDwight Dasher entered play tonight ranked sixth nationally in total offense and first in touches per game. After a slow start, Dasher rebounded to account for 298 yards of Middle Tennessee total yardage of 354. Dasher, who went over the 200-yard passing mark for the fifth straight game, finished with 56 total touches, just shy of his national-leading 56.75 average coming into the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 105], "content_span": [106, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State Bulldogs\nMissed opportunities in the red zone and second half turnovers were the story Saturday as host Middle Tennessee was held out of the end zone in a 27\u20136 loss to Mississippi State in front of 23,882 fans at Floyd Stadium on cold and blustery Hall of Fame Day in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Mississippi State was the first Southeastern Conference opponent to make an appearance at Floyd Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State Bulldogs\nMississippi State controlled the line of scrimmage with a 333\u2013248 advantage on total yards, including a 178\u201342 edge on the ground. Dixon finished with a game-high 135 yards on 27 carries with two scores, while Lee added 38 yards. Lee was 14-of-20 through the air for 155 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State Bulldogs\nDasher was the team's leading ball carrier with 47 yards, while he completed 50.0 percent of his passes (11-of-22) for 129 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 92], "content_span": [93, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers\nDwight Dasher's career day on a record-breaking afternoon spurred Middle Tennessee football to a 62\u201324 win over rival Western Kentucky in front of 17,787 on a cool Homecoming outing at Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Dasher finished 22-of-35 for 355 yards and three scores, the eighth-highest passing day in school history. He added two more scores on the ground as the Blue Raiders scored the most points and gained the most yards (646) under head coach Rick Stockstill (2006\u2013present).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers\nMiddle Tennessee churned out 646 yards of offense and 62 points in the win over WKU. The yardage total went down as the most under Rick Stockstill, breaking the previous best mark of 555 yards set against Louisville in 2007. The 62 points also went down as the most ever by a Rick Stockstill coached team and the most by the Blue Raiders since they put up 70 in a win over Idaho on Oct. 6, 2001. The 646 yards rank third on the program's all-time list and is the second most Middle Tennessee has put up in a Sun Belt Conference game, trailing only that Idaho game when the Blue Raiders gained 685 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic Owls\nQuarterback Dwight Dasher sprinted for a career-long 74-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter to provide the winning difference in a come-from-behind 27-20 Middle Tennessee victory at Florida Atlantic Saturday afternoon in Sun Belt action. The Owls had one last chance, but a fourth-down pass was ruled out-of-bounds, ending the thriller on Halloween in front of 15,568 fans at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic Owls\nDasher's career-best dash with 5:31 remaining gave the Blue Raiders a pair of players over the 100-yard barrier, as he finished with 108, trailing only the 140 accumulated by teammate D.D. Kyles, who made his second career start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic Owls\nDanny Carmichael led the Blue Raider defense with a career-high 15 tackles, while Cam Robinson added a career-best 14 stops. Kevin Brown and Kellem each registered 10 tackles for Middle Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic Owls\nThe Blue Raiders' capitalized on a blocked punt by SaCoby Carter for their first score, with only 43 seconds remaining in the first quarter. Sherman Neal grabbed the loose ball behind punter Mickey Groody and returned it 29 yards to bring Middle Tennessee (5-3, 3-1 Sun Belt) within three, 10-7. The next punt did not fare much better for the Owls. The snap went high, forcing Groody to roll to his left, and Neal was in the backfield to record the tackle. It gave the Blue Raiders the ball on the Owl 37. Jeremy Kellem was able to get a hand on a Groody punt halfway through the period to raise the blocked kick total to three, the highest by a Middle Tennessee team since the Blue Raiders matched the effort in 2002 against North Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida International Panthers\nMiddle Tennessee tallied 34 unanswered points behind a strong performance on the ground, led by quarterback Dwight Dasher, and was able to hold on for a 48\u201321 win Saturday afternoon against visiting FIU in front of 17,808 at Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The victory secures bowl eligibility for the Blue Raiders with three games remaining in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 96], "content_span": [97, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida International Panthers\nMiddle Tennessee finished with 385 rushing yards, the fourth-highest total in a school history, and the third-straight contest in which the Blue Raiders surpassed the 200-yard plateau. Dasher ended the game with 178 yards on the ground, while adding 182 through the air on 13-of-28 and two touchdowns. For the year, Dasher now has 2,029 yards passing and 703 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 96], "content_span": [97, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Florida International Panthers\nWith Middle Tennessee's win over FIU ran its record to 6-3 which is the best start to a season since 2006 when the Blue Raiders competed in the Motor City Bowl. The six wins now make Middle Tennessee bowl eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 96], "content_span": [97, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns\nDefense and quarterback Dwight Dasher turned up the intensity in the second half as Middle Tennessee won its fourth straight with a 34\u201317 victory Saturday against Louisiana\u2013Lafayette in front of 16,411 at Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tenn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns\nThe Blue Raider defense sacked Ragin' Cajun quarterback Chris Masson five times, one more instance than the Louisiana\u2013Lafayette offense had allowed all season, tying for the fewest in the nation entering the contest. The Ragin' Cajuns were held to only 75 yards in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns\nDasher finished 16-of-25 for 219 yards and two touchdowns, leading Middle Tennessee to four scores on seven drives in the final 30 minutes after trailing by three at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns\nThis win was the sixth time Middle Tennessee has come-from-behind for a victory under head coach Rick Stockstill. It is the third instance it happened this year with the Blue Raiders pulling out triumphs on the road at Maryland and at FAU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 99], "content_span": [100, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State Red Wolves\nIt was \"Senior Day\" at Middle Tennessee but a standout underclassman continued to steal headlines on the field as the Blue Raiders capped the home portion of their schedule with an emphatic 38-14 win against visiting Arkansas State in front of 19,111 at Floyd Stadium Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State Red Wolves\nJunior quarterback Dwight Dasher threw touchdowns to four different players to lead a Blue Raider offense that piled up 427 yards and dominated the Red Wolves from the opening quarter. Dasher finished with 263 yards and the four touchdowns to lead Middle Tennessee to its eighth win \u2013 tied for the most wins since the 2001 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State Red Wolves\nThe Blue Raiders also secured their fifth win at Floyd Stadium, representing the most home wins since Middle Tennessee was 5-0 at home in 2001. The fans enjoyed this one from the outset as the Blue Raiders (8-3) stormed to a 17\u20130 lead in the first quarter and never relented...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State Red Wolves\nIt wasn't all offense. Middle Tennessee's unrelenting defense continued to dominate and got into the scoring act as well. The defense yielded just 220 yards and scored when Jamari Lattimore picked up a fumble and lateraled it to Jeremy Kellem who scored to give the Blue Raiders a commanding lead. Marcus Udell also collected his seventh interception of the season to key a stop squad that was never really threatened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State Red Wolves\nMiddle Tennessee, hopeful of a second bowl in Head Coach Rick Stockstill's fourth season, will conclude the regular season seeking nine wins at Louisiana-Monroe next Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nMiddle Tennessee put the finishing touches on the most successful gridiron season of the FBS era with a convincing 38-19 win against Louisiana-Monroe at Malone Stadium Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nThe Blue Raiders (9-3, 7-1) notched their ninth win by putting an exclamation mark on a persuasive season that now includes: most single-season wins (9) of the FBS era, most SBC wins (7) in a single season, one of two SBC schools to win nine games in a season (North Texas, 2003) and a current six-game win streak. The nine wins for Middle Tennessee is the most in a season since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nThey will now await a postseason bowl destination they believe is sure to come. It would be the program's second in four seasons under Head Coach Rick Stockstill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nMiddle Tennessee climaxed its dynamic regular season in the much the same manner it has achieved success all season \u2013 nasty defense, productive offense and special teams contributions, but the big story was junior quarterback Dwight Dasher who danced his way into the Blue Raider record books with his arm and legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nDasher ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more to lead the offensive charge that included 306 yards total offense. Dasher's two touchdowns enabled him to tie Mickey Corwins's single-season mark of 21 touchdowns, set in 1984. He also became Middle Tennessee's career leader for rushing yards by a quarterback with 88 against ULM, giving him 1,676 career rushing yards to break Marvin Collier's mark of 1,652 set from 1985 to 1988. Dasher was 10-of-18 through the air for 116 yards. He did throw two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks\nDefense also was a staple as it dominated the Warhawks after allowing a touchdown on their opening possession. The dandy defensive effort included three interceptions, one for a touchdown, four sacks and 11 tackles for loss. Chris McCoy continued his stellar campaign with ferocious play that included three tackles for loss. Alex Suber was a defensive wizard with eight tackles, including one for loss, an interception and a pass break-up, and linebacker Danny Carmichael continued to make plays from one side of the field to the other, collecting 10 tackles including one for loss. Suber, Jeremy Kellem and Kevin Brown had the interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nMiddle Tennessee and its throng of fans enjoyed an early Blue Christmas in the Big Easy when it powered past Southern Miss, 42-32, in the R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl at the Louisiana Superdome Sunday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nThe Blue Raiders capped one of the best seasons in school history with their first bowl win during the FBS era as the Sun Belt's representative in the New Orleans Bowl, where Conference USA representative Southern Miss had never lost in three previous tries before getting throttled by a spirited Middle Tennessee team. It was the second bowl appearance for Middle Tennessee as a FBS member and its first in the New Orleans Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nMiddle Tennessee (10-3) ended the season with a seven-game win streak. It's the most wins for the Blue Raiders since the 1992 squad won 10 and the win streak is the longest since the 1985 team won 11 straight. Astonishing junior quarterback Dwight Dasher was named the New Orleans Bowl Most Valuable Player after accounting for 363 yards total offense \u2013 201 rushing and 162 passing \u2013 rushing for two touchdowns and passing for two more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nFor good measure Dasher also became one of just eight quarterbacks in FBS history to rush for 1,000 yards and pass for 2,000 in the same season. His 201 yards rushing established a New Orleans Bowl record and he became the only quarterback in Blue Raider history to surpass 1,000 yards rushing in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nWhile the spotlight would shine on Dasher it was still that blue-collar, blue-clad defense that stiffened after a slow start and dominated the game following the opening quarter when it surrendered two touchdowns on Southern Miss' first two drives. It allowed just 18 points the remainder of the game, while the Blue Raider offense piled up 42 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nThe defense also had two interceptions compliments of Alex Suber and Danny Carmichael. Making the turnovers even more impressive was the fact Southern Miss quarterback Martevious Young had thrown just two interceptions all season and had 165 consecutive completions without a pick before Suber turned him over in the second quarter. Suber's interception would set up a touchdown that enabled Middle Tennessee to rally and tie the game, 14-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nCarmichael's interception sealed the game and capped a tremendous Blue Raider career on a high note.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204021-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Game summaries, Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles \u2013 New Orleans Bowl\nThe win demonstrated the continued growth of Middle Tennessee's program under fourth-year head coach Rick Stockstill, who has led the Blue Raiders to both of their bowl appearances of the FBS era. He had to like the way his team performed before a national-television audience on one of its biggest stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 119], "content_span": [120, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThe December 2009 Midwest blizzard was a powerful extratropical cyclone which was of a category which meteorologists refer to as a cyclogenic bomb, a system which shows a drop in central pressure similar to the rapid intensification cycle of a tropical cyclone, more than 1 mbar (approx. 0.03 inHg) per hour for 12 to 24 hours or more. A sustained drop averaging more than 2.5 mbar/h is termed explosive deepening/intensification, and this was the case with this rapidly deepening and intensifying storm as it traversed the Midwest and Ontario and on to Qu\u00e9bec, Greenland and vicinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nIn many locations wind, snowfall, and precipitation moisture content records dating back to the December 2, 1990 storm, the 1976-1978 period, the 1949 blizzard, or even further back were broken, with barometric pressure records falling as well. Both the central pressure (depth) and rate of change and differential over a given distance (intensity) were remarkable, and both caused hurricane-force winds in places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThe storm originated over the south-western United States west of the Rocky Mountains on December 6, 2009 and took a common winter storms track known as the [Oklahoma] Panhandle Track. Rapid to explosive intensification took place over a period of more than 36 hours as the system regrouped over the southern Great Plains, with the central pressure bottoming out at 976 mbar (97.6 kPa or 28.81 inHg) on the morning of December 9 over northern lower Michigan although readings as low as 969 mbar (96.9 kPa or 28.61 inHg) were reported in the region by co-operative observers and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThis central pressure was lower than the storm which sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 and equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nIt appears to be the fourth-lowest central pressure measured in the Midwest, behind 953 mbar (28.11 inHg) (and a possible tie of national record for Canada of 940.6 mbar (94 kPa or 27.76 inHg)) in the October 26, 2010 windstorm (October 2010 North American storm complex), 962 mbar (28.44 inHg) reading in southern Minnesota during the November 10, 1998 windstorm and readings down to 955 mbar (28.21 inHg)  with the Midwest and North-East blizzard of late January 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nIn advance of the storm, the barometric pressure at many weather stations fell by 3 or more millibars per hour for 18 hours or more. Several locations along the path of the storm reported winds in excess of 100\u00a0mph with a 115\u00a0mph gust in north-eastern New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThe belated arrival of cold air in the system appears to have prevented even faster intensification and deepening and meant that many locations received 10 to 25 inches of wet, heavy snow, which would have fluffed out to 40 to 55 or more inches of fluffy snow at 10\u00a0\u00b0F (-12\u00a0\u00b0C). In spite of this, the largest snow drifts created by the storm in the Midwest were some in Iowa which approached 30 feet (9 m) in height.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nIn some localities, the moisture content of the precipitation from the storm exceeded 3 inches (76\u00a0mm)   This was probably part of the reason that the section of the snowpack generated by this storm persisted into late April 2010 in some locations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nLightning, thunder, rain, granular snow, ice pellets, graupel, hail, blowing dust, and freezing rain were also elements of this storm in different locations, which the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa called an \"epic\" blizzard in its December 7, 2009 issuance of a Blizzard Warning for essentially its entire County Warning Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThunderstorms and lake-effect snow bands increased the totals in some places, including locations where the lake effect was able to be discerned more than 100 miles inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nFog of the advection, frontal, and evaporation (steam) species\u2014often occurring in combination\u2014accompanied the snow in many localities, in some cases turning to freezing fog before lifting; some stations reported a very unusual simultaneous combination of heavy snow or mixed precipitation, lightning, dense fog, and winds in excess of 50\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThe storm picked up forward speed as it entered South Central Canada, the clouds and precipitation appearing to travel in excess of 100\u00a0mph over central and north-east Canada and the North Atlantic Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nAs in a case in December 1986 when the precipitation shield of a snow storm was confirmed to be traveling at 125\u00a0mph over Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa and with some species of synoptic scale dust storms and some cold fronts which also can attain forward speeds of up to 110\u00a0mph or more, the system hooked into an area of fast-moving upper-level winds and/or a strong jet stream. This setup allowed a great deal of convection not often seen at the ambient temperatures during this storm's cyclogenesis, reorganisation, and movement to the north-east to take place during most of the lifetime of the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204022-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Midwest Blizzard\nThe storm was the largest wind producer for the region since Hurricane Ike reintensified and regained partial tropical characteristics over Indiana and Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204023-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mieczys\u0142aw Po\u0142ukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces\nThe 28th Mieczys\u0142aw Po\u0142ukard Criterium of Polish Speedway League Aces will be the 2009 version of the Criterium of Aces. It took place on 29 March at the Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In the 2008 season, Criterium was won by multi-winner Tomasz Gollob, who beat junior Emil Saifutdinov and Tomasz Chrzanowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204023-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mieczys\u0142aw Po\u0142ukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces, Start list\nNote: riders in bold type are Polonia' riders. Riders with numbers are 2009 Speedway Grand Prix riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204023-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mieczys\u0142aw Po\u0142ukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces, Heat details\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 80], "content_span": [81, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204024-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 2009 Milan\u2013San Remo cycling race took place on 21 March 2009. It was the 100th edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo monument classic, and followed the same route as the previous year. Manx sprint specialist Mark Cavendish won by a narrow margin. Heinrich Haussler made a late attack with 250 metres to the finish and rode away but Cavendish made up Haussler's 10m lead with 100m to go. The race was the fourth event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede\nThe 2009 Millennium Point Concert Stampede was an incident which occurred during a November 15, 2009 holiday event outside of the Millennium Point complex in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Hundreds of people broke through a temporary crowd control barrier causing various injuries to fans during the annual Christmas Lights Switch-On event, while JLS were performing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, The event\nThe free event, organised by 96.4FM BRMB and Birmingham City Council, was to start at 2\u00a0pm, followed by the Christmas Lights Switch-on at 7.30\u00a0pm and finishing with a fireworks display.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, The event\nThe Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Ben Bradshaw and the city council's Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport & Culture, Martin Mullaney blamed the tragedy on bad weather and a failure of the fencing for the incident. However, local MP for Perry Barr, Khalid Mahmood pointed toward the Birmingham City Council's lack of preparedness. Steve Hollingworth, assistant director of sports and events at Birmingham City Council said the event had been organised and prepared properly. Mahmood said the council should have made access to the event by ticket-holders only, and that ticketless fans should not have been admitted and compared the situation to the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster, where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, The event\nAll parties agreed that the late surge of fans from outside of the main event was poorly handled and that the council could have erected plasma TV screens outside the event for those unable to get in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, The event\nAn independent report by a health and safety consultant placed the final blame on Birmingham City Council's choice of fencing. The usual solid fencing was deemed unsafe in the high winds and so was replaced by see-through temporary fencing that morning. Despite this, the report concluded that pre-planning for the event was \"satisfactory\". It was believed that members of the public could see spaces in the crowds appearing through the see-through fence and decided to climb over, resulting in the fence collapsing and causing the subsequent surge and injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, Council preparation\nBecause a free pop music concert and fireworks show was planned, sections of Millennium Point were fenced off. Either marshals and/or police were stationed at a few points so as to prevent any minor crimes, like pickpocketing. Trouble breaking out may have been contributed by party-goers becoming over-excited, plus the unofficial presence of alcohol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, Council preparation\nBirmingham City Councillor Martin Mullaney later stated it was a failure of the fencing at Millennium Point which was the main problem, since the wind broke the solid-steel fencing down during the night, and it was then replaced with Heras fencing, as used on building sites, and extra security personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204025-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Millennium Point stampede, Council preparation\nAccording to reports, about 20,000 to 21,000 (officially) or 27,000 people (police estimates) arrived for the show at Millennium Point, which had been expecting to attract just 5,000 fans, not the 15,000 and 20,000 Birmingham City Council had expected to arrive. The venue had a capacity of 5,000 people, and it was recognised that things would become overcrowded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204026-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Miller Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Miller Superbike World Championship round was the seventh round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 29\u201331, 2009 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204026-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Miller Superbike World Championship round, Results, Superbike race 1\nRace 1 was stopped after lap 7 for a crash involving Karl Muggeridge. The race was then restarted and completed; the final standings are the aggregate of the times of the two heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nThe 2009 Millsaps Majors football team represented Millsaps College during the 2009 college football season. In 2009, the Majors finished 5-1 in SCAC play to again earn a share of the conference title. The team's fourth conference championship in as many years was added to the accomplishments of the winningest senior class in the program's history, who finished their four-year careers with a 33-10 overall record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nHowever, the team had hoped to attain another NCAA playoff berth, a cause derailed by three painfully close loses. First, the Majors lost to their rival Choctaws in two overtimes in the season-opening ninth edition of the renewed Backyard Brawl. Millsaps won their next three games, including an emotional 24-6 victory over Trinity after a week in which Coach DuBose's wife Polly underwent the first of several breast cancer surgeries that took place during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nThe following week Coach DuBose spent limited time with the team while caring for his wife, as the Majors prepared for an important conference road game. The team traveled to Greencastle, Indiana to face DePauw. Coincidentally, the game fell on the first weekend of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), and DePauw had painted a pair of pink ribbons on their field in support of the event. In a show of outstanding camaraderie and sportsmanship, DePauw had then inscribed \"P.D.\" in each of the ribbons for Polly DuBose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nThe Majors put forth a valiant effort in the game, coming from 16 down to within a two-point conversion of tying the game with under four minutes to play. The two point attempt failed when running back Shane Bowser could not escape an open field tackle and came up less than a yard short of the endzone. DePauw was able to run out the clock and preserve the victory, handing the Majors only their second conference loss of DuBose's tenure in heartbreaking fashion, after the Majors had won 10 straight dating back to that fateful 2007 contest against Trinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nThe next week the Majors came up with another disappointing loss, again on the road, this time at the hands of Huntingdon. Millsaps squandered a 36-24 third quarter advantage, as Huntingdon's potent offense caught fire in the second half. The Majors' normally powerful offensive unit sputtered as two quarterbacks were forced to leave the game due to injury and the team could only watch as Huntingdon roared back to claim a 47-36 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nThe team finished the season on a positive note, handily dispatching of their last four opponents, including a homecoming victory over previously undefeated Centre. A 61-7 dismantling of Sewanee the following week secured the program's share of a fourth consecutive conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team\nJunior return specialist Michael Galatas was named the SCAC's \"Special Teams Player of the Year\" for the second consecutive season, the fourth consecutive season the award went to a Major, and junior linebacker Will Hawkins was the conference's \"Defensive Player of the Year\", and a first team All-American. A total of 20 Majors were voted to the all-conference first, second and honorable mention teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204027-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Millsaps Majors football team, Season summary\nIn December, DuBose announced he was leaving Millsaps to join new Memphis coach Larry Porter's staff. DuBose's tenure ended with 33 victories in four seasons, prior to which the Majors had won just 37 games in 10 years, and DuBose's four consecutive conference championships came after the Majors had won only two since joining the SCAC in 1989. DuBose's .767 winning percentage is the highest of any coach in the school's history and only Harper Davis won more games as the Majors' head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204028-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Bonecrushers season\nThe 2009 Milwaukee Bonecrushers season was the 2nd season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. The Bonecrushers returned to action in 2009 with renewed optimism after signing LeRoy McFadden, brother of NFL player Darren McFadden, as its new head coach, as well as the previous year's CIFL Offensive Player of the Year, Randy Bell. However, McFadden also chose to resign after just three games, leaving assistant coach, John Burns, to take over as head coach. While the Bonecrushers survived the 2009 season in Milwaukee, and in spite of bringing in top announcer Dennis J. O'Boyle to handle the public address and master of ceremonies duties at the U.S. Cellular Arena, attendance dwindled to nearly nothing and the team finished with a record of 3-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe Milwaukee Brewers' 2009 season was the 40th season for the franchise in Milwaukee and 41st overall. It was Ken Macha's first season as manager of the team. The Brewers failed to improve on their 90\u201372 record of a year ago and missed the post season, finishing with a losing record of 80\u201382.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Pitchers\nStarting pitchers CC Sabathia, who was acquired from the Cleveland Indians in a mid-season trade in 2008, and Ben Sheets both rejected arbitration and became free agents following the end of the 2008 season. Numerous teams showed interest in Sabathia, considered one of the best free agent pitchers available after compiling an 11\u20132 record and an ERA of only 1.62 in 17 starts for the Brewers in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Pitchers\nThe Brewers made a 5-year, $100 million contract offer to Sabathia, but he elected to sign with the New York Yankees on December 9, receiving a 7-year, $161 million contract that was the largest received by a pitcher at the time. No serious attempt was made to resign Sheets, who had been the Brewers' ace before the acquisition of Sabathia but struggled with numerous injuries throughout his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Pitchers\nIn the bullpen, closer Salom\u00f3n Torres elected to retire from baseball despite believing that it would have been \"a given\" that the Brewers would exercise their 2009 contract option on him. After a disappointing 2008 season, former closer \u00c9ric Gagn\u00e9 was not offered arbitration. Left-handed specialist Brian Shouse was offered arbitration, but instead chose to sign with the Tampa Bay Rays. No attempt was made to resign Guillermo Mota, who eventually signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Pitchers\nNeeding to acquire at least one starter to fill the hole in the rotation left by Sabathia and Sheets, the Brewers signed free agent Braden Looper, formerly of the St. Louis Cardinals, to a one-year, $4.5 million contract for 2009. To replace the retired Torres, the Brewers turned to all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman, who became available after contentious contract negotiations caused the San Diego Padres, Hoffman's home for 16 years, to pull back their 2009 contract offer. Hoffman was signed to a one-year, $6 million contract for the Brewers. Relievers Todd Coffey, who was signed to a one-year contract avoiding arbitration after being claimed off waivers in September, and free agent Jorge Julio rounded out the offseason bullpen acquisitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Position players\nOutfielder Gabe Kapler, second baseman Ray Durham, and third baseman Russell Branyan all became free agents following the end of the 2008 season; Kapler and Branyan signed one-year contracts with the Tampa Bay Rays and the Seattle Mariners respectively, while Durham remains unsigned as of May\u00a019, 2009. Center fielder Mike Cameron's $10 million contract option for 2009 was exercised by the Brewers. Utility infielder Craig Counsell's $3.4 million contract option was declined by the Brewers, making him a free agent, but the team later agreed to terms on a new one-year, $1 million contract in late January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Coaching staff\nHaving made the move of firing manager Ned Yost with only 12 games remaining in the 2008 season, an early priority for the Brewers was the hiring of a permanent replacement for Yost. Candidates considered included interim manager Dale Sveum, former Oakland Athletics manager Ken Macha, former New York Mets manager Willie Randolph, and broadcaster and former Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly. On October 30, 2008, the Brewers announced the hiring of Macha, who received a two-year contract to manage the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason moves, Coaching staff\nIn an unusual move, Macha proceeded to hire two of his competitors for his coaching staff, naming Randolph the bench coach and Sveum the hitting coach. Although the Brewers offered pitching coach Mike Maddux a new contract, they were unable to match the offer made by the Texas Rangers. Bullpen coach Bill Castro was promoted to pitching coach, while Nashville Sounds pitching coach Stan Kyles was promoted to fill the vacated bullpen coach position. Brad Fischer was hired as third base coach to round out Macha's new staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Spring training\nThe Brewers opened spring training camp on February 13, with the first game played on February 25. Home games were played at Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix, Arizona. The Brewers compiled a 22\u201310\u20133 record in spring training games, the best record of any National League team and the second-best record (behind the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) in the Cactus League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Spring training\nThe 2009 spring training season was affected by the 2009 World Baseball Classic, which was held in March. Six players in the Brewers system played in the Classic and missed time during spring training: left fielder Ryan Braun (Team USA), relief pitcher Mark DiFelice (Team Italy), and minor league players Vinny Rottino (Team Italy), Adam Stern (Team Canada), Brett Lawrie (Team Canada), and David Welch (Team Australia). Additionally, the Brewers played an exhibition game against Team Australia, winning by the score of 10 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Spring training\nWith the lineup and starting rotation largely set, the main position battles entering camp were for spots in the bullpen and on the bench. Ultimately, the available bench spots were claimed by infielder Casey McGehee, who had been claimed off waivers from the Chicago Cubs during the offseason, center fielder Chris Duffy, who was invited to camp as a non-roster invitee, and outfielder Brad Nelson, the Brewers' fourth-round draft pick in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Spring training\nMike Lamb, who had been expected to make the club before McGehee's strong spring, was released by the team on April 1; he was eventually signed to a minor league deal by the New York Mets. Closer Trevor Hoffman suffered an oblique strain in mid-March and was forced to begin the regular season on the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, April\nThe Brewers opened the regular season on the road on April 7 with a loss against the San Francisco Giants; Jeff Suppan made his first Opening Day start for the Brewers and fourth overall. The Brewers won their home opener three days later with a ninth inning rally over the rival Chicago Cubs. Overall, however, the team struggled during the first few weeks of the season, losing four consecutive series against the Giants, the Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds, and the New York Mets. The Brewers' pitching staff struggled early, compiling a 5.19 ERA during the first four series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, April\nManny Parra, the number three starter in the rotation, particularly struggled and finished the month with an 0\u20134 record with a 6.52 ERA, and Suppan went 1\u20132 with a 5.88 ERA. The team's fortunes improved considerably after an 11\u20134 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on April 21, however, as the Brewers won series against the Phillies and the Houston Astros before returning home and sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates to close the month, rallying to a 12\u201310 overall record in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, April\nLeading the offense during the month of April was Mike Cameron, who led the team with a .333 batting average and tied for the team lead in home runs with 5. Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks also hit 5 home runs in April. The month's best starting pitcher was newly acquired Braden Looper, who went 2\u20130 with a 2.45 ERA in April. Dave Bush came within five outs of a no-hitter in a 6\u20131 win over Philadelphia on April 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, April\nTrevor Hoffman returned from the disabled list and made his first Brewers appearance on April 27 in a non-save situation; he recorded his first save with the Brewers (and 555th overall) the following day. Backup catcher Mike Rivera, however, suffered a sprained ankle in the same game and was placed on the disabled list; rookie Carlos Corpor\u00e1n was called up from Nashville to replace him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nThe Brewers opened May with a split of a four-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks before sweeping the Pirates in a two-game series in Pittsburgh. In sweeping the Pirates, the Brewers extended their winning streak against Pittsburgh to 17 games dating back to May 20, 2008, the longest winning streak by one Major League Baseball team over another since 1970. The Brewers continued their winning ways in the following five series as well, splitting series against the Reds and Cubs, sweeping the Florida Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals, and winning two out of three games in Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nIn a one-month period between April 21 and May 21, the Brewers did not lose a series and went 22\u20136, the best record in baseball over that period. The team struggled at the start of interleague play, however, as the Brewers were swept in their last scheduled visit to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome by the rival Minnesota Twins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nReturning home, the Brewers won a Memorial Day matinee against the Cardinals in a game where both Yovani Gallardo took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter had a perfect game into the seventh inning, but lost the next two games, leaving the Cardinals in sole possession of first place in the NL Central. The Brewers finished the month of May with a sweep of Cincinnati, giving the team an 18\u201310 record for the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nInjuries and ineffective play by several bench players caused the Brewers to make several roster moves during the month of May. Mike Rivera returned from the disabled list on May 14 as Carlos Corpor\u00e1n was returned to the minors; Corporan appeared in only one game, where he caught the last two innings of a 15\u20133 blowout of the Cincinnati Reds on May 6 and singled off of regular Cincinnati shortstop Paul Janish in his only at-bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nThe team suffered a significant setback on May 18 when starting second baseman Rickie Weeks suffered an injury to his left wrist, ending his 2009 season. For the time being, Craig Counsell and Casey McGehee are expected to replace Weeks in the lineup; Hern\u00e1n Iribarren was called up from Nashville following the injury, but was returned to Nashville after only one series. Brad Nelson, who went hitless in 21 at-bats, declined a demotion to the minor leagues and became a free agent on May 15; top third base prospect Mat Gamel was called up to replace Nelson on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, May\nOn May 21, the Brewers traded Triple-A outfielder Tony Gwynn, Jr. to the San Diego Padres in exchange for outfielder Jody Gerut; Chris Duffy was demoted to Nashville to make room on the roster for Gerut. Finally, on May 21 the team called up outfielder Frank Catalanotto, who had been signed to a minor league contract by the team earlier in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, June\nThe Brewers opened June on a sour note, dropping three out of four games to the Florida Marlins at Land Shark Stadium, but rebounded in the next series and won two out of three against the Atlanta Braves. Following a poor outing on June 1 in which he failed to retire any of the six batters he faced, Jorge Julio was released; Mike Burns was called up to take Julio's spot in the bullpen. In 15 appearances for the Brewers, Julio went 1\u20131 with a 7.79 ERA in 17+1\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, June\nThe Brewers returned to Miller Park on June 9 but suffered a 1\u20135 homestand in which the team was swept by Colorado and lost two out of three against the Chicago White Sox. After giving up 6 runs in 1+1\u20443 innings in the second game of the White Sox series, Manny Parra was demoted to Triple-A Nashville; in 13 appearances through June 13, Parra went 3\u20138 with a 7.52 ERA. In the third game of the series, Trevor Hoffman finally gave up his first run of the season in what was then a tie game; Hoffman had pitched 18+2\u20443 innings in 2009 without giving up a run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, June\nThe Brewers returned to interleague play in Cleveland, where they swept the Cleveland Indians in a high-scoring series that included a six-run rally in the eighth inning on June 15, capped by Prince Fielder's first career grand slam, and an 11-inning win on June 17 that mooted a four-run comeback by the Indians in the ninth inning, giving Hoffman his first blown save of the season. The team's interleague woes returned for the remaining two interleague series, however, as the Brewers were swept in Detroit and dropped two of three against the Twins at Miller Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, June\nThe Twins series included the first start by a Brewers pitcher not in the opening day rotation, as Mike Burns made his first career start, replacing the injured Dave Bush. Milwaukee's fortunes improved with a return to National League play, as the team closed out June with series wins at home against San Francisco and the New York Mets. On June 27, Seth McClung made his first start of the year as Manny Parra's replacement in the pitching rotation (due to off days, a fifth starter had not been needed since Parra's June 13 demotion). On June 30, Burns collected his first career win in a game which also included Casey McGehee's first career grand slam. The Brewers ended June with a 12\u201315 record for the month, but nonetheless held a one-game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals for the division lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nAfter opening July with a 1\u20130 loss to the Mets, the Brewers traveled to Wrigley Field for the first time in 2009, losing three of four games to the Cubs over the Fourth of July weekend. The team fared little better upon returning to Miller Park, dropping series against the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Manny Parra returned to the majors on July 9 and pitched seven shutout innings, but received a no-decision after the Cardinals scored five runs off the Milwaukee bullpen in the eighth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nThree Brewers players participated in the 2009 MLB All-Star Game held July 14 in St. Louis, Missouri. Ryan Braun received 4,138,599 votes in fan balloting, the most received by any National League outfielder, and started his second consecutive All-Star Game. Prince Fielder also made his second All-Star appearance when he was selected as a reserve player by National League team manager Charlie Manuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nFielder was also invited to the 2009 Home Run Derby, which he ultimately won with 17 home runs in the first two rounds and six home runs in the final round, beating Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers. Finally, Trevor Hoffman made his seventh All-Star appearance as a replacement for injured Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nFollowing the All-Star Break the Brewers went on the road, splitting a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds before losing two of three against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates win on July 20 snapped the Brewers 17-game winning streak against Pittsburgh in a game marred by a disputed beanball thrown at Pirates pitcher Jeff Karstens, reportedly in retribution for an incident in April where Karstens hit Ryan Braun with a pitch, that caused both benches to empty during the eighth inning. On July 19, second baseman Felipe L\u00f3pez was acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks for minor league players Cole Gillespie and Roque Mercedes; the acquisition of Lopez was expected to fill the hole at second and at the top of the lineup left by Rickie Weeks' May injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nMilwaukee's July struggles continued at home, as the team lost a series against Atlanta before splitting a four-game series against the Washington Nationals, who entered the series with a Major League-worst 30\u201368 record. Tim Dillard was called up from the minor leagues to replace the struggling Mike Burns, and Carlos Villanueva made his first start of the season in a July 28 loss to the Nationals. Villanueva was a somewhat surprising choice for the assignment; though he had starting experience in 2008, Villanueva had struggled out of the bullpen in 2009 with a 2\u20137 record and 6.19 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, July\nFollowing the series against the Nationals, the Brewers were forced to make more roster moves as Jeff Suppan was placed on the disabled list with a strained left oblique and third baseman Bill Hall was optioned to Triple-A Nashville at his own request to work on his hitting; Hall had struggled with a .201 batting average in 199 at-bats in 2009. Shortly before the July 31 trading deadline, former Brewer Claudio Vargas was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in return for minor league infielder Vinny Rottino in an attempt to shore up the pitching staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204029-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of seven minor league affiliates in 2009. The Brewers operated a Dominican Summer League team as a co-op with the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings\nThe Mindanao bombings was a series of seemingly unrelated bomb attacks that took place on July 4, 5, and 7, 2009 in the towns of Datu Piang and Jolo, and the cities of Cotabato and Iligan in Mindanao, Philippines. The bombings killed around 7 people and injured at least 66. The Armed Forces of the Philippines has blamed several militant organizations active in Mindanao, such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Abu Sayyaf, and Jemaah Islamiyah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings\nThe Roman Catholic Church and its leader Pope Benedict XVI condemned the initial attack. A statement from the MILF said the attack was carried out by \"heartless people\" and called for an independent investigation to determine who was responsible. They also said, \"there's no religious conflict in the south\" and \"we're fighting for our right of self-determination\". A press secretary to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo expressed confidence that the bombing would not collapse peace negotiations between the government and the MILF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings\nSeveral members of the opposition said that these attacks may be related to a possible plan by the government to place the country in emergency rule, alluding to the days of Martial Law under former president Ferdinand Marcos. Others have said they may be in preparation to heighten security amid the State of the Nation Address by Arroyo, which may restrict demonstrations and protest. The government rejected these claims and said they were assessing the situation. Security was increased in Metro Manila, the seat of government, and in other areas of the country, particularly Mindanao. A day after the incidents, the UN Development Program, meanwhile, announced it was suspending its operations for refugees in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Datu Piang and Cotabato\nThe night before the Mindanao attacks, a bomb exploded in the nearby town of Datu Piang. At approximately 8:50\u00a0a.m. in Cotabato City, a bomb exploded  near a lech\u00f3n food stall, across the street from the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception during Sunday Mass as a military truck drove by, killing five people and injuring up to 55 more. The dead included at least one member of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit, a street food vendor, and a three-year-old boy. According to initial police reports, two soldiers standing guard near the cathedral were killed by the blast. Five soldiers were injured in the explosion. A sixth victim, an injured infant, died later in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Datu Piang and Cotabato\nAccording to Philippine Army spokesman Colonel Jonathan Ponce, the bomb consisted of a mortar shell and was detonated remotely using a mobile telephone. Witnesses reported that the cathedral did not sustain significant damage. Shortly after the attack, security forces arrested a man suspected of planting the bomb. He was arrested while carrying a second device into the cathedral, according to police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Datu Piang and Cotabato\nThe military blamed the bombing on rogue elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a secessionist Islamic organization active in the southern Philippines. Ponce said, \"The rebels are getting desperate and they are no longer choosing their targets. They are now attacking even places of worship.\" MILF leader Mohaqher Iqbal denied that the militant group carried out the attack, stating: \"There's no religious conflict in the south [of the Philippines]. We're fighting for our right of self-determination.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Datu Piang and Cotabato\nThe attack drew condemnation from the Roman Catholic Church\u2014including from its leader Pope Benedict XVI\u2014Philippine government officials, and the MILF. Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotabato, said the bombing was \"not just a crime, [but] a sacrilege\" and called for prayer \"for the conversion of the bombers\". A spokesperson for the MILF, Eid Kabalu, condemned the attack by \"heartless people\" and called for an independent investigation to determine who was responsible. Cerge Remonde, press secretary to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, expressed confidence that the bombing would not collapse peace negotiations between the government and the MILF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Jolo and Iligan\nAnother bomb attack occurred on July 7, 2009, in Jolo on the southern Philippine island of Sulu. An improvised explosive device (IED) was placed inside a motorcycle, according to Superintendent Jose Bayani Gucela of the Philippine National Police; it detonated in downtown Jolo at 7:55\u00a0a.m. outside a hardware store, killing six people. The store's owner was one of the fatalities. Approximately forty people were injured in the explosion. It exploded about 100 metres (330\u00a0ft) from the Mount Carmel Church. According to Gucela, police discovered two more unexploded devices within a similar radius around the church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Jolo and Iligan\nLieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo, a spokesman for the Philippine Navy, said most of those wounded in the blast were in critical condition. Arevalo also said that, according to initial reports, locals had notified police of a parked motorcycle with wires connected to it, and that the explosion occurred as police were responding. Public officials in Jolo suspended school classes, fearing that additional attacks could follow. The authorities later said there had been only two fatalities rather than six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Jolo and Iligan\nApproximately two to three hours after the blast in Jolo, a bomb exploded in Iligan City in a car parked near a pawnshop. The explosion injured between seven and thirteen people, including up to three soldiers, but caused no deaths. The bomb exploded next to a Philippine Army \"mini-cruiser\"; however, Lt Col Juvymax Uy said the soldiers \"were likely not the target of the blast\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Jolo and Iligan\nThe attacks in Jolo and Iligan came two days after the blast in Cotabato City, but the military \"ruled out the possibility\" that the bombings were related. Major General Juancho Sabban identified the Abu Sayyaf Group, which is based in Jolo, as the most likely perpetrators of the attack in Jolo, while saying that Iligan is located in an area \"affected\" by the MILF. Sabban said investigators were also considering Jemaah Islamiyah as possible culprits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Jolo and Iligan\nEid Kabalu, the civil-military affairs chief of the MILF, was quoted by the Philippine Daily Inquirer as saying, \"We tend to believe former [Philippine House of Representatives] Speaker Jose de Venecia\u2019s view that this is part of a national grand design leading to a military takeover\" of the country due to ongoing apprehensions over ruling party congressmen's fforts to form a constituent assembly to amend the Constitution and extend President Arroyo's rule. In the interview, Kabalu said the bomb attacks' not being confined to Mindanao was \"a very clear sign\" backing the \"grand design\" theory. He assailed the military for blaming the bomb attacks on the MILF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Aftermath\nThe Philippine government held an emergency meeting immediately after the incidents to assess possible implications. A reward of one million pesos was offered for anyone who could provide information leading to the arrests of the bombers. On July 8, 2009, the United Nations Development Program announced it had halted its feeding program to the island's estimated 340,000\u2013578,000 refugees displaced by the recent fighting between the government and rebel forces. Security was increased all over the archipelago, particularly in Metro Manila and its financial center, Makati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Aftermath\nHouse Speaker Prospero Nograles stated, \"regardless of creed or religion and political inclinations, we all must act to end these series of criminal acts\". Bayan Muna representative Teddy Casi\u00f1o said the only people benefiting from the situation was the President's administration, and that \"[t]he lack of conclusive information... reinforces the suspicion that either there is a failure of intelligence or the obfuscation is deliberately orchestrated to divert the public's attention from the\u00a0...\u00a0threat of emergency rule\". These statements followed allegations that the government intended to reinstate Martial Law, similar to that of Ferdinand Marcos in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204030-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mindanao bombings, Aftermath\nThe bombings occurred within days of a visit by of CIA chief Leon Panetta, who was due to meet with President Arroyo about the country's security relation with the United States, particularly about the current situation of the U.S. military's presence in the southern Philippines. They also preceded the final State of the Nation Address on July 27 by the Philippine president before ending her term, which led to several opposition senators saying that these attacks may have been a ploy to heighten security in the capital, restricting possible protests and demonstrations against her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204031-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mini Challenge UK\nThe 2009 Mini Challenge season was the eighth season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season started on 18 April at Rockingham Motor Speedway and ended on 27 September at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit. The season featured six rounds across the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204031-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mini Challenge UK, Championship standings\nChampionship points were awarded for the first 15 positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. There were bonus points awarded for Pole Position and Fastest Lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204032-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis City Council election\nThe 2009 Minneapolis City Council elections were held on November 3, 2009 to elect the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council for four-year terms. Candidates affiliated with the Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party (DFL) won 12 seats and the Green Party of Minnesota one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204032-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis City Council election\nMembers were elected from single-member districts via instant-runoff voting, popularly known as ranked choice voting. Voters had the option of ranking up to three candidates. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204033-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis mayoral election\nThe 2009 Minneapolis mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009 to elect the Mayor of Minneapolis for a four-year term. Incumbent R. T. Rybak won re-election for a third term in the first round with 73.6% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204033-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis mayoral election\nThis was the first mayoral election in the city's history to use instant-runoff voting, popularly known as ranked choice voting. Voters had the option of ranking up to three candidates. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election\nA general election was held in Minneapolis on November 3, 2009. Minneapolis's mayor was up for election as well as all the seats on the City Council, the two elected seats on the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and all the seats on the Park and Recreation Board. This was the first election held in Minneapolis that used ranked choice voting, a collective term for instant-runoff voting and the single transferable vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election\nBecause city voters approved a city charter change by referendum in 2006 to use a ranked choice voting system, Minneapolis did not hold a primary election on September 8, the 2009 date for primaries in Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election\nThere was a lawsuit in court to prevent the voting change; it lost by summary judgment in the first court, was appealed directly to the Minnesota Supreme Court, where it also lost. One person active in the lawsuit filed as a candidate but did not campaign; allegedly this was to give him legal standing to sue after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election, Mayor\nIncumbent Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Mayor R. T. Rybak announced on January 13, 2009 that he would be running for re-election. 11 candidates were on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election, Mayor\nPreviously mentioned as possible candidates for Mayor were Bob Miller, the director of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), Minneapolis City Council members Gary Schiff and Ralph Remington, Minneapolis Park Board President Tom Nordyke, former City Council president Jackie Cherryhomes, and Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin; none of them ended up running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election, City Council\nAll 13 seats on the Minneapolis City Council were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election, Board of Estimate and Taxation\nThe two elected members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation were up for election. Incumbent Carol Becker was re-elected in the first round with 52.1% of first-choice votes. As no other candidate achieved the threshold to be elected the second member, several rounds of vote transfers were necessary. David Wheeler was elected in the fifth round after the remaining candidates were defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204034-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Minneapolis municipal election, Park and Recreation Board\nThe nine members of the Park and Recreation Board were up for election. Three members were elected from one citywide, at-large district via the single transferable vote and six from single-member districts via instant-runoff voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204035-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was the third under head coach Tim Brewster. They began play on September 5, 2009, at Syracuse, a member of the Big East Conference. On September 12, the Minnesota opened the new TCF Bank Stadium with a 20\u201313 win against Air Force, moving from the Metrodome, which had been their home stadium since 1982. The Golden Gophers finished the season 6\u20137 and 3\u20135 in Big Ten play and lost 13\u201314 to Iowa State in the Insight Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204035-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nDespite the worse overall record, the Golden Gophers only suffered two blowout losses in the 2009 season (20-0 to Penn State and 38\u20137 to Ohio State), compared to 3 in 2008 (55\u20130 to Iowa, 42\u201321 to Kansas, 29\u20136 to a 3\u20139 Michigan team, and one could possibly also include a 34\u201321 loss to Ohio State that was 34\u20136 until the Buckeye reserves came in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204035-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Preseason\nThe Golden Gophers came off a 7\u20136 season after starting 7\u20131, capped by an appearance in the 2008 Insight Bowl. On January 6, offensive coordinator Mike Dunbar resigned and defensive coordinator Ted Roof left Minnesota for Auburn. On January 9, former Nebraska defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove was hired as the co-defensive coordinator, a position he will share with Ronnie Lee. On January 21, Jedd Fisch was named the offensive coordinator. He had previously been the wide receivers coach for the Denver Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204036-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Lynx season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 11th season for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204036-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Lynx season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Lynx's 2008 record, they would pick 4th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Lynx picked Roneeka Hodges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204036-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Lynx season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Lynx's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season\nThe Minnesota Swarm are a lacrosse team based in Minnesota playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 5th in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season\nThe Swarm played their first four seasons in the East division, but because of the addition of the Boston Blazers and the demise of the Arizona Sting, they were moved to the West division for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204037-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Swarm season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Swarm selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season\nThe 2009 Minnesota Twins season was the 49th season for the franchise in Minnesota, and the 109th overall in the American League. It was their final season at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome with their new stadium, Target Field, opening in 2010. They ended the regular season as AL Central champions after defeating the Detroit Tigers in a one game tie-breaker. They were then swept in the American League Division Series by the New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn April 17, Jason Kubel hit for the cycle, becoming the ninth Twin to accomplish the feat. Kubel joins just six other American League cycle-hitters that filled the 'HR' slot with a grand slam home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn May 22, Michael Cuddyer hit for the cycle, becoming the tenth Twin to accomplish the feat. When he homered twice in the seventh inning on August 23, Cuddy became the only man ever in baseball to accomplish both feats in the same season. Prior to Kubel last month, the eight previous Twins' cycle hitters were Rod Carew, 1970; C\u00e9sar Tovar, 1972; Larry Hisle, 1976; Lyman Bostock, 1976; Mike Cubbage, 1978; Gary Ward, 1980; Kirby Puckett, 1986 and Carlos G\u00f3mez, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nAfter 319 consecutive games, Justin Morneau sat out June 21. He hadn't missed a game since June 27, 2007, until manager Ron Gardenhire held him out today. His consecutive-games streak remains the longest for the Twins club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nAt the All-Star Game at Busch Stadium, Joe Mauer was the American League's starting catcher, and doubled in three at-bats. Justin Morneau and Joe Nathan entered as reserves. Nathan pitched an inning, walked one, struck out one and gave up one hit, earning a hold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nJoe Mauer won his third American League batting title, with a .365 average. In the forty-nine seasons the Minnesota Twins have existed, a Twin has won the AL batting title fourteen times -- Rod Carew (7), Tony Oliva (3), Joe Mauer (3) and Kirby Puckett (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nCloser Joe Nathan saved 47 games to top Eddie Guardado's previous club record of 45. He was a co-winner of the Rolaids Relief Man Award (with Mariano Rivera), only the second Twin (after Bill Campbell, in 1976) to do so. Nathan now leads in Twins career saves with 260.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nFor the first time ever, four Twins topped 90 RBI: Jason Kubel (103), Justin Morneau (100), Joe Mauer (96) and Michael Cuddyer (94).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nAlong with winning the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards, Joe Mauer was named American League MVP, the fifth Twin in history to be so honored. Mauer is the first AL catcher to lead the league in batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Tie-Breaker & Post Season\nThe Twins ended the 162-game regular season tied with the Detroit Tigers, necessitating a one-game playoff. This made the Twins the first major league team ever to play in a tie-breaker two years in a row (they lost one to the Chicago White Sox in 2008). The game took place on Tuesday, October 6 at the Metrodome. The Twins won the game, 6-5, in 12 innings on Alexi Casilla's game-winning hit scoring Carlos G\u00f3mez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Tie-Breaker & Post Season\nThe Twins went on to face the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series, which they lost in three consecutive games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Regular season\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Postseason\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Regular season\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204038-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Postseason\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 2009 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 49th in the National Football League and their fourth under head coach Brad Childress. The Vikings improved upon their 10\u20136 record and defended their NFC North title from 2008, their first successful defense of a divisional title since they won six NFC Central titles in a row between 1973 and 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season\nThey beat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Divisional Playoff at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, but lost the NFC Championship Game in overtime to the eventual Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, missing out on what would have been their first Super Bowl since Super Bowl XI in 1976. This year's NFC Championship Game is also dubbed by many as the \"Bountygate Game\" that also resulted in several players and coaching staff (including head coach Sean Payton) receiving 12-month suspensions three years later. The Vikings had 10 Pro Bowlers and four All-Pros on their roster, both league-highs for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves\nQuarterback Brett Favre announced that he would not sign with the Minnesota Vikings on July 28, 2009, after much speculation that he would. Less than a month later, however, Favre signed a 2-year contract worth $25\u00a0million with the Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Releases and injuries\nOn February 18, the team released running back Maurice Hicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Releases and injuries\nOn March 4, free agent center Matt Birk left the Vikings to join the Baltimore Ravens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Releases and injuries\nOn March 18, free agent safety Darren Sharper left the Vikings to join the New Orleans Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn February 24, the team re-signed cornerback Charles Gordon to a 1-year $1\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn February 26, the team re-signed defensive end Jayme Mitchell to a 2-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn February 27, the Vikings traded a 2009 4th round pick to the Houston Texans for quarterback Sage Rosenfels. They then signed Rosenfels to a 2-year $9\u00a0million contract extension that will run through 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn February 27, the team re-signed tight end Jim Kleinsasser to a 3-year $9\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 6, the team re-signed linebacker Heath Farwell to a 3-year $7.75\u00a0million contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 9, the team re-signed cornerback Benny Sapp to a 1-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 11, the team re-signed defensive tackle Jimmy Kennedy to a 1-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 19, the Vikings signed cornerback Karl Paymah and wide receiver Glenn Holt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 21, cornerback Cedric Griffin signed a 3-year contract extension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 27, the team matched the Bengals' offer sheet for RFA fullback Naufahu Tahi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn March 31, the team re-signed defensive end Otis Grigsby to a 1-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn April 6, the team re-signed defensive tackle Fred Evans to a 1-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn July 24, Antoine Winfield and the Vikings agreed on a 5-year extension through the 2013 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Player and personnel moves, Signings and extensions\nOn August 18, after months of negotiations, the team signed formerly retired quarterback Brett Favre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Draft\nThe Vikings had five selections in the 2009 NFL Draft; they had traded their fourth-round selection to the Houston Texans for quarterback Sage Rosenfels and, back in 2007, they had traded their sixth-round selection to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for quarterback Kelly Holcomb. In 2008, they received an extra 2009 seventh-round selection from the Washington Redskins for defensive end Erasmus James, but they used that extra pick to move from spot #158 to #150 in the fifth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Draft\nThe Vikings' top two selections, WR Percy Harvin and OT Phil Loadholt, both soon became 1st string players, while Jasper Brinkley finished the season as the team's starting MLB after E.J. Henderson suffered a broken leg in a Week 13 game against the Arizona Cardinals. Harvin was also voted the Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named as the NFC's starting kick returner for the 2010 Pro Bowl on January 31, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nBrett Favre made his Minnesota Vikings debut, going 1\u20134 for just four yards and no first downs converted in his two series under center; he nonetheless got a standing ovation from the sellout crowd at the Metrodome. Tarvaris Jackson completed two touchdowns, a 13-yard score to Visanthe Shiancoe and a 64-yarder to Darius Reynaud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason, Game summaries, Week 3: at Houston Texans\nBrett Favre completed 13 of 18 passes for 142 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown pass to running back Chester Taylor. Favre even got physical, laying a block (albeit an illegal one) on Texans safety Eugene Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season\nAs well as playing their NFC North rivals both at home and on the road, the Vikings were scheduled to face opponents from the AFC North and the NFC West. They were also handed fixtures against the Carolina Panthers from the NFC South and the New York Giants from the NFC East by virtue of having won their division in 2008. Based on their opponents' results in 2008, the Vikings had the second-easiest schedule in the league in 2009, with their opponents having won 42.0% of their games in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nThe Vikings began their season at Cleveland Browns Stadium for a Week 1 interconference duel with the Cleveland Browns. In the first quarter, Minnesota trailed as Browns kicker Phil Dawson got a 37-yard field goal. The Vikings answered with kicker Ryan Longwell making a 21-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Minnesota took the lead as running back Adrian Peterson got a 1-yard touchdown run. Cleveland retook their lead as Dawson kicked a 20-yard field goal, along with wide receiver Joshua Cribbs returning a punt 67 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nIn the third quarter, the Vikings took control as Peterson got a 1-yard touchdown run, along with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin. Afterwards, Minnesota put the game out of reach in the fourth quarter; Ryan Longwell nailed a 37-yard field goal, while Adrian Peterson got a 64-yard touchdown run. The Browns closed out the game with quarterback Brady Quinn completing a 26-yard touchdown pass to tight end Robert Royal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, the Vikings began their season at 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Detroit Lions\nComing off their road win over the Browns, the Vikings flew to Ford Field for a Week 2 NFC North duel with the Detroit Lions. Minnesota trailed early as Lions kicker Jason Hanson got a 30-yard field goal. Detroit added to their lead in the second quarter as quarterback Matthew Stafford completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Calvin Johnson. The Vikings ended the half with a 1-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brett Favre to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Detroit Lions\nIn the third quarter, Minnesota took the lead as kicker Ryan Longwell made a 46-yard field goal, followed by running back Adrian Peterson getting a 27-yard touchdown run. The Vikings pulled away as Longwell nailed a 46-yard field goal, followed by Favre completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin. The Lions completed the scoring as Hanson got a 48-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their divisional road win over the Lions, the Vikings played their Week 3 home opener against the San Francisco 49ers. Minnesota opened in the first quarter with quarterback Brett Favre's 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sidney Rice. The Vikings added onto their lead in the second quarter with kicker Ryan Longwell's 40-yard field goal, but the 49ers answered with quarterback Shaun Hill's 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis. Minnesota came back with Longwell's 52-yard field goal, but San Francisco took the lead prior to halftime as cornerback Nate Clements returned a blocked field goal 59 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe 49ers increased their lead in the second half with kicker Joe Nedney's 37-yard field goal, but the Vikings immediately responded with rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin returning a kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, San Francisco got the lead again with Hill hooking up with Davis on a 20-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, Minnesota came up with a dramatic win as Favre completed a game-winning 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Lewis with 2 seconds remaining in the game. The pass was later awarded an ESPY for \"Best Play\". The game was also voted as the best game of the regular season by voters on NFL.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nComing off their last-second win over the 49ers, the Vikings stayed at home, donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for the highly anticipated Week 4 NFC North Monday Night Football duel with the Green Bay Packers. This was a key divisional match-up, as the division lead was on the line, while quarterback Brett Favre was pitted against his former team. Favre entered the stadium to a series of boos coming from Green Bay fans throughout the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nMinnesota started off the first quarter with Favre completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. The Packers responded with quarterback Aaron Rodgers completing a 62-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jermichael Finley. In the second quarter, the Vikings struck again with a 14-yard touchdown pass from Favre to wide receiver Sidney Rice, but Green Bay answered with linebacker Clay Matthews stripping running back Adrian Peterson of the ball and returning it 42 yards for a touchdown. The Vikings closed out the half with a 1-yard touchdown run from Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nMinnesota began to build a lead in the third quarter as Favre hooked up with wide receiver Bernard Berrian on a 31-yard touchdown pass. In the fourth quarter, the Vikings solidified their lead as defensive end Jared Allen sacked Rodgers in the Green Bay endzone for a safety. The Packers rallied with a 33-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to wide receiver Jordy Nelson (with a failed 2-point conversion), followed by kicker Mason Crosby nailing a 31-yard field goal. However, the Packers' push came too late and Minnesota was able to run out the clock for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nWith the victory, not only did the Vikings improve to 4\u20130, but Favre became the first quarterback in NFL history to defeat all 32 NFL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Green Bay Packers\nAllen had a spectacular single-game performance with a career-best 4.5 sacks. Favre was awarded the NFC Offensive Player of the Week, marking the 14th time in his career he has earned this award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at St. Louis Rams\nComing off an impressive divisional home win over the Packers, the Vikings flew to the Edward Jones Dome for a Week 5 duel with the St. Louis Rams. Minnesota got off to a fast start in the first quarter as running back Adrian Peterson got a 5-yard touchdown run, followed by defensive end Jared Allen's 52-yard fumble return for a touchdown. The Rams got on the board with kicker Josh Brown making a 29-yard field goal, but the Vikings replied with kicker Ryan Longwell booting a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at St. Louis Rams\nMinnesota kept its dominating performance going in the third quarter as quarterback Brett Favre hooked up with tight end Visanthe Shiancoe on a 13-yard touchdown pass. In the fourth quarter, the Vikings continued to pull away as Peterson got a 7-yard touchdown run. St. Louis tried to rally with a 27-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Marc Bulger to wide receiver Donnie Avery, but Minnesota closed out the game with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Chester Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, not only did the Vikings make their first 5\u20130 start since 2003, but Favre earned his first 5\u20130 start in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their easy road win over the Rams, the Vikings went home for a Week 6 inter-conference duel with the Baltimore Ravens. Minnesota got off to a fast start in the first quarter with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe and a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bernard Berrian. Afterwards, the Ravens got the only points of the second quarter as kicker Steven Hauschka getting a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nIn the third quarter, the Vikings picked up where they left off with a 40-yard field goal from kicker Ryan Longwell. Baltimore responded with a 22-yard touchdown run from running back Ray Rice, yet Longwell helped out Minnesota by nailing a 22-yard field goal. Afterwards, an action-packed fourth quarter ensued. Minnesota increased its lead with Favre hooking up with Shiancoe again on a 1-yard touchdown pass, but the Ravens continued to hang around as quarterback Joe Flacco found wide receiver Mark Clayton on a 32-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Vikings replied with Longwell's 29-yard field goal, but Baltimore took lead for the first time in the game as Flacco hooked up with wide receiver Derrick Mason on a 12-yard touchdown pass and Rice running 33 yards for a touchdown. Minnesota then regained the lead as Longwell booted a 31-yard field goal after a 58-yard pass from quarterback Brett Favre to wide receiver Sidney Rice. The Ravens got a last-minute drive into scoring range, but Hauschka's 44-yard field goal attempt went wide left, preserving the Vikings' perfect season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nWith the win, the Vikings acquired their first 6\u20130 start since 2003 (unfortunately that team did not make the playoffs). Also, dating back to Week 17 of the 2008 season, Minnesota has won seven-straight regular season games for the first time since 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nComing off their thrilling home win over the Ravens, the Vikings flew to Heinz Field for a Week 7 interconference duel with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Minnesota trailed late in the first quarter as Steelers kicker Jeff Reed got a 39-yard field goal, but they took the lead in the second quarter as running back Adrian Peterson got a 1-yard touchdown. However, Pittsburgh retook the lead as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hooked up with wide receiver Mike Wallace on a 40-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nBoth teams exchanged field goals in the third quarter as Reed nailed a 27-yard field goal, while Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell booted an 18-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Minnesota began to trail big as Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was stripped by defensive end Brett Keisel, causing a 77-yard fumble return for a touchdown by linebacker LaMarr Woodley. The Vikings immediately struck back with rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin's 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, but the Steelers' defense answered right back with linebacker Keyaron Fox's 82-yard interception return for a touchdown. The Vikings could not come back to win. The Steelers ended up winning 27\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers\nHoping to rebound from their first loss of the season to the Steelers, the Vikings flew to Lambeau Field for the highly anticipated Week 8 divisional rematch with the Green Bay Packers, as quarterback Brett Favre made his first return to Lambeau since initially retiring after the 2007 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers\nIn the first quarter, the Packers scored the game's first points as kicker Mason Crosby made a 37-yard field goal following a miscue by Vikings center John Sullivan (Favre audibled for another play but Sullivan snapped the ball before Favre completed his audible). Minnesota responded with a 1-yard touchdown from running back Adrian Peterson. In the second quarter, the Vikings added onto their lead as Favre completed a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe, followed by kicker Ryan Longwell (another former Packer) nailing a 41-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers\nMinnesota picked up where they left off in the third quarter as Favre hooked up with rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin on a 51-yard touchdown pass, yet Green Bay started to rally as Crosby booted a 26-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Aaron Rodgers finding tight end Spencer Havner on a 16-yard and a 5-yard touchdown pass. The Vikings answered in the fourth quarter with Favre connecting with tight end/fullback Jeff Dugan on a 2-yard touchdown pass. The Packers tried to come back as Rodgers completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Jennings (with a failed 2-point conversion), but Minnesota pulled away with Favre finding wide receiver Bernard Berrian on a 16-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Green Bay Packers\nWith their first season-sweep of the Packers in four years, the Vikings went into their bye week at 7\u20131, and took a commanding 2+1\u20442-game lead in the NFC North over the second-place Packers. Favre threw at least 4 touchdowns for the 21st time in his career, matching the NFL record held by Dan Marino. This also marks Vikings head coach Brad Childress' first win at Green Bay (he is 3\u20135 overall against the Packers) and the Vikings' first sweep of the Packers since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: Bye week\nDuring the Vikings' bye week, both Green Bay and Chicago lost their games (to Tampa Bay 38\u201328 and Arizona 41\u201321 respectively), allowing the Vikings to gain a three-game lead in the division standings and moving them a step closer to qualification for the playoffs and first round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions\nComing off their bye week, the Vikings were at home and met in an NFC North duel with the Detroit Lions, who hadn't won in the Metrodome since 1997. In the first quarter, the Vikings scored the period's only points as kicker Ryan Longwell nailed a 22-yard field goal. They increased their lead in the second quarter as running back Adrian Peterson scored on a 22-yard touchdown run. However, Lions kicker Jason Hanson kicked a 38-yard field goal late in the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions\nAt the beginning of the second half, a fumble by the Lions on their first play from scrimmage was recovered at their 29-yard line by the Vikings. Peterson ran twice on the ensuing drive, scoring on a 1-yard touchdown run to make it a 17\u20133 lead. The Lions responded with a 15-play, 84-yard drive, capped off by an 8-yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to tight end Will Heller. Nevertheless, the Vikings pulled away in the fourth quarter as Favre completed an 8-yard pass to tight end Jeff Dugan and kicker Ryan Longwell nailed a 35-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith the win, the Vikings moved to 8\u20131, and compiled a 4\u20130 record against their NFC North rivals. The Vikings accrued nearly 500 yards of total offense, including 303 yards in the first half alone. The Vikings also had 13 penalties, a season-high. Wide receiver Sidney Rice had a big day, catching seven passes for 201 yards, including a 56-yard reception in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter. Rice was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 10, the first time he has received this award. Favre and Peterson were voted FedEx Air and Ground Players of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their penalty-plagued blowout win over the Lions, the Vikings stayed at home and met in a Week 11 duel with the Seattle Seahawks. After a scoreless first quarter, the Vikings got on the board with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Percy Harvin. Later in the same quarter, the Vikings increased their lead with an 8-yard touchdown pass from Favre to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0055-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nClosing out the first half was a 3-yard touchdown pass from Favre to wide receiver Bernard Berrian to make a 21\u20130 Vikings halftime lead, the first time of the season the Vikings kept their opponent scoreless in the first half. In the third quarter, the Vikings continued to dominate as Favre found wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 7-yard touchdown pass. Seattle scored their first points of the game when kicker Olindo Mare nailed a 40-yard field goal. Finally, the Vikings put the game away as second-string quarterback Tarvaris Jackson found Rice again on a 34-yard touchdown pass. The Seahawks tried to rally with a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Justin Forsett (with a failed two-point conversion), but the Vikings prevented the Seahawks comeback from advancing any further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 875]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nWith the win, the Vikings improved to 9\u20131. Brett Favre threw four touchdown passes for the 22nd time in his career (second of the season), breaking the mark set by Dan Marino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nComing off their easy win over the Seahawks, the Vikings stayed at home, donned their throwback uniforms, and faced the Chicago Bears in a Week 12 duel. After a scoreless first quarter, the Vikings drew first blood as quarterback Brett Favre completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin. The Bears responded with quarterback Jay Cutler firing a 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Johnny Knox. The Vikings responded with Favre hooking up with running back Chester Taylor on a 10-yard touchdown pass, along with kicker Ryan Longwell nailing a 52-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nFinally, the Vikings closed out the first half with Favre finding tight end Visanthe Shiancoe on a 6-yard touchdown pass. In the third quarter, the Bears tried to rally with kicker Robbie Gould nailing a 38-yard field goal. However, the Vikings finally shut out the Bears for the rest of the second half, and kicker Ryan Longwell made field goals of 37 and 20 yards. Running back Adrian Peterson also had a 5-yard touchdown run, though the extra point attempt was missed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears\nWith the win, the Vikings improved to 10\u20131, and compiled a 5\u20130 record against their NFC North rivals. Their magic number decreased to two, meaning that any combination of two Vikings wins or Packers losses would result in the Vikings clinching their second consecutive NFC North division title. On Wednesday, December 2, Brett Favre was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Month for November; it was the sixth time in his career that he won the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Arizona Cardinals\nComing off their easy home win over the Bears, the Vikings flew to the desert for a Week 13 Sunday Night duel with the defending NFC champion Arizona Cardinals. In the first quarter, Minnesota got on the board with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Arizona Cardinals\nIt was originally ruled an incomplete pass as Shiancoe was deemed to have stepped out of bounds, but Minnesota challenged and won based on the fact that Shiancoe had both feet inbounds and the referee counted Shiancoe's third step, thereby making the original ruling on the field to be overturned. The Cardinals then responded with quarterback Kurt Warner finding wide receiver Anquan Boldin on a 2-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn the second quarter, Arizona took the lead with Warner finding Boldin again on a 39-yard touchdown pass. The Vikings responded with kicker Ryan Longwell nailing a 25-yard field goal. However, the Cardinals took the lead at halftime when Warner completed a 34-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. In the third quarter, Arizona increased their lead when kicker Neil Rackers kicked field goals of 31 and 30 yards. In the fourth quarter, Arizona kicker Neil Rackers nailed a 29-yard field goal. However, the Vikings tried to rally with Favre hooking up with rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin on a 31-yard touchdown pass. The Vikings tried an onside kick, which they did not recover and Arizona ran out the clock to seal their win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Arizona Cardinals\nWith only their second loss of the season, the Vikings not only fell to 10\u20132, but they lost starting linebacker E. J. Henderson to a season-ending broken leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nHoping to rebound from their devastating Sunday Night loss to the Cardinals, the Vikings went home and met the Cincinnati Bengals in a Week 14 duel. After a scoreless first quarter, Minnesota took first blood as kicker Ryan Longwell nailed a 41-yard field goal. They increased their lead later in the quarter with quarterback Brett Favre finding wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 9-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nCincinnati responded with quarterback Carson Palmer finding wide receiver Chad Ochocinco on a 15-yard touchdown pass, however the Vikings quickly scored two field goals by kicker Ryan Longwell (from 23 and 44 yards out) to put the Vikings up 16\u20137 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Vikings scored the period's only points as running back Adrian Peterson got a 1-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, Cincinnati tried to rally with kicker Shayne Graham nailing a 22-yard field goal, but the Vikings put the game away with running back Adrian Peterson's 3-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the win, the Vikings not only improved to 11\u20132 on the season, they also secured a playoff berth for the second consecutive season and improved upon the record from the previous season (10\u20136). Their \"magic number\" decreased to one, meaning that either a Green Bay loss at Pittsburgh or a Vikings win against Carolina on Sunday night would make Minnesota repeat division champions for the first time since 1978, when they won six consecutive NFC Central titles. Also, if the Eagles lost against San Francisco, the Vikings would also clinch a first-round bye in the NFC playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Carolina Panthers\nComing off their home win over the Bengals, the Vikings flew to Bank of America Stadium to face the Carolina Panthers in a Week 15 Sunday Night duel. The Vikings clinched the NFC North about an hour before the game thanks in part to Pittsburgh's 37\u201336 last-second win over the Packers. With a win, the Vikings would be one game behind New Orleans to clinch homefield advantage. After a scoreless first quarter, Carolina got on the board with quarterback Matt Moore finding fullback Brad Hoover on a 1-yard touchdown pass. The extra point attempt was blocked, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Carolina Panthers\nThe Vikings then took the lead later in the quarter with running back Adrian Peterson's 4-yard touchdown run. After yet another scoreless quarter, it was all Carolina as Matt Moore completed a 42-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith, as well as running back Jonathan Stewart running in a 3-yard touchdown , as well as catching a 2-yard touchdown pass from Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Carolina Panthers\nWith the loss, the Vikings fell to 11\u20133. Reports surfaced after the game suggesting that there was tension between Vikings quarterback Brett Favre and head coach Brad Childress. The incident was later resolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nHoping to rebound from their fourth-quarter collapse to the Panthers, the Vikings flew to Soldier Field to face Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears in a Week 16 rematch to conclude the 40th season of Monday Night Football. Due to the Saints losing to Tampa Bay 20\u201317 in overtime the previous day, the Vikings needed to win their last two games and have the Saints lose to Carolina the next week in order to clinch homefield advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0068-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nIn the first quarter, the Bears drew first blood as kicker Robbie Gould nailed a 22-yard field goal for the only score of the period. In the second quarter, the Bears increased their lead with Gould nailing a 42-yard field goal. They increased their lead with Cutler firing a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen. The Bears then closed out the first half with Gould's 41-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nIn the third quarter, the Vikes started to rally with running back Adrian Peterson's 1-yard touchdown run (with the extra point attempt blocked). The Bears increased their lead over the Vikings with Cutler's 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Desmond Clark. The Vikings then closed out the quarter with quarterback Brett Favre firing a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. An exciting fourth quarter ensued. The Vikings started out the quarter's scoring with kicker Ryan Longwell's 41-yard field goal, along with Adrian Peterson's second 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0069-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nThe Bears then responded with Cutler firing a 20-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Earl Bennett. The Vikings then completed the remarkable comeback with Favre finding wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 6-yard touchdown pass on 4th-and-goal with 15 seconds left in regulation. The Bears then took a knee to force overtime. In overtime, the Bears won the toss and marched down the field, stopping at the 35-yard line. However, the potential game-winning 45-yard field goal attempt by Gould went wide right, giving the Vikings a chance to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0069-0002", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nAfter an exchange of punts, the Vikings had the ball at the 26-yard line with 11 minutes left in the period. On the first play of scrimmage, Favre fired a screen pass to Peterson who caught it and went 16 yards, before being confronted by Hunter Hillenmeyer, who caused Peterson to fumble the ball, which was then recovered by Bears' linebacker Nick Roach. The Bears then won on Jay Cutler's game-winning 39-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devin Aromashodu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Chicago Bears\nWith the loss, not only did the Vikings fall to 11\u20134, they also surrendered homefield advantage to the Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Giants\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Giants\nHoping to break a two-game primetime losing skid, the Vikings went home to Mall of America Field for the Week 17 season finale against the New York Giants. The Vikings needed a win and an Eagles loss to Dallas later in the day in order to clinch a first-round bye in the playoffs. They also came into the game hoping to go 8\u20130 at home for the first time since the 15\u20131 season of 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0072-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Giants\nThe Vikings drew first blood in the first quarter with quarterback Brett Favre finding tight end Visanthe Shiancoe (a former Giant) on a 10-yard touchdown pass for the only score of the period. In the second quarter, the Vikings increased their lead with kicker Ryan Longwell's 41-yard field goal. Later in the quarter, it was all touchdowns as Adrian Peterson scored from one yard out, as well as Favre firing two touchdown passes to wide receiver Sidney Rice from 4 and 12 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0072-0002", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Giants\nThe 31\u20130 halftime lead was the second time of the season that the Vikes shut out their opponent in the first half, as well as tying a franchise record for the largest halftime lead. In the third quarter, the Vikings continued to destroy the Giants with Favre's 1-yard touchdown pass to fullback Naufahu Tahi on 4th-and-goal, along with kicker Ryan Longwell's field goals of 24 and 27 yards. The Giants only mustered a 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter by running back Danny Ware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Giants\nWith the win, the Vikings improved to 12\u20134, the franchise's best record since the 15\u20131 1998 campaign. With Dallas beating Philadelphia 24\u20130 later in the day, the Vikings clinched a first-round bye. Brett Favre threw at least four touchdown passes for the third time this season, as well as being honored with his third NFC Offensive Player of the Week award. The three awards are the most he has received in one season in his 19-year NFL career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Wildcard Round: Bye week\nAs the NFC second-seed, the Minnesota Vikings received a bye to the Divisional Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nat Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 99], "content_span": [100, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThis game began while many TV show hosts and sports analysts were convinced that a red-hot Dallas team was going to end the Vikings' explosive season with Brett Favre. Tony Romo had been throwing more accurately than ever, and because the Vikings had a week off, even their own fans were feeling the pressure of facing a tough Dallas team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 99], "content_span": [100, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nEntering the playoffs as the NFC's number 2 seed, the Vikings began their playoff run at home in the NFC Divisional Round against the number 3 Dallas Cowboys. Minnesota delivered the opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Brett Favre found wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 47-yard touchdown pass. The Cowboys got on the board in the second quarter with a 33-yard field goal from kicker Shaun Suisham, yet the Vikings came right back with Favre hooking up with Rice again on a 16-yard touchdown pass, followed by a 23-yard field goal from kicker Ryan Longwell. After a scoreless third quarter, Minnesota delivered the final strike in the fourth quarter as Longwell nailed a 28-yard field goal, followed by Favre's 45-yard touchdown pass to Rice and his 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 99], "content_span": [100, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith the win, the Vikings advanced to their ninth NFC Championship Game in team history, and their first appearance since the 2000 season with a 13\u20134 record. Brett Favre became the oldest player to start and win a playoff game, but also won his first postseason game in four against Dallas. This would be the Vikings' final win in a playoff game until (after) 2017. This was also the last playoff game ever in the Metrodome, as the Vikings would not win the division again until the 2015 season, when they were playing at TCF Bank Stadium while waiting for U.S. Bank Stadium to be completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 99], "content_span": [100, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: at New Orleans Saints\nComing off their dominant divisional home win over the Cowboys, the Vikings flew to the Louisiana Superdome for the NFC Championship Game against the top-seeded New Orleans Saints. Minnesota delivered the opening strike in the first quarter with running back Adrian Peterson's 19-yard touchdown run. The Saints answered with quarterback Drew Brees completing a 38-yard touchdown pass to running back Pierre Thomas, yet the Vikings regained the lead as quarterback Brett Favre found wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 5-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, New Orleans tied the game again on Brees' 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devery Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints took the lead in the third quarter with Thomas' 9-yard touchdown run, yet Minnesota tied the game as Peterson got a 1-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, New Orleans got the lead again as Brees hooked up with running back Reggie Bush on a 5-yard touchdown pass, yet the Vikings tied the game again with Peterson's 2-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0080-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: at New Orleans Saints\nAfter stopping the Saints offense the Vikings got the ball back and were close to field goal range in the final 30 seconds when they were flagged for too many men on the field; on the next play Favre rolled to the right as a hole opened up, but instead of running forward he threw the ball deep across his body and it was picked off by the Saints' Tracy Porter, forcing overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: at New Orleans Saints\nIn overtime, after a 40-yard kickoff return by Pierre Thomas, New Orleans drove downfield, converting on 4th-and-1 before a controversial pass interference penalty against linebacker Ben Leber brought them into field goal range. Three plays later, Saints kicker Garrett Hartley nailed the game-ending 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: at New Orleans Saints\nWith the loss, the Vikings' season ended with an overall record of 13\u20135. Doomed by turnovers \u2013 the Vikings had an uncanny six fumbles, three of which they lost, plus two interceptions by Brett Favre \u2013 the Vikes lost another NFC Championship Game in overtime, this one reminiscent of the 1998\u201399 loss to the Falcons in the Metrodome. The Saints' performance in the game, and leading into it, would later be subject to investigation, as it was eventually revealed that the Saints had been involved in a bounty program beginning in the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl\nEight Minnesota Vikings players were originally selected for the 2010 Pro Bowl: five on offense (Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson, Sidney Rice, Bryant McKinnie and Steve Hutchinson), two on defense (Jared Allen and Kevin Williams) and one special teamer (Heath Farwell). Of these, six were selected to start the game, with Favre and Rice going as reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0083-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl\nHowever, as Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson was voted as a starter at both wide receiver and kickoff returner, a replacement had to be selected at KR; Percy Harvin was added to the roster on January 4, 2010, making it nine Vikings in the NFC roster. Antoine Winfield was added to the NFC roster as an extra cornerback on January 19, 2010, bringing the Vikings' contribution to the roster to 10 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl\nHad the Vikings reached Super Bowl XLIV, none of their players would have appeared in the 2010 Pro Bowl, but they lost to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game. Nevertheless, QB Brett Favre (ankle), CB Antoine Winfield (foot) and KR Percy Harvin (migraine headaches) all pulled out as a result of their various ailments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204039-0084-0001", "contents": "2009 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl\nOT Bryant McKinnie was cut from the NFC roster on January 30 after missing four of the five practice sessions and attending only one team meeting; he claimed, via text message to the Star Tribune, that his absence was due to a lack of physical fitness. McKinnie was not replaced in the roster and was also fined his game check.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes\nThe following is a list of 2009 Minnesota tornadoes. Minnesota is a state located in the North Central United States along the northern edge of Tornado Alley, and on average receives 24 tornadoes per year. 2009 was an average year historically, with 24 confirmed tornado touchdowns. Twenty-two of the tornadoes (91%) were considered minor, rated EF0 or EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. The remaining two tornadoes were rated as significant, at EF2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes\nThe 24\u00a0tornadoes combined to cause $4.5\u00a0million in damage, and they did not cause any fatalities or injuries. The date range of the tornadoes was smaller than normal, lasting just over two months, from just June 17\u2013August 19. The first tornado date of June 17 marked the third-latest-starting tornado season on record in Minnesota since 1950, behind only 1951 (June 19) and 1952 (June 23).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes\nThe most unusual tornado event of the year occurred on August 19. Seven tornadoes were recorded in Minnesota that day, including one that touched down in Minneapolis. What made this day unusual is that a unique atmospheric setup allowed several of the tornadoes to be spawned from rain showers where no lightning was present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, June, June 17\nA weak area of surface low pressure moved into extreme southeast North Dakota late on the afternoon of the June 17, with a warm front stretching across southeastern Minnesota. The warm front combined with pre-existing moisture from morning rainfall which led to rapid destabilization of the atmosphere during the afternoon hours. To the east of the low pressure area, surface dew point values rose into the middle 60s\u00a0\u00b0F (18\u00a0\u00b0C) with temperatures near 80\u00a0\u00b0F (27\u00a0\u00b0C), causing a very unstable air mass to develop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, June, June 17\nTwo tornadoes were reported in west-central Minnesota in Wilkin County. Other, strong thunderstorms developed later just south of the warm front near Albert Lea and moved northeast. The thunderstorms quickly became tornadic north of Albert Lea, near Geneva, where a touchdown was observed. There were several reports of funnel clouds throughout the early evening with one more official touchdown near Waseca. The storms later turned to the southeast and impacted the Austin area, causing serious damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, June, June 18\nMoisture levels were high on June 18, with surface dew points in the middle 60s\u00a0\u00b0F (18\u00a0\u00b0C). Some morning cloud cover along the North Dakota/South Dakota border lifted north by afternoon which allowed a period of heating. Although the upper-level winds were fairly light, another in a series of upper-level disturbances shifted over this region by mid-afternoon. This helped initiate thunderstorm development over southeast North Dakota and west central Minnesota, leading to two tornadoes near Carlisle and Dent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, June, June 21\nDuring the late afternoon a very warm and humid air mass lifted northward across northern Iowa and into far southern Minnesota. Several weak storms formed in northwest and north central Iowa and moved into south central Minnesota where a warm front laid. Winds shifted from the south to the east and southeast across Freeborn and Faribault counties of far south central Minnesota. The combination of increasing wind shear near the boundary layer and enough lift from thunderstorms allowed brief tornadoes to develop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, July, July 7\nThunderstorms produced damaging winds, hail, and one tornado in Murray and Cottonwood Counties in southwest Minnesota on the late afternoon of July 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, July, July 14\nA strong cold front, deep moisture and a high wind shear environment led to severe weather across portions of central Minnesota during the late-afternoon hours. Several individual storms developed across west central Minnesota and moved quickly northeast; spawning three tornadoes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, July, July 14\nA tornado moved through portions of Kandiyohi County near the town of Spicer. Portions of downtown Spicer were damaged including the partial destruction of the upper level of a home, there was roof damage to multiple houses, several outbuildings were destroyed, and a dozen or more car windows blown out at the local Green Mall parking lot. Maximum winds were estimated between 100 miles per hour (161\u00a0km/h) to 110 miles per hour (177\u00a0km/h) and $250,000 in damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, August, August 8\nA very unstable air mass was in place across the upper Midwest with a warm front draped from the Twin Cities area into west-central Wisconsin. A strong capping inversion suppressed thunderstorm development until near sunset, when a supercell thunderstorm developed in the western part of Hennepin County ahead of an advancing cold front near a surface low pressure center. The supercell would produce a tornado in Hennepin county before tracking eastward across the northern Twin Cities metro area and into Wisconsin where it produced two more tornadoes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, August, August 19\nLow pressure was moving into Minnesota from the west-southwest on Wednesday, August 19, causing a large area of shower activity to shroud east-central and south-central Minnesota during the morning and early-afternoon hours. The low began to deepen rapidly in the late morning and early afternoon as it moved northeast over the Twin Cities metro area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, August, August 19\nEmbedded circulations began to develop within the shower activity by 2:00 pm CDT, when the deepening low started to produce strong atmospheric wind speeds which were turning in the lower portion of the atmosphere. These circulations were moving quickly to the north and many were not associated with thunderstorms; there were only a handful of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes all afternoon in the areas where damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204040-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Minnesota tornadoes, August, August 19\nWhile there was relatively little instability, there was enough rising air and surface inflow to stretch these circulations at times and form short-lived tornadoes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign\nMir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (In Persian: \u0645\u06cc\u0631\u062d\u0633\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0648\u06cc \u062e\u0627\u0645\u0646\u0647) served as the last Prime Minister of Iran, from 1981 to 1989, before the position of Prime Minister was abolished in the 1989's review of the Iranian constitution. Just before the Islamic Revolution, he and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard moved to the United States of America and came back to Iran right after the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign\nAfter they had been admitted to the structure of the government, two of the proponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, namely, Hassan Ayat [Ph.D. holder] and Abdolhamid Diyalameh [Ph.D. holder and an MP] went to their lengths to remove Mousavi and Rahnavard from the political structure of the government but both were suspiciously martyred. After 20 years of absence from the political scene of Iran, on March 9, 2009 he announced his candidacy in the 2009 Iranian Presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Past elections\nMousavi refused to run for President in the 1997 Presidential election, which caused the reformists to turn to Mohammad Khatami, who won a landslide victory. Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, explained in an interview that the reason for her husband not running in the 1997 election had been receiving discouraging messages from \"the higher officials\", a hint possibly at the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and/or the then President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Past elections\nMousavi was considered as one of the possible candidates of the reformist alliance to run in the Iranian Presidential election, 2005. However he officially turned down the invitation of a number of parties in the reformist alliance on October 12, 2004, after a meeting with President Mohammad Khatami and the two other high-ranking members of the Association of Combatant Clerics, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammad Mousavi-Khoiniha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Platform\nMousavi ran as an independent Principled Reformist candidate. Although he is one of the original founders of the Iranian reformist camp, he shares many principles of the conservatives. Many reformist parties, among them reformist Islamic Iranian Participation Front, whose main candidate was Khatami, have supported his candidacy after the latter withdrew from the race. Many supporters of the reformist movement have however objected to Mousavi's candidacy on the grounds that he is not committed to the principles of the reformist parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Platform\nAlthough Mousavi stated that he was not running as a reformist, he indicated that he welcomed the support of different parties, both reformist and conservative. He started his campaign from the center of the Iranian politics, however over time he shifted more towards the reformist camp by declaring his support for reforms. Although some active members of the conservative camp, such as Emad Afroogh, as well as the conservative newspaper Jomhouri Eslami, supported Mousavi's candidacy, he did not receive the official backing of any major conservative party. His candidacy made it harder for the conservatives to support Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and large conservative parties, such as the Combatant Clergy Association, did not back the current President for the second term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Platform\nThe BBC reported that Mousavi \"called for greater personal freedoms in Iran and criticised the ban on private television channels\", but \"refused to back down from the country's disputed nuclear programme, saying it is \"for peaceful purposes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Platform\nOn May 30, Mousavi pledged that if elected he would amend \"discriminatory and unjust regulations\" against women, and take other measures in favour of women's rights and equality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Platform\nMousavi addressing supporters during a presidential campaign stop in Zanjan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Campaign news, Iran blocks Facebook\nOn May 23, 2009, the Iranian government blocked access to Facebook across the country but lifted the blockage after protests from the public. Gulfnews.com reported that the former move had been a response to the use of Facebook by the candidates running against the incumbent Mr Ahmadinejad; Mousavi has great support by those using social networking sites such as Facebook. PC World reported that Mousavi's  had more than 6,600 supporters at the time of the writing of the article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204041-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign, Election\nAccording to official results, Mousavi lost the 2009 election. However, accusations of fraud were widespread and the announcement of the results lead to widespread protests. These protest were suppressed by the Iranian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204042-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Misano Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Misano Superbike World Championship round was the eighth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of June 19\u201321, 2009 at the Misano Adriatico circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204042-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Misano Superbike World Championship round, Results, Supersport race\nThe Supersport race was stopped after 8 laps, because of an accident that spilled oil on the track. It was later restarted, with the final result being the aggregate of the two heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204043-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Mississippi State has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in that conference's Western Division since 1992. The Bulldogs played their home games in 2009 at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field in Starkville, Mississippi, which has been MSU football's home stadium since 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204043-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nHead coach Sylvester Croom resigned at the end of the 2008 season. The position was filled by former Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen, making this Mullen's first stint as a head coach. The Bulldogs finished the season 5\u20137 (3\u20135 SEC). The NCAA rated MSU's 2009 schedule as the toughest in the country and the 2nd toughest in the past 10 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204043-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nOn November 30, 2009, Mississippi State running back Anthony Dixon was awarded the Conerly Trophy as the best college football player in the State of Mississippi. He joined previous MSU Conerly Trophy winners J.J. Johnson and Jerious Norwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204044-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team\nThe 2009 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team represented Mississippi Valley State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Head coach Willie Totten resigned after the end of the season, the Delta Devils' third straight 3-win season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Missouri Tigers football team, represented the University of Missouri in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel, who returned for his ninth season with Mizzou, and played their home games at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Changes to Memorial Stadium for the 2009 season included a new scoreboard and expanded seating capacity following a reconfiguration of the student seating section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team\nOn December 6, the Texas Bowl picked the 8-4 Tigers to play in their fourth annual game against the 9-4 Navy Midshipmen at Reliant Stadium in Houston on December 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team\nOn December 22, Mizzou Sports Properties (owned by Learfield Sports) announced a contract for a new radio home on all its coaches' and daily shows for five years, starting with the 2010\u201311 season. KFRU, owned by Cumulus Media, had the radio rights for the Tiger Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Recruits\n23 seniors (not incl. Jeremy Maclin) played their final game in the Alamo Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Recruits\n25 student-athletes signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the University of Missouri and play football for the Tigers in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Recruits\nMissouri and Coach Pinkel said they were pleased with its recruits, and Pinkel doesn't listen to how the recruiting services rank his recruits (Scout.com as 38th, Rivals.com as 41st) since they have had great results in the evaluations they look for in the athletes recruited. This year, the breakdown by position in the 25-man class was: five DBs, four LBs, four OLs, four DLs, two QBs, three WRs, two TEs, and one RB. Ten of the 25 are native Missourians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Recruits\nPinkel said regarding Missouri's evaluation system: \"I was at a national convention and a couple coaches from Texas said to me that we ask more about players, were more thorough, than any coaches that they've seen and any program that they've seen.\" The recruiting class breaks down to 14 on defense compared to 11 on offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Coaching staff\nOn February 20, 2009, Defensive Coordinator Matt Eberflus announced he was leaving the Tigers to join the Cleveland Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Illinois\nBlaine Gabbert passed for three touchdowns and 319 yards (25\u201333), in a runaway 37\u20139 victory over rival Illinois. Missouri WR Danario Alexander posted a career-high with 10 receptions totaling 132 yards. Gabbert became the third straight Missouri quarterback to earn Big 12 Player of the Week honors in his first start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Bowling Green\nAfter trailing most of the game, Missouri scored 21 unanswered points in the second half to escape at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Nevada\nMissouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert posted a career-high 414 yards on 25 of 40 passing. Missouri wide-out Danario Alexander once again posted career high numbers with 9 catches for 170 yards and 2 touchdowns. The turning point in this game was when Nevada running back Luke Lippincott fumbled on the Missouri 4 yard line, setting up a 96-yard touchdown drive by the Missouri offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Nebraska\nGame in the rain ends with a dramatic switch from a 12\u20130 Missouri lead after the 3rd quarter, changed to a 27\u201312 loss with an injured Blaine Gabbert's leg for the final half with the first two interceptions of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Texas\nKickoff time: 7:12 pm  \u2022 End of Game: 10:02  \u2022 Total elapsed time: 2:50 Referee: Tom Walker  \u2022  Umpire: John Mascarello \u2022  Linesman: Chad Green  \u2022  Line judge: David Oliver  \u2022  Back judge: Brad Van Vark  \u2022  Field judge: Reggie Smith  \u2022  Side judge: Brad Horchem  \u2022  Scorer: Tim Knaar  \u2022  Temperature: 56 F  \u2022 Wind: S 5  \u2022 Weather: Cool and clear", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Kansas\nThese rivals put on a show in last year's game and somehow topped it, trading big plays, scores and momentum seemingly with every snap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Kansas\nMissouri tackled the quarterback for a safety with 2:39 remaining and Grant Ressel hit a 27-yard field goal, his fourth of the game, as time expired, giving the Tigers a 41\u201339 win over Kansas on Saturday in another wild Border Showdown at Arrowhead Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Kansas\nRessel was subsequently named the Big 12 Conference Special Teams Player of the Week, for his perfect day (4-for-4) in field goal kicking. It was the first time since 1972 that a Missouri team has won a game from a field goal kicker after trailing in the final seconds of a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204045-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team, Game Summaries, Navy (Texas Bowl)\nThe Tigers lost to Navy in the worst bowl defeat (in terms of the point differential, -22), in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204046-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nPopularly referred to as \"Arch Madness\", the 2009 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament as part of the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season was played in St. Louis, Missouri March 5\u20138, 2009. The tournament was won by the Northern Iowa Panthers, who will receive the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204047-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season\nThe 2009 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season was the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204047-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season\nThe 2009 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was hosted and won by Drake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204048-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup\nThe 2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Monza, Italy between 6 and 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204048-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204048-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup, Champions, Men's doubles\nJames Auckland /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Du\u0161an Karol /  Jaroslav Posp\u00ed\u0161il, 7\u20135, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204049-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup \u2013 Doubles\nStefano Galvani and Alberto Mart\u00edn were the defenders of title, but they chose to not participate this year. James Auckland and Travis Rettenmaier won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20134], against Du\u0161an Karol and Jaroslav Posp\u00ed\u0161il.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204050-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mitsubishi Electric Europe Cup \u2013 Singles\nAlbert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s was the defending champion, but he chose to not defend his 2008 title. The next champion became other Spaniard player, David Marrero, who won in the final 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Antonio Vei\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards\nThe 2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) was the eleventh of the annual music awards in Seoul, South Korea that took place on November 21, 2009 at the Seoul Sports Complex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards\nNewcomer girl group 2NE1 lead the nominations with 4 counts, followed by label-mate G-Dragon, soloist Baek Ji Young, and boy group 2PM with 3 each. At the end of the ceremony, 2NE1 received the most wins with 3 out of 4 including the Song of the Year daesang award. Next to them was boy and girl groups 2PM and Brown Eyed Girls respectively with 2 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Background\nAfter ten years of holding the event under the name \"M.net Korean Music Festival\" (MKMF), the award-ceremony started to have a new name called \"M.net Asian Music Awards\" or simply \"MAMA\". This marked a change in concept and the way they will handle how people may vote for which artists win the awards. With its slogan \"Asian Wave\", MAMA was broadcast live in China, Japan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia through Channel V International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Background\nA VTR of artists congratulating the event was also shown including Janet Jackson, Nicole Scherzinger, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Mai Kuraki, and Ludacris. Taiwanese artists Ming Dao, future Miss A member Wang Feifei, and Sarah also presented an award, which was broadcast live in Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Multiple awards, Artist(s) with multiple wins\nThe following artist(s) received two or more wins (excluding the special awards):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Presenters and performers\nThe following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Controversy, Boycott\nS.M. Entertainment and Inwoo Production boycotted the event on November 21, hence none of their artists attended the event. The latter company, representing trot singers Jang Yun-jeong and Park Hyun-bin, announced the boycott and questioned the fairness of the awards ceremony. Meanwhile, the former stated through a press release that they have reservation regarding the standard of fairness and criteria used in their selections, citing that Girls' Generation had topped a music chart for nine consecutive weeks but was never placed first place on their show and only debut on their charts a month after the album was released. They also asked that their artists be removed from a mobile poll which requires participants to pay a fee in order to vote saying they \"do not want to see fans suffer any damage from the poll which has commercial intentions\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 906]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204051-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Controversy, Boycott\nSS501 from DSP Media, Son Dam-bi and After School from Pledis Entertainment also did not attend the award ceremony but cited scheduling conflicts rather than boycott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204052-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mohammad Khatami presidential campaign\nMohammad Khatami, former President of Iran, announced his candidacy for the 2009 Iranian presidential election on 8 February 2009. Khatami later pulled out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season\nThe 2009 season was Molde's 2nd consecutive year in Tippeligaen, and their 33rd season in the top flight of Norwegian football. They competed in Tippeligaen where they finished in 2nd position and the Norwegian Cup where they were defeated by Aalesund in the Norwegian Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204053-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Molde FK season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204054-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Molson Scotia Cup\nThe 2009 Molson Scotia Cup (Nova Scotia's men's provincial curling championship) was held February 10-15 at the Chester Curling Club in Chester, Nova Scotia. The winning team represented Nova Scotia at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204055-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Monaco GP2 Race was a GP2 motor race held on 22 May and 24 May 2009 at the Circuit de Monaco on the streets of the country. It was the second race of the 2009 GP2 Season. The race was used as a support race for the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204055-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco GP2 Series round, Report\nThe first race once again resulted in a one-two finish for Barwa Addax Team drivers Romain Grosjean and Vitaly Petrov, with Lucas di Grassi promoted to third for Fat Burner Racing Engineering, after Nico H\u00fclkenberg was demoted after cutting a corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204055-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco GP2 Series round, Report\nThe red flagged second race was won by Pastor Maldonado for ART Grand Prix, with J\u00e9r\u00f4me d'Ambrosio and H\u00fclkenberg also on the podium. Romain Grosjean had a big accident in the final stages, where he was unhurt, but it did bring out the red flag which ended the race 2 laps shy of the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Monaco Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 24 May 2009 at the Circuit de Monaco, in Monaco. The race, which was contested over 78 laps, was the sixth round of the 2009 Formula One season. It was won by Brawn GP driver Jenson Button, with his teammate Rubens Barrichello second, and Ferrari's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix\nThis year a peace and sport initiative was introduced on this Grand Prix under the High Patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco. S\u00e9bastien Bourdais scored his last world championship points at this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe first five races of the championship ended with Brawn driver Jenson Button leading the Drivers Championship by 14 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello, having claimed 41 points out of a possible 45. Their Brawn GP team was leading the Constructors Championship with 68 points; second-placed Red Bull had 38.5, with their driver Sebastian Vettel third place in the drivers championship. Reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was only in seventh place, having accumulated nine points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background\nRed Bull had a new two-tier diffuser ready for their RB5 car in Monaco, with chief designer Adrian Newey believing it could be a real benefit to the team. The Austrian drinks company team had won the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix . They had finished third and fourth in the previous race at Barcelona. Force India had prepared several important upgrades for the VJM-02, focused upon giving high downforce by modifying the front and rear wings. This was to improve performance to score their first points, having not scored points before in a Formula One race. Most other teams, including Toyota and BMW Sauber, had modified cars to give good downforce and high mechanical grip; important for the Monaco circuit's low speed and twisting, slow corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background\nIn the run up to the race, Ferrari issued a statement declaring that \"Ferrari does not intend to enter its cars in the next Formula One World Championship.\" if \"the introduction of two different sets of regulations based on arbitrary technical rules and economic parameters.\" were to take place. This was in reference to proposed regulations by the FIA World Motor Sport Council to introduce a Budget Cap for 2010, and allow technical freedom to those teams operating under it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe Renault Formula One team made a similar statement, announcing \"If the decisions announced by the World Council on the 29th of April 2009 are not revised, we have no choice but to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship at the end of 2009.\" These statements were the start of the FIA\u2013FOTA dispute over the 2010 regulations. During the event, scenes for the 2010 film Iron Man 2 were shot, which features an historic Monaco Grand Prix race. Prior to the race the drivers complained about a billboard for Martini featuring model Jessiqa Pace was distracting and in the line of sight of drivers as they exit Loews hairpin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe early practice sessions at Monaco are traditionally run on the Thursday of the week so that the roads can be opened on the Friday for public access. As such, two practice sessions were held on the Thursday, with the third on Saturday morning, followed shortly by qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe Thursday practice sessions began with Brawn GP establishing its dominance once again; Rubens Barrichello was fastest by three-tenths of a second from countryman Felipe Massa with a time of 1:17.199, and the two McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen following shortly thereafter. The Brawns continued their form in the second session, placing third and fourth behind Nico Rosberg \u2013 who topped practice for the ninth time this season with a 1:15.243 \u2013 and Hamilton once again. A similar story held true for the Saturday session, with Jenson Button narrowly being beaten by Fernando Alonso in the Renault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThe first qualifying session was marked by 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton crashing at Mirabeau and damaging his suspension, putting him out of qualifying and gradually knocking him down the order until he would finish sixteenth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica and the Toyotas of Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock. The second session saw the departure of the two Force Indias, both Toro Rossos and Nelson Piquet, Jr.'s Renault while Finland's Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Heikki Kovalainen topped the timing sheets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nGiancarlo Fisichella had two times disallowed for cutting the corners at the Swimming Pool Complex and Nouvelle Chicane. The third and final session was dominated by Rubens Barrichello and Sebastian Vettel until a late lap from Jenson Button saw the championship leader take his fourth pole from six starts this season with Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen the highest-placed KERS-equipped car in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the start, Button maintained his lead as Barrichello passed R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen on the approach to the first corner. Both Brawn cars and Sebastian Vettel started the race on the super-soft tyres; the Ferraris and Williams started on the soft compound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThis provided an advantage, as the super-soft tyres \u2013 which had proven to be the better of the two all weekend \u2013 started to lose grip exponentially after twelve laps as championship contender Sebastian Vettel proved when he started losing up to four seconds per lap on leader Button, because of the difficulty in overtaking at Monaco, this greatly helped the Brawn GP drivers and Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen (the only three drivers ahead of Vettel when his tyres started to lose grip), because for several minutes all cars behind him found themselves unable to overtake, opening a huge gap between third and fourth, even for several laps after Vettel had been overtaken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nS\u00e9bastien Buemi had an accident running into Nelson Piquet Jr. on lap 10 during a passing attempt at Sainte Devote, while Vettel slid into the barriers under brakes at the same spot several laps later. Button maintained a fifteen-second lead over teammate Barrichello for most of the race, who had a smaller gap over the Ferraris of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Felipe Massa; Massa raised the ire of the stewards after crossing the chicane at the Swimming Pool Complex twice, though no penalty was awarded as both occasions were due to driver error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nIn the late stages of the race, Heikki Kovalainen crashed out at the Swimming Pool, spinning and colliding with the barriers. Kazuki Nakajima also crashed out on the last lap of the race at Mirabeau. Robert Kubica was the only other retirement, his race ending with brake problems. In the final phase of the race, the Ferraris pitted for the super-soft tyres, discovering the same graining problem as everyone else over longer stints. The distance between Button and Barrichello halved over the final few laps, though Button was deliberately slowing to avoid encountering backmarkers who were fighting for position. He won by seven-and-a-half seconds from Barrichello, with the Ferraris of R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Massa third and fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAfter the end of the race, Button mistakenly parked his car in parc ferm\u00e9 in the pit lane as is normal for other Grands Prix, rather than on the main straight with the other two podium finishers as is the norm for Monaco. As a result, he had to run down the start/finish straight to the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204056-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race\nWith his win, Button scored the  third-best  start to a season in Formula One history, with five victories and one  third place. Only Nigel Mansell  in 1992 and Michael Schumacher in 1994 recorded better starts, with each  taking five victories and one second place in the first six rounds. Also, his victory in the Brawn-Mercedes  marked the first time in modern F1 history that a single engine has won  three races in a row \u2013 engines in the  1950s lasted most of a season, sometimes more than one season. It was also the first time since 2006 that a driver had won three races in succession. Michael Schumacher was the last to do so, as he won the United States, French  and German Grands Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204057-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monaghan County Council election\nAn election to Monaghan County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 20 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204058-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian Premier League\nThe 2009 Mongolian National Championship was the forty-second recorded edition of top flight football in Mongolia and the fourteenth season of the Mongolian Premier League, which took over as the highest level of competition in the country from the previous Mongolian National Championship. Ulaanbaatar DS were champions, their first title, Erchim were  runners up, with Khasiin Khulguud in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204058-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian Premier League, Format\nThe 2006 season consisted of three distinct stages: the first stage consisted of a single group of eight teams all playing each other in a single round robin of matches. From this, the top six teams then qualified for the second stage, where they were split into two groups which again played a single round robin of matches. From this, the top two teams in each group qualified for single legged semi finals with the bottom teams progressing directly to the fifth place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204059-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Mongolia on 24 May 2009. They were contested between incumbent Nambaryn Enkhbayar, supported by the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, who had support of the Democratic Party and the opposition parties. Elbegdorj declared himself the victor before the count was official but based on his party's counts. Enkhbayar admitted a narrow defeat shortly after and said that he would respect the results, marking the second time an incumbent president had lost their bid for re-election - following Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat in the 1997 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204059-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian presidential election, Background\nThere had been fears that a close result could lead to civil unrest as happened in the 2008 legislative election, where allegations of vote rigging had sparked street protests and clashes with the police during which five people lost their lives and hundreds were injured. Although, police and army units were on stand-by to contain any protest, the people seemed satisfied with the report of the election monitors in that there was no finding of fraudulent votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204059-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian presidential election, Candidates\nPresidential candidates were only allowed from parties which had representation in the State Great Khural. The eligible parties were the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), Democratic Party, Civic Will Party and Mongolian Green Party. The MPRP fielded the incumbent president Nambaryn Enkhbayar as its presidential candidate. The Democratic Party chose former prime minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj as their candidate. The Civic Will and Green parties did not field a candidate and instead chose to support Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, the Democratic Party's candidate, thus providing the electorate with a choice between the incumbent or a candidate supported by all of the opposition parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204059-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian presidential election, Candidates\nElbegdorj, who served twice as prime minister, campaigned on a theme of anti-corruption and a need for change which proved popular in urban areas. Both candidates' campaigns were dominated by the issue of how Mongolia's mineral wealth should be distributed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204059-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mongolian presidential election, Results\nThe United States Senate passed Resolution number 192 supporting Mongolia's democracy and economic development and noting Elbegdorj's election victory on the day he was sworn in on 18 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204060-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monmouth Hawks football team\nThe 2009 Monmouth Hawks football team represented Monmouth University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). The Hawks were led by 17th-year head coach Kevin Callahan and played their home games at Kessler Field. They finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20134 in NEC play to tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204061-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election\nThe 2009 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Roger Lapointe was re-elected to another term without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204061-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election, Results\nSource: , Affaires municipales, R\u00e9gions et Occupation du territoire Qu\u00e9bec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204062-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 2009 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Grizzlies were led by head coach Bobby Hauck and played their home games at Washington\u2013Grizzly Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204063-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 2009 Montana State Bobcats football team represented Montana State University as a member of the Big Sky Conference in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bobcats were led by third-year head coach Rob Ash and played their home games at Bobcat Stadium. They finished the season 7\u20134 overall and 5\u20133 in the Big Sky to place third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204064-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte Carlo Rally\nThe 2009 Monte-Carlo Rally, officially 77\u00e8me Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo was the first round of the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season. The rally took place between January 21\u201324, 2009 and was won by S\u00e9bastien Ogier, who was making his d\u00e9but in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204065-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte Paschi Strade Bianche - Eroica Toscana\nThe 2009 Monte Paschi Strade Bianche - Eroica Toscana was the third edition of the Strade Bianche road bicycle race, held on 7 March 2009 in Tuscany, Italy. The race was 190\u00a0km, starting in Gaiole in Chianti and finishing in Siena, and included eight sectors of strade bianche, totaling 57,2\u00a0km of gravel road. Compared to the previous edition of the Strade Bianche, the race was 10\u00a0km longer and featured one more sector of sterrato.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204065-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte Paschi Strade Bianche - Eroica Toscana\nSwedish rider Thomas L\u00f6vkvist won the race ahead of German Fabian Wegmann and Swiss Martin Elmiger. Linus Gerdemann attacked five kilometres from the finish, but faded on the steep climb to the centre of Siena and was caught and passed by a chase group. Thomas L\u00f6vkvist powered up the cobbled street and was the first to enter the Piazza del Campo and crossed the line 4 seconds ahead of Wegmann and Elmiger. Edvald Boasson Hagen was fourth at eight seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters\nThe 2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters was a men's tennis tournament for professional players held from 11 April until 19 April 2009, on outdoor clay courts. It was the 103rd edition of the annual Monte Carlo Masters tournament, which was sponsored by Rolex for the first time and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament on the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, near Monte Carlo, Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters\nExcept for Andy Roddick, all the top ranked male tennis players participated. World No. 2 Roger Federer had initially decided not to participate in this tournament but changed his mind and accepted a wild-card invitation to play. World No. 1 and first-seeded Rafael Nadal achieved a record fifth straight singles title at the event (the first to win five consecutives titles in any Masters tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters\nThe 2009 Monte Carlo Masters tournament was the only one of the nine \"Masters 1000\" events scheduled for that year without a mandatory player commitment. In 2007, the Association of Tennis Professionals had decided to make participation in the eight newly rebranded \"Masters 1000\" compulsory for all top players. The tournaments in Monte Carlo and Hamburg were originally due to be removed from the top tier of events; however, the tournament directors filed lawsuits, and Monte Carlo was allowed to remain a top tier event while Hamburg became a 500 Series event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Tournament, History\nThe Monte Carlo Masters has been held since 1897, firstly as a tournament for amateur players until it became a professional tournament from 1969 onwards with the start of the Open Era. Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the defending champion from 2008, has been the most successful player of the Open Era, winning the previous four titles at the event. Since 1969, Ilie N\u0103stase, Bj\u00f6rn Borg, Mats Wilander, Thomas Muster, Gustavo Kuerten and Juan Carlos Ferrero have all won multiple titles. Players such as Reginald Doherty, Laurence Doherty, Anthony Wilding and Gordon Lowe also managed to win a number of titles during the early 20th Century. Nadal was bidding to become the first player to win five successive titles in Monte Carlo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Tournament, Tournament details\nThe singles competition had a 56 player draw, with the top eight seeds receiving automatic entry into the second round. The doubles followed a similar concept, with a 28 player draw facilitating that the top eight seeds went into round two. Both the singles and doubles were played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Singles\nIn the men's singles tournament, nine of the top ten ranked players in the world competed with top eight seeds of the tournament receiving byes in the first round. Of the other seeded players, Ga\u00ebl Monfils (9) and Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek lost in the first round to Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 and qualifier Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti, respectively. In the second round, seeds Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro (5), Marin \u010cili\u0107 (14), Gilles Simon (6), and Tommy Robredo (11) were defeated by lower-ranked players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Singles\nLapentti's run ended in the third round when he lost to World No. 1 Rafael Nadal. Andy Murray (4), Nikolay Davydenko (8), Fernando Verdasco (7), and Novak Djokovic (3) progressed to the quarterfinals, but second-seeded Roger Federer was defeated by 13th-seeded and fellow Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka. Wawrinka then defeated in straight sets one of the two non-seeded players left in the competition, qualifier Andreas Beck. In the other matches, Nadal beat wildcard Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107, Murray defeated Davydenko, and Djokovic needed three sets to beat Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Singles\nMurray faced Nadal in the semifinals in Murray's first career clay court semifinal. Nadal came into the match having lost just 14 times on clay in his career and won the match 6\u20132, 7\u20136. Djokovic recovered from losing the first set against Wawrinka to win the next two sets and the match 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20133. The top and the third ranked players in the world played each other in the final, with Nadal bidding to equal Federer's total of 14 Masters titles while Djokovic was appearing in his eighth Masters final. In their sixteenth meeting, Nadal took the first set 6\u20133, Djokovic won the second 6\u20132, but Nadal won the third 6\u20131 to seal his fifth successive title at the Monte Carlo Masters and the 35th of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Doubles\nThe top eight doubles pairs automatically gained places in round two. The first round saw many top singles players teaming up, with Ga\u00ebl Monfils/Stanislas Wawrinka, Marc Gicquel/Paul-Henri Mathieu and Feliciano L\u00f3pez/Fernando Verdasco among the pairs to reach the second round. Novak Djokovic also teamed up with fellow Serbian Victor Troicki and beat unseeded doubles specialists Marcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1. In the second round, fifth-seeded Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett were one of only two seeded pair to depart the competition, losing to Marin \u010cili\u0107 and Nicolas Kiefer on a champions tiebreak. Jeff Coetzee and Jordan Kerr were the other seeds to lose, against Djokovic and Troicki. The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike defeated Monfils and Wawrinka, while second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 also reached the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 885]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Doubles\nIn the quarter-finals, Djokovic and Troicki's run continued as they knocked out Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles. Bob and Mike Bryan, Nestor and Zimonji\u0107 and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes also progressed, with Nestor and Zimonji\u0107 the only pair to defeat an unseeded pair in \u010cili\u0107 and Kiefer. In the semi-finals the Bryans beat Dlouh\u00fd and Paes 6\u20137, 6\u20133, [14\u201312] and Nestor/Zimonji\u0107 ended the run of Djokovic and Troicki 3\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20135].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Summary, Doubles\nThe top two seeds met in the final. In a one-sided match Nestor and Zimonji\u0107 beat the Bryans 6\u20134, 6\u20131 to win their ninth title as a partnership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204066-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Finals, Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated   Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, 6\u20134, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204067-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters \u2013 Doubles\nRafael Nadal and Tommy Robredo were the defending champions, but Nadal chose not to participate, and only Robredo competed this year. Robredo partnered with Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s, but lost in the second round to Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20131, against Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204068-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles\nFour-time defending champion Rafael Nadal successfully defended his title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20131, to win the Singles title at the 2009 Monte-Carlo Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204068-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election\nEarly parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 29 March 2009. In addition to elections for the unicameral Parliament of Montenegro, concurrent local elections were held in Nik\u0161i\u0107 and Budva, as well as municipal presidential elections in Herceg Novi and Tivat. The parliamentary elections were the eighth since the reintroduction of multi-party system in 1990, and the second since regaining full independence in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Background\nPresident Filip Vujanovi\u0107 called the parliamentary elections on 27 January 2009, after the parliament decided the previous day to shorten its term, although this decision was controversial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Background\nConstitutional Act that proclaimed the new constitution of 2007 stipulated that elections had to be held by the end of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Background\nApplication of electoral lists occurred from 16 February to 4 March 2009, and election silence began on 27 March 2009. The number of MPs being elected was uncertain, because the matter was never solved before the election was scheduled. Based on a count of one MP per six thousand eligible voters, the number of MPs should have been 82. However, the Constitution stipulated 81, as there were in the present outgoing session, and this was the number of MPs actually elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Background\nThe pre-electoral process had been marked by several major incidents, such as the revocation of citizenship of Predrag Popovi\u0107, president of the People's Party, the violation of the human right to work during the formation of the coalition treaty of Prime Minister Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107's ruling coalition, which would make party affiliation a criterion for employment, and repeated protests by discontented workers pushed into poverty. Additionally, representative groups of Montenegro's minority communities unanimously declared the forthcoming elections illegal and contrary to constitutional protections granted to ethnic communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Electoral system\nElections in Montenegro are free, with the right of secret ballot guaranteed. Because the country has a single national voting district, all votes cast at individual voting stations across the country went towards a single total. The electoral threshold was 3%, so electoral lists receiving under three percent of the total votes cast were crossed out, and the MPs within the assembly were split amongst the remaining lists. Seats were distributed by the D'Hondt method, which slightly favors leading lists above the smaller ones. The Parliament's mandate lasts four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Campaign\nSeveral alliances were created prior to the elections; the Coalition for a European Montenegro led by Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 included the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, the Croatian Civic Initiative and the Bosniak Party. The People's Coalition was formed by the People's Party and the Democratic Serb Party, whilst For a Different Montenegro, led by Goran Batri\u010devi\u0107, consisted of the Democratic Centre and the Liberal Party of Montenegro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204069-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Results\nThe Coalition for a European Montenegro won an absolute majority of seats, with approximately 65 percent voter turnout, securing Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 (DPS) new term as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204070-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships\nThe 2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships presented by Patr\u00f3n was the tenth and final round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, California on October 11, 2009. The race was won by the Acura of de Ferran Motorsports, driven by Simon Pagenaud and retiring driver Gil de Ferran, which wore a tribute livery based on Jim Hall's Chaparrals. Adrian Fern\u00e1ndez and Luis D\u00edaz won the LMP2 category in the Fern\u00e1ndez Racing Acura while only six tenths of a second behind the overall winning de Ferran car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204070-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships\nThe GT2 class was won by the #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche after contact with the #3 Corvette Racing while approaching the finish line on the final lap. Guy Cosmo and John Baker of Orbit Racing won their first race in the ALMS Challenge category after the Velox Motorsport entry was disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204070-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204070-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204071-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterrey Open\nThe 2009 Monterrey Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the Monterrey Open and was categorized as an International tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Sierra Madre Tennis Club in Monterrey, Mexico, from March 2 through March 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204071-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterrey Open\nThe tournament included four players who were ranked in the top 20: Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska; Marion Bartoli, the 2009 Brisbane runner-up; Flavia Pennetta, the 2009 Acapulco runner-up; and Zheng Jie. Also in the field were \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay; Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1, the 2009 Hobart runner-up and a 2009 Acapulco semifinalist; Gisela Dulko, the 2009 Bogota runner-up; and Maria Kirilenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204071-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterrey Open, Finals, Doubles\nNathalie Dechy /  Mara Santangelo defeated  Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 /  Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204072-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterrey Open \u2013 Doubles\nIn the final, Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo defeated Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1, 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204073-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monterrey Open \u2013 Singles\nMarion Bartoli won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133 against Li Na.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204074-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montgomery mayoral special election\nThe 2009 Montgomery mayoral special election took place on March 10, 2009, to elect the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. It saw the election of Todd Strange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204074-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Montgomery mayoral special election\nThe election was triggered by the resignation of mayor Bobby Bright, who resigned in order to take a seat he was elected to in the United States House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204074-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Montgomery mayoral special election\nThe election was officially nonpartisan. Had no candidate received a majority of the vote, a runoff election would have been held between the top two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season\nThe 2009 Montreal Alouettes season was the 43rd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 55th overall. The Alouettes won their sixth Grey Cup championship, 28\u201327 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, in a game the Montreal Alouettes trailed throughout, as they came back from trailing  27\u201311 four minutes into the fourth quarter. It was their first win since 2002, and it ended a streak of four Grey Cup losses in their last four appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season\nThe Alouettes finished in first place in the East Division setting a new franchise record of 15\u20133. It was the first time a team finished with a 15\u20133 record since the 1997 Toronto Argonauts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. The Alouettes selected Calgary Dinos lineman Dylan Steenbergen in the first round, seventh overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import players updated 2009-10-08 \u2022 46 Active, 12 Inactive, 10 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season, Playoffs, East Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 22, 1:00 PM Eastern Standard TimeVenue: Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204075-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal Alouettes season, Playoffs, Grey Cup\nDate and time: Sunday, November 29, 6:30 PM Eastern Standard TimeVenue: McMahon Stadium, Calgary, Alberta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election\nThe city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held a municipal election at the same time as numerous other municipalities in Quebec, on November 1, 2009. Voters elected the Mayor of Montreal, Montreal City Council, and the mayors and councils of each of the city's boroughs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election\nThe election became plagued with allegations of corruption and mafia involvement in city contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election, Results\nDespite being assailed with accusations of corruption, incumbent Mayor G\u00e9rald Tremblay led his Union Montr\u00e9al party to a third victory, although with reduced standings in city council. Union's seat totals remained firm especially in the boroughs merged into the city in 2002; it retained complete control of eight boroughs and near-complete control of three more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election, Results\nVision Montr\u00e9al, led by former Quebec minister of municipal affairs Louise Harel, ran a campaign targeting the mayor on ethics. However, its campaign was blindsided by a scandal involving its second-in-command and former leader Benoit Labont\u00e9, who dropped out of the race. Vision increased its council standing but was unable to defeat the mayor. It won complete control of Mercier\u2013Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and majorities in three other borough councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election, Results\nThird party Projet Montr\u00e9al increased sharply in popularity. An Angus Reid poll  shortly prior to the election put its leader Richard Bergeron neck-and-neck (32%) with the two other main candidates (34% for Harel, 30% for Tremblay). He would finally come in third, but the party increased from just one seat at the previous election to ten council seats, two borough mayors, four borough councillors, and complete control of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. Besides its main issue of public transit and urban planning, the party emphasized ethics, running its campaign on just $200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election, Seat-by-seat results, Candidate statistics\nParty names are the official ones registered with \u00c9lection Montr\u00e9al.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204076-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreal municipal election, Declined\nJohanna Raso - Financial consultant, former lecturer at McGill University, published articles. She was invited to run for borough mayor by both major parties, Union Montreal and Vision Montreal. She declined both invitations, despite campaign support from the business community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204077-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montreux Volley Masters\nThe 2009 Montreux Volley Masters was held in Montreux, Switzerland between 9 June and 14 June 2009. In the tournament participated 8 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204078-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Montserratian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Montserrat on 8 September 2009, two years earlier than constitutionally necessary. The Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP) gained a parliamentary majority with six of the nine seats, while the outgoing Chief Minister, Lowell Lewis (formerly of the Montserrat Democratic Party but campaigning as an independent), and two other independents won the other seats. Reuben Meade of the MCAP was sworn in as Chief Minister on 10 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204078-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Montserratian general election, Campaign\nA total of 24 candidates contested the elections; the MCAP was the only party to run a full slate of nine candidates, whilst the Montserrat Labour Party nominated three candidates, the Montserrat Reformation Party two and the Funny Ways Party one. The remaining nine candidates were independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204079-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Italian GP2 Round was the ninth race of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on September 12 and 13, 2009 at Circuit Monza at Monza, Italy. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 Italian Grand Prix. Both Racing Engineering drivers were given 10 place grid penalties after causing avoidable accidents in Spa. The race also saw the return of PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni after their court order was dropped. Johnny Cecotto Jr. made his debut for DPR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204079-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza GP2 Series round\nThe Feature Race was action packed, with a very wet track and terrible conditions, the race started behind the safety car. Giedo van der Garde got his and iSport International their first feature win of the season. He passed long time leader Vitaly Petrov for the lead two laps from the end. The Sprint Race was less thrilling, but crashes were still common, as on the first lap Dani Clos flipped his car after being hit side on. Luiz Razia won his first ever GP2 Race and PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni's first win in only their second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204079-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Monza GP2 Series round\nThe Round was lucky for Razia as \u00c1lvaro Parente was penalised after the race, putting him down to eleventh and moving Razia up to 8th, to claim his first GP2 points finish and first pole. After starting from a lucky pole, Razia never looked challenged and finished ahead of the good starting Lucas di Grassi and new champion Nico H\u00fclkenberg. H\u00fclkenberg became 2009 GP2 Series season champion after Vitaly Petrov did not score enough points to keep his championship challenge alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204080-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Monza Superbike World Championship round was the fifth round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 8\u201310, 2009 at Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204080-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superbike World Championship round, Results, Superbike race 1\nRace 1 was stopped before the end of the first lap because of an accident on the first corner that left debris and oil on the track. It was later restarted but Max Neukirchner, Brendan Roberts and Makoto Tamada were not able to restart due to the injuries suffered in the crash. Neukirchner suffered a broken right femur and a dislocation to his right foot, while Roberts suffered bruising, and Tamada suffered a broken wrist. All three riders have been ruled out of the next round at Kyalami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204080-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superbike World Championship round, Results, Superbike race 1\nMax Biaggi was given a 20-second penalty for cutting a chicane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204080-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superbike World Championship round, Results, Superbike race 2\nShane Byrne was given a 20-second penalty for cutting a chicane. Ride through penalties were given for the same reason to Yukio Kagayama, Vittorio Iannuzzo, David Checa and David Salom. Iannuzzo was black-flagged for ignoring the penalty. Troy Corser did not race due to injuries suffered in both starts of the first race, and also missed the following round at Kyalami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204081-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superleague Formula round\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Urigo (talk | contribs) at 14:38, 22 March 2020 (\u2192\u200eRace 2). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204081-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Monza Superleague Formula round\nThe 2009 Monza Superleague Formula round was the fifth round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on October 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204082-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International\nThe 2009 Moorilla Hobart International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia from 12 through 18 January 2009. Unseeded Petra Kvitov\u00e1 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204082-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International, Finals, Doubles\nGisela Dulko /  Flavia Pennetta defeated  Alona Bondarenko /  Kateryna Bondarenko, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204083-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International \u2013 Doubles\nAnabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual were the defending champions but did not participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204083-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International \u2013 Doubles\nThe 2009 champions were Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta who beat sisters, Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko, in the final, 6-2 7-6(4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204084-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International \u2013 Singles\nEleni Daniilidou was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204084-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Moorilla Hobart International \u2013 Singles\nPetra Kvitov\u00e1 defeated Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20131 for her maiden WTA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204085-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mordovia Cup\nThe 2009 Mordovia Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Saransk, Russia between 27 July and 2 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204085-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mordovia Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204085-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mordovia Cup, Champions, Doubles\nMichail Elgin /  Evgeny Kirillov def. Alexey Kedryuk /  Denis Matsukevich, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204086-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mordovia Cup \u2013 Doubles\nDenis Istomin and Evgeny Kirillov were the defending champions, but only Kirillov started this year. He partnered up with Michail Elgin and this pair won the tournament, after defeating Alexey Kedryuk and Denis Matsukevich 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204087-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mordovia Cup \u2013 Singles\nMichail Elgin was the defending champion, but he lost in the semifinal. He was eliminated by I\u00f1igo Cervantes-Huegun. Cervantes-Huegun defeated Jonathan Dasni\u00e8res de Veigy 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204088-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Marrakech\nThe 2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Marrakech was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Marrakech, Morocco between 16 and 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204088-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Marrakech, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204088-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Marrakech, Champions, Men's doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Alberto Mart\u00edn /  Daniel Mu\u00f1oz-de la Nava, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204089-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Marrakech \u2013 Doubles\nFrederico Gil and Florin Mergea were the defending champions, however Gil chose to not participate this year. Mergea partnered up with Denis Istomin, but they lost to Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura in the semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204091-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes\nThe 2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Meknes, Morocco between 23 and 29 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204091-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204091-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes, Champions, Men's Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez /  Lamine Ouahab def. Alessio di Mauro /  Giancarlo Petrazzuolo, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204092-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes \u2013 Doubles\nAlberto Mart\u00edn and Daniel Mu\u00f1oz de la Nava were the defending champions but only Mu\u00f1oz de la Nava chose to defend his title, partnering David Marrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204092-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes \u2013 Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez and Lamine Ouahab won the title after defeating Alessio di Mauro and Giancarlo Petrazzuolo 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204093-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Meknes \u2013 Singles\nIv\u00e1n Navarro was the defending champion, but he chose to not defend his title. In the final Rui Machado defeated 6\u20132, 6\u20137(6), 6\u20133 David Marrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204094-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat\nThe 2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rabat, Morocco between 9 and 15 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204094-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204094-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat, Champions, Men's doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Michael Kohlmann /  Philipp Marx, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204095-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat \u2013 Doubles\nGuillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez and Mariano Hood were the defending champions; however, they chose to not participate this year. Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(5), against Michael Kohlmann and Philipp Marx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204096-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Rabat \u2013 Singles\nThomaz Bellucci chose to not defend his 2009 title. Laurent Recouderc won in the final 6\u20130, 6\u20132, against Santiago Ventura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204097-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger\nThe 2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tanger, Morocco between 16 and 21 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204097-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204097-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger, Champions, Men's Doubles\nAugustin Gensse /  \u00c9ric Prodon def. Giancarlo Petrazzuolo /  Simone Vagnozzi, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204098-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger \u2013 Doubles\nMiguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n and Iv\u00e1n Navarro were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate. Augustin Gensse and Eric Prodon won in the final 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20133) against Giancarlo Petrazzuolo and Simone Vagnozzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204099-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Morocco Tennis Tour \u2013 Tanger \u2013 Singles\nMarcel Granollers was the defending champion. Marc L\u00f3pez defeated 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(11\u20139) Pere Riba in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204100-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mosconi Cup\nThe 2009 Mosconi Cup, the 16th edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States, took place 10\u201313 December 2009 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204100-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mosconi Cup\nTeam USA won the Mosconi Cup by defeating Team Europe 11\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204100-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mosconi Cup, Format\nThe format was broadly similar to that used in past years. All matches were a race to 6 with alternate break, with the winner earning 1 point; the first team to 11 points wins the cup. However, several changes were made for this season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election\nThe Moscow legislative election of 2009 was held October 11 of that year to the Moscow City Duma. On party lists were elected 18 of the 35 deputies, 17 deputies were in single-member constituencies. To get into the City Duma parties need to overcome the 7% threshold. The term of office of the new City Duma is five years. It had been four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nOn July 8, 2009, the Moscow City Duma elections were announced for October 11. 4 August 2009 issued Decree of the Government of Moscow on the organizational and logistical election to lead this work was entrusted to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Valery Vinogradov Jurevichu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nThese parties participated in the elections: United Russia, the Communist Party, Just Russia, Yabloko, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Right Cause, the Patriots of Russia, Solidarity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nOn July 14 a conference of the Moscow city branch of the Communist Party put forward a candidate. On the same day his first three named in the Liberal Democratic Party, but the pre-election conference appointed only on August 3. July 27 put forward their list of Patriots of Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\n\"Yabloko\" and \"just cause\" were negotiating on nominating a single list. Was initiated by the co-chair of the \"right things\" Boris Titov, who is ready for the election period to withdraw from his party to head the election list of the \"Apple\". In this case, two other co-chairman Leonid Gozman and Georgy Bovt called for independent participation of the party in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nJuly 22 Yabloko put forward their list, and the \"just cause\" refused to participate in the elections, but the head of the Moscow branch Igor Trunov July 26 announced that he would run as a self-promoter, one of the single-member districts. [ 8] Documents filed for registration as a federal political council of the \"right things\" Boris Nadezhdin, as well as members of the council of the Moscow organization Elena Guseva and Sirazhdinov Ramazanov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nAugust 4, 2009 the city hosted the conference of the regional branch of the party \"United Russia\". [ 9] The Conference approved the list of deputies to the Moscow elections earlier, on July 29, approved by the Presidium of the General Council of the party. [ 10] According to the observations of correspondents of the magazine \"Kommersant-Vlast\" to the end July election headquarters of the ruling party did not start any real election campaign. The publication delay is tied to the internal struggle within the party between the federal and Mountain guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nThe latter, August 5, the party conference held at the \"Fair Russia\". A few days before it was declared head the list for city elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nAttempt to expose your organization has made a list of the Russian National Union, but her list was not even considered, because the organization does not have the right to participate in elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204101-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow City Duma election, Background\nAugust 23 \"Yabloko\" and \"Patriots of Russia\" claimed that collected the required number of signatures to check their lists", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204102-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade\nThe Moscow Victory Parade of 2009 was held on Victory Day on the 64th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, which ended in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The parade was commanded by Valery Gerasimov, commander of the Moscow Military District, and reviewed by Anatoliy Serdyukov of the Russian Ministry of Defence. A speech was made by the third president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, in which he warned other countries against embarking on military adventures. This was thought to be a veiled warning directed at Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. The Defense Ministry noted that the air parade is a de facto dress rehearsal for the jubilee parade that followed in honor of the 65th anniversary of Victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204102-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Forces at the Parade\nNote: Those indicated in bold indicate first parade appearance, those indicated with italic indicate double or multiple parade appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204102-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Forces at the Parade, Infantry Column\nWith more than 9,000 soldier, sailors, and airmen and 100 vehicles marching in the parade, this was the largest such parade held in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204102-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Forces at the Parade, Infantry Column\nUnlike previous Victory Day parades, there were no units parading in Great Patriotic War uniforms, though the Victory Banner was paraded at the beginning of the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204102-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Forces at the Parade, Ground vehicles at the Parade\nThis was only the second time since the fall of the Soviet Union when armoured fighting vehicles took part in the Red Square parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204103-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Motocross des Nations\nThe 2009 Motocross des Nations took place after the 2009 FIM Motocross World Championship season, on October 4, 2009 in Franciacorta, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204103-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Motocross des Nations, B Final\nNote 1\u00a0: Ireland won the B final which meant they qualified for the main races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election\nThe 2009 Mount Albert by-election was held in the New Zealand electorate of Mount Albert on 13 June 2009. There were fifteen candidates in the election. David Shearer of the Labour Party won the election with 63% of the vote. The seat was vacated by former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark, who resigned from the New Zealand Parliament on 17 April 2009 following her appointment to head the United Nations Development Programme. Main issues surrounding the campaign included the building of the Waterview Connection and the Auckland Region becoming a supercity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Background\nThe Mount Albert electorate is based around the neighbourhoods of western and central Auckland City. It includes the suburbs of Point Chevalier, Kingsland, Avondale, Waterview, as well as the eponymous Mount Albert. It has been held by the New Zealand Labour Party since its creation in 1946; Helen Clark was its representative from 1981 until 2009 and enjoyed a large majority in Mt Albert, winning 59% of the electorate vote in the 2008 election while Labour only won 42% of the party vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Background\nPrior to the election, National had 58 seats in the House of Representatives, Labour had 42, Green had 9, ACT had 5, M\u0101ori had 5, Progressive had 1, and United Future had 1. Labour had lost one seat since the general election, as a result of the resignation of Clark, which caused the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Results\nNotes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Results\na Three candidates were list MPs elected at the 2008 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, David Shearer (Labour)\nFormer UN Deputy Special Representative and 2002 candidate for Whangarei David Shearer won the Labour nomination from a field of eight candidates including lawyer Helen White and Auckland City councillor Glenda Fryer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, David Shearer (Labour)\nShortly after his selection, media attention focused on articles he wrote for Foreign Affairs and World Today (in 1998 and 2001 respectively) arguing for the use and regulation of private military companies by Western governments for peacekeeping missions where they are unwilling to contribute troops. This was at odds with the position of Labour Party Leader and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Phil Goff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, David Shearer (Labour)\nNational Party Leader and Prime Minister John Key said this was \"a hypocritical position\" because Labour claimed during 2008's election campaign that National had a secret privatisation agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, David Shearer (Labour)\nMedia speculation prior to the selection suggested that the Labour Party nomination would go to then-current list MP Phil Twyford. Twyford announced that he would not seek the seat on 21 April. This followed media reports that the Labour Party was unwilling to allow Twyford's list place to be taken by defeated Auckland Central MP Judith Tizard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Melissa Lee (National)\nFirst-term list MP Melissa Lee beat 2008 candidate Ravi Masuku for the National Party nomination on 5 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Melissa Lee (National)\nLee faced allegations that her production company Asia Vision had spent New Zealand on Air money making a promotional video for the National Party ahead of the 2008 election. Lee called the allegations \"ridiculous\", saying that all work on the video was done on a voluntary basis. New Zealand on Air investigated and cleared Lee of any misconduct. The Green Party complained to the Electoral Commission, saying that the video should have been declared as an election expense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Melissa Lee (National)\nIf Lee had won the by-election, the next (58th) person on the National Party list \u2013 Conway Powell \u2013 would have become a list MP, as Lee was already a list MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Russel Norman (Green)\nGreen Party co-leader Russel Norman was the only nomination from his party and was the first candidate from a party then in Parliament to declare his candidacy. In 2008, he stood in Rongotai, finishing third with 15.84% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Russel Norman (Green)\nIf Norman had won the by-election, the next (10th) person on the Green Party list \u2013 David Clendon \u2013 would have become a list MP, as Norman was already a list MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, John Boscawen (ACT)\nACT selected list MP John Boscawen on 2 May. In the 2008 election, Boscawen ran in the seat of North Shore, coming fourth with 4% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, John Boscawen (ACT)\nIf Boscawen had won the by-election, the next (6th) person on the ACT list \u2013 Hilary Calvert \u2013 would have become a list MP, as Boscawen was already a list MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Judy Turner (United Future)\nUnited Future party president and former MP (2002\u20132008) Judy Turner was announced as her party's candidate on 14 May. In 2008, Turner stood in the East Coast seat, coming fifth with 3.3 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nBen Boyce is the second half of the comedy duo Bill and Ben. They stood on a \"no policies, no promises, no disappointment\" platform in 2008 and out-polled all other minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nBusinesswoman Simonne Dyer was selected by The Kiwi Party on 4 May. In 2008 she was her party's candidate for Rodney, where she finished second to last with 1.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nFormer National Party chair of the Pakuranga electorate Dakta Green was selected as the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party candidate on 2 May. Green had been arrested a number of times in the campaign for drugs offences. In response, Green has alleged police harassment and political interference in his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nJulian Pistorius was a 32-year-old computer programmer and former deputy leader of Libertarianz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nJackson Wood was the then-editor of Victoria University student magazine Salient. He announced his independent candidacy on 21 April, being the first person to do so. He campaigned from Wellington, instead of Auckland, save for an open-invite slingshot battle on top of Mount Albert on 6 June, which he invited all other candidates to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Candidates, Other candidates\nFrance smeared a chocolate lamington cake on ACT candidate Boscawen in protest of the supercity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nA main issue in the campaign was the \"Waterview Connection\" \u2013 the connection of the Southwestern motorway at Mount Roskill with the Northwestern motorway at the suburb of Waterview, on the northern edge of the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nTransit New Zealand announced in 2008 (during the last year of the Fifth Labour Government) that its preferred option was for a two-lane tunnel costed at NZ$1.97 billion. The final cost of NZ$3.1 billion cited by the National Government included an expansion to a three-lane tunnel, upgrades to connecting roads and financing costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nIn May 2009, National's Transport Minister Steven Joyce announced that he was \"not comfortable\" with this cost, preferring a surface option costing NZ$1.1 billion. Although this option is over a billion dollars cheaper, the plan will require the demolition of 365 houses along the route in addition to the ones required for the tunnel option.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nLabour called the option \"second class\" and that the decision was dismissive of the wishes of the people of Mount Albert. Green Party candidate Russel Norman described the plan as \"better than the worst of all options\", but added that the best anti-congestion investment would be public transport. National's candidate Melissa Lee backed the surface option, saying that the decision would bring certainty to the area. She also suggests that the tunnel option was \"unaffordable\". Meanwhile, Independent candidate Jackson Wood proposed a series of zeppelins to carry cars without the need for any construction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nMelissa Lee was widely criticised for claiming that the SH20 Waterview Connection would stop criminals from South Auckland committing crime in Mt Albert. Her party leader John Key called her comments \"stupid\" and Lee later apologised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Waterview Connection\nThis happens..... people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert, right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Auckland governance\nThe governance of the Auckland Region was another issue that was raised in the by-election campaign. The Royal Commission on Auckland Governance released its report at the end of March and the ruling National Party outlined its plans before campaigning began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Campaign, Auckland governance\nLabour did not support the current legislation relating to the supercity, and filibustered on the weekend of 15\u201318 May 2009, by proposing about 1000 amendments to the legislation, as the government was not sending it to the select committee process, and that a referendum was not being held for Aucklanders to decide whether a supercity was wanted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Debates, Q+A\nDavid Shearer and Melissa Lee were interviewed by Paul Holmes on TVNZ's show on Sunday, 10 May. On Sunday, 7 June, Russel Norman and John Boscawen were interviewed on the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Debates, Back Benches\nOn Wednesday, 10 June, John Boscawen, Melissa Lee, Russel Norman, David Shearer and Judy Turner (the candidates from five main parties) appeared on the TVNZ show Back Benches. This episode was filmed and aired on 10 June, and was reshown on 12 June, on the channel TVNZ7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204104-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Albert by-election, Polls\nShearer's huge majority meant that a low turnout was predicted, because voters may have felt that the result was inevitable. Actual turnout was 20,943, a 41% decrease on that of the 2008 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity\nAlaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began erupting on March 22, 2009, and activity continued for several months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity\nDuring the eruptions, which lasted for several months, reports found ash clouds reaching as high as 65,000 feet (20,000\u00a0m) above sea level. In response, the National Weather Service issued a series of ash fall advisories. The Mat-Su Valley, Anchorage, Valdez and large portions of the Kenai Peninsula all received coatings of tephra. The 2009 eruptions of Mount Redoubt represented the most seismic activity occurring on the mountain in twenty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Renewed concerns over the Drift River Terminal Facility\nThe 2009 eruptions of Mount Redoubt renewed concerns over the safety of the  nearby tank farm which holds crude oil, known as the Drift River Terminal Facility. During the earlier, 1989-90 eruptions of Redoubt, the facility was inundated and damaged by lahars. Dikes built after the 89/90 activity protected the tanks, although an aircraft hangar and runway were flooded and damaged by the flooding and related debris. In late March the US Coast Guard decided to move the millions of gallons located at the facility to prevent an ecological disaster. The plan called for then refilling the tanks with \"harmless\" ballast water to prevent them from being dislodged by flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Renewed concerns over the Drift River Terminal Facility\nHowever, on April 5, the Coast Guard stated that filling the empty tanks with ballast water was not possible, because it would create a hazardous waste that the neither the facility nor the Coast Guard was prepared to deal with afterward. Instead, the oil was removed and the empty tanks remained vulnerable to damage from further flooding. In the meantime, oil production in Cook Inlet was suspended, because the tank farms were out of commission while Mount Redoubt remained in an eruptive state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Renewed concerns over the Drift River Terminal Facility\nWhen the eruptions subsided, the tanks were undamaged and the facility was cleared of debris and subsequently reopened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 93], "content_span": [94, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Eruptive activity\nAs of April 4, 2009, AVO had recorded twenty-six volcanic eruptions and/or explosions at Redoubt volcano, although they singled out nineteen of them as most notable. The AVO refers to an \"eruption\" as any event which discharges ash into the atmosphere, while adding the term \"explosion\" for more vigorous events. The AVO did not rate and compare each eruption, although the 9:24 am eruption on March 26 reached an altitude of 65,000 feet making it the highest volcanic ash cloud to date during the 2009 phase of activity. The eruption on April 4 was described as being the biggest eruption to date. There were also periods when the volcano emitted notable amounts of steam but did not erupt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Eruptive activity\nThe AVO reported that Redoubt erupted or exhibited other notable activity at the following times, with all ash cloud heights in feet above sea level:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nOn April 11, 2009, the Alaska Volcano Observatory released the following statement into the public domain on their USGS affiliated website regarding the aftermath of the 2009 eruptions of Mount Redoubt, and a prognosis for future activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nThe 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano continues. A lava dome is currently growing in the summit crater, accompanied by intermittent emissions of volcanic gases and minor amounts of ash. Additional explosive events are likely and could send ash to greater than 30,000 feet above sea level. Such a cycle of dome growth and explosive dome destruction may continue for many months. The potential for lahars (volcanic mudflows) and other flooding down the Drift River Valley remains, as does the potential for trace to minor ash fall on communities near Redoubt (e.g., the Kenai Peninsula Borough, The Municipality of Anchorage, and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and possibly more distant areas).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nThe 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano began with a minor explosion of steam and ash just after 13:00 AKDT on March 15. Major explosive events began at approximately 22:40 March 22 AKDT, and since then AVO has recorded more than 19 separate explosions. Plume heights, as measured by radar and confirmed by pilot reports, have exceeded 50,000 feet (15\u00a0km) above sea level on multiple occasions. To date, the largest explosion occurred at 05:55 AKDT April 4, lasted more than 30 minutes, and is comparable in size to the largest event of the 1989/1990 Redoubt eruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nThree major lahars (volcanic mudflows), on March 23, March 26, and April 4, have inundated the Drift River Valley and its downstream coastal fan. All of these reached the Cook Inlet and affected the Drift River Oil Terminal (DROT). The peak discharge rates of these lahars remains under investigation, but all are considered significant, and the April 4 event may have exceeded the size of any lahar observed during the 1989/1990 eruption. Smaller lahars that did not impact DROT have also occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nSeveral of Redoubt's recent explosions have resulted in measurable ash fall over populated areas as distant as Delta Junction (340 miles northeast of Redoubt), with more significant ash fall in more proximate areas, including the Susitna Valley, the Kenai Peninsula and the Anchorage bowl. On the afternoon of March 28, ash fall in Anchorage closed the airport from 17:00 until 07:00 the next morning (March 29). The maximum ash fall measured so far in a populated area is about 1/16 inch (1.5\u00a0mm) near Seldovia following the April 4 explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nA measurement of about 1/8 inch (3\u00a0mm) following the explosion on March 26, was recorded near Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, about 30 miles (48\u00a0km) south of the volcano. Trace ash fall has also been observed between explosive events during times when the volcano is emitting a continuous low altitude (< 15,000 feet ASL) gas and ash plume.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nA rich variety of seismic signals have been recorded at Redoubt throughout the eruption and in the preceding months of unrest. These seismic events include: (1) typical \"rock-breaking\" earthquakes; (2) volcanic \"tremor\", indicative of steam and other volcanic gases or fluids vigorously propagating through cracks; (3) large, far-reaching, \"cigar-shaped\" signals resulting from volcanic explosions; (4) ground shaking from lahars as they pass nearby seismometers; and (5) small, repetitive, self-similar events associated with the slow extrusion of lava (this kind of extrusion is often referred to as \"dome building\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nMore than 1700 earthquakes have been located since mid-January, and many more occurred that were either too small or of such a character as to make location impossible. Typically, the magnitudes of these events are small, the average being around M0.5. However, on April 9 a magnitudeML 3.3 earthquake occurred about 2.5 miles (4\u00a0km) E/NE of Redoubt's summit, possibly resulting from a crustal adjustment to the ongoing withdrawal from Redoubt's subterranean magma reservoir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nSince the fall of 2008, AVO has flown 13 gas measurement flights, and of these, 5 have occurred since the eruption began on March 15, 2009. Elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rates (up to 2000 tonnes/day) were measured in October\u2013November, 2008. Starting in late January 2009, and coincident with a strong increase in seismicity, gas emission rates rose to a level (> 5000 tonnes/d) suggesting significant unrest at the volcano, and emissions stayed at this level until the eruption began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nSince that time, emissions of both CO2 and sulfur dioxide (SO2) have been very elevated, sometimes reaching levels in excess of 10,000 tonnes/d. These volcanic gas emission rates are among the largest ever measured in Alaska, though such high values are consistent with an openly degassing volcanic system that is actively extruding lava. Based on measurements and observations from Redoubt's previously observed eruptions, these gas emission rates are likely to drop substantially when the eruption wanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nThe combination of gas and ash emission from Redoubt since the beginning of the eruption has on occasion resulted in a brownish-yellow volcanic haze in the Cook Inlet region. The volcanic haze contains small quantities of ash, water vapor, sulfur aerosols, and liquid droplets suspended in the air. The main concerns for human health in volcanic haze consist of ash, sulfur dioxide gas (SO2), and sulfuric acid droplets (H2SO4), which forms when volcanic SO2 oxidizes in the atmosphere. Volcanic haze can be both an eye and respiratory irritant. The State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin No. 5 summarizes the health effects associated with volcanic emissions and is available on the web at .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nVisual and satellite observations show that by March 27, a deep crater about a half mile (800 m) across formed in the middle of the summit amphitheater, likely from one or more of the explosions during the early stage of the eruption. By April 4, a north/south elongated lava dome, about a half mile (800 m) long had grown out of the new crater, at an elevation of around 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level. Most if not all of this dome was destroyed during the large explosion of April 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nA large amount of ice and snow has been removed from the upper Drift Glacier. The Drift River Valley has also been mostly denuded of snow and is covered with lahar deposits. The latest observations, as of about April 9, show a growing lava dome in about the same place as the previous dome. This new dome is about a quarter mile (400 meters) in diameter, and roughly circular as viewed from above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nThe 2009 Redoubt eruption began with a series of large explosions on March 22\u201323, followed by less-energetic dome growth in the summit crater. On April 4, another large explosion occurred, which was in turn followed by growth of the current dome. There will likely be additional explosive events during the coming days to months, but their exact nature, as well as timing, remains uncertain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Aftermath of 2009 eruptions and prognosis for future activity\nBecause the dome sits at the lip of a steep slope leading out of the crater it can become unstable, and (as in 1990) collapse into the Drift River valley, producing avalanches of hot lava blocks, pyroclastic flows, lahars, and ash columns tens of thousands of feet tall, which can carry ash to Alaska communities. During periods between explosions, residents and pilots may also notice occasional sulfur smell and hazy conditions due to low-level ash and volcanic gas emissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 99], "content_span": [100, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204105-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, Disruption of oil production and state oil revenue\nIn late May 2009, it was reported that the continued shutdown of oil production in Cook Inlet due to the eruption of Mount Redoubt was costing the state of Alaska approximately US$1.5 million a month in tax revenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 88], "content_span": [89, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204106-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 19\u201323. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Texas Christian University's Lupton Stadium. Sixth seeded Utah won their first and only Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 9-3 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Utah joined the Pac-12 Conference after the 2011 season without winning another title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204106-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding\nThe top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204106-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nTyler Yagi, an outfielder for the champion Utah Utes, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 92], "content_span": [93, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204107-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 11\u201314, 2009. The tournament was sponsored by Conoco. The quarterfinal was broadcast live on the MountainWest Sports Network, the semifinal games on CBS College Sports Network, and the championship game on Versus. All games were available in HD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204107-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nSecond-seeded Utah, one of three teams that shared the regular season conference title, defeated San Diego State 52\u201350 to claim the Mountain West Conference Tournament Championship and the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204107-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nOf note, this was the first time that UNLV failed to make the championship game of the tournament when they were hosting. The Rebels did not play in the 2001 tournament due to a postseason ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204108-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference football season\nThe 2009 Mountain West Conference football season was the 11th since eight former members of the Western Athletic Conference banded together to form the MW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204108-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mountain West Conference football season, Previous season\nUtah won its fourth conference championship while being the only Division I team to go undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204109-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open\nThe 2009 Movistar Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 16th edition of the Movistar Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chile from 2 February through 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204109-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open\nThe singles line up was led by world no. 15 and defending champion Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, Tommy Robredo and Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s. Other top seeds are Jos\u00e9 Acasuso, Juan M\u00f3naco, Eduardo Schwank, Agust\u00edn Calleri and \u00d3scar Hern\u00e1ndez. Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez won the single title, his fourth at the event after 2002, 2004, and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204109-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open, Finals, Doubles\nPablo Cuevas /  Brian Dabul defeated  Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204110-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open \u2013 Doubles\nJos\u00e9 Acasuso and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Lucas Arnold Ker and Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204110-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open \u2013 Doubles\nPablo Cuevas and Brian Dabul won in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, over Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204111-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Movistar Open \u2013 Singles\nFernando Gonz\u00e1lez was the defending champion. He defeated Jos\u00e9 Acasuso in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election\nGeneral elections to elect the president, Assembly of the Republic, and Provincial Assemblies was held in Mozambique on 28 October 2009. Incumbent President Armando Guebuza ran for re-election as the FRELIMO candidate; he was challenged by opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who had stood as the RENAMO candidate in every presidential election since 1994. Also standing were Daviz Simango, the Mayor of Beira, who was a RENAMO member before founding his own party, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), earlier in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Campaign\nCampaigning for the election began on 13 September 2009. There were 17 parties and two coalitions competing in the parliamentary election. Provincial assemblies were also at stake in the election. Citing problems in the papers submitted by the MDM when it filed to run, the National Elections Commission barred it from contesting the parliamentary election in nine out of 13 regions. Simango, who insisted there were no problems with the papers, was allowed to stand as a presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Campaign\nPrior to the election, Guebuza was heavily favored to win another term, and RENAMO, mired in a bitter feud with Simango and the MDM, was thought to have been seriously weakened since the previous election, held in 2004. On 14 October 2009, 20 minor parties backed Simango's candidacy. The Independent Party of Mozambique (PIMO), another minor party, chose to support Guebuza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Campaign\nOn the last day of campaigning, 25 October, each of the three main candidates held major rallies. At FRELIMO's rally in Nampula, Guebuza stressed a commitment to fighting poverty and working for \"national unity, peace and development\". Dhlakama concluded his campaign with rallies in Maputo, and he criticized the predominant role of FRELIMO in society: \"Everything is mixed together today in Mozambique. The party, the police, schools, roads, journalists\u2014everything has to be through FRELIMO. This has to stop.\" Simango, meanwhile, held his last rally in Beira, declaring that it was time to \"end the games, end the abuses\"; he pointed to the problems of unemployment and lack of medicine in hospitals when urging his supporters to turn out for the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Campaign\nVoting at central Maputo's Polana secondary school on election day, Dklahama said that if he lost the election he would not run for president again. He also called for a high turnout, while stressing the importance of respecting the results and avoiding a post-election dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Results\nAccording to provisional results announced on 2 November, incumbent president Guebuza won a landslide victory with about 75% of the vote. Turnout was estimated at about 42%. SADC observers said the election result was \"a true reflection of the will of the people of Mozambique\". Opposition party RENAMO was less content with the electoral conduct, demanding that the election be annulled. According to RENAMO spokesperson Ivone Soares, FRELIMO supporters stuffed ballot boxes with multiple votes and were assisted in doing so by the electoral commission, which provided them with additional ballot papers. A FRELIMO spokesperson, Edson Macuacua, dismissed the allegations, asserting that the election was free and fair and characterizing RENAMO as \"lost and desperate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Results\nOn 11 November, the National Elections Commission officially announced that Guebuza had won the election with 75% of the vote; Dhlakama and Simango trailed with 16.5% and 8.6% respectively. Results for the parliamentary election were also announced, showing that FRELIMO had won 191 seats, followed by RENAMO with 51 seats and eight for the MDM. The Constitutional Council confirmed the results on 28 December. Continuing to allege fraud, Dhlakama said that RENAMO would boycott the opening of parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204112-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Mozambican general election, Results\nAfter the newly elected deputies were sworn in, they elected Veronica Macamo, a FRELIMO Deputy, as president of the Assembly of the Republic in January 2010. Macamo was the only candidate for the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204113-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mr. Olympia\nThe 2009 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and the feature event of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2009 held September 24\u201327, 2009 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Other events at the exhibition included the 202 Olympia Showdown, Ms. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, and Figure Olympia contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204114-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ms. Olympia\nThe 2009 Ms. Olympia contest is an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2009 was held on September 25, 2009, at the South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada and in the Orleans Arena at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. It was the 30th Ms. Olympia competition held. Other events at the exhibition include the 212 Olympia Showdown, Mr. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, and Figure Olympia contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204115-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 MuchMusic Video Awards\nThe 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards were held in Toronto, Ontario at MuchMusic's headquarters on June 21, 2009. Along with the MuchMusic VJ's, on April 16, 2009, it was confirmed on the MuchMusic website that the Jonas Brothers would co-host the show. The show featured performances by The Black Eyed Peas, Billy Talent, Lady Gaga, Jonas Brothers, Alexisonfire, Kelly Clarkson and others. The artists with the most nominations were Nickelback and Danny Fernandes with five nominations each. Nickelback won the most awards with 3 awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204115-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, Winners and nominees\nNominees for the People's Choice awards had been announced. Four nominations had already been chosen by MuchMusic and one wild card nomination will be chosen which has the most votes on the MuchMusic website. The nominees were, with the winners in bold:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204115-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, Post-show altercations\nDuring a post-show after-party hosted by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas at a local nightclub, Perez Hilton was allegedly assaulted by the group's tour manager Liborio Molina. Hilton reported in a video on his blog that he was 'clubbed' in the eye by the said manager. will.i.am also later tweeted, defending the group's position in this matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204115-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, Post-show altercations\nAccording to will.i.am, Perez was being provocative in his blog regarding Black Eyed Peas' member Fergie, as well as their latest album release, The E.N.D. An altercation ensued between Hilton and will.i.am, at which point Molina approached Hilton from behind and 'clubbed' him in the right eye, leaving a visible bump as seen in the video he posted during the following morning. Molina was arrested following the incident and appeared in a court hearing in Toronto on August 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204116-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Munster Senior Football Championship was that year's installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Munster GAA. It was won by Cork who defeated Limerick in the final. It was their first time to retain the title in 14 years. Limerick had not won a Munster title since 1896. After Cork's defeat of Kerry in the semi-final there were concerns that Kerry football was in \"terminal decline.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204116-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Football Championship\nThe winning Cork team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match played on 12 July 2009 at Semple Stadium, Thurles, County Tipperary. It was contested by Tipperary and Waterford. Tipperary claimed their third Munster Championship of the decade, beating Waterford on a scoreline of 4-14 to 2-16, a 4-point winning margin. Overall, this was Tipperary's thirty eighth Munster Senior Hurling Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Previous Munster Final encounters\nPrevious to this encounter, the teams had met each other in six Munster Hurling Finals, with Tipperary edging the rivalry with four wins in comparison to Waterford's two wins. The most recent Munster Final involving both teams was in 2002 with Waterford winning on a scoreline of 2-23 to 3-12. The match was notable for the fact that Waterford won their first Munster Championship in thirty nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, GAA 125th Anniversary\nSpecial events were held in Thurles to mark the 125th anniversary of the GAA on the weekend of the match. Most notable of these special events was a torch procession from the birthplace of Michael Cusack, Carran, County Clare to Hayes' Hotel in Thurles (founding place of the GAA). On the day of the match, the torch was brought from Hayes' Hotel to Semple Stadium. The torch was brought onto the pitch by former Tipperary hurler, Jimmy Doyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team selection\nTipperary manager Liam Sheedy named an unchanged team from the semi final win over Clare for the Munster Senior Hurling Championship final clash with Waterford. For Waterford, Tony Browne came in at wing-back for Richie Foley, Aidan Kearney took Kevin Moran's spot on the other wing. Moran moved to midfield to allow Stephen Molumphy switch to centre forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Post-match reaction\nWaterfor manager Davy FitzGerald was unhappy with his teams defending before half time, \"the goal before half-time, and the one after, were bad errors, mistakes we made, But fair play to Tipp, they were in control of the game for a lot of it. Tipp have been coming a long time. And they\u2019ll be hard beaten. Their work ethic is very good. You can\u2019t make mistakes and expect to win\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Post-match reaction\nTipperary manager Liam Sheedy conceded that Waterford outhurled Tipperary for much of the Final, \"We\u2019re down to the last four and we\u2019re delighted to be there, We have to be fair and honest, Waterford outhurled us for long patches and we were tipping the odd point here and there, Overall, we came here to win, we\u2019ve won and we\u2019re delighted to be back in Croke Park\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204117-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Post-match reaction\nMidfielder Shane McGrath claimed that Tipperary are a more rounded team than in 2008, \"I think we're more of a team this year than last year - we train a lot harder, we've put in a lot more. We're a closer team, You don't win anything unless you're a close team and friends. At the end of the day, we're all friends and we'll all plug away for each other\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl\nThe 2009 Music City Bowl was the twelfth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The game was played on Sunday, December 27, 2009, and was telecast on ESPN. The ACC's Clemson Tigers defeated the SEC's Kentucky Wildcats 21\u201313. Sponsored by Gaylord Hotels, it was officially named the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl\nMusic City Bowl officials originally wanted to select North Carolina as the ACC representative. This would have set up a contest between two traditional college basketball powers (the Wildcats and Tar Heels are first and third, respectively, in all-time college basketball wins). This plan came undone, however, when the Chick-fil-A, Gator, and Champs Sports Bowls all passed on Clemson, which lost the 2009 ACC Championship Game to Georgia Tech. This forced the Music City Bowl to take Clemson. Under the ACC's bowl selection rules in 2009, the conference title game loser could not fall below the Music City Bowl, which had the fifth pick among bowl-eligible ACC teams. The Tar Heels accepted a bid to the 2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl\nSince 2002, the name of the bowl game has been known as The Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, being named after its primary sponsor, Gaylord Hotels. The 2010 game marked the first time since then that a new company has taken over as title sponsor of the game, as Franklin American Mortgage will take over. Gaylord Hotels continued to be a major sponsor of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl\nThis was Kentucky's third appearance in the bowl game in four years. It was Clemson's second appearance in the bowl. The game was a rematch of the 2006 game in which Kentucky won by a score of 28\u201320. The two teams had met a total of 12 previous times with Kentucky winning 8 of the previous games. Aside from the 2006 Music City Bowl, the schools also met in the 1993 Peach Bowl, a game won by Clemson 14\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl, Game summary\nClemson wore their secondary home Purple jerseys and Kentucky wore their white road jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl, Game summary\nClemson senior and future NFL player, C. J. Spiller ended his final college game with a win. Spiller was named the game's MVP as he accounted for 172 all purpose yards and a rushing touchdown, the 51st touchdown of his college career. The Wildcats' only TD came on their opening drive when freshman quarterback Morgan Newton found Chris Matthews in the end zone for a 17-yard TD pass and a 7-0 lead. Clemson played excellent defense throughout the contest only allowing Kentucky to 277 total yards of offense. After the game 68-year-old Kentucky coach Rich Brooks stated that there was about an 80 percent chance that the game would be his last at Kentucky, which it subsequently proved to be, as he announced his retirement the next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204118-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Music City Bowl, Game summary\nWeather was a significant factor in the game's play. The game time temperature was a chilly 38 degrees and steadily dropped throughout the night. Winds gusted up to 22\u00a0mph and not only affected the kicking game and strategy for both teams but also made the temperature feel as if it were in the low 20 degree range. At one point Clemson kicker Richard Jackson, who had kicked three field goals in the regular season from over 50 yards, lined up for a 44-yard field goal. The ball hung in the air when kicked and ended up falling about eight yards short of the goal post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204119-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro and  Mardy Fish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204120-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Men's Singles title at the 2009 Madrid Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204120-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204120-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe semifinal match between Nadal and Novak Djokovic was (at the time) the longest men\u2019s tennis match in the Open Era played with the best-of-three system, stretching for 4 hours and 3 minutes with Nadal prevailing, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 7\u20136(11\u20139). This record was later broken by Federer and del Potro at the 2012 London Olympics in their 4-hour and 26 minute semifinal match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204120-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 55], "content_span": [56, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204121-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204122-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nWorld No. 1 Dinara Safina defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6\u20132, 6\u20134 for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204122-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe four Rome semifinalists received a bye into the second round. They were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204123-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Masters Madrid\nThe 2009 Madrid Open (also known as the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the Madrid Masters on the ATP and first on the WTA. It was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from 9 May until 17 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204123-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Masters Madrid\n2009 was the first year that the Madrid Masters was played on clay rather than a hard-court surface, which replaced Hamburg Masters (for men) that was now downgraded into an ATP 500 tournament and Berlin (for women) which was now defunct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204123-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Masters Madrid, Finals, Men's doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Simon Aspelin /  Wesley Moodie  6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204123-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Masters Madrid, Finals, Women's doubles\nCara Black /  Liezel Huber defeated  Kv\u011bta Peschke /  Lisa Raymond 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 10\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204124-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Myanmar National League\nMNL Cup Grand Royal 2009 is the inaugural knock-out club football tournament of the Myanmar National League. The tournament, held at the Aung San Stadium and the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon between 16 May and 5 July 2009, was contested by all eight clubs of the newly formed professional league. Yadanabon FC finished on top, one point ahead of Yangon United FC in group stage. On 5 July 2009, Yadanabon defeated Yangon United in the cup final on penalty shootout, to become the reigning champions of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204124-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Myanmar National League, Results, Final\nThe 2009 Myanmar National League Cup final was played at 4:00 on 5 July 2009 at the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar. Yadanabon defeated Yangon United on penalty kicks (4-1), after a 2-2 score at the end of regulation and extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204125-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NAB Cup\nThe 2009 NAB Cup is the Australian Football League pre-season competition that was played before the Australian Football League's 2009 Premiership season begins. It culminated with the Final on 13 March 2009 played between Geelong and Collingwood and was won by Geelong. The Final was originally scheduled for 14 March 2009 but was moved by the AFL so that the match did not clash with the Sound Relief benefit concert for the Victorian bushfires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204125-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NAB Cup, NAB Challenge\nTeams that are eliminated from the NAB Cup are scheduled to play against each other, mostly at regional venues, to provide all teams warm-up games for the main season and expose regional audiences to AFL level football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204126-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NACAC Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 NACAC Cross Country Championships took place on March 7, 2009. The races were held at the Chain of Lakes Park in Orlando, Florida, United States. A detailed report of the event was given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204126-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NACAC Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 86 athletes (+ 6 guests) from 7 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204127-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 72nd Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I  Basketball Tournament was held from March 18 to 24 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 72nd annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The Heart of America Athletic Conference was the host conference for the tournament. This was the Heart of America Athletic Conference's first year as a Division I conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204127-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe tournament got off to a surprising start, as five higher seeded teams lost on the opening day, including top-seeded Rogers State, who lost to William Jewell, who had only qualified for the tournament by receiving the Heart of America Athletic Conference's host bid into the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204127-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nIn the end, two unseeded teams, Rocky Mountain College of Montana and Columbia College of Missouri\u2014neither of whom had ever won a game at the tournament prior to 2009\u2014met in the championship game, having each disposed of three higher-ranked teams along the way. Rocky Mountain won the championship with a 77-61 victory, claiming Rocky's first national basketball title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204128-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NAIA Division II Men\u2019s Basketball National Championship was held in March at Keeter Gymnasium in Point Lookout, Missouri. The 18th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204129-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA Football National Championship\nThe 2009 NAIA Football National Championship was played on December 19, 2009 at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. The championship was won by the Sioux Falls Cougars over the Lindenwood Lions by a score of 25\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204130-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA football rankings\nOne human poll made up the 2009 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football rankings, sometimes called the NAIA Coaches' Poll or the football ratings. Once the regular season was complete, the NAIA sponsored a 16-team playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll was then taken after completion of the 2009 NAIA Football National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204130-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters\nSince the inception of the Coaches' Poll in 1999, the #1 ranking in the various weekly polls has been held by only a select group of teams. Through the postseason poll of the 2009 season, the teams and the number of times they have held the #1 weekly ranking are shown below. The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204130-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters\nIn 1999, the results of a postseason poll, if one was conducted, are not known. Therefore, an additional poll has been presumed, and the #1 postseason ranking has been credited to the postseason tournament champion, the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204131-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America\nThe 2009 NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on October 17, 2009 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. The race was the thirty-first of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, the fifth of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and the only race scheduled at night during the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup that ended the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204131-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America\nABC telecast the race beginning at 7 \u00a0pm ET, and the Performance Racing Network (Terrestrial) along with Sirius XM Radio (Satellite) provided radio coverage starting at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204131-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America\nJimmie Johnson was the quickest in all three practice sessions and won the pole position for the race. He continued his performance throughout the race, leading a race-high of 92 laps before winning the race. He also increased his championship lead and chances for a fourth consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series was the 23rd season of the Camping World East Series, a touring series sanctioned by NASCAR. Matt Kobyluck entered the season as the defending drivers' champion. Ryan Truex won the championship, 34 points in front of Eddie MacDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series\nThis was the last season for the East Series with the Camping World title sponsorship. Because Camping World decided to be the title sponsor for the NASCAR Truck Series starting in 2009, they did not renew their title sponsorship of NASCAR's East and West Series after their contract for that ended at the end of the 2009 season. (So, they sponsored all three series for that year only.) K&N Filters became the new title sponsor for the East and West Series starting in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\nThe schedule was announced on December 24, 2008 with eleven races at ten different tracks. The series lost three tracks from last year's schedule (Stafford Motor Speedway, Music City Motorplex and Mansfield Motorsports Park) but gains one new track for this season (Tri-County Motor Speedway). The Tennessee State Fairgrounds was initially on the schedule but changes in management of the track (new management decided to eliminate NASCAR sanction) resulted in the loss of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\nFor the fourth year in a row, the regular season began at Greenville-Pickens Speedway on April 11. The series made its first appearance at Tri-County Motor Speedway two weeks later on April 25 before heading to Iowa for the series' third appearance at Iowa Speedway. The Iowa race was a combination East/West race where drivers from both series will compete against each other. Drivers are awarded points based on their finishing position against drivers in their series. (i.e. Highest finishing driver in the East gets first place points and the highest finishing driver in the West gets first place points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\nTraditional stops at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Thompson International Speedway, Adirondack International Speedway, and Lime Rock Park fill up the bulk of the summer schedule before the regular season finale at Dover International Speedway on September 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\nOn March 16, 2009, NASCAR announced that Speed Channel would broadcast each race as part of a one-hour special that would air on Thursdays at 3 p.m. ET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\nThe 2009 season Toyota All-Star Showdown was held on January 30, 2010, and was televised on Speed Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, Schedule\n1 All races will air tape-delayed on Speed Channel on Thursdays at 3pm ET2 Non-points event. This race airs live on Speed Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nThe NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet was held at Greenville-Pickens Speedway on April 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nBrian Ickler is hoping to use the NASCAR Camping World Series East as a launching pad. Performances like Saturday night at historic Greenville Pickens Speedway certainly don\u2019t hurt his cause, as Ickler led nearly every lap from start to finish in winning the season-opening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nIckler recorded his fourth career NASCAR Camping World Series East victory and seventh NASCAR Camping World Series victory overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nVeteran Jody Lavender scored a career-best second-place finish, while Eddie MacDonald finished third. Josh Richards and Brett Moffitt, both making their first career NASCAR starts, rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nIckler qualified second behind pole position winner Moffitt. A multi-car accident in Turn 1 on the start of the race caused a lengthy red flag before the end of the first lap. NASCAR decided to reset the lineup of the field with the exception of those cars involved in the accident and do a complete restart of the event. Several cars came into the pits to repair damage and would have to start at the rear of the field since they were considered to have pitted before the initial green flag. On the second attempt at the start, Ickler got the jump on Moffitt and quickly began to pull away from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nMacDonald, restarting on the outside of the front row, briefly took the lead by a nose on two restarts. Each time however, Ickler erased the lead and pulled out to a commanding lead. Ickler led four times for 146 laps. In addition, the victory gave Ickler a secured spot in the postseason NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown - a spot reserved for winners of the NASCAR Camping World Series events in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nFastest Qualifier: Brett Moffitt, Time: 20.691 Seconds, Speed: 86.994\u00a0mph (140.003\u00a0km/h)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nCautions: Laps 11-13; 45-48; 99-103; 106-111; 113-118; 129-132; 135-141; 144-146. 8 for 38 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nLap Leaders: Ickler 1-48, MacDonald 49, Ickler 50-111, MacDonald 112, Ickler 113-118, MacDonald 119-120, Ickler 121-150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet\nTop 10 Driver Points: Brian Ickler 190, Jody Lavender 170, Eddie MacDonald 170, Josh Richards 160, Brett Moffitt * 155, Patrick Long 150, Steve Park 146, Matt Kobyluck 142, Alan Tardiff 138, Matt DiBenedetto 134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 118], "content_span": [119, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nThe NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150 was held at Tri-County Motor Speedway on April 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nMatt DiBenedetto took just two starts to find Victory Lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nThe 17-year-old Grass Valley, Calif., driver passed Austin Dillon on a back-and-forth battle following a green-white-checkered finish to Saturday night\u2019s Tri-County 150 to earn his first career NASCAR Camping World Series East victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nDiBenedetto, a Joe Gibbs Racing development driver, and Dillon, a Richard Childress Racing development driver, swapped the lead six times over the second half of the race. The event was stretched to 165 laps due to a pair of late cautions. DiBenedetto led four times for 75 laps, while Dillon led three times for 15 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nOn the final restart, Dillon got the jump from the second spot to take the lead. DiBenedetto, however, was able to nose underneath as they came to the white flag and took the lead going into Turn 1 of the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nRookie Alan Tardiff earned his first Coors Light Pole Award earlier in the day and brought home his best finish with a third-place run. Jody Lavender took over the points lead with a fourth-place finish, while Patrick Long rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nFastest Qualifier: A.Tardiff *, 86.946\u00a0mph (139.926\u00a0km/h), 16.562 seconds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nLap Leaders: A. Tardiff 1-16; M. Kobyluck 17-75; M. DiBenedetto 76-101; A. Dillon 102-113; M. DiBenedetto 114-146; A. Dillon 147; M. DiBenedetto 148-162; A. Dillon 163-164; M. DiBenedetto 165", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nLaps Lead: Matt DiBenedetto 75, Matt Kobyluck 59, Alan Tardiff * 16, Austin Dillon 15", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204132-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series, 2009 Series Races, NASCAR Camping World Series East-Tri-County 150\nStandings: 1. J. Lavender, 330; 2. M. DiBenedetto, 324; 3. A. Tardiff, 308; 4. P. Long, 305; 5. E. MacDonald, 297; 6. M. Kobyluck, 281; 7. D. Armstrong, 273; 8. S. Park, 264; 9. D. Delaney, 262; 10. R. Duff, 260", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 105], "content_span": [106, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the fifteenth season of the Camping World Truck Series, the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. It was contested over twenty-five races, beginning with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The season was the first under the Camping World sponsorship banner. Camping World, announced on October 23, 2008, that they would sponsor the series for the next seven seasons. Ron Hornaday Jr. won and clinched the championship for Kevin Harvick, Inc. at Phoenix, one race early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, NextEra Energy Resources 250\nThe NextEra Energy Resources 250 was held on February 13 at Daytona International Speedway. Colin Braun won the pole for the event but Todd Bodine won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, NextEra Energy Resources 250\nFailed to qualify: Andy Lally (#28), Norm Benning (#57), Marc Mitchell (#89).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, NextEra Energy Resources 250\nNOTE: Ron Hornaday Jr. suffered a 25-point penalty for rule infractions found in his truck during post-race inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, San Bernardino County 200\nThe San Bernardino County 200 was held on February 21 at Auto Club Speedway. Kyle Busch won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, American Commercial Lines 200\nThe American Commercial Lines 200 was held on March 7 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch won his second consecutive pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Kroger 250\nThe Kroger 250 was held on March 30 at Martinsville Speedway. Rick Crawford won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, O'Reilly Auto Parts 250\nThe O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 was held on April 25 and 27 at Kansas Speedway. Ron Hornaday Jr. won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, North Carolina Education Lottery 200\nThe North Carolina Education Lottery 200 was held on May 15 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch won the pole based on owners' points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, North Carolina Education Lottery 200\nFailed to qualify: Wayne Edwards (#28), John Wes Townley (#09), Andy Ponstein (#02)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, AAA Insurance 200\nThe AAA Insurance 200 was held May 29 at Dover International Speedway. Ron Hornaday Jr. won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, WinStar World Casino 400\nThe WinStar World Casino 400 was held on June 5 at Texas Motor Speedway. Johnny Sauter won his first career pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Michigan 200\nThe Michigan 200 was held on June 13 at Michigan International Speedway. Brian Ickler won his first career pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Copart 200\nThe Copart 200 was held on June 20 at Milwaukee Mile. Brian Ickler won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, MemphisTravel.com 200\nThe MemphisTravel.com 200 was held on June 27 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Ron Hornaday Jr. won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Built Ford Tough 225\nThe Built Ford Tough 225 was held on July 18 at Kentucky Speedway. Ron Hornaday Jr. won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Built Ford Tough 225\nFailed to qualify: Ryan Mathews (#41), Jack Smith (#36), Dillon Oliver (#02)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, AAA Insurance 200\nThe AAA Insurance 200 was held on July 24 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Colin Braun won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Toyota Tundra 200\nThe Toyota Tundra 200 was held on August 1 at Nashville Superspeedway. Timothy Peters won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, O' Reilly 200\nThe O'Reilly 200 was held on August 19 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Ryan Newman won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, O' Reilly 200\nFailed to qualify: Tim Bainey Jr. (#00), Brandon Duchscherer (#83), Duane Bischoff (#27)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, EnjoyIllinois.com 225\nThe EnjoyIllinois.com 225 was held on August 28 at Chicagoland Speedway. Matt Crafton won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, EnjoyIllinois.com 225\nFailed to qualify: Michelle Theriault (#72), John Jackson (#92), Ryan Hackett (#76)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Lucas Oil 200\nThe Lucas Oil 200 was held on September 5 at Iowa Speedway. Mike Skinner won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Copart 200\nThe Copart 200 was held on September 12 at Gateway International Raceway. Colin Braun won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Copart 200\nFailed to qualify: Dillon Oliver (#02), Jack Smith (#36), Ben Stancill (#63)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Heluva Good! 200\nThe Heluva Good! 200 was held on September 19 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Mike Skinner won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Las Vegas 350\nThe Las Vegas 350 was held on September 26 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Todd Bodine won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Kroger 200\nThe Kroger 200 was held on October 24 at Martinsville Speedway. Mike Skinner won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Kroger 200\nFailed to qualify: Tim Bainey Jr. (#00), Chris Lafferty (#89), Dan Brode (#01)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Mountain Dew 250\nThe Mountain Dew 250 was held on October 31 at Talladega Superspeedway. Colin Braun won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, WinStar World Casino 350\nThe WinStar World Casino 350K was held on November 6 at Texas Motor Speedway. Matt Crafton won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, WinStar World Casino 350\nFailed to qualify: Lance Hooper (#65), Andy Ponstein (#02), John Jackson (#92)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Lucas Oil 150\nThe Lucas Oil 150 was held on November 13 at Phoenix International Raceway. Johnny Sauter won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204133-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Races, Ford 200\nThe Ford 200 was held on November 20 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Colin Braun won the Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204134-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World West Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Camping World West Series was the 56th season of Camping World West Series, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the Allstate Texas Thunder 150 at Thunderhill Raceway on March 14, 2009, and concluded with the Toyota/Copart 150 at All-American Speedway on September 26, 2009. Jason Bowles won the championship, 123 points in front of Eric Holmes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204134-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Camping World West Series\nThis was the last season for the West Series with the Camping World title sponsorship. Because Camping World decided to be the title sponsor for the NASCAR Truck Series starting in 2009, they did not renew their title sponsorship of NASCAR's East and West Series after their contract for that ended at the end of the 2009 season. (So, they sponsored all three series for that year only.) K&N Filters became the new title sponsor for the East and West Series starting in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204135-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series is the third racing season since the buy out of the CASCAR Super Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204135-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Highlights\nThe 2009 calendar is highlighted with a race added to Saskatchewan at the Auto Clearing Motor Speedway, a return to Delaware Speedway and the dates at Cayuga, Ontario removed. Important car changes are Joey Hanssen came from the Netherlands to run a second D. J. Kennington's car, J. R. Fitzpatrick has graduated to NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and will only run part-time and as well as American NASCAR star Cale Gale will run a couple of races. Again all of the races will air on TSN on tape delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204135-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Highlights\nThe 2009 season will be David Whitlock's last season as he started it off great with a win in Quebec. Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve made his series debut in the Tide 250 (4th race of the year) finishing last after wrecking out on the 1st lap where Scott Steckly went to victory lane. During the western road swing of races Andrew Ranger won two of the three taking the points lead with Steckly picking up the 3rd and the first ever race in Saskatchewan. Ranger then went on to win the next two races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204135-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Highlights\nMontreal is the most famed race, as it is paired with the NASCAR Nationwide Series. An eventful last lap ended with Scott Steckly on his roof and . R. Fitzpatrick picking up his first win of the season. At the end of the season Don Thomson Jr. finally won after a disappointing first half of the year at Barrie Speedway. Andrew Ranger ended up getting his 6th win of 13 and locking up the championship with a win at Riverside Speedway on September 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204135-0001-0003", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Highlights\nThe final weekend of racing took place at Kawartha Speedway where D. J. Kennington picked up his second win of the season. The race was delayed many times and was run on Sunday instead of Saturday due to rain. Andrew Ranger won his second championship in three years with the biggest points margin in series history. He will be eligible for the Toyota All-Star Shootout in January, looking to expand his NASCAR career to the next level. The 2009 Rookie of the year was Joey Hanssen, who beat out Dexter Stacey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Corona Series was the sixth season of the Corona Series, which was sanctioned by NASCAR Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series, New for this season\nAll five previous NASCAR Mexico series champions raced the full schedule in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series, New for this season\nThe Rookie of the Year championship adopted a points system similar to those used in NASCAR's national series, with points going from ten to one for rookies only, and bonus points for top-ten finishes in the overall race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series, 2009 calendar\nThe race calendar for this season and results is as follows: In this season was inaugurated the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional de Aguascalientes with the first race of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series, Results, Standings\n(key) Bold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0- Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204136-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Corona Series, Results, Rookie of the Year\nOnly the best 10 results count in the final classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series season was the first to be run under this name. It is the feeder division of the NASCAR Corona Series. It was formerly known as NASCAR Mexico T4 Series. Ernesto Guerrero ended up as series champion, edging out Erik Mondrag\u00f3n by just two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series, Cars\nThis year the series entered a transition stage, in which the field of front-wheel drive touring cars used in the T4 Series in previous years was changed for rear-wheel drive stock cars, as a way to help the drivers develop their abilities and prepare for the next steps in their careers. However, for this season the old front-wheel drive cars were grandfathered into the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series, Cars\nIronically, in the first two races of the season, the newly built rear-wheel drive cars were affected by reliability issues that have given some advantage to the drivers running with the old car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series, Cars\nIt was the first four-cylinder series in NASCAR since the mid-1990s Goody's Dash Series in the United States, which was a 4-cylinder series from its 1975 inception as the Baby Grand National, until 1998, when six-cylinder engines were permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series, Race calendar\nThe race calendar for this season and results is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204137-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series, Results, Standings\n(key) Bold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0- Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series began on February 14 at Daytona International Speedway with the Camping World 300. The season concluded on November 21 at Homestead\u2013Miami Speedway with the Ford 300. With 25 top-five finishes, Kyle Busch was the season champion. He finished 210 points clear of Carl Edwards and 318 ahead of Brad Keselowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Double-file restarts\nBefore the start of the season, NASCAR changed restart rules regarding the final moments of all races in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series. Previously, when the race was inside the final ten laps, all cars/trucks on the lead lap were in a single-file restart in that window. As of the 2009 season, the window changed to the final 20 laps. The \"lucky dog\"/\"free pass\" rule was still be eliminated in the last ten laps of a race. This rule will not matter starting at the July Daytona race, with the addition of \"Double-File Restarts Shootout Style.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Double-file restarts\nAfter being successful in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR will implement a double-file restart system starting at the July Daytona race. The entire field will line up double-file, much like the start of the race at every restart. The leaders and other lead lap cars are now in front always when taking the green flag. Cars who choose to stay out and not pit during a caution flag who are in front of the leaders are now waved-around to restart (double file) at the back of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Double-file restarts\nThe lucky dog/free pass rule is now in effect the entire distance of the race, and the double-file restarts are for every restart, including green-white-checkered finishes. The only reason cars do not line up double-file in the order they are position wise on the leaderboard is if they are serving a penalty (in most cases, for pit road violations). The leader of the race also has the option of selecting which lane, inside or outside, to restart in, however, the 3rd place car (and 5th, 7th, and so on) will always restart on the inside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Schedule\n\u2663 \u2013 Race ran at night, or started in the late afternoon, and finished at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Camping World 300\nThe Camping World 300 was held February 14 at Daytona International Speedway. Kevin Harvick took the pole but Tony Stewart won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Camping World 300\nDid not qualify: Larry Foyt (#56), Johnny Chapman (#90), Stanton Barrett (#31), Terry Cook (#91), Derrike Cope (#41), Johnny Borneman, III (#22).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Stater Brothers 300\nThe Stater Brothers 300 was held February 21 at Auto Club Speedway. Carl Edwards took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Stater Brothers 300\nDid not qualify: Scott Wimmer (#40), Johnny Borneman, III (#22), Mike Harmon (#84), Andy Ponstein (#02).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Sam's Town 300\nThe Sam's Town 300 was held February 28 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Scott Speed took the pole but Greg Biffle won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Sam's Town 300\nDid not qualify: Derrike Cope (#41), Kertus Davis (#49), Johnny Borneman, III (#22), Mike Harmon (#84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Scotts Turf Builder 300\nThe Scotts Turf Builder 300 was held March 21 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Brendan Gaughan got his first Nationwide series career pole but Kevin Harvick won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Scotts Turf Builder 300\nDid not qualify: Mark Green (#70), Kertus Davis (#49), Brad Teague (#55), Brian Keselowski (#26), Stanton Barrett (#31), Mike Harmon (#84), Benny Gordon (#72).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, O'Reilly 300\nThe O'Reilly 300 was held April 4 at Texas Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, O'Reilly 300\nDid not qualify: Scott Wimmer (#40), Josh Wise (#43), Brian Keselowski (#26), Kertus Davis (#49), Kerry Earnhardt (#31), Mike Harmon (#84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Nashville 300\nThe Nashville 300 was held on April 11 Nashville Superspeedway. Joey Logano won his 2nd career NNS race. 1992 series champion Joe Nemechek took a wild ride after contact with several cars and flipped once. The car was fine, and he drove it around the track a few times before being black-flagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Nashville 300\nDid not qualify: Brad Teague (#52), Andy Ponstein (#02), Mike Harmon (#84), Ryan Hackett (#76), Mark Green (#0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Bashas' Supermarket 200\nThe Bashas' Supermarket 200 was held April 17 at Phoenix International Raceway. Carl Edwards took the pole but Greg Biffle won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Bashas' Supermarket 200\nDid not qualify: Kenny Hendrick (#42), Andy Ponstein (#02), Mike Harmon (#84), Dennis Setzer (#96).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Aaron's 312\nThe Aaron's 312 was held April 25 at Talladega Superspeedway. David Ragan edged out Ryan Newman by .030 of a second for his first win in any of NASCAR's three top-tier series. Matt Kenseth had a scary wreck in which he flipped 3 times on the backstretch. The defending Daytona 500 champion was uninjured, though.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Aaron's 312\nDid not qualify: Johnny Chapman (#90), Justin Hobgood (#91), Scott Wimmer (#40), Mike Harmon (#84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Lipton Tea 250\nThe Lipton Tea 250 was held May 1 at Richmond International Raceway. Matt Kenseth took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Lipton Tea 250\nDid not qualify: Kevin Hamlin (#52), Kenny Hendrick (#42), Travis Kittleson (#31), John Wes Townley (#09), Mike Harmon (#84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Diamond Hill Plywood 200\nThe Diamond Hill Plywood 200 was held May 8 at Darlington Raceway. The qualify rained out so Kyle Busch started 1st but Matt Kenseth won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Diamond Hill Plywood 200\nDid not qualify: Dennis Setzer (#96), Paul Menard (#98), Derrike Cope (#73), Justin Hobgood (#41).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, CarQuest Auto Parts 300\nThe CarQuest Auto Parts 300 was held May 23 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Carl Edwards took the pole. The race was shortened to 170 laps due to rain so Mike Bliss won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, CarQuest Auto Parts 300\nDid not qualify: Morgan Shepherd (#89), Casey Atwood (#05), John Wes Townley (#09), Kevin Lepage (#52), Kertus Davis (#49), Marc Davis (#36), Mike Harmon (#84).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Heluva Good! 200\nThe Heluva Good! 200 was held May 30 at Dover International Speedway. Joey Logano took the pole but Brad Keselowski won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Federated Auto Parts 300\nThe Federated Auto Parts 300 was held June 6 at Nashville Superspeedway and was dominated by Kyle Busch. This was his first win in Nashville. The victory made news as Kyle smashed the trophy \u2013 a custom painted Gibson guitar \u2013 in victory lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Meijer 300\nThe Meijer 300 was held June 13 at Kentucky Speedway. Joey Logano took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Meijer 300\nDid not qualify: Jeff Green (#91), J. C. Stout (#19), Benny Gordon (#72), Blake Bjorklund (#96), Kevin Lepage (#52), Travis Kittleson (#31).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, NorthernTool.com 250\nThe NorthernTool.com 250 was held June 20 at Milwaukee Mile. Erik Darnell got his first Nationwide series career pole but Carl Edwards won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, NorthernTool.com 250\nDid not qualify: Morgan Shepherd (#89), Kevin Lepage (#52), Stanton Barrett (#41), John Wes Townley (#09).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Camping World RV Sales 200 presented by Turtle Wax\nThe Camping World RV Sales 200 presented by Turtle Wax was held June 27 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Joey Logano won the pole for the third straight race he attempted. Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Camping World RV Sales 200 presented by Turtle Wax\nDid not qualify: Justin Hobgood (#41), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Kertus Davis (#04), Mike Wallace (#0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Subway Jalape\u00f1o 250\nThe Subway Jalape\u00f1o 250 was held July 3 at Daytona International Speedway. Clint Bowyer took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Subway Jalape\u00f1o 250\nDid not qualify: Terry Cook (#91), Brian Keselowski (#26), Mike Wallace (#0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Dollar General 300 (Chicagoland)\nThe Dollar General 300 was held July 10 at Chicagoland Speedway. Carl Edwards took the pole but Joey Logano won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Dollar General 300 (Chicagoland)\nDid not qualify: Johnny Chapman (#90), J. C. Stout (#19), Stanton Barrett (#31), Kevin Hamlin (#52), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Brian Keselowski (#96).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250\nThe Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 was held July 18 at Gateway International Raceway. Brad Keselowski took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250\nDid not qualify: Morgan Shepherd (#89), Jeff Green (#85), Kertus Davis (#04), Joe Ruttman (#71), Stanton Barrett (#31), Brad Teague (#52).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kroger 200\nThe Kroger 200 was held July 25 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Trevor Bayne took the pole but Carl Edwards won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kroger 200\nDid not qualify: Dennis Setzer (#96), Brian Keselowski (#26), Joe Ruttman (#71), John Wes Townley (#09), Mike Wallace (#0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, U.S. Cellular 250\nThe U.S. Cellular 250 was held August 1 and was the inaugural Nationwide series race at Iowa Speedway. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Justin Allgaier tied for the pole but Stenhouse started 1st. Brad Keselowski won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, U.S. Cellular 250\nDid not qualify: Shelby Howard (#70), Peyton Sellers (#77), Kenny Hendrick (#75), Derrike Cope (#78), Andy Ponstein (#96), Jack Smith (#52), Chris Horn (#58).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Zippo 200\nThe Zippo 200 was held August 8 at Watkins Glen International. Kevin Harvick took the pole but Marcos Ambrose won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Zippo 200\nDid not qualify: Peyton Sellers (#77), Daryl Harr (#31), Brad Baker (#05), Scott Gaylord (#52), Brett Rowe (#75).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Carfax 250\nThe Carfax 250 was held August 15 at Michigan International Speedway. Brian Vickers took the pole but Brad Keselowski won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Carfax 250\nDid not qualify: Kevin Lepage (#73), Jason White (#07), Casey Atwood (#05), Kertus Davis (#0), Derrike Cope (#78), J. C. Stout (#19), Morgan Shepherd (#89), John Wes Townley (#09).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Food City 250\nThe Food City 250 was held August 21 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Brad Keselowski took the pole but David Ragan won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Food City 250\nDid not qualify: Dennis Setzer (#96), Kertus Davis (#0), Shelby Howard (#70), Travis Kittleson (#31), Scott Lagasse Jr. (#42), Morgan Shepherd (#89).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge\nAll practice and qualifying was done in the wet using rain tires. The final 16 laps of the race were also run under wet conditions using rain tires. For the third consecutive year, Marcos Ambrose dominated the race, but he blew the final corner by jumping over the curb too high, giving Edwards the win. Ambrose also won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Degree Men V12 300\nThe Degree Men V12 300 was held September 5 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. took the pole but Kevin Harvick won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Degree Men V12 300\nDid not qualify: Derrike Cope (#73), Morgan Shepherd (#89), John Wes Townley (#09), J. C. Stout (#0), Tony Ave (#52).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Virginia 529 College Savings 250\nThe Virginia 529 College Savings 250 was held September 11 at Richmond International Raceway. Denny Hamlin took the pole but Carl Edwards won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Virginia 529 College Savings 250\nDid not qualify: Derrike Cope (#73), Casey Atwood (#05), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Chris Lawson (#52).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Dover 200\nThe Dover 200 was held September 26 at Dover International Speedway. Kyle Busch took the pole but Clint Bowyer won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kansas Lottery 300\nThe Kansas Lottery 300 was held October 3 at Kansas Speedway. Parker Kligerman got his first Nationwide series career pole. Joey Logano won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kansas Lottery 300\nDid not qualify: Michael McDowell (#96), Kevin Hamlin (#52), Willie Allen (#92), Derrike Cope (#73), Jennifer Jo Cobb (#79), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Chris Horn (#58), Andy Ponstein (#02).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Copart 300\nThe Copart 300 was held October 10 at Auto Club Speedway. Joey Logano took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Copart 300\nDid not qualify: Stanton Barrett (#31), Jarit Johnson (#44), Casey Atwood (#05).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Dollar General 300 (Charlotte)\nThe Dollar General 300 was held October 16 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Carl Edwards took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Dollar General 300 (Charlotte)\nDid not qualify: Terry Cook (#91), Kevin Lepage (#78), Casey Atwood (#05), Derrike Cope (#73), Peyton Sellers (#77), Morgan Shepherd (#89).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kroger on Track for the Cure 250\nThe Kroger on Track for the Cure 250 was held October 24 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Justin Allgaier got his first Nationwide career pole. Kyle Busch nudged Brad Keselowski on the final turn but Keselowski held on and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Kroger on Track for the Cure 250\nDid not qualify: Johnny Chapman (#90), Todd Kluever (#42), Kevin Lepage (#78), Nick Joanides (#31), Mark Green (#49), Jarit Johnson (#44), Brad Teague (#52).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, O'Reilly Challenge\nThe O'Reilly Challenge was held November 7 at Texas Motor Speedway. Matt Kenseth took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, O'Reilly Challenge\nDid not qualify: Casey Atwood (#85), Mike Harmon (#84), Andy Ponstein (#02).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Able Body Labor 200\nThe Able Body Labor 200 was held November 14 at Phoenix International Raceway. Denny Hamlin won the pole with a new track record. Carl Edwards won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Able Body Labor 200\nDid not qualify: Chris Lawson (#52), Blake Koch (#05), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Daryl Harr (#31).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Ford 300\nThe Ford 300 was held November 21 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Carl Edwards won the pole. Kyle Busch won the race and the championship. Denny Hamlin also spun Brad Keselowski earlier in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Races, Ford 300\nDid not qualify: Jeremy Clements (#0), Chase Austin (#58), Johnny Borneman, III (#83), Parker Kligerman (#22), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Eddie MacDonald (#39), Jennifer Jo Cobb (#84), Brian Keselowski (#96), Benny Gordon (#72).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204138-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Final standings, Full Drivers' Championship\n(key)\u00a0Bold\u00a0\u2013 Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0\u2013 Pole position set by owner's points. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race\nThe NASCAR Sprint Showdown and Sprint All-Star Race XXV was the 25th Anniversary running of NASCAR's special non-points race involving winners of the 2008 and 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races through the 2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com as well as Sprint All-Star Race XV-XXIV winners, and past Sprint Cup champions from the decade covering 1999 to 2008. The event was run Saturday night, May 16, 2009, at the 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) Lowe's Motor Speedway in the Charlotte, North Carolina suburb of Concord. Both the All-Star Race and the Showdown were broadcast on Speed in the United States while MRN broadcast it on the radio and Sirius XM Radio on satellite radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Eligible drivers and teams\nThe following drivers qualified for the race in these categories:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Eligible drivers and teams, Past Cup champion drivers\nThe following six drivers fit into the past Champions category:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Eligible drivers and teams, Past All-Star Race winning drivers\nThe following five drivers were eligible as a past winner of the event in the last decade:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Eligible drivers and teams, 2008 and 2009 race winners\nThe following seven drivers were eligible by winning a Sprint Cup points race in 2008 or 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Eligible drivers and teams, Received the 2009 Fan Vote\nNOTE: Joey Logano was the youngest driver to race the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race in the 25 years of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Qualifying\nThe qualifying for the Showdown, which was scheduled for May 15 was cancelled for the first time in history, due to rain. Usually, NASCAR rules state that the cars would start on the rulebook factor (top 35 owners, plus qualifying attempts and past champions), but as this was a non-points race, the cars starting position were based on the qualifying order draw. And as a result, Kirk Shelmerdine was on the pole. However, he and outside pole winner Carl Long started from the back as neither had presented their cars on time, so David Stremme and Dave Blaney started the race up front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Qualifying\nFor the All-Star Race, the format is different from the regular qualifying that occurs in the weekly events. There are three laps, including a four-tire pit stop following either the first or second lap with penalties for loose lugnuts and violating the pit road speed limit on entry. Jimmie Johnson had the fastest time, and started on the pole. Tony Stewart only took two tires but then backed up and changed the other two tires on his pit stop. He did not receive a penalty since he went back and changed the other two tires, but it did cause him to start 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Format change\nFor 2009, the race remained 100 laps, but the four segments were altered. The first \"quarter\" consisted of 50 laps, with a mandatory green flag pit stop at Lap 25. This was followed by two 20-lap segments, then a ten-minute intermission and a final, 10-green flag lap shootout for the cash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Format change\nAlso, only drivers qualified for the race, unlike previous years, where drivers and teams both qualified for the event by winning a race from the 2008 Daytona 500 until the 2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Format change\nSam Hornish Jr. and Jamie McMurray finished 1st and 2nd in the Sprint Showdown (a pair of 20-lap races\u201420 laps in the first, 20 green flag laps in the second). Sprint customers and fan balloting onsite at NASCAR events voted in Joey Logano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Skills challenges, Pit Crew Challenge presented by Craftsman\nThe \"Skills Challenges\" of the Sprint All-Star Race began with the May 14 Craftsman NASCAR All-Star Pit Crew Challenge at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. A winning pit crew - the Jeff Burton #31 RCR team \u2013 and individual tire changers, carriers, and fuelers were crowned as champions of the skills challenge. For winning the event, the Burton team got the first pick on pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Skills challenges, Pennzoil Victory Challenge\nThe second annual Pennzoil Victory Challenge was held as part of the pre-race activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Skills challenges, Pennzoil Victory Challenge\nThis year's event was changed from a timing skills to a freestyle event similar to NBA Slam-Dunk and NHL Trick Shot challenges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Skills challenges, Pennzoil Victory Challenge\nKevin Harvick won the event, beating Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon, Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch and Darrell Waltrip", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Skills challenges, Pennzoil Victory Challenge\nHarvick challenged the Fox Sports analyst, who won Sprint All-Star Race I, to the event on an episode of Trackside Live! on Speed, and Waltrip, who had driven for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. with the #1 Chevrolet in 1998, accepted Harvick's challenge to participate in the Victory Challenge as part of Sprint All-Star Race XXV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Carl Long's record penalty\nIn practice  for the Sprint Showdown, Carl Long blew a motor and requested to change his engine. Per NASCAR procedure and the one-engine per weekend rule, NASCAR confiscated the blown motor and allowed Long to change his engine. However, in inspecting the blown engine, the engine was found to be 358.17 cubic inches, 0.17 cubic inches too big. (NASCAR reportedly has a tolerance to 0.10 cubic cm.) Long was penalized 200 driver and owner points (despite the race being a non-points event), crew chief Charles Swing was fined $200,000, and the team was suspended for 12 races, a record penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Carl Long's record penalty\nLong appealed, claiming the excessive size was due to engine wear and the blowing-up of the engine. He also said the engine had 50 less horsepower that NASCAR's top teams despite being 0.17 cubic cm too big. After initially not being able to pay the fine, a number of donations, including some from NASCAR drivers has allowed the fine to be paid. Although Long lost his appeal, the appeals board did allow Long to compete in lower-level racing series, such as NASCAR Nationwide Series races. The penalty was later reduced from 12 to eight races, but the $200,000 fine was retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204139-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Carl Long's record penalty\nThe $200,000 fine record was broken in 2013 when Michael Waltrip Racing was fined $300,000 for their involvement in Spingate. Long was eventually reinstated and cleared to compete in the Cup Series in May 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series\nThe 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 61st season of professional stock car racing in the United States, the 38th modern-era Cup series, and the last Cup season of the 21st century's first decade, the 2000s. The season included 36 races and two exhibition races with the regular season beginning with the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The final ten races were known as 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. Rick Hendrick won the Owners' Championship, while Jimmie Johnson won the Drivers' Championship with a fifth-place finish at the final race of the season. Chevrolet won the Manufacturers' Championship with 248 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series\n2009 was the first season without NASCAR legends Dale Jarrett (since 1983) and Kyle Petty (since 1978) after they both retired following the 2008 season. It was also, significantly, the first in Cup Series history in which no Petty family driver competed during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Teams and drivers, Complete schedule\nBecause of the merger of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. with Chip Ganassi Racing, the No. 01 and No. 15 teams closed after the 2008 season. However, the owners' points from the No. 15 were transferred to the No. 34, while points from either the No. 01 or No. 41 was transferred to the No. 07, with the No. 33 car, owned by Richard Childress, receiving the other. (NASCAR allows for a transfer if the original owner maintains some stake in the team to which points are transferred.) 2009 also saw the demise of Petty Enterprises, which merged with Gillette Evernham Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Teams and drivers, Complete schedule\nThe new company would be called Richard Petty Motorsports, forming a 4 car team with Kasey Kahne in the No. 9, Elliott Sadler in the No. 19, Reed Sorenson driving the famed No. 43, and A. J. Allmendinger driving the No. 44. Also Bill Davis Racing was bought by Triad Racing, however the No. 22 was bought by Penske Racing with Bill Davis holding minority interest. The No. 22's points were transferred to the No. 77, thus guaranteeing that car a spot in the Daytona 500 should all other transfers occur. There were 41 full-time teams in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Economic effects, Mergers, contractions, and alliances\nThe economic crisis of 2008 caused problems even before the 2009 season began. While gas (and diesel) prices came down to nearly $2.00 per gallon, corporate America was reluctant to shell out millions of dollars to sponsor teams due to the volatility of the stock market. As a result, Chip Ganassi Racing merged with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to form Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. They fielded the No. 1 and No. 8 from DEI and No. 42 from Ganassi, and shut down the DEI No. 01", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 105], "content_span": [106, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Economic effects, Mergers, contractions, and alliances\nand No. 15 teams as well as Ganassi's No. 40 and No. 41 teams, as the No. 40 was a full-time team in 2008 until July, when it was closed for a lack of sponsorship. The No. 42 team will run under the Chevrolet banner under the merger as it changes from Dodge. In addition, Front Row Motorsports has EGR support for their No. 34 car, to be driven by John Andretti. On January 19, Petty Enterprises merged with Gillett Evernham Motorsports for the merger with Petty's famous No. 43 joining the newly renamed Richard Petty Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 105], "content_span": [106, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Economic effects, Mergers, contractions, and alliances\nOn December 22, 2008, Bill Davis Racing was sold to California businessman Mike Held and BDR vice president Marty Gaunt, and was renamed Triad Racing Development. Hall of Fame Racing announced an alliance with Yates Racing on January 13, 2009, and named Bobby Labonte as the new driver of the No. 96 team as they move from Toyota to Ford. The first in-season casualty was the No. 28 team of Travis Kvapil owned by Yates Racing, ceasing operations following the Food City 500 on March 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 105], "content_span": [106, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0003-0003", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Economic effects, Mergers, contractions, and alliances\nOn April 7, the second casualty of the season was the famous No. 8, which folded because of a lack of sponsorship, leaving Aric Almirola without a ride. On September 10, it was announced that Yates Racing and RPM would merge, closing the No. 44 and No. 96 teams as a result for the 2010 season and the No. 9, No. 19 and No. 43 teams will switch to Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 105], "content_span": [106, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, The elimination of testing\nOn November 14, 2008, NASCAR announced, as another cost-cutting measure, that teams will no longer be allowed to test on NASCAR-sanctioned tracks in all three major series. Traditionally, they had had preseason tests at Daytona and Las Vegas, along with as many as four additional in-season sessions at tracks, but all teams also use unsanctioned tracks (such as Rockingham Speedway) for their tests. The testing ban covers all tracks used on NASCAR's three national series, plus tracks that host events in the Camping World East and West circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, The elimination of testing\nThis radically reduces the number of tracks that can be used for testing, with Rockingham being one of the few major tracks still available. This meant that the annual \"Pre-Season Thunder\" testing events, which covered all three major touring series at Daytona was cancelled for 2009. However, a fan fest remained in place with the thunder provided by the Richard Petty Driving Experience for fans to ride in a special two-seat stock car. However, Goodyear will still conduct tire tests, such as at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A total of seven tests were conducted at Indianapolis following the 2008 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard tire debacle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, The elimination of testing, Reduction in manufacturer support\nFollowing General Motors' bankruptcy, GM cut all financial support in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series, and considerably reduced financial support in the Sprint Cup Series. Similarly, the Chrysler bankruptcy led to several Dodge Sprint Cup teams, including Richard Petty Motorsports, losing their manufacturer support; as stated earlier, RPM will merge with Yates and have the No. 9, No. 19 and No. 43 cars switch to Ford for the 2010 season. Dodge claims that \"funding is on hold.\" Toyota gave a small reduction in funding before the season, but has not made any mid-season cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, The elimination of testing, Reduction in manufacturer support\nRumors have floated that Toyota may leave the Camping World Truck Series or Nationwide Series; the automaker has denied these reports. Ford, the healthiest of all the automakers, continues funding at pre-crisis levels. From the 2005 season it has been rumored that Honda will join the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series, and the rumor gets stronger entering the 2009 season, as Dodge claimed its funding on hold. This was denied by the manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Town-hall meeting\nOn Tuesday, May 26, 2009, NASCAR held a town-hall meeting closed to the public and media with its drivers and owners to discuss a range of topics. Major topics discussed included the Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse suspension controversy, along with double-file restarts, the controversial Car of Tomorrow, sponsorship, testing, the reduction in TV ratings and attendance, and competition in general. All attendees considered the meeting a success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Double-file restarts\nBefore the start of the season, NASCAR changed restart rules regarding the final moments of all races in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series. Previously, when the race was inside the final ten laps, all cars/trucks on the lead lap were in a single-file restart in that window. As of the 2009 season, the window changed to the final 20 laps. The \"lucky dog\"/\"free pass\" rule will still be eliminated in the last ten laps of a race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Double-file restarts\nHowever, before the June Pocono race, the entire restart procedure changed entirely in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. After being run successfully at the NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star Race and in the Budweiser Shootout, NASCAR implemented a double-file restart system starting at Pocono for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. This change came at the request of fans, drivers, owners, and the media and as a result in a decrease in TV ratings during the NASCAR on Fox portion of the season. (The June Pocono race was the first race of the 2009 season on TNT.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Double-file restarts\nThe entire field will line up double-file, much like the start of the race at every restart. The leaders and other lead lap cars are now in front always when taking the green flag. Cars who choose to stay out and not pit during a caution flag who are in front of the leaders are now waved-around to restart (double file) at the back of the field. The lucky dog/free pass rule is now in effect the entire distance of the race, and the double-file restarts are for every restart, including green-white-checkered finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Double-file restarts\nThe only reasons cars do not line up double-file in the order they are position wise on the leaderboard is if they are serving a penalty (in most cases, for pit road violations). The leader of the race also has the option of selecting which lane, inside or outside, to restart in, however, the 3rd place car (and 5th, 7th, and so on) will always restart on the inside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Double-file restarts\nThe new restart procedure began in the NASCAR Nationwide Series on July 3 at Daytona. NASCAR said it will not be it in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series until at least 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Suspension\nTwo hours prior to the race at Darlington, NASCAR announced that driver Jeremy Mayfield has been suspended for a substance abuse policy violation. Mayfield said that the positive test was due to an interaction between a prescription drug and an over-the-counter drug. Mayfield had failed to qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 106], "content_span": [107, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Suspension\nMayfield violated his suspension by being at Lowe's Motor Speedway for a press conference during the all-star race weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 106], "content_span": [107, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Suspension\nThe suspension is indefinite until Mayfield completes NASCAR's substance abuse program, which includes rehabilitation and additional testing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 106], "content_span": [107, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Controversy\nIn the ensuing days and weeks following the initial suspension, NASCAR was widely criticized by fans, drivers, owners, the media, and the World Anti- Doping Agency for not publicly identifying the drug found in Mayfield's test and failing to publish its drug policy or a list of banned substances. NASCAR's drug policy was later published and reports and court filings (see below) indicate that the test was positive for amphetamines. Despite releasing this information, NASCAR has still not published a definitive list of banned substances, leading to continued criticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 107], "content_span": [108, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Controversy\nHowever, NASCAR addressed the issue in its May meeting with the NASCAR owners and drivers, who now say they understand why NASCAR doesn't publish a list. Nonetheless, some remained skeptical of NASCAR's intentions, claiming that \"if NASCAR sees something they don't like, they can suspend anyone at anytime.\" In the middle of the controversy, NASCAR randomly tested 10 NASCAR drivers, officials, and crew members during a rain delay at the Coca-Cola 600 during Memorial Day weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 107], "content_span": [108, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Controversy\nESPN reported on June 9 that Mayfield tested positive for methamphetamines. This was later confirmed in court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 107], "content_span": [108, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Lawsuit\nMayfield sued NASCAR to have his suspension lifted. Mayfield says that he had taken Claritin-D, an allergy drug, in addition to Adderall, a prescription medication used to treat attention deficit disorder. Adderall is an amphetamine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Lawsuit\nAn initial court hearing for a restraining order that would have allowed Mayfield to compete at Dover was ruled in NASCAR's favor. Mayfield's team, which has been taken over by his wife and driver J. J. Yeley, withdrew from the race at Dover. Mayfield sold his team in late July to raise funds for his legal defense. NASCAR has said that Mayfield's team may continue to compete with a different driver and under a different owner. Since Mayfield is suspended, he cannot be in the NASCAR garage area or anywhere where a NASCAR license is required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Lawsuit\nNASCAR has successfully moved the case to federal court. NASCAR has also countersued Mayfield, accusing the suspended driver of willfully violating the substance abuse policy, breach of contract, and defrauding competitors of earnings. Mayfield earned approximately $150,000 from May 1 in NASCAR earnings. May 1 is when Mayfield claims he began taking the Claritin-D. On June 25, Mayfield formally denied ever taking methamphetamines in a pre-hearing affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, while NASCAR said that the test results proved he was a chronic user of meth and was a danger to public safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Lawsuit\nOn July 1, U.S. District Court granted Mayfield a temporary injunction that lifted Mayfield's suspension and allowed him to resume his role as driver and owner. The court ruled the damage to Mayfield and was far exceeding the damage to NASCAR, and that there was a high probability that the second test sample was compromised. Mayfield did not return to the track, as his race team was low on funds and sponsors did not want to associate with Mayfield. He sold his team in late July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Lawsuit\nOn July 7, NASCAR appealed the U.S. District Court's ruling. On July 8, NASCAR formally filed an appeal with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one step away from the United States Supreme Court. NASCAR claimed that the district court's ruling undermines NASCAR's ability to police drug use and is asking that Mayfield may be re-suspended. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals granted NASCAR a motion to re-suspend Mayfield on July 24 following a second drug test. NASCAR re-suspended Mayfield immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Second drug test\nOn July 7, Mayfield submitted to a drug test. NASCAR said Mayfield was notified by an Aegis representative at 1:18\u00a0pm Monday to report to a nearby testing center within two hours, but the driver said he had to first speak to his attorney. After a delay, Mayfield's attorney told NASCAR that Mayfield couldn't get to the center by 3:18\u00a0pm, so NASCAR said it found a lab closer to his location. At 3:45\u00a0pm, Mayfield called the lab to say he was close but lost, and a receptionist offered to talk him the rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Second drug test\nNASCAR said Mayfield told the lab he would call right back but no one was contacted until 5:30\u00a0pm, when Mayfield's attorney called NASCAR to inform them Mayfield could not find the location so the lawyer had sent him to an independent laboratory. Two testers and a NASCAR security officer arrived at Mayfield's home in Catawba County, N.C., at 7:20\u00a0pm, could not gain access for 10 minutes, and then weren't able to persuade Mayfield to give a sample until 8:20\u00a0pm. NASCAR called this seven-hour layover between the time requested for a test and the time a test was given a \"classic delay tactic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Second drug test\nOn July 15, NASCAR filed documents in U.S. District Court that indicated that Mayfield had once again tested positive for methamphetamines. In addition to the second test results, NASCAR also submitted an affidavit from Mayfield's stepmother in which she says that Mayfield used meth over 30 times in 7 years through snorting it up his nose. Mayfield says that \"Brian France talking about effective drug programs is like having Al Capone talking about effective law enforcement,\" and that \"I don't trust anything NASCAR does, anything (program administrator) Dr. David Black does, never have, never will.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Second drug test\nAs for his stepmother, Mayfield says that \"She's basically a whore. She shot and killed my dad.\" Lisa Mayfield (Jeremy's stepmother) has since filed a lawsuit suing Mayfield for $20,000 in damages. Mayfield says that he has been tested almost daily by an independent lab and every test result has come back negative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Second drug test\nMayfield Motorsports' general manager resigned the same day, hours before the test results were released. The team has since been sold, and a few expect Mayfield to return to the track soon, if ever again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 112], "content_span": [113, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Major news stories, Jeremy Mayfield substance abuse controversy, Effect on drug testing\nMany drivers have said that since the controversy began, the drug testing time has gone from a quick 5-minute in and out to a prolonged 45-minute process that includes identity verification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 118], "content_span": [119, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Schedule\nThe most significant schedule changes in the 2009 NASCAR schedule realignment included the addition of the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway to the 2009 Chase, the shifting of the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway to a later autumn date, and the placement of the Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway to Labor Day weekend as a night race. Additionally, there was a fourth off-week between the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway and the Pep Boys 500. The schedule changes are listed in boldface on the chart below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nIn their third year of the current NASCAR television agreement, Fox carried the Bud Shootout, the Daytona 500 and the first 13 races through Dover's June race. Fox-owned Speed Channel aired the Gatorade Duels and Sprint All Star Race XXV. TNT then picked up the next six races starting at Pocono including the summer race at Daytona, the Coke Zero 400 with its \"wide open format\" coverage and ending at Chicago. The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard started ESPN/ABC's coverage, including the entire Chase for the Sprint Cup on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nNew to Fox telecasts was 3-D CGI animated adventures of \"Digger\", the network's gopher cam mascot and his friends, Annie, Marbles, Grandpa and rival Lumpy Wheels (named after former Lowe's Motor Speedway chief Humpy Wheeler). According to Digger's backstory, created by Fox Sports chairman David Hill, Digger lives underground at Talladega Superspeedway. The characters were also used in segues into and out of commercial breaks. However, Digger later became a harbor of criticism, as well as what most have cited as a cause of a deeper ratings decline than in years past, adding to already lower-than-normal ratings. More is mentioned here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nHours before the July New Hampshire race on TNT, Bill Weber was removed from the broadcast booth and replaced by Ralph Sheheen for undisclosed personal reasons. TNT and NASCAR announced on July 1 that Sheheen would replace Weber for the final two races on TNT at Daytona and Chicagoland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nThe annual changes at ABC/ESPN continue. Mike Massaro became a third host of NASCAR Now on ESPN2; Vince Welch replaced Massaro on pit road and Marty Reid is doing selected Nationwide Series events as well. But ESPN continues to face heavy criticism from NASCAR fans in result of bored announcers, bad camera work, excessive commercials and lack of post-race coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nOn radio, Sirius XM Radio will carry all races in the series. Terrestrial radio rights are being handled as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, United States\nSpeed (replacing ESPN Classic) and MRN will be the broadcasters at the annual Sprint Cup Banquet at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel Casino in said city on December 4. Las Vegas replaces New York City as the host after 27 years there, 26 of the banquets being staged in The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, Other North American channels\nIn Canada, TSN and TSN 2 covered the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, International\nIn Australia, Fox Sports showed all of the Sprint Cup races live across their networks. Network Ten also showed Qualifying, Final Practice (Happy Hour), a 1-hour highlights package and selected races live on its new digital sports multichannel, ONE.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, International\nIn Portugal, all races this season were telecast on SportTv 3, while in Sweden, Viasat Motor televised the races. In nearby Finland, Urheilu+Kanava telecasted the season's events, and in Great Britain and Ireland, the whole season was again telecasted on Sky Sports, in Spain Teledeporte televised six races of the season live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Television and radio, International\nIn Latin America all the races were broadcast on Speed Latin America. They did not telecast practices or qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Budweiser Shootout\nThe Budweiser Shootout, ran on February 7, is an exhibition race that traditionally is contested by all pole winners from the previous season. This year however, after an announcement made during the previous season, the top six teams from each competing manufacturer based on 2008 owner's points, plus a wild card entry from each manufacturer would be entered to run this race. Paul Menard drew the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Gatorade Duels\nThe Gatorade Duels, held on February 12, are a pair of qualifying races to set the field for the Daytona 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 80], "content_span": [81, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, 2009 Daytona 500\nThe 2009 Daytona 500 was held on February 15. Martin Truex Jr. qualified on the pole. On lap 152, the race was halted because of rain and when NASCAR determined they could not get the race restarted, the race was called official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, 2009 Daytona 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 87 \u2013 Joe Nemechek, No. 08 \u2013 Boris Said, No. 09 \u2013 Brad Keselowski, No. 27 \u2013 Kirk Shelmerdine, No. 71 \u2013 Mike Wallace, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 73 \u2013 Mike Garvey, No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 23 \u2013 Mike Skinner, No. 51 \u2013 Kelly Bires, No. 46 \u2013 Carl Long, No. 64 \u2013 Geoff Bodine, No. 57 \u2013 Norm Benning, No. 60 \u2013 James Hylton (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Auto Club 500\nThe Auto Club 500 was run on February 22 at Auto Club Speedway. Brian Vickers won the pole for this race, but had to start in the back of the field due to an engine change. Despite the caution flag coming out for rain on 4 occasions, NASCAR was still able to complete this race in its entirety. Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag and became the first driver since Jeff Gordon in 1997 to start off a Cup season by winning the first two races of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Auto Club 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 51 \u2013 David Starr, No. 73 \u2013 Mike Garvey, No. 09 \u2013 Sterling Marlin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Shelby 427\nThe Shelby 427 was run at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 1. Normally this race is 267 laps and 400 miles long, but for this year's running, Carroll Shelby International took over the title sponsorship of the race and decided to run the race 27 miles longer in honor of the Shelby 427 sports car. Kyle Busch qualified on the pole for the race, but had to start in the back due to an engine change. Busch would rally in the last part of the race to win from the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Shelby 427\nFailed to qualify: No. 28 \u2013 Travis Kvapil, No. 66 \u2013 Dave Blaney, No. 73 \u2013 Mike Garvey, No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield, No. 09 \u2013 Sterling Marlin, No. 36 \u2013 Scott Riggs, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Kobalt Tools 500\nThe Kobalt Tools 500 was held on March 8 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Mark Martin won the pole. Kurt Busch started on the outside front row from second place and would go on to lead 234 laps on his way to a dominating win. This race was extended from 325 to 330 laps due to a green-white-checkered finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Kobalt Tools 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 35 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 36 \u2013 Scott Riggs, No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield, No. 64 \u2013 Geoff Bodine, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Food City 500\nThe Food City 500 was held on March 22 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Mark Martin started on the pole. One week after Kurt Busch dominated at Atlanta, his brother Kyle Busch would dominate this race. Kyle Busch led 378 of the races 503 laps despite starting mid pack in 19th place. This race was extended to 503 laps from its scheduled 500 due to a green-white-checkered finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Food City 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 36 \u2013 Scott Riggs, No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500\nThe Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 was held at Martinsville Speedway on March 29. Qualifying was rained out and points were used to set the field. Jeff Gordon would be given the pole starting spot as a result. Denny Hamlin led the bulk of the laps, leading 296 of 500. Jimmie Johnson however, would hold off a hard charging Hamlin and give car owner Rick Hendrick an emotional win as Hendrick Motorsports was celebrating their 25th anniversary of the organization's first win right at this very track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 09 \u2013 Sterling Marlin, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 46 \u2013 Dennis Setzer, No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 73 \u2013 Mike Garvey (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Samsung 500\nThe Samsung 500 was held on Sunday April 5, at Texas Motor Speedway. David Reutimann won the pole. Jeff Gordon would hold on from a hard charging Jimmie Johnson who was cutting into Gordon's lead and take the victory. This was Jeff Gordon's first career victory at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Samsung 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 87 \u2013 Joe Nemechek, No. 82 \u2013 Scott Speed, No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield, No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 36 \u2013 Scott Riggs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Subway Fresh Fit 500\nThe Subway Fresh Fit 500 was run on Saturday, April 18, at Phoenix International Raceway. Mark Martin started on the pole, led 157 of the race's 312 laps, and went on to become the fourth driver in Cup Series history to win a points race over the age of 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Subway Fresh Fit 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield, No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean, No. 02 \u2013 Brandon Ash, No. 06 \u2013 Trevor Boys", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Aaron's 499\nThe Aaron's 499 was run on Sunday, April 26, at Talladega Superspeedway. Juan Pablo Montoya won the pole. This race is forever remembered for the final lap. The tandem duo of Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were running first and second coming to the white flag when another tandem duo of Carl Edwards and Nationwide Series regular Brad Keselowski drafted and blew right by Newman and Earnhardt Jr., breaking away down the back straightaway to settle the race among themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Aaron's 499\nComing into the tri oval, Brad Keselowski started to peak outside, causing Edwards to react high when Keselowski quickly turned back into the inside finding some room and some momentum to start making a pass down to the inside. Edwards tried to block Keselowski but when Brad's front end made contact with Carl's back end, it turned Carl Edwards' car sideways, causing the back end of his car to lift before being slammed into from the oncoming car of Ryan Newman. The impact sent Carl Edwards' car crashing up into the catch fence that separates the fans from the action. Brad Keselowski took the checkered flag to win his first career Sprint Cup Series race in just his 5th start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Aaron's 499\nFailed to qualify: No. 66 \u2013 Michael McDowell, No. 4 \u2013 Eric McClure, No. 64 \u2013 Geoff Bodine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400\nThe Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400 was held on Saturday, May 2 at Richmond International Raceway. Brian Vickers won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 108], "content_span": [109, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 06 \u2013 Trevor Boys", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 108], "content_span": [109, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.Com\nThe Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com was held at Darlington Raceway on Saturday, May 9. Matt Kenseth won the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.Com\nFailed to qualify: No. 41 \u2013 Jeremy Mayfield*, No. 82 \u2013 Scott Speed, No. 64 \u2013 Geoff Bodine (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 103], "content_span": [104, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Sprint All-Star Race XXV\nThe 2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race is a non-points event, held on Saturday, May 16, at the Lowe's Motor Speedway. Sam Hornish Jr. won the Sprint Showdown race prior to the start of the All-Star Race, allowing him and runner up Jamie McMurray to transfer into the main event. Joey Logano won the fan vote that also lets one driver not eligible to run the All-Star race to make the event on account of a popular vote by the fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Sprint All-Star Race XXV\nJimmie Johnson led the first 50 laps in the event before the lead switched back and forth between Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon. Matt Kenseth would take the lead on lap 95, but with four laps to go Tony Stewart pulled up alongside in what was an exciting battle for the lead. Stewart would overtake Kenseth with two laps to go and hold on for the race win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Coca-Cola 600\nThe 50th Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR's longest race of the season, was scheduled to run on Sunday, May 24, but due to rain the race was postponed to Monday, May 25 on Memorial Day. Ryan Newman won the pole. On lap 222, rain hit the track throwing out the yellow flag. When drivers and teams decided on pit strategy in the ensuing couple laps, David Reutimann chose to stay out on the track, inheriting the race lead. The race was stopped on lap 227 and never restarted. Reutimann was declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Coca-Cola 600\nFailed to qualify: No. 41 \u2013 J. J. Yeley, No. 73 \u2013 Mike Garvey, No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine, No. 06 \u2013 David Starr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Autism Speaks 400\nThe Autism Speaks 400 was held at Dover International Speedway on Sunday, May 31. David Reutimann won the pole for the race. Jimmie Johnson was the class of the field, leading 298 of 400 laps. Johnson would pass Tony Stewart with a couple laps to go and take the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Autism Speaks 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 25 \u2013 Brad Keselowski, No. 13 \u2013 Max Papis, No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 06 \u2013 David Starr, No. 41 \u2013 J. J. Yeley (withdrew), No. 64 \u2013 Todd Bodine (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Pocono 500\nThe Pocono 500 was held on Sunday, June 7 at Pocono Raceway. Tony Stewart won the pole. He came from the rear of the field due to starting in a backup car after crashing in practice. And Stewart also won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Pocono 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 06 \u2013 Trevor Boys (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Lifelock 400\nThe LifeLock 400 was held on Sunday, June 14 at Michigan International Speedway. Brian Vickers took the pole but Mark Martin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Toyota/Save Mart 350\nThe Toyota/Save Mart 350 was held on Sunday, June 21 at Infineon Raceway. Brian Vickers took the pole but Kasey Kahne won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Toyota/Save Mart 350\nFailed to qualify: No. 82 \u2013 Scott Speed, No. 27 \u2013 Tom Hubert, No. 37 \u2013 Chris Cook, No. 36 \u2013 Brian Simo, No. 87 \u2013 Joe Nemechek (qualified but was replaced by Scott Speed)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 86], "content_span": [87, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nThe Lenox Industrial Tools 301 was held on Sunday, June 28 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Tony Stewart took the pole. The race was stopped on lap 273 due to rain, giving Joey Logano the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Lenox Industrial Tools 301\nFailed to qualify: No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean, No. 27 \u2013 Ted Christopher, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Coke Zero 400\nThe Coke Zero 400 was held on Saturday, July 4 at Daytona International Speedway. Tony Stewart took the pole and won the race. Stewart spun Kyle Busch coming to the finish line to win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Coke Zero 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 13 \u2013 Max Papis, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, LifeLock.com 400\nThe LifeLock.com 400 was held on Saturday, July 11 at Chicagoland Speedway. Brian Vickers took the pole but Mark Martin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, LifeLock.com 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace, No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean, No 37 \u2013 Tony Raines", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Allstate 400 at the Brickyard\nThe Allstate 400 was held on Sunday, July 26 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Mark Martin took the pole but Jimmie Johnson won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 95], "content_span": [96, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Allstate 400 at the Brickyard\nFailed to qualify: No. 09 \u2013 Sterling Marlin, No 13 \u2013 Max Papis,  No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 95], "content_span": [96, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500\nThe Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 was held on Monday, August 3 at Pocono Raceway. Tony Stewart took the pole but Denny Hamlin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 99], "content_span": [100, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nThe Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen was held on Monday, August 10 at Watkins Glen International. Jimmie Johnson took the pole but Tony Stewart won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 106], "content_span": [107, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen\nFailed to qualify: No. 87 \u2013 Joe Nemechek, No. 36 \u2013 Brian Simo,  No. 70 \u2013 David Gilliland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 106], "content_span": [107, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Carfax 400\nThe Carfax 400 was held on Sunday, August 16 at Michigan International Speedway. Brian Vickers took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Carfax 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 08 \u2013 Terry Labonte (withdrew),  No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Sharpie 500\nThe Sharpie 500 was held on Saturday, August 22 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Mark Martin took the pole but Kyle Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Sharpie 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 36 \u2013 Mike Skinner, No. 13 \u2013 Max Papis, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace,  No. 09 \u2013 Aric Almirola, No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Pep Boys Auto 500\nThe Pep Boys Auto 500 was held on Sunday, September 6 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Martin Truex Jr. took the pole but Kasey Kahne won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Pep Boys Auto 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 78 \u2013 Regan Smith, No. 36 \u2013 Patrick Carpentier, No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Regular season, Chevy Rock & Roll 400\nThe Chevy Rock & Roll 400 was held on Saturday, September 12 at Richmond International Raceway. Mark Martin took the pole but Denny Hamlin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sylvania 300\nThe Sylvania 300 was held on Sunday, September 20 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Juan Pablo Montoya took the pole but Mark Martin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sylvania 300\nFailed to qualify: No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope, No. 51 \u2013 Dexter Bean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, AAA 400\nThe AAA 400 was held on Sunday, September 27 at Dover International Speedway. Jimmie Johnson took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Price Chopper 400\nThe Price Chopper 400 was held on Sunday, October 4 at Kansas Speedway. Mark Martin took the pole but Tony Stewart won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Price Chopper 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 04 \u2013 David Gilliland, No. 36 \u2013 Michael McDowell, No. 37 \u2013 Kevin Hamlin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Pepsi 500\nThe Pepsi 500 was held on Sunday, October 11 at Auto Club Speedway. Denny Hamlin took the pole but Jimmie Johnson won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Pepsi 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America\nThe NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America was held on Saturday, October 17 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Jimmie Johnson took the pole and won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 120], "content_span": [121, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America\nFailed to qualify: No. 36 \u2013 Michael McDowell, No. 09 \u2013 Sterling Marlin, No. 66 \u2013 Dave Blaney, No. 37 \u2013 Travis Kvapil, No. 64 \u2013 Mike Wallace (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 120], "content_span": [121, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, TUMS Fast Relief 500\nThe TUMS Fast Relief 500 was held on Sunday, October 25 at Martinsville Speedway. Ryan Newman took the pole but Denny Hamlin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 96], "content_span": [97, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, TUMS Fast Relief 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 73 \u2013 Josh Wise, No. 75 \u2013 Derrike Cope (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 96], "content_span": [97, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, AMP Energy 500\nThe AMP Energy 500 was held on Sunday, November 1 at Talladega Superspeedway. Jimmie Johnson took the pole but Jamie McMurray won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 90], "content_span": [91, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0099-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Dickies 500\nThe Dickies 500 was held on Sunday, November 8 at Texas Motor Speedway. Jeff Gordon took the pole but Kurt Busch won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0100-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Dickies 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 37 \u2013 Tony Raines, No. 66 \u2013 Dave Blaney,  No. 13 \u2013 Max Papis, No. 09 \u2013 Mike Bliss, No. 08 \u2013 Derrike Cope (withdrew)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0101-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nThe Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was held on Sunday, November 15 at Phoenix International Raceway. Martin Truex Jr. took the pole but Jimmie Johnson won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 107], "content_span": [108, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0102-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500\nFailed to qualify: No. 78 \u2013 Regan Smith, No. 70 \u2013 Kevin Conway, No. 02 \u2013 Brandon Ash", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 107], "content_span": [108, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0103-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Ford 400\nThe Ford 400 was held on Sunday, November 22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Jimmie Johnson took the pole but Denny Hamlin won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0104-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2009 season races, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Ford 400\nFailed to qualify: No. 87 \u2013 Joe Nemechek, No. 66 \u2013 Dave Blaney, No. 70 \u2013 Mike Skinner, No. 13 \u2013 Max Papis, No. 09 \u2013 David Stremme, No. 7 \u2013 Matt Crafton (qualified for Robby Gordon)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 84], "content_span": [85, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0105-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\nBold\u00a0- Pole position awarded by time. Italics\u00a0- Pole position set by owner's points standings. *\u00a0\u2013 Most laps led.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0106-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Results and standings, Drivers' championship\n+ Scott Speed failed to qualify his normal ride, the No. 82 Red Bull Toyota at Darlington and Infineon, but drove Joe Nemechek's No. 87 Toyota for those two races, replacing Nemechek, who had a relationship with Jay Frye, vice president of Red Bull and the listed owner of Nemechek's No. 13 Ginn Racing Chevrolet in 2007 that would later be merged with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. on July 25, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204140-0107-0000", "contents": "2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Rookie of the Year\nThe clear favorite for Rookie of the year was 18-year-old standout Joey Logano. Despite struggling early in the year, Logano became the youngest winner in Sprint Cup Series history by winning the rain shortened Lenox Industrial Tools 301. The other competitors, former Formula One drivers Scott Speed and Max Papis, struggled to adjust to stock cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing\nThe 2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing occurred on August 15, 2009, when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated himself outside the NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. The bomber killed at least seven people and injured 91.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing, Attack\nThe bomber drove his automobile undetected through three or fewer police-checkpoints before detonating his explosive payload, estimated as variously 275 kilograms (606\u00a0lb) and 500 kilograms (1,100\u00a0lb), 30 yards (27\u00a0m) from the main gate of the NATO base. The attack,  coming five days before the country's presidential elections, was the first major attack in the capital since February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing, Aftermath\nThe attack wounded 91 people and immediately killed seven civilians, though doctors stated that some patients were in danger of succumbing to injuries later on. Casualties among the military were stated to have been avoided by ISAF Brigadier General Eric Tremblay, though he would not give details. The Taliban claimed differently, stating that they had destroyed four vehicles and killed 24 US embassy employees. Among those wounded was parliament member, Awa Alam Nuristani, and a female campaign manager for President Hamid Karzai. After the attacks Karzai declared that \"the enemies of Afghanistan, by conducting such attacks, are trying to create fear among the people as we get close to the election, but people still realise the importance of going to ballot boxes to cast their votes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing, Aftermath\nThe attack was claimed by a Taliban spokesperson to have been carried out as a method to disrupt the country's second election. The spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, stated that, \"One of our suicide bombers in a (Toyota Hilux) Surf vehicle packed with 500 kilograms of explosives targeted the ISAF headquarters... We will continue this kind of operation in the future and we will accelerate our operations against the Afghan and foreign forces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing, Aftermath\nThe blast occurred in one of the city's most heavily guarded streets, which runs between the United States Embassy and the presidential palace. The blast did not affect them, nor did it cause substantial damage to the NATO headquarters. It was the first attack on the NATO compound since its construction in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204141-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing, Aftermath\nThe incident marked the beginning of a wave of intimidation by unknown perpetrators, mostly spread by telephone calls and text messaging, warning Afghans not to participate in polling at risk of being killed and targeted alongside foreign forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 2009 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 15, 2009, during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2008\u201309 season. It was the 58th edition of the NBA All-Star Game, and was played at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, home of the Phoenix Suns. The Western Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 146\u2013119. The West's Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal were named joint winners of the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game\nThis was the third time that Phoenix had hosted the All-Star Game; the city had previously hosted the event in 1975 and 1995. Phoenix was awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on November 8, 2007. The other reported contenders for the 2009 contest were Air Canada Centre at Toronto, Madison Square Garden at New York City, Oracle Arena at Oakland and Bradley Center at Milwaukee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game\nThe All-Star Weekend began on Friday, February 13, 2009 with the Celebrity Game and the Rookie Challenge, a game between the league's best rookies and second-year players. On Saturday, the event continued with the All-Star Saturday Night, which featured the Shooting Stars Competition, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk Contest. The H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition was first introduced and was played before the All-Star Saturday Night. The third D-League All-Star Game and the second D-League Dream Factory Friday Night, the latter of which was modeled after the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, also took place during the All-Star Weekend. The D-League Dream Factory Friday Night was held on Friday and the D-League All-Star Game was held on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game\nIn the Rookie Challenge, the Sophomores defeated the Rookies, with Sophomores' Kevin Durant named as the game MVP. In the All-Star Saturday Night events, Nate Robinson won his second Slam Dunk Contest while Daequan Cook and Derrick Rose won the Three-Point Shootout and Skills Challenge respectively. Team Detroit won their second Shootings Stars Competition, beating the home team, Team Phoenix in the final round. Kevin Durant also took home another trophy by winning the inaugural H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe coaches for the All-Star game are the head coaches who currently lead the teams with the best winning percentage in their conference through the Sunday two weeks before the All-Star game. The head coaches from the previous year, Doc Rivers and Byron Scott were not eligible for selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe coach for the Western Conference team was Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson. This was the fourth time Jackson was selected to be an All-Star coach, after previously selected in 1992, 1996 and 2000. The Lakers entered the All-Star break with 42\u201310 record, the best winning percentage in the Western Conference and in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe coach for the Eastern Conference team was Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown. This was the first time Brown was selected to be an All-Star coach. He became only the second Cavaliers coach to lead an All-Star team, after Lenny Wilkens in 1989. The Cavaliers entered the All-Star break with 40\u201311 record, the second best winning percentage in the Eastern Conference, behind Doc Rivers' Boston Celtics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Players\nThe rosters for the All-Star Game is chosen in two ways. The starters were chosen via a fan ballot. Two guards, two forwards and one center who receive the highest vote were named the All-Star starters. The reserves were chosen by votes among the NBA head coaches in their respective conferences. The coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players. The reserves consists of two guards, two forwards, one center and two players regardless of position. If a player is unable to participate due to injury, the commissioner will select a replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Players\nDwight Howard of the Orlando Magic topped the All-Star Ballots with 3,150,181\u00a0votes, which earned him a starting position in the Eastern Conference team. He became the first player to get more than 3\u00a0million votes from the fans. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett and Allen Iverson completed the Eastern Conference starting position. The Eastern Conference reserves includes 4\u00a0first-time selections, Danny Granger, Devin Harris, Jameer Nelson and Mo Williams, who was named as a replacement for the injured Chris Bosh. Jameer Nelson was unable to participate due to injury and Ray Allen was named to replace him. Both Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic were represented by three players on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Players\nThe Western Conference leading vote-getter was Kobe Bryant with  2,805,397\u00a0votes. Yao Ming, Tim Duncan, Amar'e Stoudemire and Chris Paul completed the Western Conference starting position. The Western Conference roster includes five international players in Yao Ming (China), Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands), Pau Gasol (Spain), Dirk Nowitzki (Germany) and Tony Parker (France). Shaquille O'Neal returned to the All-Star game after one-year absence with his 15th selection, the second most selections in NBA history, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 19\u00a0All-Star selections. This also marked the first time O'Neal and Bryant were in the same team since their much publicized feud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Players\nBryant and O'Neal also reunited with coach Phil Jackson. The three of them won three successive NBA championship together with the Los Angeles Lakers in early 2000s. Four teams, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets, and San Antonio Spurs, had two representations at the All-Star Game with Bryant/Gasol, Stoudemire/O'Neal, Paul/West, and Duncan/Parker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Roster\nJameer Nelson and Chris Bosh were unable to participate due to injury. Ray Allen was named as a replacement for Jameer Nelson. Mo Williams was named as a replacement for Chris Bosh. Although the NBA listed Chris Bosh as a forward in the All-Star ballot, he was selected as a reserve center by the head coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Game\nPhoenix Suns' Shaquille O'Neal marked his return to the NBA All-Star Game after one-year absence with an unusual entry to the game. O'Neal, the last reserve called during the player introduction, came out with a white mask and began dancing with the dance group JabbaWockeeZ before finally opening his mask and joining the rest of the players on the court. O'Neal and previous year's regular season MVP Kobe Bryant led the West to a 146\u2013119 victory and were named co-MVPs. This was the third All-Star Game MVP award for both players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Game\nThe East led 20\u201310 early in the game before West coach, Phil Jackson decided to send O'Neal to the court. With O'Neal and Bryant on the court for the first time since 2004 NBA Finals, the West embarked on a 19\u20130 run to take the lead. The West continued to extend the lead in the second half and finally won the game by 27 points. Bryant finished with 27 points while Chris Paul added a game high 14 assists. Previous year's All-Star Game MVP LeBron James led the East with 20 points, but was unable to prevent the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Guest performances\nFive-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter John Legend and 17-time Latin Grammy winner Juanes performed during the halftime. Both singers collaborated in the extended version of Legend's song \"If You're Out There\", a song about hope and inspiration. The extended version includes Spanish lyrics which was sung by Juanes. A special taped message from the United States President, Barack Obama, also aired during the halftime. In the message, President Obama encouraged people to do more public service for the community. A ring ceremony to honor the gold medalists at the 2008 Olympics was also held during the halftime. Six members of USA men's national basketball team, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade, and two members of USA women's national basketball team, Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson were awarded with their ring at the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 953]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Guest performances\nThe national anthem of both the United States and Canada were sung before the game. Arizona native and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks sang U.S. national anthem, \"The Star-Spangled Banner\". The Canadian national anthem, \"O Canada\" were sung by Tamia, Canadian singer who is also the wife of Phoenix Suns player Grant Hill. The pre-game introduction included a dance performance by the America's Best Dance Crew winner, the Jabbawockeez. Grammy-nominated singer Chris Brown was originally scheduled to appear during the pre-game introductions. He, however, withdrew from the performance due to an ongoing domestic violence case against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Game, Guest performances\nOther musical guests during the All-Star Weekend were singers Corbin Bleu and Kevin Rudolf. Bleu performed \"Moments That Matter\" at the halftime of the Rookie Challenge on Friday while Rudolf performed \"Let It Rock\" during the NBA All-Star Saturday Night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Rookie Challenge\nThe T-Mobile Rookie Challenge featured a team of standout first-year players ('Rookies') against a team of standout second-year players ('Sophomores'). The game was divided into two twenty-minute halves, similar to college basketball. The participating players were chosen by voting among the league's assistant coaches. The Rookies team includes the first overall draft pick in 2008 NBA draft, Derrick Rose. The rest of the Rookies team consists of five of the top ten pick in the 2008 Draft and three players from the 2007 NBA draft who were in their first NBA season. The three players are the first overall draft pick Greg Oden and two Spanish players Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez and Marc Gasol. The Sophomores team features four players from the previous Rookie Challenge game which are Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Al Horford and Luis Scola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Rookie Challenge\nThe head coaches for the Rookies and Sophomores teams were the lead assistants from the 2009 NBA All-Star Game coaching staffs, Kurt Rambis from the Los Angeles Lakers and John Kuester from the Cleveland Cavaliers. For the first time in the game's history, two active NBA players were selected as leading assistant coach. Two All-Star starters Dwyane Wade and Dwight Howard were selected as the assistant coaches for the Rookies and Sophomores team respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Rookie Challenge\nThis year, the first ever EA Sports Jersey Creator Contest was held to design the jerseys for both the rookie and the sophomore team. The contest called for the participants to come up with a computer-generated jersey design that would replace the individual team jerseys worn by the players during the Rookie Challenge. Of 12,000 participants, 18-year-old Tim Ahmed, a freshman at Baruch College, won the contest. Ahmed won a free trip to Phoenix and a chance to meet players. This marks the first time that a fan-designed uniform has ever been worn during an NBA game or NBA event. The Sophomores wore fan-designed white jerseys and the Rookies wore fan-designed purple jerseys in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Rookie Challenge\nThe Sophomores won the game 122\u2013116 with Sophomore Kevin Durant named as the Rookie Challenge MVP. Durant scored a record 46 points in the game, breaking Amar'e Stoudemire's 36-point record from 2004. The Rookies led by 3 at halftime, but then Durant took over, scoring 30 of his 46 points in the second half as the Sophomores outscored the Rookies by 6 points to win the game. The game marked the seventh consecutive loss for the Rookies team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nThe Sprite Slam Dunk Contest was contested by defending champion Dwight Howard, 2006 champion Nate Robinson, 2005 contestant J. R. Smith and rookie Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez. Fern\u00e1ndez won the online voting on NBA.com to determine the fourth contestants, beating fellow rookies Joe Alexander and Russell Westbrook. This was the first time a dunk contestant was chosen by the fans. Fern\u00e1ndez also became the first ever international player to participate in the contest. Smith was named as a late replacement for Rudy Gay, who was forced to withdraw from the contest due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nEach contestant performed two slam dunks in each round. The two best contestants in the first round, as rated by the panel of judges, advanced to the final round, where the winner was determined by fan voting. The panel of judges for this year contest consists of five former Phoenix Suns players, the inaugural Slam Dunk champion Larry Nance, 1992 champion Cedric Ceballos, 1987 All-Star Game MVP Tom Chambers and three-time All-Stars, Kevin Johnson and Dan Majerle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nDwight Howard began his title defence with two 50-point dunks to advance to the final round with a perfect score. One of his dunks employed a 12-foot high hoop. Howard also used a prop phone booth to change into his Superman cape before completing the dunk on the 12-foot hoop. Nate Robinson also advanced to the final round with 87 points, beating Smith and Fern\u00e1ndez who had 85 and 84 points respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nIn the final round, Robinson changed his uniform into the New York Knicks' green uniform originally designed for Saint Patrick's Day. The green uniform symbolized  Kryptonite, a fictional substance known to have detrimental effects on Superman. The Krypto-Nate vs. Superman theme continued when Robinson, in his final dunk, used a green basketball and leaped over the 6'11\" Howard who wore his Superman cape. Robinson ended up with 52% of fan vote to win his second dunk title. He joined Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, Harold Miner and Jason Richardson as the only two-time winners of the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Slam Dunk Contest\nUnable to participate due to injury. J. R. Smith was named as a replacement for Rudy Gay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Three-Point Shootout\nThe Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout was contested by six players. Two-time winner Jason Kapono returned to defend his title along with two former contestants, Rashard Lewis and Mike Bibby. They were joined by three first-time contestants, Daequan Cook, Danny Granger and Roger Mason. In this contest, contestants attempt to make as many three-point field goals as possible from five shooting stations behind the three-point arc in one minute. Players begin shooting from one corner of the court, and move from station to station along the three-point arc until they reach the other corner. Each station has four standard balls, worth one point each, and one specially colored \"money ball\", worth two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Three-Point Shootout\nCook won the first round with 18\u00a0points as he advanced to the final round along with Lewis and Kapono. The second round was a tight contest between Cook and Lewis, both tied at 15\u00a0points, and Kapono, with 14. Because of the tied score, Cook and Lewis played an extra tiebreaker round. Cook went on to beat his first round score with 19\u00a0points, while Lewis finished with 7\u00a0points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 62], "content_span": [63, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Skills Challenge\nThe PlayStation Skills Challenge was contested by four players. Derrick Rose, the first overall draft pick in 2008 NBA draft, was joined by three All-Star guards, Devin Harris, Jameer Nelson and Tony Parker. However, Nelson was injured and was subsequently replaced by All-Star Mo Williams. In this contest, the contestants have to complete an \"obstacle course\" consisting of dribbling, passing and shooting stations. A contestant who finish the course with the fastest time wins the contest. All contestants must comply with basic NBA ball-handling rules while completing the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Skills Challenge\nRose led all the contestants with 33.3\u00a0seconds in the first round, 3.3 seconds ahead of Harris. Williams was eliminated after recording 37.5\u00a0seconds, 4.2\u00a0seconds behind the lead. Parker was eliminated with the slowest time in the Skills Challenge history with 50.8\u00a0seconds. He previously held the slowest time of 45.5\u00a0points during the 2003 competition. In the second round, Harris went first and finished the course with 39.6\u00a0seconds, 3.1\u00a0seconds worse than his previous attempt. Rose went on to win the contest by recording a 35.3\u00a0seconds time while finishing the course with a dunk. Rose also became the first rookie winner of the Skills Challenge competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Skills Challenge\nUnable to participate due to injury. Mo Williams was named as a replacement for Jameer Nelson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Shooting Stars Competition\nThe Haier Shooting Stars Competition was competed between four teams of three players, with each team representing a city which has both NBA and WNBA teams. Each team consisted of one current NBA player, one current WNBA player, and one NBA legend. Team San Antonio, the defending champion, was joined by the inaugural champion, Team Los Angeles, 2005 champion, Team Phoenix and 2007 champion, Team Detroit. In this competition, each team must make six shots from six shooting locations of increasing difficulties. The team who makes all six shots with the fastest time wins the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Shooting Stars Competition\nIn the first round, the defending champion, Team San Antonio was eliminated along with Team Los Angeles. Both teams took over 15\u00a0shots from the half court location to score. Team Detroit and Team Phoenix both advanced to the final round. Team Phoenix recorded the fastest completion time in the first round with 53.3\u00a0seconds, six seconds faster than Team Detroit. In the final round, Team Detroit made the first five shots in 13\u00a0attempts and used only 7\u00a0attempts to make the half court shot with a time of 58.4\u00a0seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Shooting Stars Competition\nTeam Phoenix responded by making their first five shots in a single attempt each. However, they needed 22\u00a0attempts to make the half-court shot, finishing with a time of 1\u00a0minute and 19\u00a0seconds. Team Detroit won their second Shooting Stars title, joining Team San Antonio as the only two-time winners of the competition. Detroit Pistons legend and Detroit Shock head coach, Bill Laimbeer also became the first person to win the Shooting Stars Competition twice; he won his first title with Team Detroit in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition\nOn February 5, 2009, TNT announced the addition of H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E to its All-Star Weekend coverage. The competition was held outdoors on a half-sized court during the special Inside the NBA show prior to the All-Star Saturday Night events. The objective of this competition is to accrue as few of the five letters as possible. A player is given a letter every time they fail to duplicate the shot of another player. Each player was given 24 seconds to make or duplicate the shot (dunking was prohibited). Each player who fails to duplicate five shots was eliminated from the competition. An NBA referee was assigned to rule whether the shot was done properly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition\nThe inaugural H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition was sponsored by American auto insurance company GEICO and hence the word G\u2013E\u2013I\u2013C\u2013O was used in replacement of H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E. Three NBA players, Kevin Durant, Joe Johnson and O. J. Mayo were selected to compete in the H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E competition. Johnson was the first to be eliminated, having failed to duplicate Mayo's shot from the free-throw line. Durant then made a series of three-point shots to eliminate Mayo to win the inaugural H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Celebrity Game\nThe 2009 McDonald's NBA All-Star Celebrity Game was played on Friday, February 13 at the Phoenix Convention Center. A total of 16 celebrities took part in the game, including several former NBA players. Basketball Hall of Famers Magic Johnson and Julius Erving, who combined for 23 NBA All-Star appearances, served as coaches for the celebrity teams. NBA legends, Dominique Wilkins and Clyde Drexler, were joined by former players, Dan Majerle and Rick Fox, in the celebrity team roster. WNBA stars Lisa Leslie and Kara Lawson also participated in the game along with four Harlem Globetrotters players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Celebrity Game\nPrevious year's MVP, Terrell Owens scored a game-high 17 points and led the East Sunrisers to a 60\u201357 victory over the West Sunsetters. Owens, an American football star for Dallas Cowboys, was also named as the Celebrity Game MVP for the second successive year. The game was marked by a surprise appearance by another Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman in the middle of the game, where she joined and played with the East Sunrisers. ESPN play-by-play commentator Mike Breen also made a surprise appearance as the referee for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League All-Star Game\nTwenty of the NBA Development League's top players were selected to the D-League All-Star Game rosters by a combination of fan balloting on the official D-League website and voting by the 16 head coaches of D-League teams. The selections were divided up into two teams, the Red Team and the Blue Team, by members of the NBA and NBA D-League's Basketball Operations staff. Players who have been selected by coaches and fans must be on an active roster of a D-League team. Iowa Energy head coach Nick Nurse and Austin Toros head coach Quin Snyder were selected as the coach for the Red Team and the Blue Team respectively. Both coaches earned the honor by securing the best records in the D-League through January 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League All-Star Game\nUnable to participate due to a recall by the San Antonio Spurs. Unable to participate due to injury. Unable to participate due to a call-up to the Charlotte Bobcats. Named as replacement for the unavailable players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League All-Star Game\nIn the third annual D-League All-Star Game, the Red Team defeated the Blue team 113\u2013103. The Red Team trailed by 8 points at the half, but managed to outscore the Blue Team 70\u201352 in the second half to secure the win. Dakota's guard Blake Ahearn scored 13 points and dished 13 assists while Iowa's center Courtney Sims scored 15 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Both players were named Co-MVPs of the D-League All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League Dream Factory Friday Night, Slam Dunk Contest\nJames White won the second annual D-League Slam Dunk Contest, beating Keith Clark in the final round with a perfect score of 100. Defending champion Brent Petway was unable to repeat his last year's performance and was eliminated in the first round along with Othyus Jeffers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 97], "content_span": [98, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League Dream Factory Friday Night, Three-Point Shootout\nBlake Ahearn won the second annual D-League Three-Point Shootout, beating Ernest Scott in the final round by a score of 22\u201319. Ahearn scored four of the five money balls in the last stations. For the first time, the last station consists of five \"money balls\", instead of four standard balls and one \"money ball\". Gary Forbes and Trey Johnson were eliminated in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 100], "content_span": [101, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, D-League All-Star, D-League Dream Factory Friday Night, H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition\nWill Conroy won the second annual D-League H\u2013O\u2013R\u2013S\u2013E Competition, beating the defending champion Lance Allred with a through-the-legs-off-the-backboard lay-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 101], "content_span": [102, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, Broadcast\nTurner Broadcasting Network (TNT) broadcast the All-Star Game for the sixth straight year in the United States while The Sports Network (TSN) broadcast the All-Star Game in Canada. TNT also broadcast the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Saturday Night events. The Celebrity Game was broadcast by ESPN and the D-League All-Star events were broadcast by NBA TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204142-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA All-Star Game, Broadcast, International\nAside from TNT and TSN in United States and Canada, the following television channels also broadcast the All-Star game all around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204143-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League draft\nThe 2009 NBA Development League Draft was the ninth draft of the National Basketball Association Development League\u00a0(NBADL). The draft was held on November 5, 2009 before the 2009\u201310 season. In this draft, all 16 of the league's teams took turns selecting eligible players. The D-League uses a \"serpentine\" format whereby the order of selections for each team alternates in each round. For example, the Albuquerque Thunderbirds won the number one overall selection, but in round two they picked last (16th selection, 32nd overall).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204143-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League draft\nCarlos Powell of South Carolina was the first overall selection and was taken by Albuquerque Thunderbirds. Coincidentally, Powell had been selected second overall in the 2007 Draft, making him the only player to have been chosen as the first and second overall selections in D-League Draft history. Six players taken in the 2009 Draft had also previously been selected in an NBA Draft: Deron Washington (2008), JamesOn Curry (2007), Latavious Williams (2010), Orien Greene (2005), Reece Gaines (2003) and Yaroslav Korolev (2005). Two players, Nate Miles and Brian Kortovich, played college basketball solely at the junior college level. The highest drafted international player was Amara Sy, who holds a dual citizenship with both Mali and France, as the Bakersfield Jam selected him fourth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204143-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League draft\nAlthough some of the players chosen in the 2009 NBA Development League Draft had played semi-professional and/or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204143-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League draft, Draft\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Amara Sy is a native of Mali and plays for their national team, but also holds dual citizenship with France. ^\u00a0b:\u00a0Latavious Williams became the first player ever to skip college basketball and play a year in the D-League before getting drafted in the NBA, which adhered to the rule that players must be at least one year removed from high school in order to be eligible for an NBA Draft. ^\u00a0c:\u00a0Chad Toppert is American but is also eligible to play for the German national team because his grandfather is German. ^\u00a0d:\u00a0Brian Kortovich became a dual citizen of Croatia in May 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204144-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League expansion draft\nThe 2009 NBA Development League expansion draft was the fourth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association Development League\u00a0(NBADL). The draft was held on September 2, 2009, so that the newly founded Springfield Armor and Maine Red Claws could acquire players for the upcoming 2009\u201310 season. The Armor was created when the Anaheim Arsenal relocated from the West Coast to the East Coast in an effort for the league to establish a greater presence in the east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204144-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League expansion draft\nSpringfield was able to retain the rights to many of Anaheim's players, but with the addition of the Maine Red Claws, a need for an expansion draft arose. The Colorado 14ers were also putting the 2009\u201310 season on hiatus before their eventual move to Frisco, Texas to become the Texas Legends, which evened out the number of teams in the NBADL at 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204144-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Development League expansion draft\nA random drawing determined who was awarded the first pick, which went to the Springfield Armor. The draft took place via teleconference from the NBADL headquarters in New York City. The first overall selection was Marcus Campbell who had played collegiately at Mississippi State. Maine's first choice, the second overall pick, was James White, who had spent most of his collegiate career at Cincinnati. White was also among four players chosen who had also been selected previously in an NBA Draft, while he was one of six who had been honored as an NBA D-League All-Star before. The only non-American player selected in the 2009 NBA Development League Expansion Draft was Malick Badiane of Senegal. He had not played at the college level in the United States; rather, he had spent his post-high school years playing professionally in different countries before embarking on his D-League career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 940]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204145-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Europe Live Tour\nThe 2009 NBA Europe Live Tour was a basketball exhibition tour featuring teams from the NBA and Real Madrid from the Euroleague, as a part of the NBA Global Games. The hosting countries were England and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204145-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Europe Live Tour\nThe 2009 tour was combined with the Euroleague American Tour to create an eleven-game global preseason schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nThe 2009 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2008\u201309 season. The best-of-seven playoff was contested between the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers (who were also the defending Western Conference champions), and the Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic. The Lakers were favored to win the championship over the Magic. The Lakers defeated the Magic, four games to one, to win the franchise's 15th NBA championship. The 63rd edition of the championship series was played between June 4 and June 14 and was broadcast on U.S. television on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nThe Lakers earned their berth into the playoffs by winning the Pacific Division. The Magic won the Southeast Division to earn their berth. The Lakers reached the NBA Finals by defeating the Utah Jazz in the best-of-seven Western Conference First Round, the Houston Rockets in the best-of-seven Western Conference Semifinals, and the Denver Nuggets in the best-of-seven Western Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nThe Magic reached the NBA Finals by defeating the Philadelphia 76ers in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference First Round, the defending champion Boston Celtics in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference Semifinals, and the league best Cleveland Cavaliers in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals. The NBA Finals were staged under a 2\u20133\u20132 rotation, with the Lakers holding home-court advantage as they had a better regular season record than the Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nKobe Bryant led the team to a Game 1 win with 40 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists. Game 2 was a high-scoring affair that the Lakers ultimately won on both strong defensive play and last minute heroics by Bryant, Derek Fisher, and Pau Gasol during the overtime. A record-breaking performance from the Magic's 65% team shooting ensured the team a Game 3 win and the first Finals victory in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nAlthough they trailed the Magic as much as 12 at halftime, the Lakers won Game 4 in overtime on the back of Trevor Ariza's 13 points in the second half and Fisher's pair of three-point clutch shots. Dominant offensive play coupled with a spectacular defense by both starters and reserves from the second quarter until the buzzer helped the Lakers to win Game 5 and secure the series. Bryant was named Most Valuable Player of the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals\nThis series was nicknamed the \"Disney Series\" for its connections to The Walt Disney Company. Disney owns both ESPN, and Finals broadcaster ABC; Walt Disney World is located 20 miles (32\u00a0km) from Orlando in nearby Lake Buena Vista, and Disneyland is located 30 miles (48\u00a0km) from Los Angeles in nearby Anaheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background\nThe two team captains (the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and the Magic's Dwight Howard) were teammates and starters on the United States men's national team the previous summer, winning a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Each player defeated another fellow Olympic starter in his respective conference final series: Bryant defeated Carmelo Anthony's Denver Nuggets and Howard advanced past LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers\nThe Lakers were the favorite to emerge from the Western Conference, but their road to the Finals was a tough one. They played three physical series against the Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, and Denver Nuggets, winning in 5, 7, and 6 games, respectively. Going into the Finals, the Lakers finished off the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals with two good performances in Games 5 and 6, making analysts pick them as the favorites in the Finals. It marked a record-extending sixth Finals appearance of the decade and a record-extending 30th Finals appearance overall, the most for any NBA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Orlando Magic\nThe Magic were overlooked by many to even reach the Eastern Conference Finals, as they played in the shadows of the #1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, led by regular-season MVP LeBron James, and defending champion #2-seed Boston Celtics. However, after dispatching the Philadelphia 76ers in six games, the Magic stunned the Celtics by winning Game 7 in Boston. The Celtics were previously 32\u20130 when leading a series 3\u20132, and 17\u20133 previously in Game 7s at home. Orlando assistant coach Patrick Ewing had publicly \"guaranteed\" that Orlando would win Game 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Orlando Magic\nIn the next round, Orlando was given little chance by many to defeat the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, but a combination of three-point shooting and the inside presence of Dwight Howard created a matchup nightmare for Cleveland on defense, and Orlando ultimately won in six games. In Game 6, Howard's stellar performance with 40 points and 14 rebounds helped the franchise earn its second Finals appearance (they were swept by the Houston Rockets in the 1995 Finals during Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway era).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Series preview\nAlthough the Magic won both regular-season matchups with the Lakers, Los Angeles was able to take four out of five games in this series. Both regular-season games and three of the NBA Finals games were close contests, decided by six points or fewer or in overtime. The Lakers won Game 2 on June 7 101\u201396 in overtime. Then they won Game 4 on June 11 in overtime as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Series preview\nTyronn Lue, a backup point guard with Orlando, appeared with the Lakers during their initial championship run in the early 2000s and faced his former team in the finals. Lue and another backup point guard, Anthony Johnson were the only players on Orlando's roster with NBA Finals experience. However, neither saw playing time during the series, as Lue was inactive with an injury and Johnson lost his minutes to teammate Jameer Nelson, who returned from a shoulder injury in time for the Finals, where he led the Magic to sweep the Lakers in regular season. Trevor Ariza, the Lakers starting small forward, faced the team that traded him to the Lakers in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Background, Series preview, Regular-season series\nThe Orlando Magic won both games in the regular-season series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nAfter an evenly battled first quarter, the Magic took the lead thanks to field goals and assists from point guard Jameer Nelson, who was playing his first game since injuring his shoulder during the regular season in February. Down 33\u201328 with 8:38 left in the 2nd quarter, the Lakers went on a 10\u20130 run and never looked back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Lakers ended the 3rd quarter on a 25\u201310 run, led by the fierce play from Kobe Bryant, who finished with 40 points, 8 rebounds, and 8 assists, joining the likes of Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Jordan, and Jerry West to put up those numbers in a single NBA Finals game. The 25-point margin of victory was the 6th-largest in NBA Finals Game 1 history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nDue to stellar defense by the Lakers, Dwight Howard was a dismal 1\u20136 from the field, his fewest made field goals in his playoff career, and finished with 12 points, 10 of which came from free throws. The Magic shot only 29.9% (23\u201377) from the field, the second lowest percentage in the NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nBoth teams got off to a slow start and were tied at 15 after the first quarter, setting a record-low for combined score (30) in the first quarter of an NBA Finals game. The Lakers picked up the pace in the 2nd quarter, but Rashard Lewis kept the Magic in the game, scoring 18 of the team's 20 points in the quarter, including the final 16, on his way to a playoff career-high and Finals franchise-high 34 points for the game. The Magic outscored the Lakers in the 3rd quarter to take a 2-point lead in the 4th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nWith the game tied at 84, Rashard Lewis hit a jumper with 1:32 remaining to give the Magic a 2-point lead. Kobe Bryant responded with a jumper of his own to tie the game. With 47 seconds left, Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu hit a jumper that was originally called a three-pointer. However, replay showed that his foot was on the line, giving the Magic a two-point lead. With 33 seconds remaining, Dwight Howard was able to deflect, but not steal, a Derek Fisher pass, and Pau Gasol was able to again tie the game at 88 with a layup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nOn the ensuing Magic possession, the Lakers played great defense and forced Courtney Lee to miss an awkward layup shot with 10.5 seconds left. With a chance to take a 2\u20130 series lead, Kobe Bryant was blocked on a jumper by T\u00fcrko\u011flu, who gained control of the ball and called time-out with 0.6 seconds left. After another timeout, T\u00fcrko\u011flu threw a half-court lob to Courtney Lee, who had come free after a screen on his defender. However, Lee was traveling too fast and launched his layup from almost behind the backboard, causing it to miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nWith the Lakers up 1 in overtime with 1:55 left, Derek Fisher stole a JJ Redick pass and was fouled on the ensuing fast break, making both free throws. After the Magic were unable to convert, Kobe Bryant made a pivotal assist to Pau Gasol for a layup-and-one, giving the Lakers a 6-point lead and the eventual victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe Magic came out in Game 3 with fire. The Magic shot a field goal percentage of 63% for the game, a Finals record. This also included a 75% first quarter, also a Finals record. However, despite the incredible shooting percentage, the Lakers managed to stay close for much of the game. The game was only sealed for the Magic on a Micka\u00ebl Pi\u00e9trus steal from Kobe Bryant in the waning minute of the 4th quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nThis win marked the first Finals win in Magic franchise history, losing their first 6 Finals games (being swept in their first appearance and losing Games 1 and 2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nComing off their franchise's first NBA Finals game victory, the Magic quickly took the lead in the first quarter. However, Kobe Bryant kept the Lakers in the game, scoring 13 of the team's 20 first-quarter points. Dwight Howard played a great first quarter, with 11 rebounds and 4 blocks in the opening frame. In addition, he drew many fouls, putting Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, and Lamar Odom in foul trouble and forcing Lakers coach Phil Jackson to use Josh Powell and D. J. Mbenga early in the game. The Magic were able to increase the lead to 12 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Lakers came out of the locker room aggressive and outscored the Magic 30\u201314 in the 3rd quarter, led by Trevor Ariza, who scored 13 points in the quarter, including two three-pointers. Down by six in the opening minutes of the 4th quarter, the Magic took a 76\u201375 lead halfway through the quarter, but were unable to increase the lead due to poor free-throw shooting, specifically from Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu and Dwight Howard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nWith 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter and the game tied at 79, Howard converted a three-point play to give the Magic an 82\u201379 lead. On the next Laker possession, the Magic played good defense, but Trevor Ariza was able to hit a 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to tie the game at 82. After Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu hit a stepback 3-point shot, Howard blocked Gasol's jumper, giving him a single-game NBA Finals record with 9 blocked shots. On the bench to witness it was a previous record holder, his assistant coach Patrick Ewing, who had 8 in Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals while with the New York Knicks. T\u00fcrko\u011flu made another jumper with 1:34 remaining to give the Magic a five-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nDown 87\u201382 with 31 seconds left, Kobe Bryant spun through the lane and passed to Gasol for a dunk to cut the lead to three. On the next Magic possession, Howard was fouled by Bryant with 11 seconds remaining. Needing just one free-throw to make the game a 2-possession affair, Howard missed both shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nOut of the timeout, the Lakers elected to take the ball out at three-quarters court instead of half-court in order to space out the floor. The Magic double-teamed Bryant in the backcourt, allowing him to pass the ball up to Ariza, who in turned passed it to Derek Fisher on the right wing. Having missed his first five three-point shots of the game, Fisher spotted up and hit a pivotal three-pointer over Jameer Nelson to tie the game at 87 with 4.6 seconds left. On the final possession of regulation, Micka\u00ebl Pi\u00e9trus missed a 20-footer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe overtime session began with a three-pointer by Rashard Lewis and two contested jumpers by Kobe Bryant to give the Lakers a 91\u201390 lead. With 1:27 left in overtime, Howard split a pair of free throws to tie the game at 91. On the next possession, the Lakers would miss a layup and a jumper, but regained possession on an offensive rebound by Ariza and a loose-ball foul on Jameer Nelson. With 31 seconds left, Kobe Bryant passed out of a double-team and Fisher hit a three-pointer to give the Lakers a 94\u201391 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nOut of a timeout, T\u00fcrko\u011flu rushed a three-point shot and missed. Rashard Lewis backtapped the rebound to center court, but the ball went to Pau Gasol, who ran in unimpeded for a dunk, giving the Lakers the lead for good. In the next possession, the Magic missed another shot, bouncing the ball to Fisher, who passed it to Ariza, then to Gasol for a dunk, but Pietrus slammed both arms on his back, resulting in Gasol getting a technical foul and Pietrus a flagrant-1 foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nUpon the game's finish, Oasis's \"Don't Look Back in Anger\" was played throughout Amway Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Magic, facing the prospect of the Lakers winning a championship on their home floor, came out with a good start, leading by as much as 9 in the first quarter. In the opening frame, all 5 starters scored and assisted on at least one field goal, but the Lakers pulled within two at the quarter break. Down 40\u201336 with 7:11 in the 2nd quarter, the Lakers went on a 16\u20130 run, fueled by two 3-pointers and solid defensive play from Trevor Ariza. The Lakers led by as much as 12 in the 2nd quarter and the score was 56\u201346 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nComing out of the half, Orlando cut the lead to 5 with 7:45 remaining in the 3rd on a three-pointer by Rafer Alston. Lamar Odom answered with back-to-back three-pointers to restore the Laker lead to double digits. Leading by as much as 18 in the half, Los Angeles led by 15 going into the 4th quarter. In the final quarter, Orlando attempted a run but managed to cut the lead down to only 12; at the buzzer, the Lakers celebrated their 15th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nFollowing the game, NBA commissioner David Stern presented the Lakers with the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy and presented Kobe Bryant with the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Trophy during a presentation on center court at Amway Arena. Bryant averaged 32.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 7.4 assists per game during the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThe series was the third straight championship the Lakers clinched on the road (after 2001 and 2002); the last time the Lakers clinched the championship at home was in 2000. With their team's win, Pau Gasol became the first Spaniard and D. J. Mbenga the first Belgian Congolese player to win an NBA championship. Bill and Luke Walton became the third father-son pair to each win a championship as a player; the other father-son combinations are Matt Guokas, Sr. (1947) with Matt Jr. (1967) and Rick Barry (1975) with son Brent (2005 and 2007). Kobe Bryant averaged 32.4 points and 7.4 assists in this series, which was the best combination of those categories since Jerry West averaged 37.9 points and 7.4 assists (1969).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nFor the Magic, Game 3 marked their first Finals game victory in franchise history after losing their first six Finals games, including being swept in their first Finals appearance in 1995. In Game 3, the Magic set the Finals record for the best field goal percentage with 63 percent, and the Finals record for best field goal percentage in the first half with 75 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThis was the first NBA Finals series since 1984 to have two games go into overtime (Games 2 and 4); both were won by the Lakers. Dwight Howard set an NBA Finals single-game record with 9 blocked shots in Game 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThe previous record holders, all of whom had blocked eight shots in a Finals game, were: Bill Walton of the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 6 of the 1977 NBA Finals; Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of the 1986 NBA Finals; Howard's assistant coach Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks in Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals; Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the 2001 NBA Finals; and Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the 2003 NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThis was the seventh time in NBA Finals history that a team that lost the championship the previous season has won the Finals the very next year. It is the second time in Lakers history, after the 1984 and 1985 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThis was also the first odd season since 2001 that the San Antonio Spurs did not win the NBA Finals; they won in 2003, 2005, and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Statistics\nThis was the last Finals in which a trophy silhouette was painted in mid-court. The tradition began in 2005 and ended for the 2010 series. This was also the last NBA Finals to be played at Amway Arena; the Magic moved to the Amway Center for the 2010\u201311 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, International broadcasts\nAside from ABC (U.S.) and TSN (Canada), other broadcasters across the world covered the Finals:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Lakers\nThe series win brought the Lakers' franchise championship total to 15, trailing only to the Boston Celtics. The championship was the fourth of the 2000s decade for the Lakers, most among all teams in the four major professional sports leagues in North America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Lakers\nBy virtue of their win this year and loss in the previous year, this marked tenth occurrence that the winners of the NBA Finals were losers in the preceding year's Finals, previously the Detroit Pistons had lost and won the Finals in 1988 and 1989 respectively. The victory was noted by many as a personal success for Finals MVP Kobe Bryant, winning his first championship and succeeding in the playoffs without the presence of former Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal where some people had previously speculated that Bryant could not \"win one without Shaq\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Lakers\nHead coach Phil Jackson captured his 10th NBA championship as a coach, surpassing Red Auerbach for most championships all-time by an NBA coach. Jackson also passed Auerbach and NHL coach Scotty Bowman for most championships all-time by a head coach in a major American sports league. Having achieved three Game 1 victories throughout the postseason (first round vs. Utah, conference finals vs. Denver, and NBA Finals vs. Orlando), Phil Jackson-coached teams were now 44\u20130 in series where they win the first game, later improved to 48\u20130 by the time Jackson retired after the 2011 NBA Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Lakers\nThe Lakers' only offseason change was the acquisition of Ron Artest from the Houston Rockets, in an essential trade where they let Trevor Ariza sign with the Rockets. Again the Lakers won the top seed in the West, though winning just eight games less than the year before. They eliminated the Oklahoma City Thunder in six, the Utah Jazz in four, and the Phoenix Suns in six to return to the NBA Finals and renew their heated rivalry with the Celtics. In the Finals the Lakers won a hard-fought seven game series against the Celtics to retain the NBA title, becoming the first team to repeat as champions since the 2002 Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Magic\nThe Magic again won 59 games and the division title in the 2009\u201310 season, in which they let go of Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu to the Toronto Raptors and acquired Vince Carter from the New Jersey Nets. Dwight Howard won Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight year. In the playoffs the Magic swept the Charlotte Bobcats and the Atlanta Hawks, becoming the first team in NBA history to win their first eight playoff games by 20 or more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204146-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA Finals, Impact and aftermath, Magic\nHowever, the Magic would lose to the Boston Celtics in six games of the Eastern Conference Finals, marking the final games held at Amway Arena. The Magic moved to the Amway Center the next season, then proceeded to lose in the first round for two straight years to the Hawks and the Indiana Pacers, respectively. After the 2011\u201312 season Stan Van Gundy was fired, and in a blockbuster offseason trade, Howard was traded to the Lakers, which he spent one season with the Lakers and later move to Houston Rockets. However, the team failed to reach NBA Finals due to the rise of the Golden State Warriors. Thus, Howard return to the Eastern Conference teams after signing with Atlanta Hawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nThe 2009 NBA draft was held on June 25, 2009, at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this draft, the National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nThe Los Angeles Clippers, who won the draft lottery on May 19, 2009, used their first overall draft pick to draft Blake Griffin from University of Oklahoma. However, he missed the entire 2009\u201310 season due to surgery on his broken left kneecap, which he injured during the pre-season. Tanzanian-born Hasheem Thabeet from University of Connecticut was drafted second by the Memphis Grizzlies. Thabeet became the first player born in Tanzania to be drafted by an NBA team. James Harden was drafted 3rd by the Oklahoma City Thunder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nThis made him the first player to be drafted by the franchise as the Oklahoma City Thunder; the franchise moved from Seattle to OKC in 2008. The Sacramento Kings drafted Tyreke Evans 4th; he was named 2009\u201310 NBA Rookie of the Year, after he became the fourth NBA player in history to average at least 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in his rookie season, joining the elite club of Oscar Robertson (1960), Michael Jordan (1984) and LeBron James (2003). Spanish teenager Ricky Rubio was drafted 5th by the Minnesota Timberwolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nRubio became the fifth-highest-drafted international player who never played U.S. college basketball to be drafted in the NBA, tied with Nikoloz Tskitishvili (5th in 2002), and behind Yao Ming (1st in 2002), Andrea Bargnani (1st in 2006), Darko Mili\u010di\u0107 (2nd in 2003) and Pau Gasol (3rd in 2001). Twenty-third pick Omri Casspi became the first Israeli player to be drafted in the first round, and later he became the first Israeli to play in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nThe 2009 draft marked the first time three sons of former NBA players were selected in the top 15 picks of the draft. Stephen Curry, son of Dell Curry, was drafted 7th by the Golden State Warriors. Gerald Henderson Jr., son of Gerald Henderson, was drafted 12th by the Charlotte Bobcats. Austin Daye, son of Darren Daye, was drafted 15th by the Detroit Pistons. The draft also marked the first time a former high school player who skipped college to play professional basketball in Europe was selected in an NBA draft. Brandon Jennings, who skipped college to play professional basketball with Italian team Lottomatica Roma, was drafted 10th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nOf the 60 players drafted, four were freshmen, nine were sophomores, 12 were juniors, 22 were seniors, and 13 were international players without U.S. college basketball experience. The University of North Carolina's Tar Heels had the most players selected in the draft; three players were selected in the first round and one was selected in the second round. This marked the second time ever that four Tar Heels players were selected in the first two rounds of an NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nThe Minnesota Timberwolves had the league-high four first-round draft picks and the first time in team history that the team held two top-10 draft picks. The Timberwolves also had two second-round draft picks and became the team with the most draft picks in the 2009 draft with a total of six. The Houston Rockets and the Orlando Magic were the only NBA teams who did not have a draft pick this year, although Houston acquired three drafted players' rights after the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft\nFrom the players in this draft, there have been six players selected as All-Stars; out of these six, Curry and Harden have both won the NBA's regular season MVP award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Draft\n[ [ File:Tyreke Evans FT 2013-10-05.JPG|thumb|right|150px|Tyreke Evans was selected fourth by the Sacramento Kings. He won rookie of the year for the 2009-10 season. [ [ File:Stephen Curry Shooting (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|150px|Stephen Curry was selected seventh by the Golden State Warriors. He has established himself as an all-time great shooter, guiding the Warriors to 3 championships and winning back-to-back MVP's.] ]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Draft\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Nick Calathes was born in the United States, and has dual U.S. and Greek citizenship by birth. He has represented Greece internationally. ^\u00a0b:\u00a0Goran Suton, who was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is also a naturalized citizen of the United States since 2006. ^\u00a0c:\u00a0Emir Preld\u017ei\u010d, who was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also has Slovenian and Turkish citizenship. He had represented Slovenia internationally in 2008, before switching to Turkey. ^\u00a0d:\u00a0Chinemelu Elonu was born in Nigeria, is also a naturalized citizen of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Notable undrafted players\nThese players were not selected in the 2009 NBA draft but have played at least one game in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Eligibility\nThe CBA defines \"international players\" as players who permanently resided outside the U.S. for three years prior to the draft, did not complete high school in the U.S., and have never enrolled at a U.S. college or university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Eligibility\nThe basic requirement for automatic eligibility for a U.S. player is the completion of his college eligibility. Players who meet the CBA definition of \"international players\" are automatically eligible if their 22nd birthday falls during or before the calendar year of the draft (i.e., born on or before December 31, 1987). U.S. players who were at least one year removed from their high school graduation and have played professional basketball with a team outside the NBA were also automatically eligible. Former high school player Brandon Jennings meets these criteria, having graduated high school in 2008, skipped college basketball and then played professional basketball in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Eligibility\nA player who is not automatically eligible must declare his eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft. For the 2009 draft, this date fell on April 26. An early entry candidate is allowed to withdraw his eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 10 days before the draft. This year, a total of 74 collegiate players and 29 international players declared as early entry candidates. At the withdrawal deadline, 55 early-entry candidates withdrew from the draft, leaving 39 collegiate players and 10 international players as the early-entry candidates for the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Eligibility\nA player who has hired an agent will forfeit his remaining college eligibility, regardless of whether he is drafted. Also, while the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the league and its players' union allows a player to withdraw from the draft twice, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) mandates that a player who has declared twice loses his college eligibility. This second provision affected Chase Budinger, Wayne Ellington, and Ty Lawson, all of whom declared for and withdrew from the 2008 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Draft lottery\nThe lottery selection to determine the order of the top fourteen picks in the 2009 draft occurred on May 19, 2009. The Los Angeles Clippers won the first pick, while the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder moved up to second and third picks respectively. The Sacramento Kings and Washington Wizards, who had the two best chances to land a top-three pick, fell down to the fourth and fifth spots, the lowest possible picks they could be awarded through the lottery. The remaining first-round picks and all the second-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win-loss records in the previous season. As is commonplace in the event of identical win-loss records, the NBA performed a random drawing to break the ties on April 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Draft lottery\nBelow were the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2009 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Draft lottery\n^\u00a01:\u00a0Washington Wizards' pick was later traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Pre-draft trades\nPrior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204147-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Draft-day trades\nThe following trades involving drafted players were made on the day of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nThe 2009 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2008\u201309 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. Kobe Bryant was named NBA Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nThe Boston Celtics lost a best-of-7 series after leading 3\u20132 for the first time to the Magic in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Before that, their first round series with the Chicago Bulls set an NBA Playoff record for the most overtime games (4) and periods (7) played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nThe Houston Rockets won a first round series for the first time since 1997. They pushed the eventual champion Lakers to a Game 7 before losing. The Atlanta Hawks won a first round series for the first time since 1999, but were swept by the Cavs after enduring a tough 7-game series with the Miami Heat, who made the playoffs for the fifth time in 6 years. The Denver Nuggets won a playoff series for the first time since 1994, eventually reaching their first conference final since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nAs for the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs, they failed to advance past the first round for the first time since 2000. The Pistons were swept by the Cavs, while the Spurs lost to the Dallas Mavericks 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nThe Portland Trail Blazers made the playoffs for the first time since 2003, but for the fourth straight time, they were eliminated in the first round, courtesy of Houston in 6 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs\nThe Cleveland Cavaliers became only the second team in NBA History (after the Miami Heat) to go 8\u20130 through the first two rounds by sweeping the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks (they would duplicate this feat in 2016, against the same two teams). However, they fell in 6 games to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Format\nThe 3 division winners and 5 other teams with the most wins from each conference qualify for the playoffs. The seedings are based on each team's record; however, a division winner is guaranteed to be ranked at least 4th, regardless of record. All series are in a best-of-7 format with the Games 1\u20132, 5 and 7 on the home court of the team with the better record, regardless of their seed. For the NBA Finals, the team with the better record plays Games 1\u20132 and 6\u20137 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Format, Tiebreak procedures\nIf there are more than 2 teams tied, the team that wins the tiebreaker gets the highest seed, while the other teams are \"re-broken\" from the first step until all ties are resolved. Since the three division winners are guaranteed a spot in the top 4, ties to determine the division winners must be broken before any other ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (8) Detroit Pistons\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 111], "content_span": [112, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (8) Detroit Pistons\nThe Cavaliers opened the series with a rout on Game 1, as LeBron James scored 38 points and the Cavaliers won by 18 points. In Game 2, the Cavaliers were leading by 27 points after the third quarter before the Pistons started a comeback in the fourth quarter. The Pistons managed to cut the Cavaliers' lead down to 7 points, but in the end the Cavaliers won the game by 12 points. Game 3 was a tight contest until an 18\u20132 run by the Cavaliers in the fourth quarter secured the victory for Cleveland. The Cavaliers swept the Pistons with a 21-point victory in Game 4, in which James scored 36 points while narrowly missing a triple-double for two straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 111], "content_span": [112, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nIn Game 1, with the Bulls trailing by 1, rookie Derrick Rose hit 2 free throws with 9.6 seconds left. Celtics captain Paul Pierce had a chance to win the game with his own free throws from a Joakim Noah foul but missed the second, leading to overtime. In the overtime, with Rose fouling out, Tyrus Thomas scored six of the Bulls' eight points to put them up 105\u2013103 with about 50 seconds left. Ray Allen, who had a poor shooting night, had a chance to tie the game and send it into a second overtime but he did not succeed. Even while the playoffs were continuing, many experts and analysts were calling it \"the greatest playoff series ever\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nRose matched Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's playoff debut of 36 points to lead the Bulls into a Game 1 road victory. Rose also became the second player to have a 35-point, 10-assist game in their playoff debut in history, after Chris Paul did the feat in 2008; his 36 points was also the highest points scored by a Bull in a playoff game since Michael Jordan retired. The win also marked the Bulls' first postseason win against the Celtics in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nIn Game 2, Ben Gordon poured in 42 points, but lost the duel to Ray Allen. The Bulls were blown out in Game 3. At home in the end of regulation of Game 4, Gordon hit a big bank shot putting the Bulls up 95-93. The Bulls would go on to win in 2OT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nThe Bulls held a double digit lead, and Boston came back behind Paul Pierce. Gordon hit a tough shot over Stephon Marbury. Pierce tied with his own jumper, Brad Miller missed 2 free throws with 2 seconds remaining in overtime, and Boston won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nThe Bulls had to come back from being down 8 in the final 2 minutes of regulation, and did so behind John Salmons. Ray Allen scored 51 points, but the Bulls won in 3OT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Chicago Bulls\nThe Celtics finished the Bulls off with a 10-point victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Orlando Magic vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the 76ers winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 108], "content_span": [109, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Orlando Magic vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers\nIn Game 1, the Magic had an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter and Andre Iguodala scored a jumper with 2.2 seconds remaining to give the Sixers a road win over Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu. The Sixers almost managed another comeback in Game 2. The Magic led by 18 points midway through the third quarter before another late run by the Sixers brought the lead down to 5 points before the Magic finally won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 108], "content_span": [109, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Orlando Magic vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers\nThe Sixers won Game 3 courtesy of another late shot; Thaddeus Young scored a layup with 2 seconds left to secure the win, despite a career playoff-high 36-point performance by Dwight Howard. The Magic secured a road win in Game 4 with their own late shot; T\u00fcrko\u011flu scored his own game-winning three-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to even the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 108], "content_span": [109, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Orlando Magic vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers\nIn Game 5, Dwight Howard had 24 points and a career playoff-high 24 rebounds, leading the Magic to a victory. Game 5 was marked with an elbowing incident by Howard on Samuel Dalembert, which led to a one-game suspension for Howard. Rookie Courtney Lee also went down injured after taking an inadvertent elbow on the head from Howard. Despite losing two starters, Howard and Lee, the Magic won game 6, beating the Sixers on the road by 25 points to win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 108], "content_span": [109, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Miami Heat\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Hawks winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 100], "content_span": [101, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Miami Heat\nThe Hawks opened the series with a 26-point win after leading by as much as 20 points at halftime. The Hawks also tied a franchise record for fewest points allowed in a playoff game. However, the Heat managed to rebound from the loss and won Game 2 on the road to tie the series. The Heat won Game 3 at home, almost in similar fashion as the Hawks' victory in Game 1. The Heat was already leading by 19 points at halftime and ended up winning by 29 points. In the next game, the Hawks bounced back and won a road game to even the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 100], "content_span": [101, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Miami Heat\nGame 5 was marked by several hard fouls and technical fouls. Dwyane Wade was fouled and sent tumbling down by Solomon Jones before a skirmish between Wade, Jones, Jamaal Magloire and Josh Smith started. All four players were given technical fouls in the incident. Wade was later called for a flagrant foul after he fouled Maurice Evans during a layup attempt. The flagrant foul was later rescinded by the officials after they reviewed the play. The Hawks finally won the game, despite losing starting center Al Horford due to injury in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 100], "content_span": [101, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Miami Heat\nThe Heat evened the series at 3\u20133 after winning Game 6. Wade scored 41 points to lead the Heat to a 26-point rout over the Hawks. The Hawks finally won the series after winning Game 7 at home, with 13 points difference. All seven games of the series were decided by at least 10 points, with an average margin of 19 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 100], "content_span": [101, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Utah Jazz\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two series apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) New Orleans Hornets\nThis was the first playoff meeting between the Nuggets and the New Orleans Pelicans/Hornets franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) New Orleans Hornets\nThe Nuggets routed the Hornets in Game 1, led by hometown player Chauncey Billups's 36 points in his playoff debut for the Nuggets. He sank a career playoff-high 8 three-pointers and added 8 assists in the game. He continued his form in Game 2, scoring 31 points as the Nuggets took a 2\u20130 lead in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) New Orleans Hornets\nThe Hornets bounced back with a victory in Game 3. Game 3 was marked with plenty of fouls, with a total of 58 personal fouls in the game, resulting in four players fouling out of the game, David West and Tyson Chandler for the Hornets, and Kenyon Martin and Nen\u00ea for the Nuggets. The referees also called three flagrant fouls from James Posey, Chandler and Billups. Hornets' head coach Byron Scott was also called for a technical foul after arguing on Posey's flagrant foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) New Orleans Hornets\nThe Nuggets then pulled a 58-point win in Game 4. The margin tied the most lopsided victory in playoff history set 53 years ago by the Minneapolis Lakers. The Hornets recorded a playoff-low in points and also a playoff-high 26 turnovers, which led to 41 Nuggets' points. The Nuggets then recorded their first series win since 1994 after a victory in Game 5. Carmelo Anthony scored his career playoff-high with 34 points as the Nuggets cruised to another double-digit win. The average margin of victory in the Nuggets's four wins was 30.75 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) San Antonio Spurs vs. (6) Dallas Mavericks\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Spurs winning two of the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Houston Rockets\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Rockets winning the first two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (4) Atlanta Hawks\nThis was the first playoff meeting between the Hawks and the Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 118], "content_span": [119, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (3) Orlando Magic\nThis was the first time the Celtics lost a series when leading 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 113], "content_span": [114, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Boston Celtics vs. (3) Orlando Magic\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Magic winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 113], "content_span": [114, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (5) Houston Rockets\nThis was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning four of the first seven meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 119], "content_span": [120, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Dallas Mavericks\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Mavericks winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 116], "content_span": [117, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (3) Orlando Magic\nThis was the first playoff meeting between the Cavaliers and the Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (3) Orlando Magic\nIn Game 1, LeBron James dominated with a 49-point performance, while Howard had 30. Early in the game, Howard made a thunderous jam that caused the shot clock to fall backwards. Although James had a potential game-winning three-point play, a furious rally and a game-winning three-pointer by Rashard Lewis allowed the Magic to escape with a victory in game 1. Much like Game 1, Game 2 had the Cavs with an 18-point lead by the second quarter, only for the Magic to rally back in the closing minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (3) Orlando Magic\nA jump shot by Hedo T\u00fcrko\u011flu gave the Magic a 2-point lead with 1 second left on the clock, but LeBron James hit a three-pointer to tie the series at the buzzer. In Game 3, the Magic dominated at home, leading to a 10-point victory behind Dwight Howard's 24 points. In Game 4, two clutch free throws by LeBron James sent the game into overtime. While James dominated with 44 (his third 40-point game of the playoffs), an off half-court shot allowed the Magic to escape again with a victory. Down 3\u20131, James' triple-double allowed his team to stave off elimination in Game 5. After a win in Game 6, the Magic received their second NBA Finals berth in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (2) Denver Nuggets\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first four meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 110], "content_span": [111, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204148-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (W1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (E3) Orlando Magic\nThis was the first playoff meeting between the Lakers and the Magic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204149-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NBB season\nNovo Basquete Brasil (NBB) is the Brazilian basketball league, created in 2008 as the new format to the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete. NBB is fully organized by the participating clubs, as an attempt to reorganize and rebuild the Brazilian basketball. The form of dispute follows a similar model adopted by the NBA and European countries. The first edition was disputed by fifteen teams playing each other in the round and second round at the classification stage. At the end of two rounds, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs in best of five matches, advances to the next phase who win three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204150-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 2009 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Tom O'Brien. It was O'Brien's third season as NC State's head coach. The Wolfpack played their home games at Carter\u2013Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Wolfpack finished the season 5\u20137, 2\u20136 in ACC play and failed to qualify for a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204150-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NC State Wolfpack football team, Preseason\nOn June 27, linebacker Nate Irving was seriously injured in an automobile accident and will not play for the 2009 season, as he suffered a compound fracture in his leg and a collapsed lung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204150-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NC State Wolfpack football team, Coaching staff\nAfter not traveling with the team to Blacksburg, Virginia for the Virginia Tech game, it was announced that offensive coordinator Dana Bible had been diagnosed with leukemia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204151-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Bowling Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Bowling Championship was the sixth annual tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA collegiate ten-pin bowling. The tournament was played at Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, Michigan during April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204151-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Bowling Championship\nNebraska defeated Central Missouri in the championship match, 4 games to 1, to win their third national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204151-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Bowling Championship, Qualification\nSince there is only one national collegiate championship for women's bowling, all NCAA bowling programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship, which consisted of a modified double-elimination style tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 29 through June 24, 2009 and is part of the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 286 teams on May 25, 2009. Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 tournament culminated with 8 teams advancing to the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska beginning on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Bids, Automatic bids\nConference champions from 30 Division I conferences earned automatic bids to regionals. The remaining 34 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals, Regional schedule\nRegional rounds were held Friday, May 29 through Monday, June 1. Each regional followed a double elimination format, with 2 games each played on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and one on Monday when needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals, Super Regional Schedule\nBest-of-three super regionals were held Friday, June 5 through Monday, June 8. Four series were played Friday-Sunday and four series were played Saturday-Monday with the final day in each grouping if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 96], "content_span": [97, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204152-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204153-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were the 71st annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 29th annual NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204153-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nHeld on November 23, 2009, the combined meet was the sixth of eight consecutive meets hosted by Indiana State University at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The distance for the men's race was 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) while the distance for the women's race was 6 kilometers (3.73 miles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204153-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe men's team championship was won by Oklahoma State (127 points), the Cowboys' second overall and first since 1954. The women's team championship was won by Villanova (79 points), the Wildcats' eighth overall and first since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204153-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe two individual champions were, for the men, Samuel Chelanga (Liberty, 28:41.3) and, for the women, Angela Bizzarri (Illinois, 19:46.8).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204154-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings\nThree human polls and one formula ranking make up the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship title. That title is bestowed by one or more of four different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason: the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204154-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings\nTwo additional polls are released midway through the season; the Harris Interactive Poll is released after the fourth week of the season and the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings is released after the seventh week. The Harris Poll and Coaches Poll are factors in the BCS Standings. At the end of the season, on Sunday, December 6, 2009, the BCS Standings determines who plays in the BCS bowl games as well as the 2010 BCS National Championship Game on January 7, 2010 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season\nThe regular season began on September 3, 2009 and ended on December 12, 2009. The postseason concluded on January 7, 2010 with the BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California, where the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Texas Longhorns by the score of 37\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season\nFor the first time in the history of the Heisman Trophy, the annual award for the most outstanding player in college football, two previous Heisman winners played in the same season\u20142008 winner Sam Bradford of Oklahoma and 2007 winner Tim Tebow of Florida. For the first time since 1946, the top three vote-getters from the previous season all returned: Bradford, Colt McCoy of Texas, and Tebow, in that order. Six teams finished the regular season undefeated; a record for the BCS era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Rule changes\nThe NCAA football rules committee proposed several rule changes for 2009. The rule changes include the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference changes\nWestern Kentucky joined the Sun Belt Conference after playing the 2008 as an FBS independent, completing their two-year transition from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The number of full FBS members increased to 120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Regular season top 10 matchups\nRankings reflect the AP Poll. Rankings for Week 8 and beyond will list BCS Rankings first and AP Poll second. Teams that failed to be a top 10 team for one poll or the other will be noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference summaries\nRankings reflect the Week 14 AP Poll before the conference championship games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference summaries\nFor the first time since 1983, every conference in Division I FBS, even those that did not contest a championship game, had an undisputed champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Conference summaries\n* In July 2011, the NCAA released its findings from a two-year investigation into allegations that a Georgia Tech player received $321 in clothing from a runner for an agent. While no conclusive evidence was brought against the player, actions taken by the Georgia Tech athletic department were perceived as an attempt to hinder the NCAA investigation into this offense. The NCAA determined that the player should have been declared ineligible for the final three games of the 2009 season. As punishment for an accused \"lack of cooperation\" and hindering the investigation, Georgia Tech was required to vacate the ACC Championship Game win, along with other penalties. Consequently, there is currently no official 2009 ACC football champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Bowl games, Bowl Challenge Cup standings\n* Does not meet minimum game requirement of three teams needed for a conference to be eligible. (In any case, \"Independent\" is not a conference, rather, it is the lack of one.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Awards and honors, Heisman Trophy voting\nThe Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204155-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Coaching changes, Postseason\nOn December 26, Florida head coach Urban Meyer announced his resignation due to health concerns, effective after the Gators' Sugar Bowl appearance. However, Meyer had a change of heart and announced the following day  that he would instead take an indefinite leave of absence, and expected to be back coaching by the start of the 2010 season. Offensive coordinator Steve Addazio took over Meyer's duties in his absence. Meyer returned from his self-imposed leave in time for Florida's 2010 spring practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204156-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings are from the Sports Network media poll and the coaches poll. This is for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, the 2009 season of college football for teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), began in August 2009 and concluded with the 2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game on December 18, 2009, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, won by Villanova 23\u201321 over Montana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Rule changes for 2009\nThe NCAA football rules committee proposed several rule changes for 2009. Before these rules were officially adopted, the proposals had to be approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel. The rule changes include the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, FCS team wins over FBS teams\nIn the 2009 season, FCS teams played a total of 91 games against FBS opponents. Notably, four of the five victorious FCS teams\u2014all except Central Arkansas\u2014were members of the Colonial Athletic Association. All four made that season's playoffs and advanced to the quarterfinals. Richmond lost in that round to Appalachian State, while Villanova defeated both New Hampshire (quarterfinals) and William & Mary (semifinals) on its way to the national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference and program changes, Dropped programs\nAfter Northeastern's final game of the season, a 33\u201327 win over Rhode Island on November 21, the school announced that it was dropping the football program. The Huskies ended their 74th season with a 3\u20138 record, but school officials cited that losing seasons were not the determining factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference and program changes, Dropped programs\nOn December 3, Hofstra also announced that it was dropping their football program in favor of academic funding. The football team, which finished the season 5\u20136 after a 52\u201338 win over Massachusetts, ended their program after 73 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference and program changes, Dropped programs\nThe Colonial Athletic Association, where both teams played, decided to replace the two teams with new programs at Old Dominion and Georgia State in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Old Dominion started its program during the 2009 season;  Georgia State started theirs in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Eastern Illinois coach's death\nOn Saturday, November 28, just hours after Eastern Illinois lost to Southern Illinois 48\u20137 in the first round of the FCS playoffs, Eastern Illinois' offensive coordinator Jeffrey O. Hoover, age 41, was killed in a car accident. The single-vehicle accident occurred south of Effingham when Hoover, his family and EIU strength coach Eric Cash struck a deer while driving home from Carbondale, the home of SIU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Eastern Illinois coach's death\nHoover's death was the second Eastern Illinois coaching death within a month. On November 4, women's basketball assistant coach Jackie Moore, 28, died after collapsing during a workout on campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference champions, Invitation\nIn order to be eligible for the playoffs, these teams must have a minimum of eight Division I wins, with at least two against teams in automatic bid conferences. They also must be ranked an average of 16 or better in the national rankings, made up of the following components:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference champions, Invitation\nNo team in the invitational conferences qualified. Starting in 2010, the Big South and NEC will become automatic bid conferences with the expansion of the playoff field to 20 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204157-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Postseason, Gridiron Classic\nThe Gridiron Classic is an annual game between the champions of the Northeast Conference and the Pioneer Football League that has been held since December 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204158-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 29th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team in the United States. The North Carolina Tar Heels field hockey won their sixth championship, defeating the Maryland Terrapins in the final. The semifinals and championship were hosted by Wake Forest University at Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204159-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Villanova Wildcats and the Montana Grizzlies. It was played on December 18, 2009, at Finley Stadium, home field of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The culminating game of the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season, it was won by Villanova, 23\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204159-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams\nThe participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 2009 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204159-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Montana Grizzlies\nMontana finished their regular season with an 11\u20130 record (8\u20130 in conference). As the first-seed in the tournament, the Grizzlies defeated South Dakota State, Stephen F. Austin, and Appalachian State to reach the final. This was Montana's second consecutive and seventh overall appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA championship game, having previously won in 1995 and 2001, and having lost in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204159-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Villanova Wildcats\nVillanova finished their regular season with a 10\u20131 record (7\u20131 in conference). As the second-seed in the tournament, the Wildcats defeated Holy Cross, New Hampshire (who had given Villanova their only loss during the regular season), and William & Mary to reach the final. This was Villanova's first appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and determined the National Champion for the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 6, 2009 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan as the final game of the Final Four. The game was played between the South Regional Champions, No. 1-seeded North Carolina, and the Midwest Regional Champions, No. 2-seeded Michigan State. The Tar Heels defeated the Spartans 89\u201372.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\nThis game was a rematch of Basketbowl II of the 2008 ACC-Big Ten Challenge which was also played at Ford Field in which North Carolina also dominated Michigan State with a 98\u201363 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan State\nIn their first game of the Tournament, Raymar Morgan scored 16 points to help the Spartans defeat Robert Morris 77\u201362. In the Second round of the Tournament, Travis Walton scored a career-high 18 points to help beat USC 74\u201369 and advance to the Sweet Sixteen. In the Sweet Sixteen, Michigan State came back from a 36\u201329 deficit at halftime and Kalin Lucas scored seven points during the final 49 seconds including making five straight free throws to beat Kansas 67\u201362 and advance to the Elite Eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan State\nIn the Elite Eight, the Spartans dominated No. 1-seeded Louisville, holding them to their second lowest point total of the season (52), only one shot in the final 5:18, and just 38.3 percent shooting in a 64\u201352 win. In the Final Four, Kalin Lucas scored 21 points and Raymar Morgan scored 18 points as Michigan State controlled the tempo of play with solid all-around play holding Connecticut to only 18 mid-range shots or 3-pointers only making three of those as Michigan State beat Connecticut 82\u201373.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan State\nMichigan State was the first team since Duke in 1994 to play the national championship game in their home state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, North Carolina\nNorth Carolina got off to a hot start in the Tournament as Tyler Hansbrough scored 22 points to become the leading scorer in ACC history and Wayne Ellington scored 25 points to lead North Carolina to a 101\u201358 dominating win over Radford. In the Second round, Ty Lawson scored 23 points (21 of them coming in the second half) and once the game was tied at 63\u201363, North Carolina finished off with a 21\u20137 run to beat LSU 84\u201370.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, North Carolina\nIn the Sweet Sixteen, North Carolina went 11\u201319 on three-pointers while Tyler Hansbrough had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds and Ty Lawson scored 19 points (17 in the first half) and had nine assists and one turnover as North Carolina defeated Gonzaga 98\u201377. In the Elite Eight, Ty Lawson led North Carolina with 19 points to beat Oklahoma 72\u201360 and advance to the Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, North Carolina\nIn the Final Four, Tyler Hansbrough had a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds which made him the sixth leading scorer in NCAA Tournament history and in addition, Ty Lawson scored 22 points and Wayne Ellington scored 20 points to beat Villanova 83\u201369 to advance to the National Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, North Carolina\nNorth Carolina was the third team since 1985 to advance to the National Championship game having won their previous five tournament games by 10 points or more. The other two teams were Duke in 2001 as they beat Arizona by 10 in the 2001 National Championship Game and Michigan State in 2000 as they beat Florida by 13 in the 2000 National Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 443]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game Summary\nNorth Carolina got hot early during the 2009 National Championship Game,  as they got off to a 34\u201311 lead with 9:46 remaining in the 1st half. North Carolina kept their dominance going as they had a 55\u201334 lead at halftime, which marks the largest halftime lead in NCAA Tournament History and the most points scored in the 1st half in NCAA Tournament History. The game was over before it began as North Carolina had a 17\u20137 lead with 15:35 remaining in the 1st half, and the game never got closer. North Carolina won the game 89\u201372, as Tyler Hansbrough's 18 points, Wayne Ellington's 19 points, and Ty Lawson's 21 points all led to the rout of Michigan State to win the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204160-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game Summary\nBy beating Michigan State by 17, North Carolina became the 1st team since Duke in 2001 to win all their NCAA Tournament games by double digits. Also, their +121 point differential during the 2009 NCAA Tournament was the 2nd highest in Tournament History since 1985 trailing Kentucky who had a +129 point differential during the 1996 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament in which 65 schools competed to determine the national champion of the men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008\u201309 basketball season. The tournament began on March 17, 2009, and concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, where the University of North Carolina defeated Michigan State to become the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 tournament marked the first time for a Final Four having a minimum seating capacity of 70,000 and by having most of the tournament in the February Sweeps of the Nielsen Ratings due to the digital television transition in the United States on June 12, 2009, which also made this the last NCAA Basketball Tournament, in all three divisions, to air in analog television. The University of Detroit Mercy hosted the Final Four, which was the 71st edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nPrior to the start of the tournament, the top ranked team was Louisville in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Polls, followed by North Carolina, Memphis, and Pittsburgh. Only the Tar Heels of North Carolina were the regional winners and played in the Final Four. The Tar Heels completed one of the most dominant runs in the tournament's history by winning each of their games by at least twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nFor the first time since seeding began, all #1\u2013#3 seeds made it into the Sweet 16, and for the third consecutive time, all #1 seeds made the Elite Eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\nFour schools made their NCAA tournament debut, all respective conference champions: Binghamton (America East), Morgan State (MEAC), Stephen F. Austin (Southland), and North Dakota State (Summit), a school in its first season of Division I eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nSixty-five teams were selected for the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a postseason tournament, went to Cornell, its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted \"at-large\" bids by the NCAA Selection Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nTwo teams play an opening-round game, popularly called the \"play-in game\". The winner of that game advances to the main draw of the tournament as a 16 seed and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. The 2009 game was played on Tuesday, March 17, at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio, as it has since its inception in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure\nAll 64 teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their regions; the winner of the play-in game automatically received a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65. SEC commissioner Michael Slive served his last year as chairman of the committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2009 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nDetroit was the 28th new host city, and Ford Field the 35th new venue, to host the Final Four. The tournament featured six new stadiums, including two domed stadiums. The Phoenix suburb of Glendale was host for the first time, with games being held at the University of Phoenix Stadium, home to football's Arizona Cardinals. Indianapolis also hosted at a new domed stadium, Lucas Oil Stadium, the replacement for the RCA Dome. After an eight-year hiatus, the tournament returned to Memphis at the FedExForum, the third venue in the city to host the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nKansas City also introduced a new arena, the Sprint Center, after the previous eight appearances at Kemper Arena. For only the second time, the city of Miami hosted games, this time at the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. And for the first time since 1975, the tournament returned to Portland, at the Rose Garden. This was the last tournament to feature the Metrodome, which closed in early 2014, and was replaced with U.S. Bank Stadium, hosted the 2019 Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region\nGoran Suton of Michigan State was the Midwest regional most outstanding player. He was joined by Spartan teammates Kalin Lucas and Travis Walton, Louisville's Earl Clark and Kansas's Cole Aldrich on the NCAA Tournament All-Midwest Regional team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nTo play the top-seeded Louisville Cardinals in the first round, Morehead State defeated Alabama State 58\u201343, with the Eagles keeping the Hornets without a lead the entire game. This marked the first time either team had played in the tournament in five years; the Eagles had not played since 1984. Morehead State fell to Louisville 74\u201354, the 100th time a 1 seed beat a 16 seed in the tournament since seeding began. However, the Eagles managed to keep the game close until halftime, when Louisville led by only 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nIn the second half, the Cardinals began to apply their signature fullcourt pressure, forcing turnovers and outscoring Morehead State 22\u20136 at the beginning of the half. Leon Buchanan's 17 points for the Eagles were not enough to upset Louisville, whose top scorers, Samardo Samuels and Terrence Williams, scored a combined 28 points. Morehead State has not beaten Louisville in 52 years until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nIn two overtimes, the Siena Saints beat the Ohio State Buckeyes 74\u201372. Ohio State had the advantage of playing an hour from their campus, and received 25 points, nine rebounds, and eight assists from Evan Turner. The Saints made 6 out of 23 3-pointers and had 22 turnovers. Accordingly, Siena trailed for most of the game, but scored the last four points in regulation to force overtime. At the end of the first overtime, Siena's Ronald Moore drained his first 3-pointer to force a second overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nWith 3.9 seconds left in that overtime, he hit a second three from the same location to give the Saints a late 2-point lead. In an attempt to send the game into a third overtime, Turner shot a 15-footer immediately afterwards, but he missed it. This was Siena's fifth appearance in the tournament, after beating Vanderbilt University in 2008 as a 13 seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nThe Arizona-Utah matchup was not as close. The Fifth-seeded Utah Utes were upset by the twelfth-seeded Arizona Wildcats, one of the last teams to make it in the tournament and a questionable entry, by a score of 84\u201371. The Utes closed the lead to two with roughly five minutes left in the game, but the Wildcats' answer was a 10\u20131 run. Utah's Luke Nevill committed two fouls less than four minutes into the game and scored only 12 points. Nic Wise of Arizona, meanwhile, led the team with 29 points, with 21 in the second half. Tyler Kepkay led the Utes with a team 19 points in his embarking performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nThe Cleveland State-Wake Forest game was an even larger upset. In their second bid in the tournament, the Cleveland State Vikings shocked the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 84\u201369. This 15-point win ties for third-greatest victory margin for a 13 seed over a 4 seed. Wake Forest, once ranked first in the country, had 16 turnovers in the matchup, compared to six for the Vikings. James Johnson of the Demon Deacons scored 22 points, although this could not compensate for a substandard offense. Their scoring leader, Jeff Teague, finished with 10 points, half his average. For these reasons, Wake Forest never obtained a lead, while Cleveland State sank three consecutive 3-pointers in the early minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nFor the first time in 19 years, Dayton advanced to the second round of the tournament with a win over West Virginia 68\u201360. This also ended West Virginia's first-round winning streak, which had lasted since 1992. Chris Wright led the Dayton Flyers with 27 points, a career high, while also chalking up 10 rebounds. Charles Little also aided the Flyers with 18 points. Darryl Bryant, who led West Virginia with 21 points, shot two consecutive three-pointers to bring Dayton's lead to 48\u201347 with 11:02 minutes left in the game. However, that was the closest the Mountaineers had to a lead outside the beginning of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nIn their first eligible year, North Dakota State appeared in the tournament, facing defending champion Kansas. The three-seeded Kansas Jayhawks staved off the fourteenth-seeded Bison's upset bid with an 84\u201374 victory. Ben Woodside shined with 37 points for the Bison, his sixth game of the season with at least 30 points. However, Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich proved too much for North Dakota State, accounting for 65 percent of the Jayhawks' points with 32 and 23 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nThe tenth-seeded USC Trojans demolished the seventh-seeded Boston College Eagles by a score of 72\u201355, helped by Taj Gibson's 10-for-10 shooting from the field, tied for the second-best NCAA tournament field-goal shooting performance in history. He led the team with 24 points and recorded six rebounds, five assists, and three blocks. Dwight Lewis also added 20 points for the Trojans. After leading 34\u201330 at halftime, the Eagles scored just a single field goal during one 13-minute stretch, as part of a 23.1 shooting percentage in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, First round\nRobert Morris, the region's 15 seed, was blown away by second-seeded Michigan State 77\u201362. The game was tied with 4:44 left in the first half, but then the Colonials went almost 20 minutes without scoring a single point. The Spartans took advantage of this for a 21\u20130 run that sealed the game in their favor. The Colonials' Jeremy Chappell was the only team member to score double-digit points with 11, and he also led the team with six rebounds, two steals, and three blocks. Raymar Morgan was the Spartans' leading scorer with 16 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 93], "content_span": [94, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Second round\nNinth-seeded Siena faced top seed Louisville, with the Cardinals emerging victorious 79\u201372. Taking advantage of Louisville's 19 turnovers, the Saints came back from a 12-point deficit with 17:21 left in the game to snatch the lead around the 9-minute mark. Edwin Ubiles broke through Louisville's full-court pressure and added 24 points for Siena. Terrence Williams, known as one of the most relaxed players on the Cardinals roster, saved his team by grabbing rebounds and making 3s. He led the team with 24 points, 15 rebounds, two steals, and four assists. Earl Clark also helped the Cardinals' cause with 12 points and 12 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Second round\nIn a 12 vs. 13 seed Cinderella matchup, Arizona handily defeated Cleveland State. The Wildcats' zone defense puzzled Cleveland State, and their fast breaks sealed the game. The smallest deficit the Vikings faced was 48\u201344 about midway through the second half, though the Wildcats then went on a 13\u20132 run led by Nic Wise's five consecutive points. His 21 points led the team's four double-digit scorers. Arizona was excellent behind the free-throw line, finishing 24 for 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Second round\nCole Aldrich's triple-double with 13 points, 20 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots paved the way for a third-seeded Kansas win over 11 seed Dayton. This was only the sixth triple-double in NCAA tournament history. With 43 points, Dayton scored the fewest points they had all season, compared to Kansas's 60. Despite their small point total, the Flyers shot 72 times, its most all season, amounting to a 22.2 shooting percentage. The Jayhawks were also not having one of their better offensive games, with Sherron Collins being an exception; he made 25 points. This marked the third straight Sweet Sixteen appearance for Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Second round\nPlaying the tenth-seeded USC Trojans, second-seeded Michigan State utilized Travis Walton's career-high 18 points for a 74\u201369 win. Normally known as a defensive player and averaging 4.9 points per game, Walton shot 8 for 13 from the field. His team out-rebounded USC 33 to 23, and USC made only one three-point play. Star Trojan Taj Gibson was in foul trouble throughout much of the game, and yet his teammates rallied for 14 lead changes and 16 ties. Dwight Lewis, who gave a 19-point performance overall, scored six consecutive points for USC for a late tie. The Spartans only earned a victory after the Trojans missed their last nine shots. With the win, Michigan State has made it to the Sweet 16 eight times of the last 12 years, more than any other team except Duke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 94], "content_span": [95, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nLouisville, the region's top seed, routed twelfth-seeded Arizona 103\u201364. In NCAA tournament history, this was Louisville's largest win and Arizona's largest loss. It was no surprise, given the Cardinals' 57.6 field goal percentage and their 48% shooting behind the arc. Their fullcourt pressure forced 15 turnovers on the Wildcats the entire game, including nine in the first half. Earl Clark led the Cardinals with 19 points, whose ballhandling garnered 29 assists. This was the most lopsided Sweet 16 victory since 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 117], "content_span": [118, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nThe Michigan State-Kansas matchup was much more intense. After overcoming a 13-point first half deficit, the Spartans won 67\u201362. They shot 16 of 17 from the foul line, and on their only miss they rebounded the ball and gave Raymar Morgan the only points of the night on a dunk. Such rallies in the second half narrowed the deficit and occasionally took the lead, although the Jayhawks responded and were up by 2 with 2 minutes left in the game. They were helped by Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich's combined 37 points. However, Kalin Lucas of the Spartans, who had scored 11 points in the first 39 minutes of the game, made seven straight points with 48 seconds left. Goran Suton also added nine rebounds, five steals, and a season-high 20 points for Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 117], "content_span": [118, 885]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Midwest Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nMichigan State defeated overall number one seed Louisville, 64\u201352, to advance to their fifth Final Four since 1999. Michigan State held Louisville to their second lowest point total of the season with their man-to-man defense keeping them out of sync all game. Center Goran Suton had 19 points and Durrel Summers had 12 in the rout. Earl Clark had 19 for Louisville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 110], "content_span": [111, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region\nA. J. Price was named MVP of the West Regional. He was joined by teammate Kemba Walker, Missouri's DeMarre Carroll and J. T. Tiller and Memphis' Tyreke Evans on the NCAA West All-regional team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region, First round\nForward Quincy Pondexter scored 23 points to lead his Washington Huskies to a first round 71\u201358 win over Mississippi State Bulldogs in the West Regional. Only Barry Stewart put up double digit points (14) for the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region, Second round\nPac-10 champions Washington Huskies scored 46 points in the second half, but it was not enough to beat the Purdue Boilermakers in the second round of West Regional, falling short by two points (76\u201374). Leaders for Purdue were JaJuan Johnson with 22 points and Keaton Grant with 12 rebounds. Isaiah Thomas with 24 points and Jon Brockman with 18 rebounds led the Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nConnecticut faced Purdue at University of Phoenix Stadium in a West Regional semifinal. It was UConn who took full advantage of many Purdue mistakes and, even though Robbie Hummel was able to shoot quite well scoring 17 points, it was Hasheem Thabeet and the Huskies who pulled away for a 72\u201360 win to move onto the regional finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 114], "content_span": [115, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nIn the nightcap of the sweet sixteen matchups, two sets of Tigers met, pitting Missouri against Memphis in a matchup that saw teams with similar fast-paced styles meet. Missouri was able to pull away with a 27\u20137 run that gave them a 64\u201340 lead. Though Memphis attempted to claw back into the game through Tyreke Evans' 33 points, it was JT Tiller, DeMarre Carroll, and Leo Lyons  that moved on to meet UConn in the regional final along with the rest of their Missouri Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 114], "content_span": [115, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, West Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nKemba Walker came off the UConn bench to spark them to a victory over the 3 seeded Missouri Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 107], "content_span": [108, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region\nScottie Reynolds was named Regional most outstanding player. He was joined by teammates Dwayne Anderson and Dante Cunningham, Panthers Sam Young and DeJuan Blair on the NCAA East All-Regional team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, First round\nUCLA Bruins' Alfred Aboya scored two free-throw points with 48 seconds remaining in the game to help UCLA get by VCU in the first round at the East Regional in Philadelphia's Wachovia Center with Maynor's potential game winning jumper bouncing off the rim at the buzzer. Top scorers in the game were Eric Maynor (21) for VCU and Josh Shipp (16) for UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, First round\nVillanova Wildcats, playing at home against an American University team that featured 5 seniors, fell behind early as American hit a barrage of 3 pointers. However, in the 2nd half, Villanova was able to take advantage of 20 free throws in the final 13 minutes of the game to win against American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, First round\nNo . 12 seed Wisconsin upset #5 seed Florida St. 61\u201359 in OT. Down 31\u201319 at the half, the Badgers' Jason Bohannon made a three-point jumper to give Wisconsin the lead with 45 seconds left in regulation. Trevon Hughes fouled Toney Douglas, who made two free throws to send the game into over-time. In over-time, the Badgers trailed by one with just seconds left when Hughes made a twisting shot from the lane over two defenders to put the Badgers ahead 60\u201359. Hughes was also fouled on the shot, and made the resulting free throw to make the score 61\u201359. Florida State had just enough time to run a full court in-bounds play but, the pass was deflected at half court thus securing the Badger victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, Second round\nBy six Wildcats scoring double-digit points, Villanova ended UCLA's hope of going to the Final Four for the fourth time in a row. Dante Cunningham had 18 points; Reggie Redding and Corey Fisher had 13; Corey Stokes put up 12; eleven points came from Scottie Reynolds and ten points were put up by Dwayne Anderson for the winning team. Josh Shipp had 18 points and Alfred Aboya had 8 rebounds for UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nVillanova (#3) upset Duke (#2), 77\u201354, to advance to the Regional Championship game to face Pittsburgh (#1). The Wildcats, who were ahead by 3 at half-time, were led in scoring by Scottie Reynolds (16), Dante Cunningham (14) and Reggie Redding (11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 114], "content_span": [115, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, East Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nNumber one seed Pittsburgh was upset by the Villanova Wildcats, 78\u201376 in the East Regional Finals, denying the Panthers a chance for a first national championship in men's basketball. With five seconds remaining, Levance Fields, who was fouled by Corey Fisher, shot two free-throws to tie the game for Pitt. But Scottie Reynolds' one-second jumper was good to give Villanova an upset victory. Pitt's Sam Young scored 28 points and DeJuan Blair had 20 points. Dwayne Anderson was top scorer for the Wildcats with 17 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 107], "content_span": [108, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, South Region\nTy Lawson was the South regional MVP and he was joined on the All-regional team by teammates Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough as well as Blake Griffin and Syracuse's Jonny Flynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, South Region, First round\nWKU advanced to the second round for a second consecutive year as a 12 seed, beating 5th seeded Illinois. 10th seeded Michigan upset 7th seeded Clemson 62\u201359 in its first tournament win since 1998. It was Michigan's first tournament appearance in 11 years after the school was rocked with sanctions and punishments from the Chris Webber scandal in the mid-2000s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 91], "content_span": [92, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four\nAll final four teams in the tournament had won at least one national championship. Entering the tournament, North Carolina had the most, with four (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005); Connecticut had two; (1999, 2004); Michigan State also had two; (1979, 2000), and Villanova won one; (1985).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four\nThe Spartans had home court advantage by playing in their home state. Six teams have played the Final Four in their home states, but only four of them won. UCLA (1968, 1972, 1975) and North Carolina State (1974) won the national title, but Duke (1994) and Purdue (1980) lost in the Final Four. The biggest advantage came in 1968 and 1972 when UCLA played the championship game at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, which is a short distance from Pauley Pavilion, their home court since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Michigan State vs. Connecticut\nMichigan State, with 7 minutes to play, finally took hold of the game and defeated the number one seed Connecticut to advance to the championship game against North Carolina. The Spartans started the game with a 7-point run, but the Huskies came back to take a lead in the first half. Michigan State took it back and was leading by two at the half. Connecticut had the lead twice early in the second period. Michigan State, led by guard Kalin Lucas with 21 points and forward Raymar Morgan with 18 points, was just too much at the end for the Huskies. Scoring for Connecticut was shared by Jeff Adrien (13), Stanley Robinson (15), Hasheem Thabeet (17) and A.J. Price (15).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 108], "content_span": [109, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Villanova vs. North Carolina\nAfter the first five minutes, North Carolina used an 11-point run to end Villanova's hope for a national championship and put the Tar Heels into the championship game for a chance to win their fifth title in nine trips. Ty Lawson produced 22 points, followed by Wayne Ellington with 20 points and Tyler Hansbrough with 18 points. Hansbrough, the sixth-leading scorer in tournament history, pulled down 11 rebounds. For Roy Williams, who coached North Carolina to a national championship in 2005, it is back to the title game again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 106], "content_span": [107, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship game \u2013 Michigan State vs. North Carolina\nThis 71st title game featured #1 seed North Carolina, which had a 4\u20134 record in the finals, versus #2 seed Michigan State, which had a 2\u20130 record going into the game. It was also a matchup featuring future Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo, who guided Michigan State to the championship in 2000 and 5 trips to the Final Four, against current Hall of Famer Roy Williams, who won the title in 2005 and reached 7 Final Fours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 131], "content_span": [132, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship game \u2013 Michigan State vs. North Carolina\nTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1979 national title game between Michigan State Spartans and the Sycamores of Indiana State, Hall of Fame players Earvin \"Magic\" Johnson and Larry Bird, who had played against each other, presented the game ball at the 2009 NCAA national championship game Monday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 131], "content_span": [132, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship game \u2013 Michigan State vs. North Carolina\nThe game was a rematch of \"BasketBowl II\", of 2008's ACC-Big Ten Challenge, won by the Tar Heels 98\u201363. That game was also played at Ford Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 131], "content_span": [132, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship game \u2013 Michigan State vs. North Carolina\nNorth Carolina, with a first bucket from Deon Thompson, took off and ran to a 21-point lead at the 10-minute mark. The lead grew to 24 with less than 5 minutes remaining in the first half, with most points coming from Wayne Ellington (15). The Spartans were behind 34\u201355 at the half, a tournament record lead for the Tar Heels. Goran Suton had the most points for Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 131], "content_span": [132, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship game \u2013 Michigan State vs. North Carolina\nIn the second half, Michigan State made a comeback to within 13 points of North Carolina with 4:56 to go in the game, but was unable to overcome the record 21 turnovers. Roy Williams and his Tar Heels defeated the Spartans 89\u201372 to take home his second trophy for the university. Ty Lawson set a record with 8 steals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 131], "content_span": [132, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, CAA, Ivy, MAC, MEAC, MVC, NEC, Patriot, Southland, SoCon, SWAC, Summit, and WAC conferences all went 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference\nThe columns R32, S16, E8, F4, and CG respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, and Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television\nOnce again, except for the play-in game, which was telecast on ESPN, CBS and CBS College Sports Network served as broadcasters on television for the tournament. The only change from past years at the Final Four was that Jim Nantz worked with Clark Kellogg in the color commentary position instead of Billy Packer, who left CBS in July 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television\nFor the play-in game in Dayton, ESPN had Brent Musburger, Steve Lavin and Erin Andrews working as the announcers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television\nSome CBS affiliates put additional game broadcasts on digital subchannels, or, as in the following two instances, on other stations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Radio\nWestwood One was once again the radio home for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204161-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, International broadcasters\nYahoo! Sports and NCAA.com also broadcast the entire tournament live for free on the internet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 83], "content_span": [84, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204162-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams\nThis is a list of qualifying teams for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204162-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams\nTeam names are those used on ESPN.com scoreboards and team pages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204162-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids\nAutomatic bids to the tournament were granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the Ivy League given to the regular season champion. Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Runners-up in bold face were given at-large berths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 100], "content_span": [101, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204163-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 26 to May 30, 2009 at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. It was the 71st NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship. The team championship was won by the Texas A&M Aggies who won their first national championship by defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks in the championship match play round 3\u20132. This was the first tournament to feature a match play playoff to determine the national champion. The individual national championship was won by Matt Hill from North Carolina State University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204163-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Venue\nThis was the second NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship held at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The first was won by Notre Dame in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey as the culmination of the 2008\u201309 season. The tournament began on March 27, 2009, and ended with the championship game on April 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nBoston University, coached by Jack Parker, won its fifth national title (and first since 1995) with a 4\u20133 overtime victory in the championship game over Miami University, coached by Enrico Blasi. The game marked the thirteenth time the NCAA championship game has gone to overtime and the first since Minnesota's win over Maine in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nColby Cohen, sophomore defenseman for Boston University, scored the championship-winning goal in overtime and was named the Frozen Four's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Championship was a single-elimination tournament featuring 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation. The Championship Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams. The winners of the six Division I conference championships received automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nIn setting up the tournament, the Championship Committee sought to ensure \"competitive equity, financial success and likelihood of playoff-type atmosphere at each regional site.\" A team serving as the host of a regional was placed within that regional. The top four teams were assigned overall seeds and placed within the bracket such that the national semifinals would feature the No. 1 seed versus the No. 4 seed and the No. 2 seed versus the No. 3 seed had the top four teams have won their respective regional finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nNumber 1 seeds were also placed as close to their home site as possible, with the No. 1 seed receiving first preference. Conference matchups were avoided in the first round; should five or more teams from one conference have made the tournament, this guideline may have been disregarded in favor of preserving the bracket's integrity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure\nThe four regionals were officially named after their geographic areas. The following were the sites for the 2009 regionals:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nThe at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 22, 2009. The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and Hockey East each had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, while ECAC Hockey and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) each had three teams receive a berth, and Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America (CHA) each had one team receive a berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Preliminary rounds\nThe number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament. (*) denotes overtime period(s).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television\nESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the fifth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic and ESPN360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 67], "content_span": [68, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204164-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio\nWestwood One used exclusive radio rights to air both the semifinals and the championship, AKA the \"Frozen Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was held from May 9 through May 25, 2009. This was the 39th annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Sixteen NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Overview\nThe first round of the tournament was played on May 9 and 10 at the home fields of the seeded teams. The quarterfinals were held on May 16 and 17th on neutral site fields at Hofstra University (James M. Shuart Stadium) and the United States Naval Academy (Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium). The tournament culminated with the semifinals and final held on Memorial Day weekend at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The tournament was won by Syracuse University who defeated Cornell University, 10\u20139, in overtime in front of 41,935 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Qualifying teams\nThe NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Lacrosse Committee selected the participating teams for the championship tournament. The committee announced the qualifying teams and the seeding order on Sunday, May 3, 2009. Seven conferences received automatic bids for their top team. The remaining nine teams were selected by the committee as \"at-large\" bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Qualifying teams\nFive conferences held tournament championships, which also determined their NCAA bids. Siena earned an automatic bid by winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championship for both their first conference title and first NCAA tournament appearance. Villanova earned an automatic bid by winning Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) championship and also made its NCAA tournament debut. Navy earned an automatic bid by winning its fifth Patriot League championship in six years. Both Notre Dame and UMBC repeated as conference champions by winning the Great Western Lacrosse League (GWLL) and America East Conference, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Qualifying teams\nTwo conferences awarded their bids based on regular season performance. UMass earned the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship and its automatic with a 6\u20131 conference record. The Ivy League awarded its automatic bid to Cornell. Princeton and Cornell possessed identical conference records and were named co-champions. The head-to-head regular season game, which Cornell had won, acted as the tie-breaking criterion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Qualifying teams\nThe remaining nine berths were awarded to at-large teams. Duke won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) tournament for the third straight season, but the league does not receive an automatic bid because it does not have at least six members. Nevertheless, all four ACC teams received at-large bids: Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Additionally, the NCAA Selection Committee awarded at-large bids to: independents Johns Hopkins and Syracuse, Brown and Princeton of the Ivy League, and Hofstra of the CAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 66], "content_span": [67, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nThe 1st round of the tournament, seven of the eight seeded teams advanced. Every past NCAA tournament had been won by seven of the eight teams that advanced to the quarterfinals, with Duke being the only one to have never won a national title, up to this tournament. For the first time, all four Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) teams advanced to the second round. It was just the second time in tournament history that four teams from the same conference advanced. The first instance occurred in 1990 with Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale of the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nThe tournament began on Saturday, May 9, when the Brown Bears traveled to face the eighth-seeded Johns Hopkins Blue Jays at Homewood Field in Baltimore. The Blue Jays pulled away to three-goal leads in the first and final quarters, but the Bears equalized both times. In the final ten seconds of regulation, Brown attackman Kyle Hollingsworth batted in a loose ball to even the score, 11\u201311. In overtime, Hopkins won the faceoff and called a timeout, before Brian Christopher drove up the right side of the field and made a game-winning top-corner shot on the run. It was the third overtime goal by Christopher in Hopkins' past four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nUMBC then played at number-six seed North Carolina. The UMBC Retrievers possessed the most efficient extra-man offense (EMO) and the best-rated midfield in the nation. Their roster, however, lacked depth, and the first-string midfielders were forced to play in the 90\u00a0\u00b0F (32\u00a0\u00b0C)\u00a0heat for almost the entire game. At halftime, the Retrievers led the Tar Heels, 8\u20136. The lead changed hands several times in the third period, before North Carolina took control for the remainder of the game to win, 15\u201313. Tar Heels attackman Billy Bitter, who attempted only nine shots, matched the school single-game record with eight goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nHofstra played at fifth-seeded Cornell, where the teams were even at halftime, 5\u20135. The third period was the decisive quarter, and Cornell won three face-offs and outscored Hofstra five-to-one. In Durham, third-seeded Duke hosted Navy. At halftime, the Blue Devils led 10\u20130 and expanded the rout to 13\u20131 at the start of the final period. Duke advanced with a final score of 14\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nThe second day of the tournament began with the Maryland Terrapins facing the seventh-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish at home in South Bend, Indiana. The Fighting Irish entered the game in possession of a perfect 15\u20130 record, but still considered an unknown variable due to their schedule. The magazine Inside Lacrosse called the Terrapins a talented team that had underachieved during the regular season. The first-ranked Notre Dame defense frustrated Maryland, but the Terps still managed to gain a 6\u20131 lead in the third quarter. Maryland's defense effectively shut-down Notre Dame and the leading Irish scorer Ryan Hoff was unable to make a single shot on goal. Maryland was the only unseeded team to advance to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nBoth schools making their inaugural NCAA tournament appearance suffered quick elimination. The Villanova Wildcats were trounced by the Virginia Cavaliers, 18\u20136. The Cavaliers were led by Brian Carroll's career-high five goal performance. The Siena Saints were held scoreless for nearly 42\u00a0minutes in their loss to the Syracuse Orange, 11\u20134. Onondaga Community College transfer Cody Jamieson, who had just been cleared academically, scored three goals in his first start for the Orange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, First round\nAt Princeton University, the Tigers defeated the visiting UMass Minutemen, 10\u20137. Princeton was led by Mark Kovler's six-point effort. The game was the final in the collegiate career of Minutemen goalkeeper Doc Schneider who led his team to the 2006 championship game as a freshman. His opposite number, Princeton's Tyler Fiorito, became just the second freshman goalkeeper to start an NCAA tournament game for the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 77], "content_span": [78, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinals took place over the weekend of May 16 to 17 at two neutral sites. The first doubleheader was sponsored on Saturday by Hofstra University, followed by games held at the United States Naval Academy on Sunday. Despite overcast weather at both locations, it was the first time that each NCAA quarterfinals venue attracted in excess of 11,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Quarterfinals\nThe second round opened at Hofstra's James M. Shuart Stadium with the Maryland\u2013Syracuse match-up. Al Cavalieri filled in as the Orange goalkeeper for long-time starter John Galloway who was sick with the flu. Syracuse scored three unanswered goals in the first quarter before Maryland goalie Brian Phipps suffered an ACL tear. Terrapins midfielder Grant Catalino narrowed the deficit to 5\u20133 before halftime on an extra-man score. In the second half, Syracuse made defensive adjustments to shut down Maryland's behind-the-goal attack, and the Orange tallied three times in the span of 2:10 to pull away in the third quarter. Syracuse won, 11\u20136, and extended its postseason streak against Maryland to five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Quarterfinals\nIvy League rivals Cornell and Princeton then had their 70th meeting, but first in the NCAA tournament. Earlier in the postseason, the Big Red defeated the Tigers to split the Ivy League championship. Three Princeton shots hit the post in the first half of the second quarter, and Cornell entered halftime with a 5\u20131 advantage. In the third quarter, Tigers attackman Tommy Davis ended their 27:58 scoring drought with a 15-yard shot. Princeton quickly tallied again with 28 seconds in the period. In the final quarter, the Big Red withstood two penalties to win, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Quarterfinals\nThe second day of the quarterfinals took place at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. The first game featured top-ranked Virginia and Johns Hopkins. The Cavaliers dominated the Blue Jays, 19\u20138, in their worst postseason defeat in school history. Shamel Bratton of Virginia scored a career-high five goals. The victory marked the 300th of head coach Dom Starsia's career, and he became the third coach in Division I lacrosse history to win as many games. Virginia advanced to their fourth Final Four appearance in five seasons. With the quarterfinals elimination of both Maryland and Johns Hopkins, 2009 became only the third time since the NCAA tournament began that no team from the state participated in the Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Quarterfinals\nThe final game of the round featured intrastate rivals Duke and North Carolina in their third meeting of the season. In the first quarter, the Blue Devils jumped out to an early lead and survived a two-man-down penalty, but the Tar Heels scored four unanswered goals to briefly take the lead in the second quarter. Late in the final period, North Carolina rallied from a four-point deficit to trail by one goal, 12\u201311. As time expired, a shot by Sean Delaney missed high over the goal, and Duke defeated North Carolina for the third time of the year. The Blue Devils' Zach Howell scored a career-high three goals and Tewaaraton Trophy finalist Ned Crotty tallied twice and had six assists. The Duke defense held Carolina's leading scorer, Billy Bitter, to just two assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 79], "content_span": [80, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Semifinals, Syracuse vs. Duke\nSyracuse met Duke for the first game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which was attended by 36,594 fans, a decrease from the previous year's 48,224. Nine Orange players scored in a rout of the Blue Devils, 17\u20137, which demonstrated the depth of the Syracuse offense. It was the most goals allowed by Duke all season. Seniors Kenny Nims and Patrick Perritt led the Orange with four goals each. Freshman Tim Desko, son of head coach John Desko, and heralded transfer Cody Jamieson each tallied twice. The Orange dominated the faceoff circle and won 18 of 28 draws. To open the third quarter, senior Jake Moulton won the opening faceoff and scored nine seconds into the half. With the victory, the Orange advanced to the championship game for the seventh time since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 95], "content_span": [96, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Semifinals, Cornell vs. Virginia\nIn the second game of the day, fifth-seeded Cornell upset first-ranked Virginia. The Big Red upset the Cavaliers decisively, 15\u20136, and advanced to the championship game for the first time in over two decades. Cornell controlled the game from the start, and accounted for the game's first three tallies and entered halftime with an 8\u20132 advantage. Big Red freshman Rob Pannell, junior Ryan Hurley, and senior Chris Finn each scored three times. The Cornell defense created 18 turnovers and stymied Virginia's high-powered attack. Commenting on the upset, Cornell head coach Jeff Tambroni said, \"We knew we weren't going to have a whole lot of believers out there. We needed to play hard first and believe second.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 98], "content_span": [99, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Championship, Syracuse vs. Cornell\nThe final game was also held at Gillette Stadium on Memorial Day May 25. Cornell controlled the game for the first 56 minutes and frustrated Syracuse with a tough defense. With just over five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Big Red led, 9\u20136, before Syracuse's Stephen Keogh and Cody Jamieson narrowed the deficit to one goal with 2:46 remaining. Keogh attempted another shot but missed and Cornell took possession with 27.6\u00a0seconds left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 100], "content_span": [101, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Game summaries, Championship, Syracuse vs. Cornell\nKenny Nims dislodged the ball from Matt Moyer and Keogh recovered the ball, making a wild pass, which was caught by Syracuse's Matt Abbott. As he was flattened by Cornell defenders, Abbott got off a desperation pass to Nims, who had run from midfield to the very edge of the crease. The pass was tipped by Cornell\u2019s Roy Lang, but Nims was able to gather in the tipped pass and connect with his shot on goal with four seconds left, sending the game into overtime. Cornell won the overtime faceoff, but Syracuse defenseman Sid Smith stripped Ryan Hurley to create a turnover. Dan Hardy feigned a shot before passing to Jamieson, positioned just beyond the crease, who scored the game-winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 100], "content_span": [101, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204165-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Post-tournament honors\nAfter the championship, Cornell midfielder Max Seibald was honored with the Tewaaraton Trophy for the most outstanding Division I men's lacrosse player. Syracuse attackman Kenny Nims was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. The NCAA named its \"All-Tournament Team\" following the championship game, which consisted of five players each from Syracuse and Cornell. The following individuals made up that team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 72], "content_span": [73, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204166-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was a tournament of 48 teams from NCAA Division I who played for the NCAA Championship in soccer . The semifinals and final were held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. All the other games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team (indicated by * for non-seeded teams). The final was held on December 13, 2009 with Virginia defeating Akron, 3\u20132 in a penalty shoot-out, following a goalless regulation and two overtimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204166-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament\nThe bracket was announced November 16, 2009. The tournament started on November 19. The second round was played on November 22. The third round was played on November 29. The Regional Finals were played on December 4 and 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204167-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 2009 at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas at the 86th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204168-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested at the 88th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team champions of men's and women's Division I collegiate outdoor track and field in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204168-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis year's meet, the 28th with both men's and women's championships, was held June 10\u201313, 2009 at John McDonnell Field at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204168-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nTexas A&M won both the men's and women's titles, the Aggies' first at either event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204169-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 15 through June 3, 2009 as part of the 2009 NCAA Division I softball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams were selected out of an eligible 284 teams on May 10, 2009. 30 teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Softball Selection Committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2009 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204169-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds\nTeams in italics advanced to the Super Regionals. Teams in bold have advanced to the Women's College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204169-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds\n9. Arizona10. Arizona State11. Ohio State12. Northwestern13. Tennessee14. Georgia Tech15. DePaul16. Florida State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204169-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series, Participants\n\u2020 Excludes results of the pre-NCAA Women's College World Series of 1969 through 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204169-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series, All-Tournament Team\nThe 2009 Women's College World Series All-Tournament team:Kelley Montalvo, AlabamaCharlotte Morgan, AlabamaBrittany Rogers, AlabamaAlisa Goler, GeorgiaTaylor Schlopy, GeorgiaMegan Bush, FloridaStacey Nelson, FloridaAshley Charters, WashingtonKimi Pohlman, WashingtonMorgan Stuart, WashingtonNiki Williams, WashingtonDanielle Lawrie, Washington (Most Outstanding Player)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204170-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 63rd annual men's and 27th annual women's championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. The tournaments were played concurrently during May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204170-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships\nUSC defeated Ohio State in the men's championship, 4\u20131, to claim the Trojans' seventeenth team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204170-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships\nDuke defeated California in the women's championship, 4\u20130, to claim the Blue Devils' first team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204170-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Host sites\nThis year's tournaments were played at the Mitchell Tennis Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament commenced 21 March 2009 and concluded 7 April 2009 when the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Louisville Cardinals 76\u201354.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals\nOnce again, the system is the same as the Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with the exception that only 64 teams went and there was no play-in game. Automatic bids were secured by 31 conference champions and 33 at-large bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals\nThe subregionals, which used the \"pod system\", keeping most teams either at or close to the home cities, was held from 21 March to 24 at sixteen sites. The following were chosen in July 2006, prior to the re-expansion of the subregional sites from eight to sixteen:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals\nAs per the return to the 16-site subregional format, the following sites were added in 2008:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals\nThe regionals, held in the city rather than the geographic area as a practice that has been used since 2005, were held there from 28 March to 31 at these sites:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals\nThe regional winners advanced to the Final Four, held 5 and 7 April 2009 at the Scottrade Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by the Missouri Valley Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams \u2013 automatic\nSixty-four teams were selected to participate in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Thirty-one conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 80], "content_span": [81, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams \u2013 at-large\nThirty-three additional teams were selected to complete the sixty-four invitations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference\nThirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In twenty-two cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from nine of the conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state\nThe sixty-four teams came from thirty-two states. Texas had the most teams with six bids. Eighteen states did not have any teams receiving bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, First round\nSecond seeded Stanford easily beat the 15th seeded Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara behind a double-double by Jayne Appel. Third seeded Ohio State beat Sacred Heart by 14 points, but led by only two well into the second half. Freshman guard Samantha Prahalis scored 23 to help lead the Buckeyes to victory. Tenth seeded San Diego State upset seventh seeded DePaul behind Jene Morris's career tying 35 points. Eleventh seed Mississippi State used 21 of 22 free throw shooting to upset the sixth seeded Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, First round\nMiddle Tennessee's Alysha Clark, the nations D1 scoring leader, scored 34 points, but it wasn't enough to defeat ninth seeded Michigan State, who broke a late tie and held on to win by one point. One seeded Duke easily disposed of sixteen seeded Austin Peay. Fourth seeded Iowa State tied an NCAA tournament record with 16 three-point goals in an easy win over thirteen seed East Tennessee State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, First round\nTwelfth seeded Ball State upset defending national champion Tennessee, which had never lost an opening game in the tournament before. Tennessee has been in every one of the 29 NCAA Tournaments, and prior to this year, had never failed to make the Sweet Sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, Second round\nThird seeded Ohio State narrowly defeated eleventh seeded Mississippi State 64\u201358. OSU held MSU scoreless for the last 6:43 of the game. Second seeded Stanford beat San Diego State by 28, but the game was tied 8 minutes into the game. Stanford's Nneka Ogwumike had career highs of 27 points and 13 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 97], "content_span": [98, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, Second round\nNinth seeded Michigan State upsets top-seeded Duke on the home floor of Michigan State, in a match up between Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie and her former team. Michigan State shot under 40% from the floor, but held Duke to under 27%. Twelfth seeded Ball State stayed with Iowa State for 30 minutes, but couldn't maintain the pace. Iowa State extended a four-point lead to win 71\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 97], "content_span": [98, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nFourth seeded Iowa State beat ninth seeded Michigan State by a single point. MSU had a seven-point lead with 1:26 to go, but the Cyclones scored the final eight points of the game. They took the lead on a three-point shot by Alison Lacey for three of her 29 points. The Spartans had a chance to retake the lead, but missed their last three shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 120], "content_span": [121, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nTwo seed Stanford beat Ohio State behind Jayne Appel's double-double. OSU freshman Samantha Prahalis scored 19, but it wasn't enough to overcome the Cardinal shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 120], "content_span": [121, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Berkeley Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nTwo seed Stanford easily beat four seed Iowa State behind Jayne Appel's 46 points. Jayne's 46 points sets a new school record and places her in the NCAA Tournament record book with the third highest point total in NCAA tournament history. Appel's 27 first half points exceeded the first half total for Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 113], "content_span": [114, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, First round\nThird seeded North Carolina beat Fourteenth seeded Central Florida. UNC had a 14-point lead with 30 seconds left in the game, but UCF scored the final nine points of the game to make the final margin five points. Second seeded Auburn easily beat fifteen seed Lehigh, behind DeWanna Bonner's 26 points. Sixth seeded Purdue beat eleventh seeded Charlotte to win their twelfth consecutive first-round game. Fourth seeded Pittsburgh beat thirteenth seeded Montana behind Shavonte Zellous's 31 points. Twelfth seeded Gonzaga upset fifth seed Xavier, giving the Bulldogs their first ever NCAA Tournament win. Seventh seeded Rutgers beat Virginia Commonwealth to spoil VCU's NCAA Tournament debut. Top seeded Oklahoma struggled early, but ended up winning easily over Prairie View A&M. Ninth seeded Georgia Tech, playing without leading scorer Alex Montgomery, beat eighth seeded Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 101], "content_span": [102, 980]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Second round\nSeventh seeded Rutgers upsets second seeded Auburn. Playing on their home court, the Scarlet Knights scored the first nine points and lead 13\u20132 at the first media timeout. Rutgers held Auburn to 29% shooting and ended the game with a 28-point margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Second round\nFourth seeded Pittsburgh and twelfth seeded Gonzaga were tied at halftime, and with three and a half minutes to go in the game, but the Panthers outscored the Bulldogs in the final minutes to win by five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Second round\nSixth seeded Purdue upsets third seeded North Carolina. Purdue had lost its last three games to UNC, but hit 57% of the field goals to win by fifteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Second round\nTop seeded Oklahoma held Georgia Tech to 27% shooting in a win that advanced the Sooners to a Sweet Sixteen game in Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nSixth seeded Purdue holds off a determined Rutgers team. The Scarlet Knights fell behind early but came back to within two with less than two minutes remaining. Purdue shot 55% in the first half, ending with over 52% shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 125], "content_span": [126, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nTop seeded Oklahoma beat fourth seed Pittsburgh. Whitney Hand had a career-high 22 points, which helped overcome foul trouble for Courtney Paris. All five Sooner starters scored in double digits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 125], "content_span": [126, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nOklahoma beat Purdue to advance to their second ever Final Four. Courtney Paris had 19 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks, while Danielle Robinson scored 23 points to lead the team over the Boilermakers. Purdue had three players in double-figures, led by Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton with 20, but it wasn't enough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 118], "content_span": [119, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, First round\nFourth seeded Vanderbilt beat Western Carolina. Fifth seeded Kansas State beat Drexel. Shalee Lehning tied a career high with 13 assists. Seventh seeded South Dakota State tied an NCAA record with 16 three-point goals to help beat the Horned Frogs of TCU. Ninth seed Utah overwhelmed Villanova, winning by 30. Top seeded Maryland easily beat Dartmouth. Kristi Toliver had as many points at halftime (23) as Dartmouth. Sixth-seeded LSU beats Wisconsin-Green Bay behind Allison Hightower's career-best 26 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 95], "content_span": [96, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, First round\nSecond seeded Baylor needed overtime to prevail against fifteen seed UTSA. Head coach Kim Mulkey was not at the game, having been hospitalized earlier in the day due to a reaction to medication. Third seeded Louisville forced 27 turnovers in a win over Liberty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 95], "content_span": [96, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Second round\nFourth seeded Vanderbilt beat fifth seeded Kansas State behind a career-high 27 points by Jennifer Risper, and 24 points by Christina Wirth. Kansas State held a one-point lead at halftime, but Vanderbilt scored eleven consecutive points in a second half run to take a lead they would not relinquish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Second round\nSecond seeded Baylor beats South Dakota State on a last second shot. Kelli Griffin scored with 0.5 seconds remaining in the game to break a 58\u201358 tie, and move the Bears into the regional semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Second round\nMarissa Coleman has 18 points and 18 rebounds to lead top seeded Maryland over Utah on their home floor. Over ten thousand fans watched Maryland win its 35th consecutive game at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Second round\nThird seeded Louisville beat LSU on LSU's home floor. LSU had won twelve consecutive victories on their home floor. LSU's will not advance to the Final Four, ending an NCAA record-tying streak of five consecutive appearances. The win was the 31st of the year for Louisville, a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nThree seed Louisville holds two seed Baylor to 39 points, in a surprisingly easy upset. Both Angel McCoughtry and Candyce Bingham had double-doubles to help lead the Cardinals to the first regional championship game in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 119], "content_span": [120, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nTop seed Maryland survived a challenge from fourth seeded Vanderbilt. The Commodores started strong with an opening 12\u20132, which they extended to a 33\u201315 margin with six minutes left in the first half. Vanderbilt's Christina Wirth had a career-high 28 points, but it wasn't enough as Maryland's Marissa Coleman scored 42. Coleman scored the basket to give Maryland the lead with just under 30 seconds left in the game, and the clinching free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 119], "content_span": [120, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Raleigh Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nThird seeded Louisville knocks off top-seeded Maryland to head to their first ever Final Four. Angel McCoughtry had a double-double to lead the Cardinals to the win. Maryland hurt themselves with 21 turnovers. Louisville head coach Jeff Walz was a former assistant coach of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 112], "content_span": [113, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, First round\nFifth seed Virginia trailed at halftime, but came back to beat Marist. Sixth seeded Arizona State beat Georgia, despite playing without injured Dymond Simon. Third seeded Florida State had five players in double figure, helping win over North Carolina A&T. Fourth seeded California beats Fresno State. Top seed Connecticut easily beat Vermont behind Tina Charles's 32 points on 13\u201314 from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 95], "content_span": [96, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, First round\nEighth seeded Florida beats Temple for its 24th win of the year, tying a school record. Second seeded Texas A&M forces 30 turnovers in a win over Evansville. Tenth seeded Minnesota upsets Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 95], "content_span": [96, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Second round\nSixth seeded Arizona State's Danielle Orsillo hit a three-pointer with 32 seconds left to break a 54\u201354 tie. ASU hung on to upset third seeded Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Second round\nFourth seeded California won easily over fifth seeded Virginia. Ashley Walker tied a career high with 32 points, while Devanei Hampton and Alexis Gray-Lawson each added 22 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Second round\nSecond seeded Texas A&M beat tenth seeded Minnesota behind a season-high 20 steals. The Aggies forced 32 turnovers to beat the Gophers by 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Second round\nTop seeded Connecticut beat eighth seeded Florida. Renee Montgomery, playing on her home court for the last time in her career, scored 25. The win moves Connecticut in the Sweet Sixteen for the 16th consecutive time, the longest active streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nConnecticut faced their largest deficit of the year (eight points) against California, and went into halftime with only a two-point margin. UConn outscored California by 40\u201312, starting at the time of the eight-point deficit, to take control of the game. UConn's Tiffany Hayes had a career-high 28 points, shooting 9\u201310 from the field, including 5\u20136 from beyond the three-point arc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 119], "content_span": [120, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)\nSixth seeded Arizona State upsets two seed Texas A&M. Briann January and Danielle Orsillo were both perfect from the floor, helping the Sun Devils to a season-high 62 percent shooting percentage. The Texas &M team was also shooting well, hitting 55% of their first 29 shots. They were within three as late as 7:12 left in the game, but ASU outscored them and ended with a fifteen-point margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 119], "content_span": [120, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Trenton Region, Regional final (Elite Eight)\nTop-seeded Connecticut beat Arizona State to advance to their tenth Final Four. The game was close early \u2013 UConn led at one point 20\u201319, but UConn went on a 9\u20132 run to open up the margin. After a score by ASU, Maya Moore scored the next five points, which broke the single-season scoring record held by Kara Wolters. Kara was sitting courtside, doing commentary for a Connecticut radio station. The Sun Devils got to within eight at one point in the second half, but Moore and Montgomery combined for eight consecutive points to stretch the lead to 16. ASU would not get within double digits again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 112], "content_span": [113, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four\nTwo very different games in terms of Final Four experience. In the first game, Oklahoma is in only its second Final Four (the first in 2002) and Louisville is making its first ever Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four\nOnly four coaches in NCAA history have multiple NCAA championships, and two of them, Tara VanDerveer and Geno Auriemma, coach the second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Louisville versus Oklahoma\nLouisville plays the role of newcomer to the Final Four by missing its first 13 shots. Over seven minutes into the game, Louisville has taken their second full timeout, has yet to hit a basket, and is losing 16\u20132. Louisville shook off the opening jitters and began scoring. Just after the final media timeout of the first half, two Angel McCoughtry free throws would cut the lead to six, but Oklahoma would outscore Louisville 10\u20134 to take a twelve-point lead into the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 106], "content_span": [107, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Louisville versus Oklahoma\nThe second half would open up almost a mirror image of the first half. Louisville outscored Oklahoma 15\u20131 to take their first lead. Oklahoma did not get a basket until more than seven minutes had elapsed. The game would stay close from then on, with never more than a six-point margin by either team. With 18 seconds left in the game Courtney Paris would hit a basket to bring the margin to one. After Candyce Bingham hit one of two free throws, Nyeshia Stevenson took a three-point shot with two seconds left in the game. Her shot rimmed out, and Louisville hung on to win 61\u201359.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 106], "content_span": [107, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Stanford versus Connecticut\nConnecticut entered the game having won its last 37 games, but their opponent Stanford was the last team to have beaten them. Just over nine minutes into the game, Stanford led 14\u201313. Jayne Appel scored ten of Stanford's 14 points, and assisted on one of the other two baskets. Then Renee Montgomery scored nine of UConn's next eleven points and assisted on the other basket in the stretch. Maya Moore added five points, part of an 18\u20134 run to bring the score to 31\u201318. Connecticut entered the halftime break with a 13-point lead, one more than they had had the last time they had played a Final Four game in St. Louis: a 2001 game in which, despite the large halftime lead, Notre Dame went to win the game and the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 107], "content_span": [108, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Stanford versus Connecticut\nThis time was different however. Connecticut scored the first eleven points of the second half, to double up Stanford 48\u201324. Connecticut led by at least 20 until the last five minutes and won 81\u201364. Jayne Appel matched Renee Montgomery for high scoring honors with 26, but Connecticut also got 24 from Maya Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 107], "content_span": [108, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship Game \u2013 Louisville versus Connecticut\nLouisville would meet Connecticut for the third time in the season, but it would be the first ever all Big East Championship game. UConn prevailed in the first meeting by 28 points, and won by 39 in the Big East Tournament Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 129], "content_span": [130, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship Game \u2013 Louisville versus Connecticut\nAngel McCoughtry tried to change the outcome this time, scoring eleven of Louisville's first 15 points, and assisting on two others, to take a 15\u201313 lead just over eight minutes into the game. UConn began feeding Tina Charles, who helped pull them to a 14-point lead 39\u201324, at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 129], "content_span": [130, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship Game \u2013 Louisville versus Connecticut\nTina would end the game with 25 points, 19 rebounds, and a trophy for the Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament. Connecticut hit 50% of their field goal tries, holding Louisville to just under 31%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 129], "content_span": [130, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four, Championship Game \u2013 Louisville versus Connecticut\nConnecticut won 76\u201354, winning its sixth National Championship, and completing its third perfect season. They would win every game by double digits for the first time in NCAA history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 129], "content_span": [130, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204171-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference\nNineteen conferences went 0-1: America East, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big West Conference, Conference USA, Horizon League, Ivy League, MAAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southern Conference, Southland, Sun Belt Conference, SWAC, and WAC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204172-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 28th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The tournament was played from May 10 to May 24, 2009, and the semifinal and championship rounds were played at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson, Maryland from May 22\u201324. All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 16 teams were invited to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204172-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship\nNorthwestern defeated North Carolina, 21\u20137, to win their fifth overall, as well as fifth straight, national championship. This would subsequently become the fifth of Northwestern's seven national titles in eight years (2005\u20132009, 2011\u201312) as well as the fifth of the Wildcats' eight consecutive appearances in the championship game (2005\u201312). Furthermore, Northwestern's win secured an undefeated season (23\u20130) for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204172-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship\nThe leading scorer for the tournament was Katrina Dowd from Northwestern (24 goals). Dowd was also named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204172-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field\nA total of 16 teams were invited to participate. 9 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 7 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204172-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds\n1. Northwestern2. Maryland3. North Carolina4. Penn5. Duke6. Notre Dame7. Syracuse8. Princeton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2009 Women's College Cup) was the 28th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at the Aggie Soccer Complex in College Station, Texas from December 4\u20136, 2009 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country from November 12\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament\nNorth Carolina defeated Stanford in the final, 1\u20130, to win their twentieth national title. The Tar Heels (23\u20133\u20131) were coached by Anson Dorrance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe Most Outstanding Offensive Player (for the second consecutive year) was Casey Nogueira from North Carolina, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Whitney Engen, also from North Carolina. Nogueira and Engen, alongside nine other players, were named to the All-Tournament Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament\nThe tournament's leading scorer was Sydney Leroux from UCLA, with 8 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification\nAll Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 64 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204173-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format\nJust as before, the final two rounds, deemed the Women's College Cup, were played at a pre-determined neutral site. All other rounds were played on campus sites at the home field of the higher-seeded team. The only exceptions were the first two rounds, which were played at regional campus sites. The top sixteen teams hosted four team-regionals on their home fields (with some exceptions, noted below) during the tournament's first weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204174-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 28th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204174-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nThis year's events were hosted by Texas A&M University at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium in College Station, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204174-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships\nCalifornia topped the team standings for the first time, finishing 11 points (411.5\u2013400.5) ahead of Georgia. This was the Golden Bears' first women's team title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204175-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 3, 2009 with 64 teams and ended on December 19, when Penn State defeated Texas, 3-2, in the NCAA National Championship match. With the win, Penn State won its fourth overall title, and became the first team in the history of women's intercollegiate volleyball to win three straight national titles. Penn State also became the first team in NCAA history to have two straight undefeated seasons, as the 2009 squad went 38-0 for the second straight year, extending the ongoing NCAA record of consecutive matches won (102).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204175-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament\nPenn State became only the third team in NCAA history to win the national championship after trailing 0-2 in sets. The last team to accomplish the feat was UCLA in 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204175-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament\nPenn State's senior class, led by Megan Hodge and Alisha Glass, had an overall record of 142-5 (.966 winning\u00a0%), which is the best winning percentage in NCAA Division I history for classes that have won national titles. Penn State hit .381 for the season, the second-best Division I team hitting percentage mark in the rally scoring era. It only trails the mark of .390 set by the 2008 Penn State squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204175-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament\nTexas's Destinee Hooker, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2009 Final Four, broke the record of kills in an NCAA championship match, as she had a career high 34 kills in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204176-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball rankings\nThe following polls make up the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. USA Today and ESPN began publishing the Coaches' Poll of 31 active coaches ranking the top 25 teams in the nation in 1992. Each coach is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Beginning with the 1985 season, it expanded to the top 25. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began on February 20, 2009. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2009 College World Series. The College World Series, which consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament, was held in its annual location of Omaha, Nebraska at Rosenblatt Stadium. It concluded on June 24, 2009, with the final game of the best of three championship series. LSU defeated Texas two games to one to claim their sixth championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, New programs\nFive new programs joined Division I for the 2009 season. Three programs, Bryant, North Dakota, and SIU Edwardsville, joined from Division II. The two other Division I members, Oregon and Cal State Bakersfield, were new varsity baseball programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Dropped programs\nHawaii-Hilo, which had competed as a Division I independent, dropped to Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes\nThe Big South Conference added two new members. Gardner\u2013Webb, previously of the Atlantic Sun Conference, and Presbyterian, previously a Division I independent, both joined the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes\nTwo conferences add a single member. Oregon's new program joined the Pacific-10 Conference. Samford left the Ohio Valley Conference to join the Southern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes\nFour schools became Division I independents\u2212 Bryant, from the Division II Northeast-10 Conference; North Dakota, from the Division II North Central Conference; SIU Edwardsville, from the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference; and Cal State Bakersfield, in its first season of varsity intercollegiate baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, Preseason rankings\nAfter a 49\u201319 season in 2008, the LSU Tigers were ranked #1 prior to the season. Defending World Series champion Fresno State was ranked #19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204177-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series\nThe 2009 season marked the sixty third NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with LSU claiming their sixth championship with a two games to one series win over Texas in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204178-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I softball season\nThe 2009 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2009. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2009 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204178-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series\nThe 2009 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 28 to June 2, 2009 in Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204178-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division I softball season, Records\nTeam single game double plays:5 \u2013 Alabama Crimson Tide; May 17, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204179-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was held on December 12, 2009 at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204179-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Playoffs\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs involved 24 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II college football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204179-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Playoffs\nThe tournament began on November 14, 2009, and concluded on December 12, 2009 at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204180-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA\u00a0Division II\u00a0college basketball as a culmination of the 2008\u201309 basketball season. It began on March 14, 2008, and concluded as the Findlay Oilers defeated the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos 56\u201353 in overtime on March 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204180-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four\nCal Poly Pomona beat Augusta State in a Final Four victory 74\u201370. The Jaguars were down by 11 with about 6 minutes to play, but rallied on a 14\u20132 run that put them ahead, 68\u201367. They only scored two points the rest of the game while the Broncos scored seven to win the game. They were led by Larry Gordon, who recorded 20 points and 11 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 77], "content_span": [78, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204180-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship Game\nIn the Division II National Championship Game, top seeded Findlay Oilers played third-seeded Cal Poly Pomona Broncos. The Broncos, who had traveled 10,000 miles over the postseason, were losing to the undefeated Oilers for much of the game. Cal Poly Pomona managed to tie it at 18\u201318 before the Oilers went on a 12\u20132 run to lead by 10 at the half. Findlay widened the lead to 14 with slightly over 16 minutes left. That was the last time the Oilers scored for the next eight minutes while the Broncos recorded 13 straight points to come within one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204180-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship Game\nWalter Thompson, the point guard for the Broncos, made a three-pointer with 7:08 in regulation to tie the game at 38. They snatched the lead on the next possession at 41\u201340. Cal Poly Pomona center Tobias Jahn added a point on his two free throws for a 42\u201342 tie. With 1:42 left in the game, neither team managed to put points on the board. After Thompson missed a rebound on Austin Swift's attempted 3-pointer, the game went into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204180-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship Game\nThroughout overtime, the lead changed several times. The game was tied at 53 with 24 seconds left on the clock. The Broncos' defense forced a held ball on Findlay with 2.4 seconds remaining, with possession to Findlay. On the inbounds play, Tyler Evans hit a three-pointer at the buzzer--his only three of the game--sealing the Oilers' victory by a score of 56\u201353.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204181-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 28th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204181-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nMinnesota State defeated Franklin Pierce in the championship game, 103\u201394, to claim the Mavericks' first NCAA Division II national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204181-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe championship rounds were contested at Bill Greehey Arena on the campus of the St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204182-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football rankings\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season\nThe 2008 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began on August 29, 2009, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 12, 2009 at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama. The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats defeated the Grand Valley State, 30\u201323, to win their third Division II national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season\nThe Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to Joique Bell, running back from Wayne State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Conference and program changes\nLake Erie completed their transition to Division II and became eligible for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries\nCentral Intercollegiate Athletic Association \u2013 Fayetteville StateGreat Lakes Football Conference \u2013Saint Joseph's (IN)Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference \u2013 Grand Valley StateGreat Northwest Athletic Conference \u2013 Central WashingtonGulf South Conference \u2013 North AlabamaLone Star Conference \u2013 Midwestern State, Tarleton State, and Texas A&M\u2013KingsvilleMid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association \u2013 Northwest Missouri StateNortheast-10 Conference \u2013 Bentley, Merrimack, and Southern Connecticut StateNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference \u2013 Minnesota\u2013DuluthPennsylvania State Athletic Conference \u2013 ShippensburgRocky Mountain Athletic Conference \u2013 Nebraska\u2013KearneySouth Atlantic Conference \u2013 Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference \u2013 TuskegeeWest Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference \u2013 West Liberty", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 895]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason\nThe 2009 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs involved 24 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason\nThe tournament began on November 14, 2009 and will conclude on December 13, 2009 with the 2009 NCAA Division II National Football Championship game at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Playoff format\nThe first-round games were conducted on the campus of one of the competing institutions as determined by the NCAA Division II Football Committee. Two teams in each super regional earned first-round byes. The first-round winners advanced to face a bye team in their super regional. Second-round winners met in the quarterfinals and quarterfinal winners advanced to play in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Playoff format\nFirst-round, second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games were played on the campus of one of the competing institutions as determined by the NCAA Division II Football Committee. The home team at the championship was determined by the Division II Football Committee and the Shoals National Championship Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, National television coverage\nThe semifinal games were broadcast on ESPN, ESPN360, and CBS College Sports on December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 158]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00204183-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division II football season, Tournament Notes, Individual game results, Round 2\nAn NCAA Division II record for combined points (147) and yards (1,394) was set during the game. Edinboro quarterback Trevor Harris set the Division II record for passing, completing 50 of 76 passes for 630 yards and 5 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 89], "content_span": [90, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2009 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 34th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with five regions consisting of six teams and three consisting of eight, for a total of 54 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was St. Thomas (MN), who defeated Wooster for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional\nBrunner Field in the Duane R. Swanson Stadium-Moline, IL (Host: Augustana College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 71], "content_span": [72, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New England Regional\nEastern Baseball Stadium-Mansfield, CT (Host: Eastern Connecticut University/Little East Conference)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional\nFarmingdale State Baseball Stadium-East Farmingdale, NY (Host: State University of New York at Farmingdale/Skyline Conference)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, West Regional\nRoy Helser Field and Jim Wright Stadium-McMinnville, OR (Host: Linfield College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204184-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series\nTime Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204185-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204185-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe tournament began on March 5, 2009 and concluded with the national championship game on March 21, 2009 at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. The tournament was won by the Washington University in St. Louis, which defeated Stockton University (then Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), 61,52, in the title game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204185-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe championship was the second in the Bears' history and second consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204186-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2008\u201309 season, the 26th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Neumann defeating Gustavus Adolphus in the championship game 4-1. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204186-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nNeumann became the first team to win the tournament by playing in four different rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204186-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nThe following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences. Four at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-conference tournament champions (overall seed in parentheses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 68], "content_span": [69, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204186-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top four teams were arranged so that were they all to reach the national semifinal, the first overall seed would play the fourth seed while the second seed would play the third seed. Because two western teams were among the top four overall seeds, the other two western teams were advanced to the quarterfinal round in order to prevent lower-seeded teams from having to travel long-distances in the first two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204186-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nIn the First Round, because each team was from the same region, the teams were seeded according to their ranking with the second seed playing the seventh seed, the third seed playing the sixth seed and the fourth seed playing the fifth seed. The Quarterfinal round was arranged so that the top eastern seed would play the winner between the fourth- and fifth-seeded eastern team while the winners of the other two first round matches would meet for the other eastern quarterfinal. In the western quarterfinals, the top western seed played the fourth western seed and the second western seed played the third western seed. The higher-ranked team served as host for all first round and quarterfinal meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204187-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Tournament was held from May 9 through May 24, 2009. This was the 30th annual Division III NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Sixteen NCAA Division III college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a play-in game to advance to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204187-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe tournament culminated with the finals, held on Memorial Day weekend at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The championship weekend included the Division I and Division II championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204187-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship, Play-in games\nThe final four rounds of the tournament were preceded by six play-in games on May 6:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 2009, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2009 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Wisconsin\u2013Whitewater Warhawks won their second Division III championship by defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, 38\u221228. This was the fifth of seven straight championship games between Mount Union (3 wins) and Wisconsin\u2013Whitewater (4 wins).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season\nThe Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Blaine Westemeyer, offensive tackle from Augustana (IL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason\nThe 2009 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 37th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the 17th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification\nTwenty-three conferences met the requirements for an automatic (\"Pool A\") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, four conferences had no Pool A bid. The ECFC and UMAC were in the first year of the two-year waiting period, while the ACFC and UAA failed to meet the seven-member requirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification\nSchools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 23 Pool A conferences contained 196 schools, an average of 8.5 teams per conference. Twenty-eight schools were in Pool B, enough for three bids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204188-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification\nThe remaining six playoff spots were at-large (\"Pool C\") teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that includes All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) drawn from the 2008\u201309 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, AP and TSN choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe Consensus 2009 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team. According to this system, DeJuan Blair, Stephen Curry, Blake Griffin, Tyler Hansbrough and James Harden were first team selections and Sherron Collins, Luke Harangody, Ty Lawson, Jodie Meeks, Jeff Teague and Hasheem Thabeet were second team selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nAlthough the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Individual All-America teams\nThe table below details the selections for four major 2009 college basketball All-American teams. The number corresponding to the team designation (i.e., whether a player was a first team, second team, etc. selection) appears in the table. The following columns are included in the table:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans\nOn February 25, 2009, CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine announced the 2009 Academic All-American team with Brett Winkelman headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans\n2008\u201309 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Wooden All-Americans\nThe ten finalists (and ties) for the  John R. Wooden Award are called Wooden All-Americans. The 11 honorees are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204189-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans\nThe ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204190-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 40th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single elimination tournament was played at Smith Fieldhouse in Provo, Utah during May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204190-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nUC Irvine defeated USC in the final match, 3\u20132 (26\u201330, 30\u201323, 26\u201330, 30\u201317, 15\u201312), to win their second national title. The Anteaters (27\u20135) were coached by John Speraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204190-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nUC Irvine's Ryan Ammerman was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Ammerman, along with six other players, comprised the All Tournament Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204190-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nUntil the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204191-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 14, 2009, and ended with the championship game on March 22. The quarterfinals were played at the home sites of the seeded teams and the Frozen Four was played in Boston. A total of seven games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204192-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Rifle Championships\nThe 2009 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 30th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204192-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Rifle Championships\nThe championships were held at the TCU Rifle Range at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204192-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Rifle Championships\nWest Virginia won the team championship, the Mountaineers' fourteenth NCAA national title in rifle and first since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204192-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification\nWith only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204193-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nThe 2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the twenty eighth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 2008 was Georgia. The Competition took place in Lincoln, Nebraska hosted by the University of Nebraska in the Bob Devaney Sports Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204193-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nThe 2009 six regional fields and sites were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204193-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nAt the national championships at Lincoln, Nebraska, the top three teams from each of the first day's sessions advancing to the Super Six Team Finals were: Georgia, Florida and LSU (first session); Alabama, Arkansas and Utah (second session). Utah used a tie breaker over UCLA to advance to the finals. Individually, top all-around title went to Georgia's Courtney Kupets who scored 39.80 points, including a perfect 10 on balance beam. Utah's Kristina Basket with 39.60 points and UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa with 39.575 points were second and third-place finishers. Kupets became just the second three-time NCAA All-Around champion in NCAA history. Additionally, other gymnasts competing were 12 of the nation\u2019s best all-arounders and four individual event specialists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204193-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nThe Georgia Gym Dogs finished on top with 197.825 points to win the 2009 team championship, a record 10th NCAA title. They were followed by Alabama with 197.575 points, Utah with 197.425 points, Florida with 196.725 points, Arkansas with 196.475 points and LSU with 196.375 points at the Super Six Team Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204193-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship\nHead coach Suzanne Yoculan, in her 26th year at the helm of the University of Georgia program, retired with a record of 831-117-7 after the 2009 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204194-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCBA Division I World Series\nThe 2009 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division I World Series was played at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, FL from May 22 to May 28. The ninth tournament's champion was Colorado State University. This was Colorado State's fifth title in the last six years and second in a row. The Most Valuable Player was Bobby Moller of Colorado State University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204194-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCBA Division I World Series, Format\nThe format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with the only difference being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204195-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NCBA Division II World Series\nThe 2009 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division II World Series was played at Pullman Park in Butler, PA from May 15 to May 19. The second tournament's champion was the University of Kentucky, who won their second consecutive Division II title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204195-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NCBA Division II World Series\nAs of 2014, Kentucky is the only school to repeat as NCBA Division II National Champions. The only other school to repeat as NCBA World Series Champions in any division is Colorado State, who won three straight titles from 2004\u201306 and again from 2008-10 in Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204195-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NCBA Division II World Series, Format\nThe format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with a couple differences. One being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA. Another difference which is between NCBA Division I and II is that Division II games are 7 innings while Division I games are 9 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game\nThe 2009 NECBL All-Star Game was the 16th exhibition game between all-stars from the NECBL's East and West Divisions. The game was held at Mackenzie Stadium in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the home field of the West Division's Holyoke Blue Sox. The West Division won the game by a final score of 6-5 in front of a record All-Star Game attendance of 4,906. This mark broke the previous record mark of 4,210 set at the 2007 All-Star Game hosted by the North Adams SteepleCats. Holyoke's Jake Rosenbeck was named All-Star Game Most Valuable Player. The contest was broadcast with live audio and video online provided by Teamline. The game was announced online by Keene's Shawn Medeiros (West Division) and Newport's Nicholas Lima (East Division) on the NECBL Broadcast Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, 60 Yard Dash\nThe 60-yard dash competition consisted of five contestants, each running two 60-yard heats on the outfield grass. The top two runners advanced to a head-to-head final in which the competitors ran simultaneously to decide the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, 60 Yard Dash\nThe two fastest preliminary round heats were recorded by Danbury's Sean Harrell (6.63) and Sanford's Adam Matthews (6.67). In the head-to-head final Matthews defeated Harrell with a winning time of 6.72 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Outfield\nIn the outfield throwing competition, competing players threw two baseballs each from right field to home plate, at a marked distance of 250 feet. The competitors were judged on their throwing strength and accuracy by several Major League Baseball scouts in attendance. The top two competitors advanced to a final round consisting of one throw per player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Outfield\nIn the preliminary round, Manchester's Ted Sendek and Keene's Peter Verdin were judged as the best throwers in the competition and advanced to the final round. In this round, Verdin defeated Sendek to win the outfield throwing contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Infield\nIn the infield throwing competition, competitors threw two baseballs each from the shortstop position to first base. The ball was slowly rolled to the players from the infield grass. Players were judged by attending scouts on their arm strength and the accuracy of their throws. The top two competitors advanced to a final round consisting of another two throws to decide a champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Infield\nPittsfield's Zach Williams and North Adams' Brandon Macias advanced to the final round, where Macias defeated Williams to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Catcher\nIn the catcher throwing competition, competitors threw three baseballs from behind home plate to the second base bag. Players were judged by attending scouts on the strength and accuracy of their throws. The top two competitors in the preliminary rounds advanced to a final of two throws by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Throwing Competitions, Catcher\nManchester's Mike Bourdon and Vermont's Jayson Hernandez advanced from the preliminary rounds to the final round. Hernandez defeated Bourdon to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Home Run Derby\nIn the Home Run Derby, each of the thirteen competitors was given 5 outs to hit as many home runs as possible. Outs consisted of any swing by the batter which did not result in a home run. The top two home run hitters of the preliminary round advanced to a final round also consisting of five outs per hitter. In the competition, left-handed hitters were aided by a favorable wind blowing out to right field, making it easier for balls pulled by left-handed hitters to reach the fence. Marked dimensions at Mackenzie Stadium were 327 feet down the left and right field lines and 377 feet to straight-away center field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Skills Competitions, Home Run Derby\nKeene's Jacob Rogers and Holyoke's Murray Watts were the top hitters of the preliminary round, each hitting two home runs each. Rogers defeated Watts 2-1 in the final to win the Home Run Derby title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nAfter the conclusion of the skills competition, each team took live batting practice on the field. After this, the grounds crew prepped the field as the pregame ceremonies began at 6:30. After the rosters were announced, the players took the field for a 7:00 gametime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nAfter West Division starting pitcher Tim Boyce (North Adams) worked a scoreless top of the first, the West scored the game's first run when Jake Rosenbeck (Holyoke) grounded into a double play. This scored Henry Dunn (Vermont), who had doubled to lead off the inning, to make the score 1-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nThe East quickly answered in the top of the second off of pitcher Tommy Meagher (Keene). After a Ben Waldrip (North Shore) single and a walk by Patrick Brady (North Shore), Kyle Felix (Lowell) singled in Waldrip to tie the score at one. Mark Micowski (Sanford) later reached on a fielder's choice to put the East ahead 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nThe West All-Stars responded in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Jake Rosenbeck which scored Henry Dunn to tie the score at two. However, the East retook the lead in the top of the fourth on a Dave Gustafson (Lowell) single which scored Aaron Westlake (Newport). The lead was extended to 4-2 when Taylor Featherston (New Bedford) singled in Gustafson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nThe West got a run back in the bottom half of the fourth when a Taylor Featherston error on a Clay Jones (Vermont) grounder allowed Mike Fabiaschi (Danbury) to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nAfter a scoreless top of the fifth pitched by Brach Davis (North Adams), the West scored three times in the bottom of the inning. After loading the bases on a single and two walks, Mike Fabiaschi hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Jake Rosenbeck and tie the game at four. The next batter, Brandon Macias (North Adams), gave the West the lead with a two-out, two RBI single to right field, scoring John Schultz (North Adams) and Chris Edmondson (Keene) to give the West a 6-4 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204196-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL All-Star Game, Game summary\nAlthough the East was able to pull back one run in the eighth on an RBI groundout by Dylan Pratt (Sanford), the West prevailed 6-5. After giving up four runs in the first four innings, the West Division\u2019s pitching staff allowed only one run over the final five frames, with an inning each from Brach Davis, Rob Kumbatovic (Vermont), Robert Young (Pittsfield), Austin Evans (Vermont), and Ricky Rogers (Keene).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs\nThe 2009 NECBL playoffs was the postseason tournament of the New England Collegiate Baseball League for the 2009 season. It consisted of eight teams competing in three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship round, Newport defeated Vermont 2\u20131 to win their fourth NECBL title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Format\nThe 2009 NECBL playoffs consisted of three rounds, a Division Semifinal, Division Final, and Championship Series. Competing teams consisted of the four best-record teams from both the West Division and the East Division. These teams were seeded #1 through #4 according to their regular season record. In each division, the #1 seed played the #4 seed and the #2 seed played the #3 seed in the Division Semifinal round. The two winners of these series advanced to the Division Finals. The winner of the round captured the Division Championship, one for both the East and West divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Format\nThe two division champions faced each other in the Championship Series to decide the NECBL champion. All rounds consisted of a best-of-three series in which the first game and third game (if necessary) of each series were played at the higher seed's home field and the second game was played at the lower seed's home field. If identically seeded teams from opposite divisions met in the Championship Series the NECBL tiebreaker rules would be utilized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Seedings, West Division\nNote- Holyoke defeated Danbury in one-game playoff to capture four-seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals\nThe Division Semifinals, the first playoff round, consisted of matchups between each division's #1 and #4 seeds and #2 and #3 seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division\nIn the West Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were as follows: #1 Keene versus #4 Holyoke, #2 North Adams versus #3 Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nGame SummaryAugust 2, 2009- In Game 1 of this West Division Semifinal series, the #1 seeded Keene Swampbats took on the #4 seeded Holyoke Blue Sox to begin a best-of-three series. The game, played at Alumni Field in Keene, New Hampshire, featured a starting pitching matchup of two Pac-10 pitchers: Keene's Adam Conley (Washington State) and Holyoke's Chase Brewer (UCLA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke scored first in the top of the first inning. After a Cooper Blanc (Utah) walk and a Jim Wood (Trinity) single, third baseman Jake Rosenbeck (Buffalo) grounded into a double play, scoring Blanc, who had advanced to third on Wood's single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nKeene responded with three runs in the bottom of the first. Right fielder Chris Edmondson (Le Moyne) walked with two outs and advanced to third on a Ryan Terry (Monmouth) double. With two runners on, Correy Figueroa (Tampa) launched a three-run home run to right field, giving Keene a 3\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nKeene scored again in the bottom of the second on a successful double steal. With Keene baserunners on first and third, Chase Brewer picked off Tim Hayes (Louisville) at first. However, while Hayes was caught in a rundown between first and second, Jos\u00e9 Mac\u00edas (Franklin Pierce) came in the back door to score, giving Keene a 4\u20131 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke got one back in the top half of the third on an RBI groundout by Jim Wood, which scored Michael Beltran (Utah), making the score 4\u20132 in favor of Keene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nThe game remained scoreless until the top of the sixth. After Mike Nemeth's (UConn) single and Rob Lawler's (Buffalo) double gave Holyoke runners on second and third, Sean Rockey (George Washington) delivered a two-out, two RBI single to tie the game at 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nThe game remained tied until the top of the ninth, thanks to a strong outing by Holyoke's Jonathan Stephens (Samford). After Blue Sox starter Chase Brewer departed after giving up four earned runs in four innings, Stephens silenced the Keene hitters, throwing five scoreless innings while giving up only one hit. Jim Wood doubled with one out in the Holyoke ninth. After an intentional walk was issued to Jake Rosenbeck, the Swamp Bats brought in pitcher Dexter Bobo (Georgia Southern). Bobo struck out Holyoke's Murray Watts (Arkansas State) to record the second out. However, Mike Nemeth singled in Wood to give the Blue Sox a 5\u20134 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nJonathan Stephens remained in the game for the bottom of the ninth. After getting the first two outs on a pair of groundouts, Stephens got pinch hitter Dustin Spruill (Chipola) to pop out to shortstop Michael Beltran to end the game, 5\u20134 Holyoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke's Jonathan Stephens (1\u20130) was credited with the win, while Keene's Earl Daniels (Georgia) (0\u20131) took the loss. Top hitters for Keene were Chris Edmondson (2\u20133, R, BB) and Correy Figueroa (1\u20134, HR, 3 RBI). Top hitters for Holyoke were Jim Wood (3\u20135, 2B, RBI, R), Mike Nemeth (2\u20134, R, RBI, BB), and Sean Rockey (1\u20134, 2 RBI, BB). The game was played in front of 1,205 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nGame SummaryAugust 3, 2009- Entering Game 2 of this West Division Semifinal, #4 seeded Holyoke held a 1\u20130 series lead over #1 seeded Keene after winning Game 1 by a score of 5\u20134. For Game 2, the series came to Holyoke's Mackenzie Stadium, with the Blue Sox having an opportunity to advance to the Division Finals with a win. The pitching matchup featured Maxx Catapano (Southern Connecticut) for Holyoke against Tommy Meagher (Tampa) for Keene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nKeene scored first in the top of the first. Following a leadoff triple by Peter Verdin (Georgia), Josh Chester (Florida Gulf Coast) grounded out to the pitcher Catapano, scoring the run from third to give Keene an early 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nAfter a 1-2-3 bottom of the first pitched by Tommy Meagher, Keene scored again in the top of the second. With two outs and the bases empty, Jacob Rogers (Chipola) tripled down the right field line. Consecutive walks to Dustin Spruill (Chipola) and Jos\u00e9 Mac\u00edas (Franklin Pierce) loaded the bases for leadoff hitter Peter Verdin. Verdin proceeded to clear the bases with a double to center field, giving Keene a 4\u20130 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nKeene struck again in the top of the third. After right fielder Chris Edmondson (Le Moyne) doubled with one out, Correy Figueroa (Tampa) delivered a two out RBI double to give Keene a 5\u20130 lead. An RBI single by Jacob Rogers scored Figueroa to extend the Swamp Bats' lead to six runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nIn the fourth inning, Keene scored again off of Holyoke's Dillon Fontaine (American International), who had replaced Catapano in the third. RBI singles by Mark Onoratti (Manhattan), Chris Edmondson, Correy Figueroa, and Jos\u00e9 Mac\u00edas pushed Keene's lead to a double digit 10\u20130 advantage after four frames. Fontaine was knocked from the game by Edmondson's single and replaced by Mike Sclaratta (Pace).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nIn the fifth inning, Keene struck for five runs. Third baseman Ryan Terry (Monmouth) started the scoring with a 2-RBI single which scored Mark Onoratti and Josh Chester. After a Correy Figueroa walk, Jacob Rogers doubled to right field, scoring Terry and Figueroa. Jos\u00e9 Mac\u00edas then singled in Rogers to give Keene a 15\u20130 lead which would last until the end of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nKeene starter Tommy Meagher (5.0 IP, 6 K) and relievers Corey Baker (Pitt) and Kyle McMyne (Villanova) combined to hold the Blue Sox offense to just one hit on the night, a second-inning single by Rob Lawler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nIn the 15\u20130 blowout, Meagher (1\u20130) was credited with the win, while Holyoke starter Maxx Catapano (0\u20131) suffered the loss. Top hitters for Keene were Peter Verdin (3\u20136, 2B, 3B, 2 R, 3 RBI), Josh Chester (3\u20135, 2 R, 1 RBI), Chris Edmondson (2\u20135, 2B, 2 R, 1 RBI), Correy Figueroa (2\u20133, 2B, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI), and Jacob Rogers (4\u20136, 2B, 3B, 2 R, 3 RBI). Keene's win tied the series at 1\u20131. The game was played in front of 2,610 at Mackenzie Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nGame SummaryAugust 4, 2009- After two games in this West Division Semifinal, a tight 5\u20134 Game 1 Holyoke win and a 15\u20130 blowout by Keene in Game 2, the series was tied at one game apiece. This forced a deciding Game 3, played at Keene's Alumni Field. The winner would move on to face the #3 seeded Vermont Mountaineers, who had already defeated the North Adams SteepleCats 2\u20130 in their West Division Semifinal. The pitching matchup in Keene featured Matt Zielinski (Richmond) for Keene against Kyle Sumple (Siena) for Holyoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nAfter two scoreless innings to begin the game, Holyoke scored first in the top of the third, thanks to two errors by Keene's Jacob Rogers (Chipola). With, one out Holyoke catcher Cooper Blanc (Utah) reached on an error by Rogers. Blanc then advanced to third base on another error by Rogers, this time on a failed pickoff. Jim Wood (Trinity) then drove in Blanc with a sacrifice fly to left field, giving Holyoke a 1\u20130 lead. After a Jake Rosenbeck (Buffalo) singled, Holyoke cleanup hitter Murray Watts (Arkansas State) hit a two-run home run over the right center field fence, extending Holyoke's lead to 3\u20130. All three Blue Sox runs in the inning were unearned, due to the two errors by Rogers during the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nThe Swamp Bats responded in the bottom of the third. Mark Onoratti (Manhattan) doubled to left center. The next batter, right fielder Chris Edmondson (Le Moyne), drove Onoratti in with a two-out RBI single, making the score 3\u20131 in favor of Holyoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nAfter a scoreless fourth Holyoke scored again in the fifth inning. Keene starter Matt Zielinski was pulled after four innings in favor of reliever Dan White (UMass Lowell). The first hitter of the inning, Jim Wood, hit a solo home run to give Holyoke a 4\u20131 lead. White then walked Jake Rosenbeck and gave up a single to Murray Watts and was pulled from the game without retiring a batter. Earl Daniels (Georgia) entered the game for Keene and was able to get out of the jam by retiring Mike Nemeth (UConn), Rob Lawler (Buffalo), and Sean Rockey (George Washington).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke starter Kyle Sumple was pulled from the game in the bottom of the sixth after loading the bases with one out. Blue Sox reliever Mitchell Beacom (UCLA) entered the game and prevented Keene from scoring by getting Josh Chester (Florida Gulf Coast) to ground into a 5U-3 double play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nAfter scoreless seventh and eighth innings, Holyoke threatened again in the top of the ninth. After reliever Ricky Rogers (St. Petersburg) loaded the bases with no outs, Keene brought in Dexter Bobo (Georgia Southern). Bobo struck out Murray Watts for the first out and induced Mike Nemeth to ground into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nLeading 4\u20131, Holyoke sent Mitchell Beacom back to the mound for his third full inning of relief. Beacom allowed two quick hits to get into a jam with runners on first and third. Mark Onoratti then singled in a run, cutting the Holyoke lead to 4\u20132. After Beacom struck out Chris Edmondson, he was replaced by Doug Jennings (UConn). Jennings entered the game holding a two-run lead with runners on second and third. Ryan Terry (Monmouth) singled in one run, scoring Josh Chester to halve the Holyoke lead at 4\u20133. After walking Correy Figueroa (Tampa), Jennings managed to strike out Jacob Rogers for the second out. Dustin Spruill (Chipola) then grounded to Holyoke third baseman Jake Rosenbeck, who stepped on third base for the force out to end the game, giving Holyoke the series win 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke starter Kyle Sumple got the win, pitching 5.1 innings giving up only 1 earned run. Keene starter Matt Zielinski took the loss, while Holyoke's Doug Jennings was credited with the save in a game attended by 1,474 fans. The top hitters for Holyoke were Jim Wood (3\u20131, BB, R, 2 RBI) and Murray Watts (3\u20135, R, 2 RBI). Keene's top hitters were Peter Verdin (2\u20135, R) and Mark Onoratti (3\u20135, R, RBI). Holyoke moved on to face the Vermont Mountaineers in the Division Final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, Keene vs. Holyoke\nThe three games of the series drew a total of 5,289 fans, for an average of 1,763 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nGame SummaryAugust 2, 2009- This Division Semifinal Series featured the #2 seeded North Adams SteepleCats against the #3 seeded Vermont Mountaineers in a best-of-three playoff. Game 1 was hosted by North Adams at Joe Wolfe Field in North Adams, Massachusetts. The starting pitching matchup featured North Adams' Tim Boyce (Rhode Island) against Vermont's Rob Kumbatovic (Hofstra).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAfter Tim Boyce pitched a 1-2-3 top of the first, North Adams scored first in the bottom of the inning. Left fielder John Schultz (Pitt) walked to lead off the inning, advancing to second on a failed pickoff. Brandon Macias (South Mountain CC) then scored Schultz on an RBI single to give the SteepleCats an early 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nThe game remained scoreless until the top of the third, when Vermont's Steven Felix (Troy) singled with two outs to give the Mountaineers a baserunner. Henry Dunn (Binghamton) then delivered a two out RBI double to right field, scoring Felix to tie the game at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nVermont struck again in the fourth. The Mountaineers loaded the bases with two out for Steven Felix. Kevin Vance (UConn) then scored on a wild pitch to give Vermont a 2\u20131 lead. Felix then added to the lead with a two-RBI single, scoring Nick Martinez (Fordham) and Jayson Hernandez (Rutgers) to extend Vermont's advantage to 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nNorth Adams cut into Vermont's advantage in the bottom half of the fourth. Following a Matt Goulas (UL-Lafayette) leadoff double, second baseman Cameron McMullen (UMass) scored Goulas on a single to right, making the score 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nIn the Vermont fifth, Jantzen Witte (TCU) hit a solo home run over the left field fence, giving the Mountaineers a three-run lead, 5\u20132. Witte's home run drove SteepleCats starter Tim Boyce from the game in favor of reliever Tim Shibuya (San Diego). Shibuya retired Vermont without allowing any further damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nIn the SteepleCats fifth, Brandon Macias led off the inning with a double to right center. After advancing to third on a passed ball, Macias scored on an RBI groundout by Paul Hoilman (East Tennessee State), making the score 5\u20133 in favor of Vermont. Mountaineer starter Rob Kumbatovic was pulled later in the inning in favor of Austin Evans (Alabama).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAfter scoreless sixth and seventh innings pitched by North Adams' Shibuya and Vermont's Evans, Vermont put the game out of reach in the top of the eighth. Tim Shibuya was relieved by Dayton Marze (UL-Lafayette). An error by SteepleCats third baseman Bo Reeder (East Tennessee State) on a ball hit by Steven Rosado (Troy) allowed Jayson Hernandez to score an unearned run, extending Vermont's lead to 6\u20133. Henry Dunn grounded out to third base with the bases loaded later in the inning, scoring Nick Martinez to give the Mountaineers a two-run, 7\u20135 advantage. Another defensive miscue led to the eighth Vermont run when SteepleCats catcher Joseph Pavone (UConn) threw the ball into center field on a failed snap throw, allowing Steven Rosado to score. An RBI single by Clay Jones extended Vermont's lead to 9\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 891]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nVermont relievers Justin Jackson (Sam Houston State) and Colin Duffie (Milligan) combined to hold North Adams scoreless for the eighth and ninth innings to give Vermont the 9\u20133 win and a 1\u20130 series lead. The game was attended by 872 fans at Joe Wolfe Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nVermont reliever Austin Evans was credited with the win, going 2\u200b1\u20443 hitless innings, striking out 4. North Adams starter Tim Boyce took the loss, throwing 5\u200b1\u20443 innings, giving up 5 earned runs on 5 hits. Boyce walked 4 and struck out 5. Vermont's top hitters were Steven Felix (2\u20134, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI), Jantzen Witte (2\u20134, BB, 2B, HR, RBI), and Nick Martinez (3\u20135, 2 R). North Adams' top hitter was Brandon Macias (4\u20134, BB, 2B, R, RBI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nGame SummaryAugust 2, 2009- Entering Game 2 of this West Division Semifinal Series, the #3 seeded Vermont Mountaineers held a 1\u20130 series lead over the #2 seeded North Adams SteepleCats after a 9\u20133 victory in Game 1. With a win, Vermont would advance to the Division Finals to face the winner of the Keene/Holyoke series. If North Adams won, the series would return to North Adams for a decisive Game 3. Game 2 was hosted by Vermont at Montpelier Recreation Field in Montpelier, Vermont. The starting pitching matchup featured Vermont's Brad Altback (Bradley) versus North Adams' Brach Davis (Memphis).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAltback and Davis traded hitless frames until the bottom of the second, when Vermont's Clay Jones (Alabama) hit a solo home run to left field off of Davis, giving the Mountaineers an early 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAfter Brad Altback retired North Adams in order in the SteepleCats third, Vermont scored again in the bottom of the inning. Nine-hitter Kevin Nieto (Manhattan) led off the inning with a triple and scored when SteepleCats shortstop Brandon Macias committed an error on a grounder hit by Steven Rosado (Troy), pushing the Vermont lead to 2\u20130. The Mountaineers added another later in the inning. Rosado advanced to second on a wild pitch and reached third base on a Steven Felix (Troy) groundout. Then, a two-out error by North Adams first baseman Paul Hoilman (East Tennessee State) allowed Rosado to score, running the score to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nVermont scored for the third consecutive inning in the fourth on a Kevin Nieto RBI single, which scored Kevin Vance (UConn), making the score 4\u20130. SteepleCats starter Brach Davis would go 5.0, giving up four runs (three earned) on seven hits while striking out four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAfter the fourth, the North Adams pitching staff was able to hold the Mountaineer offense at bay. After Davis exited after the fifth inning, SteepleCats relievers Ken Graveline (Rhode Island), Ryan Fraser (Memphis), and Kevin Fuqua (La Salle) each threw a scoreless inning. However, the SteepleCats lineup could not produce runs off of Vermont pitcher Brad Altback. Altback threw 8.0 innings, giving up only two hits while striking out thirteen SteepleCats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nAfter, Altback's departure from a 4\u20130 game in the eighth inning, Vermont brought on Kevin Vance, who had started the game at third base, to pitch the ninth inning. Vance retired John Schultz (Pitt), Brandon Macias, and Paul Hoilman in order to give the Mountaineers the game and series win. Vermont would move on to face the winner of the other West Division Semifinal between the Keene Swamp Bats and Holyoke Blue Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nVermont's Brad Altback was credited with the win, while North Adams' Brach Davis took the loss. Vermont's top hitters were Clay Jones (1\u20134, HR, RBI), Kevin Vance (2\u20134, R), and Kevin Nieto (2\u20133, 3B, R, RBI). The game was attended by 3,112 at Montpelier Recreation Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, West Division, North Adams vs. Vermont\nThe two games of the series drew a total of 3,984 fans, for an average of 1,992 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division\nIn the East Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were as follows: #1 Newport versus #4 New Bedford, #2 Sanford versus #3 North Shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nGame SummaryAugust 2, 2009- This East Division Semifinal Series featured the #1 seeded Newport Gulls against the #4 seeded New Bedford Bay Sox in a best-of-three playoff. Game 1 was hosted by Newport at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island. The starting pitching matchup featured Newport's Andrew Kittredge (Washington) against New Bedford's Will Jolin (Florida).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNewport scored first in the top of the second inning. Gulls first baseman Troy Scott (Washington) led off the inning with a single. After reaching a 2\u20132 count on Newport shortstop Tim Smalling (Virginia Tech), Bay Sox starter Will Jolin suffered an arm injury and was removed from the game in favor of Connor Little (Hawaii). Little got Smalling to fly out to center, but surrendered a two-run home run to the next batter, Mike Melillo (Elon), making the score 2\u20130 Newport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNew Bedford answered in the top of the third. With runners on first and third, Jeff Macchi (UMASS-Dartmouth) singled in two runs to tie the score at 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nThe game remained scoreless until the Bay Sox fifth. After first baseman Brandon Garcia (USC) singled with two outs, Pierce Rankin (Washington) hit a two-run home run to give New Bedford a 4\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nIn the bottom of the fifth, Newport's Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) singled with two outs to bring up designated hitter Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt). Westlake proceeded to hit a two-run homer to tie the game at 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nThe game remained tied until the New Bedford seventh. Jeff Macchi led off the frame with a single. With one out, Brandon Garcia hit a two-run home run to give the Bay Sox a 6\u20134 late-inning lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nTrailing 6\u20134 entering the bottom of the eighth, Newport struck for eight runs in the frame off Bay Sox pitchers Chris Finneran (Yale) and Kaleb Merck (TCU). RBI singles by Mike Melillo and Sean Paino (Le Moyne) and a 2-RBI base hit by Brandon Garcia scored the first four runs. Then, with one out and the bases loaded, Joey Bergman hit a grand slam to make the score 12\u20136 in favor of the Gulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNewport brought on reliever Matt Branham (SC Upstate) for the ninth. Although New Bedford scored once on a Mike Famiglietti RBI single (Texas A&M-Corpus Christi), Branham struck out Matt Beaulieu (St. Michael's) to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNewport reliever Geoff Brown (Washington) received the win, while New Bedford's Chris Finneran took the loss. Newport's top hitters were Sean Paino (3\u20135, R, RBI), Joey Bergman (3\u20135, HR, 2 R, 4 RBI), and Mike Melillo (2\u20133, HR, 2 R, 3 RBI). Top hitters for New Bedford were Jeff Macchi (4\u20135, 2B, R, 2 RBI), Brandon Garcia (2\u20135, 2 R, 2 RBI), and Pierce Rankin (1\u20134, BB, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI). The game was attended by 1,472 at Cardines Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nGame SummaryAugust 3, 2009- Entering Game 2 of this East Division Semifinal Series, the Newport Gulls held a 1\u20130 series lead over the New Bedford Bay Sox after a 12\u20137 win in Game 1. Game 2 was played at Paul Walsh Field in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A win for the Gulls would advance them to the East Division Finals to face either the Sanford Mainers or the North Shore Navigators. A Bay Sox win would extend the series to a decisive Game 3 played in Newport. The pitching matchup featured James Lott (Suffolk CC) for New Bedford against Will Roberts (Virginia) for the Gulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNewport scored first in the top of the first inning. David Bentrott (Washington) and Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) each reached on singles. Aaron Westlake then doubled to the left center field gap, scoring both runners to give Newport a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nAfter the top of the first, both starters settled down and dominated the opposing lineups. Between the bottom of the first and the bottom of the seventh, Lott and Roberts combined to allow only three hits. Newport took a 2\u20130 lead into the top of the eighth, when a Sean Paino (Le Moyne) double and a Joey Bergman single gave Newport runners on first and third with one out. However, Lott induced a 4-6-3 double play by Aaron Westlake to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nNew Bedford threatened with a rally of their own in the bottom of the eighth. After a two-base error on Newport right fielder Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech) allowed Brandon Garcia (USC) to reach second, Pierce Rankin (Washington) was hit by a pitch. Tom Conley (UMass) then sacrifice bunted to move the runners to second and third. However, Roberts got Daniel Haugh (Wheaton) to pop out and then struck out Rick Wilson (Dixie State) to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nBack-to-back doubles by Mike Kaminski and Mike Melillo (Elon) plated one run in the top of the ninth, extending Newport's lead to 3\u20130. An RBI single by Troy Scott (Washington) gave Newport a 4\u20130 lead. Will Roberts then pitched a scoreless ninth, earning a complete game shut out. Newport's 4\u20130 win gave them a berth into the East Division Final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nWill Roberts pitched a complete game shut out, striking out four, to get the win. James Lott, who pitched 8.1 innings and gave up four runs, took the loss. Top hitters for Newport were Joey Bergman (2\u20133, R), Aaron Westlake (1\u20134, 2B, 2 RBI), and Mike Kaminski (3\u20134, 2B, R). The game was attended by 1,111 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Newport vs. New Bedford\nA total of 2,583 fans attended the two games of the series, for an average of 1,292 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nGame SummaryAugust 2, 2009- This East Division Semifinal Series featured the #2 seeded Sanford Mainers against the #3 seeded North Shore Navigators in a best-of-three playoff. Game 1 was hosted by Sanford at Goodall Park in Sanford, Maine. Inclement weather forced the game to be completed at Fraser Field in Lynn, Massachusetts, home field of the Navigators. The starting pitching matchup featured Sanford's Matt Murray (Georgia Southern) versus North Shore's Jeff Tardiff (Le Moyne).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nAfter a scoreless first inning, North Shore scored first in the top of the second inning. After the first two hitters were retired, Michael Dowd (Franklin Pierce) and Jim Schult (Eastern Connecticut) each singled to give the Navigators runners on first and second. Ben Waldrip (Saint Anselm) then doubled, scoring both runners to give North Shore an early 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford answered in the bottom of the second, when an error by North Shore catcher Michael Dowd allowed Dylan Pratt (Vanderbilt) to score. Pratt had singled to lead off the inning. This cut the Navigator lead to 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe game remained 2\u20131 until the middle of the fifth. At this time, the game was called off due to heavy rain. The game was resumed on August 3 in Lynn, Massachusetts, as the first game of a doubleheader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe game restarted in the Sanford fifth inning. After North Shore got two quick outs, the Mainers scored four times. A Mark Micowski (Vermont) triple scored Chris Spatkowski (Pace), who had been hit by a pitch. Micowski then scored on an error by Navigator shortstop Patrick Brady (Bellarmine). A two-RBI Dylan Pratt double made the score 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nNorth Shore responded quickly in the top of the sixth on a two-RBI triple by Michael LeBel (Rhode Island). Josh Band (Rollins) and Nathaniel Dennis (Long Beach State) scored on the hit to make the score 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe game remained scoreless into the Navigator eighth. Josh Band singled with two outs and stole second, putting the tying run in scoring position. However, Sanford reliever Lucas Nellis (Le Moyne) got Nathaniel Dennis to line out to center field, ending the inning. Sanford closer Tyler Mizenko (Winthrop) retired the Navigators in the ninth to give the Mainers a 5\u20134 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford reliever Kyle Davis (UMass Lowell) received the win while North Shore starter Jeff Tardiff took the loss. Sanford's Tyler Mizenko was credited with the save. Top hitters for Sanford were Mark Micowski (1\u20134, 3B, R, RBI) and Dylan Pratt (2\u20134, 2B, R, 2 RBI). Top hitters for North Shore were Michael LeBel (2\u20135, 3B, 2 RBI) and Ben Waldrip (2\u20134, 2B, RBI). The game was attended by 568 in Sanford and 30 in Lynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nGame SummaryAugust 3, 2009- Entering Game 2 of this East Division Semifinal Series, the Sanford Mainers held a 1\u20130 series lead after a 5\u20134 victory over the North Shore Navigators in Game 1. Game 2 was played as the second game of a doubleheader at Fraser Field in Lynn, Massachusetts. The Mainers could advance to the East Division Finals with a win, to face either the Newport Gulls or the New Bedford Bay Sox. The starting pitching matchup featured North Shore's Rob Markovitz (Long Beach State) versus Sanford's Kenny Monteith (Winthrop).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nAfter Jason Markovitz threw a perfect top of the first, North Shore scored three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Three singles by Nathaniel Dennis (Long Beach State), Michael LeBel (Rhode Island), and Patrick Brady (Bellarmine) loaded the bases with no outs. Cleanup hitter Ben Waldrip (Saint Anselm) then hit a sacrifice fly to score Dennis, giving the Navigators a 1\u20130 lead. Kent Graham (Trinity) then hit a two-RBI double to give North Shore a 3\u20130 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe game remained scoreless until the Sanford fifth, when Mark Micowski (Vermont) hit a solo home run, cutting the North Shore lead to 3\u20131. Corey Thompson (East Carolina) then hit an RBI single to score Mike Roth (South Carolina), driving Navigator starter Jason Markovitz from the game. Jim Schult (Eastern Connecticut) replaced Markovitz and struck out Tucker Nathans (Fairfield) to end the inning with North Shore leading 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe Navigator bullpen held Sanford to no runs on only two hits for the remainder of the game. Schult, Matt Lewis (UC Davis), and Garret Smith (Boston College) combined to throw scoreless sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. Navigator closer Chris Kowalski (Boston College) came on for the ninth and retired the side in order to earn the save and give North Shore a 3\u20132 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nNorth Shore's John Schult was credited with the win while Sanford starter Kenny Monteith was given the loss. Chris Kowalski earned his first postseason save. The win tied the series at 1\u20131. Top hitters for North Shore were Michael LeBel (2\u20133, BB, R) and Patrick Brady (2\u20134, R, SB). Top hitters for Sanford were Mark Micowski (1\u20135, HR, RBI) and Matt Marra (Le Moyne) (1\u20135, 2B). The game was attended by 725 at Fraser Field in Lynn, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nGame SummaryAugust 4, 2009- Entering Game 3 of this East Division Semifinal, the series was tied at 1\u20131 between the Sanford Mainers and North Shore Navigators. Game 3, deciding which team would advance to play the Newport Gulls in the Division Finals, was played at Goodall Park in Sanford, Maine. The starting pitchers were Colin Snow (Georgia Southern) for Sanford and Mike Gallo (Milligan) for North Shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford scored first in the bottom of the first. Center fielder Mark Micowski (Vermont) led off the inning with a double. He was later driven in on an RBI single by Michael Roth (South Carolina), making the score 1\u20130 Mainers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford scored again in the bottom of the second. Adam DuVall (Louisville) scored on an error by Navigator catcher Michael Dowd (Franklin Pierce). The Mainers got another run on a Matt Marra (LeMoyne) infield single, which scored Doug Elliot (UConn) to push the Sanford lead to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe game remained scoreless into the top of the fifth, when North Shore got on the board. Nathaniel Dennis (Long Beach State) doubled with one out and advanced to third on a Michael LeBel (Rhode Island) single. Kent Graham (Trinity) then doubled to left, scoring Dennis to make the score 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford answered in the bottom of the inning. Corey Thompson (East Carolina) singled and was driven in by an Adam DuVall single, extending Sanford's lead to 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nNorth Shore scored again on a solo home run by Michael Dowd in the top of the sixth off of reliever Tom McDermott (LeMoyne). This cut the Mainer lead to 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nMcDermott and Neil Holland (Louisville) held the Navigators scoreless through the eighth, and Sanford got an insurance run in the bottom of the inning. Mark Micowski doubled with two outs and was driven in on a Mike Roth single, extending Sanford's lead to 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nMainers closer Tyler Mizenko (Winthrop) came in for the ninth. After quickly retiring the first two batters, Mizenko walked Michael LeBel, then gave up a triple to Kent Graham, making the game 5\u20133. However, Mizenko retired Ben Waldrip (Saint Anselm) to end the game in a 5\u20133 Mainers victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nSanford reliever Kyle Davis (UMass Lowell) was credited with the win, while Navigator starter Mike Gallo was saddled with the loss. Tyler Mizenko earned his second save of the series. Sanford's top hitters were Mark Micowski (3\u20135, 2B, 2 R), Matt Marra (2\u20133, BB, SB, RBI), and Mike Roth (2\u20134, BB, 2 RBI). North Shore's top hitters were Michael LeBel (2\u20133, 2 BB, R), Kent Graham (3\u20134, BB, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI), and Michael Dowd (2\u20134, HR, RBI). Sanford advanced to face Newport in the East Division Finals. The game was attended by 568 at Goodall Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Semifinals, East Division, Sanford vs. North Shore\nThe series was attended by a total of 1,730 fans, for an average of 577 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals\nThe Division Finals, the second playoff round, consisted of matchups between the winners of each division's semifinal rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division\nIn the West Division, the Division Final matchup was between #3 Vermont and #4 Holyoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nGame SummaryAugust 5, 2009- The West Division Final featured the #3 seeded Vermont Mountaineers (defeated North Adams 2\u20130 in first round) and the #4 seeded Holyoke Blue Sox (defeated Keene 2\u20131 in first round). The winner of the best-of-three Division Final would advance to the NECBL Championship Series. Game 1 was played at Montpelier Recreation Field, home field of the Mountaineers. The starting pitching matchup featured Vermont's Alex Kaminsky (Wright State) and Holyoke's Taylor Wood (Cornell).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nThe scoring started in the Vermont first inning. The Mountaineer leadoff hitter, Kevin Nieto (Manhattan) struck out but reached first on a passed ball. Nieto advanced to third on a foul out and a wild pitch. Henry Dunn (Binghamton) then scored Nieto on a groundout, giving Vermont an early 2\u20131 edge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nThe Mountaineers scored again in the bottom of the second. After Blue Sox starter Taylor Wood retired the first two batters, Jantzen Witte (TCU) singled to center. Kevin Nieto then launched a two-run home run to right center field, extending Vermont's lead to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nThe Blue Sox got on the board in the fourth inning. Sean Emory's (Stetson) two-out double scored Mike Nemeth (UConn) to cut the Mountaineer lead to 3\u20131. Holyoke then had runners on second and third, but Michael Beltran (Utah) flied out to right field to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke threatened again in the top of the fifth. Cooper Blanc (Utah) reached on an error to begin the inning, then stole second to advance into scoring position. However, Holyoke's three and four hitters, Jake Rosenbeck (Buffalo) and Murray Watts (Arkansas State) could not drive Blanc in, and the Vermont lead held at 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nVermont extended their advantage in the bottom of the sixth. Holyoke starter Taylor Wood was removed from the game after walking two batters. Matt Compton (Burlington CC) was brought on in relief. Compton then surrendered a three-run home run to Steven Felix (Troy), giving Vermont a 6\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nThe Mountaineers added another run in the bottom of the seventh on a Nick Martinez (Fordham) double. It scored Clay Jones (Alabama), who had reached on an error to begin the inning, to make the score 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke threatened to cut into the lead in the top of the eighth inning. Vermont reliever Austin Evans (Alabama) walked the batters to load the bases with one out. Colin Duffie (Milligan) was brought in relief and retired Stephen Arcure (William & Mary) and Sean Emory to end the threat. Duffie stayed in the game for the ninth inning and retired Holyoke in order to give Vermont a 7\u20131 win and a 1\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0099-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nVermont's Alex Kaminsky got the win while Holyoke's Taylor Wood suffered the loss. Top hitters for Vermont were Kevin Nieto (1\u20135, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI), Steven Felix (1\u20134, BB, 2 SB, HR), Clay Jones (2\u20134, 2B, R), and Nick Martinez (2\u20133, 2B, RBI). Holyoke's top hitter was Sean Emory (1\u20134, 2B, RBI). The game was attended by 1,609 at Montpelier Recreation Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0100-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nGame SummaryAugust 5, 2009- Entering Game 2 of the West Division Finals, between the Vermont Mountaineers and the Holyoke Blue Sox, Vermont held a 1\u20130 series lead. With a win, Vermont would advance to the NECBL Championship Series to face the East Division Champion. The matchup of starting pitchers featured Holyoke's Doug Jennings (UConn) against Vermont's Justin Jackson (Sam Houston State).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0101-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nVermont got on the board quickly, scoring in the top of the first. After two quick outs, Mountaineers three-hitter Henry Dunn (Binghamton) was hit by a pitch. He advanced to second when Clay Jones (Alabama) was also hit by a pitch. Left fielder Steven Rosado (Troy) then drove Dunn in with a single to right center field, making the score 1\u20130 Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0102-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nBoth starters then settled into the game, with the teams combining for only two hits until the top of the fourth. A pair of singles by Clay Jones and Steven Rosado gave the Mountaineers a pair of baserunners with no outs. An error by Holyoke first baseman Mike Nemeth (UConn) allowed Tadd Bower (William & Mary) to reach, loading the bases. Nick Martinez (Fordham) then doubled to score two runs, extending the Vermont advantage to 3\u20130. Jantzen Witte (TCU) then hit a sacrifice fly to score Bower, making the game 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0103-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nHolyoke answered in the bottom of the inning. Murray Watts (Arkansas State) hit a leadoff double and later advanced to third on a Rob Lawler (Buffalo) single. Stephen Arcure (William & Mary) then scored Watts with an RBI single, cutting Vermont's advantage to 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0104-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nIn the Vermont fifth, designated hitter Steven Felix (Troy) singled to begin the inning. He advanced to third by a passed ball and sacrifice fly and eventually scored on a wild pitch. This drove Blue Sox starter Doug Jennings from the game, in favor of reliever Jonathan Stephens (Samford). Stephens retired a pair of Mountaineers to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0105-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nVermont starter Justin Jackson pitched 7.0 innings on the night, allowing only 1 earned run on 5 hits. He walked 2 while striking out 8. He was pulled from the game at the start of the eighth inning and replaced by Colin Duffie (Milligan). Duffie surrendered a leadoff double to Blue Sox third baseman Jake Rosenbeck (Buffalo) and then gave up at two-run home run to Murray Watts, making the score 5\u20133 Mountaineers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0106-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nAfter Duffie retired the Blue Sox to end the eighth, Vermont brought in Kevin Vance (UConn) to close the game. Although he gave up a two-out walk to Cooper Blanc (Utah), Vance retired Jim Wood the end the game, giving Vermont a berth into the NECBL Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0107-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nVermont's Justin Jackson received the win while Holyoke's Doug Jennings took the loss. Kevin Vance was credited with his first playoff save. Top hitters for Vermont were Steven Rosado (3\u20134, R, RBI) and Nick Martinez (2\u20134, 2B, HR, 2 RBI). Holyoke's top hitters were Murray Watts (2\u20134, 2B, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI) and Stephen Arcure (2\u20134, RBI). The game was attended by 1,621 at Mackenzie Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0108-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, West Division, Vermont vs. Holyoke\nThe game was attended by a total of 2,230 fans, for an average of 1,615 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0109-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division\nIn the East Division, the Division Final matchup was between #1 Newport and #2 Sanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0110-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nGame SummaryAugust 5, 2009- The East Division Final Series featured the #1 seeded Newport Gulls (defeated New Bedford 2\u20130 in first round) and #2 seeded Sanford Mainers (defeated North Shore 2\u20131 in first round). The winner of the best-of-three series would advance to the NECBL Championship Series. Game 1 was played at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island. The starting pitching matchup featured Brad Mincey (East Carolina) for Newport and Chad O'Connor (Virginia) for Sanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0111-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford threatened first in the game in the top of the first inning. With one out, Chris Spatkowski (Pace) reached on an error by Newport third baseman Joey Bergman (College of Charleston). Spatkowski then stole second with two outs. However, Brad Mincey got Mike Roth (South Carolina) to ground out to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0112-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport was the first team to score, striking in the bottom of the first. After Chad O'Connor recorded two quick outs, Joey Bergman doubled. Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) then drove in Bergman with a single, giving Newport an early 1\u20130 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0113-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport threatened again in the bottom of the second. Chad O'Connor again retired the first two batters then allowed a baserunner on a Greg Garcia (Hawaii) walk. Garcia then went first-to-third on a TJ Mittelstaedt (Long Beach State) single. However, O'Connor ended the threat, getting Sean Paino (Le Moyne) to ground out to shortstop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0114-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford broke out for three runs off of Brad Mincey in the top of the fourth inning. Chris Spatkowski singled and advanced to second on a Joey Bergman error. He was then sacrificed to third base by Corey Thompson (East Carolina) and scored on a Mike Roth RBI groundout. A pair of singles by Matt Marra (Le Moyne) and Tucker Nathans (Fairfield) gave the Mainers a pair of baserunners. Both runners scored on a Troy Scott (Washington) error, the third Newport error of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0115-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport got one run back in the bottom of the fifth. With the bases loaded, Troy Scott hit a ball to left field. Although Joey Bergman was thrown out attempting to advance from second to third, Sean Paino scored from third to make the game 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0116-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nThe game remained quiet until the Newport seventh. An Aaron Westlake doubled advanced Joey Bergman to third and gave the Gulls two runners in scoring position. Sanford then intentionally walked Troy Scott to load the bases with one out. Newport pinch hit Derek Jones (Washington State) for Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech). Chad O'Connor was able to strike out Jones, then got Tim Smalling (Virginia Tech) to fly out to right field to escape the jam without surrendering a run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0117-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford extended their lead in the top of the eighth. Geoff Nichols (Oregon) came on in relief of Brad Mincey (7.0 IP, 3 R, 1 ER, 6 H, BB, 5 K). Corey Thompson doubled with one out and was later singled in by Matt Marra, giving Sanford a 4\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0118-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nIn the bottom of the eighth, Eric Carmichael (West Chester) entered the game in relief of Chad O'Connor (7.0 IP, 2 R, 7 H, 6 BB, 6 K). Mike Melillo singled and reached second on a Kyle Groth (Cornell) error. Pinch hitter David Bentrott walked (Washington) and Groth and Bentrott were sacrificed to second and third by TJ Mittelstaedt. Neil Holland (Louisville) then entered the game in relief of Carmichael. Holland gave up an RBI groundout to Mike Melillo (Elon). This cut Sanford's lead to 4\u20133. Holland was able to retire Joey Bergman with the tying run on third, getting him to ground out to second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0119-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford brought in Will Clinard (Vanderbilt) for the ninth inning. Following a leadoff walk to Aaron Westlake, Clinard retired the Gulls in order to give Sanford a 4\u20133 victory and a 1\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0120-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford starter Chad O'Connor was credited with the win, while Newport's Brad Mincey took the loss. Will Clinard earned his first playoff save. Top hitters for Sanford were Chris Spatkowski (2\u20135, SB, R), Corey Thompson (1\u20134, 2B, R), and Matt Marra (3\u20134, SB, R, RBI). Newport's top hitters were Joey Bergman (1\u20133, SB, 2B, R), Aaron Westlake (2\u20133, 2 BB, 2B, RBI), and Mike Melillo (2\u20134, 2B, R). The Gulls left 13 runners on base in the loss. The game was attended by 2,489 at Cardines Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0121-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nGame SummaryAugust 6, 2009- Entering Game 2 of the East Division Finals, between #1 Newport and #2 Sanford, the Sanford Mainers held a 1\u20130 series lead by virtue of their 4\u20133 road win in Game 1. With a win, Sanford would advance to the NECBL Championship Series. The game, played at Goodall Park in Sanford, featured a starting pitching matchup of Sanford's Dustin Ramey (UMass Lowell) and Newport's Stephen Peterson (Rhode Island).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0122-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport's offense exploded for five runs in the top of the first inning. TJ Mittelstaedt (Long Beach State) and Sean Paino (Le Moyne) both reached to begin the inning. Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) scored Mittelstaedt to make the score 1\u20130. Cleanup hitter Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) then doubled to right, scoring Paino to make the score 2\u20130. Troy Scott (Washington) then grounded out to second, scoring Joey Bergman. Aaron Westlake was driven in on an RBI triple by Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech), giving Newport a 4\u20130 lead. Mike Melillo (Elon) scored Kaminski with a sacrifice fly, ending the scoring in a 5\u20130 Newport advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0123-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford responded in the bottom half of the first. After Chris Spatkowski (Pace) reached on a Tim Smalling (Virginia Tech) error, Matt Marra (Le Moyne) tripled to left, cutting Newport's advantage to 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0124-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nThe game remained quiet until the Newport fourth. After a Mike Mellilo walk and Greg Garcia's (Hawaii) reaching on an error, Newport had two runners on with one out. TJ Mittelstaedt then singled to right to score Melillo, making the score 6\u20131. An RBI groundout by Sean Paino scored Garcia and Mittelstaedt scored on a Mike Roth (South Carolina) error, giving the Gulls an 8\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0125-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport threatened in the top of the seventh. Sanford replaced starter Dustin Ramey with Eric Carmichael (West Chester). Aaron Westlake doubled to lead off the frame and Troy Scott walked to give the Gulls two baserunners with no outs. However, Carmichael retired three Newport hitters in order to neutralize the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0126-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford got a run back in the bottom of the eighth when catcher Doug Elliot (UConn) scored on a Tim Smalling error, reducing Newport's lead to 8\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0127-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford's 8-9-1 hitters were retired in order in the bottom of the ninth to give Newport an 8\u20132 victory, which tied the series at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0128-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nGeoff Brown (Washington) of Newport got the win, his second of the playoffs, while Dustin Ramey took the loss for Sanford. Newport's top hitters were TJ Mittelstaedt (1\u20135, SB, 2 R, RBI), Aaron Westlake (2\u20134, 2B, R, RBI), Troy Scott (3\u20134, BB, 3B, RBI), and Mike Kaminski (2\u20135, 3B, R, RBI). Sanford's top hitter was Matt Marra (1\u20133, BB, 3B, RBI). The game was attended by 671 at Goodall Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0129-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nGame SummaryAugust 7, 2009- Entering Game 3 of the East Division Finals, the series was tied at 1\u20131. Sanford had won a tight Game 1 4\u20133 while Newport took Game 2 by a score of 8\u20132. Game 3 returned to Cardines Field in Newport, with a berth in the NECBL Championship Series at stake. The starting pitchers were Dean Wolosiansky (Ohio State) for Newport and Kyle Davis (UMass Lowell) for Sanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0130-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford got on the board quickly in the top of the first inning. Mark Micowski (Vermont) walked to start the game and later scored when Matt Marra (Le Moyne) grounded into a fielder's choice. After this, Sanford managed to load the bases with one out for catcher Bob Stumpo (West Chester). However, Stumpo lined out to Newport shortstop David Bentrott (Washington), who threw to second baseman Greg Garcia (Hawaii) to double off Mike Roth (South Carolina), ending the Sanford rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0131-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport had a scoring chance in the bottom of the first. With two outs, Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) was hit by a pitch and Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) walked to give Newport two baserunners. However, Kyle Davis got Troy Scott to ground out to shortstop to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0132-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nIn the Newport second, Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech) hit a solo home run to tie the game at 1\u20131. After the home run, however, Newport was retired in order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0133-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nSanford threatened to score in the top of the fourth. With two outs, Kyle Groth (Cornell) doubled. He advanced to third on an Ethan Wilson (Indiana) single. However, Mark Micowski struck out to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0134-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nThe Mainers threatened again in the top of the sixth. Newport starter Dean Wolosiansky loaded the bases with one out and was lifted from the game in favor of reliever Chad Arnold (Washington State). Arnold struck out Mark Micowski and Tucker Nathans (Fairfield) to escape the jam, preserving the 1\u20131 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0135-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport took the lead in the bottom of the seventh. Derek Jones (Washington State), who had pinch hit for Sean Paino (Le Moyne) in the fourth, hit a solo home run to begin the inning. The next batter, Greg Garcia, was hit by a pitch. This drove Sanford starter Kyle Davis from the game. He was replaced by Neil Holland (Louisville). Holland loaded the bases with one out, then struck out cleanup hitter Aaron Westlake to record the second out. However, Holland walked Troy Scott (Washington), which extended the Newport lead to 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0136-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nThe game remained quiet into the top of the ninth, when Newport brought on Matt Branham (SC Upstate) to close out the game. After allowing a leadoff single to Mark Micowski, Branham retired the Mainers in order, giving Newport a 3\u20131 victory and a 2\u20131 series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0137-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nNewport reliever Chad Arnold received the win while Sanford's Kyle Davis took the loss. Matt Branham was credited with a save. Newport's top hitters were Mike Kaminski (1\u20134, HR, RBI) and Derek Jones (1\u20133, HR, RBI). Sanford's top hitters were Matt Marra (1\u20135, 2B, RBI) and Kyle Groth (3\u20134, 2B). Sanford had 11 hits on the night but could only score one run. Newport moved on to face the Vermont Mountaineers, champions of the West Division, in the NECBL Championship Series. The game was attended by 2,570 at Cardines Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0138-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Division Finals, East Division, Newport vs. Sanford\nThe series was attended by a total of 5,730 fans, for an average of 1,910 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0139-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series\nThe Championship Series, the final playoff round, consisted of a matchup between #3 Vermont (West Division champion) and #1 Newport (East Division champion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0140-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nGame SummaryAugust 8, 2009- The NECBL Championship Series featured the #1 seeded Newport Gulls, representing the East Division, (defeated New Bedford, Sanford) and the #3 seeded Vermont Mountaineers, representing the West Division (defeated North Adams, Holyoke). Newport was making their seventh Finals appearance in search of the franchise's fourth title. Vermont was making their fourth Finals appearance and competing to win the franchise's third title. Game 1 was played at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island. The pitching matchup featured Newport's Andrew Kittredge (Washington) against Vermont's Rob Kumbatovic (Hofstra).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0141-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nThe game was scoreless into the bottom of the second. With two outs, Newport catcher Mike Melillo (Elon) singled in Troy Scott (Washington), who had doubled earlier in the frame. This gave the Gulls a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0142-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nBoth teams threatened in the fourth inning. In the top half, Vermont got two baserunners when Henry Dunn (Binghamton) walked and Clay Jones (Alabama) was hit by a pitch. However, Rob Kumbatovic retired two batters to escape the jam. In the bottom of the fourth, Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) doubled to leadoff the inning. Mike Melillo was later hit by a pitch, giving the Gulls a pair of two-out baserunners. However, Derek Jones (Washington State) grounded out to end the inning and the Newport threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0143-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nVermont took the lead in the top of the fifth. Nick Martinez (Fordham) singled with one out. Jantzen Witte (TCU) followed Martinezwith a two-run home run, giving Vermont a 2\u20131 advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0144-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nNewport quickly answered in the bottom of the fifth. A Tim Smalling (Virginia Tech) double and David Bentrott (Washington) single gave the Gulls a pair of baserunners. Smalling then scored on a wild pitch, which also advanced Bentrott to second. Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) singled to score Bentrott and later scored on a Troy Scott RBI single. After another Newport hit, Austin Evans (Alabama) came on in relief of Rob Kumbatovic. Evans got Mike Melillo to strike out, ending the inning. Newport now held a 4\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0145-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nNewport added another run in the sixth. An RBI double by TJ Mittelstaedt (Long Beach State) scored David Bentrott to give the Gulls a 5\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0146-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nVermont responded in the top of the seventh. Kevin Vance led off the frame with a double, and later scored with two outs on a wild pitch. This cut Newport's edge to 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0147-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nColin Duffie (Milligan) came on in relief for the Mountaineers in the bottom of the seventh. He surrendered back-to-back doubles to by Troy Scott and Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech), which extended Newport's lead to 6\u20133. Later in the inning, Newport gained a 7\u20133 lead when Kaminski scored on an error by Vermont shortstop Jantzen Witte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0148-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nIn the top of the eighth, Newport starter Andrew Kittredge was replaced by Geoff Nichols (Oregon). Kittredge went 7.0 innings, giving up 3 ER on 6 hits, while walking 2 and striking out 12. Brown allowed only one baserunner in two innings of shutout relief, giving Newport a 7\u20133 victory and 1\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0149-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 1\nAndrew Kittredge was credited with the win, while Vermont's Rob Kumbatovic took the loss. Newport's top hitters were David Bentrott (2\u20135, SB, 2 R), Troy Scott (3\u20135, 2 2B, 2 R, RBI), and Mike Kaminski (3\u20135, 2B, R, RBI). Vermont's top hitters were Kevin Vance (UConn) (2\u20134, 2B, RBI) and Jantzen Witte (2\u20133, HR, RBI). The game was attended by 2,643 at Cardines Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0150-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nGame SummaryAugust 9, 2009- Entering Game 2 of the NECBL Championship Series, Newport held a 1\u20130 series lead over Vermont. With a win, Newport would clinch the NECBL title. Game 2 was played at Montpelier Recreation Field in Montpelier, Vermont. The starting pitching matchup featured Vermont's Brad Altback (Bradley) against Newport's Will Roberts (Virginia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0151-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nNewport took an early lead in the top of the second inning. After Newport had been retired in order in the first, cleanup hitter Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) led off the inning with a home run to give Newport a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0152-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nVermont threatened to get on the board in the bottom of the second. Clay Jones (Alabama) and Ethan Paquette (Vermont) were both hit by pitches to begin the inning, giving the Mountaineers a pair of baserunners. An error by Gulls shortstop David Bentrott (Washington) on a Jayson Hernandez (Rutgers) ground ball loaded the bases with one out. Nick Martinez (Fordham) then hit a fly ball to center, upon which Jones tagged and attempted to score. However, Newport center fielder TJ Mittelstaedt (Long Beach State) threw out Jones at the plate to preserve the 1\u20130 Newport lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0153-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nVermont rallied again in the bottom of the third. After a pair of groundouts gave Will Roberts two quick outs, Steven Felix (Troy) singled to right field. An error and an infield single then loaded the bases with Mountaineers. However, Ethan Paquette flied out to center to end the frame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0154-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nThe Mountaineers threatened yet again in the bottom of the fourth. Kevin Vance (UConn) singled to lead off the inning but was thrown out by Newport left fielder Derek Jones (Washington State) when he tried to get to second. A pair of singles, though, gave the Mountaineers a pair of one-out baserunners who advanced to second and third, respectively, on a groundout. However, Henry Dunn (Binghamton) flied out to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0155-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nThe game remained quiet into the top of the eighth, when reliever Justin Jackson (Sam Houston State) entered the game for Vermont. Jackson walked Greg Garcia (Hawaii), who was bunted to second by David Bentrott. TJ Mittelstaedt then tripled to score Garcia, giving Newport a 2\u20130 edge. Later in the inning, Aaron Westlake hit a sacrifice fly to score Mittelstaedt and give Newport a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0156-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nVermont got on the board in the bottom half of the eighth. After Newport reliever Chad Arnold (Washington State) loaded the bases with one out, the Gulls brought on Geoff Brown (Washington). The first batter he faced, Nick Martinez, reached on a fielder's choice to score Ethan Paquette. Newport then made another pitching change, this time bringing in closer Matt Branham (SC Upstate). Branham relinquished a run on an RBI single by Jantzen Witte (TCU) but then retired Henry Dunn to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0157-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nNewport was retired in order in the top of the ninth, but still held a 3\u20132 lead and was three outs away from the NECBL title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0158-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nNewport closer Matt Branham came back out for the ninth after ending the eighth inning for the Gulls. Steven Felix doubled to lead off the inning and was pinch run for by Kevin Nieto (Manhattan). Branham then retired Steven Rosado (Troy) and Cody Morehouse (Houston) for two outs in the inning. Branham then surrendered a pair of walks to load the bases with two outs for Jayson Hernandez. Hernandez then walked to score Nieto, tying the game at 3\u20133. Now with the winning run on second, Nick Martinez came to the plate. Martinez then struck out, but the ball skipped to the backstop, allowing Ethan Paquette to score, giving Vermont a 4\u20133 walk-off win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0159-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nNewport immediately disputed the call, claiming that the ball was foul-tipped. However, the umpiring crew began to run off the field. As words were exchanged between the dugouts, both benches emptied onto the field. As each team's general managers ran onto the field to separate the players, Newport's manager, Mike Coombs, was ejected. His ejection resulted in his suspension for Game 3 the following night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0160-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 2\nVermont's Kevin Vance got the win, while Newport's Matt Branham was credited with the loss. Vermont's top hitters were Steven Felix (2\u20134, 2B) and Kevin Vance (2\u20134, BB, SB, R). Newport's top hitters were TJ Mittelstaedt (1\u20133, BB, 3B, R, RBI) and Aaron Westlake (1\u20134, HR, 2 RBI). The game was attended by 2,247 at Montpelier Recreation Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0161-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nGame SummaryAugust 10, 2009- After two games, the NECBL Championship Series was tied at 1\u20131, forcing a decisive Game 3 between the Newport Gulls and Vermont Mountaineers. Game 3 was played at Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island. It was the first deciding game three played in an NECBL Championship Series since 2004, when Sanford defeated Newport. The pitching matchup was between Newport's Brad Mincey (East Carolina) and Vermont's Alex Kaminsky (Wright State).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0162-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport scored first in the bottom of the first inning. David Bentrott (Washington) was hit by a pitch to lead off the frame and later stole second with two outs. Five-hitter Troy Scott (Washington) then singled Bentrott in to give the Gulls a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0163-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nVermont quickly answered in the top of the second. Steven Rosado (Troy) walked to lead off the inning. Then, on a ball hit to Newport third baseman Joey Bergman, the Gulls attempted to turn a double play. Bergman's throw did not get Rosado at second, but did retire the hitter Ethan Paquette (Vermont) at first. Rosado was then singled in by Jayson Hernandez (Rutgers), to tie the game at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0164-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport quickly retook the lead in the top of the seventh. Catcher Mike Melillo (Elon) hit a solo home run to lead off the inning, giving Newport a 2\u20131 edge. A pair of singles gave Newport runners on first and third with one out, but Alex Kaminsky got TJ Mittelstaedt (Long Beach State) to fly out to right fielder Steven Felix (Troy), who threw out Greg Garcia (Hawaii) at the plate to end the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0165-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nVermont took the lead in the top of the third. Henry Dunn (Binghamton) led off the inning with an infield single and advanced to third base on an error by pitcher Brad Mincey. After Clay Jones (Alabama) was hit by a pitch, Steven Rosado singled in Dunn. An error by shortstop David Bentrott allowed Jones to score and Rosado was driven in on a Jayson Hernandez single. This gave the Mountaineers a 4\u20132 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0166-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport answered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. Joey Bergman (College of Charleston) and Aaron Westlake (Vanderbilt) each singled to start the inning, bringing up Troy Scott. Scott then hit a three-run home run to give Newport a 5\u20134 advantage. Vermont starter Alex Kaminsky struck out Mike Kaminski (Virginia Tech) but then hit Mike Melillo and walked Derek Jones (Washington State). He was pulled from the game and replaced by Andrew Benak (Rice), who got the Mountaineers out of the inning. After the third, Tim Smalling (Virginia Tech) replaced Joey Bergman at third base for Newport. Bergman had suffered a hand injury the previous inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0167-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport extended their lead in the bottom half of the fourth. TJ Mittelstaedt singled to lead off the inning and was driven in on a Tim Smalling RBI triple. Smalling later scored on a Mike Kaminski single to give the Gulls a 7\u20134 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0168-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nVermont answered in the fifth. Clay Jones hit a solo home run to lead off the inning, cutting Newport's lead to 7\u20135. The following batter, Steven Rosado, singled and eventually stole second. Nick Martinez (Fordham) singled Rosado in with a two out RBI single, making the score 7\u20136 Gulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0169-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nTim Smalling got another RBI in the home half of the sixth. The Newport third baseman singled in Greg Garcia, who had walked earlier in the frame, to extend Newport's edge to 8\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0170-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nThe game remained quiet until the Newport seventh, when the Gulls scored four times. After Newport loaded the bases with one out, Troy Scott walked to score David Bentrott. This drove Vermont reliever Andrew Benak from the game in favor of Colin Duffie (Milligan). However, Duffie surrendered a walk to Mike Kaminski, giving Newport another run. Mike Melillo followed with a single to drive in Aaron Westlake. Newport got another run on an RBI groundout by Derek Jones, driving the Gulls' lead to 12\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0171-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport reliever Geoff Brown pitched four innings of shutout relief, allowing only one hit in four innings after replacing Brad Mincey in the sixth. In the ninth, Brown retired Cody Morehouse (Houston) and Steven Rosado for the first two outs. He then struck out Ethan Paquette to give the Gulls the NECBL Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0172-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport starter Brad Mincey got the win, evening his playoff record at 1\u20131. Alex Kaminsky suffered the loss, while Newport's Geoff Brown was credited with a save. Newport's top hitters were Tim Smalling (3\u20134, 3B, 2 R, 2 RBI), Troy Scott (2\u20133, 2 BB, HR, 2 R, 5 RBI), and Mike Melillo (3\u20134, HR, 2 RBI). Vermont's top hitters in the loss were Clay Jones (1\u20133, HR, 2 R, RBI), Steven Rosado (2\u20134, BB, SB, 3 R, RBI), and Jayson Hernandez (2\u20133, 2 RBI). The game was attended by 3,575 at Cardines Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204197-0173-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL playoffs, Championship series, Newport vs. Vermont, Game 3\nNewport's NECBL title was the franchise's fourth, making them the winningest team in NECBL history. It was the team's first title since 2005. 2009 marked the third straight year the Gulls had participated in the Championship Series. The series was attended by 8,465 fans, for an average of 2,822 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season\nThe 2009 NECBL season is the 16th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. The league's Torrington, Connecticut franchise, the Torrington Twisters, moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts and became the New Bedford Bay Sox. Due to the move, the League realigned into the East and West Divisions with 6 teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season\nIn the championship series, the East Division champion Newport Gulls defeated the West Division champion Vermont Mountaineers after each team advanced through the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season, All-star game\nThe NECBL's 2009 All-Star Game was hosted by the West Division's Holyoke Blue Sox. The event was held at Mackenzie Stadium in Holyoke, Massachusetts on July 18, 2009. The West Division won the game 6-5. The game was attended by 4,906, setting a new record for All-Star Game attendance. Holyoke's Jake Rosenbeck was named the game's MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season, Playoffs\nEight teams qualified for the 2009 NECBL playoffs, which consisted of three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship series, East Division champion Newport defeated West Division champion Vermont 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season, League awards, Top 10 prospects\nThe following is a list of the NECBL's top 10 professional prospects for the 2009 season, as ranked by Baseball America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season, Regular season attendance\nThe Newport Gulls led the league in attendance for the fourth consecutive season, while the Lowell All-Americans finished last in the league for the fifth straight year. New Bedford, Danbury, and Newport showed the greatest increase in average attendance, while Keene and Vermont showed the greatest decrease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204198-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NECBL season, Regular season attendance\nThe top 6 teams in attendance also ranked in the top 50 in national collegiate summer league attendance. The Newport Gulls were ranked third, with the Vermont Mountaineers (24th), Keene Swamp Bats (26th), Holyoke Blue Sox (32nd), New Bedford Bay Sox (42nd), and North Adams SteepleCats (45th) also finishing in the top 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204199-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECC\u2013ITF Women's Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 ITF Pune Open  (known as the NECC\u2013ITF Women's Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Pune, India, on 16\u201322 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204200-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECC\u2013ITF Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nThis was the tournament's first edition. Second seeds Nicole Clerico and Anastasiya Vasylyeva won the title, defeating top seeds Nina Bratchikova and Ksenia Palkina in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [13\u201311].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204201-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NECC\u2013ITF Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nThis was the first edition of the tournament. Tamarine Tanasugarn was the top seed, but she lost in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204201-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NECC\u2013ITF Women's Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nRika Fujiwara won the title, defeating Bojana Jovanovski in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft\nThe 2009 NFL Draft was the seventy-fourth annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players. The draft took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, on April 25 and 26, 2009. The draft consisted of two rounds on the first day, starting at 4:00\u00a0pm EDT, and five rounds on the second day, starting at 10:00\u00a0am EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft\nTo compensate for the time change from the previous year and in an effort to help shorten the draft, teams were no longer on the clock for 15 minutes in the first round and 10 minutes in the second round. Each team now had 10 minutes to make their selection in the first round and seven minutes in the second round. Rounds three through seven were shortened to five minutes per team. This was the first year that the NFL used this format and it was changed again the following year for the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft\nThe 2009 NFL Draft was televised by both NFL Network and ESPN and was the first to have cheerleaders. The Detroit Lions, who became the first team in NFL history to finish a season at 0\u201316, used the first selection in the draft to select University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft\nIt was the first draft since 1983 that saw two centers being selected in the first round\u2014Alex Mack at No. 21 to the Browns, and Eric Wood at No. 28 to the Bills. It was also the first time since the 1993 draft that a Miami Hurricanes player was not selected in the first round. As of the end of the 2018 season, the 2009 Draft has seen 11 of the 32 first-round selections make the Pro Bowl, and 27 (including three punters) in total for the entire class. It has been referred to as one of the worst drafts in league history. This was the first time that a Mr. Irrelevant went on to win a Super Bowl (Ryan Succop).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft, Overview\nThe following is the breakdown of the 256 players selected by position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204202-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL Draft, Trades\nIn the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season\nThe 2009 NFL season was the 90th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The 50th anniversary of the original eight charter members of the American Football League was celebrated during this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season\nThe preseason started with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on August 9, 2009, and the regular season began September 10, with the reigning Super Bowl XLIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Tennessee Titans 13-10 in overtime. The season ended with Super Bowl XLIV, the league's championship game, on February 7, 2010 at Sun Life Stadium with the New Orleans Saints defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31\u201317. in Miami Gardens, Florida. The Colts and Saints began the season 14\u20130 and 13\u20130 respectively. This was the first time in NFL history two teams won their first thirteen games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Draft\nThe 2009 NFL Draft was held from April 25 to 26, 2009 at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. With the first pick, the Detroit Lions selected quarterback Matthew Stafford from the University of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Referee change\nBill Carollo resigned to become the Director of Officiating for the Big Ten Conference. Don Carey, brother of NFL referee Mike Carey, was promoted from back judge to take Carollo's place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Rule changes\nSeveral rule changes were passed at the league's annual owners meeting in Dana Point, California during the week of March 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe following rules were passed to improve player safety and reduce injuries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Rule changes\nThe replay system will now be allowed to cover the following situations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Preseason\nThe Pro Football Hall of Fame Game was on August 9, 2009 at 8:00\u00a0pm EDT on NBC. The Tennessee Titans defeated the Buffalo Bills 21\u201318, and both wore \"throwback\" jerseys celebrating the two franchises' AFL origins. It was the first time since 1970 that the teams have not been from opposing conferences; also, both Bills owner Ralph Wilson, a 2009 Hall of Fame inductee, and Titans owner Bud Adams have owned their teams continuously since the AFL's inception in 1960, making them the longest-tenured team owners in the league. Both teams made their first Hall of Fame Game appearance since the 1980s (Buffalo last played in Canton in 1989, Tennessee in 1985 as the former Houston Oilers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Preseason\nThe rest of the pre-season matchups were announced March 30, 2009. Highlights, among others, included a rematch of Super Bowl XLIII between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals on ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThe 2009 season began on September 10, 2009. Under the current scheduling system, this is the latest date the NFL can start its season as the season typically starts the weekend after Labor Day, which falls on its latest possible date in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nFor the 2009 season, the intraconference and interconference matchups were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThe first game of the season was held on Thursday September 10, at 8:30\u00a0pm EDT, with the Super Bowl XLIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Tennessee Titans 13\u201310 in overtime at Heinz Field. The opening weekend game on NBC Sunday Night Football featured the Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers, which the Packers won, 21\u201315. The opening weekend doubleheader games on Monday Night Football were both part of the AFL 50th Anniversary celebration: Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots in the first game, and San Diego Chargers at Oakland Raiders in the second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nNew England defeated Buffalo in an epic end-of-game rally, coming from behind 24\u201313 to win 25\u201324 in the final three minutes in what has been dubbed the \"Nightmare in New England\" by at least one newspaper. San Diego defeated Oakland by a score of 24\u201320 in the nightcap with their own fourth quarter comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nDuring the month of October, Teams across the league honored National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing gloves, wristbands, patches, towels and shoes accented with pink. Banners were hung around league stadiums to raise awareness, and the NFL's website featured a pink background. Referees and coaches hats also had pink accents. In addition, the NFL Referee's Association donated $24,000 to breast cancer charities throughout the month. Also used were pink goal post padding, pink coins, and pink ribbon decals on the field and on footballs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThis year's International Series game was played October 25, 2009 at 1:00\u00a0pm EDT (5:00\u00a0pm local time in London) again at Wembley Stadium in London. The New England Patriots defeated the designated \"home\" team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35\u20137. CBS televised this game on a regional basis as the Patriots were the \"visiting\" team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThe Thanksgiving Day games were contested on Thursday, November 26, 2009. On Fox, Green Bay won over Detroit, 34\u201312. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Oakland Raiders, 24\u20137 on CBS, and in the prime time NFL Network game, the Denver Broncos were victorious over the New York Giants, 26\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThe second regular-season game of the Bills Toronto Series, in which the Buffalo Bills play in the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, was played December 3 on Thursday Night Football, with the New York Jets winning 19\u201313. Earlier reports on a potential Bills-Toronto Argonauts doubleheader and reports of the league favoring other teams were proven inaccurate. No preseason game was played in this series for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nThe league scheduled a rare Friday night game on December 25, in lieu of a Thursday night game that week. The game, held at LP Field in Nashville, saw the San Diego Chargers trounce the Tennessee Titans 42\u201317. Although both teams are charter AFL franchises and thus celebrated their 50th season in 2009, this game was not part of the organized celebrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Regular season\nAll other games were announced on April 14, 2009 on the NFL Network and the NFL website, though several teams had partial details leaked prior to that time. This season marked the first time ever that the Buffalo Bills and Tampa Bay Buccaneers met at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo in regular season play. In 2002, when the current scheduling formula was arranged, the fact that Buffalo had never hosted Tampa Bay in the Buccaneers' history was one of the quirks cited in creating the formula. Also, the Houston Texans won nine games in the regular season, the franchise's first-ever winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nThe playoffs began Saturday, January 9, 2010 with Wild Card Weekend. Divisional playoffs followed the next week. The defending world champions Pittsburgh Steelers did not take part in the post-season as they were eliminated from contention in the final week 17, thus this was the fifth year in a row the NFL crowned a new Super Bowl champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nThe AFC Championship Game was Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 3:00\u00a0pm, which saw the Indianapolis Colts come from behind to defeat the New York Jets, 30\u201317. It was followed by the NFC Championship Game at 6:30\u00a0pm which featured many back to back scoring drives by two high scoring Vikings and Saints offenses. But the Minnesota Vikings 4 fumbles and a Brett Favre interception late in the fourth quarter proved to be too much to handle as the New Orleans Saints won 31\u201328 in overtime which granted the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance in its 43-year history. Super Bowl XLIV was held February 7 at Miami Gardens, Florida's Sun Life Stadium (home of host team Miami Dolphins, who were also eliminated from post-season contention).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nThe 2010 Pro Bowl was held on January 31, one week before Super Bowl XLIV, at the same site of the league championship game, Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This was the first time since 1979 (held for the 1978 season) that the Pro Bowl was held in the Continental United States as opposed to Hawaii. The NFL also announced that the site and date of Pro Bowl games after 2010 will include playing the game on a rotating basis in Honolulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the move was made after looking at alternatives to strengthen the Pro Bowl and to make the end of the season more climactic. As a result of the move, players will not be allowed to play in both the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl in the same year. In addition, ESPN replaced CBS as broadcaster for that game only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nWithin each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nIn the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference then receive a bye in the first round. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Postseason\nThe two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nThe 2009 season marked the fiftieth season of nine of the league's 32 teams: the Dallas Cowboys, and the Original Eight charter members of the American Football League, whose owners became collectively known as \"The Foolish Club.\" The fifth league to use the AFL moniker (previous leagues in 1926, 1934, 1936\u201337, and 1940\u201341, all had failed) began play in 1960 and would form the major portion of the American Football Conference (AFC) when the NFL completed its merger with the AFL in 1970:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nThe Bills and Jets used AFL-era throwback uniforms as their alternate jerseys prior to 2009, and continued them beyond that. The league had the other six teams use a third jersey replicating those from the AFL in their heyday. Each of the Original Eight played against another original AFL team, one at home and one away, on two \"AFL Legacy Weekends\", and had a special 50th Anniversary AFL patch on the throwback uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nIn a waiver given by these eight, they would wear the anniversary throwbacks a maximum of four times a season, whereas all of the other teams have a limit of twice per season. The Patriots and Raiders wore the throwbacks the maximum four times, while the Bills, Chiefs (Texans), Chargers, Jets (Titans), and Titans (Oilers) were worn three times. The Chargers also wore their regular powder blue alternate jersey of the current design for two other allowed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nIn the second game of two meetings opposite of the first game for their divisional matches against the Raiders and Chiefs, the Chargers wore their newer look powder blue jerseys against the Raiders in week 8, and also celebrated their 50th Anniversary in the modern powder blue jerseys against the Chiefs later in the season during Week 12, when the meeting against those two clubs shifted to San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0023-0003", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nThe Broncos elected to wear their throwbacks only twice (the team wore the infamous 1960\u20131961 brown and yellow throwbacks with the vertically-striped socks) and wore their regular orange alternate jersey of the current design in the other two allowed games, giving the team six different uniforms over a 16-game season. Both of the games involving the orange jerseys involved the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2014two \"old\" NFL teams before the merger, with the Steelers joining the Broncos in the AFC in 1970 as a result of the merger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nAn AFL patch is already a permanent part of the Kansas City Chiefs' jerseys, in honor of team and AFL founder Lamar Hunt, who died in December 2006. The program kicked off on August 9 in the 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game with the Bills playing the Titans (Oilers). Besides the Legacy Games, the Chiefs wore Dallas Texans uniforms in one home game against the NFC's Dallas Cowboys, who also wore throwbacks, while the Cowboys hosted the Raiders in a Thanksgiving Day game in Arlington, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\n(The Chiefs and Cowboys throwbacks both feature team-colored jerseys, making it the first dark color vs. dark color game since the Bears-Cowboys 2004 Thanksgiving game.) For all games other than those cited above, the Original Eight wore their 2009 uniforms, each with a team-specific 50th Anniversary shoulder patch, save for the Titans, who wore the AFL 50th Anniversary logo on all uniforms. For the legacy weekends, on-field officials working the Original Eight's games also had their own throwbacks \u2013 shirts with Chinese-red stripes, and an AFL chest and cap logo. The fields for the regular season games were painted in the innovative designs introduced by the AFL in the 1960s (for instance, the Broncos' end zones are painted in an argyle pattern).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nAlthough the Dolphins and Bengals were both part of the AFL, they did not join the league until 1966 and 1968, respectively. The Dolphins played in three of the Legacy games (wearing their current uniforms), while the Bengals were not part of the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Fiftieth anniversary of the American Football League\nAfter the season, the Patriots adopted their AFL-era throwbacks as their new third uniform for 2010, while the Broncos continue to paint their end zones at Invesco Field at Mile High in the argyle pattern, similar to the Steelers decision to paint the south end zone at Heinz Field in plain diagonal white lines after their 2003 preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles honoring the 60th anniversary of the Steagles season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries\nIt was the fortieth season since the AFL\u2013NFL merger was officially completed in 1970, and also the sixtieth season since the All-America Football Conference merged with the NFL, adding the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers to the league. No celebrations were held for any of those teams, but San Francisco reverted to their old colors (lighter shades of red and gold from their glory seasons of five Super Bowl victories) in an unrelated move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, Dallas Cowboys\nThe NFC's Dallas Cowboys also celebrated their fiftieth season in 2009. After the NFL had rebuffed Lamar Hunt's overtures to place an NFL team in Dallas, saying they had no plans to expand, the league granted the Cowboys a franchise in 1960 in reaction to Hunt's AFL Dallas Texans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, Dallas Cowboys\nThe NFL's Cowboys franchise started out in 1960 with a record of no wins, eleven losses and one tie, but has since gone on to appear in eight Super Bowls (the only other teams to appear in eight was the Pittsburgh Steelers on February 6, 2011, the New England Patriots on February 1, 2015), and the Denver Broncos on February 7, 2016, winning five of them, tied for second with the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots, behind only the Pittsburgh Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, Dallas Cowboys\nIronically, the Texans' franchise, which left Dallas to become the Kansas City Chiefs, won Super Bowl IV, two years before the Cowboys won their first. Though there was never an actual game between the Dallas Texans and the Cowboys, the 2009 \"throwback\" game played against Kansas City (Dallas Texans) and the Dallas Cowboys was played as \"The Game that Never Was.\" The [Dallas] Cowboys won the game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, 26\u201320 in overtime. Interestingly, the visiting Cowboys wore home throwback jerseys, so both teams wore home uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, NFC North\nAll four members of the NFC North celebrated significant anniversaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, NFC North\nThe Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, two of the oldest teams of the NFL remaining in the league, marked their 90th seasons in 2009. While the Packers did not join the NFL until 1921, the team marks its founding with the team's creation in 1919. The first Sunday Night Football game of the season featured the two teams, pitted in \"The League's Oldest Rivalry.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, NFC North\nLikewise, the Minnesota Vikings celebrated their being in existence for 50 years. The team traces its existence to the founding of the AFL in 1959, but although they participated in that league's inaugural draft, they were instead lured to the NFL before playing a game. (The Oakland Raiders replaced Minnesota in the AFL.) The Minnesota team, not named the Vikings until after they joined the NFL and did not take any of their drafted players with them, were granted their own expansion draft by the NFL and did not play until 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Other anniversaries, NFC North\nAs such, the Vikings were only in their 49th season, and will celebrate their 50th NFL season in 2010, while the Detroit Lions will be in its 80th season in the NFL, and their 76th in Detroit. Last season, Detroit reintroduced its throwback jersey, while Minnesota continues using theirs. None of the teams held significant celebrations in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Return of Brett Favre\nAfter one season with the New York Jets, Brett Favre retired again from football on February 11, 2009 and was released on April 28, 2009, making him a free agent. On May 4, 2009, rumors began nationwide on the Internet, radio and t.v. outlets about him coming out of retirement again and possibly joining the Minnesota Vikings, his division arch-rival when he was with the Green Bay Packers, also meeting with Vikings head coach Brad Childress that week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Return of Brett Favre\nOn May 11, in an indication of Favre's possible return, it was reported he was scheduled to have a procedure on his torn biceps tendon on his throwing arm he injured when he was with the Jets and it was either a surgical or non-surgical process but wasn't confirmed throughout May. On June 15, 2009, he revealed he had surgery on his right torn biceps tendon and considered on playing again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Return of Brett Favre\nOn July 15, 2009, he informed the Vikings that he would make his decision of coming out of retirement or not by July 30, 2009, the day Vikings training camp started. On July 28, 2009, two days early before training camp, he informed the Vikings that he would remain retired. On August 18, 2009, it was reported that Favre got on a private jet and was heading to Minnesota to join the Vikings. It was later confirmed and he officially signed with the Minnesota Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0032-0003", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Return of Brett Favre\nHe was signed to a two-year, $25 million deal with an option for 2010 for $13 million. On December 6, 2009, Favre played in his 283rd consecutive game, breaking Jim Marshall's long-standing record. The Vikings finished their season with a record of 12\u20134 and made the playoffs as the number two seed. Favre was voted to the 2010 Pro Bowl, but did not participate and was replaced by Tony Romo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Return of Michael Vick\nFree agent quarterback Michael Vick was reinstated on July 27, 2009 after finishing his 2-year prison term and on August 13, 2009, he signed a one-year, $1.6 million contract with the Philadelphia Eagles also with an option in 2010 for 5 million. Vick finished the season with one passing touchdown and two rushing touchdowns. He helped the Eagles to an 11\u20135 record and the NFC's number six seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Jay Cutler trade\nAfter disagreements between Jay Cutler and the Denver Broncos management, on March 15, 2009, Cutler requested a trade from the team. On April 2, 2009, Cutler was traded to the Chicago Bears from the Broncos along with a fifth-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. In return, the Broncos acquired quarterback Kyle Orton along with the Bears' first and third-round selections in 2009 also the first round pick in 2010. Later in the season on October 20, 2009, the Bears signed Cutler to a two-year, $30 million contract extension up to 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Two teams undefeated late into the season\nThe Indianapolis Colts started the season 14\u20130, and the New Orleans Saints started the season 13\u20130, the first time that two teams went that deep into the season without suffering a loss. Unlike the Saints who had not yet clinched home field throughout the playoffs and who legitimately lost their fourteenth game in Week 15, the Colts intentionally lost their fifteenth game in Week 16, giving an opportunity to the Jets to get into the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 74], "content_span": [75, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Two teams undefeated late into the season\nAfter setting the record for consecutive regular season wins over multiple seasons, running their mark to 23, the Colts were up at halftime at home, and then Coach Caldwell benched all his starters for the second half, allowing the Jets to win, and ruining the Colts' try at a perfect season. Indianapolis fans were incensed and heartily booed Caldwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 74], "content_span": [75, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Incidents with Tom Cable\nOn August 17, 2009 Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable was accused of punching assistant coach Randy Hanson in the face and fracturing his jaw. The incident allegedly took place on August 5 during the Raiders training camp, held in Napa. On October 22, 2009, the Napa district attorney announced that no charges would be filed against Cable. The Raiders finished their season with a record of 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Death of Chris Henry\nCincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry died on December 17, 2009. He was placed on the injured reserved list four weeks before the accident. He suffered from injuries after falling from the back of his pick-up truck in Charlotte, North Carolina the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, Death of Gaines Adams\nChicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams died on January 17, 2010, a few weeks after the Bears season had ended. He died in Greenwood, South Carolina from cardiac arrest caused by an enlarged heart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, First Super Bowl appearance for Saints\nOn January 24, 2010, the New Orleans Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game in overtime by a score of 31\u201328. The win secured their berth in Super Bowl XLIV, the franchise's first ever Super Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 71], "content_span": [72, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Notable events, First Super Bowl appearance for Saints\nLater on February 7, the Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl by a score of 31\u201317. Quarterback Drew Brees was named the MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 71], "content_span": [72, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Rams achieve worst peacetime three-season streak until mid-2010s Browns\nThe St. Louis Rams finish as the NFL's tenth 1\u201315 or 0\u201316 team, giving them a record from 2007 to 2009 of six wins and forty-two losses. Since a regular schedule began in 1936, only two teams have achieved a comparably bad record over three seasons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 112], "content_span": [113, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, First team to go to the Super Bowl with a losing streak\nThe New Orleans Saints became the first team in NFL history to lose their last three regular season games and then go on to the Super Bowl and win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 96], "content_span": [97, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Two top seeds face each other in Super Bowl\nFor the first time since the 1993 season, the AFC's and NFC's top seeds, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints respectively, played one another in the Super Bowl, where the Saints defeated the Colts, 31\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 84], "content_span": [85, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Tom Brady's record-setting quarter\nIn a Week 6 game against the Tennessee Titans, the New England Patriots' Tom Brady threw five touchdown passes in the second quarter, an NFL record. The Patriots led the Titans 45\u20130 at halftime, also a league record, before winning the game 59\u20130, tied for the league's largest shutout margin since the 1970 AFL\u2013NFL merger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 75], "content_span": [76, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Panthers produce two 1,100+ yard rushers\nDeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart of the Carolina Panthers became the first teammates in NFL history to rush for 1,100 yards in the same season. Williams rushed for 1,117 yards, and Stewart ran for 1,133 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 81], "content_span": [82, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Kurt Warner sets single-game regular-season completion percentage record\nIn Week 2, the Arizona Cardinals' Kurt Warner set a new NFL record for completion percentage, completing 92.3% of his passes (24 completions in 26 attempts) in a 31\u201317 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. The previous record had been set by Vinny Testaverde in 1993. If postseason games are included, the record holder is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, who completed 26 of 28 attempts on January 12, 2008, also against the Jaguars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 113], "content_span": [114, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Brandon Marshall breaks single-game reception record\nIn Week 13, the Denver Broncos' Brandon Marshall caught a record 21 catches in a losing effort against the Indianapolis Colts. (The record was previously held by the San Francisco 49ers' Terrell Owens, who had 20 catches in a 2001 game.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 93], "content_span": [94, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Aaron Rodgers strong start\nAaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers became the first quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards in each of his first two seasons as a starter. (Rodgers, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kurt Warner of the St. Louis Rams are the only quarterbacks to throw for 4,000 in their first season as a starter. Warner, however, passed for only 3,429 in 2000. Rodgers passed for 4,038 in 2008 and 4,434 in 2009.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 67], "content_span": [68, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, 2,000-yard season for Chris Johnson\nOn January 3, 2010, Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans became the sixth rusher in NFL history to eclipse 2,000 rushing yards in a season. Johnson also broke the all-purpose yards from scrimmage record previously held by Marshall Faulk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 76], "content_span": [77, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Joshua Cribbs breaks NFL's career returns record\nIn a Week 15 game against the Kansas City Chiefs on December 20, 2009, the Cleveland Browns' Joshua Cribbs returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, giving him eight for his career, and setting a new league record. Cribbs also became one of only two players to score two 100-plus yard touchdowns in the same game. (The feat was first accomplished by Ted Ginn Jr. of the Miami Dolphins in Week 8 of the 2009 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 89], "content_span": [90, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Cowboys set single-game attendance record\nFor the opening game of their new stadium, the Dallas Cowboys distributed 105,121 tickets, setting an NFL record for attendance in a single game. The old mark of 103,467 occurred in October 2005 at a 49ers-Cardinals game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 82], "content_span": [83, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Drew Brees sets season completion percentage record\nDrew Brees of the New Orleans Saints set an NFL record for completion percentage in a season. Brees was 363 of 514, a completion percentage of 70.6. (The record of 70.55% had previously been set in the strike-shortened 1982 season by Ken Anderson of the Cincinnati Bengals. Brees sat out the last game of the 2009 season since New Orleans had secured home-field advantage throughout the NFC Playoffs.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 92], "content_span": [93, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Highest scoring playoff game in NFL history\nOn January 10, 2010, the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Green Bay Packers 51\u201345 for a combined total of 96 points, setting a new NFL playoff record for total combined points scored. This game has been given the nicknames \"The Shootout\", and the \"Nobody Stopping Nobody Game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 84], "content_span": [85, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Conference championships become most viewed playoff games in history\nOn January 24, 2010, the NFC and AFC championship games averaged 52.9 million viewers, making it the most-viewed conference championship day since the two games in 1982 averaged 60.2 million viewers. Fox's telecast of the Saints' 31\u201328 overtime win over the Vikings earned a 30.6 fast-national Nielsen rating (57.9 million viewers), marking Fox's biggest audience ever for an NFC championship game. It was also the second largest all-time audience for any conference title telecast, trailing only the 1982 49ers-Cowboys game (68.7 million viewers on CBS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 109], "content_span": [110, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Conference championships become most viewed playoff games in history\nExcluding Super Bowl telecasts, the Saints-Vikings game was the most-viewed television program since the \"Seinfeld\" finale in 1998. Meanwhile, CBS earned a 26.3 fast-national rating (46.9 million viewers) for the Colts\u2013Jets AFC championship game in the early window, marking the largest audience for an AFC title game since NBC earned 47.5 million viewers for Patriots\u2013Dolphins in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 109], "content_span": [110, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Records and milestones, Super Bowl becomes most viewed program in history\nSuper Bowl XLIV surpassed the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H, as the most viewed program in history. It was watched by 153.4 million people. Compelling story lines included the city of New Orleans and its ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina, as well as Colts quarterback Peyton Manning's attempt at a second Super Bowl ring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 90], "content_span": [91, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Awards, Players of the Week\nThe following were the players of the week during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Awards, Players of the Month\nThe following were the players of the month during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Awards, Players of the Month, Rookies\nThe following are the rookies of the month during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Coaching changes, Pre-season\nEight teams hired new head coaches prior to the start of the 2009 season, while two made their interim coaches permanent, and another moved from one team to another after being fired by a team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Stadium changes\nThe 2009 season was the first season for the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, replacing Texas Stadium in Irving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Stadium changes\nDolphin Stadium was renamed Land Shark Stadium after a naming rights deal was signed with the Land Shark beer that was sold Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant chain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Stadium changes\nThis season also served as the last season for Giants Stadium, as both the New York Giants and Jets moved into a new stadium for 2010. The Giants exited with an auspicious 41\u20139 loss to Carolina on December 27, while the Jets defeated the Cincinnati Bengals by a 37\u20130 score in the season finale on Sunday night, January 3, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nAfter having no major uniform changes for the 2008 NFL season, the trend of at least one major uniform change per season among the 32 teams returned with two major uniform changes, as well as one with some minor modifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe San Francisco 49ers, who had been long-rumored to be returning to their 1964\u20131995 uniforms (and have had the red variation of those uniforms as their third uniform since the 2002 season) did so for this season. The team returned to a brighter, scarlet red and a less metallic \"49ers gold\" as its team colors, replacing the darker cardinal red and the more metallic \"49ers gold\" which the team has worn since it last overhauled their uniforms in 1996. The new uniforms were unveiled on April 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe Jacksonville Jaguars got new uniforms for the 2009 season. Team owner Wayne Weaver reportedly wanted to \"clean up\" the look, feeling that the team has too many uniform styles. The changes aren't a complete overhaul, but similar to the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings' recent overhauls. The new uniforms were introduced at a press conference on April 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe Detroit Lions designated their popular 1950s-era throwbacks as their third uniform and completely dropped their unpopular black jerseys. The team had not worn the throwbacks from 2005\u201307 to make room for the Matt Millen-designated black jerseys. In addition, the team unveiled a new helmet logo on April 20, updating \"Bubbles\" with a fiercer look and wordmark, with modified uniforms. Those logos were accidentally leaked by NFL.com in their online shop, then quickly removed on March 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nBesides the above-mentioned throwbacks for the 50th anniversary season of the AFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wore their \"Creamsicle\" throwbacks for the November 8 home game against the Green Bay Packers, in conjunction with the creation of the Buccaneers Ring of Honor. The Buccaneers defeated the Packers 38\u201328, the only home game the team won in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe St. Louis Rams wore their 1973\u20131999 blue uniforms in select home games to honor former owner Georgia Frontiere, who died in early 2008 (too late to inform the NFL about wearing a throwback uniform in her honor during the 2008 season; the team instead opted for a memorial patch) and also celebrate the tenth anniversary of their win in Super Bowl XXXIV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0069-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nIronically, the Rams cut ties with its last two remaining offensive players from the \"Greatest Show on Turf\" era during the offseason by releasing Orlando Pace and Torry Holt for salary cap reasons plus opting for a rebuilding mode after a 2\u201314 season in 2008 (second only to the Lions' historic 0\u201316 season) and no trips to the postseason since the 2004 season. Defensive end Leonard Little is the only player remaining who wore the pre-2000 uniforms again in 2009. These uniforms were worn on October 11 against the Vikings and December 20 against the Texans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, and Pittsburgh Steelers retained their throwback alternates worn in previous seasons. The Atlanta Falcons wore replicas of their first season uniforms from 1966, in lieu of their all-black uniforms. The Tennessee Titans wore a Number 9 decal on the back of their helmets to honor former Titans quarterback Steve McNair, who was killed on July 4, while the Philadelphia Eagles wore a decal with the initials of Jim Johnson, their longtime defensive coordinator who died on July 28. The Seattle Seahawks also unveiled a lime green jersey with blue shoulders, to pay tribute to the new Major League Soccer team with whom they share Qwest Field. The jersey No. 71 was retired for former offensive lineman Walter Jones on December 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Uniforms\nThe Miami Dolphins, after a four-year hiatus, brought back their alternate orange jerseys and wore them against the New York Jets on October 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nThis was the fourth season under the current television contracts with the league's television partners: CBS (all AFC Sunday afternoon away games and one Thanksgiving game), Fox (all NFC Sunday afternoon away games and one Thanksgiving game), NBC (16 Sunday night games and the kickoff game), ESPN (17 Monday night games over sixteen weeks), NFL Network (eight late-season games on Thursday and Saturday nights, including one Thanksgiving game and a Christmas night game), and DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package. The current agreements with CBS, Fox and DirecTV were extended two years through the 2013 season on May 19, 2009; NBC's contract was extended through that same season on August 19 of the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nCBS celebrated their 50th season of NFL coverage; CBS has covered NFL games from 1956 to 1993 and again from 1998 to the present. Ironically, CBS which was ordered by the NFL not to give American Football League scores during its NFL broadcasts of the 1960s, now covers the AFC, while Fox covers the NFC. This season was also the fortieth consecutive season that Monday Night Football has been a permanent part of the NFL schedule, though the league had played games on Monday night sporadically before this. Monday Night Football originally aired on ABC before switching to ESPN in 2006, when the two networks' sports operations were merged. The first Monday night of the regular season featured two AFL Original Eight games, a doubleheader with the Bills at the Patriots and the Chargers at the Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nNFL Network continued to have coverage disputes with major cable providers. In particular, Comcast, the largest cable provider in the United States, was considering removing the network from its lineups on April 30, 2009, shortly after the draft but before the start of the preseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0074-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nComcast was carrying the network on a digital sports tier and negotiations continued past the April 30 deadline as NFLN would continue on Comcast, which ended with a resolution on May 19 that could open the door for other major cable providers such as Cablevision and Cox to carry the network on a what would be equal to Comcast's digital classic tier, with around 10 million subscribers. However, the most notable holdout, Time Warner Cable, still is nowhere near a deal. Additionally, the NFL Network created a new \"Red Zone Channel\" starting with the season openers September 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0074-0002", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nComcast-owned Versus has signed a deal to carry United Football League games on Thursday nights; the tail end of the UFL schedule overlapped with the first few weeks of the Thursday night NFL package. In related news, the NFL has reached a settlement with DISH Network over the satellite provider's decision to move NFL Network to a higher tier. NFL Network has also dropped the use of the names \"Run to the Playoffs\" and \"Saturday Night Football\", opting to standardize all of its broadcasts under the \"Thursday Night Football\" banner. The Saturday night and Friday night games airing on the network was marketed as \"Thursday Night Football Special Edition.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nThis was also the first NFL season after the DTV transition in the United States, which had originally been scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 but was delayed until June 12, 2009. Hawai\u02bbi made the digital switchover on January 15, 2009. (Low-power translators will still be allowed to broadcast in analog until at least 2012, and cable providers will continue to distribute analog signals for the foreseeable future.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Television\nAfter fifty seasons as a player, coach, broadcaster and video game maven, John Madden retired on April 16 from his position on Sunday Night Football. Cris Collinsworth moved from NFL Network to NBC to assume Madden's in-game analyst role with Al Michaels; Matt Millen replaced Collinsworth on NFL Network. In addition, Tony Kornheiser left MNF and former Raiders and Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden replaced him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Radio\nIn radio, it was reported that the league was exploring ending its contract with Westwood One or sharing games with another network due to Westwood One's financial problems. The Sports USA Radio Network, ESPN Radio and Sporting News Radio were mentioned as possible partners; Fox Sports Radio was notably excluded from consideration. Sports USA currently carries Sunday afternoon games by agreement with individual teams, while ESPN carries the NBA and Major League Baseball, the latter causing a potential schedule conflict between Sunday Night Football and Sunday Night Baseball, plus the MLB Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0077-0001", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Radio\nSunday night, Monday night, Thanksgiving and all other Thursday and Saturday games are covered by the contract. Of the offers, Westwood One was the high bidder (and reportedly the only one offering guaranteed money), ESPN requested a longer-term deal, the Sporting News offered a revenue-sharing plan in lieu of rights fees, and Sports USA was described as a \"long shot.\" After a restructuring shored up the company's financial situation, Westwood One in March 2009 earned a two-year extension for all of the night games, paying US$33,000,000 for the two-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204203-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 NFL season, Media, Radio\nIn addition to the official feature game package, three networks will carry nationwide radio broadcasts of Sunday afternoon games. The newest such network is Compass Media Networks, which has signed deals with eight teams. Sports USA and Westwood One will carry games from the other 24 teams. Dial Global, which previously backed Sports USA's coverage in 2008, will instead handle Compass's package for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204204-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NHK Trophy\nThe 2009 NHK Trophy was the fourth event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 5\u20138. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204205-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Entry Draft\nThe 2009 NHL Entry Draft was the 47th Entry Draft. It was held on June 26\u201327, 2009, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. The Draft was part of the Montreal Canadiens' centennial celebrations. National Hockey League teams took turns selecting amateur ice hockey players from junior, collegiate, or European leagues. The New York Islanders, who finished last overall in the 2008\u201309 NHL season, retained the first overall selection following that year's NHL Draft lottery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204205-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Entry Draft\nThe New York Islanders used the first overall pick to select center John Tavares from the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The Tampa Bay Lightning used the second pick to draft defenceman Victor Hedman from Modo Hockey of the SEL, and the Colorado Avalanche drafted Matt Duchene of the Brampton Battalion with the third overall pick. Seven Swedes were selected in the first round, an all-time record for the country. Of the players drafted, 120 were forwards, 69 were defensemen, and 21 were goaltenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic\nThe 2009 NHL Winter Classic (known via corporate sponsorship as the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009) was an outdoor regular season ice hockey game played in the National Hockey League (NHL) on January 1, 2009, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. It pitted the Chicago Blackhawks against the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in the 701st game between the Central Division rivals. The Red Wings won the game, 6\u20134, despite falling behind 3\u20131 in the first period. It was the second Winter Classic game,  the first to involve at least one of the Original Six teams, and the first to feature teams from the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic\nThe two teams wore vintage-style uniforms, using the current Reebok Edge equipment and material. The Red Wings wore a version of the sweaters worn by the Detroit Cougars in 1926\u201327, their first season in the NHL, but with their familiar \"Winged Wheel\" logo on the shoulders. The Blackhawks wore sweaters which were a mix of their 1936\u201337 sweaters and their 1937\u201338 sweaters, with the design from 1936\u201337 and the chest crest from 1937\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Host selection\nOn May 29, 2008, TSN reported that Chicago was chosen to host the annual outdoor game over New York City, the other host finalist for the game. A game in New York City would have been played at the original Yankee Stadium, which closed after hosting the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008. Logistical concerns, however, forced New York out because the stadium was to be demolished; if the game had been played at Yankee Stadium, it would have been the last event in that building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Host selection\nBeaver Stadium, the second largest outdoor sports venue in North America and the home of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, was also in consideration, with that location likely only if the two teams were the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers; because the Penguins had played in the previous Winter Classic, this scenario was ultimately rejected for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Host selection\nOriginal reports said the game was going be played at Soldier Field. However, the Chicago Bears objected to the use of Soldier Field, citing the potential to host an NFL playoff game on the following weekend. On July 6, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, was chosen to host the game. Ten days later, on July 16, the Blackhawks and the NHL confirmed the site and date. There had never been a hockey game at Wrigley Field in the past, and in addition, the rink was left up until January 4 for community skates at The Friendly Confines, with the $10 admission for an hour of skating donated to Cubs Care charities, which was sold out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Preparations\nConstruction of the ice rink began on December 16, 2008, eight days earlier than last season's Classic. It was again being supervised by Dan Craig, the NHL's facilities operations manager. This time, the crew did not have to wait for any other sport to be played in the stadium, so there was more time to prepare the venue for the Classic. The rink was built from the bottom with plywood and aluminum panels, the latter of which have tubes to move coolant under the ice to maintain a cold temperature. The coolant comes from a truck based outside of the ballpark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Preparations\nThe NHL had a Spectator Plaza outside of Wrigley Field at the intersection of West Waveland and North Clark Streets. This included ticket giveaways, live music, interactive games, ice sculpting and other entertainment on the day of the Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Preparations\nThe 95-year legacy of Wrigley Field as a baseball venue resulted in several nods to baseball. The exterior of the rink was decorated to resemble the low brick wall that fronts the box seating area at the ballpark. Cubs' Hall of Famers Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins and Ryne Sandberg were on hand for the pregame ceremonies, along with several retired Blackhawks players. About halfway through the third period, Sandberg along with Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Denis Savard sang a variation on \"Take Me Out to the Ball Game\" with a few word changes to reference hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Pregame\nThe national anthems were performed by Scott Newlands (\"O Canada\") and Chicago Blackhawks anthem singer, Jim Cornelison (\"The Star-Spangled Banner\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Rule changes\nAs with the 2008 game in Ralph Wilson Stadium, the NHL announced a rule change to account for any possible adverse weather conditions. Taking into account high winds which are common during baseball games at Wrigley Field, the teams changed sides at the first whistle after the halfway point of the third period. This was done at exactly the halfway point of the third in 2008 because of falling snow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Media coverage\nTelevision coverage of the game was handled in the United States by NBC. Mike Emrick, the lead announcer for NBC, was not able to call play-by-play for the game due to laryngitis. He was replaced by Dave Strader. Ed Olczyk, Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury again provided analysis. In Canada, CBC carried the game in English and RDS broadcast in French. NASN televised the game live overseas in the United Kingdom, where it started at 6:00 p.m. local time. Additionally, NHL.com offered bonus video coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Media coverage\nThe radio feed was broadcast by NHL Radio on Westwood One throughout North America, excluding the markets of the competing teams, and was carried by Sirius XM Radio. In addition, the American and Canadian versions of the NHL Network carried programming bookending the event starting with the practice sessions one day earlier, as well as the pre-game and post game events, and offered replays that weekend using both NBC's and CBC's feeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Media coverage, Television ratings\nOne reason that the NHL does the outdoor game is to promote the League on television. The television ratings will partially determine if the outdoor game events will continue. On January 3, 2009, the NHL reported that the \"overnight television ratings\" had increased 12% over the 2008 game. Nationally, the game had a 2.9 overnight rating and a 6 share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Media coverage, Television ratings\nIn Chicago, Thursday's game drew a national high of an 11.8 rating and 21 share, with Detroit second at 10.5 and 21 (this despite that yet again, a Michigan-based team was playing in the Capital One Bowl opposite the Winter Classic, the Michigan State Spartans). Other above-average markets included Buffalo (whose 10.1 rating/20 share was comparable to Detroit's), St. Louis (5.3/10), Pittsburgh (4.4/8), Denver (4.2/10), Providence (3.5/7), Indianapolis (3.4/6), West Palm Beach (3.3/6) and Orlando (3.2/5). Each overnight ratings point equals about 735,000 TV homes. On January 12, the final ratings figure was announced. There was an average of 4.4 million viewers of the game on NBC, and this was the largest since the February 23, 1975, match between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 866]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary\nThe Red Wings dressed seven defensemen for the game, as they did in their prior game, to account for Nicklas Lidstrom returning from an ankle injury. Healthy scratches included forward Tomas Kopecky and defenseman Derek Meech. The Blackhawks scratched forward Adam Burish and defenseman Aaron Johnson. Ty Conklin started in goal for the Red Wings, making him the only player to take the ice for all three regular season NHL outdoor games (after having played for the Edmonton Oilers in the Heritage Classic in 2003 and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic). During the intermissions, members of the Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band and the Northern Illinois University Huskie Marching Band played on the field to entertain the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary\nThe first three combined goals were scored on the power play. The Red Wings paid for a mistake while they were already shorthanded, having too many players on the ice, putting them down by two men. Rookie winger Kris Versteeg scored the first goal of the game for the Blackhawks with three seconds left in the two-man advantage. The Red Wings' Mikael Samuelsson scored with three seconds remaining on his team's second power play which was the result of a Dustin Byfuglien roughing minor that was called during one of the many post-whistle scrums during the first period. Martin Havlat capitalized on another Red Wings mistake, scoring on the power play that resulted from Brett Lebda shooting the puck over the glass from his defensive zone. Ben Eager closed the scoring in the first period with a wrap-around goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary\nDetroit scored the next five goals, the first two from Jiri Hudler and the next from Pavel Datsyuk at even-strength in the second period. Datsyuk's goal was hailed as being wind-assisted, since Datsyuk picked up a burst of speed as he went between two Blackhawks defenders to find a clear path to the net. In the third period, defenseman Brian Rafalski scored the eventual game-winning goal on the power play. Seventeen seconds later, Brett Lebda scored the Red Wings' final goal, chasing Cristobal Huet from the net, with Nikolai Khabibulin taking over for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Game summary\nIn his 16:36 of play, Khabibulin saved all 13 shots that he faced, after Huet saved 24 of 30 shots. Duncan Keith closed the scoring for Chicago on the power play with less than ten seconds remaining. Conklin made 33 saves for the Red Wings on 37 shots. Most Notably, as told by Chris Chelios on Barstool's Spittin' Chiclets podcast, He consumed some beers while on the bench during the game because Coach Mike Babcock had a power trip towards Chelios and only played him a total of 1:57 of ice time in 1st period. So Chelios in the second period signaled to his two sons to get him some beer, so his two boys were handing him beers the whole game, which was a nice big middle finger to Babcock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Lost Logo Challenge\nReebok sponsored a contest known as the \"NHL Winter Classic Reebok Lost Logo Challenge,\" which challenged fans to find the one player on the ice without a Reebok logo on the back of his jersey. The player without the logo, therefore the correct entry to the contest, was Dustin Byfuglien of the Blackhawks. All RBK Edge sweaters have a Reebok vector logo near the top of the jersey above the player's nameplate, but this one jersey had no logo stitched in that position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204206-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 NHL Winter Classic, Lost Logo Challenge\nEach person attending the game was given binoculars and was able to enter the contest by cell phone; television viewers could enter the contest online. Entries were accepted through the first two periods, at which time two winners, one inside Wrigley Field and one home viewer, were selected from those who chose the correct player. Each winner received an identical prize: a trip to a Stanley Cup Finals game and a $1,000 gift certificate to NHL.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204207-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season\nThe 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Season consisted of 24 national events held at tracks across the U.S. The first 18 events made up the regular season, with the final events making up the \"Countdown to 1\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204207-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Points standings\nMike Edwards last won a title in 1981 (Modified Class), the longest gap in NHRA history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204207-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, Points standings\nThe teams running a Dodge Stratus have been notified by the NHRA that body style, because of it is out of production for the past five years, will be illegal in 2010. Dodge teams must run the Avenger in 2010. Pro Stock Cars may be any approved car (Mustang, Cobalt, Avenger, GXP, GTO) from the past five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots\nThe NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riot refers to the riot involving the football clubs NK \u0160iroki Brijeg (supported mostly by Herzegovian Croat fans) and FK Sarajevo (supported mostly by Bosniak fans) during a leg of the 2009 Bosnian-Herzegovian Premier League in the Herzegovian town of \u0160iroki Brijeg. During the riot members of Horde Zla (\"Legions of Evil\", a FK Sarajevo supporters group) and \u0160kripari (a NK \u0160iroki Brijeg supporters group) confronted each other in altercations which subsequently spilled out to the majority of the town. Horde Zla burned cars and demolished shops while \u0160kripari and residents of \u0160iroki Brijeg stoned Horde Zla buses and shot at supporters. Horde Zla also claim multiple counts of severe police brutality which led to the death of Horde Zla member Vedran Pulji\u0107 from gunshot wounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nThere are conflicting reports about who started the violence. Horde Zla accused local residents and police for their mistreatment on their way to the match, saying that the incident was planned by local politicians and that their buses were separated and parked too far from the stadium which left them open to stoning and attacks. They also claim that initially there were only 30 local policemen present, and they did nothing to prevent the violence. Local police and residents said Horde Zla fans were the first to attack. According to local police officials, most of the regional police had earlier been sent to the nearby city of Mostar to prevent possible violence during the match between the rival Zrinjski and Vele\u017e clubs scheduled for the same day thus leaving the match in \u0160iroki Brijeg relatively ill secured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 881]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nSome 500 fans of the Sarajevo football club were present during the match in \u0160iroki Brijeg as well as between 150 and 200 members of the Red Army (supporters of FK Vele\u017e closely aligned with Horde Zla). According to Croatian media, members of Horde Zla have a history of starting riots in nearby Posu\u0161jeand that Horde Zla were involved in similar riots before. In September 1990 they had a conflict in Belgrade and they stabbed 2 members of Grobari (supporters of FK Partizan). While \u0160kripari have been accused by Bosnian media of harboring far-right Usta\u0161e sympathies including displaying the Nazi swastika in their stands on multiple occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\n31 people were injured in the riots, 6 of them severely. One member of Horde, named Vedran Pulji\u0107 (a Sarajevo Croat), was shot and subsequently died. According to Zlatko Gali\u0107, the chief of West Herzegovina Canton police, Vedran Pulji\u0107 had a record for multiple violations related to hooliganism. Police arrested Oliver Knezovi\u0107 as a suspect of shooting Vedran Pulji\u0107. Knezovi\u0107 is believed to be a former member of  Ka\u017enjeni\u010dka Bojna unit of HVO. He reportedly fired at the FK Sarajevo supporters using a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. Knezovi\u0107 escaped from prison only hours after he was apprehended. Eight \u0160iroki Brijeg policemen were detained for allowing the escape of Oliver Knezovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nOliver Knezovi\u0107 fled to Zagreb, Croatia, where he would not be extradited to the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as there is no agreement on this issue between the two countries. He gave an interview for a local TV network, asserting his innocence. After the interview Knezovi\u0107 surrendered to a Zagreb police station with his lawyer. An autopsy revealed that Pulji\u0107 was killed by a bullet from a police pistol. Knezovi\u0107 reportedly had been shooting from an AK 47. Citing unnamed police sources, some media reported that Knezovi\u0107 took the pistol from an officer before shooting Pulji\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nKnezovi\u0107 said that he had taken the pistol but returned it to the policeman before the shooting. He later came to the police station, but escaped after claiming that the police were looking to arrest him for not only shooting at members of Horde Zla (which he does not dispute he did) but also for the murder of Vedran Pulji\u0107 (which he claims was committed by someone else. The policeman Dragan Vujovi\u0107 was also taken into custody in relation to the murder of Pulji\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nCiting unnamed police sources, some media reports claimed Vujovi\u0107 is being investigated as an accomplice to murder. Other media reports said that Vujovi\u0107's hands tested positive for gunpowder residue, which he purportedly claimed was due to his coming into contact with the large quantities of fireworks used that day. Some reports say that the policeman has failed a polygraph test in relation to the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, The riots\nSome members of Horde zla were arrested and put in custody. But after Horde Zla spokespeople claimed they had reports that those members were being mistreated in prison the Federal Minister Of Justice Mirsad Kebo had them transferred to Sarajevo and released. This move was met with disapproval by citizens of \u0160iroki Brijeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, \u0160iroki Brijeg\nDuring the following days many citizens had gathered in front of the West Herzegovina county headquarters. They blamed the violence on Horde Zla. Miro Kraljevi\u0107, the mayor, addressed the audience giving them his support. The official representative of \u0160kripari read a list of requests to the authorities of West Herzegovina county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, \u0160iroki Brijeg\nThe protesters left after a speech by Stanko \u0160korba, the president of the Union of handicapped people from the Homeland war. \u0160korba told them that the ministry of internal affairs has accepted to look into their requests. Although, he said, that does not mean that the Ministry necessarily sees these complaints as valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, \u0160iroki Brijeg\nThe council of \u0160iroki Brijeg also held an extraordinary meeting. The counselors made a declaration denouncing the violence that occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, \u0160iroki Brijeg\nThe protests were repeated the same week. There were between 13,000 and 15,000 protesters. Besides citizens of \u0160iroki Brijeg the fans of Croat dominated clubs from Mostar, Tomislavgrad, Livno, \u017dep\u010de, Kiseljak, Posavina and a number of people from Croatia attended. Representatives of \u0160kripari demanded the resignation of Mirsad Kebo and Zvonimir Juki\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, Sarajevo\nIn Sarajevo, members of Horde Zla also organized citywide demonstrations. They were joined by fans of Vele\u017e, \u017deljezni\u010dar, \u010celik, Rudar (Kakanj), Travnik, Sloboda and many other, mainly Bosniak, clubs as well as over 10,000 citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, Sarajevo\nThey alleged that the causes for violence started even before they entered the town of \u0160iroki Brijeg in the form of provocations by local residents shouting ethnic slurs at them and gross negligence by the \u0160iroki Brijeg police which split them up into small unprotected groups and completely ignored any misconduct on the side of the \u0160kripari up to and including doing nothing to stop the \u0160kripari from hurling rocks at them. The supporters of many other Bosnian clubs present during the demonstrations have also reported that they were subject to similar ethnic provocations and willful police neglect when visiting Western Herzegovina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204208-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NK \u0160iroki Brijeg\u2013FK Sarajevo football riots, Reactions, Sarajevo\nThey also expressed shock at the fact that as soon as physical confrontations broke out between them and the \u0160kripari, the police started attacking members of Horde Zla in unison with \u0160kripari and other local residents instead of doing their job of separating them. They demanded a thorough investigation into the misconduct of the \u0160iroki Brijeg police force which later confirmed that multiple policemen have been aiding and abetting assaults on members of Horde Zla including, in the case of policeman Dragan Vujovi\u0107, being accomplices to murder. They also accused the police of ignoring local residents who had been shooting automatic weapons at the members of Horde Zla as in the case of Oliver Knezevi\u0107 who can be seen holding an AK-47 while being ignored by a nearby police officer on surveillance footage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season\nThe 2009 National Lacrosse League season, the 23rd in the history of the NLL, began January 3, 2009 in Buffalo, Portland, and Sunrise, Florida, and concluded with the Calgary Roughnecks defeating the New York Titans 12\u201410 in the Champion's Cup on May 15, 2009 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Team movement\nAfter the 2008 season was cancelled and then reinstated, the Boston Blazers and Arizona Sting both announced that they would not participate in the 2008 season, and would return in 2009. However, in the summer of 2008 the Arizona Sting ceased operations and its players were put in a dispersal draft. The Blazers drafted former Sting and LumberJax forward Dan Dawson first overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Team movement\nJust weeks prior to the start of the season, the Chicago Shamrox suspended operations due to financial troubles and the players were placed in another dispersal draft. Anthony Cosmo was selected 1st overall by the Boston Blazers in this draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Team movement\nFinally, while not a franchise relocation, the Minnesota Swarm were moved from the East Division to the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Final standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, All-Star game\nThe 2009 All-Star Game was held at Pepsi Center in Denver on March 7, 2009. The East beat the West 27-21 as Buffalo's Mark Steenhuis scored seven goals and six assists on his way to his third All-Star Game MVP award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Awards, Weekly awards\nThe NLL gives out awards weekly for the best overall player, best offensive player, best transition player, best defensive player, and best rookie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Awards, Monthly awards\nAwards are also given out monthly for the best overall player and best rookie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204209-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NLL season, Statistics leaders\nBold numbers indicate new single-season records. Italics indicate tied single-season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204210-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Boca Chica)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Boca Chica was held April 10\u201312, 2009 in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. It was the third leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204211-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Cayman Islands)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Cayman Islands was held March 27\u201329, 2009 in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It was the first leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204212-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guatemala)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Guatemala was held April 3\u20135, 2009 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. It was the second leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204213-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Jamaica)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Jamaica was held June 26\u201329, 2009 in Kingston, Jamaica. It was the fourth leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204214-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Manzanillo was held October 2 through October 4, 2009, in Manzanillo, Mexico. It was the sixth leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009. The tournament was dedicated to the memory of Alejandro Salinas de la Garza, the late president of the Mexican National Volleyball Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204215-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Montelimar)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Montelimar, was held October 28 - November 2, 2009 in Montelimar Beach, Managua, Nicaragua. It was the last leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204216-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Puerto Vallarta)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Puerto Vallarta, was held October 9\u201311, 2009 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was the seventh leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204217-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Tijuana)\nThe 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit at Tijuana was held September 25\u201327, 2009 in Tijuana, Mexico. It was the fifth leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204218-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NPF Draft\nThe 2009 NPF Senior Draft is the sixth annual NPF Draft. It was held February 17, 2009 7:00 PM EST, hosted by the Akron Racers at the Cambria Suites Akron-Canton Airport location for the 2009 season. It was streamed live on TheSoftballChannel.com. The first selection was Arizona State's Kaitlin Cochran, picked by the Akron Racers. Athletes are not allowed by the NCAA to sign professional contracts until their collegiate seasons have ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204218-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NPF Draft\nAfter the draft, but before the season began, the Washington Glory ceased operations for financial reasons. Subsequently, NPF and United States Specialty Sports Association(USSSA) began a partnership, which resulted in the expansion team USSSA Pride inheriting the Glory's player contracts and draft choices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204218-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NPF Draft, 2009 NPF Draft\nFollowing are the 25 selections from the 2009 NPF Senior Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204218-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NPF Draft, 2009 NPF Draft\nPosition key: C = Catcher; UT = Utility infielder; INF = Infielder; 1B = First base; 2B =Second base SS = Shortstop; 3B = Third base; OF = Outfielder; RF = Right field; CF = Center field; LF = Left field;  P = Pitcher; RHP = right-handed Pitcher; LHP = left-handed Pitcher; DP =Designated playerPositions are listed as combined for those who can play multiple positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204219-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NPSL season\nThe 2009 National Premier Soccer League season was the 7th season of the NPSL. The season began on May 2, 2009, and ended with the NPSL Championship Game in August 2009. Sonoma County Sol finished the season as national champions, beating Erie Admirals 2-1 in the championship game on August 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204219-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NPSL season, Standings\nPurple indicates division title clinchedYellow indicates team received playoff spot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204219-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NPSL season, Standings, Eastern Keystone Division\nNote: Charm City deducted nine points for failing to fulfil its last three fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204219-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NPSL season, Standings, Eastern Atlantic Division\nNote: Boston deducted three points for failing to fulfil its last fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204219-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NPSL season, Standings, Midwest Division\nNote: Indiana deducted six points for failing to fulfil its last two fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final\nThe 2009 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership season. Played on 4 October 2009 at Sydney's ANZ Stadium was contested between the Parramatta Eels and the Melbourne Storm, the latter competing in their 4th grand final in a row. That was later stripped from them for breaking the salary cap rule. It was also the first Grand Final to feature the two referee system, with Shayne Hayne and Tony Archer being the first referees to jointly officiate in an NRL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final\nThe Melbourne Storm led 10\u20130 at halftime and fought off a Parramatta comeback to eventually win 23\u201316 and claim their third premiership since entering the competition. This has since been stripped due to salary cap breaches. Melbourne went on to defeat the Leeds Rhinos, winners of the 2009 Super League Grand Final, in the 2010 World Club Challenge. The latter title was also stripped from the Storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Melbourne Storm\nThe Melbourne Storm finished the regular season in 4th position with 14 wins, nine losses and one draw. As the minor premiers of the last three seasons and premiers in 2007, some commentators believed that the Storm were below their best in 2009 and doubted they would make a 4th straight grand final. But in the first week of the finals series they easily accounted for the defending premiers, the Manly Sea Eagles, with a 40 \u2013 12 victory. They then defeated the 2006 premiers, the Brisbane Broncos, 40 \u2013 10 to qualify for the grand final. The Melbourne Storm are the first side to make four consecutive grand finals since the Eels did so in 1981\u201384.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Melbourne Storm\nMelbourne five-eighth Brett Finch had a chance to break his premiership drought by defeating the side that terminated his contract in April 2009 when coach Daniel Anderson said he was not wanted at the Parramatta club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Parramatta Eels\nAfter a dreadful first half of the season and languishing in 14th position, the Parramatta Eels won 9 of their last 12 games to finish 8th and just make the finals. In the first three weeks of the finals series they defeated the top three teams of the home and away season \u2013 minor premiers the St George Illawarra Dragons, the Gold Coast Titans, and arch-rivals the Canterbury Bulldogs. The last time the Eels made the grand final was 2001 where they were defeated by the Newcastle Knights and the last time they won the premiership was in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Parramatta Eels\nThey were the first team to come from 8th position to make the NRL Grand Final and if they had of won they would have been the first team ever ranked below 6th to win the premiership. Canterbury's appearance in the 1998 grand final came from 9th position, but under a different finals system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Parramatta Eels\nParramatta Eels fullback and Dally M Medallist Jarryd Hayne was in danger of missing the match after being placed on report for sliding in with his knees out to stop a try and connecting with the head of Bulldog's winger Bryson Goodwin. The incident was reviewed by the NRL Match Review Panel on 27 September and Hayne received a grade one sentence, allowing him to play. This set up one of the great grand final match-ups as Hayne played opposite current Melbourne and Australian fullback and 2008 Golden Boot Winner Billy Slater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Parramatta Eels\nParramatta captain Nathan Cayless was under an injury cloud after he strained his hamstring in the preliminary final. He passed an intense fitness test on the day before the game to take his place in the grand final. Cayless, Luke Burt and Nathan Hindmarsh went into the match as the only remaining survivors from the club's 2001 Grand Final loss to the Newcastle Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Background, Parramatta Eels\nThe two sides faced each other once in the regular season in round 19. The Eels won 18\u201316 at Parramatta Stadium on 20 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Schedule\nThe 2009 NRL Grand Final featured pre-match entertainment by the Grammy award-winning Australian rock band Wolfmother while Irish band The Script performed at halftime. 2008 Australian Idol winner Wes Carr performed a tribute to the elite club of players who have played 300 Premiership games, while the game's retiring players were farewelled. Prior to kick-off the Child Flight helicopter and members of the game's \"300 Club\" delivered the Telstra Premiership Trophy to ANZ Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\n1st HalfMelbourne's Ryan Hoffman broke the Eels' line to score the first try of the game in the fifth minute to make the score 6\u20130. Parramatta was looking shaky in the first half, and Melbourne capitalised with a try to Adam Blair in the 24th minute, set up by a Cooper Cronk line-break, to make the score 10\u20130, which would be the half-time score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\n2nd HalfParramatta scored early in the second half, with Eric Grothe, Jr., scoring in the 45th minute to bring the scoreline to 10\u20136. Melbourne responded quickly, with tries to Greg Inglis off a bomb kick in the 49th minute and Billy Slater from a line break in the 56th minute, to open a handy 22\u20136 lead heading into the final quarter of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\nParramatta attacked through the final quarter of the game, then broke through for two tries: one to Joel Reddy off a bomb kick in the 70th minute, then a barnstorming run from Fuifui Moimoi off an off-load in the 72nd minute; only the former of these tries was converted, bringing the score to 22\u201316. In the 76th minute, with Melbourne attacking from their own half, Billy Slater dropped the ball as he tried to play it. Referee Tony Archer signaled a penalty for Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\nIt was initially thought that Archer had penalised Fuifui Moimoi for stripping the ball from Slater in the tackle, even though both of Moimoi's arms were still wrapped around Slater's legs, but it was later revealed he had penalised Moimoi for holding on to Slater, not for a strip. Greg Inglis scored a field goal in the ensuing set-of-six, extending the margin to 23\u201316 in the 79th minute. Melbourne would hold on to win by that score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\nClive Churchill MedalMelbourne fullback Billy Slater was judged by Australian selectors Bob McCarthy, Bob Fulton, Les Geeves and Des Morris to be awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match. Slater became the first fullback since Bronco Darren Lockyer in the 2000 NRL Grand Final to win the prestigious award. Slater became the third Storm player to win the Churchill Medal, after Brett Kimmorley (1999) and Greg Inglis (2007).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Match details\nSome commentators felt that Slater did not deserve the award, suggesting other Melbourne teammates such as halfback Cooper Cronk, citing Cronk's stats which included two try assists to Slater's one, 24 tackles and 16 kicks for 529 metres, dwarfing the combined 387 metres booted by the Eels' Jarryd Hayne (226) and Jeff Robson (161). Upon receiving his award, Slater even mentioned \"I feel like I don't deserve to wear it\u2026 Cooper Cronk deserved it.\" Despite the criticism, selectors stood by their decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Scorecard, Timeline\n5th: Storm 6 \u2013 0 (Try: Hoffman, Goal: C Smith)24th: Stom 10 \u2013 0 (Try: Blair)45th: Storm 10 \u2013 6 (Try: Grothe, Goal: Burt)49th: Storm 16 \u2013 6 (Try: Inglis, Goal: C Smith)55th: Storm 22 \u2013 6 (Try: Slater, Goal: C Smith)70th: Storm 22 \u2013 12 (Try: Reddy, Goal: Burt)72nd: Storm 22 \u2013 16 (Try: Moimoi)77th: Storm 23 \u2013 16 (Field Goal: Inglis)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Audience\nThe NRL Grand Final is one of the most popular sporting events of Australasia, and the 2009 NRL grand final was played before a sold-out crowd of 82,538 \u2013 the largest rugby league crowd at ANZ Stadium in its current configuration \u2013 with millions more watching around Australia and the rest of the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204220-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Grand Final, Audience, Nine Network Criticism\nThe Nine Network was criticised on talkback radio, internet blogs, news sites and the Herald Sun newspaper for not broadcasting the post match celebrations, such as the trophy and medal presentations outside of NSW and QLD, the outrage most evident in Melbourne due to Melbourne Storm winning the game, and also due to the large number of Storm supporters at the Melbourne Storm function who could not make the trip to Sydney. One point made by viewers was that the post match was broadcast to international viewers but not those in Australian capital cities such as Melbourne or Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season\nThe 2009 NRL Under-20s season was the second season of the NRL Under-20s competition. The Competition, known as the Toyota Cup for sponsorship purposes, is solely for under-20 players. The draw and structure of the competition mirrors that of its first grade counterpart, the National Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Ladder, Ladder Progression\nNumbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series\nThe NYC finals series adopts the McIntyre Final Eight System just like its first grade counterpart, the National Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nEnglish-born Melbourne young gun Gareth Widdop clinched the Toyota Cup grand final for the Storm with a 74th minute try and pressure conversion, his side downing the Wests Tigers 24-22 on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nWiddop finger-nailed a late grubber - his second try of the match - to draw his side level at 22-22 before calmly potting the conversion and delivering the second version of the national under-20s competition to Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nThe Storm scored four of their five tries in the first half to lead 18-10 at the break before a burst of two four-pointers in three minutes from the Tigers took them to a 22-18 lead after 56 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nThe Tigers had looked to be coming home with a wet sail before Widdop, who missed three first-half conversions, made the difference in a match where the lead changed five times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nThe match became a virtual showdown between two gun fullbacks as Wests Tigers tryscoring machine Jake Mullaney took his season tally to 29 tries from 27 games in 2009 with a double of his own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nThe speedy Tigers fullback also scored a try on either side of halftime and set up five-eighth Robert Lui's four-pointer for the Tigers' second-half lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nMelbourne, who finished third in the regular season, had held the ascendancy before that, and led 18-10 at the break with, ironically, Widdop's goal-kicking letting his side down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nThe Storm had also been denied three times in the first half, twice with players held up, but scored tries through winger Matt Duffie, lock Billy Rogers, Gareth Widdop and centre Justin O'Neill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nMelbourne Storm 24 (Gareth Widdop 2, Matt Duffie, Billy Rogers, Justin O'Neill tries; Gareth Widdop 2/5 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Finals Series, Grand Final\nWests Tigers 22 (Jake Mullaney 2, Rhys Curran, Robert Lui tries; Jake Mullaney 3/4 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Awards, Toyota Cup Player of the Year\nThe winner of the award is decided by the most votes during the year as decided by the referee of each game on a 3-2-1 basis for each game played throughout the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204221-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season, Awards, Toyota Cup Team Of The Year\nThe Toyota Cup Team of the Year is voted on by the 16 Toyota Cup coaches, with the players with the highest votes in each position selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204222-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season results\nThis article details scores and results from the 2009 NRL Under-20s season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204222-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL Under-20s season results, Regular season\nTimes for Rounds 1 - 4 are Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Times for Round 5 and the remainder of the season are Australian Eastern Standard Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season\nThe 2009 NRL season was the 102nd season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia, and the twelfth run by the National Rugby League. For the third consecutive year, sixteen teams competed for the 2009 Telstra Premiership title. The season commenced with the first match played on 13 March and ended with the Grand Final, played on 4 October. The Grand Final was won by the Melbourne Storm in their fourth consecutive grand final appearance. However, they were stripped of their Premiership on 22 April 2010 after they were found to be guilty of breaching the league's salary cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season\nThe second season of the National Youth Competition also commenced in line with the Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary\nThis season the NRL introduced a second on-field referee. Previously when the ball changed possession the lone on-field referee would have to change his position to stay with the defending team. He also could only observe the ruck from one direction. The two-referee system saves the referees some running back and forth to get into position as possession changes and also improves watchfulness over the ruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary\nThe Manly Sea Eagles began their premiership title defense in horrific fashion, losing their first four games, before a stunning revival led to them losing only four of their final 16 regular season games. The St. George Illawarra Dragons, under new coach Wayne Bennett finished the regular season with their first minor premiership title as a joint venture club. However, the Dragons then became the first minor premiers since the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 1993 to be eliminated from the final series in consecutive losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary\nFor the first time since the McIntyre Final Eight System was introduced, a game was played twice in a row in the same stadium. This happened when the Dragons and Parramatta Eels played each other in round 26 (the final regular season round) and again in the first week of finals, both at WIN Jubilee Oval at Kogarah. The first game saw St George Illawarra come away with a 37-0 win in front of 17,974, while the next weeks Qualifying final saw Parramatta reverse the result with a 25-12 win in front of 18,174.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary\nThe Eels went on to become the first side since the McIntyre Final Eight System was introduced (in 1999) to make the grand final from eighth position. Along the way, they defeated the top three teams \u2013 the St George Illawarra Dragons, Gold Coast Titans and Bulldogs \u2013 in their three finals series matches, to make it to their first Grand Final since 2001. Their Grand Final opponents, the Melbourne Storm, were playing in their fourth straight Grand Final and were looking for their third premiership having previously won in 1999 and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary\nIn 2009, NRL games on New Zealand's Sky network drew average audiences of 46,221.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary, Advertising\nKeen to speak to its grass roots following in light of the AFL's aggressive expansion in rugby league's suburban heartland the NRL and its agency MJW Hakuhodo created a TVC which tells the story of junior rugby league players enjoying the game and perhaps becoming stars of the future. The commercial featured two young boys playing league in a suburban park. As they contest the game, they morph into stars of the League  as a packed stadium emerges around them. Seven-year-old Penrith junior Cameron Lloyd and 14-year-old La Perouse junior Alex Johnston play the main roles in the campaign with Johnson morphing into Melbourne's Greg Inglis scoring a try in corner in a big match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Season summary, Advertising\nThe ad's strapline was \"Feel It\" and the soundtrack a re-worked version of 2008 Australian Idol winner Wes Carr's \"Feels Like Whoa.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Teams\nThe clubs in the League for 2009 remained unchanged for the third consecutive year, with sixteen participating in the regular season: ten from New South Wales, three from Queensland and one from each of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. Of the ten from New South Wales, eight were from Sydney's metropolitan area (with St. George Illawarra being a Sydney and Wollongong joint venture). Just two foundation clubs from the 1908 New South Wales Rugby Football League season played in this competition: the Roosters and the Rabbitohs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Ladder\n1 The Bulldogs were deducted 2 competition points after an interchange breach in Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Finals series\nThe NRL finals series adopted the McIntyre Final Eight System. Four teams made a return to the 2009 finals from 2008, grand finalists Melbourne Storm, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles along with the Brisbane Broncos and St George Illawarra Dragons. Both the Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels made a return after being absent in 2008. The Newcastle Knights made the finals for the first time since 2006 and their first since the departure of club legend Andrew Johns. The Gold Coast Titans entered their maiden finals series. It was also the first finals series since 2002 that no team was held scoreless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Club and Player records\nThe following figures were collected from the completion of round 26 of the regular season and therefore do not represent any figures associated with the finals series or any representative matches for this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Club and Player records\nMost points scored in a match by an individual team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Club and Player records\nJarryd Hayne ran 4,429 metres with the ball in 2009, more than any other player in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Attendance\n2009's regular season attendance figures were the highest recorded in Australian rugby league history, with a total of 3,081,849. This figure bettered the previous record set by the 1995 Winfield Cup's regular season (3,061,338 in a 20 team competition) and also beat the Telstra Premiership's previous best of 3,024,149 set in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204223-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season, Attendance\nThe 2009 season also saw the second highest average crowd figure of a regular season, with a crowd average of 16,051, behind the best of 16,466 set in the 2005 NRL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204224-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season results\nThe 2009 National Rugby League season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds, starting on 13 March and ending on 6 September, followed by four weeks of play-offs which culminated in the grand final on 4 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204224-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season results, Regular season, Round 19\nParramatta forward Nathan Hindmarsh played his 250th First Grade game for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204224-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season results, Regular season, Round 26\nChannel Nine had its biggest Friday night TV ratings of the year for the Eels-Dragons game with the audience peaking at 580,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204224-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NRL season results, Finals series, Grand final\nAgain, a Finals match up between the 2 clubs provided controversy. With just under 10 minutes remaining the Melbourne Storm fullback, Billy Slater was bringing the ball off his own line. Whilst playing the ball he appeared to drop the ball. However, referees Archer and Hayne gave a penalty saying that Parramatta fullback Jarryd Hayne had knocked the ball out of Slater's hand. From the subsequent penalty Storm centre Greg Inglis kicked a field goal to prevent a Parramatta comeback. In 2010 it was found that the Melbourne Storm had cheated the salary cap and as a result both this Premiership and the 2007 Premiership were wiped from the club as well as the 3 Minor Premierships it had gained and the World Club Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204225-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NRW Trophy\nThe 2009 NRW Trophy was held in two parts, with ice dancers competing separately from the singles disciplines and pair skating. Both competitions were held at the Eissportzentrum Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. The ice dancing competition was held between November 6 and 8, 2009, and the other disciplines were held between December 3 and 6, 2009. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing across the levels of senior, junior, and novice. In addition, the ice dancing competition included a pre-novice division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament\nThe 2009 Men's Division III Rugby Tournament is a tournament which involved 103 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NSCRO Division III college rugby as a culmination of the 2008\u201309 rugby season. It began in the fall 2008 season in the northeast, midwest and mid-atlantic, and picked up again in the spring 2009 season for the southern teams, and concludes with the Fearsome Four, a final four-style semifinals and championship games co-hosted by South Jersey RFC on April 25-6 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, National Semifinal\nThe National Semifinals were held on a warm sunny day, on a badly worn pitch at Green Acre Park in Cherry Hill, NJ. Sadly, the event was not well publicized. Each match was attended by about 40 rugby fans, friends and family members. The event host, South Jersey RFC, had a small concession lean-to, offering pretzels, sodas and event T-shirts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, National Semifinal\nIn the first match of the day, New England Rugby Football Union Champion Salve Regina met NY State Rugby Conference Champion SUNY Oswego. Salve Regina was the only true small college in the tournament (having approximately 500 male students to SUNY's 3000), and it showed. SUNY's large squad took advantage of poor SRU tackling up the middle and took a 22-0 lead into halftime. The first half was led by the dominance of Oswego flankers Matt Moir (senior)with 4 tries, Kandu Agmibson, fly half Jordan Storie (senior captain), and outside center Jay McGukin (senior captain).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, National Semifinal\nIn the second half, Oswego replaced four of its starters including starting scrum half and senior captain Alex Rufer among others due to injury and conservation for the finals match, which was to be determined. Consequently, SRU showed some spirit and put points on the board, exchanging tries with SUNY, but they never really got the hang of EPRU referee Pete Hesler's refusal to penalize an offside. And on those other penalties that were called, SRU was physically restrained from quicktapping on multiple occasions by Hesler to allow Oswego to adequately retreat. One such restraint took place on the Oswego 5m line, evoking a barrage of criticism from the SRU sideline, and for which they probably should have been disciplined. Overall, SUNY Oswego was by far the better team on the day, running in multiply tries from outside the 22m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 907]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, National Semifinal\nIn the second match, VRU Champion Longwood met USA Rugby South Champion Coastal Carolina. The two teams were well coached and matched up very well. Again, however, the large college program carried the day. Coastal Carolina was physically larger, and took an early lead, but Longwood battled back, playing smart rugby and making some key kicks for points. At halftime, Coastal Carolina held a 17-13 lead. In the second half, fitness seemed to be an issue, not so much for the teams, but for the officiating crew, all of whom seemed to be approaching 60 years old and overweight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, National Semifinal\nApparently, the event host had some difficulty arranging referees, and had to do some last minute scrambling to obtain referee coverage. Longwood took a brief lead, before giving it back to Coastal Carolina for good about midway through the second half. Coastal Carolina was the best team on Saturday. They were big, fit, aggressive and knowledgeable. Longwood matched them in every category but size and points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, Northeast Regional Bracket\nThe Northeast Regional Bracket is the home of USA Rugby territorial union Northeast Rugby Union (\"NRU\") (partial). More specifically, it is the home of NRU's largest local area union, the New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU), and its twenty-four (24) Men's College Division III Rugby teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 93], "content_span": [94, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, Northeast Regional Bracket\nNERFU plays its regular season in the fall. At the end of the regular season, the top two teams in each of its four conferences participate in the NERFU College Men's Division III Cup Championship, which also serves as the NSCRO Northeast Regional Championship. In November 2008, Salve Regina University defeated Southern Connecticut State University 21-20 to win the regional championship. See 2008 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 93], "content_span": [94, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, Northeast Regional Bracket\nIn this bracket were one union champion and three conference champions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 93], "content_span": [94, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, New York/Midwest Regional Bracket\nThe New York/Midwest Regional Bracket is the home of USA Rugby territorial unions Northeast Rugby Union (partial) and Midwest Rugby Union, and their twenty-six (26) men's college division III rugby programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, New York/Midwest Regional Bracket\nIn this bracket were 3 union champions and one conference champion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, Mid-Atlantic Regional Bracket\nThe Mid-Atlantic Regional Bracket is the home of USA Rugby territorial union Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union or MARFU and their twenty-two (22) men's college division III rugby programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 96], "content_span": [97, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, Mid-Atlantic Regional Bracket\nIn this bracket were 3 union champions and a runner-up:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 96], "content_span": [97, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, South Regional Bracket\nThe South Regional Bracket is the home of USA Rugby territorial union USA Rugby South (\"USARS\") and their thirty-one (31) men's college division III rugby programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204226-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament, Regional Brackets, South Regional Bracket\nIn this bracket were 4 conference champions and their runners-up:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season\nThe 2009 TeleChoice Premier League season is the ninth season of the revamped NSW Premier League. This season also marks the addition of a new team, in the Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club from the Super League (one division lower).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season\nThe 2009 regular season began on 1 March 2009, at 18:00 UTC+10, and concluded on 9 August 2009 with the Finals Series commencing a fortnight later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season\nDuring the course of the season, all Premier League, Super League and Division teams were involved in the TigerTurf Cup, an equivalent to the English FA Cup with teams competing in a series of elimination games. On Sunday, 16 August, the Sutherland Sharks Football Club were crowned the 2009 TigerTurf Cup Champions after defeating Manly United FC 1-0. On Sunday, 13 September, the Sutherland Sharks Football Club won their second championship of the year when they defeated Marconi Stallions 4 goals to 1 in the TeleChoice Premier League Grand Final at CUA Stadium, Penrith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Clubs\nTeams promoted from Super League:(After the end of the 2008 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Clubs\nTeams relegated to Super League:(After the end of the 2008 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Regular season, Results\nThe results of the 2009 Home and Away season are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Statistics, Attendances\nThese are the attendance records of each of the teams at the end of the home and away season. The table does not include finals series attendances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Awards, Gold medal dinner\nAt the end of the season, Football NSW hosted the Gold Medal Dinner, where players, coaches and referees were awarded for their work throughout the Premier League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Awards, All-Stars Team\nBased on a points system in which all match reporters took part in during the course of the 22 rounds, eleven players were selected in various positions highlighting their performances for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Awards, All-Stars Team\nDefence: Michael Robinson (Sutherland Sharks), Shane Webb (Bankstown City Lions), Joe Vrkic (Sydney United), Richard Luksic (Bankstown City Lions)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204227-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 NSW Premier League season, Awards, All-Stars Team\nMidfield: Scott Thomas (Manly United), Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi (Marconi Stallions), Panni Nikas (Sutherland Sharks), Alexander Canak (Marconi Stallions)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204228-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Canada's women's territorial curling championship) will be held January 29 \u2013 February 1 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in Whitehorse, Yukon. The winner represents team Northwest Territories/Yukon at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204229-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NZIHL season\nThe 2009 NZIHL season was the fifth season of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in New Zealand. Five teams participated in the league, and the Canterbury Red Devils won the championship by defeating the Southern Stampede in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204230-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nadeshiko League\nStatistics of Nadeshiko.League in the 2009 season. Urawa Reds Ladies won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season\nThe 2009 Nagoya Grampus season is Nagoya Grampus's 17th season in the J. League Division 1 and 28th overall in the Japanese top flight. They competed in the 2009 J. League Cup, 2009 Emperor's Cup, and the 2009 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season, Transfers, Winter\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season, Transfers, Winter\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season, Transfers, Summer\nIn:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204231-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nagoya Grampus season, Transfers, Summer\nOut:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204232-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Najaf governorate election\nThe Najaf governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire\nThe 2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire occurred when a supermarket in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, caught fire on 28 January 2009. Twenty-nine remains have thus far been located in the rubble of the destroyed Nakumatt supermarket, with police investigating a tip that security guards locked exit doors in an effort to prevent looting. However the locking of the doors on the ground floor had no effect on the victims, as they were all found on the floor above. The fire allegedly started near the only staircase accessible to the public, trapping the victims in the shop. One other man died after leaping from the building to escape the flames. Forty-seven people are still missing. The bodies of the dead are \"charred beyond recognition\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire\nOfficial reports say one person died in hospital from injuries brought on by poisonous fumes and injuries sustained in the inferno but another 39 were unaccounted for and were officially reported as \"missing\". The emergency services have been criticised for what the Kenyan media view as an inadequate response to the blaze. Following the blaze, the Daily Nation reported that Nairobi's three million inhabitants were served only by one fire station situated close to a traffic-choked business district. Although it happened on 28 January, it was not widely reported across the world until two days later when the full scale of the fire was recognised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Inferno\nThe fire began on 28 January 2009, a Wednesday afternoon, when the Woolworths Building which housed Nakumatt Downtown Nairobi caught fire at 3:00 PM. The blaze was still being fought twenty-four hours later. A power transformer had earlier blown and there were reports that gas cylinders on sale at the supermarket and chemicals at a hardware shop in the neighbouring Alibhai Shariff Building had fueled the inferno. Members of the public helped to fight the blaze which ensued. Thousands of people were evacuated from their offices in downtown Nairobi as plumes of black smoke were sent into the sky overhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Inferno\nThe smoke forced the evacuation of some nearby buildings, with police employing whips, horses and teargas to beat back curious crowds. One man died after leaping from an upper floor of the burning supermarket, whilst one other man, Nakumatt employee Jeremiah Omoyo, also leaped off the roof to escape the blaze but survived. Another Nakumatt employee told Kenya's The Standard newspaper that the crowd were encouraging the trapped customers and employees to jump. The Kenyan media has criticised the emergency response, claiming that firefighters arrived late and in inadequate numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Inferno\nDaily Nation, the largest newspaper in Kenya, remarked on the way the fire was handled and responded to by saying, \"It is fair to say that ours is a modern city with an 18th century fire-fighting infrastructure.\" The City Council Fire Brigade were helped by 2 private companies with fire engines - G4S and Knight Support. This is the first of two tragedies to happen in Kenya in the same week; at least 113 people were killed when an oil spill caught fire in Molo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Inferno, Casualties\nActress and radio presenter Angel Wainaina, known for her role as Sergeant Maria on the Cobra Squad TV series, was one of the victims and her body has been identified. Peter Serry, the CEO of Tusker FC football club was at the supermarket when the fire broke and has been missing since then, while Tusker FC coach James Nandwa, who accompanied Serry, escaped with minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Inferno, Rebuilding\nThe remains of the Woolworths building that housed the supermarket were scrapped after the fire. The building is set to be rebuilt and according to National Museums of Kenya, it is a historical building that should resemble the previous one and built using red bricks. On the other hand, Steve Oundo, the chairman of Architectural Association of Kenya prefers a remembrance hall on the site, instead of rebuilding the supermarket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204233-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire, Nakumatt chain\nNakumatt was a supermarket chain that had 18 stores across Kenya, employing 3,200 people and expanded to Uganda, Rwanda and other East African countries. Nakumatt was a wholly Kenyan company owned by the Atul Shah family and Hotnet Ltd. On 23 August, Nakumatt opened its first store outside Kenya in the Union Trade Center, in Kigali, Rwanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Namibia on 27\u201328 November 2009. They were the fourth general elections since independence and the fifth democratic elections. Voting ended on 28 November and official election results, released on 4 December, showed that Hifikepunye Pohamba and his SWAPO Party were re-elected, each with over 75% of the vote. Prior to the election, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) was widely expected to score a landslide victory, with the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) considered SWAPO's biggest challenger. Fourteen political parties competed for seats in the National Assembly of Namibia, and twelve candidates ran for the Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Parties, SWAPO\nThe ruling SWAPO party set a goal of winning all 72 seats in the National Assembly and controlling the NA \"until the second coming of Jesus Christ\". At the SWAPO party congress in November 2007, current President Hifikepunye Pohamba was elected President of SWAPO and also received the party's nomination for President in 2009. SWAPO ended up winning 54 seats, a one-seat loss from the third National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Parties, RDP\nThis was the first general election for the Rally for Democracy and Progress. The party's nominee for President was Hidipo Hamutenya, a former government minister of SWAPO. The RDP was considered the main opposition to the ruling SWAPO. It gained eight seats in the National Assembly and became the Official Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Parties, NUDO\nOn 16 October 2009, the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) was the first political party to officially submit their candidate, Kuaima Riruako, for President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Observers\nThe National Society for Human Rights' observer status was withdrawn by the electoral commission, which said it was \"not impartial\". The organisation said it would approach the High Court to contest the decision; the court later ordered the commission to reinstate the organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Procedure\nThough the country planned to buy electronic voting machines from India sometime in 2009, the Electoral Commission assured the National Assembly that they would not be used in the 2009 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Results, President\nHifikepunye Pohamba was re-elected as President of Namibia with 611,241 votes, more than six times as many as Hamutenya, his nearest rival, received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Results, Delay controversy\nFinal results were announced on 4 December, the longest delay between voting and the publication of results of any Namibian election (6 days). The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) blamed the delay on a recent amendment to the Electoral Act which had caused \"logistical nightmares [they had] never experienced before\" and a \"cumbersome\" verification process. The ECN had received criticism from political parties, civil societies and the general public for the delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Results, Delay controversy\nFollowing publication of the results, 8 of the 13 opposition parties stated that they did not accept the results and were instructing their lawyers to challenge the ECN in court \"for contravening the electoral law of the country\". Electoral observers have pronounced the polls to be free and fair but recommended that the ECN speed up the counting process and free up access to the media for all parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Results, Accuracy controversy\nThe accuracy of the results of this election has been questioned, not only by the defeated opposition parties but also by the Namibian Society of Human Rights (NSHR). The voters roll was the main subject of contention, having contained 1 181 835 entries at the time of first publication six weeks prior to the election but shrinking to 820 305 entries within a matter of days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204234-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Namibian general election, Results, Accuracy controversy\nAlso the voter turnout has been questioned as there were a number of constituencies that had a turnout of over 100%, on top of the list Windhoek East with 191%, Okatyali with 189%, and Ohangwena with 175%. Further \"minor\" concerns were people being allowed to vote on behalf of someone else, voters asked to disclose their political affiliation at polling stations, and people allowed to vote twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204235-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 NatWest Pro40\nThe 2009 NatWest Pro40 was a league system 40 over competition. Sussex Sharks won Division One, while Warwickshire Bears finished top of Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204235-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 NatWest Pro40\nThis was the last year the competition was held. It was succeeded by the Clydesdale Bank 40, which combined a league format with knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy\nThe 2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy refers to the controversial proclamation as National Artists of the Philippines of four individuals via the Presidential prerogative of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, when the four had not been nominated by the selection committee, composed of representatives from National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy\nThe title National Artist of the Philippines is given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts, namely, Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film, Broadcast Arts, Fashion Design and Architecture, and Allied Arts. Such Filipinos are announced, by virtue of a Presidential Proclamation, as National Artist, having been conferred membership in the Order of National Artists. Benefits they enjoy from then on include a monthly pension, medical and life insurance, arrangements for a state funeral, a place of honor at national state functions, and recognition at cultural events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy\nOn July 16, 2013, the controversy finally ended after the Supreme Court of the Philippines voted 12-1-2 that voided the four proclamations created by former President Gloria Arroyo that made these people National Artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\nThe controversy began when conferred the Order of National Artists to seven individuals in July, 2009. Controversy arose from the revelation that musician Ramon Santos had been dropped from the list of nominees short-listed in May that year by the selection committee, and four other individuals had been nominated to the title via \"President\u2019s prerogative\":", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\nMembers of the Philippine art community, including a number of living National Artists of the Philippines, protested that the proclamation politicized the title of National artist, and made it \"a way for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to accommodate her allies.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\nFilm director Eddie Romero, himself a National Artist for Film and the Broadcast Arts, explained in an interview that the rules allow the President to pick a National Artist. He noted, however, that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\n\u201cIt seems it\u2019s the first time the presidential prerogative was used to declare four artists. It\u2019s like a wholesale declaration.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\nNational Artist for literature chairman of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bienvenido Lumbera, said that in the 2009 nominations, there was", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\n\u201cheavy campaigning because the government wanted to ensure the selection of four people.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative\nIn addition, specific protests were raised regarding the nomination of NCCA executive director Guidote-Alvarez, because it was purportedly a breach of protocol and propriety, and of Carlo Caparas, because protestors assert that he is not qualified to be nominated under either the \"Visual Arts\" or \"Film\" categories in which he was proclaimed to the order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 89], "content_span": [90, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Alvarez\nLumbera, who happened to be a member of the combined \u201cfinal selection committee\" of the NCCA and CCP, noted that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Alvarez\n\u201cIt was Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, as executive director of the NCCA, who had insisted on the President\u2019s right to add names that were not discussed in the committee.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Alvarez\n\u201cShe should have not allowed herself to be named as national artist. She\u2019s close to the President. Nobody in the committee thought that she deserved to be named.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Alvarez\nAlvarez heads the NCCA secretariat that receives nominations for national artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Caparas\nComplaints regarding Caparas' proclamation centered on the complaints that he did not illustrate the comic books he wrote and therefore did not meet the qualifications for being honored under the visual arts category, and the assertion of protesting artists that his work in the category of Film is supposedly \"sub-par\", being largely exploitation films: \"pito-pito\" (\"seven-seven\") films rush-finished in seven days, and \"massacre films\" whose focus was sensational crimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Caparas\nBienvenido Lumbera remarked that Caparas\u2019 nomination was twice rejected by two NCAA panels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Caparas\n\u201c[Caparas] was first proposed as a nominee for literature, but the committee rejected him. He was again proposed as nominee for visual artist but the panel again turned him down.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, President\u2019s prerogative, Caparas\nFilm Academy of the Philippines director general Leo Martinez noted that \"He was obviously added by Malaca\u00f1ang.\" Caparas is known as a vocal supporter of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 98], "content_span": [99, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Committee-shortlisted nominees\nProtestors, however, were careful to note that three of the individuals proclaimed as National Artist in 2009 were in fact recommended by the selection committee:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 96], "content_span": [97, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Non-inclusion of Ramon Santos\nProtesters also lamented the dropping of musician Ramon Santos from the list of new National Artists. Philippine entertainment news website PEP says that a CCP official, who had asked not to be named, revealed that Santos actually won the most votes during the selection process. Lumbera verbalized dismay about the snubbing of Santos, saying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Non-inclusion of Ramon Santos\n\"What makes this even more outrageous is that Ramon Santos, who received a good number of votes in the panel selection, was dropped from the list. The basis for him being scrapped, one doesn't know\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Non-inclusion of Ramon Santos\nThe same report that quoted Lumbera also noted that \"Santos still has not spoken about the whole brouhaha up to this day. [ August 4, 2009]\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Malaca\u00f1ang Honors Committee\nAnother aspect of the controversy regards the existence and of the Palace Honors committee which allegedly prepared the final list of nominees, which was eventually enacted by Arroyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 93], "content_span": [94, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Malaca\u00f1ang Honors Committee\nProtesters claim that they were not aware of the existence of such a committee, and that at first, they had no idea who precisely were supposed to be on the committee. According to them, nominating committees were made by the CCP and NCCA, and a final list of nominees was prepared by a joint committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 93], "content_span": [94, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Malaca\u00f1ang Honors Committee\nNCCA sub-commission on the arts head Ricardo de Ungria, one of the panelists involved in the selection process, insisted before a congressional committee meeting on the matter that the arts community \u201cwere never apprised of the existence of this animal since the start of the selection process this year or eight years ago.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 93], "content_span": [94, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Controversy, Malaca\u00f1ang Honors Committee\nAccording to Malaca\u00f1ang and to Cecille Guidote-Alvarez, however, the selection process had always involved the participation of three committees - those of the CCP, the NCCA and the Malaca\u00f1ang honors committee, whose head was Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 93], "content_span": [94, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Prominent protestors\nLiving National Artists of the Philippines who have protested the proclamation of the four new National Artists include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Prominent protestors\nOther prominent critics include prominent Filipino Comic Book artist Gerry Alanguilan, multiple Palanca Award laureate Lourd de Veyra, Film Academy of the Philippines Director General Leo Martinez (who had played a part in the original nomination process).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Arroyo Administration\nThe Arroyo administration was quick to defend its choices of individuals to be named to the Order of National Artists. Acting Executive Secretary and Presidential political adviser Gabriel Claudio told reporters that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Arroyo Administration\n\"I think we can defend [their] track record and qualifications and reasons [for their selection].\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Arroyo Administration\nHe also said the administration would \u201cstand by the qualifications, qualities, track record and reputation of those named as National Artists.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\nCaparas defended his proclamation, saying that other aspirants to the honor ought to wait their turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\n\u201cGanyan talaga kung may something for grabs. E, iisa lang ang pipiliin. Sana, maghintay na lang sila ng tamang panahon sa gusto nilang manalo. Hindi naman ito palakasan.\u201d(That's the way it is whenever something is for grabs. Only one person can be selected. They ought to wait for the right time for them if they want to win. It's not as if this were a case of sucking up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\nKaya wag mag-alala ang mga critics ko, may pagkakataon pa sila o ang mga manok nila na manalo in the future. (So my critics shouldn't worry, they or their fighting cocks still have opportunities to win in the future.) They cannot take the award from me anymore.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\n\u201cBaka ang nasa isip nila ay bata pa ako. Pero hindi naman \u2018yon ang basehan. Sino naman ang ko-contest sa decision ng Cultural Center, ng NCCA at ng Malaca\u00f1ang tungkol sa award na ito? Mabuti na nga at ngayon pa lang ay ibinibigay na ang ganitong award sa mga taong nandito. Ang akala kasi nila ay sa matatanda o sa beterano o sa mga patay na ibinibigay ang ganitong award.\u201d (Maybe they think I'm too young. But that's not a valid basis [for a choice]. Who would contest the decision of the Cultural Center, the NCCA, and Malaca\u00f1ang regarding this award? It's a good thing they're giving this award to someone who's still here. They think awards like this should only be given to the old, to veterans, or to the dead.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\nCaparas said that instead of criticizing his award, entertainment people \u201cshould unite and work together to revive the ailing movie and komiks industry.\u201d  He attributed his win to the fact that he managed to cross over from comic books to film and television, and saying that his triumph was significant because he was a National Artist who came from the working class. \u201cI am a National Artist who came from the masses,\" the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted him as saying. \"I work and struggle with them.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\nHe said it was time for a National Artist \u201cwho the masses can identify with\u2014someone who walks beside them, someone who can inspire them.\u201d Noting that some Filipinos did not even know the National Artists he said \u201cHopefully, since I am still active in TV and in the movies, this will encourage our countrymen to learn more about our National Artists.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Carlo J. Caparas\nOthers who have come to his defense include Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) director and former Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) chief Manoling Morato, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) head Dante Jimenez, boxer Manny Pacquiao, Senators Ramon Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino chair Joe Lad Santos, and Polytechnic University of the Philippines president Dante Guevarra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Defense, Cecilla Guidote-Alvarez\nGuidote-Alvarez also defended her qualifications for receiving the award. \u201cBefore you make a judgment,\" she said, \"read my achievements first as an artist. Was I an idiot before I became a national artist?\" As proof of her achievements, she cited previous awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay public service award for the arts, the CCP Gawad Sining Award for Literature, and the Outstanding Women in the Nation's Services award. She also cited her important role in the development of Philippine theater, having founded the Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA) in 1967. She asserted that the President had the prerogative to name national artists who were not named in the selection committee's shortlist, and denied lobbying for the award, saying that President Arroyo had \u201cnever talked to [her] about it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 85], "content_span": [86, 907]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events\nOn July 27, 2009, it was announced to the public that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had named seven National Artists for 2009: National Commission on Culture and the Arts executive director Cecille Guidote Alvarez (theater); Manuel Conde (film and broadcast arts, posthumous); Lazaro Francisco (literature, posthumous); Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (visual arts in painting, sculpture and mixed media); Magno Jose Carlo Caparas (visual arts and film); Francisco Ma\u00f1oza (architecture); and Jose \"Pitoy\" Moreno (fashion design).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events\nBy August 1, 2009, it had been revealed by members of the final selection committee, comprising members from the NCCA and CCP, that only Conde, Alcuaz and Francisco had been short-listed by the selection committee in May. Alvarez, Caparas,Ma\u00f1osa, and Moreno had been included via what was referred to as the \"President\u2019s prerogative\". They also revealed that a fourth nominee, Ramon Santos (shortlisted for music), had not been conferred the order as recommended by committee \u2013 also supposedly part of the president's prerogative. Various artists' groups in the Philippines began to protest, notably the Concerned Artists of the Philippines. Over the next few days, previously conferred members of the Order of National Artists, notably Eddie Romero, F. Sionil Jose, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario, and BenCab A number of members of the Comic Book industry, notably Gerry Alanguilan, also protested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 977]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nOn August 6, Representatives Ana Theresia Hontiveros and Walden Bello of the Akbayan Party-list filed House Resolution 1305 at the Philippine House of Representatives, calling for a congressional inquiry into the controversy to make sure that the choice of national artists would not be subject to the \u201cwhims\" of ranking government officials. Hontiveros noted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\n\"Choosing national artists should fundamentally be about contribution in the arts and culture, not patronage or closeness to Malaca\u00f1ang. Choosing eminent symbols of Filipino arts and culture should be left in the hands of the arts community.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nAlso on August 15, the ABS CBN News Channel (ANC) hosted an episode of Cheche Lazaro's Media in Focus, in which the controversial awardees in the person of Caparas and Alavarez were supposed to face off with protesting artists in the person of National Artist Eddie Romero, CCP Chair Emily Abrera, Palanca Award Hall of Fame Awardee Butch Dalisay, and film critic Alexis Tioseco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nThe first segment of the show allowed Caparas and Dalisay to air their side, while Alvarez was unable to arrive in time to join the second part of a show, which would have had her on a panel with Romero and Abrera, who were protesting the circumstances of her proclamation to the order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nOn August 7, protesters gathered at the front ramp of the Cultural Center of the Philippines for a major protest action in the form of a mock \u201cnecrological service\u201d. National Artists who joined the protesters were Napoleon Abueva (visual arts), Arturo Luz (visual arts), Ben Cabrera (visual arts), F. Sionil Jose (literature), Bienvenido Lumbera (literature), Virgilio Almario (literature) and Salvador Bernal (theater design).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nRelatives of deceased National Artists also participated in the event, with singer Celeste Legaspi representing her late father Cesar Legaspi (National Artist for visual arts), and Raul Locsin representing his late brother Leandro Locsin (National Artist for architecture). Protesters offered black roses \"to symbolize the death of the National Artist Awards.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nDuring the protests, the Concerned Artists of the Philippines group, through its chair Lumbera informed the media that they \u201cmight seek court injunction\" at the Supreme Court \"against the proclamation of the new national artists.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Reactions\nAfter the mock ceremony, participants continued the protest with a motorcade which ended at the offices of the NCCA, where Alvarez serves as head. This led to loud verbal confrontations between protesters and supporters of Alvarez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nOn August 19 a group of National Artists and supporters, led by National Artists for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and Virgilio Almario, asked filed a 38-page petition at the Supreme Court \"for prohibition, certiorari and injunction with prayer for restraining order to prevent the Palace from conferring the title to respondents,\" to stop \"the release of the monetary benefits, entitlements and emoluments\u2026 to private respondents arising from such conferment,\" and the \"holding of the acknowledgement ceremonies for their recognition.\" The petition asserted that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\n\"For the President to cavalierly disregard the collective judgment of the CCP and NCCA boards, and substitute her own judgment without a clear indication of the reasons and bases, therefore, is an unacceptable and manifestly grave abuse of discretion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nOn August 25 the Supreme Court issued a status quo order, stopping Malaca\u00f1ang from conferring the honor pending deliberation of the petition to disqualify Alvarez, Caparas, Ma\u00f1osa, and Moreno. Supreme Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez noted that: \"The court saw the urgency to issue the status quo order and stop the conferment of the awards. It has the same affect [sic] as a temporary restraining order.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nThe incident involving Caparas has also been the subject of vandalism in Wikipedia, where anonymous editors and newly registered accounts maliciously edited the article, substituting the titles with nonsensical ones containing Tagalog pejoratives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nOn August 31, 2009, Dalisay claimed in his column in The Philippine Star that the NCCA web page regarding the selection process for national artists had been changed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nWhen I looked up the National Artists page on the NCCA website, the rules had suddenly changed \u2014 now there was a mention of Executive Order 236 empowering an Honors Committee to make up its own list of NA nominees to the President. That wasn\u2019t there before the recent [National Artist] scandal blew up \u2014 neither the rule nor the role of the committee in the NAA process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nOn September 14, 2009, the Philippines' House of Representatives began its committee inquiry into the National Artist controversy. In her testimony before the committee, CCP director and lawyer Lorna Kapunan alleged that the Malaca\u00f1ang honors committee had not actually held a meeting to deliberate on the nominees, and that minutes of the said meeting were therefore forged. Alvarez denied the allegations, and insisted that the selection process for National Artists of the Philippines had always involved the participation of three committees \u2013 those of the CCP, the NCCA and the Malaca\u00f1ang honors committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Petition with the Supreme Court\nOn the same day, the CCP submitted to the Supreme Court its 31-page comment regarding the petition to disqualify the National Artists added by Malaca\u00f1ang to the list of nominees. The CCP reiterated its position that the four had not been in the original list of nominees. It also requested the Supreme Court to order the proclamation of its four original choices as 2009's National Artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Aftermath\nOn July 16, 2013, the Supreme Court voided former President Arroyo's proclamations awarding National Artists to Alvarez, Caparas, Ma\u00f1osa and Moreno, four years after the said proclamations. Arroyo inserted these names although they were not part of the recommendations created by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission on Culture and Arts. The original nominees were Lazaro Francisco (literature), Dr. Ramon Santos (music), Manuel Conde (film and broadcast) and Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (visual arts, painting, sculpture and mixed media). The justices voted 12-1-2 that struck down the 4 proclamations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204236-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy, Significant events, Aftermath\nOn June 20, 2014, Dr. Ramon Santos was named as one of six new National Artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204237-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Camogie League\nThe 2009 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Wexford, who defeated Tipperary in the final, played at Parnell Park, Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204237-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Camogie League, Arrangements\nThe seven teams in the first division were placed in two groups and the top two in each group qualified for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204237-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Camogie League, The Final\nWexford full forward Una Leacy scored two goals before half time to give her team a 2-6 to 0-5 lead at the interval, sending Wexford to their first league since 1977, defeating Tipperary 2-12 to 0-11. Captain Aoife O'Connor delayed her honeymoon to lead out her side. After the match Aoife O'Connor said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204237-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Camogie League, The Final\n\"We've probably been knocking on the door for around 10 or 12 years with various teams coming through, but it's the first time we've actually managed to get across the line, so that's fantastic,\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204237-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Camogie League, Division 2\nThe Division 2 final, known until 2005 as the National Junior League, was won by Wexford who defeated Antrim in the final. Antrim had won the Division Three title 12 months ago, 2-10 to 0-11. Scores were level six times before Wexford pulled away in the closing quarter thanks to a 1-4 total contribution from Ciara O\u2019Connor \u2013 one of three sisters on the team and a sibling to Division One skipper Aoife. Antrim captain Jane Adams scored eight points. The Division 3 final was won by Down who defeated Laois in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship\nThe 4th season of National Cheerleading Championships was the biggest season for NCC so far. It started with the league's very first regionals for Southern Luzon region, followed by Northern Luzon region, Visayas-Mindanao region, and finally with the National Capital Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship\nThe season also witnessed the most number of participants in history of the competition for both divisions - high school and college.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship, National finals\nThe first true nationals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig. Teams qualified from the Regionals come to Manila to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship, National finals, High School division\nHigh School division national finals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig last March 14, 2009. Teams from Southern Luzon, Northern Luzon, and National Capital Region competed for the national finals. Pasig Catholic College's PCC Crusaders was declared the National Champion for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship, National finals, College Division\nCollege division national finals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig last March 15, 2009. Teams from Southern Luzon, Northern Luzon, Visayas-Mindanao region, and National Capital Region competed for the national finals. University of Perpetual Help System Dalta's UPHSD Perpsquad was declared the National Champion for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship, Regional Qualifiers, South Luzon\nHeld at St. Michael's College in Laguna, on September 7, 2008", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204238-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Cheerleading Championship, Regional Qualifiers, Metro Manila\nHeld at Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig on February 28, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204239-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football Challenge Cup\nThe 2009 National Football Challenge Cup was the 19th edition of National Football Challenge Cup. The tournament was hosted by Hyderabad. The tournament started on 18 April and concluded on 28 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204239-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football Challenge Cup\nPakistan Navy were the defending champions, they were eliminated in the semi-finals by the eventual winners Khan Research Laboratories, who won their first major trophy since establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 2009 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League, was the 78th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland. The League began on 31 January 2009. Thirty-two Gaelic football county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland)\nOn 26 April, Kerry defeated Derry by 1-15 to 0-15 to win their 19th league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Format, League structure\nThe 2009 format of the National Football League was a system of four divisions. The top three divisions consisted of 8 teams, and Division 4 contained nine teams. Each team played every other team in its division once, either home or away. 2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Finals, promotions and relegations\nThe top two teams in Division 1 contested the 2009 NFL final. The top two teams in divisions 2, 3 and 4 were promoted, and contested the finals of their respective divisions. The bottom two teams in divisions 1, 2 and 3 were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Division 1, Table\nCompete in Division 1 final\u00a0\u00a0Automatic relegation to Division 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Division 2, Table\nCompete in Division 2 final and automatic promotion to Division 1\u00a0\u00a0Automatic relegation to Division 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Division 3, Table\nCompete in Division 3 final and automatic promotion to Division 2\u00a0\u00a0Automatic relegation to Division 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204240-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Football League (Ireland), Division 4, Table\nCompete in Division 4 final and automatic promotion to Division 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China\nThe 11th National Games of China were held in various cities in Shandong from October 16 to October 28, 2009. Represented were 33 sports, 43 disciplines and 362 events, including 4 winter sports which were held in Shenyang, Changchun and Qingdao between January and April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China\nIn all, a total of 1241 medals were awarded. The host province of Shandong came first on the medals table with 63 gold, 40 silver and 43 bronze. The games saw the triumphant return from injury for Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang. Swimmer Liu Zige also broke the world record in the women's 200 metres butterfly, taking 2 seconds off from the previous record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China\nThe 11th National Games was labelled by some as \"China's Olympics\", which is reflective of growing significance of the National Games in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Background\nFollowing the 9th National Games in 2001, officials decided to scrap the decades-old convention of rotating the host duties between Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong. The State Council of the People's Republic of China, decided that a bidding process would decide the host and any province, municipality and autonomous region was eligible to apply. In 2005, Shandong won the right to host the 11th National Games being the only applicant province with the permission of State Council of the People's Republic of China and the State General Administration of Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Development and preparation, Marketing\nThe logo for the games was designed to embody the concept of \"Harmonious China, Energetic Shandong\" (\u548c\u8c10\u4e2d\u534e, \u6d3b\u529b\u5c71\u4e1c). The logo is derived from the geometric patterns on artifacts of the Warring States period and the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Jinan, Shandong. This represents the traditional folk culture of Shandong. The logo also depicts an abstract image of 11 athletes in motion which symbolises the 11th National Games. It is composed of the colours red, black, yellow, green and blue which are the colours of the Olympic rings and refer to the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The final logo was selected from 3040 entries in a public competition launched in 2007 across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Development and preparation, Marketing\nThe mascot for the games was a cartoon character called \"Taishan Boy\" (\u6cf0\u5c71\u7ae5\u5b50). It alludes the majestic stone of the Shandong's Mount Taishan. The mascot, dressed in a red shirt and white shorts, is an athletic figure giving the thumbs-up. According to the designer said, the character symbolizes \"the spirit of life\", \"health and longevity\" and \"the enthusiasm and fighting spirit of the host\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Development and preparation, Broadcasting\nThe 11th National Games were broadcast both on CCTV-1 and CCTV-5, as well as on the local Shandong Television station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Torch relay\nThe torch of the 12th National Games, first unveiled on April 28, 2009, is based on the concept of ruyi (\u5982\u610f), a traditional Chinese ceremonial scepter. The torch is 69\u00a0cm long. It is designed to resemble the ruyi with gold and silver being the colour theme. At the top, the golden willow pattern is combined with the grey ruyi stripes. The mouth of the torch is shaped like the lotus, which is the city flower of Jinan. Also, the main venue for the games, the Jinan Olympic Sports Center, is also known as Donghe Xiliu (East Willow, West Lotus) due to its distinctive architecture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Torch relay\nMirroring the 2008 Olympic Games, a torch relay began on August 1, 2009 at Mount Taishan, a cultural site with a tradition of spiritual pilgrimages. The flame was lit in a sun ray ceremony by Beijing Olympics gold medalists archer Zhang Juanjuan and diver Wang Feng. On August 16, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo received the torch at the Great Hall of the People which officially marked the start of the relay. The torch was then carried on a two-month relay around the China, including through the major centres of Shandong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Torch relay\nThe route of the torch relay was (in chronological order): Mount Taishan, Shandong \u2192 Beijing \u2192 Tianjin \u2192 Shijiazhuang, Hebei \u2192 Shenyang, Liaoning \u2192 Changchun, Jilin \u2192 Harbin, Heilongjiang \u2192 Hohhot, Inner Mongolia \u2192 Taiyuan, Shandong \u2192 Xi'an, Shaanxi \u2192 Lanzhou, Gansu \u2192 Xining, Qinghai \u2192 \u00dcr\u00fcmqi, Xinjiang \u2192 Lhasa, Tibet \u2192 Kunming, Yunnan \u2192 Chengdu, Sichuan \u2192 Chongqing \u2192 Guiyang, Guizhou \u2192 Nanning, Guangxi \u2192 Changsha, Hunan \u2192 Zhengzhou, Henan \u2192 Hefei, Anhui \u2192 Nanchang, Jiangxi \u2192 Guangzhou, Guangdong \u2192 Haikou, Hainan \u2192 Macau \u2192 Hong Kong \u2192 Fuzhou, Fujian \u2192 Hangzhou, Zhejiang \u2192 Shanghai \u2192 Nanjing, Jiangsu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Torch relay\nThe Shandong leg included the following cities (in chronological order): Qingdao \u2192 Weihai \u2192 Yantai \u2192 Weifang \u2192 Rizhao \u2192 Linyi \u2192 Zaozhuang \u2192 Jining \u2192 Heze \u2192 Liaocheng \u2192 Dezhou \u2192 Binzhou \u2192 Dongying \u2192 Zibo \u2192 Laiwu \u2192 Tai'an \u2192 Jinan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, The Games, Opening ceremony\nThe Chinese President, Hu Jintao, started the official opening ceremony on October 16, which featured an extensive firework display and a large scale music and dance performance at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium, nicknamed Xiliu (\u897f\u67f3), literally \"West Willow\", due to its resemblance to the city tree, the Chinese willow. IOC President Jacques Rogge and a dozen IOC members also attended the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, The Games, Opening ceremony\nLiu Peng, who had headed the organising committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, stressed the role the Games played in improving the standard of sport in China, and also its importance in promoting fitness as a whole. Following this, the torch was brought into the stadium and the cauldron was lit, signalling the climax of the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, The Games, Venues\nThe main venues for the games are located in Jinan. The Jinan Olympic Sports Center precinct is home to the main stadium, Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium as well as the indoor stadium, aquatic center and tennis center. Many secondary venues were located in regional centers scattered across Shandong, including in Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, The Games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony was held on October 28, 2009 in the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. It was attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao who officially closed the proceedings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Participation\nWith a total of 10,991 athletes from 46 delegations, the event was the largest in the Games' history. Among the 46 delegations were 4 municipalities, 22 provincial teams and 5 autonomous regions. Further to this, the People's Liberation Army sent a team, and fourteen sports association teams were entered (generally associations from specific industry groupings or large organisations).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Concerns and controversies, Doping\nIn order to qualify for the Games, a random selection of 30\u201350% of the athletes in the track and field events had to pass an exam, which tested knowledge of anti-doping policy, the damage associated with drug use, and methods of self-protection from banned substances. The director of the Chinese Athletics Association, Du Zhaocai, noted that athletes who had previously been banned for failing drugs tests would not be allowed to compete at the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Concerns and controversies, Doping\nThis measure was partly a reaction to the positive test of gold medallist Sun Yingjie at the 2005 Games, which had caused bad publicity for the event. Guo Linna, a rower from Henan, was the first athlete to be disqualified after testing positive for 19-norandrostenedione, and shooter Li Jie from Inner Mongolia tested positive for the banned drug propranolol a few days later. Women's 100 metres gold medallist Wang Jing tested positive for epitestosterone and was disqualified from the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204241-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 National Games of China, Concerns and controversies, Alleged match fixing\nDespite a number of new measures to prevent corruption or abuse of the judging system, one of the judges in the diving competition accused a fellow judge of pre-arranging results. However, an investigation by the State General Administration of Sports detected no signs of foul play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe 2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game was held at the Bell Centre in Montreal, home of the Montreal Canadiens, in conjunction with the Montreal Canadiens centennial celebrations on Sunday evening, January 25, 2009. The game was held between two teams, each representing a conference (Eastern and Western) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Eastern Conference team won the game 12\u201311, decided by shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe game was part of a weekend of activities. On Saturday, a game featuring NHL rookies and sophomores preceded a skills competition among the NHL players, called the NHL All-Star Game SuperSkills Competition. In a first for the All-Star Game, the \"Breakaway Challenge,\" a part of the skills competition, had fans voting for the winner using their mobile phones, with the real-time voting results posted on the NHL's website. The game was preceded by a circus arts display and a concert was held between the second and third periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nUnlike previous years, the Skills Competition did not have players playing on the behalf of their respective conferences (thus, there was no conference-based scoring) and the team-based Obstacle Course was removed. In addition, YoungStars players became eligible to play in the Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot, Shooting Accuracy, and Breakaway Challenge events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nIn reaction to the changed format for the skills competition the year before, the Fastest Skater event reverted to the traditional one-lap format. The breakaway challenge used Jason Maggio, a local minor hockey goaltender defending the goal (to answer criticisms that the all-star goaltenders simply poke-checked the players as they were making the shot) as well as the player being able to take as many shots as possible in one minute (instead of only one shot). Finally, instead of being a judged competition, the breakaway challenge allowed the public to vote for the winner via text messaging.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nThe public chose Alexander Ovechkin, whose highlight was a shot using two sticks while wearing a series of props provided by Evgeni Malkin, by a landslide, with 47% of the votes. Malkin won the shooting accuracy over Dany Heatley in a sudden death shoot-off after both scored 4-for-4 in the preliminaries. Malkin shot 3-4, missing the last target, while Heatley hit his first two but missed on the third. Andrew Cogliano walked off as the winner of the Fastest Skater competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nThe Hardest Shot competition was played for charity, with each competitor contributing $1,000, to be matched by their team and the league, as well as the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), for a total of $24,000 to the charity chosen by the winner of the competition. Zdeno Chara won the event, with a record 105.4\u00a0mph shot (eclipsing Al Iafrate, who had set the record the last time the All-Star game was in Montreal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Skills Competition\nThe Elimination Shootout involved all 40 skaters (but only four of the six goaltenders \u2013 leaving Roberto Luongo as the only player to not participate in any of the skills events), with the goaltenders being able to choose which skaters they will face off against. The field was narrowed from 40 to just 12 after one round, and Shane Doan eventually outlasted Marc Savard after seven rounds (including two rounds in which none of the three remaining players \u2014 Doan, Savard nor Milan Hejduk \u2014 scored).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, YoungStars Game\nFor the first time, the YoungStars game, part of the Skills Competition featured a three-on-three rookies versus sophomores format, consisting of three six-minute periods with the clock stopping only within the last minute of each game. Coaching the rookies was Luc Robitaille and for the sophomores was Pete Mahovlich. Unlike the previous All-Star Game, YoungStars goaltenders were named prior to the game, though sophomore goaltender Carey Price volunteered to do double duty after Erik Ersberg withdrew from the game due to injury. The game saw rookie goaltender Pekka Rinne (who replaced Steve Mason) make 20 saves in a 9\u20135 victory for the rookies. Rookie Blake Wheeler was named the MVP of the YoungStars game after scoring four goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, YoungStars Game, Roster\n35 \u2013 G Pekka Rinne (Nashville Predators) 8 \u2013 D Drew Doughty (Los Angeles Kings) 2 \u2013 D Luke Schenn (Toronto Maple Leafs) 21 \u2013 F Patrik Berglund (St. Louis Blues) 19 \u2013 F Mikkel Boedker (Phoenix Coyotes) 67 \u2013 F Michael Frolik (Florida Panthers) 18 \u2013 F James Neal (Dallas Stars) 91 \u2013 F Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay Lightning) 32 \u2013 F Kris Versteeg (Chicago Blackhawks) 26 \u2013 F Blake Wheeler (Boston Bruins)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, YoungStars Game, Roster\n31 \u2013 G Carey Price (Montreal Canadiens) 58 \u2013 D Kris Letang (Pittsburgh Penguins) 18 \u2013 D Marc Staal (New York Rangers) 36 \u2013 F Dave Bolland (Chicago Blackhawks) 13 \u2013 F Andrew Cogliano (Edmonton Oilers) 17 \u2013 F Brandon Dubinsky (New York Rangers) 10 \u2013 F Bryan Little (Atlanta Thrashers) 57 \u2013 F David Perron (St. Louis Blues) 21 \u2013 F Mason Raymond (Vancouver Canucks) 16 \u2013 F Devin Setoguchi (San Jose Sharks)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Absentee punishment\nDue to a growing number of otherwise healthy players choosing to skip the All-Star Game to rest, the NHL began to enforce the understanding that players that are named to the event must participate in some capacity. Those who choose not to participate must miss a game, either before the Game or after. Players named to the YoungStars game will not be subject to this policy, as their consent is required for participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Absentee punishment\nThus, because Detroit Red Wings players Pavel Datsyuk and Nicklas Lidstrom declined to attend the festivities due to injury, they were each forced to miss one regular season game. Sidney Crosby, who was also ruled out due to injury, participated in off-ice activities and was not forced to miss a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nFan voting for the All-Star Game starting line-up was closed on January 2, 2009. The rosters were announced on January 3 by retired Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame player Jean Beliveau, who played in 13 All-Star games during his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n31 \u2013 G Carey Price (Montreal Canadiens) 44 \u2013 D Mike Komisarek (Montreal Canadiens) 79 \u2013 D Andrei Markov (Montreal Canadiens) 71 \u2013 F Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh Penguins)  4 \u2013 F Vincent Lecavalier (Tampa Bay Lightning) 27 \u2013 F Alexei Kovalev (Montreal Canadiens) - (C)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n35 \u2013 G Jean-Sebastien Giguere (Anaheim Ducks) 27 \u2013 D Scott Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks) 51 \u2013 D Brian Campbell (Chicago Blackhawks) 15 \u2013 F Ryan Getzlaf (Anaheim Ducks) 19 \u2013 F Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks) 88 \u2013 F Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n30 \u2013 G Tim Thomas (Boston Bruins) 35 \u2013 G Henrik Lundqvist (New York Rangers)  2 \u2013 D Mark Streit (New York Islanders)  3 \u2013 D Jay Bouwmeester (Florida Panthers) 15 \u2013 D Tomas Kaberle (Toronto Maple Leafs) 33 \u2013 D Zdeno Chara (Boston Bruins)  7 \u2013 F Jeff Carter (Philadelphia Flyers)  8 \u2013 F Alexander Ovechkin (Washington Capitals)  9 \u2013 F Zach Parise (New Jersey Devils) 12 \u2013 F Eric Staal (Carolina Hurricanes) 17 \u2013 F Ilya Kovalchuk (Atlanta Thrashers) 20 \u2013 F Thomas Vanek (Buffalo Sabres) 26 \u2013 F Martin St. Louis (Tampa Bay Lightning) 51 \u2013 F Dany Heatley (Ottawa Senators) 91 \u2013 F Marc Savard (Boston Bruins)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\n1 \u2013 G Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks) 32 \u2013 G Niklas Backstrom (Minnesota Wild)  3 \u2013 D Stephane Robidas (Dallas Stars)  6 \u2013 D Shea Weber (Nashville Predators) 22 \u2013 D Dan Boyle (San Jose Sharks) 44 \u2013 D Sheldon Souray (Edmonton Oilers)  7 \u2013 F Keith Tkachuk (St. Louis Blues)  9 \u2013 F Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) 10 \u2013 F Patrick Marleau (San Jose Sharks) 12 \u2013 F Jarome Iginla (Calgary Flames) 18 \u2013 F Shane Doan (Phoenix Coyotes) 23 \u2013 F Milan Hejduk (Colorado Avalanche) 24 \u2013 F Dustin Brown (Los Angeles Kings) 61 \u2013 F Rick Nash (Columbus Blue Jackets) 97 \u2013 F Joe Thornton (San Jose Sharks) - (C)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Rosters\nReferees:  Marc Joannette and  Brad MeierLinesmen:  Greg Devorski and  Pierre Racicot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Uniforms\nReplacing the prototypical Reebok Edge design of the previous two games, the 2009 All-Star Game featured a unique design inspired by the Canadiens, featuring the host team's colors of bleu, blanc et rouge. The Eastern Conference team's jerseys were primarily red, while the Western Conference wore white. The uniform featured an asymmetrical design, with a contrasting color stripe coming down one side of the body of the uniform and wrapping around at the waistline. One sleeve on each jersey featured three stars with the years 1969, 1975, and 1993 on them, representing the three previous times the Canadiens had hosted the All-Star Game since the league dropped the Stanley Cup Champions vs. NHL All-Stars format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204242-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game, Features\nA pre-game performance featured acrobatics and music by circus arts group Cirque Eloize. The U.S. national anthem was sung by Alan Prater and the Canadian national anthem was performed by the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir, under the direction of its founder Trevor Payne. Simple Plan and Marie-Mai performed during the intermission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League\nThe 2009 National Hurling League (known as the Allianz National Hurling League for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th season of the National Hurling League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Structure\nThe National Hurling League saw a major restructuring of the usual four divisions with the teams divided more equitably into a five-tier structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Structure\nDivision 1 was a single division and was confined to the top eight teams. The top two teams in the division qualified for the final. Division 2 operated in a similar manner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Structure\nDivision 3A was a newly-created division and consisted of six teams. The top two teams in the division qualified for the final. Division 3B operated in a similar manner, however, that division consisted of seven teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Structure\nDivision 4 was a single division consisting of six teams. The top two teams in the division qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1\nTipperary came into the season as defending champions of the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1\nOn 3 May 2009, Kilkenny won the title after a 4-17 to 2-26 extra-time win over Tipperary. It was their first league title since 2006 and their 14th National League title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1\nClare failed to win a single group stage game - finishing in the bottom position - and were relegated to Division 2 for the 2010 league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1\nDublin's Alan McCrabbe was the Division 1 top scorer with 1-50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1, Structure\nA total of 8 teams contested the top division of the league, including all of the sides from the 2008 season that formerly took part in Divisions 1A and 1B. Due to the restructuring the 2008 Division 2 champions did not gain promotion to the top tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 1, Structure\nEach team played all the others in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The first-placed teams in Division 1 contested the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 3A, Final\nKildare won promotion to Division Two for 2010 while Meath remained in Division Three for 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 3B, Final\nLondon won promotion to Division Three A for 2010 while Roscommon remained in Division Three B for 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204243-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National Hurling League, Division 4, Final\nSligo won promotion to Division Three B for 2010 while Monaghan remained in Division Four for 2010", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204244-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 2009 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The 72nd annual tournament began on March 17 on campus sites and ended on April 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with Penn State winning the final 69\u201363 over Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204244-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Invitation Tournament, Participants, Automatic qualifiers\nThe following teams won their conference regular season title, but failed to win conference post season tournaments. Therefore, they were not awarded their respective conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. When they did not receive at-large selections to the NCAA tournament either, they automatically qualified for the 2009 NIT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204244-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket\nPlayed on the home court of the higher-seeded team (except #4 Miami (FL) at #5 Providence)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204244-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket, Semifinals and finals\nPlayed at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 31 and April 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204244-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Invitation Tournament, Game summaries, NIT Championship\nThe Penn State Nittany Lions faced off against the Baylor Bears in the NIT Championship game. The Nittany Lions won the matchup 69\u201363, aided by Jamelle Cornley's 18 points. In a four-point deficit at the half, the Lions went on a 7\u20131 spurt to take a 2-point lead at the beginning of the second. After the Bears tied it at 37, Penn State made three consecutive threes from which Baylor could not recover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series\nThe 2009 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven baseball game series pitting the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Philadelphia Phillies for the National League Championship and the right to represent the National League in the 2009 World Series. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers four games to one. Los Angeles, whose NL-best 95\u201367 record topped Philadelphia's 93\u201369 record, retained home-field advantage. The series, the 40th in league history, began on October 15 and finished on October 21. TBS carried the championship on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series\nThe Phillies won the series, four games to one, advancing to the World Series for the second consecutive year. They were, however, defeated by the New York Yankees, 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series\nThis was the second consecutive NLCS between the Dodgers and Phillies and the fifth overall. The first two meetings were won by the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978, and the third by the Phillies in 1983; none of the three resulted in a World Series Championship by either team. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in five games in 2008 en route to their 2008 World Series title. This match-up is the most frequent in the history of the NLCS (as of 2009) tied with the Pirates vs. Reds. This was the first time in LCS history that two franchises met in consecutive League Championship Series on separate occasions (1977\u20131978, 2008\u20132009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series\nIn 2009, the Dodgers won the regular season series, four games to three, outscoring the Phillies 26\u201325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThursday, October 15, 2009 \u2013 8:07 PM (ET) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nJames Loney gave the Dodgers an early lead with a solo home run in the second inning. Dodger starter Clayton Kershaw was solid through the first four innings, but the Phillies got to him in the fifth, scoring five runs on three hits on a Carlos Ruiz three-run home run, and later a Ryan Howard two-RBI double. The Dodgers made up most of the deficit in the bottom half of the fifth when Andre Ethier reached base on a Chase Utley throwing error that scored Russell Martin, immediately followed by a Manny Ramirez two-run home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nWith the Phillies ahead by one run in the top of the eighth, Philadelphia outfielder Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez padded his team's lead with a three-run home run off George Sherrill, his former teammate in Seattle, after two leadoff walks. The Dodgers scored two runs in the bottom half of the eighth on Martin's RBI single and a Rafael Furcal sacrifice fly, but Ryan Madson shut down the eighth-inning rally and Brad Lidge, despite allowing a hit and a walk, pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nFriday, October 16, 2009 \u2013 4:07 PM (ET) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nGame 2 featured a pitching duel between Vicente Padilla and Pedro Martinez, two pitchers who were not even on their respective teams' Opening Day rosters. Martinez pitched seven innings of scoreless ball and Padilla nearly matched him with 7+1\u20443 of one-run ball. The only run came on a Ryan Howard solo shot in the fourth. That RBI gave Howard six for the postseason, which tied the record for a span of six post-season games. However, in the eighth the Phillies bullpen ran into trouble when Casey Blake singled to start off the inning and Ronnie Belliard bunted for a hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nOn a 3\u20132 pitch Russell Martin grounded into a tailor-made double play to Pedro Feliz, but Chase Utley threw the ball away which allowed the Dodgers' first run of the game. It was Utley's second error in two games; he had just three in 156 games during the 2009 regular season. Scott Eyre relieved Chan Ho Park and allowed a single to Jim Thome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nRyan Madson then walked Rafael Furcal to load the bases and struck out Matt Kemp, but Andre Ethier drew a walk-off of J. A. Happ which scored the go-ahead run to win the game for the Dodgers. Five relievers were used in the bottom of the eighth. Jonathan Broxton closed out the game and the Dodgers evened the series 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nSunday, October 18, 2009 \u2013 8:07 PM (ET) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nPhiladelphia jumped out early against Hiroki Kuroda in the first from the two-run triple by Ryan Howard. The next batter, Jayson Werth, hit a two-run shot into the hedges behind the center-field fence. Next inning, Carlos Ruiz hit a leadoff double and scored on Jimmy Rollins's one-out double to knock Kuroda out of the game. Scott Elbert in relief walked two to load the bases before Howard's groundout made it 6\u20130 Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThey added two more runs in the fifth off of Chad Billingsley when Raul Ibanez walked with two outs and scored on a triple by Pedro Feliz, who then scored on a Carlos Ruiz single. Three more were added in the eighth thanks to a three-run homer by Shane Victorino off of Ronald Belisario. Pitcher Cliff Lee held the Dodgers to three hits and had ten strikeouts in eight innings of work. With the large lead in hand, Lee batted in the bottom of the eighth stroking a single and scoring on the Victorino home run, but he did not start the ninth inning. Chad Durbin retired the Dodgers in order that inning to give the Phillies a 2\u20131 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nMonday, October 19, 2009 \u2013 8:07 PM (ET) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Phillies once again jumped out to an early lead in the first inning when Ryan Howard hit a two-run home run off Dodgers starter Randy Wolf. As a result, Howard tied Lou Gehrig's record of most consecutive postseason games with an RBI, at eight. The Dodgers tied the game in the top of the fourth inning when Phillies starter Joe Blanton allowed RBI singles to James Loney and Russell Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Dodgers took the lead in the fifth inning on a Matt Kemp solo home run, and tacked on another run in the sixth on an RBI hit by Casey Blake to make it 4\u20132. Chase Utley answered in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single of his own, cutting the Dodger lead to 4\u20133, which is where it would stand until the ninth inning. Jonathan Broxton, trying to work a four-out save for the Dodgers, retired Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez to start the ninth inning. He then walked Matt Stairs and hit Carlos Ruiz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nAfter a Greg Dobbs line out to third base, Jimmy Rollins stepped to the plate with runners on first and second base with two outs. On a 1\u20131 count, Rollins hit a line drive into the right-center field gap, easily scoring pinch runner Eric Bruntlett and Ruiz, giving the Phillies a 5\u20134 walk-off win. It was later reported that Manny Ramirez hit the showers before the game was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nWednesday, October 21, 2009 \u2013 8:07 PM (ET) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Dodgers went up 1\u20130 in the first inning after Cole Hamels gave up a solo home run to Andre Ethier. The Phillies came right back in the bottom of the first after Jayson Werth deposited a three-run home run into the right field seats off of Vicente Padilla. In the second, James Loney's leadoff home run made it 3\u20132 Phillies, but in the bottom half, Pedro Feliz's leadoff home run gave the Phillies that run back. In the fourth, Jayson Werth hit a leadoff single and scored on Raul Ibanez's double, knocking Padilla out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nA walk and hit-by-pitch from Ramon Troncoso loaded the bases. George Sherrill hit Shane Victorino with a pitch to force in another run. Orlando Hudson's home run in the fifth made it 6\u20133 Phillies and Rafael Furcal's double knocked Hamels out of the game. In the sixth, Victorino's home run after a hit-by-pitch off of Clayton Kershaw made it 8\u20133 Phillies. Jayson Werth's home run next inning off of Hong-Chih Kuo made it 9\u20133 Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nIn the eighth, Chan Ho Park allowed two leadoff singles, then Ryan Madson walked Manny Ramirez to load the bases with no outs before Matt Kemp's RBI single made it 9\u20134 Phillies. Madson, though, retired the next three batters to end the inning and the Phillies got that run back in the bottom half when Chase Utley scored on a wild pitch from Ronald Belisario. Brad Lidge retired the Dodgers in order in the ninth to seal the Phillies' 10\u20134 win and advance them to the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nOn the eve of Game 1 of the 2009 National League Championship Series, it was announced that Dodgers\u2019 owners Frank and Jaime McCourt would be separating after nearly 30 years of marriage. Although seemingly insignificant at the time, their separation and later very public divorce would be a major moment in Los Angeles Dodgers history, as it set in motion for Guggenheim Baseball Management to buy the team in 2012 for $2.15 billion. Since 2013, the Guggenheim\u2019s first full year as owners, the Dodgers have appeared in the playoffs every year, winning a World Series and three pennants. Meanwhile, the Phillies, continued to have success until 2011. Hampered with large contracts and declining performance, they began a long re-build in the mid 2010s and have not been to the playoffs since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nNumerous 2008-2009 Philadelphia Phillies would eventually be traded to or signed with the Dodgers in the years afterwards. Shane Victorino, who was originally a Dodgers farmhand, was traded back to Los Angeles at the 2012 trade deadline, while Joe Blanton was traded there a few days later in a separate waiver trade. Both Victorino and Blanton only spent a few months with the team before becoming free agents. Jimmy Rollins would end his 14-year stay with the Phillies after he was traded to the Dodgers during the 2014-2015 off-season, spending only one season with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nBy this time, the Phillies had committed fully to re-building the roster and getting younger. Because of this, Long Beach Poly and UCLA alum Chase Utley was traded to the Dodgers at the waiver trade deadline in 2015. Utley was the longest tenured Phillie-to-Dodger player (2015-2018) and he was credited with helping in the development of a young Corey Seager, while bring a much-needed toughness to the team. During the 2015-2016 off-season, Joe Blanton re-joined the Dodgers, this time as a reliever where he experienced a surprising amount of success before struggling mightily during the 2016 National League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nAlso in 2016, Carlos Ruiz was sent to Los Angeles in another waiver deadline deal. Ruiz backed up Yasmani Grandal and even caught the final out of the 2016 National League Division Series. 2009 Phillies stellar set-up man Ryan Madson was traded from Washington to the Dodgers in 2018 in another waiver trade. To help bolster an fatigued pitching staff, the Dodgers signed 2008 NLCS MVP and SoCal native Cole Hamels in-season in August 2021, though he would never throw a pitch for the team as he injured himself a few weeks upon signing. Off the field, Raul Ibanez would join the Dodgers front office as a special assistant to the President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman, in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nDespite his accomplishments and success in the late 2000s, Jonathan Broxton's costly blown saves in Game 4 of the 2008 and 2009 National League Championship Series proved to be career defining. Broxton had an excellent first half of the season and was selected to the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, in which he recorded the save. However, he faded in the second half, beginning with four run a blown save against the New York Yankees in a prime-time game on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204245-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Championship Series, Aftermath\nIn somewhat of a repeat performance against the Phillies, he blew another four run lead on August 12, a game which put a dent in the Dodgers chances at a third straight National League West crown. Broxton returned to the closer role at the start of the 2011 season and appeared in 14 games in March and April and produced a disappointing 5.68 ERA and 7 saves. Broxton was later shut down for the season due to shoulder tightness and became a free agent at season's end. Broxton bounced around the league until 2017 and enjoyed moderate success; however, he would never regain his form of dominance he showed in the late 2000s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series\nThe 2009 National League Division Series (NLDS) consisted of two concurrent best-of-five game series that determined the participating teams in the 2009 National League Championship Series. Three divisional winners and a \"wild card\" team played in the two series. The NLDS began on Wednesday, October 7 and ended on Monday, October 12. TBS televised all games in the United States. The matchups were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series\nThis marked the second postseason meeting between the Phillies and Rockies in three seasons; the Rockies swept the Phillies in the 2007 NLDS. The Dodgers and Cardinals last met in the postseason during the 2004 NLDS, which the Cardinals won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series\nThe Dodgers and Phillies won their respective series\u2014the Dodgers three games to none and the Phillies three games to one. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in the NLCS by a series score of 4\u20131, and lost the 2009 World Series to the American League champion New York Yankees, 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 1\n9:37\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 1\nNeither team's starting pitcher was particularly effective in the series opener; however, neither team's offense was able to capitalize, as this game set an MLB postseason record for runners left on base combined between the two teams, with 30. Los Angeles starter Randy Wolf loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning, but allowed just one run on Ryan Ludwick's one-out single. In the bottom half of the inning, St. Louis starter Chris Carpenter gave up a two-run home run to Matt Kemp, giving the Dodgers a lead they would never relinquish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 1\nIn the third, they put runners on first and second on a walk and hit-by-pitch before Casey Blake's RBI single put them up 3\u20131. The Cardinals cut the lead back to one in the fourth when Colby Rasmus drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a groundout and scored on Skip Schumaker's double. In the fifth, Rafael Furcal's sacrifice fly with runners on second and third made it 4\u20132 Dodgers. Next inning, Kyle McClellan hit Russell Martin with a pitch with the bases loaded to force in another run, charged to Dennys Reyes, for the Dodgers. In the top of the ninth, Jonathan Broxton allowed a one-out single to Ryan Ludwick, who scored on Mark DeRosa's two-out double, before striking out Rick Ankiel looking to end the game and give the Dodgers a 1\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 1\nLos Angeles slugger Manny Ramirez was held to 1-for-4 with one walk, while St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols was 0-for-3 with two intentional walks. The game ran 3:54 which made it the longest nine-inning postseason game in history: however, the record was broken four days later by the Rockies and Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 2\n6:07\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 2\nIn an amazing pitching duel, Game\u00a02 was dominated by Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright and Dodgers phenom Clayton Kershaw, who was pitching in his first career postseason start. In the second inning, Matt Holliday hit a home run to put the Cardinals ahead 1\u20130, but Dodger slugger Andre Ethier hit his first career post-season homer to tie it up 1\u20131 in the bottom of the fourth, the first hit Wainwright allowed. Wainwright dominated throughout his start, retiring the first 11 hitters he faced, while Kershaw kept pitching in and out of trouble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 2\nIn the seventh inning, a double by Colby Rasmus with no outs scored Mark DeRosa to put St. Louis ahead 2\u20131, but Rasmus was thrown out at third base, which ended up being a huge play. At the time, it seemed to be enough to allow Wainwright to pitch to victory; in the eighth inning, however, he pitched into a bases-loaded jam. With two outs, Game\u00a01 hero Matt Kemp grounded out to Albert Pujols to end the threat, and going into the ninth inning, Cardinal closer Ryan Franklin was brought in with one out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 2\nAfter retiring Manny Ramirez, Dodger first baseman James Loney hit a fly ball to Holliday, who lost the ball in the lights and it hit off his belly, allowing Loney to reach second on the error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 2\nAfter a walk to Casey Blake, mid-season acquisition Ronnie Belliard hit a clutch two-out single to score pinch runner Juan Pierre to tie the game, and after Russell Martin walked to load the bases, veteran pinch hitter Mark Loretta, who was 0-for-15 career against Franklin, hit a walk-off single to center field to score Blake and the Dodgers won the game in dramatic fashion, spoiling the gem by Wainwright and sending the series to St. Louis with a 2\u20130 LA advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 3\n6:07\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 3\nThe Dodgers swept the Cardinals 3\u20130, and went on to go face the Phillies in a NLCS rematch. Vicente Padilla silenced the Cardinals' bats again by pitching dominantly, allowing no runs on four hits through seven innings. The 47,296 attendance was the largest crowd to see a game at Busch Stadium since it opened in 2006. In the top of the first, Matt Kemp singled with one out off of Joel Pi\u00f1eiro and scored on Manny Ramirez's two-out double. In the third, Andre Ethier's two-run home run made it 3\u20130 Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Game 3\nNext inning, Ronnie Belliard hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a groundout, and scored on Rafael Furcal's two-out single. In the seventh, Ethier tripled with two outs off of John Smoltz and scored on Ramirez's single. The Cardinals scored their only run of the game in the eighth when Julio Lugo walked off of George Sherrill, stole second and scored on Albert Pujols's single off of Jonathan Broxton. Broxton pitched a scoreless ninth to seal the series for the Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Los Angeles vs. St. Louis, Composite line score\n2009 NLDS (3\u20130): Los Angeles Dodgers over St. Louis Cardinals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 1\n2:37\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 1\nAmidst strong, swirling winds at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies cruised to a 5\u20131 victory behind a dominating performance from Cliff Lee. Philadelphia broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fifth when Jayson Werth drew a leadoff walk and scored on an RBI double by Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez, who scored two batters later on a single from Carlos Ruiz. Rockies starter Ubaldo Jim\u00e9nez ran into more trouble in the sixth, giving up a leadoff single to Chase Utley, who stole second, then an RBI double to Jayson Werth and an RBI triple to Ryan Howard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 1\nJoe Beimel relieved Jimenez and allowed an RBI single to Ibanez. Lee, meanwhile, retired 16 straight Colorado batters from the second inning into the seventh, picking up the complete game win in his first career postseason start. Lee was one strike away from completing a shutout, but Troy Tulowitzki lined a two-out, two-strike double in the top of the ninth to plate the Rockies' only run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 1\nActor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael sang the national anthem before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 2\n2:37\u00a0p.m. (ET) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 2\n2008 NLCS and World Series MVP Cole Hamels faced Rockies' starter Aaron Cook in Game\u00a02. In the top of the first inning, the Rockies scored the first run of the game when Todd Helton hit a ball up the first base line that was misplayed by Hamels allowing Carlos Gonzalez to score from third. Rockies' catcher Yorvit Torrealba then hit a two-run home run off of Hamels in the fourth inning after he had not hit a home run since May 6. Next inning, Dexter Fowler's sacrifice fly with runners on second and third made it 4\u20130 Rockies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 2\nHamels was then told his wife was going into labor and lifted for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Phillies would fight back in the sixth. After consecutive hits by Shane Victorino and Chase Utley put runners on first and second with nobody out, Ryan Howard hit a line-drive double into the right field corner making the score 4\u20131 Rockies. Jose Contreras relieved Cook as Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez hit a one-out single to center field scoring two runs to cut the score to 4\u20133 Rockies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 2\nPedro Feliz's single loaded the bases, but Carlos Ruiz grounded into an inning-ending double play. Charlie Manuel would use potential Game\u00a03 starters Joe Blanton and J.A. Happ in the seventh, with Happ only throwing four pitches and leaving with an injury after being hit on the leg with a line drive. The Rockies loaded the bases off of them before Fowler's sacrifice fly off of Scott Eyre made it 5\u20133 Rockies. Jayson Werth hit a home run in the eighth inning off of Rafael Betancourt to once again close the Rockies lead to one, but Huston Street retired Shane Victorino with two runners on base with two outs in the ninth inning to send the series to Colorado tied 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nGame\u00a03 was originally scheduled for October 10 at 9:37\u00a0p.m. Eastern, but was postponed due to snowy weather in the Denver area. The city received two inches of snow by Saturday morning, and forecasts called for a game-time temperature of 26\u00a0\u00b0F (\u22123\u00a0\u00b0C). The October 10 low was 17\u00a0\u00b0F (\u22128\u00a0\u00b0C), breaking a record set in 1905. This normally would not have been a problem due to Coors Field's underground heating system, and the Rockies have played in freezing conditions before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nHowever, MLB began giving serious thought to postponing the game after hearing that the temperature would barely make it above freezing, and reports of icy roads and numerous accidents clinched the decision. This pushed Game\u00a04 back to October 12, with Game\u00a05, if necessary, to be played the next day in Philadelphia with no travel day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nThe temperature at game time (10:07 pm Eastern; 8:07 pm local) was 35\u00a0\u00b0F (2\u00a0\u00b0C) and it dropped over the course of the game, which ended after midnight local time. At 4:06, this was the longest nine-inning postseason game ever (breaking a record set four days earlier by the Dodgers and Cardinals.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nChase Utley's two-out home run off of Jason Hammel made it 1\u20130 Phillies in the first, but in the bottom half, Todd Helton's RBI groundout after back-to-back leadoff singles off of J. A. Happ tied the score. After a single and strikeout, Garrett Atkins's RBI single put the Rockies up 2\u20131. In the third, Helton drew a leadoff walk and scored on Atkins's double to make it 3\u20131 Rockies, but in the fourth, a leadoff walk and single was followed by Ryan Howard's RBI single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nHammel then walked two to load the bases and force in another run to tie the game. After a double play, Carlos Ruiz's RBI single put the Phillies up 4\u20133, but Carlos Gonzalez's home run in the bottom of the inning off of Joe Blanton tied the game. In the sixth, back-to-back one-out walks off of Jose Contreras were followed by Ruiz's RBI single that put the Phillies up 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 3\nIn the bottom of the seventh, Scott Eyre allowed a leadoff double and subsequent single before being relieved by Ryan Madson, who allowed a one-out sacrifice fly to Troy Tulowitzki to tie the game. In the ninth, Ryan Howard's sacrifice fly with two on off of Huston Street put the Phillies up 6\u20135. Brad Lidge pitched a scoreless bottom half despite allowing two walks to give the Phillies a 2\u20131 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nGame\u00a04 was originally scheduled to start on Game\u00a03's date and start time, but due to the Saturday postponement was pushed back to Monday with first pitch at 4:07 Mountain Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nWith an extra day of rest, both teams pitched their aces in a rematch of Game\u00a01. The Phillies quickly struck in the first, as the second batter of the game, Shane Victorino, hit a home run into the Rockies bullpen. Jimenez would settle down, virtually matching the Phillies' Cliff Lee the rest of the way, his only other run coming on a Jayson Werth homer in the sixth. Lee wasn't as dominant as he was in Game\u00a01, but held the Rockies at bay until the sixth when Troy Tulowitzki doubled home Todd Helton to cut the Phillies lead to 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nJimenez pitched seven innings before giving way to Franklin Morales. The Phillies would load the bases in the eighth with one out, but Rafael Betancourt would get a pop out and strikeout to keep Philadelphia from adding to their lead. With one out in the bottom of the inning, Lee walked Dexter Fowler. Helton then bounced what looked like a tailor-made double play ground ball to Chase Utley. Fowler, to avoid running into him, jumped and hurdled over Utley, whose throw to second was wide and an error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nLee was pulled and a double switch was made, Ryan Madson in to pitch, Ben Francisco in left field. Tulowitzki promptly stepped up and hit a shallow fly to left that Francisco made a diving catch on to rob the Rockies of the potential tying run. Jason Giambi pinch hit, and on the first pitch punched a game-tying single to left. Yorvit Torrealba followed by hitting a two-run double over the head of Victorino, giving the Rockies their first lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nIn the ninth Colorado again turned to Street, the losing pitcher in Game\u00a03. This time he opened the inning by striking out pinch hitter Greg Dobbs, prompting Ryan Howard to tell his teammates to \"get me to the plate, boys.\" Jimmy Rollins, though, as he did the previous night, singled. After Victorino bounced into a fielder's choice that saw Rollins forced out at second, Utley stepped up and went down 2\u20132 in the count. He would, however, work a walk to bring go-ahead run Ryan Howard to the plate. On a 2\u20131 pitch, Howard belted a double to the wall in right field, tying the game. Werth followed with a bloop single to shallow right on a 2\u20132 pitch as the Phillies matched the Rockies' three-run rally with one of their own to retake the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nColorado would threaten again in the ninth against Scott Eyre. With one out, Carlos Gonzalez singled, tying him with Dante Bichette for the club record for hits in the Division Series at ten. Following a Fowler lineout, Helton singled up middle. Brad Lidge was again summoned from the bullpen and faced Tulowitzki in a rematch of the previous night's final at-bat. Having looked at two sliders, and barely checked his swing on another, Lidge threw Tulowitzki a 2\u20132 slider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204246-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 National League Division Series, Philadelphia vs. Colorado, Game 4\nThis time Tulowitzki could not check his swing, striking out to end the game, and sending the Phillies to the NLCS with a three-games-to-one series victory. It also marked the first time in Division Series history that all four series winners clinched on the road, as the Dodgers, Angels and Yankees all had completed sweeps on the road previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204247-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National League speedway season\nThe 2009 National League speedway season was the third tier/division of British speedway and was contested by ten teams. Bournemouth Buccaneers were champions. It was the first season under the new name after previously been known as the Conference League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204247-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National League speedway season, Final table\nPL = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; BP = Bonus Pts Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204247-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National League speedway season, Final table\nSCORING SYSTEMHome loss by any number of points = 0Home draw = 1Home win by between 1 and 6 points = 2Home win by 7 points or more = 3Away loss by 7 points or more = 0Away loss by 6 points or less = 1Away draw = 2Away win by between 1 and 6 points = 3Away win by 7 points or more = 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204247-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National League speedway season, Play Offs\nTop four teams race off in two-legged semi-finals and final to decide championship. The winner was Bournemouth Buccaneers who defeated the Plymouth Devils in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204247-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National League speedway season, National League Knockout Cup\nThe 2009 National League Knockout Cup was the 12th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier three teams but the first under its new name. Bournemouth Buccaneers were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204248-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Liberation Party presidential primary\nA primary election was held among the members of Costa Rica\u2019s then ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) on June 7, 2009 in order to choose the PLN\u2019s nominee for presidency in the 2010 general election. The two main candidates for the nomination were then vice-president Laura Chinchilla and San Jos\u00e9 Mayor Johnny Araya. Former security minister Fernando Berrocal also ran a basically testimonial candidacy. PLN\u2019s main rival party, PAC, ran its own convention a month before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204248-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Liberation Party presidential primary\nPLN primaries, known as National Conventions (Convenci\u00f3n Nacional Liberacionista) were common place since the Party\u2019s foundation, yet in the previous election of 2006 PLN\u2019s nominee former president \u00d3scar Arias seeking re-election ran unopposed and was designated by the party\u2019s National Assembly. Unlike its rival PAC, PLN's election was an open primary and as such every Costa Rican could vote as far as pledge written membership to the party (PLN holds open primaries since the 70s). Debates among PLN and PAC\u2019s candidates respectively were organized in different colleges, NGOs and news networks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204248-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Liberation Party presidential primary\nFormer minister Antonio \u00c1lvarez Desanti had recently return to the party expressing his interest in the nomination, yet party regulations prevent his candidacy due to his recent participation in another party. Desanti dropped from the race supporting Chinchilla. While Chinchilla was seen as close to then incumbent president Arias and his faction, Araya was endorsed by his brother and previous candidate Rolando and by his uncle former president Luis Alberto Monge. The final results were 55% for Chinchilla, 41% for Araya and 2% for Berrocal. Chinchilla will also win the presidential race in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204248-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Liberation Party presidential primary\nAraya would maintain his political aspirations and would run unopposed in the next election cycle as other aspirants like Rodrigo Arias (former Prime Minister and Oscar Arias\u2019 brother) and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Figueres (former president) dropped their candidacies for the 2014 election, which was lost by Araya against PAC\u2019s candidate Luis Guillermo Sol\u00eds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress\nThe 2nd Session of the 11th National People's Congress is the annual meeting of the highest legislative body of the People's Republic of China, which was held in March 2009 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The event began on March 5 and lasted until March 13. The Congress was followed closely because of the possible impact any policy changes would have on the Chinese and world economy. Major issues discussed at the Congress include the global financial crisis, industrial revitalization, curbing unemployment, and social welfare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress\nHighlights of the Congress included Premier Wen Jiabao's expression of confidence in the growth of China's economy in 2009, conciliatory remarks towards Taiwan from Beijing, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo's reiteration that China will not adopt Western-style democracy, and Wen's expressed doubts about U.S. treasury securities. The main issues raised by delegates included a strategy to adopt to face the current economic slowdown, the ways to continue to improve population's life standards (jobs, health), and continue efforts against corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Background\nThe 2009 NPC takes place alongside the 2009 session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a political advisory body with little practical power. In recent years, however, there has been a marked rise in the amount of debate within both bodies. This year's congress is especially important because it takes place in the backdrop of the ongoing global financial crisis, the first such crisis of this proportion China has faced since economic liberalization under Deng Xiaoping in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Background\nA day prior to the Congress, the government announced a 14.9% increase in the Chinese defense budget, 3% less than the previous year. There was also speculation of the unveiling of another stimulus package, which affected trading on global stock markets on March 4. The event's timeline was shortened this year because of the ongoing global financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Premier's Work Report\nThe Premier, Wen Jiabao, delivered the annual Government Work Report on March 5, 2009. This annual speech details the government's policy and legislative agenda for the past and coming year (roughly analogous to the State of the Union address and Throne Speeches in some other countries). While acknowledging the deepening financial crisis, Wen declared that China would aim for a GDP growth of 8% in the coming year. Wen revealed that the central government deficit hovers around 750 billion yuan ($US109.63 billion), 570 billion yuan more than last year. The total deficit will amount to 950 billion yuan ($US139 billion) as local governments plan to issue 200 billion yuan worth of government bonds. Although this is a relatively large deficit by Chinese standards, it only accounts for less than 3% of the GDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Premier's Work Report\nWen pointed to improvements in cross-strait relations between mainland China and Taiwan, and declared that the two sides have entered a \"peaceful period\". He remarked that new agreements on economic cooperation will be signed in the coming year. To address reconstruction after the deadly Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, the central government will allocate 130 billion yuan to accelerate recovery in hard-hit areas in Sichuan province. In health care reform, Wen stressed that governments at all levels will allocate an additional 850 billion yuan in the next three years, including 331.8 billion yuan directly from the central government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, NPC Standing Committee Work Report\nThe Chair of the NPC, Wu Bangguo, delivered his report on the work of the National People's Congress over the past year. He spoke on the continuing reconstruction of the Sichuan earthquake and progress of relief work, and empathized with the victims. On the economy, he touched on the slowing economy due to the 2008 financial crisis, increased unemployment and risk to social stability if proper oversight is not increased in areas of food safety, standards and reporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, NPC Standing Committee Work Report\nThe NPC standing committee chairman also stressed oversight of the economic stimulus package through the legislature, increased domestic consumption, and upgrading industry and competitiveness in this difficult economic period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, NPC Standing Committee Work Report\nWu also stated China cannot indiscriminately copy western political concepts such as multi-party governance, separation of powers namely the executive, legislative and judicial branch, or turning the NPC into a bicameral system. China's political reforms rest with improving and developing the socialist political system which includes the NPC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, President of the Supreme People's Court Work Report\nChina's top judicial official, Wang Shengjun reported the continuing efforts to educate judges on judicial work ethic and root out corruption. Wang mentioned judicial corruption severely undermined the credibility of the judicial system and led to social repercussions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, President of the Supreme People's Court Work Report\nA total of 712 judicial officials from courts throughout China were prosecuted for violations of the laws in 2008, Wang said. Out of the 712, 105 faced criminal prosecutions. He indicated, in 2008, the Supreme People's Court dealt with over 10,000 cases, up nearly 30 percent from 2007. Local courts processed over 10 million cases, up nearly 11 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Prosecutor General's Work Report\nChina's Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming stated the central government will step up the inspection of prisons, with more resources and surprise checks, to prevent inmates from being bullied or tortured. The main points that came up from Cao's work report are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Prosecutor General's Work Report\nCai acknowledge in 2008, the total number of arrest came up to 952,583 suspects for numerous crimes and 1,143,897 were prosecuted. This was an increase of 3.5 percent and 5.7 percent from the last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Prosecutor General's Work Report\nThere were 33,546 cases relating to corruption, misconduct and violation on people's human rights investigated. This involved 41,179 people. The total prosecuted were 33,953 people involved in 26,684 such cases. Out of the total there were 17,594 serious corruption cases, 3,211 major cases of misconduct and violations on people's human rights, and 2,687 officials at all levels of public office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Prosecutor General's Work Report\nThe prosecutor general also indicated 10,315 cases of commercial bribery committed by government officials were investigated. This involved a total sum of more than 2.1 billion yuan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Premier's press conference\nOn March 13 Premier Wen Jiabao held the annual NPC press conference to a gallery of domestic and international reporters. Wen remarked that the international financial crisis is an extraordinary situation. China has over half of its estimated $2 trillion of foreign exchange holdings in United States Treasury securities and other U.S. government debt and Wen remarked, \"We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204249-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 National People's Congress, Premier's press conference\nWen asked the U.S. to \"maintain its good credit, to honor its promises and to guarantee the safety of China\u2019s assets\". In particular, Wen was confident that China's economy would continue to grow at a rate of 8% in 2009. Wen played down speculation that the 1.18 trillion Yuan of central government stimulus is not completely directed to new investments, and that the government was ready to make new stimulus plans if need be in the future. Wen also mentioned his aspiration to visit Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season\nThe 2009 National Pro Fastpitch season was the sixth season of professional softball under the name National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) for  the only professional women's fastpitch softball league in the United States. From 1997 to 2002, NPF operated under the names Women's Pro Fastpitch (WPF) and Women's Pro Softball League (WPSL). Each year, the playoff teams battle for the Cowles Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nIn November 2008, the Rockford Thunder named as field manager James Sherwood, who replaced Javier Vela. Vela resigned after four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nAkron Racers named a new field manager, Barb Sherwood, who replaced Shonda Stanton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season, Milestones and events\nBefore the 2009 season, Washington Glory ceased operations for financial reasons. Subsequently, NPF and United States Specialty Sports Association(USSSA) began a partnership, which resulted in the expansion team USSSA Pride inheriting the Glory's player contracts. The Pride named J.Y. Davis and Margaret Davis as coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season, Player acquisition, College draft\nThe 2009 NPF Senior Draft was held February 10, 2009, at the Cambria Suites Akron-Canton Airport location. Three-time First-Team All-American outfielder Kaitlin Cochran of Arizona State was selected first by the Akron Racers, after a draft-day trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204250-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Pro Fastpitch season, NPF Championship\nThe 2009 NPF Championship Series was held at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio August 19\u201323. The top four teams qualified and were seeded based on the final standings. The first seed played the fourth seed on a best-of-three series, and the second seed played the third seed in another best-of-three series. The winners played each other in a best-of-three series that determined the champion. Day one of play was rained out, forcing the four teams to play doubleheaders on day two, August 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class\nThese are the results for the voting for the National Soccer Hall of Fame 2009 induction class. Jeff Agoos and Joy Fawcett were selected for the player category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class\nThe Hall of Fame inducts individuals in three categories, Player, Veteran and Builder. The Hall of Fame also selects individuals for special awards including the Colin Jose Media Award, Eddie Pearson Award and a Medal of Honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Player\nTo be eligible in this category, a player must have been retired at least three years and not more than ten. Voting began on November 3, 2008 and ended December 3, 2008. Any player who was named on at least 66.7% of the ballots cast was selected for induction. Any player who received less than 5% of the ballots was dropped from the player eligibility list and will be placed on the Veterans eligibility list when they meet the criteria for that list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Player\nOn January 16, 2009, the Hall of Fame announced the results of the player ballot. The announcement came on live television, a first for the Hall of Fame, broadcast from the annual NSCAA convention in St. Louis, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Player, Voting results\nVoters cast 159 votes. The balloting was tight with only two individuals exceeding the minimum of 66.7% required for induction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 73], "content_span": [74, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Player, Eligible players\nThe following individuals were also declared eligible for induction in 2009, but were not among the top vote getters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 75], "content_span": [76, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Veteran\nOn February 2, 2009, the Hall of Fame announced that none of the sixteen veteran candidates had received enough votes for induction into the hall. The top five candidates are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Veteran\nThe Veterans Screening Committee had selected the following sixteen candidates from a pool of over 300 eligible players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Builder\nOn February 2, 2009, the Hall of Fame announced that none of the sixteen builder candidates had received enough votes for induction into the hall. The top five candidates are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204251-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Class, Builder\nThe Builder's Screening Committee had selected the following fifteen candidates from a list of over 50 eligible candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 44th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2010, honored the best in film for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture\n1. The Hurt Locker2. Summer Hours (L'Heure d'\u00e9t\u00e9)3. Inglourious Basterds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director\n1. Kathryn Bigelow \u2013 The Hurt Locker2. Olivier Assayas \u2013 Summer Hours (L'Heure d'\u00e9t\u00e9)3. Wes Anderson \u2013 Fantastic Mr. Fox", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor\n1. Jeremy Renner \u2013 The Hurt Locker2. Jeff Bridges \u2013 Crazy Heart3. Nicolas Cage \u2013 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress\n1. Yolande Moreau \u2013 S\u00e9raphine2. Meryl Streep \u2013 Julie & Julia and Fantastic Mr. Fox3. Abbie Cornish \u2013 Bright Star", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor\n1. Paul Schneider \u2013 Bright Star (TIE)1. Christoph Waltz \u2013 Inglourious Basterds (TIE)3. Christian McKay \u2013 Me and Orson Welles", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress\n1. Mo'Nique \u2013 Precious2. Anna Kendrick \u2013 Up in the Air2. Samantha Morton \u2013 The Messenger", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay\n1. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen \u2013 A Serious Man2. Olivier Assayas \u2013 Summer Hours (L'Heure d'\u00e9t\u00e9)3. Quentin Tarantino \u2013 Inglourious Basterds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography\n1. Christian Berger \u2013 The White Ribbon (Das wei\u00dfe Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)2. Barry Ackroyd \u2013 The Hurt Locker3. Jan Troell and Mischa Gavrjusjov \u2013 Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga \u00f6gonblick)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Production Design\n1. Nelson Lowry \u2013 Fantastic Mr. Fox2. Rick Carter \u2013 Avatar3. Henry Selick \u2013 Coraline", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 77], "content_span": [78, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Foreign Language Film\n1. Summer Hours (L'Heure d'\u00e9t\u00e9)2. Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga \u00f6gonblick)3. 35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums)3. Police, Adjective (Poli\u021bist, Adjectiv)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204252-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Non-Fiction Film\n1. The Beaches of Agn\u00e8s (Les plages d'Agn\u00e8s)2. Tyson3. Anvil! The Story of Anvil", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204253-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Twenty20 Cup\nThe 2009 RBS Twenty-20 Cup was the fifth edition of the RBS Twenty-20 Cup, a domestic Twenty20 tournament in Pakistan. It was held in Lahore from 25 to 29 May 2009. The Sialkot Stallions won their fourth overall and consecutive title by defeating the Lahore Lions in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204253-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Twenty20 Cup\nThis tournament was held immediately before the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, which Pakistan won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204253-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Twenty20 Cup, Results, Teams and standings\nThe top team from each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204254-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 National Women's Cup\nThe 2009 USASA National Women's Cup was the 14th edition of the annual national soccer championship, won by the Chicago Eclipse Select with a 3-1 victory over the New York Athletic Club. The Eclipse beat NYAC in the semifinals of the 2008 Women's Amateur the previous year as well before losing to the Turbo D'Feeters in the Amateur final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204254-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 National Women's Cup, Regional Phase, Region I\nNYAC beat Danubia in the final, with the Classic Crush (of Massachusetts) and the Peninsula Aztecs as the losing semifinalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204254-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 National Women's Cup, Regional Phase, Region II\nSix teams were divided into two groups, with the group winners facing off for Region II's national semifinal slot. The Chicago Eclipse Select won their group and then beat the Kentucky Wanderers to move forward. The group runners-up were J.B. Marine S.C. and Women's SC United, followed by FC Indiana and the AAFC Elite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204254-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 National Women's Cup, Regional Phase, Region III\nThe Houston Challengers won a three-team group, with runners-up Triad United Aces and third-place Lynch's Irish Pub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204255-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nations Cup (women's rugby union)\nThe second Nations Cup tournament was played at Appleby College, Oakville, Canada, in August 2009. An Under-20 version also took place in England a month before. The second tournament again included Canada, England and the USA, but these nations were joined by France for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204255-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nations Cup (women's rugby union), Under 20 Nations Cup 2009 (Brunel University, London), Final Table, Points scoring\n4 points awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, no points for a loss. 1 bonus point awarded for scoring four or more tries and 1 bonus point for losing by less than 7 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 122], "content_span": [123, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204256-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour\nThe 2009 Nationwide Tour was the 20th Nationwide Tour season. It ran from February 5 to October 25. The season consisted of 29 official money golf tournaments; six of which were played outside of the United States. The top 25 players on the year-end money list earned their PGA Tour card for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204256-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the Nationwide Tour's 2009 schedule. The numbers in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of wins on the Nationwide Tour including that event. No one accumulates many wins on the Nationwide Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204256-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour, Leading money winners\nThe table shows the final top 10 money winners for the 2009 Nationwide Tour season. For the list of the top 25 golfers, given PGA Tour memberships for the 2010 season, see 2009 Nationwide Tour graduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204256-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour, Leading money winners\nThere is a full list on the PGA Tour's website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204257-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour graduates\nThis is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2009. The top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2009 earned their PGA Tour card for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204257-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nationwide Tour graduates\n*PGA Tour rookie in 2010#Michael Sim received a battlefield promotion to the PGA Tour in 2009 by winning three tournaments on the Nationwide Tour in 2009. On the PGA Tour in 2009, he played in 3 tournaments and made 3 cuts, including one top 25. T=tiedGreen background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2011 (won finished inside the top 125). Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2011, but retained conditional status (finished between 126\u2013150). Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2011 (finished outside the top 150).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204258-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament\nThe 2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sacramento, California, United States between 5 and 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204258-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204258-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204258-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament, Champions, Doubles\nLester Cook /  David Martin def. Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez /  Travis Rettenmaier, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204259-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament \u2013 Doubles\nBrian and Dann Battistone were the defending champions, but did not compete this year. Lester Cook and David Martin defeated Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Travis Rettenmaier 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204260-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Natomas Men's Professional Tennis Tournament \u2013 Singles\nDonald Young chose to not defend his 2008 title. Santiago Giraldo won this tournament. He won against Jesse Levine 7\u20136(4), 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204261-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nature Valley Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Nature Valley Grand Prix was the 9th edition of the Nature Valley Grand Prix stage race. It took place from June 10 through June 14 as part of the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar. The winner was Australian rider Rory Sutherland of OUCH\u2013Maxxis who won the race on the final criterium. The race included an Individual Time Trial, two road races and three criteriums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204262-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 2009 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Midshipmen, led by second-year head coach Ken Niumatalolo, played their home games at the Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204262-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Navy Midshipmen football team\nOn November 7, 2009 athletic director Chet Gladchuk announced that Navy had accepted an invitation to play in the Texas Bowl on Thursday, December 31 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas against the Big 12 Conference's Missouri Tigers. This mark was the first time that Navy had gone to bowl games in seven straight seasons. Navy won the 2009 Texas Bowl, 35\u201313, and finished with a record of 10\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing\nThe 2009 Nazran bombing occurred on 17 August 2009, in Nazran, the largest city of the Republic of Ingushetia in the Russian federation. A suicide car bomber attacked police headquarters, and at least 25 people were killed and 164 injured. It was the most serious terrorist attack in Ingushetia in the early 21st century, where there had been social and political unrest related to independence movements. The militant Islamist Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Attack\nAt 9:08\u00a0a.m.(MSK) on 17 August 2009, an unidentified militant drove a GAZelle truck into the gates of a police headquarters building in Nazran, Ingushetia's largest city. The attack occurred as police officers were lining up nearby for a morning briefing. Policemen fired at the car, but were unable to stop it. The blast, which reportedly had the force of 400\u00a0kg of dynamite, created a crater 4 metres (13\u00a0ft) wide and 2 metres (6.6\u00a0ft) deep, damaged the police headquarters building and nearby apartments. It also caused ammunition stored in the police headquarters to explode. Twenty people were reported to have been killed and 138 were injured. The toll later rose to 25 killed and 164 wounded, with 15 of the dead being Russian policemen and 10 being Ingush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Attack\nAccording to the Republic's Deputy Interior Minister Zyaudin Dourbekov, police had received information on August 15 that a vehicle of this type was going to be used in a suicide bombing, but were unable to prevent the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\nThe Ingush authorities announced a three-day mourning period. They promised to pay 100,000 rubles ($3,000 USD) and 50,000 rubles ($1,500 USD) in compensation to the families of those killed or injured. Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations dispatched a plane to Ingushetia carrying medical specialists and aid for the victims. Following the attack, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked Ingush Interior Minister Ruslan Meiriyev, saying that the attack could have been prevented. \"This is the outcome not only of the problems related to terrorist attacks, but also of the republic law enforcement agencies' unsatisfactory work,\" Medvedev said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered condolences to those affected by the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\nOn 18 August Alexander Bastrykin said that the Federal Security Service (FSB) received information about the organizers of the attack. He refused to name the suspects at this stage, but said that they belonged to the same groups that had conducted similar attacks in recent years. Bastrykhin assured that the FSB was doing everything it can to solve the crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\nPresident Medvedev put Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, Colonel-General Arkady Yedelev in charge of all security and police operations in Ingushetia. The pro-administration President of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, who had survived an assassination attempt in June 2009, said the rebels' goal was to \"destabilise the situation and spread panic\" in Ingushetia and claimed that the West had a hand in the escalation in the North Caucasus with the aim to prevent Russia from reviving \"its former Soviet might\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\nOn 19 August, President Dmitry Medvedev said that the continuing attacks against Ingush leadership, law enforcement officials and civilians must be dealt with severe punishment. He said that although external factors such as foreign funding for Islamist terrorists are also a concern, for the most part North Caucasus' security problems are the results of internal reasons such as corruption and socio-economic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\n\"The roots are in the structure  of  our  life, in unemployment, clans who could not care less about people and whose only concern is to how to divide the money poured in here,  to get a contract and to settle scores with one another later, as well as corruption, which has really become very widespread among law enforcement authorities.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Aftermath\nOn 21 August, the militant Islamist Caucasus Emirate group claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Background\nIn 2009, the violence grew in the North Caucasian republics of Russia and terrorist attacks became more frequent. Although Chechen separatist activity was confirmed to be diminished due to the heavy-handed security measures undertaken by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, violence in Chechnya has been replaced by Islamic insurgency in the neighbouring republics, Dagestan and Ingushetia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204263-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nazran bombing, Background\nAfter the June attempt on President Yevkurov's life, there had been several incidents just days before the Nazran attack on 17 August. Several other leading Ingush officials have been assassinated since June 2009, including Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Aza Gazgireeva, former Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev, the head of the Forensics and Investigations Center Magomed Gadaborshev, and Construction Minister Ruslan Amerkhanov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204264-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebelhorn Trophy\nThe 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy was held between September 23 and 26, 2009 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It served as the final Olympic qualifier to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204264-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, Olympic qualification\nThis competition served as the final Olympic qualifier to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Eligible skaters qualified a spot to the Olympics for their country in order of their placement at this competition; there was no individual skater qualification. Countries who had already qualified a spot to the Olympics at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships were not eligible to qualify more spots here, and their results were discounted from the overall results when allotting spots to countries. Unlike at the World Championships, where countries could qualify more than one spot depending on the placement of the skater, at this competition, countries who qualified were allotted only one spot to the Olympics, regardless of placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204264-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, Olympic qualification\nThere were six Olympic spots available in men's singles, seven in ladies' singles, four in pairs, and five in ice dance. There were originally only six spots available in the ladies event; however, Georgia gave up one of its ladies spots before the competition, which allowed a seventh spot to become available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204264-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, Olympic qualification\nIf a country later declined to use one or more of its qualified spots, the vacated spot was awarded using the results of the Nebelhorn Trophy in descending order of placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204264-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebelhorn Trophy, Olympic qualification, Qualified countries\nThe following countries qualified an entry to the Olympics. In the event that a country chooses not to fill a spot, the next alternate in line is allotted the spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cornhuskers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska and were led by head coach Bo Pelini. The Cornhuskers finished the season 10\u20134, 6\u20133 in Big 12 and were Big 12 North Division champions and represented the division in the Big 12 Championship Game, where they lost to Texas 13\u201312. Nebraska was invited to the Holiday Bowl, where they defeated Arizona 33\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season\nThe 2009 Cornhuskers began the regular season on Saturday, September 5, 2009 against the Florida Atlantic Owls. The Cornhuskers were led by second-year Head Coach Bo Pelini. Pelini previously served as Defensive Coordinator for LSU and Oklahoma following a season as Nebraska's Defensive Coordinator in 2003, and was brought back to Nebraska to lead the football program by Nebraska's former Head Coach and current Athletic Director, Tom Osborne after the conclusion of the 2007 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic\nThis was the first time Nebraska had met the Florida Atlantic Owls, who, in 2008, finished 6\u20136 (4\u20133) for a 3rd place tie with Arkansas State in the Sun Belt Conference and finished with a 24\u201321 victory in the 2008 Motor City Bowl against Central Michigan. Nebraska entered the contest with a 4-game winning streak after defeating Clemson in the Gator Bowl. Nebraska decisively defeated the Howard Schnellenberger-led Owls, 49\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic\nNebraska's Roy Helu Jr. rushed for 152 yards and three touchdowns, while Zac Lee, in his first start as quarterback at Nebraska, threw for 213 yards and two touchdowns, along with one interception. The FAU offense did produce good yardage, gaining 122 yards rushing and 230 yards passing. However, they were unable to score a touchdown, with their only points coming from a 21-yard field goal by Ross Gornall in the second quarter. A large part of this was because of 5 turnovers by the Owls. This win extended the Cornhuskers season-opener win streak to 24 games, the nation's longest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State\nCornhusker QB Zac Lee passed for over 340 yards and four touchdowns as the Cornhuskers had little trouble defeating Arkansas State in Lincoln 38\u20139. Nebraska's defense struggled for consistent performance but still managed to hold the Red Wolves out of the end zone except for a single touchdown and field goal, while the Cornhusker offense was consistently able to gain yardage. This was the first time Nebraska had met the Arkansas State Red Wolves, who finished the 2008 season 6\u20136 (4\u20133) for a 3rd place tie with Florida Atlantic in the Sun Belt Conference, although they were not invited to a postseason bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Huskers fell to 2\u20131 against the Hokies in the final seconds, having split the series with a 41\u201321 Nebraska victory in the 1996 Orange Bowl and a 30\u201335 Nebraska home field loss in non-conference play in 2008. Nebraska was poised to win its first touchdown-free game since 1937 on PK Alex Henery's career-high five field goals, but Virginia Tech escaped the home loss when Hokie QB Tyrod Taylor found a receiver on 3rd and goal from the 11 with just 21 seconds remaining to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nStatistically Nebraska outperformed the Hokies on offense, as Virginia Tech was held to just 11 first downs, only 4 first downs after the first quarter, pinned Hokie QB Taylor to -22 yards on the ground, and outgained Virginia Tech 343\u2013278. 112 of the 278 Hokie yards were acquired on just three key plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nThis was the first time Nebraska had met the Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, who finished 6\u20136 (5\u20132) for a 2nd-place finish in the Sun Belt Conference in 2008. This game was also Nebraska's 300th consecutive sellout of Memorial Stadium (an ongoing NCAA record), and the Cornhuskers wore 'throwback'-style uniforms based on the team's 1962 appearance from when the NCAA-record streak began, to commemorate the milestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Louisiana Lafayette\nNebraska smothered Louisiana Lafayette in front of an all-time Memorial Stadium record crowd, piling up 55 points while posting their first shutout since a 56\u20130 pasting of Troy in 2006. Nearly all of Nebraska's active roster found playing time, as the game was decided early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nIn a game that nearly was canceled twice\u2014once by torrential rains, possible lightning hazards, and potential flooding, and again when a power outage darkened the stadium less than an hour before kickoff\u2014Nebraska tied an all-time 4th-quarter comeback record, previously set in 1966, when the Cornhusker offense overcame the weather and penalties to roll off 27 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMissouri QB Blaine Gabbert was hobbled early in the game with an apparent ankle injury, but Tiger Head Coach Gary Pinkel opted to keep him in the game. Both teams struggled in heavy rain conditions to produce offensive output early on. The teams combined for 11 punts and two fumbles in the first half, with Missouri's safety early in the second quarter and a last-second touchdown just before halftime for the only points on the board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nWith electrical problems persisting and scoreboards remaining dark throughout the night, the Cornhuskers attempted to regroup during the half in a locker room without lights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe third quarter continued the scoring struggle, with Missouri still holding Nebraska off the scoreboard while only managing a field goal. In the fourth quarter, however, Nebraska managed to score with three touchdowns in 3:22, thanks in part to two turnovers forced by the Cornhusker defense. Protecting an 8-point lead, and with the stands quickly emptying of rain-soaked Tiger fans, Nebraska tried to run the ball for short gains in order to let the clock tick down. They did, however, score another touchdown with 56 seconds remaining to put the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nThe road win against #24 Missouri was Nebraska's first win against a ranked opponent since a 28\u201327 win against Texas A&M in 2006. This was Nebraska's first win in Columbia since 2001. Nebraska improved their series lead against Missouri, dating back to 1892, to 64\u201336\u20133. Although it was not known at the time the game was played, this would be the last conference meeting at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri between these teams. Nebraska would leave the Big XII conference for the Big 10 in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nNebraska's hopes for redemption following last year's heartbreaking loss in Lubbock against the then-#7 Texas Tech Red Raiders fell short as the Cornhuskers never found a groove in their offensive output, even after changing quarterbacks for much of the second half. The Cornhusker defensive effort was outstanding, holding the unranked Red Raiders to just 259 yards, less than half of their season average. Although the offensive unit outgained Texas Tech with 285 total yards of its own, penalties and miscues took a heavy toll that could not be overcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nNebraska's abrupt move to the Big Ten Conference would take effect for the 2011 season, leaving this series under the control of the Cornhuskers at 7\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nAlthough the Iowa State Cyclones have historically fared poorly in the previous 103 meetings with Nebraska, the Cyclones entered Memorial Stadium without their leading quarterback and rushing threat and subsequently played an error-free game. The solid effort was enough to put up 9 points in the first half to lead Nebraska by 2, which concluded the game's scoring. The 9 points turned out to be sufficient to win against the poor Cornhusker offensive effort, which turned over the ball a school-record eight times (including four inside of Iowa State's five-yard line). The turnovers negated Nebraska's 362\u2013239 edge in yards gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe Cyclones moved up to 5\u20133 (2\u20132) after a 2\u201310 (0\u20138) record the previous season and enjoyed their first win in Memorial Stadium since 1977. First-year Iowa State Head Coach Paul Rhoads said about the game, \"When you don't win in a stadium on the road since 1977, it's big.\" Overall, Nebraska leads the series 85\u201317\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nAs part of the effort to provide a spark to its nonproductive offense, true freshman quarterback Cody Green made his first start and notched his first win against the Bears in Waco. Although highly touted Nebraska DT Ndamukong Suh had been making the most noise over the course of the season, to the point of generating early Heisman talk, it was DT Jared Crick who dominated Baylor, racking up seven additional tackles for loss and a school record five sacks, for a total of 13 tackles (10 solo), as well as a fumble recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nBaylor's own defense was also stubborn, only allowing the Cornhuskers 20 points in the first half before shutting them out in the second. Baylor managed a single field goal and a defensive touchdown off of an interception a short time later in the third quarter to end the scoring. The final score was 20\u201310 and gave Nebraska the road victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nJust as with the Texas Tech game, it was not known at the time that this would be the last conference meeting between these teams, and the regular series drew to a close with Nebraska in command 11\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe history of Nebraska's contests with the Oklahoma Sooners continued in this 85th meeting between these programs, with Oklahoma holding a 44\u201337\u20133 series lead. Oklahoma had defeated Nebraska in 2008 with a strong offensive output in Norman, which left Nebraska behind 0\u201335 in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nIn 2009, the defenses took control of the game. Oklahoma made their way down the field but were stopped in Nebraska territory. Tres Way tried for his first career field goal but instead sent it flying to the left. Later in the first quarter Oklahoma made it way back down and tried for another field goal but this time Ndamukong Suh made sure the game stayed tied by getting a hand on the kick. Later on, Oklahoma QB Landry Jones was intercepted by Prince Amukamara of Nebraska, who returned it to the one-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nNebraska's offense struggled most of the game, but they got the 1 yard they needed as Zac Lee connected to Ryan Hill for the game's only touchdown. Later Oklahoma and Nebraska exchanged field goals, and then Matt O'Hanlon got three interceptions in the fourth quarter to seal an important victory for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and keep Oklahoma from recording even a single touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThis game also turned out to be the unplanned final regular season conference meeting between these programs in their storied historical rivalry, and the Sooners and Cornhuskers parted ways with Oklahoma owning the series edge 44\u201338\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Nebraska offense tried to improve over their performance the previous week against Oklahoma. Chastised for playing close conservatively during the 10\u20133 win over Oklahoma, the Cornhuskers hit Kansas with a barrage of big plays to win in Lawrence for the first time since 2003. To start the game Niles Paul caught a Zac Lee pass for a 35-yard gain. Roy Helu Jr. ran for 156 yards and three touchdowns, and Nebraska used big plays on offense to beat Kansas 31\u201317 Saturday and take a share of the Big 12 North lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nRoy Helu Jr. ran 26 times for 95 yards and a touchdown, and Nebraska defeated Kansas State 17\u20133 to win the Big 12 North. The win earned the Huskers a birth in the Big 12 conference championship game on December 5 in Arlington, Texas against the Texas Longhorns. The third-ranked Longhorns clinched the South Division with a 51\u201320 win over Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nKansas State (6\u20136, 4\u20134) ended its season with losses in three of its last four games. Because two of the Wildcats' wins were against lower-division teams, they needed to beat Nebraska to become eligible for a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThe Huskers' Zac Lee completed 13 of 19 passes for 166 yards and a touchdown. Helu gave Nebraska a two-touchdown lead early in the third quarter with his 14-yard run. Daniel Thomas ran 19 times for 99 yards for Kansas State, and Grant Gregory was 11 of 31 for 126 yards. The Wildcats failed to score a touchdown for the second straight game despite their offense spending most of the second half on Nebraska's side of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThree scoring opportunities were lost when Keithen Valentine fumbled at the Nebraska 1 and Josh Cherry missed field goals of 51 and 32 yards. The Wildcats, trailing by two touchdowns, drove to the Nebraska 25 in the last 4 minutes, but Ndamukong Suh and Barry Turner teamed up to sack Gregory. The Wildcats turned the ball over on downs when Gregory led Brandon Banks too much on a ball thrown toward the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThe Huskers took over with 3:41 left and were able to run out the clock for their fourth straight win after Lee sneaked for a first down on fourth-and-1 from his own 36. Kansas State's only points came at the end of the game's opening series, when Cherry kicked a 44-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska ended Colorado's season by defeating the Buffaloes at Folsom Field. Colorado elected to receive to start, and the Cornhusker defense prevented them from getting further than their own 21-yard line on all four of their first-quarter possessions, setting the tone for the game. Nebraska's offense struggled at times during the game, and the Buffaloes gained some traction in the second half. Colorado's two trips into the red zone during the fourth quarter produced no points through the efforts of the blackshirts to turn them away. Nebraska moved the ball 80 yards in 13 plays to seal the game with seven more points, going up 28\u201314. The teams traded possessions again, before Colorado managed to punch in a final touchdown on the last play of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska, enjoying their fifth straight win, capped their regular conference schedule at 6\u20132, winning all league road games for the year. Colorado's season ended with no bowl game and a 3\u20139 record in coach Dan Hawkins' fourth year. Nebraska extended their series lead to 48\u201318\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThis was Nebraska first trip to the Big 12 title game since 2006 and fifth time in the league's 14 years. Nebraska met undefeated #3 Texas for the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game as heavy underdogs, as 63 of 64 media predictions recorded by one source predicted a Texas victory. Nebraska hoped to upset the Longhorns and earn a BCS bowl game berth. The Longhorns sought to stay unbeaten and earn an invitation to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe game was defined by dominant defenses on both sides. The Nebraska offense, still struggling to find a productive groove, was rendered ineffective by Texas, gaining only 106 yards on the day and scoring all 12 points on field goals. However, the highly productive Longhorn offense led by Heisman-candidate Colt McCoy found itself struggling to make progress against the blackshirts. McCoy was sacked nine times and intercepted three times, while Texas was held to just 202 yards of offense for the game. The 13 Longhorn points were the fewest they had scored in any game since a 7\u201312 loss to Texas A&M in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nLate in the fourth quarter, with Texas holding a slight 10\u20139 lead, Nebraska came up with the most productive series of the night, going 43 yards in 8 plays to set up the go-ahead field goal putting Nebraska up 12\u201310 with just 1:44 to play. Texas faced their first loss of the season and the loss of an invite to the national championship. A poor kickoff following the field goal provided Texas with good starting field position, and a 15-yard penalty on Nebraska shortly thereafter put Texas in the outer reaches of field goal range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nTexas tried to inch closer from there but McCoy was sacked for a 2-yard loss. Then Texas lost another yard on a rush attempt, and had an incomplete pass on 3rd down that started with just 8 seconds remaining in the game. The timekeeper allowed the game clock to expire, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers rushed the field to celebrate their unlikely 2009 league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe celebration was short-lived, however. Instant replay found that the incomplete ball hit a railing with 1 second remaining. Checking the exact timing on every play of a game is not normally performed, and it is not uncommon for a second or two to tick off after plays are completed. A review was ordered, and one second was placed back on the game clock, and the field was cleared of the celebrating Cornhuskers and staff. Texas' subsequent 4th down field goal gave the Longhorns a league title by the narrowest margin in Big 12 championship history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nNebraska slipped to 4\u20139 against Texas all time, and to 2\u20133 in the league championship game. Despite the loss, Nebraska's performance resulted in the team moving up one spot in both of the major college football rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nArizona hoped to capitalize on the suspect Nebraska offense, with their best hope being to put at least a couple of scores in against the blackshirts while keeping the Cornhuskers off the board as much as possible. The Nebraska coaching staff, however, installed some entirely different offensive looks that Arizona had not prepared for. The new offensive schemes leveraged the strengths of available personnel and minimized turnover risks. The tone of the game was set early on when Nebraska intercepted Arizona and subsequently punched in the first touchdown of the game only 75 seconds into the contest. From there on out, the Wildcats were on their heels, often unable to contain the steady Nebraska gains, and unable to score or make any progress against the Nebraska defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nThe Wildcats gained only 109 total yards on the day and six first downs. Nebraska committed seven penalties for 55 yards, but managed to hold Arizona off of the scoreboard entirely, and posted the first Holiday Bowl game shutout. The bowl was also Nebraska's first ever bowl game shutout win. The only other major statistical battles won by Arizona were in the punting game in kickoff return yards. The Wildcats netted approximately six more yards per punt in their nine attempts than Nebraska managed in its four attempts. In kickoff return yards, Arizona had eight opportunities compared to the lone Nebraska kickoff return to open the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nNebraska evened up the all-time series against the Wildcats, to 1\u20131\u20131. Nebraska had a 20\u201323 Holiday Bowl loss to Arizona in 1998 and a 14\u201314 tie against the Wildcats in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season\nAfter the bowl game it was revealed that QB Zac Lee had been playing with an injured throwing arm since the Arkansas State game on September 12, the second game of the season, and that off-season surgery was scheduled to help him ready for the 2010 season. Despite periods of fan outcries about Nebraska's offensive struggles, news of his injury had deliberately been withheld during the season to prevent opposing teams from using the specific knowledge to their advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season\nWith the Holiday Bowl victory, Pelini secured the program's first 10-win season since 2003, which coincidentally was the season when former head coach Frank Solich was controversially fired before the bowl game and Pelini himself as interim coach led the Cornhuskers to their 10th win of 2003 in the Alamo Bowl against Michigan State. Nebraska finished 2009 with the nation's No. 1 scoring defense for only the second time in school history (1984).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204265-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season\nThe Nebraska defense also led the country in pass efficiency defense and red zone efficiency defense, and it finished in the top ten in the four major defensive categories (scoring, total, pass efficiency, rushing) for the first time since 1999. Nebraska's overall program record at the end of the 2009 season stood at 827\u2013341\u201340 (.701) all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup\nThe 2009 Nehru Cup International Football Tournament also known as the ONGC Nehru Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by ONGC, was the 14th edition of the Nehru Cup a friendly tournament organized by the All India Football Federation (AIFF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup\nThe 14th edition of the Nehru Cup International Football Tournament was played in the round-robin league format and the final was held on 31 August. Along with the host nation India, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Syria and Kyrgyzstan competed in the 15-day tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup\nThe total prize money for this tournament was $100,000. The champion team took away a prize of $40,000, the runners-up received $20,000 while the third place team got $10,000. The Man of the Match received $500 and the winning team of every match received $2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup\nAll games of the tournament was broadcast live by Zee Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup, Teams, Revised Group\nDue to only 5 teams entering, only one group was needed, where each team would play in a  round robin group phase. The top two advanced to a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup, Teams, Revised Group\nIndia (Hosts and holders)\u00a0Lebanon \u00a0Syria (Runners-up last Tournament) \u00a0 Kyrgyzstan \u00a0Sri Lanka", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204266-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nehru Cup, Matches and results, Group stage\nThe game between Sri Lanka and Lebanon was called off due to heavy rain. The game and thus proceeding schedule was moved back one day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204267-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nelonen - Finnish League Division 4\nLeague tables for teams participating in Nelonen, the fifth tier in the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final\nThe 2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final featured Team Bath and Galleria Mavericks. Having previously played each other in both the 2006 and 2007 grand finals, this was third final that featured Team Bath and Mavericks. This was Team Bath's third grand final and Mavericks fourth. As with the two previous encounters, it was Team Bath that emerged as winners. The Mavericks netted 46 of their 52 chances, while Team Bath claimed 54 from 62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final, Teams\nStarting 7:GS Rachel DunnGA Pamela Cookey (c)WA Joanne BinnsC Serena GuthrieWD Sara BaymanGD Gemma FletcherGK Eboni Beckford-Chambers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final, Teams\nSubstitutes:GS Rosie AllisonGS Kirsty DelvesWD/C Clare ElsleyGD/GK Samantha PerryGA/GS Monique Wood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final, Teams\nSquad: WA/C Sasha CorbinGK/WD/GK Stacey FrancisWA/GA Tamsin GreenwayGD/GK Geva Mentor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final, Teams\nStarting 7:GS Louisa Brownfield GA Ella ClarkWA Gemma WisemanC Karen Atkinson (c)WD Steph BelloGD Hazel SchofieldGK Nadia Hutchinson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204268-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Netball Superleague Grand Final, Teams\nSubstitutes:GA Michelle Hall  Camilla Buchanan  Chrissy Fitzgerald  Michaella McFarlane  Natalie Seaton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204269-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 2009 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The Wolf Pack were led by Chris Ault in his 25th overall and 6th straight season since taking over as head coach for the third time in 2004. They played their home games at Mackay Stadium. The Wolf Pack finished the regular season 8\u20134 and 7\u20131 in the WAC, good enough for second place in the conference behind Boise State. They lost to SMU in the Hawaii Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204269-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season\nThe Wolf Pack finished the 2008 season 7\u20136 and 5\u20133 in WAC play to finish in a three-way tie in second place and lost the Humanitarian Bowl to Maryland by 35 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing\nThe 2009 Nevsky Express bombing occurred on 27 November 2009 when a bomb exploded under a high speed train travelling between the Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg causing derailment near the town of Bologoye, Tver Oblast (approximately 200 miles or 320 kilometres from Moscow), on the Moscow\u2013Saint Petersburg Railway. The derailment occurred at 21:34 local time (18:34 UTC). Russian officials had stated that 39 people were killed and 95 injured but later retracted that estimate. 27 deaths had been reported by 2 December. A second bomb exploded at the scene of the investigation the following day, injuring one. It was reported to have been triggered by a remote mobile phone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing\nThe first respondents were residents of Lykoshino, a nearby village. A field hospital was set up to treat the wounded and at least 50 were hospitalised in Saint Petersburg. It is believed that, at the time of the derailment, the Nevsky Express was carrying 661 passengers in 13 carriages, of which the last four were thought to have been affected by the incident. Initial reports blamed an electrical fault for the derailment, but investigation showed that the derailment may have been caused by an act of terrorism; a crater was found in the ground near the crash site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing\nThe government confirmed that the accident was caused by terrorists, making this attack Russia's deadliest outside the North Caucasus region since the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause\nAbout 44 minutes before the incident the high-speed train Sapsan was doing a trial run in the same area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause\nRussian media initially reported that the cause of the derailment was an electrical fault. Witness reports mentioned a \"loud bang\"; another passenger told reporters in St Petersburg there had been no blast. Interfax news agency said a 3-foot-wide (0.91\u00a0m) crater had been found next to the railway track; Reuters reporters at the scene did not see one. The discovery of a 1\u00a0m (3.3\u00a0ft) crater under the tracks altered the focus of the investigation as officials suspected that the incident might be the result of a terrorist attack. Later on 28 November, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), reported to President Dmitry Medvedev that the train was derailed by an explosion of 29.288 MJ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause\nEarly investigation reports did not indicate consensus over the cause. While some reports indicated suspicion of terrorist-related activities, one law enforcement official said that the crater \"must be just a pit someone dug out [or could have been] left by an explosive device\". Some railway engineers additionally suggested that derailment may have been caused by one or several technical failures without any explosion involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause\nResponsibility for the attack had first been claimed by far-right nationalists, then by the \"Caucasian Mujahadeen\" on orders from Dokka Umarov, who is considered to be \"the leader of the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus.\" The attack was claimed to have been part of a series of attacks planned to Russian infrastructure. Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian railways, noted similarities between this attack and the 2007 Nevsky Express bombing; responsibility for the 2009 attack is yet to be confirmed. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov expressed doubts about Umarov's direct involvement, saying it may have been an attempt for him to \"raise his standing in the eyes of his foreign backers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause\nEvidence linked to the train explosion was found during an investigation that took place following a raid on suspected rebels on 2\u20133 March 2010, in which a close associate of Umarov, Said Buryatsky, along with 7 other suspects were killed. According to Bortnikov, bomb material \"identical\" to what was used in the 2007 train attack had also been uncovered during the raid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Cause, Casualties\nThe train was popular with government officials and Russian business executives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Second bomb\nA second, weaker bomb exploded the next day, 28 November at 14:00 (11:00 UTC), near the site of the first blast. The bomb was detonated by remote control, and was apparently targeted at investigators, injuring Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee and highest-ranking government official to visit the scene. No deaths were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Response\nPresident Dmitry Medvedev was informed of the incident and ordered an investigation by the FSB, while the Emergency Situations Minister held a crisis meeting with the interior and Health Ministers. As per the Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, several leads have been pursued and criminal case was opened under Articles 205 (terrorism) and Article 222 (illegal possession or storage of weapons or explosives) of the Russian Criminal Code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Response\nIn a televised Q&A session on 3 December, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also called for tough measures against the perpetrators of the bombing and reiterated terrorism still caused significant threats to the country. On 3 December, Russia's Transport police released sketches of four possible suspects one of which is believed to be a female. Russian Security Services allege these individuals had rented a house in the nearby village with a purpose of establishing train movement schedules for planning the attack and subsequently planted the explosives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204270-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Charges\nOn 31 March 2010, the official investigation resulted in charges of terrorism, participation in unlawful armed formations and illegal trafficking in explosives and ammunition against 12 ethnic Ingush from the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia; 11 of them have the last name Kartoyev and are related; the 12th is Zelimkhan Aushev. The alleged leader of the terrorist cell was an Islamist preacher known as Said Abu Saad al-Buryatia or Said Buryatsky. Said Buryatsky was killed in a clash with police in March 2010. Final version of the indictment was filed on 20 January 2011, with 9 Kartoyevs and Aushev charged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204271-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts, New Brunswick's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 28 to February 1 at the Beaver Curling Club in Moncton. The winning Andrea Kelly team represented team New Brunswick at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204272-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Caledonian legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in New Caledonia on 10 May 2009. Voters in New Caledonia chose 76 candidates for the French territory's three provincial assemblies. 54 of these 76 members were also to become members of the Congress of New Caledonia. Members of the Congress of New Caledonia serve 5-year terms in office upon their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204272-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Caledonian legislative election\nThe Labour Party, which had been founded in 2007 as the political arm of the pro-independence Union of Kanaky Workers and the Exploited (Union syndicale des travailleurs kanaks et des exploit\u00e9s, USTKE), contested the elections for the first time and hoped to gain 12,000 votes and a seat. Due to splits in the two main parties of the anti-independence front, the Rally for Caledonia in the Republic and Future Together (from which Caledonia Together split off in October 2008), the main pro-independence party, Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, hoped to become the largest party in these elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204272-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Caledonian legislative election, Election issues\nThe new territorial Congress will have to decide how to implement the autonomy provisions of the Noumea Accord of 1998. Apart from the island's political future, the economy and New Caledonia's high cost of living were the main issue in the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204273-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democracy leadership election\nThe 2009 New Democracy leadership election was held on 29 November 2009, following the official announcement of the resignation of Kostas Karamanlis, after more than 12 years (since 21 March 1997) as leader of New Democracy, the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece (at that time, the other of the two major parties was PASOK, the social democratic and center-left political party).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204273-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democracy leadership election\nKaramanlis announced that he would start procedures for the election of a new president on 4 October 2009, after the defeat of majority party New Democracy in the 2009 Greek legislative election, which was held on the same day. Antonis Samaras succeeded Karamanlis as the party's leader having won 50.06 percent of the votes at first round: for this reason, no second round was required and Samaras took office on 30 November 2009 as ND party President and Leader of Opposition (against PASOK and George Papandreou's cabinet).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204273-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democracy leadership election, Background\nIn March 2004, New Democracy formed a cabinet for a first time under Kostas Karamanlis after their win in the 2004 Greek legislative election and received a fresh mandate for a second term in the untimely 2007 election. On September 2, 2009, Karamanlis called early general elections for a second time during his incumbency as Prime Minister of Greece, stressing the need for economic reform to tackle the impact of the global financial crisis on Greek economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204273-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 New Democracy leadership election, Background\nHe also blamed main opposition PASOK for these early polls, accusing them of creating a protracted pre-election climate until next March when the members of the Hellenic Parliament were to vote for the election of the President of Greece, as PASOK had proclaimed their intention to vote against incumbent Karolos Papoulias (member of PASOK, elected in March 2005) in order to force the government to call early general election, in a period when opinion polls had been giving a victory for PASOK by a large margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204274-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership election\nThe New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership election of 2009 was prompted by party leader Gary Doer's announced pending resignation. Doer announced on August 27, 2009, that he intended to resign as leader of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba and Premier of Manitoba and the next day he announced that he was to become the next Canadian Ambassador to the United States. A leadership convention was held on October 16\u201317 to choose the new leader. There were two candidates for the position: former Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Steve Ashton and former Minister of Finance, Greg Selinger. Selinger received 65.75% of the ballots, and as such was elected party leader and became Premier-designate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204274-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership election, Declared candidates, Steve Ashton\nSteve Ashton is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Thompson and was the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs until he resigned to run for the leadership on September 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204274-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership election, Declared candidates, Greg Selinger\nGreg Selinger is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for St. Boniface and was the Minister of Finance until he resigned to run for the leadership on September 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 93], "content_span": [94, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204274-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Andrew Swan\nAndrew Swan is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Minto and was the Minister of Competitiveness, Training and Trade until he resigned to run for the leadership on September 2, 2009. Swan dropped out of the race on September 28, 2009 and regained his ministerial positions on October 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season\nThe 2009 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 40th season in the National Football League, the 50th overall and the 10th under head coach Bill Belichick. They finished with a 10\u20136 record and a division title before losing to the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season\nThis was the first of eleven consecutive AFC East titles for the Patriots. After missing the playoffs in 2008, the Patriots' offseason was marked by a number of front office, coaching, and personnel changes. Vice President of Player Personnel Scott Pioli, who had been head coach Bill Belichick's personnel director since 2000, departed to become the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, while offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels was named head coach of the Denver Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season\nQuarterback Matt Cassel, who led the team to 11 wins in 2008 after starter Tom Brady was injured, was traded to the Chiefs along with veteran linebacker Mike Vrabel in March. Defensive starters Tedy Bruschi and Rodney Harrison both retired, while All-Pro defensive end Richard Seymour was traded to the Oakland Raiders for a first round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft days before the start of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season\nIn the season opener on Monday Night Football, the Patriots celebrated their 50th anniversary season with an American Football League \"legacy game\" against the Buffalo Bills. Down 11 points late in the fourth quarter, the Patriots would score two touchdowns to secure a victory in Brady's first game back from injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season\nIn November, the 6\u20132 Patriots traveled to face the undefeated Indianapolis Colts; with a six-point lead late in the fourth quarter, the Patriots tried to convert a 4th and 2 situation inside their own 30-yard line but failed, setting up a Colts touchdown and the Patriots' third loss of the season. After losing another two games of three, the Patriots went on to win their next three games to secure a division title; the team also finished with their fourth perfect regular season record at home in seven years. With the third seed in the AFC playoffs, the Patriots faced the Baltimore Ravens at home in the Wild Card Playoffs. The Ravens opened a 24\u20130 lead in the first quarter and the Patriots could not recover, ending their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Staff changes\nWith the Patriots' 2008 season ending more than a month before its 2007 season did, the month of January, reserved for playoff games in the prior five seasons, instead saw the departure of head coach Bill Belichick's top personnel executive in his first nine seasons in New England. Vice President of Player Personnel Scott Pioli accepted an offer to become the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, giving him final say over all of the team's football matters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Staff changes\nNick Caserio, the Patriots' director of player personnel, took over Pioli's duties of overseeing the Patriots' personnel and scouting departments, while former Tennessee Titans general manager Floyd Reese was given a multi-year contract to be a \"senior football advisor.\" Meanwhile, assistant director of college scouting Jon Robinson was promoted to director of college scouting, and former assistant director of player personnel Jason Licht, who had moved from the Patriots to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals as a personnel executive, returned to the Patriots as director of pro personnel. National scout Bob Quinn was promoted to assistant director of pro personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Staff changes\nBelichick's coaching staff faced similar changes at the beginning of the 2009 offseason. Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Josh McDaniels agreed to become the head coach of the Denver Broncos, which at the time of his hiring made him the youngest head coach in the NFL. Wide receivers coach Bill O'Brien replaced McDaniels as quarterbacks coach, but no official replacement for offensive coordinator was named. Minnesota Vikings assistant special teams coach and offensive assistant Chad O'Shea replaced O'Brien as wide receivers coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Staff changes\nIn addition, special teams coach Brad Seely agreed to join the Cleveland Browns as their assistant head coach/special teams coach under new head coach and former Patriots assistant Eric Mangini. Former Denver Broncos special teams coach Scott O'Brien was named as a replacement. Tight ends coach Pete Mangurian joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as their offensive line coach after the season; offensive coaching assistant Shane Waldron replaced him. Scouting assistant Brian Ferentz replaced Waldron as an offensive coaching assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Staff changes\nOn defense, special assistant/secondary coach Dom Capers joined the Green Bay Packers as their defensive coordinator and was replaced by defensive coaching assistant Josh Boyer as defensive backs coach. Boyer was replaced as a coaching assistant by Patrick Graham, who was a defensive graduate assistant for former Patriots assistant Charlie Weis at the University of Notre Dame before being hired by the University of Toledo as a defensive line coach weeks before joining the Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nQuarterback Matt Cassel, who started 15 of the Patriots' games in 2008 after an injury to starter Tom Brady, was an unrestricted free agent after the season under the terms of his 2005 seventh-round draft pick contract. On February 5, the first day teams were allowed to place the franchise tag on a player, the Patriots assigned Cassel the non-exclusive version of the tag, tying up $14.65\u00a0million, the required amount of a one-year guaranteed tender, of their salary cap space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nThe tag allowed Cassel to negotiate with other teams, but any team signing Cassel to an offer sheet the Patriots refused to match would have had to surrender two first-round draft picks to the Patriots. Nevertheless, Cassel quickly agreed to the terms of the tag and signed it, putting him under contract with the Patriots for the 2009 season and guaranteeing him the tender salary, but also denying him the right to negotiate without permission. On February 28, the second day of free agency, Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel, who was in the final year of his contract, were traded to the Chiefs for the Chiefs' second-round draft pick in 2009 (#34 overall), in the first trade between Belichick and Pioli, his former colleague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nPrior to the start of free agency, the Patriots released wide receiver Kelley Washington and offensive lineman Billy Yates; Yates was re-signed days later to a revised contract. Unrestricted free agents, wide receiver Jabar Gaffney, long snapper Lonie Paxton, and running back LaMont Jordan all joined McDaniels and the Denver Broncos. Fullback Heath Evans signed with the New Orleans Saints and linebacker Larry Izzo signed with the New York Jets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nDuring the second day of the draft, cornerback Ellis Hobbs was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles for two 2009 fifth-round draft selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nOn June 4, safety Rodney Harrison, who became a free agent following the 2008 season, retired from football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nOn August 17, the Patriots traded defensive lineman Le Kevin Smith to the Denver Broncos with a seventh-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft acquired in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles (see below) in exchange for the Broncos' 2010 fifth-round pick, which became the selection that went to the Oakland Raiders in a prior trade. On August 25, the Patriots again traded with the Broncos, this time sending offensive lineman Russ Hochstein to the Broncos for the same seventh-round draft selection in the 2010 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nAfter playing in the team's first three preseason games as a reserve, linebacker Tedy Bruschi announced his retirement on August 31, after 13 seasons with the Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nDuring final roster cutdowns, on September 5, the Patriots traded tight end David Thomas to the New Orleans Saints in exchange for a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, which later became a sixth-round pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Departures\nThe next day, the Patriots traded All-Pro defensive lineman Richard Seymour to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for a first-round selection in the 2011 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nThe Patriots signed a number of players who had been released by their former teams: longtime Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor, cornerbacks Shawn Springs and Leigh Bodden, tight end Chris Baker, wide receiver Joey Galloway, long snapper Nathan Hodel, and linebacker Tully Banta-Cain, who was a member of the Patriots from 2003 through 2006 before signing a free agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers. Center Al Johnson, offensive tackle Damane Duckett, safety Brandon McGowan, and linebacker Paris Lenon arrived via unrestricted free agency; only McGowan made the Patriots' opening roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nFree agents or potential free agents Eric Alexander, James Sanders, Russ Hochstein, Chris Hanson, Mike Wright, Tank Williams, Ray Ventrone, Pierre Woods, and Kenny Smith were all re-signed. Restricted free agent offensive tackle Wesley Britt was not offered a tender, making him an unrestricted free agent, but he was later re-signed. In August, offensive tackles Nick Kaczur and Mark LeVoir both received contract extensions through the 2012 and 2011 seasons, respectively. During the season, the team reached long-term contract extensions with linebacker Rob Ninkovich, guard Dan Connolly, wide receiver Sam Aiken, and linebacker Eric Alexander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nIn the first week of the free agency, the Patriots traded their fifth-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft to the Philadelphia Eagles for wide receiver Greg Lewis and the Eagles' seventh-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. Shortly after the draft, the Patriots acquired tight end Alex Smith from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. Smith was released by the Patriots during roster cutdowns on September 5, while Lewis was released two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nOn August 6, the Patriots acquired defensive end Derrick Burgess from the Oakland Raiders in exchange for third- and fifth-round selections in the 2010 NFL Draft. The Patriots, without a fifth-round selection at the time, originally sent a fourth-round pick to the Raiders with the condition it would become a fifth-round pick once the team acquired one. A fifth-round pick was then acquired in the Le Kevin Smith trade and sent to the Raiders instead of the fourth-round selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nDuring final roster cutdowns, on September 5, the Patriots acquired tight end Michael Matthews from the New York Giants in exchange for a conditional draft choice in the 2011 NFL Draft. He was waived on October 20; the condition for the trade was not met, meaning the Patriots did not surrender their draft choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, Arrivals\nOn September 22, in the third week of the season, the Patriots acquired linebacker Prescott Burgess from the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for a conditional seventh-round draft choice. He was waived by the Patriots six days later. Since the trade was conditioned on Burgess being active for a certain number of games, and since Burgess was inactive in the only game for which he was with the Patriots, the Patriots kept the pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Patriots traded their original fifth-round selection (#159 overall) to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for wide receiver Greg Lewis and a seventh-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Opening training camp roster\nAs of the Patriots' first training camp practice at Gillette Stadium on July 30, they had the NFL maximum of 80 players signed to their roster (injured third-round pick Tyrone McKenzie, who was not signed until after training camp began, did not count against that limit until his signing). Additionally, rookies Eric Kettani and Tyree Barnes were on the Reserve/Military list and did not count against the limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nIn the first game of an ESPN Monday Night Football opening doubleheader, the Patriots faced the Bills at home in an American Football League \"legacy game\" honoring the 50th anniversary of the founding of AFL, which added ten teams to the NFL as part of the 1970 AFL\u2013NFL merger. As two of the eight founding teams of the AFL, the Bills and Patriots celebrated their 50th anniversaries by wearing throwback uniforms from the AFL era, while the officials also wore red-striped uniforms such as those worn by AFL officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nFollowing a Patriots three-and-out to open the game, the Bills punted to give the Patriots the ball at their own 17-yard line. Nine players later, the Patriots were unable to convert on third down, setting kicker Stephen Gostkowski up for a 41-yard field goal try. He missed it wide right, giving the Bills the ball at their own 32-yard line. Bills quarterback Trent Edwards scrambled for 16 yards to move the Bills into Patriots territory before a Fred Jackson run gained another 16 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nJackson was filling in for suspended starter Marshawn Lynch; Patriots linebacker and 2008 Defensive Rookie of the Year Jerod Mayo suffered a sprained MCL on the play and did not return. The next play, a dump-off pass to Jackson, gained 21 yards and put the Bills in the red zone. Two plays later, Edwards hit rookie tight end Shawn Nelson for an 11-yard touchdown, giving the Bills a 7\u20130 lead. The Patriots next drive was a three-and-out, ending on an Aaron Schobel sack of quarterback Tom Brady on third down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe Bills punted back to the Patriots early in the second quarter, setting the table for a 14-play, 72-yard Patriots drive that culminated on a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Fred Taylor to tie the game. Despite a 16-yard dump-off to Jackson on the Bills' next drive, they punted back to the Patriots before reaching midfield. On the very next play, a Brady pass intended for running back Sammy Morris was intercepted by Schobel and returned 26 yards for a touchdown, giving the Bills a 14\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nBrady was more accurate on his next possession, throwing passes of 14 yards to tight end Benjamin Watson and wide receiver Wes Welker to move into Bills territory, and then hitting wide receiver Randy Moss on a 31-yard strike within the two-minute warning. The drive stalled in the Bills' red zone, and the Patriots were forced to settle for a 20-yard Gostkowski field goal as the first half expired, cutting the Bills' lead to 14\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nAided by more Jackson yardage and a 15-yard roughing the passer penalty on Vince Wilfork, the Bills moved close to midfield on the opening drive of the second half before punting and pinning the Patriots at their own 3-yard line. The Patriots would advance to the Bills' 36-yard line on 12 plays, but an incomplete pass on third down set up a fourth down conversion try, which failed on another incomplete pass. Three plays later, Edwards hit new target Terrell Owens for the first time in the game, good for 27 yards to put the Bills in Patriots territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nHowever, a run for a loss and a Tully Banta-Cain sack of Edwards set up a 3rd-and-20 situation, where the Bills failed to convert, forcing a 40-yard Rian Lindell field goal. After a punt, the Patriots began an 11-play drive that spanned into the fourth quarter, ending it on a 28-yard Gostkowski field goal that cut the Bills' lead to 17\u201313. The Bills responded by embarking on a 14-play, 62-yard drive that took more than six minutes off the clock and extended the Bills' lead to 24\u201313 on a 10-yard Jackson touchdown on a dump-off from Edwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nWith 5:25 remaining in the game and down by 11 points, the Patriots shifted into their two-minute, pass-only offense, moving the ball 81 yards on 11 plays in 3:26 and scoring on an 18-yard Watson touchdown pass from Brady. The Patriots' two-point conversion try failed, keeping them within five points of the Bills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nOn the ensuing kickoff, Bills second-year returner Leodis McKelvin chose to return the kickoff out of the end zone, despite having his team's onside kick return unit on the field. Safety Brandon Meriweather hit McKelvin at the Bills' 31-yard line, which allowed linebacker Pierre Woods to come in from the side and strip McKelvin of the ball. Gostkowski recovered it at the same spot. Following the two-minute warning, the Patriots offense came back out onto the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills\nOn the third play of the drive, Brady hit Watson on a nearly identical end zone route for a 16-yard touchdown, which was upheld by official review. The Patriots two-point attempt failed again, holding their lead to one point over the Bills. With 45 seconds remaining, the Bills began their next drive and were able to reach their own 40-yard line before another Banta-Cain sack pushed them back to the 30-yard line. The next play was a last-minute desperation multiple-lateral play that fell short for the Bills, giving the Patriots a 25\u201324 win, their first victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nFollowing their close home win over the Bills, the Patriots traveled to face the Jets in the final regular season matchup between the teams in Giants Stadium. In the week prior to the game, first-year Jets head coach Rex Ryan placed a phone message to all Jets season ticket holders asking them to \"make it miserable for (Tom) Brady and company,\" following up on his comments during the offseason that he would not \"kiss Bill Belichick's Super Bowl rings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nHe told the Jets fans that \"the Patriots had a better head coach and a better quarterback,\" but that the game would decide \"who has a better team.\" Meanwhile, Jets safety Kerry Rhodes said the Jets intended on not just winning, but \"embarrassing\" the Patriots in the game, while nose tackle Kris Jenkins called it the Jets' version of the Super Bowl; the Jets had not defeated the Patriots at home since 2000. On the first drive of the game, without an injured Welker, the Patriots drove to the Jets' 36-yard line before having to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0024-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nThe Jets' first play from scrimmage was a strip-sack of rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez by defensive lineman Mike Wright; Sanchez recovered the fumble at the Jets' 3-yard line. On 4th-and-24, the Jets punted back to their own 49-yard line; the Patriots could not capitalize on the field position and went three-and-out. However, Jets running back Leon Washington fumbled on the next play; cornerback Leigh Bodden recovered it at the Jets' 17-yard line. Two holding penalties would push the Patriots back to the Jets' 37-yard line, setting up a 45-yard Gostkowski field goal to give the Patriots a 3\u20130 lead. Following a Jets three-and-out, the Patriots moved to their own 41-yard line before Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis intercepted a pass intended for Moss at the Jets' 16-yard line. The Jets offense would continue to struggle, however, going three-and-out again to end the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 974]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nThe Patriots began the second quarter with a 9-play, 53-yard drive, one that stalled at the Jets' 7-yard line; the Patriots settled for another Gostkowski field goal, extending their lead to 6\u20130. The Jets would pick up their initial first down of the game on their next possession, going 52 yards on 10 plays before a Jay Feely 33-yard field goal cut the Patriots' lead in half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nStarting from their own 10-yard line after a holding penalty on Sam Aiken on the kickoff, the Patriots took nearly six minutes off the clock, reaching the Jets' 11-yard line before two incomplete passes by Brady prevented the Patriots scoring their first touchdown of the game. Instead, Gostkowski kicked his third field goal of the day to increase the Patriots' lead to 9\u20133 going into halftime. Receiving the opening kickoff of the second half due to their deferral of the opening coin toss, the Jets took the lead in barely a minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nFollowing a 43-yard kick return by Washington, Sanchez hit wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery for 45 yards and a play later connected with tight end Dustin Keller on a 9-yard touchdown pass. The 10\u20139 lead was the first for the Jets over the Patriots at home since 2001. After a Patriots three-and-out, punter Chris Hanson's 30-yard punt gave the Jets the ball at the Patriots' 45-yard line. From the Patriots' 6-yard line, Sanchez appeared to throw a touchdown pass to Chansi Stuckey, but the catch was overturned after the Patriots challenged. Two plays later, Feely hit his second field goal of the day to give the Jets a 13\u20139 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nThe Patriots' ensuing possession reached the Jets' 35-yard line on a third down, but back-to-back delay of game penalties on Brady, an incomplete pass, and a facemask penalty on Moss on the punt backed the Patriots up to their own 40-yard line. However, Hanson's subsequent attempt was better than the first, nullified by the penalty, and the Jets began their next drive from their own 15-yard line. On a 14-play, 63-yard drive that spanned into the fourth quarter, the Jets extended their lead to 16\u20139 on a 39-yard Feely field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 2: at New York Jets\nThe Patriots started their next drive from their own 15-yard line as well, but were unable to reach midfield before punting. A Jets three-and-out gave the Patriots another opportunity with five minutes remaining, but a Watson holding penalty in the middle of the drive helped set up a 2nd-and-20 situation and eventually another punt. Just before the two-minute warning, Sanchez was sacked, but a penalty on BenJarvus Green-Ellis on the ensuing punt meant the Patriots had to start their last drive of the game from their own 10-yard line. After a Julian Edelman 18-yard reception began it, four straight incompletions ended the drive and the game. The loss dropped the Patriots to 1\u20131, their first such record since the 2005 season. It also marked the first time that New England was held without a touchdown since December 10, 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 917]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nLooking to avoid back-to-back losses, the Patriots returned home to face the Atlanta Falcons, missing Welker for the second straight game. The Falcons moved the ball 72 yards on their 12-play opening drive, but settled for a 26-yard Jason Elam field goal after being stopped on 3rd-and-3 from the 8-yard line. The Patriots responded with a 15-play drive of their own, beginning with a 19-yard dump-off pass to Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nNo other play on the drive would go for more than 9 yards, and the Patriots themselves were stopped short of a touchdown, with wide receiver Joey Galloway catching a pass with his foot out of bounds in the back of the end zone on what would have been a 7-yard touchdown pass. Instead, the Patriots could not reach further than the Falcons' 2-yard line and settled for a 21-yard Gostkowski field goal to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Falcons next drive was a three-and-out that began the second quarter, with a 29-yard Michael Koenen punt and a 5-yard penalty on the Falcons giving the Patriots the ball at their own 49-yard line. After two pass attempts, Taylor had runs of 8, 19, 6, and 8 yards, with the final rush good for a touchdown and a 10\u20137 Patriots lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0027-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nBeginning their next drive from their own 41-yard line after a 33-yard return by Eric Weems, the Falcons moved into Patriots territory on one play before an apparent strip-sack of second-quarter quarterback Matt Ryan by safety Brandon McGowan; the Falcons challenged the ruling (which included a touchdown return by cornerback Shawn Springs) and won, as Ryan's arm was going forward when he lost the ball. Another Jenkins reception, this one for 21 yards, moved the Falcons deeper into Patriots territory before running back Michael Turner ran for a 2-yard touchdown that tied the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0027-0004", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nFollowing a Patriots three-and-out, the Falcons again moved into Patriots territory, but a Turner fumble at the Patriots' 27-yard line, forced by McGowan, was recovered by safety James Sanders with just under four minutes remaining in the half. The Patriots' 12-play drive brought them into the red zone, but a dropped pass by Galloway just outside the end zone and an incompletion to wide receiver Sam Aiken in the end zone forced a 33-yard Gostkowski field goal that gave the Patriots a 13\u201310 lead going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Patriots began where they left off at the start of the second half, embarking on a 13-play drive that entered into the red zone on a 23-yard Watson catch. However, the Patriots' offense stalled in the red zone again, with two incomplete passes to Moss setting up a 22-yard Gostkowski field goal. Ryan and Jenkins continued to connect on the Falcons' ensuing drive; a 26-yard reception put the Falcons in Patriots territory and then a 36-yard touchdown pass was nullified on a pass interference penalty on Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nWith a subsequent false start penalty, the Falcons were pushed back into Patriots' territory and eventually forced to punt. The Patriots next drive spanned 70 yards on 16 plays and was kept alive on a 4th-and-1 conversion from the Patriots own 24-yard line. Again, it did not involve a touchdown though, as Gostkowski kicked a 33-yard field goal to extend the Patriots' lead to 19\u201310 early in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0028-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAfter an exchange of three punts, the Patriots began a 6-play drive that resulted in their first passing touchdown of the day, a 36-yard reception by tight end Chris Baker that extended the Patriots lead to 26\u201310; it was also Brady's 200th career touchdown pass. After a Falcons three-and-out, the Patriots held the ball for the final 6:52 of the game to seal a 26\u201310 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 85], "content_span": [86, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their win over the Falcons, the Patriots stayed at home for a Week 4 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens. The opening kickoff was fumbled by Ravens returner Chris Carr and recovered by McGowan at the Ravens' 12-yard line. However, the Patriots could not capitalize on the field position, settling for a 32-yard Gostkowski field goal to give them an early 3\u20130 lead. The Ravens began their first drive from their own 19-yard line and advanced on a 15-play drive, capping it with a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Flacco to wide receiver Derrick Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Patriots responded with a 14-play drive of their own, going 76 yards before Brady scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak to re-establish a Patriots lead at 10\u20137. The Ravens reached midfield on their next drive with a 22-yard reception by tight end Todd Heap, but the drive stalled at the Patriots' 38-yard line, setting up a punt by Sam Koch that gave the Patriots the ball at their own 9-yard line. Similarly, the Patriots reached Ravens' territory before having to punt; Hanson's punt landed in the end zone for a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nOn the second play of the Ravens' ensuing drive, left tackle Jared Gaither injured his head falling into Flacco during a block; while he had motion in his extremities, the game was stopped for 15 minutes as Gaither was loaded onto a stretcher and taken to the hospital for tests. The Ravens' drive finished as a three-and-out. The Patriots then went 63 yards on six plays, extending their lead to 17\u20137 on a 12-yard touchdown run by Morris. With just under four minutes remaining in the half, the Ravens mounted a drive that reached the Patriots' 17-yard line with 1:17 left; Flacco was intercepted by Bodden to prevent the Ravens from scoring again before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Patriots first drive of the second half was aided by a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty on the Ravens' bench, but the Patriots were unable to capitalize as a Matt Light holding penalty and a Jarret Johnson sack of Brady forced a punt. Starting from their own 16-yard line, the Ravens advanced to their 45-yard line before a Wright sack of Flacco set up another punt. Kevin Faulk fielded the return but fumbled; Bodden recovered the fumble for the Patriots at their own 14-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nOn the next play, Brady dropped back and was strip-sacked from his blind side by Terrell Suggs; defensive lineman Dwan Edwards recovered the fumble for the Ravens in the end zone for a touchdown, cutting the Patriots' lead to 17\u201314. Brady quickly recovered, hitting passes to Taylor for 13 yards, Aiken for 26 yards, and Moss for 20 yards to put the Patriots in the Ravens' red zone. Three plays later, Brady and Moss connected for their first touchdown of the season; the 14-yard strike extended the Patriots' lead to 24\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Ravens had similar success on his next drive, with Flacco hitting Mark Clayton on a 13-yard catch, Mason on a 20-yard catch, and then running back Ray Rice breaking a 50-yard rush to put the Ravens well into Patriots territory. A few plays later, Flacco kept pace with Brady on a 13-yard touchdown pass to running back Willis McGahee to cut the Patriots' lead to 24\u201321. The Patriots would control the ball for the next seven minutes, reaching the Ravens' 9-yard line on a second down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0030-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nAfter two incomplete passes, the Patriots lined up in a field goal formation but the holder, Hanson, took a quick snap and passed to Baker, who had motioned outside of the formation. Baker was tackled around the first down marker, but was called for an illegal motion on the play. The Ravens challenged the ruling of a catch and the first down spot, as they would have declined the penalty if Baker had been short. The ruling was upheld and the Patriots took a 27\u201321 lead on a 33-yard Gostkowski field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0030-0004", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nAfter an exchange of three-and-outs, the Ravens mounted a drive with 3:32 left, reaching the Patriots' red zone with under a minute remaining. On third and fourth down, Flacco's passes fell incomplete to Mason and Clayton, ending the Ravens' hopes of a comeback. Brady then kneeled to hand the Ravens their first loss of the season and better the Patriots' record to 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nThe Patriots traveled to Denver to face a fourth straight undefeated team, a stretch only matched by one other post-merger team (the 1986 Philadelphia Eagles). The game also marked the first time former Patriots assistant Josh McDaniels, who became the head coach of the Broncos in 2009, faced his former team. On the first drive of the game, the Broncos advanced to the Patriots' 30-yard line before Matt Prater attempted a 48-yard field goal; he missed wide right. With field position at their own 38-yard line, the Patriots moved into the red zone on a 35-yard dump-off to Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nThree plays later, Brady and Welker connected on their first touchdown pass of the season; the 8-yard score gave the Patriots a 7\u20130 lead. Three plays later, Mayo, in his first game back from his knee injury, forced a fumble of Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno; McGowan recovered it at the Broncos' 43-yard line. After a 10-yard Morris run began the Patriots' ensuing possession, they lost two yards over their next three plays, setting up a 53-yard Gostkowski field goal (a career long) that extended the Patriots' lead to 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0031-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nFollowing a Broncos three-and-out, the Patriots had a three-and-out of their own; the punt was fumbled by returner Eddie Royal but recovered by Broncos cornerback Jack Williams and returned to the Broncos' 38-yard line. The Broncos then advanced into Patriots territory but were forced to punt again. This set up a Patriots drive that moved to the Broncos' 41-yard line before a failed third down conversion and an unnecessary roughness penalty on guard Logan Mankins pushed the Patriots back past midfield and forced a punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0031-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nDespite starting from their own 10-yard line with a sack, the Broncos quickly advanced into Patriots territory on Kyle Orton completions of 11, 10, and 13 yards plus a roughing the passer penalty on Ty Warren. More Orton completions resulted in an 11-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall that cut the Patriots' lead to 10\u20137. With under five minutes remaining in the half, the Patriots mounted a 10-play, 74-yard drive, capping it off with a 7-yard touchdown pass to Watson, giving the Patriots a 17\u20137 lead going into halftime after Moss' first career interception on a last-second hail mary pass from Orton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nThe Patriots began the second half with a three-and-out; the Broncos then moved 66 yards on 12 plays before their drive stalled at the Patriots' 6-yard line and Prater kicked a 24-yard field goal to cut the Patriots' lead to 17\u201310. Two plays later, Brady connected with Moss on a 36-yard pass, but the Patriots were unable to get past the Broncos' 22-yard line and there, Goskowski missed a 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nFollowing a Broncos punt, the Patriots mounted a 12-play drive that spanned into the fourth quarter; however, the drive began from the Patriots' 4-yard line and only reached the Broncos' 47-yard line, resulting in another punt. The Broncos' ensuing possession began from worse field position (the Broncos' 2-yard line) but 10 of its 12 plays were Orton passes, the last of which was another 11-yard Marshall touchdown catch that tied the game. Following two three-and-outs, the Patriots had the ball again at their own 30-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nThe final play before the two-minute warning was a 19-yard Morris run to bring the Patriots close to midfield. Morris fumbled on his next run but tackle Nick Kaczur recovered it at the Broncos' 49-yard line. On the next play, Brady was strip-sacked by defensive lineman Vonnie Holliday; Broncos linebacker Elvis Dumervil recovered the fumble at the Patriots' 45-yard line with 1:37 remaining. However, the Broncos were forced to punt after a Banta-Cain sack and Brady kneeled to send the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Denver Broncos\nThe Patriots lost the overtime coin toss, and Gostkowski kicked off into the back of the end zone to spot the ball at the Broncos' 20-yard line. On an 11-play, 58-yard drive, the Broncos advanced to the Patriots' 22-yard line. Prater then kicked the game-winning field goal from 41 yards out to give the Broncos another win, bettering their record to 5\u20130 and dropping the Patriots to 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nFor the first time in 2009, the Patriots played a team with a loss on their record; the 0\u20135 Titans traveled to Foxborough to face the Patriots for an AFL Legacy game in an early season snowstorm. The Titans gained one yard on their first possession and went three-and-out; Edelman returned the 35-yard punt 35 yards to give the Patriots the ball at the Titans' 29-yard line. However, a third down sack by Kyle Vanden Bosch forced the Patriots to attempt a field goal, a 39-yarder that fell wide right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nFollowing a Titans punt, the Patriots advanced past midfield before a 45-yard touchdown run by Maroney that gave the Patriots a 7\u20130 lead. After a Titans three-and-out, the Patriots moved into the red zone on a 48-yard pass from Brady to Welker, and then took a 10\u20130 lead on a 33-yard Gostkowski field goal. On the ensuing Titans possession, early in the second quarter, running back LenDale White fumbled at the Patriots' 41-yard line; it was recovered at the 35-yard line by cornerback Jonathan Wilhite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0034-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nAfter crossing midfield, Brady connected with Moss on a 40-yard touchdown pass, extending the Patriots' lead to 17\u20130. On the next play from scrimmage, Titans quarterback Kerry Collins fumbled the snap; it was recovered by the Patriots' Wright at the Titans' 31-yard line. Two plays later, Moss caught a 28-yard touchdown pass from Brady, making the score 24\u20130. Three plays into the Titans' ensuing possession, Collins was intercepted by rookie cornerback Darius Butler at the Patriots' 35-yard line. Four plays later, Brady hit Faulk on a dump-off pass that went 38 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0034-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nAfter a Titans three-and-out that ended in a 41-yard Reggie Hodges punt to the New England 21-yard line, Brady capped a 76-yard drive with a 30-yard touchdown pass to Welker immediately after the two-minute warning, giving the Patriots a 38\u20130 lead. The Titans went three-and-out again, but Hodges shanked the punt, which traveled only 21 yards. The subsequent 10-play, 49-yard drive ended in Welker's second touchdown, a 5-yard reception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThis gave the Patriots a 45\u20130 halftime lead, the largest in NFL history. It was also Brady's fifth touchdown pass of the quarter, an NFL record. The 45 points scored in the half were a team record, as were the 35 points scored in the second quarter. Brady's 345 passing yards and five touchdowns in the half were also team records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nDue to their deferral of the opening coin toss, the Patriots began the second half with possession. They advanced 65 yards on nine plays, with Brady throwing his sixth and final touchdown pass of the day to Moss, from 9 yards out. The six touchdowns tied a team record set by Brady in November 2007. The Titans moved into Patriots territory on a 48-yard run by Chris Johnson, but attempted to convert a 4th-and-10 from the Patriots' 17-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nOn the play, Collins was chased 15 yards into his own backfield by rookie defensive tackle Myron Pryor; Collins managed to complete a pass to receiver Nate Washington\u2014one of just two the Titans completed all game\u2014who fumbled and recovered it another seven yards deep. As a result of this pass that officially lost 22 yards, the Patriots allowed a team record \u22127 gross passing yards on the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nUndrafted rookie Brian Hoyer replaced Brady at quarterback and led a 12-play, 61-yard drive, ending in a 1-yard touchdown run by Hoyer to give the Patriots a 59\u20130 lead. Gostkowski's included extra point was his eighth of the game, tying his team record set in November 2007. The 59 points also set a Patriots team record, and the eight touchdowns tied another. Vince Young replaced Collins at quarterback for the fourth quarter, but had his first pass intercepted by rookie safety Pat Chung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Patriots attempted on a fourth down conversion in the Titans' red zone on their ensuing possession but it failed. The Titans then advanced into Patriots territory before fullback Ahmard Hall fumbled; it was recovered by 40-year-old linebacker Junior Seau, who returned to the team in the days prior to the game. The Patriots' next play was a 5-yard run by Green-Ellis which gave the Patriots 599 total yards on the day, breaking the previous team record of 597 set in 1979. They would finish with 619 net yards; 426 of those were passing, tying a team record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0037-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Tennessee Titans\nFollowing a Titans punt, the Patriots and Titans kneeled to end the game at 59\u20130, improving the Patriots' record to 4\u20132 and keeping the Titans winless at 0\u20136. The 59\u20130 shutout tied the largest post-merger shutout and margin of victory with a 59\u20130 win by the Los Angeles Rams over the Atlanta Falcons in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nFollowing their home win over the Titans, the Patriots flew to Wembley Stadium in London for the year's NFL International Series game against the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Five plays into the game, Buccaneers quarterback Josh Johnson was intercepted by Meriweather, who returned it 39 yards for a touchdown. On the ensuing drive, the Buccaneers advanced to the Patriots' 33-yard line before Meriweather again intercepted a Johnson pass, this time at the Patriots' 15-yard line; he returned this one 31 yards. However, the Patriots could not capitalize on the turnover and went three-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nFollowing a Buccaneers punt, the Patriots began a drive with an end-around to rookie wide receiver Brandon Tate, who was active for his first NFL game after spending the first six weeks of the season on the Physically Unable to Perform list; the run went for 11 yards. Two plays later, Brady connected with Moss on a 37-yard pass, which was followed a few plays later with a 14-yard Welker touchdown reception that gave the Patriots a 14\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0038-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nAfter a penalty on the kickoff, the Buccaneers began their next drive at their own 11-yard line and could not advance one yard before punting; the 43-yard punt was returned by Welker 24 yards. Starting from the Buccaneers' 30-yard line, the Patriots moved to the 11-yard line before Brady was intercepted by safety Tanard Jackson in the end zone early in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nFollowing a Buccaneers three-and-out, Brady threw a short pass to Aiken that turned into a 54-yard scoring strike, extending the Patriots lead to 21\u20130. After another Buccaneers punt, Brady was intercepted by Aqib Talib on a deep pass intended for Brandon Tate; Talib returned it to the Buccaneers' 41-yard line. The 0\u20136 Buccaneers could not cross midfield though, and were forced into another three-and-out. On a 4th-and-2 from their own 46-yard line, the Patriots attempted a fake punt that was negated by a false start on Mankins; this set up a 26-yard Hanson punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith less than three minutes remaining in the half, the Buccaneers drove into Patriots territory and then completed two passes to wide receiver Antonio Bryant; the second went for 33 yards and a touchdown, cutting the Patriots' lead to 21\u20137. The Patriots could not advance the ball on their ensuing drive and punted; two plays later, on the final play of the half, Butler intercepted Johnson at the Patriots' 11-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Patriots began the second half with a 10-play, 73-yard drive that was capped off with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Watson from Brady. After an exchange of punts, the Buccaneers embarked on a drive that extended into Patriots territory but stalled at the 37-yard line, resulting in a punt. This was followed by two more three-and-outs, before early in the fourth quarter the Patriots completed a 10-play, 89-yard drive with a 1-yard Maroney touchdown run, increasing the Patriots' lead to 35\u20137. After another Buccaneers punt, the Patriots advanced past midfield before punting after the two-minute warning. On an ensuing 4th-and-7 conversion attempt, Johnson was strip-sacked by Derrick Burgess to set up two Patriots kneeldowns to end the game. The Patriots bettered their record to 5\u20132 entering their bye week, while the Buccaneers remained winless at 0\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 950]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nComing off their bye week, the Patriots returned home to face the Dolphins for the first time in the season. On the third play of the game, Brady attempted a deep pass to Moss; it was intercepted by rookie cornerback Vontae Davis at the Dolphins' 7-yard line and returned 15 yards. Six plays later, the Dolphins moved into Patriots territory on a 21-yard catch by tight end Joey Haynos from Chad Henne; after the catch, McGowan forced Haynos to fumble, but the ball went out of bounds at the spot of the catch, the Patriots' 39-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nOn the next play, Henne appeared to have been strip-sacked by Banta-Cain, with linebacker Adalius Thomas returning it 59 yards for a touchdown. However, the Dolphins challenged that Henne's arm was moving forward and it was an incomplete pass and the play was reversed. Three plays later, a Dan Carpenter 52-yard field goal gave the Dolphins a 3\u20130 lead. The Patriots began their next drive at their own 37-yard line after offensive lineman Dan Connolly returned a short kickoff 16 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0041-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nA few plays later, Brady connected with Moss on a 36-yard pass to the Dolphins' 1-yard line; Maroney then ran for a 1-yard touchdown to give the Patriots a 7\u20133 lead. On the ensuing possession, Henne found his other tight end, Anthony Fasano on a 20-yard strike to move into Patriots territory, but a \"Wildcat\" formation run by Ricky Williams for a loss and a sack by Chung moved the Dolphins out of field goal territory and forced a punt. The Patriots advanced to the Dolphins' 42-yard line on their next drive before punting on the final play of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nFollowing a Dolphins three-and-out, the Patriots began an 11-play, 49-yard drive that reached the Dolphins' 11-yard line on first down before a short pass, and incompletion, and sack led to a Gostkowski field goal; the 30-yarder put the Patriots ahead 10\u20133. The Dolphins introduced rookie quarterback Pat White on their next drive, employing him as part of an option offense that first had White run for a 33-yard gain and later in the drive had White option to Williams for a 15-yard touchdown run, tying the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nFollowing a 34-yard punt return by Tate, the Patriots quickly moved back into Dolphins territory on completions of 14 yards to Faulk and 23 yards to Watson. However, a Watson pass interference penalty on a 17-yard Faulk reception pushed the Patriots back to the Dolphins' 35-yard line. Gostkowski would later kick a 38-yard field goal to re-establish a Patriots lead at 13\u201310. On their next drive, the Dolphins would punt shortly after the two-minute warning, setting up a 10-play, 70-yard Patriots drive that ended the half with a 34-yard Gostkowski field goal after Brady was again sacked in the red zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nWith possession and down 16\u201310 at the start of the third quarter, the Dolphins moved downfield on a 16-play drive that lasted more than ten minutes, eventually scoring on a 1-yard touchdown catch by Haynos from running back Ronnie Brown out of the \"Wildcat,\" giving the Dolphins a 17\u201316 lead. Three plays later, Brady and Moss connected on a 71-yard touchdown pass and then again on the two-point conversion to re-take the lead at 24\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins would continue to employ both White and the \"Wildcat\" on their next drive, but it resulted in a Brandon Fields punt early in the fourth quarter. An exchange of punts consumed the next six minutes of the game, with the Dolphins choosing to use all three of their timeouts to gain back possession with 3:38 left. However, three straight incompletions and a penalty set up fourth down, when Henne again was unable to complete a pass from his own 27-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0043-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Patriots re-gained possession and ran the ball three times before Gostkowski kicked a 40-yard field goal to extend the Patriots' lead to 27\u201317. The game would end four plays later on a 23-yard Greg Camarillo reception to the Patriots' 23-yard line. The win bettered the Patriots record to 6\u20132 entering their matchup with the 8\u20130 Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nFor the second time in three seasons, the Patriots made a November visit to Indianapolis to face an undefeated Colts team. Both teams went three-and-out on their first possessions, setting up a Colts drive to begin from their own 10-yard line. After two 25-yard passes from Peyton Manning to tight end Dallas Clark and wide receiver Reggie Wayne, the Colts moved deep into Patriots territory. On a 3rd-and-11 from the Patriots' 15-yard line, running back Joseph Addai scored on a pass from Manning, capping the 8-play, 90-yard drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots responded with a 55-yard Moss catch from Brady four plays later, setting up a 1-yard Maroney touchdown run to tie the game at 7\u20137. Following a Colts punt, the Patriots began their ensuing drive with a 29-yard Faulk run to move to the Colts' 42-yard line. Nine plays later, the Patriots found themselves in a 3rd-and-goal from the Colts' 4-yard line, but Brady was sacked by defensive end Robert Mathis. Gostkowski then hit a 31-yard field goal to give the Patriots a 10\u20137 lead early in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0044-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nAfter a Colts three-and-out, it took the Patriots two plays and less than a minute to score, with Brady connecting with Moss on a 63-yard touchdown pass, extending the Patriots' lead to 17\u20137. The Colts faced a 3rd-and-5 on their next drive, but Manning was sacked by Mayo to force another punt. On the next play, Watson caught a 36-yard pass from Brady, setting up a 9-yard touchdown catch by Edelman, the first of the rookie's career, four plays later. Down 24\u20137, the Colts embarked on an 8-play, 80-yard drive, cutting the Patriots' lead to 24\u201314 on a 20-yard touchdown reception by Wayne. An exchange of four punts ended the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nDue to their deferral of the opening coin toss, the Patriots had possession to begin the second half. They advanced to the Colts' 33-yard line before a Brady pass intended for Moss was intercepted by safety Antoine Bethea at the Colts' 14-yard line and returned 19 yards. However, four plays later, Manning himself was intercepted by Bodden at the Patriots' 24-yard line; an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Bodden moved the Patriots back to their own 12-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nDespite this field position, the Patriots offense moved deep into Colts territory on a series of Brady passes and Faulk runs, eventually setting up a 2nd-and-2 from the Colts' 2-yard line. On the play, Maroney attempted to push a pile into the end zone, but in the process Colts linebacker Philip Wheeler forced him to fumble; it was recovered by fellow Colts linebacker Gary Brackett in the end zone for a touchback. The Colts could not capitalize on the turnover and were forced to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0045-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nWelker returned the punt 69 yards to the Colts' 7-yard line, the longest Patriots punt return since 2001. Two plays later, on the second play of the fourth quarter, Moss caught his second touchdown pass of the night; the 5-yard reception gave the Patriots a 31\u201314 lead. However, the Colts offense advanced 79 yards on five plays on their ensuing possession, cutting the Patriots' lead to 31\u201321 on a 29-yard touchdown catch by Pierre Gar\u00e7on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0045-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots punted on the next drive, but received the ball right back after Manning was intercepted by Wilhite on the next play, setting up a Patriots drive from the Colts' 31-yard line. The Patriots moved into the red zone but stalled there and were forced to settle for a 36-yard Gostkowski field goal, extending their lead to 34\u201321 with 4:17 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nOn their ensuing possession, the Colts again advanced 79 yards for a touchdown, this time on six plays, the final one being a 4-yard Addai touchdown run, reducing the Patriots' lead to six points with 2:23 left in the game. The Patriots used a timeout before their first play, and in addition to a timeout used early in the third quarter, this left them with one remaining in the game. The Patriots next two plays failed to gain first down yardage, setting up a 4th-and-2 from their own 28-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nThe Patriots used their final timeout before deciding to attempt to convert the fourth down. On the play, Brady motioned Faulk out of the backfield into the slot out of the shotgun, and then threw a quick pass to Faulk off the snap. Faulk caught the pass with the necessary yardage falling towards the sideline before being hit by safety Melvin Bullitt and pushed back towards the line of scrimmage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nHowever, the officials ruled that Faulk bobbled the pass and did not have possession until Bullitt had pushed him behind the first down marker; if he had caught the ball cleanly his forward progress would have given the Patriots the first down with only one Colts timeout remaining. Further, the play began before the two-minute warning, and without any timeouts, Belichick was unable to challenge the spot of the ball on the field; if the play had occurred after the two-minute warning, there would have been the possibility for a booth review.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 10: at Indianapolis Colts\nWith two minutes remaining and possession at the Patriots' 29-yard line, Manning completed a 15-yard pass to Wayne before Addai gained another 13 yards, setting up 1st-and-goal from the 1-yard line with 36 seconds left in the game. The Patriots stopped Addai on his next run, but Manning threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Wayne on the play after that, giving the Colts a 35\u201334 lead with 13 seconds remaining. After the kickoff, with nine seconds remaining, Brady completed a short pass to Welker, who lateraled to Watson, who was then tackled to end the game. The Patriots dropped to 6\u20133 and 1\u20133 in road games, while the Colts remained undefeated at 9\u20130. It was the fifth Patriots loss to the Colts in the previous six games between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nComing off their loss to the Colts, the Patriots returned home to face the Jets, who had lost six of their last eight games after defeating the Patriots in Week 2. After an exchange of punts to begin the game, the Patriots moved into Jets territory on their second drive with a 25-yard catch by Faulk. Two plays later, Edelman fumbled a direct snap as he went in motion, but recovered his fumble, setting up a 4th-and-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nMaroney then had a 2-yard run to convert, but on the next play fumbled; this time the Jets recovered it at their own 34-yard line. Four plays later, Sanchez was intercepted by Bodden at the Patriots' 47-yard line; Bodden returned the interception 53 yards for a touchdown, giving the Patriots a 7\u20130 lead. The Jets went three-and-out on their ensuing possession. The Patriots then began a 9-play, 76-yard drive, ending in a 4-yard touchdown pass from Brady to Moss, extending the Patriots lead to 14\u20130 on the final play of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nAfter another Jets punt, from their end zone after a Banta-Cain sack, the Patriots began their next drive from their own 41-yard line. Seven plays later, Maroney ran in from two yards out to give the Patriots a 21\u20130 lead. Following a 44-yard kickoff return by Dwight Lowery, the Jets again turned the ball over, with Sanchez throwing his second interception of the game to Bodden, who returned it seven yards to the Patriots' 48-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nThe Patriots' next drive again reached the red zone, but this time the Patriots could not score a touchdown and were forced to settle for a 26-yard Gostkowski field goal, giving the Patriots a 24\u20130 lead. Another Jets punt gave the Patriots the ball with just over two minutes remaining. With just under a minute left in the half, Hanson's punt attempt was blocked by Eric Smith and returned four yards for a touchdown by the Jets' Brad Smith. With 45 seconds remaining, the Patriots quickly advanced downfield, but a 40-yard Gostkowski field goal attempt with 15 seconds left in the half fell wide right, keeping the Patriots' lead at 24\u20137 going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nWith possession at the start of the second half due to their deferral of the opening coin toss, the Jets moved 80 yards on 11 plays, scoring on a 29-yard pass from Sanchez to Cotchery. With a 10-point lead, the Patriots responded with an 11-play drive that reached the Jets' 49-yard line before sack eventually forced a punt. The Jets reached midfield on their next possession before punting as well, with Jets punter Steve Weatherford pinning the Patriots at their own 8-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nThis forced another Patriots punt, on the first play of the fourth quarter, but the Patriots received the ball right back after Sanchez threw his third interception of the day, again to Bodden, at the Patriots' 26-yard line. The Patriots could not capitalize on the turnover though, and were again forced to punt. Three plays later, Sanchez threw his fourth interception of the game, this time to Meriweather, who returned it four yards to the Jets' 25-yard line. This set up an 8-play, 25-yard Patriots drive that ended in a 1-yard Maroney touchdown run, extending the Patriots' lead to 31\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0050-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. New York Jets\nThe Jets responded with a 37-yard kickoff return by David Clowney followed by a drive to the Patriots' 24-yard line. On a 1st-and-10, Sanchez was strip-sacked by Banta-Cain; the fumble was recovered by Burgess at the Patriots' 29-yard line. With 3:24 left in the game, the Patriots ran the clock down to 25 seconds before punting, giving the Jets the ball to end the game. With the 31\u201314 win, the Patriots improved their record to 7\u20133, while the Jets dropped to 4\u20136. Statistically, Welker had 15 catches for 192 yards on the game, second most in team history, trailing only Troy Brown's 16 receptions in an overtime game on September 22, 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nFor the second time in three weeks, the Patriots went on the road to square off against an undefeated team; the 10\u20130 Saints entered the game with the most points scored in the league. After the Patriots deferred the opening coin toss, the Saints returned the opening kickoff to their own 35-yard line before a 33-yard pass from Drew Brees to wide receiver Devery Henderson on the game's first play put the Saints quickly in Patriots territory. However, the Patriots defense stopped the Saints on a 3rd-and-4 from the 15-yard line, setting up a 30-yard John Carney field goal. The Patriots responded by holding the ball for nearly eight minutes, advancing 80 yards on a 14-play drive that ended in a 4-yard touchdown run by Maroney on 4th-and-1, the second such conversion of the drive. The score put the Patriots ahead 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 912]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints did not reach midfield on their next drive and punted; however, the Patriots turned the ball back over when on the ensuing play Brady was intercepted by cornerback Mike McKenzie, who returned it eight yards to the Saints' 41-yard line. Seven plays later, early in the second quarter, the Saints took a 10\u20137 lead when a Brees dump-off pass to running back Pierre Thomas resulted in an 18-yard touchdown. The Patriots could not reach midfield on their next possession and punted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nOn the ensuing play, Brees connected with Henderson on a 75-yard touchdown pass that extended the Saints' lead to 17\u20137. The Patriots faced a 3rd-and-12 early on their next drive, but Brady threw a 33-yard pass to Aiken to move the Patriots into Saints territory. The drive stalled at the Saints' 18-yard line, forcing a 36-yard Gostkowski field goal to cut the Saints' lead to 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0052-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nFour plays later, Brees hit former Patriots tight end David Thomas on a 25-yard pass before wide receiver Robert Meachem caught a 38-yard touchdown pass to give the Saints a 24\u201310 lead with just under two minutes left in the half. The Patriots' offense was able to reach the Saints' 32-yard line on first down with 35 seconds left, but advanced no further, setting up a 50-yard Gostkowski field goal attempt on fourth down that fell wide left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nWith possession to begin the second half, the Patriots lost it when a 6-yard pass to Maroney, the first play of the half, resulted in a fumble by Maroney at the Patriots' 26-yard line. Saints defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis recovered the fumble and returned it seven yards before he too fumbled; Welker recovered the ball for the Patriots at that spot. Later in the drive, on 3rd-and-9 from their own 42-yard line, Brady hit Aiken on an 11-yard pass to convert; on the play, Brady passed Drew Bledsoe as the Patriots' all-time passing leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nTwo plays later, Brady connected with Moss on a 47-yard pass down to the Saints' 2-yard line, setting up a 2-yard Maroney touchdown run that cut the Saints' lead to 24\u201317. However, the Saints responded on their next play with a 68-yard pass from Brees to wide receiver Marques Colston, setting up a 2-yard touchdown catch by tight end Darnell Dinkins two plays later, re-establishing a 14-point Saints lead. The Patriots moved down to the Saints' 10-yard on their next drive, but attempted to convert on 4th-and-4 from that spot instead of kicking a field goal; Brady's pass attempt to Moss fell incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints' next drive spanned into the fourth quarter but ended on a punt from the Saints' own 35-yard line. The Patriots fared no better, going three-and-out on their ensuing possession. The Saints continued to build a lead when Brees ended a 9-play, 75-yard drive with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Colston. Down 38\u201317 with under eight minutes to go, the Patriots tried to mount a drive but two plays in, Brady was intercepted by safety Darren Sharper on a deep pass; Sharper returned it 38 yards to the Patriots' 25-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 12: at New Orleans Saints\nHowever, the Saints could not convert a first down and Carney missed a 37-yard field goal wide right. With 5:26 remaining in the game and down 21 points, the Patriots replaced Brady with his backup, Hoyer, on their next possession; the Patriots went three-and-out. After a Saints punt, the Patriots held the ball for the final 1:52 of the game, ending it on an 8-yard sack of Hoyer. With the loss, the Patriots dropped to 7\u20134 on the season, and 1\u20134 in road games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nComing off their Monday night loss to the Saints, the Patriots traveled to Miami to face the Dolphins with a two-game lead in the division. The Patriots received the ball to start the game and six plays in, converted a 3rd-and-8 to keep the drive alive. On the next play, Brady threw a 58-yard touchdown pass to Moss to take an early 7\u20130 lead. Brady was injured on the play and went to the locker room but returned by the next offensive snap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0055-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nIn the meantime, the Dolphins' first possession reached the Patriots' 42-yard line before Henne was sacked by Banta-Cain and Mayo for a loss of seven yards. On the next play, the Dolphins used White in their \"pistol\" formation and attempted a play action option run, but White's option toss to Ricky Williams was errant and recovered by Williams for a loss of 13 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0055-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nFollowing the Dolphins' punt, the Patriots began a 13-play, 80-yard drive with 6:41 left in the first quarter and did not surrender the ball until early in the second quarter, extending their lead to 14\u20130 on a 6-yard Faulk draw for a touchdown. The Dolphins responded with a 10-play, 88-yard drive of their own, including a 29-yard pass to Camarillo, that ended in a 13-yard touchdown pass from Henne to Davone Bess, cutting the Patriots' lead to 14\u20137. Despite a 16-yard Welker reception to begin the Patriots' next drive, they were forced to punt after four plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0055-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins again moved into Patriots territory on their ensuing possession, reaching the 49-yard line before Henne was intercepted by Meriweather at the Patriots' 19-yard line. Following a 19-yard return, a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Wilfork, and a false start penalty on Watson, the Patriots' next drive began at their own 18-yard line. The Patriots quickly moved into the red zone on a 58-yard Welker catch, but on a 4th-and-1 from the 6-yard line, the Patriots tried to convert, and Morris was stopped short of the first down marker. Off the turnover and with under two minutes remaining, the Dolphins moved 83 yards on 11 plays, cutting the Patriots' halftime lead to 14\u201310 on a 29-yard Carpenter field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins, who had deferred the opening coin toss, chose to receive at the start of the second half but went three-and-out. On the next play (after a penalty), Brady threw a short sideline pass to Aiken, who caught the ball over the defender and proceeded to run down the sideline for an 81-yard touchdown, extending the Patriots' lead to 21\u201310. It was the third 50+ yard completion of the game for Brady, a career first, and the third longest completion of Brady's career. He also eclipsed 30,000 career passing yards on the play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nFollowing a 51-yard kickoff return by Ted Ginn Jr., the Dolphins took two plays to reach Patriots territory. On a 3rd-and-4 from the Patriots' 46-yard line, Henne attempted a deep sideline pass to wide receiver Brian Hartline, who stopped and turned back to catch the ball but was taken down by Wilhite for a 37-yard defensive pass interference penalty. However, the Pats surrendered only three yards and forced the Dolphins to kick a field goal; Carpenter's 24-yard score cut the Patriots' lead to 21\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0056-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nAfter a Patriots three-and-out, the Dolphins continued to pressure the Patriots defense, moving 64 yards on 12 plays and cutting the deficit to two points on a 7-yard Hartline touchdown catch. The Dolphins attempted to tie the game on a two-point conversion pass attempt to Fasano, but the pass fell incomplete. The Patriots' next drive reached the Dolphins' 39-yard line, where the Patriots again attempted to convert a fourth down, this one with three yards to gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0056-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Patriots appeared to do so at first, as Welker caught a 13-yard pass from Brady, but the play was nullified by an Aiken offensive pass interference penalty. After another penalty on the first punt attempt, the second punt attempt by Hanson actually gave the Patriots a better break, pinning the Dolphins at their own 3-yard line at the end of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins could not move past their 22-yard line on the ensuing possession and punted, giving the Patriots the ball at their own 39-yard line. After several quick first downs, the Patriots reached the red zone. However, a Brady pass attempt intended for Moss in the back corner of the end zone was intercepted by Vontae Davis for a touchback, maintaining a two-point deficit for the Dolphins. However, the Dolphins could not move a yard off the turnover and were forced to punt; the Patriots too went three-and-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0057-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins moved to the Patriots' 39-yard line on their ensuing possession, and like the Patriots, faced a fourth down with two yards to go. Henne's pass intended for Bess was broken up by Butler to turn the ball over on downs. However, the Patriots did not gain a yard, and in fact lost one yard on their next possession, setting up a Dolphins possession with 3:44 left in the game. The Dolphins moved 51 yards on 10 plays, reaching the Patriots' 23-yard line with just over one minute remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0057-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Miami Dolphins\nCarpenter then hit a 41-yard field goal to put the Dolphins ahead for the first time in the game, 22\u201321. Only needing a field goal, the Patriots tried to set up a Gostkowski attempt with under a minute to go, but three plays into their drive Brady was hit as he threw and was intercepted by linebacker Channing Crowder to seal a Dolphins victory. The back-to-back losses were a first for the Patriots since November 2006, and dropped their record to 7\u20135, while the Dolphins improved to 6\u20136 and within a game of first place in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nComing off consecutive road losses, the Patriots returned home against the Panthers looking to avoid losing three straight games for the first time since 2002. After the Patriots deferred the opening coin toss, the Panthers received the ball to start the game and went three-and-out on their first possession. The Patriots reached the Panthers' 40-yard line on their next drive before attempting to convert a 4th-and-1; Morris was stopped short of the first down marker to turn the ball over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nHowever, the Panthers and backup quarterback Matt Moore, playing for an injured Jake Delhomme, also went three-and-out on their ensuing possession. The Patriots responded by again advancing to the Panthers' 40-yard line before this time punting. After another Panthers punt, the Patriots turned the ball back over after Brady was intercepted by Chris Gamble on a short pass intended for Moss at the Patriots' 48-yard line. Two plays later, Moore connected with wide receiver Steve Smith on a 41-yard touchdown pass to give the Panthers a 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0058-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Patriots next drive reached the Panthers' 37-yard line before Moss caught a pass from Brady but then fumbled it; the Panthers' Dan Connor recovered the fumble at the Panthers' 21-yard line. The Panthers, however, lost a net of one yard on their next drive and punted. This was followed by a Patriots three-and-out, a short Panthers drive and a punt, and another Patriots three-and-out. The Panthers then mounted a 10-play, 45-yard drive that ended on a missed 53-yard field goal attempt by John Kasay. The Patriots responded with a 5-play, 57-yard drive that moved deep into Panthers territory on a 30-yard pass interference penalty on the Panthers' James Anderson on a pass attempt to Watson. Faulk later ran in for a 3-yard touchdown to tie the game at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Patriots' first drive of the second half began at the Patriots' 11-yard line and ended on the Panthers' 14-yard line when Morris fumbled following a 10-yard run; it was recovered by the Panthers' Captain Munnerlyn. The Panthers responded with a 26-yard DeAngelo Williams run followed by a 12-yard Jeff King catch to pass midfield; however two consecutive Panthers illegal shift penalties would help force a punt after a 13-yard Tyrell Sutton run on third down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe punt was downed at the Patriots' 4-yard line, and a Patriots challenge that the player who downed it, Quinton Teal, was in the end zone was not successful. However, the Patriots responded by mounting their longest drive of the season, 96 yards on 13 plays, and behind five Welker catches and a 5-yard Watson touchdown catch took a 14\u20137 lead late in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0059-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Panthers moved back downfield on a 9-play, 57-yard drive that ended on a 36-yard Kasay field goal after the Patriots defense held the Panthers to two yards after a 1st-and-10 from the 20-yard line. The Patriots extended their lead to 17\u201310 on a 48-yard Gostkowski field goal following a 10-play, 46-yard drive. After a 34-yard Panthers punt on their next possession, a three-and-out, the Patriots had the ball at the Panthers' 42-yard line but could only advance 13 yards on seven plays, with the drive being kept alive on a roughing the kicker penalty during a Patriots punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0059-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Patriots then took a 20\u201310 lead on a 47-yard Gostkowski field goal. With under four minutes to go, the Panthers faced a 3rd-and-10 from their own 25-yard line, but a Burgess sack of Moore forced a punt. The Patriots then ran out the final 2:32 of the game to seal a 20\u201310 victory. With the win, the Patriots moved to 8\u20135 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 88], "content_span": [89, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nTrying to win their first road game in an opponent's stadium for the first time in 2009, the Patriots traveled to Buffalo with a one-game lead in the division. After winning the toss, the Bills received the opening kickoff and began a 14-play, 69-yard drive that elapsed over nine minutes of the first quarter. After the Bills reached the Patriots' 2-yard line on 3rd-and-goal, a false start penalty and an incomplete pass limited the Bills to a 25-yard Lindell field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nThe Patriots' first possession reached midfield before a Brady pass intended for Welker was intercepted by linebacker Paul Posluszny at the Bills' 39-yard line. However, another penalty and two straight sacks set up a Bills three-and-out. The Patriots' next drive spanned into the second quarter, moving 75 yards on 5 plays; the Patriots moved to the Bills' 3-yard line on a 43-yard defensive pass interference penalty on Donte Whitner. Brady then hit Moss in the back of the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown, putting the Patriots ahead 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0060-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nThe Bills offense continued to struggle on their next possession, facing a 2nd-and-23 and a 3rd-and-20 before punting; the Patriots advanced into Bills territory on their next possession before also punting. This time the Bills offense began to move the ball, reaching midfield before quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw an interception to Wilhite at the Patriots' 36-yard line. With 3:30 remaining, the Patriots drove back downfield, and assisted by a 21-yard defensive pass interference penalty, into the red zone. Maroney then ran for a 1-yard touchdown to give the Patriots a 14\u20133 lead. Following a 41-yard Bills kickoff return, they were able to reach the Patriots' 38-yard line and attempt a 56-yard field goal at the end of the half, but it fell wide left to keep the score at 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nBoth teams opened the second half with three-and-out punts. The Patriots came back with a 14-play, 64-yard drive that ended on a 30-yard Gostkowski field goal. The Bills, however, responded with a lengthy drive of their own before an offensive holding penalty and two incompletions set up a punt from the Patriots' 38-yard line early in the fourth quarter. After an exchange of four punts, the Bills drove to the Patriots' 12-yard line, before an incompletion, a one-yard run, and two more incompletions turned the ball over on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0061-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nWith just over four minutes left in the game, the Patriots were unable to gain a yard net on their next drive, in fact losing one yard in the process, before punting back to the Bills with 3:37 left; a 38-yard punt and a 20-yard return gave the Bills the ball at the Patriots' 28-yard line. After a 17-yard completion to Josh Reed, Fitzpatrick threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Lee Evans to cut the Patriots' lead to 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0061-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Buffalo Bills\nThe Bills attempted an onside kickoff with 3:02 remaining in the game, which was recovered by the Bills but nullified on an offsides penalty. The Bills then kicked off normally to the Patriots, hoping for a defensive stop. However, on the first play after the two-minute warning, the Patriots converted a third down on an 8-yard pass to Welker, sealing a Patriots victory. The win moved the Patriots to 9\u20135 on the season and gave them a two-game lead in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nLooking to secure their third straight win and another division title, the Patriots returned home to face the 7\u20137 Jaguars. After the Jaguars deferred the opening coin toss, the Patriots received the opening kickoff to begin a 10-play, 82-yard drive. On a 1st-and-goal run from the Jaguars' 1-yard line, Maroney fumbled before breaking the plane of the goal line; it was recovered by Jaguars linebacker Daryl Smith at the 1-yard line. The Jaguars reached their own 35-yard line on their ensuing possession before failing to convert on a fourth down attempt, turning the ball back over the Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nTwo plays after a 21-yard Morris run, Brady and Moss connected on a 2-yard touchdown reception to give the Patriots a 7\u20130 lead. After the kickoff, the Jaguars drove to the Patriots' 42-yard line before a David Garrard pass intended for Marcedes Lewis was intercepted by Meriweather at the Patriots' 17-yard line and returned 56 yards. Two plays later, on the first play of the second quarter, Brady threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Baker to extend the Patriots' lead to 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Jaguars continued to move the ball on their next possession, reaching midfield on completions of 15 and 14 yards; however a false start penalty negated another 15-yard reception and the Jaguars were forced to punt. Following a Patriots' three-and-out, Garrard was strip-sacked by Banta-Cain on the first play of the Jaguars' next-drive; tackle Eben Britton recovered the fumble for the Jaguars, who punted three plays later. On the third play of their ensuing drive, the Patriots moved into the red zone on a 55-yard Morris run, and later took a 21\u20130 lead on a 1-yard Morris touchdown run. After another Jaguars three-and-out, the Patriots moved into Jaguars territory on a 29-yard Welker catch and later extended their lead to 28\u20130 on a 6-yard touchdown reception by Moss. This would remain the score after the Jaguars ended the half on another punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 947]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Jaguars began the second half with a 16-play, 69-yard drive that took over eight minutes off the clock; however, it ended without any points after Garrard was intercepted by Springs at the Patriots' 2-yard line on a 3rd-and-goal from the 5-yard line. The Patriots responded with a 10-play, 90-yard drive of their own, despite a false start penalty to begin it. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Brady hit Moss on his third touchdown catch of the game, putting the Patriots ahead 35\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nHowever, the Jaguars responded quickly, moving past midfield on a 22-yard Rashad Jennings run and into the red zone on a 20-yard Nate Hughes reception. Two plays later, Garrard scrambled two yards for a touchdown, cutting the Patriots' lead to 35\u20137. With 12:41 remaining in the game, the Patriots received the ball after the kickoff. What ensued was a 20-play drive, with the Patriots reaching midfield with about ten minutes remaining in the game, and reaching the Jaguars' 10-yard line by the two-minute warning. The drive included five first downs, including two off fourth down conversions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0064-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nOne play after the two-minute warning, Hoyer replaced Brady at quarterback, and one play later, the Patriots turned the ball over on downs after a failed 4th-and-2 run by Morris. The Jaguars, with 29 seconds left in the game, ran one play to end the game. With the win, the Patriots secured their first division title since 2007 and posted a 10\u20135 record heading into the final week of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nOn the final week of the regular season, the Patriots traveled to Houston having wrapped up a division title but still playing for the third seed in the AFC playoffs. The Texans, meanwhile, needed a victory plus help from other teams to earn a playoff berth. The Patriots did not activate Wilfork, Warren, Faulk, Maroney, or Bodden for the game. The Texans won the opening coin toss and received the opening kickoff, driving 76 yards on seven plays and taking a 7\u20130 lead on a 25-yard touchdown reception by tight end Joel Dreessen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0065-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nOn the fourth play of the Patriots' opening drive, Welker caught a 12-yard pass from Brady, and when cutting to avoid a tackler, had his knee buckle and fell to the ground. He suffered a torn MCL and ACL on the play in his left knee and was placed on injured reserve. The Patriots, who replaced Welker with Edelman, drove to the Texans' 42-yard line before punting. Following a Texans three-and-out, the Patriots began a drive from their own 37-yard line and capped a 9-play, 63-yard drive with a 4-yard touchdown run by Taylor, tying the game at 7\u20137. After a 36-yard kickoff return by Andr\u00e9 Davis, the Texans passed midfield on a 16-yard Dreessen catch, but could not advance any further and punted, early in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nThe Patriots responded with a 9-play, 58-yard drive that ended in a 51-yard Gostkowski field goal to give the Patriots a 10\u20137 lead. On their ensuing possession, the Texans drove to the Patriots' 1-yard line before attempting to convert a fourth down; quarterback Matt Schaub's pass fell incomplete to Andre Johnson to turn the ball over on downs and give the Patriots the ball at their own 1-yard line. On the next play, Taylor fumbled after a handoff from Brady; the ball was recovered by Bernard Pollard in the end zone for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nHowever, kicker Kris Brown missed the extra point to keep the score at 13\u201310. Hoyer entered the game at quarterback for the Patriots on their next drive. He led the Patriots from their own 9-yard line to the Texans' 25-yard line, with the Patriots settling for a 43-yard Gostkowski field goal with less than a minute remaining in the first half. Brown missed a 56-yard field goal as time expired in the half for the Texans to keep the score tied at 13 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nBrady re-entered the game for the Patriots to begin the second half, but the Patriots failed to reach midfield and punted. The Texans then drove from their own 16-yard line to the Patriots' 15-yard line before a Schaub pass intended for wide receiver Jacoby Jones was tipped and intercepted by Butler at the 9-yard line and returned 91 yards for a touchdown, giving the Patriots a 20\u201313 lead. The Texans continued to move the ball on their next possession, reaching the 20-yard line before Brown missed another field goal, a 38-yarder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0067-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nThe Patriots next drive spanned into the fourth quarter, and ended with an 11-yard Taylor touchdown to extend the Patriots' lead to 27\u201313. However, the Texans again drove on the Patriots, with a 26-yard defensive pass interference penalty on Butler setting up an 8-yard touchdown pass from Schaub to Jones. The Patriots went three-and-out on their next possession, giving the ball back to the Texans with 7:30 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0067-0002", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nAfter a 31-yard punt return by Jones, the Texans drove from the Patriots' 34-yard line and tied the game on a 1-yard touchdown run by Arian Foster with 4:46 left. Two plays later, Brady was intercepted by Pollard on a long pass intended for Aiken; Pollard returned the interception from the Patriots' 43-yard line to the 28-yard line. On the first play after the two-minute warning, Foster ran in for a 3-yard touchdown to give the Texans a 34\u201327 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0067-0003", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Houston Texans\nHoyer entered the game again for the Patriots and reached the Texans' 34-yard line before a fourth down pass intended for Edelman fell incomplete. The Texans then kneeled to end the game. The loss gave the Patriots 10\u20136 record for the season and also gave the Texans their first winning season in franchise history, at 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe Ravens converted three first-quarter turnovers by Patriots quarterback Tom Brady into 17 points on their way to a 24\u20130 lead New England could not recover from. It was the Patriots' first home loss of the season and their first home loss in the playoffs in more than 30 years. On top of that, it was the Ravens' first ever win against the Patriots after five consecutive losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nBaltimore stormed to a 7\u20130 lead on the first play of the game with Ray Rice's 83-yard touchdown run, the second longest run in NFL playoff history. Then linebacker Terrell Suggs forced and recovered a fumble from Brady on the Patriots 17-yard line, and they scored another touchdown with a 1-yard run by Le'Ron McClain. Following an exchange of punts, cornerback Chris Carr intercepted a pass from Brady and returned it to the New England 25-yard line, setting up Rice's second touchdown on a 1-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0069-0001", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nJust two plays after the ensuing kickoff, Ravens safety Ed Reed intercepted a deep pass from Brady and returned it 25 yards before lateraling the ball to safety Dawan Landry, who took it another 25 yards to the Patriots 9-yard line. The Ravens could not gain any yards on their ensuing drive, but Billy Cundiff kicked a field goal to make the score 24\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nNew England was forced to punt on their next drive, but Baltimore returner Tom Zbikowski muffed the kick and Kyle Arrington recovered the ball for the Patriots at the Ravens 16-yard line. Five plays later, Brady threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Julian Edelman. But midway through the second half, Brady threw his third interception of the game, this one to Landry, who returned it 42 yards to the New England 22-yard line to set up another Cundiff field goal. Taking the ball back at the Patriots 47-yard line after Darius Butler's 42-yard kickoff return, New England responded with a 53-yard scoring drive. Brady finished it with his second touchdown pass to Edelman to cut their deficit to 27\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nZbikowski returned the ensuing kickoff 30 yards to his own 48-yard line, sparking a 52-yard drive that ended with a 3-yard touchdown run from Willis McGahee, making the score 33\u201314 after the two-point conversion failed. New England responded with a drive deep into Baltimore territory, but Stephen Gostkowski missed a 44-yard field goal attempt with 7:19 left in the game, ending any chance of a miracle comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Postseason results, Wild Card Round vs. Baltimore Ravens\nRice rushed for 159 yards and two touchdowns, while McGahee added 62 yards and a score. Neither quarterback had much success, as Brady was held to 154 yards and intercepted three times, while Baltimore's Joe Flacco completed only 4 of 10 passes for 34 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 90], "content_span": [91, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Awards and honors, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections\nFour Patriots were elected to the 2010 Pro Bowl. Guard Logan Mankins and defensive tackle Vince Wilfork were named as starters, while wide receiver Wes Welker and quarterback Tom Brady were named as a reserves. After Welker suffered a season-ending injury in Week 17, Randy Moss was named as his replacement in the Pro Bowl, while safety Brandon Meriweather was also an injury replacement. Moss subsequently pulled out of the game due to injury, as did Brady.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204275-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Patriots season, Awards and honors, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections\nWelker and Mankins were also voted to the 2009 All-Pro First Team and Second Team, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season\nThe 2009 New England Revolution season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence, and the eighth straight in which the team made the playoffs. It began on March 21 with a 1\u20130 road win over the San Jose Earthquakes and ended on November 7 with a 2\u20130 loss to the Chicago Fire (the Revs lost the series 3\u20132 on aggregate).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season, Squad, First-team squad\nAs of August 8, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season, Squad, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season, Squad, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204276-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New England Revolution season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 86], "content_span": [87, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204277-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 New Hampshire Wildcats football team represented the University of New Hampshire during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. New Hampshire competede as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under head coach Sean McDonnell and played their home games at Cowell Stadium. They won the North Division of the CAA with a 9\u20132 (6\u20132 conference) record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204278-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey General Assembly election\nThe 2009 New Jersey General Assembly elections were held on November 3, 2009 for all 80 seats in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Voters in New Jersey's 40 legislative districts cast 4,204,034 votes. Each voter may cast up to two votes. The Democratic Party won a 47-seat majority while losing the popular vote. The Republican Party won a majority of votes cast but received only a 33-seat minority, an increase of 1 seat from their 2007 election results. The election coincided with a gubernatorial election where Democratic incumbent Governor Jon Corzine was defeated by Republican challenger Chris Christie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections\nThe following offices were up for election in the United States State of New Jersey in the general election on November 3, 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections\nPersons 18 years or older on the general election date (born on or before November 3, 1991) were eligible to register and vote in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor\nDemocratic Governor Jon Corzine was running for a second term and was being challenged by Republican Chris Christie, Independent Christopher Daggett, and nine others (not including write-in candidates). Christie won the election with about 49 percent of the vote, to 45 percent for Corzine and 6 percent for Daggett. Christie is expected to assume office on January 20, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor\nThis was the first election to fill the newly created office of lieutenant governor. The candidates for governor and lieutenant governor were joined together as a single choice, so that voters did not have the opportunity to split the ticket. Kim Guadagno, Christie's running mate, will be New Jersey's first lieutenant governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, General Election Candidates, Major candidates\nThe following three candidates all qualified to appear, and did appear, in the debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, General Election Candidates, Other candidates\nNine other candidates qualified to appear on the ballot as independents or third-party nominees but did not raise enough money to qualify for the debates. These include Libertarian Kenneth Kaplan, the Socialist Party USA's Greg Pason, and the following independents: Jason Cullen, Joshua Leinsdorf, Alvin Lindsay, David R. Meiswinkle, Kostas Petris, Gary T. Steele and Gary Stein. At least five others, including popular New Jersey comedian Uncle Floyd, announced that they would run write-in campaigns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Primary Election Candidates\nThe following candidates were defeated by Jon Corzine in the Democratic primary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Primary Election Candidates\nThe following candidates were defeated by Chris Christie in the Republican primary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Primary Election Candidates\nThe following Republican Primary candidates were removed from the ballot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Republican primary\nFormer U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie had long been considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination. He was heavily favored by the party establishment and had won the endorsement and county line of all county GOP organizations. Christie's chief opponent in the primary was former Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan, known for his very right-wing positions and vocal opposition to the Corzine administration; another staunch conservative, General Assemblyman Rick Merkt was also on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Republican primary\nDavid Brown, Christian Keller, and Franklin Township mayor Brian D. Levine also filed to run in the Republican primary, but their petitions were challenged by Lonegan and they were disqualified from the ballot when administrative judges ruled that their nominating petitions failed to meet the threshold of 1,000 valid signatures. Upon leaving the race, Brown and Levine endorsed Christie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Republican primary\nChristie and Lonegan attacked each other relentlessly throughout the primary campaign through mailers and robocalls, with each seeking to undermine the other by drawing the public's attention to scandals involving the other. Lonegan proposed ending the state's progressive income tax system and replacing it with a 2.9% flat tax for all New Jerseyans. Christie strongly opposed this proposal, arguing that Lonegan's proposal would amount to a tax increase for most New Jerseyans. Christie instead proposed cutting taxes \"across the board,\" although he refused to say by how much. There were two televised debates, which excluded Merkt, and two radio debates, which included him. Ultimately, Christie was able to win the primary with 55% of the vote to Lonegan's 42% and Merkt's 3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, Democratic primary\nAlthough polls indicated his vulnerability in the general election, Governor Jon S. Corzine was heavily favored to win the Democratic primary over his three little-known challengers. The only one of those to have held elected office, former Glen Ridge mayor Carl Bergmanson, was running on a platform of fiscal discipline, social liberalism, and government reform; he had received the support of the Citizens Against Tolls website. In the primary, Corzine won renomination with 77% of the vote, while Bergmanson, his closest competitor, received about 9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, General election\nSince the primaries, polls have consistently showed Christie leading Corzine, sometimes by double digits. The election became a three-way race on July 7, when independent candidate Christopher Daggett announced that he had raised enough money to qualify for public funds and to qualify for participation in the debates. On July 20, Christie selected Kim Guadagno as his running mate. On July 24, Corzine announced in an e-mail to his supporters that he had selected Loretta Weinberg as his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, General election\nOn July 27, Daggett announced that he had selected longtime Kean University professor and administrator Frank J. Esposito as his running mate. Although the economy and taxes have long been prominent issues in the campaign, the issue of ethics and anti-corruption efforts was thrust into the spotlight in July when several public officials were arrested on corruption charges in Operation Bid Rig. One of Corzine's main lines of attack has involved Christie's ties to the unpopular former President of the United States George W. Bush, who appointed Christie to the U.S. Attorney's office in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Governor, General election\nIn August 2009, Bush political strategist Karl Rove revealed that he had held conversations with Christie about a potential gubernatorial run during Christie's time as U.S. Attorney. U.S. Attorneys are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activities by the Hatch Act of 1939. Corzine quickly incorporated this into his advertisements targeting Christie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Lieutenant governor\nOn November 8, 2005, voters passed a Constitutional amendment to the New Jersey State Constitution which created the office of Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, the first of whom is to be elected in the 2009 general election and to take office in January 2010. Until the creation of the office, governors who died in office or stepped down were succeeded by the President of the New Jersey Senate. This has happened twice in recent years, with the resignations of Christine Todd Whitman in 2001 and James McGreevey in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Lieutenant governor\nConcerns over separation of powers (Acting Governors continued to serve concurrently in the Senate) and the fact that Acting Governors were not elected by the people to succeed the Governor led to the Constitutional amendment that created the new office. All 12 candidates for governor appearing on the ballot selected their running mates by the June 27, 2009 deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Lieutenant governor\nChris Christie, the Republican nominee for governor, selected Monmouth Beach's Kim Guadagno, the sheriff of Monmouth County, as his running mate. Others mentioned for the post had included New Jersey Senators Diane Allen and Jennifer Beck, as well as Bergen County Clerk Kathleen Donovan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Lieutenant governor\nIncumbent Governor Jon Corzine, the Democratic nominee, selected Teaneck's Loretta Weinberg, a New Jersey Senator and former New Jersey General Assemblywoman, as his running mate. Other mentioned for the post had included New Jersey Senator Barbara Buono, New Jersey General Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, and wealthy businessman Randal Pinkett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Lieutenant governor\nChris Daggett, an independent candidate who has qualified for matching funds, selected Ocean Township's Frank J. Esposito, a longtime professor and administrator at Kean University who served as an advisor to the Commissioner of Education in the Thomas Kean, Sr. administration, as his running mate. Others mentioned for the post had included Edison Mayor Jun Choi, Atlantic County freeholder Alisa Cooper, and Passaic County freeholder James Gallagher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Legislature, Regularly scheduled elections\nAll 80 seats in the lower house of the legislature, the General Assembly, were up for election. Voters in each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts elected two General Assemblymen. Two sitting General Assemblymen, Democrat L. Harvey Smith of the 31st Legislative District and Republican Daniel Van Pelt of the 9th Legislative District, were arrested on corruption charges on July 23, 2009. Van Pelt, who was arrested for accepting a $10,000 bribe, resigned from the Assembly and withdrew from his re-election bid on July 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204279-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey elections, Legislature, Regularly scheduled elections\nSmith was under pressure from the Democratic Party to resign, but did not; he is not seeking re-election. The scandal resulting from the arrests in Operation Bid Rig did not affect the legislative elections in 2009, as Democrats lost only 1 seat despite the rising Tea Party movement that led to Democratic Party defeats at the Governor's level and in Virginia on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 2009. Incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine ran for a second term against Republican Chris Christie, Independent Christopher Daggett and nine others, in addition to several write-in candidates. Christie won the election, with about 48.5 percent of the vote, to 44.9 percent for Corzine and 5.8 percent for Daggett. Christie won the largest margin for a non-incumbent Republican since 1969. Christie assumed office on January 19, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThis was the first election to fill the newly created office of lieutenant governor, with the candidates for governor choosing their running mates. Kim Guadagno, Christie's running mate, became New Jersey's first lieutenant governor following her inauguration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nAs of 2021, this is the last New Jersey gubernatorial election where two candidates received over a million votes each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nAlthough Corzine was unpopular among independents and Republicans, he polled much more highly among registered Democrats. His three opponents were former Glen Ridge mayor Carl Bergmanson, who ran on a platform of fiscal discipline, governmental reform, and removing the tolls on the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Atlantic City Expressway; perennial candidate Jeff Boss; and businessman and former Congressional candidate Roger Bacon. A Quinnipiac poll conducted shortly before the primary and released on May 20, 2009, indicated that 65% of Democratic primary voters would vote for Corzine, with the other three candidates each receiving 4%\u20135%. Also, 62% of Democrats approved of him while 24% did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 795]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nOn the primary election night, when Corzine accepted his party's nomination, Vice President Joe Biden campaigned for him, saying that he and President Barack Obama would help him get re-elected. Biden also characterized Corzine as \"America's governor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Candidates, Removed\nLonegan disputed the nominating petitions of Brown, Keller and Levine, and administrative judges ruled that their petitions fell below the threshold of 1,000 valid signatures. As such, their names were removed from the primary ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nMost of the focus in the primary campaign was on the Republican contest between the front-runner, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, who was heavily favored by the party establishment, and former Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan. Both sides released numerous television and radio advertisements, as well as mailers to registered Republicans. Christie focused on his record of fighting corruption, while Lonegan emphasized his credentials as a lifelong conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nOn April 1, Lonegan released the first attack ad of the 2009 campaign, and released another one on April 19. He accused Christie of ethically dubious awarding of no-bid monitor contracts during his tenure as U.S. attorney, described him as a moderate, and made other allegations. However, on April 24, Christie responded with a new 60 second radio ad noting that Lonegan has lost many elections in his career, including losing by a landslide to Steve Rothman for Congress in 1998 and finishing fourth (out of seven) in the Republican primary of the 2005 New Jersey Governor's race. He also claimed that Lonegan's \"flat tax\" plan, a crucial part of the candidate's platform which calls for applying the same income tax rate to everyone, \"would raise taxes on almost 70 percent of New Jersey workers\", and characterized Lonegan's previous attacks as \"desperate.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 929]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nAmong those to endorse Christie in the primary were former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, Sr., businessman Steve Forbes, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In addition, all county GOP organizations endorsed Christie, as did several New Jersey congressmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nJoe the Plumber endorsed Lonegan and campaigned with him on May 5. On May 14, United States Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) sent out an email endorsing Lonegan and asking for donations to Lonegan's campaign. Economists Art Laffer and Peter Schiff also endorsed Lonegan, as did New Jersey General Assemblyman Michael J. Doherty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nChristie was declared the winner of the primary, defeating Lonegan by a margin of 55 to 42 percent. Lonegan immediately endorsed Christie, stating:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nIt's our job now, it's your job now to change our focus on taking this Republican Party in a new direction. We must have one common cause, one cause. We need to beat Jon Corzine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Debates\nTwo state-sponsored televised debates were held before the primary. The first, on May 12, was broadcast on NJN, while the other, held on May 17, was broadcast on the New York television station WABC-TV. Both debates were between Christie and Lonegan. Because Merkt did not meet the fund-raising or spending thresholds set by the state, he was not allowed to participate. However, all three candidates were featured in two additional radio-only privately sponsored debates shortly before the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Candidates, Major\nThe following three candidates all qualified to appear in the state-sponsored debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Candidates, Minor\nThe following nine candidates were third-party or independent candidates who qualified for the ballot but did not raise enough money to qualify for the state-sponsored debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nCorzine kicked off his campaign in June criticizing his Republican opponents and tying them to former President George W. Bush. Corzine also released the first two television campaign ads, both were 30 second spots, released on January 5. One of the ads compared the two candidates' positions on social issues. The Republican Governors Association shot back, releasing two of its own television ads showing how Corzine had broken campaign promises on June 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nCorzine was criticized by GOP leadership for granting contract concessions to state workers, by granting them an additional seven paid days off, after threats were made to protest the primary election night event where Vice President Biden was the keynote speaker. It is estimated that these concessions will cost the state $40 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nThe election became a three-way race on July 7, when independent candidate Christopher Daggett, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency and Deputy Chief of Staff to former governor Tom Kean, announced that he had raised enough money to qualify for public funds and to qualify for participation in the debates. Both Democratic and Republican leaders took Daggett's campaign seriously. Only a day before the election, the New Jersey Democratic State Committee admitted to funding political robocalls in Somerset County attacking Christie and urging a vote for Daggett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nParty chairman Joe Cryan initially denied the charges until it was revealed that the disclaimer at the end of the call declared it was paid for by \"Victory '09, a project of the NJDSC,\" the abbreviation referring to the state Democratic party. Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for the New Jersey Republican State Committee, attacked Cryan as an \"outright liar,\" adding that \"Corzine's party boss knows what we know: Jon Corzine's record is so dreadful that they feel they need to try to trick voters into a second term.\" Similarly, state senator Marcia Karrow, a Christie campaign coordinator in Hunterdon County, declared that Daggett voters \"might as well pull the lever for Corzine.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nOn July 15, the New Jersey chapter of a liberal environmental group, the Sierra Club, released a report critical of the Corzine administration's environmental record, with New Jersey Executive Director Jeff Tittel stating that group believes \"this will go down as the worst environmental administration in state history.\" The state organization formally endorsed Daggett on August 17, its first endorsement of an independent candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nCorzine was the target of a vigorous advertising campaign funded by the Christie campaign and the Republican Governors Association, attacking his record as governor, tying him to corrupt officials, and assailing him for failing to deliver on his campaign promises. The RGA set up a mock newspaper website, , collecting newspaper articles critical of Corzine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nOne of Corzine's main lines of attack involved Christie's ties to the unpopular former president George W. Bush, who appointed Christie to the U.S. Attorney's office in 2001. In August 2009, Bush political strategist Karl Rove revealed that he had held conversations with Christie about a potential gubernatorial run during Christie's time as U.S. Attorney. U.S. Attorneys are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activities by the Hatch Act of 1939. Corzine quickly incorporated this into his advertisements targeting Christie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nThe Corzine campaign filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act since March 2009 seeking records of budgets, travel expenses, and no-bid contracts from Christie's tenure as U.S. Attorney. The U.S. Attorney's office did not release the requested documents before election day. State Sen. Loretta Weinberg demanded an end to the \"logjam\" by the U.S. Attorney's office. On August 12, Christie's successor, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., issued a press release defending the office:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nThe U.S. Attorney's Office has worked as professionally and expeditiously as it can to fulfill all the requests and has been in virtually daily contact with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) in Washington to accomplish this burdensome and continuous task. ... At absolutely no time has there been an effort to slow down or inhibit the FOIA process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nOn August 18, 2009, Christie acknowledged that he had loaned $46,000 to First Assistant U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Michele Brown two years ago, while serving as her superior as the state's U.S. attorney, and that he had failed to report the loan on either his income tax returns or his mandatory financial disclosure report to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nIn response to the disclosure of the financial relationship between Christie and Brown, Weinberg called on Brown to recuse herself from the task of retrieving U.S. Attorney's Office records requested by the Corzine campaign under the Freedom of Information Act. On August 25, Brown resigned from her post, stating that she does not want to be \"a distraction\" for the office. Although the Corzine campaign sought to make the loan a major campaign issue, a Quinnipiac poll showed that only 43% of voters believed that the loan controversy was a legitimate attack, while a plurality of 49% called it an unfair attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nAs of September 20, Corzine had put out 4,806 television advertisements to Christie's 1,393 ads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nCorzine, Christie, and Daggett debated each other three times by the election. Two debates were sanctioned by the state's Election Law Enforcement Commission; Christie and Daggett were required to participate in these debates, as they received public financing. Corzine did not seek public financing but appeared in both ELEC debates. The first debate, sanctioned by the ELEC and sponsored by NJN, Gannett New Jersey, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, was held on October 1 in Trenton. It was televised on NJN. It was widely reported by mainstream media that Chris Daggett won the first debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nThe second ELEC-sanctioned debate, sponsored by Fox News, The Record, WWOR-TV out of Secaucus, and WTXF-TV out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was held on October 16 at William Paterson University in Wayne. It was televised on WWOR-TV and WTXF-TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nAll three candidates appeared in a third debate, which was not sanctioned by the ELEC, that was held on October 22. The debate was broadcast on the radio on WBGO, a Newark-based jazz station, and was simulcast on WNYC out of New York City, WHYY-FM out of Philadelphia, and public radio stations throughout the state of New Jersey. Christie and Daggett agreed to participate in a fourth debate, broadcast on the radio on New Jersey 101.5; Corzine declined to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Debates\nThere was also a debate between the three major candidates for lieutenant governor: Loretta Weinberg, Kim Guadagno, and Frank Esposito. This debate, sponsored by Leadership New Jersey, was held at Monmouth University in West Long Branch on October 8. It was televised on News 12 New Jersey and broadcast on the radio on New Jersey 101.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Lieutenant governor factor\nThis was the first gubernatorial election since the position of lieutenant governor was created. As such, this year's candidates were the first gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey history to pick running mates. All 12 candidates for governor appearing on the ballot selected their running mates by the July 27, 2009 deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Lieutenant governor factor\nChristie, as the Republican nominee for governor, selected Monmouth Beach's Kim Guadagno, the sheriff of Monmouth County, as his running mate. Others mentioned for the post had included former Congressman Bob Franks, State Senators Diane Allen and Jennifer Beck, and Bergen County Clerk Kathleen Donovan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Lieutenant governor factor\nCorzine, as the Democratic nominee, selected Teaneck's Loretta Weinberg, a New Jersey Senator and former New Jersey General Assemblywoman, as his running mate. Other mentioned for the post had included Newark Mayor and future U.S. Senator Cory Booker, New Jersey Senators Nia Gill and Barbara Buono, New Jersey General Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, and wealthy businessman Randal Pinkett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Lieutenant governor factor\nDaggett, having qualified for matching funds, selected Ocean Township's Frank J. Esposito, a longtime professor and administrator at Kean University who served as an advisor to the Commissioner of Education in the Thomas Kean, Sr. administration, as his running mate. Others mentioned for the post had included Edison Mayor Jun Choi and Passaic County freeholder James Gallagher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Regional factors\nIn New Jersey, Republicans tend to be strongest in the Northwest and Shore regions of the state, Democrats tend to be strongest in urban areas, and suburban areas such as those in Mercer County, Middlesex County, Union County, Passaic County, and Bergen County are considered toss-ups. In the Democratic primary, Corzine got over 70% of the vote only in the urban areas, doing relatively poorly among suburban Democrats. His weakest performance was in Warren County, where he won with just 55% of the vote. On the other hand, Corzine performed strongly in Bergen County, winning with almost 87% of the vote. In the Republican primary, Christie lost some key Republican strongholds, such as Hunterdon County (where he received 45.8%) and Warren County (where he received 46.9%) to Lonegan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 863]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Regional factors\nAccording to a September 1 Quinnipiac University poll, Hudson County and Essex County were the only counties where a majority of voters viewed Corzine favorably. Corzine had upside-down ratings in all 19 other counties in that poll. In contrast, Christie had upside-down ratings in those two counties but was viewed favorably by pluralities of voters in every other county except for Atlantic County, Ocean County, and Monmouth County, where a majority of voters viewed him favorably.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nTaxes and the economy were overwhelmingly the top issues in this campaign. Corzine's strongest issue was on education, but it was the most important issue for only 4% of likely voters. Christie attacked Corzine's record of raising taxes, failing to deliver property tax relief, and presiding over a period of unusually high unemployment in the state. Corzine pointed to the global economic recession as the reason for the state's economic troubles. Republicans contended that Corzine's policies led to over-taxation and economic decline, causing an out-migration of residents documented in a report by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nChristie also campaigned on the issues of ethics, reducing corruption, and ending fiscal waste. These issues were brought back to the forefront of the debate after 44 individuals, including several public officials in New Jersey, were arrested by the FBI in July 2009 in Operation Bid Rig. Corzine was not a target of the probe; however, the office of a member of his cabinet, Commissioner of Community Affairs Joseph Doria, was raided by the FBI in connection with Operation Bid Rig. Governor Corzine asked for, and accepted, Doria's resignation on July 23. Doria has not been charged with any crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nAlthough Corzine has not been accused of any wrongdoing, the corruption sting, which resulted in the arrests of mostly Democratic officials, nevertheless further injured Corzine's reputation. Former EPA Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg predicted in his July 23 column that the corruption scandal would doom Corzine's re-election bid, as ethics would become a major issue again, thus helping Christie. State Senator Ray Lesniak, a prominent Democrat, acknowledged that \"If it's about ethics, Corzine loses. Not because Jon Corzine's weak on ethics, but because it's Chris Christie's strength, and now it's national news.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nUnder normal circumstances, Corzine would have been considered to have an inherent advantage in the \"blue state\" of New Jersey. No Republican has won New Jersey's electoral votes in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Prior to the 2009 election, no Republican had won a statewide election in New Jersey since 1997, when Governor Christine Todd Whitman won re-election with 47.1% of the vote. The last Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey with over 50% of the vote was incumbent Governor Thomas Kean in 1985, who won with 71% of the vote. No Republican has won a U.S. Senate election in New Jersey since liberal Republican Clifford Case in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nBetween February 2009 and the end of his term, Corzine's approval ratings ranged between 33% and 42%. His disapproval ratings ranged between 46% and 66%. These weak poll numbers were the result of several factors. Going into the 2009 fiscal year, New Jersey faced a budget shortfall of approximately $3 billion. Corzine attempted to close this gap by enacting pay freezes and furloughs of state employees, a policy that was unpopular with many public employee unions, a major Democratic constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nCorzine had also cut state aid to local governments, which hurt his standing in the urban areas which made up another key segment of the Democrats' base. Across the state, voters expressed sentiments that taxes were too high and too few budget cuts were being made, and further public dissatisfaction mounted following the economic recession in 2008. By the end of May 2009, Corzine's job approval was the lowest of any New Jersey governor in modern history, putting him behind Christie in early election polling. These weak numbers indicated that he could be vulnerable against a strong Republican challenger. Moreover, no Democrat has won re-election to the state governor's office since Brendan Byrne's victory in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nSome thought that Corzine would benefit from the popularity of President Barack Obama, who carried the state in 2008 with 57% of the vote and had higher approval ratings than Corzine had. However, Obama's approval ratings in the state varied, ranging from as high as 68% in a June Quinnipiac poll to as low as 53% in a PPP poll, which is lower than what he obtained on election day in 2008. Another poll in July gave him 55% approval in the state, also less than what he obtained on election day. In the same poll 47% believed Obama would help Corzine's numbers in the election by campaigning with him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Political factors\nAfter Vice President Biden's June appearance at a \"poorly attended\" Corzine primary-night event, the Barack Obama administration approached President of the New Jersey Senate and former governor Richard Codey to consider running in the governor's place if the incumbent withdrew from his reelection bid, citing polls showing that Codey led Christie. Obama held a campaign rally for Corzine on July 16. Originally the rally was set to be held at Rutgers University, but ultimately it was held at the PNC Bank Arts Center instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204280-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election, General election, Polling\n\"*\" denotes voluntary response only. In the August 26\u201330 FDU poll, 4% also responded \"neither\" or \"other.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204281-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Mexico Bowl\nThe 2009 New Mexico Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 19, 2009, at University Stadium on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the 2009\u201310 NCAA bowl season. The game, telecast on ESPN, featured the Wyoming Cowboys from the Mountain West Conference and the Fresno State Bulldogs from the WAC.This was the first trip to the New Mexico Bowl for Wyoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204281-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 New Mexico Bowl\nIt was also their first trip to a post season bowl game since the 2004 season when the Cowboys defeated the UCLA Bruins 24\u201321 in the Pioneer PureVison Las Vegas Bowl. This marked Fresno State's second straight trip to the New Mexico Bowl; they were defeated 40\u201335 by Colorado State in the 2008 contest. Before the 2009 New Mexico Bowl, Wyoming and Fresno State had played each other a total of six times, playing in consecutive years from 1992\u20131997 as rivals in the Western Athletic Conference; the teams have split their match-ups with each squad winning three games. The last meeting in 1997 was won by Fresno State, 24\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204281-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Mexico Bowl\nBehind freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels, Wyoming upset Fresno State 35\u201328 in the game, which went into double overtime after a late field goal by Cowboy kicker Ian Watts. Carta-Samuels threw three touchdowns in the win including the game-winner in overtime, a 13-yard strike to David Leonard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204281-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Mexico Bowl, Game summary\nWyoming wore their home Brown uniforms, and Fresno wore white visitor uniforms. Wyoming freshman Austyn Carta-Samuels, the offensive MVP, threw for 201 yards and three touchdowns including the game-winning 13-yard touchdown pass to David Leonard. Defensive MVP Mitch Unrein tallied six tackles and two sacks for the Wyoming defense including a forced fumble midway through the 4th quarter which led to the game-tying field goal. Wyoming stopped the nation's leading rusher, Fresno State's Ryan Mathews, on three rushing attempts from the 1 in the first overtime. The Bulldogs tried a quarterback sneak on third down, and Mathews came up short again on fourth down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204282-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 2009 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Lobos were led by first-year head coach Mike Locksley and played their home games at the University Stadium. The Lobos finished the season with a record 1\u201311 (1\u20137 MW).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204283-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 2009 New Mexico State Aggies football team represented New Mexico State University as members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by first\u2013year head coach DeWayne Walker and played their home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium. They finished the season with a record of 3\u201310 overall and 1\u20137 in WAC play to tie for eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl\nThe 2009 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl was the ninth edition of the bowl. The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sunday, December 20, 2009. The game was televised live on ESPN. The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, the Sun Belt Conference runners-up, defeated the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, a team from Conference USA, by a score of 42\u201332. The kickoff took place at 7:30\u00a0p.m., Central Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl\nSouthern Miss returned to the New Orleans Bowl for the second straight season and faced one of the nation's hottest teams, Middle Tennessee. Middle Tennessee reached nine wins for the first time since moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 1999 and was on a six-game winning streak going into the game, also a team high in that span.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl\nThe New Orleans Bowl's Sun Belt slot typically goes to the conference champion, but Troy, who lost 30\u201327 to Southern Miss in the  2008 New Orleans Bowl, played in the GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, instead, opening the opportunity for Middle Tennessee. The bowl marked the Blue Raiders' second bowl appearance in four seasons. Southern Miss was playing in their 12th bowl in 13 years. It was also the fourth time Southern Miss played in the New Orleans Bowl in the game's nine-year history. They were  3\u20130 in New Orleans Bowl games before the loss. The game also marked the first meeting between the two schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl, Game summary\nMiddle Tennessee wore their home blue jerseys, Southern Mississippi wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl, Game summary\nThe star of the game was MTSU quarterback Dwight Dasher, who rushed for 201 yards, the most ever by a quarterback in a bowl game. He broke the quarterback bowl rushing record of 200 yards set by Texas' Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl against Southern California. Dasher also rushed for 2 touchdowns and passed for 2 more. Southern Miss quarterback Martevious Young completed 18 of 34 passes for 271 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204284-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Bowl, Game summary\nSouthern Miss running back Damion Fletcher ran for 78 yards. He finished the season with 1,015 to become the ninth player in major college football to reach 1,000 in all four seasons. With 5,302 yards rushing overall, Fletcher passed Herschel Walker (5,259) and LaDainian Tomlinson (5,263) for eighth on the NCAA's career list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 2009 season was the New Orleans Saints' 43rd in the National Football League (NFL). It was the most successful season in franchise history, culminating with a victory in Super Bowl XLIV. The Saints recorded a franchise record 13 regular season victories (later tied in the 2011, 2018, and 2019 seasons) an improvement on their 8\u20138 record and fourth-place finish in the National Football Conference (NFC)'s southern division from 2008. As a result, the Saints advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 2006. For head coach Sean Payton, this was his fourth season with the franchise, commanding a club overall record of 36\u201324, though it also marked the first year of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal that would ultimately result in his unprecedented (for a coach) one-year suspension from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season\nWith a victory over the Carolina Panthers on November 8, the Saints jumped out to an 8\u20130 start, the best in franchise history. They went on to set the record for the longest undefeated season opening (13\u20130) by an NFC team since the AFL\u2013NFL merger, eclipsing the previous record (12\u20130) held by the 1985 Chicago Bears. This record has since been tied by the 2011 Green Bay Packers and surpassed by the 2015 Carolina Panthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season\nDespite losing the last three games of the season to finish 13\u20133, the team clinched a playoff berth, a first-round bye and\u2014for the first time ever\u2014the top seed in the NFC. The Saints defeated Kurt Warner and the defending NFC Champions Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Divisional playoffs, and proceeded to host the NFC Championship Game for the first time in franchise history. There, they defeated Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings in overtime, then went on to face Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts at Super Bowl XLIV in the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season\nThe Saints won the Super Bowl 31\u201317, giving the city of New Orleans its first NFL championship. The Saints are the first team to defeat three former Super Bowl winning quarterbacks in a row in the playoffs to win the Super Bowl, and were the only team to do so until the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with the Buccaneers beating Drew Brees and the Saints in the NFC Divisional. The Saints, along with the New York Jets, are the only teams to go to one Super Bowl and win it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season\nAlthough five Saints were elected to the Pro Bowl (with two others added as injury replacements), since the game was held one week prior to Super Bowl XLIV, they did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Saints began their season with a Week 1 duel against the Detroit Lions. New Orleans got off to a fast start in the first quarter as quarterback Drew Brees completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marques Colston and a 39-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Robert Meachem. The Lions answered with kicker Jason Hanson kicking a 47-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Detroit came closer as running back Kevin Smith scored on a 4-yard touchdown run. The Saints replied with Brees completing 1-yard and a 15-yard touchdown passes to tight end Jeremy Shockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Detroit Lions\nThe Lions tried to catch up in the third quarter as quarterback Matthew Stafford got a 1-yard touchdown run, yet New Orleans answered with kicker John Carney making a 39-yard field goal. Detroit responded respond with Hanson nailing a 24-yard field goal, while the Saints kept pounding away as Brees completed a 58-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devery Henderson. The Lions closed out the period with safety Louis Delmas returning a fumble 65 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, New Orleans closed out the game as Brees completed a 13-yard touchdown pass to fullback Heath Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Detroit Lions\nWith the win, not only did the Saints begin their season at 1\u20130, but Brees (26-of-34, 358 yards, 6 touchdowns, 1 interception) became the first quarterback to throw 6 touchdown passes in an opening day game, as well as tying Billy Kilmer's franchise record for touchdown passes in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off their win over the Lions, the Saints flew to Lincoln Financial Field for a Week 2 duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. In the first quarter, New Orleans drew first blood as quarterback Drew Brees completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marques Colston. The Eagles answered with quarterback Kevin Kolb (in his first start as the Eagles' quarterback) completing a 71-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson, yet the Saints replied with kicker John Carney making a 23-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Philadelphia tied the game as kicker David Akers got a 23-yard field goal. New Orleans answered with Brees completing a 25-yard touchdown pass to Colston. The Eagles closed out the half as Akers made a 32-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Philadelphia Eagles\nIn the third quarter, the Saints began to take command as Brees completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to fullback Heath Evans, along with running back Mike Bell getting a 7-yard touchdown run and Carney nailing a 25-yard field goal. The Eagles answered with Kolb completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jason Avant. In the fourth quarter, New Orleans kept up its domination as running back Reggie Bush got a 19-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Philadelphia Eagles\nPhiladelphia drove to the Saints' 5-yard line, but could not score and the drive ended on downs; the Saints were then unable to move the ball and, rather than punting out of their own end zone, opted to have Brees throw the ball out of the end zone for an intentional safety. After the ensuing free kick, the Eagles again drove deep into Saints territory, but again failed to score, as Kolb threw an interception which safety Darren Sharper returned 97 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 94], "content_span": [95, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Buffalo Bills\nComing off their win over the Eagles, the Saints flew to Ralph Wilson Stadium for a Week 3 interconference duel with the Buffalo Bills. New Orleans made an immediate impact in the first quarter with running back Lynell Hamilton's 1-yard touchdown run. The Bills answered in the second quarter on a fake field goal attempt; punter Brian Moorman completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to defensive end Ryan Denney. The Saints closed out the half with kicker John Carney's 27-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, New Orleans took control in the fourth quarter with running back Pierre Thomas' 34-yard touchdown run, Carney's 35-yard field goal, and Thomas' 19-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. New York Jets\nComing off their road win over the Bills, the Saints went home for a Week 4 interconference duel with the New York Jets. New Orleans delivered the game's first points as kicker John Carney got a 34-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the defense went to work. Safety Darren Sharper returned an interception 99 yards for a touchdown, followed by defensive end Will Smith forcing an endzone fumble by sacking Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, which allowed defensive tackle Remi Ayodele to land on the ball for a touchdown. Afterwards, New York closed out the half with kicker Jay Feely's 38-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. New York Jets\nThe Jets began a comeback attempt in the third quarter with running back Thomas Jones getting a 15-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, the Saints closed out the game with running back Pierre Thomas' 1-yard touchdown and the defense making an impressive stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. New York Jets\nWith the win, New Orleans entered its bye week at 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\n\"Saints keep Giants off balance: The Saints completely dismantled the Giants by showcasing a versatile passing game out of multiple formations and personnel groupings. New Orleans' ability to routinely switch from conventional two-back sets to three- and four-receiver formations kept New York off balanced. It also enabled Drew Brees to attack a defense that was sitting back in conventional coverage. With the Giants playing a heavy amount of two-deep zone, Brees repeatedly attacked the middle of the field with seams and deep crosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nThe Giants' underneath defenders were unable to disrupt the timing or release of the receivers' routes, which allowed Brees to routinely find an open target in the zone. Brees capitalized on the Giants' tactical error, and the Saints topped the 40-point mark for the third time this season as a result.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nComing off their bye week, the Saints stayed at home for a huge Week 6 game in a \"Battle of The Unbeatens\" against the New York Giants. New Orleans' offense roared out of the gates in the first quarter with running back Mike Bell's 2-yard touchdown run on a 4th-down-conversion and quarterback Drew Brees' 1-yard touchdown pass to former Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey. New York closed out the opening quarter with a 49-yard field goal from kicker Lawrence Tynes, with the Saints leading 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nThe Saints' high-powered offense continued to heat up in the second quarter as Brees completed a 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Robert Meachem, being called a \"Week 6 Can't-Miss Play.\" The Giants tried to keep up as running back Ahmad Bradshaw got a 10-yard touchdown run, yet New Orleans answered with Brees hooking up with wide receiver Lance Moore on a 12-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nNew York tried to catch up, yet continued to stay persistent as quarterback Eli Manning completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mario Manningham, yet the Saints closed out the half with a 7-yard touchdown run from running back Reggie Bush. The Saints now led 34\u201317, with the point deficit being at 17 points. The Saints had over 300 yards of total offense, with 5 offensive touchdowns and 2 TD runs by Mike Bell and Reggie Bush, and 3 TD passes from Drew Brees to Jeremy Shockey, Robert Meachem and Lance Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nNew Orleans solidified its lead in the third quarter with Brees finding wide receiver Marques Colston on a 12-yard touchdown pass. The Giants opened the fourth quarter with Tynes booting a 38-yard field goal, yet the Saints ended its dominating run with fullback Heath Evans getting a 2-yard touchdown run. New York then closed out the game's scoring with quarterback David Carr completing a 37-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hakeem Nicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nThe New Orleans Saints finished the game with 493 yards of total offense (369 passing and 124 rushing), 7 offensive touchdowns (3 runs and 4 pass), 48 points, 28 first-downs, finished 7/13 (53%) in 3rd-down-conversions and 1/2 (50%) in 4th-down conversions, ran 70 plays (30 pass plays and 40 rushing plays), controlled the ball 36:07 minutes and did not commit a turnover, though Robert Meachem fumbled, with the fumble being recovered by the Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nAccording to NFL Game Center, some of the team leaders for the Saints included Drew Brees, who missed only 7 passes, passed for 369 yards, scored 4 touchdowns and spread them to 4 different receivers, and threw 0 interceptions, did not fumble and did not get sacked. For the receiving game, Marques Colston caught 8 receptions for 166 yards with 1 touchdown coming from 12 yards out from Drew Brees in the 3rd quarter, and Lance Moore caught 6 receptions for 78 yards with 1 touchdown, being from 12 yards out from Drew Brees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nFor the running game, Pierre Thomas ran 15 times for 72 yards with 0 touchdowns, and Mike Bell ran 15 times for 34 yards, with 1 touchdown, being a 2-yard touchdown run early in the 1st quarter on the Saints' first possession on 4th-down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0015-0003", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nThe Giants lost the game by a 21-point deficit and finished it with only 325 yards of total offense (241 passing and 84 rushing), 3 offensive touchdowns (2 pass and 1 run), 27 points, 17 first-downs, finished 3/10 (30%) in 3rd-down-efficiency and 1/1 in 4th-down-efficiency, ran only 57 plays (36 pass plays and 19 rushing plays), controlled the ball for 23:53 minutes on the clock and committed 2 turnovers (1 interception and 1 fumble).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0015-0004", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. New York Giants\nTheir team leaders included Eli Manning, who completed 14 passes out of 31 attempts, passed for 178 yards, ran the ball 1 time for a loss 1 yard, threw an interception and fumbled on a sack, while David Carr finished 4/5 for 72 yards and 1 touchdown, a 37-yarder to Hakeem Nicks. For the receiving game, Hakeem Nicks caught 5 receptions for 114 yards, with 1 touchdown reception coming from quarterback David Carr, while Mario Manningham caught 4 receptions for 50 yards, with 1 touchdown from Eli Manning. For the running game, Ahmad Bradshaw had 10 carries for 48 yards for a 4.8 average with 1 touchdown, and Brandon Jacobs had 7 carries for 33 yards for a 4.7 average, with 0 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins\nIn Week 7, the Saints traveled to Miami to continue their interconference series against the Dolphins. Miami jumped out to a 24\u20133 lead by the second quarter, with former Saints first-rounder and Heisman winner Ricky Williams scoring on runs of 4 and 68 yards, and Ronnie Brown added a touchdown run of 8 yards in the second quarter. Despite being behind for the first time in the season, the Saints gained momentum when Drew Brees scored on a quarterback sneak to end the first half and cap a 1:36 drive of 51 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins\nIn the second half, the Saints scored on a 42-yard interception return by Darren Sharper in the third, but Dan Carpenter added a second field goal to push the lead back to ten points. The Saints responded with a 10-yard Brees-Colston connection, but Ricky Williams answered with another 4-yard rushing score to make the score 34\u201324. The Saints completed their comeback in the fourth quarter, first with Reggie Bush scoring on a reverse from 10 yards out, then with Brees scoring his second rushing touchdown from 2. Though John Carney missed the extra point, he later hit a field goal from 20 yards, and Tracy Porter sealed the comeback with a 54-yard interception return. The Saints outscored Miami 22\u20130 in the fourth quarter, and 36\u201310 for the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nComing off their comeback road win over the Dolphins, the Saints went home for a Week 8 NFC South duel with the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night. New Orleans would initially trail in the first quarter as Falcons running back Michael Turner got a 13-yard touchdown run, yet the Saints answered with running back Pierre Thomas getting a 22-yard touchdown run. Atlanta would come right back as quarterback Drew Brees was sacked by free safety Thomas DeCoud, causing him to fumble and allow defensive end Kroy Biermann to return the ball 4 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, New Orleans would go on a rampage with Brees' 18-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marques Colston, running back Reggie Bush's 1-yard touchdown run, and cornerback Jabari Greer's 48-yard interception return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 899]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nHowever, the Falcons began to get back into the game with quarterback Matt Ryan finding wide receiver Roddy White on a 68-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, followed by kicker Jason Elam booting a 25-yard field goal. Fortunately, cornerback Tracy Porter's key interception (helped from linebacker Jonathan Vilma's tip) lead to Brees finding Thomas on a 1-yard touchdown pass. Even though Atlanta crept closer with Elam nailing a 40-yard field goal and recovering an onside kick, free safety Darren Sharper's interception sealed the tight victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nWith the win, the Saints improved to 7\u20130 (tying their best start since 1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Carolina Panthers\nComing off their Monday night win over the Falcons, the Saints stayed at home for a Week 9 NFC South duel with the Carolina Panthers. New Orleans would trail in the first quarter as Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams got a 66-yard and a 7-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, the Saints got on the board with a 23-yard field goal from kicker John Carney. Carolina would reply with kicker John Kasay getting a 32-yard field goal, yet New Orleans would close out the half with Carney's 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Carolina Panthers\nIn the third quarter, the Saints crept closer with a 10-yard touchdown by running back Pierre Thomas. The Panthers would reply with Kasay nailing a 25-yard field goal, yet New Orleans would close out the period with quarterback Drew Brees' 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Robert Meachem. Afterwards, the Saints took command in the fourth quarter as Carney booted a 40-yard field goal, followed by defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove forcing Williams into a fumble and recovering it for a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Carolina Panthers\nWith the win, the Saints improved to 8\u20130, which is the team's best start in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at St. Louis Rams\nComing off their divisional home win over the Panthers, the Saints flew to the Edward Jones Dome for a Week 10 duel with the St. Louis Rams. After a scoreless first quarter, New Orleans got the game's inaugural points in the second quarter with running back Reggie Bush getting a 3-yard touchdown run. The Rams would respond with quarterback Marc Bulger completing a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donnie Avery. New Orleans would answer with quarterback Drew Brees hooking up with Bush on a 15-yard touchdown pass, yet St. Louis would close out the half with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Steven Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at St. Louis Rams\nThe Saints would begin the third quarter with wide receiver Courtney Roby returning the second half's opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown. The Rams would stay close with kicker Josh Brown nailing a 32-yard field goal. New Orleans would extend their lead in the fourth quarter Brees finding wide receiver Robert Meachem on a 27-yard touchdown pass. St. Louis tried to catch up as Bulger found Avery again on a 19-yard touchdown pass (with a failed 2-point conversion), yet the defense prevented the Rams from getting any closer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nComing off a tough road win against the Rams, the Saints went to Raymond James Stadium for a Week 11 duel against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After a quick first quarter Tampa Bay touchdown from rookie quarterback Josh Freeman to Micheal Clayton to cap a 95-yard drive, the Bucs showed how the Saints struggled defensively. The Bucs looked to improve on their next drive by moving the ball with running backs Carnell Williams and Ernest Graham. The Saints would answer defensively as they took advantage of numerous mistakes by rookie Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nDrew Brees passed for 187 yards and three touchdowns. He connected with Robert Meacham for a 4-yard touchdown catch and a 6-yard touchdown catch, and to tight end David Thomas for an 11-yard touchdown. Pressure on the young Freeman from the Saints forced him to throw 3-interceptions and a fumble, allowing the Saints to take more control during the second half. The Saints would close out the game with two scores from running back Mike Bell from 3 yards and one yard out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 96], "content_span": [97, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Saints returned to the Dome for possibly the most hyped game in recent team history, a Monday Night showdown in front of 70,768 with the 7\u20133 Patriots, winners of 3 Super Bowls in this decade. The Saints came out firing from the start with a 33-yard completion from Brees to Devery Henderson. The drive resulted in a John Carney field goal from 30 yards. The Patriots stormed back on the next drive, converting twice on 4th-and-1, the second being Laurence Maroney's 4-yard touchdown run to put New England in the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New England Patriots\nOn New England's next drive, Tom Brady was intercepted by a healthy and re-signed Mike McKenzie, leading to a touchdown from Brees to Pierre Thomas on an 18-yard swing pass. Forcing the Patriots to punt again, Drew Brees found a wide-open Henderson on the next play, who waltzed into the endzone on a 75-yard reception to make it 17\u20137. The Patriots scored again on a 38-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski. Drew Brees made it 24\u201310 on a 38 yarder to Robert Meachem, which was set up by a 25-yard catch by former Patriots tight end David Thomas, and Gostkowski missed a 50-yard field goal wide to close out the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New England Patriots\nOn the Pats first play of the third quarter, Scott Fujita forced Maroney to fumble, and Sedrick Ellis recovered the ball. However, Maroney forced Ellis to fumble, and Wes Welker recovered the ball on the New England 19. Brady then drove New England downfield, including a 47 yarder to Randy Moss, and Maroney scored his second rushing touchdown from two yards. On the next offensive play, Marques Colston turns a 10-yard catch into a 68-yard gain to the Patriots 6, and New Orleans gets another touchdown via a two-yard catch by backup tight end Darnell Dinkins. In the fourth quarter, Brees hits Colston from 20 yards for his 5th passing touchdown of the game, and the game was sealed when Sharper got his 8th interception of the year, and Brady was pulled with 5:28 to go, replaced by backup Brian Hoyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 904]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New England Patriots\nWith the win, the Saints improve to 11\u20130. Drew Brees completed 18 of 23 passes for a season-high 371 yards, five touchdowns and his first-ever perfect passer rating of 158.3, and became the first to throw 5 touchdowns against a Bill Belichick-coached team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New England Patriots\nThe television broadcast of the game on ESPN's Monday Night Football was the second-most-watched cable telecast of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Washington Redskins\nAfter an emotional Monday night win against the New England Patriots, the Saints traveled to FedExField in Landover, Maryland for a Week 13 matchup against the Washington Redskins. In the 1st quarter, the Redskins scored first with Jason Campbell throwing an 8-yard touchdown to Fred Davis. Shaun Suisham then kicked a 32-yard field goal to go up 10\u20130. In the 2nd quarter, the Saints finally scored with a Garrett Hartley 34-yard field goal. After a defensive stance, Drew Brees threw a 40-yard touchdown to Marques Colston which tied the game 10\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Washington Redskins\nThe Redskins retook the lead with Jason Campbell connecting with Devin Thomas for a 10-yard touchdown. With the Saints now down 17\u201310, Brees and the Saints attempted to drive the field. Brees\u2019 pass attempt to Jeremy Shockey was intercepted by Kareem Moore. Robert Meachem then ran into Moore, stripped the football, and returned it for a 44-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Washington Redskins\nIn the 3rd quarter, the Redskins kicker Suisham made a 28-yard field goal. The Redskins then extended their lead with Devin Thomas catching a 13-yard touchdown pass from Campbell. The Saints\u2019 Hartley made a 27-yard field goal. In the 4th quarter, Shaun Suisham and Garrett Hartley traded field goals. After a field goal miss from 23 yards by Shaun Suisham, the Saints, only down by 7 points, now had the opportunity to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Washington Redskins\nDrew Brees and the Saints offense drove the field in 5 plays, in 33 seconds and capped the drive with a 53-yard touchdown pass to Robert Meachem to tie the game 30\u201330 at the end of regulation. The Saints completed the comeback with Garrett Hartley's 18-yard field goal for the first lead in the game and the win 33\u201330 in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Washington Redskins\nWith the win, the Saints improved to 12\u20130 and clinched the NFC South title. Their 12 wins also tied a single-season franchise record set in the 1987 and 1992 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 95], "content_span": [96, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nAfter a tough road win in overtime against the Redskins. The Saints marched into Atlanta with their eyes on a franchise best 13th straight victory. In the first quarter, Atlanta started out fast driving down the field for a Matt Bryant 36-yard field goal. The Saints responded with a Garrett Hartley 33-yard field goal. Atlanta responded with another Matt Bryant 30-yard field goal to take 6\u20133 lead at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe Saints would come out strong in the second quarter, when RB Reggie Bush scored on a 6-yard pass from Drew Brees to take a 10\u20136 lead. The Saints continued to move the ball and added onto the lead with a Marques Colston 3-yard touchdown catch from Drew Brees. Garrett Hartley kick failed giving the Saints a 16\u20136 lead in the second quarter. The Falcons troubles would continue. After failing to score a touchdown for the third time in the first half, Atlanta settled for a Matt Bryant 27-yard field goal to get within a touchdown at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe second half looked promising for the Saints but RB Reggie Bush fumbled and recovered the ball. RB Reggie Bush would redeem his performance on the next play with a 21-yard screen pass from Drew Brees to put the Saint up 23\u20139. Atlanta would make a run and wear down the Saints defense when Michael Jenkins caught a 50-yard touchdown pass from Chris Redman to move within a touchdown. Jason Snelling would add a 4-yard touchdown run to tie the game at 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nLate in the fourth quarter, the Saints would have a chance to get the lead back with a Garrett Hartley 38-yard field goal. The Saints got a break when Jonathan Vilma intercepted a Chris Redman pass to give the Saints a chance to increase the lead. The Saints would move the ball but only settle for a fake field goal that failed. The results continued in doubt for the Saints until Vilma came up with another defensive fourth-down hit on RB Jason Snelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0036-0002", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nStopping him a yard short of the marker with just over a minute remaining, the Saints' defense came up big but gave up 392 yards. Drew Brees threw for 296 yards for the season and threw for more than 30,000 yards in his career. He also added three touchdowns for the season and tied a club record with 120 in his Saints career. Running back Reggie Bush had 47 rushing yards, 33 receiving yards and two touchdowns added for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe Saints won 26\u201323. With the win, they improved to 13\u20130, clinching a first-round bye in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nComing off yet another close win, this time over the Falcons, the Saints went home for a Week 15 Saturday night duel with the Dallas Cowboys. In the first quarter, Dallas would get off to a fast start with quarterback Tony Romo completing a 49-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin. The Cowboys then increased their lead later in the quarter with a 3-yard touchdown run by running back Marion Barber. In the second quarter, the Saints would score their only points of the half with kicker Garrett Hartley nailing a 34-yard field goal. However, the Cowboys took a 17\u20133 lead at halftime with kicker Nick Folk's 44-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nIn the third quarter, Dallas scored the period's only points when running back Marion Barber got a 2-yard touchdown run. An exciting fourth quarter ensued. New Orleans got the first score of the period when running back Mike Bell scored from one yard out to make a 24\u201310 Dallas lead. Following a Dallas three-and-out, New Orleans made it a one touchdown game when quarterback Drew Brees hit wide receiver Lance Moore for a 7-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nDallas then marched down the field to the Saints' eight-yard line, but then kicker Nick Folk's potential game-icing 24-yard field goal hit the right goalpost and went no good, setting up another fourth quarter comeback for the Saints. However, unlike in such games against Washington and Atlanta, quarterback Drew Brees was sacked with 10 seconds left in the contest at the Dallas 48-yard line, forcing a fumble for the second time in the game by Dallas' DeMarcus Ware, which was then recovered by nose tackle Jay Ratliff. The Cowboys then took a knee to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith the loss, the Saints fell to 13\u20131, ending their chance at a perfect season. Also with the Colts' win, the Saints held the 2nd best overall record of any team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Saints dominated the first quarter and entered halftime riding on a 17\u20133 lead. Tampa Bay scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, including a 77-yard kick return by Micheal Spurlock, to tie the game at 17. As time expired, Garrett Hartley attempted a 37-yard field goal that would have salvaged the game for the Saints, but the kick hooked left. In overtime, Tampa Bay won the coin toss, received the kickoff, and drove down the field to win the game with a field goal, for a final score of 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nWith the loss, the Saints fell to 13\u20132, and appeared to be at risk of losing homefield advantage in the playoffs to the Vikings. However, the Vikings lost in overtime to the Chicago Bears in Week 16's Monday night game, and the Saints clinched the top seed in the NFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 97], "content_span": [98, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Carolina Panthers\nAfter barely losing to the now 3\u201312 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New Orleans Saints looked to rest their starters for the remaining game against the Carolina Panthers. In the first quarter, the Carolina Panthers started out with great runs from Jonathan Stewart who capped off the first drive with a 67-yard run for a touchdown. In the second quarter the Saints got on the board with a Garrett Hartley 35-yard field goal making the score 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Carolina Panthers\nCarolina was not done, they continued to go to their play makers like Dwayne Jarrett who caught a 30-yard pass from Matt Moore to go up 14\u20133. Later John Kasay added a 41-yard field goal to extend the lead to 17\u20133. In the second half, the Saints could not stop Carolina from scoring twice more on a John Kasay 39-yard field goal and a 37-yard field goal to go up 23\u20133. The Saints would show promise when Lynell Hamilton ran for a 1-yard touchdown to end the game at 23\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Carolina Panthers\nGame Notes: Mark Brunell was dismal completing 15 of his 29 attempts for 102 yards, 1 interception and a passer rating of 45.5. This marks the first time this season that the Saints did not have a productive quarterback, receiver or running back. This marks the second time the Saints have allowed a Carolina running back to run for over 100 yards in a game (DeAngelo Williams 149 yards week 9 & Jonathan Stewart 128 yards week 17). Sitting out allowed Drew Brees to break the NFL record for completion percentage in a season with 70.60, beating the previous NFL record of 70.55 by Ken Anderson of Cincinnati set in 1982. The Saints have home-field throughout the national football conference playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 93], "content_span": [94, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Wildcard Round: Bye week\nBy earning the NFC top-seed, the Saints earned a bye week in the first round of the NFC Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nEntering the postseason as the NFC's #1 seed, the Saints began their playoff run at home in the NFC Divisional Round against the #4 Arizona Cardinals. New Orleans would immediately trail in the first quarter as Cardinals running back Tim Hightower ran for a 70-yard touchdown. The Saints would greatly respond with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Lynell Hamilton, quarterback Drew Brees finding tight end Jeremy Shockey on a 17-yard touchdown pass, and running back Reggie Bush's 54-yard touchdown run. Arizona would reply in the second quarter with a 4-yard touchdown run from running back Chris \"Beanie\" Wells. Afterwards, New Orleans struck again as Brees found wide receiver Devery Henderson on a 44-yard touchdown pass, followed by wide receiver Marques Colston for a 2-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 103], "content_span": [104, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nIn the third quarter, the Saints continued their offensive day as place-kicker Garrett Hartley kicked a 43-yard field goal, followed by Bush's 83-yard punt return for a touchdown. For the rest of the game, New Orleans' defense took control and shut down the Cardinal's offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 103], "content_span": [104, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Round: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nWith the win, the Saints advanced to the NFC Championship Game for the second time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 103], "content_span": [104, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nComing off their divisional home win over the Cardinals, the Saints stayed at home for the NFC Championship Game against the #2 Minnesota Vikings. New Orleans would initially trail in the first quarter as Vikings running back Adrian Peterson got a 19-yard touchdown run, yet the Saints responded with quarterback Drew Brees hooking up with running back Pierre Thomas on a 38-yard touchdown pass. However, Minnesota would answer with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sidney Rice. New Orleans would tie the game again in the second quarter with Brees finding wide receiver Devery Henderson on a 9-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 104], "content_span": [105, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Saints would take the lead in the third quarter with Thomas' 9-yard touchdown run, but the Vikings would tie the game with a 1-yard touchdown run from Peterson. In the fourth quarter, New Orleans would regain the lead as Brees found running back Reggie Bush on a 5-yard touchdown pass, yet Minnesota would tie again with Peterson's 2-yard touchdown run. A key interception late in 4th quarter by Tracy Porter stopped what could have been Minnesota's game-winning drive, leading to overtime. In overtime, the Saints came out on top as place-kicker Garrett Hartley booted the game-winning 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 104], "content_span": [105, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith the win, not only did the Saints improve their overall record to 15\u20133, but they would advance to their very first Super Bowl in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 104], "content_span": [105, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XLIV: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nIn continuation of a string of firsts, the Saints advanced to their first Super Bowl in franchise history and won it in dramatic fashion. After the coin toss, the Saints wanted the ball first; however, they did not score on their first drive. The Colts drove the ball down the field with an attempt to score the first touchdown but was denied and forced Matt Stover to kick a 38-yard field goal. But the Colts were not finished: on their next possession, Pierre Gar\u00e7on caught a 19-yard TD pass from Peyton Manning, and the Colts led 10\u20130 after fifteen minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 99], "content_span": [100, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XLIV: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nIn the second quarter, the Saints were forced to look upon Garrett Hartley for two field goals \u2013 a 46 yarder and a 44 yarder respectively \u2013 and the deficit was reduced to four points by halftime. Garrett Hartley ended the half with the Super Bowl record for kicks of more than 40 yards, with 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 99], "content_span": [100, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XLIV: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nKicking off the second half, the Saints caught Indy by surprise with the \"Ambush\" play (an onside kick in kickoff formation), which the Saints recovered, shifting the momentum to them. Pierre Thomas caught a 16-yard screen pass from Drew Brees and NO had their first lead of the game, 13\u201310 after the extra point. The Colts would not be denied from scoring again with the rushing attack of Joseph Addai, capping off the scoring drive with a 4-yard run. From here, however, the Colts would be denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 99], "content_span": [100, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204285-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 New Orleans Saints season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XLIV: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nThe Saints still stood by Hartley to keep the game close with a 47-yard field goal, taking the score to 17\u201316. In the fourth quarter, Jeremy Shockey caught a two-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees with Lance Moore catching a two-point conversion and the Saints led 24\u201317. On the Colts ensuing possession, season MVP quarterback Peyton Manning swiftly moved the Indianapolis offense into Saints territory, off four passes for 44 yards, vying for the tying score. However, in the end, it was the Saints defense that would prove championship worthy, when Tracy Porter intercepted and returned Manning's shotgun pass 74 yards for a touchdown to seal the win and the first Super Bowl title for the New Orleans Saints in their 44-year existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 99], "content_span": [100, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204286-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 2009 were announced on 31 December 2008 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Christopher and Nevis, to celebrate the year past and mark the beginning of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204286-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by the country whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour, with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as and where appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204287-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 2009 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. They were announced on 31 December 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204287-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election\nThe 2009 election for New York City Comptroller was held on November 3, 2009, to coincide with the 2009 mayoral election to determine who would serve as New York City Comptroller. The Democratic and Republican primaries were held on September 15, 2009. There was a run-off election for the Democratic Party nomination on September 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election\nJoe Mendola was nominated as the Republican candidate. John Liu was nominated as the candidate of the Democratic Party; he was also on the Working Families Party line in November. Liu won the race and was elected Comptroller, becoming the first Asian American to be elected to a citywide office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Democratic nomination\nIn March 2009, Liu announced that he was running for the post of New York City Comptroller. As part of this bid, Liu donated $10,000 to the Working Families Party; they endorsed him less than 6 months later. Liu raised $3 million for his political run, more than his competitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Democratic nomination\nBeginning in May, Liu picked up several endorsements. The Village Independent Democrats, The Queens County Democratic organization, the local Americans for Democratic Action chapter and the Working Families Party, 1199 SEIU union local and the Uniformed Firefighters Association endorsed him. On September 1, the United Federation of Teachers endorsed Liu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Democratic nomination, Primary election\nIn the September 15 Democratic primary, Liu was the front-runner, ending up with 133,986 votes, or 38 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Democratic nomination, Run-off election\nBecause he did not manage to reach 40 percent of the vote, a run-off election was required between Liu and runner-up Yassky, who received 30 percent of the vote in the primary. The Daily News wrote that Yassky and Liu slung mud in a spirited debate on September 24, 2009. On September 29, Liu won the run-off by taking 55.6% of the vote against Yassky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Election returns, Democratic primary election\nMost (about 65) of the 108 write-in votes were for Salim Ejaz, over 40 of which were cast in Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Election returns, Democratic primary run-off election\nAs no candidate had received 40% of the Democratic vote for this office in the September 15 primary, a run-off election between the two most-popular candidates was held on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 94], "content_span": [95, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Election returns, General election\nJohn Liu won the general election held on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204288-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Comptroller election, Election returns, General election\nSource: Board of Elections in the City of New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204289-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Marathon\nThe 2009 New York City Marathon was the 40th running of the annual marathon race in New York City, United States, which took place on Sunday, November 1. The men's elite race was won by home athlete Meb Keflezighi in a time of 2:09:15 hours while the women's race was won by Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu in 2:28:52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204289-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Marathon\nIn the wheelchair races, America's Krige Schabort (1:35:58) and Switzerland's Edith Hunkeler (1:58:15) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. In the handcycle race, Americans Dane Pilon (1:19:48) and Helene Hines (1:53:51) were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204289-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Marathon\nA total of 43,250 runners finished the race, 28,178 men and 15,072 women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election\nThe 2009 New York City Public Advocate election took place on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, along with elections for the mayor, the city comptroller, borough presidents, and members of the New York City Council. The Democratic candidate, Bill de Blasio, won election with 77% of the vote against 18% for the Republican nominee, Alex Zablocki, 3.6% for the Conservative nominee, William Lee, and 1.7% for two others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election\nThe public advocate has the formal role of presiding over meetings of the New York City Council (although the Speaker elected by the Council itself now does much of this work), and, until the next election, would serve as acting Mayor whenever the elected Mayor is unable to serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election\nThis election has drawn significant interest from politicians looking to advance their careers, as the extension of New York City term limits allows more incumbents to seek reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nDespite the extension of term limits in late 2008, the outgoing public advocate, Betsy Gotbaum announced that she would not run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nCandidates included Councilman Eric Gioia of Queens, who has raised $2.5\u00a0million for the campaign; Norman Siegel, the civil liberties lawyer who lost in a runoff to Gotbaum in 2001; former public advocate Mark Green, and Councilman Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nAfter acknowledging he was considering the race in December 2008, former Public Advocate Mark J. Green announced on February 10, 2009, that he would again run for the office. Green was Gotbaum's predecessor as public advocate and the first person to hold this title. His entry changed the landscape of the race, due to his name recognition and ability to raise money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nCouncilman John Liu, also from Queens, had been considered a potential candidate for advocate, but he ran for and won the office of New York City Comptroller\u2014an office uncontested by the current city comptroller, Bill Thompson, who preferred to seek election as mayor in 2009. Councilwoman Jessica Lappin and Guillermo Linares, a former councilman and current commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, were also considering a run Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV was also considered a potential candidate. Lappin decided not to run. Imtiaz S. Syed, a lawyer, economist, investigative accountant, banker, administrator and management consultant, also ran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nOn September 15, 2009, de Blasio won 32.6% of the Democratic primary vote and Green 31.5%. (Most of the remaining 36% of the primary voters cast their ballots for Gioia or Siegel.) Neither de Blasio nor Green won enough votes (40%) to avoid a run-off primary election between them two weeks later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Democratic party\nOn September 29, Bill de Blasio won that Democratic primary run-off by 62.4% to 37.6% for Mark Green. Turnout was very light, about 220,000 or 10% of the eligible voters, according to The Associated Press. (In the same run-off election, John Liu led his fellow City Councilman David Yassky, of Brooklyn, for the Democratic nomination for New York City Comptroller by 56% to 44% of a similar turnout.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Candidates, Republican party\nAlex Zablocki, an aide to State Senator Andrew Lanza of Staten Island, declared his candidacy. At 26 years old, Zablocki was the youngest candidate to run for public advocate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Campaign\nGotbaum set up meetings with each of her potential successors in order to help them understand the position. On March 30, 2009, Alex Zablocki, Republican candidate for public advocate, met with Gotbaum in her office for about an hour to discuss the importance of the office and afterwards thanked her for her service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Campaign\nOn March 10, Fordham Law School hosted a town hall meeting with Gioia, Siegel, de Blasio and Green. Zablocki was not invited, which he considered an \"outrage\". The organizer said that he believed students wanted to see the Democratic contenders first, and wished to set up a debate including Zablocki in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Campaign, Endorsements\nDe Blasio was endorsed by The New York Times, the Working Families Party, and over 150 elected officials and organizations. Gioia was endorsed by various labor unions, including Local One of the Stagehands, the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) and the Captains Endowment Association (CEA). Alex Zablocki was endorsed by all five Republican county organizations in New York City, led by his home borough of Staten Island. Alex Zablocki was also endorsed by the Staten Island Advance on October 30, 2009, as well as The Wave, Rockaway's leading newspaper, on October 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Results, Democratic primary\nOfficial results from the New York City Board of Elections as of September 25, 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Results, Democratic primary\nAs no candidate reached 40%, a runoff election for de Blasio and Green set for September 29 was required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Results, Democratic Run-off Primary\nBill de Blasio became the Democratic nominee for public advocate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204290-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Public Advocate election, Results, General election\nSource: Board of Elections in the City of New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot\nThe 2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot was a plan to bomb the New York City Subway as well as a target in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot\nIn September 2009, several individuals fell under suspicion and were arrested due to fears that a suspected jihadist cell in New York was planning to explode bombs in the United States. According to a July 2010 indictment, the cell had members in London plotting to carry out a companion bombing in the United Kingdom. Information gathered during the interrogation of one of the men triggered a nationwide bomb alert. Officials were told to be on alert for individuals with burns on their hands that might be chemical burns. They were told to be on alert for apartments with bad smells, or with multiple window fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nNajibullah Zazi, his father Mohammed Wali Zazi (born 1955 in Afghanistan), and imam Ahmad Wais Afzali (born 1987) were arrested on 19 September 2009, for lying in a matter involving terrorism. All three men were long-time legal residents of the U.S., born in Afghanistan. According to the Chicago Tribune, American security officials suspected up to 12 individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nThe central figure in the United States wing of the group was 24-year-old Zazi, said by the FBI to have been trained in the use of weapons and explosives at an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2008. Zazi had initially said that trips he made to Pakistan in 2007 and 2008 were to visit his wife. His last trip lasted five months. Zazi acknowledged receiving weapons and explosives training in Pakistan's semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The FBI found images of hand-written notes on how to build bombs on Zazi's laptop. Zazi said he was unaware of these notes, and speculated that he might have downloaded them accidentally with a religious book he had downloaded in August. The FBI found Zazi's fingerprints on a scale and on batteries found in a house in Queens they raided after his visit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nIn 2009, Zazi was living in Colorado, and got a license to work as an airport shuttle driver. Previously he had lived in Queens, New York City, where he was eventually declared bankrupt. Zazi had been under surveillance for some time, prior to renting a car for a trip to New York on 9 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nOn 9 January 2010, two more men were arrested in connection to the bomb plot. Taxi driver Zarein Ahmedzay and Bosnian immigrant Adis Medunjanin were charged with making false statements to the police, and pleaded not guilty. Medunjanin was arrested after his car crashed on the Whitestone Bridge on 7 January in New York City. The July indictment, noting Medunjanin called an operator and said \"We love death\", alleged that the crash was intentional and part of a suicide attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nMohammed Zazi was charged on the counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice, as well as conspiring to dispose of his son's bomb-making materials and chemicals. Based on a request of the Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), an arrest warrant for his arrest in violation of 18 U.S.C. \u00a71001(a)(2) was issued on September 19, 2009. He was released on a $50,000 bail on February 18, 2009. He pleaded not guilty in February 2010. He was convicted in July 2011 of destroying evidence and lying to investigators. He was sentenced in February 2012 to four and a half years in prison. In October 2011, he pleaded guilty to instructing his lawyer to falsify immigration documents for his nephew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nAfzali was arrested on September 19, 2009, on \"charges of lying in a matter involving terrorism. \", citing that during his September 11, 2009, conversation, he warned Zazi that the police had come asking questions about him, and then lied to the FBI about having done so in two subsequent interrogations. He also said that the call was being monitored. Afzali was represented by human rights lawyer Ron Kuby. He was released on secured bail of $1.5 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Participants\nOn March 4, 2010, in a plea bargain Afzali pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of lying to U.S. federal agents, and said he was sorry. He faced up to six months in prison, and as part of the plea arrangement the government agreed not to request any jail time. Brooklyn federal judge Frederic Block sentenced Afzali on April 15, 2010. Afzali voluntarily left the U.S. on 5 July, within 90 days of his sentencing. As a felon and under the agreement of his plea deal, he is not allowed to return to the U.S. except by special permission. Most of Afzali's family remains in the United States. According to his lawyer, Afzali's last words in the United States were \"God Bless America\". Afzali denied ever having intended to aid Zazi or deceive American authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 63], "content_span": [64, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Other persons of interest\nAnother man who was questioned was Naiz Khan, who attended the same mosque as Najibullah Zazi when he lived in New York. A U-Haul dealership in Queens had contacted authorities to tell them that it had recently declined to rent a van to three suspicious men whose credit cards had been declined and wanted to pay cash. Naiz Khan was questioned about the failed rental, but denied he had ever been to the U-haul dealership. Khan's apartment was one of those that had been searched because Zazi was believed to have stayed there. According to The New York Times, Zazi had shared an apartment with Khan, Amanullah Akbari, and three other men, when he lived in New York a year earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Other persons of interest\nOn 7 July 2010, five al Qaeda members were indicted in relation to the alleged plot. Abid Naseer and Tariq Ur Rehman were charged with involvement in a companion plot in the United Kingdom. Naseer was already in custody after his arrest for sending e-mails to an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan that were reported to be at the heart of a plot to bomb targets in north-west England. On 3 January 2013, Abid Naseer was extradited from the UK to the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Other persons of interest\nOn 4 March 2015, Naseer was found guilty by a Brooklyn court of plotting bomb attacks in the U.S. and of plotting to blow up the Manchester Arndale in the UK. Most of the evidence in his trial consisted of email exchanges between Naseer and an al-Qaeda handler who was directing plots to attack civilians in Manchester, New York City and Copenhagen. It was the first terrorist trial to include documents recovered during the 2009 Navy Seal raid against Osama bin Laden\u2019s compound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Other persons of interest\nAdnan Shukrijumah, reported to be charge of planning Al Qaeda attacks worldwide, was charged with plotting and recruiting members for the New York attack. Over four years later, in December 2014, Shukrijumah was killed in a Pakistani manhunt operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204291-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot, Other persons of interest\nIn the wake of NSA worker Edward Snowden's surveillance disclosures, the U.S. government argued NSA spying helped foil the subway plot by tracking communications between Zazi and a bombmaker in Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 76], "content_span": [77, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election\nThe 2009 election for Mayor of New York City took place on Tuesday, November 3. The incumbent Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, an independent who left the Republican Party in 2008, won reelection on the Republican and Independence Party/Jobs & Education lines with 50.7% of the vote over the retiring City Comptroller, Bill Thompson, a Democrat (also endorsed by the Working Families Party), who won 46.3%. Thompson had won the Democratic primary election on September 15 with 71% of the vote over City Councilman Tony Avella and Roland Rogers. This was the fifth straight mayoral victory by Republican candidates in New York despite the city's strongly Democratic leaning in national and state elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election\nSix other parties' candidates also contested the general election in November. Stephen Christopher of the Conservative Party of New York won 1.6% of the votes, more than the combined total of all the other minor candidates. The turnout of voters\u2014fewer than 350,000 in September and fewer than 1.2 million in November\u2014was relatively low for recent mayoral elections, and Bloomberg won with fewer votes than any successful mayoral candidate had received since women joined the city's electorate in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election\nPrior to the election, the New York City Council had voted to extend the city's term limits, permitting Bloomberg (previously elected in 2001 and 2005) and other second-term officeholders such as Thompson to run for a third term. Attempts to put this decision to a popular referendum, to reverse it in the federal courts or to override it with state legislation were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election\nAs of 2021, this is the last mayoral election in which a candidate on the Republican ballot line carried Manhattan or Queens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Background\nNew York City elected its Mayor by popular vote when Greater New York was formed in 1897, then in 1901, 1903, 1905 and every four years thereafter, as well as in the special elections of 1930 and 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Background\nNineteen of the 31 mayoral elections held between 1897 and 2005 were won by the official candidate of the Democratic Party, eight by the Republican Party's nominee, and four by others. (The last official Democratic candidate to win the mayoralty was David Dinkins in the election of 1989; the last candidate to win the mayoralty without winning either the Republican or the Democratic primary was Mayor John V. Lindsay, running for re-election on the Liberal column in 1969.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Background\nMichael Bloomberg, formerly a Democrat, was elected as a Republican in 2001 and 2005, succeeding another Republican mayor, Rudy Giuliani, elected in 1993 and 1997. Bloomberg left the Republican Party in 2008 and became a political independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Background\nBy a hotly contested vote of 29\u201322 on October 23, 2008, the New York City Council extended the former two-term limit for Mayor, Council and other elected city offices to three terms, allowing Mayor Bloomberg to pursue his announced intention of seeking a third term in 2009. Legal challenges to the extension failed in Federal court, and a proposed law in the New York State Legislature to override the extension was not passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Background\nBloomberg's most prominent opponent was Bill Thompson, who could (similarly) have run for a third term as New York City Comptroller in 2009, but instead sought and won the Democratic nomination for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Primaries, Uncontested nominations\nBloomberg was unopposed for the Republican and Independence Party nominations (which he had also won in 2001 and 2005), Thompson was unopposed for the Working Families Party nomination, and Stephen Christopher was unopposed for the Conservative Party nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Primaries, Democratic primary, Campaign\nCity Comptroller Bill Thompson and Councilman Tony Avella held their first televised debate on Wednesday, August 26, at the New York Public Library. They both directed more fire at Mayor Bloomberg than at each other. \"After eight years of a Republican mayor who is focused on developers and the wealthy, I think New Yorkers are looking for change,\" said Thompson, while Avella declared that the \"arrogance of billionaire Mike Bloomberg to think he's so important that he can overturn the term limits law, I think, is disgraceful.\" Another debate was held on September 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Primaries, Democratic primary, Primary election results\nFrom the Board of Elections in the City of New York, September 26, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 92], "content_span": [93, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Primaries, Democratic primary, Primary election results\nTony Avella, member of the New York City Council, representing a district in Queens. Out of the nearly 400 write-in votes, almost half or 184 (representing about one Democratic voter in 2,000) were some form or spelling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 92], "content_span": [93, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Endorsements and public reception\nIn the final weeks of the campaign, Mayor Bloomberg was endorsed \"enthusiastically\" by the New York Times, which \u2013 while acknowledging Bill Thompson as a \"worthy opponent\" \u2013 praised Bloomberg for handling city matters \"astonishingly well\". Most other local newspapers had preceded the Times in endorsing the mayor, but many did so tepidly, presaging the misgivings of The New Yorker. In a report filed days before the election, the magazine likened Bloomberg to Marcus Licinius Crassus:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Endorsements and public reception\nThe Mayor has ruled us well, but he has infantilized us. We are a little too much like Romans of Crassus' day, when the institutions of the old republic were giving way to a despotic (and competent) imperium.... If Bloomberg had been satisfied with two terms, he would be leaving office a beloved legend, a municipal god. He'll get his third, but we'll give it to him sullenly... The Pax Bloombergiana will endure a while longer. But then what? Will we have forgotten how to govern ourselves?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204292-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York City mayoral election, Polling, Bloomberg approval ratings\nThe first table shows Bloomberg's approval ratings since June 2009. The other table shows whether or not people want a new mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 75th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2009, were announced on 14 December 2009 and presented on 11 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Actor\n1. George Clooney \u2013 Fantastic Mr. Fox and Up in the Air2. Jeff Bridges \u2013 Crazy Heart3. Jeremy Renner \u2013 The Hurt Locker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Actress\n1. Meryl Streep \u2013 Julie & Julia2. Tilda Swinton \u2013 Julia3. Carey Mulligan \u2013 An Education", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography\n1. Christian Berger \u2013 The White Ribbon (Das wei\u00dfe Band)2. Mauro Fiore \u2013 Avatar3. Roger Deakins \u2013 A Serious Man", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Director\n1. Kathryn Bigelow \u2013 The Hurt Locker2. Wes Anderson \u2013 Fantastic Mr. Fox3. Quentin Tarantino \u2013 Inglourious Basterds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Film\n1. The Hurt Locker2. Up in the Air3. Fantastic Mr. Fox", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Foreign Language Film\n1. Summer Hours (L'heure d'\u00e9t\u00e9) \u2022 France2. Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) \u2022 Spain3. Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga \u00f6gonblick) \u2022 Sweden", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Non-Fiction Film\n1. Of Time and the City2. Anvil! The Story of Anvil3. Tyson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay\n1. Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche \u2013 In the Loop2. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner \u2013 Up in the Air3. Quentin Tarantino \u2013 Inglourious Basterds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor\n1. Christoph Waltz \u2013 Inglourious Basterds2. Christian McKay \u2013 Me and Orson Welles3. Peter Capaldi \u2013 In the Loop", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204293-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress\n1. Mo'Nique \u2013 Precious2. Vera Farmiga \u2013 Up in the Air3. Anna Kendrick \u2013 Up in the Air", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season\nThe 2009 New York Giants season was the 85th season for the team in the National Football League. It was the team's final season in Giants Stadium; In 2010, the Giants moved into New Meadowlands Stadium. The Giants hoped to improve upon their 12\u20134 record, avenge their divisional round loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and make the playoffs for the fifth straight year. Despite starting 5\u20130 to begin the season, they went 3\u20138 in their next 11 games and finished 3rd in the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season\nThey were eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since 2004 in Week 16, after the Packers and Cowboys both won. They played teams from the NFC South and AFC West as per the schedule rotation, as well as their regular games with their NFC East rivals. For head coach Tom Coughlin, this was his 6th season as the coach of the Giants. This season also saw the Giants play on Thanksgiving for the first time since 1992. They lost to the Denver Broncos 26-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Players, Movement\nThe Giants signed free-agent defensive end Chris Canty, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys, on March 1, 2009. Canty moved to defensive tackle in the Giants' 4\u20133 scheme. On April 3, 2009, the Giants released WR Plaxico Burress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Players, 2009 NFL Draft\nAfter finishing the 2008 season with a 12\u20134 record, the Giants held the 29th selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. With the pick they closed the gap left by Plaxico Burress in the roster, selecting wide receiver Hakeem Nicks of North Carolina. Then in the second round, they selected linebacker Clint Sintim of Virginia with the 45th pick and offensive tackle William Beatty of Connecticut with the 60th pick. Early in the second day of the draft, the Giants traded picks 91 of Round 3 and 164 of Round 5 to Philadelphia Eagles for their pick 85 of Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Players, 2009 NFL Draft\nWith this pick the Giants selected another wide receiver, Ramses Barden of Cal Poly. In the same round they selected tight end Travis Beckum of Wisconsin with the 100th pick of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Players, 2009 NFL Draft\nIn the following rounds they selected running back Andre Brown of North Carolina State with the 129th pick in fourth round, quarterback Rhett Bomar of Sam Houston State with the 151st pick in the fifth round, defensive back DeAndre Wright of New Mexico with the 200th pick in the sixth round and with their final pick in the seventh round they selected another defensive back, Stoney Woodson of South Carolina with pick 238.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Players, 2009 NFL Draft, Undrafted free agents\nFollowing the 2009 NFL Draft, the Giants signed 9 undrafted free agents. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Washington Redskins\nThe Giants' season began on a down note, as punt returner/running back DJ Ware dislocated his elbow returning the opening kickoff. The injury bug would later notably strike first-round draft pick Hakeem Nicks, who suffered a sprained foot in the fourth quarter and was carted off the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Washington Redskins\nWide receiver Mario Manningham caught the game's first touchdown in the second quarter; the 30-yard strike was worth more yardage than Manningham had totalled in the entire 2008 season. Later in the quarter, Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora returned a Jason Campbell fumble 37 yards for a touchdown, his first major play since returning from the knee injury that benched him for all of 2008. Just before halftime, Redskins punter Hunter Smith ran a fake field goal into the end zone to bring the halftime score to 17\u20137. The Giants did not score a touchdown in the second half, but two Lawrence Tynes field goals ensured that Campbell's late touchdown pass to Chris Cooley would not spoil the Giants' final home opener at Giants Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Washington Redskins\nThe victory served as a sort of going-away party for the Giants, who now faced a rare three-game roadtrip for the first time since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Dallas Cowboys\nIn contrast to the teams' previous meeting, the grand opening of Cowboys Stadium (in front of the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history) was a fast-paced shootout. The first points in the Cowboys' new home were scored by Tynes, whose 30-yard field goal in the first quarter was his first of four on the night. The Cowboys responded by scoring their first points on the ensuing drive\u2014a 2-yard run by running back Marion Barber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Dallas Cowboys\nGiants rookie cornerback Bruce Johnson scored his first career points returning a Tony Romo interception 34 yards. Cowboys tight end Jason Witten responded with a 1-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. Later, Giants safety Kenny Phillips caught an odd interception off Witten's foot, setting up quarterback Eli Manning's 100th career touchdown pass\u2014a 22-yard strike to Manningham. Romo ran a quarterback sneak to open the scoring in the second half, but the Giants sent wide receiver Steve Smith into the end zone in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys punched in one more touchdown on a 7-yard Felix Jones run, but Tynes' 37-yard field goal as time expired was enough to postpone the Cowboys' first home win in Arlington and boost the Giants to 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Dallas Cowboys\nThe Giants lost two more notable players to injuries; defensive end Justin Tuck suffered a sprained shoulder and wide receiver Domenik Hixon sprained a knee. During the week, Phillips' season was brought to an end, as he was placed on injured reserve with patellofemoral arthritis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nPlaying in hot, humid Florida weather, the Giants scored on their first possession for the third week in a row. Jacobs' 6-yard run was also the Giants' first red zone touchdown in eight trips this year. After that, the Giants never looked back. They held the Buccaneers to 18 total yards of offense and 0 first downs in the first half. Smith contributed with a 4-yard touchdown catch on the first play of the second quarter. In the fourth quarter, Sinorice Moss' first reception of the year was good for an 18-yard touchdown. The game ended with David Carr at quarterback for the Giants and Josh Johnson relieving Tampa Bay quarterback Byron Leftwich, whom the Giants' defense held to just 22 passing yards on the day. The Giants had pitched their first shutout on the road since 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 870]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Giants were in control of the winless Chiefs from the opening kickoff, which Bryan Kehl recovered after a Jamaal Charles fumble. The Giants proceeded to score on their first possession for the fourth straight week, this time on a short pass to Smith. Smith himself went on to have a busy day, with 11 catches for 134 yards and a 25-yard touchdown in the second quarter as well. Nicks returned from his Week 1 injury and scored his first career touchdown, a 54-yard pass from Manning, in the fourth quarter. Late in the game, the Chiefs put up a brief flurry of offense; quarterback Matt Cassel threw touchdowns to tight end Sean Ryan and wide receiver Bobby Wade within a span of about five minutes. But the comeback fell short, and the Giants improved to 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Kansas City Chiefs\nManning suffered a heel injury in the fourth quarter, and was forced to leave the game early. Initially concerned about a possible Achilles tendon injury, he was later diagnosed with plantar fasciitis; his start against the Raiders was to be a game-time decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Oakland Raiders\nManning ended up playing until late in the second quarter before handing over the reins\u2014and another Giants blowout lead\u2014to Carr. The Giants extended their first-possession scoring streak to five games, sending Ahmad Bradshaw into the end zone for his first touchdown of the year. The Giants proceeded to score touchdowns on each of their next three drives as well: Bradshaw scored again on a 19-yard rush; Manningham caught a 30-yard touchdown pass to open the second quarter; and, following a red zone fumble by Oakland quarterback JaMarcus Russell, Nicks added a 9-yard touchdown reception. In the third quarter, Carr himself ran 12 yards for his first rushing touchdown since leaving the Houston Texans. The Raiders were held to just 7 first downs on the day, their only touchdown coming on the heels of a muffed punt by Moss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 910]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe win handed the Giants their first 5\u20130 start since their Super Bowl-winning year of 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 6: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Giants' first loss of the year came in this much-anticipated \"clash of unbeatens\" against a 4\u20130 New Orleans team. Manning's first NFL game in his hometown of New Orleans was also Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey's first game against his former team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 6: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Giants' defense, which entered the game as the best in the NFL, gave up 493 total yards and 7 touchdowns to seven different Saints, including Shockey. Scoring touchdowns for the Giants were: Bradshaw, on a 10-yard run in the second quarter; Manningham, who caught a 15-yard pass later in the quarter; and Nicks, whose 37-yard reception from Carr earned him his first career 100-yard receiving game. But the Giants were unable to overcome their highest-scoring opponent since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nLed by former Giant Kurt Warner, the defending NFC champions took the field at Giants Stadium against a Giants team still reeling from their bad loss in New Orleans. The Giants scored first, sending Jacobs in for a 4-yard touchdown run following a Terrell Thomas interception. Later, Arizona running back Beanie Wells scored his first career touchdown on a 13-yard rush. Manning responded by throwing a 62-yard touchdown to Nicks for his longest reception of the year. In the second half, the Cardinals' Tim Hightower and Jason Wright scored touchdowns. But it was turnovers that decided this game; Manning's 3 interceptions were as many as he had thrown all season. The Giants scored only 3 points in the second half, ending the game on an interception to Antrel Rolle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 853]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nThe Giants notable streak of 38 consecutive starts by the same offensive line unit was ended here, as offensive tackle Kareem McKenzie missed the game with a groin injury. McKenzie returned the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Philadelphia Eagles\nThis game was originally scheduled at 4:15\u00a0pm; however, because the Philadelphia Phillies were hosting Game 4 of the World Series that night the NFL moved the start time to 1:00\u00a0pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Philadelphia Eagles\nTrying to end a two-game losing streak, the Giants went into Lincoln Financial Field for a crucial Week 8 game with the Philadelphia Eagles, as the divisional lead was up for grabs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Philadelphia Eagles\nNew York trailed greatly in the first quarter as Eagles fullback Leonard Weaver got a 41-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Donovan McNabb's 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek (with a blocked PAT). Philadelphia would add onto their lead in the second quarter with a 30-yard field goal from kicker David Akers. The Giants would get on the board as quarterback Eli Manning found tight end Kevin Boss on an 18-yard touchdown pass, but the Eagles continued their scoring as McNabb completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson and a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jeremy Maclin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 8: at Philadelphia Eagles\nPhiladelphia would begin the third quarter with an increase to their lead as Akers nailed a 35-yard field goal. New York tried to rally as kicker Lawrence Tynes booted a 35-yard field goal, followed by running back Ahmad Bradshaw. However, the Eagles would seal the win in the fourth quarter as running back LeSean McCoy got a 66-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThis game was the much-hyped first-ever meeting between Manning and Philip Rivers, the two quarterbacks drafted, then traded, during the 2004 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe Chargers struck first, as Rivers connected with Vincent Jackson in the end zone to open the second quarter. Manning responded with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Smith that capped off a 16-play, 10:35 drive. In the third quarter, Rivers found tight end Kris Wilson in the end zone for Wilson's first touchdown since 2007. The Giants responded with a Tynes field goal and then an 8-yard touchdown to Boss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. San Diego Chargers\nAfter a defensive stop by the Chargers that held the Giants to a field goal from the 4-yard line, Rivers led his team 80 yards in the final two minutes and threw Jackson the winning score with twenty-one seconds remaining on the clock. The Giants had lost despite controlling the ball for 37:47 and holding the Chargers to 34 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 9: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe 5\u20134 Giants had dropped four straight for the first time since 2006, and headed into their bye week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Giants had not beaten the Falcons at home in five tries since 1979, but it was a must-win game this time. The Giants were missing veteran linebacker Antonio Pierce, who was nursing a bulging disc in his neck, and the Falcons' star running back Michael Turner was also out with a high ankle sprain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Giants took an early lead on Tynes' first-quarter field goal, but the Falcons responded with third-string running back Jason Snelling's 7-yard touchdown run. Boss caught two touchdown passes in the second quarter, one of them from 28 yards out. In the third quarter, Snelling and Jacobs traded short touchdown runs. Giants fullback Madison Hedgecock opened the scoring in the fourth quarter by catching his first touchdown of the season, but Falcons receiver Eric Weems caught his second of the year on the ensuing drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nIn a sort of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moment for the Giants, another opponent's comeback took them right up until the final minute; tight end Tony Gonzalez caught the tying touchdown with 35 seconds left in regulation. The Giants won the overtime coin toss, and then drove 45 yards to set up Tynes' winning field goal, ending the Giants' skid at 4 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nComing off their overtime win to the Falcons, the Giants flew for a Week 12 interconference game against the Denver Broncos, their first Thanksgiving game since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Denver Broncos\nIn the first quarter the Giants trailed early with kicker Matt Prater making a 26-yard field goal and then a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter. The Broncos kept on top with RB Knowshon Moreno making a 1-yard touchdown run. After that Matt Prater made a 47-yard field goal to end the half. In the third quarter the Giants replied with kicker Lawrence Tynes nailing a 39 then a 52-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter New York fell further behind with QB Kyle Orton making a 17-yard touchdown pass to WR Brandon Stokley, and Prater making a 24-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThe rematch of these division rivals was a must-win game for the Giants in a season where every game was quickly becoming a must-win game for the Giants. A win would keep alive the Giants' hopes of winning the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nDallas receiver Roy Williams scored the game's first touchdown in the second quarter, on a 4-yard pass from Romo. Manning responded with a 21-yard shot to Nicks on the ensuing drive. On the Cowboys' next possession, Umenyiora picked up a Marion Barber fumble, which Jacobs later turned into a 1-yard touchdown run. In the third quarter, Romo found Williams in the end zone again, this time for 5 yards. But on the next play from scrimmage, Jacobs caught a 74-yard touchdown for the longest reception of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nAnother Giant set a personal record in the fourth quarter; Hixon's 79-yard punt return was the longest of his career, and it resulted in his second career return touchdown. In a late rally by the Cowboys, Miles Austin caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Romo, but the ensuing onside kick resulted in a penalty on Sam Hurd for illegal touching and the Giants ran out the clock. The Giants had swept the Cowboys for the first time since 2004, and were now only one game behind in the division standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe winner of this Sunday Night showdown would assume first place in the NFC East (the Eagles outright, the Giants on tiebreakers). With two games against opponents with losing records approaching, it was crucial for the Giants to escape this one with a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Eagles started things off right away, putting 14 points on the board before the Giants had run their fifth play from scrimmage. McNabb connected with Celek for a touchdown, and Sheldon Brown returned a Brandon Jacobs fumble for six points on the ensuing drive. In the second quarter, Nicks caught the longest reception of his short career for a 68-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nAfter DeSean Jackson responded by returning a Jeff Feagles punt 72 yards for a touchdown, the Giants were able to send Bradshaw into the end zone from the 3. Eagles backup quarterback Michael Vick was able to sneak in one more rushing touchdown before halftime. Jacobs opened the scoring in the second half with a 1-yard rush. After the teams traded turnovers, Manning got the ball into Hixon's hands for a 61-yard touchdown. But the Eagles responded on the very next play with a 60-yard touchdown to Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nJackson's 176 receiving yards amounted to the best individual receiving performance against the Giants since 2002. The Eagles struck again in the fourth quarter, this time on a run by fullback Leonard Weaver and a two-point conversion pass to Jason Avant. The Giants put another touchdown on the board (courtesy of Boss) in the last two minutes of the game, and got the ball back with 28 seconds left. But defensive end Darren Howard sacked Manning and forced a fumble, sealing the Eagles' first sweep of the Giants since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Giants had given up 85 points to the Eagles this year, the most they had ever given up to the Eagles in a single season in franchise history, including four playoff years where they met the Eagles a third time. The Giants' 38 points were also the most scored by a losing team since Week 2 of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Washington Redskins\nThe Giants needed wins to keep their playoff hopes alive, and this Monday night matchup against the underachieving Redskins seemed a prime opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Washington Redskins\nThe Giants' first two possessions ended in touchdown runs by Bradshaw of 3 and 4 yards. Later in the second quarter, Manning found Smith in the end zone for a 6-yard score. The normally-lackluster Giants defense succeeded in holding the Redskins to 2 first downs and no points in the first half. The Redskins opened the scoring in the second half with an 11-yard touchdown strike from Campbell to tight end Fred Davis, but Graham Gano's extra point was blocked by Fred Robbins. Manning responded by throwing receiver Derek Hagan his first touchdown as a Giant, a 23-yard pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 15: at Washington Redskins\nOn the next play from scrimmage, Thomas intercepted a Campbell pass and returned it 14 yards for a touchdown. Quinton Ganther, starting at running back in place of the injured Clinton Portis, gave the Redskins another touchdown late in the third quarter, but could not get into the end zone on the two-point conversion attempt. Manning threw one more touchdown pass to Manningham in the fourth quarter, which boosted the Giants to their highest point total on the road since 1954. The Giants were still very much in the playoff picture, and hoping for losses by the Cowboys and Packers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThis was the last game the Giants would ever play at the moribund Giants Stadium, but they had no time to be nostalgic\u2014defeating the same Week 16 opponent they faced last year would make their path to the postseason slightly easier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Panthers, starting Matt Moore at quarterback in place of the injured Jake Delhomme, quickly took control of the game, scoring on their first four possessions (a 38-yard John Kasay field goal; a 29-yard Jonathan Stewart touchdown run; a 22-yard Muhsin Muhammad touchdown catch; and a 2-yard catch for tight end Jeff King). Meanwhile, the Giants turned the ball over 3 times in the first half, and were shut out at halftime for the second time this season. In the third quarter, Carolina picked up where they left off, as Moore connected with Carolina's Steve Smith for a 27-yard score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe Giants finally got on the board on the ensuing drive, courtesy of a 40-yard Tynes field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Giants' Smith caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Manning, but a subsequent 2-point try failed. Carolina fullback Brad Hoover's 1-yard scoring run later in the fourth sealed the game for the Panthers. The Giants left Giants Stadium the same way they had opened it 33 years earlier; with a demoralizing loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Carolina Panthers\nThe loss, along with wins by the Cowboys and Packers this week, mathematically eliminated the Giants from the postseason, breaking their streak of 4 consecutive playoff appearances. Curiously, the last NFL game at Giants Stadium would not be a Giants game, but a Jets game; the Jets would play the Cincinnati Bengals at home on Sunday night in Week 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Giants wrapped up their 2009 campaign against Brett Favre, a quarterback they last saw on their way to Super Bowl XLII. This time, however, Favre led a convincing rout of the Giants, as they allowed 40 points to an opponent for the fifth time this season. Scoring touchdowns for Minnesota were former Giant Visanthe Shiancoe, Pro Bowlers Adrian Peterson and Sidney Rice (twice), and fullback Naufahu Tahi. A 1-yard touchdown run by Ware in the fourth quarter prevented the Giants from being shut out. Center Shaun O'Hara was named to the Pro Bowl in the week leading up to the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204294-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Giants season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe 2009 Giants became the eighth team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to miss the playoffs after starting the season 5\u20130, and the first NFC team since the Vikings in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season\nThe 2009 New York Jets season was the franchise's 40th season in the National Football League (NFL), the 50th season overall, the last season at Giants Stadium and the first under new head coach Rex Ryan. While they matched their 9\u20137 record from 2008, this time the team headed to the playoffs. The Jets fired head coach Eric Mangini on December 29, 2008 and hired Rex Ryan from the Baltimore Ravens on January 18, 2009. The New York Jets were represented at the 2010 Pro Bowl by Darrelle Revis, Nick Mangold, Shaun Ellis, D\u2019Brickashaw Ferguson, and Alan Faneca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season\nOne highlight from this season included the Jets snapping their former divisional rival Indianapolis Colts' 23-game regular season winning streak that dated back to October 27, 2008, in which they were beaten by their divisional rival Tennessee Titans, and the Jets also made their first AFC Championship Game appearance since 1998. Quarterback Mark Sanchez became one of two quarterbacks (the other being Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens) since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger to win multiple playoff games in their rookie season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nHead coach Eric Mangini was fired by the Jets on December 29, 2008. The decision was made after the Jets fell from 8\u20133 and sole possession of first place in the AFC East with four losses in their last five games, causing them to miss a playoff berth. He finished his tenure as head coach with a 23\u201325 record including the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nAt first, the Jets attempted to lure former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher out of retirement, with the possibility of Cowher gaining personnel decisions in addition to coaching. Cowher ultimately decided to stay retired in 2009. The Jets interviewed several candidates for their vacancy. In-house candidates included offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and offensive line coach Bill Callahan. Other candidates interviewed were Indianapolis Colts defensive coordinator Ron Meeks, New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, and Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski (who was subsequently fired from his position as a result of accepting the interview).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nThe Jets eventually picked Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan as their head coach. He accepted the position just hours after the Ravens' loss in the AFC Championship Game on January 18, and was introduced by the Jets on January 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Signings\nOn February 27, the Jets signed former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Bart Scott to a six-year, $48\u00a0million deal. On March 3, the Jets inked Jim Leonhard, former Ravens safety, to a three-year, $6\u00a0million deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Departures\nAfter failing to come to terms on a contract extension, the Jets restructured the contract of wide receiver Laveranues Coles to allow him to immediately become an unrestricted free agent on February 25. Though Coles admitted a chance he could re-sign with the Jets, he signed a four-year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. On March 4, former kicker Mike Nugent was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a one-year deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Trades\nOn February 28, the Jets traded for cornerback Lito Sheppard of the Philadelphia Eagles, sending the Eagles a 2009 fifth-round draft pick and a 2010 conditional draft pick. The pick can be as high as second and as low as fourth. Upon the trade, Sheppard received a four-year, $27.2\u00a0million contract extension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, Trades\nOn October 7, the Jets made a blockbuster deal with the Cleveland Browns  to send Wide Receiver Braylon Edwards to the Jets for Wide Receiver Chansi Stuckey, Linebacker Jason Trusnik, and 2 draft picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe Jets were assigned the 17th selection in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft. Prior to the 2008 season, the Jets traded a conditional fourth round selection to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for quarterback Brett Favre; this became a third round selection because Favre took the majority of snaps for the Jets in 2008. They gave their fifth round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles in the Lito Sheppard trade. They also received a third round selection from the New Orleans Saints in exchange for linebacker Jonathan Vilma. Prior to the 2007 season, the Jets received a fourth round selection from the Washington Redskins in exchange for guard Pete Kendall; the pick was originally a 2008 fifth round selection that was upgraded due to Kendall's playing time in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nOn draft day, the Jets traded their first and second-round picks, defensive end Kenyon Coleman, safety Abram Elam, and quarterback Brett Ratliff to the Cleveland Browns for their first round selection, the fifth overall. The Jets used the selection to draft quarterback Mark Sanchez from the University of Southern California. The Jets also sent their third, fourth, and seventh-round selections to the Detroit Lions for the Lions' third-round pick, which was the first of the second day of the draft. The Jets selected running back Shonn Greene of the University of Iowa with the pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Houston Texans\nThe Jets began their season at Reliant Stadium for a Week 1 showdown with the Houston Texans. New York took off in the first quarter as kicker Jay Feely nailed a 24-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Jets would increase their lead as rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez completed his first career touchdown pass as he connected with wide receiver Chansi Stuckey on a 30-yard pass. In the third quarter, New York continued their run as running back Thomas Jones got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Texans tried to rally in the fourth quarter as safety Dominique Barber returned a fumble 48 yards for a touchdown, but the Jets would end the game with Jones getting a 38-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Houston Texans\nWith the win, not only did New York begin their season at 1\u20130, but Sanchez (18-of-31, 272 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) would become the 1st Jets rookie QB since Richard Todd in 1976 to win a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nComing off an impressive road win over the Texans, the Jets played their Week 2 home opener against their AFC East rival, the New England Patriots. In the week prior to the game, first-year Jets head coach Rex Ryan placed a phone message to all Jets season ticket holders asking them to \"make it miserable for (Tom) Brady and company,\" following up on his comments during the off-season that he would not \"kiss Bill Belichick's Super Bowl rings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nHe told the Jets fans that \"the Patriots had a better head coach and a better quarterback,\" but that the game would decide \"who has a better team.\" Meanwhile, Jets safety Kerry Rhodes said the Jets intended on not just winning, but \"embarrassing\" the Patriots in the game, while nose tackle Kris Jenkins called it the Jets' version of the Super Bowl; the Jets had not defeated the Patriots at home since 2000. On the first drive of the game, without an injured Wes Welker, the Patriots drove to the Jets' 36-yard line before having to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Jets' first play from scrimmage was a strip-sack of rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez by defensive lineman Mike Wright; Sanchez recovered the fumble at the Jets' 3-yard line. On 4th-and-24, the Jets punted back to their own 49-yard line; the Patriots could not capitalize on the field position and went three-and-out. However, Jets running back Leon Washington fumbled on the next play; cornerback Leigh Bodden recovered it at the Jets' 17-yard line. Two holding penalties would push the Patriots back to the Jets' 37-yard line, setting up a 45-yard Stephen Gostkowski field goal to give the Patriots a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0003", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nFollowing a Jets three-and-out, the Patriots moved to their own 41-yard line before Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis intercepted a pass intended for Randy Moss at the Jets' 16-yard line. The Jets offense would continue to struggle, however, going three-and-out again to end the first quarter. The Patriots began the second quarter with a 9-play, 53-yard drive, one that stalled at the Jets' 7-yard line; the Patriots settled for another Stephen Gostkowski field goal, extending their lead to 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0004", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Jets would pick up their initial first down of the game on their next possession, going 52 yards on 10 plays before a Jay Feely 33-yard field goal cut the Patriots' lead in half. Starting from their own 10-yard line after a holding penalty on Sam Aiken on the kickoff, the Patriots took nearly six minutes off the clock, reaching the Jets' 11-yard line before two incomplete passes by Brady prevented the Patriots scoring their first touchdown of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0005", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nInstead, Gostkowski kicked his third field goal of the day to increase the Patriots' lead to 9\u20133 going into halftime. Receiving the opening kickoff of the second half due to their deferral of the opening coin toss, the Jets took the lead in barely a minute. Following a 43-yard kick return by Washington, Sanchez hit wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery for 45 yards and a play later connected with tight end Dustin Keller on a 9-yard touchdown pass. The 10\u20139 lead was the first for the Jets over the Patriots at home since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0006", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nAfter a Patriots three-and-out, punter Chris Hanson's 30-yard punt gave the Jets the ball at the Patriots' 45-yard line. From the Patriots' 6-yard line, Sanchez appeared to throw a touchdown pass to Chansi Stuckey, but the catch was overturned after the Patriots challenged. Two plays later, Feely hit his second field goal of the day to give the Jets a 13\u20139 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0007", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Patriots' ensuing possession reached the Jets' 35-yard line on a third down, but back-to-back delay of game penalties on Tom Brady, an incomplete pass, and a face-mask penalty on Moss on the punt backed the Patriots up to their own 40-yard line. However, Hanson's subsequent attempt was better than the first, nullified by the penalty, and the Jets began their next drive from their own 15-yard line. On a 14-play, 63-yard drive that spanned into the fourth quarter, the Jets extended their lead to 16\u20139 on a 39-yard Feely field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0008", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Patriots started their next drive from their own 15-yard line as well, but were unable to reach midfield before punting. A Jets three-and-out gave the Patriots another opportunity with five minutes remaining, but a Ben Watson holding penalty in the middle of the drive helped set up a 2nd-and-20 situation and eventually another punt. Just before the two-minute warning, Sanchez was sacked, but a penalty on BenJarvus Green-Ellis on the ensuing punt meant the Patriots had to start their last drive of the game from their own 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0013-0009", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. New England Patriots\nAfter a Julian Edelman 18-yard reception began it, four straight in-completions ended the drive and the game. With the win, not only did the Jets improve to 2\u20130, but it also marked the first time that they defeated the Patriots at home since 2000. This also marked the first time that New England was held without a touchdown since December 10, 2006. Rex Ryan would become the first Jets rookie head coach since Al Groh to win their first two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Jets wore New York Titans throwback uniforms for an AFL Legacy Game with the Tennessee Titans, who wore 1960s Houston Oilers uniforms. The game was originally scheduled for a 4:15 PM start time but due to the Jewish holiday at sundown, Woody Johnson wrote a letter to the NFL asking to move the game to a 1:00 PM start time so more people could attend the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Tennessee Titans\nNew York would take flight in the first quarter with rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez getting a 14-yard touchdown run. And later in the first he completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Ben Hartsock. The Titans would answer in the second quarter with running back LenDale White's 5-yard touchdown run and kicker Rob Bironas' 38-yard field goal. This made the score 14\u201310 with the Jets leading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Tennessee Titans\nTennessee would take the lead in the third quarter with quarterback Kerry Collins' 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington, yet the Jets came right back with Sanchez's 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery. In the fourth quarter, New York would add onto their lead with a 30-yard field goal from kicker Jay Feely. Afterwards, the defense would prevent any possible comeback attempts from the Titans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Tennessee Titans\nWith the win, not only did the Jets improve to 3\u20130, but Sanchez (17-of-30, 171 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT) would become the first rookie quarterback since the AFL\u2013NFL merger of 1970 to win their first three games. Also, this marked the first time since 2004 that New York began a season at 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New Orleans Saints\nComing off their home win over the Titans, the Jets flew to the Louisiana Superdome for a Week 4 interconference duel with the New Orleans Saints. New York would find themselves struggling early with Saints kicker John Carney making a 34-yard field goal. New Orleans would take command in the second quarter with safety Darren Sharper returning an interception 99 yards for a touchdown, followed by rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez fumbling the ball in his own endzone (due to a sack by defensive end Will Smith), which was recovered by defensive tackle Remi Ayodele for a touchdown. The Jets would close out the half with a 38-yard field goal from kicker Jay Feely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New Orleans Saints\nNew York tried to make a comeback run as running back Thomas Jones got a 15-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, but the Saints sealed the victory with running back Pierre Thomas' 1-yard touchdown run and a stiff defensive effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New Orleans Saints\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Miami Dolphins\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Saints, the Jets flew to Land Shark Stadium for a Week 5 Monday Night duel with their AFC East rival, the Miami Dolphins. New York immediately trailed as the Dolphins took the game's opening drive and capped it off with a 1-yard touchdown run from running Ronnie Brown. The Jets immediately responded with rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to newly acquired wide receiver Braylon Edwards. Afterwards, Miami closed out the opening quarter with a 35-yard field goal from kicker Dan Carpenter. In the second quarter, New York took the lead as kicker Jay Feely got a 40-yard and a 43-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Miami Dolphins\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, both the Jets and the Dolphins would get involved in a back-and-forth fourth quarter. Miami opened up the period with quarterback Chad Henne hooking up with tight end Anthony Fasano on a 2-yard touchdown pass, while New York got a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Jones. The Dolphins would immediately respond as Henne threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr., but Jones came through again with a 3-yard touchdown run. Late in the game, Miami managed to crack through the Jets' defense as Brown got a 2-yard touchdown run. New York tried to rally, but Sanchez's last-second hail mary pass was knocked away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Miami Dolphins\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nHoping to snap a two-game losing streak, the Jets went home for a Week 6 AFC East duel with the Buffalo Bills. Both teams began the first quarter with field goals, as Bills kicker Rian Lindell made a 33-yard field goal and Jets kicker Jay Feely getting a 23-yard field goal. In the second quarter, New York soared into the lead with Feely's 41-yard field goal and running back Thomas Jones' 71-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nHowever, Buffalo rallied to tie the game in the third quarter with Lindell's 25-yard field goal and quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick's 37-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans. After both teams failed to get any point in the fourth quarter, the game went into overtime. Despite getting the ball to start off OT, the Jets failed to get any point out of their opening drive. After a hard-fought period, the Bills would emerge on top as Lindell booted the game-winning 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThomas Jones would have a career day as he ran 22 times for a franchise-best 210 yards (in addition to his rushing touchdown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Oakland Raiders\nHoping to snap a three-game losing streak, the Jets flew to the Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum, donned their throwbacks, and played a Week 7 AFL Legacy game with the Oakland Raiders. New York took flight in the first quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Jones and a 3-yard touchdown run from rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez. The Jets would increase their lead in the second quarter with rookie running back Shonn Greene getting an 8-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Jay Feely booting a 39-yard field goal. Afterwards, New York would pull away with Sanchez's 35-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver David Clowney in the third quarter and Greene's 33-yard touchdown run in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Miami Dolphins\nComing off their shutout road win over the Raiders, the Jets went home, donned their white New York Titans uniforms again, and played a Week 8 divisional rematch with the Miami Dolphins. After a scoreless first quarter, New York and Miami exchanged field goals, with Jets kicker Jay Feely making a 23-yard field goal, followed by Dolphins kicker Dan Carpenter getting a 48-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Miami Dolphins\nIn a back-and-forth third quarter, New York began the scoring with Feely making a 55-yard field goal. Miami immediately answered with wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. returning a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, followed by linebacker Jason Taylor returning a fumble 48 yards for a touchdown. The Jets replied with rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez getting a 1-yard touchdown run, but the Dolphins came back as Ginn Jr. returned a kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Miami Dolphins\nNew York closed out the period with Sanchez hooking up with wide receiver Braylon Edwards on a 19-yard touchdown pass (with a failed two-point conversion). In the fourth quarter, Miami struck again as quarterback Chad Henne found tight end Joey Haynos on a 5-yard touchdown pass (with a failed two-point conversion). The Jets tried to rally as Sanchez completed a 16-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dustin Keller (with another two-point conversion), but New York's rally fell short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Miami Dolphins\nWith the loss, New York went into their bye week at 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nComing off their bye week, the Jets stayed at home for a Week 10 duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. New York would trail early in the first quarter with running back Maurice Jones-Drew's 33-yard touchdown run. The Jets would respond with kicker Jay Feely getting a 32-yard field goal, followed by rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez completing a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery. In the second quarter, Jacksonville would take the lead as quarterback David Garrard got an 11-yard touchdown run and completed a 26-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mike Sims-Walker. New York would close out the half as Feely made a 37-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Jets would regain the lead in the fourth quarter with a 40-yard field goal from Feely and a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Jones (with a failed 2-point conversion). However, the Jaguars got the last laugh as kicker Josh Scobee booted the game-winning 21-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New England Patriots\nTrying to avoid three straight losses, the Jets flew to Gillette Stadium for a Week 11 AFC East rematch with the New England Patriots. In the first quarter, New York struggled early on both sides of the field as Patriots cornerback Leigh Bodden returned an interception 53 yards for a touchdown, followed by quarterback Tom Brady completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Randy Moss. In the second quarter, the Jets continued to trail as running back Laurence Maroney got a 2-yard touchdown run, while kicker Stephen Gostkowski made a 26-yard field goal. New York would close out the half  with wide receiver Brad Smith returning a blocked punt 4 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New England Patriots\nIn the third quarter, the Jets tried to come back as quarterback Mark Sanchez threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, but New England would pull away in the fourth quarter with Maroney's 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New England Patriots\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Carolina Panthers\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the Jets went home for a Week 12 interconference duel with the Carolina Panthers. New York would take off in the first quarter as cornerback Darrelle Revis returned an interception 67 yards for a touchdown. The Panthers would get on the board as kicker John Kasay made a 40-yard field goal, yet the Jets would answer with a 3-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Jones. After a scoreless third quarter, Carolina tried to rally in the fourth quarter with Kasay nailing a 28-yard field goal. Afterwards, New York would pull away as kicker Jay Feely booted a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Carolina Panthers\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Buffalo Bills\nThomas Jones and Shonn Greene combined for 168 yards rushing, as the New York Jets compiled 249 total yards on the ground to top the Buffalo Bills, 19\u201313, at Rogers Centre. Mark Sanchez passed for 104 yards and a score on 7-of-15 passing before injuring his right knee on a head- first dive in the third quarter. Braylon Edwards had three catches for 45 yards and a score, while Jerricho Cotchery had four receptions for 68 yards in the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Buffalo Bills\nRyan Fitzpatrick struggled to complete passes, throwing for just 98 yards and an interception on 9-of-23 efficiency for the Bills, who have lost four of five to effectively end any slim playoff hopes the team had. Marshawn Lynch ran six times for 60 yards and a touchdown, while Fred Jackson had 13 rushes for 31 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Buffalo Bills\nPlace your pointer over the scoring play to view the drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Jets would blow out the Buccaneers and improve to 7-6 getting right in the thick of the playoff race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nThe Jets had a 7\u20133 lead from the end of the 1st quarter to the middle of the 4th quarter until Matt Ryan connected with Tony Gonzalez giving the Falcons a 10\u20137 lead that would seal the game. With the loss, the Jets fell to 7-7 needing to win their last two game in order to be even considered a playoff contender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Indianapolis Colts\nWith the win, the Jets ended the Colts' perfect season run, and also ended their 23\u2013game regular season winning streak. The Jets were able to capitalize on the Colts' decision to bench quarterback Peyton Manning to avoid injury given they had already made the playoffs. The Jets improved their playoff chances greatly by moving to 8\u20137 on the season. Having beaten the 10\u20130 Titans the previous season, the Jets thus became the first NFL team to beat the final undefeated team in consecutive seasons since the 1960 and 1961 St. Louis Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Jets would need to win the season finale to get in the playoffs. They did just that as they flew right past the Bengals 37-0 and they would meet in a rematch in Cincinnati for the Wild Card Round. The Jets would finish 9-7 this time however getting them a playoff berth unlike last year. This was also the last game played at Giants Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 74], "content_span": [75, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Wild Card Game: at Cincinnati Bengals\nEntering the playoffs as the AFC's No. 5 seed, the Jets began their playoff run at Paul Brown Stadium in the AFC Wild Card game against the No. 4 Cincinnati Bengals, in a rematch of their dominating Week 17 game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Wild Card Game: at Cincinnati Bengals\nNew York would trail in the first quarter as Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to former Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles. New York would respond in the second quarter with a 39-yard touchdown run from rookie running back Shonn Greene, followed by rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez hooking up with tight end Dustin Keller on a 45-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Wild Card Game: at Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Jets would add onto their lead in the third quarter with a 9-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Jones. Cincinnati would begin to rally in the fourth quarter as running back Cedric Benson got a 47-yard touchdown run, yet New York came right back as kicker Jay Feely nailed a 20-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Wild Card Game: at Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the win, not only did the Jets improve their overall record to 10\u20137, but rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez and rookie head coach Rex Ryan picked up their first postseason win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 78], "content_span": [79, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Divisional Round: at San Diego Chargers\nComing off their impressive road win over the Bengals, the Jets flew to Qualcomm Stadium for the AFC Divisional Round against the No. 2 San Diego Chargers. After a scoreless first quarter, New York would trail in the second quarter as Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers completed a 13-yard touchdown pass to fullback Kris Wilson. New York would answer in the third quarter with kicker Jay Feely making a 46-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Divisional Round: at San Diego Chargers\nThen, the Jets would take the lead in the fourth quarter as rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez completed a 2-yard touchdown to tight end Dustin Keller, followed by rookie running back Shonn Greene busting for a 53-yard touchdown run. San Diego tried to rally as quarterback Philip Rivers ran in for a 1-yard touchdown run, yet New York recovered the onside kick for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Divisional Round: at San Diego Chargers\nWith the win, not only did the Jets improve their overall record to 11\u20137, but they advanced to their first AFC Championship Game since 1998. They also won consecutive playoff games for the first time since 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Divisional Round: at San Diego Chargers\nSanchez (12 of 23 for 100 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT) would join Ravens' quarterback Joe Flacco as the only rookie quarterbacks in NFL history to win two playoff games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Championship Game: at Indianapolis Colts\nComing off their divisional road win over the Chargers, the Jets flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for the AFC Championship Game against the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts. After a scoreless first quarter, New York would trail to begin the second quarter as Colts kicker Matt Stover made a 25-yard field goal. The Jets would immediately respond as rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez hooked up with wide receiver Braylon Edwards on an 80-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Championship Game: at Indianapolis Colts\nIndianapolis would chip away at New York's lead as Stover got a 19-yard field goal, yet the Jets struck again with Sanchez finding tight end Dustin Keller on a 9-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Jay Feely's 48-yard field goal. However, the Colts continued their assault as quarterback Peyton Manning completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Austin Collie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Championship Game: at Indianapolis Colts\nIndianapolis would take the lead in the third quarter with Manning completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Pierre Gar\u00e7on, followed by Manning's 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark in the fourth quarter. Afterwards, the Colts would pull away as Stover booted a 21-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204295-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Jets season, Playoffs, AFC Championship Game: at Indianapolis Colts\nWith the loss, New York's season would come to an end with an overall record of 11\u20138. The Jets failed to go to the Super Bowl and their wait for their second appearance continues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204296-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Liberty season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 13th season for the New York Liberty franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Liberty attempted to advance to the WNBA Playoffs for the tenth time in thirteen seasons, but failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204296-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Liberty season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Liberty's 2008 record, they would pick 8th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Liberty waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204296-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Liberty season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Liberty's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season\nThe 2009 New York Mets season was a season in American baseball. It was the franchise's 48th season, and the team's first year at Citi Field, which opened on April 13 against the San Diego Padres. The Mets finished with a 70\u201392 record, as the season was plagued by many injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Offseason\nLooking to improve the bullpen after the struggles of the 2008 season, the Mets signed closer Francisco Rodr\u00edguez to a three-year, $37 million contract on December 10, 2008. Immediately after, the team acquired reliever J. J. Putz from the Seattle Mariners in a three team trade involving the Mariners and the Cleveland Indians, giving the Mets a setup man for Rodriguez. New York shipped reliever Aaron Heilman, outfielder Endy Ch\u00e1vez, pitcher Jason Vargas and three minor leaguers to Seattle for Putz, center fielder Jeremy Reed and reliever Sean Green, while Mets reliever Joe Smith was acquired by Cleveland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Offseason\nOn December 12 the Mets traded Scott Schoeneweis to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Connor Robertson. On January 12, the Mets signed RHP Tim Redding to a one-year contract. The Mets signed Alex Cora to a one-year $2 million contract. The Mets signed Freddy Garc\u00eda and Rob Mackowiak to minor league deals. Garcia's contract, which was full of incentives, could have reached $8 million if he reached the major league roster. On April 3, 2009, the Mets signed outfielder Gary Sheffield after being released by the Detroit Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nThe Mets opened up the season in Cincinnati against the Reds on April 6. The Mets collected the victory, improving their win-loss record on opening day. The first home game at Citi Field was on April 13, 2009 against the San Diego Padres, who spoiled the opener with a 6\u20135 win against the Mets. In that game, Jody Gerut of the Padres became the first player to open a new ballpark with a leadoff home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nOn April 17, Gary Sheffield hit his 500th home run against the Milwaukee Brewers. On May 10, Jos\u00e9 Reyes stole his 300th base against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Despite an injury depleted roster, the Mets finished May with a 19\u20139 record and trailed the Philadelphia Phillies by a half game for the NL East lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nAfter finishing April and May with a combined record of 28\u201321, injuries hurt the Mets in June and they went 9\u201318, their worst month since September 2003, but lost only 2\u00bd games in the standings, as the Phillies were having their own struggles. Injuries continued to hurt them Mets in July, as they went 12\u201314, quickly falling to 4th place in the National League East and out of playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nOn July 10, the Mets sent outfielder Ryan Church to the Atlanta Braves for outfielder Jeff Francoeur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nHowever, the Mets did set a team record during the 2009 season. They had a team-record 10 hits in the fourth inning on August 18 against the Atlanta Braves. They scored eight runs in that inning, on their way to a 9\u20134 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nOn August 23, the Mets became the first team in National League history to fall victim to a game-ending unassisted triple play, turned by Eric Bruntlett of the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field in the bottom of the 9th inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nThe 2009 Mets season will be remembered as a season marred by injuries. On August 25, it was announced that ace Johan Santana would undergo season-ending elbow surgery on his pitching elbow, and was added to the long list of injured players. Including Santana, the Mets' had 20 players see time on the Disabled list at some point during the 2009 season, including David Wright, John Maine, Jon Niese, Fernando Nieve, J. J. Putz, Billy Wagner, Brian Schneider, Carlos Delgado, \u00c1ngel Pag\u00e1n, Gary Sheffield, \u00d3liver P\u00e9rez, Ryan Church, Ram\u00f3n Mart\u00ednez, Jose Reyes, Alex Cora, Carlos Beltr\u00e1n, and Fernando Martinez. Mets players spent more than 1,480 days in the Disabled list in 2009, more than any other team in the majors. However, second-half turnarounds of Francoeur and Daniel Murphy helped the Mets finish the season with the best batting average in the National League, tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 948]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nOn August 25 the Mets traded former all-star closer Billy Wagner to the Boston Red Sox for minor league outfielder Chris Carter and minor league first baseman Eddie Loria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Regular season\nPat Misch earned his 1st Major League Baseball win on September 3 in his 12th start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting\nLegend: G = games played; AB = at-bats; H = hits; BA = batting average; OBP = on-base percentage; HR = home runs; RBI = runs batted in; R = runs scored; SB = stolen bases; bold = league leader", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204297-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching\nLegend: G = games pitched; GS = games started; IP = innings pitched; W = wins; L = losses; ERA = earned run average; H = hits allowed; SO = strikeouts; BB = walks; S = saves; bold = league leader", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204298-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Red Bulls season\nThe 2009 New York Red Bulls season was the fourteenth season of the team's existence. It began with a 3-0 loss at expansion Seattle Sounders FC on March 19, and ended on October 24 with a 5-0 win over Toronto FC, the last match ever played by the team in Giants Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204298-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Red Bulls season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204298-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Red Bulls season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 76], "content_span": [77, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204298-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Red Bulls season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204299-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Sentinels season\nThe 2009 New York Sentinels season was the first and only season for the New York Sentinels. In the United Football League's Premiere Season, the Sentinels went winless by posting a 0\u20136 record, finishing in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204299-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Sentinels season, Draft\nThe draft took place on June 19, 2009. Those selected were among participants in earlier workouts held in Orlando as well as Las Vegas. Once a player was picked by a team, his rights were held by that team should he elect to play in the UFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204299-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Sentinels season, Personnel, Roster\nRookies in italicsRoster updated November 17, 200952 Active, 7 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis\nThe 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis was a political dispute that prevented the New York State Senate from functioning for a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis\nIn 2009, the State Senate was controlled by Democrats with a narrow 32\u201330 majority. On June 8, 2009, a coalition of all 30 Senate Republicans and two Democrats, Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr., voted to replace Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith with then-Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos. The coalition appeared to have gained control of the Senate in a move that was described as a political coup. However, on June 15, Monserrate left the coalition and returned to the Democrats' side. The result was a 31\u201331 tie in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis\nUpon the March 17, 2008 resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer following a sex scandal, then-Lieutenant Governor David Paterson had been sworn in as Governor of New York; this left the position of Lieutenant Governor vacant. The absence of a Lieutenant Governor (whose duties include serving as President of the Senate) left no apparent way to break the 31\u201331 deadlock; therefore, the Senate was unable to conduct business. Governor Paterson attempted to pressure the Senate into action by withholding their salaries and convening mandatory special Senate sessions, but his efforts were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis\nOn July 8, Governor Paterson appointed Richard Ravitch as Lieutenant Governor in an effort to break the Senate deadlock. However, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo argued that the appointment was illegal. The next day, Espada announced that he was returning to the Democrats, giving them a 32\u201330 majority once more and effectively ending the crisis; following this move, Espada was given the title of Senate Majority Leader, while Smith remained Temporary President of the Senate. The appointment of Ravitch as Lieutenant Governor was eventually upheld by the New York Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Background and leadup\nThe State Senate had been controlled by Republicans since 1965, but Democrats were able to win a majority in the 2008 elections. The change was helped by upstate Republican billionaire Tom Golisano, who had donated $5 million to the Democrats' campaigns. However, dissatisfaction with the job that Majority Leader Malcolm Smith was doing was growing with his fellow Democrats, as well as with Golisano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Background and leadup\nGolisano, with the aid of his political adviser Steve Pigeon, set up a series of private meetings between Republican senators Dean Skelos, Tom Libous, and George D. Maziarz, and after Pigeon convinced him, Democratic senator Pedro Espada Jr. The first meeting took place at a club in Albany, followed by one at Golisano's house in Rochester, followed by a series at Espada's house in Albany. Espada said that Senator Monserrate was the only one among his fellow Democrats that knew of the meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Background and leadup\nRoger Stone, Republican strategist and political infighter may have been involved in the discussions, and according to Pigeon, knew about the plan in advance. Golisano, who recently moved to Florida, did not take part in the meetings at Espada's house, but was kept informed by Pigeon. On June 4, Pigeon told Golisano that the deal \"was real solid,\" and on June 8, Golisano was in Albany to watch the events unfold from the Senate chamber balcony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, June 8 Senate coup\nDuring the Senate session on June 8, Republican Senator Thomas Libous proposed a resolution, similar to a motion of no confidence, that would allow for the election of a new leader of the Senate. The entire 32-senator coalition voted for the resolution. After the resolution was passed, but before the vote was recognized by officiating officer, Senator Neil Breslin, Senator Jeffrey Klein moved for adjournment. Libous demanded that his resolution be recognized, but instead Breslin quickly granted Klein's motion for adjournment. Republicans objected, claiming a majority of the Senate did not vote to adjourn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, June 8 Senate coup\nAfter Breslin declared the meeting adjourned, all but four Democratic senators walked out of the Senate chamber. The Democrats who stayed were Espada and Monserrate, who had voted for the resolution, and Carl Kruger and Ruben Diaz, who abstained from all voting during the course of events but stayed to show their support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, June 8 Senate coup\nAfter the 28 Democratic senators walked out of the Senate chamber, Secretary of the Senate Angelo Aponte turned off the lights in the Senate chamber and stopped the TV broadcast of the Senate session. Nevertheless, the remaining senators proceeded to vote for new leadership, removing Democratic Senator Malcolm Smith from his position as Majority Leader and Temporary President of the Senate, and replacing him with two people: Republican Minority Leader Dean Skelos as Majority Leader, and Pedro Espada as Temporary President. Historically, the majority leadership and the temporary presidency of the Senate were held by the same person. However, in the new arrangement, Espada was to be the Temporary President of the Senate, while Skelos would become Majority Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, June 8 Senate coup\nAfter the election of the new leadership, the coalition enacted reform rules including a six-year term limit for the majority leader, steps to equalize budget differences between opposing parties, as well as rules about the distribution of pork barrel projects. Despite voting for the change in leadership, Espada and Monserrate stated that they were still Democrats, and that there was still a 32\u201330 Democratic majority in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Immediate reaction\nThe Democrats claimed that the change was illegal, and that therefore Malcolm Smith was still the Majority Leader and Temporary President. According to Smith and other Democrats, Senator Neil Breslin had accepted a motion to adjourn, and therefore ended the session before the Republicans voted to change leadership. Republican Senator Libous argues that since his original motion was on the floor, the session could not have been adjourned. Furthermore, like all motions, motions for adjournment require a vote, which never took place before Breslin adjourned the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Immediate reaction\nMalcolm Smith also claimed that the attempted power shift was not legal, even if the resolution did pass. He issued a statement saying that he \"was elected to a two year term pursuant to a resolution passed by a majority of Senators in January 2009\", and that \"the purported coup was an unlawful violation of New York State law and the Senate rules\" which he does not accept. However, there was precedent for changing the majority leader midterm, as Ralph J. Marino was ousted during the Thanksgiving holiday in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Immediate reaction\nGovernor David Paterson criticized the initial motion by Senator Libous' as \"despicable\" and \"an outrage\" due to the issues that are still on the table in the remainder of the legislative session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Immediate reaction\nFormer Governor Eliot Spitzer has been more supportive of the moves, saying: \"The use of that power by two Democratic senators, though perhaps for questionable purposes, is emboldening others to use their leverage to bargain for worthwhile causes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Legal actions\nOn June 10, Malcolm Smith said he was seeking a temporary court order to prevent the Republicans from taking power. Later in the day, Justice Karen Peters, a judge in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, granted Senator Smith's request for a temporary restraining order against Espada. The restraining order prevented Espada from exercising the power granted to the temporary president of the Senate under Article IV, \u00a76, of the New York Constitution, which include the elevation of Senate president to acting governor when the governor is out of state or incapacitated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Legal actions\nThe order was valid until the outcome of a Supreme Court hearing, which was scheduled for the next day. The ruling put Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, temporarily next-in-line of succession to the governor's office. This restraining order was vacated by Justice Thomas J. McNamara on June 16. McNamara refused to intervene in the dispute, saying that \"a judicially imposed resolution would be an improvident intrusion into the internal workings of a co-equal branch of government\", and he urged the senators to solve the problem by negotiation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Legal actions\nSeparately from Senator Smith's request, Senator Neil Breslin attempted to file an injunction on June 11. The injunction was denied by New York Supreme Court Justice George Ceresia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Legal actions\nOn June 24, Republican senators John Flanagan and George Winner filed  with Justice McNamara, requesting that Aponte be forced to recognize the authority of Skelos and Espada. Aponte had instructed the chamber's stenographer, journal clerk, and sergeants-at-arms to ignore any orders from the Republican leaders. On June 26, McNamara adjourned the case to allow the Senators more time for discussion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 88], "content_span": [89, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Initial attempts to hold session\nOn June 9, the day following the attempted power shift, Aponte denied Espada the keys to the Senate chamber, at which point Espada accused Aponte of abusing his power and asked for his resignation. Aponte refused, responding \"I was appointed legislatively for a two year term and I intend to serve out my two year term.\" The following day, June 10, Espada acquired the keys, but not from Aponte or any of the Senate Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Initial attempts to hold session\nOn June 11, minutes after Neil Breslin's requested injunction was denied, the Republican-led coalition held a brief session, but they were unable to conduct business because the Democratic conference had locked away the bills, and also had withheld the stenographer, who is required for official business. This proved immaterial, as the coalition would not have had the required votes necessary to pass a bill. Hiram Monserrate voted \"present\", and then left the session, leaving 31 senators in the session, one shy of the 32 votes needed to pass a bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Events after initial change, Initial attempts to hold session\nMonserrate said that he would not vote on anything  until more Democrats joined the Senate session, and instead wanted to create a compromise that included the Democrats who were boycotting the session. Monserrate's decision to not vote on any issues led to rumors that he might flip back to the Democrats' side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 107], "content_span": [108, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, Monserrate flips\nSenate Republicans were confident that Monserrate would stay on their side. However, on June 12, Monserrate was praising Democratic Senator John Sampson, who was the front-runner to replace Senator Smith as the Democratic leader. On June 15, in an apparent effort to woo Monserrate, Democrats voted Senator John Sampson as their de facto leader. The move proved successful for the Democrats, as later that day Senator Monserrate declared he would once again caucus with the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, No tiebreaker\nMonserrate's decision to return to the Democrats meant that the Senate was evenly divided 31\u201331, without a clear way to break the tie. In the case of a tie in the Senate, a casting vote, also called a tie-breaking vote, is issued by the Lieutenant Governor. The lieutenant governorship, however, had been vacant since David Paterson ascended to the governor's office upon the resignation of former Governor Eliot Spitzer. According to the State Constitution, if the Lieutenant Governor's office is vacant, the Temporary President of the Senate is to perform all of his duties, which includes making the casting vote. However, since Senators Smith and Espada both claimed to be Senate president, the tie could not be clearly broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, No tiebreaker\nSpecial elections for lieutenant governor were forbidden by an amendment to the State Constitution after the death of Thomas W. Wallace and subsequent election of Joe R. Hanley in 1943, and according to traditional interpretation of the statute, there is no provision in state law that allows the governor and legislature to appoint a replacement, as there is with other statewide positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, No tiebreaker\nOn June 17, Espada asserted that because he was Senate president, he would effectively get to vote twice: once as a Senator, and again as Temporary President, who \"[performs] all the duties of lieutenant governor\", which includes breaking ties in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, Legislative deadlock\nOn June 30, the Democrats took advantage of Republican State Senator Frank Padavan's brief walk through the Senate chamber to claim a quorum, but Governor Paterson said he did not believe Padavan's merely walking into the chamber created a quorum and so he would not sign any of the bills passed during that alleged quorum. They passed \"non-controversial\" bills, including a motel tax, 911 service fees, and a bond authorization for Nassau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, The tie, Legislative deadlock\nOn July 7, Monserrate, accompanied by fellow Democratic Senator Ruben Diaz, walked out on the Democrats; the two stated that they were not abandoning the Democratic Conference, but that the power struggle must end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Staying in-state\nShortly following the attempted change in Senate leadership, Governor David Paterson announced that he would avoid out-of-state travel, saying \"the best thing for me to do is to stay here.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 91], "content_span": [92, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Staying in-state\nThe New York Constitution states that whenever the governor is out of state, the lieutenant governor becomes acting governor. Since there was no clear line of succession, it was unclear who would have become acting governor, which is a situation the Governor attempted to avoid. Paterson did not leave the state from June 8 until the resolution of the crisis, which required him to skip several out-of-state events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 91], "content_span": [92, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Calling special Senate sessions\nOn June 21, Governor Paterson announced that he would convene a special session on June 23 \u2013 setting \"routine\" but \"time-sensitive\" bills such as mayoral control over New York City schools, sales tax, and same-sex marriage bills on the agenda. He also stated that he would convene a special session every day, including weekends and July 4, until the senators finished their job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 106], "content_span": [107, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Calling special Senate sessions\nOn June 23, all senators met in the Senate chamber but each caucus held a separate session, ignoring the other. Governor Paterson then called daily extraordinary sessions of the State Senate, but each caucus met separately and adjourned without doing any business for lack of quorum. On request of Governor Paterson, Justice Joseph C. Teresi ordered the State Senators on June 29 to convene together the next day. The Republicans appealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 106], "content_span": [107, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Withholding Senators' pay and grants\nOn June 24, Governor Paterson asked that New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli withhold the paychecks and per diems of the Senators retroactively from June 8, when Senate crisis initially started. Senator Kevin Parker rejected the idea, saying that Governor Paterson \"doesn't have any constitutional or legal authority to dock our pay.\" DiNapoli initially said that he would look into the legality of the request. On July 2, DiNapoli agreed to withhold the Senators' pay, even though no court ruled that he had the authority to do so. Although the Senators' pay was being withheld, it could not be kept permanently, as the Constitution restricts changing the legislature's pay during session; it was disbursed after the crisis was resolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 111], "content_span": [112, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Governor Paterson's actions, Withholding Senators' pay and grants\nPaterson also declared that he would withhold $85 million in pork barrel grants. These grants were given to the senators individually to be spent on pet projects in the Senators' districts. However, the impact was negligible because no such projects had been approved in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 111], "content_span": [112, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, The Governor's speech\nOn July 8, at 5:01 pm, Governor Paterson appointed former MTA chairman Richard Ravitch as Lieutenant Governor of New York, although, despite numerous vacancies, no lieutenant governor had ever been appointed in New York history. However, Paterson believed that he had the authority to fill the vacancy due to provisions of the New York State Public Officers Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Legality of the appointment\nThe New York Constitution prohibits electing a lieutenant governor \"except at the time of electing a governor,\" and provides that the \"temporary president of the senate shall perform all the duties of lieutenant governor\" in the absence of a lieutenant governor, and that the Speaker of the State Assembly is then next-in-line of succession to the governor's office in case of a vacancy of the temporary presidency of the Senate. However, State Assemblyman Michael Gianaris formed an interpretation of the Public Officers Laws that would allow Paterson to fill the vacancy by appointment. This interpretation was supported by an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. It is also supported by good government groups Citizens Union and Common Cause, both of which urged Paterson to make an appointment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 111], "content_span": [112, 958]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Legality of the appointment\nAttorney General Andrew Cuomo held that Paterson's interpretation was unconstitutional, and that the appointment was not valid. Senator Espada announced he would sue to prevent the appointment, and said that this appointment had ruined Paterson's reputation as an impartial mediator of the situation. Senator Skelos also expressed his concern with the appointment, stating that \"it's illegal, it's unconstitutional\", and believed that it would create more chaos and government gridlock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 111], "content_span": [112, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nRavitch was initially expected to be sworn in July 9, the day after his appointment, at 11:30 am. However, Paterson's administration officials rushed to swear in Ravitch quickly, ahead of the expected legal battles. He was sworn in at approximately 8 pm, just 3 hours after his appointment, and the necessary paperwork was shortly filed with the Secretary of State's office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nRepublicans attempted to block Ravitch from taking the oath of office by seeking a temporary restraining order. They successfully acquired one shortly after 11 pm, signed by State Supreme Court Justice Ute W. Lally. The Republicans initially thought that this was early enough to prevent Ravitch from entering office, but they later learned that he had already been sworn in. The  prevented Ravitch from taking any actions as Lt. Governor. However, it was vacated the next day, and a hearing to rule on the legality of the appointment was scheduled for the following day, Friday, July 10. At the hearing in the State Supreme Court in Mineola, the judge adjourned matters until July 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nOn July 15, lawyers for Governor Paterson and Senators Skelos and Espada presented their arguments. On July 21, New York Supreme Court Justice William R. LaMarca said that the plaintiffs \u201chave established a likelihood of success on the merits for their claim that neither the Constitution nor legislative enactment authorized the governor to make the appointment,\" and issued a preliminary injunction which barred Ravitch from carrying out the duties of the office. A new hearing was scheduled for August 25, but lawyers for Governor Paterson filed an appeal in the Appellate Division. The preliminary injunction was stayed by Appellate Division Justice L. Priscilla Hall, who had been appointed to the Appellate Division by Paterson in March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nOn July 30, a four-judge panel of the Second Department of the Appellate Division ruled that Ravitch \"can continue serving as lieutenant governor pending a legal challenge over his appointment \u2013 but he cannot preside over the State Senate.\" A hearing was held on August 18 before the Appellate Division's Second Dept. in Brooklyn, at which lawyers for both sides presented oral arguments. David Lewis, attorney for Dean Skelos and the Republican Senate caucus, likened the appointment of Ravitch to the Roman Emperor Caligula's naming of his horse to public office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nJustice Thomas A. Dickerson said that \"there is to be no one who is appointed to take this office.\" Justice Steven W. Fisher said he expected the Court to rule as soon as possible, referring the case directly to the New York Court of Appeals. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment, saying that \"the Governor\u2019s purported appointment of Mr. Ravitch was unlawful because no provision of the Constitution or of any statute provides for the filling of a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor other than by election.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Appointment of a Lieutenant Governor, Ravitch's swearing-in and legal battle\nHowever, on September 22, 2009 the New York Court of Appeals ruled 4\u20133 that the appointment of Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch by Governor David Paterson was constitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 122], "content_span": [123, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Democrats retake Senate majority\nOn July 9, Espada announced that he would return to the Democratic conference, which effectively ended the Senate deadlock as Democrats once again had a 32\u201330 majority. Espada claimed to have a \"handshake agreement\" with Democratic leader Senator John L. Sampson which would make Espada Senate president for the rest of 2009. Later on the same day, Espada officially became Senate Majority Leader, while Malcolm Smith remained Temporary President of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Democrats retake Senate majority\nSampson was said to be in line to take over for Smith as Temporary President at an undetermined future date; however, Smith retained hold of the Senate presidency until the end of the term, when control of the chamber passed to the Republicans following the November 2010 elections. Later on July 9, the Senate passed 135 bills in a session that lasted until 2:00 the following morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204300-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis, Democrats retake Senate majority\nPaterson estimated that the crisis cost the state $125\u2013$150 million in routine taxes that were not collected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204301-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Titans season\nThe New York Titans are a lacrosse team based in New York City playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 3rd in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204301-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Titans season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204301-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Titans season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204301-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Titans season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204301-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Titans season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Titans selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season\nThe 2009 New York Yankees season was the 107th season for the New York Yankees franchise. The Yankees opened their new Yankee Stadium on April 3, 2009, when they hosted an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs. The new stadium hosted its first regular-season game on April 16, when the team played against the Cleveland Indians and their first playoff game against the Minnesota Twins in the ALDS on October 7, 2009. The Yankees swept the Twins in three games to win the divisional series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season\nThey won their 40th American League pennant on October 25, defeating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 6 games to advance to the World Series, where they defeated the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies in six games to win their 27th World Series title on November 4. The Yankees finished the regular season with 103 wins and 59 losses.. To date, this is the most recent season the Yankees won the World Series, as well as the last season they won the AL Pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Passing of control\nGeorge Steinbrenner stepped down as the main decision maker for the team on November 20, as Major League Baseball's owners approved passing control to his youngest son, 39-year-old Hal Steinbrenner. The patriarch of the Yankees success over three and a half decades since buying the team from CBS in 1973 had been in failing health, and had been reducing his role in the ownership the last several seasons. Despite his limited role, he remained as a team chairman with his two sons until his death on July 13, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason departures\nAfter the Yankees failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 1993, General Manager Brian Cashman made clear that there would be offseason changes. Mike Mussina retired from baseball on November 20, 2008. Infielder Wilson Betemit was traded to the Chicago White Sox in a trade for Nick Swisher on November 13, 2008. The Yankees declined options on first baseman Jason Giambi and starting pitcher Carl Pavano. Giambi went on to sign a one-year deal with the Oakland Athletics on January 1, 2009, and Pavano signed a one-year deal with the Cleveland Indians on January 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason departures\nRight fielder Bobby Abreu signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and catcher Iv\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez signed a one-year pact with the Houston Astros. From those departures, the Yankees shed nearly $89\u00a0million from their payroll, enabling them to spend money to fix their team. Furthermore, the Yankees non-tendered the contracts of Chris Britton and Justin Christian, allowing them to become free agents; Britton signed a minor league deal with the San Diego Padres and Christian signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nThe Yankees began retooling the team, when they acquired first baseman/outfielder Nick Swisher, along with relief prospect Kanekoa Texeira, from the Chicago White Sox for infielder Wilson Betemit, relief prospect Jhonny N\u00fa\u00f1ez and starting pitching prospect Jeff Marquez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nOn December 18, 2008, the Yankees announced the signings of starting pitchers CC Sabathia to a 7-year deal worth $161\u00a0million and A. J. Burnett to a 5-year deal worth $82.5 million. On January 6, 2009, the Yankees signed first baseman Mark Teixeira to an 8-year deal worth $180\u00a0million with a no-trade import. The signings of Sabathia, Teixeira and Burnett filled the Yankees' biggest needs: starting pitching and first base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nOn December 22, the Yankees re-signed Chien-Ming Wang to a 1-year deal worth $5 million, avoiding salary arbitration; they would later reach deals with Brian Bruney, Melky Cabrera and Xavier Nady.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nOn January 26, the Yankees re-signed Andy Pettitte to a 1-year deal worth $5.5 million contract with performance-based incentives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nThe Yankees signed starting pitcher Sergio Mitre to a split (minor/major league) contract, and signed former major leaguers such as Justin Leone, \u00c1ngel Berroa, Doug Bernier, Jason Johnson, Kevin Cash, John Rodriguez and Todd Linden; they also acquired catcher Chris Stewart from the White Sox for a player-to-be-named later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Offseason acquisitions\nIn addition, to prevent them from becoming eligible for the Rule 5 draft, they placed starting pitchers Wilkins De La Rosa, Christian Garcia and Michael Dunn, as well as relief pitcher Anthony Claggett, on the 40 man roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nThird base coach and former player Bobby Meacham did not get his contract renewed and special pitching instructor Rich Monteleone was fired as well. Former major leaguer Mick Kelleher was hired as the new first-base coach, with Tony Pe\u00f1a moving to bench coach, and Rob Thomson moving to third-base coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Controversies\nIn early 2009, before spring training, third baseman Alex Rodriguez admitted to using steroids while playing for the Texas Rangers during the 2001\u20132003 seasons. This happened right before a hip injury to Rodriguez, and that stopped his playing time from early March until mid-May. A-Rod would come back with a bang, having a 3-run homer on the first pitch he had seen since early spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Controversies\nFormer manager Joe Torre, who at the time was managing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, published a book called The Yankee Years about his time in New York that criticized Steinbrenner, Cashman, and Rodriguez, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Midseason transactions\nThe Yankees traded prospects Eric Fryer and Casey Erickson for OF/3B Eric Hinske of the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Midseason transactions\nThey traded a player to be named later for Colorado Rockies minor leaguer Jason Hirsh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Midseason transactions\nHours before the trading deadline, the Yankees traded catching prospect Chase Weems to the Cincinnati Reds for 3B Jerry Hairston, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Midseason transactions\nOn August 7, 2009, the Yankees also traded for P Chad Gaudin for a player to be named later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Midseason transactions\nThey have signed several minor league free agents throughout the season such as Russ Ortiz, Josh Towers, Brian Peterson and Yurendell de Caster. They also released players such as Jason Johnson and Justin Leone. Todd Linden was sold to a Japanese League team per his request.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Preseason\nIn March, Alex Rodriguez was diagnosed a hip injury and underwent surgery, sidelining him for 6 to 9 weeks. The Yankees announced that journeyman Cody Ransom would start the season as the third baseman; Ramiro Pe\u00f1a was assigned the back-up infielder spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, April\nPlaying at Camden Yards, the Yankees lost the first two games of the season due to poor performances by starters CC Sabathia and Chien-Ming Wang, though they rebounded to take the third game of the series as well as win the next two series they played against the Kansas City Royals and defending AL East Champions Tampa Bay Rays. On April 16, the Yankees played the first game in their new Yankee Stadium, but they lost the game because of a shaky bullpen. They won the next game to split their first series at the ballpark. The Yankees were swept later in the month by the rival Boston Red Sox in three games at Fenway Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, May\nIn his first game back from the disabled list on May 8, Alex Rodriguez hit a three-run home run on the first pitch he saw of the season, giving the Yankees a 3\u20130 lead in a game they would go on to win 4\u20130 with the help of a four-hit shutout by Sabathia. On May 15, 16 and 17, the Yankees had three consecutive walk-off wins against the Twins, including a home run by Rodriguez in his first series at the new Yankee Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, May\nLate in the month, Phil Hughes, who had struggled as a starter, was moved to the bullpen. His addition stabilized the bullpen and helped to turn it from a liability to a strength, as he posted a stellar 1.40 ERA as a reliever, serving as a highly effective eighth-inning set-up man for closer Mariano Rivera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, June\nOn the first day of June, the Yankees set a Major League record with 18 consecutive errorless games. Late in the month, the Yankees struggled in interleague play, losing two of three to the Nationals and Marlins, falling to five games back in the division. When the Yankees lost the first game of a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves, Yankee GM Brian Cashman flew down to Atlanta to motivate the team in a closed-door meeting. Initially, his words seemed to do little, as in the next game (6/24), the Yankees were being no-hit through six innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, June\nAfter Brett Gardner walked and was picked off at first base \u2013 a borderline call by umpire Bill Welke \u2013 Joe Girardi protested and was ejected from the baseball game by Welke. The next batter, rookie catcher Francisco Cervelli, hit his first big-league home run to tie the game at 1, and the Yankees went on to win the game 8\u20134. Many sports analysts viewed this game as a major turning point in the Yankees' season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, July\nThe Yankees emerged on a hot streak after the All-Star break, winning eight consecutive games. This included sweeps of Detroit and Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, August\nThe Yankees took control of the best record in baseball, highlighted by a four-game sweep of their archrivals the Boston Red Sox from August 6\u20139. Entering the series, the Yankees had lost all 8 games in which they had faced the Red Sox in 2009. During Game 1 of the series, the Yankees pounded Red Sox starter John Smoltz for nine hits, four walks, and eight earned runs in 3.1 IP. Jorge Posada finished a triple shy of the cycle as the Yankees recorded 18 hits total and went on to win 13\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, August\nOn Friday night, the second game of the series, it took 15 innings for a run to be recorded in the form of a walk-off two-run home run by Alex Rodriguez. Josh Beckett and AJ Burnett had started the pitchers' duel and each pitched at least seven shutout innings. The Yankees also won the third game of the series on Saturday 5\u20130 behind CC Sabathia's 7.2 shutout innings. In the series finale on Sunday Night Baseball, Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning to propel the Yankees to a victory. The sweep also gave the Yankees a stranglehold over the American League East and for the rest of the season, no other team would come within five games of first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, September\nDerek Jeter became the all-time hits leader as a member of the Yankees (2,722), passing Lou Gehrig on September 11, 2009. The hit was a single off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Chris Tillman in the 3rd inning. On September 22, 2009, after defeating the Los Angeles Angels, the Yankees became the first team to clinch a playoff spot for the 2009 MLB post-season. By beating the Boston Red Sox on September 27, the Yankees won their 100th game of the season, and clinched the American League East Division title. This win proved especially significant because the Yankees had started out the season 0\u20138 against their rivals in Boston, and they ended up splitting the season series 9\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Regular season, October\nOn October 4, Alex Rodriguez hit a three-run home run, the 243rd home run of the team's season to date, breaking the team's previously set record in 2004 of 242. Later in the same inning he hit a grand slam, breaking the American League record for most RBI in one inning by a single player, setting it at seven. The last two at-bats of Rodriguez's season allowed him to finish with 30 home runs and 100 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALDS\nThe Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins in the Division Series, 3 games to 0. The two teams previously met in the 2003 and 2004 Division Series, with the Yankees winning both series in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALDS\nThe Yankees won Game 1 behind a strong start from CC Sabathia, a pivotal two-run home run by Derek Jeter, two huge RBI singles by Alex Rodriguez and a two-run homer by Hideki Matsui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALDS\nTrailing 3\u20131 in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 2, Alex Rodriguez hit a game-tying two-run homer off Twins closer Joe Nathan. David Robertson escaped a bases-loaded, no out jam in the Top of the 11th, and Mark Teixeira lined a walk-off home run off Jos\u00e9 Mijares to lead off the bottom half to give the Yankees a 4\u20133 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALDS\nFormer Yankee Carl Pavano threw shutout ball through 6 innings in Game 3 in what would turn out to be the final baseball game ever played at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. However, in the top of the 7th, Rodriguez and Jorge Posada each hit a home run to give the Yankees a 2\u20131 lead. In the bottom of the 8th, the Twins' Nick Punto made a wide turn at 3rd base after a Denard Span infield single with no one out, and was thrown out attempting to retreat back, killing the Twins' threat. The Yankees tacked on two insurance runs in the top of the 9th, and Mariano Rivera shut the door in the 9th to give the Yankees their first postseason series victory since the 2004 ALDS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALDS\nRodriguez played a pivotal role in the Division Series, hitting two home runs (both of which were game-tying), batting .455 (5-for-11), and collecting 6 RBI. Before 2009, Rodriguez had only 4 postseason home runs in a Yankee uniform, and hadn't batted above .300 in a postseason since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nThe Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Angels in six games in the ALCS. This marked the franchise's 40th American League pennant, and the first time the Yankees had defeated the Angels in a postseason series. Yankees ace CC Sabathia was named ALCS MVP, with a 2\u20130 record in two starts against the Angels, and posting an ERA of 1.13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nSabathia hurled 8 brilliant innings in a Game 1 4\u20131 Yankee victory, helped by three uncharacteristic Angels errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nIn a classic Game 2, the score remained tied at 2 heading to the 11th inning. In the top half, Chone Figgins broke out of his postseason slump by blooping an RBI single to left field to score Gary Matthews, Jr. to give the Angels a 3\u20132 lead. However, in the bottom half, Alex Rodriguez lined a home run into the short right-field porch off Angels closer Brian Fuentes to tie the game at 3. In the bottom of the 13th, Maicer Izturis threw away a potential double play ball from Melky Cabrera to score Jerry Hairston, Jr. with the winning run, giving the Yankees a 2\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nThe Angels returned the favor in Game 3 with a walk-off win of their own. Vladimir Guerrero hit a huge game tying two-run homer off Andy Pettitte with two out in the bottom of the 6th, and Jeff Mathis laced a game-winning RBI double in the bottom of the 11th to win the game for the Angels, 5\u20134. This came after a controversial decision from manager Joe Girardi to lift David Robertson for Alfredo Aceves with two out and no one on in the 11th. Aceves served up a single to Howie Kendrick, followed by the Mathis double. Four solo home runs accounted for the Yankees' scoring, hit by Derek Jeter, Rodriguez, Johnny Damon and Jorge Posada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nSabathia threw 8 more brilliant innings in Game 4, this time on three-days' rest. Melky Cabrera sparked the Yankees with four RBIs, including a two-run single in the 4th. Rodriguez added a two-run homer, tying a postseason record with RBIs in eight consecutive games. Damon put the game away with a two-run homer in the 8th, and the Yankees won 10\u20131, putting them one win away from their 40th American League pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nA. J. Burnett allowed four runs before recording an out in the bottom of the first inning of Game 5, but settled down soon thereafter. The Yankees rallied for 6 runs with two outs in the top of the 7th inning, including a 3-run double by Mark Teixeira, a game-tying single by Hideki Matsui, and a two-run triple by Robinson Can\u00f3. However, in the bottom half, the Angels rallied for 3 runs of their own to regain a 7\u20136 lead. Phil Hughes allowed a game-tying RBI single by Guerrero and a go-ahead RBI single to Kendry Morales. The Yankees threatened in the top of the 9th, but with two out and the bases loaded, Fuentes induced Nick Swisher to pop out to shortstop Erick Aybar on a 3\u20132 pitch to send the series back to New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, ALCS\nIn Game 6, Damon sparked the Yankees with a 2-run single in the bottom of the 4th to give the Yankees a lead that they would not relinquish. Pettitte hurled 61\u20443 strong innings, allowing only one earned run. Mariano Rivera came on in the 8th for a 6 out save, but allowed an RBI single to Guerrero to make it a 3\u20132 Yankee lead. It was the first postseason run allowed by Rivera at home since 2000, and the only one he would give up in the 2009 postseason. In the bottom half, errors by Kendrick and Scott Kazmir gave the Yankees two insurance runs, and Rivera shut the door in the 9th to give the Yankees their 40th American League pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2009 World Series, 4 games to 2. The Phillies were playing for their second consecutive World Series title and 3rd overall, and the Yankees won their first title since 2000, and 27th overall. The two teams' previous postseason meeting came in the 1950 World Series, with the Yankees sweeping the Phillies. After Jimmy Rollins predicted that the Phillies would win the series in five games or \"six if they were nice\", the Yankees went on to win the series in six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nCliff Lee shut down the Yankees in a complete game 6\u20131 victory for the Phillies in Game 1, but the Yankees responded in Game 2 with a 3\u20131 win. Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui homered off Pedro Mart\u00ednez, and A. J. Burnett pitched 7 great innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Yankees won Game 3 behind 6 gritty innings from Andy Pettitte, coupled with the first instant replay-overturned home run in World Series history by Alex Rodriguez and homers from Nick Swisher and Matsui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nIn Game 4, the Yankees carried a 4\u20133 lead into the 8th inning. But with two out and no one on, Pedro Feliz lined a solo home run to left off Joba Chamberlain on a 3\u20132 pitch to tie the game. However, in the top of the 9th, Johnny Damon grinded out a 9 pitch at bat with two outs off Phillies closer Brad Lidge, lining a single to left center field. Damon then stole second base, and with the infield overshift on with Teixeira batting, Damon alertly stole an unoccupied third base. After Teixeira was hit by a pitch, Alex Rodriguez lined a double down the left field line to give the Yankees a 5\u20134 lead. Jorge Posada added two insurance runs thereafter, and Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect 9th to put the Yankees one win away from winning the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nBurnett imploded in Game 5, allowing six earned runs in only two innings pitched. The Yankees rallied late, but fell short as the Phillies sent the series back to The Bronx with an 8\u20136 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nMatsui earned the World Series MVP award with a performance for the ages in Game 6. He became only the second player in baseball history to collect six RBIs in a World Series game, finishing a triple short of the cycle. This included a 2-run home run in the 2nd, a 2-run single in the 3rd, and a 2-run double in the 5th. Matsui finished the series with a .615 batting average with 3 home runs and 8 RBIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Postseason, World Series\nPitching on three-days' rest, Pettitte earned his 4th win of the postseason, becoming the first pitcher in baseball history to start and win the clinching game of all rounds in a single postseason (Derek Lowe did the same in 2004 but with one of his wins coming in relief). Rivera recorded the final five outs to give the Yankees their 27th World Series Championship, by far the most in the history of baseball and the most in North American sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204302-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Federal, 20th congressional district special election\nKirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the United States Senate, replacing Hillary Clinton, who resigned to become United States Secretary of State. A special election was held to fill her House seat on March 31, with Republican James Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy the two candidates. After the two finished in a near tie on election night, absentee ballots turned up a 700-vote margin for Murphy, despite the ballots being sent out to far more Republicans than Democrats. Murphy won the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Federal, 23rd congressional district special election\nJohn M. McHugh was nominated to become United States Secretary of the Army, necessitating a special election to fill his seat. Democratic candidate Bill Owens won the special election on November 3, 2009 defeating the Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman and the Republican candidate Dierdre Scozzafava, which as a result, marks the first time that a Democrat represented parts of this district since the Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Cities, Albany\nAlbany Mayor Gerald Jennings is expected to run for reelection. However he will likely face a very competitive primary. Councilman Corey Ellis, President of the Common Council Shawn Morris and Reverend Valerie Faust will run against Mayor Jennings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Cities, Buffalo\nBuffalo Mayor Byron Brown is eligible to run for reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Cities, New York City\nNew York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. There were also citywide races for Public Advocate, and Comptroller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204303-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York elections, Cities, Rochester\nRochester mayor \"Bob\" Duffy will be running for reelection and said so on March 22, 2009. His opponent has not yet been announced", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election\nThe 2009 special election for the 20th congressional district of New York was held on March 31, 2009, to fill the vacancy created in January 2009 when the district's representative, Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, was appointed US senator from New York, replacing Hillary Clinton, who had been appointed Secretary of State in the Obama administration. The two major-party candidates were Democrat Scott Murphy, a private businessman, and Republican Jim Tedisco, the minority leader of the New York State Assembly. A third-party candidate, Libertarian Eric Sundwall, was initially included in the race, but later removed from the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election\nNew York's 20th congressional district has historically been conservative, and early polls favored Tedisco, but by February 2009 the race was considered a toss-up. The Republican Party considered the election to be a referendum on President Obama's economic policy and as such, injected significant funding into Tedisco's campaign, using well-known Republicans such as former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Congressional Minority Leader John Boehner, and former New York Governor George Pataki for support. Democrats used Senator Gillibrand, Vice President Joe Biden, and an endorsement from President Barack Obama to support the Murphy campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election\nMajor issues brought up during the campaign were the candidates' positions on President Obama's stimulus plan, which Tedisco did not take a stance on until late in the race. Murphy supported it while Tedisco eventually opposed it. Tedisco portrayed Murphy's support of the plan as a potential cause of the AIG bonus scandal. Tedisco's campaign also brought up Murphy's failure to pay taxes on a company he founded in the 1990s. A frequent Murphy talking point was that Tedisco's primary residence was not in the Congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election\nThe race was so close that one early vote count had the candidates tied at 77,225 votes each. Absentee ballots decided the election; ballots were accepted until April 13. While Tedisco had been ahead in early counts, by April 10 Murphy was leading, and by April 23 Murphy had a 401-vote advantage. Tedisco conceded the race the following day, and Murphy was sworn in on April 29. Democratic electoral successes in November 2008 and Murphy's clear support of the stimulus package were credited for his success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Background\nNew York's 20th district in 2009 encompassed all or part of Columbia, Dutchess, Delaware, Essex, Greene, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties. Traditionally conservative, it had been considered a safe seat for Republicans until Blue Dog Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand defeated incumbent John E. Sweeney in the 2006 election. In November 2008, the Republican Party held an enrollment advantage of 70,632 registered voters across the district, down from a 93,337-voter advantage when the district lines were drawn by the New York State Legislature in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Background\nAlthough Republican George W. Bush carried the district by an eight-point margin in the 2004 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won the district in 2008 by a three-point margin, or approximately 10,000 votes of over 330,000 cast. Gillibrand was reelected in 2008 by 24 points, a fourfold increase over her 2006 margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Background\nOne of Barack Obama's first decisions as president-elect was to appoint Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York and former Democratic presidential primary opponent, as Secretary of State; Clinton resigned her Senate seat to take the position. The district's seat became vacant in January 2009 when Governor David Paterson appointed Gillibrand to the United States Senate to replace Clinton. On February 23, 2009, Governor Paterson issued a proclamation setting the date for the special election as March 31, 2009. Under state law, Paterson was not required to issue a proclamation for a special election until July 2010. Both the Rothenberg Political Report and the Cook Political Report listed the race as a toss-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates\nIn lieu of party primaries, the party nominees were chosen by a weighted vote among the county committees. The weight of the vote depended on the population of registered party voters (Republican or Democrat) in a given county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Republican Party\nState Senator Betty Little and former state Assembly minority leader and 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate John Faso had been in the running for the Republican nomination. Richard Wager, a former aide to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and State Senator Stephen Saland had also been mentioned. Alexander \"Sandy\" Treadwell, the former New York Secretary of State and 2008 U.S. House challenger, had announced he would not run. On January 24, State Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco received the endorsement of Saratoga County's Republican chairman, while the Greene County GOP endorsed Faso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Republican Party\nJim Tedisco was the eventual Republican nominee, winning the GOP nomination on January 27, 2009. Tedisco represented the 110th Assembly District, which includes a significant portion of Saratoga County. Tedisco's primary residence was not in the congressional district, although he did own a house in Saratoga Springs and much of his assembly district overlapped the congressional district. This issue would become a major talking point during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Democratic Party\nOn January 31, The Post-Star reported that the Democrats had narrowed the field of potential candidates from over two dozen applicants down to six. The Democratic chairpersons met with all six candidates at a diner in Albany on February 1, and selected Scott Murphy of Glens Falls, president of the Upstate Venture Association of New York, as their candidate. Other confirmed candidates included Saratoga County Democratic Chairman Larry Bulman, former New York Rangers goaltender Mike Richter, Coxsackie Town Supervisor Alex Betke, and Tracey Brooks, failed candidate for the nomination for the 21st district election in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Third parties\nNew York allows electoral fusion, which is an arrangement allowing two or more qualified parties to list the same candidate on a ballot. The Conservative Party chose to cross-endorse Tedisco on February 9, while the Working Families Party gave its endorsement to Murphy on February 17. On March 1, the Independence Party, the largest third party in the 20th district, gave its endorsement to Murphy. This was the first time the Independence Party had endorsed a Democrat in the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Third parties\nEric Sundwall, Chair of the New York Libertarian Party, was the Libertarian candidate for the seat. However, he was removed from the ballot on March 25, after 3,786 of the 6,730 signatures his campaign had collected were ruled invalid. Under state election law, independent congressional candidates must collect at least 3,500 valid signatures to be on the ballot. Two Saratoga County residents challenged over 6,000 of Sundwall's signatures; Sundwall blamed Tedisco for the effort to have him removed from the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Candidates, Third parties\nThe vast majority of the rejected signatures were from voters who put down their mailing address instead of the municipality in which they physically lived. Votes for Sundwall on absentee ballots, which were mailed out before he was removed from the ballot, were voided. On March 27, Sundwall announced that he would vote for Murphy in the election and urged his supporters to join him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nThe campaigns agreed to hold four debates. The first debate took place on March 2, between Tedisco and Murphy. The second debate, sponsored by WMHT and the Times Union, took place on March 19 between Murphy and Libertarian candidate Eric Sundwall. Jim Tedisco held a town hall meeting rather than attend, claiming the debate was not one of the four originally agreed upon. The third debate took place on March 23 and the final debate was on March 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nStrategists from both parties viewed the outcome of the race as a \"referendum on President Obama's handling of the economy\". Chairman Michael Steele of the Republican National Committee said the special election was the first of three elections that were \"incredibly important\" for the Republicans to win. The Republican leadership made this race a top priority, and Chairman Steele, former Governor George Pataki, House Minority Leader John Boehner, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich helped Tedisco with fundraising. Steele visited the district twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nOn the Democratic side, Senator Gillibrand appeared in commercials and robocalls for Murphy, and Senator Chuck Schumer helped Murphy's campaign with fundraising. Less than a week before the election, President Obama formally endorsed Murphy in a mass email to supporters and urged supporters to organize and vote for Murphy. A radio ad Vice President Joe Biden recorded for Murphy was released on March 25. That same day, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tim Kaine emailed 500 of the party's top donors asking them to contribute to Murphy's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nThe RNC spent $100,000 on Tedisco's behalf. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $150,000 and the Service Employees International Union spent $315,000 for Murphy. The New York State United Teachers made an effort to call its members on Murphy's behalf, while the National Right to Life, National Republican Trust and New York State Rifle and Pistol Association organizations paid for ads and mailings supporting Tedisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nEach candidate aimed to discredit the other by pointing out his opponent's flaws or mistakes. Republicans called attention to Murphy's failure to pay taxes on a start-up computer software company he had founded in the 1990s, drawing comparison to three high-profile Obama administration nominees who failed to pay all of their taxes. Tedisco also called attention to Murphy's failure to regularly vote in elections after the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced that Murphy had failed to vote in the 2000 presidential election, along with seven other primaries and general elections between 2000 and 2003. Believing the negative ads run by the NRCC were responsible for his drop in the polls, Tedisco announced that he would take control of campaign advertising from the NRCC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nMurphy spent the first months of the campaign criticizing Tedisco's early refusal to disclose his position on President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. When Tedisco came out in opposition to the legislation on March 16, Murphy responded by writing \"it's just shameful it took well over a month for Assemblyman Tedisco to finally admit that he'd vote 'No'\". Murphy's campaign described Tedisco as a career Albany politician.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign\nBy mid-March, a provision in the stimulus package that grandfathered in bonuses paid to executives at troubled insurance giant AIG and other TARP recipients became a campaign issue. Tedisco, who had been criticized by Murphy for opposing the package, used the outrage over the AIG bonuses to reframe the debate. On March 19, Tedisco called for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner over the AIG controversy. Murphy responded by insisting that the stimulus package was necessary for job creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Campaign, Polling\n\u2020 Commissioned by Tedisco's campaign and the NRCC\u2021 Commissioned by the DCCC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 79], "content_span": [80, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Election\nWith 100 percent of precincts reporting, initial counts from the election had Murphy leading by about 60 votes out of over 150,000 cast. Columbia County's Board of Elections amended its tally the following day, reducing Murphy's lead to 25 votes. The lead alternated between the two candidates throughout early recanvassing; at one point the New York State Board of Elections had listed the election at a zero-vote margin, with each candidate having exactly 77,225 votes. By April 2, Tedisco was ahead by 12 votes. He resigned the position of Assembly Minority Leader on April 5 in preparation for a transition to Congress, and was replaced by Brian Kolb the following day. On April 7, Tedisco was ahead by 97 votes. The close tally meant that absentee ballots would decide the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Election\nAll ballots, absentee ballot envelopes, and voting machines were impounded under a court injunction sought by state Republicans. Under the court order, absentee ballots were counted in central locations rather than individual precincts. Of the 10,000 absentee ballots sent out to voters, 6,000 were returned. Absentee ballots mailed within the United States had to be received by April 7 to be counted. The deadline for overseas (including military) ballots was extended to April 13 after the United States Department of Justice sued the state to ensure they would have a reasonable chance of being counted. Counting of the absentee ballots due by April 7 began on April 8 under a New York State Supreme Court ruling sought by Murphy's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Election\nThe legality of about 600 absentee ballots were contested during the count, including Senator Gillibrand's ballot. By April 23, Murphy was ahead by 401 votes, and Tedisco conceded the following day. Murphy was sworn in on April 29. The official results came out in May and had Murphy winning the election with 80,833 votes (50.23%) against Tedisco's 80,107 votes (49.77%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Aftermath\nMurphy's victory was credited to a coattail effect from Barack Obama's election in 2008. His support of the stimulus package and Tedisco's failed attempt at clearly explaining his (Tedisco's) opposition to the package also had an impact. Further explanations for the Republican defeat ranged from accusations that Tedisco \"dither[ed] on the stimulus bill\", to intimations that Tedisco only became his party's nominee by manipulating the selection process. In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal contended that being an \"Albany careerist\" and running confusing campaign ads had hurt Tedisco. Tedisco's loss immediately made him appear vulnerable to Democrats hoping to capture his seat in the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 71], "content_span": [72, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204304-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 20th congressional district special election, Aftermath\nThe day after being sworn in, Murphy hired Todd Schulte, his campaign manager, as his new chief of staff. He also hired one of Governor Paterson's aides, Maggie McKeon, as his communications director. For his district director, Murphy turned to Rob Scholz, a Republican. Scholz had worked on Murphy's campaign and had received praise from Larry Bulman, the chairman of the Saratoga County Democratic Committee. Within a month of being elected, Murphy opened offices in Saratoga Springs and Hudson. Murphy served the remainder of his term, but lost a reelection bid on November 2, 2010, to challenger Chris Gibson, a retired Army colonel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 71], "content_span": [72, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election\nThe 2009 special election for New York's 23rd congressional district was held on November 3, 2009, to select the successor to Republican John M. McHugh. McHugh was nominated to become United States Secretary of the Army on June 2, 2009, and resigned as representative of New York's 23rd congressional district on September 21, 2009, after being confirmed by the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election\nThe Democratic Party and the Working Families Party nominated businessman and attorney Bill Owens, and the Conservative Party of New York nominated businessman and accountant Doug Hoffman. The Republican Party and Independence Party nominated State Assembly member Dede Scozzafava, who withdrew from the race three days before the election and endorsed Owens. On Election Day, Owens defeated Hoffman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election\nThe 2009 special election received significant national attention, and was alternately described as \"a referendum on President Barack Obama\" and \"a fight over the identity of the Republican Party.\" The race was also noteworthy due to the Tea Party movement influence on its outcome, and for its impact on same-sex marriage legislation in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Background\nNew York's 23rd congressional district had historically been one of the most Republican districts in the United States. The district's seat had been in Republican hands since 1873. The far northern portion of the district\u2014including the largest city, Watertown\u2014had not been represented by a Democrat since the 1850s. In parts of the district, the last non-Republican to represent the district had been a Whig. McHugh was first elected in 1992, and was reelected eight times with over 60% of the vote, including running unopposed in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Background\nAlthough McHugh was consistently elected with over 60% of the vote, in recent years the district had been more competitive in United States presidential elections. George W. Bush narrowly carried the district in both 2004 against John Kerry, 51%\u201347%. However, Gore narrowly defeated Bush in what was then the 24th district in 2000, repeating Bill Clinton's victory there in 1996. Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the district 52%\u201347% in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Background\nDemocrats had also recently done well in the district at the state level. In a 2008 special election for New York's 48th State Senate district (which is coextensive with the northwestern portion of the 23rd congressional district and includes Watertown), Democratic Assemblyman Darrel Aubertine defeated heavily favored Republican Assemblyman Will Barclay. Aubertine became the first Democrat to represent what is now the 48th Senate district in over a century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Background\nOn September 29, 2009, New York Governor David Paterson issued a proclamation setting the special election to fill the vacancy for November 3, 2009, to coincide with the 2009 general election. New York law does not provide for a primary election in cases of a special election for a vacant House seat. Instead, each party's nominee is chosen by that party's county leaders within the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Republican Party\nSeven Republicans announced their intentions to run. Three other Republicans were considered potential candidates, but declined to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Republican Party\nAssemblymember Dede Scozzafava was designated as the Republican nominee. On October 31, 2009, Scozzafava suspended her campaign and, on November 1, 2009, endorsed the Democratic candidate for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Democratic Party\nState Senator Darrel Aubertine, who represents most of the northern portion of the congressional district, was the most widely rumored potential Democratic candidate, but he declined. State Senator David Valesky, who represents most of the southern portion of the congressional district, initially said he was interested in running, but later decided against it. Also declining to run was assemblywoman Addie Jenne Russell, whose district includes Watertown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Democratic Party\nThe chair of the New York Democratic Party stated that Scozzafava's husband had spoken with key local Democrats about the possibility of her switching to the Democratic Party before running for the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Democratic Party\nThe party eventually selected Bill Owens, a military veteran and attorney from Plattsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 90], "content_span": [91, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Conservative Party\nThe Conservative Party chose Doug Hoffman as its nominee after three other potential candidates said they would support him, even though Hoffman did not live in the district. The Conservative Party declined to support the Republican Party's nomination of pro-choice, pro-same-sex-marriage, pro-union Assemblymember Dede Scozzafava, who Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long described as a \"nice lady who is too liberal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 92], "content_span": [93, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Conservative Party\nHoffman had previously sought the Republican nomination. In July, when Scozzafava was nominated instead, Hoffman offered to help her. His email to her read: \"Hi Dede, Congratulations and the best of luck in your candidacy. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Doug.\" Shortly thereafter, however, he contacted Conservative Party leaders, seeking support for his own candidacy. One Republican leader said that Hoffman, while seeking the Republican nomination, had \"repeatedly\" pledged to support the nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 92], "content_span": [93, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Other parties\nThe chairman of the Independence Party of New York announced that the party would have cross-endorsed Aubertine had he run, but with his decision not to run, the party instead backed Scozzafava. After she suspended her campaign, the state chairman of the party endorsed Bill Owens, though several local chairmen instead endorsed Hoffman. Scozzafava remained on the ballot on the Independence Party line (as well as the Republican line).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Candidates, Other parties\nThe Working Families Party backed Owens. Under New York's fusion rule, Owens's votes on the Democratic line and on the Working Families line were combined into a single total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 87], "content_span": [88, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nThe race drew significant national attention because of the relatively large amount of support for a third-party candidate from the national conservative base. The Susan B. Anthony List embarked on a $100,000 independent expenditure campaign for Hoffman. Many notable Republicans, including former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, endorsed Hoffman rather than the Republican candidate because they deemed Scozzafava insufficiently conservative and ideologically indistinguishable from the Democrat. Scozzafava also drew strong opposition from the Tea Party movement, with national Tea Party leader Michael Johns saying that his opposition to Scozzafava \"was the first time in my 25-year political and policy career that I ever opposed a Republican candidate.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 921]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nThe Hoffman campaign ran television advertisements depicting Scozzafava and Owens as \"two peas in a liberal pod.\" Hoffman indicated support for tax cuts, and a pro-life stance on abortion, as well as opposition to same-sex marriage, the Obama health reform proposal, card-check legislation, and cap-and-trade legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nScozzafava's record in the New York State Assembly included votes in favor of same-sex marriage, and she had also received an award from a Planned Parenthood affiliate in 2008. Scozzafava's political positions included support for \"card check\" legislation, support for federal funding for abortion, support for President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, and a refusal to rule out support for health care reform that includes a \"public option.\" While Bill Owens did not favor public funding for abortion, he did support President Obama's 2009 stimulus package and \"card check\" legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nAn October 1, 2009, poll by the Siena Research Institute put Hoffman in third place with 16% support, behind Scozzafava with 35% and Owens with 28%. However, a Siena poll released two weeks later indicated that Owens led Scozzafava by four percentage points and Hoffman by 10%. Polls taken a few days before the election showed Scozzafava's support collapsing; an October 31 poll showed Scozzafava trailing both Hoffman and Owens by 15% and 16%, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nScozzafava suspended her campaign on October 31. In response to the Scozzafava withdrawal, the Republican National Committee (RNC), which had strongly backed Scozzafava's candidacy, issued a statement applauding her decision and announcing it was now supporting Hoffman. National Democrats immediately began a \"vigorous effort\" to convince Scozzafava to endorse Owens. On November 1, Scozzafava endorsed Democratic nominee Owens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nFormer Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, while having initially supported the GOP nominee, remarked that he was \"deeply upset\" about her endorsement of Owens after Scozzafava's withdrawal from the race. RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele questioned party leaders in upstate New York for using a committee process to select a congressional candidate. \"Maybe you should have a primary the next time instead of having 11 guys in a room sit around and select your nominee,\" said Steele. The New York Republican Party issued a statement saying Scozzafava's endorsement was a \"betrayal\" of the party and said \"In contacting Scozzafava, the Obama White House has once again played its Chicago-style politics here in New York.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nOn November 2, one day before the election, Siena released the results of a new poll showing Hoffman leading Owens 41% to 36%. Vice President Joe Biden appeared with Owens at a campaign rally in Watertown on November 3, while former U.S. Senator and 2008 presidential candidate Fred Thompson appeared with Hoffman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Campaign\nOn Election Day, police were called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County following \"overzealous electioneering\" by supporters of Hoffman. Later, Hoffman accused the Democratic Party of \"bringing in ACORN\" and trying to \"steal this election away from the 23rd district\", asserting that a campaign volunteer's tires had been slashed. Anton Troianovski of The Wall Street Journal later quoted Captain Michael Branch of the Plattsburgh City Police Department as saying \"This was not a tire slashing\u2014this was some guy who drove over a bottle and cut his tire.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Polling\n\u2020 Poll commissioned by Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman\u2021 Poll commissioned by the Club for Growth, which endorses Doug Hoffman\u00a7 Poll commissioned by the Minuteman PAC, which endorses Doug Hoffman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 69], "content_span": [70, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nOn Election Day, Owens appeared to defeat Hoffman, with the margin of defeat initially reported as 49.0% to 45.5%. Although Hoffman initially conceded, an initial re-canvass resulted in a Hoffman gain of approximately 2,000 votes before military and absentee ballots were further factored in. Poll inspectors reported Mr. Hoffman had inadvertently received zero votes in four districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nWith absentee ballots having yet to be tallied, the results of the election could not be officially certified by the State of New York, though Owens was sworn in based upon unofficial results. Owens was seated in time to vote \"yea\" on the Affordable Health Care for America Act on November 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nHoffman withdrew his concession on November 17, 2009. On November 18, in a letter posted on his campaign website, Hoffman declared that \"ACORN, the unions and Democratic Party...tampered with the ballots of voters in NY-23.\" Jerry O. Eaton, Jefferson County Republican elections commissioner, called Hoffman's assertion \"absolutely false\". On November 19, the Gouverneur Times alleged that a computer virus had \"tainted\" results and \"cast doubt on the accuracy of the counts retrieved from any of the machines.\" John Conklin, director of public information for the NY State Board of Elections, stated that \"the article...unfortunately quoted a single word from a commissioner who mischaracterized the issue in question.\" Hoffman later retracted his accusations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nWith the tallying of absentee-ballots near completion, on November 20, 2009, Owens' lead over Hoffman surpassed the total number of absentee ballots left, making it mathematically impossible for Hoffman to win. On November 24, Hoffman ended his campaign, stating \"...it is with a heavy heart that we declare this election over. We will formally end this election and not ask for a recount.\" The final election results showed that Owens prevailed by a margin of 48.3% to 46%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nOwens was later re-elected to Congress in 2010 and 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Results and aftermath\nA week after the 2009 election, Scozzafava was stripped of her Republican leadership position in the State Assembly. After Scozzafava's unsuccessful congressional campaign, she acknowledged that her name had begun being used as a verb: \"scozzafavaed.\" Commentator Chris Good described the term as follows: \"The gist, basically, is that if you're a moderate Republican and the conservative wing of the GOP sets out to get you, and does, you got Scozzafavaed.\" In April 2010, Scozzafava announced that she would not run for re-election to the New York State Assembly in November 2010. In January 2011, Scozzafava was appointed New York Deputy Secretary of State for Local Government by Democratic Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 83], "content_span": [84, 804]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Analysis\nWhile some observers called the race \"a referendum on President Barack Obama\" and \"a fight over the identity of the Republican Party\", others saw \"a victory for populist conservatism\". One commentator stated that \"Hoffman's third-party candidacy is striking for how much it has galvanized the Republican Party's base.\" According to one commentator, \"[t]ea party conservatives see the GOP loss as a victory for conservativism over mere political party loyalty. They\u2019re describing the defeat as a warning shot fired in defense of principle.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204305-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 New York's 23rd congressional district special election, Analysis\nAccording to Marilyn Musgrave of Susan B. Anthony List, \"Republican party leaders in Washington should take the message of the campaign and the election seriously, that the Party base should not be taken for granted.\" Elected officials and observers opined that Scozzafava's showing in the congressional race affected the New York State Senate's December 2, 2009 vote against same-sex marriage legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 70], "content_span": [71, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204306-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 2009 New Zealand Grand Prix was an open wheel racing car race held at Manfeild Autocourse, near Feilding on 1 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204306-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Grand Prix\nIt was the fifty-fourth New Zealand Grand Prix and was open to Toyota Racing Series cars (based on international Formula Three regulations). The event was also the third race of the fifth round of the 2008\u201309 Toyota Racing Series. Daniel Gaunt won his second New Zealand Grand Prix in three years, reclaiming the honours from Andy Knight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204307-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Music Awards\nThe 2009 New Zealand Music Awards was the 44th holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical artists based in or originating from New Zealand. Finalists for the three technical awards were announced on 6 August 2009, with winners announced on 2 September at the Langham Hotel. Finalists for 14 'non-technical' categories were also revealed the same night. Five 'non-technical' awards were presented without a group of finalists being selected. The awards ceremony took place on 8 October 2009 at Vector Arena, Auckland. Broadcast live on television by C4, the ceremony was hosted by comedian Dai Henwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204307-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Music Awards\nLadyhawke won six awards, including Album and Single of the Year. This was the most awards won at a ceremony since 2004, when Scribe also won six. The People's Choice Award was won by Smashproof, who also claimed the award for the highest selling New Zealand Single. Fat Freddy's Drop were nominated in seven categories, including all three technical categories, and gained the Best Aotearoa Roots Album award. Midnight Youth were finalists in seven categories, and secured awards for Best Group, Best Rock Album and Best Engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204307-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Music Awards\nThe highest selling New Zealand Album was The Best: '98-'08, a greatest hits album by rock group The Feelers, while Tiki Taane's \"Always on My Mind\" achieved the Radio Airplay Record of the Year award. Ray Columbus & the Invaders were awarded the Legacy Award at the announcement of technical award winners, and were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204308-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand NBL season\nThe 2009 NBL season was the 28th season of the National Basketball League. Two changes occurred for the 2009 season, with the Christchurch Cougars replacing the Canterbury Rams, and the Otago Nuggets also withdrawing. The Waikato Pistons won the championship in 2009 to claim their fourth league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season\nThe 2009 New Zealand Warriors season was the 15th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished 14th (out of 16). The coach of the Warriors was Ivan Cleary while Steve Price was the team's captain. In 2009 Warriors games were broadcast on New Zealand's Sky network averaged 107,163 viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Jersey and sponsors\nThe Warriors used a new jersey design in 2009, produced by Canterbury of New Zealand. Previously Puma AG had supplied the Warriors with apparel. The jerseys were unveiled on 25 February. The Main jersey retained the Black & White colours of the previous jersey, with a reversed scheme for the away jersey. The Warriors used a Blue jersey for the \"Heritage round\" in Round 10, to represent the Auckland. The Heritage jersey was also worn in Round 12, to celebrate the centenary of the Auckland Rugby League, and in Rounds 24 and 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Jersey and sponsors\nVodafone New Zealand was again the naming rights sponsor of the Warriors in 2009. Lion Red was the sleeve sponsor. Suzuki and HiFX were featured on the shorts while Loadlift was on the back of the jersey. Other major sponsors included ZM and Flava.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Fixtures\nThe Warriors used Mt Smart Stadium as their home ground in 2009, their only home ground since they entered the competition in 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Squad\nThe Warriors used Twenty Nine players in 2009. Twelve players made their debut for the club, including eight making their National Rugby League debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Sonny Fai\nWarrior Sonny Fai went missing at around 7pm on 4 January 2009, after being caught in a rip current while trying to save some family who had got into difficulty at Te Henga (Bethells Beach), Auckland. His body is yet to be found. The entire team attended his two memorial services, one in a Samoan Methodist Church and one held at Te Henga (Bethells Beach).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Sonny Fai\nThe Warriors wore black armbands for their opening NRL match of the 2009 season, as well as jerseys embroidered with Fai's signature and official team number in honour of him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Other Teams\nIn 2009 the Junior Warriors again competed in the Toyota Cup while senior players who were not required for the first team played with the Auckland Vulcans in the NSW Cup. The Auckland Vulcans were coached by Bernie Perenara and finished 11th out of eleven teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Other Teams\nDaniel O'Regan was the Vulcan's player of the year, while Pita Godinet was the runner up and Sione Tongia was the rookie of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204309-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Warriors season, Other Teams, 2009 Junior Warriors\nSiuatonga Likiliki was named in the 2009 Toyota Cup team of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games\nThe 2009 New Zealand Winter Games was a multi-sport event that was held in the Otago region of New Zealand. It was the inaugural New Zealand Winter Games and was organised by the Winter Games New Zealand Trust. Approximately 816 athletes from 41 nations participated in 51 event in seven disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games\nCanada won the Team Trophy through points accumulated through the medals won during the games. The United States finished second and Japan third. The hosts, New Zealand finished in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Venues\nThe venues for the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games were held around four locations in the Otago region \u2013 Queenstown, Wanaka and Naseby. The Alpine skiing events were situated at Coronet Peak, which is just outside Queenstown. Outside Wanaka the cross-country skiing events were held at the Snow Farm ski area. The freestyle skiing and snowboarding events were split across three venues  \u2013 The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort and the Queenstown Resort College. The curling events were held at the Maniototo Curling Rink in Naseby and both the figure skating and ice hockey was held at the Dunedin Ice Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Participating nations\nA total of 816 athletes and 295 management staff represented 41 countries at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Sports Events\nSeven winter sports events were included in the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. The alpine skiing consisted of 16 events. The events include slalom, giant slalom, super G, with both men and women's events. There are also International Paralympic Committee (IPC) adaptive events for the giant slalom and slalom for men and women in the three categories of sitting, standing, and visually impaired. The alpine skiing was originally meant to include an adaptive Super G category but it was cancelled due to weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Sports Events\nThe cross-country skiing consisted of 15 events. The men's events included a 15\u00a0km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 10\u00a0km freestyle. The women's events included a 10\u00a0km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 5\u00a0km freestyle. The IPC events included a 10\u00a0km event, a sprint event, a skate event, and a classic event for both men and women in the categories of sitting and standing. The freestyle skiing consisted of five events including slopestyle, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. The freestyle skiing was also meant to include ski cross but it was cancelled due to weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Sports Events\nThe snowboarding consisted of five events including slopestyle, snowboard cross, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. A women's big air event was also meant to be included but was also cancelled due to weather. The curling included two events, one for men and one for women, while the ice hockey consisted of just one event with Australia competing against New Zealand. Figure skating included six events for both men and women across the categories of junior, novice, and senior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Sports Events\nThere were two demonstrative sports at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. Winter triathlon and an open men's and an open women's event, and the natural luge consisted of a junior men's and a junior women's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Sports Events\nNumbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204310-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Winter Games, Medal table\nSeventeen of the 41 countries that participated in the games won medals. Canada topped the medal table with ten golds, beating Japan only with the number of silver medals it attained. Canada also won the Team Trophy which is decided based points accumulated according to medals won. The United States and Japan finished second and third, respectively. The hosts finished sixth in both the medal table and the Team Trophy standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition\nThe 2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition was a provincial rugby competition, that was played between six women's rugby teams representing 6 different regions of New Zealand. There was a 5-week round-robin running from 22 August to 19 September followed by two semi-finals on 26 September and a grand final on 3 October. The Rugby Union Bonus Points System was used to determine which teams will go on to the finals. Auckland were crowned champions for the second year in a row when they beat Canterbury 24\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition, Standings\nThe top four teams in pool play will advance to the Semi Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition, Round-Robin\nThe 2009 Women's Round Robin ran from 22 August to 19 September. Each team played the other teams once with each team having 2 or 3 home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition, Finals\nThe finals will run over two weeks with the first week being to semifinals and the grand final a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition, Finals, Semifinals\nThe two semifinals were held on 26 September. Canterbury comfortably beat Hawke's Bay, 55 - 3 while Auckland beat Wellington 19 points to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204311-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Competition, Finals, Grand Final\nThe 2009 New Zealand Women's Rugby Grand Final was played on 3 October when Canterbury who went undefeated throughout the round-robin lost to Auckland at Rugby Park in Christchurch 24\u201320. A time is yet to be specified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget\nThe New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 was presented to the New Zealand House of Representatives by Finance Minister Bill English on 28 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget\nThis was the first budget Bill English has presented as Minister of Finance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget, Outline\nThe fifth National Government's first Budget was delivered with the New Zealand economy in recession from the last quarter of 2007, and a Global Financial Crisis and rising national debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget, Outline\nThe 2009 Budget included new spending of $5.8 billion to \"help maintain economic activity and to support jobs\". New spending included a home insulation and clean heating campaign, infrastructure investment and a national cycleway network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget, Outline\nThe Budget confirmed 2009 tax cuts but deferred the second and third tranches of planned tax cuts in 2010 and 2011 as \"unaffordable\". Automatic contributions to the New Zealand Super Fund were suspended. $2 billion of planned spending by the previous Government's was reprioritised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204312-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand budget, Outline\nBudget 2009 forecast gross debt to peak at 43% of GDP in 2016/17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum\nThe 2009 New Zealand Referendum on Child Discipline was held from 31 July to 21 August, and was a citizens-initiated referendum on parental corporal punishment. It asked:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum\nShould a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum\nVoter turnout was 56.1%. 87.4% of votes answered 'no'. The result of the referendum was non-binding and the New Zealand government did not change the law in response to the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Background\nThe petition for the referendum was launched in February 2007 in response to the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill, which would remove parental correction as a defence for assault against children. The petition was organised by Sheryl Savill with support from Kiwi Party's Larry Baldock. The wording of the petition was approved by Clerk of the House David McGee on 21 February 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Background\nThe bill, introduced by Sue Bradford, was passed its third reading in Parliament by 113 votes to 7 on 16 May 2007. Meanwhile organisations and individuals led by Larry Baldock continued to collect signatures to initiate a referendum. They fell short by about 15,500 signatures (many were invalid), and they were granted two further months to make up the difference. Eventually the petition attracted 310,000 signatures from voters, surpassing  the 285,000 signatures, or 10 percent of total voters, required to force a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Background\nIn June 2008, then prime minister Helen Clark announced that the referendum would not take place alongside the 2008 election as the organisers had been hoping. The decision was based on advice from the Chief Electoral Officer that holding such a referendum could lead to voter confusion. Instead, a postal ballot was selected, starting 30 July 2009 for eligible voters and closing on 21 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Background\nIn June 2009, then Prime Minister John Key said that the government would change the law if it was not working, but that he believed the current law was working well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nThe wording of citizens-initiated referendum questions was ultimately the responsibility of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, David McGee. Under the referendum legislation, the wording of the question is required to \"convey clearly the purpose and effect\" of the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\n[The question] \"could have been written by Dr Seuss \u2013 this isn't Green Eggs and Ham, this is yes means no and no means yes, but we're all meant to understand what the referendum means. I think it's ridiculous myself.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nThe referendum question was interpreted by some to assume that \"a smack\" can form part of \"good parental correction\". Murray Edridge, Chief Executive of Barnardos New Zealand, claimed that the question \"presupposes that smacking is part of good parental correction\" which he described as \"a debatable issue\". Prime Minister John Key described the question as \"ambiguous\" and pointed out that it \"could be read a number of different ways\". Leader of the Opposition Phil Goff expressed concern that the question \"implies that if you vote 'yes' that [sic] you're in favour of criminal sanctions being taken against reasonable parents \u2013 actually nobody believes that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nBoth John Key and Phil Goff stated that they did not intend to vote in the referendum, with Key calling the question \"ridiculous\". The Prime Minister believed turnout would be low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nSue Bradford introduced a private member's bill, the Citizens Initiated Referenda (Wording of Questions) Amendment Bill, designed to prevent future citizens-initiated referenda from having poorly worded questions, and the National government considered adopting it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nAn example of an approved referendum question that is both leading and misleading is the NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 proposed by Larry Baldock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nThe question approved for that referendum \"Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?\" is leading in that the use of the word \"good\" before \"parental correction\" makes a value-judgment which predetermines the answer. People answering the question will be drawn to answer \"no\" on the basis that what is \"good\" cannot be criminal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nMr Smith says the upcoming referendum will not provide clarity on the question of child discipline, because it is possible to support the 2007 amendment while voting either Yes or No to the referendum question: Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nHowever, Caritas recognises that in the political context of the referendum, a 'Yes' vote is seen to be a vote for the status quo, while a 'No' vote is seen to be a vote against the 2007 amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\n\"In this context, we recommend a 'Yes' vote, as we believe the status quo is close to the position that we recommended to the Select Committee. However, the wording of the question is so ambiguous, many New Zealanders who support efforts to reduce violence against children, may in good conscience still feel obliged to vote 'No'. It will be hard to understand what the outcome of the referendum may mean,\" says Mr Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Criticism regarding question wording\nHe says Caritas will be writing to the Prime Minister and other relevant politicians, expressing concern that the ambiguous nature of the question will result in an outcome that cannot be understood as either supporting or opposing the 2007 amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Campaigns, The \"yes\" campaign\nMost front-line child welfare organisations, such as Plunket Society, Barnardos, Save the Children, Unicef, Women's Refuge, CPAG, Epoch and Jigsaw, believed the referendum question was misleading, and encouraged their supporters to vote \"yes\". These organisations, along with many others, backed \"The Yes Vote\" campaign. M\u0101ori Party co-leader Pita Sharples and Green Party co-leader Russel Norman wanted the current law retained, with Norman adding he would vote Yes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Campaigns, The \"no\" campaign\nThe \"Vote NO\" campaign website was launched on 22 June 2009. The campaign was supported by Simon Barnett. ACT leader Rodney Hide said he would vote no, believing parents have the right to lightly smack their children. Family First and The Kiwi Party also supported voting 'no'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Aftermath, Government response\nPrime Minister John Key promised to bring forward the planned review of the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Aftermath, John Boscawen's private member's bill\nBy coincidence, Government coalition and ACT MP John Boscawen had a private member's bill legalising smacking drawn from the ballot less than a week after the referendum. Prime Minister John Key said his National Party would vote it down, with the Labour Party and Green Party also opposed making it likely to be lost after the first reading of the bill. In September 2010 the Bill was in fact defeated 115\u20135 on its first reading in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Aftermath, Binding referendum\nDissatisfied with the government's response, the Kiwi Party has put forward another referendum to make referendums legally binding. The question \"Should Parliament be required to pass legislation that implements the majority result of a citizens initiated referendum where that result supports a law change?\" was approved by the Clerk of the House on 17 December 2009. However, the petition failed to gain sufficient signatures and subsequently lapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Aftermath, Public protests\nA protest against prime minister John Key's response to the referendum was held on Saturday, 21 November 2009 in Auckland. The New Zealand Herald estimated that between 4,000 and 5,000 people attended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204313-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum, Aftermath, 2017 election\nOn 24 March 2017 it was reported that New Zealand First and Winston Peters will take to the election a policy of repeal the anti-smacking law passed by the last parliament despite overwhelming public opposition. They went on to state that they will not enter any coalition or confidence and supply agreement with a party that wishes to ignore the public\u2019s clearly stated view in a referendum on that issue after the 2017 New Zealand general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 2009 New Zealand rugby league season was the 102nd season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the second season of the Bartercard Premiership competition that was run by the New Zealand Rugby League. The Canterbury Bulls won the minor premiership and then the premiership by defeating Auckland 26\u201320 in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nThe New Zealand national rugby league team defeated Tonga in Rotorua before heading to Europe to compete in the Four Nations where they finished third. By defeating Tonga the Kiwis retained the Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy. Coached by Stephen Kearney, the Four Nations squad included; Adam Blair, Greg Eastwood, Nathan Fien, Kieran Foran, Bryson Goodwin, Bronson Harrison, Lance Hohaia, Thomas Leuluai, Jeff Lima, Issac Luke, captain Benji Marshall, Steve Matai, Ben Matulino, Fuifui Moimoi, Frank-Paul Nu'uausala, Sam Perrett, Frank Pritchard, Junior Sau, Iosia Soliola, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Kevin Locke and Eddy Pettybourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nEarlier in the year New Zealand lost 10-38 to Australia. Manu Vatuvei, Roy Asotasi, Dene Halatau, David Fa'alogo, Simon Mannering, Jason Nightingale, Sika Manu and Jerome Ropati played in this match but did not tour at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Bartercard Premiership Selection\nA Bartercard Premiership Selection defeated a Samoan Residents side 62-14 on 10 October 2009. Canterbury coach Brent Stuart coached the Bartercard selection. Ruben Wiki came out of retirement to play in the match and all the proceeds were donated to the Samoan tsunami relief fund. The match was broadcast on M\u0101ori Television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 98], "content_span": [99, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions, Bartercard Premiership Selection\nBartercard Premiership Selection: Jonny Aranga (Cant), 2-Junior Salevao (Cant), 3-Craig Smith (Cant), 4-Gunther Schaumkel (Auck), 5-James Blackwell (Auck), 6-William Heta (Auck), 7-Kelvin Wright (Auck), 8-Vince Whare (Auck), 9-Nathan Sherlock (Cant), 10-Fred Turuwhenua (Auck), 11-Chris Bamford (Cant), 12-Sialli Tufeao (Auck), 13-Jonny Limmer (Cant). Interchange: 14-Dylan Davis (Auck), 15-Patrick Matulino (Auck), 16-Sione Tongia (Auck), 17-Suaia Matagi (Auck), 18-Darren Kingi (Waikato). Coach: Brent Stuart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 98], "content_span": [99, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nCanterbury defeated Auckland on 23 August to win the Rugby League Cup. As in 2008 the New Zealand Rugby League ruled that the Rugby League Cup would be defended in all Bartercard Premiership matches, home and away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Bartercard Premiership\nThe 2009 season was the second and final Bartercard Premiership. Auckland were the defending champions. The same six provinces as in 2008 again took part in the competition. The Canterbury Bulls won the minor premiership and defeated Auckland 26\u201320 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Bartercard Premiership, Television\nThe semi-finals and grand final of the Bartercard Premiership were shown live on SKY Network Television and also delayed on free to air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 95], "content_span": [96, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Bartercard Premiership, Warm Up Matches\nIn a warm up match Canterbury lost to the West Coast 20-14. This was reportedly the first time since 1989 that the West Coast had defeated Canterbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 100], "content_span": [101, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Bartercard Premiership, Fixtures and results\nCanterbury vs. Bay of Plenty and Wellington vs. Taranaki matches were originally unable to take place as scheduled due to air travel issues. They were rescheduled to be mid-week games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 105], "content_span": [106, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Bartercard Premiership, Junior Grades\nEach of the Bartercard Premiership matches was preceded by a National Junior Competition Under 16 and Under 18 game. These two competitions ran in parallel with the senior competition. Auckland won the Under-16s final 11-10 over Taranaki while the Auckland under 18s defeated Wellington 34-10 to win that competition. Both finals were held in Cornwall Park, Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 98], "content_span": [99, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nThe New Zealand Warriors competed in the National Rugby League competition. They finished 14th out of 16 teams and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nThe Junior Warriors finished seventh before losing their Qualifying Final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Australian competitions\nThe Auckland Vulcans competed in the NSW Cup and finished 11th out of eleven teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nThe Mt Albert Lions defeated the Papakura Sea Eagles 32\u201310 in the Grand Final to win the Fox Memorial. As minor premiers, the Otahuhu Leopards were awarded the Rukutai Shield. Papakura were coached by Dean Clark and included Toshio Laiseni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nHowick won the Sharman Cup while the Manukau Magpies won the Phelan Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nShane Endacott was the Celebration Lions' assistant coach while Phil Prescott coached Halswell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nThe Timaru Warriors rejoined the CRL competition, after being in recess for four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nThe Taniwharau Rugby League Club won the Waikato Rugby League competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nTokoroa's Pacific won the Bay of Plenty Rugby League competition while Otumoetai won the combined Coastline-Gisborne premiership, defeating the Paikea Whalers 34\u20138. The Hawke's Bay's Flaxmere Falcons competed in the Bay of Plenty competition. Matthew Spence was the Turangi Dambusters' player-coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nThe Paikea Whalers won the Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League competition, defeating the Kaiti Devils 76\u201314 in the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204314-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nBlair Sims was named the West Coast Rugby League's player of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204315-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Jets W-League season\nThe 2009 season is the Newcastle Jets' second season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204315-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Jets W-League season, Season 2 - 2009, Fixtures\nThe season will be played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204315-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Jets W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204315-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Jets W-League season, Records\nFirst game = 0-0 draw V Adelaide UnitedLargest win = Largest loss =", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204316-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Knights season\nThe 2009 Newcastle Knights season was the 22nd in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 7th (out of 16), reaching the play-offs for the first time since 2006. The Knights were then knocked out of the finals in the first week by the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204316-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Knights season, Season summary\nThe Knights won 9 consecutive games at EnergyAustralia Stadium, breaking the previous home record of 8. Season 2009 also saw coach Brian Smith sacked after announcing on July 19 that he had signed a four-year deal with the Sydney Roosters, and subsequently the team faltered as they lost three consecutive games until Newcastle officials dismissed Smith and appointed assistant coach Rick Stone. The season began well for the Knights with the side winning 7 of their opening 10 games and were sitting equal first with the Bulldogs, St. George Illawarra and the Gold Coast with 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204316-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Knights season, Season summary\nHowever, during the representative season, the Knights struggled and went through a bad period of 7 losses in 11 games, the last three losses were recorded after news broke of Smith's departure from the club. With Stone in charge, the Knights won 3 of their last 4 games to secure 7th place and a finals berth for the first time since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204316-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Newcastle Knights season, NRL Standings\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204317-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Men's Curling Championship\nThe 2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Men's Curling Championship (Newfoundland and Labrador's men's provincial curling championship) was held from February 3-8 at the Caribou Curling Club in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The winning team (skipped by Brad Gushue) represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204318-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Newfoundland and Labrador's women's provincial curling championship, will be held January 21-25 at the Bally Haly Golf and Curling Club in St. John's. The winner represents team Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204319-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Newfoundland and Labrador municipal elections\nThe Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador held municipal elections in its municipalities on September 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204319-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Newfoundland and Labrador municipal elections\nListed are the results of selected municipal mayoral races in the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204320-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nicholls State Colonels football team\nThe 2009 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonels were led by sixth-year head coach Jay Thomas. They played their home games at Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium and were a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 3\u20138, 3\u20136 in Southland play to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204321-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards\nThe 2009 Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards were held on July 23, 2009, at the Tennis Indoor Senayan in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta and hosted by Raffi Ahmad, Indra Bekti, and Fitri Tropica. The ceremony awards held the theme for \"Playground Adventure\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204321-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards\nAgnes Monica and Raffi Ahmad led the nominations with three categories, followed by Afgan, Bunga Citra Lestari, and Luna Maya with two nominations. Afgan was the biggest winner of the night, taking home two awards in the categories: Favourite Male Singer and Indonesian Star Wannabe Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204322-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nicky Rackard Cup\nThe 2009 Nicky Rackard Cup is the 5th annual third-tier hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. Seven county teams and one regional team participate in the competition. The teams are Fingal, Monaghan, Louth, Sligo, Meath, London, Armagh and Roscommon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204322-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nicky Rackard Cup\nThe winners of the competition were promoted to the 2010 Christy Ring Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204322-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nicky Rackard Cup\nOn 11 July, Meath won the cup with a 2-18 to 1-15 win over London at Croke Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204322-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nicky Rackard Cup, Structure\nThe tournament has a double elimination format - each team will play at least two games before being knocked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204323-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship\nThe 2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Winnetka, United States between 29 June and 5 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204323-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204323-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship, Champions, Doubles\nCarsten Ball /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Brett Joelson /  Ryan Sweeting, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204324-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship \u2013 Doubles\nTodd Widom and Michael Yani were the defending champions; however, they were eliminated by Ball and Rettenmaier in the semifinal. Carsten Ball & Travis Rettenmaier defeated Brett Joelson & Ryan Sweeting in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204325-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship \u2013 Singles\nRajeev Ram was the defending champion; however, he lost to Kuznetsov in the second round. Alex Kuznetsov won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(1), against Tim Smyczek", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204326-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigeria Entertainment Awards\nThe 2009 Nigeria Entertainment Awards was held at Howard University Cramton Auditorium on June 9, 2009. It was hosted by Omoni Oboli and Ebbe Bassey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Niger on 4 August 2009. The referendum proposed the dissolution of the Fifth Republic and the creation of the Sixth Republic under a fully presidential system of government, offering a yes or no vote on the suspension of the constitution and granting President Mamadou Tandja a three-year interim government, during which the constitution of the Sixth Republic would be formulated. On 20 June, the Constitutional Court declared the plan illegal, but Tandja subsequently assumed emergency powers and dissolved the Court. The events surrounding this election led to a constitutional crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum\nAlthough the opposition boycotted the referendum, official results reported that turnout was 68%, with 92.5% of voters in favor. The new constitution was accordingly promulgated on 18 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Background\nThe full details of the referendum proposal were not finalized, but elements of the proposed constitution were outlined by government spokesmen and by a commission set up by the president to draft a proposed document. Tandja would extend his term for a transitional mandate of three years, during which a new constitution would be written and approved. The system of government would be changed from a semi-presidential system to a full presidential system, which Tandja claims is more stable. There would be no limit to presidential terms, and a bi-cameral legislature would be created with an upper house, the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Background\nOn 5 June, the President and the Council of Ministers of Niger approved plans for the referendum, titled Referendum on the Project of the VIth Republic. Campaigning would take place from 13 July 2009 to 2 August 2009. The President established a commission to create a draft constitutional law upon which the population would vote. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) was ordered to oversee preparations for voting. Electors would be able to choose \"yes\" or \"no\" to the text \"Do you approve of the Constitutional project submitted for your assent?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Background\nOn 12 June 2009, the Constitutional Court ruled against Tandja's referendum proposal, following a non-binding advisement to the President the month before. This time the ruling was in response to a case brought by a coalition of opposition groups, which included the CDS, a governing partner in the previous government, without which the MNSD could not gain a majority in the Assembly. In such cases, the Constitution specifies that rulings of the Constitutional Court are binding and may not be appealed. Thereafter, CENI announced that National Assembly elections would take place on 20 August, and no referendum would be voted upon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Background\nCENI chairman Moumouni Hamidou stated, following the 18 June Court decision, that they would not hold the 4 August Referendum, and were preparing almost seven million voting cards for the 20 August legislative elections. By law, Nigerien electoral officials must send out voter cards two months prior to an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Background\nUpon the final ruling by the Constitutional Court, Tandja declared that he had assumed \"special powers\" as the \"independence of the nation was threatened\". Interior Minister Albade Abouba announced on 28 June, following President Tandja's assumption of emergency powers, that both the 4 August referendum and the 20 August parliamentary election would go ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Conduct\nThe vote went ahead as planned on 4 August, although the opposition chose to boycott it. As the boycott made the outcome of the referendum effectively a foregone conclusion, voter turnout assumed a greater significance, as a higher turnout would enhance the referendum's appearance of legitimacy and a lower turnout would suggest that the population had followed the opposition leaders' call for a boycott. As vote counting took place on 5 August, CENI President Moumouni Hamidou said that voter turnout had varied \"between 40 and 90 percent\" across the country, with the higher figures found in rural areas. Marou Amadou of the opposition FDD coalition said that this was a \"ridiculous\" claim and that actual turnout was less than seven percent. In the Kabalewa district, from which Tandja originated, turnout was placed at the particularly high level of 94.72%; in Arlit, official turnout was only 30.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 955]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Conduct\nLarge signs from President Tandja were posted in Niamey on 6 August, reading \"For your fresh show of confidence, all of you: thank you\". Meanwhile, the opposition Coordination of Democratic Forces for the Republic (CFDR) described the referendum as \"organised in breach of the laws of the Republic\" and said that it was \"rejected by the sovereign people and it is null and void\". It claimed that less than five percent of the population voted and stated that \"in boycotting the referendum, Niger people have clearly rejected the autocratic scheme of the President\"; according to the CFDR, the turnout figures were \"seriously inflated\" and many of the \"yes\" votes were not from real voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Results\nOfficial results on 7 August 2009 reported a turnout of 68.26% with 92.5% of the votes in favour. Speaking on 8 August, opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou vowed to \"resist and fight against this coup d'etat enacted by President Tandja and against his aim of installing a dictatorship in our country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Results\nAfter calling for protests, Marou Amadou was arrested on 10 August; he was quickly released on the orders of a judge in Niamey, but according to a member of his non-governmental organization, the United Front for the Protection of Democracy (FUSAD), he was then \"kidnapped ... by members of the Republican Guard at the prison in Niamey as he was trying to complete formalities for his freedom from prison\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Results\nThe Constitutional Court's decision confirming the referendum results was announced on 14 August 2009, thereby legally validating the outcome. Mahamane Hamissou of the CFDR derided the validation as a \"non-event\" and vowed to fight on against Tandja's alleged effort to impose \"dictatorship\", while Issoufou's PNDS party dismissed the Constitutional Court as \"a tailor-made court that merely did the work for which it was created\". On 16 August, Issoufou Sidib\u00e9, the Secretary-General of the Democratic Confederation of the Workers of Niger (CDTN), announced that the CFDR would conduct nationwide protests against the \"fantasy results\" on 20 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Aftermath\nPresident Tandja promulgated the new constitution on 18 August, and Prime Minister Seyni Oumarou submitted the resignation of his government to Tandja. Tandja reappointed Oumarou and the whole government without changes on 19 August. Although the composition of the government was unchanged, its reappointment marked the formal transition from a semi-presidential system (in which the President and Prime Minister share executive power) to a presidential system in which the President holds full executive power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204327-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien constitutional referendum, Aftermath\nThe opposition held a protest in Niamey on 22 August despite an official ban. Police fired tear gas and broke up the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Niger on 20 October 2009, after President Mamadou Tandja dissolved the National Assembly in May 2009 and a constitution referendum was held in August 2009. The elections were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw Tandja's National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) win a landslide victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background\nThe Independent Electoral Commission announced on 15 May 2009 that the elections would be held on 28 November 2009, between the first and second rounds of the planned presidential elections on 14 November and 6 December 2009. However, the Electoral Commission announced in June that the parliamentary elections would be moved to 20 August, two weeks after the controversial referendum on a new constitution that allowed Tandja to remain in office until 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background, Constitutional crisis\nThis period prior to the elections was dominated by controversy regarding Tandja's efforts to have the constitution changed so that he would be allowed to run for re-election; those efforts were opposed by the opposition, as well as parties within the presidential majority coalition and some elements of the MNSD. In May 2009, after Tandja informed the National Assembly of his plans to call a referendum on the matter, 23 deputies asked the Constitutional Court to rule on whether he could do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background, Constitutional crisis\nThe Court ruled against Tandja on 25 May 2009; it said that although article 49 of the constitution allowed the President to call referendums, it should not be interpreted to mean he could call referendums on the content of the constitution itself, because the presidential oath required him to respect the constitution. Tandja then promptly dissolved the National Assembly on 26 May. It was suggested that he did so because he was concerned that the government would lose its parliamentary majority and face a vote of no confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background, Constitutional crisis\nThe election date was originally set by the Supreme Court on 19 June 2009. The Chairman of the 66 member decentralized organization which operates and certifies all elections, Niger National Independent Election Commission (CENI), Moumouni Hamidou stated, following the 18 June Court decision, that they would not hold the 4 August referendum, and were preparing almost 7 million voting cards for the 20 August legislative election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Background, Constitutional crisis\nDespite this, Interior Minister Albade Abouba announced on 28 June, following Tandja's assumption of emergency powers, that both the 4 August referendum and the 20 August parliamentary elections would go ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Campaign\nOn 19 August 2009, following the success of the referendum, it was announced that the parliamentary elections would be held on 20 October 2009, with a campaign period lasting from 28 September to 18 October. The opposition indicated that it would boycott the election, officially announcing their intention to do so on 26 September. The following day, Tandja called for a massive turnout. The campaign began on 28 September, as planned. About 20 parties participated, although most of them supported Tandja and were allied with his MNSD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Conduct\nDespite the opposition boycott and warnings from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the elections were held as planned on 20 October. ECOWAS promptly suspended Niger \"until constitutional legality is reinstated\", stating that it would \"not recognize the outcome\" of the elections. Niger's Foreign Minister, Aichatou Mindaoudou, said on 21 October that ECOWAS had made a mistake in its \"assessment of the political situation in our country\" and that Niger would try to convince ECOWAS to change its position, without \"cast[ing] aspersions on ECOWAS\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Results\nThe turnout for the elections was 51.27% of the six million registered voters. According to official results announced by CENI President Moumouni Hamidou on 24 October the governing MNSD won the elections by taking 76 of 113 seats in the National Assembly. The MNSD had held 47 seats in the previous assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Results\nFive parties considered allied to the MNSD won 25 seats: 15 for the Social Democratic Rally (RSD), seven for the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), one for the Rally of Nigerien Patriots (a party founded in June 2009 by a former cabinet minister), one for the Party of the Masses for Labour, one for the Union of Independent Nigeriens (Union des Nig\u00e9riens Ind\u00e9pendants) and one for the Nigerien Self-Management Party. The RSD increased its number of seats by eight from the previous elections in 2004, whilst the RDP gained an extra seat. Eleven independent candidates won the remaining seats, marking first time that independents have won seats in the assembly. The Constitutional Court had 15 days to validate the elections from the date of the announcement of the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Aftermath\nAt the official certification of the results on 11 November, the government announced that one seat in the Tassarra constituency, which had been won by an independent candidate, had been annulled by the Constitutional Court, and a by-election for that seat would take place at an unspecified date. Until that time, only 112 of the 113 representatives would be seated. A second change made by the court, annulling the vote at a single polling station in Koygolo Commune, Boboye Department, Dosso Region did not change the overall result in that seat. In doing so the Court turned down several other appeals against the results, and declared that the five-year term of the 112 deputies had begun at 0:00 hours on 11 November 2009, and would end at exactly 24:00 hours on 11 November 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 834]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204328-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nigerien parliamentary election, Aftermath\nMNSD President Seyni Oumarou was elected President of the National Assembly on 25 November 2009; the vote was unanimous, with all of the 109 deputies present voting in favor. Oumarou said on the occasion that he would work to restore the National Assembly's image in the wake of the controversies of the preceding months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nThe 2009 Nikon SuperGP was an Australian motor racing meeting held on a street circuit in Surfers Paradise on Queensland's Gold Coast on 22\u201325 October 2009. It was to have featured the opening round of the 2009\u201310 A1 Grand Prix season, although A1 Grand Prix's involvement in the event was cancelled just five days prior to practice beginning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nThe event did feature the eleventh event of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, the 2009 V8 Supercar Challenge. The program was altered from two 200-kilometre races for the Australian touring car series to four 150-kilometre races. Mark Winterbottom won two of the four races over the weekend with Garth Tander winning the second race on Saturday and Craig Lowndes winning the first race on Sunday. Tander and Winterbottom won each of the two days on combined point score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nDespite the extended V8 Supercar racing round and the last-minute inclusion of an \"Australian Legends\" parade featuring racing identities Dick Johnson, Kevin Bartlett, Jim Richards, Glenn Seton, Colin Bond and Bob Morris driving historic racing cars, valued in excess of $1 million each, the 2009 event failed to attract anywhere near the numbers of spectators of previous events and the A1GP no-show has resulted in two separate government inquiries into the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nSurfers Paradise residents' groups are also lobbying for the event to be scrapped or relocated to a purpose-built facility, yet to be built. The Queensland tax payers are investing close to A$12 million into the event annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nOn 4 February 2010, the Queensland government announced that the SuperGP will be relaunched as the SuperCarnivale, an event developed and designed specifically for V8 Supercars. The announcement came after the release of two separate inquiries into the SuperGP event. Changes included shortening the event to three days instead of four and a shortening of the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204329-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nikon SuperGP\nThe fallout from the highly critical reports has resulted in the contract between the Queensland government and the event organisers \u2013 The Gold Coast Motor Events Corporation (GCMEC) and the International Management Group (IMG) \u2013 being canceled. The contract had another four years to run and was worth $11.8 million annually. The QLD government therefore had to pay out $2.5 million as a settlement fee upon termination. The result was that Nikon SuperGP General Manager Greg Hooton and Nikon SuperGP Event Manager David Bennett, as well the support staff at the GCMEC/IMG event offices, were sacked and the office closed down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election\nThe Nineveh Governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk Governorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Background\nThree seats on the council have been reserved for religious minorities: one for Christians, one for Yazidis and one for Shabak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Background\nIn May 2008, arrest warrants were issued against a number of KDP council members who were accused of involvement in an assassination ring headed by the deputy leader of the KDP. The ring allegedly assassinated 900 people including a prominent Imam, two former senior officials of the Baath party, doctors and university professors. They were also accused of funnelled money and logistical help to al Qaeda in Iraq, in order to persuade the predominantly Arab residents to turn over security to the Kurdish Peshmerga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Campaign\nThe main contest in Ninawa was between the incumbent Kurdish-backed governor and the al-Hadba party, formed by Sunni Arab tribal groups and backed by the Shiite Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki. During the campaign the pro-Kurdish governor, Duraid Kashmoula, said he intended to leave Mosul, the city of his birth, after the election and retire to Kurdistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Campaign\nAl-Hadba complained of being targeted by Kurdish security forces. They accused the Kurdish parties of fraud in the 2005 election and, together with other non-Kurdish groups asked for federal troops to UN monitors to protect the voting centres. A candidate for the Sunni Arab \"Iraq for Us\" coalition was killed by a gunman who walked into a cafe and shot him. Just before the election another Sunni Arab candidate, this time from the National Unity List, was killed outside his home in Mosul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Campaign\nAl-Hadba called for the removal of Kurdish peshmerga forces from Ninawa, saying many of the province's insurgent groups would become law-abiding after that. The Iraqi Islamic Party said the peshmerga should be replaced by the Iraqi Army within six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Results\nUsama al-Najafi, a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq and a supporter of the al-Hadba party, claimed that they had won 60% of the vote, with the Kurdish list gaining only 20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204330-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nineveh governorate election, Results\nAfter the election, reports claimed that Assyrians had been fired from their jobs because they were suspected of not voting for the pro-Kurdish Ishtar Patriotic List, which won the seat reserved for an Assyrian candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204331-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 60th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204331-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Climax Series\nNote: All of the games that are played in the first two rounds of the Climax Series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advances if the round ends in a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204331-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Japan Series\nCL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize\nThe 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama for his \"extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples\". The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a \"new climate\" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize\nThe Nobel Committee's decision drew mixed reactions from US commentators and editorial writers across the political spectrum, as well as from the rest of the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize\nObama accepted the prize in Oslo on December 10, 2009. In a 36-minute speech, he discussed the tensions between war and peace and the idea of a \"just war\" saying, \"perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize\nObama is the fourth President of the United States to have won the Nobel Peace Prize (after Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter, with Carter's honor happening after leaving office).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nThe winner is selected by the Nobel Committee from nominations submitted by committee members and others. Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after Obama took office. There were 205 nominations for the 2009 award, which included Chinese and Afghan civil rights activists and African politicians. Colombian Senator Piedad C\u00f3rdoba, Afghanistan's Sima Samar, Chinese dissident Hu Jia and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai had been speculated to be favorites for the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nThe five members of the Nobel Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to roughly reflect the party makeup of that body. The 2009 Committee comprised two members of the Norwegian Labor Party, one from the left-wing Socialist Left Party, one from the Conservative Party of Norway and one from the right-wing Progress Party. The chairman of the Committee was Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, former Norwegian Labor Party prime minister and Secretary General of the Council of Europe since September 29, 2009. The panel met six or seven times in 2009, beginning several weeks after the February 1 nomination deadline. The winner was chosen unanimously on October 5, but was initially opposed by the Socialist Left, Conservative and Progress Party members until strongly persuaded by Jagland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nJagland said \"We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do,\" noting that he hoped the award would assist Obama's foreign policy efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nJagland said the committee was influenced by a speech Obama gave about Islam in Cairo in June 2009, the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals. The New York Times reported that Jagland shrugged off the question of whether \"the committee feared being labeled na\u00efve for accepting a young politician's promises at face value\", stating that \"no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason... We want to embrace the message that he stands for.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nObama was the fourth U.S. President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)\u2014both of whom received the award during their terms\u2014and Jimmy Carter (2002), who received the award 21 years after leaving office. In addition, then-sitting Vice President Charles Dawes was a co-winner with Austen Chamberlain (1925), and former Vice President Al Gore was a co-winner with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nomination and announcement\nObama was the first U.S. president to receive the award during his first year in office (at eight and a half months, after being nominated less than two weeks in office), although several other world leaders were awarded in the year following their election to national office, including \u00d3scar Arias (1987) and Aung San Suu Kyi (1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Barack Obama\nObama said he was \"surprised\" and \"deeply humbled\" by the award. In remarks given at the White House Rose Garden on the day of the announcement, Obama stated, \"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Barack Obama\n\"Throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes,\" Obama said. \"And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action\u00a0\u2014 a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Barack Obama\nHe said those common challenges included the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons (which he said might not occur in his lifetime), nuclear proliferation, climate change, tolerance \"among people of different faiths and races and religions\", peace between and security for Israelis and Palestinians, better social conditions for the world's poor, including \"the ability to get an education and make a decent living; the security that you won't have to live in fear of disease or violence without hope for the future.\" The United States, he said, is \"a country that's responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Barack Obama\nThe award, he said, \"must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity\u00a0\u2014 for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy [referring to Aung San Suu Kyi]; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace.\" He did not take questions from reporters after giving his statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Barack Obama\nObama announced early that he would donate the full 10\u00a0million Swedish kronor (about US$1.4\u00a0million) monetary award to charity. The largest donations were given to the housing charity Fisher House Foundation who received $250,000, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund which received $200,000. Eight organizations which support education also received a donation. $125,000 was donated to the College Summit, the Posse Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, and the American Indian College Fund. $100,000 was donated to Africare, and the Central Asia Institute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nObama's winning of the peace prize was largely unanticipated and called a \"stunning surprise\" by The New York Times, though major oddsmaker Centrebet had in fact put him at 7\u20131 odds of winning, with Piedad C\u00f3rdoba and Sima Samar at 6\u20131 and Morgan Tsvangirai at 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nIn a USA Today / Gallup Poll conducted October 16\u201319, 61% of American adults polled responded that they thought Obama did not deserve to win the prize, while 34% responded that he did; when asked if they were personally glad that Obama won the award, 46% of respondents said they were and 47% said they were not glad (poll margin of error +/\u20133%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nThere was widespread criticism of the Nobel Committee's decision from commentators and editorial writers across the political spectrum. The New York Times published a mildly-supportive editorial which said the prize was \"a (barely) implicit condemnation of Mr. Bush's presidency. But countering the ill will Mr. Bush created around the world is one of Mr. Obama's great achievements in less than nine months in office. Mr. Obama's willingness to respect and work with other nations is another.\" It said that much remains to be done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nAmong those agreeing that the award was a criticism of the Bush administration were the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, as well as Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times. Today host Matt Lauer and Jonah Goldberg of the National Review said that less than a year into the first term, there have been \"no major foreign policy achievements to date\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nGoldberg added: \"surely someone in Iran\u2014or maybe the Iranian protestors generally\u2014could have benefitted more from receiving the prize\" while in CounterPunch, political journalist Alexander Cockburn said that, in historical context of other former U.S. Presidents winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the award to Obama \"represents a radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties\". Peter Beinart of the Daily Beast called the decision a \"farce\", while Noam Chomsky said: \"In defense of the committee, we might say that the achievement of doing nothing to advance peace places Obama on a considerably higher moral plane than some of the earlier recipients\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nMany were critical of the Nobel Committee. A Wall Street Journal editorial, noting Obama's comment that the world's problems \"can't be met by any one leader or any one nation\", opined, \"What this suggests to us\u2014and to the Norwegians\u2014is the end of what has been called 'American exceptionalism'. This is the view that U.S. values have universal application and should be promoted without apology, and defended with military force when necessary. Put in this context, we wonder if most Americans will count this peace-of-the-future prize as a compliment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nThe Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson wrote that the committee members \"have forfeited any claim to seriousness. Peace\u2014the kind of peace that keeps people from being killed and oppressed\u2014is an achievement, not a sentiment. ... Intending to honor Obama, the committee has actually embarrassed him.\" Commentary magazine's Peter Wehner wrote that the award, with past awards that seemed aimed at criticizing the Bush administration, showed the Nobel Committee \"long ago ceased to be a serious entity; this choice merely confirms that judgment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nAccording to The Washington Post news analyst Dan Balz, \"[E]ven among his supporters there was a sense of surprise and even shock on Friday [the day of the announcement], a belief that the award was premature, a disservice and a potential liability.\" An editorial in The Washington Post began, \"It's an odd Nobel Peace Prize that almost makes you embarrassed for the honoree\", and compared the Nobel Committee's statement that Obama had \"created a new climate in international politics\" to a recent satirical skit on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nA Los Angeles Times editorial said the committee \"didn't just embarrass Obama, it diminished the credibility of the prize itself\". Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times wrote, \"It dismays me that the most important prize in the world has been devalued in this way\". Much of the commentary across the political spectrum involved describing the award as something risible, with the humor focusing on Obama's getting the award without having accomplished much. According to an analysis in The New York Times, \"it ... [", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nis] striking how so many people seemed to greet the Nobel news with shock followed by laughter\". On the morning of the announcement, several of The Washington Post's opinion-page columnists, posting at the newspaper's \"Post Partisan\" blog, characterized the award as laughable or directly satirized it, including such supportive columnists as Ruth Marcus (\"ridiculous\u2014embarrassing, even\"), Richard Cohen (who satirized the award), and foreign-affairs columnist David Ignatius (\"goofy\" and \"weird\"), and Michael Kinsley (whose satirical response came the next day). Other prominent commentators who often supported Obama but responded with ridicule included Peter Beinart and Ann Althouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nJames Taranto wrote in The Wall Street Journal an article summarising various opinions on the Internet, concluding how the award was embarrassing for Obama. He said the award was a \"staggeringly premature honor \u2013 the equivalent of a lifetime-achievement Oscar for a child star\" and that it \"makes yesterday's satire into today's news\". Fred Greenstein, presidential historian and author and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, told Fox News that giving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is a \"premature canonization\" and an \"embarrassment to the Nobel process\". Slate magazine blogger Mickey Kaus, The New York Times columnist David Brooks and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton amongst others, called for Obama to not accept the award; pundit Michael Crowley argued that it was a \"mixed blessing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 878]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States\nSubsequent to the award many Americans now consider that Obama did not deserve it in the light of following events. Opponents of the award cite the expansion of the War on Terror and the large increase in the number of drone strikes carried out under Obama, specifically in Pakistan. There have been a number of calls for Obama to either return the award or to have the Nobel Committee recall it, most recently in 2013. In April 2013 a petition was begun asking the Nobel Committee to rescind the Peace Prize. The petition garnered 10,000 signatures in its first day and nearly 20,000 by the end of its first week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 55], "content_span": [56, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States, Political reaction\nNobel laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore called the award \"extremely well deserved\". Obama received congratulations and kind words from other elected officials, such as from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former rival, Senator John McCain, who said, \"As Americans, we're proud when our president receives an award of that prestigious category\". RNC chairman Michael Steele discussed his disapproval of the award in a fund-raising letter, writing, \"the Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In the United States, Political reaction\nIn 2015, Geir Lundestad, the non-voting Director of the Nobel Institute and secretary for the Nobel Committee at the time of the award, published a memoir, Secretary of Peace. In it, he wrote \"In hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct. Many of Obama's supporters believed it was a mistake.\" Lundestad said that Obama had been surprised by the award, and considered not going to Oslo to accept it. He also said in his memoir that Obama had since failed to live up to the Nobel Committee's expectations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 75], "content_span": [76, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In Norway\nA poll conducted by Synovate for the newspaper Dagbladet showed that 43% of the Norwegian population believed giving Obama the prize was right, while 38% believed it was wrong. 19% had no opinion. The poll showed a sharp divide between younger and older people; of those over 60 years of age 58% were for and only 31% against it. Of those between 18 and 29 years of age, only 25% approved of the decision, while 42% disapproved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, In Norway\nThe award divided opinion among politicians. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg congratulated Obama for a \"well-deserved prize\". Siv Jensen, leader of the opposition Progress Party, said that while Obama had taken several good initiatives the committee should have waited to see their results. Erna Solberg, leader of the Conservative Party, also said that the prize came early and increased pressure on Obama to live up to the expectation. Torstein Dahle, the leader of the far leftist party Red, called the award a scandal, citing the fact that Obama was the commander-in-chief of a country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nThe response from U.S. allies was generally positive; reactions around the world were mixed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nSeveral Nobel Laureates commented: Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus (co-winner 2006 prize) said the committee's award was \"an endorsement of [Obama] and the direction he is taking\". Archbishop Desmond Tutu said the award to Obama \"anticipates an even greater contribution towards making our world a safer place for all\". Mairead Corrigan (co-winner 1976) expressed her disappointment, stating, \"[g]iving this award to the leader of the most militarized country in the world, which has taken the human family against its will to war, will be rightly seen by many people around the world as a reward for his country's aggression and domination.\" Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa (1983), cofounder of the Solidarity trade union and former president of Poland, said the award was premature. \"He has not yet made a real input.\" The 14th Dalai Lama congratulated Obama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the Nobel Committee's choice. \"We are entering an era of renewed multilateralism ... President Obama embodies the new spirit of dialogue and engagement on the world's biggest problems: climate change, nuclear disarmament and a wide range of peace and security challenges.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn Europe, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the award would reinforce Obama's determination to work for justice and peace. He added that the award \"finally confirms the return of America in the hearts of all the peoples of the world\". Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the award will encourage warmer U.S.\u2013Russian relations, and he hoped it would \"serve as an additional incentive\" for both governments to foster a better \"climate in world politics\". British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a private message of congratulations to President Obama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nHope that the prize would assist Obama's efforts toward nuclear disarmament was also a part of congratulatory statements from Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said the Vatican \"appreciated\" the nomination. Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu congratulated Obama by saying, \"This award is testimony to your success as a leader of a free country aimed at creating a safer and more peaceful world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn Australia, former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that the selection was \"a political decision of gross stupidity\", laying the blame on the selection committee for a \"hideous display of cynical politics\". Stuart Rees, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation in Australia, questioned the award. \"Perhaps the Nobel organisation wants to give him a magic wand. I think the guy is full of promise, but I don't think the promise has been realised yet particularly in regards the Middle East.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn Asia and the Middle East: Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said that Obama was the \"appropriate\" person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Siamak Hirai, a spokesman for Karzai, said, \"His hard work and his new vision on global relations, his will and efforts for creating friendly and good relations at global level and global peace make him the appropriate recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize\". Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the decision was ridiculous, saying, \"The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the 'Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians'.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIndonesia's Masdar Mas'udi, deputy head of the Islamic organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, praised Obama's policy towards his country as confirmation of his worthiness as a Nobel laureate. \"I think it's appropriate because he is the only American president who has reached out to us in peace,\" he said. \"On the issues of race, religion, skin colour, he has an open attitude.\" Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,Indian President Pratibha Patil, and Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres sent congratulatory messages to Obama, but Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters that \"the decision was taken hastily and the award was [too] early\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn Latin America, former Cuban President Fidel Castro called the award \"positive\" and said the prize should be seen as a criticism to the \"genocidal policy\" carried out by past U.S. presidents. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicol\u00e1s Maduro said the award was a surprise and perhaps premature. \"As President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez said at the United Nations, (the Obama administration) is a government that has raised expectations and hopes in many people in the world, amid great contradictions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn Africa, the news of the Obama Nobel Peace Prize was positively received. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki issued a statement saying that the prize was a \"recognition of the contribution [Obama is] making for the well being of humanity\". In South Africa, President Jacob Zuma used Ubuntu\u2014the Zulu term for \"the importance of community\"\u2014in his congratulatory message, saying that the U.S. president's \"leadership reflects the true spirit of Ubuntu because your approach celebrates our common humanity.\" Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was touted as a possible Nobel laureate, said Obama deserved the honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nIn 2011, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky condemned the award, calling it hypocritical in light of US policy during the Libyan Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nAfter the death of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki by CIA predator drones in Yemen, Nasser al-Awlaki, the father and grandfather of Anwar and Abdulrahman respectively, released an audio message condemning the killings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Reactions, Other reactions\nI urge the American people to bring the killers to justice. I urge them to expose the hypocrisy of the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate. To some, he may be that. To me and my family, he is nothing more than a child killer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nPresident Obama accepted the Nobel Peace prize in person at the Oslo City Hall in Norway on December 10, 2009. In a 36-minute speech, reportedly written by Obama and then edited by Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes, he discussed the tensions between war and peace and the idea of a \"just war\". The address contained elements of the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr, someone Obama once described as one of his favorite philosophers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nThe speech was generally well received by American pundits on both ends of the political spectrum. Several noted similarities between Obama's message and the rhetoric of President George W. Bush. This was also mentioned by former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, who called it a \"very American speech\" and wrote that \"Obama was recognizing that the great commitments and themes of American foreign policy are durably bipartisan\". A number of prominent Republican politicians publicly praised the speech, including Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nConservative The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat called it an oftentimes impressive speech that was \"An extended defense of using realist means in the service of liberal internationalist ends\". Columnist Andrew Sullivan distinguished between the Obama and Bush messages, stating that \"Obama is far more conservative than his predecessor\" in his views on human imperfection, reality, and war; he also linked the speech back to the tragic nature of Obama's line \"the audacity of hope\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nTo say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism\u00a0\u2013 it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nFormer Jimmy Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg said that the speech \"will live on for a long time as a text for peacemakers in power\". A few commentators were more critical, with former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton calling it \"pedestrian, turgid, and uninspired\" and US Congressman Dennis Kucinich \"Once we are committed to war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace, we begin the Orwellian journey to the semantic netherworld where war is peace...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nThe New York Times praised the eloquence of the speech, noting that \"President Obama gave the speech he needed to give, but we suspect not precisely the one the Nobel committee wanted to hear.\" The Wall Street Journal echoed this sentiment and congratulated Obama for defending the occasional necessity of war and for stating that evil exists in the world, though used the same editorial to criticize him for current disarmament talks with Russia and a lack of progress with Iran and North Korea. The Los Angeles Times lauded the speech as \"a blockbuster even by Obama's lofty standards\", and even though the ideas were not new, \"Obama's special gift is to make them seem achievable by appealing to our higher nature.\" It was also received well by columnists in The Washington Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel lecture\nAbroad, British historian Simon Schama said of the speech that \"in its seriousness, bravery and clarity, [it] was on a par with FDR and Churchill\" and \"summoned the spirit of Cicero\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Aftermath\nPresident Obama reduced the number of United States Army soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but expanded the use of unmanned air-strikes on these countries, as well as Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Aftermath\nAnalysis by the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that the United States Army dropped 79 per cent of all 30,743 coalition bombs in 2016. Obama has been at war for longer than any other president in US history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204332-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Aftermath\nThe secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. \"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,\" he says. \"In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204333-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nord LB Open\nThe 2009 Nord LB Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the 16th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between 29 June and 5 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204333-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nord LB Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204333-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nord LB Open, Champions, Doubles\nJohan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer def. Brian Dabul /  Nicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa, 7\u20136(2), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204334-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nord LB Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarco Crugnola and \u00d3scar Hern\u00e1ndez were the defending champions, but Crugnola chose not to defend 2009 title. Hern\u00e1ndez played with Jos\u00e9 Checa-Calvo and they were eliminated in the second round by Emilio Benfele \u00c1lvarez and Sander Groen. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles competition. They won 7\u20136(2), 6\u20134 in the final, against Brian Dabul and Nicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204335-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nord LB Open \u2013 Singles\nNicolas Devilder, the champion in 2008, was eliminated by Adam Vejm\u011blka in the first round. \u00d3scar Hern\u00e1ndez defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204336-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Nordic Figure Skating Championships were held between February 6 and 8, 2009 at the Malm\u00f6 Isstadion in Malm\u00f6, Sweden. They were a multi-national competition between skaters from Nordic countries. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior, junior, and novice levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204337-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships\nThe FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2009 took place in Praz de Lys-Sommand, France and \u0160trbsk\u00e9 Pleso, Slovakia from 29 January to 6 February 2009. It was the 32nd Junior World Championships and the 4th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204338-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Finnish tournament)\nThe Finnish edition of the 2009 Nordic Trophy ice hockey tournament was played between 6 August and 29 August 2009 and included only Finnish teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204338-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Finnish tournament)\nTappara won this tournament, beating HIFK 2\u20130 in the final. For unexplained reasons, K\u00e4rp\u00e4t and Jokerit left the tournament after the regulation round, and instead, Tappara joined the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204338-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Finnish tournament), Participating clubs\nThe Finnish edition of the 2009 Nordic Trophy featured 6 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204339-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament)\nThe 2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament) was the Swedish edition of the 2009 Nordic Trophy ice hockey tournament, played between August 7 and August 29, 2009. The final weekend was played in Mariehamn, \u00c5land Islands, Finland, at the Islandia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204339-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament)\nThis year, the Finnish teams dropped out and formed their own Finnish edition of the 2009 Nordic Trophy. Djurg\u00e5rdens IF defeated defending champions Link\u00f6pings HC in the final with a score of 4\u20131. Andreas Engqvist, Djurg\u00e5rden became the best player of the tournament while Jacob Josefson, also Djurg\u00e5rden, scored most points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204339-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament), Group stage\nThe group stage matches were played at different small town venues in Sweden. HV71 clinched the first place for the first time since the tournament's inauguration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204339-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament), Group stage\ny - clinched semi-final spot for championship, x - play for 5th place", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204339-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy (Swedish tournament), Playoffs\nThe 2009 Nordic Trophy playoffs were played from August 28 to August 30 in Mariehamn, \u00c5land Islands, Finland, at the Islandia. The four best teams from the group stage played in the semi-finals and final, and the two lowest ranked teams played in the fifth-placed game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204340-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nordic Trophy Junior\nThe 2009 Nordic Trophy Junior was the third and last Nordic Trophy Junior ice hockey tournament, played between 20 August- and 23 August, 2009. This time, the tournament was held in Link\u00f6ping, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe Norfolk County Council election took place on 4 June 2009, coinciding with local elections for all county councils in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe Conservative administration was re-elected with an increased majority and, as in Suffolk and Kent, the Liberal Democrats replaced Labour as the main opposition party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe Conservatives increased their majority on the council from 10 to a comfortable 36 seats with a net gain of 14 seats. They held virtually all of their seats across the county, but made a net loss of 1 seat to the Liberal democrats in North Norfolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe Liberal Democrats performed well in the North Norfolk area through making a net gain of 1 against the Conservatives, and gaining Thetford West from Labour in Breckland, but lost seats to the conservatives in King's Lynn & West Norfolk and South Norfolk as the latter swept the board. Despite the party's flat-lining, they became the official opposition to the governing conservative administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nLabour, just as had been the case across the rest of the country, suffered heavy losses to all parties and especially to the conservatives being left with just 3 seats across the county, being pushed in to 4th place behind the Green Party for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe Green Party made gains, particularly in Norwich where they won a majority of seats, which built upon their successes in city elections over the preceding years. They won more seats than labour across the county, but did not beat them in share of vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nThe United Kingdom Independence Party stood candidates in some seats, winning one in Great Yarmouth from Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election\nOther parties and independent candidates stood without winning seats and making little impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Previous composition, Changes between elections\nIn between the 2005 election and the 2009 election, the following council seats changed hands:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of results, Election of Group Leaders\nDaniel Cox (Humbleyard) was re-elected leader of the Conservative Group, Paul Morse (North Walsham East) was elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Group, Richard Bearman (Mancroft) was elected leader of the Green Party group and George Nobbs (Crome) became leader of the Labour Group now down to just 3 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of results, Election of Leader of the Council\nDaniel Cox the leader of the conservative group was duly re-elected leader of the council and formed a conservative administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of results, Election of Leader of the Council\nHe would unexpectedly resign in October 2010 and was replaced by his deputy Derrick Murphy (Freebridge Lynn)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of results, Election of Leader of the Council\nMurphy himself would be forced to resign after a controversy emerged over an email which was sent by a political assistant to the Conservative group at County Hall, to BBC Radio Norfolk in April 2012, which suggested that the leader of West Norfolk Council, Nick Daubney and facing 'a serious leadership challenge' over King's Lynn incinerator, which had been a source of tension between the two Councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district\nGains and losses are in comparison to the preceding full election in 2005, unless otherwise stated. Intervening by-elections are noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district, Broadland\nAt a by-election held on 14 July 2011, Old Catton was retained by the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district, Great Yarmouth\nAt a by-election on 5 May 2011, Lothingland was retained by the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district, King's Lynn and West Norfolk\nAt a by-election on 27 September 2012, Clenchwarton and King's Lynn South was won by the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district, Norwich\nAt a by-election on 24 November 2011, Lakenham was regained by the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204341-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk County Council election, Results by district, South Norfolk\nAt a by-election on 13 January 2011, the Conservatives retained Humbleyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204342-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norfolk State Spartans football team\nThe 2009 Norfolk State Spartans football team represented Norfolk State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Spartans were led by fifth-year head coach Pete Adrian and played their home games at William \"Dick\" Price Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 7\u20134, 6\u20133 in MEAC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204343-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup Winners Cup\nThe 2009 North African Cup Winners Cup was the second edition of the competition initiated in 2008 by the UNAF. CS Sfaxien of Tunisia were crowned champions after defeating Ahly Benghazi of Libya in the final on the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204343-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup Winners Cup, Draw\nThe draw was made in Djerba, Tunisia on 25 July 2009 at a FNAF meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204343-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup Winners Cup, Draw, Final, Second leg\nAhly Benghazi 1\u20131 CS Sfaxien on aggregate. CS Sfaxien win on the away goals rule", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204344-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup of Champions\nThe 2009 North African Cup of Champions was the second edition of the competition initiated by the North African Football Union (UNAF). Algerian side ES S\u00e9tif were crowned champions after beating Tunisian champions ES Tunis in a penalty shootout in the final. Midfielder Hocine Metref was chosen as the Best Player of the competition, while goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi was chosen as the Best Goalkeeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204344-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup of Champions, Draw\nThe draw was made in Djerba, Tunisia on 25 July 2009 at an UNAF meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204344-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup of Champions, Draw, Semi finals, Second Legs\nES S\u00e9tif go through with an aggregate score of 3\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204344-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Cup of Champions, Draw, Semi finals, Second Legs\nES Tunis go through with an aggregate score of 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204345-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North African Futsal Tournament\nThe 2009 North African Futsal Cup was the 2nd Championship and it took place in Tunis, Tunisia from August 10\u201320, 2009, Organised by the Union of North African Football Federations. Syria were invited after the withdrawal of Algeria and Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204346-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Alabama Lions football team\nThe 2009 North Alabama Lions football team represented the University of North Alabama in the 2009 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204347-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Christmas blizzard\nThe 2009 North American Christmas blizzard was a powerful winter storm and severe weather event that affected the Midwestern United States, Great Plains, Southeastern United States, the Eastern Seaboard, and parts of Ontario. The storm began to develop on December 22 before intensifying to produce extreme winds and precipitation by the morning of December 24. The storm's rapid development made it difficult for forecasters to predict. The blizzard was reported to have claimed at least 21 lives, and disrupted air travel during the Christmas travel season. In the Southeastern and Central United States, there were 27 reported tornadoes on December 23\u201324. The storm, a Category 5 \"Extreme\" one on the Regional Snowfall Index scale, was the first winter weather event to rank as such since the Blizzard of '96.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 851]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204347-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Christmas blizzard, Impact, Snowfall\nSnowfall varied across the United States. South Dakota likely received the most, with 30.8 inches (78\u00a0cm). In Minnesota, 26 inches (66\u00a0cm) was received near Pequaywan Lake on the state's North Shore. Parts of Texas recorded snowfall as high as 9 inches (23\u00a0cm) at Post. Snowfall in Nebraska caused six deaths. In Oklahoma, a state of emergency was declared after blizzard conditions killed 3 people and dropped 19 inches of snow. Iowa saw high snowfall as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204347-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Christmas blizzard, Impact, Snowfall\nThe storm was so intense that it wrapped warm air around the north and west side of it and cold air and snow blew in from the south. Rochester, Minnesota, in the northern half of the storm, saw rain with temperatures in the mid 30s Fahrenheit while snow was falling just to the west in a 1,300-mile (2,100\u00a0km) band stretching from Canada south to at least Dallas, Texas, giving that region its first \"White Christmas\" since 1929. Interstate 29 was completely closed in North and South Dakota, and then in stretches into Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204347-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Christmas blizzard, Impact, Rain\nHeavy rain in parts of the Midwest prompted the National Weather Service to issue Flood Warnings for many areas. The maximum rainfall amount recorded was 6.89 inches (17.5\u00a0cm) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Freezing rain fell across Iowa and Illinois, affecting travel to and from O'Hare International Airport. The Chicago area saw as much as ten inches of snow following the freezing rain and sleet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204347-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Christmas blizzard, Impact, Tornadoes\nSeveral houses were destroyed near Lafayette, Louisiana, possibly by a tornado. Near Longview, Texas an EF2\u00a0tornado left a path of destruction nearly one mile long. Another tornado near Lufkin, Texas produced EF3\u00a0damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204348-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North American SuperLiga\nThe 2009 SuperLiga was the third edition of the SuperLiga. The top four overall Major League Soccer teams from the 2008 season not already qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League earned qualification, as well as four clubs from the Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n. All games of the tournament were broadcast live on Fox Sports World in Canada, Telefutura in the United States, and Televisa and TV Azteca in Mexico and an internet stream on the SuperLiga website. UANL won their first title after beating Chicago Fire 4\u20133 on penalties in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204348-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North American SuperLiga, Qualification\nThe teams involved were selected based on qualification rules set by their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204348-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North American SuperLiga, Qualification\nOn November 21, 2008, MLS announced that for the 2009 tournament, the top four teams in the 2008 MLS regular season standings not competing in the CONCACAF Champions League in 2009\u201310 would qualify for SuperLiga 2009. That ruling means that the top two teams from the 2008 MLS season, the Columbus Crew and the Houston Dynamo, who had already qualified for the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League, were not eligible to participate in the Superliga 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204348-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North American SuperLiga, Qualification\nOn May 14, 2009, FMF announced that for the 2009 tournament the top four eligible teams from the Clausura 2008 and Apertura 2008 overall season standings not competing in the CONCACAF Champions League would qualify for SuperLiga 2009. That ruling meant that the Apertura-08 Champion Toluca and the runner-up Cruz Azul (2008 3rd and 4th overall respectively), who had already qualified for the 2009\u201310 CONCACAF Champions League, were not eligible to participate in the tournament. UNAM (6th overall) were also ineligible, while Guadalajara (2nd overall) declined to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204348-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North American SuperLiga, Group stage\nThere were two groups of four teams. Each group contained two clubs from each league with the top two teams from each groups advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204349-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North American Under 21 World Qualifier\nThe 2009 North American Under 21 World Qualifier Speedway tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by third-year head coach Butch Davis, the Tar Heels played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina finished the season 8\u20135 overall and 4\u20134 in ACC play to place fourth in the Coastal Division. The Tar Heels lost to Pittsburgh in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. In 2011, North Carolina vacated all its wins from the 2008 season and 2009 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Preseason, Key losses\nOn January 5, 2009 starting wide-receiver Hakeem Nicks announced that he would forgo his senior year in order to enter the 2009 NFL Draft. In just three years Nicks had set 14 school records, including career receptions (181), career receiving yards (2,580), and career touchdowns (21). In his senior season, Nicks was named first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference after catching 68 passes for 1,222 yards and 12 touchdowns. He was the only player in UNC history with more than 1,000 yards receiving in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Preseason, Key losses\nThe following are some of the other key players who will no longer play for North Carolina in the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Preseason, Key returns\nFor 2009, the Tar Heels are likely to return numerous starters from the previous season. The following players will maintain their playing eligibility and in all likelihood will return for the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Recruiting\nAs of February 6, 2009, Scout.com rated North Carolina's 2009 recruiting class as 5th in the nation, Rivals.com ranked North Carolina's recruiting class as 6th, and ESPN ranked 12th. Joshua Adams (WR) and Kevin Reddick (LB) plan to enroll in January 2009 and do not count against the limit of 25 recruits per year. The other following players have offered North Carolina non-binding verbal commitments. These pledges can become binding when recruits sign their National Letters of Intent on February 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, The Citadel\nNorth Carolina had its best rushing game under coach Butch Davis with 260 total rushing yards (its most since 2004), and Shaun Draughn rushing for 118 yards, his fourth 100-yard rushing game. T. J. Yates threw two touchdown passes and threw for 114 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, UConn\nNorth Carolina managed to come back by scoring 12 points against Connecticut in the fourth quarter to win the game. North Carolina gained its final two points when Connecticut's senior tackle Dan Ryan was flagged for holding North Carolina's end Robert Quinn in the end zone, which gave North Carolina a safety, with 1:32 left in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, Miami\nMiami and North Carolina last met at Miami on September 27, 2008 in a game won by UNC 28\u201324. Miami is 5\u20137 all time versus UNC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 66], "content_span": [67, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nThe Tar Heels defeated a Boston College team that was playing for an outside shot at a trip to the ACC Championship Game. The UNC defense stifled the Eagles offense for much of the game, holding them to 0 conversions on 13 3rd down attempts. Freshman Boston College quarterback David Shinskie threw for more yards to the Tar Heels defenders than to his own team. His four interceptions were returned for a total of 133 yards, while his twelve completions gained only 101 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204350-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nTar Heels DB Kendric Burney's interception return for a touchdown was his second in as many games. Cam Thomas added another defensive touchdown on a fumble return. UNC's offense had four turnovers of their own (3 T. J. Yates interceptions, 1 fumble by Erik Highsmith), and struggled to move the ball for much of the game. The UNC running attack was slowed due to a lower extremity injury to Ryan Houston who was sidelined for most of the second half. However, he did return for a 1-yard touchdown run. UNC's stout defense once again came up with big plays in the Tar Heel's fourth straight win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204351-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 2009 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bison were led by seventh-year head coach Craig Bohl and played their home games at the Fargodome. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVC). Their record on the season was 3\u20138 overall and 2\u20136 in MVFC play to finish in seventh place. This season was only the third since 1964 that North Dakota State has a losing record. The Bison were not ranked all year and did not participate in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods\nThe US State of North Dakota experienced significant flooding in its major river basins in 2009, following abnormally heavy winter snows atop saturated and frozen ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Background\nGround which was already saturated when it froze at the onset of winter, melting snow which could not be absorbed by the frozen ground, and additional precipitation from a rain storm on March 22 and a later snowstorm, are reasons for the serious flooding. Heavy snowfalls fell in the state toward the end of March, adding to the existing snowpack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Background, Flooding\nBeulah and Hazen were affected by the Knife River and Spring Creek floods. Linton was affected by Big Beaver Creek floods. Napoleon was affected by overland flooding from heavy snowmelt. Mott was affected by the Cannonball River floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Background, Ice jams\nExplosives had to be used blow up an ice jam on the Missouri River North Bismarck, North Dakota in Double Ditch. It was successful. Flooding would cause problems south of the Bismarck Expressway and west of Washington Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River\nThe 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood is a result of saturated and frozen ground, Spring snowmelt exacerbated by additional rain and snow storms, and virtually flat terrain. Communities along the Red River prepared for more than a week as the U.S. National Weather Service continuously updated the predictions for the city of Fargo, North Dakota with an increasingly higher projected river crest. Originally predicted to reach a level of near 43 feet (13\u00a0m) at Fargo by March 29, the river in fact crested at 40.82 feet (12.44\u00a0m) at 12:15\u00a0a.m. March 28, and started a slow decline. The river continued to rise to the north as the crest moved downstream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Wahpeton\nEarly predictions for the Wahpeton area saw a predicted level of at least 16 feet (4.9\u00a0m). By March 24, the National Weather Service predicted the crest in Wahpeton and Breckenridge not to top 18 feet (5.5\u00a0m), below the cities' levees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Fargo area\nWarnings for the 2009 flood occurred as early as March 9 when the National Weather Service warned that the Fargo-Moorhead area could see a significant flood of between 35 feet (11\u00a0m) and 36 feet (11\u00a0m). As preparations began for the flooding on March 16, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven declared a statewide disaster in anticipation of flooding across the state. On March 19, the National Weather Service raised the predicted flood level in the Fargo area to between 37 feet (11\u00a0m) and 40 feet (12\u00a0m). The city began filling sandbags on March 20. In anticipation of a rain and snow storm, the predicted crest level was raised on March 22 to a range from 39 feet (12\u00a0m) to 41 feet (12\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Fargo area\nVolunteers continued preparing sandbags, with 560,000 bags filled by late March 22 out of an expected 1.5 million to 2 million needed. By March 24, residents in Fargo-Moorhead had filled over 1 million sandbags and were attempting to fill a total of 2 million by the 26th. A levee in Georgetown, Minnesota was raised another two feet, and emergency dikes were being built in Fargo, Moorhead, Harwood, Grafton and Richland County. The predicted flood crest was raised again on March 26, changed to between 41 feet (12\u00a0m) and 42 feet (13\u00a0m) by March 28, with a possibility of 43 feet (13\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Fargo area\nIn addition to the sandbags the construction of the dikes protecting the city has required large amounts of clay. Clay has been brought from several places in and around the city, including the soccer field at Centennial Elementary School and around Discovery Middle School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Fargo area\nAt 7:15 P.M. CDT on March 26, 2009, the river exceeded the 1997 crest of 39.57 feet (12.06\u00a0m) at Fargo, which was the previous second-highest crest. The projected crest is 24 feet (7.3\u00a0m) above flood stage and higher than the record-setting floods in 1997 and 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Grand Forks\nIn the Grand Forks, North Dakota area, flood predictions released February 27 predicted a possibility of a flood crest between 44 feet (13\u00a0m) and 46 feet (14\u00a0m). The snow storm that struck March 9\u201310 raised the predicted levels between 47 feet (14\u00a0m) and 50 feet (15\u00a0m) prompting the city to declare a state of emergency. On March 22 the predicted crest level was changed to 52 feet (16\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204352-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 North Dakota floods, Red River, Predictions and preparations, Grand Forks\nAt 2:30 A.M. CDT, the  National Weather Service offices in Grand Forks issued a Flash Flood Warning for extreme east-central Cass County due to a levee breach in Fargo on Linden Avenue. With the river now more than 6 meters (20\u00a0feet) above flood stage, there appears to be a growing sense in Fargo that despite best efforts, it may not be possible to build dikes high enough to hold back the river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204353-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Greenville Crusaders football team\nThe 2009 North Greenville Crusaders football team represented North Greenville University in the 2009 NCAA Division II college football season. The Crusaders offense scored 101 points while the defense allowed 287 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The North Indian Ocean cyclone season has no official bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean\u00a0\u2014 the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB by the India Meteorological Department (IMD); and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center releases unofficial advisories. The tropical cyclone scale for this basin is detailed on the right. On average, 4 to 6 storms form in this basin every season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bijli\nOn April\u00a013, an area of shower and thunderstorms became slightly organized over the central Bay of Bengal. Later that day, an area of low pressure developed underneath the convection as the system developed. Weak banding features also formed around the periphery of the storm. By April\u00a014, deep convection persisted around the center of circulation; following the development the RSMC in New Delhi, India designated the system as Depression BOB 01. Following further development, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) as they anticipated the system to develop into a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bijli\nEarly the next morning the JTWC reported that the depression had intensified into a tropical storm and designated it as Cyclone 01B. The storm tracked towards the west-northwest due to a mid-level ridge over India. Later that morning RSMC New Delhi reported that the depression had intensified into a deep depression and reported it was expected to intensify into Cyclonic Storm Bijli. Around 1500\u00a0UTC, the RSMC New Delhi upgraded the system to a cyclonic storm and gave it the name Bijli. All four ports in Orissa were placed on high alert due to rough seas produced by the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bijli\nA Local Cautionary Signal Number Three was issued for the Gopalpur, Puri, Paradeep and Chandabali ports. On April\u00a016, the storm turned towards the northeast, paralleling the eastern coast of India. Around 0600\u00a0UTC, RSMC New Delhi reported that Bijli had reached its peak intensity with winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph 3-minute winds). Early on April\u00a017, RSMC New Delhi reported that Bijli had weakened to a deep depression as it moved northwest. Later, RSMC New Delhi downgraded the deep depression to a depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0003-0003", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bijli\nLate on April 17, RSMC New Delhi reported that Depression ex-Bijli had made landfall near Chittagong, Bangladesh and had rapidly become an area of low pressure over Bangladesh. Maximum winds of 30 knots (56\u00a0km/hr) were reported in Cox's Bazar and 3 people were killed in Bangladesh. That night, the JTWC issued their final advisory on Tropical Cyclone 01B as it rapidly weakened over Bangladesh and Myanmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bijli\nBijli developed as a depression in the first fortnight of April. Climatologically, the formation of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal at this time of the year is rare. Only ten cyclones have developed over the Bay of Bengal during 1891\u20132008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila\nLate on May 21, the JTWC reported that a Tropical Disturbance had persisted about 515\u00a0nm to the south of Kolkata, India. The disturbance at this time had a broad and poorly organised area of deep convection, which was located to the southeast of the low level circulation center which had consolidated into a single circulation during the previous 12 hours. Environmental analysis indicated that the system was in an area of favorable conditions to develop with low vertical wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures. During May 22 the disturbance developed further with a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert being issued early the next day by the JTWC as the low level circulation center had become stronger and more defined. Later that morning RSMC New Delhi designated the disturbance as Depression BOB 02.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 885]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila\nThe Cyclone crossed the West Bengal coast close to the east of Sagar Island between 0800 & 0900 UTC as a severe cyclonic storm on 25 May. A maximum wind gust of 112\u00a0km/h was recorded in Kalaikunda in West Bengal. Singlabazar recorded 320\u00a0mm of rainfall in 48 hours between 26 and 27 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 01\nEarly on June 21, the JTWC reported that an area of low pressure had persisted about 675\u00a0km, (420\u00a0miles), southwest of Mumbai, India. Multispectral imagery showed that the disturbance had a developing low level circulation center with convection flaring over it and was in an area of low vertical wind shear. Over the next couple of days the disturbance developed gradually with a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert being issued early on June 23 as the disturbance had continued to organize and consolidated over the past few hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 01\nRSMC New Delhi then reported later that morning that Depression ARB 01 had formed and was expected to intensify into a Deep Depression before making landfall, however the depression did not intensify any further before making landfall on the south Gujarat coast near Diu. The JTWC then cancelled their Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert, with the IMD issuing their final advisory later that day. It hovered over Gujarat as a well marked area of low pressure before moving towards the northeast and re-emerging into the Arabian Sea where it redeveloped into a depression. Tropical Depression ARB 01 dissipated early on June 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 01\nUnusually strong lightning storms associated with the depression killed at least nine people in Gujarat. Officials in the region warned residents about the likelihood of severe flooding from the depression. Sutrapada in Gujarat received 250\u00a0mm rainfall in 48 hours between 24 & 25 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 02\nEarly on June 25 at 0900 UTC, the remnants of Depression ARB 01 emerged into the Arabian Sea, and intensified into Depression ARB 02. The storm moved northward, weakened, and maintained its intensity as a well marked low-pressure area over Kutch and neighbouring areas at 0000 UTC on 26 June 2009. Saurashtra and Kutch experienced active monsoon conditions under the influence of this system. Like its parent system, it was mostly monitored through synoptic and satellite analysis. It was a short-lived system, existing for about 25 hours. As a result, it did not have any significant impact on rainfall, except over Saurashtra & Kutch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression ARB 02\nMoving in a north-northwesterly direction, the Depression, which was located over Saurashtra, Kutch, and neighbouring areas, which was the system, re-intensified into the depression over northeast Arabian Sea, and lay centred near lat. 22.50N/long. 68.50E about 50\u00a0km west-northwest of Dwarka and 300\u00a0km south-southeast of Karachi at 0900 UTC on 25 June. Moving slowing in a northerly direction, the system weakened into a well marked low-pressure area at 0000 UTC on 26 June over Kutch and its neighbouring regions. However, later on June 26, Depression ARB 02 dissipated completely. Mangrol in Gujarat recorded 130\u00a0mm of rainfall on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03\nEarly on July 20, RSMC New Delhi reported that Depression BOB 03 had formed about 120\u00a0km (75 miles) to the southeast of Digha. Convection had been gradually organizing itself over the last 12 hours, and was in an area of low to moderate vertical wind shear. The Depression then intensified further and became a Deep Depression that afternoon before making landfall crossed north Orissa-West Bengal coast between Balasore and Digha during 1600 and 1700 UTC later that day. The Deep Depression gradually weakened before becoming a low-pressure area early the next day. Binika in Orissa received 220\u00a0mm rainfall on 21 July. Around 43 people lost their lives in the state of Orissa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03\nThe remnants of this storm caused heavy to very heavy downpours in coastal Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 04\nEarly on September 3, the IMD reported that an area of low pressure had formed embedded within the monsoon off the Orissa coastline. During the next day it developed further with the IMD reporting that the low-pressure area had become well marked with deep convection starting to consolidate around a developing low level circulation center in an area of moderate vertical wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 04\nEarly on September 5, as the area of low pressure was moving into an area of low vertical windshear the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert, whilst the IMD reported that the low-pressure area had intensified into a Depression. Later that day the IMD reported that the depression had intensified further and had become a Deep Depression, whilst the JTWC designated the depression as a Cyclone 03B, with winds equivalent to a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 04\nHowever the JTWC's first warning was also their final warning as the cyclone had made landfall near Digha in West Bengal and was expected to dissipate later that day. However the IMD kept issuing advisories on the deep depression until early on September 7, when the IMD reported that it had weakened into a depression and then into a well marked low-pressure area later that day when they stopped issuing advisories on the depression whilst it was located over Jharkhand and adjoining region of Chhattisgarh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 04\nOne person drowned in Digha after being swept away by high waters. Berhampur received 210\u00a0mm of rainfall on 6 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Phyan\nCyclonic Storm Phyan developed as a tropical disturbance to the southwest of Colombo in Sri Lanka late on November 4, 2009. Over the next couple of days the disturbance gradually developed before weakening as it made landfall on Southern India on November 7. After the disturbance had emerged into the Arabian Sea late on November 8 it rapidly became more marked with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reporting early on November 9 that the disturbance had intensified into a Depression and designated it as Depression ARB 03 whilst the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Phyan\nLater that day the JTWC designated the system as Cyclone 04A. During the next day as the Depression turned towards the northeast, the IMD reported that it had intensified into a Cyclonic Storm and named it Phyan. Chandwad in Maharashtra recorded 240\u00a0mm of rainfall in 48 hours between 11 and 12 November. The maximum winds of 68\u00a0km/h were reported in Pune at the time of landfall. However the coastal areas recorded 75\u00a0km/hr winds. Seven persons died and about 44 fishermen were missing due to the cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Phyan\nAs a tropical disturbance, Phyan caused heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu. Kethi in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu received 82\u00a0cm of rainfall in 24 hours, beating the previous 24\u2011hour rainfall record for Tamil Nadu. Kethi recorded 1171\u00a0mm of rainfall in 72 hours, making Phyan the 5th wettest cyclone in India", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Ward\nOn December 10, RSMC New Delhi announced that Depression BOB 05 had formed, about 400\u00a0km east-southeast of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. The next day it strengthened to become Cyclonic Storm Ward. After wandering some time to the east of Sri Lanka, the system made landfall near Trincomalee on December 14 as a Deep Depression. Cyclonic Storm Ward dissipated completely on December 16. Sirkali in Tamil Nadu recorded 140\u00a0mm of rainfall on 15 December. Maximum winds of 25 knots (46\u00a0km/hr) was reported at the Pamban observatory in coastal Tamil Nadu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204354-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects\nThis is a table of the storms in 2009 and their landfall(s), if any; the table does not include storms that did not make landfall, which is defined as the center of the storm moving over a landmass. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests\nTwo rounds of North Korean missile tests were conducted in July 2009. On July 4, 2009, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea) launched seven short range missiles into the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea), after previously launching four missiles two days earlier on July 2. The missiles were launched in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests, Events\nMissiles have been fired from the launch site at the port of Wonsan on the east coast of the country. Based on information from an anonymous government representative in Seoul, Korean agency Yonhap reported that the missiles are of the Scud type with a range of around 400 kilometers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests, Events\nDuring the week North Korea announced upcoming military exercises in the Sea of Japan, and with it declared an area closed to navigation around the port of Vonsan and into the Sea of Japan and covering an area of 450 by 110 kilometers. The planned military exercises were announced to cover the period from June 25 to July 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests, Events\nThe latest round of missile launches were timed for the United States' Independence Day as a show of military might and came on the heels of UNSC Resolution 1874. Sanctions and penalties were declared in the wake of the May 25 underground test of a nuclear explosive device by Pyongyang, and what the DPRK insist was an attempt to peacefully place a satellite in orbit but what the United States, Japan and South Korea  see as cover for the development of a long-range ballistic missile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests, Events\nThe North Koreans have previously warned that any attempt to enact sanctions will be seen as an act of war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204355-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean missile tests, Events\nThe United Nations Security Council condemned the launches expressing \"grave concern\" and urged all countries in the region to refrain from any action that could escalate tensions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test\nThe 2009 North Korean nuclear test was the underground detonation of a nuclear device conducted on Monday, 25 May 2009 by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This was its second nuclear test, the first test having taken place in October 2006. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests. A scientific paper later estimated the yield as 2.35 kilotons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test\nThe test was nearly universally condemned by the international community. Following the test, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1874 condemning the test and tightening sanctions on the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test\nIt was widely believed that the test was conducted as a result of the succession crisis in the country. After Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke in the summer of 2008, arrangements were made for his third son, Kim Jong-un, to take power upon his death. It is believed the North Koreans conducted the nuclear test to show that, even in a time of possible weakness, it did not intend to give up its nuclear weapons program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Background\nNorth Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK) had threatened to conduct a second nuclear test in protest after the United Nations Security Council adopted a presidential statement condemning the country after it launched a rocket, which it claimed was carrying the Kwangmy\u014fngs\u014fng-2 satellite, on 5 April 2009. The launch was condemned by several nations, describing it as an intercontinental ballistic missile test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Background\nThe test also came after recent messages stating that North Korea had miniaturized nuclear warheads for medium-range missiles and that the country had been recognized by analysts as a fully fledged nuclear power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Background\nIn June 2009, after it was announced that Kim Jong-un was to be the intended successor of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, U.S. government analysts speculated that the purpose of the nuclear test was to establish North Korea as a nuclear power within Kim Jong-il's lifetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, North Korean statements\nWithout citing a specific time, Pyongyang notified both Washington, D.C. and Beijing of the test about an hour before the actual detonation, which occurred around 10:00 Korea Standard Time (KST) Monday; the U.S. State Department promptly contacted the four other six-party talks members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, North Korean statements\nThe state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released an announcement claiming, in part, that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, North Korean statements\nThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way as requested by its scientists and technicians. The current nuclear test was safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control and the results of the test helped satisfactorily settle the scientific and technological problems arising in further increasing the power of nuclear weapons and steadily developing nuclear technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, North Korean statements\nThis was interpreted as referring to the disputes over the low yield of the 2006 test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Seismic activity\nSouth Korea and Japan reported seismic activity at 09:50 KST (00:50 UTC). The United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.7 earthquake at a depth of zero and put the center of the tremor about 70 kilometres (43\u00a0mi) northwest of Kimchaek and 375 kilometres (233\u00a0mi) northeast of Pyongyang, within a few kilometres of the country's 2006 nuclear test site. The Japan Meteorological Agency measured the seismic activity at magnitude 5.3. The Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources reported seismic activity in the same area but far stronger than in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Seismic activity\nThe Russian Defence Ministry confirmed it had detected a nuclear detonation in North Korea and was analysing the data to determine the yield. Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences has registered underground nuclear explosion conducted in North Korea on 25 May 2009. Registration time of this explosion was 0:54\u00a0am. GMT (4:54\u00a0a.m. Moscow time) with magnitude 5.0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Seismic activity\nIn China, tremors were felt in the prefecture of Yanbian, which borders North Korea, and forced students in some local schools to be evacuated. The test is believed to have taken place at Mantapsan in the vicinity of P'unggyeri (Korean: \ud48d\uacc4\ub9ac), which was the site of the nuclear test held in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nAnalysts have generally agreed that the nuclear test was successful, despite uncertainty of the exact yield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nThe U.S. intelligence community assessed that North Korea \"probably\" had conducted a nuclear test with a yield of \"a few kilotons\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nThe Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission assessed the yield at only slightly larger than the 2006 test, which was one kiloton. Based on readings from 23 seismic stations, the Preparatory Commission estimated the blast to have a seismic magnitude of 4.52, corresponding to an explosive yield of 2.4 kilotons, compared to a seismic magnitude of 4.1, corresponding to a yield of 0.8 kilotons, for the 2006 blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nRussia placed the yield of the test significantly higher at 10 to 20 kilotons. This was approximately the yield of the Fat Man and Trinity bombs developed by the United States during World War II. However, the Russians had also previously estimated a far higher yield of 5 to 10 kilotons when other sources estimated a yield of 0.5 to 0.9 kilotons in the 2006 test as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nDefense Minister Lee Sang-Hee of South Korea said that more data were needed but that the yield might be between 1 and 20 kilotons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nAnalyst Martin Kalinowski at the University of Hamburg estimated the yield at being from 3 to 8 kilotons, still a very successful test when compared with the 2006 test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nHans M. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists cautioned that \"early news media reports about a 'Hiroshima-size' nuclear explosion seem to be overblown\". The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists asserted that the blast was more powerful than the 2006 test, though put the yield between 2 and 6 kilotons, but likely less than 4 kilotons and far short of a Hiroshima-type device. The group concluded that the bomb failed to detonate correctly, but even so the potential of this weapon should not be dismissed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nHowever, after the subsequent nuclear test in 2013, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, a state-run geology research institute in Germany, estimated the yield ranging from a minimum of 5 kilotons to the maximum of 12 kilotons and the 2006 test ranging from minimum of 700 tons to the maximum of 2 kilotons instead with relevant statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Yield\nSimilarly, the University of Science and Technology of China has estimated the yield of this test to be at 7kT with an error margin of 1.9kT (5.1kT to 8.9kT) while presenting their estimation for the nuclear test on 9 September 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Analysis of test, Lack of radionuclide confirmation\nIn June 2009, the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) announced that no radionuclides had been detected that could be associated with the 25 May event. At the time of the test, the CTBTO global network included 40 radionuclide sampling stations. In addition, the United States reported that no radionuclides were detected by aircraft over the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea), and South Korea also reported that no radionuclides were detected. By contrast, radionuclides were detected in at least two locations after the 2006 event. Lack of detection does not mean that the event was non-nuclear: it is reasonable for a nuclear test with this yield, buried deep enough in the appropriate rock, to not yield remotely detectable radionuclides, but it makes it more difficult to prove whether the test was nuclear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 949]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nOn the same day, North Korea also conducted short-range surface-to-air missile tests. The number of fired missiles was first reported as three, but corrected to two by the South Korean defense ministry on 27 May 2009. The first missile had a range of 130\u00a0km (81\u00a0mi). The South Korean news agency Yonhap cited military officials as saying that the launches seemed to be aimed at keeping U.S. and Japanese surveillance planes away from the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nOn 26 May 2009, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing officials, that North Korea fired three more short-range missiles off an east-coast base, one ground-to-ship missile and one surface-to-air missile. The move came as UN diplomats began work on a resolution to punish North Korea for its underground nuclear test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nBy 27 May 2009, at least five short range missiles were launched by North Korea. A military spokesman quoted by official media said that North Korea could no longer guarantee the safety of shipping off its west coast, suggesting a missile could also be fired in that direction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nAnother short-range missile was fired off North Korea's east coast on 28 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nOn 29 May 2009, U.S. officials said that satellite photos revealed vehicle activity at two sites in North Korea suggesting that North Korean military might be preparing to launch a long-range ballistic missile. This was reaffirmed on 1 June 2009 by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates who said at a news conference with his Philippine counterpart during a brief visit to Manila \"We have seen some signs that they may be doing something with another Taepodong-2 missile, but at this point it's not clear what they're doing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Missile tests\nYonhap news agency reported on 2 June 2009 that North Korea was readying as many as three medium-range missiles (according to some analysts, Rodong missiles) at a missile base in Anbyon region, Gangwon Province, northeast of the capital of Pyongyang. In addition, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman said that signs that North Korea was preparing to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) had been detected. verifying US defense officials' reports and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's statement made on 1 June. North Korea apparently has moved the ICBM to a new base in Dongchang-ri along its west coast and a launch could take place in one or two weeks, according to Yonhap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, International reaction\nThe North Korean news agency KCNA confirmed the test as \"successful\". The agency also said the test was \"aimed at strengthening its self-defense nuclear deterrent in every way\". South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported citing KCNA that citizens of Pyongyang held a rally to celebrate the country's second successful nuclear test on 26 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, International reaction\nIn general the International reactions to the 2009 North Korean nuclear test have been almost uniformly negative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nNews of the tests immediately affected South Korean markets, sending the main KOSPI share index down 4%, while the South Korean won dropped by 1% against the US$ on the day of the nuclear test, 25 May. The yen fell to 95.10 per dollar from its level of 94.78 on 22 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nOn 28 May, North Korea threatened to end the Korean War armistice, stating that \"the Korean peninsula will go back to a state of war\", whereupon the joint military command of South Korea and the United States increased its surveillance alert level from WATCHCON 3 to WATCHCON 2, the second-highest level of surveillance alert. However, the five-stage combat alert level remained at DEFCON 4, the second-lowest level. Russia undertook security measures in case the war of nerves on the Korean peninsula erupted into a nuclear war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nNorth Korea also threatened on 29 May to attack South Korean and US warships near its coast if its sovereignty were infringed. In Japan a policy debate ensued regarding strengthening its military up to and including the possibility of an independent pre-emptive strike capability and even nuclear armaments, subjects hitherto taboo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nOn 30 May, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence confirmed that a VC10 tanker plane, which is used for air-to-air refueling, had been sent to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan to help support the investigations, led by the U.S. military, to determine the power of the nuclear explosion and the type of material that was used. A Ministry spokesman said: \"Following the recent events in North Korea and to support the international community's efforts during this time of increased political tension, we can confirm that the UK is supporting in the associated verification efforts\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nOn the same day, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet arrived on Kadena Air Base, the first of twelve F-22's and approximately 280 Langley Air Force Base Airmen from the 94th Fighter Squadron, along with members of the Virginia Air National Guard's 192nd Fighter Wing, that are being deployed to Kadena Air Base as part of a theatre security package.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nU.S. Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg accompanied by Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, led a U.S. delegation to Asia on 1 June 2009 to consult regional forces on how to respond to North Korea's latest nuclear test. The delegation also includes Stuart Levy, the Treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, and Admiral James Winnefeld of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nJapan approved on 2 June 2009 plans for a satellite missile early warning system as part of a new space policy document, a year after Japan dropped a decades-old ban on military use of space with some ruling party lawmakers suggesting Japan should inspect North Korean ships, in the wake of reports that N. Korea was preparing to fire more mid-range missiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nOn the same day, as a response to the increased activity of the N. Korean military and after reports that North Koreans have stepped up naval drills near the western sea border, the site of deadly skirmishes between the two Koreas in 1999 and 2002, South Korea deployed a high-speed naval vessel, the Yoon Youngha guided missile patrol boat, to the area and vowed to \"punish\" any attacking forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath\nAfter the North Korean nuclear test the U.S. has approved the sale of a number of weapon systems to South Korea, including GBU-28 \"bunker buster\" bombs, SM-2 Standard surface-to-air Missiles and F-16 Block 32 Aircraft Upgrades improving the aircraft and increasing the South Korean military's operational abilities. The South Korean military has prepared plans for a counter-attack in the event of a first strike by North Korea", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204356-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean nuclear test, Aftermath, UNSC Resolution 1874\nThe United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1874 in response to the test, imposing further economic sanctions on the country and authorising UN member states to inspect North Korean cargo and destroy any that may be involved in the nuclear weapons program. In response to the sanctions, an unidentified spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry released a statement through the official Korean Central News Agency saying that the country would begin to \"weaponize\" its plutonium stockpiles. The spokesman also said the country \"will start uranium enrichment\" and would view any US-led attempts to \"blockade\" it as an \"act of war\". The statement was said to have lacked the usual bitterness of most North Korean statements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections in North Korea, creating the 12th Supreme People's Assembly, were held on 8 March 2009. They were originally scheduled to be held in August 2008 but were postponed for unknown reasons. Observers of North Korea speculated that it was in relation to Kim Jong-il's ill health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election\nAll candidates standing in the elections in North Korea were members of one of the parties comprising the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. A single candidate, approved by the North-Korean leadership, ran in each of the 687 districts, thereby guaranteeing a full victory by the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, regardless of voter turnout. Kim Jong-il, the de facto leader of North Korea and the Chairman of the National Defence Commission, ran for election in Constituency 333.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Background\nThe 11th Supreme People's Assembly was dissolved and elections were called for North Korea's 687 electoral districts on January 7, 2009. The elections were to be originally held as per North Korea's constitution in August 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Background\nThe delay was not officially explained, but was believed to be related to the health of Kim Jong-il. The elections also come after a significant cabinet shuffle in recent months that saw the replacement of at least five members of cabinet. The elections were called for March 8, 2009 allowing leave for a 60-day campaign period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Background\nAfter dissolution, nominating committees in all 687 districts nominated Kim Jong-il to stand for election. The 333rd district was the first to file their nomination, so he decided to run in that district. In the previous assembly, Kim Jong-il represented the 649th election district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nVoter registration was conducted by the Resident Registration Bureaus of the National Security Agency. Completing the voters lists also had the side effect to discover missing residents who may have defected and left the country. Allegations have surfaced of bribes paid to officials conducting registration drives to declare family members who have defected as being deceased. The voter registration deadline for the election took place on March 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe bribes themselves have been overlooked by the National Security Agency as the North Korean government demands the lists be complete to ensure that there is 100% turnout in the vote. It is easier to explain missing persons as being dead than to have an incomplete voters list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe voting for deputies of the Supreme People's Assembly in 2009 consisted of using paper ballots containing the name of a single candidate nominated in each district. To indicate support for the candidate a ballot is dropped into the box unmarked. If the voter does not support a candidate, that voter must cross out the name of the candidate before dropping the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe voting method is a departure from prior elections. In previous elections, the system consisted of two ballot boxes at each polling station. The boxes, one black and one white, were to indicate support for or against a candidate. There is no system in place to handle absentee ballots for North Koreans living abroad and there does not appear to be a system of advanced voting in place. Proxy votes were ordered cast by family members of North Korean defectors who were detained in prisons within China. All voting and the validation of official returns is overseen by the Central Election Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nVoting is supposed to be a secret process, but with the current method of casting ballots it becomes obvious who opposes candidates. The voter has the option of going to a booth to cross out the name or dropping the ballot directly in the box. Penalties for voting against a candidate or not voting are severe. Electors who refused to vote were sent to Labor camps. A member of the National Security Agency is stationed at every polling station to keep an eye out for people who use or look at the red pen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nElection day began with editorials being published in all state run media, encouraging voter participation. Voting officially began at 9:00am local time. Mobile polling stations were dispatched to infirm residents who could not travel to polling stations to cast ballots. Citizens of foreign nations resident in North Korea were also encouraged to come out and cast a ballot if they so wished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nBy noon on election day the Korean Central News agency had reported that 71% of registered North Korean voters had turned out to cast ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nVoters in North Korea had dressed up for election day, wearing suits and chos\u014fn-ot traditional Korean dresses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nI cast a ballot of patriotism, a ballot of approval with a mind to strengthen our socialist system\u2014the best in the world, as firm as a rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nThe most watched race of the election was district 333 where leader Kim Jong-il was running. On March 9, 2009, North Korean media announced that Kim Jong-il was unanimously re-elected to parliament. The election committee also stated that 99.98% of all registered voters took part in voting, with 100% voting for their candidate in each district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nThe election was a largely peaceful event, but some vandalism of candidate posters along with anti-election graffiti  occurred in Mundeuk, South Pyongan Province. Signage had also been changed on polling stations as official signage was replaced with new signs misspelling election booth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Conduct\nPeter Hughes, the British ambassador to North Korea, garnered significant outrage and controversy from around the world after he blogged about the election having a festive atmosphere. The outrage was caused by claims that his blog read more like an official North Korean press release as he did not mention in his blog the negative aspects of the election such as citizens being forced to vote and that there is only a single candidate to vote for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Results\nOfficial election results were announced by the Central Election Commission on March 2009. The official results showed 324 of the 687 Deputies had been replaced and were new to power with the rest being re-elected. A large portion of the Deputies elected were to fill vacancies from those who died. No form of appointment or by-elections currently exists to put Deputies into the Supreme Peoples Assembly between elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Reactions\nThe 2009 election in North Korea garnered significant attention from media agencies around the world. The attention was primarily to see if the potentially named successor to Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un was standing for a seat to the Supreme People's Assembly. Rumors surfaced in the world media on 8 March 2009 that Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il, appeared on the ballot for the elections to the Supreme People's Assembly. The rumors also stated that following the election the new parliament \"may also replace members of [Kim's] cabinet and the National Defense Commission, the top ruling agency.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204357-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 North Korean parliamentary election, Reactions\nThe Central Election Commission via the Korean Central News Agency released the complete list of Deputies elected to the Supreme Peoples Assembly. The list showed that Kim Jong-un was not among those who were elected. The results have left watchers of the regime in North Korea guessing as to the political future of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season\nThe 2009 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 15th season in the club's history. Coached by Neill Henry and captained by Johnathan Thurston, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 12th place, failing to reach the finals for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary\nThe 2009 season was an improvement on 2008 for the Cowboys, with 11 wins from 24 games. The closeness of the 2009 season meant the Cowboys finished 12th, just three points behind eventual Grand Finalists Parramatta, who finished 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary\nNeil Henry re-joined the club as head coach in 2009, taking over from interim head coach Ian Millward. Henry was an assistant coach at the club from 2002 to 2006, before moving to the Canberra Raiders in 2007 and winning the Dally M Coach of the Year award in 2008. Renowned strength and conditioning coach Billy Johnstone also returned to the club after a stint at the Gold Coast Titans. The club's key off-season recruits included Australian and Queensland representatives Willie Tonga, Antonio Kaufusi and Shannon Hegarty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary\nAfter a slow start to the season, the Cowboys enjoyed a strong run of form that included a four-game winning streak. With five rounds to play, they were sitting inside the top eight in 6th position. The club then endured four-game losing streak to end the season, dropping to 12th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary\n2009 saw the debut of James Tamou, who joined the club from the Sydney Roosters under-20's side. Tamou would become an Australian and New South Wales representative at the Cowboys and play integral role in the club's maiden premiership victory in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204358-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North Queensland Cowboys season, Representatives\nThe following players have played a representative match in 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204359-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Texas Mean Green football team\nThe 2009 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 2009 season was the team's third under head coach Todd Dodge. The Mean Green played their home games on campus at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas. North Texas finished the season 2\u201310 and 1\u20137 in Sun Belt play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204360-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Tipperary County Council election\nAn election to North Tipperary County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races\nThe 2009 North West 200 Races took place on Saturday 16 May 2009 at the 8.966\u00a0mile circuit, dubbed \"The Triangle\", based around the towns of Coleraine, Portrush and Portstewart, in Northern Ireland. The 2009 race week was the 80th anniversary of the festival, when Malcolm McQuigg, Harry Meagen and Ernie Nott picked up the race wins in 1929.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races\nSteve Plater and William Dunlop took double victories at the meeting, with Alastair Seeley winning the other race held. Two races were cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Superbike\nBruce Anstey topped the timesheets on Tuesday, on his Relentless Suzuki ahead of the Hondas of John McGuinness, Keith Amor and Steve Plater. Anstey's team-mate Cameron Donald rounded out the top five, ahead of the first Yamaha of Michael Rutter and the Kawasakis of Ryan Farquhar and Conor Cummins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Superbike\nIn the Thursday session affected by rain, Guy Martin topped the timesheets on the Hydrex Honda CBR1000RR, just ahead of a similar bike ridden by Ian Hutchinson. Denver Robb was third on his Suzuki GSX-R1000, as times were over ten seconds slower than Tuesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Superstock\nCarrickfergus-born Alastair Seeley dominated the first Tuesday Superstock session, setting a lap of 4:28.754, giving him an advantage of over 2.5 seconds. The lap was also good enough for the third fastest lap in the Superbike/Superstock session. Dungannon's Farquhar was second on a Kawasaki, while an all-Irish top three was completed by Kilkenny's John Walsh on his Yamaha. Cummins was fourth on his Kawasaki while William Dunlop's Yamaha rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Superstock\nIn the second session, Donald set the fastest time, just 0.7 seconds behind his team-mate Seeley, with the third Relentless Suzuki of Anstey in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Superstock\nThursday's session was affected by adverse weather conditions, with Derek Brien topping the timesheets but was some nine seconds off the pace of Seeley. Seeley was only sixteenth in the session, as he would only set three laps in the session. Les Shand was second, just edging out another Yamaha, ridden by Michael Pearson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, Supersport\nAfter a decent session with his 250cc bike, Michael Dunlop surprised the rest of the field by setting the fastest lap in the Tuesday Supersport session. His 4:33.664 lap was over a second and a half faster than the next best lap, by Plater on the HM Plant Honda. Amor was third ahead of Anstey, Ian Hutchinson, William Dunlop and McGuinness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, 250cc\nSunny conditions marked the start of the 250cc session on Tuesday, in which Christian Elkin topped the timesheets. Elkin's Honda lapped the circuit in a time of 5:02.594, edging out defending race winner Michael Dunlop's Honda by just over a tenth of a second. McGuinness was third, with a lap of 5:05.326, narrowly shading another Honda, ridden by Belfast's Mark Lunney. The first Yamaha rounded out the top five, with David Craig edging out Darren Burns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, 250cc\nThursday's session was completed before adverse weather conditions curtailed the day. Elkin continued his good form, with a lap of 4:56.654, nearly eight seconds faster than the next competitor. Denver Robb was second, ahead of McGuinness and Phil Harvey. Paul Robinson rounded out the top five on his Honda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, 125cc\nThe only Aprilia in the field topped the Tuesday timesheets, with Ballywalter's David Lemon riding it to a lap of 5:20.756 and the only 100\u00a0mph lap of the session. Although, William Dunlop recorded a 100\u00a0mph lap, he did not complete enough laps to qualify. Lemon's time was good enough to give him a three-second advantage over Oliver Linsdell's Honda, with Chris Palmer, Paul Robinson and James Ford, all on Hondas, rounding out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Practice, 125cc\nThursday's session was completed before adverse weather conditions curtailed the day. William Dunlop topped the session, improving on his non-qualifying time from Tuesday, but was still over a second shy from the best time of the week, set by Lemon. Lemon was only fourth in the session, with Palmer and Robinson both slotting in between.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Races, Race 1; 250cc Race final standings\nFastest Lap: Michael Dunlop, 4'55.591 on lap 2 (109.197 miles per hour (175.736\u00a0km/h))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Races, Race 2; Superbike Race Race final standings\nFastest Lap: Steve Plater, 4'22.577 on lap 2 (122.926 miles per hour (197.830\u00a0km/h))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Races, Race 3; Supersport Race final standings\nFastest Lap: Steve Plater, 4' 33.126 on lap 2 (118.178 miles per hour (190.189\u00a0km/h))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Races, Race 4; 125cc Race final standings\nFastest Lap: William Dunlop, 5' 18.482 on lap 2 (101.348 miles per hour (163.104\u00a0km/h))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204361-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 North West 200 Races, Races, Race 5; Superstock Race final standings\nFastest Lap: Alastair Seeley, 4' 27.40 on lap 2 (120.872 miles per hour (194.525\u00a0km/h))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204362-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 North Yorkshire County Council election\nElections to North Yorkshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204363-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northamptonshire County Council election\nElections to Northamptonshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. The Liberal Democrats replaced The Labour Party as the main opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204364-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 21 and ended on May 23, 2009, at New Britain Stadium in New Britain, Connecticut. The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament. Fourth-seeded Monmouth won their fourth tournament championship and earned the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204364-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular-season winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204364-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player\nChris Collazo was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Collazo was a second baseman for Monmouth who  hit .600 (9-for-15) and drove in six runs over the three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204365-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held on March 5th, 8th, and 11th. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. The tourney opened on March 5 with the quarterfinals, followed by the semifinals on March 8 and the finals on March 11. The champion, Robert Morris, earned a trip to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204365-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Northeast Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The semifinals matchups will be the highest and lowest remaining seeds in one game and the other two seeds in the other game. All games are held at the home court of the higher-seeded team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204365-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, All-tournament team\nJeremy Chappell, RMUKelly Beidler, MSMJoey Henley, SHURob Robinson, RMUJustin Rutty, QU", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204366-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Grand Prix\nThe 2009 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Lime Rock Park, Connecticut on July 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204366-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Simon Pagenaud and Gil de Ferran in the de Ferran Motorsports Acura, their third American Le Mans Series victory in a row. Dyson Racing Team earned their first victory with Mazda in the LMP2 category, overcoming several mechanical issues during the race. Flying Lizard Motorsports continued their season streak with their fourth consecutive win, while Gruppe Orange won in the ALMS Challenge category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204366-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Grand Prix\nCorsa Motorsports also became the first American Le Mans Series competitor to utilize a hybrid electric drivetrain on their Le Mans Prototype during an event, eventually completing the race in third position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204366-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204366-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeast Grand Prix, Report, Race, Race results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204367-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northeastern Huskies football team\nThe 2009 Northeastern Huskies football team represented Northeastern University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Northeastern competed as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under head football coach Rocky Hager and played their home games at Parsons Field. The 2009 campaign was the final year that Northeastern fielded a football team. The decision to drop the program after this season cited financial problems, poor attendance, and very few winning seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204368-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Colorado Bears football team\nThe 2009 Northern Colorado Bears football team represented the University of Northern Colorado in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bears were led by fourth-year head coach Scott Downing and played their home games at Nottingham Field. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 3\u20138 overall and 1\u20137 in the Big Sky to place in a three-way tie for fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 19 April 2009, a year earlier than necessary. The early election was decided upon by the ruling Republican Turkish Party. Winning the largest portion of the vote, the National Unity Party won the election, and the party chairman, Dervi\u015f Ero\u011flu, became Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election\n171,000 Cypriots were eligible to vote. It has been claimed that of these as many as 100,000 were originally Turkish immigrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Results\nThe National Unity Party (UBP) won the election with 44% of the vote. The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) received 29% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Analysis\nThe UBP's strong anti-unification position means that the results are likely to halt UN efforts to reunify Cyprus. However, the UBP stated after its election victory that it wanted the talks to continue. The UBP remains opposed to a federalist solution, however, and prefers a two-state solution; while analysts have stated that the UBP is unlikely to directly work against the talks, it might shore up resentment and opposition if the talks drag on too long or if it considers the outcome to be unfavourable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions\nDervi\u015f Ero\u011flu, the UBP chairman and the Prime Minister, stated, \"I am proud that Turkey is our main native country. Thanks to our native country we are living calm and safe.\" In addition, many Turkish Cypriots celebrated the UBP victory. On the other hand, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reported \"despair has gripped the Republic of Cyprus\" following the release of early election results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204369-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election, Reactions\nSome analysts say that the new parliament could create difficulties for Mehmet Ali Talat, the peace negotiator for the Turkish Cypriots. With Talat's party gaining slightly fewer seats, \"... it is obviously going to limit Talat's ability to act in a lot of ways, you know parliament is going to have a much greater say in all of this and really can tie his hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204370-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 2009 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Northern Illinois competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division. The team was coached by Jerry Kill (2nd Season) and played their home games in Huskie Stadium. The Huskies finished the season 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in MAC play and lost in the International Bowl 27\u20133 against South Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204371-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Iowa Panthers football team\nThe 2009 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The previous year's team finished tied for first (of nine) in the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVC). The team was coached by Mark Farley and played their home games in the UNI-Dome. The team finished with a record of 7\u20134 (5\u20133 MVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204371-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Iowa Panthers football team, Season\nDefensive End Jason Ruffin was selected to the East-West Shrine Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204372-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Ireland Youth Soccer Tournament\nThe 2009 Milk Cup Tournament will run between 27 and 31 July. The Milk Cup is a prestigious association football tournament and is divided into three categories: Elite, Premier, and Junior for differing age groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204372-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Ireland Youth Soccer Tournament\nThe Elite section had six teams in 2009, divided into two groups of three followed by a playoff, whilst the Junior and Premier sections were contested by 24 and 20 teams, respectively. Each team played once on Monday and Tuesday as part of a league, from which the top eight teams qualified for the Milk Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday. The remainder of the teams qualify for other cups that run alongside the Milk Cup, with quarter-finals on the Wednesday, semi-finals on Thursday, and the finals on Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204372-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Ireland Youth Soccer Tournament\nClubs and national teams from anywhere in the world may compete on invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204373-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Championship\nThe 2009 Northern Mariana Championship was the fourth season of top-flight football in Northern Marianas Islands. The competition was won by Inter Godfather's, previously known as Fiesta Inter Saipan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204373-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Championship, Final table\nUnlike previous seasons where play offs had been employed, this season was a normal league format in which each team played the others twice. Remington were new entrants to the league and FC Arirang were renamed Korean FA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 7 November 2009, electing the Governor, the Legislature, four mayors, the Board of Education and nine municipal council members. There were also four referendums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Background\nA total of 16,146 voters registered to vote with the Commonwealth Election Commission for the 2009 election. That is a 15% increase in voters compared to the 15,118 people who registered to vote in the 2005 general election. Precinct 1 on Saipan, which includes the villages of San Antonio, San Vicente and Koblerville, had the most number of registered voters at 4,331. Voter registration ended on September 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Background\nA total of 109 candidates vied for the 43 elected positions in the Northern Mariana Islands in the 2009 election. The contested offices included the offices of governor & lieutenant governor, the twenty seats in the House of Representative, six (of nine) seats in the Senate as well as mayoral posts and various local offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Background\nAt least 18,000 ballots designed to be read by counting machines were printed in Alabama for the 2009 election, according to the executive director of the Election Commission, Robert Guerrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Campaign\nMajor election issues included the Commonwealth's faltering economy and the federalization of the Northern Mariana Islands' immigration by the United States government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Campaign\nRepublican Hofschneider and his running mate, Palacios, challenged incumbent Governor Benigno Fitial and his running mate, Lieutenant Governor Eloy Inos, in the general election. Former legislator Juan \"Pan\" Guerrero ran as an independent, with sitting CNMI Rep. Joe Camacho as his running mate. Another former legislator, Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero, campaigned as an independent, with former Education Commissioner David M. Borja as his running mate. The race was widely viewed as a rematch between Fitial and Hofschneider, who was narrowly defeated in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Campaign\nThe gubernatorial candidates focused heavily on the estimated 3,000 Northern Mariana Islanders residing on the United States mainland, many of whom were eligible to vote be absentee ballot. Three of the four gubernatorial candidates - Governor Fitial, Hofschneider and Juan Pan Guerrero - attended a Labor Day festival for Northern Mariana Islanders in San Diego, California, in September 2009. Independent candidate Juan \"Pan\" Guerrero and his running mate, Joe Camacho, campaigned throughout the western United States in August and September. Guerrero and Camacho began campaigning in Salem and Portland, Oregon, before travelling to Seattle, Boise, Idaho, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego and Honolulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election\nThe incumbent governor Benigno R. Fitial of the Covenant Party, successfully ran for a second term; his running mate, Lt. Governor Eloy Inos, was elected to his first full term. Fitial faced three challengers in the November 7 general election: Republican nominee Heinz Hofschneider, independent Juan \"Pan\" Guerrero, and independent Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election\nBecause of a law signed by Governor Fitial on July 24, 2009, a runoff election between the candidates who received the highest and second-highest vote totals would be required if no candidate obtained more than 50% of the overall vote. Under this 2009 law, a runoff would occur 14 days after the results of the general election are certified by the Commonwealth Election Commission. This election indeed required a runoff, as neither Fitial nor Hofschneider garnered more than 50% of the vote in the November 7 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election\nOn election day, Republican challenger Hofschneider received 4,900 votes and incumbent Governor Fitial received 4,892 votes, therefore advancing to the runoff election held on November 23, 2009. Of the 13,784 total votes cast in the first round on November 7, Hofschneider led Fitial by just 8 votes, the closest gubernatorial election in the history of the Northern Mariana Islands. In the November 23 runoff election, Governor Fital was reelected by a 370-vote margin. With a margin of 2.8%, this election was the closest race of the 2009 gubernatorial election cycle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election\nFitial was elected to serve a five-year term in office as governor instead of the normal four-year term, due to the Senate Legislative Initiative 16-11, which was one of the four ballot initiatives ratified in the November 7 election. Under the Senate Legislative Initiative 16-11, future general (including gubernatorial) elections will be held only in even-numbered years instead of odd-numbered years, such as 2009. Therefore, the next gubernatorial election took place in 2014 rather than 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Candidates, Republican Party\nFormer Northern Mariana Governor Juan N. Babauta, a Republican, declared his intention to run for governor and challenge Fitial in January 2009. His running mate was Galvin Deleon Guerrero, a member of the CNMI Board of Education. Babauta was then defeated in the Republican primary by sitting CNMI Rep. Heinz Sablan Hofschneider, a former Speaker of the House, for the Republican Party nomination. Hofschneider's running mate is CNMI Rep. Arnold Indalecio Palacios, the current Speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Candidates, Republican Party\nBefore the Republican primary, which was held on June 27, 2009, Hofschneider and Babauta signed a unity pledge, with each candidate pledging to support the winner of the primary. Hofschneider won the primary on June 27 with about 53% of the votes cast. Hofschneider won at six of the eight precincts. After the results were announced, the candidates convened and embraced; Babauta threw his support to Hofschneider and said that he would accept the people's decision. After Babauta had asked his supporters to vote for Hofschneider in the general election, Hofschneider called Babauta and his supporters \"a crucial part of the campaign toward November.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Candidates, Democratic Party\nFor the first time in its history, the Democratic Party of the Northern Mariana Islands did not nominate a candidate for Governor in 2009. The only offices which were contested by the Democrats in 2009 were certain seats in the legislature and the mayorship of Saipan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 100], "content_span": [101, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Election day\nPolls on election day opened at 7 a.m. on November 7, 2009. Three of the four gubernatorial candidates cast their ballots in the morning at Garapan Elementary School in Garapan, Saipan. Incumbent Governor Benigno Fitial and First Lady Josie Fitial voted at 7:10\u00a0a.m., Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero arrived at the school at 7:20\u00a0a.m. and independent candidate Juan Pan Guerrero voted after 9 a.m. Republican candidate Heinz Hofschneider also voted at Garapan Elementary School at 6 p.m. later that day. An estimated 84% of registered voters participated in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Election day\nIn the November 7 general election, Republican challenger Heinz Hofschneider received 4,900 votes and incumbent Governor Benigno Fitial received 4,892 votes, therefore both advanced to the runoff election slated for November 23, 2009. A total of 13,784 votes were cast in the first round. Hofschneider led Fitial by just eight votes, the closest gubernatorial election in the history of the Northern Mariana Islands. Independent candidates Juan Pan Guerrero and Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero came in 3rd and 4th place respectively and, therefore, did not qualify for the second runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Election day\nUnder a 2009 law signed by Governor Benigno Fitial, a runoff election is required within fourteen days of the if no candidate obtained 50% of the popular vote plus 1. Since neither Fitial nor Hofschneider garnered more than 50% of the vote, a runoff date was set for November 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nThe Commonwealth Election Commission certified the results of the general election on November 9 and set the date of the runoff election between Fitial and Hofschneider for Monday, November 23. In a November 17 memorandum, Governor Fitial declared November 23 a legal holiday in the Northern Mariana Islands to encourage voter turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nThe candidates qualifying for the runoff on November 23, 2009, were incumbent Covenant Party Governor Benigno Fitial and Republican candidate, Rep. Heinz Hofschneider. The incumbent ticket of Fitial-Inos campaigned for re-election on a theme of \"proven leadership and proven experience,\" while the rival Hofscneider-Palacios campaign advocated a \"change in leadership\" to voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nBoth the Fitial and Hofschneider campaigns reached out to supporters of the independent candidates who did not qualify for the November 23rd runoff, Juan Pan Guerrero and Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero. The support of these independent voters was considered vital both Fitial's and Hofschneider's candidacies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nFormer independent candidate Juan \"Pan\" Guerrero declined to endorse either Fitial or Hofschneider in one-page statement released on November 13, 2009. Instead, Guerrero, who came in third in the gubernatorial election, called on CNMI voters, especially his supporters, to support the candidate who best \"represents a better future for themselves, their families, and the Commonwealth.\" Guerrero further elaborated that, \"As soon as it was clear that I would not be in the runoff election, I urged supporters to make their own choices about whom to support-Ben and Eloy or Heinz and Arnold.\" In his statement, Guerrero noted that he make no further public statements concerning the election before the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nGuerrero running mate in the 2009 election, Joe Camacho, issued his own statement on November 12 endorsing the Covenant Party ticket of Governor Benigno Fitial and Lt. Governor Eloy Inos for re-election. Camacho's brother, Clyde Norita, who was the chairman for the Executive Committee to Elect Juan Pan and Joe Camacho, also endorsed Fitial and Inos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nFormer independent candidate Ramon \"Kumoi\" Deleon Guerrero, who came in fourth place in the general election, endorsed Heinz Hofschneider and Arnold Palacios for governor and lt. governor. Deleon Guerrero cited the wishes of his supporters and support for reforms advocated by Hofschneider, as well as alleged broken promises by the Fitial administration, for his endorsement. He further cited similarities between his own campaign and Hofschneider's messages, \"Hofschneider and Palacios have whole-heartedly embraced these visions. They have even taken to heart, our campaign theme of \"Time For Change.\" Deleon Guerrero stated that Fitial had failed to deliver on a number of promises during his term in office, such as economic growth, improved healthcare and the removal of fuel surcharges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nHowever, Deleon Guerrero's running mate, former Education Commissioner David Borja, endorsed Governor Fitial for re-election. Fitial was also endorsed by the Deleon Guerrero-Borja campaign chairman, Rudy R. Sablan, and seven other senior members of the campaign team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Gubernatorial election, Runoff\nOn December 8, after all ballots had been counted, Fitial was declared the victor in the runoff. He and Inos received 6,610 votes, while Hofschneider and Palacios received 6,240 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Legislature\nAll 20 seats in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives were contested in the election. Six seats in the Northern Mariana Islands Senate were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Legislature\nBefore the 2009 election, the Republican Party controlled the 20-member House of Representatives with a 12-seat majority. The Senate was controlled by the Covenant Party in a coalition with the Democrats and a lone independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 59], "content_span": [60, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Mayoral elections\nAll four mayoral posts were up for election across the Commonwealth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Mayoral elections\nThere were nine candidates for mayor on the island of Saipan: Republican Donald Flores, who won the election, as well as Covenant candidate Marian Tudela, Democrat Angelo Villagomez, and Independent candidates Candy Taman, Joe Sanchez, Roman Benavente, Juan Demapan, Tony Camacho and Lino Tenorio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 65], "content_span": [66, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204374-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election, Referendums, Education system\nDo you approve of House Legislative Initiative 15-3 to amend Article XV, Section 1(c) and (e) of the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands to one member being a high school student \u2013 one member selected by the teachers within the Public School System \u2013 the selection process of a public school teacher representative shall be established by law \u2013 the elected board members shall be limited to two terms \u2013 and the public elementary and secondary education system shall be guaranteed an annual budget of not less than 15 percent of the general revenues of the Commonwealth through an annual appropriation?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204375-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Pride RLFC season\n2009 was the second competitive season for the Cairns based CRGT Northern Pride Rugby League Football Club. They competed in the QRL state competition, which in 2009 was called the Wizard Queensland Cup. The addition of the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles meant 12 clubs participated, with each club playing 22 matches (11 home and 11 away) over 26 weeks. In 2009 the Wizard Queensland Cup introduced a six-team finals series (compared to five in previous years).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204375-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Pride RLFC season\nThe Pride finished second and reached the Grand Final, losing 32\u201318 to the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles at Stockland Park. Coach Andrew Dunemann left at the end of the season to take up a position as assistant coach to Rick Stone at the Newcastle Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204375-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northern Pride RLFC season, 2009 Televised Games\nIn 2009 games were televised by ABC TV and shown live across Queensland through the ABC1 channel at 2.00pm (AEST) on Saturday afternoons. The commentary team was Gerry Collins, Warren Boland and David Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204376-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team\nThe 2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team was an American football team that won the 2009 NCAA Division II national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204376-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team\nThe team represented Northwest Missouri State University in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) during the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. In their 16th season under head coach Mel Tjeerdsma, the Bearcats compiled a 14\u20131 record (9\u20130 against conference opponents) and won the MIAA championship. The team lost the season opener to Abilene Christian and then won 14 consecutive games. The 2009 Bearcats averaged 42 points and 632 yards of offense per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204376-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team\nThe team advanced to the NCAA Division II playoffs and won the national championship by defeating Grand Valley State, 30\u201323, in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204376-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team\nThe Bearcats' statistical leaders included LaRon Council with 1,819 rushing yards,  Blake Bolles with 4,146 passing yards, Jake Soy with 1,559 receiving yards and 162 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204376-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team\nThe team played its home games at Bearcat Stadium in Maryville, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University in the Big Ten during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Pat Fitzgerald, in his fourth season at Northwestern, was the team's head coach. The Wildcats home games were played at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. The Wildcats finished the season 8\u20135, 5\u20133 in Big Ten play and lost in the Outback Bowl 35\u201338 in overtime against Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Towson\nIt was apparent that Towson didn't stand a chance from the get-go. Northwestern raced out to a 30\u20130 lead before putting in the reserves out of mercy. To Towson's credit, they did go toe-to-toe with Northwestern's second and third stringers, which is no small feat, given that Northwestern is a somewhat prestigious FBS school and Towson is a mostly unheralded FCS school. The game allowed both teams to get some experience for the future and the final 35 minutes gave Northwestern's younger players some good game experience. This would prove to be one of Northwestern's few blowout wins of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Eastern Michigan\nNorthwestern seemed poised to cruise to another dominating blowout victory when they raced out to a 21\u20133 halftime lead and still held a fairly comfortable 21\u201310 lead after three quarters and widened the lead to 24\u201310 early in the 4th. Northwestern eventually found themselves only ahead 24\u201317 and soon the game was tied at 24\u201324. To avoid the game going into overtime, the Wildcats finished off the stubborn Eagles with a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Syracuse\nFresh off of a closer than expected win over Eastern Michigan, Northwestern went to the Carrier Dome to face a Syracuse team that had played Minnesota down to the wire in week one before being obliterated by a Penn State team that didn't allow a single Orange point until the reserves were all subbed in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Syracuse\nThis game would go Syracuse's way, however as the up and down Orange, who would later secure a win over a talented Rutgers team (but in blowout fashion 31\u201313), engaged in a shootout with Northwestern, finally kicking the all important field goal to win the game as time expired. This put Syracuse at 1\u20132 and Northwestern at 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nGoing toe-to-toe with a Gophers team that had beaten the same Syracuse team that the Wildcats had lost to, Northwestern plays a close game with Minnesota, even leading 24\u201321 going into the final quarter before Minnesota takes momentum back to win the game 35\u201324, putting the Wildcats at 2\u20132. But still, no blowout losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Purdue\nThe Boilermakers race out to a 14\u20133 first quarter lead and still hold a 21\u201316 halftime lead, but the Wildcats steal one from the stubborn and better than their record Boilermakers (who would later on upset the Buckeyes) with a second half rally. Still trailing 21\u201319 after three, the final Northwestern touchdown puts them ahead 27\u201321 for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Miami (OH)\nUnlike the game with Eastern Michigan, this one wouldn't come down to theatrics, Northwestern led 10\u20130 after one and scored six more in the third quarter to take a commanding 16\u20130 lead. Poised for the shutout, Miami got on the board late in the fourth quarter, but Northwestern denied them the two-point conversion to make it a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nFacing another better than their record Big Ten team, this time Northwestern wouldn't get so lucky. Leading 7\u20130 at halftime, they soon trailed 17\u20137 after three, and despite giving Michigan State all they could handle, the game was destined to go Sparty's way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Indiana\nIf there is any team better than their record in 2009, it's Indiana. Despite blowout losses to Iowa (42\u201324) and Ohio State (33\u201314) which are understandable, the Hoosiers had one ugly blemish on their schedule, a 47\u20137 loss to a Virginia team that had no business keeping it competitive with Indiana, let alone winning like that. Indiana also suffered a 31\u201320 loss to Penn State that wasn't as close as the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Indiana\nHowever, Indiana played like they were the heavy favorite going into this game taking a commanding 21\u20130 first quarter lead and still rolled it up to 28\u20137 early in the second before Northwestern cut it close to 28\u201317. Trailing 28\u201319 after a quiet third quarter that saw only a safety, the Wildcats would not be denied. Northwestern turned the game into a win by scoring ten fourth quarter points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Penn State\nHanding Northwestern their only blowout loss of 2009, Penn State was shut down by Northwestern's offense for the first 40 minutes of the game until they finally got some momentum late in the third quarter, scoring three rapid fourth-quarter touchdowns to give the game an appearance of being a much easier win for Penn State than it really was. Northwestern quarterback Mike Kafka was injured late in the game, which led to backup Dan Persa being thrust under the lights. After the injury, NU's offense could do little against the vaunted Penn State defense. Regardless, this was Northwestern's only humiliating loss of what was a mostly positive 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Iowa\nLicking their wounds from the massacre at the hands of Penn State, the Wildcats traveled to Kinnick Stadium to take on the undefeated Hawkeyes, ranked #4 in the BCS, fresh off of a 42\u201324 blowout win over Indiana, who actually led 21\u20137 early on over Iowa and still led 24\u201314 deep in the game before Iowa took command in the second half. It looked early on like Iowa was poised to make mincemeat out of Northwestern as Penn State had done a week before. This game wouldn't go Iowa's way, however; the Hawkeyes would lose their star quarterback Ricky Stanzi in the second quarter and would never recover. Northwestern nabs their best win of 2009 by upsetting then #6 Iowa (who would finish #7 in the nation) 17\u201310 on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Illinois\nIllinois was bowl ineligible and had little to play for except pride, which they played with in this game and had shown increasing amounts of since their 38\u201313 upset of Michigan. Northwestern controlled the game for three quarters before Illinois suddenly sprang to life, but the Wildcats hung on to beat the pesky Illini 21\u201316, and win the inaugural Land of Lincoln Trophy, which replaced the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Regular season, Wisconsin\nNorthwestern managed to grab their second major upset of 2009 against the Badgers under the lights at Ryan Field. It looked like Wisconsin was going to get blown out as the Wildcats raced out to a 27\u201314 halftime lead, but Wisconsin fought back to make it 30\u201324 after three, but Northwestern recovered a fumble on Wisky's final drive to hang on to their second big upset of 2009, winning 33\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204377-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team, Outback Bowl, Auburn\nIn what is remembered as one of the most entertaining bowl games of all time, Mike Kafka set bowl game records with 78 passing attempts and 47 completions. After a back and forth affair with numerous turnovers and missed field goals, overtime seemed only fitting. With kicker Stefan Demos hurt, Northwestern tried a fake field goal which failed, giving Auburn, the next year's national champions, the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204378-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norton 360 Sandown Challenge\nThe 2009 Norton 360 Sandown Challenge was the seventh race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 13 and 14 of the series and was held on the weekend of 1\u20132 August at Sandown Raceway, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204379-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Norwegian Figure Skating Championships was held in Bergen from January 15 to 17, 2009. Skaters competed in the discipline of single skating. The results were used to choose the teams to the 2009 World Championships, the 2009 European Championships, the 2009 Nordic Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204380-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian First Division\nThe 2009 1. divisjon (referred to as Adeccoligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football season. The season began play on 5 April 2009 and will end on 1 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204380-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian First Division\nThe club relegated from the Tippeligaen in 2008 was Ham-Kam. Sandnes Ulf and H\u00f8dd were relegated to the 2. divisjon in 2008 after finishing in fifteenth and sixteenth place respectively. Tromsdalen, Stavanger, Mj\u00f8ndalen, and Skeid were promoted from the 2. divisjon in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204380-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian First Division\nAt the end of the season, a two-legged promotion playoff will be played between the 3rd, 4th, and 5th placed teams in the 1. divisjon and the 14th placed team in the Tippeligaen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204380-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian First Division, Promotion play-offs\nThe two winning sides from the first round, Sarpsborg 08 and Kongsvinger, took part in a two-legged play-off to decide who would play in the 2010 Tippeligaen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204380-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian First Division, Promotion play-offs\nKongsvinger won 5\u20134 on aggregate and were promoted to the 2010 Tippeligaen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 2009 Norwegian Football Cup was the 104th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The competition started with two qualifying rounds on 13 April and 22 April, and the final was held on 8 November. The defending champions were V\u00e5lerenga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe winners of the Cup, Aalesund, could call themselves Champions of Norway, and qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First qualifying round\nThe match-ups were selected by the association on 17 March, the matches were played on 13 April or earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second qualifying round\nThe match-ups were selected by the association on 15 April, the matches were played on 22 April or earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\nThe match-ups were selected by the association on 28 April, the matches were played on 9\u201310 May and 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\nVerdal - V\u00e5lerenga 1 - 6Asker - FK T\u00f8nsberg 2 - 1Bossekop - Tromsdalen 0 - 1Eidsvold TF - Valdres 2 - 0Fj\u00f8ra - L\u00f8v-Ham 0 - 1Flisa - Kongsvinger 0 - 0 a.e.t. (Kongsvinger won 5 - 4 on a penalty shootout)Klepp - Bryne 1 - 5Mysen - Follo 1 - 5Raufoss - Ullern 3 - 1Redalen IL - Nybergsund-Trysil 0 - 1Skjetten - Kjels\u00e5s 1 - 2 a.e.t. Str\u00f8mmen - Korsvoll 2 - 0Vindbjart - Randaberg 1 - 3\u00d8rn-Horten - Sarpsborg 08 3 - 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\nFl\u00f8ya - Troms\u00f8 0 - 4Brattv\u00e5g IL - Aalesund 0 - 5Frigg - Lyn 0 - 4Gj\u00f8vik FF - Rosenborg 0 - 4Konnerud IL - Str\u00f8msgodset 2 - 4 a.e.t. Nordstrand - Fredrikstad 0 - 7Odda FK - Viking 1 - 6Sander - Stab\u00e6k 0 - 5Tornado M\u00e5l\u00f8y - Molde 1 - 8Trauma - Start 1 - 4\u00d8stsiden - Lillestr\u00f8m 2 - 3Egersund IK - Kopervik 3 - 3 a.e.t. (Kopervik won 5 - 3 on a penalty shootout)Elnesv\u00e5gen/Omegn - Skarb\u00f8vik 1 - 2Elverum - Ham-Kam 1 - 4 a.e.t. FF Lillehammer - KFUM 1 - 1 a.e.t.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\n(Lillehammer won 4 - 1 on a penalty shootout)Fjellhamar - L\u00f8renskog 1 - 2Follese - Fyllingen 1 - 2Fram Larvik - Drammen FK 1 - 2 a.e.t. Fr\u00f8yland - Haugesund 1 - 4Gr\u00fcner - Ullensaker/Kisa 2 - 5Hasle-L\u00f8ren - Dr\u00f8bak-Frogn 0 - 2Jevnaker - Mj\u00f8ndalen 1 - 1 a.e.t.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\n(Mj\u00f8ndalen won 4 - 3 on a penalty shootout)Kattem - Levanger 1 - 5KIL/Hemne - By\u00e5sen 0 - 2Kolstad - Ranheim 2 - 3Kristiansund BK - Nardo 5 - 2Kvik Halden - Skeid 2 - 1Lyngb\u00f8 - Fana 1 - 0Lyngdal - Stavanger 1 - 6Mj\u00f8lner - Harstad 2 - 2 a.e.t.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\n(Mj\u00f8lner won 9 - 8 on a penalty shootout)Mo - St\u00e5lkameratene 1 - 2Pors Grenland - Notodden 1 - 2Rakkestad IF - Moss 0 - 6R\u00f8a - Manglerud Star 3 - 1Sandar - B\u00e6rum 0 - 3Sandnes Ulf - Mandalskameratene 4 - 2Senja - Bod\u00f8/Glimt 0 - 1Skarp - Alta 1 - 2Sm\u00f8r\u00e5s IL - Sogndal 0 - 4Stathelle/Omegn - Sandefjord Fotball 2 - 4Steinkjer - Charlottenlund 8 - 2Stord - Nest-Sotra 0 - 2Strindheim - Tiller 5 - 0Tr\u00e6ff - H\u00f8dd 1 - 2Vadmyra - \u00c5sane 1 - 2 a.e.t. Vard Haugesund - Vidar 0 - 4\u00c5lg\u00e5rd - Flekker\u00f8y  3 - 2 a.e.t. \u00c5rvoll - H\u00f8nefoss 0 - 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, First round\nH\u00f8yang - Brann 0 - 6Vestfossen - Odd Grenland 0 - 4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nThe match-ups were selected by the association on 14 May, the matches were played on 24 May, 27\u201328 May and 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nLyngb\u00f8 - Brann 0 - 2H\u00f8dd - Molde 0 - 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nKjels\u00e5s - Odd Grenland 1 - 2Kvik Halden - Stab\u00e6k 1 - 4Str\u00f8mmen - Lillestr\u00f8m 1 - 2 a.e.t. FF Lillehammer - Ham-Kam 0 - 4Drammen FK - Mj\u00f8ndalen 1 - 5Vidar - Start 1 - 3Stavanger - Sandnes Ulf 3 - 2Kopervik - Bryne 1 - 5Randaberg - Haugesund 2 - 2 a.e.t. (Haugesund won 4 - 3 on a penalty shootout)L\u00f8v-Ham - Fyllingen 3 - 0Ranheim - Steinkjer 6 - 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nDr\u00f8bak-Frogn - Fredrikstad 1 - 2Follo - V\u00e5lerenga 0 - 2R\u00f8a - Lyn 0 - 6L\u00f8renskog - Notodden 0 - 1Ullensaker/Kisa - Sandefjord Fotball 1 - 0H\u00f8nefoss - Raufoss 1 - 1 a.e.t. (H\u00f8nefoss won 6 - 5 on a penalty shootout)\u00c5lg\u00e5rd - Viking 2 - 3Kristiansund BK - Aalesund 0 - 2By\u00e5sen - Alta 3 - 4Levanger - Rosenborg 0 - 5St\u00e5lkameratene - Troms\u00f8 2 - 3Mj\u00f8lner - Bod\u00f8/Glimt 1 - 3Tromsdalen - Strindheim 2 - 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nSarpsborg 08 - Eidsvold TF 2 - 3 Nest-Sotra - Moss 2 - 1Sogndal - \u00c5sane 2 - 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Second round\nB\u00e6rum - Str\u00f8msgodset 3 - 1Kongsvinger - Skarb\u00f8vik 4 - 0Nybergsund-Trysil - Asker 1 - 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Third round\nThe match-ups were selected by the association on 5 June, the matches were played on 17\u201318 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Third round\nV\u00e5lerenga - Ullensaker/Kisa 5 - 3Asker - Lillestr\u00f8m 0 - 3Eidsvold TF - Stab\u00e6k 1 - 2Ham-Kam - Lyn 0 - 2Mj\u00f8ndalen - B\u00e6rum 3 - 1Notodden - Odd Grenland 0 - 2Bryne - Viking 0 - 0 a.e.t. (Bryne won 3 - 2 on a penalty shootout)Haugesund - Sogndal 1 - 2Nest-Sotra - Brann 2 - 4Aalesund - Stavanger 2 - 1Strindheim - Rosenborg 1 - 7Troms\u00f8 - H\u00f8nefoss 4 - 0Alta - Bod\u00f8/Glimt 3 - 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Third round\nFredrikstad - Ranheim 5 - 3 a.e.t. Molde - Kongsvinger 1 - 0Start - L\u00f8v-Ham 2 - 2 a.e.t. (L\u00f8v-Ham won 14 - 13 on a penalty shootout)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Fourth round\nThis round consists of the 16 winners from the previous round. The eight matches will be played on 5, 8 and 9 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Fourth round\nSogndal 0 - 1 AalesundV\u00e5lerenga 3 - 1 Mj\u00f8ndalenAlta 0 - 1 MoldeStab\u00e6k 4 - 0 Lillestr\u00f8m", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Fourth round\nBrann 1 - 0 LynOdd Grenland 3 - 1 Fredrikstad", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204381-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe matches were drawn on 10 August, with former Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, drawing the first team. The team he drew were Molde, which is his favourite and hometown team. The matches are scheduled to be played on 23\u201324 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204382-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup Final\n2009 Norwegian Football Cup Final was played between Molde FK and Aalesunds FK on 8 November 2009 on Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Norway. With both clubs hailing from M\u00f8re og Romsdal, the match was dubbed as a local derby between the league silver medalists from Molde and the pride of \u00c5lesund, who ended up as number four from the bottom in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204382-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian Football Cup Final\nMolde played their fifth cup final, having won in 1994 and 2005, while Aalesund played their first cup final and had the chance to win the club's first trophy ever. Molde's captain Daniel Berg Hestad was a part of both the 1994 and the 2005 winning teams, while Knut D\u00f8rum Lillebakk, \u00d8yvind Gjerde and Marcus Andreasson became cup champions in 2005. Both Glenn Roberts and Fredrik Carlsen had the chance to win their second straight cup after winning it with V\u00e5lerenga in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204383-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian S\u00e1mi parliamentary election\nThe 2009 S\u00e1mi parliamentary election was held in Norway on September 14, 2009. Voters elected 39 members for the S\u00e1mi Parliament of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204383-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian S\u00e1mi parliamentary election\nThe election saw significant losses for the two dominant parties in the S\u00e1mi Parliament, the Norwegian Labour Party and Norwegian S\u00e1mi Association. Two third parties made a breakthrough, the new \u00c1rja and the Progress Party, with three seats each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204383-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian S\u00e1mi parliamentary election, Negotiations\nBoth the Labour Party and Norwegian S\u00e1mi Association had refused to cooperate with the Progress Party, who notably seek the dismantling of the S\u00e1mi Parliament. While both Labour and NSR were reluctant to give hold to a so-called \"minor party tyranny\", the parties also thought it unlikely to establish a S\u00e1mi Parliament Council together, but held that it could not be ruled entirely out. Both parties sought cooperation with the \u00c1rja Party. \u00c1rja held that they could cooperate with all parties, with the likely exception of the Progress Party, citing it \"could be problematic\". \u00c1rja mainly sought to establish a \"bloc\" together with the Kautokeino reindeer herders list, while also negotiating with both the main parties, as well as Nordkalottfolket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204383-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian S\u00e1mi parliamentary election, Negotiations, Result\nIn the end, a majority S\u00e1mi Parliament Council was elected, supported by the Labour Party (14 seats), \u00c1rja (3), Nordkalottfolket (1), \u00c5arjel-Saemiej Gielh (1), and an unaffiliated S\u00e1mi resident of Southern Norway (1). The S\u00e1mi Parliament Council itself, consisted of Egil Olli (Labour) as President, L\u00e1il\u00e1 Susanne Vars (\u00c1rja) as Vice President, and the council members Ellinor Marita J\u00e5ma (\u00c5arjel-Saemiej Gielh), Marianne Balto (Labour) and Vibeke Larsen (Labour). The council was later complained in to the Control Committee by Labour politician \u00c5ge Nils Haugen, as the council violated its own equal rights laws, as it consisted of four women and only one man. The complaint was also supported by the Progress Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204383-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian S\u00e1mi parliamentary election, Election results\nElection results for the 2009 S\u00e1mi parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 68.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election\nThe 2009 parliamentary election was held in Norway on 13 and 14 September 2009. Elections in Norway are held on a Monday in September, usually the second or third Monday, as determined by the king. Early voting was possible between 10 August and 11 September 2009, while some municipalities also held open voting on 13 September. Voters elected 169 members for the Storting, each for a four-year term. Voter turn-out in the 2009 general elections was 76.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election\nCandidates were elected on party lists in each of the 19 counties. The political parties nominated candidates for these lists during late 2008 and early 2009. The party lists had to be registered by 31 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election\nAlthough the opposition received more votes, the governing Red-Green Coalition obtained more seats in parliament. This allowed Jens Stoltenberg to continue as prime minister. Further to the right, both the Conservative Party and Progress Party increased their number of seats in parliament. The centrist Liberal Party failed to meet the electoral threshold of 4.0%, and were reduced to two representatives in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Pre-Campaign, Proportional representation system\nThere are 169 seats in the Norwegian Parliament, but voters directly elect only 150 as constituency representatives, while the remaining 19 are \"at-large\" members\u2014one for each county\u2014and these are apportioned to parties based on the total national vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Pre-Campaign, Proportional representation system\nFor the purposes of parliamentary elections, Norway is divided into 19 constituencies corresponding to the counties, including the municipal authority of Oslo, which is a county of its own. The number of members to be returned from each constituency varies from 3 to 16, according to the population and area of the county. Norway has capped the number of \"fixed\" seats at 150 and, to determine how to apportion those amongst the 19 counties, it uses a two-tier formula based on population and geographic size. Each inhabitant counts one point, while each square kilometer counts 1.8 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Pre-Campaign, Speculations\nBy early 2008, the Norwegian media were already speculating about possible outcomes of the election, and politicians were making statements about their preferred coalition partners. No single party has had a majority in the Norwegian parliament since 1961, and the largest party in the previous election won only 61 of the 169 seats. The overwhelming likelihood was therefore that the election would lead to the formation of a majority or minority coalition government; the Norwegian Labour Party was the only one likely to be able to form a single-party minority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Pre-Campaign, Speculations\nLiberal Party leader Lars Sponheim said during a televised debate in early 2008 that the ruling Red-Green coalition government would face the same problems as Kjell Magne Bondevik's second coalition government. He added that the Red-Green coalition was losing its \"faith in the continued majority. It does something to you and your desire for power\". In an opinion poll in December 2008, 55% of the Norwegian people had most faith in the Red-Green Coalition government to lead Norway out of the financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Labour\nAccording to various opinion poll measurements, by late 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party was no longer the largest party in Norway. The Norstat poll for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) showed the Progress Party at 30.6%, while the Labour Party had declined to 26%. By September 2008 Labour had increased to 29.5%, while the Progress Party decreased to 29.2%. By early September, an opinion poll by Synovate put the Labour Party at 33.8%, while the Progress Party had continued to decrease to 21.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Labour\nAfter announcing their plans to tighten national immigration policy, the Labour Party gained a further 2.5% in an opinion poll done by In Fact for Verdens Gang, while the Progress Party decreased by 1.8%. Two out of three Norwegians claimed that they agreed with the new \"tightening\" of the immigration policy. Later, in a controversial statement, Labour Party secretary Raymond Johansen said \"Siv Jensen is the biggest threat to the Norwegian oil industry\", claiming that the Progress Party's oil drilling policy in Lofoten would be a mistake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Labour\nPrime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Jens Stoltenberg stated that Labour would campaign for a renewed majority for the ruling Red-Green Coalition, consisting of Labour, the Socialist Left and the Centre Party. The consequences were less clear if the ruling coalition were to lose its majority\u2014the coalition was unlikely to remain in power as a minority government. The Norwegian newspaper, Verdens Gang claimed in March 2008 that the Labour Party could form a minority government on its own if the ruling coalition should lose its parliamentary majority. The county mayor of S\u00f8r-Tr\u00f8ndelag, Tore O. Sandvik, was quoted as supporting this option. During a debate, however, Stoltenberg said that a non-socialist majority would yield a non-socialist government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 822]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Labour\nThe Labour Party gathered 35.4% of the popular vote, which was an increase of 2.7% and resulted in three additional seats in parliament. This led to the continuation of the Red-Green Coalition government. After the election, many opposition leaders believed that the government would collapse because of the Labour Party constantly riding roughshod over their coalition partners. In an opinion poll in November, two months after the election, all parties continued to decrease, leading many to speculate that the coalition was \"slipping\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Progress\nThe Progress Party's One Hundred Days Plan was officially announced in August, 2009 in Trondheim. It said that the party wanted to increase \"freedom of choice in all public services\", making businesses \"the most competitive in Europe and restoring confidence in Norway\". Per Sandberg, deputy leader of the Progress Party's S\u00f8r Tr\u00f8ndelag chapter, blamed the One Hundred Days Plan and said; \"The debate on our 100-day program laid out disappointingly fast. We can only lash ourselves to the all-time run\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Progress\nProgress Party leader Siv Jensen stated that her party would not support a coalition government in which it did not participate, thus apparently ruling out a minority coalition of the Conservatives, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats, like the government of Kjell Magne Bondevik which was in office from 2001 to 2005. She also stated that the Progress Party would have been prepared to form a minority government alone if the party won more seats in parliament than the other three non-socialist parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Progress\nIn the months before the election, the party had, as in the 2001 election, received very high poll results that steadily declined throughout the last weeks. In certain individual polls in late 2008, the party averaged around 30%, which at that point made it the most popular party in Norway, Hence the actual election result was relatively disappointing. During the election campaign in the four weeks before the election, the party dropped 3.5% in the poll. Most of these losses went to the Conservative Party, which had run a successful campaign. The Progress Party increased its share of the vote by 0.9%, a slight gain from the previous election and the best election result in the party's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Conservative\nIn the previous election, the Conservatives had their worst result since the Second World War, only obtaining 14.1% of the vote. According to various opinion polls, most notably by Norstat, they had several weak showings from May to July 2009, in what Verdens Gang described as the \"summer nightmare\". After this, In Fact, an opinion poll service, announced that the Conservatives had scored 15% in their poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Conservative\nIn January, Conservative Party deputy leader Per-Kristian Foss said that the party would not sit in a government without Erna Solberg as prime minister and claimed that both the Christian Democrats and the Liberals agreed with this policy. On hearing of this, Christian Democrat Party leader Dagfinn H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten, said that it would be natural to clarify this when the voters had had their say, but \"the negotiations don't start now\". After seeing the Progress Party's One Hundred Day Plan, Erna Solberg said \"So I conclude that the 100-day revolution is canceled\", with the two centre parties distancing themselves more from the Progress Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Conservative\nBoth the Christian Democrats and the Liberals openly supported a three-party coalition with Solberg as Prime Minister. A new Christian Democrat\u2013Liberal\u2013Conservative government would have avoided the need for support from the Progress Party, by leaving the draft budget from the Red-Green Coalition unchanged. This budget would then pass with support from the Red-Greens and the new non-socialist government. Further issues could then be postponed until 2010 and be handled individually. The Progress Party had promised to vote for measures with which they agree, and the Red-Green parties were expected to do the same. By the start of September, the Progress Party had lost 4.9% of its public support, and many believed that this was due to their One Hundred Day Plan. Meanwhile, the Conservative party gained 3.7%, many of whom were former Progress Party supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 929]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Conservative\nThe Conservative Party obtained 17.2% of the vote (462,465 votes), an increase of 3.1%, earning 30 seats in parliament, 7 more than the previous election. After a \"disastrous\" election by the Liberal Party, its leader Lars Sponheim blamed Solberg for the bad results, accusing her of \"tearing the party apart\". Solberg responded with \"He can't honestly believe that having political differences is to tear apart the Liberal Party\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Socialist Left\nFacing a steady decrease in support since they joined the Red-Green Coalition, the Socialist Left Party faced the prospect of one of their worst elections since the 1980s. In the 2007 local elections, their result was halved from that of the previous local elections held in 2003. By May 2009, the Socialist Left was the only party in the Red-Green Coalition whose public support increased\u2014they averaged about 11.1% in an opinion poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Socialist Left\nFollowing a severe downturn, the party improved by late August, averaging around 10% in various opinion polls. At the same time, support for the two other members of the Red-Green Coalition decreased. According to the national newspaper Dagbladet, Socialist Left's rise in popularity was due to the stands they took on environmental issues, the most important of which was oil drilling in Lofoten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Socialist Left\nDuring the campaign, Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen was the target of much criticism because, during the 2005 parliamentary election, she said \"I will remove poverty with a stroke of a pen\". Instead, poverty had increased nationwide during the coalition's four years in government. Jens Stoltenberg said \"Kristin has been a driving force to combat poverty, especially among children. But we are not satisfied, and should do more\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Socialist Left\nOn 12 September the party suffered another decrease in public support, averaging 7% according to various polls. On the same day, two days before election day, party leader Halvorsen started the \"24 hours\u00a0\u2013 24 measures\" campaign to build up public support before the election. The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten said in one of its articles that Socialist Left was involved in an \"election massacre\", saying there was little hope of increasing public support in the last two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Socialist Left\nOn election night, the party lost four seats and were left with eleven, but a three-seat gain by the Labor Party secured the Red-Green coalition a majority in Parliament. The shift of power within the coalition resulted in Socialist Left losing one cabinet minister, leaving them with four, the same as the Centre Party. They ceded the influential Department of Finance to the Labour Party in order to keep control of the Department for Education and Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Centre\nDuring the election, the Centre Party faced losing its core voters, the farmers, because Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen wanted to introduce higher taxes on farming, which the farming community said would lead to high unemployment. Socialist Left MP Heikki Holm\u00e5s said there was no proof of high taxation leading to more unemployment. In a later statement, Transport Minister Liv Signe Navarsete admitted that she had not \"been able to reduce the income gap between farmers and other income groups\", saying it would be an issue she would discuss with the Labour and Socialist Left parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Centre\nWhen the results were announced, the party received a 6.2% share (165,014 votes), a decline from 6.5%. This entitled them to as many Cabinet members as the Socialist Left, whose share of the vote had fallen from 8.8% to 6.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Christian Democratic\nAccording to election analysts, the Christian Democratic Party was able to win more votes because of its strong opposition to the Marriage Act of 2008, which gave gay people the right to marry. They believed that same-sex marriage would damage children's upbringing, and party leader Dagfinn H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten claimed that marriage is primarily for a man and a woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Christian Democratic\nDuring the national convention, H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten made a speech attacking the Red-Green Coalition. His most important message was an attack on the market economy and consumer thinking in Norway. In a later statement, H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten said \"I challenge those on the Right who have conservative values, those who are not so concerned about dollars, cents and calculators\". He later admitted it would be hard to work with the Conservatives if they won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Christian Democratic\nA major problem facing the party was that it lost right-leaning Christian voters to the Progress Party. Many of these voters believed that the party would not be able to defend \"Christian traditions\" in Norway, because of its strong opposition to a government run by the Progress party. Another problem facing the party was that it was unable to refresh its image among voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Christian Democratic\nH\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten stated that his party would not be part of a coalition with the Progress Party, but had not ruled out supporting such a government. The Christian Democrats' preference for a coalition was with the Liberals and the Conservatives. In total, the Christian Democrats were able to gather 5.5% of the vote, a decrease from the 6.7% achieved in the 2005 election. After the announcement of their results, Deputy Leader Inger Lise Hansen sparked unrest within the party. She felt that it had become too \"narrow\" and wanted it to return to the \"generous and popular image\" it enjoyed during the 1990s. Another faction within the party wanted H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten to resign as party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Liberal\nThe leader of the Liberal Party, Lars Sponheim, stated in September 2007 that his party would neither be a part of nor support a coalition that included the Progress Party, and that the Liberal Party preferred Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg over Progress Party leader Siv Jensen. By late August, 2009 figures produced by Response suggested that only 2% within the Liberal Party wanted to collaborate with the Progress Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Liberal\nSponheim later distanced himself and his party from the Conservative Party because the Conservatives wanted to improve relations with the Progress Party, leading Sponheim to comment \"A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for the Progress Party\". He said that the Liberal Party was the only solid choice on the right that didn't want to be involved in a government with the Progress Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Liberal\nDuring a national broadcast debate on TV2, Sponheim said that, if the Progress Party won the minority government position, he would propose a motion of no confidence in the new cabinet. If that did not work, the Liberal Party would support a minority government led by Stoltenberg and the Labour Party. The Norwegian media criticised Sponheim for being very vague and unclear when it came to the Progress Party, and the Red-Green Coalition were unsure of what side he was actually on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Liberal\nIn early September, election researcher Frank Aarebot predicted a catastrophic election for the Liberal Party. The main reason for his prediction was Sponheim's policy of merging various small municipalities into larger and more efficient ones. Centre Party leader Liv Signe Navarsete called this proposal undemocratic and said that forced mergers would only make matters worse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Liberal\nOn the evening of 14 September 2009, Lars Sponheim announced that he would step down as party leader, as a consequence of the results his party achieved. The Liberal Party finished below the 4% threshold for leveling seats, leaving the party with only two seats in parliament, whereas they had ten seats before the election. Sponheim, who lost his own seat in Hordaland, later blamed the Conservative Party for the bad results that hit the Liberal Party and centre politics in Norway. Later still he revealed that he and Stoltenberg were planning to include the Liberal Party in the ruling coalition. Liberal Deputy Leader Ola Elvestuen was negative towards the idea, saying that the only option for a coalition was with the Christian Democrats and the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Red\nThe Red Party was established by a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party in 2007. Torstein Dahle, the leader of the Red Electoral Alliance, was elected party leader. In the 2007 county election, Red received 1.9% of the vote, increasing its share by 1.6%. In an opinion poll conducted by TNS Gallup for TV2 in late August 2009, the party received 2.7% of the popular vote, an increase of 0.7%. Such a result in the election would mean that the party would have two parliamentary representatives, one from Oslo and one from Hordaland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Red\nIn total, 12 opinion polls claimed that Red would win two seats in parliament. On seeing these poll results, Dahle said he would support the Red-Green Coalition, acknowledging that he couldn't topple the closest thing to socialism to the right of Red. On 11 September, three days before election day, Jens Stoltenberg told the media that he didn't want the Red-Green Coalition to become dependent on Red in Parliament. Earlier, Ola Borten Moe from the Centre Party told Klassekampen that neither he nor his party would collaborate or affiliate themselves with Red.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Red\nRed was accused of electoral fraud in late September, after a member had replaced Conservative Party tickets with Red tickets in the voting booths at B\u00f8nes Skole in Bergen. Trond R. Hole, a Conservative Party official, said he was \"shocked\", but assumed it was an individual and not the party that had committed the fraud. Dahle told the media that he, and the party, were strongly opposed to such a heinous crime. Later, the Conservative Party accused Red of another election fraud, this time in Oslo, but this time they had no proof to back up their claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Campaign, Red\nOn election day, an opinion poll conducted by Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv predicted 1.9% of the vote for Red. It actually obtained 1.3% (36,219 votes), making it the largest party outside Parliament. 12,000 of those votes came from Oslo. In the municipality of Hordaland, Red garnered 2.5% of the vote, a decrease of 0.9% from the 2005 election. Red increased its voter share in Troms, in Nordland and in Telemark. Dahle acknowledged to the media that neither he nor his party were pleased by the results. He remained optimistic, however, calling the results a \"good starting point\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results, Exit polls\nThree exit polls, from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), TV2 and Verdens Gang, were released at 9\u00a0pm Norwegian time on the night of the election. Both NRK and TV2 predicted a slim majority for the ruling Red-Green Coalition over the opposition parties, while Verdens Gang showed a dead heat between the blocks, both having 84 seats in Parliament. Verdens Gang's poll showed the revolutionary socialist Red Party earning two parliamentary representatives, having already promised its support to the Red-Green Coalition before the election. Due to a manual error, the exit poll used by NRK significantly overestimated the support for the Socialist Left Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results, Election results\nAs in the 2005 elections, the Red-Green Coalition won the election with fewer votes (this time 47.9%) than the opposition parties (49.5%). Peter N. Myhre of the Progress Party complained that this meant eight years with a government that had not truly won an election, and called for an overhaul of an electoral system that, he claimed, disproportionately favours the Norwegian periphery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results, Election results\nHanne Marthe Narud, a political scientist at the University of Oslo, identified the result as a consequence of deliberate political planning, and in particular of a 2001 compromise in the Storting that balanced proportionality against an intent to over-represent rural areas. She explained to Dagbladet that this trend could be dated as far back as 1917, when it was argued that Oslo's status as the national capital inherently gave it greater influence, so that it should have less representation in parliament compared with rural areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0037-0002", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results, Election results\nElectoral researcher Bernt Aardal stated that he had calculated the results of the election without the rural skewness. His results showed that the Labour Party and Progress Party would both lose a representative, while Red and the Liberal Party would each gain one, still giving a majority to the Red-Green Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204384-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results, Election results\nThe table contains the official figures as of 25 September 2009, after all the votes had been counted. Voter turnout was 76.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204385-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly\nThe Norwegian spiral anomaly of 2009 (Norwegian: spiralformede lysm\u00f8nsteret, \"spiral-form light pattern\", spiralformede lysfenomenet, \"spiral-form light phenomenon\") appeared in the night sky over Norway. It was visible from, and photographed from, northern Norway and Sweden. The spiral consisted of a blue beam of light with a greyish spiral emanating from one end of it. The light could be seen in all of Tr\u00f8ndelag to the south (the two red counties on the map to the right) and all across the three northern counties which compose Northern Norway, as well as from Northern Sweden and it lasted for 10 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204385-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly\nAccording to sources, it looked like a blue light coming from behind a mountain, stopping in mid-air, and starting to spiral outwards. A similar, though less spectacular event had also occurred in Norway the month before. Both events had visual features of failed flights of Russian RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs, and the Russian Defense Ministry said shortly after that such an event had taken place on 9 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204385-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly, Initial speculations\nHundreds of calls flooded the Norwegian Meteorological Institute as residents wanted to know what they were seeing. Norwegian celebrity astronomer Knut J\u00f8rgen R\u00f8ed \u00d8degaard pointed out the area over which the light had been observed was exceptionally large, covering all of Northern Norway and Tr\u00f8ndelag. It was also suggested that it could have been a rare, never-before-seen Northern Lights variant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204385-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly, Initial speculations\nUFO enthusiasts immediately began speculating whether the aerial light display could be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence proposing among other things that it could be a wormhole opening up, or somehow was linked to the recent high-energy experiments undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204385-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly, Ballistic missile test\nOn 10 December 2009, the Russian Defence Ministry announced that a Bulava missile test had failed. According to a spokesman, \"The missile's first two stages worked as normal, but there was a technical malfunction at the next third stage of the trajectory.\" Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer stated to AFP that \"such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before ... At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians.\" Prior to the Russian statement, Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard\u2013Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, had already suggested that the unusual light display occurred when the missile's third stage nozzle was damaged, causing the exhaust to come out sideways and sending the missile into a spin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election\nThe 2009 Norwich North by-election was a by-election for the United Kingdom Parliament's House of Commons constituency of Norwich North. The by-election took place due to the resignation of Ian Gibson after being banned from standing as a Labour candidate for the next general election. The writ of election was moved on 30 June 2009 and the by-election took place on 23 July 2009, two days after the start of the summer recess. Unusually for a UK by-election, the counting process was not started until the following day, for a variety of reasons including the high number of postal votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election\nThe winner of the by-election was Chloe Smith of the Conservative Party, who at 27 became the youngest member of the House of Commons, known as the Baby of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Boundaries\nAs boundary changes did not come into effect until the 2010 general election, Norwich North was fought on those boundaries in place at the 2005 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Boundaries\nThe constituency includes parts of two local government areas, Norwich and Broadland, with the majority of the electorate in Broadland. Nine wards of Broadland (Mile Cross, Crome, Thorpe St Andrew, Sprowston, Old Catton, Catton Grove, Hellesdon, Drayton and Taverham) fall within its boundaries, together with four wards of the City of Norwich (Catton Grove, Crome, Mile Cross, Sewell).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Boundaries\nIn boundary changes in place for the 2010 general election, Norwich North lost Taverham North, Taverham South, Drayton North and Drayton South to the new Broadland constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party selected Chris Ostrowski, a University of East Anglia graduate, as their candidate on 28 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative Party had already selected Chloe Smith as their candidate for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Democrats selected April Pond, a local businesswoman and former Norwich City Councillor, who was a candidate for South West Norfolk in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThe Green Party's candidate at the last general election, Adrian Holmes, announced that he would not be standing, and Norwich City Councillor Rupert Read, the Green Party's lead candidate for the East of England in the European elections, was selected on 24 June. In the European elections the Green Party polled 24.9% across Norwich, more than any other party, while they took 9.6% of the vote in Broadland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nOther minor parties included Robert West for the British National Party, who stood as first candidate for the East Midlands Region in the 2009 European Elections, and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's leader, Howling Laud Hope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThree new parties stood candidates for the first time. The Libertarian Party selected 18-year-old Thomas Burridge as their first parliamentary candidate. NOTA, which stands for \"None of the Above\", a party set up by former boxer Terry Marsh, announced that Anne Fryatt would stand as their candidate. Former ambassador Craig Murray stood as an anti-sleaze candidate for the Put an Honest Man into Parliament party, which was registered with the Electoral Commission on 3 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nThere were also two independent candidates: Bill Holden, who was a candidate in 2005, and Peter Baggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nIan Gibson announced that he would not be running as an independent candidate. On 26 June he hinted to Newsnight's Michael Crick that he might run as an independent, but he endorsed the Labour candidate three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Candidates\nBroadland District Council published the Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll, which lists candidates' names, addresses, official descriptions, and names of nominators, on 8 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204386-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Norwich North by-election, Results\nBoth the UK Independence Party and the Green Party of England and Wales achieved their best results to date in a Parliamentary by-election; UKIP had previously taken a 10.2% share in the 2004 by-election in Hartlepool, and the Greens took 7.4% in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Charlie Weis and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. Weis entered his fifth season as head coach with the expectation from the Notre Dame administration that his team would be in position to compete for a BCS Bowl berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nNotre Dame started the first part of the season 4\u20132, with close losses to Michigan and USC but ended the season with four straight losses, including a second loss to Navy in three years. Weis was fired as head coach the Monday after the Stanford loss at the end of the season. Although Notre Dame was bowl eligible with 6 wins, the University announced on December 4 that the Irish had chosen not to play in a bowl game. Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick hired Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly after a 10-day coaching search.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Pre-season, Coaching changes\nFollowing the 2008 season, offensive coordinator Michael Haywood left the team to become the head coach for the Miami (Ohio) University Redhawks. Following what some critics called a disappointing 7\u20136 season, Charlie Weis announced several major changes to the coaching staff, including the replacement of the offensive and defensive line coaches. Frank Verducci was hired to replace John Latina as the offensive line coach and was placed in charge of revamping the Irish running game as the running game coordinator. Tony Alford was hired to replace Mike Haywood as the running backs coach. Finally, Weis hired defensive line coach Randy Hart, a veteran coach at University of Washington from 1988\u20132008. Former Notre Dame standout and NFL veteran Bryant Young was also hired as a defensive graduate assistant with the possibility of eventually stepping in to coach the defensive line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 960]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Pre-season, Roster changes, Graduating players\nSenior safety and captain David Bruton was the only player drafted from the team, going in the fourth round to the Denver Broncos as the 114th pick overall. Five more players would sign quickly after the draft, including David Grimes with Broncos, Pat Kuntz with the Colts, Terrail Lambert with the 49ers, and fullback Asaph Schwapp and offensive lineman Mike Turkovich with the Cowboys. Defensive lineman Justin Brown and captain Maurice Crum Jr. also exhausted their eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Pre-season, Roster changes, Transfers\nTight end Joseph Fauria transferred from Notre Dame to UCLA prior to the start of the season following an undisclosed University violation that would have sidelined him for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Pre-season, Roster changes, Recruiting\nThe Irish added 18 players to its roster with high school recruits. Included in the class were five-star linebacker Manti Te'o (top defensive player in the nation), four star runningback Cierre Wood, and five-star offensive lineman Chris Watt. The class was named No. 11 by Rivals, No. 14 by ESPN and No. 23 by Scout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Pre-season, Award candidates\nThe following players were announced to award watch lists prior to the start of the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Roster\nSource: Bold denotes starter  Players are listed by depth and position. Not all starters have been selected. Players who left or were dismissed from the team are struck out", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Nevada\nNotre Dame beat Hall of Fame coach Chris Ault's Nevada squad 35\u20130 to give Charlie Weis his first and only shutout as Irish head coach. Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen continued his efficient play from the Hawai'i Bowl victory the previous season (22\u201326 for 401 yards and 5 touchdowns), completing 15 of 18 passes for 315 yards and four touchdowns. Clausen started the game by completing 10 of 11 passes for 184 yards and three touchdowns, highlighted by a then career-long 70-yard pass for a touchdown to Irish wide receiver Michael Floyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Nevada\nClausen bettered that in the third quarter with an 88-yard scoring pass to Floyd. The 88-yard touchdown was the third longest pass completion in Notre Dame history. Floyd leapt over Wolf Pack cornerback Doyle Miller and kept his balance when Miller tried to pull him down at the 50-yard line, then raced in for the score. Clausen also completed a 24-yard TD catch to Floyd and a 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kyle Rudolph in the first drive of the game. Irish running back Armando Allen logged the other touchdown on a 1-yard run. He finished the game with 72 yards on 15 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Nevada\nThe victory was Notre Dame's first shutout victory since a 42\u20130 win over Rutgers in 2002. The Irish defense set the tone early, stopping Nevada to three and out on its first three possessions. Irish linebacker Toryan Smith stuffed Wolf Pack running back Vai Taua for a 1-yard loss on fourth-and-1 and also logged a sack. Highly touted freshman linebacker Manti Te'o also got in on the action for Notre Dame on his first play early in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Nevada\nOn third-and-15 from the Nevada 26, Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick took off and had some room but Te'o caught him from behind after an 11-yard gain, forcing the Wolfpack to punt. The Irish defense held Nevada to 153 yards rushing and 307 total yards. Kaepernick was 12 of 23 passing for 149 yards with two interceptions. Irish cornerback Robert Blanton intercepted a Kaepernick pass at the end of the half, and senior captain Kyle McCarthy logged the second interception of the day and the fourth of his career in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOffense ruled the day as the Fighting Irish were upset in the final seconds by archrival Michigan, 38\u201334. The 72 combined points were the most in the history of the Notre Dame \u2013 Michigan rivalry, and the game marked just the fifth time Michigan has scored 30 points or more against Notre Dame. Jimmy Clausen continued his impressive play, throwing for 336 yards and 3 touchdowns, but it was not enough to offset costly penalties (9 for 75 yards), questionable play-calling, and an efficient performance by Michigan freshman quarterback Tate Forcier (23 for 33, 240 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nAfter Daryl Stronum's 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown helped the Wolverines to an early 14\u20133 lead, Notre Dame roared back in the second quarter, largely on the strength of Clausen's passing. Clausen threw touchdowns on successive drives\u2014the first to Golden Tate, the second to Michael Floyd\u2014to give the Irish their first lead of the afternoon at 17\u201314. The teams traded field goals at the end of the quarter and Notre Dame took a 20\u201317 lead to the locker room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn the first series of the second half, Forcier led Michigan down to the Notre Dame 9-yard line before a missed field goal gave the Irish a temporary reprieve. A Jonas Gray fumble on the ensuing Notre Dame possession was recovered by Michigan at the Irish 26-yard line, and five plays later, the Wolverines regained the lead on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Forcier to Kevin Koger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nMichigan extended its lead to 31\u201320 on the second play of the fourth quarter when Forcier, facing fourth-and-three, ran 31 yards for a touchdown. Clausen rallied the Irish with a 14-play, 80-yard drive that culminated with a 21-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate, and Kyle McCarthy intercepted Forcier on the next series, giving Notre Dame the ball at the Michigan 36. The 7-play drive was capped by an 8-yard Armando Allen touchdown run and a successful two-point conversion run by Allen off a well-executed Statue of Liberty play, giving the Irish a 34\u201331 lead with a little over 5 minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe Notre Dame defense stiffened and forced a punt, giving the Irish offense the ball back with 3:07 remaining. Allen rushed 13-yards to the Notre Dame 29 for a first down, but Robert Hughes was stopped on the next play for no gain and Michigan used its first timeout to stop the clock at 2:29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nRather than run the ball and force Michigan to use its two remaining timeouts, Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis called pass plays on second- and third-down, both of which fell incomplete, and the Irish punted the ball back to Michigan having only taken 54 seconds off the clock. Forcier made the Irish pay for their mistake, coolly driving the Wolverines down to the Notre Dame 5-yard line, where he connected with Greg Matthews for the game-winning touchdown with 11 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nWith the heartbreaking loss, Notre Dame fell out of the top 25 in both the AP and Coaches' Polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan State\nNotre Dame recovered from its tough loss at Michigan by beating rival Michigan State for the first time at Notre Dame Stadium since 1993. The win wasn't sealed until Kyle McCarthy intercepted Spartans quarterback Kirk Cousins at the Irish 4-yard line with 57 seconds remaining in the game. Trailing 30\u201326 midway through the fourth quarter, Jimmy Clausen connected with Golden Tate off a fly route for what proved to be a 33-yard game-winning touchdown. A key play occurred late in the third quarter when Irish defensive tackle Ian Johnson blocked a Michigan State extra point to leave the score 26\u201323 Notre Dame; had the extra point been successful, Michigan State could have won the game with a field goal on its final drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan State\nClausen, playing through a turf toe injury, had another big game, going 22 for 31 with an even 300 yards and 2 touchdowns. Halfback Armando Allen rushed 23 times for 115 yards and a touchdown and also threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Robby Paris out of the wildcat formation. The defense continued to be a problem for Notre Dame, as it surrendered 459 yards of total offense to the Spartans, including 354 through the air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Michigan State\nThe win also proved to be costly, as Notre Dame star wide receiver Michael Floyd was lost for the several regular season games to a broken collarbone suffered during the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Purdue\nWith the game on the line, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis put the game in the hands of his hobbled quarterback Jimmy Clausen. Slowed by a turf-toe injury sustained in the Michigan State game, Clausen engineered an 88-yard game-winning drive with 3:41 to go to give Notre Dame a 24\u201321 victory over the Boilermakers. Trailing 21\u201317, Clausen completed a 22-yard pass to tight end Kyle Rudolph to move the ball to the Purdue 32. After a Purdue forced Notre Dame into a 3rd-and-14. Clausen completed a 15-yard pass to wideout Robby Parris for a first down. A 17-yarder to Golden Tate set up a first-and-goal at the 4. After three plays netted two yards, Clausen found Rudolph in the end zone on fourth down for the winner with less than a minute remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Purdue\nClausen played mediocre for most of the game, completing 15 of 26 passes for 171 yards, and throwing his first interception of the season. After splitting time with backup quarterback Dayne Crist, who directed two touchdown drives in the first half, Clausen returned to the game when it got tight in the fourth quarter. The victory was the Irish's third straight game decided in the final minutes. Kyle McCarthy had an interception at the 4-yard line with 57 seconds left to seal Notre Dame's 33\u201330 win over Michigan State the week before. A week earlier, Michigan's Tate Forcier threw a 5-yard touchdown pass with 11 seconds remaining to beat the Irish 38\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Washington\nNotre Dame defeats the Washington Huskies 37\u201330 at Notre Dame Stadium to give Notre Dame its 4th win of the season. Notre Dame stayed alive with 3 goal line stands resulting in only 3 Washington Husky points. Golden Tate was able to scorch Washington's defense for 244 yards receiving, 31 yards rushing and one touchdown. Notre Dame finally wins in OT and extends their record to 8\u20130 against the Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, USC\nNotre Dame nearly caps off the incredible comeback against the trojans, but fall short and give up their 2nd loss of the season. Clausen and the Fighting Irish got off to a poor start in the 1st half, only scoring 7 points to USC's 13. USC continued their rout in the 3rd Quarter scoring 2 touchdowns and mounting a drive that would get the trojans a touchdown early in the 4th quarter, giving them a 34\u201314 lead over the Fighting Irish. However a surge by Notre Dame, led by Jimmy Clausen, who scored 2 4th quarter Touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, USC\n1 on the ground and 1 in the air to get the Fighting Irish within one Touchdown. Notre Dame had the ball inside the USC 5 and appeared to score on a pass to Kyle Rudolph, but it was controversially ruled incomplete and never reviewed and ND was unable to score before the clock ran out at Notre Dame Stadium giving ND the 34\u201327 loss to the Trojans. Notre Dame has not beaten USC since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nNotre Dame notched its first victory vs. Boston College since 2000, outlasting the Eagles 20\u201316. In a game that had four lead changes, it was the Irish defense that came up big in the end, intercepting three passes by Eagles quarterback Dave Shinskie in the second half. Notre Dame linebacker Brian Smith sealed the victory by picking off Shinskie with 98 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nThe Irish scored first on a 37-yard Nick Tausch field goal. Boston College would log its first points of the game on a safety resulting from an intentional grounding penalty called on Jimmy Clausen. After Nick Taush kicked a 34-yard field goal to make it 6\u20132, Dave Shinskie led the Eagles down the field to take the lead on a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Rich Gunnell. Jimmy Clausen and the Irish offense answered right back before the end of the first half with a 12-play, 74-yard drive culminating in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Clausen to Golden Tate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nThe Irish defense, however, could not maintain the lead to start the third quarter, giving up large pass plays and a 6-play, 56 yard scoring drive by the Eagles. After several stalled drives by the Irish offense, Jimmy Clausen finally connected with Golden tate on a 36-yard touchdown pass to put the Irish ahead for good with a little over eight minutes left in the game. Clausen would finish the game passing 26 for 39 with 246 yards and two touchdowns. Golden Tate logged his 5th 100+ yard receiving game, notching 128 yards on 11 catches with two touchdowns. Senior captain Kyle McCarthy also logged two of the second half interceptions to seal the Irish win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nIn the first of several \"offsite home games\" scheduled over the next several football seasons,  Notre Dame played host to Washington State in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The Cougars, who last played Notre Dame in 2003 losing in overtime 29\u201326, were routed 40\u201314. Notre Dame would score first with a Nick Tausch a 29-yard field goal. Notre Dame's next score came from a Jimmy Clausen pass to Duval Kamara for a 7-yard touchdown in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Golden Tate scored on a 16-yard run for a touchdown out of the wildcat formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nAfter a Robert Hughes touchdown put Notre Dame up 23\u20130, Washington State's Jeff Tuel would cut the Notre Dame lead to 23\u20137, connecting with Jared Karstetter for an 11-yard touchdown. Notre Dame regained momentum, however, as Clausen's second touchdown came with 7 seconds left in the half; a spectacular 50-yard hail-mary pass which Golden Tate caught in triple coverage. The play put Notre Dame up 30\u20137 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nNotre Dame back-ups also saw game action, highlighted by backup quarterback Dayne Crist's 64-yard touchdown to John Goodman in the 4th quarter. Nick Taush also added a 23-yard field goal in the 3rd quarter, setting the Notre Dame record for consecutive field goals at 14. Clausen would finish the game 22\u201327, 268 yards and two touchdowns. Golden Tate would finish with 141 total yards and two touchdowns. Robert Hughes, starting in place for the injured Armando Allen, racked up 131 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. Notre Dame's defense also stepped up, holding Washington State to 206 total yards and notching 5 sacks and two interceptions. Notre Dame would finish the game with 592 total yards in the game. Washington State freshman Jeff Tuel was 12-of-23 for 104 yards and two touchdowns and two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 896]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Navy\nNavy ends all hope for Notre Dame's BCS game goals. Navy Defense proved too much for Clausen, Tate and Weis as Navy caused 3 Notre Dame Turnovers and a 4th quarter safety to give the Midshipmen the win. Notre Dame was also unable to stop Navy's Triple Option Offense as Fullback Vince Murray ran for 158 yards with one touchdown and Quarterback Ricky Dobbs added  102 yards with one touchdown as well. Notre Dame loses to Navy for the second time in three years and the second time in a row at Notre Dame stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nThe Panthers cut short another incredible 4th Quarter comeback by Notre Dame at Hinz Field in Pittsburgh, PA. Johnathan Baldwin got the offense going for the Panthers, making 2 tremendous catches and Freshman Tailback Dion Lewis, who ran for over 150 yards on the Irish. Notre Dame struggled on offense in the first three quarters, only scoring 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nHowever an offense sparked by Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate, came back down by 18 with 13 minutes left in the 4th quarter to cut the lead down to 5, 27\u201322, but a controversial fumble call on Jimmy Clausen at the end of the game gave the Panthers their 9th victory of the season and gave the Irish their 4th loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 72], "content_span": [73, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Connecticut\nSenior day for the Irish is bitter once again as the Fighting Irish are downed by the Huskies of Connecticut. Connecticut staged an 11-point comeback to tie the game in regulation at 20\u201320 and would got onto win the game 33\u201330 in the game's 2nd Overtime. Charlie Weis' seat as the Notre Dame Head Coach has gotten even hotter after their loss to the Huskies and many believe this will be the last game at Notre Dame stadium coached by Weis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nAfter beginning the season with high expectations of a BCS bowl berth, ND ends their season at a once again, Mediocre 6\u20136. Notre Dame struggled to stop Toby Gerhart, who dismantled the Irish and made his candidacy for the Heisman Trophy even more possible. Notre Dame's offense was electric, scoring 38 points despite the Cardinal owning the Irish on Time of Possession. Jimmy Clausen passed for nearly 400 yards in the loss with 5 TD's and 0 INT's. A number of things weigh in the balance after the game; Charlie Weis, Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate's future at Notre Dame and also whether the Irish will participate in a minor post season bowl as they end the season with 6 wins and bowl eligible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Post-season\nCharlie Weis entered this season with the expectation from the Notre Dame administration that his team would be in position to compete for a BCS Bowl berth. Notre Dame started the first part of the season 4\u20132, with close losses to Michigan and USC. Many of their wins were also close, aside from a 35\u20130 victory over Nevada and a 40\u201314 thrashing of Washington State. Sitting at 6\u20132, however, Notre Dame lost a close game at Notre Dame Stadium to an unranked Navy team, 23\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Post-season\nThis loss was the second to Navy in the last three years, after Notre Dame had beaten Navy forty three straight times dating back to 1963. Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick, when asked about what his biggest disappointment had been that season, took a long pause, then said, \"the Navy outcome.\" While Swarbrick clarified that he would not evaluate the football season until season's end, he stated that \"Up until the Navy game we were in the BCS conversation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204387-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Post-season\nThe Navy game, however, was the first of a four-game losing skid, as Notre Dame followed up the Navy loss with losses to a top-10 Pittsburgh team, an overtime loss to Connecticut at home, and a season ending loss at Stanford. The week prior to the Stanford game, Swarbrick announced Weis would not be recruiting following the game. Weis was fired as head coach the Monday after the Stanford loss. Swarbrick announced that wide receiver coach Rob Ianello would head football operations, including recruiting, until Brian Kelly was named. Although Notre Dame was bowl eligible with 6 wins, the University announced on December 4 that the Irish had chosen not to play in a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204388-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election\nElections to Nottinghamshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204388-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election\nIn the previous election, held on 5 May 2005, the Labour Party won a majority with 36 out of 67 seats. The Conservative Party were second with 26 seats, and the Liberal Democrats had five. Following the 2005 election, there were three by-elections, which all saw swings against Labour. The Conservatives gained Hucknall and the Liberal Democrats Sutton-in-Ashfield North from Labour, and the Labour Party's majority in Mansfield East was reduced by nearly two-thirds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204388-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election, Campaign\nA key local issue was the planned extension of the Nottingham Express Transit tram system to Clifton and Toton, which was opposed by the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204388-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election, Results by District\nNottinghamshire County Council is made up of 67 seats in a total of 54 electoral divisions across 7 districts: Ashfield District, Bassetlaw District, Broxtowe Borough, Gedling Borough, Mansfield District, Newark & Sherwood District, and Rushcliffe Borough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204388-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nottinghamshire County Council election, By-Elections between June 2009 \u2013 April 2013\nBy-elections are called when a representative Councillor resigns or dies, so are unpredictable. A by-election is held to fill a political office that has become vacant between the scheduled elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 89], "content_span": [90, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing\nThe 2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing occurred in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, on August 8, 2009, outside the embassy of France. It was the first instance of a suicide bombing in the history of Mauritania. The bombing killed the perpetrator and wounded three people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing\nThe attack occurred three weeks after Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had claimed victory in the contested 2009 Mauritanian presidential election. His inauguration took place on August 5, 2009, just three days before the Nouakchott bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Background\nMauritania has witnessed a series of terrorist attacks against Western interests in recent years. Four French tourists were kidnapped and murdered in 2007. On June 23, 2009, an American teacher, Christopher Logest, was shot and killed in an attack in Nouakchott. The terrorist group, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed responsibility for both attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Attack\nThe attacker, a young man, was reportedly wearing a boubou, a traditional men's garment common in Mauritania and other regions of West Africa. The bomber wore an explosive belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Attack\nThe man blew himself up on the sidewalk between the French embassy and the Embassy of Libya at approximately 7:00 pm local time. While both embassies were near the suicide bombing, the target was clearly the French embassy. The explosion did not damage the French embassy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Attack\nTwo employees of the French embassy, who were identified as paramilitary gendarmes, were jogging nearby at the time of the attack. Both were hospitalized overnight with minor injuries. One other person was slightly injured in the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Attack\nThe detonations marked the first time that a suicide bombing had taken place in Mauritania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Investigation\nThe government of France announced an investigation of the terrorist attack. The French government issued a statement promising to support Mauritanian authorities during the inquiry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Investigation\nThe Mauritanian police identified the suicide bomber as a Mauritanian man born in 1987. Authorities stated that the perpetrator had been \"formally identified as a member of the Jihadist movement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Reaction\nThe French Foreign Ministry condemned, \"with the greatest firmness the attack ... in Nouakchott near the French embassy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Reaction\nThe Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs issued a statement expressing that it,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204389-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing, Reaction\nwishes the injured a speedy recovery and expresses wholehearted solidarity to the Mauritanian authorities in the face of this act of terrorism. France reaffirms her determination to fight against terrorism alongside the Mauritanian authorities and people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204390-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Nova Scotia's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 20-25 at the Bridgewater Curling Club in Bridgewater. The winner represented Nova Scotia at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204391-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nova Scotia general election\nThe 2009 Nova Scotia general election was held on June 9, 2009 to elect members of the 61st House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The government was defeated on a money bill on May 4, and the Nova Scotia House of Assembly was dissolved by Lieutenant Governor Mayann Francis on May 5. thereby triggering an election. The NDP won a majority government, forming government the first time in the province's history, and for the first time in an Atlantic Canadian province. The governing Progressive Conservatives were reduced to third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204391-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Nova Scotia general election, Campaign\nThe election campaign began on May 5, 2009, after the New Democrats and Liberals voted against the Offshore Offset Revenues Expenditure Act, legislation that would have permitted the government to divert its revenues from oil and gas development in the Atlantic Ocean from debt payment, as required under current provincial law, to fund extra spending in the 2009 budget. As the Progressive Conservatives won only a minority government in the 2006 election, at least one of the two opposition parties would have been required to vote in favour of (or abstain from voting on) the legislation for it to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204392-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Novak Djokovic tennis season\nThe 2009 Novak Djokovic tennis season officially commenced on January 5 with the start of the 2009 ATP World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204392-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Novak Djokovic tennis season, All matches\nThis table chronicles all the matches of Djokovic in 2009, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins. They are marked ND for non-decision or no decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204392-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Novak Djokovic tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups\nNovak Djokovic had a 15\u201312 (55.6%) record against the top 10, a 44\u201318 (71.0%) record against the top 50 and a 34\u20131 (97.1%) record against players outside the top 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204393-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Nuevo Le\u00f3n state election\nA local election  was held in the Mexican state of Nuevo Le\u00f3n on Sunday, July 5, 2009, to elect, on the local level:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204394-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 N\u00fcrburgring GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 German GP2 round was the fifth round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on July 11 and July 12, 2009 at the N\u00fcrburgring in N\u00fcrburg, Germany. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 German Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204394-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 N\u00fcrburgring GP2 Series round\nThe race saw the return of the N\u00fcrburgring after the Hockenheimring hosted last year's event. Last year's feature race winner, Giorgio Pantano, did not take part. The sprint race winner Karun Chandhok did compete though.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204394-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 N\u00fcrburgring GP2 Series round\nThe weekend was dominated by Nico H\u00fclkenberg, who took pole, won both races and got fastest lap for both races. He is only the second driver to complete this feat, after Nelson Piquet, Jr. did so in 2006. H\u00fclkenberg left his home country with the championship lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204395-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 N\u00fcrburgring Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 N\u00fcrburgring Superbike World Championship round was the eleventh round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of September 4\u20136, 2009, at the N\u00fcrburgring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204395-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 N\u00fcrburgring Superbike World Championship round, Results, Superbike race 1 classification\nRace 1 was red flagged before the completion of the first lap, due to an accident at the second corner. John Hopkins and Makoto Tamada did not take part at the second start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 93], "content_span": [94, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204396-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 O'Byrne Cup\nThe 2009 O'Byrne Cup was a Gaelic football competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Football Championship as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level. The winners of the 2009 O'Byrne Cup were Louth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204396-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 O'Byrne Cup, O'Byrne Cup, First Round\nThe eight winning teams from the first round of the O'Byrne Cup go on to qualify for the quarter finals of the tournament. The losers of the first round go on to the O'Byrne Shield quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204396-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 O'Byrne Cup, O'Byrne Shield\nThe teams included in the quarter finals of the O'Byrne Shield were Offaly, Carlow, Wexford, Laois, Kilkenny, UCD, Athlone IT and Westmeath. Laois were the eventual winners in the final against Carlow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204397-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Beach Soccer Championship\nThe 2009 OFC Beach Soccer championship also known as the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for (OFC) was the third beach soccer championship for Oceania, held from late July, in Moorea, Tahiti, French Polynesia. The Solomon Islands won the championship and moved on to play in the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from July 27 to July 31. 4 Oceanian teams played a group stage. The first 2 played each other for the only ticket to the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. 3rd and 4th place played each other for the 3rd place in the final standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204398-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Champions League Final\nThe final of the 2008\u201309 OFC Champions League was played between Auckland City FC of New Zealand and Koloale FC of the Solomon Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204398-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Champions League Final\nThe first match was played in the Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara, Solomon Islands on the April 25, 2009. The New Zealand team won 2\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204398-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Champions League Final\nThe second match was played in Kiwitea Street, Auckland, New Zealand on the May 3, 2009. The match finished 2\u20132, but Auckland City FC won 9\u20134 on aggregate and won the 2008\u201309 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204398-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Champions League Final, First leg\nStrebre DelovskiAssistant referees: Michael Mouauri Hilary AniFourth official: Chris Beath", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204398-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC Champions League Final, Second leg\nNorbert HauataAssistant referees: Tevita Makasini Mahit ChiliaFourth official: Averii Jacques", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204399-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 OFC Under 17 tournament was the 13th edition of the OFC Under 17 Qualifying Tournament which took place between 20 and 24 April 2009 in New Zealand. The winner was New Zealand who were the Oceania Football Confederation representative at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204399-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 OFC U-17 Championship\nThe round-robin tournament was moved from Fiji in February after extensive rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nOUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis (UCI identifier: OCM) was run by Momentum Sports Group and based in the United States. The team was sponsored principally by OUCH Sports Medical Center, and Maxxis. Floyd Landis, with his doping suspension ended, joined the team this year. OUCH is the medical office which performed his hip surgery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nThe team's first test was the Amgen Tour of California, a race which Landis won back in 2006. This year it saw Landis race against former US Postal teammate Lance Armstrong. Landis finished in 23rd place, the best performance of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nOn August 16, John Murphy won the U.S. National Criterium in Downers Grove, IL. They were a little shorthanded, with only five OUCH teammembers participating. Less than 500m from the finish, teammate Karl Menzies crashed, skidding out on pavement wet from the rain. The day before, Karl took 2nd place in the Downers Grove Pro- Am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nKarl Menzies won the overall at the Tour of Elk Grove. He gained the lead in stage 2 in which he finished 2nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nAt the Tour of Utah, in August, Brad White picked up the King of the Mountains jersey in stage 1, eventually losing the classification to Alex Howes of Felt-Holowesko Partners. The team ended up in 2nd place for the team competition. White received as well, the Most Aggressive jersey at stage 4 of the Tour of Mississippi, and the Most Courageous at stage 3 of the Tour of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204400-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 OUCH\u2013Maxxis season\nRory Sutherland was voted 2009 Domestic Male Roadie of the Year by magazine VeloNews in the November issue, after coming in third in the NRC individual standings. Rory won first place in the general classification of the Nature Valley Grand-Prix, 3 seconds ahead of Tom Zirbel of Bissell Pro Cycling. For him, this event included 2nd place in the stage 1 time trial, and 3rd in the Stillwater Criterium of stage 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season\nThe Oakland Athletics' 2009 season was their 41st in Oakland, California. It was also the 109th season in franchise history. The team finished fourth in the American League West with a record of 75-87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season\nThe Athletics entered the season with a measure of hope. During the 2008-09 offseason, the team added numerous hitters through both trades and free agent signings. The most notable addition was that of outfielder Matt Holliday. Holliday was acquired from the Colorado Rockies in exchange for rookie outfielder Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez, starting pitcher Greg Smith, and closer Huston Street. Oakland also added a handful of veterans via free agency; these included Orlando Cabrera, Nomar Garciaparra, and former Athletics superstar Jason Giambi. The signings were meant to improve the team's offense, which was the American League's worst (as measured by number of runs scored) in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season\nWhile the Athletics' offense improved considerably in 2009, its gains were largely offset by inconsistent pitching. All told, Oakland would finish the season with a third consecutive losing record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204401-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Athletics season, Awards and honors\nOn December 22, 2009, Sports Illustrated named general manager Billy Beane as number 10 on its list of the Top 10 GMs/Executives of the Decade (in all sports).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 2009 Oakland Raiders season was the 50th season for the original American Football League team, and its 40th in the NFL. On September 6, 2009, The Raiders traded a 2011 draft pick to the New England Patriots for \u00d75 Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman Richard Seymour. With their loss to Dallas on November 26, 2009, The Raiders sealed their seventh consecutive losing season. After beating the Pittsburgh Steelers on December 6, 2009, the Raiders moved to 4\u20130 when playing Pittsburgh the year they won the Super Bowl, or are the defending Champions, winning in 1974, 1980, 2006, and now 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Local TV Blackouts\nIn 2009, once again the Raiders struggled to sell tickets, resulting in 7 of their 8 home games being blacked out on local television. The Raiders were able to sell out their season opener, on Monday Night Football against the Chargers, thanks to a deadline extension from the NFL. But, the remainder of their home games were not shown on local television, because the games didn't sell out. The Raiders finished the season tied with the Jacksonville Jaguars for most TV blackouts in 2009. But, blackouts are nothing new to Oakland fans, as the Raiders have sold out only 25 of 88 regular season games, since returning to Oakland. The Raiders had 3 games with attendances under 40,000, with their lowest attendance coming in week 11 against the Bengals when they drew only 34,112.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Schedule, Regular season\n\u2020 These four games were among the 16 that the NFL designated as \"AFL Legacy Games\", in honor of the 50th anniversary of the AFL. The Raiders wore their throwback uniforms during those four games, as did the Chargers, Jets, Chiefs and Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe Raiders began their season with a Week 1 AFL Legacy duel against their AFC West rival, the San Diego Chargers, in the second game of an MNF doubleheader. In the first quarter, Oakland got off to a surprising good start. While the defense (led by newly acquired defensive lineman Richard Seymour) kept the Chargers offense in control, the Raiders offense struck first with running back Michael Bush getting a 4-yard touchdown run. San Diego would respond in the second quarter as running back LaDainian Tomlinson got a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Diego Chargers\nOakland would answer with what looked like a 19-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Louis Murphy, but was overturned as he was unable to get full control of the ball. The Raiders would have to settle with kicker Sebastian Janikowski making a 37-yard field goal, while the Chargers closed out the half with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Diego Chargers\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Oakland regained the lead as Janikowski nailed a 35-yard field goal, but San Diego answered with quarterback Philip Rivers completing a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. Afterwards, the Raiders got the lead again as quarterback JaMarcus Russell completed a 57-yard touchdown pass to Murphy on 4th & long. However, the Chargers came right back as running back Darren Sproles got a 5-yard touchdown run. Oakland tried to rally, but an interception ended all hopes of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. San Diego Chargers\nWith the tough loss, the Raiders began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Kansas City Chiefs\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Chargers, the Raiders flew to Arrowhead Stadium for a Week 2 AFC West duel with the Kansas City Chiefs. Oakland would trail in the first quarter as Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop got a 23-yard field goal. The Raiders would tie the game in the second quarter as kicker Sebastian Janikowski got a 48-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Oakland took the lead as Janikowski nailed a 54-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Kansas City took the lead as quarterback Matt Cassel completed a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe. Afterwards, Oakland claimed victory as running back Darren McFadden got the game-winning 5-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Denver Broncos\nComing off their divisional road win over the Chiefs, the Raiders went home for a Week 3 AFC West duel with the Denver Broncos. Oakland would trail in the first quarter as Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Marshall, followed by kicker Matt Prater's 48-yard field goal. The Raiders would get on the board in the second quarter as kicker Sebastian Janikowski made a 48-yard field goal, yet Denver answered with Prater's 21-yard field goal. From here on out, the Broncos were in control as running back Knowshon Moreno got a 7-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and Prater nailed a 24-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Houston Texans\nHoping to rebound from their divisional home loss to the Broncos, the Raiders flew to Reliant Stadium for a Week 4 duel with the Houston Texans. Following a 26-yard field goal from Texans kicker Kris Brown, Oakland would answer with kicker Sebastian Janikowski's 46-yard field goal. However, Houston would take control in the second quarter. Following Brown's 34-yard field goal, running back Steve Slaton would get a 32-yard touchdown run and catch quarterback Matt Schaub's 18-yard touchdown pass. The Raiders would close out the half with Janikowski's 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Houston Texans\nIn the third quarter, the Texans would put Oakland out of their misery with linebacker Brian Cushing tackling running back Justin Fargas in his own end zone for a safety. Afterwards, Houston closed out the game's scoring with wide receiver Jacoby Jones returning the immediate kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 5: at New York Giants\nHoping to end a two-game losing streak, the Raiders flew to Giants Stadium for a Week 5 interconference duel with the New York Giants. Oakland immediately trailed in the opening period as Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw got a 1-yard and a 19-yard touchdown run. Things continued to get worse for the Raiders in the second quarter as quarterback Eli Manning completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mario Manningham and hooked up with wide receiver Hakeem Nicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 5: at New York Giants\nOakland would answer with a 5-yard touchdown run from running back Michael Bush, yet New York closed out the half with a 25-yard field goal by kicker Lawrence Tynes. For the second half, the Giants would stay in control as quarterback David Carr got a 12-yard touchdown run and Tynes would boot a 33-yard and a 37-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the Raiders went home for a Week 6 interconference duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. In the first quarter, Philadelphia delivered the opening hit as kicker David Akers made a 45-yard field goal. The Raiders would answer with quarterback JaMarcus Russell's 86-yard touchdown pass to tight end Zach Miller. In the second quarter, both teams swapped field goals as Oakland's Sebastian Janikowski got a 29-yard field goal while Akers gave the Eagles a 43-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the Raiders turned to Janikowski again in the fourth quarter as he booted a 46-yard field goal. Philadelphia tried to make a comeback, but Oakland would only allow a 45-yard field goal from Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. New York Jets\nComing off their upset win over the Eagles, the Raiders stayed at home, donned their throwbacks, and played a Week 7 AFL Legacy game with the New York Jets. Oakland would trail early in the first quarter as early turnovers led to a 1-yard touchdown run Thomas Jones, followed by a 3-yard touchdown run by quarterback Mark Sanchez. The Raiders' season-long woes continued in the second quarter as New York running back Shonn Greene got an 8-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Jay Feely booting a 39-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Jets would pull away as Sanchez completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver David Clowney in the third quarter, followed by Greene's 33-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 78], "content_span": [79, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 8: at San Diego Chargers\nHoping to rebound from their shutout home loss to the Jets, the Raiders flew to Qualcomm Stadium for a Week 8 AFC West rematch with the San Diego Chargers. Oakland would trail in the first quarter as Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson got a 6-yard touchdown run. The Raiders answered in the second quarter as running back Justin Fargas got a 5-yard touchdown run, but San Diego replied with quarterback Philip Rivers' 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson and Tomlinson's 10-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Oakland would close out the half as kicker Sebastian Janikowski got a 48-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 8: at San Diego Chargers\nIn the second quarter, the Raiders tried to rally as Janikowski nailed a 41-yard field goal in the third quarter and a 28-yard field goal in the fourth, but the Chargers pulled away with a 28-yard field goal from kicker Nate Kaeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 8: at San Diego Chargers\nWith the loss, Oakland fell to 2\u20136 entering their bye week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nComing off their bye week, the Raiders went home, donned their throwbacks, and played a Week 10 AFL Legacy game with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter, Oakland struck first with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Justin Fargas. The Chiefs would get on the boards via a 50-yard field goal from kicker Ryan Succop, yet the Raiders came right back with their own 50-yard field goal from kicker Sebastian Janikowski. However, Kansas City would take the lead in the second quarter with running back Jamaal Charles getting a 44-yard touchdown run and Succop booting a 25-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the Chiefs would pull away as Succop nailed a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the Raiders stayed at home for a Week 11 duel with the Cincinnati Bengals. Due to quarterback JaMarcus Russell's ineffectiveness, quarterback Bruce Gradkowski would get the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nOakland would trail in the first quarter as Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer got a 1-yard touchdown run. Cincinnati's lead would increase as Palmer got another 1-yard touchdown run, yet the Raiders would close out the half with Gradkowski completing a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Zach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 11: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nIn the third quarter, Oakland continued to rally as kicker Sebastian Janikowski got a 52-yard field goal. The Bengals would answer with kicker Shayne Graham nailing a 25-yard field goal. The Raiders would tie the game in the fourth quarter as Gradkowski found rookie wide receiver Louis Murphy on a 29-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, after recovering a special team fumble from Cincinnati wide receiver Andre Caldwell, Oakland took advantage as Janikowski booted the game-winning 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 84], "content_span": [85, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 14: vs. Washington Redskins\nWith the loss, the Raiders dropped to 4\u20139 securing them their 6th straight losing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 85], "content_span": [86, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204402-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nStatistically speaking, the Ravens' victory over the Raiders also allowed the dethroning of the defending world champion Pittsburgh Steelers, who would not see any playoff contention. Whatever the case, the Raiders ended their dismal season at 5\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204403-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oberstaufen Cup\nThe 2009 Oberstaufen Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the eighteenth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Oberstaufen, Germany between 6 and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204403-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oberstaufen Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204403-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oberstaufen Cup, Champions, Doubles\nDieter Kindlmann /  Marcel Zimmermann def. Michael Berrer /  Philipp Oswald, 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204404-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oberstaufen Cup \u2013 Doubles\nDu\u0161an Karol and Jaroslav Posp\u00ed\u0161il were the defending champions, but Posp\u00ed\u0161il didn't take part in these championships this year. Karol partnered up with Olivier Charroin, but they were eliminated in the first round. Dieter Kindlmann and Marcel Zimmermann defeated Michael Berrer and Philipp Oswald in the final 6\u20134, 2\u20136, [10\u20134].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204405-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oberstaufen Cup \u2013 Singles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot was the defender of title, however he chose to not take part in this tournament. Robin Vik became the new champion, after beating Jan Min\u00e1\u0159 in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204406-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceania Handball Champions Cup\nThe 2009 Oceania Handball Champions Cup featured nine teams from five countries competing for the fourth edition of the Men Oceania Champions Cup held in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204406-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceania Handball Champions Cup\nThe final saw Sydney Region from Australia winning an Oceania Champions Cup  over Tahitian side AS Faa'a. The third place play off saw a replay of last years final with AS Dumbea winning over fellow New Caledonia side JS Mont Dore. Wellington from New Zealand were fifth and the second Australian side Melbourne sixth. AS Taravao from Tahiti seventh, Northland from New Zealand eighth and AS Lulu from Wallis and Futuna rounded out the field in ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by DenSportgladeSk\u00e5ningen (talk | contribs) at 19:01, 9 September 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship\nThe 2009 OFC Futsal Championship was the sixth edition of the main international futsal tournament of the Oceanian region. It took place from July 7 to July 11, 2009, and was hosted by Fiji, which had also hosted the previous edition. The number of participating teams dropped from seven to just four, as French Polynesia, New Zealand and Tuvalu failed to return from the previous year's competition. Previously, the Championship had been held every four years; the 2009 edition marked the beginning of an annual tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship\nThe defending champions, the Solomon Islands, retained their title, defeating the hosts by eight goals to one in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship\nThe tournament's Golden Ball (Player of the tournament) award went to Jack Wetney of the Solomon Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship\nThe championship was also notable as it witnessed a new world record for the fastest ever goal scored in an official futsal match. The scorer was Solomon Islands team captain Elliot Ragomo, who scored against New Caledonia three seconds into the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204407-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship, Championship\nThe four teams played one another over the first three days, with the top two advancing to the final, and the other two facing each other for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election\nThe 2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election took place in April 2009, concurrently with the general election. The elections were held in the state in two phases. The results were declared on 16 May. Despite having recently separated from the Bharatiya Janata Party after an eleven-year partnership, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) retained power in the Odisha State Assembly with a more convincing majority. Party chief Naveen Patnaik was formally re-elected as the BJD Legislature party leader on 19 May, thus paving the way for his third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of Odisha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nIn the 2004 Orissa Assembly election, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had swept the state with the BJD winning 61 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 32 seats, giving the alliance comfortable majority in the 147-member house. This was the second consecutive term for the BJD-BJP combine after they first formed the government in 2000. The Naveen Patnaik government had been sworn in at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan by Odisha Governor M. M. Rajendran in May 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Background\nWith the tenure of the Orissa Assembly scheduled to expire on 29 June 2009, the Election Commission of India announced on 2 March that year that the elections to the Assembly would be held alongside the general election. The election in each Assembly constituency (AC) was held in the same phase as the election to the corresponding Parliamentary constituency that the AC fell under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Background\nSeat-sharing discussions got underway between allies, after eleven years of partnership and nearly two full terms as the Orissa state government, the BJD snapped ties with the BJP in March 2009, blaming the latter for the 2008 violence against Christians. Thereafter, the BJP withdrew support to Government and Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare asked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to prove his majority in the Orissa Assembly. Naveen Patnaik then won a controversial trust vote on 11 May 2009, after the opposition Congress and BJP legislators walked out of the Assembly in protest in the manner the vote was being conducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe BJD then declared that they support neither Congress nor BJP. Though they decided to contest the 2009 elections in partnership with the Left Front and Nationalist Congress Party, the BJD did not officially join the Third Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204408-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Results, Government formation\nDespite fighting against both BJP & Congress, the BJD emerged victorious with more than two-thirds majority in the 147 member Legislative Assembly. Naveen Patnaik was sworn in for his third consecutive term by Governor M.C. Bhandare on 2009-05-21 at the Bhubaneswar Raj Bhavan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204409-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open\nThe 2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition, for men, and 8th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $100,000, for men, and $75,000, for women, in prize money. It took place in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada between August 3 and August 9, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204409-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204409-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player entered the singles main draw with a special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204409-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nKevin Anderson /  Rik de Voest def. Ram\u00f3n Delgado /  Kaes Van't Hof, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204409-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Champions, Women's doubles\nAhsha Rolle /  Riza Zalameda def. Madison Brengle /  Lilia Osterloh, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204410-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nEric Butorac and Travis Parrott were the defending champions, but only Butorac tried to defend his title. He partnered up with Scott Lipsky, but they lost to Alex Kuznetsov and Ryan Sweeting in the first round. Kevin Anderson and Rik de Voest won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134, against Ram\u00f3n Delgado and Kaes Van't Hof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204411-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDudi Sela was the defending champion. He didn't compete this year. Marcos Baghdatis defeated Xavier Malisse 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204412-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nCarly Gullickson and Nicole Kriz were the defending champions, but decided not to participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204412-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAhsha Rolle and Riza Zalameda won the title, defeating Madison Brengle and Lilia Osterloh 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204413-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nUrszula Radwa\u0144ska was the defending champion, but decided not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204413-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSt\u00e9phanie Dubois became the first Canadian women to win this title, defeating Sania Mirza 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204414-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Offaly County Council election\nAn election to Offaly County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204415-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 2009 Ohio Bobcats football team competed on behalf of Ohio University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bobcats were led by head coach Frank Solich and played their home games in Peden Stadium located in Athens, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204415-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe Bobcats finished the season 9\u20135, 7\u20131 in MAC play to be co-champions of the east division. Ohio represented the east division in the MAC Championship Game, losing to Central Michigan 20\u201310. The Bobcats were invited to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, losing to Marshall 21\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Buckeyes were coached by Jim Tressel and played their home games in Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. They finished with a record of 11\u20132 (7\u20131 Big Ten) and won the Big Ten Conference championship. They represented the Big Ten in the 2010 Rose Bowl, which they won, 26\u201317, over the Pacific-10 Conference champion, Oregon. The Buckeyes became the first, and only, team to defeat five 10-win teams in the same season (Navy, Wisconsin, Penn State, Iowa, and Oregon).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Navy\nA crowd of 105,092 was the largest attendance recorded to watch the Buckeyes open a season against Navy. The Buckeyes scored first, but Navy tied it up, but the Bucks made it 20\u20137 at halftime. However, Ohio State nearly blew a 29\u201314 lead when Navy scored twice to come within 29\u201327. Navy's two-point conversion pass to potentially tie the game was intercepted and Ohio State returned it for a two-point defensive conversion to hold on to win for a final score of 31\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, USC\nA crowd of 106,033, the largest in Ohio Stadium history, were in attendance as the #3 USC Trojans came to Columbus, Ohio, to face the #8 Ohio State Buckeyes. Both teams showed great defense with the game close at the half tied 10\u201310. After a safety and a field goal, Ohio State led 15\u201310 with less than five minutes to go. However, Joe McKnight and the Trojans drove down the field to score a touchdown and a two-point conversion to end the game. The final score was USC 18, Ohio State 15, with the Buckeyes losing to the Trojans for the second straight year. This was also the first time Ohio State had lost to a team that had not later gone on to a BCS Bowl game since 2004, against Purdue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Toledo\nThe Ohio State Buckeyes and the Toledo Rockets met in Cleveland, Ohio, for their matchup. Toledo had scored an average of 42 points in their last two games against Purdue and Colorado. The Ohio State offense scored first with a 76-yard pass from Pryor, his longest at Ohio State, while the defense held the high scoring offense to no points in the first half. The final score was Ohio State 38, Toledo 0. This was Ohio State's first shutout since the 2008 game against Youngstown State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Illinois\nThe #13 Ohio State Buckeyes hosted the Illinois Fighting Illini on a rainy afternoon in Columbus, Ohio. The last time these two met at Ohio Stadium, the Illini beat the #1 Buckeyes 28\u201321. Ohio State relied heavily on its running game to put up 13 points in the first half; in fact, quarterback Terrelle Pryor threw for 0 passing yards in the first half. Illinois committed several turnovers and never gained any momentum; the final score was Ohio State 30, Illinois 0. This was the second straight shutout for the Buckeyes, their first consecutive shutouts since 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Indiana\nThe #9 Ohio State Buckeyes traveled to Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana, for a night game against a Big Ten opponent, the Indiana Hoosiers. Ohio State came in posting two straight shutouts against Toledo and Illinois. The offense scored first with a field goal and a touchdown in the first quarter. However, the Hoosiers broke Ohio State's two game shutout streak with a touchdown in the second quarter. After the first half the Buckeyes led the Hoosiers 24\u20137. After a safety in the third quarter and a touchdown in the fourth; the Buckeyes were leading 33\u20137. The Hoosiers scored a touchdown at the end of the game to make the final score with Ohio State winning 33\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Wisconsin\nThe Wisconsin Badgers came to Columbus being one of only three teams, including Ohio State, that were undefeated in Big Ten play. Ohio State scored first with a Wisconsin interception ran back for a touchdown by Kurt Coleman. The Badgers, however, scored 10 unanswered points with one minute left in the half. Terrelle Pryor led the Buckeyes on to their first offensive touchdown of the day to end the first half, the Buckeyes led 14\u201310. The second half started with another interception returned for a touchdown and a kick return. In total, the Buckeyes had three non-offensive touchdowns on the day. The Buckeyes won the game 31\u201313 to stay undefeated in the Big Ten and a 5\u20131 record overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Purdue\nThe Ohio State Buckeyes traveled to West Lafayette, Indiana, on a cold October day playing against the Purdue Boilermakers. Purdue, who had lost many close games, came to play in front of their home fans at Ross-Ade Stadium. Purdue scored first with a field goal in the first quarter, but Ohio State made it 7\u20133 with a Pryor run for a touchdown. The second quarter was all Purdue with Boilermakers making two field goals to put them up it a 9\u20137 halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Purdue\nIn the second half Purdue was finally able to find the end zone with two Joey Elliot touchdown passes to Valentin, making it a commanding 23\u20137 lead for the Boilermakers. In the fourth quarter both teams traded field goals with the score now 26\u201310. Purdue, however, was forced to punt midway through the fourth quarter and Ohio State quickly drove down the field to score a touchdown with a pass from Pryor to Posey, with Pryor running it in the two-point conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Purdue\nThe next drive, Purdue went three and out and it seemed the momentum had shifted and Ohio State had come alive, but with a sack of Pryor and a denial of a fourth down, Purdue had the ball. After seemingly stopping Purdue, a crucial facemask penalty by the Buckeyes allowed the Boilermakers to run out the clock. This was the first time Ohio State had lost to a team that had finished the season with a losing record since losses to Wisconsin and Penn State in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nThe Ohio State Buckeyes returned to Ohio Stadium to face the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Ohio State came into the game with a loss to Purdue, trying not to lose two straight games since 2004. The game opened up with little offensive production for both teams. Ohio State scored first with a 62-yard pass to Posey. After half time Minnesota lost the opening kickoff which was recovered by Ohio State. Pryor later ran it in for a touchdown, Ohio State led 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nAfter many stops by the Ohio State defense, the offense continued rolling, at the end of the third quarter the score was 28\u20130 Ohio State. Two more scores in the fourth by Ohio State and a touchdown by Minnesota on Ohio State's backups ended the game. Ohio State came up with a big win over a struggling Minnesota team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, New Mexico State\nThe Ohio State Buckeyes came to Ohio Stadium to play a game against an out of conference opponent New Mexico State. The #17 Buckeyes came in a forty-point favorite, and lived up to that prediction. Ohio State got off to a slow start, scoring no points in the first quarter. However, Ohio State came back 28 unanswered points in the second quarter. After a great first half, Pryor was taken out and Ohio State went on to score 17 more points and beat the Aggies 45\u20130. This was Ohio State's third shutout of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Penn State\nThe Buckeyes headed to Pennsylvania to take on favored Penn State in a Big Ten matchup. This was Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor's first game at Penn State, very near his hometown of Jeannette, and many Penn State fans had expressed their dismay that he decided to play at Ohio State. The game was a one-sided affair, with Ohio State's defense holding the Nittany Lions to just one touchdown, while the Buckeyes scored in every quarter, including two touchdown passes by Pryor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Penn State\nHowever, special teams play gave the Buckeyes the biggest boost of all, including two Ray Small punt returns that allowed Ohio State to make the game into a laugher, despite their four scoring drives totalling 178 yards. With Iowa's loss this week, the Buckeyes moved into a tie for first in the Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Iowa\nThe Buckeyes stayed home to take on Iowa, with an automatic BCS bowl game berth and at least a share of the Big Ten championship on the line. Both teams traded field goals, but Ohio State took the lead before halftime with a 22-yard run by Brandon Saine. Iowa struck back in the third on a 9-yard pass to Marvin McNutt from freshman QB James Vanderberg. In the fourth, the Buckeyes scored two touchdowns in under two minutes, seemingly putting the game away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Iowa\nHowever, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos returned the ensuing kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, and Vandenberg connected with McNutt again to send the game into overtime. On their first possession, Iowa got pushed out of field goal range and ended up not scoring. Ohio State took over and Devin Barclay kicked the game-winning field goal. The Buckeyes clinched at least a share of the Big Ten title for their 5th straight year, and earned the Big Ten's automatic BCS bowl bid to the 2010 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Regular season, Michigan\nThe Buckeyes headed into Ann Arbor to take on archrival Michigan in their final regular season game. The first score came by Ohio State, when Cameron Heyward recovered a Tate Forcier fumble in the end zone. Jason Olesnavage hit a field goal for Michigan, but Brandon Saine came back with a 29-yard run. Michigan and Ohio State traded touchdowns in the third, but Michigan could not recover from Forcier's four interceptions. With the win, Ohio State won the Big Ten title outright, and extended their longest winning streak ever against Michigan to six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, 2010 Rose Bowl, Oregon\nOhio State has played in 13 Rose Bowl Games with a record of 6\u20137, winning its last appearance over Arizona State 20\u201317. Oregon plays its fifth Rose Bowl Game and has a record of 1\u20133. It has not won a Rose Bowl game in 92 years since that first victory over Pennsylvania 14\u20130 in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, 2010 Rose Bowl, Oregon\nOhio State struck first, with Brandon Saine scoring on a 13-yard pass from Terrelle Pryor on the Buckeyes' first drive. Devin Barclay added a field goal near the end of the first quarter. Oregon came back to tie in the second, with a field goal by Morgan Flint and a 3-yard touchdown run by LaGarrette Blount. Ohio State retook the lead with two field goals before halftime. In the third, Jeremiah Masoli gave the Ducks their first lead with a 1-yard run. Then Barclay hit another field goal to give Ohio State the lead back. In the fourth, the Buckeyes scored another touchdown to give them a nine-point lead, and the win was sealed when Flint missed a 45-yard field goal which would have drawn the Ducks within 6. The final score was Ohio State 26, Oregon 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204416-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, 2010 Rose Bowl, Oregon\nThe Buckeyes set a Rose Bowl record with a time of possession of 41 minutes, 37 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204417-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 3, 6, and 7, 2009. The first round was hosted by the better seed in each game, and the semifinals and finals took place at Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The tournament was won by the Morehead State Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204417-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Ohio Valley Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 20 game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204418-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Okayama GT 300km\nThe 2009 Okayama GT 300\u00a0km was the first round of the 2009 Super GT season. It took place on March 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204419-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz season\nThe 2009 Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz season was the sixth season for the franchise in the af2. The team was coached by Sparky McEwen and played their home games at the Cox Convention Center. The Yard Dawgz finished the regular season 7\u20139 and made the playoffs for the fifth time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204419-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz season, Roster\nRookies in italics updated July 25, 200919 Active, 00 Inactive", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 115th season of Sooner football. The team was led by two-time Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award winner, Bob Stoops, in his 11th season as head coach. They played their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They were a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nConference play began with a win over the Baylor Bears at home on October 10, and ended with a win at home over the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the annual Bedlam Series on November 28. The Sooners finished the regular season with a 7\u20135 record (5\u20133 in the Big 12), their worst record since 1999, while finishing in a tie with Texas Tech for third in the Big 12 South. They were invited to the Sun Bowl, where they upset the Stanford Cardinal, 31\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nFollowing the season, four members of the team were drafted in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft: Sam Bradford at #1, Gerald McCoy at #3, Trent Williams at #4, and Jermaine Gresham at #21. Oklahoma thus became the first school in the history of the NFL Draft with three players selected in the top four picks. In addition to those four players, Keenan Clayton was selected in the 4th round, and Dominique Franks and Brody Eldridge were drafted in the 5th. This total number of seven ties with the total following the 2011 season as the second most Sooners selected in the NFL Draft in the 16 years of the Stoops era, placing behind the mark of 11 after the 2004 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Roster\nOklahoma listed 103 players on the roster with a breakdown of 21 seniors, 22 juniors, 22 sophomores, 14 redshirt freshmen, and 24 true freshmen. Sam Bradford, Brody Eldridge, Gerald McCoy and Ryan Reynolds served as team captains for the 2009 squad. During the course of the season, Oklahoma suffered many injuries. Many of those injuries were starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Roster\nThose that missed at least one game during the 2009 season include quarterback Sam Bradford (injured in game one, came back for game five but was reinjured in game 6 and missed the rest of the season), tight end Jermaine Gresham (injured before the start of the season), guards Brian Simmons (injured in game five and missed five games), Jarvis Jones and Brody Eldridge (both injured in game nine and out the rest of the season), wide receivers Ryan Broyles (injured in game four and missed one game) and Brandon Caleb, defensive end Auston English (injured in game nine and out the rest of the season), safety Quinton Carter, linebacker Tom Wort (injured before the season) and running back DeMarco Murray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nThe Sooners opened the season on the road in the newly constructed Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas against the 20th ranked program in the country. Going into the game, Oklahoma was 10-1 in season openers and 9-2 in road openers under Bob Stoops. This was only the second time these teams had faced each other, the first coming in the 1994 Copper Bowl when the #22 ranked Cougars threw for 485 yards and defeated the Sooners 31-6. The Cougars were led by four-year head coach Bronco Mendenhall, who was then 32-7 as the Cougars head coach. The Sooners, ranked number three in the preseason, were favored to win by a large margin with most estimates at around 21 points. BYU earned approximately $1.5 million for playing the Sooners, while the Sooners received $2.25 million for playing in Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nPrior to the game, both teams experienced multiple personnel issues. On the BYU side, left tackle Matt Reynolds fractured a finger and was still questionable for the season opener. Starting guard Jason Speredon was out for the season with a torn rotator cuff. Freshman Houston Reynolds also experienced a season-ending injury when he tore his ACL. A few days prior to the game, Oklahoma All-American Jermaine Gresham suffered a season-ending knee injury. Oklahoma saw several issues develop in their linebacker corp. Freshman Tom Wort tore his ACL during practice and would end up missing the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nSenior Mike Balogun experienced legal issues when his eligibility was called into question and subsequently decertified to participate in the 2009 season by the NCAA. Balogun sued the NCAA and was granted a temporary restraining order so he could continue to practice. He missed the season opener after he was unable to quickly resolve the issue with the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nThe Cougars controlled the ball for much of the game, maintaining possession for over 37 minutes. Oklahoma was the first to score on an 8-yard pass to sophomore WR Ryan Broyles with five minutes left in the first quarter. BYU had missed a 46-yard field goal in their prior possession. On BYU's last possession of the half, quarterback Max Hall completed a 49-yard pass to Bryan Kariya which left the Cougars 5 yards short of the end zone. Two plays later, Hall completed another pass for a touchdown to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nOn the Sooners next possession, and the last series before halftime, the Sooners began at their own 30-yard line. After completing his longest pass of the game, an 18-yard pass to Brandon Caleb, which broke the school record for most passing yards in a career, previously held by Jason White, Sam Bradford went down with a shoulder injury. He would miss the rest of the game. The Sooners managed a 35-yard field goal to go up 10-7 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nThe third quarter was quiet offensively. BYU reached midfield on their third possession of the quarter which marked the furthest progression of either team during the quarter. On BYU's last possession of the quarter, Hall threw his second interception of the game to Oklahoma linebacker Keenan Clayton, leaving Oklahoma within 25 yards from the end zone. Despite the short yardage, Oklahoma and redshirt freshman quarterback Landry Jones were unable to capitalize and settled for a field goal to extend their lead to 13-7. The next BYU possession proved tantamount for the Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, BYU (Cowboys Classic)\nAfter beginning on their own 22-yard line, they drove down the field for 16 plays and scored a touchdown to go up 14-13. This included a fourth down conversion that resulted in a 23-yard gain. The Oklahoma defense held the BYU offense back for a while, forcing the Cougars to execute seven plays within the seven-yard line before finally succumbing. The BYU defense held Oklahoma on their next possession, securing the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Idaho State\nIdaho State served as the 2009 home opener for the Oklahoma Sooners. The Bengals competed in the Big Sky Conference of the NCAA Division I-FCS. This was the third time Oklahoma had played a Division I FCS (previously I-AA) team under Bob Stoops. Oklahoma won the previous two matchups by a combined score of 106-2. This game had a similar result to the other two. With backup quarterback Landry Jones making his first start, Oklahoma won 64\u20130 for their 25th consecutive win at home, tying the school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Idaho State\nIdaho State made an immediate impression on Oklahoma during the Sooner's first possession. With his first pass as a starter, Jones connected with wide receiver Ryan Broyles for a 34-yard gain. After a couple additional rushes and passes, Oklahoma found itself two yards shy of the end zone. After four plays, Oklahoma was unable to penetrate the end zone and turned the ball over to the Bengals. Unable to produce anything offensively, the Bengals turned the ball back over to Oklahoma a short time later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Idaho State\nOn their second possession of the quarter, Jones and Broyles again connected, this time for a 24-yard touchdown pass. Oklahoma would end the first quarter up 21\u20130 after the OU defense sacked the Idaho State quarterback, forcing a fumble, which was returned for a touchdown. Soon came another 51-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Broyles. Jones and Broyles connected for a third time in the opening possession of the second quarter with an 11-yard touchdown pass. After another fumble recovery for the Sooners near midfield, Oklahoma increased their lead to 34\u20130. Oklahoma added one more touchdown before halftime to go up 41\u20130. By halftime, Idaho State had accumulated negative-two yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Idaho State\nOklahoma added one touchdown in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Oklahoma added two more, one on a 36-yard rush by backup running back Jonathon Miller. Idaho State was never able to get anything going on offense and only crossed midfield once, to make it to Oklahoma's 49-yard line. They finished the game with 44 total yards, including negative 22 rushing yards. Oklahoma finished with 564 total yards which included 286 passing yards by Jones. Running back DeMarco Murray also finished the game with 101 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nIn a continuation of the instate series, Oklahoma hosted the Tulsa Golden Hurricane for the third game of the season. The two teams first faced each other in 1914 with the Sooners leading the series 15-7-1. Since 1979, when the series was renewed following a 36-year hiatus, the Sooners were 9-1. Tulsa came into the game as the NCAA-leader in total offense in the prior two seasons, and they had averaged 450 yards of total offense in their first two games of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nThe Sooners began the game by throwing an interception on the opening play. Tulsa was unable to move the ball and went three-and-out. Oklahoma took possession and managed to progress to Tulsa's five-yard line, but, due to penalties, lost yardage and had to settle for a field goal. Tulsa then started their drive and managed to progress to Oklahoma's 12-yard line. However, Tulsa quarterback G.J. Kinne's pass was intercepted in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nStarting at their own two-yard line, Oklahoma was unable to progress and was forced to punt the ball back to Tulsa who subsequently missed a 50-yard field goal. Oklahoma ended the first quarter with a touchdown pass from QB Landry Jones to wide receiver Brandon Caleb. Tulsa opened the second quarter with a drive that led them back to the Oklahoma 12-yard line, where Oklahoma defensive players promptly forced a fumble, and recovered. Oklahoma scored quickly with a 63-yard touchdown pass to Caleb on the second play of the drive. Oklahoma scored two more touchdowns in the second quarter to go up 31-0 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nThe second half again saw no touchdowns for the Tulsa offense. Twice Tulsa attempted to convert on a fourth down, but failed both times. The closest Tulsa progressed to the Oklahoma end zone in the second half was the Sooner's 27-yard line. Oklahoma, however, added two touchdowns in the second half. Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones, in his second start, set a school record with six touchdown passes in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nThe previous record of five touchdown passes in a game was held by three Sooners: Jones's quarterback coach and Heisman Trophy runner-up Josh Heupel and Heisman Trophy-winners Jason White and Sam Bradford. Jones was later named the AT&T ESPN All-American National Player of the Week. This game also marked the second straight shutout by the Sooners, the first time since 1987. Oklahoma also extended their school record of consecutive wins at home to 26. Oklahoma finished the game with 529 yards of total offense and Tulsa with 269.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nFollowing the bye week, Oklahoma traveled to Miami Gardens, Florida to play Miami. This was the final game in a two-game series that began in 2007 when the Hurricanes visited Norman, where the Sooners soundly defeated them 51-13 after Sam Bradford threw five touchdown passes and the Sooner defense limited them to 139 total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nThe Oklahoma defense came into the game without letting a score for 123 minutes after posting back-to-back shutouts. Oklahoma was the fourth consecutive ranked opponent Miami had faced, opening 2\u20131 after defeating Florida State and Georgia Tech but losing to Virginia Tech in the week prior to Oklahoma. Much of the pre-game hype had surrounded whether Oklahoma starting quarterback Sam Bradford would return after suffering an injury in the season opener. On the Thursday prior to the game, it was decided that freshman Landry Jones would make his third start against Miami. Going into the game, Oklahoma was a seven-point favorite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nOklahoma scored first after Dominique Franks intercepted a pass from Jacory Harris, the Miami quarterback, on the Oklahoma 4-yard line. Oklahoma drove the length of the field and Jones connected with received Cameron Kenney for a 16-yard touchdown. Miami's next possession ended the same way when Brian Jackson intercepted another Harris pass on the Oklahoma 7-yard line. Early in the second quarter, Oklahoma made its way to the Miami 4-yard line but was unable to score a touchdown and instead settled for a field goal to give them a 10\u20130 lead. Miami answered on the next possession. Following a fumble that Miami was able to regain, Harris completed an 18-yard pass to Jimmy Graham for a touchdown to bring the score to 10\u20137, with Oklahoma still on top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nOklahoma got the ball to begin the second half but immediately turned it over after the Miami defense sacked Jones and forced a fumble at the Oklahoma 11-yard line. Miami recovered it and quickly converted it to a touchdown, taking the lead by a score of 14\u201310. Oklahoma was not able to answer and instead incurred two personal foul penalties forcing them into a fourth down with 42 yards to go. Miami took possession after the punt and capitalized with a third touchdown giving them an 11-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nTrying to prevent the game from getting out of hand, Oklahoma marched down the field after plays that included a 19-yard rush from Chris Brown, a 25-yard pass to Cameron Kenney, and a 21-yard pass to DeMarco Murray to score a touchdown to decrease the deficit to four. The score would remain unchanged until Oklahoma scored a field goal near the end of the fourth quarter on a drive that saw six consecutive running plays and one pass that gained no yards. Miami took possession of the ball with just over four minutes remaining in the game and were able to hold that possession until time expired giving them a one-point win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nMiami not only won by just one point, but they also shared similar statistics with Oklahoma. Both managed 21 first down, and while Miami managed 342 yards of total offense, Oklahoma had 341. Miami won the passing battle with 202 yards to Oklahoma's 188. Oklahoma won the ground game with 153 yards to Miami's 140. During the game, the Sooners leading wide receiver, Ryan Broyles, suffered a broken shoulder blade. It would later be determined he would miss up to six weeks because of the injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nOklahoma returned home to take on the Baylor Bears following their loss to Miami. Entering the game, Oklahoma was a perfect 18\u20130 against the Bears and had outscored them by an average of 43\u201312. Baylor had lost 18 consecutive games against top 25 opponents. For the second week in a row, much of the pre-game talk had been on whether Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford would return following an injury sustained in the first game of the season. That talk ended the day before the game when it was announced Bradford would make an appearance in the game against Baylor. Baylor was without their starting quartback, Robert Griffin III, who suffered a season ending knee injury earlier in the season, and their backup quarterback, Blake Szymanski, who had a shoulder injury but still played late in the game. This forced Baylor to rely on their third-string quarterback, freshman Nick Florence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 949]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nBaylor controlled the ball for most of the first half, gaining a total of 166 yards. However, it was a pair of touchdown runs by Oklahoma's Chris Brown, both in the second quarter, that put the Sooners up 14\u20137 at halftime. Baylor's points came during a drive that started on their own 41-yard line and included a 43-yard pass that put them in the red zone. In the second half, Oklahoma's offense failed to capitalize in the red zone on several occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nThe Oklahoma offense progressed to inside the Baylor 20-yard line four times but was forced to settle for a field goal each time. Oklahoma's kicker Jimmy Stevens was 4-for-4, making field goals of 35, 25, 21, and 24 yards. Oklahoma did not score a touchdown in the second half until within the five-minute mark to put them up 33\u20137. Baylor went three-and-out in their next possession and Oklahoma ran out the clock to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nIn his first game back, Bradford completed 27 of his 49 pass attempts for 389 yards. Head coach Bob Stoops was disappointed that his receivers dropped eleven balls, including at least five that were \"dead right in their hands.\" DeMarco Murray finished with 113 yards on 24 carries to lead the Oklahoma ground game to a total of 203 yards. The Oklahoma offense ended the day with a season-high 592 total yards to Baylor's 268. Florence managed 220 yards in the air on 41 attempts while the original back up, Szymanski, completed one of his two pass attempts for 42 yards. Baylor's ground game only netted 6 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nThis game marked the 104th meeting of the Red River Rivalry, which has been called one of the greatest sports rivalries. Since 1929, the game has been held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas typically in mid-October with the State Fair of Texas occurring adjacent to the stadium. Going into the 2009 match, Texas led the series 58\u201340\u20135, but Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was 6\u20134 against Texas. Texas came into the game undefeated, ranked number 3, and with two Heisman contenders: quarterback Colt McCoy and receiver Jordan Shipley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nThey were also the highest scoring team in the FBS up to that point. However, Texas also had injury concerns going into the game. Before the game, it was unclear if running backs Tre' Newton and Vondrell McGee would play (McGee would later get one carry during the game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nOn the Oklahoma side, offensive guard Brian Simmons was injured during the Baylor game and would miss the game, while WR Ryan Broyles, who was injured during the Miami game and was originally thought to be out four to six weeks, would make an early reentry and start in the Texas game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nOklahoma's issues in the red zone continued into the Red River Rivalry. During the first possession of the game, Oklahoma drove from their own 14-yard line to the Texas nine primarily on a 64-yard pass from QB Sam Bradford to RB DeMarco Murray but was unable to capitalize with a touchdown on three attempts and had to settle for a field goal giving them the early lead, 3\u20130. On the ensuing Texas possession, the Oklahoma defense sacked McCoy, forcing a fumble, which was picked up by linebacker Ryan Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nAfter the fumble recovery, the Texas defense followed up with a sack on Bradford. During the sack, Bradford fell on the same shoulder that he injured in the season opener, re-injuring it, and taking him out for the rest of the game. Oklahoma backup quarterback Landry Jones entered the game. Oklahoma went three-and-out, as did Texas on their next possession. After a couple passes from Jones to Brandon Caleb and Cameron Kenney, Oklahoma was again inside the Texas 20-yard line, where they again settled for a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nThe second quarter opened with Texas's defense forcing a fumble which was recovered by Texas's Emmanuel Acho on the Texas 24-yard line. Texas was unable to capitalize and was forced to punt after reaching mid-field. Later in the 2nd quarter, after another Texas punt, Oklahoma punt returner Dominique Franks fumbled the ball, and it was recovered again by Texas, this time on the Oklahoma 18-yard line. The Oklahoma defense withstood the Texas offense, and Texas settled for a field goal to cut the lead in half, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nAfter halftime, Texas began with the ball and a 23-yard rush by Fozzy Whittaker. Texas progressed to and then stalled at the Oklahoma 25-yard line. After another field goal, the game was tied at six. After an Oklahoma three-and-out, Texas scored the first touchdown of the game on a drive that consisted of 12 plays, capped off with a 14-yard pass from McCoy to Marquise Goodwin. In the next possession, Oklahoma answered with an 18-yard pass from Jones to senior wide receiver Adron Tennell and a 35-yard pass to Broyles. The game was again tied at 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nTexas and Oklahoma both followed with three-and-outs. On Texas's last possession of the third quarter, which ran into the 4th quarter, they again progressed to the Oklahoma red zone but settled for a field goal to take the lead 16\u201313. In the 4th quarter, two consecutive Oklahoma drives ended with Jones throwing an interception. Oklahoma was unable to score and Texas ran down the clock for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas (Red River Rivalry)\nOklahoma was never able to get a running game going and settled for negative 16 yards rushing while Texas had 142 yards. Oklahoma dominated the air game with 327 yards to Texas's 127. The game also saw many penalties on both sides of the ball. Oklahoma had 10 penalties for 125 yards and Texas had 11 for 103 yards. Texas won the turnover battle, forcing five Oklahoma turnovers while Oklahoma forced three. McCoy had one of the worst passing games of his career, while the Oklahoma defense only allowed four passes to Shipley for 22 yards. The game was watched by 8,713,000 television viewers and was the fifth most-viewed game during the 2009 regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nOklahoma traveled to Lawrence, Kansas for their first interdivision match against the Kansas Jayhawks. Kansas, coached by former Oklahoma assistant Mark Mangino, came into the game ranked 24 in the AP Poll and 25 in the Coaches Poll following a loss to Colorado the previous week. The Sooners won the previous matchup 45\u201331 in 2007 in which Sam Bradford threw for a school record 468 yards. Coming into the game, Oklahoma led the all-time series 68\u201327\u20136 and Bob Stoops was 5\u20130 against the Jayhawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nKansas began the game with the ball, but on the first play of the game, Oklahoma intercepted a pass from Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing. Oklahoma converted that turnover into a touchdown to take an early lead. The next Kansas possession ended the same way but Oklahoma was unable to convert again. At the end of the first quarter, Kansas was in the midst of a drive that had progressed to the Oklahoma 15-yard line. Starting the second quarter, Kansas gained an additional five yards to the 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nOn the next play, Reesing threw a pass that was intercepted by Oklahoma's Dominique Franks who ran 85 yards for the touchdown and gave Oklahoma a 14\u20130 lead. Kansas was able to put points on the board late in the second quarter. With just over two minutes left in the half, Kansas kicker Jacob Branstetter kicked a 39-yard field goal. On the next Oklahoma possession, the Kansas defense intercepted a pass thrown by Landry Jones at the Oklahoma 40-yard line. Kansas was unable to move the ball forward and decided to attempt a 57-yard field goal with two seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe successful attempt made the score 14\u20136 at halftime. The Oklahoma offense made more progress in the third quarter and  added two touchdowns. Oklahoma scored its last touchdown early in the fourth quarter to go up 35\u20136. Midway through the fourth quarter, Oklahoma running back Jermie Calhoun fumbled the ball and Kansas recovered at their own 45-yard line. Kansas was able to convert the turnover into a touchdown with 4:27 left on the clock. Oklahoma took possession of the ball and drained as much of the clock as possible before punting the ball to Kansas in time for them to run one last play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nOklahoma quarterback Jones, starting after the re-injury of Bradford's shoulder, was 26-for-38 for 251 yards and two touchdowns. The Kansas offense, ranked number two in the country, was held to about 200 yards below its average. The day after the game, Sam Bradford announced he would have season-ending shoulder surgery and would enter April's NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nFollowing the victory over Kansas, Oklahoma faced another team from the state. Kansas State, coached by Bob Stoops' mentor, Bill Snyder, traveled to Norman as the leader in the Big 12 North. The season before, Oklahoma tied a school record for most points in a half when they scored 55 points in the first half en route to winning 58\u201335. This year's game began similarly with Oklahoma scoring on their first three possessions on their way to a 21-point first quarter lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nAll three touchdowns were passes from Landry Jones, two going to wide receiver Ryan Broyles and one to Dejuan Miller. Kansas State scored their first points early in the second quarter on a 2-yard rush from Keithen Valentine. Following a blocked extra point attempt, Oklahoma answered on their next possession to increase the lead to 28\u20136. The Wildcats managed a field goal before halftime to decrease the Sooner lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThe second half saw the Wildcats surge \u2014 scoring a touchdown and a two-point conversion on their opening possession to cut the Sooner lead to 28\u201317. Following an Oklahoma four-and-out, Kansas State again scored but again had the extra point blocked. Oklahoma now led by only five points, 28\u201323. After not scoring during the third quarter, Oklahoma managed to score on the opening possession of the fourth quarter. On the ensuing kick off, Kansas State's Brandon Banks caught the ball at the 2-yard line and returned it for a touchdown to again cut the Sooner lead back to five. Oklahoma was able to score what would end up being the game sealing touchdown on the next possession to give them a 42\u201330 lead, which they held for the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nThe Sooners' next match was against Nebraska, a rivalry from the Big Eight days and before. The first match between the two teams took place in 1912. The 2009 match-up saw the two defenses dominate. The only touchdown of the game came when Nebraska took one of their five interceptions and returned it to the Oklahoma one-yard line. Their field goal came when another interception of freshman quarterback Landry Jones put them in field goal range. Jones would finish with five interceptions, an Oklahoma record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nThe Sooners' only points came on a field goal from Tress Way with less than a minute left in the first half. Way missed three other field goals in the game. The three points for the Sooners was the lowest under coach Bob Stoops. The Sooners fell to 5\u20134 after the loss, the worst record through nine games under Stoops to date. Oklahoma suffered additional injuries during the game. Guards Brody Eldridge and Jarvis Jones and defensive end Auston English all suffered season ending injuries in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nFollowing the loss to Nebraska, Oklahoma returned home to play the Texas A&M Aggies, led by second-year head coach Mike Sherman. Entering the game, Bob Stoops was 9\u20131 against the Aggies. The game got off to a quick start for the Sooners. In the opening drive, Aggie running back Christine Michael fumbled the ball at the Oklahoma 47-yard line and it was picked up by Oklahoma's Brian Jackson and returned 52\u00a0yards for a touchdown. Later in the first quarter, WR Ryan Broyles rushed 25\u00a0yards for a second Sooner touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nA&M's next possession began on the 40-yard line and ended with a field goal. Following the kickoff, Landry Jones threw a pass that was tipped and intercepted by A&M's Michael Hodges, who returned it 28\u00a0yards to the Oklahoma 6-yard line. A&M converted that to a touchdown and narrowed the lead. At the end of the first quarter, Oklahoma led 14\u201310. It was the first time Oklahoma had allowed points in the first quarter in 12\u00a0games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nOklahoma began to run away with the game in the second quarter and scored on every offensive possession to go up 42\u201310 at halftime. Texas A&M was held scoreless after the first quarter while the Sooners added an additional 23\u00a0points in the second half. Oklahoma finished the game with 640\u00a0yards of total offense including 392\u00a0passing yards, a career-high for Jones. Oklahoma extended their NCAA-leading home winning streak to 29\u00a0straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nFor the final road game of the regular season, Oklahoma traveled to Lubbock, Texas where they had lost their previous two trips. Oklahoma had also struggled on the road during the season. They averaged nearly 50 points per game at home but just 17 points per game away from home. The game began with the Red Raiders scoring a field goal on their opening possession and Oklahoma responding on their second possession. The first quarter ended with a tie score of 3\u20133. Oklahoma increased their lead by three during the first possession of the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nTexas Tech answered with a touchdown to go ahead 10\u20136. The next Texas Tech possession ended with another touchdown, which gave the Red Raiders a halftime lead of 17\u20136. The second half was dominated by Texas Tech. The Red Raiders were up 34\u20136 when Oklahoma scored again on a 51-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ryan Broyles. Texas Tech answered with their own touchdown to bring the score to 41\u201313. The 28-point margin of victory for the Red Raiders matched the second-worst loss by Oklahoma under Bob Stoops. The Oklahoma defense allowed 549 yards of total offense after not allowing more than 365 yards in any other game that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nThe end of the regular season brought in-state rival Oklahoma State to Norman. This rivalry, referred to as the Bedlam Series, is the most lopsided series in the nation featuring two teams from the same state. Entering the game, Oklahoma led the series 80\u201315\u20137. At that time, Oklahoma State was one of only two teams that had defeated the Sooners at home under Bob Stoops. However, the Sooners came into the game with a six-game winning streak over the Cowboys. The Cowboys came into the game with hopes of a BCS berth, depending on a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nOklahoma State was ranked number 11 while the Sooners were unranked, which marked the third time a ranked Cowboys team played an unranked Sooners team, while the opposite scenario had occurred 38\u00a0times. Despite the ranking, Oklahoma was favored to win by eight points. In addition to the injuries Oklahoma had sustained throughout the season, Oklahoma State also came into the game missing a few of their key players. OSU wide receiver Dez Bryant was ruled ineligible by the NCAA in the weeks prior to the Bedlam game. Quarterback Zac Robinson missed the Cowboys' previous game due to a concussion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nThe first quarter was plagued with fumbles by both teams. On the first offensive play following a 59-yard punt return by Ryan Broyles to the OSU 7-yard line, Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones fumbled the ball, which was recovered by Oklahoma State. On OSU's first offensive play, running back Kendall Hunter fumbled the ball, but it was recovered by OSU. During an Oklahoma possession late in the first quarter, an incomplete pass to Dejuan Miller was ruled a fumble but was overturned following an instant replay analysis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nOklahoma State's next possession saw another fumble, this time by quarterback Robinson, but it was again recovered by the Cowboys. The first quarter ended scoreless with the only chance of points being a missed 35-yard field goal by Oklahoma kicker Patrick O'Hara. The second quarter opened with the continuation of a drive that began the previous quarter. Following another Oklahoma fumble that was recovered by the Sooners, Oklahoma settled for a 24-yard field goal to claim a 3\u20130 lead. On Oklahoma's next offensive possession, Jones connected with Broyles for a 47-yard completion to the OSU 13-yard line. The next play, DeMarco Murray rushed for the touchdown to give the Sooners a ten-point lead. Both teams were unable to put together a threatening drive for the remainder of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 875]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nOklahoma opened the second half with a drive that lasted nearly seven minutes. Beginning at their own 20-yard line, the Sooners progressed to the Oklahoma State 2-yard line, but were forced to settle for a field goal to take a 13-point lead. Oklahoma State and then Oklahoma followed with quick three-and-outs. The next Cowboy possession began at the Oklahoma State 27-yard line. A pass from Robinson was intercepted by Jonathan Nelson and returned 37\u00a0yards to the OSU 13-yard line. DeMarco Murray scored a touchdown on a 12-yard rush two plays later. The third quarter ended with the Sooners up 20\u20130. Oklahoma's final score of the game came on an 87-yard punt return for a touchdown by Ryan Broyles halfway through the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State (Bedlam Series)\nThe recorded attendance for the game was 85,606, a Bedlam record, until it was broken in 2012 with a number of 85,824. The game also marked the 30th consecutive home victory, the longest in the country and a new record for the Sooners. The Cowboys came into the game averaging 400\u00a0yards per game in total offense (including a league-best 203\u00a0yards on the ground) but only managed 109\u00a0total yards (62\u00a0yards on the ground). Punter Tress Way also set a new school record by averaging 58.8\u00a0yards on his six punts. It also marked the first shutout in the series since 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204420-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team, 2010 NFL Draft\nThe 2010 NFL Draft was held on April 22\u201324, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The following Oklahoma players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft. Sam Bradford was the first Sooner drafted #1 overall since Billy Sims in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204421-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 2009 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys, led by fifth-year head coach Mike Gundy, played their home games at Boone Pickens Stadium. The Cowboys finished the season 9\u20134, 6\u20132 in Big 12 play and lost the Cotton Bowl Classic, 21\u20137, against Ole Miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204421-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, 2009 team players in the NFL\nThe following players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204422-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma state budget\nThe Oklahoma State Budget for Fiscal Year 2009, was a spending request by Governor Brad Henry to fund government operations for July 1, 2008\u2013June 30, 2009. Governor Henry and the Legislature approved the budget in May 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204422-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma state budget\nFigures shown in the spending request do not reflect the actual appropriations for Fiscal Year 2009, which must be authorized by the Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204422-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma state budget, Total spending\nThe Governor's budget for Fiscal Year 2009 totaled $7.3 billion in spending, an increase of 6% from Fiscal Year 2008 enacted levels of $6.9 billion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2008 enacted levels. The budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204422-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oklahoma state budget, Total appropriations\nThe Oklahoma Legislature approved total appropriations for fiscal year 2008 of $6.9 billion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to the Governor's budget. The final appropriations are broken down by the following expenditures:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204423-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team\nThe 2009 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team represents Old Dominion University in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Monarchs play their home games at Bud Metheny Baseball Complex, which was named for former coach Bud Metheny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204423-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team\nThe 2009 Monarchs compiled a losing record for the second year in a row but were still able to earn a berth to the CAA tournament with a 13\u201311 conference mark. The team played against three ranked teams during the season; #17 South Carolina, #20 ECU, and #29 George Mason losing each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204423-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team\nThe season started at the Wake Forest tournament where they went 2\u20132 with wins against Marshall and Akron. In conference play ODU won their series against James Madison, Hofstra, William & Mary, and sweeping rival VCU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204423-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team\nThird baseman Jake McAloose led the team in batting average hitting .413 which is the 9th highest single-season batting average in ODU history. His remarkable offensive season and fielding .965 earned him 1st team All-CAA and 2nd team ABCA All-Region. Freshman OF/RHP Brett Harris earned Freshman All-American honors as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team\nThe 2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team compiled a 9\u20132 record, in the first season under the guidance of head coach Bobby Wilder. The Monarchs competed as an independent. The team's home games were played at Foreman Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Preseason notes\nSeason tickets for the Monarchs' inaugural 2009 season more than sold out and the school had to refund 1,065 orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Chowan\nSeptember 5, 2009 was a new start, and proved to be the perfect ending. Old Dominion played its first football game in 69 years against a Division II school from North Carolina, the Chowan Hawks, in front of a sold-out 19,782 fans. Old Dominion won 36\u201321. The defensive line dominated Chowan's offensive line and ODU's defense forced 5 turnovers. ODU quarterback, Thomas DeMarco, hooked up with wide receiver Marquel Thomas for a 50-yard pass play that marked the first touchdown for ODU in 69 years. DeMarco ended the game going 11 for 20 for 123 yards, 6 of those completions were to Reid Evans, who finished the game with 93 yards receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Chowan\nEdmon McClam set a new FCS record with three blocked XP attempts in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Virginia Union\nOn September 12, 2009 ODU hosted the Division II Virginia Union Panthers and won in front of another sellout crowd, 49\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Virginia Union\nODU's defense only gave up 237 yards of total offense, and gained 443 yards themselves. ODU forced 4 turnovers, and quickly jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead in the 2nd quarter due to an unexpected onside kick. By halftime ODU was winning 35\u201310 and quarterback Thomas DeMarco had already scored 4 touchdowns, 2 in the air and 2 on the ground. DeMarco finished with 198 yards passing and 39 yards rushing. Running back Mario Crawford led the game with 71 yards rushing and wide receiver Dorian Jackson led the game with 79 yards receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville\nSeptember 19, 2009 marked ODU's first road game. It was ODUs first Division I-AA opponent, and was ODU's first come-from-behind win. ODU traveled to Florida to face the Jacksonville Dolphins. ODU won 28\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville\nJacksonville was the first opponent that was supposed to be a challenge. Coming off two easy wins against smaller opponents, this was ODU's first test. Trailing 20\u20137 at halftime, ODU opened the 2nd half with a quick score by Mario Crawford and headed into the 4th quarter trailing 20\u201314. After trading touchdowns early in the 4th quarter, ODU received the ball with just over 1:30 left in the game. Thomas DeMarco quickly marched his team down the field and found Dorian Jackson for a 32-yard touchdown pass with only 45 seconds remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville\nThomas DeMarco finished with 175 yards passing and 136 yards rushing. Reid Evans had 7 receptions for 86 yards, and the ODU defense forced 4 turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Monmouth\nSeptember 26, 2009 was the day of ODU's new football team's first loss. The loss came at the hands of the Monmouth Hawks, in front of another sold-out ODU crowd, 31\u201328. ODU did not have an answer for Monmouth's running back David Sinisi who ran the ball 41 times for 216 yards, and also threw a 24-yard touchdown pass on a halfback option play. Sinisi ran for 2 first-downs on Monmouth's final possession of the game when ODU was trying to force a punt, in hopes of possibly winning the game. Because of that Monmouth ended the game with possession. Thomas DeMarco passed for a season high 215 yards while running for 42 more. ODU only forced 2 turnovers while averaging 4.3 takeaways a game coming into this game. Time of possession was very lopsided, with ODU's TOP being 20:49 and Monmouth's being 39:11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Fordham\nOn October 3, 2009 the Monarchs suffered the second loss of the 2009 season. The Monarchs traveled to The Bronx to face off against the Fordham University Rams and future NFL draft pick John Skelton. On the wet and muggy day, the Rams managed to outperform the Old Dominion Monarchs as Skelton threw for two touchdowns and  402 yards. Down 25\u20137 at halftime, the Monarchs took advantage of Fordham turnovers. Old Dominion quarterback Thomas DeMarco threw for 240 yards and 3 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Fordham\nAfter a two-point conversion play and a Carlos Davis touchdown, the Monarchs took a 29\u201328 lead with just under 7 minutes left in the game. The Rams regained possession with very little time left and managed to score on the pursuing drive to lead 34\u201329. On Old Dominion's last possession, with under a minute left, Fordham's Bryson Wilson recovered a Thomas DeMarco fumble at midfield to seal the Fordham victory, 34\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Savannah State\nODU quarterback Thomas DeMarco threw for 198 yards (14-of-20 passing) and three touchdowns without an interception as the Monarchs defeated fellow FCS Independent Savannah State 38\u201317 in Savannah, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204424-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Savannah State\nODU improved to 6\u20132 while Savannah State (1\u20136) saw its losing streak extended to six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by Houston Nutt, who was in his second season as the Rebels' head coach. Ole Miss has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in that conference's Western Division since its formation in 1992. The Rebels played their seven home games in 2009 at Vaught\u2013Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi, which has been Ole Miss football's home since 1915. The Rebels finished the season 9\u20134, 4\u20134 in SEC play and won their second straight Cotton Bowl Classic 21\u20137 against Oklahoma State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Previous season\nFirst year head coach Houston Nutt led the team from four straight losing seasons to a 9\u20134 record and a 5\u20133 mark in conference play. The improvement from 2007\u20132008 was the best single-season improvement for an Ole Miss team since 1947, when Johnny Vaught debuted as coach. The Rebels' second- place finish in the SEC Western Division was their second best finish in the division since its inception in 1992. The 2008 squad concluded the season by defeating Texas Tech 47\u201334 in the 2009 Cotton Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nOn July 7, 2009, the Ole Miss athletic department announced that the 2009 training camp and team would be the subject of a reality television show called Gridiron U, which will air on TruTV (formerly known as Court TV). Filming was scheduled to begin in early August and end September 6. The camera crew came in June to interview players and coaches as well as to film key locations on campus. However, head coach Houston Nutt canceled the team's participation in the new show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nOle Miss was on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the August 17, 2009 issue. SI's preseason rankings has the Rebels ranked at #6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nIn late August 2009, the Ole Miss Athletic Department announced that season tickets were sold out for what is believed to be the first time in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nIn the third week of the season, on September 20, 2009, Ole Miss was ranked #4 in the AP poll and #5 in the Coaches Poll, the highest the Rebels have been ranked since the Archie Manning-lead, and John Vaught-coached, team of 1970 which also made it to #4. Ole Miss' highest ranking ever was #1 in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nOle Miss set a school record with four straight games, going back to the 2008 season, of scoring forty or more points after defeating Southeastern Louisiana 52\u20136 on September 19, 2009. Also as of the Southeastern Louisiana win, the Rebels had the second longest winning streak in the nation, having won eight straight games dating back to the 2008 season. The national champion Florida team had the first longest winning streak after Utah lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nOle Miss' defeat of Tennessee on November 14, 2009 was the first time Tennessee had ever lost in Ole Miss' home stadium. Tennessee now holds a 5\u20131 mark against Ole Miss in Ole Miss' home stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, 2009 season highlights\nOle Miss' defeat of LSU on November 21, 2009 was the Rebels first win at home against LSU since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NFL prospects\nTwelve Ole Miss players who ended their career at Ole Miss this year were either taken in the 2010 NFL Draft or signed free-agent contracts with NFL teams. Dexter McCluster", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204425-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NFL prospects\n(Kansas City Chiefs; 2nd round; 36th overall pick), OL John Jerry (Miami Dolphins; 3rd round; 73rd overall pick), S Kendrick Lewis (Kansas City Chiefs; 5th round; 136th overall pick) and DE Greg Hardy (Carolina Panthers; 6th round; 175th overall pick) were drafted while QB Jevan Snead (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), RB Cordera Eason (Cincinnati Bengals), TE Gerald Harris (Tennessee Titans), LB Patrick Trahan (Tennessee Titans), WR Shay Hodge (San Francisco 49ers), CB Marshay Green (Arizona Cardinals), CB Cassius Vaughn (Denver Broncos) and DE Emmanuel Stephens (Atlanta Falcons) signed free agent contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204426-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Omaha mayoral election\nThe 2009 Omaha mayoral election was held on May 12, 2009. Incumbent mayor Mike Fahey declined to seek a third term. The election was won by city councilman Jim Suttle, who defeated former mayor Hal Daub by a two percent margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204427-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad\nThe 2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad cycle race took place on 28 February 2009. It was the 64th edition of the international classic Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and the first time after the name changed from Omloop Het Volk. The race was won by Thor Hushovd in an 18-man sprint in Ghent, ahead of Kevin Ista and Juan Antonio Flecha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204428-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ondrej Nepela Memorial\nThe 2009 Ondrej Nepela Memorial (Slovak: Memori\u00e1l Ondreja Nepelu) was the 17th edition of an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Slovakia. The competition was held between November 5 and 7, 2009 at the Ice Sport Rink in Pie\u0161\u0165any. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election\nThe 2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election was held in Hamilton, from March 6 to 8, 2009 to elect a successor to Howard Hampton as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP). On June 15, 2008, Hampton informed the party's provincial council that he would not stand for re-election as leader at the next party convention in a year's time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election\nWhile a leadership vote was held at each biennial convention of the Ontario NDP until and including the last regular convention in 2007, there is normally not a contested vote unless there is a vacancy, therefore, the 2009 vote was the party's first leadership convention since Hampton was elected in 1996 to succeed Bob Rae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election\nWith the support of high-profile party members such as the left-wing MPP Peter Kormos and Sid Ryan, the President of CUPE Ontario, Andrea Horwath, the MPP for Hamilton Centre, won the leadership contest with 60.4% of the vote on the final ballot. As of 2021, it remains the last leadership election held by the Ontario New Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Candidates, Gilles Bisson\nGilles Bisson, 52, is the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Timmins\u2014James Bay. He was first elected in the 1990 provincial election in the riding of Cochrane South. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Ministers of Northern Development and Mines and Francophone Affairs from 1990 until 1995. He was re-elected by a greater margin in Cochrane South in the 1995 election. He was subsequently re-elected in Timmins\u2014James Bay in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections. Before entering politics, he was a labour union organizer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Candidates, Andrea Horwath\nAndrea Horwath, 46, is the MPP for Hamilton Centre. She was defeated in the 1997 federal election in Hamilton West, where she finished a distant second place. She was first elected to Hamilton, Ontario City Council in 1997, representing Ward 2. She was re-elected in 2000 and again in 2003. She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in 2004 in the riding of Hamilton East with 63.6% of the vote. She was subsequently re-elected in the riding of Hamilton Centre in the 2007 election. Before entering politics, she was a community development worker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Candidates, Michael Prue\nMichael Prue, 60, is the MPP for Beaches\u2014East York. He has been an MPP since 2001 when he defeated Liberal Bob Hunter in a hotly contested by-election. Prue was first elected to public office as a city councillor in 1988, and then became mayor in 1993 of the former Borough of East York. In 1997, East York was amalgamated into the City of Toronto and Prue was elected to Toronto City Council, where he served until his election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Prue was re-elected as MPP of Beaches-East York in 2003, and again in 2007. Prior to entering politics, Prue worked as counsel for the Minister of Employment and Immigration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Candidates, Peter Tabuns\nPeter Tabuns, 57, is the MPP for Toronto\u2014Danforth. Tabuns served on Toronto City Council from 1990 to 1997 representing Ward 8. He was defeated in 1997 ironically by two NDP affiliated candidates (one of whom being former NDP  leader Jack Layton who represented Tabuns' riding in the House of Commons) when Toronto City Council was amalgamated with the Metro Council. From 1999 to 2004 he served as the executive director of Greenpeace Canada. In the 2004 Canadian federal election he ran in the riding of Beaches\u2014East York where he lost to Liberal MP Maria Minna. He received 32% of the vote. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a by-election in 2006 in which he received 48% of the vote. He was re-elected in the 2007 election with 46% of the vote, Before entering politics, he was an insurance clerk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 910]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Issues\nPeter Tabuns drew on his environmentalist roots and made his proposal for a \"New Energy Economy\" based on green principles the centrepiece of his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Issues\nMichael Prue raised the idea of reviewing the Separate School System and possibly amalgamating it with the public school system. He also advocated a cities-centered economic policy and giving more power to municipalities. On party issues he advocated giving each riding association $10,000 during elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Issues\nGilles Bisson emphasized reforms to party fund raising in order to allow riding associations to keep more of the money they raised. In public policy he advocated targeted corporate tax cuts and an anti-crime platform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Issues\nAndrea Horwath advocated heavy investment in light rail. In party matters she emphasised a closer relationship to unions and the hiring of regional organisers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Procedure\nIn the past, the Ontario NDP has used a traditional delegated leadership convention to select its leaders in which delegates elected by local riding associations, campus clubs, labour union locals affiliated with the party choose the leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Procedure\nHowever, at its January 2007 provincial convention, the Ontario NDP amended its constitution bringing in a one member one vote procedure modelled on that used by the New Democratic Party of Canada in its 2003 federal leadership election in which the votes of all party members is weighted to 75% of the total with the remaining 25% being allocated to the party's affiliates (mostly labour unions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Procedure\nThe party's Executive Committee finalized the deadlines, spending limits and other rules for the March 2009 election. The spending limit was $500,000 and the cut-off for new members was January 5, 2009. Membership fees were $25 with a reduced rate of $5 for students and the unemployed. The entrance fee for candidates was $15,000 ($5,000 of which was refundable after the election), and the party and candidates were required to provide the signatures of 100 party members, at least half of them women, from all four regions of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Procedure\nCandidates were allowed to spend up to $500,000 and 40% of the money candidates raise was to be remitted to the party. Two-time NDP candidate Michael Laxer criticized the entrance fee as being too high, saying: \"What you get by doing that is you manifestly limit the number of people who are outside the party establishment, and who have available big backers of one kind or another.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204429-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, Procedure\nAdvance voting was available via mail or internet by preferential ballot. \"Real time\" voting took place on March 7, 2009, by phone or internet. Those voting on March 7 voted for one candidate only per balloting round. The voting periods were announced at the convention, on the voting website, the voting phone number and on the NDP convention website. On each individual ballot separately with the lowest ranking candidate being dropped off of each successive ballot until one candidate receives a majority of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts was the 2009 edition of the provincial women's curling tournament in the province of Ontario, Canada. It was held January 26-February 1 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia, where it finished tied for sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification\nThe tournament will consist of ten teams. Since there is no Northern Ontario team at the Scotties, the provincial tournament must consist of the entire province of Ontario. The provincial finals will consist of four teams from Northern Ontario and six from Southern Ontario. The four Northern Ontario teams qualify from one playdown, while the six Southern Ontario teams qualify from a series of zone and regional playdowns. Two teams qualify from each of the two Southern Ontario regions, while two teams come from a provincial \"last chance\" qualification tournament. The two regions consist of eight zones where two teams from which qualify for the regional tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Southern Ontario Zones\nTeams in bold advanced to regionals. Teams underlined opted to play in the challenge round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Southern Ontario Zones, Zone 4\nOriginally scheduled for December 19-21, Royal Kingston Curling Club (Kingston)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Southern Ontario Challenge Round\nThe challenge round will be held January 16-19 at the Bradford & District Curling Club in Bradford to determine the last two spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204430-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Northern Ontario Region\nThe Northern Ontario playdown was held January 7-11 at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13\nThe 2009 Open 13 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the Open 13, and was part of the World Tour 250 tier of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports in Marseille, France, from 16 February through 22 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Tournament\nBefore this year, the tournament was won by a home favorite on several occasions: Guy Forget in 1996, Fabrice Santoro in 1999, Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment in 2006, and Gilles Simon in 2007. The record for most titles is three, won by the Swiss player Marc Rosset in its first two years in 1993 and 1994, as well as in 2000; the Swedish player Thomas Enqvist also won three, in 1997, 1998, and 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Tournament\nIt is also one of the few ATP tournaments to have been won only by European players, with France with five (Forget, Santoro, Cl\u00e9ment, Simon, and this year's winner Jo-Wilfried Tsonga), Sweden with 4 (Enqvist, Joachim Johansson), Switzerland with four (Rosset, Roger Federer), Germany with one (Boris Becker), Russia with one (Yevgeny Kafelnikov), Slovakia with one (Dominik Hrbat\u00fd), and Great Britain with one (Andy Murray).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Entrants, Seeds\nRichard Gasquet was the sixth seed, but had to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Champions, Singles\nPrevious winners in the field included Gilles Simon, Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment, and Fabrice Santoro, with Simon being the only one to advance past the second round. Seeded players suffered mixed fortunes with Marat Safin, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Ga\u00ebl Monfils all losing in the first round. Richard Gasquet was also forced to pull out though injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Champions, Singles\nIn the quarterfinals, top seed Novak Djokovic advanced past Jan Hernych and second seed Simon advanced past compatriot Julien Benneteau. The other two matches were harder victories for Micha\u00ebl Llodra over Mikhail Youzhny and fourth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga over eighth seed Feliciano L\u00f3pez. In the semifinals, unseeded Micha\u00ebl Llodra defeated Simon 7\u20136 6\u20132, while Tsonga defeated Djokovic for the fourth time in a row 6\u20134, 7\u20136. This set up an all-French battle between Tsonga and Llodra, which saw Tsonga come out in top in a close-fought match 7\u20135, 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Champions, Singles\nResult of the final:  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga  defeated  Micha\u00ebl Llodra, 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20133)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204431-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13, Champions, Doubles\nPrevious winners in the field included Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment & Micha\u00ebl Llodra, Pavel V\u00edzner, Martin Damm, Fabrice Santoro, and Simon Aspelin (the last four all had different partners previously). The semifinals consisted of top duo Julian Knowle & Andy Ram, the Czech pairing of Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych & Jan Hernych, Stephen Huss & Ross Hutchins, and the home favorites Cl\u00e9ment & Llodra. Cl\u00e9ment & Llodra defeated Huss & Hutchins 6\u20132 7\u20136, while Knowle & Ram advanced into their expected final with a 7\u20136 6\u20132 victory over the Czechs. Result of the final:  Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment /  Micha\u00ebl Llodra defeated  Julian Knowle /  Andy Ram, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204432-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13 \u2013 Doubles\nMartin Damm and Pavel V\u00edzner are the defending champions, but did not play together that year. Martin Damm partnered with Robert Lindstedt, but lost in the first round to Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and Micha\u00ebl Llodra. Pavel V\u00edzner partnered with Simon Aspelin, but lost in the first round to Julien Benneteau and Fabrice Santoro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204433-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open 13 \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won in the final 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20133), against Micha\u00ebl Llodra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204434-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida\nThe 2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Barletta, Italy between 23 and 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204434-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204434-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204434-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida, Champions, Men's doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Pablo Cuevas /  Luis Horna, 7\u20136(1), 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204435-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Doubles\nFlavio Cipolla and Marcel Granollers were the defending champions, however he didn't defend their title. Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura won in the final 7\u20136(1), 6\u20132, against Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204436-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Barletta \u2013 Citt\u00e0 della Disfida \u2013 Singles\nMikhail Kukushkin was the defending champion; however, he didn't take part in these championships this year. Ivo Min\u00e1\u0159 defeated Santiago Ventura in the final (6\u20134, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204437-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n\nThe 2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twenty fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Segovia, Spain between 3 and 9 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204437-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204437-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204437-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Champions, Doubles\nNicolas Mahut /  \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin def. Sergiy Stakhovsky /  Lovro Zovko, 6\u20137(4), 6\u20133, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204438-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Doubles\nRoss Hutchins and Jim Thomas were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete this year. Nicolas Mahut and \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin defeated Sergiy Stakhovsky and Lovro Zovko 6\u20137(4), 6\u20133, [10\u20138] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204439-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Castilla y Le\u00f3n \u2013 Singles\nSergiy Stakhovsky was the defending champion but was eliminated by \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin in the second round. Feliciano L\u00f3pez won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Adrian Mannarino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship\nThe 2009 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 138th Open Championship, held from 16\u201319 July at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewart Cink won his only major championship after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson. At age 59, Watson had the chance to win his sixth Open and become the oldest major champion in history during regulation play, but was unable to par the final hole and tied with Cink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship\nIt was the fourth Open at Turnberry; the previous winners were Watson (1977), Greg Norman (1986), and Nick Price (1994).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Venue\nAs with previous editions of The Open Championship at Turnberry, this event was played on the resort's Ailsa Course. Since it last hosted the Championship in 1994, the course had been lengthened by almost 250 yards (230\u00a0m), with over 60 yards (55\u00a0m) having been added to the par 5 17th hole. Six new tees had been built, and the 16th hole was 45 yards (41\u00a0m) longer and had been remodelled into a dog-leg to the right, having previously been relatively straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\nEach year, around two-thirds of The Open Championship field consists of players that are fully exempt from qualifying for the Open. Below is a list of the exemption categories, and the players who were exempt for the 2009 Open. Each player is classified according to the first category by which they qualified, with other categories they also fall into being shown in parentheses. Some categories are not shown as all players in that category had already qualified from an earlier category:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n1. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2008 Open ChampionshipRobert Allenby (5,15), Stephen Ames (5), Paul Casey (5,6,7,19), Ben Curtis (3,4,5,15,19), Ernie Els (3,4,5,15), Jim Furyk (5,15,19), P\u00e1draig Harrington (3,4,5,6,13,19), David Howell, Anthony Kim (5,15,19), Greg Norman (3), Ian Poulter (5,6,19), Henrik Stenson (5,6,14,19), Steve Stricker (5,15,19), Chris Wood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n2. Past Open Champions born between 17 July 1943 and 19 July 1948(Eligible but did not compete: Tony Jacklin, Johnny Miller)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n3. Past Open Champions aged 60 or under on 19 July 2008Mark Calcavecchia, John Daly, David Duval (4), Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton (4), Paul Lawrie (4), Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (5,15,19), Sandy Lyle, Mark O'Meara, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods (4,5,11,12,13)(Eligible but did not compete: Ian Baker-Finch, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Price, Bill Rogers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 32]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\nThe first 50 players on the Official World Golf Rankings for Week 21, 2009\u00c1ngel Cabrera (11,12), Chad Campbell (15,19), K. J. Choi (15), Stewart Cink (15,19), Tim Clark (15), Luke Donald, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o, Ross Fisher (6), Sergio Garc\u00eda (6,14,15,19), Retief Goosen (6), Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez (6,7,19), Dustin Johnson, Zach Johnson (12), Martin Kaymer (6), S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen (6), Hunter Mahan (15,19), Graeme McDowell (6,19), Rory McIlroy, Geoff Ogilvy (11), Sean O'Hair, Kenny Perry (15,19), \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s (6), Justin Rose (19), Rory Sabbatini, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh (13,15), David Toms, Camilo Villegas (15), Nick Watney, Mike Weir (15), Lee Westwood (6,19), Oliver Wilson (6,19)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n6. First 30 in the PGA European Tour Final Order of Merit for 2008Darren Clarke, Richard Finch, Richard Green, S\u00f8ren Hansen (19), Peter Hanson, Peter Hedblom, James Kingston, Pablo Larraz\u00e1bal, Paul McGinley, Damien McGrane, Francesco Molinari, Colin Montgomerie, Charl Schwartzel, Anthony Wall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n8. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied above, in the top 20 of the 2009 PGA European Tour Race to Dubai on completion of the 2009 BMW PGA ChampionshipThongchai Jaidee, Louis Oosthuizen, Robert Rock", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n9. First 2 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from all official PGA European Tour events from OWGR Week 19 up to and including the BMW International Open and including the U.S. OpenNick Dougherty, Johan Edfors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n10. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2009 Open de France Alstom and the 2009 Barclays Scottish Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n11. The U.S. Open Champions for 2005-2009Michael Campbell, Lucas Glover", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n15. Top 30 on the Official 2008 PGA Tour FedEx Cup points listStuart Appleby, Briny Baird, Ken Duke, Ryuji Imada, Billy Mayfair, Carl Pettersson, Andr\u00e9s Romero, Kevin Sutherland, D. J. Trahan, Bubba Watson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n16. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied above, in the top 20 of the FedEx Cup points list of the 2009 PGA Tour on completion of the HP Byron Nelson ChampionshipBrian Gay, Charley Hoffman, Charles Howell III", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n17. First 2 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from The Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2009 AT&T NationalPaul Goydos, Bryce Molder", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n18. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2009 AT&T National and the 2009 John Deere ClassicBrandt Snedeker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n19. Playing members of the 2008 Ryder Cup teamsJ. B. Holmes, Boo Weekley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n20. First place on the 2008 Asian Tour Order of Merit", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n21. First place on the 2008 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of MeritMark Brown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n22. First place on the 2008 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Richard Sterne", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n24. First 2, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2008Prayad Marksaeng, Azuma Yano", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n25. The leading 4 players, not exempt, in the 2009 Mizuno Open Yomiuri ClassicRyo Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kondo, Kenichi Kuboya, David Smail", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n26. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt having applied (25) above, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2009 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2009 Mizuno Open Yomiuri ClassicYuta Ikeda, Koumei Oda", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\n29. The 2008 U.S. Amateur Champion(U.S. Amateur winner Danny Lee turned professional in April 2009 and forfeited his automatic exemption.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\nLocal Final Qualifying (Monday 6 July and Tuesday 7 July)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Field\nAlternates Drawn from the Official World Golf Rankings of 5 July 2009 (provide the player was entered in the Open and did not withdraw from qualifying):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, First round\nCalm and sunny weather provided good scoring conditions for the opening round. Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez took the lead at 64 (\u22126), and past champions turned back the clock: five-time winner Tom Watson, age 59, carded a bogey-free 65, and both Mark Calcavecchia (1989, age 49) and Mark O'Meara (1998, 52) shot 67. Ben Curtis, 2003 champion, also opened with 65 to join Watson and Kenichi Kuboya, who was even par through 14 holes, but finished birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, First round\nSteve Stricker, Stewart Cink, and Camilo Villegas started strong at 66, and notables at 67 included Calcavecchia, O'Meara, Retief Goosen, Jim Furyk, Mike Weir, and Vijay Singh. Two-time defending champion P\u00e1draig Harrington had a quiet 69, while Tiger Woods struggled off the tee for 71. Two-time champion Greg Norman, the previous year's Cinderella story, had a disappointing 77.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nHigh winds and scattered showers pushed the scoring average more than two strokes higher with just seven sub-par rounds on Friday, compared to fifty on Thursday. The conditions were the worst during the morning, and the round's best of 68 belonging to co-leader Steve Marino and Ross Fisher, tied for fourth place. Retief Goosen shot an even par 70 to share fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nVeteran Tom Watson continued his excellent performance; he struggled through the front nine, but holed long putts at the 16th and 18th, as he made three birdies on the back nine to tie Marino for the lead at 135 (\u22125). Nearly sixty, Watson looked to become the oldest winner of a major championship by over a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nThe cut was at 144 (+4) and 73 players advanced to the weekend. Sixteen-year-old British Amateur Champion Matteo Manassero played with Watson and posted 141 and all but secured the silver medal as the leading amateur. Among those to miss the cut was world number one and pre-tournament favorite Tiger Woods. Going out in the afternoon, his 74 included two double bogeys on holes 10 and 13, and his 145 missed the cut by a stroke. It was his first missed cut at the Open, and only the second missed cut in a major as a professional, after the 2006 U.S. Open. Other notables to miss the cut included Mike Weir (67\u201378=145), Ben Curtis (65\u201380=145), David Duval (71\u201376=147), and Geoff Ogilvy (75\u201378=153).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nTom Watson continued his good form with a one-over 71 to maintain a one stroke lead. Mathew Goggin was one of only five players under par in conditions similar to Friday, and was just one stroke off the lead, tied for second with Ross Fisher. The best round of the day was 67 by Bryce Molder, who leapt into the top ten after starting the round in a tie for 53rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nFisher birdied the first two holes to take the outright lead as Watson had two bogeys in three holes. Fisher had a three shot lead at one point, but dropped back with a bogey on the 4th hole and quadruple bogey 8 on the 5th hole, and was never in contention again. Matthew Goggin was in contention most of the day and was tied for the lead with 5 holes remaining, but 3 straight bogeys took him out of contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nChris Wood was 4 under for the day through 17 holes and 2 under the tournament, just 1 stroke behind the lead. But he caught a flier from the rough on 18 and was unable to get up and down behind the green, dropping to 1 under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0031-0002", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nLee Westwood eagled the 7th hole to move into the lead, which he held or shared for most of the round, but bogeys at three of the last four holes, including a three putt on 18, dropped him to 1 under, one stroke behind clubhouse leader Cink, who had rolled in a 15-foot (4.5\u00a0m) putt for birdie at the 18th to move to two-under.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nWatson birdied the 17th to move into sole possession of the lead at 3 under par. Needing a par four at the 18th to win, his approach shot took a hard bounce and rolled well over the green. Watson was unable to get up and down and entered into a four-hole playoff with Cink for the Claret Jug.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Playoff\nWatson and Cink had tied at 278 (\u20132) during regulation play and entered a playoff for the championship. Under the rules of the Open Championship, a four-hole aggregate playoff was played over hole numbers 5, 6, 17, and 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204440-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Championship, Round summaries, Playoff\nOn the first extra hole, both players found greenside bunkers, but while Watson was only able to make minimal progress towards the hole and made bogey, Cink splashed out to six feet (1.8\u00a0m) and saved par. Both made par three on the second hole, but at the par 5 17th, Watson's drive went left to a bad lie in heavy rough, and he was unable to reach the fairway with his next shot. On the green in four, he three-putted for double bogey, while Cink hit the green in two and two-putted for birdie. With a four-stroke lead on the final hole, Cink hit his approach to five feet (1.5\u00a0m) and made birdie to triumph in the playoff by six strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204441-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife\nThe 2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tenerife, Spain, between April 27 and March 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204441-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204441-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife, Champions, Men's doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner /  Alexander Peya def. James Auckland /  Joshua Goodall, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204442-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya won in the final 6\u20132, 3\u20136, [10\u20134], against James Auckland and Joshua Goodall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204443-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Costa Adeje \u2013 Isla de Tenerife \u2013 Singles\nMarco Chiudinelli won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134, against Paolo Lorenzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204444-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco\nThe 2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco was a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. This was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Pozoblanco, Spain between 6 and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204444-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204444-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco, Champions, Doubles\nKarol Beck /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd def. Colin Fleming /  Ken Skupski, 6\u20132, 6\u20137, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204445-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco \u2013 Doubles\nJohan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer were the defending champions. They chose to start in these championships and they were first seeds. However they lost to Ruben Bemelmans and Riccardo Ghedin in the quarter final. Karol Beck and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd defeated Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski 6\u20132, 6\u20137, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204445-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco \u2013 Doubles\nIt took place in Pozoblanco, Spain between 6 and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204446-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco \u2013 Singles\nIv\u00e1n Navarro was the defender of championship title, but he lost to Marco Chiudinelli in the quarterfinal. Karol Beck won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Thiago Alves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204446-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Diputaci\u00f3n Ciudad de Pozoblanco \u2013 Singles\nIt took place in Pozoblanco, Spain between 6 and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204447-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez\nThe 2009 Open GDF Suez was a women's professional tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts. It was the 17th edition of the Open GDF Suez (formerly known as the Open Gaz de France) and was a Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France from 9 February until 15 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204447-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez\nThe top three seeds were Serena Williams, the 2009 Australian Open singles champion and twice the winner of this event, Jelena Jankovi\u0107, a former World No. 1, and Elena Dementieva, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in singles and a 2009 Australian Open semifinalist. Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, home favourite Aliz\u00e9 Cornet, Patty Schnyder, Anabel Medina Garrigues, and two-time champion Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo also played this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204447-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez, Entrants, Seeds\nMaria Sharapova was initially set to make her season debut here after sitting out several months with a shoulder injury. However, she eventually withdrew. She was replaced by Jelena Jankovi\u0107. Katarina Srebotnik also withdrew from the event with an ongoing injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204447-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez, Prize money & points\nThe total prize money for the tournament was US$700,000, upgraded from the previous year's US$600,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204447-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez, Finals, Doubles\nCara Black /  Liezel Huber defeated  Kv\u011bta Peschke / Lisa Raymond 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204448-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez \u2013 Doubles\nAlona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko were the defending champions but they chose not to compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204449-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez \u2013 Singles\nAnna Chakvetadze was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204449-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open GDF Suez \u2013 Singles\nAm\u00e9lie Mauresmo won the title, defeating Elena Dementieva in the final 7\u20136(9\u20137), 2\u20136, 6\u20134. This was Mauremso's final WTA singles title before her retirement at the end of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204450-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s\nThe 2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Saint-Brieuc, France between 30 March and 5 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204450-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204450-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204450-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s, Champions, Men's doubles\nDavid Martin /  Simon Stadler def. Peter Luczak /  Joseph Sirianni, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204451-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s \u2013 Doubles\nAdrian Cruciat and Daniel Mu\u00f1oz-de la Nava were the defending champions, but only Cruciat partnered up with Adrian Ungur, but they lost to Luczak and Sirianni in the first round. David Martin and Simon Stadler won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132, against Peter Luczak and Joseph Sirianni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204452-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Pr\u00e9vadi\u00e8s \u2013 Singles\nChristophe Rochus was the defending champion. Josselin Ouanna won the singles competition, after she won 7\u20135, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, against Adrian Mannarino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204453-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada\nThe 2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tarragona, Spain between 5 and 11 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204453-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204453-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada, Champions, Doubles\nTomasz Bednarek /  Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Flavio Cipolla /  Alessandro Motti, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204454-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada \u2013 Doubles\nDu\u0161an Karol and Daniel K\u00f6llerer were the defending champions, but only Karol tried to defend his title. He partnered with Jan H\u00e1jek, but they lost to Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk in the semifinals. Polish pair won this tournament. They defeated Flavio Cipolla and Alessandro Motti 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204455-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open Tarragona Costa Daurada \u2013 Singles\nAlberto Mart\u00edn was the defending champion, but he lost to Antonio Vei\u0107 in the second round. Daniel Gimeno-Traver won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20130, against Paolo Lorenzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204456-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans\nThe 2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orl\u00e9ans, France between 19 and 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204456-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204456-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204456-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans, Champions, Doubles\nColin Fleming /  Ken Skupski def. S\u00e9bastien Grosjean /  Olivier Patience, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204457-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Doubles\nSergiy Stakhovsky and Lovro Zovko were the defending champions, but only Zovko tried to defend his 2008 title. He partnered with Yves Allegro, but they lost to S\u00e9bastien Grosjean and Olivier Patience in the quarterfinal. Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20131, against Grosjean and Patience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204458-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open d'Orl\u00e9ans \u2013 Singles\nNicolas Mahut was the defending champion, but he lost to St\u00e9phane Robert in the quarterfinal. Xavier Malisse defeated St\u00e9phane Robert 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204459-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Moselle\nThe 2009 Open de Moselle was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the Open de Moselle, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Ar\u00e8nes de Metz in Metz, France, from 21 September through 27 September 2009. First-seeded Ga\u00ebl Monfils won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204459-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Moselle, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204459-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Moselle, Finals, Doubles\nColin Fleming /  Ken Skupski defeated  Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment /  Micha\u00ebl Llodra, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204460-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Moselle \u2013 Doubles\nArnaud Cl\u00e9ment and Micha\u00ebl Llodra were the defending champion, but lost in the final 6\u20132, 4\u20136, [5\u201310], against Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204461-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Moselle \u2013 Singles\nDmitry Tursunov was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Ga\u00ebl Monfils won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20131), 3\u20136, 6\u20132 against Philipp Kohlschreiber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204462-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Rennes\nThe 2009 Open de Rennes was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rennes, France between 12 and 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204462-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Rennes, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204462-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Rennes, Champions, Doubles\nEric Butorac /  Lovro Zovko def. Kevin Anderson /  Dominik Hrbat\u00fd, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204463-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Rennes \u2013 Doubles\nJames Auckland and Dick Norman were the defending champions, but chose not to defend their title. Eric Butorac and Lovro Zovko won the event, beating Kevin Anderson and Dominik Hrbat\u00fd 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204464-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Rennes \u2013 Singles\nJosselin Ouanna was the defending champion, but retired in the second round match against Stefano Galvani while scores were 6\u20137(1\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20134). Alejandro Falla won this tournament, by defeating Thierry Ascione 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204465-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Open de Su\u00e8de V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda TTT\nThe 2009 Open de Su\u00e8de V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda \u2013 team time trial was the second team time trial running on the Open de Su\u00e8de V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda. It was held on 31 July 2009 over a distance of 41.5 kilometres (25.8 miles) and was the seventh race of the 2009 UCI Women's Road World Cup season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl\nThe 2009 FedEx Orange Bowl was the 75th edition of Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It pitted the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion Virginia Tech Hokies against the Big East Conference champion Cincinnati Bearcats on January 1, 2009, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Virginia Tech defeated Cincinnati, 20\u20137. The game was the second contest in the 2008\u20132009 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams. The game was televised in the United States on FOX, and an estimated 9.3 million viewers watched the broadcast live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl\nVirginia Tech was selected to participate in the Orange Bowl after a 9\u20134 season that culminated in a 30\u201312 victory in the 2008 ACC Championship Game. Cincinnati was selected as the other half of the matchup after an 11\u20132 season that ended with a 29\u201324 win against Hawaii. In the weeks between the teams' selection and the playing of the game, media attention focused on the nature of Cincinnati's first BCS game appearance and Virginia Tech's attempt to win its first BCS game since 1995. Attention also focused on Cincinnati's proficient offense and Virginia Tech's highly rated defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl\nThe game kicked off at 8:47\u00a0p.m. Eastern Standard Time in warm weather, and Cincinnati scored first, converting the game's opening possession into a touchdown and a 7\u20130 lead in the first quarter. Virginia Tech responded in the second quarter, tying the game at seven before taking a 10\u20137 lead with a field goal as time expired in the first half. In the third quarter, the two teams battled defensively, with only the Hokies able to score any points as Tech extended its lead to 13\u20137. During the final quarter, Virginia Tech scored its second touchdown of the game, giving the Hokies a 20\u20137 lead that lasted until time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl\nIn recognition of his performance during the game, Virginia Tech running back Darren Evans was named the game's most valuable player. He set a Virginia Tech bowl-game record for carries and tied the Tech record for rushing yards in a bowl game. Cincinnati replaced two coaches after the loss, and three months after the game, players from each team entered the National Football League (NFL) via the 2009 NFL Draft. Cincinnati had six players selected in the draft, while Virginia Tech had one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection\nThe Orange Bowl is one of five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games that have been played at the conclusion of every college football season since 2006. As defined by contract, the bowl matches the champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) against an at-large pick chosen by a special committee. On December 6, 2008, the Virginia Tech Hokies defeated the Boston College Eagles in the 2008 ACC Championship Game, thus winning an automatic bid to the 2009 Orange Bowl Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection\nThe at-large spot in the Orange Bowl was filled via a round-robin selection procedure defined by the other Bowl Championship series games (the Sugar, Fiesta, and Rose bowls) and the automatic bids. The order of at-large selections rotates annually among the BCS bowls. In 2009, the Fiesta Bowl picked first, followed by the Sugar Bowl, then the Orange Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl picked Ohio State, while the Sugar Bowl selected Utah. The Orange Bowl was thus left to select Big East Conference champion Cincinnati, fulfilling the BCS' contractual obligation to provide a game for the conference's champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nThe Cincinnati Bearcats ended the 2007 college football season with a 10\u20132 record, including a win in the 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl over Southern Miss, 31\u201321. It was only the second time in school history that Cincinnati had won 10 games in a season. Before the 2008 season, the Bearcats hoped quarterback Ben Mauk would be allowed to play an unusual sixth year of college football, a possibility created by a year lost to injury and a redshirt year. After Mauk's request was denied by the NCAA, the annual poll of media covering Big East football picked Cincinnati to finish fifth in the eight-team Big East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nThe Bearcats opened the 2008 college football season against Eastern Kentucky, winning 40\u20137 in an offensive effort led by senior quarterback Dustin Grutza, who was named the team's starter at that position following Mauk's dismissal. For its second game of the season, Cincinnati traveled to Norman, Oklahoma, to face the Oklahoma Sooners for the first time. In a 52\u201326 loss to a team that would play for the national championship that season, Grutza broke his ankle and was replaced by junior Tony Pike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nFor their third game of the season, the Bearcats returned to Nippert Stadium\u2014their home field\u2014to play the first of two Mid-American Conference (MAC) opponents, in-state rival Miami. In the 113th Battle for the Victory Bell, Cincinnati won, 45\u201320. Following the victory against Miami, the Bearcats traveled to Akron, Ohio to play the Akron Zips. Against the Zips, Pike broke his arm and was replaced by redshirt freshman Chazz Anderson, who was also injured during the game. Fellow redshirt freshman Zach Collaros then entered the game and led the Bearcats to a 17\u201315 victory. The close win against Akron was followed by a 33\u201310 win over Marshall, the Bearcats' final nonconference game before beginning Big East play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nAt the start of conference play, the Bearcats were 4\u20131, and their only loss was against top-five opponent Oklahoma. With Pike still injured, Cincinnati beat Rutgers, 13\u201310, in the Bearcats' first Big East game of the season. The Bearcats suffered their second defeat of the season in the following week, however, losing to the UConn Huskies, 40\u201316. Pike returned from the injury and had the Bearcats leading at halftime, but he left the game at the half when numbness in his non-throwing hand prevented him from being able to take the snap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nIn the two weeks that followed the loss to the Huskies, Cincinnati recovered to beat two top-25 opponents: No. 23 South Florida and No. 20 West Virginia. The two victories pushed the Bearcats to a 3\u20131 conference record and the No. 22 position in the AP Poll before Cincinnati's annual rivalry game against Louisville. That game, also known as the Battle for The Keg of Nails, ended in a Cincinnati victory for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nFollowing the rivalry game win, Cincinnati played the Pittsburgh Panthers in a game for control of first place in the Big East. In front of a record crowd at Cincinnati's home field, the Bearcats claimed first place with a 28\u201321 win. Heading into its game against the Syracuse Orange, Cincinnati was assured at least a share of the Big East Championship, but a 30\u201310 win over Syracuse gave the Bearcats sole possession of the championship, the first Big East title in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Cincinnati\nAfter clinching the Big East Championship and a bid to a BCS bowl, Cincinnati ended the regular season with a game in Hawaii against the Hawai\u02bbi Warriors. Despite trailing for much of the game, the Bearcats scored 19 unanswered points and ended the regular season with a 29\u201324 victory. Already assured a BCS berth by virtue of their Big East championship, on December 7, 2008, the Bearcats were selected to participate in the 2009 Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nThe Virginia Tech Hokies entered the 2008 season after an 11\u20133 overall 2007 record that included a win in the 2007 ACC Championship Game and a loss to the Kansas Jayhawks in the 2008 Orange Bowl. Although the Hokies won the ACC for the second time in less than four years, fans and analysts anticipated Virginia Tech would spend 2008 rebuilding a team that saw 12 starters graduate or enter the National Football League (NFL) Draft. Though picked in a preseason poll to win the Coastal Division of the ACC, the Hokies were upset in their season opener by East Carolina University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nFollowing the loss, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer announced that backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who had previously been expected to redshirt and sit out the season, would play in the Hokies' second game, against Furman. Both Taylor and Sean Glennon performed well against Furman, and Tech won, 24\u20137. Tech's third game of the season came against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, who were debuting a new offensive system the spread option under first-year head coach Paul Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nUnlike the game against Furman, Taylor started the game and remained at quarterback throughout, guiding the Hokies to their first ACC victory of the season, 20\u201317. The win gave Tech the tiebreaker against the Yellow Jackets in the event of a tie in the division standings at the end of the season. The Hokies' fourth game of the season came against the North Carolina Tar Heels, who were defeated by the same margin of victory as Tech's win against Georgia Tech, 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nThe twin conference victories were followed by two out-of-conference wins: at Big 12 opponent Nebraska and against independent Western Kentucky. At the end of the four-game winning streak, the Hokies had a 4\u20131 record, 2\u20130 in conference, and were ranked No. 17 in the country. On October 18, however, the Hokies lost to unranked Boston College in Boston, 28\u201323. The game was a rematch of the previous year's ACC Championship Game and was a preview of the 2008 ACC Championship Game matchup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nThe loss was the start of a skid that saw Tech lose three of four games, only managing a victory against Maryland, 23\u201313. The final contest of that four-game stretch was a 16\u201313 loss to Coastal Division rival Miami, which then held the tiebreaker over the Hokies in the event of any head-to-head tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Team selection, Virginia Tech\nDuring the last two games of the regular season, however, the Hokies managed two victories: a 14\u20133 win against last-place ACC team Duke, and a 17\u201314 triumph over traditional rival Virginia. Miami, meanwhile, lost its final two games of the season: against Georgia Tech and North Carolina State. These losses dropped Miami to a 4\u20134 record in the ACC, one game behind the Hokies, who were tied with Georgia Tech at 5\u20133 following the end of the regular season. By virtue of the Hokies' head-to-head win against the Yellow Jackets, Virginia Tech won the Coastal Division and a spot in the ACC Championship Game. When Tech won the championship game against Atlantic Division champion Boston College, 30\u201312, it was awarded the ACC's automatic bid to the Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup\nPregame media coverage of the game focused on the fact that the 2009 Orange Bowl was Cincinnati's first Bowl Championship Series game in school history. For Virginia Tech, coverage focused on the Hokies' winless history in BCS games since 1995, as Tech had lost all four of its appearances in a BCS game since an upset win over Texas in the 1995 Sugar Bowl. Also mentioned was the fact that the two teams had faced each other in the 1947 Sun Bowl, which had been each school's first bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup\nThe low win rate of ACC teams in general was another point of interest. Teams from the conference had won just one of their ten appearances in a BCS bowl before the Orange Bowl. Before the Orange Bowl matchup, the two teams last played in 2006, when the Hokies defeated the Bearcats, 29\u201313, at Virginia Tech's home field, Lane Stadium. For the Orange Bowl, spread bettors favored a reversal of that 2006 final, as Cincinnati was initially favored by one point. This expanded to 1.5 points by December 9. The trend toward Cincinnati continued, and on December 27, betting organizations gave Cincinnati the edge by two or two and a half points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup\nThe game featured two teams both ranked lower than the two teams playing in a non-BCS bowl, a first in BCS history. The 2008 Poinsettia Bowl featured the No. 9 Boise State Broncos against the No. 11 TCU Horned Frogs. In Miami, Virginia Tech and Cincinnati each made preparations to switch accommodations to a different hotel on the day before the game to better simulate the feel of a regular-season game. Cincinnati's move was accelerated a day when rapper Sean \"Diddy\" Combs moved into the hotel and coaches, seeking to avoid a distraction, moved up the date of the team's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ticket sales\nThe pace of ticket sales for the Orange Bowl varied wildly between the two schools. Each team received an allotment of 17,500 tickets to sell to its fans, and each school sold about 4,000 tickets in the two days immediately following the announcement. Media covering Virginia Tech considered the rate of ticket sales to be slow because the Hokies had sold 50 percent more during a similar timeframe the previous year. Media following Cincinnati ticket sales considered the pace to be fast, calling the Orange Bowl game a \"hot ticket\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ticket sales\nThe $125\u00a0tickets sold by Cincinnati generated the largest amount of ticket sale revenue ever recorded by the Cincinnati Athletics Department, netting the school more than $500,000 in the first day of sales. Travel agencies offered packages including game tickets, airfare, and a hotel room to fans of both teams. Owing to the demand, fans were warned against the danger of counterfeit tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ticket sales\nIn the days immediately following the announcement of the matchup, ticket sales diverged. By December 12, Cincinnati sold about 9,000 tickets. This total increased to approximately 13,000 tickets by December 20, and the school prepared multiple tour buses for a student convoy to the game. At Virginia Tech, meanwhile, sales lagged. In an effort to spur sales, Tech administrators had head football coach Frank Beamer star in a video asking Hokies fans to buy tickets to the game. Owing to limited demand for tickets, prices in the secondary market plunged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Ticket sales\nAs late as December 31, neither team had sold its entire allotment of 17,500 tickets. Cincinnati fans had bought 13,000 tickets, while Virginia Tech fans bought fewer than 5,000 tickets from the school's allotment. Countering Virginia Tech's low direct ticket sales were large numbers of fans who avoided paying face value for tickets\u2014US$125\u2014by buying them on the secondary market, often for as little as 99 cents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati offense\nBefore the Orange Bowl, Cincinnati was ranked 50th (of 119 Division I FBS teams) in total offense. The team was ranked 24th in passing offense, with the five quarterbacks pressed into service during the season averaging 254.1 passing yards per game. By the end of the season, Tony Pike emerged as Cincinnati's sole starting quarterback. He finished the regular season having completed 183 of 291 pass attempts for 2,168 yards, 18 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions. He ranked second in the Big East and 29th nationally in passing efficiency with a passer rating of 141.07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati offense\nAmong Cincinnati receivers, there was none of the uncertainty that afflicted the Bearcats' quarterbacks. Wide receiver Mardy Gilyard caught 74\u00a0passes during the regular season, setting a Cincinnati record with 1,118\u00a0receiving yards. He also had 10\u00a0touchdowns during the season, leading all Cincinnati players. Gilyard also played as the Bearcats' primary kick returner. He returned 32\u00a0kicks, accumulating a school-record 897\u00a0yards and 2\u00a0touchdowns. Fellow wide receiver Dominick Goodman outpaced Gilyard in receptions with 78, but he had only 977\u00a0receiving yards and 7\u00a0touchdowns. On the first play of Cincinnati's game against Hawai\u02bbi, Dominick injured his shoulder and his ability to play in the Orange Bowl was in doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati offense\nCincinnati's ground offense was less statistically significant than its passing offense. It was led by running back Jacob Ramsey, who carried the ball 148\u00a0times for 630\u00a0yards and two\u00a0touchdowns. Backup running back John Goebel had 124 rushing attempts for 581\u00a0yards and 7\u00a0touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech offense\nAt the conclusion of the regular season before the Orange Bowl, Virginia Tech's offense was ranked among the worst in Division I, 107th among 119\u00a0teams. The Hokies averaged just 296\u00a0yards per game during the regular season, and during the ACC Championship Game\u2014the last Tech game before the Orange Bowl\u2014had created a season-low 234\u00a0yards of offense. Starting left guard Nick Marshman was not expected to play after becoming academically ineligible following the fall semester, and was replaced by redshirt freshman Jaymes Brooks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech offense\nOn the field, the Hokies' offense was led by quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who completed 86 of his 151\u00a0pass attempts for 896\u00a0yards, 2\u00a0touchdowns, and 6\u00a0interceptions in the season before the Orange Bowl. He also carried the ball 132\u00a0times for a total gain of 691\u00a0yards and 6\u00a0touchdowns on the ground. As successful as Taylor was rushing the ball, Virginia Tech's offense on the ground was led by freshman running back Darren Evans, who set a Virginia Tech freshman record for rushing yards by accumulating 1,112 during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech offense\nHe also scored 10\u00a0touchdowns, was named a second-team All-ACC player, and finished second in the voting for the ACC's rookie of the year award. Evans became the sixth freshman in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference to rush for more than 1,000\u00a0yards and set a Virginia Tech single-game record for rushing yards when he ran for 253 yards in Tech's game against Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati defense\nEntering the Orange Bowl, the Bearcats were ranked 26th in total defense, allowing an average of 316\u00a0yards per game to opposing offenses. Cincinnati was 26th in scoring defense, permitting an average of 20.2 points per game. The Bearcats were No. 1 in sacks among Big East teams, recording 35 during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati defense\nDefensive end Connor Barwin led the Bearcats' defense in sacks with 11, a figure that also was the highest in the Big East and No. 14 nationally. He finished the regular season with 48\u00a0tackles, a figure that included the 11\u00a0sacks. In recognition of his performance, he was named a first-team All-Big East selection, signifying his status as the best player at his position in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati defense\nIn the defensive secondary, the Bearcats were led by cornerback Mike Mickens and safety Brandon Underwood. Mickens was a second-team All-Big East selection, and Underwood was a first-team All-Big East selection. Mickens was Cincinnati's career leader in interceptions and interception return yardage, and had 65 tackles (third on the team) despite missing three games due to injury. Underwood was fifth on the team in tackles with 60, and had 3\u00a0interceptions and 6\u00a0pass breakups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Cincinnati defense\nThe most notable player for Cincinnati, however, was punter Kevin Huber, who was named an Associated Press All-American and became the first player in Bearcats history to earn that honor in two consecutive years. Thanks to Huber's performance during the regular season, Cincinnati led the country in punting average (41.5\u00a0yards per kick) and was No. 1 in the Big East for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 53], "content_span": [54, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech defense\nVirginia Tech's defense was considered among the best in Division I before the Orange Bowl. The Hokies were ranked seventh in total defense, allowing just 277.08\u00a0yards per game on average. Virginia Tech also was highly ranked in several other defensive categories: eighth in turnovers gained (30), 13th in scoring defense (17.46\u00a0points per game), 15th in pass defense (170.08\u00a0yards per game), and 19th in rushing defense (107.00\u00a0yards per game). The Hokies' defense also scored five\u00a0defensive touchdowns during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Pregame buildup, Virginia Tech defense\nTech's defense was led on the field by senior cornerback Victor \"Macho\" Harris. During the regular season, Harris tied for fifth in the country in interceptions with six, including two returned for touchdowns. He also had 44\u00a0tackles, and was named the top defensive player in the state of Virginia. At defensive end, Tech featured Orion Martin, a former walk-on who rose to a starting position and had 7.5\u00a0sacks, 13\u00a0tackles for loss, and 53\u00a0tackles during the regular season. Heading into the Orange Bowl, the Hokies' defense was afflicted by injuries. Defensive end Jason Worilds had a shoulder injury. Starting linebacker Brett Warren, who had 86\u00a0tackles, with 5\u00a0tackles for loss, 2\u00a0forced fumbles, and 2\u00a0interceptions during the regular season, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and was expected to miss the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 56], "content_span": [57, 882]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nThe 2009 Orange Bowl kicked off at 8:47\u00a0p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. An estimated total of 73,602\u00a0tickets were sold for the game, but bowl officials estimated 15,781\u00a0sold tickets went unused, giving a turnstile attendance of 57,821. The game was televised on FOX, and the announcers were Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis, and Chris Myers. An estimated 9.3\u00a0million viewers watched the broadcast, earning it a Nielsen rating of 5.4. Figures on the total payout vary, but Virginia Tech and Cincinnati each received between $17\u00a0million and $18\u00a0million for playing in the Orange Bowl, an amount that was shared with the other teams in each school's athletic conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nThe ceremonial performance of the national anthem was played on trumpet by Arturo Sandoval. At the start of the game, the weather was clear, with an air temperature of 68\u00a0\u00b0F (20\u00a0\u00b0C) and relative humidity of 69\u00a0percent. The wind was from the northeast at 7 miles per hour (11\u00a0km/h). J.\u00a0O'Neill was the referee, B.\u00a0Neale was the umpire, and the linesman was J.\u00a0Quinn. Orange Bowl Committee chairman Daniel Ponce performed the ceremonial pre-game coin toss to determine first possession. The toss was won by Virginia Tech, which elected to receive the ball to begin the second half, ensuring Cincinnati the right to receive the ball to begin the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nVirginia Tech's opening kickoff was returned to the Cincinnati 28-yard line, where the Bearcats executed the game's first play, a five-yard run by running back John Goebel. On the next play, the Bearcats earned the game's initial first down with a 13-yard pass from quarterback Tony Pike to wide receiver Dominick Goodman. Now at their 46-yard line, Pike then threw his second-longest completed pass of the game, a 38-yard pass to wide receiver Mardy Gilyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nThe play advanced the Bearcats' offense to the Virginia Tech 16-yard line, and three plays later, Pike completed a 15-yard pass to Gilyard for a touchdown and the game's first points. The extra point kick by Cincinnati kicker Jake Rogers was good, and with 13:08 remaining in the opening quarter, the Bearcats took a 7\u20130 lead over Virginia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nCincinnati's kickoff after the touchdown was returned to the Virginia Tech 24-yard line, and the Hokies prepared for their first offensive possession of the game. That play was a 27-yard run by wide receiver Dyrell Roberts, who ran an end-around for the big gain. Now on the Cincinnati side of the field, Virginia Tech running Back Darren Evans ran for one yard, then Hokies quarterback Tyrod Taylor completed a 34-yard pass to wide receiver Danny Coale. The catch gave Virginia Tech a first down at the Cincinnati 14-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nOn the first play following the long completion, Evans was tackled for a six-yard loss, pushing the Hokies back to the Bearcats' 20-yard line. On the next two plays, Tyrod Taylor rushed for a total of 11\u00a0yards, but was unable to gain another first down. Facing fourth down, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer sent kicker Dustin Keys into the game to attempt a 26-yard field goal. The kick sailed right of the uprights, however, and Virginia Tech was denied a scoring opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nAfter the missed kick, Cincinnati's offense took to the field at their 20-yard line. The Bearcats were not able to gain a first down, however, and went three and out before punting back to Virginia Tech. Following the kick, the Hokies started at their 16-yard line. Tech's first play of the drive was a 14-yard pass from Taylor to wide receiver Jarrett Boykin for a first down, but the Hokies were unable to gain another first down. Tech punted back to Cincinnati, and the ball rolled out of bounds at the Cincinnati 30-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nThe first play of the drive resulted in a short loss, but on the second play, Pike completed a 39-yard pass to Gilyard. The play advanced the Bearcats deep into Virginia Tech territory and gave them a first down. Despite the long play, Cincinnati was unable to gain another first down, and Rogers entered the game to attempt a 44-yard field goal. The kick was partially blocked and fell short, denying the Bearcats three points. With 3:07 remaining in the quarter, Cincinnati still held a 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nFollowing the missed field goal, Virginia Tech's offense took over at their 27-yard line, the spot from which the kick had been missed. Taylor completed a 12-yard pass to Coale, then Evans ran 11 yards, advancing the ball to the 50-yard line. After a pass from Taylor fell incomplete, he completed his next two attempts for a total gain of 19\u00a0yards and a first down. Virginia Tech then committed a five-yard false start penalty, pushing the Hokies back to the Cincinnati 26-yard line. With time running out in the quarter, however, Virginia Tech running back Josh Oglesby made good the penalty with a 13-yard run to the Cincinnati 23-yard line. At the end of the first quarter, Cincinnati still led, 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nThe second quarter began with Virginia Tech in possession of the ball and facing a second down and two at the Cincinnati 24-yard line. On the first play of the quarter, Cincinnati committed an offsides penalty, giving the Hokies five\u00a0yards and a first down. From the Bearcats' 19-yard line, Taylor completed a two-yard pass. On the next play, Taylor attempted to run forward with the ball, but fumbled before recovering the loose football. Now facing third down, Taylor scrambled 18\u00a0yards to the goal line for Virginia Tech's first touchdown of the game. The extra point kick by Keys was good, and with 13:00 remaining in the quarter, the game was tied at 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nVirginia Tech's post-touchdown kickoff was returned to the Cincinnati 28-yard line, and the Bearcats' offense began its first possession of the second quarter. Pike threw an incomplete pass, then connected on a 10-yard throw for a first down. That gain was countered on the next play by a 10-yard holding penalty against the Bearcats. Cincinnati was unable to regain the yardage lost to the penalty and punted. Following the kick, Virginia Tech was similarly stymied by consecutive penalties and a sack of Taylor by Cincinnati's Terrill Byrd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTech punted, and the kick was returned by Cincinnati wide receiver D.J. Woods to the Virginia Tech 45-yard line. Despite starting in Virginia Tech's half of the field, Cincinnati was unable to capitalize and went three and out. The Bearcats' punt was downed at the Virginia Tech three-yard line, and the Hokies' offense returned to the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nDespite being pinned against their own goal line, the Hokies initially had some success moving the ball. Taylor completed a two-yard pass, Evans ran for six yards, and Taylor ran for two yards on third down to earn a first down at the Tech 13-yard line. After a Tech timeout, Darren Evans ran for five yards. On the next play, he broke free for a 32-yard run, advancing the ball to the 50-yard line. The Hokies were unable to capitalize on Evans' run, however, as on the next play, a pass from Taylor was intercepted by Cincinnati defender Brandon Underwood at the Cincinnati 28-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nCincinnati's offense took over at the spot of the interception and immediately began moving down the field. Pike completed three consecutive passes: a five-yard pass to Gilyard, a 10-yard throw to Goodman, then a 31-yard toss to Gilyard. After the long throw, Cincinnati had a first down at the Virginia Tech 26-yard line. The Bearcats continued their drive after an incomplete pass by Pike with an 18-yard completion to Goebel that gave the Bearcats a first down at the Virginia Tech eight-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTwo plays later, however, Cincinnati's drive came to an end when Virginia Tech defender Stephan Virgil intercepted a pass from Pike to a player in the end zone, denying the Bearcats a chance to score. Virgil was downed in the end zone for a touchback, and Virginia Tech's offense started at its 20-yard line after the turnover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nTech's drive began with a completed pass for no gain to Evans. This was followed by a five-yard run by Evans and a 23-yard pass from Taylor to tight end Greg Boone for a first down at the Tech 48-yard line. Taylor then completed a nine-yard pass to Boone. After two plays were stopped for no gain, Taylor ran two yards for a first down, keeping the drive alive. With time running out in the first half, Taylor completed a nine-yard pass to Boone, then ran six yards for a first down at the Cincinnati 26-yard line. The Hokies then called another timeout to stop the clock with three seconds remaining in the quarter. Tech kicker Dustin Keys returned to the game, and as time expired in the first half, he kicked a 43-yard field goal that gave the Hokies a 10\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nFollowing a halftime musical performance by The Doobie Brothers, the second half began. Because Cincinnati received the ball to begin the game, Virginia Tech received the ball to begin the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe Bearcats' kickoff was returned to the Tech 14-yard line, and the Hokies began the first drive of the third quarter. Evans rushed for four yards, but Oglesby lost four yards on a run during the next play. Facing third and ten, Taylor picked up the first down with an 11-yard run, but fumbled the ball at the end of the play. The loose ball was scooped up by Boone, who kept the Hokies' drive going at the Tech 30-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nAfter the fumble, Evans ran for seven yards and Taylor completed a 10-yard pass to Roberts for a first down at the Tech 47-yard line. Coale then rushed for seven yards on an end-around, and his run was followed by one by Boone, who ran for 16\u00a0yards and a first down at the Cincinnati 30-yard line. Two more rushes by Roberts and Evans resulted in another first down, but once the Hokies passed the Cincinnati 20-yard line, the Bearcats' defense stiffened and denied the Hokies another first down. Facing fourth down, Tech again sent in Keys, who kicked a 35-yard field goal. The kick extended Tech's lead to 13\u20137 with 8:32 remaining in the quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nFollowing Virginia Tech's kickoff, Cincinnati began its first drive of the second half at its 36-yard line. Pike was stopped for no gain on a rushing attempt, then attempted a long pass downfield. The ball was intercepted by Virginia Tech defender Kam Chancellor, and the Hokies' offense returned to the field after just two Cincinnati plays. Tech's first play after the interception resulted in Taylor being sacked by Cincinnati defender Brandon Underwood for a loss of three yards, but Darren Evans made up the lost yardage by rushing 14 yards to the Tech 43-yard line for a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nTaylor and Evans alternated short rushes, then Taylor completed a five-yard pass to Coale for another first down, this one at the Cincinnati 47-yard line. Once in Cincinnati territory, however, the Hokies' offense faltered. Evans was tackled for a two-yard loss, then Taylor was sacked again, this time by John Hughes. A long pass attempt fell incomplete, and Tech punted for the first time in the second half. Returner Danny Milligan fumbled the ball, but he recovered the loose ball and returned it to the Cincinnati 20-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe Bearcats' second possession of the second half was more successful than their first. On the first play of the drive, running back Jacob Ramsey broke free of the Tech defense for a 25-yard run, the longest run of any Cincinnati player in the game. He followed that first-down run by gaining eight more yards on consecutive runs. Pike then ran three yards for a first down at the Tech 44-yard line. There, however, Cincinnati's offense sputtered and could not gain another first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe Bearcats' punted, and the ball rolled out of bounds at the Tech 14-yard line with six seconds remaining in the quarter. The Hokies had time for one play, a 21-yard run by Evans to the Tech 35-yard line. With one quarter remaining, Virginia Tech had a 13\u20137 lead over Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 45], "content_span": [46, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe fourth quarter began with Virginia Tech in possession of the ball and facing a first down at their 35-yard line. The first play of the quarter resulted in a 20-yard gain by Evans on a running play. After that, however, the Hokies did not gain another first down and punted to Cincinnati. Following the kick, the Bearcats started their first possession of the fourth quarter at their 14-yard line. Running back Isaiah Pead ran for three yards, but then a pass by Pike was intercepted at the 10-yard line by Tech defender Orion Martin. Three rushing plays later, Evans ran six yards for a touchdown. The extra point kick was good, and with 11:29 remaining in the game, Virginia Tech took a 20\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe Tech kickoff was returned 17 yards by Gilyard to the Cincinnati 40-yard line, giving the Bearcats good field position to start their drive. Two rushes by Goebel resulted in 11 yards and a first down at the Tech 49-yard line. This success on the ground was followed by more through the air, as Pike completed three consecutive passes: a 16-yarder to Gilyard, a 3-yarder to Goodman, and a 14-yarder to Gilyard. Goebel then ran five yards to the Tech 11-yard line. Two Pike passes fell incomplete, setting up fourth down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nRather than attempt to kick a field goal, Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly ordered the offense to attempt to convert the fourth down. This was done when Pike completed a seven-yard pass to Goodman for a first down at the Virginia Tech four-yard line. Two more Pike passes fell incomplete before Goebel rushed three yards to the Virginia Tech one-yard line. Cincinnati again faced a fourth down, and again, Kelly elected to attempt to score a touchdown rather than kick a field goal. Pike attempted to cross the goal line on a running play, but was stopped by the Virginia Tech defense. With 7:25 remaining in the game, Cincinnati turned the ball over on downs to the Virginia Tech offense, which returned to the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nWith a firm lead and now in possession of the ball, Virginia Tech began to run out the clock by executing short rushing plays up the center of the field. Since the game clock does not stop in American college football if a player remains in bounds short of the first down marker, the Hokies could hasten the end of the game and preserve their lead by following this strategy. From their one-yard line, Taylor ran the ball for a one-yard gain, followed by two rushes by Evans for another four yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe Hokies prepared to punt the ball, but during the kick, Cincinnati committed a 15-yard personal foul penalty by tackling Tech punter Brent Bowden. The penalty gave Virginia Tech a first down and kept their drive going. From the Tech 21-yard line, Evans was stopped for a loss of one yard, but broke free for an 11-yard gain and a first down on the next play. As the clock continued to tick down, Cincinnati began to use its timeouts in an effort to stop the clock after each play. This strategy was partially successful, as Tech was denied another first down and punted with 2:31 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nThe kick was returned to the Cincinnati 48-yard line, and the Bearcats prepared for a desperation drive in hopes of narrowing the Hokies' lead. On the first play after the punt, however, Pike threw an interception to Virginia Tech defender Cody Grimm. Back in possession of the ball, Taylor kneeled on the ball four times to wind down the game clock. After the final kneeldown, Virginia Tech secured the 20\u20137 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nIn recognition of his performance during the game, Virginia Tech running back Darren Evans was named the game's most valuable player. Evans finished the game with 28 carries for 158 yards and a touchdown. He also caught two passes for five yards, set a Virginia Tech bowl-game record for carries, and tied the Tech record for rushing yards. Evans finished the season with 1,265 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns\u2013both marks were Virginia Tech records for a freshman. On the opposite side of the ball, Cincinnati's rushing offense was led by Jacob Ramsey, who finished the game with 4 carries for 34 yards. Cincinnati's John Goebel had nine carries but only accumulated 26 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nMost of the Bearcats' offense came through the air, however. Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike finished the game having completed 16 of his 33 pass attempts, resulting in 239 passing yards, 1 touchdown, and 4 interceptions. Pike also ran the ball five times for four yards. Pike's four interceptions were a career-high and marked only the second time he threw more than one interception in a game. For Virginia Tech, quarterback Tyrod Taylor finished the game with 13 completions from 22 pass attempts, resulting in 140 passing yards and 1 interception. In addition to his passing, Taylor ran with the ball 15 times, gaining 47 yards and a touchdown in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nTaylor's favorite passing targets were wide receiver Danny Coale, who finished the game having caught three passes for 52 yards, and tight end Greg Boone, who caught 3 balls for 41 yards. On the Bearcats' side of the field, Cincinnati's Mardy Gilyard led all receivers with 7 catches for 158 yards and a touchdown. Gilyard's receiving total was his best of the season and set a new Cincinnati bowl-game record. He also set a Bearcat bowl-game record for kickoff return yardage, recording 97 yards in that category. Fellow Cincinnati receiver Dominick Goodman caught 6 passes for 51 yards, in the process becoming Cincinnati's all-time leader in career receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nThe two teams' defenses also performed statistically well during the game. Cincinnati's Terrill Byrd led all defenders by recording 11 tackles during the game. Included in that total were four tackles for loss, including one sack. That performance was his best in terms of quantity during the season, and his four tackles for loss moved him into sixth place on Cincinnati's list of career tackles for loss leaders. For the Hokies, Dorian Porch had eight tackles, leading all Tech players. Cody Grimm, Orion Martin, Stephan Virgil, and Kam Chancellor each recorded one interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nThe four interceptions were a Tech bowl-game record, and Chancellor's catch gave him six for the season, tying him with Victor Harris for the most on the team. It was the first time since 1968 that two Virginia Tech players had six interceptions apiece. Cincinnati's sole interception came at the hands of Brandon Underwood, who tallied his third of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Statistical summary\nEach team found success on special teams as well. Cincinnati punter Kevin Huber, a first-team All-American, kicked the ball four times, averaging 45.8 yards per punt. A 56-yard punt in the first quarter marked the ninth consecutive game he had a kick of at least 50 yards. Virginia Tech placekicker Dustin Keys missed his first field goal attempt of the game but successfully converted his next two kicks, giving him 23 field goals and the Tech single-season record in that category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Postgame effects\nVirginia Tech's victory raised it to a final record of 10\u20134, while Cincinnati's loss dropped it to a record of 11\u20133. The Hokies' 10-win season was the fifth consecutive year in which Tech recorded at least 10 wins, a feat matched only by the University of Southern California and the University of Texas during the same time period. As a reward for coaching the Hokies to an ACC Championship and an Orange Bowl championship, Virginia Tech coaches were given hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Postgame effects\nIn Miami, hoteliers and Dolphins Stadium had to quickly prepare for the arrival of Oklahoma and Florida, the two teams that played in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game one week after the Orange Bowl. Signs were changed, the playing field was repainted, and accommodations were prepared for the thousands of expected spectators. In total, South Florida's economy received an estimated $220\u00a0million boost from visitors who arrived to watch the two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Postgame effects, Coaching changes\nIn the postseason that followed the Bearcats' loss to Virginia Tech, Cincinnati assistant head coach and defensive line coach Keith Gilmore resigned to accept the position of defensive line coach at the University of Illinois. To replace Gilmore, Cincinnati promoted special teams coach Mike Elston, who assumed assistant coaching and defensive line duties. In February, Cincinnati defensive coordinator Joe Tresey was fired by the school. He subsequently was hired by the University of South Florida to fill that school's vacant defensive coordinator position. Replacing Tresey is Virginia defensive coordinator Bob Diaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Postgame effects, 2009 NFL Draft\nAs the final game of the 2008\u20132009 regular season, the 2009 Orange Bowl gave Virginia Tech and Cincinnati players a chance to show their skills before the 2009 NFL Draft. Cincinnati had six players selected in the draft. Defensive end Connor Barwin was the first Bearcats player taken. He was picked in the second round, 46th overall. He was followed by punter Kevin Huber (142nd overall), cornerback DeAngelo Smith (143rd), cornerback Brandon Underwood (187th), cornerback Mike Mickens (227th), and guard Trevor Canfield (254th). Several Cincinnati players were signed as free agents after the draft. These included defensive tackle Adam Hoppel, linebacker Corey Smith, and offensive lineman Khalil El-Amin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204466-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Orange Bowl, Postgame effects, 2009 NFL Draft\nVirginia Tech had just one player taken in the 2009 draft: cornerback Victor Harris, who was picked by the Philadelphia Eagles with the 157th overall selection. Four Hokies were taken as free-agent selections after the draft. Defensive end Orion Martin, quarterback Sean Glennon, center Ryan Shuman, and fullback Devin Perez were signed to try out for various NFL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204467-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open\nThe 2009 Ordina Open is a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It is the 20th edition of the Ordina Open, and is part of the International Series of the 2009 ATP Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events take place at the Autotron park in Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, from 14 June through 20 June 2009. Benjamin Becker and Tamarine Tanasugarn won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204467-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players got entry through the Lucky Loser spot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204467-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nWesley Moodie /  Dick Norman defeated  Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20137(8\u201310), [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204467-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open, Champions, Women's doubles\nSara Errani /  Flavia Pennetta  defeated   Micha\u00eblla Krajicek /  Yanina Wickmayer 6\u20134, 5\u20137, [13\u201311]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204468-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMario An\u010di\u0107 and J\u00fcrgen Melzer were the defending champions, but did not participate in the tournament this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204469-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nDavid Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Iv\u00e1n Navarro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204470-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMarina Erakovic and Micha\u00eblla Krajicek were the defending champions, but Erakovic chose not to participate that year. Krajicek partnered with Yanina Wickmayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204471-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ordina Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nUnseeded Tamarine Tanasugarn successfully defended her title, by defeating Yanina Wickmayer 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team\nThe 2009 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by head coach Chip Kelly in his first season as a head coach at the Division I FBS level. Kelly was only the third Ducks head coach since 1977 and led the Ducks to a Pac-10 Championship and was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year. He took over for Mike Bellotti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team\nThe Ducks finished the season 10\u20133, 8\u20131 in Pac-10 to claim the Pac-10 championship and earn the conference's automatic BCS berth where they were invited to the Rose Bowl, the school's fifth Rose Bowl and first since the 1994 season. They were defeated by Ohio State 26\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Previous season\nThe 2008 Oregon Ducks football team entered the season ranked 21st in the AP Poll, after finishing the 2007 season ranked 23rd. The major question going into the season concerned the position of quarterback. Oregon's top two quarterbacks, Dennis Dixon and Brady Leaf, had graduated the year before, with Dixon being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 2008 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Previous season\nSophomore Justin Roper was named the starter after Nate Costa suffered a season-ending injury before the season began. As a freshman, Roper had led the Ducks to a Sun Bowl win over South Florida in 2007. He was injured in the third game at Purdue, and was replaced by junior college transfer Jeremiah Masoli. Masoli had led his junior college team to a national championship the year before. Masoli was inconsistent in his first few games, as he put up good rushing numbers but shaky passing stats. But he came on strong the last three games of the regular season and led the Ducks to a 9\u20133 regular season record and a victory over the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Holiday Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Previous season\nSenior Jeremiah Johnson led Oregon in rushing with 1,201 yards while LeGarrette Blount record 1,002 yards and set a school record with 17 rushing touchdowns. Oregon scored over 500 points for the second straight season, and finished the season being ranked 10th in the AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Pre-season\nJuly 29 \u2013 Senior Ed Dickson is named to the Mackey Award watchlist, given out to the nation's best tight end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Pre-season\nAugust 4 \u2013 Junior Jeremiah Masoli is named to the watch list for the Davey O'Brien Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Pre-season\nAugust 8 \u2013 Senior LeGarrette Blount is named to the watch list for the Walter Camp Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Pre-season, Pre-season departures\nQuarterback and wide receiver Chris Harper, quarterback Justin Roper, and wide receiver Aaron Pflugrad all decided to transfer from the team before the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Boise State\n2nd Meeting. 0\u20131 All Time. Last Meeting Boise State 37, Oregon 32", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Boise State\nOregon's offense was completely shut down in the first half and was unable to gain a single first down. They allowed the Broncos to get into their red zone multiple times, but Oregon's defense held them twice. Both times resulted in Boise State attempting field goals after having a first and goal situation. Both field goals in the first quarter were missed by kicker Kyle Brotzman (29 and 47). In the second quarter, the Broncos scored on a TD pass from quarterback Kellen Moore to wide receiver Austin Pettis. Michael Choate ran in the two-point conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Boise State\nBilly Winn added to Boise State's first half score by tackling running back LeGarrette Blount for a safety. At the end of the first half, Kyle Brotzman booted in a 45-yard field goal to make the score 13\u20130. A low-scoring second half did not stop the Ducks from scoring a touchdown along with a two-point conversion. The rest of the game was back and forth until the clock expired, Boise State winning by 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Boise State\nAfter the game, Blount, who earlier in the week was quoted as saying, \"We owe that team an ass-whuppin,\" punched Bronco DE Byron Hout in the chin after Hout had taunted him in front of Boise State head coach Chris Petersen. Blount then went after fans in the front row of the south end zone before being restrained and escorted off the field by security, police, and Oregon coaches. The next day, Oregon suspended Blount for the rest of the season, seemingly ending his career. However, in October, Kelly announced that Blount could return as early as November provided he meets certain academic and behavioral benchmarks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Purdue\nThe Ducks evened their 2009 record at 1\u20131 with a thrilling 38\u201336 win over Purdue in their first visit to Eugene. Jeremiah Masoli rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown and LaMichael James rushed for 56 yards. Walter Thurmond III returned an interception for a touchdown in the first half and Javes Lewis returned a fumble for a touchdown in the third quarter. With a minute and one second left to play Purdue failed on a two-point conversion that would have tied the game. Oregon recovered the onsides kick attempt and ran out the clock. Jamere Holland had 72 yards on 4 receptions but dropped a sure touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Utah\nUtah brought the Nation's longest winning streak of 16 into Autzen Stadium this year. This was the first meeting between the schools since a 17\u201313 Utah win at Salt Lake City in 2003. The Utes last trek to Autzen Stadium was in early September 2001, when Joey Harrington and the Ducks handled Utah 24\u201310 on their way to an 11\u20131 record and No. 2 in the Nation finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nUniform combination: throwback uniforms, yellow helmet, green jerseys, yellow pants", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nCal has run off three in a row against the Ducks, more than any other Pac-10 school against Oregon. The Golden Bears streak is their longest versus Oregon since the 1970s. Cal won a waterlogged game at Berkeley last year, 26\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Oregon Ducks quarterback Jeremiah Masoli struggled in previous games but had a major breakthrough against Cal, throwing 253 yards with 21 completions out of 25 attempts, three for touchdowns. Oregon tight end Ed Dickson had a career day with 11 catches for 148 yards and three touchdowns. The Oregon defense played very well, holding Jahvid Best who tied a Pac-10 record for rushing touchdowns the week prior, to just 55 yards on 16 carries. Before the game, Best was quoted as saying Autzen Stadium was the only venue where the crowd noise troubled him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Ducks had a rough start to the game when Walter Thurmond fumbled the opening kickoff reception. Thurmond was hit in the knee on the return and was later diagnosed with a torn ACL and ended up missing the rest of the season. Cal took possession and, on a drive that went for negative eight yards, scored a field goal, their only points in the game. The two teams went back and forth on several miscues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nIn the first quarter on the Ducks' first scoring drive, running back LaMichael James fumbled the ball and was picked up by Cal's defensive back Josh Hill. During his run back, Hill fumbled the ball again which was recovered by Oregon. In the second quarter, Cal recovered a fumble by Oregon, only to fumble the ball back on the very next play. Later that quarter, Oregon punter Jackson Rice kicked the ball off the side of his foot for a 5-yard punt. After a quick three-and-out by Cal, Brian Anger, Cal's punter, booted the ball off the side of his foot for another 5-yard punt. Masoli's first touchdown pass of the season occurred in the first few seconds of the second quarter, a 26-yard completion to Ed Dickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, California\nSince Cal's first field goal, the Ducks went on to score 42 unanswered points to win the game. It was Cal's worst loss with Jeff Tedford as the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nOregon has won two in a row, and four of the last five against Washington State. The last two games have resulted in 63\u201314 and 53\u20137 victories by the Ducks. The Cougars have not won at Autzen since 2003 when they defeated Oregon 55\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nOregon won last year's match-up with UCLA 31\u201321 in Eugene. The Ducks last trip to the Rose Bowl in 2007 was a humbling experience, as they were shut out for the first time since 1985 by a score of 16\u20130. That game however was played the week after they had lost star QB Dennis Dixon to injury for the season. At game time, current Bruins head coach Rick Neuheisel was 4\u20132 against the Ducks going back to the days he coached the Colorado Buffaloes and the Washington Huskies. Since the first game in 1928, UCLA was leading the series 39\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nWith a solid performance in the first half and taking a field goal lead into the locker room, the Bruins gave up three quick touchdowns within few minutes of the third quarter to give the Ducks their fifth win of the season. The Ducks scored on Kenjon Barner's 100-yard kickoff return, on Talmadge Jackson's 31-yard interception, and on Nate Costa's 20-yard pass to Jeff Maehl, which was resulted from a UCLA fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nThe Bruins scored their only touchdown when Akeem Ayers intercepted a Costa pass in the back of the Rose Bowl north end zone by keeping his feet in bound. Kai Forbath kicked a 52-yard field goal to give UCLA the early lead. Oregon\u2019s Rob Beard attempted a 51-yard field goal, which was blocked by Jerzy Siewierski. Mogan Flint kicked a 33-yard field goals for the Ducks in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Washington\nOregon has won a school record five in a row over their hated rivals to the north, all by 20 or more points. Washington's last win over the Ducks came at Husky Stadium in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Washington\nUniform combination: black helmet, white jersey with silver numbers, black pants", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Washington\nAfter Erik Folk's 33-yard field goal in the first quarter for Washington, Oregon blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the endzone in the second quarter to give the Ducks their first lead. Javes Lewis intercepted Jake Locker's pass in the end zone to give the ball back to Oregon, which resulted in Jeremiah Masoli's 1-yard touchdown. With a second left, Folk kicked a 48-yard field goal to end the half, which was aided by a personal foul on Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWith good field position at their own 47-yard line, the Ducks scored their third touchdown on Masoli's 3-yard run in the top of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, USC\nUSC had not won a game in the state of Oregon for the past three years, a streak that the Ducks kept alive. USC beat Oregon in the Los Angeles Coliseum last year, 44\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe tenth ranked Ducks handed the Trojans their worst loss since 1997 and Pete Carroll the worst loss in his tenure at USC. Ducks quarterback Jeremiah Masoli passed for 222 yards, and a score, and ran for 164 more, including a touchdown, while LaMichael James ran for 183 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nThe Ducks will go for their 8th straight win against Stanford this season. It is their longest current win streak against any Pac-10 school. The seven straight wins also ties the longest stretch of dominance in school history over the Cardinal (1957\u201363). Oregon came from behind and won last year in Eugene on a last minute touchdown, 35\u201328. Stanford's last win against Oregon came in Eugene in 2001. That was the Ducks only loss that season, on their way to an 11\u20131 finish and No. 2 final ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nOregon's undefeated conference season came to an end at Stanford, 51\u201342. Both teams have five victories in the Pac-10 championship race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nOregon has won four straight over the Sun Devils by an average of 23.8 ppg, including last year's 54\u201320 win in Tempe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nUniform combination: green helmet, white jersey with silver numbers, black pants", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nThe previous trip the Ducks took to Tucson in 2007 was a crushing one as the Ducks saw their BCS National Championship Game hopes fade as their star quarterback Dennis Dixon tore his ACL in the first half of the game. The 2009 game was also important, as it involved the only two teams that week in the Pac-10 who were able to control their path to earn an outright Pac-10 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nIt was a hotly contested game as neither team led by more than 10 points after Arizona's first touchdown in the second quarter. Ducks quarterback Jeremiah Masoli started with a sluggish game with two recovered fumbles and an interception to set up Arizona's first touchdown. Late in the game, however, he led the Ducks to a narrow victory with two key touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown of his own. After Arizona scored a touchdown in the only score of the third quarter to put them up by 3, the game turned into a frantic sprint with numerous close calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nMorgan Flint attempted a 43-yard field goal for the Ducks that bounced in after hitting the crossbar, tying the game. With three minutes left in the game and Arizona ahead by a touchdown, Talmadge Jackson intercepted Arizona quarterback Nick Foles's pass in the end zone on a 3rd and 16 play at Oregon's 40-yard line. As Oregon drove down the field in the remaining minutes, the student section poured into the Arizona sideline as they prepared to rush the field. However, the drive ended with a touchdown pass from Masoli to Dickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0034-0002", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nThe Ducks tied the game as Oregon backup quarterback Nate Costa corralled an errant snap for the extra point kicked by Flint. The Arizona student section made their way back to the stands as overtime began. The two teams traded a pair of touchdowns in the first overtime but in the second overtime, Arizona settled for a field goal and Oregon scored a touchdown to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nAfter the conclusion, the Arizona section at one end of the stadium next to the visiting section began to throw debris at the Oregon players. An Oregon cheerleader, Katelynn Johnson, was struck in the head with a full water bottle, giving her a concussion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThe Ducks crushed the Beavers' Rose Bowl aspirations for the second year in a row and managed to secure their own with a 37\u201333 home victory over the Beavers at Autzen Stadium. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli ran over safety Lance Mitchell in order to reach a first down much like his performance against UCLA and Oklahoma State last year where he ran over other players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nSuspended running back LeGarrette Blount saw his first action since the Boise State loss and took out his frustration this time in a sportsman like way by running over Oregon State linebacker Keaton Kristick who was regarded as the most feared player in the Pac-10. Blount also stiffarmed and threw Stephen Paea to the ground who was regarded as the best defensive tackle in the Pac-10. When Oregon was down 30 to 21 Blount broke free and rushed for a 12-yard touchdown to bring the game closer before Lamichael James broke free for 52 on a touchdown run. In total Blount rushed for 7 times for 51 yards and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Ohio State (Rose Bowl)\nOregon returns to the Rose Bowl for the fifth time and first since the 1994 season. That year the Ducks lost to No. 2 ranked and undefeated Penn State, 38\u201320. Oregon has never beaten Ohio State in their seven previous meetings. Their most recent meeting occurred in Columbus in 1987, with the Ducks losing 24\u201314. Oregon and Ohio State have played in the Rose Bowl once before. The 1958 Rose Bowl game turned out to be a defensive struggle as the Ducks eventually lost to the heavily favored Buckeyes 10\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204472-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon Ducks football team, Game summaries, Ohio State (Rose Bowl)\nOhio State would go on to share the National Title that year, the Ducks would have to wait 37 more years to return to Pasadena. Ducks QB Jack Crabtree was named MVP of the game that year, the last and only second time ever that a person from the losing team had been bestowed that honor. This time the Ducks will try to win the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1917, a 14\u20130 victory over Pennsylvania. The Oregon Ducks lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl in 2010, 26\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 2009 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Mike Riley, in his seventh straight season and ninth overall. Home games were played on campus at Reser Stadium in Corvallis. The Beavers finished the season 8\u20135, 6\u20133 in Pac-10 play, and lost the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas 20\u201344 vs BYU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Portland State\nOregon State faced Portland State for the third time in history, first since 2005, which the Beavers won 41\u201314. The Beavers also won the first meeting in 1983, 51\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Portland State\nBehind the legs of Jacquizz Rodgers, the Beavers thumped the in-state Vikings 34\u20137. Oregon State scored on their first play from scrimmage, an 87-yard touchdown from Sean Canfield to James Rodgers. Quizz ran for 103 yards and three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, UNLV\nThe fifth all-time meeting between Oregon State and UNLV will be an early road test for the Beavers. The Rebels own the series between the two, 3\u20131. The last time the two teams met was in 2002, in which Oregon State won 47\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, UNLV\nJacquizz Rodgers ran for 166 yards and a score and also led the team in receiving with 10 catches for 65 yards. UNLV led a 4th Quarter rally in which they went from being down 20\u20137 to up 21\u201320. Sean Canfield then executed a 2-minute drill (helped by a pass interference call on 3rd and 26) that set up the winning 33-yard field goal by Justin Kahut. The win was Mike Riley's first road win in the month of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nIn 2007, Oregon State traveled to Cincinnati and turned the ball over 7 times in the Bearcats 34\u20133 victory. They will be looking for revenge as the Bearcats come to Reser. This game will be a signature game early in the season for both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nOnce upon a time, the Wildcats owned Oregon State. They won 19 of 22 from 1966 to 1998. But those days are gone. Since 1999, the Beavers have won 9 of 10, including last season's 19\u201317 effort in Tucson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nThe Beavers haven't won at Tempe since 1969, a span of 16 games. They will be looking to break the streak as the Beavers face the Sun Devils and former coach, Dennis Erickson. The Beavers got hot early and the Sun Devils were never able to recover. An early miscue by the Sun Devils punter, gave Oregon State the ball on the Arizona State 17. A few plays and Jacquizz Rodgers punched it in. Another stop by the Beavs defense resulted in another punt, this one got off cleanly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nA great return by James Rodgers set up a nice 32-yard rush by Quizz for another touchdown. ASU drove down the field and was forced to settle for a short field goal. The Beavers third score came on an amazing 25-yard reception from Canfield to Rodgers. James juggled it for the first nine yards in the endzone, but recovered in time to get his foot in the last yard for the score. Arizona State came out pretty sharp as they scored on their first possession. The Beavs came out and scored on a drive with three huge plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nMost notably a long pass to James Rodgers which set up an easy score from Sean Canfield to Damola Adeniji from the 2. Arizona took too long on their next drive, trailing 28\u201310. It took them over 6 minutes as they finally scored with :11 seconds left. A Sun Devil failed onside kick gave the Beavers the ball. Canfield took the kneeldown and the Beavs got their first win in Tempe in 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nStanford shocked the Beavers in the opening game of the season last year. A late OSU rally came up short when WR Darell Catchings fumbles out of the end zone for a touchback while trying to extend for a touchdown. The Cardinal won the game 36\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nOregon State jumped to a quick start as Jacquizz Rodgers scored the first three touchdowns in the game, giving the Beavers a 21\u20130 lead early in the 2nd quarter. Witt the Beavers up by 24 at the half, Stanford had to focus on moving the ball quickly with the passing game, which took running back Toby Gerhart out of the spotlight. The Beavers won 38\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, USC\nIn 2008, the #1 Trojans came to Corvallis and were upset 27\u201321. It was the second straight trip to Corvallis for USC that resulted in defeat. JacQuizz Rodgers ran for 187 yards on 37 carries and two touchdowns in the win. This year, Oregon State will attempt to win in the Coliseum for the first time since 1960. Oregon State is the second Pac-10 Conference school to have beaten USC twice during the Pete Carroll era, having done so in 2006 and 2008 (Stanford was first with victories in 2001 and 2007 and would do so again later in the 2009 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe last time Oregon State won against USC in the Coliseum was when Dwight D. Eisenhower was the President of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, USC\nUSC quarterback Matt Barkley passed to Anthony McCoy for an 8-yard touchdown to give the Trojans the early lead in the first quarter. The Beavers got on the scoreboard with two field goal kicks from Justin Kahut (both 48 yards). In the second quarter, Matt Barkley completed a pass to Ronald Johnson for a 22 yards touchdown. On second and goal, Barkley rushed for a 1-yard touchdown for the Trojans. Kahut kicked a 33-yard field goal for Oregon State just before the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, USC\nIn the third quarter, Sean Canfield passed to Jacquizz Rodgers for a 6-yard touchdown for the Beavers on a 3:06-drive that took 8 plays for 61 yards. The Trojans countered with a 7-play drive for 70 yards with Allen Bradford rushing for 2 yards for a touchdown. Canfield narrowed Oregon State's gap by completing a 15-yard scoring pass to Damola Adeniji. USC answered with Allen Bradford scoring a 43-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, USC\nOregon State became the first team to score more than 10 points on the Trojans in their last ten home games (though Stanford and Arizona would both do so in their victories over USC in the Coliseum later in the season, with 55 points and 21 points, respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nJustin Kahut kicked two field goals, 48 yards and 42 yards, to give the Beavers a 6-point lead. Oregon State increased its lead to 13 when Jacquizz Rodgers passed to Brady Camp for a 14-yard touchdown. Kahut's third field goal gave the Beavers a 16\u20130 lead at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nIn the third quarter, Kai Forbath kicked a 24-yard field goal for the Bruins. Kahut kicked his fourth field goal (31 yards) in the fourth quarter to give the Beavers a 19\u20133 lead. A 58-yard pass to Nelson Rosario from Kevin Prince, combined with a 2-point conversion to Rosario, put UCLA back in the game, behind by only 8 points. Then Taylor Embree caught a touchdown pass from Prince and Johnathan Franklin caught a conversion pass to tie the game for the Bruins with 2 minutes left. But James Rodgers ran into the end zone for an Oregon State touchdown on a drive of 7 plays and 70 yards. UCLA took over the ball with 44 seconds remaining in the game and failed to make a complete comeback, losing their fifth game in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 788]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, California\nScoring in every quarter, the Beavers defeated the Bears for the fifth consecutive time at Cal, 31\u201314. Cal running back Jahvid Best left the game with a concussion in the second quarter. Sean Canfield threw 29 completions for 342 yards, most of them to Jacquizz Rodgers (9), James Rodges (6) and Joe Halahunt (6). Cal, after getting back in the Top 25 after four weeks, has given up more than 300 passing yards in each of the last three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Washington\nOregon State has won 5 straight against the Huskies, including a 34\u201313 victory in Seattle last year. Oregon State will be celebrating Dad's Weekend as the Beavers will try to keep there very slim Rose Bowl chances alive. Washington quarterback Jake Locker will make his return to Corvallis after leaving the field on a stretcher in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Washington\nOregon State won for the sixth straight time as Sean Canfield passed for four touchdowns and Jacquizz Rodgers added 159 yards rushing and two touchdowns. The other half of the Rodgers Brothers, James caught two touchdown passes and ran the opening second half kickoff to the one-yard line that really put the game away. Jake Locker passed for three touchdowns for the Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nOregon State has beat up on the Cougars the last two years winning by scores of 52\u201317 and 66\u201313, respectively. The Beavers will look to continue that success while Washington State will look to stop that success at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nOregon State beat Washington State for the third straight year. Quizz ran for 165 yards and two scores and Sean Canfield passed for 2312 yards and two scores in the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon crushed the Rose Bowl dreams of Oregon State last year in its 65\u201338 drubbing of the Beavers in Reser Stadium. This year the \"Civil War\" game will determine the Pac-10 representative to the 2010 Rose Bowl. Oregon State won the last meeting in Autzen, 38\u201331 in overtime. This is the first time in the series' 112\u2013year history that the winner gets an automatic bid to the Rose Bowl. Oregon is the heavy favorite to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nFor the second straight season the Oregon Ducks denied the Oregon State Beavers a trip to Pasadena to play in the Rose Bowl. This year, however, with the win the Ducks go to the Rose Bowl to play the Ohio State Buckeyes. This Civil War was a see saw battle that was exciting from the opening kick-off. LaMichael James ran for 166 yards on 25 carries that included 3 touchdowns. Jacquizz Rodgers had 64 yards rushing and 73 yards receiving and a touchdown as the two featured backs didn't disappoint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204473-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nLeGarrette Blount made his return from suspension in the 3rd Quarter sparking the Ducks offense. He finished with 51 yards on 9 carries and a touchdown. The turning point in the game was a critical decision when Mike Riley opted to go for it on 4th and 15 from the Ducks 27-yard line. The pass was incomplete and the Ducks took over. The Ducks ran out the remainder of the clock after converting 2 4th down plays on the drive sealing their ticket to Pasadena. The Beavers fell all the way to the Las Vegas Bowl to play BYU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204474-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Origins Award winners\nThe following are the winners of the 36th annual (2009) Origins Award, presented at Origins 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204475-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Orix Buffaloes season\nThe 2009 Orix Buffaloes season features the Buffaloes quest to win their first Pacific League title under their current franchise configuration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204476-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oschersleben Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Oschersleben Formula Two round was the sixth round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 5 and 6 September 2009 at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben at Oschersleben, Germany. The first race was won by Andy Soucek, with Mirko Bortolotti and Kazim Vasiliauskas also on the podium. The second race was won by Mikhail Aleshin, with Andy Soucek and Julien Jousse also on the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204477-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Outback Bowl\nThe 2009 Outback Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2009, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 23rd edition of the Outback Bowl, it was one of the 2008\u201309 bowl games concluding the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Scheduled for a kickoff of 11 a.m. EST and telecast on ESPN, the game pitted the South Carolina Gamecocks against the Iowa Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204477-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Outback Bowl\nIowa jumped out to a large lead, leading South Carolina 21\u20130 at halftime and 31\u20130 at the end of the third quarter, en route to a 31\u201310 victory. Shonn Greene, the MVP, had 29 rushes for 121 yards and three rushing touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204477-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Outback Bowl, Teams\nThe game featured the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference and the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference. It was the first meeting between the two teams. It was each team's third appearance in the Outback Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204477-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Outback Bowl, Teams, Iowa Hawkeyes\nThe Hawkeyes entered the game with wins in five of their previous six games, highlighted by an upset of #3 Penn State, and an overall record of 8\u20134 (5\u20133 Big Ten). Junior running back Shonn Greene earned consensus First-team All-American honors and received the Doak Walker Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204477-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Outback Bowl, Teams, South Carolina Gamecocks\nThe Gamecocks dropped their final two regular season games and entered the Outback Bowl with an overall record of 7\u20135 (4\u20134 SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204478-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ovation Awards\nThe nominees for the 2009 Ovation Awards were announced on October 19, 2009, at A Noise Within in Glendale, California. The awards were presented for excellence in stage productions in the Los Angeles area from September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2009 based upon evaluations from members of the Los Angeles theater community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204478-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ovation Awards\nThe winners were announced on January 11, 2010 in a ceremony at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204479-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Oxfordshire County Council election\nAn election to Oxfordshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 73 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned either one, two or three county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204479-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Oxfordshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204479-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Oxfordshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204479-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Oxfordshire County Council election, Summary\nThe election saw the Conservative Party increase their majority on the council by an extra 8 seats, the party won two thirds of the seats in the council. The Liberal Democrats remained the councils official opposition despite losing 5 seats. Labour gained a seat and the Greens lost 3 seats, reducing their representation down to 2 councillors. One Independent lost his seat, the other was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204480-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA All-Star Week\nThe 2009 PBA All-Star Week was the annual all-star weekend of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)'s 2008\u201309 PBA season. This year's all-star game was totally different from the past All-Star games, as this year's event had 3 all-star games in different cities: Victorias, Negros Occidental (April 22), Panabo, Davao del Norte (April 24), and Quezon City (April 26).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204480-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA All-Star Week, Sunday Skills Competition\nHeld prior to the All-Star Game at the Araneta Coliseum on April 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference\nThe 2009 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Fiesta Conference or known as the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, was the last conference of the 2008-09 PBA season. It started on February 28 and finished on July 17. The tournament was shortened to accommodate the training of the national basketball team for the FIBA Asia Championship 2009 qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The last conference had games on Thursdays and Saturdays. The tournament is an import-laden format, which allows an import or a non-Filipino player for each team and with a new height limit of 6-foot-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference\nTwo teams had new names before the start of the conference: the former Red Bull Barako was now known as the Barako Bull Energy Boosters, and the former Air21 Express were called as the Burger King Titans. However, with the failure of several business deals that would have changed the franchise's upper management, the Titans renamed into the Burger King Whoppers by their seventh game into the conference, retaining their old managemend headed by the Lina family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference, Format\nThe following format was observed for the duration of the conference:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference, Classification round\nThe May 17 game between the Barangay Ginebra Kings and the Alaska Aces held at the Albay Astrodome in Legaspi was canceled when the playing court was judged as too slippery, with Ginebra leading 9\u20132, and 8:04 remaining in the first quarter. The game was stopped twice and the stoppages lasted two hours before the game was canceled. The game was restarted at the Araneta Coliseum on May 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference, Wildcard phase\nNote: Rain or Shine and Burger King possessed the twice to beat advantage but it was not used as their opponents failed to win to extend the series into a deciding game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference, Statistical leaders, Locals\n*refers that the local had a higher statistic than an import", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204481-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference, Imports\nThe following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals\nThe 2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2009 PBA Fiesta Conference and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The series was a best-of-seven affair and was the 97th championship disputed in the league. The teams competing are first-seed San Miguel Beermen and the second-seed defending champions Barangay Ginebra Kings, two of the three San Miguel Corporation-owned teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals\nThis was the fourth time the two teams meet in the finals, with San Miguel winning their first two meetings (1989 Reinforced Conference and the 2001 All Filipino Cup). Barangay Ginebra won their latest finals meeting on the conclusion of the 2006\u201307 PBA Philippine Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals\nThis was also the first time in PBA history that a champion of the previous year's Fiesta Conference was able to enter the finals to defend their crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals\nAfter a full 7-game series, San Miguel held off Ginebra in game 7 with an emphatic 90\u201379 win, with Jonas Villanueva awarded as the Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals, Series summary, Game 2\nWith just a few seconds before the game ended, and with a San Miguel win certain, San Miguel players Danny Ildefonso and Marc Pingris were involved with an altercation with a Ginebra fan. Both men were suspended for one game and were fined P30,000 and P10,000 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals, Series summary, Game 3\nThe Kings, after falling behind by 12 points, outscored the Beermen by 11 points in the third quarter and another 15 points in the final quarter to have a come-from-behind victory to take the series lead. Noel had a triple double and had key plays during the decisive Ginebra run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals, Series summary, Game 4\nA close game all-throughout with as many as 18 deadlocks in between, Freeman converted a three-point play to increase San Miguel's lead to five; SMB led by as much as 8 in the final two minutes when Ginebra had another run. Eric Menk and Chico Lanete scored to cut the lead to two. Noel tied the ballgame after shooting two free throws off a foul from San Miguel, but Freeman scored on a put-back off Mike Cortez's miss. With less than 30 seconds left, Freeman fouled Noel beyond the three-point line on the act of shooting; Noel missed all of this free-throws, and San Miguel hung on to tie the series 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals, Series summary, Game 5\nThe fifth game of the series was rescheduled to July 13 since the Araneta Coliseum was not available due to a WWE event on July 10 and a UAAP doubleheader on July 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204482-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Finals, Broadcast notes\nThe finals is the second championship series of  The PBA on C/S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204483-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA draft\nThe 2009 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) rookie draft was an event at which teams drafted players from the amateur ranks. The event was held at Market! Market! in Taguig on August 2, 2009. The Burger King Whoppers selected Japeth Aguilar of the Ateneo de Manila University and Western Kentucky University as the number one draft pick. Players applied for the draft had undergone a three-day rookie camp. This is the only draft wherein a draft pick held by a defunct franchise was not retained by a new team which purchased that franchise(the second overall pick originally held by Shell was not inherited by Rain or Shine).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204483-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA draft, Japeth Aguilar controversy\nAs expected, the Burger King Whoppers nabbed Japeth Aguilar as its overall No.1 draft pick in the 2009 PBA draft; however days after the draft, he boldly declare that he would join the Smart Gilas Pilipinas developmental basketball program coached by Serbian Rajko Toroman, a move which caused controversy within the PBA and angst especially by the team that drafted him. Its governor, Lito Alvarez, even went to the extent of banning Aguilar from the league for his refusal to sign with the Whoppers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204483-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA draft, Japeth Aguilar controversy\nAn amicable settlement was reached on October 9, 2009, two days before the 35th PBA season. With SBP prexy Manny Pangilinan and executive director Noli Eala intervening and at Alvarez's behest, Aguilar signed the one-year contract with the Whoppers, which included him playing for a few games with them then he would be traded to Talk N Text Tropang Texters (Pangilinan's PBA team) which would then release him to Smart Gilas as he wanted. Alvarez even said that before Aguilar signed their contract, the former already has had the latter's No.18 uniform with the Whoppers made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204483-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA draft, Japeth Aguilar controversy\nAguilar played his only professional game with the Whoppers against the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants in the PBA season opener, which ended in a 93-80 loss to the Giants. Immediately after, Aguilar got his wish as the Whoppers traded him to the Tropang Texters in exchange for future draft picks, indirectly through Barako Bull Energy Boosters which acted as the conduit team. As expected, TNT loaned him to Smart Gilas where he will stay there until after the 2012 London Olympics as per his Gilas contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204483-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PBA draft, Japeth Aguilar controversy\nAs the consequence of this controversy, the board of governors approved stiffer penalties for rookie draftees who would turn their back on the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204484-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors\nThe 2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors was an ATP tennis tournament played on hard courts indoors. It was the 4th edition of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place in Zagreb, Croatia from February 2 through February 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204484-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors\nThe singles line up was led by world no. 19 Igor Andreev and Croats Marin \u010cili\u0107 and Ivo Karlovi\u0107. Also competing were Paul-Henri Mathieu, J\u00fcrgen Melzer, Andreas Seppi, Mario An\u010di\u0107 and Simone Bolelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204484-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Damm /  Robert Lindstedt defeated  Christopher Kas /  Rogier Wassen 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204485-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nPaul Hanley and Jordan Kerr were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204486-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors \u2013 Singles\nSergiy Stakhovsky was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Viktor Troicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204487-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC Pro Tour\nThe 2009 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). They consisted of Professional Dart Players Association (PDPA) Players Championships and UK Open Regional Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204487-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC Pro Tour, Prize money\nIn addition, \u00a3400 per Pro Tour event was reserved for a nine-dart finish. Should this not be won in an event, it would be carried over to the next event, and so on until a nine-dart finish is achieved. Once the prize fund is won, it will revert to \u00a3400 for the next event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204487-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC Pro Tour, German Darts Corporation\nThe German Darts Corporation rankings are calculated from events across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The top player in the rankings automatically qualifies for the 2010 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204487-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC Pro Tour, Australian Grand Prix Pro Tour\nThe Australian Grand Prix rankings are calculated from events across Australia. The top player in the rankings automatically qualifies for the 2010 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204487-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC Pro Tour, Other PDC tournaments\nThe PDC also held a number of other tournaments during 2009. These were mainly smaller events with low prize money, and some had eligibility restrictions. All of these tournaments were non-ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship\nThe 2009 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 16th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 19 December 2008 and 4 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship\nJohn Part was the defending champion, having won the PDC World Championship for the second time in the previous year's final against Kirk Shepherd. However, he was eliminated by Bill Davis on the opening night. Shepherd's poor form in 2008 continued, as he was also eliminated in the first round, by Dutchman Jan van der Rassel. Eventually, the title was won by Phil Taylor, with a 7\u20131 victory in the final over Raymond van Barneveld. This was Taylor's twelfth PDC world title, and his fourteenth in all; his average of 110.94 against van Barneveld remains a record for the PDC World Championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship\nThe tournament was also notable for featuring the first ever nine-dart finish at the PDC World Championship, completed by van Barneveld in his quarter-final match with Jelle Klaasen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers\nThe televised stages featured 70 players, an increase of two from the previous year. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit on 1 December 2008 were seeded for the tournament. They were joined by 16 PDPA members and 22 international qualifiers determined by the PDC and PDPA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers\nThe 16 PDPA members were made up from the top eight players who had not already qualified in the PDC Pro Tour events during 2008 and eight other qualifiers were determined at a PDPA Qualifying event which was held on 6 December 2008 in Telford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers\nThese 48 players were joined by 22 international players who qualified through various means. Some of the players, such as the top American, Australian, Danish and Eastern European players were entered straight into the first round, while others, having won qualifying events in their countries, were entered into the preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers\nThere were two notable absentees from this year's tournament. Bob Anderson had resigned from the PDC in 2008 to take part in the BetFred League of Legends, thus ending a run of 25 consecutive appearances in a World Championship stretching back to 1984, while Alan Warriner-Little also did not participate, having made 20 consecutive appearances stretching back to 1989. This meant that Phil Taylor now had the longest unbroken run in World Championships, making his 20th consecutive appearance, while Dennis Priestley was the only other remaining player to have played in every WDC/PDC World Championship since the inaugural event in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Prize money\nThe 2009 World Championship featured a prize fund of \u00a3724,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Draw\nThe draw for the first round of the championship was made on 8 December on Sky Sports News by Sid Waddell and Eric Bristow. The preliminary round draw was made on the morning of that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Draw, Preliminary round\nThese matches were played over the course of the first six sessions of the championship, between 19\u201322 December. The winners enter the main draw, and played their first round matches over the course of 20\u201323 December. The matches were the best of nine legs, and had to be won by two clear legs unless the score reaches 7\u20137 in which case the 15th leg would be decisive. The preliminary round draw were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Draw, Preliminary round\nScores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Representation from different countries\nThis table shows the number of players in the World Championship, the total number including Preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Representation from different countries\n* In darts, as in many other sports, some non-sovereign sub-national entities of the United Kingdom are treated as separate countries for sport governance purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying\nThe international contingent for the championship have qualified through various means, detailed here:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, Continental Europe Order of Merit\nThe Continental Europe Order of Merit was used to decide four of the international qualifiers for the event, all of whom would be entered in the first round. The top four players in the Order of Merit who had not already qualified via the full Order of Merit or the Players Championship Order of Merit were, from the Netherlands, Co Stomp\u00e9 (who was the top ranked player on the ranking system mainly by virtue of his German Darts Championship win), second placed Jelle Klaasen, and fourth placed Jan van der Rassel. Third place went to the Serbian-born Austrian Mensur Suljovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, Continental Europe Order of Merit\nOf the four qualifiers, three had played in the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship, with Stomp\u00e9 being the only debutant having joined the PDC in June. Klaasen, on his debut in 2008, fell in the first round (albeit in a sudden death leg) to fellow countryman Vincent van der Voort, having missed ten darts to win the match. Van der Rassel fared better in 2008, beating Colin Lloyd 3\u20132 in his first-round match before dispatching Denis Ovens 4\u20131 in the second round; however he fell by the same scoreline to Peter Manley in the last 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, Continental Europe Order of Merit\nVan der Rassel has made two other appearances in the PDC World Championship \u2013 in the 2006 event he lost in the second round and in 2004 he lost in the first round. Suljovi\u0107 is making his second appearance in the tournament \u2013 in 2008 he defeated Andy Smith 3\u20132 in the first round before losing out 4\u20131 to eventual champion John Part in his second match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nAustralia qualifiersThe first Australian qualifier was Newcastle-born Paul Nicholson, making his debut in the PDC World Championship. After the William Cross Pro-Am series of events in Shoalhaven, Nicholson took an unassailable lead at the top of the Australian Grand Prix rankings \u2013 the top ranked player here would earn a place in the first round of the World Championship. His performances in Shoalhaven also earned him a place in the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nThe second Australian place was given to veteran Russell Stewart, who made 11 appearances between 1984 and 2002 in the BDO World Championship. Stewart won the Oceanic Masters, an event open to all Australian and New Zealand players, to secure his debut in the PDC World Championship, at the first round stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nCaribbean qualifierSudesh Fitzgerald, of Guyana, won the Caribbean and South American Masters to become the second ever Guyanese player to appear in the PDC World Championship, after Norman Madhoo who qualified for the 2004 event. Fitzgerald is entered in at the preliminary stage of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nChina qualifierShi Yongsheng became the Chinese representative at the tournament, making this his third successive appearance in the PDC World Championship. Yongsheng played in the 2008 PDC World Championship, beating Indian qualifier Ashfaque Sayed in the preliminary round but losing to Alan Warriner-Little in the first round. He also played in the 2007 PDC World Championship but fell at the first hurdle in a loss to Andy Smith. Yongsheng won the Chinese National Championship to secure his place in this year's event, at the preliminary stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nDenmark qualifierFor the third year in a row, Per Laursen topped the Danish Darts League to win a third successive place in the PDC World Championship. He was entered in at the first round stage. In 2007, Laursen defeated Colin Monk 3\u20130 in the first round but narrowly lost 4\u20133 to third seed Dennis Priestley in the second round, having had eight darts to win the match. In 2008, he lost 3\u20131 in the opening match of the event to Alan Tabern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nEastern Europe qualifierThe Eastern European qualifier took place on 31 October and was open to players from 14 countries in the area. Hungary's N\u00e1ndor Bezzeg won the event to become the first ever Hungarian representative at the PDC World Championship, being given a first round place at the tournament. He succeeds the Czech Republic's Miroslav Navratil who won the previous year's Eastern European qualifier to earn a place in the 2008 World Championship. Navratil then went on to defeat Philippines qualifier Rizal Barellano 5\u20130 in the preliminary round before losing 3\u20132 to Andy Jenkins in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nFinland qualifierMarko Kantele will be making his debut at the PDC World Championship (and is Finland's first ever representative in the event) in 2009 having won the Finnish Pro Darts Championship. He entered at the preliminary phase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nGermany/Austria qualifierThis qualifying place was decided by the German Darts Corporation rankings, which ranks all German/Austrian players from darts events held in the two countries. Austrian Mensur Suljovi\u0107 topped the rankings, however he had already qualified via the Continental Europe Order of Merit. Therefore his fellow Austrian, second-placed Hannes Schnier, received the invitation to make his debut in the event. He entered at the preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nIreland qualifierShane O'Connor won the Irish qualifying event, the inaugural Irish Matchplay, meaning he was entered into the preliminary round of the World Championship, his debut in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nJapan qualifierAkihiro Nagakawa was the Japanese representative having won the Japanese National Championship to qualify. Nagakawa played at the 2008 PDC World Championship but lost to Anthony Forde from Barbados in the preliminary round. He will once again appear at the preliminary round this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nNew Zealand qualifierThe New Zealand qualifier was Warren French who won New Zealand's National Singles Championship. French is no stranger to the PDC World Championship, having accompanied fellow New Zealander Warren Parry to the 2008 event and having played in the 2007 event, where he lost to James Wade in the first round. This year he enters in at the preliminary rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nNorth America qualifiersThe 2008 North American Order of Merit was used to decide the three North American qualifiers. Pennsylvanian Darin Young topped the rankings, after a second round appearance in the 2008 Las Vegas Desert Classic and victory in the inaugural North American Darts Championship. As well as qualifying him for the first round of the 2009 PDC World Championship, these results gave him a place in the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts. Young has twice appeared before in the PDC World Championship, but failed to win a game in either 2005 or 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nBill Davis finished second in the North American Order of Merit having performed consistently well in all American events, and was the only American to qualify for the televised stages of both the 2008 US Open and the 2008 Desert Classic. This ensured him a place in the first round of the 2009 World Championship. Davis appeared in the World Championship in 2007 but lost his first game 3\u20131 to Andy Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nThird placed Canadian David Fatum qualified for the preliminary round of the event, his debut in the World Championship. Fatum's high placing was mainly on merit of his run to the semi-finals of the 2008 US Open, where he was narrowly beaten 3\u20132 by Colin Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nPhilippines qualifierLourence Ilagan succeeded Rizal Barellano (who lost in the preliminary round of the 2008 event) to become the 2009 Philippines qualifier. Ilagan won the National Darts Federation of the Philippines qualifier to earn a place at the preliminary round at the Alexandra Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nCurrent BDO Ladies' World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova received qualification following the withdrawal of the Indian qualifier. She became the second woman to play in the PDC World Championship, following Canadian Gayl King who took part in the 2001 PDC World Championship. Following this, Dobromyslova will join the PDC circuit full-time and therefore is not eligible to play in British Darts Organisation events, meaning she cannot defend her BDO Ladies' world title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nCharles Losper will return to the Alexandra Palace for this year's World Championship, after victory for the second successive year in the South African Open. Losper appeared in the first round of the 2008 World Championship, where he lost 3\u20131 to eventual champion John Part. He will be entered in at the preliminary stage this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nThe Dutch TV station SBS6, who will be broadcasting the World Championship in the Netherlands, originally gave their wildcard to Co Stomp\u00e9, who joined the PDC in 2008. However, this decision was in early November; mere weeks later Stomp\u00e9 won the German Darts Championship (his maiden PDC title), beating Phil Taylor 4\u20132 in the final \u2013 this earned him a spot in the World Championship by right, via the Continental Europe Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, International qualifying, International representatives\nAs a result, on 30 November 2008, Remco van Eijden was offered and accepted the wildcard, a decision which led to his expulsion from the 2008 Zuiderduin Masters to be replaced by fellow Dutchman and 2009 BDO World Championship qualifier Willy van de Wiel. This was van Eijden's debut in the PDC version of the World Championship, and he was entered in at the preliminary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 90], "content_span": [91, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nThe opening match of the tournament was an international affair, seeing Spain's Carlos Rodriguez take on sixteenth seed Roland Scholten of the Netherlands. Scholten was struggling with a shoulder/neck injury and in his last televised match \u2013 the first round of the 2008 European Championship \u2013 he had averaged 52. Rodriguez on the other hand had defeated fifth seed Terry Jenkins in the same tournament. True to form, the first set went to the Spaniard, including a 121 checkout. Scholten then hit back to take the second before Rodriguez included an 11 darter in taking the third set 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nThe Dutchman included an 11 darter of his own as he took the next set without reply and looked to have the momentum going into the decider, but it was perhaps one set too far as the injury took its toll on Scholten's game and Rodriguez won the set \u2013 and the match \u2013 fairly comfortably. Scholten did not disgrace himself with an 80 average this time around, though Rodriguez' 88 showed the scoring power that gave him the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nA preliminary round game followed between Japan's Akihiro Nagakawa and New Zealand's Warren French, to be contested over nine legs. This was probably for the better as neither player hit top form, both averaging 54, which was a factor in Sky Sports stopping footage of the game halfway through. French had double trouble in the opening legs, letting Nagakawa take a 2\u20130 lead, but he soon improved, reeling off four legs on the trot to take the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nHighly fancied Robert Thornton took on twenty-fifth seed Wayne Jones in the next match. Thornton, the lone Scotsman in the competition, joined the PDC in May 2008 and had already risen up to thirty-fifth in the PDC Order of Merit. Jones, a semi-finalist here in 2006, took the first set, but Thornton, averaging 94, took the next three without reply to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nThe tournament lit up in the next match as American Bill Davis sensationally defeated the defending champion and fourth seed, Canadian John Part, 3\u20130. A slow start from Part allowed Davis to take the first set with a 116 checkout, and the American took a two legs lead in the second set with a 120 checkout. This seemed to awaken the defending champion, who hit five 180s in the next three legs, but missed doubles for the set cost him as Davis took a 2\u20130 lead. The final set went to a deciding leg as well \u2013 Part almost completed a 125 checkout, missing the double 20 to save the match before Davis hit double 10 \u2013 the same double Part won his world championship on \u2013 to wrap up the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nThe final match of the night was a high quality affair with both Dutchman Co Stomp\u00e9 and twenty-fourth seed Andy Jenkins averaging 93 and 94 respectively. Both players had defeated Phil Taylor in recent events \u2013 Stomp\u00e9 in the final of the German Darts Championship and Jenkins in the group stages of the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts \u2013 and Stomp\u00e9 took the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day One, Friday 19 December, First round\nA 120 checkout from the Englishman levelled the match but Stomp\u00e9, himself a newcomer to the PDC this year, hit a 164 checkout \u2013 the highest of the tournament \u2013 to help him take the third set. The debutant won the final set 3\u20131 to win the match by the same scoreline, sending the 2007 semi-finalist Jenkins out. This result also meant all four seeds in action had crashed out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nThe afternoon session of the second day of the World Championship opened with fifth seed Terry Jenkins taking on Dennis Smith who was returning to the event after a two-year absence. Jenkins had lost in the first round the previous year to 500\u20131 outsider Kirk Shepherd, who would then go on to reach the final. His woes at the Alexandra Palace continued as Smith took a comfortable 3\u20131 victory. Smith took the first two sets before Jenkins looked to stage a comeback with 118 and 107 checkouts helping him take third set 3\u20130. However, 'Smiffy' put a stop to the resurgence with an 84 checkout on the bull to win the match, meaning all five seeds who had played so far had fallen at the first hurdle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nThis was followed by a preliminary round match of considerably better quality than the previous night's. Austrian Hannes Schnier, making his debut in the event, and China's Shi Yongsheng, making a third consecutive appearance, faced off with Yongsheng taking an early lead. Two 180s helped Schnier to take a 4\u20133 lead before Yongsheng reeled off three legs in succession to take the match 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nArguably the match of the tournament so far followed as seventeenth seed and semi-finalist last year, Kevin Painter, took on Matt Clark. Clark took the first set 3\u20132 before Painter hit back taking the second 3\u20131. ' The Artist' then seemed to gain momentum as he took the next set without reply, including a 100 checkout with two double tops and a 126 checkout on the bull, however 'Superman' Clark comfortably won the next set 3\u20131 to send the match into a decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nThe final set had to be won by two clear legs but no player could open up such a margin as they each held their throw for ten straight legs to send the match into a sudden death leg, something that Painter had famously been on the wrong end of in the 2004 final. Clark won the bull, meaning he threw first, but heavy scoring from Painter meant he was first to a double \u2013 he missed one dart at double 16 for the match with Clark left on a 104 checkout. Clark got the required treble 20 but himself missed a dart at double 12 to win the contest. Painter then hit double 8 with his third dart to finally take victory and become the first seed to advance into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nDennis Priestley, the eleventh seed, had a considerably more comfortable victory against Warren French of New Zealand. French played far better than in his preliminary round game, averaging 76 rather than 54, however Priestley's average of 87 told all as he took all three sets 3\u20131 for a 3\u20130 overall victory. Welshman and twenty-ninth seed Barrie Bates had a similarly easy victory over Northern Ireland's Felix McBrearty, dropping three legs before a 101 checkout gave him a 3\u20130 win to end the afternoon session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nThe evening session opened with ninth seed Alan Tabern producing a comfortable 3\u20130 victory over 1996 BDO World Champion Steve Beaton. Tabern's average of 91 to Beaton's 82 was the decisive factor in the match as Beaton only won three legs in his defeat to the 2007 quarter-finalist. This was followed by a third preliminary game, easily the highest quality of the round so far as both the USA's David Fatum, a semi-finalist in the 2008 US Open, and Ireland's Shane O'Connor produced averages of above 75. Fatum led 4\u20132 before missing seven match darts to let O'Connor peg the match back to 4\u20134, however Fatum made no mistake in taking the next two legs and the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nAnother player from the USA and the highest ranked on the North American Order of Merit, Darin Young, took on Dutch youngster and thirty-second seed Michael van Gerwen in the next match. Young opened with heavy scoring and took the first set before van Gerwen took the next including a 104 checkout that gave the Netherlands player a burst of momentum \u2013 he only dropped one leg in taking the next two sets to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nThirteen-time World Champion and top seed Phil Taylor opened his campaign with a dominant victory over debutant Steve Grubb. Taylor, with a 96 average \u2013 the highest of the tournament so far \u2013 was never pushed and didn't drop a leg in a whitewash of the qualifier that acted as a warning shot to the rest of the competition. The final match of the day saw twenty-eighth seed Alex Roy meet fast-rising youngster Kevin McDine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Two, Saturday 20 December, First round\nMcDine took the first set 3\u20132 and the second 3\u20131 \u2013 a 100 checkout and seven perfect darts in two separate legs helping the Geordie take the latter. Roy seemed to come alive as he took the third set without reply along with a 116 checkout, but McDine included a 108 finish in taking the fourth and final set 3\u20131 to secure the match, and finish off day two's action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe first match of the third day was a tight affair between twenty-first seed Mark Walsh and Jamie Caven. Both were second round losers last year and both averaged 91 in a match where the first break of throw was not until the third set. At 1\u20131 in sets, Walsh had eight perfect darts towards a nine dart finish but his dart at double 12 fell well short. The following leg he broke Caven's throw and despite a break back from Caven, a 120 checkout saw him take the third set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nCaven took the fourth set 3\u20132 but Walsh, who two years ago went out in the first round with a 71 average due to suffering from dartitis, took the final set 4\u20132 to go into the second round. The match eventually ended up with a total thirteen 180s between the players; eight were from Walsh which would set a joint-record for the first round along with Adrian Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe next match saw the second best performance from a preliminary round entrant in South Africa's Charles Losper, who faced Guyana's Sudesh Fitzgerald. Losper, who twelve months ago lost 3\u20131 in the first round to eventual champion John Part, averaged 87 in a tidy 6\u20134 victory over Fitzgerald, making his debut at the World Championship. Fitzgerald started poorly and let Losper take a 3\u20131 lead, before a 64 finish helped him level the match. Losper then checked out 95 to retake the lead, but despite Fitzgerald hitting back the next leg, a 180 in the ninth leg and a 14 dart finish in the tenth gave Losper victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe 2005 runner-up and twentieth seed Mark Dudbridge was next in action against debutant Nick Fullwell in a match that also went to a fifth set. Dudbridge led in the first, but missed doubles let Fullwell steal it before 'Flash' Dudbridge took the next set 3\u20131 including a 100 checkout. Dudbridge took control of the match by taking the third set without reply, but 'Hero' Fullwell hit a 98 finish in the fourth to send the match into a decider. Dudbridge finally prevailed by taking the fourth set 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThirty-first seed Englishman Wes Newton faced off against Danish Per Laursen in the next match. Both suffered first round exits last year and Laursen was condemned to the same fate in a fairly unremarkable match in which both players averaged in the 80s. Laursen took the first set 3\u20132 but Newton won the next by the same scoreline, before taking the lead with a 3\u20131 score in the third set (the only set that didn't go to a deciding leg) and finishing the match off with double 4 in the fourth set's decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nA fairly one-sided match followed as eighteenth seed Denis Ovens took a comfortable victory over Steve Maish. Ovens took the first set 3\u20131 and a tight second set which Ovens won 3\u20132 with a 15 darter seemed to break Maish's resolve, as finishes of 80 and 120 helped Ovens take the third set without reply to end the afternoon's action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe evening opened with some heavy scoring from number seven seed Andy Hamilton, who set the best average of round one (101.59) in a straight sets victory over Michael Barnard. Barnard did not disgrace himself, averaging 93 and performing 114 checkout, but Hamilton's power play including five 180s ensured he went through while throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nWhat followed was one of the most hotly anticipated matches ever in the PDC World Championship. Massive hype had gathered over the appearance of Russian Anastasia Dobromyslova, the Ladies World Champion, facing off against Dutchman Remco van Eijden in a preliminary round game. Both were making their debut in the PDC World Championship and both had been awarded a wild card into the competition. However, Dobromyslova was the clear crowd favourite and the pressure showed on van Eijden as he lost the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0052-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThis seemed to awaken the Dutchman as he reeled off the next three legs before a thirteen darter helped the Russian to level the match. van Eijden then took the next two legs to win the match and end the dream for Dobromyslova, though both players averaged over 80 in arguably the highest quality preliminary round match so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nCrowd favourite and eighth seed Wayne Mardle then began his World Championship campaign against debutant American David Fatum. The four-time (including last year) semi-finalist did not play his best game, averaging 86 to Fatum's 81, but it was enough to put him through in straight sets, dropping only one leg in the process. While his scoring was nothing to write home about, Mardle's finishing was eye-catching, including a 116 and 106 checkout in a clinical performance on the doubles \u2013 it was this part of his game that put 'Hawaii 501' through comfortably as 'The Scorpion' Fatum struggled in finishing off legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe 2007 champion and second seed Raymond van Barneveld began his challenge for the championship against English qualifier Mark Stephenson. 'Barney', a third round loser last year, was hoping to outdo both Hamilton's average and Taylor's record of not dropping a leg, and, in taking the first two sets 3\u20130 he looked to be doing just that. van Barneveld included a 13 darter and two 14 dart finishes in rapidly taking the first set, and a 102 finish was crucial in taking the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nHowever, his third set was less comfortable, as Stephenson gained his first leg with a 126 checkout and then sent the set into a deciding leg. Stephenson, averaging a respectable 88, missed a dart to take the set before 'The Man' wrapped up the game, averaging a strong 100.80 in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nThe final match of the day saw another upset as thirteenth seed Peter Manley fell in a deciding set to Serbian-born Austrian Mensur Suljovi\u0107. Manley, a three-time runner-up at the PDC World Championship, took the first set with ease including a 124 checkout. He then led 2\u20130 in the second set before Suljovi\u0107 began to hit back, with two 180s helping him take three legs on the spin to level the match 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0055-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Three, Sunday 21 December, First round\nSuljovi\u0107, a second round loser to eventual champion John Part last year, led for the first time in the third set, before 'One Dart' hit a clinical 118 checkout to put him back in the game. However, his scoring was not up to par as Suljovi\u0107 continued to outperform him in that area, and a 101 checkout helped him take third set 3\u20131. Manley, sensing a defeat, quickly took the next set 3\u20130 to send the match into a decider. However, it was Suljovi\u0107 (averaging an impressive 91 to Manley's 88) whose nerve held when it mattered most as he broke his opponent's throw early and double ten sent Manley crashing out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nThe fourth day only featured play in the evening, and began with a major upset as twenty-second seed Chris Mason fell in straight sets to 67-year-old Irishman John MaGowan. Mason never got going in the match, averaging 83 to MaGowan's 92. All sets went 3\u20131 in 'Mr Magoo's favour, with the highlight of the match being a 156 checkout from MaGowan in the final set to end Mason's hopes of a recovery \u2013 double 4 finally completed a major surprise in the opening game of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nIn the preliminary round game that followed, Finland's Marko Kantele produced the best performance of the preliminary stage with an average of 89 to win 5\u20132 against Lourence Ilagan of the Philippines. Both were debutants though it was the Finn who settled in earlier, completing a 120 checkout before a 12 darter put him 2\u20130 up. Ilagan won two more legs but Kantele was always in control and a 60 checkout completed the final preliminary round match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nSixth seed young gun Adrian Lewis, twice a quarter-finalist at the World Championship, entered the tournament facing off against veteran Australian Russell Stewart who was making his debut at the PDC version of the event despite making eleven appearances in the BDO World Championship. Lewis stormed through the first set, including three 180s and a 121 finish to complete a 12 darter to take the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0057-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nA 111 finish helped him open up the first set 2\u20130 as the youngster looked to have the match under control, but a sudden loss in form from Lewis and steady scoring from Stewart helped 'Rusty' take three legs on the trot to level the match. Stewart took the first leg of the next set to take the lead from the first time, but 'Jackpot' started to find form again as he punished missed darts at doubles from the Australian to take the third set 3\u20131. A 105 checkout sealed the match for Lewis in the fourth set \u2013 though he only averaged 86 to Stewart's 84, Lewis did hit eight 180s in the match, the most of the round and equalling Mark Walsh's record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nThe next match was hyped before the tournament as the match of the first round, however it proved to be anything but as 2006 BDO World Champion Jelle Klaasen dropped only one leg in a clinical demolition of tenth seed Colin Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Four, Monday 22 December, First round\nBoth were first round losers last year, and both had had darts to win their matches (Klaasen had missed ten match darts to put away Vincent van der Voort), but Klaasen made no mistake in that area this time as he won the last two sets 3\u20130 against a disappointing Lloyd \u2013 'Jaws' averaged 86 to 'The Matador's impressive 95. The last match of the night was another one-sided affair as twelfth seed Mervyn King didn't drop a leg against China's Shi Yongsheng. The averages \u2013 King with 92 to Yongsheng's 75 \u2013 told all as a 105 checkout was the only real highlight in a match dominated by 'The King'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe last day of play before the Christmas break featured eight round one games to finish up the first round. First up was twenty-sixth seed Andy Smith, a first round loser last year, taking on debutant Tony Ayres. Ayres took the first set before 'The Pieman' Smith changed gears, hitting two 180s and a thirteen darter to take the second set. An even contest saw Ayres take the third with finishes of 116 and 101 but Smith took the fourth including a 155 checkout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nIn the deciding set, Ayres quickly took a 2\u20130 lead before Smith hit a 100 checkout with two double tops to save the game; it was only delaying the inevitable however as Ayres, who hit three 180s to Smith's six, and averaged 86 to Smith's 87, was on target when it mattered \u2013 he hit double four cleanly in the next leg to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe next match was an unexpected demolition of twenty-seventh seed Adrian Gray, who did not win a leg in a whitewash defeat by top Australian player Paul Nicholson. Gray only got one dart at a double in the entire match as his average of 84 was blown away by Nicholson's 96 (Nicholson averaged exactly the same as Phil Taylor, who did not drop a leg in his first round match either). Though Nicholson did not hit any 180s, he did hit showpiece checkouts of 142 and 100 to set up a match with Adrian Lewis in the second round, who had beaten his fellow Australian Russell Stewart the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nTwenty-third seed Kirk Shepherd was not to have a repeat of his fairytale run to the final in last year's 2008 event as he was defeated in a deciding set by Dutchman Jan van der Rassel. A 106 checkout helped Shepherd lead in the first set, but clean checkouts of 98 and 97 in two consecutive legs ensured that van der Rassel took the first set. Shepherd took the second set 3\u20131 before the third set went to a deciding leg \u2013 'Rassel Dazzle' held throw to go 2\u20131 up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0061-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe 'Martial Dartist' Shepherd stormed through the fourth set, finishing it with a 126 checkout on the bull, but he could not keep up the momentum as van der Rassel took the final set by two clear legs with a clean 106 checkout. Shepherd's defeat also meant that both finalists from the previous year's tournament had gone out in the first round, the first time this has ever happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe final game of the afternoon also went to a deciding set though it did not look to be at first as thirtieth seed Tony Eccles shot to a 2\u20130 in sets lead against Remco van Eijden, the conqueror of Ladies World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova in the preliminary round. Eccles included a 164 checkout in the first set, which he won 3\u20130, and though the second set was closer in going to a deciding leg, Eccles came out on top to give himself a strong lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nHowever, the match was far from over as van Eijden took the third set in a deciding leg with a gutsy 116 checkout, and in the deciding leg of the fourth Eccles missed five darts for the match before van Eijden levelled the match. ' The Viper' Eccles lost the first leg in the deciding set as van Eijden took the lead for the first time, but this provoked him into heavy scoring as he won the next three legs without reply to finally win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe evening's play saw fifteenth seed Ronnie Baxter take on the best performer of the preliminary round \u2013 Finn Marko Kantele. Kantele took the first set with some eye-catching finishing, hitting checkouts of 124 and 164 both on the bull to carve himself a lead despite superior scoring from Baxter. Though Kantele again finished on the bull with a 122 checkout in the second set, Baxter held his throw under pressure to level the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0063-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nFrom then Baxter only lost one leg in the next two sets as he started to hit good form and Kantele's started to slip away \u2013 'The Rocket' stormed through the third set without dropping a leg and he took the fourth, and the match, with some eye-catching finishing of his own, hitting two double tops to complete a 100 checkout. Baxter's end average of 92 to Kantele's 83 showed that it was his scoring that gave him the edge in the match despite some amazing finishing from the Finn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe fourteenth seed Colin Osborne, a quarter-finalist in 2007 but a first round loser last year, opened his campaign with a clinical straight-sets victory over South African Charles Losper. Osborne rivalled Kantele's finishing as a 121 checkout helped him take the first set without reply, and a 167 checkout \u2013 the highest of the first round \u2013 was instrumental in opening a lead in the second set, which he later won with a 110 finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nLosper, now with his back to the wall, appeared to gain steam as a 14 darter gave him a two leg advantage in the third set, but Osborne regrouped and a 96 checkout gave him victory in the deciding leg of the set. ' The Wizard' Osborne's average of 95 to complement his finishing also showed that he was very much a threat following the disappointment of last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nBrendan Dolan gave third seed James Wade a great scare in the first set of their match \u2013 he missed six darts for the set before an under-par Wade, who averaged 88, hit an important 106 checkout to take it and break Dolan's spirit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0065-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nFrom then on Wade took six of the next seven legs in winning the following two sets and won the match with a thirteen dart finish to set up a match with Tony Eccles, who had famously knocked Wade out in the first round of the 2008 World Grand Prix as 'The Machine' was the defending champion at the time. The next match was another straight-sets victory for a seed \u2013 nineteenth seed Vincent van der Voort won the final first round match 3\u20130 against Hungarian N\u00e1ndor Bezzeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0065-0002", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Five, Tuesday 23 December\nThe first set went to a deciding leg but van der Voort took it under pressure, and like Wade he dropped only one leg in taking the next two sets \u2013 a 106 checkout, five 180s, and a 90 average from 'Greased Lightning' proved enough to dispatch the Eastern European qualifier and end the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Six, Saturday 27 December\nThe tournament resumed and the second round began on day six, which opened with a remarkable match between old PDC stalwart Dennis Smith and young Kevin McDine. In the deciding leg of the first set, Smith missed darts to take the opener so McDine stepped in to take it. The second set also went to a decider, and McDine performed an 11 dart finish to open up a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Six, Saturday 27 December\nCheckouts of 110 and 128 on the bull put McDine 3\u20130 up and on course for a comfortable victory, but Smith rallied in the fourth and began to hit top form as he broke McDine's throw for the first time in the match to win the set. Two fourteen darters and a fifteen dart finish ensured that Smith continued his resurgence in the fifth set, and he levelled the match in the deciding leg of the sixth set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0066-0002", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Six, Saturday 27 December\nSmith then led for the first time in the match as he took the opening leg of the deciding set, and he repeated McDine's feat of a 128 checkout on the bull to go 2\u20130 up. From here there was only going to be one winner as Smith landed double eight to complete a famous comeback. Remarkably, Smith hit thirty-one 140s (the most from one player in a single match) but no 180s, compared to McDine's statistic of fifteen 140s and eight 180s. Both players averaged above 90 in a match that would go down as a classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament Review, Day Eleven, Friday 2 January, Nine dart finish\nDuring the second leg of the sixth set of the match between van Barneveld and Klaasen, van Barneveld threw the first-ever nine dart finish at a PDC World Darts Championship since the split from the British Darts Organisation in mid-1993, and only the second World Championship nine-darter (first live) after Paul Lim's similar outshot against Jack McKenna in 1990. It was van Barneveld's second nine-darter on live British television after his nine-darter against Peter Manley during the 2006 Premier League, and he used T20, T19, D12 to complete the perfect leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204488-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 PDC World Darts Championship, Television coverage\nAs they have done for every PDC World Darts Championship, Sky Sports broadcast all 69 matches live in the UK, and for the first time in high-definition. Dave Clark presented the coverage with analysis from Rod Harrington and Eric Bristow. They also commentated on matches along with Sid Waddell, John Gwynne, Dave Lanning, Nigel Pearson and Stuart Pyke. Interviews were handled by Clark, Bristow and Helen Chamberlain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season\nThe 2009 USL Premier Development League season was the 15th season of the PDL. The regular season began on May 1, 2009, and ended on July 19, 2009. The PDL Championship Game was held on August 8, 2009, and was broadcast on Fox Soccer Channel in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season\nVentura County Fusion finished the season as national champions, beating Chicago Fire Premier 2-1 in the PDL Championship game in Ventura, California on August 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season\nReading Rage finished with the best regular season record in the league, winning 13 out of their 16 games, suffering just one loss, and finishing with a +41 goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season\nReading Rage striker Aaron Wheeler was the league's top scorer and MVP, knocking in 17 goals, while his teammate Jon Ports led the league with 10 assists. Mississippi Brilla goalkeeper Josh Pantazelos enjoyed the best goalkeeping statistics, with a goals against average of 0.615 on the season, including 8 shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, Standings\nIn 2009, there was a more balanced 8 divisions (down from 10 in 2008). The top 3 from each division qualified for the play-offs, with the division champion receiving a bye through the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, Standings, Southern Conference, Mid South Division\nNote: Austin finish in third place as a result of winning the head-to-head season series 2-0-1 against El Paso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 67], "content_span": [68, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, Playoffs, Format\nThe top three teams from each division earn playoff bids. The division champion earns a bye to the Division Finals and the rights to host. The second place team will host the third place team in the Division Semifinals either at their home field or at the division champion's field. The two notable exceptions were the Chicago Fire Premier hosting Forest City London in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Ventura County Fusion hosting the Los Angeles Legends, despite Los Angeles having the higher seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, Award Winners and Finalists\nThe awards finalists, Goalkeeper of the Year, and All-League teams were announced on August 4, 2009, with the winners announced on August 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Central Conference\nF: Andre Akpan, CHI; Teal Bunbury, ROC; Tom Oatley*, KALM: Dave Hertel*, MIC; Nolan Intermoia, TB; Brad Stisser, COLD: Anthony Di Biase, LON; Bonivenger Misiko*, FW; Wilson Neto, TB; Brian Wurst, KCG: Jimmy Maurer*, CHIHonorable Mention: Justin Ferguson, D, SPR; Saidi Isaac, F, IND; David Mueller, D, SL; Armin Mujdzic, F, DM; Yoram Mwila, M, CLE;  Kyle Segebart, D, CIN; Jordan Webb, M, TOR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Eastern Conference\nF: Cody Arnoux, CAR; Adam Arthur, WV; Aaron Wheeler*, REAM: Will Beague*, OTT; Adam Gazda, REA; Zach Loyd, CARD: Brien Chamney, OTT; Christian Ibeagha*, CRY; Rich Martinez, LI; Sheanon Williams, CARG: Tunde Ogunbiyi, OCCHonorable Mention: Frank Alesci, M, BRK; Zachary Carr, G, NJ; Kevon Harris, M, HR; Sean Kelley, G, NV; Michael Konicoff, M, WCH; Jerrod Laventure, F, NWK; Ken Manaham, G, FRB; Matthew Marcin, M, RI; Timothy Murray, G, NH; Ian Stowe, M, VIR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Southern Conference\nF: Zak Boggs, BRD; Salvador Luna, RGV; Debola Ogunseye*, MISM: Danny Galvan, LAR;Greg Mulamba, LAR; Gary Stopforth, NOD: Jamie Cunningham, AUS; Dwyane Demmin, MIS; Thomas Wharf, PAN; Chris Williams*, NOG: Ryan Cooper, LARHonorable Mention: Jay Ambrosy, M, HOU; Lief Craddock, G, WTU; Janrai Gravely, G, DFW; Tommy Krizanovic, F, CF; Wilfrid Loizeau, M, ATL; Felipe Lowall, M, BR; Ryan McDonald, D, NAS; Jorge Muniz, G, EP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204489-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 PDL season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Western Conference\nF: Rory Agu, TAC; Brent Whitfield, LA; Ryan Youngblood, PORM: Ely Allen, SEA; Tomislav Colic, SC; Michael Farfan, LA; Armando Ochoa*, HUD: Nick Cardenas, OGD; Mark Lee, KIT; Dan Scott*, SEAG: Dustyn Brim, KITHonorable Mention: Richie Bindrup, M, BYU; Zach Brunner, G, LAN; Jason Devinish, M, VIC; Gagandeep Dosanjh, M, VAN; Eddie Gutierrez, M, FRE; Anthony Hamilton, F, VEN; Jacob Hustedt, M, BAK; Kristjan Johannson, G, ABB; Kristopher Minton, G, ORC; Vinicius Oliveira, F, YAK; John Prugh, F, SPO; Steve Reese, G, CSC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204490-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PEI Labatt Tankard\nThe 2009 PEI Labatt Tankard (Prince Edward Island's men's provincial curling championship) was held February 10-15 at the Montague Curling Club in Montague, Prince Edward Island. The winning team will represent Prince Edward Island at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204491-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PFC CSKA Moscow season\nBrazilian legend Zico was appointed as the club's manager at the start of the season following the departure of Valery Gazzaev. Zico left the club in September, being replaced by Juande Ramos, who only lasted 47 days before being replaced by Leonid Slutsky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204491-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PFC CSKA Moscow season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship\nThe 2009 PGA Championship was the 91st PGA Championship, held August 13\u201316 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship\nYang Yong-eun, more commonly referred to as \"Y.E. Yang\" in the U.S., won his first major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods, a four-time champion. It marked the first time that Woods had failed to win a major he had led after 54 holes. Yang also became the first Asian-born player to win a men's major championship (although the third of Asian descent, after Vijay Singh and Woods).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship\nIt was the fourth major championship held at the course; it previously hosted the PGA Championship in 2002, won by Rich Beem, and two U.S. Opens (1970, 1991). The 2009 course was the longest up to that time for a major at 7,674 yards (7,017\u00a0m) (the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships and 2017 U.S. Open all surpassed it). The average elevation of the course is approximately 940 feet (287\u00a0m) above sea level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\nThe following were the qualification criteria that were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n1. All former PGA ChampionsPaul Azinger, Rich Beem, Mark Brooks, John Daly, Steve Elkington, P\u00e1draig Harrington (4,6,8), Davis Love III (8,10), Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson (3,6,8,9,10), Vijay Singh (8,10), David Toms (6,8), Bob Tway, Tiger Woods (2,3,4,8,10)(Eligible but not competing: Jack Burke Jr., Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n2. Last five U.S. Open Champions\u00c1ngel Cabrera (3,8), Michael Campbell, Lucas Glover (8), Geoff Ogilvy (8,10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2008 PGA ChampionshipStuart Appleby (8), Aaron Baddeley, Ben Curtis (8,9), Ken Duke, Steve Flesch, Alastair Forsyth, Sergio Garc\u00eda (8), Graeme McDowell, Prayad Marksaeng, Andr\u00e9s Romero, Justin Rose, Jeev Milkha Singh, Henrik Stenson (8,10), Camilo Villegas (8,10), Charlie Wi (8)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n7. 20 low scorers in the 2009 PGA Professional National ChampionshipSam Arnold, Ryan Benzel, Greg Bisconti, Keith Dicciani, Brian Gaffney, Bob Gaus, Scott Hebert, Todd Lancaster, Eric Lippert, Mitch Lowe, Mike Miles, Lee Rinker, Kevin Roman, Steve Schneiter, Mark Sheftic, Mike Small, Chris Starkjohann, Grant Sturgeon, Craig Thomas, Tim Weinhart", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 31]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\nTop 70 leaders in  from the 2008 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and Legends Reno-Tahoe Open to the 2009 Buick OpenRobert Allenby, Stephen Ames, Woody Austin, Briny Baird, Cameron Beckman (10), Chad Campbell (9), K. J. Choi, Tim Clark, Ben Crane, Brian Davis, Luke Donald, Jason Dufner, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk (9), Brian Gay (10), Mathew Goggin, Retief Goosen (10), Paul Goydos, J. J. Henry, Charley Hoffman, Charles Howell III, Dustin Johnson (10), Jerry Kelly (10), Anthony Kim (9), Justin Leonard (9), Hunter Mahan (9), John Mallinger, Steve Marino, John Merrick, Kevin Na, Sean O'Hair (10), Jeff Overton, Pat Perez (10), Kenny Perry (9,10), Carl Pettersson (10), Ian Poulter, Brett Quigley, John Rollins (10), Rory Sabbatini (10), John Senden, Kevin Streelman, Steve Stricker (9,10), Kevin Sutherland, D. J. Trahan, Bo Van Pelt (10), Scott Verplank, Nick Watney (10), Bubba Watson, Mike Weir, Lee Westwood, Mark Wilson (10), Yang Yong-eun (10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 971]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n9. Members of the 2008 United States Ryder Cup teamJ. B. Holmes, Boo Weekley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n10. Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2008 PGA ChampionshipMichael Bradley, Nathan Green, Will MacKenzie, Ryan Palmer, Marc Turnesa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n11. The PGA of America reserves the right to invite additional players not included in the categories listed aboveDarren Clarke, Fred Couples, Nick Dougherty, Johan Edfors, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o, Ross Fisher, Hiroyuki Fujita, Richard Green, Anders Hansen, S\u00f8ren Hansen, Peter Hanson, Ryuji Imada, Ryo Ishikawa, Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez, Brendan Jones, Shingo Katayama, Martin Kaymer, S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen, Tom Lehman, Thomas Levet, Rory McIlroy, Francesco Molinari, Colin Montgomerie, Louis Oosthuizen, Rod Pampling, Corey Pavin, \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s, Charl Schwartzel, Adam Scott, Michael Sim, David Smail, Brandt Snedeker, Richard Sterne, Thongchai Jaidee, Anthony Wall, Steve Webster, Oliver Wilson, Chris Wood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Field\n12. Vacancies are filled by the first available player from the list of alternates (those below 70th place in official money standings)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round\nTiger Woods had the outright lead after a 67 on the first round, which included 5 birdies and no bogeys. Defending champion P\u00e1draig Harrington, who played in the same group as Woods, was in second place after a 68. David Toms, 2001 champion, also started well. He made many long birdie putts and par saves to shoot a 69, placing him in a group of six tied for third place that also included two-time champion Vijay Singh. World number two Phil Mickelson struggled slightly, shooting a 2-over par 74. John Daly, 1991 champion, withdrew after posting a 78,  citing a back injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nTiger Woods broke away from the pack with a run of three straight birdies on the back nine, finishing the round with a four-shot lead. It is his largest margin after two rounds at a major since the 2005 British Open at St Andrews, when he led by five. Conditions on the second day were tough, with strong winds playing with putts and uneven greens. Vijay Singh, Lucas Glover and Brendan Jones, who moved up the leaderboard into second place, all played in the morning. The other two in the group tied for second place, P\u00e1draig Harrington and Ross Fisher, had to cope with the fierce afternoon winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nTiger Woods played a safe round, avoiding throwing away shots. His lead was halved to two shots over P\u00e1draig Harrington and 2009 Honda Classic winner Yang Yong-eun. Henrik Stenson, winner of that year's Players Championship, scored a round of 68 and was tied for fourth place along with U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover. Ernie Els was as close as one shot from the lead but finished with three straight bogeys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nStruggling with his putting all day, Tiger Woods was in jeopardy of losing a major for the first time when leading after 54 holes. The only player who was able to take advantage of this was Woods' playing partner, Yang Yong-eun. Defending champion P\u00e1draig Harrington was in contention early, but made a quintuple-bogey 8 on the par-3 8th, causing him to fall from tied for 2nd to tied for 10th. Lucas Glover also reached contention, but faded with 4 bogeys in a span of 7 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204492-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round\nTied on the short par-4 14th, Yang chipped in for eagle from just off the green. The eagle gave Yang the lead which he did not relinquish. Yang sealed the victory by drawing a 210-yard (192\u00a0m) approach around a tree to within ten feet (3 m) on the final hole, setting up a birdie against Woods' closing bogey and a winning margin of three strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204493-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour\nThe 2009 PGA Tour season ran from January 8 to November 15. The season consisted of 46 official money events, one of which was canceled. This included four major championships and three World Golf Championships, which are also sanctioned by the European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204493-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour, Schedule\nThe following table lists the main season events for 2009. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204493-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour, Money leaders\nThis shows the money leaders for the 2009 PGA Tour season. These figures do not include FedEx Cup bonus money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 28], "content_span": [29, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204494-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 25 players who earned their 2010 PGA Tour card through Q School in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204494-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2010 Results\n*PGA Tour rookie in 2010T = Tied Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2011 (finished inside the top 125). Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2011, but retained conditional status (finished between 126-150). Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2011 (finished outside the top 150).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204495-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour of Australasia\nThe 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia was a series of men's professional golf events played mainly in Australia and New Zealand. The main tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia are played in the southern summer so they are split between the first and last months of the year. The tour's developmental series, known as the Von Nida Tour, was merged with the main tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204495-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PGA Tour of Australasia, Tournament results\nThe table below shows the 2009 schedule. It only lists official money events on the main tour. Following the merger with the Von Nida Tour, there is a significant increase in the number of tournaments over previous years. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of PGA Tour of Australasia events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA Tour of Australasia members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204496-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PLFA season\nThe 2009 season of the Polish American Football League (PLFA I) was the 4th season played by the major american football league in Poland. Regular season play was held from April 5 to September 20, 2009. The Polish champion title was eventually won by the AZS Silesia Miners when they defeated The Crew Wroc\u0142aw; the Polish Bowl championship game, at the Marymont stadium in Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship on October 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204497-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PSA World Tour\nThe PSA World Tour 2009 is the international squash tour organised circuit organized by the Professional Squash Association (PSA) for the 2009 squash season. The most important tournament in the series is the World Open held in Kuwait. The tour features three categories of regular events, Super Series, which feature the highest prize money and the best fields, Stars Tournament and Challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204497-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PSA World Tour, 2009 Calendar, Stars\nPrize money: between $25,000 (2&1/2 Stars) and $50,000 (5 Stars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204497-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PSA World Tour, Retirements\nFollowing is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the PSA World Rankings top 30 for at least one month) who announced their retirement from professional squash, became inactive, or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open\nThe 2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the Pattaya Women's Open, and was part of the International category on the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place in Pattaya, Thailand, from 7 February through 15 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open\nThe total prize money for the tournament was US$220,000, upgraded from last year's US$170,000 prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open\nThe singles draw was headlined by Australian Open semifinalist Vera Zvonareva, Caroline Wozniacki, Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1. Other top players were 2007 champion Sybille Bammer, Peng Shuai, home favourite Tamarine Tanasugarn, 2006 champion Shahar Pe'er and Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1. Vera Zvonareva won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Tournament\nThe Pattaya Women's Open was held at the Dusit Resort Pattaya in Thailand on outdoor hard courts. The tournament featured two competitions, an individual or singles tournament with 32 players involved and a doubles tournament with 10 pairs. A quarter of the players in the singles draw are seeded (8 players) and 4 from the doubles, based on their world ranking, with the seeded doubles pairs receiving a bye into the second round. In the singles tournament, players have to progress through 5 rounds if they want to win the event, whereas it is one round less for doubles. Matches are best of 3 sets and can be settled by tiebreaks if necessary. The third set of the doubles tournament match is decided by a champions tiebreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Entrants, Seeds\nDominika Cibulkov\u00e1 was the third seed, but had to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Singles\nAll of the seeded players progressed into the second round. Top seed Vera Zvonareva and second seed Caroline Wozniacki both recorded straight sets victories against Andreja Klepa\u010d and Chan Yung-jan respectively. Sybille Bammer, Shahar Pe'er and Magdal\u00e9na Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 also progressed, while Peng Shuai won by default when her opponent Mara Santangelo had to retire with illness in the second set. The only seeded player from Thailand, Tamarine Tanasugarn (6) beat Akgul Amanmuradova. The other two home players, junior number one and 2008 Wimbledon girls singles finalist Noppawan Lertcheewakarn and  Nicha Lertpitaksinchai both lost in the first round, against Pe'er and Sania Mirza respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Singles\nIn the second round, Bammer was the sole seed to exit the tournament, losing to Russian Vera Dushevina. Zvonareva beat Yaroslava Shvedova, Peng won her match against Galina Voskoboeva, Tanasugarn defeated Neuza Silva while Pe'er and Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 both defeated qualifiers. Second seed Wozniacki recovered from losing the first set on a tiebreak to level the match before her opponent, Ksenia Pervak, became the third player to withdraw from the tournament with injury or illness. Mirza was the only other non-seeded player to reach the quarter-finals by beating qualifier Vitalia Diatchenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Singles\nIn two all-seeded quarterfinal ties, Zvonareva defeated Peng 6\u20132, 6\u20133 but Wozniacki, the second seed, was beaten 6\u20134, 6\u20131 by Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 who was seeded eighth. Sixth seed Tanasugarn also lost her match 7\u20135, 6\u20134 against Mirza but Pe'er made sure that there would be three seeds in the semi-finals by defeating Dushevina 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Singles\nThe first semifinal took to the court on Saturday, and saw eighth seed Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 take on Mirza. Unseeded Mirza comfortably took the first set 6\u20134. In the second set, Mirza failed to serve out the match, while 5\u20133 and 30\u201315 up. Ryb\u00e1rikov\u00e1 then went on to win the following four games to take the set 7\u20135 and force a decider. The third set however was again one-sided, in Mirza's favour. Mirza closed out the set 6\u20131 and won the match with the scoreline 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Doubles\nIn a small tournament with only 10 pairs competing, the top four seeds received byes into the second round. Thai pair Nungnadda Wannasuk and Varatchaya Wongteanchai progressed into the second round where they faced second seeds Yaroslava Shvedova and another Thai player Tamarine Tanasugarn, who they lost to 6\u20130, 6\u20133. Top-seeded Mirza and Santangelo qualified for the semi-finals at the expense of Elena Bovina and Ksenia Pervak. Amandurova and Chuang Chia-jung overcame Ryoko Fuda. Fourth seeds Klepa\u010d and Urszula Radwa\u0144ska had to withdraw before their second round match with Yulia Beygelzimer and Vitalia Diatchenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Events, Doubles\nIn the semi-finals, Amanmuradova and Chuang, the top seeds lost to Beygelzimer and Diatchenko 6\u20132, 6\u20134, missing out on a place in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204498-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Finals, Doubles\nYaroslava Shvedova /  Tamarine Tanasugarn defeated  Yulia Beygelzimer /  Vitalia Diatchenko 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204499-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open\nThe 2009 PTT Thailand Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the Thailand Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand, from September 26 through October 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204499-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204499-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open, Champions, Doubles\nEric Butorac /  Rajeev Ram def. Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez /  Mischa Zverev, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204500-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open \u2013 Doubles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes were the defending champions, but Paes decided not to participate that year. Dlouh\u00fd partnered with David \u0160koch, but they lost in the first round against Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram. Butorac and Ram won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133, against Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez and Mischa Zverev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204501-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open \u2013 Singles\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Viktor Troicki. Gilles Simon won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20133, against Viktor Troicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204501-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 PTT Thailand Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season\nThe 2009 Pacific Coast League season is a season in American baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Before the season, Affiliation changes\nBefore the 2009 season, three PCL teams signed player development contracts (PDC) with different parent clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Before the season, Affiliation changes\nThe Albuquerque Isotopes signed a two-year PDC with the Los Angeles Dodgers through 2010 on September 18, 2008. The Isotopes had previously been affiliated with the Florida Marlins for six seasons in Albuquerque and four seasons when the franchise was the Calgary Cannons. This would mark the return of Dodgers prospects to Albuquerque, as Los Angeles was the parent club for the Albuquerque Dukes from 1972-00 when the club moved to Portland and were renamed the Portland Beavers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Before the season, Affiliation changes\nThe Las Vegas 51s signed a two-year PDC with the Toronto Blue Jays through 2010 on September 21, 2008. The 51s had previously been affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers for eight years. The relationship between Los Angeles and Las Vegas soured for years because of the lack of sufficient facilities at Cashman Field including the lack of an on site weight room and indoor batting cage. Toronto becomes the third affiliate in Las Vegas' 28-year history and Las Vegas is only the second triple-A affiliate in Toronto's 33-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Before the season, Affiliation changes\nThe New Orleans Zephyrs signed a two-year PDC with the Florida Marlins through 2010 on September 21, 2008. The Zephyrs had previously been affiliated with the New York Mets for the past two seasons. Florida becomes New Orleans' third major league affiliate in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Standings\nTacoma won the PACIFIC SOUTH Division due to a divisional tiebreaker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204502-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Coast League season, Playoffs, 2009\nThe Pacific Coast League does not have an exact name for its league's trophy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup\nThe 2009 Pacific Cup, known as the 2009 SP Brewery Pacific Cup due to sponsorship, was a rugby league competition held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The competing teams were the Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup\nTonga, Fiji and PNG had their places in the draw confirmed initially, with the Cook Islands defeating Samoa in a Pacific Cup qualifier in Cairns on 17 October 2009 to decide which team took the final place in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup\nThe four Pacific Cup matches were played at Lloyd Robson Oval on 24\u201325 October and 31 October. The Pacific Cup final was played on 1 November 2009 between Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands. By winning the 2009 Pacific Cup, Papua New Guinea won the right to compete in the 2010 Four Nations tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup\nBrian Canavan was appointed as tournament director by the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup, Telecast Details\nThe Pacific Cup was shown in the UK, Australia, and throughout the Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204503-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Cup, Squads, Mate Ma'a Tonga\nTonga played a Pacific Cup warm up match against New Zealand. New Zealand defeated Tonga 40-24 in what was a strong performance by the Tongans as they prepared for their Pacific Cup opener against Papua New Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204504-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Curling Championships\nThe 2009 Pacific Curling Championships were held Nov. 12-17 at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Karuizawa, Japan. The top two teams from the women's and the men's tournaments will qualify for the 2010 World Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204505-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific League Climax Series\nThe 2009 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2009 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2009 Central League Climax Series winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The PLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 16 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204506-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Mini Games\nThe 2009 Pacific Mini Games was held in the Cook Islands from 21 September to 2 October. It was the 8th edition of the Pacific Mini Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204506-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Mini Games\nTorch lighters were the athletes Daniel Tutai and Patricia Taea, the Cook Islands' junior sportsman and sportswoman of the year for 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204507-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Rugby Cup\nThe IRB Pacific Rugby Cup 2009 was the fourth edition of the Pacific Rugby Cup competition. First held in 2006, the 2009 edition, like its predecessors, featured 6 representative rugby union football teams; 2 from each of the three Pacific rugby unions - Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204507-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Rugby Cup\nFiji Warriors won the championship, defeating Upolu Samoa in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204507-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Rugby Cup, Teams and format\nThe teams played a single round robin (home or away) series. The two top teams in the final standings met in the grand final match, with the first ranking team awarded home advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204507-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific Rugby Cup, Table\nClassification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 2009 Pacific hurricane season was the most active Pacific hurricane season since 1994. The season officially started on May 15 in the East Pacific Ocean, and on June 1 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Pacific basin. However, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season\nFor the first time in ten years, no tropical depressions formed during the month of May. This inactivity continued into the early part of June and was the least active since 1994. The first named storm of the season did not develop until June 21, marking the latest start to a Pacific hurricane season in 40 years. However, according to the NHC's tropical weather summary, August 2009, with seven named storms in their region, was one of the most active Augusts on record for the basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season\nThis level of activity had rarely occurred, if at all, in the past 41 years, since 1968, when the most active August on record for the region with eight named storms occurred. When Hurricane Rick reached Category 5 strength on October 17, it became the first Category 5 Pacific hurricane since Ioke in 2006, and the third-strongest Pacific hurricane on record, behind 2015's Patricia and 1997's Linda. The first Central Pacific name to be used was Lana, when it crossed into the region from the Eastern Pacific. With the naming of Tropical Storm Maka on August 11, this season became the first in seven years to use multiple Central Pacific names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nOn May 21, 2009, NOAA released their forecast for the 2009 Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific hurricane seasons. They predicted a below-normal level of activity in the Eastern Pacific, with 13 to 18 named storms, of which 6 to 10 were expected to become hurricanes, and 2 to 5 expected to become major hurricanes. The forecast was based on the dissipation of a La Ni\u00f1a in April 2009. Sea surface temperatures were near normal around the equator makes the season an ENSO-neutral. Additionally, an El Ni\u00f1o was forecast to develop during the latter part of the season. Depending on the intensity of the El Ni\u00f1o, forecasters were unsure of whether or not it would have an effect on the overall activity in the basin. However, due to the low-activity cycle that began in 1995, the El Ni\u00f1o only brought the activity to a slightly above normal season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 895]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe Central Pacific basin was also expected to be slightly below average, with three to five tropical cyclones expected to form or cross into the area. However, it was slightly more active than expected, the number of three to five was exceeded, as seven tropical cyclones moved into or formed in the Central Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2009 Pacific hurricane season was 117.09\u00a0units in the Eastern Pacific and 9.905\u00a0units in the Central Pacific. The total ACE in the basin is 126.995\u00a0units. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. It is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical and subtropical systems reaching or exceeding wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe season was characterized as \"near-normal\", featuring 17 named storms 8 hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes. The central Pacific experienced above-average activity with three additional storms forming west of 140\u00b0W and three more crossing over from the eastern Pacific. The overall number of storms contrasted to a relative lull in activity experienced over the previous decade. During the course of the year, large-scale factors such as an El Ni\u00f1o and two Madden\u2013Julian oscillations greatly contributed to the changed pattern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe season's activity, east of 140\u00b0W, was reflected with a near-average cumulative accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 100, roughly 94% of the 30-year median. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. ACE is only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 34\u00a0kn (39\u00a0mph; 63\u00a0km/h) or tropical storm strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe season started at a below-average pace, with only one named storm forming by the end of June. This marked the first time since 2000 that no tropical storms formed during the month of May; however, on average only one storm develops in the month every other year. The ten-year span of May named storms marked the longest occurrence of this event. The first hurricane of the year, Hurricane Andres, also became the first June hurricane since Hurricane Carlotta in 2000. Below-average activity continued into July with four named storms forming. By the end of the month, season to date ACE values were roughly 37% of the long-term mean, the sixth lowest since reliable records began in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nAn abrupt shift in activity took place during August as seven named storms formed, three of which became major hurricanes. This marked the most storms to form in a single month since 1985 and the most in August since 1968. Of these storms, Hurricane Jimena became the first cyclone of the season to make landfall, as well as the strongest storm to strike the west coast Baja California Sur, alongside Hurricane Norbert in 2008. Following the well-above average August, September experienced below-average activity with ACE reaching 70% of the long-term mean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary\nThe final month of activity featured the third-strongest storm on record in the eastern Pacific: Hurricane Rick. A Category 5 storm, Rick attained winds of 180\u00a0mph (290\u00a0km/h) off the coast of Mexico on October 18 before succumbing to increased wind shear and dry air. ACE for the month was 59% above average, mostly attributed to Rick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E\nThe first system of the season, One-E formed out of a tropical wave on June 18 roughly 405 miles (652\u00a0km) south-southwest of Mazatl\u00e1n and initially tracked slowly northwards. Throughout the day, convection developed around the center of circulation and the system was anticipated to become a tropical storm. Late on June 18, the National Hurricane Center noted that the system was on the verge of becoming a tropical storm. However, the following day, strong wind shear caused the depression to rapidly degenerate into a trough of low pressure before dissipating off the coast of Sinaloa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E\nAlthough no longer a tropical cyclone, the remnants of the depression brought moderate rainfall to parts of Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco. High winds accompanied the rainfall and left about 50,000 residences without power. Several trees were downed and some structures sustained damage from fresh water flooding. Landslides occurred along major highways and significant structural damage was reported around Mazatl\u00e1n. However, there was no loss of life or reports of injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Andres\nHurricane Andres formed on June 21 out of an area of disturbed weather associated with a shower and thunder storm that crossed Central America a few days earlier. Andres gradually intensified as it tracked along the Mexican coastline. Deep convection developed around the center of circulation and by June 23, the storm attained hurricane-status, peaking with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). Upon attaining this intensity, the storm featured a developing eyewall within a central dense overcast. Within 36 hours, the storm rapidly degenerated, having most of the convection being displaced by high wind shear, becoming a non-tropical trough during the afternoon of June 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Andres\nPrior to becoming a tropical depression, Andres produced heavy rainfall Oaxaca and Honduras, resulting in two deaths. Rough seas off the coast of Guerrero resulted in one fatality. Inland, flooding caused by heavy rains killed two people and injured twenty. Several dozen structures were damaged and a few were destroyed. Following the storm, roughly 350 people were left homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Blanca\nA tropical wave exited the western coast of Africa on June\u00a019, which moved westward across the Atlantic without development. By June\u00a029, the wave crossed Central America into the eastern Pacific. Thunderstorms increased over the next several days, which organized into curved rainbands around a developing low-pressure area on July\u00a04. Following further organization, the system developed into a tropical depression on July\u00a06, located roughly 435\u00a0miles (700\u00a0kilometres) south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Soon after, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Blanca. Operationally, the NHC classified the system immediately as a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Blanca\nAt that time, Blanca developed an eye-feature, though it was not expected to develop into a hurricane. Steered by a ridge to the north, the storm moved west-northwestward throughout its existence. Early on July\u00a07, Blanca attained peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 998 mbar (hPa; 29.47\u00a0inHg). The storm's convection developed into a central dense overcast over the center, which soon began deteriorating, with cloud tops warming and convection shrinking. By late on July\u00a07, the center became devoid of shower and thunderstorm activity, with only intermittent convection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Blanca\nOn July\u00a08, Blanca weakened into a tropical depression, and the next day it degenerated into a remnamt low. Although no longer a tropical cyclone, the remnants of Blanca maintained a well-defined low pressure center as it continued its northwesterly movement. Early on July\u00a011, the system turned northward and gradually weakened. By the following day, Blanca had dissipated over open waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Blanca\nDue to the developing storm, Mexican officials posted high seas advisories for Michoac\u00e1n, Jalisco, Nayarit, Baja California Sur and Colima, and advised ships to remain at port in July\u00a06. These advisories were discontinued the following day as Blanca moved out to sea. Moisture from the system enhanced a frontal system over Coahuila. The system produced upwards of 22.2\u00a0mm (0.87\u00a0in) in the span of a few hours, triggering flooding throughout the state. Numerous streets were closed due to flooding and local fire departments were deployed to assist in draining the water. No injuries or structural damage resulted from the flooding. The remnants of the storm also brought unseasonable rainfall, although negligible, to parts of southern and central California on July\u00a011. The moisture reached the region after being pulled northward by an upper-level low off the coast of Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 941]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Carlos\nA tropical wave departed the west coast of Africa on June\u00a025, which moved across the Atlantic without development. The wave entered the eastern Pacific on July\u00a04, later developing more convection on July\u00a08 to the south of Mexico. Early on July\u00a010, convective banding features developed along the periphery of the system and an area of low pressure developed within the wave. On July\u00a010, the NHC designated the system as Tropical Depression Four-E about 900\u00a0mi (1,450\u00a0km) south of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Carlos\nSoon after, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Carlos while moving westward through an area of warm waters and light wind shear. On July\u00a011, Carlos intensified further into a minimal hurricane. At that time, the small storm developed a small eye-like feature, which had disappeared the next day, causing Carlos to weaken back into a tropical storm. The eye feature redeveloped, signaling that Carlos reintensified into a hurricane on July\u00a014, reaching peak winds of 105\u00a0mph (169\u00a0km/h) early the next day. Located at 10.1\u00baN, this made Carlos the southernmost Category\u00a02 hurricane in the eastern Pacific proper. Late on July\u00a015, the hurricane encountered strong wind shear, resulting in rapid weakening. About 24\u00a0hours after its peak intensity, Carlos deteriorated into a tropical depression, and dissipated early on July\u00a017 well to the southeast of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 913]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Dolores\nOn July 11, a broad area of low pressure developed within a tropical wave several hundred miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with the system gradually increased over the next several days as it tracked west-northwestward. By July 15, the low became sufficiently organized and was declared a tropical depression roughly 695 miles (1,118\u00a0km) of Manzanillo, Colima. Turning towards the northwest in response to a ridge over Mexico, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Dolores later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Dolores\nDespite southwesterly wind shear displacing the center of Dolores from the deepest convection, the system continued to strengthen, attaining peak winds of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) on July 16. Shortly thereafter, convection associated with the storm dissipated, possibly due to entrainment of dry air. Later that day the system degenerated into a remnant low and gradually weakened. The remnants of Dolores eventually dissipated on July 19, roughly 995 miles (1,601\u00a0km) west-southwest of Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Lana\nOn July 30, the NHC began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Six-E near the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility. Later that day, it moved into the Central Pacific as a tropical depression, quickly strengthening into Tropical Storm Lana, the first Central Pacific storm since Kika (2008). Lana is one of six central Pacific tropical cyclones to form as a depression in the eastern Pacific but be named in the Central; the others were Lala, Iniki, Li, Ela and Ulika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Lana\nLana was also the first tropical cyclone to cross from the eastern north to central north Pacific since Flossie (2007). It also started to develop an eye feature, based on satellite imagery. But, southerly shear, introduced by a large upper-level trough, caused Lana to become slightly disorganized on July 31. Despite this, Lana reached its peak intensity of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) early on August 1, and slowly weakened to become a very disorganized, yet still fairly strong tropical storm, maintaining maximum winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) for the next couple of days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Lana\nHowever, Lana weakened to a tropical depression late on August 2, while continuing to quickly become disorganized. Lana degenerated to a remnant low on 00:00 UTC of August 3, roughly 580 miles (930\u00a0km) southwest of Honolulu, and 410 miles (660\u00a0km) east of Johnston Island, with the CPHC issuing their last advisory at the same time. Lana's remnants lingered for six hours before dissipating by 06:00 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Enrique\nTropical Storm Enrique developed out of a broad area of low pressure several hundred miles south-southwest of Baja California Sur. The center of circulation was embedded within a central dense overcast and located within an area favoring further development. The depression tracked just north of due west in response to a mid-tropospheric ridge north of the system. Upon becoming a tropical cyclone, a second area of low pressure, that would later become Hurricane Felicia located nine degrees of longitude to the west, had the possibility to develop into a tropical depression and possibly influence the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Enrique\nLate on August 3, the depression intensified to a tropical storm and was given the name Enrique. Enrique strengthened to reach a peak intensity of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) on August 4. However, interaction with Hurricane Felicia weakened the system late that evening, with maximum winds decreasing to 50\u00a0mph. Enrique maintained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) for the next day or so, until early on August 6, when the NHC downgraded Enrique to depression status. On August 7, the NHC issued their final advisory on Enrique as the system degenerated into a remnant low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Felicia\nHurricane Felicia developed out of a broad area of low pressure that formed several hundred miles southwest of Baja California Sur on August 3, developing into Tropical Depression Eight-E the next day, shortly after Tropical Depression Seven-E formed directly to the east. It strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Felicia early on August 4. It rapidly strengthened that morning as an eyewall quickly developed, the rapid intensification being attributed to warm water along the forecast track, which allowed for more rapid intensification. Felicia continued to intensify and became a hurricane that afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Felicia\nRapid intensification continued into that evening, and the NHC upgraded Felicia to a Category 2 hurricane. It continued to rapidly strengthen, becoming the first major hurricane of the season on the morning of August 5, when the NHC upgraded it to a Category 3 hurricane. Later that day, Felicia rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane, with maximum winds increasing to 145\u00a0mph (233\u00a0km/h), making it the strongest storm in the Eastern Pacific since Daniel in 2006. The NHC predicted that Felicia would rapidly weaken during the next couple of days starting on August 6, but it was also noted by the NHC that Felicia was displaying annular hurricane characteristics, which would allow for it to maintain intensity for longer than expected over marginal SSTS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Felicia\nOn August 8 it crossed into the Central Pacific basin, gradually weakening to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it approached the Hawaiian Islands. Tropical storm and flash flood watches were issued on August 7 for the Big Island of Hawaii and Maui County, and were extended to include Oahu on August 9. The watches for the Big Island were later canceled as the track for Felicia appeared to turn toward the north. All watches were canceled at 11 a.m. HST August 11 as Felicia dissipated to a remnant low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nine-E\nTropical Depression Nine-E developed out of a small area of low pressure west-southwest of Baja California on August 9. Nine-E initially formed as a tropical wave that had entered the eastern Pacific on August 1, but was ill-defined, and difficult to trace. The NHC had initially forecast Nine-E to strengthen to a tropical storm by August 10, but moderate shear inhibited development, and the depression was no longer forecast to strengthen to a tropical storm, as the shear inhibited deep convection within the depression's circulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Nine-E\nShear continually inhibited development until the end, when Nine-E degenerated to a remnant low on August 12. The next day, the NHC noted the possibility for regeneration of the system, although, by late on the 14th, the disturbance had weakened, and was becoming embedded in the ITCZ, as a result, the probability for regeneration was low. Nine-E's remnants dissipated on August 15, while located just within the central Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Maka\nTropical Storm Maka was first identified on August 8, 2009 by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) as an area of disturbed weather roughly 835 miles (1,344\u00a0km) south of Lihue, Hawaii. Situated over warm waters, estimated at 28\u00a0\u00b0C (82\u00a0\u00b0F) and within an area of low wind shear, the system gradually intensified as it tracked northwestward in response to a subtropical ridge to the north. By August 11, convection had consolidated around an area of low pressure that formed within the system. Since further development was expected, a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Maka\nShortly thereafter, the CPHC upgraded the low to a tropical depression, assigning it with the identifier One-C. Over the following 12 hours, further development took place, and the depression intensified into a tropical storm. Upon attaining this intensity, the storm was given the name Maka from the list of names for the Central Pacific basin. The next afternoon, the final advisory on Maka was issued as it degenerates into a remnant low. The remnants of Tropical Storm Maka crossed the International Date Line and moved into the Western Pacific, regenerating into a tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Guillermo\nHurricane Guillermo formed on August 12 from a broad area of low pressure nearly 700 miles (1,100\u00a0km) SW of Baja California. The system developed a good series of banding features and convection, and as a result, in the afternoon later that day, it strengthened into a tropical storm, the seventh in the eastern Pacific that year. On August 14, it strengthened to become the fourth hurricane of the season, concurrent to the development of a good, banding type eye. That afternoon, Guillermo strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum winds increasing to 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Guillermo\nEarly on August 15, Guillermo intensified to become the second major hurricane of the season, as it was upgraded by the NHC to a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum winds increasing to 125\u00a0mph (201\u00a0km/h). On August 16 it crossed into the Central Pacific basin as a Category 1 hurricane, and then quickly weakened to a tropical storm thereafter due to very high wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Guillermo\nDespite over very strong as high as 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h) of shear, Guillermo survived as a weak tropical storm for a further 3 days before weakening to a depression and degenerating to a remnant low on August 19, near the West Coast. However, the remnants continued to curve towards the northeast for the next several days, before finally dissipating on August 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Guillermo\nAlthough Guillermo remained well away from land, large swells produced by the system resulted in 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4\u00a0m) surf along the eastern coasts of the Hawaiian Islands between August 18 and 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hilda\nTropical Depression Eleven-E formed toward the western edge of the eastern Pacific basin on August 22, and soon strengthened to become Tropical Storm Hilda. The next day it crossed the 140\u00b0W meridian and passed into the CPHC's area of responsibility. On August 26, Hilda quickly weakened to a depression after several small pulses of brief convection in the disorganized center, but these waned quickly when it weakened to depression status. Hilda also attempted, but failed, to reorganize its overall structure throughout the late 25th and most of the 26th. The system's structure continued to degrade, and finally, on August 28, the CPHC issued their final advisory on Hilda, as it had degenerated into a remnant low. The remnants of Hilda lingered for several days, until finally dissipating on August 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 869]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ignacio\nIgnacio formed as a portion of the same tropical wave that caused the formation of Tropical Storm Ana in the Atlantic. The portion of the wave that would become Ignacio crossed Central America on August 16. While the wave axis was located over the eastern Pacific on August 20, shower and thunderstorm activity began to increase, but associated convection remained minimal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ignacio\nTwo days later, on August 22, the wave transformed into a broad area of low pressure, with convective activity organizing enough over the next couple of days to be classified as Tropical Depression Twelve-E on August 24 about 660 miles (1,060\u00a0km) SW of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Though convection within the rainband located along the western semicircle of the system diminished somewhat, the system continued to become better organized, and became a tropical storm that evening, receiving the name Ignacio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ignacio\nDespite the upgrade, the storm was not well organized, with several smaller circulations rotating around the center of circulation. Ignacio weakened to a tropical depression on the morning of August 27, as it moved over sub-26\u00a0\u00b0C SSTs, the lowest temperature needed to support a tropical cyclone, and entered an environment of stable air. The system continued to weaken, and Ignacio degenerated into an area of low pressure later on that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Jimena\nOriginating from a tropical wave that moved off the western coast of Africa on August 15, an area of disturbed weather associated with the tropical wave had formed in the western Caribbean. Moving across Central America earlier in the week, and slowly developed off the west coast of Mexico, about 200 miles (320\u00a0km) south of Acapulco, until it organized into a tropical depression early in the morning of August 29. It soon strengthened to become Tropical Storm Jimena, and intensified rapidly to become a Category 2 hurricane later the same day as a pinhole eye developed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Jimena\nThe next day it strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane, becoming the third major hurricane of season. Later that day, it continued to intensify and became a Category 4 hurricane. However, by the morning of August 31, the eye had become less defined, likely because of an eyewall replacement cycle. As Jimena moved over cooler waters, and shear began to increase, it began to weaken starting on September 1, weakening below major hurricane status later that day. The storm soon made first landfall of the season as a weak Category 2 early the next day near Cabo San Lazaro, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Jimena\nJimena then made second landfall near Cabo San L\u00e1zaro at the same intensity just after re-entering Pacific. Moving over land, Jimena weakened into a Category 1 later that day, only to move back offshore as a Category 1 hurricane. The hurricane made a third landfall near San Junacio with 85\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h) winds. Finally, around 03:00\u00a0UTC of September 3, Jimena weakened to a tropical storm, but despite reemerging in the Gulf of California, Jimena continued to weaken due to increased wind shear. On September 4, the storm weakened into a tropical depression and made a fourth andfinal landfall near Santa Rosal\u00eda, Baja California Sur. Five hours after Jimena made the final landfall, Jimena degenerated into a remnant low and dissipated by September 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Jimena\nOwing to the storm's slow movement, torrential rains fell over much of Baja California Sur and Sinaloa, resulting in widespread flooding. In Guaymas, a record 26.54 inches (674\u00a0mm) of rain fell in association with Jimena. According to a report by Mexico's Centro Nacional de Prevenci\u00f3n de Desastres, the magnitude of the event was analyzed to be a once in 2000 year occurrence. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed across Baja California and much of Puerto Lopez Mateos was leveled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Jimena\nSignificant damage to infrastructure not only left people without water and power, it hampered relief efforts as many towns were isolated from surrounding areas. At least six people were killed and an estimated 72,000 were affected across the region. Total losses related to Hurricane Jimena reached 2.3 billion pesos ($173.9 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Two-C\nA small area of disturbed weather developed into Tropical Depression Two-C to the southwest of Kauai at 1200 UTC on August 28. Despite favorable conditions, sustained winds did not exceed 35\u00a0mph (56\u00a0km/h). Early the next day, the depression crossed the International Date Line and warning responsibility of the system was passed on to the Japan Meteorological Agency. By August 30, the depression began weakening and degenerated back into an area of disturbed weather. The remnants tracked further west-northwestward into the West Pacific for the next few days, before dissipating early on September 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kevin\nKevin formed from Tropical Depression Fourteen-E on August 29 from an area of disturbed weather 1,000 miles (1,600\u00a0km) southwest of Baja California. The system strengthened to Tropical Storm Kevin later that day. Kevin began to weaken early on August 30, and this trend continued for the next day or so, until early on the 31st, when Kevin weakened to a tropical depression. Kevin continued to degrade, and the NHC declared it dissipated on September 1, as it had weakened to a remnant low. It finally was absorbed into the ITCZ in the area of Central Pacific on September 8, seven days after it had weakened into a remnant low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Linda\nA tropical wave exited Africa into the Atlantic Ocean on August 18, and the northern portion split to become Tropical Storm Danny. The wave continued westward without development, crossing Central America into the Pacific Ocean on August 28. Convection remained minimal until September 3, when the system became better organized. A Low-pressure area developed on September 6, and deep convection consolidated around the circulation. Early on September 7, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated the low as Tropical Depression Fifteen-E about 1,130 miles (1,820\u00a0km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Linda\nMoving over warm water temperatures and modest wind shear, gradual intensification was anticipated. The depression moved slowly to the west due to a weakening subtropical ridge to its north. Shortly after developing, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Linda. By September 9, a new ridge developed east of Linda, causing the storm to turn northwestward. Despite intensifying into a strong tropical storm, Linda's low-level circulation was misaligned from its upper circulations, although the system developed expansive outflow to the south and east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Linda\nLate on September 9, Linda attained hurricane status, and although an eye developed, it was not over the center due to increasing wind shear. Early on September 10, Linda attained peak winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 985\u00a0mbar (29.1\u00a0inHg). Operationally, the NHC assessed Linda to have been slightly stronger with peak winds of 85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h). Persistent wind shear eroded the eyewall and led to weakening. Compounded with decreasing water temperatures, Linda deteriorated to tropical storm status early on September 11. At that time, the center became exposed and lacked deep convection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Linda\nAfter the intrusion of dry air, the convection dissipated, and late on September 11, the NHC issued their final advisory on Linda after it degenerated into a remnant low. At this time, the system weakened below tropical storm intensity. The remnants of Linda persisted for several more days, initially tracking southwest before turning due west. The system eventually dissipated on September 15 roughly 1,195 miles (1,923\u00a0km) east of the Hawaiian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Marty\nTropical Storm Marty can be track back from an area of thunderstorm activity associated with a tropical wave that were off the south coast of Mexican state of Guerrero on September 11. A weak mid-level cyclonic circulation was also find near that wave. Clusters of scattered convection developed south of the circulation despite strong easterly wind shear. Then the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began to issue Tropical Weather Outlooks for that wave around 11\u00a0am EDT (1900\u00a0UTC on September\u00a013).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Marty\nThe wave was part of a large area of disorganized multilayered clouds which is basically tied into a large monsoonal circulation. It became better organized on the afternoon of September 14 with scattered convection occurring and also developing a 1008\u00a0milibar (29.77\u00a0inHg) surface low. The NHC updgraded it to a tropical depression, around 4\u00a0am PDT (1200\u00a0UTC on September\u00a016) while it was located about 340\u00a0mi (545\u00a0km) south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. As it was numbered, the circulation of Sixteen-E finally began to separate from the northeast end of the elongated monsoonal like circulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0032-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Marty\nIt was named Marty six hours later as it became a tropical storm with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1003 mbar (hPa; 29.62\u00a0inHg). Despite becoming a tropical storm, the low level circulation center of Marty was located on the eastern edge of its deep convection, possibly due to the influence of a ridge of high pressure locating inland Mexico. Marty moved slowly, and did not become significantly better organized although associating with deep convective activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0032-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Marty\nIt began to slowly weaken after reaching a peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (70\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1001 mbar (hPa; 29.56\u00a0inHg). Despite this, and reaching sub-26.5\u00a0\u00b0C water temperatures, Marty managed to remain at tropical storm strength until 1800 UTC on the 18th, when it finally weakened back to depression strength. With all environmental factors against it, and almost completely devoid of any convection, on September 19, the NHC issued their last advisory on Marty as it had weakened into a remnant low. The remnants lingered until eventual complete dissipation on September 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nora\nOn September 21, a broad area of low pressure formed about 900\u00a0mi west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. The disturbance slowly started to organize, strengthening into a tropical depression late on September 22 (September 23 in UTC time). On the early morning of September 23, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm and received the name Nora. On September 23, Tropical Storm Nora reached a peak intensity of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) before starting to weaken back into a depression on September 24. Early on September 25, the NHC issued their last advisory on Nora, as it weakened into a remnant low. However, the remnant low of Nora continued to drift westward for the next 4 days, before dissipating on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 798]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Olaf\nTropical Depression Eighteen-E formed from a broad area of low pressure on October 1, and quickly strengthened to become Tropical Storm Olaf. However, as it moved north or northeast towards the Baja California Peninsula, cooler waters and shearing winds caused it to weaken to a tropical depression on October 3. Later that day, the NHC issued their last advisory on Olaf, as it weakened into a remnant low. The remnant low of Olaf continued to drift eastward for the next day, before dissipating over Baja California Sur on October 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Olaf\nIn Baja California Sur, heavy rains from the remnants of Olaf resulted in flooding of low-lying areas in several municipalities, notably near the city of La Paz. Officials in the affected regions also opened shelters if residents wanted to seek refuge away from their home. Heavy rains, amounting to 1.7\u00a0in (43\u00a0mm), fell across portions of Sonora hit hard by Hurricane Jimena a month earlier; however, no damage resulted from Olaf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Patricia\nPatricia developed from a tropical wave that traversed the Atlantic Ocean during September and was first classified as a tropical depression on October 11 several hundred miles south of the Baja California Peninsula. The system quickly intensified into a tropical storm as it tracked in a general northward direction. By October 12, Patricia attained its peak intensity with winds of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 996\u00a0mbar (29.4\u00a0inHg). The following day, increasing wind shear and unfavorable conditions caused the storm to rapidly weaken. By the morning of October 14, Patricia had degenerated into a remnant low near the southern coastline of Baja California Sur. The remnants of the storm persisted until October 15, at which time they dissipated over open waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Patricia\nAlthough the center of Patricia did not impact land, the outer bands caused significant rainfall in portions of western Mexico. In Sonora, up to 240\u00a0mm (9.4\u00a0in) of rain fell, leading to significant flooding that left 600 people homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rick\nThe third-strongest eastern Pacific hurricane on record, Hurricane Rick originated from a very strong tropical disturbance wave that developed into a tropical depression on October 15. Situated off the southern coast of Mexico, the depression tracked west-northwest in a region favoring explosive development. Shortly after being classified as Tropical Depression Twenty-E, the system intensified into Tropical Storm Rick. Roughly 18 hours later, Rick had become a Category 1 hurricane as it underwent rapid intensification. After a brief pause in this phase, the storm went through another period of intensification, reaching Category 5 status on October 17, becoming the first storm of this intensity since Hurricane Kenna in 2002 east of 140\u00b0W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rick\nEarly on October 18, the storm attained its peak intensity with winds of 180\u00a0mph (290\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 906\u00a0mbar (26.8\u00a0inHg). Not long after attaining this intensity, the combination of increasing wind shear and dry air caused the storm to rapidly weaken. By October 19, Rick weakened below Category 3 status and began to turn north, towards the Baja California Peninsula. Continued degradation of the structure led to the hurricane being downgraded to a tropical storm on October 20. By this time, the storm had become highly asymmetric, with most deep convection being displaced to the northeast. The following day, Rick made landfall near Mazatl\u00e1n with winds of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h). The storm rapidly degenerated as it moved over land, dissipating within 12 hours of landfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 848]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Rick\nPrior to making landfall, the NHC initially forecasted Rick to make landfall in southern Baja California as a high-end Category 2 hurricane, prompting hurricane watches. Officials ordered several hundred residents to evacuate from low-lying areas, although tropical storm warnings replaced the hurricane watches after the storm had weakened. Overall, the damage from Rick was significantly less than what was initially anticipated. Throughout Mexico, three people were killed by the storm, one in Oaxaca and two in Baja California Sur. Total losses from the storm reached 192 million pesos ($14.6 million USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Neki\nThe final tropical cyclone of the season developed on October 18 as an unusually large disturbance from a trough south of Hawaii. Moving northwestward, it slowly organized at first due to its large size. After reaching hurricane status on October 21, Neki intensified at a much faster rate and peaked with winds of 125\u00a0mph (201\u00a0km/h). It later turned to the north and north-northeast and weakened due to hostile conditions. While passing through the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument, Neki was downgraded to a tropical storm after the center became exposed from the deepest convection. It caused little impact in the island chain. After stalling and executing a small loop, Neki resumed its northward track and dissipated on October 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Neki\nHurricane Neki caused relatively little damage in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. All of the structures were undamaged; however, two small natural habitat islands, Round and Disappearing Islands, were affected substantially. The former lost some land area and the latter was completely washed away. The storm damaged coral reefs in the region, which quickly regrew in the subsequent years. Neki did not affect the state of Hawaii, other than producing high clouds across the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean during 2009. No names were retired, so this list was used again in the 2015 season. This is the same list used in the 2003 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nFor storms that form in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility, encompassing the area between 140 degrees west and the International Date Line, all names are used in a series of four rotating lists. The next four names that were slated for use in 2009 are shown below. Three of them, Lana, Maka, and Neki, were used throughout the course of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204508-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms in the 2009 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their durations, peak intensities, names, landfall(s)\u2014denoted by bold location names\u2014damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or a low. All of the damage figures are in 2009 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 2009 Pacific typhoon season was a below average season that spawned only 22 named storms, 13 typhoons, and five super typhoons. It was also recognized as the deadliest season in the Philippines for decades. The first half of the season was very quiet whereas the second half of the season was extremely active. The season's first named storm, Kujira, developed on May 3 while the season's last named storm, Nida, dissipated on December 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season\nDuring August, Typhoon Morakot, devastated Taiwan killing nearly 800 people and was known for the deadliest typhoon to impact the country. Typhoons Ketsana and Parma both affected the Philippines bringing extreme flooding which killed more than 600 people with damages over US$300 million from both storms. Typhoon Nida during late November reached 1-minute winds of 285\u00a0km/h (175\u00a0mph), which is the most intense in the basin since Typhoon Paka in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100\u00b0E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones which can often result in a cyclone having two names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season\nThe Japan Meteorological Agency\u00a0(JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph) anywhere in the basin, whilst the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration\u00a0(PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135\u00b0E and 115\u00b0E and between 5\u00b0N\u201325\u00b0N regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions that are monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center\u00a0(JTWC) are given a number with a \"W\" suffix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nDuring each season, several national meteorological services and scientific agencies forecast how many tropical cyclones, tropical storms, and typhoons will form during a season and/or how many tropical cyclones will affect a particular country. These agencies include the Tropical Storm Risk\u00a0(TSR) Consortium of the University College London, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre of the City University of Hong Kong (GCACIC) and Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nOn January 4, PAGASA reported that they were expecting 19 or less tropical cyclones to affect the Philippines during 2009. During March, the TSR Consortium released their first forecast of the season and predicted that activity within the basin would be about 20% below normal with 25.6\u00a0tropical storms, 16\u00a0typhoons and 6.7\u00a0intense typhoons and an ACE index of around 247.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nLater that month the Hong Kong Observatory, predicted that the typhoon season in Hong Kong would be near normal with five to six tropical cyclones passing within 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) of the territory compared to an average of 6. During April, the GCACIC issued its first seasonal forecast for the year and predicted that the season would see activity near its average with 31 tropical cyclones, 27 tropical storms, and 18 typhoons occurring during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nThe GCACIC also predicted that 4 tropical cyclones would make landfall on Southern China between April and August compared to an average of 3, they also predicted that no tropical cyclones would make landfall between August and December. On May 7, TSR increased its forecast to 27.5\u00a0tropical storms, 17.6\u00a0typhoons, 9.1\u00a0\"intense\" typhoons and an ACE index of about 311 units, after La Ni\u00f1a conditions weakened and confidence grew that La Ni\u00f1a conditions would not return during 2009. Later that month the Vietnamese National Center for Hydro Meteorological forecasts predicted that six or more tropical cyclones would affect Vietnam during 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nDuring June, the GCACIC reported that the total number of tropical cyclones had decreased from 31 to 30, and that the total number of typhoons had increased to 19, while there was no change to the number of tropical storms predicted to occur during the season. They also predicted that 3 tropical cyclones would make landfall on Southern China between July and December compared to an average of 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts\nOn June 30, the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau predicted that the season would see activity near its average of 26.6, and predicted that between 24 \u2013 27 tropical storms would occur over the Western Pacific. The Central Weather Bureau also predicted that of the 24-27 tropical storms forecast 3-5 of them would affect Taiwan. In their July and August forecasts TSR upped their prediction for the amount of intense typhoons by one to ten and eleven respectively, whilst predicting the same amount of tropical storms and typhoons. In July and August they also predicted that the season would now see activity about 20% above normal. After their initial prediction was surpassed by Tropical Depression Tino forming, PAGASA announced that they expecting two or three more cyclones to affect the Philippines, before the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nThe season started with Tropical Depression Auring east of the Philippines, which was then followed by Tropical Depression Bising a month later. After 2 months of inactivity, Tropical Depression Crising and Typhoon Kujira forms, and Kujira becoming the first major typhoon of the season, and was followed by the development of Typhoon Chan-hom in the South China Sea, and hit Pangasinan and crossed the Philippines. In mid-June, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa and Tropical Storm Nangka form and hit the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nIt was followed 1 month later by Tropical Storm Soudelor, which passed through the Batanes Strait and headed for China, and followed by Tropical Depression Huaning which hit Taiwan. Typhoon Molave and Tropical Storm Goni head for China, while Typhoon Morakot becomes the most-costliest storm in Taiwanese history. Tropical Storm Etau briefly forms, and followed by Tropical Depression Maka from the Central Pacific basin, while Typhoon Vamco develops into a Category 4 but barely affects any major landmass. Krovanh peaks as a severe tropical storm, while Dujuan heads northeastward, and not affecting any landmass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nTropical Storm Mujigae forms in the South China Sea, which is followed by Typhoon Koppu, which crossed Northern Luzon. Typhoon Ketsana drops record rainfall in the Philippines, and is followed by Typhoon Parma which drops more rainfall to the already saturated Philippines. Typhoon Melor becomes a Category 5 while Nepartak briefly forms as a tropical storm, and Lupit becomes another Category 5 and nearly hits the Philippines before heading northeast. Typhoon Mirinae hits Central Luzon, causing more damages and misery to the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Season summary\nTropical Depression Tino and Urduja briefly form, and Typhoon Nida (Vinta) becomes the strongest and final named storm of the season, which is then followed by a weak tropical depression in late December 2009. Due to many typhoons hitting the Philippines, the 2009 Pacific typhoon season was the costliest season for the Philippines on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Auring\nTropical Depression Auring formed as a tropical disturbance late on December 30, 2008, to the southeast of Manila in the Philippines. Over the next few days the disturbance gradually developed before early on January 3, both PAGASA and the JMA, reported that the disturbance had intensified into the first tropical depression of the season with PAGASA assigning the name Auring to the depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Auring\nAs the depression was moving into a high level of vertical wind shear, it did not develop any further and late on January 5 as the baroclinic zone approached Auring, it was downgraded to a low-pressure area by PAGASA before the JMA followed suit the next day as it was declared as dissipated by the JTWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Auring\nHeavy rain from Auring produced severe flooding in the eastern Philippines. Two people were killed and nine others were left missing. A total of 305 homes were destroyed and another 610 were damaged. In addition, an estimated 53\u00a0hectares (130.9\u00a0acres) of rice and 3.5\u00a0hectares (8.6\u00a0acres) of corn were damaged. About 43,851 people were affected by the depression and damages were estimated at PHP\u00a023\u00a0million (498,318\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Bising\nEarly on February 12, PAGASA reported that a low-pressure area located about 140\u00a0km (87\u00a0mi) to the east of Surigao City in the Philippines had intensified into a tropical depression. During that day the depression gradually moved towards the west with its peak windspeeds estimated at 45\u00a0km/h (30\u00a0mph). Early the next morning after the depression had made landfall on Dinagat Island, PAGASA released its final advisory as the depression had weakened into an area of low pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Bising\nAn estimated 473 passengers and several vehicles were stranded in Liloan and Ormoc due to ferry cancellations. In Cebu, an estimated 1,600 passengers were also stranded due to the depression. Late on February 13, the remnants of Bising brought scattered rainshowers across Southern Luzon, Bicol Region, and Visayas, then dissipated. The rainfall led to mudslides on Cebu Island which blocked the Cebu Transcentral Highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Crising\nOn April 29, the JTWC reported that an area of deep convection had persisted near the center of an elongated low-level circulation center, in area of low vertical windshear, about 400\u00a0km (250\u00a0mi), to the west of Manila in the Philippines. Deep convective banding was curving into an eastern southern edges of the disturbance. During the day the disturbance gradually consolidated further under the influence of an anticyclone, as a result of this the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Crising\nEarly the next morning PAGASA upgraded the disturbance to a tropical depression and named it as Crising as it reached its 10-minute peak windspeeds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph). Later that day the JTWC reported that Crising's low-level circulation center has weakened and was now poorly organized as it underwent a Fujiwhara effect with what was to become Typhoon Kujira (Dante). PAGASA kept issuing advisories on Crising until it weakened into a low-pressure area early on May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Crising\nHeavy rains produced by the outer bands of Crising caused flooding in western areas of the Philippines, affecting an estimated 2,500 people. The worst flooding occurred in Lucena City where ten villages were isolated. Areas along the Bucon and Inalmasinan Rivers were inundated and sustained significant crop losses. Several animals reportedly drowned in the region. Several roads were impassable due to landslides or were washed out by floodwaters. One bridge was destroyed in the town of Mercedes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nEarly on April 26, an area of disturbed weather formed near the coastline of Baler, capital of the Philippine's Aurora province. It was formerly a tail end of cold front that passed by Northern Luzon. JTWC assessed that the area of a disturbed weather potential of becoming developing into a significant Tropical Cyclone within 24 hours as \"fair\". However, on April 28, JTWC downgraded the disturbance as dissipating because of interaction with nearby middle Tropical Depression Crising and JMA Tropical Depression 03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nA few days later, the disturbance moved south-westward, and late on April 30, the disturbance made landfall at Albay. On May 1, JTWC again upgraded the disturbance into having a potential to form into a significant Tropical Cyclone within 24 hours to \"fair\". And later that day, PAGASA classified the disturbance as a tropical depression, naming it \"Dante\" and issued public storm warning signal number one in the provinces of Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon, Catanduanes, Masbate, Burias Island, and Southern Quezon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nPAGASA also reported that Dante made landfall in the vicinity of Sorsogon within the Bicol region of the Philippines. Early on May 2, JTWC issued a TCFA as the depression was in an almost stationary position. Later that day, JMA classified Dante as a full depression. Early the next morning it became a tropical storm and was named Kujira. Kujira continued to strengthen and was upgraded to a severe tropical storm that afternoon. When it was over the Philippines it killed 27 people while 9 others are missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nThe JMA upgraded the system to a typhoon early on May 4. Kujira intensified quickly, doubling in strength from a Category 2 typhoon to a Category 4-equivalent typhoon within 24 hours. On May 6, The JTWC reported that Kujira was in its beginning stages of becoming extratropical, with the low-level circulation center almost fully exposed in association with increasing vertical wind shear and lower sea surface temperatures in the region. Late that, JMA downgraded Kujira to a Severe Tropical Storm as strong wind shear weakens the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0014-0004", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nThen early on May 7, JTWC issued its last advisory on Kujira, already reporting it as an extratropical system. JMA continued to issue warnings on the system while at the same time it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Later on May 7, Kujira weakened further, becoming a fully extratropical cyclone .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kujira (Dante)\nWhile in the Philippine area of responsibility, Kujira caused some 625,709,464 worth of damage to crops and livestock in Albay, Camarines Norte, Masbate and Sorsogon. It also caused some 102 million pesos worth of damage to communal irrigation systems in the region. The NDCC update as of 6AM PST May 12 declared 28 dead, one missing and 5 injured. Further, 383,457 persons in 609 barangays of 60 municipalities and 4 cities in 5 provinces of Region V were affected by the storm. Damages are worth PhP 1,228,422,344 million or PhP1.228 billion of which PhP 625,709,464 are agricultural losses and PhP 529.525 million in infrastructural. Houses destroyed were at 2387, of which 138 were total and 2249 partial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nOn May 1, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with an area of disturbed weather formed southeast of Nha Trang, Vietnam and associated with a remnant of Tropical depression Crising to form a new stronger area of disturbed weather system. JTWC monitored the disturbance as \"Fair\" for developing due to low vertical wind shear and an upper-level anticyclone to the east of the system. Later on the JMA designated the low pressure as a minor tropical depression reporting the outlook track as southwestward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nThe JTWC issued a TCFA on the system once the convection increased and became better organized although with an exposed LLC east of its convection. Early morning of May 3, the JMA begun issuing tropical cyclone advisories on the system forecasting it to become a tropical storm later in the afternoon as it tracked eastwards. On May 3, the JTWC designated the disturbance as Tropical Depression 02W, and the JMA named the storm Chan-hom. Later on May 4, Chan-hom strengthened into a severe tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nOn May 6, the system moved into the Philippine Area of Responsibility from the west and was named as Emong. Later that day the JMA upgraded the severe tropical storm to a typhoon. On May 7, PAGASA reported that Chan-hom had made landfall at the northern tip of Bani, Pangasinan. After traversing Pangasinan it lashed La Union, Ilocos Sur, Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao, Mt. Province, Kalinga and Isabela. Pangasinan (which recorded 150mm of rain from Emong) and La Union were the worst hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nThe provinces in Central Luzon, Ilocos, Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley, together with Metro Manila and parts of Southern Luzon, generally experienced more than 100\u00a0mm in the 24\u2011hour period on May 7. Rains, however, lasted from May 6\u20138. NDCC updates on 6:00AM on May 13 put dead at 50, injured at 47 and missing at 13 and damage worth 690 million pesos in agriculture, infrastructure and private property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0004", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nIt further left 204,000 persons affected, damaged 23280 houses of which 6080 are totally damaged and 17200 partially damaged in Pangasinan and induced 11 landslide occurrences in Zambales and Cagayan PAGASA expected the typhoon to weaken quickly, which it did. On May 8, Chan-hom was downgraded to a Tropical Storm and later, to a Tropical Depression. JMA issued its last warning early on May 9, followed by the JTWC. PAGASA held on to Emong (Chan-hom) until much later that day, when it was declared an area of low pressure. JTWC then re-issued advisories on the restrengthening depression on May 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0016-0005", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Chan-hom (Emong)\nLater on May 11, Chan-hom became a subtropical depression, therefore, JMA and PAGASA designated it a tropical depression while JTWC declared it dissipated, PAGASA reported Tropical Depression Chan-hom degenerated into Subtropical Disturbance ex-Chan-hom and issued the final advisory for the system because it had almost completely dissipated. However, JMA did not issue the final advisory for the tropical depression until early on May 13, when the storm's low-level circulation dissipated and began accelerate northeastward, as it was caught up in the jet stream, at which time it was forecast to become extratropical or be absorbed by a cold front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nOn June\u00a010, the JTWC began monitoring an area of disturbed weather that was situated about 140\u00a0km (87\u00a0mi) southeast of Palau. The disturbance had an elongated low-level circulation, with deep convection centered along the southwestern portion of the system. Over the next couple of days, the disturbance gradually developed with the JMA declaring the system as a tropical depression early on June 14 whilst the JTWC issued a TCFA. However the TCFA was cancelled later that day due to the convection dissipating, whilst the JMA downgraded the depression to an area of low pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nOver the next two days, the system moved across Luzon and began to regenerate. Early on June 17, a second TCFA was released by the JTWC whilst the JMA reported that the system had re-intensified into a tropical depression. Later that day, the JTWC designated the system as Tropical Depression 03W whilst the storm was situated about 705\u00a0km (438\u00a0mi) south-southwest of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Following further development of the depression, the JTWC upgraded it to a tropical storm late on June\u00a017. The JMA then followed suit early the next morning assigning the name Linfa to the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nThroughout the rest of the day limited poleward outflow prevented linfa from intensifying. During June 19, Linfa intensified further and became a severe tropical storm with an eye feature starting to appear on microwave imagery. After interacting with a nearby upper-level low, outflow significantly improved later that day, fueling further strengthening, before the next day the JTWC upgraded Linfa to a typhoon as it reached its peak windspeeds of 140\u00a0km/h (85\u00a0mph) 110\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph 10-minute winds). Later that day convection near the center of the circulation to decrease with the eye no longer visible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0017-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nUpper-level wind shear rapidly increased, preventing re-intensification of the cyclone. Linfa then began to interact with land and was downgraded to a tropical storm by the JTWC on June\u00a021 and then during that afternoon the storm made landfall on the southern Chinese provence of Fujian. Deep convection then rapidly dissipated with both the JMA and the JTWC downgrading Linfa to a Tropical depression by early on June 22, as the storm moved away from the Chinese coastline. The system later dissipated just offshore with a circulation was no longer evident on satellite imagery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nA total of seven people were killed by Linfa, whilst $110\u00a0million (2009 USD) worth of damage was done by Linfa, as it affected China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. A 498-tonne oil tanker was run aground in southern Taiwan by large swells of up to 5.6\u00a0m (18\u00a0ft). In Taiwan two people were hit by fallen trees, whilst power cuts were reported in Chiangchun as well as other parts of China and Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa\nA total loss of NT$400\u00a0million, (12.1\u00a0million 2009 USD) was suffered by the agricultural sector in Taiwan whilst in mainland China, Linfa produced torrential rainfall which led to severe flooding. Following a landslide, one person was killed. Flood waters destroyed 100 homes and inundated 10,000 others as well as an estimated 32,000 hectares of farmland in Fujian Province. In Meizhou, Guongdong Province, flash flooding resulted in five additional fatalities after 413.7\u00a0mm 19.22\u00a0in of rain fell within a nine-hour span. A total of 362 homes were destroyed in the town and infrastructure was severely damaged. Additionally, an estimated 20\u00a0million people were affected by the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nOn June 16, an area of disturbed weather formed about 170\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Palau Island. In the next few days, the disturbance showed improvement but, its LLCC was undefined. Early on June 20, the disturbance suddenly strengthened and its LLCC began to consolidate as well as significant banding all over the system. The disturbance was also located under low vertical wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nEarly on June 22, JTWC issued an advisory that the potential of the formation of a significant tropical cyclone within 24 hours was upgraded to \"Fair\" because of its well-defined LLCC and was located in a favorable area. Around 0600 UTC that same day, the JMA classified the disturbance as a minor Tropical Depression, while the JTWC released a TCFA on the disturbance. This was because convection had begun to organize and upper-level analysis showed a cyclonic center on the east, just west of Guam and a cyclonic flow around its consolidating low-level circulation Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nAfter 4 hours, JTWC issued its first warning and named it as Tropical Depression 04W. Early on June 23, PAGASA issued its first warning on the Tropical Depression and assigned its local named \"Feria\". In the afternoon, Nangka made its first landfall over Hernani, Eastern Samar at 5:00 pm PST (0900 UTC). and made its second landfall in Masbate around 10:00PM PST ( 1400 UTC). On June 24, Nangka rapidly slowed down while moving over Mindoro. The storm then made its third landfall at Calapan City, Mindoro at 12 am PST/ 0430 UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0019-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nAfter crossing Mindoro for 8 hours, PAGASA downgraded Nangka into a Tropical Depression, while both the JMA and JTWC still classified Nangka as a tropical storm on that day. Early on June 25, Nangka move into the South China Sea, with PAGASA issuing their final warning. In the evening of that same day, both JMA and JTWC downgraded Nangka into a tropical depression due to its low-level circulation center is started to deteriorate. By midday of June 26, it made its fourth landfall in Guangdong province in China, passing through the northern part of Hong Kong. In the afternoon of that day, both JMA and JTWC issued their final warning on Nangka. Its remnants completely dissipated by June 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nIn Eastern Samar, more than 800 people were stranded after ferry service was canceled. High winds downed a large tree, destroying the roof of one home and damaging three cars. Unusually strong severe thunderstorms developed over parts of the Philippines along the outer bands of Nangka. In San Pascual, Bauan and Batangas City, large hail fell during a strong storm. Residents reported that they have never seen hail before. In Barangay, 4 in Bauan town, a rare tornado struck, downing several trees, damaging homes and signs. Heavy rains produced by the storm also flooded numerous regions, some reporting waist-deep water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nLater reports confirmed the tornado destroyed 23 homes. In Cebu, one person was killed and seven were left missing. At least 500 people were also left homeless due to the storm. In Cavite, 7000 was stranded on the port due to Nangka's winds and heavy rains. about 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) is the water wave in Cavite. In Albay, more than 300 ship passengers were also stranded at the Albay port, Tabaco, Albay. In Navotas and Malabon, the Navotas\u00a0\u2014 Malabon river produced a 3-foot (0.91\u00a0m) high tide in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nangka (Feria)\nAs of 24 June, Nangka (Feria) has caused 6 deaths and left 11 people missing. Property damage from the storm is estimated at PHP 2.8\u00a0million (US$54,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Soudelor (Gorio)\nLate on July 7, the JTWC reported that an area of disturbed weather had formed about 900\u00a0km (560\u00a0mi) to the northwest of Yap. Deep convection was embedded in a broad, weak, poorly defined circulation that was starting to be enhanced by a tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT) cell to the east of the system. Over the next couple of days, gradual development took place before a TCFA was released by the JTWC early on July 9 as PAGASA designated the system as Tropical Depression Gorio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Soudelor (Gorio)\nLater that day both the JMA and the JTWC reported that the depression had formed and started to issue warnings on the depression, with the JTWC designating it as 05W. On July\u00a010, PAGASA issued their final advisory on Tropical Depression Gorio as it moved out of their area of responsibility. Hampered by an unfavorable upper-level environment, the depression barely intensified into a tropical storm early on July\u00a011. Upon becoming a tropical storm, the JMA named the system Soudelor reporting peak winds of 65\u00a0km/h, (40\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Soudelor (Gorio)\nLater that day the JTWC reported that Soudelor had weakened into a depression; however they re-upgraded it to a tropical storm as it moved closer to Hainan Province. Shortly before landfall in Leizhou Peninsula, China, the JTWC downgraded the storm to a tropical depression, then as Soudelor moved back over water and into the Gulf of Tonkin, the JTWC issued their final advisory on the depression, however the JMA continued to monitor the storm until it had made landfall near Fangchenggang, China several hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Soudelor (Gorio)\nAs a tropical depression, Soudelor brushed northern Luzon in the Philippines, producing upwards of 330\u00a0mm (13\u00a0in) of rainfall which resulted in flash flooding and landslides in at least ten villages. In China torrential rains in Hainan caused significant flooding that killed 15 hikers and left several others missing. Numerous roads were also cut off or destroyed by landslides and 30 villages were inundated with flood waters. The remnants of Soudelor produced widespread torrential rains in Northern Vietnam on July\u00a013. Rainfall totals peaked at 250\u00a0mm (9.8\u00a0in) in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Soudelor (Gorio)\nHeavy rainfall, amounting to 130\u00a0mm (5.1\u00a0in), was also recorded in Hanoi. The capital city experienced flash flooding, inundating numerous streets and buildings. Two men were killed by lightning strikes associated with the storm. Officials reported that at least 13 large trees had been downed by high winds. Flood waters in the hardest-hit areas reached a depth of 0.35\u00a0m (1.1\u00a0ft). One person was killed after being swept away. A tornado also touched down during the storm, destroying the roofs of three homes. Thousands of hectares of croplands were inundated by flood waters. Following the storm, 1,000 tonnes of rice was allocated for victims of the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 06W (Huaning)\nOn July 10, the JTWC reported that an area of disturbed weather had persisted about 1,065\u00a0km (662\u00a0mi) to the east of Manila. The convection was consolidating with a good mid-level circulation and was located under an anticyclone and had started to show some outflow into a trough to the northeast of the system. Early the next day the JMA reported that the disturbance had become a minor tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 06W (Huaning)\nThe depression then gradually developed during the rest of July 11, with PAGASA naming the depression as Huaning early on July 12 whilst the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the depression. Early the next day PAGASA upgraded Huaning into a tropical storm whilst the JTWC designated the depression as Tropical Depression 06W. Later that morning Huaning made its first landfall over Taitung City, Taiwan. On the next day, both JMA and JTWC issued their final warning on Huaning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Molave (Isang)\nLate on July 10, an area of disturbed weather persisted about 280\u00a0km (170\u00a0mi), to the southeast of Yap. Convection was wrapping into a poorly organized and drawn out low-level circulation center and was under minimal wind shear. It gradually developed further throughout the next day with convection continuing to consolidate over a low-level circulation center. However early on July 12, the JTWC reported that the disturbance had dissipated, as outflow was being hampered by the outflow of Huaning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Molave (Isang)\nHowever late on July 13, the JTWC reported that the disturbance had rapidly redeveloped and released a TCFA on the disturbance. Early the next day both PAGASA and the JMA designated the disturbance as a Tropical Depression with PAGASA assigning the local name of Isang to the depression. The Depression continued to develop and was designated as Tropical Depression 07W by the JTWC early on July 15, whilst PAGASA upgraded Isang to a Tropical storm later that day. On July 17, JMA upgraded Molave as a Severe Tropical Storm and Typhoon by PAGASA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Molave (Isang)\nOn morning of July 18, HKO upgraded Molave as a Typhoon. Later that day, Molave quickly moved into the South China Sea. On July 19, at 1700 UTC or 1am HKT, Molave made its first landfall. On the afternoon, as Molave move through China, both JMA and JTWC issued their final warning as Molave weakened into a Tropical depression. Molave killed at least four people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Goni (Jolina)\nLate on July 25, the JTWC reported that an area of convection had formed in a monsoon trough about 815\u00a0km (506\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Guam. Deep convection was flaring around the low-level circulation center. An upper-level anticyclone and a tropical upper tropospheric trough was providing outflow. Over the next few days the disturbance gradually developed before the disturbance was declared as dissipated early on July 28 as the low-level circulation center was not well defined and higher vertical wind shear affecting the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Goni (Jolina)\nHowever the disturbance regenerated early on July 30 whilst located about 630\u00a0km (390\u00a0mi), the disturbance's low-level circulation center was elongated with indications of multiple circulation centers. Later that day PAGASA reported that the disturbance had developed into a tropical depression and assigned its local name of Jolina. Jolina then intensified further early the next day and was reported to have become a tropical storm by PAGASA, with the JMA designating it as a depression later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Goni (Jolina)\nEarly on August 1 the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert as deep convection had increased and was starting to consolidate around a circulation center. However, later that morning Jolina made a landfall near to Casiguran, in the Philippine province of Aurora before emerging out into the South China Sea later that day. Early the next day the JTWC reissued their TCFA whilst PAGASA issued their final warning on Jolina as it moved out of their area of responsibility heading towards a landfall on China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0026-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Goni (Jolina)\nThe JTWC then designated the depression as 08W later that day as infrared imagery had shown deep convection was wrapping into the low-level circulation center. During August 3, the JMA reported that the tropical depression had intensified into a tropical storm and assigned the Goni to the cyclone. At 1700 UTC of August 4, Goni made its second landfall over Macau. Early on the next day, JTWC issued their final warning on Goni. On August 7, The Joint Typhoon Warning noted that remnant of Goni re-entered into the Gulf of Tonkin and had a poor chance of regenerating. Later in the day, Joint Typhoon Warning Center reissued advisories on the system upgrading it to a tropical storm near Hainan Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Goni (Jolina)\nIn the Philippines Goni (Jolina) death toll is 8 with 5 more missing. Goni (Jolina) affected 38,589 families or 160,038 people in 119 villages in 25 towns and five cities in Ilocos Sur, Batangas, Cagayan, Nueva Ecija, Rizal, Mindoro Occidental, Palawan, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Lanao del Sur, and Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao. Five people died in China when Goni passed through. In Hainan province about 92,000 people had been evacuated by the authorities. 575 houses were destroyed and 2,311 damaged. The storm also inundated than 68,000\u00a0hectares cropland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Morakot (Kiko)\nThe season's deadliest tropical cyclone formed early on August 2, within a monsoon trough about 1,000\u00a0km (620\u00a0mi) east of the Philippines. The depression remained weak, however, and later that day the JMA downgraded it to an area of convection. Still later that day, the JMA reported that the tropical depression had regenerated and that deep convection was flaring on the western side of a partially exposed low-level circulation center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Morakot (Kiko)\nOn August 3, PAGASA named the depression Kiko as it moved through their area of responsibility, after which (the same day) the JMA named the storm Morakot, upgrading it to a Tropical Storm. The JTWC followed suit, designating Morakot as 09W. The next day Morakot recurved, reentering PAGASA's area of responsibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Morakot (Kiko)\nIn the Philippines, ten villages (Paudpod, San Juan, Batonloc, Carael, Tampo, Paco, San Miguel, Bining, Bangan, and Capayawan) have been submerged in 4-to-5-foot-deep (1.2 to 1.5\u00a0m) floods after the Pinatubo Dike overflowed. Joint military and police rescue teams rescued 3 Koreans and 9 Canadian nationals. About 30,000 families were affected by Morakot; eleven people are confirmed dead. Three French tourists and two Filipino guides were killed in a flashflood caused by a landslide. Thousands are trapped on rooftops or in trees awaiting helicopter rescue attempts and thousands have lost their homes. At least two have died from flooding. Landslides have claimed the lives of two children and five miners are still missing after a landslide destroyed their huts. Schools have suspended their classes in the hardest hit area, and highways have been closed due to landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 939]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Morakot (Kiko)\nIn Taiwan, where schools were closed ahead of the typhoon, Morakot caused landslides, severe floods, blew down trees and billboards, and stripped roofs from buildings. In a positive impact, Morakot brought much-needed rain to Taiwan, ending a months-long drought, and replenished reservoirs enough to warrant an end to water rationing. In Taiwan, 461 people were killed with 192 missing. Almost the entire southern Taiwan (Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsuing, and Pingtung) are flooded by record-breaking heavy rain. It is estimated that rainfall in Pingtung county may reach as much as 2,500 millimeters, breaking all rainfall records of any single place in Taiwan induced by a single typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Morakot (Kiko)\nSouth east China has evacuated 20,000 residents. A fishing boat has capsized and search and rescue efforts have begun for nine missing fishermen. A total of 34000 watercraft sought refuge ahead of the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Etau\nOn August 6, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with monsoon through was located about (620\u00a0miles) 1000\u00a0km southwest of Iwo To, Japan. Satellite imagery shows an TUTT was located to the northeast of the system. and the system is also located under high vertical wind shear and favorable environment. Late of August 7, JTWC upgraded the system and issued a TCFA because LLCC is partially exposed. while JMA also upgraded the system as a minor tropical depression. On the next day, both JMA and JTWC classifies the minor tropical depression as a full depression. On August 8, JMA upgraded the system as a tropical storm and assigned the name Etau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Etau\nIn post-storm analysis, the JMA downgraded Etau to a tropical storm, with peak winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Maka\nOn August 13, the remnants of Tropical Storm Maka crossed the International Date Line and moved into the Western Pacific; where it was immediately designated as a tropical depression by the JMA. Later that day the JTWC reported that the depression was located about 1,425\u00a0km (885\u00a0mi) to the southeast of Wake Island, with deep convection developing over the northern quadrant of a stretched out, low-level circulation center which was in an area of low to moderate vertical wind shear and had a good outflow into an upper-level trough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression Maka\nDuring the next day, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the depression as the low-level circulation center had developed further. Later that day, the JTWC re-upgraded the disturbance to Tropical Depression 01C (Maka). Late the next day the JTWC upgraded the depression to a tropical storm however, the JMA still classified the storm as a depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Vamco\nOn August 13, the JTWC reported that an area of deep convection had persisted in an area of low vertical wind shear about 415\u00a0km (258\u00a0mi), to the north of Kwajalein Atoll. A low-level circulation center was developing with the deep convection starting to wrap into it whilst a tropical upper tropospheric trough was providing a good outflow for the center. Over the next couple of days the convection started to consolidate before early on August 16 a TCFA was issued by the JTWC as convective bands had started to wrap into the low-level circulation center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Vamco\nIt was then declared as a Tropical depression later that day by the JMA however the JTWC did not follow suit until early the next day when they designated the depression as 11W with convective bands wrapping into a well-defined low-level circulation center. Both the JTWC and the JMA upgraded it to a tropical storm later that day, with the JMA assigning the name Vamco to the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Vamco\nDuring August 18, the JMA reported that Vamco had intensified into a severe tropical storm and was moving towards the northwest slowly before early the next day along with the JTWC reporting that it had intensified into a weak typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Vamco\nDuring that day Vamco kept intensifying due to being in favorable conditions with the JMA reporting that the typhoon had reached its peak wind speeds early on August 20 of 165\u00a0km/h, (105\u00a0mph) 10-min Sustained, however the JTWC reported that it had continued to intensify during August 20, and reached its 1-minute peak wind speeds of 215\u00a0km/h, (130\u00a0mph) early on August 21 which made it a category four typhoon on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0036-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Vamco\nVamco stayed at its peak wind speeds until early on August 22 when both the JMA and the JTWC reported that it had started to weaken, however due to the typhoon being in favorable conditions, Vamco was able to maintain its typhoon status until early on August 25, when the JTWC downgraded Vamco to an extra tropical low, and issued their final advisory. The JMA continued to monitor it as a severe tropical storm until early the next day when they downgraded it to an extratropical low as it approached the International Date Line. Vamco then crossed the International Date Line and was monitored as an extratropical low until late on August 28 when it dissipated to the south of Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Krovanh\nOn August 27, JMA reported that an area of convectional cloudiness associated with monsoon through formed about 720\u00a0km (450\u00a0mi), to the southeast of Iwo To, Japan. Satellite imagery shows that convective bands is starting to wrap into the Low-Level Circulation Centre (LLCC) and the system is located in moderate vertical windshear and favorable area. Early of August 28, the system is showing a good development LLCC then the JMA upgraded the system into a minor tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Krovanh\nWhile JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on the system then after several hours, they upgraded it into a tropical depression. In the evening of that day, the depression rapidly intensified into a tropical storm due to hot water temperatures and associated with tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT) that located in the northeast of the tropical storm, whilst JMA assigned the name Krovanh. While JTWC also upgraded the depression into a tropical storm. Early of August 30, JMA upgraded Krovanh into a severe tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0037-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Krovanh\nOn the next day, Krovanh weakened into a tropical storm due to its interaction with the frontal system and the eye was quickly become visible. On September 1, both JMA and JTWC issued their final warning on Krovanh. The remnants of the storm was absorbed by a frontal system and dissipated later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 02C\nLate on August 29, the JMA started to issue warnings on Tropical Depression 02C as it was expected to cross the International Date Line and move into the Western Pacific within 24 hours and intensify into a Tropical Storm. Early the next day the depression crossed the dateline into an area of strong vertical windshear. Thus the tropical depression began to weaken with the low-level circulation center becoming fully exposed and sheared as a result the JTWC issued their final advisory later that day. However the JMA continued to issue advisories on the depression until early on September 2, they downgraded the depression to an area of low pressure and issued their final advisory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dujuan (Labuyo)\nOn August 28, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with a monsoon trough formed about 1,000\u00a0km (620\u00a0mi) southwest of Okinawa, Japan. Satellite imagery revealed that a partial low-level circulation centre (LLCC) was exposed with an anticyclone providing good outflow that located to the northwest of the system. Early on September 1, the system showed a more defined LLCC moving through warm waters, whilst JMA upgraded the system to a tropical depression. On September 2, the depression entered the Philippine area of responsibility and PAGASA assigned it a local name Labuyo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Dujuan (Labuyo)\nOn the next day, PAGASA upgraded Labuyo into a tropical storm while JTWC issued a TCFA. Later that day, JTWC designated it as tropical depression 13W. Early the next day, JMA upgraded the depression intensified into a tropical storm and assigned it an international name Dujuan, while JTWC then also upgraded Dujuan as a tropical storm. On September 5, JMA upgraded Dujuan into a severe tropical storm. Later that day, PAGASA issued their final warning on Labuyo as the storm moved out of their area of responsibility. Early of September 8, JTWC downgraded Dujuan into a tropical depression. After several hours of that same day, JTWC amended an issue that Dujuan was intensified again into a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 75], "content_span": [76, 784]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, September 2009 Vietnam tropical depression\nEarly on September 1, the JTWC reported that an area of convectional cloudiness had persisted in an area of low pressure vertical windshear about 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) to the northwest of Manila in the Philippines. The system had a fully exposed low-level circulation center with small pockets of convection confined to the western edge of the cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, September 2009 Vietnam tropical depression\nDuring the next couple of days the disturbance developed further with deep convection consolidating near the low-level circulation center before being designated as a tropical depression by the JMA and had a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert issued by the JTWC early on September 3. Later the next day, it made a direct hit on \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng, Qu\u1ea3ng Nam and Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i, Vietnam and after several hours. Later that day, JTWC had cancelled TCFA. It had re-emerged back into the South China Sea and remained nearly stationary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, September 2009 Vietnam tropical depression\nAt least six people have been killed and five others were injured by the depression throughout Vietnam. Rainfall from the storm exceeded 430\u00a0mm (17\u00a0in), triggering widespread flash flooding. Sixty-one tons of fish were swept away during the floods and 8,700 hectares of rice were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Mujigae (Maring)\nOn September 6, an area of convection cloudiness associated with the monsoon through was formed about 305\u00a0km (190\u00a0mi) to the northwest of Manila, Philippines. Satellite imagery shows that a mid-level convection consolidating in over a developing Low-Level Circulation Centre (LLCC). In additionally, there is a westerly wind burst that located three to five degrees of the system and located in moderate vertical wind shear. Late of September 8, the system is moving northwest and also in hot water temperatures, whilst the JMA upgraded the system into a tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Mujigae (Maring)\nAlso, on the evening, PAGASA declared the system as a tropical depression and assigned its local name, Maring. While JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA). Early of the next day, JTWC upgraded the system into a tropical depression due to its LLCC is partially exposed. In the evening, as the tropical depression moved northwestward, PAGASA issued its final advisory as Maring moved out of their area of responsibility.,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Choi-wan\nTyphoon Choi-wan formed as weak tropical disturbance early on September 11, 2009, about 1,100 kilometers (680\u00a0mi) to the east of Guam. During that day the disturbance rapidly developed and was designated as a tropical depression early the next day by both the JMA and the JTWC before intensifying further and being named as Tropical Storm Choi-wan on September 12. During September 13, Choi-wan's rapid intensification slowed down barely intensifying into a severe tropical storm, before early the next day it was upgraded to a typhoon and rapidly intensified during the day to become a Category 4-equivalent typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Choi-wan\nChoi-wan then intensified further during September 15, as it moved through the Northern Marina Islands with the Japan Meteorological Agency reporting peak 10 minute sustained wind speeds of 195\u00a0km/h (120\u00a0mph), whilst the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported 1-minute peak wind speeds of 260\u00a0km/h (160\u00a0mph) which made it a category 5-equivalent typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Choi-wan\nWith the help of excellent poleward outflow and high ocean heat content, Choi-wan remained at its peak intensity until early on September 17 when deep convection started to erode in the northwestern quadrant as the tropical upper tropospheric trough cell to the northwest was no longer providing good outflow. Choi-wan was then downgraded to a typhoon by the JTWC as it started to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle, with the JTWC reporting a secondary peak intensity of 150\u00a0km/h, (90\u00a0mph), during the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Choi-wan\nDuring September 19, Choi-wan rapidly weakened, as it moved into an unfavorable environment with higher amounts of vertical wind shear, causing the storm's deep convection to erode. As a result of this and dry latitude air wrapping into the low-level circulation center, the JTWC decided to downgrade Choi-wan to an extratropical system and issued their final advisory early the next day on September 20, before the JMA followed suit later that day. The JMA then reported that the extratropical low had dissipated completely, early on September 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Choi-wan\nDespite the intensity of Choi-wan when it passed over the Northern Marina Islands, there was no casualties reported. It was determined afterwards by the US Navy that the whole island of Alamagan was uninhabitable, with all but one of the structures, a facility for laboratory and research, completely destroyed and most of the islands' trees downed. As a result, it was determined that all of the residents of Alamagan and Agrihan needed to be completely evacuated to Saipan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Koppu (Nando)\nOn September 9, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with the monsoon trough formed 370\u00a0km (230\u00a0mi) to the northwest of Palau. Satellite imagery showed that a consolidating Low Level Circulation Centre (LLCC) with convection had started to develop and was wrapping toward the center. On September 11, the LLCC started to show improvement and was under moderate vertical shear with good westward outflow, but the JMA still upgraded the system to a minor tropical depression. Early of September 12, PAGASA upgraded the system in their responsibility and assigned its local name, Nando.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Koppu (Nando)\nAt 1500 UTC, PAGASA reported that the depression made its landfall over northern Palanan, Isabela of the Philippines. However both JMA and JTWC reported that the depression did not make landfall but only crossed the Luzon strait. Early of the next day, JTWC upgraded the system into a tropical depression. Early of September 13, both JMA and JTWC upgraded the system as a tropical storm and assigned its international name, Koppu. In the afternoon, JMA reported that Koppu intensified into a severe tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Koppu (Nando)\nOn the 14th, the JMA reported that Koppu had intensified to a minimal typhoon, but the JTWC still kept Koppu as a tropical storm for the next few hours but later acknowledging the intensification and upgraded Koppu to a minimal typhoon. But the JTWC issued their final advisory early on September 15, as Koppu was moving over land, and was expected to dissipate quickly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Koppu (Nando)\nIn Luzon, a 48-hour rainfall was experienced. In Visayas and Mindanao, a 24-hour rainfall was also experienced due to Nando's enhancing southwest monsoon. About 10 provinces were raised in signal warning no.1 from September 12\u00a0\u2013 September 13. Nando had triggered landslides resulting road closures and evacuations of some residents in Kalinga Province. The storm then caused major flood in Luoding, People's Republic of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nOn September 22, an area of convection associated with the monsoon trough had formed about 720\u00a0km (450\u00a0mi), to the east of Manila, Philippines. Satellite imagery showed deep convection starting to consolidate about an LLCC. In the afternoon of the next day, the system started showing good outflow in LLCC and was moving through moderate vertical shear whilst the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical depression. On the evening of the same day, the JMA reported that the depression weakened into an area of low pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nIn the afternoon of September 24, the JMA reported that the system was organizing again and was upgraded to a tropical depression again, while the PAGASA also upgraded the system to a tropical depression and assigned it the local name Ondoy. On the same day, the JTWC also issued a TCFA on the system. Early the next day, the JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical depression again. In the evening, the PAGASA reported that Ondoy intensified into a tropical storm. Early on September 26, the JTWC upgraded the depression to a tropical storm as well. At the same time, JMA also upgraded it as a tropical storm and assigned it the international designated name Ketsana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nIn the Philippines, the whole archipelago experienced a torrential rain starting on September 23. more than 30 areas in Luzon, including Metro Manila, were placed under storm alerts as tropical storm \"Ondoy\" accelerated further and moved closer to Central Luzon. On Bicol region, ferry passengers were suspended during September 25 through the next day due to high waves and heavy rains that were brought by Ketsana into the region affecting about 2000 people. In the Manila International Airport, 13 flights were canceled due to Ketsana making landfall. Some universities in Manila suspended their classes due to severe flooding in some areas and heavy rainfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nIn addition, the PAGASA also advised residents living in low-lying areas and near mountain slopes in areas affected by the Southwest Monsoon and those under signals #1 and #2 (see below) are alerted against possible flashfloods and landslides. Also, PAGASA has alerted the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) for possible flashfloods and landslides in the affected areas, particularly in Laguna, Quezon, Zambales, Pampanga and Bataan provinces. Philippine Coast Guard commandant Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo also reminded owners of seacraft of a guideline barring travel for seacraft weighing 1,000 tons or less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nIn Quezon City at the PAGASA Science Garden in NCR or Manila, torrential rains and 24\u2011hour Rainfall amounted to 455\u00a0mm the highest rainfall ever recorded in Metro Manila and belongs to the top 20 most rainiest typhoons to strike the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nThe amount of rainfall was 341.3\u00a0mm in just 6 hours from 8AM to 2PM on the 26th of September and an additional 83\u00a0mm fell for another 3 hours amounting to 424\u00a0mm in about 9 hours and the remaining 31\u00a0mm was light rain showers during the night before the epic flood and the evening of the 26th of September and 111\u00a0mm fell on 25 September. Bulacan also experienced an unusually high rainfall amount leading to the widespread and massive flooding in the province and overflowing of the Angat dam and opening of the floodgates at about 10:45 am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)\nA total of 25 provinces and Metro Manila were placed under state of calamity, with Metro Manila experiencing a record amount of rainfall in 42 years, with rain falling between 8:00\u00a0a.m. and 2:00\u00a0p.m. of September 26 pegged at 341\u00a0mm, over the record established in June 1967 at 334\u00a0mm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 18W\nThe JTWC reported on September 24 that an area of convection had persisted about 725\u00a0km (450\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Pohnpei. Deep convection had started to consolidate and wrap around the low-level circulation centre. By September\u00a026, the system had developed strong outflow and was intensifying with the JMA reporting later that day that it had become a tropical depression however the JTWC did not follow suit until early the next day when they assigned the designation of 18W to the depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 18W\nDuring the next couple of days very little intensification took place as convection barely deepened around the low-level circulation center and in fact weakened due to the precursor system to Typhoon Parma was developing to the southeast of 18W. During September 29, both the JMA and the JTWC reported peak windspeeds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph). As 18W approached Guam, the system became severely disrupted after interaction with what were to become Typhoons Melor and Parma. As it passed near the island, the storm rapidly dissipated, first weakening to a depression and then as it lost its low-level circulation centre it was no longer considered a tropical cyclone and thus the final warnings from the JTWC and the JMA were issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 18W\nDespite a state of emergency being declared by the Governor of Guam before the depression affected Guam on September 29, it had very little impact on Guam. With only increased winds and moderate rainfall reported. All flights in and out of Guam were cancelled until the storm had passed. Five ships and a submarine from the United States Navy moved out to sea to avoid the storm; however, one submarine was unable to leave and remained at port during the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nEarly on September 25, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with the monsoon through formed 410\u00a0km (250\u00a0mi) to the southeast of Palau. Satellite imagery showed a consolidating Low Level Circulation Centre. On September 27, the system began improving and showing a partial LLCC due to favorable conditions and was also located under moderate vertical wind shear, whilst the JMA upgraded the system into a tropical depression. On the evening of that day, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. On the next day, JMA reported that the depression had intensified into a tropical storm, submitting its international designated name, Parma. Also, on September 28, JTWC upgraded it to a tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nOn the next day, JTWC again upgraded the depression into a tropical storm. And, by early September 30, due to the storm moving through warm water temperatures, the JTWC and JMA upgraded it to a Category 1 typhoon. Satellite imagery also began showing that an eye wall structure had formed. Intensification continued into the morning of the next day, reaching Category 3 status. Then, after four hours, Parma rapidly strengthened to a Category 4 super typhoon, reaching its peak strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nDifferent weather bureaus forecasted that Parma would intensify into a Category 5 super typhoon, however, it weakened in the afternoon of October 1 as the eye of Parma began to degrade due to its movement into unfavorable conditions. Parma continued to slightly weaken while moving through the area of Cagayan, then by midday of October 3, it was downgraded into a Category 3-equivalent typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nBefore it made landfall over northern Cagayan at 3:00 pm PST (07:00 UTC), it weakened into a Category 2 typhoon. Parma crossed northern Luzon over 12 hours, during which the typhoon weakened into a category 1 equivalent typhoon. PAGASA reported that the typhoon was moving almost stationary in their area of responsibility due to interaction with Typhoon Melor and a ridge of high-pressure area over mainland China. At the same time, JTWC downgraded Parma into a tropical storm while the JMA downgraded it into a severe tropical storm. Early the next day, satellite imagery revealed that Parma had an eye center but no convectional cloudiness due to high pressure. Intensification was unlikely because of unfavorable environment conditions and interaction with Typhoon Melor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nOn October 6, at 11:00 pm PST (15:00 UTC), Parma made its second landfall over Ilocos Norte as it moved to the southeast. In the afternoon of the next day, PAGASA reported that Parma weakened into a tropical depression near the Isabela area, while both JMA and JTWC still classified Parma as a tropical storm. In the morning of October 8, it emerged back into waters near Isabela. After four hours, Parma made its third landfall in Cagayan. The next day, Parma crossed Northern Luzon for the third time. Then by the afternoon of that day, Parma exited La Union and emerged back into the South China Sea. As it moved out into the Philippine area of responsibility, then PAGASA issued their final warning on Parma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nOn October 10, both JMA and JTWC reported that Parma reintensified into a tropical storm while it was over the South China Sea. Intensification was almost difficult due to moderate vertical wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nThen by late of October 12, it made its fourth landfall over Hainan Island in China. Early on October 14, Parma was downgraded by JMA to a tropical depression because there was a lack of convection. Then by the afternoon of that day, it made its fifth landfall over the coastline of Vietnam. In the evening, JMA reported that Parma weakened into an area of low pressure, becoming the agency issues their final advisory. However, JTWC still considered Parma as a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Parma (Pepeng)\nThe names Parma and Pepeng were retired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Melor (Quedan)\nOn September 28, an area of convectional cloudiness formed 370\u00a0km (230\u00a0mi) to the northeast of Pohnpei. Satellite imagery showed a Low Level Circulation Centre had begun to form. On the evening of September 28, due to a TUTT that was providing good outflow for the system and low-level vertical wind shear with a favorable environment, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Early on September 29, both JMA and JTWC upgraded the system into a tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Melor (Quedan)\nEarly on September 30, JMA reported that the depression had intensified into a tropical storm and assigned its international designated name, Melor. At the same time JTWC also classified the depression as a tropical storm. Early on October 1, Melor intensified further from a severe tropical storm into a typhoon. Intensification continued, and by the afternoon of the same day the JTWC reported that Melor had intensified into a Category 1-equivalent typhoon. In just four hours, it intensified rapidly to a Category 3-equivalent typhoon, and continued to track towards northeast Luzon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0062-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Melor (Quedan)\nEarly on October 2, it strengthened to a Category 4-equivalent typhoon. After levelling out in intensity, it strengthened again on October 3. Early October 4, JTWC reported that Melor had intensified to a Category-5 equivalent super typhoon, with JMA reporting a central pressure of 910 hPa and winds of 205\u00a0km/h. On October 5, PAGASA allocated the name Quedan to the typhoon as the storm moved into Philippine's area of responsibility. It interacted with Typhoon Parma in Parma's second landfall in the Philippines. By the midday of October 8, Melor made landfall on Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0062-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Melor (Quedan)\nAfter landfall, JMA downgraded Melor into a severe tropical storm, while the JTWC downgraded it into an extratropical storm. Late on October 11, the extratropical remnants of Melor were completely absorbed by a newly formed extratropical storm to the north, near Alaska. The new extratropical storm then strengthened into a powerful storm, which then began to impact the west coast of the United States, late on October 11, near midnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nepartak\nOn October 6, an area of convectional cloudiness associated with the monsoon trough formed 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) to the southwest of Saipan. Satellite imagery showed a consolidating Low Level Circulation Center with formative convective banding and deep convection over the northern semicircle. During the morning of October 8, the system started to move northwest and its LLCC rapidly became well defined due to favorable conditions. The JMA then upgraded it to a tropical depression, and the JTWC issued a TCFA on the system, as it had started to become better defined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0063-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nepartak\nThen in the evening of that day, it was upgraded into a tropical depression by the JTWC. On October 9, the JMA upgraded it to a tropical storm and assigned its international name Nepartak. After the JMA upgraded it to a tropical storm, it slowly intensified to a peak intensity of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h), but dissipated on October 14, because the polar jet stream had torn apart the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nEarly on October 13, the JTWC reported that an area of disorganized deep convection had persisted about 1,870\u00a0km (1,160\u00a0mi) to the southeast of Hag\u00e5t\u00f1a, Guam. The convection had a broad circulation center that was beginning to consolidate in an area of low vertical windshear and favorable sea surface temperatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nLater that day, as the low-level circulation center had consolidated further, the JTWC released a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert before early the next day both the JMA and the JTWC initiated advisories on the system as it had intensified into Tropical Depression 22W. During that day the depressions low-level circulation center continued to organize with deep convective bands starting to wrap into the center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nEarly on October 13, the JTWC reported that an area of convection had persisted about 380\u00a0nmi (700\u00a0km) to the northwest of Kwajalein. The convection was disorganised but was starting to consolidate around a broad low-level circulation center within a favourable environment to develop further with good vertical windshear and favourable sea surface temperatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0065-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nThe disturbance rapidly developed throughout that day with a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert issued later that day by the JTWC before advisories were initiated early the next day by the JMA and the JTWC who designated it as Tropical Depression 22W before the JTWC reported that the depression had intensified into a weak tropical storm. On October 15, JMA upgraded it to a Tropical Storm with the name Lupit. On the afternoon of next day, JTWC reported that Lupit strengthened into a Category 1 typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0065-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nThat evening, PAGASA started issuing warnings on Lupit as it entered into their area of responsibility and assigned its local name, Ramil. At the same time JMA also upgraded Lupit into a typhoon. Intensification continued due to favorable conditions and hot water conditions, then by October 17, it rapidly intensified into a Category 3-equivalent typhoon. In the morning of the next day, it strengthened into a Category 4 typhoon, then strengthened further to Super Typhoon classification. On October 20, Lupit weakened to a minimal typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0065-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lupit (Ramil)\nBy the 24th, dry air entrainment and an unfavorable environment had weakened Lupit further to a strong tropical storm, and caused the storm to change track from its westward drift to accelerate northeastward. Later that day, JTWC and PAGASA issued their final warning as Lupit was beginning extratropical transition. However, the JMA continued to issue warnings on Lupit until early on October 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mirinae (Santi)\nJMA upgraded a Tropical Depression to Tropical Storm Mirinae on October 27, and it rapidly strengthened to a Typhoon, to a peak of 105-110\u00a0mph. It did not strengthen much further, due to wind shear and its fast movement. PAGASA allocated the name Santi to the system the next day, as the storm had entered their area of responsibility. Then Mirinae crossed the Philippines, causing it to rapidly deorganize and was downgraded from a Category 2 Typhoon, to a tropical storm in one advisory. It then crossed into the South China Sea, and slowly, but steadily strengthened until it was very close to Vietnam. Where it intensified to a Typhoon again. It made landfall and rapidly weakened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Mirinae (Santi)\nMirinae's main effect in the Philippines is the strong winds it brings. From the night of October 30 until the next day, Southern Luzon, including Metro Manila, experienced lashing winds from the typhoon, where in Manila, minimal tropical storm force winds were at 39 m/h with gusts of 56 m/h at 6 a.m. local time, thus downing trees and made significant damage to several infrastructures. During Mirinae's passage in the Philippines, rainfall amounts from the typhoon were less than six inches recorded. Casualties from Mirinae both in the Philippines and Vietnam reached 162, with cost of damage amounting to $295 million (2009 USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 24W (Tino)\nLate on October 31, the JTWC reported that a tropical disturbance had formed within an area of moderate vertical windshear about 1400\u00a0km, (870\u00a0mi), to the east of Manila, Philippines. Deep convection had started to form over a low-level circulation center. The JMA then reported early the next day that the disturbance had intensified into a weak tropical depression. However at this time the JTWC did not upgrade the disturbance to a tropical depression, instead issuing a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert later that day as the depressions poleward outflow improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0068-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 24W (Tino)\nEarly on November 2, PAGASA named the depression as Tino as it was now located about 540\u00a0km (340\u00a0mi), to the northeast of Manila. Later that day the JTWC designated the depression as 24W, despite the system now encountering unfavorable levels of vertical windshear which made the low-level circulation center become fully exposed with no deep convection existing near the center. As a result of this early on November 3, the JMA, the JTWC and PAGASA all issued their final advisories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 25W\nAn area of low-pressure formed near the International Date Line on November 1. Early on November 3, the JTWC reported that an area of convection had persisted in a monsoon trough about 440\u00a0nmi (810\u00a0km) to the southeast of Pohnpei. The convection was poorly organized and was located in a monsoon trough amidst a weak and elongated circulation with weak mid-level turning. However environmental conditions were not favourable for the disturbance to develop as it was located in an area of moderate vertical windshear. Over the next few days the disturbances gradually developed a low-level circulation center and as a result was designated as a tropical depression early on November 7 by both the JMA and the JTWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 27W (Urduja)\nOn November 23, PAGASA announced that a low-pressure area east of Mindanao had developed into a Tropical Depression and had been named \"Urduja\". The same day JTWC designated the tropical depression as 27W. Early Of November 25, the depression has weakened into an area of low pressure. The remnants of Urduja were absorbed into Typhoon Nida during November 25 and 26. In Eastern Visayas, 1, 519 passengers were stranded, 719 in Western Visayas, 399 in Bicol and 185 in Southern Luzon due to Urduja. In all, four people were killed by Urduja, three due to a landslide and one from electrocution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nEarly on November 21 the JTWC reported that an area of convection had persisted within a monsoon trough about 880\u00a0km, (545\u00a0mi) to the southeast of Guam. At this time the system was moving around the subtropical ridge of pressure, with an anticyclone over the cyclone helping the convection to consolidate over a broad and elongated low-level circulation center which was located in an area of minimal vertical wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nLater that morning a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was released as deep convection increased in organization with multiple bands of convection starting to wrap into the developing low-level circulation center. The system was then declared as a tropical depression by the JMA later that day before the JTWC followed suit early the next day, who assigned the designation of 26W to the depression. On November 23, the JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical storm, and JMA followed suit allocating the name Nida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nLater the next day, JTWC reported that Nida rapidly intensified into the equivalent of a category 1 typhoon. The next day JMA upgraded Nida to a Severe Tropical Storm Intensification was anticipated until in the afternoon of November 25, then JTWC reported that Nida intensified from category 2 to a category 4 super typhoon equivalent. While JMA also upgraded it to typhoon status. At the same time an eye wall structure had formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nDuring the evening of November\u00a025, Nida further intensified into an extremely intense Category 5 equivalent super typhoon, according to the JTWC, attaining winds of 285\u00a0km/h (175\u00a0mph) as it moved north west past Guam. Nida became the first storm of this intensity in the basin in terms of 10-minute winds (JMA) since Typhoon Jangmi in 2008. Additionally, the JMA reported that the barometric pressure had decreased to 905\u00a0mbar, ranking Nida as the strongest storm to form during 2009 worldwide, only slightly eclipsing Hurricane Rick's intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0004", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nLater, Nida was downgraded to a category 4 equivalent, due to an eyewall replacement cycle, but shortly regained strength, and on November 28, Nida re-intensified to a Category 5 typhoon. It later stalled and remained quasi-stationary for some time while briefly expanding tremendously in size, then gradually weakening and shrinking into a Category 1 typhoon by November 30. While the typhoon weakened, it created a large gap in the Subtropical Ridge and sent moisture into the subtropical jet, where intense storms formed in the North Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0071-0005", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nida (Vinta)\nOn December 1, Nida weakened to a JMA Severe Tropical storm, with top winds weakening to 60 knots (110\u00a0km/h) as Nida remained nearly stationary. By December 2, Nida began to move northward slowly, while weakening further to JMA Tropical Storm status. On December 3, Nida weakened into a PAGASA tropical depression and on the same day JTWC issued a Final Warning. However, on December 4, part of its remnants were absorbed into the Jet Stream, and the other part of the main convection remained in position to merge with Tropical Depression 28W. And thus, the remnants of Nida dissipated completely on December 4. Nida was one of the most intense cyclones ever to develop in the month of November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 28W\nOn November 29 the JTWC reported that an area of unorganized deep convection had persisted about 1,300\u00a0km (810\u00a0mi) to the north of Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. Deep convection was slowly consolidating around a poorly defined low-level circulation centre, in an area of moderate to high vertical wind shear. Over the next couple of days the moderate to high vertical wind shear prevented the disturbance's low-level circulation centre from consolidating further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0072-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 28W\nOn December 2, the JTWC issued a TCFA as the disturbance moved close to the upper-level ridge axis which was providing an area of low vertical wind shear and gave the system a good chance of development within 12\u201324 hours. During the next day, the JMA reported that the disturbance had intensified into a tropical depression before the JTWC cancelled the TCFA and downgraded the depression's chance of becoming a significant tropical cyclone within 24 hours to poor, as the low-level circulation center had become elongated and exposed whilst deep convection had become poorly organized and displaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0072-0002", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 28W\nAs a consequence of the depression moving into an area of higher vertical wind shear, deep convection had become sheared to the north and northwest of the centre. Throughout December 4, the JTWC assessed the depression's chances of becoming a significant tropical cyclone within 24 hours as poor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0072-0003", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 28W\nHowever early the next day the JTWC issued their first advisory on the depression, as they reported it had become a significant tropical cyclone and designated it as Tropical Storm 28W as deep convection had been sustained near the low-level circulation center, despite vertical wind shear in excess of 30\u00a0knots (55\u00a0km/h, 35\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0072-0004", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 28W\nThe JTWC also issued their final warning at the same time as the depression was beginning to go through an extra tropical transition with dry air entering the cyclone and breaking down the storms warm core as it moved over an area of unfavourable vertical wind shear and sea surface temperatures of less than 26\u00a0\u00b0C (80\u00a0\u00b0F). The JMA then downgraded the tropical depression to an extratropical low, later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nDuring May 1, a tropical depression had developed about 648\u00a0km (403\u00a0mi) north of Yap. The JTWC briefly issued a TCFA on the system during the next day. The tropical depression meandered northward until it was last noted on May 4 when it became an extratropical low. Another tropical depression had developed about 1,000\u00a0km (620\u00a0mi) southeast of Okinawa on August 25. However the JMA discontinued tracking on the system by the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nOn September 23, a tropical depression had developed about 1,145\u00a0km (711\u00a0mi) southeast of Tokyo. As it moved northward the system started to weaken after its convection remained weak, therefore, the system dissipated on September 26. During October 16, a tropical depression formed over in favorable environments about 780\u00a0km (480\u00a0mi) to the southeast of Hue, Vietnam. By October 17, the JTWC issued a TCFA, although it was canceled few hours later. As the system's center became exposed and as it entered unfavorable environments, the system dissipated on October 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0074-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nOn November 24, the JMA started to monitor a weak tropical depression to the northeast of Borneo. Although the system did not organize further and weakened to a low-pressure during the next day. On December 7, a weak tropical depression had formed to the east of Mindanao, Philippines until it fully dissipated during December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nWithin the North-western Pacific Ocean, both the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration assign names to tropical cyclones that develop in the Western Pacific, which can result in a tropical cyclone having two names. The Japan Meteorological Agency's RSMC Tokyo\u00a0\u2014 Typhoon Center assigns international names to tropical cyclones on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization's Typhoon Committee, should they be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0075-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nWhile the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135\u00b0E and 115\u00b0E and between 5\u00b0N-25\u00b0N even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it. The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired, by both PAGASA and the Typhoon Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, International names\nDuring the season 22 named tropical cyclones developed in the Western Pacific and were named by the Japan Meteorological Agency, when it was determined that they had become tropical storms. These names were contributed to a list of a 140 names submitted by the fourteen members nations and territories of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee. The names Molave, Mujigae and Mirinae were used for the first time as it was replaced from Imbudo, Maemi and Sudal from the 2003 and 2004 seasons respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2013 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0077-0001", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThis is the same list used in the 2005 season, except for Urduja which replaced Undang, because the name Undang had been retired in the 1984 season. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. The names Ramil, Santi, Tino, Urduja and Vinta were used for the first time this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Retirement\nThe names Morakot, Ketsana, and Parma were retired by the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee. The names Atsani, Champi, and In-fa were chosen to replace Morakot, Ketsana and Parma respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Retirement\nThe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) announced that Typhoons Feria, Ondoy and Pepeng had their names retired after they both caused over 300 deaths and 1\u00a0billion PHP worth of damage in the Philippines. In June 2012, the names Fabian, Odette and Paolo were chosen by PAGASA to replace Feria, Ondoy and Pepeng respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204509-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and north of the equator during 2009. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA. All damage figures will be in 2009\u00a0USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extra tropical low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204510-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament began with the first round on March 11, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with quarterfinals on March 12, semifinals on March 13, and the finals on March 14 (3:00\u00a0p.m. PT). In front of a crowd of 16,988, #6 seed USC defeated #4 seed Arizona State for the Pac-10 Tournament Championship, which was the first and only time for their program. This was also the first time a team seeded sixth in the tournament went on to win the championship, although it would happen again three years later. The Trojans  received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA National Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204510-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds\nAll Pacific-10 schools played in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 61], "content_span": [62, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204510-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, 2009 Pac-10 Tournament\nGame time: First round \u2013 March 11, 6:00\u00a0p.m. & 8:30\u00a0p.m.; Quarterfinals \u2013 March 12, 12:00\u00a0p.m., 2:30\u00a0p.m., 6:00\u00a0p.m. & 8:30\u00a0p.m.; Semi-finals \u2013 March 13, 6:00\u00a0p.m. & 8:30\u00a0p.m.; Championship game \u2013 March 14, 3:00\u00a0p.m. (Pacific time)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 78], "content_span": [79, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204510-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, 2009 Hall of Honor inductees\nPac-10 men\u2019s basketball Hall of Honor banquet was held on Saturday, March 14, 2009 to honor the following individuals from each of the Pac-10 member schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 84], "content_span": [85, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204511-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season\nThe 2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season started on Thursday, September 3, 2009. Oregon won the Pac-10 title, which had been held by USC for the past seven years. Seven conference teams were invited to participate in post season bowl games, with only UCLA and USC winning their bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204511-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season, Previous season\nDuring the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, all five Pac-10 teams won their bowl games:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204511-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season, Preseason\nPre -season poll voted on by the media during the Pacific-10 Football Media Day, with the number of first-place votes shown in parentheses:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash\nThe 2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash occurred on July 3, 2009 in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. A Russian-manufactured Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter of the Pakistan Army crashed in Orakzai Agency. According to a source within the Army the crash was due to a technical fault. Some sources reported local people attributing the crash to militant activity. The crash site was Chapar Feroze Khel, 20 kilometres (12\u00a0mi) from Peshawar, on the border of the semi-autonomous Orakzai and Khyber tribal agencies. The area is remote and also full of militants, which hampered the rescue efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash\nOfficial accounts stated 26 soldiers were killed in the incident, but other sources put the toll at 41 people on board, all of them being killed, including 19 from the paramilitary Frontier Corps, 18 army personnel and 4 crew members. The Mi-17 is normally limited to carrying 32 passengers. Most of the personnel on board were due to go on leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash\nThe helicopter was flying from Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency, to Peshawar. Previously there were unconfirmed reports that the helicopter might have been hit by ground fire from militants, with four casualties reported, but these were contradicted by an Inter Services Public Relations report. There was an ongoing operation in the area against militants linked to Al-Qaeda at the time of the crash. Militants have claimed they shot down the aircraft and that the Taliban captured the pilot; if true this was the first such incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nChief of the army General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ordered an inquiry, but the crash prompted speculation whether the transport helicopter attracted militant gunfire and was shot down. This speculation is based on the fact that the area is a militant stronghold, and the militants had 12.7mm machine-guns capable of hitting a low flying aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nCombat and transport helicopters usually fly high to avoid fire from the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nAn official said that it would take some time before the actual cause could be determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nAccording to sources, the pilot had requested an emergency landing. They also blamed it on overloading of the aircraft. Witness accounts say that it was flying at low altitude in the mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nWeather was also not good in the area. According to one official,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Investigations\nThe weather was bad and the copter was flying low. It could either be because of the bad weather or excess weight. But nothing can be said with certainty until we retrieve the wreckage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Taliban claims\nTaliban from nearby Darra Adam Khel claimed responsibility for the crash. A spokesman for the Taliban identifying himself as Muhammad called the Agence France-Presse news agency and said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Taliban claims\nWe shot down the helicopter. It was in retaliation for the Pakistani military operation in South Waziristan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204512-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash, Taliban claims\nThis was rejected by a military spokesman, who again blamed it on a \"'technical fault\". He further said that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204513-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistani Embassy attack in Tehran\nThe 2009 Pakistani Embassy attack in Tehran occurred when the Embassy was overran by the Iranian protesters who stoned the Embassy building after learning the news of slaying of a worker at the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. According to the news sources, the protesters held placards noting \"anti-Pakistan slogans.\" The order was quickly restored and the governments of Iran and Pakistan worked to maintain calm diplomatic relations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204514-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pakistani Senate election\nSenate elections were held in Pakistan on 3 March 2009. All 100 of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards\nThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners for 2009 (rank, name of author, title of winning entry (italicized, in parentheses)). The awarding ceremonies were held on September 1, 2009, at the Peninsula Hotel Manila in Makati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Reuel Molina Aguila (Ngunit Wala Akong Litrato Noong Nasa Kolehiyo Ako)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Reagan R. Maiquez (Ilang Sandali Makalipas ang Huling Araw ng Mundo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n2nd \u2013 Alwynn C. Javier (Yaong Pakpak na Binunot sa Akin)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n3rd \u2013 Charles B. Tuvilla (Sambutil na Daigdig sa Ilalim ng Pilik)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n3rd \u2013 Jimmuel C. Naval (Ang Kamatayan ng Isang Linggo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Seymour Barros Sanchez & Christian M. Lacuesta (Hiwaga)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n2nd \u2013 Reuel Molina Aguila (Sa Kanto ng Wakas at Katotohanan Ext.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Layeta P. Bucoy (Doc Resurreccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Eugene Y. Evasco (May Tiyanak sa Loob ng Aking Bag)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n3rd \u2013 Michael M. Coroza (Munting Daigdig ng Dalit at Awit)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n1st \u2013 Axcel L. Trinidad (Si Ate Elsa, Si Aling Carmen, at Ako Laban sa mga Nangungunang Bansa sa Mundo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n2nd \u2013 Johanna Rose E. Calisin (Nagkakaisang Isip, Damdamin at Lakas)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Filipino Division\n2nd \u2013 Michael M. Coroza (Ang mga Kahon ni Kalon)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Regional Division\n1st \u2013 Ferdinand L. Balino (Kanamit Gid Sang Arroz Valenciana)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Regional Division\n2nd \u2013 Ariel S. Tabag (Dagiti Ayup Iti Bantay Quimmallugong)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, Regional Division\n3rd \u2013 Reynaldo A. Duque (Ti Kararua Ni Roman Catolico, Mannaniw, Nga Immulog Iti Impierno)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n1st \u2013 Cristina Gratia T. Tantengco (The Benefits of Selflessness)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n3rd \u2013 Angelita A. Bombarda (On Being Filipino: A Citizen to the World)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n1st \u2013 Vincenz Serrano (The Collapse of What Separates Us)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n3rd \u2013 Mark Anthony R. Cayanan (Placelessness: Poems from a Series)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n1st \u2013 Edgardo B. Maranan (The Google Song & Other Rhymes for Children)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n2nd \u2013 Heidi Emily Eusebio Abad (Child of Earth Poems)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n3rd \u2013 H. Francisco V. Penones Jr. (Turtle and Other Poems for Children)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n1st \u2013 Sigfredo R. I\u00f1igo (Home of the Sierra Madre)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n2nd \u2013 Anne Lagamayo (Mr. & Mrs. Reyes and the Polka-dotted Sofa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n2nd \u2013 Edgardo B. Maranan (The Artist of the Cave)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n1st \u2013 Edgardo B. Maranan (A Passage Through the Storm)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n2nd \u2013 Erlinda Enriquez Panlilio (Saying Goodbye to the House)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204515-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Palanca Awards, English Division\n3rd \u2013 Maria Teresa P. Garcia (Sweet of the Earth)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204516-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Palau Soccer League\nThe 2009 season of the Palau Soccer League was the sixth season of association football competition in Palau. Melekeok FC won the championship, their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing\nThe 2009 Palma Nova bombing occurred on July 30, 2009, when a limpet bomb went off outside a Civil Guard barracks in the town of Palma Nova, Majorca, Spain. The bomb was placed under a patrol car and two Civil Guard officers died as a result of the explosion. A second device was found under another Civil Guard vehicle at nearby barracks and safely exploded by police. On August 9, the Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA claimed responsibility for the attack, while four other bombs exploded around restaurants and shopping centres in Palma, Majorca, causing no injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing\nThe bombing was ETA's first attack in Majorca since it tried to kill King Juan Carlos I in the summer of 1995, and its deadliest attack since it killed two Civil Guard officers in Capbreton, France in 2007. The attack came on the eve of the 50th anniversary of ETA's founding, and days before the King's yearly visit to Majorca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Background\nIn mid-2006, the organisation declared a ceasefire, and conversations between Batasuna, ETA and the Basque and Spanish governments started. Peace talks ended in December, when ETA broke the truce with a massive car bomb at the Madrid-Barajas Airport. ETA officially ended the ceasefire in 2007 and resumed its attacks around Spain. At the same time, dozens of members were arrested by Spanish and French police. Despite that, the organisation did not lose the capacity of carrying out attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Background\nIn 2009, Patxi L\u00f3pez became the first non-nationalist lendakari since the 1979 Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country. On June 19, ETA killed inspector Eduardo Puelles Garc\u00eda in Arrigorriaga near Bilbao, Biscay, when a bomb attached to his car exploded, and on July 9, a powerful bomb exploded in a Socialist Workers' Party local office in Durango, Biscay, causing no injuries. In late July, it was reported that ETA was preparing its \"summer campaign\", with Spanish police looking for several vans the organisation had ready to explode. On July 29, a van loaded with 300 kilograms (660\u00a0lb) of explosives went off in front of a Civil Guard barracks in Burgos, injuring 70, including women and children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Background\nThe bombing was the first time since 2007 in which ETA killed more than one person in one of its attacks. On December 2, 2007, two undercover Civil Guards were shot dead in the French town of Capbreton, Aquitaine. It was also the deadliest attack in Spanish soil since the Madrid-Barajas Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Background\nThe attack was the first time ETA had killed in Majorca, one of the Spanish regions less targeted by ETA. On August 18, 1977, a bomb was deactivated next to a seafront walk. On July 31, 1991, two people were injured after two bombs went off in Palma. Two months later, a car bomb was defused in Palma's main beach. In the summer of 1995, Spanish authorities dismantled a cell of ETA ready to shoot king Juan Carlos I. In 2005, the organisation attempted the magnicide once more in Majorca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Attack\nAt 13.50, a 3 kilograms (6.6\u00a0lb) bomb placed under a Civil Guard Nissan Patrol went off, killing officers Carlos Sa\u00e9nz de Tejada Garc\u00eda and Diego Salva Lezaun. One of the officers died instantly, while paramedics failed to resuscitate the other officer. Both officers were inside the car when the bomb exploded. The vehicle had been parked in the Na Boira street, in front of a government-owned building used as a post office and Civil Guard barracks, among other functions. Many hotels are located in the area, something which caused many foreign tourists, mainly German and British, to witness the blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Attack\nAfter the attack, authorities started to look for other possible bombs in the area, with the Civil Guard giving the order to search in all barracks on the island. Soon after, a detection dog found a bomb attached to another Civil Guard Nissan Patrol parked in front of a barracks located 1 kilometre (0.62\u00a0mi) from where the first bomb had exploded. The area was cordoned off and people evacuated from nearby houses and hotels. At 18.30, Civil Guard bomb disposal officers TEDAX carried out a controlled explosion. The bomb had been placed in a broken down vehicle and was therefore not in use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Aftermath\nOn July 31, a funeral was held at the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Palma. The service was attended by Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero and Prince and Princess of Asturias, Felipe and Letizia. Other people attending the mass were leader of the opposition Mariano Rajoy, Minister of the Interior Alfredo P\u00e9rez Rubalcaba and Patxi L\u00f3pez, among others. At least 2,000 gathered outside of the cathedral and a minute of silence was held across Spain in memory of the dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Aftermath, Operation Cage\nRight after the attack, and suspecting that the bombers were still on the island, the Civil Guard and the National Police Corps launched a lockdown, an operation named Operation Cage (Spanish: Operaci\u00f3n Jaula), the biggest manhunt in the history of the island. Similar operations had been done around Spain in other attacks, such as in the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Checkpoints were set up across the island, while the Palma de Mallorca Airport and all ports were temporarily closed. The airport was closed at 4:00 pm and was re-opened at 5:55 pm, with several flights being delayed. During the rest of the afternoon, the ports were re-opened as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Aftermath, Operation Cage\nThe day after the attack, Spanish police released the picture of six members of ETA who could have possibly taken part in the bombing. Police named the suspects as Itziar Mart\u00ednez Moreno, Iratxe Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Ortiz de Barr\u00f3n, Alberto Beraza Machain, Oroitz Gurruchaga Gogorza, Joanes Larretxea Mendiola and Iv\u00e1n S\u00e1ez de J\u00e1uregui Ortigosa, although no direct evidence linked them to the attack. Meanwhile, at least 1600 police officers were deployed to keep checking around the island, including on fisherman. The intense search was still active in mid August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Aftermath, Reactions\nDuring a press conference at the Moncloa Palace, Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero blamed both bombings \"on the terrorist group ETA\" and vowed to bring all of its members to justice: \"They have no chance to hide, they can't flee, they can't escape justice, they will be arrested, they will be sentenced, they will spend their lives in jail\". When arriving on Majorca on August 1 for his yearly summer holidays King Juan Carlos I condemned the attack and vowed to \"go on and on hitting them in the head and we must fight to stop them\". Condemnation also came from governments worldwide following the bombing:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, August bombings\nOn August 9, the same day ETA claimed responsibility for the July 30 attack, four bombs exploded in three restaurants and one shopping centre around Palma. The bombs, which contained small amounts of explosives and caused little damage and no injuries, went off after three warning calls from ETA. At 11:16 am local time, a man speaking on behalf of ETA called the firefighters of Calvi\u00e0, warning that three bombs would go off in Palma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, August bombings\nHalf an hour later, another person also speaking on behalf of ETA called a taxi company in Gipuzkoa, giving details of the location and time the bombs would explode. Finally, another warning call was mistakenly made to the personal mobile phone of an inhabitant of C\u00f3rdoba. Authorities reported that the bombers had given contradicting details in each call, leading to confusion on the location of the bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, August bombings\nThe first bomb exploded at 12:00 pm in the bar \"Nica\", located in the avenue Comte de Sallent. The explosion was at first not reported, with authorities believing it was a gas explosion. The second bomb exploded at around 2:25 pm in the \"La Rigoletta\" restaurant, in front of one of Palma's main beaches. The third bomb went off at around 4:00 pm in another restaurant, named \"Enco\". The fourth device exploded around 6:00 pm in a shopping mall located next to the main square of Palma. As a result of the few details given by the warning calls, police failed to evacuate the attacked restaurants. Nonetheless, no one was injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Investigation\nAuthorities rapidly ruled out the possibility that ETA had a cell in the island, with police believing the attack had been carried out by a unit that had travelled to the island specifically to carry it out. Initial reports stated that the bombers had set the bomb off with a remote control. Once the second bomb was spotted, police announced that it had a timer device, which could have allowed the members of ETA to plant the bomb several days before the attack and leave the island. Earlier, Government delegate for Majorca, Ramon Soc\u00edas, had said that security forces believed that the bombers had not left Majorca, and were hiding on the island, waiting for the situation to cool down before attempting to leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Investigation\nRegarding the August 8 bombings, Alfredo P\u00e9rez Rubalcaba did not rule out any possibility, although he confirmed that the hypothesis of the bombers leaving the island before the attack was \"reasonable\", due to the timer devices. All of the bombs had been planted in women's toilets, which led authorities to believe that they had been set by one of the two female suspects, Itziar Mart\u00ednez Moreno and Iratxe Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Ortiz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Investigation, Arrests\nOn August 19, Alberto Matxain Beraza was arrested in the French town of Le Corbier in Savoy, next to the French Alps. He was held along with fellow ETA members Aitzol Etxaburu and Andoni Sarasola. They were responsible for ETA\u2019s logistics operation, and had the job of supplying weapons and explosives to the ETA cells operating in Spanish soil. The arrest led to the discovery of almost a tone of explosives, hidden by ETA in 12 small caches around France. On October 11, Joanes Larretxea was arrested in Rivi\u00e8res, Gard, along with top ETA member Lurgi Mendinueta Mintegi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204517-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Palma Nova bombing, Investigation, Arrests\nIratxe Ya\u00f1ez Ortiz was arrested on January 10, 2010, in Portugal after she was stopped in a routine traffic check-point in the Spanish town of Bermillo de Sayago, next to Spain-Portugal border. Ya\u00f1ez Ortiz was arrested along another member of ETA, Garikoitz Garc\u00eda Arrieta, who was driving a van containing 10 kilograms (22\u00a0lb) of explosives, two pistols, a rifle and bomb-making material. She was extradited to Spain on October 28, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204518-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Palmer Cup\nThe 2009 Palmer Cup was held on June 4\u20135, 2009 at Cherry Hills Country Club, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Europe won 13 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204518-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Palmer Cup, Format\nOn Thursday, there were four matches of four-ball in the morning, followed by eight singles matches in the afternoon. Four foursomes matches were played on the Friday morning with a further eight singles in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204518-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Palmer Cup, Format\nEach of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole, each side earned half a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 12\u00bd points won the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204518-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Palmer Cup, Teams\nEight college golfers from the United States and Europe participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204518-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Palmer Cup, Michael Carter award\nThe Michael Carter Award winners were Trent Leon and Robin Wingardh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204519-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan Am Badminton Championships\nThe XV 2009 Pan Am Badminton Championships were held in Guadalajara, Mexico, between October 20 and October 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204519-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan Am Badminton Championships\nThis event was part of the 2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix series of the Badminton World Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204520-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were held in Morelos, Mexico. The competition was organized by the Mexican Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204521-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Judo Championships\nThe 2009 Pan American Judo Championships was held in Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 26 March to 27 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204522-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships\nThe 2009 Pan American Junior Championships were held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on July 31 to August 2, 2009. A report on theresults was given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204522-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found. An unofficial count yields the number of about 397athletes from about 32 countries:  Argentina (10), Aruba (1), Bahamas (13), Barbados (5), Bermuda (8), Bolivia(1), Brazil (34), British Virgin Islands (6), Canada (51), Chile (11),Colombia (9), Costa Rica (10), Cuba (6), Dominican Republic (12), El Salvador(3), Grenada (5), Guyana (6), Jamaica (27), Mexico (23), Netherlands Antilles(3), Panama (2), Paraguay (1), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (9), Saint Kitts andNevis (9), Saint Lucia (3), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2), Suriname(1), Trinidad and Tobago (32), Turks and Caicos (2), United States (82),Venezuela (9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204522-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, Medal summary\nComplete results can be found Complete results can be found on the Athletics Canada website, on the C.F.P.I. Timing website, on the USA Track & Field website, on the Tilastopaja website, and on the \"World Junior Athletics History\"website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204523-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship took place in Buenos Aires from April 14 \u2013 April 18. It acts as the American qualifying tournament for the 2009 Men's Junior World Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204524-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup\nThe 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup was held in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1\u20132 May. The track of the Cup runs in the Boulevard del Hip\u00f3dromo, Zona Rosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204524-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup\nA detailed report was given by Javier Clavelo Robinson. Complete results were published", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204524-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup, Participation\nThe participation of 120 athletes from 15 countries was announced to participate. However, because of visa problems, the majority (namely 11 out of 13) of the Ecuadorian athletes was not allowed to enter the country. An unofficial count therefore only yields 108 participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204525-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Women's Handball Championship\nThe 2009 Pan American Women's Handball Championship was the tenth edition of the Pan American Women's Handball Championship, which took place in Santiago from 23 to 27 June. It acted as the Pan American qualifying tournament for the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204525-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Women's Handball Championship, Qualification\nChile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States played a qualification tournament at Mexico, to determine the last 2 participating nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204525-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan American Women's Handball Championship, Placement round\nPoints from the preliminary round against teams that advanced as well were carried over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204526-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan-Pacific Championship\nThe 2009 Pan-Pacific Championship was the second edition of the Pan-Pacific Championship. It was held in February 2009 in Carson, California, United States and featured the champions from the Chinese Super League and K-League, J. League Cup winners, and the hosts, Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204526-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan-Pacific Championship\nThe Galaxy faced the Japanese representative, Oita Trinita, in the semi-final stage for the second successive year after facing Gamba Osaka in the 2008 competition, and this time they won the match. In the other semi-final, Korean side Suwon Samsung Bluewings beat Shandong Luneng Taishan of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204526-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan-Pacific Championship\nOita Trinita beat Shandong Luneng 2\u20131 to finish third in the tournament and Suwon Bluewings won the trophy after a 4\u20132 penalty shootout win over the Galaxy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204526-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pan-Pacific Championship, Sponsors\nThe following is a list of the official sponsors of the Pan-Pacific Championship 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election\nPresidential and parliamentary elections were held in Panama on May 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election, Presidential race\nBalbina Herrera was the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate for President of Panama. She had previously served as President of the National Assembly of Panama during the Mireya Moscoso presidency and Housing Minister under outgoing president Martin Torrijos. Herrera won her party's primary on September 7, 2008, defeating Panama City Mayor Juan Carlos Navarro with a ten-point lead. The Liberal Party and the People's Party were in alliance with the PRD in support of Herrera. Herrera was also endorsed by Ruben Blades, a popular salsa musician who had previously run for president and served as Torrijos' Minister of Tourism, and was initially considered the favorite for the presidency. If elected, she would have become Panama's second female president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election, Presidential race\nRicardo Martinelli was the candidate of the opposition Democratic Change, also supported by the Patriotic Union Party, the Paname\u00f1ista Party and the Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement. Martinelli was a successful businessman, and was the chairman of the board of Panama's Super 99 supermarket chain. During the presidency of Ernesto P\u00e9rez Balladares, Martinelli had served as Director of Social Security from 1994 to 1996. From September 1999 to January 2003, he had served in the Moscoso Administration as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal and as the Minister for Canal Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election, Presidential race\nGuillermo Endara, former Panamanian president from 1989 to 1994, ran as the candidate for the Fatherland's Moral Vanguard Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election, Presidential race\nThough initially the favorite, Herrera was damaged in the election by her links to former military ruler Manuel Noriega and by the perception that she was a \"Chavista\", a supporter of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Martinelli was also helped by strong support from the business community and his campaign promise of \"real change\" resonated among poor voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204527-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Panamanian general election, Presidential race\nOn May 3, 2009, Martinelli won the national elections by a landslide, with over 60% of the votes compared to Herrera, who received about 36%. Former president Guillermo Endara finished a distant third. Martinelli was declared the winner after 43.68% of the votes had been counted. This was the second-largest majority in Panamanian history, and the largest since 1989. Martinelli's victory was an exception to a trend of victories for left-leaning Latin American candidates. He was sworn in on July 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204528-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak\nThe Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak was an outbreak of cholera along the Northern Coast of Papua New Guinea. It was the country's first outbreak of cholera in 50 years, and spread across the country from two coastal villages near Lae to villages around MAdang and to remote areas along the Sepik River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204528-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak, History\nThe outbreak began in Morobe Province in July 2009, but by February 2010, it had spread to Madang and East Sepik, according to World Health Organization representative Eigil Sorensen. The rapid spread of the disease was due to poor water sanitation, and travel by infected people who did not show symptoms. According to Sorensen, many areas of Papua New Guinea, often crowded settlements or the outskirts of cities with no proper sewage systems, provided the \"ideal conditions\" for a nationwide cholera epidemic, and the disease was \"gradually spreading\" all over the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204528-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak, History\nAn estimated 2,000 cases have been confirmed, but only 50 people have died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204529-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Papua earthquakes\nThe 2009 Papua earthquakes occurred on January 4 local time in Indonesia's West Papua province. The very large earthquake doublet comprised a magnitude 7.6 initial shock that had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong) and a second very large event that had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The events took place less than three hours apart to the east-northeast of Sorong on the Bird's Head Peninsula and left at least four people dead and dozens injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204529-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Papua earthquakes\nAn official of World Vision International, a humanitarian aid organization, said ten buildings had been totally destroyed, including several hotels and the house of a government official. Officials said three people, who had been staying at the Mutiara hotel in the city of Manokwari, were pulled alive from the rubble and taken to a hospital. Two hotels collapsed in the quake. There have been twenty-three aftershocks above magnitude 5.0 and another at magnitude 6.0. The earthquakes were also felt in nearby Papua New Guinea and Darwin, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament\nThe 2009 Paradise Jam Tournament was a men's and women's preseason college basketball tournament that took place in Saint Thomas at the Sports and Fitness Center. Purdue won the men's division while Notre Dame won the women's Island Division and Rutgers won the women's Reef Division. The men's final game included a spectacular play where Purdue player Chris Kramer swam down the court in order to poke the ball from a dribbling Tennessee player, knocking the ball off another Tennessee player to give Purdue the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament\nThe woman's tournament is organized as two divisions of four teams, each playing each other in a round-robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Overview, Island Division\nIn the opening round, 20th ranked (AP) Oklahoma faced South Carolina. The Sooners opened up a 20-point lead in the first half which South Carolina cut to two points part way through the second half. Oklahoma then ran off nine consecutive points to expand the lead back to double digits, and went on to win 75\u201367. The other match up featured two top 25 team, Notre Dame, ranked 5th (AP) and San Diego State, ranked 23rd (AP). The Irish held a 21-point lead in the first half, which was still 15 points at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Overview, Island Division\nThe Aztecs continued to chip away at the lead and cut the margin to two points with under 30 seconds to go in the game However, Brittany Mallory connected on three of four free throws in the final seconds to secure the win, 84\u201379. The win was the 500th of Notre Dame's head coach Muffet McGraw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Overview, Island Division\nOn the following day, Notre Dame played South Carolina and won 78\u201355. Oklahoma faced San Diego State, and opened up a 47\u201315 halftime lead, then cruised to a win with a score of 87\u201348. On the final day, the two 2\u20130 teams faced each other for the championship. Although the Irish had an eight-point halftime lead, Oklahoma came back to take a three-point lead near the midpoint of the second half. Then Notre Dame scored 20 consecutive points to take a commanding lead, and ended up winning the 2009 Paradise Jam Championship 81\u201371. Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins was named the tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 75], "content_span": [76, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204530-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Paradise Jam Tournament, Women's Tournament, Overview, Reef Division\nIn the opening round, Rutgers beat USC 66\u201351, while Texas beat Mississippi State 73\u201355. The following day Rutgers beat Mississippi State 62\u201354 while Southern California beat Texas 61\u201354. On the final day, Rutgers, with a 2\u20130 record had a chance to win the tournament outright. They lost to Texas 70\u201367, because they had beaten USC, who also ended with a 2\u20131 after a win against Mississippi State, they were crowned the 2009 Paradise Jam Champions (Reef Division).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 2009 Divisi\u00f3n Profesional season (officially the 2009 Copa TIGO for sponsorship reasons) is the 75th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay. It is the second season in which a champion will be crowned for each tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Apertura\nThe Campeonato de Apertura, also the Torneo TIGO Apertura for sponsorship reasons, is the first championship of the season. It began on February 14 and ended on July 5. The championship is officially called the Centenario del Club Sol de Am\u00e9rica to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Club Sol de Am\u00e9rica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Torneo Clausura\nThe Campeonato de Clausura, also the Torneo Tigo Clausura for sponsorship reasons, is the second championship of the season. It began on July 25 and end on December 13. The championship is officially called the Campeones de Am\u00e9rica - 1953 to commemorate the Paraguayan national team's 1953 South American Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, International qualification\nThe two tournament champions earn the Paraguay 1 and Paraguay 2 berths in the Second Stage of the 2010 Copa Libertadores. All remaining international qualification will be determined through a season-wide aggregate table. The Paraguay 3 in the 2010 Copa Libertadores berth goes to the best-placed non-champion. For the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, the Paraguay 1 berth goes to the highest placed champion. Paraguay 2 and Paraguay 3 will go to the highest placed teams who have not qualified to an international tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation\nRelegations is determined at the end of the season by computing an average (Spanish: promedio) of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The team with the lowest average is relegated to the Divisi\u00f3n Intermedia for the following season. The next lowest team plays a relegation/promotion playoff match against the 2009 Divisi\u00f3n Intermedia runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204531-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation, Relegation/promotion playoff\nThe relegation/promotion playoff was contested over two legs. The team who earned the most points over two legs was promoted\u2014 or remained \u2014in the Primera Divisi\u00f3n. Should there be a tie in points, goal difference was taken into account, followed a penalty shootout if needed. Sport Colombia played at home during the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204532-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 2009 Paris\u2013Nice, the 67th running of the race, started on 8 March in Amilly, and concluded on 15 March in Nice. It was won by Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204532-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Nice\nFavorites to win included Alberto Contador, who won in 2007, Cadel Evans, and Fr\u00e4nk Schleck. The 2008 winner, Davide Rebellin, did not take part in the event. The race was the second event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204532-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Nice, Teams and cyclists\nThe following 20 UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were selected to the 2009 Paris\u2013Nice:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the 107th running of the Paris\u2013Roubaix single-day cycling race, often known as the Hell of the North. It was held on 12 April 2009 over a distance of 259 kilometres (160.9 miles). The race was won by Tom Boonen, who won his third Paris\u2013Roubaix (2005, 2008, 2009). Boonen finished the race alone, seconds ahead of Filippo Pozzato. Thor Hushovd arrived third, to round out the podium. The race was the eighth event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Key Moments\nNearly all of the riders featured in the top ten endured at least a minor crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Key Moments\nA group of eleven riders formed the early breakaway, but was caught again with still about 60 kilometres to go. Six riders then eventually broke away from the rest of the peloton: Tom Boonen, Juan Antonio Flecha, Leif Hoste, Thor Hushovd, Filippo Pozzato and Johan Van Summeren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Key Moments\nAt Carrefour de l'arbre, about 15 kilometres from the finish, Flecha crashed and took Hoste with him in his fall. Van Summeren and Pozzato were held back which allowed Boonen and Hushovd to break away. However, just a few hundred metres further, Hushovd also crashed and Boonen continued on his own. Pozzato came to within 10 seconds but never managed to close the gap, allowing Boonen to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Key Moments\nDuring the race an official motorcycle crashed into the supporting crowd injuring sixteen people, four seriously. Three of the injured were flown by helicopter to hospitals in northern France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204533-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Pre-Race favorites\nFavorites included 2008 winner Tom Boonen, teammate and Tour of Flanders winner Stijn Devolder, Garmin-Slipstream's Martijn Maaskant, and 2006 winner, Fabian Cancellara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204534-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 2009 Paris\u2013Tours is the 103rd edition of this single day road bicycle racing event and is organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also runs the Tour de France. The 230\u00a0km event took place on October 11, 2009 and was won by Philippe Gilbert, the Belgian rider for Silence\u2013Lotto in 5 hours, 12 minutes, 23 seconds. Gilbert, along with countryman Tom Boonen (Quick Step) and Slovenia's Borut Bo\u017ei\u010d (Vacansoleil), escaped with 7\u00a0km to go at the base of the C\u00f4te de l'Epan behind an attack from Gilbert's teammate Greg Van Avermaet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season\nThe 2009 Parramatta Eels season was the 63rd in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership, just making the finals by finishing 8th (out of 16). The Eels then continued their winning streak into the play-offs, reaching the 2009 NRL grand final which they lost to the Melbourne Storm. Mid -season the Eels had a change of CEO, Denis Fitzgerald was replaced by Paul Osborne. Fullback Jarryd Hayne was the only Eels player selected to play in the 2009 State of Origin series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nUnder new coach Daniel Anderson, the Eels had an indifferent start to the season which saw the release of star halfback Brett Finch. After 18 rounds and incredibly inconsistent form, the Parramatta Eels had won only 5 games and were sitting third-last and were in direct contention for the dreaded 2009 NRL Wooden Spoon. TAB SportsBet had the Eels as $151 outsiders to win the NRL Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nThough beginning in Round 19, upset victories against the Melbourne Storm and the Canterbury Bulldogs set the platform for an unexpected 10 wins from the next 11 games, which propelled the Eels into the Top 8 and consequently, premiership contention. This unanticipated winning streak was directly attributed by many sporting experts including Rugby League legend Andrew Johns to the spectacular run of form of star fullback Jarryd Hayne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nWinning the award for man-of-the-match in every game from Round 19\u201324, and again in the first week of the finals, Hayne was described as \"the best player in any code of football in Australia\" by premiership-winning coach Phil Gould. Following his astonishing string of 7-man-of-the-match performances, Hayne won the award for Dally M Fullback of the Year and was crowned the best and fairest player in the game, winning the Dally M Medal for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nAfter a 7-game winning streak, the Eels succumbed to a heavy defeat to the minor premiers St George-Illawarra Dragons, however they returned to Kogarah in Week 1 of the 2009 NRL Finals Series and defeated the Dragons 25\u201312 featuring an impressive late game try by Dally M medal winner Jarryd Hayne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nFollowing successive wins against the Gold Coast Titans (a team that Parramatta had never beaten before), 27\u20132 at SFS and the Bulldogs, 22\u201312 in front of a record-breaking non-Grand Final crowd of 74,549 at ANZ stadium, the Eels qualified for their first Grand Final since 2001, becoming the first 8th-placed team to ever qualify for a Grand Final. On 4 October 2009, Parramatta Eels played the deciding game of NRL, against the Melbourne Storm at ANZ Stadium in front of a crowd of 82,538. The Eels lost the match 23\u201316, ending what critics called \"the Parramatta Fairytale\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Summary\nOn 22 April 2010 the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the premiership as a result of long-term gross salary cap breaches disclosed by the NRL. However, the premiership for 2009 was not handed over to the Parramatta Eels, instead remaining vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Fixtures, Regular season\nThe 2009 Telstra Premiership season draw for Parramatta is as follows", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204535-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Parramatta Eels season, Ladder, National Rugby League\n1 The Bulldogs were deducted 2 competition points after an interchange breach in Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204536-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Patriot League Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Patriot League Baseball Tournament was held on consecutive weekends with the semifinals held May 9\u201310 and the finals May 16\u201317, 2009 to determine the champion of the Patriot League for baseball for the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The event matched the top four finishers of the six team league in a double-elimination tournament. Second seeded Army won their fifth championship and claimed the Patriot's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Ben Koenigsfeld of Army was named Tournament Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204536-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Patriot League Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding\nThe top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team was designated as the home team in the second game of each series. Bucknell hosted Lafayette while Holy Cross visited Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204537-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place on March 4, 2009 as a single-elimination tournament, with games being played at the higher seeds' home courts. The American University Eagles won the league's regular season, and received the number one seed in the tournament. The higher seed in each match-up was the host team for each game. The Eagles became the seventh team to repeat as Patriot League champions when they beat the second seeded Holy Cross Crusaders 73\u201357 in the championship game, which was broadcast live on ESPN2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204537-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket\nThe Patriot League announced the bracket and seed on February 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204538-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pattaya Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nChan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung are the defending champions but only Chuang Chia-jung participated this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204538-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pattaya Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nChuang Chia-jung partnered Akgul Amanmuradova, but they lost in semifinals to Yulia Beygelzimer and Vitalia Diatchenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204539-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pattaya Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nAgnieszka Radwa\u0144ska was the defending champion, but chose to participate in the Open GDF Suez, which was held the same week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204540-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Paul Hunter Classic\nThe 2009 Paul Hunter Classic was a pro\u2013am snooker tournament held in August 2009. Shaun Murphy was the reigning champion, and defended his title in the final against Jimmy White with a 4\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204541-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pavel Roman Memorial\nThe 2009 Pavel Roman Memorial (Czech: Memori\u00e1l Pavla Romana) was the 15th edition of an annual international ice dancing competition held in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The event was held on November 20\u201322, 2009. Ice dancers competed in the senior, junior, and novice levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup\nThe 2009 Peace Cup Andalucia was an invitational friendly football tournament. It was the fourth edition of Peace Cup and was held in Spain from 24 July to 2 August in the cities of Madrid, Seville, M\u00e1laga, Jerez and Huelva. It was the first time that the tournament has been hosted by a nation other than South Korea. The winners of the tournament were Aston Villa, who defeated Juventus in the final. They succeeded Olympique Lyonnais, who were the previous holders of the tournament through winning the 2007 edition. It was one of seven 2009 pre-season friendly tournaments, the others being the Emirates Cup, the Barclays Asia Trophy, the World Football Challenge, the Wembley Cup, the Amsterdam Tournament and the Audi Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Host and Venues, Host country\nAfter the previous three tournaments were held in South Korea, the Peace Cup Committee decided that the tournament would be hosted by another country. In 2007, the Peace Cup organizers were connected with Sports Ministry of Andalucia and Andalucia Football Federation, after the discussion with the Autonomous Community of Andalucia, they suggested the cities of Seville, M\u00e1laga, Huelva and Jerez to host the 2009 Peace Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Host and Venues, Host country\nOn 19 December 2007, it was announced in a press conference in Seville that the number of teams would be increased to 12. It was also confirmed that Real Madrid and Sevilla would be playing in the tournament. The Peace Cup committee continued to negotiate with other \"big\" clubs, by 13 April 2009, eight more participating clubs such as Juventus, M\u00e1laga, Lyon, Aston Villa, Celtic, Porto, Fenerbah\u00e7e and LDU Quito, were announced. Celtic and Fenerbah\u00e7e, however, were forced to pull out due to conflicts with UEFA Champions League qualifying ties; they were replaced by Atlante and Be\u015fikta\u015f, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 45], "content_span": [46, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Host and Venues, Venues\nThe official venue for the tournament was Andalucia, however some matches were played in Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Teams\nThe following 12 teams confirmed to play in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Details, Format\nThe 12 teams were divided into four groups of three teams. Each team played one match against each other in the group stage, the first place in each group qualified to the semi-finals and the winners advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Details, Prize\nThe champion and the runner-up received trophies as well as the corresponding cash prizes. The prizes were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Details, Competition notes\nSeveral players scored their first goals for new clubs in the 2009 Peace Cup competition, though these goals do not impact their regular season statistics. These players included Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his first goal for Real Madrid, Diego scored his first goal for Juventus in the Peace Cup, and Marc Albrighton scored his first goal for Aston Villa in the Peace Cup. Aston Villa's Stiliyan Petrov suffered a dislocated shoulder in the competition's group stages that forced him to miss significant time with injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Matches\nThe final draw for the 2009 Peace Cup was staged in Seville on 16 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Matches, Group stage\nThe first place (shaded in green) qualified to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Scorers\nBrazilian striker Hulk of Porto was the tournament's top scorer with three goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204542-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Peace Cup, Broadcasting rights\nThe following broadcasting systems had the rights for the broadcast of 2009 Peace Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204543-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Peak Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy 300\nThe 2009 Peak Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy 300 was the fifteenth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on August 29, 2009 at the 1.520-mile (2.446\u00a0km) Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. The race was won by Ryan Briscoe who beat Scott Dixon on the last lap to win by only 0.0077 of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204544-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open\nThe 2009 Pekao Szczecin Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the seventeenth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Szczecin, Poland between 14 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204544-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204544-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204544-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open, Champions, Doubles\nTomasz Bednarek /  Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. /  Artem Smirnov, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204545-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Doubles\nDavid Marrero and Dawid Olejniczak were the defending champions, but they didn't start this year. Polish pair Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk won this tournament, by defeating Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. and Artem Smirnov 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204546-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pekao Szczecin Open \u2013 Singles\nFlorent Serra was the defending champion. He reached the final, but lost to Evgeny Korolev 4\u20136, 3\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching\nThe 2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching or Norfolk Island ditching was an aircraft accident on 18 November 2009 near Norfolk Island, Australia. A Westwind II jet operated by Pel-Air was conducting an air ambulance flight for CareFlight International when it was forced to ditch after being unable to land in bad weather and not having sufficient fuel to divert to an alternate destination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching\nThe official accident report issued two and half years later by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) attracted wide criticism, and resulted in an Australian Senate Enquiry that found both the ATSB and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) had failed to carry out their responsibilities with respect to the accident investigation. In response to the criticism, the ATSB requested that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada review the ATSB's investigation methodologies and processes, and subsequently reopened the investigation on 8 December 2014. The final report of the reopened investigation was released on 23 November 2017, and contained 531 pages and 36 safety factors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Flight details\nOn 18 November 2009, an IAI 1124A Westwind II conducted an air ambulance flight from Apia, Samoa to Melbourne on behalf of CareFlight. The aircraft was scheduled to land at Norfolk Island to refuel, but weather conditions deteriorated while it was en route. The aircraft did not carry enough fuel to divert to an alternate destination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Flight details\nAfter not being able to make visual observation of the runway after four instrument approaches, the crew ditched the aircraft in open sea 6 kilometres (3.2\u00a0nmi) west of Norfolk Island in darkness and bad weather. A pocket torch that the captain had in his possession and used as a distress signal was spotted from land in an area of the sea where the search and rescue effort was initially not concentrated; all six occupants were rescued by local fishermen after 90 minutes in the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Investigation\nThe accident report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) states \"At Apia, the pilot in command submitted a flight plan by telephone to Airservices Australia. At that time, the forecast weather conditions at Norfolk Island for the arrival did not require the carriage of additional fuel for holding, or the nomination of an alternate airport\". The ATSB report further states that the main tanks of the aircraft were full \"which would provide sufficient fuel and reserves for the flight\". The press reported that the pilot was suspended pending the outcome of the official investigation. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) investigated the flight planning, fuel planning and management, and decision-making that contributed towards the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Senate inquiry and controversy\nOn 23 May 2013 a report was released by the Australian Senate following an inquiry into the ATSB investigation of the ditching. This inquiry was sparked by a Four Corners documentary that aired allegations of misconduct by the ATSB and CASA. The Senate's report found that the ATSB accident report was deeply flawed and unfairly blamed the pilot wholly for the accident, and as a consequence the Senate recommended that the accident report be withdrawn and re-done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Senate inquiry and controversy\n\"It is disappointing that CASA and the ATSB continue to assert, in the face of evidence to the contrary, that the only part of the system with any effect on the accident sequence was the pilot..\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Senate inquiry and controversy\nThe Senate committee determined that the ATSB's decision not to retrieve the flight recorders was incongruous with its responsibilities under International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Chicago Convention Annex 13. It also found evidence of collusion between the agencies; that CASA deliberately withheld the Chambers Report from the ATSB; and that the heads of both agencies gave testimony that wasn't credible. The committee made a total of 26 recommendations covering the accident, the operations of the ATSB and the operations of CASA. The committee also passed evidence to the Australian Federal Police, pending the possibility of charges being laid against individuals from CASA who were involved in breaching the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Subsequent actions\nIn response to the criticism, the ATSB requested the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) to review the Australian investigation methodologies and processes. The TSB review concluded that the ATSB's methodologies and processes met or exceeded the recommended practices described in ICAO Annex 13, but its application to the accident at Norfolk Island fell short of the ATSB's own standards. On 8 December 2014, the ATSB reopened the investigation. On 11 November 2015 the flight recorders were retrieved from the wreckage on the seabed. Both flight recorders contained valid data. The final report of the reopened investigation was released on 23 November 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204547-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching, Subsequent actions\nIn the 531-page final report, most of the responsibility was still placed on the pilot for inadequate fuel planning and weather checking. However, the report also acknowledged that the pilot was operating within company rules and regulatory guidance, both of which were lax. In particular, air ambulance flights were classified as \"aerial work\" rather than \"charter\", resulting in such fights being subjected to looser requirements than other passenger-carrying flights. It also commented that air traffic controllers at Nadi and Auckland failed to inform the pilot of the deteriorating weather conditions at Norfolk Island before the flight reached the point of no return, although the pilot also did not proactively request such information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204548-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pembroke state by-election\nA by-election was held in the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Pembroke on 1 August 2009. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Allison Ritchie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204548-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pembroke state by-election, Background\nRitchie was first elected to the Legislative Council in 2001 at the age of 26, the youngest person ever elected to that chamber. She spent nine and a half weeks as Minister for Planning and Workplace Relations in 2008, but resigned due to ill health. She announced her resignation from parliament amid allegations of nepotism on 20 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204548-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pembroke state by-election, Candidates\nThe writ for the by-election was issued on 30 June 2009; nominations closed on 9 July. The eight candidates were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204548-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pembroke state by-election, Results, Distribution of Preferences\nThe distribution of preferences is shown in detail on the Tasmanian Electoral Commission website. In accordance with the preferential voting system, the following candidates were excluded in the order shown and their votes distributed to remaining candidates or declared exhausted (no more preferences): Soo, Cooper, Crotty, Peers, Bacon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204548-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pembroke state by-election, Results, Distribution of Preferences\nVanessa Goodwin attained a quota (an absolute majority of formal votes) when two other candidates were left in the count, meaning that no two-candidate-preferred figure was attained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election\nAn election to fill the state assembly seat for Penanti was held on 31 May 2009. Penanti has 15,384 registered voters, with 73% of them Malays, 24% Chinese, 2% Indians and 0.7% of other communities. Dr Mansor Othman of the People's Justice Party (PKR) party won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, Election background\nPenang Deputy Chief Minister and  state assemblyperson Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin quit the state assembly seat of Penanti, Penang regarding allegations over his non-performance in public office and corruption allegations. Fairus was however cleared of the alleged corruption links with quarry operations in the state by the Malaysian Anti- Corruption Commission (MACC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, Election background\nAccording to the mainstream media, Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim decided to force a by-election to allow his former political secretary Dr Mansor Othman to contest, win and automatically become Penang deputy Chief Minister. The Election Commission has set the nominations day for 23 May and polling day on 31 May for the Penanti state by-election in Penang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, Election background\nMalaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak declared an election would be a waste of economic resources. As a result, he conclude that the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) would not contest the election. It would be the first election uncontested by the ruling coalition since independence. MCA supported foregoing the by-election and awarding the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) party coalition victory, as a means to reduce political tensions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, Election background\nFormer Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad urged Barisan Nasional to contest the by-election., but Barisan Nasional supreme council announced on 18 May 2009 that the party would not contest the Penanti state assembly seat in Penang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, Nominations\nPenang PKR deputy chief Mansor Othman, a 54-year-old party veteran, was named the party's candidate. Three candidates ran as independents: former Penang PKR Wanita chief Aminah Abdullah, company manager Nai-Khan Ari and motivational expert Kamarul Ramizu Idris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204549-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Penanti by-election, By-election results\nPKR's Dr Mansor Othman won 6,052 of the 7,100 votes cast in the Penanti by-election on 31 May 2009. Independents Nai Khan Ari, Aminah Abdullah and Kamarul Ramizu Idris obtained 494, 392 and 56 votes respectively. The polling ended with a low turnout of 46.1% or 7,100 voters despite fair weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nIn 2009, an advertisement promoting the Discovery Channel program Enigmatic Malaysia featured Balinese Pendet dancers, incorrectly identifying Pendet as a Malaysian dance, leading to anger in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nThe advertisement was shown by a private company in Singapore for a Discovery Channel programme on Malaysia. This prompted protest in Indonesia. Demands were made from the local governments, cultural historians as well as the tourism ministry in Indonesia for Malaysia to clarify the situation. The Malaysian government offered their apologies for the mistake done by the company, which was rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister Jero Wacik since the apology was given informally by phone, he demanded a written apology to make it more accountable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nThe Malaysian government says it was not responsible for the advertisement, and later said that Discovery Channel sent an apology letter to the two countries, which said that the network was responsible for the advertisement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nMany Indonesian editorials and news stories continue to report that the offending clip is a Malaysian government advertisement despite Discovery's Singapore official apology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nIndonesian ultra-nationalists held anti-Malaysia demonstrations. The group Gemars began a registration for war against Malaysia and has stockpiled food, medicine and weapons including katanas and shurikens. A group of armed men set up road-blocks to check for Malaysians on a Jakarta street before police contained their activity. The group later dispersed itself without finding any Malaysians. Malaysian students of Gadjah Mada University in Special Region of Yogyakarta had rotten chicken eggs thrown at them by local undergraduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nThe Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Malaysia was contacted by Foreign Minister of Malaysia to express Malaysia's position on the issue that has resulted in the deterioration of the bilateral relations of both countries. The Ambassador of Indonesia has contacted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia as well as the Chief of the Indonesian National Police, who have assured that necessary measures will be taken to ensure the security of Malaysian citizens in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204550-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pendet controversy\nNational Security Council secretary, Datuk Mohamed Tajudeen Abdul Wahab have instructed all Malaysian borders, which were manned by the military, had been tightened and enforcement agencies have been told to gear up for any possibility of members of the group penetrating Malaysian shores. This is in response to Indonesia's Benteng Demokrasi Rakyat (Bendera) threat to wage war by sending 1,500 troops \u2013 armed with sharpened bamboo \u2013 to Malaysia by air, land and sea on 08/10/2009. The group is the same one which had set up roadblocks in Menteng, Central Jakarta last month, in search of Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204551-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 2009 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was the 133rd season of play for the Quakers. The team was led by Al Bagnoli, in his 18th season as head coach. The Quakers played their home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The season was highlighted by an eight-game winning streak to close the season as Penn captured its 14th Ivy League title, going undefeated in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 2009 college football season. The team was coached by Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania. Penn State had the highest graduation rate among all of the teams on the Associated Press Top 25 poll with 89% of its 2002 enrollees graduating. Miami and Alabama tied for second place with a graduation rate of 75%. The Nittany Lions finished the season with an 11\u20132 record and won the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy award to the best team in the ECAC for the 28th time and the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Previous season\nThe 2008 season began with the Nittany Lions ranked #22 in the AP and Coaches preseason polls. The team was ranked as high as #3 in the AP and #2 in the Coaches polls prior to losing to the Iowa Hawkeyes 23\u201324. Despite the loss, Penn State were Big Ten co-champions with Ohio State and won the automatic BCS Rose Bowl bid due to Penn State winning the head-to-head matchup. After losing the 2009 Rose Bowl to the USC Trojans by two touchdowns, Penn State finished the season ranked #8 in both polls with a final record of 11\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nIn December, backup quarterback Pat Devlin decided to transfer from Penn State and would not play in the Rose Bowl. Devlin appeared in ten games for the Nittany Lions, passing for 459 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. Devlin later committed to Delaware, a Division I FCS school, where he had two years of eligibility left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nIn the Rose Bowl, backup tailback Stephfon Green left the game after sustaining what appeared to be a sprained right ankle. However, tests conducted after the team returned home revealed that Green sustained broken bones in his right leg and ankle and would require surgery to help repair the bones. Green was expected out of action for up to three months and would miss all of spring practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nAfter the Rose Bowl, defensive line coach Larry Johnson, Sr. interviewed with Illinois head coach Ron Zook to become the Illini's defensive coordinator. While many anticipated Johnson to take the job, in the end Johnson decided to stay at his current position at Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nIn January, redshirt sophomore defensive end Aaron Maybin announced that he was skipping his final two seasons of eligibility and declared for the 2009 NFL Draft. Junior defensive end Maurice Evans, despite losing his starting position and playing time to Maybin due to a three-game suspension for marijuana possession, also declared for the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nIn addition to losing Maybin and Evans to early entry, the defense loses its entire starting secondary to graduation. However, after redshirting the previous season due to injury, linebacker Sean Lee returns to the line-up for his senior season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nThe offensive unit loses three-fifths of the offensive line to graduation including All-American and Rimington Trophy winner A.Q. Shipley. Also lost to graduation are the wide receiver trio of Derrick Williams, Deon Butler and Jordan Norwood, all four-year starters for the team. Paterno and the coaching staff also needed to find backups for returning starting quarterback Daryll Clark after losing backup Devlin to transfer and third-stringer Paul Cianciolo to graduation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason\nSean Lee and Daryll Clark were named team co-captains for the 2009 season. Lee also served as a captain the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason, Recruiting class\nThe Nittany Lions received 27 letters of intent on National Signing Day, February 4, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason, Spring practice\nThe annual Blue-White scrimmage at Beaver Stadium was held April 25. The White squad defeated the Blue 21\u201316 in front of a record crowd of 76,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason, Spring practice\nSenior quarterback Daryll Clark was 10 of 13 for 123 yards in limited duty for the Blue team against the first-team defense. True freshman Kevin Newsome led the White offense and finished 9 of 13 for 71 yards and one touchdown. In all, four quarterbacks on the two teams combined to complete 33 of 50 passes for 388 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Preseason, Spring practice\nSophomore running back Brandon Beachum gained a game-high 38 yards on 10 carries. Junior Evan Royster led the Blue with 21 yards on just three carries in limited action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Schedule\nPenn State does not play Big Ten teams Purdue and Wisconsin this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 5: Akron\nThe Penn State defense did not give up a first down to the Zips in the first half as the Nittany Lions won 31\u20137. This game was not as close as the score. Backup linemen on both sides of the ball were slowly blended in during the second half while the key starters remained in until midway through the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 5: Akron\nTailback Evan Royster opened the scoring on a 5-yard run on Penn State's first drive of the game. Chaz Powell later extended Penn State's lead to 14\u20130 with an 8-yard reception, his first career touchdown reception. Derek Moye led all receivers with six receptions for 138 yards and a touchdown. Graham Zug also caught a touchdown, and the Nittany Lions rolled to a 31\u20130 halftime lead and still won comfortably despite not scoring in the second half for the first time since a 13\u20133 loss at Wisconsin in 2006. Akron finished the game with 8 first downs and one touchdown late in the third quarter against a mix of backups and starters. Backup quarterback Kevin Newsome played in the final series along with other reserves and led the Nittany Lions down to the Akron 4-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 5: Akron\nAkron got its only points on a 40-yard pass to Deryn Bowser in the third quarter. Defensively, Penn State allowed eight net yards in the first half and 186 yards for the game. The Nittany Lions recorded 13 tackles for loss including four sacks. Safety Andrew Dailey snagged his first career interception, and senior linebacker Sean Lee made seven tackles including two for negative yardage in his first action in 18 months. Junior linebacker NaVorro Bowman left the game early with an injury, and his replacement, sophomore Nate Stupar made 12 tackles with a sack. Akron had just 28 rushing yards, which would be the fewest allowed by Penn State all year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 5: Akron\nSenior quarterback Daryll Clark set career highs, going 29 of 40 for 353 yards. His 254 yards passing in the first half were a school record. For his efforts, Clark was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 12: Syracuse\nPenn State won their second game of the year in a 28\u20137 win over Syracuse. Penn State scored early in the first quarter to go up 7\u20130 with a Daryll Clark pass to Evan Royster. Penn State nearly scored again early in the second quarter when faced with a 4th and 1, but Clark fumbled the snap to give Syracuse the ball near the goal line. Penn State would score on their next drive to go up 14\u20130 from a 12-yard run from Evan Royster, which would hold at halftime as Syracuse missed a long field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 12: Syracuse\nPenn State scored again late in the third quarter. Syracuse attempted to convert a 4th down with a pass, but it was dropped, preserving Penn State's 21\u20130 lead early in the 4th. Penn State scored once again midway through the 4th with a play action pass to Mickey Shuler to take a 28\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 12: Syracuse\nAfter getting the ball back, backup Kevin Newsome was subbed in along with other second string players, but a Newsome fumble gave Syracuse the ball with good field position, and they scored their only points against the Penn State second string defense in their only series of the game. Penn State recovered the onside kick attempt and ran out the clock with the backups still in. Matt McGloin also took a few snaps in his first college game, handing off to Brent Carter and Brandon Beachum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 12: Syracuse\nDaryll Clark passed for 240 yards in a heavily pass-oriented game as Penn State only had 78 yards on the ground, 41 of those from Royster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 19: Temple\nDespite several key players being sick with the flu, the Nittany Lions won convincingly over their in-state rivals, with the 25 point difference being their biggest of the season to this point. Temple became not only the first team to score twice on Penn State this season, but also the first team to not score a touchdown, continuing Penn State's streak of games versus Temple where the Owls scored no touchdowns dating back to 2003. Penn State managed a more balanced passing and running attack than in their previous two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 19: Temple\nTemple out-passed Penn State 205\u2013173, but the Nittany Lions' defense didn't give up any big plays. The defense allowed only 46 yards rushing while Penn State had 186\u2014their highest so far this season. Penn State had a 7\u20133 lead after one quarter, but Temple recovered an onside kick, changing the momentum of the game momentarily. Penn State's defense forced a three-and-out and the Nittany Lions coasted to a 21\u20133 halftime lead. Both teams scored a field goal in the third quarter, and Penn State scored a touchdown to bring the final score to 31\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 26: Iowa\nPenn State raced out to a quick 10\u20130 lead, but Iowa made some key adjustments that prevented Penn State from scoring for the rest of the game. The rain also played a factor in Penn State's inability to continue their pass-heavy gameplan from their first three games. Although Penn State controlled the first quarter, Iowa controlled the second (partly aided by Nittany Lion penalties).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 26: Iowa\nIowa scored a safety with a sack of Darryl Clark in the end zone following a punt downed at the 6, and then scored a field goal, but missed a field goal right before halftime after a roughing the kicker penalty negated a three and out. Neither team would score in an equally controlled third quarter that had a slight edge in Penn State's favor, with Collin Wagner missing a 48-yard attempt for Penn State but the momentum soon changed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 26: Iowa\nPenn State had to punt, and was clinging to a 10\u20135 lead early in the 4th, Iowa then blocked a punt and ran it back for a touchdown. Iowa's 2 point attempt failed, but they led by one point. With the momentum changed, Penn State's drive down the field ended in an interception. With the momentum on their side, the Hawkeyes drove down the field to increase the lead to 10\u201318. Penn State drove down the field following a huge kickoff return for a game-tying touchdown, but in the red zone, Evan Royster fumbled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 26: Iowa\nThe Hawkeyes recovered, and with 12 seconds left, kicked a field goal to prevent Penn State from winning in the final seconds from a possible Hail Mary and 2-point conversion. The final play of the game was a handoff to Royster. After the game, both teams found themselves ranked in similar positions, with the Hawkeyes 13/17 and Penn State 15/13 in ranking. Iowa was ranked #21 initially but after a close game with FCS Northern Iowa, they were unranked until upsetting Penn State. After the game, many Penn State fans expressed frustration over what they felt was the second consecutive year of \"dominating Iowa for three quarters before losing\", even though despite the longstanding lead, they only dominated the first 17 minutes of the game and a portion of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, September 26: Iowa\nThis is the last time Penn State was ranked in the Top 10 until 2016 season where Penn State was ranked No.10 on Nov 8, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nIn a game not as close as the score, Stephfon Green and Evan Royster combined for 225 yards rushing as Penn State's rushing offense pounded away at the Illinois defense, running for a total of 338 yards and scoring all five of its offensive touchdowns on the ground. Green and Royster each scored a touchdown. In a slow first half, Illinois outgained Penn State 222\u2013165 in the first half, despite this, Penn State held a 7\u20133 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nThe second half was a different story, as Penn State held the ball for 12:04 in the third quarter and outgained Illinois 208\u20138 in the quarter alone, Penn State scored a touchdown midway through the quarter, and would score another on the second play of the fourth. Penn State scored once again in the fourth, increasing the lead to 28\u20133. By that time the Illini had only 16 yards and no first downs in the second half, but with the backups starting to be subbed in, Illinois was on the move, and scored a touchdown midway through the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nPenn State answered with a touchdown of their own following an interception, with the second string offense subbed in, scoring on a 12-yard rush by backup Brent Carter on a pitch from backup quarterback Kevin Newsome that went for a touchdown to give Penn State their most points scored all year and a 35\u201310 lead. Illinois scored a touchdown with a Juice Williams keeper with 42 seconds left against the second and third string defense. Penn State recovered the onside kick and Kevin Newsome ran for a first down to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nQuarterback Daryll Clark was of 25 for 175 yards, and also ran for 83 yards and two touchdowns, both in the second half of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nDefensively for Penn State, Josh Hull made 11 tackles, including one for a loss. Eric Latimore, Jack Crawford, and Sean Stanley were credited with a sack each. Stanley also forced a fumble that Jared Odrick recovered. Stephon Morris also snagged his first career interception at the end of the first half to prevent an Illini score, that was nearly run back for a touchdown. The first string defense also only allowed 16 second half Illini yards on three drives in the third and fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 3: @ Illinois\nThird-string tailback Brent Carter scored his first career touchdown late in the fourth quarter to give Penn State its first touchdown from reserves this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 10: Eastern Illinois\nStarting quarterback Daryll Clark scored the first points of the game on a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Colin Wagner added a chipshot field goal to extend the lead to 10\u20130. In the second quarter, Brett Brackett scored on a two-yard strike from Clark. Chaz Powell and Derek Moye also caught touchdown passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 10: Eastern Illinois\nEastern Illinois got its only points of the game on a field goal partway into the third quarter, but squandering two chances in the second. Stephon Green then extended the Penn State lead to 45\u20133 with a 26-yard touchdown run. Backup quarterback Kevin Newsome (who was 4/5 for 34 yards) scored his first career touchdown early in the fourth on a 9-yard run to make the score official. It was 52\u20133 after the score, Newsome would lead Penn State into the red zone again, but this time the result was a failed 4th down conversion rather than the field goal attempt. Matt McGloin also played in his second game this year and attempted his first career passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 10: Eastern Illinois\nMany backups saw action for both teams. Penn State punted only twice throughout the game, both times were in the second half with backups in. Regardless, Penn State still won by their most lopsided score of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 10: Eastern Illinois\nDefensively for Penn State, Josh Hull had 11 tackles. A.J. Wallace also snagged an interception. Ollie Ogbu forced the fumble returned by NaVorro Bowman for a touchdown before the half, the first defensive touchdown for Penn State this year to already give them their most points all year at 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 89], "content_span": [90, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 17: Minnesota\nPenn State improved their overall record over Minnesota to 7\u20134 and held onto the Governor's Victory Bell once again. This was Tim Brewster's first game against the Nittany Lions, who did not play Minnesota in 2007 and 2008. Penn State scored two field goals early on and scored a touchdown on a pass that was initially called an incompletion but reviewed as a touchdown. Scoring one more touchdown in the third quarter, Penn State cruised to their first shutout since 2007 at Temple, where they won 31\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 17: Minnesota\nPenn State's offense and defense dominated much more than what was reflected on the scoreboard, however. Minnesota had only 7 first downs and 138 total yards, most of which came from a long drive that went for no points due to a failed 4th down conversion on a 4th quarter goal line stand. At the end of the game, backup QB Kevin Newsome handed off a few times to kill the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 17: Minnesota\nPenn State held the ball for 42 minutes of the game, their best since 1991. Penn State also had nearly 500 yards of offense in this game. In contrast, Minnesota had just 7 first downs, 138 yards of offense, 101 yards passing, and 37 yards rushing, their lowest in years. Collin Wagner made two field goals, but missed two more. Despite this, Adam Weber was only sacked once, escaping two more, and Clark was not sacked the entire game. This was also the first time Penn State shut out Minnesota, the previous best was 3 points in 1994, when Penn State won 56\u20133 on their quest to their first Big Ten championship, finishing 12\u20130 (8\u20130) and ranked #2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 24: @ Michigan\nPenn State defeated Michigan in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1996, currently holding a two-game winning streak over the Wolverines. Daryll Clark threw for 230 yards and four touchdowns, three to wide receiver Graham Zug and a 61-yard pass to tight end Andrew Quarless. Clark became the Nittany Lions' all-time leader in touchdowns. The defense forced four turnovers, two interceptions, one by NaVorro Bowman and one by Drew Astorino and two fumble recoveries. Evan Royster also had over 100 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 24: @ Michigan\nTo start the game, Michigan drove down the field 70 yards and took a 7\u20130 lead, but Penn State responded and tied it up, then kicked a field goal late in the quarter. After a Penn State punt, a bad snap in the end zone led to a safety, and Penn State scored another touchdown to go up 19\u20137. Michigan managed a field goal right before halftime. Penn State scored two touchdowns (missing a two-point conversion the first time) in five minutes in the third quarter, then seemed to take their foot off the gas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 24: @ Michigan\nAt one point, Michigan blocked a Jeremy Boone punt, but they were unable to cash in, as Penn State's defense forced a fumble and got the ball back. A long drive, aided by a roughing the punter penalty, ended with Penn State's final points, a field goal. Michigan's final drive went deep into Penn State territory but was intercepted and returned to midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, October 31: @ Northwestern\nPenn State mounted a second half comeback after trailing the Wildcats 10\u201313 at halftime and being tied 13\u201313 going into the 4th. Three touchdowns in less than four minutes in the 4th quarter enabled the Nittany Lions to pull away with two of the touchdowns happening on the first play from scrimmage in each drive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 7: Ohio State\nOhio State became the first team to score at least once in every quarter on Penn State this year, scoring a touchdown in three quarters, and a field goal in one. In what was a defensive battle for most of the game, called \"Rope-A-Dope\" football by the announcers, Ohio State pulled away late to win thanks to special teams. Despite the apparent laugher on the scoreboard, Ohio State only had 15 first downs and went 6\u201316 on third down, with their four scoring drives totalling only 178 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 7: Ohio State\nPenn State's defense also forced a sack on Pryor (recorded officially as a tackle for loss, although this \"tackle for loss\" happened during a pass play), but did not force any key fumbles, although Ohio State forced an interception after Penn State got good field position to attempt a comeback from 24\u20137 midway through the 4th quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 83], "content_span": [84, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 14: Indiana\nAfter a slow start and quick 10\u20130 lead from Indiana, Penn State scored 10 points right before halftime to tie it up, then a pick six as Indiana was driving downfield put the Nittany Lions on top. They would score early in the 4th and then score once more late in the game following a Hoosiers field goal. Indiana would then score very late to make the final score respectable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 21: @ Michigan State\nPenn State quarterback Daryll Clark passed for 310 yards and four touchdowns against Michigan State. He set a school record with 23 touchdown passes on the season and set the Penn State career record with 42. Running back Evan Royster gained 114 yards on 13 carries. Graham Zug and Andrew Quarless caught two TD passes each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 21: @ Michigan State\nThe teams were tied 7\u20137 at halftime before Penn State jumped to a 14\u20137 lead just over a minute into the second half with the help of a trick play: Wide receiver Curtis Drake threw a halfback option to Quarless for a 14-yard touchdown. Later in the third quarter, Clark connected with running back Joe Suhey on a 30-yard touchdown pass. Penn State safety Nick Sukay intercepted a Kirk Cousins pass on the next series, setting up the Nittany Lions at the Michigan State 32. Clark hit Zug in the endzone on the very next play, giving Penn State a 28\u20137 lead with 5:22 left in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, November 21: @ Michigan State\nThe Nittany Lions would score two more touchdowns. The final one was Kevin Newsome's second career touchdown as both Newsome and Matthew McGloin had some playing time. and give up one on their way to a 42\u201314 victory, thus securing the Land Grant Trophy for another year and back-to-back 10-win seasons. Clark and linebacker NaVorro Bowman were named Big Ten Co-offensive and Co-Defensive Players of the Week, respectively. This was Penn State's biggest win ever in East Lansing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, January 1 vs. LSU\nPenn State coach Joe Paterno got his record 24th bowl win and handed Les Miles his first loss in five bowls as LSU coach. A driving rainstorm turned the field into a mud bowl. Bad footing and dropped passes were normal in the first half, and PSU fumbled the snap exchange twice though both were recovered by the offense. Quarterback Daryll Clark finished the game with 216 yards passing and one touchdown pass. LSU signal caller Jordan Jefferson threw for 202 yards and a TD pass, however the Tigers were held to just 41 total yards rushing. Collin Wagner's 21-yard field goal with 57 seconds left sealed the victory for the Nittany Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, January 1 vs. LSU\nJoe Paterno picked up his 24th career bowl victory, extending his own NCAA record. The Nittany Lions have won four of their last five bowl games. The field took another pounding after poor conditions hampered the Champs Sports Bowl earlier in the week on the same turf. Eight state high school championship games were also played at the stadium in recent weeks, but the turf was replaced immediately after the high school championships, about three weeks before the Champs Sports Bowl. The grounds crew worked frantically all week in an attempt to get the field in shape for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Regular season, January 1 vs. LSU\nThe two-point margin was the only game this season for Penn State that was decided by fewer than 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season\nPenn State finished the season ranked number 9 in the final AP poll and number 8 in the final Coaches poll, earning Penn State its 23rd Top 10 finish under Joe Paterno. It's the 35th final top 25 ranking under Paterno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season\nFollowing the Capital One Bowl, linebacker NaVorro Bowman announced he would skip his final season of eligibility and declared for the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204552-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season\nFour players were initially invited to the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine, held February 24 to March 2 in Indianapolis, Indiana: Jared Odrick, Sean Lee, Daryll Clark, and Andrew Quarless. NaVorro Bowman and Josh Hull were added to the list of combine invitations on January 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections\nPennsylvania held statewide municipal elections on November 3, 2009, to fill a number of judicial positions and to allow judicial retention votes. The necessary primary elections were held on May 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Justice of the Supreme Court\nVoters were asked to fill a single vacancy on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The vacant seat had been occupied by Jane Cutler Greenspan, who had agreed as a condition of her interim appointment in 2008 not to seek a full term on the court. Vying for the seat in the general election were Republican Joan Orie Melvin of Allegheny County and Democrat Jack A. Panella of Northampton County, both of whom were then serving on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Justice of the Supreme Court\nOrie Melvin won the seat with 53 percent of the vote, restoring the 4\u20133 Republican majority that had existed on the court prior to the 2007 state election. Panella raised $2.4 million for the campaign, compared to $734,000 for Orie Melvin. Low voter turnout, especially in Panella's native Philadelphia, played a key role in Orie Melvin's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Superior Court\nFour seats on the Superior Court were up for grabs. On the ballot in the general election were four Republicans, four Democrats, and one Libertarian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Superior Court\nRepublican candidate Judy Olson won the most votes, followed by fellow Republicans Sallie Mundy and Paula Ott. There was a four-way near tie for fourth place, with Democrat Anne E. Lazarus in the lead (with 11.5% of the vote) but closely trailed by Democrat Robert J. Colville (11.4%), Republican Temp Smith (11.4%), and Democrat Kevin Francis McCarthy (11.3%). The close results triggered an optional automatic recount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Superior Court\nWhile candidates Colville and McCarthy opted out of the recount, Smith declined to do so, prompting Secretary of State Pedro Cort\u00e9s to order a recount to begin on November 18\u2014the first automatic statewide recount in Pennsylvania history. On December 1, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced that the recount had been completed, with the results essentially unchanged; Lazarus won the fourth seat. The cost of the recount was $542,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Commonwealth Court\nThere were two open seats on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. The Candidates in the General Election were selected in the Pennsylvania Municipal Primary Election which was held May 19, 2009. The two leading Republican candidates in the Primary were Patricia A. McCullough (36.2%) and Kevin Brobson (35.9%), followed by Al Frioni (27.9%). The two leading Democratic candidates were Barbara Behrend Ernsberger (22.0%) and Linda Judson (21.1%) followed by Jimmy Lynn (15.3%) Michael Sherman (14.9%) Stephen Pollok (13.5%) and Daniel Brickmont (13.3%). The General Election was held on Tuesday November 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Superior Court retention\nVoters elected to retain Judge Kate Ford Elliott on the Superior Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204553-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pennsylvania state elections, Judge of the Commonwealth Court retention\nVoters elected to retain Judge Dan Pellegrini on the Commonwealth Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204554-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penrith Panthers season\nThe 2009 Penrith Panthers season was the 43rd in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 11th (out of 16). The coach of the team was Matthew Elliott while Petero Civoniceva was the club's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204554-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Penrith Panthers season, Fixtures\nThe Panthers again use CUA Stadium as their home ground in 2009, their home ground since they entered the competition in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204554-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Penrith Panthers season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204555-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penza Cup\nThe 2009 Penza Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard court. This was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Penza, Russia between 20 July and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204555-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Penza Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204555-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Penza Cup, Champions, Doubles\nMichail Elgin /  Alexandre Kudryavtsev def. Alexey Kedryuk /  Denis Matsukevich, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204556-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penza Cup \u2013 Doubles\nDenis Istomin and Evgeny Kirillov were the defending champions, but only Kirillov started in this tournament. He teamed up with Sergei Bubka, however they lost to Andis Ju\u0161ka and Deniss Pavlovs in the quarterfinal. Michail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev defeated Alexey Kedryuk and Denis Matsukevich 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204557-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Penza Cup \u2013 Singles\nBenedikt Dorsch was the defending champion, but he chose to not start this year. Mikhail Kukushkin defeated Illya Marchenko 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204558-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pep Boys Auto 500\nThe 2009 Pep Boys Auto 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 6, 2009 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325\u00a0laps, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2009 Sprint Cup Series season. Kasey Kahne, driving for Richard Petty Motorsports, won the race, while Kevin Harvick and Juan Pablo Montoya finished second and third respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204559-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pepsi 500\nThe 2009 Pepsi 500 was the thirtieth race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and also served as the fourth race in the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. It took place on October 11, 2009, at Auto Club Speedway in the American community of Fontana, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204559-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pepsi 500, Summary\nJimmie Johnson would defeat his Hendricks Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon by slightly more than 1.6 seconds after a gruelling three hours and twenty-eight minutes of racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204559-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pepsi 500, Summary\nKyle Busch suffered through three different illnesses during this race; including a non-H1N1 form of the flu. After driving for 62 laps, he felt weak and went into the pits in order for David Gilliland to perform the substitute duty for him. David Gilliland finished the race in 28th place but Busch received the points for it. Mike Bliss walked away as the last-place finisher after encountering engine problems on lap 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204559-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pepsi 500, Summary\nThe Big One struck with six laps to go after Dale Earnhardt Jr. was turned around and collected 8 other cars. This led to a red flag of almost 22 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204559-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pepsi 500, Summary\nThe gambling pundits handpicked Jimmie Johnson to be the winner of the race; with Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth being wild cards. Just before the race, Johnson had an average finish of 6th place in his 13 prior races at Auto Club Speedway and finished worse than tenth place only twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis\nThe 2009 Perak constitutional crisis was a political dispute in Malaysia regarding the legitimacy of the Perak state government formed in February 2009. It began when three Pakatan Rakyat state legislators defected, causing a collapse of the state government. The Sultan of Perak then refused Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin's request to dissolve the state assembly and call for new elections. Instead, Barisan Nasional (BN), with support from the three defecting assemblymen, formed the new state government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis\nThe BN state government's legitimacy and the Sultan's decision not to dissolve the state assembly was disputed vehemently by Pakatan Rakyat politicians. A series of battles in the courts ensued between Nizar and the new Menteri Besar (Chief Minister), Zambry Abdul Kadir. Ultimately, the Federal Court confirmed in February 2010 that Zambry was the lawful menteri besar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overview\nThe crisis in Perak began with the announcement by Barisan Nasional's Nasarudin Hashim of his desire to cross the floor to Pakatan Rakyat. This was then followed by the re-defection of Nasaruddin to Barisan Nasional, and the declaration by three Pakatan Rakyat representatives, Deputy Speaker Hee Yit Foong, senior state Executive Council member Jamaluddin Mohd. Radzi and Osman Jailu, of their intentions to sit as independents while supporting the Barisan Nasional in confidence matters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overview\nThe Sultan granted an audience to the Prime Minister (who is the head of Perak Barisan Nasional); at this meeting the PM claimed that the Barisan Nasional had the support of the majority of peoples elected representatives in the State Assembly. The Sultan ordered the PM to prove he had a majority. The PM left and returned later (the same day) with 31 elected members of the State Assembly all of whom told the sultan that they had no confidence in the Pakatan Rakyat and that they would support a Barisan Nasional government. Prior to the defections, Pakatan Rakyat had 32 representatives while Barisan Nasional had 27 representatives. The defections meant that the state now has 28 Pakatan Rakyat representatives, 28 Barisan Nasional representatives, and 3 independent representatives who pledged confidence to Barisan Nasional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 874]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overview\nThe morality of crossing the floor, the Sultan's power to dismiss the Menteri Besar (First Minister), the validity of pre-signed undated resignation letters, the powers of the Speaker of the House and power of the Election Commission were major issues of this constitutional crisis. On 11 May 2009, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that the Sultan was not constitutionally permitted to dismiss the Menteri Besar, and that Nizar had always been the rightful head of the state government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overview\nOn 22 May 2009, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court decision, and confirmed that the Barisan Nasional which has sworn in a new chief minister and parliamentary speaker for Perak should remain in power. Furthermore, the Court of Appeal found the trial judge to have erred in confusing the issue of whether the government has lost the confidence of the majority of the house with the issue of whether the Sultan has the power to dismiss the government. However Zambry's position as Menteri Besar will not go unchallenged despite the ruling as Pakatan Rakyat leaders have indicated they intend to file an appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Defections\nThe crisis began on 25 January 2009 when a member of the Barisan Nasional coalition's main component party - UMNO, Nasarudin Hashim announced his decision to leave the party and join PKR. Pakatan Rakyat leader, Anwar Ibrahim made continued claims of the possibility of more Perak and also Federal lawmakers from Barisan Nasional crossing the floor to Pakatan Rakyat. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, the state's First Minister, also hinted at the possibility of another three state lawmakers from Barisan Nasional defecting over to Pakatan Rakyat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Defections\nNasarudin Hashim's defection angered the then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who chided Nasarudin for being weak and claimed that Nasarudin's defection was because Nasarudin was disappointed in not being offered any senior party posts. Nasarudin rebutted the Prime Minister's statement and claimed his decision was due to the mood of his constituents. On 29 January 2009 then Finance Minister Najib Razak took over from Mohammad Tajol Rosli Ghazali as the Perak UMNO chief, as Tajol Rosli resigned over Nasaruddin's party shift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Defections\nOn 30 January 2009 two state assemblymen from PKR, senior state exco member and one time candidate for First Minister Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi and Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, who were both previously accused of corruption went missing from their homes. The State Assembly speaker V. Sivakumar of the DAP then declared the seats held by Jamaluddin and Osman vacant and informed the Election Commission to initiate a by-election in the two ridings. On 2 February 2009 both assemblymen reappeared and declared themselves independent assemblymen while pledging support for Barisan Nasional in confidence matters. The Election Commission then decided to not heed the speaker's requests and states that no by-elections would be held for the seats held by Jamaluddin and Osman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Defections\nThe deputy speaker of the state assembly from the DAP Hee Yit Foong declared herself independent on 3 February 2009 with the same terms as Jamaluddin and Osman - supporting Barisan Nasional in matters of confidence. Nizar had an audience with the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah and requested a dissolution of the state assembly to pave way for a snap election on 4 February 2009. Najib in his capacity as Perak UMNO chief had an audience with Sultan Azlan Shah together with Hee, Jamaluddin and Osman. The latest Pakatan Rakyat lawmaker Nasaruddin announced his return to UMNO citing that \"[He] want[s] stability in Perak.\" Najib, then sought royal consent for Barisan Nasional to form the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Defections\nAn almost similar scenario occurred in the state of Sabah following the 1994 state election whereby Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) won 25 seats against 23 won by Barisan Nasional. Defections by representatives of PBS into Barisan Nasional gave the latter the requisite majority to form government in Sabah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, New state government\nThe Sultan Azlan Shah announced his decision to refuse Nizar's request for a dissolution of the state assembly and asked Nizar and his cabinet to resign, citing his discretion under Article XVIII (2)(b) of the Perak State Constitution after being satisfied that Nizar no longer commanded the support of the majority in the house of assembly. DAP advisor, Lim Kit Siang, charged that the sultan was obliged to act on the advice of the Menteri Besar and call fresh elections, citing Article 16(6) of the Perak State Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, New state government\nNizar refused to resign and asked the sultan to reconsider and dissolve the assembly, citing reasons of democracy, with backing from leaders of Pakatan Rakyat. The police cordoned off the state secretariat building and demanded Nizar's cabinet to vacate the building. Later in the evening, the sultan asked Zambry Abdul Kadir to form the next government, removed Nizar from the office of Menteri Besar and swore in Zambry as the new First Minister on 6 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, New state government\nOn the morning of 6 February 2009, Nizar and his exco members returned to the Menteri Besar's office to find that their offices had been cleared. Nizar held a press conference in the office premises along with his exco, but they were promptly ordered to leave by the state secretary on grounds that they had breached an earlier agreement to only take his personal belongings. Nizar was escorted out of the office by the police 45 minutes later. Some members of the Bar Council defended the sultan's decision saying that His Majesty had acted within the state constitutional provisions while Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek claimed that Nizar's refusal to resign was act of treason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, New state government\nZambry was sworn in as the new Menteri Besar of Perak at 4:08\u00a0pm that day. The ceremony was attended by members of the Barisan Nasional, including Najib, who arrived in the royal palace, Istana Iskandariah, Kuala Kangsar under heavy security. Supporters of the Pakatan Rakyat amassed in large number outside the palace to protest the swearing in of Zambry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, New state government\nAnwar Ibrahim challenged the legitimacy of Zambry's appointment by stating that Nizar still remains the Menteri Besar, as guaranteed by the state constitutional provisions, while Nizar continued his call for a motion of no confidence to be held in the assembly sitting before he steps down. Nizar called for the resignation of Zambry and stated his desire to file an application at the High Court and declare his appointment as unconstitutional. Nizar and other members of the Pakatan administration returned to the Menteri Besar official residence on 7 February and went ahead with approving three new policies in Perak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Litigation\nDAP chairman and Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh issued a notice that he will file a lawsuit against the sultan and the new Barisan Nasional state government for acting beyond the state Constitution. Since the Election Commission had ruled that there was doubt over the vacancy of the state seats of Changkat Jering and Behrang (held by Osman Jailu and Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi respectively) after the pre-signed letters submitted by Assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar in relation to their resignation were contradicted by denials from both assemblymen, it triggered the provision of Article 33 (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Litigation\nThe provision stated that \"if any question arises whether a member of the state Legislative Assembly has become disqualified for membership, the decision of the assembly shall be taken and shall be final\". Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin also filed an application at the High Court to declare the swearing in of Zambry Abdul Kadir as unconstitutional and illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Assembly below a tree, Before the sitting\nAccording to Nizar's senior exco member Ngeh Koo Ham, the Perak state legal advisor, Ahmad Kamal Mohd Shahid was trying to block state representatives from being notified of an emergency sitting of the state assembly on 3 March. He mentioned that this obstruction was in \"contempt of the house\" and liable for punishment under house rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Assembly below a tree, The sitting\nBecause the assemblypersons were barred from entering the building, Sivakumar declared the parking lot of the State Secretariat building as the meeting place. The assembly met under a tree in the parking lot, which would later be known as the Democracy tree. All the three motions were debated and passed unanimously, 27\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Assembly below a tree, 1BLACKMalaysia protest and arrests\nThe Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih) urged Malaysians to wear black on 7 May, to protest the \"ongoing Perak coup\" by the Barisan Nasional government. \"It will be a peaceful but powerful message of civil disobedience: that we, the people, are the politicians' bosses and no politician defiant of public opinion can escape punishment at the next poll,\" said Bersih representative Wong Chin Huat at the launch of the 1BLACKMalaysia campaign on 5 May. That evening, Wong was arrested for sedition for writing several articles, including on the 1BLACKMalaysia campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Assembly below a tree, 1BLACKMalaysia protest and arrests\nSecurity was tight around the state secretariat building where the state assembly is housed. The police cordoned off the roads in the areas from the night before the sitting on 7 May. The police warned political party supporters not to create tension by dressing in black and gathering illegally in protest of the Perak state assembly sitting. That didn't stop the supporters from showing up, dressed in black. Even before the sitting began, the police had arrested at dozens of people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, High Court rules takeover illegal\nOn 11 May 2009, the High Court of Kuala Lumpur ruled that, since there had been no vote of no confidence in the state assembly, the Barisan Nasional takeover was \"illegal\" and the Pakatan Rakyat's Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin still held office. The opposition is expected to call for fresh elections, while the ruling party has vowed to appeal. The Regent of Perak Raja Nazrin Shah has agreed to see Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin on his request for dissolution of the Perak state legislature and the call for a fresh election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, High Court rules takeover illegal\nThe night of 11 May, the Pakatan Rakyat Perak executive council met and dismissed the state secretary and state legal adviser. Nizar announced his executive council would report for work the next day, and asserted that the 7 May sitting of the state assembly was invalid because it had been called by Zambry. By implication, this would prevent the Barisan-appointed Speaker from convening a new sitting of the state assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, High Court rules takeover illegal\nOn 12 May, Zambry filed his appeal at the Court of Appeal, which granted him a stay of execution on the court ruling, allowing him to retain the post of Menteri Besar until his appeal is heard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overturning of the High Court verdict\nThe Court of Appeal overturned the High Court decision and held that Zambry the lawful Menteri Besar. The Court of Appeal's verdict was upheld by the Federal Court with a 5-0 verdict in February 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Overturning of the High Court verdict\nThe constitutional crisis came to an indefinite end with Pakatan leaders having no choice but to obey the ruling. As a result, no fresh election was called and Zambry continues as Menteri Besar while Nizar became the opposition leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Comments and interpretations of the constitutional crisis\nOn 2 March 2009, the president of the Malaysian Bar Council, Ambiga Sreenevasan remarked that the Institution of the Perak and its constitution are breaking down. She also mentioned that the secretary of state does not have the power to interfere in the affair of the assembly nor does the police, while the speaker has the very rights within the constitution to exercise his power to call for an emergency sitting of the state assembly. She was also quoted saying \"Our institutions, that is the courts, the police, et cetera, are being tested and we can judge for ourselves whether they are acting independently or not\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Comments and interpretations of the constitutional crisis\nTengku Razaleigh Hamzah, an UMNO politician veteran agreed with Pakatan MB to dissolve the state legislative and call for fresh state elections to resolve the political stalemate in Perak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Comments and interpretations of the constitutional crisis\nThe Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has joined the ever increasing chorus calling for fresh state elections to resolve the political stalemate in Perak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204560-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak constitutional crisis, Comments and interpretations of the constitutional crisis\nHardial Singh Khaira, a legal researcher, has done a full research on The Dismissal and Appointment of Menteri Besars in Perak before any judgment was delivered on the Perak constitutional crisis by any Malaysian court and the full article can be viewed online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204561-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Perak suspension bridge collapse\nThe 2009 Perak suspension bridge collapse took place on 26 October 2009. About 22 schoolchildren were feared drowned after plunging into the Kampar River when a suspension bridge they were crossing collapsed on Monday night in Kuala Dipang near Kampar, Perak. Three people died and 19 people were safe. The Kampar River is known for extreme water sports. The part of the river where the bridge collapsed is about 30 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season\nThe 2009 season is the Perth Glory's second season of soccer in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, Background\nPerth Glory's 2008\u201309 season ended finishing in seventh out of eight teams. Inaugural coach Nicola Williams was replaced by John Gibson ahead of the 2009 season. Tanya Oxtoby retained the club captaincy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, W-League\nThe season was played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, W-League\nThe Glory opened their season against Melbourne Victory at Docklands Stadium on 3 October. Despite an early chance for Lisa De Vanna, when the ball was cleared off her feet by the Victory goalkeeper Melissa Barbieri, Glory were unable to create chances. The Victory scored in the 34th and 71st minutes to secure a 2\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, W-League\nPlaying against Newcastle Jets at Perth Oval on 10 October, Glory took the lead on 10 minutes when Collette McCallum sent a corner into the six yard box where it took a deflection off De Vanna into the goal. McCallum was credited with the goal. The Glory dominated the first half with De Vanna being influential in attack, setting up several chances to score. The momentum of the match changed in the second half with the Jets taking control of the match but were unable to score. The match ended 1\u20130 to Perth Glory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, W-League\nAfter being substituted in the 31st minute of Perth's game against Adelaide United on 24 October at Hindmarsh Stadium, Lisa De Vanna abused members of the Glory coaching staff, the fourth official and members of the crowd. De Vanna received a two-match ban from Football Federation Australia (FFA), with one match suspended until the end of the season. De Vanna's replacement Sam Kerr almost scored three minutes later when a run led to her being one-on-one with the goalkeeper. A 47th minute goal for Alex Singer from a Kerr cross secured a 1\u20130 victory for the Glory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, W-League\nHeading into the last match of the season at Inglewood Stadium on 5 December, Melbourne Victory needed a point to qualify for the final series while Perth Glory were not able to qualify. Deep in the second half, the match remained scoreless with the Victory having the majority of shots on goal. Assisted by Kate Gill, second half substitute De Vanna ran through the Victory defence and scored in the 81st minute. Gill put the match beyond doubt after 87 minutes with a 25-metre half-volley. The Glory finished the season in sixth, one point out of the finals positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204562-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Perth Glory W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204563-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season was the 64th edition of the second tier of Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de Futbol. There were 12 teams in play played. The champion, Sport Boys, was promoted to the 2010 Peruvian First Division. The last places, Real Academia and Deportivo Municipal, were relegated to Copa Per\u00fa. The tournament was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis\nThe 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Native Americans; they protested Petroper\u00fa and confronted the National Police. At the forefront of the movement to resist the development was Asociaci\u00f3n Inter\u00e9tnica de Desarrollo de la Selva (AIDESEP), a coalition of indigenous community organizations in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis\nFollowing the government's decision to pass regulations allowing companies access to the Amazon, natives conducted more than a year of declared opposition and advocacy to change this policy and, from 9 April, began a period of protest and civil disobedience. In June 2009, the Garcia government suspended civil liberties, declared a state of emergency, and sent in the military to stop the protests. The military intervention, referred to as the Baguazo, resulted in two days of bloody confrontations, resulting in a total of 23 police deaths, 10 native/civilians deaths and more than 150 native wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis\nThis conflict has been described as Peru's worst political violence in years and is the worst crisis of President Alan Garc\u00eda's presidency. Prime Minister Yehude Simon was forced to resign his post in the aftermath, and Congress repealed the laws that led to the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Background\nA free trade agreement negotiated between Peru and the United States that came into effect in February 2009 required certain changes in law allowing private companies access to the Amazon for development of resources. The Congress of Peru granted the government authority to implement the required regulatory changes. Indigenous tribes insisted that some of the new government regulations introduced by President Alan Garc\u00eda in 2008 threatened the safety of their natural resources and would enable foreign companies to exploit them. Protests ensued in August 2008, and Congress repealed two laws and promised to examine and vote on others. When that didn't happen, protests and blockades resumed on 9 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Background\nIn the early 21st century, exploitation of mineral resources has been criticized by researchers based on the link they have shown between the abundance of natural resources (particularly minerals and oil) of a country and its poor growth performance, as well as poor governmental policies and institutions (subject to ills such as corruption, weak governance, rent-seeking, plunder). They found this relationship is especially related to development of 'point source' minerals such as mines and oil fields, which produce high value for few people, as opposed to agricultural diffuse development, which involves large quantities of workers, forcing benefits to be shared. Some believe that Peruvian oil development functions in such a model of 'point source', providing grievances and low benefit to local populations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Background\nIn 2008 an oil scandal shook the government of Alan Garc\u00eda when audio tapes revealing corruption and conflict of interest were released to the press. The tapes contained the conversations of R\u00f3mulo Le\u00f3n, an important member of the ruling Apra party negotiating bribes from foreign companies in order to allow them to drill for petroleum in the Peruvian Amazon region. Romulo Le\u00f3n was imprisoned, yet his daughter, Luciana Le\u00f3n, a member of congress, continues to work in the parliament despite e-mail messages found by investigators that revealed that she was aware of and participating in her father's activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Background\nIn June 2009, as the dispute worsened, the government ordered the military in to assist the police. The deaths resulted in two clashes fought in the Amazon jungle on 5 and 6 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Battle at \"Devil's Curve\"\nOn 5 June 2009, at least 32 people were killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people on the \"Devil's Curve\" jungle highway close to Bagua, over 1,000 kilometres north of Lima, as the security forces attempted to break down a road blockade. The deaths came when police decided to break down a blockade of 5,000 protesters. 23 of the dead were native tribesmen and 9 were members of the police force. The tribes accused the police of using helicopters to fire on those protesting peacefully below. Alberto Pizango, an indigenous leader, told journalists that the government was responsible for the massacre. Police said the natives had first shot at them; the President said the tribes had \"fall[en] to a criminal level\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, 6 June 2009 massacre\nOn 6 June 2009, an additional nine police officers were killed at a petroleum facility belonging to a national oil company, Petroper\u00fa, which had been seized by the protesting indigenous tribes. Prime Minister Simon said the officers were killed as they tried to rescue 38 kidnapped police officers believed held. Garc\u00eda criticised the protesters, claiming they had behaved like terrorists and suggested that they may have been \"incited by foreigners\". There was considerable confusion about the events, as it was reported that several police had been taken hostage, although 22 were freed and 7 were missing. This number was later revised to one missing policeman. The government announced a 3:00\u00a0p.m. \u2013 6:00\u00a0a.m. curfew effective immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, 6 June 2009 massacre\nAccording to Amazon Watch, the police staged a violent raid on the unarmed indigenous people who were participating in a peaceful blockade to revoke the \"free trade\" decrees, issued by President Garcia in the context of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. During that day, over 600 police attacked several thousand unarmed Awajun and Wamba indigenous peoples (including many women and children) and forcibly dispersed them using tear gas and live ammunition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, 6 June 2009 massacre\nAfter the police started shooting at the protesters, some indigenous wrestled away their guns and fought back, shooting and killing nine policemen. The confrontation resulted in the 25 civilian deaths and more than 150 wounded. The police were accused of burning bodies to hide the death toll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, 6 June 2009 massacre\nAt least 155 were injured, one third by bullet wounds; 72 people were arrested. The casualty toll was expected to rise. Not since the conflict with the Shining Path had so many people been killed or injured in political clashes of this nature in Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, AIDESEP leaders prosecuted, asylum for Pizango\nOn 9 June, the government of Peruvian President Alan Garc\u00eda still refused to meet with the indigenous coalition AIDESEP. The government sought to arrest Alberto Pizango on charges of sedition; he is a Shawi Indian leader of the protesters and head of their organization, AIDESEP. Pizango entered Nicaragua's embassy in Lima on 8 June and was granted political asylum the next day. Four other AIDESEP leaders were accused of disturbing the peace and advocating sedition and revolt, and faced up to six years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Decrees suspended, then overturned\nIn the week following the clashes, Congress suspended two of the offending government decrees. The indigenous protesters vowed to continue until the decrees were repealed and not just suspended. On 18 June, Congress repealed two of the decrees, and the protesters lifted their blockade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Vildoso and Simon resign\nCarmen Vildoso, minister for Women's Issues and Social Development, resigned on 8 June to protest the government's actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Vildoso and Simon resign\nPrime Minister Yehude Simon negotiated the deal to repeal the two decrees mentioned above and announced on 16 June that he would resign \"in the coming weeks\" over the government's handling of the crisis. President Alan Garc\u00eda had appointed Simon, who is politically to the left of Garc\u00eda, in October 2008 in an effort to mollify the country's poor and hard-line leftist nationalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Peruvian government accused of undermining press freedom\nIn June 2009, Human Rights Watch condemned the Peruvian government's decision to revoke the broadcast license of a local radio station stating that \"The timing and circumstances of the revocation suggest that it may have been an act of censorship, or punishment, in response to coverage of anti-government protests on June 5, 2009.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 102], "content_span": [103, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Peruvian government accused of undermining press freedom\n\"If there is in fact credible evidence that a radio station has actively supported or incited violence, then the broadcasters should be subject to investigation and sanction, with all appropriate judicial guarantees\", said Jos\u00e9 Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. \"But closing down a station this way certainly looks like retaliation for coverage the government didn't like.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 102], "content_span": [103, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204564-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Peruvian political crisis, Consequences, Documentary\nThe film When Two Worlds Collide is composed of footage shot from 2007 through 2013, and presents a view of events that is sympathetic toward the protestors. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204565-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Peshawar judicial complex bombing\nThe November 2009 Peshawar attacks was a bombing that happened on 19 November 2009. The bombings happened outside a court building during the morning, the blast occurred near the main entrance of the judicial complex. People have reported that the blast occurred in a car parked adjacent to the building, however many unconfirmed reports said it was a suicide attack. At least ten people were killed and nearly 50 others were injured during the blast. The 50 injured people were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital and four of them were listed as being in serious condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans\nThe 2009 Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda6 was the twelfth running of the Petit Le Mans and the ninth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, on September 26, 2009. Originally scheduled to run for a distance of 1,000 miles (1,600\u00a0km) or a time of ten hours, the race was stopped after four hours due to heavy rains. The race was not restarted and the results were determined from the final lap prior to the stoppage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans\nWhen race officials decided to not restart the event Nicolas Minassian and St\u00e9phane Sarrazin of the #08 Peugeot were declared the winners, leading their team car #07. Audi, who had won this race every year since 2000, finished in third and fourth places. This race was the first time Audi lost at Petit Le Mans since its first run since 2000. This was also the first time that neither of the Volkswagen Group marques (Audi and Porsche) won (or finished in the top two, in all cases) its classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans\nIn the LMP2 category Dyson Racing Team won their second race of the season with the #20 Lola-Mazda of Marino Franchitti, Ben Devlin, and Butch Leitzinger ranking 13th overall and 29 laps ahead of their nearest class competitor. The GT2 category was won by Risi Competizione Ferrari leading the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW and Farnbacher-Loles Porsche on the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans\nDuring Thursday practice on September 24, which took place in dry, sunny conditions, Scott Sharp had a violent crash in the Acura ARX-02a exiting turn one after making contact with the Farnbacher-Loles Porsche entry, which was leaving the pits. Sharp's car turned on its left side, hit the fence, then barrel-rolled three-and-a-half times before landing right-side up. Sharp walked away from the incident. On Friday, September 25, at 9:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, a new tub arrived from the Honda Performance Development Center in Los Angeles. The Highcroft Racing team then spent the next 24 hours rebuilding the car, getting some assistance from archrival de Ferran Motorsports. The team only used 10 percent of the parts from the original car, and were forced to start the race from pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204566-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Petit Le Mans, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 2009 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 77th season in the National Football League, and the eleventh under head coach Andy Reid. After advancing to their fifth NFC Championship game in eight years, the Eagles improved upon their 9\u20136\u20131 record and a second-place finish in the NFC East in their 2008 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe season also marked the end of the Donovan McNabb era in Philadelphia as he was traded to the rival Washington Redskins in the 2010 off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Players, Free agents in 2009\nRFA: Restricted free-agent, UFA: Unrestricted free-agent, ERFA: Exclusive rights free agent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 1\nThe Eagles began their season at Bank of America Stadium for a Week 1 duel with the Carolina Panthers. Philadelphia trailed early in the first quarter as Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams ran 11 yards for a Carolina touchdown on their first drive. The Eagles answered with a 49-yard field goal from kicker David Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 1\nIn the second quarter, Philadelphia exploded with points as defensive end Victor Abiamiri returned a fumble 2 yards for a touchdown, wide receiver DeSean Jackson returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown, and quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek and a 4-yard touchdown pass to running back Brian Westbrook. Carolina ended the period with kicker John Kasay booting a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 1\nIn the third quarter, the Eagles closed out their scoring with McNabb scoring on a 3-yard touchdown run. However, he was hit late by several Carolina tacklers who cracked his ribs on the right side, knocking him out of the game. Kevin Kolb came in for McNabb and closed out the game for the victorious Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 2\nComing off their road win over the Panthers, the Eagles played their Week 2 home opener against the New Orleans Saints. Due to the rib injury to quarterback Donovan McNabb, backup quarterback Kevin Kolb was named the starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 2\nIn the first quarter, Philadelphia trailed as Saints quarterback Drew Brees completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marques Colston. The Eagles would answer with Kolb completing a 71-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson, but New Orleans replied with kicker John Carney making a 23-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Philadelphia would tie the game again as kicker David Akers got a 23-yard field goal. However, the Saints struck back as Brees hooked up with Colston again on a 25-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles would close out the half as Akers made a 32-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 2\nIn the third quarter, New Orleans began to pull away as Brees completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to fullback Heath Evans, along with running back Mike Bell getting a 7-yard touchdown. Philadelphia would answer with Kolb completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jason Avant. In the fourth quarter, the Saints continued to pull away as running back Reggie Bush got a 19-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would get a score as Brees fumbled the ball out of his own end zone, giving Philadelphia a safety. However, the Saints closed out their victory march as safety Darren Sharper returned an interception 97 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 3\nThe Eagles entered their second home game of the season at 1\u20131 and facing an 0\u20132 Kansas City Chiefs team. Kevin Kolb once again started in place of the injured Donovan McNabb and starting running back Brian Westbrook, starting left guard Todd Herremans (who had been out the first two weeks as well), and number two wide receiver Kevin Curtis all missed the game as well. Nevertheless, the Eagles struck first as rookie RB LeSean McCoy, starting in place of Westbrook, scored on a five-yard touchdown scamper. Later in the first quarter, Kevin Kolb scored his first ever NFL rushing TD on a quarterback sneak to put Philadelphia up 14\u20130 at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 3\nIn the second quarter, Matt Cassel scored the Chiefs' first touchdown of the game on a nice pass to a leaping Mark Bradley over the head of CB Ellis Hobbs to cut the Eagles' lead to seven. However, Philadelphia bounced back as Kevin Kolb hooked up with DeSean Jackson for a 64-yard score. The Eagles tacked on an Akers field goal to go up 24\u20137 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 3\nThe Philadelphia defense which had been great all day continued to do their jobs in the third quarter and the Kansas City began to step up their game as the only score of the third period was a 38-yard field goal kick by David Akers, putting the Eagles up 27\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 3\nIn the fourth quarter, Kevin Kolb tossed another touchdown pass, this time to starting third-year TE Brent Celek. It was Philly's last score of the game and put them up 34\u20137. Matt Cassel began to rally the Chiefs and drove them down the field, scoring a touchdown on a nine-yard pass to Bobby Wade, making the score 34\u201314. However, the Chiefs were unable to get on the board again and 34\u201314 was the final score. Kolb is the first quarterback to throw at least 300 yards in his first 2 career starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 3\nWith the win, the Eagles went into their bye week at 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nThe Eagles returned from their Week 4 bye against an 0\u20134 Tampa Bay Buccaneers team, Philadelphia's second straight game against a winless team. Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook returned from injury but Kevin Curtis once again was inactive and Jeremy Maclin made his third consecutive start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nOn Donovan McNabb's first play back, he scrambled 13 yards, and on the very next play, he found wide receiver Jeremy Maclin deep in the end zone for a 51-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nIn the second quarter, Donovan McNabb hit fullback Leonard Weaver in the flat and Weaver took it in for a 20-yard touchdown. The Buccaneers answered soon after as quarterback Josh Johnson, making his second career NFL start, connected with tight end Kellen Winslow in the end one for a nine-yard score. The Eagles ended the second half with another McNabb-to-Maclin TD hookup, this one of 40 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nIn the third quarter, the two teams fought back and forth but the only score was for Philadelphia as running back Brian Westbrook, one play after lining up wide and catching a twenty-yard pass from McNabb, ran the ball seven yards into the end zone to put the Eagles up 28\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nKicker David Akers booted a 44-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to put Philly up 31\u20137, but the Bucs fought back as Josh Johnson and Kellen Winslow hooked up again on another nine-yard touchdown. After a Sav Rocca punt left the Buccaneers deep in their own territory, DE Darren Howard tackled Tampa Bay halfback Carnell \"Cadillac\" Williams in the end zone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 5\nThe final score was 33\u201314 as the Eagles improved to 3\u20131. Andy Reid earned his 100th career victory with the Eagles. The Eagles are 11\u20130 after their bye week under Andy Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 6\nComing off their home win over the Buccaneers, the Eagles flew to the Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum for a Week 6 interconference duel with the Oakland Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 6\nIn the first quarter, both defenses played well, with the Eagles getting on the board first with a 45-yard field goal from kicker David Akers. However, the Raiders responded as QB JaMarcus Russell hooked up with TE Zach Miller on an 86-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 6\nIn the second quarter, Oakland kicker Sebastian Janikowski hit a 29-yard field goal and Akers would hit a 43-yarder. Philadelphia got the ball back before the half but sputtered as they got close to the Oakland end zone, and the half ended with the Raiders up 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 6\nIn the third quarter, the defenses battled back and forth and neither team scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 6\nThe final quarter's first points were scored by Oakland as Janikowski hit on a 46-yard field goal. David Akers scored on a 45-yard field goal for the Eagles, but when they got the ball back late in the fourth quarter, they turned it over on downs and the Raiders ran the clock out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 7\nHoping to rebound from their road loss to the Raiders, the Eagles flew to FedExField for a Week 7 NFC East duel with the Washington Redskins on Monday night. Philadelphia took flight in the first quarter with wide receiver DeSean Jackson's 67-yard touchdown run and linebacker Will Witherspoon (recently acquired from the Rams) returning an interception 9 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 7\nIn the second quarter, the Eagles increased their lead with a 47-yard field goal from kicker David Akers. The Redskins would get on the board with quarterback Jason Campbell completing a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devin Thomas, yet Philadelphia answered with Akers nailing a 44-yard field goal and quarterback Donovan McNabb completing a 57-yard touchdown pass to Jackson. Washington would close out the half with a 47-yard field goal from kicker Shaun Suisham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 7\nIn the third quarter, both defenses fought back and forth and the period ended with no points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 7\nIn the fourth and final quarter, Jason Campbell completed a one-yard touchdown pass to tight end Fred Davis for the only score of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 7\nThe Eagles defense held on and, with the win, Philadelphia improved to 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 8\nThis game was originally scheduled to have been a 4:15 PM start; however the NFL moved this game to 1 PM in order to accommodate the Philadelphia Phillies hosting Game 4 of that year's World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 8\nComing off their Monday night road win over the Redskins, the Eagles went home for a Week 8 NFC East duel with the New York Giants with the division lead on the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 8\nPhiladelphia came out soaring in the first quarter as fullback Leonard Weaver got a 41-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Donovan McNabb hooking up with tight end Brent Celek on a 17-yard touchdown pass (with a blocked PAT). In the second quarter, the Eagles increased their lead as kicker David Akers nailed a 30-yard field goal. The Giants would get on the board as quarterback Eli Manning found tight end Kevin Boss on an 18-yard touchdown pass, yet Philadelphia kept their momentum going as McNabb completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeSean Jackson and a 23-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Jeremy Maclin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 8\nThe Eagles would increase their lead in the third quarter as Akers booted a 35-yard field goal, yet New York attempted to rally as kicker Lawrence Tynes made a 42-yard field goal and running back Ahmad Bradshaw got a 1-yard touchdown run. In the fourth quarter, Philadelphia pulled away with a 66-yard touchdown run by rookie running back LeSean McCoy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 8\nWith the win, not only did the Eagles improve to 5\u20132, but they would take over as the leader of the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 9\nComing off their win over the Giants, the Eagles stayed at home for a Week 9 Sunday night divisional duel with the Dallas Cowboys with the lead in the NFC East on the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 9\nPhiladelphia would trail in the first quarter as Cowboys running back Tashard Choice picked up a 2-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would respond in the second quarter with a 45-yard and a 48-yard field goal from kicker David Akers, but Dallas would answer with kicker Nick Folk nailing a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 9\nIn the third quarter, Philadelphia would take the lead as quarterback Donovan McNabb found tight end Brent Celek on an 11-yard touchdown pass. However, the Cowboys struck back in the fourth quarter with Folk's 33-yard field goal and quarterback Tony Romo's 49-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin. The Eagles tried to get a comeback, but could only muster up a 52-yard field goal from Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 10\nHoping to rebound from their tough Sunday night loss to the Cowboys, the Eagles flew to Qualcomm Stadium for a Week 10 interconference duel with the San Diego Chargers. Philadelphia would trail in the first quarter as Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to fullback Mike Tolbert. San Diego would add onto their lead in the second quarter with running back LaDainian Tomlinson's 3-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would get on the board with kicker David Akers getting an 18-yard and a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 10\nIn the third quarter, the Chargers went back to work as Tomlinson got a 20-yard touchdown run. Philadelphia would try to stay close as Akers nailed a 25-yard field goal, but San Diego kept their attack going as Rivers hooked up with wide receiver Legedu Naanee on a 20-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles' offense would finally get going in the fourth quarter as quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Jeremy Maclin and a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek. However, the Chargers would prove to be too much to handle as kicker Nate Kaeding booted a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nFollowing two consecutive losses to Dallas and San Diego, Philadelphia went to Chicago to take on the Chicago Bears, who were 4\u20135, on Sunday Night Football. The Eagles dominated the first quarter as Philadelphia took a two score lead on a 25-yard field goal by David Akers and a 13-yard touchdown from Donovan McNabb to Jason Avant on a wide receiver screen pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nDown 10\u20130 at the start of the second quarter, Chicago drove within one point as Bears kicker Robbie Gould successfully made a 45-yard field goal, as well as a pair of 28-yard field goals, to make the score 10\u20139 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nIn the second half, the Bears took the lead as Robbie Gould kicked his fourth field goal, a 49-yarder that put Chicago up 12\u201310. However, it took only 30 seconds for the Eagles to take the lead as Donovan McNabb passed to DeSean Jackson for a 48-yard touchdown to give the Eagles a 17\u201312 lead. Ironically, the 48-yard touchdown catch was the shortest touchdown scored by Jackson thus far in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nChicago again took the lead in the third quarter as struggling quarterback Jay Cutler, who had already missed several wide open targets in the game, passed to tight end Kellen Davis for a 15-yard score. The Bears converted the 2-point conversion attempt as running back Matt Forte scored on the pass from Cutler to put the Bears back on top 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nIn the fourth quarter, both defenses fought back and forth but the only points of the final period were scored by Eagles running back LeSean McCoy on a 10-yard, game-winning touchdown run to put the Eagles up 24\u201320, the game's final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 11\nWith the win, the Eagles improved to 6\u20134. Ironically, the Eagles win came by the same score (24\u201320) in the same city (Chicago) at the same time and venue (Sunday Night Football on NBC) as when they had lost in week 4 of the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nIn the second meeting of the year with the Washington Redskins, the Eagles tried an onside kick to start the game. This backfired when the Redskins running back Quinton Ganther recovered the kick and returned it 25 yards to the Eagles 24-yard line. Four plays later, Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell ran for a two-yard touchdown to score the game's first touchdown, as the Redskins took the lead 7\u20130. After a holding penalty on Eagles tight end Brent Celek, the Eagles had to settle for a 29-yard field goal by kicker David Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nOn the following drive by the Eagles, quarterback Donovan McNabb found wide receiver DeSean Jackson wide open in the end zone for a 35-yard touchdown to bring the Eagles up 10\u20137. On the ensuing drive by the Redskins, Campbell threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Santana Moss to take the lead 14\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nLate in the second quarter, after both teams punting the ball away after three unsuccessful drives, Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel intercepted a Jason Campbell pass that was intended for Santana Moss. The Eagles could not convert a third down with 10 to go, and David Akers kicked a 24-yard field goal to get the Eagles within a point of the Redskins, 14\u201313. The Redskins received the ball again and Campbell threw a second straight interception to Samuel, who returned it for 17 yards. The Eagles ended the first half with a second straight field goal to take the lead 16\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nThe Eagles got the ball to start the second half, but the drive ended with a Sav Rocca punt. Jason Campbell threw a 10-yard touchdown to tight end Fred Davis to take the lead once again, 21\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nAfter two straight punts for each team, the Eagles got the ball back in the fourth quarter and Donovan McNabb threw an intended pass to Reggie Brown, but the pass was intercepted by Redskins cornerback Justin Tryon. The Redskins scored on a 25-yard field goal by Shaun Suisham, to increase their lead 24\u201316. The Eagles started their drive on their own 10-yard line after a penalty on the kick return by Dimitri Patterson. The Eagles went 90 yards to score on an Eldra Buckley one-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 12\nSince they were losing by two points, the Eagles decided to go for a two-point conversion. The two-point conversion was successful after rookie running back LeSean McCoy ran in the end zone on a shovel pass from McNabb. The score was tied, 24\u201324. The Redskins could not score on the next drive, and therefore had to punt to the Eagles. The Eagles scored on a 32-yard field goal by David Akers to take the lead, 27\u201324. The Eagles got the ball back on downs, and kneeled the ball to run out the clock and win 27\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nFollowing back to back wins against Chicago and Washington, the Eagles traveled to Atlanta to take on the Atlanta Falcons who were 6\u20135. While the Falcons were without quarterback Matt Ryan and running back Michael Turner due to injury, as well as a pair of offensive linemen, the Eagles came into the game without explosive wideout DeSean Jackson, linebacker Akeem Jordan, or nickel corner Joselio Hanson, who had been suspended by the league for violating its substance abuse policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nIn the first quarter, Eagles kicker David Akers scored on a 33-yard field goal and fullback Leonard Weaver, who would go on to make an outstanding one-handed, 59-yard catch-and-run, and finish the game with 100 total yards, caught an under thrown ball by Donovan McNabb in the end zone for a 4-yard touchdown that put the Eagles up 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nAtlanta's backup quarterback Chris Redman struggled all game and backup running backs Jerious Norwood and Jason Snelling seemed, in most cases, unable to find holes, and both offenses struggled in the second quarter, the only score coming on another 33-yard field goal by David Akers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nThe Eagles dominated the third quarter as quarterback Michael Vick, in his return to Atlanta, ran in a five-yard score to put the Eagles up 20\u20130, his first touchdown of the year. It kept getting worse for Atlanta as Chris Redman, who had had pass after pass batted at the line during the game, was intercepted by cornerback Sheldon Brown, who returned the interception 83 yards for a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nPhilly went up 34\u20130 in the fourth quarter as Michael Vick, coming in as a relief player for Donovan McNabb, tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek. The Eagles defense seemed to be en route to their first shutout since 1996, but the Falcons scored with one second left on the clock on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Redman to wide receiver Roddy White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 13\nThe Eagles third consecutive win left them 8\u20134, heading into a pivotal Sunday Night matchup against their division rival New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 14\nThe winner of this Sunday Night showdown would assume first place in the NFC East (the Eagles outright, the Giants on tiebreakers). With two games against opponents with losing records approaching, it was crucial for the Giants to escape this one with a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 14\nThe Eagles started things off right away, putting 14 points on the board before the Giants had run their fifth play from scrimmage. McNabb connected with Celek for a touchdown, and Sheldon Brown returned a Brandon Jacobs fumble for six points on the ensuing drive. In the second quarter, Nicks caught the longest reception of his short career for a 68-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0055-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 14\nAfter DeSean Jackson responded by returning a Jeff Feagles punt 72 yards for a touchdown, the Giants were able to send Bradshaw into the end zone from the 3. Eagles backup quarterback Michael Vick was able to sneak in one more rushing touchdown before halftime. Jacobs opened the scoring in the second half with a 1-yard rush. After the teams traded turnovers, Manning got the ball into Hixon's hands for a 61-yard touchdown. But the Eagles responded on the very next play with a 60-yard touchdown to Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0055-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 14\nJackson's 176 receiving yards amounted to the best individual receiving performance against the Giants since 2002. The Eagles struck again in the fourth quarter, this time on a run by fullback Leonard Weaver and a two-point conversion pass to Jason Avant. The Giants put another touchdown on the board (courtesy of Boss) in the last two minutes of the game, and got the ball back with 28 seconds left. But defensive end Darren Howard sacked Manning and forced a fumble, sealing the Eagles' first sweep of the Giants since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 14\nThe Eagles scored 85 points against the Giants this year, the most they have scored versus the Giants in a single season in franchise history. The Eagles have improved to 9\u20134 with many hopes of making it into the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nAfter taking control of the NFC East in New York, the Eagles came back home to face a 6\u20137 49ers team who were coming off of a 15-point win against the Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nUpon receiving the opening kickoff, the Eagles' first possession began from the 50-yard line after a great return of 48 yards by Quintin Demps. With excellent field position to start, the Eagles would march through 49ers territory and score the game's first touchdown to cap off a 5-play, 50-yard drive on a 19-yard touchdown pass from Donovan McNabb to DeSean Jackson. The 49ers responded within 3 minutes with a 51-yard field goal by Joe Nedney to cut the Eagles' lead down to 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nBefore the end of the 1st quarter, both teams turned the ball over once: 49ers QB Alex Smith was picked off at the Philadelphia 32-yard line by Quintin Mikell and, during a later possession, the Eagles were stopped on 4th down at their own 29-yard line after RB Leonard Weaver failed to convert on 4th and 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nOn the very first play of the second quarter, with the 49ers threatening to score, tight end Delanie Walker's fumble was recovered by Eagles' cornerback Asante Samuel at the Philadelphia 6-yard line. The Eagles turned it into 13 more points, coming off of an 8-yard touchdown run by McNabb and two short David Akers field goals. The Eagles took a commanding 20\u20133 lead into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0059-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nIn the third quarter, San Francisco held the Eagles scoreless while managing 10 points of their own to trim the deficit to 7. Joe Nedney nailed another field goal, this time from 25 yards, and Alex Smith connected with Josh Morgan on a 12-yard touchdown pass as the Eagles took a 20\u201313 lead into the 4th. From there, the 49ers would not score again and the Eagles would put the game away with a 2-yard rushing touchdown by LeSean McCoy. The Eagles won the game 27\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 15\nWith the win, the Eagles improved to 10\u20134 and remained atop the division, holding a 1-game lead over the Dallas Cowboys. The Eagles also clinched a playoff berth, the 8th of the Andy Reid/ Donovan Mcnabb era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nNFC East leaders for the second straight week, the 10\u20134 Eagles remained home for an interconference matchup with the 8\u20136 Denver Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nThe Eagles jumped out to an early 10\u20130 lead in the 1st quarter, recovering from a quick turnover on their first possession. Philadelphia quarterback Donovan McNabb was sacked, losing the ball in the process. The loose ball was picked up by Denver's Darrell Reid. The Philadelphia defense was able to keep the Broncos from turning it into any points, forcing a punt, and scored on their next possession with a 2-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson. Soon after, David Akers' 39 yard field goal pushed the Eagles' lead to 10, closing the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nDenver answered with an 11-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Kyle Orton to wide receiver Jabar Gaffney, capping off a 12-play, 70-yard drive on their very first possession of the second period. Up 10\u20137, the Eagles immediately responded on the following drive as Donovan McNabb hit his tight end Brent Celek for a 47-yard passing touchdown. The Eagles forced another punt, David Akers added 3 more points on his second field goal of the day, and the Eagles' halftime lead stood at 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nNow down 20\u20137, the Broncos started the second half strong, forcing another Eagles turnover on the second play of the third quarter. McNabb was intercepted by Champ Bailey, setting up a 33-yard field goal by Matt Prater to reduce the lead to 10. Philadelphia's next possession gave them their largest lead of the game after Donovan McNabb found Jason Avant for his third passing touchdown of the day. Kyle Orton was then intercepted by Asante Samuel, and the Broncos' hopes of a comeback were fading away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0063-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nHowever, Denver forced a 3-and-out, scored on another passing touchdown to Jabar Gaffney, and recovered the fumble by Macho Harris on the following kickoff. Orton found Knowshon Moreno for his third passing touchdown of the day, and, within two minutes, the Eagles' 17-point lead was down to 3. In the fourth, Matt Prater succeeded on a 46-yard field goal attempt and the game was tied at 27 with just over 6 minutes to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0063-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nAfter offensive possessions for each team, both ending in punts, the Eagles got the ball back with 1:41 remaining to set up a 28-yard field goal by David Akers, leaving the Broncos with 7 seconds of game time. Time ran out on the ensuing kickoff, and the Eagles held on to win by a score of 30\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 16\nThe victory, their sixth consecutive, boosted Philadelphia's record to 11\u20134, setting up a decisive Week 17 game with the Cowboys for the division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 17\nIn the final game of the regular season, the first-place Eagles battled the second-place Cowboys in Dallas, with the winner crowned as NFC East champs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 17\nThe game began with Dallas driving 80 yards down the field in 9 plays for the touchdown. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo completed a 10-yard pass to tight end Jason Witten, giving the Cowboys the early 7\u20130 lead. The Eagles' first drive, in comparison, ended in a quick 3-and-out, giving the ball back to the Cowboys. On the next drive, Romo, looking for Patrick Crayton, was picked off by the Eagles' Joselio Hanson deep in Philadelphia territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 17\nThe Eagles, continuing their drive into the second quarter, were able to reach the Cowboys' 39-yard line, but elected to punt on 4th down rather than kick the long field goal. Tony Romo led Dallas back down the field and the possession finished with a 14-yard touchdown reception by Patrick Crayton. Still scoreless, the Eagles made a furious attempt to respond, moving the ball all the way to the 14-yard line of the Cowboys only for Donovan McNabb to fumble. Dallas DE Jay Ratliff scooped it up, eventually resulting in a 44-yard field goal by Shaun Suisham to end the half with a 17\u20130 Cowboys lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 17\nTo open the second half, the Eagles drove down the field into field goal range and once again came up empty. The 53-yard try by David Akers was wide left, and the Cowboys took over on their own 43. Both teams each punted twice until the Cowboys struck again, this time on a 2-play possession capped off by running back Felix Jones. Jones ran it in from 49 yards out and put Dallas up by 24 with under 6 minutes left in the third quarter. This would be the last time either team put up any points, and the game ended with a final score of 24\u20130. This would be Philadelphia's first loss since Week 10 and their first time being held scoreless in a regular season game since Week 13 of 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular-season results, Week 17\nWith the loss, the Eagles placed second in the NFC East, as the Cowboys won the division title by means of a tiebreaker. The loss also resulted in the Eagles failing to clinch the #2 seed (and a first-round bye) in the NFC and instead slipped all the way down to the #6 seed in the NFC, setting up a rematch on Wild Card weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nEntering the postseason as the NFC's #6 seed, the Eagles began their playoff at Cowboys Stadium for the third meeting against their hated rival, the #3 Dallas Cowboys, in a rematch of their Week 17 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, the Cowboys would strike first in the second quarter with quarterback Tony Romo's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end John Phillips. Philadelphia would answer with quarterback Michael Vick hooking up with rookie wide receiver Jeremy Maclin on a 76-yard touchdown, but Dallas would start to pull away as running back Tashard Choice got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Cowboys would pile on their lead with kicker Shaun Suisham's 25-yard field goal, Romo's 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin, and Suisham's 48-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nDallas would add onto their lead in the third quarter as running back Felix Jones scored on a 73-yard touchdown run. The Eagles tried to mount a comeback drive in the fourth quarter as quarterback Donovan McNabb found wide receiver DeSean Jackson, but the Cowboys would prevent any further attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nWith the loss, Philadelphia was eliminated, ending its season with an overall record of 11\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nThis would be Donovan McNabb's last game as an Eagle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204567-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason, Wild Card Game\nThis was the first time since 1996 the Eagles failed to win their opening playoff game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204568-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia International Championship\nThe 2009 Philadelphia International Championship was the 25th running of the cycling race, which took place on June 7, 2009. It was won by Team Columbia\u2013High Road's Andr\u00e9 Greipel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe Philadelphia Phillies' 2009 season was the 127th season in the history of the franchise. The team, managed by Charlie Manuel, began their sixth season at Citizens Bank Park and defense of their 2008 World Series championship on April 5. After collecting a third straight Eastern Division championship, the Phillies won their second consecutive National League pennant for the first time in franchise history; however they were defeated by the New York Yankees in the 2009 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe Phillies posted a second consecutive winning April to open the season with an 11\u20139 record, but the month was marred by the death of legendary broadcaster Harry Kalas. After opening the month of May against the rival New York Mets, the Phillies met President Barack Obama to celebrate their World Series victory the previous season, and had two rookie pitchers win consecutive starts for the first time since 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nStarting pitcher Jamie Moyer earned his 250th career win during the month, while first baseman Ryan Howard and outfielder Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez became the first Phillies teammates to hit 10 home runs in the same month. Echoing their strong run in the middle of the 2008 season, the Phillies compiled a 16\u20134 record in late May and early June, which was countered by weakness during interleague play in late June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nAfter the team's largest victory of the season (22\u20131 over the Cincinnati Reds) in early July, five Phillies\u2014Howard, Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, second baseman Chase Utley, and outfielders Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth\u2014were selected to the All-Star team. July was the team's best showing of the season, as they compiled their first 20-win month since the 2001 season. The Phillies traded for starting pitcher Cliff Lee at the end of the month to bolster their starting rotation, who won his first five starts with the team, and signed free-agent pitcher Pedro Mart\u00ednez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nIn August, Eric Bruntlett turned the first game-ending unassisted triple play in National League history, and the second in team history. The following month, the team clinched its third consecutive division championship on September 30, becoming the first Phillies team to make a third straight playoff appearance since the 1976\u20131978 Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nPhiladelphia defeated the Colorado Rockies in the National League Division Series (NLDS), 3\u20131, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series (NLCS) for the second consecutive year, 4\u20131. Howard was named the most valuable player of the NLCS. The Phillies were defeated by the Yankees in the World Series, four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season\nStatistical leaders in batting for the 2009 team included Victorino (batting average, .292), Howard (home runs, 45; runs batted in, 141), and Utley (runs scored, 112). For his season accomplishments, Utley won his fourth consecutive Silver Slugger Award. Pitching leaders included right-handed starting pitcher Joe Blanton (innings pitched,\u00a0195+1\u20443), left-handed starter J. A. Happ (win\u2013loss record,\u00a012\u20134), and relief pitcher Brad Lidge (saves,\u00a031). Victorino and shortstop Jimmy Rollins also won Rawlings Gold Glove Awards for their play in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Departures\nOn November 4, following the World Series, the Phillies released third base coach Steve Smith. Smith had been with the team for two years. The Phillies were expected to have the remaining coaches to return for the 2009 season. However, bench coach Jimy Williams opted not to return to the Phillies for the 2009 season, notifying the team on November 10. Charlie Manuel had expected Williams to return for the 2009 season, and was surprised that he declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Departures\nHowever, Williams left the team on good terms, and Manuel stated that he was welcome to come back to the Phillies if he changed his mind. Left fielder Pat Burrell became a free agent at the end of the 2008 season, signing with the Tampa Bay Rays, whom the Phillies had defeated in the World Series, on January 5. The team did not tender an offer to Burrell following eight seasons. The Phillies also released outfielder So Taguchi on November 5. Taguchi had served as a pinch-hitter for the Phillies in 2008, and also replaced Burrell in left field some games. Eric Bruntlett replaced Taguchi for the latter half of the 2008 season. Relief pitcher Tom Gordon also filed for free agency, ultimately signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Arrivals\nOn November 3, the Phillies named Rub\u00e9n Amaro, Jr. to be the general manager after Pat Gillick retired at the end of a three-year contract. Amaro previously had a long history with the Phillies, serving as a bat boy in the 1980s, a player in the 1990s, and as assistant general manager for the Phillies from 1998 until his appointment as general manager. Gillick remained with the Phillies as an advisor. On November 13, Sam Perlozzo joined the Phillies as third base coach and fielding/infield coach after spending the 2008 season in the same position for the Seattle Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Arrivals\nPerlozzo previously served as the third base coach for the New York Mets, the Cincinnati Reds, and as third base coach, bench coach, and manager for the Baltimore Orioles. Another former manager, Pete Mackanin, was named the team's new bench coach on November 21; he had been interim manager for the Reds when Jerry Narron was fired in Cincinnati in 2007. On November 28, the Phillies signed Mike Koplove Koplove, a right-handed relief pitcher, was optioned to the AAA Lehigh Valley IronPigs at the end of spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Arrivals\nOn December 16, Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez agreed to play left field for the Phillies in a 3-year, $31.5 million deal. South Korean pitcher Chan Ho Park officially signed a one-year contract to join the Phillies on January 6, after agreeing to a deal in principle in December. Park was originally signed as an insurance policy for the bullpen, as reliever J. C. Romero was assigned a fifty-game suspension after violating the Major League Baseball drug policy, but won the fifth starter's job in Spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Retentions\nLeft-handed reliever Scott Eyre re-signed with the Phillies after becoming a vital part of the bullpen during the stretch run. The Phillies re-signed left-handed starter Jamie Moyer on December 15 after lengthy negotiations. The 46-year-old Moyer was inked to a two-year contract to return to the world champions and kept a key part of the Phillies' postseason rotation intact. The team also avoided salary arbitration with first baseman Ryan Howard's three-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Injuries\nOn November 20, second baseman Chase Utley had hip surgery and was scheduled to be out for four to six months. However, on December 15, Utley said in a press conference that he could be ready for Opening Night. Just under four months later, Utley made his first pre-season game appearance in an intersquad game March 14, and his first appearance in actual game competition the next day against the St. Louis Cardinals. Third baseman Pedro Feliz also had surgery on his back to repair a herniated disc on the same day as Utley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, Injuries\nFeliz officially returned to spring training action on March 13. During spring training, starting pitcher Cole Hamels left training camp on March 16 and flew to Philadelphia to have his left elbow examined by Dr. Michael Ciccotti. Hamels felt tightness in between innings and after he was done pitching for the day. \"This will obviously set me back a couple of days, and I don\u2019t think that should be a big deal\", said Hamels. However, the injury threw his Opening Day start against the Braves into doubt, even though Ciccotti found no structural damage in his arm; Brett Myers was announced as Hamels' replacement to start Opening Night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Spring training\nOn November 13, the Phillies announced their spring training schedule. In addition to their Grapefruit League games, the Phillies played two games against two of the World Baseball Classic teams. The Phillies defeated Team Canada (with Phillie Matt Stairs) on March 4, 9\u20132, and lost to Team USA (with Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino) on March 5, 9\u20136. The team broke camp April 2 and headed north to play two \"On Deck Series\" games on April 3 and 4 against the Tampa Bay Rays at Citizens Bank Park; they split the series, winning 3\u20132 and losing 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Spring training\nThe Phillies finished the 2009 preseason with a record of 13\u201319, 10 games behind the Grapefruit League-leading New York Yankees. Ryan Howard led all players in Spring Training with 10 home runs. The team set spring training attendance-records for Bright House Field in 2009. They set a single-game record with 10,335 people in attendance on March 15 for a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Phillies set the franchise's total spring training attendance record for Bright House Field, with 133,620 attending in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nThe Phillies began their 2009 season in front of a sold-out crowd of 44,532 at Citizens Bank Park on April 5, playing against the Atlanta Braves. The Phillies, originally scheduled to play in the afternoon of April 6, earned the distinction of playing the opening game of the entire 2009 Major League Baseball season after winning the 2008 World Series. They lost the opener 4\u20131 to the division-rival Braves, whose new ace, Derek Lowe, pitched eight shutout innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nThe Phillies lost the next game, and were in danger of losing the following night and dropping to 0\u20133 before scoring eight runs in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 12\u201311 come-from-behind win. The Phillies lost their first game in Denver, but came from behind again in their next two games to take the second series from the Colorado Rockies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nThe Phillies defeated the Washington Nationals in the opener of their third series, just hours after the death of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas, but lost the third scheduled game of the series after the second was cancelled due to weather. In their series against the San Diego Padres, the Phillies dropped the first two games as well; during the second game, closer Brad Lidge blew his first save in a Phillies uniform, breaking his streak of 47 consecutive saves extending back to the 2007 regular season. The Phillies won the Sunday afternoon matinee against the Padres, 5\u20134, on a walk-off home run by Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez after trailing the entire game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nThe Phillies' offense benefited from rest due to the postponement of the final game of the Padres' series, as they defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the opener of their mid-week series, 11\u20134. The next two games did not go as smoothly, as the Phillies were shut out through eight innings in the second game and nearly no-hit by Brewers starter Dave Bush in the third game. Phillies starter Cole Hamels was hit by a line drive in the fourth inning and exited the game; before departing, he had retired nine out of the ten batters he faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nHitting the road for a series against the division-leading Florida Marlins, the Phillies were shut out through eight innings in the first game of the series, only to score seven runs in the top of the ninth against power-throwing closer Matt Lindstrom, winning the game, 7\u20133, thanks to Shane Victorino's first career regular season grand slam. The following night's game offered another come-from-behind win for the Phillies, as they trailed in the ninth again to win in extra innings, 6\u20134, and the 13\u20132 victory on April 26 capped the team's first series sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, April\nHosting Washington for their second series against the Nationals, the Phillies fell behind in the seventh inning before a grand slam by Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez capped their 13\u201311 victory; combined with Ryan Howard's game-tying grand slam in the fifth inning, this was only the fourth time in Phillies history that teammates hit grand slams in the same game. The Phillies split the remaining two games of the series with Washington, finishing with an April record of 11\u20139, their second consecutive winning April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nThe Phillies opened May against the division-rival New York Mets, losing the opening game of the month, 7\u20134. Back-to-back walks in the tenth inning of the Saturday afternoon game gave the Phillies their first win of the season over the Mets. After a rainout, the Phillies opened their first series in St. Louis with the Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nThey won the first game of the series on Howard's second grand slam in as many weeks after a pitchers' duel between starters Kyle Lohse and Joe Blanton and completed the two-game series sweep with a 10\u20137 victory on May 5, capped by a Jayson Werth three-run home run and a 4-for-5 performance from Victorino. The Phillies' brief stop in New York was marred by a two-game series sweep; Phillies hitters were shut down by Mets starters Johan Santana and Mike Pelfrey, and closer Francisco Rodr\u00edguez recorded saves in both games of the series. The following series was barely better, as the Phillies dropped two games to the Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nOn May 12, Werth stole four bases, including home plate, tying a Phillies record and leading to a 5\u20133 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers; however, the series result was the same as the previous one, as the Phillies dropped two games in the set to Los Angeles. Carrying a .500 winning percentage south from Philadelphia to Washington, the team visited the White House and was congratulated by President Barack Obama for their championship the previous season. The visit had been postponed from April 14 due to Kalas' death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nAfter meeting the President, the Phillies opened the series with a second consecutive extra-inning game, defeating the Nationals in 12 innings. Because pitcher J. A. Happ had to enter Friday night's game in relief, the Phillies called up right-handed starting pitcher Andrew Carpenter from Reading to start the second game of Saturday's doubleheader (a make-up of the postponement from April 15). Carpenter earned his first major league win in the rain-shortened second game after Myers earned the win in the afternoon game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nThough Sunday's starter Park only pitched 11\u20443 innings, the Phillies swept the series with the Nationals with an 8\u20136 come-from-behind win, with new call-up Sergio Escalona earning his first major league win. This marked the first time since the 2007 season that rookies had won back-to-back starts for the Phillies (Hamels and Kyle Kendrick). The Phillies took two of three games in each of their next two series with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees to finish their road trip with an 8\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, May\nThough they lost two games against Florida, the final series of the month against Washington resulted in a second straight series sweep, as the Phillies defeated the Nationals in three consecutive games to finish the month with a 17\u201311 record; the last game of the series was Moyer's 250th career victory. With strong offensive performances in May, Howard and Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez became the first pair of Phillies to hit 10 home runs in the same month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, June\nThe month of June saw the continuation of the Phillies' hot streak; from May 15 to June 4, the team compiled a 16\u20134 record, culminating with a three-game sweep of the Padres on the Phillies' first trip to the West Coast. In that series, rookie Antonio Bastardo made his major league debut, striking out five batters and allowing one earned run in six innings of work to earn his first career victory. Traveling north to Los Angeles for a rematch of the previous year's playoff series, the Phillies managed a split despite the bullpen's struggles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, June\nLidge blew two saves in consecutive nights, taking the loss in the first game and allowing the game-tying home run in the other. The series was bookended by the team's first shutout of the season, a complete game by Hamels, and a second consecutive strong performance from Bastardo, who pitched five innings and allowed only two runs in a game that ended with a final score of 7\u20132. The final stop on the road trip was Citi Field, where the Phillies faced off against the Mets. All three games were close, with two one-run wins in the series and two extra-inning victories for the Phillies, won by home runs from Utley and Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez on June 10 and 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, June\nThe team's strong stretch did not continue, however, as the Phillies entered the second period of interleague play with five consecutive series against the American League East. While they managed a single win against the Boston Red Sox, it was followed by a six-game losing streak wherein the Phillies were swept by the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles; Philadelphia was outscored 38\u201319 over the two series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, June\nThe team showed promise in the first game of their World Series rematch series with the Tampa Bay Rays, winning 10\u20131, but were defeated in the last two games of the series and lost a fourth straight game to Toronto on June 26. However, the Phillies were able to exact a modicum of revenge for both their 1993 World Series defeat and the first series sweep by the Jays by winning the last two games. Happ played the role of stopper by pitching his first career complete-game shutout, and Moyer followed by earning his 252nd victory in the following game. To close the month, the Phillies lost the opener of their next series with the Braves to finish the month with a 10\u201316 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nStruggles continued for the Phillies to open July, as the Braves completed a three-game series sweep in the first two days of the month; however, a face-off with the Mets over the Independence Day weekend revitalized the team's fortunes. The Phillies swept their northern rivals as the Mets managed only three runs in three games. During the series, the team's 2009 All-Stars were announced: Utley and Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez were elected as starters, and Howard was named as a reserve, one of four first basemen selected to the National League squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nIt was also announced that Victorino was one of the five \"Final Vote\" candidates. Though the Phillies had played much better on the road to this point in the season, home-field advantage paid off the next night, as the offense chased Reds starter Johnny Cueto after 2\u20443 of an inning by scoring nine runs; the team went on to score 10 in the first inning and 22 in the entire game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nEvery Phillies starter had at least one hit, Werth hit an eighth-inning grand slam off of Reds infielder Paul Janish, and Rollins and Victorino, at the top of the order, combined to go 7-for-9 with three doubles, a home run, nine runs scored, and five RBIs between them. Though closer Lidge suffered a tough loss on July 7, sacrificing a run in the ninth inning to earn his fourth of the season, the Phillies bounced back with a dramatic ninth-inning win the following night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0017-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nVictorino hit a walk-off single to drive in Pedro Feliz and solidify his victory in the All-Star Final Vote, which was announced the next day. Werth was named to replace the New York Mets' Carlos Beltr\u00e1n on the All-Star roster due to injury; Victorino replaced Beltr\u00e1n as the starter in center field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nAfter the All-Star break\u2014during which the American League defeated the National League, 4\u20133\u2014Moyer, Ryan Madson, and J. C. Romero combined for a one-hit, complete-game shutout of the Marlins in the first game back, extending the Phillies' winning streak to six games, and their record to 10\u20133 in the month of July. The streak was extended to eight straight games as the Phillies swept Florida in three games of the series (one game was postponed due to weather). Happ raised his record to 7\u20130 on the season with another seven-inning shutout performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nThe streak continued as the Phillies opened a series at home against the Chicago Cubs; Chad Durbin earned his first save in 11 months by pitching three scoreless innings of relief. Werth's three-run home run in the 13th inning the next night gave the Phillies a walk-off win for their tenth consecutive, but Chicago ended the season-high streak with a 10\u20135 defeat on July 22. The Phillies won three of their next four, and bolstered their rotation by trading for Cliff Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, July\nThe 2008 American League Cy Young Award winner came from the Cleveland Indians along with outfielder Ben Francisco on July 29; the Phillies gave up four minor leaguers\u2014catcher Lou Marson, infielders Jason Donald and pitchers Carlos Carrasco and Jason Knapp. Lee and Francisco joined the Phillies in San Francisco after the Phillies' series victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks, and both started the final game in July. Lee pitched a complete-game four-hitter on July 31, allowing one run over nine innings of work. The Phillies finished July with a 20\u20137 record, their first 20-win month since May 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nThe Phillies opened the month of August with three straight losses, but the stopper's role again fell to the rookie Happ, who pitched his second shutout of the season\u2014and the second of his career\u2014against the Rockies on August 5. He earned the team's 60th win of the season while allowing four hits and striking out ten batters for the first time in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nIn accordance with his 8\u20132 record and strong performances, Amaro announced that Happ would remain in the Phillies' starting rotation despite the team's acquisitions of Lee and Pedro Mart\u00ednez; rumors regarding Happ's status had been rampant since Mart\u00ednez' signing and during the trade season when Happ was rumored to be the centerpiece of a potential trade for the Blue Jays' Roy Halladay. New pitcher Lee stifled the Rockies the following day to win the series for the Phillies with a second consecutive strong performance, allowing one run over seven innings and allowing only six hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nIn the following series with Florida, however, the Phillies struggled. The Marlins swept all three games of the series, which included Victorino's first career ejection on several close calls by umpire Ed Rapuano, and a crucial error by Victorino's center field replacement, Werth, in the final game of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0019-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nMoyer pitched against the Marlins in that game, a team against which he had prior success in his career (13\u20133, 2.87 ERA in 1001\u20443 innings pitched), and allowed two earned runs on eleven singles through five innings; however, with a rotation-high 5.47 ERA, the Phillies demoted Moyer to the bullpen to allow Mart\u00ednez to start. Francisco hit his second Phillies home run against the Cubs on August 11; it came in the 12th inning and scored the game-winning run for the Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0019-0004", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nIt became the first win of a three-game series sweep, which Lee closed out with a third straight dominant performance (eight innings pitched, one run allowed, eight strikeouts). The Phillies took two of three games from the Braves in their next series, and completed a three-game homestand against the Diamondbacks with a complete game from Lee, who carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning, and eight innings of three-run baseball from Blanton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nMart\u00ednez faced off against his former club on August 23, with the series tied 1\u20131. Mets starter \u00d3liver P\u00e9rez allowed six runs in the first inning and was pulled in the middle of Mart\u00ednez' first at-bat, down in the count 3\u20130. \u00c1ngel Pag\u00e1n led off the Mets' first with an inside-the-park home run after the ball became lodged underneath the outfield wall. Mart\u00ednez pitched six innings, allowing four runs, but the score was 9\u20136 by the end of the eighth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nLidge allowed another run to score and had runners on first and second, thanks in part to a booted base hit and an error by Eric Bruntlett. The Mets had no outs and Jeff Francoeur was at the plate representing the go-ahead run. Francoeur hit a line drive over the second base bag, where Bruntlett caught it, stepped on second base, and tagged Daniel Murphy coming from first, completing the 15th unassisted triple play in baseball's modern era and the second in Phillies history (Mickey Morandini) in a game called \"the league's quirkiest of the season\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nThe Phillies closed the series with a 6\u20132 win behind Lee's eighth straight victory (seven innings pitched, no earned runs). With a win on August 26, the Phillies claimed victory in the year's series over the Pirates; however, the Bucs won two games in a three-night set wherein the game-winning run was scored in the eighth inning or later each night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0020-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, August\nAndrew McCutchen hit a game-winning two-run home run off of Lidge in the ninth inning of the opener; Howard hit a game-winning three-run shot for the Phillies in the top of the tenth on August 26 after the Pirates tied it in the ninth on a Brandon Moss home run. Garrett Jones set a Pirates rookie record with his 15th home run off of Happ in the eighth inning of the series finale. The Phillies closed the month by taking two of three games from the Braves. For his 11 home run performance in August, Howard won the National League Player of the Month award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nThe Phillies opened the month by taking two of a three-game series against the Giants, besting Jonathan S\u00e1nchez, who threw a no-hitter earlier in the 2009 season, and Tim Lincecum, who won the 2008 NL Cy Young Award. This was followed by a trip to Texas for a four-game series against the Houston Astros; the Phillies were unable to muster much offense during the series and were swept.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nOn September 8, in the first game of the series against the Washington Nationals, Iba\u00f1ez and Utley each hit their 30th home runs of the season, making them members of the 12th quartet of teammates in major league history to each reach 30 in a single season, joining Howard and Werth. The Phillies offense backed Lee to his sixth win the following night, with Madson earning his second consecutive save after assuming the de facto closer's role from Lidge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nHowever, the Phillies could not overcome a pair of three-run home runs by Adam Dunn and Ian Desmond to secure the sweep in the last game of the series, despite Stairs' grand slam; it was their third loss of the season to Washington in fifteen games. The Mets came to Philadelphia for their last series of the season, which began on September 11. The Phillies won game one, 4\u20132, but the Mets came from behind in the second game of the series, scoring five runs in the final two innings to win 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0021-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nMaking up a postponed game from earlier in the season, the Phillies won the first game of a day-night doubleheader behind Kyle Kendrick's first major league victory in 13 months. Eight shutout innings from Mart\u00ednez in the nightcap gave the Phillies a 1\u20130 win, a 3\u20131 win in the 4-game set, and a 12\u20136 win in the season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0021-0004", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nMart\u00ednez' eight innings also began a streak of 26 consecutive scoreless innings by Phillies pitchers: Madson followed with a scoreless ninth for his eighth save of the season; Cliff Lee pitched a complete-game shutout against the Nationals the following night; and Blanton, Park, and Madson combined for eight scoreless innings against Washington on September 16 until Tyler Walker allowed a run in the top of the ninth inning, an RBI single by Willie Harris which scored Justin Maxwell. Hamels closed out the series with a strong performance, perfect through his first five innings and finishing with one run allowed in eight; with their 15th win over the Nationals, the Phillies matched their best season record against the franchise, set against the 1976 Montr\u00e9al Expos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 834]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nThe Phillies continued to Atlanta, where they took two of three from the Braves, with Kendrick's second win and Lidge's 30th save in the first game of the series. Mart\u00ednez was outdueled by Javier V\u00e1zquez in the second game of the series, but the Phillies avoided a loss by defeating the Braves, 4\u20132, on September 20. A doubleheader followed against the Marlins; the Phillies won game one, while the Marlins won game two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nIn the rubber game, Lidge blew his 11th save after a rain delay to give the Marlins a series victory, keeping the team's number to clinch the division at five. The Phillies and the Brewers split the next series at two games each, with Philadelphia winning the first and last game of the series. The Phillies returned to Citizens Bank Park for their final homestand to close out the season, opening with a fifth consecutive loss to the Astros. However, the Phillies broke the streak with a 7\u20134 win on September 29, thanks to a Feliz grand slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nThe following night, the Phillies clinched their third consecutive division title with a 10\u20133 win over Houston, guaranteeing a split in the series and a playoff berth, and tying the franchise record for consecutive division titles set by Danny Ozark's teams from 1976 to 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0022-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, September\nAfter the clinching game, the Phillies rested most of their regular starters, six of whom had started over 150 games during the season; they lost four straight games while the regulars regained their strength, but won the final game of the season in extra innings as Paul Hoover hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning. The Phillies finished with a record of 93\u201369, one game better than their record in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, Roster\nAll players who made an appearance for the Phillies during 2009 are included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nThe Phillies, as the No. 2 seed in the National League, faced off against the wild card Colorado Rockies in the first round of the playoffs. Cliff Lee pitched a complete game in the opener of the series, shutting out the Rockies through 8+2\u20443 innings before allowing a single run in the ninth. He threw 113 pitches in the game, in addition to getting a hit and a stolen base in his first postseason start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nThe Rockies evened the series in the second game, as Cole Hamels left the stadium early to be with his wife, who went into labor with their first child. The Phillies staged comebacks twice to bring them within a run of tying the game, but could not close the door as Huston Street saved the game for Aaron Cook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nAfter Charlie Manuel named Pedro Mart\u00ednez his Game 3 starter, the game was postponed a day due to the weather forecast of snow and record-low temperatures. The postponement prompted Manuel to change his plans, naming rookie left-hander J. A. Happ the new starter for the game. Happ pitched three innings, allowing three runs, but Manuel brought Joe Blanton out of the bullpen, who pitched 2+2\u20443 innings and allowed only one run. Brad Lidge, after 11 blown saves during the regular season, preserved the win for the Phillies, a 6\u20135 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Division Series\nIn a back-and-forth affair, the Phillies and Rockies traded leads through Game 4 at Coors Field, but the Phillies scored three runs in the top of the ninth to win by one run. Combined with the sweeps in the other three Division Series, 2009 became the first year since the implementation of the wild card in 1995 that all four Championship Series berths were clinched on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers were the National League's No. 1 seed by virtue of the best record entering the playoffs; thus, the Phillies traveled to Chavez Ravine for the opener of the playoffs' second round, the fifth postseason meeting between the two clubs. James Loney opened the scoring for the Dodgers with a solo home run in the bottom of the second inning, but the Phillies answered back with a five-run fifth inning, chasing starter Clayton Kershaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nManny Ram\u00edrez' two-run home run in the bottom of the inning made the score 5\u20134, but Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez followed with a three-run home run in the top of the eighth. Lidge, appearing in his third consecutive postseason game, notched his third consecutive save. Mart\u00ednez started the second game for the Phillies, throwing 7 scoreless innings on 87 pitches. After his departure, the Phillies used five bullpen pitchers to get three outs in the eighth inning; those pitchers allowed three hits and two walks, allowing two runs to score. Jonathan Broxton saved the second game for the Dodgers, as Los Angeles won, 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe series moved to Philadelphia for the third game, and the Phillies capitalized on their home crowd immediately, scoring four runs in the first inning of the game. Lee continued his \"superb\" postseason performance with an eight-inning shutout performance, allowing three singles and a stolen base. Lee and his batterymate Ruiz had higher offensive production in Game 3 (three hits in six at-bats, three runs scored, one run batted in) than the entire Dodger lineup (three hits in twenty-seven at bats, no runs scored). The Phillies won the game, 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nIn Game 4, Howard continued to slug, hitting a two-run home run off of former-Phillie Randy Wolf in the first inning; with the run batted in, he tied Lou Gehrig's Major League record of eight consecutive postseason games with an RBI. The Dodgers came back to score two runs on a defensive miscue in the fourth inning, adding one run in the fifth on a Matt Kemp home run and one in the sixth on a Casey Blake single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe Phillies got one back in the bottom of the sixth on a Victorino triple and a single by Utley, but were held scoreless until the bottom of the ninth. Los Angeles closer Broxton entered the game in the bottom of the eighth\u2014after George Sherrill allowed two runners to reach base\u2014and coaxed Werth to fly out. Broxton returned to the mound in the bottom of the ninth, inducing a ground ball from Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez before walking Matt Stairs and hitting Ruiz. Greg Dobbs pinch-hit for the pitcher's spot, lining out to third base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0027-0003", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nWith two outs and two runners aboard, Jimmy Rollins hit a 99-mile-per-hour (159\u00a0km/h) fastball to the right-center field gap, scoring Eric Bruntlett (who had pinch-run) and Ruiz. In the fifth game, the Phillies hit four home runs, including two by Jayson Werth, as Hamels allowed three runs in his second start of the series. The Phillies bullpen pitched 4+2\u20443 innings in the game, allowing only one run as Philadelphia defeated Los Angeles, 10\u20134. The win clinched the Phillies' first consecutive National League pennants in franchise history, and the first back-to-back World Series appearances by a National League franchise since the Atlanta Braves in 1995 and 1996. Howard was named the MVP of the National League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Phillies played the New York Yankees in a three-game series over the Memorial Day weekend during the regular season in May. Rollins said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series\nHow great would that be? A World Series here, us against the Yankees?\u2026 We've proved we can put on a pretty good show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Yankees defeated the Phillies, four games to two, to win the franchise's record 27th World Series championship. The Yankees had home field advantage for the series, due to an American League victory in the 2009 All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series\nIn addition to the 27th championship for New York, several records were tied, extended, or broken during the Series, including postseason wins (Andy Pettitte with 18), home runs in a World Series (Utley with 5), strikeouts by a batter in a World Series (Howard with 13), World Series saves (Mariano Rivera with 11), and RBI in a single World Series game (Hideki Matsui with 6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 1\nThe two previous years' American League Cy Young Award winners started the game: CC Sabathia, for the Yankees; and Lee, for the Phillies. Sabathia, who had been 3\u20130 in the postseason to date, pitched seven innings and allowed two earned runs on four hits; Lee, however, pitched a complete game and allowed no earned runs to go the distance for the second time during the 2009 postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 1\nThe Phillies offense was paced by Utley, who walked in the first inning to set a record of 26 consecutive postseason games reaching base, and hit solo home runs in the third and sixth innings. Philadelphia led 2\u20130 until the eighth inning, when an Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez single scored Rollins and Victorino, and added two more runs in the top of the ninth inning on a Victorino single and a Howard double. The Phillies allowed an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth when Rollins committed a throwing error, tossing the ball past Howard at first base and into the Yankee dugout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 2\nThe Phillies scored first for the second game in a row in the second inning; Ra\u00fal Iba\u00f1ez hit a ground rule double, and a Matt Stairs single off of A. J. Burnett drove him in. It was the only run allowed by the New York pitching staff. Mark Teixeira tied the game with a solo home run in the fourth inning, and Hideki Matsui broke the tie in the sixth with another, giving the Yankees their first lead. Chan Ho Park allowed an RBI single to Jorge Posada after Mart\u00ednez put two baserunners on in the top of the seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 2\nBurnett departed after seven innings, replaced by Mariano Rivera in the eighth. The Phillies put two runners on with a walk to Jimmy Rollins and a single by Shane Victorino with one out in the eighth. However, Chase Utley grounded into an inning-ending double play ending on a close play at first base that drew controversy. Rivera completed the ninth inning for his 38th postseason save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 3\nAfter an 80-minute rain delay, the Phillies scored first in the second inning with Jayson Werth's lead-off home run followed by a bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly. In the fourth inning, Alex Rodriguez hit a ball down the right field line, which struck a camera at the fence and was ruled a home run after review. Nick Swisher opened the top of the fifth inning with a double and scored on a single to center field by Andy Pettitte. Jeter followed with a single, and both he and Pettite were driven in by a Johnny Damon double. J. A. Happ replaced Hamels and  allowed a solo home run to Swisher in the sixth inning. Werth answered with a second home run of the game leading off the bottom of the sixth. Mariano Rivera recorded his 38th career postseason save to close out the Yankees' second consecutive win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 4\nThe Yankees opened the scoring in the first inning with two runs, but the Phillies answered with back-to-back doubles by Shane Victorino and Chase Utley in the bottom of the inning. The Phillies tied the game in the bottom of the fourth as Ryan Howard singled, stole second, and scored on a single by Pedro Feliz. Replays showed that Howard did not touch home plate as he slid across; however, the Yankees did not appeal. Swisher led off the fifth inning with a walk, scoring on a single by Derek Jeter, and Melky Cabrera scored on a single by Damon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 4\nPark relieved Blanton in the seventh and held the Yankees scoreless. Chase Utley hit his third home run of the series in the bottom of the seventh with two outs. D\u00e1maso Marte struck out Howard to end the inning. After a game-tying home run by Feliz, Lidge entered the game in the ninth and gave up a two-out single to Damon. With Teixeira batting, Damon stole second and advanced to third as the base was uncovered due to the pull shift against Teixeira. Rodriguez put the Yankees ahead with a double to left field, scoring Damon. Posada added to that lead with a single which scored Teixeira, who had singled, and Rodriguez. Mariano Rivera entered in the bottom of the ninth and notched his second save of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 5\nThe Yankees scored first for the second straight game, but Utley gave the lead back to Philadelphia on a three-run home run. Werth and Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez drove in Utley and Howard in the third inning, which chased the starter, Burnett. David Robertson allowed another run to score on a Carlos Ruiz groundout. Eric Hinske, who entered as a pinch-hitter, scored on a ground out by Johnny Damon. Utley tied Reggie Jackson's record for most home runs in a World Series with a solo home run in the seventh inning, his fifth of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 5\nHoward struck out for the 12th time in the series, tying Willie Wilson's 1980 record for most strikeouts in a World Series. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez hit a solo home run to chase pitcher Phil Coke. After being hit in the hand in the first inning, Victorino was replaced defensively in the eighth inning by Ben Francisco. Lee left the game after allowing two runs to score, and Park gave up a sacrifice fly to Robinson Can\u00f3 to add another earned run to Lee's line. Ryan Madson entered in the ninth to close the game, allowing one run on a double play but earning his first career World Series save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 6\nThe Yankees scored first when Matsui hit a two-run home run with Rodriguez on base after a walk. The Phillies responded with a triple by Ruiz, who scored on a sacrifice fly by Rollins in the top of the third inning. Matsui added to the Yankee lead with a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the inning, scoring Jeter and Damon. Mart\u00ednez was relieved after four innings by Durbin, who allowed a ground rule double to Jeter, who later scored on a Teixeira single. Durbin hit Rodriguez and was relieved by Happ after recording one out. Happ allowed a two-run double to Matsui, his fifth and sixth RBI of the game which tied a World Series record for most RBI in a single game set by Bobby Richardson in the 1960 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Postseason, World Series, Game 6\nIn the sixth inning, Howard's home run following a walk issued to Utley brought the game to 7\u20133. After Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez hit a double into right field, Joba Chamberlain relieved Pettitte, allowing no further runs in the inning. In the top of the eighth inning, D\u00e1maso Marte struck out Howard, which set a new World Series record for most strikeouts by a batter in a single series (13). After the strikeout, Marte was relieved by Rivera in a non-save situation, who allowed one hit and one walk before closing out the game and the Yankees' 27th championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nThe 2009 Phillies captured the Warren C. Giles Trophy, as winners of the National League pennant. Baseball America named the Phillies as its Organization of the Year. The Philadelphia Sports Writers Association named the Phillies its \"Team of the Year\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nIndividual awards were won by Rollins, who won a third straight Rawlings Gold Glove Award at shortstop, Victorino, who won a second Gold Glove in the outfield; Utley, who won his fourth consecutive Silver Slugger Award at second base; Werth, who was named the \"This Year in Baseball Awards\" Unsung Player of the Year, and Howard, who was named the Most Valuable Player of the National League Championship Series. Happ was named the Players Choice Awards NL Outstanding Rookie by his fellow players and the \"This Year in Baseball Awards\" Rookie of the Year. He also received the Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year Award and was named to the Baseball America All-Rookie Team (as one of five pitchers) and the Topps All-Star Rookie team (as the left-handed pitcher).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nThe Philadelphia chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) presented its annual franchise awards to Ryan Howard (\"Mike Schmidt Most Valuable Player Award\"), J. A. Happ (\"Steve Carlton Most Valuable Pitcher Award\"), Jamie Moyer (\"Dallas Green Special Achievement Award\"), and Brad Lidge (\"Tug McGraw Good Guy Award\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nRub\u00e9n Amaro, Jr., was named the \"This Year in Baseball Awards\" Executive of the Year and the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association Executive of the Year. He was also inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nThe Phillie Phanatic was awarded the \"Great Friend to Kids\" Award by the Please Touch Museum (the Children's Museum of Philadelphia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Awards\nOn December 9, 2009, Sports Illustrated named Chase Utley as the second baseman on its MLB All-Decade Team. On December 22, Sports Illustrated named Pat Gillick as number 7 on its list of the Top 10 GMs/Executives of the Decade (in all sports).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season player statistics, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season player statistics, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Broadcasting\nOver-the-air television returned to WPHL-TV (My PHL 17) for a three-year period after a ten-year stint at WPSG-TV (CW 57), when the Phillies and the Tribune Broadcasting station signed a three-year contract on November 19, 2008. This marks the third time the station has become the territorial flagship station, the first being from 1971 to 1982\u2014as the successor to WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV)\u2014and again from 1993 to 1998. Between those dates, games were telecast by WTXF-TV Channel 29 (known as WTAF-TV from 1983 through 1987 and prior to becoming a Fox\u2013owned-and-operated station).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Broadcasting\nTom McCarthy, Chris Wheeler, and Gary Matthews are the current members of the television broadcast team. McCarthy took over full-time play-by-play duties from Harry Kalas after his death in mid-April 2009. Wheeler is the color commentator for the first and last three innings of each game, while Matthews does color commentary in the middle three innings. On the radio, Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen are the play-by-play and color commentators, respectively, for the English language broadcasts on WPHT-AM (1210), while Danny Martinez and Bill Kulik provide the Spanish language commentary on WUBA (1480 AM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204569-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, Broadcasting\nThe Phillies' postseason radio duties were split between the TV crew and the regular radio crew, while the television broadcasts on TBS were covered by Brian Anderson, Joe Simpson, and David Aldridge for the Division Series, and Chip Caray, Ron Darling, and Buck Martinez for the League Championship Series. The World Series broadcasters were Joe Buck and Tim McCarver on the Fox telecasts, and Joe Morgan and Jon Miller on ESPN Radio for the national broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204570-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Wings season\nThe Philadelphia Wings are a lacrosse team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 23rd in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204570-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Wings season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204570-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Wings season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204570-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Wings season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204570-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Philadelphia Wings season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Wings selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204571-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Philippine Collegiate Championship\nThe 2009 Philippine Collegiate Championship was the second tournament of the Philippine Collegiate Championship (PCC) for basketball in its current incarnation, and the seventh edition overall. The champion teams from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) and 3 other Metro Manila leagues took part in the final tournament dubbed as the \"Sweet Sixteen\". Other teams had to qualify in the zonal tournaments to round out the 16 teams in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204571-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Philippine Collegiate Championship\nThe Ateneo Blue Eagles defeated the FEU Tamaraws in the championship; the San Beda Red Lions and the San Sebastian Stags disputed third place, with San Beda winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204571-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Philippine Collegiate Championship\nABS-CBN Sports was the coverage partner, with games airing on Studio 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204571-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Philippine Collegiate Championship, Finals\nThe Finals is a best-of-3 series. The team that wins two games first is named the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204572-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Phillip Island Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Phillip Island Superbike World Championship round was the first round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place over the weekend of 27 February\u20131 March 2009, at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit near Cowes, Victoria, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204573-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Phoenix Mercury season\nThe 2009 WNBA season was the 13th season for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Mercury won the WNBA Finals for the second time in franchise history. On June 6, the Mercury and LifeLock entered a multi-year marketing partnership to launch the first-ever branded jersey in WNBA or NBA history. A press conference was held at the NBA Store in New York City with Phoenix Mercury President and COO Jay Parry and LifeLock CEO Todd Davis to make the announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204573-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Phoenix Mercury season\nThe partnership ran through 2011, and the LifeLock name was on the front of Phoenix Mercury\u2019s player jerseys and on warm-up suits. The Mercury and LifeLock ware the first to finalize such an agreement following the WNBA\u2019s decision this off-season to make this opportunity available for its teams and sponsors. As part of the partnership, LifeLock offered a one-year complimentary membership to season ticket holders of all WNBA teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204573-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Phoenix Mercury season, Off-season, Dispersal draft\nBased on the Mercury's 2008 record, they picked 5th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Mercury picked Sequoia Holmes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204573-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Phoenix Mercury season, Off-season, WNBA draft\nThe following are the Mercury's selections in the 2009 WNBA draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204574-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pickup Truck Racing\nThe 2009 Pickup Truck Racing season was the 13th Pickup Truck Racing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204575-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis\nThe 2009 Pilot Pen Tennis was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 41st edition of the Pilot Pen Tennis, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, from August 21 through August 29, 2009. It was the last event on the 2009 US Open Series before the 2009 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204575-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204575-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204575-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis, Finals, Men's doubles\nJulian Knowle /  J\u00fcrgen Melzer defeated  Bruno Soares /  Kevin Ullyett, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204575-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis, Finals, Women's doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 /  Lucie Hradeck\u00e1, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204576-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMarcelo Melo and Andr\u00e9 S\u00e1 were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals against Julian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204576-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJulian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer won in the final 6-4, 7-6(3) against Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204577-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Men's Singles\nMarin \u010cili\u0107 was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204577-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Men's Singles\nFernando Verdasco won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(8\u20136) against Sam Querrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204578-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Women's Doubles\nKv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but Peschke chose not to compete that year. Raymond partnered with Jill Craybas, but they lost in the semifinals against Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204578-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Women's Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won in the finals 6-2, 7-5 against Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Lucie Hradeck\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204579-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pilot Pen Tennis \u2013 Women's Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki was the defending champion, and won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134 against Elena Vesnina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing\nThe 2009 Pishin bombing occurred on October 18, 2009, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a meeting in the southeastern Iranian town of Pishin in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The attack killed at least 43 people including several notable Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, or Revolutionary Guards) commanders, and injured a further 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing\nAmong those killed were Noor Ali Shooshtari, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard's ground forces, Rajab Ali, the commander in Sistan-Baluchestan, the commander for the town of Iranshahr and the commander of the Amir Al-Momenin unit. About 10 senior tribal figures were also among the dead. The Revolutionary Guard leaders killed were buried two days later in a military funeral. The funeral was attended by thousands of mourners. 43 people were killed, and another died in the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing\nIran blamed the United States for involvement in the attacks, as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom for their support of the Jundallah terrorist group. The United States denied involvement. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed a \"swift response\" to the attacks; the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted him as saying, \"The criminals will soon get the response for their inhuman crimes.\" The incident was condemned by the United Nations Security Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing\nThe charg\u00e9 d'affaires of Pakistan was summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry as the attack was thought to have been launched from Pakistani soil. Iran accused Pakistani agents of involvement in the incident and called on Pakistan to apprehend the attackers. An Iranian delegation is expected to head to Pakistan to demand the handover of Jundullah chief Abdolmalek Rigi. This decision came after Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied Rigi was on Pakistani soil. Pakistan handed over to Iran the brother of the Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi. Iran's police chief held Pakistan responsible for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing, Reaction\nIran \u2013 The Government and Media of Iran blamed the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing, Reaction\nPakistan \u2013 Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, \"we can even point out his [Abdul Malik Rigi's] exact location in Afghanistan\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204580-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pishin bombing, Reaction\nUnited States \u2013 The United States Government denied involvement in the attacks, but later some documentations showed that the US government under Bush administration was alleged with supporting and supplying the Jundullah group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204581-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pitcairnese general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Pitcairn Islands on 11 December 2009. As there are no political parties on Pitcairn, the Deputy Mayor and all four candidates elected to the Island Council were independents. Simon Young became the first person not born on Pitcairn to be elected Deputy Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204581-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pitcairnese general election, Electoral system\nThe four elected members were elected by single transferable vote for two year terms. In addition, the Island Council had six other members; the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, both of whom were elected separately. The four elected members and the Deputy Mayor nominated a further member, whilst two were appointed by the Governor and one seat was reserved for a Commissioner liaising between the Governor and the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204581-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pitcairnese general election, Results\nVoting began at 08:30 and was completed by 10:30. Of the 45 registered voters, 40 cast votes, giving a turnout of 88.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204581-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pitcairnese general election, Results, Island Council\nFollowing the election, Pawl Warren was appointed to the Island Council by the Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season was the fifth under head coach Dave Wannstedt. The 2009 season marked the team ninth at Heinz Field and the program's 120th season overall. The 2009 season saw the introduction of a new offensive coordinator, Frank Cignetti, Jr. Pitt got off to a 9\u20131 start with impressive wins over Navy, Notre Dame for the second consecutive year, and Rutgers for the first time since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nPitt was ranked number 9 in the AP and BCS polls and was off to its best start since 1982. However, Pitt lost the final two regular season games, including a last second loss by a field goal at West Virginia and a one-point loss at home for the Big East championship to undefeated Cincinnati, to finish the regular season at 9\u20133 (5\u20132 Big East) for the second consecutive year. The Panthers rebounded by winning the Meineke Car Care Bowl over North Carolina, 19\u201317, to achieve its first ten-win season since 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nPitt ranked number 15 in the final 2009 AP rankings with a 10\u20133 record. In addition, Pitt players garnered many post-season accolades in 2009, including Big East Offensive Player and Rookie of the Year in Dion Lewis, and Big East Co-Defensive Players of the Year in Mick Williams and Greg Romeus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe 2008 season saw the Panthers begin the year in the rankings, #25 in the AP Poll, their first preseason ranking since 2003. However, the Panthers lost their opening game at home to a lowly-regarded Bowling Green team that finished 2008 with a 6\u20136 record and without a bowl invitation and saw their coach fired the day after their last game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Previous season\nHowever, the Panthers seemed unfazed by their opening-game defeat and went on to win five straight games, including a home win against Iowa and a road win on a Thursday night at then-#10 South Florida, who later finished the regular season 7\u20135 and unranked. The win at South Florida vaulted the Panthers back into the polls, but their stay was short-lived when, two weeks later, they lost at home to a then-1\u20135 Rutgers team, whose win over the Panthers was the beginning of a run that saw the Scarlet Knights finish 8\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Previous season\nQuarterback Bill Stull suffered a concussion in the Rutgers loss was forced to sit out the Panthers next game, a 36\u201333 road win over Notre Dame in which the Panthers, led by quarterback Pat Bostick and running back LeSean McCoy, came back from a 17\u20133 halftime deficit. The Panthers followed up their victory over Notre Dame with a 41\u20137 victory over Louisville. The Panthers lost their next game on the road to league-leading #19 Cincinnati, who indeed went on to win their first Big East championship in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0001-0003", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Previous season\nThe Panthers closed out the regular season with two victories, a 19\u201315 win at home against West Virginia and a 34\u201310 road victory over Connecticut. Immediately following the Panthers' victory over the Huskies, bowl officials were on hand to invite the Panthers to the 2008 Sun Bowl, where the Panthers faced Oregon State in El Paso on December 31. Both teams struggled offensively in the game, and the Panthers were shut out for the first time in 12 years, falling to the Beavers 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason\nOn February 5, 2009, the day after National Signing Day, it was made public that offensive coordinator Matt Cavanaugh would be leaving the Panthers to again pursue a career in the NFL. Cavanaugh's move to the Jets to become their new quarterbacks coach was not officially announced until February 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason\nThe Panthers took only two weeks to find their new offensive coordinator, Frank Cignetti, Jr. Cignetti took a pay cut by accepting the offer from Pitt, but he cited the local cost of living and proximity to his own and his wife's families as major reasons for leaving California for Pitt. Cignetti has a reputation for developing quarterbacks and will be expected to do the same at Pitt where senior Bill Stull, Pitt's returning starter, and the passing game increasingly struggled down the stretch last season. The other primary candidates for the Panthers' offensive coordinator position were former Panthers head coach Walt Harris and New York Jets wide receivers coach Noel Mazzone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason\nLinebacker Adam Gunn was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA and will play in 2009, medical clearance pending. He was injured in the 3rd quarter of the 2008 season opener against Bowling Green when he collided with fellow linebacker Scott McKillop. Shane Murray, who was injured during the preseason in August 2008 and started at linebacker along with Gunn in 2007, will also be back with the Panthers in 2009. The returns of Gunn and Murray from injuries and Greg Williams, who started in place of Gunn in 2008, give the Panthers a stable of experienced linebackers headed into the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason\nThe NCAA released the 2009 Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, which measure \"a school's ability to retain its athletes and keep them eligible from semester to semester,\" on May 7. The 2009 scores are  data from the 2004\u201305 to 2007\u201308 academic years. The Panthers football team finished with the fifth best APR scores in the 8-team Big East, with a score of 944 out of a possible 1,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nAll players who signed with Pitt had verbally committed to the University within the year prior to signing a binding National Letter of Intent on national signing day. The Panthers also added one player who is not designated as a recruit, tight end Andrew Devlin, who transferred to Pitt in May and had been recruited by Coaches Wannstedt and Gattuso two years earlier in 2007 when had initially decided to play for the Virginia Cavaliers. He chose to transfer to Pitt after a change in offensive scheme would have forced him to change position to defensive with the Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nHalf of the Panthers new signees played high school football in Pennsylvania, and nine of those ten players were first-team all-state selections in 2008. The Panthers were expected to bring in players to add depth to the team \u2013 not necessarily an instant impact in 2009 \u2013 because the Panthers are no longer a struggling team in need of immediate performers. After signing day this class was not rated as a star-studded class that would be expected to provide an instant impact, but many of the players are viewed as players able to significantly contribute in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nThe players most expected to make an impact in the future are wide receiver Todd Thomas, tight end Brock DeCicco, running back Raymond Graham and linebackers Shane Gordon and Dan Mason. As of February 5, the 2009 recruiting class was ranked as the 47th best class nationally by Rivals.com \u2013 much lower than previous Wannstedt recruiting classes \u2013 and 28th best by Scout.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Recruiting\nDave Wannstedt dismissed the criticism of his recruiting class as the low reviews of his class were a result of the low number of scholarships that the Panthers were able to offer due to the low number of graduating Pitt seniors in 2008 as well as a down year for high school seniors in western Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nSpring camp opened for the Panthers on March 19. Coach Wannstedt outlined his priorities heading into camp as determining the starters at running back and quarterback as well as the lineup at the various linebacker positions, most importantly in the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nThe annual Blue-Gold game, the final scrimmage of spring camp, was played at Heinz Field on April 11. The University wanted to make it into a more appealing event for families and casual fans. As a result, they created various programs at the game, which was titled the \"Pitt Spring Football Festival\" in order to emphasize the various activities, which included a series of 20-minute \"chalk talks\" with coaches Wannstedt, Cignetti, and Bennett; an autograph session with former Panthers who went on to the NFL; and on-field drills with current players. Total attendance for the event was announced at 6,160.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nAs expected, the defense controlled most of the play throughout, defeating the offense 54\u201323, using a modified scoring system. The offense scored only one touchdown, a 54-yard, play-action pass from Bill Stull to Jon Baldwin. Bill Stull was the most effective of all the quarterbacks, going 12 of 17 for 132 yards with the touchdown and an interception. Freshman Dion Lewis, who enrolled early in January 2009, led the offense on the ground with thirty-four yards on twelve attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nThe defense, after allowing a touchdown and a field goal on the offense's first and second possessions, respectively, finished with three interceptions and six sacks the rest of the way and didn't allow the offense to score again. The defense held the offense to a net of sixteen rushing yards on thirty-seven carries. The game was broadcast live locally on WPCW in Pittsburgh and was replayed nationally on April 18 on the NFL Network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices\nThe Ed Conway Award, which is given to the most improved players of the spring, was co-awarded to quarterback Pat Bostick and linebacker Max Gruder prior to the Blue-Gold Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices, Off-field issues\nSeniors T.J. Porter, a wide receiver, and Tommie Duhart, a defensive lineman, officially left Pitt's football team at the end of the spring semester; both had been suspended from spring practices and did not participate. Duhart, along with senior cornerback Aaron Berry and sophomore offensive lineman Wayne Jones, was suspended on April 7 from the remainder of spring practices as well as the Blue-Gold game due to an unspecified \"violation of team policy\". Porter had been suspended from the team indefinitely after being cited for driving on a suspended driver's license and driving while intoxicated, his second DWI in under ten months. According to a statement issued by coach Wannstedt, both Porter and Duhart plan to transfer elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 829]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices, Off-field issues\nDave Wannstedt, speaking about the variousoff-field incidents in Spring 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices, Off-field issues\nA criminal complaint was filed against sophomore wide receiver and Aliquippa native Jon Baldwin on April 19, a day after the incident, in which Baldwin was charged with \"indecent assault, harassment and disorderly conduct\" following an incident with a female on a university-owned bus. Later in a non-jury trial in January, 2010, Baldwin was found not guilty on all charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Spring practices, Off-field issues\nSixth year senior Adam Gunn, who only weeks earlier had been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA, was arrested in an incident that also involved former Panther Austin Ransom following an incident outside of a Pittsburgh night club. As a result of the charges against him \u2013 \"misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and failure to disperse, as well as summary offenses of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness\" \u2013 Gunn was suspended from the team indefinitely pending the result of his hearing. All charges against Gunn were withdrawn at his preliminary hearing on June 16. According to Gunn's attorney, all charges were withdrawn due to the fact that \"he employed no weapons, assaulted nobody and simply attempted to flee the scene\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason, Fall practice\nThe first official fall practice will open on Tuesday, August 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Roster\nClasses Key:Fr \u2013 Freshman; first year player. So \u2013 Sophomore; second year player. Jr \u2013 Junior; third year player. Sr \u2013 Senior; fourth year player. RS \u2013 Previously used a redshirt. \u2013 Redshirt during 2009 season. \u2013 Injured for entire or majority of season000and is eligible for a medical redshirt. \u2020 \u2013 6th year of eligibility", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Rankings\nThe official preseason rankings are normally released in August of the same season, but various publications annually release early projections throughout the spring and summer. The Panthers have received mixed reviews from such publications. Phil Steele ranked the Panthers at #23. The Sporting News picked the Panthers to win the conference, but Athlon Sports, who left the Panthers out of their early rankings, project them to finish in fourth place. The Congrove Computer Rankings, a computer program that determines a team's ranking based upon projected regular season results, ranked the Panthers at #12 and predicted an 11\u20131 regular season record. The Panthers began the season unranked and just outside the Top 25 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Rankings\nThe Panthers found themselves in the \"others receiving votes\" category of the major polls throughout the first half of the season, and they officially moved into the Top 25 rankings in all four of the major polls following their October 16 victory at Rutgers. The Panthers climbed several move positions in each poll the following week as a result of their victory over South Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Schedule\nThe official Big East schedule was released on March 6, and the Panthers' schedule includes five nationally televised games. The times of the two weeknight games on the schedule, at Louisville and at Rutgers, were announced with the initial release schedule. The Panthers' home intraconference games include Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida, and Syracuse; the away games include West Virginia, Louisville, and Rutgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Schedule\nThe Panthers nonconference games had been scheduled well in advance of the 2009 season, but the conference games took longer to schedule due to the difficulty some Big East teams had when trying to schedule their own nonconference opponents. The scheduled times for Pitt's first three games of the season were announced on July 7. A month later, on August 7, it was announced that the game against NC State was scheduled for 3:30 pm and to be broadcast nationally by ESPNU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Schedule\nOn October 26, the Syracuse game was announced as a noon kickoff for ESPNU, and on November 2, the Notre Dame game was announced as an 8:00\u00a0p.m. prime time telecast on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Youngstown State\nThe 2009 season opener against Youngstown State was the Penguins' first trip to Pittsburgh since 2005, when they were defeated by the Panthers by a score of 41\u20130 in the first-ever meeting between the schools. In this, the second matchup between the schools, the Panthers again won handily, this time by a score of 38\u20133. The Panthers were led by true freshman running back Dion Lewis, who had fifteen carries for 132 yards in the first half. Their Panthers played both of their top two quarterbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Youngstown State\nBill Stull, a fifth\u2011year senior and the returning starter, played for the entire first half and a portion of the third quarter and was booed by the home fans on several occasions, likely because of his on\u2011field struggles dating back to the previous season. Redshirt freshman Tino Sunseri played the remainder of the game. The Panthers outgained the Penguins 390\u2013159 on the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nThe Panthers traveled to Buffalo to take on the Bulls, who were coming off a 23\u201317 Week 1 win at UTEP, in a game that was both the Panthers' first-ever trip to Buffalo and first road game of the season. The Panthers defeated the Bulls 54\u201327 and took advantage of four Bulls turnovers, which led to 27 Panther points, with linebacker Greg Williams returning one fumble 50 yards for a touchdown. The Panther offense gained 381 yards and committed no turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nDion Lewis had his second straight 100-yard rushing game, gaining 236 total yards and scoring two touchdowns, including an 85-yard touchdown run, and Dorin Dickerson finished with eight catches for 71 yards and three touchdowns. The Panthers' 54 points was the highest offensive output during Dave Wannstedt's tenure at Pitt, which began in 2005; it was Pitt's highest output since scoring 55 points against Temple in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nHowever, the Bulls gained 500 yards of total offense on the day, and Buffalo quarterback Zach Maynard, who was making only his second career start, threw for 400 yards, a Buffalo record dating back to their re-ascension to Division I-A/FBS in 1999, and four touchdowns, which tied a Buffalo record during the same time, connecting with wide receiver Naaman Roosevelt on touchdowns of 67 and 54 yards. Pitt was penalized 11 times for 119 yards. Panthers starting free safety Andrew Taglianetti, who recovered a fumble in the first quarter, left the game with a torn ACL in his left knee and is taking a medical redshirt for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Navy\nThe Panthers and Midshipmen face one another for the third consecutive season and have traded road victories over the previous two meetings, the Panthers winning 42\u201321 in Annapolis in 2008 and the Midshipmen winning 48\u201345 in overtime in Pittsburgh in 2007. The 2009 meeting was much lower scoring, the Panthers coming out on top 27\u201314. The win saw the Panthers improve their record to 3\u20130, the team's best start since 2000. The Midshipmen were expected to pass the ball with greater effectiveness under new quarterback Ricky Dobbs, but Navy was held to 89 passing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Navy\nNavy led the nation in rushing yards per game during the previous four seasons as well as through the first three weeks of 2009, but were held to only 129 rushing yards against the Panthers, significantly lower than their 240-yard average coming into the game. The Pitt offense was much more effective than the Midshipmen, outgaining them 369\u2013218.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Navy\nBill Stull, who saw limited action in the second half, finished the day 17-for-24 with 245 yards through the air, including 20 to himself when he caught his own tipped pass out of the air and scrambled downfield, almost scoring a touchdown; he almost scored a touchdown on the play but turned the ball over when he fumbled and Navy recovered at their own one yard line. Stull was 12-for-14 with 189 yards and one touchdown in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Navy\nDion Lewis didn't quite have the same strong statistical performance, compiling 79 yards and one touchdown on the ground, but Navy linebacker Ross Pospisil complimented Lewis after the game, saying that he \"thought Dion Lewis was almost as a good as McCoy\", referring to LeSean McCoy's 156-yard, three-touchdown game against Navy in 2008. True freshman middle linebacker Dan Mason made his first start and made 11 tackles, including two sacks, which earned him Big East Defensive Player of the Week honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, NC State\nPitt's trip to NC State was the Panthers' first trip to Raleigh since 1988 when the Panthers lost to the Wolfpack, 14\u20133, and the first overall matchup between the schools since the 2001 Tangerine Bowl, where the Panthers defeated the Wolfpack 34\u201319. Coming into the game, Pitt held a 5\u20132\u20131 advantage over NC State, dating back to the schools' first matchup in 1952.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, NC State\nThe Panthers seized an early advantage in the game, jumping out to a 10\u20130 lead within the first six minutes of the game. The Panthers received the opening kickoff and were set up just across midfield after a Cameron Saddler return; the Panthers then scored the opening touchdown after only a four-play drive that was aided by a 15-yard personal foul penalty against NC State. The Wolfpack went three-and-out, and the Panthers second possession ended with a 35-yard field goal by Dan Hutchins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, NC State\nGoing forward through the third quarter, both teams moved the ball on offense with relative ease and at which point the Panthers offense would fail to continue to produce. The teams ultimately combined for 830 total yards by the end of the game. NC State's Russell Wilson led the way, throwing for 322 yards and four touchdowns while also rushing for 91 yards. Wilson came into the game holding the NCAA record for pass attempts without an interception, and he increased his record by not throwing an interception against the Panthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, NC State\nThe Panthers had built a 14-point lead near the end of the third quarter after Bill Stull connected with Jon Baldwin for a 79-yard pass, but the Panthers never scored again as NC State scored three consecutive touchdowns for the 38\u201331 win. The Wolfpack's come-from-behind scores came on drives of 45, 83, and 71 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, South Florida\nThe October 24 game against South Florida was Pitt's homecoming, and the Panthers were seeking their first 7\u20131 start since 1982. The game was expected to be close and competitive, but the Panthers dominated throughout, winning 41\u201314. Pitt jumped out to a 31\u20137 lead by the end of the first half, in which Pitt scored on all five of its offensive possessions \u2013 four touchdowns and one field goal. Bill Stull, who finished 18 of 25 for 245 yards and two touchdown passes, wasn't sacked on the day and completed his first 11 passes of the game. Following the game, Stull gave the credit for the team's success on offense to his teammates, citing their ability to both block Bulls defenders as well as get open for passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, South Florida\nDion Lewis continued his strong freshman campaign by adding yards and two touchdowns, topping 1,000 for the season in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nThe winner of the 2009 River City Rivalry, the Cincinnati Bearcats won the Big East Conference and earned the conference berth in the Bowl Championship Series, while Pitt's loss dropped the team to tie third in the conference with West Virginia after West Virginia defeated Rutgers that same day. After the loss, Pitt lead the all-time series against Cincinnati, 7\u20132, with the Bearcats winning the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason, Awards\nSeveral Panthers earned accolades following the close of the regular season with ten players earning first- or second-team honors in the Big East Conference. Additionally, tight end Dorin Dickerson was one of three finalists for the Mackey Award, which was won by Aaron Hernandez of Florida. Offensive line coach Tony Wise was also named the Offensive Line Coach of the Year by FootballScoop.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason, Awards, All-Americans\nDickerson was also named as a first team 2009 College Football All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and CBS Sports. Dickerson was the third All-American from Pitt in four seasons and the first All-American tight end from Pitt since Mike Ditka in 1960. CBS Sports also named Dion Lewis as their Freshman of the Year and a second-team All-American. Dickerson and several other teammates were also named to various other All-America teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason, Awards, Big East Conference awards\nThe Big East Conference awards were awarded by vote among conference coaches and were announced on December 9. True freshman Dion Lewis won two major conference awards, Offensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, the first player to win two Big East awards since Michael Vick of Virginia Tech in 1999. Additionally, voting for the conference's Defensive Player of the Year award finished in a tie between the Panther duo of Mick Williams and Greg Romeus, who shared the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204582-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason, Awards, Big East Conference awards\nThe Panthers on the all-Big East first and second teams are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 128th season of the franchise and the 123rd in the National League. This was their ninth season at PNC Park. The season is the franchise's second season under the management of John Russell. With this season, the Pirates became the first franchise in professional sports to have a losing record in 17 consecutive seasons, passing the Philadelphia Phillies of 1933\u20131948 with 16. The Pirates finished sixth and last in the National League Central with a record of 62\u201399.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe Pirates were attempting to improve on their 2008 record, and conquer a winning record and make it to the playoffs for the first time since 1992. However, after going 11-10 in April, the Pirates suffered losing streaks. After an 8 game losing streak on May 3\u201310, the Pirates never reached above the .500 mark again, and failed to reach their goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Off-season\nThe organization fired pitching coach Jeff Andrews and first-base coach Lou Frazier the day after the 2008 season concluded, but are expected to retain the rest of the staff through 2009. In October 2008, Joe Kerrigan\u2014previously of the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies\u2014was hired as the new pitching coach, while Perry Hill became the first base coach. On November 24, the Pirates signed Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh of India. The pair participated in the Million Dollar Arm, a contest held in their home country to discover who out of the 30,000\u00a0contestants had the strongest, most accurate arm. Having never heard of baseball prior to 2007, both Patel and Singh can throw over 90\u00a0mph. The pair will participate at spring training. Management plans to keep closer observations of players' off-season workouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 860]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Off-season\nPirates' radio announcer of 33\u00a0years, Lanny Frattare, retired prior to the season. Tim Neverett, formerly of Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, was selected to replace him after a search of approximately 200\u00a0candidates. In January 2009, the team held its sixth PirateFest at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The three-day event was attended by 15,127\u00a0people, and increased the number of season ticket packages purchased from the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Off-season\nPresident Frank Coonelly stated that the team had fallen behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins from a \"marketing and business perspective\", but are \"...working hard to get ourselves back up to where we belong both in Major League Baseball and Pittsburgh.\" The Pirates added sleeves to their uniform, and added an alternate uniform with a gold-colored P on the chest which will be worn during select games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Spring training\nThe Pirates pre-season schedule consisted of 35\u00a0games in Bradenton, Florida, including two evening games and a game against the Netherlands national baseball team. When pitchers and catchers reported on February 13, three of twelve pitching positions were set: starter Paul Maholm, set-up man John Grabow, and closer Matt Capps. The Pirates entered spring training with 21\u00a0of 40\u00a0different players from 2008 spring training; among those were Eric Hinske, Ram\u00f3n V\u00e1zquez, and Jason Jaramillo who were acquired during the off-season. Beginning March 5, Ian Snell, Ram\u00f3n V\u00e1zquez, and John Grabow represented their countries in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Spring training\nThe Pirates finished spring training with a 17\u201315 record. \"It gives us some confidence\", said John Russell, \"We worked hard all spring.\" The Pirates opening day salary was US$50,984,000. The Pirates finalized their opening day roster two days prior to the season opener (asterisk noting new players for the 2009 season):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, April\nThe Pirates opened the season with a 6\u20134 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, scoring four runs in the final inning to win their third consecutive come-from-behind opening day game. The Pirates had 17\u00a0hits two games later to beat the Cardinals 7\u20134, but were held to one hit the next day and split their opening series two games to two. Rain shortened the Pirates' series in Cincinnati to two games; Pittsburgh won the first game 10\u20132 after Ryan Doumit hit his first career grand slam in the final inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, April\nOn April 13, the Pirates completed the league's first triple play of the season and the Pirates' first in 16\u00a0years; however, they lost the game 2\u20130. In the team's home opener on April 13, Zach Duke pitched a complete game shutout, as the Pirates defeated the Houston Astros, 7\u20130. In the game, both the Pirates and the Astros wore Pittsburgh Police hats in honor of three officers who were shot and killed on April 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, April\nThe pre-game ceremonies honored the officers, as well as former Pirates pitcher and current broadcaster Steve Blass for this 50th season with the team, and included a flyover by four Apache helicopters from the 1/104th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. In the first Saturday afternoon game in Pittsburgh since 2005, Craig Monroe hit two three-run home runs in consecutive innings to give the Pirates their first back-to-back victories of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, April\nOn April 21, catcher Ryan Doumit announced that surgery was needed to fix a broken bone in his wrist, and that he would miss eight to ten weeks. Later in the day, the Pirates beat the Florida Marlins 3\u20132, taking them two games above .500 since the first series of the 2007 season. The following day the Pirates swept the Marlins for the first time since 2005, giving Pittsburgh their best start through 15 games since 2002. The Pirates took two games out of three against the San Diego Padres, before closing April by getting swept by the Milwaukee Brewers. Andy LaRoche hit safely in a career high 11 games during the later part of the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, April\nPittsburgh finished the month with an 11\u201310 record\u2014the first time since 2002 that the team was over\u00a0.500\u00a0at April's end. The team was tied for third place in the NL Central division, four games behind the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished the month with the league's best record. The pitching staff posted a league-low 3.41 earned run average (ERA), due in part to first-year pitching coach Joe Kerrigan teaching pitchers to base pitches on hitters' tendencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, May\nThe Cincinnati Reds defeated the Pirates in two games out of three at PNC Park to open May. The concluding two games of the homestand saw the Pirates lose their 16 and 17th\u00a0consecutive games to the Milwaukee Brewers\u2014the second longest streak of any team over another in MLB history. The Pirates were swept during a two-game series in St. Louis\u2014the losses extended Pittsburgh's losing streak to five consecutive road games and nine out of their past ten overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, May\nThe Pirates were swept by the New York Mets in their first series at New York's Citi Field, extending their losing streak to eight consecutive games. The Pirates returned home to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in two out of three games. On May 13, Adam LaRoche became the first player in MLB history to have a home run taken away due to instant replay, during a procedure put into effect in August 2008. The Pirates concluded their homestand by taking two games out of three against the Colorado Rockies\u2014finishing their homestand with a 4\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, May\nIn the final game of the Rockies's series Pittsburgh scored ten runs in one inning for the first time since August 2003. The Pirates won three out of four games against the Washington Nationals, extending their winning streak to five games. The Pirates continued their road trip with six games in Chicago\u2014becoming the first team in MLB history to play the Cubs and White Sox in back-to-back series since interleague play began in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0006-0003", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, May\nAfter losing their first two games of the first interleague series of the season against the White Sox, Jack Wilson hit his first home run of the year to tie the final game of the series with two outs in the final inning; Nyjer Morgan scored the winning run later in the inning. On May 25, Freddy Sanchez became the first Pirate to acquire six hits in one game since Wally Backman in 1990, as the Pirates defeated the Cubs. The Pirates lost two out of three games against the Cubs, scoring a total of three runs in their losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0006-0004", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, May\nThe Pirates concluded the month by losing two games out of three to the Houston Astros. Nate McLouth hit a home run to lead off the final game of the month, but the Pirates score any other runs, losing 2\u20131. Throughout May the Pirates accumulated an 11\u201317 record, finishing 20\u201328 overall for the season. The team was in fifth place in the National League Central division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, June\nThe Pirates began the month with a four-game series against the New York Mets, although it was shortened to three games when the June 3 game was postponed. The Pirates won all three games that were played. On June 4, the Pirates traded All Star Nate McLouth to the Atlanta Braves for three minor league players, including future starting pitcher Charlie Morton. Later in the day, the team promoted outfielder Andrew McCutchen from AAA Indianapolis, who became the team's regular starting center fielder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, June\nThe Pirates then dropped two of three to the Astros in Houston, and two of four to the Atlanta Braves before returning home for the start of Interleague play. They took two games from the Tigers before going on another road series, first to Minnesota (where they only won one game), and then to Colorado (where they were swept). They then came back home to win two of three against both the Cleveland Indians and the Kansas City Royals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, June\nIn the game against the Royals on June 26, starting pitcher Virgil Vasquez earned his first win in his major league debut. The Pirates then played a three-game series against Chicago which stretched into July, which they lost two games to three. On June 30, starting center fielder Nyjer Morgan and relief pitcher Sean Burnett were traded to the Washington Nationals in exchange for Lastings Milledge and Joel Hanrahan. Hanrahan was put on the starting roster immediately, but Milledge was forced to go through a series of rehab-starts in AAA Indianapolis before being called up, due to an existing injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, June\nDuring this month, the city's National Hockey League team, the Penguins, won the Stanley Cup, which coupled with the team's struggles and the National Football League's Steelers winning the Super Bowl back in February, led to a running joke that dubbed the city to be the \"City of Champions. And the Pirates\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, July\nThe Pirates lost the first game of the month against the Cubs, then played the Mets in the make-up of the postponed June 3 game. They lost 9\u20138 in 10 innings, despite having tied up the game off of All-Star closer Francisco Rodr\u00edguez. The Pirates then went to Florida to face the Marlins, and lost two games to three. They fared no better on their trip to Houston, where they also won only one game, and then they were swept by the Phillies in their next series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, July\nOn July 17, in the first of a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants, reliever Evan Meek picked up his first win of the season in a 14-inning game. They also won the next game, though they would lose the series finale. On July 20, in the first of a three-game series against the Brewers, the benches were cleared in the eighth inning when Milwaukee pitcher Chris Smith hit Pittsburgh reliever Jeff Karstens with a pitch. The Pirates won that game 8\u20135, and the series 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, July\nTheir next road trip took them to Atlanta, where they dropped three of five, and then to San Francisco, where they were swept. Before the final game of the series on July 29, the Pirates traded veteran shortstop Jack Wilson to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for future starting shortstop Ronny Cede\u00f1o and four Minor League players. After the game, the Pirates traded three-time All-Star second baseman Freddy Sanchez to the Giants for minor league pitcher Tim Alderson. On July 31, the Pirates returned home for a four-game series against the Nationals which stretched into August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, August\nThough they won the games on both July 31 and August 1, the Pirates lost the next two games to split the series 2\u20132. This started an eight-game losing streak, against the Nationals, the Diamondbacks, and the Cardinals, which ended August 11 when the Pirates defeated the Rockies in Colorado. They lost the next two against the Rockies, and the next two against the Cubs. The August 16 game in Chicago was postponed because of rain. Returning home, the Pirates swept the Brewers and took two of three from the Reds and Phillies. The Pirates didn't win a game the rest of the month, being swept by the Brewers and the Reds in a series stretching into September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204583-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season, September\nThe Pirates opened the month of September losing both games in a doubleheader against the Reds. They then returned home to play the Cardinals, against whom they won one game out of three. They then lost the first game of a three-game series against the Cubs, giving them their 82nd loss, and setting the record for most consecutive losing seasons in any sport since the 1933\u20131948 Philadelphia Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 77th season in the National Football League (NFL). They were coming off a season in which they compiled a 12\u20134 regular season record and capped the season by winning the franchise's record sixth Super Bowl. The team's coaching staff remained the same for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nAs the defending champions, the Steelers opened the season by hosting the NFL Kickoff Game on Thursday, September 10, 2009, which was an overtime victory against the Tennessee Titans. The team compiled a 6\u20132 record over the season's first half, but then began a five-game losing streak which included losses to all three division opponents. Three late wins led to a 9\u20137 record, but the team failed to qualify for the playoffs. This was the third straight time the team has missed the playoffs following a Super Bowl victory; 1980 and 2006 being the previous two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity\nThe front office's major goals coming into the off-season were to retain the bulk of the team's own free agents and to look to add talent primarily through the draft rather than free agent acquisitions. This has been the team's primary philosophy since Chuck Noll took over as head coach in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity\nThe other major item on the team's agenda was to extend the contracts of a few of the players who were coming into the final year of their contracts \u2013 chief among these were linebacker and 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, James Harrison, tight end Heath Miller, and tackle Max Starks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity\nManagement completed the highest-priority item on its off-season checklist by reaching agreement with Harrison on a six-year, $51.175 million contract, which includes $20 million in guaranteed money. The team was also successful in extending the contracts of Starks (four years, $26.3 million) and Miller (six years, $35.3 million) both of whom were potential free agents after the season. Additionally, contract extension were completed with receiver Hines Ward (five years, $22.1 million), guard Chris Kemoeatu (five years, $20 million), center Justin Hartwig (4 years, $10 million) and defensive end Brett Kiesel (5 years, $18.885 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity\nThe team's primary needs coming into the 2009 season were considered to be shoring up the offensive line and improving performance on special teams, primarily at kick returner. In addition, they were forced to address the loss through free agency of two key contributors: starting cornerback Bryant McFadden and number three wide receiver Nate Washington. The front office and coaching staff also had to focus on uncovering for eventual replacements for some aging cogs: defensive end Aaron Smith and cornerback Deshea Townsend, who were 33 and 34 respectively at the start of the season. ESPN's Matt Williamson ranked the team's pre-draft needs as (in order), defensive end, offensive tackle, wide receiver and cornerback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity, Free agents signed\nPlayers from the 2008 team who have signed new contracts with the Steelers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity, Free agents signed\nPlayers not with the 2008 team who have been signed for 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity, Free agents signed\nPlayers who signed with the team in 2009, but did not make the 53-man roster", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Off season activity, Practice squad players\n2008 practice squad players who signed new reserve contracts, but didn't make final 53-man roster:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, 2009 NFL Draft\nThe 2009 NFL Draft was held on April 25 and 26, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In addition to their own draft picks, the team also had the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seventh-round selection (#226 overall) which they received in a trade prior to the 2008 season for offensive lineman Sean Mahan  and a compensatory pick at the end of the 5th round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, 2009 NFL Draft\nDuring the draft, the Steelers traded their second-round (#64 overall) and fourth-round (#132) picks to the Denver Broncos in exchange for Denver's third-round (#79) and Chicago's third-round (#84) picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Schedule, Preseason\nThe Steelers opened their preseason schedule on August 13 with a re-match of Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Schedule, Regular season\nThe Steelers' opponents for the 2009 season are based on the NFL's predetermined scheduling formula. The combined 2008 record of the Steelers' 2009 opponents was 110\u2013144\u20132 (.434 winning percentage). By this measure the Steelers have the fourth easiest schedule in the league \u2013 only the Packers, Vikings and Bears opponents have a worse cumulative 2008 winning percentage. The Packers, Vikings and Bears play two games each against the Lions, who finished 0\u201316 in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Schedule, Regular season\nAs the defending Super Bowl champion, the Steelers hosted the kickoff game for the 2009 season on Thursday, September 10, at 8:30\u00a0p.m. EDT. Their opponent for the kickoff game was the Tennessee Titans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Schedule, Regular season\nThe Pittsburgh Steelers won the first game of the 2009 season in overtime over the Tennessee Titans on September 10, 2009 at 11:48\u00a0pm EDT with a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Standings\nThe 2009 season was the Steelers' eighth as members of the AFC North Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nWith their Super Bowl title to defend, the Steelers began their season at home in the annual kickoff game against the Tennessee Titans. After a scoreless first quarter, Pittsburgh would get their first score of the season as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed a 34-yard touchdown pass to Super Bowl XLIII MVP wide receiver Santonio Holmes near the end of the second quarter. The Titans would respond with quarterback Kerry Collins completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Justin Gage. Just prior to halftime, pro-bowl safety Troy Polamalu went to the locker room after suffering a knee injury. He would not return to the field and it would later be revealed that he strained his MCL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Tennessee would take the lead in the fourth quarter as kicker Rob Bironas got a 45-yard field goal. Pittsburgh would tie the game as kicker Jeff Reed made a 32-yard field goal. With time running out, the Steelers drove down the field again, and lost the ball to a rare Hines Ward fumble, allowing the Titans to run the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nIn overtime, the Steelers won the cointoss and never relinquished the ball. In the end, Pittsburgh emerged victorious as Reed nailed the game-winning 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nWith the win, the Steelers began their season at 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 1: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThis also marked the first time that the Steelers were able to win against Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Chicago Bears\nComing off their season-opening win over the Titans, the Steelers flew to Soldier Field for a Week 2 interconference duel with the Chicago Bears. In the first quarter, Pittsburgh struck first as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Matt Spaeth. However, in the second quarter, the Bears answered with quarterback Jay Cutler completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 2: at Chicago Bears\nPittsburgh would regain their lead in the third quarter as Roethlisberger got a 2-yard touchdown run, but in the fourth quarter, two missed field goals from kicker Jeff Reed would lead to Cutler's 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Johnny Knox and kicker Robbie Gould's 44-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Cincinnati Bengals\nFollowing a tough road loss against the Bears, the Steelers flew to Paul Brown Stadium for a Week 3 AFC North duel with the Cincinnati Bengals. Pittsburgh would strike first in the first quarter with kicker Jeff Reed's 19-yard field goal and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's 27-yard touchdown pass to running back Willie Parker. The Steelers would add onto their lead in the second quarter as Reed made a 34-yard field goal. The Bengals would close out the half with kicker Shayne Graham's 34-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Cincinnati Bengals\nCincinnati would creep closer in the third quarter as cornerback Johnathan Joseph returned an interception 30\u00a0yards for a touchdown (with a failed PAT), yet Pittsburgh answered with Roethlisberger's 1-yard touchdown run. However, in the fourth quarter, the Bengals took the lead with running back Cedric Benson's 23-yard touchdown run (with a failed 2-point conversion) and quarterback Carson Palmer's 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Caldwell (with a successful 2-point conversion pass to running back Brian Leonard). The Steelers tried to rally, but Roethlisberger's last-second hail mary pass was incomplete, preserving the defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Cincinnati Bengals\nWith the loss, Pittsburgh fell to 1\u20132 and 3rd place in the AFC North. This would also become the team's first 1\u20132 start since 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Cincinnati Bengals\nWide receiver Hines Ward (4 receptions, 82\u00a0yards) would become the 21st player in NFL history to surpass 800 career receptions and 10,000 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. San Diego Chargers\nHoping to snap a two-game losing skid, the Steelers went home, donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for a Week 4 Sunday night duel with the San Diego Chargers. Pittsburgh got off to a fast start in the opening half with running back Rashard Mendenhall (filling in for the injured Willie Parker) helping out the cause on a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, followed by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's 19-yard touchdown pass to running back Mewelde Moore. The Steelers would carry their fast start into the second quarter as Mendenhall got a 2-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. San Diego Chargers\nIn the third quarter, Pittsburgh picked up where they left off, with Roethlisberger completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Heath Miller. The Chargers would get on the board with quarterback Philip Rivers' 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Antonio Gates. In the fourth quarter, San Diego began to play catch-up with a special teams play. Fullback Jacob Hester would strip return specialist Stefan Logan of the ball and go 41\u00a0yards for a touchdown. The Steelers came right back with a trick play, as Moore completed a 6-yard touchdown pass to Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. San Diego Chargers\nHowever, the Chargers would slash away at the Steelers' lead, with Rivers completing a 30-yard touchdown pass to Gates and a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Chambers. Pittsburgh would answer the call with kicker Jeff Reed booting a 46-yard field goal, followed by linebacker James Harrison causing a sack and a fumble. It would allow linebacker James Farrior to recover the fumble and secure the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. San Diego Chargers\nWith the win, not only did the Steelers improve to 2\u20132, but they also extended their regular-season home-game winning streak over San Diego to 13-straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. San Diego Chargers\nMendenhall would have a career night, with 29 carries for 165\u00a0yards, in addition to his two rushing touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Detroit Lions\nFollowing a close victory over the Chargers, the Steelers traveled to Ford Field for a Week 5 interconference duel with the 1\u20133 Detroit Lions. Despite the Lions getting the opening score of the first quarter with a 46-yard field goal from kicker  Jason Hanson, Pittsburgh would answer with running back Rashard Mendenhall's 7-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Detroit closed out the opening period with Hanson making another 46-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Steelers would deliver a big strike with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completing a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Heath Miller. Even though the Lions came right back with cornerback Williams James returning an interception 38\u00a0yards for a touchdown, Pittsburgh effectively replied with Roethlisberger's 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hines Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 912]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Detroit Lions\nIn the third quarter, the Steelers would add onto their lead as Roethlisberger threw to rookie wide receiver Mike Wallace on a 47-yard touchdown pass. Detroit tried to rally in the fourth quarter as quarterback Daunte Culpepper found wide receiver Dennis Northcutt on a 25-yard touchdown pass, but Pittsburgh's defense made a crucial stand with three-straight sacks (courtesy of linebacker LaMarr Woodley, cornerback William Gay, and linebacker Lawrence Timmons), followed by cornerback Ike Taylor swatting away the Lions' last hope from a hail-mary pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Cleveland Browns\nComing off their road win over the Lions, the Steelers went home for a divisional match with the Cleveland Browns. After a scoreless first quarter, Pittsburgh came out striking in the second quarter as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to tight end Heath Miller and a 52-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hines Ward. The Browns immediately struck back as wide receiver Joshua Cribbs returned a kickoff 98\u00a0yards for a touchdown. Pittsburgh would close out the half with a 32-yard field goal from kicker Jeff Reed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Cleveland Browns\nCleveland tried to catch up as quarterback Derek Anderson completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to fullback Lawrence Vickers, yet the Steelers answered with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Rashard Mendenhall. Pittsburgh would then close the game out in the fourth quarter with Reed kicking a 39-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Cleveland Browns\nWith their 12th-straight win over the Browns, the Steelers improved to 4\u20132. With the Ravens' loss to the Vikings, and the Bengals' loss to the Texans that same week, the Steelers are now tied with the Bengals at the top of the AFC North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nComing off their divisional win over the Browns, the Steelers stayed at home for a Week 7 interconference duel with the 6\u20130 Minnesota Vikings. Pittsburgh got the game's opening score late in the first quarter with kicker Jeff Reed nailing a 39-yard field goal. The Vikings would answer in the second quarter with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Adrian Peterson, yet the Steelers struck back with Ben Roethlisberger completing a 40-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Mike Wallace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nBoth teams would swap field goals in the third quarter, with Reed booting a 27-yard field goal and Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell making an 18-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh defense came up with a huge play as defensive end Brett Keisel forced a fumble off of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, allowing linebacker LaMarr Woodley to return the fumble 77\u00a0yards for a touchdown. However, Minnesota immediately struck back as wide receiver Percy Harvin returned a kickoff 88\u00a0yards for a touchdown. The Steelers' defense came up big again as linebacker Keyaron Fox returned a Favre interception 82\u00a0yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nWith the win, Pittsburgh went into their bye week at 5\u20132 while Minnesota dropped to 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Denver Broncos\nComing off their bye week, the Steelers flew to INVESCO Field at Mile High for a Week 9 Monday night duel with the Denver Broncos. Pittsburgh would trail in the first quarter as the Broncos closed out the game's opening drive with kicker Matt Prater booting a 40-yard field goal, yet the Steelers would answer in the second quarter as safety Tyrone Carter (who filled in for safety Ryan Clark) returned an interception 48\u00a0yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Denver Broncos\nDenver would answer in the third quarter as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was sacked by defensive end Kenny Peterson, which caused a fumble. The ball would be picked up by linebacker Robert Ayers and returned 54\u00a0yards for a touchdown. Afterwards, Pittsburgh would answer with Roethlisberger completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Hines Ward. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers would pull away as Roethlisberger connected with rookie wide receiver Mike Wallace on a 25-yard touchdown pass, followed completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nComing off their impressive Monday night road win over the Broncos, the Steelers went home for a divisional rematch with the Cincinnati Bengals with first place in the division on the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nIn the first quarter, Pittsburgh would deliver the game's first strike with a 28-yard field goal from kicker Jeff Reed. However, the Bengals would immediately answer as running back Bernard Scott returned a kickoff 96\u00a0yards for a touchdown (with a failed PAT). The Steelers would regain the lead in the second quarter as Reed got a 33-yard and a 35-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nCincinnati would respond in the third quarter as kicker Shayne Graham made a 23-yard and a 32-yard field goal. Pittsburgh would tie the game in the fourth quarter with Reed nailing a 34-yard field goal. However, the Bengals would pull away as Graham booted a 32-yard and a 43-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Kansas City Chiefs\nAfter the loss to the Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers journeyed to Arrowhead Stadium for a match with the Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Kansas City Chiefs\nAt the start of the first quarter Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles returned a kickoff from their own 3-yard line to the Steelers' endzone for a touchdown. In the second quarter Pittsburgh rallied as PK Jeff Reed made a 36-yard field goal, then QB Ben Roethlisberger made an 8-yard touchdown pass to WR Hines Ward, and then Roethlisberger passed to TE Heath Miller 10\u00a0yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the third quarter the Chiefs tied the game when QB Matt Cassel made a 21-yard touchdown pass to TE Leonard Pope, and then kicker Ryan Succop made a 22-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter Pittsburgh took the lead as QB Ben Roethlisberger made an 8-yard touchdown pass to RB Rashard Mendenhall, until the Chiefs came back to tie the game as QB Matt Cassel made a two-yard touchdown pass to Jamaal Charles to put the game in overtime. Afterwards, it was Kansas City that took the win when kicker Ryan Succop made a 22-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nFollowing a shocking loss to the 3\u20137 Kansas City Chiefs the previous week, the Steelers traveled to M&T Bank Stadium for another divisional game. Ben Roethlisberger, who suffered a concussion in the previous week's overtime loss, was the designated 3rd (emergency) quarterback. Backup Charlie Batch also was hurt in that game, which left 2nd-year QB Dennis Dixon, who previously had one pass in his NFL career, to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nThe Steelers received the opening kickoff, but went three-and-out. On the ensuing possession, the Ravens drove down the field with ease, capping off their drive with a touchdown run by Willis McGahee. In the second quarter, Dixon hit WR Santonio Holmes on a play-action pass for a 33-yard TD, tying the game. The Ravens answered on the following drive, with a 52-yard strike from Joe Flacco to Mark Clayton, setting up a 10-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nIn the third quarter, on the Ravens opening possession, Mark Clayton made a 9-yard reception but fumbled the ball and it was recovered by Tyrone Carter. The Steelers drove, but were held to a field goal by Jeff Reed. Later in the 4th quarter, Joe Flacco was sacked by Lawrence Timmons and fumbled the ball, recovered by the Steelers near midfield. The drive resulted in a 24-yard run on a QB option by Dixon, giving the Steelers their first lead of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nOn the Ravens next possession Joe Flacco completed a pass to Derrick Mason for 17\u00a0yards, and then found Ray Rice for a 44-yard reception, setting the Ravens up inside the Steeler 10\u00a0yard line with less than 2\u00a0minutes left. Billy Cundiff tied the game with a 24-yard field goal. On the following Steeler possession, Dennis Dixon was nearly intercepted by Lardarius Webb. The Steelers were forced to punt, giving the ball back to the Ravens with about 1:30 left in the game. The Ravens managed to drive to the Steeler 40\u00a0yard line, where their drive stalled. With the clock counting inside 10\u00a0seconds left and no timeouts, the field goal team managed to get into formation, and get the kick off. The 56\u00a0yard attempt by Billy Cundiff was dead center, but about 2\u00a0yards short, sending the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nIn overtime, the Steelers won the coin toss and got the ball, but were forced to punt. The Ravens, also forced to punt deep in their own territory, gave the ball to Pittsburgh around the Steeler 40\u00a0yard line. On a 3rd and 5, Dennis Dixon threw an interception to LB Paul Kruger, who returned the ball 26\u00a0yards to the Steeler 28\u00a0yard line. Already in field goal range, the Ravens ran the ball down to the Pittsburgh 11\u00a0yard line where Billy Cundiff made a 29-yard field goal to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Baltimore Ravens\nWith their second consecutive overtime loss, the Steelers fell to 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders\nComing off back-to-back losses in overtime, the Steelers looked to turn things around. With the return of Ben Roethlisberger to action, the Steelers hosted the 3\u20138 Oakland Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Steelers would open with a 33-yard field goal by Jeff Reed. Oakland responded with a 48-yarder by Sebastian Janikowski, and both teams were tied 3\u20133 as the 2nd quarter began. Roethlisberger found Santonio Holmes for a 34-yard TD pass to begin the 2nd quarter. Oakland would put 3 points on the board after a 43-yard field goal halfway through the quarter, and the Steelers headed to Halftime with a 10\u20136 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThere followed a scoreless third quarter, and in the fourth Pittsburgh's defensive struggles were exploited by the Raiders, who were able to find the end zone three times. Bruce Gradkowski would find Chaz Schilens for a 17-yard TD pass with 8:21 remaining in the game, giving Oakland their first lead of the game, 13\u201310. Pittsburgh responded just one minute later with a 3-yard TD run by Rashard Mendenhall. But Oakland would not be stopped. Gradkowski hit Louis Murphy for a 75-yard TD pass with 5:28 remaining, and the Raiders went up 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0054-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders\nRoethlisberger would make an 11-yard TD pass to Hines Ward with 1:56 remaining and the Steelers would regain the lead 24\u201320. All that was needed was for the Steelers' defense to keep Oakland out of the end zone and they would win. But with nine seconds remaining, Gradkowski would once again find Louis Murphy open in the end zone for an 11-yard TD pass and the Raiders would win 27\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe game would mark the fifth time in six games that the Steelers suffered a 4th quarter collapse, and the second time in three weeks Pittsburgh had fallen to an opponent with a losing record. At the conclusion of the game, the Steelers had allowed seven plays of 40\u00a0yards or longer in their last four games (they only gave up two such plays in 2008).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Cleveland Browns\nAfter losing four games in a row, the Steelers went to Cleveland for a Thursday Night divisional match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Cleveland Browns\nIn windy, below-freezing conditions, Browns kicker Phil Dawson hit a 29-yard field goal in the 1st quarter to give the Brown's an early 3\u20130 lead. He would kick another 29-yarder in the 2nd quarter, and Chris Jennings had a 10-yard touchdown run to put the Browns up 13\u20130. Jeff Reed kicked a field goal before the half to put the Steelers on the board. They would go into halftime down 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Cleveland Browns\nJeff Reed would kick another field goal in the 3rd quarter to bring them within a touchdown. However, a scoreless 4th quarter by both teams led the Browns to their first win against the Steelers since 2003, becoming only the fourth team in NFL history to be at least 10 games under .500 and defeat the defending Super Bowl champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the loss, the Steelers fell to 6\u20137. It was the first time since the 1987 New York Giants that a defending Super Bowl Champion team suffered five consecutive losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Steelers would come into the game riding a five-game losing streak. They also no longer controlled their playoff destiny, needing to win their final three games of the season, and also losses by other AFC teams to have a chance for a wild card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nPittsburgh would strike on their first play of the game when Ben Roethlisberger hit a wide-open Mike Wallace for a 60-yard TD pass. Green Bay would answer with an 83-yard strike from Aaron Rodgers to Greg Jennings for a TD. The Steelers would cap the 1st quarter with a 2-yard TD run by Rashard Mendenhall. In the 2nd quarter, QB Aaron Rodgers was able to scramble out of the pocket for a 14-yard TD run. Ben Roethlisberger would hit Mewelde Moore for a 10-yard TD pass in the final seconds of the 1st Half and the Steelers would take a 21\u201314 lead into halftime with them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe 2nd half got off to a slow start for both teams. Jeff Reed would kick a 37-yard field goal, the only scoring of the 3rd quarter. In the 4th quarter, it became a shootout between both quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers would hit Jermichael Finley for an 11-yard TD pass. The Steelers answered with a 34-yard field goal, but would lose the lead for the first time in the game when Ryan Grant rushed for a 24-yard score, putting Green Bay up 28\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0062-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Steelers would once again answer with a 43-yard field goal, but Aaron Rodgers would complete a 24-yard TD pass to James Jones and follow it with a successful 2-point conversion attempt. The Steelers, down 36\u201330, would get the ball back with just 2\u00a0minutes left in the game. With just 3\u00a0seconds remaining, Ben Roethlisberger would hit Mike Wallace in the left sideline of the endzone (in a TD pass that resembled the Super Bowl-winning catch by Santonio Holmes back in February) and the extra point was good, giving the Steelers a last-second 37\u201336 win over the Packers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nBen Roethlisberger would finish with a record-setting game, going 29/46 for 503\u00a0yards and 3 TD passes. He would become the first quarterback in Steelers' franchise history to have a 500-yard game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 15 vs. Green Bay Packers\nWith the last second win, the Steelers would move to 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nComing off a win over the Green Bay Packers, the Steelers hosted the Baltimore Ravens in their second matchup of the season. There was much at stake, as the Ravens needed to win to get into the playoffs, and the Steelers needed to win in order to keep their faint playoff hopes alive as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nJeff Reed booted 26-yard and 39-yard field goals and Billy Cundiff kicked a 27-yarder to give the Steelers a 6\u20133 lead as they started the second quarter. The Steelers offense would start rolling, scoring on a 4-yard run by Rashard Mendenhall. Joe Flacco responded with a 30-yard TD pass to Todd Heap. But in the final seconds of the first half, Ben Roethlisberger found Santonio Holmes for a 24-yard TD pass, and the Steelers carried a 20\u201310 lead with them into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nBaltimore controlled the third quarter. Flacco hit Heaps for a seven-yard TD pass and Cundiff kicked a 35-yard field goal to tie the game. The fourth quarter saw both defenses step up. Jeff Reed kicked a 38-yard field goal with 5:25 remaining to give the Steelers a 23\u201320 lead. Baltimore had one more chance to score, but rookie defensive end Ziggy Hood recorded his first career sack and then recovered Flacco's fumble on a fourth and 10 play from the Steelers' 39 with 2:27 remaining. An apparent interception thrown by Roethlisberger was negated by an \"illegal block in the back\" penalty and the Steelers ran out the clock, securing the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nThe win not only prevented Baltimore from clinching a wild card, but kept Pittsburgh's playoff hopes alive as well. They would need to win at Miami in their season finale and also need other teams to lose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Steelers' defense averted a fourth-quarter collapse while sending two of Miami's quarterbacks to the sideline, including third-string Pat White, who was hit in the head and carried off the field on a stretcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Miami Dolphins\nIn the first quarter, Ben Roethlisberger hit Santonio Holmes for a five-yard TD on their opening possession. Miami responded quickly, when Chad Henne threw an 11-yard pass to Lex Hilliard. A few minutes later, Roethlisberger found Mike Wallace wide open for a 54-yard TD. In the second quarter, Miami's Dan Carpenter kicked a 25-yard field goal and Pittsburgh's Jeff Reed kicked a 22-yard field goal to give the Steelers a 17\u201310 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Steelers put the only points on the board in the third quarter, scoring on a three-yard TD pass to Heath Miller. The Steelers carried a 20\u201310 lead into the fourth quarter, but that would not be enough to allow them to play conservatively. Following Reed's 21-yard field goal to start the final quarter, Miami rallied back with the help of fourth-string quarterback Tyler Thigpen. Brian Hartline rushed for a 16-yard TD run and Thigpen threw a 34-yard TD pass to Davone Bess, drawing the Dolphins back within a field goal of tying the game. Former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter recovered a fumble by Roethlisberger at the Steelers' 13-yard line with 6\u00a0minutes remaining, but Thigpen was intercepted at the two-yard line. The Steelers drove 83\u00a0yards in the final minutes, ending the game with a 33-yard field goal, and a 30\u201324 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 919]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Miami Dolphins\nThe Steelers' win brought their season-ending winning record to 9\u20137. The injury-ridden Dolphins had been eliminated from post-season contention minutes earlier when the Texans defeated the Patriots (ensuring that the Dolphins would not play Super Bowl XLIV in their own home). For four hours, the Steelers waited for the Ravens\u2013Raiders game to end, but Baltimore won and got the No. 6 AFC seed, thus preventing the Steelers from attempting to repeat their world title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nThe Pittsburgh Steelers battled many injuries throughout the year. Troy Polamalu only played in five games the entire season, Ben Roethlisberger missed a critical divisional game against the Ravens due to a concussion, Chris Kemoeatu missed four games, Travis Kirschke missed five games, and Aaron Smith missed 10 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nThe Steelers beat four eventual playoff-bound teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore Ravens, and the San Diego Chargers. The Steelers' offense gained 369.2\u00a0yards a game (263.1 coming through the air, and 106.1 coming on the ground). The Steelers' defense allowed their opponents to compile 305.5 average yards per game, and allowed only an average of 89.3\u00a0yards a game on the ground. Ben Roethlisberger was able to set team passing records in the following categories: completion percentage, completions, attempts, and yards. The Steelers defense compiled 47 sacks, and the team finished with 41 total touchdowns and 3 defensive touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nHowever, five of the Steelers seven losses came from blowing leads in the fourth quarter. Had they won those games, they would have finished with a 14\u20132 record. Five of their losses came consecutively, losing to the Bengals, Chiefs, Ravens, Raiders, and Browns. They finished 2\u20134 against teams with losing records. Pittsburgh\u2019s special team allowed eight straight kickoff/punt returns for touchdowns. The Steelers also allowed for a 100-yard rusher in Week 16 against Baltimore (Ray Rice, 141-yards), snapping their 33-game streak of not allowing one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nBen Roethlisberger was voted the team\u2019s Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year. He was the first quarterback in Steelers\u2019 franchise history to throw for 4,000\u00a0yards in a season, throwing 26 touchdowns. Rookie of the Year honors went to receiver Mike Wallace, who had 39 receptions for 756-yards and 6 touchdowns. Rashard Mendenhall was awarded Most Improved Player, finishing with 1,108\u00a0yards rushing and 8 touchdowns. Defensive Player of the Year went to James Harrison, who finished the season with 79 tackles, 11 sacks, and 3 forced fumbles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nJames Harrison and Casey Hampton were voted to the Pro Bowl, Harrison as a starter and Hampton as a reserve. Lamar Woodley and Heath Miller were added to the Pro Bowl roster as replacements for players who couldn't attend. Ben Roethlisberger, was the first alternate among AFC QBs, but due to a shoulder injury he turned down the opportunity to replace Tom Brady.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nLamar Woodley was named to the Associated Press (AP) All-Pro second team. James Harrison received the 5th-most votes among outside linebackers in the AP balloting, leaving him just off the second team. However, it was later discovered that Brian Cushing of the Houston Texans, who was named to the AP's second-team at outside linebacker, had tested positive for a banned drug during the season. The AP chose to re-open balloting and Harrison and Lance Briggs of the Chicago Bears leapfrogged Cushing and made the second-team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204584-0078-0001", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Post-season summary\nOther Steelers receiving AP All-pro votes were tackle Willie Colon (1 vote, thirteenth among offensive tackles), nose tackle Casey Hampton (1 vote, sixth among defensive tackles), tight end Heath Miller (1 vote, fifth among tight ends) and placekicker Jeff Reed (1 vote, fourth among kickers). Harrison was named a second team All-Pro by the Sporting News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204585-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh mayoral election\nPittsburgh held a mayoral election on November 3, 2009. Incumbent mayor Luke Ravenstahl, a Democrat, defeated his two independent challengers by a wide margin. The 2009 election was the first regular-cycle election in which Ravenstahl participated; he was originally appointed as an interim mayor to succeed Bob O'Connor and subsequently won a special election in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204585-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Primary\nThe primary election was held on May 19, 2009. In the Democratic primary, incumbent Mayor Ravenstahl defeated challengers Patrick Dowd, a Pittsburgh city councilman, and Carmen Robinson, an attorney and former police officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204585-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Primary\nThe Republican primary had no names on the ballot for the office of mayor. Ravenstahl, a Democrat, won the Republican mayoral nomination with 607 write-in votes; no other candidate had the 250 write-in votes required to become the Republican nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204585-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh mayoral election, General\nRavenstahl, having been nominated by both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, appeared on the general-election ballot with both affiliations. He was joined by two other candidates: businessman Franco 'Dok' Harris (the son of Pittsburgh Steelers legend Franco Harris), who ran under the Franco Dok Harris Party, and attorney Kevin Acklin, who ran as an independent. Ravenstahl's relationship with lobbyist John Verbanac became a campaign issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204585-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Pittsburgh mayoral election, General\nRavenstahl defeated both Harris and Acklin by a wide margin, winning over 55 percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship\nThe 2009 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held May 7\u201310 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 36th Players Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship\nHenrik Stenson shot a bogey-free 66 in the final round to win at 276 (\u221212), four strokes ahead of Ian Poulter. Alex \u010cejka led by five strokes after the third round, but went out in 42 and finished in a tie for ninth. Stenson was the third European to win the title, after Sergio Garc\u00eda the previous year and Sandy Lyle in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship\nDue to 83 players making the halfway cut (top 70 and ties), a second cut was initiated after the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship\nDefending champion Sergio Garc\u00eda finished ten strokes back, in a tie for 22nd place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship, Venue\nThis was the 28th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,215 yards (6,597\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship, Field\nBrad Adamonis, Michael Allen, Robert Allenby, Stephen Ames, Stuart Appleby, Tommy Armour III, Woody Austin, Eric Axley, Aaron Baddeley, Briny Baird, Cameron Beckman, Matt Bettencourt, Jason Bohn, Michael Bradley, Bart Bryant, Jonathan Byrd, \u00c1ngel Cabrera, Chad Campbell, Michael Campbell, Paul Casey, Alex \u010cejka, K. J. Choi, Daniel Chopra, Stewart Cink, Tim Clark, Fred Couples, Ben Crane, Ben Curtis, Brian Davis, Luke Donald, Jason Dufner, Ken Duke, Steve Elkington, Ernie Els, Bob Estes, Ross Fisher, Steve Flesch, Fred Funk, Jim Furyk, Sergio Garc\u00eda, Brian Gay, Lucas Glover, Mathew Goggin, Retief Goosen, Paul Goydos, Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Todd Hamilton, P\u00e1draig Harrington, Dudley Hart, J. J. Henry, Tim Herron, Charley Hoffman, J. B. Holmes, Charles Howell III, Ryuji Imada, Trevor Immelman, Freddie Jacobson, Thongchai Jaidee, Dustin Johnson, Richard S. Johnson, Zach Johnson, Robert Karlsson, Martin Kaymer, Jerry Kelly, Anthony Kim, S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen, Jeff Klauk, Greg Kraft, Cliff Kresge, Matt Kuchar, Martin Laird, Justin Leonard, Michael Letzig, Peter Lonard, Davis Love III, Steve Lowery, Will MacKenzie, Hunter Mahan, John Mallinger, Steve Marino, Troy Matteson, Billy Mayfair, Scott McCarron, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, Parker McLachlin, George McNeill, Rocco Mediate, John Merrick, Phil Mickelson, Ryan Moore, Kevin Na, Sean O'Hair, Nick O'Hern, Joe Ogilvie, Geoff Ogilvy, Jeff Overton, Ryan Palmer, Rod Pampling, Corey Pavin, Pat Perez, Tom Pernice Jr., Kenny Perry, Tim Petrovic, Carl Pettersson, Scott Piercy, Ian Poulter, Brett Quigley, Jeff Quinney, Chez Reavie, John Rollins, Andr\u00e9s Romero, Justin Rose, Rory Sabbatini, Adam Scott, John Senden, Webb Simpson, Jeev Milkha Singh, Vijay Singh, Heath Slocum, Henrik Stenson, Kevin Streelman, Steve Stricker, Kevin Sutherland, Vaughn Taylor, Nicholas Thompson, David Toms, D. J. Trahan, Marc Turnesa, Bo Van Pelt, Scott Verplank, Camilo Villegas, Johnson Wagner, Nick Watney, Bubba Watson, Boo Weekley, D. A. Weibring, Mike Weir, Charlie Wi, Tim Wilkinson, Dean Wilson, Mark Wilson, Tiger Woods, Yang Yong-eun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 2114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204586-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship, Round summaries, Final leaderboard\nAlex \u010cejka held a five-shot lead entering the final round, but quickly faltered with a six-over front nine and slumped to a closing 79. This opened the door for many, and Henrik Stenson pulled clear with a bogey-free 66 for a four-stroke victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204587-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship Finals\nThe 2009 coral.co.uk Players Championship Finals was the inaugural edition of the PDC tournament, the Players Championship Finals, which saw the top 32 players from the 2008 PDC Players Championship Order of Merit taking part. The tournament took place between 30 January\u20131 February 2009 and was held at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, England \u2013 the former venue of the PDC World Darts Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204587-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship Finals, Prize money\nThe 2009 Players Championship Finals featured a prize fund of \u00a3200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204587-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship Finals, Qualification\nThe top 32 players from the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit after the last Players Championship of 2008 qualified for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204587-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship Finals, Draw\nScores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204587-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Players Championship Finals, Television Coverage\nITV4 screened live coverage of the tournament, becoming ITV's third televised tournament after the Grand Slam of Darts and the European Championship. Also, there was nightly highlights shown on ITV1. Again, Matt Smith presented the coverage, with analysis from Chris Mason (once he had lost to van der Voort) and Alan Warriner-Little, commentary from Mason, Stuart Pyke, John Rawling and Warriner-Little, and reports from Ned Boulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204588-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Players' Championship\nThe 2009 Grey Power Players' Championship was the last Grand Slam event of both the World Curling Tour and Women's World Curling Tour for the 2008-09 season. This was the seventeenth time the event has taken place, and the fourth time since it was switched to joint men's/women's format. The event was held in Grande Prairie, Alberta April 14-19. Since the event was a part of the Olympic qualifying process in Canada, only Canadian teams were invited. The total purse for each event is $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204588-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Players' Championship\nEdmonton's Randy Ferbey won the men's event securing a spot for his rink at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. On the women's side, Winnipeg's Jennifer Jones rink won their third Players' title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case\nThe 2009 Plymouth child abuse case was a child abuse and paedophile ring involving at least five adults from different parts of England. The case centred on photographs taken of up to 64 children by Vanessa George, a nursery worker in Plymouth. It highlighted the issue of child molestation by women, as all but one of the members of the ring were female.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, History\nVanessa George, a mother of two, worked for Little Teds Nursery in Plymouth, an unincorporated not-for-profit association. Between late 2008 and early 2009, Vanessa George, Colin Blanchard, and Angela Allen met on Facebook, and then started to email and text message each other. The messages were often of a sexual nature, and moved on to child abuse. The police believed that the three were having a contest to see who could produce the most depraved picture. George started taking indecent pictures of children between the ages of two and five at the nursery where she worked, and also a picture of her then 14-year-old daughter. George would often send Blanchard material captured during her working hours, and Blanchard would share them on to Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, History\nA fourth member of the ring, Tracy Lyons, a mother of nine from Portsmouth, Hampshire, pleaded guilty in March 2010 to assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child under 13, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three offences of distributing indecent photographs of a child.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, History\nA fifth member of the ring, Tracy Dawber, a care worker from Southport, in Merseyside, was found guilty of one count of sexually abusing a baby in October 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, The investigation and arrests\nIn June 2009, a colleague of Colin Blanchard turned on Blanchard's laptop computer to research Blanchard's business dealings whilst Blanchard was abroad. The colleague found images of sexual abuse of babies and toddlers, which he reported to Greater Manchester Police. Police searched Blanchard's computer, and arrested him upon his return to England. Police found indecent images on his computer, and emails and texts between himself, Vanessa George and Angela Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, The investigation and arrests\nOn the evening of 8 June, police arrested George, a worker at Little Teds Nursery in Plymouth. George appeared in court on 11 June on charges of sexual assault and making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children. George admitted to making 124 indecent images of children, targeting the young children of the nursery. George did not include the faces of these victims in her photographs, which made it difficult for the police to identify specific victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Sentencing\nThe trial was presided over by Mr Justice Royce. George pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual assault, and six of making and distributing indecent pictures of children. On 15 December 2009 George was given an indeterminate sentence, and told that she would serve at least seven years, with the proviso that she must prove she is safe to society before being released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Sentencing\nAllen pleaded guilty to distributing an indecent image, and four counts of sexual assault; all of the offences involved children. On 15 December she was also given an indeterminate sentence, with a minimum tariff of five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Sentencing\nOn 10 January 2011, Blanchard was given an indeterminate sentence of at least nine years, and two other members of the paedophile ring, Tracy Dawber and Tracy Lyons, were sentenced to four and seven years respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Book controversy\nIn March 2010, a book written by Wensley Clarkson, Vanessa: A Portrait of Evil caused controversy when parents of the victims railed against it, calling it 'sick' and saying they were 'horrified'. The author defended his position on the book, claiming it was written as a genuine attempt to understand what George did and why she did it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Release of Lyons from prison\nLyons was released from prison in October 2011, nine months after her conviction, having spent two years in prison. Her release was condemned by child protection charity Kidscape, with a spokesperson Claude Knights stating: \"This early release is a betrayal of the victims and their families whose suffering will continue for years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Legacy\nThe case prompted an increased recognition of the problem of female paedophiles, sex offenders, and the scale of their offending, with one estimate suggesting that at least 10% of sex offenders are female. The case also challenged the false stereotype that only men sexually abuse children. Previously some had attempted to blame the behaviour of female child sexual abusers on men, suggesting that the female child sex abusers were usually acting under duress or coercion. The case showed that the perpetrators were acting of their own free will and for their own sexual gratification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Legacy\nMichele Elliott of child protection charity Kidscape stated \"the reality is women abuse, women abuse without men telling them to abuse, and I think we have to acknowledge it for the sake of the children who are being abused.\" The case also promoted calls for more research into the offending of female paedophiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Legacy\nThe case prompted Plymouth City Council to launch a serious case review, the report of which was published on 4 November 2010. It concluded that while ultimate responsibility for the abuse rested with George and that no \"professional could have reasonably predicted that George might be a risk to children\", there were several failings in nursery's management, recruitment, staff reporting and other arrangements, which had \"provided an ideal environment\" for her to abuse. It also speculated that either a 2008 Ofsted inspection of the nursery just months before, which rated the nursery \"good\" for child protection, had not been adequate, or that Ofsted's \"framework for inspection is not adequate\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Legacy\nLittle Ted's, the private nursery where the abuse took place, was situated in the grounds of Laira Green Primary School. The nursery closed at the time of the first arrests, in June 2009. In September 2010 a new facility opened in its place, a pre-school unit named Greenshoots, which was to be managed jointly with the school, with the school head teacher on its board of trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204589-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Plymouth child abuse case, Release\nVanessa George was released from prison in September 2019 after serving ten years in prison. The parole board approved her release in July 2019. George must adhere to a number of conditions including not owning a device which can access the internet. Any break in these conditions will result in her release being revoked and additional jail time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204590-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pocono 500\nThe 2009 Pocono 500 was the fourteenth points race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season for 2009, and was run on Sunday, June 7, at the 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) Pocono Raceway outside the hamlet of Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The race marked the first of six races in the \"Summer Season\" schedule for TNT, with pre-race coverage starting at 12:30 pm EDT and radio coverage over MRN (over-the-air) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite) beginning at 1 pm US EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204590-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pocono 500, Qualifying\nBecause of an all-day rain on June 5, qualification was canceled. As a result, the field was set by the rule book.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204590-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pocono 500, Qualifying\nFailed to make race due to qualifying canceled due to rain: Derrike Cope (#75), Tony Raines (#37), Mike Wallace (#64, was a late entry missing the deadline.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204590-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pocono 500, Recap\nAfter wrecking his primary car in the first practice Saturday, Tony Stewart was sent to the back of the field as a result of bringing out his back-up car. However, he overcame that and used the old fuel mileage strategy trick (as many races in Long Pond usually do) to become the first owner/driver to win since Ricky Rudd won in September of 1998 at Martinsville Speedway. Geoff Bodine was the last owner driver to win at Pocono Raceway. Kevin Harvick made his 300th start in this race, finishing in 24th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204591-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pohang Steelers season\nThe 2009 season is Pohang Steelers' 27th season in the K-League in South Korea. Pohang Steelers competed in K-League, League Cup, Korean FA Cup, AFC Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup as winners of the 2009 AFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204591-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pohang Steelers season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204591-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pohang Steelers season, Squad, On loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204591-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pohang Steelers season, K-League, Regular season\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl\nThe 2009 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game and was played at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. The game started at 5 PM US PST on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 on ESPN. The Utah Utes defeated the California Golden Bears by a score of 37\u201327 to win their ninth straight bowl game. The Bears lost their first bowl game since 2004, snapping a winning streak of four post-season victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Pre-game buildup\nThe Utes from the Mountain West Conference had won eight straight bowl appearances, including the last season's Sugar Bowl against Alabama. The Utes also faced their former offensive coordinator, Andy Ludwig, who had helped guide them the previous year to a 13\u20130 record and #2 ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Pre-game buildup\nCal played its third bowl game in San Diego in six years, having made two previous trips to the Holiday Bowl in 2004 and 2006. The Bears had not lost a bowl game since 2004. It was the seventh straight year that Cal head coach Jeff Tedford had guided Cal to a bowl appearance, the longest streak in school history. The game was Cal's first appearance in the Poinsettia Bowl, while Utah was playing in its second. The Utes defeated Navy by a score of 35\u201332 in the 2007 game. It was the seventh overall meeting between the two schools and their first in post-season. Cal held a 4\u20132 advantage in the series, the first game of which took place in 1920. The last matchup between them was in 2003, a game won by Utah 31\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game summary\nCal wore their home navy blue jerseys and Utah wore their away white jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game summary, First quarter\nCal won the coin toss and elected to defer until the second half. The game started promisingly for the Bears, who were able to hold the Utes on their first two possessions. Midway through the first quarter, Cal scored first on a 36-yard run by Shane Vereen. The Bears quickly struck again when linebacker Eddie Young intercepted Jordan Wynn for a 30-yard touchdown return on the ensuing possession. From this point on however, the game belonged to the Utes. Utah's comeback began with a 61-yard kickoff return by Shaky Smithson that helped set up the first touchdown pass of the night for Wynn on a 6-yard strike to Kendrick Moeai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter\nCal struggled offensively in the second quarter and could not get past midfield. Utah scored on all three of its possessions with a field goal, 15-yard touchdown reception by Moeai, and 21-yard touchdown reception by Jereme Brooks. The Utes led 24\u201314 at the half and had scored 24 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter\nThe second half saw the game seesaw back and forth defensively until Kevin Riley was sacked, resulting in a fumble which the Utes recovered late in the third quarter. Cal was able to hold Utah to a field goal and responded on the next possession by driving downfield, allowing Vereen to score his second touchdown of the night on a 1-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter\nUtah put up the first points of the fourth quarter on a field goal, and Stevenson Sylvester intercepted Riley on a tipped pass that he was able to return for a 27-yard touchdown. Riley threw a second straight interception, but the defense was able to hold the Utes. The final score of the game came late in the quarter on a 24-yard touchdown reception by Jeremy Ross to make the score 37\u201327 Utah. Cal attempted a two-point conversion, which failed. An attempt at an onside kick was recovered by Utah, allowing Wynn to take three straight knees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game notes\nUtah's true freshman quarterback Jordan Wynn, who grew up less than an hour from San Diego, returned home and threw for a career-high 338 yards and three touchdowns on his way to being named the game's offensive MVP. Linebacker Stevenson Sylvester, who had an interception return for a touchdown, was the game's defensive MVP. Wide receiver David Reed set school records for catches (81) and receiving yards (1,188) in a season. Both records came on a 39-yard catch in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game notes\nThe Utes scored 27 straight points to win their ninth straight bowl game, which tied them (with USC's 1923-1945 teams) for the second longest bowl winning streak in history. Shane Vereen, who scored twice, was the seventh Cal running back to gain more than 100 yards in a bowl, finishing with 122 yards on 20 carries. Vereen had been filling in for star running back Jahvid Best, who was sitting out his fourth straight game after sustaining a concussion on November 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204592-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Poinsettia Bowl, Game notes\nThe attendance of 32,665 was the second-lowest in the bowl's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize\nThe 2009 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2009 in Toronto at the Masonic Temple and broadcast live online for the first time in its short history. The award's eligibility period for 2009 covered albums released between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize\nInitial coverage of the award's shortlist noted that six of the ten finalists were repeat nominees. K'naan, Malajube and Metric were all finalists in the 2006 shortlist, while Joel Plaskett, Chad VanGaalen and Patrick Watson were all part of the 2007 award, which Watson won. It was the first time in the award's four-year history that any artist was named to the shortlist for a second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Winner\nToronto hardcore punk band Fucked Up won with their second album, The Chemistry of Common Life, which despite being controversial, received a great deal of acclaim when it was released in October 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Shortlist\nThe prize's 10-album shortlist was announced on July 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Longlist\nThe prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Sponsors\nSirius Satellite Radio, which had been a supporting sponsor and broadcaster of the awards since their inception, became a primary presenting sponsor of the awards in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Media\nIn addition to being broadcast live on CBC Radio 3, the 2009 ceremony was also webcast on MuchMusic's website, as well as produced for later broadcast on MuchMusic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204593-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Polaris Music Prize, Jury\nThe Polaris Music Prize blog began announcing the 2009 jurors one by one in late June 2009. Announced jurors included Corus Entertainment radio programmer Alan Cross, music blogger Bryan Acker (Herohill) and newspaper music critics Sue Carter Flinn (The Coast), Peter Hemminger (FFWD), Serge Paradis (Ici), Stuart Derdeyn (Vancouver Province) and Brendan Murphy (Hour).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204594-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Polish Figure Skating Championships (Polish: Mistrzostwa Polski w \u0142y\u017cwiarstwie figurowym 2008/2009) were held in three parts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204594-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Figure Skating Championships\nYounger than Senior Polish skaters also started in the Czech Republic but the competition did not have the character of National Championships for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204594-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Figure Skating Championships, Senior results\nThe Three National Championships were held simultaneously and the results were then split by country. The top three skaters from each country formed their national podiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204595-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Pairs Speedway Championship\nThe 2008 Polish Pairs Speedway Championship (Polish: Mistrzostwa Polski Parl Klubowych, MPPK) is the 2009 version of Polish Pairs Speedway Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on 10 September 2009 in Leszno, because Unia Leszno was second in 2008 Team Speedway Polish Championship. The championships was won by Falubaz Zielona G\u00f3ra; former Grand Prix riders Rafa\u0142 Dobrucki, Grzegorz Walasek and junior Grzegorz Zengota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204595-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Pairs Speedway Championship, Results, The Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204596-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship\nThe 2008 Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship (Polish: M\u0142odzie\u017cowe Mistrzostwa Polski Parl Klubowych, MMPPK) is the 2009 version of Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on 14 August 2009 in Rybnik. The championships was won by Unia Leszno's riders: S\u0142awomir Musielak and Przemys\u0142aw Pawlicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204596-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship, Results, The Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204597-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Speedway First League\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship of First League (Polish: Dru\u017cynowe Mistrzostwa Polski - I ligi) is the 10th First League season, the second division of Team Speedway Polish Championship. The First League have eight teams competing (five teams from 2008 season, two teams from 2008 Ekstraliga and two the top team from 2008 Second League. The first fixtures of the season are scheduled for April 5, 2009, and the season will end on September 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204598-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Speedway Second League\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship of Second League (Polish: Dru\u017cynowe Mistrzostwa Polski - II ligi) is the 10th Second League season, the third division of Team Speedway Polish Championship. The Second League have eight teams competing. The first fixtures of the season are scheduled for April 5, 2009, and the season will end on September 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204599-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polish Super Cup\nThe 2009 Polish Super Cup was held on 27 July 2009 between the 2008\u201309 Ekstraklasa winners Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w and the 2008\u201309 Polish Cup winners Lech Pozna\u0144. Lech Pozna\u0144 won the match on penalties after the match finished 1\u20131, winning the trophy for the fourth time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204600-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polska Energia Open\nThe 2009 Polska Energia Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bytom, Poland between 15 and 21 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204600-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polska Energia Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204600-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Polska Energia Open, Champions, Doubles\nPablo Santos /  Gabriel Trujillo-Soler def. Jan H\u00e1jek /  Du\u0161an Karol, 6\u20133, 7\u20136(3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204601-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polska Energia Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarcin Gawron and Mateusz Kowalczyk were the defenders of title, but they chose to not compete together. Gawron partnered up with Jerzy Janowicz. However, they lost to Jan H\u00e1jek and Du\u0161an Karol in the first round. Kowalczyk played with Grzegorz Panfil, but they were eliminated by Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura in the quarterfinals. Pablo Santos and Gabriel Trujillo-Soler became the new champions, after their won 6\u20133, 7\u20136(3), against H\u00e1jek and Karol in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204602-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polska Energia Open \u2013 Singles\nLaurent Recouderc was the defending champion and he won this edition too. He defeated 6\u20133, 6\u20134 Jan H\u00e1jek in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204603-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 4\u20138, 2009. The event was held at the Griffith University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series, and the OAA sub-regional Melanesian and Micronesian Championships. Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Detailed reports were given for the OAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204603-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics\nA total of 32 events were contested, 18 by men and 14 by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204603-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nComplete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage, and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204603-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nIn 100 metres, long jump and triple jump, as well as in shot put, discus throw, and javelin throw, there were separate open competitions for the Polynesian championships and the OAA Grand Prix Series held on different days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204603-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Polynesian Championships in Athletics, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 8 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204604-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche 250\nThe 2009 Porsche 250 Presented by Bradley Arant was the eighth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Barber Motorsports Park on July 19, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204605-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany\nThe 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season was the 24th German Porsche Carrera Cup season. It began on 17 May at Hockenheim and finished on 25 October at the same circuit, after nine races. It ran as a support championship for the 2009 DTM season. Thomas J\u00e4ger won the championship with 5 points more than Jeroen Bleekemolen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204605-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, Championship standings, Drivers' championship\n\u2020\u00a0\u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204606-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain\nThe 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain was the seventh Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain season. The season consisted of twenty rounds, beginning on 5 April at Brands Hatch's Indy circuit and ending on 4 October at the circuit's Grand Prix layout. The series supported the British Touring Car Championship throughout the season. Tim Bridgman took his first title, holding off the challenges of reigning champion Tim Harvey, James Sutton and Michael Caine. In the other classes, Glynn Geddie took home the Pro-Am 1 title, while Glenn McMenamin won Pro- Am 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204606-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain, Driver's Standings\nBold \u2013 Pole (1 point)Italics \u2013 Fastest Lap (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204607-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Supercup\nThe 2009 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season was the 17th Porsche Supercup season. The races were all supporting races in the 2009 Formula One season. The calendar went across Europe and to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in Asia. Jeroen Bleekemolen won the title, finishing every single race on the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204607-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Supercup, Teams and drivers\nIn the Porsche Supercup the 911 GT3 Cup type 997 is deployed - a car based on the Porsche 911 Carrera. All vehicles are technically identical: 450\u00a0hp, sequential six-speed gearbox, aero pack, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB), 1,200\u00a0kg. The PCCB is deployed exclusively in Porsche Supercup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204607-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Supercup, Championship standings\n\u2020 \u2014 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204608-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament, for the first time played on indoor clay courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and was part of the Premier tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, from 27 April through 3 May 2009. Svetlana Kuznetsova won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204608-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles\nBethanie Mattek-Sands /  Nadia Petrova defeated  Gisela Dulko /  Flavia Pennetta, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 10\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204609-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Doubles\nAnna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Patty Schnyder were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Barbora Z\u00e1hlavov\u00e1-Str\u00fdcov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204610-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Flavia Pennetta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204610-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix \u2013 Singles\nSvetlana Kuznetsova won the title, defeating Dinara Safina in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133. This was the first edition of the tournament played on clay courts, as opposed to hard courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204611-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portim\u00e3o Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Portim\u00e3o Superbike World Championship round was the last round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship. It took place on the weekend of October 23\u201325, 2009 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Internacional do Algarve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204612-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland LumberJax season\nThe Portland LumberJax are a lacrosse team based in Portland, Oregon playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season will be the 4th in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204612-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland LumberJax season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204612-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland LumberJax season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204612-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland LumberJax season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204612-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland LumberJax season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The LumberJax selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season\nThe 2009 Portland Timbers season was the ninth season for the club in the United Soccer Leagues First Division (USL-1), the second tier of the United States soccer pyramid. The first competitive game of the 2009 season was played on April 25 at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, BC versus Vancouver Whitecaps FC which the Timbers lost 1\u20130. Following that loss the Timbers went on a 24-game unbeaten streak in the league on their way to securing the Commissioner's Cup for finishing the regular season atop the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season\nIn a hard-fought, two-legged series, Vancouver Whitecaps FC knocked Portland out of the playoffs in the semifinals by an aggregate score of 5\u20134. In the U.S. Open Cup the Timbers hosted Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer in the third round but were eliminated by their bitter rivals 2\u20131 in front of 16,382 spectators at PGE Park in Portland, Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, USL First Division, League standings\nCommissioner's Cup, bye to semifinal round of playoffs\u00a0\u00a0Quarterfinal round of playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, USL First Division, League standings\n\u2020 Austin deducted two points for fielding an ineligible player on July 25, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, USL First Division, Results summary\nLast updated: April 26, 2010Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup, Cup bracket\nSecond Round winners advance to play one of 8 MLS clubs in 16-team knockout tournamentHome teams listed on top of bracket", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Squad, Final roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204613-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Portland Timbers season, Squad, Statistics, Appearances and goals\nAll players contracted to the club during the season included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nThe Portuguese legislative election of 2009 was held on 27 September, to renew all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic. The Socialist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates, won the largest number of seats, but didn't repeat the overall majority they gained in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nThe Socialist Party of Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates came in first despite losing 9% of the vote and 24 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nIn these elections there were approximately 9.5 million Portuguese at home and abroad called to determine the 230 seats in the Assembleia da Rep\u00fablica and 18th constitutional government in Portugal after 1976. The Socialists won the election with a clear lead over the conservative Social Democrats, with big gains for the People's Party and for the Left Bloc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nThe election took place during the regular end of the previous four-year legislative period. From 2005 to 2009 ruled by the Socialist Party (PS), led by Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates, with an absolute majority. The opinion polls at the beginning of the official election campaign on 12 September 2009, showed a too close to call race between the Socialists and the conservative Social Democrats, but just days before the election the Socialists increased their lead over the Social Democrats. A total of 13 parties and two coalitions competed in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nFocus of the campaign was the impact of global economic, the financial crisis and the construction of new infrastructure projects, including the high-speed rail link Lisbon-Madrid and Lisbon-Porto-Vigo, and the new Lisbon airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nNeither of the two major parties won an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic, so, the future prime minister had to form a coalition, or at least rely on other parties to govern. In that case, Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates was in a better position than Manuela Ferreira Leite, since the Portuguese left won by 54.23% of the vote and 128 seats, against 39.54% and 102 deputies to the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nOn 12 October, Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates was invited by President An\u00edbal Cavaco Silva to form government. The new cabinet was announced on 22 October and sworn in on 26 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election\nVoter turnout was one of the lowest in Portuguese election history, as 59.7% of the electorate cast a ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Background\nIn the February 2005 early elections, the Socialists, under the leadership of Jos\u00e9 S\u00f3crates, won 45% of the votes and 121 MPs, the 1st time the Socialists won a majority and the 1st time a single party won a majority since Cavaco Silva's PSD victory in 1991. The PSD suffered a heavy defeat, achieving their worst results since 1983, and faced with this failure, the then PSD leader and outgoing Prime Minister, Pedro Santana Lopes, resigned from the leadership and called an election for party chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Background\nIn the party's congress in April 2005, Lu\u00eds Marques Mendes became party leader winning 56% of the delegates, against the 44% of his rival, Lu\u00eds Filipe Menezes. During the first months in his government, S\u00f3crates raised taxes to cut the deficit and initiated a policy of strict budgetary rigor. At the same time, he faced a very harsh summer with Wildfires across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Background\nThat same October, the Socialists suffered a heavy defeat in the 2005 local elections, winning just 108 cities, a drop of 4, against the PSD's 158 mayoral holds. The PS was also unable to retake control of Lisbon and Porto. In January 2006, a new President was elected. An\u00edbal Cavaco Silva, PM between 1985 and 1995, became the first center-right candidate to win a presidential election, although only just. The PS candidate, former PM and President M\u00e1rio Soares polled a disappointing third place with just 14% of the votes. In 2007, a referendum for the legalization of abortion was held. After the failure of the 1998 referendum, the Yes side prevailed winning 59% of the votes against the No's 41%, making abortion legal in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Background\nWhile the deficit reduction had been successful, and with the economy growing above 2% of GDP, the government faced heavy opposition for its policies, particularly from teachers unions. In March 2008, more than 100,000 teachers protested in Lisbon against S\u00f3crates and his Education minister, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues. At the same time, the Social Democrats (PSD) were in internal crisis. The then PSD leader, Lu\u00eds Filipe Menezes, elected in September 2007, resigned after just 6 months in the job. In the following leadership elections, held in May 2008, Manuela Ferreira Leite became the first woman to lead a major party in Portugal, winning 38% of the votes, against the 31% of Pedro Passos Coelho and the 30% of Pedro Santana Lopes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Background\nEntering 2009, Portugal was strongly hit by the effects of the financial crisis that was shaking the global economy, and, therefore, the country entered in a recession. As a result, the government adopted stimulus measures that worsened the public finances and increased the deficit and the debt. In the European elections of June 7, 2009, the PSD stunned pundits by winning a European election for the first time since 1989, with 31.7% of the votes. The Socialists suffered a huge defeat, winning just 26% of the votes, a drop of 18%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Electoral system\nThe Assembly of the Republic has 230 members elected to four-year terms. Governments do not require absolute majority support of the Assembly to hold office, as even if the number of opposers of government is larger than that of the supporters, the number of opposers still needs to be equal or greater than 116 (absolute majority) for both the Government's Programme to be rejected or for a motion of no confidence to be approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Electoral system\nThe number of seats assigned to each district depends on the district magnitude. The use of the d'Hondt method makes for a higher effective threshold than certain other allocation methods such as the Hare quota or Sainte-Lagu\u00eb method, which are more generous to small parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Electoral system\nFor these elections, and compared with the 2005 elections, the MPs distributed by districts were the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, Parties\nThe table below lists the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic during the 10th legislature (2005-2009) and that also partook in the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204614-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese legislative election, National summary of votes and seats, Maps\nFirst, second and third most voted political force by district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nThe Portuguese local elections of 2009 took place on 11 October. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected president, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nThe elections resulted almost in a tie between the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in which the Social Democrats lost almost 20 municipalities and also lost a considerable number of councilors. The Socialists, despite losing in number of municipal chambers, were the party that most councilors elected, a situation that has not happened since 1993 when in these elections the PSD elected more councilors than the PS but the PS elected more mayors than the PSD. The Socialists won also a decisive victory in Lisbon where the incumbent mayor, Ant\u00f3nio Costa, defeated the former mayor and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes by a considerable margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nThe Social Democratic Party lost some municipalities to the Socialists, but they did hold on municipalities like Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Sintra and Coimbra. The People's Party won only one municipality, Ponte de Lima, continuing its decline in comparison, for example, with the 36 mayors achieved in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nOn the left, the Democratic Unitarian Coalition, led by the Communist Party, obtained their worst result in history, winning less than 10% of the vote and losing 4 municipalities including Beja and \u00c9vora. The Left Bloc kept the presidency of its single municipality, Salvaterra de Magos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nThe election was again marked by several victories of independent candidates, most of them former Socialist, Social Democratic candidates who were expelled or given no confidence by their respective parties and, even so, became mayors. The best known were Valentim Loureiro in Gondomar and Isaltino Morais in Oeiras. F\u00e1tima Felgueiras, independent candidate in Felgueiras, suffered a surprised defeat by the Social Democratic candidate after winning the election in 2005 with more than 47% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections\nTurnout in these election was the lowest in local election, as only 59% of the electorate cast a ballot, although the number of ballots cast in the election was the highest ever in local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections, Parties\n1 The PSD and the CDS\u2013PP will also form coalitions in several municipalities with the Earth Party (MPT) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204615-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese local elections, Results, Municipal Councils, City control\nThe following table lists party control in all district capitals, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from the 2001 Census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204616-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 2\u20134 October 2009 at the Aut\u00f3dromo do Estoril located in Estoril, Portugal. The MotoGP race was won by Jorge Lorenzo with Casey Stoner finishing second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204616-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204617-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Potton municipal election\nThe 2009 Potton municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Potton, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204618-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open\nThe 2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour and Tretorn SERIE+. It took place at the Park Tenisowy Olimpia in Pozna\u0144, Poland from 18 to 26 July 2009, including the qualifying competition in the first two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204618-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204618-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204618-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open, Champions, Doubles\nSergio Roitman /  Alexandre Sidorenko def. Michael Kohlmann /  Rogier Wassen, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204619-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open \u2013 Doubles\nJohan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer were the defending champions; however, they chose to participate in ATP World Tour 500 series tournament in Hamburg instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204619-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open \u2013 Doubles\nSergio Roitman and Alexandre Sidorenko won the title, defeating Michael Kohlmann and Rogier Wassen in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204620-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open \u2013 Singles\nNicolas Devilder was the defending champion, but he did not participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204620-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pozna\u0144 Porsche Open \u2013 Singles\nPeter Luczak won the title, defeating Yuri Schukin in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 7\u20136(8\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204621-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Preakness Stakes\nThe 2009 Preakness Stakes was the 134th running of the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown. The value of the race was $1,100,000 in stakes. The race was sponsored by BlackBerry and hence officially was called BlackBerry Preakness Stakes. The race took place on May 16, 2009. Post time was 6:19\u00a0p.m. EDT and was televised in the United States on the NBC television networks. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 77,850, this is recorded as third highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204621-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Preakness Stakes\nRachel Alexandra won by a length, holding off the rapidly closing 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to become the first filly since 1924 to win the Preakness Stakes, and to extend horse racing's longest losing streak to 31 years since Affirmed became the last Triple Crown winner in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204621-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Preakness Stakes, The full chart\nThe draw for The Preakness Stakes was done on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 near the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course. Rachel Alexandra was made the morning line 8-5 favorite, the first filly accorded that status since 1988. Twelve colts and a filly made up the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204621-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Preakness Stakes, Infield\nThe 2009 Preakness Stakes included entertainment in the infield. The performers in the infield included ZZ Top, Buckcherry, and Charm City Devils. In addition, there was a professional volleyball tournament in the infield. This year also marked the first year in which fans were not allowed to bring their own beverages into the infield, a move which has drawn some mixed reactions. Infield ticket sales were down 17% this year, which some are attributing to the ban, but others attribute to the recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204622-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Asia Trophy\nThe 2009 Premier League Asia Trophy (Chinese: \u5df4\u514b\u83b1\u4e9a\u6d32\u676f2009) was the fourth edition of the Premier League Asia Trophy, a four-team association football tournament held every two years. Hull City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and the local Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan competed for the title on 29 July and 31 July in the Workers Stadium, Beijing. Tottenham Hotspur won the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204622-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Asia Trophy, Competition format\nThe competition uses a knock-out format. On July 29, West Ham United played against Tottenham Hotspur, while Hull City meeting Beijing Guoan. Final, 3rd and 4th playoff were played two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204622-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Asia Trophy, Ticket sales issues\nTicket prices started as low as RMB80 (GBP 7) and rose to RMB380 (GBP 34). Prices were the same for both days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204622-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Asia Trophy, Ticket sales issues\nHowever, by 15 July 2009, only 20,000 of the 120,000 tickets available for the 29 July and 31 July knockout tournament had been sold, with most fans buying the cheap seats. Reports that Beijing Guoan would field a second-string side as they rest their best players for a China Super League match against Chongqing Lifan on 2 August, while the latter refused to change the schedule also hampered sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts\nThe 2009 Whyte & Mackay Premier League was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts\nThe tournament kicked off at the Echo Arena Liverpool, which hosted the biggest ever crowd for a PDC event of almost 8,000 in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts\nNew venues in Edinburgh and Exeter joined some of the UK's biggest arenas, including Belfast's Odyssey Arena, Manchester's MEN Arena, Birmingham's National Indoor Arena, the Sheffield Arena and Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts\nThe tournament came to a conclusion with the play-offs on Monday 25 May at the Wembley Arena \u2013 coinciding with the Football League play-offs at the neighbouring Wembley Stadium over the same weekend. Phil Taylor was defending his Whyte & Mackay Premier League title once again, however he failed to retain it after losing to Mervyn King 10\u20136 in the semi-finals. James Wade beat King 13\u20138 in the final, to claim the \u00a3125,000 first prize and the first Premier League not to be claimed by Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Qualification\nThe top six players from the PDC Order of Merit following the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship were confirmed on 5 January. Jelle Klaasen and Wayne Mardle were named as the two Sky Sports wild card selections on 9 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Prize money\nThe prize fund increased again with the top prize now reaching \u00a3125,000, and the total prize fund rising to \u00a3400,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Results, League stage, Notes\n\u2020 \u2013 Wayne Mardle didn't play in week ten because of a virus. John Part played two matches in week ten, with Mardle due to play two matches in week eleven, giving Part the night off that week. However, Mardle was rushed into hospital with mumps on 15 April, which ruled him out of week eleven. This meant that Mervyn King and James Wade each played twice during week eleven, with Mardle now due to play five matches in the last three weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Results, League stage, Notes\nMardle had been due to play two matches in both weeks thirteen and fourteen, which would give King the night off in Sheffield, and Wade the night off in Cardiff. However, Mardle was re-admitted to hospital, ruling him out of week twelve, and in accordance with tournament regulations after missing three consecutive Premier League match nights, was removed from the tournament. Mardle's match results from the tournament were also annulled, hurting some of the remaining players more than others. Following Mardle's removal from the tournament, in order for each remaining night to have four matches, there was a series of challenge matches featuring Robert Thornton, Adrian Lewis, Dennis Priestley, Mark Webster and Gary Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Results, League stage, Notes\n* \u2013 Phil Taylor's average of 116.01 was, at the time, the highest recorded three-dart average in televised darts history. He broke his own record of 114.53, set against Wes Newton during the 2008 UK Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Table and Streaks, Table\nTop four qualify for Play-offs after Week 14. NB: LWAT = Legs Won Against Throw. Players separated by +/- leg difference if tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Table and Streaks, Streaks\nNB: W = Won;D = Drawn;L = Lost;N/A = Did Not Play;\u2013 indicates match did not count towards final standings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204623-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Darts, Player statistics\nThe following statistics are only for league stage games that contributed to the final standings. Annulled fixtures, challenge matches and play-offs are not included.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker\nThe 2009 PartyCasino.com Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 3\u00a0September to 29\u00a0November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker\nShaun Murphy won in the final 7\u20133 against defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker, League phase\nTop four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 3\u20133 then the player who got to three first was higher. (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker, Play-offs\n* (61) 80\u201335, 4\u201380, (96)\u20130, 0\u2013(110), 34\u201377, 61\u201371 (65), 67\u20131, 40\u201375** 0\u2013(98), 10\u201399 (53), 10\u201368 (66), 1\u201383 (76), (63)\u201330, (53)\u2013(67)*** (111) 119\u20139, 87\u201336, 70\u20130, 50\u201357, 0\u2013(88), 61\u201367, 75\u201327, (75) 126\u20133, (63)\u20130, (67) 75\u2013(67)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204624-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League Snooker, Qualifiers\nThe qualification for this tournament, the Championship League was played in eight groups from 5 January to 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season\nThe 2009 Premier League season was the second division of motorcycle speedway racing in the United Kingdom and the 15th season since its creation in 1995. The league is governed by the Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, Summary\nThe League consisted of 14 teams for the 2009 season with the re-admission of the Newport Wasps and the loss of Mildenhall Fen Tigers, Isle of Wight Islanders (Both dropped to National League) and the Reading Racers (Loss of Stadium). New rules introduced for 2009 with a complete revamp of the points scoring system. The team finishing at the top of the league table at the end of the season after accumulating the most points were declared the Premier League champions. The four highest placed teams were entered into promotion play-offs, whereby the Premier League play-off winner faced the bottom Elite League team over two legs. Teams finishing in fifth to twelfth at the time of the fixture cut-off date compete in the Young Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, Summary\nThe Kings Lynn Stars were crowned the Premier League champions after ending the season as the highest placed team. The Edinburgh Monarchs finished second, Newcastle Diamonds third and the Birmingham Brummies fourth. All four teams took part in the promotion play-off with Edinburgh and King's Lynn reaching the final. Edinburgh won 97\u201383 on aggregate and faced Elite League team Belle Vue Aces, but lost the two-legged promotion/relegation final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, New Points Scoring System\nA new points scoring systems was devised for the 2009 season in an effort to make teams more competitive even when losing. If a Home team were to win by 7 or more points they would receive 3 points for the win. However, if the away team restricted the win from 1-6 points, the home team would receive only 2 points for the win, and the away team would be awarded 1 point for losing by less than 7 away from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, New Points Scoring System\nIf the match was a draw, the home team would be awarded 1 point and the away team awarded 2. If the away team won the match by between 1-6 points, they would be awarded 3 points with the home team collecting 0. And finally if the away team won by 7 or more points, they would collect 4 points with the home team again collecting 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, League table\nHome: 3W = Home win by 7 points or more; 2W = Home win by between 1 and 6 points Away: 4W = Away win by 7 points or more; 3W = Away win by between 1 and 6 points; 1L = Away loss by 6 points or lessM = Meetings; D = Draws; L = Losses; F = Race points for; A = Race points against; +/- = Race points difference; Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Riders Championship\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup\nThe 2009 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 42nd edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. King's Lynn Stars were the winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204625-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup, Final\nKing's Lynn were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 98\u201381.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204626-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premios Juventud\nThe 6th Annual Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) were broadcast by Univision on July 16, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204627-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Premi\u00e8re Division (Chad)\nThe 2009 Premi\u00e8re Division was the Chad Premier League season, the top Chadian league for association football clubs, for 2008/09. Elect-Sport came into the season as defending champions of the 2008 season. Gazelle won the National Championship title after beating Renaissance (Ab\u00e9ch\u00e9) 3-1 in the final. AS CotonTchad as the cup winners qualified to Confederation Cup, after beating ASBNF de Koumra 3-0 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204627-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Premi\u00e8re Division (Chad), Summary, Ligue de N'Djamena\nLigue de N'Djamena for this season was expanded from 10 to 12 clubs. League run from March to October with each team playing 22 matches (playing all 11 other teams both home and away). The league was contested by the 10 teams from the 2008 season as well as Postel 2000 and Toumai who joined as the promoted clubs from the Ligue de N'Djamena D2. The season started in March 2009, and concluded on 4 October 2009. Petro Sport FC was renamed to NBK. Gazelle won the title, Tourbillon finished runners-up, Renaissance finished third. NBK, Faucon Sporting and AS Douth were relegated to Ligue de N'Djamena D2. Gazelle as the winners of the Ligue de N'Djamena qualified to National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204627-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Premi\u00e8re Division (Chad), Summary, National Championship\nGazelle as the winners of the Ligue de N'Djamena qualified to National Championship, the final stage, which gathers winners of regional leagues. On January 3, 2010 Gazelle beat Renaissance (Ab\u00e9ch\u00e9) 3-1 in the final, and became champions of Chad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204628-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team\nThe 2009 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team represented Presbyterian College in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Harold Nichols and played their home games at Bailey Memorial Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 0\u201311, 0\u20136 in Big South play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204629-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (Maldives)\nThe 2009 President's Cup is the 59th season of the President's Cup, a knock-out competition for Maldives' top 4 football clubs. Club Valencia are the defending champions, having defeated Victory Sports Club in last season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204629-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (Maldives), Broadcasting rights\nThe broadcasting rights for all the matches of 2009 Maldives President's Cup were given to the Television Maldives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204629-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (Maldives), Qualifier\nTop 4 teams at the end of 2009 Dhivehi League will be qualified for the President's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204630-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (tennis)\nThe 2009 President's Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Astana, Kazakhstan between 2 and 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204630-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (tennis), ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204630-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup (tennis), Champions, Doubles\nJonathan Marray /  Jamie Murray def. David Martin /  Rogier Wassen, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204631-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup \u2013 Doubles\nMichail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev were the defending champions, but only Elgin tried to defend his title. He partnered with Sergei Bubka, however lost to Frank Moser and Bj\u00f6rn Phau already in the first round. Jonathan Marray and Jamie Murray won this tournament, by defeating David Martin and Rogier Wassen 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204632-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 President's Cup \u2013 Singles\nAndrey Golubev successfully defended his last year's title. He defeated Illya Marchenko 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup\nThe 8th Presidents Cup was held October 8\u201311, 2009 at the Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco, California. The United States team won the golf competition by a margin of 19\u200b1\u20442\u201314\u200b1\u20442, their second consecutive win by that exact score and third in a row overall. This was also the sixth outright win for the U.S. Team in eight meetings, with one International win in 1998 and one tied match in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup, Format\nThe first day of competition featured six foursomes matches. On the second day, six matches of four-ball were played. This was followed on Day 3 by five morning foursomes matches and five afternoon four-ball matches. On the fourth and final day, twelve singles matches were played, for a total of 34 matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup, Format\nThe final day was conducted under a special rule that differed slightly from that used in other team competitions such as the Ryder Cup. Singles matches ending halved after the regulation 18 holes were to be extended to extra holes until an outright winner was determined. This format was used until one team earned the 17\u200b1\u20442 points needed to win the Cup outright, at which time all remaining matches were only played to the regulation 18 holes and could be halved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup, Format\nNo matches went to extra holes in the 2009 competition. The first match on the final day in which all 18 holes were played was the Mike Weir\u2013Justin Leonard match, which finished all square after 18. At that time, the U.S. Team was leading 17\u201310, which meant that the match should have continued. However, at the same time, the Y.E. Yang\u2013Tiger Woods match was at the 13th hole with Woods 5 up. Instead of immediately going to the first hole to continue their match, Weir and Leonard watched the Yang\u2013Woods match on a nearby giant screen. When Woods sank the putt that gave him a 6 and 5 victory and gave the U.S. an insurmountable 18\u201310 lead, Weir and Leonard, seeing that the outcome of the Cup was no longer in doubt, agreed to halve their match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup, Teams\nBoth teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. Members of the U.S. Team were selected based on earnings from the 2007 Wyndham Championship through the 2009 PGA Championship. International Team players were chosen on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking through the 2009 PGA Championship. The International Team does not include players eligible for the European Ryder Cup Team. The top 10 players from each list made their respective teams and the captains choose the remaining two players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204633-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Presidents Cup, Individual player records\nEach entry refers to the Win\u2013Loss\u2013Half record of the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400\nThe 2009 Price Chopper 400 presented by Kraft Foods was the 29th of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the third in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on October 4, 2009, in Kansas City, Kansas, at Kansas Speedway, before a crowd of 100,000 spectators. Stewart-Haas Racing driver and co-owner Tony Stewart won the 267-lap race, starting from the fifth position. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports finished in second, with Roush Fenway Racing's Greg Biffle in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400\nMark Martin won the 47th pole position of his career by posting the fastest lap in qualifying. He lost the lead to his teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. who passed him on lap 12. Earnhardt kept it until his other teammate Jimmie Johnson emerged in the first position after the first round of green flag pit stops took place. Biffle took the lead for the first time on the 72nd lap, and he led six times for a total of 113 laps, more than any other driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400\nStewart became the leader through strategy on lap 238 during a phase of pit stops under a caution period by taking only two tires, while Biffle chose to have four tires installed on his car. He held off the closing Gordon in the final laps to secure the victory. There were six cautions and a track-record 26 lead changes amongst 14 different drivers during the course of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400\nIt was Stewart's second win at Kansas Speedway, his fourth of the season, and the 37th of his career. The result advanced him from fifth to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, and past his nearest rival, Penske Championship Racing driver Kurt Busch. He was 67 points behind Martin whose lead over his teammate Johnson was reduced to 18 because Martin finished seventh. Because of Stewart's victory, Chevrolet won its 33rd Manufacturers' Championship in NASCAR Cup Competition, as Toyota could not catch its points total with seven races left in the season. The race attracted 5.25 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Background\nThe 2009 Price Chopper 400 was the twenty-ninth of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the third in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on October 4, 2009, in Kansas City, Kansas, at Kansas Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at is a four-turn 1.5\u00a0mi (2.4\u00a0km) long D-shaped oval track. The track's turns are banked at 15 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is 10.4 degrees. The back stretch, opposite to the front, is five degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Background\nBefore the race, Mark Martin led the Drivers' Championship with 5,400 points, and Jimmie Johnson stood in second with 5,390. Juan Pablo Montoya was third in the Drivers' Championship with 5,335, ten ahead of Kurt Busch and 21 ahead of Tony Stewart in fourth and fifth. Denny Hamlin was two points ahead of Ryan Newman, as Jeff Gordon with 5,278 points, was 16 ahead of Greg Biffle, and 29 in front of Brian Vickers. Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne were eleventh and twelfth with 5,247 and 5,211 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Background\nIn the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet were leading with 208 points, 45 ahead of their rivals Toyota. Ford, with 123 points, were one point ahead of Dodge in the battle for third place. Johnson was the race's defending champion. The Manufacturers' Championship could have been sealed in Kansas in the event the highest-placed Chevrolet driver finished ahead of the highest-placed Toyota competitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, while the second session lasted 45 minutes. The third and final session lasted 60 minutes. During the first practice session, Newman was fastest, with a time of 31.080 seconds, placing ahead of Johnson in second and Montoya in third. Clint Bowyer was fourth fastest, and David Ragan placed fifth. Tony Stewart, Martin Truex Jr., A. J. Allmendinger, David Stremme and Brad Keselowski rounded out the session's top ten fastest drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Practice and qualifying\nForty-six drivers attempted to qualify on Friday afternoon; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest lap times. Hendrick Motorsports and Chevrolet took the first three places as Martin clinched his seventh pole position of the season, his first at Kansas Speedway, and the 48th of his career, with a time of 30.724 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by his teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. whose best lap was 0.084 seconds slower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Practice and qualifying\nKeselowski qualified third, Jamie McMurray took fourth, and Stewart started fifth. Kahne, Joe Nemechek, Bowyer, Gordon and Scott Speed completed the top ten positions. The three drivers who failed to qualify were David Gilliland, Michael McDowell and Kevin Hamlin. Once qualifying concluded, Martin said, \"Have any of you ever stepped on a cat's tail? I have accidentally stepped on cat's tail before. They make a noise and go really fast. When I stepped on the gas of that No. 5 car today, it was like stepping on a cat's tail it had so much horsepower.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Johnson was fastest in the second practice session by setting a lap of 31.144 seconds, ahead of Hamlin in second, and Kenseth in third. Reutimann was fourth quickest, and Stewart took fifth. Joey Logano managed sixth. Bowyer, Gordon, Kurt Busch and Kahne followed in the top ten. Of the drivers in the Chase, Newman set the 12th fastest time, and Biffle was 15th quickest. Later that day, Johnson paced the final practice session with a lap of 31.217 seconds, with Martin in second, and Kenseth in third. Montoya was fourth quickest, and Bowyer took fifth. Gordon managed sixth, Vickers was seventh fastest, Logano eighth, McMurray ninth, and Edwards tenth. Other Chase drivers included Kahne in 12th and Hamlin in 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nLive television coverage of the race began in the United States at 2:00\u00a0p.m. EDT (UTC\u221205:00) on ABC. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were sunny, with the air temperature 56\u00a0\u00b0F (13\u00a0\u00b0C). Pastor Jimmy Ybarra began pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Country music singer Blaine Larsen performed the national anthem, and the Grand Marshal of the race Kent Blair commanded the drivers to start their engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nMartin retained his pole position lead into the first corner, with Earnhardt behind him. Keselowski fell to the sixth position on the same lap. On lap two, Logano lost control of his car, and spun sideways off the track at turn two, causing the first caution. All of the leaders stayed out on track, allowing Martin to remain the leader on the restart. On lap 6, McMurray passed Earnhardt to claim the second position. One lap later, the second caution was prompted after Paul Menard spun sideways at turn two, collecting Ragan, Michael Waltrip, Max Papis, and Bobby Labonte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nDuring the caution, most of the leaders elected to make pit stops. Martin maintained his lead on the restart, with Earnhardt in second, and Keselowski third. On the 12th lap, Earnhardt moved into the first position after passing his teammate Martin at turn four. Keselowski overtook Martin shortly after. One lap later, Ragan drove to pit road after smoke billowed from his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nOn lap 15, Johnson passed Reutimann for eighth. After starting the race in 22nd, Hamlin had moved up eleven positions to eleventh by lap 18. One lap later, Johnson passed Gordon for seventh, as Montoya moved into the tenth position by lap 20. On the 21st lap, Johnson claimed the sixth position from Kahne, while Montoya passed Gordon for eighth. By lap 23, Earnhardt had a 1.9 second lead over Keselowski. Two laps later, McMurray passed Martin for the third position. By lap 31, Johnson had moved into the fourth position after passing Stewart and Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nFour laps later, Stewart moved into fifth after passing Martin. On the 37th lap, Johnson passed McMurray for third. Stewart and Martin got ahead of McMurray to take over the fourth and fifth positions three laps later. Reuitmann got into sixth by the 45th lap. Two laps later, Gordon fell to 12th because of handling difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nOn lap 48, Montoya was overtaken by Biffle for the eighth position, and Reuitmann got ahead of Martin on the outside lane to take fifth on the backstretch. Green flag pit stops commenced on lap 52 as Keselowski became the first driver to stop for an air pressure adjustment and tires. They lasted until the 62nd lap, and Johnson took the lead after their conclusion with Keselowski second, and Stewart in third. Seven laps later, the third caution was necessitated for Reed Sorenson who hit the turn two wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nDuring the caution, several drivers (including Johnson), elected to make pit stops for tires. Biffle won the race off pit road, and lead at the restart on lap 75. Kenseth was passed by Montoya for second on lap 76, and Keselowski and Kurt Busch battled for fourth place. On lap 88, Johnson caught the leader Biffle and they battled alongside each other for the next few laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nJohnson drew ahead of Biffle as the pair crossed the start/finish line to lead the 91st lap, as Stewart got past Truex for the third position. Johnson and Biffle continued to trade the lead for the next three laps, as they extended their advantage over the rest of the pack to five seconds. By lap 97, Gordon had advanced to eighth. On the next lap, Montoya passed Truex to take over fifth. Biffle was delayed the slower car of Papis, and Johnson took the opportunity to get ahead of him, and retake the lead on the 102nd lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nKenseth got ahead of Truex to demote him to eighth two laps later. By the 119th lap, Montoya was in fourth, and Keselowski was passed by Kenseth for the fifth position. The second round of green flag pit stops for tires and car adjustments got underway on lap 122. Four laps later, Vickers spun leaving turn four, and the fourth caution was shown. Pit stops continued to be made during the caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nBiffle got ahead of Johnson as his pit stop was faster than his and led the field at the lap 131 restart. On the next lap, Johnson re-passed Biffle around the outside in the third turn to reclaim the lead. After starting 22nd, Hamlin moved into sixth unnoticed by lap 132. Nine laps later, Montoya overtook Biffle to take the second position, as Johnson increased his lead over Biffle to 4.4 seconds. Elliott Sadler pirouetted through 360 degrees in turn two, but avoided contact with the wall and passing vehicles on lap 147, activating the fifth caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nUnder caution, all of the leaders (including Johnson) went to pit road for tires and car adjustments. Biffle regained the lead, and held the position at the lap 152 restart. Hamlin overtook Martin for second place soon after. Three laps later, Gordon passed Martin for fourth, and Marcos Ambrose lost the tenth position to Kahne. Biffle then held off Stewart to keep the lead on the 159th lap, and that allowed Hamlin to close up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nOn the 163rd lap, Johnson got ahead of Kyle Busch to take the tenth position, and Casey Mears was passed by Montoya who took sixth from him two laps later. Johnson advanced to ninth by passing Reutimann on lap 166. Mears fell to eighth when Kahne overtook him on the following lap. Montoya got past Martin for fifth on lap 169. After ending their battle for first place, Biffle and Stewart increased their advantage over the rest of the pack to three seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nOn the 171st lap, Johnson got into seventh when he overtook Mears and Kahne moved into sixth six laps later. Kurt Busch got ahead of Mears to claim the tenth position on lap 180. The third phase of green flag pit stops for fuel, tires, and car adjustments occurred between laps 183 and 209, with Biffle maintaining the lead and Stewart keeping second. On lap 212, Montoya's crew chief Brian Pattie requested he conserve fuel so he could try to finish the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nHamlin overtook Gordon to advance into fourth on lap 213. By lap 217, Biffle had a lead of 7.8 seconds but he had to make another pit stop before the race would conclude. Hamlin got ahead of Kahne to claim third place three laps later. Between laps 221 and 223, Johnson, Gordon and Montoya battled for third but neither driver could advance their positions. On the 230th lap, Martin passed Montoya for seventh. The sixth (and final) caution came out as Earnhardt's engine failed, and oil from his car laid on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nHe brought his into the garage to retire from the race. During the caution, the leaders (including Biffle), elected to make pit stops for fuel and tires. Biffle requested four tires be installed on his car after he overruled his crew chief Greg Erwin's decision to have two tires fitted. Stewart, meanwhile, had two tires installed, and exited pit road as the new race leader on lap 238.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nStewart maintained the lead at the lap 242 restart, followed by Kahne, Johnson, Biffle and Hamlin. Biffle then passed Kahne and Johnson to move into second, as Stewart opened up a healthy advantage. In the meantime, Johnson fell to sixth as he struggled with his two new tires. Five laps later, Hamlin went to the track's apron to pass Kahne and Montoya for the fourth position. Johnson was passed by his teammate Martin for eighth on the 248th lap. Gordon caught Biffle and got ahead of him for second six laps later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race\nAlthough Gordon reduced Stewart's lead, it was not enough for him to challenge the latter, as Stewart responded to Gordon's pace, and took his second win at Kansas Speedway, his fourth of the season, and the 37th of his career. Gordon finished second, Biffle came third, Montoya took fourth and Hamlin fifth. Kahne, Martin, Reuitmann, Johnson and Edwards completed the top ten finishers. The race had a track-record 26 lead changes amongst 14 different drivers. Biffle led six times for a total of 113 laps, more than any other driver. Stewart led five times for a total of 37 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nStewart appeared in Victory Lane to celebrate his fourth victory of the season in front of a crowd of 100,000 people; the win earned him $332,498. He credited his crew chief Darian Grubb for a strategy that allowed him to take the lead, \"The guys that took four could just never gain the track position back. We had a really good car on two tyres. Darian and these guys on the pit crew, they are the ones that got us the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nThey got us track position and I was able to pick which line I wanted on the restart and that won us the race.\" Gordon explained that his car became harder to handle the closer he got to Stewart, \"As long as he didn't make any big mistakes, I wasn't going to catch him. \", and also admitted to have selected the wrong tire strategy, \"I know what I did was wrong. I know I made a mistake. But we're sure excited to be running good again, especially going to some tracks we like, like California.\" Third-placed Johnson said of his situation in the championship and the loss of a victory, \"I hate losing points, I felt like we had a shot to win the race, it's just way too early, for myself, even to start worrying about [the Chase standings.] It's only three races in.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nGrubb commented on Stewart's victory, \"Tony was able to get out there in clean air and was able to take off. The other guys who took two [tyres] ended up 7th and 9th. So Tony was able to get that clean air and just take off. He did an awesome job today; the entire pit crew and everybody did an awesome job all day long.\" Although he finished seventh, Martin said he was pleased with the result as he was able to keep the points lead, \"This is the first time we missed it that much in a while.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nThere have been times when I was off this much and finish 25th. But our team fought for everything we got today.\" However, he was not celebratory as he was unsure whether he could keep his advantage in the next few races, \"What is there, seven more to go? I don't think we should be getting all hyped up about the tally right now, you know? We've got a lot of racing to go.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nAfter the race, Johnson's and Martin's cars were transported to NASCAR's Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina for a further precautionary inspection because those two vehicles had been close to exceeding to the organizing body's measurement tolerance limits at the previous week's race at Dover International Speedway. After personnel from Hendrick Motorsports were allowed to observe the potential issues to the two cars, both passed their inspections. The race results left Martin with the Drivers' Championship lead with 5,551 points. Martin's teammate Johnson was 18 points behind in second, and Montoya kept third with 5,500 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204634-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Price Chopper 400, Race, Post-race\nStewart's win allowed him to move past Kurt Busch and advance into the fourth position. Hamlin, Gordon, Biffle, Newman, Edwards, Kahne, and Vickers completed the top twelve drivers in the points standings. Because of Stewart's victory, Chevrolet won its seventh Manufacturers' Championship in a row, and its 33rd in NASCAR Cup Series competition. Toyota maintained second with 167 points. Ford moved four points clear of Dodge in the battle for third with seven races left in the season. The race attracted 5.25 million television viewers; it took two hours, 55 minutes, and 13 seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 0.894 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204635-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic\nThe 2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Baton Rouge, United States from April 6, 2009 to April 12, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204635-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204635-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic, Champions, Men's doubles\nRajeev Ram /  Bobby Reynolds def. Harsh Mankad /  Scott Oudsema, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(6), 10\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204636-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nPhillip Simmonds and Tim Smyczek were the defending champions but did not defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204636-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Doubles\nRajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds defeated Harsh Mankad and Scott Oudsema in the final (6\u20133, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20133]).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204637-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Price LeBlanc Lexus Pro Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nBobby Reynolds was the defending champion. He was first-seeded player in the main draw, but he lost to Jos\u00e9 de Armas 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 2\u20136 in first round. Benjamin Becker became the new champion, after he won 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, against Rajeev Ram in final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204638-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prime Cup Aberto de S\u00e3o Paulo\nThe 2009 Aberto de S\u00e3o Paulo was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brasil between 5 and 11 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204638-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Prime Cup Aberto de S\u00e3o Paulo, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204639-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prime Cup Aberto de S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Doubles\nJamie Delgado and Bruno Soares were the defending champions; however, they chose to not participate this year. Carlos Berlocq and Leonardo Mayer won in the final 7\u20136(1), 6\u20133, against Mariano Hood and Horacio Zeballos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204640-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prime Cup Aberto de S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Singles\nThiago Alves was the defending champion, but he lost to Horacio Zeballos in the quarterfinals. Ricardo Mello defeated 6\u20132, 6\u20134 Paul Capdeville in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204641-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prime League\nThe Prime League 2009 (officially known as the Great-Eastern-Yeo's Prime League for sponsorship reasons) is the 13th season since the establishment of the Prime League. The season began on 3 March 2009, and ended on 3 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204642-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera B de Chile season\nThe Primera B de Chile season was the 59th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla\nThe Liguilla (English: Mini League) of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura 2009 was a final mini-tournament involving eight teams of the Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n, in an elimination two-legs playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla\nThe final of the Liguilla was on Sunday December 13, between Cruz Azulagainst Monterrey. As the winner, Monterrey became the Apertura 2009 Champion. Also, both finalist got a berth for the 2010\u201311 CONCACAF Champions League (Monterreyqualified directly to the Group Stage, while Cruz Azulqualified to the Preliminary Round).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla\nDefending champions UNAM, were not able to defend their past championship, as they did not qualify to the Liguilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Teams\nAs the 18 teams of the Apertura 2009 were divided in three groups of six teams, it was determined that the two top of each group advanced to the Liguilla, even though having had a low performance at the general table. Alongside those six teams, the two best teams at the general table of the remaining 12, regardless of their group, advanced to the Liguilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Teams\nAfter having finished last at their group and 17th at the general table, the defending champions, UNAM, did not qualified to this Liguilla", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Tie-breaking criteria\nThe Liguilla has a particular tie-breaking criteria: In case of a tie in the aggregate score, the higher seeded team will advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Tie-breaking criteria\nThe exception for this tie-breaking criteria is the final, where the higher seeded team rule is not used. In this case, if the teams remained tied after 90 minutes of play during the second leg of the finals, extra time will be used, followed by a penalty shootout if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 72], "content_span": [73, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Bracket\nThe Liguilla hade those teams play two games against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each match up was determined by aggregate score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Bracket\nThe teams were seeded one to eight in quarterfinals, and re-seeded one to four in semifinals, depending on their position at the general table of the season. Higher seeded teams play on their home field during the second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Bracket\nAlso, the highest seeded can choose when, if Saturday or Sunday, they want to play the second leg. As the rules mention that one half of the matches must be on Wednesday/Saturday, and the other in Thursday/Sunday, the rest of the teams must suit on that choice. The only exception is the final, as it was set to be played at Thursday December 10 the first leg, and Sunday December 13 the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Quarter-finals\nThe quarterfinals are scheduled to be played on November 21 or 22 (first leg) and November 28 or 29 (second leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Semi-finals\nThe semifinals are scheduled to be played on December 2 or 3 (first leg) and December 5 or 6 (second leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204643-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico Apertura Liguilla, Final\nThe first and second legs of the final are scheduled to be played on December 10 (first leg) and December 13 (second leg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile\nThe 2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n del F\u00fatbol Profesional Chileno season is the 78th season of top-flight football in Chile. The season is composed of two championships: the Torneo Apertura & Torneo Clasura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Format changes\nThe format for 2009 remains largely the same as 2008, except for the advancement to the Playoff Stages. Groups will no longer be used to determine who advance to the next stage. Instead, the top-eight teams in Classification Stage will advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Format changes, International qualification changes\nQualification to the Copa Libertadores remains the same, as well as qualification to the Chile 1 spot in the Copa Sudamericana. The Chile 2 spot will be contested between the second-best team in the first stage and the 2008-09 Copa Chile winner. The winner of the single match will qualify to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Team information\nThe number of teams were reduced starting with this season from 20 to 18. Antofagasta, Osorno, Melipilla, and Deportes Concepci\u00f3n were relegated last season to the Primera B. They were replaced by Municipal Iquique and Curic\u00f3 Unido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Torneo Apertura\nThe Torneo Apertura, officially the Campeonato Nacional de Apertura de Primera Divisi\u00f3n de F\u00fatbol Profesional (English: Apertura National Championship of the First Division of Professional Football), is the first tournament of the season. It began on January 31 and ended on June 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Torneo Apertura, Playoff stage\nUniversidad de Chile qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Torneo Apertura, Copa Sudamericana playoff\nThe second-best team of the Classification Stage (Universidad de Chile) played a match at Estadio Municipal Francisco S\u00e1nchez Rumoroso in the city of Coquimbo against the 2008 Copa Chile champions, (Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n) for the Chile 2 spot in the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Torneo Apertura, Copa Sudamericana playoff\nUniversidad de Chile classified to the Chile 2 berth for the 2009 Copa Sudamericana First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Torneo Clausura\nThe Torneo Clasura, officially the Campeonato Nacional de Clausura de Primera Divisi\u00f3n de F\u00fatbol Profesional (English: Clausura National Championship of the First Division of Professional Football), is the second tournament of the season. It began on July 12 and is scheduled to end on December 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Relegation\nRelegation for this season will be determined by an aggregate table of the Classification Stages of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The teams that finish 17th and 18th will be automatically relegated to the Primera B for the next season. The teams that finish 15th and 16th will play a relegation/promotion playoff against two teams from the 2009 Primera B season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204644-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Primera Divisi\u00f3n of Chile, Relegation, Relegation/promotion playoff\nBy finishing 15th in the relegation table, Palestino was pitted against the San Marcos de Arica, the 2nd best team in the 2009 Primera B General Table. Curic\u00f3 Unido, by finishing 16th in the relegation table, played against San Luis, the loser of the 2009 Primera B championship playoff. The team who obtains the most point after two legs will stay or be promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n. Should there be a tie on points, it will be settled as follows: 1) overall goal difference; 2) most away goal; 3) extra time of two 15-minute halves; 4) penalty shootout according to the Laws of the Game. The Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Team #1) played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204645-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Prince Edward Island's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 22\u201326 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. The winner represented team Prince Edward Island at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204645-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Page playoffs\n1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 4, on January 25. Semi-Final and Final on January 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204646-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Princeton tied for fourth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204646-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Princeton Tigers football team\nIn their tenth and final year under head coach Roger Hughes, the Tigers compiled a 4\u20136 record and were outscored 265 to 129. Scott Britton, Wilson Cates, Jordan Culbreath and Mark Paski were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204646-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton's 3\u20134 conference record tied with Dartmouth for fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 192 to 91 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204646-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe Tigers played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium, on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204647-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe 2009 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 4 October 2009. It was the 88th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204647-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe winner was Sea the Stars, a three-year-old colt trained in Ireland by John Oxx. The winning jockey was Michael Kinane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204647-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nSea the Stars became the first horse to win the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. It was his sixth consecutive Group 1 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204648-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pro Bowl\nThe 2009 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's all-star game for the 2008 season. It was played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 8, 2009. This was the most recent year that the game was held after the Super Bowl. The NFC defeated the AFC, 30\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204648-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pro Bowl\nThe AFC was coached by Baltimore's John Harbaugh, while the NFC's coach was Philadelphia's Andy Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204648-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Pro Bowl\nThis is the last game to be held one week after the Super Bowl, the last game where the coaching staffs were from the teams who lost their conference title games, and the last game where players of the two teams competing in the Super Bowl play in the Pro Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nOn March 6, 2009, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader John Tory announced his intention to step down as leader following his defeat in a by-election. Tory was elected party leader in the party's 2004 leadership election, and led the party to defeat in the 2007 provincial election in which he failed to win personal election to the Ontario Legislature. He attempted again to enter the legislature in a March 5, 2009 by-election but was defeated by the Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe party's executive set June 27, 2009 as the date for the new leader to be announced over the objections of several MPPs who called for a September vote. Candidates were required to register as such by April 17; in order to be able to cast a ballot it was necessary for one to have been a member of the party by May 14. Of the 25 members caucus, interim leader Bob Runciman remained neutral in the race and MPP Joyce Savoline has yet to endorse a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe party reported that it had over 40,000 members eligible to vote in the leadership contest as of the membership cut-off of May 15, up from 8,500 at the beginning of the leadership race. Of the 43,000 members eligible to vote some 25,429 members cast a ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Registered candidates, Tim Hudak\nTim Hudak, 41, was the MPP for Niagara West\u2014Glanbrook and had sat in the provincial legislature since 1995. He was the party's finance critic and was seen to be on the right of the party. Some  consider Hudak to be the \"front runner\". Including himself, Hudak had the backing of a majority of the 24 member caucus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 100], "content_span": [101, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Registered candidates, Christine Elliott\nChristine Elliott, 53, was  MPP for Whitby\u2014Oshawa, first winning the seat in a 2006 by-election, and wife of Jim Flaherty. Elliott filed her nomination papers on March 31 and officially launched her campaign on April 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 108], "content_span": [109, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Registered candidates, Frank Klees\nFrank Klees, 58, was the Chief Government Whip in the Harris government, and Minister of Tourism and of Transportation in the Eves government. He came in third place in the 2004 leadership election. Klees appeared on Reverend Charles McVety's television program on March 29 and said he would like to run. McVety endorsed Klees during the broadcast. Klees told CTV News that he decided to throw his hat into the ring \"after very careful consideration.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 102], "content_span": [103, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Registered candidates, Randy Hillier\nRandy Hillier, 50,  was a rural activist and founder of the Ontario Landowners Association. He was first elected MPP for Lanark\u2014Frontenac\u2014Lennox and Addington in the 2007 provincial election. Hillier says that as Premier he would abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission, allow Ontario to elect its federal Senators and introduce a bill making membership in unions and professional associations voluntary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 104], "content_span": [105, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting results\nMovement: Hillier eliminated and endorses Hudak; prior to balloting Hillier asked his supporters to make Hudak their second choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting results\nDoes not include votes that were spoiled because no second choice was indicated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting results\nDoes not include votes that were spoiled because no second or third choice was indicated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Process\nThe Ontario Progressive Conservatives use a system similar to that used by the federal Conservative Party of Canada in its leadership election. Each provincial riding association had up to 100 Electoral Votes that were allocated among the candidates by proportional representation according to the votes cast by party members within the riding. This was not a \"one member one vote\" system since each riding generally had equal weight. (Ridings with fewer than 100 voting party members were allocated one Electoral Vote per voting member; ridings with 100 or more voting party members were allocated 100 Electoral Votes.) Voting occurred on June 21 and 25 via a preferential ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Process\nThis system is designed to favour candidates who can win support across the province and win in a majority of ridings. This replicates what is necessary for a party to win a general election - though without the \"first past the post\" feature of elections under the Westminster system. Voters ranked their choices on a preferential ballot. In this system, if no candidate wins a majority of Electoral Votes on a ballot, then the last-place candidate is eliminated, and his/her votes are redistributed according to second-choice rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Process\nThere was an entry fee of $50,000 and spending limit of $750,000 but no fundraising limit; twenty per cent of the money raised by candidates was shared with the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204649-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Process\nOther rules  required each candidate to have a nominator, a seconder, and 100 members who sign the nomination, no more than 10 of whom could live in the same riding. Candidates also had to make a $25,000 deposit, that was refundable. Furthermore, 20% of all donations over $5,000, with the exception of the first $75,000 raised, had to be given to the party; this money was exempted from the spending limit. Candidates had until Thursday, June 18, at noon to drop out of the race. Any candidate who failed to get 10% of the vote, along with the last-placed candidate, was dropped from balloting should no one candidate get a majority of votes on the first ballot. All ridings had one balloting location with the exception of the 12 largest ridings in the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 75], "content_span": [76, 840]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204650-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Promotional League Final\nThe 2009 Promotional League Final was the final event of the 2009 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League and the first Promotional League Final ever. It was held in Barcelona (Spain) on September 20, 2009 during the 2009 CSIO Barcelona. Seven teams started the competition and the team from Spain won the event. A \u20ac90,000 purse was offered at this CSIO* *** competition, with each of the six competing teams receiving a share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204650-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Promotional League Final\nThe two best-placed teams in this competition move into the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup. The national equestrian federation of Canada refrained the start in the Meydan FEI Nations Cup second time after 2009, so also Poland moved into the Meydan FEI Nations Cup for the 2010 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204650-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Promotional League Final, Qualified and competing teams\nThe Competing teams of the 2009 Promotional League Final were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204650-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Promotional League Final, Qualified and competing teams\nAustria and \u00a0Denmark were qualified for the Promotional League Final 2009. They didn't start, so \u00a0Hungary have the chance to start in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204651-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prosperita Open\nThe 2009 Prosperita Open was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic between April 27 and March 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204651-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Prosperita Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204651-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Prosperita Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nJan H\u00e1jek /  Robin Vik def. Mat\u00fa\u0161 Horecn\u00fd /  Tom\u00e1\u0161 Janci, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204652-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prosperita Open \u2013 Doubles\nSergiy Stakhovsky and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Z\u00edb were the defenders of title, but they didn't play this time. Jan H\u00e1jek and Robin Vik won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against Mat\u00fa\u0161 Horecn\u00fd and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Janci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204653-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Prosperita Open \u2013 Singles\nJi\u0159\u00ed Van\u011bk was the defending champion, but Ivan Dodig defeated him in the quarterfinals. The new champion became other Czech player, Jan H\u00e1jek who won against Dodig in the final (7\u20135, 6\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204654-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open\nThe 2009 Malaysian Open (also known as the 2009 Proton Malaysian Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Malaysian Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was played at the Bukit Jalil Sports Complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The inaugural edition was scheduled to take place from 26 September to 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204654-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open, Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204654-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open, Champions, Men's Doubles\nMariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski defeated  Igor Kunitsyn /  Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd, 6\u20132, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204655-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open \u2013 Doubles\nThe following are the results of the 2009 Proton Malaysian Open \u2013 Doubles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204655-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open \u2013 Doubles\nMariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20131 against Igor Kunitsyn and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204656-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open \u2013 Singles\nNikolay Davydenko won in the final 6-4, 7-5, against Fernando Verdasco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204656-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Proton Malaysian Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204657-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pub Charity Sevens\nThe 2009 Pub Charity Sevens tournament was held in Queenstown, New Zealand, between 10 and 11 January 2009. It was the sixth New Zealand National Rugby Sevens Tournament to be held in Queenstown. Auckland were the defending champions, having previously won the tournament four consecutive times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season\nThe 2009 season is the Puerto Rico Islanders 6th season in the USL First Division. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club have and will play during the 2009 season. It also includes matched played in 2009 for the CONCACAF Champions League 2008\u201309 and CONCACAF Champions League 2009\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Squad, First Team\nAs of July 4, 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Squad, 2009 Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Squad, 2009 Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Competitions, USL 1, Results by Match Day (Regular season)\n* Positions are tabulated at the end of each week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Matches, Friendlies\n* A round of penalty kicks was played after the match, this was already agreed upon by both sides regardless of the match's outcome, Austin won this 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Matches, USL-1 regular season\nAll kickoff times are in EST. Names in brackets are players who were awarded the assist for the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204658-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Islanders season, Squad Statistics\nCompetitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances as a substitute under the Appearance column and number of assists under the Goal column. Updated to games played June 20, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204659-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League season\nThe 2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League Playoffs is the second year the format has been used. It is the championship of the Puerto Rico Soccer League. The format is the same as the 2008 edition with the top 4 teams from the league playing in the Tournament. The only significant change is that there will be a Home Leg and an Away Leg for the Semifinals and Final. These teams play in the Semi-Finals with the winner of each match going on to the Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204659-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League season, 2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League Playoffs, Champions\nBayamon FC now joins River Plate Ponce as qualificants to the 2010 CFU Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 89], "content_span": [90, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204660-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pulitzer Prize\nThe 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 20, 2009, the 93rd annual awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204660-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Pulitzer Prize\nThe New York Times won five awards this year, with the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) being the only other multi-prize winner with two. Three organizations were awarded prizes for the first time: Las Vegas Sun, East Valley Tribune and The Post-Star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Ross\u2013Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was Danny Hope's first season as head coach following the retirement of Joe Tiller. The Boilermakers finished the season 5\u20137 (4\u20134 Big Ten).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Toledo\nTo open the season, the Boilermakers played the Toledo Rockets at Ross\u2013Ade Stadium. The Boilermakers scored first on their opening drive, with a 78-yard touchdown run by Ralph Bolden. They added to their lead 9 minutes later on a 43-yard touchdown run by Jaycen Taylor. In the second quarter, Purdue added to their lead with an 11-yard Keith Smith touchdown from Joey Elliott. Toledo then began their scoring with an Eric Page 34-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Opelt. Toledo struck again just 6 minutes later when Opelt found Stephen Williams for a 9-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Toledo\nPurdue responded with a 24-yard Keith Carlos touchdown pass from Elliott with 1:25 remaining in the half. Purdue was then able to get the ball back on downs from Toledo with 27 seconds remaining. After just 3 plays, Purdue called time out with 3 seconds remaining in the half. Carson Wiggs made a 59-yard field goal to end the half. The 59-yard field goal was the longest in Purdue history. Purdue would score twice to open the second half, a 1-yard run by Taylor and a 15-yard touchdown reception from Antavian Edison from Elliott. Toledo would get the next three scores, on a 5-yard touchdown run by DaJuane Collins, a 45-yard field goal by Alex Steigerwald and 42-yard Williams reception from Opelt. The 3 scores by Toledo got them with 4 points, but a 14-yard Bolden touchdown run sealed the scoring of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 879]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Toledo\nBolden's 234 yards rushing were the 3rd highest single game total in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nPurdue scored first with a field goal in the first quarter, but Ohio State made it 7\u20133 with a Pryor run for a touchdown. The second quarter was all Purdue with Boilermakers making two field goals to put them up it a 9-7 halftime. In the second half Purdue was finally able to find the end zone with two Joey Elliot touchdown passes to Valentin, making it a commanding 23\u20137 lead for the Boilermakers. In the fourth quarter both teams traded field goals with the score now 26\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nPurdue, however, was forced to punt midway through the fourth quarter and Ohio State quickly drove down the field to score a touchdown with a pass from Pryor to Posey, with Pryor running it in the two-point conversion. The next drive, Purdue went three and out and it seemed the momentum had shifted and Ohio State had come alive, but with a sack of Pryor and a denial of a fourth down, Purdue had the ball. After seemingly stopping Purdue, a crucial facemask penalty by the Buckeyes allowed the Boilermakers to run out the clock. This was the first time Ohio State had lost to a team that had finished the season with a losing record since a loss at Penn State in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nIn the first quarter, Purdue scored first with a 35-yard TD catch by Ralph Bolden. Michigan tied the score with a 29-yard TD run by Brandon Minor. Purdue retook the lead with a 41-yard field goal by Carson Wiggs. Michigan tied the score soon after with a 51-yard field goal. In the second quarter, Michigan scored 2 touchdowns: a 55-yard rush by Brandon Minor, and a 43-yard catch by Ray Roundtree, giving the Wolverines a 14-point advantage at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nHowever, Michigan would collapsed in the second half. In the third quarter, Purdue's Ralph Bolden scored his second TD of the game with a 19-yard run. Michigan QB Forcier responded with a 6-yard TD run, but the point after touchdown attempt failed. Ralph Bolden scored his third touchdown of the day soon after with a 10-yard rush. In the ensuing kickoff, Purdue made an on-side kick and recovered the ball by catching the Wolverines off guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204661-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nIn the next play, Purdue's Cortez Smith caught a 54-yard TD pass and Purdue re-took the lead 31-30 after the extra point attempt was completed. In the fourth quarter, Purdue QB Joey Elliot ran in an 8-yard TD. Michigan's Minor then ran in a TD from 1-yard out. The Wolverines attempted to tie the game but Forcier failed to reach the end zone on a two-point conversion after being sacked by Ryan Kerrigan, sealing the victory for the Boilermakers. It was Purdue's first win in Michigan Stadium since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204662-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Pusk\u00e1s Cup\nThe 2009 Pusk\u00e1s Cup was the second edition of the Pusk\u00e1s Cup and took place 2 April to 5 April. Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC were the defending champions. Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC won their first title by defeating Budapest Honv\u00e9d FC 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204663-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards\nThe 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards were held on Saturday 5 September at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand. The craft awards were presented in a separate awards lunch at the Civic Theatre Friday 4 September. Highlights from the main awards evening were broadcast on TV3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204663-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards, Nominees and winners\nAwards were given in 60 categories, covering news and current affairs, general television, feature film and short film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204663-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards, Nominees and winners, News and Current Affairs\nBest Current Affairs Reporting for a weekly programme or one off current affairs special", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204663-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards, Nominees and winners, Feature Film\nBest Director in a Film Feature (budget under and over $1\u00a0million)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204664-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Crown Prince Cup\nThe 2009 Qatar Crown Prince Cup was the 15th edition of the cup tournament in men's football (soccer). It is played by the top-four teams of the Qatar Stars League after the end of each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open\nThe 2009 Qatar Open, known as the 2009 Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 17th edition of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar, from January 5 through January 10, 2009. The event offered prize money of US$183,000 for the winner, as well as 250 ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open\nThe singles field was headlined by World No. 1 Rafael Nadal, World No. 2 Roger Federer, World No. 3 Andy Murray, and World No. 8 Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Champions, Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez /  Rafael Nadal defeated  Daniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review\nDay by day summaries of the men's singles and doubles events. The singles draw is composed of 32 players, with 8 of these players seeded, while the doubles draw features 16 players, 4 of which are seeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day One\nFifth seed Frenchman Ga\u00ebl Monfils was the first player to reach the second round in the singles event with a straightforward 6\u20132, 6\u20132 victory over 99th ranked Czech player Jan Hernych. His next opponent will be fellow countryman Nicolas Devilder who overcame home wildcard Abdulla Haji 6\u20130, 6\u20133 The no. 4 seed, Andy Roddick had a comfortable 6\u20131, 6\u20133 win against Iv\u00e1n Navarro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day One\nIn other first round matches completed on day one, Victor H\u0103nescu won his match against Viktor Troicki, the Romanian overcoming the Serbian currently ranked eight places below him in the world rankings at #56 and Italian Andreas Seppi overcame the German Denis Gremelmayr by the same scoreline. The match between Sergiy Stakhovsky (who had just entered the top 100 at #93) and Christophe Rochus became the first in the tournament to last three sets, Stakhovsky coming out on top 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136. Philipp Petzschner won his opening match against Frenchman J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy 7\u20136, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day One\nSeveral of the first round doubles matches were also completed. Spanish wildcards and new partnership Marc L\u00f3pez and world no. 1 singles player Rafael Nadal overcame compatriots \u00d3scar Hern\u00e1ndez and Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in just over 1 hour. They set up a quarter-final match with fourth-seeded Germans Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber who had beaten British pair Ross Hutchins and Andy Murray (who was also due to play Monta\u00f1\u00e9s in the singles tournament) 7\u20135, 6\u20134. Home-favourite Abdulla Haji, partnering Lamine Ouahab of Algeria, lost for the second time in the day, 6\u20130, 6\u20132 against Fabrice Santoro and Mikhail Youzhny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day One\nSecond seeded South African duo Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie took three sets to beat Igor Andreev and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 10-1 on the Champions tiebreak. In the final match of the day, Dmitry Tursunov and \u0141ukasz Kubot overcame the challenge of Serbian Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k and Italian Potito Starace 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Two\nDefending champion and no. 3 seed Andy Murray, fresh from his win in the Abu Dhabi exhibition event, made a successful start to his title defence, defeating Spaniard and ATP no. 42 Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s 6\u20132, 6\u20134. Murray broke twice for a 5\u20131 lead and went 4\u20130 up in the second set with two further breaks and, despite an inconsistent performance, he managed to win the match. He next faces a match against Philipp Petzschner. Wildcard Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment of Spain advanced to a second round match against Andy Roddick after overcoming Argentine player Diego Junqueira 6\u20131, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Two\nIn the clash of the Russians, Mikhail Youzhny edged out 6th seed Igor Andreev 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, with a match against Victor H\u0103nescu to come in round two. Qualifier Alexander Peya, ranked at #148, scored a surprise victory over no. 7 seed, Russian Dmitry Tursunov 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134. He set up a clash with Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round. Second seed and former world no. 1 Roger Federer made a strong start to his ATP Tour campaign, beating Potito Starace in straight sets 6\u20132, 6\u20132 and lining up a meeting with Andreas Seppi for a place in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Two\nTop seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal also had a comfortable passage into round two, dropping only 1 game in a 6\u20130, 6\u20131 thrashing of veteran Fabrice Santoro, who was still ranked at #51 but couldn't match Nadal's power. Nadal received his 2008 ATP World Tour Champion Trophy before the match, awarded to him for finishing on top of the world rankings at the end of 2008. In other matches, Belgian Kristof Vliegen reached the second round and a meeting with German Philipp Kohlschreiber with a 6\u20131, 6\u20137, 7\u20136 against \u00d3scar Hern\u00e1ndez. No. 8 seed Kohlschreiber had earlier won his match against Swiss qualifier Marco Chiudinelli 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Two\nThe doubles event continued on day two, with an early result seeing Victor H\u0103nescu, partnered by American James Cerretani, beat Victor Troicki for the second time in two days. Troicki who had also been beaten by H\u0103nescu in the singles event, lost 6\u20134, 6\u20134, accompanied by Andreas Seppi. Top seeds Daniel Nestor from Canada and Serbia's Nenad Zimonji\u0107 easily progressed, losing just 4 games in a 6\u20133, 6\u20131defeat of French duo Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and Nicolas Devilder who had both reached round two of the singles draw. The quarterfinal line-up was completed by Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya who knocked out third seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6\u20131, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Three\nThe second round in the singles draw began on day three with the top five seeds in action. In the first match of the days session, Victor H\u0103nescu reached the quarter finals with a 6\u20132, 6\u20134 victory against Mikhail Youzhny. Andy Murray took the court second and defeated Philipp Petzschner 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to take another step towards retaining his title, followed quickly after by world #1 Rafael Nadal, who defeated Karol Beck 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in 61 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Three\nMurray next plays Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky, who defeated qualifier Alexander Peya 7\u20135, 6\u20133. 5th-seeded wildcard Ga\u00ebl Monfils was also victorious 7\u20135, 7\u20136 against fellow Frenchman Nicolas Devilder and will next play Nadal. 8th seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Kristof Vliegen 6\u20134, 6\u20137(4), 6\u20134 and he was due to face Roger Federer who beat Andreas Seppi 6\u20133, 6\u20133. In the final match of the day, fourth seeded Andy Roddick beat wildcard Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Three\nIn doubles, the quarter finals began with Mikhail Youzhny playing his second match of the day partnering Fabrice Santoro against Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie for a place in the semi-finals. Youzhny and Santoro shocked the second seeds 7\u20135, 7\u20136 to book their semi-final place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Three\nAbout 15 minutes later, top seed and ten-times Grand Slam doubles finalists Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 (twice together) started their quarter-final match with \u0141ukasz Kubot and Dmitry Tursunov, emerging victorious 7\u20135, 6\u20134. Third seeds Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber were also knocked out of the tournament at the quarter-final stage, losing to Spanish wildcards Marc L\u00f3pez and Rafael Nadal. Philipp Kohlschreiber had won the tournament last year with Czech David \u0160koch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Four\nAll quarter-final matches in the men's draw were completed on day four. Andy Roddick started off the action with his best performance of the week in a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Victor H\u0103nescu. The second match of the day produced the biggest surprise of the event, as #5 seed Ga\u00ebl Monfils routed world #1 Rafael Nadal 6-4 6-4, facing only one break point. He was followed by world #2 Roger Federer, who was heavily tested by Philipp Kohlschreiber, coming back from 5-1 and 6-3 in the tiebreak to win 6-2, 7-6, after having led the German 6-2 4-1. The day ended with world #4 and defending champion Andy Murray cruising to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Sergiy Stakhovsky in a repeat of his victory over the Ukrainian in the US Open junior's final. Murray and Federer knew they would meet for the third tournament in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 845]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Four\nIn the doubles, #1 team Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonji\u0107 advanced to the final with a 6-1, 6-7(8), 10-3 victory over James Cerretani & Victor H\u0103nescu. Their opponents are Marc L\u00f3pez & Rafael Nadal, who narrowly defeated Fabrice Santoro & Mikhail Youzhny 1-6, 7-6, 11-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Five\nThe two singles semi-finals were played on day five. Ga\u00ebl Monfils was unable to continue his hot streak from the previous day's play, losing to Andy Roddick 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, after serving for the first set. The second semifinal saw the very anticipated matchup between defending champ Andy Murray and #2 Roger Federer. The match didn't disappoint fans, seeing plenty of memorable points, with the Brit prevailing 6-7, 6-2, 6-2, even though Federer had 3 consecutive break points early in the second set and Murray received medical attention on his back in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Five\nThe match ended with Federer smashing a low overhead into the net. It was the third consecutive official time that Murray prevailed, with Murray also winning an exhibition match last week; Murray extended his head to head lead to 5-2, and goes into his final with a 5-2 lead over Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Five\nIn the doubles final, the world #1 team of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 faced singles world no. 1 Rafael Nadal and partner Marc L\u00f3pez. Nestor and Zimonji\u0107, the ATP World Tour Champions for 2008, were bidding for the seventh doubles title as a partnership. Nestor had previously won the title at Doha with Mark Knowles in 1996 and 2001. On the opposite side, Nadal and L\u00f3pez were teaming up for the first time. Nadal had won four of his last seven doubles finals while L\u00f3pez was appearing in his second ATP doubles final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Five\nIn the final, L\u00f3pez dropped his serve twice in the opening set but in the second, a single break sufficed for Nadal and L\u00f3pez to level the match, from Nestor in the third game. In the deciding champions tiebreak (first to ten points), Zimonji\u0107 and Nestor led 6\u20135 but L\u00f3pez and Nadal won 5 of the last seven points to seal a 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 10\u20138 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Six\nThe only match to take place on the final day of the tournament was the singles final. World no. 4 and third seeded Briton Andy Murray took on American Andy Roddick. Despite initial fears from Murray that he would be unfit to play after suffering from a back injury, he recovered enough to participate. The final started with four service holds before Murray broke Roddick in the fifth game for a 3\u20132 lead. This was followed by another in the seventh game and Murray sealed the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204665-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open, Review, Day Six\nIn the second, Roddick just about held his opening service game but was broken in the third game of the set and then again two games later. Holding a 5\u20132 lead, Murray fell behind 0\u201330 on serve and had break point against him. However, he regained his composure and served out to win the match. In winning the tournament, Murray won his ninth career ATP title and defended the title he won in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204666-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Kohlschreiber and David \u0160koch were the defending champions, but \u0160koch chose not to participate, and only Kohlschreiber competed that year. Kohlschreiber partnered with Christopher Kas, but lost in the quarterfinals to Marc L\u00f3pez and Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204666-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez and Rafael Nadal won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20138], against Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204667-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar Open \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, and won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2009 MotoGP championship. It had originally been due to place on the weekend of 10\u201312 April 2009 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. However, the meeting was extended to 13 April, as the MotoGP race was postponed to this date, due to adverse weather conditions on 12 April. The problems were compounded by the event being held at night under floodlights for the benefit of European TV viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix\nThis was the last MotoGP round in which a tobacco brand name (Marlboro) was visible on a bike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nThe whole Grand Prix was disrupted by a rare event of rain in Doha, coupled with the impossibility of racing in the wet under floodlights. The 125cc race started at the scheduled time, despite rain being forecast sometime during the race. During the third lap rain began to fall, and the race was finally called after the fourth lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nShortly after, it was decided to consider the race finished, so Andrea Iannone, who was leading at the time the red flag was exposed, was declared the winner and half points were given, since they failed to complete two thirds of the full race distance (18 laps). This was lucky for Juli\u00e1n Sim\u00f3n as he had crashed after the red flag was shown, and manage to recover back to the track, and was thus classified in second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nAfter this, talk began to decide whether to race the other two classes or not, since racing with rain in the night could pose a serious threat to riders' safety due to the glare off the track. The organizers, together with safety representative Franco Uncini and riders including Valentino Rossi and Loris Capirossi, made several reconnaissance journeys around the track, which was drying after rain stopped to fall. It was ultimately decided to start the 250cc race, 40 minutes after it was originally scheduled to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nThe original race distance of 20 laps was reduced to 13 laps, allowing full points to be awarded while not causing a delay to the MotoGP race. The race went on without problems, and H\u00e9ctor Barber\u00e1 won the race ahead of a surprising Jules Cluzel. A frantic multi-bike battle for third place ultimately saw Mike Di Meglio finish third after overtaking teammate \u00c1lvaro Bautista and Raffaele De Rosa on the final lap; Hiroshi Aoyama also passed those riders to take 4th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nMotoGP was kept in its original timeslot. However, shortly before the formation lap, rain began to fall again, and the intensity this time was much higher than the previous. The organisers decided to cancel the event, since the track was too damp to race. After negotiations, it was decided to move the race to the following day, in hope of better weather conditions. The start time was also moved to 21:00 local time, having originally been 23:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nThe Monday race started without problems. The victory went to Casey Stoner, who made a good start from pole and then led the entire race, pulling a comfortable gap over his opponents. Valentino Rossi finished second; he tried to catch the Australian, coming as near as two seconds from him, but ultimately he had to settle for second, his Yamaha suffering with tyre problems. Third was Jorge Lorenzo, coming a distant 16 seconds from Stoner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204668-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204669-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatari Stars Cup\nThe 1st Qatari Stars Cup started on October 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 74]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204669-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatari Stars Cup\nThe Stars Cup is one of four competitions in the 2009\u201310 Qatari football season. 12 clubs are taking part in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204669-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Qatari Stars Cup\nThey were divided into two groups of six teams, with the winner and runner-up of each group will advancing to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204670-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship\nThe 2009 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship (Quebec men's provincial curling championship) was held February 8\u201315 at the Valleyfield Arena in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. The winning team represented Quebec at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204671-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Quebec's women's provincial curling championship, will be held January 19-25 at the Club de curling Trois-Rivi\u00e8res in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res. The winner represents team Quebec at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204671-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Page playoffs\n1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 4, and semi-final on January 24. Final on January 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections\nMunicipal elections took place throughout Quebec, Canada, on November 1, 2009, to replace mayors and councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Boisbriand\nFollowing media reports, the Directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00e9lections du Qu\u00e9bec announced an investigation as to whether construction entrepreneur Lino Zambito attempted to persuade two opposition councillors to allow the incumbent mayor Sylvie Saint-Jean to be reelected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Dollard-des-Ormeaux\nIt was reported that outgoing mayor Ed Janiszewski had attempted to persuade his opponent Shameem Siddiqui not to run, citing the cost of holding an election. Siddiqui reacted indignantly, saying that Janiszewski was not \"the king of Dollard\" and that he has the right to run for office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Gatineau\nAt 8:59 PM, CBC reported that Marc Bureau, the incumbent mayor of Gatineau had won the Gatineau mayoral race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Laval\nAt 9:12 PM, CBC reported that \"Gilles Vaillancourt has been reelected for a sixth time as Laval mayor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Longueuil\nAt 10:43 PM, TVA reported that Caroline St-Hilaire had been elected Mayor of Longueuil. As of 12:40 AM, the results are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Montreal\nAt 10:44 PM, TVA reported that G\u00e9rald Tremblay had been re-elected as mayor of Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Quebec City\nAt 8:21 PM, CBC Montreal reported that incumbent mayor R\u00e9gis Labeaume had won the election with 82% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204672-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Quebec municipal elections, Saguenay\nAt 9:08 PM, CBC reported that Jean Tremblay had won the mayoral race in Saguenay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204673-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 2009 were appointments Australian honours system to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 8 June 2009 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204673-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204674-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Cup\nThe 2009 Queen's Cup was the 33rd edition of this Thai domestic football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204674-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Cup\nThe last edition was played in 2006 and won by the Rajnavy Rayong FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204674-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Cup\nHanyang University are the most successful club, having won the competition on seven occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204674-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Cup, Qualification rounds\nThe team finishing first and second in the group stages of the Queens Cup will play a knockout match on Sunday 8 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204674-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Queen's Cup, Qualification rounds\nThe winner will qualify for the final stage of the tournament held in Sirindhorn Stadium, Chonburi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204675-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Basketball League season\nThe 2009 Men's Queensland Basketball League season was the 24th running of the competition. The Cairns Marlins won the championship in 2009 to claim their seventh league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204675-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Basketball League season\nThe teams for this season were: Brisbane Capitals, Bundaberg Bulls, Caboolture Suns, Cairns Marlins, Gladstone Port City Power, Gold Coast Goannas, Ipswich Force, Mackay Meteors, Maroochydore Clippers, Northside Wizards, Rockhampton Rockets, South West Metro Pirates, Toowoomba Mountaineers and Townsville Heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204675-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Basketball League season, Finals\n*The team that finishes 1st overall goes straight through to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup\nThe 2009 Queensland Cup season was the 14th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Queensland Wizard Cup due to sponsorship from Wizard Home Loans featured 12 teams playing a 25-week-long season (including finals) from March to September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup\nThe Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles, in their first season back in the competition, won their first premiership after defeating the Northern Pride 32\u201318 at Stockland Park. Burleigh Bears' hooker Scott Smith was named the competition's Player of the Year, winning the Courier Mail Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Teams\nIn 2009, the Queensland Cup featured 12 teams for the first time since the 2004 season. The Sunshine Coast Falcons, re-branded as the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles, returned to the competition after the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles injected $1 million into the club and formed a partnership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Final series\nIn 2009, after using a five-team finals series for 10 years, the Queensland Cup used a six-team system. The competition used a six-team format from 1996 to 1998, although the system used in 2009 was two weeks shorter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Grand Final\nThe Northern Pride, who finished the regular season in second, qualified for their first Grand Final after a 22\u201310 win over the Central Comets in the preliminary final. They were joined by the Sunshine Coast, who finished fourth in their return season, after they defeated reigning premiers Souths Logan 30\u201326 in the preliminary final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, First half\nThe Pride opened the scoring in the fifth minute when they created an huge overlap, with centre Jamie Frizzo finishing off the play with a try. The Sunshine Coast responded quickly when five-eighth Tony Williams bumped off a defender and threw an offload to centre Shane Neumann who crossed for his first try. The Sea Eagles hit the lead in the 27th minute when winger Michael Chapman scored untouched in the corner. They scored again four minutes later when Ryan Walker scored in the opposite corner. Poor goal kicking kept the Pride in the contest, as Williams missed all three conversion attempts. The Pride converted a penalty from right in front on the stroke of half time to trail by just eight at the break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half\nThe Sunshine Coast extended the lead to 10 in the 47th minute when Williams dived over for a try of his own. The Sea Eagles kept the points coming when Neumann dived over in the corner for his second just six minutes later. With just over 10 minutes remaining, the Pride gave themselves a chance when Rod Jensen scored and cut the Sea Eagles' lead to 10. Three minutes later, the Sunshine Coast all but sealed victory when halfback Trent Hodkinson scored close to the posts. The Pride scored a late consolation try when Humble latched onto a wayward Sea Eagles' pass and ran 80 metres to score under the uprights. In the final minute, Neumann crossed for his hat trick as the Sea Eagles' wrapped up a 14-point victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204676-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half\nTony Williams, who was awarded the Duncan Hall Medal, and second rower Vic Mauro would go onto play in the Manly Sea Eagles' 2011 NRL Grand Final win over the New Zealand Warriors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204677-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland House and Land.com 300\nThe 2009 Queensland House and Land.com 300  was the eighth race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 15 and 16 of the series and was held on the weekend of August 21 to 23 at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204677-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland House and Land.com 300, Support categories\nThe 2009 Queensland House and Land.com 300 had four support categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election\nThe 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election\nThe election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a fifth consecutive term in office for her party. Bligh thus became the first female Premier of any Australian State elected in her own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election\nThe 2009 election marked the eighth consecutive victory of Labor in a general election since 1989, although it was out of office between 1996 and 1998 as a direct result of the 1996 Mundingburra by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Results\nQueensland state election, 21 March 2009Legislative Assembly << 2006\u20132012 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands\n\u00b6 Ronan Lee was elected as a member of the Labor Party in 2006, but he defected to the Greens in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands\nOne of the gains by the Liberal Nationals was the defeat of the Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation Andrew McNamara (Hervey Bay). The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, Bonny Barry (Aspley), was also defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Date\nThe previous state election was held on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the Legislative Assembly. In Queensland, for the government to serve a full-term, an election will be held approximately three years following the previous election. In Queensland, Section 80 of the Electoral Act 1992 states that an election must be held on a Saturday; and that the election campaign must run for a minimum of 26 or a maximum of 56 days following the issue of the writs. Five to seven days following the issue of the writs, the electoral roll is closed, which gives voters a final opportunity to enrol or to notify the Electoral Commission of Queensland of any changes in their place of residence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 36], "content_span": [37, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Legislative Assembly\nThe Labor Party, led by Premier Anna Bligh, and the LNP, led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, were the two main parties in Queensland at the election. It was the first election contested by the LNP following its creation with the merger of the National and Liberal parties. At the previous election, Labor won 59 seats, the Nationals won 17 seats, the Liberals won eight seats, One Nation won one seat, and independents won four seats. Former Labor MP Ronan Lee joined the Greens in 2008, thus becoming their parliamentary leader. Lee lost his seat at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Legislative Assembly\nA redistribution saw Labor notionally pick up three seats. Therefore, the LNP notionally needed to pick up 22 seats rather than 20 seats to form a majority government, which equated to an unchanged uniform 8.3 percent two party preferred swing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Legislative Assembly\nFormer Premier Peter Beattie resigned in September 2007, which triggered the October 2007 Brisbane Central by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Parties contesting the election\n\u2020 Contested 2006 elections as Liberal Party (49 seats) and National Party (40) seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Parties contesting the election\nBoth the Australian Labor Party and the Greens contested all 89 seats. This was the first Queensland state election in which the Greens contested every seat. The LNP contested every seat except Gladstone (held by an Independent), which they avoided for strategic reasons. A total of 397 candidates contested the election\u2014the largest number of candidates to contest a Queensland election since 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204678-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Queensland state election, Polling\nNewspoll polling was conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of around 1000 electors, with the declared margin of error at around \u00b13 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204679-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 R League\nThe 2009 edition of R League was held from March 30 to October 22. In this season, Jeju United didn't participated due to lack of players. Championship playoff's semifinals will be played 8 October 2009. Final's first leg matches will be played on 15 October, while the second leg matches will be played on 22 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204680-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RCNJC season\nThe 2009 RCNJC season was the inaugural season for the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204680-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 RCNJC season, Standings, Eastern Conference\nNote: 4 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, 1 bonus point for a loss by 7 points or less, 1 bonus point for scoring 4 tries or more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204680-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 RCNJC season, Championship Final\nThe championship game was hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia and took place between the West Champion, Vancouver Wave and the East Champion, Toronto Rebellion. The Wave won the game by a score of 41 to 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Rodw (talk | contribs) at 11:39, 11 April 2020 (Disambiguating links to Gateshead Thunder (link changed to Gateshead Thunder (2000)) using DisamAssist.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship\nThe 2009 Co-operative Championship is a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom and France one tier below the first tier Super League. The two worst performing teams during the season, with the exception of Toulouse Olympique, will be relegated to Championship 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship\nThere is no automatic promotion from this league to Super League, which uses a licensing system renewed every three years. Qualifying for the Grand Final is a prerequisite for Championship clubs to be able to apply for license in the next round of applications for the 2012\u201314 period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship\nThe competition was very close with most teams having a chance of making the top 6 going into the final round. In the end Barrow Raiders topped the standings followed by Halifax. The Leigh Centurions were relegated on the final day of competition despite finishing only third to last and Doncaster were also relegated but their fate had been sealed for some time. In the weeks following the competitions completion, Gateshead Thunder were eliminated following salary cap breaches and subsequently relegated to the Championship 1 for 2010, Leigh Centurions were therefore reprieved from relegation and remained in the Championship for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship\nIn the playoffs, Widnes Vikings and Featherstone Rovers advance from the first week to play each other. Featherstone won this game which gave them the chance to take on Halifax, who lost their game to Barrow, for a spot in the grand final. Halifax won and went on to play Barrow in the final but lost 26-18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204681-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 RFL Championship, Table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204682-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RR\n2009 RR micro-asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group. It was discovered on 11 September 2009 by the Catalina Sky Survey at an apparent magnitude of 19.5 using a 0.68-meter (27\u00a0in) Schmidt\u2013Cassegrain telescope. 2009 RR was the only asteroid discovered before 2014 that was predicted to potentially pass inside the orbit of the Moon during 2014. The asteroid has an estimated diameter of 26 meters (85\u00a0ft) and is listed on the Sentry Risk Table. It is not large enough to qualify as a potentially hazardous object.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204682-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 RR, Description\nWith an observation arc of only 4 days, the asteroid has a poorly determined orbit. It is already known that there is no risk of an Earth impact before 2098. The power of such an air burst would be somewhere between the Chelyabinsk meteor and the Tunguska event depending on the actual size of the asteroid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 20], "content_span": [21, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204682-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 RR, Description\nThe nominal orbit shows that on 16 September 2014 the asteroid could have passed just inside one lunar distance from Earth, but the orbital uncertainties show that it could have passed as much as 0.1\u00a0AU (15,000,000\u00a0km; 9,300,000\u00a0mi) from Earth. On 9 September 2014 the full moon may have only be 15 degrees from the 20th magnitude asteroid, making it difficult to detect the asteroid. The asteroid was estimated to be brighter than magnitude 20 from 10 September until 16 September 2014. 2009 RR was not recovered during the 2014 approach and thus probably passed more than one lunar distance from Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 20], "content_span": [21, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204683-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RSA T20 Cup\nThe 2009 RSA T20 Cup was a Women's Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament that was held in Ireland in May 2009. The tournament was originally planned as a tri-nation series between Ireland, Pakistan and South Africa, but Nottinghamshire replaced South Africa before the tournament began. It was part of Pakistan's tour of Ireland and England before the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204683-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 RSA T20 Cup\nPakistan won the tournament with four wins from their four matches, whilst Ireland and Nottinghamshire won one game apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204684-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards\nThe 32nd RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards (Chinese: \u7b2c\u4e09\u5341\u4e8c\u5c46\u5341\u5927\u4e2d\u6587\u91d1\u66f2\u5f97\u734e) was held on January 30, 2010 for the 2009 music season. This marks the second time the Golden needle award was given to someone who is deceased, Danny Chan, with the first being Tang Ti-sheng in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204684-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, Top 10 song awards\nThe top 10 songs (\u5341\u5927\u4e2d\u6587\u91d1\u66f2) of 2009 are as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions\nThe 2009 Race of Champions was the 22nd running of the event, and took place on November 3\u20134, 2009 at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, China. It was the first time that the event took place outside of Europe and Africa. It was also the first international sports event to be held in the \"Bird's Nest\" stadium since the 2008 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions\nThe event also moved from a weekend to a midweek slot for the first time. The RoC Nations Cup took place on Tuesday, November 3, just two days after the climax of the 2009 Formula One season in Abu Dhabi at the Yas Marina Circuit, with the Driver's Cup being contested on Wednesday 4, November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions\nThe new dates affected the United States and Australia the worst, since it meant drivers from those countries' popular saloon-car series (V8 Supercar and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series) could not participate in the event. Jamie Whincup of Team Vodafone was originally selected to participate but could not because of the schedule, so two motorcyclists were used on the team. In the past, the United States team has used Nationwide Series champion Carl Edwards, and four-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. Two X Games stars and Rally America drivers were chosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions\nMattias Ekstr\u00f6m won the World Final for Team Scandinavia, while Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher won the Nations Cup for Team Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final\nFor the first ever time, regional finals were held to determine which nations will take part in Beijing. The first of these regional finals was for South Europe, featuring Portugal, Spain, Monaco and Italy. It was held in the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o, the home of F.C. Porto on 6/7 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final, ROC Portugal\nMiguel Barbosa won the ROC Portugal opener and was joined by A1 Grand Prix driver Filipe Albuquerque, Jos\u00e9 Pedro Fontes and team captain and Production World Rally Championship Armindo Ara\u00fajo in the Portuguese team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final, ROC Iberia\nThe Portuguese team faced a Spanish team made up of team captain World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz, Citro\u00ebn WRC driver Dani Sordo, World Series by Renault driver Jaime Alguersuari and rally driver Sergio Vallejo in the ROC Iberia. Albuquerque beat Sordo by two heats to nil in the Iberian final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final, ROC South Europe Finals\nThe Spanish pairing of Sainz and Sordo faced the Italian pairing of former World Rally champion Miki Biasion and current WRC driver Gigi Galli in the first semi-final. Spain won by three heats to nil. The Portuguese pairing of Albuquerque and Araujo faced Monaco, featuring A1GP driver Clivio Piccione and Le Mans 24 Hours winner Emanuele Pirro, who although born in Italy, has been a resident of Monaco for over 22 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final, ROC South Europe Finals\nAfter four of five heats the score was balanced at 2\u20132, before Piccione beat Albuquerque by one ten thousandth of a second, the narrowest margin of victory in Race of Champions history. The Monegasque pairing beat the Spanish pair by three heats to one in the final to send Monaco through to the main event in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204685-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Race of Champions, South Europe Regional Final, ROC Legends\nThere was also a RoC Legends competition on the Saturday evening, featuring Sainz, Biasion, Pirro, Johnny Herbert, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Mick Doohan, Andy Priaulx and Pedro Chaves. Priaulx beat Herbert in the Legends final by two heats to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 64], "content_span": [65, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season\nThe 2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on January 5 with the start of the 2009 ATP World Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Qatar Open\nNadal's first official ATP tour event for the year was the 250 series Qatar Open in Doha. After his first-round match with Fabrice Santoro, Nadal was awarded the 2008 ATP World Tour Champion trophy. Nadal eventually lost in the quarterfinals to Ga\u00ebl Monfils. Nadal also entered and won the tournament's doubles event with partner Marc L\u00f3pez, defeating the world No. 1 doubles team of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 in the final. As noted by statistician Greg Sharko, this was the first time since 1990 the world No. 1 singles player had played the world No. 1 doubles player in a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Australian Open\nAt the 2009 Australian Open, Nadal won his first five matches without dropping a set, before defeating compatriot Fernando Verdasco in the semifinals in the second longest match in Australian Open history at 5 hours and 14 minutes. This win set up a championship match with Roger Federer, their first meeting ever in a hard-court Grand Slam tournament and their nineteenth meeting overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Australian Open\nNadal defeated Federer in five sets to earn his first hard-court Grand Slam singles title, making him the first Spaniard to win the Australian Open and the fourth male tennis player\u2014after Jimmy Connors, Mats Wilander, and Andre Agassi\u2014to win Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces. This win also made Nadal the first male tennis player to hold three Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces at the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament\nAt the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Nadal lost in the final to second-seeded Andy Murray in three sets. During the final, Nadal called a trainer to attend to a tendon problem with his right knee, which notably affected his play in the final set. Although this knee problem was not associated with Nadal's right knee tendonitis, it was serious enough to cause him to withdraw from the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Davis Cup\nIn March, Nadal helped Spain defeat Serbia in a Davis Cup World Group first-round tie on clay in Benidorm, Spain. Nadal defeated Janko Tipsarevi\u0107 and Novak Djokovic. The win over world No. 3 Djokovic was Nadal's twelfth consecutive Davis Cup singles match win and boosted his career win\u2013loss record against Djokovic to 11\u20134, including 6\u20130 on clay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Indian Wells\nAt the 2009 Indian Wells Masters, Nadal won his thirteenth Masters 1000 series tournament. In the fourth round, Nadal saved five match points, before defeating David Nalbandian for the first time. Nadal defeated Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the quarterfinals and Andy Roddick in the semifinals, before defeating Murray in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Miami\nThe next ATP tour event was the 2009 Miami Masters. Nadal advanced to the quarterfinals, where he again faced Argentinian del Potro, this time losing the match. This was the first time del Potro had defeated Nadal in five career matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Monte Carlo\nNadal began his European clay court season at the 2009 Monte Carlo Masters, where he won a record fifth consecutive singles title there. He defeated Novak Djokovic in the final for his fifth consecutive win, a record in the open era. Nadal is the first male player to win the same ATP Master series event for five consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Barcelona\nNadal then competed in the ATP 500 event in Barcelona. He advanced to his fifth consecutive Barcelona final, where he faced David Ferrer. Nadal went on to beat Ferrer to record five consecutive Barcelona victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Rome\nAt the Rome Masters, Nadal reached the final, where he defeated Novak Djokovic to improve his overall record to 13\u20134 and clay record to 8\u20130 against the Serb. He became the first player to win four Rome titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Rome\nAfter winning two clay-court Masters, he participated in the Madrid Open. He lost to Roger Federer in the final. This was the first time that Nadal had lost to Federer since the semifinals of the 2007 Tennis Masters Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Rome\nOn 19 May, the ATP World Tour announced that Nadal was the first player out of eight to qualify for the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals, to be played at the O2 Arena in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, French Open\nBy beating Lleyton Hewitt in the third round of 2009 French Open, Nadal (2005\u201309 French Open) set a record of 31 consecutive wins at Roland Garros, beating the previous record of 28 by Bj\u00f6rn Borg (1978\u201381 French Open). Nadal had won 32 consecutive sets at Roland Garros (since winning the last 2 sets at the 2007 French Open final against Federer), the second-longest winning streak in the tournament's history behind Bj\u00f6rn Borg's record of 41 consecutive sets. This run came to an end on 31 May 2009, when Nadal lost to eventual runner-up, Robin S\u00f6derling in the 4th round in a massive upset. This was Nadal's first loss at the French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 702]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Injury\nAfter his surprise defeat at Roland Garros, Nadal withdrew from the AEGON Championships. It was confirmed that Nadal was suffering from tendinitis in both of his knees. On 19 June, Nadal withdrew from the 2009 Wimbledon Championship, citing his recurring knee injury. He was the first champion not to defend the title since Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 in 2001. Roger Federer went on to win the title, and Nadal consequently dropped back to world No. 2 on 6 July 2009. Nadal later announced his withdrawal from the Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Return\nOn 4 August, Nadal's uncle, Toni Nadal, confirmed that Nadal would return to play at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. There, in his first tournament since Roland Garros, Nadal lost in the quarterfinals to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. With this loss, he relinquished the No. 2 spot to Andy Murray on 17 August 2009, ranking outside the top two for the first time since 25 July 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, US Open\nIn the quarterfinals of the US Open he defeated Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez in a rain-delayed encounter. However, like his previous US Open campaign, he fell in the semifinals, this time losing to eventual champion Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. Despite the loss, he regained the No. 2 ranking after Andy Murray's early exit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, World Tour Finals\nAt the World Tour Finals, Nadal lost all three of his matches against Robin S\u00f6derling, Nikolay Davydenko, and Novak Djokovic respectively without winning a set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year's summary, Davis Cup final\nIn December, Nadal participated in the second Davis Cup final of his career. He defeated Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych in his first singles rubber to give the Spanish Davis Cup Team their first point in the tie. After the Spanish Davis Cup team had secured its fourth Davis Cup victory, Nadal defeated Jan H\u00e1jek in the first Davis Cup dead rubber of his career. The win gave Nadal his 14th consecutive singles victory at Davis Cup (his 13th on clay).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204686-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season, Year end ranking\nNadal finished the year as No. 2 for the fourth time in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204687-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open\nThe 2009 Rai Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between 13 and 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204687-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204687-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 47], "content_span": [48, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204687-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nSimon Greul /  Alessandro Motti def. Daniele Bracciali /  Filippo Volandri, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204688-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open \u2013 Doubles\nSimon Greul and Alessandro Motti won in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20135, against Daniele Bracciali and Filippo Volandri. They became the first champions of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204689-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rai Open \u2013 Singles\nSebasti\u00e1n Decoud defeated 7\u20136(2), 6\u20131 Simon Greul in the first singles' final of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204690-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the event known that year as the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, and was part of the 500 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from October 5 through October 11, 2009. Second-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204690-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204690-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJulian Knowle /  J\u00fcrgen Melzer defeated  Ross Hutchins /  Jordan Kerr, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204691-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nMikhail Youzhny  and Mischa Zverev were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year. Julian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer won in the final 6\u20132, 5\u20137, [10\u20138] against Ross Hutchins and Jordan Kerr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204692-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nTom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarterfinals to Mikhail Youzhny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204692-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nSecond-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133 against Mikhail Youzhny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204693-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Raleigh mayoral election\nThe Raleigh mayoral election of 2009 was held on 6 October 2009 to elect a Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was won by incumbent Charles Meeker, who defeated Larry D. Hudson, II in the first-round primary. Because Meeker won more than 50% in the first round, there was no need for a run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204693-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Raleigh mayoral election\nIt was officially a non-partisan contest, but Meeker had won four previous elections as a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204694-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally America season\nThe 2009 Rally America season was the fifth season of Rally America. The season consisted of 9 rallies and began on January 30, with the Sno* Drift National Rally in Michigan. The final stage of Rally in the 100 Acre Wood was canceled due to impassable conditions. With six victories, Travis Pastrana claimed his fourth Rally America championship in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204694-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally America season, Schedule, X Games 15\nThe X Games had a super stage rally event for their event. This marked 4th time the event was in the X Games, and featured at least 10 drivers from Rally America in head to head competition in a cross over course. 8 of the drivers have already been chosen, including Pastrana, Block, and Foust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204694-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally America season, Driver standings\nThough Rally America runs 2 other classes, Super Production and Front Wheel Drive, these are not nearly as heavily contested. Travis Pastrana secured his fourth straight championship during the Ojibwe Forests Rally. Foust and Comrie-Picard were unable to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204694-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally America season, Driver standings\nThis is only a list of the top finishers, a full list with details can be seen at the Rally America website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204695-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Argentina\nThe 2009 Rally Argentina was the 29th running of the Rally Argentina and the fifth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 23 special stages and was run on 23\u201326 April. It was won by Citro\u00ebn's S\u00e9bastien Loeb for the fifth consecutive year. His teammate Dani Sordo finished second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204695-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Argentina\nFord's Mikko Hirvonen, who was in second place only six seconds behind Loeb after stage 14, retired due to an engine problem. This gave Loeb a 20-point lead in the drivers' championship. Hirvonen's teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, under pressure to get a good result after his recent crashes, dropped out of contention for the win after a puncture on Friday. His Focus WRC later incurred an electrical problem, costing over eight minutes, but he was able to continue and finish sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204695-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Argentina\nFollowing Ford's problems, Petter Solberg was on course for his second podium of the season, but he soon ran into fuel pressure problems and the third place was inherited by his brother Henning. This marked his career fourth podium finish. Home country's Federico Villagra beat Stobart's Matthew Wilson to take a career-best fourth place. Citro\u00ebn Junior Team drivers S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Conrad Rautenbach both retired on Saturday. However, Ogier re-joined the rally under superally rules and finished seventh. Production World Rally Championship class winner Nasser Al-Attiyah took the last points-scoring position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204696-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Australia\nThe 2009 Repco Rally Australia was the 20th Rally Australia and the tenth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 35 special stages and was won on the road by Citro\u00ebn's S\u00e9bastien Loeb. However, Loeb's win was short-lived as his Citro\u00ebn along with those of his teammate Dani Sordo, and S\u00e9bastien Ogier were given one-minute time penalties for irregularities with their cars' anti-rollbars. Ford's Mikko Hirvonen inherited the win, for his fourth win in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204696-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Australia, Entries\nThe final entry list included 40 crews. 10 drivers contested in the World Rally Car class and 14 contested in the Production World Rally Championship class. This was the first time in the season that Petter Solberg and co-driver Phil Mills did not compete in their privately entered Citro\u00ebn Xsara WRC since Rally Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204696-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Australia, Protests\nThe event was disrupted by environmental activists protesting against the running of the rally, claiming that the event threatened local wildlife. One week before the rally, protesters unsuccessfully filed an injunction against the event in an effort to stop it. During the rally itself, signs were placed around the route of the rally, telling the drivers and those involved in the rally to go home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204696-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Australia, Protests\nThe CTEK East stages, scheduled to be held on 4 September as the sixth and eleventh stages of the rally, were cancelled after rocks were thrown at the course car and the stage itself was blocked when protesters pulled a fence across the road. Early reports also emerged claiming that protesters had taken animals killed on local roads and placed them along the rally route to give the appearance that wildlife had been killed by rally cars, though these reports were later denied. Following the cancellation of the CTEK East stages, New South Wales police announced that they would prosecute those responsible as public nuisances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204697-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Catalunya\nThe 2009 RACC Rallye de Catalunya was the eleventh round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and the 45th running of Rally Catalunya. The rally consisted of 18 special stages and took place between October 2\u20134, 2009. Citro\u00ebn's S\u00e9bastien Loeb and Dani Sordo took their fourth Catalunya double win in a row. Loeb's title rival Mikko Hirvonen of Ford finished third and will head to the season-ending Rally GB with a one-point lead over Loeb. Petter Solberg made his debut in a Citro\u00ebn C4 WRC, finishing fourth and recording four stage wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland\nThe 2009 Neste Oil Rally Finland was the 59th running of the Rally Finland and the ninth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 23 special stages and was won by Ford's Mikko Hirvonen. This marked his third victory in a row and his first in his home event. Last year's winner S\u00e9bastien Loeb of Citro\u00ebn finished second and took his first podium since the Rally Argentina back in April. Jari-Matti Latvala beat Dani Sordo to the final podium spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Entries\nThe final entry list included 90 crews \u2013 the highest number in any event this season. 18 drivers contested the event in the top category World Rally Car and ten were registered for the Junior World Rally Championship. In addition to usual names, Matti Rantanen, who finished seventh in last year's event in a private Ford Focus RS WRC 06, partnered Federico Villagra in the Munchi's Ford World Rally Team and drove the 2008-spec Focus WRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Entries\nFerrari's 2007 Formula One world champion Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen made his WRC debut at the event. This was also his first rally on gravel, after competing in two snow rallies in Finland and in a tarmac rally in Italy. As previously, he drove the Super 2000 class Fiat Grande Punto Abarth prepared by Tommi M\u00e4kinen Racing. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen faced competition from other S2000 entrants such as Juho H\u00e4nninen, Anton Al\u00e9n and Janne Tuohino and from Group N drivers such as Patrik Flodin. Former Stobart M-Sport Ford driver Urmo Aava entered the event in a Honda Civic Type-R R3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Summary\nAs in the previous year's event, the battle for the win was between the title contenders Mikko Hirvonen of Ford and S\u00e9bastien Loeb of Citro\u00ebn. Although Loeb proved faster on the opening super special stage, Hirvonen took the lead when the rally really got underway on Friday, and began building up a lead by about a second per stage. Loeb backed off and settled for second after damaging a tyre and losing 13 seconds on SS15. Hirvonen's win was his first in his home event, after finishing runner-up to Marcus Gr\u00f6nholm in 2007 and to Loeb in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Summary\nJari-Matti Latvala, who suffered from food poisoning on day two, passed Dani Sordo to take his first podium in his home event. Petter Solberg also looked set to challenge for a podium place, but suffered a puncture and then went wide and got stuck in a ditch right at the end of the fourth stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Summary\nMunchi's Ford driver Matti Rantanen took a career-best fifth place in only his second rally in a World Rally Car. After Stobart's Henning Solberg, Rantanen's main challenger for the position, retired with a broken suspension, Rantanen was chased down by Citro\u00ebn Junior Team's S\u00e9bastien Ogier. Ogier closed to within 0.6 seconds before the final stage but a time only 0.3 seconds faster than Rantanen's kept him in sixth place. Ogier's teammates Evgeny Novikov and Conrad Rautenbach both crashed out. Novikov crashed on both Friday and Saturday mornings while Rautenbach held ninth place until his accident on the penultimate stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Summary\nJari Ketomaa made his World Rally Car debut in a private Subaru Impreza WRC2007 and was another driver to challenge for fifth, the \"best of the rest\" position. He incurred a puncture and struggled with steering damage on Friday, losing over a minute, but recovered to overtake Stobart's Matthew Wilson for eighth and then began closing in on Mads \u00d8stberg in a year newer Impreza WRC. As the Norwegian crashed out on SS19, Ketomaa took the seventh place and his first-ever WRC points, and Wilson eighth and his first-ever point in the Rally Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204698-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Finland, Summary\nKhalid al-Qassimi finished ninth and production class winner Juho H\u00e4nninen beat Munchi's Federico Villagra for tenth place. Martin Prokop won the Junior World Rally Championship category and secured the junior world title. Crowd favourite Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen impressed in his WRC debut. Despite engine trouble, he held third place in the production class until rolling out at exactly the same place as \u00d8stberg. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's performance drew praise from the top rally drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204699-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally GB\nThe 2009 Rally GB was the 12th and last round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and the 65th running of the Rally of Great Britain. The rally consisted of 16 special stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204699-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally GB\nS\u00e9bastien Loeb claimed victory to record a sixth successive world rally title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland\nThe 2009 Rally Ireland, officially 2nd Rally Ireland, was the first round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and was held between 30 January and 1 February 2009, it was also the opening round of the Junior World Rally Championship this season. Sligo was once again the rally base with the special stages being held on agricultural tarmac roads and major tarmac roads in the north west of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction\nThe rally returned after a year's absence as to hold the opening round of the World Rally Championship after the Monte Carlo Rally was absent on the year's calendar due to the FIA's Round Rotation calendar system. This happens every two years, so the rally was out for 2010 in favour of Monte Carlo resuming its traditional place as the season opener, but returned in 2011 in the same position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction, World Rally Championship\nDuring Friday, heavy rain dominated the weekend and drivers found it difficult to compete in this kind of torrential weather, also mud became a feature, especially on broken tarmac roads. But S\u00e9bastien Loeb took the win second time in the row with Dani Sordo sealing a Citro\u00ebn 1\u20132, two events in succession since the inaugural Rally Ireland held in 2007. Mikko Hirvonen once again settled for third place against the Citro\u00ebn's tarmac wizards, with 2:07.8 minutes behind Loeb. Norway's Henning Solberg was the only of the Solberg brothers present after the no-show of 2003 WRC Champion Petter Solberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction, World Rally Championship\nHe finished fourth, his best result on tarmac, but he was almost beaten by Citro\u00ebn's newbie Chris Atkinson who finished in fifth overall despite some big scary moments, including hitting a telegraph pole on Leg 1 and spinning on Stage 18. S\u00e9bastien Ogier finished in sixth ahead of Matthew Wilson in a tight battle, while Khalid al-Qassimi became the first Arab rally driver since 1993 by compatriot Mohammed Bin Sulayem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction, World Rally Championship\nBut some drivers such as Jari Matti Latvala, who leads after Stage 1 broke his drive shaft after a puncture on two wheels, Ford's new driver Urmo Aava who leads after Stages 2 and 3, slid off the road and crashing without heavy impact at the Aughnasheelan Stage 6, and Conrad Rautenbach slid off at Stage 9 at Sloughan Glen and got his Citro\u00ebn C4 deeply stuck at the mud, were all able to restart under the SuperRally rules to finish 10th by Aava, 14th by Latvala, and Rautenbach crossed the line in 18th place, and all of them score manufacturer's points for their respective teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction, Junior World Rally Championship\nThe JWRC drivers suffered in this torrential weather as well in the rally during the course of the weekend as eight JWRC drivers competed. Aaron Burkart who switch from his longtime associates Citro\u00ebn to Suzuki this year was confident of the decision, just won his first JWRC rally in his debut with the team, ahead of the Czech driver Martin Prokop, unlike Burkart stayed with Citro\u00ebn. While a distant third place for Italian Suzuki driver Simone Bertolotti, who previously drove for Renault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204700-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Ireland, Introduction, Junior World Rally Championship\nBut worst thing happened that Dutchman Hans Weijs jr. who crash heavily at Stage 14 at Tempo under heavy rain that cause to stop some times by rally drivers such as Yoann Bonato and countryman Kevin Abbring, both had activated the SuperRally rules after retiring at Leg 1, had to start their runs all over again because of the incident, but both he and his co-driver were uninjured and  the car was not badly damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204701-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Isle of Man\n2009 Rally Isle of Man was held on July 9\u201311, 2009, the 46th Rally Isle of Man and was round 4 of the 2009 MSA British Rally Championship, round 6 of the 2009 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and round 5 of the 2009 MSA British Historic Rally Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204701-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Isle of Man\nA fifth win in the International section of the 2009 Rally Isle of Man, Mark Higgins became the most successive driver in the event with co-driver Bryan Thomas in a Subaru Impreza N11. In second place was close title rivals in the BRC Championship with Keith Cronin/Greg Shinnors from the pairing of Alastair Fisher/Rory Kennedy in third place both driving Mitsubishi Evo 9 cars. The 2009 Historic Rally provided a seventh overall win for Dessie Nutt with co-driver Geraldine McBride with a Porsche 911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204701-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Isle of Man\nThe Post-Historic class was won by Steve Smith/John Nichols also driving a Porsche 911 and Classic section won by Gwyndaf Evans/John Nichols with a Ford Escort. The first leg of the Isle of Man Rally Challenge was won by Matt Edward/Rob Fagg and the second leg by Ross Ford/Gary McElhinney both driving Ford Fiesta ST cars. The 2009 Manx Trophy Rally provided the third win for local Isle of Man crew of George Collister/Janet Craine driving a Mitsubishi Evo 3 rally car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204702-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Norway\nThe 2009 Rally Norway, officially 3rd Rally Norway, is the second round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and the first round of the Production World Rally Championship and is held between February 12 and February 15, 2009. The rally was held on ice- and snow-covered gravel roads between Oslo and Hamar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204702-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Norway\nRally Norway returned to the calendar in 2009 Season after a years absence. This is the Snow Rally of the season. Historically, the Swedish Rally has usually been the rally held on snow in every WRC Season except 1974 and 1990 due to cancellation, 1994 when it was only part of the FIA 2-Litre World Cup for Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204702-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Norway\nPetter Solberg, driving a Citro\u00ebn Xsara WRC car, won the first stage of the rally. But S\u00e9bastien Loeb of France won in a Citro\u00ebn C4 WRC, his second win on snow since the 2004 Swedish Rally, remaining only non-Scandinavian rally driver ever to win a Snow Rally. Loeb finished ahead of Mikko Hirvonen by +9.8 seconds. Jari Matti Latvala finished third, despite having spun on the last stage on the second running of the Budor. The highest placed Norwegian driver was Henning Solberg in fourth, who was in a tight battle for the position with Dani Sordo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204702-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally Norway\nSordo had held the position for most of the stages until SS14 Mountain 2, where Solberg passed Sordo for fourth place. Both were under pressure from Swede P-G Andersson, on board a privately entered \u0160koda Fabia WRC, who passed Solberg at SS7 Finnskogen 2. Andersson had to retire at SS12 Ringsaker 1 when he broke his clutch after hitting a snow bank. Solberg finished in sixth in one peace, although he doubted his clutch would last until the end. He was in a tight battle with Matthew Wilson of Great Britain, who finished in seventh place, ahead of Urmo Aava in eighth who collected his first point of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204702-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Norway\nThis rally marks the opening Round of the PWRC Season and as the WRC supporting event. Previously, the JWRC was the supporting event in 2007. Swede Patrik Sandell won the class. Eyvind Brynildsen and his co-driver Denis Giraudet, Didier Auriol's former co-driver finished second. Czech Martin Prokop finished in third place ahead of Armindo Araujo. Andis Neiksans of Latvia finished fifth ahead of Jaromir Tarabus in sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204703-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Poland\nThe 2009 ORLEN Platinum Rally Poland was the 66th running of the Rally Poland and the eighth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. Rally Poland had previously been part of the WRC schedule during the inaugural 1973 season. The rally consisted of 18 special stages and was won by Ford's Mikko Hirvonen, who took his first-ever back-to-back victories. However, the team's celebration was subdued after Jari-Matti Latvala crashed out from second place on the final super special stage, losing important manufacturers' championship points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204703-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Poland\nCitro\u00ebn's Dani Sordo then finished second and Stobart's Henning Solberg beat his brother Petter to take the final podium spot. Home country's Krzysztof Ho\u0142owczyc, a three-time winner of the event, finished sixth behind regular Stobart driver Matthew Wilson. This marked the first time a Polish driver scored WRC points in the history of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204703-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Poland\nCitro\u00ebn's defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb lost the drivers' championship lead by crashing out in the second rally in a row. However, he re-joined the event under superally rules and with mechanical problems for Andreas Mikkelsen, Mads \u00d8stberg and S\u00e9bastien Ogier, he had climbed back into the top ten. Citro\u00ebn then issued team orders and Citro\u00ebn Junior Team's Conrad Rautenbach and Evgeny Novikov both stopped for enough minutes to let the Frenchman take the eighth place, which eventually became seventh after Latvala's mistake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204704-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Scotland\nThe 2009 Rally Scotland was the 11th and final round of the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge, and the first edition of the Rally Scotland/ The event was held between 19\u201321 November during some of the wettest weather seen in the UK. The rally was officially started at the historic site of Scone Palace on Thursday 19th and concluded with a ceremonial finish at Stirling Castle on Saturday 21st. The first ten cars were flagged away at the start by the First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and Jackie Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204704-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally Scotland\nThe weather and the battle between Kris Meeke and Guy Wilks dominated the weekend with Meeke winning the rally on the road. However, due to a technical infringement involving the front subframe of Meeke's car, Meeke was excluded giving the rally win to Wilks. This was the first IRC win for Guy Wilks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna\nThe 2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna was the sixth running of the Rally d'Italia Sardegna and the sixth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 17 special stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna\nThis year's Rally d'Italia Sardegna has new reforms of this rally, with new stages at the first day & the last day, mostly these new stages are gravel with some section of tarmac that make it difficult for drivers especially the grip of the tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna\nFinns Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen took a double win for the Ford factory team. Latvala's win was his career second, after becoming the youngest-ever driver to win a world rally at the 2008 Swedish Rally. Norwegian privateer Petter Solberg took the final podium spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna, Summary\nSeveral front-runners ran into problems on stage eleven. Citro\u00ebn's defending world champion S\u00e9bastien Loeb lost over a minute and dropped from third to fourth due to a puncture. His fifth-placed teammate Dani Sordo lost even more time and positions with a turbo problem. Eighth-placed Stobart driver Henning Solberg's day ended after he went off the road and broke his Ford Focus WRC's right-hand front suspension, and Citro\u00ebn Junior Team's Conrad Rautenbach retired after the stage from tenth place with a damper failure. The rally leader Jari-Matti Latvala of Ford also spun during the stage, but escaped without damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna, Summary\nLatvala led the event from start to finish, taking Ford's first win since the one-two at the 2008 Rally Japan. His teammate Mikko Hirvonen was less than ten seconds behind after two days and supposed to benefit from running behind Latvala on the road, but dust clouds and the resulting hampered visibility suddenly forced him to settle for second. Ford boss Malcolm Wilson decided against applying team orders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna, Summary\nLoeb, whose record-equaling six win streak came to an end, took the third place back by passing Petter Solberg, but was later given a two-minute penalty for a safety rule violation; co-driver Daniel Elena unfastened his safety belts before the crew stopped the car for a tire change (after the puncture on SS11). Loeb escaped a disqualification as the stewards considered the infringement less severe because it had happened while they were not driving at a competitive pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204705-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally d'Italia Sardegna, Summary\nCitro\u00ebn Junior Team's 18-year-old Evgeny Novikov finished fifth, taking his career first points-finish. Stobart's Matthew Wilson took sixth place despite hydraulic problems that slowed him down on day one. After Khalid al-Qassimi had run into several problems while heading for career-best seventh place, the battle for the position was between two Norwegians who had had troublesome rallies, both losing about ten minutes and re-joining the event under SupeRally rules. Henning Solberg chased down Mads \u00d8stberg throughout the last day but only got within 0.6 seconds. Nasser Al-Attiyah edged out Patrik Sandell on the last stage to take the honours in the Production World Rally Championship, while the win in the Junior World Rally Championship went to Martin Prokop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204706-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally de Portugal\nThe 2009 Vodafone Rally de Portugal was the 43rd running of the Rally Portugal and the fourth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. It took place between 2-5 April 2009 and consisted of 18 special stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204706-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally de Portugal\nThe event was won by Citro\u00ebn's S\u00e9bastien Loeb ahead of Ford's Mikko Hirvonen and Loeb's teammate Dani Sordo. Norwegian drivers Petter Solberg, his brother Henning Solberg and Mads \u00d8stberg took the following positions. The last point-scoring places went to Federico Villagra and Khalid al-Qassimi, after Evgeny Novikov crashed out from eighth place on stage 15, and fifth-placed Matthew Wilson and now eighth-placed Conrad Rautenbach both retired on the penultimate stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204706-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rally de Portugal\nThe early leader Jari-Matti Latvala had a big crash on the fourth stage, rolling his Ford Focus WRC 17 times over a distance of 150 metres. Marcus Gr\u00f6nholm, who came out of retirement to contest the rally in a Prodrive-prepared Subaru Impreza WRC, crashed out from fourth place on stage eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204707-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Real Salt Lake season\nThe 2009 Real Salt Lake season was the fifth season of the team's existence. After clinching the eighth and final spot in the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs, Real Salt Lake would go on to defeat the Los Angeles Galaxy in the 2009 MLS Cup. The team was the first team in MLS history to win the MLS Cup after finishing the regular season with a losing record (11\u201312\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204707-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Real Salt Lake season, Squad, First-team squad\nAs of July 15, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204707-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Real Salt Lake season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204707-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Real Salt Lake season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204707-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Real Salt Lake season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204708-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Recopa Sudamericana\nThe 2009 Recopa Sudamericana was the 17th Recopa Sudamericana, an annual football match between the winners of the previous season's Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204708-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Recopa Sudamericana\nThe match was contested by Ecuadorian club LDU Quito, the 2008 Copa Libertadores champion, and Brazilian club Internacional, the 2008 Copa Sudamericana champion. LDU Quito won both games of the Recopa 1\u20130 and 3\u20130, respectively. Thus, Liga de Quito won their Recopa Sudamericana title and their second international title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204709-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Recopa Sul-Brasileira\nThe 2009 Recopa Sul-Brasileira was the 3rd staging of this Brazilian football knockout competition. All matches of the competition were played at Est\u00e1dio Municipal Domenico Paolo Metidieri, Votorantim, S\u00e3o Paulo. Four clubs participated of the competition: Porto Alegre, of Rio Grande do Sul (runner-up of Copa Arthur Dellagrave), Serrano Centro-Sul of Paran\u00e1 (champion of Campeonato Paranense Second Level), Votoraty of S\u00e3o Paulo (champion of Copa Paulista de Futebol), and Joinville of Santa Catarina (champion of Copa Santa Catarina).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204709-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Recopa Sul-Brasileira, Prize money\nThe winner of the competition was awarded a prize money amount of R$30,000, and the runner-up was awarded a prize money amount of R$10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204709-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Recopa Sul-Brasileira, Competition format\nThe competition is a one legged knockout tournament played in two stages, semifinals and the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204710-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship\nThe 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the seventh official Red Bull Air Race World Championship series. The 2009 champion was Paul Bonhomme, who won the series for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204710-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship, Aircraft and pilots, New pilots\nFour new pilots joined the Red Bull Air Race Series for the 2009 season as Steve Jones left the series. They were Matthias Dolderer from Germany, Matt Hall from Australia, Yoshihide Muroya from Japan and Pete McLeod from Canada. McLeod was the youngest pilot in the history of the series, joining at 25 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204710-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship, Championship standings\n(*) indicates the pilot received an extra point for the fastest time in Qualifying", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204711-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup\nStarting its third season, the 2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season continued the search for future World Champions. The 2009 season begins with two races during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at Jerez on May 2 and May 3 and ends with another double header at the Czech Republic Grand Prix in Brno on August 15 and August 16. Another six European GPs see single Rookies races on each Saturday, making it an eight-race championship, which is two more races than the last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204711-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup\nThe commercial rights of the championship are held by the rights-holders for the MotoGP World Championships, Dorna Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204711-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup\nThe Czech Jakub Kornfeil was proclaimed champion in the last race, in only his second season of road racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204711-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, Season standings, Scoring system\nPoints are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider has to finish the race to earn points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood\nThe 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood was a result of saturated and frozen ground, spring snowmelt exacerbated by additional rain and snow storms, and virtually flat terrain. Communities along the Red River prepared for more than a week as the U.S. National Weather Service continuously updated the predictions for the city of Fargo, North Dakota, with an increasingly higher projected river crest. Originally predicted to reach a level of near 43 feet (13\u00a0m) at Fargo by March 29, the river in fact crested at 40.84 feet (12.45\u00a0m) at 12:15\u00a0a.m. March 28, and started a slow decline. The river continued to rise to the north as the crest moved downstream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Background, Geology\nThe Red River flows from the United States into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Since it flows northward, into colder climates, melting snow and river ice, as well as runoff from its tributaries, often create ice jams, which cause the river to overflow. The valley is essentially flat, leading to overland flooding, with no high ground on which to take refuge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Background, Geology\nThe Red River flood plain. Low-elevation areas are green, while higher elevation regions are tan and white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Background, Geology\nThe Red River around Fargo before the 2009 floods started, as seen from space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Background, Climate\nGround which was already saturated when it froze at the onset of winter, melting snow which could not be absorbed by the frozen ground, and additional precipitation from high winter snow fall, a rain storm on March 22 and a later snowstorm, high temperature snow melt rate, are reasons for the serious flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Background, Climate\nA low-pressure area caused the rain storm on March 22 and by March 25 a total of 15 to 25\u00a0cm (6 to 10\u00a0inches) fell in the Winnipeg area, and 20 to 30\u00a0cm (8 to 12\u00a0inches) in southern Manitoba. In northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, around 8\u00a0inches of snow accumulated from the same storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Fargo-Moorhead\nWarnings for the 2009 flood occurred as early as March 9 when the National Weather Service warned that the Fargo-Moorhead area could see a significant flood of between 35 feet (11\u00a0m) and 36 feet (11\u00a0m). As preparations began for the flooding on March 16, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven declared a statewide disaster in anticipation of flooding across the state. On March 19, the National Weather Service raised the predicted flood level in the Fargo area to between 37 feet (11\u00a0m) and 40 feet (12\u00a0m). The city began filling sandbags on March 20. In anticipation of a rain and snow storm, the predicted crest level was raised on March 22 to a range from 39 feet (12\u00a0m) to 41 feet (12\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Fargo-Moorhead\nVolunteers continued preparing sandbags, with 560,000 bags filled by late March 22, out of an expected 1.5 million to 2 million needed. By March 24, residents in Fargo-Moorhead had filled over 1 million sandbags and were attempting to fill a total of 2 million by the 26th. A levee in Georgetown, Minnesota was raised another two feet, and emergency dikes were being built in Fargo, Moorhead, Harwood, Grafton and Richland County. The predicted flood crest was raised again on March 26, changed to between 41 feet (12\u00a0m) and 42 feet (13\u00a0m) by March 28, with a possibility of 43 feet (13\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Fargo-Moorhead\nIn addition to the sandbags, the construction of the dikes protecting the city required large amounts of clay. Clay had been brought from several places in and around the city, including the soccer field at Centennial Elementary School and around Discovery Middle School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Wahpeton-Breckenridge\nElsewhere along the river, early predictions for the Wahpeton-Breckenridge area saw a predicted level of at least 16 feet (4.9\u00a0m). By March 24, the National Weather Service predicted the crest in Wahpeton and Breckenridge not to top 18 feet (5.5\u00a0m), below the cities' levees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Grand Forks\nIn the Grand Forks, North Dakota area, flood predictions released February 27 predicted a possibility of a flood crest between 44 feet (13\u00a0m) and 46 feet (14\u00a0m). The snowstorm that struck March 9\u201310 raised the predicted levels between 47 feet (14\u00a0m) and 50 feet (15\u00a0m) prompting the city to declare a state of emergency. On March 22 the predicted crest level was changed to 52 feet (16\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nIn Manitoba, the 2009 flood was the second worst on record since 1826. The Red River Floodway was not initially opened, due to the Red River being full of ice, which can lead to damage of the floodway and the flooding of Selkirk. The Red River Floodway was opened in early April once the ice jams cleared. Several towns and R.M.s declared a state of emergency due to the ice jams built up in places along the Red. Flooding in Manitoba was not expected until the second week of April. The CPR Line from Winnipeg to Emerson closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nThe floodway was opened around 1 p.m. on April 8 due to a crest expected to hit the city of Winnipeg. Highway 75, a major artery between Winnipeg and the U.S. border, was closed between April 7 and May 13. This closure cost Manitoba trucking companies thousands of dollars in  additional travel costs and severely hurt the economy of the town of Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nAn eight-year-old boy fell into the river on Thursday,April 9 on the Westroc Hutterite Colony which is near Portage la Prairie. Samuel Gross came out of his 13-day coma after being under icy cold water for 20 minutes. The team under Murray Kesselman, director of the Health Sciences Centre pediatric intensive care unit, worked on Gross's heart for two hours before it started to beat on its own and he began to recover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nWalter Imbeck, 68 years old, went missing since April 11 when friends and neighbours thought he was trying to clear a broken drain behind his home, which was along the riverbank. As of April 13, several communities north of Winnipeg had to be evacuated due to flash flooding and ice jams on the Red River. It was predicted to be the third worst flood, next to the floods of 1950 and 1997. A 79-year-old woman, Mary, died, and her 82-year-old husband, Glen Silverthorn, went missing Easter Sunday after their car was swept into the Woody River. A search commenced, and his body was found on May 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nPrime Minister Stephen Harper toured the flooded area on April 14, 2009. Damages were expected to be in the millions. On April 15, 2009, Winnipeg declared a local state of emergency due to several of the rivers, which flow into the Red River, swelling extremely fast. On April 16, 2009, the Red River crested in Winnipeg at 22.6 feet (6.9\u00a0m) before retreating. If Winnipeg had not had any flood protection, the city would have been 9.23 meters (30.3\u00a0ft) submerged. The crest from North Dakota was expected to hit either April 19 or April 20 and forced 28,000 evacuations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\n777\u00a0km2 (300\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) are under water at some places 19 kilometers (12\u00a0mi) wide as reported April 18. 740 people were evacuated from the Peguis First Nation, which is located north of Winnipeg. Peguis Chief Glenn Hudson said \"either build a dike, or a floodway around ... I think we have to do something,\"   Steve Ashton, minister responsible for the emergency measures organization, said that Disaster Financial Assistance was doubled to $200,000. The Federal Government was expected to assist with up to 90% of the relief, and 100% on reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nThe province assessed whether homeowner buyouts would be voluntary or mandatory. \"We'd look at voluntary buyouts as the first option, but the municipalities have raised this ...they're the ones that have to send in first responders and rescue crews,\" said Steve Ashton, the province's Emergency Measures Minister. Mayor Sam Katz reported an estimated $5 million for sandbag flood prevention costs, which included making and setting into place the sandbags and patrolling them, and then removing them after the river went back down. Some roads and bridges were also damaged as a result of flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Predictions and preparations, Manitoba\nPeguis Chief Glen Hudson estimated the evacuation and dike construction for the first nation reserve was pegged at approximately $3 million. A water quality warning went into effect, and residents who remained were advised to boil water before use. Free water analysis was provided by the Manitoba government until July. On April 20, the total amount of land submerged was upgraded to 1,680\u00a0km2 (650\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), and the river crest was still 60 kilometers (37\u00a0mi) south of Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding\nAt 7:15\u00a0p.m. CDT on March 26, 2009, the river exceeded the 1997 crest of 39.57 feet (12.06\u00a0m) at Fargo, which was the previous second-highest crest. The projected crest was 24 feet (7.3\u00a0m) above flood stage and higher than the record-setting floods in 1997 and 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding\nAt 2:30\u00a0a.m. CDT on March 27, the  National Weather Service offices in Grand Forks issued a Flash Flood Warning for extreme east-central Cass County due to a levee breach in Fargo on Lindenwood Drive. With the river more than 6 meters (20\u00a0ft) above flood stage, there appeared to be a growing sense in Fargo that despite best efforts, it might not be possible to build dikes high enough to hold back the river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding\nThe Manitoba government upgraded the 2009 flood as the second highest to hit southern Manitoba over the last 150 years, just 60 centimeters (24\u00a0in) lower than the 1997 Flood of the Century. The highest level in 2009 was 6.9 meters (23\u00a0ft), and in 1997 it was 7.5 meters (25\u00a0ft). However, without flood control measures such as the Red River floodway, Portage Diversion and Shellmouth dam, the peak would have been 10.2 meters (33\u00a0ft), which is higher than the 1950 peak of 9.3 meters (31\u00a0ft) in Winnipeg. The Red River showed signs of receding April 23, however the Souris river was expected to crest towards the end of the month of April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nOn March 25, an ice jam formed north of Winnipeg, causing the municipalities of St. Andrews, St. Clements, East St. Paul and West St. Paul to declare a state of emergency. Flooding from the ice jam necessitated the evacuation of about thirty homes. While the jam was broken, it reformed near Lower Fort Garry, causing the water to rise 4.5 meters (14.7\u00a0ft) in 2 hours. On March 31, a state of emergency was declared for the city of Selkirk due to concerns over ice jams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nDominion City was the first town in Manitoba to declare a state of emergency on Monday, March 23. Government officials handed out evacuation alerts to 850 residents. Forty homes north of Winnipeg were evacuated, while dozens of homes were flooded due to ice jams. On Thursday, March 26, some 95 elderly and special needs people were evacuated from the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. An engineering firm detonated charges downstream of Bismarck, North Dakota to clear an ice jam which was causing flooding in the city causing an evacuation of 1,700 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nThere were three million sandbags, rolls of poly film Hesco bastion flood walls, and water pumps sent out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to North Dakota. Both North Dakota and Manitoba used backhoes from the river bank and from bridges, but these machines had a 20-foot (6.1\u00a0m)  reach for a 0.25-mile-wide (0.40\u00a0km) river. A Chinook helicopter was deployed with a 1,400-kilogram (3,100\u00a0lb) concrete weight to try to break up an ice jam, but only small pieces of ice broke away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nThe North Dakota National Guard used 160 pounds (73\u00a0kg) of C-4 plastic explosives on the 3-foot-thick (0.91\u00a0m) ice placed into 80 holes. The ice was then coated with road salt to hasten melting. The Army Corps of Engineers also resorted to using sand, salt, chemicals and drilling to alleviate the ice jams. The Manitoba government chose not to use dynamite, as explosives work well on large ice sheets but not as well on broken and fused ice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0019-0003", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nTo set the dynamite, holes need to be drilled in the ice, which would require someone to hang suspended from a helicopter. The end result of dynamite forms a hole centrally in the ice without loosening up the ice jam blockage to allow water to flow past. Manitoba purchased five new certified emergency response trailers (CERTs), which are 15-meter-long (49\u00a0ft) tubes with 60 compartments which can be filled with water and used to build dikes. These tubes take 10 minutes to fill up and provide the same protection as 500 sandbags. Volunteers created over 600,000 sandbags to shore up defences against the Red River and unpredictable flows caused by ice jams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nDikes were placed along the shoreline within the city to protect neighbourhoods against ice jam flooding. Over 1,600 volunteers came out since April 1 to assist with creating sandbag dikes which were built 20.5 feet (6.2\u00a0m) high. Frozen culverts and sewer inlets were cleared to allow runoff from meltwaters and floodwaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nAmphibex excavator icebreakers were at work breaking up ice flows on the Red River. Ice breakers and backhoes were to be strategically placed along the Red River Floodway, which might have needed to be opened before the ice was fully melted. Officials examined past ice jams and provided contingency plans if the Floodway jammed upstream of bridges or on tight corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Ice jams\nOn Easter Sunday, April 12, Winnipeg was clear of ice blocks and ice jams. Sightseers traveling by car, boat, kayak and anyone ignoring road closures were being ticketed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as they were hampering ice clearing operations. Residents of the rural municipalities of St. Andrews and St. Clements were given evacuation alerts on Good Friday. Some chose to remain behind, and rescue efforts commenced for them over the Easter week-end. Homes were smashed in and knocked off their basements and footings by 7-foot-high (2.1\u00a0m) sheets of ice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding, Devils Lake and Stump Lake\nThere was a 6% chance Devils Lake and Stump Lake would rise to historic levels, which could have caused problems in the Sheyenne River Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204712-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Red River flood, Flooding and ice jam mitigation considerations\nStructural adaptations to the river channel or the placement of dams and ice booms would control where ice jams would form. Hairpin curves and bridges are problem areas for the jamming of ice. Following the 1997 Red River flood, Grand Forks and East Grand Forks smoothed out some of the river curves in those cities. Rural municipality reeves have approached the Canadian government with a CA$288,000 plan which would use the province of Manitoba's existing Amphibex ice-breaking excavators to dredge the Red River between Selkirk and the mouth of Lake Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204713-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2\n2009 Regional League Division 2 was contested by the five regional league winners of the 3rd level championships of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204713-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2\nFive teams met on a home and away basis, with the top three teams gaining promotion to the Thai 1st Division for the 2010 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204713-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2, 2009 Regional League Round table All locations, 2009\nRed Zone:2009 Regional League Division 2 Bangkok Metropolitan RegionYellow Zone:2009 Regional League Division 2 Central & Eastern RegionGreen Zone: 2009 Regional League Division 2 Northern Region Region Orange Zone:2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern RegionBlue Zone:2009 Regional League Division 2 Southern Region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204713-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2, 2009 Regional League Round table All locations, List of qualified teams\nChiangrai United North Eastern Region 2009 WinnersRaj Pracha-Nonthaburi Bangkok & Field Region 2009 WinnersNarathiwat Southern Region WinnersLoei City North Eastern Region 2009 WinnersSamut Prakan Central & Eastern Region 2009 Winners", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 104], "content_span": [105, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204713-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2, Champions\nThe  2009 Regional League Division 2 winners were Raj Pracha-Nonthaburi FC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204714-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 Bangkok Metropolitan Region\n2009 Regional League Division 2 Bangkok Metropolitan Region (Thai: \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e20\u0e39\u0e21\u0e34\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04 \u0e01\u0e23\u0e38\u0e07\u0e40\u0e17\u0e1e\u0e41\u0e25\u0e30\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e34\u0e21\u0e13\u0e11\u0e25 or \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e14\u0e34\u0e27\u0e34\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e19 2 \u0e01\u0e23\u0e38\u0e07\u0e40\u0e17\u0e1e\u0e41\u0e25\u0e30\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e34\u0e21\u0e13\u0e11\u0e25) is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. In 2009, contains 10 clubs from Bangkok Metropolitan region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204715-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 Central & Eastern Region\n2009 Regional League Division 2 Central & Eastern Region (Thai: \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e20\u0e39\u0e21\u0e34\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e01\u0e25\u0e32\u0e07\u0e41\u0e25\u0e30\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e15\u0e30\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e01 or \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e14\u0e34\u0e27\u0e34\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e19 2 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e01\u0e25\u0e32\u0e07\u0e41\u0e25\u0e30\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e15\u0e30\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e01) is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. In 2009, contains 12 clubs from Central & Eastern region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204716-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region\n2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region (Thai: \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e20\u0e39\u0e21\u0e34\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e15\u0e30\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e40\u0e09\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d or \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e14\u0e34\u0e27\u0e34\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e19 2 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e15\u0e30\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e40\u0e09\u0e35\u0e22\u0e07\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d) is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. In 2009, contains 12 clubs from North Eastern region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204716-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region\nThe league winners qualify for the end of season Regional Championships with the other four league winners in the Regional setup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204716-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region\nUbon United FC withdrew from the league after playing 16 games, due to a dispute with the Thailand Football Association (FAT). All results were declared null and void. Ubon were also given a 2-year ban from competing. The league table was re-adjusted accordingly, after FAT previously thought about awarding 2-0 victories for the remaining games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204717-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 Northern Region\n2009 Regional League Division 2 Northern Region (Thai: \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e20\u0e39\u0e21\u0e34\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d or \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e14\u0e34\u0e27\u0e34\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e19 2 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e37\u0e2d) is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. In 2009, contains 11 clubs from Northern region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204718-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 Southern Region\n2009 Regional League Division 2 Southern Region (Thai: \u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e20\u0e39\u0e21\u0e34\u0e20\u0e32\u0e04 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e43\u0e15\u0e49 or \u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e25\u0e35\u0e01\u0e14\u0e34\u0e27\u0e34\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e19 2 \u0e20\u0e32\u0e04\u0e43\u0e15\u0e49) is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. The first season was played in 2009, starting in March and finishing in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204718-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Regional League Division 2 Southern Region\nThe league winners Narathiwat entered the Regional League Championships 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204719-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup\nThe 2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup was an ATP World Tour and WTA Tour tennis tournament held at the hardcourts of the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States. It was the 34th edition of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the 24th edition of the Cellular South Cup. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series on the 2009 ATP World Tour, and the Cellular South Cup was an International-level tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour. Both of the events took place from February 15 to February 22, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204719-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup\nThe men's draw was led by Australian Open & San Jose semifinalist plus 2002 champion Andy Roddick, Auckland champion Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, San Jose semifinalist plus 2002 runner-up James Blake, Auckland semifinalist and 2006 and 2008 runner-up Robin S\u00f6derling, Brisbane titlist Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, Igor Andreev, Mardy Fish and Auckland runner-up Sam Querrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204719-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup\nThe women's draw was headed by WTA #12 Caroline Wozniacki, Brisbane winner Victoria Azarenka, Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1, Auckland semifinalist Anne Keothavong, Marina Erakovic, Sabine Lisicki, Alla Kudryavtseva and Pauline Parmentier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204719-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, Finals, Men's doubles\nMardy Fish /  Mark Knowles defeated  Travis Parrott /  Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek, 7\u20136(9\u20137), 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 90], "content_span": [91, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204719-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, Finals, Women's doubles\nVictoria Azarenka /  Caroline Wozniacki defeated  Yuliana Fedak /  Micha\u00eblla Krajicek, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(7\u20132)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 92], "content_span": [93, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204720-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships \u2013 Doubles\nMahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles were the defending champions, although they are not participating this year. However Knowles is appearing with Mardy Fish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204721-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships \u2013 Singles\nSteve Darcis was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Andy Roddick, who went on to win the title by defeating Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek in the final, 7\u20135, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom\nThe 2009 Elf Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom with Michelin season began at Brands Hatch on 4 April and finished after 20 races over 10 events at the same circuit on 4 October. The Championship was won by Phil Glew driving for Team Pyro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Teams & Drivers\nAll competitors raced in Renault Clio Cup 197s for the first half of the season and Renault Clio Cup 200s for the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Race calendar and results\nThe series supported the British Touring Car Championship at nine of the ten rounds. The series skipped the round at Knockhill and instead raced at the World Series by Renault meeting at Silverstone on 4\u20135 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Standings\nPoints were awarded on a 32, 28, 25, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top 20 finishers in each race, with 2 bonus points for the fastest lap in each race. A driver's best 18 scores counted towards the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Standings, Entrants' Championship\nPoints were awarded on the same scale as the drivers' championship but without the fastest lap bonus. An entrant's two highest placed cars in each race scored points and all scores counted towards the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Winter Cup\nThe Winter Cup was held at Rockingham on 7 November. It was won by Daniel Lloyd driving for Total Control Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204722-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom, Winter Cup, Drivers' Championship\nPoints were awarded on the same scale as the main championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches\nRepublic of Ireland vs France was a two-legged football play-off held on 14 and 18 November 2009 between the national teams of the Republic of Ireland and France as part of the UEFA second round of qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The first match was held on 14 November in Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, and ended in a 1\u20130 victory for France with Nicolas Anelka scoring. The second leg, played on 18 November in the Stade de France outside Paris, France, finished 1\u20130 to the Republic of Ireland (with Robbie Keane scoring). The tie went to extra time and a controversial William Gallas goal enabled by Thierry Henry handling the ball twice made the score 2\u20131 on aggregate and France progressed to the World Cup at Ireland's expense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches\nAfter the second leg, the French captain Thierry Henry admitted to Irish defender Richard Dunne that he had illegally handled the ball in the build-up to Gallas' match-winning goal, which had been scored in extra time with 17 minutes remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches\nThe incident led to calls from the Football Association of Ireland and Government of Ireland to the world governing body FIFA for the result to be set aside and for the game to be replayed, and later for Ireland to be allowed to enter the World Cup as an unprecedented supernumerary 33rd team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches\nHenry, previously seen by many in the sport as a fair footballer, was characterised as cheating, with the incident being compared to Diego Maradona's \"Hand of God\" goal, and TIME magazine comparing Henry's goal (sometimes called \"Le Hand of God\") to a top ten list of sporting cheats. Henry considered retiring from international football due to the reactions to the game, while the Swedish match referee Martin Hansson considered quitting as a referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches\nThe result sparked debate on the issue of fair play in football, and fuelled the ongoing debate on the introduction of video refereeing and Additional Assistant Referees into the sport. At an emergency meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee called in part as a result of the handball controversy, FIFA announced it was setting up an inquiry into the options for technology or extra officials in football, but ruled out any changes being introduced in time for the 2010 World Cup. Henry's case was passed to the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for investigation, which ruled that it could not sanction Henry under the text of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Route to the matches\nThe qualification process for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa began in 2007, and as Europe-affiliated teams (both being members of UEFA) France and the Republic of Ireland became two of 53 teams competing for 13 places in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Route to the matches\nUnder the rules for the 2010 tournament, UEFA qualification was a two-stage process, as had previously been the case for qualification in 2006. Teams were able to qualify automatically by winning one of nine qualifying groups (the first round), and a second chance to qualify was given to eight of the nine second-place finishers via a knock-out phase (the second round) of four games between those eight second-placed teams, contested over two legs, home and away, with the winners of each pairing being awarded one of the four remaining UEFA qualifying places. Both France and the Republic of Ireland failed to qualify as winners of their first-round groups (France in Group 7, the Republic in Group 8), but both teams finished in second place with enough points to allow them to advance to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 883]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Route to the matches\nFIFA announced on 29 September 2009 that it would modify the draw system used to select second-round pairings by introducing a seeding system. In the draw, held in Z\u00fcrich on 19 October, the eight teams were divided into two pots of four; France were seeded along with Greece, Portugal and Russia, while Ireland was unseeded, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Ukraine. Ireland was drawn to play France, with the first of their two games to be played in Ireland on 14 November 2009. The way the seeding process was handled led some to claim at the time that UEFA had changed the rules halfway through to favour to the higher profile teams like France and Portugal, preferring them to qualify over \"smaller\" nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Route to the matches\nThe 18 November date of the second leg of the France vs Republic of Ireland play-off in Saint-Denis coincided with the date of a number of other World Cup qualification matches around the world, marking the completion of the entire qualification process for 2010. With their win, France ultimately joined Algeria, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal and Uruguay as the last of the 32 competitors in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Route to the matches\nUnder the agreed tie-break criteria, the team scoring more goals on aggregate wins the play-off. If scores are level on aggregate, the team with the higher number of away goals advances. If teams are level on away goals, 30 minutes of extra time is played. If the score is level after extra time, the match goes to penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Pre-match, Venue selection\nThe Dublin leg of the tie was held at Croke Park instead of the Republic of Ireland's traditional home venue of Lansdowne Road, owing to ongoing redevelopment of that venue as the Aviva Stadium. The French leg was held at Stade de France, the French team's national stadium near Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 78], "content_span": [79, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Pre-match, Analysis\nBefore 1990, the Republic of Ireland had never qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, while France's best record was two third-place finishes, in 1958 and 1986. Between 1990 and 2006 (the year in which the most recent FIFA World Cup had been held), the Republic of Ireland and France had each qualified for three finals tournaments. The two teams' records for the tournament were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Matches, Dublin leg, Summary\nThe Republic of Ireland team chose a balanced 4-4-2 formation, while the French team opted for their customary 4-2-3-1 formation, favouring offensive play over defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 80], "content_span": [81, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Matches, Saint-Denis leg, Summary\nA controversial instance of misconduct occurred during extra time in the second leg of the two-legged tie, when the overall score was standing at 1\u20131 on aggregate. French player Florent Malouda took a free kick just outside the centre circle in the Irish half of the field. He lofted it toward French captain Thierry Henry, who was making a run in the penalty area to Irish goalkeeper Shay Given's right-hand side. The ball bounced once to Henry, now inside the goal area to the left of the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 85], "content_span": [86, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Matches, Saint-Denis leg, Summary\nAs it bounced upwards, Henry handled the ball twice with his left hand, stopping it going out of play and bringing the ball under control, before tapping the ball with the outside of his right foot past Given standing at the near goal post. The ball travelled the short distance to William Gallas arriving in the middle of the goal, who headed the ball into the Irish net to confirm France's place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 85], "content_span": [86, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Matches, Saint-Denis leg, Summary\nThe referee immediately signalled the goal as being valid. Irish players inside the penalty box appealed the decision by raising their arms, and as Henry wheeled away in celebration around the back of the Irish goal, Given ran to the referee gesticulating that a handball offence had occurred, while Irish manager Giovanni Trapattoni did the same to the fourth official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 85], "content_span": [86, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Matches, Saint-Denis leg, Summary\nThe handball offence was not seen by the referee or his two assistants, according to the BBC. The match officials also missed an offside during the same phase of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 85], "content_span": [86, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nHenry told a reporter after the incident, \"Yes, there was hand, but I'm not the referee. Toto was going for the front, I was behind two Irishmen, the ball ricocheted and hit my hand. Of course, I continued to play... The referee did not whistle 'hand' but I can't say there wasn't hand.\" Henry later defended himself against criticism, stating, \"Obviously I would have preferred that things panned out differently but I am not the official. I do not think we have stolen qualification\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nAfter FIFA denied the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) request for a replay, Henry released a statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nThe fairest solution would be to replay the game but it is not in my control...Naturally I feel embarrassed at the way that we won and feel extremely sorry for the Irish who definitely deserve to be in South Africa...I have said at the time and I will say again that 'yes' I handled the ball. I am not a cheat and never have been. It was an instinctive reaction to a ball that was coming extremely fast in a crowded penalty area....", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nAs a footballer you do not have the luxury of the television to slow the pace of the ball down 100 times to be able to make a conscious decision...People are viewing a slow motion version of what happened and not what I or any other footballer faces in the game. If people look at it in full speed you will see that it was an instinctive reaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nHenry said that he had considered quitting international football after the reactions to the incident, but was persuaded not to by friends and family. He criticised the French Football Federation (FFF) for their lack of support in the aftermath of the controversy. He regretted the immediate celebration of the goal but put it down to the emotion of the moment, and reflected that not informing the referee had been a mistake. On the issue of lasting impact of the incident, Henry said \"I don't think that all I have achieved in my career up until now will be spoiled by this\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Thierry Henry\nHenry later called FIFA President Sepp Blatter over the incident. Blatter stated Henry had told him his family had been threatened over the incident by fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Match referee\nThe match was officiated by a Swedish team. Martin Hansson was the match referee, assisted by his two assistant referees, Fredrik Nilsson and Stefan Wittberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Match referee\nReferee Hansson told Sveriges Radio Blekinge \"I cannot comment on the game itself but life must go on. I will ride this storm as well\". In his first substantial comment on the incident, Hansson spoke to the regional Swedish newspaper Syd\u00f6stran on 24 November. While repeating the fact that FIFA rules prevented him commenting on the game until the investigation concluded, he said the incident was neither his or his referee team's fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Match referee\nReferring to a graphic illustration printed earlier in The Times and reproduced in some Swedish newspapers, he said \"[the graphic] clears the whole refereeing team in this incident\". The picture, titled 'Why the referee missed it', purported to show how neither the referee or the assistant referee could have seen the handball incident, due to the presence of three Irish players blocking Hansson's view from his position on the edge of the penalty area, and Irish goalkeeper Shay Given's position obscuring the sightline of the assistant referee, Nilsson, who was standing on the right hand touchline. He also stated that the reaction to the game had made him consider quitting his job as a referee. On 21 June, during the World Cup finals, Hansson said, \"After the game, we were sitting in the dressing room and I cried. I realized what a mistake it was.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 964]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Team managers\nIreland manager Giovanni Trapattoni stated he did not blame Henry, nor did he expect a replay would occur, but he did believe the incident would bring further pressure on FIFA to introduce goal-line technology, stating \"There is a 30-second stop and we clarify the situation...I'm sure in the future they will have to do something about it. It wasn't up to Henry to say 'I touched it with my hand'\". Trapattoni also questioned the selection of the match referee, stating \"For this important game we needed a stronger referee \u2013 an important referee\", and went on to also question the format of the qualifying round matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Team managers\nFrench team manager Raymond Domenech said of the game, \"I don't see what we could have done better... We needed to qualify and we did that, even if it was painful. Victories like this one, at the end of a difficult campaign, give this side heart and soul\", although criticism in France of his team, which had existed before the game, continued. Domenech later criticised the condemnation of Henry and France, and questioned the right of former French players like Cantona and Lizarazu to criticise his record as the French coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Other players\nIreland captain and scorer of Ireland's goal in the controversial match Robbie Keane criticised the presidents of FIFA and UEFA following the result, claiming they would be 'delighted' that France had gone through. He told BBC Radio Five Live, \"They're all probably clapping hands, Platini sitting up there on the phone to Sepp Blatter, probably texting each other, delighted with the result.\" After Henry's statement, Keane concurred with his call for a replay in the interest of fair play, stating \"On behalf of the Republic of Ireland players, I would like to thank Thierry Henry... As captain of the French team, to make such a statement took courage and honour, and all of us recognise that\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Other players\nIn general, the Irish players blamed the officials rather than Henry. Damien Duff admitted he would have done the same had it been to Ireland's advantage, and said: \"If it was down the other end and it was going out of play, I would have chanced my arm. You can't blame him (Henry). He's a clever player \u2013 but you expect the ref to see it, it was so blatant.\" Many players, including Duff, supported call for the introduction of video technology. Sean St Ledger hoped France would be put in a 'group of death' in the World Cup draw, but feared they might go on to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Other players\nDefender Richard Dunne later spoke of how he was unaware of the extent of Henry's involvement when he sat down with him on the pitch at the end of the match and admitted the handball. Dunne properly viewed the incident for the first time on a computer in his team's dressing room. He also described how \"heartbreaking\" the whole experience was, his lack of interest in the draw or who France's opponents might be in the finals and how \"disappointing\" it would be when the tournament eventually took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Other players\nGiven was critical of Sepp Blatter's later actions, stating his various announcements \"rubbed salt in the wounds\" and his contradictory comments about Henry were \"beyond a joke\". He expressed doubt he would get over the incident in his lifetime. Of Henry, he said \"I'm not saying he's a cheat but what he's done is illegal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, View of match participants, Other players\nDunne was later critical of Blatter's offer of moral compensation, describing it as \"taking the mickey\". He doubted Robbie Keane would be going to FIFA to collect any such award. He reiterated the belief that ever since the earlier seedings controversy, FIFA had been showing France unfair favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 105], "content_span": [106, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI appeal\nThe FAI filed a formal complaint with FIFA and the FFF, stating, \"The handball was recognised by the FIFA commissioner, the referee observer and the match officials, as well as by the player himself.\" The FAI cited precedent for the invalidation of the result, using the example of a previous World Cup qualification match between Uzbekistan and Bahrain, overturned by FIFA due to a 'technical error by the referee of the match'. In that game, the referee had failed to have a penalty kick re-taken after an attacker encroached on the penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI appeal\nFAI chief executive John Delaney said \"It is up to the people who govern the game now, if they really believe in the principles of fair play then step forward.... If we had qualified in this manner, I wouldn't be happy\" The president of the (FFF) Jean-Pierre Escalettes said \"You have to take a philosophical approach to this match.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI appeal\nOn 20 November, FIFA rejected the request for a replay, stating to the FAI:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI appeal\nThe result of the match cannot be changed and the match cannot be replayed. As is clearly mentioned in the Laws of the Game, during matches, decisions are taken by the referee and these decisions are final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI appeal\nAfter FIFA and Thierry Henry's statement, the FAI urged the FFF to respect their views and those of the captains of both teams, to replay the game to \"protect the integrity of the game worldwide\". The FFF, while sympathetic, endorsed the FIFA ruling. Following the FFF's refusal to support a replay, the FAI expressed \"deep disappointment\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI proposals and 33rd team place\nAt the request of the FAI, Sepp Blatter met an Irish delegation in Z\u00fcrich for 90 minutes on Friday 27 November. The FAI proposed a number of ways the incident could be prevented in future and, agreeing that the match could not be replayed, they instead also officially requested to be allowed to enter the World Cup as an unprecedented extra 33rd entrant. Blatter stated that he would raise the Irish request at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the FIFA executive committee. RT\u00c9 Sport speculated that the request would be \"politely turned down\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 111], "content_span": [112, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI proposals and 33rd team place\nThe request drew 'laughter' when he relayed it to the Soccerex conference the following Monday. Blatter was of the opinion that if the Republic of Ireland were admitted as an extra entrant, Costa Rica would also have to be considered as well, having also been unfairly eliminated by an offside goal in a play-off against Uruguay. FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke had ruled it out on 1 December, one day before the meeting, clarifying that Blatter's comments regarding other teams had already shown the request was \"impossible\" and had \"no hope\" of being granted. According to The Guardian on 30 November, the Irish had not expected the request to be successful, but they had also \"asked FIFA to consider compensating them in some other way, perhaps by seeding them in the draw for the 2014 World Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 111], "content_span": [112, 917]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI proposals and 33rd team place\nThe FAI's proposals included: no changes to competition formats mid-tournament (referring to the play off group seeding change), introduce video technology at the highest level, implement additional assistant referees behind the goal line for all international matches, introduce stronger sanctions for players who breach the Laws of the Game in a \"match defining way\", and issuing a statement that \"FIFA does not condone breaches\" of those Laws, referring to Sepp Blatter's previous statements of empathy with Henry. The FAI stated they did not ask for any action to be taken against Henry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 111], "content_span": [112, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI proposals and 33rd team place\nDelaney reacted angrily to Blatter's public disclosure of what was intended to be a confidential submission to the FIFA executive committee, complaining to the FIFA general secretary and calling it \"disrespectful to our country\", and stating the 33rd team proposal had been \"very much peripheral\" to their suggestions, and was only discussed \"for a minute or two\" in the meeting. The FAI asserted that the 33rd place request had not even been included in any of the written submissions to FIFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 111], "content_span": [112, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nBlatter had initially faced criticism for refusing to comment on the incident. His first comments came with a report in L'\u00c9quipe, and during his opening address at the Soccerex football conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, both on Sunday 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nBlatter said that it had not been Henry's responsibility to tell the referee of the misdemeanour, comparing a similar incident in his own playing career, when he did not tell the referee about an advantage gained by shirt-pulling. Blatter said that referee Hansson \"should have taken the time to reflect rather than immediately awarding the goal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nOn the issue of fair play, Blatter said \"There is a lack of discipline and respect in the game by the players because they are cheating\" and \"How can it happen that all over the world, through TV cameras, we have seen through a cheating handball that a pass was given for a goal? Everyone is asking what is and what isn't fair play. The highest crime in football is touching the ball with the hands\". Referring to the possibility of using assistant referees or goal line technology, Blatter stated, \"match control is now is on the agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nHow shall we avoid such situations as we have seen in this very specific match?\" Blatter repeated his stated opposition to video refereeing, saying, \"With technology, you have to stop a match. You have a look at cameras... We have to maintain the human face of football and not go into technology.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nOn the issue of fair play at the World Cup, Blatter commented after the FIFA executive committee's EGM:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nI appeal to all the players and coaches to observe this fair play. In 2010 we want to prove that football is more than just kicking a ball but has social and cultural value... So we ask the players 'please observe fair play' so they will be an example to the rest of the world", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nBlatter apologised to the FAI on 2 December for the public disclosure of the FAI's submission to FIFA and for the media's perception of his comments at Soccerex, saying, \"I have nothing against the Irish, they were very sporting people when they came to FIFA and it is a pity that it has been now communicated in this way.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Sepp Blatter\nAfter the EGM, John Delaney described FIFA as the \"biggest losers\" in the controversy for having \"made one mistake after another\", referring to the mid-competition change in seeding rules for the play-off, the negative imagery of football as a whole generated by FIFA's actions and Henry's goal, and Sepp Blatter's subsequent dealings with the FAI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 90], "content_span": [91, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nOn 23 November FIFA announced that the FIFA executive committee would hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on 2 December in Cape Town, where members were already due to meet to discuss the seedings for the World Cup, in order to discuss various recent incidents affecting the world game. According to BBC Radio 5 Live sports news correspondent Gordon Farquhar, the Henry incident would be \"high on the agenda\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0042-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nGordon Smith, the chief executive of the Scottish Football Association and a member of the International Football Association Board, believed that introduction of AARs in time for the World Cup would be pressed for at the EGM by UEFA president Michel Platini, who had been a long-time supporter of the concept; Smith said of the proposal, \"I feel that it has its advantages at the highest levels of the games. When there's massive TV coverage the problems are highlighted all over the world so this is something we may have to look at.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0042-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nThe FAI was to be given the chance to present their views at the EGM, with Delaney hoping it would not be a \"token\" gesture, criticising the lack of direct contact from FIFA. FIFA President Sepp Blatter confirmed on 30 November that the EGM would consider the use of AARs and goal-line technology in the 2010 World Cup, and changing the two-legged play-off qualification format, possibly in favour of a single game played at a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nThe EGM was held on 2 December at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The executive committee at the time consisted of FIFA president Sepp Blatter, eight vice-presidents and 15 members, and the FIFA general secretary J\u00e9r\u00f4me Valcke. The membership included representatives of various confederations and associations around the world. In response to Blatter's comments at Soccerex and before the EGM, the FAI formally notified FIFA in writing that they were withdrawing their request to enter the World Cup as a 33rd team, and accordingly this matter was not considered. The FAI's other suggestions were, however, discussed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nAccording to FIFA, the EGM discussion resulted in \"concrete proposals\" to ensure that improvements were made on the issues raised. According to Blatter, the committee recognised the game was at a \"crossroads\" and that, at the highest levels, where 32 cameras were to be used to film the 2010 World Cup, it was now \"impossible\" for just the referee and his two assistants to \"see everything\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nThe EGM announced that FIFA would be setting up an inquiry into future use of extra assistants and technology. The new inquiry would, according to Blatter, \"have a look at technology or additional persons\". Described as a \"full inquiry\" or \"working party\" by media commentators, it was to comprise a new FIFA committee with input drawn in part from the existing FIFA referees', football, technical and medical committees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nThe expected introduction of AARs for the 2010 World Cup was ruled out. The committee \"stressed that it would be too soon to implement this new system at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.\" Blatter explained that, as AARs had not yet been trialled outside of Europe, the committee was of the opinion that any experiment must be carried out \"globally\" before it could be used in a World Cup. Blatter confirmed that the experiment with AAR's in the Europa League would continue into the 2010 knock-out stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FIFA executive committee\nThe meeting also ruled out the use of video refereeing systems similar to those seen in rugby, cricket and tennis. Blatter stated that two companies investigating goal-line technology were due to report their results to International Football Association Board (IFAB) in March 2010. FIFA also called on the general secretaries of the Continental Federations to propose improvements to the format of the qualification and play-off phase of the World Cup competition, for submission by March 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 102], "content_span": [103, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nOn the issue of possible disciplinary sanctions against Henry individually, a FIFA spokesperson stated \"The [independent] disciplinary commission...will decide if the case is of interest [when they meet sometime in the next two weeks]. The possibility exists of sanctioning a player for unsporting behaviour on the basis of video evidence\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nExamples of FIFA disciplinary action taken against players for incidents missed by the referee based on video evidence include banning Mauro Tassotti for eight games for use of an elbow during the 1994 World Cup quarter-final, and banning Marco Materazzi for two games for his verbal provocation of Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, resulting in the infamous headbutting incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nOn 2 December after the FIFA EGM it was announced that FIFA's disciplinary committee would open an investigation into Henry's handball. No timetable was given for when the investigation, chaired by Swiss lawyer Marcel Mathier, would rule on the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nBlatter said of the decision to single out Henry for investigation of a handball:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nI have not said that Thierry Henry will be punished, I have said that Thierry Henry will be examined [by the committee]... it's not a question of this player or another \u2013 it was blatant unfair play and was seen all around the world...let [the committee] make the decision. Fair play must be maintained in our game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nAccording to the Associated Press, the committee had the \"authority to impose a one-match suspension on Henry, which would take effect at the start of the World Cup in June\". According to the BBC, FIFA said \"there was no certainty Henry would be banned if found guilty\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nOn 18 January 2010 it was announced that Henry would face no sanctions in relation to the incident, after the committee found it had \"no legal foundation\" to deal with the case, as the relevant rules only covered sanctions for preventing a goal by illegally handling the ball. FIFA rules reportedly forbade any other action as the referee had not seen the original incident. FIFA released the following statement:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nthe Disciplinary Committee reached the conclusion that there was no legal foundation for the committee to consider the case because handling the ball cannot be regarded as a serious infringement as stipulated in article 77a of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. There is no other legal text that would allow the committee to impose sanctions for any incidents missed by match officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Henry disciplinary investigation\nThe FFF president Jean-Pierre Escalettes hoped the announcement would mark the end of the incident, stating of the decision that is \"not astonishing, it is logical\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, France national team\nFIFA secretary general J\u00e9r\u00f4me Valcke later denied that France's absence from the top 8 seeded teams for the 2010 World Cup draw had been a result of the controversy, stating that the change to the seeding system (using the world rankings as they stood at October 2009) was fairer than past systems. The FFF president described the decision as logical, although former French coach Michel Hidalgo disagreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, France national team\nIn a quirk of the resulting draw, the lack of seeding ultimately did not have a detrimental effect on France, as they were drawn into Group A; since the seeding place in Group A had already been allocated to the host nation South Africa, a Group A draw was the only possible outcome where France would not have been placed into a group with one of the top seven seeded teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0056-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, France national team\nSouth Africa were ranked 86th in the world at the time, making them the lowest-ranked team competing in the tournament; The Irish Times commented that this turn of events in France's favour would cause the Irish to feel particularly aggrieved. At the finals, France ultimately failed to qualify from their group, failing to win a game and managing only a solitary point in their first match against Uruguay; following a major disruption at the team's camp by the French players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, France national team\nFrance and the Republic of Ireland did not meet in the qualifying matches for the 2012 European Championships. France were drawn in Group D while Ireland were drawn in Group B, although they were drawn together in the practice run for the draw held the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, FAI compensation\nAfter the FIFA EGM, John Delaney said, \"In terms of the football side, this is the end of the matter\", but that \"the incident will linger long in the memory like Diego Maradona's handball.\" Delaney hoped the promise of an inquiry into refereeing and technology was \"not a fudge.\" The FAI and FIFA were however due to meet again after the EGM according to Blatter, to discuss some form of non-financial compensation for the controversy. On 4 June 2015 it emerged during an RT\u00c9 interview that FIFA had bought the FAI's silence with a \u20ac5 million payment which would prevent any legal action against them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 94], "content_span": [95, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Post-match, Action taken, Match officials\nIn January 2010, match referee Hansson and his assistant Stefan Wittberg were both selected as one of the thirty officiating teams to be used at the 2010 World Cup; however, Hansson's other assistant on the day of the incident, Fredrik Nilsson who missed the handball, was not selected, being replaced by Henrik Andr\u00e9n. FIFA had insisted at the time of the incident that, since selection of referees for the World Cup referee was based on long-term assessments, Hansson would probably make it to the finals. UEFA president Michel Platini called it a good decision, defending Hansson as having not been responsible for the incident as he had not seen the handball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 93], "content_span": [94, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction\nThe incident has been compared to Maradona's infamous \"Hand of God\" goal in the 1986 World Cup, which led to the incident being labelled as the \"Hand of Frog\" the \"Hand of Gaul\" and the \"Hand of Henry\" affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Governments and politicians\nIrish Taoiseach Brian Cowen called on FIFA for a replay, stating that \"fair play is a fundamental part of the game\". Cowen raised the issue with French President Nicolas Sarkozy while both were at the European Union summit in Brussels on 19 November 2009. After the summit, Sarkozy stated, \"I told Brian Cowen how sorry I was for them... But don't ask me to substitute myself for the referee, or the French football authorities, or the European football authorities.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 89], "content_span": [90, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Governments and politicians\nThe incident was criticised in D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament. The Irish Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern called on FIFA to act in the interests of fair play. The French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Fillon stated that the 'Irish government should not interfere in footballing decisions'. Rama Yade, French Secretary of State for Sports, and FFF vice-president No\u00ebl Le Gra\u00ebt both defended Henry from accusations of intentional cheating, pointing to his playing record, and stating that he should be presumed innocent unless he stated he deliberately set out to cheat. The French Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot and Christine Lagarde Minister of Economic Affairs were sympathetic to the Irish viewpoint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 89], "content_span": [90, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Sports administrators\nOn the eve of Henry's possible punishment being discussed at the FIFA EGM, FFF technical director G\u00e9rard Houllier defended Henry, stating the handball was instinctive and that the blame lay with the referee, pointing out that had the goal not been scored, the match would still have gone to penalties. Houllier also called for the introduction of video refereeing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Sports administrators\nAccording to The Independent, the organiser of the 2010 World Cup Danny Jordaan resisted calls for video refereeing and believed that 'disputed decisions should be considered part of football'. Leslie Irvine, the Northern Irish former referee and FIFA instructor on the referee selection panel for the 2010 World Cup, was of the opinion that referee Hansson was not to blame for the incident, as by simply not seeing the incident he had not committed a 'technical infringement', and said Thierry Henry bore \"moral responsibility\" for the controversy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0064-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Sports administrators\nJacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) praised Henry's decision to express his regrets over the affair, but declined to comment further, having not seen the incident. On the eve of the FIFA EGM, FIFA Secretary General J\u00e9r\u00f4me Valcke, while lamenting the fact that after 853 matches in the qualifying process, only one was being talked about, he said \"It's important to make sure what happened will not happen again\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nWhile in Dublin on 26 November for a charity event, Pel\u00e9 said \"maybe the linesman could help, but even the linesman doesn't see the game. We say fair play, but you know I don't think it was unfair, something that goes in one second... The result was unfair, but unfortunately you can't change that\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nFootball pundits Johnny Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Graeme Souness, analysing the video replays on RT\u00c9 Two, disputed whether Shay Given or anybody else was obscuring the view of the assistant referee from seeing the incident, although they were not certain the assistant could have flagged with certainty for handball even if he had a clear line of sight, due to the speed of the incident and flight of the ball. Former Irish international and football pundit Mark Lawrenson said \"The man cheated. He controlled the ball with the second handball. It is a Maradona moment\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nAnother former Irish international Tony Cascarino wrote in The Times that Henry \"speaks so eloquently, but to me now he'll always be insincere, a faker, someone who cares only about himself\". Former French international David Ginola said \"I'm very embarrassed by the situation...I don\u2019t feel very proud to be French this morning. The Irish played very well and they deserved to go through as much as France, maybe more. I'm very surprised FIFA haven't mentioned anything about it \u2013 the whole world saw the handball. This is a pure injustice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0066-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nEveryone in France, the press and everyone, says there should be a replay\". Former Ireland captain Roy Keane said the attempt by the FAI to get a replay was \"rubbish\", telling them to \"get over it\", that France were there for the taking and Ireland should not have allowed Henry to be in such a good position in the first place. Keane later apologised to any Irish fans offended by his \"over the top\" comments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nHenry's former France teammate Bixente Lizarazu stated \"It was not something to be proud of. I'm not going to party.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0067-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nHenry's former Arsenal and France teammate Emmanuel Petit wrote that \"The feeling among the French public on Thursday morning was one of embarrassment \u2013 we didn't want to qualify in controversial circumstances, we wanted to beat Ireland by playing within the rules\" and \"Thierry's handball will not send out a good message\", but he was of the opinion that this \"very rare indiscretion\" would not damage his reputation, explaining that \"There is a referee on the pitch and if he didn't see that's not France's problem.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0067-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nPetit later criticised FIFA and UEFA for their lack of support for Henry, and believed that Henry had saved Raymond Domenech's job. French player Patrice Evra questioned the patriotism of those French people attacking Henry, and was of the opinion that those same people would have criticised Henry had he informed the referee he had committed handball. Former French captain Patrick Vieira blamed the referee for the controversy, and supported the idea of video refereeing or having a fifth referee to assist in games. Former French international Eric Cantona was critical of Domenech, and referring to Henry's immediate post-match act of consoling an Irish player, said \"If I'd been Irish, he wouldn't have lasted three seconds.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nAnother former Arsenal teammate Lee Dixon wrote that Henry had gone down in a lot of Arsenal fans' estimations, and Henry \"has been a truly great footballer \u2013 one of the best players we've ever seen in the Premier League \u2013 but now people will remember him for that goal against Ireland. It's really sad\". England footballer David Beckham defended Henry, stating \"I honestly didn't think Thierry meant it...I know him as a player and a person. He's a good person and a great player... these things happen in football\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nHenry's former Arsenal manager and Frenchman Ars\u00e8ne Wenger said of the incident that \"This isn't the French way and football should learn from this\", although he theorised that Henry did not inform the referee due to \"the pressure and what's at stake\". Wenger later added, \"For the sense of justice it is quite embarrassing to see...I think even France is embarrassed...we won the game and won the qualification with a goal that was not a goal\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0069-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nWenger believed Henry, who was one of the \"fairest [players] I've managed\", was being unfairly left to face criticism by France, and that the real issue was the lack of technology being in place. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was of the opinion that \"every player and manager in the world\" thinks that \"technology can play a part\" to help referees, but recognised that it was FIFA who had to be convinced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0069-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nHenry's club manager of Barcelona, Pep Guardiola said as Henry returned to training in Spain that he \"is not proud to have done that, but it wasn't premeditated\", and gave guarded support for use of video refereeing. German Robert Huth expressed sympathy with the Irish, but on the merits of a replay, contrasted the lack of a replay after the controversial goal in the 1966 World Cup final. Danish goalkeeper Brian Jensen said \"He didn't do it on purpose? Blah blah blah. My 'beep'. I won't say the word cheats \u2013 but ... I said it\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Football personalities\nThierry Roland, described by the Times as the \"doyen of French TV football commentators\", said of the game \"It's a scandal, a shame with a capital S.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nAccording to the BBC, the game \"attracted mass news coverage across Europe\". Agence France-Presse (AFP) described how the result of the game sparked an \"international outcry\" and how as a result of the handball, Henry had been \"pilloried as a cheat around the globe\". Time magazine immediately named Henry as number 1 in a List of Sporting Cheats, ahead of Crashgate (listed as number 2), Black Sox Scandal,Ben Johnson, Tonya Harding, Doping in East Germany, Rivaldo at the 2002 World Cup, Boris Onishchenko, Basketboo, Hansie Cronje and the original Hand of God goal (listed as number 11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nSky Sports estimated qualification for the 2010 World Cup was worth \u00a326.7m to Irish football, and was worth a similar amount to the French. FAI chief executive John Delaney denied the issue was about money, rather a matter of \"fair play and integrity\". The 2010 tournament prize money was later confirmed by FIFA as being $9m for participating, a further $9m for exiting the group stage, with potential prize totals rising to $30m for the eventual winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nSpanish media, where Henry had played his club football since leaving England in 2007, took great interest in the event. The Spanish daily sports newspaper Diario Marca carried the headline \"Football rails against 'cheating' Henry\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nFrench newspaper L'\u00c9quipe greeted the incident with the headline 'Hand of God', while Le Parisien had \"Henry Saves France With His Hand. \", and Le Figaro led with \"Henry: 'I Am Not the Referee'.\" L'Equipe also wrote, \"France have qualified for the 2010 World Cup, that's for sure, but the result, the most essential thing in sport after all, is not enough to erase the uneasy feeling we had last night\". Le Parisien also wrote \"The handball of Henry has brought a decisive contribution to the theme 'being French is being ashamed of one's national team'\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0074-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nLe Monde noted the lack of any calls for a replay following the controversial penalty for handball that went in Ireland's favour, during their previous Group 8 qualifying game against Georgia on 11 February 2009. Australia's Daily Telegraph said Henry would \"earn a place in infamy as one of the biggest cheats in world sport\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nSwedish newspapers advocated that the Swedish referee used for the match Martin Hansson be removed from further major international assignments. Aftonbladet declared of the officials \"that Team Hansson has also forfeited its right to continue to take charge of major international matches. Anything else would be a further insult to the Irish nation\". Mark Ogden of The Telegraph criticised Henry for not informing referee Hansson during the game, and speculated the incident would 'ruin his career', comparing the cases of referees Anders Frisk and Tom Henning \u00d8vreb\u00f8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nIn Britain, where Henry had spent much of his club career, The Sun's headline was \"Le Hand of God: Cheat Theirry Does A Maradona. \", while The Daily Mirror was \"French Nickers. \", with The Independent using \"Hand Gaul!\". The Los Angeles Times speculated the incident had the potential to ruin his reputation with a moment of \"eternal notoriety\". The Guardian's chief sportswriter Richard Williams wrote that the incident was worse than Maradona's foul, describing his handball as \"a street kid's instinct\", while Henry's was \"a sophisticated man, and a much-decorated one.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0076-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nWilliams also critiqued Henry's decision not to inform the referee, citing previous club football examples of players not taking advantage of a referee's mistake: Robbie Fowler in 1997 unsuccessfully pleading for the referee not to give a penalty in his favour, Paolo Di Canio in 2000 catching the ball rather than scoring past an incapacitated goalkeeper, and Costin Laz\u0103r in 2009 successfully insisting he would not take the penalty awarded to him for what he saw as a fair challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0076-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nHenri Astier wrote for BBC News that the reaction in France, a \"nation not particularly known for its moral qualms\", had ranged from \"embarrassment to outrage\". Dominic Lawson wrote in The Sunday Times that \"[Ireland] has taken on the role of unjustly oppressed victim \u2013 something the Irish do well, having had several centuries of practice\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nPatrick Barclay, Chief Football Correspondent for The Times, declared that the Henry incident \"ended the argument\" over the issue of video refereeing. The Times also speculated that the incident might lead to a fast-tracked global deployment of the Additional Assistant Referee (AAR) system already under trial by FIFA, pointing out that under the trial configuration, the extra goal-line assistant would have been standing directly in front of Henry as he touched the ball with his hand. FIFA confirmed the AAR plan was to be discussed at the March 2010 International Football Association Board meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0077-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nOn the issue of football introducing AAR's, The Wall Street Journal compared and contrasted the demands on referees in the World Cup compared to those in National Football League, National Hockey League and boxing, and relayed the negative experience of U.S. Soccer a decade previously, who took part in an international trial using two referees, one in each half, which 'led to poor game management'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0077-0002", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nThe Times also questioned Henry's record on fair play, recalling his comments and actions during controversial incidents in a 2001/2 Champions League game against Panathinaikos, in the 2001 FA Cup Final, in the 2006 World Cup games against Spain and Portugal, in the 2006 Champions League Final and 2006\u201307 Champions League game against CSKA Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0077-0003", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nTim Rich of The Independent urged for video refereeing, asserting that the Europa League trial of AAR's had \"not been an unqualified success\", citing a failure of intervention by the goal line official in a game between Fulham, in which the players had to intervene themselves to ensure the main referee, Belgian Paul Allaerts, identified the correct man to send off after a foul on Roma player John Arne Riise, after mistakenly identifying the offender as Brede Hangeland. The player sent off was Stephen Kelly, ironically an unused Irish substitute in the controversial France game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nJonathan Clegg debated in The Wall Street Journal the effect of the incident on Henry's lucrative sponsorship deals, comparing it to incidents such as ING Group's withdrawal from the Renault F1 after the Crashgate controversy, the retention of sponsors by Harlequin F.C. after their Bloodgate fake injury scandal, and the enhanced fortunes of Zinedine Zidane in spite of his head-butting of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final. Gillette, who Henry represents in advertisements, were threatened with a boycott and an email campaign. A brand spokesman said that it would not affect their relationship with Henry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0078-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nSusie Mesure of The Independent later speculated that there was now a 'Curse of Gillette' befalling its three major sporting representatives, with the Henry controversy being followed in quick succession by Tiger Woods' car accident on 27 November, and a rare defeat of Roger Federer by Nikolay Davydenko in the 2009 ATP Tour on 28 November. A Gillette spokesperson had earlier denied allegations made by The Sun that a version of the Gillette Champions poster showing the three men with a tennis racket, golf club and football, had been doctored to remove a ball from Henry's hand in the French version of their website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nAmerican radio host Jim Rome commented: \"I'm glad the guy did it; it led to a goal... How 'bout that guy. The guy was just trying to make a play. I thought it was smart; I liked it. It led to a goal; what's not to like?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nSpeaking on Football Focus on 21 November, Philippe Auclair of France Football magazine said that, unlike Eric Cantona's \"moment of madness\", he could not see Thierry Henry earning a similar redemption in England for this \"calculated moment of cheating\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nOn 22 November, the Irish Independent claimed that the FFF had been willing to stage a replay and that FIFA would not have prevented it, but the offer had been blocked by the French manager Raymond Domenech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nA The Wall Street Journal editorial supported FIFA's decision not to replay the match and distinguished the refereeing error from the one in the replayed Uzbekistan-Bahrain match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nHenry Winter of The Telegraph wrote that FIFA had \"gained some credibility\" by deciding to investigate Henry after the EGM, whose presence at the World Cup would otherwise overshadow the Fair Play campaign, and that the Henry controversy made the case for having a panel of experts examine every major game after the event for infractions missed by the referee. Winter contrasted any possible punishment of Henry with the two-month ban issued to Diego Maradona for simply 'insulting reporters'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0083-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nDiana Worman on Aljazeera.net criticised FIFA's decision to investigate Henry for an act that happens all the time, and would have only warranted a yellow card, writing \"Henry should never have been expected to make a 'sportsmanlike' decision after the goal and it's unfair for Fifa to make an example of him\". The Canadian Press criticised FIFA's \"cowardly\" decision to investigate Henry and do nothing to change the situation for the 2010 World Cup. The Irish Times stated that the FAI's recommendations to FIFA in the wake of the controversy had been \"effectively disregarded\" at the EGM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nAfter the announcement that Henry would face no sanctions, Simon Rice of The Independent declared Henry had \"got away with it\", and compared his lack of punishment to nine other notable sporting incidents: Michael Schumacher (1994 Australian Grand Prix), Sir Alex Ferguson (against The Football Association generally), Graeme Smith (4th test, South Africa v England, 2010), Eduardo (diving against Celtic, 26 August 2009), Toni Schumacher (1982 World Cup semi-final), Trevor Chappell (the 1981 Underarm bowling incident), Andy Haden (Wales v New Zealand, 1978), Diego Maradona (1986 Hand of God goal) and Fred Lorz (1904 Olympics Men's Marathon). After the announcement, Agence France-Presse speculated that any discipliniary action for Henry would have presented an \"unwelcome precedent\" for FIFA, and any punishment would have been merely symbolic, given the lack of prior cases of such retrospective player sanctions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 988]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Media\nFIFA's subsequent decision to select referee Hansson as one of the 2010 World Cup officials was criticised by the Irish media, as well as UEFA president Michel Platini's comments that it would have been \"great\" if France and the Republic of Ireland had been drawn together for the 2012 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\n'A few hundred' Irish fans marched from Lansdowne Road Stadium to the French embassy on Ailesbury Road in Dublin, to demand a replay. An online poll run by French newspaper Le Monde revealed 88% of the 97,000 respondents said \"no\" to the question \"Does France deserve to be in South Africa?\". A Facebook petition demanding a replay was signed by over 500,000. The French teachers' union SNEP-FSU condemned Henry's irresponsible example of \"indisputable cheating\". Henry's official Twitter page was reportedly suspended due to \"strange activity\". When the World Cup pool games began Pizza Hut Delivery Ireland began a promotion offering a free pizza to every goal scored against France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nThe Irish band, The Mighty Stef, wrote Protest Song with No Name, which ends with the lyrics \"you might cheat us, you might beat us, but you'll never lay a hand on our soul\". The Corrigan Brothers wrote The Hand of Henry, which includes the line \"Sepp Blatter was happy\". French company Le Coq Sportif were parodied over the incident, with an agency printing T-shirts with the words Le Coq un-Sportif.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0087-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nIrish bookmakers Paddy Power launched a two-week advertising campaign in the baggage claim area of Dublin Airport poking fun at Henry, with posters stating \"Paddy Power welcomes you to Ireland... unless you're called Thierry\". Cleaners in Ireland also reportedly vandalised the unrelated Henry brand of vacuum cleaner. Irish rockstar Bono called on FIFA to do the noble thing, not act bureaucratically, and grant Ireland's request to be added to the World Cup as a 33rd entrant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nFrench philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said on Europe 1 radio that \"We are faced with a real matter of conscience... We certainly have nothing to be proud of.\" British author Roger Scruton said \"one of the major justifications of sport in all its forms is that it teaches the virtues of fair play...Victory achieved by cheating leaves a foul taste in the mouth...and makes the whole thing as pointless to [the defeated team and its supporters] as it is to someone like me who has never quite experienced the allure of the game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0088-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nThe founder of the British Philosophy of Sport Association called for \"restorative justice\", and said that players had an obligation to honesty that \"over-rides their self-serving commitments\". French economist Jacques Attali wrote \"Nous sommes tous Irlandais\", in reference to the Le Monde headline \"Nous sommes tous Americains\" (We are all Americans) in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nBookmakers William Hill stated they would refund any bets placed backing Ireland to qualify, to be \"as fair as possible to everyone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nThierry Henry was \"booed relentlessly\" by fans of Athletic Bilbao in his first competitive match after playing Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nOn 4 December 2009, Charlize Theron co-presented the draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by several other celebrities of South African origin. During rehearsals she drew an Ireland ball instead of France as a joke at the expense of FIFA, referring to the Thierry Henry handball controversy and France's controversial qualification. The stunt alarmed FIFA enough for it to fear she might do it again in front of a live global audience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nIrish fans donned sombreros and cheered as Mexico beat France 2\u20130 in their second group stage match on 17 June 2010. France was subsequently eliminated from the World Cup following a 2\u20131 loss to host nation South Africa in their final group stage match, and finished at the bottom of Group A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nDuring the World Cup, English comedian James Corden refused to acknowledge France on his \"human wallchart\" during his post-World Cup match TV show James Corden's World Cup Live, replacing France with Ireland, and when chatting with the Irish member of the wallchart, referred to players such as \"Terry Henry\" and \"Paddy Evra\", Irish variants of the names of France players Theirry Henry and Patrice Evra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Other\nThe Irish playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger's stage play, The Parting Glass, is based around this game in Paris, with most of the second half of the play occurring during the actual match in the Stade de France, as an Irish father and son watch their final Ireland game together before the son emigrates to find work in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 67], "content_span": [68, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Comparison to other events\nThe 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final between Louth and Meath held at Croke Park on 11 July 2010 drew comparisons with Thierry Henry's cheating due to its controversial ending in which Louth were wrongfully defeated by a last minute Meath goal which was thrown into the net and therefore should not have stood. Louth were in the lead at the time and would have won their first Leinster Senior Football Championship in 53 years if Meath had not been given the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0095-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Comparison to other events\nLouth fans burst onto the pitch as the final whistle blew, chasing and physically assaulting the referee around the field, while a steward was knocked unconscious with a bottle during ugly scenes played out on live television. The referee was struck on at least three different points as he scrambled away from the baying mob. Meath chairman Barney Allen compared calls for the game to be replayed with Henry's moment of shame, saying \"Ireland didn't get a replay when France got a lucky goal\". As the controversy continued to erupt, RT\u00c9 analyst Pat Spillane called it a \"disgrace\". Setanta Sports said the \"goal\" would \"now go down in infamy as the GAA's Thierry Henry incident\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0096-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, Comparison to other events\nDuring the 2010 World Cup, in extra time of a quarter-final match against Ghana, Uruguayan striker Luis Su\u00e1rez handled the ball in the penalty area to prevent a last-minute game-winning Ghana goal. The act drew comparaisons with Thierry Henry's handball", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 88], "content_span": [89, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0097-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, TV\nIn 2011, \"L'Affair Henry the, ahem, touchiest sporting controversy in living memory\" received its own episode of Scannal, the TV series dedicated to scandalous events. The Evening Herald reviewer called it an \"entertaining, tightly-packaged edition\" of the show but also opined, \"Where Scannal stumbled, however, was in its failure to go in with both feet on the cringe-inducing elephant in the room: John Delaney's embarrassing plea to Fifa boss, the odious Sepp Blatter, to let Ireland be \"the 33rd team\" at the World Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204723-0098-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches, Reaction, TV\nEarly June 2010, Swedish film director Mattias L\u00f6w released the documentary film The Referee, produced for SVT - Sveriges Television, where he follows the referee, Martin Hansson, of the infamous playoff match in Paris, for a year leading up to FIFA World Cup 2010. The film portrays the Thierry Henry handball incident in Paris in detail from the referee's point of view.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 12 July 2009. Long-time President Denis Sassou Nguesso won another seven-year term with a large majority of the vote, but the elections were marred by accusations of irregularities and fraud from the opposition; six opposition candidates chose to boycott the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Background\nIn April 2009, a forum called Republican Dialogue was held to prepare for the election. A coalition of about 20 opposition parties called the United Front of Opposition Parties (FUPO) decided to boycott the forum. Pascal Tsaty-Mabiala, the Secretary-General of UPADS and spokesman for FUPO, condemned the preparations for the election, saying that \"conditions such as transparency, the revision of lists, and respect for the opposition are not created for this election; it will be neither free nor transparent, and we will contest that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Background\nSassou Nguesso signed a decree on 8 May 2009 (which was announced on 11 May) setting the election date as 12 July 2009. The National Elections Organisation Committee (CONEL) oversaw the election; the opposition criticized it for allegedly favoring the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Candidates\nAnge Edouard Poungui, who was Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989, was chosen as the candidate of the largest opposition party, the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), while Mathias Dzon, who was Minister of Finance from 1997 to 2002, was chosen as the candidate of the Alliance for the Republic and Democracy (ARD), a coalition of opposition parties. The incumbent President, Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT), was widely expected to run; he eventually announced his candidacy at a rally in Brazzaville on 6 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Candidates\nOn 23 February 2009, the formation of an alliance between the PCT and the opposition Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD) was announced. The parties agreed to present a single candidate in the 2009 presidential election, and the RDD agreed to join the government if their joint candidate (presumed to be Denis Sassou Nguesso) won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Candidates\nAnge Edouard Poungui was chosen as the UPADS candidate by the party's National Council in a primary election on 30 November 2008. His sole rival for the nomination, Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou (who was the UPADS candidate in the 2002 presidential election), withdrew from the vote, complaining of \"lack of transparency in the process\", and Poungui, as the only candidate, received about 85% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Candidates\nA total of 17 candidates submitted applications to run, and the Constitutional Court approved 13 of them on 18 June. Four candidacies were rejected: those of Poungui, Marcel Guitoukoulou, Rigobert Ngouolali, on the grounds that they had failed to establish their continuous residency in Congo-Brazzaville for at least two years, and that of UPADS dissident Christophe Moukoueke, on the grounds that he exceeded the 70-year age limit for candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Candidates\nUPADS spokesman Jean-Claude Ivouloungou denounced the exclusion of Poungui's candidacy and claimed that it was politically motivated, arguing that \"over the last two years, all the candidates moved around, to visit family abroad, to fine-tune their plans\". By rejecting Poungui's candidacy, the Constitutional Court's decision removed a key opposition candidate from the election and left Matthias Dzon as the main opposition candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Conduct\nOn 10 July, six candidates\u2014Dzon, Guy Romain Kinfoussia, Clement Mierassa, Bonaventure Mizidy Bavoueza, Jean-Francois Tchibinda Kouangou, and Marion Matzimba Ehouango\u2014called for the election to be delayed, claiming that the electoral lists were deeply flawed and included people who were not eligible to vote, as well as people who did not exist at all. At an opposition rally later on the same day, Dzon, Kinfoussia, Mierassa, and Bavoueza called for the people to boycott the election. Tchibinda Kouangou and Ehouango were not present at the rally, but Kinfoussia said that they also backed the call for a boycott. Dzon declared on the occasion that \"for us, the election is not taking place on July 12 ... It will take place on the day the Congolese people are given a real choice.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 842]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Conduct\nRoger Bouka Owoko, the head of the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), criticized the electoral lists as \"grotesque\" on 11 July, saying that it was impossible that there could be so many people who were entitled to vote. Congo's population was estimated at about 3.6 million, and 2.2 million people were officially registered to vote; however, Bouka Owoko said that an extrapolation of statistics from other countries would predict only about 1.6 million registered voters in a population of 3.6 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Conduct\nSassou Nguesso, who was expected to win the election easily in the absence of any serious competitors, cast his vote early in the day in northern Brazzaville. CONEL President Henri Bouka claimed a \"massive vote in the interior\" and said that, contrary to the opposition's claims, the electoral lists were \"mostly honest\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Conduct\nThe six boycotting candidates released a statement on election day asserting that over 90% of eligible voters had not participated in the election. According to the statement, \"by this strong rate of abstention, the Congolese who love justice and peace have expressed their rejection of this totalitarian, arrogant and corrupt regime.\" The statement also urged \"national and international opinion to acknowledge the illegitimacy of Denis Sassou Nguesso\", and it called for the organization of a new election \"with the agreement of all political forces in the country\". Meanwhile, the news agency Agence France-Presse reported comments from heads of polling stations in which they described turnout as very low, and it quoted an election observer as stating that \"there are more observers than voters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Conduct\nLate on election day, Alain Akouala Atipault, the Minister of Communication, dismissed the opposition claims as \"incorrect\" and said that the presence of 170 international observers disproved the accusations of fraud. He dismissed the opposition's claim that turnout was less than 10% as \"ludicrous\", asserting that turnout was strong outside of Brazzaville. The African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States, both of which had observer teams present, endorsed the election as \"regular, free and transparent\" in a joint statement, and they praised the \"calm and serene atmosphere\" in which the campaign took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Results\nProvisional results were initially planned for release on 14 July, but Minister of Territorial Administration Raymond Mboulou announced that they would be delayed to 15 July because full results from some polling stations had not yet been received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Results\nMboulou announced the provisional results on 15 July. These results showed Denis Sassou Nguesso winning the election with 78.61% of the vote, while Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou (who had unsuccessfully sought the UPADS nomination and then ran as an independent) placed second with 7.46% and Liberal Republican Party candidate Nicephore Fylla de Saint-Eudes placed third with 6.98%. Having called on his supporters to boycott, Dzon received 2.30% of the vote. Mboulou said that voter turnout was 66.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Results\nSassou Nguesso gave a victory speech at his campaign headquarters, declaring that \"in peace, freedom and transparency, in the presence of international observers, you have with the 12 July vote renewed your confidence in me\". He also said that the country was \"not celebrating the victory of one faction over another, of one Congo over another Congo\", but rather \"the victory of democracy in peace and harmony\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nKignoumbi Kia Mboungou accepted the results; although he said there might have been shortcomings, he also noted the peaceful atmosphere that was maintained during the election. With regard to turnout, he said that the boycott might have affected it, as well as voter apathy. Kinfoussia, however, described the official turnout rate as \"totally false\". Ehouango also rejected the results and said that the opposition could potentially take the matter to the Constitutional Court, although he said that the Court was controlled by Sassou Nguesso. The OCDH claimed that turnout was no higher than 20%, and OCDH head Bouka Owoko argued that the low turnout called Sassou Nguesso's legitimacy into question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nAt a news conference on 17 July, Dzon and four other candidates alleged that the official results were a fraudulent invention; on the same day, Herve Ambroise Malonga, acting as a lawyer for Dzon, filed an appeal at the Constitutional Court seeking the cancellation of the election on the grounds of alleged electoral fraud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nKignoumbi Kia Mboungou met with Sassou Nguesso on 17 July; afterwards he said that they discussed how to move forward, improve government, and satisfy the wishes of the people, and he said that the people had expressed confidence in Sassou Nguesso through the election. Two minor independent candidates, Bertin Pandi Ngouari and Anguios Nganguia Engamb\u00e9, recognized Sassou Nguesso's victory and congratulated him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nIn a statement on 18 July, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said that several international journalists had been mistreated by the police during an opposition protest on 15 July. Speaking for the government, Akouala Atipault denied this, saying that the international press was welcome; he observed that the journalists were present \"at the heart of a demonstration where some material damage was caused. One might think that some unidentified individuals were behind these acts.\" He was also critical of the French-language media's coverage of the election, saying that it \"seemed disappointed by the fact that this election took place in calm and serenity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nReports published in the independent Congolese press after the election alleged that young men were observed in Brazzaville prior to election day with multiple voter cards, claiming that they intended to cast several votes each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nThe Constitutional Court confirmed the results on 25 July, ruling that Sassou Nguesso had won the election with 78.61% of the vote (1,055,117 votes). Akouala Atipault said that Sassou Nguesso would be sworn in for his new term on 14 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nSassou Nguesso was sworn in at a ceremony in Brazzaville on 14 August; various African leaders were present for the occasion. He said that his re-election meant continued \"peace, stability and security\", and he called for an end to \"thinking like ... freeloaders\" in reference to international aid received by the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204724-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nSassou Nguesso also made an important announcement at his inauguration, saying that he would set in motion an amnesty bill to pardon Pascal Lissouba, who was President of Congo-Brazzaville from 1992 until being ousted by Sassou Nguesso in 1997; after Lissouba was ousted, he went into exile and was convicted of crimes in absentia. Sassou Nguesso said that he wanted the amnesty bill to be presented to Parliament by the end of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election\nThe 2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election started out as a six-way race, and ended on the sixth ballot with Michael Steele becoming the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Washington Times called it the \"'Dirtiest ever' race for RNC chairman.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Pre-campaign\nOn November 11, 2008, Jeff Burton launched a political draft website to encourage Steele to run for Republican National Committee Chairman. The website allowed visitors to sign a draft petition, and received over 6,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign\nKaton Dawson announced his official bid on November 24, 2008. Dawson was one of two candidates to earn votes on each of the six votes taken; he lost the final ballot to winner Michael Steele, 91\u201377.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign\nOn November 24, 2008 Steele launched his own campaign website, and confirmed his intention to run on Hannity and Colmes. Steele, seen as an early frontrunner, rejected the idea that the color of his skin had anything to do with his chances at becoming RNC chair, saying, \"I am a Republican who happens to be African-American.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign\nChip Saltsman was the first candidate to release a specific plan regarding the future of the party, which can be viewed at Our Plan for Republican Victory. In his bid for the RNC Chairmanship, Saltsman had been endorsed by: former Republican presidential candidate Governor Mike Huckabee, former United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey, and Tennessee House Majority Leader Jason Mumpower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign\nUSA Today reported that, \"half of the candidates to lead the Republican National Committee (RNC) are Southerners: current Chairman Mike Duncan of Kentucky, South Carolina Chairman Katon Dawson and former Tennessee chairman Chip Saltsman. Former Ohio secretary of State Ken Blackwell and former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele are black. Saul Anuzis, the Michigan GOP chairman, is a Harley-Davidson rider, an ex-union member and the son of an autoworker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 66], "content_span": [67, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, \"Barack the Magic Negro\" controversy\nFor Christmas 2008, Chip Saltsman sent members of the Republican National Committee a music CD of 41 songs that included one entitled \"Barack the Magic Negro\" set to the tune of \"Puff, the Magic Dragon\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 104], "content_span": [105, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, \"Barack the Magic Negro\" controversy\nThe origin of the song was the title a Los Angeles Times column, written by David Ehrenstein in March 2007 that criticized the reception that Obama, a long shot candidate at the time, was getting in white America; Ehrenstein described the image of Obama in white America as that of a Magical Negro, a stereotypical gentle black man who helps white people, often used in movies created by white people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 104], "content_span": [105, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, \"Barack the Magic Negro\" controversy\nRush Limbaugh commented on the column the day it published, and interpreted it as criticizing Obama himself, called the column an example of \"the racism of the left,\" and sang the words, \"Barack the Magic Negro\", to the tune of \"Puff the Magic Dragon.\" Shortly after that Paul Shanklin recorded a song about Barack the Magic Negro set to that same tune, which Limbaugh played numerous times throughout the 2008 presidential election season. This is the song that Saltsman included on his CD. Saltsman's campaign imploded as a result of the controversy caused by the CD, and he withdrew from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 104], "content_span": [105, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, Voting\nThe election was decided in late January after six rounds of voting, with Steele elected chairman by a majority vote of the 168 committee members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, Voting\nAfter the third round of balloting Duncan dropped out of contention without endorsing a candidate. Ken Blackwell, the only other African-American candidate, dropped out after the fourth ballot and endorsed Steele, though Blackwell had been the most socially conservative of the candidates and Steele had been accused of not being \"sufficiently conservative.\" Steele picked up Blackwell's votes. After the fifth round, Steele held a ten-vote lead over Katon Dawson, with 79 votes, and Saul Anuzis dropped out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204725-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election, Campaign, The sixth round\nThe final push that led to Steele's win was from the eight voters from the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands, who switched to Steele after Anuzis dropped out. Steele won the chairmanship of the RNC in the sixth round, with 91 votes to Dawson's 77.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 83], "content_span": [84, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204726-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rexall Edmonton Indy\nThe 2009 Rexall Edmonton Indy was the eleventh round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, and was held on July 26, 2009 at the 1.973-mile (3.175\u00a0km) Rexall Speedway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204727-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 2009 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). The Rams were led by first year head coach Joe Trainer and played their home games at Meade Stadium. They finished the season with one win and ten losses (1\u201310, 0\u20138 in CAA play) and finished in last place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204728-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships\nThe 25th Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships was opened on May 15, 2009 in Baku, Azerbaijan in the Heydar Aliyev Sports-Concert Complex and ended on May 17. 186 gymnasts from 32 countries were scheduled to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204728-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships\nGazelle has chosen to be the official symbol of this tournament. The Head of the European Union of Gymnastics Dimitrios Dimitropulos said an official opening ceremony that \"the championship has been organized in line with high standards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204729-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rice Owls football team\nThe 2009 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Owls, led by 3rd year head coach David Bailiff, played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. Rice finished the season 2\u201310 and 2\u20136 in CUSA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape\nOn Saturday, October 24, 2009, in Richmond, a city on the northeast side of the San Francisco Bay in California, U.S., a female student of Richmond High School was gang raped repeatedly by a group of young males in a courtyard on the school campus while a homecoming dance was being held in the gymnasium. Seven men faced charges related to the rape, and one was released after a preliminary hearing. Of the six remaining defendants, four eventually pleaded guilty and two were convicted at trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape\nThe incident received national attention. As many as 20 witnesses are believed to have been aware of the attack, but for more than two hours no one notified the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape\nSix men were imprisoned for the attack. Four pleaded guilty: Manuel Ortega was sentenced to 32 years in prison; Ari Morales was sentenced to 27 years in prison; Elvis Torrentes and John Crane were sentenced to six and three years in prison, after pleading guilty to lesser charges. Jose Montano and Marcelles Peter went to trial in 2013 and were convicted of forcible rape acting in concert, a forcible act of sexual penetration while acting in concert, and forcible oral copulation in concert. Montano and Peter were respectively sentenced to 33 years to life and 29 years to life, and their convictions and sentences were upheld in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Details\nOn October 24, 2009 at about 9:30\u00a0p.m. (UTC-7), at the conclusion of the homecoming dance, a classmate invited the victim to join a group of males ranging in ages from 15 to late 40s, who were drinking alcohol in a dark courtyard on campus. The female victim drank an undetermined amount of brandy by choice, and was propositioned for sex by the alleged attackers. When the victim refused, she was placed on a nearby concrete bench and continuously beaten and raped for 2\u00bd hours, at times with a 'foreign object'. They also poured alcohol down her throat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Details\nTest results showed she had an almost fatal blood alcohol level. A local resident heard of the attack from her boyfriend and immediately contacted the police. The victim was found unconscious under a picnic table and was air-lifted to a hospital in critical condition. She was released from the hospital on Wednesday, October 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Details\nThey were kicking her in her head and they were beating her up, robbing her and ripping her clothes off; it's something you can't get out your mind. I saw people, like, dehumanizing her; I saw some pretty crazy stuff. She was pretty quiet; I thought she was like dead for a minute but then I saw her moving around. I feel like I could have done something but I don't feel like I have any responsibility for anything that happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Details\nWitnesses are believed to have recorded video footage of the attack using camera-equipped mobile phones, but local police have not been able to obtain the recordings. At least two dozen bystanders watched the assault without calling 911 to report it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Arrests\nSeven male suspects had been arrested in connection with the case. One of the initial suspects was subsequently released without charge due to lack of evidence. This initial suspect has since claimed that he was merely a witness present at the scene, and that his intent was to help the victim including offering her his shirt. However, he said that he did not contact authorities because he lacked a cell phone and was afraid of retaliation for \"snitching\". The remaining suspects range in age from 15 to 21. Police stated that they were looking for additional people in relation to the crime. A 43-year-old male was later arrested in relation to the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Arrests\nFour of the suspects were arraigned on October 29 in the Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez. One entered a plea of not guilty to the two charges of rape with a foreign object and rape by force, while the others chose not to enter a plea at the time. Authorities have indicated that they expect all three juvenile defendants to be charged as adults. All six suspects entered not guilty pleas on Tuesday, December 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nThe attack shocked the community and the nation. Local media said that the act \"crossed the boundary of civilized behavior\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nAny group of young men who could carry out such an attack on a defenseless, intoxicated student are nothing more than a roving pack of vicious animals, and in a civilized society, vicious animals are put down. Humans who act in such a manner are put away for the rest of their lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nThe attack became the most popular blog topic of the week of October 26\u201330, as bloggers expressed their outrage over the rape. During that week, more than a quarter (26%) of the links from blogs to news sites were to articles about the attack. A website was created in order to support the victim and discuss ways to prevent sexual assault on women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nAfter the attack, some talked of vigilante justice against the attackers and onlookers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nThe victim's parents made their first public statement on November 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nPlease do not respond to this tragic event by promoting hatred or by causing more pain. We have had enough violence already in this place. If you need to express your outrage, please channel your anger into positive action. Volunteer at a school. Go help a neighbor. Be courageous in speaking the truth and in holding people accountable. Work toward changing the atmosphere in our schools and in this community so that this kind of thing never happens again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nOver 500 students, parents, and area residents held a candle-lit vigil on November 3. At the vigil, the victim's church pastor read a statement from the victim, stating, \"We realize people are angry about this,\" but that \"violence is always the wrong choice.\" 200 people marched from Richmond High School to a nearby park and held a rally on November 7 to show support for the victim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nIn response to the events, California State Senator Leland Yee suggested legislation to broaden the criteria when failure to report a crime constitutes a criminal offense. Under Yee's proposal, bystanders to crimes against minors could be charged with a misdemeanor criminal offense for failure to immediately report the incident to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nThe 18-year-old woman who was the only person to call 911 and make police aware of the assault in progress, was honored by the Richmond City Council on November 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Response\nSecurity around the school was increased following the attack: high-definition surveillance cameras were installed, along with increased lighting and new fencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Preliminary hearing\nOn November 15, 2010, a preliminary hearing began in Contra Costa County, during which twenty witnesses appeared before the court. Of the seven defendants, six faced charges that could lead to life imprisonment, while the seventh faced a maximum term of 26 years in jail. All of the defendants pleaded not guilty to the crime. Evidence presented during the hearing connected four of the suspects to DNA found at the scene, although there was no DNA evidence connecting the remaining three defendants to the crime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Preliminary hearing\nAs a result of the hearing, one of the defendants was released. Of the remaining six, two had their charges reduced, with five facing life imprisonment and one facing an eight-year sentence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Trial\nJury selection for trials of the defendants began September 4, 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Trial\nManuel Ortega, who was an adult at the time of the crime and the most heavily charged of the six defendants, pleaded guilty to all charges against him on September 6 and was sentenced on October 19, accepting a 32-year sentence and avoiding possible life in prison. He was convicted of rape in concert, rape by a foreign object in concert, forced oral copulation in concert resulting in great bodily injury, and robbery. Ortega was described by authorities as an initiator in the rape, with witnesses alleging he ripped off the girl's clothes, punched and kicked her in the head, sexually assaulted her and encouraged others to do the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Trial\nOn January 11, 2013, Ari Morales was sentenced to 27 years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Trial\nIn June 2013, in the trials of Jose Montano, 22 and Marcelles Peter, 20, the victim testified in court for the first time. She stated she had never consumed alcohol previously, and that she did not drink from a bottle of brandy the men had with them. Salvardor Rodriguez, previously sentenced, testified \"Before she even said hello, she grabbed a bottle (of brandy) and started chugging it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Trial\nThe prosecutor said in his opening statement that head trauma and her 0.35 percent blood alcohol level interfered with her memory of the events, saying, \"They were pouring booze in her and on her, and that's after she was drinking it on her own.\" Charges were dismissed against the then-15-year-old classmate who invited her to the courtyard. Two more men were scheduled to be tried in August 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204730-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond High School gang rape, Monetary settlement\nIn January 2011 the victim received a monetary settlement from the school district of $4 $2.5 million, with the remaining $1.5 million to be paid over the next 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204731-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond Kickers season\nThe 2009 Richmond Kickers season was their seventeenth season overall and their fourth season in the USL Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204731-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond Kickers season, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204732-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 2009 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Richmond competed as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under second-year head football coach Mike London and played its home games at University of Richmond Stadium. The 2009 campaign came on the heels of an NCAA Division I FCS national championship in 2008. With the win over William & Mary on November 21, the Spiders recorded their first ten-win regular season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204733-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Riga riot\n2009 Riga riot was a civil unrest in Riga, Latvia on January 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204733-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Riga riot\nThe opposition and trade unions organized a rally requesting dissolution of the parliament. The rally gathered some 10\u201320 thousand people. The rally was because of the recent economic crisis that struck Latvia in 2009 and made more than almost 70% of the Latvian population either poor or unemployed. Once one of the growing economies in Europe, Latvia was struck in 2009 by the crisis. In the evening the peaceful rally turned into a riot. Fifty people were injured and 100 arrested for overturning police cars and looting stores. The crowd moved to the building of the parliament and attempted to force into it, but was repelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204733-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Riga riot\nOn February 20, the cabinet of Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis was dissolved and Godmanis resigned his position as head of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204734-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open\nThe 2009 Rijeka Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rijeka, Croatia between 29 June and 5 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204734-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open\nThat was the last tournament for Mathieu Montcourt who died on 6 July, 2009 in Boulogne-Billancourt. He played very well in Rijeka, reaching the semifinals where he lost to Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d). A police source said on 9 July 2009 after a preliminary autopsy that Mathieu suffered a cardiac arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204734-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204734-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open, Champions, Doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Decoud /  Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n def. Ivan Dodig /  Antonio Vei\u0107, 7\u20136(7), 3\u20136, [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204735-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open \u2013 Doubles\nDu\u0161an Karol and Jaroslav Posp\u00ed\u0161il were the defending champions, but Posp\u00ed\u0161il didn't start this year. Karol partnered up with Olivier Charroin, but they lost in the semifinal with Decoud and L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n. Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud and Miguel \u00c1ngel L\u00f3pez Ja\u00e9n defeated Ivan Dodig and Antonio Vei\u0107 in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204736-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rijeka Open \u2013 Singles\nNicol\u00e1s Mass\u00fa was the defending champion. Paolo Lorenzi won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(2), against Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204737-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rink Hockey World Championship\nThe 2009 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 39th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 5 and 11 July 2009, in Vigo, Spain. It was disputed by 16 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204737-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format\nThe competition is disputed by 16 countries, divided in four groups of 4 teams each one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204737-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format\nEvery game lasted 40 minutes, divided in 2 parts of 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204738-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ritro Slovak Open \u2013 Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and \u0141ukasz Kubot chose to not defend their title. Philipp Marx and Igor Zelenay defeated Leo\u0161 Friedl and David \u0160koch 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204739-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ritro Slovak Open \u2013 Singles\nJan Hernych, who was the defending champion, chose to not compete this year. Michael Berrer won in the final 6\u20137(6), 6\u20134, 7\u20136(3), against Dominik Hrbat\u00fd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204740-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger\nThe 2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rimini, Italy between 13 and 19 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204740-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204740-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204740-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMatthias Bachinger /  Dieter Kindlmann def. Leonardo Azzaro /  Marco Crugnola, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204741-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nMatthias Bachinger and Dieter Kindlmann won the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Azzaro and Crugnola (who were the defending champions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204742-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Riviera di Rimini Challenger \u2013 Singles\nDiego Junqueira was the winner in 2008, but he chose to not defend his title. Thomaz Bellucci won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131, against Juan Pablo Brzezicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204743-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Road Race Showcase\nThe 2009 Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase was the seventh round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 16, 2009. David Brabham and Scott Sharp won for Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing, while fellow Acura team Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing won the LMP2 category. BMW Rahal Letterman Racing won their first race of the season in the GT2 category, while Snow Racing led the ALMS Challenge class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204743-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Road Race Showcase, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204743-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Road Race Showcase, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204744-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300\nThe  2009 RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300 was the third round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, held on April 26, 2009 at the 1.520-mile (2.446\u00a0km) Kansas Speedway. The race was won by Scott Dixon, who led 134 of the 200 laps to move up into fourth place in the championship standings. Championship leader Dario Franchitti made contact with the wall, and was classified eighteenth, which dropped him to third overall. Tony Kanaan's third place was enough to give him the championship lead, by a point from Ryan Briscoe, who finished fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204745-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Robert Morris Colonials football team\nThe 2009 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonials were led by 16th-year head coach Joe Walton and played their home games at Joe Walton Stadium. They were a member of the Northeast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season\nThe Rochester Knighthawks were a lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York, United States, that played in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 15th in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season\nIn September 2008, Knighthawks superstar John Grant, Jr. underwent emergency surgery on his left knee to remove an infection from his ACL. The surgery meant that Grant would miss the entire 2009 season. To make up for the loss of their most potent scoring threat, the Knighthawks pulled an unexpected move: they traded forward Andrew Potter and two first round draft picks to the Colorado Mammoth for the rights to lacrosse legend Gary Gait, and convinced Gait to return to playing after a three-year retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204746-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester Knighthawks season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Knighthawks selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204747-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester mayoral election\nThe Rochester Mayoral Election of 2009 took place on November 3, 2009 in the City of Rochester, New York, United States. Democratic Mayor Robert Duffy, first elected in 2005, ran unopposed and was re-elected Mayor, with a low 19.5% turnout. Duffy announced his re-election bid March 22, 2009. No Republican showed serious interest in challenging Duffy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204747-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester mayoral election\nIn November 2010, Duffy was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204748-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester, Minn. airport tarmac stranding incident\nThe 2009 Rochester, Minnesota airport tarmac stranding incident involved the stranding of 47 passengers on board Continental Express flight 2816 for nearly six hours at the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota, on August 8, 2009. Flight 2816, operated by ExpressJet, departed from Houston and was bound for Minneapolis\u2013St. Paul when it was diverted to Rochester due to bad weather in Minneapolis. When the flight landed, the airport was closed. Mesaba Airlines employees, who were the only employees present in the airport at the time, refused to allow the passengers to deplane and enter the airport. The incident received widespread media coverage and resulted in civil penalties assessed against Continental Airlines, ExpressJet airlines, and Mesaba Airlines. It was the first time the U.S. government had fined an airline for actions involved in a ground delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 940]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204748-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rochester, Minn. airport tarmac stranding incident\nThe aircraft reached Rochester at 12:38 a.m. and the passengers were stranded aboard the aircraft until around 6:15 a.m., when they were finally allowed into the terminal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season\nRoger Federer won two Majors in 2009, the French Open, defeating Robin S\u00f6derling in the final, and Wimbledon, defeating Andy Roddick in the final. In addition, Federer made the two other Grand Slam finals, Australian Open losing to Rafael Nadal, and the US Open, losing to Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro. Federer went on to win two Master Series 1000 tournaments: in Madrid over Rafael Nadal, and in Cincinnati over Novak Djokovic. He lost in one 500 level event final in Basel to Djokovic. During the year, Federer completed the Career Grand Slam by winning his first French Open title, and won a record fifteenth Grand Slam singles title, surpassing Pete Sampras's mark of fourteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard-court season\nIn preparation for the Australian Open, Federer played two exhibition tournaments and one official tournament. He lost to Murray in the semifinals of the Capitala World Tennis exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi. He then lost in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour 250 series tournament in Doha, Qatar to Murray. Federer won the AAMI Classic exhibition in Melbourne, when he defeated Stanislas Wawrinka in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard-court season\nFederer defeated each of his first three opponents in straight sets at the Australian Open. In the fourth round, Federer rallied from two sets down to defeat Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych. Federer reached his record 19th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal by defeating eighth-seeded Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the quarterfinals in only 80 minutes. In his 18th Grand Slam final, Federer was defeated by long-time rival Nadal in their first meeting on a hard court in a Grand Slam tournament. The match lasted over four hours, with Nadal victorious in five sets. Federer broke down in tears during the trophy presentation and struggled to make his runner-up speech. Federer blamed the defeat on a lack of rhythm in his first serve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard-court season\nFederer withdrew from the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships and from Switzerland's Davis Cup tie against the U.S. because of a back injury he sustained in late 2008. He stated it was \"a precautionary measure\" to make sure his back is \"fully rehabilitated\u00a0... for the rest of the 2009 season\". On 4 March, Federer's agent, Tony Godsick, announced that the Australian tennis coach Darren Cahill was working with Federer on a trial basis at Federer's training base in Dubai. One week later, Cahill opted out of the coaching position, citing the travel commitment needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard-court season\nFederer played both of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments in the United States. At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, Federer lost to Murray in the semifinals. At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Federer defeated his first three opponents in straight sets, after receiving a first round bye. In the semifinals against Novak Djokovic, Federer lost a match that included Federer's smashing his racket in frustration after missing a forehand approach shot by hitting it into the net, which is the same shot that cost him the 2008 Wimbledon final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nAfter initially deciding not to participate, Federer accepted a last-minute wildcard entry at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, his first clay-court event of the year. He lost to Stanislas Wawrinka for the first time in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nIn the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, another ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series event on clay, Federer lost to Djokovic for the first time on clay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nFederer received a first-round bye in the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, the last ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series event on clay for the year. He defeated Nadal in the final. This ended Nadal's 33-match winning streak on clay, and for the second time Federer prevented Nadal from becoming the first man to win all three Masters Series on clay in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nIn the 2009 French Open, in a fourth-round encounter, Federer had to come back from two sets to love down to defeat Tommy Haas. He defeated Ga\u00ebl Monfils in the quarterfinals to reach his 20th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal. He reached his fourth straight final in Paris by outlasting del Potro after coming back from 2\u20131 down. He won the French Open for the first time by beating Robin S\u00f6derling in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nWith this win, Federer equaled Pete Sampras's men's record of 14 Grand Slam titles and Ivan Lendl's record of 19 Grand Slam finals, and also became the sixth man in history to complete a Career Grand Slam. The call by Eurosport on match point was thus: \"Federer wins the French Open for the first time in his career; and in addition must surely be regarded now as the greatest male player of all-time.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay season and French Open titles\nOwing to the overwhelming emotions and fatigue brought by the tournament, Federer withdrew from the Gerry Weber Open, his usual pre-Wimbledon tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass season: Channel Slam, and smashing the all-time record\nFederer became the highest seed for Wimbledon, after defending champion Nadal withdrew from the tournament due to tendinitis. Federer defeated Lu Yen-hsun in the first round. He moved safely into the third round with a win over Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez. In the third round, Federer defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber. Federer then booked a place in the quarterfinals by defeating S\u00f6derling. In the quarterfinals, Federer cruised past Ivo Karlovi\u0107, to extend his all-time record of consecutive Grand Slam semifinals to 21. In the semifinals, Federer defeated Tommy Haas to reach his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final, an all-time record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 108], "content_span": [109, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass season: Channel Slam, and smashing the all-time record\nWith this win, he also reached his 20th Grand Slam final, surpassing the previous record of 19 set by Lendl. In a match that took 4 hours and 17 minutes to complete, he beat Roddick in the final in the latest chapter of their long, though lopsided rivalry, regaining the world no. 1 spot from Rafael Nadal. The 30 total games in the fifth set was a new Grand Slam record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 108], "content_span": [109, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass season: Channel Slam, and smashing the all-time record\nThe match was also the longest men's singles final (in terms of games played) in Grand Slam history, with 77 games played, and the fifth set alone lasted 95 minutes. The match has been called an \"instant classic\" by ESPN, and received the highest TV ratings in the UK for any Wimbledon final since 2001. With the win, he also became the fourth man in the open era to win both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year (the \"Channel Slam\"), following Nadal in 2008, Borg in 1978\u20131980, and Laver in 1969. He also joined Nadal as the only players to simultaneously hold Grand Slams on clay, grass, and hard court (2008 US Open, 2009 French Open, 2009 Wimbledon).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 108], "content_span": [109, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Summer hard-court season\nFederer won his first match after a five-week break at the second round of the 2009 Rogers Cup against Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Niemeyer following a first-round bye. He then defeated countryman Stanislas Wawrinka after coming back from three games down in the second set; in doing so, he made more history by contributing to the first occasion where the top 8 ranked men had all made the quarterfinals of a single tournament, joining the other seven players: Nadal, Murray, Djokovic, Roddick, del Potro, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Davydenko. However, in the quarterfinals, he lost to Tsonga despite leading by four games in the final set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Summer hard-court season\nDespite the relatively early exit in Montreal, Federer started off well at the 2009 Cincinnati Open, beating Jos\u00e9 Acasuso in the second round (after having another bye in the first round like the other top seeds) and David Ferrer in the third round. He then beat Lleyton Hewitt in the quarterfinals, followed by Murray in the semifinals to reach the final, where he defeated Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Summer hard-court season\nFederer began his US Open campaign well with a victory over unseeded Devin Britton. He advanced to the third round with a second-round win over Simon Greul. His third-round match was against Hewitt, against whom he lost his first set of the tournament, but eventually rallied to win the match. After this match, Federer held a 16\u20137 lead over Hewitt, continuing a fourteen match winning streak against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Summer hard-court season\nFederer next defeated Tommy Robredo to book a quarterfinal berth against Robin S\u00f6derling for the third Grand Slam in a row, which he won in four sets after saving a set point in the fourth set. Federer reached his 21st Grand Slam final by defeating fourth seed Novak Djokovic for the third straight year. He triumphed and, in doing so, reached match point by performing a between-the-legs passing shot, which he later described as \"...the greatest shot I ever hit in my life.\" He lost to del Potro in the final in five sets. The loss broke Federer's streak of forty consecutive wins at the US Open. It also marked the first time Federer had lost in a Grand Slam final to an opponent other than Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 780]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Fall indoor season\nFederer went on to play in the Davis Cup tie with Italy, and in his first match on the red clay courts at Valletta Cambiaso Club, in Genoa, won in a match against Simone Bolelli. He sealed Switzerland's qualification for the World Group with a victory over Potito Starace. Following the match, Federer was quoted as saying \"I was able to play very well. I have to go on holiday badly. I have a problem with my leg, I have a problem with my arm \u2013 everything is hurting. And I've got to do some baby-sitting.\" He later withdrew from the 2009 Japan Open and the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Fall indoor season\nAt the Davidoff Swiss Indoors, Federer defeated Olivier Rochus, Andreas Seppi, Evgeny Korolev, and his childhood friend Marco Chiudinelli in straight sets, before losing in the finals to Novak Djokovic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Fall indoor season\nFederer's next tournament was the Paris Masters, where his six previous appearances had never extended past the quarterfinals. After a first-round bye, Federer continued his Paris Open struggles with an early exit to second-round opponent Julien Benneteau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Fall indoor season\nFederer's final tournament of the year was the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals. He beat Fernando Verdasco in the first of his round-robin matches, followed by a victory over Andy Murray, which secured him the year-end no. 1 ranking for the fifth year. However, he lost to del Potro once more, but he won enough games to qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, he met Nikolay Davydenko, who beat Federer for the first time in their 13 encounters. This loss ended Roger Federer's 2009 tennis season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204749-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Fall indoor season\nThe year saw Federer accomplishing three major goals: winning his first French Open title, breaking Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam wins, and regaining the no. 1 ranking from Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup\nThe 2009 Canadian Open (also known as the 2009 Rogers Masters presented by National Bank and 2009 Rogers Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 120th edition of the Canada Masters for the men (the 108th edition for the women), and was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier 5 of the 2009 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup\nThe men's event was held at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 8 through August 16, 2009, and the women's event was held at the Rexall Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from August 15 through August 23, 2009. It was the fourth event for both the men and women on the 2009 US Open Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, Finals, Men's singles\nAndy Murray defeated  Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, Finals, Men's singles\nFor the first time in the ATP history, all top 8 seeded and top 8 ranked players reached the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, Finals, Men's doubles\nMahesh Bhupathi /  Mark Knowles defeated Max Mirnyi /  Andy Ram, 6\u20134, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204750-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup, Finals, Women's doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Samantha Stosur /  Rennae Stubbs, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, [11\u20139].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204751-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals against Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204751-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won in the final 2\u20136, 7\u20135, [11\u20139] against Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204751-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204752-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nDinara Safina was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Aravane Reza\u00ef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204752-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles\nElena Dementieva won in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Maria Sharapova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204752-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Cup \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204753-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Men's Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204753-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Men's Doubles\nMahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133 against Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204754-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray defeated Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in the final, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20131, to win the Singles title at the 2009 Canadian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204754-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to del Potro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204754-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Singles\nThis was first time since 1973 on the ATP Tour that the top eight ranked players advanced to the quarterfinals at a single tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204754-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rogers Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round. All of them reached quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204755-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rolex Sports Car Series\nThe 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season is the tenth season of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16. It is a 12-race schedule beginning at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and ending at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Miami has been moved from early in the schedule to the end, as it will continue in the joint weekend with the IndyCar Series race, which has also been moved to a season closing race. All races will feature both classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204755-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Rolex Sports Car Series\nThe race at Miller Motorsports Park has been changed from a 1000 kilometers race to a 250-mile race. New Jersey Motorsports Park will be moved from Labor Day weekend to May 3. Infineon Raceway, Hermanos Rodriguez, and Lime Rock have been dropped from the schedule, leaving Montreal as the only race outside the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204755-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rolex Sports Car Series\nThe main Daytona Prototype class was won by the GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing pairing of Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney after a three-way title battle with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates duo Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, and SunTrust Racing's Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle. Leh Keen and Dirk Werner were comfortable champions in the secondary GT class. Riley Technologies, Ford and Porsche won other titles for highest scoring chassis makers and highest scoring engine manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204756-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open\nThe 2009 Roma Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between 20 and 26 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204756-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204756-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received lucky loser into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204756-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nSimon Greul /  Christopher Kas def. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(2), [10\u20132].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204757-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open \u2013 Doubles\nFlavio Cipolla and Simone Vagnozzi were the defenders of championship title, but Cipolla decided to not participate this year. Vagnozzi chose to play with Leonardo Azzaro, however they lost to James Cerretani and Amir Hadad in the first round. Simon Greul and Christopher Kas won in the final 4\u20136, 7\u20136(2), [10\u20132], against Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204758-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Roma Open \u2013 Singles\nEduardo Schwank was the defender of title; however, he chose not to play. Daniel K\u00f6llerer won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133, against Andreas Vinciguerra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204759-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Romanian Figure Skating Championships took place on 10 January 2009 in Bucharest for men, and between 13 and 15 November 2008 in Gala\u021bi for ladies. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles, the latter being held as part of the 2008 Crystal Skate of Romania, on the senior and junior levels. The results were used to choose the Romanian teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204759-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies\nResults derived from the 2008 Crystal Skate of Romania, only Romanian competitors shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204760-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian parliamentary reform referendum\nA referendum on modifying the size and structure of the Parliament from the current bicameral one with 137 senators and 334 deputies to a unicameral one with a maximum of 300 seats was held in Romania on 22 November 2009, at the same time as the first round of the 2009 presidential election. Electors were asked two questions on two separate ballots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204760-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian parliamentary reform referendum\nAccording to the Romanian law, in order for the referendum to be validated, 50% plus one of the total number of eligible voters (i.e. of the number of people that appear on the official electoral list) had to cast their vote. According to the final tally by the Romanian Central Electoral Commission, 9,320,240 of the 18,293,277 eligible voters participated, thus validating the referendum with a turnout rate of 50.95%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204760-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian parliamentary reform referendum, Background\nIncumbent President Traian B\u0103sescu signed the decree to hold this plebiscite on 22 October 2009. The previous day, on 21 October, the Romanian Parliament in a consultative vote recommended against the President's proposed referendum, but, according to Romanian referendum law, Parliament's resolution was not binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204760-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian parliamentary reform referendum, Background\nIn response to the referendum call, the National Liberal Party, in opposition to incumbent B\u0103sescu, introduced a bill which would downsize Parliament to a total of 316 representatives \u2013 99 senators and 217 deputies. After counting more than 90% of the votes, the authorities announced partial results, including the information that 50.16% of the electorate expressed their votes making the result of the referendum valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204760-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian parliamentary reform referendum, Aftermath\nAfter the referendum, from 471, the number of parliamentarians kept growing in Romania, due to lack of any legal limitations. In July 2015, after almost 6 years since the referendum was held, the number of Romanian parliamentarians was 588. No other referendum on implementing the legislation has been held in Romania since this one. The only one and last referendum (invalidated) was in 2012 for impeaching the president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Romania in 2009. The first round took place on 22 November, with a run-off round between the top two candidates Traian B\u0103sescu and Mircea Geoan\u0103 on 6 December 2009. Although most exit polls suggested a win for Geoan\u0103 in the runoff, the authorities declared B\u0103sescu the narrow victor with 50.33% of the votes. To date, it is the closest election in Romanian history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election\nThe opposition contested the results, citing a \"high number of void ballots, modified voting protocols, and massive electoral tourism\", vowing to challenge the result in the constitutional court. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) declared that the election \"was held generally in line with OSCE commitments\", but also urged the authorities to investigate claims of fraud. On 8 December, the Social Democratic Party submitted a request to annul and repeat the run-off to the Constitutional Court, claiming it had been rigged. On 14 December, the Constitutional Court rejected the request after recounting all the annulled votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election\nA referendum was held alongside the first round of voting on introducing a unicameral parliament of up to 300 deputies (replacing the existing bicameral parliament) and reducing the number of MPs to 300 but retaining the bicameral structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Candidates\nThere were twelve candidates of which three ran as independents. The candidates of the major parties were: the incumbent Traian B\u0103sescu (formally independent, but supported by Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) and the official fraction of Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PN\u0162-CD), led by Marian Milu\u0163), Mircea Geoan\u0103 (Social Democratic Party (PSD)), Crin Antonescu (National Liberal Party (PNL) and the contender fraction of PN\u0162-CD, led by Radu S\u00e2rbu), Hunor Kelemen (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR)) and Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Greater Romania Party (PRM)). Mayor of Bucharest Sorin Oprescu (formerly PSD member) announced his candidacy as an independent candidate on 5 October 2009; B\u0103sescu also had been mayor of Bucharest before becoming president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Candidates\nRadu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen, husband of Princess Margarita of Romania first announced his candidacy to the office of President on 9 April 2009, but later withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nThe main contenders, incumbent B\u0103sescu and the President of the Parliament Mircea Geoan\u0103, offered different ways to tackle the economic crisis, Romania being in the grip of severe recession with the economy expected to contract eight percent in 2009. While Geoan\u0103 offered to increase investment to beat the recession and promised \"vigorous measures\" such as building affordable flats for young people and giving cheap credits to enterprises in order to help create jobs, B\u0103sescu pledged to cut public spending. B\u0103sescu also promised more equity to people living in the countryside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nChristian Mititelu, a political commentator quoted by the BBC, argued that due to extremely vigorous political strife there was no real campaign debate about how the economy should recover or on the structure of the next year's budget, and that the public were not sufficiently aware of these economic issues, while the contenders did not attempt to communicate and involve the public in such decisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nB\u0103sescu tried to portray himself as the champion of the people against what he called \"the corrupt political elite\". A widely used election poster carried the text: \"They cannot avoid what they are afraid of\". B\u0103sescu's opponents countered that he is part of that elite, simply with different backers. In a Cluj-Napoca meeting with supporters he claimed he \"was the one to stop doubtful privatisations\", implicitly accusing rival Social-Democrats of underhand practices while in power. He vowed to fight against the Parliament, which blocked his bid to install the Croitoru cabinet, and the \"media moguls\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nIn the campaign for the first round, his favorite campaign theme was reducing the number of lawmakers. This theme proved popular with the overwhelming majority of the electorate voting for the reduction of the number of lawmakers from current 471 to a maximum of 300, and in favor of a transition from the current bicameral parliament to a unicameral one in a referendum held simultaneously with the first round of elections. One of Basescu's favorite themes is his fight against parliament and media moguls such as businessmen Dan Voiculescu, Sorin Ovidiu V\u00eentu, and Dinu Patriciu, politicians Ion Iliescu, Viorel Hrebenciuc, and Marian Vanghelie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nThe main counter-candidate, Geoan\u0103, on the other hand, described himself as a \"man of dialogue\", who can \"restore Romania's unity\", allegedly \"jeopardized\" by Basescu. A former ambassador to the United States, former foreign minister, and a seasoned diplomat, Geoan\u0103 edged aside more powerful figures in his Social Democratic party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, First round\nIn the first round held on 22 November, B\u0103sescu came first with 32.44% of the votes, and Geoan\u0103 second with 31.15%. According to a BBC analyst a victory by Geoan\u0103 would be caused by the numerous enemies B\u0103sescu has made during his tenure, especially in the media. On the other hand, a victory of the incumbent could be generated by his counter-candidate alleged lack of \"human touch\", and because doubts remain over his ability to control the \"red barons\" in his own party. Crin Antonescu [of the National Liberals who scored third with 20.02%] was the first choice of all those who are fed up with B\u0103sescu but could not bring themselves to vote Socialist. His voters hold the key to victory on 6 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, Second round\nAlthough B\u0103sescu claimed the results of the first round were \"a significant vote for the right\" because he and Crin Antonescu together received over 50% of the vote, the next day Antonescu refused to back B\u0103sescu in the runoff, and shortly thereafter announced an alliance with Geoan\u0103. Subsequently, B\u0103sescu reproached Antonescu to \"have thrown himself in the arms of the Social-Democrat party, a party opposed to reforms\", and added \"This alliance will bring us back to 20 years ago when the PSD was controlling all state institutions\". Antonescu in turn called B\u0103sescu \"a demagogue and a populist\", and vowed to support Geoan\u0103 as \"the lesser of two evils\". Geoan\u0103 also gained the support of B\u00e9la Mark\u00f3 with his UDMR and George Becali with his New Generation Party \u2013 Christian Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 849]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, Second round\nSorin Oprescu decided not to support anyone and Corneliu Vadim Tudor with his PRM\u2014at national level\u2014called his voters to boycott the runoff round; however the PRM in Sibiu county decided to support Geoan\u0103. Geoan\u0103 announced he would nominate Klaus Iohannis as prime minister if he won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Campaign, Second round\nGeoan\u0103 promised to appoint Klaus Iohannis as Prime Minister of Romania if he was elected president. Iohannis was the candidate supported by a majority in the Parliament of Romania. Romania had a caretaker government since the government of Emil Boc fell on 13 October. The parliament rejected Traian B\u0103sescu's nomination of Lucian Croitoru for new prime minister on 4 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Opinion polls\nNote: Opinion polls have been criticised in this election for their unreliability, with large differences in results obtained between different polling agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Results\nBoth runoff candidates declared themselves winners after tight exit polls. On Monday, 7 December 2009 at 8\u00a0am, BEC published the first official partial results, after having counted the votes from 95.4% of the total of 21706 poll stations. According to these partial results, Traian B\u0103sescu had achieved 50.43% of the total eligible votes, while Mircea Geoan\u0103 got the rest of 49.57%. The official partial results tallied at 10:16\u00a0am (Monday, 7 December 2009) attested that Traian B\u0103sescu achieved 50.37% of the total eligible votes and Mircea Geoan\u0103 49.62%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Results\nA majority of 78.86% the votes from abroad, fully counted in this tally, went for B\u0103sescu (115,831 to 31,045). Some 94% of the estimated 200,000 Moldovans with Romanian citizenship who voted in the election cast their vote for Basescu, who has been a vocal advocate of Moldovans' right to regain Romanian citizenship. Following final results, Sibiu mayor Klaus Iohannis announced that he is abandoning his bid to become prime minister in the current situation. Romanian stock markets fell to a four-month low after the official results were announced, deepening a political crisis that threatens ties with international lenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Results\nCrin Antonescu openly endorsed Mircea Geoan\u0103 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Aftermath, Accusations of electoral fraud\nThe opposition has decided to contest the result; Mircea Geoan\u0103 announced that the Social Democrats will contest the elections at the Constitutional Court and will submit evidence of electoral fraud. PSD Secretary General Liviu Dragnea cited \"a high number of void ballots, modified voting protocols, and massive electoral tourism\". Dragnea stated: \"Romanians voted for Mircea Geoan\u0103, but B\u0103sescu's state apparatus is trying to make him the presidential winner through fraud\". Former Prime Minister Adrian N\u0103stase and former President Ion Iliescu, both PSD members, also stated that they doubted the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Aftermath, Accusations of electoral fraud\nMircea Geoan\u0103 has also stated that the Social Democrats exclude any collaboration with B\u0103sescu and his party, and maintain the majority with the Liberals and Hungarian Democrats, while Crin Antonescu also stated that the Liberal Party excludes \"any participation in a Traian B\u0103sescu puppet government\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court proceedings\nOn 8 December, the Social Democratic Party submitted their request to annul and repeat the presidential election run-off to the Constitutional Court, saying the election was rigged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court proceedings\nOn 11 December, in an unprecedented decision the Constitutional Court decided to recount all 138,476 invalid votes. After 137,613 invalid votes recounted, only 2,137 were revalidated (1.6% of recounted invalid votes), 1,169 votes for Traian B\u0103sescu and 968 for Mircea Geoan\u0103.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204761-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Romanian presidential election, Aftermath, Constitutional Court proceedings\nOn 14 December, the Constitutional Court rejected the request to repeat the presidential elections, paving the way to validate B\u0103sescu's election. The same day, Geoan\u0103 admitted defeat and wished B\u0103sescu good luck in his second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204762-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Roscommon County Council election\nAn election to Roscommon County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl\nThe 2009 Rose Bowl, the 95th edition of the annual game, was a college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 1, 2009 at the same-named stadium in Pasadena, California. Because of sponsorship by Citi, the first game in the 2009 edition of the Bowl Championship Series was officially titled the \"Rose Bowl Game presented by citi\". The contest was televised on ABC with a radio broadcast on ESPN Radio beginning at 4:30 PM US EST with kickoff at 5:10 PM. Ticket prices for all seats in the Rose Bowl were listed at $145. The Rose Bowl Game was a contractual sell-out, with 64,500 tickets allocated to the participating teams and conferences. The remaining tickets went to the Tournament of Roses members, sponsors, City of Pasadena residents, and the general public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl\nScoring 24 unanswered points in the second quarter, the Pacific-10 Conference Champion University of Southern California Trojans defeated the Big Ten Conference co-champion, the Pennsylvania State University Nittany Lions, 38-24, for their third consecutive Rose Bowl victory (in their fourth consecutive appearance, having lost the 2006 BCS title game to the Texas Longhorns). The victory gave the Trojans their 24th Rose Bowl championship, the most by any team in the country. Quarterback Mark Sanchez scored five touchdowns, one rushing and four passing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl\nPrior to the game, the Pac-10 conference had a 4-0 record in bowl games this season with wins by Arizona, Cal, Oregon, and Oregon State. The Trojan win gave the Pac-10 a perfect five out of five games, which was the only perfect conference bowl record of the season. The Big Ten conference had last won a Rose Bowl game in the 1999 season; this streak ended when Ohio State beat Oregon in the 2010 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl, Teams\nThe teams participating in the Rose Bowl Game were announced on Sunday, December 7, by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses football committee. Big Ten co-champions, Penn State, coached by Joe Paterno, were picked to play against Southern California, the champions of the Pac-10, coached by Pete Carroll. Penn State earned its bid via a head-to-head tiebreaker, beating Ohio State, 13\u20136 in Columbus, Ohio, on October 25, 2008. The Men of Troy earned their way in by defeating UCLA 28-7 on December 6, 2008. USC was designated as the home team, wearing dark jerseys and using the east bench on game day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl, Teams\nThe 2009 game marked the first time since 2004 Rose Bowl that the traditional teams\u2014the champions of the Big Ten and the Pac-10\u2014squared off at the Rose Bowl, because at least one league champion played in the BCS Championship in each the previous four years. In the 2005 Rose Bowl, Big Ten champion Michigan met Texas, as USC played Oklahoma in the designated BCS Championship Game that year, the Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl, Teams\nThe following year, USC met Texas in the game, which was designated as that year's BCS National Championship contest; Big Ten champion Penn State played in the Orange Bowl against Florida State. For the 2007 and 2008 games, the runners-up of the Big Ten were sent to this game, since the champion, Ohio State, participated in the newly established separate BCS Championship Game: the Wolverines played in 2007 and Illinois would do so the following year; both teams played (and lost to) the Trojans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl, Teams\nEach team lost just one game during the 2008 regular season. Penn State was defeated by Iowa (24-23) and Southern California lost to Oregon State (27-21). USC and Penn State had faced two common opponents in the regular season. Both teams defeated Ohio State and Penn State beat Oregon State prior to the Beavers' defeat of the Trojans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204763-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Rose Bowl, Teams\nPenn State had appeared in the Rose Bowl twice before, losing to the Trojans 14-3 in 1923 in their only previous meeting in \"The Granddaddy Of Them All\", and winning in 1995 over 1994 Pac-10 champion Oregon 38-20, the latter game capped an unbeaten season in which Penn State finished #2 in both major polls. The Trojans have played in the Rose Bowl more times than any other team and made its fourth consecutive appearance in 2009. The two teams have faced each other eight times, with each team winning four games. The Kickoff Classic XVIII on August 27, 2000, in Giants Stadium at East Rutherford, New Jersey, was the last time they met: the Trojans defeated the Nittany Lions, 29-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204764-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostelecom Cup\nThe 2009 Rostelecom Cup was the second event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Megasport Arena in Moscow on October 22\u201325. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204764-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostelecom Cup\nThe event was renamed in 2009 after Rostelecom, the sponsor of Russian Figure Skating Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204765-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostov-on-Don bus crash\nThe 2009 Rostov bus crash was a collision between a bus and a Mercedes-Benz Actros 1841LS oil tanker near Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia. 21 people died, and 8 others were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204765-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostov-on-Don bus crash, Incident\n27 passengers were on board the bus. The drivers of both vehicles were killed. The accident happened at 12:48. 21 people were killed in the crash. 8 people were in a serious condition in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204765-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostov-on-Don bus crash, Incident, Route\nThe bus was on the highway route between Krasnodar and Volgodonsk. The bus had come from the town of Kurgantsy, heading towards Taganrog. The truck had crossed into the opposing lane and collided with the Ikarus 256.75 bus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204765-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rostov-on-Don bus crash, Investigation\nThe Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Rostov Oblast said there had been 27 passengers on board the bus. The bus had a capacity to take 45 people. An investigation was opened for the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204766-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank Cup\nThe 2009 Royal Bank Cup is the 39th Junior \"A\" 2009 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior Hockey League. 2009 marked the 14th year the Royal Bank Cup has been awarded and the 39th year of modern Junior \"A\" hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204766-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank Cup\nThe Royal Bank Cup was competed for by the winners of the Doyle Cup, Anavet Cup, Dudley Hewitt Cup, the Fred Page Cup and the host city, the Victoria Grizzlies of the British Columbia Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204766-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank Cup\nThe tournament was hosted by the Victoria Grizzlies and run from May 2 to May 10 of 2009 with games played at the Bear Mountain Arena in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204766-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank Cup\nThe Vernon Vipers won the 2009 Royal Bank Cup with a 2-0 win over the Humboldt Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204767-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger\nThe 2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tiburon, United States between 12 and 18 October 2009. It was part of the Tiburon Challenger series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204767-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204767-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nTreat Conrad Huey /  Harsh Mankad def. Ilija Bozoljac /  Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204768-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTreat Conrad Huey and Harsh Mankad defeated Serbian pair Ilija Bozoljac and Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204769-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Challenger \u2013 Singles\nGo Soeda won the title, after win against Ilija Bozoljac 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes\nThe 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes is an industrial dispute in the United Kingdom involving Royal Mail and members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which began in the summer of 2009. It was the country's first industrial action involving postal workers since 2007 and came about after the Communication Workers Union accused Royal Mail of refusing to enter into dialogue regarding how the implementation of modernisation plans would affect the job security of postal workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes\nThe strike action began on a local level after postal workers at Royal Mail offices in London and Edinburgh accused their bosses of cutting jobs and services, which they claimed broke the 2007 Pay and Modernisation Agreement, the agreement that was struck to end the 2007 strikes, and accused Royal Mail of threatening modernisation of the service. After a series of localised walkouts over the summer months, and after failing to reach an agreement, the CWU opened a national ballot for industrial action in September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes\nOn 8 October, it was announced that postal workers had voted three to one in favour of taking strike action over job security and working conditions. It was later announced that a national strike would be held on Thursday 22 October and Friday 23 October. After further talks failed, more strikes were announced to take place on Thursday 29 October, Friday 30 October and Saturday 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes\nDiscussions continued throughout the second wave of strikes with proposals being put to both sides, but these were overshadowed by the announcement of a third walkout on Friday 6 November and Monday 9 November. However, on 5 November it was announced that strikes had been called off until the New Year to allow time for fresh talks to take place. A resolution to the dispute was finally reached following lengthy discussions on 8 March 2010, and on 27 April it was reported that postal workers voted to accept the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Background\nCentral to the 2009 dispute was the agreement that ended the 2007 round of strikes. The 2007 Pay and Modernisation Agreement saw the parties involved agree to a four-phase plan, which would be implemented with dialogue between both sides at each stage of the process. However, the Communication Workers Union said that although Royal Mail had carried out three of the phases in this way, it had refused to discuss the final phase, which concerned the government's plans for modernisation, and how these would affect the job security of Royal Mail employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Background\nOne of the key aspects of Royal Mail's modernisation drive involved the introduction of the walk sequencing machine that organises mail into the order the postman will deliver them on his round. The union feared that a national introduction of this equipment would lead to thousands of full-time workers being made redundant and a significant increase in the number of part-time staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Background\nThe Communication Workers Union argued that although it had signed up to this part of the agreement in 2007 and that the plans would make it necessary for some jobs to be lost, it had not understood the exact nature of Royal Mail's plan. Furthermore, the union said that when Royal Mail stopped talking to staff about the long-term effects of job security, there had been no choice other than to threaten a strike to restart discussions. Royal Mail, on the other hand, said that it had not stopped talking to the union and continued to involve it in its modernisation strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Localised strike action\nLocalised strike action began in June 2009 when workers at Royal Mail offices in London and Edinburgh staged a 24-hour strike on 19 June over concerns about the impact that modernisation would have on postal workers. This was followed the next day by a similar walkout in parts of Scotland. Speaking about the situation at the time Dave Ward, the CWU's deputy general secretary said, \"We are now seeing cuts but not modernisation in the postal industry and there's only so long before this is going have a major impact on services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Localised strike action\nThe CWU does not and has not blocked change. Once again we are seeing Royal Mail working against the union and failing to engage the workforce.\" Ward also said that his union would offer Royal Mail and the government a three-month no-strike deal if Royal Mail fulfilled its part of the 2007 agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Localised strike action\nHowever, talks between the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail failed to broker a deal. The CWU criticised Royal Mail's business policy as \"chaos management\" and in August and September the localised strike intensified. By September it was estimated that there was a backlog of 20 million undelivered letters. On 10 September the CWU announced plans to hold a national ballot on strike action, the results of which were expected to be announced on 30 September during the Labour Party Conference. Royal Mail responded to the announcement by saying that the decision to go ahead with the ballot was \"wholly irresponsible\" as talks were still ongoing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nBallot papers proposing a national strike were sent out to union members on 17 September. On 8 October it was announced that postal workers had voted three to one in favour of taking strike action over job security and working conditions. The first round of strikes were later scheduled for Thursday 22 October and Friday 23 October. These would consist of two 24-hour stoppages, with mail centre staff and drivers striking on 22 October and delivery and collection staff doing likewise the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nTalks between Royal Mail and the CWU continued, but relations were strained by the emergence of a leaked document suggesting that Royal Mail would achieve its reforms \"with or without union engagement\". CWU general secretary Billy Hayes called the document's contents \"an organised attempt to sideline the union\" and expressed his concern that Business Secretary Peter Mandelson appeared to be familiar with it. Furthermore, following the first round of strikes, it emerged that both sides had been \"tantalisingly close\" to brokering a deal on the evening of 20 October, but that Royal Mail had backed away from this the following morning. Consequently, the strikes went ahead as planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nNew talks were announced on 24 October, which would be brokered by the TUC and chaired by its general secretary Brendan Barber. Peter Mandelson welcomed the talks, describing them as \"an opportunity to break the deadlock\". Further strikes were also announced for the last three days of October, which would involve mail centre staff on 29 and 30 October and delivery staff on 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nThree days of negotiations aimed at ending the dispute began on 26 October, but although they were described by Barber as having been useful, they ended without agreement and the second wave of strikes went ahead. Royal Mail later blamed a hard core element of London postal union leaders for refusing to endorse a proposal that both sides had agreed to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nDiscussions were held during the second wave of strikes, when Brendan Barber announced on the afternoon of Friday 30 October that proposals had been put to both Royal Mail and the CWU for them to consider over the weekend. Talks resumed on the Monday, however this news was overshadowed by the announcement that a further two days of strikes would be held on Friday 6 November and Monday 9 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action\nIt was also announced that these would be all out strikes with everybody walking out at the same time rather than the rolling strike action that had been adopted previously, thus leading to a complete stoppage throughout the course of the action. These were later called off in order for further talks to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action, Effects\nThe strike action led to a backlog of tens of millions of items of undelivered mail, with an estimated 30 million letters and parcels affected after the first wave of walkouts, and rising to in excess of 50 million following the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action, Effects\nOn Tuesday 3 November a YouGov poll conducted for The Daily Telegraph appeared to show that public support for the industrial action had dropped in comparison to a similar poll conducted two weeks earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Strike ballot and national action, Effects\nIt was also reported that the CWU had started a fighting fund to help support postal workers who were experiencing financial difficulties as a result of the strike. Postmen lose a day's pay for each day they strike, and although most workers had lost just two days pay so far, many in the London area who had taken part in previous industrial action earlier in the year had lost as much as 18 days of wages. There was also speculation that the CWU lacked the funds for a lengthy dispute and donations to the union's fighting fund were pledged by other unions, including UNISON and Unite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Suspension of strike action\nOn 5 November, the eve of the first planned all out strike it was announced that strike action had been called off until at least the New Year to allow for what Brendan Barber described as \"a period of calm\" in which both Royal Mail and the CWU could reach a long term agreement. But he added that although the postal service would be free from disruption over the Christmas period, a long term deal was still some distance away. The CWU also announced on the same day that it would not press ahead with a legal challenge to Royal Mail's employment of temporary workers to clear the backlog, which had been due to begin at the High Court the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Resolution\nFollowing lengthy discussions between Royal Mail managers and union representatives a deal to settle the dispute was finally agreed to on 8 March 2010. This would see Royal Mail workers receiving a 6.9% pay rise over three years (worth 2% in 2010, 1.4% in 2011 and 3.5% in 2012), while extra payments worth up to \u00a31,400 would be made to full-time workers once all the agreed changes have been made. These will take the form of a \u00a3400 payment following the agreement of union members and a further \u00a31,000 to be paid once the planned changes have been implemented. In addition the Royal Mail agreed to keep 75% of the workforce as full-time, rather than part-time staff, and to reduce working hours from 40 to 39 hours a week. In exchange, the CWU agreed to Royal Mail's modernisation strategy which include plans to introduce the automated walk sequencing machinery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 913]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204770-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes, Resolution\nWelcoming the deal, the deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, Dave Ward said, \"It's been a long time coming, but this deal delivers on the major issues that postal workers have fought for. There's a balance of pay and operational changes that will help to offset job losses and ensure our members are fairly rewarded for change.\" Royal Mail's outgoing chief executive, Adam Crozier said that the resolution was \"a good deal for our customers as it ensures stability over the next three years,\" and allowed Royal Mail to proceed with modernisation. On 27 April the Communication Workers Union announced that its members had voted two to one in favour of the deal, thus ending the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204771-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Royal Trophy\nThe 2009 Royal Trophy was the third edition of the Royal Trophy, a team golf event contested between teams representing Asia and Europe. It was held from 9\u201311 January at the Amata Spring Country Club in Thailand. The Asian team won for the first time, by a margin of 10 points to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204772-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League European Bowl\nThe competition took place again in 2009 with Ukraine joining Estonia and Latvia; the winners were Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations\nThe 2009 Rugby League Four Nations tournament (officially known as the Gillette Four Nations due to sponsorship) was the first Rugby League Four Nations since its expansion from the Tri-Nations tournament. Played in England and France over three weeks from Friday, 23 October until Saturday, 14 November, France and England competed for the first time, with Great Britain's permanent split into the home nations' national teams following the 2007 New Zealand All Golds Tour. The tournament culminated in a final between world number 1 side Australia and hosts England. After 60 minutes of highly competitive football, Australia ran away with the match, scoring a barrage of late tries to win 46\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations\nThe 2009 series was the first of three Four Nations series planned before the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, with the venues rotating between Europe and the South Pacific. The RLIF also stated that the next Four Nations would be held 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Qualification\nThe Four Nations is run in partnership between the Australian Rugby League, Rugby Football League and New Zealand Rugby League representing the top three nations in the sport: Australia, England and New Zealand. A fourth partner, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Rugby \u00e0 XIII, accepted an invitation to enter France in the inaugural 2009 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams\nEach team was to play the other three once during the round robin tournament. The top two finishing teams would then contest the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads\nEach nation was to choose a 24-man squad in order to participate for the Four Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, Australia\n*Replaced originally selected Israel Folau who withdrew due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, Australia\nOf the twenty four players, twenty three were Australian born while one was Fijian born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, New Zealand\nOf the twenty four players, nineteen were New Zealand born while four were Australian born and one Tongan born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, New Zealand\n1 Ruled out of the rest of the series on 5 November after breaking his hand in the Round two victory over France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, New Zealand\n2 Registered as a member of the squad before the tournament started but this was not revealed to the media until he was called to Europe from Australia by the Kiwis on 25 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, New Zealand\n3 The only non National Rugby League player in the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, England\n1 Replaced originally selected Sean O'Loughlin who withdrew due to injury. 2 The only non Super League player in the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Participating teams, Squads, France\nOf the twenty seven players, eighteen were French born while three were Australian born, three New Zealand born, one Moroccan born and one New Caledonia born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Referees\nFour referees were nominated for the tournament by the governing bodies of the participating teams. One from each of the participating nations. The nominated referees were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Venues\nThere were several venues used during the tournament throughout England and France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Venues, Final\nThe Four Nations Final was played at the Elland Road stadium in Leeds, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round one, England vs France\nAfter trailing 12\u20134 at half-time, England scored 30 consecutive points to defeat France 34\u201312, who were coached by former Great Britain half, Bobbie Goulding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round one, New Zealand vs Australia\nFor Australia Ben Hannant, Brett Morris and Brett White were selected to make their debuts. Petero Civoniceva was selected despite not having played any football since he injured his leg in game 2 of the 2009 State of Origin series in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round one, New Zealand vs Australia\nWhen Australian captain Darren Lockyer took the field for this match, he surpassed Mal Meninga's record for most international caps for the Kangaroos. After 6\u20136 at half-time, Australia quickly went to a 14\u20136 lead before New Zealand scored fourteen points in a row to make it 14\u201320. Australia's Cameron Smith scored a try and Johnathan Thurston made the conversion to level the scores with less than five minutes left to play. The score finished at 20-20. The crowd of 12,360 at Twickenham Stoop stadium set a new attendance ground record for a rugby league match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round two, England vs Australia\nChanges made to the Australian side included the removal of Sam Thaiday, Ryan Hoffman, Trent Waterhouse and Kurt Gidley. Taking their places were d\u00e9butants Luke Lewis and David Shillington as well as Robbie Farah and also Nathan Hindmarsh, making his test football comeback. Australian captain Darren Lockyer equalled Ken Irvine's record of 33 test tries for Australia by scoring in this match. On a warm and sunny day, the Kangaroos went into half-time 26-0 up and after Australia defeated England 52\u20134 in their previous meeting in last year's Rugby League World Cup, the English looked set for another thrashing. However, England made an ambitious fight-back in the second half but, keeping Australia scoreless to lose by a more respectable margin of 26\u201316. Towards the end of the match, Johnathan Thurston was sent to the sin bin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round two, New Zealand vs France\nNew Zealand were leading 16\u20136 at half-time. France got to within 4 points of New Zealand at 16-12 before New Zealand scored 46 points in a row to comfortably win 62\u201312. New Zealand's Bryson Goodwin scored 22 individual points and Sam Perrett scored a hat-trick of tries. This loss ended the French hopes of making the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nThe Kangaroos had not played in Paris since 1994. They went into the match having won their last 14 matches against France. Due to French laws prohibiting the use of alcohol advertising in sport, the Australian jerseys' usual Victoria Bitter logo was replaced by one for Movember. Debuting for Australia were Brett Morris' twin brother Josh Morris and New South Wales State of Origin centre Michael Jennings. By playing in this match, Darren Lockyer surpassed Clive Churchill's record for most games as Australian captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nFor the first 20 minutes the contest was quite even, being played at both ends of the field with both sides getting and conceding penalties. It was the Australians who scored first when debutant Michael Jennings dummied his way through the defence from 20 metres out to score out wide. Johnathan Thurston's conversion attempt missed, so France were down 4 nil with 18 minutes of the first half remaining. Jennings also scored the second try of the match in the 27th minute when Lockyer threw a cutout pass to him in front of France's line. Thurston again failed to add the extras, so the score remained at 8 nil. The score did not change from then till half time, with both sides' defence holding each other's attacking opportunities out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 803]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nAfter receiving France's kick-off and making their way up-field with the help of a penalty, the Australians scored in only the 2nd minute of the half when Luke Lewis powered his way through the defence from about 12 metres out. With Cooper Cronk on the field instead of Johnathan Thurston, Kurt Gidley was given kicking duties and converted the try, pushing Australia's lead out to 14 nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nIn the 45th minute the Kangaroos scored again after a Cooper Cronk 40/20 kick put them in an attacking position and they moved the ball out to Brett Morris' wing where he dived over untouched in the corner. Gidley's sideline conversion attempt missed so the score was 18 nil. Morris got his second try just a few minutes later when Darren Lockyer kicked ahead for him from 35 metres out. Gidley kicked the extras so Australia's lead was 24 nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nthe Kangaroos continued to dominate possession and in the 56th minute Jennings got his hat-trick with a long-range try when he regathered a French dropped ball 30 metres out from Australia's line. Jennings thus became the 4th Kangaroo since Lionel Morgan in 1960, Brad Mackay in 1990 and David Williams in 2008 to score a hat-trick on debut for Australia. Thurston, back on the field kicked his first successful goal of the match to push the score out to 30 nil with over 25 minutes of play to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0022-0003", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nIn the 61st minute France made the most of an attacking opportunity when Tomas Bosc kicked over the Australian defence where Olivier Elima leapt for it, coming down with the ball over the line. Bosc's conversion attempt missed so the score was 30\u20134 with 18 minutes remaining. Josh Morris then got a try at the 69-minute mark when he received the ball from his twin brother Brett after the Australians had kept the ball alive. Thurston kicked the extras so the score was 36\u20134. Josh Morris then got his second try a little over 2 minutes later when the Australians moved the ball out to his wing from a scrum win 30 metres out. Thurston's successful conversion made the score 42-4 and this is what it would be at the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, Australia vs France\nThe victory for Australia meant they would face the winner of the match between New Zealand and England to be played in Huddersfield later that evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nThe last time these two sides met was in the 2008 World Cup when they played each other for the chance to face Australia in the final. On that occasion New Zealand won, sending England back home. This time they were playing for the chance to face Australia in the Four Nations final. New Zealand could draw and still make the final, while England needed to win to advance. In all of England's prior games, they had lost the first half but had won and not conceded a point in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nFor this match England coach Tony Smith dropped Danny McGuire, Lee Smith and Tom Briscoe in favour of Peter Fox, Chris Bridge and Jon Wilkin. For New Zealand, Greg Eastwood and Steve Matai were out with injury so Jeff Lima was recalled and 19-year-old Kieran Foran was brought in to make his international debut ahead of Krisnan Inu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nEngland got the first points of the match when they attacked up the middle, Sam Burgess spinning out of a tackle to send Kyle Eastmond over under the black dot just on 9 minutes. Sinfield's conversion from right in front was successful so England were out to a 6 nil lead. New Zealand responded 5 minutes later, moving the ball out wide to Bryson Goodwin's wing where he dived over in the corner. He couldn't convert his own try though, so the score was left at 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nIn the 29th minute New Zealand were awarded a penalty right in front of the goal-posts and took the two points, leveling the score at 6 all. Six minutes later England were up at the Kiwis' end of the field again, attacking the line, when Sam Tomkins kicked across-field to Peter Fox's corner where the winger dived on the ball. Sinfield kicked the extras from the sideline so England were again a converted try in front with just over 4 minutes remaining. England continued dominating field position and scored again in the 39th minute from a scrum win near England's line, the ball going through the hands out to Peter Fox to score his second. Sinfield again added the extras, pushing England's lead out to 18\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nNew Zealand opened the scoring after just a minute and a half into the second hand when at the halfway line Isaac Luke made a break from dummy-half, his offload finding support players who got the ball out to Ben Matulino who scored. Bryson Goodwin's kick added the extras, bringing the Kiwis back within a converted try, trailing 18\u201312. The play for the next half-hour went from end to end, with both teams getting good attacking opportunities but both teams' defences holding them out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Round three, New Zealand vs England\nThen when England were close to New Zealand's line they were awarded a penalty for ruck interference and with less than 10 minutes remaining, decided to take the kick for an 8-point lead. Sinfield's kick was successful so the score was 20\u201312 in favour of the home team. England were able to hold New Zealand out for the remaining minutes of the match and so earned a place in the final. Kevin Sinfield, in the unfamiliar position of hooker was named man-of-the-match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nThe Australian team for the final had the Queensland team's halves pairing, front row, centre pairing and fullback, while both wingers, the whole back row, three-quarters of the bench and the coach were New South Walshmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nBy playing in this match, Darren Lockyer became the first Australian in history to play in fifty international matches for his country. In addition, teammate and fellow Queenslander, Petero Civoniceva became the most-capped forward, breaking Johnny Raper's record by earning his 40th cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nIt took Australia till the ninth minute to cross England's line. Quick passing out to Brett Morris on the right wing saw him dive over in the corner, but the video referee ruled that he'd lost control of the ball in the grounding of it so no try was allowed. In England's very next set of six, they had reached Australia's half when NRL-bound loose forward Sam Burgess charged through the Kangaroos' defence, running forty-five metres and dummying past the fullback to score under the posts. Sinfield's conversion put England ahead 6 nil after eleven minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nIn the fourteenth minute Australia responded: a cut-out pass from Johnathan Thurston on England's try-line was flicked on by Justin Hodges' fingertips to Morris, who this time got his try. Thurston kicked the conversion from near the sideline so the scores were level at 6 all. A few minutes later England were back attacking Australia's line, when on the final tackle Eastmond put a kick up to his right winger Peter Fox, who beat Jarryd Hayne in the leap for the ball to come down with the try, putting the home team back in front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nSinfield missed the conversion attempt so the score was 10\u20136 with twenty minutes of the first half remaining. Five minutes later Hayne made a good break from half way, kicking ahead for Greg Inglis to chase through and ground the ball. The video referee checked Inglis' grounding and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Thurston kicked the extras so Australia had the lead again 12\u201310 with fourteen minutes of the first half left. At the thirty-minute mark England were penalised right in front of their goal posts and Australia opted to take the kick, Thurston's boot pushing Australia's lead out to four. No further points were scored in the first half so they went into the break at England 10, Australia 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 748]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nAfter ten minutes of sustained pressure on Australia's defence England were through, Burgess again charging over under the posts from close range. Sinfield's kick added the Extras so once again England had the lead at 16\u201314. A little over three minutes later it was Australia attacking England's line when their fullback Billy Slater dove over from dummy-half, the lead changing again to be back with the Kangaroos. Thurston couldn't get the conversion so Australia's lead stayed at only two points, 18\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nIn the fifty-eighth minute the Kangaroos were on the attack again when Thurston chipped ahead from twenty metres out for Brett Morris to chase through and score in the corner behind the England defence. The conversion attempt by Thurston was missed so Australia lead 22\u201316 with twenty-one minutes of the match remaining. Shortly after the kick-off following the try England's Michael Shenton suffered a head clash when trying to tackle front-row forward Ben Hannant and the game was halted as he was stretchered unconscious from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nMoments after the restart of play Hannant himself was concussed when tackled by James Graham but played on. Australia scored a remarkable try after sixty-six minutes when Darren Lockyer chipped over the top into England's in goal and Slater, chasing through leapt over the dead ball line to slap the ball back in with his hand for Cameron Smith to dive on and claim the four points. Thurston's kick from right in front did not miss so Australia lead 28\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0030-0003", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nAs the Kangaroos returned the ball after a short kick-off from England they reached the opposition's end of the field and Slater scored again after backing up a good break from Smith. The conversion from Thurston was an easy one so the score was 34\u201316 in favour of the visitors with under ten minutes of the match remaining. In the seventy-third minute Jarryd Hayne got a try after running through to chase a Lockyer grubber. Thurston added the extras, Australia's lead now 40\u201316 with a little over five minutes left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0030-0004", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Final\nThe Australians got one more try though when Kurt Gidley made a break around the halfway line and kicked ahead, Billy Slater winning the race to the ball to claim his hat-trick in the seventy-seventh minute. Man-of-the-match Thurston added the extras so the score was 46-16 when the final hooter sounded. It was England's heaviest loss to Australia on home soil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Non-series Tests\nBefore the series, New Zealand and England played additional Tests against Tonga and Wales respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Non-series Tests, New Zealand vs Tonga\nNew Zealand led 24\u20138 at half-time before Tonga fought back to level the scores at 24-24. New Zealand went on to score 16 unanswered points to win the match 40\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Non-series Tests, Wales vs England\nEngland lead Wales 20-12 approaching the hour, before racking up 28 points in the last quarter..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204773-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby League Four Nations, Broadcast details\nThe competition was televised in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204774-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens\nThe 2009 Rugby Sevens World Cup was the fifth edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as the host venue for the tournament ahead of bids from four other countries. The format included nine direct qualifiers and a further fifteen qualifiers from all six regions defined by the IRB. A women's version of the world cup was also held alongside the men's tournament for the first time and featured sixteen teams. The men's cup was won by Wales, with the women's cup going to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204774-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens\nThe men's teams of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, who entered the semi-finals in the two previous editions, failed to do so in 2009: the former were defeated by quarter-finals Kenya and Wales respectively, whereas Australia lost two of the three matches in the pool stage and did not advance to quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204774-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens\nWales, which had never reached quarter-finals in the previous editions of the World Cup, beat Samoa in semi-finals and Argentina in the final to win the tournament. Kenya had never reached the Cup or Plate stages before, but shared 3rd place in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204774-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Bids\nA record seven countries originally expressed interest in hosting the tournament however, only five officially submitted bids for hosting rights after Kenya and South Africa withdrew from the bidding process. The United Arab Emirates, Australia, the Netherlands, Russia and the United States were the five candidates. The voting process consisted of two rounds. No clear majority was reached in the first round and therefore the top two, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Australia, progressed to a second round, with the IRB subsequently selecting the UAE as the host union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 33], "content_span": [34, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204774-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Bids\nThe IRB cited the provision of a new purpose built stadium, the recent success of the Dubai Sevens tournament and the Under 19 Rugby World Championship as strong factors in their decision to select the Arabian Gulf RFU as the host union. The event was the first major rugby tournament to be held in the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 33], "content_span": [34, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204775-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men\nThe qualification process of men's teams for the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Automatic qualification was extended to the host and the eight quarterfinalists of the previous World Cup. The remaining spots were contested in each of the six regions' respective tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204775-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Men, Qualifying, Europe\nThe tournament held in Hannover, Germany on 12 and 13 July 2008, as well as being the European Sevens championship, functioned as a qualifying tournament for the world cup. The five best nations out of the twelve participating ones qualified for the Dubai tournament. Teams finished in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women\nThe qualification process for the inaugural women's tournament of the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. There are no automatic qualifiers, so all national teams qualified by way of regional tournaments. Unlike the men's tournament, the Arabian Gulf did not prequalify as hosts. The qualification process allocated two slots for Africa, two for North America/West Indies, one for South America, three for Asia, six for Europe and two for Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Africa\nOn 20\u221221 September, seven national teams plus an invitational team met in Kampala for two world cup slots, which has been won by finalists South Africa and Uganda, the former of which winning the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, North America/West Indies\nFrom 24\u201326 October, eight women's teams met in Nassau, Bahamas for the NAWIRA Sevens. Champion Canada and runner-up United States ended up qualifying based on the allotted slots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, South America\nThe South American qualifier was held in Punta del Este on 18\u221219 January, with Brazil claiming the continent's sole women's World Cup spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Asia\nNine women's national teams competed alongside the men's teams in Hong Kong on 4\u22125 October, contesting the three allotted World Cup slots. Finalists Japan and Thailand were joined by third-place China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 52], "content_span": [53, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Europe\nEurope had a sixteen-team tournament in Limoges, France on 14\u201315 June to determine the six teams eligible for the World Cup. The six top placing teams were England, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204776-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying \u2013 Women, Oceania\nApia, Samoa played host to the qualifying tournament played concurrently with the men's tournament. The women's tournament started with a five-team round robin before the top four teams advance to the playoff, from which finalists Australia and New Zealand qualified for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204777-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads \u2013 Men\nThe rosters of all participating teams at the men's tournament of the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204778-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads \u2013 Women\nThe rosters of all participating teams at the women's tournament of the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204779-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Men's tournament\nThe men's tournament in the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at The Sevens in Dubai alongside the inaugural women's tournament. The tournament was held from 5 March to 7 March, with Wales beating Argentina 19\u221212 at the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204780-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens \u2013 Women's tournament\nThe inaugural women's tournament in the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at The Sevens in Dubai alongside the men's tournament. The tournament was held from 6 March to 7 March, with Australia beating New Zealand 15\u221210 at the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204781-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast, Russia between 6\u201314 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204782-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Championship (women's football)\nThe 2009 Russian Women's Football Championship was the 18th edition of the top category in Russian women's football. Like the previous year the competition was contested by seven teams, with Lada Togliatti and Zvezda Zvenigorod replacing disbanded teams Nadezhda Noginsk and SKA Rostov to join Energiya Voronezh, ShVSM Izmailovo, WFC Rossiyanka, Ryazan VDV and Zvezda Perm. Twelve game weeks were played from May 7 to October 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204782-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Championship (women's football)\nThe championship was won for the third year in a row by European Cup runner-up Zvezda Perm, which became the first team to achieve this since the competition's foundation in 1992. Rossiyanka was the championship's runner-up, also qualifying for the Champions League. 2004 champion Lada Togliatti was disbanded after Week 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204783-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: \u0427\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0442 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0444\u0438\u0433\u0443\u0440\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044e \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u044c\u043a\u0430\u0445 2009) was held from December 24 to 28, 2008 in Kazan. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The juniors event was held separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204783-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships, Junior results\nThe 2009 Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships were held between January 28 and 31, 2009 in Saransk. They were the qualifying competition for the 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204783-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Europeans Championships\nThe team to the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships was announced as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 97], "content_span": [98, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204783-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Universiade\nThe team to the 2009 Winter Universiade was announced as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 92], "content_span": [93, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division\nThe Russian First Division 2009 was the 18th season of Russia's second-tier football league since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The season began on 28 March 2009 and ended on 4 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams\nThe league has been reduced from 22 to 20 teams. It features eleven clubs from Russian First Division 2008, two clubs relegated from Russian Premier League 2008, five zone winners from Russian Second Division 2008 and two of the third-placed clubs from Russian Second Division 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams, Movement between Premier League and First Division\nFC Rostov as 2008 champions and Kuban Krasnodar as runners-up have been promoted to the Premier League. They will be replaced by relegated teams Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energia Vladivostok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 86], "content_span": [87, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams, Movement between First Division and Second Division\nDue to the league contraction, seven instead of the regular five teams were relegated to their respective Second Division group. These teams, ranked 16th through 22nd in 2008, were Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk, Volga Ulyanovsk, Torpedo Moscow, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, Dinamo Barnaul, Dinamo Bryansk and Zvezda Irkutsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 87], "content_span": [88, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams, Movement between First Division and Second Division\nThe relegated teams were replaced by the five 2008 Second Division zone winners. These were MVD Rossii Moscow (West), Metallurg Lipetsk (Center), Volgar-Gazprom-2 Astrakhan (South), Volga Nizhny Novgorod (Ural-Povolzhye) and FC Chita (East).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 87], "content_span": [88, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams, Further team changes\nSportakademklub Moscow avoided relegation in 2008 by finishing 15th, but announced refusal to play in the First Division on 18 December 2008. On 15 January 2009, SKA Rostov-on-Don refused to play as well. Regulations provided that Sportakademclub and SKA should be replaced by two of the runners-up from the Second Division groups (FC Bataysk-2007, FC Torpedo Vladimir, FC Gazovik Orenburg, FC Avangard Kursk or FC Smena Komsomolsk-on-Amur). However, since all of those teams refused promotion, the places were eventually filled by third-place finishers FC Nizhny Novgorod and FC Krasnodar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Teams, Overview\nFC MVD Rossii resigned from the league on 17 July after playing 19 matches. The team was in the 19th position with 17 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204784-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian First Division, Awards\nOn 25 November 2009, Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League\nThe 2009 Russian Premier League was the 18th season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 8th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on 14 March 2009 with a goalless draw between Amkar Perm and Rostov. The last matches were played on 29 November 2009. On 21 November 2009 Rubin Kazan successfully retained their champion's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Teams\nAs in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2009 season. After the 2008 season, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Luch-Energiya Vladivostok were relegated to the 2009 Russian First Division. They were replaced by Rostov and Kuban Krasnodar, the winners and runners up of the 2008 Russian First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Teams, Venues\nDynamo Moscow played their home games during the 2009 season at the new Arena Khimki, due to their Dynamo Stadium undergoing renovation work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Awards\nOn 24 November 2009 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Sergei Ryzhikov (29), Nukri Revishvili  (1). Defenders: C\u00e9sar Navas  (28), Cristian Ansaldi  (25 / 1), Roman Sharonov (25 / 2), Vitali Kaleshin (18), Lasha Salukvadze  (10 / 1), Aleksei Popov (10), Dato Kvirkvelia  (7), Aleksandr Orekhov (2), Stjepan Tomas  (1). Midfielders: Sergei Semak (26 / 6), G\u00f6kdeniz Karadeniz  (25 / 6), MacBeth Sibaya  (23 / 1), Christian Noboa  (22 / 2), Aleksandr Ryazantsev (18 / 3), Yevgeni Balyaikin (17), Andrei Gorbanets (11), Pyotr Bystrov (11), Alan Kasaev (10 / 1), Rafa\u0142 Murawski  (7 / 1), Serhiy Rebrov  (7), Makhach Gadzhiyev (1), Aleksei Kotlyarov (1). Forwards: Alejandro Dom\u00ednguez  (23 / 19), Aleksandr Bukharov (23 / 16), Hasan Kabze  (14 / 2), Roman Adamov (13 / 2), Igor Portnyagin (2 / 1), Davron Mirzayev  (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nTransferred out during the season: Roman Adamov (on loan to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara), Serhiy Rebrov  (retired), Makhach Gadzhiyev (end of loan from FC Saturn Moscow Oblast).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Soslan Dzhanayev (26), Stipe Pletikosa  (4). Defenders: Martin Jir\u00e1nek  (29 / 1), Sergei Parshivlyuk (21 / 1), Martin Stranzl  (19 / 1), Malik Fathi  (16 / 3), Fyodor Kudryashov (7), Clemente Rodr\u00edguez  (7), Egor Filipenko  (5 / 1), Ignas Dedura  (4). Midfielders: Alex  (29 / 12), Rafael Carioca  (23), Yevgeni Makeyev (20 / 2), Vladimir Bystrov (18 / 4), Denis Boyarintsev (18), Renat Sabitov (17), Serghei Covalciuc  (16), Ivan Saenko (13 / 1), Aleksandr Pavlenko (10), Zhano Ananidze  (8 / 2), Quincy  (8 / 2), Ibson  (6), Vladislav Ryzhkov (4), Maksim Grigoryev (3), Artur Maloyan (3), Igor Gorbatenko (2). Forwards: Welliton  (28 / 21), Nikita Bazhenov (22 / 2), Pavel Yakovlev (14 / 4), Artyom Dzyuba (8 / 2), Eldar Nizamutdinov (5 / 1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nTransferred out during the season: Vladimir Bystrov (to FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Aleksandr Pavlenko (on loan to FC Rostov), Artyom Dzyuba (on loan to FC Tom Tomsk), Clemente Rodr\u00edguez  (to  Estudiantes de La Plata), Artur Maloyan (on loan to FC Anzhi Makhachkala).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nGoalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (28), Kamil \u010contofalsk\u00fd  (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (27 / 1), Fernando Meira  (22 / 1), Ivica Kri\u017eanac  (18 / 2), Kim Dong-Jin  (17 / 1), Nicolas Lombaerts  (15 / 2), Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hubo\u010dan  (10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nMidfielders: Konstantin Zyryanov (30 / 4), Igor Denisov (28 / 1), Igor Semshov (26 / 6), Roman Shirokov (21 / 1), Szabolcs Huszti  (19 / 2), Radek \u0160\u00edrl  (17), Viktor Fayzulin (16), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk  (11), Vladimir Bystrov (10 / 6), Aleksei Ionov (10), Alessandro Rosina  (9 / 2), Danny  (8). Forwards: Fatih Tekke  (20 / 8), Pavel Pogrebnyak (15 / 5), Sergei Kornilenko  (11 / 1), Mateja Ke\u017eman  (10 / 2), Maksim Kanunnikov (1). Manager: Dick Advocaat  (until August), Anatoli Davydov (from August).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204785-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Premier League, Medal squads\nTransferred out during the season: Pavel Pogrebnyak (to  VfB Stuttgart), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk  (to  FC Bayern Munich).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204786-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season\nThe 2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season was the fifth season of the Russian Professional Rugby League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204786-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season\nThis season saw yet another change in structure for the competition. The two-stage competition was retained, whereby the championship was still split into East and West. The somewhat complicated structure was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204786-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season, Stage Two Qualifiers\nAt this stage the two non-qualified West Division teams, Fili Moscow and Spartak-GM Moscow, entered a round-robin stage against teams that qualified from the Federal District Leagues, which were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204786-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Professional Rugby League season, Stage Two Qualifiers\nThe six teams were divided into two groups of three. The top three ranked sides then entered a final stage in which they were joined by Rugby Academy Krasnoyarsk (after Kosmos Krasnoyarsk pulled out).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204787-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\nThe Russian Second Division 2009 was the third strongest division in Russian football. The Second Division is geographically divided into 5 zones. The winners of each zone are automatically promoted into the First Division. The bottom finishers of each zone lose professional status and are relegated into the Amateur Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204787-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division, South\nFC Abinsk were excluded from the league for failing to fulfil two fixtures (on 28 June and 5 July). They have played 14 matches and were in the 18th position with 5 points. Results of Abinsk were discarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204787-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division, South\nOn 31 July 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204787-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division, Center\nFirst games on April 22, last games on October 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204787-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division, Awards\nOn November 25, 2009, Professional Football League announced the award winners for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204788-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Super Cup\nThe 2009 Russian Super Cup was the 7th Russian Super Cup match, a football match which was contested between the 2008 Russian Premier League champion, Rubin Kazan, and the winner of 2007\u201308 Russian Cup, CSKA Moscow. The match was held on 7 March 2009 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. CSKA Moscow beat Rubin Kazan 2\u20131 in extra time, after the normal time had finished in a 1\u20131 draw, to win their fourth Russian Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204788-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russian Super Cup, Match details\nAssistant referees:Nikolai Golubev (Saint Petersburg)Sergei Panteleev (Tula)Fourth official:Vladimir Pettay (Petrozavodsk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute\nThe 2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute was a pricing dispute between Russia and Ukraine that occurred when Russian natural gas company Gazprom refused to conclude a supply contract for 2009 unless Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz paid its accumulating debts for previous gas supplies. The dispute began in the closing weeks of 2008 with a series of failed negotiations, and on January 1, 2009 Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. On January 7 the dispute turned to crisis when all Russian gas flows through Ukraine were halted for 13 days, completely cutting off supplies to Southeastern Europe, most of which depends on Russian gas, and partially to other European countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute\nThroughout the crisis the Russian and Ukrainian sides blamed each other for the cutoff. On January 11 and 12, the European Union deployed an independent monitoring mission in an attempt to solve the crisis, but the mission met with little success. On January 12, Gazprom announced that it was willing to start delivering gas through the Sudzha metering station into the pipeline that traverses Ukraine towards Southeastern Europe, but Ukraine refused the offer for technical reasons and instead suggested an alternative route through Valuyki and Pisarevka metering stations, additionally insisting that supplies be fully restored. This was refused by Gazprom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute\nOn January 18 the dispute was resolved when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko negotiated a new contract that covered the next ten years (on October 11, 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office because she signed this deal). Gas flows to Europe restarted on the morning of January 20, and were fully restored within two days. In the aftermath, Gazprom was estimated to have lost US$1.5\u00a0billion in revenues due to lack of sales, and Ukraine was speculated to have incurred major economic losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute\nAnalysts point out that the crisis had a negative and possibly irreversible impact on the reputations of both Russia as an energy supplier, and Ukraine as a transit country. There is no consensus amongst analysts on who bore the most responsibility for the crisis. Due to the absence of international monitors on both sides of the Ukrainian pipeline system, it is impossible to determine with certainty who was responsible for interrupting gas flow to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nThroughout 2008 there were numerous contract and pricing disputes between Russian and Ukrainian gas/transit companies. In October 2008, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a deal that included provisions to raise import prices and transit tariffs to \"market, economically based and mutually agreed levels\" within three years, and that Naftogaz would buy gas directly from Gazprom and be the sole importer to Ukraine, removing intermediaries. In November, Gazprom and Naftogaz signed a long-term contract with similar provisions; however, this document differed in that it referred to transit fees remaining at their 2008 level and didn't specify an import price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nIn the third week of November, Gazprom CEO Miller announced that if no agreement was reached by the end of the year, prices could rise significantly higher than what was currently being proposed. A few days later Prime Minister Putin warned that if there was any interference with transit gas, supplies to Ukraine would be cut off. These warnings were repeated throughout December, with additional warnings that disruptions to European supplies could result. The European Commission did not attempt to intervene, but the Energy Charter Secretariat issued a statement on December 23 which recalled the principle of uninterrupted transit. This was seen as a reminder to Ukraine of its obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty, which it has signed and, unlike Russia, ratified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nLarge amounts of debt remained outstanding by year's end. Naftogaz CEO Vladimir Trykolych said that Naftogaz owed $1.26\u20131.27\u00a0billion to RosUkrEnergo in total, but claimed that Naftogaz had no debt to Gazprom. However, on December 2, Naftogaz acknowledged that it owed $1\u00a0billion to Gazprom, and said it was having trouble making payments on time due to unexpected losses in 2008. Later in mid-December, Gazprom stated that a debt of $2.195\u00a0billion had accumulated. In response, Naftogaz made a payment of $800\u00a0million, and promised to pay another $200\u00a0million soon. Gazprom proposed to make an upfront transit payment at the 2008 rate in order to provide funds for the debt to be cleared, but Naftogaz rejected the offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nOn December 19, Gazprom released a statement saying that no supply contract could be signed for 2009 because Ukraine said it would not make any more payments in 2008. This was denied by a Naftogaz spokesman. On the same day, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's spokesman on international energy security stated that Ukraine had paid for its October and September supplies, and that although it still had to pay for November's supply before the end of 2008, no other payments would be due until the end of January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nOn December 23, President Yushchenko said that part of the debt was restructured for January \u2013 February 2009, but Gazprom denied that there was any such agreement and said that it remained committed to cut supplies to Ukraine on January 1 if Ukraine did not pay its remaining $1.67\u00a0billion debt for gas supplies and an additional $450\u00a0million in fines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nBy December 30, Naftogaz made a payment of $1.522\u00a0billion to RosUkrEnergo for outstanding gas deliveries. RosUkrEnergo confirmed receiving this payment but said that Naftogaz still owed $614\u00a0million in fines, (although later on January 2, Naftogaz insisted that no further amounts of debt were outstanding, and said it was ready to go to international arbitration to resolve the issue).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nAlong with the payment, the chief executive of Naftogaz, Oleh Dubyna, wrote a letter to Gazprom threatening that if it delivered gas for transit to Europe, Naftogaz would consider the gas to belong to an \"unidentified owner\" and could confiscate it under Ukrainian customs law. This was received as a threat to divert gas as Ukraine had done during the 2006 gas dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Background\nOn December 31, after which gas supplies to Ukraine would be cut off, the two parties failed to come to an agreement on import and transit prices, and obstacles remained. Naftogaz promised to transit gas to Europe even if supplies to Ukraine were cut, however, it added that without a contract in place it would not supply technical gas and would instead take gas from Russia's volumes to keep the system functioning. Gazprom refused, arguing that this would be theft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nDeliveries of 90 mmcm (million cubic meters) of natural gas per day designated to Ukraine were fully cut on January 1, 2009 at 10:00 MSK. Transit deliveries to the EU continued at a volume of 300 mmcm per day. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko, in a joint statement, confirmed that Ukraine guaranteed the uninterrupted transit of gas to Europe. They also promised that Ukrainian citizens would be provided with gas in full volume from Ukraine's gas storage facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nAccording to Viachaslau Herasimovich, energy analyst at independent think-tank CASE Ukraine, Ukraine had enough natural gas to last between 100 and 110 days without Russian gas (reserves in underground storage were enough to last about 80 days, plus extra days from the amount of gas Ukraine itself could produce before the exhaustion of existing reserves).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nPresident Yushchenko sent a letter to President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso on January 1, proposing the European Union's involvement in settling the dispute. According to Interfax-Ukraine, this proposal was first initiated by the EU. A Ukrainian delegation of representatives was then sent to the Czech Republic (holding the current EU Presidency) to hold consultations with a number of EU member states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nOn January 3, Naftogaz claimed that Gazprom had not paid the transit fees since January 1 and owed it $40\u00a0million. According to Gazprom, the transit fee was based on a long-term contract which was signed by both parties on June 21, 2002, and would expire at the end of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nOn January 4, two days after gas supplies to Europe were first reported to be falling, the Czech EU Presidency, on behalf of the EU, made a statement calling for an \"urgent solution\" to the dispute, and for an \"immediate resumption\" of full deliveries of gas to the EU member states. According to the statement, \"energy relations between the EU and its neighbours should be based on reliability and predictability.\" On the same day both RosUkrEnergo and Gazprom filed lawsuits against Ukraine and Naftogaz respectively with the Stockholm Tribunal of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Russia and Ukraine also said they would file lawsuits at the arbitration court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Ukraine cut off.\nOn January 5, Kyiv's economic court ruled to ban Naftogaz from transiting Russian gas in 2009 at a price of $1.60\u00a0per 1,600\u00a0cubic meters per 100\u00a0kilometers. The court decided to satisfy a ministry appeal that declared ineffective agreements on Russian gas transit via Ukraine \"because the agreements were signed by the former deputy head of the Naftogaz Ukrainy board, Ihor Voronin, who was not empowered by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to do that\", according to the statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nOn January 5, in a televised conversation between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, Putin agreed with a proposal by Miller to reduce gas flows to Europe via Ukraine. Putin elaborated that the gas flow should be reduced by the amount Ukraine had allegedly stolen since deliveries ended on January 1, and instructed Miller to inform Gazprom's European partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nOn January 6, Gazprom deputy CEO Aleksandr Medvedev stated at press conferences in both London and Berlin that Ukraine had blocked three of the four transit lines \"in an unprecedented and unilateral move\". Naftogaz denied the accusation and said it had used its own gas for technical purposes. President Yushchenko stated that during the course of the day Gazprom had sharply cut supplies to Europe via Ukraine from 262 mmcm to 73.6 mmcm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nLater a Gazprom spokesman stated that Gazprom had only put 64.7 mmcm into the system, and that it was expecting Ukraine to make up the remaining 65.3 mmcm needed to make the total order of 130 mmcm. In a telegram sent to the leadership of the European Union and heads of European states that consume Russian natural gas, President Yushchenko said \"Ukraine consumes only the gas it produces itself and gas pumped into Ukrainian storage facilities, which has been paid for in full\". The president also claimed that Russia planned to stop or significantly reduce Russian gas transit through Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nOn January 7, all Russian gas flow through Ukraine was halted, completely cutting off supplies to Southeastern Europe, much of which is completely reliant on Russian gas, and partially to other parts of Europe. Miller stated that Gazprom had stopped all gas deliveries to Ukraine because Ukraine had closed the system down, but Naftogaz said it closed down the system because Gazprom had stopped delivering gas. Prime Minister Putin accused Ukraine of blackmail; Ukraine denied the charges and blamed Russia for stopping gas deliveries to Europe. According to the Ukrainian presidential envoy for international energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, Ukraine had no technical capability to stop the pumping of Russian gas into its territory. He claimed that all pumping stations through which gas is supplied to Ukraine are located in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 910]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nOn January 8, the European Union released a 6-point declaration. The declaration stated that Russia and Ukraine had failed to show sufficient determination in solving the problem which was damaging to both their reputations. It urged both Russia and Ukraine to fulfil their respective obligations as supplier and transit country and to immediately restore gas supplies to Europe. It also requested that both parties accept independent monitoring of the flow of gas in the pipelines. Later in the day officials from Gazprom and Naftogaz met with EU officials in Brussels to look for an end to the crisis. Ukraine agreed to guarantee the unimpeded transit of natural gas on the condition that Gazprom would guarantee and supply the technical gas that was required for the system to function, but this was rejected by Russia, as it considered this the responsibility of Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 947]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Gas supplies to Europe cut off\nOn January 11, Putin stated that Russia was willing to take part in the privatization of Ukraine's gas transport system if Ukraine agreed. He also suggested that the EU should lend Ukraine the cash to pay off its debts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nOn January 7, after Russian gas deliveries to Europe through Ukraine were completely halted, German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned both the Russian and Ukrainian Prime Ministers and reached an agreement with them that \"experts from the European gas industry and the EU be sent quickly to determine on both sides of the Russia\u2013Ukraine border..the cause of the transmission problems\". For the next 4\u20135 days the commission focused on coming up with terms of reference for an agreement to be signed by all parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nOn January 9, the Gas Coordination Group met and discussed different measures to help the situation, including temporary increases in production, increasing storage withdrawal, fuel switching, and increasing LNG imports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nOn January 10, the EU continued talks with Russia to finalize details of the written protocol. After several hours of negotiations, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topol\u00e1nek and Prime Minister Putin reached an agreement on conditions for the monitoring arrangement. European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs confirmed that he was also ready to sign the agreement, which left only Ukraine's signature needed in order to start the monitoring operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nOn January 11, Topol\u00e1nek flew to Kyiv where he presented the agreement to Ukrainian representatives, and Ukraine signed the protocol. However, Prime Minister Tymoshenko added the handwritten words \"with declaration attached\" next to her signature. The added declaration included, among other things, a clause asserting that Ukraine did not steal gas earmarked for Europe, a demand that Russia must provide Ukraine with 21 mmcm of technical gas daily, free of charge, and that Ukraine had no outstanding debts to Gazprom,  effectively blaming the Russian side for the crisis. Russia was not willing to accept this, and another day was lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nRussian President Dmitri Medvedev called the attached note a \"mockery of common sense\", and said it was \"blatantly provocative and destructive [...] meant to thwart the agreement.\" Topol\u00e1nek later told Putin during a telephone conversation that Ukraine's declarations were non-binding and only represented the opinion of Ukraine, but Putin asked Topol\u00e1nek to send Russia a protocol without any additions and declarations. After a phone call by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that same day, Tymoshenko agreed to separate the two documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nOn January 12, all three parties re-signed the protocol without any amendments and monitors were deployed. The monitoring mission included the EU Commission's officials, experts from the European gas companies, such as E.ON Ruhrgas, Eni and GDF Suez, as well as representatives of Gazprom, Naftogaz, and the Ukrainian and Russian energy ministries. Originally Ukraine did not accepted Gazprom's demand to include Gazprom's experts in the mission, but the objection was later withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, EU Monitoring agreement\nThis arrangement was criticized by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Yeliseyev, who said that Ukraine risked losing control over its gas transit system with the inclusion of monitors from European companies in which Gazprom is a shareholder. He claimed it was \"another attempt by the Russians to deprive Ukraine of its entire gas transit system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Attempts to restore gas supplies\nAlthough international monitors had been deployed, it became clear by the next day that they would have nothing to monitor, as mutual accusations between Russia and Ukraine over who was responsible for blocking gas flow continued. The Russian side claimed that its attempts to restore gas flow were still being blocked, while the Ukrainian side argued that no supplies could be received because no technical agreement had been reached between the parties. Naftogaz sent a letter to Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller arguing that Gazprom was not only responsible for supplying technical gas, but also additional linepack gas of 140\u00a0million cubic metres (4.9\u00a0billion cubic feet) in order to restart the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Attempts to restore gas supplies\nOn January 12, Gazprom announced that it was ready to start delivering gas through the Sudzha metering station that traverses Ukraine towards Southeastern Europe, but Ukraine refused the offer, claiming this would have left its eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and portions of Dnipropetrovsk starved of gas. Naftogaz suggested an alternative route through the Valuyki and Pisarevka metering stations, but later added that it was unprepared to partially accept gas for transfer to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Attempts to restore gas supplies\nIt insisted that deliveries be fully restored because the system had been partially reconfigured to work in reverse in order to supply consumers in eastern Ukraine with backup supplies, and European transit pipelines were working in such a way that they were unable to accept Russian gas for transit to Europe without cutting off those eastern regions. Naftogaz added that a resumption of transit would require conclusion of a technical agreement. According to a report by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies: \"This reversal of one of the world\u2019s largest gas transit systems was unprecedented. It seems hard to believe that it could have been undertaken spontaneously, which suggests that, whichever side precipitated the shutdown, Naftogaz's engineers had prepared for it.\" Gazprom rejected this counterproposal, saying that the Valuyki and Pisarevka routes were unsuitable for deliveries to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 978]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Attempts to restore gas supplies\nOn January 17, Russia held an international gas conference in Moscow, inviting the heads of states and governments of all countries buying or transporting Russian gas. The proposal was met with little enthusiasm, but the EU stated that it would attend under the precondition that Ukraine's participation was ensured. Ukraine agreed and was represented by Prime Minister Tymoshenko, who was given full mandate at the talks. The EU was represented by the Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Martin \u0158\u00edman and the EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Attempts to restore gas supplies\nThe summit did not achieve a solution to the crisis, but negotiations continued bilaterally between prime ministers Putin and Tymoshenko afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Crisis resolved\nOn January 18, after a day of talks, Putin and Tymoshenko reached a deal on restoring gas supplies to both Europe and Ukraine. The parties agreed, among other things, that Ukraine would get a 20% discount for 2009 gas supplies on condition that the tariff for transporting Russian gas to European consumers through Ukraine remained at 2008 prices for the duration of the year, and that starting on January 1, 2010, all prices and tariffs would move to European standards, without any exemptions or discounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Crisis resolved\nThe two sides also agreed to stop using intermediaries, referring to RosUkrEnergo, a company joint owned by Gazprom and two Ukrainian businessmen. The next day, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, along with the head of Naftogaz, Oleh Dubyna, signed the agreement, and Putin announced that he had ordered Gazprom to start deliveries in full volume and through all necessary routes. Additionally, the claim of a $600\u00a0million debt owed to RosUkrEnergo by Naftogaz was dropped. The deal is to remain in force until the end of 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Crisis resolved\nOn January 20, gas deliveries to both Ukraine and Europe resumed, and within two days volumes were fully restored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Crisis resolved\nAccording to the agreement, Ukraine would pay $360/mcm (thousand cubic meter) for the first quarter of 2009, and each following quarter will be stipulated depending on the price formula. Additionally, Ukraine must pay for supplies for any given month by the seventh day of the following month. If payment is late, Ukraine has to pay in advance, which could be grounds to nullify the agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Crisis, Crisis resolved\nThe agreement was altered on November 20, 2009 after a meeting between Tymoshenko and Putin in Yalta; Ukraine would not be fined for buying less gas than what the original agreement stipulated, this was done in view of the 2008\u20132009 Ukrainian financial crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Europe\nOn January 2, a day after Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine, Hungary, Romania and Poland were the first countries to report that pressure in their pipelines had fallen. Bulgaria reported that their supply was also falling and that transit to Turkey, Greece and Macedonia was affected. Two days later the Czech Republic and Turkey reported drops in pipeline pressure. Starting on January 7, several countries began to report a significant drop in gas supplies from Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Europe\nThroughout the crisis many countries were unprepared and had been left without supplies for days, leading to significant economic and humanitarian consequences; Bulgaria was forced to stop production in some of its important industrial plants, while one country, Slovakia, declared a state of emergency. The most severely affected countries were in Southeastern Europe, most of which rely completely on Russia for gas and at the time didn't have sufficient alternative energy sources. However North-West Europe wasn't much effected by the cutoff and none of Europe's major markets came close to cutting off customers. Many European countries had made investments since the 2006 crisis which put them in a better position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Europe\nThe following table displays the gas situation in each of the affected countries at the time of the crisis:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Europe\nNone of Gazprom's European clients have sued Gazprom for irregularities in gas shipments in January 2009, hence Gazprom suspended its litigation with Naftogaz Ukraine at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce over alleged violation of contractual terms on transiting natural gas to Europe by Naftogaz late December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Russia and Ukraine\nBoth Russia and Ukraine claimed to have emerged triumphant from the dispute, but both countries sustained major blows to their economies in the middle of an already serious economic crisis. Gazprom was estimated to have lost about $1.5\u00a0billion in revenues due to lack of sales, while Ukraine lost an estimated $100\u00a0million in transit fees and was speculated to have incurred major economic losses due to much of its industry, the backbone of its economy, being temporarily shut down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Russia and Ukraine\nAnalysts pointed out that the crisis and the way it was handled had a negative and possibly irreversible impact on the reputations of both Russia as an energy supplier, and Ukraine as a transit country. According to the Czech foreign minister, \"The main lesson learned from this crisis is that Russia and Ukraine aren\u2019t reliable suppliers. Europe must think about alternative sources and pipelines.\" The President of the European Commission Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso similarly expressed during the crisis that by failing to honor supply agreements Russia and Ukraine could no longer be considered reliable energy partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Impact on Russia and Ukraine\nDespite calls for European energy diversity being amplified as a result of the crisis, Russia's European customers have long term legal contracts for gas deliveries. Most of these contracts stretch beyond 2025\u20132030 and obligations to these contracts remain despite the crisis. Thus European countries can do little in the short-medium term in the ways of diversification away from Russian gas, but diversification of delivery routes away from Ukraine could potentially be achieved within a few years via projects such as the South Stream and Nord Stream pipeline systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nGas required to run the compressor stations is known as \"fuel gas\" worldwide, or \"technical\" gas in the former Soviet Union. The customary practice is that this gas is provided by the transport/transit company and included in the tariff charged to the shipper (i.e. there is no separate price or tariff charge for this gas). With no contract in place this became a point of contention. According to Heinz Hilbrecht of the European Commission Directorate-General for Transport and Energy, it was Ukraine's responsibility to supply the necessary technical gas, but Naftogaz insisted this was the responsibility of Gazprom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nA day after Russia cut off gas flows to Ukraine, Gazprom accused Ukraine of stealing gas. On January 3, Naftogaz issued a statement saying that it would take the necessary gas from volumes that were bound for Europe as technical gas, at a rate of 23 mmcm (million cubic meters) a day. It argued that this was the amount specified in the last transit contract signed in 2002, which covered 2003\u20132013. The Ukrainian President's representative for energy issues said that problems for Europe would arise within 10 days without gas volumes necessary for maintaining pressure in the pipeline system. However a Gazprom spokesman defined taking technical gas from Russian volumes as stealing, and announced that Gazprom would take the matter to international arbitration court in Stockholm; in a press release on January 4 he claimed that 50 mmcm of gas had already been stolen this way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 955]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nOn January 7 Gazprom claimed that since the beginning of 2009, Ukraine had stolen more than 86 mmcm of gas. Naftogaz acknowledged that it had taken a certain amount of gas, but claimed the amount taken was only 52.2 mmcm, and reiterated that it was entitled to take this gas in order to maintain full operation of the network. Ukraine also accused Moldova of siphoning Russian gas destined for Southeastern Europe. Moldova denied the allegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nOn January 15, Prime Minister Putin in collaboration with Paolo Scaroni, CEO of Italian energy company Eni, made a proposal to create a consortium of European utilities that would temporarily solve the crisis by financing the supply of technical gas needed to ensure transit to Europe, but this idea was dismissed as gas supplies were restored shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nOn March 30, 2010 a Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ordered Naftogas to pay RosUkrEnergo around $200\u00a0million as a penalty for various breaches of supply, transit and storage contracts. On June 8, 2010 the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ordered Naftogaz to return 11\u00a0billion cubic metres (390\u00a0billion cubic feet) of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo and that RosUkrEnergo would receive from Naftogaz a further 1.1\u00a0billion cubic metres (39\u00a0billion cubic feet) of natural gas in lieu of RosUkrEnergo's entitlement to penalties for breach of contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0041-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Technical gas and accusations of stealing\nOn April 26, 2011 former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sued Dmytro Firtash and RosUkrEnergo in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan accusing them of \"defrauding Ukraine's citizenry by manipulating an arbitration court ruling, \"undermining the rule of law in Ukraine\" in connection with the 2010 international arbitration court ruling in Stockholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Alleged political motives\nDuring the dispute, several theories about alleged political motives behind the conflict surfaced, while both countries accused each other of political blackmail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Alleged political motives\nThe Times published an article alleging that the key aim of the Kremlin was to stifle the continued expansion of the EU and NATO into Eastern Europe by exposing Ukraine as an unreliable ally. This view was shared by Vladimir Milov, president of the Institute of Energy Policy in Moscow and former deputy energy minister of Russia, who also claimed that Russia was putting pressure on the Ukrainian government for pursuing pro-western goals. The US Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, stated that although it was a commercial dispute, he believed that Russia was using the event to gain political leverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Alleged political motives\nContrarily, the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies concluded in a report: \"We do not believe that the often-cited desire of the Russian government to use energy as an economic or political \u2018weapon' against European countries played any part in this crisis.\" Although the report also stated that the Russian decision to cut back deliveries on January 5, 2009 \"may have reflected Prime Minister Putin\u2019s anger and frustration, and been aimed at punishing Ukraine for its repeated threats to disrupt transit. These emotions may have been personalized to President Yushchenko, given the historical animosity of Russia towards the Orange Revolution and towards Yushchenko\u2019s subsequent policy orientation away from Russia.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Alleged political motives\nAccording to Fyodor Lukyanov, an editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, Ukraine was desperate not to pay more for gas due to the poor state of its economy and believed that the longer the conflict dragged on the more the blame would be laid on Russia, which would give Ukraine a position of strength in negotiating. Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev suggested that Ukraine's actions were being orchestrated by the United States. The State Department's spokesman Sean McCormack called the allegation \"totally without foundation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Alleged political motives\nOn January 14, Prime Minister Tymoshenko said that an agreement with Russia on prices had nearly been achieved, but had been broken up. She laid blame on RosUkrEnergo's part owner, Dmytro Firtash, former fuel and energy minister Yuriy Boyko, and former head of the presidential administration Sergei Levochkin, who had lobbied against the agreement, and suggested that President Yushchenko had been complicit. Shortly after, Boyko countered that Tymoshenko herself had been lobbying in the interests of business owners Igor Bakai and Viktor Medvedchuk. According to Boyko, Tymoshenko had delayed payment of Ukraine's debts in order to arrange for a company owned by Medvedchuk and Bakai to export large volumes of Russian gas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Public relations efforts\nDuring the conflict both sides tried to win sympathy for their arguments. According to Reuters analyst Sabina Zawadzki, Gazprom had become more skilled at fighting a PR war since the previous pricing dispute with Ukraine in 2006. Since that dispute, the Kremlin hired one of the world's largest public affairs firms, Omnicom, and its Brussels unit, Gplus Europe as well New York units, Ketchum Inc. and Stromberg Consulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Public relations efforts\nAccording to Tammy Lynch, Senior Research Fellow at Boston University's Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, one of the PR problems for Ukraine was the fact that most Western media is based in Moscow and maintains regular contact with political and business elites there; Ukraine's interests, even in a dispute like this, are peripheral to the 'big issue' of Russia's relations with Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Public reaction in Ukraine\nAnother political pressure to Ukraine during the gas conflict, and the fact overlap of gas supplies from Russia, led to the renewal of the civil campaign \"Remember the gas - do not buy Russian goods!\" on January 1, 2009. In January 2009, variety of different movements carried out the campaigns against Russian policy toward Ukraine, particularly using calls to boycott Russian goods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Aftermath (Tymoshenko conviction)\nIn April 2011 a criminal case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was brought in connection with alleged abuse of power during the dispute. Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison by a Ukrainian court in October 2011. Tymoshenko has labelled the case as \"absurd\" and Russian President Vladimir Putin commented about the ruling \"I can't quite understand why she got those seven years\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204789-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Russia\u2013Ukraine gas dispute, Aftermath (Tymoshenko conviction)\nRussian officials immediately feared Ukraine would use Tymoshenko's conviction to force a revision of the 2009 natural gas treaty she brokered with Putin to end the 2009 gas dispute; this suggestion was dismissed by Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204790-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 2009 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach was Greg Schiano and they played their home games at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Scarlet Knights finished the season 9\u20134, 3\u20134 in Big East play and won the St. Petersburg Bowl, 45\u201324, over UCF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204790-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, Schedule\nNOTE: All Big East Network games were produced by ESPN+ and shown locally on SNY.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League\nThe 2009 S.League (officially known as the Great-Eastern-Yeo's S.League for sponsorship reasons) was the 14th season since the establishment of the S.League. Singapore Armed Forces FC won their eighth S.League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Foreign players\nEach club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results\nNote: The results are broken down into weeks rather than rounds, as some teams may play 2 or more games a week due to the nature of the league system (games are played every day). Hence, sometimes, teams may not play in the league some weeks due to other competition commitments or re-arranged games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 1\nThe opening week of the season runs from Monday 16 February to Sunday 22 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 2\nThe 2nd week of the season runs from Monday 23 February to Sunday 1 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 3\nThe 3rd week of the season runs from Monday 2 March to Sunday 8 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 4\nThe 4th week of the season runs from Monday 9 March to Sunday 15 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 5\nThe 5th week of the season runs from Monday 16 March to Sunday 22 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 6\nThe 6th week of the season runs from Monday 23 March to Sunday 29 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 7\nThe 7th week of the season runs from Monday 30 March to Sunday 5 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 8\nThe 8th week of the season runs from Monday 6 April to Sunday 12 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 9\nThe 9th week of the season runs from Monday 13 April to Sunday 19 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 10\nThe 10th week of the season runs from Monday 20 April to Monday 27 April. The week is one day longer than normal so as to accommodate the break for Singapore Cup 2009 between 28 April and 6 May. The league will resume on 7 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 11\nThe 11th week of the season runs from Thursday 7 May to Sunday 10 May, following the break for Singapore Cup 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 12\nThe 12th week of the season runs from Monday 11 May to Sunday 17 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 13\nThe 13th week of the season runs from Monday 18 May to Sunday 24 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 14\nThe 14th week of the season runs from Monday 25 May to Saturday 30 May. The league will then take a break for the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 15\nThe 15th week of the season runs from Monday 22 June to Sunday 28 June. The league resume after the break for the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 16\nThe 16th week of the season runs from Monday 29 June to Sunday 5 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 17\nThe 17th week of the season runs from Monday 6 June to Sunday 12 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 18\nThe 18th week of the season runs from Monday 13 June to Sunday 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 19\nThe 19th week of the season runs from Monday 20 June to Friday 24 July. The week is shortened as the Singapore National Team takes on Liverpool in a friendly on Sunday 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 20\nThe 20th week of the season runs from Tuesday 28 July to Sunday 2 August. The week is shortened as the Singapore National Team takes on Liverpool in a friendly on Sunday 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 21\nThe 21st week of the season runs from Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 8 August. The week is shortened as the country celebrate its National Day on 9 August and the national team prepares for a friendly against China on 12 August. The League will resume on 14 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 22\nOnly one game was scheduled for week 22, the week was shortened as the national team was in action during midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 23\nThe 23rd week of the season runs from Monday 17th to Sunday 23 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 24\nThe 24th week of the season ran from Monday 24 August to Thursday 27 August. The week was shortened to accommodate the Singapore Cup 2009 between 26 August and 4 September. The league resumed on 6 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 25\nThe 25th week of the season runs from Sunday 6 September to Sunday 13 September. The week is one day longer than normal so as to accommodate the break for Singapore Cup 2009 between 26 August and 4 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 26\nThe 26th week of the season runs from Monday 14 September to Sunday 20 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 27\nThe 27th week of the season runs from Monday 21 September to Sunday 27 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 28\nThe 28th week of the season runs from Monday 28 September to Sunday 4 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 29\nThe 29th week of the season runs from Monday 5 October to Sunday 11 October. The week has fewer match to accommodate the Singapore Cup semi finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 30\nThe 30th week of the season runs from Monday 12 October to Sunday 18 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 31\nThe 31st week of the season ran from Tuesday 20 October to Friday 23 October. The week was shortened to accommodate the National Team participation in the Ho Chi Minh City Football Tournament. The schedule was revised after DPMM Brunei was denied to continue playing in the League by FIFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 32\nThe 32nd week of the season runs from Tuesday 27 October to Saturday 31 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Results, Week 33\nThe 33rd week of the season runs from Tuesday 2 November to Friday 6 November. It was the final week of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, Stadia and attendance, Attendance\nThe League will only play 193 matches after Brunei DPMM were unable to complete the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204791-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 S.League, S-League Awards Night Winners\nThe winners will be announced on 9 November 2009 on the 14th Great Eastern-YEO\u2019S S.League Awards Night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204792-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open\nThe 2009 SA Tennis Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts outdoors. It is the 18th edition of the SA Tennis Open (and the first since 1995), and is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2 February through 8 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204792-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open\nThe singles line up was led by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 7 and 2008 Australian Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Originally, Ga\u00ebl Monfils was scheduled to play in the tournament, but later withdrew due to a wrist injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204792-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open, Review\nThe singles competition was won by Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who was the top seed for the tournament. On his route to the final he faced unseeded players Thiago Alves, Denis Istomin and Frederico Gil, as well as seventh seed Kristof Vliegen in the quarter-finals, winning them all in straight sets for the loss of only 22 games. His final opponent was his fellow countryman, the fifth-seeded J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy who had progressed against Ji\u0159\u00ed Van\u011bk, qualifiers Marco Chiudinelli and S\u00e9bastien de Chaunac in straight sets before a more tricky test against second seed David Ferrer. In the final Tsonga came through 7\u20136, 6\u20134 to take the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204792-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open, Review\nFive South African players (Kevin Anderson, Andrew Anderson, Izak van der Merwe, Raven Klaasen and Rik de Voest) were present in the draw and the latter three reached the second round. de Voest knocked out sixth seed Iv\u00e1n Navarro while Klaasen defeated another Spaniard, Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and van der Merwe overcame Benjamin Becker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204792-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open, Finals, Doubles\nJames Cerretani /  Dick Norman defeated  Rik de Voest /  Ashley Fisher 6\u20137(7\u20139), 6\u20132, [14\u201312]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204793-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nJames Cerretani and Dick Norman won the title, defeating Rik de Voest and Ashley Fisher 6\u20137(7\u20139), 6\u20132, [14\u201312] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204794-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nJo-Wilfried Tsonga won the title, defeating J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20135) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204794-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SA Tennis Open \u2013 Singles, Qualifying\nEvery player received a bye into the second round, so the first round has been omitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship\nThe 2009 South Asian Football Federation Championship was hosted by Bangladesh from 4 to 13 December 2009. Bangladesh was awarded to host the tournament after the withdrawal of original hosts India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship\nAfter India's reluctance to host the tournament, in May 2009, at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) president Kazi Salahuddin on his return from the AFC Congress informed that although India were still retaining their status as hosts of the championship, Bangladesh and Nepal had turned in fresh bids in anticipation of staging this prestigious eight-nation meet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship\nA decision was taken at the FIFA Congress in Bahamas in the first week of June but no announcement was officially made. In July, with the tournament drawing ever closer, media reports once again suggested that the tournament would be moved once again to Bangladesh, as Pakistan would struggle to obtain visas if the tournament is hosted in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship\nOn 31 August 2009, it was reported that the tournament would be held in Bangladesh, after the Indian football association (AIFF) had its annual congress at the end of August. This was formally confirmed by the AFC on 10 September through a press release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship, Venue\nThe Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka was the only venue for the tournament. It is also home venue for Bangladesh national football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship, Draw\nThe draw for the tournament was made on 3 October 2009. India took part with their U-23 team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship, Draw\nAfghanistan (Unseeded)\u00a0India (1st Seed)\u00a0Maldives (2nd Seed)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nepal (Unseeded)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204795-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship, Draw\nBangladesh (1st Seed)\u00a0Bhutan (Unseeded)\u00a0Pakistan (Unseeded)\u00a0Sri Lanka (2nd Seed)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204796-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship Final\nThe 2009 SAFF Championship Final was the final match of the 2009 SAFF Championship that took place on 13 December 2009. India won their fifth title by defeating Maldives on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204796-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SAFF Championship Final, Venue\nThe Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka was the only venue for the tournament. It is also home venue for Bangladesh national football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204797-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 2009 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat Sturt by 38 points to claim the club's eighth premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204797-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SANFL Grand Final\nThe match was played on Sunday 4 October 2009 at Football Park in front of a crowd of 35,647.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204798-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SANFL season\nThe 2009 South Australian National Football League season was the 130th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204799-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAP Open\nThe 2009 SAP Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 120th edition of the SAP Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It took place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, United States, from February 9 through February 15, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204799-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SAP Open\nThe singles draw featured ATP No. 6, 2009 Australian Open semi-finalist and 2009 Dubai finalist Andy Roddick, 2009 Australian Open quarterfinalist and 2008 U.S Open quarterfinalist Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Other names include James Blake, Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, Mardy Fish, Sam Querrey, Igor Kunitsyn and Robby Ginepri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204799-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SAP Open, Finals, Doubles\nTommy Haas /  Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek defeated  Rohan Bopanna /  Jarkko Nieminen 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204800-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAP Open \u2013 Doubles\nScott Lipsky and David Martin are the defending champions, but lost in the First Round to Eric Butorac and Ashley Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204801-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAP Open \u2013 Singles\nAndy Roddick was the defending champion, but lost to Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204802-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open\nThe 2009 SAT Bangkok Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bangkok, Thailand between 16 and 22 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204802-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204802-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204802-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nJoshua Goodall /  Joseph Sirianni def. Mikhail Elgin /  Alexander Kudryavtsev, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204803-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open \u2013 Doubles\nJosh Goodall and Joseph Sirianni won the title after defeating Mikhail Elgin and Alexander Kudryavtsev 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204804-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Bangkok Open \u2013 Singles\nFlorian Mayer won in the final of first edition of this tournament. He defeated Danai Udomchoke 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204805-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open\nThe 2009 SAT Khorat Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Khorat, Thailand between 23 and 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204805-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open, Single entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204805-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open, Single entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204805-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nRohan Bopanna /  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi def. Sanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(5), [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204806-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open \u2013 Doubles\nRohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won in the doubles' final of the first edition of these championships. They defeated Thais: Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana in three sets (6\u20133, 6\u20137(5), [10\u20135]).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204807-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SAT Khorat Open \u2013 Singles\nAndreas Beck won in the singles' final of the first edition of these championships. He defeated qualifier Filip Prpic 7\u20135, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204808-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SBS Drama Awards\nThe 2009 SBS Drama Awards (Korean:\u00a0SBS \uc5f0\uae30\ub300\uc0c1) is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2009. It was held on December 31, 2009, at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul, and was hosted by actor Jang Keun-suk, actress Moon Geun-young and announcer Park Sun-young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204809-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SE\n2009 SE is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5\u00a0point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204809-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SE, Discovery, orbit and physical properties\n2009 SE was first observed on 16 September 2009 by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS). Its orbit is characterized by low eccentricity (0.065), moderate inclination (20.6\u00b0) and a semi-major axis of 1.52 AU. Upon discovery, it was classified as Mars-crosser by the Minor Planet Center. Its orbit is well determined as it is currently (January 2021) based on 56 observations with a data-arc span of 3,133 days. 2009 SE has an absolute magnitude of 19.9 which gives a characteristic diameter of 400 m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 49], "content_span": [50, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204809-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SE, Mars trojan and orbital evolution\nRecent calculations indicate that it is a stable L5 Mars trojan with a libration period of 1430 yr and an amplitude of 70\u00b0. The libration amplitude is not similar to that of 5261 Eureka and related objects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204810-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEABA Championship\nThe 8th Southeast Asia Basketball Association Championship was held in Medan, Indonesia from 6\u20139 July 2009. It was to determine the 2 representatives of SEABA in the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204811-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup\nThe 2009 SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup was the second season of the SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup, a one-make racing series supporting the World Touring Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204811-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup\nHungarian Norbert Michelisz won the championship at the final round at Imola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204811-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SEAT Le\u00f3n Eurocup, Race calendar and results\n* The highest points scorer from each round won a prize drive in the next round of the WTCC in a SEAT Le\u00f3n with SUNRED Engineering. Micha\u00ebl Rossi will race at the first European round in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game\nThe 2009 SEC Championship Game was played on December 5, 2009, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, to determine the 2009 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game featured the Florida Gators and the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Crimson Tide was the designated \"home team\"; this home team, chosen on an alternating basis, was 2\u20134 in SEC Championship Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game\nThe winner was all but assured to go on to play for a National Championship, in a likely matchup with the Texas Longhorns provided Texas won in the Big 12 Championship Game versus the north division champion Nebraska Cornhuskers. Entering the 2009 contest, the SEC East was 11\u20136 in SEC Championship games, with the Florida Gators accounting for seven of the eleven victories. Before the 2009 game, Alabama represented the SEC West six times in the conference championship game, compiling a 2\u20134 record, and had faced the Gators in all six of their previous SEC Championship game appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0000-0002", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game\nThis was the first and so far the only time any conference championship game had featured two undefeated teams and was also the first time an AP Poll No. 1 played a No. 2 outside of the BCS Championship Game since the top-ranked Ohio State beat the second-ranked Michigan during the 2006 regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game\nThe game began at 4:00\u00a0p.m. EST and was televised by CBS Sports, for the ninth straight season. The game was also streamed online at CBSSports.com and on mobile for customers subscribing to the MediaFLO service on CBS Sports Mobile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game\nAlabama defeated Florida 32\u201313 and as expected secured a berth to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game where they would go on to defeat Texas. This game is often considered the moment when the Alabama dynasty began in earnest after a disappointing 2007 season and a loss to the same Tebow-led Gators in the 2008 SEC Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204812-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Championship Game, Uniforms\nAlabama wore its standard home uniform, while Florida wore an all-white combination of its Nike Pro Combat helmet and its usual white uniform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204813-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 12\u201315, 2009 in Tampa, Florida at the St. Pete Times Forum (now known as the Amalie Arena). The first, quarterfinal, and semifinal rounds were televised by Raycom/LF Sports, and the SEC Championship Game was seen on CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204814-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Softball Tournament\nThe 2009 SEC Softball Tournament will be held at Sherri Parker Lee Softball Stadium on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee on May 7 through May 9, 2009. The Florida Gators won the 2008 tournament and are the 2009 regular season conference champion. The Florida Gators received the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament by winning the conference tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204815-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament took place on March 5\u20138, 2009 in North Little Rock, Arkansas at Alltel Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204815-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament\nVanderbilt won the tournament and with it the SEC's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. In the final, they upset top seed Auburn for the second time in three weeks; the Commodores were responsible for two of the Tigers' three losses going into the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204816-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SH2\n2009 SH2 is a sub-kilometer near-Earth asteroid of the Aten group, discovered by the Siding Spring Survey at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia on 18 September 2009. It is in a co-orbital configuration with Earth, a type of 1:1 orbital resonance where the asteroid appears to librate around Earth's path in a horseshoe orbit when viewed in a corotating reference frame with Earth. The co-orbital state of 2009 SH2 is only temporary as it has entered it about 30 years ago and will leave it in about 100 years into the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204816-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SH2, Discovery\n2009 SH2 was discovered by the Siding Spring Survey at Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia on 18 September 2009. It was first observed in the constellation Fornax at an apparent magnitude of 18.8. The asteroid was moving at an on-sky rate around 2.5 arcseconds per minute, from a distance of 0.030\u00a0AU (4.5\u00a0million\u00a0km; 2.8\u00a0million\u00a0mi) from Earth. Follow-up observations of the asteroid were carried out by the Rio Cuarto Observatory (I20) on the following day. The asteroid was then confirmed by the Minor Planet Center and announced as 2009 SH2 on 19 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204816-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SH2, Orbit\n2009 SH2 orbits the Sun at an average distance of 0.99\u00a0AU once every 360 days, or approximately 0.99 years. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 7\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic plane. Over the course of its orbit, its distance from the Sun ranges from 0.90\u00a0AU at perihelion to 1.08\u00a0AU at aphelion, crossing the orbit of Earth. Since its orbit crosses that of Earth's while having a semi-major axis less than 1\u00a0AU, 2009 SH2 is classified as an Aten asteroid. Its nominal orbit has a small minimum orbit intersection distance approximately 0.0006\u00a0AU (90,000\u00a0km; 56,000\u00a0mi) from Earth's orbital path and periodically makes close approaches to Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 15], "content_span": [16, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204816-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SH2, Orbit\nIn 2013, astronomers Carlos and Ra\u00fal de la Fuente Marcos identified 2009 SH2 to be in a co-orbital configuration with Earth, a type of 1:1 orbital resonance where the asteroid appears to librate around Earth's path in a horseshoe orbit when viewed in a corotating reference frame with Earth. The co-orbital state of 2009 SH2 is only temporary as it has entered it about 30 years ago and will leave it in about 100 years into the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 15], "content_span": [16, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204816-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 SH2, Physical characteristics\nBased on an magnitude-to-diameter conversion and a measured absolute magnitude of 24.9, 2009 SH2 measures between 30 and 60 meters in diameter for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.25 and 0.05, respectively. A rotation period of 1.26\u00a0h has been tentatively measured from its lightcurve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 34], "content_span": [35, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season\nThe 2009 season was SK Brann's 101st season and their 23rd consecutive season in the Norwegian Premier League. Steinar Nilsen took over as head coach after the six-year tenure of Mons Ivar Mjelde. The club didn't see the big signings or sales in the January transferwindow. Local-lad Erlend Hanstveit left the club after 10\u00a0years, while thought-to-be star striker Njogu Demba-Nyr\u00e9n was sold only one year after signing with the club following a season where his performance was below expectations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season\nThe season started horrific for the \"pride of Bergen\". In the first premiership match of the season, Brann lost 1-3 against newly promoted Sandefjord, followed by two ties, a loss and another tie. Brann didn't win a game until the sixth round where they beat Bod\u00f8/Glimt 2-0 away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season\nThe club's form improved as the season went by, but they were never a serious contender to the league title. After being knocked out in the Quarterfinals of the Norwegian Football Cup by  Odd Grenland), the season seemed to end up as a total disappointment for the fans. One of the few highlights of the season was the performances of Erik Huseklepp who had his definite breakthrough as a player. In his first season as a striker, Huseklepp scored 15 goals in the league, only two goals shy of the top scorer Rade Prica. The technical striker had previously played as a right winger, scoring 4 goals in 4 seasons for Brann. He also became a regular in the national team squad, scoring his first goal for Norway in the World Cup qualifier against Scotland on August 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season\nBefore the last games of season, Brann found themselves in a situation where they had a legitimate chance to snatch the bronze medals, but in the end they had to settle for a fifth place, which didn't qualify for a spot in the Europa League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Information\nManager: Steinar NilsenLeague: Norwegian Premier LeagueShirt supplier: Kappa Shirt sponsor: Sparebanken VestAverage league attendance: 15,932 (4th best in club history at the time) League result\u00a0: 5th Norwegian Cup: Quarterfinals (1-5 against Odd Grenland)Top goal scorer: Erik Huseklepp (15 in league, 0 in cup, 15 in total) Player of the year: -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Team kit\nThe team kits for the 2009 season were produced by Kappa and the main shirt sponsor was Sparebanken Vest. Other sponsors featured on the kit were BKK (shoulders), JM Byggholt (chest), BA (left arm), Chess (upper back), Frydenb\u00f8 (shorts) and Tide (socks).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Squad, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Results\nThe table below shows the results of all of SK Brann's official matches during the 2009-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Statistics, Appearances and goals\nThe table shows matches and goals in the Norwegian Premier League and Norwegian Cup, and was last updated after the game against Rosenborg BK on November 1, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204817-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 SK Brann season, Statistics, Top scorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204818-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 2009 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mustangs, led by second-year head coach June Jones, played their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium and competed in Conference USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204818-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 2009 Mustangs played in a bowl game for the first time since the program's 1989 emergence from its 1987 shutdown due to massive NCAA rule violations. SMU was invited to the Hawaii Bowl, where they played Nevada. The Mustangs won, 45\u201310, to finish the season 8\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204819-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SVL season\nThe 2009 Shakey's V-League (SVL) season was the sixth season of the Shakey's V-League. There were two indoor conferences for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204819-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SVL season, 1st Conference\nThe Shakey's V-League 6th Season 1st Conference was the ninth conference of Shakey's V-League, a collegiate women's volleyball league in the Philippines founded in 2004. The conference started April 19, 2009 at the Filoil Flying V Centre (formerly The Arena), San Juan. UAAP champion La Salle decided not to compete and took a leave of absence; UP replaced the Lady Archers to complete the eight-team elimination round roster. US Ambassador Kristie Kenney was the guest speaker during the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204819-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 SVL season, 2nd Conference\nThe Shakey's V-League 6th Season Open Conference was the tenth conference of Shakey's V-League, commenced on October 11, 2009 at The Arena in San Juan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204820-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 11\u201314, 2009 at Fair Park Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204820-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. After the conference season, teams were seeded by conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204821-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saarland state election\nThe 2009 Saarland state election was held on 30 August 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. It was held on the same day as state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government led by Minister-President Peter M\u00fcller lost its majority. The CDU subsequently formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens, and M\u00fcller was re-elected as Minister-President. This was the first Jamaica coalition formed in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204821-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saarland state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Saarland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204821-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Saarland state election, Election result\nBoth the CDU and SPD suffered significant losses, losing almost 20% of vote share between them. This came primarily to the benefit of The Left, which achieved by far its best result in a western state, debuting at 21.3%. The Greens and Free Democratic Party (FDP) also benefited to a lesser degree. As in a number of western states during the 2007\u20132009 period, the entry of The Left meant that neither the CDU\u2013FDP nor SPD\u2013Green coalitions won a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204822-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sabana Seca massacre\nThe 2009 Sabana Seca massacre, also referred to as La Masacre de La T\u00f3mbola, was an incident that occurred on October 17, 2009, in Puerto Rico related to drug trafficking. Eight people were killed by gunmen in a car, who shot randomly in a bar in the Sabana Seca barrio of Toa Baja, 15 miles from San Juan. Twenty people, some related to two different bands between drug dealers, were wounded in the shooting. The two gunmen, Alexis Candelario-Santana, 42, and David Oquendo-Rivas, were convicted by a federal jury on March 8, 2013, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204822-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sabana Seca massacre, The Shooting\nOn October 17, 2009, at approximately 11:50pm, Alexis Candelario Santana and David Oquendo-Rivas arrived at the grand opening of the La T\u00f3mbola pub. Armed with several types of semi-automatic pistols assault rifles including .9mm semi-automatic pistols, 40 caliber semi-automatic pistols, 45 caliber semi-automatic pistols, AK-47 and AR-15 type assault rifle, the pair opened fire on the patrons congregating outside of the pub. They soon entered the building and continued to fire rounds throughout the establishment. Among those deceased included six men (three of which were Candelario-Santana godson, Rond\u00f3n-Feliciano's stepson and Candelario-Santana's cousin) one pregnant woman, and her unborn child. Another 19 pub patrons were injured and taken to Rio Piedras Medical Center where three of those injured underwent surgery for their wounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 887]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204822-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sabana Seca massacre, The Trial\nThis incident was investigated by the FBI alongside the Puerto Rico Police Department. Documents spanning from 1993 to 2003 which were used as evidence to convict Candelario-Santana showed that he controlled a drug trafficking organization centered in the Sabana Seca area of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Candelario-Santana's organization sold numerous drugs bought from several sellers including crack, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. The trial also introduced evidence that Candelario-Santana either orchestrated or committed the murders himself of 13 people he thought posed a threat to his operation between 1995 and 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204822-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Sabana Seca massacre, The Trial\nThe assailants, Alexis Candelario-Santana and David Oquendo-Rivas, faced life in prison after being convicted on March 8, 2013, for the murders of eight individuals, an unborn child, and the attempted murder of the other twenty injured people. Both were brought up on the following charges; 28 counts of violent crime in aid of criminal activity, one count of criminal conspiracy, nine counts firearm possession and use during a crime of violence, one count of drug trafficking, and one count of possession of a firearm with a prior conviction as Candelario-Santana previously been incarcerated. On August 23, 2017 the federal court ordered a new trial seeking the death penalty for both defendants starting with jury selection on August 1, 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204823-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento Monarchs season\nThe 2009 WNBA season was the 13th season and final season for the Sacramento Monarchs of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Monarchs failed to qualify for the WNBA Playoffs for the first time in seven years. The Monarchs would later discontinue operations just 2 months after the 2009 season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204823-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento Monarchs season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Monarchs' 2008 record, they would pick 7th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Monarchs picked Ranae Camino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204823-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento Monarchs season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Monarchs' selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204824-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 2009 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204824-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nSacramento State competed in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets were led by third-year head coach Marshall Sperbeck and played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136, 4\u20134 Big Sky). Sacramento State was outscored by its opponents 274\u2013371 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204824-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sacramento State players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204825-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team\nThe 2009 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team represented Sacred Heart University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Paul Gorham and played their home games at Campus Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC), and they finished the season 2\u20138, 2\u20136 in NEC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204826-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Safeway Championship\nThe 2009 Safeway Championship (Manitoba men's provincial curling championship) was held February 18-22 at the Selkirk Recreation Centre in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada. The winner represented Manitoba at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204826-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Safeway Championship, Draw Brackets\n32 team double knockout with playoff roundFour teams qualify each from A Event and B Event", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204827-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saginaw Sting season\nThe 2009 Saginaw Sting season was the 2nd season for the American Indoor Football League franchise. A number of Sting and Xplosion players indicated at the end of the 2008 season that wages were in arrears from the owners. This led to an investigation of Johnson in his role as Sting general manager. Trumbull, owner of Triple Threat Sports in Battle Creek, and Rivera, a Battle Creek police officer, have offered a deal to split ownership of the two teams, with Trumbell and Rivera owning the Sting, and Johnson receiving the Xplosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204827-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Saginaw Sting season\nTrumbull and Rivera have indicated that they plan for the Sting to move to the new Indoor Football League. The Sting looked to have put together a promising team with the re-signing of QB Damon Dowdell, and signing 2007 CIFL MVP, WR/RB Robert Height, but the team fared poorly on the field in the IFL. After a 2-2 start to the season, head coach Karl Featherstone resigned from his position and assistant Jason Lovelock took over as interim head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204827-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saginaw Sting season, Roster\nRookies in italics updated June 19, 200920 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204828-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Francis Cougars football team\nThe 2009 Saint Francis Cougars football team represented the University of Saint Francis, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the 2009 NAIA football season. They were led by head coach Kevin Donley, who served his 12th year as the first and only head coach in the history of Saint Francis football. The Cougars played their home games at Bishop John D'Arcy Stadium and were members of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Mideast League (MEL). The Cougars finished tied for 2nd place in the MSFA MEL division; they missed the postseason NAIA playoffs for only second time in the team's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204828-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Schedule\nThe 2009 season saw the first home loss since the last game of 2001 in a November 7 defeat by St. Xavier. Over that time period, the Cougars won 56 consecutive home games. It also marked the first time the Cougars were not in the NAIA postseason playoff since their inaugural 1998 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204829-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Francis Red Flash football team\nThe 2009 Saint Francis Red Flash football team represented Saint Francis University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Red Flash were led by eighth-year head coach Dave Opfar and played their home games at DeGol Field. They finished the season 2\u20139 overall and 1\u20137 in NEC play to place last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204829-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Francis Red Flash football team\nAfter the season, on November 30, Opfar resigned following eight seasons as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season\nThe 2009 Saint Louis Athletica season was the inaugural season for the team (as part of the inaugural season for Women's Professional Soccer).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn August 26, 2008, it was announced that the Saint Louis' head coach would be Jorge Barcellos, the then-head coach of the Brazilian women's team. Team Chairman Jeff Cooper's organization SLSU has plans for a soccer-specific stadium ready, but the construction will not start until St. Louis is also awarded an MLS franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn September 11, 2008, \"St. Louis\" was revealed as the official team name through an online video, along with a new team crest. The name and crest were further updated on November 25 unveiling \"Saint Louis Athletica\" as the new name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn 16 September 2008, the initial WPS player allocation was conducted; US Women's National Team players Hope Solo, Lori Chalupny and Tina Ellertson were allocated to St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn 24 September 2008, the 2008 WPS International Draft was conducted; Brazilians Daniela and Renata Costa, Swedish striker Lotta Schelin and Canadian Melissa Tancredi also were allocated to St. Louis. Eniola Aluko of England and Ingvild Stensland of Norway were named as post-draft discovery players in the following two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn 6 October 2008, the 2008 WPS General Draft took place. St. Louis drafted players India Trotter, Angie Woznuk, Joanna Lohman and Amanda Cinalli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn 17 November 2008, St. Louis renounced its right to negotiate with Stensland, naming Brazilian Francielle as the next post-draft discovery player. Two days later, St. Louis also renounced its negotiation rights to Schelin, naming fellow Swede Sara Larsson in her stead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nTrotter signed a two-year contract with FFC Frankfurt in July 2008 and thus most likely will not be coming. On the positive side, both Larsson and Aluko have expressed a large interest in Athletica, and have made statements suggesting that they will be coming, despite no contracts officially being announced as of early January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn January 16, at the 2009 NSCAA convention held in St. Louis, the Athletica drafted Notre Dame forward Kerri Hanks, (first round, sixth overall,) Boston College alumnus Kia McNeill, (second round, ninth overall,) University of Texas at Austin defender Stephanie Logterman, (third round, twentieth overall,) Notre Dame defender Elise Weber, (trade* with Washington to be twenty-first,) UConn defender Niki Cross, (fifth round, thirty-fourth,) Villanova goalkeeper Jillian Loyden, (sixth round, thirty-seventh,) West Virginia University midfielder Lisa Stoia, (seventh round, forty-eighth,) Florida forward Megan Kerns, (eighth round, fifty-first,) Penn State defender/midfielder Sheree Gray, (ninth round, sixty-second,) and Clemson midfielder/forward Lydia Vandenbergh (tenth round, sixty-fifth). * The Athletica traded away Joanna Lohman and their 23rd overall pick to get the 21st pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 935]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn January 21, it was announced that Renata Costa had signed with Swedish club LdB FC instead of the Athletica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Off-season\nOn March 3, Athletica's initial preseason roster was released, along with those of all WPS teams, having 35 players listed. On March 12, Athletica released nine of those players, including draftee Megan Kerns. Post-Dispatch writer Tom Timmermann  a slightly short list (down to twenty-four players) on March 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Personnel, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Preseason\nAthletica only played two preseason games, less than any other WPS team, and didn't play any other WPS team in those games. Athletica convincingly won both games, though: 7-2 versus the University of Missouri and 3-1 versus Notre Dame. Both games were closed to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season\nScores are posted as STL-opponentA note on home games: Game 1 was played at Ralph Korte Stadium at SIUE, game 3 was played at Robert R. Hermann Stadium at SLU, game 5 was back at Korte Stadium, and the remaining home games take place at Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season\nAthletica got off to a very slow start, being the only team with no points after the first two games and winless after the first four, despite usually outplaying their opponents; Athletica was in last place or tied for last place in the league for the first two months of the season. In the fourth game, Athletica lost what was assumed to be their star player, Brazilian Daniela, to a season-ending injury, and this combined with the slow start made many people write Athletica off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season\nHowever, Athletica went 10-4-2 the rest of the season, even better than the eventual season champions Los Angeles Sol during that same time period. With solid play from USWNT players Lori Chalupny, Hope Solo, and Tina Ellertson, and breakout scoring force from English international Eniola Aluko, Athletica fought back to clinch second place in the league two games before their season was over, only losing to two teams (Los Angeles and the Washington Freedom) for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 1: April 4 vs Chicago\nIn the home opener on April 4, Athletica controlled the first half well, but faltered in the second half and could not score. Despite outshooting their opponents the Chicago Red Stars by 15-7, they lost the game 0-1 on a 78th-minute goal by Lindsay Tarpley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 2: April 11 at Boston\nAthletica repeated their home opener performance in their first away game at the Boston Breakers on April 11: Boston was outshot 14-7 but put two goals past Hope Solo while shutting out Athletica. So, after every team had played their first two games, Athletica was left at the bottom of the table as the only team without a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 3: April 25 vs Los Angeles\nOn April 26, in their only home game at SLU, Athletica held the Los Angeles Sol to a 0-0 draw in dramatic fashion as both goalkeepers (Solo and Karina LeBlanc) made incredible saves throughout the game, including a penalty kick each. Athletica was the first team to hold the top-ranked Sol to no goals, though still could not find the back of the net themselves, despite once again well outshooting their opponent 18-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 4: May 3 at Washington\nAthletica finally got on the scoreboard in a highly physical match against the Washington Freedom. In the first match where they did not highly outshoot their opponent (in fact, were beat in shots 15-28) Athletica scored three goals, the first two by solo work from Daniela. Despite leading 3-1 by the middle of the second half, though, Athletica let in two more goals to only come away from the game with a tie after both Daniela and Tina Ellertson were injured within five minutes of each other. Daniela was also , potentially for the rest of the season, after a tackle from Abby Wambach on the rain-wet field gave her \"two injured knee ligaments and a crack in her tibia.\" Kia McNeill was later given a one-game suspension for overly physical play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Trade: May 8 w/ Los Angeles\nAfter the first game against Washington Freedom which ultimately resulted in Athletica losing two starters (Daniela and Kia McNeill) in addition to those already out for injury, Athletica made the first trade in WPS by giving the Los Angeles Sol two draft picks in exchange for Christie Welsh and Kendall Fletcher. Sheree Gray was also cut from the roster, though was later re-added as a developmental player while Lydia Vandenbergh was waived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 5: May 9 vs Bay Area\nA week after scoring their first goals, Athletia notched their first win of the season in a 1-0 match against FC Gold Pride at home. After an early flurry near the Gold Pride net (which included 'keeper Nicole Barnhart getting a fractured nose in a collision) Chalupny took a corner kick for Athletica and scored directly with a curving ball into the far top corner of the net. Gold Pride dominated the second half, though, especially with Melissa Tancredi subbing out due to injury, but Solo kept the clean sheet with several spectacular saves to preserve Athletica's first win. Chalupny was later named Player of the Week for her goal and all-around performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 6: May 23 at Chicago\nDespite coming off of a bye week and missing multiple starters due to injury, suspension, and national team duty, Athletica avenged their home opener with a 2-0 victory over the Red Stars. Chicago's Ifeoma Dieke notched WPS's first (official) own goal to put Athletica up 1-0. Athletica the got on the board without help from Chicago before the first half ended on a goal by Eniola Aluko, assisted by Kendall Fletcher, one of the two players Athletica got from a trade with Los Angeles. The Red Stars dominated the second half, but backup 'keeper Jillian Loyden preserved the clean sheet and the win. Loyden was also named Player of the Week, the first goalkeeper to do so in WPS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 7: May 30 at Los Angeles\nIn their second rematch of the season, Athletic played the Los Angeles Sol, this time at the Home Depot Center. Athletica lost 0-2, ending Athletica's four-game unbeaten streak. The Sol's scorers were Camille Abily assisted by Marta in the first half and Shannon Boxx assisted by Han Duan in the second. After the match, both coach Barcellos and captain Chalupny commented on Athletica not getting things together as a team, messing up many passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 8: June 7 vs New Jersey\nAthletica's eighth match of the season was their first match against Sky Blue FC. In their opening game at AB Soccer Park, Athletica blanked Sky Blue 1-0 on a 15th-minute goal by Amanda Cinalli. It was Cinalli's first match and start, as it was for Stephanie Logterman, who also contributed greatly to the match. Though Sky Blue had more shots in the match and was the more dangerous team during the second half, Solo and the Athletica back line preserved the shoutout for Athletica's third win. The three points propelled Athletica into the playoff picture for the first time in the season, as a three-way tie between Saint Louis, Boston, and the Bay Area for third place slotted Athletica in fourth place overall by tiebreakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 9: June 14 at Boston\nAthletica continued to climb the WPS standings with a 1-0 win over the Breakers in their second trip to Harvard Stadium, leapfrogging into second place. The winning goal was scored by Aluko, her third in the past four games, just before halftime. Twice earlier in the first half it looked like Athletica had also scored, but the first was called offside and the second made the side netting. Boston outshot Saint Louis 4-2, and had eight corner kicks to Athletica's one, but could not find the equalizer. The win means Athletica has climbed the standings from sixth to second place in just two weeks, and has won four of its last five games, the only loss being to league-leaders Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 10: June 20 vs Washington\nAthletica dropped their home rematch with the Freedom 0-1. The heat and humidity may have accounted for the first-half early substitutions for a player on each sides. Athletica played the better game for the most part, forcing Freedom 'keeper Erin McLeod to make seven saves, but never getting past her or the crossbar, which was hit on at least three occasions. The game's only goal came from Rebecca Moros in the 81st minute, as her shot bounced off Athletica's crossbar and went straight down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 11: June 24 vs Los Angeles\nAthletica returned to their early season form in their third match against the Los Angeles Sol, highly outplaying the visitors at Soccer Park, but ending the game with a 1-2 loss. Athletica had twice the number of shots (25-12) and shots on goal (10-6), as well as six times as many corners (12-2), but were repeatedly stymied. LeBlanc made save after save throughout the game, totaling eight overall, and even though a rolling ball got past her on at least two occasions, the Sol's defense managed to hold Athletica at bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 11: June 24 vs Los Angeles\n\"We missed the goal almost from inside the goal\" said Athletica Coach Barcellos. Both coaches agreed the Sol capitalized on the only two chances at goal they ever really had, with Han Duan scoring in the 50th minute and Marta doubling LA's lead in the 73rd. Kerri Hanks scored the lone Athletica goal, her first of the season, in the 77th minute from a pass by Aluko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Trade: June 26 w/ New Jersey\nIn a move to trim the roster back down to regular size, Athletica announced a trade with Sky Blue FC on June 26, 2009. Kerri Hanks, Francielle, and rights to Renata Costa were traded for Sarah Walsh, rights to Ester, and a conditional draft pick. This is the second major trade in the league this season, both trades involving Athletica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 12: June 28 at New Jersey\nThe first game of Athletica's longest away stretch at Sky Blue FC, ended with a 2-1 win for the Athletica, propelling them back into third place in the standings. Athletica was outplayed, only getting two shots on goal and no corners to eight and seven respectively, but Athletica converted both chances it had, and Solo only missed a 76' shot by Julianne Sitch, meaning Aluko's second-minute goal and an unlikely volley from Elise Weber in 84' sealed the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 13: July 5 at Bay Area\nIn the second of four away games, and the second of four games against FC Gold Pride, Chalupny scored her second goal of the season, the only goal in Athletica's second away win and second win over the northern California team. Athletica dominated the first half with multiple close chances. Chalupny nailed the game-winner in from distance in the 73rd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 14: July 8 at Los Angeles\nAthletica faced the league-leading Sol for the Sol's final home game of the season and last meeting between the two teams. The Sol, on an 11-game unbeaten streak and able to clinch first place with a win, were shocked by a 1-0 decision in Athletica's favor, thanks to an 11th-minute goal by Cinalli (assisted by Aluko). \"Not on our watch\" said defender Tina Ellertson. The Los Angeles side had more shots and more corner kicks, but Athletica had more shots on goal. Solo made four very impressive saves in keeping the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 15: July 18 at Washington\nAthletica could not finish the four-game away run perfectly, dropping their last match against the Freedom 0-1 from a late goal by Homare Sawa in the 74th minute. Both teams were missing multiple players due to international friendlies; Athletica saw a very different lineup, where defender Niki Cross starting as a forward, and recent acquisition Sarah Walsh subbing in during the second half. After an exciting first fifteen minutes which saw both teams make several close calls on the goal, both teams seemed to lose all energy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 15: July 18 at Washington\nThe incredibly tight Freedom backline kept the ball in Athletica's half for most of the game, meaning that neither the Freedom's backup keepers (Katie Jo Spisak was replaced by their goalkeeping coach (under a one-game contract) in the second half) were tested much at all. Loyden was not tested much either, but a deflection on Sawa's kick sent the ball closer to the near post than anticipated, giving the Freedom the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 16: July 22 vs New Jersey\nIn their first match at home in a month, Athletica finished their sweep of Sky Blue FC with a 1-0 win. Even though Sky Blue slightly outshot Athletica, Athletica controlled the game very well. Aluko notched the game's only goal in the 48th minute, and Loyden earned her second shutout with seven saves, including one very impressive one-on-one against Natasha Kai, to preserve the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 17: July 26 vs Bay Area\nAthletica tied FC Gold Pride 1-1 at Soccer Park in Athletica's only FSC-televised game of the season. Cross notched her first goal of the season from a cross by Fletcher to put Athletica up 1-0 in the 28th minute. The high-energy game saw many chances from both teams throughout both halves, with the intensity increasing even more in the last fifteen minutes. Ultimately, Gold Pride prevented Athletica from clinching a playoff spot when Christine Sinclair put one past Solo in the 88th minute. Without the three points, though, Gold Pride was eliminated from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 18: August 1 vs Boston\nAthletica beat the Boston Breakers 1-0 in their third of four final home games. With good chances on goal from both teams in the first half, the difference came when a cross from Cinalli made it past several Breakers defenders, allowing Aluko to slip a shot directly between the legs of Breakers 'keeper Allison Lipsher. Walsh almost made it 2-0 in the second half, but her arcing shot from distance hit the far post at just the wrong angle and traced the back edgeline back out of the box, where a defender cleared it. Still, with the win, Athletica clinched second place for the season, and have thus guaranteed hosting the Super Semifinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 19: August 5 vs Chicago\nIn their last home game of the season, Athletica handed the Chicago Red Stars another 2-0 defeat. Both goals, 35' and 65', were scored by Welsh aided by Walsh, with Walsh getting the assist on the first goal and starting the play that caused the second (Tancredi assisted that one). The win was made even more impressive by the fact of how much coach Jorge Barcellos rested the regular starters: Chalupny came off at halftime, Walsh came off in the 73rd minute, and Aluko, Cross, and Cinalli stayed on the bench for the whole game. The scoring combination of Walsh/Welsh made the strong implication that they would replace the offensive hole made my Aluko leaving for Europe during the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 20: August 9 vs Bay Area\nAthltica finished their inaugural season on August 9 with another 1-1 draw at FC Gold Pride. Athletica's goal was scored in the 18th minute by Welsh, with the assist surprisingly coming from Solo. It was her first assist of the year as well as the first ever assist by a goalie in WPS. Gold Pride equalized in the 24th minute when Rachel Buehler ran unchecked into a 1-1 with Solo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Game 20: August 9 vs Bay Area\nGold Pride had the better of play for most of the remainder of the match, though after Aluko subbed in for Walsh in the 88th, she sent several shots at Barnhart, almost scoring the winning goal several times. All in all, Athletica's defense was a little worse than it should have been, allowing 11 shots on goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Postseason, Playoffs\nA late flurry from the Athletica was not enough to come back from the 0-1 deficit from the first half. Aside from several spectacular saves from Solo, Athletica did not show up well in the first half, which let Sky Blue control enough to score once. Athletica controlled the second half well, taking many shots as the final whistle neared, but none made it past NJ keeper Jenni Branam. With the result, Sky Blue continued its improbable playoff run to the final while Athletica was left to prepare for the expansion draft and next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Postseason, All-star game\nThe Saint Louis Athletica were chosen to host the 2009 All-Star game on June 25 by WPS. The game itself took place on August 30, with the WPS All-Stars playing Swedish champion Ume\u00e5 IK. Athletica had four players selected for the All-Star game: Lori Chalupny, Eniola Aluko, and Tina Ellertson made the Starting XI, and Hope Solo was chosen as an \"At-Large\" player selection by All-Star coach Abner Rogers and WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204830-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Athletica season, Postseason, All-star game\nChalupny played for the entire game, while Ellertson played first half as one of the Starting XI and Solo was subbed in (for Karina LeBlanc) at halftime. Solo kept a shutout during her half, which in addition to Sinclair's goals, secured the win over the Swedish champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204831-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team\nThe 2009 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team represented Saint Louis University during the 2009 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204832-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Paul mayoral election\nThe 2009 Saint Paul mayoral election in the U.S. state of Minnesota held a scheduled primary election on 15 September and a general election on 3 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204832-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saint Paul mayoral election, Primary Results\nThe top two getters advanced to the November 3rd general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting\nThe 2009 Saipan shooting was a spree shooting that took place on the United States commonwealth island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Shootings\nThe gunman opened fire in two locations across the island of Saipan. His first location was Kannat Tabla, where he shot and killed four people (two men, a four-year-old boy, and a two-year-old girl) at a shooting range at 11:21\u00a0a.m. A four-year-old girl, who was the daughter of one of the slain men and also the older sister of the deceased girl, was also shot in the chest, but she survived her injury. He then drove several miles to Marpi, where about 60 people were taking pictures of the area. There, he fired his rifle at a group of South Korean tourists from inside his van, wounding five of them, two of whom were children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Shootings\nFrom there, he traveled to the popular tourist destination Last Command Post Park, which was the location of Japan's last base for military commanders during World War II. There, he set his van on fire and then walked to the edge of Banzai Cliff, firing along the way. Upon arriving along the edge of the cliff, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his rifle as police closed in. A search of the van's remains recovered three additional rifles and more than 750 rounds of ammunition. The shootings lasted for an approximate half-hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Victims\nFive people (including the gunman) were killed and nine others were injured. All of the deceased victims, as well as one of the injured, were residents of Saipan, while the others were visiting from South Korea; it is not believed that the tourists were specifically targeted. They are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Perpetrator\nThe gunman was identified as 42-year-old Li Zhongren, who was employed at the Kannat Tabla shooting range as a contract worker. He was also living at the shooting range at the time of the shootings. It had been reported that he left a suicide note behind detailing his motive as a \"business deal gone bad\". Police officials believed that the shootings, reported as premeditated, were sparked by a frustration over financial issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Reactions\nThe Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands Benigno Fitial said of the shooting, \"My heart and prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims in today's shooting and most especially to those that were fatally wounded. The commonwealth has never experienced a tragic situation like this, and we are saddened by the appalling action of a single individual that has caused so much harm to our peaceful island community.\" Saipan Congressman Gregorio Sablan also commented, \"The security we take for granted in our island homes has been broken by this senseless act of violence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204833-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Saipan shooting, Reactions\nLieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, Eloy Inos, told reporters, \"This is an unfortunate but isolated incident. It happened for reasons unbeknownst to us, but we can handle this type of situation.\" Following the announcement that South Korean tourists were among the injured, this led to fears that tourism rates would drop at Saipan. Schools across the island were shut down for the day for safety reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204834-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season\nThe 2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season features the Lions quest to win back-to-back Japan Series titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204835-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saladin governorate election\nThe Saladin governorate election of 2009, was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk Governorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204835-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saladin governorate election, Campaign\nThe governor of Saladin, Hamad Hamood al-Qaysi, stood for the Iraqi National List of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The INL also recruited local tribal leaders. The INL were successful in the elections because they had consistently opposed the de-Baathification policies of the Iraqi government, which had caused significant unemployment in the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204835-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Saladin governorate election, Campaign\nThe Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc's main slogan was \"Get Out, Get Out Occupier\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204835-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Saladin governorate election, Results\nImmediately after the election, the Iraqi National List and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front claimed victory in Saladin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204835-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Saladin governorate election, Results\nIn March, the INDF said they would form an alliance with the State of Law Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204836-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Salford City Reds season\nSalford City Reds competed in their eleventh Super League season in their 137th year. They also competed in the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204836-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Salford City Reds season, Fixtures and results\nNote A: Match between Salford City Reds and Catalans Dragons was postponed to 7 August 2009 due to a test between England and France in Paris over the same weekend, in which ten Catalans players were involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204836-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Salford City Reds season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204837-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Salisbury City Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Salisbury City Council were held on 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204837-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Salisbury City Council election\nThe whole council was up for election and the election was contested by 54 candidates, representing the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour, Green Party, British National Party, and also by two Independents. The Liberal Democrats took control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204837-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Salisbury City Council election\nAll wards were new, coinciding with eight new divisions of the newly created Wiltshire Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204838-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 January 2009. The leftist Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front (FMLN) was widely expected to win the most seats for the first time against the nationalist conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). As a result of the election, the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a left-wing party founded by FMLN dissidents in 2006 with the same name and symbols as the historic FDR from the Salvadoran Civil War, was deregistered as a political party as it failed to gain either a seat or 50,000 votes, as necessary to sustain registration. All parties contested the election in all departments, except for the FDR, which did not contest the election in three departments and stood jointly with the PDC in two others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204838-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran legislative election\nIn San Isidro in Caba\u00f1as Department, voting had to be rescheduled to 25 January 2009 after a group of non-natives illegally attempted to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in El Salvador on 15 March 2009. The main candidates were Rodrigo \u00c1vila (ARENA) and Mauricio Funes (FMLN). Funes won the election with 51.3% of the vote and became the first leftist president of El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Candidates\nThe Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front nominated Mauricio Funes as its presidential candidate and Salvador S\u00e1nchez Cer\u00e9n as his running mate. The Nationalist Republican Alliance nominated Rodrigo \u00c1vila and Arturo Zablah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Candidates\nThe Christian Democratic Party had nominated Carlos Rivas Zamora and Merlin Pe\u00f1a, but withdrew the nominations on 2 February 2009 after it became apparent that they would have little chance of winning the election. The PDC did not immediately voice support for one of the other candidates. In the same direction, the PCN, which had nominated Luis Tom\u00e1s Ch\u00e9vez, also withdrew its candidate a couple of days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Opinion polls\nA poll from mid September 2008 gave Funes 29.2% and \u00c1vila 26.1%, while Tom\u00e1s Ch\u00e9vez (PCN) got 1.9%. However, a poll from late September gave Funes 47.4% to 23.8% for \u00c1vila. This latter poll showing Funes with a large lead is more consistent with polling from previous months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Opinion polls\nLater polls from 2008 showed a tightening race between Funes and \u00c1vila, with Funes retaining the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Results\nFMLN won the election with 51.3% of the vote, while ARENA received 48.7%, marking the first time ARENA had lost a presidential election in 20 years. Of the election, Funes said, \"This is the happiest night of my life, and I want it to be the night of El Salvador's greatest hope. I want to thank all the people who voted for me and chose that path of hope and change.\" \u00c1vila conceded defeat, saying that he and his party \"will be a constructive opposition.\" An observation team from the Organization of American States said that the elections were held without any major incidents, although there were claims of Hondurans voting at a voting center in Torola, Moraz\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204839-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Salvadoran presidential election, Results\nSeveral governments said that they looked forward to working with the new government, including Taiwan and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election\nThe 2009 Salzburg state election was held on 1 March 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Salzburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election\nThe Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) remained the largest party but took moderate losses. Its coalition partner the Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) also suffered a small swing against it. The Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) recovered somewhat from its 2004 defeat, winning five seats. The Greens remained stable. The SP\u00d6 renewed its coalition with the \u00d6VP, and Governor Gabi Burgstaller was re-elected for a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election, Background\nIn the 2004 election, the SP\u00d6 became the largest party in the Landtag for the first time in post-war history. While the \u00d6VP suffered only a slight decline, they fell to second place in the face of a major swing to the SP\u00d6, who captured voters from the FP\u00d6 and Liberal Forum. The FP\u00d6 fell from 20% to under 9%, while the Greens made gains. Gabi Burgstaller subsequently became the first SP\u00d6 governor of Salzburg, in a coalition with the \u00d6VP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election, Electoral system\nThe 36 seats of the Landtag of Salzburg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between six multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204840-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Salzburg state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, one party collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204841-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samarkand Challenger\nThe 2009 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 10 and 16 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204841-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Samarkand Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204841-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Samarkand Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nKaden Hensel /  Adam Hubble def. Valery Rudnev /  Ivan Sergeyev, 7\u20135, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204842-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nIrakli Labadze and Denis Matsukevich were the defending champions. Kaden Hensel and Adam Hubble won in the final 7\u20135, 7\u20135, against Valery Rudnev and Ivan Sergeyev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204843-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samarkand Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMichail Elgin was the defending champion, but he was eliminated by his compatriot Valery Rudnev in the second round. Dustin Brown defeated Jonathan Dasni\u00e8res de Veigy 7\u20136(3), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections\nThe 2009 Sammarinese local elections were held on 7 June to elect the mayors and the councils of the nine municipalities of San Marino. Overall turnout was 55.1%. The election in the City of San Marino was declared invalid, as it didn't reach the turnout quorum. Therefore, a second election was held on 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections, Electoral system\nVoters elected the mayor (Italian: capitano di castello) and the municipal council (giunta di castello). The number of seats was determined by law: the city councils of Chiesanuova, Faetano and Montegiardino were composed of eight members; the councils of Acquaviva, Borgo Maggiore, City of San Marino, Domagnano, Fiorentino and Serravalle were composed of 10 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections, Electoral system\nCandidates ran on lists led by a mayoral candidate. Voters elected a list and were allowed to give up to two preferential votes. Seats were allocated with the d'Hondt method if the winner had obtained at least 60% of the votes. Otherwise, six seats would have been allocated to the winning party (five seats if the council had eight members) and the rest of the seats would have been allocated using the d'Hondt method to the rest of the parties. The winning list mayoral candidate was proclaimed mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections, Electoral system\nIn the municipalities where only one list contested the election, the election was considered valid if the turnout was over 50% and the votes to the list were over 50% of the valid votes (votes to the list plus blank votes).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections, June election results, City of San Marino\nThe elections were declared invalid as the quorum of 50% turnout was not reached. As a result, the election was repeated on 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204844-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sammarinese local elections, November election results\nOn the June election, the election in the City of San Marino was declared invalid as it didn't reach the turnout quorum. The election was repeated on 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami\nThe 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment and had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the largest earthquake of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami\nA tsunami was generated which caused substantial damage and loss of life in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center recorded a 3-inch (76\u00a0mm) rise in sea levels near the epicenter, and New Zealand scientists determined that the waves measured 14 metres (46\u00a0ft) at their highest on the Samoan coast. The quake occurred on the outer rise of the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. This is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates in the Earth's lithosphere meet and earthquakes and volcanic activity are common.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami\nCountries affected by the tsunami in the areas that were hit are American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. Large waves with no major damage were reported on the coasts of Fiji, the northern coast of New Zealand and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. People took precautions in the low-lying atolls of Tokelau and moved to higher ground. Niue was reported as reasonably safe because it is high. There were no reports of high waves from Vanuatu, Kiribati, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nThe Los Angeles Times, quoting a source at the National Park of American Samoa, reported that \"four tsunami waves, 15 to 20 ft (4.6 to 6 m) high\", and \"reaching up to a mile (1.6\u00a0km) inland\" hit American Samoa shortly after the earthquake. The water flowed inland about 100 yd (100 m) before receding, leaving some cars stuck in the mud. Damage to the National Park's natural reserves and the destruction of its visitor center and main offices have been reported, while only 20% of the park's 40 to 50 employees and volunteers had been found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nA beach village was reported to have been \"wiped out\", killing at least 14 people after the earthquake had sent residents fleeing for higher ground. Large numbers of American Samoans were said to have been left injured or homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nConfirmed death tolls rose to 22 people, with many people still missing in the villages of Leone and Pago Pago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nA Radio New Zealand International correspondent reported that the center of Pago Pago, the largest city in American Samoa, had sustained heavy damage in the tsunami, with its main street flooded, cars overturned, and shoreline businesses damaged. He \"also witnessed looting in one of the stores\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nAmerican Samoa Governor Togiola Tulafono was in Honolulu, Hawaii for an ocean policy conference at the time of the tsunami struck. Tulafono was monitoring events in American Samoa, but was having difficulties reaching the territory because of communications failures. He told reporters that because of the tight knit communities and strong family bonds, \"I don't think anybody is going to be spared this disaster.\" Tulafono departed Hawaii for American Samoa on a United States Coast Guard supply flight from Honolulu on the evening of 29 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nLieutenant Governor Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia announced that the earthquake had caused severe damage to American Samoa's electrical infrastructure. The main electricity generator in Satala had been damaged, which knocked out power from the central village of Faga'alu across Tutuila to the eastern village of Onenoa. The Satala electrical plant may be out of service for a month or more until repairs can be made, with the American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) stating that power would be out indefinitely. A new power plant at Satala was expected to be commissioned on 25 May 2017. Electricity was also out on the islands of Ofu-Olosega, in the Manu'a Islands Group, and a government plane has been sent to assess damage on Ofu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nThe water system was also damaged in the earthquake, and the supply of fresh water to eastern parts of American Samoa has been disrupted due to broken water lines. The water division of the American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) announced that it will bring water in tanker trucks to affected villages. Residents were warned to conserve and boil water until safe drinking water supplies can be restored, which could take some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nU.S. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in American Samoa, allowing federal funds to be used for rescues, life support, and public health and safety measures. Among the initial U.S. government response was a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) logistics team and staff from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, and Department of Defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, American Samoa\nAlso, basic needs and basic commodities, including electrical generators, medical supplies, and pharmaceutical drugs were sent out, and multiple planes are being prepared for more cargo and personnel, including FEMA, HHS, and Coast Guard staff and experts from the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Red Cross. The USS\u00a0Ingraham\u00a0(FFG-61) was en route to American Samoa and was the first U.S. military asset to arrive and assist in the recovery efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nSamoa evacuated people from the entire city of Apia, the country's capital city on the island of Upolu and moving thousands of residents to higher ground. Journalist Cherelle Jackson reported that the city quickly emptied in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, \"All the schools, workplaces everyone has walked up \u2013 it's like a ghost town.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nTwenty villages on Upolu south side were reportedly destroyed, including Lepa, the home of Samoa's Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi. In Lepa, only the church and the village's welcome sign remained standing following the tsunami. The hardest hit areas in Samoa appear to be Fagaloa Bay on the east coast of Upolu, Lalomanu on the south east coast, and along the rest of the southern coast of the island, with one hospital in Apia reporting it had received 79 bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nThe village of Poutasi on the south west coast of Upolu was reported with extensive damage in a TVNZ news item, along with its neighbouring Villages of Satalo and Salani being completely wiped out. A mother at the Taufua Beach Fales in Lalomanu watched her three young children swept away by the tsunami. Elsewhere there were reports of landslides near Solosolo and damage to plantations near Apia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nA number of tourist resorts are located on Upolu's south coast. These include Coconuts Beach Resort and Sinalei Reef Resort and Spa in the village of Siumu. Both resorts published tsunami updates on their websites. The Sa'Moana Resort is in the village of Salamumu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nThe eastern part of the island remains without power or water supplies after the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nA Red Cross worker reported to Radio New Zealand that waves 10 feet (3\u00a0m) high had flattened beachside resorts on Upolu, and that residents told him the tourist zone of Lalomanu had been crushed by a wall of water about 20\u201330\u00a0ft (6.1\u20139.1\u00a0m) high. The cliffs above Lalomanu were scoured out to a height of 10\u201315\u00a0m (33\u201349\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nPower outages were reported, and phone lines were jammed. Samoan officials confirmed the runway at Faleolo International Airport on Upolu was safe by early afternoon (30 September 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nSamoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, and his Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni Retzlaff were in Auckland, New Zealand, at the time of the earthquake. Both political leaders immediately returned to Samoa. Prime Minister Malielegaoi lost two relatives in the tsunami, including the daughter of one of his nieces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nThe Prime Minister made his first address to the nation, after the tsunami, on 1 October. The Government of Samoa estimates the damage at US$147.25 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nOn 2 October 2009, an estimated 3000 people were homeless and seeking refuge in shelters set up around the worst-affected villages. New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully visited Apia to co-ordinate New Zealand's emergency relief effort. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key arrived in Samoa on 3 October and visited some of the most damaged areas on Upolu including the villages of Poutasi and Lalolamu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Samoa\nThe Samoa government and the people of Samoa held a national funeral at Apia Park for tsunami victims on 8 October 2009 (Samoa local time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nThe main impact in Tonga was in the northern part of the island kingdom where there were deaths, injuries and extensive damage on Niuatoputapu, a flat coral island 500\u00a0km north of the main island Tongatapu, and reportedly closest to the epicentre of the earthquake. The death toll on the island has risen to nine. A Tongan government spokesman Alfred Soakai said 90% of homes had been destroyed as well as serious damage to the hospital. An adviser to the prime minister, Lopeti Senituli, later said the amount of damage to buildings has been downgraded to 60%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nThere are three main villages on Niuatoputapu: Hihifo and Falehau, which were hit by three waves, some 6m high, and the village of Vaipoa, which received less damage. A new school building remained standing and provided some shelter. The island is isolated with a population of around 1,000 people. Approximately 192 families were left homeless and the homes of 143 additional families were damaged in the tsunami in the villages of Hihifo, Falehau and Vaipoa. 289 families lived in residences which escaped damage in the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nOther reports outlined coastal damage from a 13-foot (4.0\u00a0m) wave on the islands. Other media had earlier reported 10 people killed in Tonga. Three people are missing and four sustained serious injuries. Earlier, a government plane sent to the island could not land due to tsunami damage at Niuatoputapu Airport, which had been forced to close. Tonga's acting Prime Minister Lord Tuita said the government is sending a second plane to Niuatoputapu, but that communication links have been damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nThe government appealed for clothing and bedding donations for residents in Niuatoputapu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nRelief efforts undertaken by the Tongan government and Red Cross focused on Niuatoputapu, with support from Australia, New Zealand and France. A United Nations coordinator was scheduled to travel to Tonga to support early recovery initiatives in areas such as 'health, sanitation, water, infrastructure, psychological support, agriculture and fishing'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tonga\nThere were no reports of any damage to Vava\u02bbu island group or to the main island of Tongatapu, where the capital, Nuku\u02bbalofa, is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nFrench Polynesia escaped much of the damage inflicted against other Polynesian countries and territories by the earthquake. Concern centered on the Marquesas Islands, the northernmost archipelago in French Polynesia. Unlike the other islands of French Polynesia, the Marquesas have no protective coral reefs which would absorb the impact of a potential tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nFrench High Commissioner Adolphe Colrat warned residents of the Marquesas to seek shelter at an elevation of at least 10\u00a0m (33\u00a0ft) above sea level. Residents across French Polynesia were advised to avoid valleys and bays, tie up watercraft and listen to R\u00e9seau France Outre-mer (RFO) for further instruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nIn the Marquesas Islands, some bays were nearly emptied of their water before a wave crashed back in and refilled the area. Boats in the region immediately left port once the warning was issued. The cargo and passenger ship Aranui 3, which had been docked in Taiohae Bay on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas, the area most impacted by a small tsunami wave, immediately evacuated the bay for open water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nOutside of the Marquesas, the threat of a tsunami largely passed without much incidence. The government had initially feared a wave of approximately 90\u00a0cm (35\u00a0in), with the ability to strike all parts of the sprawling territory. Five small tsunami waves, measuring 25\u201370\u00a0cm (10\u201328\u00a0in) were recorded off the coast of Papeete, Tahiti, between 11:10\u00a0am and 12 noon local time on Tuesday. The first tsunami wave at 11:10\u00a0am measured 25\u00a0cm (10\u00a0in), while the second recorded wave was measured at 35\u00a0cm (14\u00a0in) at 11:23\u00a0am The waves gradually increased in size, with the fifth, and last wave, being recorded at 70\u00a0cm (28\u00a0in) tall at 12:03\u00a0pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nThe Colombian Navy training ship Gloria, also left Papeete Harbor in Tahiti once the warning was issued as a precaution. Residents of the Society Islands, which include the tourist resort areas of Tahiti and Moorea, were advised to move above 5\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft) above sea level, for safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nHigh Commissioner Adolphe Colrat cancelled the tsunami red alert at 12:03\u00a0pm on Tuesday for all areas of French Polynesia except the Marquesas. The alert for the Marquesas Islands was extended 2:50\u00a0pm until the threat had passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nFrench Polynesian President Oscar Temaru wrote to the heads of American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga offering support following the tsunami, \"On behalf of the people and the government of French Polynesia, I would like to convey our most sincere expression of condolence and solidarity in the wake of the Tsunami that just hit your people... We have, within the FRANZ framework decided to send both human and material help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\n1 doctor, 2 nurses and one logistics expert, all members of our emergency medical staff will carry a total of 600\u00a0kg [sic] of medical material that will be dispatched locally by the FRANZ authorities.\" FRANZ stands for France, Australia and New Zealand, three large countries who traditionally provide aid in Oceania following natural disasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, French Polynesia\nThe Guardian reported 189 deaths; 149 in Samoa, 31 American Samoa, 9 Tonga (2 October 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami Memorial\nFollowing the 1st anniversary of February 2011 earthquake memorial in Christchurch, a memorial dedicated to the tsunami victims was erected in the village of Leone American Samoa on 25 February 2012. Leone a small village on a bay was particularly hard-hit. The monument is called the Healing Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, International aid, Governments\nNew Zealand dispatched RNZAF P-3 Orions to assess the damage and search for bodies. An RNZAF C-130 Hercules with medical staff and supplies, makeshift morgues, stretchers, tents and food was sent on the 30th. A further 7 RNZAF and 2 Royal Australian Air Force Hercules flights were made, and a RAAF C-17 Globemaster also provided airlift support to ferry relief supplies. These were distributed within the islands by RNZAF Bell UH-1H helicopters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, International aid, Governments\nAir New Zealand arranged for larger Boeing 777 aircraft to carry in relief workers and evacuate tourists to Auckland, and fly the Samoan Prime Minister back to his country. The New Zealand helicopter carrying ship HMNZS Canterbury was sent to Samoa (also offloading aid and personnel in Tonga). The New Zealand government also pledged over NZ$12 million for relief efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, International aid, Governments\nThe United States sent the US Navy frigate USS Ingraham, two US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the 154th Wing, and 90 members of the Hawaii National Guard to American Samoa to assist in the relief efforts there. The US Army Corps of Engineers, Army Geospatial Center, prepared an emergency webpage for geological, hydrological and trafficability information for relief engineering and humanitarian aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, International aid, Governments\nAustralia sent teams of paramedics, doctors, nurses and search and rescue specialists with essential supplies like tents and medicine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, International aid, Governments\nOther aid came from concerned individuals and groups throughout the world, namely New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami warnings\nA tsunami warning was initially issued for American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Wallis and Futuna, Tokelau, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Kermadec Islands, Fiji, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Palmyra Island, Vanuatu, Nauru, Marshall Islands, and Solomon Islands. Most of the warnings were called off once it was clear that the tsunami threat had passed. Officials in the Cook Islands, which hosted the 2009 Pacific Mini Games, noted that the tsunami passed without any damage to the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami warnings\nA tsunami warning remained in effect for the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, as five main waves were expected to strike that archipelago. Warnings also remained in Tuvalu, one of the lowest lying countries in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami warnings\nLocal radio stations in Tonga broadcast warnings that a tsunami was possible and that people should move away from coastal villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami warnings\nA tsunami watch was issued for islands farther from the epicenter, including Hawaii and Papua New Guinea, but not for California, USA. Officials were determining whether the tsunami could reach Hawaii, the center said. It was possible that a strongly decreased wave could reach Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Tsunami warnings\nA tsunami advisory was issued for coastal California and the San Francisco Bay Area beginning at 9:00\u00a0pm local time as a precaution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204845-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, Aftershocks\nThere were more than 40 total aftershocks with a magnitude greater than 5.0 in the 48 hours after the mainshock. Shocks with magnitude 6.0 or higher are highlighted in light blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500\nThe 2009 Samsung 500 was the seventh stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on April 5, 2009 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas before a crowd of 176,300 people. The 334-lap race was won by Jeff Gordon of the Hendrick Motorsports team after starting from second position. His teammate Jimmie Johnson finished second and Greg Biffle came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500\nDavid Reutimann won the pole position, and maintained his lead going into the first corner to begin the race, but Gordon took over the lead before the first lap was over. Afterward, Reutimann took back the lead, holding it until Matt Kenseth passed him on lap 47. Gordon led after the final pit stops. In the final laps, Johnson was gaining on Gordon, but Gordon maintained his position to win. There were six cautions and twenty-eight lead changes among thirteen different drivers during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500\nThe race was Gordon's first win of the 2009 season, and the eighty-second of his career. The result kept Gordon in the lead of the Drivers' Championship, one-hundred and sixty-two ahead of Johnson, and one-hundred and eighty ahead of Kurt Busch. Chevrolet increased its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, ten points ahead of Ford, who bumped Toyota to third place, with twenty-nine races remaining in the season remaining. The race attracted 7.4 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Background\nThe 2009 Samsung 500 was the seventh of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It took place on April 5, 2009, in Fort Worth, Texas, at Texas Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at Texas Motor Speedway is a four-turn quad-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch have a five degree banking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Background\nBefore the race, Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 959 points, followed by Clint Bowyer with 870. Kurt Busch was third with 827 points, Jimmie Johnson was fourth with 817 and Denny Hamlin was fifth with 811 points. Kurt's younger brother Kyle Busch, along with Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top ten. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 39 points, five points ahead of their rival Toyota. Ford, with 32 points, was five points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third place. Edwards was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were before the Sunday race \u2014 one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, while the second session lasted 45 minutes. The third and final practice session lasted 60 minutes. During the first practice session, Mark Martin was fastest, placing ahead of David Reutimann in second and Kurt Busch in third. Greg Biffle was scored fourth, and Johnson placed fifth. Jeff Gordon, Edwards, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., David Stremme and David Ragan rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Practice and qualifying\nForty-eight drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday afternoon; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Reutimann clinched his second pole position in the Sprint Cup Series, with a time of 28.344. He was joined on the grid's front row by Jeff Gordon. Matt Kenseth qualified third, Ragan took fourth, and Paul Menard started fifth. Kahne, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Johnson and Joey Logano rounded out the top ten qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Practice and qualifying\nThe five drivers who failed to qualify were Joe Nemechek, Scott Speed, Jeremy Mayfield, Todd Bodine and Scott Riggs. After the qualifier Reutimann said, \"We had a great car all day, right off the truck. This pole reminds me of how much things have changed for me in the past few years. I didn't make the field here two years ago, during a bad time in my racing career.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Reuitmann was fastest in the second practice session, ahead of Johnson in second, and Hamlin in third. Edwards was fourth quickest,  and Jeff Gordon took fifth. Stewart, Kurt Busch, Kenseth, Bobby Labonte and Jeff Burton rounded out the top ten. Later that day, Johnson paced the final practice session, with Hamlin and Kyle Busch followed in second and third respectively. Jamie McMurray was fourth fastest, ahead of David Gilliland and Burton. Martin placed seventh, Edwards eighth, Juan Pablo Montoya ninth, and Martin Truex, Jr. tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nTelevision coverage for the race, the seventh of a total of thirty-six in the 2009 season, began at 1:30\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time live in the United States on Fox. Roger Marsh of Texas Alliance Raceway Ministries began pre-race ceremonies with the invocation. Pianist Lewis Warren, Jr. performed the national anthem, and Contest Winner Mark Fredde commanded the drivers to start their engines. No driver had to move to the rear of the grid at the start of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nThe race began at 2:17\u00a0p.m. Jeff Gordon passed Reuitmann almost immediately by the end of the first lap. Three laps later, Kurt Busch collided with Robby Gordon, with the latter sustaining minor damage and both drivers managed to continue. On lap 8, Reutimann took back the lead from Jeff Gordon. One lap later, Jeff Gordon dropped a further position when he was passed by Kenseth. By lap 20, Reuitmann had a lead of about 1.6 seconds over Kenseth. Kurt Busch, who began the race in twenty-sixth, had moved up seven positions to nineteenth by lap 24. On lap 29, Stewart claimed fifth from Menard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nBy lap 30, Earnhardt had moved up eight positions to twelfth. Ten laps later, Reutimann had maintained a lead of 1.7 seconds over Kenseth. On lap 42, Marcos Ambrose moved into seventh. Five laps later, Kenseth claimed the lead off Reutimann who was blocked by Casey Mears. On lap 51, green flag pit stops began, as Kenseth made a pit stop handling the lead to Stewart. On lap 54, Kyle Busch became the new race leader after Stewart came into pit road. Kyle Busch made a pit stop one lap later, handing the lead back to Kenseth. By lap 60, Kenseth had built up his lead over Reutimann by over two seconds. Eight laps later, Stewart passed Reutimann for second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nOn lap 79, Biffle passed Reutimann for third. Seven laps later, Stewart claimed the lead from Kenseth. During the 97th lap, debris was spotted on the track, prompting the first caution of the race. During the caution, all of the drivers on the lead lap made pit stops. Kenseth reclaimed the lead and maintained it at the restart. On the 109th lap, Kyle Busch's car suffered a cut left front tire from contact with John Andretti, forcing Kyle Busch to come to pit road. Seven laps later, Biffle passed Kenseth for the lead, while Jeff Gordon passed Reuitmann for fourth thirteen laps later. By the 135th lap, Biffle had built a lead over Kenseth to three seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nGreen flag pit stops began on the 152nd lap; Kenseth made his pit stop on the same lap. Johnson and Biffle made a pit stop the next lap, handing the lead to Jeff Gordon. After pit stops, Biffle reclaimed the first position. On lap 157, Elliott Sadler spun out, causing the second caution. None of the leaders elected to pit under the caution. The race restarted on lap 162 with Biffle in the lead, ahead of Kenseth and Jeff Gordon. By the 190th lap, Biffle's lead was three seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nAnother round of green flag pit stops began on lap 203 when Truex made a pit stop; Kenseth was the first of the leaders to pit the following lap. On lap 208, Jeff Gordon became the new race leader after Biffle came into pit road. After pit stops, Biffle reclaimed the top position. On lap 220, the third caution was given as Ambrose's car suffered an engine failure. Jeff Gordon and Martin stayed out, while some of the leaders came to pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nJeff Gordon led the field back up to speed on the restart. On lap 226, Sam Hornish, Jr. spun and Labonte collided with the wall, prompting the fourth caution. During the caution, Johnson, Earnhardt and Hamlin made pit stops. Jeff Gordon stayed out of pit road and the led the field to restart on lap 237. Four laps later, Logano collided with the wall, but escaped with minor damage. On lap 247, Edwards moved into sixth. Four laps later, a fifth caution came out when Robby Gordon's car suffered an engine failure. All of the leaders elected to pit under caution, giving the lead to Earnhardt The race restarted on lap 259. On lap 260, Jeff Gordon moved back into the lead, while Earnhardt fell back to the seventh position. Three laps later, Edwards passed Brian Vickers to move into ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nOn lap 290, Earnhardt Jr was forced onto pit road after colliding with the wall at turn two. One lap later, Ragan drove to pit road because of overheating issues. On the 294th lap, Edwards reclaimed the lead off Gordon, while Ragan drove to the garage, three laps later. On lap 298, Stewart moved into second after passing Jeff Gordon. Four laps later, a sixth and final caution came out, after Stremme collided with the wall and spun going into turn 3. Jeff Gordon led on the restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race\nOn lap 309, Johnson passed Stewart for the second position, while Jeff Gordon built up a 1.4 second lead four laps later. On the 314th lap, Biffle moved into the fourth position after passing Johnson. By lap 323, Jeff Gordon had increased his lead to 1.7 seconds over Johnson. Jeff Gordon maintained the lead to win his first race of the 2009 season. Johnson finished second, ahead of Biffle in third, Stewart in fourth, and Kenseth in fifth. Martin, Montoya, Kurt Busch, Burton and Edwards rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race, Post-race\n\"\"I knew we were going to get one eventually, We had some missed opportunities last season, but that keeps you driving hard and pushing forward.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race, Post-race\nJeff Gordon appeared in victory lane to celebrate his first win of the 2009 season in front of 176,300 who attended the race. He also earned $541,874 in race winnings. Gordon was delighted with his victory: \"Incredible team effort. This whole year has been amazing. What a great car. I've never had a car like this at Texas. We finally had one and put it in position.\" Johnson was happy with his second-place result, saying, \"It was nice to get our car up front and get some clean air on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race, Post-race\nWe had to work really hard all day long to keep the car right. I'm very proud of the team.\" Third-place finisher Biffle was candid with his performance: \"We worked our way all the way back to fourth, third \u2013 15 more laps, would've passed [runner-up Jimmie Johnson] and then a little while longer we could've gotten [Gordon]. But, I just ran out of time, lost track position and weren't able to capitalize on it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204846-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung 500, Race, Post-race\nThe race results kept Jeff Gordon in the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 1154 points. Johnson, who finished behind Gordon, moved to second on 992, eighteen points ahead of Kurt Busch and twenty-five ahead of Bowyer. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet increased their points total to 48, while Ford advanced to second with 38 and Toyota was bumped to third with 37. 7.4 million people watched the race on television. The race took three hours, twenty-five minutes and twenty-two seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 0.378 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204847-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung Securities Cup\nThe 2009 Samsung Securities Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 26 October and 1 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204847-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung Securities Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204847-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung Securities Cup, Champions, Doubles\nRik de Voest /  Lu Yen-hsun def. Sanchai Ratiwatana /  Sonchat Ratiwatana, 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204848-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung Securities Cup \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach chose to not defend their last year's title. Rik de Voest and Lu Yen-hsun defeated Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, [10\u20136] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204849-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Samsung Securities Cup \u2013 Singles\nSouth Korean player Lee Hyung-taik dominated the nine first years of competition at the event, winning seven titles in singles, and another in doubles. He was the champion in 2009, but he didn't defend his title, because retired due to left thigh injury in his match against Cho Soong-jae already in the first round. Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132, against Du\u0161an Lojda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204850-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio Silver Stars season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 13th season for the San Antonio Silver Stars franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is their 7th in San Antonio. The Silver Stars were unsuccessful in their attempt to advance to the WNBA Finals for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204850-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio Silver Stars season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Silver Stars' 2008 record, they would pick 13th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Silver Stars waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204850-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio Silver Stars season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Silver Stars' selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204851-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio mayoral election\nThe San Antonio mayoral election of 2009 was held on May 9, 2009. The incumbent mayor Phil Hardberger was term-limited after serving two terms. The election was won by Julian Castro, who took office on June 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204851-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio mayoral election, Frontrunner Status\nAfter the deadline to file passed, four candidates (Castro, Cibrian, McNeil and DeBerry-Mejia) were considered the frontrunners in the race. Polls showed Castro ahead by big margins, and some polls showed Castro winning outright without need for a runoff election. Second place was highly contentious, with Cibrian and DeBerry-Mejia trading off for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204851-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio mayoral election, Election Day\nOn May 9, 2009, the election for Mayor was held. Turnout was slightly higher in the May 2009 election than the May 2007 elections, with 11.61% of registered voters casting a ballot in the 2009 election (as opposed to 10.16% in 2007). Also, more votes were cast during Early Voting than on election day (55,780 votes cast during Early Voting to 34,055 on Election Day.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204851-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio mayoral election, Election Day\nA majority of votes is required to win the office of Mayor of San Antonio. If no person earns a majority, the two top vote earners shall advance to a runoff election to decide. Mayoral elections are non-partisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204851-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 San Antonio mayoral election, Election Day\n* Vote percentage only include votes for San Antonio Mayor. The remaining 1.78 percent in the election voted for different constituencies, or did not cast a vote for Mayor of San Antonio", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204852-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Benedetto Tennis Cup\nThe 2009 Carisap Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Benedetto, Italy between 6 and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204852-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Benedetto Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204852-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Benedetto Tennis Cup, Champions, Doubles\nStefano Ianni /  Cristian Villagr\u00e1n def. Niels Desein /  St\u00e9phane Robert, 7\u20136(3), 1\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204853-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Bernardino mayoral election\nThe 2009 San Bernardino mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009, to elect the mayor of San Bernardino, California. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Pat Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season\nThe 2009 season was the San Diego Chargers' 40th in the NFL and their 50th since becoming founding members of the American Football League. The Chargers improved upon their regular season record of 8\u20138 in 2008 and won their division for the fourth straight year and fifth time in six seasons. They finished the regular season with a 13\u20133 record, the second best winning percentage in franchise history but were upset in the Divisional Playoffs by the New York Jets. It was also Norv Turner's best regular season record as head coach. Also, this was the end of an era as future Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson joined the New York Jets following the season, ending his 9-year tenure as a Charger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 739]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, 2009 NFL Draft\nMany have speculated as to who the Chargers are likely to target early in the 2009 NFL Draft. Commonly noted areas of need include the safety positions, the right side of the offensive line, and inside linebacker. The Chargers are also expected to be in the hunt for a running back to eventually replace Tomlinson, who despite past excellence has faced more frequent injuries and declining production as he ages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Oakland Raiders\nThe Chargers began their season at Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum for a Week 1 AFL Legacy duel with their AFC West rival, the Oakland Raiders, in the second game of an MNF doubleheader. In the first quarter, San Diego trailed early as Raiders running back Michael Bush got a 4-yard touchdown run. The Chargers would strike back in the second quarter as running back LaDainian Tomlinson got a 1-yard touchdown run. Oakland would respond with kicker Sebastian Janikowski getting a 37-yard field goal. San Diego would close out the half with kicker Nate Kaeding making a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Oakland Raiders\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Raiders would retake the lead in the fourth quarter as Janikowski nailed a 35-yard field goal. The Chargers would take the lead as quarterback Philip Rivers completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. Oakland would respond with quarterback JaMarcus Russell completing a 57-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Louis Murphy, but San Diego came right back with a 5-yard touchdown run by running back Darren Sproles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Oakland Raiders\nWith the win, the Chargers began their season at 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nComing off their road win over the Raiders, the Chargers would play their Week 2 home opener against the Baltimore Ravens. San Diego would deliver the opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Philip Rivers completed an 81-yard touchdown pass to running back Darren Sproles. The Ravens would respond with running back Willis McGahee getting a 5-yard touchdown run, yet the Chargers would regain the lead as kicker Nate Kaeding got a 29-yard field goal. Baltimore would take the lead in the second quarter as McGahee got a 3-yard touchdown run. San Diego would pull within one as Kaeding made a 22-yard field goal, but the Ravens answered with quarterback Joe Flacco completing a 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kelley Washington. The Chargers would end the half as Kaeding would make a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 907]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Ravens\nIn the third quarter, Baltimore would add onto their lead as Flacco completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Todd Heap. San Diego would stay close as Rivers completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers got closer as Kaeding kicked a 25-yard field goal, but the Ravens would answer with kicker Steve Hauschka nailing a 33-yard field goal. San Diego would manage to get a late drive all the way to the Ravens' 15-yard line, but on 4th-&-2, Sproles was tackled behind the line of scrimmage by an unblocked Ray Lewis, ending any hope of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Miami Dolphins\nHoping to rebound from their tough loss to the Ravens, the Chargers stayed at home for a Week 3 duel with the Miami Dolphins. After a 1-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown by the Dolphins, San Diego would strike in the second quarter with a 25-yard field goal from kicker Nate Kaeding. The Dolphins would answer with a 24-yard field goal from kicker Dan Carpenter. In the third quarter, Miami extended the lead with Carpenter's 23-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Chargers struck back with quarterback Philip Rivers' 5-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 3: vs. Miami Dolphins\nSan Diego would then pull away in the fourth quarter with Kaeding nailing a 23-yard and a 26-yard field goal, followed by safety Eric Weddle returning an interception 31 yards for a touchdown. The Dolphins tried to rally with running back Ricky Williams' 14-yard touchdown run, yet the 'Bolts would hold on for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nComing off their home win over the Dolphins, the Chargers flew to Heinz Field for a Week 4 Sunday night duel with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. San Diego found themselves in a huge deficit in the first half. In the first quarter, the Steelers opened the game with running back Rashard Mendenhall getting a 1-yard touchdown run and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completing a 19-yard touchdown pass to running back Mewelde Moore. Pittsburgh would increase their lead in the second quarter with Mendenhall's 2-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nIn the third quarter, the Steelers continued to roll as Roethlisberger found tight end Heath Miller on a 6-yard touchdown pass. San Diego would strike back as quarterback Philip Rivers threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Antonio Gates. In the fourth quarter, the Chargers began to catch up with a key play on special teams as fullback Jacob Hester stripped Stefan Logan of the ball and returned it 41 yards for a touchdown. Pittsburgh would answer with Roethlisberger's 6-yard touchdown pass to Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nAfterwards, San Diego continued its comeback run as Rivers completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to Gates and a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Chambers. However, the Steelers came right back with a 46-yard field goal from kicker Jeff Reed. The Bolts tried to cap off their rally, but a sack and fumble by linebacker James Harrison led to a Pittsburgh recovery, effectively ending any hope of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 86], "content_span": [87, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Denver Broncos\nComing off their bye week, the Chargers went home, donned their throwback uniforms, and played a Week 6 AFL Legacy duel with the Denver Broncos on Monday night. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first with kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 20-yard field goal. The Broncos would immediately respond as wide receiver Eddie Royal returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown, yet the Chargers came back with quarterback Philip Rivers completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Denver Broncos\nDenver would take the lead in the second quarter with a 34-yard field goal from kicker Matt Prater and Royal returning a punt 71 yards for a touchdown. Afterwards, San Diego closed out the half with a Kaeding 44-yard field goal and running back Darren Sproles' 77-yard punt return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Denver Broncos\nIn the third quarter, the Chargers would add onto their lead with Kaeding nailing a 50-yard field goal. However, the Broncos would take the lead with quarterback Kyle Orton's 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Scheffler. In the fourth quarter, Denver would increase their lead with Prater's 29-yard field goal and Orton finding wide receiver Brandon Stokley on a 5-yard touchdown pass. San Diego tried to rally, but the Broncos' defense stood strong and held for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Denver Broncos\nWith the loss, the Chargers fell to 2\u20133. This is also their third straight season where the team has started 2\u20133 after five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Kansas City Chiefs\nHoping to rebound from their home loss to the Broncos, the Chargers flew to Arrowhead Stadium, donned their throwbacks, and played a Week 7 AFL Legacy game with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first with quarterback Philip Rivers competing a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Malcom Floyd and a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. The Chargers would continue their dominance in the second quarter as kicker Nate Kaeding nailed a 20-yard and a 39-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 7: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Chiefs would get on the board in the third quarter with quarterback Matt Cassel completing a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, yet San Diego came right back with Rivers hooking up with running back Darren Sproles on a 58-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, the Chargers would wrap up the game in the fourth quarter with Kaeding booting a 19-yard field goal and fullback Jacob Hester recovering a blocked punt in the end zone for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 85], "content_span": [86, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Oakland Raiders\nComing off their road win over the Chiefs, the Chargers went home, donned their alternate uniforms, and played a Week 8 divisional rematch with the Oakland Raiders. In the first quarter, San Diego struck first as running back LaDainian Tomlinson got a 6-yard touchdown run. The Raiders would answer in the second quarter with a 3-yard touchdown run by running back Justin Fargas, yet the Chargers stormed on as quarterback Philip Rivers hooked up wide receiver Vincent Jackson on an 8-yard touchdown pass, followed by Tomlinson getting a 10-yard touchdown run. Oakland would close out the half with a 48-yard field goal by kicker Sebastian Janikowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Oakland Raiders\nIn the second half, the Raiders would slowly try to rally as Janikowski nailed a 41-yard field goal in the third quarter and a 41-yard field goal in the fourth. Afterwards, San Diego pulled away as kicker Nate Kaeding booted a 28-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Oakland Raiders\nWith their 13th-straight win over Oakland, the Chargers improved to 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New York Giants\nComing off their divisional home win over the Raiders, the Chargers flew to Giants Stadium for a Week 9 interconference duel with the New York Giants in the much-hyped first-ever meeting between quarterbacks Philip Rivers & Eli Manning (Drew Brees started for the Chargers when the teams met in 2005).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New York Giants\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, San Diego would deliver the opening strike of the second quarter as Rivers completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Vincent Jackson. The Giants would answer with Manning completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith. In the third quarter, the Chargers regained the lead as Rivers found tight end Kris Wilson on a 1-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New York Giants\nNew York would take the lead in the fourth quarter as kicker Lawrence Tynes nailed a 38-yard field goal, Manning hooked up with tight end Kevin Boss on an 8-yard touchdown pass, and Tynes booted a 22-yard field goal. San Diego came right back as Rivers threw the game-winning 18-yard touchdown pass to Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at New York Giants\nWith the win, the Chargers improved to 5\u20133 and kept their winning streak going by 3 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off their road win against the Giants, the Chargers went home for an interconference Duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. In the first quarter, the Chargers took the early lead as quarterback Philip Rivers got a 20-yard touchdown pass to fullback Mike Tolbert. In the second quarter, San Diego increased their lead as running back LaDainian Tomlinson got a 3-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would close out the half as David Akers kicked an 18-yard field goal and a 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nIn the third quarter, San Diego increased their lead as Tomlinson made a 20-yard touchdown run. Philadelphia tried to come back as Akers nailed another 25-yard field goal, but the Chargers increased their lead even further as Rivers hooked up with wide receiver Legedu Naanee on a 20-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nFor the fourth quarter, the Eagles tried to close the margin as quarterback Donovan McNabb passed to wide receiver Jeremy Maclin on a 5-yard touchdown pass, followed by a 6-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brent Celek, yet the Chargers hung on for the victory when kicker Nate Kaeding got a 29-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the win, the Chargers improved to 6\u20133 and their winning streak to 4 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nLaDainian Tomlinson (24 carries, 96 yards, 2 TDs) would surpass Marcus Allen for third place in the NFL's All-Time career touchdown leaders with 146.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Denver Broncos\nComing off their win against the Eagles, the Chargers flew to Invesco Field at Mile High for an AFC West rivalry rematch against the Denver Broncos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Denver Broncos\nIn the first half, the Chargers got off to a great start when QB Philip Rivers got a 2-yard touchdown pass to WR Legedu Naanee. Then kicker Nate Kaeding hit a 28 and a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Denver Broncos\nIn the third quarter the Broncos scored their only points of the game when kicker Matt Prater got a 23-yard field goal, yet the Chargers replied and started to rally with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard touchdown run, and in the fourth quarter Kaeding making a 28 then a 19-yard field goal, and finally FB Mike Tolbert ran 8 yards to the end zone for a touchdown (With PAT kick blocked).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nLooking to increase their win streak, the Chargers went home for an AFC West rivalry rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter the Chargers took control as QB Philip Rivers got a 19-yard touchdown pass to TE Antonio Gates. The Chiefs would reply to tie the game with QB Matt Cassel making a 7-yard touchdown pass to WR Chris Chambers, until San Diego rallied with RB LaDainian Tomlinson getting a 1-yard touchdown run, then Rivers hooking up with Gates again on a 15-yard touchdown pass, then DB Paul Oliver returned a fumble 40 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the third quarter the Chargers dominance continued as RB LaDainian Tomlinson got a 3-yard touchdown run. The Chiefs tried to come back with RB Jamaal Charles getting a 2-yard touchdown run, but the Chargers would pull away with kicker Nate Kaeding making a 55-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter a penalty on Matt Cassel was enforced in the end zone for a safety, giving the Chargers 2 points. The final score was made when Kaeding booted a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Cleveland Browns\nLaDainian Tomlinson had a game he would not soon forget. He passed Jim Brown, who happened to be sitting up in a suite. When Tomlinson passed him in the all-time rushing list, which made him number eight of all time rushers, he saluted the retired running back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Cleveland Browns\nWith the win, the Chargers improved to 9\u20133, and expanded their winning streak to seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Dallas Cowboys\nSan Diego came in with a 15\u20130 December record dated to 2005. San Diego gave up a field goal, then went on a 10-point streak. At the end of the third quarter, Dallas tied the game 10\u201310. Then the chargers piled up 10 more points, eating up the clock. By the time Dallas struck back, it was too late.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Dallas Cowboys\nWith the win, the Chargers increased their win streak to 8, and had a 10\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe Chargers took a 14\u201313 lead in the first half. During halftime, a piece was shown about the life of the Bengals' wide receiver Chris Henry. The Chargers were up in the fourth quarter 24\u201313 before the Bengals scored a TD with a 2-point conversion and a field goal tying the game. The Chargers won in the end with a 52-yard field goal by Nate Kaeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Cincinnati Bengals\nThe close win put the Chargers at 11\u20133. It marked their 9th straight win and 17th straight win in December. With this win and a 20\u201319 loss by Denver to Oakland, the Chargers clinched the AFC West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 87], "content_span": [88, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Tennessee Titans\nThe Chargers came into the game looking to clinch the AFC's No. 2 seed and a first round bye on Christmas Day in Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Tennessee Titans\nThe Titans struck first with a Rob Bironas 46-yard field goal. Then 2 touchdown passes and a LT TD run put them up 21\u201310 at halftime. After the break the Chargers continued their demolition of the Titans with three straight TD runs. The game's final score was 42\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 16: at Tennessee Titans\nWith the win, the Chargers improved to 12\u20133, grabbed a first round bye and the No. 2 seed along with their 10th straight win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 84], "content_span": [85, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 17: vs. Washington Redskins\nWith the win, the Chargers finished the season with an 11-game winning streak and with a record of 13\u20133 and also were the only team in the AFC West to sweep the whole NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 88], "content_span": [89, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Post-season results, AFC Divisional Game: vs. New York Jets\nEntering the playoffs as the AFC's No. 2 seed, the Chargers began their playoff run at home in the AFC Divisional Round against the No. 5 New York Jets. After a scoreless first quarter, San Diego delivered the game's first strike in the second quarter as quarterback Philip Rivers found fullback Kris Wilson on a 13-yard touchdown pass. The Jets would respond in the third quarter with a 46-yard field goal from kicker Jay Feely. Philip Rivers threw two interceptions and the San Diego Chargers offense failed to get one first down as the Jets defense controlled the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Post-season results, AFC Divisional Game: vs. New York Jets\nThen, New York would take the lead in the fourth quarter as quarterback Mark Sanchez completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dustin Keller, followed by a 53-yard touchdown run from running back Shonn Greene. The Chargers unsuccessfully tried to rally as struggling quarterback Philip Rivers got a 1-yard touchdown run. However, the Chargers failed to recover the onside kick giving the Jets the ball at the Chargers 28-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204854-0039-0002", "contents": "2009 San Diego Chargers season, Post-season results, AFC Divisional Game: vs. New York Jets\nThe Chargers held the Jets to a 4th and 1 yard to go situation, but the Jets ran the ball converting the first down and kneeled the ball to end the game, finishing the Chargers' season. During the game, Chargers All Pro kicker Nate Kaeding missed field goals from 36, 57 and 40 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204855-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Padres season\nThe 2009 San Diego Padres season was the 41st season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204855-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Padres season, Regular season, Game log\nDuring the Padres 6-5 win over the New York Mets at Citi Field on April 13, 2009, Jody Gerut became the first player to open a new ballpark with a leadoff home run, hitting the first base hit and home run on the 3rd pitch off Mets starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204855-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204855-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204856-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 2009 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aztecs, led by first-year head coach Brady Hoke, played their home games at the Qualcomm Stadium. They finished with a record of 4\u20138 (2\u20136 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 2009 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 64th season, 60th in the National Football League, and the first full year with Mike Singletary as head coach after being named interim head coach in 2008. It is the seventh year in which the 49ers have their seventh offensive coordinator. They were looking to improve upon their 7\u20139 record from 2008 with the 10th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 49ers started the 2009 season hot by winning three of the first four games. Their only loss in that span was against the Minnesota Vikings on a last-second, 32-yard touchdown from QB Brett Favre to WR Greg Lewis. With that, and a week-5 blowout loss against the Atlanta Falcons, the team got a bad omen for the remainder of the year. The 49ers' defense, led by linebacker Patrick Willis, kept the 49ers in games, while their offense was inconsistent. Most of the blame was due to their weak offensive line, namely, the injury of left tackle Joe Staley in a week 7 game against the Indianapolis Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 49ers won a week 12 home game over the Jacksonville Jaguars, 20\u20133. The win helped keep the 49ers' season alive. Going into week 13 against the Seattle Seahawks, the 49ers were heavily favored to win the game; however, critical mistakes in the game cost them the win and gave the team a huge blow of any chances of making the playoffs. The following week on Monday Night Football, the 49ers played the Arizona Cardinals, who were trying to clinch the NFC West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 49ers' defense came out and exploded on the Cardinals top-ranked offense, causing them to turn over the ball 7 times. This was the first time San Francisco caused 7 or more turnovers in a game since forcing eight against the New Orleans Saints on September 14, 1997. The 49ers won the game 24\u20139, keeping their very slim playoff hopes alive. The next week they were defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles. The loss officially wiped out the 49ers from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nDespite being benched for 5 and a half games, Alex Smith came in and threw for a career-best 2,350 yards, 18 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. Frank Gore rushed for 1,120 yards and 13 touchdowns. He was awarded his second Pro Bowl appearance. Tight end Vernon Davis turned his career around by leading the team with 965 yards and 13 touchdowns \u2013 which tied the single-season record for most touchdowns by a tight end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nRookie wide receiver Michael Crabtree, who held out the first four games of the season, was able to put up solid numbers, with 625 receiving yards, 48 receptions, and 2 touchdowns. On defense, Patrick Willis, for the second time in his first three seasons in the league, led the NFL with 152 tackles and helped the 49ers become one of the best defensive units in the NFL. He was awarded his third straight Pro Bowl appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 49ers defense would finish the season in the top of the league in multiple categories. They finished fourth in the league in scoring defense, surrendering just 17.6 points per game. They also finished fifth in the league in forced turnovers with 33, tied for first in the league with 15 fumble recoveries and sixth in rushing defense", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nThe 49ers released Mike Martz on December 30, 2008. One day following the firing of Martz, the 49ers released quarterbacks coach Ted Tollner and running backs coach Tony Nathan. \"To get where we needed to go, I felt those decisions needed to be made at this time\", said Mike Singletary. Tony Nathan's replacement came on January 7, 2009 when former 49ers' fullback Tom Rathman agreed to become the new running backs coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nBefore the 49ers found a new quarterbacks coach, they introduced two new coaching positions on January 12, 2009. Mike Singletary's nephew Vantz Singletary became the 49ers' inside linebackers coach, while Al Harris was signed as the 49ers' pass rush specialist coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOne month after the firing of Martz, Jimmy Raye was finally hired as offensive coordinator, making him the seventh offensive coordinator in seven years for the 49ers. Along with the hiring of Raye, Ted Tollner's replacement Mike Johnson was signed as the 49ers' quarterback coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nThe 49ers' next coaching addition would be Jason Michael as an offensive assistant on March 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\n[ Mike Singletary and I] had a shared vision of how you play the game and what we would like to see when the game is played\u00a0... His passion for football is kind of contagious. That started the mutual understanding between the two of us.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\n\u2013 Jimmy Raye after being hired as San Francisco's offensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\nTwo days after Mike Singletary was hired as San Francisco's head coach, Singletary fired offensive coordinator Mike Martz. \"I am not what he is looking for offensively. I understand that\", said Martz in a statement released by the club. With the firing of Martz, the 49ers guaranteed themselves their seventh offensive coordinator in seven years. Possible replacement candidates included Colts wide receivers coach Clyde Christensen, former Rams head coach Scott Linehan, Browns offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\nAfter a second interview with the 49ers, Linehan was offered the position; however, he declined the position stating that it was not right for his family. Soon after, Linehan accepted the offensive coordinator position for the Detroit Lions. Following, the 49ers interviews Broncos offensive coordinator Rick Dennison, former Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski, and Ravens quarterbacks coach Hue Jackson. On the same day as the interview with Jackson, the 49ers flew in former Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Reeves for an interview for the position. Following the Reeves interview, the 49ers interviewed Hue Jackson a second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 724]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\nOne day after Jackson was interviewed, former New York Jets' running back coach Jimmy Raye II was interviewed, making him the eighth offensive coordinator candidate to be interviewed by the 49ers. After interviewing with the 49ers, Raye was named the new offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers; coincidentally, Raye's first NFL job was the wide receivers coach for the 49ers under Ken Meyer in 1977. Raye stated that he and Mike Singletary shared a belief on how football should be played, that being a ground-based, physical football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Coaching changes, Offensive coordinator search\nRaye has had successful years as a run-based offensive coordinator, namely with the 1984 Los Angeles Rams, when Eric Dickerson rushed for a league-record 2,105\u00a0yards. However, his recent success has been questionable. While being the Oakland Raiders' offensive coordinator from 2004 to 2005, the Raiders were 32nd and 29th in rushing offense, respectively. Nonetheless, while Raye was running backs coach for the New York Jets over the past two years, Jets' running back Thomas Jones has finished each season with over 1,000\u00a0yards rushing. In the 2008 season, Jones finished the season with the 5th most rushing yards, behind only Adrian Peterson, Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, and Clinton Portis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Uniform change\nIn 1996 the 49ers changed their uniform colors to a darker cardinal red, with the most recent change being updating their pants back to gold in 1998. Eleven years later, the 49ers decided to once again modify their uniform. The uniform change rumors were confirmed by Andy Dolich at the 49ers' State of the Franchise. When asked when they were going to change their uniforms \"back to normal\", Dolich replied, stating, \"Stay tuned. Don't be surprised if you see championship colors back\". The uniforms were revealed on April 25, 2009 during the first day of the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Uniform change\n49ers players Patrick Willis, Josh Morgan, Dashon Goldson, Joe Staley, and Moran Norris displayed the new jerseys and pants at the 49ers draft party. The new jerseys are very similar to the classic design, with minor changes to the sleeve stripes, the moving of secondary numerals to the top of the shoulders, and the inclusion of a \"49ers\" ligature below the neck. The shade of red is also arguably slightly darker than the scarlet of classic jerseys, but significantly lighter than the cardinal red used in the 1996\u20132008 designs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Roster changes, Additions\nThe following are players signed by the 49ers in the 2009 off-season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Roster changes, Departures\nThe following are players who were released by the 49ers in the 2009 off-season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Roster changes, Free agents\nThe following are players whose contracts expired at the end of the 2008 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, Roster changes, Free agents\n*RFA: Restricted free agent, UFA: Unrestricted free agent, ERFA: Exclusive-rights free agent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nAfter finishing the 2008 season with a 7\u20139 record, the 49ers held the 10th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nSurprisingly, the Oakland Raiders opted to choose WR Darrius Heyward-Bey at the 7th pick instead of WR Michael Crabtree, who was considered the top wide receiver in the draft. Because of this, the 49ers were able to pick Crabtree at the 10th selection. \"Once we got to 10 and Crabtree was there, it was over\", said general manager Scot McCloughan, \"... this is great, this is outstanding.\" Additionally, the 49ers traded their 2009 2nd- and 4th-round picks to the Carolina Panthers for their 2010 1st-round pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nThe 49ers flew to Arizona for a week 1 opener against the team that had swept them the previous season. 49ers quarterback Shaun Hill made his season-opening debut, hoping to redeem himself for letting a close game slip through his fingers the previous year. The first half was largely a defensive struggle. With 5:26 remaining in the first half Frank Gore, the 49ers feature back and offensive focal point the last three seasons, had been held to negative one yard rushing on six carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nArizona's offense, known in 2008 for their great passing attack, was forced to punt after going 3 and out on three separate occasions, was held to only 3 first downs, and turned the ball over once on an interception by Patrick Willis at this point in the game. After trading field goals, the 49ers were up 6\u20133 when Frank Gore pounded his way through for a 6-yard score. Cardinals kicker Neil Rackers would kick a 45-yard field goal to close out the first half to make the score 13\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn the third quarter, Kurt Warner led the Cardinals on a long drive capped off with a quick touchdown pass to Larry Fitzgerald, a score that would tie the game at 13\u201313. Despite the small momentum the 49ers had gained by the end of the first half, in the third quarter the 49ers were held to all of 4\u00a0yards total Offense. All of the momentum was going Arizona's way after forcing the 49ers to zero first downs and three punts in as many drives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nNot long thereafter, the Cardinals took the lead with a Rackers field goal to get the score to 16\u201313. In 4th quarter, Shaun Hill lifted his demons by responding on the following drive leading the 49ers offense on a long drive lasting 15 plays that was capped off with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Frank Gore. More tension was yet to come as the 49ers defense stopped the Cardinals hurry-up offense on two consecutive drives, one ending on a failed 4th and 5 from the 49ers 33\u00a0yard line with 1:51 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nAfter forcing the Cardinals to burn up their final two time outs with consecutive runs the 49ers were forced to punt giving Arizona one last chance with only 43 seconds left to play from their own 12. Defensive end Justin Smith would make the game winning sack. With the win, led primarily by the 49ers outstanding defensive effort, the 49ers started their season 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Arizona Cardinals\nWide receiver Isaac Bruce (4 receptions, 74\u00a0yards) would join Jerry Rice as the only receivers to surpass 15,000 career receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their upset road win over the Cardinals, the 49ers would play their Week 2 home opener against another NFC West foe, the Seattle Seahawks. San Francisco would get off to a fast start in the first quarter as kicker Joe Nedney got a 37-yard field goal, followed by running back Frank Gore getting a 79-yard touchdown run. The Seahawks would answer in the second quarter as kicker Olindo Mare made a 36-yard field goal. The 49ers would reply with Nedney making a 42-yard field goal, while Seattle closed out the half with quarterback Seneca Wallace completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to running back Julius Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nOn the first play of the 3rd quarter, the Niners struck back as Gore would break an 80-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Nedney closed the game out in the fourth quarter as he nailed a 39-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nGore (16 carries, 207\u00a0yards, 2 TDs) would join Barry Sanders and Maurice Jones-Drew as the only running backs in history to have two 75+ yard runs in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 3: at Minnesota Vikings\nComing off an impressive divisional home win over the Seahawks, the 49ers flew to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for a Week 3 duel with the Minnesota Vikings. San Francisco would trail early as Vikings quarterback Brett Favre completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sidney Rice. Minnesota would increase their lead in the second quarter with kicker Ryan Longwell's 40-yard field goal. The 49ers would answer with quarterback Shaun Hill's 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis. The Vikings struck back with Longwell's 52-yard field goal, yet the Niners would take the lead prior to halftime as cornerback Nate Clements returned a blocked field goal 59\u00a0yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 785]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 3: at Minnesota Vikings\nSan Francisco would increase their lead in the third quarter with kicker Joe Nedney's 37-yard field goal, but Minnesota replied with wide receiver Percy Harvin returning a kickoff 101\u00a0yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, the Niners got the lead again Hill hooking up with Davis again on a 20-yard touchdown pass. However, the Vikings would snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as Favre completed a 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Lewis with 2 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: vs. St. Louis Rams\nThe 49ers stayed home and looked to continue their undefeated streak against their divisional opponents with the St. Louis Rams coming to San Francisco. In the first half both teams would sputter offensively. Finally, the 49ers would receive some encouragement from special teams as rookie linebacker Scott McKillop recovered a muffed punt for a touchdown. After halftime, the 49ers were finally able to get some headway offensively as Shaun Hill completed an 18-yard touchdown to Vernon Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: vs. St. Louis Rams\nNot long after that, the 49ers defense cemented the victory with an interception returned for a touchdown by third-year linebacker Patrick Willis, and a fumble recovery for a touchdown by Ray McDonald. Shaun Hill put the final touches on as he completed a 28-yard touchdown pass to Josh Morgan to complete the blowout of 35\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: vs. St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, the 49ers improved to 3\u20131 for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: vs. St. Louis Rams\nPatrick Willis had an excellent day, getting 2.5 sacks and an interception returned for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: vs. St. Louis Rams\nThis also was the 49ers' first shutout win since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nComing off their shutout home win over the Rams, the 49ers stayed at home for a Week 5 duel with the Atlanta Falcons. The Niners would trail early in the first quarter as Falcons running back Michael Turner got a 7-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Matt Ryan's 31-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White. San Francisco would answer with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Glen Coffee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAfter starting the second quarter with a 39-yard field goal from kicker Joe Nedney, Atlanta took over with Ryan hooking up with White again on a 90-yard touchdown pass and Turner's 3-yard & 1-yard touchdown runs. The Falcons would then close out the game with kicker Jason Elam's 40-yard field goal in the third quarter and Ryan's 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nWith the loss, the 49ers entered their bye week at 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 86], "content_span": [87, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 7: at Houston Texans\nComing off their bye week, the 49ers flew to Reliant Stadium for a Week 7 interconference showdown with the Houston Texans. San Francisco would find itself trailing early in the first quarter as Texans running back Steve Slaton got a 1-yard touchdown. Houston would add onto their lead in the second quarter with quarterback Matt Schaub hooking up with Slaton on a 9-yard touchdown pass and finding tight end Owen Daniels on a 42-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 7: at Houston Texans\nFor the second half, starting quarterback Shaun Hill (6/11 for 45\u00a0yards) was benched due to poor performance and replaced with quarterback Alex Smith. It began to pay off in the third quarter as Smith completed a 29-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis. In the fourth quarter, Smith and Davis would hook up with each other again on a 14-yard touchdown pass. However, the Texans answered with a 50-yard field goal from kicker Kris Brown. The Niners tried to rally as Smith found Davis again on a 23-yard touchdown pass, but that would be as close to a comeback that San Francisco would get as Houston's defense stiffened for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 7: at Houston Texans\nWide receiver Michael Crabtree, in his NFL debut, would have 5 receptions for 56\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Indianapolis Colts\nTrying to snap their two-game losing streak, the 49ers flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for a Week 8 interconference duel with the Indianapolis Colts. This game would be quarterback Alex Smith's first start since November 12, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Indianapolis Colts\nIn the first quarter, San Francisco struck first as running back Frank Gore got a 64-yard touchdown run. The Colts would answer with a 38-yard field goal from kicker Matt Stover. Indianapolis would begin the second quarter with Stover's 33-yard field goal, yet the Niners came right back with Smith's 8-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis. Afterwards, the Colts would close out the half with Stover nailing a 31-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Indianapolis Colts\nIndianapolis would take the lead in the third quarter as Stover nailed a 40-yard field goal, followed by running back Joseph Addai's 22-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne to begin the fourth quarter (with a failed 2-point conversion). San Francisco tried to rally, but the Colts' defense would shut down any possible comeback attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 9: vs. Tennessee Titans\nTrying to snap a three-game losing streak, the 49ers went home for a Week 9 interconference duel with the Tennessee Titans. In the first quarter, San Francisco struck first as kicker Joe Nedney made a 40-yard field goal. The Titans would respond with a 21-yard field goal from kicker Rob Bironas. Tennessee would take the lead in the second quarter as quarterback Vince Young got a 7-yard touchdown run, yet the 49ers regained the lead with running back Frank Gore's 3-yard touchdown run and quarterback Alex Smith's 12-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jason Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 9: vs. Tennessee Titans\nThe Titans would tie the game in the third quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Johnson. San Francisco would begin the fourth quarter with Nedney booting a 25-yard field goal, but Tennessee would take the lead with Johnson's 2-yard touchdown run, kicker Rob Bironas' 28-yard field goal, and cornerback Cortland Finnegan returning an interception 39\u00a0yards for a touchdown. The Niners tried to rally as Smith hooked up with Hill again on a 3-yard touchdown pass, but the Titans' defense would prevent further progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 10: vs. Chicago Bears\nHoping to snap a four-game losing streak, the 49ers stayed at home for a Week 10 Thursday night duel with the Chicago Bears, as head coach Mike Singletary prepared to face his former team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 10: vs. Chicago Bears\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, San Francisco would strike in the second quarter with a 14-yard touchdown run from running back Frank Gore. The Bears would close out the half with kicker Robbie Gould getting a 50-yard field goal. Chicago would creep closer in the third quarter as Gould nailed a 38-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Niners would add onto their lead as kicker Joe Nedney booted a 21-yard field goal. The Bears would get a comeback drive going as they got inside San Francisco's redzone, yet safety Michael Lewis got the game-ending interception, which preserved the four-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 10: vs. Chicago Bears\nWith their four-game losing streak snapped, the 49ers improved to 4\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 12: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win, the 49ers improved to 5\u20136 and within two games of the Cardinals for the division lead. This marked the 49ers first victory over the Jaguars in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 14: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nOnce again showing up on MNF, the 49ers came home to face off against the surging Cardinals. It was soon evident however, that the Cardinals were not playing their best, turning over the football 7 times, and to add to their troubles the 49ers capitalized on all of their mistakes. In the end, the 49ers' 3 touchdowns were too much for the Cardinals, and the 49ers not only prevented Arizona from clinching the NFC West, but also avoided getting eliminated from the playoff race, improving to 6\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 15: at Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the loss, the 49ers fell to 6\u20138 and were eventually eliminated from the playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 16: vs. Detroit Lions\nFor their last home game of the season, the San Francisco 49ers took on the visiting team the Lions. The Lions took an early lead midway through the 1st quarter with a 27-yard Jason Hanson field goal. The 49ers tied it up at the end of the 1st quarter with a 33-yard field goal by Ricky Schmitt. The only score of the 2nd quarter was a 39-yard 49ers field goal just before halftime. In the 3rd quarter came 2 San Francisco TD's. First a 2-yard catch by Vernon Davis, then a 1-yard run by Frank Gore. The Lions kicked their final field goal of the day in the 4th quarter from 38\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 16: vs. Detroit Lions\n49ers RB Frank Gore finished with 152 total yards (110 alone in the third quarter) and a touchdown. Gore carried 28 times for 71\u00a0yards to give him 1,013 for the year, making him the first running back in team history to record four straight seasons of over 1,000\u00a0yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204857-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season summaries, Week 17: at St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, the 49ers were good enough to finish their season 8\u20138 and 2nd place in the NFC West. It also marked their first non-losing season since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204858-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 2009 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 127th year in Major League Baseball, their 52nd year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 10th at AT&T Park. After four consecutive losing seasons, the team finished in third place in the National League West with an 88-74 record, 7 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. Following Peter Magowan's retirement, Bill Neukom served as general managing partner of the Giants. After a season with the fewest home runs of any team since the 1993 Florida Marlins, general manager Brian Sabean said the Giants would attempt to bring in a power hitter as well as strengthening a bullpen that held a 4.45 ERA in 2008, fourteenth in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204858-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco Giants season\nAfter leading the National League Wild Card race for most of the season, the Giants were ultimately passed by the Colorado Rockies. The team finished third in the NL West and second in the Wild Card. Though they missed the playoffs, the Giants surpassed most expectations for their season; for example, Sports Illustrated projected that the Giants would finish with a record of 77\u201385. Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins noted San Francisco's promising farm system (including products Pablo Sandoval and Madison Bumgarner) and the perceived weakness of the NL West as reasons to be optimistic about the Giants' potential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204858-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 San Francisco Giants season\nAdditionally, the Giants' starting rotation boasted three Cy Young Award winners: Randy Johnson, Tim Lincecum, and Barry Zito. After the season ended, Lincecum won his second straight Cy Young. The Giants would build on their surprising 2009 season the following year, winning the World Series. It would be their first in San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204858-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204858-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204859-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Earthquakes season\nThe 2009 San Jose Earthquakes season was the twelfth season of the team's existence, and the second since its revival. The season began with a 1-0 home loss to the New England Revolution on March 21, and ended with a 2-0 loss at the Los Angeles Galaxy on October 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204859-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Earthquakes season, Squad, Current squad\nAs of August 18, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204859-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Earthquakes season, Competitions, Overall, Results summary\nLast updated: October 25, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204859-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Earthquakes season, Matches, Major League Soccer, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204860-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 2009 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Spartans, led by 5th year head coach Dick Tomey, played their home games at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans finished the season with a record of 2\u201310 and 1\u20137 in WAC play. Head coach Dick Tomey retired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season\nThe San Jose Stealth are a lacrosse team based in San Jose, California. The team plays in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season will be the 10th in franchise history and 6th as the Stealth (previously the Albany Attack).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season\nOn March 19, offensive coordinator Chris Hall was named head coach, while former head coach Jeff Dowling took over Hall's post as offensive coordinator. Dowling resigned a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204861-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 San Jose Stealth season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Stealth selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204862-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger\nThe 2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in San Luis Potos\u00ed, Mexico between 6 and 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204862-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204862-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger, Champions, Men's doubles\nSantiago Gonz\u00e1lez /  Horacio Zeballos def. Franco Ferreiro /  J\u00falio Silva, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204863-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTravis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek were the defending champions; however, they didn't participate this year. Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez and Horacio Zeballos won in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5), against Franco Ferreiro and J\u00falio Silva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204864-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Luis Potos\u00ed Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBrian Dabul chose to not defend his 2008 title. Santiago Giraldo defeated Paolo Lorenzi in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20137(3), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204865-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open\nThe 2009 San Marino CEPU Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the twenty-first edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in City of San Marino, San Marino between 3 and 9 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204865-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204865-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204865-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open, Champions, Doubles\nLucas Arnold Ker /  Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto def. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 7\u20136(4), 2\u20136, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204866-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open \u2013 Doubles\nYves Allegro and Horia Tec\u0103u were the defending champions, however they chose to not compete this year. Lucas Arnold Ker and Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto won this tournament, by defeating Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer 7\u20136(4), 2\u20136, [10\u20137] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204867-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino CEPU Open \u2013 Singles\nFilippo Volandri was the defending champion, but he lost to Daniel K\u00f6llerer in the second round. Andreas Seppi defeated Potito Starace 7\u20136(4), 2\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204868-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 4\u20136 September 2009 at the Misano World Circuit. The MotoGP race was won by Valentino Rossi who extended his lead in the championship to 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204868-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 104], "content_span": [105, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204869-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup\nThe 2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sanremo, Italy between May 4 and May 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204869-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204869-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204869-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup, Champions, Doubles\nYuri Schukin /  Dmitri Sitak def. Daniele Bracciali /  Giancarlo Petrazzuolo, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204870-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup \u2013 Doubles\nHarel Levy and Jim Thomas were the defenders of championship title. Yuri Schukin and Dmitri Sitak defeated 6\u20134, 7\u20136(4) Daniele Bracciali and Giancarlo Petrazzuolo in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204871-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sanremo Tennis Cup \u2013 Singles\nDiego Junqueira was the defending champion, but he chose not to play this year. Kevin Anderson won in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20132, 7\u20135, against Bla\u017e Kav\u010di\u010d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204872-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Santos FC season\nThe 2009 season was Santos Futebol Clube's ninety-seventh season in existence and the club's fifty consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204872-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Santos FC season, Players, Squad information\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204872-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Santos FC season, Players, Disciplinary record\nLast updated: 6 December 2009Source: Match reports in Competitive matches. Only competitive matches = Number of bookings;  = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card;  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election\nThe Sardinian regional election of 2009 took place on 15\u201316 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election\nThe election was called few months before the natural end of the legislature because of the resignation of the incumbent President Renato Soru. Ugo Cappellacci, the centre-right candidate, defeated Soru by a large margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election, Electoral system\nThe electoral system used for this election was the national Tatarella Law of 1995, used by most of Italian regions to elect their Council. Sixty-four councillors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes were grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election, Electoral system\nTen councillors were elected at-large using a general ticket: parties were grouped in alliances, and the alliance which received a plurality of votes elected all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Sardinia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election, Council apportionment\nAccording to the official 2001 Italian census, the 64 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation were so distributed between Sardinian provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204873-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sardinian regional election, Council apportionment\nIt must be underlined that this allocation is not fixed. Remained seats and votes after proportional distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204874-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SaskTel Tankard\nThe 2009 SaskTel Tankard (Saskatchewan's men's provincial curling championship) was held February 4\u20138 at the Meadow Lake Curling Club in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. The winning team, skipped by Joel Jordison, represented Saskatchewan at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204875-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Huskies football team\nThe 2009 Saskatchewan Huskies football team represented the University of Saskatchewan in the 2009 CIS university football season. They played their home games at Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The team went into the season hoping to rebound from a disappointing loss to the Simon Fraser Clan in the Canada West Semi-Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204875-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Huskies football team, Radio\nAll Huskies football games will be carried on CK750. The radio announcers are Darryl Skender and Kelly Bowers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe 2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League. The Roughriders attempted to win their 4th Grey Cup championship but lost to the Alouettes in the Grey Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nDuring the 2009 Grey Cup on the second last play of the game, Sean Lucas of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, lined up as a slot back, behind a defensive linesman, during the missed kick attempt by Montreal. With 11 players already on the defensive line, and with 1 player, Jason Armstead, in the end-zone to return any missed kicks, Sean Lucas, a defensive linebacker, was on the field as a defender, & therefore, the 13th man on the field, causing the penalty on the play, and providing Montreal with another opportunity to win the 2009 Grey Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe Roughriders finished the season in first place for the first time since 1976 and finished with a 10\u20137\u20131 record. As of the 2019 CFL season, the 2009 season marks the first of only two instances since 1976 that the Roughriders won their division and hosted the West Final as a member team of the CFL. They most recently won the Western Division crown during the 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. Due to a series of trades, the Roughriders had only two draft picks. Both were selected from the local University of Regina Rams team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import player updated 2009-11-23 \u2022 47 Active, 17 Inactive, 13 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204876-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Roughriders season, Playoffs, West Final\nDate and time: Sunday, November 22, 4:30 PM Mountain Standard TimeVenue: Mosaic Stadium, Regina, Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204877-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Saskatchewan (SaskTel) Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Saskatchewan's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 28 \u2013 February 1 at the Swift Current Curling Club in Swift Current. The winner represents team Saskatchewan at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204878-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan municipal elections\nThe Canadian province of Saskatchewan held municipal elections in its municipalities on October 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204878-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saskatchewan municipal elections\nListed are the results of selected municipal mayoral races in the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204879-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers baseball team\nThe 2009 Savannah State Tigers baseball team represented Savannah State University in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2009. They played their home games at Tiger Field and Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia. The team was coached by Carlton Hardy who was in his fourth season at Savannah State. In 2009, the team led Division I in stolen bases (169 in 207 attempts) and in stolen bases per game (3.31).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team\nThe 2009  Savannah State Tigers football team represented Savannah State University in American football. The Tigers were members of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision as an independent. This was the second season under the guidance of head coach Robby Wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team\nThe Tigers entered the 2009 season seeking its first winning season since joining Division I-AA in 2000, but ended the season with a 2\u20138 record. The team compiled a 5\u20137 record in 2008, the most wins since 1999, when the Tigers finished with a 5\u20136 as a member of the NCAA Division II. The Tigers last winning season was in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Livingstone College\nJustin Babb rushed for 229 yards, including an 81-yard touchdown as the Tigers defeated Division II Livingstone College, 34\u201312, in the fifth annual HBCU Classic. A crowd of 2,100 fans saw the Tigers take a 25\u20130 lead in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Livingstone College\nThe Blue Bears (0\u20132) had just 28 rushing yards on 26 carries in the game while the Tigers had 391 rushing yards on 49 carries. The Tigers gained 483 yards of offense while the defense sacked the Livingstone quarterback six times. The win gives Savannah State a 7\u20131 lead in the all-time series against Livingstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Alabama State University\nSophomore kicker Dereck Williams missed two field goals (36 and 42 yards) late in the fourth quarter as the Alabama State Hornets held on to defeat Savannah State, 20\u201317, at T.A. Wright Stadium. Quarterback Kurvin Curry completed 13 of 20 passes (159 yards) and Justin Babb rushed for 78 yards on 18 carries. The Tigers lead for much of the game, but fell behind when Devin Dominguez caught a 20-yard pass from Chris Mitchell late in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, McNeese State University\nThe eighth ranked Cowboys of McNeese State University racked up 489 yards on offense, including a season-high 288 rushing yards, in a 56\u20130 rout of Savannah State in the first ever meeting between the two schools. The Tigers offense were held to nine first downs during the game and only crossed mid-field three times. The McNeese State defense scored twice including a score on the game's fourth play when the Cowboys' defense sacked SSU quarterback Kurvin Curry and Desmund Lighten recovered his fumble in the end zone. Freshman quarterback A.J. DeFilippis replaced an injured Curry in the first half and completed 9 of 12 passes for 65 yards and one interception in the game. Junior defensive back Edward Ndem led the Tiger's defense with eight tackles while Chris Reed and Jeff Robertson had seven tackles each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Concordia College \u2013 Selma\nConcordia's Harrison Ellison kicked a 35-yard field goal as time expired to give Concordia a 23\u201321 win over the Tigers in the 2009 Southern Georgia Heritage Classic in front of 1,333 in attendance. Savannah State led 21\u201314 with just over nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, but the Hornets, an NAIA-level team, scored nine points in the final five minutes, fourteen seconds to earn the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Concordia College \u2013 Selma\nSSU gained 259 yards of total offense compared to Concordia's 376 yards. SSU quarterback A.J. DeFilippis came off the bench and was 9-of-11 passing for 95 yards with two touchdowns, ran five times for 41 yards, and threw an interception. Starting quarterback Kurvin Curry was 5-of-10, passing for 61 yards but was sacked twice. Justin Babb ran for a game-high 74 yards and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Charleston Southern University\nCharleston Southern piled up 528 total yards in a 47\u201310 win over Savannah State. The Tigers only touchdown was a 16-yard run by Justin Babb. Babb finished the game with seven carries for 81 yards. Senior wide receiver Deleon Hollinger surpassed the 100-catch mark in his career in the game. Starting quarterback A.J. Defilippis completed 12 of 28 passes for 124 yards, but threw 2 interceptions. Kurvin Curry completed 4 of 7 passes during the game. The Tigers mustered 266 yards of total offense. The Tigers defense was led by Chris Asbury who achieved a career-high 11 tackles in the game. The Tigers fell to 1\u20134 on the season and Charleston Southern improved to 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman University\nThe Bethune-Cookman Wildcats stopped Savannah State's Kurvin Curry on fourth-and-goal run from 1-yard line late in the fourth quarter to preserve a 34\u201324 win. With 4:19 remaining in the game and trailing 27\u201324, the Tigers went on offense at the Wildcats' 8-yard line when linebacker Michael Kuku forced B-CU quarterback Matthew Johnson to fumble the football and defensive end Chris Reed recovered the ball. The Tigers offense attempted four plays, including two from inside B-CU's 1-yard line, but were unable to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman University\nThe Tigers were able to get the ball back at their own 34 yard line with 1:56 remaining in the game, but Curry's pass was intercepted by Michael Williams and returned 52 yards for a touchdown with 42 seconds left. Curry was intercepted again with 40 seconds left in the game by Tavaris Bell on the Tigers final offensive play of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman University\nCurry, who relieved starter A.J. Defilippis in the game, was 11 of 23 for 174 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. Defilippis was 4 of 11 for 49 yards. Savannah State moved to 1\u20135 and the Wildcats improved to 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Old Dominion University\nSavannah State's losing streak was extended to six games after a 38\u201317 loss to Old Dominion. The loss assures the Tigers of a losing season, the eleventh consecutive, while ODU, who is in their first year of football, improves to 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Old Dominion University\nSophomore quarterback Kurvin Curry accounted for 235 of total offense (passed for 185 yards and ran for 50 yards) and two touchdowns. Deleon Hollinger ended the game with 10 receptions for 70 yards. Antwan Allen led the SSU defense with 10 tackles. Late in the third quarter, Derek Williams hit a career-long 46 yard field goal to cut SSU's deficit to 31\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Old Dominion University\nODU quarterback Thomas DeMarco finished the game with 198 yards (14-of-20 passing) and three touchdowns without an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Edward Waters College\nThe Tigers ended a 6-game losing streak with a 45\u201324 Homecoming victory over Edward Waters College at Ted Wright Stadium. The SSU Tigers held a 14\u201312 lead at halftime and Edward Waters cut the score to 21\u201318 early in the third quarter, but the SSU eventually pulled away outscoring Edward Waters, 31\u201312 in the second half. Running back Justin Babb ran 13 times for 167 yards and scored four touchdowns. Babb also caught three passes for a team-high 89 yards. Sophomore quarterback Kurvin Curry was 13-of-26 passing for 234 yards and threw two touchdowns and one interception. He was sacked three times, but ran 21 times for 64 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Edward Waters College\nSavannah State's had 485 total yards of offense while Edward Waters had 358 yards. The loss dropped Edward Waters to 0\u20139 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Webber International\nNAIA Webber International finished its season by winning four of its last five games including a 35\u201320 victory against the Tigers. The Warriors took a 14\u201310 lead over the Tigers in the second quarter and never trailed again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Webber International\nThe Tigers had 227 yards of total offense in the game. Quarterback Kurvin Curry was 18-of-35 passing for 171 yards and threw two touchdowns, but was intercepted twice. Senior wide receiver Deleon Hollinger had a team-high six catches for 47 yards and one touchdown. Kicker Derek Williams kicked field goals of 42 and 29 yards in the game and made both of his extra-point attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Webber International\nDuring the game SSU defensive lineman Channing Welch left the game with an injury that required him to be placed on a backboard and taken by ambulance to a hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, Webber International\nThe loss was the Tigers third to a lower-division team under second-year coach Robby Wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Game summaries, North Carolina Central University\nThe Tigers had 173 passing yards and 173 rushing yards, but fell to North Carolina Central 35\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204880-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Savannah State Tigers football team, Statistics\nCurrent as of November\u00a024,\u00a02009\u00a0(2009-11-24) \u2013 All Games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204881-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Saxony state election\nThe 2009 Saxony state election was held on 30 August 2009 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Saxony. The incumbent grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich retained its majority. However, the CDU chose to discontinue the coalition in favour of forming government with the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Tillich was subsequently re-elected as Minister-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204881-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Saxony state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the 4th Landtag of Saxony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204882-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Schalfkogel avalanche\nThe 2009 Schalfkogel avalanche was an avalanche which occurred in S\u00f6lden, Austria, on 2 May 2009. Six people were killed, five Czechs and one Slovak, when the disaster struck in the 3,500-metre (11,500\u00a0ft) Schalfkogel mountain range. The corpses were discovered to have been frozen upon recovery. It was the deadliest avalanche to have occurred in Austria since March 2000. Although avalanches are a regular occurrence in the region, they mainly kill individuals as opposed to entire groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204882-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Schalfkogel avalanche, Incident\nThe victims were hiking when they were buried under two and half metres of snow which fell on them. The avalanche occurred on 2 May at the S\u00f6lden ski resort. The hikers were approximately 1,600 feet (490\u00a0m) below the summit. Authorities said the six bodies were retrieved as they ascended Schalfkogel between the ski resorts of S\u00f6lden and Obergurgl near the Italian border. A rescue effort had gotten underway on 2 May but was suspended that night. The search had earlier been called off. Rescuers were hampered by severe weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204882-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Schalfkogel avalanche, Incident\nWitnesses had seen the avalanche and reported it by 16:15 but rescuers were delayed by the snowstorm. As soon as the rescue helicopter was able to land all of the victims had been located within the hour. It is understood four of them quickly died and froze after being buried under the snow, whilst the other two had some oxygen and survived in an unfrozen state until this became impossible. Rescuers said these two might have been rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204882-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Schalfkogel avalanche, Survivor\nOne forty-five-year-old man survived. He was a friend of the victims. He had stayed behind in a mountain hut whilst the others continued on their journey. The bodies were identified by this survivor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204882-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Schalfkogel avalanche, Reaction\nThe mayor of S\u00f6lden, Ernst Sch\u00f6pf, said: \"It [was] clear that conditions were not right for a high-altitude tour on Saturday.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204883-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scheldeprijs\nThe 2009 Scheldeprijs cycling race took place on 15 April 2009. It was the 97th running of the Scheldeprijs. A breakaway of Lorenzo Bernucci, Matth\u00e9 Pronk, Pavel Brutt and Jeff Louder formed after 80\u00a0km, and stayed free of the peloton until 9\u00a0km to go. Bernucci, of LPR Brakes\u2013Farnese Vini, attacked again when the lead group was caught and was joined once more by Brutt, of Team Katusha. The two were caught again by the Quickstep-led peloton at 4\u00a0km to go. A bunch sprint ensued, won by Alessandro Petacchi. Robbie McEwen, Tom Boonen and Greg Van Avermaet crashed 200 m from the finish when their wheels touched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204884-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open\nThe 2009 Schickedanz Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in F\u00fcrth, Germany between 1 and 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204884-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204884-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received entry into the main draw as Special Exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204884-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open, Champions, Doubles\nRub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo /  Santiago Ventura def. Simon Greul /  Alessandro Motti, 4\u20136, 6\u20131, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204885-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open \u2013 Doubles\nPhilipp Marx and Alexander Peya were the defending champions, but Peya didn't start this year. Marx partnered up with Denis Gremelmayr. However, they lost to Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Hidalgo and Santiago Ventura in the semifinal. This pair won all matches and became the new champions, after won against Simon Greul and Alessandro Motti in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204886-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Schickedanz Open \u2013 Singles\nDaniel K\u00f6llerer was the defending champion, however he lost to Daniel Brands in the quarterfinal. Peter Luczak became the new winner, after he beat Juan Pablo Brzezicki in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election\nThe 2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. It was held on the same day as the 2009 federal election and the 2009 Brandenburg state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election\nThe election was triggered by the collapse of the grand coalition between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) throughout summer 2009. The election saw major losses for the parties of the grand coalition, while the Free Democratic Party (FDP), The Greens, The Left, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) made gains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election\nAfter the election, the CDU and FDP formed a coalition government. Minister-President Peter Harry Carstensen was re-elected as Minister-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Background\nAfter the 2005 state election, the CDU won a narrow victory, securing 30 seats to the SPD's 29. However, neither the conventional CDU\u2013FDP or SPD\u2013Green blocs held a majority; the SSW held balance of power. The SPD attempted to form a government with the Greens and the support of the SSW, which held a one-seat majority. However, this unexpectedly failed in the Landtag. Subsequently, the CDU formed a grand coalition with the SPD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Background\nRalf Stegner became leader of the Schleswig-Holstein SPD in March 2007, after which point the relationship between the parties of government began to deteriorate. His criticism of the CDU led them to demand he resign as Minister of the Interior, which he did in January 2008. In September of the same year he was chosen as the SPD's lead candidate for the next state election, which was expected to take place in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Background\nThroughout 2009, the government's management of the Hamburg Commercial Bank crisis was a point of contention within the coalition. In June, it risked collapse as the SPD refused to approve deep cuts to public spending to support the bank. Ultimately the breakup was averted, as the parties came to an agreement. In July, Minister-President Carstensen and the CDU stated that the controversial bonus payments made to the CEO of the Hamburg Commercial Bank had been approved by the SPD, which the SPD denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Background\nOn 15 July, the CDU announced it would end the coalition with the SPD and request the dissolution of the Landtag. The SPD unanimously rejected this in the Landtag in 20 July, causing the vote to fail. The next day, Minister-President Carstensen dismissed all members of the SPD from cabinet and called a motion of confidence in the Landtag on 23 July; the government was defeated, allowing Carstensen to call new elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome\nThe CDU and FDP won a narrow majority of 49 seats (later revised to 48). The CDU therefore chose to enter government with them rather than seek a new grand coalition with the SPD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Recount in Husum III\nThe initial result of the election stated that the FDP won 15 seats and The Left won 5. In January 2010, The Left requested a recount of ballots in the Husum III constituency, which found that The Left had won 41 list votes, rather than the 9 originally reported. The results were recalculated and The Left was determined to have won one additional seat for a total of six, with the FDP losing its 15th seat. This reduced the size of the CDU\u2013FDP government from 49 to 48, a narrow majority of one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Legal challenge against the election result\nAfter the election, a dispute arose regarding the electoral law. In Schleswig-Holstein, the standard size of the Landtag is 69 seats, of which 40 are single-member \"direct mandates\", and the remaining 29 are distributed based on compensatory proportional representation. German electoral law conventionally seeks to create overall proportionality in legislatures; ie, the ratio of seats distributed between each party should, as closely as possible, match the ratio of votes won between each party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Legal challenge against the election result\nIn the 2009 election, the CDU won a large majority of the 40 direct mandates, meaning it held 11 more seats than was proportional in the 69-seat Landtag. The Schleswig-Holstein electoral law contains provisions to allocate leveling seats in this situation. However, the wording of the electoral law was ambiguous, making it unclear whether 14 or 20 leveling seats should be added. On 16 October, the state returning officer stated that 14 seats should be added. The members of the electoral commission (the state returning officer and six party representatives) subsequently voted on this proposal, with 3 voting in favour, 2 against, and 2 abstentions. The returning officer, CDU, and FDP representatives voted in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Legal challenge against the election result\nThe size of the Landtag was therefore set to 95 seats. This left the CDU and FDP with 49 seats (a two-seat majority) while the SPD, Greens, Left, and SSW held 46 seats between them. This was despite the fact that the CDU and FDP had together won 744,950 votes (46.5%), fewer than the other four parties, which together won 772,475 (48.2%). This was because 14 leveling seats were not sufficient to create true proportionality, and the CDU was still overrepresented in the Landtag. If the electoral commission had allocated 20 leveling seats rather than 14, proportionality would have been achieved, and the CDU and FDP would have held 50 out of 101 seats, just short of a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Legal challenge against the election result\nThe Greens and SSW sought a legal challenge to the disproportionate result; The Left joined this challenge after the sitting of the new Landtag. The case was heard by the Constitutional Court of Schleswig-Holstein on 28 June 2010. The verdict, announced on 30 August, was that the electoral law was unconstitutional. The court ruled that the law must be changed by 31 May 2011, and a new state election held no later than 30 September 2012. However, the result from the 2009 election was allowed to stand, so the government continued with its majority intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204887-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Outcome, Legal challenge against the election result\nA new electoral law was passed by the Landtag on 25 March 2011, and on 7 June, the election date was set for 6 May 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts\nThe 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championship, was held from February 21 to March 1 at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Jennifer Jones Third: Cathy Overton-Clapham Second: Jill Officer Lead: Dawn Askin Alternate: Jennifer Clark-Rouire", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Cheryl Bernard Third: Susan O'Connor Second: Carolyn Darbyshire Lead: Cori Bartel Alternate: Karen Russ", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Marla Mallett Third: Grace MacInnes Second: Diane Gushulak Lead: Jacalyn Brown Alternate: Adina Tasaka", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Barb Spencer Third: Darcy Robertson Second: Brette Richards Lead: Barb Enright Alternate: Kristy Jenion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Andrea Kelly Third: Denise Nowlan Second: Jodie DeSolla Lead: Lianne Sobey Alternate: Melissa Adams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Heather Strong Third: Cathy Cunningham Second: Laura Strong Lead: Peg Goss Alternate: Susan O'Leary", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Nancy McConnery Third: Jennifer Crouse Second: Sheena Gilman Lead: Jill Thomas Alternate: Colleen Pinkney", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Krista McCarville Third: Tara George Second: Kari MacLean Lead: Lorraine Lang Alternate: Ashley Miharija", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nFourth: Robyn MacPhee Skip: Rebecca Jean MacPhee Second: Shelley Muzika Lead: Tammi Lowther Alternate: Nacy Cameron", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Marie-France Larouche Third: Nancy B\u00e9langer Second: Annie Lemay Lead: Jo\u00eblle Sabourin Alternate: Veronique Brassard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Stefanie Lawton Third: Marliese Kasner Second: Sherri Singler Lead: Lana Vey Alternate: Teejay Surik", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams\nSkip : Kerry Galusha Third: Dawn Moses Second: Shona Barbour Lead: Heather McCagg Alternate: Sharon Cormier", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204888-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Round-Robin Standings\nQuebec was awarded 2nd Place by virtue of the pre tournament draw to the button plus victories over Team PEI and Team Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan was awarded 3rd place by virtue of having beaten both Team Canada and Team PEI during the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204889-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Challenge Cup Final\nThe 2009 Scottish Challenge Cup Final was played on 22 November 2009 at McDiarmid Park in Perth and was the 19th Scottish Challenge Cup Final. The final was contested by Dundee and Inverness CT. Dundee won the match 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 2009 Scottish Cup Final was the final of the 124th season of the main domestic football cup competition in Scotland, the Scottish Cup. The final was played at Hampden Park in Glasgow on 30 May 2009. The match was contested by Rangers, who were defending the trophy having won the 2008 final, and Falkirk who last won the Cup in 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final\nFalkirk were contesting a Scottish Cup final for only the fourth time in their history, while it was Rangers' 51st appearance (winning 32 times and losing 17, with one final (1909) resulting in the cup being withheld). It was Rangers' second cup final of the season, having lost to Celtic in the League Cup Final on 15 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nRangers first match of the 2008\u201309 Scottish Cup was away to Scottish First Division leaders St Johnstone. The match at McDiarmid Park was played on a Tuesday night due to BBC Sport Scotland's live coverage. An own goal from Saints defender Stuart McCaffrey gave Rangers the lead just before half-time and a late Nacho Novo strike with ten minutes left made the game safe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nThe match against Scottish Third Division side Forfar Athletic was to be shown on Sky Sports and was therefore originally planned as a lunchtime kick-off on Sunday 8 February but was postponed due to a frozen pitch, the game was rescheduled and played on Wednesday 18 February. Rangers took an early lead in the match thanks to a Sa\u0161a Papac goal after only eight minutes but the team could not add to their advantage until after half-time. A Kenny Miller double and Aar\u00f3n \u00d1\u00edguez's first Rangers goal ensured the team's progress in a 4\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nThe quarter-final was the first tie played at Ibrox by Rangers in the Scottish cup that season. The game ended in a convincing 5\u20131 win over Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academical. The scoring was opened by Steven Whittaker before Hamilton's Rocco Quinn equalised. Rangers again took the lead through Kyle Lafferty before Aar\u00f3n \u00d1\u00edguez netted a retaken penalty as half time approached. Hamilton played most of the second half with 10 men due to injuries, goals after the break from Steven Davis and another from Kyle Lafferty completed the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nThe semi-final at Hampden Park was played against fellow Scottish Premier League side St Mirren. After just 75 seconds of the match Rangers were ahead through an Andrius Veli\u010dka goal. Kris Boyd's 100th Rangers goal after 66 minutes made it 2\u20130 and a Kenny Miller goal twenty minutes from time saw Rangers through to their second successive final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Falkirk\nFalkirk's first Scottish Cup match of the season was against the runners-up from the previous season, Queen of the South. Falkirk took the lead after Craig Barr fouled Graham Barrett, Scott Arfield converted the penalty. Queen's equalised five minutes later through a deflected Barry Wilson strike to leave the score level at half-time. Despite a superb free kick by Bob Harris to give Queen of the South a 2\u20131 lead, Falkirk went on to score a further three goals to win 4\u20132. A Graham Barrett double and a second from Arfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Falkirk\nThe Bairns faced Scottish Premier League opposition in the next round in the shape of Heart of Midlothian. A Steve Lovell header after 59 minutes sent Hearts out of the Cup in a game which saw two red cards, one for each side. Heart's Marius \u017dali\u016bkas was sent-off after wrestling Carl Finnigan to the ground and Falkirk's Arfield was shown red for a second bookable offence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Falkirk\nA trip to the Highlands ensued for the quarter-final after Falkirk were drawn away to Inverness Caledonian Thistle. A victory was secured by a Carl Finnigan penalty after 31 minutes when Lionel Djebi-Zadi was sent off for grappling with the striker inside the penalty box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Route to the Final, Falkirk\nThe semi-final match against Dunfermline Athletic was played at Hampden Park despite the Scottish Football Association offering to change the match to a different venue. Tam Scobbie opened the scoring when he knocked a Neil McCann free kick into the Pars goal with his shoulder early in the second half. The win was assured after Scott Arfield converted a penalty in the 89th minute, McCann had won the spot kick after being brought down by Dunfermline's Greg Ross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Background\nRangers went into the match as 32-time winners of the competition; they were the defending champions having won in 2008, this was their 50th final overall. Falkirk won the cup in 1913 and 1957; they reached the final in 1997 but lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Background\nRangers had just won the Scottish Premier League to become Scottish champions and Falkirk had narrowly avoided relegation from the SPL; both had done so in the last match of their respective league seasons. The two teams had met each other four times that season three league meetings which were all won by Rangers and a Scottish League Cup Semi-final which Rangers also won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Background\nFalkirk had not beaten Rangers in any competition since an SPL meeting in December 2006, They had last met Rangers in the Scottish Cup in a 1998\u201399 Quarter-final which Rangers won 2\u20131, The last time they beat Rangers in a cup competition was in the 1994\u201395 League Cup, They had never previously met in a Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Pre-match, Ticket allocation\nRangers were allocated 24,890 tickets for the final, while Falkirk received 11,740 tickets with another 3,200 available if needed. Falkirk had originally wanted an allocation similar to Rangers. All Falkirk season ticket holders were guaranteed a seat for the final. SFA spokesman Rob Shorthouse told BBC Scotland at the end of April that it would be fair to both clubs and wanted to avoid unsold tickets being returned. Both semi-finals at Hampden were well below the 52,000 stadium capacity, with only 32,341 supporters watching Rangers beat St Mirren 3\u20130 in the first semi-final at Hampden, while 17,124 watched Falkirk's victory over Dunfermline 24 hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Pre-match, Ticket allocation\nOn 27 May 2009, it was reported that Falkirk had failed to sell its originally allocation of tickets, only 12,200 to date, this meant that the club would be limited to 13,000 tickets in total. Meanwhile, Rangers were given an additional 3,000 tickets on top of there allocation which would now mean that the Glasgow club had a total of 28,000 for the final. Despite this, Falkirk supporters turned up in their droves to support their club, the official match attendance being recorded at 50,956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Pre-match, Gowans asked to lead out Falkirk\nAs a mark of respect for a former Falkirk youth team player, Craig Gowans, who died in a tragic accident at the club's old training ground in July 2005, Bairns manager John Hughes asked Gowans' father, John, to lead out the team at Hampden Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Match, Team news\nRangers were missing midfielder Kevin Thomson, who was ruled out until the following season after knee ligament damage sustained in November 2008, and defender Kirk Broadfoot due to a foot injury. There were fitness concerns over Pedro Mendes and Maurice Edu who were both suffering from thigh injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Match, Team news\nFalkirk were without on-loan midfielder Arnau Riera due to a suspension he picked up in the semi-final against Dunfermline Athletic, he since returned to parent club Sunderland only to be released on 28 May 2009. Ex-Rangers players Steven Pressley and Neil McCann returned from suspension and injury respectively. Both players were missing from the final Scottish Premier League match of the season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204890-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish Cup Final, Media coverage\nIn the UK the 2009 Scottish Cup Final was shown live on BBC One Scotland, Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports HD2. In Australia it was shown live on Setanta Sports. A highlights package of the Scottish Cup final was shown on BBC One Scotland at 2200 BST on the day of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 2009 Scottish League Cup Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Scottish League Cup, the 62nd season of the Scottish League Cup. The match was played at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 15 March 2009, and was won by Celtic, who beat Old Firm rivals and Cup holders, Rangers, 2-0 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final\nBoth teams had to play just three matches to reach the final because teams competing in Europe received a bye into the Third Round. In the semi-finals, Celtic beat Dundee United 11\u201310 on penalties after the match ended 0\u20130 following extra time. Rangers beat Falkirk 3\u20130 in their Semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Celtic\nCeltic faced First Division Livingston at Celtic Park in their first match, a comfortable 4\u20130 victory was secured with goals from Glenn Loovens, Georgios Samaras and Scott Brown. Loovens headed into the net from a cross by Paul Caddis, Samaras added the second with a header from Loovens cross shortly after the hour. Brown added the third with a lob before Samaras got his second from the penalty spot, after Dave MacKay fouled Shaun Maloney in the penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Celtic\nCeltic then travelled to Rugby Park to play Kilmarnock, Scott McDonald scored the opener after 10 minutes with a header, the matches first effort on goal from either side, Shunsuke Nakamura scored the second with a free-kick. Aiden McGeady ended the scoring from a Scott Brown pass, just 3 minutes after Danny Invincibile had given Kilmarnock a chance. The previous season's losing finalists Dundee United were Celtic's opponents in the Semi-final at Hampden, The match ended goalless after extra time and so was decided by a penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Celtic\nAn astonishing climax ensued with all 10 penalties being scored before going to sudden death. Lee Wilkie; who had missed the penalty in the previous season's final which allowed Rangers to win the cup, missed United's ninth penalty, Glenn Loovens therefore had a chance to win the match but could not score either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0002-0003", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Celtic\nAnother two penalties scored and it was goalkeeper time, \u0141ukasz Za\u0142uska who would join Celtic the following season scored his and Artur Boruc did likewise, It was back to the first taker Willo Flood, who would join Celtic shortly after this match, could not convert and this time Celtic did take their chance to go through with Scott McDonald scoring the winning penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nAs both Rangers and Celtic had been competing in Europe, they entered the competition in the third round. Rangers began their campaign against fellow Glasgow team Partick Thistle from the First Division, the third meeting between the two teams in two seasons. Partick had taken Rangers to a replay following a 1\u20131 draw at Ibrox in the 2007\u201308 Scottish Cup quarter-finals, a competition which Rangers went on to win. Kris Boyd opened the scoring with a stunning volley, but the lead lasted only eight minutes, with Stephen McKeown equalising for Thistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Route to the Final, Rangers\nPedro Mendes scored the winner deep into extra time following a goalless second half. Hamilton Academical were beaten 2\u20130 at Ibrox in the quarter-final. Jean-Claude Darcheville found Kris Boyd, who fired past goalkeeper Tom\u00e1\u0161 \u010cern\u00fd after 25 minutes. Kyle Lafferty added the second from a Steven Davis cross. Falkirk were the next opponents. Two goals from Nacho Novo and one from Kris Boyd ensured a 3\u20130 victory at Hampden Park. After eight minutes, Madjid Bougherra flicked on Pedro Mendes' corner, allowing Novo to finish from close range at the back post. Goalkeeper Dani Mallo was beaten again five minutes from half-time when Steven Davis passed to Novo, who shot low into the corner of the net. Boyd added the third on eight minutes after a mistake by Mallo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Match, Team news\nCeltic defender Mark Wilson returned to the squad and was named on the bench but Barry Robson missed out through injury. Strachan started Gary Caldwell in midfield alongside Paul Hartley to replace Robson. Also missing through injury for Celtic were Lee Naylor, Shaun Maloney, Paddy McCourt, Koki Mizuno and Willo Flood who was ineligible, having played for Dundee United in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Match, Team news\nA big miss for Rangers was influential defender Madjid Bougherra with a calf injury so manager Walter Smith chose to partner Kirk Broadfoot at the back alongside David Weir. The only other absentee was Kevin Thomson who was ruled out for the rest of the season with knee ligament damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Match, Team news\nCeltic's Glenn Loovens and Rangers' Pedro Mendes were lining up against each other, having also done so in the previous season's English FA Cup Final. On that occasion, Loovens was playing for Cardiff City and Mendes for winners Portsmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Match, Match summary\nAfter a goalless 90 minutes, the tie went to extra time. Darren O'Dea scored with a header to give Celtic a 1\u20130 lead, within two minutes of extra time commencing. In the last minute of extra time, Kirk Broadfoot was sent off for a professional foul on Aiden McGeady to give Celtic a penalty kick, which McGeady scored to confirm the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Media coverage\nIn the UK the 2009 Scottish League Cup Final was broadcast live on BBC One Scotland on their Sportscene programme, at 14:30 GMT. A highlights package was also broadcast late on 15 March 2009 on BBC One Scotland also on Sportscene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204891-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Scottish League Cup Final, Media coverage\nCoverage of the match on radio was from BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio nan G\u00e0idheal and BBC Radio 5 Live.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards\nThe Scream Awards is an award show dedicated to the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres of feature films, hosted and sponsored by Spike TV. The show was created by executive producers Michael Levitt, Cindy Levitt, and Casey Patterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards\nBilled simply as Scream 2009, the 2009 ceremony was held at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on October 17 and was broadcast on October 27, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards\nInstead of hosts and musical acts, the show concentrated on the films, showing outtakes from Star Trek, a behind the scenes video from the upcoming New Moon, a new trailer for Shutter Island, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards\nNotable appearances included William Shatner accepting the Ultimate Scream award for J. J. Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards\nThis was the first year that the show did not have any musical performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204892-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Scream Awards, Competitive Categories\nNominees and winners for each announced category are listed below. Winners are listed in boldface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season\nThe 2009 Seattle Mariners season was the 33rd season in franchise history. They improved upon a disappointing 2008 season, where they finished last in the American League West with a 61\u2013101 record. They finished 3rd in the AL West with an 85\u201377 record, a 24 win improvement. The 2009 Mariners became the 13th team in MLB history to have a winning record following a 100+ loss season. On September 13, 2009, Ichiro Suzuki got his 200th hit of the season. In the process, he set a new MLB record by getting at least 200 hits for nine consecutive seasons, passing the mark held by Wee Willie Keeler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Overview\nEven before Opening Day, the season was marked with a flurry of change, most notably with the hiring of new general manager Jack Zduriencik, field manager Don Wakamatsu, and an entirely new major-league coaching staff. Unlike the previous season, which was approached with an expectation to contend for the AL West division title, the 2009 season has been approached with a rebuilding philosophy and a departure from the team-building strategies used in previous seasons. In January the Mariners unveiled their 2009 slogan, \"A New Day, A New Way\", to reflect their rebuilding philosophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Overview\nIn terms of players, this season was marked by the free agency departure of outfielder Ra\u00fal Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, who signed with the Philadelphia Phillies, and the trade of closer J. J. Putz to the New York Mets. However, the offseason has been most notable for the acquisition of longtime Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr., nearly 10 years after trading him to the Cincinnati Reds. Other notable acquisitions have included outfielders Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez and Endy Ch\u00e1vez (both from the Putz trade), new closer David Aardsma (traded by Boston Red Sox) and long-time Kansas City Royals infielder Mike Sweeney (free agent).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Overview\nThis season also marks the 10th anniversary of Safeco Field, the Mariners' home stadium which opened its gates July 15, 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Front office changes\nWe believe Jack is the best person to provide a new approach and to lead our baseball operations. He has a proven track record of recognizing talent, both on the field and in the front office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Front office changes\n\u2014 Mariners president Chuck Armstrong on the hiring of Jack Zduriencik .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Front office changes\nOn June 16, 2008, then-general manager Bill Bavasi was dismissed after a disappointing 24\u201346 start, with vice president-assistant GM Lee Pelekoudas selected as his interim replacement. During the off-season, the Mariners began their search for a new general manager with several candidates to be interviewed including Pelekoudas himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Front office changes\nAfter an extensive search, the Mariners selected Milwaukee Brewers executive Jack Zduriencik, who was most notable for his drafting skills and credited with turning the Brewers into a playoff team, as their new general manager on October 22, 2008. Pelekoudas was retained as assistant GM, but resigned on September 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nIn addition to relieving GM Bill Bavasi of his duties, the Mariners also fired manager John McLaren on June 19, 2008. Bench coach Jim Riggleman was selected as the interim manager for the rest of the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Coaching changes\nOn November 19, 2008, the Mariners named Oakland Athletics bench coach Don Wakamatsu as their new manager. With the hiring, Wakamatsu becomes the first Asian-American manager in Major League Baseball. Wakamatsu then dismissed all of the coaching staff hired under the McLaren-Riggleman tenure, and hired Ty Van Burkleo as bench coach and Lee Tinsley as first base coach, while Rick Adair and John Wetteland were hired as the pitching and bullpen coaches respectively. Alan Cockrell was brought in as the new hitting coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key departures\nRa\u00fal Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, who led the team in RBIs in 2008, signed a 3-year, $31.5 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies after a five-year tenure with the Mariners. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, who was a Type A free agent, allowed the Mariners to receive the Phillies' first round pick in the 2009 MLB draft and also a compensatory pick as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key departures\nOn December 10, in a three-team trade, Zduriencik sent former All-Star closer J. J. Putz, outfielder Jeremy Reed and pitcher Sean Green to the New York Mets and prospect Luis Valbuena to the Cleveland Indians, in exchange for a combined seven players from both teams, most notably the Indians' Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez and the Mets' Endy Ch\u00e1vez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key departures\nOn July 10, the Mariners sent shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for two minor-league pitchers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key additions\nThe Mariners made numerous additions in free agency, adding over 17 players to the team. On December 3, the Mariners made their first move in the offseason by signing 1B Russell Branyan to a one-year deal. Branyan was one of the players that Zdurienck saw potential in during his time with the Brewers. Mike Sweeney, formerly a fan favorite and leader in the Royals organization, was signed as well to a minor-league deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key additions\nNext, the Mariners received 7 players in the three team trade (see above) that netted them outfielders Endy Ch\u00e1vez and Franklin Gutierrez, pitcher Aaron Heilman, and four other minor leaguers including prospect Mike Carp and pitcher Jason Vargas. Heilman, however, would be traded to the Chicago Cubs almost a month later, in exchange for utility player Ronny Cede\u00f1o and pitcher Garrett Olson. Seattle also traded for pitcher David Aardsma from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for a minor leaguer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Offseason, Roster changes, Key additions\nPerhaps the biggest move in the offseason, however, was the signing of former Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. to a 1-year deal. Griffey, who was known as the man who \"saved baseball in Seattle\", received a warm welcome and a fifteen-minute presentation that applauds his tenure as a Mariner when his former team, the Cincinnati Reds, visited Safeco Field in 2007. Surprised by the reaction, Griffey explored the possibility of a return in Seattle. The Mariners reportedly were trying to negotiate with Griffey until the Atlanta Braves also want to sign him as well. Griffey was inclined to sign with Atlanta due to the proximity from his home, but choose to instead return to Seattle. Most, if not all, Mariners fans were ecstatic about the news, and orders of Griffey jerseys were off the charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started (for pitchers who did not start every appearance); IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; SVO = Save opportunities; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Team totals\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; SVO = Save opportunities; CG = Complete games; SHO = Shutouts; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft\nBelow is a complete list of the Seattle Mariners draft picks from the two 2009 Major League Baseball drafts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft\nThe Seattle Mariners took part in both the Major League Baseball Rule 4 draft and the Rule 5 draft in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball draft was held June 9 to June 11 at the MLB Network Studios in New York City. The Seattle Mariners went second in the draft order and had two supplemental first-round draft picks for the loss of free agent Ra\u00fal Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez after the 2008 season. The Mariners selected a total of 52 players and signed 35 of those selected players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204893-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft\nThe Mariners selected one player in the Major League Baseball phase of the 2009 Rule 5 draft. They also had one player selected (Marshall Hubbard) in the 2009 Triple-A phase of the Rule 5 draft. The Mariners also selected one player in the Triple-A phase of the draft as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season\nThe 2009  Seattle Seahawks season was the franchise's 34th season in the National Football League, the 8th playing their home games at Qwest Field and the first and only season under head coach Jim Mora. The Seahawks slightly improved from their 4\u201312 record and a third-place finish in what was Mike Holmgren's final season coaching the team in 2008 and finished with a 5\u201311 record. However, Mora was fired January 8, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Staff changes\nWith Jim Mora we are getting a smart, passionate, committed coach to winning and building a successful franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Staff changes\n\u2014 General Manager Tim Ruskell on hiring Jim Mora as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Staff changes\nAt the beginning of the 2008 season, head coach Mike Holmgren had stated that 2008 was his final season before retiring. On December 30, 2008, two days after the season ended, Holmgren officially retired and stepped down as head coach. Jim Mora, the team's assistant head coach and defensive backs coach, was officially selected as his replacement on January 13, 2009. The retirement and Jim Mora's accession had been originally announced on January 22, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Staff changes\nMora then began to replace most of the staff that Holmgren had last year. Defensive coordinator John Marshall and defensive line coach Dwaine Board were both fired on January 12, 2009. Subsequently, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebackers coach Casey Bradley was hired as the new defensive coordinator. Also, former New York Jets assistant Dan Quinn replaced Board as the defensive line coach and as the new assistant head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Staff changes\nThe offensive side was also revamped as well. Offensive coordinator Gil Haskell was dismissed after 8 years with the Seahawks. Former Oakland Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Knapp, who had previously worked with Mora when he was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, was hired as his replacement on January 14, 2009. Mora also fired wide receivers coach Keith Gilbertson and was replaced with former Jacksonville Jaguars assistant receivers coach Robert Prince. Finally, tight ends coach Jim Lind and special teams assistant John Jamison both retired after the 2008 season. Mike DeBord, formerly the offensive line assistant coach, replaced Lind although no replacement has been named for Jamison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key departures\nRunning back Maurice Morris, who backed up starter Julius Jones last season, signed with the Detroit Lions. The Seahawks also lost defensive tackle Rocky Bernard to the New York Giants. Fan favorite Bobby Engram was released and signed with the Kansas City Chiefs after the Seahawks signed wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh. The Seahawks were also in talks with fullback Leonard Weaver about a new contract, but ultimately he signed with the Philadelphia Eagles instead. Also, the Seahawks traded away Pro Bowl linebacker Julian Peterson to the Lions. In all, the Seahawks lost a total of 14 players to free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key departures\nLinebacker Leroy Hill was placed under the franchise tag on February 19, 2009. However, discussions for a long-term deal between Hill and the Seahawks were slow, and they continued to stall up to the draft. In an effort to speed up negotiations, the Seahawks removed their franchise tag on Hill less than 24 hours within the first draft day, thereby releasing him to free agency and allowing him to sign with other teams. However, on April 30, 2009, Hill agreed to a six-year, 38 million-dollar deal with the Seahawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key departures\nMoments after signing Edgerrin James to a one-year deal, the Seahawks released running back T. J. Duckett to make room on their roster. Duckett had led the team in rushing touchdowns the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key departures\nSafety Brian Russell was also released on September 5, 2009. Russell had started at safety for the Seahawks since coming in at the start of the 2007 season. Strong safety Lawyer Milloy was signed after Russell's departure to fill his spot (along with Jordan Babineaux).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key additions\nThe Seahawks made big splashes during the offseason as well. On March 1, Seattle signed defensive tackle Colin Cole from the Green Bay Packers to a 5-year contract to address problems on their defensive line. They also received defensive tackle Cory Redding and a fifth round pick in exchange for the Peterson trade mentioned above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key additions\nPerhaps the biggest move in free agency, however, was the signing of former Pro Bowl wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh from the Cincinnati Bengals to a 5-year, $40 million deal with $15 million guaranteed two days after signing Cole. Houshmandzadeh was rated as one of the top free agents available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key additions\nAfter rescinding their franchise tag on Hill, the Seahawks signed former Carolina Panthers corner back Ken Lucas to a one-year deal in order to bolster their pass coverage. They also signed fullback Justin Griffith from the Oakland Raiders to address the departure of Weaver. It was known that releasing of Hill created some flexibility on the salary cap of where these two deals go into play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, Key additions\nOn August 25, 2009, the Seahawks signed running back Edgerrin James to a 1-year, $2 million deal. James last played with division rival Arizona Cardinals for the previous three seasons and played a vital role in their playoff run last year. The Seahawks also signed veteran safety Lawyer Milloy to a one-year deal, who is expected to make a big impact to the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nSeattle traded their 5th round draft pick to the Denver Broncos for wide receiver Keary Colbert, but received another 5th round draft pick from Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Offseason, 2009 NFL Draft\nOn draft day, the Seahawks traded away their 2nd round pick (37th overall) to the Denver Broncos for their 2010 1st round pick. They also traded for Chicago's 2nd round pick (49th overall) in return for both their 3rd and 4th round picks in the draft (68th and 105th respectively). Finally, the Seahawks traded for Philadelphia's 3rd round pick (91st overall) for their 2010 3rd round pick and their 5th and 7th round picks in the draft (137th and 213rd respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Regular season\nDivisional matchups have the NFC West playing the NFC North and the AFC South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 1: vs. St. Louis Rams\nHead Coach Jim Mora era began his coaching debut for the Seahawks with a game at home against division rival St. Louis Rams. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and the offense struggled early, turning over the ball three times (two interceptions and one fumble) on the first quarter alone. After Rams kicker Olindo Mare missed a 37-yard field goal for the lead, Hasselbeck led the Seahawks to their first score of the game after he connected with tight end John Carlson for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 1: vs. St. Louis Rams\nWith the second quarter coming to a close, St. Louis returned a blocked field goal for a touchdown, only to have it overruled by a penalty. This gave another chance for the Seahawks to score, as Hasselbeck threw his second touchdown of the game to Nate Burleson to put the Seahawks up 14\u20130 by halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 1: vs. St. Louis Rams\nWhen the third quarter started, the Seahawks looked to increase its lead to win the game. Hasselbeck led the Seahawks to a 99-yard drive, capping it off 33-yard touchdown pass to Carlson. Julius Jones sealed the win with a 62-yard touchdown (and rushing 119 in total) run to put Seattle up by 28. The Seahawks defense shut out the Rams, as they totaled only 247 total yards on offense and forcing two fumbles and three sacks. Seattle moved to 1\u20130 to start off the season, and beat the Rams for the ninth straight time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 88], "content_span": [89, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 2: at San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their shutout home win over the Rams, the Seahawks flew to Candlestick Park for a Week 2 NFC West showdown with the San Francisco 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 2: at San Francisco 49ers\nSeattle trailed early in the first quarter as 49ers kicker Joe Nedney got a 37-yard field goal, along with running back Frank Gore getting a 79-yard touchdown run. The Seahawks responded in the second quarter as kicker Olindo Mare made a 36-yard field goal. San Francisco replied with Nedney making a 42-yard field goal. As the Seahawks looked to bounced back from the deficit, quarterback Matt Hasselbeck received an injury as he was hit on the ground by 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis. Hasselbeck left the game with cracked ribs, but Seattle closed out the half with backup Seneca Wallace completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to running back Julius Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 2: at San Francisco 49ers\nIn the third quarter, the Seahawks deficit quickly increased as on the 49ers' first offensive play of the second half, Gore exploded for an 80-yard touchdown run. San Francisco closed the game in the fourth quarter as Nedney nailed a 39-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 92], "content_span": [93, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 3: vs. Chicago Bears\nHoping to rebound from their divisional road loss to the 49ers, the Seahawks went home, donned their alternate uniforms, and prepared for a Week 3 duel with the Chicago Bears. Due to quarterback Matt Hasselbeck's rib injury, Seneca Wallace got the start for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 3: vs. Chicago Bears\nSeattle took an early lead in the first quarter with Wallace's 39-yard touchdown pass to running back Julius Jones and kicker Olindo Mare's 46-yard field goal. The Seahawks tacked on Mare's 37-yard field goal in the second quarter, but the Bears answered with quarterback Jay Cutler's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 3: vs. Chicago Bears\nChicago took in the lead in the third quarter with Cutler's 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Johnny Knox, followed by kicker Robbie Gould's 37-yard field goal. The Seahawks regained the lead in the fourth quarter with Mare's 39-yard and 46-yard field goal. However, the Bears got the last laugh as Cutler hooked up with wide receiver Devin Hester on a 36-yard touchdown pass (with a successful 2-point conversion pass to wide receiver Earl Bennett). Seattle tried to rally, but Chicago's defense held on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 4: at Indianapolis Colts\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Seahawks flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for a Week 4 inter-conference duel with the Indianapolis Colts. Seattle trailed as Colts running back Donald Brown got a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, followed by quarterback Peyton Manning's 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne. The Seahawks got on the board with a 38-yard field goal from kicker Olindo Mare, but Indianapolis closed out the half with Manning's 21-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Austin Collie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 4: at Indianapolis Colts\nFollowing running back Joseph Addai's 12-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, the Colts sealed the win with kicker Adam Vinatieri's 37-yard and 19-yard field goals. Seattle ended the scoring with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck getting a 1-yard touchdown run and completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to fullback Owen Schmitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 5: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter missing two weeks with cracked ribs, quarterback Matt Hasselbeck played for the first time since week two at San Francisco. Trying to snap a three-game losing streak, Hasselbeck started the offense off quickly, with Olindo Mare completing two field goals to put Seattle up by 6. The Seahawks defense also held its own, including a 4th-and-2 stop when the Jaguars threaten to score in the red zone. Later in the 2nd quarter, Hasselbeck found wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh for his first touchdown of the year, putting Seattle up 13\u20130. On their next offensive drive, Hasselbeck connected with Nate Burleson for another touchdown, extending their lead to 20\u20130, which they took into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 5: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nStarting the third quarter on offense, David Garrard and the Jaguars tried to put some points on the board. However, all of their hopes were dashed when defensive end Cory Redding recovered a key fumble for 26 yards. Taking advantage of this, Hasselbeck again found Houshmandzadeh for his second touchdown to seal the game at 27\u20130. The Seahawks later scored again as Hasselbeck threw his fourth touchdown again to Burleson, while defensive end Nick Reed scored from 79 yards out from a fumble recovery, putting the Seahawks up 41\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 5: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win, the Seahawks improved to 2\u20133 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 94], "content_span": [95, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nFresh off their dominating win over the Jaguars, the Seahawks stayed at home for a Week 6 NFC West duel with the Arizona Cardinals. Seattle trailed in the first quarter as Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, followed by running back Tim Hightower's 2-yard touchdown run. Arizona increased its lead in the second quarter with a 29-yard field goal from kicker Neil Rackers. The Seahawks then got on the board as kicker Olindo Mare nailed a 28-yard field goal. However, the Cardinals took control in the second half as Warner found wide receiver Steve Breaston on a 16-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, followed by Rackers' 31-yard field goal in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 6: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nWith the loss, Seattle went into their bye week at 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 8: at Dallas Cowboys\nHoping to rebound from their divisional home loss to the Cardinals, the Seahawks flew to Cowboys Stadium for a Week 8 showdown with the Dallas Cowboys. In the first quarter, Seattle struck first as kicker Olindo Mare got a 43-yard field goal. However, the Cowboys answered with quarterback Tony Romo's 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sam Hurd. Dallas increased their lead in the second quarter with a 2-yard touchdown run from running back Marion Barber. The Seahawks replied with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck completing a 23-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Deion Branch, but Dallas came right back with Romo finding wide receiver Roy Williams on a 7-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 8: at Dallas Cowboys\nThe Cowboys took a huge lead with Romo's 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Miles Austin, followed by wide receiver Patrick Crayton returning a punt 82 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Dallas closed out its scoring with a 40-yard field goal from kicker Nick Folk. Seattle tried to rally, but could only muster up Hasselbeck's 4-yard touchdown pass to fullback Justin Griffith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 9: vs. Detroit Lions\nTrying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Seahawks went home for a Week 9 duel with the Detroit Lions. Seattle trailed in the first quarter as Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Brandon Pettigrew and a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bryant Johnson, followed by kicker Jason Hanson getting a 41-yard field goal. Seattle answered in the second quarter as running back Julius Jones got a 3-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Olindo Mare nailing a pair of 37-yard field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 9: vs. Detroit Lions\nIn the third quarter, the Seahawks took the lead as Mare got a 24-yard field goal, while quarterback Matt Hasselbeck hooked up with wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh on a 2-yard touchdown pass (with a failed two-point conversion). Seattle increased their lead in the fourth quarter as Mare booted a 20-yard field goal. Detroit tried to rally as Hanson made a 50-yard field goal, but the Seahawks ended the scoring with cornerback Josh Wilson returning an interception 61 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 87], "content_span": [88, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals\nComing off their home win over the Lions, the Seahawks flew to the University of Phoenix Stadium for a Week 10 NFC West rematch with the Arizona Cardinals. Seattle took flight in the first quarter as running back Justin Forsett got an 11-yard touchdown run. The Seahawks added to their lead in the second quarter with quarterback Matt Hasselbeck completing a 31-yard touchdown pass to tight end John Carlson. The Cardinals answered with quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 28-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Breaston, yet Seattle came right back with a 32-yard field goal from kicker Olindo Mare. Arizona closed out the half with kicker Neil Rackers nailing a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals\nIn the third quarter, the Cardinals tied the game with running back Chris \"Beanie\" Wells getting a 10-yard touchdown run. The Seahawks responded in the fourth quarter as Mare booted a 20-yard field goal, but Arizona got the last laugh as Wells picked up a 13-yard touchdown run and Warner hooked up with wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on an 18-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 11: at Minnesota Vikings\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Cardinals, the Seahawks flew to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for an Inter conference duel with the Minnesota Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 11: at Minnesota Vikings\nSeattle trailed early in the second quarter when QB Brett Favre completed three touchdown passes: One to WR Percy Harvin for 23 yards, TE Visanthe Shiancoe for 8 yards and then to WR Bernard Berrian for 3 yards. Then in the third quarter the margin increased as Favre hooked up with WR Sidney Rice on a 7-yard touchdown pass. Then Seattle's kicker Olindo Mare got a 40-yard field goal to avoid a shutout loss. In the fourth quarter the margin increased even further as QB Tarvaris Jackson made a 34-yard touchdown pass to WR Sidney Rice, then Seattle has their first touchdown of this game when RB Justin Forsett made a 1-yard run (With a failed 2-point conversion attempt).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204894-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Seahawks season, Game Summaries, Regular season, Week 17: vs. Tennessee Titans\nChris Johnson became the sixth player in NFL history to break 2,000 rushing yards and also broke the record (held by Marshall Faulk) of total yards from scrimmage at 2,509. Johnson rushed 36 times for 134 yards and two touchdowns; a 64-yard rushing score was called back on a holding penalty. Matt Hasselbeck was 15\u201330 for 175 yards, one touchdown, and one pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 91], "content_span": [92, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season\nThe 2009 season was Seattle Sounders FC's debut in Major League Soccer. The inaugural game was on March 19, 2009 at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington against the New York Red Bulls. Sounders FC beat the Red Bulls 3\u20130 in front of a sell-out crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season\nOn August 5, 2009, Sounders FC set a stadium and Washington record for most people watching a soccer game against FC Barcelona with an attendance of 66,848.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background\nIn a press conference on November 13, 2007, MLS announced the award of an MLS expansion team franchise to Seattle. In 2008, Sounders FC developed the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila and the USL team played most of the 2008 season at the updated facility. At the time, the USL team's management thought that practicing and playing at Starfire could provide more continuity and a smoother transition for those hoping to play for the new MLS franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background\nIn early December 2008, Seattle Sounders FC reportedly offered a coaching contract to Sigi Schmid, who led the Los Angeles Galaxy to a MLS Cup in 2002 and the Columbus Crew to a MLS Cup in 2008. However, before Schmid could respond to the contract offer, the ownership of the Columbus Crew filed a tampering complaint with the MLS that put the offer on hold. The Crew's ownership complained that Schmid had communicated with Sounders FC during the 2008 season, despite being denied permission to do so, and that he shared confidential information with Sounders FC after leaving the Crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background\nThe MLS ruled that no tampering occurred, but ordered Sounders FC to financially compensate the Crew before signing Schmid. Sounders FC officially introduced Schmid as their first coach on December 16. Former USL Sounders player and head coach Brian Schmetzer was retained as the top assistant coach, and Tom Dutra was selected as goalkeeper coach. Retired Major League Soccer veteran defender Ezra Hendrickson joined the Sounders as an assistant coach in January, 2009. Former MLS player and Everett, Washington, native Chris Henderson was named technical director on January 24, 2008. Joining Henderson in the front office is longtime Seattle Seahawks VP Gary Wright as the senior vice president of business operations. Drew Carey was named the chairman of the Membership Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Signings and drafts\nSeattle Sounders FC was given first negotiation rights to any player that was not drafted in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft and joined the USL Sounders for the 2008 season. The team was also allowed to promote as many players from the 2008 USL Sounders squad as they'd chose, as long as the player's rights were not controlled by another team. Seattle Sounders FC officially announced the 2007 USL First Division MVP and former USL Sounder S\u00e9bastien Le Toux as its first signing on May 7, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Signings and drafts\nOn August 14, 2008, the Sounders announced in a press conference their second signing for the 2009 season, former United States men's national team goalkeeper Kasey Keller, a Washington native. On September 5, 2008, Seattle Sounders FC announced the third signee for the franchise to be Sanna Nyassi from Gambia. Nyassi, a 19-year-old midfielder, was a member of the Gambia U-20 national team at the 2007 FIFA Championship. Sanna's twin brother, Sainey Nyassi, was signed by the Revolution and is a regular starter in MLS this season. On October 28, 2008, it was officially announced that the Sounders had signed Swedish midfielder Freddie Ljungberg using the Designated Player Rule. He signed a two-year contract reported to be worth $2.5\u00a0million per season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 824]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Signings and drafts\nTeam building continued with the 2008 MLS Expansion Draft and the 2009 MLS SuperDraft. In the expansion draft, held on November 26, 2008, Seattle Sounders FC selected the following players from other MLS teams:  Nate Jaqua (Houston), Brad Evans (Columbus), Stephen King (Chicago), Jeff Parke (RBNY), James Riley (San Jose), Khano Smith (New England), Jarrod Smith (Toronto FC), Nathan Sturgis (Real Salt Lake), Peter Vagenas (LA Galaxy) and Tyson Wahl (Kansas City). As the 2009 expansion team Sounders FC was given the first pick in each round of the SuperDraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Signings and drafts\nWith the number one pick of the first round of the draft, Seattle Sounders FC selected University of Akron forward Steve Zakuani. As the first picks of the second round (16th overall), third round (31st overall), and fourth round (46th overall), Seattle selected Wake Forest University defender Evan Brown, Azusa Pacific University defender Jared Karkas, and Harvard University midfielder/forward Michael Fucito respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Background, Signings and drafts\nThe team lineup was adjusted throughout. Defender Jeff Parke was selected in the expansion draft, and reported for training camp after tryouts with teams in Belgium. After training with the club for less than a week, Parke was unable to reach a contract agreement and left to train with the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USL. FC traded a conditional draft pick to Houston in order to acquire defender Patrick Ianni, who had worked with Seattle's coach Schmid on the under-20 US national team. Seattle also traded allocation money to Toronto FC in exchange for Tyrone Marshall in order to increase their depth on defense. The Sounders also traded away midfielder Khano Smith, another expansion draft selection, to Red Bull New York for allocation money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, Preseason\nSeattle's preseason was broken up into four stages. The team started in southern California, then moved back to the Northwest, then to Argentina, and then finished back in Seattle. On February 9, 2009 in their first ever exhibition game, Sounders FC beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 3\u20131 on a practice field beside The Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Fredy Montero, Roger Levesque and Sanna Nyassi all scored goals in the win. The next day, Sounders FC had their second training match in Ventura, California against Chinese club Shandong Luneng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, Preseason\nThey won 2\u20130 with both goals provided by midfielder Sanna Nyassi. The following day, February 11, Sounders FC defeated the Ventura County Fusion of the USL Premier Development League 6\u20131 in their third preseason match in three days. Steve Zakuani and Nate Jaqua both scored two goals while Fredy Montero and Roger Levesque added one each. On February 14, Sounders FC experienced their first loss of the preseason falling 3\u20132 to the San Jose Earthquakes while playing on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Fredy Montero scored both of the Sounders FC goals in the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, Preseason\nFollowing their activities in southern California, Sounders FC's returned to the Pacific Northwest to continue their training. On the evening of February 20, 2009, Sounders FC defeated the University of Portland Pilots 4\u20131. Nate Jaqua and Kasey Keller received a pregame ovation because they both had played collegiate soccer with the Pilots. Jaqua, along with trialist Jeff Clark, Fredy Montero, and Brad Evans scored goals for Seattle. Two days later, the club played their first preseason match at Qwest Field as they defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 4\u20130. Forwards Nate Jaqua and Fredy Montero scored two goals apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, Preseason\nNext the club traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina where they continued training and played 4 more preseason matches. Seattle played the first of these matches against Estudiantes de La Plata on February 27, who they lost to 1\u20133. On February 28, Sounders FC had their first tie of the preseason, 1\u20131 against CED, a team made up of local free agent players. The club defeated Argentine second division opponents Trist\u00e1n Su\u00e1rez 5\u20130. Michael Fucito, Fredy Montero, Brad Evans and Zach Scott and Sebastian Le Toux all scored in the victory. One day later, due to heavy rain, an exhibition match against Gimnasia La Plata was canceled. In the club's final preseason match in Argentina, they faced reserve players of River Plate on March 5. They were held scoreless by River Plate with a final score of 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 851]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, Preseason\nAfter completing training exercises in Argentina, the club returned to Seattle for the remainder of the preseason. On March 9, Designated Player Freddie Ljungberg joined practice for the first time. Ljungberg had missed most of the preseason due to hip surgery he had undergone in December. On March 12, Sounders FC played their final preseason match against the Colorado Rapids of the MLS at Qwest Field. Seattle lost 1\u20130 on a penalty kick by Colorado's Conor Casey. Seattle finished preseason exhibition play with a record of 7 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, March\nPrior to the first game of the season, all 22,000 season ticket packages offered by the team were sold, giving the team the most season ticket holders in Major League Soccer. On March 19, Seattle Sounders FC began their first regular season with a 3\u20130 win over the New York Red Bulls. Fredy Montero scored the first regular season goal in team history, finishing a movement from Sebastien Le Toux and Osvaldo Alonso in the 12th minute. Montero assisted Brad Evans' goal, and also scored the team's third goal. Kasey Keller, a veteran American goalkeeper who had played his entire career abroad, made his MLS debut at 39 years of age, and made two saves to register the team's first regular season shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, March\nOn March 24 Seattle signed Kevin Forrest as a Senior Developmental player after he was released by Colorado. On March 28 Sounders FC continued the success of their fast start with a second consecutive home shutout, defeating Real Salt Lake 2\u20130. Designated player Freddie Ljungberg made his first regular season appearance as a substitute in the 61st minute of play. Nate Jaqua scored in the 17th minute, and Fredy Montero scored his league leading third goal of the season in the 77th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, March\nMarch saw Montero winning Player of the Week honors for week 1 and Keller for week 2. Montero won Goal of the Week for the first two games and was named the Player of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, April\nAfter their first two victories at home, Sounders FC played their first away game in history against Toronto FC. The Sounders expected a challenging away environment but were victorious were able to win in another 2\u20130 shutout. Montero missed the match due to illness. Soon after, reports out of Seattle linked Montero to a sexual assault case with an unidentified woman. In a statement made by Sounders publicist, Montero asserted that the allegations stemmed from a disagreement in which he sought to end the relationship. and a police inquiry resulted in no charges being filed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, April\nAfter winning their first three games, Seattle Sounders FC suffered their first competitive loss at home against the Kansas City Wizards. Kasey Keller was sent off in the 29th minute for a handball outside the 18-yard box, as the Sounders fell 1\u20130 to the Wizards. The following week they lost at Chivas USA. Chris Eylander was scored on twice while covering the goal during Keller's suspension. The Sounders again failed to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, April\nThe Sounders returned to their winning ways in a 2\u20130 home win versus the San Jose Earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, April\nApril 28 was the beginning of the team's Open Cup campaign. Schmid asserted that the competition was important and won the first of two qualifying rounds 4\u20131 against Real Salt Lake. The Sounders have played home games at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila. The facility is older and smaller than Qwest Field but the Sounders say the atmosphere is better for smaller cup matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, May\nThe following 5 weeks the Sounders managed to gain 5 points in the standings as they tied each game. First, a 1\u20131 tie at the Chicago Fire in which striker Fredy Montero was sent off in the 48th minute for an elbow to the face of Gonzalo Segares while both players went up for a ball in the air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, May\nThen another 1\u20131 tie the next week at home against the Los Angeles Galaxy in which yet another red card was issued, to James Riley this time, in the 57th minute for a \"phantom blow\" to Mike Magee as the two got into a scrum. Two more away ties followed, first against FC Dallas 1\u20131 and then another at Colorado, 2\u20132. Ljungberg missed three games during this period due to migraine headaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, May\nMay 31, 2009 Sounders FC then returned home for their 5th consecutive tie in league play, this time 1\u20131 against the Columbus Crew in which Tyrone Marshal was ejected in the 92nd minute when he threw what the referee believed was a punch at Steven Lenhart in retaliation for an elbow. The Sounders accumulated another three yellow cards throughout the match. Jaqua's goal received Goal of the Week honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, May\nOn May 26, the Sounders qualified for the U.S. Open Cup by defeating the Colorado Rapids 1\u20130 at Starfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, June\nSeattle started June with a 1\u20130 loss at Chivas. Their penalty woes continued as Jhon Kennedy Hurtado accumulated his fifth yellow card and Nate Jaqua received two yellow cards resulting in them both being suspended for the next game. After the first 12 games of the season, Sounders FC were in 5th place overall and were tied for the league lead with 5 red card ejections and 6 disciplinary suspensions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, June\nOn June 13, in a rematch with San Jose, Sounders FC began a stretch where 4 of their next 5 games would be played in front of their home crowd at Qwest Field. The match was the first to be counted for the supporter sponsored  Heritage Cup. Ljungberg and Montero both scored as the Sounders prevailed with a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, June\nOn June 10 Lamar Neagle was signed as a Senior Developmental player on the official roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, June\nOn June 17, the Sounders blew a 3\u20131 lead to tie against D.C. United by a score of 3\u20133. The match was the sixth draw in eight regular season matches. They drew again with a goal a piece at New York the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, June\nIn week 23, the Sounders defeated the Rapids who had been undefeated in the previous eight games. Jaqua set up the first goal by Montero. Jaqua then scored twice off of assists from Montero to end the game 3\u20130. Jaqua's performance earned Goal of the Week and Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nOn July 1, Sounders FC traveled to Portland and eliminated the Timbers of the USL in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. The game was played in front of an emotionally charged sold-out crowd. Roger Levesque \u2014 a player Portland fans have had a particular dislike for \u2013 scored Seattle's first goal within the opening minute. The following week, in a quarterfinal match, Sounders FC defeated visiting Kansas City on a penalty kick in the 89th minute by Sebastien Le Toux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nIt was announced in early July that the Sounders had signed left-footed Costa Rican defender Leonardo Gonz\u00e1lez to help at the left back position. The position had been a weak spot in Seattle's defense and filled by three separate players throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nOn July 11, the Sounders hosted the Houston Dynamo at Qwest Field. Brian Schmetzer filled in for Schmid who was at his son's wedding. Ianni scored his first goal of the season on bicycle kick that would earn him the MLS goal of the Week. On the following Tuesday, the Sounders defeated the Dynamo at Strfire in the U.S. Open Cup semifinals. Houston led when Jaqua scored in the 89th minute. King scored a goal five minutes into extra time, thus sending the Sounders FC to the Open Cup finals against D.C. United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nOn July 18, 2009 the Seattle Sounders lost 0\u20132 in a friendly with Chelsea. All sections of the stadium were open and sold out with a crowd of 65,289 in attendance. The game was the first with the team for Chelsea's new manager, Carlo Ancelotti, and their new forward Daniel Sturridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nSeattle finished July at home with a scoreless draw against Chicago. The Fire went a man down in the 54th minute but Ljungberg was ejected minutes later after protesting a yellow card for what the referee saw as diving in the penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, July\nKeller and Ljungberg were named to the 2009 MLS All-Star Game by votes from fans. Ljungberg lead the MLS in total votes. Hurtado and Montero were later selected for the game held on July 29. Ljungberg missed the final shot in the loss which was decided by penalty kicks. He was later hospitalized due to another migraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, August\nOn August 2, the Sounders were shut out 4\u20130 by last-place San Jose. Riley received a red card in the 39th minute while the Earthquakes scored three times in the second half. Although Seattle had won the previous two matches, San Jose won the Heritage Cup by goal differential since the first game was not included in the supporter created competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, August\nIn the second international friendly of the season the Sounders lost against FC Barcelona 0\u20134 on August 5. The attendance set the state's record for a soccer match at 66,848. Thierry Henry compared the crowd to those in Europe and called the fans \"amazing\". Schmid expressed his hope that the fans were not disappointed by the loss and said \"I hope they realize they got to watch a great team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, August\nOn August 8, Sounders FC received their third straight shutout in regular season play in a 1\u20130 loss at Salt Lake. Schmidt called it \"a silly loss\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, August\nAt Los Angeles on August 15, Seattle won for the first time on the road since April 4. Along with the Marshall, the match saw the Galaxy's Beckham and Lewis ejected in a two-goal shutout. Zakuani won Goal of the Week for his goal made after a run into the box and cross from Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, August\nSeattle lost at New England 1\u20130. Ljungberg did not travel with the team due to what would be diagnosed as  hypoglycemia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, September\nWhen D.C. United won the US Soccer bidding process to host the tournament's final match, Sounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer expressed skepticism that D.C.'s bid to host the final had been better than the Seattle bid. He further noted that if Seattle had hosted the match, it likely would have sold out. This prompted a pointed reply from D.C. United president Kevin Payne in which he argued that D.C. United had won the bidding process fairly and that he was offended by Hanauer's comments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Review, September\nOn the heels of this public disagreement, D.C. United launched a marketing campaign to sell more tickets to the match which included a web site heralding the club's history of titles as an original MLS franchise, WeWinTrophies.com; an open letter placed in local newspapers declaring that D.C. fans set the standard for support in the league and that Sounders FC and its fans did not think D.C. deserved to host; videos on the team's official blog from local celebrities urging fans to attend and ticket and concession specials for the game. On September 2, 2009 the U.S. Open Cup final was played in Washington D.C.'s RFK Stadium. Sounders FC prevailed 2\u20131 becoming the second MLS expansion team in league history (Chicago being the first) to win the Cup in their inaugural MLS season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 837]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Competitions, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Competitions, Summary\nLast updated: October 24, 2009Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Squad\nStatistics are from all MLS matches. Ages are as of March 19, 2009 (the date of their season opener).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Squad, Transfers\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Squad, Transfers\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204895-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Sounders FC season, Recognition\nBefore each home game, Sounders FC honors a member of the community or special guest with a Golden Scarf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204896-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Storm season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the tenth season for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204896-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Storm season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Storm's 2008 record, they would pick 12th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Storm waived their pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204896-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle Storm season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Storm's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election\nThe 2009 Seattle mayoral election took place November 3, 2009. Incumbent Seattle mayor Greg Nickels sought reelection but finished third in the August 18, 2009 primary election. The general election was instead between Joe Mallahan and Michael McGinn. McGinn beat Mallahan in the election with 51% of the vote share, becoming Seattle's next mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Background\nIn a November 2008 poll of likely Seattle voters, 31% of voters approved of Nickels's performance as mayor while 57% disapproved. A January 2009 poll found a net job approval of minus 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Background\nNickels' administration was faulted for not doing enough to prevent the Seattle SuperSonics NBA franchise from relocating to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Nickels was also heavily criticized for the city's policy of not using salt for snow removal due to potential environmental concerns, which contributed to the city's congested traffic in December 2008 after one of the greatest snowfalls in the city since 1996. The Proposed replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and a tax on plastic bags at grocery stores were also major issues of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan\nJoe Mallahan is a telecommunications executive, former Chicago community organizer and unsuccessful candidate in the 2009 Seattle mayoral election. In preliminary results in the August 18 primary, he and Michael McGinn received the greatest number of votes and, as a result of Washington State's nonpartisan blanket primary system, became the two candidates in the November 3, 2009 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan, Biography\nJoe Mallahan was born and raised in Everett and is the seventh of nine children. He completed his undergraduate studies in American politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he worked during college as a legislative aide to Washington State Democratic Congressman Al Swift. He also holds a master's degree in East Asian Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and an MBA from the University of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan, Biography\nDuring his studies for his master's degree from the University of Washington Mallahan spent a year in a fellowship at the Japanese Ministry of Education conducting research on economic development aid. Joe is married to Carolyn Mallahan, who he has two daughters with, Irina and Masha. Both Joe and Carolyn Mallahan are volunteers and major fundraisers for the AmeriCorps organization City Year. The family lives in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan, Professional career\nMallahan began his career working at an auditing firm in Chicago and then for Century Supply Company, where company executives were sufficiently impressed with his suggestions for improving efficiency  to appoint him President of the company in 1995 at age 31. He later worked for cell-phone service provider VoiceStream, which was purchased by T-Mobile and brought Mallahan and his family back to Seattle in 2000. He was Vice President of Operations Strategy at T-Mobile. Joe left T-Mobile in 2011 to pursue other opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan, Political Activism\nMallahan began his political activism in Chicago while working as the President of Century Supply Company. There Mallahan helped establish United Power for Action and Justice and received training and work as a community organizer from the Industrial Areas Foundation. After returning to Seattle in 2000 Mallahan worked on fellow Industrial Areas Foundation alumnus Barack Obama's presidential campaign but it was not until the 2009 Seattle mayoral race that he ran for political office. In addition to his work earlier work with Representative Al Swift Mallhan later worked as a legislative aide to Washington Republican Senator Slade Gorton. Since his return to Seattle and registering to vote in April 2000 elections records in King County show that Mallahan had voted in 12 of the 25 elections he was eligible to participate in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 896]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Joe Mallahan, 2009 Seattle Mayoral Campaign\nOn April 29, 2009 Mallahan declared his candidacy in an open letter to Seattle Mayor Greg Nickles declaring city government broken, no longer providing basic services and that Nickels was out of touch. In an effort to match Nickles' already existing $280,000 campaign reserves Mallahan committed $200,000 of his own money to his campaign. In between declaring his candidacy and the primary elections Mallahan raised nearly $200,000 in additional contributions from independent sources. After successfully passing the primary election Mallahan personally contributed approximately $30,000 in additional funds and raised another $130,000 from independent sources. Mallahan received substantial criticism from people such as Mike McGinn and Washington State Senator Ed Murray who accused him of \"buying his way into the campaign\". On November 9 Mallahan conceded the election to Mike McGinn after losing by a margin of less than one percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 1013]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Primaries, Early polling\nA poll conducted on August 12 showed incumbent Greg Nickels in the lead with 24 percent voter backing. While Nickels had a significant lead over all other candidates, the undecided voter percentage of 26 percent indicated room for any candidate to take the lead in the primary held on August 18. In second place after Greg Nickels was Mike McGinn with 16 percent. And in third place, Joe Mallahan with 14 percent. The survey polled 500 people with a margin of error of + or - 4.3 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, Primaries, Primary results\nThe primary election was held on August 18. The final results were posted on September 2, and showed Mike McGinn in first place with 27.7 percent of the popular vote, narrowly leading Joe Mallahan standing at 26.9 percent. Incumbent Greg Nickels showed with 25.4 percent. Due to Washington's top-two primary system, this eliminated Nickels from the running. Nickels gave his concession speech on August 21 at Seattle City Hall. Mallahan and McGinn advanced to the general election in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, General election\nAn October 20 poll commissioned by KING-TV and conducted by SurveyUSA showed Joe Mallahan ahead with 43% to Michael McGinn's 36% with a margin of error of 4.1%. Mallahan held a lead among college graduates, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and those describing themselves as moderates and conservatives. McGinn was shown to hold a lead among Asian-Americans, younger voters and those that describe themselves as liberals. McGinn changed his position on the Deep Bore Tunnel that same day, claiming \"If I'm elected mayor, though I disagree with this decision, it will be my job to uphold and execute this agreement. It is not the mayor's job to withhold the cooperation of city government in executing this agreement.\" It was enough to push McGinn ahead of Mallahan by election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204897-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Seattle mayoral election, General election\nMallahan conceded on November 9 after his deficit grew to nearly 5,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204898-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs\nThe 2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoci\u00f3n de Ascenso) were the final playoffs for promotion from 2008\u201309 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B to the 2009\u201310 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The four first placed teams in each of the four Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B groups played the Playoffs de Ascenso and the four last placed teams in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n were relegated to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. It also decided the two teams which placed 16th to be relegated to the 2009\u201310 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204898-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, New Format\nStarting with the 2008\u201309 season, the four group winners had the opportunity to promote directly and become the overall Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B champion. The four group winners were drawn into a two-legged series where the two winners promoted to the Liga Adelante and entered into the final for the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B champion. The two losing semifinalists entered the playoff round for the last two promotion spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204898-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, New Format\nThe four group runners-up were drawn against one of the three fourth-placed teams outside their group while the four third-placed teams were drawn against each other in a two-legged series. The six winners advanced with the two losing semifinalists to determine the four teams that entered the last two-legged series for the last two promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club played at home first. Whenever there was a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the Semifinal Round and Final or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw determined the club to play at home first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204898-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Group Winners Promotion Play-off, Qualified teams\nThe draw were held in the RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas (Madrid), on 11 May 2009, 16:30 CEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204898-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B play-offs, Group Winners Promotion Play-off, Matches, Semifinals\nThe aggregate winners will be promoted and qualified to the 2009\u201310 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B Final. The aggregate losers will be relegated to the Non\u2013champions Promotion Play\u2013off Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204899-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1\nThe 2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1 was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the fifth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia between 13 and 19 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204899-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204899-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1, Champions, Doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Prieto /  Horacio Zeballos def. Marcos Daniel /  Ricardo Mello, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204900-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1 \u2013 Doubles\nXavier Malisse and Carlos Salamanca were the champions in 2008, but Malisse chose to not start this year. Salamanca partnered up with Santiago Giraldo - they lost to Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto and Horacio Zeballos in the first round. First-seeded Prieto and Zeballos won this tournament - they defeated Marcos Daniel and Ricardo Mello in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204901-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bogot\u00e1 \u2013 Singles\nMariano Puerta didn't defend his last year title. He lost to Ricardo Hocevar in the first round. Marcos Daniel won against Horacio Zeballos in the final 4\u20136, 7\u20136(5), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204902-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga\nThe 2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bucaramanga, Colombia between 26 January and 1 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204902-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204902-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 81], "content_span": [82, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204902-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga, Champions, Men's Doubles\nDiego \u00c1lvarez /  Carles Poch-Gradin def. Carlos Avell\u00e1n /  Eric Gomes, 7\u20136(7), 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204903-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga \u2013 Doubles\nDiego \u00c1lvarez and Carles Poch-Gradin defeated Carlos Avell\u00e1n and Eric Gomes 7\u20136(7), 6\u20131 in the final. They became the first champions of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204904-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Bucaramanga \u2013 Singles\nHoracio Zeballos won in the final of the first edition of these championships. He defeated Carlos Salamanca 7\u20135, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204905-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali\nThe 2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cali, Colombia between 14 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204905-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204905-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali, Champions, Doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Prieto /  Horacio Zeballos def. Ricardo Hocevar /  Jo\u00e3o Souza, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204906-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Alejandro Falla chose to defend 2008 title. However, they withdrew before their first match against Eric Gomes and Carlos Salamanca. Sebasti\u00e1n Prieto and Horacio Zeballos won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135], against Ricardo Hocevar and Jo\u00e3o Souza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204907-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Cali \u2013 Singles\nMarcos Daniel was the defending champion, but chose to not compete this year. Alejandro Falla defeated Horacio Zeballos 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204908-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn\nThe 2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Medell\u00edn, Colombia between 2 and 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204908-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204908-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn, Champions, Doubles\nSebasti\u00e1n Decoud /  Eduardo Schwank def. Diego Junqueira /  David Marrero, 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204909-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn \u2013 Doubles\nJuan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Alejandro Falla were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate this year. Sebasti\u00e1n Decoud and Eduardo Schwank defeated 2nd seed Diego Junqueira and David Marrero 6\u20130, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204910-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Medell\u00edn \u2013 Singles\nLeonardo Mayer chose to not defend his 2008 title. Juan Ignacio Chela became the new champion, by beating Jo\u00e3o Souza 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204911-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira\nThe 2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Pereira, Colombia between April 27 and March 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204911-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204911-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira, Champions, Men's doubles\nV\u00edctor Estrella /  Jo\u00e3o Souza def. Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal /  Alejandro Falla, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204912-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira \u2013 Doubles\n2nd-seeded V\u00edctor Estrella and Jo\u00e3o Souza defeated 1st-seeded Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Cabal and Alejandro Falla in the final. They won 6\u20134, 6\u20134 and became the first champions of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204913-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seguros Bol\u00edvar Open Pereira \u2013 Singles\nAlejandro Falla won in the final 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, against Horacio Zeballos and he became the first champion of this tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204914-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seiska\nLeague tables for teams participating in Seiska, the eighth and final tier in the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season\nThe 2009 Selangor FA Season is Selangor FA's 4th season playing soccer in the Malaysia Super League Since its inception in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season\nSelangor FA began the season on 10 January 2009. They will also compete in two domestic cups; The FA Cup Malaysia and Malaysia Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season, Malaysia FA Cup, Second round\nThe first leg match played on 21 February 2009. The second leg will be play on 24 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season, Malaysia FA Cup, Quarter Final\nThe quarter final matches are scheduled to be played on 3 March and the weekend of 7 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season, Malaysia FA Cup, Semi Final\nThe first leg matches were played on Tuesday, 7 April 2009, while the second legs were played on Tuesday, 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204915-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Selangor FA season, Malaysia FA Cup, Final\nThe final was played at National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, 25 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204916-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Senegalese League Cup\nThe 2009 Senegalese League Cup (Coupe de la Ligue) was the first ever edition of the League Cup challenge. The format is like a playoff system and features clubs from the country's top two leagues (Ligue 1 and 2). AS Douanes won the first title. Five rounds were featured and 30 clubs competed. The winner competes into the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale Cup or the National Assembly Cup, the super cup competition in Senegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204916-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Senegalese League Cup, Final\nNo first ever final match occurred in the edition as the match was forfeited by Casa Sports as some players did not qualify. AS Douanes won their first ever title of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204917-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Senior Bowl\nThe 2009 Senior Bowl was an all-star college football exhibition game featuring players from the 2008 college football season, and prospects for the 2009 Draft of the professional National Football League (NFL). It was the 60th edition of the Senior Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204917-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Senior Bowl\nThe game was played on January 24, 2009, at 6 p.m. local time at Ladd\u2013Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The South defeated the North, 35\u201318, and quarterback Pat White of the South team was named game's Most Valuable Player (MVP). Various players were seen to have either improved or harmed their NFL draft prospects through their play in the game and the week leading up to the competition, which was closely monitored by NFL scouts and the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204917-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Senior Bowl\nCoverage of the event was in high-definition on the NFL Network. Clothing company Under Armour sponsored the event for the third consecutive year and provided apparel for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204918-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Senior League World Series\nThe 2009 Senior League World Series took place from August 16\u201322 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Houston, Texas defeated Fremont, California in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204919-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3\nThe 2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3 was the fourth edition of the Seniors Torneo God\u00f3 and it took place from April 15\u201319, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204919-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3\nTie-breaks were used for the first two sets of each match, which was the best of three sets. If the score was tied at one set all, a 'Champions Tie-break' (the first player to win at least 10 points or by a margin of two points) would be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204919-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3\nMarcelo R\u00edos was the defending champion, but did not compete this year to focus on an exhibition match against Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204919-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3\nF\u00e9lix Mantilla won the title by defeating Albert Costa 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204919-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Seniors Torneo God\u00f3, Draw, Group stage, Group A\nCash had to withdrew before his match against Krajicek due to a foot injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204920-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma season\nThe 2009 season was Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma's twenty-first season in the K-League in South Korea. Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma competed in K-League, League Cup and Korean FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204920-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma season, Current squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204921-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open\nThe 2009 Serbia Open (also known as Serbia Open powered by Telekom Srbija for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the event known that year as the Serbia Open, and was a part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Milan Gale Mu\u0161katirovi\u0107 complex in Belgrade, Serbia, from May 2 through May 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204921-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open\nThe singles draw was headlined by the tournament's host, Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 3, 2008 Tennis Masters Cup, Dubai winner and recent Miami, Monte Carlo and Rome runner-up Novak Djokovic from Serbia. Other featured stars included reigning Nottingham champion Ivo Karlovi\u0107, and Gstaad and Umag finalist Igor Andreev. Other seeds included Andreas Seppi from Italy, Belgrade Challenger winner Viktor Troicki, Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107, Arnaud Cl\u00e9ment and Christophe Rochus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204921-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open\nThe doubles draw was headlined by 2008 year-end World No. 1 doubles team, 2008 Tennis Masters Cup, Rotterdam, Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107, both born in Belgrade (although Nestor grew up from early childhood in Canada and represents that country). Also competing were Acapulco runners-up \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins, and Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204921-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open, Champions, Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot /  Oliver Marach defeated  Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20133)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204922-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open \u2013 Doubles\n\u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach won the final 6\u20132, 7\u20136(3) in the final against Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204923-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open \u2013 Singles\nThe singles event at the 2009 Serbia Open men's tennis tournament was won by Novak Djokovic, who defeated \u0141ukasz Kubot in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204923-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Serbia Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season\nSerena Williams's 2009 tennis season officially began at the 2009 Medibank International Sydney. Williams finished the year ranked world no. 1 for the second time in her career, having played in 16 tournaments, more than any other year. She also broke the record previously set by Justine Henin for the most prize money earned by a female tennis player in one year, with Williams earning $6,545,586. In doubles, she finished the year ranked world no. 3, despite playing only six tournaments as a pair. She won five Grand Slam titles, putting her total Grand Slam titles at 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season\nWilliams was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in a landslide vote (66 of 158 votes \u2013 no other candidate received more than 18 votes). She also was the International Tennis Federation World Champion in singles and doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Medibank International Sydney\nWilliams began her 2009 season at the Medibank International Sydney as the top seed and faced local Samantha Stosur in the first round. Williams broke Stosur in the fourth game and maintained the advantage to close out the set. The second set went to a tie-break with a couple of breaks, the breaker went to Stosur. Stosur served for the match at the 10th game and had three match points, but Williams broke back and held. Williams then broke Stosur again in the twelfth game to take the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 126], "content_span": [127, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Medibank International Sydney\nIn the second round Williams' cruised pass Sara Errani, losing just 3 games. In the quarterfinals Williams' had another tough match this time against Caroline Wozniacki, Williams lost the first set in a tie-break. The second set went to Williams when she broke in the ninth game after failing to serve the set out in the previous game. In the final set, Wozniacki took the lead and serve for the match at the twelfth game and had three match points but Williams broke and forced a tie-break, which she won to three. In the semifinals, Williams was routined by Dementieva in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 126], "content_span": [127, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nWilliams came into the Australian Open having a chance to claim the world number 1 ranking. In her opening round she face Yuan Meng of China and won the first set with a single break and took the first 4 games of the second set and held the lead to win the match. In the following round she faced Gisela Dulko, where she won the first set easily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nHowever, in the second set Dulko served for the set in the ninth game and had six set points, but Williams saved them all and broke and took the next 3 games to win in straight sets. In the third round she faced China's Peng Shuai and took the first set winning the last 6 games of the set. The second set was closer, with Williams being broke twice but still won the set in the tenth game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nIn the Round of 16, Williams got a lucky break, when her opponent Victoria Azarenka retires due to the heat, after Azarenka won the first set, and Williams was up by a break in the second. In the quarterfinals, Williams faced 8th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova and was in trouble when she fell by a set and Kuznetsova serving for the match at 5\u20134, However Williams took 9 of the last 10 games to win the match and be the only non-Russian in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0003-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nShe avenged her loss to Elena Dementieva in their previous match as she defeated the Russian in straight sets with a break lead in each set. In the final, she faced world no. 3 Dinara Safina, wherein the winner will claim the world no. 1. In the first set Williams took in a bagel, hitting 12 winner and 2 unforced errors. In the second set Safina, had more resistance as she took 3 games in the set, but Williams was proven to good as she won her 10th slam title. The win also meant that Williams has now become the highest paid female athlete in history, overtaking golfer Annika S\u00f6renstam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nIn doubles, she paired with sister Venus and won their first three matches in straight sets against Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova, Ayumi Morita and Martina M\u00fcller, and Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs. In the quarterfinals, they dropped their first set of the tournament against the team of Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai, when they lost the second set, but eventually won in three. In the semifinals, they faced the team of Casey Dellacqua and Francesca Schiavone and won easily with a loss of only two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Australian Open\nIn the final, they faced Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama also known as \"Hantuyama\", the Williams sister fell by an early break but took six of the last seven games to the take the first set. They then took the second set, breaking in the ninth game of the second set to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Open GDF Suez\nHaving just re-claimed the no. 1 ranking, Williams competed in the Open GDF Suez. She cruised through in her first round against Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1, Williams took the last 6 games of the first set to win it and then went on to take the second set as well. In the following round, she cruised pass Croat Karolina \u0160prem without dropping a point on serve in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, it was again smooth sailing for Williams as she dispatches Frenchwoman \u00c9milie Loit in straight sets. Williams was then forced to withdrew from her semifinal match against Elena Dementieva due to a right knee tendon injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 110], "content_span": [111, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Dubai Tennis Championships\nWilliams next scheduled event is the Dubai Tennis Championships. Being the top seed, Williams received a bye into the second round, where she faced Italian Sara Errani, Williams dropped the first set, but came back dropping just two games in the nest two sets and winning a bagel in the third. She then faced 13th seed Zheng Jie, where she won in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Williams faced former World no. 1 and reigning French Open champion Ana Ivanovic and won in four in straight sets, coming from a break down in the second set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 123], "content_span": [124, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Dubai Tennis Championships\nIn the semifinals, Williams faced sister Venus Williams in their 19th meeting having split their previous 18. The first set went to Venus, after Serena's first service percentage was a dire 36%, compared to her elder sibling's 83%, and she delivered six double faults, whereas Venus kept her slate clean. In the second set Serena cleaned her game, came back and won it to push a decider. The third set then went to a tie-break, which Venus won, thus ending Serena's 13 match winning-streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 123], "content_span": [124, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Ericsson Open\nWilliams entered the Sony Ericsson Open as the top seed and received a bye into the second round. Williams began her campaign for a record sixth title against American wild card Alexa Glatch and won in straight sets. In the following round, she faced Peng Shuai and won in straight sets, however despite the straight sets win, Williams was broken three times. In the fourth round she faced Zheng Jie, Williams won the first five games, however Zheng won the next five games to even it out. Williams eventually broke in the twelfth game to win the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 115], "content_span": [116, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Ericsson Open\nIn the second set Zheng was ahead by a break twice but failed to capitalize, however she broke Williams in the eleventh game and held to go to a decider. Zheng led by a break in the decider, but Williams was able to get back winning six of the last seven games to advance. In the quarterfinals, Williams faced her third Chinese opponent in a row in Li Na, Williams suffered a slow start losing the first five games, but was able to find some form to win the next four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 115], "content_span": [116, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Ericsson Open\nHowever, Li was able to hold serve in the tenth game to win the set. The second set went to a tie-break after both players failed to take advantage of break points, Williams won the breaker losing only a point. Williams then broke Li in the third and fifth games and served it out in the eight game to advance to the semifinals In the semifinals, she faced sister Venus Williams, Serena served for the first set at ninth game, but was broken just to break again to take the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 115], "content_span": [116, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0007-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Early hard court season and Australian Open, Sony Ericsson Open\nIn the second set Venus broke in the ninth game to push it to a decider. In the third set while serving to stay in the match at 5\u20133, Serena broke Venus to advance to her 7th Miami final. In the final, Williams faced Victoria Azarenka and lost convincingly 3\u20136, 1\u20136. Williams was hampered with ankle and quad injuries and was advised not to play in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 115], "content_span": [116, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Andalucia Tennis Experience, Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open\nWilliams then headed to the clay court season. Her first tournament was at the Andalucia Tennis Experience, however she was upset by then world no. 95 Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1 in three sets, with Williams winning the second. She then headed to the Internazionali BNL d'Italia having dropped the number 1 ranking to Safina, she faced Patty Schnyder in the second round after receiving a bye and lost in three sets, after winning the second set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 172], "content_span": [173, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, Andalucia Tennis Experience, Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open\nHer clay court season has gone from bad to worse when she retired against Francesca Schiavone after having dropped the first set in the first round of the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open due to a right knee injury. This is extended her losing streak to four, the longest in her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 172], "content_span": [173, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open\nWilliams entered the French Open having not won a match on clay. In the first round she faced Kl\u00e1ra Zakopalov\u00e1, who beat her in their last encounter. Williams was quick to take the lead was a set and a break-up; Williams squandered 5 match points in the ninth game and lost the second set in a tie-break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open\nWilliams then led the third with a break and had three match points in the eight game and had another three match points, but Zakopalov\u00e1 came back to get it on serve, just to lose her serve in the tenth game of the third set to hand the win to Williams in Williams' ninth match point. This ends Williams' four match losing streak. In the second round, Williams faced Virginia Ruano Pascual and unlike her first-round match, Williams cruised through, losing just two games including a bagel in the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open\nIn her next match she faced another Spaniard in Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez took the first set with a break, but with controversy as Williams fired in a powerful shot that appeared to graze Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez's hand as she looked to defend herself. The Spaniard denied that such happened, Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez got the break in that game and took the set. Williams came back and took the last two sets with a single break lead in each set. In the fourth round, she face Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak and won comfortably in straight sets in 53 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0009-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open\nIn the quarterfinals, she faced Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, Kuznetsova took the first set in a tie-break after saving a set point on her own serve in the twelfth game. Kuznetsova served for the match in the ninth game of the second set, but Williams broke through and won the last four games to push it to a decider. Williams then led by an early break just to surrender it and the match to Kuznetsova when she got broken in the twelfth game of the third set. Williams later admitted that she got tight in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Clay court season and French Open, French Open\nIn the doubles, Williams paired again with sister Venus and entered as the fifth seeds; the sisters scrapped through their first two matches, winning it in three against the teams of Andrea Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 and Lucie Hradeck\u00e1, and  Gisela Dulko and \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay. However, their resistance was placed in halt as they lost in the third round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova; after winning the first set, they eventually lost in a tie-break in the final set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nWilliams entered Wimbledon Championships as the second seed and favorite. In her opening match, she faced Neuza Silva and won in straight sets without facing a break point. She hit nine aces and 32 winners in the win. In the second round, she faced Australian Jarmila Groth and won the first set by breaking Groth in the fourth and eight game. In the second set, Groth didn't held serve but broke Williams once in the set, handing Williams the match. The match lasted only 57 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nIn the third round, she faced Italy's Roberta Vinci and won in straight sets, despite getting broken twice in the match, once in each set. In the round of 16, she faced Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and won easily in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Williams faced Victoria Azarenka, the woman that defeated her in the final of Miami, Williams won the last four games of the first set to win it. Azarenka then led by a break in the second set, but Williams came back once again winning the last four games to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nIn the semifinals, Williams faced rival Elena Dementieva. The first set saw Dementieva breaking the Williams serve just to be broken back. The set was pushed to a tie-break, which was won by Dementieva. Williams then broke in opening game of the second just to be broken in the sixth game. Williams then broke the Russian in the 11th game and served out the set to force a third set. In the final set, Dementieva broke early in the deciding set for a 3\u20131 lead only for Williams to break back immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nDementieva had a break and match point in the tenth games only for Williams to retrieve it with a low volley that clipped the net. The match remained close until Williams secured a break in the 13th game and serve it out and head to the final. In the final, she faced sister Venus Williams in their fourth Wimbledon final. Serena took the first set in a tie-break, the first saw Venus having break points but failing to convert whereas Serena didn't have any. Serena broke Venus twice in the second set including in the final game and won in her fourth match point to win her 11th slam and third Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nOnce again, Williams paired with her sister Venus Williams in doubles as the fourth seeds. In the first round, they faced the French team of Virginie Razzano and Aravane Reza\u00ef and won in three in both sets. They then cruised pass Sabine Lisicki and Aleksandra Wozniak in the second round in straight sets. In the third round, they faced the Chinese pair of Yan Zi and Zheng Jie and dominated winning in a double bagel. In the final eight, they defeated Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Vania King in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Wimbledon Championships\nIn the semifinals, they faced the top seeds and co-world no. 1's Cara Black and Liezel Huber and won losing only three games. In the final they took on the Australian duo of Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs and won in two close sets, winning the first in a breaker and the second with a single break lead to claim their ninth slam as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic\nWilliams began her US Open preparation at the Bank of the West Classic. Williams faced Li Na in the first round, she had a set and had two match points in the eight game, however Li came back to force it to a tie-break. Williams closed out the match in her seventh match point. In the second round she faced Hungarian Melinda Czink, Williams broke in the fourth game and held it to take the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 92], "content_span": [93, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic\nCzink led by an early break, but Williams was able to force it to a tie-break, where she saved a set point and won the set to advance. In the quarterfinals, Williams took on Samantha Stosur, Stosur won the first set, but Williams came back winning the second. Williams had break points in the fifth game but failed to convert, that proved costly as Stosur took the next three games to take the final set and the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 92], "content_span": [93, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Bank of the West Classic\nThe Williams Sisters paired up to play doubles. They cruised through their first three matches in straight sets to advance to the finals, defeating the teams of Chen Yi and Mashona Washington, L\u012bga Dekmeijere and Julie Ditty, and Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova. They claimed their third title of the year by defeating the team of Yung-Jan Chan and Monica Niculescu in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 92], "content_span": [93, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open\nWilliams next scheduled event is the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. Williams received a bye in the first round and defeated Kateryna Bondarenko in the second round in straight sets. In the following round she faced Sybille Bammer, this time ending up in the losing side in straight sets. Williams also lost her only previous encounter with Bammer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 115], "content_span": [116, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, Rogers Cup\nWilliams made her final stop before the US Open at the Rogers Cup. Williams got a bye to advance to the second round where she faced Yaroslava Shvedova and easily won in straight set only dropping 5 games. In the next round, Williams faced Alona Bondarenko and once again won with only dropping 5 games. In the quarterfinals, for the third match in a row, Williams only dropped five games this time to Czech Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1. In the semifinals, she faced Elena Dementieva for the fourth time in the year. Williams served for the match in the ninth game but Dementieva rallied to push the first set into a tie-break, which Dementieva won. Dementieva then took advantage taking the second set dropping only a game to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 813]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nWilliams began her quest for her twelfth slam at the US Open, she entered the tournament as the defending champion and is trying to win US Open for two consecutive years for the first time. She opened her campaign against compatriot Alexa Glatch, Williams won easily in straight sets despite making 18 winners to 19 unforced errors in the match. In the following round, she faced Melinda Czink, and won with a double breadstick victory. Williams made 25 winners to just 9 unforced errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nIn the third round she faced Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez for the first time after their controversial match in the French, Williams broke in the second game and held it through to take the first set. In the second set Williams went behind by an early break but came back to serve it out in the twelfth game. In the next round, she stormed pass Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, as Williams reeled in 10 games in a row starting from the fifth game of the first set to move on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nIn the final eight, Williams faced Italian Flavia Pennetta and won in straight sets, hitting 22 winners to 19 unforced errors. After several rain delays, her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters took place 4 days after her quarterfinal match. Williams was down by a set and 5-6 15\u201330, serving to stay in the match when a foot fault was called that gave Clijsters two match points. Williams then launched into a tirade directed at the lineswoman, for which Serena was given a code violation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0017-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nThe violation ended up as a point penalty due to receiving a warning for racquet abuse earlier in the match, thus ending the match in controversial fashion. The following day, Williams was issued the maximum permissible on-site fine of $10,000 (plus $500 for racquet abuse). After further investigation, the Grand Slam Committee in November 2009 fined her $175,000 in lieu of suspending her from the 2010 US Open or other Grand Slam events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0017-0004", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nThey also placed her on a two-year probation, so if Williams committed another offense in the following two years at a Grand Slam tournament, she would be suspended from participating in the following US Open. If she committed no offenses in the next two years, her fine would be reduced to $82,500. Williams initially refused to apologize for her outburst, both in her post-match press conference and in an official statement released the following day. She eventually apologized to the lineswoman in a statement two days following the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, US Open Series, US Open\nVying for their first title as a team at the US Open in ten years, the Williams sisters made quick work of their first three opponents Julia G\u00f6rges and Arantxa Parra Santonja, Yung-Jan Chan and Katarina Srebotnik, and Sorana C\u00eerstea and Caroline Wozniacki defeating them all in straight sets. In the quarterfinals they defeated Yan Zi and Zheng Jie defeating them in two tight sets. In the semifinals, they faced the Russian pairing of Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova and won the first set in tie-break. However, they lost the second set ending their 29-set winning streak. The final set went to the Williams sisters as they advance to the final. In the final, they faced top ranked doubles team of Cara Black and Liezel Huber and took control of the match to claim their tenth slam as a team and their second US Open crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 908]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, China Open\nWilliams then went to Asia at the China Open with a chance of regaining the world no. 1 ranking from Dinara Safina. In the first round she faced Estonian Kaia Kanepi and won in straights with a single break lead in each set. Williams then defeated Ekaterina Makarova in the second round in two easy sets and claimed the no. 1 ranking after Safina fell earlier in the day. In the round of 16, she took on Russian Nadia Petrova, Petrova took the first set, with Williams coming back to take the second. In the third set both displayed good serving as neither dropped serve to push it to a tie-break, which Petrova won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 102], "content_span": [103, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, WTA Tour Championships\nWilliams entered the Year-End Championships as the second seed and was placed in the Maroon group with Elena Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova and sister Venus Williams. Williams was in contention for the Year-End no. 1 ranking along with top seed Dinara Safina. Williams began her tournament against Svetlana Kuznetsova. Williams rallied in the first coming back from a break twice to take it to a tie-break, Williams then took the second set breaking Kuznetsova in the 11th game of the set and served it out to win the match. In her second round robin match, Williams faced older sister Venus Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 114], "content_span": [115, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, WTA Tour Championships\nSerena lost the first set but came back to win the second. In the finals set Serena was up by a double break, just to see Venus take five games in a row. Serena was serving to stay in that match in twelfth game and saved a match point to go to a tie-break, with Serena taking the breaker. Due to Safina's withdrawal from the event, thus securing Serena Williams the Year End no. 1 ranking only for the second time in her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 114], "content_span": [115, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, WTA Tour Championships\nIn her final group match, she took on Elena Dementieva, whom she has split their 4 meeting in the year,  Dementieva began the match by breaking Williams in the third game, just to see Williams get back by winning the next seven game to take the first set and an early break. Dementieva came back to push it on serve but got broken in the ninth game of the set and Williams closed it out to go 3\u20130 in her group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 114], "content_span": [115, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0020-0003", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, WTA Tour Championships\nIn the semifinals, Williams faced Caroline Wozniacki, where she took the first set and was broken in the first game when Wozniacki retired due to a left abdominal strain. In the final it was an all-Williams final, as she took on sister Venus Williams, Serena took the first set breaking Venus twice. The second set, went on serve all throughout, with no breaks thus going to a tie-break, which Serena won to cap her no. 1 ranking with her 35th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 114], "content_span": [115, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204924-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Serena Williams tennis season, Year in detail, Asian Swing and Year-End Championships, WTA Tour Championships\nWilliams qualified with sister Venus Williams and played for the first time as team in the Year-End Championships. In the semifinals they faced the Spanish duo of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, where they took the first set but lost the second set. In the match tie-break, the Williams sisters lost it by 10 points to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 114], "content_span": [115, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone\nThe 2009 Shanxi dog-free zone is a goal by the government of Shanxi Province in north central People's Republic of China (PRC) to begin killing large number of dogs as part of a campaign to stop the spread of rabies in the region via stray dogs attacking humans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone, History\nIn 2006 a similar destruction of 50,000 dogs in Mouding county, Yunnan Province in south central China occurred after three deaths from rabies. This was followed a couple of weeks later by another widespread culling in Jining, Shandong province in western China after 16 people died from rabies. China uses both the compulsory vaccination and registration of pets and the killing of strays as instruments in rabies control. Dogs, except in cages for sale as meat, are not allowed in a number of urban areas and strays are killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone, History\nWorld Health Organization reports attribute some part of a rise in rabies in China in the 1980s to economic reforms which saw an increase in dog populations in rural areas, and later in the 1990s to an increase in the demand for dog meat and to problems with rabies vaccine quality. The 1980s increase was dealt with primarily with a large-scale vaccination campaign in rural areas where dog rabies is endemic, but some dog slaughters also took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone, History\nOutbreaks in Beijing in the early to mid-1990s were also dealt with by ordering strike teams to capture and kill dogs, including pets, making this 2006 governmental killing of dogs a single incident among a number of similar mass killings. The World Health Organization also recommends a ban on bringing dog meat from rural to urban areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone, Goal\nIn 2009 Yang County is striving to be the first county nationally in the PRC to have no dogs. The government ordered all dogs within a radius range of 3206 square kilometres to be killed, including registered and vaccinated dogs. In a statement to China Daily, Dang Zhengqing stated this was the only way they could stop the spread of rabies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204925-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone, Preventive measures\nPeople who are already pet owners were advised to register their dogs and vaccinate them. These vaccinations were offered for free. Stray and wild dogs within the region were also put down by the government. It was reported that over 20,000 dogs had been killed in the city of Hanzhong alone. Free leashes were also provided to allow citizens to control their dogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204926-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000\nThe 2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 (also known as the 2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000\u2013presented by Rolex) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was played at Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The tournament replaced Madrid as the second and last ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament where it was now moved into a spring calendar, the inaugural edition was held from October 11 to October 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204926-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000\nThe singles field was led by Rafael Nadal. Other top seeds were 2008 Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, reigning US Open champion Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro and Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204926-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000\nWorld No. 1 Roger Federer had been due to play but withdrew, citing fatigue. World No. 3 Andy Murray was also scheduled to play, but withdrew due to a wrist injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204926-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204926-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, Champions, Doubles\nJulien Benneteau /  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga def. Mariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204927-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 \u2013 Doubles\nJulien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, against Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204927-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nAll eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204928-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 \u2013 Singles\nNikolay Davydenko won in the final 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20133 against Rafael Nadal, and with this he became the first winner of the inaugural Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204928-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204929-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai International Film Festival\nThe 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival is the 12th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in Shanghai, China. It was held from June 13-21, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204930-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai Masters\nThe 2009 Roewe Shanghai Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7\u201313 September 2009 at the Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204930-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai Masters\nRonnie O'Sullivan won in the final 10\u20135 against Liang Wenbo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204930-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai Masters, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204930-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanghai Masters, Qualifying\nThese matches took place between 3 and 6 August 2009 at the Pontin's Centre, Prestatyn, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204931-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series\nThe 2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series is the second running of the V8 Touring Car National Series. The series takes place on the program of Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships events. The series was won by South Australian driver Adam Wallis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204931-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series, Calendar\nThe 2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series will consist of five rounds held across three states:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204931-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers have competed during the 2009 Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204932-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanxi mine blast\nThe Shanxi mine blast (simplified Chinese: \u5c71\u897f\u5c6f\u5170\u7164\u77ff\u4e8b\u6545; traditional Chinese: \u5c71\u897f\u5c6f\u862d\u7164\u7926\u4e8b\u6545) was a pre-dawn explosion that occurred in a mine in Gujiao city near Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province of China on 21 February 2009. Four hundred and thirty six were in the mine at the time of the explosion. According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, rescue efforts concluded at 6 p.m. (CST), February 22 with all trapped miners located; the death toll was 74, with 114 in the hospital and five in critical condition. Many of the injured are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. The death toll indicates that this is the most lethal accident reported in China's mining industry since December 2007, when 105 people died in a mine explosion\u2014that accident also took place in Shanxi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204932-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanxi mine blast, Accident details\nThe pre-dawn explosion occurred at 2:17\u00a0a.m. (CST) as 436 workers were in the Tunlan Coal Mine in Gujiao city. Xinhua News Agency reported that over four hundred men were working when the explosion occurred but that most escaped unhindered and unhurt. One hundred rescuers worked at the scene in Gujiao city as dozens of miners remained trapped. China Central TV (CCTV) broadcast footage of rescuers in orange suits and red helmets with headlamps entering an elevator where they were lowered into the mine shaft as injured miners were taken into ambulances. A fire in the shaft was said to be blocking the progress of the rescuers. There were also reports of trapped miners using mobile phones to call relatives to discuss their plight. A two-minute silence is planned in recognition of the dead on the 25th of February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 861]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204932-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanxi mine blast, Shanxi Coking\nThe involved mine is owned by Xishan Coal Electricity Group of Shanxi Coking Coal Group, one of China's largest producers of coking coal, a material used in the production of steel. The company operates twenty-eight mines. No accidents were reported at the Tunlan mine in the previous decade before this incident, and it consequently was considered a safe mine at which to work. The mine produces five million tons of coking coal per year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204932-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shanxi mine blast, Mining in China\nChina has the world's deadliest mining industry, with the deaths of 3,200 people reported in 2008. This represents a 15% decline from the previous year. Government figures show that nearly 80% of China's 16,000 mines are small-scale, illegal operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204933-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sharpie 500\nThe 2009 Sharpie 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 22, 2009, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204933-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sharpie 500\nThe 500 lap race was the twenty-fourth in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Kyle Busch, of the Joe Gibbs Racing team, won the race, with Mark Martin finishing second, and Marcos Ambrose third. There were 11 cautions and 12 lead changes throughout the course of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204933-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sharpie 500, Summary\nIt took three hours, eight minutes and thirty-one seconds to fully resolve the race. An incredibly packed racetrack of 160,000 people would see eleven cautions for a duration of 76 laps. Approximately 15% of the race was held under caution; with accidents being the predominant cause of the yellow flags. Four drivers failed to make the race: Mike Skinner, Max Papis, Mike Wallace and Aric Almirola. The average green flag run was 35 laps; with a ten-lap caution period for rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204933-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sharpie 500, Summary\nDave Blaney was the worst driver of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season coming out of this race with a last-place finish; leaving the race on lap 8 due to an accident. Mark Martin was the undisputed best driver in the 2009 Sprint Cup Series season after this event; even though he finished in second place behind Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204933-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sharpie 500, Summary\nGambling pundits were marvelled over Kyle Busch's victory in the 2009 Spring Bristol race along with another previous win at the Spring 2007 Bristol race. The same critics would pan the inferior performance of Kevin Harvick at Bristol Motor Speedway; acquiring only an average finish of 11th place in the seventeen previous races at Bristol before this one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204934-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sheikh Jassim Cup\nThe 2009 Sheikh Jassim Cup was the 31st edition of the league cup competition for football teams from Qatar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204934-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sheikh Jassim Cup, Round one groups\n12 clubs were drawn into 4 groups of 4 teams. The winners qualified for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204934-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sheikh Jassim Cup, Round one groups\nAll group games were played in one 'host' location, instead of the common home and away format used in other competitions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427\nThe 2009 Shelby 427 was the third race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. This 427.5 miles (688.0\u00a0km) long race took place on March 1 of that year at the 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the namesake Nevada city. The race was won by Kyle Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427\nThe race was telecast by Fox with a radio broadcast by Performance Racing Network (terrestrial) and Sirius XM Radio (satellite).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427\nThe race title reflects the new title sponsor, Carroll Shelby International, which has its home base at LVMS, and the Shelby Cobra 427, which is made in Nevada. The race had previously been 400.5 miles (644.5\u00a0km) in length, but will as of 2009 have an extra 27 miles (43\u00a0km) added into the race name which equates to an addition of 18 laps, meaning that the race will now be a 285-lap duration. The race would return to 400.5 miles in 2010 and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Qualifying\nKyle Busch won the pole for the Shelby 427 at a new track record of 185.995\u00a0mph. The remainder of the top 10 were Kyle's brother Kurt Busch (185.707\u00a0mph), Jimmie Johnson(185.688\u00a0mph), David Reutimann (185.624\u00a0mph), Marcos Ambrose (185.459\u00a0mph), Ryan Newman (185.395\u00a0mph), Kasey Kahne (185.382\u00a0mph), Mark Martin (185.312\u00a0mph), Kevin Harvick (185.280\u00a0mph), Tony Stewart (185.217\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Pre-race\nThe Las Vegas Motor Speedway chaplain, Joe Freiburger gave the invocation. Jersey Boys performed the national anthem and Carroll Shelby gave the command to start engines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nToyota cars #00, 18 (polesitter), 47, 82, 83 were sent to the back of the field because of engine changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nKurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson led the field to the green flag. Johnson led the first lap; Brad Keweloski hit the wall out of turn 4 causing a flat tire and the first caution of the day. Matt Kenseth reported engine trouble, came onto pit road where his crew fixed the problem, but Kenseth was too fast exiting pit road. Kenseth was served the penalty of restarting from the tail end of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 6 with Johnson, Ku. Busch, Harvick, Newman, and Stremme in the Top 5. Daytona 500 winner and point leader Kenseth's engine blew on the front stretch on lap 7 while Todd Bodine spun out of turn 2 after a slight contact from behind by Hamlin. Second caution of the day. Keselowski got the luck dog free pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 11. No change in positions in the Top 5. As of lap 19, Carl Edwards was in 9th from starting 16th, Montoya was running in 8th from the 23rd starting position, and Kyle Busch was in 30th after starting from the back. Johnson continued to lead laps since the first lap. Brad Keselowski drove his car to the garage on lap 36. Within 50 laps since the start of the race, Jamie McMurray gained 19 positions, Gordon and Reutimann moved up 16 positions, Biffle gained 15 positions, and Vickers gained 14 positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nGreen flag pit stops ensued on lap 48. Earnhardt, Jr. was served a pass through penalty for being too fast exiting pit road. Regan Smith and Casey Mears were also served the pass through penalty for entering too fast on pit road. Edwards and Kyle Busch each led two laps and Logano led a lap during the green flag pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nCaution would come out on lap 60 for debris on the track. Newman won the lucky dog free pass. Kahne, Waltrip, Hamlin and others entered pit road during the caution. John Andretti, David Gilliland, Scott Speed, Clint Bowyer, Earnhardt, Jr., Regan Smith, Todd Bodine, A.J. Allmendinger, Robby Gordon, Martin Truex, Jr., and Elliot Sadler were a lap down when the caution flag was waved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 65 with Johnson, Edwards, Kurt Busch, Harvick and Biffle in the top five. McMurray, running in 13th, was hit from behind by Logano and slid out of turn 2, but maintained control. No caution. McMurray dropped to 26th as a result. Lap 74, Regan Smith came on pit road with engine troubles. Fourth caution of the day. Clint Bowyer got the free pass. During the round of pit stops, Harvick, Stewart, and Montoya gain four positions, Gordon and Hamlin gain five spots, Mark Martin gain two spots, Kurt Busch lost four spots, Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch gained six positions and Johnson, taking four tires, lost nine spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 83 with Harvick, Stewart, Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Kurt Busch, Burton, Montoya, Hamlin, and Johnson in the top ten. In two laps, Biffle took in the lead from Harvick. Lap 90, Jeff Gordon took second place from Harvick. Brad Keweloski returned to the track 57 laps down in the 42nd position. Lap 95, Edwards made contact to Stremme's left rear quarter panel, sending Stremme spinning out of turn 2. Fifth caution of the race. Earnhardt, Jr. got the free pass. Harvick lost two spots, Burton gain three positions, Amirola gained fourteen spots, and Bowyer gained eight spots during the round of pit stops. Biffle and former teammate Mark Martin stayed on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 100 with Biffle, Mart Martin, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Bush, and Johnson in the top five. Bowyer and Montoya, running in 14th, made contact entering turn 1. No caution. Montoya entered pit road and exited in the 27th position. Lap 122, Mark Martin, running in 4th, blew the engine bring the sixth caution. Martin Truex, Jr. got the free pass. During the pitstop round, Jonson and McMurray gained two spots and Biffle and Stewart lost two positions. Kasey Kahne stayed out to lead a lap before entering pit road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nJohnson, Jeff Gordon, Biffle, McMurray, Burton, Stewart, Harvick, Kyle Busch, Hamlin, and Hornish, Jr. were in the top ten during the restart on lap 131. Seventh caution on lap 138 when Reed Sorenson lost control exiting turn 2 and hit the outside wall of the backstretch; Robby Gordon got the lucky dog free pass. Hornish, Jr. entered pit road from the 10th position. The field restarted on lap 143 with Johnson as the leader. Amirola hit the outside wall in turn 3 then slowed on the backstretch where Kasey Kahne tried to avoid hitting Amirola's car. Kahne slid off the track, making slight contact with Amirola. Menard, Bobby Labonte, and Robby Gordon, from the end of the lead lap, made pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 149 with Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Biffle, Stewart, and Kyle Busch in the top five. Jeff Gordon took the lead away from Johnson in two laps. On lap 160, Jeff Gordon let his 20,000th Sprint Cup lap, (7th all-time record). Lap 164, Waltrip, running in the 20th position, lost control in turn 4, hit the outside wall. Eighth caution; David Gilliland got the free pass. During the round of pitstops, Burton gained seven spots, Bobby Labonte moved up twelve spots, Vickers moved up thirteen spots, Martin Truex, Jr. gained fourteen spots, Biffle lost two, and Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson both lost five spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 169 with Burton, Bobby Labonte, Vickers, Truex, Jr., Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Johnson, Kyle Busch, Stewart, and Edwards in the top ten. One lap later, Hamlin, running in 13th, lost control between turn 3 and 4, sliding across the outside wall, bring out the tenth caution. John Andretti got the free pass. The field restarted on lap 175 with Burton in the lead. Jimmie Johnson took second from Bobby Labonte on lap 187.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nEleventh caution on lap 220, Jeff Gordon missed the entrance to pit road and blew his left front tire causing damage during green flag pitstops. Edwards beat Labonte off pit road for the second position, but Edwards' crew missed placing a lugnut. Burton maintains the lead off pit road. Jimmie Johnson slid on then past his pitbox. Dave Gilliland got the free pass for the second time. The field restarted on lap 228 with Burton, Labonte, Kyle Busch, Vickers, and Ruetimann in the top five. Kyle Busch, the pole winner, took the lead from Burton in less than one lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nTwelfth caution for debris (new race record) on lap 259. Sam Hornish, Jr. got the free pass. Clint Bowyer stayed on the track as the field entered pit road: Burton moved up five spots, Jeff Gordon gained seven spots, Kyle Busch lost two positions, and Labonte and Vickers both lost four positions. Labonte and Johnson nearly collided as Labonte was leaving his pit box and Johnson was entering his.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nRestart on lap 264 with Bowyer, Burton, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Reutimann, Edwards, Labonte, Vickers, Kahne, and McMurray in the top ten. In two laps, Kyle Busch was in third behind Bowyer and Burton. Lap 267, Kyle Busch took second from Burton out of turn 2. In the next lap, Kyle Busch took the lead from Bowyer out of turn 2. Caution for the thirteenth time on lap 269 after Menard, racing between Amborise and Logano, lost control and hit the outside wall out of turn 4. Harvick got the free pass. From the end of the lead lap, Earnhardt, Jr., Robby Gordon, Hornish, Jr. and Gilliland made pitstops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nThe field restarted on lap 278 with Kyle Busch, Burton, Bowyer, Reutimann, Jeff Gordon, Edwards, Labonte, Vickers, McMurray and Jimmie Johnson in the top ten. Caution a lap later; Jimmie Johnson, running in 10th, lost control in turn 2 and hit the outside wall, damaging the front right and back right end. Restart on lap 282 with Kyle Busch as the leader. Two laps to go, Bowyer passed teammate Burton for second as Edwards's engine blew. Edwards managed to keep his car away the field; no caution. Kyle Busch, who started from the back from pole position, took the checkered flag for the first time in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Race recap\nClint Bowyer finished second ahead of Richard Childress Racing teammate Jeff Burton. David Reutimann was in fourth, his first career top 5 finish in the Cup series. Bobby Labonte, in fifth, had the highest-finishing Ford. Jamie McMurray finish in 9th after starting the race in 38th. Kasey Kahne had the best finished Dodge in 11th. Rookies Joey Logano and Scott Speed were in 13th and 21st respectively. Jimmie Johnson, leading the most laps (92), finished in 24th. Stewart Haas Motorsports drivers Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart finished in 25th and 26th respectively. Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth finished in 43rd behind of teammate David Regan because of engine problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Point standings\nJeff Burton moved from 31st to 18th in the standings. Kyle Busch and Bobby Labonte gained twelve spots from the 18th position and the 22nd position respectively. Kasey Kahne moved from 23rd to 13th. Brian Vickers, from 26th in the standings, was in 17th after the race. David Reutimann and David Gilliland both gained seven spots from the 12th and 44th in the standings respectively. Jaime McMurray and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. gained six spots from 28th and 35th respectively. Gaining five pointings, Kevin Harvick was in 11th, Joey Logano in 32nd, Regan Smith in 35th, and Scott Speed in 36th. Clint Bowyer was in second behind Jeff Gordon from the 6th position in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204935-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Shelby 427, Point standings\nDavid Ragan lost sixteen spots from the eighth position to 24th. Reed Sorenson dropped to 25th from the 14th position. Martin Truex, Jr. lost nine positions from 17th in the standings. A.J. Allmendinger went from 13th to 21st in the standings. Casey Mears and Mark Martin lost seven spots from the 20th and 27th position respectively. Losing five positions in the standings, Michael Waltrip was in 12th from 7th, Juan Pablo Montoya in 15th from 10th, Elliott Salder in 16th from 11th, and John Andretti was in 30th from 25th. Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart both lost four positions from the 3rd and 4th position respectively. Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth dropped to 3rd from 1st in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204936-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sherbrooke municipal election\nThe 2009 Sherbrooke municipal election was held on November 11, 2009, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The communities of Brompton and Lennoxville also elected borough councillors, who do not serve on the city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204936-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sherbrooke municipal election, Results, Councillors, Jacques-Cartier\nSource: , \u00c9lections municipales 2009, Le Directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00e9lections du Qu\u00e9bec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204937-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships\nThe 2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kyoto, Japan between 9 and 15 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204937-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships\nGo Soeda (in singles) and Dieter Kindlmann / Martin Slanar (in doubles) were the defending champions. Soeda lost to Baptiste Dupuy in the first round of singles' competition. Kindlmann chose to not participate this year and Slanar partnered up with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and they won in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204937-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 95], "content_span": [96, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204937-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Champions, Men's doubles\nAisam-ul-Haq Qureshi /  Martin Slanar def. Michael Kohlmann /  Philipp Marx, 6\u20137(7), 7\u20136(3), [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 77], "content_span": [78, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204938-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nDieter Kindlmann and Martin Slanar were the defending champions, Kindlmann chose not to participate. Slanar partnered Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and successfully defended his title defeating Tatsuma Ito and Takao Suzuki in the final, 6\u20137(7\u20139), 7\u20136(7\u20133), [10\u20136].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204939-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nSergei Bubka won in the final 7\u20136(6), 6\u20134, against Takao Suzuki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204940-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shimizu S-Pulse season\nThe 2009 S-Pulse season was S-Pulse's eighteenth season in existence and their seventeenth season in the J1 League. The club also competed in the Emperor's Cup and the J.League Cup. The team finished the season seventh in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204941-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shizuoka earthquake\nThe 2009 Shizuoka earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.4  that hit Shizuoka Prefecture in the south of Honsh\u016b, Japan, on August 11 at 05:07 local time (August 10, 20:07 UTC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204941-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shizuoka earthquake, Overview\nThe seismic intensity was observed as shindo 6- in Izu, Yaizu, Makinohara, Omaezaki, Shizuoka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204941-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shizuoka earthquake, Overview\nOne woman was killed in Shizuoka, 134 people were injured, and 6,000 buildings received at least minor damage. In addition, the shoulder of T\u014dmei Expressway was damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204941-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shizuoka earthquake, Overview\nIn this area, it is presumed that an M8 class Tokai earthquake will occur in the near future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case\nThe Shopian rape and murder case is the abduction, rape and murder of two young women allegedly by local indian army. in mysterious circumstances between 29 and 30 May 2009 at Bongam, Shopian district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Two women who were sisters-in-law went missing from their orchard on the way home on 29 May 2009. The next day morning, their bodies were found both one kilometer apart. Local police rejected the allegations saying that the women appeared to have drowned in a stream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Victims\nNeelofar Jan, aged 22 and Aasiya Jan, aged 17 were sisters-in-law and resided in Bongam, Shopian. Neelofar Jan was married to Shakeel Ahmed Ahangar and the couple had a two-year-old son. Aasiya Jan was the daughter of Abdul Gani Ahangar. She had secured a distinction in her matriculation exams in the year preceding her death. [ 42]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Initial stages of investigations\nThe villagers alleged that both were raped and murdered by the security forces. A protest called up by a separatist leader turned violent and the administration declared a curfew-like situation lasted for over 47 days. A press release by the police on 30 May stated \"Post-mortem conducted revealed no marks on the dead bodies including private parts.\" No FIR was registered for either rape or murder and the government of Jammu and Kashmir ordered for a judicial probe by Justice Muzaffar Jan into the incident because of people's lack of faith in police investigations. In a strange twist to the Shopian rape and murder case, the doctor who conducted the post-mortem of the victims has reportedly told investigators that she submitted her own vaginal swab samples instead of one of the victim's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Initial stages of investigations\nOn 7 June 2009, Jammu and Kashmir police filed FIR of rape and murder following widespread protest across the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history\nWhile on 31 May 2009, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, appointed Muzaffar Jan to carry out the probe and complete the inquiry in one month's time. The Superintendent of Police, Dr Haseeb Mughal, and The Chief Prosecuting Officer, Abdul Majid Dar, were to assist in the probe, headed by Justice (retired) Muzaffar Jan. The report would be subsequently tabled in the state assembly to make it public. The notification issued in this regard by the Home Department said that the Commission shall:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history\nThe government has further directed that the provisions of sub-section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Section 5 of Commission of Inquiry Act shall be applicable to the Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Outcome of Justice Jan commission\nThe final report filed by Justice Jan Commission is summarised in seven parts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 82], "content_span": [83, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nThe Shopian Bar Association formed a six-member \u2018fact finding committee\u2019 which included Advocate S M Iqbal, Advocate Ajaz Hussain, Advocate Ghulam Hassan Dar, Advocate Sheikh Mubarak and Advocate A M Mir and headed by Advocate M.Y. Bhat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nThe Forensic Science Lab report confirmed gang rape of the duo. Reports will be presented to the authorities on Sunday, 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nCommission ordered police to handover a complete report about the duty schedule and leave schedule of the policemen stationed in various pickets around the place wherefrom the two women disappeared on 29 May besides commission along with his team also visited both the spots from where police recovered the bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nHealth officials submitted their report to DGP. Reports ruled out death of the victims due to drowning or consuming poison. The report said unmarried girl Asiya died due to violent sexual assaults. The assaults were so violent that she sustained severe multiple injuries, resulting in bleeding of various body parts and subsequent death while Neelofar died of neurogenic shock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nThe High Court Bar Association probing the matter independently released its fact-finding report which concluded that the duo were abducted, gang-raped and murdered rather were raped even after the murder. Their report demanded police to file case under sections 363, 366, 376, 120B of RPC for kidnap of a minor, abduction of a major, rape, murder and conspiracy respectively. It even mentioned that the SP had forced the doctors to change statements and that the SP of Shopian, concerned SHO, Shafeeq Ahmed, doctors of the hospital, Shopian, Dr Hilal, Dr Nazir and Dr Bilquees, all are guilty of failure of duties and destruction of proof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nThe commission further mentioned FSL report, which confirms rape, as UNSETTLED and INDEFINITE to prove the cause death of the victims. Dr Fareeda Noor mentioned that cause of death could have easily identified if samples from vital organs like heart, spleen, brain were obtained at the time of post mortem. Hence, commission might order exhumation of the victims bodies to establish justified cause of death of the duo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nSpecial Investigation Team (SIT) of police submitted the status report along with its objections over two petitions before Chief Judicial Magistrate Shopian for the two separate petitions related to the case. One petition was filed by Shakeel Ahmad, the brother of Asiya and husband of Neelofar, in which he had prayed that the four police officers of FSL indicted by the Jan Commission and later placed under suspension by the government for destroying evidences be made accused in the rape and murder case. The court had asked the government to file objections on 30 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Case history, Timeline of probe and police findings and fact-finding committee\nIn another petition filed by the Shopian Bar Association, CJM was urged to monitor the investigations and ask the SIT to present the status report and case dairy in the court. The petition had also sought brain mapping of those whose names the SIT after investigation had involved in the case. Bar Association in its petition wanted registration of a murder case, presenting of a report of investigations into court, appointing of a special investigation by the court and monitoring of investigations by the court. It had also urged the High Court that directions be given to the state government not to allow police, SOG, CRPF and army personnel in Shopian to move out of station from their camps while the investigations were in progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Rejection of probe\nThe High Court Bar Association, on 1 June 2009, rejected the probe ordered by the government demanding a sitting Judge of High Court or Chief Justice to carry out the probe instead of a retired Justice, Muzaffar Jan, while separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanded Amnesty International to probe the incident and also urged the High Court Bar Association to probe the matter at their own level so that the people could know the truth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Rejection of probe\nHowever, the Advocate General of Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ishaq Qadri commented that the Commission of Inquiry headed by a sitting or a retired judge does not make any difference regarding the legality of its findings, which are recommendatory in nature in both the cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Rejection of probe\nUnionist leader of the opposition in the assembly and the PDP president, Mahbooba Mufti, also rejected the government's inquiry commission into the case, and called upon the prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, to review the performance of the state's ruling coalition personally as according to her, it had failed to extent of not registering an FIR of rape and murder in the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nAs soon as the news about the incident spread in the Kashmir valley, spontaneous protests started. These protests were followed by the strike call by the secessionist leaders. Demands for justice, self-determination and removal of the Indian forces started. As soon as the protests started, police and Indian armed forces in order to halt the protests batten charged the protesters and fired repeated tear gas canisters. Many separatist leaders were put under house arrest or jailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nProtesters restored to stone pelting after police and paramilitary troops fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowd, injuring more than two dozen people. In Shopian, house of the Local legislator was damaged by mobs. Hurriyat Conference (G), chairman, Syed Ali Geelani renewed the strike call for next two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nIn Srinagar, 80 people including 8 policemen were injured. The S.P. of Police, city South, Irshad Ahmed and four policemen were injured and a CRPF bunker belonging to 157 Battalion was set on fire when group of youths pelted stone on the police party in Batmaloo, Srinagar. Protest also marred polling in Hazratbal Assembly Constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nThe Hurriyat Conference(G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, renewed the strike till Sunday, when a comprehensive program will be delivered for further action. He has been authorised by the Majlis Shoura, the highest decision making body of the amalgam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\n\"SHOPHIAN CHALO\" (peaceful march towards Shopian) announced by The Hurriyat Conference(G) Chairman, Syed Ali Geelani was foiled by police and troops by exhaling curfew like situation in all the parts of the valley. The processions carried out by Muslim Khawateen Markaz led by Zamrooda Habib in Srinagar, by JKLF activities led by Abdul Rashid in Kupwara were stopped by using extensive forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nThe Shopian district saw heavy injuries caused by police and CRPF troops against peaceful protests. 5 people named Zahoor Ahmad of Chakura, Ashiq Ahmad Ganai, Shawkar Ahmad and Jalal-ud-din Bhat, from Baskuchan, and Fazlul Mateen of Handew were critically injured as police broke out firing at Sofan Namam of Shopian district. Four persons identified as Javed Ahmad Bhat, Imtiaz Ahmad Bhat, Shakeel Ahmad Ganai and Shahnawaz Ahmad from Keegam were severely injured in tear smoke shelling at Rang Kadal in Shopian. A person, Riyaz Ahmad, sustained heavy injuries due to beating by the troopers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nIn Srinagar, at Nowhatta Chowk, youths protested by pelting stones after police used gruesome force against their peaceful protest leading to injuring of 20 people and 3 journalists in which one was UNI photojournalist and other 2 were working with local channels as video journalists. Islamabad, Kulgam, Phulwama, Bijbehara and Ganderbal also saw protests by civilians against the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew\nThe strike at Shopian entered its 22nd day with continuous protests. The police and CRPF troops quelled peaceful protests with tear gas shelling and rubber bullets firing injuring 12 people including six women out of which one woman named Razia, daughter of Abdul Rasheed was severely injured and was admitted to SKIMs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew, Curfew\nOn 1 June 2009, in old city, section 144 crpc was imposed to maintain law and order. Police imposed restrictions on the movement of people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204942-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Shopian rape and murder case, Protests, arrests and curfew, Curfew\nThe Police arrested Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, from his residence at Hyderpora and was released at mid night from Humhama Police Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election\nElections to Shropshire Council in England were held on 4 June 2009. These were the first elections to the new unitary body, which replaced Shropshire County Council and the district councils of Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham and South Shropshire on 1 April as part of the 2009 local government restructuring across England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election\nThe vote was moved from 7 May to coincide with the European Parliament elections that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election\nCounting took place on 5 June at the Sundorne Sports Village in north Shrewsbury. The count was delayed by around 5 hours, resulting in Shropshire being the last local council to declare results in the 2009 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election\nIn total, 74 councillors were elected from 63 newly formed electoral divisions (53 single member divisions, nine 2-member divisions and one 3-member electoral division). The Conservatives won overall control, with 54 councillors elected resulting in a substantial majority of 34. The Liberal Democrats came second with 11 councillors elected, and Labour third with 7 councillors. In addition, the Independent Community and Health Concern candidate in Cleobury Mortimer and one independent candidate were also elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election\nBecause of the council's unitary status, all divisions are up for election at once, every four years. The next Shropshire Council election took place on 2 May 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, Central area results\nFollowing are the results for the electoral divisions located in the Central administrative sub-division of Shropshire Council, which covers the area of the former Shrewsbury and Atcham borough. Unless otherwise stated, all divisions elect a single member. The winning candidates are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, Central area results, Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton\nBayston Hill, Column and Sutton is a three-member division, with voters able to cast three separate votes in the election. In 2009, all three Labour candidates topped the vote, resulting in them being elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 96], "content_span": [97, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, Central area results, Severn Valley\nThe Severn Valley division was uncontested in 2009, resulting in the Conservative candidate being elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results\nFollowing are the results for the electoral divisions located in the North administrative sub-division of Shropshire Council, which covers the areas of the previous North Shropshire and Oswestry district and borough councils. Unless otherwise stated, all divisions elect a single member. The winning candidates are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results, Market Drayton West\nMarket Drayton West is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results, Oswestry East\nOswestry East is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results, Selattyn and Gobowen\nSelattyn and Gobowen is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. The Liberal Democrat candidate and one of the two Conservative candidates topped the poll and they were both elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 83], "content_span": [84, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results, Wem\nWem is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. The Liberal Democrat candidate and an independent candidate topped the poll and were both elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, North area results, Whitchurch North\nWhitchurch North is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, South area results\nFollowing are the results for the electoral divisions located in the South administrative sub-division of Shropshire Council, which covers the areas of the former South Shropshire and Bridgnorth districts. Unless otherwise stated, all divisions elect a single member. The winning candidates are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, South area results, Bridgnorth East and Astley Abbotts\nBridgnorth East and Astley Abbotts is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 97], "content_span": [98, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, South area results, Bridgnorth West and Tasley\nBridgnorth West and Tasley is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, South area results, Church Stretton and Craven Arms\nChurch Stretton and Craven Arms is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, both Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 94], "content_span": [95, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204943-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Shropshire Council election, Results, South area results, Cleobury Mortimer\nCleobury Mortimer is a two-member division, with voters able to cast two separate votes in the election. In 2009, the Independent Community and Health Concern candidate and one of the two Conservative candidates topped the vote, resulting in their election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204944-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Shute Shield season\nThe first matches of the season were played on 28 March 2009 with the season ending in the Grand Final on 26 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204944-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Shute Shield season, Teams\nTwelve teams competed in the 2009 Shute Shield season from Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204944-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Shute Shield season, Teams\nz Does not field a team in the 1st Grade Colts competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204944-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Shute Shield season, Club Championship\nClub competition points are calculated thus: 1st grade x 15, 2nd grade x 8, 3rd grade x 5, 4th grade x 4, 1st colts x 6, 2nd colts x 3, 3rd colts x 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204945-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup\nThe 2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Palermo, Italy between 21 and 27 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204945-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204945-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Fischer /  Philipp Oswald def. Pierre-Ludovic Duclos /  Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204946-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup \u2013 Doubles\nAustrian pair Martin Fischer and Philipp Oswald won this tournament, by defeating fourth-seeded Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Rog\u00e9rio Dutra da Silva 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20135] in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204947-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sicilia Classic Mancuso Company Cup \u2013 Singles\nAdrian Ungur became the first champion of this event, after won against Albert Ramos-Vi\u00f1olas 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship\nThe 2009 FIM Sidecarcross world championship, the 30th edition of the competition, started on 29 March and finished after thirteen race weekends on 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship\nAfter six championships in a row for Dani\u00ebl Willemsen, the 2009 edition was won by Joris Hendrickx from Belgium. His passenger, Kaspars Liepi\u0146\u0161, is from Latvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship\nParallel to the riders competition, a manufacturers championship was also held and won by Vruwink MotorCycles - VMC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview\nThe 2009 season was the 30th edition of the sidecarcross world championship. The defending champion was Dani\u00ebl Willemsen from the Netherlands. He started the season with a new passenger, having parted with the Swiss Reto Gr\u00fctter, whom he won the 2007 and 2008 title with. After 17 seasons in the sidecarcross world championship, former five-time world champion Kristers Sergis had announced his retirement from the competition, having finished his career with a second place in the 2008 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview\nAnother former world champion to retire from the competition was Marcel Willemsen, but he did still take part in one more Grand Prix during the season. With Kaspars Stupelis and Sven Verbrugge, two riders who had won world championships as passengers with Dani\u00ebl Willemsen also took part in the competition, the later reunited with Willemsen in a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview\nThe thirteen races of the season were held in eleven countries, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Denmark, Poland and Germany. It was the first time since 2001, that the championship had returned to the traditional sidecarcross nation of Switzerland. Russia was on the calendar only for the second time, the previous race having been scheduled to be held in Moscow in 2004 but being cancelled because of heavy rain. Poland hosted a race for the first time. The competition however did not return to Great Britain who held its last event in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nEvery Grand Prix weekend is split into two races, both held on the same day. Thus the 2011 season with its thirteen Grand Prix had 26 races. Each race lasts for 30 minutes plus two laps. The two races on a weekend get combined to determine an overall winner. In case of a tie, the results of the second race are used to determine the winner. While this overall winner receives no extra WC points, they usually are awarded a special trophy. Race start times are set at 13:30 and 16:00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nEvents typically consist of a qualifying competition, held in multiple stages on Saturdays of a race weekend while the two race events are typically held on Sundays. One exception to this rule is Easter weekends, when the races are held on Easter Monday. Race weekends can consist of additional motocross or quart support races as well, but the FIM stipulates that the World Championship races have priority. Riders have to be provided with at least one 30-minute free practice season, which will be timed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nA race can consist of up to 30 starters and the qualifying modus is dependent on the number of entries. With up to 32 entries, it will be held in one group split into two sessions of 30 minutes each. Above 32 entries, the starter field will be sub-divided into two groups through ballot and the current standings. Each qualifying group can consist of up to 30 racers. Should there be more than 60 entries, a pre-qualifying has to be held. Of the riders in the two groups, the top twelve directly qualify for the races. The remaining teams then go to a second-chance qualifying, in which the best six advance. The riders placed seventh and eighth remain in reserve should one of the qualified teams not be able to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nThe FIM stipulates that all drivers must be of a minimum age of 18 while passengers have to be at least 16 years old to compete, but no older than 50. Riders older than 50 have to provide a certificate of medical fitness to be permitted to compete. The driver has the right to exchange his passenger under certain conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nStarting numbers for the season are awarded according to the previous season's overall finishing position of the driver. Current or former World Champions have however the right to pick any number they wish, except the number one, which is reserved for the current World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nThe competition is open for motor cycles with two-stroke engines from between 350 and 750 cc and four-stroke engines of up to 1,000\u00a0cc. Each team is permitted the use of two motorcycles with the possibility of changing machines between races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nThe FIM does not permit radio communication between riders and their teams. Outside assistance during the race on the course is not permitted unless it is through race marshals in the interest of safety. Limited repairs in the designated repair zone during the race are permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Format\nThe first twenty teams of each race score competition points. The point system for the 2009 season was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Prize money\nPrize money and travel reimbursements in the sport are not large, sidecarcross still qualifying mostly as an amateur sport. In the 2009 season for example, every team received Euro 500 as a travel indemnity per race weekend qualified for. Additionally, prize money was paid, with the winner earning \u20ac300, the second placed team \u20ac250, the third placed team \u20ac200. With the prize money gradually dropping off from there, the teams placed twelfth to twentieth still received \u20ac50 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204948-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidecarcross World Championship, Classification, Manufacturers\nParallel to the riders championship, a manufacturers competition is also held. In every race, only the best-placed rider of every make is awarded points in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nThe Sidekick data outage of 2009 resulted in an estimated 800,000 smartphone users in the United States temporarily losing personal data, such as emails, address books and photos from their mobile handsets. The computer servers holding the data were run by Microsoft. The brand of phone affected was the Danger Hiptop, also known as the \"Sidekick\", and were connected via the T-Mobile cellular network. At the time, it was described as the biggest disaster in cloud computing history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nThe Sidekick smartphones were originally produced by Danger, Inc., a company that was bought by Microsoft in February 2007. After the acquisition, the former Danger staff were then absorbed into the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, where they worked on a future Microsoft mobile phone platform known as Project Pink. However, most of the ex-Danger employees soon left Microsoft to pursue other things. Microsoft took over the running of the data servers, and its data centers were hosting the customers' data at the time it was lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nOn Friday, October 2, 2009, T-Mobile Sidekick phone users started noticing data service outages occurring. The outages lasted approximately two weeks, and on October 10, 2009, T-Mobile announced that personal information stored on Sidekick phones would be permanently lost, which turned out to be incorrect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nAccording to the Financial Times, Microsoft said the data center it acquired from Danger 18 months previously had not been \"updated to run on Microsoft technology.\" A company statement said the mishap was due to \"a confluence of errors from a server failure that hurt its main and backup databases supporting Sidekick users.\" T-Mobile blamed Microsoft for the loss of data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nThe incident caused a public loss of confidence in the concept of cloud computing, which had been plagued by a series of outages and data losses in 2009. It also was problematic for Microsoft, which at the time was trying to convince corporate clients to use its cloud computing services, such as Azure and My Phone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nOn October 14, 2009, a class action lawsuit was launched against Microsoft and T-mobile. The lawsuit alleged:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nT-Mobile and Microsoft promised to safeguard the most important data their customers possess and then apparently failed to follow even the most basic data protection principles. What they did is unthinkable in this day and age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nThe class action lawsuit was settled in 2011, with affected users compensated with a \"$35 T-Mobile gift card, a $17.50 check payment, or up to 12 free downloadable items.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nOn October 15, Microsoft said they had been able to recover most or all data and would begin to restore them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nMicrosoft CEO, Steve Ballmer disputed whether there had been a data loss at all, instead describing it as an outage. Ballmer said, \u201cIt is not clear there was data loss\". However, he said the incident was \"not good\" for Microsoft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204949-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sidekick data loss\nEven before this data loss, Danger had marketed an application for Windows computers which would back up all Sidekick data onto a user's computer and also to allow changes to be made and then re-downloaded to the Sidekick in real-time. Users who had this backup storage option were able to save all of their data. In the United States, T-mobile marketed this application for a one-time charge of $10. Immediately after the data had been restored to all their users, T-mobile incorporated the Sidekick storage website with the regular T-mobile backup site. The application to the user's personal computer, the Danger backup site, and the T-mobile backup site could then be synchronized together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204950-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Siemens Open\nThe 2009 Siemens Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the seventeenth edition of the tournament which is part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Scheveningen, Netherlands between 6 July and 12 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204950-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Siemens Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204950-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Siemens Open, Champions, Doubles\nLucas Arnold Ker /  M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez def. Thomas Schoorel /  Nick van der Meer, 7\u20135, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204951-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Siemens Open \u2013 Doubles\nRameez Junaid and Philipp Marx were the defending champions, but they lost to Schoorel and van der Meer in the semifinal. Lucas Arnold Ker and M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20132, against Thomas Schoorel and Nick van der Meer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204952-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Siemens Open \u2013 Singles\nJesse Huta Galung was the title defender, but he lost to Pablo Cuevas already in the first round. Kristof Vliegen became the new champion, after retired Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident\nThe 2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident occurred on 8 September 2009 off the coast of Sierra Leone, when a wooden Teh Teh ferry travelling from Shenge village to Tombo sank during a storm. At least 90 people to date have been confirmed dead, and over 100 others have been listed as \"missing\". So far, only 39 survivors have been rescued. Several of the passengers were children who had been on holiday, though the official passenger manifest did not include them. An attempted rescue operation ended on 11 September. The sinking is the worst such accident in Sierra Leone since 2002, when a boatful of refugees capsized. The Xinhua News Agency in China has likened the disaster to other major marine accidents in recent years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident\nSierra Leone's police initially indicated there were only 150 people on the ferry when it sank; however, it has since been determined that there were far more aboard. There were actually about 200 passengers who had booked passage on the stricken boat; moreover, the captain allowed extra passengers to board, placing the true figure in doubt. Sierra Leone's transport ministry has suggested there may have been 300 people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident, Rescue\nA survivor alerted authorities to the incident after arriving onshore aboard a 20-litre plastic container. After launching a rescue mission, the initial search party found the ferry afloat. Relatives of those on board flocked to Tombo to hear what had happened to their loved ones, with several \"bitterly criticis(ing)\" the lengthy delays at rescue attempts. Musu Conteh, whose child went missing in the shipwreck, claimed a search did not get underway for 10 hours. Several of the rescued were described as being in \"serious condition\". One of the survivors, Alimamy Bangura, said the ferry had been \"tossed around like a piece of paper\". Another survivor, Sam Kelfala, said \"the heavy weight of drums of palm oil and other goods trapped many of the people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident, Rescue\nThe 90 corpses which were recovered were all buried. Thirty of them were unrecognisable and were placed in a mass grave. Attempts have been made to recover more corpses from the sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident, Rescue\nFurther survivors were not expected to be found due to sea turbulence and currents, which would have hampered efforts to swim ashore. However, search-and-rescue efforts persisted for several days, with local fishermen assisting the navy. Many corpses have been washed up on the shoreline. 120 bodies were buried on 12 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident, Cause\nSevere weather and overloading have been blamed for the sinking. The boat did not carry lifejackets, and was built to hold only sixty passengers. Edible palm oil was also being carried on board, as well as kolanuts and rice bags. The captain, Thaim Bundu, was said to have \"ignored warnings\" about dangerous conditions. One survivor, an Alfred Smith, said Bundu was \"wholly responsible\", while another survivor, Bintu Sinneh, claimed the captain was arrogant in the face of concerns from passengers. Bundu perished in the sinking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204953-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident, Reaction\nSierra Leone's President, Ernest Bai Koroma, was said to be \"very sad\" in the wake of the tragedy. Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, Sierra Leone's Information Minister, said the shipwreck would be \"thoroughly investigated\". International assistance has been offered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election\nThe Sikkim Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in April 2009, concurrently with the 2009 Indian general election. The elections were held in the state for all 32 legislative assembly seats along with the third phase of 2009 Indian general elections on 30 April 2009. The results were declared on 5 May 2009. The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) further strengthened their majority in the Sikkim Assembly by winning all the seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's Government returned for an unprecedented fourth consecutive term having won previous elections in 1994, 1999, and 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly\nIn the 2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, the SDF almost had a clean-sweep winning 31 of the 32 seats in the state. Congress was the only other party to win any seats, winning the Sangha seat that is reserved for the monks and nuns of Sikkim's many monasteries. P.K. Chamling led SDF had already formed the previous two Governments in Sikkim having first formed the Government after the 1994 election, when they won 19 seats within a year of the party being formed), and then again after the 1999 election, when they increased their tally to 24 seats. Chamling's third term began on May 21, 2004 when he and his 11cabinate ministers were sworn in by the then Governor of Sikkim V. Rama Rao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Background\nWith the tenure of the Sikkim Assembly scheduled to expire on May 23, 2009, the Election Commission of India announced on March 2, 2009 that the elections to the Sikkim Assembly would be held at the same time as the general election. Sikkim voted in the third phase of the 5-phase national election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThough SDF had provided external support to Manmohan Singh's Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre since 2004, the SDF and Congress were the main political opponents in Sikkim. Ironically, the Congress was led in the state by Nar Bahadur Bhandari, mentor and former colleague of Chamling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Background\nIn this election UDF was formed by coalition of BJP, INC and few other parties, which was thrown into disarray with its constituents appearing to go separate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204954-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, Results, Government formation\nThe SDF went from strength to strength and this time won even the single seat that had eluded them in 2004. With a clean sweep of all 32 seats in the state, Chamling was sworn in for his fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister by Governor B.P. Singh at the Gangtok Raj Bhawan on May 20, 2009. This Government included Neeru Sewa and Tilu Gurung who became the first ever women Cabinet ministers in Sikkim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204955-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Silver Helmet (Poland)\nThe 2009 Silver Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Srebrny Kask, BK) is the 2009 version of Silver Helmet organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The final took place on 25 September in Cz\u0119stochowa and was won by Grzegorz Zengota (Falubaz Zielona G\u00f3ra).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204955-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Silver Helmet (Poland), The final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204956-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Silverstone GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 British GP2 round was the fourth round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on 20 and 21 June 2009 at Silverstone Circuit at Silverstone, United Kingdom. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 British Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204956-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Silverstone GP2 Series round\nPast Winners include 2008 champion Giorgio Pantano and runner up, Bruno Senna, who both did not compete this year. 2008 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton also won in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204956-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Silverstone GP2 Series round\nRomain Grosjean started from Pole in the feature race, with Alberto Valerio taking a surprise second in his Piquet GP car. Both drivers got off the line well, but within five laps Valerio passed Grosjean for the lead. Grosjean continued to fall back and finished in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204956-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Silverstone GP2 Series round\nPastor Maldonado of ART Grand Prix won the sprint race from the front row, he beat Andreas Zuber off the line, and the two of them did not change their positions at the chequered flag, after a late safety car period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup\nThe Singapore Cup 2009 (known as the RHB Singapore Cup due to its main sponsor) started on 27 April 2009. It was the 12th staging of the annual Singapore Cup tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup\n12 S.League clubs and 4 invited foreign teams from Thailand (2 teams), Cambodia (1) and Indonesia (1) played in this edition. The cup was a single-elimination tournament, with all sixteen teams playing from the first round. The first round involved one-off matches. Subsequent rounds involved ties of two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup\nThe final was played on 8 November and won by Geylang United, who beat Bangkok Glass 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup, Knockout stage\nThe draw for the tournament was held on 15 April 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nAlbirex Niigata (S) 1 \u2013 1 Tampines Rovers on aggregate. Albirex Niigata (S) won 3 \u2013 1 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204957-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Cup, Semifinals, Second leg\nGeylang United 1 \u2013 1 Albirex Niigata (S) on aggregate. Geylang United won 4-3 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Singapore Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore on 27 September 2009. The 61-lap race was the fourteenth round of the 2009 Formula One season. It was the second Singapore Grand Prix to be part of a Formula One Championship and the tenth Singapore Grand Prix overall. It was also the second Formula One race to be held at night. The race was won by McLaren-Mercedes driver and reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix\nToyota's Timo Glock finished second and 2008 race winner Fernando Alonso took third position, making this the only race of the season with neither a Brawn nor a Red Bull driver on the podium. This was also the last race of 2009 for Glock, as he was injured during qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix and was replaced by test driver Kamui Kobayashi. Heikki Kovalainen scored his last World Championship points at this race, as did second-placed Glock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix\nAs a consequence of the race, Championship leader Jenson Button extended his lead by one point finishing in fifth, one position ahead of Brawn teammate and Championship rival Rubens Barrichello. Fellow rival Sebastian Vettel had been challenging Hamilton for the lead before a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane scuppered his strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nFernando Alonso of Renault was the only previous winner of the race but recent controversy over last year's victory surrounded the race. Last year's pole sitter Felipe Massa sat out the race with injuries sustained in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The previous street circuit races this year were won by Brawn GP with Jenson Button taking the chequered flag in Monaco and Rubens Barrichello victorious in Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nPrior to the race, Button led the Championship by 14 points from teammate Barrichello, with Brawn's closest challenger Sebastian Vettel lying 12 points behind the Brazilian and 26 behind Button. Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen of Ferrari was looking for a fifth consecutive podium, having scored three quarters of his 40 2009 championship points in the previous four\u00a0races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn led the Constructors' Championship on 146 points (and could have clinched the Constructors' title in Singapore), whilst Red Bull were 40.5 behind on 105.5. Ferrari and McLaren were 3rd and 4th respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe circuit was also reprofiled slightly, including modifications to turns 1, 2, 3, 13 and 14 to aid overtaking, and also at turn 10 where high kerbs caused many accidents in 2008. The entrance and exit to the pit lane were also changed. The cars entered the pit lane before turn 22 while the most significant change was the exit of the pits with the cars now joining after turn 1. As a result, the total length of the circuit increased by 6 metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nTurns 1, 7 and 10 were now known as \"Sheares\", \"Memorial\" and \"Singapore Sling\" respectively. The namesake of these names are as follows: \"Sheares\" is named after the Benjamin Sheares Bridge that spans on the expressway above the circuit, which is in turn named after ex-President of the Republic Benjamin Sheares. \"Memorial\" is named after the WWII War Memorial in the middle of the city, and \"Singapore Sling\" is the name of Singapore's signature drink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nAnnounced on Thursday evening (UTC) that title sponsor ING and Mutua Madrile\u00f1a had terminated their sponsorship deals with Renault with immediate effect. This move followed the previous year's Singapore Grand Prix race-fixing scandal that resulted in a suspended ban for the team. Renault removed the sponsors' logos from their cars before they ran them on track. Mutua Madrile\u00f1a continued however to back 2005 and 2006 World Champion Fernando Alonso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe first session of the weekend ended as the previous race finished with the two Brawns on top, Rubens Barrichello in front of Jenson Button. Renault's Romain Grosjean caused the session to be stopped after losing control of the car at the same corner that Nelson Piquet, Jr. crashed out during the race at last year's event. Adrian Sutil and Heikki Kovalainen  were the others who had on track incidents. Fernando Alonso split the two Red Bull's in fourth, Mark Webber finished the session in third and Sebastian Vettel in fifth. Giancarlo Fisichella continued to struggle as he finished the session P17, around 1.6s behind teammate Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe second session was also red flagged this time with Red Bull's Mark Webber. A big accident on the pit straight as the nose, front left wheel and the wing took the impact as a lot of debris was put onto the track. However the other Red Bull of Vettel finished the session top 0.2s ahead of Alonso. Kovalainen took third, Heidfeld fourth and championship leader Button finished the days final session in fifth. Jenson's teammate Barrichello struggled to take eleventh almost one second slower than Vettel. Although Webber crashed out with one hour remaining in the session he managed to sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nThe final practice session got under way with no cars posting a time for the best part of 15 minutes. With the first session of the weekend not being red-flagged it was Lewis Hamilton who finished top of the time sheets. Sebastian Vettel finished second trying to make the most of this Red Bull car as his teammate Mark Webber struggled for pace finishing down in thirteenth. The Williams of Nico Rosberg came third with Hamilton's teammate Heikki Kovalainen in fourth. Rubens Barrichello finished in sixth behind the two BMW's of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nRubens's teammate and championship leader Jenson Button struggled and only managed fourteenth. The two Force India drivers didn't look quick at all as the high down-force circuit of Singapore didn't seem to suit the car. They ended the session P16 and 17. Giancarlo Fisichella seemed to be struggling a lot being 1.2s behind teammate R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and 2.4s behind Lewis Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe first qualifying session began with Renault's Romain Grosjean going down the escape round at turn 17 due to brake issues. Rosberg set the early pace but Button, Vettel, and Hamilton responded quickly with their own flying laps. Both Ferrari's were struggling until R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen took second with three minutes remaining. His teammate Fisichella was eliminated alongside Sutil, Alguersuari, Romain Grosjean, and Liuzzi..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nAt the beginning of the second qualifying session, Mark Webber was the pace-setter, but an amazing lap by Nico Rosberg secured his place in Q3. Button was struggling throughout the session, and, after narrowly avoiding putting the car into the wall on his final lap, he qualified a dismal twelfth. His teammate, Barrichello, made it through to Q3, but a post-qualifying gearbox change saw the Brazilian take a five-place grid penalty. Alongside Button, Nakajima, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Buemi, and Trulli were knocked out in this session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe top 10 drivers set their early quick laps. Hamilton took the early lead with Vettel and Rosberg close behind. Barrichello spun off and hit the wall hard, destroying much of the left side of his car, which brought out the yellow flags. The red flag was brought out with 26 seconds remaining on the clock. The session was restarted, but the very low amount of time meant that no one was able to get back on track, and the session was effectively ended early. Hamilton took pole position ahead of Vettel, Rosberg, and Mark Webber. Although Barrichello qualified fifth, he started the race tenth after his gearbox change. This session was the third of four to be red flagged during the weekend; only the third practice session was not interrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nApproximately three hours before the scheduled race start it was announced Nick Heidfeld would be starting the race from the pitlane, after his team discovered insufficient ballast had been fitted to his car. This promoted all the cars behind him one position on the grid, significantly moving both the Brawn cars onto the 'clean' side of the starting grid, on the racing line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe race began shortly after 8pm local time with Lewis Hamilton making a clean start from pole position. Nico Rosberg took advantage of being on the clean side of the track to overtake Sebastian Vettel into the first corner. Fernando Alonso attempted to also pass Vettel but was unsuccessful, giving Mark Webber the opportunity to overtake Alonso on the outside of Turn 7. Both Alonso and Webber went off track as Webber completed the move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nStewards deemed Webber's move illegal and on lap seven he was told to hand the position back to Alonso, which also meant letting Timo Glock through as the German had also passed Alonso on the first lap. Alonso's Renault teammate Romain Grosjean was not having any more luck, having to retire at the end of lap three with a recurring brake problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nWith Barrichello in seventh and Button out of the points scoring positions in 10th, Vettel looked to capitalise and try to close Button's 26 point lead in the Championship. By lap 13 he was 2.1 seconds behind Rosberg, who was in turn 2.5 seconds behind Hamilton. Vettel was the first of the leaders to stop, on lap 17. A lap later Rosberg pitted but he misjudged the level of grip on the pit exit, causing his car to cross the white line that distinguishes the pit lane from the race track, an offence that is punished by a drive-through penalty. Rosberg was issued with the penalty on lap 20 and would have to serve penalty within three racing laps. Hamilton also pitted on lap 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe following lap, an accident involving Adrian Sutil and Nick Heidfeld necessitated the deployment of the Safety Car to remove debris from the track. Sutil spun attempting to pass Jaime Alguersuari on the inside of Turn 14 and, with his car facing the wrong way, attempted to rejoin the circuit as Heidfeld was taking the corner, causing a collision that forced both cars to retire, Heidfeld's first non finish since the 2007 United States Grand Prix. Sutil was later reprimanded and fined $20,000 by stewards for dangerous driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMost cars that had thus far not pitted for fuel and tyres did so under the Safety Car conditions, including both Brawn cars. The Safety Car did not benefit Rosberg, as Formula One regulations prevent a drive-through penalty being served under Safety Car conditions, meaning he would have to stop within two laps of the restart when the field was still closely bunched. During this round of pit stops, Alguersuari repeated the infamous mistake made by Felipe Massa at the 2008 race by attempting to exit his pit garage with the fuel hose still attached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe race restarted on lap 26, with Vettel now pressurising Hamilton for the lead. Rosberg served his penalty on lap 28, demoting him to 14th position. Hamilton and Vettel traded fastest laps with the gap between them hovering under a second. Behind Vettel the longer-fuelled Timo Glock was being encouraged to keep pushing as his team believed they could leap-frog the Red Bull in the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel pitted for his second stop on lap 39 and was clearly pushing very hard, running over a kerb on his out lap and damaging the underside of his car, having already lost his right wing mirror. However, worse was to come, as on lap 40 the stewards handed him a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThis left Hamilton 9.2 seconds ahead of Glock, who was in turn 7.6 seconds ahead of Alonso as Vettel served his penalty on lap 43. Red Bull's afternoon went from bad to worse three laps later as Webber spun out at Turn 1 after a right-front brake failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMcLaren brought in both Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen for their second stops, and Timo Glock also pitted. The Safety Car was not deemed necessary to clear Webber's car, giving Jenson Button, who had been following Kovalainen, the opportunity to put in a series of fast laps before his pit stop. With Barrichello running in seventh after a small problem at his second pit stop, Button had an opportunity to stay ahead of his teammate and extend his Championship lead. He pitted on lap 51, emerging in a net fifth position behind the impressively recovering Vettel and ahead of Barrichello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nButton seemed to have the speed to catch Vettel, who was concerned about his brakes following the retirement of Webber as well as that of Alguersuari, of Red Bull's sister team Toro Rosso, also with brake problems. Button closed the gap to under two seconds before he too appeared to develop brake problems. Fortunately for Button, his attempts to catch Vettel had given him a ten-second cushion over Barrichello with two laps to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nNearly two hours after the race started, Hamilton completed the final lap to take the chequered flag, ahead of Glock and Alonso. Vettel and Button held on for fourth and fifth respectively, ahead of Barrichello, Kovalainen and Robert Kubica in the final points paying position. Button extended his Championship lead by one point to 15 ahead of Barrichello, with just three races remaining. Vettel was 25 points behind Button while Webber's crash meant he was now officially out of the running for the World Championship. Brawn would need 12 points from the remaining three races to clinch the Constructors' Championship, while Ferrari's poor race, with neither driver scoring points, allowed McLaren to close the gap to Ferrari to three points in the battle for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nUnder Bernie Ecclestone's proposed 'winner takes all' medals system, Button would have been declared World Champion after this result, with no other driver able to match his tally of six race wins. The Olympics-style system was planned to be used to decide the 2009 World Champion but was dropped after pressure from teams in favour of the traditional points method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying\nCars that use the KERS system are marked with \"\u2021\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, F1 Rocks Singapore With LG\nThe inaugural F1 Rocks concerts was held in Singapore. Headlining acts include Beyonc\u00e9, The Black Eyed Peas, ZZ Top, Simple Minds, N.E.R.D., No Doubt, Jacky Cheung and A*Mei which took place 24 to 26 September nightly at Fort Canning Park. This also included Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button doing fun challenges and it was hosted by Lindsay Lohan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Fuel Festival Singapore\nAnother massive SingaporeGP Season event Fuel Festival featured headliners Underworld, will.i.am, Peter Hook ex-New Order, Bloc Party, Guru Josh, Darren Emerson, Freaks, Hybrid, Samantha Ronson, and Johnny Vicious and was hosted by Lindsay Lohan which takes place 24 September at Suntec Convention Centre as well as 25 to 27 September nightly at the National Museum of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204958-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Grand Prix, Fuel Festival Singapore\nSingapore GP itself is offering a showcase featuring Backstreet Boys, Travis, Carl Cox, and John Digweed on the 25th through 27th nightly throughout the track side areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204959-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore League Cup\nThe 2009 Singapore League Cup kicked off on 1 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204959-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore League Cup\nFor this season, the 12 teams will be divided into four groups of three in the preliminary round which will be played on a round-robin basis. The top two teams from each group qualify for the next round which will be played on a knockout (single elimination) basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204959-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore League Cup\nThe 2009 League Cup Final took place on 19 June (Friday) at the Jalan Besar Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204959-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore League Cup, Group stage\nThe draw for the group stage was held on May 14, 2009. The 12 S-League teams are drawn into 4 groups of 3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204959-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore League Cup, Group stage\nWinners and runners up of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident\nThe Singapore Romanian diplomat incident occurred on 15 December 2009, when three pedestrians were struck in a hit-and-run in the Singapore suburb of Bukit Panjang. The vehicle, a black Audi A6 bearing diplomatic license plates, was later identified as being driven by Dr Silviu Ionescu, at the time Charg\u00e9 d'Affaires ad interim of the Romanian Embassy in Singapore. At approximately 3\u00a0am, the vehicle ran two red lights and hit the pedestrians on a pedestrian crossing, injuring two and killing one. Approximately 40\u00a0minutes after the incident, Ionescu reported the vehicle as being stolen. The car was later found abandoned in Sungei Kadut approximately 4 hours after the collisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident\nSingapore began an investigation into the incident. Romanian authorities also commenced an investigation into the incident on 6 January 2010, and formally indicted Ionescu on charges on 2 February. A Singapore coroner's inquiry held in early March 2010 determined the vehicle had not been stolen and was being driven by Ionescu at the time of the incident. Ionescu, who had left Singapore three days after the incident, declined to return to Singapore for the proceedings. Singapore authorities have used diplomatic law to interview Ionescu's driver, but Romania has declined several requests to extradite Ionescu himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident\nIonescu was arrested by Romanian authorities in May 2010. His trial in Romania began in July 2010, and in March 2013, he was sentenced to 3 years' jail after being found guilty of manslaughter, negligent bodily injury and leaving the scene of a crash. Ionescu appealed, with the result arriving in February 2014, with the Court of Appeal upholding his conviction and doubling his sentence from 3 years to 6 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Incident\nAt approximately 3\u00a0am on 15 December 2009, Malaysians Tong Kok Wai, 30, his friend Bong Hwee How, 24, and Singaporean Muhd Haris Abu Talib, 18, were crossing at the pedestrian crossings in Bukit Panjang. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a black Audi A6 with diplomatic license plates run through two red traffic lights before striking the three men. Bong suffered severe head injuries, including post-traumatic amnesia. Tong suffered the most severe of injuries. After three days in hospital, he slipped into a coma and was pronounced brain dead on 18 December 2009. He was taken off life support on 25 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Incident\nThe abandoned Audi was later recovered by police in the Sungei Kadut neighbourhood. Ionescu had reported the vehicle as stolen approximately 40\u00a0minutes after the incident. According to his police statement, Ionescu drove the car to his diplomatic office shortly before 3\u00a0am. Shortly thereafter, he noticed the car was missing, at which time he reported it stolen. He then asked his driver, Marius Trusca, to drive him around in search of the car. After 20\u00a0minutes of searching, he took a taxi to his private residence. Police reports filed in a Singapore court differ from Ionescu's account. Police say Ionescu's driver was not working the night of the incident and was not called in to look for the vehicle until almost 9\u00a0am, rather than 3\u00a0am as reported by Ionescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Incident\nThree days after the incident, Ionescu left Singapore to return to Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Singaporean agencies\nOn 6 January 2010, the Romanian prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation and officially requested information about the case from Singaporean authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Singaporean agencies\nOn 28 January 2010, Singapore police revealed they had evidence that Ionescu was the driver in the hit-and-run. His presence, as well as that of his Romanian driver, was requested for the coroner's inquest into Tong's death. Singapore completed a coroner's inquiry into the events on 31 March 2010. Based on the witnesses (one of whom identified Ionescu as the driver at the time of the incident) and evidence presented by police in the coroner's inquiry, it was concluded that Ionescu was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Singaporean agencies\nIn response to the allegations, Ionescu said, \"Honestly, I don't believe in the court of Singapore\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Romanian agencies\nThe Romanian Foreign Ministry has distanced itself from Ionescu since he was excused from his diplomatic position, saying his statements carry the weight of any common citizen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Romanian agencies\nThe Romanian government has taken action against Ionescu. He was recalled from his post in Singapore with effect from 5 January 2010 and the case had been referred to the Romanian Prosecutor's Office. The Romanian Foreign Ministry also suspended Ionescu from his duties following the Romanian Prosecutor's Office's starting a criminal investigation regarding the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Actions by Romanian agencies\nSince the coroner's inquiry, a \"joint technical committee\" was established between Singapore and Romania, which intends to pursue legal action against Ionescu. Pending such action, Singapore has filed 13 charges against Ionescu and as well as issued an arrest warrant against him. The Romanian government seized a property in Bucharest belonging to Ionescu on 3 February 2010 with the aim of \"satisfying the claims of the civil parties.\" Meanwhile, Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Ionescu in April 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Public response\nThe fact that Ionescu could not be brought back to Singapore for trial due to diplomatic immunity and the absence of an extradition treaty between Singapore and Romania has triggered much public outrage in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Public response\nThere was also outcry in Malaysia as the deceased was a Malaysian who was working in Singapore. The family of the deceased sought help from the Malaysian government, but were turned down as it was considered an internal matter between Singapore and Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Romanian arrest and sentencing\nIonescu was arrested by Romanian authorities in May 2010. On 1 July 2010, the Romanian State Prosecutor charged Ionescu with culpable homicide, grievous bodily harm with intent, deserting the place of an accident and providing false evidence to the police. On 27 March 2013, a Bucharest district court found Ionescu guilty of manslaughter, negligent bodily injury and leaving the scene of an accident, so he was sentenced to 3 years' jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Romanian arrest and sentencing\nIonescu's appeal kept him out of jail and led to the case being brought to the Bucharest's Court of Appeal, with Ionescu twice filing for postponements. On 13 February 2014, the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction and doubled his sentence from 3 years to 6 years, after taking into account the State Prosecution Service's arguments that Ionescu showed no remorse for a grave crime which he continued to deny despite the weight of the evidence against him, and that he had deformed Romania's international reputation. In response, the Singapore government welcomed the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 73], "content_span": [74, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204960-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident, Death of Ionescu\nOn 9 December 2014, Ionescu died in a Bucharest jail hospital due to cardiorespiratory problems. It was less than a year after his final sentencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204961-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore Super Series\nThe 2009 Singapore Open Super Series was the fifth tournament of 2009 BWF Super Series badminton tournament. It was held from June 9 to June 14, 2009 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204962-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Singapore national football team results\nThis article details the fixtures and results of the Singapore national football team in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204963-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sioux Falls Cougars football team\nThe 2009 Sioux Falls Cougars football team represented the University of Sioux Falls in the 2009 NAIA football season. The Cougars won the 2009 NAIA Football National Championship  with a 25\u201322 victory over the third-ranked Lindenwood Lions. The team also won the Great Plains Athletic Conference championship with a perfect 10\u20130 record. This was the school's fourth NAIA Championship (1996, 2006, 2008) and third in four years. The team was coached by Kalen DeBoer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204963-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sioux Falls Cougars football team\nQuarterback Lorenzo Brown was named the NAIA Player of the Year prior to the game. Sioux Falls ended the season with a 29-game winning streak going back through the 2008 season. They extended this streak to 42 games, which tied an NAIA record before losing in the 2010 championship game After the season, DeBoer would left to take the offensive coordinator job at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He finished his tenure at Sioux Falls with a 67\u20133 record and three national titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204963-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sioux Falls Cougars football team, Schedule\nUSF went wire-to-wire as the number one team in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204964-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Hours of Watkins Glen\nThe 2009 Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen was the fifth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Watkins Glen International on June 6, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship\nThe 2009 Six Nations Championship, known as the RBS 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 10th Six Nations Championship, and the 115th international championship, an annual rugby union competition contested by the six major European national teams. The tournament was held between 7 February and 21 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship\nThe championship was contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Ireland won the Grand Slam and Triple Crown, only their second Grand Slam, and first since 1948, and first Triple Crown since 2007. It was Ireland's second Grand Slam in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship\nEngland finished as runners-up, and also won the Calcutta Cup. The tournament featured the first Friday night game in its history, played between France and Wales at the Stade de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nThe tournament began on 7 February 2009, when England hosted Italy in the earlier of the day's two matches. Ireland played France later that evening, with Scotland versus Wales the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nThe reigning champions on entering the 2009 tournament were Wales, who won the Grand Slam and Triple Crown in 2008. The winners of both accolades in 2009 were Ireland, with Ronan O'Gara's dropped goal leaving the score in the final match against Wales in Cardiff on 21 March at 17\u201315. Wales's Stephen Jones then missed a late penalty from just inside the Ireland half to leave Wales in fourth position. Ireland's two tries in that match came when captain Brian O'Driscoll and Tommy Bowe scored in quick succession in the 44th and 46th minutes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nPaul O'Connell received the Triple Crown and Ireland's captain Brian O'Driscoll lifted the trophy. It was Ireland's first Grand Slam since 1948, 61 years earlier. This was achieved in the first Six Nations Championship since Declan Kidney was appointed as manager of the Ireland team, succeeding Eddie O'Sullivan who resigned after the previous tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nTwelve tries were scored by Ireland throughout the tournament, and five wins left the team on top of the table at the end of the Championship with ten points. They opened with a 30\u201321 win over France at home stadium Croke Park on 7 February. On 15 February Ireland's second match was a 9\u201338 beating of Italy at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome. On 28 February, Ireland beat England 14\u201313 at Croke Park and on 14 March, Ireland beat Scotland 15\u201322 at Murrayfield Stadium. Then followed the Grand Slam against Wales on 21 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nThat game was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, who presented the trophy, and Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Following the game there were tributes from politicians including Brian Cowen, Leader of the Opposition Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen. A civic reception for the team took place outside Dublin's Mansion House on 22 March at 16:30, with 18,000 fans attending alongside Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Dublin's Deputy Lord Mayor Emer Costelloe. 2,000 fans had earlier greeted the team upon their arrival at Dublin Airport. Brian O'Driscoll described 21 March as a \"sweet, sweet day\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nThe game was watched by 945,000 people in Ireland, the highest rating television programme in the country by that stage of 2009. Former coach Eddie O'Sullivan was said to be \"delighted\" for the team. Brian O'Driscoll was named player of the tournament, beating Italy's Sergio Parisse and Ireland teammate Paul O'Connell. O'Connell was later named captain of the British and Irish Lions team to tour South Africa and containing fourteen members of the Grand Slam winning Irish team on 21 April 2009, describing it as \"a great honour\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nItaly were the only side to not win a match in the tournament, suffering defeats by twenty points or more against, in addition to Ireland, France (50\u20138), England (36\u201311) and Scotland (26\u20136), while losing 20\u201315 to Wales. Scotland managed a solitary victory against Italy to finish on 2 points. England, France and Wales all managed to win three of their matches to finish level on six points but England's points difference of +54 granted them second place in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Summary\nTheir points tally was boosted by a 36\u201310 defeat of France and a 26\u201312 win against Scotland which sealed the Calcutta Cup. Wales' early loss to France and narrow loss to Ireland in the last game of the tournament denied them a second consecutive championship. Although Wales needed to beat Ireland by more than 13 points to win the championship, they could have won the game and the Triple Crown in the last minute of the tournament (as well as denying Ireland the Grand Slam) if Stephen Jones' 50-yard penalty kick had not fallen short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Table\nNote: The first tiebreaker is point difference from all matches, the second is tries scored. After these two tiebreakers the championship is shared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures\nThe fixtures for the 2009 Six Nations were released on 17 April 2008. The France v Wales game on 27 February was the first Friday night game in the history of the championship, both under the Five and Six Nations format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204965-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship, Fixtures, Round 5\nIreland claimed their first championship since 1985 and first Grand Slam since 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads\nThis is a list of the complete squads for the 2009 Six Nations Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by the national rugby teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy Scotland, and Wales. Each country was entitled to name a squad of 39 players to contest the championship. They could also invite additional players along prior to the start of the championship while the coach could call up replacement players if squad members suffered serious injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads\nAll caps are as of the start of the tournament, and do not include appearances made during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, England\nEngland announced their 32-man squad for the 2009 Six Nations on 14 January 2009, including both Tom Palmer, who missed the entire tournament with a shoulder injury, and Tom Rees, who was ruled out of the first three games with knee trouble. Prop Matt Stevens was replaced in the squad by Julian White after Stevens was found to have taken a banned substance. Flanker Lewis Moody broke his ankle while training with his club, Leicester Tigers, and was replaced in the England squad by Steffon Armitage, brother of fullback Delon Armitage. Andy Goode, Joe Worsley and Paul Hodgson were all called up to train with the squad and went on to take part in the tournament, while Louis Deacon and Olly Barkley replaced the injured Tom Palmer and Shane Geraghty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, England\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, France\nFrance named their final 23-man squad for the Six Nations on 28 January. Eight players from their training squad lost their places in the final 23, with only Biarritz number 8 Imanol Harinordoquy being brought in from outside the original 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, France\nAs cover for prop Lionel Faure, who was nursing an injured calf, Clermont Auvergne's Thomas Domingo was called up to the squad on 11 February. Maxime Mermoz was called up in place of the banned Florian Fritz. Renaud Boyoud was also drafted in place of the injured Beno\u00eet Lecouls. Mathieu Bastareaud was called up for the injured Lionel Beauxis with Beno\u00eet Baby moving to fly-half, while Sylvain Marconnet was brought into the squad after injuries to both Beno\u00eet Lecouls and Nicolas Mas. Fran\u00e7ois Trinh-Duc was also called up as specialist fly-half cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, France\nOn 4 March J\u00e9r\u00f4me Thion, Julien Bonnaire and Damien Traille were all added to the squad, while S\u00e9bastien Chabal shifted from lock to the back row. For their final game against Italy, France called up William Servat and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Michalak to replace Benjamin Kayser who had a neck injury and S\u00e9bastien Tillous-Borde who withdrew with a biceps problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, France\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland\nIreland named their squad for the 2009 Six Nations on 21 January 2009. Included in the 39-man squad were seven uncapped players, as well as inside centre Gordon D'Arcy, who had only returned in December from a broken arm picked up in the opening game of the 2008 Six Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Ireland\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nItaly's squad for the Six Nations, named on 29 January 2009 by Nick Mallett:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nItaly lost both of their specialist scrum-halves, Simon Picone and Pietro Travagli, for the entire Six Nations due to injury. Pablo Canavosio was called up but failed to recover from a knee injury in time for Italy's opener. This led head coach Nick Mallett to make a move he had been contemplating even before Canavosio's withdrawal \u2013 shifting Mauro Bergamasco from flanker to scrum-half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nAfter Bergamasco's poor performance at scrum-half in the opener against England, in which his mistakes directly led to three of England's five tries, Mallett recalled Paul Griffen to play scrum-half and moved Bergamasco back to his normal flanker position. Carlo Del Fava was also brought in as an experienced second row forward. Leonardo Ghiraldini was called up after he recovered from injury but Fabio Ongaro was ruled out, so Franco Sbaraglini was also called up. On 3 March, Mallett added several players to the squad. Coming in were Fabio Staibano, Simone Favaro, Kristopher Burton and Michele Sepe. After returning from his suspension Andrea Masi picked up a back injury, Luciano Orquera was brought into the squad as cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland\nScotland named a 33-man squad for the 2009 Six Nations on 20 January 2009, and included uncapped prop Geoff Cross and fly-half Ruaridh Jackson. However, after injuries and illness hit the squad, a further five players were added to train on 30 January. After injuries to Geoff Cross and the Allan Jacobsen, Moray Low was called into the main squad to provide cover for the final two games. Following a return to fitness Rory Lamont was called up to the squad, but the game against Ireland came to soon for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales\nWales announced their squad for the 2009 Six Nations on 19 January 2009, naming a group of 28 players. Following a knee injury to scrum-half Gareth Cooper in training, head coach Warren Gatland opted to call 64-cap Sale Sharks scrum-half Dwayne Peel into the squad. After Dwayne Peel had also been ruled out with injury, Gatland was forced to call up London Irish scrum-half Warren Fury for bench cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204966-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales\nNote: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204967-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Under 20s Championship\nThe 2009 Six Nations Under 20s Championship was a rugby union competition held between February and March 2009. France won the tournament but no team won the Grand Slam or Triple Crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204967-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, Top try-scorers\nDoumayrou (FRA), Trinder, Lowe (both ENG), Venditti (ITA) - 3 tries", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204967-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, Top try-scorers\nLapandry, Camara, Fall (all FRA), Phillips, Tipuric, Reynolds (all WAL) - 2 tries", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204968-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Championship\nThe 2009 Six-red World Championship (styled the 888sport.com 6Red World Championship, among other spellings, for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 18 December 2009 at the INEC in Killarney, Republic of Ireland. The tournament was sponsored by online bookmaker 888sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204968-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Championship\nThe field of 118 players were divided into twenty groups of five and three groups of six. Twenty-eight competitors were on the 2009/2010 professional Main Tour. During the tournament Michael White compiled the fastest 75 maximum break in the group stage with 2 minutes and 28 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204968-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Championship\nMark Davis won in the final 6\u20133 against Mark Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204969-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Six-red World Grand Prix (often styled the 2009 SangSom 6-red World Grand Prix for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament held between 7 and 12 July 2009 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204969-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Grand Prix\nTwenty-three of the tournament's 48 competitors were on the 2009/10 professional World Snooker tour of the more established 15-red game. A relatively high proportion of competitors were from Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204969-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Grand Prix\nJimmy White won in the final 8\u20136 against Barry Hawkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204969-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Grand Prix, Prize money\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204969-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Six-red World Grand Prix, Round-robin stage\nThe top four players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were best of 9 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204970-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Skate America\nThe 2009 Skate America was the fifth event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York on November 12\u201315. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204971-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Skate Canada International\nThe 2009 Skate Canada International was the final event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex in Kitchener, Ontario on November 19\u201322. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204971-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Skate Canada International, Results, Pairs\nAliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy set a new world record of 206.71 points under the ISU Judging System for pairs combined total score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season\nThe 2009 Sky Blue FC season was the first season for Sky Blue FC in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). In the league's inaugural season, the club finished fourth in the regular season with 26 points, qualifying for the playoffs. After victories over the Washington Freedom and Saint Louis Athletica, Sky Blue FC defeated the Los Angeles Sol, the top team in the regular season, in the championship match to become the first WPS champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Drafts\nSky Blue FC was the WPS franchise in the New York City/New Jersey region. Players from the U.S. national team were allocated to the seven WPS clubs in September 2008; each side was allotted the rights to three national team players. The players that joined Sky Blue FC as a result of the allocation were striker Natasha Kai, Heather O'Reilly, and defender Christie Rampone; the latter two attended high school in New Jersey. Later in September, the 2008 WPS International Draft was held, allowing each club to select four international players. Sky Blue FC's first pick was Australian striker Sarah Walsh. Two players from Brazil were taken in the second and third round: Rosana and Ester. With the final selection in the International Draft, the team added Kelly Parker, a midfielder from Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 829]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Drafts\nThe 2008 WPS General Draft, in which each team was able to select four additional players to join their squads, was held the following month. Sky Blue FC had the 7th, 8th, 21st, and 22nd picks, and chose Cori Alexander, Keeley Dowling, Kacey White, and Jenny Anderson-Hammond. In January 2009, the 10-round 2009 WPS Draft was held. Midfielder Yael Averbuch, a New Jersey native, was chosen in the first round by Sky Blue FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nThe team had multiple locations for home games in its inaugural season. Their first two home games were held in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, at TD Bank Ballpark. For the remainder of the year, Sky Blue FC's home field was Yurcak Field, on the campus of Rutgers University. Ian Sawyers, who had won a championship as a coach in the Women's United Soccer Association in 2001, was named the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nSky Blue FC began their first WPS campaign on April 5, in a match against the Los Angeles Sol at TD Bank Ballpark. A first-half brace by Marta led the Sol to a 2\u20130 win. Six days later, Sky Blue FC hosted FC Gold Pride. Rampone, the team's regular captain, missed the match due to an injury. In the 76th minute, O'Reilly scored on a strike with her right foot for the club's first-ever goal, which was enough for a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nFollowing that match, which was their last at TD Bank Ballpark, Sky Blue FC embarked on a five-match stretch on the road. Against the Chicago Red Stars on April 19, goalkeepers Karen Bardsley and Jenni Branam combined for six saves in a scoreless draw. Collette McCallum had a scoring opportunity for Sky Blue FC in the first half, but her effort went off the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nAfter an exhibition against F.C. Indiana and an off week, Sky Blue FC's next WPS game was at FC Gold Pride on May 3. An 86th-minute goal by FC Gold Pride substitute Leigh Ann Robinson was the only score in a 1\u20130 Sky Blue FC loss. The team then traveled to Toyota Park for a match against the Red Stars, who were undefeated with two wins and two draws. In the eighth minute, Walsh received a pass from McCallum and scored to give Sky Blue FC the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nAfter they allowed no shots on goal in the opening 45 minutes, Kai doubled their advantage in the 79th minute; Sky Blue FC held on by that two-goal margin for their first victory of the season. They next played at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles against the Sol, losing 1\u20130 on an 80th-minute goal by Marta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nSky Blue FC's next game, at the Washington Freedom, was played at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. Before the match, Sawyers was suspended from his duties with the club; team president Thomas Hofstetter said in a statement that \"Differences have arisen between Ian and the ownership of the organization.\" Kelly Lindsey, an assistant under Sawyers, served as Sky Blue FC's interim head coach against the Freedom. Goals by the Freedom's Cat Whitehill and Lisa De Vanna in the first half led to a two-goal deficit for Sky Blue FC at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nDespite a 66th-minute Rosana goal, they were unable to avoid defeat. The loss left Sky Blue FC at the bottom of the WPS standings, with only five points from seven matches played. Sawyers was subsequently fired by the team, and Lindsey continued as the interim head coach. Vice president of sales and marketing Gerry Marrone was promoted to general manager, a position that had also been held by Sawyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, April\u2013May\nFollowing their road trip, the club hosted the Boston Breakers in the first home game played at Yurcak Field. Kai opened the scoring for Sky Blue FC in the fourth minute, before the Breakers' Kelly Smith equalized eight minutes later. In the 29th minute, Sky Blue regained the lead with a Kacey White goal; they ended up winning 2\u20131 for their second victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nOn June 7, Sky Blue FC played at Saint Louis Athletica. Although Sky Blue FC had a 14\u201310 advantage in shot attempts, they did not score against Athletica goalkeeper Hope Solo. A first-half strike by Amanda Cinalli gave Athletica an eventual 1\u20130 win, and left Sky Blue FC in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nAfter a 0\u20130 draw at home against Los Angeles, Sky Blue FC defeated the Red Stars 1\u20130 on a 24th-minute Rosana goal. The win lifted them to fifth in the WPS standings. Lindsey was named the team's coach for their remaining 2009 games on June 19. Sky Blue FC traded Walsh to Saint Louis Athletica for forward Kerri Hanks and midfielder Francielle on June 26; the clubs also exchanged draft picks. They then lost 2\u20131 at home to Saint Louis Athletica two days later, as Elise Weber scored the winning goal in the 84th minute. Against the Breakers the following week, O'Reilly's sixth-minute goal was the only scoring as Sky Blue FC won their fourth match of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nIn another match against the Breakers on July 12, a Kai goal gave Sky Blue FC the lead in the first half before Rosana made the score 2\u20130 in the 37th minute. Despite a late Jennifer Nobis goal for Boston, Sky Blue FC held on for a 2\u20131 win to move up to fourth place in the WPS standings on 18 points. Three days later, the club hosted the Freedom in a back-and-forth match. Kai and White each had two goals for Sky Blue FC, while De Vanna tallied twice for Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nSky Blue FC held a 4\u20133 lead in second-half stoppage time when Whitehill scored off a rebound to level the match; the 4\u20134 draw marked the first time that eight goals had been scored in a WPS game. Four days later, Hanks scored in the 91st minute to give Sky Blue FC a victory against Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nSky Blue FC were held without a goal in their next two games, which resulted in one loss and one draw. Those results left the team with a 6\u20137\u20135 record; they were undefeated when playing Boston and Chicago, but winless against the other four WPS clubs. On July 29, Lindsey resigned as head coach of the team, along with assistant coach Joe Dorini. The club named Rampone as their third head coach of the year; she served as a caretaker player-coach for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Regular season, June\u2013August\nOn August 5, Rampone's side defeated FC Gold Pride 2\u20130 behind second-half goals by Rosana and Kai; the win left Sky Blue FC in position to qualify for the WPS playoffs, which the top four teams would contest, with one match remaining in the regular season. With 26 points, they were level with third-place Washington, their opponents in the finale, and one point ahead of fifth-place Boston. Although Sky Blue FC were defeated 3\u20131 by the Freedom, the Breakers lost to Los Angeles in their final game, giving Sky Blue FC the fourth and final postseason berth. They ended up with seven wins, eight losses, and five draws in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nThe WPS playoffs were structured so that the top seed, the Sol, were given an automatic berth in the league final. The third- and fourth-place teams, the Freedom and Sky Blue FC respectively, faced each other in the opening round. The winner would move on to face the number two team in the standings, Saint Louis Athletica, in the Super Semifinal. Underdogs entering the first-round match, Sky Blue FC were without the services of Bardsley and Anita Asante, who were with the England national team at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nTheir opponents, who were missing French midfielder Sonia Bompastor because of international duty, featured Abby Wambach, who scored a team-high eight goals during the regular season. In the match, which took place on August 15 at Maryland SoccerPlex, Sky Blue FC outshot Washington 14\u20135 in the first half, but neither team scored. Kai, a second-half substitute, broke the deadlock in the 55th minute, beating Freedom goalkeeper Erin McLeod. De Vanna leveled the match in the 78th minute, but six minutes later Francielle restored Sky Blue FC's lead with a 20-yard strike that proved to be the decisive goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nWith the victory, Sky Blue FC advanced to face Saint Louis Athletica in the next round, a club they had lost to in each of their three regular season meetings. The match was held on August 19 in Fenton, Missouri. Sky Blue FC had numerous early scoring opportunities, but were denied by saves from Solo. Dowling, however, received a pass from Averbuch and beat Solo with a shot from her left foot in the 30th minute. The goal, which was the first of Dowling's professional career, was the only one of the match, as Sky Blue FC earned a place in the first WPS title match against Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nThree days after the semifinal contest, Sky Blue FC played Los Angeles in the WPS championship match. It was the club's third match in an eight-day span; each took place in a different time zone. The Sol entered the match as heavy favorites, as analysts questioned whether their opponents would suffer from fatigue. In front of 7,218 fans at the Home Depot Center, Sky Blue FC effectively held possession against the Sol, and had control of the match for much of the opening half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nThey took the lead in the 16th minute, as a cross by Dowling found Kai, who passed to O'Reilly. Her shot found the net for the first goal of the match. In the 27th minute, Kai gained possession of the ball in the Sky Blue FC half of the field and ran until she was near the opposition's box, where Los Angeles defender Allison Falk brought her down from behind. The foul resulted in a red card that forced her team to field only 10 players for around two-thirds of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Playoffs\nThe Sol's performance improved as the match progressed, but Braham repelled multiple second-half shots. Marta had an opportunity to level the match with a free kick in second-half stoppage time, but her shot from 28\u00a0yards went over the Sky Blue FC goal. Sky Blue FC held on for a 1\u20130 victory, becoming the inaugural WPS champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Statistical summary\nSky Blue FC scored 19 goals and conceded 20 during the regular season; both totals were tied for third in the league. Kai led the team in regular season goals with six. Rosana was the next highest-scorer with five goals. Three players\u2014Dowling, McCallum, and O'Reilly\u2014each had three assists in regular season play. In goal, Branam started 16 of the 20 regular season games and appeared in two others. She had 6 shutouts and a 1.09 goals against average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Aftermath\nThe WPS season concluded with the 2009 WPS All-Star Game, which pitted a team of WPS All-Stars against Ume\u00e5 IK of Sweden, the reigning Damallsvenskan champions. No Sky Blue FC players were initially chosen to start in the All-Star Game, but Rampone was picked as one of the replacements for European players participating at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009. O'Reilly was among the reserves for the team, which defeated Ume\u00e5 IK 4\u20132. Rampone was named the winner of the WPS Sportswoman of the Year Award. Asante was nominated for Defender of the Year, while Branam received a Goalkeeper of the Year nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204972-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sky Blue FC season, Aftermath\nFollowing the season, Sky Blue FC named Pauliina Miettinen as their head coach for 2010. The club signed U.S. national team player Carli Lloyd and Dutch international Daphne Koster. In 2010, the team finished 7\u201310\u20137 and did not qualify for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204973-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Skycity Triple Crown\nThe 2009 Skycity Triple Crown was the fifth race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 9 and 10 of the series and was held on the weekend of 19\u201321 June at Hidden Valley Raceway, in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204973-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Skycity Triple Crown, Recent changes\nWith just 103 racing laps all weekend of the 2.9 kilometre venue, the race meeting is significantly shorter than recent V8 Supercar rounds at just 300 kilometres of racing against the 400 kilometre norm. It is also shorter than the 2008 Skycity Triple Crown which raced 360 kilometres over its three races last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204973-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Skycity Triple Crown, Race 9\nThe first race was held on Saturday 20 June. Tander started well from third grid position to move past polesitter Jason Richards and settled to chase leader Whincup. Jack Perkins was an early retirement with bent steering. Lowndes was the first of the front running cars to pit on lap 7. Tander lost ground during the pitstops, falling behind teammate Davison, and when Jason Richards vaulted past after his later stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204973-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Skycity Triple Crown, Race 9\nWith the stops completed, Whincup held a clear lead over a tight group of Jason Richards, Mark Winterbottom, Will Davison and Garth Tander. Late in the race with car condition falling away Jason Richards speared off the track at the end of the front straight, dropping behind the HRT pair then lost position to Todd Kelly and Craig Lowndes and kept James Courtney out of seventh position by just a single hundredth of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204974-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Skyrunner World Series\nThe 2009 Skyrunner World Series was the 8th edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204974-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Skyrunner World Series, Skyrunner World Series Races\nThe World Cup has developed in 7 races from April to October, in addition at the 8 trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204975-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo County Council election\nAn election to Sligo County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204976-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 2009 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship. Geevagh were crowned champions for the fifth time, defeating Bunninadden. Both finalists were relegated to Senior in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204976-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship, Group Stages\nThe Championship was contested by 13 teams, divided into four groups. The top two sides in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals, with the remaining sides in each group facing the Relegation playoffs to retain Intermediate status for 2009, as the restructuring of the Championships got under way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204976-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship, Sligo Intermediate Football Championship Final, Relegation\nAs part of the championship revamp, three teams were to be relegated to Junior A. As St. Mary's did not field in the competition they were automatically relegated. The teams in pink are those relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 105], "content_span": [106, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204977-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo Senior Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 2009 Sligo Senior Football Championship to date. Tourlestrane were crowned champions on 4 October after beating the then current winners Eastern Harps", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204977-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Group Stages\nThe Championship was contested by 14 teams, divided into four groups. Two with three teams and two with four teams. The top two sides in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals, with the bottom sides in each group facing the Relegation group stages to retain Senior status for 2010, as the restructuring of the Championships went through its final stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204978-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak Cup Final\nThe 2009 Slovak Cup Final was the final match of the 2009\u201310 Slovak Cup, the 40th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played at the NTC Senec in Senec on 20 May 2009 between MFK Ko\u0161ice and FC Artmedia Petr\u017ealka. MFK Ko\u0161ice defeated Artmedia 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204979-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak Super Cup\nThe 2009 Slovak Super Cup was a football match played on July 5, 2009, in Doln\u00fd Kub\u00edn, Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204979-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak Super Cup\nThe match was played between Corgo\u0148 Liga 2008\u201309 champions \u0160K Slovan Bratislava and the Slovak Cup 2008\u201309 winners MFK Ko\u0161ice, and was won by Slovan Bratislava 2\u20130 to earn their third Super Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204979-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak Super Cup\nThe match was attended by 1,400 viewers. Referee was J\u00e1n Val\u00e1\u0161ek, who was assisted by Kuba\u010dka and Chl\u00e1dek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204980-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Slovakia in March and April 2009, the country's third direct presidential elections. After no candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round on 21 March, the second round on 4 April saw Ivan Ga\u0161parovi\u010d become the first Slovak president to be re-elected, defeating opposition candidate Iveta Radi\u010dov\u00e1 by 55.53% to 44.47%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204980-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak presidential election, First round\nThere were seven candidates for the first round, which was held on 21 March:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204980-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak presidential election, First round\nGa\u0161parovi\u010d and Radi\u010dov\u00e1 advanced to the second round, winning 46.7% and 38.1% of the first round votes, respectively. Slovak women tended to be more supportive of Radi\u010dov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204980-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak presidential election, Second round\nIn the second round of elections, held on 4 April, Ga\u0161parovi\u010d received 1,234,787 votes (55.5%), winning election. Radi\u010dov\u00e1 received 44.5% of the vote. After the election, Ga\u0161parovi\u010d said, \"I am glad I can be standing here today with the prime minister and the speaker of the parliament ... The [election] is the most direct evidence that people trust us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204980-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak presidential election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout was 43.6% in the first round and 51.7% in the second round. Voter turnout among women slightly increased in both the first and second rounds of the election, which was attributed to Radi\u010dov\u00e1's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204981-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak regional elections\nElections were held in Slovakia's eight self-governing regions on 14 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204981-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovak regional elections\nSix of the regional presidencies were won by centre-left Direction \u2013 Social Democracy (Smer), with one being won by Smer's national conservative allies, the People's Party \u2013 Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (\u013dS-HZDS). Bratislava was won by the centre-right Slovak Democratic and Christian Union \u2013 Democratic Party, having previously been held by \u013dS-HZDS-backed Vladim\u00edr Bajan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204982-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Slovenian Supercup\nThe 2009 Slovenian Supercup was a football match that saw the 2008\u201309 PrvaLiga champions Maribor face off against Slovenian Cup winners Interblock. The match was held on 8 July 2009 at Ljudski vrt in Maribor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush\nThe 2009 Sobat River ambush was a battle between Jikany Nuer tribesmen and the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) which was escorting a United Nations (UN) aid convoy on 12 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Inspection and exchange of gunfire\nThe UN convoy consisted of 27 barges travelling on the Sobat River from Nasir to Akobo, in Southern Sudan near the border with Ethiopia. Following rains which washed away roads, the river was the only way to move aid around the south of the country, which has suffered from tribal fighting \u2013 the river itself being closed earlier in the year due to increased tension in the area. The 27 UN barges were travelling in company with four other barges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Inspection and exchange of gunfire\nThe barges were only allowed to use the river following negotiations with high-ranking government officials, who agreed to a 150-man SPLA escort. The convoy was operating under the auspices of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and was to have helped support around 18,000 of the 135,000 people displaced by recent tribal fighting which claimed hundreds of lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Inspection and exchange of gunfire\nThe convoy was stopped about ten or twenty miles downstream of Nasir by a force of Jikany Nuer tribesmen. The tribesmen demanded to search the barges to check that arms and ammunition were not being shipped to their rivals in the Lou Nuer tribe. They searched one barge, finding only food, but opened fire when the rest of the convoy tried to continue its journey. The attack killed at least 40 Sudanese soldiers and wounded 30 others. The deaths of several women and children by gunfire or drowning have also been reported. The wounded were taken to a M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res hospital in Nasir which was braced to accept further casualties. This was believed to be the first time the SPLA has suffered significant casualties in the recent tribal violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 817]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Aftermath\nWhile sixteen UN barges were able to return to Nasir, the other eleven remain unaccounted for, and are believed to have been sunk or looted. The WFP lost 735 tonnes of food aid in the attack and airlifted ten tonnes of aid to the area on 13 June. The attack may have been made to prevent the food supplies reaching the Lou Nuer tribe which is alleged to have killed around 70 members of the Jikany Nuer tribe in attacks in May 2009. It is feared that the Lou Nuer may be planning a retaliatory strike against the Jikany Nuer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Aftermath\nThere is fear of renewed fighting in the area, following the recent end of the Second Sudanese Civil War and the upcoming 2010 national elections and 2011 referendum on independence for Southern Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204983-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sobat River ambush, Aftermath\nClashes between rival tribes and ethnic groupings are common in Southern Sudan and usually occur over cattle or access to natural resources. Fighting in May 2009 in South Kurdufan between the Rizeigat and Messiria tribes claimed more than 1,000 lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention\nThe 2009 national convention of the Socialist Left Party of Norway was held from March 19\u201322 at the Scandic Bergen City Hotell and Bergen People's House in the city of Bergen, Hordaland. 208 delegates attended the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Background\nBy early 2009 signs showed that Kristin Halvorsen was supported by the majority of the party, even when the party was losing many ideological battles in government. Discussion on whether to leave the Red-Green Coalition was seen as dead by many news commentators, with Solhjell sharing his belief that the only viable option is to be in government so they can be a part of the decision making, saying there are no longer anyone who are scared of \"minister socialism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 1st day\nThe convention started with a speech from Kristin Halvorsen. In the speech, she was highly critical of plans for oil drilling in Lofoten og Vester\u00e5len, saying it would be impossible for the party to sit in a government supporting such environmental hazard policies. Her speech was criticized by some for using big words such as \"market fundamentalism is playing a dangerous game\" without giving clear answers. The newspaper Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv noted that she skipped over topics such as nationalization, government involvement in the economy and even privatization in favour of discussing environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 2nd day\nThe second day included speeches from former party leader Erik Solheim and sitting deputy leader Audun Lysbakken. One commentator called Lysbakken's speech \"sparkling\" and noted increased attention when he held the speech. Among the topics he talked about was a \"renaissance\" of more government involvement in the economy and a future climate crisis. The new party program was described by the media as \"radical\" and \"expansionist\", however the question most asked themselves were how much of their program would be included in Soria Moria II. Lysbakken then presented his proposed new party program, which was applauded by the convention audience. Before he presented the program, he said;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 2nd day\nThis party program displays a party which is as tough as ever. It shows that we take on two tasks in Norwegian politics, that we should take on the job of achieving results in the short term and compromise, and get things for our electorate. It shows that we take two roles in Norwegian politics; that we should take on the job of achieving results in the short term and compromise, and get things done for our electorate. It shows that we should retain as a society critical party, a rebel party and a party that is not satisfied with short-term goals which will always wish to be something more. It is still us.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 2nd day\nSolheim's speech focused on technological research and development to meet the upcoming climate crisis. He controversially stated that the government should take more \"political control over Statoil,\" so that it could move the company into a more environment friendly direction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 3rd day\nOn the third day, the convention voted to stop all public funding to religious institutions in Norway. This decision led to accusations from the Christian Democratic Party that the party was \"totalitarian\" and anti-religious. In response, Halvorsen argued that \"The reason for the decision is a strong desire to give all children a common platform. We fear a trend in which children with the same background are on their own denominational schools. It will inhibit inclusion\". Solhjell when commenting on the situation said; \"The Government's current policies remain unchanged, and options should be allowed. But it should be done within the framework of public held assets\". The goal, according to many high-level party members, was to abolish such religious schools within the guidelines of human rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 873]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 3rd day\nAnother controversial event was that the majority of the convention audience supporting a ban on all private schools in Norway. This was included in the party's program, something Halvorsen and sitting 2nd deputy leader B\u00e5rd Vegar Solhjell opposed. This decision later led to fellow Socialist Left politician Stian Oen accusing Halvorsen of stopping all internal debates within the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 3rd day\nAmong other statements made that day, the party voted for a crisis package to level social differences and stronger regulation of financial institutions while voting against both the EU Directive and mail solicitation and a consumer boycott of Israel. The convention also made it clear that it could only participate in the governing coalition if a majority of the party's key issues were approved by their coalition partners. This idea was suggested by the party's Editorial Committee which reported this statement to the convention on the third day. This decision is seen as a tightening of the requirements needed for future collaboration with the Labour and the Centre Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 4th day\nThe convention also decided that Norwegian membership in the European Economic Area should be re-considered in a report by the Norwegian Official Report group. No to the EU leader and Socialist Left member Heming Olaussen was pleased with this decision. The control public hospitals should according to the convention be given to the local municipality authorities, and away from direct control by the government. The convention demanded immediate withdrawal of Norwegian troops in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204984-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Socialist Left Party national convention, Convention, 4th day\nKristin Halvorsen was re-elected to the office of party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nPalmeiras started well the campaign in the S\u00e9rie A, and led the tournament for 19 rounds, unfortunately the team failed to keep the good results and after a 3\u20131 away win against Santos, only winning 9 points in 11 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nPalmeiras ended in 5th place, it was a disappointing result for a team that played well during almost the entire season and wanted to win the first brazilian title since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nThe Palmeiras player with most goals was Obina with 12 goals in 27 league matches, that signed a 1-year loan deal from Flamengo and left the squad before the end of the season after a fight with teammate Maur\u00edcio during a 0\u20132 away loss to Gr\u00eamio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nV\u00e1gner Love returned to the team in August, after an agreement with CSKA Moscow, and scored 5 goals in 12 matches but he didn't have a good return to the team. Attacking midfielder Diego Souza won the award by Placar as the best player of the league, playing 34 matches and scoring 8 goals in the season, including a wonderful midfield goal against Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro. Cleiton Xavier, Pierre, Marcos and Pablo Armero also made great appearances in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nManager Vanderlei Luxemburgo left the team on 25 June alongside young striker Keirrison, after a discussion with Palmeiras chairman Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo. The Interim Manager Jorginho assumed the team for 1 month with great results and Muricy Ramalho took charge of the team until the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204985-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Season, S\u00e9rie A\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup\nThe 11th Solheim Cup Matches were held August 21\u201323, 2009 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, west of Chicago. The biennial matches are a three-day team competition for professional female golfers, pitting the 12 best players born in the United States against the 12 best players of European nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup\nThe United States claimed the Cup for the third consecutive meeting, winning 16\u201312. Entering the final day, the competition was tied at 8 points each, but the U.S. won eight of the dozen singles matches to retain the Solheim Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Teams\nThe United States and European teams were selected by different methods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Teams\nTeam USA qualified by earning points for wins and for top-20 finishes on the LPGA Tour over a two-year period. Points were earned beginning with the 2007 State Farm Classic and concluding with the 2009 Women's British Open. The ten players with the highest points were automatically selected for Team USA. Two additional players were selected by captain Beth Daniel after the conclusion of the Women's British Open on August 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Teams\nTeam Europe was selected by taking the top five players from the LET Solheim Cup standings, followed by the top four European LET members on the Rolex Women\u2019s World Rankings at the agreed cut off date who were not already qualified via The Solheim Cup standings, and three captain\u2019s selections. Qualifying points for Team Europe were awarded weekly to the top-10 finishers at official LET events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Teams, Team USA\n*Residence/Hometown according to official 2009 Solheim Cup designation. Rolex rankings as of August 2, 2009. Rolex ranking does not factor into US Team selection. Shown for comparison purposes only. Lang was 24 on the second day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Teams, Team Europe\n*Residence/Hometown according to official Solheim Cup designation. LET rankings as of August 2, 2009Rolex rankings as of August 2, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204986-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Solheim Cup, Individual player records\nEach entry refers to the Win\u2013Loss\u2013Half record of the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in Somalia on 30 January 2009. Due to the security situation in Baidoa, it was held in Djibouti. President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Background\nThe election was necessitated following the resignation of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on 29 December 2008, over the dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein which was not approved by the Transitional Federal Parliament. As such, the Speaker of Parliament Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe shall act as interim President until the Parliament elects a new President based on the Transitional Federal Charter within 30 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Background\nPostponing the election until a new interim parliament, which would likely include moderate Islamist opposition, was considered, but Interim President Aden Madobe stated that a new president would be selected within the constitutionally mandated 30-day period. On 11 January 2009 African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra announced that the election would take place on 26 January, with preparations including nominations of candidates commencing on 20 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Background\nPrime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein announced on his candidacy 15 January 2009. Other official candidates include MP Mohamed Afrah Qanyare (an ex-Mogadishu warlord), MP Hassan Abshir Farah (a former prime minister), Ali Mohammed Ghedi (also a former prime minister), Ali Khalif Galaid (another former prime minister) and Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan (an ex-Kismayo warlord); ARS Chairman Sharif Ahmed also stated he was a contender for the presidency. In total, at least sixteen candidates have stated they want to become President; the PM and the ARS chairman are seen as the most likely contenders. Due to difficulties in picking the next president, the deadline was considered to be extended; despite strong pressure from the international community, the original deadline of 28 January 2009 was extended by five days, meaning the election is to be held by 2 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Background\nAs planned, the Transitional Federal Parliament was enlarged to include 200 representatives from the Islamist opposition and 75 representatives of citizens' groups and diaspora representatives; the former group was sworn in on 27 January 2009. The 275 existing MPs voted 211 to 6 in favour with 3 abstentions to enlarging the TFP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Candidates\nA total of fourteen candidates formally filed to stand in the election. The candidates were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204987-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Somali presidential election, Results\nThere were three rounds of voting. The first round of voting reduced the field of candidates to six, the second to just two, with the winner decided in a run-off round. As the first round of voting began, several candidates withdrew. In the first round, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed got 215 votes, Maslah Mohamed Siad 60 and Nur Hassan Hussein 59; Hussein and Ali Khalif Galaid then also withdrew. All candidates except  Siad and Sharif withdrew after the first round of voting; Sharif won the run-off with 293 to 126 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204988-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Somerset County Council election\nAn election to Somerset County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. The result brought to an end 16 years of Liberal Democrat rule to a Conservative controlled administration. 58 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned one county councillor each. Members were elected by the first-past-the-post voting system for a four-year term of office. This was the last election before the number of seats was cut to 55 for the 2013 election. With a total of 58 seats being reduced to 55 for the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204988-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Somerset County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204988-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Somerset County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204988-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Somerset County Council election, Summary\nThe Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to the Conservatives who went on to form a majority administration. The Liberal Democrat group became the council's official opposition. Meanwhile the Labour Party had their number of seats halved from 4 to 2. No independents or candidates from other parties were elected as councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204988-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Somerset County Council election, Results by division\nThe candidates in bold were elected councillors on 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open\nThe 2009 Sony Ericsson Open (also known as 2009 Miami Masters) was a men's and women's tennis tournament held from March 23 to April 5, 2009. It was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters event and was played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, located near Miami. The tournament was part of 2009 ATP World Tour and 2009 WTA Tour, classified as ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Premier Mandatory event respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open\nThe men's singles event was won by British player Andy Murray, who defeated Novak Djokovic in the final. Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won the women's singles event by defeating defending champion Serena Williams. Both Murray and Azarenka were first-time winners at the tournament and also the first to win from their respective countries. In the doubles events, Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram won the men's title by defeating the team of Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss. The women's doubles title was won by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo who overcame Kv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond in the final match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Tournament\nThe 2009 Sony Ericsson Open was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters tournament and was held at Tennis Center at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne near Miami, Florida. The tournament was a joint event between the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and was part of the 2009 ATP World Tour and the 2009 WTA Tour calendars. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles events which were played on 12 Laykold Cushion Plus hard courts. The total prize money for the tournament was US$9,000,000 with $4,500,000 assigned equally to ATP and WTA events. Singles winners received $605,500 each and doubles winning teams received $225,000 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Tournament\nThe tournament was conducted from March 23 to April 5, with qualifying draws played on March 23\u201324 and main draws from March 25 to April 5. Both the men's and women's singles draws consisted of 96 players and the doubles draws consisted of 32 teams. The qualifying draw consisted of 43 men and 42 women who competed for 12 positions each in the men's and women's final draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Players\n47 of the top 50 players in the ATP rankings entered the men's singles event at the tournament with Rafael Nadal seeded first, followed by Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Defending champion Nikolay Davydenko withdrew ahead of the tournament due to a foot injury. Richard Gasquet, who was initially going to play, withdrew prior to his first match after suffering from right shoulder injury. Gasquet was replaced by lucky loser Bj\u00f6rn Phau. 12 players progressed from the qualifying draws to the main draw and six players, including Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis, were given wildcard entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Players\nIn the women's singles field, defending champion Serena Williams was top seeded, with number two Dinara Safina only 311 points behind her in the WTA rankings at the start of the tournament. Maria Sharapova was expected to return to singles tennis at this tournament after playing doubles matches in the previous tournament, the 2009 BNP Paribas Open. Sharapova, who had not played singles matches since August 2008, withdrew due to a continued lack of fitness. Jelena Doki\u0107, Sania Mirza and Alexa Glatch were among the eight players who received wildcard entries. 12 players progressed from qualifying draws to main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Players\nThe doubles draws were led by defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan on the men's side and Cara Black and Liezel Huber on the women's side. Katarina Srebotnik, one of the women's doubles defending champions, had not recovered from an injury picked up in December 2008 and did not participate. Her partner from the previous year, Ai Sugiyama, partnered with Russian Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1. Marina Erakovic \u2013 Sun Tiantian and Francesca Schiavone \u2013 Chan Yung-jan withdrew from the tournament due to respective injuries to Erakovic and Chan. The doubles draws included five wildcard entries in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nAll the seeded players received a bye into the second round. Wildcards Marcos Baghdatis and Lleyton Hewitt were among the players progressing into the second round, while Germans Philipp Kohlschreiber and former World no. 2 Tommy Haas were the major upsets. Most seeded players continued their progress into the third round with eighth seed Fernando Verdasco winning his 200th ATP tour match in his career. Ivo Karlovi\u0107 and David Nalbandian were among the seeded players defeated in second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nLucky loser Bj\u00f6rn Phau was promoted into the third round after his opponent Albert Monta\u00f1\u00e9s suffered a hamstring injury during the second set of the match and was forced to withdraw. Frenchman Ga\u00ebl Monfils took a hard-fought win over 22nd seed and former world number 1  Marat Safin in a third round match played for nearly three hours. Qualifier Taylor Dent continued his successful run by defeating Tommy Robredo in the third round. Czechs Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek overcame higher seeded players James Blake and Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez en route to the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nTop seed Rafael Nadal faced an uphill battle against Stanislas Wawrinka in the fourth round match, facing a tiebreak in each set and eventually defeating him. Second seed Roger Federer defeated Dent in the fourth round to set up a quarterfinal match with longtime rival Andy Roddick, who overcame Ga\u00ebl Monfils in a two-set match. Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Verdasco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made it into the quarterfinals. Del Potro defeated Nadal in the three-set quarterfinal match to reach the first ATP Masters semifinal of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nDel Potro took the final set on a tiebreak after losing the second set. Murray faced Verdasco in the second quarterfinal in a rematch of 2009 Australian Open fourth round. Verdasco suffered an injury in the second game of the match and had to be seen by his physio. He was not in good enough shape to compete with Murray and eventually lost. Federer defeated Roddick while Djokovic moved past Tsonga to advance to the semifinals. Djokovic rallied back to defeat Federer in the first semifinal after losing the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nThe third seed however kept his consistency in the next two sets and won them. Murray edged past del Potro in the second semifinal to enter his second straight Masters final. Murray faltered in the second set of the match conceding two service breaks. However he recovered in the final set, gaining an early break of serve, to win the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nDjokovic and Murray appeared in their seventh and fourth Masters final and 19th and 17th career finals respectively. Djokovic led the head-to-head tally against Murray, but Murray had won the last two encounters between them. In the match, Murray moved into a 4\u20130 lead in the first set. Djokovic improved his serve from that point but lost the set. A role reversal in the second set saw Djokovic move into a 4\u20131 lead. Murray fought back, however, to level the score to 5\u20135 and won the set to secure the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's singles\nThis was Murray's third title win of the season and eleventh of his career. It was also his third Masters win of the career. Murray credited his improved fitness for his win. Djokovic, who had struggled with excessive heat in the past, struggled once again to assimilate with the temperature. He admitted that he was impatient early in the match, which resulted in him making too many unforced errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's singles\nAll the seeded players received a bye into the second round. Seven seeded players were ousted from the second round including third seed Jelena Jankovi\u0107, who was defeated by Gisela Dulko, and eighth seed Marion Bartoli, who lost to qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova. Second seed Dinara Safina, Vera Zvonareva and Ana Ivanovic were among the nine seeded players who were eliminated in the third round. Three times former champion and fifth seed Venus Williams faced stiff competition from Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska in fourth round. Williams lost the first set but prevailed in later sets to win the match. Li Na and Ekaterina Makarova also fought hard for a place in the quarterfinals, with Li coming out strong in the three set match, winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's singles\nSvetlana Kuznetsova beat Caroline Wozniacki in the first of the quarterfinals. Kuznetsova looked good to win the match in straight sets after building a big lead, however Wozniacki fought back to win the second set on a tiebreak. Kuznetsova ultimately won. Victoria Azarenka defeated Samantha Stosur in the second quarterfinal. Williams sisters Serena and Venus set up the second semifinal after defeating Li Na and Iveta Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 respectively. The Williams sisters had met 19 times before their semifinal meeting, Venus leading the head-to-head tally 10\u20139. Serena won this time in a closely fought match. Azarenka came on top in the second semifinal defeating Kuznetsova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 721]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's singles\nSerena and Azarenka met in their careers' 46th and seventh career finals respectively, with Serena appearing in her third consecutive final at the event, having won on the last two occasions. Azarenka dominated the final match, as Serena was playing while nursing a leg injury. Azarenka won the match, securing third title of her career. Azarenka stated that she was very nervous in the final game of the match and described her win as \"the biggest moment in [her] career\". Serena mentioned that it was difficult for her to move to the left, but she still played with maximum effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's doubles\nFour seeded teams were eliminated in the first round of the event. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 were the highest ranked team to lose, falling to Nicol\u00e1s Almagro and David Ferrer, along with third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles, who lost to French duo Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Bennetau and Tsonga continued their progress into the third round defeating Rik de Voest and Bobby Reynolds. They were joined by Julian Knowle and J\u00fcrgen Melzer, who triumphed over Almagro and Ferrer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's doubles\nOnly two seeded teams, those of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan and of Bruno Soares and Kevin Ullyett, made it into the quarterfinals, and faced each other in that round. The Bryan brothers, who were the defending champions, overcame Soares and Ullyett in a two-set match. Ashley Fisher and  Stephen Huss, Knowle and Melzer and Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram were the other teams who made it into the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's doubles\nThe Bryan brothers faced Fisher and Huss in the first semifinal and lost, ending their streak of winning 13 consecutive matches. Mirnyi and Ram encountered much harder competition against Knowle and Melzer and saved five match points before winning. In the final, there were no service breaks in the first set, with Fisher and Huss winning it in the tiebreak. Mirnyi and Ram came back strong to win the second set. The match-tiebreak decided the outcome of the final, with Mirnyi and Ram winning the tiebreak and the match. It was Mirnyi's 36th and Ram's 16th men's doubles title of the career and their second title as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Men's doubles\nMax Mirnyi /  Andy Ram defeated  Ashley Fisher /  Stephen Huss, 6\u20137(4\u20137), 6\u20132, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's doubles\nDaniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama, who lost to wildcard entrants Petra Marti\u0107 and Coco Vandeweghe, were the only seeded pair to drop out in the first round. Another wildcard team of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo defeated the top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber in the second round. Eighth seeds Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta were also eliminated in second round, losing to Chuang Chia-jung and Sania Mirza. Chuang and Mirza continued their march into the semifinal defeating second seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual. They were joined by Kuznetsova and Mauresmo, Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld and Patty Schnyder, and Kv\u011bta Peschke and Lisa Raymond, the only seeded team left in the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's doubles\nKuznetsova and Mauresmo defeated Gr\u00f6nefeld and Schnyder to enter their third final as a team. Peschke and Raymond overcame Chuang and Mirza to secure the second spot in the final. Kuznetsova and Mauresmo continued their winning streak in the final, defeating Peschke and Raymond. The title was Kuznetsova's 14th, Mauresmo's third and their second as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Events, Women's doubles\nSvetlana Kuznetsova /  Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo defeated  Kv\u011bta Peschke /  Lisa Raymond, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20133].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Viewership, Broadcasting\nThe tournament was broadcast on television channels worldwide. The British television station Sky Sports held rights to broadcast the tournament from the first round through to the final. Both the men's and women's finals were shown on CBS in the United States. The tournament also had around 44 hours of live coverage in the United States. The tournament was broadcast for more than 2000 hours and seen by over 153 million people worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204989-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Viewership, Attendance\nAccording to the event organisers, 293,228 people attended the 22 sessions across the 12 days of the tournament. This was the second highest attendance in the tournament's history and four sessions were sellouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204990-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan are the defending champions. However, they lost to Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204991-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nNikolay Davydenko was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year due to a left heel injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204991-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nAndy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic 6\u20132, 7\u20135 to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204992-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nKatarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions, but Srebotnik chose not to participate this year due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204992-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nAi Sugiyama partnered with Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, but lost in the first round to Petra Marti\u0107 and Coco Vandeweghe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204993-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe 2009 Sony Ericsson Open \u2013 Women's Singles was the women's singles event of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open, a WTA Premier Mandatory tennis tournament held in Key Biscayne, Florida in late March and early April. World No. 1 Serena Williams was the defending champion and attempting to win a record sixth title at the tournament, but she lost in the final to Victoria Azarenka, 6\u20133, 6\u20131. Azarenka won her third WTA singles title and first at the Premier or above level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards\nThe 2009 Soul Train Music Awards were held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia on November 29, 2009. The show was hosted by Oscar nominated actor Terrence Howard and  Oscar nominated actress Taraji P. Henson. Performers included Keri Hilson, Toni Braxton, Trey Songz, Mario, Raheem DeVaughn, Ludacris, Ryan Leslie, and Robin Thicke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards\nSingers Chaka Khan and Charlie Wilson received the honoree Soul Train Legend Award. Michael Jackson was honoree for posthumous award for Entertainer of the Year. Beyonc\u00e9 won three awards; Best Female Artist, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year. LeToya served as host for the Red-Carpet Show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards, Telecast\nThe Soul Train Awards aired on BET and Centric on November 29, 2009. It was also broadcast on BET UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards, Trivia\nThe Soul Train Awards was a trending topic during its time on-air on the social media site, Twitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards, Trivia\nThe Soul Train trophy, originally the trademark African ceremonial mask (Soul Train Music Award for Heritage Award \u2013 Career Achievement) is replaced with an actual train.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204994-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Soul Train Music Awards, Trivia\nIn an episode of Community, \"Social Psychology\", character Troy mentions the Soul Train Awards when complaining about participating in a study that never begins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204995-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Africa Sevens\nThe South Africa Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens. The 2009 competition took place on 11 December and 12 December at Outeniqua Park in George, Western Cape, the second of eight Cup events at the 2009\u201310 IRB Sevens World Series. New Zealand won its second consecutive title by defeating Fiji in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204995-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South Africa Sevens, Format\nThe tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204996-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South African Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 South African Figure Skating Championships were held at The Ice Station in Cape Town from 18 to 19 August 2008. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles at the senior, novice, and pre-novice levels. There was also a junior and juvenile ladies' competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election\nGeneral elections were held in South Africa on 22 April 2009 to elect members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures. These were the fourth general elections held since the end of the apartheid era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election\nThe North Gauteng High Court ruled on 9 February 2009 that South African citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in elections. The judgment was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2009, when it decided that overseas voters who were already registered would be allowed to vote. Registered voters who found themselves outside their registered voting districts on election day were also permitted to vote for the national ballot at any voting station in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election\nThe result was a victory for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), which won 264 of the 400 seats in the National Assembly, a fifteen seat reduction compared to the 2004 elections and losing its two-thirds supermajority. ANC leader Jacob Zuma remained president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, African National Congress \u2013 ruling party\nThe African National Congress was the ruling party in parliament going into the 2009 elections, having won 69.69% of the vote at the 2004 elections. During its term in office a number of internal changes occurred, the primary one being the election of Jacob Zuma to the party presidency ahead of Thabo Mbeki at the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress held on 18 December 2007. Zuma's victory in the election was partly due to the wide degree of support for him from the ANC Youth League, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 102], "content_span": [103, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, African National Congress \u2013 ruling party\nSubsequent to this, in 2008 Zuma's ongoing corruption trial in relation to a multi-billion Rand arms deal was dismissed by the courts, which insinuated that Mbeki had unduly influenced the investigation into Zuma. In light of the court's findings, the ANC's National Executive Committee asked Mbeki to resign as president of the country, which he duly did on 20 September 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 102], "content_span": [103, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, African National Congress \u2013 ruling party\nMbeki was replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe, who had been elected as ANC deputy president at the 2007 conference. Motlanthe was not the presidential candidate of the ANC for the 2009 general election, but rather the current President of the ANC, Jacob Zuma. The ANC's electoral list was led by Zuma, followed by Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, finance minister Trevor Manuel and Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 102], "content_span": [103, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, African National Congress \u2013 ruling party\nThe recall of Mbeki, amongst other issues, created severe tensions and splits within the party, and eventually led to the formation of the Congress of the People, a new political party formed by former ANC members. Nevertheless, most pre-poll predictions gave the ANC between sixty and seventy per cent of the popular vote; even the lowest prediction, giving the ANC 47 per cent, still rendered it comfortably South Africa's most favoured political party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 102], "content_span": [103, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nThe Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, had undergone a leadership change, with Cape Town mayor and former anti-apartheid activist Helen Zille having succeeded long-serving Tony Leon in May 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nWith a disproportionate focus on the Western Cape province, which it had identified as winnable, the DA launched its election campaign with the slogan \"Vote to Win\". It released its manifesto on 14 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nThe party was expected to perform strongly in the Western Cape, with analysts suggesting it would take control of the province from the ruling ANC. The ANC's support in the province was on the wane, while the DA had performed well in by-elections in the province leading up to the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nThe party projected that it would govern in the Western Cape province \u2013 a task made easier by the ANC-COPE split \u2013 though it expected to need to form a governing coalition in order to do so. The party anticipated that it would take control of several other major cities and towns in the 2011 local elections, and, with what it termed a \"realignment of SA politics\", predicted it would take its \"winning streak\" into the 2014 elections, when it plans to challenge for the mantle of ruling party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nThe DA's relationship with ANC breakaway party Cope started strongly. Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota showed a willingness to co-operate with Zille in the future. Subsequently, Zille criticised COPE's internal structures and suggested many of the party's new members were merely Mbeki loyalists hoping to resurrect defunct political careers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Background and campaign, Democratic Alliance \u2013 official opposition\nIn the closing stages of the DA's campaign, it launched its \"Stop Zuma\" drive, which came under considerable criticism in the press\u2014political analysts dubbing the tactic an example of \"negative\" politics. Zille later retorted, however, that what was really negative was the idea of handing over the right to change the Constitution unilaterally to Jacob Zuma and his \"closed, crony network\", as they would abuse that right both to enrich themselves and to protect themselves from prosecution. She later claimed the decline in the ANC's support base and the concomitant increase in that of her own party was a result of the DA 'Stop Zuma' campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 103], "content_span": [104, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Electoral system\nThe 400 members of the National Assembly were elected by closed list proportional representation; two hundred members were elected from national party lists and 200 from provincial party lists in each of the nine provinces. The President of South Africa was chosen by the National Assembly after the election; in 2009, the presidential election was held on 6 May. The premiers of each province are chosen by the winning majority in each provincial legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Boycott\nA number of communities, organisations, social movements and well-known personalities threatened not to vote in the 2009 elections. The most well-known personality was Archbishop Desmond Tutu who at first said he would not vote but then changed his mind. South Africa's Poor People's Alliance, the Anti- Privatisation Forum, NOPE, and the independent farmworkers' union Sikhula Sonke resolved to boycott the election under the banner No Land! No House! No Vote!.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results\nAfrican National Congress\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Democratic Alliance\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Congress of the People\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Inkatha Freedom Party\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Independent Democrats\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0United Democratic Movement", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results\nThe ANC, which has been in power since 1994, obtained 65.90% of valid votes cast on the national ballot, making it just shy of being able to change the constitution. The DA retained its position as the official opposition and also won the election in the Western Cape province with an outright majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results\nSome 23-million people were registered for the 2009 general elections, which was about 2.5 million more than in 2004. There was a 77.3% turnout of registered voters, 1.34% of whom spoiled their ballots rendering them invalid. About 12-million people eligible to vote either did not register to vote (about 7-million), or did register but did not vote (5.4 million). In this election, there was a slight decrease in voter abstention though there was at least one high-profile election and registration boycotts campaign, the No Land! No House! No Vote! Campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results\nThe Independent Electoral Commission made results available on their website as they were received from voting districts, filtered by national, provincial, municipality, and voting district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results, Provincial legislatures\nThe following table summarises the results of the elections to the provincial legislatures. The majority party in each province is indicated in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Results, NCOP seats\nThe National Council of Provinces (NCOP) consists of 90 members, ten elected by each provincial legislature. The Members of NCOP have to be elected in proportion to the party membership of the provincial legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Aftermath\nThe ANC received widespread congratulations for its decisive national victory, both from international and domestic sources. This included the opposition, with DA leader Helen Zille acknowledging that the people had given it a strong mandate to rule. \"We trust that the ANC will not abuse this confidence, and will govern well and in the interests of all South Africans.\" However, with 65.9% of the vote and 264 seats in the National Assembly (down from 74.3% and 297 seats), the ANC no longer had the two-thirds majority it needed to change the Constitution unilaterally. The governing party had lost considerable support in 8 of the 9 provinces, partially compensated for by a big increase in KwaZulu-Natal at the expense of the IFP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Aftermath\nThanking supporters the following week, DA leader Helen Zille related proudly that her party had achieved all three of its primary objectives: it had kept the ANC below a two-thirds majority (albeit only just), won an outright majority in the Western Cape and significantly improved its standing in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204997-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 South African general election, Aftermath\nZille saw the results as a vindication of the party's statement at the beginning of its campaign that the only two genuine political forces in South Africa were the DA and the ANC, with the latter losing support while the former consistently gained it, and voters refusing to waste their ballots on small, insignificant parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204998-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South African presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in South Africa on 6 May 2009 following the general election on 22 April 2009. Jacob Zuma of the ruling African National Congress won the election with 277 votes (13 more than the number of seats held by the ANC), while Mvume Dandala of the Congress of the People got 47 votes. The 67 members of the official opposition Democratic Alliance abstained from voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00204999-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Alabama Jaguars football team\nThe 2009 South Alabama Jaguars football team represented the University of South Alabama in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Joey Jones and played their home games at Ladd\u2013Peebles Stadium. The Jaguars, playing as an independent in their inaugural season, played an abbreviated season of seven games, none of which were against any other Division I teams, and most of which were against prep schools. The Jaguars completed their season with an undefeated record of seven wins and zero losses (7\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205000-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Sogamoso, Colombia October 28\u2013November 2, 2009. This was the 9th edition of the South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships for senior gymnasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205001-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Games\nThe I Beach South American Games was a multi-sport event held from 2 to 13 December 2009 in Montevideo and Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Games was organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205001-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Games, Participating teams\n15 nations of the Organizaci\u00f3n Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR) competed in these Beach Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205001-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Games, Medal count\nThe medal count for these Beach Games is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205002-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Soccer Championship\nThe 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONMEBOL qualifier, also later and commonly known as the 2009 South American Beach Soccer Championship, was the third Beach Soccer World Cup qualification championship for South America, held from March 11\u201315 in Montevideo, Uruguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205002-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Soccer Championship\nThe qualifiers were not coordinated by CONMEBOL at the time. The event was organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), under the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualifier title. CONMEBOL began recognising the tournaments in 2013, under the title South American Beach Soccer Championship, also acknowledging the 2006\u201311 events as historic editions of the championship. CONMEBOL eventually began organising the qualifiers in 2017, under a new title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205002-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Beach Soccer Championship\nBrazil won the championship, with the hosts Uruguay taking 2nd place. Third place Argentina scraped through to move on to play in the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates along with the two finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205003-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics\nThe 2009 South American Championships in Athletics (Spanish: 2009 Campeonatos Sudamericanos) was the forty sixth edition of the tournament and was held between 19 and 21 June in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205003-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics\nBrazil dominated the tournament, easily finishing with the highest total points and medals, and also winning the most gold, silver, and bronze medals. Colombia and Argentina took second and third places, respectively, while hosts Peru finished in fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205003-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics\nNumerous records were broken at the Championships, including two area records, 10 Championship records and seventeen national records. Both area records were achieved in the 20000 metres track walk event, with Luis Fernando L\u00f3pez running 1:20:53.6 in the men's race to break Jefferson P\u00e9rez's previous mark, and Johana Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez winning the women's race in 1:34:58. Mario Baz\u00e1n also beat one of P\u00e9rez's records, setting a Championship record in the 3000 metres steeplechase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205003-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics\nColombian Norma Gonz\u00e1lez was the athlete with the most medals at the end of the tournament, with three golds from the 200 metres, 400 metres, and 4\u00d7100 metres relay, and a silver from the 4\u00d7400 metres relay. A handful of other athletes also won multiple gold medals. Three women won two gold medals: Rosibel Garc\u00eda won the 800 and 1500 metres, Germ\u00e1n Lauro took the shot put and discus titles, and In\u00e9s Melchor set a national and a Championship record in the 5000 and 10000 metres, respectively. Three male athletes also achieved double golds: Alonso Edward did the 100 and 200 metres sprint double, Andr\u00e9s Silva won the 400 metres sprint and hurdles, while Byron Piedra won both the 1500 and 5000 metres races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205003-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics\nThe competition was marred by drugs bans for medalling athletes: a Brazilian coach, Jayme Netto, admitted that he had administered the banned drug recombinant EPO on five of his athletes without their knowledge, which included: 800\u00a0m silver medallist Josiane Tito, 200\u00a0m bronze medallist Bruno de Barros, heptathlon champion Lucimara da Silva and 400\u00a0m hurdles silver medallist Luciana Fran\u00e7a. In a separate case, Lucimar Teodoro, the 400\u00a0m hurdles gold medallist, also received a two-year ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205004-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the official results of the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics which took place on 19\u201321 June 2009 in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205005-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Cross Country Championships\nThe 2009 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 21, 2009. The races were held at the Parque del Stadio Italiano in Coronel, near Concepci\u00f3n, B\u00edo B\u00edo, Chile. A detailed report of the event was given for the IAAF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205005-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Cross Country Championships\nComplete results and results for junior and youth competitions were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205005-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 73 athletes from 7 countries participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205006-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Footballer of the Year\nThe 2009 South American Footballer of the Year, given to the best football player in South America by Uruguayan newspaper El Pa\u00eds through voting by journalists across the continent, was awarded to Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Ver\u00f3n of Estudiantes de La Plata on December 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205006-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Footballer of the Year\nVer\u00f3n became the first player since Carlos Tevez in 2004 (and later in 2005) to repeat the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205007-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Junior Championships in Athletics\nThe 38th South American Junior Championships in Athletics (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Juveniles) were heldin S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil in the Est\u00e1dio \u00cdcaro de Castro Melo from July 25\u201326, 2009. The Champions formen\u2019s 10,000m, both Race Walking and Combined Events were extracted from theclassification of the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships held inPort of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in the Hasely Crawford Stadiumfrom July 31 to August 2, 2009. A detailed report on the results wasgiven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205007-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\"website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 212athletes from about 12 countries: Argentina (30), Bolivia (6), Brazil (75),Chile (27), Colombia (21), Ecuador (10), Panama (6), Paraguay (2), Peru (10),Suriname (2), Uruguay (3), Venezuela (20).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205007-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published. Complete results can be found on the CBAt website, and on the \"World Junior Athletics History\"website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205007-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Team trophies\nThe placing tables for team trophy(overall team, men and women categories) were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205008-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2009 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, December 14\u201320, 2009. The competition was organized by the Ecuadorian Gymnastics Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205009-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Rugby Championship \"A\"\nThe 2009 South American Rugby Championship was the 31st edition of the two tiered competition of the leading national Rugby Union teams in South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205009-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Rugby Championship \"A\"\nThe first phase of division A doubled as Round 3A of 2011 Rugby World Cup - Americas qualification for everyone but Paraguay. For this reason matches against Paraguay did not count in World Cup standings. The first two of the first phase was admitted to the second phase, keeping the results of their match, with Argentina (holder).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205010-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Rugby Championship \"B\"\nThe 2009 South American Rugby Championship \"B\" was the 10th second tier of national Rugby Union teams in South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205010-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Rugby Championship \"B\"\nThe tournament was played in Costa Rica, outside South America, but the hosts were given a place and the right to organize the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205011-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Ski Mountaineering Championship\nThe 2009 South American Ski Mountaineering Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Esqu\u00ed de Monta\u00f1a) was the third edition of a South American continental championship of competition ski mountaineering, and the first that was sanctioned by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF), which emerged from the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC) in 2008. Furthermore, the competition was sanctioned by the Uni\u00f3n Panamericana de Monta\u00f1a y Escalada (UPAME).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205011-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Ski Mountaineering Championship\nThe event, carried out at Villa La Angostura from 22 to 23 August 2009, was organized by the Federaci\u00f3n Argentina de Ski y Andinismo (FASA), the Club Andino Bariloche (CAB) and the local Club Andino Villa La Angostura (CAVLA). Participating were racers from Argentina and Chile as well as two French competitors, that did not appear in the continental ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205011-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Ski Mountaineering Championship, Results\nEvent was held on the Cerro Bayo on August 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205011-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South American Ski Mountaineering Championship, Results, Men\n*) The French racers J\u00e9r\u00f4me Pezet (01h\u00a003'\u00a044\") and Olivier Levasseur (01h\u00a003'\u00a045\") finished first and second, but were no South American nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205012-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-15 Championship\nThe 2009 South American Under-15 Football Championship was the fourth South American Under-15 Football Championship, the championship for men's under-15 national association football teams in CONMEBOL. It took place in Bolivia for the second time from 6 November to 22 November 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205012-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-15 Championship, Venues\nFour stadiums in four host cities were chosen for the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205012-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-15 Championship, Officials\nOn 7 October 2009, CONMEBOL's Commission on Referees announced the list of 10 referees and assistant to be used for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205012-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-15 Championship, First round\nThe 10 national teams were divided in 2 groups of 5 teams each. The top 2 teams in each group qualified for the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205012-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-15 Championship, Final round\nThe final round was played in a round robin system between the four best teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205013-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-17 Championship\nThe 2009 South American Under-17 Football Championship (Spanish: Sudamericano Sub-17) was a football competition for U-17 national teams affiliated with CONMEBOL. It was the 13th time the tournament was held. The tournament took place in Chile from April 17 to May 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205013-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-17 Championship, First Group Stage\nThe teams were divided into two groups of five, with the top three teams in each group classifying to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205013-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-17 Championship, Countries to participate in 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup\nTop 4 teams qualify for 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 91], "content_span": [92, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205014-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-17 Championship squads\nThe 2009 South American Under-17 Football Championship was an international football tournament held in Chile from April 17, 2009 to May 9, 2009. The ten national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 players; only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament. Each player had to have been born after January 1, 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205014-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-17 Championship squads\nPlayers name marked in bold have been capped at full international level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205015-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-20 Championship\nThe 2009 South American Youth Championship (Sudamericano sub-20) was a football competition for national teams U-20 who are associated with the football federation CONMEBOL. It was the 24th time the tournament was held and took place in Venezuela from January 19 to February 8. It also served as qualification for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Brazil won the tournament, becoming champions for the tenth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205015-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-20 Championship\nThe tournament was initially hosted in Peru, however following FIFA sanctions over Peruvian Government's investigation of the FPF's corruption, it was moved to Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205015-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-20 Championship, First Group Stage, Group A\n(*) Colombia qualified to the following round after winning a coin toss", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205016-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-20 Championship squads\nBelow are the rosters for the 2009 South American Youth Championship tournament in Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205016-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South American U-20 Championship squads\nPlayers name marked in bold have been capped at full international level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205017-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 2009 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Steve Spurrier, who was in his fifth season at USC. The Gamecocks played their home games at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. Carolina finished the season 7\u20136, winning the Palmetto Bowl over in-state rival Clemson 34\u201317 in their final regular season game, before losing in the PapaJohns.com Bowl 20\u20137 against Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205017-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Preseason\nOn April 11, 2009, the Garnet squad defeated the Black squad, 30\u201314, in the annual Garnet & Black Spring Game, in front of a crowd of 25,157. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Stephen Garcia finished the game 13\u201320 with 144 yards and two touchdowns, while true freshman Jarvis Giles led the ground game with 114 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205017-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Players, Depth chart\nProjected starters and primary backups versus Clemson on November 28, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205018-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Dublin County Council election\nAn election to South Dublin County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions using the Single transferable vote system for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205019-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Florida Bulls football team\nThe 2009 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach was Jim Leavitt, and they played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The 2009 season was the 13th season overall for the Bulls, and their fifth season in the Big East Conference. The Bulls finished the season 8\u20135 (3\u20134 Big East) and won the International Bowl, 27\u20133, against Northern Illinois. The roster had 11 eventual NFL draft picks and a total of 14 players would go on to play in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205020-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Korean Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 South Korean Figure Skating Championships were the South Korean Figure Skating Championships for the 2008\u201309 season. They were the 63rd edition of those championships held. They were organized by the Korean Skating Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205020-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South Korean Figure Skating Championships\nSkaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies singles on the senior, junior, and novice levels for the title of national champion of South Korea. The results of the national championships were used to choose the South Korean teams to the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships, the 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, and the 2009 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205020-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South Korean Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Championships took place between January 9 and 10, 2009 in Goyang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205020-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, International team selections\nFollowing the national championships, the teams to the World Championships, the World Junior Championships, and the Four Continents Championships were announced as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in South Ossetia on 31 May 2009. The result was a victory for the ruling Unity Party, which won seventeen of the 34 seats. Two opposition parties were not permitted to run out of concern that they might not be loyal to President Eduard Kokoity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election\nThe European Union, the United States, and NATO have issued statements saying these organisations consider the elections illegal, and have rejected their results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Background\nThe Republic of South Ossetia has a population of about 70,000. It has had de facto independence from central Georgian rule since the 1991\u20131992 South Ossetia War. After the August 2008 South Ossetia war, Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia, followed by Nicaragua. Other countries, including Georgia, consider South Ossetia part of Georgia's constitutional territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Campaign\nFour parties were contesting for 34 seats in the Parliament of South Ossetia. According to the central election commission, 45,000 people were registered to vote on Sunday. This was the first South Ossetian election since the republic obtained its limited international recognition in 2008. The election was observed by over 70 observers from 10 countries, including representatives from Abkhazia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. Among the observers were Vladimir Churov, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia and Giulietto Chiesa, Italian MEP for Italy of Values, former member of the Italian Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 767]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Campaign\nAbout 100 Russian and international reporters arrived in South Ossetia to cover the event. Voters were able to cast ballots at 95 polling stations, 88 in South Ossetia and 7 in Russia (6 of them opened in North Ossetia and 1 in Moscow). No other overseas polling stations were open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Structure\nThe election was conducted using the party-list proportional representation system with a 7% election threshold. For South Ossetian authorities to consider the election valid, the voter turnout would have been at least 50% + 1 vote, and at least two parties would have acquired securing seats in the parliament. If these criteria hadn't been fulfilled, the South Ossetian legislation provided for a repeat election in four months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Parties\nThe Unity Party is the ruling party in the current parliament. According to Reuters, Unity, Communists, and the People's party support the current President Eduard Kokoity, while the Fatherland Socialist party opposes him. Two opposition parties were barred from running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Results\nAs of 10:00 UTC, 59.88% of registered voters had cast their votes, crossing the electoral threshold of 50% plus one vote. The South Ossetian election commission has thus declared the elections valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Results\nAccording to the preliminary results, the Unity Party has obtained the most votes with 46.38% of the vote, followed by People's Party with 22.58% and the Communists with 22.25%, thus securing 17, 9 and 8 parliament seats respectively, while the Fatherland Socialist Party fell just short of passing the 7% threshold with only 6.37%. The official results were expected by June 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Results\nAccording to the final results, the Unity Party won 17 seats with 21,246 votes, the People's Party won nine seats with 10,345 votes and the Communist Party won eight seats with 10,194 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Reaction\nWhat they in South Ossetia call elections are very far from real elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Reaction\nNothing but clownery, a farce and a redistribution of criminal power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205021-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 South Ossetian parliamentary election, Reaction\nThey neither recognize the result, nor want to see the real situation as it unfolds. This is an attempt to deprive the South Ossetian nation of the right to build its own life independently. Such statements from the promoters of democratic norms everywhere rather harm themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season\nThe 2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season in Australian rugby league was the 100th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership, and despite being in 1st position at some points during the year and scoring over 500 points in a season for the first time, they finished 10th out of 16 teams and so failed to reach the play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season\nIn Round 25, South Sydney defeated the minor premiers St. George Illawarra Dragons 41 to 6. This is the only loss greater than 20 points the Dragons have suffered since Wayne Bennett's inception as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season\nJohn Sutton was awarded the George Piggins Medal for Souths player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season\nOn the ensuing 'Mad Monday', coach Jason Taylor and forward David Fa'alogo were involved in a drunken altercation and both sacked from the club. This prompted the club's co-owner Russell Crowe to write an 800-word letter of apology to a Sydney newspaper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, National Australia Bank\nThe National Australia Bank was the Rabbitohs major home sponsor for the 2009 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, DeLonghi\nDeLonghi was the major away sponsor for the Rabbitohs in the 2009 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, V8 Supercars Australia\nV8 Supercars was the Rabbitohs major sleeve sponsor for the 2009 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205022-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, Virgin Blue\nVirgin Blue was the Rabbitohs major training sponsor for the 2009 Telstra Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205023-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 South Tipperary County Council election\nAn election to South Tipperary County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games\nThe 2009 Southeast Asian Games (Lao: \u0e81\u0eb5\u0ea5\u0eb2\u0e9e\u0eb9\u0ea1\u0eb4\u0e9e\u0eb2\u0e81\u0ead\u0eb2\u0e8a\u0eb5\u0e95\u0eb2\u0ec0\u0ea7\u0eb1\u0e99\u0ead\u0ead\u0e81\u0eaa\u0ebd\u0e87\u0ec3\u0e95\u0ec9 2009, translit. Kila phoumipak asi taven oak siang tai 2009), officially known as the 25th Southeast Asian Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event hosted by Vientiane, Laos. This was the first time Laos had held the Southeast Asian Games as Laos had previously declined hosting the 1965 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, citing financial difficulties. This was also the first time the Southeast Asian Games was held in a landlocked country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games\nThe games commemorated 50 years of SEA Games and the main schedule was formally held from 9 to 18 December 2009, with several events had commenced from 2 December 2009. Around 3,100 athletes participated at the event, which featured 372 events in 25 sports. Laos is the ninth nation to host the games after Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei and Vietnam. It was opened by Choummaly Sayasone, the President of Laos at the New Laos National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games\nThe final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by  Vietnam and Indonesia with host Laos in seventh place. Several Games and national records were broken during the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Host city\nDuring the Southeast Asian Games Federation meeting at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam, Vientiane, the capital city of Laos was chosen as the host of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation\nThe Laos 25th SEA Games Organising Committee (LAOSOC) led by president Somsavath Lengsavath was formed to oversee the staging of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Branding\nThe logo of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games is the image of the Pha That Luang, the national landmark and shrine of Laos beside the Mekong River. The shrine represents Laos as the host of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games and the Lao Culture, Arts and History, whereas the Mekong River, resembled by three wavy lines below the shrine, represents the origin of life, culture and lifestyle of Lao community especially in sport field. The river itself also represents the integration of the Southeast Asian countries and the friendship made through sport events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Branding\nThe mascots of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games are two white elephants dressed in traditional Lao attire named Champa, the male elephant and Champi the female elephant. The two white elephants symbolises the host nation, Laos as it was known as the kingdom of Lan Xang in ancient times, which literally means \"the kingdom of a million elephants\". The cheerful expression on the faces of the mascots represents the joyful and lively atmosphere during the games and warm welcome from Laos as the host country of the 25th SEA Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Branding\n33 songs were written for the games, which included The Spirit of the Flame, the theme song of the games which was written and performed by Sam Intharaphithak. Other songs included \"Go Laos\" which was sung by Sam Intharaphithak, Nalin Daravong, and Kave, \"SEA Games Harmony\" which was sung by Sithiphone, Sam Intharaphithak, Gai, Malya and Poui and \"Vietiane Games\" which was sung by Buratino. A Beerlao Campaign song for the games was also composed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 65], "content_span": [66, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Development and preparation, Countdown\nThe countdown to the 25th SEA Games was held at the Chao Anouvong stadium on 31 December 2008, featured programmes such as the New Year celebrations, a show from Miss SEA Games contestants, performances by various artists, and a fireworks display. A countdown clock was also placed at a nearby shopping mall and the Patuxay Monument in Vientiane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Venues\nThe 2009 Southeast Asian Games used mostly new and some existing venues with the centrepiece of the activities being the new National Sport Complex. Incorporating the new 25,000-seat national stadium, it hosted most of the events. Athletes were housed at the National University of Laos, which was chosen as the games village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Venues\nThe 25th Southeast Asian Games had 27 venues for the games, all in Vientiane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Venues, Public transport\nLao Association of Travel Agents provided bus services during the Games to fetch volunteers between the city and outlying venues and transport athletes and performers to and from the games village, airport, the city, the games venues and within Laos. Car services were also available in the city throughout the games period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThe opening ceremony of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games was held on 9 December 2009 at 18:10 (LST) at the New Laos National Stadium. The ceremony preceded with the arrival of the then President Choummaly Sayasone and several guests of honour to the stadium. This was followed by announcement of the ceremony commencement by announcers, the scoreboard countdown and the parade of athletes from the participating nations led by Lao Police Force band and flag bearers carrying the flags of the games and the flags of the participating nations began with the Bruneian delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nThe Lao delegation, the largest of all participating nations with 733 athletes and officials, received the warmest welcome from the audiences when they marched into the stadium. After all the contingent marched into the stadium, the National Flag of Laos and the games' flags were raised as the National Anthem of Laos is played. After that, Somsavat Lengsavad, the Standing Deputy Prime Minister of Laos and the chairman of the 25th Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee gave the welcome speech and president Choummaly then declared the games opened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nMayuly Phanouvong took the athlete's oath, while the judge's oath was taken by Somphone Manikham. Later, a group of athletes passes the flame during the torch relay one after another before Phoxay Aphailath, lit the flame on an arrow carried by a man dressed as Sang Sinxay. The man who dressed as Sang Sinxay then aim the arrow lit by the flame from Phoxay with his bow carried with him at the cauldron, shoot and lit it instantly, symbolised the beginning of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0012-0003", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony\nAfter the cauldron was lit, the athletes took part at the parade earlier were escorted out of the stadium by the Lao Police Force, making way for the dance performance which concluded the ceremony. The dance performance includes segments such as Welcome dance for SEA Games, Forest, streams and life, Sinxay of Modern Times, Bright Future, In Harmony towards the future, Golden rice field and the light of righteousness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony\nThe closing ceremony of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games was held on 18 December 2009 at 18:10 (LST) at the New Laos National Stadium. The ceremony preceded with the arrival of the then Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh and several guests of honour to the stadium. It began with the parade of athletes by order of sports competed, followed by the closing speech of the games chairman, Songsavad Lengsavad, the lowering of the flag of Laos and the games flag and the extinguish of the games cauldron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony\nThe hosting rights of the SEA Games was then handed over to Indonesia, host of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in which Andy Mallarangeng, the Minister of Youth and sports of Indonesia receiving the flag as its symbol. The Indonesia segment dance performance Gather together again, was performed by Indonesian dancers. The ceremony concluded with the Lao farewell segment dance performance which included Paddy Trash, Lao New Year, Rocket Festival and boat racing festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Sports\nBecause of the limited sports facilities in Vientiane and Laos' lack of a coastline, only 25 sports featured in the programme, compared to 43 held in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand. Among the Olympic sports removed from the Games were baseball, canoeing, sailing, gymnastics, hockey, rowing, fencing, triathlon, equestrian, softball, and basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Medal table\nA total of 1246 medals, comprising 372 gold medals, 374 silver medals, and 500 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Laos performance was its best ever yet in Southeast Asian Games history and was placed seventh overall amongst participating nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Broadcasting\nThe games were broadcast live on 14 radio and television channels and websites in six countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Broadcasting\nMalaysia's TV3 and TV2 only broadcast the Games' Men's Football events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns, controversies and legacy\nPrior to the games, the Laotian organising committee was criticised for reducing the number of sports. This had been done partly because Laos has no coastline (rendering sailing, windsurfing, and triathlon infeasible), and a general lack of sporting facilities in Vientiane. The inclusion of a number of Olympic sports, previously uncontested at the SEA Games, were interpreted as a bid for greater coverage of the Games in Laos. Few critics stated that Laos specifically selected games in which they had a better chance of winning gold medals. The decision to remove basketball from the programme was an unpopular one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205024-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns, controversies and legacy\nMany countries, including the Philippines \u2013 the defending champions for the men's division \u2013 offered to help to host the Games but Laos rejected these offers. Laos accepted funding from China, Japan, Vietnam and the ASEAN nations to construct the appropriate sports facilities  including the USD 100 million New Laos National Stadium and USD 19 million Games village. Although prior criticisms had been levelled over the reduced programme and financing of facilities, upon commencement, the Games received a largely positive reaction from the other competing nations. The Games were considered a success for Laos, one of the poorest countries in the world, and a nation which had only sent four athletes to the 2008 Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 793]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205025-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian haze\nThe 2009 Southeast Asian haze was an episode of large scale air pollution primarily caused by slash and burn practices used to clear land for agricultural purposes in Sumatra, Indonesia. It affected the areas surrounding the Straits of Malacca which besides Indonesia include Malaysia and Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205025-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Asian haze\nThe haze began in early June 2009 and progressively became worse toward July. With a prevailing dry season caused by El Nino, burning and hence the haze was expected to continue until August or September when the monsoon season arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205026-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team\nThe 2009 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team represented Southeast Missouri State University in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Redhawks played their home games at Houck Stadium in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. With fifth-year head coach Tony Samuel, the Redhawks finished the season 2\u20139 (1\u20138 in conference play) and in last place in the OVC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205027-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 20th through May 24th. LSU won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. LSU won the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205027-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Regular Season results\nThe top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205027-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Format\nThe 2009 tournament will once again feature a \"flipped bracket\". This means that after two days of play the undefeated team from each bracket will move into the other bracket. This reduces the number of rematches teams will have to play in order to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season\nThe 2009 Southeastern Conference football season started on Thursday, September 3 as conference member South Carolina visited North Carolina State. The conference's other 11 teams began their respective 2009 season of NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) competition on Saturday, September 5. All teams started their season at home except Kentucky, who started their season on neutral turf at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio against Miami (OH),  Georgia, who traveled to Oklahoma State, and Alabama, who traveled to the Georgia Dome to face Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Bowl games\nThe SEC was the second conference to send 10 teams to bowl games in a given year. The ACC was the first to do so in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Bowl games\nRankings are from AP Poll. All times Central Standard Time. * Penn State's win was vacated due to the Penn State child sex abuse scandal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Previous season\nDuring the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, Florida and Alabama won their respective divisions and met in the 2008 SEC Championship Game which Florida won 31\u201320. Florida went on to win the 2009 BCS National Championship while SEC Runner-Up Alabama lost in the Sugar Bowl. Georgia was the heavy favorite to win the SEC in the pre-season, but did not live up to the hype. The Bulldogs, however, did finish strong winning the Capital One Bowl. Other bowl winners include Chick-fil-A Bowl champion LSU, Cotton Bowl Classic champion Ole Miss, Liberty Bowl champion Kentucky, Music City Bowl champion Vanderbilt", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason\nTennessee head coach Lane Kiffin begins his first season in Knoxville. Kiffin is a former head coach of the Oakland Raiders and assistant coach at USC. Gene Chizik also begins his first season as head coach at Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason\nIn a given year, each SEC team will play its five other division foes plus three opposing division opponents. Each team has a set opposing division opponent. The other teams from the division are on a rotation, playing a home/away series every five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason\nThe Southeastern Conference announced on July 22 that the SEC media had elected Florida and Alabama as the preseason favorites for their divisions for the 2009 football season. It chose Florida quarterback Tim Tebow as the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and Tennessee cornerback Eric Berry  as the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205028-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason\nIn the preseason Coaches' Poll released on August 7, the SEC was one of only three conferences with multiple teams ranked in the top ten. Florida was elected pre-season #1 while Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, and Georgia also were in the top 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods\nThe 2009 Southeastern United States floods were a group of floods that affected several counties throughout northern Georgia,  Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The worst flooding occurred across the Atlanta metropolitan area. Continuous rain, spawned by moisture pulled from the Gulf of Mexico, fell faster than the local watersheds could drain the runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods\nInitial damages from around the state were estimated at $250 million. On September 26, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine raised the estimated cost to $500 million with the potential for it to rise. Some 20,000 homes, businesses and other buildings received major damage and 17 Georgia counties received Federal Disaster Declarations. The flood is blamed for at least ten deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods\nThe floods were historic, breaking records that went back more than a century in some locations. The Chattahoochee River, the largest river in the region, measured water levels at a 500-year flood level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Beginnings\nRain began falling on the Atlanta area on September 15, 2009, with the National Weather Service reporting only 0.04 inches that day at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Additional rain fell throughout the week, with only a trace amount recorded for September 18. However, a large rain event began to inundate the area on September 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Beginnings\nThe official NWS monitoring station at the Atlanta airport recorded 3.70 inches (94\u00a0mm) of rainfall from daybreak to 8pm (more than doubling the previous record for rainfall on that date), while outlying monitoring stations recorded 5 inches (130\u00a0mm) of rainfall in a 13-hour period. Flooding began in one neighborhood that day, with the remainder of the area placed under a flash flood watch for the rest of the weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects\nHundreds of people were rescued by boat from their homes, and at least ten people died, mostly in their cars by driving where water crossed the road, which motorists were repeatedly warned against on local radio and TV. The American Red Cross started emergency shelters in each county affected by the floods. Most Atlanta area school districts were closed September 21, due to floodwaters and the difficulty for school buses to get around the hundreds of closed roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Chattahoochee River\nThe Chattahoochee rose to the highest levels since Buford Dam was built. Water levels along the river rose over the 0.2 percent chance exceedence (500-year) flood at the gage location. The River reached its second-highest level ever in Vinings at Paces Ferry Road, and would have surpassed its 1916 record were it not for the impoundment built in the 1950s. Along the river in both Vinings and Roswell, a one percent chance exceedence (100-year flood) level was measured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Chattahoochee River\nPeachtree Creek topped its stream gauge and the bridge itself at Northside Drive, but remained just below its 1916 record. Nancy Creek, however, did reach a record level, destroying the Peachtree-Dunwoody Road bridge. Peachtree-Dunwoody Road bridge reopened March 23, 2010. Both Peachtree Creek and Nancy Creek are tributaries of the Chattahoochee River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Chattahoochee River\nThe western side of the Interstate 285 beltway crosses the Chattahoochee River. This section of the interstate was completely underwater for several days. Many of the roller coasters and rides at Six Flags Over Georgia were partly underwater, with at least 80% of Great American Scream Machine submerged by the Chattahoochee River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Chattahoochee River\nLocated along the Chattahoochee River in west Atlanta, the R.M. Clayton sewage treatment plant, the largest in the Southeastern U.S., was swamped with four feet of water as the river rose by twelve additional feet. Millions of gallons of untreated sewage were released into the rising waters. Other plants in Cobb and Gwinnett counties experienced similar spills. Also located near the Chattahoochee, a Kellogg Company food plant was flooded, resulting in the closure of the plant and a subsequent national shortage of frozen waffles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Lake Lanier and Lake Allatoona\nLake Lanier rose quickly, while Lake Allatoona soared to more than ten feet or three meters over full pool, using its flood reserve capacity for the first time after years of the 2006\u20132009 Southeastern U.S. drought. Lake Allatoona reached its highest level since 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Sweetwater Creek\nOn Monday, September 21, Sweetwater Creek rose to its highest level ever. On September 22, The United States Geological Survey measured the greatest flow ever recorded on Sweetwater Creek, at 28,000 cubic feet per second (790\u00a0m3/s). The flooding from the creek was met with water from the swollen Chattahoochee River, which blocked Interstate 20 west of Atlanta for two days. Many homes and businesses in the area were completely submerged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Cherokee County\nInterstate 575 was heavily blocked by Noonday Creek, which also blocked several other roads including Georgia State Route 92. The Little River also caused major problems in the same area, blocking the original parallel route of Georgia 5 (which was replaced by I-575 in the 1980s), and Arnold Mill Road, north and east of Woodstock. Commuters trying to get back home to Cherokee county found it took hours due to the numerous road closures and unmarked detours, extending the September 21, 2009 rush hour until after 9:00pm as people sat in gridlocked traffic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Cobb County\nKennesaw State University in Cobb County received significant flooding on several parts of campus including the east parking deck. Several buildings and dormitories along Campus Loop Drive were flooded from a nearby creek and lake. Water rushing into the Social Science building reportedly rose up to the bottom of the hand-rail of the first floor stairs. Classes were cancelled at 1:00pm on Monday, September 21 for the remainder of the day and again on September 22 and 23 while damage was assessed and clean-up began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, Cobb County\nPope High School was surrounded by water, which receded in time to let the students leave. Clarkdale Elementary School was flooded to the roof. Students were evacuated early September 21, while waters were ankle-deep. The Cobb County School District, wary of rising waters, let middle school students leave before elementary and high schools. Though because of heavy rainfall in Legacy Park subdivision, 3 buses had to return to Awtrey Middle School. Powder Springs Park and parts of Brownsville Road were completely submerged by floodwaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Effects, City of Atlanta\nInside the city limits of Atlanta, several neighborhoods were underwater, including Peachtree Hills. The Downtown Connector, a section where Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 run concurrent with each other and one of Georgia's busiest expressways, was submerged by the floodwaters. Several cars were swept into the water before police could redirect traffic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Appalachian Mountains landslides\nAs a result of the flooding rains, many parts of the southern Appalachian Mountains became saturated. This caused a number of landslides and rockslides, including one in October, 2009 on Interstate 40 in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. This closed the highway for several months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Appalachian Mountains landslides\nAnother rockslide occurred on U.S. Route 64 in Tennessee, in November, 2009. This section, known as the Ocoee Scenic Byway, was closed for several months. The rockslide was captured in a dramatic video, which aired on many television news outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Appalachian Mountains landslides\nA rockslide also occurred in February, 2010 on U.S. Route 129. This closed the section known as \"The Dragon\", along the Tennessee/North Carolina border, until summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Government response\nThe governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, declared a state of emergency, and requested a disaster declaration from the U.S. government for 17 counties in Georgia. The counties were Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Heard, Newton, Paulding, and Rockdale counties around Metro Atlanta, Catoosa, Chattooga, and Walker counties in far northwest Georgiaand Stephens County in northeast Georgia. While state military assets, including elements of the Georgia National Guard and the Georgia State Defense Force, were placed on a heightened state of alert immediately following Governor Perdue's declaration, there were no reports that any military personnel were fielded in significant numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Government response\nBeginning on September 24, President Barack Obama approved a Federal disaster declaration for all 17 Georgia counties requested by Governor Perdue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205029-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Southeastern United States floods, Government response\nIn the wake of these floods, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency has made strides to increase flood preparedness in Georgia through its Ready Georgia campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205030-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 100 Races\nThe 2009 Southern 100 Races were held between Monday 13 July and Thursday 16 July on the 4.25-mile Billown Circuit near Castletown, Isle of Man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205030-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 100 Races\nThe main event was won by Guy Martin claiming victory in the 2009 Southern 100 Solo Championship race. Sixteen races were held, with Ryan Farquhar taking the most wins with four victories. Roy Richardson and William Dunlop took double victories with, Jamie O'Brien, Dennis Booth, Dave Madsen-Mygdal and Stephen McIlvenna all achieving solo victories. Steven Coombes and Paul Knapton, Ian and Carl Bell, and Glyn Jones and Jason Slous all tasted sidecar success during the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205030-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 100 Races, Race results, Race 12; 2009 Southern 100 Solo Championship Race final standings\nThursday 16 July 2009 10 laps \u2013 42.50\u00a0miles Billown Circuit (Reduced Race Distance)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 104], "content_span": [105, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205030-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 100 Races, Race results, Race 12; 2009 Southern 100 Solo Championship Race final standings\nFastest Lap: Ryan Farquhar, 2' 16.401 112.619\u00a0mph on lap 9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 104], "content_span": [105, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205031-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com\nThe 2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com, the 52nd running of the race which its lineage dates to the 1957 Rebel 300  and was the first year the Rebel was given the name of the then-suspended fall race , was the eleventh race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, was held on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at Darlington Speedway in Darlington, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205031-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com\nThe race was televised in the USA on Fox starting at 7 PM US EDT with radio being handled on MRN on terrestrial radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205031-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com\nSeventy-two thousand fans were eyewitnesses to four hours and eleven minutes of racing action. There were 23 changes to the lead position recorded during the race and 17 cautions were taken for a duration of 73 laps. Almost 20% of the race was held under the caution flag due to debris and accidents while the average green flag run was slightly more than 16 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205032-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, SC from May 20 through May 24. Second seeded Georgia Southern won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Georgia Southern's fourth SoCon tournament win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205032-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe tournament used a modified two bracket, double-elimination format. The teams that emerge from the loser's bracket on each side switch to the other bracket and play the team emerging from each winner's bracket, with the surviving teams playing a one-game final. Only the top eight teams participate, so Wofford, UNC Greensboro, and Davidson were not in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205033-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Friday, March 6 and Monday, March 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at McKenzie Arena. The semifinals were televised by SportSouth, and the Southern Conference Championship Game was televised by ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205033-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, All-Tournament Team\nFirst TeamStephen McDowell, ChattanoogaTony White Jr., College of CharlestonStephen Curry, DavidsonKevin Goffney, ChattanoogaBryan Friday, SamfordSecond TeamNicchaeus Doaks, ChattanoogaDustin Scott, College of CharlestonDonald Sims, Appalachian StateAndrew Goudelock, College of CharlestonJeremy Simmons, College of Charleston", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205034-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Islands by-election\nA by-election was held in the constituency of the Southern Islands in Vanuatu in December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205034-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Islands by-election\nThe constituency covers four of the five islands of Tafea Province (Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango and Anatom, excluding only Tanna). It elects a single representative to Vanuatu. The by-election was due to the death of sitting MP Ture Kailo, of the Vanua'aku Party, who had died suddenly in October while attending a seminar organised by the Australian government in Canberra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205034-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Islands by-election\nThe seat was retained by the Vanua'aku Party; its candidate, Philip Charley, finished \"well ahead\" of the candidates from the Union of Moderate Parties and the National United Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205035-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team\nThe 2009 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented The University of Southern Mississippi in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Larry Fedora, who was in his second year at Southern Miss. They played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and competed in the East Division of Conference USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205035-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team\nThe Golden Eagles finished the season with a record of 7\u20136, 5\u20133 in C-USA play and lost to Middle Tennessee, 42\u201332, in the New Orleans Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205035-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Game Summaries, Alcorn State\nThe Golden Eagles and Braves met for the first time in each schools' history. Southern Miss set an attendance record of 36,232.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205036-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 20\u201323. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas. The winner of the tournament, Sam Houston State, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205036-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format\nThe top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. They played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205037-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, will take place March 12\u201315, 2009 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament will receive the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205037-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nThe top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Southland Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The first round match-ups will be as shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205037-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nIn the title game, Stephen F. Austin won their first conference title and clinched their first birth to the Division I NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Championship. Matt Kingsley, a fifth-year senior, led the Lumberjacks with 20 points in the 68\u201357 win over Texas-San Antonio. Kingsley was named the tournament MVP. The Lumberjacks also got 16 points apiece from Eddie Williams and Josh Alexander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205037-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nDevin Gibson led UTSA with a game-high 23 points. While the game was close throughout, SFA never trailed in the first half, and led 37\u201328 at halftime. They closed the first half on a 20\u20136 run that culminated with a three-pointer from Walt Harris. Despite Gibson's best efforts, the Roadrunners never got closer than five points behind the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205037-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nThe Lumberjacks became the fifteenth different team to win the Southland Conference Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205038-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Softball Tournament\nThe 2009 Southland Conference tournament was held at Cowgirl Diamond on the campus of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana from May 7 through May 9, 2009. The tournament winner, Texas State, earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205038-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Southland Conference Softball Tournament, Format\nThe top 6 teams will qualify for the Southland Softball Tournament. The tournament used a true double-elimination format with a maximum of eleven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205039-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Soweto Open\nThe 2009 Soweto Open was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Johannesburg, South Africa between 13 and 18 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205039-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Soweto Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205039-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Soweto Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nChris Guccione /  George Bastl def. Michail Elgin /  Alexandre Kudryavtsev, 6\u20132, 4\u20136, [11\u20139]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205040-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Soweto Open \u2013 Doubles\nChris Guccione and George Bastl won in the final 6\u20132, 4\u20136, [11\u20139], against Michail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205041-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Soweto Open \u2013 Singles\nFabrice Santoro won in the final of first edition of this tournament. He defeated Rik de Voest 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205042-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spa Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Spa Formula Two round was the third round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 27 and 28 June 2009 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps at Spa, Belgium. The weekend was dominated by Tobias Hegewald, who took two poles, won both races and got fastest lap for both races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205043-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Belgian GP2 round was the seventh race of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on 29 August and 30, 2009 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps at Spa, Belgium. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix. PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni, along with their drivers Andreas Zuber and Luiz Razia, were forced to miss the round due to unresolved financial disputes. \u00c1lvaro Parente achieved the first pole position in his GP2 Series career, and also recorded the first pole for his team Ocean Racing Technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205043-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round\nA day later, the Portuguese driver won the 100th race in GP2 history \u2014 again the first for his team \u2014 and the second of his career. Diego Nunes, Dani Clos and Nelson Panciatici were given 25-second time penalties by the race stewards as a result of various incidents during the feature race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Spanish Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio de Espa\u00f1a Telef\u00f3nica 2009) was a Formula One motor race held on 10 May 2009 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. It was the fifth\u00a0race of the 2009 Formula One season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix\nIt resulted in a one-two finish by Brawn GP drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn GP driver Jenson Button led the Drivers Championship by 12 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello, who was a further point ahead of Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. The top six drivers were from the top three teams of Brawn, Red Bull and Toyota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nBrawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 22.5 points from Red Bull, who led Toyota by another point. McLaren were the only other team to reach double figures, having scored thirteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe 2009 Spanish Grand Prix was widely anticipated as a restart to the season, with most teams bringing new developments to their cars. Brawn GP made their first upgrades to the BGP 001 in an attempt to remain at the front, whilst Ferrari introduced a new two-tier diffuser to the Ferrari F60, and reduced the weight of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen's car. Ferrari also ran KERS on both their cars, despite having reliability problems with it at previous races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nHaving run KERS on Nick Heidfeld's car for the first four races, and Robert Kubica's car in Bahrain, BMW Sauber raced without the system in Spain. This was due to a significant aerodynamic update to the F1.09 and the need to get the best out of it, which is limited with KERS' weight disadvantage. BMW's aerodynamic update included a new nose, front wing, revised sidepods, a new rear wing and an overall lightening of the chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nIn addition, BMW decided not to introduce a two-tier diffuser in Spain, claiming they would not have been able to exploit the performance benefit it gives. Force India also abandoned plans to run KERS to instead focus on aerodynamic developments, but may run the system later in the year according to team principal Vijay Mallya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nDuring the previous year's grand prix, McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen suffered a large crash at turn nine of the circuit. After the race, Mark Webber, a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said that standards at the track should have been better. Speaking in his regular BBC Sport column, Webber said the run-off area at turn nine was too tight, which could cause an even more serious accident in the future without improvements. In response to this, the FIA made modifications to the track, which should minimise the chances of such a severe accident happening again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background\nThe rear of the gravel trap at the turn was raised by 1.5 metres to give a gradual upward incline to slow down cars, while the gravel trap itself has been changed. An additional conveyor belt has been fitted to tyres straight on at the corner, to minimise the chances of a car penetrating the barriers again. Also, the kerb and artificial grass behind the track at turn nine have been extended by ten metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the race; of which two were held on Friday May 8, 2009, with the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon. Both sessions lasted 90 minutes with weather conditions sunny throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning, lasting for 60 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nIn the first practice session, Jenson Button of Brawn GP set the fastest time of 1:21.799. Jarno Trulli of Toyota was second, with the two BMW Sauber cars of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld third and fourth fastest. In the second practice session, Williams' driver Nico Rosberg went quickest with a time of 1.21.588. His teammate, Kazuki Nakajima, was second, with Renault's Fernando Alonso third. The third practice session saw Ferrari leading the way, Felipe Massa ahead of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, with the two Brawn cars over half a second slower in third and fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nQualifying on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. At the end of the first session, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen was knocked out from 16th place. He later admitted his fault, believing his first qualifying lap was good enough to secure passage to the next session. Also knocked out were the Force India's of Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil, McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen, and the Toro Rosso of S\u00e9bastien Bourdais. The second part of qualifying saw the Toro Rosso of S\u00e9bastien Buemi, McLaren's reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, BMW's Heidfeld, Renault's Nelson Piquet, and Williams' Nakajima all fail to progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying\nJenson Button claimed pole position in the final part of qualifying, starting his lap just two seconds before the session ended to put in a time of 1.20.527, one tenth quicker than second-placed Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull. Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello was third quickest, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Red Bull's Mark Webber in fourth and fifth. Toyota's Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli were sixth and seventh fastest, in front of Renault's Alonso, Rosberg in the Williams, and the BMW of Kubica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nRubens Barrichello made a good start from third on the grid and took the lead at the first corner. Jenson Button was running second, whilst the KERS-equipped Ferrari of Felipe Massa was able to gain one place from the start and was placed third ahead of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAn accident on the first lap of the race caused the retirement of Jarno Trulli, Adrian Sutil and both Toro Rosso drivers. Four laps behind the safety car followed while marshals cleared debris from the track. Replays of the incident showed that Nico Rosberg ran wide at turn two, forcing Trulli into the gravel, where he lost control and spun back onto the track, hitting Sutil. S\u00e9bastien Buemi and S\u00e9bastien Bourdais collided in the aftermath of the initial carnage, when Buemi braked hard to avoid Trulli, and Bourdais ran into the back of his teammate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nLewis Hamilton had been forced onto the grass at the start by Nelson Piquet and had ended up at the back of the field, but was able to avoid the incidents in front of him. Shortly after the safety car pulled in and the race restarted, the McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen suffered from gearbox failure, forcing him to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nBarrichello pulled away from Button consistently during the first part of the race. After the first set of pit-stops, it was evident that Barrichello was running a three-stop strategy, while Button and the other front runners were making two stops. Barrichello, however, was unable to create enough of a gap to the chasing pack before his second pit-stop, and lost the lead to Button. After all the other drivers had pitted at least once, Barrichello found himself behind third-placed Massa and fourth-placed Vettel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAfter the last round of pit-stops were completed, Button was first, while Barrichello had moved up to second, and Red Bull's Mark Webber took third position \u2013 the result of a long second stint that Red Bull had opted for in order to emerge in front of the slower Ferrari of Massa. Button had originally been on the same three-stop strategy as Barrichello, but was switched to a two-stop strategy by the team to avoid exiting the pits into the dirty air of Rosberg's Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFerrari's problems continued as Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen experienced hydraulic failure on his car, causing him to retire on lap 17. Massa had defended his position against Vettel throughout the afternoon, but late in the race, Ferrari identified a problem in that Massa was consuming more fuel than expected. As he could potentially run out of fuel before the end of the race, Massa was instructed to slow down and conserve fuel, and as a result he lost fourth place to Vettel, then fifth place to Fernando Alonso on the last lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205044-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nButton took his fourth victory of the season, with Brawn GP claiming a one-two finish as Barrichello crossed the line 13 seconds later. Webber took the final podium position, with teammate Vettel behind him in fourth. Alonso was fifth, Massa sixth, Nick Heidfeld, who had significantly closed the gap to Massa in the final lap, had to settle for seventh but in the process breaking Michael Schumacher's record of  24 consecutive finishes, while Nico Rosberg claimed the final point in eighth place. Webber claimed that driving a long stint with a heavy fuel load \"felt as though [he] was towing a caravan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205045-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish National Badminton Championships\nThe 2009 Spanish National Badminton Championships was the 28th edition of the Spanish National Badminton Championships. It was held in Polideportivo Florida y Babel located in Alicante, from May 8 to May 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205046-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1\u20133 May 2009 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205046-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Report\nIn the MotoGP race, Valentino Rossi achieved his first win of the season to go top of the world championship standings, the world champion came home ahead of home favourite Dani Pedrosa, with Casey Stoner in third place. In the 250cc race, Hiroshi Aoyama capitalised on a late mistake of another home favourite, \u00c1lvaro Bautista, to take his first win since the 2007 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix. In the 125cc race, British rider Bradley Smith dominated the race to achieve his first victory at the 50th attempt, after title rivals Andrea Iannone and Juli\u00e1n Sim\u00f3n both crashed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205046-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election\nThe 2009 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 22 June 2009 following the resignation of Michael Martin as Speaker during the parliamentary expenses scandal. Martin was the first Speaker since Sir John Trevor in 1695 to be forced out of office. It was the first Speaker election since 11 May 2005, and the first contested election of a Speaker since 23 October 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election\nConservative MP John Bercow was elected as the new speaker, after three rounds of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Rules\nVoting took place in the House of Commons of the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Rules\nUnder the new rules for the election of the Speaker, introduced in 2001, candidates needed to be nominated by at least twelve Members of Parliament, at least three of them members of a party different from that of the candidate. Each member was allowed to nominate only one candidate. After the candidates' speeches, the House voted by secret ballot, with an absolute majority required for victory. If no candidate won a majority, then the individual with the fewest votes was eliminated, as were any candidates who received less than five per cent of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Rules\nThe House continued to vote until one member received the requisite majority under a voting system known as the exhaustive ballot. Then, the House voted on a formal motion to appoint the member in question to the Speakership. The Father of the House, Alan Williams, was the presiding officer of the Commons during the election process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Rules\nThe final stage of appointment of a new Speaker is a formality but has constitutional significance. The Queen must signify her approval of the new Speaker, which is done by the appointment of a Royal Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Candidates, Announced\nThe following individuals all confirmed their intention to stand for election to the office of Speaker, and were all in turn confirmed as nominated candidates by the Parliamentary authorities on the morning of the election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Candidates, Announced\nAll 10 of the above candidates appeared at a Hansard Society hustings on 15 June. This was the first full hustings to take place for a Speaker election, although there was a hustings for the 2000 speaker election, which several of the candidates did not attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Candidates, Nominations\nNo official list of MPs who nominated candidates was publicly released. A partial list of nominations is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results\nThe result of the first secret ballot was announced at 17:10 on 22 June 2009, after the nominated candidates had all addressed the House of Commons. The result of the second ballot was announced at approximately 18:55. Following the result of the second ballot, Beckett, Haselhurst and Beith withdrew their candidacies after their support fell, leaving a straight runoff in the third round between two Conservative MPs, John Bercow and George Young. The result of the third ballot was announced around 20:30. Bercow won, with 54% of the final vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results\nFollowing the final vote, the question was put \"That John Bercow do take the Chair of this House as Speaker\", which was carried without any audible opposition. After this, Bercow was dragged to the Chair (as per House custom) by Charles Walker and Sandra Gidley, and gave an inaugural speech as Speaker-Elect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205048-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results\nLater that evening, Bercow was formally appointed Speaker by receiving the Queen's approbation through a Royal Commission in the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205049-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nThe 2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was the 5th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement, held on 25 June 2009 during the first session of the 23rd parliament. The incumbent Speaker Nabih Berri and head of the Amal Movement was re-elected to a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205049-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nUnder the article 44 of the constitution, the speaker is elected at the start of each parliamentary cycle by an absolute majority of the deputies' vote. By convention, he is always a Shia Muslim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205049-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election\nBerri won the majority of the votes cast, receiving 90 votes and 70.3% out of 128 deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205050-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 2009 Special Honours in New Zealand were announced in August 2009 as a result of the reinstatement of the appellations of \"Sir\" and \"Dame\" to the New Zealand Royal Honours System by passing Special Regulation 2009/90 Additional Statutes of The New Zealand Order of Merit, a legally binding regulation with the force of law in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205050-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Honours (New Zealand)\nThe effect of the change was that individuals who had been appointed as Principal Companions or Distinguished Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit were given the option of accepting titular honours: Principal Companions could opt to become Knights or Dames Grand Companion, and Distinguished Companions could become Knights or Dames Companion. Of the 85 living Principal and Distinguished Companions at the time, all but 13 accepted redesignation. Living widows of deceased male Principal or Distinguished Companions were eligible to be granted the courtesy title of \"Lady\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205050-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients are displayed as they were styled before the redesignation, and the date given in brackets is the date of the original appointment as a Principal or Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205050-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Honours (New Zealand), New Zealand Order of Merit, Widows of Principal and Distinguished Companions\nThe following surviving spouses of deceased Principal and Distinguished Companions were granted the use of the courtesy title of \"Lady\":", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 112], "content_span": [113, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games\nThe 8th Special Olympics Great Britain National Games were held in Leicester between the 25 and 31 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, Athletes and volunteers\nOver 2,400 athletes representing 19 Special Olympics regions across the UK have visited the city of Leicester over the seven-day period along with 1,200 coaches and 1,500 volunteers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, Athletes and volunteers\n2,422 athletes competed in 21 Olympic style competitions across the city. The city of Leicester have also recruited about 1,500 volunteers to participate in the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, Athletes and volunteers\nLeicester's landscape has changed dramatically since the city first hosted the Games in 1989. From the rich diversity of its population, to the magnificent ongoing 3 billion regeneration programme, Leicester was a city rising to the challenge on many fronts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, Athletes and volunteers\nA host of celebrities have already offered up their support to the Games next year including Martin Johnson, Gary Lineker, Leicester Tigers, Leicester City FC, and Leicestershire CCC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205051-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Games, Sports and venues\nSailing was held at Rutland Sailing Centre and Kayaking have taken place at the Anglian Water Site. Leicestershire County Cricket Club were used for Kwik Cricket. Walkers Stadium, home of Leicester City Football Club, was also used for the Opening Ceremony and the Games Village. There are some of the sporting venues hosted the 2009 Games, including Abbey Park (cycling), New College Leicester (gymnastics), Hollywood Bowl (ten pin bowling) and Saffron Lane Sports Centre (athletics).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205052-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games\nThe 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games was held in the state of Idaho, USA from February 7 through February 13, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205052-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games\nNearly 2,500 athletes from over 100 countries participated in the games. Dignitaries included actors, musicians, athletes and politicians from around the United States and the world. Vice President Joe Biden presented awards to athletes, and met athletes and their families at other events on Thursday, February 12. He further announced the appointment of Kareem Dale as special assistant to the president for disability policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205053-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speed World Challenge\nThe 2009 SCCA Speed World Challenge was the twentieth Speed World Challenge season. began March 18, 2009, and was completed on October 11, after 10 rounds. The Grand Touring championship was won by Brandon Davis driving a Ford Mustang GT, and the Touring Car championship was won by Pierre Kleinubing driving an Acura TSX. It was the last season under the Speed Channel sponsorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205053-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speed World Challenge, Schedule\nFive of the rounds were held as an undercard to the American Le Mans Series: Sebring, Long Beach, Mid-Ohio, Road America, Road Atlanta and Laguna Seca. The Sebring, Mid-Ohio, Road Atlanta and Laguna Seca races were also shared with the Atlantic Championship, as well as the Autobahn date. The race at New Jersey was held as an undercard to the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205054-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Ekstraliga\nThe 2009 Speedway Ekstraliga (known as the CenterNet Mobile Speedway Ekstraliga for sponsorship reasons) is the 10th Speedway Ekstraliga season, the top division of Team Speedway Polish Championship. The Ekstraliga have eight teams competing (six the top teams from 2008 season and two the top teams from 2008 First League. The first fixtures of the season are scheduled for April 5, 2009, and the season will end on October 18 or 25, 2009. The defending Polish champion are Unibax Toru\u0144, who won in 2008 after defeating Unia Leszno in the play-off final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205055-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Speedway Grand Prix was the 64th edition of the official World Championship and the 15th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, deciding F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Motocyclisme Speedway World Championship. It is the third series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205055-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification\nFor the 2008 season, there was the 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205055-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification, 2008 Grand Prix\nThe top eight riders from the 2008 championship qualified as of right. These eight qualifiers are, in championship order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205055-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification, Grand Prix Challenge\nThe top eight riders from the 2008 championship were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge. These riders are, in order by qualifying position:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205055-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification, Nominations\nThe final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2008 season. Riders were nominated after the season ended on October 28, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205056-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification\nThe 2009 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings are a series of speedway meetings used to determine the three riders and one reserve who qualify for the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix. The top eight riders finishing the 2008 Grand Prix series automatically qualify for 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205056-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification, Domestic Qualifications, Poland\nDomestic Qualifications for the 2009 Grand Prix and the 2008 Individual European Championship Krajowe eliminacje do Grand Prix 2009 i IME", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205056-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification, Domestic Qualifications, Poland\n(17) Jankowski: 7, 14, 18(18) K\u0142opot: 12, 15 (19) Ko\u0142odziej: 13, 17Times:Heat 1-4:   66.90 67.42 67.98 69.22Heat 5-8:   67.70 68.10 68.40 68.64Heat 9-12:  68.42 67.95 68.80 68.19Heat 13-16: 68.10 70.29 67.94 68.08Heat 17-20: 68.56 69.02 68.23 68.63Heat 21-24: 68.18 69.36 69.09 68.87", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205056-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification, Domestic Qualifications, Poland\n(17) Cemler: 9, 16, 19(18) Wi\u015bniewski: 13, 18, 20(19) Lampkowski: 15, 18", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205056-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification, Grand Prix Challenge\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022  t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022  x - other exclusion \u2022  e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022  f - fell \u2022  ns - non-starter \u2022  nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205057-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic\nThe 2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic the first race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 25 April in the Mark\u00e9ta Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic. Czech Republic Grand Prix was won by Russian rider Emil Sayfutdinov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205057-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Mat\u011bj K\u016fs as Wild Card, and Lubo\u0161 Tom\u00ed\u010dek, Jr. and Adrian Rymel both as Track Reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 24 April at 13:00 CET by Mayor of Prague Pavel B\u00e9m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205057-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205058-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Denmark was the fourth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took take place on 13 June 2009 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205058-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark\nThe Grand Prix was won by Australian Jason Crump who beat American Greg Hancock, Pole Tomasz Gollob and Danish wild card Niels Kristian Iversen in the final. It was Crump's second Grand Prix win of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205058-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Niels Kristian Iversen as the wild card and Patrick Hougaard and Nicolai Klindt as the first and second track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 12 June at 13:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205058-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205059-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway European World Championship Grand Prix was the second race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 9 May 2009, in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205059-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe\nOn 9 May European Union celebrates Europe day, commemorating the Schuman declaration. The main sponsor was a Polish webside .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205059-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe\nThe European SGP was won by Australian rider Jason Crump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205059-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Jaros\u0142aw Hampel as the wild card for the Grand Prix. Damian Bali\u0144ski and Janusz Ko\u0142odziej were nominated as the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 8 May at 13:00 CET by President (=Mayor) of Leszno Tomasz Malepszy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205059-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205060-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Great Britain was the fifth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 27 June 2009 in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205060-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain\nThe British Grand Prix was won by GP leader Jason Crump who beat Fredrik Lindgren, Hans Andersen and Greg Hancock in the final. Crump won with a 24 point maximum score and it was his third Grand Prix win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205060-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Riders\nOne wild card and two track reserves were nominated by the Auto-Cycle Union. Edward Kennett was selected as the wild card after finishing second behind Chris Harris at the 2009 British Speedway Championship. Tai Woffinden and Simon Stead will be the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 26 June at 12:00 CET and it was carried outby Jury President Christer Bergstr\u00f6m and Miss Wales Chloe-Beth Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205060-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205061-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Italy will be the tenth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 26 September in the Pista Olimpia in Terenzano, Italy. It will be first Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) event held in Terenzano; previous Italian SGP events had always taken place in Lonigo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205061-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy\nThe first Grand Prix in Terensano was won by Pole Tomasz Gollob who beat Hans N. Andersen, Nicki Pedersen and Grzegorz Walasek in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205061-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Guglielmo Franchetti as the wild card and Mattia Carpanese and Andrea Maida as the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 25 September at 13:00 CEST by Mayor of Terenzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205061-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205062-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Latvia was the sixth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 1 August in the Latvijas Spidveja Centrs in Daugavpils, Latvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205062-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia\nThe Latvian Grand Prix was won by American Greg Hancock, who beat Kenneth Bjerre, Tomasz Gollob and GP leader Jason Crump in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205062-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia, Riders\n2008 World Champion Nicki Pedersen was injured at 2009 Speedway World Cup Event 1 (undergoing skin graft surgery on burns to his left leg). On Monday 20 July he had an operation. Pedersen said, \"The wounds need to be completely healed before I get back on the bike, otherwise I could risk having problems for the rest of the season\". At the Latvia SGP Pedersen will be replaced by first Qualified Substitutes Niels Kristian Iversen, Dane also. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Grigory Laguta as a Wild Card, and Maksims Bogdanovs and Vja\u010deslavs Giruckis, both as Track Reserve. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 31 July by J\u0101nis L\u0101\u010dpl\u0113sis, the President of Latvian Track Racing Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205062-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205063-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Nordic will be the eighth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 29 August in the Vojens Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark. Vojens was GP host between 1995 and 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205063-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic\nThe first Nordic SGP was won by Andreas Jonsson, who beat Rune Holta, Kenneth Bjerre and Emil Sayfutdinov in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205063-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Niels Kristian Iversen as the wild card and Kenneth Hansen and Morten Risager as the track reserves. On 26 August in Danish league match between Esbjerg and Slangerup SK Kenneth Hansen feel on track and was hospitalize. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 28 August at 13:00 CEST by FIM Jury President Christer Bergstr\u00f6m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205063-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205064-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Poland was the eleventh and a last race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 17 October in the Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205064-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland\nThe 13th Bydgoszcz Grand Prix was won by Nicki Pedersen who beat Leigh Adams, Sebastian U\u0142amek and Rune Holta in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205064-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Adrian Miedzi\u0144ski as the wild card and Grzegorz Zengota and Krzysztof Buczkowski as the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 16 October at 13:00 CEST by Deputy Mayor of Bydgoszcz Maciej Grze\u015bkowiak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205064-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205065-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Scandinavia was the sixth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 15 August in the G&B Stadium in M\u00e5lilla, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205065-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia\nThe Grand Prix was won by Pole Tomasz Gollob who beat Jason Crump, Hans N. Andersen and Kenneth Bjerre in the final. It was first GP winning in this season for Gollob.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205065-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Antonio Lindb\u00e4ck as a Wild Card, and Simon Gustafsson and Ludvig Lindgren, both as Track Reserve. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 14 August by Ilkka Teromaa, FIM Jury President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205065-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205066-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Slovenia will be the ninth race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 12 September in the Matija Gubec Stadium in Kr\u0161ko, Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205066-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia\nThe Slovenian SGP was won by Emil Sayfutdinov, who beat Rune Holta, Tomasz Gollob and Nicki Pedersen in the final. It was third GP Emil's winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205066-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Matej \u017dagar as the wild card and Izak \u0160antej and Aleksander \u010conda as the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 11 September at 13:00 CEST by Jury President Wolfgang Glas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205066-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205067-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix of Sweden will be the third race of the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 30 May 2009, in the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205067-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden\nThe Swedish Grand Prix was won by Russian junior Emil Sayfutdinov who beat in the final Australian Jason Crump and Swedish wild card Antonio Lindb\u00e4ck. It was second Sayfutdinov' winning in his third Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205067-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Riders\nThe Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Antonio Lindb\u00e4ck as the wild card and Ricky Kling and Simon Gustafsson as the first and second track reserves. However, Gustafsson suffered a broken collar bone when he crashed during a Swedish league match on 5 May, and his replacement will be Thomas H. Jonasson. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 29 May at 13:00 CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205067-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Heat details\ne: retired or mechanical failure \u2022 m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t: exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x: other exclusion \u2022 f: fellns: non-starter \u2022 nc: non-classifySemi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205068-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup\nThe 2009 FIM Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the ninth FIM Speedway World Cup season. The final took place on 19 July 2009 in Leszno, Poland. The defending World Champions were Denmark who won the 2008 final in Vojens, Denmark. It was the fourth final to be held in Poland, and the second in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium after the 2007 final was held there when Poland beat Denmark, Australia and Great Britain. Poland won the 2009 Speedway World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205068-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup, Qualification\nFourteen teams attempted to qualify for the 2009 Speedway World Cup. The top six nations (Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Australia, Great Britain and Russia) from the 2008 Speedway World Cup were granted automatic qualification, with the remaining two places divided among two qualifying rounds. Qualifying Round 1 was won by Slovenia and Qualifying Round 2 was won by the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic took part in the 2008 tournament, but it was the first time Slovenia had qualified since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205068-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup, Squads\nSquads for the 2009 Speedway World Cup consisted of 10 riders; the same as the previous tournament in 2008. Each participating national association had to confirm its 10-riders one month before the first tournament meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205069-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 1\nThe 2008 Speedway World Cup Event 1 was the first meeting of the 2009 Speedway World Cup tournament. It took place on 11 July 2009 in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark. The meeting was won by the Russian team and they qualified directly for the World Cup Final in Leszno, Poland. Sweden and host team Denmark qualified for the Race-Off. The last placed team, the Czech Republic, were knocked out of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205069-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 1, Heat details\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205070-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2\nThe FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup \u2013 Event 2 was the second meeting of the 2009 Speedway World Cup tournament. It took place on 13 July 2009 in the East of England Showground in Peterborough, Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205070-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2\nThe meeting was won by the Polish team and they qualified directly for the World Cup Final in Leszno, Poland. Australia and host team Great Britain qualified for the Race-Off. The last placed team, Slovenia, were knocked out of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205070-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2, Results\nAs a Teams Declared was two changes. Pole Sebastian U\u0142amek (who broke a shoulder blade riding in the Swedish Elitserien) was replaced by Krzysztof Kasprzak. Polish manager Marek Cie\u015blak said: I watched the Polish Championship semi-final where Krzysztof scored 13 points. He also had a very good performance in the Polish Ekstraliga before that. Injured was Australian Rory Schlein, who broke a collarbone and wrist in the British Elite League. Teenage Darcy Ward was an option, but he was injured also. Schlein will be replaced by Davey Watt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205070-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2, Results\nIt will be a SWC debut for five riders: two the British Lewis Bridger and Daniel King, one Pole Adrian Miedzi\u0144ski and two Slovenian riders Aleksander \u010conda and Maks Gregori\u010d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205070-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2, Heat details\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205071-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Final\nThe FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup Final was the fourth meeting of the 2009 Speedway World Cup tournament. It took place on 19 July 2009 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205071-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Final, Heat details\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205072-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Qualification\nThe 2009 Speedway World Cup Qualification (SWC) was a two events of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the two national teams who qualify for the 2009 Speedway World Cup. According to the FIM rules the top six nations (Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Australia, Great Britain and Russia) from the 2008 Speedway World Cup were automatically qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205072-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Qualification, Heat details, Qualifying Round 1\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205072-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Qualification, Heat details, Qualifying Round 2\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205073-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Race-off\nThe FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup Race-Off was the third meeting of the 2009 Speedway World Cup tournament. It took place on 16 July 2009 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205073-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Race-off\nThe Race-off was won by Australian team (51 points). Australia and Sweden (39 pts) qualifying to Saturday's World Cup Final at Leszno also. Third Great Britain (35 pts) and fourth Denmark (34 pts) was knocked out of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205073-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup Race-off, Heat details\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205074-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Speedway World Cup squads\nThis article lists the confirmed national speedway squads for the 2009 Speedway World Cup tournament held between 11 and 18 July 2009. Squads for the tournament consisted of 10 riders, same as the previous tournament in 2008. Each participating national association had to confirm its 10-rider until one month before first tournament meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205075-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Spengler Cup\nThe 2009 Spengler Cup was held, as it always was, in Davos, Switzerland, between 26 and 31 December, 2009. All matches were played at host HC Davos' home Vaillant Arena. The tournament featured all of the last year's tournament participants except for last year's winners Dynamo Moscow who was replaced by Dinamo Minsk and ERC Ingolstadt who was replaced by Adler Mannheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205075-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Spengler Cup, Television\nSeveral television channels around the world will cover many or all matches of the Spengler Cup. As well as most Swiss channels, here is a listing of who else will cover the tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205076-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Split local elections\nThe 2009 local elections were held in Split, Croatia on 17 and 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205076-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Split local elections\nThe incumbent HDZ mayor Ivan Kuret  was running for a full four-year term after he was appointed mayor on 17 July 2007 after the former mayor Zvonimir Pulji\u0107 was impeached by the city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205076-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Split local elections, Mayoral election\nThe percentages of votes from each candidate are calculated from number of valid votersThe percentages of valid and invalid votes are calculated from the turnout numberThe turnout percentage is calculated from the number of expected voters", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205076-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Split local elections, Council election\nThe percentages of votes from each list are calculated from number of valid votersThe percentages of valid and invalid votes are calculated from the turnout numberThe turnout percentage is calculated from the number of expected voters", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205077-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Challenger\nThe 2009 Sporting Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Turin, Italy between 29 June and 5 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205077-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205077-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nDaniele Bracciali /  Potito Starace def. Santiago Giraldo /  Pere Riba, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205078-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nCarlos Berlocq and Frederico Gil were the defending champions. Berlocq didn't start this year. Gil partnered up with Rui Machado, but they lost to Bracciali/Starace in the semifinal. Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace defeated Santiago Giraldo and Pere Riba in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205079-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Challenger \u2013 Singles\nFabio Fognini was the defender of title; however, he chose to not participate this year. Potito Starace defeated M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez 7\u20136(4), 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season\nThe 2009 Sporting Cristal season is the 54th season of the team's existence. Sporting Cristal finished 10th overall in the Aggregate table and did not qualify for either the Copa Libertadores or the Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Squad, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Squad, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Squad, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Squad, Transfers, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Peruvian Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Second stage\nThe Second Stage will begin on September 13 where the 16 teams will be divided into two groups and play a total of 14 home-and-away fixtures. Each winner will qualify for the Copa Libertadores 2009 Second Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205080-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sporting Cristal season, Aggregate table\nThe aggregate table will determine the third and last team to qualify to the 2010 Copa Libertadores, the three who qualify to the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, and the two teams to be relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The aggregate table consists of the points earned in the First and Second stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205081-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio\nThe 2009 Acura Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio was the sixth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio on August 8, 2009. Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud won their fourth consecutive race, beating the Highcroft Racing Acura by 8.3\u00a0seconds. After losing out at the previous round at Lime Rock Park, Fern\u00e1ndez Racing Acura won the LMP2 category for the fifth time this season, ahead of class newcomer Team Cytosport's Porsche RS Spyder. Flying Lizard Motorsports also continued their winning streak by claiming the GT2 class victory, beating the debuting revamped Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R. Martin and Melanie Snow won the ALMS Challenge class by a gap of two laps over the second place Orbit Racing Porsche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 823]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205081-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio, Report, Qualifying\nGil de Ferran, driving the car of his own team, claimed pole position for Mid-Ohio by outpacing David Brabham's Highcroft car by less than .07 seconds. Acura also led the LMP2 category with Fern\u00e1ndez Racing leading the two Dyson Racing Team entries. J\u00f6rg Bergmeister led Flying Lizard Motorsports to the top of the GT2 category, ahead of Jaime Melo's Risi Ferrari. Professional driver Guy Cosmo put the Orbit Racing Porsche on pole within the Challenge class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205081-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205081-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205082-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg\nThe 2009 Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg was the second round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on April 4, 2009. The Acura ARX-02a earned its first overall victory under the Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing team after early leader de Ferran Motorsports suffered mechanical issues. Acura also won the LMP2 category with Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing, while GT2 was won by the Porsche of Flying Lizard Motorsports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205082-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, Report, Qualifying\nIn qualifying solely for the GT2 category, due to the lack of GT1 class competitors for this event, Jaime Melo in the Risi Competizione Ferrari led the pack before a red flag stopped the session due to an incident involving eventual fifth place qualifier Patrick Long in the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche. Farnbacher-Loles and the two BMWs completed the top of the GT2 grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205082-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, Report, Qualifying\nIn prototype qualifying the Acura of Simon Pagenaud dominated by earning de Ferran Motorsports a pole position by nearly a second over the other Acura of Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing. Acura also led the LMP2 category as the Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing car was piloted by Luis D\u00edaz to third overall, beating the closest Dyson Lola-Mazda by three tenths of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 419]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00205082-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205083-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge\nThe 2009 Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge was the second meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar season. It was held on the weekend of 26 to 29 March at Albert Park Street Circuit, in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. The meeting was a non-championship affair, conducted under a unique Holden vs Ford format. It was the lead support category for the 2009 Australian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205083-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge, Top Ten shootout\nThe top ten shootout was held on Friday 27 March immediately before the first race. Craig Lowndes held onto the fastest position from qualifying, setting a new practice record while doing so. Will Davison was second fastest ahead of Jason Richards while the big mover from qualifying was Mark Winterbottom climbing from ninth to fourth, while second fastest from qualifying, the surprising Fabian Coulthard dropped to eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 70], "content_span": [71, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205083-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sprint Gas V8 Supercars Manufacturers Challenge, Race 1\nRace 1 was held on Friday 27 March immediately after the shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205084-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Central and North Western Provincial Council elections\nThe Sri Lanka provincial council elections, 2009 were held on February 14, 2009 to elect members to Sri Lanka\u2019s Central Provincial Council and North Western Provincial Council. The 2 councils were dissolved by their respective governors at midnight on December 8, 2008. The Elections Commission subsequently accepted nominations from December 24 to December 31, and set the date for the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205084-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Central and North Western Provincial Council elections\nA total of 1,746,449 people were eligible to vote in the Central Province, along with 1,661,733 in the North Western Province. They elected 56 and 50 members for the councils respectively. By the close of nominations, 1320 candidates from 15 political parties and 26 independent groups registered to contest the Central Provincial Council, and 937 candidates from 15 political parties and 17 independent groups filed nominations for the North Western Provincial Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205084-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Central and North Western Provincial Council elections\nBuoyed by support for his handling of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's United People's Freedom Alliance achieved resounding victories in all 5 districts. This included the districts of Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, which are traditionally seen as strongholds of the opposition United National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205084-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Central and North Western Provincial Council elections, Past elections\nIn the last election held to elect members to the Central Provincial Council, the United People's Freedom Alliance secured a majority in the council, obtaining 426,297 votes and 30 seats as opposed to 410,145 votes and 26 seats for the United National Party. The UPFA also secured a majority in the North Western Provincial Council, obtaining 491,000 votes and 31 seats with 311,773 votes and 19 seats going to the UNP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 85], "content_span": [86, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205084-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Central and North Western Provincial Council elections, Contesting political parties, Parties contesting in only 1 districts\n* - indicates nominations were submitted, but rejected by the Elections Commission", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [71, 139], "content_span": [140, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205085-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lanka Football Premier League\nThe 2009 Premier League championship organized by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, and was sponsored by Dialog Telekom. Renown SC won the championship by beating SL Air force SC. Mohamed Fazal of Renown SC is the top scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections\nLocal elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 August 2009 for two local councils in the north of the country: Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban Council. They were the first elections held in the country since the government declared victory in the 26-year-old civil war on 18 May 2009. They were also the first local elections held in the Northern Province in more than 11 years. Both towns had been under government control for many years. The government won the Jaffna Municipal Council contest by securing 13 of the 23 seats. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won the Vavuniya Urban Council contest by securing 5 of the 11 seats. Turnout was very low in Jaffna (22%) but it was better in Vavuniya (52%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nOn 25 May 2009 the government announced that local elections would be held in Jaffna and Vavuniya. Nominations took place between 18 June 2009 and 25 June 2009. After the nominations closed the Sri Lankan Department of Election announced that the elections would take place on 8 August 2009, the same day as the Uva Provincial Council elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Background\nThe TNA has said that the elections are being held too early, with so many of the electorate displaced. It expected the Jaffna elections to be violent and the results to be rigged, just like the 2008 Eastern Provincial Council elections. The United National Party (UNP) and the People's Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) have called on the election authorities to bring in foreign election observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Violence, intimidation and other irregularities\nVeerasingham Anandasangaree, president of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), has accused a Tamil government minister of \"terrorising the residents of Jaffna in the run-up to the Municipal Council elections\". It is believed that the minister Anandasangaree was referring to is Douglas Devananda, leader of the paramilitary Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Violence, intimidation and other irregularities\nThe UNP has accused the government of obstructing the UNP's campaign in Jaffna and Vavuniya. It says the government is preventing its free movement and has complained to the Election Department. The UNP has also accused armed supporters of the EPDP of threatening its candidates. It has said that the EPDP is using state resources, such as the police, in its election campaigns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Violence, intimidation and other irregularities\nIn the early hours of 25 June 2009 armed men attacked newspaper delivery men and burnt thousands of copies of three Tamil language newspapers (Thinakkural, Uthayan and Valampuri) in Jaffna. The newspapers had refused to print a statement attacking the Tamil Tigers from a shadowy group calling itself the \"Tamil Front Protecting the Country\". The group telephoned the Thinakkural after the attack and warned that the newspapers would continue to be confiscated and torched until the statement was published. The newspaper published the statement under duress on 26 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Violence, intimidation and other irregularities\nOn 27 June 2009 the group issued further threats against the Uthayan, this time ordering all its staff to resign by 30 June 2009 or face death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Violence, intimidation and other irregularities\nOn 4 July 2009 two men were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the Parathipuram area of Vavuniya. The dead men were identified as 39-year-old Nadaraja Ramesh Kantha, principal of Parathipuram Tamil Mixed School, and 31-year-old Gunarathnam Peter Ruben.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nThe last election for Jaffna MC was held on 29 January 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nThe following six alliances / parties / independent groups' nominations were accepted by the Sri Lankan Department of Election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nA total of 174 candidates competed for the 23 seats available on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nThe nominations of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and an independent group (Arumugam Sellathurai) were rejected by the Sri Lankan Department of Election. The SLMC appealed to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka but on 3 July the courts rejected the appeal. There were approximately 10,000 Muslim refugees from Jaffna living in other districts. Of these 7,104 applied to vote in the Jaffna elections. With the elimination of the SLMC and the UNP not fielding any Muslim candidates, most of the Muslims would most likely have voted for the United People's Freedom Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nExtraordinarily there were no applications by Tamil refugees to vote in the Jaffna elections. There are hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees from the Jaffna peninsula living in other parts of the country, either in refugee camps or with relatives. Many of these are from the Jaffna municipality area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council\nVeteran politician Veerasingham Anandasangaree is a candidate to become Mayor of Jaffna. Anandasangaree was a TNA Member of Parliament but left the TNA when it started taking a pro-Tamil Tiger stance. Since then he has reconstituted the TULF, a constituent party of the TNA, as a separate political party and formed alliances with government-backed anti-Tamil Tigers paramilitary groups, such as the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), in order to fight elections against the TNA. Most TULF members however remain within the TNA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council, Results\nThe government (UPFA) took control of the Jaffna Municipal Council after securing 13 of the 23 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Jaffna Municipal Council, Results\nThe EPDP has nominated Patkunam Yogeswary to be Mayor and Thurairajah Illango to be Deputy Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council\nThe last election for Vavuniya UC was held on 1 March 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council\nThe following nine alliances / parties / independent groups' nominations were accepted by the Sri Lankan Department of Election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council\nA total of 135 candidates competed for the 11 seats available on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council\nThe TULF (Anandasangaree wing) filed a separate nomination but this was rejected by the Sri Lankan Department of Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council, Results\nThe Tamil National Alliance (TNA) secured 5 of the 11 seats, making it the largest group on Vavuniya Urban Council. The TNA is seeking SLMC support to form a majority administration. The TNA's victory in Vavuniya was seen as a surprise by international observers because many people had predicted the end of the TNA following the LTTE's military defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205086-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Sri Lankan local elections, Vavuniya Urban Council, Results\nThe TNA has nominated S. N. G. Nathan to be Chairman and Muttu Sivasami Muguntharathan to be Deputy Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season\nSt. Helens entered their 137th year in 2009, and were in contention for of rugby league's Super League and Carnegie Challenge Cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 1\nSaints come back from a 14-nil deficit early in the second half to beat Warrington Wolves 26-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 2\nSaints turn over the much improved from last season Huddersfield Giants 23-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 3\nHull Kingston Rovers inflict Saints' first defeat of the season, with Michael Dobson scoring a late penalty goal to give the Robins a 20-19 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 4\nSaints scrape past newly promoted Crusaders in the lowest scoring game in the Super League; Tom Armstrong scoring the only try in a 4-nil win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 5\nSaints brush aside the Salford City Reds by 38 points to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 6\nSaints edge a heated epic with Leeds Rhinos - winning 26-18 at Knowsley Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 7\nSaints hammer Wakefield Trinity Wildcats by 42-18. The Wildcats are in mourning for reserve player Leon Walker, who died in a reserve game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 8\nSaints scrape past a fired up Wigan Warriors outfit, winning 19-12 after being 6-nil and 12-6 down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 9\nSaints bounce Hull F.C. in the second game of the Easter period by 44-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 10\nSaints become the first team in Super League XIV to surpass 60 points, winning 68-22 at Castleford. Tony Puletua scores 4 tries but the game is halted for 30 minutes as Joe Westerman suffers a serious head injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 11\nSaints suffer only their second defeat of the season as Bradford come back to win 34-30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 12\nSaints produce arguably their worst display of the campaign, losing 38-18 to arch rivals Wigan at the Magic Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 13\nSaints defeat Catalans Dragons for the second time in a week, by coming back from 22-10 down to win 32-28 to move them back to the top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 14\nSaints survive a second-half rally from Harlequins RL to win 22-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 15\nSaints ease past the challenge of Hull FC, winning 30-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 16\nSaints thrash Castleford for a second time this season in a 50 points to 10 success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 17\nSaints set a new record of 16 consecutive away wins in Super League after cantering to a 44-18 success over Bradford Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 18\nSaints nil the Celtic Crusaders for a second time in the season - in a 30-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 19\nSaints lose their fourth game of the season in a shock 20-10 loss to Salford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 20\nSaints beat neighbours Warrington for the second time in the league, in another fantastic game, this time by a margin of 40-26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 21\nDespite outscoring their opponents Wakefield by 5 tries to four, Saints crash to their second defeat in three games, losing 22-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 22\nSaints bounce back from two defeats in three games with a convincing 44-24 win at Harlequins to take them back to two points clear at the top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 23\nSaints edge a third game of the season against Wigan, with Kyle Eastmond scoring a late try to secure a 10-6 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 24\nSaints lost their third game in six as they crashed to a 26-10 loss at Hull KR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 25\nAnother below-par performance saw Saints scrape past a youthful Huddersfield outfit by 12 points to 10, after being 10 points down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 26\nIn a much improved performance, Saints are edged out by bitter rivals Leeds 18-10 in a third superb encounter of the season to all but end their hopes of a fifth consecutive League Leader's Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Super League XIV, Round 27\nSaints are beaten by Catalans in the last game of the regular season to finish second in the league ladder behind Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Challenge Cup 2009, Round 4\nSaints just edge past a second epic in two weeks against Leeds in a bruising encounter - pulling through 22-18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Challenge Cup 2009, Round 5\nSaints thrash Catalans Dragons 42-8 to reach the Quarter Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Challenge Cup 2009, Quarter-Finals\nSaints trounce a spirited Gateshead Thunder side 66-6 to advance to a record ninth consecutive Semi-Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Challenge Cup 2009, Semi-Finals\nDespite a Francis Meli hat-trick of tries, holders Saints were beaten 24-14 by Huddersfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Play-Off Series, Week 1\nSaints beat Huddersfield in Week One to progress to the qualifying round in a 15-2 success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Play-Off Series, Week 3\nSaints reached a fourth consecutive Super League Grand Final after beating Wigan in a thrilling 14-10 win. They will take on Leeds for a third consecutive time at Old Trafford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Play-Off Series, Super League Grand Final\nSaints lose the grand final to Leeds Rhinos 18-10, this being the third consecutive Grand Final they lose to Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 82], "content_span": [83, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, Upcoming Fixture(s)\nSaints will round off their Super League XIV campaign against Leeds Rhinos at the 2009 Super League Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 season, News\nIt has been announced that, for the 2010 Super League Season, Saints have signed New Zealand World Cup winning centre Iosia Soliola from the Sydney City Roosters on a three-year deal. Additionally, Scrum-Half Sean Long will be leaving Knowsley Road after a 12-year stint. He is joining Hull F.C. on a two-year contract. Lee Gilmour is also on his way out of St Helens. The second-row has agreed a two year deal with Huddersfield Giants for the 2010 season. Young half-back Matty Smith will join Salford City Reds for the 2010 season in a loan agreement. Prop-forward Jason Cayless will be leaving Saints too after 4 seasons with the club owing to a shoulder injury. He will return to Australia. Hull Kingston Rovers prop Nick Fozzard will re-join Saints after being released from the final year of his Rovers contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 Squad\n1 - Meli and Puletua won caps for New Zealand before switching to Samoa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205087-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 St Helens RLFC season, 2009 Squad\n3 - Fa'asavalu switched his allegiance to England under the residency rule", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season\nSt Kilda Football Club competed in the 2009 Australian Football League (AFL) premiership season. They won a club record 19 consecutive matches between Round 1 and Round 19 of the season and qualified for the 2009 finals series in first position as the minor premiers \u2013  the club's third minor premiership. The club won through to the 2009 AFL Grand Final after qualifying and preliminary finals wins, but were defeated by Geelong by 12 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, NAB Cup\nSt Kilda was eliminated from the 2009 National Australia Bank Cup in the opening round, with Brisbane 1.8.8 (65) defeating St Kilda 0.8.8 (56).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nIn Round 1 of the 2009 Australian Football League season, Zac Dawson made a surprise debut for St Kilda after being promoted from the rookie list in time to confront Sydney at Docklands as St Kilda defenders Matt Maguire and Max Hudghton were injured. St Kilda 12.8 (80) defeated Sydney 9.11 (65) at Etihad Stadium in front of 32,442 spectators. In Round 2, Adelaide 10.9 (69) lost to St Kilda 15.11 (101) before 41,189 at AAMI Stadium. St Kilda 25.11 (161) defeated West Coast 9.10 (64) at Etihad Stadium in front of 29,006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nRound 4 saw St Kilda defeat Fremantle by 83 points, and restrict them to 4.4 (28), their second-lowest ever score at that time and the equal-lowest score ever recorded at Etihad Stadium (tied with St Kilda's 3.10 (28) in 2002). In round 5, St Kilda restricted Port Adelaide to their second-lowest score in their club history, going down 15.12 (102) to 5.6 (36). The 6th round saw the Western Bulldogs 11.10 (76) lost to St Kilda 14.20 (104) in front of 36,302 at Etihad Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nRound 7 saw St Kilda and Collingwood play a Monday night game, the AFL's first for several seasons. St Kilda won easily 20.8 (128) to Collingwood 5.10 (40), making it the lowest Collingwood score under Mick Malthouse as coach. Round 8 saw St Kilda 13.12 (90) defeat Essendon 10.11 (71) at Etihad Stadium in front of 45,594. Round 9 saw St Kilda 14.13 (97) defeat the Brisbane Lions 13.3 (81) at Docklands Stadium in front of 30,673.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0003", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nIn Round 10 St Kilda held Melbourne goalless in the second half of their 37-point victory, St Kilda 11.17 (83) to Melbourne 6.10 (46). In Round 11 St Kilda won its 11th consecutive game, breaking the previous club record of 10 set in 2004 by beating North Melbourne by 46 points, despite trailing by almost five goals in the first quarter. In Round 12 Carlton 14.11 (95) were defeated by St Kilda 16.8 (104) at Docklands Stadium in front of 50,820. In Round 13, St Kilda 13.14 (92) defeated Richmond 5.6 (36) at Docklands Stadium in front 38,196.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0004", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nThe Round 14 clash between St Kilda and Geelong broke the previous record of the largest crowd at an AFL game held at Docklands Stadium with an attendance of 54,444. St Kilda 14.7 (91) defeated Geelong 13.7 (85). St Kilda extended its winning streak to 15 wins in round 15, with a hard-fought victory over West Coast 11.4 (70) to St Kilda 13.12 (90). Round 16 saw St Kilda 15.15 (105) defeat Adelaide 7.6 (48) at Etihad Stadium. In Round 17 St Kilda 16.10 (106) defeated Western Bulldogs 9.7 (61) at Etihad Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0002-0005", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nRound 18 saw Sydney 13.15 (93) defeated by St Kilda 13.15 (94) at the SCG. Round 19 saw Hawthorn 7.7 (49) defeated by St Kilda 10.14 (74) at Aurora Stadium. Round 20 saw St Kildas first loss of the season proper kicking 16.12 (108) to Essendon 16.14 (110) at Etihad Stadium. Round 21 St Kilda 8.11 (59) lost to North Melbourne 10.4 (64) at Etihad Stadium. St Kilda played its first game at the MCG in Round 22 and defeated Melbourne 10.7 (67) to St Kilda 17.12 (114).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Home and away rounds\nSt Kilda qualified for the 2009 finals series in first position, winning the clubs third minor premiership with 20 wins and 2 losses, one of the most dominant home and away seasons ever in AFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205088-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 St Kilda Football Club season, Summary, Finals series\nIn the first qualifying final, St Kilda 12.8 (80) defeated Collingwood 7.10 (52) at the MCG. In the first preliminary final, St Kilda 19.6 (60) defeated the Western Bulldogs 7.11 (53) at the MCG. In the grand final St Kilda 9.14 (68) lost to Geelong 12.8 (80) at the MCG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205089-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season\nThe 2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season was 11th in the joint venture Rugby League club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership under new coach Wayne Bennett and finished the season as minor premiers. However a series of losses late in the season saw them become the first minor premiers to bow out of the McIntyre System with two consecutive losses in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205089-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season, Season Summary\nComing off a 2008 Qualifying Final loss to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and with a new Coach in the office being Wayne Bennett, the Dragons signed a number of new players but lost just as many. The Dragons were hoping to improve the previous years Qualifying Final loss, by making it even further this year. Five Toyota Cup players of 2008 have been promoted to the First Grade squad with more talented juniors rising through the ranks within the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205089-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season, Season Summary\nSt. George led the competition in defence in 2009 and finished the season with the minor premiership, the club's first. Their strong performance also led to new records for home match attendances at WIN Jubilee Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205089-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season, Season Summary\nSt George exited the finals series in the second week of the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205089-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 St. George Illawarra Dragons season, 2009 NRL Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe St. Louis Cardinals' 2009 season was the 128th season for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri and the 118th season in the National League. The Cardinals, coming off an 86\u201376 season and fourth place in the NL Central, got off to a strong start in April before a team-wide offensive breakdown caused them to fall behind the Cubs in the NL Central standings. Brilliant seasons from starting pitchers Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, and Joel Pi\u00f1eiro helped St. Louis to stay in contention until the key midseason acquisitions of Matt Holliday, Mark DeRosa, and Julio Lugo revived the Cardinal offense. An August 20\u20136 effectively ended the NL Central race, and the Cardinals won the division with a 91\u201371 record, seven-and-a-half games better than the second-place Cubs. However, their playoff run ended quickly when they were swept in three games by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 932]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Hitters\nThe Cardinals retained the services of backup catcher Jason LaRue, signing him to another one-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Hitters\nOn December 4, 2008, the Cardinals agreed to a trade with the San Diego Padres sending reliever Mark Worrell and a player-to-be-named-later (the Padres eventually chose minor-league pitcher Luke Gregerson) in exchange for shortstop Khalil Greene, who will make $6.5 mil, and will be eligible for free agency after 2009. Greene replaced C\u00e9sar Izturis, who departed via free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Hitters\nUtility infielder Aaron Miles, a member of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals, signed a two-year deal on December 31 to play with the Cubs. Felipe L\u00f3pez, who became the starting second baseman after a 2008 deadline trade and hit .385 for the Cardinals in two months, became a free agent and signed with the Diamondbacks. The third and last second baseman on the 2008 Cardinals, Adam Kennedy, was given his unconditional release on February 9. With no second baseman with significant big-league experience on the roster, outfielder Skip Schumaker was tabbed to make the unusual transition. Late in training camp Schumaker was designated the official starting second baseman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Hitters\nThird baseman Troy Glaus underwent right shoulder surgery on January 21, 2009, and was originally expected to miss Opening Day (April 6) and probably most of April. Glaus' progress in rehabbing his repaired right shoulder stalled, and he did not return until September (see below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Pitchers\nKyle Lohse, who went 15\u20136 with a 3.78 ERA after signing a one-year contract with the 2008 Cardinals, was re-signed to a hefty four-year, $41 mil. contract on September 29, 2008, the day after the season ended. Mark Mulder's injury-plagued time in St. Louis ended when the Cardinals declined to pick up his $11 mil. option, but instead bought out the remaining year of his contract in 2009 for $1.5 mil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Pitchers\nIn December, the Cardinals declined to offer arbitration to relief pitchers Russ Springer and Jason Isringhausen, starter Braden Looper, and relievers Tyler Johnson and Randy Flores. St. Louis made no attempt to retain lefty reliever Ron Villone, who eventually signed with the Mets. On Dec 3, to fill the lack of left-handed relievers caused by the departure of Flores, Johnson, and Villone, they signed lefty relief specialist Trever Miller to a one-year deal potentially worth $2 million if he reaches all the incentives in the contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason departures and acquisitions, Pitchers\nOn January 5, the Cardinals signed lefty reliever Royce Ring who was with the 2008 Atlanta Braves, to a one-year contract. However, two months later the Cardinals signed Dennys Reyes, a 31-yr.-old left-handed relief specialist, to a two-year deal worth approximately $3 mil. A few weeks after the acquisition of Reyes, Ring was placed on waivers, eventually accepting an assignment to the minor leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training\nSt. Louis went 19-12-2 in Grapefruit League play, their most victories since they had 21 wins in 1997. Attendance at RDS was 106,266 in 18 home games (9-7-2) for an average home attendance of 5,901. In 15 road games (10-5-0), attendance 84,499; road average 5,633.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training\nOn March 30, relief pitcher Chris Perez was optioned to AAA, finalizing the pitching situation for Opening Day. Cardinals will carry 12 pitchers, including seven relievers which include long-reliever Brad Thompson. Rookie Jason Motte appeared to win the closer job, although the Cardinals made no official announcement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Spring training\nJoe Mather was the final cut in spring training. Among the players making the Cardinals out of camp were utility infielders Joe Thurston and Brian Barden and two players making their big-league debuts: David Freese, who took the injured Troy Glaus' spot at third base, and former first-round draft pick (and highly anticipated prospect) Colby Rasmus. Mather's demotion left Ryan Ludwick as the only outfielder on the roster who hits right-handed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOpening Day 2009 looked a lot like 2008: a blown save and a bullpen loss. Rookie closer Jason Motte gave up four runs with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Pirates beat the Cardinals 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOn April 7, the Cardinals beat the Pirates 9-3 as Albert Pujols hit his first home run of the season and reached base five times. As such, Pujols became only the third Cardinals player in the last 55 years to reach base four or more times in each of the first two games of the season. On April 8, the Cardinals lost to the Pirates by a score of 7\u20134, but Albert Pujols set the franchise record for most assists by a first baseman in a 9-inning game with seven. It was the most assists by a Major League first baseman since the National League record of eight was set in 1971. Pujols also collected his 700th career walk in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOn April 9, Chris Carpenter and relievers Franklin and Reyes combined on a one-hitter as the Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 2\u20131. It was Carpenter's first victory since Game 3 of the 2006 World Series, October 24. St. Louis followed up the Pittsburgh series with a three-game sweep over Houston. In the second game of the Astro series (Apr. 11), Pujols tied a career best with seven RBI as the Cardinals won 11\u20132; while in the final game Kyle Lohse retired 24 consecutive batters en route to a 3-0 complete game victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOn April 14, staff ace Chris Carpenter injured his left rib cage while batting. Early estimates were that he would miss at least a month, and it might be as long as two months. An MRI exam on April 16 revealed an oblique tear on his left side. On April 17, rookie pitcher P. J. Walters was called up from AAA-Memphis to take Carpenter's spot in the rotation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOn April 20 the Cardinals attempted to buttress a sagging bullpen by trading former Rule 5 draft pick Brian Barton for Atlanta Braves' relief pitcher Blaine Boyer. Boyer was tabbed to join the big-league club, leaving St. Louis with 13 pitchers on the 25-man roster, with David Freese optioned to Memphis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nOn Saturday, April 25, in a nationally televised game on Fox, with the Cardinals leading 3\u20131 in the seventh inning against the Chicago Cubs, Albert Pujols hit his 8th career grand slam, helping the team win its 5th consecutive game (8-2) and solidifying their lead in the NL Central division. The slam also gave him 1,002 RBIs, making him the 260th player to reach the 1,000-level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, April\nBrendan Ryan went to the 15-day DL with a hamstring strain on April 30, and former first-round draft pick Tyler Greene was called up to be Ryan's replacement. The Cardinals finished the month of April with a 16\u20137 record, best in baseball. Albert Pujols was named Player of the Month for April and Brian Barden Rookie of the Month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, May\nCenter fielder Rick Ankiel ran face-first into the outfield wall while making a catch on May 4. Three days later, he was placed on the DL (retroactive to May 5), and minor-league outfielder Shane Robinson was called up to take his place on the roster. On May 12, right fielder Ryan Ludwick joined Ankiel on the DL after straining his right hamstring against the Pirates. The team recalled Nick Stavinoha from its AAA-Memphis team to take Ludwick's spot on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, May\nThe injuries to Ankiel and Ludwick, combined with the continuing absence of Carpenter, contributed to a 4-10 stretch that dropped the Cardinals out of first place in the NL Central. In a showdown series between the Cardinals and Brewers May 16\u201318, Milwaukee swept St. Louis in St. Louis, winning three games by a combined score of 17\u20136. In the opener, Wainwright held the Brewers to two hits in eight innings but still lost, 1\u20130, on a Corey Hart home run. In the second game, Cardinal pitchers walked eight batters and hit four; in the third game, they walked eleven and hit one. Milwaukee took over first place in the Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, May\nOn May 20, Chris Carpenter returned after missing a month with a strained oblique. Carpenter pitched five shutout innings, and the Cards won a pitching duel with the Cubs, 2\u20131. In his next start Carpenter was perfect for six innings, but St. Louis lost in 10 innings to Milwaukee, 1\u20130. Carpenter's ERA remained at 0.00 after his first four appearances. The two Carpenter starts were part of a nine-game streak for Cardinal pitching in which they held the opposition to three runs or less in every game and did not allow a home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, May\nOn the 29th Ludwick was activated from the DL. To make room, the Cardinals put Khalil Greene on the DL with \"social anxiety disorder\". Greene, signed with the intention of being the everyday shortstop in 2009, played poorly in the field, was hitting .200 at the time he hit the DL, and had been playing less and less frequently in May. St. Louis went 13\u201314 in May and finished the month at 29\u201321, one game behind Milwaukee in the NL Central. The Cardinals spent the month of May in a horrific team batting slump that saw them post a .299 OBP for the month, dead last in baseball; exceptionally strong pitching in May (3.56 team ERA) helped St. Louis stay close to the top of the NL Central standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 753]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, June\nOn June 4, the Cardinals released newly acquired pitcher Blaine Boyer and called up Jess Todd to take his place. One day later, Kyle Lohse, still suffering from the aftereffects of a hit-by-pitch on his throwing forearm, May 23, went to the DL for the first time in his career, and infielder Tyler Greene recalled. The day after that (June 6), pitcher Blake Hawksworth became the 13th rookie to play for the Cardinals in 2009 (a major-league high for any team) and the seventh to make his major-league debut, when he was called up and Jess Todd was sent down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, June\nThe continuing team-wide offensive blackout reached its nadir in the second week of June, when the Colorado Rockies, second-worst team in the NL with a 21\u201332 record prior to the series, came to St. Louis and swept the Cardinals in four games, outscoring the Cardinals 33\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, June\nKhalil Greene, after three weeks on the disabled list due to anxiety disorder, was activated on June 18. In his first start since being activated, on June 19, Greene started at third base and hit a home run. He went on to hit a home run in each of his first three games back, helping the Cardinals to sweep Kansas City in Kansas City and reclaim sole possession of first place in the NL Central. However, Greene went 0 for his next 16, suffered a relapse of his social anxiety disorder, and went back on the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, June\nOn June 27, in an effort to revive a sputtering offense, the Cardinals acquired Mark DeRosa from Cleveland for Chris Perez and a player to be named later. DeRosa, who in his career has played every position but pitcher, catcher, and center field, was expected to play third base for St. Louis. One month later Cleveland selected Jess Todd to complete the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, June\nA continuing inability to hit (.310 OBP for June) weighed down the Cardinals for another month: they went 12-17 for June to drop their record for 2009 to 41\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, July\nOn July 5, Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina were named as winners of the fan balloting and starters for the National League in the 80th All-Star Game. Ryan Franklin, 20 for 21 in save opportunities with a 0.84 ERA, was selected to be one of the relief pitchers. On July 14, St. Louis hosted the All-Star Game for the first time in 43 years. The AL beat the NL 4\u20133. Albert Pujols was 0-for-3 with an error that led to an AL run, Yadier Molina had an RBI single, and Ryan Franklin pitched a scoreless inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, July\nAfter appearing in only three games for St. Louis, new addition Mark DeRosa went onto the disabled list (retroactive to July 1) on July 7, suffering from a strained wrist. However, the rest of the Cardinals, buoyed by Pujols, a hot Colby Rasmus, and a resurgent Ryan Ludwick, went 6\u20134 on their ten-game road trip before the break, and entered the All-Star break with a 49\u201342 record and a 2.5 game lead in the NL Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, July\nThe middle of July saw major changes to the Cardinals lineup. On July 18, Mark DeRosa, suffering from a torn tendon sheath in his wrist that eventually required offseason surgery, was reactivated from the DL and returned to the starting lineup. Four days later, Chris Duncan, one of the few remaining players from the 2006 world champion Cardinals, was traded to the Boston Red Sox for shortstop Julio Lugo, along with a player-to-be-named-later or cash; and the team recalled Brian Barden. Two days after that, on July 24, the Cardinals traded three prospects, including their #1 prospect, third baseman Brett Wallace, pitcher Clayton Mortensen, and outfielder Shane Peterson, for Oakland Athletics outfielder Matt Holliday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, July\nOn July 28, Todd Wellemeyer was demoted to the bullpen. Mitchell Boggs was called up from AAA-Memphis to take his July 31 start. At the time of the move, Wellemeyer's 5.79 ERA was second-worst in the National League among players with enough innings to qualify for the ERA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, July\nBuoyed by the arrival of Holliday and Lugo plus the return of DeRosa to the lineup and a hot Rick Ankiel, the Cardinals won six of their last nine games in July, and went 16-11 for the month. They ended July 1/2 game ahead of the Cubs in the NL Central. Ryan Ludwick earned honors as the National League Player of the Month for July, after batting.340 with 6 HR's and a league-high 28 RBI. The Cardinals have had the NL's top player three of the first four months with Albert Pujols winning the award in both April and June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nAlbert Pujols tied the all-time NL season record set by Ernie Banks in 1955 by hitting his fifth grand slam of the year, (and his second HR of the game) on August 4 at New York. Pujols' slam was the exclamation point in a 12\u20137, 10-inning victory, in which Pujols went 4-for-5 with five RBIs and three runs scored. The Cardinals previously forced extra innings by rallying for two runs in the ninth off Mets' ace closer Francisco Rodr\u00edguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nAfter briefly returning to the starting rotation, Todd Wellemeyer went on the DL with elbow inflammation. Mitchell Boggs was again tabbed to take his place in the rotation. Later in the month, starting pitcher Kyle Lohse joined him on the DL with a strained groin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nThe team came to terms and signed their #1 draft pick, pitcher Shelby Miller, on August 17, just hours before the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nJohn Smoltz signed with the team on August 19 as a probable fifth starter and also possible reliever after the Red Sox released him. In his first start, against San Diego, Smoltz threw five scoreless innings, striking out nine, and got the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nThe Cardinals played some of their best baseball of the season in the middle of August. Consecutive series victories against Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Diego, and Los Angeles, plus a win in the first game of another series with San Diego, pushed St. Louis to 17 games over .500 at 70\u201353, the furthest over .500 the franchise had reached since the 2005 team went 100\u201362. St. Louis opened up a six-game lead over the second-place Cubs during this stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nA 7\u20130 victory from Chris Carpenter, giving him an NL-tying 14th win, over San Diego at Petco Park on August 22, was the unofficial 10,000th win in franchise history. The official total (9,219) is lower because the Cardinals franchise does not count its ten years in the American Association in its all-time statistics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nOn August 28, Albert Pujols hit his eighth career walk-off home run in John Smoltz's first home game at Busch Stadium in a 3\u20132 win over Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, August\nA sweep of the Nationals ended one of the best Augusts in franchise history. The Cardinals went 20-6 for the month, pushing their overall record to 22 games over .500 at 77\u201355, and opening up a ten-game lead over the Cubs. They did not lose a series all month. Albert Pujols had a 1.092 OPS for the month while Matt Holliday, whose acquisition at the end of July coincided with the sudden takeoff of the Cardinals, posted a .963 OPS for August. Aces Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter had ERAs of 1.30 and 2.20 for August. Closer Ryan Franklin did not allow a run all month. Wainwright's 2\u20131 win over the Nationals on August 30 made him MLB's first 16-game winner. Carpenter was named the NL's Pitcher of the Month for August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nThird baseman Troy Glaus, out all year with a shoulder injury, became the first September call-up after maximum roster size expanded to 40. Adam Wainwright was touched for six runs in five innings by the Pirates but still earned his league-leading 17th victory on September 4. Albert Pujols hit only his second career pinch-hit home run in the 10th for a dramatic 2\u20131 game-winner over the Pirates, at PNC Park, September 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nChris Carpenter threw a one-hitter on September 7 against the Brewers at Miller Park, striking out 10, earning his first shutout since September 11, 2006, and reaching 1,300 career strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nA three-game sweep by the Braves September 11\u201313 marked the first time St. Louis had lost a series since July 24\u201326 against Philadelphia, and the first time the Cardinals lost the opening game of a series since July 20 against Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nAfter the Memphis Redbirds' season ended with a loss in the AAA National Championship Game, the Cardinals announced four more September call-ups: David Freese, Tyler Greene, Josh Kinney, and Matt Pagnozzi. Pagnozzi, nephew to former Cardinals All-Star catcher Tom Pagnozzi, first appeared in a game on September 29, becoming the tenth player to make his big-league debut with the 2009 Cardinals. The other nine rookies were Freese, Greene, P. J. Walters, Shane Robinson, Jarrett Hoffpauir, Colby Rasmus, Blake Hawksworth, Clayton Mortensen, and Jess Todd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nThe Cardinals finally clinched the NL Central championship at Colorado (September 26), with their 90th win, 6\u20133, on a tie-breaking home run by replacement catcher Jason LaRue in the 7th inning. Ryan Ludwick later added a pinch-hit 2-run home run in the 9th inning. Adam Wainwright got his NL-leading 19th win, going 8 innings with 130 pitches, giving up 10 hits, walking one, and striking out 11. It was the Cardinals' seventh NL division championship in the last ten seasons, and eighth for manager Tony La Russa in 14 seasons as Cardinal manager, although one championship was a shared one with Houston in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nOn October 1, Chris Carpenter threw five shutout innings in a 13\u20130 victory over Cincinnati. Carpenter finished his season with a 17\u20134 record. He lowered his ERA to 2.24, securing his first ERA title and the first ERA title for any Cardinal since Joe Magrane was National League ERA champion in 1988. Carpenter also hit the first home run of his big league career, a grand slam, and drove in six runs to double his career RBI total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nIn that same game Carpenter pitched (Oct 1, 2009), Tony La Russa passed John McGraw for second-most games managed in baseball with his 4,770th game managed (2,552-2,214-4). La Russa gets three more games (October 4) to extend his managed games to 4,773 (2,552-2,217-4) by the end of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nThe next night, a bullpen collapse robbed Adam Wainwright of his chance to be the only 20-game winner in baseball, but Wainwright still finished as the National League leader in wins, with a 19\u20138 record and a 2.63 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nThe Cardinals finished the 2009 season losing 8 of their last 10 and 14 of their last 21 to go 91-71 for the year. Albert Pujols won his first home run title with 47, despite not homering after September 9. He also broke the all-time single-season record for assists by a first baseman with his record 185th in the last game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season, September/October\nOn October 5, Chris Carpenter was named NL Comeback Player of the Year (second time) for his superb season, after leading the NL with a 2.24 ERA and an .810 winning percentage (17-4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Postseason, Division Series\nIn the 2009 National League Division Series, St. Louis faced off against the Los Angeles Dodgers, NL West champions. The Cardinals went 5\u20132 against the Dodgers in the regular season, and were the favorites in the National League, but the Dodgers swept the Cardinals in three games to bring St. Louis' 2009 season to a quick end. It was only the second time in eight trips to the postseason that a LaRussa-led Cardinals team lost in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Awards\nAdam Wainwright and Yadier Molina won Gold Gloves, the first for Wainwright and second for Molina. Albert Pujols won the Silver Slugger Award as the best hitting first baseman in the NL, and the Hank Aaron Award as the best hitter in the National League. In a close race, Wainwright finished third in voting (90 pts.) for the Cy Young Award despite getting the most first place votes (12). Chris Carpenter finished second (94 pts. ), six points behind winner Tim Lincecum. Albert Pujols won his second consecutive Most Valuable Player award, winning all 32 first place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Game log\nMicrosoft Outlook, Palm (PDA)      All game times are in Central Time Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B= Doubles; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks;  Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On-base percentage; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting\n* Currently not on active roster \u2020 on 15-day disabled or rehab list ^ Traded to or away from Cardinals dates", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Starting pitchers\nNote: GS = Games Started; IP = Innings Pitched; W = Wins; L = Loss; ERA = Earned Run Average; WHIP = (Walks + Hits) per Innings Pitched; HBP = Hit by Pitch; BF = Batters faced; O-AVG = Opponent Batting Ave.; O-SLG = Opponent Slugging Ave.; R support avg = Average Runs support from his team per Games Started", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Starting pitchers\n* not on active roster \u2020 on 15-day disabled list", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Relief pitchers\n22\u201317, 3.61 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 432.0 IP, 379 H, 193 R, 173 ER, 42 HR, 191 BB, 335 SO", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Relief pitchers\nSaves / Opp: 43/58 (74%) \u00a0 1st Batter / Retired: 338/474 (71%) Holds: 86  \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Inherited Runners / Scored: 56/242 (23%)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Relief pitchers\nBlown Saves by bullpen: 17 \u00a0 Franklin (5), McClellan (4), Perez (1), Kinney (1), Miller (2), Motte (4) Games lost by bullpen: \u00a0 16", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nScoring more than 3 runs \u00a0  66-19 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Scoring 3 runs \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 17-17 Scoring fewer than 3 runs \u00a0 \u00a0  8-35", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nLeading after 7 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 72-5  \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tied after 7 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0  9-7 Trailing after 7 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 9-59", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nLeading after 8 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 79-3  \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tied after 8 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 7-9  Trailing after 8 innings \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04-59", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nBlown Saves by bullpen: 17 (Franklin (5), McClellan (4), (Perez [1], Kinney [1], (Miller [2], Motte [4]) Games lost by bullpen: \u00a0 16", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nOut-hit opponents \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 62-12  Same hits as opponents 13-5  Out-hit by opponents \u00a0 \u00a0 16-54", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nMon. 8-9 Tue. 14-11 Wed. 15-10 Thu. 14-5 Fri. \u00a0  15-10 Sat. 15-11 Sun. 10-15", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Cardinals Record When\nNL Central \u00a0  24-16 \u00a0 22-18 \u00a0  46-34 NL East \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07-7 \u00a0 \u00a0 10-9 \u00a0 \u00a017-16 NL West \u00a0 \u00a0 10-8 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 9-7 \u00a0 19-15 AL Central \u00a0 \u00a0  5-4 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04-2 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09-6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Busch Stadium (Indexes)\n2009 \u00a0 (100 = Neutral Park, > 100 Ballpark favors, < 100 Ballpark inhibits \u00a0 81 HOME G; Cardinals: 2,654 AB; \u00a0 Opponents: 2,790 AB) \u00a0 81 AWAY G: Cardinals: 2,811 AB; \u00a0 Opponents: 2,670 AB)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Busch Stadium (Indexes)\n(Cardinals batting: HOME .263 \u00a0  ROAD .263 \u00a0  OVERALL .263) (Opponents batting: at StL .254 \u00a0 on ROAD .261 \u00a0  OVERALL  .258)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Busch Stadium (Indexes)\nBA 100 \u00a0R  93 \u00a0H  99 \u00a02B 93 \u00a03B 90 \u00a0HR 80 \u00a0BB 99 \u00a0SO 95 \u00a0E 107 \u00a0E-inf. 108 \u00a0LHB-BA 101 \u00a0LHB-HR 82 \u00a0RHB-BA 99 \u00a0RHB-HR 78", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Draft picks\nSt. Louis' picks at the 2009 Major League Baseball draft at MLB Network Studios, New York City on June 9 \u2013 11, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205090-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Cardinals season, Draft picks\nFor the entire draft, the Cardinals selection breakdown was as follows: 29 pitchers(21-RHP, 8-LHP), 11 infielders, six catchers and four outfielders. The Cardinalssecond-round pick, Robert Stock out of USC, will begin his pro career as a catcherand that is reflected in these numbers. St. Louis selected 43 college players andseven high school prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season\nThe 2009 season was the St. Louis Rams' 72nd in the National Football League, and their 15th in St. Louis. Due to the Rams winning only against the Detroit Lions, they finished with the NFL's worst record at 1\u201315, earning the first overall selection in the 2010 NFL Draft in Steve Spagnuolo's first season as a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season\nThe 2009 Rams scored 175 points (10.9 per game), the sixth-fewest for a 16-game NFL season. The Rams threw only twelve combined touchdown passes all season \u2013 including one by kicker Josh Brown. Quarterback Marc Bulger led the team with five touchdown passes. Pro Football Reference argues that the 2009 Rams were the worst team fielded in the NFL since the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976 and 1977, having a much weaker schedule than the winless 2008 Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season\nIn the three seasons from 2007 to 2009, the Rams won a total of six games, this being the worst record over such a period since the Chicago Cardinals during World War II until the 2015 to 2017 Cleveland Browns won only four games. Ironically, the Cardinals never won fewer than four games in any season during their tenure in St. Louis from 1960 through 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nThe Rams announced that Jim Haslett would not be returning as head coach after a disastrous 2\u201314 finish to the 2008 season. On January 16, New York Giants\u2019 Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnuolo signed a four-year $11.5\u00a0million. deal to be their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nJason Brown, a center who formerly played for the Baltimore Ravens before becoming a free agent, was signed on February 27, 2009, to a five-year deal to bolster the offensive line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nRon Bartell, a cornerback, signed a four-year deal on March 2, worth $13.6\u00a0million. Guaranteed, with incentives it could be as much as $28\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nJames Butler, a safety, signed a four-year deal on March 10, that with incentives could be worth almost $17\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nOrlando Pace, the premier offensive tackle in the NFL, was released by the Rams to save six million dollars in salary cap space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nOn March 13, wide receiver Torry Holt was released after ten seasons with the Rams. Holt was later signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Offseason, Player movement\nOn May 8, Pisa Tinoisamoa, the Rams\u2019 leading tackler in 2008, was given his release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Seattle Seahawks\nThe Rams began their season at Qwest Field with a Week 1 divisional duel with their NFC West rival, the Seattle Seahawks. After a scoreless first quarter, St. Louis trailed in the second quarter as Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end John Carlson. The Rams appeared to have a game-tying touchdown after blocking a Seattle field goal by Seahawks kicker Olindo Mare late in the quarter. However, it was overturned because there were twelve Rams\u2019 players on the field, leading to a Seahawks 12-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Burleson. In the third quarter, Seattle continued its dominance with Hasselbeck completing a 33-yard touchdown pass to Carlson, along with running back Julius Jones getting a 62-yard touchdown run. From there on out, the Seahawks\u2019 defense helped secure a shutout win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 930]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 1: at Seattle Seahawks\nWith this loss, the Rams began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 81], "content_span": [82, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 2: at Washington Redskins\nHoping to rebound from their shutout loss to the Seahawks, the Rams flew to FedEx Field for a Week 2 duel with the Washington Redskins. St. Louis trailed early as Redskins kicker Shaun Suisham got a 21-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Rams\u2019 deficit increased a Suisham made a 28-yard field goal. Afterwards, St. Louis took the lead as quarterback Marc Bulger completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laurent Robinson. However, Washington got their lead again as Suisham nailed a 23-yard field goal. From there on out, the Rams were unable to obtain further points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 3: vs. Green Bay Packers\nStill searching for their first win of the season, the Rams played their Week 3 home opener against the Green Bay Packers. St. Louis immediately trailed early in the first quarter as Packers kicker Mason Crosby got a 48, a 38, and a 25-yard field goal. Green Bay would increase their lead in the second quarter as fullback John Kuhn got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Rams would respond with the arm of quarterback Kyle Boller, as he hooked up with tight end Daniel Fells on a 16-yard touchdown pass. However, the Packers would strike back with quarterback Aaron Rodgers's 21-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donald Driver. St. Louis would close out the half with Boller and Fells hooking up with each other again on a 19-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 3: vs. Green Bay Packers\nThe Rams would inch closer in the third quarter with kicker Josh Brown's 53-yard field goal. However, Green Bay would pull away in the fourth quarter as Rodgers got a 4-yard touchdown run (with a failed PAT) and completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Kuhn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 3: vs. Green Bay Packers\nStarting quarterback Marc Bulger (3-of-4, 23 yards) left the game in the second quarter with an injury to his right shoulder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: at San Francisco 49ers\nFollowing their home loss to the Packers, the Rams flew to Candlestick Park for a Week 4 NFC West duel with their hated rival, the San Francisco 49ers. Due to an injury to Marc Bulger, quarterback Kyle Boller got the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: at San Francisco 49ers\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, St. Louis\u2019 seasonal struggles continued on the 49ers\u2019 second punt of the game. The ball would hit backup cornerback Quincy Butler's foot and roll into the endzone where backup Niners linebacker Scott McKillop would land on it for a touchdown. San Francisco would continue its dominating run in the third quarter with quarterback Shaun Hill hooking up on a 13-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis, followed by linebacker Patrick Willis returning an interception 23 yards for a touchdown. The 49ers would wrap up their victory march in the fourth quarter with Hill finding wide receiver Josh Morgan on a 24-yard touchdown pass, followed by defensive tackle Ray McDonald returning a fumble 11 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 4: at San Francisco 49ers\nWith their second shutout loss of the season, the Rams fell to 0\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nHoping to get their first win of the season, the Rams went home, donned their throwback uniforms, and prepared for a Week 5 duel with the Minnesota Vikings. Even though quarterback Marc Bulger was almost back to 100% health, backup quarterback Kyle Boller got the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nIn the first quarter, St. Louis continued to struggle as Vikings running back Adrian Peterson got a 5-yard touchdown run and defensive end Jared Allen returned a fumble 52 yards for a touchdown. The Rams would get on the board in the second quarter with a 29-yard field goal from kicker Josh Brown, but Minnesota came right back with kicking Ryan Longwell nailing a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 5: vs. Minnesota Vikings\nThe Vikings would continue to make their presence felt in the third quarter with quarterback Brett Favre completing a 13-yard touchdown to tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. Minnesota would follow it up in the fourth quarter with Peterson's 7-yard touchdown. St. Louis tried to rally as quarterback Marc Bulger completed a 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donnie Avery, but the Vikings would close out the game with running back Chester Taylor's 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 6: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nStill on the hunt for their first win of the season, the Rams flew to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for a Week 6 interconference duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. St. Louis got the opening charge in the first quarter with quarterback Marc Bulger's 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donnie Avery. The Jaguars would answer with running back Maurice Jones-Drew getting a 4-yard touchdown run (with a failed PAT). Afterwards, the Rams would get the only points of the second quarter as kicker Josh Brown nailed a 52-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 6: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, a back-and-forth quarter would ensue. Jones-Drew would help Jacksonville take the lead with a 1-yard touchdown run, yet Rams defensive end Leonard Little would return an interception 36 yards for a touchdown. Following a 3-yard touchdown run by Jones-Drew, St. Louis would tie the game with Brown's 27-yard field goal. However, in overtime, the Jaguars got the last laugh as kicker Josh Scobee booted the game-winning 36-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 7: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nStill trying to get their first win of the season, the Rams went home for a Week 7 interconference duel with the Indianapolis Colts. St. Louis would trail early in the first quarter as Colts quarterback Peyton Manning completed a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Reggie Wayne. The Rams would answer with a 30-yard field goal from kicker Josh Brown, but Indianapolis answered with Manning's 27-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark. Afterwards, the Colts would get the only score of the second quarter with running back Joseph Addai's 6-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 7: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nSt. Louis would begin the third quarter with Brown booting a 45-yard field goal, yet Indianapolis continued their domination as cornerback Jacob Lacey return an interception 35 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, the Colts closed out the game with Manning's 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Austin Collie and running back Chad Simpson's 35-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Detroit Lions\nStill in the hunt for their first win of the season, the Rams flew to Ford Field for a Week 8 duel with the Detroit Lions. St. Louis got the game's first points in the opening quarter as kicker Josh Brown booted a 41-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Lions got on the board due to a Rams miscue. Safety James Butler got an interception in his endzone. He would then run out and then back in, where he would be tackled by Detroit running back Kevin Smith for a safety. Afterwards, St. Louis would close out the half with a trick play. On a fake field goal attempt, Brown would complete a 36-yard touchdown pass to tight end Daniel Fells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Detroit Lions\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Lions began to rally in the fourth quarter as quarterback Matthew Stafford got a 4-yard touchdown and completed a 2-point conversion pass to running back Maurice Morris. The Rams prevailed as running back Steven Jackson got a 25-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 8: at Detroit Lions\nWith this win, St. Louis snapped a seventeen-game losing streak \u2013 their previous win having been against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 7 of the 2008 season \u2013 and provided the first win for rookie head coach Steve Spagnuolo before the Rams entered their bye week at 1\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 10: vs. New Orleans Saints\nComing off their bye week, the Rams went home for a Week 10 duel with the undefeated New Orleans Saints. After a scoreless first quarter, Saints running back Reggie Bush got a 3-yard touchdown run to open the scoring, but the Rams would answer when quarterback Marc Bulger found wide receiver Donnie Avery on a 29-yard touchdown pass. Although New Orleans retook the lead with quarterback Drew Brees\u2019 15-yard touchdown pass to Bush, St. Louis would close out the half with running back Steven Jackson's 2-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 10: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints would deliver a huge strike in the third quarter as wide receiver Courtney Roby returned the second half's opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown, yet the Rams would keep it close with kicker Josh Brown's 32-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, New Orleans would increase their lead with Brees\u2019 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Robert Meachem. St. Louis tried to rally as Bulger completed a 19-yard touchdown pass to Avery (with a failed 2-point conversion), but the Saints\u2019 defense would prevent any further progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 11: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nHoping to rebound from their loss to the Saints, the Rams went home for an NFC West rivalry match against the Arizona Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 11: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nIn the first quarter, St. Louis got on the board first with kicker Josh Brown getting a 40-yard field goal. The Rams fell behind with QB Kurt Warner making a 5-yard touchdown pass to WR Anquan Boldin and then to WR Larry Fitzgerald on an 11-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. The Cardinals lead extended as rookie RB Beanie Wells made a 1-yard touchdown run to end the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 11: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nThe Rams replied in the third quarter with kicker Josh Brown making a 20-yard field goal. The Rams tried hard to come back into the game in the fourth quarter with RB Steven Jackson running 1 yard to the end zone for a touchdown, but the Cardinals\u2019 defense prevented the case, giving the Rams another loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 11: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nWith this loss, the Rams fell to 1\u20139 and stay winless at home, with their home record at 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 12: vs. Seattle Seahawks\nWith this loss, the Rams fell to 1\u201310 and were officially eliminated from postseason contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 17: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Rams ended their season 1\u201315 and clinched the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Regular season summaries, Week 17: vs. San Francisco 49ers\nThe Rams became the ninth team to finish a season with a 1\u201315 record, following the 2007 Dolphins. They would later on be joined by the 2016 Cleveland Browns and the 2020 Jacksonville Jaguars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205091-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis Rams season, Local television blackouts\nIn the 2009 season, the Rams had three regular season games blacked out on local television. After selling out their first five games, attendance began to drop and the Rams couldn't sell out their final three games against the Seahawks, Texans, and 49ers. In all of these instances, the Rams fell well short of a sellout and did not even ask for a deadline extension from the NFL to try to sell remaining tickets and avert a blackout. Since 2007, the Rams had only won two games at the Edward Jones Dome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205092-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis mayoral election\nThe 2009 St. Louis mayoral election was held on April 7, 2009 to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Francis Slay to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205092-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis mayoral election\nThe election was preceded by party primaries on March 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205092-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Louis mayoral election, Democratic primary\nIncumbent mayor Francis Slay was challenged for renomination by alderman Irene J. Smith as well as by Denise Coleman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205093-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Bowl\nThe 2009 St. Petersburg Bowl was the second edition of the college football bowl game and was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The game began at 8:00 PM US EST on Saturday, December 19, 2009, was telecast on ESPN and featured the UCF of Conference USA and Rutgers of the Big East. Rutgers defeated UCF 45\u201324 in a game where Mohamed Sanu, the game's MVP, caught 4 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown in addition to rushing 14 times for 47 yards and two touchdowns. Through sponsorship from the Beef O'Brady's restaurant franchise, the game was officially known as the 2009 St. Petersburg Bowl presented by Beef 'O' Brady's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205093-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Bowl\nThe game marked the Scarlet Knights' fifth consecutive bowl appearance, and their fourth consecutive victory, after not playing in a bowl game from 1979 to 2005. Rutgers was one of nine BCS teams to win a bowl game in each of the last three seasons. This was UCF's third bowl game, the last one was in the 2007 Liberty Bowl. With the loss, Central Florida dropped to 0\u20133 in the postseason. The bowl game marked the first ever meeting between Rutgers and UCF, both teams being called \"Knights\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205093-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Bowl, Game summary\nRutgers wore their home red uniforms, and UCF wore their away white uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205094-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open\nThe 2009 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October 25 through November 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205094-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205094-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received into the singles main draw as special exempt:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205094-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open, Finals, Doubles\nColin Fleming /  Ken Skupski defeated  J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy /  Richard Gasquet, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205095-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Doubles\nTravis Parrott and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek were the defending champions, but they chose to participate with different partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205095-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Doubles\nParrott partnered up with Rohan Bopanna, but they lost in the first round against Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski, who eventually went on to beat J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy and Richard Gasquet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205096-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, but he chose not to compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205096-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg Open \u2013 Singles\nSergiy Stakhovsky won in the final over Horacio Zeballos 2\u20136, 7\u20136(10\u20138), 7\u20136(9\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205097-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 St. Petersburg, Florida mayoral election\nThe 2001 St. Petersburg mayoral election took place on September 1 and November 3, 2009 to elect the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida. A non-partisan primary election was first held on September 1. No candidate won a majority of the vote, so the top two finisher advanced to a runoff. It saw the election of Bill Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205098-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Staffordshire County Council election\nElections to Staffordshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 62 councillors were elected from the various electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005. The council continues to be administered on the Leader and Cabinet model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205098-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Staffordshire County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205098-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Staffordshire County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205098-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Staffordshire County Council election, Summary\nThe election was won by the Conservatives with 49 seats (a net gain of 22 seats), defeating Labour who were reduced to just 3 seats (a net loss of 29 seats) who were the ruling party for 28 years running. The Liberal Democrats came joint second with UKIP with 4 seats each, and there were 2 independent candidates elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team\nThe 2009 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinal was led by third-year head coach Jim Harbaugh and played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Recruiting\nStanford's 2009 recruiting class was ranked 15th in the nation by Scout.com and 20th by Rivals.com, and included these top-rated recruits:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nToby Gerhart rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns, and redshirt freshman quarterback Andrew Luck made his collegiate debut by throwing for 193 yards and a touchdown pass to Chris Owusu as Stanford defeated Washington State in Pullman. The Cardinal dominated the first half, but as the second half began, the Cougars took the early momentum, driving 80 yards and scoring on a 5-yard pass from Kevin Lopina to Jared Karstetter. However, Owusu answered immediately for the Cardinal with an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to keep the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nStanford quarterback Andrew Luck threw two first half touchdown passes to Ryan Whalen, and Nate Whitaker added a 54-yard field goal\u2014the longest Stanford field goal in 20 years\u2014to give the Cardinal a 17\u20133 lead at the half. But the Demon Deacons dominated the second half with three unanswered touchdowns: a 3-yard run from Mike Rinfrette, a 9-yard pass from quarterback Riley Skinner to Jordan Williams, and then, with 2 seconds left in the game, a one-yard keeper by Skinner to give Wake Forest its first lead in the game and the 24\u201317 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, San Jose State\nStanford's Chris Owusu returned the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown to set the pace as Stanford routed San Jose State 42\u201317. Owusu also caught a touchdown pass from Andrew Luck, and Toby Gerhart rushed for two touchdowns. The Cardinal added another special teams touchdown on Richard Sherman's 48-yard punt return, and Corey Gatewood rounded out the scoring with a 23-yard interception return for a touchdown. The Spartans scored on a 1-yard pass from Jordan La Secla to Jalal Beauchman, a 14-yard run from Lamon Muldrow, and a 30-yard field goal by Tyler Cope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe Cardinal rushed for 322 yards, including a career-best 200 yards from Toby Gerhart to down the Huskies. For the second week in a row, Chris Owusu returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown to start the scoring for Stanford. Soon after, the Huskies tied the score on a dropped lateral from Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck to tight end Jim Dray; neither Luck nor Dray realized the throw was not a forward pass, but Washington's Justin Glenn picked up the ball and ran it 51 yards for the touchdown. However, on the next play from scrimmage, Gerhart ran 60 yards for a score to put Stanford ahead to stay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nComing into the game, the Bruins were the only undefeated team in the Pac-10 Conference although they had yet to a play another Pac-10 team. Toby Gerhart, the Cardinal's 237-pound tailback who had 138 yards against UCLA last year, is averaging 129 yards a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nAfter UCLA recovered a fumble, Kai Forbath kicked a 29-yard field goal to give the Bruins the early lead. Gerhart rushed 5 yards for a touchdown for Stanford in the first quarter and aided by a UCLA penalty in the second quarter, scored a second touchdown. The Bruins kicked a field goal before halftime, aided by a partially blocked punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nWith a 46-yard flea flicker in the third quarter to put Stanford in the red zone, Gerhart scored his third touchdown from the 5-yard line. He finished the game with 134 rushing yards. Later in the quarter, Nate Whitaker kicked a 29-yard field goal to give the Cardinal a 24\u20136 lead. The Bruins began the fourth quarter with a Johnathan Franklin 1-yard touchdown run to cut the lead to 11, and a Forbath 35-yard field goal with about four minutes left in the game cut the lead to 24\u201316. UCLA took over with 3 minutes left but was unable to complete the comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThe Beavers scored on every drive in the first half to take a 31\u20137 halftime lead on their way to a 38\u201328 defeat of the Cardinal. Jacquizz Rodgers ran for a career-high 189 yards and a school record-tying four touchdowns. His brother James added the fifth touchdown and a Justin Kahut 31-yard field goal completed the scoring for the Beavers. After falling behind early, Stanford was forced out of its usual Toby Gerhart-led power rushing game, though Gerhart still managed 96 yards and two touchdowns. Andrew Luck added two touchdown passes, one to Chris Owusu and another to Jim Dray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nIn a game that featured more than a thousand offensive yards, the Wildcats rallied back late to defeat the Cardinal. The quarterbacks were evenly matched: Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck threw for 423 yards and three touchdowns, while Arizona's Nick Foles also tossed three touchdown passes and had a total of 415 yards. Stanford's Toby Gerhart had 123 yards and two touchdowns. Arizona managed a total of just 138 rush yards, but 57 of those came on Nic Grigsby's go-ahead touchdown with under three minutes left. Stanford drove to the Arizona 17 with seconds to play, but a fourth-down pass to Chris Owusu was batted away and the Wildcats escaped with a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nToby Gerhart rushed for more than 100 yards for the 15th time in his college career as the Cardinal downed the Sun Devils. All four Stanford touchdowns were on rushes, but uncharacteristically for Stanford, only one  was by Gerhart. Fullback Owen Marecic, who is almost exclusively used to block for Gerhart, scored on his seventh career carry; freshman Jamal-Rashad Patterson scored on a 22-yard reverse; and backup running back Stepfan Taylor had a 33-yard touchdown run. Arizona State scored on two Danny Sullivan touchdown passes, the last coming just before Sullivan left the game with a bruised knee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Cardinal surprised the Ducks, 51\u201342, to become bowl-eligible for the first time in eight years. Toby Gerhart ran for three touchdowns and a school-record 223 yards on 38 carries, breaking the previous record of 220 set by Jon Volpe in 1988. He also broke his single-season rushing record set last year with 1,217 yards. Andrew Luck finished 12 for 20 for 251 yards, throwing an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jim Dray in the second quarter and a 31-yarder to Chris Owusu after Oregon cut the Cardinal lead to 10 points early in the third quarter. Oregon closed within six points late in the fourth quarter following a missed Stanford field goal, but Stanford recovered the ensuing onside kick. A field goal with 11 seconds remaining put the game away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 810]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, USC\nFacing its second top-10 opponent in as many weeks, Stanford won 55\u201321, handing USC a 34-point loss\u2014its biggest loss of the Pete Carroll era and its biggest loss since 1966. Stanford's 55 points was the highest number of points any team had scored against a USC Trojans football team in the 121-year history of Trojan football. The 55 points included three Toby Gerhart touchdown runs and one by Andrew Luck. Richard Sherman returned an interception of a Matt Barkley fourth-quarter pass to spark a 27-point fourth quarter to put away the Trojans and keep the Cardinal's slim Rose Bowl hopes alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, USC\nThis was Stanford's third victory against USC in their last five games against each other at the Coliseum (Stanford winning 2001, 2007, and 2009, with USC winning in 2003 and 2005). USC has defeated every other opponent in the Coliseum since Stanford's September 29, 2001 victory in the Coliseum. It was the first defeat in a November game for the Trojans in Carroll's nine-season tenure. For the first time since Carroll's first season, USC lost more than two games in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, USC\nFor the second time in three weekends, Carroll suffered the worst loss of his USC tenure, the other being its game against the Oregon Ducks. This was the largest margin of victory for Stanford in a Stanford-USC game since the two teams' rivalry began in 1918. Harbaugh became only the third coach in college football with a winning record against Carroll, going 2\u20131 in the three times the two coaches have faced each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nBoth teams faced each other in the 112th Big Game with seven wins each, the first time this had happened since 1991. The Cardinal had scored a combined 106 points in two previous games against higher ranked opponents, with consecutive upsets over Oregon and USC, two teams which had blown out Cal 42\u20133 and 30\u20133, respectively. Cal also played its second game without star running back Jahvid Best, again starting backup Shane Vereen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Cardinal scored on their first possession when Toby Gerhart broke free on the game's third play for a 61-yard touchdown. After successfully blocking a punt, which gave Stanford field position on the Cal 19-yard line, Gerhart scored again on a 2-yard run. The Bears responded with a scoring drive of their own that resulted in a field goal. In the second quarter, a Cal drive was halted when Richard Sherman intercepted Kevin Riley deep in Stanford territory. The Cardinal were unable to capitalize on the turnover however, and the Bears went on a five-minute scoring drive that saw Vereen score his first touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run with just over a minute left in the quarter to make it 14\u201310 Stanford at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nCal took its first lead in the third quarter with a 92-yard scoring drive resulting in a 4-yard run by Vereen. Stanford was able to move downfield in turn, but missed a 45-yard field goal. The Bears marched downfield again and scored on a 3-yard run by Vereen. Stanford responded on the ensuing possession by scoring on a 1-yard run by Gerhart. The Bears in turn scored in the beginning of the fourth quarter with a 12-yard pass from Riley to Marvin Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nMidway through the quarter, the Cardinal put together an 87-yard touchdown drive which resulted in Gerhart getting his fourth score of the game on a 5-yard run. After getting the ball back with just under 4 minutes left in the game, Stanford attempted a fourth down conversion which failed. The Bears took possession on the Stanford 23-yard line, but ended up settling for a field goal, making the score 34\u201328 and giving the Cardinal a chance to win with more than two and a half minutes left if they could score a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nStanford started out with good field position at its 42-yard line and was able to drive down to the Cal 13-yard line. Cal linebacker Mike Mohammed saved the game for the Bears when he intercepted Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck, allowing Riley to take three straight knees and Cal to retain the Stanford Axe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, California\nThe loss, as well as a double overtime win later in the day by Oregon over Arizona, eliminated Stanford from Rose Bowl contention and the possibility of sharing the Pac-10 conference title. Luck threw for 157 yards, while Gerhart rushed for 136 yards and all of Stanford's four touchdowns, tying a single Big Game record previously set by Cal players Chuck Muncie and Lindsey Chapman. Cal's victory marked the 100th coached by Jeff Tedford, matching Pappy Waldorf for the most wins at Cal in the modern era, with 67. Riley threw for 235 yards and a score, while Vereen had another career game, rushing for 193 yards on 42 carries with three scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nIn a nationally televised game, the Cardinal scored a last-minute touchdown to defeat the Fighting Irish 45\u201338. Cardinal running back Toby Gerhart made a strong statement for Heisman Trophy consideration, rushing for 205 yards and three touchdowns and throwing his first career touchdown pass to Ryan Whalen. The win was Stanford's first in the annual series since 2001. Notre Dame lost its sixth of the season, all six of which have been by a touchdown or less. Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen threw for 340 yards and five touchdowns, three to Golden Tate and two to Michael Floyd. The game was Charlie Weis's final game as head coach of Notre Dame; he was fired the following Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205099-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanford Cardinal football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma (Sun Bowl)\nStanford made its first bowl appearance since 2001 without starting quarterback Andrew Luck, who was sidelined due to a broken finger. Tavita Pritchard, who hadn't started a game at quarterback since the 2008 season, played the entire game, and was 8 for 19 with two interceptions as the Sooners outlasted the Cardinal 31\u201327. Toby Gerhart, who had finished second in the closest Heisman Trophy race ever a few weeks earlier, ran for 135 on 32 carries and scored two touchdowns for Stanford. Meanwhile, Sooners wide receiver Ryan Broyles set a Sun Bowl record with three touchdown receptions and was named Sun Bowl MVP. Broyles had 156 yards receiving and set Oklahoma's single-game record with 13 receptions from quarterback Landry Jones, who passed for 418 yards overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 2009 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2008\u201309 season, and the culmination of the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins and the Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings. It was Detroit's 24th appearance in the Finals and Pittsburgh's fourth appearance in the Finals. This was a rematch of the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals where Detroit had defeated Pittsburgh in six games. This time, Pittsburgh defeated Detroit in seven games to win their third Stanley Cup in franchise history. Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin would win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the 2009 playoffs, becoming the first Russian-born player to win the trophy. Until 2021, this was the last time the finals were played entirely in the Eastern Time Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Road to Finals, Pittsburgh Penguins\nThe Pittsburgh Penguins were the reigning Eastern Conference Champions. After playing 57\u00a0games of the 2008\u201309 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins had a record of 27\u201325\u20135 and were five points out of playoff position. The organization fired head coach Michel Therrien and replaced him with Dan Bylsma, head coach of the organization's American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes-Barre. Under Bylsma, the team went 18\u20133\u20134, including 10\u20131\u20132 in March, losing one home game. Before the trade deadline, the Penguins acquired Chris Kunitz and Bill Guerin from the Anaheim Ducks and the New York Islanders respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Road to Finals, Pittsburgh Penguins\nThe Penguins qualified for the playoffs for their third consecutive season. They did not repeat as champions of the Atlantic Division, but earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference with 99\u00a0points. They began the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 15 against their cross-state rival Philadelphia Flyers. They beat the Flyers 4\u20132, Washington Capitals 4\u20133, and Carolina Hurricanes 4\u20130 to earn a second-straight berth in the Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Road to Finals, Detroit Red Wings\nEntering the 2008\u201309 season as the Stanley Cup Champions, the Detroit Red Wings signed head coach Mike Babcock to three-year contract extension. Marian Hossa signed with the Red Wings after turning down a $49\u00a0million offer from the Penguins, whom he played for throughout the 2007\u201308 playoffs. The Red Wings also signed Ty Conklin, who had played for the Penguins throughout the 2007\u201308 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Road to Finals, Detroit Red Wings\nThe Red Wings won the Central Division title with 112\u00a0points before defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets 4\u20130, rival Anaheim Ducks 4\u20133, and then-division rival Chicago Blackhawks 4\u20131 to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the sixth time in the past 14 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nThe Red Wings took game one, 3\u20131, as three different Detroit players scored goals off of unusual bounces. The first period featured back and forth action, with each team having a variety of chances. Detroit scored the first goal of the game at 13:38 into the first period when Brad Stuart's shot missed wide left, bounced off the end boards, and then deflected off the back of Pittsburgh goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury's leg into the net. The Penguins tied the game at 18:37 when Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood mishandled a shot by Evgeni Malkin, allowing Ruslan Fedotenko to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nMalkin gained the initial opportunity after forcing defenceman Stuart into a turnover. The Penguins dominated the early portion of the second period, but Osgood kept the game even, including when he bailed his team out by stopping Malkin on a breakaway. The Red Wings bounced back and went ahead at 19:02 of the period after Brian Rafalski's shot rebounded off the end boards to Johan Franzen, who banked a shot off Fleury and into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nDetroit's third goal of the game came at 2:46 of the third period when, after a save by Fleury on Ville Leino, the puck bounced high into the air and was swatted by Detroit rookie Justin Abdelkader from midair to his stick. Abdelkader then went around Pittsburgh's Jordan Staal (who had lost sight of the puck) and shot it above Fleury. Only three total penalties were called in the game, two on Detroit and one on Pittsburgh, but neither team could take advantage on their respective power plays as Osgood stopped 31 out of 32 shots while Fleury stopped 27 out of 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nGame two was another 3\u20131 victory for Detroit. Pittsburgh started out the game strong, setting up numerous chances from behind the net that were stopped by Chris Osgood. The Penguins then struck first at 16:50 of the opening period. After the Red Wings' Niklas Kronwall was sent to the penalty box for cross checking, Evgeni Malkin fired from the slot, and a scramble in front of the net ensued after Osgood gave up a rebound. The puck eventually came to Malkin for a second crack, and the shot was inadvertently deflected by Brad Stuart into his own net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nDetroit took over in the second period, dominating in shots and benefiting from some luck, such as when Bill Guerin's wrist shot hit the inside of the post but stayed out of the net. Jonathan Ericsson tied the game at 4:21 of the second period, moments after the Penguins were forced to ice the puck after a long shift. Pittsburgh promptly lost the ensuing faceoff in their zone, allowing Ericsson to score from the point. Then at 10:29, the Red Wings went ahead after Valtteri Filppula was able to backhand a shot from a difficult angle into the net. Filppula scored after Fleury had stopped both Tomas Holmstrom and Marian Hossa, but could not hold the rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nAt 1:39 of the third period, Sidney Crosby peeled out of the corner and fired a shot that bounced off the post and rolled along the Detroit goal line. The play was reviewed by video replay, but the ruling on the ice was upheld as a no goal. Then at 2:47, Justin Abdelkader gave the Red Wings their third goal of the game, as he moved in slowly against the Pittsburgh defence and blasted a shot that caught Marc-Andre Fleury off guard as it landed in the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nTensions flared up near the end of the game at 19:41 of the third period. Maxime Talbot was called for slashing, which eventually led to a fight between Malkin and Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg. Malkin received an instigator penalty and a misconduct penalty, but was not suspended by the league for the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nThe Penguins won game three, 4\u20132, cutting their deficit in the series in half. Pittsburgh got off to a strong offensive start and scored first at 4:48 of the opening period when Evgeni Malkin set up Maxime Talbot, who fired a one-timed snapshot. Detroit answered less than two minutes later with a Henrik Zetterberg goal at 6:19 in the period. Zetterberg scored on a rebound after Ville Leino's wrap-around attempt was stopped by Marc-Andre Fleury. After Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik was called for interference, Johan Franzen responding by scoring a goal at 11:33 with under ten seconds left in the penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nFranzen's score was a one-timer that resulted after Zetterberg fed him a pass around the goal crease. While Detroit dominated the middle of the first period, at one point firing nine straight shots, the Penguins caught a break when the officials missed a penalty for too many men when Pittsburgh had inadvertently created their own powerplay, and played with six men for nearly 30 seconds. Pittsburgh then used a late holding call on Daniel Cleary to set up a game-tying power play goal. Defenceman Kris Letang fanned on a one-time attempt as he took a pass from Malkin, but regained control of the puck and fired a wrist shot into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nThe score remained unchanged through the second period, although Detroit had numerous scoring chances. The Penguins' Fleury stopped 16 Detroit shots in the frame, and caught a break as Mikael Samuelsson hit the post on a breakaway. The Penguins came out with strong defence in the third period, and the Detroit offence sputtered, at one point going over ten minutes without a shot. Midway through the third period, the Penguins earned a power play opportunity after Jonathan Ericsson was called for interference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nAt 10:29, Sergei Gonchar drilled a slapshot from near the blue line, which sailed through traffic and beat a screened Chris Osgood to give the Penguins the lead. Detroit could not mount a late surge with the extra attacker on the ice, and Talbot added an empty net goal at 19:03 for his second of the game to seal the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nThe Penguins picked up a 4\u20132 win in game four, equalling their performance from the previous meeting. Detroit found themselves at an early disadvantage, as a tripping call on Niklas Kronwall gave Pittsburgh a power play just over a minute into the game. Evgeni Malkin scored with the man advantage at 2:39 to give the Penguins an early lead. The goal occurred after Chris Osgood stopped a Jordan Staal shot, then Kris Letang fired a rebound wide that was picked up by Malkin and deposited behind the outstretched goaltender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nDetroit ended the first period on a relentless assault, but Marc-Andre Fleury held the fort in goal for Pittsburgh, including a sequence in which he stopped four Detroit shots seconds apart. On that shift, Fleury cancelled a Darren Helm wrap around attempt, stood up to stop Mikael Samuelsson's rebound one-timer, then stopped Daniel Cleary on two more rebound tries. With 19 shots in the period, Detroit would eventually score at 18:19, after Helm forced Rob Scuderi into a turnover on a clearing attempt, then fired a wrist shot into the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nDetroit took the lead early in the second period, after Henrik Zetterberg passed from behind the net to Brad Stuart at the point. Stuart's slap shot at 0:46 beat a screened Fleury, but provided one of the few sparks for Detroit in a nightmarish period. After Brooks Orpik was called for tripping, it was the Penguins who picked up great scoring opportunities during the Detroit power play. First, Osgood stopped Malkin on a breakaway. However, he was not able to keep Staal from scoring shorthanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nAt 8:35, Staal lit the lamp after dragging the puck around Brian Rafalski by using his long reach. Just under two minutes later, Sidney Crosby finally scored his first goal of the series. Malkin stripped Brad Stuart, who had just mishandled a pass, and started a two-on-one with Crosby, who took the pass at 10:34 and shoved it into the net. At 14:12 in the period, Tyler Kennedy scored to extend the Pittsburgh lead. The play began when Kennedy beat Henrik Zetterberg to the puck on the forecheck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nChris Kunitz then took the puck and fed a pass to Crosby, who one-touched it to Kennedy for the goal, as Osgood was caught moving side-to-side. The third period featured several good chances by each team, but neither team was able to score and the game ended with a tied series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nDetroit gained a huge boost in game five, as star two-way player Pavel Datsyuk played for the first time in the series after returning from a foot injury. The Penguins were the team that began the match with energy, dominating the first five minutes, and producing a variety of chances from the Evgeni Malkin\u2013Ruslan Fedotenko\u2013Maxime Talbot line. However, the Red Wings rallied around a rejuvenated Datsyuk to take over the game midway through the period. Datsuyk's skating allowed Detroit to score at 13:32 of the period, as he fed a pass to Daniel Cleary during a three-on-three transition play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nCleary used Penguins' defenceman Brooks Orpik as a screen as he shot the puck past goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. The Penguins began to unravel in the second period, committing five minor penalties in the frame. This undisciplined hockey allowed Detroit to score three power play goals and one marker that occurred seconds after a penalty had expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nAt 1:44 of the second, the Red Wings scored their second goal. On the final seconds of a power play, Fleury made a sprawling save on Datsuyk, the puck was cleared, and the penalty expired. However, as the Penguins attempted to make a line change, goaltender Chris Osgood fed a long pass for Detroit to Marian Hossa, who slipped a pass into the slot, enabling a streaking Valtteri Filppula to score on the backhand. Three straight penalty calls on Pittsburgh would then lead to Red Wing scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nA slashing minor on Sergei Gonchar eventually allowed a high wrist shot by Niklas Kronwall at 8:35 to find the back of the net. Kronwall scored after pinching into the corner and playing in a forward position. He then took a pass from Johan Franzen and patiently waited for Fleury to go down before lifting the puck. An elbowing penalty on Evgeni Malkin led to a Brian Rafalski goal at 11:34, which saw the defenceman take a pass from Datsyuk and score on a wrist shot from the right circle. A Chris Kunitz roughing penalty set up Henrik Zetterberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nAt 15:40, Zetterberg took a shot-pass from Jiri Hudler and peeled to the front of the net to deposit the puck over Fleury's glove. After giving up the fifth goal, Fleury was replaced by Mathieu Garon, and the Penguins committed two more penalties in the second to give Detroit a two-man advantage on which they did not convert. The third period was mostly uneventful and the score remained 5\u20130 until the end of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six\nThe Penguins defeated the Red Wings in game six, 2\u20131, to force a seventh and deciding game of the finals. The first period featured strong defensive play by both teams. Pittsburgh goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made a big early save as he stopped a one-timer by Henrik Zetterberg, who had just received a pass from Pavel Datsyuk on a two-on-one rush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six\nDetroit's Chris Osgood equalled Fleury's early brilliance, as he stopped Sidney Crosby on two separate power plays, first by stuffing his attempt to jam home a puck in the crease, then by denying him on a rush through the slot in transition. After a scoreless first period, Jordan Staal scored Pittsburgh's first goal at 0:51 in the second. Tyler Kennedy chipped a puck away from Valtteri Filppula in the Detroit zone, then passed the puck to Staal to start a two-on-one break. Osgood stopped Staal's first shot by tipping it with his glove, before the rebound was deposited into the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six\nPittsburgh dominated the second period, but did not score again in the frame. They also caught a break as Zetterberg's forehand shot from the slot hit the post and was then held by Fleury as it ricochet off his back. Kennedy gave the Penguins their second goal at 5:35 of the third after gaining the puck by cycling behind Detroit's net with Maxime Talbot. Two Red Wing defenders went to Talbot, which gave Kennedy a clear lane to walk in front of the net and lift a shot high over Osgood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six\nKris Draper cut the Pittsburgh lead at 8:01, beating Marc-Andre Fleury on a wrist shot. The goal came after Jonathan Ericsson's slapshot was kicked aside and Draper was able to take the rebound and glide into scoring position. The Red Wings found their stride late in the game, but were thwarted on two late scoring chances. With 1:42 remaining, Daniel Cleary raced into the Penguins zone on a breakaway, but his shot was turned aside by Fleury. In the final thirty seconds, an unlikely hero stepped up for the Penguins. After Fleury stopped Datsyuk's shot, the puck came to the goal mouth, where Johan Franzen was ready to pounce. However, with Fleury out of position, Pittsburgh defenceman Rob Scuderi stepped in front of the loose puck and blocked three Franzen shots with his skates to preserve a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nFor the first time, the Pittsburgh Penguins played a seventh game in the Stanley Cup Finals, while the Red Wings made their seventh appearance in the deciding game. Detroit had previously gone 3\u20133 in game sevens. Their last Stanley Cup Finals game seven was in 1964 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, where they lost by the score of 4\u20130 in Maple Leaf Gardens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nEntering the contest, Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock joined Mike Keenan as the only men to coach Game 7's of the Stanley Cup Finals with two different teams, having been with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim when they lost to the New Jersey Devils in 2003 (the home team won all seven games of the series). Over the whole series, the Red Wings outscored the Penguins 17\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nThe opening half of the first period featured tentative play by both teams but with Pittsburgh outperforming Detroit offensively in the frame. However, the Red Wings got the best scoring chance, as Kirk Maltby gained possession of a bouncing puck after a faceoff in the Penguins' zone. Maltby's shot was then stopped by the glove of goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury from point blank range. At 1:13 in the second period, Pittsburgh struck first, as Maxime Talbot scored following a turnover. The goal resulted after Brad Stuart attempted to clear the zone following a dump-in by Brooks Orpik into Detroit territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nEvgeni Malkin used his skates to block Stuart's pass, and the puck found its way to Talbot, who patiently waited to find a shooting lane behind goaltender Chris Osgood. Both teams gained chances through the middle of the period, with each goalie coming up strong. On one sequence, Brian Rafalski made a quick pass to Darren Helm in the left circle, where he was stopped by Fleury. As Rafalski set up for a rebound shot, he lost the puck to Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke, who was then stuffed on a breakaway attempt. Soon afterward, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was crunched into the boards by Johan Franzen and sustained a knee injury. He would be healthy enough to play only one shift for the remainder of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nTalbot struck again at 10:07 in the period, as he curled the puck to fake a pass during a two-on-one break, then lifted it over Osgood's shoulder. The play began with Chris Kunitz splitting the Detroit defence with a pass in his own zone, allowing Talbot and Tyler Kennedy to move in on an odd man rush. The Penguins attempted to play conservatively in the third period and registered only one shot in the frame. At the same time, Detroit was able to sustain pressure on several occasions during the period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nAt 13:53, the Red Wings got on the board, as Jonathan Ericsson drilled a one-timed slapshot behind Fleury from near the blue line, after receiving a pass from Niklas Lidstrom. Then, at 17:45, Detroit came within inches of pulling into a tie. However, Niklas Kronwall's wristshot from the right circle ricocheted off of Jordan Staal, hit the crossbar, then bounced away from any Red Wing skaters. Detroit gained one last chance on the final shift of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0018-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nAfter stopping an initial Henrik Zetterberg shot from the right faceoff circle, the rebound came loose to Nicklas Lidstrom at the left faceoff circle, forcing Fleury to make a diving stop with two seconds remaining to preserve the win and the championship. Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy after the game as the Most Valuable Player of the 2009 playoffs, becoming the first Russian-born player to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nThe Penguins became the first team since the 1971 Montreal Canadiens to win game seven of the Finals on the road. They were also the first road team to win game seven of a championship round, in any major league sport, since the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles 4\u20131 at Memorial Stadium to win the 1979 World Series. For the Red Wings, it was the first time that they lost in the Finals since 1995, when they were swept by the Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game seven\nIt was also the first time that the visiting team has won the Cup at Joe Louis Arena in the venue's 30-year history, and the Penguins became the first visiting team to win the Cup in Detroit since the Montreal Canadiens did so in 1966 at the now-demolished Olympia Stadium. They were also the first team to win the Stanley Cup without finishing first in a division during the regular season since the Devils in 2000. This was the last ever Stanley Cup Finals game played at Joe Louis Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Officials\nThe following officials worked the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals: (Bold-face indicates worked Game 7)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Television coverage\nIn Canada, all games of the Finals were broadcast in English on the CBC and in French on the cable network RDS. CBC had a new broadcast team calling the Finals with Jim Hughson as play-by-play announcer, and Craig Simpson as colour commentator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Television coverage\nIn the United States, this was the first time since 1999 that game one of the Cup Finals aired on over-the-air television instead of on cable: NBC broadcast the first two and final three games of the series, while Versus broadcast games three and four. The first two games of the series were played on consecutive nights due to NBC's scheduling, but was done to help promote the game and keep the hockey viewership growing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Television coverage\nGame seven was the last major sporting event on analogue television in the United States, with the DTV transition finishing less than an hour-and-a-half after the game ended and just one hour after NBC coverage ended. NBC affiliates WDIV-TV in Detroit and WPXI in Pittsburgh \u2013 who months before the Stanley Cup playoffs began electing to keep their own respective analogue signals on until June 12, well past the original February 17 deadline \u2013 both remained on the air for game seven before cutting their analogue signals at 11:59 EDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Television coverage, Ratings\nIn the United States, with an average of eight million viewers, game seven was the most-watched NHL game in the United States since game six of the 1973 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Television coverage, Ratings\nIn Canada, game seven drew an average of 3.529\u00a0million viewers to the CBC. However, it averaged 2.154\u00a0million viewers for the seven-game rematch, down 7% from the 2008 Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThe Red Wings attempted to become the first team to successfully defend a championship since they did it in 1998. The Red Wings were also the first defending Stanley Cup champions to reach the Finals since 2001, when the 2000 champions New Jersey Devils lost to the Colorado Avalanche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThe Penguins became the first team since the Edmonton Oilers in 1984 to win the Stanley Cup after having lost in the Finals the year before; it was also the first instance of a Stanley Cup Finals rematch since then. They were the first team in major professional sports to win a game seven of the championship round on the road since the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. They also became the third team to win a game seven in the Stanley Cup Finals as the visitor, the first since the Montreal Canadiens in 1971 (the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1945 being the other).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nSeeded fourth in the Eastern Conference, the Penguins became the lowest-seeded team to win the Cup since the fourth-seeded New Jersey Devils in 2000, and tied for eighth overall in the NHL, they became (along with the 1991 Penguins and 1995 Devils), the only teams in the post-1967 expansion era to finish outside the top six overall and win the Cup. The last team to win a Stanley Cup with fewer than 100 points in the season was the 1997 Detroit Red Wings, with 94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThe Penguins' Cup victory, coupled with that of the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII four months earlier, gave the city of Pittsburgh the distinction of being the only city to win a Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup in the same year. However, Detroit holds the distinction of being the first city to have NFL champions and NHL champions in the same city in the same year, 1952.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nDetroit sports fans also previously experienced a similar event in 1935 when the Tigers and Lions both won championships, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in the 1935-36 season, a span of only 6 months and 4 days. The \"City of Champions\" gained multiple titles in the same year for the second time and first time in 30 years (the Pirates won the 1979 World Series in between the Steelers' victories in Super Bowl XIII in January 1979 and Super Bowl XIV in January 1980). It also gives the state of Pennsylvania three champions in the four major professional sports in a span of nine months, with the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series the previous October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThis was the second consecutive year that two American-based NHL teams competed for the championship, and the first time that two teams met in the Stanley Cup Finals in consecutive seasons since the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Islanders did so in 1983 and 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThe first two games were played at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on consecutive weekend nights\u2014May 30 and 31\u2014the first time that Finals games have been played on consecutive days since 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nDetroit's loss gave Mike Babcock the unfortunate distinction of being the first coach in NHL history to lose game seven of a Stanley Cup Finals with two different teams. Mike Keenan, the other to coach in two Finals game sevens with two different teams, had avoided the distinction by winning the second Finals game seven he coached. He was with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1987 when they lost to the Edmonton Oilers, and was with the New York Rangers when they won the Cup in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThis was the last Stanley Cup Finals played at both Mellon Arena and Joe Louis Arena, which was closed after the following season and the 2016\u201317 season, respectively. The Penguins moved to the Consol Energy Center for the 2010\u201311 season, and the Red Wings moved to Little Caesars Arena for the 2017\u201318 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Records\nThis was also the last Stanley Cup Finals that was ever played entirely in one time zone, as the Eastern Conference now consists of all of the league's teams that are based in the Eastern Time Zone, while the Western Conference consists entirely of the NHL's teams that are based outside of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe 2009 Stanley Cup was presented to Penguins captain Sidney Crosby by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman following the Penguins 2\u20131 win over the Red Wings in game seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Penguins players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving\nDan Bylsma was the 13th rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup and the first since 1986. Bylsma only coached 25 regular season games, before leading Pittsburgh to the Stanley Cup Finals. He is the second mid-season replacement rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup (See 1971 Stanley Cup Finals for the other coach, Al MacNeil). Bylsma was also a player under Mike Babcock on the 2002-03 and 2003-04 roster of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205100-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving\nIncluded on the team picture, but left off the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs of the National Hockey League began on April 15, 2009, after the 2008\u201309 regular season. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference (the winner of each of the three divisions plus the five teams with highest point totals from the teams remaining), played a best-of-seven series for the conference quarterfinals, semifinals, and championships, and then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. The Columbus Blue Jackets made their first appearance in the playoffs in their nine-year history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs\nPreviously they had been the only franchise never to have made the playoffs. Also, home teams set a record by going 13-2 in the openers of all the series combined. There were no playoff games played in the Province of Ontario as this was the first time that the modern Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs both missed the playoffs in the same year. This was the most recent time that the Carolina Hurricanes were in the playoffs until 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs\nThe Finals ended on June 12, 2009, with the Pittsburgh Penguins defeating the Detroit Red Wings four games to three to win the championship. They became just the second team, after the 1971 Montreal Canadiens, to win the championship after losing the first two games of the series on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nThe top eight teams in each conference qualified for the playoffs. The top three seeds in each conference were awarded to the division winners; while the five remaining spots were awarded to the highest finishers in their respective conferences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff bracket\nIn each round, the highest remaining seed in each conference is matched against the lowest remaining seed. The higher-seeded team is awarded home ice advantage, which gives them a possible maximum of four games on their home ice, with the lower-seeded team getting a possible maximum of three. In the Stanley Cup Finals, home ice is determined based on regular season points. Thus, the Detroit Red Wings had home ice advantage in the Stanley Cup Finals. Each best-of-seven series followed a 2\u20132\u20131\u20131\u20131 format. This means that the higher-seeded team had home ice for games one and two and if necessary, five and seven, while the lower-seeded team had home ice for games three, four, and if necessary, game six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (8) Montreal Canadiens\nFor an NHL-record 32nd time, the Bruins and Canadiens faced each other in the playoffs. The Boston Bruins entered the playoffs after finishing the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference with 116 points. The Montreal Canadiens qualified for the postseason as the eighth seed with 93 points, winning the tiebreaker over the Florida Panthers based on the season series (six points to three).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 131], "content_span": [132, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (8) Montreal Canadiens\nBoston swept Montreal, four games to none, scoring at least four goals in each win. With the score tied 2\u20132 entering the third period of game one, Bruins captain Zdeno Chara scored a power play goal at 11:15 and Phil Kessel added an empty net score in the closing seconds to clinch the victory. Boston scored three power play goals, including two from Marc Savard, en route to a 5\u20131 victory in game two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 131], "content_span": [132, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (8) Montreal Canadiens\nGame three resembled game one in that both teams fought to a 2\u20132 tie midway through the game, but like the first contest the Bruins scored the go-ahead winning goal again. This time it was Michael Ryder at 17:21 in the second period. Montreal scored in the first minute of game four off the stick of Andrei Kostitsyn, but Boston went on to dominate the rest of the game, grabbing two goals from Ryder in a 4\u20131 victory, to win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 131], "content_span": [132, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (7) New York Rangers\nThe Washington Capitals entered the playoffs as the second seed in the Eastern Conference after winning the Southeast Division with 108 points. The New York Rangers earned the seventh seed with 95 points. The teams met in the playoffs four times previously, with each winning two series. They last met in the 1994 Eastern Conference Semifinals, which the Rangers won in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 135], "content_span": [136, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (7) New York Rangers\nThe Capitals overcame a three games to one deficit to win the series. The Rangers won the first game by a 4\u20133 score, with Brandon Dubinsky scoring the game winner at 11:43 in the third period. Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau benched starting goaltender Jose Theodore and replaced him with Simeon Varlamov for game two, after Theodore allowed four goals on just 21 shots. The goaltending change was not immediately effective as New York netminder Henrik Lundqvist stopped all 35 Washington shots to give the Rangers a 1\u20130 victory (with Ryan Callahan providing the only tally) in the following game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 135], "content_span": [136, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (7) New York Rangers\nVarlamov responded in game three by stopping all 33 Ranger shots, and Alexander Semin scored two goals, to lead the Capitals to a 4\u20130 victory. However, Lundqvist stopped 38 of 39 shots, including 10 of 11 from the stick of Alexander Ovechkin, to give the Rangers a 2\u20131 victory in game four. The Capitals limited the Rangers to just 20 shots to win 4\u20130 in Game five. Fourth liner Matt Bradley scored two goals in the game and Lundquist was pulled after allowing four goals on 14 shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 135], "content_span": [136, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0007-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (7) New York Rangers\nWashington erupted in game six to score five goals, including powerplay markers from Mike Green and Ovechkin, for a 5\u20133 victory. After game six, the league suspended Capitals forward Donald Brashear for both a pre-game altercation with Rangers forward Colton Orr and what was ruled to be a late hit on Blair Betts, in which the Rangers center suffered an orbital eye socket fracture. Sergei Fedorov scored the game-winning goal 15:01 into the third period in game seven to give the Capitals a 2\u20131 victory and eliminate the Rangers for their first playoff series victory since reaching the Stanley Cup final in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 135], "content_span": [136, 751]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (3) New Jersey Devils vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThe New Jersey Devils entered the playoffs as the third seed in the Eastern Conference after winning the Atlantic Division with 106 points. The Carolina Hurricanes earned the sixth seed with 97 points. These teams met three times previously in the playoffs, with the Hurricanes winning two series. They last met in the 2006 Eastern Conference Semifinals, with the Hurricanes winning in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 136], "content_span": [137, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (3) New Jersey Devils vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThe Hurricanes defeated the Devils in seven games. New Jersey won the first game with goaltender Martin Brodeur stopping 18 of 19 shots and the Devils' top line playing phenomenally, with Zach Parise and Patrik Elias coming up with goals. . In game two, Tim Gleason scored 2:40 into overtime for his first goal of the season to give Carolina a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 136], "content_span": [137, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (3) New Jersey Devils vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThe game was a goaltending battle that saw Brodeur and Cam Ward each stop over 30 shots Game 3 also went into overtime, but this time the Devils prevailed, 3\u20132, with Travis Zajac scoring at 4:48 into the extra period. It appeared that game four would also go into overtime, but it ended with an epic conclusion. Carolina led 3-0, but New Jersey rallied to tie the game in the third. Jussi Jokinen proved to be the hero, as he scored on a deflection with 0.2 seconds remaining in regulation to give the Hurricanes a 4\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 136], "content_span": [137, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (3) New Jersey Devils vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThis goal was the latest game winning regulation goal in Stanley Cup Playoff history. The next two games of the series were shutouts: Brodeur stopped 44 shots in a 1\u20130 victory for the Devils in game five (with David Clarkson providing the game's sole goal), while Cam Ward stopped 28 shots and Eric Staal scored twice in a 4\u20130 victory for Carolina in game six. The Hurricanes were behind for much of game seven but scored two goals inside the last 1:20 of the third period, one by Jokinen and the other by Staal, to win the contest 4\u20133 and eliminate the Devils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 136], "content_span": [137, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers\nThe Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers qualified for the playoffs as the fourth and fifth seeds in the Eastern Conference, respectively. Both finished the regular season with 99 points, but the Penguins won the tiebreaker based on total wins (45 to 44). The Penguins and Flyers had previously met in the previous season's Eastern Conference Final, with the Penguins winning in five games. It was the Penguins first win against the Flyers, having lost against them in three previous series (1989, 1997 and 2000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers\nThe Penguins defeated the Flyers in six games. Sidney Crosby scored a power play goal early in the first period of game one, sparking the Penguins to a 4\u20131 win against an undisciplined Flyers team that took 12 penalties. In game two, Bill Guerin scored two goals including the game-winner during a five-on-three power play at 18:29 in overtime to give Pittsburgh a 3\u20132 victory. The Flyers bounced back in game three with a 6\u20133 victory that featured two goals by Simon Gagne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers\nPittsburgh goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 45 shots and helped kill off nine Philadelphia power plays, while Tyler Kennedy scored the game winner, to give Pittsburgh a 3\u20131 win in Game 4. Flyers goaltender Martin Biron stopped all 28 shots, and Philadelphia got scoring from unlikely sources such as Arron Asham, to give the Flyers a 3\u20130 victory in game five. Then in game six, Philadelphia jumped to a 3\u20130 lead in the second period and appeared to be on their way to force a game seven. However, a fight between Philadelphia's Daniel Carcillo and Pittsburgh's Max Talbot reenergized the Penguins, who erupted to score five unanswered goals, including two by Crosby, to win the game and the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 841]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (1) San Jose Sharks vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nThe series between the Sharks and Ducks was just the second time in NHL history that two California teams were facing each other in the playoffs. The first series was in 1969 between the Los Angeles Kings and the Oakland Seals. The San Jose Sharks entered the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winner, earning the NHL's best regular season record with 117 points. The Anaheim Ducks earned 91 points to clinch the eighth playoff seed in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (1) San Jose Sharks vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nThe Ducks defeated the Sharks in six games, to become just the second California team (after the 2000 Sharks over the St. Louis Blues) to eliminate a Presidents' Trophy winner in the first round of the playoffs. Anaheim goaltender Jonas Hiller earned two shutout victories in games one and four, stopping a total of 66 shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (1) San Jose Sharks vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nGame one was deadlocked until a Scott Niedermayer powerplay goal broke the ice at 5:18 in the third, while game four was dominated by Anaheim and featured two goals from Bobby Ryan Hiller also stopped 42 out of 44 shots in game two, as Drew Miller picked up the game winner, and 36 out of 37 shots in a game six that saw the Ducks produce powerplay goals from Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne. In total, Hiller allowed only ten goals in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (1) San Jose Sharks vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nFor the Sharks, Dan Boyle scored two goals in game three to give San Jose a 4\u20133 win in that contest, while Patrick Marleau scored the game-winning goal in game five to give the Sharks a 3\u20132 overtime victory. However, back in Anaheim for game six, the Ducks grabbed goals from big-name players like Selanne and Perry, dominating the Sharks to win the game 4\u20131, and eliminating the Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 128], "content_span": [129, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (7) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe Detroit Red Wings, the defending Stanley Cup Champions, entered the playoffs as the second overall seed in the Western Conference, having clinched the Central Division title with 112 points. The Columbus Blue Jackets qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, clinching the seventh seed with 92 points but losing the tiebreaker over the St. Louis Blues with three points head-to-head versus ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (7) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThis was the first Western Conference playoff series played entirely within the Eastern Time Zone since the Red Wings played the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1993 Norris Division Semifinals, and this would prove to be the last ever occurrence, as both of these teams were realigned into the Eastern Conference prior to the start of the 2013\u201314 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (7) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe Red Wings swept the Blue Jackets in four games. Detroit scored four goals in each of the first three games of the series, while goaltender Chris Osgood only allowed two total goals out of 78 Columbus shots in those three games, including a shutout victory in game two. Jiri Hudler broke the ice at 10:48 in the second period for the game one win. Detroit picked up powerplay goals from Brian Rafalski, Niklas Kronwall, and Hudler in game two. Henrik Zetterberg scored twice in a game three victory", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (7) Columbus Blue Jackets\nThe fourth game proved to be the most competitive contest of the series. Nicklas Lidstrom scored a power play goal early in the first period to give the Red Wings the lead before Kristian Huselius tied the score about three minutes later on a power play goal of his own. Tomas Holmstrom and Dan Cleary then scored to give Detroit a 3\u20131 lead before the end of the opening period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (7) Columbus Blue Jackets\nColumbus fought to tie the score again at 5:38 of the second period with goals by Rick Nash and R. J. Umberger, but the Red Wings Marian Hossa answered with two consecutive goals to give his team a two-goal lead again. The Blue Jackets then rallied to tie the score, 5\u20135, by the closing minutes of the second period with scores by Kris Russell and Fredrik Modin. The third period remained scoreless until the closing minutes of regulation. With less than two minutes left, the Blue Jackets were called for too many men on the ice, which enabled Johan Franzen to score the series winning power play goal with 46.6 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 138], "content_span": [139, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (6) St. Louis Blues\nThe Vancouver Canucks entered the playoffs as the third overall seed in the Western Conference, having clinched the Northwest Division title with 100 points. The St. Louis Blues qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2004, clinching the sixth seed with 92 points and winning the tiebreaker over the Columbus Blue Jackets with ten points head-to-head versus three. This was the third meeting in the playoffs for these two teams, the Canucks winning both previous series. They last met in the 2003 Western Conference Quarterfinals, with the Canucks winning in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (6) St. Louis Blues\nVancouver swept St. Louis in four games, their first sweep of a best-of-seven series in franchise history, to move on to the second round. The Canucks held off the Blues in game one, winning 2\u20131 by gaining goals from Daniel Sedin and Sami Salo and killing off a long Blues five-on-three power play midway through the first period. Vancouver then shut out St. Louis in game two, 3\u20130, with goaltender Roberto Luongo stopping all 30 Blues shots and Mats Sundin providing the game-winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (6) St. Louis Blues\nThe Blues were hoping to gain momentum when the series shifted to St. Louis for game three, but Vancouver held on to a 3\u20132 win, scoring three power play goals, with Mattias Ohlund, Sedin, and Steve Bernier providing the man-advantage tallies. In game four, Brad Boyes and David Perron helped St. Louis to tie the game after falling behind early. However, Alexandre Burrows scored with 18.9 seconds left in the first overtime period to give the Canucks a 3\u20132 victory and the four-game sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Chicago Blackhawks vs. (5) Calgary Flames\nThe Chicago Blackhawks finished the regular season in second place in the Central division with 104 points and thus entered the playoffs as the fourth-overall seed in the Western Conference. The Calgary Flames earned 98 points during the regular season to finish fifth-overall in the Western Conference. Chicago made the playoffs for the first time since 2002. The two teams met in the playoffs three times previously, with the Flames winning two series. They last met in the 1996 Western Conference Quarterfinals, with the Blackhawks winning in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Chicago Blackhawks vs. (5) Calgary Flames\nChicago won the series over Calgary in six games, with the home team winning the first five games of the series. Martin Havlat scored the game-winning goal 12 seconds into overtime to win game one for the Blackhawks, 3\u20132. Then in game two, Chicago overcame a 2-goal deficit by scoring 3 goals in the second period, including a pair from Jonathan Toews, to win 3\u20132. When the series shifted to Calgary for game three, David Moss scored two goals to help the Flames earn a 4\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Quarterfinals, Western Conference Quarterfinals, (4) Chicago Blackhawks vs. (5) Calgary Flames\nIn game four, Calgary scored six goals, including two by each of their top stars Jarome Iginla and Olli Jokinen, to win 6\u20134. The Blackhawks responded in game five by exploding to a 5\u20131 victory, going up 3\u20130 after one period with goals from Brent Seabrook, Patrick Sharp, and Kris Versteeg, and limiting the Flames to 20 shots on goal. Chicago defeated Calgary by a score of 4\u20131 in game six to win the series, with Patrick Kane providing the early game winner and goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin stopping 43 out of 44 shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals\nFor the first time since the 2001 playoffs, at least three Conference semi-final series extended to seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThe was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bruins winning two of the previous three series. They last met in the 1999 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, the Bruins winning in six games. The Carolina Hurricanes eliminated the Boston Bruins in seven games to advance to their first Eastern Conference Final since their Cup championship season in 2006. Marc Savard scored two goals to help give the Bruins a 4\u20131 victory in game one, but the Hurricanes won the next three games of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 126], "content_span": [127, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nFirst, Carolina goaltender Cam Ward stopped all 36 shots and Matt Cullen provided a shorthanded marker in a 3\u20130 victory in game two. Next, Jussi Jokinen scored at 2:48 into overtime of game three to give the Hurricanes a 3\u20132 victory. In game four, Eric Staal scored two goals and Ward stopped 18 out of only 19 shots en route to a 4\u20131 victory. However, Phil Kessel scored two goals and goaltender Tim Thomas stopped all 19 shots to give Boston a 4\u20130 victory in game five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 126], "content_span": [127, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Boston Bruins vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThomas then stopped 31 out of 33 shots and Mark Recchi provided an early game winner to help the Bruins win 4\u20132 in game six. The Hurricanes led game seven after two periods, but Milan Lucic tied the game at 6:19 in the third. However, Scott Walker scored the game-winning goal at 18:46 into the first overtime period to give the Hurricanes a 3\u20132 victory and the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 126], "content_span": [127, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nThis was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Penguins winning six of the previous seven series. They last met in the 2001 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, with the Penguins winning in seven games. The Pittsburgh Penguins advanced to their second consecutive Eastern Conference Final after defeating the Washington Capitals, 6\u20132, in game seven of their Conference Semi-final series. The Capitals appeared to have control of the series after winning the first two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nIn game one, Washington goaltender Semyon Varlamov came up with a career-high 34 saves and Tomas Fleischmann provided a decisive third period goal in a 3\u20132 victory. Then in game two, both the Penguins' Sidney Crosby and the Capitals' Alexander Ovechkin each earned hat tricks, but David Steckel's goal in the second period ultimately made the difference in Washington's 4\u20133 win. However, Pittsburgh went on to win three consecutive games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nLate in the third period of game three, Evgeni Malkin appeared to have the game winning powerplay marker for the Penguins, but Nicklas Backstrom tied the game on a Washington powerplay at 18:10. Kris Letang's game-winning goal at 11:23 into overtime gave the Penguins a 3\u20132 win. Pittsburgh then erupted to score three goals in the first period of game four, coming from the sticks of Sergei Gonchar, Bill Guerin, and Ruslan Fedotenko, en route to a 5\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0023-0003", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nThe Penguins also had another overtime victory in game five, with Evgeni Malkin scoring this time on a power play at 3:28 into the extra period for a 4\u20133 win. The Capitals rebounded in game six with an overtime victory of their own, as David Steckel scored at 6:22 into the extra period to give Washington a 5\u20134 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nIn the deciding seventh game of the series, Varlamov, who had posted a 2.21 GAA and two shutouts in the playoffs, was pulled in the second period as the Penguins took a 4\u20130 lead only 2:13 into the second period. At the time that Varlamov was replaced by Jose Theodore, Pittsburgh had outshot Washington 18\u20135. The Penguins won 6\u20132 in dominating fashion, picking up a pair of goals from Crosby, to close out the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Washington Capitals vs. (4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nCrosby finished the series with thirteen points\u2014one fewer than Ovechkin's fourteen points, which was the highest single-series point total since the 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 132], "content_span": [133, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nThe Detroit Red Wings advanced to their third consecutive Western Conference Final, and eighth since 1995, after eliminating the Anaheim Ducks in seven games. This Conference Semifinal match up featured the last two winners of the Stanley Cup, with Anaheim and Detroit winning the Cup in 2007 and 2008 respectively. This also marked the fifth series the two teams faced each other in since their first encounter in 1997. Both teams had won two series' each with the Wings winning in 1997 and 1999, and the Ducks winning in 2003 and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nIn game one, Nicklas Lidstrom scored two goals, including the game-winner with about 49 seconds left in regulation to break a 2\u20132 tie to give the Red Wings the victory. Anaheim's Todd Marchant scored at 1:15 into triple overtime of game two to give the Ducks a 4\u20133 victory, after goaltender Jonas Hiller stopped 59 Red Wing shots. Game three then ended in controversy: Anaheim was nursing a 2\u20131 lead with 1:04 remaining in the third period, aided by Hiller's eventual 45 saves and goals from Teemu Selanne and Scott Neidermayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nDetroit's Marian Hossa appeared to have scored the game-tying goal, but referee Brad Watson blew the play dead after losing sight of the puck and the Ducks held on to win the game. Despite the controversial call, the Red Wings bounced back to even the series in game four, with Hossa and Johan Franzen scoring two goals apiece en route to a 6\u20133 victory. Detroit then went on to win game five, 4\u20131, with Franzen and Jiri Hudler scoring just 39 seconds apart in the second period to provide the game's first goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (8) Anaheim Ducks\nIn game six, goaltender Jonas Hiller stopped 38 out of 39 shots as Ryan Getzlaf and Cory Perry each scored to give the Ducks a 2\u20131 victory. In game seven, Bobby Ryan pulled the Ducks into a 3\u20133 tie at 7:37 of the third period. However, Red Wings forward Dan Cleary scored the game-winning goal with 3:00 left in regulation after Hiller lost sight of the puck behind him and pushed it over the goal line, to give the Red Wings a 4\u20133 victory and the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 124], "content_span": [125, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nThe Chicago Blackhawks eliminated the Vancouver Canucks in six games, to advance to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 1995. This was just the third time that these two teams faced each other in the playoffs. In 1982, the Canucks eliminated the Blackhawks in five games in the Campbell Conference final, while the Blackhawks won a 1995 conference semifinals series in a four-game sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 129], "content_span": [130, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nSami Salo scored at 18:47 in the third period of game one to break a 3\u20133 tie, giving the Canucks an eventual 5\u20133 win. The Blackhawks bounced back in game two, overcoming a 2\u20130 deficit in the second period to go on to a 6\u20133 victory, with Patrick Sharp and Dave Bolland scoring two goals each. Vancouver regained the series lead in game three, with goaltender Roberto Luongo stopping 23 out of 24 shots and Steve Bernier providing a powerplay goal to earn a 3\u20131 victory. However, Chicago went on to win the next three games to close the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 129], "content_span": [130, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (3) Vancouver Canucks vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nFirst, Martin Havlat tied game four at 17:16 in the third period and Andrew Ladd scoring at 2:52 into overtime to give the Blackhawks a 2\u20131 victory. Dustin Byfuglien then scored two goals en route to a 4\u20132 Chicago win in game five. Finally, the Blackhawks won a high-scoring game six, 7\u20135, with Patrick Kane earning a hat trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 129], "content_span": [130, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Final, (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nThis was the first time these two teams met in the playoffs. The Pittsburgh Penguins swept the Carolina Hurricanes in four games, to advance to their second consecutive Stanley Cup Final series. Pittsburgh jumped to a 2\u20130 lead in the first period of game one, with goals by Miroslav Satan and Evgeni Malkin, before Philippe Boucher added a third period power play goal. Marc-Andre Fleury made a sprawling save on an Eric Staal one-timer in the closing seconds to allow the Penguins to hang on for a 3\u20132 victory. Game two featured offensive assaults by both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 123], "content_span": [124, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Final, (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (6) Carolina Hurricanes\nPatrick Eaves tied the game for Carolina early in the third period, but Malkin responded by scoring two highlight reel markers to complete a hat trick en route to a 7\u20134 win. In game three, Malkin had two goals and an assist in a 6\u20132 victory. Carolina outplayed Pittsburgh for much of game four and got off to a hot start when Staal scored on a wrap around move. However, the Penguins scored four unanswered goals, including a Max Talbot tally that ricocheted strangely off of goaltender Cam Ward to let the Penguins take the lead late in the opening frame, as they picked up a 4\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 123], "content_span": [124, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Final, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nThe was the 15th meeting between these two teams in the playoffs, with the Blackhawks winning eight of the previous fourteen series. They last met in the 1995 Western Conference Final, with the Red Wings winning in five games. The Detroit Red Wings eliminated the Chicago Blackhawks in five games again, to advance to their second consecutive Stanley Cup Final series. Three of the five games in the series were decided in overtime. Dan Cleary scored two goals en route to a 5\u20132 Detroit victory in game one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 120], "content_span": [121, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Final, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nIn game two, Jonathan Toews scored two Chicago goals, including one that tied the game at 12:20 in the third period. However, Mikael Samuelsson scored at 5:14 into overtime to give the Red Wings a 3\u20132 win. Chicago bounced back in game three with a 4\u20133 win of Patrick Sharp's overtime goal at 1:52 into the extra period. The Blackhawks took an early 3\u20130 lead in the game but saw Detroit bounce back with three goals from defencemen in the second period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 120], "content_span": [121, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0031-0002", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Final, (2) Detroit Red Wings vs. (4) Chicago Blackhawks\nDuring the game, Blackhawks goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was injured and replaced for the third period and overtime by Cristobal Huet. The game also featured a controversial hit from Nicklas Kronwall that injured star Chicago winger Martin Havlat. Detroit dominated game four, winning 6\u20131, with Marian Hossa and Henrik Zetterberg each tallying a pair of goals. Game five was an exhibition in goaltending with Chris Osgood and Cristobal Huet each making a variety of spectacular saves. However, Darren Helm proved to be the eventual hero, scoring at 3:58 into overtime to give the Red Wings a 2\u20131 win and the series. This was the last Western Conference Final series to be played entirely outside of California until 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 120], "content_span": [121, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams and a rematch of the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals which Detroit won in six games. This was the first time since 1983 and 1984 that same teams met in consecutive finals. This was Detroit's twenty-fourth Finals appearance; while Pittsburgh made their fourth appearance in the Finals. The teams split their two-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Skaters\nThese are the top ten skaters based on points. If the list exceeds ten skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Skaters\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/\u2013 = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Goaltending\nThis is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage with at least 420 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion is bolded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Goaltending\nGP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SV% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts; TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nNational Canadian English-language coverage of the playoffs were split between the CBC and TSN, with the CBC holding exclusive rights to the Stanley Cup Finals. French-language telecasts were broadcast on RDS and RDS2. This was the first postseason that the CBC and TSN selected the rights to individual series in the first three rounds using a draft-like setup. The CBC had first, second, fourth, and sixth choices of first-round series; first and third in the second round, and first in the Conference Finals. TSN then had third, fifth, seventh, and eighth choices of first-round series; second and fourth in the second round; and second in the Conference Finals. These changes also allowed TSN to broadcast playoff games involving Canadian teams for the first time, removing the CBC's exclusivity on them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205101-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, Television\nIn the United States, coverage was split between NBC and Versus. During the first three rounds, NBC primarily televised weekend afternoon games and Versus aired evening games. During the first and second round, excluding games exclusively broadcast on NBC, the regional rights holders of each participating U.S. team produced local telecasts of their respective games. Not all first and second round games were nationally televised, while the Conference Finals were exclusively broadcast on either NBC or Versus. NBC then aired the first two and final three games of the Stanley Cup Finals, while Versus broadcast games three and four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205102-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Star Mazda Championship\nThe 2009 Star Mazda Championship was the eleventh season of the Star Mazda Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that competes using spec chassis and engines. It consisted of a 13-race schedule beginning in March and ending in October. For the first time since 2006, the series featured races on oval tracks, more precisely the Milwaukee Mile and the Iowa Speedway. The remaining races except the one at Virginia were held jointly with the also Mazda-backed Atlantic Championship. In addition to the main championship that is typically tested by young, developing drivers, there were also additional class titles for senior drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205102-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Star Mazda Championship\nAdam Christodoulou won the championship ahead of Peter Dempsey, after the Irish driver's retirement at the final round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca gifted the title to the Briton. Chris Cumming and Michael Guasch won class titles for older drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205102-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Star Mazda Championship, Championship standings, Masters (age 45 and older)\nNote: Expert and Masters classes have different point system than the overall championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205103-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Star World Championships\nThe 2009 Star World Championships were held in Varberg, Sweden between August 2 and 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205103-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Star World Championships, Results\nLegend: BFD \u2013 Black flag disqualification; DNC \u2013 Did not come to the starting area; DNF \u2013 Did not finish; DNS \u2013 Did not start; DSQ \u2013 Disqualified;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series\nThe 2009 State of Origin series was the 28th time that the annual three-game series between the Queensland and New South Wales representative rugby league football teams was played entirely under 'state of origin' selection rules. Queensland won their first two matches to retain the shield and to record 14 series wins, as well as the first time in Origin history that a state had won the series for four consecutive years. Maroon centre Greg Inglis was awarded the Wally Lewis Medal as player of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nFor the first time game one of the series was played in Melbourne. The stakes were high for New South Wales in the face of the genuine possibility of a four consecutive series defeat \u2013 never yet suffered since the introduction of the three match series format. Blues selectors opted for eight debutantes, dropping fourteen of the seventeen players who appeared in game I of 2008. The new faces were McManus, Jennings, Stewart, Campese, Farah, Creagh, Weyman and Poore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nWith abundant talent and experience to choose from, Queensland selectors opted for the international backline who had represented Australia in April against New Zealand, meaning Slater at fullback dislodged incumbent Maroon fullback Hunt to the interchange bench. The entire Queensland squad had previous Origin experience with thirteen of them having represented on six or more occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nNew South Wales took a 2\u20130 lead after an early penalty goal but then in the eighth minute a try to their winger Hayne was disallowed after a long video-referee deliberation. Hayne's right boot was ruled to have brushed the touch line on his way to score, overruling the on field decision of the touch judge. This decision appeared to rock the confidence of the young Blues squad and soon after Queensland took a commanding lead with a succession of tries to Slater, Inglis and then Thurston. Creagh crossed for the Blues before half-time picking up a pass from Hayne after he had chased a kick. The scoreline was 18\u20136 at the break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nAs the second half kicked off, Inglis struck quickly with a spectacular try from long range to take the score to 24\u20136 and his tally to two. New South Wales from that point found some structure and the game played more like the traditional origin arm wrestle till Craig Wing made his entrance from the Blues interchange bench at the 53\u00a0minute mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nTwo minutes later, off a deflected kick, Wing scored to bring New South Wales within twelve and the Blues dummy halves \u2013 Wing and Farah double tagging in the role \u2013 began to find gaps in amongst the tiring Queensland forwards. In the 69th minute, another lucky kick deflection, this time off Maroons prop Steve Price and into the hands of Farah which was then passed to Hayne, resulted in Hayne's second try and a 24\u201318 scoreline with 10\u00a0minutes to go. However, in the 78th minute, following a handling error from Blues fullback Kurt Gidley, Darius Boyd crossed in the corner after the scrum, to seal Queensland a 28\u201318 victory and first blood in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game I\nThe game was watched by a national audience of 3.48 million people which was a record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game II\nAlthough the media speculated immediately after game I that New South Wales selectors would stick firm with the initial squad, by the time the game II team was announced on 15 June a number of injuries paved the way for numerous changes including the selection of shadow players to cover some players in doubt: Trent Barrett was recalled in his first season back in the NRL since 2007 replacing Terry Campese (dropped); Paul Gallen was selected at lock, replacing Anthony Laffranchi (dropped); Glenn Stewart and Anthony Watmough were moved onto the interchange bench replacing the injured Lewis and Luke Bailey; David Williams was picked on the wing to replace the injured James McManus. Blues selectors also named three shadow players \u2013 Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Joel Monaghan and Josh Morris to cover injuries doubts over Michael Jennings, Jamie Lyon and Craig Wing. Ultimately, Monaghan and Morris came into the side for Jennings and Wing respectively who failed to overcome injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 1015]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game II\nDespite seven players being struck by a virus 24 hours before kick-off, for Queensland the only change was Willie Tonga who was selected to replace the injured Justin Hodges and to make his first Origin appearance since 2004. Neville Costigan was put on stand-by as 18th man instead of Matthew Scott. This was also the first time ever that every club in the NRL provided a player for State of Origin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game II\nQueensland were set to make history by achieving four series wins in a row. They looked on their way when they went out to an 18\u20130 lead after 25\u00a0minutes with tries to Greg Inglis, Israel Folau and Darren Lockyer. A 22nd minute high shot from Trent Barrett on Inglis, fractured his jaw and saw the Queenslander sidelined for the remainder of the match. Petero Civoniceva also suffered a season-ending foot injury in the first half. Two miraculous tries to Jarryd Hayne had NSW on the comeback trail at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game II\nNew South Wales then scored again with just under 20\u00a0minutes to go to make it an 18\u201314 scoreline with debutant David Williams scoring. It looked as though NSW could snatch an upset but Queensland put the game beyond doubt when Cameron Smith scored with a minute remaining making the final score 24\u201314. The Maroons therefore become the first side to win 4 series in a row, since the State of Origin began in 1980 winning 2006, 2007, 2008 and now 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nInjuries saw Queenslanders Hannant and Civoniceva replaced by Scott and Shillington. Neville Costigan moved from 18th man in game II to an interchange spot replacing Nate Myles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nNew South Wales selectors made a number of changes. Kimmorley was brought in to replace Wallace, making the Blues' halves combination the oldest in Origin history. Morris was brought in for Lyon and Ennis brought in for Farah. Perry, Waterhouse and White, all experienced Origin campaigners, made a return to the side at the expense of Weyman and O'Donnell. Jennings and Poore returned from injury, replacing Monaghan and Kite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nThe Blues also took a leaf out of Queensland's book by having past New South Wales Origin players join the pre-match camp to help the team prepare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nGame III saw New South Wales looking down the barrel of not just a fourth straight series win to Queensland, but a clean sweep series. Sam Thaiday and Ashley Harrison were approved to play for Queensland in spite of carrying injuries into the game. The heroes for NSW were Kurt Gidley, playing injured and who hadn't been potent in attack in the first two games, Brett Kimmorley making his first Origin return since game II of 2007 and Anthony Watmough who was tireless in attack and defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nQueensland took the lead in the 13th minute with a try to Dallas Johnson before Ben Creagh powered over the line six minutes later for the Blues off a short-pass from Watmough. In the 34th minute New South Wales winger David Williams was awarded a try after juggling the ball picked up from a Trent Barrett kick. Thurston lashed out with his boot in desperate defence and kicked Williams in the mouth as he attempted to score. The Blues were thus awarded the first eight-point try in Origin history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nKimmorley ran down Greg Inglis with a tackle that took the giant centre across the touchline and stopped a certain Queensland try and moments later Kurt Gidley did likewise to a runaway Darius Boyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nThe tension was high right to the end. In the 78th minute Jarryd Hayne crossed but the try was disallowed since in the previous play Steve Price had been illegally concussed. After being knocked out by a Brett White punch, Price was \"blindsided\" on his way down by Trent Waterhouse and then medi-cabbed off several minutes later in a state of severe concussion. Queensland players became particularly incensed by the actions of Justin Poore who appeared to pick up and then let fall to the ground the concussed Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nThis act was labelled by some Queensland players as 'a dog act'. Waterhouse became the first Blues player in Origin history to be sent off while Justin Hodges challenged Brett White to a one-on-one fight. White accepted the challenge by way of a nod and can be seen in several alternate angles (as shown on The Footy Show) responding \"Come on! \", shortly after licking the blood from his lips in a provocative manner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nHodges then signalled for White to come to him and fight, in an attempt to goad White into precipitating a new fight and get sent off, however White ultimately did not accept. Queensland were then awarded a penalty and kicked the ball to New South Wales full back Kurt Gidley who was swamped by Johnathan Thurston, Sam Thaiday, Neville Costigan and Karmichael Hunt. Creagh then pushed Hodges who had come in as support and quickly backpedaled behind his teammates, precipitating a new altercation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Game III\nBoth Creagh and Thaiday were sin binned although the officials were criticised for allowing White, Hodges and Price's replacement to remain on the field. When the fight was finished and Gidley played the ball Williams took the game's final hit-up tackled by Johnathan Thurston which then sparked Michael Crocker to try to fight Blues hooker Michael Ennis before Referee Shayne Hayne broke up their melee and ended the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams\nThe 18th man is a reserve to cover for any forthcoming injuries and, unless chosen, does not actually play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams, New South Wales Blues\n1 \u2013 Glenn Stewart was originally selected for game one, but subsequently forced to withdraw following suspension for a dangerous tackle. He was replaced by Luke Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams, New South Wales Blues\n2 \u2013 Paul Gallen was originally selected to play for game one, but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Anthony Laffranchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams, New South Wales Blues\n3 \u2013 Michael Jennings was originally selected to play for game two, but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Joel Monaghan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams, New South Wales Blues\n4 \u2013 Craig Wing was originally selected to play for game 2, but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Josh Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205105-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 State of Origin series, Teams, New South Wales Blues\n5 \u2013 Jamie Lyon was originally selected to play for game 3, but withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by Josh Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205106-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Status Athens Open\nThe 2009 Status Athens Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Athens, Greece between 6 and 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205106-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Status Athens Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205106-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Status Athens Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nRameez Junaid /  Philipp Marx def. Jesse Huta Galung /  Rui Machado, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205107-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Status Athens Open \u2013 Doubles\nMarc L\u00f3pez and Gabriel Trujillo-Soler were the defending champions. Trujillo-Soler chose to not participate this year and L\u00f3pez partnered up with Leonardo Azzaro. They lost to Rameez Junaid and Philipp Marx in the second round. Junaid and Marx won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Jesse Huta Galung and Rui Machado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205108-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Status Athens Open \u2013 Singles\nRui Machado defeated Daniel Mu\u00f1oz-de la Nava in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205109-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden\nThe 2009 Rabo Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden was the 12th edition of the Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden, a women's cycling stage race in the Netherlands. It was part of the 2009 women's road cycling season. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.2 race and was held between 20 and 22 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205110-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stock Car Brasil season\nThe 2009 Copa Nextel Stock Car season was the 31st Stock Car Brasil season. It began on March 29 at Interlagos and ended on December 6 at same circuit after twelve rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205110-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stock Car Brasil season\nThis season introduced a new tubular chassis JL G-09 similar to DTM, replacing the model that was used since 2000. Before the start of the championship, Mitsubishi announced that left the championship. Cac\u00e1 Bueno won his third championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit\nThe 2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl Summit was a NATO summit of heads of state and heads of government held in Strasbourg, France, and in Kehl and Baden-Baden, Germany, on 3\u20134 April 2009. The summit marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Primarily a celebratory 60th-anniversary event, the agenda included a number of urgent topics commanding the NATO leaders' attention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit participants, Hosts\nTo symbolize an evolving vision of European cooperation, for the first time a NATO summit was jointly hosted by two member nations:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit participants, Hosts\nThe formal meetings were chaired by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. This was the last summit for de Hoop Scheffer, whose 61st birthday, coincidentally, came just one day before this 60th-anniversary summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit participants, Hosts\nAlthough the first of the significant summit events in Germany was held in Baden-Baden, the town was left off the official logo. This led to protests from local politicians; but the result was a comparatively calm beginning to a summit which also provided the opportunity for dramatic protests on the second day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nDetails of the agenda were withheld until the last minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nUnited States President Barack Obama posed a unique quandary as Europeans asked themselves how best to respond to an ally who is sending all the signals they had desired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nOn Friday, 3 April 2009, the summit's first official event was a working dinner at the Kurhaus, Baden-Baden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nThe first event on Saturday, 4 April 2009, focused on Chancellor Merkel's welcome to the NATO leaders as they arrived individually in Kehl, Germany. Then, having gathered on the German side of the Rhine River, the NATO Leaders walked together across the Passerelle pedestrian bridge to Strasbourg, France. The NATO leaders were greeted at the French border by President Sarkozy. Meetings were held at the Palais de la musique et des congr\u00e8s with an arrival ceremony at the Palais Rohan, Strasbourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nOn the French side of the Rhine, the 28 national leaders posed for the NATO \"family portrait\", a tradition at NATO summits. Then the main work began with a working lunch and at other meetings in Strasbourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda\nIn addition, several heads of state, government leaders and other principals were involved in non\u2013summit events which encompassed individual and/or bilateral events on the margins of the formal summit agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues\nAfter 60 years, NATO found itself on the cusp of a watershed period in the organization's history; and top items on the agenda included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, Afghanistan war\nSome have argued that the most critical issue NATO faces in 2009 arises from Afghanistan. Any NATO discussion about Afghanistan involves developing a comprehensive strategy which brings non-NATO regional powers into a discussion about how best to proceed in short- and longer-term time frames. Although the newly elected Obama continued to enjoy a reservoir of good will, experts anticipated only token gestures of support for any plan which involves increased levels of European troops. In the end, the allies managed to find more reasons for consensus than had been expected, and the increases in the various commitments from the Europeans was a little greater than had been anticipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, Relations with Russia\nRussia's relationships with the West are a perennial NATO concern. Obama summarized his view of the dialogue with Russia about maintaining stability while protecting the autonomy of all countries in Europe: \"I think that it is important for NATO allies to engage Russia and to recognize that they have legitimate interests in some cases, we've got common interests, but we also have some core disagreements.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, France's reintegration\nFrance's decision to seek reintegration with the NATO military hierarchy caused all the allies to evaluate the potential ramifications. In 1966, then-President Charles de Gaulle caused France to withdraw from the U.S.-led military command. Sarkozy determined that the time was ripe to change course radically, and the French Parliament backed this decision with a vote of confidence. In time, the NATO allies will adjust fully to this new reality, but this NATO summit was only a beginning in that uncertain process of reconciliation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, New strategic concept\nThe tumble of events in the past years has made it necessary to re-examine NATO's core strategic concepts. This re-assessment opens up possibilities for change and for plausible \"new\" strategies and \"new\" assumptions as well. At this summit, the allied leaders moved forward in a process which is expected to result in a new strategic doctrine which will be formally adopted at next year's summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The updated vision of NATO contemplates a range of expanded responsibilities, including out-of-area operations in Afghanistan and anti-piracy patrols near the Horn of Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, New strategic concept\nUnresolved questions surrounded all aspects of potential NATO expansion. On 1 April 2009, two days before the summit's first day, Albania and Croatia were accepted as full members of the organization. The President and Prime Minister of each of these newest NATO allies attended the summit. Official flag-raising ceremonies at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, were planned for 7 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Summit agenda, Issues, New strategic concept\nPre -summit speculation about the next NATO Secretary-General focused on five candidates: Bulgaria's former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re, Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay, and Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. In the end, Rasmussen was chosen by consensus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 73], "content_span": [74, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Protests and security measures\nIn view of announced protests, French and German authorities announced plans to restrict access to and movement within designated security areas, including parts of Strasbourg and Kehl. These included the requirement that 700 local residents living in a restricted area of Kehl would not be allowed to leave their homes between Friday night and Saturday morning without requesting a police escort. In response, War Resisters International argued that the measures are contrary to the French constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. Following negotiations, protest organizers accused German authorities of stalling tactics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Protests and security measures\nGerman police estimates anticipated that 25,000 protesters will seek to express themselves during the summit. 15,000 German police were on call for the weekend; and forces were augmented by Bundeswehr support, including interceptor planes, transport helicopters, paramedics, motorcycle escorts, buses and other vehicles. Major demonstrations and protest activities took place on Saturday in France, with 300 protestors arrested. In contrast, Baden-Baden's increased security preparations seemed not to affect an abiding sense of calm in the German resort town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205111-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Strasbourg\u2013Kehl summit, Protests and security measures\nFrance temporarily reactivated border controls with neighboring European nations for two weeks in anticipation of the summit. These strict measures were designed to \"guarantee security\" and minimize terrorism risks during the summit. Special permission was granted to France and Germany to suspend the Schengen Agreement which guarantees free passage for all European Union citizens traveling between EU member states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205112-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open\nThe 2009 Mercedes Cup was a man's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Stuttgart Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Tennis Club Weissenhof in Stuttgart, Germany, from 11 July 11 until 19 July 2009. J\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205112-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205112-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open, Finals, Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k defeated  Victor H\u0103nescu /  Horia Tec\u0103u, 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205113-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open \u2013 Doubles\nChristopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber were the defending champions, but Kohlschreiber chose not to compete that year. Kas partnered with Mischa Zverev, but lost in the first round to Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205114-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open \u2013 Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205114-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Stuttgart Open \u2013 Singles\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9my Chardy won in the final 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 against Victor H\u0103nescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500\nThe 2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500 was the eighth stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on April 18, 2009 at Phoenix International Speedway in Avondale, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500, Background\nPhoenix International Raceway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Richmond International Raceway, Dover International Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and Martinsville Speedway. The standard track at Phoenix International Raceway is a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) long. The track's turns were banked at 11 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was banked at three degrees. The back stretch, which has a dogleg shape instead of a straight, has 9 degrees of banking. The racetrack has seats for 76,800 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500, Background\nBefore the race, Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 1,154 points, followed by Jimmie Johnson in second on 992 points. Kurt Busch was in third on 974 points, Clint Bowyer was fourth with 967 points, and Tony Stewart was fifth on 963 points. Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne rounded out the top ten. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 48 points, ten points ahead of their rival Ford in second. Toyota, with 37 points, was six points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Johnson was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500, Qualifying\nMartin took the pole at Phoenix with a speed of 133.814\u00a0mph, 0.018 seconds in front of second place, Kyle Busch. Kurt Busch took third place 0.23 seconds of the leader and Jeff Gordon and Brian Vickers rounded out the top five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500, Race recap\nPhoenix International Raceway chaplain Ken Bowers would give out the invocation. Big Machine Records recording artists Kate & Kacey sang the national anthem for this race and future talk show host Michael Strahan delivered the command to start engines 5 minutes after the anthem was sung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205115-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Subway Fresh Fit 500, Race recap\nMark Martin started from the pole and dominated the first one hundred laps of the race, relinquishing the lead only under caution. At this point, the front runners were Martin, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, and Tony Stewart. Those four were consistently in the top five for the first two hundred laps. On lap 167, the caution came out for Robby Gordon's wreck and several cars stayed out. By lap 267, all cars that have stayed out have pitted except Dale Earnhardt, Jr. On lap 300, Earnhardt made slight contact with Casey Mears and hit the wall. Ryan Newman, during this caution, accidentally stayed out of the pits because of having radio problems. He was the only car that didn't pit. On the restart, Martin blew by Newman and cruised to his first win since August 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205116-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan Premier League\nThe 2009 Sudan Premier League is the 38th edition of the highest club level football competition in Sudan. The competition started on 18 February 2009 with a 1\u20131 draw between Al-Mourada and Merghani Kassala. For the 2009 season, the number of teams has been expanded from 12 to 13 teams. Al-Merreikh are the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205116-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan Premier League, Standings\nThe last game of the first round is on Saturday May 16 before the mid-season break, after which the league resumed play with the 14th week/round on July 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes\nIn January and February 2009, there was a series of two air strikes in Sudan and one in the Red Sea, allegedly conducted by Israel against Iranian arms being smuggled to the Gaza Strip through Sudan. The Israeli government hinted that Israeli forces were involved in the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Raid\nAmos Harel, military correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz, wrote that the decision to strike in Sudan apparently originated in a belief that Iran was about to inject a significant quantity of arms into Gaza, possibly 70-kilometer-range Fajr-3 rockets. A story in The Sunday Times also reported that the trucks were transporting Fajr-3 rockets, which had been brought by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to the Port Sudan and given to local smugglers. The article also stated that the strike was conducted by unmanned Elbit Hermes 450s. However, TIME reported that the strike was F-16s escorted by F-15s and UAVs. On April 8, Yediot Aharonot, quoting an American source, reported that Israeli naval commando (Shayetet 13) forces were involved in the operation, which included an attack on an Iranian arms ship docking in Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Raid\nFormer IAF commander Eitan Ben-Eliyahu said the main difficulty in such an attack is precise intelligence. Getting to the target requires a flight of about two and a half hours, presumably on a southerly flight path along the Red Sea coast, under the Saudi and Egyptian radar and with aerial refueling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Raid\nThe incident was first mentioned in mass media by CBS News on March 25. On May 26, Sudanese defense minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein claimed that the convoy was made up of 1,000 civilians and was involved in \"a smuggling process at the border with Egypt\". The minister alleged that 119 people were killed; among them were 56 smugglers and 63 smuggled persons from Ethiopian, Somali and other nationalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Further strikes\nA land cruiser was struck by a missile in Port Sudan on April 7, 2011. Sudan blamed Israel for the strike, which was reported to have either killed or wounded Abdul Latif Ashkar, Hamas's logistics officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Further strikes\nA lengthy article at WRMEA agreed with Sudan about Israel conducting the strike and angrily condemned Israel, but also seemed to undercut Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti's quoted view that Israel conducted the strike to prevent Sudan from being removed from sanctions and isolation related to its previous support for terrorism: a follow-up quote from The Jerusalem Post discussed Iranian arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip, with the article confirming that Hamas was shipping weapons through the Sudan to Hamas, and stated that Israel was attempting to counter Iran's influence in the area (which the article implicitly stated was linked to material support for terrorists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Further strikes\nSome Sudanese newspapers reported that Israeli aircraft attacked Gaza-bound arms convoys in late 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205117-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudan airstrikes, Further strikes\nSudan claimed that on October 23, 2012 four Israeli aircraft attacked a munition factory south of Khartoum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205118-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudirman Cup\nThe 2009 Sudirman Cup (World Mixed Team Badminton Championships) was held in the Guangzhou Gymnasium in China from May 10 to May 17, 2009, having been arranged in December 2005. It was the eleventh contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205118-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudirman Cup\nGuangzhou has a tradition of staging badminton tournaments (The China Open was held in Guangzhou from 2005 to 2007, Thomas and Uber Cup in 2002 as well). The Sudirman Cup is part of the city's campaign of \"hosting a major sporting event every year\" in the run up to the 2010 Asian Games, which will be held in the same city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205118-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudirman Cup\nChina defeated Korea to win the title for the seventh time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205118-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sudirman Cup, Host city selection\nGuangzhou is the only bidder for this event and later selected to host the tournament by Badminton World Federation during a council meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Denmark and India also expressed interest in hosting the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election\nElections to Suffolk County Council were held on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections on the same day as the elections to the European Parliament. 75 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election\nLabour and the Conservatives were the only parties with candidates standing in all sixty-three electoral divisions. The Liberal Democrats and the Green Party were the only other parties which fielded enough candidates to achieve a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nThe Conservatives won the election, being returned to power with 55 seats, a net gain of eleven, while the Liberal Democrats won eleven (a gain of two) and thus replaced Labour as the main opposition party, Labour losing seventeen seats overall and ending with only four. Two Independents were elected, while the Green Party also won two seats and the UK Independence Party won one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nThe Conservatives became more representative of the county's urban areas, particularly in Waveney and Ipswich, where they took seats from Labour. This contrasted with their performance in 2005 being mainly down to piling up votes in rural divisions. That said, the party lost seats in Bury St Edmunds and also in Mid Suffolk. Despite mounting strong challenges in the divisions lost to the Liberal Democrats in subsequent by-elections, they failed to regain them. The party was heartened by almost tripling their majority to thirty nine seats in comparison to the one of fifteen in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nThe Liberal Democrats had fought a strong campaign and held all of their divisions and added a further two Councillors to their tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nThe smaller parties benefited from the Expenses Scandal hitting the main parties, which saw the Greens and an Independent gain three divisions from the Conservatives, and the UK Independence party taking a seat from Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nLabour itself was left with a severely reduced tally, and returned to Endeavour House with just four Councillors, all from Ipswich. Of these, two were from the Co-Operative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Summary\nIn 2005 the Conservatives had won 42 seats, Labour 22, the Liberal Democrats 7, and one Independent was elected. Subsequent by-elections after this saw the Conservatives gain a seat from Labour, but lose two to the Liberal Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205119-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Suffolk County Council election, Government Formation\nConservative group leader Jeremy Pembroke (Cosford) remained as council leader until April 2011, when Mark Bee (Beccles) succeeded him. Lib Dem leader Kathy Pollard (Belstead Brook) became leader of opposition, and Sandy Martin (St John's) became Labour group leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205120-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sugar Bowl\nThe 2009 Allstate Sugar Bowl was the 75th annual edition of the annual college football bowl game that is part of the 2008\u201309 bowl season of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game was played on Friday, January 2, 2009 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Utah Utes, champions of the Mountain West Conference, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205120-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sugar Bowl\nThe Sugar Bowl usually takes the champion of the SEC and pits them against an At-Large BCS team. However, with the 2008 SEC Champion, Florida Gators being selected to play for the national championship game, the Sugar Bowl selected two At-Large BCS teams. The bowl kept their traditional ties with the Southeastern Conference for the second consecutive year though, in selecting the Alabama Crimson Tide with an at-large selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205120-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sugar Bowl\nIn the 2009 edition of this bowl game, the No. 6 Utes pulled off an upset of the heavily favored No. 4 Crimson Tide by a score of 31\u201317. Utah quarterback Brian Johnson was named Most Outstanding Player of the game. With this win, Utah completed the 2008 season as the only undefeated, 13\u20130 Division I FBS team in the nation, along with becoming the first team from a BCS non-AQ conference to win two BCS bowls. It was also Utah's first win over a Southeastern Conference school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205120-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Sugar Bowl\nAndre Smith (Alabama starting left tackle and 2008 Outland Trophy winner) was suspended for the game because he declined to cooperate with an investigation by the school's compliance staff on the issue with his uncle's illegal contact with a sports agent. A few days later, he declared himself for the NFL Draft and was the 6th overall pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205121-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sulawesi superbolide\nThe 2009 Sulawesi superbolide was an atmospheric fireball blast over Indonesia on October 8, 2009, at approximately 03:00 UTC, near the coastal city of Watampone in South Sulawesi, island of Sulawesi. The meteoritic impactor broke up at an estimated height of 15\u201320\u00a0km. The impact energy of the bolide was estimated in the 10 to 50 kiloton TNT equivalent range, with the higher end of this range being more likely. The likely size of the impactor was 5\u201310 m diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205122-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup\nThe 2009 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 18th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. It was held in Ipoh, Malaysia from 5 to 12 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205122-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup\nIndia won the tournament for the fourth time by defeating the hosts Malaysia 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205122-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 44 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.67 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup\nThe 2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup was the 37th edition of the Sultan Qaboos Cup (Arabic: \u0643\u0623\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646 \u0642\u0627\u0628\u0648\u0633\u200e), the premier knockout tournament for football teams in Oman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup\nThe competition began on 25 September 2009 with the Round of 32 and concluded on 7 December 2009. Al-Suwaiq Club were the defending champions, having won their first title in 2008. On Monday 7 December 2009, Saham SC were crowned the champions of the 2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup when they defeated Dhofar S.C.S.C. 7\u20136 on penalties after the match had ended 2-2 after extra time, hence winning the title for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Teams\nThis year the tournament had 32 teams. The winners qualified for the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Round of 32\n32 teams played a knockout tie. 16 ties were played over one leg. The first match played was between Dhofar S.C.S.C. and Sur SC on 25 September 2009. 16 teams advanced to the Round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Round of 16\n16 teams played a knockout tie. 8 ties were played over one leg. The first match was played between Al-Nasr S.C.S.C. and Muscat Club on 1 October 2009. 8 teams advanced to the Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Quarterfinals\n8 teams played a knockout tie. 4 ties were played over two legs. The first match was played between Al-Oruba SC and Al-Suwaiq Club on 18 October 2009. Al-Suwaiq Club, Saham SC, Dhofar S.C.S.C. and Oman Club qualified for the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205123-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sultan Qaboos Cup, Semifinals\n4 teams played a knockout tie. 2 ties were played over two legs. The first match was played between Dhofar S.C.S.C. and Oman Club on 8 November 2009. Saham SC and Dhofar S.C.S.C. qualified for the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes\nThe first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes (Indonesian: Gempa bumi Sumatra 2009) occurred on 30 September off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at 17:16:10 local time. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28\u00a0mi) west-northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, and 220 kilometres (140\u00a0mi) southwest of Pekanbaru, Riau. Government and authorities confirmed 1,115 dead, 1,214 severely injured and 1,688 slightly injured. The most deaths occurred in the areas of Padang Pariaman (675), Padang (313), Agam (80) and Pariaman (37). In addition, around 135,000 houses were severely damaged, 65,000 houses were moderately damaged and 79,000 houses were slightly damaged. An estimated 250,000 families (1,250,000 people) have been affected by the earthquake through the total or partial loss of their homes and livelihoods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 854]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Tectonic setting\nMany of Indonesia's islands, including Sumatra, are situated within a zone of high seismic activity known as the Ring of Fire. Along the Sunda megathrust, the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate. The subduction creates regular earthquakes, many of them of megathrust type. Specifically the Sumatran segment is currently experiencing a period of increased activity that began with the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Each earthquake of the sequence adds additional stresses to segments of the plate boundary that have not moved recently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Earthquakes\nBecause of its depth and the computed focal mechanism, the first earthquake is thought to have resulted from deformation within the mantle of the descending Australian plate, rather than from movement on the plate boundary itself. A second event, which measured 6.6 Mw, struck the province of Jambi in central Sumatra, 01:52:29 local time on 1 October 2009 at a depth of 15 kilometres (9.3\u00a0mi), about 46 kilometres south-east of Sungaipenuh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Earthquakes\nAlthough it was in the same region, the United States Geological Survey specified that it was not an aftershock, as it was located too far from the initial quake. The second earthquake has been linked to dextral (right-lateral) movement on the Great Sumatran fault, which takes up the strike-slip component of the convergence between the two plates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Effects\nTremors from the first earthquake were felt in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Malaysia and Singapore. The management of some high-rise buildings in Singapore evacuated their staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Effects\nA tsunami watch was triggered and there was reports of house damage and fires. Hotels in Padang were destroyed, and communications to the city were disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Effects\nLocal news channel Metro TV reported fires in Padang where residents had run onto the streets as the first quake hit. Teams of rescuers from nearby branches of the National Search and Rescue Agency were deployed to Padang. It was also reported that some water pipes in Padang were broken and there was flooding in the street. There were reports that at least two hospitals and several schools collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Effects\nThere were landslides and collateral debris flows in the hills surrounding Lake Maninjau. The landslide in Gunung Nan Tigo, Padang Pariaman district completely destroyed some villages and caused many fatalities. Landslides also forced some roads to be closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Effects\nPadang's Minangkabau International Airport suffered minor damage, with parts of the ceiling in the boarding area falling down. The airport reopened on 1 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nAuthorities announced that several disaster management teams were en route to Padang although it took several hours for them to reach more remote areas. Rescue workers pulled dozens of survivors from the rubble and rushed them to Djamil Hospital. The hospital itself was overwhelmed with patients, and many patients were treated in tents set up outside the hospital. A man was trapped beneath a flattened hotel for 25 hours with a broken leg before rescue workers pulled him free. The Indonesian military deployed emergency response teams with earth moving equipment to help move rubble and recover trapped victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nRescue workers and volunteers searched the rubble of a collapsed three-story concrete building, rescuing survivors and recovering bodies while parents of students trapped inside waited nearby. Indonesian villagers used their bare hands to sift through ruins and try to find survivors. On 5 October, Indonesian rescue workers called off their search for trapped survivors and increased efforts to recover bodies, clear rubble, and provide aid to survivors. Indonesian authorities used helicopters to airdrop food and blankets into remote areas, and to bring the wounded from these areas to hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nWorld Vision, Oxfam, IFRC, Muslim Charity and Mercy Corps confirmed that they would fly their emergency response teams to the devastated Padang area for rapid assessment of the catastrophe. The Red Cross sought donations to help cover earthquake relief costs. World Vision has also airlifted 2,000 collapsible water containers and will distribute them immediately to the area most affected by earthquake. Additionally World Vision has launched US$1 million appeal for the relief effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nBelow is the table of countries that sent or pledged aid for Indonesia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nA 36-person urban search and rescue team and about 20 Australian Defence Force medics and engineers arrived in Padang on 3 October. Australia also provided A$250,000 to Indonesian NGO Muhammadiyah to support its medical teams and humanitarian operations and A$100,000 to the Indonesian Red Cross for its emergency response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nA Japanese medical team of 23 doctors arrived in Pariaman on 3 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nMalaysian Red Crescent Society deployed a five-member Regional Disaster Response Team consisting of one doctor, one nurse, and relief officers to Padang to provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims on 2 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nThe State Government of Selangor allocated RM 500,000 for relief efforts in Padang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nMercy Malaysia deployed a team consisting of an orthopaedic surgeon, a general surgeon, an anesthetist, general practitioners (GPs), and nurses on 4 October to treat the earthquake victims in and around Pariaman which is located some 80\u00a0km north of Padang, Sumatra. The team brought along surgical sets and primary healthcare kits worth a total of RM 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\n39 members of the Malaysian Search and Rescue Team (Smart) traveled to Padang to assist with the search and rescue of victims who were trapped under rubble following the 7.6-magnitude earthquake. A medical team of 17 officers from the Malaysian Armed Forces medical corps, 8 officers from Malaysian Health Ministry, 2 officers from the National Security Division, and NGO Mercy Malaysia were sent to the capital of West Sumatra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia in Iskandar Puteri sent 14 volunteers to Padang to help with the humanitarian relief efforts. In a statement, Deputy vice-chancellor Prof Dr. Mohd Azrai Kassim said the team of students and staff from the university would help to provide fresh water supplies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\n10 volunteers from the International Rescue Corps, based in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, also flew to Sumatra. They took specialized equipment including listening devices and camera systems which can penetrate rubble to search for trapped survivors in collapsed buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nS.A.R.A.I.D. (Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters), a Southwest-based charity, mobilized a team of 10 personnel and sent over a ton of technical equipment to Padang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205124-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Sumatra earthquakes, Response\nGloucester-based search and rescue specialists, Rapid-UK, sent a 16-person team to the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics\nThe 2009 Summer Deaflympics (Chinese: 2009\u5e74\u590f\u5b63\u807d\u969c\u5967\u6797\u5339\u514b\u904b\u52d5\u6703; pinyin: 2009 Ni\u00e1n Xi\u00e0j\u00ec t\u012bngzh\u00e0ng \u00e0ol\u00ednp\u01d0k\u00e8 y\u00f9nd\u00f2nghu\u00ec), officially known as the 21st Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from September 5 to September 15, 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China). It is the third Summer Deaflympics to be held in Asia/Pacific region. Judo, karate, and taekwondo have been recognized as new summer disciplines in the Deaflympics sports competition program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Bidding process\nThe Chinese Taipei Sport Association for the Deaf expressed its intention to bid for the 2009 Summer Deaflympics following its participation at the 2001 Summer Deaflympics in Rome. Athens, Greece, the host city of the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Paralympics, was also bidding for the hosting right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Bidding process\nOn November 24, 2002, ICSD President John Lovett arrived in Taipei, and visited all recommended venues and facilities during the one-week stay. The Chinese Taipei Sport Association for the Deaf gave Mr. Lovett multimedia presentations and made arrangements for him to meet with President Chen Shui-bian, Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee Chairman Huang Ta-chou, and other officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Bidding process\nTaipei was chosen to host the 21st Summer Deaflympics in a vote held at the 38th ICSD session, finishing ahead of Athens, Greece. Below was the vote count that occurred on February 28, 2003 in Sundsvall, Sweden:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Preparation\nPreparation for the Games started in 2005, with an estimated total budget of NT$ 4.6 billion for the required infrastructure. The construction of the Taipei Stadium alone costs around NT$ 3 billion. The funding is provided by the Taipei City Government and the Sports Affairs Council. The main stadium Taipei Stadium was completed on June 15, 2009, and was certified as a Class 1 Athletics Facility by the IAAF. Besides opening/closing ceremonies and athletics, the football finals were also held at the Taipei Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Preparation, Volunteers\nAccording to the Organising Committee's estimates, based on a 2:1 ratio of athletes to volunteers, the Games required approximately 3,000 volunteers. The volunteers were grouped into 3 categories: regular, foreign language and sign language volunteers, all must accept 120 hours training, including basic, work-specific and sign language trainings. The Taipei Deaflympics have received over 8,000 volunteer applications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Preparation, Deaflympics Arts Month\nThe Organising Committee has designated August 2009 as the \"Taipei Deaflympics Arts Month\", during which famous artists and art groups are invited to perform at the Taipei Arena, such as A-mei, Blue Man Group, Dynamic Yunnan, and Minghuayuan. The \"Taipei International Deaf Culture Fair\" was also held, with a series of exhibitions and activities that promoted understanding of the Deaf culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Marketing, Emblem\nThe emblem comes from the shape of the Chinese character for north (Chinese: \u5317; pinyin: b\u011bi; Wade\u2013Giles: pei3), representing the host city Taipei (Chinese: \u81fa\u5317; pinyin: T\u00e1ib\u011bi; Wade\u2013Giles: T\u02bbai\u00b2-pei\u00b3), with an ear representing the Deaflympics, and a figure as the main body representing the athletes. The design uses the blue, white and red color scheme of the national flag and simple, flowing calligraphic lines, evoking the \"image of running man\". It symbolizes the courageous spirits of the athletes as they excel and meet the challenges as well as the vitality of Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Marketing, Motto\nThe 2009 Summer Deaflympics motto is \"Power in me!\". The Chinese version is \"\u7121\u8072\u7684\u529b\u91cf\" (literally, \"The Power of Silence\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Marketing, Mascots\nThe Games' mascots are one male and one female Taipei green treefrogs. The mascots have their arms wide open, in a welcoming pose that looks like the Chinese character \"\u5317\", which represents the host city Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Marketing, Mascots\nA mascot naming contest was held by the Organising Committee. The names chosen are \"Peace\" for the male frog mascot and \"Love\" for the female frog mascot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Marketing, Theme song\nThe theme song is \"Dreams You Can Hear\" (Chinese: \u807d\u5f97\u898b\u7684\u5922\u60f3), performed by A-mei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Sports\nThe various sports offered at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics were held in 20 disciplines, including 15 individual sports and 5 team sports:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Venues\nThe Games were held in 22 venues, most of which located in Taipei City and Taipei County (now New Taipei City). Some events were held in Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City) and Hsinchu County, namely swimming and water polo in Hsinchu County Swimming Plaza, shooting in Taoyuan County Gongxi Shooting Range, and tennis (backup venue for rain) in National Taiwan Sport University Taoyuan campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Opening ceremonies\nThe Organising Committee of the 21st Summer Deaflympics recruited acclaimed Taiwanese playwright and theatre director Dr. Stan Lai as the Games' Art Director, and to orchestrate the opening and closing ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Opening ceremonies\nAccording to Stan Lai, ceremony general director, the opening of the Deaflympics will be a \"memorable event that will call forth the beauty of the human heart and reach out to the deaf community.\" It will be divided into 12 acts, including a performance titled \"Impossible Dream\" by renowned Taiwanese model Patina Lin. Completely covered in body paint, Lin will float across a 50-meter projection screen to create the illusion of a goddess walking through air and water. She will also perform along with children from schools for the hearing-impaired, using sign language to express the message of \"Power in Me,\" Lai said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Opening ceremonies\nWorld-renowned deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie has been invited to perform at the opening ceremony, as well as the local drumming group U-Theatre, and more than 80 children from schools for the hearing-impaired in Taipei and Taichung cities, according to Lai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Opening ceremonies\nThe team from the People's Republic of China did not attend the opening ceremony. Neither side has officially given the reason, although most news sites are attributing it to the Dalai Lama's recent trip to Taiwan. The People's Republic of China had previously not attended the opening of the World Games which was held in Kaohsiung  earlier in the year. Nonetheless, China has sent 63 hearing impaired dancers from the Mainland China to perform the \"1,000 hand Bodhisattva\" at the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nIn a creative move, a banquet where 12 typical Taiwanese dishes were served at 350 tables dominated the closing ceremony for the 11-day event in Taipei. The parades, fireworks and arts performances usually seen at such events were also present, but played a secondary role. The menu for the banquet included peanuts from Yunlin County, beef noodles, pineapple cakes, highland tea, and mango shaved ice, accompanied by pearl milk tea and vinegar-based fruit drinks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nSome of the foods had been seen at the September 5th opening in a plastic and cloth version during a show representing the best of Taiwanese cuisine and culture. While the athletes tucked into the local delicacies, the 14,000 members of the public were able to exchange their tickets for food valued at NT$200 per person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nPerformances including Taiwanese opera from the famous Ming Hwa Yuan troupe, lion dances, drums, and three songs, including the closing theme song of the 2009 Deaflympics, from Aaron Kwok, a pop star from Hong Kong. He said with passion, \"I witnessed a successful closing ceremony tonight. Just like I've said during the performance, the Deaflympics touches our heart and Taipei has touched the world.\" A movie was also presented depicting the athletic highlights of the 2009 Summer Deaflympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nAt the end, the flag was passed on to the Greek capital of Athens, the host of the 2013 Summer Deaflympics scheduled for 2013. The fourth Deaflympics in the Asia-Pacific region will also be preserved in history as the best ever for host Chinese Taipei, which won 11 gold medals, 11 silvers and 11 bronzes. The country placed fifth for the number of medals won, with Russia coming first after collecting 29 golds, 40 silvers and 28 bronzes. Ukraine came second, South Korea third, and the People's Republic of China fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nChinese Taipei's strongest performances were on show in bowling, table tennis, and taekwondo, the Korean martial art that has also brought success to Taipei athletes at Olympic Games. One Taipei athlete alone, Chang Yao-chien, collected four golds in women's bowling. Nevertheless, the country still fell narrowly short of its self-set goal of 12 gold medals, which officials blamed on the limited source of talent available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nOn the political side of the sporting event, the People's Republic of China announced earlier it would be present for the closing ceremony, after having missed the opening, widely thought to have been planned that way to avoid the presence of President Ma Ying-jeou. The team's deputy leader, Zhao Sujing, told reporters that the 78 Chinese participants had to come together in Beijing from all parts of China first, and that problems with airline ticketing had caused them to miss earlier flights to Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nHowever, more than ten athletes were to be present in Taiwan to participate in the closing ceremony. The People's Republic of China won 12 golds, nine silver and 17 bronze medals, or double its amount at the Melbourne Deaflympics four years ago. Praising the organization, International Committee of Sports for the Deaf President Donalda Ammons used sign language to say \"the Taipei Deaflympics were the best ever.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nShe received the keys to Taipei and the honorary citizenship of the city from the hands of Mayor of Taipei Hau Lung-pin. He bestowed similar honors on other ICSD officials, including executive member and China team leader Yang Yang, the first-ever Chinese citizen to receive honorary citizenship in Taipei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Closing Ceremonies\nOverall, most regarded the ceremony as a success. The only \"unwelcome intrusion to an otherwise perfect ending was the deportation of a Spanish athlete for alleged sexual harassment of a volunteer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205125-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Deaflympics, Calendar\nIn the following calendar for the 2009 Summer Deaflympics, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that day. *", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour\nThe 2009 Summer Tour was the fifth concert tour by American rock group No Doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Background\nOn December 3, 2008, the band announced on their official website plans of a tour and a new album . They stated,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Background\n\"As most of you saw from our little iChat (yes, it was really us), we have decided to go on tour next year while continuing to work on our album. We are working on tour dates now and can't wait to get out there and play for all of you \u2013 it's been too long! We'll announce tour dates soon so be sure to check back for updates. Have a safe and happy holiday and we'll see you on the road in 2009!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Background\nThe tour was officially announced in January 2009 by MTV News. Stefani cited the reason for tour was to perform their favorite songs and explore new musical directions. A survey on the band's website complied fan's favorite songs that have a possibility of being performed on the tour. During an interview with guitarist Tom Dumont, he explained the tour will have A Clockwork Orange theme, saying,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Background\n\"Gwen came up with the Clockwork Orange thing\u2014she started getting into the visuals of those modernist movies from the 60's. We've been looking at tons of art and it's like this space-age modernism from that decade\u2014it's retro and modern at the same time, so we're building this crazy stage set that has that vibe. We have a bunch of really great artists doing t-shirts and posters that echo that. There's a whole look for the tour even though there's not an album yet.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Background\nIt was also revealed that the group will give away their entire music catalog (in digital format) to spectators  who purchased high level tickets. The group appeared on The Today Show, American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Gossip Girl to promote the tour. This tour should not be considered a reunion tour, because No Doubt stated it is not a reunion since the band had never broken up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205126-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Tour, Tour dates\na This concert is a part of the Bamboozle Festival b This concert is a part of Tiger Jam XII  c This concert is a part of Summerfest", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade\nThe 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade, was celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to 12, 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina (Serbian Autonomous Province), close to Belgrade. It was the largest sporting event ever to be organised by the city. At this Universiade the biggest star was the Russian rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva, who won 5 gold medals. Russia was the leading nation in the medal table, with the most gold medals (27) and most medals (76).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, The bidding process\nThe bidding process for the 2009 Summer Universiade games began in early 2004. Together with Belgrade another two cities bid for the event \u2013 Monterrey in Mexico and Pozna\u0144 in Poland. Working in Belgrade's favour were the various major sporting events the city was awarded to host in the upcoming 2005, 2006 and 2007 such as EuroBasket 2005, the 2005 European Volleyball Championship, the 2006 European Water Polo Championship, and the European Youth Olympic Festival 2007. Furthermore, the city launched two unsuccessful candidate bids to organize the Summer Olympic Games: for the 1992 Summer Olympics Belgrade was eliminated in the third round of International Olympic Committee voting, with the games going to Barcelona. The 1996 Summer Olympics ultimately went to Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 821]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, The bidding process\nOn 10 January 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria, Belgrade was announced as the host of the 2009 Summer Universiade. The ceremony of the host city announcement was attended by the now deceased Belgrade mayor Nenad Bogdanovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Mascot\nThe mascot of the 2009 Summer Universiade is a sparrow bird. The organisers chose the sparrow not only because of its symbolic ties to the host city but also because it represents a fast, dynamic and skillful bird, attributes needed for those competing at Universiade. The mascot received a new more modern look in 2009 and a competition began to name the Belgrade sparrow. The three final names for the sparrow were published in the Serbian media in April 2009, with the finalists being Srba, Cvrle and D\u017eivd\u017ean. The final voting was left to the 10,000 Universiade volunteers who overwhelmingly chose the name \"Srba\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Venues\nThe 2009 Summer Universiade took place in 69 venues across Belgrade and near bycities In\u0111ija, Novi Sad, Obrenovac, Pan\u010devo, Smederevo, Vr\u0161ac and Zrenjanin. Obrenovac hosted the water polo and volleyball competition, In\u0111ija, Pan\u010devo and Vr\u0161ac the basketball, Novi Sad the athletics and volleyball, while Zrenjanin hosted the swimming competition. The venue for each sport can be found on the official website of the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Venues\nThe opening and closing ceremonies took place at the Belgrade Arena, with a capacity of 20,000. A range of sports halls have undergone intense reconstruction to meet standards for the Universiade games. A number of venues were also newly constructed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Venues, Universiade Village\nThe Universiade Village was home to all athletes participating at the 2009 Summer Universiade games. Often referred to as Belville, the village has been newly built and comprises 14 buildings containing modern apartments. The Belville complex consists of a residential area comprising 120,000m\u00b2, commercial and business facilities comprising 34,800m\u00b2 and educational facilities comprising 6,100m\u00b2. The complex also includes 22,000m\u00b2 of office space. The Belville complex was completed in May 2009 and officially opened in June 2009. 2000 Apartments have been offered for sale in spring of 2008, and the new owners will be allowed to move in during October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Venues, Universiade Village\nEach building has been named after a flower. They are Iris Marigold, Dandelion, Violet, Lily of the Valley, Sunflower, Mimosa, Cyclamen, Gillyflower, Syringa, Jacinth, Rose, Tulipa, and Lily. During the construction of the village it was the largest development site in the Balkans. It is located in New Belgrade with the closest venues to it being Belgrade Arena (basketball and table tennis), EXPO XXI (wrestling and taekwondo) and TK Gazela (tennis).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205127-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Summer Universiade, Broadcasting\nThe host broadcaster of the 2009 Summer Universiade was Serbia's RTS, the national broadcasting corporation. It used its first and second channel to broadcast the games as well as its digital channel. The games were produced and broadcast in high definition television. Eurosport provided cable broadcasting to European nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205128-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was the 2009 post-season tournament for Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference. It took place March 7\u201310, 2009 at Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205128-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament\nTop-seeded North Dakota State defeated #3 seed Oakland 66\u201364 to earn an automatic berth into the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The winning points came on a shot by Ben Woodside, who was also named the tournament MVP, with 3.3\u00a0seconds left. North Dakota State trailed for most of the final; the Bison were behind by as much as 14\u00a0points in the first half and 12 with less than 10\u00a0minutes left, but they went on an 18\u20134 run to end the game, capped by Woodside's shot. A long three-pointer by Oakland's Johnathon Jones at the buzzer bounced off the rim, preserving the Bison victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205128-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Bison, who were in their first season of eligibility for Division I postseason play, became the first men's team in Division I or its predecessors in more than 35\u00a0years to qualify for the NCAA Tournament in its first year of eligibility. The previous team to accomplish this feat was Southwestern Louisiana, now Louisiana-Lafayette, in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205128-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe Bison were the second Summit League team that day to accomplish this feat\u2014South Dakota State, also in its first year of Division I postseason eligibility, won the Summit women's tournament final, held at the same site, to book a place in the NCAA Women's Tournament. In another coincidence, the Jackrabbits defeated Oakland in their final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205128-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nUnlike most Division I basketball conferences, the Summit League does not send all of its teams into its conference tournament. Out of the league's 10\u00a0teams, the top eight receive berths in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record, with tiebreakers used if necessary in the following order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205129-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 4\u201310, 2009. The first round was held at campus sites and all subsequent rounds took place in Hot Springs, Arkansas at the Summit Arena. The semifinals were televised by ESPN Regional Television. The Sun Belt Conference Championship Game was televised by ESPN2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205129-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe tournament was won by the WKU Hilltoppers, in front of a crowd of 3,493.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season\nThe 2009 Sun Belt Conference football season was an NCAA football season that was played from September 3, 2009, to January 6, 2010. The Sun Belt Conference consists of 9 football members:  Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Troy, and Western Kentucky who becomes a full-time member in 2009 after 2 seasons as an independent and conditional member who played a limited Sun Belt schedule after transitioning from the Football Championship Subdivision. Troy won the Sun Belt Championship and played in the GMAC Bowl where they lost in two overtimes to Central Michigan. Middle Tennessee was the only other Sun Belt member to be invited to a bowl game, the New Orleans Bowl, where they defeated Southern Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season, Previous season\nTroy (8-5) were the Sun Belt champions and lost to Southern Mississippi in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl 30-27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season, Previous season\nThree other Sun Belt teams, Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, and Louisiana-Lafayette, were bowl eligible with records of 6-6, but only Florida Atlantic was invited to a bowl game, the Motor City Bowl defeating Central Michigan 24-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll\nThe 2009 Sun Belt coaches preseason poll was announced during a two-day media web-based event on July 20 and 21. Defending champion Troy was selected as the favorite to win the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season, Regular season\nAll times reflect the local time for that team (Central Time-Arkansas State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, North Texas and Troy. Eastern Time- Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Western Kentucky). Conference games times are that of the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205130-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Belt Conference football season, Regular season\nRankings reflect that of the USA Today Coaches poll for that week until week eight when the BCS rankings will be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl\nThe 2009 Brut Sun Bowl game was the 76th edition of the annual college football bowl game known as the Sun Bowl. The Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Stanford Cardinal 31\u201327 on December 31, 2009. It was the two teams' fifth meeting. The game featured two conference tie-ins: the University of Oklahoma represented the Big 12 Conference and Stanford University represented the Pacific-10 Conference. The game was played at the Sun Bowl Stadium on the University of Texas at El Paso campus in El Paso, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl\nThe game featured Stanford's 13th-ranked offense including Toby Gerhart, a Heisman finalist who led the NCAA Division I FBS subdivision with 1,736 rushing yards and 26 touchdowns, against the seventh-ranked Oklahoma defense. The Stanford offense averaged over 440 yards per game while the Oklahoma defense had held its opponents to an average of 273 yards per game. This was the first time the two teams played each other in a bowl game. They had faced each other 4 previous times in the regular season with Oklahoma holding a 3\u20131 advantage. The last contest played by the schools was a 19\u20137 victory in Norman, Oklahoma by the Sooners in 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection\nBy contract, the Sun Bowl Association\u2014which produced the game\u2014possessed the third pick from the Pacific-10 Conference. With that pick, the Sun Bowl selected Stanford over Oregon State, as both teams had been in a three-way tie for second place in the conference with Arizona (whom the Holiday Bowl selected with the second pick from the Pac-10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection\nIn 2005, The Sun Bowl and the Gator Bowl agreed to a four-year contract to alternate bids starting with the 2007 game which would prevent repetitive matchups. The Gator Bowl would be allowed to take the Big East's number two team or the Big 12 number three team; however, each conference would have two bids each to the Gator and Sun Bowls over the four years. Since the Gator Bowl had taken a Big 12 team the previous two years, the Sun Bowl was obligated to take a Big 12 team this year. In the Big 12, the Sun Bowl had the fifth pick, following the Alamo Bowl. When the Alamo Bowl chose Texas Tech, the Sun Bowl then selected Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 29], "content_span": [30, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Oklahoma\nThe Oklahoma Sooners football team began the 2009 college football season as the reigning Big 12 Conference champions. The Sooners also played in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game against the top-ranked Florida Gators, losing 24\u201314. Expectations were high for the Sooners as they were returning their Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford as well as their All-American tight end Jermaine Gresham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Oklahoma\nHowever, before the season began, Gresham suffered a season-ending injury. During the season opener against BYU, Bradford suffered an injury to his shoulder that forced him to sit out the next several games. The Sooners would go on to lose that game and their fourth game against Miami. Bradford returned for game number five against Baylor, but reinjured his shoulder the next week against Texas, ending his season and giving the Sooners their third loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners would continue to suffer many injuries throughout the remainder of the season including losing offensive linemen Jarvis Jones and Brody Eldridge, and defensive players Tom Wort, DeMarcus Granger and Auston English for the season. With freshman Landry Jones now leading the offense, the Sooners would go on win every home game from that point forward, including a season-ending win over in-state rival Oklahoma State, extending their NCAA-leading home winning streak to 30 games. However, the Sooners would also lose all but one of their away games. Oklahoma ended the regular season with seven wins and five losses (5\u20133 in the Big 12). The game marked Oklahoma's third appearance in the Sun Bowl. They were a perfect 2-0 in their previous games. In 1981, they defeated Houston 40\u201314, and in 1993, they defeated Texas Tech 41\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 880]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Stanford\nFollowing a 5\u20137 season in 2008, the expectations for Stanford were considerably lower than that of Oklahoma. In a poll of media members covering the Pac-10 prior to the 2009 season, Stanford was predicted to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Stanford\nStanford's season began as expected with a loss to Wake Forest in the second game of the season. However, the Cardinal's fourth game was against a then-ranked Washington team, in which Stanford won 34\u201314. A two-game skid to Oregon State and Arizona was a setback for the Cardinal. However, after a bye week in early November, Stanford knocked off top-10 ranked (and eventual Pac-10 champions) Oregon 51\u201342 thanks to a school-record 223 yards rushing by Toby Gerhart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Team selection, Stanford\nThe next week, after earning their first ranking of the season, the 25th-ranked Cardinal defeated the defending Pac-10 champions and 14th-ranked USC 55\u201321, the most points ever given up by USC in its history. A subsequent loss to California knocked them out of the rankings but a season-closing victory over Notre Dame brought them back into the ratings at number 19. Stanford ended the regular season 8\u20134 (6\u20133 in the Pac-10, for a three-way tie for second place). This was Stanford's third appearance in the Sun Bowl. Just like their opponent, they were 2\u20130 in Sun Bowl games prior to the 2009 game, with a 24\u201314 victory over LSU in the 1977 game and a 38\u20130 shutout over Michigan State in the 1996 contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 747]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nSooners wide receiver Ryan Broyles set a Sun Bowl record with three touchdown receptions, quarterback Landry Jones passed for 418 yards and Oklahoma slowed Toby Gerhart just enough to beat Stanford. Jones took over as Oklahoma's quarterback after 2008 Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford was injured in an opening loss to BYU. Broyles finished with 156 yards receiving and set Oklahoma's single-game record with 13 receptions in front of a Sun Bowl record crowd of 53,713.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205131-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nGerhart, who led the nation with 1,736 yards rushing, ran for 135 on 32 carries and scored two TDs in the first half. Tavita Pritchard went 8 for 19 for 118 yards and two interceptions filling in for Stanford starting QB, Andrew Luck. Stanford was making its first bowl appearance since losing to Georgia Tech in the 2001 Seattle Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205132-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 SunTrust Indy Challenge\nThe 2009 SunTrust Indy Challenge was the eighth round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season and took place on June 27, 2009 at the 0.750-mile (1.207\u00a0km) Richmond International Raceway, in Henrico County, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205133-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sundance Film Festival\nThe 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205133-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sundance Film Festival, Jurors\nAlfred P. Sloan Jury (Award presented to the writer and director of an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205134-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500\nThe 2009 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on August 3, 2009, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 200\u00a0laps, it was the twenty-first race of the 2009 Sprint Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205134-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500\nIt took three hours fifty-seven minutes to complete. Juan Pablo Montoya was humbly given a second-place finish by being .869 seconds slower than Hamlin. Eight drivers failed to finish the race; including last-place finisher Mike Wallace who parked his car on lap 13. Derrike Cope's vehicle was too slow to qualify for the race. Previous-day rain forced a competition caution on lap 22; most other yellow flags after this one were mainly for debris or accidents. Nearly 20% of the race was held under the caution flag; with a green flag run lasting an average of nearly 15 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205135-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger\nThe 2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Yuba City, United States between 1 and 7 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205135-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205135-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nCarsten Ball /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Adam Feeney /  Nathan Healey, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205136-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nNicholas Monroe and Michael Yani were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate together this year. Monroe partnered up with Brian Battistone and they were eliminated by Carsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier in the semifinal. Yani played with Todd Widom. They withdrew before match against Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Alex Kuznetsov in the quarterfinal, due to Widom's injury. Ball and Rettenmaier became the new winners, after won in the final, against Adam Feeney and Nathan Healey 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205137-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunset Moulding YCRC Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMichael Yani was the defender of title, but he was eliminated by Carsten Ball in the semifinal. Ryler DeHeart defeated Ball in the final 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour\nThe 2009 Sunshine Tour was the tenth season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the third since the tour switched a calendar based season in 2007. The Sunshine Tour represents the highest level of competition for male professional golfers in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour\nThe tour was based predominantly in South Africa, with 26 of the 30 tournaments being held in the country. Two events were held in Swaziland, with one each in Zambia and Namibia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour\nThe Order of Merit was won by Anders Hansen of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 74]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows schedule of events for the 2009 Sunshine Tour. As usual, the tour consisted of two distinct parts, commonly referred to as the \"Summer Swing\" and \"Winter Swing\". Tournaments held during the Summer Swing generally had much higher prize funds, attracted stronger fields, and were the only tournaments on the tour to carry world ranking points, with three events being co-sanctioned with the European Tour. Since the tour switched to a calendar based season, this part of the tour has been split in two, with six events being held at the start of the year, and the remainder in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour, Schedule\nThe Winter Swing ran from April to early December, starting with the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour, and closing with the Nedbank Affinity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205138-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sunshine Tour, Schedule\nPrize funds shown did not count directly towards the Order of Merit. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of official money Sunshine Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Sunshine Tour members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205139-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 Final\nThe Final of the 2009 Super 14 season, a provincial rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, took place on 30 May 2009 at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. The Bulls won the match 61 points to 17 over the visiting Chiefs side, who are based in Hamilton, New Zealand. This large win by the Bulls, is highest winning score, and highest winning margin ever in the Super 14 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205139-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 Final, Match, First half\nThe Chiefs scored first but could not contain the bulls rampant attack ending the first half at 34-7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205139-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 Final, Match, Second half\nAgain the Chiefs scored first through Mils Muliania, but the Bulls ran away with it with two tries to Bryan Habana 61-17", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205139-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 Final, Match details\nTouch judges: Craig Joubert Cobus WesselsTelevision match official: Johann Meuwesen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205140-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 season\nThe 2009 Super 14 season kicked off in February 2009 with pre-season matches held from mid-January. It finished on 30 May, when the Bulls won their second Super Rugby title with a decisive 61\u201317 victory over the Chiefs at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. The 2009 season was the fourth of the expansion, which led to the name change to the Super 14. The schedule, which covered 3\u00bd months, featured a total of 94 matches, with each team playing one full round-robin against the 13 other teams, two semi-finals and a final. Every team received one bye over the 14 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205140-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 season, Playoffs, Final\nTouch judges:Craig Joubert (South Africa)Cobus Wessels (South Africa)Television match official:Johann Meuwesen (South Africa)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205140-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Super 14 season, Playoffs, Final\nThis large win by the Bulls, is the highest winning score, and the highest winning margin ever in a Super 14 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series\nThe 2009 Autobacs Super GT Series was the seventeenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifth season as the Super GT series. It marked as well as the twenty-seventh season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season opener on March 22, was moved to Okayama, due to the continued renovation of Suzuka in preparation for the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix. The season finale on November 8 also was moved to Motegi, instead of Fuji. Due to the worldwide economic crisis, race weekends were two days instead of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series\nAndr\u00e9 Lotterer and Juichi Wakisaka claimed the GT500 title in their Petronas TOM'S Lexus SC430. The team also won their respective teams title. In GT300, Racing Project Bandoh's Manabu Orido and Tatsuya Kataoka won the title by three points from Nobuteru Taniguchi and Ryo Orime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT500 class\nOriginally the three makers agreed to unify engine specification to 3.4L V8 engines (the same configuration of Formula Nippon at the time). However, due to the aforementioned economic crisis, Nissan encountered difficulties to develop a suitable engine for their GT-R, and chose to bear a performance ballast while using the same engine as last year. Honda continued to use their mid-engine NSX with performance ballast as the regulations originally planned to mandate front-engine cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT500 class\nThis was also their last year in Super GT with the original NSX, as they announced they would use a new vehicle (the HSV-010) starting in the 2010 season. Honda returned with the NSX in 2014 following the unveiling of the second-generation concept car in 2014, later revised to be based on the production model in 2017; both of which ran midship engine layout until 2019 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT500 class\nTeam Nova entered the series with a Le Mans spec Aston Martin DBR9. It was the first Aston Martin car to participate the series history (including JGTC), and also the first European and non-Honda/Nissan/Toyota car in GT500 since the 2006 season (a Maserati MC12 did participate the pre-season test in 2006 season but withdraw from the series later). The DBR9 only ran at the first round at Okayama and the two rounds at Fuji, and as of July 2020 is the last non-Japanese car to compete in GT500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT300 class\nThe apr Racing Team, which had used the Toyota MR-S for a long time decided to discontinue their use of MR-S, and for this season decided to replace it with a mid-engined Toyota Corolla Axio instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT300 class\nThe Cusco, the only team using an AWD car (Subaru Impreza), left the series as they wanted to concentrate on off-road events. However, Subaru cars were not absent from the series as R&D Sport used a Legacy B4 for round 6, 7 and 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, GT300 class\nThunder Asia Racing, a team from Singapore, entered round 4 at Sepang with a Mosler MT900R. Their full participation in 2010 season was confirmed after the 2009 season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Car development, Weight ballast changes\nIn order to combat sandbagging, where a team would intentionally perform poorly in order to secure a more favorable weight handicap, the success ballast formula was changed starting from this season: the ballast would be halved in the penultimate race and lifted altogether in final race for teams that participated in every round of the season. Teams missing only one round receive halved-ballast in the final race instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205141-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Super GT Series, Schedule\nAs a measure of cost reduction, the two longest race, as well as the final race in the series' distance in the series was shortened in this season. This included the trimming of the traditional 1000km race in Suzuka to 700\u00a0km. However, to avoid 1-pit strategy that caused unfairness to some teams, teams were required to pit twice in the Fuji 400\u00a0km race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final\nThe 2009 Super League Grand Final was the 12th official Grand Final and conclusive and championship-deciding match of the Super League XIV season. It was held on Saturday 10 October 2009, at Old Trafford, Manchester, and was contested by defending champions and 2009 League Leaders Leeds Rhinos, and the team they had faced in the grand final for the past two years, St. Helens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final\nThe 2009 decider, contested by the sides finishing 1st and 2nd in the competition, was a very close contest, played at a furious pace from end to end with the lead changing several times and rarely being more than a single point. Every ruling on try-scoring situations was given by the video referee, with some allowed and some disallowed, including a few very close and controversial calls. Leeds Rhinos were eventual victors, winning the match 18 to 10. They became the first side in Super League history to be champions in three successive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nIt was the third consecutive year that these two teams faced each other in the Super League Grand Final. Both sides were at full strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details\nPre -match entertainment was provided by The Wombats, an indie rock band from Liverpool. The band performed songs from their album, A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. All Angels, a classical and pop group, performed, with Yorkshire Co-op Brass Band, the Grand Final anthem, Jerusalem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, First Half\nSt Helens kicked off and after thirteen minutes of end-to-end football they were thirty metres out from Leeds' goal-line when Jon Wilkin chip-kicked the ball ahead for Kyle Eastmond to regather, crossing the line then running back infield to improve the field position for the kick before grounding it. Video referee Phil Bentham only gave the four points after checking that there was no knock-on in the regather and Grand Final d\u00e9butante Eastmond converted his own try to give the Saints a 6 nil lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, First Half\nIn the twenty-sixth minute, St. Helens were again down in Leeds' half when Sean Long put up a bomb and as the ball came down the Rhinos defence was ruled to have interfered with the attacking Saints players, drawing a penalty. The decision to take the two points was made and the goal was kicked by Eastmond, pushing St. Helens' lead out to 8 nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, First Half\nA few minutes later Leeds had managed to get to the other end of the field and were on the attack when Matt Diskin dived over the line from dummy half, reaching out through the defenders to put the ball down. The video referee was again called on to make the ruling and gave the try. Kevin Sinfield's conversion attempt hit the upright so the score was 8 - 4 in favour of St. Helens with less than ten minutes of the first half remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, First Half\nIn the thirty-seventh minute the Rhinos were again in an attacking position when Danny McGuire got the ball out to the right and chipped it ahead in goal where the St. Helens defence failed to secure it and Lee Smith came through to touch it down. Sinfield again missed the conversion so the scores remained level at 8 all and did not change before the half-time siren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nLeeds kicked off and the ball went over the line after touching the arm of St. Helens' winger Ade Gardner. This gave a scrum feed to the Rhinos in an attacking position and when Sinfield got the ball close to the uprights he kicked a drop goal, putting Leeds in front for the first time in the match at 9 - 8. Just on forty-five minutes St. Helens centre Matt Gidley made a break and sent his winger Ade Gardner racing down the sideline to try to score in the corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nBut after video analysis it was shown that the Leeds defenders coming across had forced him into touch before he grounded the ball. In the 58th minute St. Helens were again down at Leeds' end of the field when they got a penalty for a high shot on Sean Long from Rob Burrow. Saints opted to take the two points and Kyle Eastmond performed his third successful kick in a row, giving his side a one-point lead at 10-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nAbout seven minutes later Leeds were right down on St. Helens' goal line when Keiron Cunningham, in an attempt to slow things down, knocked the ball out of a Rhinos player's arms as he got up to play it, giving away a penalty. Sinfield's kick from right in front was never going to miss, so the one-point lead was with Leeds once again at 11-10, now with just over fifteen minutes remaining. At the sixty-eight-minute mark, St. Helens were on the attack and moved the ball out to Eastmond's wing where he dived over in the corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0005-0003", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nAgain the video referee was called on to check whether the St. Helens winger was taken into touch before scoring and he was, a desperate tackle by Sinfield pushing Eastmond's body into the corner post. Back at the other end of the field, Saints' goal-line defence was forced to absorb mounting pressure as Leeds attacked repeatedly, eventually penetrating when a chip kick from McGuire on the last tackle was chased and picked up by Lee Smith who touched down in the seventy-third minute. Once more the video referee's decision was requested, this time to check whether the scorer was on-side. Despite Smith appearing to be slightly in front of McGuire when the ball left his boot, the benefit of the doubt was given and the try was awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nThe extras were kicked from straight in front by Sinfield, so the score was 17-10 in favour of Leeds with under seven minutes of play remaining. Just on the seventy-eight-minute mark the ball went to Rob Burrow for a drop goal attempt which he kicked successfully, putting the score at 18-10, which it would remain until the full-time siren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nIt was the Rhinos' two-try hero, Lee Smith's final game for Leeds before moving to rugby union. Leeds' forward Kevin Sinfield was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Match details, 2nd half\nThe following day over 8,000 fans were at Headingley Carnegie Stadium to celebrate the victorious Leeds players' homecoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, Telecast details\nThe Grand Final was shown in 30 countries worldwide with a potential audience of over 100 million people. In addition to a live broadcast in the United Kingdom by primary broadcast partner Sky Sports, the game was also shown live in the United States, the Middle East, Russia, Romania, Poland and New Zealand. France, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Spain saw the match in a delayed telecast. BBC Sport showed an hour-long programme of extended highlights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205142-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League Grand Final, 2010 World Club Challenge\nHaving won the grand final, the Leeds Rhinos had earned the right to play against the 2009 NRL grand final-winners, the Melbourne Storm in the 2010 World Club Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results\n2009 Super League season results details the regular season and play-off match results of Super League XIV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Regular season, Round 12\n* The attendances displayed are total aggregate attendances for each of the two days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Final table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Progression table\n* : Indicates team has a game in-hand due to a postponed match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Play-offs\nThe 2009 Super League play-offs took place in September and October 2009. They decided which two teams contested the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format\nSuper League has used a play-off system since Super League III in 1998. When introduced, 5 teams qualified for the play-offs, which was subsequently expanded to 6 teams in 2002. For the first time, eight teams will compete in the play-offs in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format\nFollowing the final round of matches, all eight play-off teams will be decided. The 2009 play-offs see the introduction of a system where the winning team from week one with the highest League placing will be allowed to select their opponents for week three. Except this choosing opportunity, the new format follows the play-off system of the Australian Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205143-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Super League season results, Play-offs, Format\nWeek 1. Qualifying/Elimination play-offs: Fixtures decided by regular reason finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 2. Preliminary semi-finals: Fixtures decided by regular season finishing positions. Higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams. Higher ranked teams receive home ground advantage. Week 3. Qualifying semi-finals: Winners of Qualifying play-offs play winners of Qualifying semi-finals. Fixtures decided by Club Call. Winners of Qualifying play-offs receive home ground advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205144-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superbike World Championship\nThe 2009 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-second season of the Superbike World Championship. It was the second season in which HANNspree had been the title sponsor of the championship. The South African round returned on 15\u201317 May at Kyalami for first time since the 2002 season that the Superbike World Championship had raced there; other changes in the calendar were the return of Imola after a two-season absence as the replacement for Vallelunga and the discontinuation of Brands Hatch as one of the British venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205144-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superbike World Championship\nThe season saw the revision of the Superpole system, as the single-lap format was replaced by a three-part knockout system: after two timed qualifying sessions, the twenty fastest riders were admitted to Superpole 1, then the first sixteen SP1 riders progressed to Superpole 2 and the first eight SP2 riders contested Superpole 3, which finally awarded the pole position. In addition, changing bike during a race (also known as flag-to-flag) was allowed in order to avoid interruptions caused by variable weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205144-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Superbike World Championship\nBen Spies won the championship in his rookie season, bettering Noriyuki Haga in a final round decider. Ducati were the winners of the manufacturers' championship, winning eleven races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nThe 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 was a motor race for V8 Supercars. It was the thirteenth running of the Australian 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It is the 53rd race tracing its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nThe race, which was Race 18 of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, was held on 11 October 2009 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nIn the buildup to the race, much attention was focussed on defending champions Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup who had the chance with this race to become the second and third drivers to win the race four years in succession, a feat only ever achieved before by Bob Jane in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000\nThe race was won by Garth Tander, who recorded his second victory in the race, and by Will Davison, his scored his first win. It was also the sixth victory in the race for the Holden Racing Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List\nFor the first time since 2004, teams from outside the V8 Supercar Championship Series would be allowed to compete. Three single car teams from the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series were entered, bringing the entry list up to 32 cars. All six 'wildcard' drivers were debutants, along with Dean Fiore, Troy Bayliss, Ben Collins, Mark McNally, Tim Slade, James Thompson and David Wall. Of the 13 debutants, only Fiore, Assaillit, Douglas, Slade and Wall returned for future races. It was also the last Bathurst 1000 start for both Brad Jones and Leanne Tander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List\n*Entries with a grey background were wildcard entries which did not compete in the full championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Entry List, Driver changes\nThe only change in driver pairings from the 2009 L&H 500 was a swap in the Paul Morris Motorsport team with Owen Kelly moving into the #39 car with Russell Ingall, and Tim Slade joining Paul Morris in the #67 Commodore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice\nPractice began on Thursday 8 October 2009. Alex Davison set the fastest time in the first session, a 2:09.7175. The second session saw Jason Richards lead the into the 'Eights' with a 2:08.6080. Jamie Whincup set the fastest time in the final session, quickest for the first day of practice, the defending champion recording a 2:07.3745 to be fastest by the big gap of six-tenths of a second in an ominous sign. Jason Bargwanna was second fastest, the only other driver to lap under 2:08 to be fastest Holden in the Tasman Motorsport Commodore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice\nSteven Johnson was third quickest in the Dick Johnson Racing Falcon ahead of Mark Winterbottom in the Ford Performance Racing Falcon, Jason Richards, Alex Davison, Greg Murphy, Warren Luff completing the fastest two car team in the second Dick Johnson Racing Ford with Jason Bright and Fabian Coulthard completing the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice\nFriday morning practice saw Lee Holdsworth lead the session, recording a 2:07.7376 ahead of Whincup the only other driver to get into the 'Sevens'. The second Friday morning session saw Steven Johnson record a 2:07.5702 to be fastest with Greg Murphy, Craig Lowndes, Mark Winterbottom, Alex Davison, Garth Tander forging into the Seven bracket. Jason Bright, Todd Kelly Jason Richards and Fabian Coulthard completed the top ten. Michael Caruso was disappointingly 26th. Best of the international drivers was the Anglo-Dane pairing of James Thompson and Allan Simonsen. Best of the driver who were not full-time V8 Supercar drivers was Steve Owen in eleventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice\nAn accident marred each of the two morning sessions, Andrew Fisher crashing the Sieders Racing Team Ford while in the second session Leanne Tander gave her Ford mainly cosmetic damage. Both cars were repaired for qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Practice\nThe Saturday morning warm-up session become embroiled in controversy when Mark Winterbottom was blamed for an on-track incident between himself and Sam Walter. Climbing Mountain Straight Winterbottom, weaving his car to warm his tyres, caused the much faster travelling Walter to lose control of his car avoiding the sudden movement of Winterbottom's car, resulting in a crash into the wall. The Greg Murphy Racing Commodore was extensively damaged and Walter suffered a broken toe. In his second fine of the weekend for this offence, Winterbottom was fined $15,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying\nQualifying was held on Friday 9 October 2009. Qualifying was interrupted early when David Reynolds speared off the track at McPhillamy Park Corner before making a mess of the front end of the car against the barriers. Other than that were no surprises from the first qualifying session. The Triple F Racing Commodore of Dean Fiore and Troy Bayliss ended up three seconds slower than the rest of the qualifying field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying\nIn the dying moments of qualifying Jason Richards set the fastest time 2:07.2230 with several leading competitors setting for last-ditch efforts, when Warren Luff spun into the sand trap at Murrays Corner bringing a premature end to qualifying and leaving Richards as the Provisional Pole Position winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Qualifying\nGarth Tander was second fastest ahead of Lee Holdsworth as Holdens took the top three positions. Mark Winterbottom was the first Ford in fourth while Paul Dumbrell in fifth made Holden Racing Team the best performed team. Craig Lowndes followed with Shane van Gisbergen, Todd Kelly, Greg Murphy and Russell Ingall also progressing to the Top Ten Shootout on Saturday. In a major upset one of the pre-event favourites, the #17 Ford of Steven Johnson and James Courtney missed out, qualifying 13th, their last qualifying lap foiled by their teammates accident at Murrays Corner. Fabian Coulthard also missed the top ten in eleventh ahead of Jason Bright. After Johnson was Luff, who ended up as the fastest part-time V8 Supercar driver, with Jason Bargwanna and Greg Ritter following. Allan Simonsen was again best of the internationals in 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 890]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Top Ten Shootout\nThe Top Ten Shootout was held in damp and cold conditions on Saturday 10 October 2009. First out Russell Ingall was conservative and did not push the car on a drying track after heavy rain struck the earlier support races. Greg Murphy put down a time almost three seconds quicker, but was quickly disqualified for not getting his car in position to start the lap on time. It would have been good enough for seventh position. Todd Kelly was smooth as he could be, Shane van Gisbergen was ragged and fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Top Ten Shootout\nCraig Lowndes was six-tenths faster, setting a time that Paul Dumbrell speared off at the Chase trying to match. Mark Winterbottom missed Lowndes by hundredths and Lee Holdsworth was slower again before Garth Tander reeled off the only Seven of the session, a 2:07.9463 to take pole position. Jason Richards tried valiantly, but a couple of small slips dropped him to fifth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nThe race began at 10:30am and the 161 laps were completed by 5:20pm (local time) Sunday 11 October 2009. The race began in wet conditions, Steven Richards won the start but quickly Will Davison climbed into the lead. At the first corner, Jason Bright spun after contact with Cameron McConville. Todd Kelly was the first to stop for slick tyres on lap 4, followed almost immediately by James Courtney. The next group saw Will Davison, Steven Richards and Craig Lowndes pit together. FPR's pitstop was slow and Lowndes leapt passed but there was contact between the two in the pits and Lowndes received a drive-through penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nDavid Sieders stopped at Hell Corner in what was the first retirement. The first round of pitstops began at lap 27 with the order Will Davison, Steven Richards, Courtney, Murphy, Ingall, Coulthard, Alex Davison and Todd Kelly, with Kelly first to pit again. The first front running car to strike trouble was Mark Winterbottom. During Richards' stint in the car the alternator failed and the battery was replaced at the first stop. The replacement battery came loose in the boot and flew across the car, hitting and cracking the refueling pipes causing a leak, then a fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nRain returned on lap 77. The second retirement was World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss who spun into the at the Dipper bringing out the safety car with the running order Davison, Murphy, Todd Kelly, Cameron McConville, Lowndes, Alex Davison and Courtney. Rain came again at the restart and Owen Kelly speared into the sand at Murrays Corner. Warren Luff hit the wall at the Dipper and limped back to the pits to retire. Rick Kelly was given the 'meatball' flag for dragging the car's rear undertray, loosened after contact with Warren Luff. Steven Johnson pitted with an engine problem but rejoined and the rash of lap 84 incidents concluded with Sam Walter crashing at Griffins Bend, the same point he had crashed in practice avoiding Mark Winterbottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 797]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nThe weather cleared up again soon after, however a safety car at lap 121 after Fabian Coulthard's Falcon stopped climbing Mountain Straight bunched up the field yet again. The running order prior to the safety car had seen David Besnard climb into the lead ahead of Todd Kelly, Murphy, Caruso, Luke Youlden and Tony Ricciardello. Steven Johnson pitted with broken front left corner, but would resume many laps down to collect some points for Johnson's impressive championship points run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nThe 888 car of Lowndes/Whincup fought back through the field and led the race around lap 130 before encountering a clutch problem after the safety car restart, which saw them drop back as far as fifth as Ritter climbed into the lead in an impressive driver between himself and David Besnard in the second GRM Commodore. The field was subsequently bunched up with several teams struggling to increase their fuel economy in preparation for the last round of pit stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nAnother safety car on lap 141 ruined many of the front-running cars final pit strategies, including Mark Skaife and Greg Ritter and bunched up the field yet again with 20 laps to go. Upon restart on lap 143, the HRT car number 2 of Garth Tander was issued a bad sportsmanship flag for a dangerous blocking incident which enabled them to retain the lead ahead of Rick Kelly in car number 7. On lap 148 the impressive run of Tony Ricciardello slowed with a spin on the restart. Within ten laps the car speared off at the Chase as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nFrom lap 148 onwards, the second placed car Rick Kelly lacked pace and began holding up Lee Holdsworth, Jason Bargwanna, Jamie Whincup and Jason Richards. Many passing moves followed - notably the move of Bargwanna on Holdsworth on lap 156, and then Whincup coming into contact with Bargwanna the following lap, turning Bargwanna around thus handing Richards third. Greg Murphy was making heaps of time on this group, and moved up to sixth following Bargwanna's spin. This afforded the Tander a lead of around 4.5 seconds by lap 153, despite carrying the same pace to those behind him. Further down the field Allan Simonsen stopped and parked descending the hill, the races final retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nA crash at The Cutting for Nathan Pretty on lap 156 failed to bring out the safety car, despite depositing oil, glass and other debris on the track; however, Tony Ricciardello finding the Chase sand-trap on the following lap did, bunching up the field with only a couple of laps remaining. The restart on lap 159 saw a scramble for position behind the second placed Rick Kelly, acting as a buffer for Tander in the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nKelly was quickly passed by many of the front runners at the start of lap 160, releasing those caught behind to chase down Tander, with Jason Richards fighting into second to lead the chase however by this time, Tander had enough of a gap to retain the lead until the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nLee Holdsworth recovered from an early spin the complete an all Holden podium with Greg Murphy and the best of the part-time drivers Mark Skaife, finishing fourth (and 0.004 seconds off a podium) ahead of the wounded Falcon of Whincup. Jason Bargwanna finished sixth completing a brilliant but largely unrewarded run for the Tasman Motorsport with both cars finishing in the top six but no podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nTim Slade finished seventh in a good run in the second Supercheap Auto Commodore, with the Kelly brothers finishing eighth ahead of the cruelly unrewarded drive of the best all part-time V8 drivers, David Besnard and Greg Ritter. Tony D'Alberto and Andrew Thompson completed the top ten. Thirteen cars finished on the lead lap with 24 cars taking the chequer, last on the road James Courtney and Steven Johnson who lost 30 laps over their mechanical problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Race\nThere was a total of eight safety car interventions throughout the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Results, Starting grid\nThe following table represents the final starting grid for the race on Sunday:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205145-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Standings\nAfter Race 18 of 26 races, the standings in the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205146-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a\nThe 2009 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a was two-legged Spanish football match-up played on 16 August and 23 August 2009. It was contested by Athletic Bilbao, the 2008\u201309 Copa del Rey runners-up, and Barcelona, the 2008\u201309 La Liga and 2008\u201309 Copa del Rey winners. Barcelona won 5\u20131 on aggregate for their eighth Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205147-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto\nThe Supercopa de Espa\u00f1a de Baloncesto 2009 was held on 2\u20133 October in the Centro Insular de Deportes arena in Las Palmas. FC Barcelona won their third title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205148-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercoppa Italiana\nThe 2009 Supercoppa Italiana was a match played by the 2008\u201309 Serie A winners Internazionale and 2008\u201309 Coppa Italia winners Lazio. It took place on 8 August 2009 at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, China. Lazio won the match 2\u20131 to earn their third Supercoppa title. This edition was the first time the Supercoppa Italiana was held in China, with China becoming the fourth country to host the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205148-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercoppa Italiana, Ticket sales\nBy 15 July 2009, approximately half the 70,000 tickets for the match had been sold. By mid-noon of 6 August 2009, 56,780 tickets had been sold. Approximately two hours before the commencement of the match, 68,961 tickets had been sold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205148-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercoppa Italiana, Others\nBecause the matchday marked the one-year anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the organization invited 100 Chinese Olympic gold medallists to attend the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205149-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 2009 Supercupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 11th edition of Romania's season opener cup competition. The match was played in Bucharest at Stadionul Giule\u015fti-Valentin St\u0103nescu on 26 July 2009, and was contested between Liga I title holders, FC Unirea Urziceni and Cupa Rom\u00e2niei champions, CFR Cluj. The winner, after penalties, was CFR Cluj. CFR was the first club not from Bucharest to claim the trophy since its establishment in 1994. The trophy was handed to the winners by Romania national football team coach, R\u0103zvan Lucescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205150-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superettan\nThe Superettan 2009 was the ninth season of Sweden's second-tier football league. The season began on 11 April 2009 and ended on 24 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205150-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superettan\nThe top 2 teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play-off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2010. The bottom 2 teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play-off against the numbers two from Division 1 S\u00f6dra and Division 1 Norra to decide who qualified to play in Superettan 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205150-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Superettan, Relegation play-offs\nTrollh\u00e4ttan and Qviding, who were the 13th and 14th teams in Superettan 2009 faced with Brage and Sk\u00f6vde, who were runners-up of Division 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205150-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Superettan, Relegation play-offs\nTrollh\u00e4ttan won the play-out by 7-4 aggragate and remained in Superettan for 2010 season. Sk\u00f6vde, Division 1 S\u00f6dra runner-up, didn't promote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205150-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Superettan, Relegation play-offs\nBrage, Division 1 Norra runner-up, won the play-out by 3-1 aggregate and promoted to Superettan for 2010 season. Qviding relegated to Division 1 Norra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205151-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superfinalen\nThe 2009 Superfinalen was the first edition of Superfinalen, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Tippeligaen and Norwegian Cup competitions. It was played on 8 March 2009, at Telenor Arena in B\u00e6rum, between Stab\u00e6k and V\u00e5lerenga, winners of the 2008 Tippeligaen and 2008 Norwegian Football Cup respectively. A collaboration between the Football Association of Norway, Norsk Toppfotball, the incumbent league and cup champions, and the broadcaster TV 2, the match was seen as a test of the viability of a Super Cup in Norway. Modeled on the FA Community Shield, the Superfinalen is intended to be a season opener, with the net proceeds of each match going to charity. In 2009, these proceeds were donated to UNICEF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205151-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superfinalen\nThe game was a repeat of the 2008 Norwegian Football Cup Final, in which V\u00e5lerenga had defeated Stab\u00e6k 4\u20131. This time, however, it was Stab\u00e6k who won the match 3\u20131 after goals by Daniel Nannskog, Daigo Kobayashi and P\u00e1lmi Rafn P\u00e1lmason. Mohammed Abdellaoue scored for the losing side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205151-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Superfinalen\nThe game also served as the official opening match of Telenor Arena, which became Stab\u00e6k's home ground from 2009 to 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205152-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superleague Formula season\nThe 2009 Superleague Formula season was the second Superleague Formula championship. The series was rebranded the \"Superleague Formula by Sonangol\" for this season and also 2010 with the Angolan oil company becoming the title sponsor. It began on June 28 at Magny-Cours and finished on November 8 at Jarama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205152-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superleague Formula season\nThe field remained at 18 clubs for the 2009 season but Beijing Guoan did not return to try to retain the title which they won with Davide Rigon in 2008, however Rigon did return in the car of Olympiacos CFP despite GP2 commitments. In Estoril, Mar\u00eda de Villota became the first woman to race in the series and S\u00e9bastien Bourdais became the most successful racing driver to enter the series having been dropped by Scuderia Toro Rosso just weeks earlier. Bourdais described Superleague as \"the best alternative to F1\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205152-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Superleague Formula season\nLiverpool F.C., run under Hitech Junior Team with driver Adri\u00e1n Vall\u00e9s, were crowned series champions for the first time at the last event of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205153-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supersport World Championship\nThe 2009 Supersport World Championship was the eleventh FIM Supersport World Championship season\u2014the thirteenth taking into account the two held under the name of Supersport World Series. The season started on 1 March at Phillip Island and finished on 25 October at Portim\u00e3o after 14 rounds. The championship supported the Superbike World Championship at every round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205153-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Supersport World Championship\nDespite a win at the final round for Eugene Laverty, a fourth-place finish by Cal Crutchlow won him the championship by seven points over the Irish rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205153-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Supersport World Championship, Race calendar and results\nThe provisional race schedule was circulated among the teams in October 2008, and was made official by FIM at the following General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205153-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Supersport World Championship, Entry list\nThe entry list was made official on 15 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205154-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superstars Series\nThe 2009 Superstars Series season was the sixth season of the Campionato Italiano Superstars (Italian Superstars Championship) and the third season of the International Superstars Series. Both championships were won by Gianni Morbidelli driving for BMW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205154-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superstars Series, Championship standings, Rookie Superstars Trophy\nThis ranking is open to drivers who have never participated in the Superstars Series or who have never scored points in previous editions of the Series(2005-2008 seasons). Points are awarded to the top three finishers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 72], "content_span": [73, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205155-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira\nThe 2009 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira was the 31st edition of the Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The match was contested by the 2008\u201309 Primeira Liga winners, Porto and the 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal runners-up, Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira, as Porto also won the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205155-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira\nThe final took place at the Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Aveiro in Aveiro on 9 August 2009. Porto participated in their 25th Superta\u00e7a final, their fourth consecutive final since 2006. Porto went into the match as the Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira 15-time winners. Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira qualified for the competition for the first time in their history. Porto defeated Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira 2\u20130 with goals from Ernesto Far\u00edas and Bruno Alves. With this win, Porto raised their Superta\u00e7a tally to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program\nThe Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, publicly described as the bank stress tests (even though a number of the companies that were subject to them were not banks), was an assessment of capital conducted by the Federal Reserve System and thrift supervisors to determine if the largest U.S. financial organizations had sufficient capital buffers to withstand the recession and the financial market turmoil. The test used two macroeconomic scenarios, one based on baseline conditions and the other with more pessimistic expectations, to plot a 'What If?' exploration into the banking situation in the rest of 2009 and into 2010. The capital levels at 19 institutions were assessed based on their Tier 1 common capital, although it was originally thought that regulators would use tangible common equity as the yardstick. The results of the tests were released on May 7, 2009, at 5pm EST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 934]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program\nBefore the tests were completed, the central problems facing the Treasury Department were (1) whether the tests would increase or decrease confidence in any companies that did badly on their tests and (2) whether or not the $350 billion in bailout funds that remained could cover the needed funding after the tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Scope and purpose\nThe exercise was limited to bank holding companies (national banks and companies which own banks) with assets greater than $100 billion. The 19 banking organizations included in the exercise comprised the core of the US banking system, representing roughly two\u2010thirds of aggregate U.S. bank holding company assets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Scope and purpose\nThe supervisors conducted the capital assessments on an interagency basis to ensure that they were carried out in a timely and consistent manner. Each participating financial institution was instructed to analyze potential firm\u2010wide losses, including in its loan and securities portfolios, as well as from any off\u2010balance sheet commitments and contingent liabilities/exposures, under two defined economic scenarios over a two-year time horizon (2009 \u2013 2010). In addition, firms with trading assets of $50 billion or more were asked to estimate potential trading\u2010related losses under the same scenarios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Scope and purpose\nParticipating financial institutions also forecasted internal resources available to absorb losses, including pre\u2010provision net revenue and the allowance for loan losses. As part of the supervisory process, the supervisors met with senior management at each financial institution to review and discuss the institution's loss and revenue forecasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Scope and purpose\nBased on those discussions, the supervisors assessed institution\u2010specific potential losses and estimated resources to absorb those losses under the baseline and more adverse case, and determined whether the institution had a sufficient capital buffer necessary to ensure it had the amount and quality of capital necessary to perform its vital role in the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions\nThe capital assessment covered two economic scenarios:  a baseline scenario and a more adverse scenario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 84], "content_span": [85, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions, Baseline scenario\nFor implementation of the supervisory capital assessment program, the baseline assumptions for real GDP growth and the unemployment rate for 2009 and 2010 were assumed to be equal to the average of the projections published by Consensus Forecasts, the Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey, and the Survey of Professional Forecasters in February  2009. This baseline was intended to represent a consensus view about the depth and duration of the recession. Given the current uncertain environment, there is a risk that the economy could turn out to be appreciably weaker than expected in the baseline outlook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions, Baseline scenario\nThe assumptions for the baseline economic outlook are consistent with the house price path implied by futures prices for the Case\u2010Shiller 10\u2010City Composite index and the average response to a special question on house prices in the latest Blue Chip survey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 103], "content_span": [104, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions, More adverse scenario\nTo aid financial institutions in their ongoing risk management practices, the supervisors have also put together an alternative \u201cmore adverse\u201d scenario. By design, the path of the US economy in this alternative more adverse scenario reflects a deeper and longer recession than in the baseline. The consensus expectation is that economic activity is likely to be better than shown in the more adverse alternative; nonetheless, an outcome such as the alternative cannot be ruled out. The \u201cmore adverse\u201d scenario was constructed from the historical track record of private forecasters as well as their current assessments of uncertainty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 107], "content_span": [108, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions, More adverse scenario\nIn particular, based on the historical accuracy of Blue Chip forecasts made since the late 1970s, the likelihood that the average unemployment rate in 2010 could be at least as high as in the alternative more adverse scenario is roughly 10 percent. In addition, the subjective probability assessments provided by participants in the January Consensus Forecasts survey and the February Survey of Professional Forecasters imply a roughly 15 percent chance that real GDP growth could be as least as low, and unemployment at least as high, as assumed in the more adverse scenario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 107], "content_span": [108, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Macroeconomic scenarios and assumptions, More adverse scenario\nFor the more adverse scenario, house prices are assumed to be about 10 percent lower at the end of 2010 relative to their level in the baseline scenario. Based on the year\u2010to\u2010year variability in house prices since 1900, and controlling for macroeconomic factors, there is roughly a 10 percent probability that house prices will be 10 percent lower than in the baseline by 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 107], "content_span": [108, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nThe capital assessment is intended to capture all aspects of a financial institution's business that would be impacted under the baseline and more adverse scenarios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nSupervisors will carefully evaluate the forecasts submitted by each financial institution to ensure they are appropriate, consistent with the firm's underlying portfolio performance and reflective of each entity's particular business activities and risk profile. The assessment of the firm's capital and the size of any potential needed additions to capital will be determined by the supervisors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nThe assessment of capital adequacy considers many factors including: the inherent risks of the institution's exposures and business activities, the quality of its balance sheet assets and its off-balance-sheet commitments, the firm's earning projections, expectations regarding economic conditions and the composition and quality of its capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nSpecific factors supervisors consider include: uncertainty about the potential impact on earnings and capital from current and prospective economic conditions;  asset quality and concentrations of credit exposures;  the potential for unanticipated losses and declines in asset values;  off\u2010balance sheet and contingent liabilities (e.g., implicit and explicit liquidity and credit commitments); the composition, level and quality of capital;  the ability of the institution to raise additional common stock and other forms of capital in the market;  and other risks that are not fully captured in regulatory capital calculations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nUnder current rules for bank holding companies, supervisors expect bank holding companies to hold capital above minimum regulatory capital levels, commensurate with the level and nature of the risks to which they are exposed. That amount of capital held in excess of minimum capital requirements should be commensurate with their firm\u2010specific risk profiles, and account for all material risks. The assessment of capital under the two macroeconomic scenarios being used in the capital assessment program will permit supervisors to ascertain whether the buffer over the regulatory capital minimum is appropriate under more severe but plausible scenarios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nAn institution that requires additional capital will enter into a commitment to issue a CAP convertible preferred security to the U.S. Treasury in an amount sufficient to meet the capital requirement determined through the supervisory assessment. Each institution will be permitted up to six months to raise private capital in public markets to meet this requirement and would be able to cancel the capital commitment without penalty. The CAP convertible preferred securities will be converted into common equity shares on an as\u2010needed basis. Financial institutions that issued preferred capital under Treasury's existing Capital Purchase Program (TARP 1) will have the option of redeeming those securities and replacing them with the new CAP convertible preferred securities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 846]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Results and consequences\nThe capital assessment is part of the supervisory process and thus subject to the same framework used for bank examinations or bank holding company inspections. There will be ample opportunity for discussions between the financial institutions and supervisory agencies regarding the loss estimates and earnings forecasts during the capital assessment process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Banks tested\nThe nineteen bank holding companies being stress-tested are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205156-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, Banks tested\nThe capital needs found by the test are based on the adverse scenario for the recession. All of these bank holding companies currently exceed the legally mandated capital requirements. However, the government will try by extra-legal means to compel those who are found to need more to obtain it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205157-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Suriname President's Cup\nThe 2009 Suriname President's Cup was won by Walking Bout Company who beat Inter Moengotapoe 3-0 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205158-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Surrey County Council election\nElections to Surrey County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205158-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Surrey County Council election\nAll locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205158-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Surrey County Council election\nIt is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election. The next election is scheduled for 4 May 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205158-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Surrey County Council election, Summary\nThe Conservatives maintained overall control of the council with a 16-seat majority and the Liberal Democrat Group remained the councils official opposition. The Labour Party lost one of its two seats and retained the other. The one Independent councillor retained his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205159-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Suruga Bank Championship\nThe 2009 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: \u30b9\u30eb\u30ac\u9280\u884c\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30d4\u30aa\u30f3\u30b7\u30c3\u30d72009; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2009) was a match between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and the Copa Sudamericana. It was contested by the 2008 J. League Cup winner Japanese club Oita Trinita and the 2008 Copa Sudamericana champion Brazilian club Internacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205159-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Suruga Bank Championship\nInternacional won the match 2\u20131 to win their first Suruga Bank Championship, and their fifth international title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205159-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Suruga Bank Championship, Summary\nAssistant referees: Min Byoung Choi  Soonyong YoonFourth official: Ryuji Sato", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205160-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season\nThe 2009 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season was Suwon Samsung Bluewings's fourteenth season in the K-League in Republic of Korea. Suwon Samsung Bluewings is competing in K-League, League Cup, Korean FA Cup, Pan-Pacific Championship and Champions League as K-League winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205160-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205161-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special\nThe 2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special was the sixth round of the 2009 Super GT season and was the 38th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event, although for the first time since 1969, the race was not 1000\u00a0km in length as in a bid to reduce CO2 emissions, the race distance was shortented to 700\u00a0km. It took place on August 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205162-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen\nSvenska Cupen 2009 was the 54th season of the main Swedish football Cup. AIK beat IFK G\u00f6teborg in the final 2-0 to lift the cup, thereby completing a league and cup double for the 2009 season. The competition started on 14 March 2009 and concluded with the final on November 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205162-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen, Preliminary round\n50 teams from the third level or lower of the Swedish league pyramid competed in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205162-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen, Round 1\nTwelve lower league teams, three teams which earned promotion to Superettan 2009 and the bottom eight teams from Superettan 2008 entered in this round. They were joined by 25 preliminary round winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205162-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen, Round 2\nThree demoted teams from Allsvenskan 2008 and five teams ranked 4th through 8th in Superettan 2008 entered in this round, where they were joined by 24 winners from Round 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205162-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen, Round 3\nSixteen teams from Allsvenskan 2009 will enter in this round. They will be joined by the 16 winners of Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205163-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen Final\nThe 2009 Svenska Cupen Final took place on November 7, 2009 at R\u00e5sunda Stadium in Solna. The match was contested between recently crowned Allsvenskan champions AIK and Allsvenskan runners-up IFK G\u00f6teborg, The two teams actually met in the last and crucial league match of the season, just six days before the cup final, where AIK won 2-1 and became league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205163-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Cupen Final\nThis cup final was also won by AIK after two second half goals by Iv\u00e1n Obolo and Ant\u00f4nio Fl\u00e1vio. Thanks to the win, AIK secured a Double for the first time in their history. IFK G\u00f6teborg played their third cup final in a row and their fourth in the 2000s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205164-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Supercupen\nSvenska Supercupen 2009, Swedish Super Cup 2009, was a Swedish football match, played 21 March 2009 between Allsvenskan champions Kalmar FF and Svenska Cupen winners IFK G\u00f6teborg. The match was played at Fredriksskans in Kalmar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205164-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Supercupen\nDaniel Mendes scored a late goal in the 89th minute, winning the match for Kalmar FF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205164-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Svenska Supercupen\nThis was the 3rd edition of Svenska Supercupen, the first was in 2007 when IF Elfsborg beat Helsingborgs IF 1-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205165-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swan Islands earthquake\nThe 2009 Swan Islands earthquake occurred on May 28 at 02:24:45 AM local time with a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The epicenter was located in the Caribbean Sea, 64 kilometres (40\u00a0mi)  northeast of the island of Roat\u00e1n, 19 miles northeast of Port Royal, Isla de Bahias, 15 miles northwest of Isla Barbaretta, and 130 kilometres (81\u00a0mi) north-northeast of La Ceiba. Three aftershocks followed the earthquake within magnitude 4 range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205165-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swan Islands earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred at a depth of around 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) on a transform fault zone known as the Swan Islands Transform Fault on the southern margin of the Cayman Trough. It was a result of left-lateral strike-slip faulting. The Swan Island Transform Fault forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate, and continues onshore as the Motagua Fault and the Chixoy-Polochic Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205165-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swan Islands earthquake, Earthquake\nThe 30-second offshore quake was felt in Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and as far as Canc\u00fan in Mexico. It was also felt in parts of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205165-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swan Islands earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused at least seven fatalities, 40 injuries, and more than 130 collapsed or damaged buildings across northern Honduras. Two important bridges and a number of levees and port terminals were also seriously damaged. In the Guatemalan department of Izabal, 35 buildings were destroyed and 80 were damaged. In Belize, at least 5 buildings were also destroyed and 25 were damaged. In Roatan, one home was damaged and one injury occurred. The earthquake caused an estimated $37 million worth of damage, and electricity, Internet and telephone connections were cut throughout the majority of Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205165-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swan Islands earthquake, Damage\nA tsunami watch was put into effect by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize and was discontinued 90 minutes after the earthquake occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205166-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Church Assembly elections\nOn September 20, 2009, elections were held for all 251 seats in the General Synod of the Church of Sweden. Since the 1930s, nominating groups have often been directly affiliated with national political parties, but many groups are now established separately from political parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205167-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Football Division 2, Player of the year awards\nEver since 2003 the online bookmaker Unibet have given out awards at the end of the season to the best players in Division 2. The recipients are decided by a jury of sportsjournalists, coaches and football experts. The names highlighted in green won the overall national award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205168-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Football Division 3\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205169-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour\nThe 2009 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the SAS Masters Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden, Finland and Lithuania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205169-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour\nThe tournaments also featured on the 2009 Nordic Golf League (NGL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205169-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule\nThe season consisted of 14 events played between April and October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205170-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour (women)\nThe 2009 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the SAS Masters Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205170-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour (women)\n2009 was the second and final season with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) as main sponsor, as the airline ran into financial difficulties due to the Great Recession. Purses were reduced and the LET event G\u00f6teborg Masters, where 25 places were reserved for players of the tour, was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205170-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour (women)\nKarin B\u00f6rjeskog, Hanna-Leena Ronkainen and Anna Rossi all won two events, and B\u00f6rjeskog won the Order of Merit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205170-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule\nThe season consisted of 14 tournaments played between May and October, where one event was held in Finland, and one was a Ladies European Tour event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205170-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Order of Merit\nAn official feeder tour for the Ladies European Tour, the top two finishers in the Order of Merit earned LET cards for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205171-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open\nThe 2009 Collector Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the Collector Swedish Open. It took place in B\u00e5stad, Sweden, from 6 July through 11 July 2009 for the women and from 13 July through 19 July 2009 for the men. Robin S\u00f6derling and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205171-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205171-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open, ATP entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205171-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nJaroslav Levinsk\u00fd /  Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek defeated  Robin S\u00f6derling /  Robert Lindstedt, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205171-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nGisela Dulko /  Flavia Pennetta defeated  Nuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, 6\u20132, 0\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205172-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJonas Bj\u00f6rkman and Robin S\u00f6derling were the defending champions, but Bj\u00f6rkman retired from tennis before being able to defend the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205172-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nS\u00f6derling teamed up with Robert Lindstedt, but Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd and Filip Pol\u00e1\u0161ek defeated them in the final 1\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205173-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nTommy Robredo was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205173-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRobin S\u00f6derling won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20136(7\u20134), against Juan M\u00f3naco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205173-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205174-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nGisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta won in the final 6\u20132, 0\u20136, 10\u20135, against Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205175-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe 2009 Collector Swedish Open was a tennis tournament held in B\u00e5stad, Sweden. It was the 1st edition of the Collector Swedish Open. The women's singles section was played July 6\u201311, 2009. The winner was Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, who defeated Caroline Wozniacki in the final by 7-5, 6-4. Participants and match results are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship\nThe 2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 14th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. It was decided over nine race weekends (comprising eighteen races) at six different circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship\nTommy Rustad won the drivers' championship for the second time. The ethanol powered Volvo C30 of Polestar Racing proved to be the fastest car over one lap, as evidenced by them setting all fastest qualifying times during the season (although grid penalties ruined the perfect score), but they were plagued by bad reliability. Instead, Thed Bj\u00f6rk, driving for Flash Engineering, lead the championship most of the season, only to be overtaken in the last race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship\nThe team championship also went down to the wire, with Polestar Racing besting WestCoast Racing by one point in the last race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship\nThe entry of the Biogas.se team with their Volkswagen Scirocco meant the debut of a biogas powered car in STCC. Unfortunately, they had trouble matching the pace of the other factory teams and ended up last in the team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Drivers\nThese were the STCC entries for the 2009 season. Drivers with numbers 88 and higher also competed in Semcon Cup, open for privateers only. All teams were Swedish-registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Drivers\n* Mikko Tiainen, Petter Granlund and Joakim Ahlberg were on the official entry list, but failed to participate in any races during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings\nThe points system used for both the main championship and Semcon Cup was the standard FIA system of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1, awarded to the top eight finishers of each race. In case of ties in points, the championship positions were determined by the classification in the latest race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Races\n* Robert Dahlgren set the fastest qualifying time, but was moved down 10 places on the grid, due to engine changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Races\n\u266f Robert Dahlgren set the fastest qualifying time, but was moved down 10 places on the grid, due to having received two yellow cards for unfair driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship\nThe drivers' championship was won by Tommy Rustad. In the end he scored the same number of points as Thed Bj\u00f6rk, but won thanks to finishing higher in the last race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship\n* Tommy Rustad was given a 30 seconds time penalty for an incident in the start, dropping him from 7th to 14th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Drivers Championship\n\u266f Robert Dahlgren was docked 10 points in the drivers' championship, due to being deemed responsible for a crash with Thed Bj\u00f6rk. Note that this penalty didn't affect the team score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Team Championship\nThe team championship was won by Polestar Racing, a single point ahead of West Coast Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205176-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship, Results and standings, Semcon Cup\nThe results in the 2009 Semcon Cup were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election\nA by-election to the Swiss Federal Council was held in Switzerland on 16 September 2009, after incumbent Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin (Free Democratic Party, FDP/PLR) announced his intention to retire on 31 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election\nSome saw the election as an important decision regarding whom the \"fourth seat\" in the Federal Council belonged to (the FDP or the CVP), and as an indirect political decision regarding whether the SP or the SVP would have more influence in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election\nDidier Burkhalter (FDP/PLR) was elected to succeed Couchepin in the fourth ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions\nThe election became a contest between the center-right Free Democrats and the centrist Christian Democrats, who both claimed to be entitled to the free Council seat. The right-wing Swiss People's Party and the left-wing Social Democratic Party's support, however, will decide the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Free Democratic Party\nThe FDP entered the election trying to retain Pascal Couchepin's seat. Representative Didier Burkhalter (Neuch\u00e2tel) announced his candidacy on 8 July 2009, followed by the Genevan representatives Christian L\u00fcscher on 9 July and Martine Brunschwig Graf on 12 July, as well as Pascal Broulis (Vaud) on 6 August. Party president Fulvio Pelli, while not officially putting himself forward, stated that he would stand in the election if nominated by his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Free Democratic Party\nThe FDP decided on 29 August to nominate two candidates, Burkhalter and L\u00fcscher. L\u00fcscher was seen as a right-wing candidate and Burkhalter as a centrist; some speculated that the FDP had nominated L\u00fcscher to appease the SVP, while wanting Burkhalter to be elected. This strategy was considered to be risky, however, as a final vote between the FDP's L\u00fcscher and the CVP's Schwaller would likely see Schwaller's election. The FDP claimed that L\u00fcscher was not at all meant as an appeasement, and that he was as legitimate a candidate as Burkhalter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Free Democratic Party\nShortly before the election, Dick Marty (FDP Ticino) announced without the support of his party that he would accept an election; it was seen as possible that some SP and Green representatives might support him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 90], "content_span": [91, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Christian Democratic Party\nThe Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC) also stated it was entitled to a second seat. Dominique de Buman from the CVP Fribourg announced his candidacy on 7 August 2009. Urs Schwaller (CVP Fribourg) will also stand. Furthermore, Luigi Pedrazzini (CVP Ticino) was nominated on 31 August 2009. On 8 September 2009, the CVP unanimously nominated Schwaller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Swiss People's Party\nThe Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) maintained that it was entitled to a second seat on the Federal Council, but that it had not yet decided when to try and obtain it. The SVP announced that it would only support the FDP's candidate if the FDP agreed to a fixed timetable for the election of a second SVP councilor. The SVP was strongly considering proposing their own candidate, with Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rime (SVP Fribourg) the only likely candidate; if they do not propose their own candidate, they stated they would only vote for FDP candidates, as they do not recognize the CVP's claim to a second seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 89], "content_span": [90, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Social Democratic Party\nSP representatives stated that they would consider the candidates of CVP and FDP on their own merits, as they don't see either of the two parties having a natural claim to the seat; supporting the Greens was seen as unlikely, but possible. The FDP's Pelli was the only candidate the SP ruled out supporting. Analysts stated the SP had to take into account that it would likely shortly have to replace Moritz Leuenberger's seat, and that it couldn't risk alienating the FDP too strongly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 92], "content_span": [93, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Social Democratic Party\nThe SVP almost directly threatened it might vote against the SP's second candidate and for a Green candidate in the next complete renewal of the Federal Council in 2011. Shortly before the election, the SP declared that it was not decided that its members would prefer Schwaller; while he was closer to the SP on the issues, some members of the SP were reluctant to vote for a non-FDP candidate on institutional grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 92], "content_span": [93, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Social Democratic Party\nThe SP also stated it would openly announce its voting behaviour (likely in an attempt to show that some SVP members \u2013 likely from constituencies strongly influenced by the farming community \u2013 would vote for Schwaller, who had tried to raise his profile as a critic of agricultural free trade with the EU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 92], "content_span": [93, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Greens\nThe Greens decided on 28 August not to propose a candidate for the seat, as they had done in the two previous elections when SVP seats were contested, because they considered the time not to be right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Candidates and party positions, Conservative Democrats\nThe small Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) stated that if any agreement to replace Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf with a SVP representative came to pass, the party would vote for the CVP's candidate. Furthermore, the BDP proposed giving the BDP's votes to the CVP candidate in exchange for the CVP's support for Widmer-Schlumpf's reelection in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 91], "content_span": [92, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Procedure\nFederal Council elections proceed in as many ballots as are required for a candidate to receive an absolute majority of valid votes. Each of the 246 members of the Federal Assembly, members of the National Council and the Council of States alike, hold one vote. Article 132, par. 3 and 4 of the Parliament Act provides that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Procedure\n3 In the first two ballots, any person who is eligible for election may be voted for. From the third ballot onwards, no additional candidatures are permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Procedure\n4 Excluded from the election are: a. those who obtain fewer than ten votes from the second ballot onwards; and b. the person who receives the lowest number of votes from the third ballot onwards, unless more than one person receives this same number of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205177-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Federal Council election, Results\nAfter the first ballot, Dick Marty asked his colleagues, in a personal statement, to support his party's official candidates. After the third ballot, Christian L\u00fcscher asked his colleagues to support Didier Burkhalter. Didier Burkhalter accepted his election to Federal Councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205178-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Figure Skating Championships\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 58.143.166.173 (talk) at 18:36, 22 June 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205178-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Swiss Figure Skating Championships took place between 4 and 6 December 2008 at the Patinoire du Littoral arena in La Chaux-de-Fonds Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels. The results were used to choose the Swiss teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205178-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Figure Skating Championships\nThe senior compulsory dance was the Paso Doble and the junior compulsory dance was the Starlight Waltz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205179-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Olympic curling trials\nThe 2009 Swiss Olympic curling trials were held October 12-14 in Arlesheim. The winning team represented Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205179-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Olympic curling trials\nOnly a men's event was held. Mirjam Ott's women's team was the only team that entered for the women's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205180-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss Open Super Series\nThe 2009 Swiss Open Super Series was the fourth tournament of 2009 BWF Super Series badminton tournament. It was held from March 10 to March 15, 2009 in Basel, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum\nThe federal popular initiative \"against the construction of minarets\" was a successful popular initiative in Switzerland to prevent the construction of minarets on mosques. In a November 2009 referendum, a constitutional amendment banning the construction of new minarets was approved by 57.5% of the participating voters. Only three of the twenty Swiss cantons and one half canton, mostly in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, opposed the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum\nThis referendum originates from action on 1 May 2007, when a group of right of centre politicians, mainly from the Swiss People's Party and the Federal Democratic Union, the Egerkinger Komittee (\"Egerkingen Committee\") launched a federal popular initiative that sought a constitutional ban on minarets. The minaret at the mosque of the local Turkish cultural association in Wangen bei Olten was the initial motivation for the initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum\nThe Swiss government recommended that the proposed amendment be rejected as inconsistent with the basic principles of the constitution. However, after the results were tabulated, the government immediately announced that the ban was in effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum\nAs of the date of the 2009 vote, there were four minarets in Switzerland, attached to mosques in Z\u00fcrich, Geneva, Winterthur and Wangen bei Olten. These existing minarets were not affected by the ban, as they had already been constructed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Background, Legal dispute\nThe Swiss minaret controversy began in a small municipality in the northern part of Switzerland in 2005. The contention involved the Turkish cultural association in Wangen bei Olten, which applied for a construction permit to erect a 6-metre-high minaret on the roof of its Islamic community centre. The project faced opposition from surrounding residents, who had formed a group to prevent the tower's erection. The Turkish association claimed that the building authorities improperly and arbitrarily delayed its building application. They also believed that the members of the local opposition group were motivated by religious bias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Background, Legal dispute\nThe Communal Building and Planning Commission rejected the association's application. The applicants appealed to the Building and Justice Department, which reverted the decision and remanded. As a consequence of that decision, local residents (who were members of the group mentioned) and the commune of Wangen brought the case before the Administrative Court of the Canton of Solothurn, but failed with their claims. On appeal the Federal Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower court. The 6-metre (20\u00a0ft)-high minaret was erected in July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Background, Initial attempts at popular initiatives\nFrom 2006 until 2008, members of the Swiss People's Party and the Federal Democratic Union launched several cantonal initiatives against the erection of minarets. The initiatives were  held to be unconstitutional by cantonal parliaments and therefore void, and did not proceed to balloting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum\nIn 2007, in response to the political defeats described above, the Egerkinger committee launched a federal popular initiative against minarets. The committee's proposed amendment to article 72 of the Swiss Federal Constitution read: \"The building of minarets is prohibited.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum\nIn Switzerland, federal popular initiatives are not subject to judicial review, as they amend the federal constitution (whereas cantonal initiatives can be challenged in court for violating federal law). Federal initiatives are still bound by international law (jus cogens), however. Promoters of popular initiatives have 18 months to collect at least 100,000 signatures. If they succeed, the initiative is put before the Swiss citizenry in a national vote. Both federal and cantonal initiatives are common in Switzerland, resulting in many referendum votes each year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Egerkinger committee\nThe Egerkinger committee was made up of members of the Swiss People's Party and the Federal Democratic Union. The committee opined that the interests of residents, who are disturbed by specific kinds of religious land uses, are to be taken seriously. Moreover, it argued that Swiss residents should be able to block unwanted and unusual projects such as the erection of Islamic minarets. The committee alleged, inter alia, that \"the construction of a minaret has no religious meaning. Neither in the Qur'an, nor in any other holy scripture of Islam is the minaret expressly mentioned at any point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Egerkinger committee\nThe minaret is far more a symbol of a claim of religious-political power [...].\" The initiators justified their point of view by quoting parts of a speech in 1997 by Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan (later Prime Minister and President of Turkey), which stated: \"Mosques are our barracks, domes our helmets, minarets our bayonets, believers our soldiers. This holy army guards my religion.\" Ulrich Schluer, one of the Egerkinger committee's most prominent spokesmen, stated on that point: \"A minaret has nothing to do with religion: It just symbolises a place where Islamic law is established.\" The members of the Egerkinger committee included, among others, Ulrich Schluer, Christian Waber, Walter Wobmann, Jasmin Hutter, Oskar Freysinger, Eric Bonjour, Sylvia Fl\u00fcckiger, Lukas Reimann, and Natalie Rickli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Poster campaign\nFirst poster (in German); showing minarets on a Swiss flag and a woman wearing an abaya and niqab. The text reads, \"Stop\", \"Yes to the minaret ban\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Poster campaign\nSecond poster (in French); after some municipalities refused to allow posting of the original version on public ground, the second poster reads \"Censorship, one more reason to say yes to the minaret ban\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Poster campaign\nThe committee's campaign featured posters featuring a drawing of a Muslim woman in an abaya and niqab, next to a number of minarets on a Swiss flag pictured in a way \"reminiscent of missiles\". The Swiss People's Party also published a similar poster, with the minarets protruding through a Swiss flag. A few days before the election, campaigners drove a vehicle near Geneva Mosque in the Le Petit-Saconnex imitating the adhan, the Islamic call to ritual prayer (salat) using loudspeakers. Its neighbourhood voted by 1,942 votes to 1,240 to reject the ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Feminists\nThe British newspaper The Times cited support of the minaret ban from \"radical feminists\" who opposed the oppression of women in Islamic societies. Among those named were the notable Dutch feminist and former politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who in December gave her support to the ban with an article entitled \"Swiss ban on minarets was a vote for tolerance and inclusion\". The Times further reported that in pre-election polling, Swiss women supported the ban by a greater percentage than Swiss men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Society of St Pius X\nThe traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX), which has its headquarters at Ec\u00f4ne in Switzerland, supported the ban on minarets, denouncing opposition to the ban by some Catholic bishops:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Society of St Pius X\nthe confusion maintained by certain Vatican II Council authorities between tolerating a person, whatever his religion and tolerating an ideology that is incompatible with Christian tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Support, Society of St Pius X\nThe Islamic doctrine cannot be accepted when you know what it is all about. How can one expect to condone the propagation of an ideology that encourages husbands to beat their wives, the \u201cbeliever\u201d to murder the \u201cinfidel\u201d, a justice that uses body mutilation as punishment, and pushes to reject Jews and Christians?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, The Swiss Government\nOn 28 August 2008 the Swiss Federal Council opposed a building ban on minarets. It said that the popular initiative against their construction had been submitted in accordance with the applicable regulations, but infringed guaranteed international human rights and contradicted the core values of the Swiss Federal Constitution. It believed a ban would endanger peace between religions and would not help to prevent the spread of fundamentalist Islamic beliefs. In its opinion, the Federal Council therefore recommended the Swiss people to reject the initiative. On 24 October 2008 the Federal Commission against Racism criticised the people's initiative, claiming that it defamed Muslims and violated religious freedom, which was protected by fundamental human rights and the ban on discrimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 75], "content_span": [76, 875]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Parliament\nThe Federal Assembly recommended (by 132 to 51 votes and 11 abstentions) in spring of 2009 that the Swiss people reject the minaret ban initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Non-governmental organisations\nThe Society for Minorities in Switzerland called for freedom and equality and started an internet-based campaign in order to gather as many symbolic signatures as possible against a possible minaret ban. Amnesty International warned the minaret ban aimed to exploit fears of Muslims and encourage xenophobia for political gains. \"This initiative claims to be a defense against rampant Islamification of Switzerland,\" Daniel Bolomey, the head of Amnesty's Swiss office, said in a statement cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP). \"But it seeks to discredit Muslims and defames them, pure and simple.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Non-governmental organisations\nEconomiesuisse considered that an absolute construction ban would hit Swiss foreign interests negatively, claiming that merely the launch of the initiative had caused turmoil in the Islamic world. The Swiss-based \"Unser Recht\" (\"Our Law\") association published a number of articles against the minaret ban. In autumn 2009, the Swiss Journal of Religious Freedom launched a public campaign for religious harmony, security, and justice in Switzerland, and distributed several thousand stickers in the streets of Z\u00fcrich in support of the right to religious freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 85], "content_span": [86, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Religious organisations\nRoman Catholic bishops opposed a minaret ban. A statement from the Swiss Bishops Conference said that a ban would hinder interreligious dialogue and that the construction and operation of minarets were already regulated by Swiss building codes. The statement added that \"Our request for the initiative to be rejected is based on our Christian values and the democratic principles in our country.\" The official journal of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland published a series of articles on the minaret controversy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Religious organisations\nThe Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches held that the federal popular initiative was not about minarets, but was rather an expression of the initiators\u2019 concern and fear of Islam. It viewed a minaret ban as a wrong approach to express such objections. The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities was also against any ban on building minarets. Dr Herbert Winter, the president of the Federation, said in 2009: \u201cAs Jews we have our own experience. For centuries we were excluded: we were not allowed to construct synagogues or cupola roofs. We do not want that kind of exclusion repeated.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Religious organisations\nOther religious organisations described the idea of a complete minaret ban as lamentable; the Association of Evangelical Free Churches; the Swiss Evangelical Alliance; the Old Catholic Church in Switzerland; the Covenant of Swiss Baptists; the Salvation Army; the Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland; the Orthodox Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; the Serbian Orthodox Church in Switzerland; and the Anglican Church in Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Individual legal experts\nMarcel St\u00fcssi argued that any ban would be incompatible with articles of international law, to which Switzerland was a signatory. In any case, cantonal zoning laws already prohibited the construction of buildings that did not match their surroundings. \"Right-wing initiatives like the minaret one can misuse the system,\" said St\u00fcssi. He called the initiative \"obsolete and unnecessary\", but added that the public discourse on the issue could put Switzerland in a positive light, at least for the majority who at that point opposed a ban. In July 2008, before the popular initiative, he argued that \"crisis always creates an opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Individual legal experts\nA popular vote against a proposed ban would be the highest declaration for the recognition of the Swiss Muslim community.\" \"It would also be an expressed statement that anybody is equally subject to the law and to the political process,\" St\u00fcssi said in an interview with World Radio Switzerland. Heinrich Koller stated that \"Switzerland must abide by international law because both systems together form a unity.\" Giusep Nay states that from an objective viewpoint jus cogens is to be read and given effect in association with fundamental norms of international law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0020-0002", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Individual legal experts\nAccording to Nay, this interpretation meant that any state action must be in accordance with fundamental material justice, and applied not only to interpretations of applicable law but also to new law. Erwin Tanner saw the initiative as breaching not only the constitutionally entrenched right to religious freedom, but also the rights to freedom of expression, enjoyment of property, and equality. The editorial board of the Revue de Droit Suisse called for invalidation of the initiative as \"it appears that the material content of popular initiatives is subject to ill-considered draftsmanship because the drafters are affected by particular emotions that merely last for snatches.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Opposition, Individual legal experts\nSami Aldeeb positioned himself for ban on the erection of minarets in Switzerland, since in his opinion the constitution allows prayer, but not shouting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Result\nIn a referendum on 29 November 2009, the amendment, which needed a double majority to pass, was approved by 57.5% (1\u00a0534\u00a0054 citizens) of the voters and by 19\u00bd cantons out of 23. Geneva, Vaud and Neuch\u00e2tel, all of which are French-speaking cantons, voted against the ban (59.7%, 53.1% and 50.9% respectively). The canton of Basel-City, which has half a cantonal vote and the largest Muslim community of Switzerland, also rejected the ban by 51.6%. The voter turnout was 53.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Result\nAt the district level, not including Basel-City and Geneva (which are not divided into districts), the initiative gained a majority of the vote in all 148 districts, apart from sixteen:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Result\nThe cities of Zurich and Berne, along with Geneva and Basel, also showed a slight majority opposed to the ban. The canton of Zurich as a whole, however, voted 52% in support of it. The highest percentage of votes in favour of the ban were counted in Appenzell Innerrhoden (71%) followed by Glarus (69%), Ticino (68%) and Thurgau (68%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Referendum, Result\nAn independent study carried out by the political scientists Markus Freitag (University of Konstanz), Thomas Milic and Adrian Vatter (University of Bern) noted a good level of knowledge among voters. Contrary to what had been previously thought, the surveys before the referendum did not influence voters, as it is hard to do so with people who are accustomed to them. Those who voted did so according to their political convictions, and by taking into account the different arguments. The study also attributed the result to the fact that supporters of the ban overwhelmingly turned out to vote in the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nThere was a claim that the ban on new minarets might be put to the test in the case of a pending project to build a minaret for a mosque in Langenthal, canton of Berne. The Muslim community of Langenthal announced its intention to take its case to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, and, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nThe community's attorney also expressed doubts as to whether the ban could be considered to affect the Langenthal project, because an application for planning permission had been made to the local planning authority in 2006, prior to the referendum result; thus, it was arguable that the ban should not be taken to apply to this project ex post facto. However, a professor of law at St. Gallen University expressed the opinion that the ban rendered the Langenthal project obsolete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nWhether the Langenthal mosque would be affected would depend on the details of the eventual implementation. According to Alexander Ruch, professor of building law at ETH Zurich, there was, at that point, no official definition of the term \"minaret\", leaving open the handling of hypothetical cases, such as the chimney of a factory building that is converted into a mosque. In the case of the Langenthal minaret, it was even argued that the planned structure was a minaret-like tower and not a minaret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nCalls to prayer had been a frequent argument against permitting new minarets, and the planned tower in Langenthal could not be used for that purpose. In the case of the Islamic center in Frauenfeld, canton of Thurgau, an existing ventilation shaft had been adorned with a sheet metal cone topped with a crescent moon. In October 2009, the Frauenfeld city council declined to treat the structure as a \"minaret\", saying that it had been officially declared a ventilation shaft, and that the additional crescent moon had not provided cause for comment during the six years since its installation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nThe Swiss Green Party declared that in their opinion, the ban introduced a contradiction into the Swiss constitution, which also contains a paragraph guaranteeing freedom of religion, and in November 2009, the party announced its intention to appeal to the European Court on Human Rights on the matter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, Aftermath of the referendum and implementation of the ban\nSeveral applications to the European Court of Human Rights were rejected in 2011 on the grounds that the applicants were not affected parties, as they did not intend to build minarets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, International reactions\nThe ban sparked reactions from governments and political parties throughout of the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205181-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss minaret referendum, International reactions, Non-governmental political responses\nThe Swiss referendum was welcomed by several European far right parties:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 92], "content_span": [93, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums\nEight referendums were held in Switzerland during 2009. The first was held on 8 February on extending the freedom of movement for workers from Bulgaria and Romania. The next two were held on 17 May 2009 on introducing biometric passports and the \"Future with complementary medicine\" proposal. A further two were held on 27 September on increasing VAT and the introduction of public initiatives. The final three were held on 29 November on banning the construction of new minarets, exporting weapons and the use of aviation fuel taxation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, February referendum\nThe February referendum was held on extending the freedom of movement for workers within the European Union to Bulgaria and Romania, who joined the EU on 1 January 2007, and on removing the sunset provision from the agreement. If Swiss voters had rejected the continuation and extension, the EU would likely have invoked the so-called \"guillotine clause\" to terminate all agreements made as part of the bilateral treaties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, February referendum\nA poll from January 2009 saw 49% in favour of extending the agreement, 40% opposed and 11% undecided; 48% of voters said they would participate in the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, February referendum\nThe referendum concluded with a vote in favour of the extension, with German and French-speaking cantons mostly voting in favour (except for narrow votes against in Schwyz, Glarus and Appenzell Innerrhoden) and the Italian-speaking Ticino strongly voting against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, February referendum\nThe result caused the left-wing Green Party and the Social Democratic Party to state that they would renew their push for Swiss EU membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, May referendums\nThe biometric passport introduction approval was accepted with a slim majority, with 50.15% in favour of the proposal; the complementary medicine proposal was accepted with 67.0% in favour. Turnout was 39%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums\nIn the November referendum voters decide on three proposals on the federal level:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums\nThere were numerous other issues voted upon at the cantonal and municipal levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Minaret ban\nOnly one political party, the right wing Swiss People's Party supported the referendum. It aimed at stopping the \"Islamization of Switzerland\". Pakistani newspaper  The Nation on 30 January 2010 carried a fabricated story according to which  \"the first man who had launched a drive for imposition of ban on mosques minarets\" had seen the error of his \"evil ways\" and had converted to Islam, which had supposedly \"created furore in Swiss politics\", claiming that Streich \"is ashamed of his doings now and desires to construct the most beautiful mosque of Europe in Switzerland.\" Tikkun Daily on 5 February debunked  The Nation's story as a distorted version of a report on Daniel Streich, a Swiss Muslim who left the Swiss People's Party because he was outraged with their campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 839]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Minaret ban\nFinal results showed 57.5% of voters in favour of the ban, 19.5 cantons out of 23 in favour of the proposals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Arms export\nThe arms referendum sought to ban the export of military weapons and ammunition, in order to further reduce Switzerland's involvement in war. Current law prohibits the exports of materiel to countries involved in armed conflict, or violating human rights. The Swiss arms industry warned of possible job losses if passed, and the cabinet recommended against it saying that existing legislation offers enough protections. The group backing the initiative argued that weapons exports contradict the country's neutrality. A similar initiative was defeated in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Arms export\nVoters rejected the proposal by 68.2%, with 31.5% in favour of the measure. Turnout was 53%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Aviation fuel taxation\nThe aviation fuel tax referendum was initiated by centre-right and right members of parliament to direct much of the taxes on kerosene to airport spending. Previously two-thirds of the taxes collected were spent on road safety, with the rest going to the federal general fund. The initiative directs the two-thirds to aviation safety and environmental concerns, with the remainder continuing to be used for discretionary spending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 68], "content_span": [69, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205182-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Swiss referendums, November referendums, Cantonal referendums\nIn the canton of Obwalden, the voting population  turned down plans to reserve sections of land for the wealthy,  officially designated \"high quality standard of life zones of cantonal interest\". These zones were part of Obwalden's strategy of increasing tax attractiveness in competition with other cantons. The referendum was successfully opposed by the cantonal section of the  Swiss Green Party. Obwalden already has a flat tax system for the benefit of its rich residents, and attempted to introduce a regressive tax system, which was ruled unconstitutional by the  Swiss Federal Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 658]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205183-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney FC W-League season\nThe 2009 season is Sydney FC's second season of football (soccer) in Australia's women's league, the W-League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205183-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney FC W-League season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205183-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney FC W-League season, Records\nFirst game = 3-1 loss home V Central Coast MarinersLargest win = Largest loss = 3-1 home V Central Coast Mariners", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season\nThe 2009 Sydney Roosters season was the 102nd in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in last place and collecting the club's first wooden spoon since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nAll the Teams and Results round by round for Season 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 1: South Sydney Rabbitohs 52 (Nathan Merritt 3, Fetuli Talanoa 2, Colin Best, Eddy Pettybourne, Chris Sandow, Rhys Wesser tries; Chris Sandow 5, Issac Luke 3 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 12 (Braith Anasta, Jake Friend tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Anthony Minichiello, Sam Perrett, Mitchell Aubusson, Iosia Soliola, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Nate Myles, Lopini Paea, Craig Fitzgibbon, Setaimata Sa; Interchange: Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Shane Shackleton, Jake Friend, Martin Kennedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 2: Sydney Roosters 28 (Braith Anasta 2, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 3, Shaun Kenny-Dowall goals) def. Canberra Raiders 4 (Bronson Harrison try)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Anthony Minichiello, Sam Perrett, Mitchell Aubusson, Iosia Soliola, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Nate Myles, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon, Setaimata Sa; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Shane Shackleton, Ben Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 3: Wests Tigers 40 (Chris Lawrence 2, Taniela Tuiaki 2, Dean Collis, Robbie Farrah, Tim Moltzen tries; Benji Marshall 6 Goals) def. Sydney Roosters 24 (Mitchell Aubusson 2, Braith Anasta, Shaun Kenny-Dowall tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 4 goals)\t\t\t\tTeam: Ben Jones, Sam Perrett, Mitchell Aubusson, Iosia Soliola, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Nate Myles, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon, Setaimata Sa; Interchange: Sonny Tuigamala, Lopini Paea, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Shane Shackleton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 4: Sydney Roosters 24 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall 2, Sam Perrett tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 6 goals) def. Parramatta Eels 6 (Jarryd Hayne try, Luke Burt goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sisa Waqa, Mitchell Aubusson, Iosia Soliola, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Shane Shackleton, Craig Fitzgibbon, Setaimata Sa; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Martin Kennedy, Jake Friend, Rohan Ahern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 5: Brisbane Broncos 28 (Karmichael Hunt 2, Antonio Winterstien 2, Steve Michaels tries; Corey Parker 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 24 (Braith Anasta, Willie Mason, Mitchell Pearce, Sam Perrett tries; Braith Anasta 3, Craig Fitzgibbon goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sisa Waqa, Mitchell Aubusson, Setaimata Sa, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Nate Myles, Craig Fitzgibbon, Shane Shackleton; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Willie Mason, Jake Friend, Ben Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 6: New Zealand Warriors 17 (Stacey Jones, Jerome Ropati, Manu Vatuvei tries; Denan Kemp 2 goals; Stacey Jones field goal) def. Sydney Roosters 16 (Mitchell Pearce, Shane Shackleton, Iosia Soliola tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sonny Tuigamala, Ben Jones, Iosia Soliola, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Nate Myles, Craig Fitzgibbon, Shane Shackleton; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Willie Mason, Jake Friend, Jordan Tansey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 7: St. George Ilawarra Dragons 29 (Jamie Soward 2, Brett Morris, Jason Nightingale tries; Jamies Soward 6 goals, field goal) def. Sydney Roosters 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sisa Waqa, Iosia Soliola, Setaimata Sa, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Wilie Mason, Nate Myles, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Shane Shacleton, Jake Friend, Jordan Tansey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 8: Sydney Roosters 19 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall 2, Sam Perrett tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 3 goals; Braith Anasta field goal) def. Cronulla Sharks 12 (Paul Gallen, Reece Williams tries; Luke Covell 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Jordan Tansey, Sam Perrett, Setaimata Sa, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Iosia Soliola, Craig Fitzgibbon, Shane Shacleton; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Willie Mason, Jake Friend, Rohan Ahern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 9: Melbourne Storm 28 (Brett Finch, Ryan Hoffman, Jeff Lima, Steve Turner, Brett White tries; Joseph Tomane 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 12 (Sam Perrett, Setaimata Sa tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Jordan Tansey, Sam Perrett, Setaimata Sa, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, James Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Iosia Soliola, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Jake Friend, Nick Kouparitsas, Sisa Waqa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 10: Newcastle Knights 38 (Jarrod Mullen 2, Zeb Taia 2, Danny Wicks, Cooper Vuna; Kurt Gidley 7 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 6 (Jordan Tansey try; Braith Anasta goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Jordan Tansey, Sam Perrett, Setaimata Sa, Sisa Waqa, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Iosia Soliola, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Ben Jones, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Mark O'Meley, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 11: Penrith Panthers 48 (Michael Jennings 3, Wade Graham 2, Lachlan Coote, Shane Elford, Luke Lewis, Frank Pritchard tries; Jarrod Sammut 3, Luke Walsh 3 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 6 (Ben Jones try, Braith Anasta goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Braith Anasta, Shaun-Kenny-Dowall, Setaimata Sa, Sam Perrett, Sonny Tuigamala, Ben Jones, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, Jordan Tansey, Mark O'Meley, Shane Shackleton, Willie Mason, Lopini Paea; Interchange: Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Nick Kouparitsas, Tom Symonds, Stanley Waqa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 13: Manly Sea Eagles 38 (Michael Robertson 2, Steve Matai, Glenn Stewart, Anthony Watmough, David Williams, Tony Williams tries; Matt Orford 5 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 18 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall 2, Setaimata Sa, Ben Jones tries; Craig Fitzgibbon goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sonny Tuigamala, Setaimata Sa, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Shane Shackleton, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Nate Myles, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Jordan Tansey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 14: Gold Coast Titans 24 (Aaron Cannings, Nathan Friend, Esi Tonga, Chris Walker tries; Scott Prince 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 20 (Sisa Waqa 2, Mitchell Pearce, Tom Symonds tries; Braith Anasta, Craig Fitzgibbon goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sisa Waqa, Setaimata Sa, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Mark O'Meley, Jake Friend, Nate Myles, Shane Shackleton, Anthony Cherrington, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Mitchell Aubusson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 15: North Queensland Cowboys 24 (Travis Burns, Aaron Payne, Steve Southern, Carl Webb tries; John Williams 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 22 (Mitchell Aubusson, Anthony Cherrington, Shane Shackleton, Ben Jones tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 3 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sisa Waqa, Ben Jones, Mitchell Aubusson, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Lopini Paea, Jake Friend, Shane Shackleton, Iosia Soliola, Anthony Cherrington, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Ray Moujalli, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Rohan Ahern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 16: Sydney Roosters 19 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Mitchell Pearce, Sam Perrett tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 3 goals; Mitchell Pearce Field Goal) def. Cronulla Sharks 12 (Blake Ferguson, Nathan Stapleton tries; Luke Covell 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sandor Earl, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Setaimata Sa, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Anthony Cherrington, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Shane Shackleton, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 17: St. George Illawarra Dragons 34 (Matt Prior 2, Jamie Soward 2, Neville Costigan, Wendell Sailor tries; Jamie Soward 5 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 12 (Craig Fitzgibbon 2 tries, 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sandor Earl, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Setaimata Sa, Mitchell Pearce, Nate Myles, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Anthony Cherrington, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Shane Shackleton, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Tom Symonds, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 19: New Zealand Warriors 30 (Manu Vatuvei 2, Patrick Ah Van, Stacey Jones, Simon Mannering, Wade McKinnon tries; Stacey Jones 3 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 24 (Tom Symonds 2, Willie Mason, Ben Jones tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 4 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Sandor Earl, Mitchell Aubusson, Tom Symonds, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Ben Jones, Mitchell Pearce, Shane Shackleton, Jake Friend, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Setaimata Sa, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Lopini Paea, Stanley Waqa, Anthony Cherrington, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 20: South Sydney Rabbitohs 40 (Jamie Simpson 3, Issac Luke, Nathan Merritt, Eddy Pettybourne, John Sutton, Craig Wing tries; Chris Sandow 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 20 (Mitchell Aubusson, Jake Friend, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Mitchell Pearce tries; Shaun Kenny-Dowall 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Aubusson, Tom Symonds, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Ben Jones, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Setaimata Sa, Willie Mason, Iosia Soliola; Interchange: Shane Shackleton, Stanley Waqa, Rohan Ahern, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 21: Sydney Roosters 30 (Craig Fitzgibbon, Willie Mason, Mitchell Pearce, Iosia Soliola, Setaimata Sa tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 5 goals) def. Newcastle Knights 18 (Kurt Gidley 2, Adam MacDougall tries; Kurt Gidley 3 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Mitchell Aubusson, Setaimata Sa, Iwi Hauraki, Ben Jones, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Iosia Soliola, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Stanley Waqa, Shane Shackleton, Riley Brown, Nick Kouparitsas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 22: Wests Tigers 17 (Beau Ryan 2, Taniela Tuiaki tries; Benji Marshall 2 goals; Robbie Farrah field goal) def. Sydney Roosters 10 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Setaimata Sa tries; Craig Fitzgibbon goal) *Sin Bin: Mitchell Aubusson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Iwi Hauraki, Mitchell Aubusson, Setaimata Sa, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Iosia Soliola, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Stanley Waqa, Shane Shackleton, Riley Brown, Ben Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 23: Manly Sea Eagles 44 (Michael Robertson 2, David Williams 2, Jason King, Matt Orford, Glenn Stewart tries; Matt Orford 6, Jamie Lyon 2 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 12 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Iwi Hauraki tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Iwi Hauraki, Mitchell Aubusson, Setaimata Sa, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Jake Friend, Lopini Paea, Iosia Soliola, Willie Mason, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Stanley Waqa, Shane Shackleton, Riley Brown, Ben Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 24: Bulldogs 28 (Luke Patten 2,Hazem El Masri, Josh Morris, David Stagg tries; Hazem El Masri 4 goals def. Sydney Roosters 4 (Ben Jones try)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Iwi Hauraki, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Riley Brown, Shane Shackleton, Iosia Soliola, Setaimata Sa, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Jake Friend, Willie Mason, Stanley Waqa, Nate Myles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 25: Melbourne Storm 38 (Greg Inglis 2, Steve Turner 2, Will Chambers, Billy Slater, Aiden Tolman tries; Cameron Smith 5 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 4 (Shaun Kenny-Dowall try)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Iwi Hauraki, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Riley Brown, Shane Shackleton, Iosia Soliola, Nate Myles, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Jake Friend, Willie Mason, Stanley Waqa, Khalid Deeb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nRound 26: North Queensland Cowboys 32 (Ashley Graham, Donald Malone, Johnathan Thurston, Willie Tonga, Shane Tronce, Ty Williams tries; Johnathan Thurston 4 goals) def. Sydney Roosters 16 (Iwi Hauraki, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Willie Mason tries; Craig Fitzgibbon 2 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Round By Round\nTeam: Sam Perrett, Iwi Hauraki, Mitchell Aubusson, Ben Jones, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Anthony Minichiello, Mitchell Pearce, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Riley Brown, Shane Shackleton, Iosia Soliola, Nate Myles, Craig Fitzgibbon; Interchange: Stanley Waqa, Willie Mason, Jake Friend, Martin Kennedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205184-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Roosters season, Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500\nThe Sydney Telstra 500 was the fourteenth and final event of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series and the inaugural running of the Sydney 500. It was held on the weekend of the December 4 to 6 on the roads running through the former Olympic precinct at Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500\nThe Sydney Telstra 500 consisted of the 25th and 26th races of the season. The race format followed the same as the Adelaide 500, with a 250 kilometre race each day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500\nThe first race was won by Holden Racing Team's Garth Tander from pole position while, the second 250\u00a0km race was won by Dick Johnson Racing's James Courtney (who started from second position on the grid). Jamie Whincup secured the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series after finishing fifth in Race 25 and fourteenth in Race 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500\nThis event also marked the final race for Cameron McConville, who has now retired from full-time V8 Supercar racing. The Sydney 500 was the end of Triple Eight Race Engineering's association with Ford before shifting to Holden in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 25, Race\nGarth Tander led early with Lee Holdsworth in pursuit. Buried in the grid, Craig Lowndes was the first to pit when the pit window opened. David Reynolds damaged his car in the early running. On lap 10 Michael Patrizi crashed into the wall with no brakes, bringing out the safety car. Tander lost the lead in the pits, then as Holdsworth pulled away, Whincup took second from Tander as well. Fighting over fourth position, Cameron McConville and Greg Murphy made contact in pitlane, as Murphy was released from his pitbay into McConville's path. Murphy was later black flagged for the incident. Both Holden Racing Team Commodores were slowing, affecting Will Davison's chances of keeping the championship alive, and affecting Tander's ability to match pace with Holdsworth and Whincup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 25, Race\nLap 24 saw Alex Davison pitting with suspension damage after having clouted the wall earlier in the race. Lap 26 saw Paul Dumbrell dive up the inside of Jack Perkins and made contact with Dean Fiore in front of Perkins sending both cars into a spin. The two cars cleared the chicane with Fiore stopping soon afterwards and Dumbrell exiting on the inside of the chicane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 25, Race\nImmediately afterwards race leader Lee Holdsworth slid into the wall on the outside of the middle part of the chicane having found no traction after hitting a portion of the track compromised by fluid dropped by Fiore. At the safety car restart Whincup overshot a corner, allowing Tander back into the race lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 25, Race\nOn lap 39 Will Davison made a big dive up the inside of Craig Lowndes at the first turn but dived in too deep with a locked tyre and hit Lowndes, deranging Lowndes steering. Davison continued with a bent steering arm while Lowndes had more severe damage. Davison was later given a black flag penalty. Lap 43 Cameron McConville hit the wall having freshly stopped for tyres damaging the front right corner of the car. Shane van Gisbergen briefly nosed into the wall behind McConville. Lap 47 saw Russell Ingall dive into a wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 25, Race\nMurphy received contact from Jack Perkins, spinning Murphy's car into a tyre barrier. James Courtney received a mechanical black flag as his right side front door started flapping open. Courtney was forced to pit to address the flapping door. The problem was not fixed correctly and Courtney was forced to make a second stop. Steven Johnson hit the wall on lap 57 with Jack Perkins also making contact two laps later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 26, Race\nHoldsworth led away from pole position, only to lose it to James Courtney on the second lap. Rick Kelly also passed Holdsworth. Winterbottom slotted into fourth ahead of Jason Bright and Michael Caruso. Steven Richards was first to pit with damage after contact with Shane van Gisbergen sent Richards into the wall, damaging the right side of the car. Rick Kelly briefly brushed the wall exiting turn 8 and lost four race positions, dropping behind Holdsworth, Winterbottom, Bright and Greg Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 26, Race\nLap 14 saw Rick Kelly hit turn eight even harder, this time deranging the front right corner of the car, effectively putting him out of the race. Two laps later, Todd Kelly, having just made his first pit-stop, under-steered into the same barrier as his brother, with much lighter damage. Lap 21 saw Mark Winterbottom have an off and drop to 18th place. Holdsworth stayed out on a long stint. The stint came to an end when Holdsworth understeered off at turn 8, damaging the front right corner and cutting a brake line. Michael Patrizi crashed lightly into the same barrier and continued. Holdsworth was unable to make it back to the pits and a safety car was called for although Holdsworth pulled up off the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 26, Race\nAt the restart Greg Murphy understeered off the track at the first turn in a self-inflicted mistake, backing the car into the wall and popping out the rear windscreen, handing second position to the charging Craig Lowndes. Whincup pitted at the end of lap 37 then on his outlap Whincup nosed into the wall at turn 8. Jason Bargwanna also hit the wall but continued. Most of the front runners pitted immediately, with Craig Lowndes striking Alex Davison leaving pitlane, subsequently leaving pitlane. Courtney missed the pitstop and had to pit the following lap but retained the race lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 26, Race\nAt the restart, Jason Bright leapt out of turn 8 to blast past James Courtney to take the lead. Bright also received a drive through penalty as well, again for contact in the pitlane, an 'unsafe release'. That handed the lead back to James Courtney with Michael Caruso pressing hard. An accident for Mark McNally triggered the fourth safety car period, with the race restarting on lap 54 with Courtney leading Caruso, Winterbottom, Ingall and Fabian Coulthard. Cameron McConville, Jason Bright and Craig Lowndes (sucked into Bright's accident) all brushed walls on the restart lap. Lowndes and McConville retired. Todd Kelly began dropping down field with battery or alternator problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205185-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney Telstra 500, Results, Race 26, Race\nLap 60 saw Winterbottom brush the wall exiting the rapidly infamous turn 8, peeling off the door skin on the right side of the car. Winterbottom kept in third place, tucked into a six car train, ending in a position battled between Shane van Gisbergen and Greg Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205186-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race\nThe 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 65th annual running of the \"blue water classic\" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Line honours in the 99-boat event were won by the New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo II raced by Neville Crichton, recording her 146th consecutive ocean classic victory. Defending line honours champion Wild Oats XI was attempting to establish a new record of five successive wins, but was second to Alfa Romeo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205186-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race\nAs in the past, the race was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, New South Wales. Unlike previous Sydney to Hobart Yacht races which traditionally began at noon, the 2009 event began on Sydney Harbour, at 1:00pm (AEDT) on Boxing Day, 26 December, before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170\u00a0km) through the Tasman Sea, past Bass Strait, into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania. Coverage of the race start was on Channel Seven after a 90-minute launch program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205186-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, 2009 fleet\n99 yachts registered to begin the 2009 Sydney to Hobart Yacht race. They are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300\nThe 2009 Sylvania 300 was the twenty-seventh stock car race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the first in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on September 20, 2009 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire before a crowd of 101,000 people. The 300-lap race was won by Mark Martin of the Hendrick Motorsports team after starting from fourteenth position. Denny Hamlin finished second and Juan Pablo Montoya came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300\nMontoya, who initially held the pole position, was immediately passed by Tony Stewart. One lap later, Montoya reclaimed the lead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Hamlin and Kurt Busch were in the top ten for most of the race. Martin became the leader of the race, after the leaders made their pit stops. Martin retained the first position to win the race, his fifth of the 2009 season. There were eleven cautions and twenty lead changes among ten different drivers during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300\nThe race was Martin's fifth win of the season, as well as the 40th and final win of his Cup career. After the race, Martin maintained his lead in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points ahead of Hamlin, who advanced to second, and equal on points with Johnson. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-nine points ahead of Toyota and eighty-one ahead of Dodge, with nine races of the season remaining. The race attracted 5.04 million television viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Background\nThe 2009 Sylvania 300 was the twenty-seventh of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the first in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on September 20, 2009, in Loudon, New Hampshire, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The standard track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a four-turn oval track, 1.058 miles (1.703\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at two to seven degrees, while the front stretch, the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at one degree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Background\nBefore the race, Mark Martin led the Drivers' Championship with 5,040 points, followed by Tony Stewart and Jimmie Johnson who were tied for second place on 5,030 points. Denny Hamlin, was 5,020 points, was tied with Kasey Kahne, with Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch and Brian Vickers all level with 5,010 points. Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Juan Pablo Montoya and Greg Biffle rounded out the top twelve with 5,000 points each. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 190 points, thirty-six points ahead of their rival Toyota in second. Dodge and Ford were tied on points in the battle for third place. Biffle was the race's defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Practice and qualifying\nThree practice sessions were held before the Sunday race\u2014one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second 45 minutes. The final session lasted 60 minutes. During the first practice session, Montoya was fastest, placing ahead of Kevin Harvick in second and Clint Bowyer in third. Stewart took fourth position, and Martin placed fifth. Kurt Busch, A. J. Allmendinger, Kyle Busch, Johnson and Hamlin rounded out the top ten fastest drivers in the session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Practice and qualifying\nForty-five drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday afternoon; due to NASCAR's qualifying procedure,  forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. Montoya clinched his second pole position of the season, with a time of 28.545. He was joined on the grid's front row by Stewart. Kurt Busch qualified third, Hamlin took fourth, and Edwards started fifth. David Stremme, Martin Truex, Jr., Bobby Labonte and Kyle Busch completed the top nine qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Practice and qualifying\nJeff Gordon, one of the drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, qualified tenth, while Harvick set the twelfth-fastest time. The two drivers who failed to qualify for the race were Derrike Cope and Dexter Bean. After the qualifier Montoya said, \"You know how these races go, \"If it was a 10-lap shootout, I'll say, 'Hey, we're looking good.' But it's like 200 laps, 300 laps or something, or 400, I don't even know. It's a bunch of laps. As long as I lead the last one I don't care.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Practice and qualifying\nOn Saturday morning, Montoya was fastest in the second practice session, ahead of Truex in second, and Martin in third. Stremme]] was fourth quickest, and Johnson took fifth. Hamlin managed sixth. Kurt Busch, Biffle, Labonte and Kahne followed in the top ten. Of the other drivers in the Chase, Stewart was eighteenth-fastest, while Edwards ended with twenty-third-fastest time. Later that day, Montoya paced the final practice session, ahead of Truex in second and Kurt Busch in third. Martin was fourth-fastest, ahead of Johnson and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.. Hamlin was seventh-fastest, Jeff Gordon eighth-, Harvick ninth- and Stewart tenth-fastest. Other Chase drivers included Kahne in fourteenth and Biffle in twentieth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 763]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nThe race, the twenty-seventh of a total of thirty-six in the 2009 season, began at 1:00\u00a0p.m. Eastern Daylight Time and was televised live in the United States on ESPN. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were sunny with the air temperature around 67\u00a0\u00b0F (19\u00a0\u00b0C). Bishop Michael Cote began pre-race ceremonies with the invocation. Universal Music Group Nashville recording artist Josh Turner performed the national anthem, and Tim Leach, Vice President of Sales, Service and Logistics for Sylvania, gave the command for drivers to start their engines. During the pace laps, Tony Raines had to move to the back of the grid because of him changing his engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nStewart accelerated faster than Montoya off the line, getting ahead of him by the first turn. One lap later, Montoya reclaimed the lead by passing Stewart at turn one. Stremme moved into fourth on lap three, while Hamlin passed Stewart for the second position. Vickers, who began the race in twenty-sixth, had moved up seven positions to nineteenth by lap five. By the sixth lap, Montoya had increased his lead over Stewart to 1.4 seconds. Five laps later, Jeff Gordon moved into sixth position, while Edwards passed Labonte for eighth. By lap 15, Montoya had a 2.3-second lead over Stewart. Seven laps later, Stewart had reduced Montoya's lead to 1.1 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn lap 24, Dave Blaney took his car to the garage because of an electrical problem. Seven laps later, Truex lost three positions after running seventh. On lap 37, Stewart reclaimed the lead from Montoya. On the 39th lap, Michael McDowell drove to the garage because of brake problems. During the 43rd lap, Jeff Gordon passed Hamlin for fourth position. After starting the race in twenty-third, Earnhardt moved up into fifteenth position by lap 46. Four laps later, Stremme dropped to sixth position, after being passed by Edwards and Johnson. On lap 51, Jeff Gordon passed Hamlin for the fourth position, while Mike Wallace took his car to the garage because of brake problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nBy lap 56, Harvick and Labonte were running in nineteenth and twentieth, while Stewart's lead was 1.7 seconds by lap 63. Four laps later, Kahne's car suffered an engine problem, causing the first caution of the race. During the caution, all of the leaders elected to make pit stops. Montoya reclaimed the lead during the caution and maintained it at the restart. On lap 79, Jeff Gordon passed Martin for the seventh position. By the 83rd lap, Montoya's lead was 1.8 seconds over Stewart. Two laps later, the second caution was given because of debris on the track at turn three. None of the leaders elected to make pit stops. Montoya maintained his lead at the restart, followed by Stewart and Hamlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn lap 92, Stewart fell to fifth after contact with Hamlin, allowing Kurt Busch to move into second position one lap later. On lap 95, Jeff Gordon passed Truex for twelfth position. By lap 101, Montoya had a lead of 1.2 seconds. Kurt Busch managed to close the gap to Montoya by 0.7 seconds by lap 110. On the 113th lap, Jeff Gordon passed Vickers to claim eleventh. Twelve laps later, Kurt Busch claimed the lead off Montoya. Five laps later, Jeff Gordon moved up to ninth, while Newman and Vickers moved up to tenth and eleventh respectively. On lap 131, Earnhardt passed Martin for the tenth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nBy lap 138, Kurt Busch had a 2.4-second lead over Montoya. On lap 141, the third caution was given as debris was spotted on the track. During the caution, all of the leaders made pit stops. At the lap 146 restart. Montoya became the leader, ahead of Hamlin and Kurt Busch. Two laps later, Hamlin moved into first, one lap after colliding with Montoya. On lap 153, Montoya reclaimed the lead through turn four. Five laps later, Johnson passed Martin for the sixth position. Three laps later, the fourth caution was given after Erik Darnell spun sideways in turn two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nMost of the leaders made pit stops (which included a pit road collision between Kurt Busch and David Ragan), and Stewart became the leader at the lap 165 restart. Two laps after the restart, the fifth caution was given as a multi-car collision occurred, as Joey Logano and Elliott Sadler collided, collecting Paul Menard, Michael Waltrip, Robby Gordon and John Andretti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nStewart led on the restart; On the next lap, the sixth caution was given as Jeff Burton spun sideways. At the lap 180 restart, Stewart was the leader, ahead of Johnson, Newman, Earnhardt and Hamlin. On the next lap, Johnson claimed the lead through turn one, while Sam Hornish, Jr. went to his garage due to oil issues. Two laps later, Earnhardt and Montoya moved up into third and fifth positions respectively. Five laps later, Montoya passed McMurray for the fourth position; Earnhardt passed Stewart for second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nBy the 190th lap, Johnson had a lead of three seconds, while Montoya passed Stewart for third. On lap 193, Allmendinger made contact with Stremme who spun into the wall at turn two, prompting the seventh caution. Most of the leaders made pit stops during the caution. Kurt Busch became the leader by the lap 197 restart, from Martin and Sadler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn lap 199, Burton and David Reutimann moved into third and fourth respectively after passing Sadler. Five laps later, Martin passed Kurt Busch to claim the lead. On lap 208, Jeff Gordon had fallen to fourteenth position after minor contact with Johnson, while Hamlin and Montoya moved into fourth and sixth positions respectively. Three laps later, Montoya moved into fifth after passing Reutimann. On the 219th lap, Johnson passed Sadler for the seventh position. Nineteen laps later, Johnson passed Montoya to take over fifth, while Hamlin passed Burton to claim the second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn lap 243, green flag pit stops began, as Martin was the first to pit, handing the lead back to Kurt Busch. On lap 248, Hamlin became the new race leader after Kurt Busch came into pit road. Twenty-one laps later, Kevin Harvick drove to pit road due to mechanical problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn lap 272, Martin reclaimed the lead as the previous leaders had made their pit stops. Four laps later, the eighth caution was given because of debris on the track in turns three and four. Most of the drivers made pit stops during the caution, although Martin stayed out and remained the leader on the restart. After the restart, the ninth caution was given after Reutimann and Earnhardt made contact, causing Earnhardt to collide with the turn two wall. At the lap 287 restart, Martin remained the leader ahead of Kurt Busch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOne lap later, Montoya moved up into third after passing Hamlin and Johnson. On lap 289, Montoya passed Kurt Busch at the first turn for the second position. One lap later, Kurt Busch lost a further position when he was passed by Hamlin. On lap 292, Martin had a 1.1-second lead. Two laps later, the tenth caution came out after Allmendinger spun in turn two after he made contact with Marcos Ambrose. Martin led on the restart, followed by Montoya and Hamlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race\nOn the final lap, Allmendinger spun sideways, bringing out the eleventh and final caution, and the field was frozen, with the finishing order determined by where the drivers were running at the moment of caution. The result gave Martin the victory, which was his fifth win of the 2009 season. Hamlin finished second, ahead of Montoya in third, Johnson in fourth, and Kyle Busch in fifth. Kurt Busch, Newman, Sadler, Biffle and Bowyer rounded out the top ten finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race\n\"This is just incredible, Pinch me, I'm sure I'm dreaming. This is my hardest place.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race\nMartin appeared in victory lane to celebrate his fifth win of the season, and his first(and only) at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, in front of 101,000 who attended the race. Martin also earned $232,750 in race winnings. Montoya was somewhat frustrated with the result, saying: \"Martin just screwed me \u2013 he just stopped the car on the apex, right on the bottom, and I had nowhere to go,\" Montoya said. \"I could have pushed him out of the way ... but I respect him a lot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race\nMartin was delighted with his victory: \"Alan [Gustafson] won the race, Alan's the man. This is a dream come true. ... We still have the lotto at Talladega [Nov. 1], and [I] think we'll run OK at Martinsville. We finished [seventh] in the spring, but I don't run good there \u2013 but this is my hardest place. It's a tough place.\" Martin also argued that his driving did not cause the final caution: \" Once you got the lead, you need to make sure you don't drive it in there and turn it sideways (and) slide it up the racetrack. I mean, how stupid would I look then?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race\nThe race result kept Martin in the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 5,230 points. Hamlin, who finished second, moved into second, tied on points with Johnson on 5,195, twenty points ahead of Montoya and thirty ahead of Kurt Busch. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained the lead with 199 points. Toyota remained second with 160 points. Dodge advanced to third with 118 and Ford was bumped to fourth with 117. 5.04 million people watched the race on television. The race took three hours, nine minutes and one second to complete; because it ended under caution, no margin of victory was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205187-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Sylvania 300, Race, Post-race\nThree days after the race, Joe Gibbs Racing were given penalties for Kyle Busch's car. Joe Gibbs Racing's penalty, for unauthorized alterations to the ride height of Kyle Busch's car, included a fine of $25,000 for crew chief Steve Addington, and the loss of 25 owner and driver points for Joe Gibbs and Kyle Busch respectively. Addington was also placed on probation until December 31, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205188-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Syracuse Orange football team\nThe 2009 Syracuse Orange football team represented Syracuse University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Orange were coached by Doug Marrone and played their home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. The Orange finished the season 4\u20138 and 1\u20136 in Big East play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205189-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 2009 season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 80th season since club's existence. For the third year consecutive Tricolor fall in semifinals of Campeonato Paulista, this time losing to rival Corinthians. In Copa Libertadores was defeated in quarterfinals by Cruzeiro after two losses 1\u20132 (away), 0\u20132 (home). At the league, the club broke the triumph's sequence of the three previous titles. Ending in the 3rd position took a place in Copa Libertadores. After three and a half, the coach Muricy Ramalho was fired by the fourth consecutive elimination in Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205189-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Squad\nAs of 20 August 2009Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205189-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Transfers, Out on loan\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205189-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205189-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205190-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TAC Cup season\nThe 2009 TAC Cup season was the 18th season of the TAC Cup competition. Calder Cannons have won there 5th premiership title after defeating the Dandenong Stingrays in the grand final by 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205191-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TBL Playoffs\n2009 Turkish Basketball League (TBL) Playoffs was the final phase of the 2008\u201309 Turkish Basketball League season. The playoffs started on 14 May 2009. Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205191-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TBL Playoffs\nThe eight highest placed teams of the regular season qualified for the playoffs. All series were best-of-5 except the final, which was best-of-7. Under Turkish league rules, if a team swept its playoff opponent in the regular season, it was granted an automatic 1\u20130 series lead, and the series started with Game 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205191-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TBL Playoffs\nEfes Pilsen competed against Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker in the finals, won the series 4-2 and got their 13th championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205192-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TC 2000 Championship\nThe 2009 TC 2000 Championship was the 31st Turismo Competicion 2000 season. It began on April 5 and ended on November 29 after 12 races. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez won his second successive title for Equipo Petrobras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205193-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 2009 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Patterson. The Frogs played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs finished the season 12\u20131 (8\u20130 MWC) and won the Mountain West Conference title. On December 6, they were invited to their first Bowl Championship Series game and their first major bowl since the 1959 Cotton Bowl Classic, against #6 Boise State in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on January 4, 2010. In the Fiesta Bowl, TCU was upset by underdog Boise State, 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205194-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TEAN International\nThe 2009 TEAN International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands between 7 and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205194-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TEAN International, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205194-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TEAN International, Champions, Doubles\nJonathan Marray /  Jamie Murray def. Sergei Bubka /  Sergiy Stakhovsky, 6\u20131, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205195-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TEAN International \u2013 Doubles\nRameez Junaid and Philipp Marx were the defending champions, but only Marx played this year. Marx and Sebastian Rieschick were eliminated by Jesse Huta Galung and Igor Sijsling in the quarterfinals. Jonathan Marray and Jamie Murray won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20134, against Sergei Bubka and Sergiy Stakhovsky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205196-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TEAN International \u2013 Singles\nSimon Greul chose to not defend his 2008 title. St\u00e9phane Robert defeated Michael Russell 7\u20136(2), 5\u20137, 7\u20136(5) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205197-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TOP 09 leadership election\nThe first leadership election was held in the TOP 09 party in the Czech Republic on 28 November 2009. Karel Schwarzenberg became party's leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205197-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TOP 09 leadership election, Background\nDuring  2009, Miroslav Kalousek left Christian and Democratic Union \u2013 Czechoslovak People's Party and decided to form a new party called TOP 09 He managed to attract some personas from other parties. It included Senator Karel Schwarzenberg who was speculated to be a possible candidate for party's leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205197-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TOP 09 leadership election, Results\nParty's assembly was held on 28 November 2009. Schwarzenberg was introduced as the only candidate for the leader of TOP 09. 164 delegates were allowed to vote, including Schwarzenberg. Schwarzenberg refused to vote in the election and received 163 votes. Schwarzenberg became icon of the party and many delegates looked up to him with much admiration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205198-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TPG Tour\nThe 2009 TPG Tour was a season of golf tournaments on the TPG Tour, the official professional golf tour of Argentina. The season ran from February 2009 to January 2010 and consisted of eleven tournaments, ten in Argentina and one, the Carlos Franco Invitational, held in Paraguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205198-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TPG Tour\nFive events were also part of the Tour de las Americas, the highest level tour in Latin America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205198-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TPG Tour\nThe Order of Merit was won by Fabi\u00e1n G\u00f3mez. C\u00e9sar Costilla was second, and Julio Zapata finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205199-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TSC Stores Tankard\nThe 2009 TSC Stores Tankard was the 2009 edition of the Ontario provincial men's curling tournament. It was held on February 2-8 at the Woodstock District Community Complex in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary, Alberta (who ended the tournament second in the standings).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205199-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TSC Stores Tankard, Qualification\nThe tournament will consist of ten teams. Two from each of Southern Ontario's four regions and two from a provincial \"last chance\" qualification tournament. Teams from Northern Ontario will play in that region's provincial championship. Each of the four regions consist of four zones where two teams from which qualify for the regional tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205199-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TSC Stores Tankard, Zones\nTeams in bold advanced to regionals. Teams in italics elected to play in the challenge round (see below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205199-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 TSC Stores Tankard, Challenge Round\nChallenge rounds will be held January 16-19 at the Trenton Curling Club in Trenton and the Grey Granite Club in Owen Sound to determine the last two spots. Both rounds are double knock-out", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season\nThe 2009 TSFA season was the 11th regular season of the Texas Sixman Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season\nIn 2008,  veteran team changed ownership and name again, another longtime veteran returned and two rookies joined the mix. That left the TSFA with 13 teams again and the post season ended with the 4th straight all-star game. 2009 also marked the first TSFA night games with the Epler Cup and All-Star games being played at The Winston School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Teams\nThe Rhinos continued as the longest tenured organization in the TSFA coming back for their tenth season. The Bandits, Longhorns and Wolverines entered their ninth years of competition. The Bucs returned for their eighth season after a year hiatus. The Wrecking Crew returned for their fifth season. The Panthers returned for a fourth season of play. The Bulldawgs and Phoenix returned for their third seasons. The Revolution entered into their second season of play. The Ruff Ryders again changed ownership hands this time coming in as the Renegades. The Cowboys entered for their first season and the Outlawz was revived for their first season of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Teams\nThe Northern Conference consisted of the Bandits, Bucs, Longhorns, Outlawz, Panthers, Phoenix and Revolution. The Southern Conference consisted of the Bulldawgs, Cowboys, Renegades, Rhinos, Wolverines and Wrecking Crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season\nThe eleventh year of the TSFA lasted eleven weeks from January 31, 2009 to April 26, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 1\nJanuary 31, 2009Renegades 33 - Phoenix 12Longhorns 31 - Cowboys 14Rhinos 34 - Bucs 8Outlawz 33 - Wolverines 26Wrecking Crew 18 - Panthers 12Bulldawgs 26 - Revolution 20", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 2\nFebruary 8, 2009Wrecking Crew 23 - Bandits 20Bulldawgs 41 - Bucs 21Phoenix 30 - Cowboys 15Revolution 13 - Renegades 12Wolverines 20 - Longhorns 6Outlawz 32 - Rhinos 19", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 3\nFebruary 15, 2009Bucs 33 - Wolverines 25Phoenix 26 - Wrecking Crew 19Revolution 34 - Rhinos 20Renegades 44 - Panthers 6Outlawz 50 - Cowboys 6Bulldawgs 30 - Bandits 19", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 4\nFebruary 22, 2009Bulldawgs 26 - Panthers 18Revolution 53 - Cowboys 24Phoenix 37 - Wolverines 26Longhorns 20 - Rhinos 12Renegades 20 - Bandits 13Bucs 22 - Wrecking Crew 13", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 5\nMarch 1, 2009Bulldawgs 19 - Rhinos 13Longhorns 15 - Panthers 13Wrecking Crew 13 - Wolverines 12Bucs 37 - Phoenix 33Renegades 53 - Cowboys 6 M*Outlawz 40 - Bandits 21", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 6\nMarch 8, 2009Outlawz 37 - Bucs 6Renegades 26 - Wolverines 6Bandits 31 - Longhorns 30Wrecking Crew 34 - Bulldawgs 31Revolution 42 - Panthers 12", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 7\nMarch 22, 2009Revolution 40 - Outlawz 33Bulldawgs 33 - Renegades 21Panthers 21 - Bandits 19Rhinos 27 - Wolverines 14Longhorns 33 - Phoenix 12", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 8\nMarch 29, 2009Phoenix 33 - Bandits 20Bulldawgs 27 - Wolverines 19Outlawz 40 - Panthers 27Revolution 39 - Bucs 38Renegades 26 - Wrecking Crew 7", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 9\nApril 5, 2009Outlawz 45 - Phoenix 6Revolution 1 - Bandits 0*Bulldawgs 37 - Rhinos 19Longhorns 21 - Bucs 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 10\nApril 11, 2009Revolution 32 - Longhorns 18Panthers 19 - Phoenix 13Wrecking Crew 26 - Rhinos 21", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular season, Week 11\nApril 26, 2009Renegades 19 - Rhinos 6Bucs 41 - Panthers 20Outlawz 33 - Longhorns 6Wrecking Crew 27 - Wolverines 0Phoenix 27 - Revolution 20", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Playoffs\nThe eleventh year of playoffs for the TSFA consisted of the top 4 from each conference making the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Playoffs, Conference Semi-Finals\nMay 3, 2009Bucs 42 - Revolution 38Outlawz 26 - Longhorns 19Bulldawgs 29 - Rhinos 18Renegades 31 - Wrecking Crew 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Playoffs, Conference Championships\nMay 9, 2009Outlawz 40 - Bucs 20Renegades 24 - Bulldawgs 14", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI\nEpler Cup XI MVPHenry \"Silk\" Booth - #9 QB Renegades", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe first ever TSFA night game was a classic, both teams made the league proud with the level of commitment, determination and sportsmanship with which both teams exhibited before, during and after this memorable championship game. Coach Fred Garcia and his Outlaw football team, along with a few hundred fans, attacked first. The Outlaw defense created turnovers and scored the first points of the game. Shawn Battles and his Renegade football team, along with a few hundred of their fans struck back and tied the score 6 all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe scoring exchange continued as both teams managed to each get 6 points on the board, for their respective teams, with only 45 seconds on the clock and halftime on the brink. The Renegades scored the final 6 points of the half with no time on the clock. Halftime arrived with both teams tied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe second half saw a continuation of the first half with hard aggressive hits and big play after big play on both sides of the ball. #9 Henry Booth, a.k.a. Silk, made smart decisions while tucking the ball and running when nothing was open downfield. He played with a high level of energy and leadership that was unmatched. #66 Leo Reyes also had some timely catches as #15 Manuel Garcia found him on two consecutive plays open and earning positive yards as they drove towards their end zone with both teams continuing to match the other score after score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe 4th quarter arrived and the match continued with big offensive and defensive plays. With seconds on the clock and a tie score, Outlawz QB Manuel Garcia connected with #21 Zachary Young on a deep pass that placed the Outlawz inside the 5 yard line. The Outlawz found themselves rushing downfield with the clock running, as they were out of timeouts, and a dramatic miscue resulted in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe Renegade defense was determined not to let the Outlawz score, led by South Defensive Player of the Year Oscar Valdez and South Defensive Player of the Year Runner-up Eric Trinidad the Renegade defense caused a turnover by Outlaw running back. Eric Trinidad, a.k.a. Turtle, forced the turnover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nThe Renegades took possession as #32 Eric Martinez was not denied the end zone. The Renegades scored and secure the victory and earn The Epler Cup XI Championship. The final score was 38\u201332 in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Epler Cup XI, Epler Cup XI Summary\nHenry Booth was a unanimous selection as Epler Cup XI MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, Regular-season swards\nNorthern Conference Offensive Player of the Year: Phillip Barron - #8 Revolution Northern Conference Defensive Player of the Year: Steve Navarro - #21 LonghornsSouthern Conference Offensive Player of the Year: Jimmie Kelley - #11 BulldawgsSouthern Conference Defensive Player of the Year: Oscar Valdez - #99 Renegades2009 TSFA Regular Season MVP: Carlos Garcia - #5 Bucs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 TSFA All-Stars\nThe 2009 All-Star Game was held May 23, 2009 at the Winston School. It ended with the Southern Conference All-Stars beating the Northern Conference All-Stars with a score of 32 to 6. The game was sponsored by Pampered Chef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 TSFA All-Stars, Rosters\nThe All-Stars were selected on a voting system. The league's players, coaches and fans were allowed to vote for six weeks with the top players at each position getting a spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 1st Team, Offense\nQB: Carlos Garcia - 5 BucsRB: Phillip Barron - 8 RevoRB: Zachary Young - 21 OutlawzWR: Michael Sanchez - 85 OutlawzWR: George Reyes - 0 RhinosWR: Richard Cardenas - 9 RevoC: Erwin Stilzig - 51 Revo", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 1st Team, Defense\nDE: Dawg Valdez - 99 RenegadesDE: Vince Stevenson - 7 RenegadesLB: Eric Trinidad - 6 RenegadesLB: Patrick Kinslow - 7 BulldawgsDB: Steve Navarro - 21 LonghornsDB: Chris Boldon - 10 BulldawgsDB: Richard Martinez - 4 Renegades", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 1st Team, Special teams\nK: Nathan Ruiz - 11 RevoUt: Eric Martinez - 32 Renegades", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 2nd Team, Offense\nQB: Henry 'Silk' Booth - 9 RenegadesRB: Leonard Walker - 2 Wrecking CrewRB: Eric Martinez - 32 RenegadesWR: Andre Williams - 9 WolverinesWR: John Martin - 23 BulldawgsWR: Jeremy Nellum - 81 PhoenixC: Aaron Caudell - 55 Wolverines", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 2nd Team, Defense\nDE: Dontay Evans - 3 LonghornsDE: Richard Mireles - 1 OutlawzLB: Shaun Battles - 8 RenegadesLB: Eddie Trejo - 7 OutlawzDB: Ray Garcia - 3 OutlawzDB: Nathan Ruiz - 11 RevoDB: JT Taylor - 5 Wrecking Crew", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, 2nd Team, Special teams\nK: Dawg Valdez - 99 RenegadesUt: Daylin Rowland - 5 Renegades", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, Honorable Mention, Offense\nQB: Manuel Garcia - 15 OutlawzQB: Jimmie Kelley - 11 BulldawgsRB: Curly Mitchelle - 22 OutlawzRB: Blake Sledge - 33 BulldawgsWR: Gibby Alverado - 32 OutlawzWR: Damien Alston - 6 RevoC: Leo Reyes - 66 Outlawz", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205200-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 TSFA Season, 2009 All-TSFA team, Honorable Mention, Defense\nDE: Chris Davis - 57 Wrecking CrewLB: Mario Bustamante - 2 OutlawzDB: Noel Miller - 4 PhoenixDB: Sheridan Young - 37 Rhinos", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season\nThe 2009 AFL Tasmania TSL premiership season was an Australian rules football competition, staged across Tasmania, Australia over eighteen roster rounds and six finals series matches between 4 April and 19 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season\nThis was the first season of a return to statewide football after a hiatus of eight seasons caused by the collapse of the former TFL in December 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season\nThe League was known as the Wrest Point Tasmanian State League under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with Wrest Point Casino in Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nAfter a hiatus of eight years, during 2008, AFL Tasmania announced plans for a return of the Tasmanian State League in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nThe concept attracted widespread public and media debate on the return of a statewide competition, with many in the football world hesitant over such a move due to the perilous financial position most of the participating clubs were left in after the previous competition was disbanded in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nMany believed the push for a return of the league was a direct result of the media and the Tasmanian State Government's strong campaign in getting a Tasmanian team admitted into the AFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nUnder the AFL Tasmania plan, ten (10) clubs were invited to join the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nClarence, Glenorchy, Hobart and North Hobart along with former Southern Amateur club Lauderdale in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nNorth Launceston, South Launceston and Launceston from the North and Devonport and Burnie Dockers from the North West Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nThe response from many clubs was initially lukewarm at best with many concerned at the lack of detail in the AFL Tasmania plan and the rushed decision-making process of the move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nUlverstone Football Club from the North West Coast bowed to pressure from its playing list and some factional groups within the club to put in a submission to join the TSL in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nDespite a membership vote narrowly ending in favour of joining, the Robins had missed the AFL Tasmania enforced deadline and were initially to be included in the 2010 TSL Roster, however the remaining clubs (most notably its closest and most bitter rival Devonport) exerted considerable pressure upon the League not to alter the current makeup of teams for a period of ten years, therefore Ulverstone were excluded from joining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nSFL Premier League club Kingborough also lobbied AFL Tasmania to be included in the competition, but their case for inclusion was dismissed by the game's governing body due to their inadequate facilities and poor standard Kingston Beach Oval headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nFormer TFL club New Norfolk (1947\u20131999) was not invited to join the league because of their poor financial plight, however after the Eagles won the SFL Premiership with an undefeated season in 2009, there were calls to return them to top-flight status, however AFL Tasmania stated that there were no plans on the horizon to include a New Norfolk team in the competition in the near future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nAs a result of the competition resuming, the Tasmanian Devils were removed from the Victorian Football League and were wound up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nOn Monday 8 December 2008, the Wrest Point Tasmanian State League was launched at Wrest Point Casino in Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nOn 4 April 2009, the opening match of the reformed TSL competition took place at KGV Football Park between the reigning premiers of the SFL Premier League, Glenorchy and reigning NTFL premier Launceston and resulted in a 21-point triumph to the Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, The Return of Statewide Football\nThe match was brought forward from Round 17 and billed as the \"Battle of the State Premiers\" given the extra spice created when the two clubs were due to meet at North Hobart Oval at the end of the 2008 season to play off for the Tasmanian State Premiership, but the match was called off due to Launceston's refusal to come to the Capital and participate in the match due to financial costs involved, with the NTFL refusing to fund the Blues match costs as the SFL had done with Glenorchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAs the season commenced Glenorchy, Launceston and Burnie were touted amongst most of the State's football writers as premiership favourites with Clarence also looming on the horizon as an ever-present threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nPoor weather would plague the season, with several grounds falling victim to heavy Winter rain across the State, Hobart received its wettest Winter since 1954 (and wettest year since 1958), rendering most grounds into quagmires, most notably the TCA Ground, KGV Football Park, Lauderdale Oval and North Hobart Oval all being closed by their respective Councils for long periods or even having matches moved away from them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nBoth West Park and Devonport Oval would also suffer from the deluge and similarly would end up in very poor condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAs it panned out, Burnie and Glenorchy led the competition for almost the entire season, with Clarence making a late charge after an indifferent start to the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nLaunceston, despite getting off to a winning start would suffer from many injuries during the season and struggle to put their best side on the ground for lengthy periods and as a result struggled for consistency but still managed to make the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nDevonport coach Errol Bourne had written off his young side's chances before the season had started stating that they would be just making up numbers, but after a strong start, the Coastal Magpies would fall into a heap in the middle part of the season losing six games in a row before they made a last-ditch effort to secure a finals berth, their mission accomplished after a tremendous victory over Hobart at the TCA Ground in which they trailed by 35-points during the final quarter in heavy conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nNorth Hobart, North Launceston and Hobart would battle it out in the latter rounds of the season for the last finals spot, the Demons produced a fine victory in heavy rain at West Park to lock in sixth spot, while a woefully out of form North Launceston would lose three of their final four matches to drop out and Hobart, under the guidance of stalwart Graham Fox after coach Todd Lewis' mid-season resignation, with a youthful side had produced some excellent wins throughout the season after a nightmare start, but ultimately poor percentage and narrow losses to Lauderdale twice (the latter in near hurricane-like conditions at the TCA Ground which was close to being abandoned at half-time where only one goal had been scored) and Devonport (mentioned above) would come back to haunt them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nNewly promoted former Southern Amateur club Lauderdale would prove a difficult side to beat, especially on their home track, a lack of experience at State League level would see them struggle to win matches, but were far from disgraced in their first season whilst a very young South Launceston side would struggle again and finish last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nThe finals series featured a Top Six for the first time, this was designed to give the finals series a more even blend of sides from the North and South owing to the uneven roster so as to ensure clubs played more games in their home regions rather than large numbers of away games to keep the travel costs for clubs to a minimum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nClarence took on North Hobart at Bellerive Oval on 29 August in the First Elimination Final, the Roos were untroubled all day in heavy rain to race away to a convincing 43-point win whilst that night, Devonport Oval staged a night Second Elimination Final between Devonport and Launceston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAlso played in atrocious conditions, the Magpies posted a 35-point half-time lead and kept the Blues goalless, a third quarter rally saw Launceston hit back, but Devonport kept the Blues again goalless in the final quarter to run out convincing 37-point winners to book a date with Clarence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nThe First Semi Final between Clarence and Devonport was originally scheduled for Sunday, 6 September at North Hobart, but owing to a week of constant heavy rain in Hobart, North Hobart Oval was closed by the Hobart City Council after junior football had inexplicably been allowed to be played on the ground during torrential rain the previous weekend which turned the ground into a waterlogged quagmire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nFearing a backlash from the Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association over the condition the ground would be left in after another match at the venue (both competitions had booked the ground to hold their Grand Finals in the coming weeks), AFL Tasmania then at the last minute, controversially switched the date and venue of the match back to the Saturday and moved it to Bellerive Oval as a curtain-raiser to the Glenorchy and Burnie Second Semi Final which prompted extreme outrage from the North West Coast media and the Devonport Football Club over the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nThis meant that for the first time since 1921, no finals football was staged at North Hobart Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nThe Roos, playing on their home ground never gave Devonport a sniff and raced away to a ridiculously easy 53-point win, while in the second match of the afternoon, Glenorchy made its way into the Grand Final by demolishing an out of form Burnie by 71-points in a magnificent display which had the critics raving and touting them as odds-on for the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nBurnie and Clarence met in the Preliminary Final at Aurora Stadium on 12 September in perfect conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAfter an even start, the Dockers began to get on top and eventually opened up a lead of more than four goals in the third quarter before the Roos steadied to reduce the margin to 13-points at three-quarter time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nIn a magnificent game of football, the Dockers then posted what looked to be a match-winning lead midway through the final quarter before Clarence hit back with a succession of goals late in the game to hit the front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nWith only seconds remaining, Burnie's captain-coach Justin Plapp was awarded a free kick 35-metres out, straight in front of goal when the siren sounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nPlapp's resulting kick after the siren missed to the right and cost his side a grand final spot and sent the Roos into raptures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nThe Grand Final on 19 September pitted strong favourites Glenorchy against Clarence, whose only hope seemed to be the fact that the match was being played on their home ground where their record was 10-nil for the season and where they were unbeaten since the opening round of the 2008 SFL Premier League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAfter looking ominous early Glenorchy failed to capitalise on their advantage, the Roos then shocked the Magpies (and the 7,534-strong crowd) by piling on six unanswered goals late in the second quarter in the rain to post a 30-point half-time lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nGlenorchy hit back late in the third quarter to reduce the deficit to 15-points at three-quarter time, with the Roos kicking with the wind to the Southern Stand end in the final quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAfter holding firm for much of the quarter, Clarence began to tire, Glenorchy putting enormous pressure on them in the final ten minutes but missed several chances to hit the front before Jeromey Webberley snapped a pivotal 60-metre goal for Clarence against the run of play to give the Roos valuable breathing space as another wave of attacks in the dying minutes from Glenorchy again proved ineffective, with the Roos hanging on to win the premiership by a solitary goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nFor the Roos, it was their sixth TFL/TSL premiership since 1993 and tenth senior flag overall in seventeen seasons including their eight seasons in the SFL Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAs a side note, this was the first season at TFL/TSL level where crowd attendances at roster matches were not released to the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAFL Tasmania's reasoning prior to the season was that the competition was about clubs being able to run themselves properly and remain \"in profit\" rather than concentrating on crowd numbers at this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, Season summary\nAlthough no official roster figures were released, it is generally accepted that although numbers were reasonable early on in the season, crowd attendances nosedived by mid-season with a mix of odd fixturing and poor weather conditions affecting results, however, the Grand Final attendance of 7,534 was still the largest attendance at a domestic club football match in Tasmania since the 1999 TSFL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, 2009 Tasmanian State League Ladder, Round 1\n(Sunday, 5 April. Friday, 10 April & Saturday, 11 April 2009)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, 2009 Tasmanian State League Ladder, Round 8\nNote: North Launceston wore an alternate playing jumper due to a uniform clash with Lauderdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, 2009 Tasmanian State League Ladder, Round 16\nNote: Match transferred to Bellerive due to unfit playing surface at Lauderdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205201-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 TSL season, 2009 Tasmanian State League Ladder, First Semi Final\nNote: Match transferred to Bellerive due to unfit playing surface at North Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League\nThe 2009 TT Pro League season (known as the Digicel Pro League for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the TT Pro League, the Trinidad and Tobago professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999. A total of eleven teams contested the league, with San Juan Jabloteh the defending champions. The season began on 8 May, with Super Friday, and ended on 27 October. The format of the season was changed from each club playing three rounds to two rounds in the regular season to facilitate the national team with its attempt to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League\nPolice were re-admitted into the league following a one-year absence, whereas FC South End were admitted as a new club. However, North East Stars withdrew siting the state of their home ground, Sangre Grande Recreational Ground, for the past few years as the cause to sit out the season. The Sangre Grande Boys stated that they intend to return to the league for 2010. Furthermore, Caledonia AIA changed the name of the club to Caledonia AIA of Morvant/Laventille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League\nThe first goal of the season was scored by Caledonia AIA's Walter Moore against Joe Public in the second minute of the first game on 8 May. Kendall Velox of Caledonia AIA scored the first hat-trick of the season against Police on 23 May. Kerry Baptiste won the Golden Boot by providing 35 goals for Joe Public on their way to becoming league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League\nOn 12 September, Joe Public used a 2\u20131 win over W Connection at Manny Ramjohn Stadium to clinch the regular season crown on 41 points. San Juan Jabloteh, Caledonia AIA, W Connection, Ma Pau, and Defence Force all qualified for the Big Six. On 24 October, Joe Public claimed the league title with a 1\u20131 draw against Caledonia AIA. The achievement marked their second Pro League title with the first coming in the 2006 season. Having finished as the league champion, Joe Public qualified for the 2010 CFU Club Championship. By finishing runners-up in the league, San Juan Jabloteh also qualified for the CFU Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League\nWith an 8\u20130 loss to W Connection on 1 September, Police finished bottom in the league. The club had a disappointing campaign having only recorded nine points with a -48 goal difference. This marked the first season in which Tobago United did not finish the league season bottom of the table. Furthermore, on 8 January 2010, United Petrotrin announced that they had pulled the club from the Pro League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League, Teams, Team summaries\nNote: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League, League table, Positions by round\nThe table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for the tenth round of matches, but then postponed and played between rounds 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for round 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League, Awards, Annual awards\nThe 2009 TT Pro League awards distribution took place on 7 April 2010, at Cascadia Hotel in St. Ann's, Trinidad, prior to the 2010\u201311 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205202-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 TT Pro League, Awards, Annual awards\nJoe Public took home the majority of the league honours including Team of the Year. Eastern Lion Kerry Baptiste was named the league's Player of the Year for the first time in his career, by providing 35 league goals. Baptiste also received the Golden Boot and was named the Best Forward. Joe Public manager Derek King became the youngest manager in the Pro League to win the league championship and claimed the Manager of the Year. In addition, Joe Public's Alejandro Figueroa, Trent Noel, and Keyeno Thomas were named the league's Best Goalkeeper, Best Midfielder, and Best Defender respectively. The remaining team award was won by Caledonia AIA for the Most Disciplined Team of the Year. FIFA international referee, Neal Brizan, won the Referee of the Year for the third consecutive year, whereas Boris Punch won the Match Commissioner of the Year in back-to-back years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 916]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205203-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 TUMS Fast Relief 500\nThe 2009 TUMS Fast Relief 500 was the 32nd race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season at the beginning of the second half of the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. The 500-lap, 263 miles (423\u00a0km) event, the only race on the Chase that is held on a short track (.526 miles (0.847\u00a0km)), was held on October 25, 2009 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. Denny Hamlin won while points leader Jimmie Johnson finished second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205203-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 TUMS Fast Relief 500\nThis was also the last career start for NASCAR veteran Sterling Marlin who retired shortly thereafter. This was also the first race in over 3 years for 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire\nThe 2009 Table Mountain fire was a large fire in and around the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. It broke out at approximately 20:30 on 17 March 2009 in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial and initial fears were that the fire would spread to UCT's Upper Campus. The Table Mountain National Park quickly deployed firefighting personnel on the mountain, but the fire spread due to the strong winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire\nAt around 23:20 on Tuesday evening, the fire started moving up Devil's Peak and by 00:00 was at the tip and making its way around the mountain to the suburbs of Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek and Gardens on the north side. The flames were engulfing the mountain and the huge amounts of smoke made it hard for rescue and fire-fighting helicopters making their way to the fire. By 00:30, people from the aforementioned areas were told to evacuate due to the strong winds pushing the fire around the mountain. By this time, Fire & Rescue Services had deployed 29 fire engines and 90 firefighters who were assisted by 45 firefighters from the South African National Parks and volunteers of Disaster Management", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire\nThe day following the fire, four helicopters, including a South African National Defence Force Atlas Oryx, were called in at dawn to water-bomb the fire, and to lift a team of firefighters high onto the mountain. Table Mountain National Park Fire Manager Philip Prins said about 500 hectares (1,200 acres) of park land had been burned: some fynbos, some renosterveld, some grass, and stands of pine trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire, Evacuations\nLoudhailers were used to order residents of High Cape to evacuate, as well as in the aforementioned areas. The fire had originally spread from the UCT and Rhodes Memorial area to the other end of the mountain within 2 hours. Hundreds of homeowners did not know that there was a massive fire raging and were woken up and told they had only minutes to flee before the fires would reach the houses. News report indicate that no houses were burnt down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire, Evacuations\nFrom around 06:00 on Wednesday 18 March 2009, people were allowed to return to their properties. Houses near the top of the building lines, were covered in ash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire, Deaths and Injuries\nOnly 7 people were injured as officials were quick to respond. 2 of them sustained 3rd degree burns. The first - and thus far only - death was that of fisherman Willem Simons. He was a shareholder in the Tuna Hake Fishing Corporation. Simons died from his injuries in hospital. He and his companion were critically injured in the blaze while they were sleeping in bushes in Oranjezicht on the slopes of the mountain. His companion remained in a critical condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205204-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Table Mountain fire, Road Closures\nFiretrucks were positioned along De Waal Drive and the M3, as well as near UCT. The fire reached down to the M3's hospital bend, opposite Groote Schuur Hospital, thus causing traffic officials to close the road and re-route all incoming traffic onto Mowbray Main Road. Other roads which were closed include Tafelberg Road towards the Lower Cable Car Station and Signal Hill Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash\nThe 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash was a traffic collision that occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 26, 2009, on the Taconic State Parkway in the town of Mount Pleasant, near the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States. Eight people were killed when a minivan, being driven by 36-year-old Diane Schuler, traveled 1.7 miles (2.7\u00a0km) in the wrong direction on the parkway and collided head-on with an oncoming SUV. Schuler, her daughter and three nieces, and the three passengers in the oncoming SUV were killed. The crash was the worst fatal motor vehicle accident to occur in Westchester County since July 22, 1934, when a bus accident in Ossining claimed twenty lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash\nThe ensuing investigation into the crash's cause received nationwide attention. Toxicology tests conducted by the medical examiner revealed that Schuler was heavily intoxicated with both alcohol and marijuana at the time of the crash. Her husband, Daniel Schuler, has consistently denied that she used drugs or alcohol \"excessively\" and has made multiple national media appearances to defend his late wife and call for further investigation into other possible medical causes for her erratic driving. An independent investigator hired by the Schuler family obtained DNA testing and toxicology testing of Schuler's samples, and also confirmed the results of the original testing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 711]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nAt approximately 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler left the Hunter Lake Campground in Parksville, New York, in a red 2003 Ford Windstar that belonged to her brother. Riding with Schuler were her 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, and her brother's three daughters (ages 8, 7, and 5). Her husband, Daniel Schuler, left the campground at the same time in a separate vehicle since he had a pickup truck and took the family dog with him. A co-owner of the campground later said that Diane appeared sober when she departed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nOn the way to their home in West Babylon, Schuler stopped at a McDonald's restaurant and a Sunoco gas station in Liberty. Surveillance video at the Sunoco shows Schuler arriving and leaving the station and going inside the gas station store. There is no audio. Schuler\u2019s husband, sister-in-law, and an investigator working on their behalf all made claims and/or inferences that Schuler spoke to the Sunoco clerk attempting to buy over-the-counter pain-relief medication, although the gas station did not sell any. However, these claims cannot be verified as the Sunoco clerk never spoke to police nor gave any statements or interviews, and there is no audio for the surveillance video to reveal what Schuler might have said, if anything.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nSchuler left Liberty just after 11 a.m., traveling along Route 17/Interstate 86 and the New York Thruway (Interstate 87), entering the Ramapo-Sloatsburg service area, and crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge heading east. Several witnesses later reported seeing a red minivan driving aggressively on Route 17/Interstate 86 and Interstate 87, including aggressively tailgating, flashing headlights, honking the horn, moving in and out of lanes, and straddling two lanes. At 11:37 a.m., Schuler called Warren Hance, her brother and father of her three nieces, from the van. She reportedly told him that they were being delayed by traffic. According to a police report, Schuler was seen by witnesses at approximately 11:45 a.m. by the side of the road with her hands on her knees, as if vomiting; she was seen again in the same position a short time later, north of the Ramapo-Sloatsburg rest stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 939]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nAt about 1 p.m., another call was made to Hance from Schuler's cell phone. During this call, one of Schuler's nieces reportedly told her father that Schuler was having trouble seeing and speaking clearly. Schuler herself then talked to Hance and said that she was disoriented and could not see clearly. Police believe that the car was stopped in a pull-off area beyond the Tappan Zee Bridge tollbooths for at least part of this call. Hance reportedly told Schuler to stay off the road while he came to meet them; follow-up calls from Hance to Schuler were not answered. For some reason, she left her cell phone on the highway; it was found by another motorist by the side of the road near the tollbooths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nInvestigators have not determined what route Schuler took from the bridge to the Taconic State Parkway ramps near Briarcliff Manor. At 1:33 p.m., two drivers called 9-1-1 after noticing her van edging onto the parkway's northbound exit ramp. The end of the exit ramp, at the intersection with Pleasantville Road, is marked with two signs that read \"Do Not Enter\" and two signs that read \"One Way\". Within the next minute, four more 9-1-1 calls were placed by motorists who reported that a car was traveling the wrong way down the parkway going approximately 75\u201385 miles per hour (121\u2013137\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nThe van traveled south for 1.7 miles (2.7\u00a0km) in the parkway's northbound passing lane before colliding head-on, at approximately 1:35 p.m., with a 2004 Chevrolet TrailBlazer, which then struck a 2002 Chevrolet Tracker. At the time of impact, Schuler was traveling approximately 85\u00a0mph. Schuler, her daughter, and two of her nieces died at the scene of the crash (the children did not appear to have been in car seats, or even to have had seatbelts fastened), along with the three men in the TrailBlazer: 81-year-old Michael Bastardi, his 49-year-old son Guy, and their friend, 74-year-old Dan Longo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nThe two occupants of the Tracker suffered only minor injuries. Schuler's severely injured third niece and her 5-year-old son Bryan were taken to area hospitals, where the niece died later that day. Bryan is the only passenger of Schuler's vehicle to survive, suffering from broken bones and severe head trauma. He remained hospitalized before returning home in early October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Day of incident\nTwo men who witnessed the accident and smoke rising out of the van ran to assist the occupants. After removing Schuler from the van, the two men saw a large, broken Absolut Vodka bottle by the driver's side. The men tried to pull the girls out of the van and noted that they had no pulse. Because the children possibly were not wearing seatbelts and had been thrown together, the men did not notice Bryan stuck under another child. Bryan was the only survivor of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nThe investigation of the collision drew nationwide attention, as Schuler's husband Daniel strongly disagreed with the conclusion that she was heavily intoxicated at the time of the crash. A toxicology report released on August 4 by Westchester County medical examiners found that Schuler had a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.19%, with approximately six grams of alcohol in her stomach that had not yet been absorbed into her blood. The legal BAC limit for driving while intoxicated in New York is 0.08%. The report also said that Schuler had high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system. She could have smoked marijuana as recently as fifteen minutes before the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nIn an August 8 press conference, Daniel Schuler and his attorney Dominic Barbara initially denied that Diane did drugs or was drinking that weekend at the campground since several children were with them. Daniel then changed the story and consistently denied that his wife ever \"drank to excess\" or could have been drunk while driving that day. When Larry King and Oprah Winfrey asked Daniel about the vodka in the van, he claimed that they always kept an old bottle in their camper. He further stated that Diane did all the packing for the camping trip, so she must have moved the bottle into the van.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nDaniel eventually admitted that he and his wife had been drinking during the camping trip, but denied that Diane had anything to drink on the day preceding the crash. The campground co-owner (who knew the Schulers well) saw them off at approximately 9 a.m. that morning, and stated that Diane appeared sober. The gas station employee whom Schuler asked for pain medication at around 11 a.m. also said, \"[I knew] for a fact [that] she wasn't drunk when she came into the station.\" According to Tom Ruskin, a private investigator supposedly hired by Daniel for $30,000, none of the McDonald's employees saw anything in Schuler's behavior to suggest that she was intoxicated. In fact, she was observed carrying on an extended conversation while ordering her food and orange juice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 831]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nRuskin told reporters in September that he had interviewed relatives, none of whom had ever seen her in a drunken state. He also pointed to autopsy results that showed an absence of organ damage often found in alcoholics, although an uninvolved medical examiner said such results do not rule out alcoholism. Schuler's relatives have also disputed that Diane was known to drink heavily or irresponsibly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nDaniel denied that his wife did drugs, but told investigators that his wife smoked marijuana only \"occasionally\" and the family told People magazine that she used it to relieve insomnia. Although Daniel was an officer in the Public Security Unit of the Nassau County Police Department, he was not required to report his wife's drug use as he is a civilian. In November, it was reported that Diane's sister-in-law had made a statement to police that she actually smoked marijuana on a regular basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nDaniel and Barbara believed that Schuler drove erratically due to a medical issue, such as a stroke. According to Barbara, Schuler was obese for much of her life and suffered from diabetes, although additional sources cite Diane as only having had gestational diabetes, a temporary condition related to a prior pregnancy rather than a chronic condition. Barbara has also mentioned an abscess that had persisted in Diane's mouth for seven weeks before her death, and a lump in her leg, about which she said, \"[ It] might have been an embolism\". The results of an autopsy conducted by a Westchester County medical examiner one day after the accident found that Diane had not suffered a stroke, aneurysm, or heart attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nIn September, New York's top forensic pathologist said that a hair test should have been done to determine Diane's drug history. Daniel and Barbara announced plans to exhume the body to perform the hair test and other examinations; experts said that this was unlikely to produce any new information since tests from two separate labs came up with exactly the same conclusion. Daniel also intended to re-test the fluid samples taken during the autopsy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nThe Westchester County medical examiner's office, which performed the autopsy, said that the degradation of the fluids over time was likely to result in lowered alcohol and THC readings; however, several toxicology experts said that the results should be similar to the previous test if the fluid samples had been properly stored. On November 7, Ruskin announced that the Schuler family had raised the money to retest Diane's tissue samples and that the retesting would take place soon. In July 2010, it was reported that Daniel had accepted a $100,000 offer from a film company, Moxie Firecracker Films, to record his wife's exhumation for an HBO documentary. The money would reportedly be placed in trust for Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nDaniel's persistence in disputing his wife's intoxication and drug use was condemned by relatives of the three TrailBlazer victims. When Daniel appeared on CNN's Larry King Live to demand more testing of his wife's remains, Longo's brother Joseph issued a statement saying in part, \"I want Daniel Schuler to know that he keeps inflicting more pain on all concerned once again [by] going to the media to try [to] paint a picture of a perfect wife and mother.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nBastardi's daughters appeared with their lawyer on NBC's Today, during which they questioned Daniel's culpability in enabling his wife's substance abuse and called for him to undergo drug testing himself. \"It makes me angry that he keeps denying it,\" said Margaret Nicotina, Bastardi's daughter. \"Every time he does it, he brings it back for us. I just wish that he would just admit that she was drunk. Maybe if he knows what happened that morning, if they argued or anything, that would be the truth. He wants the truth. So do we.\" Their lawyer called Daniel's position totally outrageous, an insult to the intelligence of the American public, and a hoax. Ruskin said on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2009 that Daniel had avoided media appearances since Larry King Live out of respect to the Bastardi family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Intoxication levels\nIn June 2010, the New York State Police issued its final report on the accident following eleven months of analysis. The report upheld the previous toxicology findings that Schuler was highly intoxicated and had high levels of THC in her system at the time of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Legal action\nAccording to a Westchester County medical examiner, the crash was ruled a homicide soon after it occurred because the victims were killed due to Diane Schuler's negligent driving, regardless of toxicology findings. On August 18, Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore said that no charges would be filed in the incident, because Schuler was the only person responsible for the deaths. \"Diane Schuler died in the crash and the charges died with her,\" DiFiore said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Legal action\nIn October 2009, DiFiore faced accusations from both Dan Schorr (a Republican challenger for her office) and a Bastardi family attorney that she had mishandled the Schuler case by neglecting to initiate a grand jury investigation into the crash. In response to Schorr's comments, DiFiore responded, \"Is he suggesting that there was criminal evidence of a crime committed by someone and we wouldn't pursue it? That's just silly.\" DiFiore won re-election in November. The Bastardi family said that if DiFiore did not convene a grand jury, they would seek support in the matter from the state attorney general and the governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Legal action\nFollowing a request from the Bastardi family that an administrator be appointed for Diane's estate so that a lawsuit could be filed, Daniel officially declined the role in November 2009, leaving it to a county-court judge to appoint a public administrator. On December 10, the Bastardi family filed suit against Diane and her brother, Warren Hance, seeking unspecified damages for wanton, willful, and reckless conduct. According to the family's lawyers, they were required by state law to include Hance in the suit because he was the owner of the van.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Legal action\nIn July 2011, Jackie Hance, who lost her three daughters in the accident, filed suit against Daniel, her brother-in-law. The suit claimed that the three deceased Hance girls suffered terror, fear of impending death, extreme horror, fright, and mental anguish. On July 26, 2011, the day after the premiere of the HBO documentary and on the second anniversary of the crash, Daniel sued the state for not \"keeping the road safe\" and his brother-in-law Warren Hance as the owner of the minivan that Diane was driving. By July 2014, all lawsuits by all parties were either settled or dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Child Passenger Protection Act\nIn August 2009, New York Governor David Paterson proposed the Child Passenger Protection Act, which would make it a felony to drive while intoxicated if a passenger under the age of 16 is in a vehicle. The proposal became known as Leandra's Law following the October 2009 death of 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, a passenger in a vehicle whose driver was drunk. The Child Passenger Protection Act was signed into New York law on November 18, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Media\nIn September 2009, the syndicated talk show Dr. Phil broadcast an episode about drunk-driving moms that focused heavily on Schuler and the crash. The next month, Oprah Winfrey devoted an episode of her show to the crash, interviewing Tom Ruskin via Skype, with Winfrey responding incredulously to several of his claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Media\nThe Law & Order episode \"Doped,\" which first aired in November 2009, centers on a crash extremely similar to the crash. The fictionalized version features a woman who speeds down the West Side Highway in the wrong direction before crashing and killing herself, her daughter and her two nieces, and another family in another car. Bastardi relatives reacted with anger upon hearing that the NBC drama would be basing an episode on the real-life tragedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Media\nThere's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane, directed by Liz Garbus for HBO Documentaries, establishes a timeline of events prior to the accident. The documentary suggests that Diane Schuler could have been suffering from severe pain caused by a tooth abscess during the drive home, causing her to look for painkillers at the gas station and, upon failing to find any, self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. The pain of the abscess, combined with vodka and marijuana, could have put her in a temporary state of delirium that triggered her fatal behavior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Media\nIn the documentary, Daniel and Barbara claim they gave Ruskin $30,000 to conduct an independent investigation and to re-test samples. Throughout the documentary, Daniel and Jay Schuler, Diane's sister-in-law, claim that Ruskin was not returning their phone calls for nine months. At the end of the documentary, Ruskin states that he had called Jay months previously with the results and that she refused to pick up her phone. She is seen claiming that \"she was told not to pick up\" and \"that she didn't understand any of it.\" Ruskin then informs her that his tests corroborated the previous tests; that Diane was highly intoxicated from alcohol and marijuana. Schuler's family persisted in refusing to accept the test results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, Media\nJackie Hance wrote a book called I'll See You Again in which the tragedy is revisited, focusing on her initial grief and later reemergence into life. Stephen King's short story \"Herman Wouk is Still Alive\" in his horror fiction anthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015) is, according to King, a story directly based on the Taconic State Parkway accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205205-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Taconic State Parkway crash, The Hance Family Foundation\nJackie and Warren Hance formed a foundation, the Hance Family Foundation, whose main purpose is to honor the lives of their three daughters by ensuring healthy, happy, and safe children through innovative self-esteem educational programming. The foundation's central project is Beautiful Me, a self-esteem program designed to educate girls by promoting appreciation for their genuine qualities, accurate self-awareness, and the satisfaction of helping others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205206-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tail Savannah Challenger\nThe 2009 Tail Savannah Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Savannah, United States between May 4 and May 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205206-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tail Savannah Challenger, Singles entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205206-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tail Savannah Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nCarsten Ball /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Harsh Mankad /  Kaes Van't Hof, 7\u20136(4), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205207-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tail Savannah Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nCarsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier won in the final 7-64, 6-4 against Harsh Mankad and Kaes Van't Hof", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205208-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tail Savannah Challenger \u2013 Singles\nMichael Russell won the first edition of this tournament, after he beat Alex Kuznetsov in the final 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205209-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Live\n2009 Taiwan Live (stylized as 2009 TAIWAN LIVE) is the second Fanclub Exclusive live DVD released by Japanese singer-songwriter Koda Kumi. It was her first concert in Taiwan and received generally positive reviews by Taiwanese fans. She toured 4 days around Taiwan and performed in front of over 8,000 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205209-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Live\nThe DVD includes off-shot footage of Kumi's time in Taiwan, along with her personal commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series\nThe 2009 Taiwan Series was played by Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions and Brother Elephants, winners of the first and second half-seasons. After seven games, the Lions defeated the Elephants four games to three and won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 1\nOctober 17, 2009 at Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium, Tainan City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 2\nOctober 18, 2009 at Douliu Baseball Stadium, Douliu, Yunlin County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 3\nOctober 20, 2009 at Chengcing Lake Baseball Field, Niaosong, Kaohsiung County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 4\nOctober 21, 2009 at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium, Taichung City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 5\nOctober 22, 2009 at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium, Xinzhuang City, Taipei County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 6\nOctober 24, 2009 at Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium, Tainan City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 6\nThis game is the currently the longest game (17 innings) in CPBL's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205210-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwan Series, Summaries, Game 7\nOctober 25, 2009 at Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium, Tainan City", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections\nLocal elections were held in Taiwan on 5 December 2009 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, councillors in county/city councils, and mayors of townships and county-administered cities, known as the three-in-one elections (Chinese: \u4e09\u5408\u4e00\u9078\u8209). The elections were not held in the special municipalities of Kaohsiung and Taipei as well as the counties and cities that were set to be reform as special municipalities in 2010, including Taipei County, Taichung County, Taichung City, Tainan County, Tainan City, or Kaohsiung County. The new formed municipalities has their elections in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Magistrate and mayor elections\nIn the elections held for the 17 posts of county magistrates and city mayors, the Kuomintang (KMT) won control of 12 Counties and Cities, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won control of 4 Counties, while the remaining county, Hualien, was won by an independent candidate. The DPP won 1,982,914 votes, or 45.32 per cent, which was a substantial increase from its 41.95 per cent in the 2005 elections. On the other hand, the KMT received 2,094,518 votes, or 47.87 percent, which was less than the 50.96 percent it won in the 2005 elections of 23 county magistrates and city mayors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Magistrate and mayor elections\nThe KMT's traditional strongholds of Northern Taiwan was maintained, although its complete dominance in Northern Taiwan, was terminated when DPP candidate won the Election for the Yilan County Magistrate by a large margin. However, this north-eastern county was once a DPP stronghold for more than two decades until KMT incumbent Lu Kuo-hua, won power four years ago. In Keelung City and Hsinchu City the KMT incumbent Mayors won by a considerable margin, although in Taoyuan County, the KMT candidate won by an unexpectedly narrow margin. The fiercely contested position for Hsinchu County Magistrate, was eventually won by a KMT candidate who received 38% of the vote, whilst the DPP candidate garnered 31%, and an independent candidate received 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 835]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Magistrate and mayor elections\nIn Central Taiwan, all four of the incumbent Magistrates secured their second term. In the traditionally Pan-Blue stronghold of Miaoli County, the KMT incumbent Magistrate won his second term with a large margin of approximately 30% of the votes. While in Changhua County and Nantou County, the KMT incumbent Magistrates both gained just over 50% of the votes, to secure their second terms. In Yunlin County, the DPP incumbent Magistrate gained nearly twice the number of votes as her opposition KMT candidate to secure her second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 619]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Magistrate and mayor elections\nThe DPP maintained its traditional strongholds of Southern Taiwan, winning both Chiayi County and Pingtung County by a great margin of 15% and 20% respectively. The KMT incumbent Mayor of Chiayi City won her second term by an unexpectedly narrow margin of 8000 votes. In Eastern Taiwan, the KMT's candidate for Taitung County Magistrate won the DPP's candidate by less 6000 votes, whilst Hualien County Magistrate was won by an Independent Candidate who gained more than twice the number of votes of his opposition KMT candidate. In the outlying islands, the incumbent Magistrate of Penghu County won the DPP's Candidate by less than 600 Votes, whilst in Kinmen County and Lienchiang County, the KMT Candidates gained respectively 38% and 57% of the vote to win both posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Councillor elections\nThe KMT maintained its unchallenged majority in the county and city councilmen elections, winning 289 seats of the 17 County and City Councils. The DPP won 128 seats, the Taiwan Solidarity Union won 3 seats, the People First Party won 1 seat and the Labor Party won 1 seat. The remaining 170 seats were won by independent candidates. The KMT won 43.94% of the votes, while the DPP won 24.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205211-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Taiwanese local elections, Election summaries, Township Chiefs\nThe KMT maintained its unchallenged majority in the township chiefs elections, winning 121 posts. The DPP won 34 posts, while the remaining 56 posts were won by independent candidates. The KMT won 48.82% of the votes, while the DPP won 20.04%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205212-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tajik League\nThe 2009 Tajik League was the 18th season of Tajik League, the Tajikistan Football Federation's top division of association football. Regar-TadAZ were the defending champions, having won the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205213-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tajikistan Cup\nThe 2009 Tajik Cup was the 18th edition of the Tajik Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205214-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tal Afar bombing\nThe 9 July 2009 Tal Afar bombing was a double suicide bombing which occurred in Tal Afar, Iraq in July 2009. The bombing occurred when two men detonated explosive vests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205214-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tal Afar bombing\nThe attacks targeted the Governor of the Iraqi Central Bank. However, he was unhurt in the incident. Thirty four people were killed and more than 60 were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205215-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Talaud Islands earthquake\nThe 2009 Talaud Islands earthquake occurred on February 12 at 01:34 local time (February 11, 2009 at 17:34 UTC) near Talaud Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Talaud), Indonesia. This reverse-type shock had a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). There were at least 64 people injured and 597 buildings damaged in Talaud Islands. This earthquake could also be felt in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205216-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taldykorgan fire\nThe 2009 Taldykorgan fire occurred on 13 September 2009, when at least 38 people were killed in a fire at a drug abuse clinic in Taldykorgan, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan. At least 10 others were re-hospitalised after the fire. Two of the dead were staff, the other 36 were patients. The building dates from 1951. The cause of the blaze is unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205216-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taldykorgan fire, Fire\nThe fire started at 5:30 AM. The fire quickly spread through the single story Soviet-era building. Locked doors and barred windows blocked many escape routes, and screams were heard coming from the building for over 20 minutes. 40 people were evacuated from the building by rescuers. Ten people were taken to the hospital, where they were treated for severe burn injuries. Firefighters extinguished the fire after several hours. The Bodies of 36 patients and 2 workers were recovered from the building, and taken to the city morgue where relatives were witnessed wailing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205216-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Taldykorgan fire, Fire\nOne victim's sister criticised police for taking him away because \"he was drinking too much. They said they were taking him away for six months to cure him of alcoholism but now he's dead\". Another woman, this one named Fatima, stated: \"I heard them screaming for 20 minutes. They were screaming, 'Save us, save us'\". Relatives of the victims were warned by police not to talk to journalists, but a woman who lost her husband spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Journalists were not allowed to speak to victims in the hospital, but one patient whose bed was by the window told journalists that patients at the drug clinic had been locked in when the fire started before he was discovered by a police officer and pulled from the window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205216-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Taldykorgan fire, Reaction\nKarim Massimov, Kazakhstan's Prime Minister, asked for an investigation to take place. The Emergencies Ministry later released a statement saying: \"The fire had spread rapidly because fire fighters had been alerted late\". Serik Akhmetov, the Deputy Prime Minister, is to fly to Taldykorgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205216-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Taldykorgan fire, Reaction\nA commission to investigate the fire was established. The building itself was visited by fire safety inspectors in May 2009. A number of violations were discovered, and the building was found to have no alarm system. Some violations had since been fixed, but an alarm system had still not been installed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205217-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger\nThe 2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tallahassee, United States between 20 and 26 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205217-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205217-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205217-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Champions, Men's doubles\nEric Butorac /  Scott Lipsky def. Colin Fleming /  Ken Skupski, 6\u20131, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205218-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nRajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds were the defending champions. They chose to not play this year. Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20134, against Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205219-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger \u2013 Singles\nBobby Reynolds was the defender of championship title; however, he lost to Ryan Sweeting in the first round. John Isner won in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20134, against Donald Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205220-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tamarua by-election\nThe Tamarua by-election was a by-election in the Cook Islands electorate of Tamarua. It was held on 3 February 2009, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP Mii Parima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205220-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tamarua by-election\nThe by-election was won by the Cook Islands Party's Pukeiti Pukeiti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nThe 2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season was the franchise's 34th season in the National Football League, the 12th playing their home games at Raymond James Stadium, and the first under head coach Raheem Morris. The Buccaneers looked to improve on their 9\u20137 record from their 2008 season and 3rd-place finish in the NFC South but failed to do so as they finished the season at 3\u201313, missing the playoffs for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nThe Buccaneers played seven of their home games at Raymond James Stadium. One of their home games was played at Wembley Stadium, as part of the International Series, in which they lost to the New England Patriots 35\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nThe Buccaneers unveiled a Ring of Honor to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1979 franchise. Lee Roy Selmon was the first inductee when the team wore throwback uniforms on November 8 in a game against Green Bay that they won 38\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season\nDespite the disappointing season, the Buccaneers were able to upset the eventual Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in Week 16, marking the first time in franchise history that the Buccaneers defeated the eventual Super Bowl champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Off-season, Coaching change\nOn January 16, 2009, less than three weeks after the 2008 regular season concluded, head coach Jon Gruden and general manager Bruce Allen were fired. The following day, Raheem Morris, recently promoted from defensive backs coach to defensive coordinator, was instead elevated to head coach, with Mark Dominik named general manager. The remainder of the coaching staff was finalized by mid-February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nThe first regular season game for head coach Raheem Morris saw the Buccaneers fall to the Dallas Cowboys by a score of 34\u201321. Running back Cadillac Williams returned as a starter, and rushed for 97 yards and one touchdown. Quarterback Byron Leftwich threw for 276 yards, one touchdown, and no interceptions. The Buccaneer defense, however, gave up three big plays in the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nDallas quarterback Tony Romo threw for a career-best 353 yards. Three long touchdown passes (66, 80, 44 yards respectively) put the game out of reach. Early in the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay closed the deficit to 20\u201314, but Romo's 80-yard catch & run to Patrick Crayton put the Cowboys ahead for good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nOn specials teams, kicker Mike Nugent had one field goal attempt blocked, and shanked another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Buffalo Bills\nThe Buccaneers made their first regular season trip in franchise history to Ralph Wilson Stadium to meet the Bills. The Buccaneers had played only one time at Buffalo, a preseason game in 1977. Byron Leftwich threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns, but the Bills held Tampa Bay to only 57 yards rushing, and the Buccaneers had 13 penalties for 112 yard in the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Buffalo Bills\nLeading 20\u20137 with less than a minute remaining in the first half, Buffalo looked to score once more. However, Fred Jackson fumbled at the Tampa Bay 16, and Sabby Piscitelli recovered. Piscitelli ran 72 yards to the Buffalo 8, and after a touchdown on the next play, Tampa Bay trimmed the deficit to 20\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Buffalo Bills\nLate in the fourth quarter, Leftwich led the Buccaneers on 14-play scoring drive, twice converting on 4th down. The touchdown could have brought the Buccaners within 8 points, but a failed two-point conversion ultimately foiled the comeback. Tampa Bay dropped to 0\u20132, and lost their sixth consecutive game, dating back to 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 74], "content_span": [75, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New York Giants\nStill looking for their first win of the season, the Buccaneers went home for a Week 3 duel with the New York Giants. Tampa Bay would trail early in the first quarter with Giants running back Brandon Jacobs getting a 6-yard touchdown run. The Buccaneers'deficit would climb in the second quarter with quarterback Eli Manning's 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New York Giants\nNew York continued its dominance in the third quarter with kicker Lawrence Tynes nailing a 26-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Giants would close out the game with Manning's 18-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sinorice Moss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Washington Redskins\nFollowing their shutout home loss to the Giants, the Buccaneers flew to FedExField for a Week 4 duel with the Washington Redskins. Due to Byron Leftwich's poor performance during the first three weeks of the season, quarterback Josh Johnson would get his first career start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Washington Redskins\nTampa Bay would come out firing in the first quarter with Johnson's 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Antonio Bryant, followed by kicker Mike Nugent's 37-yard field goal in the second quarter. However, the Redskins came back with a vengeance in the third quarter. Kicker Shaun Suisham would get a 42-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Jason Campbell's 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chris Cooley (with a blocked PAT) and a 59-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Santana Moss. The Bucs tried to rally in the fourth quarter as Nugent nailed a 22-yard field goal, but Washington's defense would prevent any further progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Philadelphia Eagles\nHoping for their first win of the season, the Buccaneers flew to Lincoln Financial Field for a Week 5 duel with the Philadelphia Eagles. Tampa Bay would immediately trail in the first quarter as Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb hooked up with wide receiver Jeremy Maclin on a 51-yard touchdown pass. Philadelphia would increase their lead in the second quarter with McNabb completing a 20-yard touchdown pass to fullback Leonard Weaver. The Buccaneers would get on the board with quarterback Josh Johnson's 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Winslow, but the Eagles would close out the first half with McNabb finding Maclin again on a 40-yard touchdown 40-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Philadelphia Eagles\nIn the third quarter, Philadelphia would increase their lead with running back Brian Westbrook getting a 7-yard touchdown run. The Eagles would then start off the fourth quarter with kicker David Akers nailing a 44-yard field goal. Tampa Bay tried to rally as Johnson connected with Winslow again on a 9-yard touchdown pass, but Philadelphia closed out the game with defensive end Darren Howard tackling running back Cadillac Williams in his endzone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Carolina Panthers\nStill trying to acquire their first win of the season, the Buccaneers went home for a Week 6 NFC South duel with the Carolina Panthers. Tampa Bay sailed off to a good start in the first quarter with a 20-yard touchdown run from running back Cadillac Williams. However, the Panthers would tie the game in the second quarter with running back DeAngelo Williams getting a 20-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Carolina Panthers\nDuring the second quarter, punt returner Clifton Smith left the game due to a concussion caused by Panthers cornerback Dante Wesley ramming into Smith. Wesley was flagged for unnecessary roughness and was ejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Carolina Panthers\nCarolina would take the lead in the third quarter with quarterback Jake Delhomme completing a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jeff King and running back Jonathan Stewart getting a 26-yard touchdown, yet the Buccaneers immediately got themselves back into the game as rookie wide receiver Sammie Stroughter returned the kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay tied the game with safety Tanard Jackson's 26-yard interception return for a touchdown. However, the Panthers delivered the final blow with Williams' 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 640]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Carolina Panthers\nWith the loss, the Buccaneers fell to 0\u20136 for the 1st time since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots\nStill on the hunt for their first win of the season, the Buccaneers flew to Wembley Stadium for Week 7's NFL International game with the New England Patriots. For this game, Tampa Bay was listed as the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots\nThe Buccaneers would trail early in the first quarter as Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather returned an interception 39 yards for a touchdown, followed by quarterback Tom Brady finding wide receiver Wes Welker on a 14-yard touchdown pass. New England increased their lead in the second quarter as Brady completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Sam Aiken, yet Tampa Bay would get onto the board with quarterback Josh Johnson completing a 33-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Antonio Bryant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots\nHowever, the Patriots took control throughout the second half as Brady hooked up with tight end Benjamin Watson on a 35-yard touchdown pass, while running back Laurence Maroney got himself a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots\nWith the loss, the Buccaneers went into their bye week at 0\u20137 for the 1st time since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 8: BYE\nWith the Rams' win over the Lions and the Titans win over the Jaguars in the same week, the Buccaneers were the NFL's only winless team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Green Bay Packers\nComing off their bye week, the Buccaneers went home, donned their throwback uniforms, and played a Week 9 duel with the Green Bay Packers. This game would be the first career start for rookie quarterback Josh Freeman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Green Bay Packers\nTampa Bay would trail early in the first quarter as Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 74-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver James Jones. The Buccaneers would get on the board with Freeman finding running back Derrick Ward on a 6-yard touchdown pass, but Green Bay answered with running back Ryan Grant getting a 2-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, Tampa Bay fired back as cornerback Ronde Barber returned a blocked punt 31 yards for a touchdown, but the Packers replied with Rodgers hooking up with wide receiver Donald Driver on a 32-yad touchdown pass. The Buccaneers would close out the half with kicker Connor Barth booting a 38-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Green Bay Packers\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Green Bay would strike again in the fourth quarter as Rodgers got a 12-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Tampa Bay took the lead as Freeman completed a pair of 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kellen Winslow (with a failed two-point conversion) and rookie wide receiver Sammie Stroughter (with a successful two-point conversion pass to wide receiver Michael Clayton). The Packers tried to get a comeback, yet safety Tanard Jackson came through with a 35-yard interception return from a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Miami Dolphins\nComing off their home win over the Packers, the Buccaneers flew to Land Shark Stadium for a Week 10 interconference duel with their in-state rival, the Miami Dolphins. In the first quarter, Tampa Bay struck first as kicker Connor Barth got a 51-yard field goal. However, the Dolphins would answer with a 1-yard touchdown run from running back Ronnie Brown (with a blocked PAT). Miami would add onto their lead in the second quarter with a 49-yard field goal from kicker Dan Carpenter. The Buccaneers would reply with Barth's 50-yard field goal, but the Dolphins would take a huge lead as quarterback Chad Henne completed a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kory Sperry, followed by Carpenter getting a 30-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 799]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Miami Dolphins\nTampa Bay would get the only score of the third quarter as Barth nailed a 54-yard field goal. The Buccaneers would creep closer in the fourth quarter as rookie quarterback Josh Freeman completed a 33-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Maurice Stovall, yet Miami continued to have their way as Carpenter booted a 45-yard field goal. Tampa Bay would take the lead as running back Cadillac Williams got a 1-yard touchdown run, but the Dolphins got the last laugh as Carpenter made the game-winning 25-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Atlanta Falcons\nTrying to avoid a 3-game losing streak, the Buccaneers flew to Georgia Dome for an NFC South rivalry match against the Atlanta Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Atlanta Falcons\nIn the first quarter the Bucs trailed early as kicker Jason Elam nailed a 45-yard field goal, and then with QB Chris Redman making a 22-yard touchdown pass to RB Jerious Norwood. Then the Bucs replied with QB Josh Freeman making a 42-yard touchdown pass to WR Antonio Bryant, then kicker Connor Barth made a 39-yard field goal. In the third quarter the Bucs took the lead when Freeman hooked up with Cadillac Williams on an 8-yard touchdown pass. Then the Falcons lost the margin when kicker Jason Elam got a 37-yard field goal. In the final seconds of the fourth quarter the Bucs fell behind when Redman made a 5-yard touchdown pass to WR Roddy White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: at Atlanta Falcons\nWith the loss, the Buccaneers fell to 1\u201310 and stay winless on the road after 5 visits. Additionally, the team was officially eliminated from postseason contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. New York Jets\nThe Jets were without starting quarterback Mark Sanchez, but the Buccaneers were unable to take advantage. The Tampa Bay defense allowed 175 yards rushing, and quarterback Josh Freeman, coming off a five interception game the previous week, struggled to read New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's exotic blitzes. Freeman finishing the day with three interceptions and a passer rating of just 12.1, well below his season average of 59.8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks\nComing off their home loss to the Jets, the Bucs flew to Qwest Field for a week 15 duel against the Seattle Seahawks. After a scoreless first quarter, Seattle got on the board first with QB Matt Hasselbeck's  29-yard pass to tight end John Carlson. The Bucs got on the board with Connor Barth's 28-yard field goal to end the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks\nIn the third quarter, Tampa Bay took the lead after a 45-yard field goal and a 22-yard touchdown pass by QB Josh Freeman to running back Cadillac Williams, set up by a Tanard Jackson interception. The Buccaneers further extended their lead with a 28-yard pass to running back Derrick Ward, with a successful two-point conversion. In the fourth quarter, Barth kicked another field goal for 39 yards. Seattle tried to rally, but Hasselbeck threw an interception (his fourth) in the end zone to cornerback Elbert Mack for a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Seattle Seahawks\nWith the win, the Buccaneers improved to 2\u201312. Not only was it their first road win since November 23, 2008, it also marked their first win on the west coast since winning Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego and their first win in Seattle since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nThe Saints dominated the first quarter and entered halftime riding on a 17\u20133 lead. Tampa Bay scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, including a 77-yard kick return by Micheal Spurlock, to tie the game at 17. As time expired, Garrett Hartley  attempted a 37-yard field goal that would have salvaged the game for the Saints, but the kick hooked left. In overtime, Tampa Bay won the coin toss, received the kickoff, and drove down the field to win the game with a field goal, for a final score of 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New Orleans Saints\nThis was the first time in franchise history that the Bucs defeated the eventual Super Bowl champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205221-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Atlanta Falcons\nAt 44\u00a0\u00b0F, it was the second-coldest home game in Buccaneers history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season\nThe Tampa Bay Rays' 2009 season was their 12th season of baseball on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The team attempted to defend their American League Championship they won in the previous season. Although they missed the playoffs, they still finished with a winning record (84\u201378) \u2013 only the second in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nFor the most part, the Rays' main roster remained intact. Eric Hinske's contract expired at the end of the 2008 season, and the team did not exercise options on Rocco Baldelli, Cliff Floyd or Trever Miller, making all four free agents. None were offered salary arbitration. In addition, Jonny Gomes was non-tendered on December 12, 2008, making him a free agent as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nDuring the offseason, starting pitcher Edwin Jackson was traded to the Detroit Tigers for corner outfielder and Tampa native Matt Joyce. Prior to that, the Rays also considered a trade with the Florida Marlins for corner outfielder Jeremy Hermida, but declined to make a deal. They also considered trading with the Minnesota Twins to re-acquire center fielder Delmon Young, whom they traded (along with Brendan Harris) to the Twins in the 2007\u201308 offseason for Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nThe Rays signed relief pitcher Joe Nelson to a one-year, $1.3-million deal on December 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nThe Rays had discussions with free agents for a designated hitter, including Jason Giambi, Bobby Abreu and Milton Bradley. They also considered re-signing Baldelli as a full-time DH. However, on January 5, 2009, they signed ex-Phillie left fielder Pat Burrell to a two-year deal worth $16 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nOn January 12, outfielder Gabe Kapler was signed to a one-year, $1-million deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nOn February 17, free agent infielder Adam Kennedy was signed to a minor-league contract and invited to spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nThe only player who was eligible for salary arbitration that went to a hearing was catcher Dioner Navarro. He lost his hearing on February 10, and was given $2.1 million for 2009; he sought $2.5 million. Two players avoided arbitration: shortstop Jason Bartlett, who signed a one-year contract just short of $2 million on January 20; and Willy Aybar, who signed a two-year deal with an option for 2011 worth up to $4.5 million on February 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nMatt Garza, Andy Sonnanstine and B. J. Upton all had their contracts renewed, and the Rays signed 15 other players on February 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Offseason\nAt the end of spring training, starting pitcher Jason Hammel was traded to the Colorado Rockies for pitching prospect Aneury Rodr\u00edguez. Jeff Niemann joined James Shields, Scott Kazmir, Matt Garza and Andy Sonnanstine in the starting rotation to begin the season, as David Price was optioned to Triple-A Durham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nQuality control coach Tim Bogar was hired by the Boston Red Sox to be their first base coach. Todd Greene signed on to replace Bogar in Tampa Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nThe Rays unveiled a new third jersey to be used in 2009, which is a dark blue shirt with the Rays logo. The color is similar to the main color of their batting practice jersey, but without the different-colored panels on the sides. The manta ray logo will not appear on the alternate jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nThe team's spring training operations will move from St. Petersburg to the rebuilt Charlotte County Stadium in Port Charlotte. Previously, they used Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg for spring training, and the Vince Naimoli Sports Complex for extended spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nCharlotte County Stadium will also be home of their Advanced-A Florida State League minor league franchise, the former \"Vero Beach Devil Rays\", who will be renamed to the Charlotte Stone Crabs. In addition, their regular Class A franchise in the South Atlantic League will move from Columbus, Georgia, to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and become the Bowling Green Hot Rods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nTheir Appalachian League Rookie-class team, previously known as the \"Princeton Devil Rays\", will become known as the Princeton Rays, excising the \"Devil\" from the name and adopting the team colors and typeface after previously using the green-based color scheme from 2001, and the original typeface from 1998. The only minor league teams that will not change are the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits and the Short-A Hudson Valley Renegades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Organizational changes\nThe Rays will also open a second Rookie-class team in the Gulf Coast League, the Gulf Coast Rays, which will also play at Charlotte County Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Media changes\nFox Sports Florida will take over the entire television contract, the beginning of an eight-year exclusive contract, and will broadcast 75 games, with another 75 games broadcast on sister network Sun Sports. It is unknown how much of the schedule will be broadcast in HD. Some cable networks have not begun to air games that are on Sun Sports, because of a disagreement on what fees the networks will pay the station for the games. The companies still in dispute will not broadcast games airing on Sun Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Media changes\nDewayne Staats returned as the play-by-play announcer, but Joe Magrane moved to MLB Network. On February 16, it was made official that Kevin Kennedy would split time in the booth with Brian Anderson, as well as Todd Kalas, who is currently the Rays' pre-, post- and in-game host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Media changes\nAt least five games will appear as Saturday afternoon games nationally on MLB on Fox: May 9 at Boston, May 16 hosting Cleveland, May 30 hosting Minnesota, June 20 at the New York Mets, and August 29 at Detroit. The May 10 game at Boston aired on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, just the second time the Rays appeared on the premier primetime package. More games may be moved to national coverage during the season. The season opener at Boston on April 6 was scheduled to air on ESPN, but was postponed to the next day, April 7, and the rescheduled game was not picked up by ESPN. The July 5 game at Texas aired on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Summary, Media changes\n620 WDAE was announced as the new radio flagship. Sister station 1250 WHNZ had been the previous flagship station since 2005, but WDAE aired some Monday night games in 2008. Andy Freed and Dave Wills will return to do play-by-play with Rich Herrera serving as pre- and post-game host. All three will be in their fifth season with the team, after replacing the team's original radio announcers, Paul Olden and Charlie Slowes, after the 2004 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, April\nThe Rays began their American League title defense on the road against division rival Boston. Before a pitch was even thrown, the Rays already had a franchise first. Their scheduled Opening Day was postponed due to inclement weather, making it the first time that the first game of the season for the Rays had been postponed. After dropping the rescheduled season opener the following day, the Rays ended up winning the next two games of the series. This was the first opening series win for the Rays since 2002, when they swept the Detroit Tigers in a 3-game set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, April\nThe Rays came home after splitting their first two series, opening Tropicana Field against the New York Yankees, and raising their American League East and AL Championship banners on April 13. B. J. Upton returned to the team having started the season on the disabled list. There was also a moment of silence held for Harry Kalas, Phillies radio announcer and father of Rays television analyst Todd Kalas, who died earlier in the day. The Rays won their home opener, 15\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, April\nMatt Garza lost a bid for a perfect game in the 7th inning against the Boston Red Sox when Jacoby Ellsbury hit an infield single. Retiring the first 18 batters, this was the furthest any Ray pitcher had taken a perfect game, as well as the first time any Ray pitcher had retired 18 batters consecutively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, April\nEvan Longoria, with a .369 batting average, 6 home runs, a tie for the American League lead in RBI with 24, and a slugging percentage of .714, was awarded with the Player of the Month award for the American League. This was the first time a member of the Rays had won the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, April\nThe Rays finished the month 9\u201314, and were 5+1\u20442 games behind first place. They had not won a series since the opening series in Boston. Their longest win streak was two, which occurred twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nOn May 3, Carl Crawford set a team record and tied a modern-day league record with six stolen bases. The last player to steal six bases was Eric Young while he was a member of the Colorado Rockies on June 30, 1996. It was only the fifth time since 1912 that a player had stolen that many bases, which was also the last year it had happened in the American League. After the game Crawford stated that he didn't know he had tied a record, or else he would have made an attempt for seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nOn May 15, the Rays trailed the Cleveland Indians 7\u20130 after the top of the 4th inning, but would rally to score eight unanswered runs over the remainder of the game to win, capped off by a walk-off home run by B. J. Upton to lead off the bottom of the 9th inning. At the time, this was the largest come from behind win in franchise history, but remains the largest deficit overcome at home. Previously, the Rays had never won a game in which they had trailed by at least seven runs. They had come back from a six-run deficit on five occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nPrior to a game against the Cleveland Indians on May 17, Rays manager Joe Maddon incorrectly filled out a lineup card that listed Evan Longoria and Ben Zobrist both as the third baseman. As the plan was to have Zobrist play the position at third base and have Longoria as the designated hitter, having them both as the third baseman left the Rays without a player listed as the designated hitter in their official lineup card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nAs stated in part of Rule 6.10(b) in the official rulebook of the league, \"It is not mandatory that a club designate a hitter for the pitcher, but failure to do so prior to the game precludes the use of a Designated Hitter for that game.\" Indians manager Eric Wedge brought the error to the attention of the umpires at the beginning of the bottom of the first inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nBecause there was no designated hitter, and since Zobrist had already taken the field as the third baseman, the Rays would have to use starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine as the third batter in the lineup where Longoria would normally bat. Longoria would enter the game later, in the seventh inning as a triple-switch when Sonnanstine was relieved from the game, moving Zobrist to right field in place of Gabe Kapler and shifting the pitcher's spot to seventh. Almost a week after the game, MLB umpiring vice president Mike Port stated that the umpires were wrong in allowing Longoria to come into the game at any point after it began. The Rays ultimately won the game, 7\u20135. Sonnanstine went 1-for-3 with an RBI double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 765]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nOn May 22, the Rays placed Troy Percival and Scott Kazmir on the 15-day disabled list, and called up infielder Reid Brignac and relief pitcher Dale Thayer. The move left the Rays with four starting pitchers, suggesting another move may be made later on to fill the vacant starting role later on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nThe Rays lost starting second baseman Akinori Iwamura for the season to a leg injury that occurred on May 24 against the Florida Marlins. While Iwamura was making an effort to turn a double play, Marlins infielder Chris Coghlan awkwardly slid into Iwamura's leg in an attempt to disrupt the throw to first base. Iwamura fell to the ground and had to be taken off the field on a cart. The next day after an MRI, it was announced that he suffered a torn ACL, \"involvement\" on the MCL, in addition to torn ligaments in his ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nEven before the announcement was made, hopes of a speedy recovery were not promising, as Iwamura was seen around the clubhouse on crutches \"saying goodbye\", and as Rays shortstop Jason Bartlett put it, \"From what I heard, he's not going to be back soon.\" Bartlett himself would be put on the disabled list one day later, with a sprained ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nDavid Price, the team's first overall pick in the 2007 MLB draft, made his season debut on the road against the Cleveland Indians on May 25. After 100 pitches in 3+1\u20443 innings, Price was taken out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nOn the same night as Price's first start of the 2009 season, the Rays jumped out to a 10\u20130 lead over the Indians, but were unable to win the game, as their opponents rallied for 11 unanswered runs. The Rays allowed 7 runs to cross the plate in the bottom of the 9th inning, ended by a walk-off 2-run single by V\u00edctor Mart\u00ednez. The Indians scored their last five runs with two outs, as the game's last six batters reached base. This having been the first of a 4-game set for the Rays on the road, the Indians eventually won every game in the series, extending the Rays' losing streak for road games against Cleveland to 17 games. The last time the Rays won in Cleveland was September 28, 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, May\nAt the end of May, the Rays were 25\u201328, 4th place in the division, and 5+1\u20442 games out of first place. They were 5 games behind first place for the Wild Card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, June\nOn June 22, Akinori Iwamura underwent surgery to repair the injuries suffered the month before. It was discovered that his ACL was only partially torn, meaning he would not require reconstructive surgery. Instead, an arthroscopic surgery was performed, and a report on the successful operation stated that he could return in 6\u20138 weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, June\nOn June 28, the Rays became the fastest team to hit 100 home runs and steal 100 bases in a single season, needing only 77 games. They were the fifth to do it before the all-star break, and the first since the Florida Marlins in 2003 to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, June\nThe Rays would go 19\u20137 in the month, improving their overall record to 44\u201335, and riding a seven-game winning streak into July. They set a new franchise record for home runs in one month with 41. While not having gained much ground on the division lead, finishing the month 4 games behind, in the wild card race, they went into July only 1+1\u20442 games behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, June\nCarlos Pe\u00f1a led the American League in home runs at the end of June with 23, which was third best in the entire league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, June\nFor the second time in the season, a Rays player was named the American League's Player of the Month. B. J. Upton, with a .324 batting average, 5 home runs, 22 RBI, 10 doubles, a .562 slugging percentage, a .395 on-base percentage, and league best 14 stolen bases, won the award this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nUnfortunately the Rays' winning streak did not carry over into the next month. They lost their first four games in July, including being swept on the road by the Texas Rangers, and did not win until their first home game of the month. By the All-Star break, the Rays were 48\u201341. They were 6+1\u20442 games behind first place in the division, and 3+1\u20442 behind for the Wild Card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nFour Rays were selected to make the All-Star Game. Evan Longoria, after having to rely on the All-Star Final Vote to take the final spot on the roster in his rookie year in 2008, was elected as the starting 3rd baseman by the fans. Longoria had the third highest votes out of players in the American League, but did not participate in the game due to an infection in his finger. Making the All-Star roster by means of player voting, was Carl Crawford, his third selection, and Jason Bartlett, his first selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nAs manager of the American League champions in the previous season's World Series, Joe Maddon automatically became a manager of the American League All-Stars. Part of his job as manager was to select players for the team after the fans and players voted. One of Maddon's selections was the Rays' own Ben Zobrist, which was his first selection to the midsummer classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nThe Rays would send a fifth player, making it the most they had ever sent to one All-Star Game, which was a record that had been set the previous season. Carlos Pe\u00f1a, who had never been to the All-Star Game, was a nominee for the All-Star Final Vote, a process in which fans choose one of five players in each league to take the final roster spots on the All-Star squads. Voting began after the initial All-Star rosters were announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nTo help garner votes for Pe\u00f1a, the Rays started the \"Vote for 'Los\" campaign, having T-shirts made with Pe\u00f1a's face on them which players wore during batting practice. The Rays asked fans to bring their laptop computers to Tropicana Field and vote online during the game, as well as using advertisements, online commercials, fliers, merchandise, and even a video message from comedian Rob Schneider. Despite all efforts, Pe\u00f1a would ultimately finish fourth in the voting. Brandon Inge of the Detroit Tigers received the most votes to get the last remaining spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0039-0002", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nEven though he didn't win, Pe\u00f1a said he was flattered and humbled to see how many were in support of him to make the All-Star Game. Pe\u00f1a would eventually make the team anyway as a replacement to Dustin Pedroia, who would have been the starting 2nd baseman, as he pulled out due to a \"serious family health matter\" involving his wife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nPe\u00f1a would also take part in the Home Run Derby. In the first round, he hit 5 home runs, good enough for fourth place. Two other participants would do the same, and so a \"swing-off\" was needed to determine who would advance to the next round. In the tiebreaker, Pe\u00f1a would only hit one home run, and was eliminated after Albert Pujols hit two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nCrawford was named MVP of the All-Star Game, for taking a home run away from Brad Hawpe in the bottom of the 7th inning. Had Crawford not made the catch, Hawpe would have broken a 3\u20133 tie in favor of the National League. Crawford's grab turned out to be a major factor in the game, as the American League would go on to win 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nOn July 23, Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox threw a perfect game against the Rays. It was only the eighteenth example of a perfect game in  Major League Baseball history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nOn the road against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 25, the Rays were down 8\u20130 after four innings, and losing 9\u20131 entering the 7th inning. However the Rays would score eight runs over the next 3 innings to tie the game, including two solo home runs in the 9th inning. The game would enter extra innings, where the Rays would take a one-run lead into the bottom of the 12th inning. Joe Nelson would come in to pitch as the Rays' last remaining relief pitcher available. The Blue Jays would load the bases with one out, but could not capitalize. This became the largest come from behind win in franchise history for the Rays, a record previously set earlier in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 717]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, July\nFinishing the month with an even 12\u201312 record, the Rays had an overall record of 56\u201347. Even with the fifth-most wins in the American League, they were 6 games behind for the lead in the division, and 4+1\u20442 games behind for the wild card. They made no big moves on the July 31 trade deadline, though they were rumored to be interested in several players, including Victor Martinez and Cliff Lee of the Indians. Ultimately, Martinez would be traded to Boston, while Lee was sent to Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nOn August 7, the Rays acquired catcher Gregg Zaun from the Baltimore Orioles for a player to be named later. To make room for Zaun, the Rays designated another catcher, Michel Hern\u00e1ndez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nOn August 29, the Rays sent starting pitcher Scott Kazmir to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for two minor league prospects and a player to be named later. Initially, there was confusion about whether or not a deal had been made, or if it had been in the works before falling through. Kazmir himself said he knew nothing about a trade, asking reporters who were questioning him if they were joking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nThe Rays would not confirm that a trade was being made, but a leak to the news by the Angels reportedly almost led the Rays to call it off because of their policy to notify the player first. The websites for ESPN and MLB reported in the afternoon that the trade had been completed, however MLB took down their report and replaced it with a story stating that the trade would not occur. Kazmir was in uniform for the Rays that night as they played the Detroit Tigers, but was not the starting pitcher in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nAfter the conclusion of the game, it was confirmed by the Rays that Kazmir had been dealt. Drafted by the New York Mets, the Rays acquired Kazmir in a trade considered to be one of the best in franchise history. In his six seasons with the Rays, Kazmir became the club's all-time leader in wins, strikeouts, and games started. He was also the team's record holder for ERA and strikeouts in a single season. In 2007, Kazmir led the majors in strikeouts with 239. He was also a two-time all-star, and the winning pitcher in the 2008 All-Star Game. Andrew Friedman, the Rays' Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, said that Kazmir's contract was not the primary reason that he was traded, but was an element in the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nA day after the Kazmir trade, the Rays activated Akinori Iwamura from the disabled list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, August\nGoing 15\u201312 for the month, the Rays had a 71\u201359 record overall, assuring themselves of having at least the second best season in franchise history. The Rays had fallen behind the New York Yankees for the division lead by 11+1\u20442 games, but were still within reach of the wild card, trailing the Boston Red Sox by only 5 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nWhen rosters expanded on the first day of September, the Rays called up four players. Relief pitcher Jeff Bennett, outfielder Fernando Perez, catcher Shawn Riggans, and starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine, with Sonnanstine scheduled to start for the Rays that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nThe Rays were struggling to keep up in the wild card race, but took a blow to their lineup on September 7 when Carlos Pe\u00f1a, who was leading the American League in home runs, was hit on his fingers by a pitch during the first game of a doubleheader. It wasn't until after that first game that the Rays announced Pe\u00f1a had two fractured fingers and would be out for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nPe\u00f1a said that it was a wonder that he didn't pass out from the pain of taking a fastball to the fingers, and that the X-ray of his middle finger looked like \"a pencil snapped in half\", but upon the realization of having to miss the rest of the year, \"hurt more than the hit by pitch itself.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nIf losing Pe\u00f1a wasn't bad enough for the Rays, their losing streak at the time reached 11 games before it was snapped, although they never fell below a .500 record. On September 22, the Rays were officially eliminated from postseason contention, but would still finish with the second winning season in team history, winning their 82nd game of the season on September 30. They went 11\u201317 in the month of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nB. J. Upton became the first player in franchise history to hit for the cycle, doing so on October 2, against the New York Yankees. Upton hit a triple, a double, a home run, and a single, in that order, all before five innings were completed. He would later add another single to finish the night 5 for 5 with a career-high 6 RBIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nThough they were not successful in defending the division and league championships won in 2008, the Rays did finish the season 3rd place in the AL East with an 84\u201378 record. Average attendance, as well as overall attendance at Tropicana Field increased again to become the highest since their inaugural season in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Regular season, September/October\nEvan Longoria was given a Gold Glove award for third base in the American League on November 10. Longoria, who was the AL's 2008 Rookie of the Year, became the second player in Rays history to win a gold glove after first baseman Carlos Pe\u00f1a, who won in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205222-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampa Bay Rays season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205223-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampere Open\nThe 2009 Tampere Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the twenty-eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tampere, Finland between 27 July and 2 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205223-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampere Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205223-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampere Open, Champions, Doubles\nPeter Luczak /  Yuri Schukin def. Simone Vagnozzi /  Uros Vico, 6\u20131, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20134]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205224-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampere Open \u2013 Doubles\nErvin Eleskovic and Michael Ryderstedt were the defending champions, but they didn't compete this year. Peter Luczak and Yuri Schukin won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20137(6), [10\u20134], against Simone Vagnozzi and Uros Vico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205225-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tampere Open \u2013 Singles\nMathieu Montcourt cannot defend his title. He died on 6 July 2009. Thiemo de Bakker became the new champion, after defeating Peter Luczak 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7) in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205226-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Challenger\nThe 2009 Tashkent Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan between 12 and 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205226-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205226-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Challenger, Champions, Doubles\nMurad Inoyatov /  Denis Istomin def. Ji\u0159\u00ed Krko\u0161ka /  Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko, 7\u20136(4), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205227-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nFlavio Cipolla and Pavel \u0160nobel were the defending champions; however, they decided to not compete this year. Murad Inoyatov and Denis Istomin won the tournament in their country, after defeating Ji\u0159\u00ed Krko\u0161ka and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205228-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLu Yen-hsun tried to defend his 2008 title, but he was eliminated by Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. in the second round. Marcos Baghdatis defeated Denis Istomin 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205229-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Open\nThe 2009 Tashkent Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the Tashkent Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 21 September through 27 September 2009. Shahar Pe'er won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205229-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Open, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205229-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Open, Finals, Doubles\nOlga Govortsova /  Tatiana Poutchek defeated  Vitalia Diatchenko /  Ekaterina Dzehalevich 6\u20132, 6\u20137(1\u20137), [10\u20138]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205230-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Open \u2013 Doubles\nIoana Raluca Olaru and Olga Savchuk were the defending champions, both of them were present this year, but played with different partners. Olaru partnered with Galina Voskoboeva, but they lost in the first round against Arina Rodionova and Olga Savchuk. Savchuk partnered with Arina Rodionova, but they lost in the semifinals against Vitalia Diatchenko and Ekaterina Dzehalevich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205231-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tashkent Open \u2013 Singles\nSorana C\u00eerstea was the defending champion, but she chose to participate at the Hansol Korea Open instead. Shahar Pe'er won in the final 6-3, 6-4 against Akgul Amanmuradova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election\nPeriodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 2 May 2009. The three seats up for election were Derwent, held by Labor MLC Michael Aird; Mersey, held by retiring independent MLC Norma Jamieson; and Windermere, held by independent MLC Ivan Dean. These seats were last contested in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Derwent\nDerwent had been held by Michael Aird for Labor since a 1995 by-election; he had previously served in the House of Assembly from 1979 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1995. A minister in Michael Field's government from 1989 to 1992, he had served as Treasurer and Minister for Racing since 2006. The Tasmanian Greens endorsed Susan Gunter, a shearer and former environmental lawyer. Independent candidate Jenny Branch, Glenorchy Alderman and President of the Tasmanian Parents and Friends Association, was a Liberal Party member but resigned from the party prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Derwent\nThe former federal member for Franklin, Harry Quick, initially nominated as a Greens candidate, but he withdrew his nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Derwent\nSince Aird won a majority on the first vote, no preference count was conducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Mersey\nIndependent MLC for Mersey Norma Jamieson decided to retire after one term, having been first elected in 2003. Four candidates, all independents, contested the election. Mike Gaffney was a teacher and public servant who had been Mayor of Latrobe Council since 2002 and President of the Tasmanian Local Government Association since 2006. Although running as an independent, Gaffney had previously run for the Labor Party at the 2002 state election and received some support from the Labor government. Norma Jamieson's daughter Carolynn was a small business owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Mersey\nLynn Laycock had been Mayor of Devonport since 2005; she had some Liberal connections, having worked as an assistant to Liberal Premier Tony Rundle. Steve Martin was running primarily on the issue of Mersey Community Hospital, which had passed to Commonwealth control the previous year. He had previously worked for Labor MPs and was a restaurateur at the time of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205232-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Windermere\nIndependent MLC for Windermere Ivan Dean had first been elected in 2003, when he defeated independent Labor member Silvia Smith. In 2005 he was elected as Mayor of Launceston, which attracted some criticism for holding the dual positions; Dean opted to donate his mayoral salary to charity. He lost the mayoralty in 2008 but remained a councillor; his defeat was reckoned to have something to do with his support for the Gunns pulp mill. His highest-profile challenger was Kathryn Hay, who served as Labor MHA for Bass from 2002 to 2006. Hay was running as an independent Labor candidate. The Tasmanian Greens endorsed small business owner and maritime scientist Peter Whish-Wilson. Independent Peter Kaye was a prominent local radio presenter campaigning mainly on increasing funding for Launceston General Hospital. Launceston councillor and former Labor Party member Ted Sands was also standing as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 981]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205233-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tatra Banka Slovak Open\nThe 2009 Ritro Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 16 and 22 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205233-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tatra Banka Slovak Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205233-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tatra Banka Slovak Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205233-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tatra Banka Slovak Open, Champions, Doubles\nPhilipp Marx /  Igor Zelenay def. Leo\u0161 Friedl /  David \u0160koch, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing\nThe 20 June 2009 Taza bombing was an attack which took place in Taza near Kirkuk, Iraq on 20 June 2009 in a dominant Shia Turkmen community. At least 73\u00a0people were killed and over 200 more were injured. Thirty homes were destroyed in the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing\nThe bombing was the worst attack in Iraq since March 2008, even worse than the twin 23 April 2009 Iraqi suicide attacks in Baghdad and Muqdadiyah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing, Incident\nThe attack took place in a residential area near a mosque, as a result destroying several homes and slightly damaging the mosque. Mud-brick homes in the vicinity of the explosion collapsed, with the explosion leaving a deep crater at the point of detonation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing, Incident\nFollowing midday prayers, people were exiting the crowded Al-Rasoul mosque in Taza town when the explosion occurred. Those who were affected were removed to Azadi Hospital in Kirkuk, with children being placed in wards. Thirty-five-year-old Hussain Nashaat was wrapped in bandages when he spoke to reporters: \"I was sitting in my house when suddenly a powerful blast shook the ground under me. I found myself covered in blood and ran outside in a daze. My lovely neighborhood was just rubble.\" People were buried alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing, Incident\nShortly after the bombing, the Kurdistan Regional Government, under orders from the Iraqi ministry of defence, started a 15-day operation \"to follow terrorists and criminals in Kirkuk Province surroundings\". 13 days later a high-ranking officer reported that \"during a joint raid by Iraqi military forces alongside US troops in Haweja town, Mahdi Salih a terrorist was arrested who was the Kirkuk two blasts mastermind on 20 June\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing, Incident\nIn December, Adnan Jassim Ali al-Hamdani, Walid Mahmoud Mohammed al-Hamdani and Hawas Falah al-Juburi were convicted and sentenced to death for helping to plan the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205234-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Taza bombing, Perpetrators\nPerpetrators are not identified. Western media, like Reuters, hinted at \u201c\u2026Sunni Islamist insurgents, including al Qaeda\u2026\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nThe 2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final was a football match between Benfica and Sporting CP which was held on the 21 March 2009 at Est\u00e1dio do Algarve, Faro. It was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga, the 2nd season of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga, a football competition for the 32 teams in the Primeira Liga and the Liga de Honra. Benfica were appearing in their first final, while Sporting were appearing in the final for the second time; having lost the previous season's final to Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nAfter a goalless and uneventful first half, Sporting scored the first goal of the game through Bruno Pereirinha in the 48th minute. Benfica equalized in the 75th minute through Spanish winger Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes who converted from the penalty spot. After ninety minutes where the game remained tied, the final was to be settled on penalties. After Quim saved H\u00e9lder Postiga's penalty, Carlos Martins stepped up to the penalty spot and scored the decisive penalty to clinch Benfica's first Ta\u00e7a da Liga. This was Benfica's first trophy in four years since winning their 31st Primeira Liga in the 2004\u201305 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final\nIn the aftermath of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Sporting's president, coach and two players would face disciplinary action by the LPFP after the incidents in the match involving the decision given by Luc\u00edlio Batista following Pedro Silva's supposedly handling the ball in the box, which resulted in Sporting being reduced to ten men and Benfica being awarded a penalty. The following day, the referee publicly assumed that his decision was a mistake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Background\nSporting CP were appearing in their second final after losing the previous edition's final to Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. Benfica were appearing in their very first Ta\u00e7a da Liga final. This final marked the first time that two teams of the Big three would face each other, in a Ta\u00e7a da Liga final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Background\nThe last meeting between these two sides prior to the final was a league match, which took place on the 21 February. Sporting defeated Benfica 3\u20132 at the Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade. The last meeting between these two sides in a cup competition saw Sporting defeat Benfica, 5\u20133 in the semi final of the 2007\u201308 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Team selection\nBoth clubs entered the 2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final with players missing due to injury. Sporting CP were missing midfielder Marat Izmailov due to tendinitis in his right knee, as well as left back Leandro Grimi, who was undergoing an operation to his left knee. Benfica entered the final missing goalkeeper Marcelo Moretto, Quique S\u00e1nchez Flores' first-choice goalkeeper in the 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a da Liga. Moretto missed the final due to undergoing arthroscopic surgery to his right knee after he sustained an injury during a Benfica training session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Team selection\nBoth sides going into the match, saw players who were doubtful for the final. Sporting's H\u00e9lder Postiga was a doubt for the final. Benfica's R\u00faben Amorim was also a doubt for the final after sustaining an injury in a league match, while Carlos Martins and David Suazo were also doubts. These three players would train apart from the rest of the squad in order to be match fit for the final during the week building up to the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Team selection\nPaulo Bento's squad selection for the final saw the presence of H\u00e9lder Postiga and Leandro Romagnoli who were doubtful going into the game. Paulo Bento's starting eleven saw him start with veteran goalkeeper Tiago ahead of Rui Patr\u00edcio. Due to Leandro Grimi's injury, Pedro Silva would replace him in the left back position. Quique S\u00e1nchez Flores' squad selection for the final saw the inclusion of Carlos Martins, David Suazo and R\u00faben Amorim who were doubtful prior to the game. S\u00e1nchez Flores' starting eleven saw him start Amorim and Suazo. Veteran goalkeeper Quim was selected ahead of Jos\u00e9 Moreira. S\u00e1nchez Flores also selected Miguel V\u00edtor ahead of first-team regular Sidnei in the starting lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nBenfica dominated possession early on and created several chances. The first major chance of the game saw a Benfica counterattack, saw Pablo Aimar brake into Sporting's final third and thread a ball to an unmarked Nuno Gomes who couldn't slot the ball past Tiago. Sporting's most dangerous chance of the first half, saw Simon Vuk\u010devi\u0107 lob the ball over the Benfica defense where he found an unmarked Li\u00e9dson, who went past Benfica's goalkeeper and fired into the goal at an acute angle but saw his shot blocked on the goal line by David Luiz. The first half would end goalless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nFollowing the break, Sporting started the second half stronger and scored the first goal of the game. Clever interplay between Simon Vuk\u010devi\u0107 and Marco Caneira down the left hand side saw Caneira cross the ball into the box where Li\u00e9dson's header hit the crossbar and on the follow up, Bruno Pereirinha slotted the ball past Quim. Following Sporting's goal, its lead could have been doubled but for Quim's save after F\u00e1bio Rochemback's corner found \u00c2nderson Polga. Benfica came close to an equalizer following Sporting's most dominant period of the game after Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes' free kick found Luis\u00e3o whose header hit the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nFifteen minutes from the end, \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda's run would result in Benfica being awarded a penalty after Pedro Silva handled the ball in the box when trying to challenge Di Mar\u00eda. Replays showed that the ball hit Silva on the chest. Sporting's Pedro Silva would receive a second yellow card, which resulted in Sporting being a man down. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Reyes would convert the penalty and slot the ball past Tiago. The game ended in a tie after ninety minutes and was to be settled on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205235-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a da Liga Final, Match, Summary\nIn the penalty shootout after each side had taken three penalties each, Sporting were 2\u20131 up. The next two penalties which each side took proved to be vital to who would win the cup. Sporting's Derlei and H\u00e9lder Postiga missed their penalties, while David Luiz and Carlos Martins converted the penalties to clinch Benfica's first Ta\u00e7a da Liga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205236-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 2009 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the 69th season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 31 May 2009 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira and Porto. Porto defeated Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira 1\u20130 thanks to a sixth-minute goal from Argentine forward Lisandro L\u00f3pez, which would give Porto their 14th Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205236-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nIn Portugal, the final was televised live in HD on TVI and Sport TV. As Porto claimed both league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira faced their cup final opponents in the 2009 Superta\u00e7a C\u00e2ndido de Oliveira at the Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Aveiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season\nThe 2009 season was the eighth for the  Team Columbia-High Road Women cycling team, which began as the T-Mobile team in 2003. The main new riders for the team were the European Time Trial Champion Ellen van Dijk and the Canadian national champion Alex Wrubleski. Alexis Rhodes and Madeleine Sandig left the team and Anke Wichmann and Oenone Wood both retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, Roster\nThe team was presented together with the males team on 11 January 2009 in Mallorca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, Roster\nThe main new rider for the team was Ellen van Dijk, 21 years old, a time trial specialist and the European Time Trial Champion (under-23). The Canadion Alex Wrubleski, national champion and the winner of the Redlands Bicycle Classic also joined the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, Roster\nThe contract of Alexis Rhodes ended and she moved to Webcor on the recommendation of Scrymgeour. Madeleine Sandig moved to Equipe N\u00fcrnberger Versicherung and Anke Wichmann and Oenone Wood retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, Season, February\nThe season started for the team with the Ladies Tour of Qatar in February. Ellen van Dijk secured the Best Young Rider prize, with consistency after taking the jersey on the first day when she made it into the front group of 21 riders and finished third. The last hour of the last stage was a tense affair for the Dutchwoman, when she was caught on the wrong side of a split. She had to get past seven groups and finally crossed the line in sixth place, in the same time as stage winner, and won the overall Best Young Rider\u2019s classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, Results in major races, Women's World Cup 2009\nJudith Arndt finished 4th in the individual and the team finished 5th in the teams overall standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 83], "content_span": [84, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205237-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Columbia\u2013HTC Women season, UCI World Ranking\nThe team finished second in the UCI ranking for teams, behind Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam (women).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205238-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Ice Racing World Championship\nThe 2009 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the 31st edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on\u00a0?, 2009, in Inzell, in Germany. Russia won their 15th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205239-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Long Track World Championship\nThe 2009 Team Long Track World Championship was the third annual FIM Team Long Track World Championship. The final took place on 16 August 2009 in Eenrum, Netherlands. The championship was won by the defending champion Germany who beat a host team Netherlands in a final heat. France finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205239-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Long Track World Championship, Heat details\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205240-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship will be the 2nd UEM Team Speedway Junior European Championship season. The Final will be held on August 23, 2009 in Holsted, Denmark. The championship was won by Poland (40 points), who they beat defending champion Sweden (38 points), host team Denmark (26 points) and Czech Republic (15 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205240-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Results\nIn the Final will be the defending Champions Sweden, host team Denmark (3rd place in 2008 Final) and Poland (4th place). A last finalist will be determined in one Semi-Final. In Bockhorn, Germany on 18 July will be Ukraine, Czech Republic, Russia and host team Germany (2nd place). The Russian team withdrew and was replaced by Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205240-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Heat details, Semi-Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205240-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship, Heat details, The Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205241-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior Polish Championship\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Junior Polish Championship (Polish: M\u0142odzie\u017cowe Dru\u017cynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, MDMP) is the 2009 version of Team Speedway Junior Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The defending Champion is Unia Leszno. The Final took place on 27 August 2009 at MotoArena Toru\u0144 in Toru\u0144 and was won by host team Unibax Toru\u0144 (41 points) where they beat Caelum Stal Gorz\u00f3w Wlkp (38 points), Unia Leszno (33 points) and Marma Hadyk\u00f3wka Rzesz\u00f3w (7 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205241-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior Polish Championship, Qualifications\nThe draw for Qualifying Groups was made by Main Commission of Speedway Sport and was announced in \"Komunikat Nr 20/2009\" on 14 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205241-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior Polish Championship, Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship was the fifth annual FIM Team Under-21 World Championship competition since its introduction in 2005. The final took place on September 5, 2009, in Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski, Poland. It was the second final held in Poland, but the first in Gorz\u00f3w; in 2006, the final took place in Rybnik, where Poland beat Sweden, Denmark and Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Format\nThe final consisted of the host team and the defending champions Poland. The other finalists were determined in two qualifying rounds (semi-finals). In Abensberg, Germany on June 1 was Sweden (3rd place in 2008 Final), Australia (4th place), Great Britain and host team Germany. Five days later in Pardubice, will be Denmark (Runner-up in 2008 Final), host team Czech Republic and Finland. The Russian team withdrew and was replaced by a joint team of Croatian and Slovenian riders, known as \"Adria\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Results\nQualifying Round 1 was won by Sweden (45 points) and they beat host team Germany (40 pts), Australia (35 pts) and Great Britain (26 pts). The top scored rider was Darcy Ward from Australia (maximum 15 points) and British Tai Woffinden (15 points also, but in six heats). Qualifying Round 2 was won by host team Czech Republic (56 pts). To the final was qualify second Denmark (55 pts, more than Germany). Adria (Croatia and Slovenia) beat in run-off Finland (both 16 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Results\nThe Final was won be host team and the defending champions Poland (57 points), who they beat Denmark (45 pts), Sweden (32 pts) and Czech Republic (15 pts). The top scored rider was Przemys\u0142aw Pawlicki from Poland (maximum 15 points). It was fifth title for Poland team and second for Grzegorz Zengota, Maciej Janowski and Artur Mroczka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, Semifinal 1\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, Semifinal 2\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205242-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Junior World Championship, Heat details, Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205243-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship\nThe 2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: Dru\u017cynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP) will be the 2009 version of the Team Speedway Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) and Speedway Ekstraliga LLC (Ekstraliga \u017bu\u017clowa Sp. z o.o.). In 2009 there will be three leagues: Ekstraliga, First and Second League. The Ekstraliga and First League have eight teams competing; the Second League has other teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205243-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Team Speedway Polish Championship\nThe winner of the top division (the Ekstraliga) will be the 2009 Team Polish Champion (Dru\u017cynowy Mistrz Polski). The defending Polish Champions are Unibax Toru\u0144 who won in 2008 after defeating Unia Leszno in the play-off final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205244-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Teen Choice Awards\nThe 2009 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 9, 2009, at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. The event was hosted by the Jonas Brothers, Nick, Kevin and Joe, who also performed. Twilight took home most awards with the total of 10 wins out of 11 nominations, including Robert Pattinson winning Choice Male Hottie. Miley Cyrus presented Britney Spears with the Ultimate Choice Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205245-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Telus Cup\nThe 2009 Telus Cup was Canada's 31st annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 20\u201326, 2009 at the Selkirk Recreation Complex in Selkirk, Manitoba. The Notre Dame Hounds defeated the Calgary Buffaloes 4-0 in the gold medal game to win their third national title. The Rousseau Sports de Laval-Bourassa defeated the host Winnipeg Thrashers to win the bronze. Winnipeg's Nolan Zajac, younger brother of National Hockey League player Travis Zajac, was the top scorer and named Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205245-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Atlantic Region\nChampionship GameMoncton 5 - Cornwall 4Moncton advances to Telus Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 54], "content_span": [55, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205245-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Central Region\nSemi FinalsHamilton 8 - Sault Ste. Marie 4Oakville 5 - Burlington 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205245-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, Central Region\nChampionship GameHamilton 8 - Oakville 6Hamilton advances to Telus Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205245-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Telus Cup, Road to the Telus Cup, West Region\nChampionship GameNotre Dame 8 - Winnipeg 2Notre Dame advances to Telus Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes\nIn 2009, clashes between Muslim Palestinians and Israeli police erupted on September 27, 2009 and continued to late October. Violence spread through East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank, and included throwing of Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli security forces and civilians. Israeli police responded with arrests of rioters and sporadic age-based restriction of access to the Temple Mount. Several dozen rioters, police and Israeli civilians have been injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes\nThe Temple Mount is the site of the former Jewish Temple and is the holiest site in Judaism; it is also the site of the existing al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, and is the third-holiest site in Islam. Israel gained control of the Mount in 1967 from Jordan, and incorporated it along with the rest of East Jerusalem into its (largely unrecognised) capital of Jerusalem; the Islamic holy sites on the Mount are managed by the Islamic waqf, while Israel is in charge of overall administration. The permanent status of the Temple Mount is generally considered to be determined by future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Timeline of violence\nOn the eve of Yom Kippur, a group of tourists entered the Temple Mount accompanied by Israel Police officers. Some 150 Muslim worshippers gathered around them, some hurling stones. 18 policemen and 17 worshippers were lightly injured. That evening, on Yom Kippur, Palestinians in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya hurled firebombs and stones at Israeli security forces and set a number of trees on fire. Five officers were lightly injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Timeline of violence\nPalestinians threw two Molotov cocktails towards Jewish homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, but caused no injuries or damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Timeline of violence\nA group of some 150 Palestinians threw rocks and bottles at Israeli security forces in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Timeline of violence\nA group of Palestinians from the southeast Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud stoned Haredi Jewish men who had stopped to pray at the cemetery on the nearby Mount of Olives. Later in the day, rocks were again thrown at police officers inside Ras al-Amud. Intermittent stone-throwing and other forms of rioting continued in east Jerusalem throughout the day. Near the Shuafat security checkpoint in north Jerusalem, Palestinian youths hurled rocks at Israeli border policemen, lightly wounding one officer. In the afternoon, a Palestinian youth stabbed a border policeman in the neck. Youths from Shuafat then began to riot, throwing stones at border policemen throughout the evening. On the outskirts of Ramallah, some 50 Palestinian youths hurled rocks and other debris at Israeli soldiers stationed nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 859]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Timeline of violence\nRioters threw Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli police forces stationed at the Temple Mount. A police force entered the Temple Mount compound and arrested 18. Nine police officers were lightly injured and 21 rioters arrested. A female Australian journalist was lightly injured by a rock. Three masked Arab men were arrested in the afternoon after hurling stones at Israeli security forces in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. In the Old City of Jerusalem, Arabs hurled stones at passersby and policemen. There were no reports of injuries or damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Islamic Movement in Israel\nSheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel's northern branch, told followers in early October that should Muslims have to choose between renouncing the al-Aqsa Mosque and becoming martyrs they will choose the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Islamic Movement in Israel\nShould the State of Israel make us choose... we will clearly choose to be martyrs, we are a nation that does not give up, we will die and win; the al-Aqsa Mosque is not a matter that can be given up on, and we shall win, God willing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Palestinian Authority\nOn 5 October, Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad condemned Israel's decision to restrict entrance to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the wake of the riots, and called on Palestinians \"to confront Israel\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Palestinian Authority\nWe call on the Palestinian public to confront Israel and its plans, that are intended to prevent the Palestinian people from fulfilling their aspirations of establishing a Palestinian state in the occupied territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Palestinian Authority\nThe Authority also decried \"Israel's attempts to conduct Jewish prayer services in the Aksa compound\" and urged the world \"to force Israel to halt its efforts to Judaize the city.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Hamas\nIn early October, Hamas called for a new intifada (uprising) to \"defend\" Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque, located in the Temple Mount compound. The group issued a statement blaming Israel for the violence and saying that \"harming al-Aqsa will blow up in the face of the Zionist aggression.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Hamas\nHamas political leader Khaled Mashaal said on 25 October declared that Jerusalem's fate would be decided by confrontation rather than negotiation, and called for angry protests throughout the Arab world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205246-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Mount clashes, Involved parties, Hamas\nThe Israelis want to divide al-Aqsa Mosque, and this is not all. They want to hold their religious ceremonies in the mosque... in preparation for demolishing it and building their temple there... Jerusalem is all of Jerusalem, not only Abu-Dis. The Arabs and Muslims are [the city's] residents, and the Zionists have no claim over it... I call for angry protests in Palestine and in the Arab world. Today, protests began in [the] Gaza [Strip], and we hope they will spread to the West Bank. It is important for there to be a united Palestinian position. We must send a message to the world: In light of the settlements and actions in Jerusalem, there are no negotiations and we must rethink our steps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team\nThe 2009 Temple Owls football team represented Temple University in the college 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Temple competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. The team was coached by Al Golden and played their homes game in Lincoln Financial Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team\nThe Owls finished the season 9\u20134, 7\u20131 in conference play to be co\u2013champions of the MAC East Division and were invited to the EagleBank Bowl where they lost to UCLA 30\u201321. This was the Owls first bowl game since the Garden State Bowl in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Villanova\nTemple blew a 10-point lead over the Wildcats to ultimately lose 27-24 to the Villanova Wildcats to open the year on a sour note. This game was similar to many games last year where Temple would have a lead but be unable to finish off an opponent, such as the overtime loss to Navy and the Hail Mary loss to Buffalo last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Villanova\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Temple got a 10-0 halftime lead, then made it a 17-7 lead midway through the third after each scored, and Villanova scored to make it 17-14, but Temple would score again early in the 4th quarter to make it 24-14, but Villanova would shut out the Owls the rest of the way, making it 24-17 on a field goal soon after, late in the game Villanova tied it up, and just as Temple was about to go for the win, a turnover led to a Villanova field goal that gave them their first win of the year and put Temple at 0-1 to start the new year. It was also Villanova's first win against a I-A opponent since 2003, ironically it Temple. Villanova leads the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nTemple hadn't beaten Penn State since 1941, and that nearly 70-year losing streak remained intact, but the Owls kept themselves in the game early with a field goal and successful onside kick. Afterwards, the momentum they had gained was quickly lost as Penn State made it 21-3 at halftime and 24-6 after three. Penn State put the game out of reach with a touchdown run by Stephon Green. Soon afterwards, Penn State put their backups in, but were unable to score any more points. With the 6-31 loss, this now makes four straight games that the Owls have failed to score at least a touchdown on Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nWith the huge blowout win over Buffalo, Temple was able to get revenge for the previous two years, including a last second loss on a Hail Mary and a blowout loss the year before. This also gave Temple their first win of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Eastern Michigan\nWith the 24-6 win over Eastern Michigan, the Owls were now .500 and undefeated in the MAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Ball State\nDespite going 12-2 last year and being ranked as high as #12, the Ball State Cardinals remained winless this  year after giving Temple a game that appeared closer than it really was. Temple took a 10-0 lead, but fell behind 13-10, but soon retook the lead and would hold on for the 24-19 win, giving up a meaningless touchdown on the game's final play to make the game look like a nailbiter. Temple also was 3-0 in the MAC and 3-2 overall with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Toledo\nTemple defeated a favored Toledo team 40-24 in the Glass Bowl. Like Temple, Toledo had improved greatly from last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nOhio defeated Temple, and by virtue of a tie-breaker, advanced to the MAC Championship Game. Temple still won a share of the MAC East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205247-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Temple Owls football team, EagleBank Bowl\nThe UCLA Bruins (6-6) played the Temple Owls (9-3) at the 2009 EagleBank Bowl at RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. The bowl game was scheduled to start at 4:30 PM US EST on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Temple was playing in its first bowl game since the 1979 Garden State Bowl and made only its third bowl appearance in school history. After a dominant first half, UCLA staged a second half rally, and defeated the Owls 30-21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season\nThe 2009 Tennessee Titans season was the 50th season for the original American Football League team, their 40th in the NFL, and 13th in Tennessee. The Titans aimed to equal or improve on their 2008 NFL best 13\u20133 record; however, they lost the first six games of the season. The Titans switched their starting quarterback to Vince Young and won eight out of their remaining ten games, losing only to the Colts and Chargers. The 42\u201317 loss to the Chargers in Week 16 eliminated the team from playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season\nSecond-year running back Chris Johnson won the NFL rushing title with 2,006 rushing yards, and set the NFL record for most yards from scrimmage in a single season, with 2,509.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season\nFrom 2009 to 2016, the Titans would fail to qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season\nAs a side note, the Titans became the first, and, as of 2020, only team in NFL history to lose their first 6 games, then win their next 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Schedule\nThe Titans played the Buffalo Bills on August 8 in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, pitting teams owned by Bud Adams (Titans) and Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. (Bills). They were two of the three surviving members of the \"Foolish Club\", the eight original owners of American Football League franchises. The 2009 Professional Football season celebrated what would have been the AFL's 50th. Both the Bills and Titans wore AFL throwbacks, with the Titans in Houston Oilers uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Titans began their season at Heinz Field for the annual kickoff game against the defending Super Bowl champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers. After a scoreless first quarter, Tennessee trailed near the end of the second quarter as Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed a 34-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Santonio Holmes. Afterwards, the Titans would tie the game as quarterback Kerry Collins completed a 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Justin Gage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, Tennessee took the lead as kicker Rob Bironas got a 45-yard field goal, while Pittsburgh kicker Jeff Reed made a 32-yard field goal to tie the game. In overtime, the Steelers got the win as Reed nailed a game-winning 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nWith the loss, the Titans started the season out at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Houston Texans\nHoping to rebound from their loss against the Steelers, the Titans went home for their Week 2 home opener against their AFC South foe, the Houston Texans. Tennessee would strike first in the opening quarter as running back Chris Johnson got a 57-yard touchdown run. The Texans would answer with quarterback Matt Schaub completing a 19-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Andre Johnson, yet the Titans would reply with quarterback Kerry Collins completing a 69-yard touchdown pass to Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Houston Texans\nTennessee would add onto their lead in the second quarter as Collins completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington. However, Houston took the lead as Schaub completed a 72-yard touchdown pass to Johnson and a 29-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones, followed by a 38-yard field goal from kicker Kris Brown. The Titans would close out the half as kicker Rob Bironas made a 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Houston Texans\nIn the third quarter, Tennessee would regain the lead as Johnson got a 91-yard touchdown run. The Texans would tie the game again as Schaub completed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Owen Daniels. In the fourth quarter, Houston took the lead as Brown nailed a 23-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Texans' defense prevented any attempt at an offensive rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New York Jets\nTrying to snap a two-game losing skid, the Titans flew to The Meadowlands, donned their Houston Oilers throwbacks, and played a Week 3 AFL Legacy game with the New York Jets. Tennessee would struggle in the first quarter as Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez got a 14-yard touchdown run and completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Ben Hartsock. The Titans would climb into the game in the second quarter with running back LenDale White's 5-yard touchdown run and kicker Rob Bironas' 38-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New York Jets\nIn the third quarter, Tennessee would take the lead with quarterback Kerry Collins' 9-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington. However, New York would strike back with Sanchez's 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery. The Jets would increase their lead in the fourth quarter with kicker Jay Feely's 48-yard field goal. The Titans tried to rally, but New York's defense would stand firm and prevented any possible comeback attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 3: at New York Jets\nWith the loss, Tennessee would fall to 0\u20133 for the first time since the 2006 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 78], "content_span": [79, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nHoping to save their season, the Titans flew to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for a Week 4 AFC South duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Tennessee would trail early in the first quarter as Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee got a 22-yard field goal, followed by running back Maurice Jones-Drew's 9-yard touchdown. The Titans would get in the game in the second quarter with kicker Rob Bironas making a 29-yard field goal. However, Jacksonville came right back with quarterback David Garrard completing 9-yard and 15-yard touchdown passes to wide receiver Mike Sims-Walker, with Scobee's 50-yard field goal in between.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 4: at Jacksonville Jaguars\nThe Jaguars would continue to build their lead as Scobee nailed a 33-yard field goal. Tennessee would then begin its comeback attempt with quarterback Kerry Collins completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Nate Washington (with a failed 2-point conversion). The Titans kept their rally going in the fourth quarter with Collins getting a 10-yard touchdown run, followed by running back Chris Johnson's 2-point conversion run. However, Jacksonville would pull away with Garrard's 33-yard touchdown pass to tight end Marcedes Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nDown four games, the Titans went home for a Week 5 Sunday night duel with their AFC South rival, the Indianapolis Colts. Tennessee would trail in the first quarter as Colts quarterback Peyton Manning found wide receiver Reggie Wayne on a 3-yard touchdown pass. The Titans would answer with a 49-yard and a 43-yard field goal from kicker Rob Bironas, but Indianapolis came right back in the second quarter with running back Joseph Addai\u2019s 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 5: vs. Indianapolis Colts\nTennessee tried to keep it close with Bironas nailing a 46-yard field goal, yet the Colts continued its domination with Manning hooking up with wide receiver Austin Collie on a 39-yard touchdown pass. Afterwards, Indianapolis would pull away in the second half. Manning connected with Collie again on a 6-yard touchdown pass, followed by kicker Adam Vinatieri booting a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at New England Patriots\nStill looking for their first win of the season, the Titans flew to Gillette Stadium, donned Oilers throwback uniforms, and played a Week 6 AFL Legacy game with the New England Patriots in a rare October snowstorm. Tennessee's struggles continued as Patriots running back Laurence Maroney got a 45-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Stephen Gostkowski making a 33-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at New England Patriots\nThings got worse for the Titans in the second quarter as quarterback Tom Brady completed five touchdown passes, two to wide receiver Randy Moss (40-yard and 28-yard), one to running back Kevin Faulk (38-yard), and two to wide receiver Wes Welker (30-yard and 5-yard). The Patriots' 45\u20130 halftime lead was the largest in NFL history. New England would then conclude their scoring in the third quarter with Brady's 9-yard touchdown pass to Moss, followed by backup quarterback Brian Hoyer's one-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 598]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 6: at New England Patriots\nWith the loss, not only did the Titans go into the bye week at 0\u20136 (their first such start since 1984), but they suffered their worst loss in franchise history, eclipsing a 61\u20137 loss to Cincinnati in 1989, when the team was the Houston Oilers. This was the first 59\u20130 game since 1976, and only the fourth in NFL history. It was the largest blowout in the 2009 season, and tied the post-merger record for largest margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 85], "content_span": [86, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nComing off their bye week, the Titans went home for a Week 8 AFC South rematch with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In this game, quarterback Vince Young would make his first start since Week 1 of the 2008 NFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nTennessee got off to a fast start in the first quarter with kicker Rob Bironas booting a 48-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Titans would add onto their lead as Young hooked up with wide receiver Nate Washington on a 6-yard touchdown pass, followed by Bironas nailing a 25-yard field goal. The Jaguars would answer with an 80-yard touchdown run from running back Maurice Jones-Drew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nIn the third quarter, Jacksonville would tie the game as Jones-Drew got a 79-yard touchdown run (with a blocked PAT), yet Tennessee came right back with a 52-yard touchdown run from running back Chris Johnson and a 45-yard field goal from Bironas. Afterwards, the Titans pulled away in the fourth quarter with Johnson getting an 89-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nWith the win, Tennessee improved to 1\u20136 and snapped a seven-game Losing streak dating back to Week 17 of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars\nThis would become the first game in NFL history where there were four touchdown runs of 50 or more yards. Also, Johnson (24 carries for 228 yards) and Jones-Drew (8 carries for 177 yards) would join the Browns' Bobby Mitchell (14 carries for 232 yards) and the Redskins' Johnny Olszewski (18 carries for 190 yards) on November 15, 1959, as the only pair of opposing running backs to both have at least 175 yards rushing in the same game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at San Francisco 49ers\nComing off their divisional home win over the Jaguars, the Titans flew to Candlestick Park for a Week 9 interconference duel with the San Francisco 49ers. Tennessee would trail early in the first quarter as 49ers kicker Joe Nedney got a 40-yard field goal, yet the Titans would answer with kicker Rob Bironas making a 21-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at San Francisco 49ers\nThe Titans would take the lead in the second quarter as quarterback Vince Young got a 10-yard touchdown run, but San Francisco would close out the half with a 3-yard touchdown run from running back Frank Gore and a 12-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Alex Smith to wide receiver Jason Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 9: at San Francisco 49ers\nIn the third quarter, Tennessee would tie the game as running back Chris Johnson got a 1-yard touchdown. The 49ers would retake their lead in the fourth quarter with Nedney nailing a 25-yard field goal, yet the Titans would regain the lead with Johnson's 2-yard touchdown run, Bironas' 28-yard field goal, and cornerback Cortland Finnegan's 39-yard interception return for a touchdown. San Francisco tried to make a comeback as Smith found Hill again on a 3-yard touchdown pass, yet Tennessee's defense held up for the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills\nComing off their road win over the 49ers, the Titans went home, donned their Houston Oilers throwbacks, and played a Week 10 AFL Legacy game with the Buffalo Bills. Tennessee would trail early in the first quarter as Bills running back Fred Jackson threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Lee Evans. The Titans would respond as running back Chris Johnson got a 28-yard touchdown run, followed by quarterback Vince Young hooking up with wide receiver Nate Washington on a 14-yard touchdown pass. In the second quarter, Tennessee would increase their lead as kicker Rob Bironas booted a 38-yard field goal. Buffalo would end the half with quarterback Trent Edwards finding Evans on an 8-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 794]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe Bills would tie the game in the third quarter with kicker Rian Lindell booting a 25-yard field goal, yet the Titans would explode with points in the fourth quarter. It began with Johnson's 1-yard touchdown run, followed by Bironas' 51-yard field goal. It would follow up with safety Vincent Fuller returning an interception 26 yards for a touchdown and cornerback Rod Hood returning an interception 31 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills\nChris Johnson (26 carries, 132 yards, 2 TDs and 9 catches, 100 yards) would join Billy Cannon as the only players in franchise history to rush and receive for 100 yards in one game. He would also join Earl Campbell in 1980 as the only players in franchise history to have two rushing touchdowns in three-straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills\nAt the end of the game, owner Bud Adams raised his middle fingers to Buffalo players from his box and was subsequently fined $250,000 by Roger Goodell, who was in attendance at the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Houston Texans\nComing off their win over the Bills, the Titans flew to Reliant Stadium for an AFC South rivalry match against the Houston Texans. In the first quarter the Titans trailed early as quarterback Matt Schaub got a 3-yard touchdown pass to RB Steve Slaton. In the second quarter, they replied with quarterback Vince Young completing a 13-yard touchdown pass to WR Kenny Britt. Then Houston tried to pull away as Schaub hooked up with WR Andre Johnson on a 13-yard touchdown pass, until the Titans replied again with RB LenDale White making a 1-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Houston Texans\nThe Titans got the lead in the third quarter as kicker Rob Bironas made a 50-yard field goal, but the Texans replied to tie the game when kicker Kris Brown made a 26-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter the Titans scored for the win when Bironas got a 53-yard field goal. Brown had a chance to tie the game and sent it into overtime for the second game in a row and for the second game in a row he missed giving the Titans the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 80], "content_span": [81, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nThe game would start with a Rob Bironas field goal to take a 3 nothing lead. However, to end the first half, Tennessee was holding the defending NFC champs 6\u20133, but an extended play with 5 seconds left on Arizona's 20 or so, would diminish Tennessees chances for a field goal. Tennessee scored the first touchdown during the second half to take a 13\u20133 lead, but Arizona scored 14 straight points with the help of Lerod Stevens-Howling returning a kickoff for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 12: vs. Arizona Cardinals\nFacing a 17\u201313 deficit at their own 1-yard line, Vince Young led the Titans on an 18 play drive which featured him throwing for 94 yards, running for 5 and converting three 4th downs including a 4th & goal to Kenny Britt as time expired for a touchdown to win 20\u201317. The win improved the Titans to 5\u20136 and marked the first time in NFL history that a team won five consecutive games after losing their first six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 13: at Indianapolis Colts\nWith the loss, the Titans' 5-game winning streak came to an end and they were swept by the Colts. The Titans fell to 5\u20137 after losing their third straight game to the Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. Miami Dolphins\nWith both teams fighting for their playoff lives the Titans clawed to a 24\u20139 lead over the Dolphins, but two fourth-quarter touchdowns by Chad Henne forced overtime. Henne, however, was intercepted in overtime, setting up a 46-yard game-winning Rob Bironas field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205248-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Titans season, Regular season results, Week 17: at Seattle Seahawks\nWith the win, the Titans were good enough to finish the season at 8\u20138 and 3rd place in their division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Lane Kiffin. The 2009 season was Kiffin's first and only at Tennessee; he left to take the head coaching job at the University of Southern California (USC) on January 12, 2010. The Vols played their home games in Neyland Stadium and competed in the Eastern Division of the SEC. The Vols finished the season 7\u20136, 4\u20134 in SEC play, and lost in the Chick-fil-A Bowl 37\u201314 to Virginia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nTennessee coach Lane Kiffin's tenure on Rocky Top got off to a smooth start. Jonathan Crompton threw five touchdown passes, leading the Volunteers to a 63\u20137 rout of Football Bowl Subdivision newcomers Western Kentucky and their largest margin of victory in nine years. \"This is the way that we expect to play,\" Kiffin said. \"We have high expectations here. I just talked to them about understanding that was one game and it's over. We've got to find a way to play better next week.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nIn its first two drives, Tennessee looked as if it hadn't learned much under Kiffin, the youngest active coach in the division. Crompton threw a pass over the middle that was easily tipped by Thomas Majors and intercepted by Jamal Forrest, and Montario Hardesty fumbled after a hard hit. The Vols settled down after the first quarter, and Hardesty carried for 18 and 22 yards to help set up a 2-yard touchdown run by freshman Bryce Brown early in the second quarter. Bobby Rainey fumbled on the Hilltoppers' next play, and LaMarcus Thompson recovered for Tennessee. Crompton connected with Luke Stocker on his first of two touchdown catches to make it 14\u20130 only 7 seconds later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nTennessee's defense looked every bit the stalwart it was in 2008, while the offense found the composure it was missing in last year's 5\u20137 season. Running backs broke through the line of scrimmage, wide receivers ran sound routes and Crompton threw accurately. \"We really just tried to get our personality as a team on film. We wanted to be physical but smart. The game we just played is part of our resume, and we want to build that resume and send it out to our opponents,\" Vols safety Eric Berry said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nThe receiving corps hardly looked depleted by injuries, with Stocker, Marsalis Teague, Quintin Hancock and Brandon Warren each catching scoring strikes. Crompton, who was pulled with 12:26 left in the game, finished 21 of 28 with two picks, and his five TD passes was one more than his output last season. Hardesty finished with 160 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries, and Brown had 104 yards rushing and a touchdown on 11 attempts. The Hilltoppers couldn't capitalize on the early turnovers and had minus-21 yards after their first 19 plays. Tennessee finished with 657 yards compared to Western Kentucky's 83.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nRainey had the Hilltoppers' only score on a 19-yard run with 2:41 in the third quarter that made it 35\u20137. The win was the Vols' easiest since a 70\u20133 victory over Louisiana-Monroe in 2000. Their 380 yards rushing were the most since 2004. The Vols were also joined by former Vols and current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who before the game announced a $1 million gift for a new athletic training center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Western Kentucky\nThough the attendance in the 100,011-capacity Neyland Stadium only reached 98,761, the fans turned out in droves as Kiffin and the Vols made the traditional \"Vol Walk\" from their buses to the stadium before the game. \"I really had to make sure that I did not go up and down today, because that's what I talked about with our team a long time last night \u2013 dealing with the emotions of a wonderful scene like the Vol Walk, a wonderful event like running through the 'T' and playing in front of 100,000 people,\" Kiffin said. Western Kentucky went on to go 0\u201312 and finish last in the Sun Belt Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nEven with offensive guru Norm Chow in the press box, UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel turned to his defense with the game on the line. It was the right call. UCLA stopped Tennessee's Montario Hardesty on fourth-and-2 in the closing minutes, and the Bruins made it two in a row against the Volunteers with a 19\u201315 victory Saturday. \"We will be a better offense,\" Neuheisel said. \"But given the way our offense was playing, I thought it was better to put it in [the defense's] hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nTrailing by 6, the Vols (1\u20131) had a chance to take the lead after driving 52 yards, but UCLA (2\u20130) held fast and Lane Kiffin lost for the first time as Tennessee coach. The Vols' defense, led by Monte Kiffin, had been battering the Bruins' offense for much of the day. UCLA had only 186 yards of offense compared to Tennessee's 208. The Bruins had four fewer first downs, held the ball for three fewer minutes and had 60 more yards in penalties. Tennessee reached UCLA's Kevin Prince many times, but usually after he released the ball. After Hardesty was stopped, Tennessee got a safety when Dennis Rogan sacked Prince, giving him a bloody mouth. An inept Jonathan Crompton couldn't do anything with the last-minute opportunity after getting the ball back, taking a sack and throwing three incomplete passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 870]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nLane Kiffin said he saw a few of his players trying to point fingers in the locker room after the game. \"I told them that isn't what we are. That isn't what a championship mentality is. A little bit of finger pointing came out and we have to teach them,\" he said. \"You either win or you lose, and everybody on that team lost today.\" For the Bruins, the win in Neyland Stadium in front of 102,239 fans was a big step toward recovering from last year's 4\u20138 finish. \"We're hungry,\" safety Rahim Moore said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\n\"We are trying to come out every day and every weekend to prove to the world that UCLA is who UCLA is.\" For the Vols, it means a lot of work this week as they prepare for a trip to Florida \u2013 especially on Crompton, who unraveled after throwing five touchdown passes in the season opener against Western Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nOn the first play after halftime, he threw his third interception of the day and second to Moore, who has five for the season. Kai Forbath kicked a 39-yard field goal four plays later for a 13\u201310 lead. \"I just read the quarterback,\" Moore said. \"I knew that Crompton had some skills, but I also knew that he could throw a pick because any quarterback can. I was just sitting back and reading the quarterback.\" Kiffin, who has pledged not to shuffle quarterbacks during games, stuck with Crompton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 558]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nTennessee went three-and-out on its next two drives, and Forbath answered with field goals of 31 and 47 yards to give UCLA a 19\u201310 lead with 2:39 in the third quarter. Forbath, who beat Tennessee with an overtime field goal in California last season, made four field goals in the rematch. Prince finished 11-for-23 for 101 yards and the one touchdown. Johnathan Franklin had 80 yards rushing. In the second quarter, Crompton fumbled a snap at the Tennessee 36, and Jerzy Siewierski recovered. A few plays later, Prince threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Chane Moline as he was being hit, tying the score at 10 with 7:09 before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nCrompton threw interceptions on the next two drives. He overthrew Gerald Jones on the first and hit Moore instead. On the second, he threw right to Alterraun Verner. \"I didn't do a very good job today taking care of Jonathan,\" Lane Kiffin said. \"I gave him a couple of calls unfortunately that didn't put him in the best position. We've got to do a better job around him.\" Crompton completed 13 of 26 passes for 93 yards. Hardesty finished with 89 yards rushing. But the Bruins couldn't capitalize on either. UCLA went three-and-out on the first, and Forbath missed a 51-yard field goal to end the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nUCLA had its own problems hanging onto the ball. The Bruins fumbled five times, losing the ball once. Willie Bohannan sacked Prince, causing a fumble, and Gerald Williams recovered at the UCLA 11. Hardesty took care of the rest on the next play to put Tennessee up 10\u20133 with 2:58 in the first quarter. \"We really didn't get into our groove as an offense,\" Crompton said. \"When you don't, some doubts come, but the upside is we were in that game at the end. We had four turnovers and we still came up 1 yard short. That is the one positive.\" UCLA went on to go 7\u20136 and finish eighth in the Pac-10 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nTennessee coach Lane Kiffin jogged to midfield, briefly shook hands with Florida's Urban Meyer and then darted toward the locker room. Kiffin kept his head up the whole way. Who could blame him? After all, he had more reason to be encouraged than embarrassed after his Southeastern Conference opener against the top-ranked Gators. Tim Tebow ran for 76 yards and a touchdown, Caleb Sturgis kicked three field goals and Florida eked out a 23\u201313 win over the Volunteers on Saturday. It wasn't the beatdown many expected. It gave Kiffin reason to believe Tennessee (1\u20132, 0\u20131) is on the right track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 659]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nIt gave Meyer a big enough scare that it could help the defending national champions the rest of the way. \"It wasn't how we envisioned or hoped,\" said Tebow, whose streak of games with a TD pass ended at 30. \"But it's a win and it's good enough for all of us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nThe Gators (3\u20130, 1\u20130) won their fifth straight in the series and set a school record with their 13th consecutive victory, now the longest in major college football after losses by Utah and Southern California. Florida started counting down the days for this one more than nine months ago, right after Kiffin vowed to sing \"Rocky Top\" all night long after beating the Gators. Kiffin also riled up Florida with his false allegations of NCAA violations by Meyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nKiffin ran out of the tunnel just before the opening kick and had 90,000 Florida fans screaming, pointing and yelling obscenities at him. One guy even tried to torment Kiffin with a poster of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, Kiffin's former boss. Kiffin said afterward that his plan from Day 1 was to take the focus of his players and put it on him. \"It worked perfectly,\" Kiffin said. \"It took all the pressure off the players. We played the No. 1 team in the nation with no pressure on them. ... It was all on me.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nWe were 30-point underdogs in this place and it really helped them go out and play ball.\" Kiffin refused to claim a moral victory, though. So singing \"Rocky Top\" will have to wait at least another year. He didn't even consider humming the tune. \"No, we lost a game,\" Kiffin said. \"Maybe I'll come back here for basketball and sing it for [coach] Bruce [Pearl].\" Florida's postgame celebration was about as conservative as its game plan. There was no trash talk and no one trying to rub it in. The Gators were clearly disappointed with their performance, even though they had reason to celebrate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 660]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nTebow, return man Brandon James and Florida's defense gave the Vols fits for the third straight year. Tebow completed 14 of 19 passes for 115 yards, although he also had two turnovers that Tennessee turned into 10 points. James returned three kickoffs for 97 yards, helping set up Florida's first 13 points, but he also dropped a pass in the end zone. And the defense harassed Jonathan Crompton and twice held the Vols to short field goals when they were in position for touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAhmad Black intercepted Crompton on fourth down with about 2 minutes to play, ending Tennessee's last chance at pulling off the upset. \"I'm not happy,\" said Crompton, who threw three interceptions and fumbled a snap last week against UCLA. \"Don't want to lose if you're a competitor. Hate losing more than you like winning. Look at the positives. Got a chance to capitalize early and late.\" Tebow took over down the stretch. After his two nifty, 4-yard runs, the Gators looked like they would put the game away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nBut Tebow fumbled at the Vols 4, and Tennessee scored seven plays later to make it 23\u201313. It was Tebow's second turnover of the game. He threw an interception in the first half that Tennessee turned into a field goal. The Gators had some excuses for their lackluster offense. Receiver Deonte Thompson missed the game because of a hamstring injury. Running back Jeff Demps played with a 101-degree fever. And tight end Aaron Hernandez had to be isolated Friday because of flu-like symptoms. Meyer put it all on Tebow, who ran 24 times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nHis best plays were short gains late. He started right on a third-and-3, looked to throw and then cut back left and headed toward the sideline. He eluded Wes Brown's grasp, then tiptoed down the sideline for a 4-yard gain. Instead of possibly being forced to punt, the Gators scored a touchdown to make it 23\u20136. \"Unbelievable,\" Meyer said. \"Vintage Tebow. He had a hell of a day. ... He kind of took that game over on that drive. That was one of the best plays. I can't wait to see that on film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nHe was this far from out of bounds and got the first down.\" On the next possession, Tebow used a nasty spin move to escape All-American safety Berry and Gerald Williams, then hit Dennis Rogan so hard the defender's helmet flew off. \"I don't think he's human,\" Kiffin said. \"I really don't. There were times when I asked [the coaches in the booth] on the headset, 'Is he ever going to wear down?' But he never does.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Florida\nOur defense worked hard and you just prayed to get it to third-and-4, because if it was third-and-3, he was going to put his head down and run over people.\" Tebow and the Gators had their heads down afterward. Meyer even said he had to lighten the mood in the locker room. \"I think there's so much pressure on this team to perform perfectly, which is good,\" Meyer said. \"I'd rather be on that end than on, 'Boy, great job. We lost by 10.' I don't want to do that. There's a lot of pressure on these guys and I felt it in there.\" Florida went on to go 13\u20131 and finish #3 in the final AP poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nJonathan Crompton threw for two touchdowns as Tennessee turned to its unsteady passing game to beat Ohio 34\u201323 Saturday night. Crompton threw a 26-yard screen pass to Bryce Brown to give the Vols (2\u20132) a 31\u201320 lead with 2:38 in the third quarter and lobbed a 3-yard scoring strike to Brandon Warren at the end of the first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nWith a stable of tough running backs, the Vols relied on their strong running game in their first three games to protect the turnover-prone passing game. Against the Bobcats, they rushed for 177 yards while Crompton completed 17 of 34 passes for 222 yards. Ohio (2\u20132) kept Tennessee uncomfortable by taking advantage of mistakes and passing for 319 yards against a Vols defense that entered the game allowing an average 88.33 yards by air per game. Crompton threw his eighth interception of the season to Noah Keller, who returned it 10 yards to the Tennessee 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nTheo Scott connected with LaVon Brazill on a 2-yard touchdown pass four plays later, giving the Bobcats a 14\u20137 lead with 7:08 in the first quarter. Scott finished 30-for-52. Brazill had 92 yards on eight catches, and Taylor Price added 90 yards on four catches. Chris Garrett took advantage of the Vols' poor special teams coverage and returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown. Tennessee, which entered the game ranked fifth in total defense in the FBS, held the Bobcats to only 21 yards rushing on 17 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Ohio\nThe Vols were also strong on the ground on offense. Montario Hardesty ran 20 times for 140 yards and an 11-yard touchdown and now has 1,531 career yards rushing. Bryce Brown added 56 yards rushing and caught two passes for 60 yards, including a 34-yard catch on the second play of the game. Tennessee will have a tough time regrouping before facing Auburn at home next week with several Vols leaving the game because of injury. Coach Lane Kiffin said starting middle linebacker Nick Reveiz was likely lost for the season after taking a hard hit on his right knee. Even though rain earlier in the day kept the attendance at Neyland Stadium down, the 95,535 in attendance made up the second-largest crowd in Ohio's history. Ohio went on to go 9\u20135 and finish 1st in the Eastern Division of the MAC Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 868]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAuburn took a big step under first-year coach Gene Chizik, winning on the road against a top-notch defense. Chris Todd threw for 218 yards and a touchdown, and Ben Tate ran for 128 yards and a score to help the Tigers beat Tennessee 26\u201322 and jumped out to their first 5\u20130 start since 2006 on Saturday night. \"This one of those old-school, physical SEC games and we did a good job executing most of the night,\" Chizik said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAuburn (5\u20130, 2\u20130 Southeastern Conference), which came from behind in its other four games this season, never trailed in its first road game of the season and has now won five straight over the Vols \u2013 its longest streak in the series. Tennessee (2\u20133, 0\u20132) isn't faring nearly as well in its rebuilding efforts under new coach Lane Kiffin. The Tigers met some resistance early from Tennessee's defense, but slowly wore it down as they held the ball nearly 10 minutes longer than the Vols. Auburn's third-ranked offense racked up 459 yards. \"They are so complicated,\" Kiffin said. \"There are so many things they do.\" Tennessee made the score look closer when Jonathan Crompton threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Denarius Moore as the clock expired to cut the final margin to 26\u201322. No extra point was attempted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 871]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe Vols defense, which entered the game ranked eighth in the Football Bowl Subdivision, forced the Tigers to punt six times and limited them to field goals by Wes Byrum on four drives. The Auburn offense entered the game averaging 45.3 points and 526.3 yards and ranked third in the FBS. \"We're trying to prove something every time we hit the field,\" Auburn fullback Mario Fannin said. \"We know what we have in mind, and that's a championship. We're just going to keep pushing forward and get better every week.\" Tennessee's offense couldn't stay on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe Vols went three-and-out three times in the first half, and Crompton fumbled a snap at the Vols 30 on the first play of a first-quarter drive. The Vols converted only four of 17 third downs. By the middle of the second quarter, Auburn managed to take advantage of the weary Vols defense and drove 87 yards in 2:32. Tate scored on an 11-yard run to put the Tigers up 13\u20130 with 8:07 left before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0017-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe Tigers again drove easily on the Vols on a 70-yard drive in the fourth quarter, and Todd connected with Terrell Zachery on an 11-yard touchdown pass to give them a 23\u20136 lead. Crompton managed to miss his receivers in every way possible: He overthrew, underthrew and hit them in the head and at the feet. He also didn't get any help from his targets, who dropped several passes that were accurately thrown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAt halftime, Crompton had completed only four passes for 62 yards. Still, thanks to some success in the Vols' 2-minute offense, he finished 20 for 43 for 259 yards and two touchdowns. \"There were drops. It was bad. There was no rhythm,\" Kiffin said. \"We're not good enough to overcome drops. You start adding those drops in, and we're going to struggle.\" Todd, who completed 19 of his 32 attempts, had his choice of receivers, completing passes to eight different targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe Tennessee defense was noticeably frustrated, and defensive end Chris Walker and tackle Wes Brown spoke to the entire team in a huddle at the sideline after Tate's touchdown run. \"We have to make those plays because the defense was on the field a lot of time in the first half, and that goes somewhat on us,\" Hardesty said. \"We've got to stay on the field on third downs. We've got to keep drives going.\" Auburn went on to go 8\u20135 and finish tied for 4th in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nTennessee coach Lane Kiffin didn't defeat Florida as promised. He did deliver on another guarantee with a 45\u201319 win over the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday. \"[Kiffin] basically made a promise to us that we wouldn't lose to them anymore, forever or until he leaves,\" Volunteers safety Eric Berry said. \"He's not going to let Georgia beat us.\" The first-year coach got some help from Jonathan Crompton, who passed for a career-high 310 yards and threw for four touchdowns. Kiffin had emphasized the Georgia game to his players due to its importance in recruiting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nBecause the state of Tennessee doesn't produce many elite prospects, coaches traditionally have recruited in Georgia, and 12 current Vols hail from the bordering state \u2013 including Berry. \"I told the guys last night, I don't know all the Tennessee history or tradition of all the matchups,\" Kiffin said. \"There are a lot of great teams in this conference. But I told them, to me, this is the biggest matchup.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIt was his first Southeastern Conference victory and kept the Volunteers (3\u20133, 1\u20132) from going 0\u20133 in the league for a second season in a row. Georgia (3\u20133, 2\u20132) dropped to 3\u20133 for the first time under coach Mark Richt. \"They played better. They coached better. It's very obvious their team was a better team by a long shot,\" Richt said. The Vols' passing game had faltered at times this season, with Crompton struggling with his accuracy and his receivers often dropping passes when he was on target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nBut by halftime Saturday, Crompton had already thrown for 205 yards and three touchdowns. He finished 20-for-27. Georgia's offense never reached the red zone, and the Tennessee defense held it to 241 yards compared with the Vols' 472. The Bulldogs found other ways to put up points. Brandon Boykin scored on his second 100-yard kickoff return of the season, and Bacarri Rambo returned Crompton's interception 28 yards for a TD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nBlair Walsh kicked a 52-yard field goal, and Zach Renner blocked a punt by Chad Cunningham that sailed through the end zone for a safety. \"I don't know that I've ever been involved in a game where the defense didn't let a team into the red zone one time,\" Kiffin said. Crompton was a perfect 4-for-4 for 67 yards on a drive late in the first half, finding Marsalis Teague on a 5-yard touchdown pass for a 21\u201310 lead with 2:40 left. He also connected with Gerald Jones on a 51-yard score, the Vols' longest pass of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nDespite being Tennessee's most productive receiver returning from last season, Jones had struggled with drops and mistakes while recovering from an ankle injury and wrist surgery. He had a season-best 105 yards receiving and two touchdowns. It was Georgia's Joe Cox who played the role of struggling quarterback. Cox finished 19-for-34 with 146 yards and no touchdowns. On the opening drive of the third quarter, Cox fumbled a snap, recovered and threw to Tennessee's Dennis Rogan while under pressure. The interception set up a 30-yard field goal by Daniel Lincoln to give the Vols a 24\u201312 lead. \"It's so frustrating to come out and have so many things go wrong,\" Cox said. \"It's embarrassing. We are not doing the things we need to do as players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nThe SEC's leading receiver, Georgia's A. J. Green, finished with only 60 yards on eight catches. Its leading rusher, Tennessee's Montario Hardesty, had 97 yards on the ground and a touchdown. Richt opened his career by winning four out of his first five meetings with Tennessee, but the Vols have won three of the last four. The game has often been one of the SEC East's premier matchups, but for the first time in 38 meetings neither team was ranked coming in. \"We've got a long way to go to become a good football team,\" Richt said. Georgia went on to go 8\u20135 and finish tied for 2nd in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 705]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nMount Cody kept Alabama (No. 2 BCS, No. 1 AP) perfect with a pair of super-sized plays. Terrence Cody, the Crimson Tide's 350-pound nose guard, blocked a 44-yard field-goal attempt on the final play \u2013 his second block of the fourth quarter \u2013 and Alabama escaped with a 12\u201310 victory over rival Tennessee on Saturday. He muscled the Tide to another win, with pure brute force. \"I didn't really get off the ground,\" Cody said. \"I just reached my arm up. That's how I got it. I knocked [the blocker] back. He was on his back.\" Alabama (8\u20130, 5\u20130 Southeastern Conference) was about to have its bid for perfection knocked down, too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThen Cody broke through the line on the last play and practically ran into Daniel Lincoln's low kick. Relieved Alabama fans chanted \"Cody!\" as the All-American ambled toward the locker room. Leigh Tiffin booted four field goals \u2013 including a 50-yarder and a 49-yarder \u2013 to provide all Alabama's points and the Tide survived Mark Ingram's first college fumble and some problems for the nation's top defense. The last few minutes were all about survival \u2013 much like in then-No. 1 Florida's squeaker over Arkansas last week. \"You talk about how fragile a season is,\" Tide coach Nick Saban said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\n\"You're controlling a game, even though you may say it's winning ugly. We're still ahead 12\u20133 and totally controlling the game with 3 minutes, 29 seconds and the ball. That's how fragile a season can be. You make one mistake and you have to go overcome it. I hope that there's a lot of lessons our team can learn from this.\" His team gets some time to absorb them with an open date before No. 9 LSU visits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nTennessee (3\u20134, 1\u20133) kept alive its hopes for coach Lane Kiffin's first huge victory with Eric Berry's fumble recovery and Jonathan Crompton's 11-yard touchdown pass to Gerald Jones with 1:19 left. Then Tennessee's Denarius Moore recovered the onside kick at the Vols' 41 with no time outs remaining. Crompton hit Jones on a 14-yarder before Tennessee was pushed back by a false start. On second down, the much-maligned Crompton hit Luke Stocker for a 23-yard gain to get the Vols into position for the potential game-winning kick. But Cody and the Tide made a big push, and Alabama, second in the BCS standings, still controls its destiny in the national title race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\n\"It's a difficult loss to deal with,\" Kiffin said. \"You come into a hostile environment and play the No. 1 team in the country, as I said before by far the No. 1 team in the country and the best-coached team around. You come in here and outgain them by [nearly] 100 yards and miss three field goals. \"I don't believe in moral victories, we should have won that game.\" He said Lincoln hasn't regained his leg strength since a quadriceps injury. \"He can't kick the ball up high,\" Kiffin said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\n\"If you kick the ball up high it's never going to get there, so we can't allow the penetration up front.\" Tiffin's 49-yarder with 6:31 left had barely cleared the uprights for the 12\u20133 lead and, it turns out, the decisive points. That came after Cody batted Lincoln's 43-yard field goal attempt with his left hand. \"Neither was an exceptionally good kick, but they both went through and that's what counts,\" Tiffin said. \"I don't know if I watched either one of them go through.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nTennessee would get new life when Ingram lost the first fumble of his career in 322 touches, giving the Vols the ball back at the Bama 43. All-American safety Eric Berry jarred the ball loose as Ingram was going down, and then recovered it. Crompton overcame a sack on the first play and completed 4-of-4 passes for 42 yards and the TD to make it 12\u201310. Alabama had nearly made it three games in a row without allowing a touchdown. The Volunteers now have tested two No. 1 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0026-0003", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThey lost 23\u201313 to then-No. 1 Florida earlier and Kiffin's team came even closer this time. Tennessee was unranked the last time it beat an AP No. 1, topping Auburn 38\u201320 in 1985. \"On the sideline, we just knew we were going to win in those last 4 seconds,\" Stocker said. \"I don't think there are enough words to explain how we feel. We are just speechless.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nAlabama was held without an offensive touchdown for the first time since the Mississippi State game in 2007. The Vols outgained Alabama 341\u2013256 and Crompton outplayed the Tide's Greg McElroy. He was 21 of 36 passing for 265 yards with an early interception. McElroy's 18 of 29 produced only 120 yards. Ingram, who emerged as a Heisman Trophy contender the past two weeks gained 99 yards on 18 carries and surpassed 1,000 yards on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nAfter Cody's first block, McElroy passed for a first down and ran for another to move the Tide in position for Tiffin's field goal that made it a two-score game. After a roughing the punter on Tennessee, Alabama was in position to milk the clock and secure the victory. But the normally sure-handed Ingram gave the Vols another shot. Tennessee got close, but Mount Cody was ultimately too big to kick over. Alabama went on to go 14\u20130 and win the BCS National Championship game over Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nLane Kiffin gave his players a treat, letting Tennessee wear black jerseys for the first time in 87 years. The Volunteers thanked their coach with a resounding victory. Decked out in black jerseys for the first time since adopting orange tops in 1922, Tennessee turned three South Carolina fumbles into touchdowns and beat the Gamecocks (No. 22 BCS, No. 21 AP) 31\u201313 Saturday night. \"It's a players' game, and our players had been begging for them for a while,\" said Kiffin, who got his first win over a ranked foe. \"I think it gave us some energy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nI think you saw that in the way they came out and played early.\" Captains Eric Berry and Montario Hardesty approached athletic director Mike Hamilton on Wednesday, asking to wear an all-black uniform. A local Knoxville company quickly produced the black jerseys with orange numbers. Black pants couldn't be completed in time, so the Vols opted for orange bottoms. And how's this for a twist: Tennessee helped Florida. The Gators clinched the SEC East and a spot in the conference title game when the rival Vols beat South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nAfter warming up in their traditional orange home jerseys, the Vols (4\u20134, 2/3 Southeastern Conference) seemed to take the Gamecocks by surprise as they took the field in Halloween-inspired uniforms. \"The guys were excited and I think it gave us a little extra excitement and had us ready to play,\" Vols defensive tackle Dan Williams said. Jonathan Crompton threw two touchdowns, Hardesty ran for two more and Rico McCoy forced two fumbles. South Carolina (6\u20133, 3\u20133) fumbled on its first two drives on a rainy night, having entered the game with only five for the season. Tennessee, hampered by turnovers early in the season, did not give the ball away for the first time this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nThe Gamecocks began clicking on offense in the second half as the Vols sputtered. Stephen Garcia connected with Moe Brown on a 31-yard touchdown pass to cut the margin to 28\u201313 with 2:05 left in the third quarter, but it was too little too late. South Carolina outgained Tennessee on offense 365 yards to 341 and had four more first downs. Garcia completed 25 of 50 for 300 yards and an interception. Justice Cunningham coughed up the first fumble on the third play of the game, and 42 seconds later Crompton hit Austin Johnson on a 38-yard touchdown toss. Crompton completed 12 of 24 for 142 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nOn the second play of the following drive, Kenny Miles lost the first fumble of his career, and Tennessee answered with a 14-yard run by Hardesty, who finished with 121 yards rushing. \"We had two fumbles in five plays, and it's hard to beat a team when you spot them those points,\" Garcia said. Even when they weren't fumbling, the Gamecocks couldn't find much offense in the first half. They first made it to Tennessee territory with 9:29 left in the second quarter but stalled at the Vols 47.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nAn illegal block by D.J. Swearinger cost South Carolina a 73-yard punt return for a touchdown by Stephon Gilmore. The Gamecocks drove 55 yards before halftime, but on third-and-3 at the Tennessee 25, Willie Bohannon dropped Miles for a 5-yard loss. Spencer Lanning kicked a career-long 47-yard field goal to cut the margin to 21\u20133 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nTennessee's woes on special teams continued. With Daniel Lincoln sidelined by a quadriceps injury, Chad Cunningham took over field goal duties. Lincoln had two field goals blocked in a 12\u201310 loss last week at Alabama, including what would have been a game-winning 44-yard shot at the end of the game. Devin Taylor blocked Cunningham's first attempt, a 40-yarder in the first quarter. His second attempt, a 39-yarder with 4:23 left in the game, was good and drew a huge cheer from what was left of the Tennessee crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\nUp 14\u20130 early in the second quarter, Kiffin opted to go for it on fourth-and-goal at the 2-yard line rather than attempt a field goal. Crompton found Kevin Cooper, who stumbled into the corner of the end zone. The last time the Gamecocks were ranked as high as No. 21 was before the 2007 Tennessee game, when they were ranked No. 15. South Carolina \u2013 which has never won consecutive games in the Tennessee series and only won in Knoxville once \u2013 lost that game in overtime 27\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, South Carolina\n\"Like I told the guys, if we want to win some of these games against good teams, we've got to play well,\" South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said. \"We had turnovers, had a punt return called back, had some opportunities here and there, but we didn't execute.\" South Carolina went on to go 7\u20136 and finish tied for 4th in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nJonathan Crompton threw for a career-high 331 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another as Tennessee routed Memphis 56\u201328 on Saturday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nCrompton surpassed his career high of 310 yards with a 10-yard pass to Denarius Moore on Tennessee's first drive of the second half. He tied his career high of five touchdown passes on the next play with a 16-yard connection to Moore to make it 49\u20137 with 12:38 left in the third quarter. Crompton finished 21-for-27 and no interceptions and was replaced by backup Nick Stephens halfway through the third quarter. Tennessee (5\u20134) gave coach Lane Kiffin his first winning streak and dominated the game much as it's done the series. The Vols hold a 21\u20131 advantage against Memphis and have won all 12 meetings in Knoxville. But the games between the state rivals often have been closer than the record indicates. Six of the 10 meetings between the two teams since 1991 have been decided by fewer than two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nDavid Oku took the opening kickoff 69 yards, and Bryce Brown scored on a 1-yard run 2 minutes later. Memphis (2\u20137) could do nothing to catch up. The Vols never punted with Crompton in the game, though they turned the ball over when they couldn't convert a fourth-and-2 at the Tigers' 29 and when Dennis Rogan muffed a punt return. Memphis drove 93 yards in its 2-minute offense and scored on a 36-yard run by Marcus Hightower to cut Tennessee's lead to 35\u20137 with 58 seconds left in the half. The Vols responded with a 55-yard drive and Crompton's 1-yard touchdown run with 4 seconds on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nThe Tigers have been hampered with injuries this season, and it especially showed on defense. The Vols had their way passing nearly the entire game with wide-open routes. Crompton, who until a few games ago was more likely to throw interceptions than touchdowns, had his selection of scoring targets in Moore, Gerald Jones, Luke Stocker, Quintin Hancock and Nu'Keese Richardson. Stephens also hit Moore for a TD. Jones led the receiving corps with 97 yards on four catches. Crompton was only 5 yards and a TD pass short of tying his previous career high at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nBy the break, Tennessee had outgained Memphis 382 yards to 104 and had gained 11 more first downs. Memphis entered the game with the 100th-ranked defense, giving up an average 416.5 yards. Tennessee finished with 566 yards. The Vols rank 13th in the nation in defense, but were playing second- and third-string players by the time Curtis Steele scored on a 1-yard run and again on a 3-yard run in the middle of the third quarter. The scores cut Tennessee's margin to 49\u201321. Steele finished with 144 yards on 21 carries in addition to the two touchdowns. Will Hudgens was 19 of 31 for 194 yards and an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nTennessee's Eric Berry, the Southeastern Conference's career interception return leader, inched closer to the NCAA career record when he picked off Hudgens and returned the ball 7 yards. Berry has 494 career return yards, 5 yards shy of Florida State's Terrell Buckley. Memphis went on to go 2\u201310 and finish last in the Eastern Division of Conference USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nDexter McCluster says being 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds has its advantages on the football field. No Tennessee defender could argue with the Mississippi standout Saturday. McCluster rushed for 282 yards and finished with 324 all-purpose yards, setting two Mississippi records, and the Rebels ran over the Volunteers 42\u201317. He broke the Rebels' single-game rushing record of 242 by Dou Innocent in 1995. He eclipsed the all-purpose mark of 317 yards by Deuce McAllister in 1999. \"My size works to my advantage,\" McCluster said. \"When they see me, it's too late.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nMcCluster scored on runs of 15, 23, 32 and 71 yards in Ole Miss' first win against the Volunteers since 1983. \"For 170 pounds he is special,\" said Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt. \"He can make the first one miss. He has game breaking speed. Hs you can see, he won't just run out of bounds on a long run. He'll cut back against the grain and separate to get into the end zone.\" It's the most rushing yards given up by the Volunteers. Tennessee had yielded 217 yards to Colorado's Mike Pritchard in 1990 and Alabama's Bobby Humphrey in 1986. \"We didn't have a way to tackle him,\" Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin said. \"He set a school record for rushing yards, and we probably set a record for missed tackles.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nOle Miss (7\u20133, 3\u20133 Southeastern Conference) \u2013 off to its best start since 2003 \u2013 clinched bowl eligibility for the second straight year with the victory. Tennessee (5\u20135, 2\u20134) was without three of their celebrated freshmen \u2013 wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson, safety Janzen Jackson and defensive back Mike Edwards. The trio was arrested early Thursday morning for attempted armed robbery in Knoxville. McCluster scored his first touchdown just 1:31 into the game and added another with 1:20 left in the opening quarter. His 32-yard scamper came in the third quarter and Ole Miss opened the fourth quarter with McCluster's 71-yarder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\n\"It was a big challenge to cover him,\" said Tennessee defensive end Chris Walker. \"We had to know where he was at all times and he lines up at wide receiver and he lines up at tailback, so it was really hard to adjust to that.\" Brandon Bolden added 46 rushing yards and two touchdowns for the Rebels, who finished with 492 yards of total offense, including 359 on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nIt was former Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron's first return to Oxford since he was fired in November 2007 after three seasons. In his first year at Tennessee as defensive line coach the Vols have improved, but struggled against the Rebels. Jevan Snead, who was 13 of 20 passes for 133 yards, was sacked only once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nJonathan Compton finished 20 of 37 for 176 yards and two Tennessee touchdowns. He hit Jeff Cottam with a 16-yard TD in the first quarter and Denarius Moore with a 25-yarder in the second quarter. But the Vols' offense never got untracked, gaining just 275 yards over all, 99 on the ground. Their only other score was a 27-yard field goal by Daniel Lincoln in the third quarter. Ole Miss went on to go 9\u20134 and finish 3rd in the Western Division of Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nTennessee coach Lane Kiffin has had to reach so far down his depth chart because of injuries that even he wasn't sure who was on the field. The Volunteers beat in-state rival Vanderbilt 31\u201316 on Saturday night playing with a third-string middle linebacker, a walk-on outside linebacker and walk-on placekicker Devin Mathis. \"That's the kicker, right?\" Kiffin quipped when asked about Mathis. After missing the postseason last year, the battered Volunteers (6\u20135, 3\u20134 Southeastern Conference) became bowl eligible with the victory. Tennessee hasn't missed out on a bowl game in consecutive seasons since 1977\u201378. The Commodores (2\u201310, 0\u20138) finished without a conference win for the first time since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 770]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nTennessee entered halftime with the momentum, but Vanderbilt had plenty of chances to take advantage of a Vols defense fielding inexperience players and guys like senior linebacker Rico McCoy, determined to play despite having an injured knee. \"We just couldn't take advantage of some opportunities,\" Vandy coach Bobby Johnson said. \"It's a tough way to end the season.\" The Commodores had a chance to tie the game before halftime but stalled on fourth-and-2 at the Tennessee 38 with 51 seconds left. Instead, Tennessee drove for a quick touchdown to go up 24\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 631]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nVandy's Steven Stone was called for a 15-yard roughing the passer penalty, and Jonathan Crompton was perfect on four pass attempts. His 16-yard TD pass to Luke Stocker capped the 30-second drive. \"That was a big momentum shift,\" Vanderbilt linebacker Chris Marve said. \"That just put us down even further, so we had to come out for the second half with an ever larger deficit.\" Crompton finished 20-for-34 for 221 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Montario Hardesty ran for a career-high 171 yards and a touchdown. The Vols struggled to move the ball in the second half, and Vanderbilt had a shot to pull within four points with about 6 minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nOn third-and-goal at the 3, MacKenzi Adams attempted a pass for John Cole in the end zone. The ball bounced off Cole and into the hands of Tennessee's Dennis Rogan, but a pass interference call on Rogan kept the Commodores' drive alive. With a fresh set of downs, Vanderbilt couldn't move the ball, and Adams took a sack for a loss of 9 yards. Ryan Fowler kicked a 32-yard field goal to make the score 24\u201316 with 2:54 left, and the Commodores couldn't pull any closer. Adams was 19-of-35 for 174 yards, a touchdown and an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nVandy's Warren Norman had 73 yards rushing and 61 yards on kickoff returns. Norman's 1,923 all-purpose yards broke Herschel Walker's SEC freshman record of 1,805. He also became the Commodores' single-season leader for all-purpose yards. \"It doesn't mean too much to me because I'm not about breaking records,\" Norman said. \"It's an honor though, just being mentioned with Herschel Walker. That's pretty cool.\" Crompton's third-quarter interception ended a streak of 142 straight pass attempts without one, one shy of Casey Clausen's school record of 143.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAfter struggling to find consistency on field goals with an injured Daniel Lincoln and punter Chad Cunningham, Tennessee called on Mathis for the first time this week. Mathis hit a 25-yard field goal and connected on three extra point attempts. Mathis was a walk-on last season and nearly earned a starting job as Lincoln struggled. He spent the spring semester studying in Mexico and did not participate in the Vols' fall camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0046-0003", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nTennessee finished its senior day in style when senior defensive tackle Wes Brown, who's played with injured knees for the past two seasons, intercepted Adams' pass and ran 25 yards for a touchdown with 3 seconds left, carrying Norman on his back for the last 5. His teammates piled on top of him in the end zone. \"Everybody was saying, 'That might have been the ugliest thing I've ever seen,'\" Brown said. \"I felt [Norman] hopping on my back, but I didn't want to be denied. I wanted to score, and I couldn't ask for a better ending.\" Vanderbilt ended the season at 2\u201310 and finished last in the Eastern Division of Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 709]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nMontario Hardesty ran for three touchdowns, including a 20-yard game winner in overtime, as Tennessee outlasted Kentucky 30\u201324 on Saturday night, the Volunteers' 25th straight victory against their border rivals. Hardesty, who also ran for a career-high 179 yards, scampered up the middle for the final score after Kentucky's Lones Seiber missed a 49-yard field goal in the Wildcats' overtime chance. Tennessee (7\u20135, 4\u20134 Southeastern Conference) made sure its streak of dominance over Kentucky (7\u20135, 3\u20135) didn't end in coach Lane Kiffin's first year on the job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nThe win also likely locked up a New Year's Day bowl for the Volunteers and clinched second place behind Florida in the SEC East. Kentucky forced overtime on a 33-yard field goal by Seiber, set up when Ashton Cobb knocked the ball out of the hands of Luke Stocker following a completion and the Wildcats recovered. Kentucky ended the season at 7\u20135 and finished fifth in the Eastern Division of Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nRyan Williams isn't keeping track of his records. \"Someone eventually will break them anyway,\" Virginia Tech's fantastic redshirt freshman running back said. Probably, but in just one season Williams has already made a quite an impression. He capped a brilliant debut season with a record-setting game, running for two touchdowns to power Virginia Tech (No. 11 BCS, No. 12 AP) past Tennessee 37\u201314 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Thursday night. \"I just saw green,\" said Williams of his two touchdown runs. \"When I see green, I take advantage of it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nThe Hokies (10\u20133) took the lead with a field goal in the final seconds of the first half and outscored Tennessee 20\u20130 in the second half on their way to a sixth straight 10-win season. The only team with a longer active streak is Texas with nine. Williams, a redshirt freshman, had 117 yards rushing to become Virginia Tech's single-season rushing leader with 1,655 yards. Williams also set Atlantic Coast Conference records with 21 rushing touchdowns and 22 total touchdowns this season but said \"I really don't care about records.\" The Hokies outrushed Tennessee (7\u20136) 229\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0048-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\n\"Ryan was something tonight, particularly at the start of the second half,\" Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said. \"We got after them good.\" Tennessee's star running back, Montario Hardesty, could not keep up with Williams. The Volunteers' senior had 18 carries for 39 yards and a touchdown. \"We got gassed; we got tired,\" Tennessee defensive end Chris Walker said. \"You could tell especially on defense we weren't making plays. \"Ryan Williams is a really great player.\" Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton was taken to a local hospital after the game for precautionary reasons, according to a school spokesman. Crompton suffered an undisclosed injury late in the game. Vols junior safety Eric Berry confirmed after the game he will enter the NFL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nTennessee was hurt by two turnovers which led to 10 points for Virginia Tech, and a dropped pass that cost the Vols a touchdown. \"For whatever reason, we didn't play well today,\" Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin said. \"I was surprised we weren't able to run the ball better.\" Rashad Carmichael intercepted a pass by Crompton in the first quarter to set up Williams' first touchdown run. Crompton fumbled when sacked by Nekos Brown late in the fourth quarter. John Graves recovered at the Tennessee 13 to set up Matt Waldron's third field goal, a 22-yarder. Virginia Tech players dumped a cooler of water on Beamer seconds later. Virginia Tech fans in the sellout crowd of 73,777 cheered, and Beamer raised his fists in response. Williams sat out the fourth quarter after a left ankle sprain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 876]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nVirginia Tech fans cheered when Williams left the trainer's table and ran on the sideline, but Beamer gave the fourth-quarter carries to Josh Oglesby and David Wilson. Wilson had a 3-yard touchdown run with 5:14 remaining. Williams passed Kevin Jones' school-record 1,647 yards rushing in 2003. North Carolina's Don McCauley held the ACC records with 19 rushing touchdowns and 21 total in 1970. Clemson's C.J. Spiller matched the total touchdown mark this season. Georgia Tech's Robert Lavette also rushed for 19 touchdowns in 1982. Williams passed Jones with his seventh carry of an eight-play touchdown drive in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nHe had long runs of 21 and 32 yards in the drive before setting the record on a 6-yard run to the 3. Tyrod Taylor scored from the 1 for a 24\u201314 lead. He completed 10 of 17 passes for 201 yards with an interception. Crompton completed 15 of 26 passes for 235 yards with a touchdown and an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nWaldron, who had a 21-yard field goal at the end of the first half, added a 46-yarder \u2013 the longest of his career \u2013 to push the lead to 27\u201314 early in the fourth quarter. Tennessee's had a chance to get back into it, but wide-open Denarius Moore dropped a deep pass from Crompton on the Vols' next drive. Kiffin said the play \"really took the wind out of our sails.\" Williams had two short touchdown runs to give the Hokies a 14\u20130 lead in the second quarter. Tennessee then responded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\nHardesty ran through 301-pound defensive tackle Cordarrow Thompson's tackle for a 4-yard run to cap an 80-yard drive. Janzen Jackson's interception set up Crompton's 2-yard touchdown pass to Moore with 18 seconds remaining in the first half. Instead of running out the clock, Taylor threw from his 33 to Jarrett Boykin, who was stopped inside the Vols' 5 as the clock apparently expired. Tennessee players left the field but were summoned back as a video review showed Boykin's knee hit the ground with 2 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0051-0002", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A Bowl)\n\"I knew that there was time left looking at the clock when Boykin made the catch,\" Taylor said. Waldron's 21-yard field goal gave Virginia Tech a 17\u201314 halftime lead. The Hokies, who won the Orange Bowl last season, have back-to-back bowl wins for the first time in school history. Virginia Tech ended the season at 10\u20133 and finished #10 in the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 89], "content_span": [90, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Controversy\nOn November 12, three freshman Vols players \u2014 safety Janzen Jackson, receiver Nu'Keese Richardson, and defensive back Mike Edwards \u2014 were arrested in Knoxville on charges of attempted armed robbery. Edwards and Richardson were permanently dismissed from the team on November 16. Jackson was reinstated after the charges were dropped and returned to the team for the November 28 game against Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205249-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennessee Volunteers football team, 2010 NFL Draft\nThe 2010 NFL Draft was held on April 22\u201324, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The following University of Tennessee players were selected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205250-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup\nThe 2009 Tennis Napoli Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 30 March and 5 April 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205250-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205250-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following player received Special Exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205250-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup, Champions, Men's doubles\nPablo Cuevas /  David Marrero def. Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol /  Frank Moser, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205251-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup \u2013 Doubles\nTom\u00e1\u0161 Cibulec and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd were the defending champions, but only Levinsk\u00fd chose to participate this year. He competed with Lovro Zovko, however they lost to Frank Moser and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol in the quarterfinal. Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Moser and Rosol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205252-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup \u2013 Singles\nPotito Starace was the three-time defending champion, but he lost to Andreas Haider-Maurer in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205252-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennis Napoli Cup \u2013 Singles\nPablo Cuevas won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20133, against Victor Crivoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205253-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup\nThe 2009 Tennislife Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 28 September and 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205253-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205253-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205253-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup, Champions, Doubles\nFrederico Gil /  Ivan Dodig def. Thiago Alves /  Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol, 6\u20131, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205254-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup \u2013 Doubles\nLeonardo Azzaro and Alessandro Motti were the defending champions, but only Motti chose to start this year. He partnered with Daniele Bracciali, however they lost to Brian and Dann Battistone in the quarterfinals. Frederico Gil and Ivan Dodig defeated Thiago Alves and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Rosol 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205255-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tennislife Cup \u2013 Singles\nTomas Tenconi didn't defend his 2008 title, because he was eliminated by Alexandre Sidorenko already in the first round. Frederico Gil won in the final 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20134, against Potito Starace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205256-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs\nThe 2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B from Tercera Divisi\u00f3n (Promotion play-offs) were the final playoffs for the promotion from 2008\u201309 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n to 2009\u201310 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The first four teams in each group (excluding reserve teams) took part in the play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205256-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, New Format\nTo start with, the eighteen group winners had the opportunity to be promoted directly to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The eighteen group winners were drawn into a two-legged series where the nine winners promoted to Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B. The nine losing clubs entered the play-off round for the last nine promotion spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205256-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, New Format\nThe eighteen runners-up were drawn against one of the seventeen fourth-placed clubs outside their group and the eighteen third-placed clubs were drawn against one another in a two-legged series. The twenty-seven winners advanced with the nine losing clubs from the champions' series to determine the eighteen teams that entered the last two-legged series for the last nine promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club played at home first. Whenever there was a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the champions' series or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw determined the club to play at home first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205256-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Eliminatories, 2nd eliminatory\nFor 2nd, 3rd and 4th of group only. 2nds played against 4ths and 3rds played against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205256-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n play-offs, Eliminatories, 3rd eliminatory\nWinners of 2nd eliminatory (27 teams) and losers of 1st eliminatory (9 teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election\nThe Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009 elections in the Ternopil Oblast regional council, were held on March 15, 2009 on December 18, 2008, by the Ukrainian Parliament initiated by Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) but cancelled on 3 March 2009 by the same Parliament, with most members of BYuT voting against holding the snap elections (allegedly because of the fall of the ratings for BYuT). Following a lawsuit filed by Svoboda the Ternopil oblast` court acknowledged this decision illegal on March 11, 2009. The next day BYuT lodged an appeal in the Lviv Administrative Appeal Court against this decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election\nOn 13 March 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko asked the Constitutional Court to estimate the constitutionality of the Ukrainian Parliament\u2019s decision to cancel the early regional council elections in Ternopil. According to Yuschenko the Constitution reads that Parliament can appoint elections or early elections into the local authorities, but cannot cancel them. The elections were held on 15 March 2009. The Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko called the election \"the presentation of cynical election fraud by [Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor] Baloha as an expression of the will of the region's citizens\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election\nSome villages reported cases Party of Regions representatives offering 50 hryvnia per vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Challenging the results\nOn March 24, the Ternopil district administrative court rejected a lawsuit from the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) challenging the results of the elections. Four days later the Kyiv district administrative court banned the official publication of the result of the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Challenging the results\nOn April 7 the Lviv administrative court of appeals ruled to cancel a decision of the Ternopil district administrative court denying consideration of a lawsuit from BYuT against the results of the elections to the Ternopil regional council. The Lviv administrative court of appeals instructed the Ternopil district administrative court to consider the essence of the lawsuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Challenging the results\nOn May 11, 2009 BYuT members gave up their twelve seats in Ternopil regional council. As a result, the number of deputies in the regional Ternopil council became 208. The overall number of mandates in the council still constitutes 120, and all the decisions taken by the majority of the council still has to be passed by no less than 61 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Challenging the results\nOn June 16, 2009 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine deemed the parliamentary resolution on canceling early election to Ternopil Regional Council (of March 3, 2009) unconstitutional. This case was initiated by President Viktor Yuschenko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Results\nThe election have been conducted after the proportional electoral system. In an order to conduct the representatives in the Ternopil regional council, party or block must collect not less than 3% voices of electors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Results\nAccording to political annalist the scores of United Centre and Party of Regions could be caused by mass fraud. Experts were less surprised by the high score of All-Ukrainian Union \"Freedom\" because (according to the think tank \"Open Policy\") support for rightist parties like \"Freedom\" typically builds up in conditions of economic and political crisis and \"Freedom\" has roots in the region. The turnout in Ternopil (city) was only 25%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205257-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Ternopil Oblast local election, Ternopil city council\nThe elections to Ternopil city council took place in fall of 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team (often referred to as \"A&M\" or the \"Aggies\") represented Texas A&M University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Mike Sherman and played their home games at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The Aggies finished the season 6\u20137, 3\u20135 in Big 12 play and lost in the Independence Bowl 44\u201320 against Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nThe A&M defense showed considerable improvement since the previous season. The defense registered five sacks, three of which came from Von Miller, who played the jack position. In the 2008 season, Miller finished with only 3\u00bd sacks, while the whole defense produced a combined 16. Jerrod Johnson completed 31 of 41 pass attempts for 349 yards to 10 different receivers. The team also lost 123 yards due to 14 penalties, a statistic Sherman was not happy about.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nDuring the second quarter, wide receiver Jeff Fuller suffered a leg injury while attempting to make a catch, and is expected to miss 4\u20136 weeks. Running back Christine Michael, who rushed for 94 yards, strained his left calf muscle during the third quarter, though should be able to return to practice the following week. A&M did not improve their penalty issues from the season opener, as they were flagged 16 times for 147 yards. The defense also gave up 521 yards to Utah State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nOne of the positive aspects of the game was wide receiver Uzoma \"EZ\" Nwachukwu, who caught three touchdowns and rushed for one. He broke the Aggie freshman single-game touchdown record, which was last set by Leeland McElroy in 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nOklahoma State lost key players Dez Bryant, who was suspended indefinitely, and Kendall Hunter, who had an injury. The Cowboys also lost 118 yards due to penalties, but were still able to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nA&M picked up its first win at Tech since 1993. Tech was ranked #21 in the AP Poll and #24 in the Coaches Poll heading into the game. The Aggies also defeated the Red Raiders in front of a then record-crowd of 57,733.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205258-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nThe Aggies became bowl eligible for the first time since 2007 with a win over Baylor. In the second quarter, freshman running back Christine Michael ran for a 97-yard touchdown, breaking an A&M record for the longest play from scrimmage. The Aggies ran for 375 yards, and for the second time in the season, running backs Cyrus Gray and Christine Michael both ran for over 100 yards. Another record was broken in the third quarter, with Jerrod Johnson breaking Reggie McNeal's record for passing yards in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205259-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team\nThe 2009 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team represented Texas A&M University in the 2009 NCAA Division I women's college soccer season. The team belongs to the Big 12 Conference and played its home games at Aggie Soccer Stadium. The Aggies were led by G. Guerrieri, who has coached the team since the program's inception in 1993 (17 years).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205259-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team\nThe Aggies finished the season 15\u20137\u20133 and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the 2009 NCAA Tournament before falling to Florida State 2\u20131 in 2OT in Tallahassee, FL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205259-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M Aggies women's soccer team\nThe 2009 team had 28 roster players, with 14 scholarships to utilize between them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205260-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team\nThe 2009 Texas A&M\u2013Commerce Lions football team represented Texas A&M University-Commerce in the 2009 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Guy Morriss, who was in his first season at A&M-Commerce. The Lions played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Lions finished as Lone Star Conference North Division Champions for the second time in 3 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205261-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Bowl\nThe 2009 Texas Bowl was the fourth edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game started at 2:30 PM US CST on Thursday, December 31, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN for the first time in bowl history after being televised by the NFL Network for the first three games. The Texas Bowl matched the Big 12 Conference sixth-place Missouri Tigers against independent Navy Midshipmen. Navy defeated Missouri 35\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205261-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Bowl\nThis was the first time that either team appeared in the Texas Bowl. It was the seventh year in a row that Navy appeared in a bowl game, and a team record fifth year in a row that Missouri made a post-season appearance. Missouri came off two straight bowl wins while Navy had lost three bowl games in a row. The game marked the third time that the two teams had played each other and the second time they had met in a bowl game. Prior to the 2009 Texas Bowl, Missouri held a 2\u20130 advantage with a 35\u201314 victory in 1948 and a 21\u201314 win in 1961 in the Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205261-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Bowl, Game summary\nNavy wore their navy blue home jerseys with white and red trimmed shoulders, Missouri wore their white away jerseys. Missouri struck first with a 58-yard touchdown pass to Danario Alexander, but that would be the best part of the day for Missouri. Despite a fumble by Navy, the Midshipmen defense shut Missouri down, and gave the ball back to Navy QB Ricky Dobbs, who atoned for his fumble on the previous drive with a one-yard TD rush, his 25th of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205261-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Bowl, Game summary\nDobbs would fumble again in the endzone, resulting in Missouri having a chance to take the lead before halftime, but Missouri fumbled on the next play, and Dobbs atoned for his fumble once more with a touchdown. Missouri cut it to 14\u201310 for halftime, but they would not draw any closer. Navy dominated the rest of the game. After halftime, Navy took a 21\u201310 lead on a Dobbs pass to Bobby Doyle. Missouri QB Blaine Gabbert then threw an interception, and Navy didn't look back. Navy ate up most of the 3rd quarter before a 4th down stop. However, Missouri could only amass a field goal out of a 95-yard drive. Navy won by a final count of 35\u201313. Ricky Dobbs took Texas Bowl MVP honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 714]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at UFCU Disch\u2013Falk Field. Texas finished the regular season as the #1 team in the Big 12 Conference and the #5 team nationally. The Longhorns won the 2009 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament to earn an automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, defeating the Missouri Tigers 12\u20137 in the final. Texas was selected as the #1 seed in the Austin Super Regional, and as the #1 National Seed overall. Texas went 5\u20131 in the Regionals, with their one loss coming to TCU in the Super Regional. They defeated the Horned Frogs in the regional final to advance to the College World Series, marking their 32nd appearance all-time, and first since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 864]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe Longhorns defeated Southern Miss and Arizona State, beating the Sun Devils twice, to advance to the finals of the College World Series, where they faced the LSU Tigers. The Tigers were 8\u20130 at that point in the tournament, going 5\u20130 in the Baton Rouge Super Regional, and defeating Virginia and Arkansas (twice) to advance to the final. The Tigers became National Champions after defeating the Longhorns 11\u20134 in a decisive Game 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Previous Season\nIn 2008, Texas finished the season ranked at #25 nationally with a record of 37\u201324, going 15\u201312 in Big 12 play to claim sole possession of fifth place in the Big 12 Conference. The Longhorns were invited to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament as an at-large bid, and were placed in the Houston Super Regional as the #2 seed in the Houston Regional. Texas defeated Sam Houston State and St. John's in the first two rounds, but were ousted by Super Regional host Rice in the Regional Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranked 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranked 30 teams weekly during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Rankings\n* Only the final Coaches' poll from the 2009 season is currently available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Statistics\nBelow are the player statistics for the 2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Statistics, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; OBP = On-base percentage; SLG = Slugging percentage; BB = walks; K = Strikeouts; HBP = Hit by pitches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: W\u2013L = Wins\u2013Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games played; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts; HR = Home runs allowed; BAA = Batting average against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Statistics, Fielding\nNote: PO = Putouts; A = Assists; E = Errors; FLD% = Fielding percentage; DPs = Double plays; SBA = Stolen bases attempted; CS = Caught stealing; CS% = Caught stealing percentage; PB = Passed balls; CI = Catcher's interference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205262-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team, MLB Draft\nThe following members of the 2009 Texas Longhorns baseball team were eventually selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 2009 Texas Longhorns football team (variously \"Texas\" or \"UT\" or the \"Horns\") represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mack Brown. Texas played their home games in Darrell K Royal\u2013Texas Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe Longhorns finished the season 13\u20131, and 8\u20130 in Big 12 play. They represented the Big 12 South Division in the Big 12 Championship Game where they defeated Nebraska 13\u201312 to become Big 12 Champions. The team finished the regular season ranked #2 in the Bowl Championship Series to earn a berth in the BCS National Championship Game where they were defeated by Alabama 37\u201321. Texas finished the season ranked #2 in the AP and coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Before the season, Previous seasons\nThe Longhorns have enjoyed considerable success in recent seasons. In 2008, their only loss was by 6 points to Texas Tech who scored with 1 second left to win the game on Halloween night. They beat the OU Sooners by the same 10 point spread as the 2008 National Champions, the University of Florida. The 2004 team had the first Bowl Championship Series win for any Texas team  and the 2005 team won the National Championship (the fourth for the UT football program). The 2006 team finished with 10 wins, 3 losses, including a victory in the 2006 Alamo Bowl. In 2007, the Longhorns finished with a victory in the 2007 Holiday Bowl, a 10\u20133 record for the season, and a tenth-place ranking in the final AP poll and the USA Today coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 811]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Before the season, Previous seasons\nQuarterback Colt McCoy returned to play his senior season at Texas. He was also the starting quarterback for the Longhorns in 2006 and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Schedule\nOn February 25, 2008, UT and A&M announced that their annual game would move onto Thanksgiving Day for 2008 and 2009. The game was televised by ESPN. The same day, Texas announced that Arkansas dropped Texas from the 2009 schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, University of Louisiana\u2013Monroe\nIn the season opener, Texas routed ULM 59\u201320 as quarterback Colt McCoy passed for over 300 yards and two touchdowns and his roommate, number 1 receiver Jordan Shipley, had 180 yards receiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nIn the first half, Texas got off to a slow start, but rallied to blow out Wyoming in the second half, with QB Colt McCoy passing for 300 yards and three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nThe series with the Texas Tech Red Raiders began in 1928, and entering the game, the Longhorns' record was 43\u201315\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech\nTexas was in for revenge after the previous season's last-second Michael Crabtree miracle breakaway for a touchdown in a 39\u201333 loss to Tech which eliminated Texas from the championship race. Texas scored the first touchdown on a Jordan Shipley punt return that got the mascot in his feet to give Texas a 7\u20133 lead, which thereafter they did not let up and got their revenge in a 34\u201324 victory over Texas Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nThe 2008 game was the first meeting between the Longhorns and the UTEP Miners. Texas won 42\u201313. The 2009 game was the first occasion for the Miners to visit Austin. Texas led 47\u20137 at halftime and routed the Miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nTexas struggled early against Colorado, trailing 14\u20133 at one point. However a series of non-offensive touchdowns led the Longhorns to a 38\u201314 victory. The sloppiness of this game however caused the Longhorns to drop from number 2 to number 3 in the AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe rivalry with Oklahoma has been called one of the greatest sports rivalries. Since 1929 the game has been held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, typically in mid-October with the State Fair of Texas occurring adjacent to the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nTexas started off slowly, trailing 6\u20130. OU QB Sam Bradford was injured and out for the season due to a result of a hit by CB Aaron Williams early in the game. The game was a defensive struggle, but a leaping interception by Aaron Williams of Landry Jones in the red zone put Texas in position to put the game away. However, Colt McCoy threw an interception a few plays later, but made a touchdown-saving tackle on the return. A few plays later, safety Earl Thomas intercepted Landry Jones to seal the game for the Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nTexas jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead on Missouri in a sold-out stadium. The Horns dominated the game, winning 41\u20137 with three touchdowns from Colt McCoy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nIn what was supposed to be a match-up between the Big 12's two best teams on Halloween night in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Texas dominated. The Horns intercepted OSU QB Zac Robinson 4 times, returning two for TDs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, UCF\nThe Longhorns came out flat against the Knights but Colt McCoy passed for 470 yards and Jordan Shipley set the school receiving record with 273 yards, as the running game amassed less than 50 yards on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nThe Longhorns first played the Baylor Bears in 1901 and faced them annually during the days of the Southwest Conference. In the 98\u00a0meetings through 2008, Texas' record with the Bears was 72\u00a0wins, 22\u00a0losses, and 4\u00a0ties. This is Texas' third-longest rivalry by number of games: only Oklahoma and Texas A&M have faced Texas more often on the football field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Baylor\nOn Baylor's first drive, they moved the ball into the red zone, but CB Aaron Williams intercepted a pass in the endzone and the game would be dominated by the Horns from there. Texas jumped out to a 40-0 halftime lead, and lead 47-0 at one point. Baylor was able to score two late td's however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nIn Colt McCoy's last home game, the Horns routed the reeling Kansas Jayhawks, riding a five-game losing streak. Colt McCoy passed for 396 yards and 4 TDs, and in victory became the winningest QB in college football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThis game marked the 116th meeting between Texas and the Texas A&M Aggies and it was the fifth\u00a0year as part of a multi-sport rivalry called the Lone Star Showdown. The football rivalry began in 1894 and it is the longest-running rivalry for both the Longhorns and the Aggies and it is also the third most-played rivalry in Division I-A college football. Texas entered the 2009 contest with a 74\u201336\u20135 record against Texas A&M. Since the series began in 1900, the game has traditionally been played on Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, BCS National Championship \u2013 Alabama\nOn game day, Texas wore its white jerseys and was situated on the east sideline, and Alabama wore its crimson jerseys and used the west bench at the Rose Bowl stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, BCS National Championship \u2013 Alabama\nAlabama made their first appearance in the BCS National Championship Game. The last time Texas played at the Rose Bowl, Texas won the BCS National Championship in the 2006 Rose Bowl by defeating USC 41\u201338 with Vince Young scoring an 8-yard run touchdown with 19 seconds left in the game. The previous year, Texas won the Rose Bowl game 38\u201337 over Michigan when Dusty Mangum kicked a field goal as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, BCS National Championship \u2013 Alabama\nThis game did not result in a victory like all the others had that season. Texas QB Colt McCoy went down early and was replaced by true freshman Garret Gilbert, who threw four interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205263-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, BCS National Championship \u2013 Alabama\nTexas has played in the Rose Bowl once during the regular season, losing to UCLA 49\u201331 during the 1998 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season\nThe Texas Rangers 2009 season was the 49th in franchise history and the team's 38th year in Arlington, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season\n2009 signified the continuation of a strategy implemented by General Manager Jon Daniels in the summer of 2007. The plan to improve the club emphasized the acquisition and development of prospective talent within the Rangers' organization. Several young players such as shortstop Elvis Andrus, outfielder Julio Borbon, and pitchers Derek Holland and Tommy Hunter made their big league debuts in 2009 after spending time in the Rangers' minor league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season\nRanked as the #1 farm system by Baseball America prior to the start of the season, the organization began the season with several of its heralded prospects still in the minor leagues. Emergence of these prospects on the Major League level gave the franchise and its fan base a brighter hope for the future, in line with the objective of competing for the A.L. West title in 2010 and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season\nNotable performances from several core players as well as a well-coached pitching staff contributed to a greatly improved record and allowed the Rangers to compete for the division and wild card playoff berths well into the final weeks of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nStarting Rotation: RHP Kevin Millwood, RHP Vicente Padilla, RHP Brandon McCarthy, RHP Kris Benson, LHP Matt Harrison, RHP Scott Feldman*", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nOpening day of the 2009 season saw the Rangers open the year at home for the first time in four years. In a 10-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians, the club roughed up reigning A.L. Cy Young winner Cliff Lee. A sweep of the Indians was quickly forgotten as the Rangers were swept by the Tigers in Detroit over the first weekend of the year. The Rangers dropped 5 games in a row before bouncing back in their last game against the Orioles on April 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nThat day, MLB's \"Jackie Robinson Day\", 2B Ian Kinsler went 6-for-6 at the plate, hitting for the cycle. Kinsler became the fourth player to perform the feat in a Rangers uniform and the first player since 1890 to record a 6-hit cycle. The Rangers dropped the next two games at home to the Royals, and before Sunday's game many observers openly questioned manager Ron Washington's job security. In that game, the Rangers' oft-criticized bullpen recorded four scoreless innings in relief, allowing the lineup to rally in the 8th inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0004-0002", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nIn a 5-5 tie game, 3B Michael Young led off the bottom of the 9th inning with a 427-foot walk-off home run, the first of his career. Washington's position as manager appeared to be saved as the Rangers headed to Toronto, where they bested Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay in the first game. Game 2 of the series saw the Rangers debuts of LHP prospect Derek Holland and newly acquired RHP Darren O'Day. O'Day, who arrived in Toronto after first pitch, quickly joined the team at the stadium and was informed upon arrival that he would pitch that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0004-0003", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nWearing Kason Gabbard's #60 jersey, O'Day met his new manager, catcher, and teammates on the pitching mound in the 11th inning. O'Day would be credited with the loss after giving up the winning run. While in Toronto, CF Josh Hamilton made a diving catch against the wall in left-center, suffering the first of several injuries in 2009. The Rangers took 3 of 4 games from another series with the Orioles before ending the month against their first division opponent, the Oakland Athletics, splitting the 2-game set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, May\nStarting Rotation: Millwood, Padilla, McCarthy, Feldman, Harrison, LHP Derek Holland*, RHP Tommy Hunter*", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, May\nThe Rangers performed exceedingly well in the month of May, enjoying one of the best months in team history to date. The club quickly went 13-3, a stretch which saw the return (and subsequent re-injury) of Josh Hamilton, several superb outings by Matt Harrison, and mounting concern over the quality of 1B Chris Davis. Aside from two walk-off hits, the 23-year-old was batting .203 by the end of the month, a stark and inexplicable contrast to the breakout season he posted in 2008. Notable was a 3-game sweep of the division rival Los Angeles Angels in Arlington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, May\nDomination of each series over division opponents helped the Rangers reach first place in the American League West, and a record 10 games above .500 by the end of May. Young pitchers Tommy Hunter and Derek Holland each earned spot starts during May, each showing flashes of what could be achieved in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, June\nAs the summer months began, the Rangers faltered. Vicente Padilla, an enigmatic presence in the clubhouse and a pitcher that previously led the majors in hit batsmen, was placed on outright waivers June 3. With very little explanation from the club, the Rangers essentially gave up their number two starter to anyone that would have him. Rumors about Padilla's negative attitude in the clubhouse abound, though the official party line was that management was disappointed with the way the right-handed handled adversity after a start the previous afternoon. Though Padilla cleared waivers, this issue would remain unresolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, June\nIn conjunction with the roster issues, a major power outage up and down the Rangers' lineup haunted the club throughout the month of June. On June 9, Josh Hamilton reportedly underwent surgery to repair an abdominal muscle, and RHP Brandon McCarthy was sent to the 15-day DL for shoulder issues. LHP Matt Harrison and closer Frank Francisco found themselves on the disabled list as well later into the month. These consistent injuries prevented any major gains in the standings. The last day of June saw the call-up of rookie OF Julio Borbon and the Rangers' lead on the A.L. West slowly dwindling as the second-place Angels encroached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 700]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, July\nStarting Rotation: Millwood, Padilla, Feldman, Hunter, Holland, RHP Dustin Nippert*, RHP Doug Mathis*", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, July\nDH Hank Blalock drilled a walk-off home run on the evening of July 1 against the Angels, the beginning of a month in which the Rangers would bounce back from a dreadful June. Rumors in the media continued to circulate about the club's finances, including one that suspected Major League Baseball was loaning money to Hicks Sports Group in order to pay its debts and continue team operations. A great deal of speculation surrounded the Rangers' ability to acquire talent through trades due to a financial impasse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, July\nIn part due to the return of OF Josh Hamilton on July 6, 1B Chris Davis was optioned to AAA to allow him to work out his issues at the plate. Davis, known for his defensive prowess at first base, failed to continue improving at the Major League level. Hank Blalock was given the first base job for the time being. On the 9th in Anaheim, California, OF/DH Andruw Jones hit 3 home runs in a game, essentially the highlight of an otherwise unspectacular season for the veteran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, July\nAt the All-Star break, the Rangers remained in control of the A.L. West. Representing the team at the 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis were 3B Michael Young, OF Josh Hamilton, and RF Nelson Cruz, who like Hamilton in 2008, earned second place in the Home Run Derby. By July 20, the club was 49-41 overall as closer Frank Francisco returned to the DL with pneumonia and several other players miss time late in the month due to bouts with the flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0009-0003", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, July\nWith the trade deadline looming at the end of the month, the Toronto Blue Jays were assumed to be interested in trading their ace, RHP Roy Halladay, and Rangers observers began speculating on whether or not the club should make a bid. Many felt that a fair trade could be headlined by LHP Derek Holland. As talks reportedly heated up between the teams and an agreement was close, on the eve of deadline day Holland took the mound against Seattle and threw 82\u20443 scoreless innings (42\u20443 perfect innings), allowing only one hit. Halladay and Holland would remain with their respective teams for the time being.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nThe Rangers traveled to Oakland, precipitating the call-up of RHP Neftal\u00ed Feliz from AAA Oklahoma City for the first time. Feliz came out of the bullpen to debut in relief on the night of August 3 and immediately struck out 5 of his first 6 batters faced in two innings of work, his fastball averaging 98.8\u00a0mph and maxing out at 100.5\u00a0mph. Despite the A's walk-off win that night, Feliz easily secured his place on the big league club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nOn offense, similar struggles experienced in June seemingly returned to the Rangers in the dog days of the season and many critics pointed to tenured hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo, known for his aggressive philosophy. A surprising development on August 8 occurred when number two starter Vicente Padilla was designated for assignment. After his placement on waivers in June, Padilla's issues with teammates and the front office had not been smoothed over and following a particularly poor start against Oakland, the team decided to end its relationship with the Nicaraguan right-hander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nThis was a culmination of events over time...We\u2019re putting together an organization that pulls together, that stands for something. We intend to have a team in every sense of the word. When one guy doesn\u2019t take that to heart, it is apparent. It's not about throwing at batters in specifics. It was about not being a good teammate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nAround the same date, photographs of OF Josh Hamilton surfaced on Deadspin.com, showing him visibly intoxicated at an Arizona bar with various women. Hamilton, whose long struggle and recovery from substance abuse was well documented in the public eye, admitted to relapsing in January 2009 and acknowledged that he notified his family and Rangers officials immediately thereafter. Hamilton remembered little of the night, but a drug test several days later came up negative. The weekend of August 15 saw the Boston Red Sox arrive in Arlington tied with the Rangers for the A.L. Wild Card berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nAfter rallying on Friday night in the top of the 9th inning against closer Frank Francisco, the Rangers stormed back on Saturday. In that game, Neftal\u00ed Feliz earned his first Major League save, and on Sunday afternoon the Rangers won the series as Francisco successfully converted the save. C Jarrod Saltalamacchia went on the 15-day D.L. with symptoms of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, leaving Taylor Teagarden as the only catcher on the roster. Career minor-leaguer C Kevin Richardson was called up for the first time to spell Teagarden, while the front office worked a deal to re-acquire former Ranger Iv\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nThe financial issues often quietly mentioned in the media finally erupted on August 17 when the Rangers were unable to sign 2009 first-round draft pick LHP Matt Purke, who opted to attend college and pitch for Texas Christian University. Purke's representatives reportedly asked for a contract close to $4 million, but the club was unable to accept such terms. The Purke affair confirmed the fears of many Rangers fans that the front office's ability to improve the team was restricted by Hicks Sports Group's large debts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, August\nWith injuries taking their toll once again, the Rangers found themselves in second place in the West at the end of August, losing 6 of 10 heading into September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, September\nIn the second game of a double-header on September 1, Michael Young strained his left hamstring running out an infield single. The injury sidelined the veteran leader for 2\u20133 weeks, an omen that the Rangers chances to make the playoffs were shrinking. With the ballclub 41\u20442 games back of the Angels on September 6 and the performance of staff ace Kevin Millwood unravelling, the Rangers got another bit of bad news when it was reported that Josh Hamilton would be out indefinitely with a pinched nerve in his back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, September\nThe team pressed hard and generally did little to improve its place in the standings throughout September, and questions concerning the future ownership of the Rangers heated up as playoff potential cooled. Groups under Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg, Houston businessman Jim Crane, and sports agent Dennis Gilbert quickly became known amongst fans as the three main factions jockeying for rights to negotiate with Hicks Sports Group. The emergence of these prospective owners set the stage for a long, complex battle of attrition for ownership of the franchise over the next eleven months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, September\nDespite the team's fading hopes, Ian Kinsler joined the \"30-30 club\" by hitting his 30th home run on September 25 after stealing 30 bases in 2009. On September 27, the Angels clinched the A.L. West championship after defeating Texas 11-0 in Anaheim. Though a slim chance to win the A.L. Wild Card still lingered, this would not be achieved and the Texas Rangers would miss the postseason for the tenth year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, Season summary, October\nThe season would end in October due to certain schedule oddities. The majority of concerns by the end of the regular season surrounded the multitude of arbitration-eligible players on the roster and securing key pieces of the team for the 2010 season. The Rangers ended their season after a 4-3 loss in Seattle at the hands of Cy Young candidate F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Player statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games Played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; AVG = Batting Average; SB = Stolen Bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205264-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Rangers season, Player statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games; IP = Innings Pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; H = Hits Allowed; BB = Walks Allowed; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205265-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas State Bobcats football team\nThe 2009 Texas State Bobcats football team represented Texas State University\u2013San Marcos in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bobcats led by third year head coach Brad Wright, played their home games at Bobcat Stadium as a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7-4, 5-2 Southland).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mike Leach during the regular season, and was coached by interim head coach Ruffin McNeill during the 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl. The Red Raiders played their home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. The football team competed in the Division I NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The Red Raiders finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20133 in Big 12 play and won the Valero Alamo Bowl 41\u201331 against Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nOn December 28, 2009, head coach Mike Leach was suspended by Texas Tech University pending investigation of alleged inappropriate treatment of Adam James, a redshirt sophomore wide receiver, and the son of former SMU Mustangs and New England Patriots running back Craig James. The suspension came after allegations that Leach treated Adam James unfairly following a mild concussion. Leach was terminated by the university on December 30, 2009. Defensive Coordinator Ruffin McNeill was named interim head coach and led the team during their appearance in the 2010 Alamo Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Previous season\nWith an 11\u20131 record in the regular season during 2008, the Red Raiders finished in a three-way tie with the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns atop the Big 12 South. In order to break the tie, BCS standings were used to determine who would face Missouri in the conference championship game. The Sooners, ranked #2 in the BCS polls at the time, were chosen to represent the South Division in the game. The Red Raiders were selected to the Cotton Bowl Classic, losing 34\u201347 to Ole Miss. The 2008 team finished with an overall record of 11\u20132 and were ranked no. 12 in the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nThis game marked the first time the North Dakota Fight Sioux faced the Red Raiders on the football field making North Dakota the 127th different opponent the Red Raiders have faced. The Red Raiders won the coin toss and elected to receive the opening kick off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nThe opening drive ultimately ended in a touchdown and covered 64 yards in 7 plays, lasting 3:18. Barron Batch rushed three yards for the first touchdown and was followed by a successful extra point attempt by Matt Williams. The Red Raiders would go on to score one more touchdown with successful PAT in the first quarter. The Fighting Sioux scored a field goal with six seconds left in the first quarter bringing the final score for the first quarter to 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nThe second quarter saw the longest touchdown reception of the game with a 49-yard pass by Taylor Potts to Detron Lewis, followed by a successful PAT by Matt Williams. The Fighting Sioux went on to kick a 52-yard field goal with 1:28 left in the half. The final score at the half was 21\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nThe third quarter saw only one score with the Red Raider's quarterback Taylor Potts rushing 1\u00a0yard for a touchdown followed by a successful PAT. At the end of the third quarter the score was 28\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nThe Fighting Sioux scored their only touchdown and successful PAT 3:09 into the final quarter. The Red Raiders scored twice in the fourth quarter with a 32-yard field goal by Matt Williams and later an 18-yard touchdown pass by Taylor Potts to Adam Jones. Matt Williams successfully kicked the last PAT of the game bringing the score to 38\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, North Dakota\nDuring the game, the Red Raiders rushed for 40 yards. Taylor Potts attempted 48 passes, completing 34 for a total of 405 passing yards. Potts was also intercepted 3 times and scored 2 touchdowns. The team accrued 11 penalties for 93 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThis game was the first time the Rice Owls played Texas Tech Red Raiders at home since 1995. The Owls won the coin toss and elected to defer until the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Red Raiders shut the Owls out in the first quarter and scored two touchdowns. The first score came 6:13 into the game by way of a 5-yard touchdown pass from Taylor Potts to Edward Britton. Matt Williams successfully kicked the PAT. The next touchdown for the Red Raiders would come with only 1:18 left in the first quarter, when Taylor Potts threw a 7-yard pass to Lyle Leong. The extra point attempt was good. At the end of the quarter the score was 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 524]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe second quarter saw no scores by the Red Raiders. The Owls scored a field goal 3:33 into the quarter. The score at the half was 14\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe third quarter proved to be more fruitful for the Red Raiders, were they once again shut out the Owls. The Red Raiders scored three touchdowns with successful PATs all within the last nine minutes of the quarter. The first came with 8:51 left in quarter when Taylor Potts threw an 8-yard pass to Lyle Leong. The next touchdown came a little over two minutes later with an 11-yard touchdown reception by Austin Zouzalik from Taylor Potts. The last touchdown was scored with 2:34 left in the quarter by Taylor Potts and Lyle Leon when Potts threw a 27-yard pass to Leon. At the end of the quarter the score was 35\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nSteven Sheffield, the Red Raiders backup quarterback, made his season debut when he came in for Taylor Potts during the final quarter after two touchdowns by the Red Raiders and a field goal by the Owls. The first Red Raider touchdown came only nine seconds into the quarter with a 34-yard touchdown reception by Eric Stephens from Taylor Potts. Matt Williams failed to convert the extra point kick. The Owls scored their only touchdown with 11:02 left on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nTaylor Potts last touchdown of the game came by way of a 30-yard pass to Tramain Swindall with 9:10 left in the game. The extra point attempt was good. The Red Raiders final score, and Steven Sheffield's first for the season came with 4:33 left in the game when Sheffield threw a 26-yard pass to Tramain Swindall. The PAT was converted by Matt Williams. The final score for the game was 55\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Texas Tech Red Raiders rushed for 52\u00a0yards and passed for 508\u00a0yards. Taylor Potts attempted 57\u00a0passes, completing 36 for 456\u00a0yards. Steven Sheffield completed 4 out of 6 passes for 52\u00a0yards. Potts threw seven touchdown passes to Sheffield's one. Neither Potts nor Sheffield threw an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Owls rushed for 60\u00a0yards, passed for 197\u00a0yards, and scored 1\u00a0touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe Texas Tech Red Raiders competed against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 9, 2009. For the second year in a row the matchup was highlighted on ESPN's GameDay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe series between Texas Tech and Texas originated in Austin in 1928 and the two teams have met annually since 1960. Before the game, Texas led the series 43\u201315\u20130. The Red Raider's victory in the 2008 season was only the second time in the last 10 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe Texas Tech Red Raiders received the opening kick off and returned it 28\u00a0yards. The Red Raiders opening driving ended with a 41-yard field goal by Matt Williams. On their second drive the Longhorns scored by returning a Red Raider punt 46\u00a0yards for a touchdown. The score at the end of the first quarter was 3\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe Red Raiders did not score in the second quarter, and would hold the Longhorns to only a field goal. At the half the score was 3\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe third quarter saw two touchdowns by both the Red Raiders and the Longhorns. The Longhorns scored a touchdown and successful PAT, on their opening drive of the second half. On the next possession the Red Raiders answered the Longhorns score with a touchdown and successful PAT of their own. The Red Raiders first touchdown of the game came by way of a 14-yard pass to Lyle Leong by Taylor Potts and the PAT was kicked by Matt Williams. After an unsuccessful on-side kick by the Red Raiders, Texas's next drive would end with a touchdown and PAT. The Red Raiders next drive proved as fruitful as their previous ending with a 10-yard touchdown pass by Potts to Leong. The final score at the end of the quarter was 17\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe Red Raider's first two possessions of the fourth quarters ended in a turnovers. The second of which resulted in a Longhorn touchdown, their last of the game. The Red Raiders last score came on their next possession by way of a 22-yard touchdown reception by Tramain Swindall from Taylor Potts. The Longhorns would score the final points of the game with a field goal. The final score of the game was 24\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Texas\nThe Longhorns rushed for 135 yards and the Longhorns' Colt McCoy attempted 34 passes completing 24 for 205\u00a0yards and was intercepted twice. The Red Raiders rushed for -6\u00a0yards and fumbled the ball once. Taylor Potts completed 46 passes out of an attempted 62 for a total of 420\u00a0yards. Potts was intercepted once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Houston\nThe Texas Tech Red Raiders faced the Houston Cougars at Robertson Stadium in Houston Texas on September 26. This non-conference game was the 28th time the two teams meet, however this was the first time the Red Raiders have played at Robertson Stadium. The Red Raiders ultimately lost the game with a final score of 28\u201329, dropping their record to 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nThe Red Raiders competed against the New Mexico Lobos at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, on October 3, 2009. Going into the game, the Red Raiders led the series with a record of 32\u20136\u20132. This was the first meeting of the two teams since 2004. The Red Raiders beat the Lobos with a final score of 48\u201328. Taylor Potts led the Raiders to a score on their first possession of the game, but he left the game with an injury in the second quarter, and Steven Sheffield came in late in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nSheffield's 25-yard touchdown pass to Alexander Torres gave the Raiders a 14-7 halftime lead. Sheffield threw two third-quarter touchdown passes, including a 62-yard catch and run by Harrison Jeffers, as the Raiders extended their lead to 35-7. Jeffers added two more touchdown runs in the fourth quarter to finish the scoring in Tech's 48-28 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThe Red Raiders took on the Kansas State Wildcats at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, on October 10, 2009. This homecoming game was the 11th meeting of the two teams. The Red Raiders had won the previous four games against the Wildcats and had a record of 5\u20131 at home against the team prior to this game. The game was regionally televised on FSN. The Red Raiders beat the Wildcats with a final score of 66\u201314. Tech's 66\u00a0points were the most ever scored on a team coached by Bill Snyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 71], "content_span": [72, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nThe Red Raiders took on the No. 15 Nebraska Cornhuskers at the Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 17, 2009. Before a crowd of more than 86,000, the Raiders jumped out in front early on a touchdown pass from Sheffield to Baron Batch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nTech's defense then made the biggest play of the game, with defensive end Daniel Howard picking up a fumbled lateral pass and returning it 82 yards for a touchdown and a 14-0 Red Raider lead. The Raiders were up 24-3 as the defense kept Nebraska's offense in check.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nThe Red Raider offense was stalled in the second half, but Tech's defense continued to make big plays to keep the Huskers from making a comeback. Defensive end Brandon Sharpe had four of Tech's five sacks, and Sheffield scored on a quarterback sneak to put Tech up by three touchdowns late in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska\nWith the win, the Raiders improved to 5-2 and appeared in the AP top 25 for the first and only time during the 2009 regular season at No. 21 in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nThe Red Raiders competed against the Texas A&M Aggies at the Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas on October 24, 2009. Tech scored first on a 56-yard touchdown pass from Taylor Potts to Alexander Torres, and Potts hooked up with Edward Britton for another touchdown to give Tech a 14-7 lead late in the first quarter. The Aggies then went on to score 31 straight points in the second and third quarters to pull away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Red Raiders faced the Kansas Jayhawks at the Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas on October 31, 2009. Redshirt freshman quarterback Seth Doege got his first NCAA start because of injuries to Taylor Potts and Steven Sheffield. The Raiders didn't get on the scoreboard until the second quarter, when Doege hit Detron Lewis on a 61-yard touchdown bomb to tie the game at 7-7. Later in the second quarter, Colby Whitlock sacked Todd Reesing and forced a fumble deep in Kansas territory, which the Raiders recovered. Baron Batch scored on a 2-yard run, and the two teams went into halftime tied 14-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Jayhawks took a 21-14 lead into the fourth quarter, but the Raiders put up four touchdowns to pull away. Batch scored three touchdowns on the ground, and Laron Moore added a score on a fumble recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nTech came into the home game against Oklahoma seeking revenge for the 65-21 rout that the Raiders suffered in the 2008 match-up against the Sooners. The game saw a low-scoring first quarter, with Tech going up 3-0 on their first possession. Taylor Potts put Tech in position to score with passes to Lyle Leong, Edward Britton and Baron Batch to set up Matt Williams' 33-yard field goal. The game was tied 3-3 after the first quarter, but the Raiders' offense got on track with two second-quarter touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nBatch scored on a 1-yard touchdown run, set up by a 65-yard pass from Potts to Torres. Tech's defense forced a quick OU punt, and Potts then hooked up with Zouzalik on a 21-yard touchdown pass to give the Raiders a 17-6 halftime lead. Tech's defense shut down the Sooners on Oklahoma's opening possession of the second half, and the Raiders quickly marched 91 yards for another touchdown, with Potts hitting Torres on a 24-yard scoring pass for a 24-6 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205266-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nTech cornerback Laron Moore intercepted an Oklahoma pass on the Sooners' next possession, but the Raiders could not push the ball in for a touchdown, settling for a 37-yard field goal from Williams. On Tech's next possession, the Raiders mounted an 18-play drive that chewed up more than seven minutes before scoring on a 21-yard run by Batch. Oklahoma finally scored their only touchdown on a pass from Landry Jones to Ryan Broyles, but the Raiders added a final touchdown on a 4-yard run by Eric Stephens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205267-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Division 1 League, Member clubs, Stadia and locations\nBangkok Bank FC withdrew from the league before the season began. FAT therefore decided that to fill the league with 16 teams, they would run a pre-season competition featuring the 4 relegated clubs from the Thailand Division 1 League 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205267-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Division 1 League, Pre Season Playoff\nThe winners of the Pre Season Playoff would fill the void left by Bangkok Bank FC, after they withdrew from the league after being relegated from the Thailand Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205267-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Division 1 League, Pre Season Playoff\nThe four semi finalist's in the play-offs, are the four relegated clubs from the 2008 season of the Thailand Division 1 League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205268-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup\nThe Thai FA Cup 2009 (Thai: \u0e21\u0e39\u0e25\u0e19\u0e34\u0e18\u0e34\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\u0e04\u0e21 \u0e40\u0e2d\u0e1f\u0e40\u0e2d\u0e04\u0e31\u0e1e) was the 14th season of Thailand knockout football competition. The competition started on 27 June 2009 and concluded with the Final on 21 October 2009. It was the first time the competition was held in 8 years. The tournament is organized by the Football Association of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205268-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup\nThe cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2010 AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 76]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205268-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup, Qualifying round\nAll of the 28 teams came from Division 2, Kh\u01d2r Royal Cup, Khor Royal Cup and Ngor Royal Cup. Because the FAT added teams from the Recruitment Team leagues, teams 32 To 47 had to face a Qualifying Round before entering the First Round proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205269-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup Final\nThe 2009 Thai FA Cup Final was the 14th final of the Thailand's domestic football cup competition, the FA Cup. The final was played at Suphachalasai Stadium in Bangkok on 23 October 2009. The match was contested by Thai Port, who beat Osotspa Saraburi 2\u20130 in their semi-final, and BEC Tero Sasana who beat TTM Samut Sakhon 3\u20130 on penalty shoot-out after 3\u20133 draw in the match. After Wuttichai Tathong opened the scoring in 14th minute, Edvaldo equalised in the 23rd minute before the draw and Thai Port beat BEC Tero Sasana after a penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205269-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; TPL: Clubs from Thai Premier League; D1: Clubs from Thai Division 1 League; D2: Clubs from Regional League Division 2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205269-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBEC Tero Sasana took the lead in the 14th minute when Wuttichai Tathong headed home an inviting cross from Noppol Pitafai. But Thai Port drew level nine minutes later when Edvaldo made good on a rebound following the failure of BEC Tero Sasana keeper Sivaruck Tedsungnoen to make a clean save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205269-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai FA Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBoth side failed to change the score sheet at the end of regulation of extra-time to send the final into penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205270-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Premier League\nThe Thai Premier League 2009 was the thirteenth season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1996. A total of 16 teams competed in the league, with PEA FC as the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205270-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Premier League\nMuang Thong United took the league championship with two names remaining, the first ever team to win the championship in their debut appearance in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205270-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Premier League\nNakhon Pathom, Sriracha and Chula United were relegated to the 1st Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205270-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Premier League, Member clubs and locations\n1 Pattaya United and Bangkok Glass took the places of Coke Bangpra and Krung Thai Bank after purchasing the clubs. Coke Bangpra and Krung Thai Bank therefore withdrew from the league allowing Pattaya and Bangkok Glass to take position in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205271-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai Super Cup\nThe top 4 ranked teams of 2009 will compete in a \"Super Cup\" competition starting on the 22nd of December. The four teams will form a group and play matches in the Suphachalasai Stadium. The champion of the competition will receive 1,500,000 baht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205272-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai by-elections\nThe 2009 Thailand by-elections were held on 11 January 2009. The elections were held to fill 26 vacant parliamentary seats. elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest\nA series of political demonstrations and following unrest occurred in Thailand from 26 March to 14 April 2009 in Bangkok and Pattaya against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military crackdown that followed. Up to 100,000 people demonstrated in central Bangkok at the height of the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Background\nOn 17 December 2008, Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the Democrat Party, was named Prime Minister, after the Constitutional Court of Thailand banned then-Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for five years. In March 2009, Thaksin Shinawatra claimed via video broadcast that Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda had masterminded the 2006 military coup, and that Prem and fellow Privy Councilor members Surayud Chulanont and Chanchai Likhitjittha conspired with the military to ensure that Abhisit became Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Background\nAlthough there was no proof of Thaksin's charge and Abhisit denied the accusations, thousands of Shinawatra supporters protested in Bangkok in early April, demanding that Abhisit resign as prime minister and that Prem, Surayud, and Chanchai resign from the Privy Council. Thaksin then called for a \"peoples revolution\" to overcome the alleged aristocratic influences of the Abhisit government. The protests, led by the red-shirted National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), expanded to Pattaya, where the Fourth East Asia Summit was to be held. Violent clashes broke out between the UDD and blue-shirted government supporters affiliated with Newin Chidchob, leader of the Bhumjaithai Party. The protesters broke into the hotel and forced the summit to be cancelled, causing Abhisit to declare a state of emergency in the both Pattaya and Chonburi on 11 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 918]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 8 April\nThe mass protest began with 100,000 demonstrators, supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, were at Government House and the nearby Royal Plaza by the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 8 April\nVeera Musikapong, Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut Saikua and Jakrapop Penkair leaders of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) have bulletin \"8 April: The Day for Fall of Aristocratic Polity\" for Abhisit Vejjajiva resign from the Premiership and that Prem Tinsulanonda, Surayud Chulanont and Chanchai Likhitjittha resign from the Privy Council within 24 hours, otherwise it would announce raising the level of its anti-government protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 8 April\nOn 04.45 p.m. UDD protesters marched from the residence of Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda to the Victory Monument, the city's largest traffic and transport hub, to join about hundred taxi drivers who parked their vehicles blocked roads around the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 11 April\nThe protests, led by the red-shirted National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) expanded to Pattaya, the site of an ASEAN summit. The taxi-drivers with their cabs, leading supporters of the UDD, were rallied, heading to Pattaya before dawn. Major roads, the gates to Pattaya were blocked. Violent clashes occurred between the UDD and government supporters wearing dark blue T-shirts in the afternoon as the protesters were heading to the site of the summit. There were reports of blue-shirts throwing bombs at the UDD. Since the police failed to halt the rallies, the masses eventually stormed the hotel, the summit building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 11 April\nThe protests caused the ASEAN summit to be cancelled. The security force escorted the foreign leaders, leaving from the hotel by the navy ships and helicopters. The prime minister Abhisit therefore declared a state of emergency in the areas of Pattaya and Chonburi. The protest eventually ended in the afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 12 April\nProtesters returned to Bangkok after Arisman Pongreungrong, the protest leader was detained by the police for causing the cancellation of the ASEAN summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 12 April\nSuporn Attawong and protesters attempted on the Prime Minister's life and injured his secretary general, Niphon Promphan, and Promphan's driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 13 April\nThai soldiers in full combat kit fired live rounds and training rounds from automatic weapons to clear protesters from the Din Daeng intersection near the Victory Monument in central Bangkok, injuring at least 70 people. The Army later claimed that live rounds were only fired into the air while training rounds were fired at the crowd. Human Rights Watch confirmed that there are some cases where the Army fired live ammunition directly at protesters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 13 April\nAlso on 13 April, Sean Boonpracong, the UDD's official international spokesman, gave a phone interview to Al-Jazeera English, admitting that some UDD protesters used hand guns during street protests though he claimed that the guns are used in defence of the military crackdown. The UDD claimed one protester injured from gunshot wounds sustained during the military's attack. However, the Army later claimed that the wound was not caused by an M-16, the standard Army rifle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 13 April\nAlso on Monday the government ordered the blocking of satellite news station D Station, an affiliate of the UDD which, at the time, was broadcasting the clashes. Several UDD community radio stations were shut down and searched upon suspicion of being supporters of the UDD. Violent clashes at numerous locations in Bangkok continued while arrest warrants were issued for Thaksin and 13 protest leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Popular protests, 14 April\nSurrounded by the military, many protesters eventually gave in on 14 April 2009, ending the violence. As the troops encircled the major location of the demonstration, near the Government House, demonstrators agreed to end their activity. The government confirmed the peaceful measure towards the protesters, free transport were provided for taking the protesters back to their home in the provinces. The demonstration ended 'officially' and peacefully in around noon time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Aftermath\nAccording to government figures, over 120 people were injured in the unrest, most of them UDD demonstrators. At least one UDD protester injured from gunshot wounds sustained during the military's attack in Din Daeng, although the Army claimed the wound was not caused by their standard firearm. The UDD claimed that at least 6 demonstrators were killed in the unrest and their bodies hauled away by the military, although the Army rejected the claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Aftermath\nThe dead bodies of 2 UDD protesters were found floating in the Chao Phraya River, their hands tied behind their backs and their bodies badly beaten, although police had yet to conclude whether their murders were politically motivated. On 11 September 2009, The House-appointed committee in charge of investigating the unrest has completed its report saying no death inflicted by crowd control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205273-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Thai political unrest, Aftermath\nAbhisit aide Satit Wongnontaey claimed that Red-shirted protesters shot a  person dead and injured two others when residents of the Nang Lerng Market came out to criticise the protesters. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration estimated that it had incurred 10 million Baht (approximately 300,000 USD) in property damages, including 31 damaged and burned buses. But, the Federation of Thai Tourism Industry estimated that the damage to the tourism industry could be as high as 200 billion Baht and resulting in 257,000 jobs lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205274-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thailand National Games\nThe 2009 Thailand National Games or Trang Games were held in Trang Province, Thailand, in September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205275-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Caversham International\nThe 2009 The Caversham International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Jersey, Channel Islands between 23 and 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205275-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 The Caversham International, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205275-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 The Caversham International, Champions, Men's doubles\nEric Butorac /  Travis Rettenmaier def. Colin Fleming /  Ken Skupski, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205276-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Caversham International \u2013 Doubles\nColin Fleming and Ken Skupski were the defending champions; however, they lost to Eric Butorac and Travis Rettenmaier in the grand finale (6\u20134, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205277-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Caversham International \u2013 Singles\nAdrian Mannarino was the defending champion. Daniel Evans defeated Jan Min\u00e1\u0159 in the final (6\u20133, 6\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205278-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 2009 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by fifth year head coach Kevin Higgins and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205279-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Dominion Curling Club Championship\nThe 2009 Dominion Curling Club Championship was held November 25\u201329 at the St. George's Golf and Country Club in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205279-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 The Dominion Curling Club Championship\nThe event was the first event of its kind in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205280-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 The Island 300\nThe 2009 Island 300 was the twelfth event of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of the November 7 and 8 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria. The meeting was a late addition to the calendar, V8 Supercar having already raced at Phillip Island in September at the 2009 L&H 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205280-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 The Island 300\nThe round was organised after the Desert 400, set to be held at the Bahrain International Circuit, was removed from the 2009 calendar and shifted into the 2010 season in order to better link up with the newly announced round to be held at nearby Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205280-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 The Island 300\nThe event was won by Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford driver Jamie Whincup. The pair of race victories (scoring a maximum 300 points) moved him significantly closer to retaining the V8 Supercar Championship Series crown he first won in 2008, building his lead over Holden Racing Team driver Will Davison to over 100 points. Rick Kelly of Kelly Racing was second for the event, scoring 267 points from a third in Race 21 and a second in Race 22. Third was Davison's HRT teammate Garth Tander, scoring 249 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster\nThe Thekkady boat disaster occurred on 30 September 2009, when the double-decker passenger boat Jalakanyaka sank in Lake Thekkady, Periyar National Park, Kerala, India. When the boat capsized, 45 tourists died, most of them from Delhi and Kolkata. A total of 82 people were on the boat. The boat's helmsman, Victor Samuel, and another crew member were arrested on 5 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Details\nThe fibreglass double-decker sight-seeing boat Jala Kanyaka, operated by the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC), made daily sight-seeing trips in the Mullaperiyar reservoir in Idukki. The boat was first commissioned on 17 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Details\nThe boat set off from a landing at 4:30\u00a0p.m. and capsized 7 kilometres (4.3\u00a0mi) away, at approximately 5 p.m. on 30 September 2009. It capsized in one of the deepest parts of the reservoir, in an area around 100 metres (330\u00a0ft) deep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nThe surrounding area has wild animals, including elephants, and is within the 777 square kilometres (300\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) Periyar Tiger Reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nBy 8 p.m, a rescue team recovered 26 bodies, and two survivors. Initial rescue operations were completed by local government officials and the public before the state and federal government crews arrived. None of the initial rescue boats had divers, however a team of divers from the Indian Navy was assigned to help the rescue operation 5\u20136 hours later. A team of 40-50 navy divers were rushed to the spot from the Southern Naval Command at Kochi. On 3 October, the search for bodies was still ongoing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nFour bodies were noted as missing until 3 October, when three were recovered by Navy divers: four-and-a-half-year-old Aishwarya and her mother Senthilkumari, from Bangalore, and Apoorva, 16, from Hyderabad. A Navy helicopter spotted the body of Aishwarya first, and her mother was found nearby. The final missing passenger, Apoorva's 19-year-old brother Abhilash, was discovered on the evening of 3 October by an underwater camera, but bad weather delayed its retrieval until the following day. This bought the final death-toll to 45. Their parents, scientists at the Defence Research Organisation, survived the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nTwenty people, mostly on the upper deck, were rescued by boats sent by KTDC, the Forest Department, and Tamil Nadu Public Works Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nBoth State and National government acted, asking defence establishments in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram to launch rescue attempts. Navy divers from Kochi were forced to travel overland after their helicopter, sent to locate the victims, was turned back by bad weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Rescue\nKodiyeri Balakrishnan, the Home and Tourism Minister of Kerala, and N. K. Premachandran, the minister for Water Resources, arrived in Thekkady late at night, and they coordinated rescue operations according to press reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nOriginally, KTDC claimed that there were 74 passengers, but police findings showed 87 passengers; some confusion in the numbers was caused by some survivors leaving the scene without reporting to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nThe fatalities consist mostly of women, mainly from outside Kerala. The dead included people from Tamil Nadu, Delhi and West Bengal; more than 50 belonged to a group from Karnataka, who had come in a tourist bus to Thekkady as part of a tour to Kerala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nPreliminary reports stated that the accident occurred when a large number of passengers rushed to one side of the boat to see a herd of bison which emerged from the forest. The sudden movement caused the boat to capsize, and all of the passengers were thrown into the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nLater, this initial report was challenged when some of the rescued tourists reported structural problems with the boat, saying that it was tilted throughout the trip, for about 30 minutes. Then at one point the boat took a sharp turn, overturned and capsized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nThe boat was owned and operated by the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation. The government has been blamed for not privatizing these boats, for not enforcing safety precautions and for not having efficient disaster recovery plans. The crew of the boat, driver and helper escaped the incident. The passengers were not provided a life jacket before the trip, and there were no lifeguards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Investigations\nThe Pioneer newspaper of Delhi reported \"widespread complaints\" against both Kerala Government and KTDC \"trying to absolve themselves of the guilt by putting the entire blame on the boat employees.\" The Crime Branch\u2019s probe report blamed the incident on a combination of driver negligence and overloading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Aftermath\nOn 2 October, it was announced that the government would pay the expenses for sending the bodies of the deceased to their home states and that 5 lakhs Rs. would be provided to the next kin of each of the dead in the accident. The Government of Kerala ordered a judicial inquiry into the boat tragedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Aftermath\nQuestioned at the scene on Monday, 5 October, helmsman Victor Samuel (alias Betty) attributed the incident to the sudden movement of tourists, but fellow crew member Aneesh (also written Anish) pointed out the overloading of the upper deck. Preliminary inquiries revealed that the boat was overloaded, with 12 more than its capacity of 75. The Crime Branch determined that when Samuel \"suddenly turned the boat to the right, after the tourists sighted the wild animals\", it had contributed to the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Aftermath\nSuperintendent of Police (Crime Branch) PA Wilson said that \"the unwarranted act of driver Victor Samuel [...] swerving the boat while at high speed caused the tragedy\". The Crime Branch did not make a final report, pending further questioning of survivors, but Samuel and Aneesh were arrested, to be taken before the Magistrate Court at Peerumade. Sameul has been charged with \"causing death unintentionally.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Aftermath\nAlso under consideration was the possibility raised by reports that the boat listed to one side due to a structural imbalance. The police stated that the Jalakanyaka, which was recovered and brought to the dock in Thekkady, \"had inherent problems\". A careful forensic examination was scheduled to begin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Criticism\nOommen Chandy, Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, criticized the ongoing Crime Branch probe, alleging an attempt to make the steersman a scapegoat. \"an attempt is on to put the blame and responsibility of the accident on the steersman,\" Chandy said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Criticism\nChandy told reporters that, instead of a judicial probe, the government should appoint an expert committee headed by a judicial officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Criticism\nHe urged Chairman Cherian Philip to consider quitting his post. \"Instead of supervising the rescue operations at Thekkady, Philip chose to be part of' Human Chain', a political function of CPI-M,\" he said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Criticism\nThe Decclan Herald said that the accident was \"a result of sheer negligence\", and the Express Buzz said it was \"faulty from the start\", with excess passengers on unsecured plastic chairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Criticism\nOther criticisms include (1) lack of disaster recovery planning and procedures for all departments; and (2) refusal to privatize and insure tourist boats with proper government oversight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205281-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Thekkady boat disaster, Subsequent safety concerns\nAt a meeting on 5 October, state Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan announced several new safety measures: safety checks for tourist boats, mandatory life jackets for those under 15 and for those over 15 who do not supply a valid reason, lifeguards and rescue boats in proportion to the number of passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205282-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Three Days of De Panne\nThe 2009 Three Days of De Panne was the 33rd edition of the Three Days of De Panne cycle race and was held on 31 March to 2 April 2009. The race started in Middelkerke and finished in De Panne. The race was won by Frederik Willems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205283-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Three National Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Three National Figure Skating Championships (Slovak: Majstrovstva CR a SR seniori) included the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. The event was held on December 4\u20136, 2008 in T\u0159inec, Czech Republic. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205283-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Three National Figure Skating Championships\nThe three national championships were held simultaneously and the results were then split by country. The top three skaters from each country formed their national podiums. This was the third consecutive season that the Czech and Slovak Championships were held simultaneously, and the first in which Poland also participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205283-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Three National Figure Skating Championships\nIn the senior pairs event, Kemp / King of United Kingdom competed as guest skaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205284-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Thuringian state election\nThe 2009 Thuringian state election was held on 30 August 2009 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Thuringia. It was held on the same day as the 2009 Saarland state election and the 2009 Saxony state election. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government led by Minister-President Dieter Althaus was defeated. The CDU subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Althaus resigned after the election due to his party's poor performance, which was far below expectations. He was succeeded by fellow CDU member Christine Lieberknecht, who was elected as the new Minister-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205284-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Thuringian state election, Parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the 4th Landtag of Thuringia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205284-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Thuringian state election, Outcome\nMinister-President and CDU leader Dieter Althaus resigned in the wake of the election, stating he took responsibility for his party's losses. However, observers noted that his resignation also helped clear the way for a grand coalition between the CDU and SPD, which was preferred by both parties, and would be easier to manage under new leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205284-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Thuringian state election, Outcome\nThe only viable alternative to a grand coalition was a government led by The Left with SPD and Green support, which both the CDU and SPD sought to avoid; the CDU because such a coalition would leave them in opposition, and the SPD because of personal animosity between its leader Christoph Matschie and Left leader Bodo Ramelow. Ultimately, a grand coalition of the CDU and SPD was formed under the leadership of the CDU's Christine Lieberknecht, who was elected Minister-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205285-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen\nThe 2009 Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen was the 22nd edition of the Th\u00fcringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, a women's cycling stage race in Germany. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and was held between 21 and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe 2009 Tim Hortons Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held March 7\u201315 at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe Brier was billed as one of the best in history, as it included six former champion skips, as well as the defending Olympic champion Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador, who had yet to even win a Brier. The former champions included the defending champion Alberta rink, skipped by Kevin Martin, 2007 Brier champion Glenn Howard of Ontario, 2006 champion Jean-Michel M\u00e9nard of Quebec, 2004 champion Mark Dacey of Nova Scotia, 1996 & 1999 champion Jeff Stoughton of Manitoba, and 1987 & 1993 champion Russ Howard of New Brunswick (formerly from Ontario). Rounding out the field were Sean Geall of BC, Jamie Koe of the Territories, Joel Jordison of Saskatchewan, Mike Jakubo of Northern Ontario, and Rod MacDonald of PEI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe Brier was also one of the most attended in history, with nearly 250,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier\nThe 2009 Brier featured one of the greatest Brier shots in history, when Glenn Howard made a seemingly impossible in-off \"round the clock\" double to score three to win his Draw 8 match against Saskatchewan. The Brier also featured one of the greatest games in history, between Ontario and Alberta in Draw 17. The Brier also included three \"perfect\" games where players scored 100%, including Kevin Martin in Draw 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier\nPrior to the Brier, Sweep magazine gave both Alberta and Ontario 2:1 odds to win it. Many had expected a rematch of the 2008 Brier final between these two teams, and after the round robin, these teams finished first and second in the round robin. Alberta was undefeated while Ontario lost their final game to Alberta and an earlier match against Quebec. The two teams faced off in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game, with Alberta's win putting them into the final, and sending Ontario to play Manitoba in the semi-final. Manitoba won this game in an upset, giving them the right to face the defending champions in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 642]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Kevin Martin Third: John Morris Second: Marc Kennedy Lead: Ben Hebert Alternate: Terry Meek", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Sean Geall Third: Brent Pierce Second: Kevin Recksiedler Lead: Mark Olson Alternate: Tyler Klitch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Jeff StoughtonThird: Kevin ParkSecond: Rob FowlerLead: Steve GouldAlternate: Randy Dutiaume", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Russ Howard Third: James Grattan Second: Jason Vaughan Lead: Peter Case Alternate: Steve Howard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Brad Gushue Third: Mark Nichols Second: Ryan Fry Lead: Jamie Korab Alternate: Glenn Goss", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Mike Jakubo Third: Matt Seabrook Second: Luc Ouimet Lead: Lee Toner Alternate: Scott Seabrook", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Mark Dacey Third: Bruce Lohnes Second: Andrew Gibson Lead: Kris Granchelli Alternate: Mat Harris", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Glenn Howard Third: Richard Hart Second: Brent Laing Lead: Craig Savill Alternate: Steve Bice", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Rod MacDonald Third: Kevin Champion Second: Andrew Robinson Lead: Mark O'Rourke Alternate: Peter MacDonald", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Jean-Michel M\u00e9nard Third: Martin Cr\u00eate Second: Eric Sylvain Lead: Jean Gagnon Alternate: Philippe M\u00e9nard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Joel Jordison Third: Scott Bitz Second: Aryn Schmidt Lead: Dean Hicke Alternate: Rod Montgomery", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Teams\nSkip : Jamie Koe Third: Jon Solberg Second: Brad Chorostkowski Lead: Martin Gavin Alternate: Tom Naugler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205286-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tim Hortons Brier, Results\nAll draw times are listed in Mountain Standard Time (UTC\u22127).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205287-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tippeligaen\nThe 2009 Tippeligaen was the 65th completed season of top division football in Norway. The competition began on 15 March and end on 1 November. Stab\u00e6k were the defending champions. Odd Grenland, Sandefjord and Start entered as the three promoted teams from the 2008 1. divisjon. They replaced HamKam who were relegated to the 2009 1. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205287-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tippeligaen, Overview, League expansion\nThis was the first top division seasons where 16 teams were competing on the highest level of Norwegian football since the 1961\u201362 Hovedserien season. Due to the league expanding from 14 to 16 teams, three teams were promoted from the 1. divisjon at the end of the 2008 season. Those teams were champions Odd Grenland, runners-up Sandefjord and third-placed Start. The last spot was taken by Aalesund after winning a two-legged play-off match against Sogndal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205287-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tippeligaen, Overview, Summary\nStab\u00e6k was the defending champions, having won their first ever League Championship in 2008. On 27 September, Rosenborg secured the title with four rounds left to go. They won their 21st top-flight title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205287-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tippeligaen, Relegation play-offs\nAt the end of the season, the two last teams relegated directly to 1. divisjon, and were replaced by the winner and runner-up of the 1. divisjon who were directly promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205287-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tippeligaen, Relegation play-offs\nFour teams entered a play-off for the last Tippeligaen spot in the 2010 season. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205288-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 119th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The championship began on 12 September 2009 and ended on 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205288-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nToomevara were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Drom-Inch at the semi-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205288-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 18 October 2009, Thurles Sarsfields won the championship after a 0-14 to 0-05 defeat of Drom-Inch in the final  at Semple Stadium. It was their 30th championship title overall and their first title since 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205289-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary county hurling team season\nThe 2009 season was Liam Sheedy's second season in charge of the Tipperary senior hurling team. Tippeary won the Munster championship, defeating Waterford 4-14 to 2-16 in the final. They went on to reach the All-Ireland final but lost to Kilkenny 0-23 to 2-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205289-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary county hurling team season, 2009 senior hurling management team, 2009 squad\nThe following players made their competitive senior debut in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205289-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tipperary county hurling team season, Awards\nP\u00e1draic Maher, Conor O'Mahony, Lar Corbett and Noel McGrath all won All Star Awards with McGrath also named as the Young Hurler of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205290-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 2009 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico, the 44th running of the race, started on 11 March and finished on 17 March. The race started in Cecina and ended in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was the third event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205291-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tobago House of Assembly election\nThe 2009 Tobago House of Assembly election for the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) was held on January 19, 2009. The PNM won 8 seats and obtained 61.42% of the votes while the TOP won 4 seats and 48.32% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205291-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tobago House of Assembly election, Results\nPreliminary Results indicated that the People's National Movement had obtained eight seats and the TOP had obtained four seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205292-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Togolese Championnat National\nThe 2009 Togolese Championnat National is the forty-eighth season of the Togolese Championnat National since its establishment in 1961. A total of 16 teams are contesting the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205293-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season\nThe 2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season features the Eagles quest to win their first Pacific League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205294-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo Marathon\nThe 2009 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: \u6771\u4eac\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3 2009) was the third edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, Japan and was held on Sunday, 22 March. The men's race was won by Kenya's Salim Kipsang in a time of 2:10:27, while the women's race was won by home athlete Mizuho Nasukawa in 2:25:38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205295-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows season\nThe 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows season features the Swallows quest to win their first Central League title since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election\nPrefectural elections for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly were held on 12 July 2009. In the runup to the Japanese general election due by October they were seen as an important test for Taro Aso's ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the New Komeito. New Komeito considers Tokyo as an important stronghold and had repeatedly asked Prime Minister Aso to avoid holding the two elections within a month of each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election\nCampaigning officially started on July 3, 2009. The prefecture's 10.6 million registered voters (up 230,000 from 2005) were called upon to elect the 127 Assembly members in 42 electoral districts at 1,868 polling stations across Tokyo. 221 candidates had been formally registered with the Tokyo metropolitan electoral commission. The LDP and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) each endorsed 58 candidates, the Japan Communist Party (JCP) supports 40 and New Komeito formally fields 23 candidates, though it has also decided to support LDP candidates in several districts. Local campaign issues included Tokyo's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games and governor Shintaro Ishihara's plan to relocate the Tsukiji fish market in 2012. The national debate over a possible ban of \"hereditary\" (\u4e16\u8972, sesh\u016b) politicians has also affected several candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 875]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election\nTokyo's legislative election is one of only three elections for prefectural parliaments countrywide that are not held in the \"unified regional election\" (t\u014ditsu chih\u014d senkyo, last round: 2007), the other two being Ibaraki's and Okinawa's prefectural assembly elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election, Results\nPolls closed at 8:00 pm Japan Standard Time. Turnout was significantly up from 2005 and stood at 54.5 percent. The DPJ picked up 20 seats and saw 54 of their 58 candidates elected. The LDP lost its status as strongest party in the Metropolitan Assembly for the first time since 1965. Despite strong results for coalition partner K\u014dmeit\u014d, the ruling camp could not defend an absolute majority (64 seats). The only electoral district where an LDP candidate received the most votes (top t\u014dsen) was the single-member [Izu and Ogasawara] islands electoral district of former assembly president Ch\u016bichi Kawashima, a native of \u014cshima town who had represented the islands since 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election, Aftermath\nThe president of the LDP's Tokyo prefectural federation, one of governor Ishihara's then two sons in the national House of Representatives, Nobuteru, initially hinted to step down as LDP Tokyo chief, but eventually stayed on. Nationally, Tar\u014d As\u014d came under pressure within his party to resign immediately as party president-prime minister, but could avoid a leadership challenge by calling the general election of the House of Representatives early \u2013 the election on August 30 resulted in a landslide loss for the ruling coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205296-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tokyo prefectural election, Aftermath\nDemocrat Ry\u014d Tanaka from Suginami was elected assembly president, Kantar\u014d Suzuki (K\u014dmeit\u014d, Arakawa) became vice president. The assembly majority in the new assembly is often involved in disputes with governor Ishihara over the budget, the Tsukiji relocation and other issues. Yet, in the gubernatorial election of 2011 (part of the unified regional election), Ishihara was safely reelected for a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205297-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 2009 Toledo Rockets football team represented The University of Toledo during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. The team was coached by Tim Beckman and played their homes game in the Glass Bowl. The finished with a record of 5\u20137 (3\u20135 MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205298-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga Major League\nThe 2009 season of the Tonga Major League was the 31st season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Marist FC won the championship for the first time, ending an 11-year championship winning streak from Lotoha\u02bbapai United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption\nThe 2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption began on March 16, 2009, near the island of Hunga Tonga, approximately 11 kilometres (6.8\u00a0mi) from the Tongan capital of Tongatapu. The volcano is in a highly active volcanic region that represents a portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is estimated that there are up to 36 undersea volcanoes clustered together in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, Eruption history\nThe initial March 16\u201317 eruption sent ash and smoke up to 20 kilometres (12\u00a0mi) into the atmosphere and an initial inspection reported that the volcano has breached the ocean surface. Authorities suggested at that time that the eruption did not yet pose any threat to the capital's population, and an inspection team was sent out to evaluate the volcano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, Eruption history\nBetween March 18\u201320, a number of Surtseyan eruptions sent ash plumes as high as 4 kilometres (2.5\u00a0mi) to 5.2 kilometres (3.2\u00a0mi) into the atmosphere, with prevailing winds pushing the ash cloud about 480 kilometres (300\u00a0mi) east-northeast of the eruption site and widespread and significant haze reported at Vava\u02bbu 255 kilometres (158\u00a0mi) away. Steam plumes on March 20 were measured at 1.8 kilometres (1.1\u00a0mi) above sea level. But on March 21, an eruption sent steam and ash just 0.8 kilometres (0.50\u00a0mi) into the sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, Eruption history\nOn March 21, Tonga's chief geologist Kelepi Mafi reported lava and ash from two vents, one on the uninhabited island Hunga Ha\u02bbapai and another about 100\u00a0m (330\u00a0ft) offshore, had filled the gap between the two vents, creating new land surface that measured hundreds of square metres. The eruption devastated Hunga Ha\u02bbapai, covering it in black ash and stripping it of vegetation and fauna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, Disruptions\nTwo Air New Zealand airline flights into Tonga were delayed due to safety concerns caused by the volcanic ash, but flight schedules returned to normal shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, Disruptions\nTongan officials also expressed concern that the eruption could significantly harm the country's fishing industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205299-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption, 2009 Tonga earthquake\nFour days after the start of the eruption a strong earthquake measuring 7.6 Mw(ISC)\u202f also struck the region. Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist for the United States Geological Survey, stated that \"The association with the volcanic activity seems to be an interesting added dimension to this. It's not clear at this point that there is a direct association, but it seems suggestive at this point.\". Keleti Mafi, the Tongan government's chief seismologist, also suggested that the earthquake was likely to have a direct impact on the volcanic eruption, stating that the \"strength of the earthquake could crack the volcano's (undersea) vent and allow more magma to be ejected\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series\nThe 2009 Top League Challenge Series was the 2009 edition of the Top League Challenge Series, a second-tier rugby union competition in Japan, in which teams from regionalised leagues competed for promotion to the Top League for the 2009\u201310 season. The competition was contested from 11 to 25 January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series\nHonda Heat and Ricoh Black Rams won promotion to the 2009\u201310 Top League, while Mazda Blue Zoomers and Toyota Industries Shuttles progressed to the promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Competition rules and information\nThe top two teams from the regional Top East League, Top West League and Top Ky\u016bsh\u016b League qualified to the Top League Challenge Series. The regional league winners participated in Challenge 1, while the runners-up participated in Challenge 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Competition rules and information\nThe top two teams in Challenge 1 won automatic promotion to the 2009\u201310 Top League, while the third-placed team in Challenge 1 and the Challenge 2 winner qualified to the promotion play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification\nThe teams qualified to the Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 series through the 2008 regional leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top West League\nThe final standings for the 2008 Top West League were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top East League\nThe final standings for the 2008 Top East League were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Qualification, Top Ky\u016bsh\u016b League\nThe final standings for the 2008 Top Ky\u016bsh\u016b League were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2009 Top League Challenge 1 were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 1, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2009 Top League Challenge 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Standings\nThe final standings for the 2009 Top League Challenge 2 were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205300-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Top League Challenge Series, Challenge 2, Matches\nThe following matches were played in the 2009 Top League Challenge 2:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205301-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toppserien\nThe 2009 Toppserien was the twenty-third season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of twelve teams contested the league, consisting of ten who competed in the previous season and two promoted from the 1.\u00a0divisjon. Running from 13 April to 31 October 2009, it was won by R\u00f8a for the third consecutive year. As winners, R\u00f8a qualified for the Round of 32 of the 2010\u201311 UEFA Women's Champions League as the sole representative from Norway. Because Norway had dropped to ninth place in the UEFA coefficient rankings for 2010\u201311, the runners-up in the Toppserien could no longer enter the Qualifying Round of the Champions League, as had been the case in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205301-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toppserien\nR\u00f8a were confirmed as league champions on the last day of the season after drawing 0\u20130 with runners-up Stab\u00e6k, thus becoming the second team in the league's history to secure three consecutive titles (Trondheims-\u00d8rn managed four in a row in 1994\u20131997). With their fourth league title overall, R\u00f8a also drew level with Sprint/Jel\u00f8y in terms of number of titles won, behind Trondheims-\u00d8rn and Asker. Stab\u00e6k finished three points behind R\u00f8a in what was their first season after relocating to B\u00e6rum and becoming an affiliate of Stab\u00e6k Fotball. They had previously competed as Asker. Kolbotn finished third, six points behind R\u00f8a and three behind Stab\u00e6k.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 665]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205301-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toppserien\nNeither of the two promoted teams were able to maintain their spot in the top flight. Fortuna \u00c5lesund were the first team to be relegated to the 1.\u00a0 divisjon after losing 1\u20132 at home to Arna-Bj\u00f8rnar on 26 September. They were joined by Sandviken on 10 October when they lost 0\u20134 at home, also to Arna-Bj\u00f8rnar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205301-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toppserien\nOn 27 October, the Football Association of Norway penalized Fl\u00f8ya for their use of two ineligible players in the league and Norwegian Cup. The players, both acquired before the start of the season, were fielded in thirteen and nine matches respectively before it was discovered that the club had not registered the transfers properly. Fl\u00f8ya were fined 10,000 kroner and deducted four points. Consequently, they dropped from eighth to tenth place in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205302-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open\nThe 2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 27 through October 2, 2009. Maria Sharapova won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205302-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Champions, Doubles\nAlisa Kleybanova /  Francesca Schiavone defeated  Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 /  Ai Sugiyama, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205302-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open, WTA entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205303-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Doubles\nVania King and Nadia Petrova were the defending champions, both of them were present this year, but played with different partners. King partnered with Zheng Jie and Petrova partnered with Gisela Dulko both lost to Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama, in the first round and the semifinals respectively. Alisa Kleybanova and Francesca Schiavone won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205304-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles\nDinara Safina was the defending champion, but lost to Chang Kai-chen in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205304-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles\nMaria Sharapova was the champion, defeating Jelena Jankovi\u0107 after Jankovi\u0107 retired with a wrist injury with the scoreline at 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205304-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile)\nThe 2009 Campeonato Nacional de Apertura Copa Banco Estado was the 85th season of top-tier football in Chile. The tournament champion was Universidad de Chile, so that earned their 13th league title after a five-year winless, after winning over Uni\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola on points, in the finals, that allowed the automatically qualification of the university team to the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile)\nAfter the relegations of Deportes Melipilla, Provincial Osorno and Deportes Concepci\u00f3n (because administration problems), the number of teams that contested the tournament was reduced from 20 to 18, following the promotion of Curic\u00f3 Unido, which made their first top-flight appearance in 35 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile)\nIt began on 31 January during a 2\u20132 draw between Curic\u00f3 Unido and Colo-Colo at the Estadio Fiscal de Talca, and ended on 28 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Format changes\nThe format for 2009 remains largely the same as 2008, except for the advancement to the Playoff Stages. Groups will no longer be used to determine who advance to the next stage. Instead, the top-eight teams in Classification Stage will advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Format changes, International qualification changes\nQualification to the Copa Libertadores remains the same, as well as qualification to the Chile 1 spot in the Copa Sudamericana. The Chile 2 spot will be contested between the second-best team in the first stage and the 2008-09 Copa Chile winner. The winner of the single match will qualify to the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 81], "content_span": [82, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Team information\nThe number of teams were reduced starting with this season from 20 to 18. Deportes Antofagasta, Provincial Osorno, Deportes Melipilla, and Deportes Concepci\u00f3n were relegated last season to the Primera B. They were replaced by Municipal Iquique and Curic\u00f3 Unido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Regular season, Playoff stage\nUniversidad de Chile qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Copa Sudamericana playoff\nThe second-best team of the Classification Stage (Universidad de Chile) played a match at Estadio Municipal Francisco S\u00e1nchez Rumoroso in the city of Coquimbo against the 2008 Copa Chile champions, (Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n) for the Chile 2 spot in the 2009 Copa Sudamericana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205305-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile), Copa Sudamericana playoff\nUniversidad de Chile classified to the Chile 2 berth for the 2009 Copa Sudamericana First Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205306-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Apertura (Primera B de Chile)\nThe 2009 Torneo Apertura was the 59th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205307-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Clausura (Chile)\nThe 2009 Torneo Clasura, officially the Campeonato Nacional de Clausura Copa BancoEstado 2009 (English: Clausura National Championship Banco Estado Cup 2009), was the 86th top tier tournament. It began on July 12 and is scheduled to end on December 16. Colo-Colo were the champions, winning its 29th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205307-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Clausura (Chile), Relegation\nRelegation for this season will be determined by an aggregate table of the Classification Stages of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The teams that finish 17th and 18th will be automatically relegated to the Primera B for the next season. The teams that finish 15th and 16th will play a relegation/promotion playoff against two teams from the 2009 Primera B season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205307-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Clausura (Chile), Relegation, Relegation/promotion playoff\nBy finishing 15th in the relegation table, Palestino was pitted against the San Marcos de Arica, the 2nd best team in the 2009 Primera B General Table. Curic\u00f3 Unido, by finishing 16th in the relegation table, played against San Luis, the loser of the 2009 Primera B championship playoff. The team who obtains the most point after two legs will stay or be promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n. Should there be a tie on points, it will be settled as follows: 1) overall goal difference; 2) most away goal; 3) extra time of two 15-minute halves; 4) penalty shootout according to the Laws of the Game. The Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Team #1) played the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 726]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205308-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Clausura (Primera B de Chile)\nThe 2009 Torneo Clausura was part of the 59th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 2009 Torneo Descentralizado de F\u00fatbol Profesional (known as the Copa Cable M\u00e1gico for sponsorship reasons) was the 93rd season of Association Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The season began on February 14 and concluded on December 13 with the victory of Universitario de Deportes over Alianza Lima in the second leg of the final Play-off, giving Universitario its twenty-fifth Peruvian title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Competitions modus\nThe season was divided into 3 stages. In the first stage the 16 teams played a round-robin home-and-away round for a total of 30 matches each. In the second stage the 16 teams were divided into 2 groups. The 8 teams that ranked an odd number played in the group Liguilla A and the 8 teams that ranked an even number played in Liguilla B. Each team carried on their records from the first stage. Each group played another round-robin home-and-away round for 14 matches played by each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Competitions modus\nThe teams ranked first in each group at the end of the 14 matches advanced to the third stage. The two teams with the worst fewest points at the end of the second stage were relegated. In the third stage the championship was contested in a two-legged Play-off. The Play-off finalists qualified for the Copa Libertadores. The remaining international competition berths were determined by the season aggregate table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Changes from 2008, Promotion and relegation\nAtl\u00e9tico Minero and Sport Boys finished the 2008 season in 13th and 14th place, respectively, in the aggregate table and thus were relegated to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. They were replaced by the champion and runner-up teams of the 2008 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Total Clean and Inti Gas and champion and runner-up teams of the 2008 Copa Per\u00fa, Sport Huancayo and CNI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Teams\nA total of 16 teams competed in this season. The only teams to have ownership over their home ground is Alianza Lima and Universitario. The other 14 clubs rent their home grounds from the Instituto Peruano del Deporte or their local municipality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Second stage\nThe Second Stage began September 13. The winner of each Liguilla qualified for the 2010 Copa Libertadores group stage and advanced to the third stage of the Torneo Descentralizado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Third stage\nThe Third Stage was the finals (also known as the Play-off) of the 2009 season between the winners of each group of the Second Stage. They were played on December 8 and 13. The group winner with the most points on the aggregate table chose the home ground order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205309-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Descentralizado, Aggregate table\nThe aggregate table determined the third Peruvian berth for the 2010 Copa Libertadores, the three berths for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, and the relegation to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The aggregate table consists of the points earned in the First and Second stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205310-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte\nThe 2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 10th edition of the tournament and was part of the 2009 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Biella, Italy between 7 and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205310-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205310-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte, Doubles main draw entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205311-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte \u2013 Singles\nMara Santangelo was the defending champion, however she chose not to compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205311-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo Internazionale Regione Piemonte \u2013 Singles\nPetra Marti\u0107 won her maiden $100,000 title, defeating Sharon Fichman in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205312-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo di Viareggio\nThe 2009 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205312-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Torneo di Viareggio, Format\nThe 40 teams are seeded in 10 pools, split up into 5-pool groups. Each team from a pool meets the others in a single tie. The winning club from each pool and three best runners-up from both group A and group B progress to the final knockout stage. All matches in the final rounds are single tie. The Round of 16 envisions penalties and no extra time, while the rest of the final round matches include 30 minutes extra time and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 2009 Toronto Argonauts season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 137th overall. The Argonauts attempted to win their 16th Grey Cup championship, but they failed to make the playoffs for the second straight year, finishing the season with a 3\u201315 record for the first time since 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season\nTraining camp opened on June 7 and Toronto's first pre-season game was on June 17, 2009, at the Rogers Centre, hosting the Montreal Alouettes. The regular season kicked off on July 1 at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' Ivor Wynne Stadium, where the Argos defeated the Ti-Cats 30\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Off-season\nOn January 16, 2009, the Argonauts announced that Bart Andrus had been hired as the new head coach. He became the 40th head coach in the team's 136-year history and marked his first experience in Canadian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. The Argonauts had the second overall pick and selected Laval tackle \u00c9tienne L\u00e9gar\u00e9, immediately signing him to a three-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Off-season, Notable transactions\nThe Toronto Argonauts were active on the opening day of free agency on February 16 signing tackle Rob Murphy, the most sought after offensive lineman available in the free-agent pool, centre Dominic Picard, and re-signing linebacker Willie Pile, who posted a team-high 75 tackles in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicates Import player updated 2010-01-3145 Active, 7 Inactive, 6 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 1: at Hamilton Tiger-Cats\nThe Argonauts began the season on Canada Day at the Ti-Cats' home stadium and it didn't take long for the traditional rivalry to heat up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 1: at Hamilton Tiger-Cats\nArgonauts Jamal Robertson and Adriano Belli both received players of the week honours for their play in the game. Running back Jamal Robertson's career-high single-game 200 combined yards (134 rushing yards, 53 receiving yards, 13 kickoff return yards) and 1 touchdown earned him the CFL Offensive Player of the Week award while Belli was awarded the Canadian Player of the Week for giving Hamilton quarterback Quinton Porter trouble with two sacks and three tackles in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 2: vs Saskatchewan Roughriders\nToronto lost their home opener July 11 versus Saskatchewan by a score of 46\u201336. The Argonauts committed 12 penalties for 124\u00a0yards, 109\u00a0yards of which were in the first half. The Argonauts opened the game strongly by scoring a touchdown on their opening drive and scoring a field goal after blocking a Luca Congi field goal try to take an early 10\u20130 lead. Toronto penalties assisted a Saskatchewan drive for a touchdown to make it 10\u20137. Then, Toronto kicker Justin Medlock made another field goal to end the first quarter with a 13\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 622]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 2: vs Saskatchewan Roughriders\nIn the second quarter, Toronto allowed Saskatchewan to score thirty unanswered points. Toronto came back in the second half scoring three touchdowns and a field goal and holding Saskatchewan to three field goals but ended up losing by 10. After the game, an angry coach Andrus said that players needed to control the penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 2: vs Saskatchewan Roughriders\nAdriano Belli in particular, who took 4 penalties for 44\u00a0yards in the first half including a head butt that continued the Roughriders first drive for a touchdown, took some criticism: \"If he wants to be a WWE wrestler, then he can go do that, but he is not going to do on my football team\", said Andrus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 82], "content_span": [83, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 3: at Calgary Stampeders\nToronto lost their second game in a row and again a series of errors in a short period of time helped the opponents to score but this time it was the offence and turnovers that gave the Stampeders a big win. The Argonauts gave up the ball five times in all but the game broke open with two turnovers within 75\u00a0seconds in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 3: at Calgary Stampeders\nOn the final play of the third quarter, Stampeders linebacker Dwaine Carpenter stripped the ball from quarterback Kerry Joseph and returned it 55\u00a0yards for a touchdown and on the next Argos drive, Calgary defensive back Dwight Anderson intercepted a Joseph pass and ran it back 52\u00a0yards for another touchdown to make the score 34 to 9. Yet another interception later in the fourth quarter by cornerback Brandon Browner gave the Stampeders three defensive touchdowns and a commanding 44 to 9 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 5: vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers\nThis game marked an anniversary of losing at the Rogers Centre, as it officially marked one year without a home victory for the Argonauts. Kerry Joseph had one touchdown throw (to Chad Lucas) but was intercepted four times while the Argos coughed up two additional fumbles (one by Joseph on a sack).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 6: at Montreal Alouettes\nThe Argos suffered a 25\u20130 blanking at the hands of the Montreal Alouettes. It was the first time the Argos had been shut out in seventeen years, and the first time a CFL team was shut out in seventeen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 7: vs BC Lions\nAfter a humiliating shutout loss the past week, Cody Pickett was given the job of starting quarterback. The game started off with Zeke Moreno intercepting a pass from BC Lions quarterback Buck Pierce. Toronto was leading 9\u20130, but after Buck Pierce was taken out of the game as a result of concussion-like symptoms, BC's second-string quarterback Jarious Jackson came in and led the Lions to their first touchdown of the game. The Argos responded by delivering a touchdown pass to Reggie McNeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 7: vs BC Lions\nAlthough the Argos had a lot of trouble finding the endzone throughout the game, kicker Justin Medlock helped them keep the lead by kicking field goals. Medlock would score seven field goals, tying Lance Chomyc's Argonauts team record and just short of the league record of eight shared by Dave Ridgway, Mark McLoughlin, and Paul Osbaldiston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 7: vs BC Lions\nHeading into the third quarter, BC head coach Wally Buono decided to switch to his third stringer Travis Lulay since Jackson wasn't getting them anywhere. However, Lulay got injured leaving Jarious Jackson as the Lions only quarterback left standing. When Jackson came back in, he instantly threw a touchdown pass to Paris Jackson to cut Toronto's lead 22\u201314. In response, Justin Medlock kicked another field goal to increase the Argos lead 25\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 7: vs BC Lions\nBC scored two more touchdowns but failed on both of the two point converts they attempted. With Toronto leading 28\u201326 with just nine seconds remaining on the game clock, BC's rookie kicker Sean Whyte kicked the game-winning field goal to give BC the lead at 29\u201328. On the final play of the game, Ryan Phillips intercepted Reggie McNeal's attempted lateral and returned it for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Week 7: vs BC Lions\nIt was the Argo's ninth straight loss both at Rogers Centre and against the Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205313-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Argonauts season, Postseason\nAfter finishing last in the East division, the Argonauts failed to qualify for the 2009 CFL playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season\nThe 2009 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's 33rd in Major League Baseball, and the 20th full season of play at the Rogers Centre. The team was managed by Cito Gaston, who was hired by the team midway through the 2008 season. General Manager J. P. Ricciardi was fired on the penultimate day of the season, as the team again failed to make the playoffs. He was replaced by Assistant General Manager Alex Anthopoulos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season\nThe team started the season well, and was in first place in the American League East with a 27\u201314 record. The team was swept by the Red Sox at Fenway Park from May 19 to 21, the first of nine straight losses that ultimately led to a disappointing season with a record of 75\u201387, 28 games behind the division lead, and 20 games behind the wild card spot. It was the first time that Toronto had finished with a losing record since 2005, when they finished 80\u201382.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Front office reorganization\nTed Rogers, the founder of Rogers Communications and the Blue Jays' owner, died at the age of 75 on December 2, 2008, at his home in Toronto. Rogers purchased the Blue Jays in 2000, hoping to lead the franchise to its first playoff berth since the club last won the World Series in 1993. The team continues to be owned and operated by Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership, a division of Rogers Communications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Front office reorganization\nPrior to Rogers' death, the team named Paul Beeston as interim president of baseball operations and chief operating officer replacing retiring president Paul Godfrey. The first employee in Toronto Blue Jays history, Beeston served in the same capacity with the organization from 1989 to 1997. Soon after being introduced on October 14, 2008, Beeston began a significant reorganization of the baseball operations of the club. In the wake of the global financial crisis and the loss of advertising revenue, the team let go of several employees from its media division on December 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Front office reorganization\nOn January 21, 2009, assistant general manager Bart Given was also dismissed to keep \"costs down\" for the upcoming season according to the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Front office reorganization\nAdditions were made to the scouting department, including the hiring of pro scouts Roy Smith, Steve Springer and four others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions\nThe most significant change from the 2008 team was the departure of pitcher A. J. Burnett, who filed for free agency and signed a contract with the New York Yankees. Shaun Marcum (elbow), Casey Janssen (shoulder) and Dustin McGowan (labrum) started the season on the disabled list. Janssen has since returned, Getting a loss in his season debut vs the Braves, which the Jays lost 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Retentions\nFor the twelfth consecutive season the organization avoided going to an arbitration hearing, re-signing the five arbitration eligible players on the team. The team and relievers Brandon League (one year/$640K), Jeremy Accardo (one year/$900K), Jason Frasor (one year/$1.45M), Brian Tallet (one year/$1.025M) and Shawn Camp (one year/$750K) along with infielder Jos\u00e9 Bautista (one year/$2.4M) all came to terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Retentions\nThe team also picked up the club option held on catcher Rod Barajas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Departures\nOn November 5, 2008, pitcher A. J. Burnett opted out of the remaining two years of his five-year contract, ending months of speculation that the starter was planning to leave Toronto. Burnett, who in 2008 led the team in strikeouts and won 18 games, went on to sign with the division rival New York Yankees on December 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Departures\nNone of the five major league free agents from the Blue Jays' 2008 roster were tendered contracts. Catcher Gregg Zaun ended his five-year tenure in Toronto and signed a one-year deal with the rival Baltimore Orioles. Outfielder Brad Wilkerson (Boston), relief pitcher John Parrish (Orioles), and infielder H\u00e9ctor Luna (Los Angeles (NL)) all signed minor league contracts elsewhere, while outfielder Kevin Mench signed a one-year deal with the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Nippon League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Departures\nMinor league pitching prospect Jean Machi, who had been on the forty-man roster, was also released by the club in November. Another major departure, third baseman Scott Rolen, was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for personal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nThe Blue Jays, faced with financial hardships, the fall of the Canadian dollar against the American dollar and a smaller budget, did not opt to make any major impact moves. Towards the end of spring training, they did however sign Kevin Millar to a one-year deal. Millar is known as a solid player to have in the clubhouse and would find time playing the DH and utility infield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nHowever, with the trade of Scott Rolen to the Cincinnati Reds, the Blue Jays welcomed infielder Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n, relief pitcher Josh Roenicke and a minor league pitching prospect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nTwo starters recovering from major shoulder surgery would have an opportunity to claim rotation slots with the club coming out of spring training. Former All-Star starter Matt Clement, who spent an injury riddled 2008 season with St. Louis was signed on December 12. Left-handed starter Mike Maroth, who last pitched in the majors in 2007 with St. Louis, was inked to a minor league deal on December 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nTwo former first overall draft picks were also acquired by the club. 2002 top selection Bryan Bullington was claimed off waivers from Cleveland in October. The Jays also traded for 2004 number one choice Matt Bush in February. Bush had previously been in the Padres organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nThe team imported fourteen-year Nippon League veteran Ken Takahashi from Japan. Toronto claimed southpaw Brian Burres (Baltimore), and reliever T. J. Beam (Pittsburgh) off waivers. The club also re-signed Dirk Hayhurst in February, days after releasing the former waiver claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nFormer silver slugging catcher Michael Barrett and infielder Kevin Millar were among the prominent additions to the team offensively. Barrett, who missed much of his 2008 season with the Padres due to a facial fracture, is a top candidate to be the Blue Jays backup catcher. Millar, who spent the previous three seasons with Baltimore and hit twenty home runs in 2008, will have an opportunity for a bench or platoon role with the Jays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Arrivals\nIn January, the team signed outfielder Jason Lane (Boston) and infielder Brandon Fahey (Baltimore) to minor league deals. In December, the team inked catcher Ra\u00fal Ch\u00e1vez (Pittsburgh) and designated hitter Randy Ruiz (Minnesota). In October the club announced it signed former Orioles pitcher Adam Loewen and will attempt to convert him to a first baseman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Injuries\nStarter Shaun Marcum was lost for the 2009 season when he underwent Tommy John surgery in the fall of 2008. The right-hander went under the knife to repair ligaments in his pitching elbow, and is tentatively expected to be back for the Jays' 2010 spring training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Injuries\nPitcher Casey Janssen who missed all of 2008 due to shoulder problems was expected to compete for a rotation spot, but was put on the 15-day disabled list just before the season began. Starter Dustin McGowan who is recovering from right labrum surgery is expected to rejoin the club sometime in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Injuries\nOn April 23, the Blue Jays placed starting pitcher Ricky Romero and closer B. J. Ryan on the 15-day disabled list. Romero was suffering from a right oblique strain, while Ryan was sent to see a specialist for a tight left trapezius muscle. Ryan has since returned, but not as the closer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player transactions, Injuries\nOn June 9, it was announced that Jesse Litsch will undergo season-ending ligament replacement (\"Tommy John\") surgery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts\nThe Jays' flagship station for radio is The FAN 590, which has all 162 regular season games. Jerry Howarth and Alan Ashby will call all 162, with Mike Wilner being the third personality. Mike will also host the pregame and postgame show for each game, as long as there is time for it before/after. The Blue Jays' flagship TV station is Rogers Sportsnet, which is airing over 100 games in 2009 for the Jays. The two other stations are both in the TSN network, TSN and TSN2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts\nTSN has coverage starting after they are done with NHL on TSN (during the Stanley Cup Finals, coverage usually starts). From May 19\u201321, the two Jays stations were occupied with hockey and TSN2 airs the Jays in TSN's place. With Sportsnet taking care of the annual Memorial Cup, and TSN covering the NHL conference finals, TSN2 was open, and took in at the time, the biggest series of the Jays' young season. Rod Black and Pat Tabler did not cover this series though, TSN2 broadcast NESN coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Broadcasts\nTSN2 had the September 13 game versus the Tigers and will air the Jays home closer versus the Mariners on September 27. Untelevised games can be seen on JaysVision on Rogers Cable (digital only). Otherwise, the viewer must subscribe to MLB Extra Innings, which gets the feed from the opposing team's station. MLB Extra Innings is available on satellite and digital cable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Jays began the year with a schedule that had them playing teams from the Central and the West divisions for 24 games in April. Adam Lind slugged out an opening day record 6 RBI, and the Jays pummeled the Tigers, giving Roy Halladay the win. They went on to win the first 6 series of the season, and finished April with a 15-9 record, tied with the Red Sox for first in the AL East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe first game against the New York Yankees occurred on May 12, in a marquee matchup of Roy Halladay versus former teammate A. J. Burnett. Not only did the Jays win 8-2, but Halladay recorded his first complete game of the season, while giving Burnett his first loss on the year. The Jays drew a crowd of 43,737 fans. This was the first non-home opener Rogers Centre sell out since July 22 of the previous year against the Yankees, drawing a crowd of 50,014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Season summary\nHowever, the remaining two games of the 2009series were won by the Yankees, making this the first series lost by the Jays at home that season. They followed this with a series sweep of the Chicago White Sox, at which time the Jays had the best record (27-14) in the American League, but this was followed by a disastrous road trip to Boston, Atlanta and Baltimore during which the Jays lost 9 straight games, tying their longest away-game losing streak since a nine-game run in May 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0025-0002", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Season summary\nThis left the Jays at 27-23, behind Boston and the Yankees by 1.5 games. The Blue Jays then bounced back, taking two out of three from Boston, and had some more considerable successes, most notably a three-game road sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies. However, they never again held a playoff position, and gradually faded out of the picture: they were out of contention by the All-Star break, and were never able to mount any sort of charge reminiscent of 2008's 10-game winning streak to get back in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Season summary\nRoy Halladay and Aaron Hill were named to the American League All-Star team. Halladay was the starting pitcher, and Hill started the game at second base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Firing of J. P. Ricciardi\nOn October 3, the J. P. Ricciardi era ended in Toronto. When he took over in 2002, he guaranteed a playoff berth; the Jays never even came close to a playoff berth, never finishing better than 10 games behind the top of the division during Ricciardi's reign. After a promising start to 2009, the Jays faltered, and Ricciardi publicized the topic of a Roy Halladay trade, which many Jays fans disapproved. Allegedly, Ricciardi told Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports a day before the firing, in which some Blue Jays players spoke critically about Cito Gaston. A day later, Paul Beeston reportedly found out about Ricciardi leaking the information to the media, and promptly fired him. Assistant GM Alex Anthopoulos took over immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, 2009 draft picks\nThe 2009 MLB Draft was held on June 9\u201311. The Blue Jays had a first round pick, along with one compensation pick. The Blue Jays also had two picks in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases. Excludes batting by pitchers (interleague games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205314-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts Updated through July 21, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season\nThe 2009 Toronto FC season was the third season in Toronto FC's existence. The club narrowly missed their first appearance for the MLS playoffs, losing the last game of the season when a win would have meant qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Squad, Transfers, In\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Squad, Transfers, Out\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Competitions, Regular season, Standings\n(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Competitions, Regular season, Results summary\nLast updated: October 24, 2009Source: 2009 Major League Soccer seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 69], "content_span": [70, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205315-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto FC season, Squad statistics\nCompetitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances as a substitute. Updated to games played October 24, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival\nThe 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 2009. The opening night gala presented the Charles Darwin biography Creation. The Young Victoria, based on the early years of Queen Victoria, closed the festival on September 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival\nTIFF is a non-profit organization whose goal is to change the way people look at the world through film. The festival is Canada's largest film festival, receiving 4,209 submissions in 2008. Of this total, 312 films were screened coming from 64 different countries. TIFF creates an annual economic impact of $135 million CAD. Aided by over 2,000 volunteers, 100 full-time staff members and 500 seasonal or part-time staff are responsible for organizing the festival. Two screenings of each of the invited films are presented to the public and at least one screening is provided for press and industry. The 2009 festival contained 19 different Programmes, or categories of films. After the ten days of film, the Awards reception was held at Intercontinental Hotel on Front Street in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 855]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival\nPerhaps the most prestigious of the awards was bestowed to Lee Daniels's Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire. This award was the 2009 Cadillac People's Choice Award and is based solely on votes by Festival audiences. This award carries a $15,000 cash prize and also comes with a custom made award from Cadillac. It is widely considered to be the most prestigious because it has had the greatest impact on audiences and inspires film distributors to sign the winning film for larger international releases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival\nLast year's winner Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, went on to reap huge international spotlight which culminated at the 2009 Academy Awards where it won Best Picture. Lee Daniel's Precious was also a big Oscar contender as it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, however it lost to The Hurt Locker and its helmer Katheryn Bigelow. The First runner-up was Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer and the second runner-up was Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival\nThe City of Toronto and Astral Media's The Movie Network Award for Best Canadian Feature Film went to Cairo Time directed by Ruba Nadda. Sponsored by Astral Media's the Movie Network and the City of Toronto, this award came with a cash prize of $30,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival\nFuture endeavors by the TIFF will be aided by the ongoing construction of TIFF Bell Lightbox, a 1,750,000-square-foot (163,000\u00a0m2) facility with an estimated annual economic impact of over $200 million. Complete with 5 cinemas, learning studios, galleries and a rooftop lounge, this will become the hub of TIFF in 2010 when construction is scheduled to be completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nMore than 1,500 people, including prominent filmmakers, academics, and writers signed a letter of protest directed at the Toronto International Film Festival regarding its decision to spotlight Tel Aviv and the work of 10 Israeli filmmakers. The protest leaders emphasized that it is not a call for a boycott. The original protest letter in part reads:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nThe signatories and supporters include Ken Loach, David Byrne, Naomi Klein, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, Wallace Shawn, Danny Glover, John Greyson, Viggo Mortensen and the American Jewish group Jewish Voice for Peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nJohn Greyson's letter of protest highlighted an interview \"Israeli Consul General Amir Gissin gave to Canadian Jewish News in which he described the TIFF spotlight as a culmination of his year-long Brand Israel campaign, which included ads on buses, radio and television.\" Greyson claims that \"This isn't the right year to celebrate Brand Israel, or to demonstrate an ostrich-like indifference to the realities (cinematic and otherwise) of the region, or to pointedly ignore the international economic boycott campaign against Israel.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nThe protest letter was met with condemnation by some, such as Simcha Jacobovici, \"a Toronto filmmaker who recently moved with his family to Israel, noted in a statement that the Palestinian government in Gaza had recently called a U.N. proposal to teach the Holocaust in Palestinian schools a war crime.\" Jacobovici asked \"Why does [protest supporter John Greyson] want to align himself with Holocaust deniers?\" Others accused those who signed the protest letter as engaging in a boycott of Israel films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nRabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has stated that \"it is clear that the script [the protesters] are reading from might as well have been written by Hamas.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nPatrick Goldstein, writing in the Los Angeles Times, wrote against the protest and made an analogy to actions by musician Paul Simon:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nIn response to the protest, a number of Hollywood stars circulated a counter-protest letter on September 15, 2009. This letter,  which appeared simultaneously in the Los Angeles Times and the Toronto Star, included signatories Jerry Seinfeld, Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalie Portman, Jason Alexander, Lisa Kudrow, Lenny Kravitz, Patricia Heaton, Jacob Richler, Noah Richler, George F. Walker and Moses Znaimer. The letter said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nAnyone who has actually seen recent Israeli cinema, movies that are political and personal, comic and tragic, often critical, knows they are in no way a propaganda arm for any government policy. Blacklisting them only stifles the exchange of cultural knowledge that artists should be the first to defend and protect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nJane Fonda, in a posting on Huffington Post, says that she now regrets some of the language used in the original protest letter and how it \"was perhaps too easily misunderstood. It certainly has been wildly distorted. Contrary to the lies that have been circulated, the protest letter was not demonizing Israeli films and filmmakers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205316-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto International Film Festival, About the 2009 Festival, Controversy over Tel Aviv spotlight\nShe continued writing \"the greatest 're-branding' of Israel would be to celebrate that country's long standing, courageous and robust peace movement by helping to end the blockade of Gaza through negotiations with all parties to the conflict, and by stopping the expansion of West Bank settlements. That's the way to show Israel's commitment to peace, not a PR campaign. There will be no two-state solution unless this happens.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 102], "content_span": [103, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205317-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Nationals season\nThe 2009 Toronto Nationals season was the first for the franchise. Their first game in the MLL was on May 15, 2009 against Washington Bayhawks, which they won 17\u201316. They also won their first home game over the Chicago Machine 15\u201311. The Nationals qualified for the playoffs as the second seed with a 7\u20135 record and the best offense in MLL with 184 goals for. The Nationals played their first playoff game against the Long Island Lizards at Navy\u2013Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205317-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Toronto Nationals season\nToronto won their semi-final matchup 14\u201313 thanks to a strong game by Merrick Thomson scoring 4 goals. Toronto went on to face the Denver Outlaws in the Steinfeld Cup Final. The Nationals were tied with the Outlaws 9\u20139 with over a minute to go in the game. Nationals head coach Dave Huntley called a time-out to draw out a strategy. With 45 seconds left to go, Joe Walters passed to Shawn Williams and Williams scored the winning goal to give the Toronto Nationals their first championship victory 10\u20139 over the Denver Outlaws. Merrick Thomson was named Playoff MVP and Brodie Merrill won the Major League Lacrosse Defensive player of the Year Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 680]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205317-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Nationals season, Standings\nW = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Back of first place, GF = Goals For, 2ptGF = 2 point Goals For, GA = Goals Against, 2ptGA = 2 point Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205317-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Nationals season, Standings\nLong Island finished ahead of Boston based on a head to head record of 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season\nThe Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2009 season was the 13th in franchise history, and 12th as the Rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season\nOn November 6, 2008, the Rock announced that veteran Chris Driscoll would be the new team captain, replacing the retired Jim Veltman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season\nOnly three games into the season, the Rock fired head coach Glenn Clark and assistant coach Terry Bullen and hired former Chicago Shamrox and Colorado Mammoth coach Jamie Batley as the new head coach. Assistant coach Jim Veltman was relieved of his coaching duties, but remained with the Rock as an advisor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season\nAfter winning their first game of the season, the Rock won only once in their next eight games before a three-game winning streak gave fans some hope that the season was not lost. However, three straight losses forced the Rock out of the playoffs for the second straight year. Rock President Brad Watters said that the team \"drastically under-delivered\", and vowed to make whatever changes were necessary to fix the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Conference standings\nx:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth; c:\u00a0Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y:\u00a0Clinched division; z:\u00a0Clinched best regular season record; GP:\u00a0Games PlayedW:\u00a0Wins; L:\u00a0Losses; GB:\u00a0Games back; PCT:\u00a0Win percentage; Home:\u00a0Record at Home; Road:\u00a0Record on the Road; GF:\u00a0Goals scored; GA:\u00a0Goals allowedDifferential:\u00a0Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP:\u00a0Average number of goals allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205318-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Toronto Rock season, Transactions, Entry draft\nThe 2008 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 7, 2008. The Rock selected the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary\nThe Totnes Conservative Party parliamentary primary of 2009 was the 1st open primary election used to select the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Totnes. The election was held on Tuesday 4 August 2009 under the first-past-the-post system. The primary was triggered by Anthony Steen's announcement that he would not stand at the next election. This came just days after details of Steen's expenses claims were published in The Daily Telegraph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Background\nOn 17 May 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Anthony Steen, MP for Totnes, had claimed over \u00a387,000 on a country house with 500 trees On 20 May he announced that he would retire from Westminster at the next election - the day after this announcement, he told BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime program The World at One that the Labour Government's Freedom of Information Act was to blame for making his expenses public. He also accused his constituents of being \"jealous\". Later that day, Steen issued an apology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Background\nOn 8 June the Totnes Conservative Association advertised the position of Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Totnes - the deadline for applications was ten days following this. On 10 July it was announced that the Association would organise a constituency-wide postal ballot in which registered voters, regardless of their political affiliation, could select the Conservative PPC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Candidates\nOn 14 July the Totnes Conservative Association announced a shortlist of three candidates whose names would appear on the ballot. The candidates were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Campaign\nThe three candidates campaigned throughout the constituency - each registered voter received a personal leaflet from each candidate as well as the ballot paper. Sarah Wollaston capitalised on the fact that she was the only candidate to not have had a political career and, at the public hustings, avoided taking a partisan approach, which proved favourable among voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Results\nAlmost one quarter of 68,000 eligible voted in the primary. Some Totnes Conservatives thought that Liberal Democrats had encouraged members to vote for Bye; if true the party raiding did not work, as he came in last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Results\nWollaston later said \"I have no doubt that I was selected because I had no track record in politics but instead had experience in the NHS, education and as a police surgeon treating victims of domestic and sexual violence\", but one Conservative member told The Guardian of his fear that without a political background, she was the candidate Liberal Democrats could most easily defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205319-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Totnes Conservative primary, Cost\nThere was concern regarding the cost of the vote after it was revealed that the primary had cost Conservative Campaign Headquarters over \u00a340,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 38], "content_span": [39, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205320-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulon Tournament\nThe 2009 Toulon Tournament was the 37th edition of the Toulon Tournament, and was held from 3 June to 12 June 2009. The tournament concluded with the final between France and Chile at Stade Mayol in Toulon as Chile won their first title after the final score of 1\u20130, scored by Gerson Mart\u00ednez on 73rd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205321-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulon Tournament squads, Group A, United Arab Emirates\nHead coach: Mahdi Ali Hassan RedhaGK Mohammed Saif Youssuf Al Ahli United Arab EmiratesFW Ali Ahmed Al Hajeri Al Jazira United Arab EmiratesDF Saad Surour Baniyas Al Ahli United Arab EmiratesDF Fahad Sebil Ibrahim Obaid Al Nasr United Arab EmiratesMF Adnan Ali Shanbih Al Nasr United Arab EmiratesMF Habib Al Fardan Al Wasl F.C. United Arab EmiratesDF Mohamed Fawzi Abdalla Al Ahli United Arab EmiratesMF Ahmed Ali Khamis Al Arbi Al Wahda Unitd Arab EmiratesFW Theyeb Awana Baniyas Sports United Arab EmiratesFW Salem Saleh Al Rejaibi United Arab EmiratesDF", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205321-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Toulon Tournament squads, Group A, United Arab Emirates\nAbdelaziz Mohammed Sanqour Al Ahli United Arab EmiratesFW Mohammed Al Alawi Fayez Al Ain United Arab EmiratesDF Abdulaziz Hussain Al Balooshi Al Shabab United Arab EmiratesGK Yousif Abdelrahman Albairaq Ittihad Kalba United Arab EmiratesFW Ahmed Al Junaibi Khalil Shabbab Al Ahli Club United Arab EmiratesMF Maher Ghuloom Jassim Al Wasl F.C. United Arab EmiratesMF Sultan Saleh Bargash Al Menhali Al Jazira United Arab EmiratesDF Hamdan Ismaeel Al Kamali Al Wahda United Arab EmiratesMF Omar Al-Amoodi Abdulrahman Al Ain United Arab EmiratesDF Mohammed Ahmed Juma Gharib Al Shabab United Arab Emirates", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205322-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulouse Olympique season\n2009 was the first year of participation to the Championship for the Toulouse Olympique rugby league club. Toulouse was allowed special dispensation to field five overseas players in their first season. The new Toulouse team was composed of 9 full-time players, 13 part-time players and 10 members of the Toulouse academy. With a largely renewed team and a lack of preseason (only friendly with the Dragons cancelled due to the weather), the TO started its season with a series of defeat. Its first match in the Championship proved to be too much of a challenge with a hammering 70-0 at Widnes in front of Sky cameras. However, after the victory away against Batley, the TO accumulated victories and looked on track for a top 4 spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 764]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205322-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulouse Olympique season\nThe match against Featherstone at home in June however marked another turning point in the season. With the injury of the play maker Nathan Wynn and several referee decisions going against the team, the TO lost the match. Without Wynn, at the crucial time where the team was to be opposed to the favourite of the Championship, the TO lost 4 games in a row. With Wynn coming back a win away at Featherstone was a short lived success. An unexpected defeat at home against Gateshead in battle for relegation removed almost any chance left of making the playoffs. Without much stakes left in the Championship (given the absence of relegation for the TO in its first 3 seasons in Championship), Toulouse lost also two of its last 3 matches at Leigh and Halifax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 787]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205322-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulouse Olympique season\nThe final ranking of Toulouse, 10 out of 11, does not represent fairly the quality of a team who won 9 out of 20 matches in a very competitive division where the final champion, Barrow, won only 13 of its matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205322-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Toulouse Olympique season, League table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205323-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour Down Under\nThe 2009 Tour Down Under was the 11th edition of the Tour Down Under cycling stage race, taking place over 20\u201325 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia. The Tour Down Under was the first race outside Europe to be given ProTour status by the UCI, and this edition was the first race in the inaugural UCI World Ranking calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205323-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour Down Under\nThe race was preceded by an opening race called Down Under Classic, not part of the UCI ProTour competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205323-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour Down Under, Teams\nThe Australian national team called Team UniSA-Australia was the only non-UCI ProTour team invited to the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France\nThe 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3\u00a0mi) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco. The race visited six countries:  Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy, and finished on 26 July on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France\nThe total length was 3,445 kilometres (2,141\u00a0mi), including 93 kilometres (58\u00a0mi) in time-trials. There were seven mountain stages, three of which had mountaintop finishes, and one medium-mountain stage. The race had a team time trial for the first time since 2005, the shortest distance in individual time trials since 1967, and the first penultimate-day mountain stage in the Tour's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France\n2007 winner Alberto Contador won the race by a margin of 4\u203211\u2033, having won both a mountain and time trial stage. His Astana team also took the team classification. and supplied the initial third-place finisher, Lance Armstrong. Armstrong's achievement was later voided by the UCI in October 2012 following his non-dispute of a doping accusation by USADA, and fourth place Bradley Wiggins was promoted to the podium. Andy Schleck, second overall, won the young riders' competition as he had the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France\nFranco Pellizotti originally won the polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains, but had that result (along with all his 2009 results) stripped by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2011 due to his irregular values in the UCI's biological passport program detected in May 2010. and the King of the Mountains title was retroactively awarded to Egoi Mart\u00ednez. Mark Cavendish won six stages, including the final stage on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, but was beaten in the points classification by Thor Hushovd, who consequently won the green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Teams\n20 teams were invited to take part in the race. They include 17 of the 18 UCI ProTour teams (all except for Fuji\u2013Servetto) and three other teams: Skil\u2013Shimano, Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam and Agritubel. Each team started with 9 riders, making a total of 180 participants, of whom 156 finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nFavourites for the race included 2008 winner Carlos Sastre, 2007 winner Alberto Contador, 2009 Giro d'Italia winner Denis Menchov and two time runner-up Cadel Evans. Lance Armstrong came out of retirement and competed in the race on the same team as Contador. Menchov and Evans performed far below the levels expected of them, finishing 51st and 30th respectively, and Sastre only showed briefly among the leaders on the mountain stages that would have provided his best chance of making a bid for victory, coming 17th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nAlejandro Valverde, the team leader of Caisse d'Epargne, was not selected by his team for the Tour de France, because the race travelled through Italy on stage 16 and he had received a ban in May 2009 from the Italian Olympic Committee, prohibiting him from competing in Italy. He had finished in the top ten of the general classification of the Tour in the two previous years and was considered one of the favourites for overall victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nNews about a positive retest of a 2007 out-of-competition control concerning Thomas Dekker broke three days before the start; his team Silence\u2013Lotto immediately withdrew him from the starting list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe highest point of elevation in the race was 2,470\u00a0m (8,100\u00a0ft) at the summit of the Col du Grand Saint-Bernard mountain pass on stage 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe race started in Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3\u00a0mi) individual time trial, won by Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara, who retained the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification throughout the first week, which was dominated by stages suited primarily to sprinters, with Mark Cavendish establishing himself as the strongest finisher. The significant action of the first week in relation to the overall classification was restricted to a split in the field on stage 3, and a team time trial the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe second weekend saw the Tour in the Pyrenees, and the first attack on the field by eventual winner Alberto Contador, while the leadership was taken over by Rinaldo Nocentini. Thor Hushovd showed an ability to take points in stages that did not include flat sprint finishes that would be key to the contest for the points classification, and the main contenders for the mountains classification emerged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe journey towards the Alps the following week had a second pair of successive stage wins for Cavendish and a series of wins from riders in breakaways that held no threat to the general classification. An infringement in the sprint finish to stage 14 saw Cavendish relegated in finishing position, and Hushovd gaining the upper hand in the points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe first alpine stage was the occasion of Contador's assumption of the race leadership, and the emergence of Andy Schleck as the only rider likely to challenge him in the mountains, and as the top young rider, giving Schleck the right to wear the white jersey. Franco Pellizotti focussed on collecting points on the climbs early in stages to overhaul Egoi Mart\u00ednez in the race for the mountains classification, without threatening the race leaders. By the end of the three stages in the Alps, and after Contador's victory in the final time trial, it was only the minor placings that were realistically under question in the last mountain stage, held for the first time on the penultimate day of the tour on Mont Ventoux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe UCI introduced a ban on radio communication between team management and riders on stage 10, but the riders responded with a conservative style of racing for most of the stage and the intended repetition of the experiment on stage 13 was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview\nMark Cavendish claimed his sixth Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es stage win on the final day of the Tour. At the victory ceremony, the national anthem of Denmark was mistakenly played instead of that of Spain. At the victory ceremony for teams, the anthem of Spain was yet played, because Contador was part of the winning team, Astana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nIn the 2009 Tour, Doping controls were conducted by the UCI, with the French body AFLD shadowing the process. Officials targeted top riders like Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador with an unprecedented number of tests. While the Armstrong-Contador conflict ruled the headlines, reporting on doping rather took a back seat during the race. The news that Giro runner-up Danilo Di Luca had a positive A probe in the Giro did not change that. Five days after the race finished the UCI announced that the initial Stage 16 winner Mikel Astarloza tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test on 26 June, eight days before the race started. Later, Astarloza was removed from the results, and the stage win transferred to Sandy Casar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nJust days before the 2010 Giro d'Italia, 2009 Giro podium finisher and King of the Mountains winner in this Tour Franco Pellizotti was announced by the UCI as a rider of interest in their biological passport program. He was sidelined by his team, and did not race again in 2010. The case was not fully resolved until March 2011, at which time the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered Pellizotti banned for two years, to pay a fine and court costs, and have all his 2009 results vacated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nIn October 2012, Lance Armstrong had all his results post 1998, including the 2009 Tour, voided by the UCI following the USADA investigation into systematic doping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nOn 10 July 2014, a UCI press release detailing various athlete sanctions specified that Menchov had been banned (for a period of two years) until 9 April 2015 due to adverse biological passport findings. Due to this, he has been disqualified from the 2009, 2010 and 2012 Tours de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were four main individual classifications contested in the 2009 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. There were no time bonuses given at the end of stages for this edition of the Tour. If a crash had happened within the final 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, the riders involved would have received the same time as the group they were in when the crash occurred. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the highest positions in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. The leader was identified by a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe third classification was the mountains classification. Most stages of the race included one or more categorised climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The climbs were categorised as fourth-, third-, second- or first-category and hors cat\u00e9gorie, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. The leader wore a white jersey with red polka dots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe final individual classification was the young rider classification. This was calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1984. The leader wore a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe final classification was a team classification. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best three riders per team on each stage; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie. The riders in the team that lead this classification were identified with yellow number bibs on the back of their jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIn addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass start stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have \"made the greatest effort and who has demonstrated the best qualities of sportsmanship\". The winner wore a red number bib the following stage. At the conclusion of the Tour, Franco Pellizotti was given the overall super-combativity award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were also two special awards each with a prize of \u20ac5000, the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, given in honour of Tour founder and first race director Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard on stage 16, and the Souvenir Jacques Goddet, given in honour of the second director Jacques Goddet to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Tourmalet on stage 9. Franco Pellizotti won both the Henri Desgrange and the Jacques Goddet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205324-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, World rankings\nThe following points were earned in the Tour towards the 2009 UCI World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThese are the individual stages of the 2009 Tour de France, with Stage 1 on July 4 and Stage 11 on July 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1\nThe 2009 Tour began, as have many in the past, with an individual time trial, but instead of a very brief prologue, this 15 kilometer ride saw the race's overall favorites show themselves on day one. The favourite for the stage, Fabian Cancellara, won with Alberto Contador coming in second. Time-trial specialist Bradley Wiggins came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2\nThis stage was largely flat, but had one third category, and three fourth category, climbs in its first 129\u00a0km, and most of the last 15\u00a0km was downhill. A four man breakaway (St\u00e9phane Aug\u00e9, Stef Clement, Cyril Dessel and Jussi Veikkanen) held a maximum advantage of some 5 minutes, but they were caught with 10\u00a0km remaining, initially by Mikhail Ignatiev, and shortly after by the rest of the peloton. Ignatiev was caught with 5\u00a0km left, and some of the cyclists shaping to contest the sprint were disrupted by a crash and a missed turn in the last kilometre, allowing Mark Cavendish a clear win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\n6 July 2009 \u2014 Marseille to La Grande-Motte, 196\u00a0kmStage 3 was another flat stage, with a finish on the waterfront at La Grande-Motte. Like in stage 2, a four-man breakaway formed, this time consisting of Maxime Bouet, Koen de Kort, Samuel Dumoulin and Rub\u00e9n P\u00e9rez. They held a maximum advantage of about 13 minutes and were caught with a little less than 30 kilometres to go by a first group who had separated themselves from the rest of the peloton as a result of accelerating in the presence of strong winds near the coastline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\nThe group contained 28 riders, including leader Fabian Cancellara, 7-time winner Lance Armstrong and the whole Team Columbia-HTC. After a sprint, Mark Cavendish finished first. Several of the favorites and riders classified in the top 10, such as Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Carlos Sastre, the Schleck brothers, Levi Leipheimer and Bradley Wiggins, were not present in this group and were 41 seconds behind at the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nThis was the first team time trial in the Tour since 2005. Riders finishing with the first five members of their team all received the same time: riders who became isolated from their team recorded an individual time. The time trial was won by Astana, beating Garmin\u2013Slipstream, who rode about half the race with only 5 riders left, by 18 seconds. Fabian Cancellara and Team Saxo Bank took 40 seconds longer than Astana, Cancellara thus having the same overall time as Lance Armstrong but retaining the yellow jersey by virtue of the fractions of a second recorded in the opening time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nAfter the race, some riders complained that the course was too dangerous and that this course was unworthy of a major race like this. During the race several riders had indeed crashed, amongst them Denis Menchov, Alessandro Ballan, Bingen Fern\u00e1ndez, Jurgen Van den Broeck, 4 riders of Bbox Bouygues Telecom and also Piet Rooijakkers. Rooijakkers fractured his arm and was rushed off to a hospital, ending his tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5\n8 July 2009 \u2014 Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan, 197\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5\nThe Tour visited Cap d'Agde for only the second time ever, as the early Tour flat stages continued. Perpignan, on the other hand, is a traditional city for the Tour to visit, thought to symbolically indicate the Tour's entrance to (or exit from, in \"counter-clockwise\" years) the Pyrenees. A six rider breakaway, consisting of Anthony Geslin, Yauheni Hutarovich, Mikhail Ignatiev, Marcin Sapa, Albert Timmer and Thomas Voeckler, formed within the first kilometre, and achieved a maximum lead of more than nine and a half minutes. Attacks by Ignatiev in the last 10\u00a0km had reduced the escape group to four, until with 5\u00a0km Voeckler made what proved to be the decisive break. Ignatiev finished second just in front of Cavendish and the rest of the pack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5\nDuring the race, the peloton had split into several groups as a result of the wind, as had happened two days before. Among the absentees in the first group of the peloton were Denis Menchov and Tom Boonen, but they and their group managed to return to the main group after several kilometres of chasing. Robert Gesink, who had crashed just before the windy passage along the coastline started, eventually had to let the peloton go and finished more than nine minutes behind with what in the end proved to be a broken wrist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 6\n9 July 2009 \u2014 Girona (Spain) to Barcelona (Spain), 175\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 6\nThis last flat stage before the 2009 Tour entered the Pyrenees took place entirely within Spain, on a course that is frequently used in the Tour of Catalonia. The main break of the day was instigated by David Millar after 46\u00a0km, and he was joined by St\u00e9phane Aug\u00e9, who took the King of the Mountains leadership, and Sylvain Chavanel, and eventually by Amets Txurruka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 6\nMillar, 10th at the beginning of the stage, was virtual leader of the tour for much of the day, as the lead extended to 3'45\", and he attacked and left behind his fellow escapees with 29\u00a0km remaining. The uphill approach to the finish on Montju\u00efc did not suit some of the sprinters, but there was a group of about 60 at the head of the field when Millar was caught near the 1\u00a0km red flag, and with some GC contenders and climbers contesting the finish, Thor Hushovd emerged as stage winner. The day was marked by numerous rain showers, and a number of falls, with Michael Rogers the main overall contender to lose considerable time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\n10 July 2009 \u2014 Barcelona (Spain) to Andorra-Arcalis (Andorra)- 224\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\nThis second stage in a row that did not visit French soil was both the longest stage, and the highest finish of this year's tour. The first key break of the day comprised three riders, and escaped after 8\u00a0km of cycling, but it was joined by a six man chase group shortly after the first of the day's minor climbs, but this was the day on which the race reached the high mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\nThe escapees stretched their advantage to more than 14 minutes before reaching the major climbs, but as they included Rinaldo Nocentini, who was 32nd in the general classification and only 3'13\" behind the yellow jersey, the peloton, driven by the Astana squad, made a chase. Although the lead was greatly reduced, all but one of the escapees finished before the elite riders, and Nocentini retained a big enough advantage to take over the race leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\nBrice Feillu attacked the other four escapees who were at the head of the field with 5.5\u00a0km remaining, and stayed away to claim his first professional win in his first Tour de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0012-0003", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\nAfter an attempted attack on the other contenders for the Tour victory by Cadel Evans, 2007 winner Alberto Contador made a successful attack on the elite group with 3\u00a0km to go, beating them to the line by 21 seconds, and taking second place overall, while after five days in the yellow jersey, Cancellara finished more than nine minutes behind the stage winner, having been dropped on the final climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\n11 July 2009 \u2014 Andorra la Vella (Andorra) to Saint-Girons, 176\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\nThe Tour returned to France in the second of three Pyrenean stages, which featured three categorized climbs, including the imposing Port d'Envalira at just over 2,400 meters, before a steep descent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\nA number of early breakaways, including one featuring Cadel Evans, and one that enabled Thor Hushovd to take sufficient points in intermediate sprints to claim the green jersey, came to nothing, and by the top of the final climb three riders, Mikel Astarloza (later suspended for EPO use),  Vladimir Efimkin and Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez, were at the front of the race, with an array of chasers and struggling former members of breakaways between them and a group that included all the GC contenders and the yellow jersey wearer, Nocentini, who was part of a group, also including Denis Menchov, that had recovered a 30 second deficit on the elite group shortly before the top of the climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 740]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\nMeanwhile, Caisse d'Epargne leader and 2006 Tour winner, \u00d3scar Pereiro, became the highest profile rider to abandon the race. On the 42\u00a0km descent, Sandy Casar caught the three leaders, and this group of four maintained a comfortable lead over the peloton, and the race among these riders was triggered when Efimkin broke clear with 4\u00a0km remaining, a move that at one stage looked as though it might succeed, but he was caught by the other three escapees just before the red kite, and S\u00e1nchez won the sprint from Casar. There was no change to the position of the race favorites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9\nThe Pyrenees portion of the 2009 Tour ended with this stage which had two categorized climbs, the Col d'Aspin and the Col de Tourmalet and, as the previous day, a lengthy flat stretch before the finish, essentially neutralising the stage in terms of challenges relevant to the overall classification. An early break of twelve riders became thirteen after extensive effort by the Liquigas squad to get Franco Pellizotti across the divide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9\nAfter not much more than half an hour, the escape group was reduced to four: Pellizotti, Jens Voigt, Pierrick F\u00e9drigo and Leonardo Duque, who was dropped on the climb of the Col d\u2019Apsin, while a chase group of 9 riders formed behind, including Egoi Mart\u00ednez, who was to gain enough points over the cols to take the polkadot jersey at the end of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9\nBy the top of that mountain, the leading trio held an advantage of 2'45 over the counter-attack and 3'30 over the peloton; at the top of the Tourmalet only Pellizotti and F\u00e9drigo remained at the front, with seven surviving chasers at 2'40 and the peloton at 5'05. The descent and flat run in saw all the escapees except the two leaders reeled in, as Rabobank and Caisse d'Epargne sought to engineer an opportunity for their sprinters, but Pellizotti and F\u00e9drigo held on to contest the stage win between themselves, the Frenchman emerging as victor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Rest day\nAfter a lengthy transfer, the rest day was spent at the site of the beginning of the next day's stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 10\nThe Bastille Day stage, one of two stages on which it was intended riders will not be in radio contact with their team cars, was flat, heading to Issoudun for the first time on the Tour de France. The day's break was initiated by Thierry Hupond in the second kilometre, and he was joined by Mikhail Ignatiev and Benoit Vaugrenard, and after a hold-up at a level crossing, by Samuel Dumoulin. The group's lead never reached four minutes, but over the latter stages the peloton found the gap slow to close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 10\nThe catch was finally made with a little over 1\u00bd km left, Hupond being the last member of the breakaway to yield to the chasers, and Team Columbia\u2013HTC's train again delivered Mark Cavendish for a win in the sprint, ahead of Thor Hushovd, who retained the green jersey. It was initially announced that a split in the field meant that most of the peloton, including Levi Leipheimer and Bradley Wiggins, two of the top five in the overall classification at the beginning of the day, lost 15 seconds to the first 52 finishers, but this was rescinded the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205325-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 11\nThis was another flat stage, with a two man breakaway, consisting of Johan Van Summeren and Marcin Sapa, which reached its largest advantage of 4'45\" after 45\u00a0km and was caught with 5\u00a0km remaining. Mark Cavendish again dominated the sprint, taking his fourth stage of the tour and regaining the green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThese were the individual stages of the 2009 Tour de France, with Stage 12 on 16 July and Stage 21 on 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\nThis was considered a flat stage, but had six hills that contributed points towards the climbers' competition. After some unsuccessful attempts at breakaways early in the stage, after 64\u00a0km Laurent Lef\u00e8vre started a breakaway. He was followed by the leader in the polka dot jersey category, Egoi Mart\u00ednez, and the third-placed rider in that category, Franco Pellizotti, along with Sylvain Calzati, Markus Fothen, and R\u00e9mi Pauriol. Ten\u00a0km later, they were joined by Nicki S\u00f8rensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\nThe peloton was led by Nocentini's Ag2r\u2013La Mondiale team, with no effort made by the teams of the sprinters to chase down the escape group. The lead held by the escape group increased over the last 40\u00a0km, from less than four minutes to over six. With 22\u00a0km remaining, S\u00f8rensen launched an attack with only Calzati joining him. At 5.5\u00a0km, he again attacked, dropping Calzati and remaining clear to win the stage by 48 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\nMark Cavendish had said that he was interested in earning stage wins rather than pursuing the points jersey. However, he increased his lead in that competition by taking points at the first intermediate sprint of the day and leading the peloton home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\nPotential GC contenders Levi Leipheimer and Cadel Evans were involved in a fall in the closing stages of the race, but as the incident was within the last 3\u00a0km they were credited with the same time as the rest of the peloton. But before stage 13, Leipheimer would abandon the race due to a broken wrist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\nThis was a medium-mountain stage, with five categorized climbs, including one first category mountain, the Col du Platzerwasel. Christophe Moreau launched an attack after just 3\u00a0km, and was joined by Juan Manuel G\u00e1rate, Jens Voigt, Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n, Heinrich Haussler, Sylvain Chavanel and Rub\u00e9n P\u00e9rez. These last three moved away from the rest of the escape on the descent from the first climb, and while the rest of the escapees returned to the peloton, the lead trio gained an advantage of 9'10\" on the second climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\nP\u00e9rez was dropped on the climb of the day's highest mountain, and Haussler dropped Chavanel on its descent, and rode the last 50\u00a0km alone to win the stage more than 6\u00bd minutes ahead of the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\nA late attack by Amets Txurruka and Brice Feillu allowed the former to gain several minutes on the peloton, but Feillu, only 4'26\" behind the yellow jersey at the start of the day failed to keep pace with his fellow escaper, and once it was clear that he would not make a serious challenge to the overall leadership, the peloton eased its chase, and riders who had become detached from the elite group were able to rejoin the peloton, including Thor Hushovd who took enough points in the final placings to regain the green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0005-0003", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\nFranco Pellizotti took points on three of the five climbs, thus gaining enough points to assume leadership of the King of the Mountains classification. Simon \u0160pilak finished the stage alone more than \u00be hour behind Haussler, but the Tour officials acknowledged that he had been delayed by errors in re-opening the roads to the public earlier than should have been done, and that this contributed to his late finish, and so he was not eliminated. \u00d3scar Freire and Julian Dean were both hit by pellets fired from an air gun during the stage, but were able to continue on the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\nThis was a relatively flat stage, with a category 3 climb either side of the halfway point. A woman was killed and two other spectators injured when they were hit by a police motorcycle in Wittelsheim, the first fatality connected to the Tour since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\nA fourteen man break, initiated after 14\u00a0km, by Martijn Maaskant dominated the day's racing. The group was reduced to 12 as Mark Cavendish made a tactical decision to return to the peloton, and Jens Voigt had a puncture inefficiently repaired by the neutral service vehicle, but otherwise remained clear, with a lead that reached nearly nine minutes. Among the escapees were George Hincapie, who started the day in 28th place, 5'25\" behind the leader, and Christophe Le M\u00e9vel, two places and 38 seconds further back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\nThe Ag2r\u2013La Mondiale team of the yellow jersey wearer Rinaldo Nocentini seemed to be unwilling or unable to defend his overall lead, and the pace of the peloton was dictated for most of the stage by Astana, and in the latter stages by Garmin\u2013Slipstream. As it became clear that day's winner would come from among the group, there were several attacks, of which the effort by Sergei Ivanov with 11\u00a0km remaining was decisive. He won the stage by 16 seconds, with the peloton recovering enough time to preserve Nocentini's tenure of the yellow jersey by 5 seconds. It was suggested that Garmin's role in preventing Hincapie gaining the overall lead was influenced by their rivalry with his Team Columbia\u2013HTC, but this was denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 786]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\nGreen jersey rivals Mark Cavendish and Thor Hushovd were in a hotly contested sprint at the head of the peloton, and although Cavendish finished ahead, he was later relegated to the last position in the peloton for \"irregular sprinting\", specifically maneuvering Hushovd toward a barricade in the final 300 meters, with a net loss of 14 points to his Norwegian rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15\n19 July 2009 \u2013 Pontarlier to Verbier (Switzerland), 207\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15\nThe Tour reached the Alps, with four third category climbs in the first half of the stage, and the second half featuring the second category climb on the Col des Mosses (1,445 m elevation) and the race's second mountaintop finish at Verbier in Switzerland, at about the same elevation. Tom Boonen did not start the stage, and Vladimir Efimkin, who started in the top 20 overall, withdrew about halfway through the stage. Several early attacks failed to get any lasting gap ahead of the peloton, although they did allow Franco Pellizotti to increase his lead in the climbers' competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15\nThe longest lasting escape of the day took place after 40\u00a0km, and had a number of changes of personnel before it settled to a body of ten riders, including Mikel Astarloza who was 18th overall, 3'02\" behind the leader, at the beginning of the day, and who was \"virtual leader\" until the last 40\u00a0km. Rinaldo Nocentini's Ag2r\u2013La Mondiale team made little effort to defend his position as overall leader, and the Astana and Liquigas teams dominated the chase to the bottom of the climb to Verbier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15\nThe breakaway was overhauled by most of the contenders for a high overall placing, with Denis Menchov the most notable absentee from the selection, Simon \u0160pilak having survived for longest. As on the climb to Arcalis, Alberto Contador made a telling attack on the elite group, this time with 6\u00a0km remaining, and only Andy Schleck went in pursuit. Contador continued to increase his lead all the way to the line, winning both the stage and the yellow jersey. Andy Schleck came in second and took over the white jersey from Tony Martin after 13 stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Rest day\nThe second rest day took place where the previous day's stage ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16\n21 July 2009 \u2013 Martigny (Switzerland) to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 160\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16\nThe return to racing after the second rest day featured two long climbs and their descents: the Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard, the highest point in this year's Tour at 2,473 meters, and the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, at which stage the race returned to France. An early break initiated by Maxime Bouet grew to 26 members, and mountains classifications challengers Franco Pellizotti and Egoi Mart\u00ednez, along with Vladimir Karpets moved clear of the group as they approached the first climb. Mart\u00ednez could not stay with the other two escapees, and Pellizotti took maximum points over the pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 650]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16\nIn the long flat passage between both passes, the two leaders were caught by the large group and together started the last climb. Just before the top of this second climb, Pellizotti and Jurgen Van den Broeck who had been leading the climb, were joined by Mikel Astarloza and Ama\u00ebl Moinard. Four further escapees also remained ahead of the favourites, but among that group an attack by Andy Schleck caused an elite group in which he was joined by his brother Fr\u00e4nk Schleck, Alberto Contador, Bradley Wiggins, Vincenzo Nibali and Andreas Kl\u00f6den.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0013-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16\nLance Armstrong led a response, and there was no lasting split among the GC contenders apart from Cadel Evans, who failed to stay with the yellow jersey group. Pellizotti again led over the top of the climb, and in the approach to the finishing town, Astarloza broke clear with 2\u00a0km remaining to win the stage, as the four chasers caught the remnants of the lead group. Jens Voigt fell hard while descending the col du Petit-Saint-Bernard with the group of the yellow jersey, he fractured his right cheekbone and suffered a concussion, and had to abandon the Tour. However, five days after the Tour finished the UCI announced that the initial stage winner Mikel Astarloza tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test on June 26, eight days before the race started. Astarloza was removed from the results, and the stage win transferred to Sandy Casar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 919]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\n22 July 2009 \u2013 Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand, 169\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\nThis stage had five categorized climbs on it, including four category 1 climbs, and was regarded the queen stage of this year's Tour. The first three quarters of the stage were dominated by the consolidation of the lead in both the climbers' and sprinters' competitions. A group of 20, led by Franco Pellizotti, crossed the first hill, Cormet de Roselend, before being closed down and passed by green jersey holder, Thor Hushovd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\nHe remained in a solo lead for more than 80\u00a0km (50\u00a0mi), climbing two categorised mountains alone (Col des Saisies and C\u00f4te d'Araches) in order to gain maximum points at the intermediate sprints. Pellizotti was the first of the following group over the hills, gaining maximum of the remaining climber's points. On the second to last mountain, the Col de Romme, a series of attacks by Andy and Fr\u00e4nk Schleck overhauled the breakaway group, and left the Luxembourgian brothers in a lead group with yellow jersey holder Alberto Contador and his Astana team-mate Andreas Kl\u00f6den.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\nAn attempted breakaway by Contador succeeded only in dropping Kl\u00f6den, and the leading trio continued to extend their lead over Col de la Colombi\u00e8re to the finish line, where the older Schleck brother, Fr\u00e4nk, was allowed to take the stage win. Lance Armstrong and Vincenzo Nibali overtook Kl\u00f6den in the closing kilometre, finishing more than two minutes behind the first three finishers, who took the top three places in the overall classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\nThe final time trial was held earlier in the race than is usual, and was not, as it had been for many years previously, the last stage which is competitive in terms of the overall classification. It followed a 40.5\u00a0km route around Lake Annecy, on a course that was mainly flat. A 270\u00a0m hill approximately \u00be around the course of 5% gradient would assist strong climbers in finishing closer to the typical TT specialists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\nThe riders set off in reverse order of their standing in the general classification, and the 19th rider to start, Mikhail Ignatiev set fastest times at all the intermediate checkpoints, and at the finish, that stood until Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara, starting 58 riders later, bettered his times at the last checkpoint and, more importantly, at the finish line. Cancellara's finishing time, and Ignatiev's intermediate times were unchallenged until the last few riders were on the course, by which time there had been a rain shower and the wind speed had increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\nBoth Bradley Wiggins and Alberto Contador beat Cancellara's times at the top of the climb, and the earlier checkpoints, but lost time relative to the Swiss rider over the last part of the course. Wiggins lost 55 seconds to Cancellara in the last 12\u00a0km, and ended sixth on the stage, while Contador lost 49 seconds to him over the same distance, but still retained a three second advantage to win the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\nAndy Schleck conceded 1'45\" to Contador in coming 21st on the stage, but retained his second place overall, while Lance Armstrong, 16th on the stage, moved up to third overall, with an 11 second advantage over Wiggins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 19\nThis was a largely flat stage, but featured a category 2 climb 16\u00a0km from the finish. A twenty-rider breakaway after 9\u00a0km never gained more than three minutes advantage over a peloton paced by Team Milram and Rabobank, and an attack by Leonardo Duque after 110\u00a0km reduced the group to five, his companions being Jos\u00e9 Luis Arrieta, Iv\u00e1n Guti\u00e9rrez, David Millar and Yaroslav Popovych.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 19\nThis smaller group stayed away from a chase group of about 40 riders that included all but one of the top 20 in the general classification, and some of the top sprinters in the race, for a further 35\u00a0km, but were caught before the final climb started in earnest. Near the top of that climb, Laurent Lef\u00e8vre and world champion Alessandro Ballan attempted a breakaway, but they were chased down by Team Columbia\u2013HTC, whose sprinter Mark Cavendish again took the stage victory. A split in the group as it crossed the line meant that Lance Armstrong gained four seconds over the rest of the contenders for a place on the final podium in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\n25 July 2009 \u2013 Mont\u00e9limar to Mont Ventoux, 167\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\nThis was the first time the Tour had had a mountain stage on its second-to-last day. The early stages, which included four categorised climbs, saw a group of 16 riders build a lead in excess of 10'30\" before Team Saxo Bank started to limit their gains. Under pressure from Astana, the chase group was reduced to 24 men, including the top 12 in the overall standings, when it reached the bottom of the final climb of the tour 4'05\" behind the leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\nJuan Manuel G\u00e1rate triggered the disintegration of the lead group by attacking on the lower slopes, with only Tony Martin able to stay with him for long. The yellow jersey group passed many of the members of the earlier escape as it climbed, but the seven riders who had any ambition of comprising the top three in Paris remained together for most of the climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0021-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\nAndy Schleck attempted a number of attacks, but as they neither allowed him to escape from Alberto Contador, nor assisted Fr\u00e4nk Schleck to move clear of Lance Armstrong in his ambition to gain third place overall, he did not persist with them. Franco Pellizotti, who already had an unassailable lead in the King of the Mountains category, caught and passed the yellow jersey group in pursuit of Martin and G\u00e1rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0021-0003", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\nAmong the elite group, which had been joined by Roman Kreuziger in a bid to get into the top ten in general classification, the first to lose contact was Andreas Kl\u00f6den, and with 2\u00a0km remaining Bradley Wiggins became detached from the group. G\u00e1rate attacked Martin twice in the closing stages, and although the German was able to catch-up twice, the Spaniard moved clear in the last 200m to win the stage. Pellizotti was caught by the yellow jersey group in the last 200m, and although Armstrong increased his lead over Wiggins, Fr\u00e4nk Schleck's margin over the British rider at the line was not enough to overtake him for fourth place overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 21\n26 July 2009 \u2013 Montereau-Fault-Yonne to Paris Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, 160\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 21\nThe 2009 Tour ended, as it had for the previous 34 years, on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. The pace was casual in the early part of the stage, marked more by photo opportunities for the category leaders, but the pace increased once the race reached central Paris. On the first of seven circuits of the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, a seven rider escape moved clear, consisting of Jussi Veikkanen, Arnaud Coyot, Samuel Dumoulin, Alexandre Pichot, Carlos Barredo, Fabian Wegmann and Fumiyuki Beppu. The breakaway nullified the intermediate sprints as part of the only unresolved contest, the green jersey category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205326-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 21\nThe last three escapees, Veikkanen, Wegmann and Beppu, were caught shortly after the start of the last circuit. Although the Garmin\u2013Slipstream team attempted to get ahead of the Team Columbia\u2013HTC lead out, Mark Cavendish won the sprint, his sixth stage of the Tour, with several metres to spare, with his lead-out man Mark Renshaw second. Thor Hushovd, by finishing sixth, took enough points to secure the points competition, and the other riders finished in the group to confirm their positions and awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205327-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Langkawi\nThe 2009 Tour de Langkawi was the 14th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. The race began on 9 February in Putrajaya and ended on 15 February in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. In fact this race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2008\u201309 UCI Asia Tour calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205327-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Langkawi\nColombian cyclist, Jos\u00e9 Serpa emerged as the winner of the race, followed by Jai Crawford second and Jackson Rodriguez third. Mattia Gavazzi won the points classification category and Jos\u00e9 Serpa won the mountains classification category. Diquigiovanni\u2013Androni won the team classification category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205327-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Langkawi, Teams\n20 teams accepted invitations to participate in the 2009 Tour de Langkawi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205327-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Langkawi, Stages\nThe cyclists competed in 7 stages, covering a distance of 1031.7 kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg\nThe 2009 Tour de Luxembourg cycling race  was the 69th running of the Tour de Luxembourg. It was won by Fr\u00e4nk Schleck from Luxembourg, the first home rider to win this race in 26 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg, Stages\nKey: : Leader and eventual winner of General Classification, based on total time. : Leader and eventual winner of climbers' classification, based on points gained on passing hilltops. : \u00a0: Leader and eventual winner of points classification, based on points given for finishing position on each mass start stage. : Leader and eventual winner of young riders' classification, based on total time, but restricted to riders under 25 at beginning of year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg, Stages, Stage 1\n4 June 2009 \u2014 Luxembourg > Mondorf-les-Bains - 157 km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg, Stages, Stage 2\n5 June 2009 \u2014 Schifflange > Differdange - 188 km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg, Stages, Stage 3\n6 June 2009 \u2014 Wiltz > Diekirch - 185 km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 80]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205328-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Luxembourg, Stages, Stage 4\n7 June 2009 \u2014 Mersch > Luxembourg - 148 km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 83]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne\nThe 2009 Tour de Pologne was the 66th running of the Tour de Pologne, in the 81st year since the first edition. The event was part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar, and ran from 2\u20138 August, starting in Warsaw and finishing in Krak\u00f3w. After four stages that were dominated by sprint finishes, World champion Alessandro Ballan's participation in successful breaks in stages five and six, and bonus time for being first and second respectively in those stages, brought him overall victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages\nThere is a circuit of at least two laps on every stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 2\nThis stage was very flat, with only a fourth-category climb near the end. There was a three-lap, 6.5\u00a0km circuit at the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 3\n4 August 2009 \u2013 Bielsk Podlaski to Lublin, 225.1\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 89]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 3\nThis course is mostly flat, though it becomes bumpy at the end. The 4.6\u00a0km finishing circuit includes multiple passes over a third-category climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 4\nIn a chaotic bunch sprint, Edvald Boasson Hagen led out teammate Andr\u00e9 Greipel. While Greipel and Quick-Step sprinter Allan Davis grappled for his wheel, Boasson Hagen led on to take the win. Greipel was later relegated, and lost both the yellow and blue jersey to Jurgen Roelandts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 4\nThis course has a sloping profile, with two categorized climbs in the second half of the stage as well as an uncategorized hill coming after about 40\u00a0km. There is a three-lap finishing circuit again on this stage; it is 5.9\u00a0km long and flat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 5\nThis is a high mountain stage, with a first-category climb coming after 105\u00a0km. There are two categorized climbs visited repeatedly in the four-lap 14.8\u00a0km finishing circuit, with mountains classification points taken for the first pass over them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 6\n7 August 2009 \u2013 Kro\u015bcienko nad Dunajcem to Zakopane, 162.2\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 6\nThis is the Tour de Pologne's most mountainous stage, with another mountain circuit. This circuit is four laps by 25\u00a0km, with two first-category climbs in it. There are two other first-category climbs on the course, so the course has ten first-category climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205329-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 7\nThe beginning to this stage is jagged, with a second-category climb after 56\u00a0km as well as several uncategorized rises in elevation. The finish comes on a three-lap 4\u00a0km circuit which is perfectly flat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205330-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Romandie\nThe 2009 Tour de Romandie (63rd Edition) cycling road race started on 28 April and finished on 3 May in Switzerland. It was the 6th event in the 2009 UCI ProTour, and the 12th event in the World Calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205330-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Romandie\nIn addition to the 18 ProTour teams, guaranteed entry to the event as it is promoted by the UCI, two wildcard entries were accepted: Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam and BMC Racing Team, both of which have strong Swiss links. Andreas Kl\u00f6den did not defend the title he won the previous year, but the two previous winners of the event, Thomas Dekker and Cadel Evans took part, as teammates on the Silence\u2013Lotto team. Other pre-race favourites included four of the top five in 2008 (Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas), Marco Pinotti (Team Columbia\u2013High Road), Dennis Menchov (Rabobank) and Mikel Astarloza (Euskaltel\u2013Euskadi)) and 2008 ProTour champion Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205330-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Romandie\nRoman Kreuziger won the 4th stage, and in doing so put himself into a lead that he retained on the last day, thus going one better than his second place overall in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205330-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 1 \u2013 29 April 2009: Montreux > Fribourg\nThe stage was shortened due to snowfalls, from a scheduled 176.2\u00a0km to 87.6\u00a0km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205331-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de San Luis\nThe 2009 Tour de San Luis was a men's road cycling race held from 19  to January 25, 2009 in Argentina. The third edition of this road racing event was a multiple stage race with seven stages and a total length of 1014 kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse\nThe 2009 Tour de Suisse was the 73rd edition of the Tour de Suisse stage race. It took place from 13 June to 21 June and is part of both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar. It began with a short individual time trial in Liechtenstein and ended with another time trial, in Bern. The race was won by Fabian Cancellara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Teams\nAs the Tour de Suisse was a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTour teams were invited automatically. They were joined by two Professional Continental teams, Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam and Vorarlberg\u2013Corratec, to form the event's 20-team peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 1\n13 June 2009 - Mauren (Liechtenstein) to Ruggell (Liechtenstein), 7.8\u00a0km (4.8\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 1\nThe course for the brief individual time trial was deceptively difficult, with a categorized climb coming after 5\u00a0km and a technical descent down twisting, turning roads to the finish following it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 1\nTwo-time former world time trial champion and reigning Swiss national champion Fabian Cancellara was the winner of the opening individual time trial, taking the course 19 seconds faster than Liquigas' Roman Kreuziger. Despite the large gap Cancellara had over the man in second, most of the other times were tightly bunched, with 88 riders within a minute of Cancellara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 2\nThis stage began at 1400 m in elevation, descended to around 500 m, and ended back around 1500 m. After a small climb that came just after the beginning of the stage, there was a 35\u00a0km descent to the valley below and over 60\u00a0km of flat racing. At that point, the race went back uphill, with both a first- and a third-category climb coming before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 2\nThe day began with a breakaway involving Javier Aramendia, Josef Benetseder, and Herv\u00e9 Duclos-Lassalle, though their maximum advantage over the peloton was only 2'30\". The three were caught with 25\u00a0km left to race, at which point Tony Martin launched a solo escape that got him over the first category climb before the finish in first position, giving him the lead in the mountains classification and its pink jersey. Martin was himself caught with 6\u00a0km to race as the teams of the sprinters worked to get the field together for a mass sprint finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 2\nThe sprint was so close between Bernhard Eisel, Gerald Ciolek, and \u00d3scar Freire that even the riders themselves were unsure which of them had won. The photo finish showed Eisel to be the winner. Ninety-five riders had the same time as the stage winner, on a course that was not expected to produce a mass sprint finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 3\n15 June 2009 - Davos to Lumino, 195\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 3\nThis course was undulating for about 100\u00a0km, before the first-category climb of Lukmanier Pass at nearly 2000 m in elevation. The descent from this height took about 40\u00a0km, with another 30\u00a0km of flat racing before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 3\nThe day's escapees were Will Frischkorn, Enrico Gasparotto, Samuel Dumoulin, and Marlon P\u00e9rez. Their lead was three minutes at the top of Lukmanier Pass, but with the teams of the sprinters working to get another sprint finish and Gasparotto threatening the overall race lead of Fabian Cancellara (he began the stage 48 seconds back), the peloton caught them with 3\u00a0km remaining in the stage. Ryder Hesjedal tried a solo move when the catch occurred, but he was caught with a little over 1\u00a0km to go. A bunched sprint was the finish, with Mark Cavendish winning after a successful leadout from Bernhard Eisel, Tony Martin, and George Hincapie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4\n16 June 2009 - Biasca to St\u00e4fa, 197\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 84]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4\nThis was a mountainous course, which is marked by the outside-categorization climb of Tremola coming almost immediately. At 2108 m, it was the highest point reached in the 2009 Tour de Suisse. There was also a second-category climb later on in the course, the descent from which left close to 40\u00a0km of flat racing prior the stage conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4\nThe stage began with a very large early breakaway, with 26 riders coming clear, representing every team except Rabobank. The best-placed man in the group was Columbia-High Road's Tony Martin, who began the day 34 seconds behind race leader Fabian Cancellara. Martin, however, was unable to make the second selection of the day, as 9 of the 26 came clear and wound up contesting the stage together, while the other 17 returned to the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4\nTadej Valjavec was the first to try for the stage win, attacking solo from the group of nine with 6\u00a0km remaining in the stage, but the Saxo Bank duo of Matti Breschel and Andy Schleck chased him down, uniting the group again. Thomas Rohregger was the next to try his luck, but was caught in the final 150 meters. Maxim Iglinsky looked like he was in line for the win, but Breschel came around him and pipped him at the line for the stage win. The race lead transferred to Valjavec, whose time bonus for third place on the stage outweighed the bonuses Schleck had gotten for winning the intermediate sprints. Schleck wound up in the blue jersey after the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5\n17 June 2009 - St\u00e4fa to Serfaus (Austria), 202\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5\nThis was considered the queen stage of the 2009 Tour de Suisse. There were four categorized climbs on the course, two each in the first and third categories. Two of these climbs occurred within the stage's final 10\u00a0km, with only a brief false flat between the first-category climb and the third-category summit finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5\nThere were numerous breakaways during this stage. The first came from Pascal Hungerb\u00fchler, who was away alone for the race's first 150\u00a0km, holding a maximum advantage of eight minutes. When he was caught, another escape effort involving Marcus Burghardt and Bj\u00f6rn Schr\u00f6der took shape, but they were caught with 10\u00a0km left to race, their maximum advantage having been only 46 seconds. Rein Taaram\u00e4e and Tony Martin then tried their luck, but were caught by the yellow jersey group with 5\u00a0km remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5\nThe group tried repeatedly to attack and isolate race leader Tadej Valjavec, but his Ag2r team worked to keep the favorites in the same group on the road. Fifteen riders were indeed together for a sprint finish, won by Michael Albasini as he edged out countryman Fabian Cancellara at the line. The day saw a big loser in time, as Andy Schleck lost over a minute to the yellow jersey group, finishing 25th on the stage and dropping from second all the way to 13th on GC after the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6\n18 June 2009 - Oberriet to Bad Zurzach, 178\u00a0km (111\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6\nThis was a flat stage. After a second-category climb 10\u00a0km into the stage, the profile was very flat, with only two small third-category climbs later on. There was a perfectly flat stretch of about 8\u00a0km before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6\nReto Hollenstein of the continental team Vorarlberg\u2013Corratec managed to break away after 50\u00a0km, and stayed solo until 19\u00a0km from the finish. Thor Hushovd moved to the front on the wheel of George Hincapie, but was unable to hold off Hincapie's teammate Mark Cavendish. Cavendish took his second stage win of the tour. Fabian Cancellara earned five bonus seconds in intermediate sprints to move into second place in the general classification and trail race leader Tadej Valjavec by only 9 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7\n19 June 2009 - Bad Zurzach to Vallorbe Juraparc, 204\u00a0km (127\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7\nFor 180\u00a0km, this looked like a perfect sprinters' stage, as the course didn't so much as undulate during that time. In the last 24\u00a0km, there were two categorized climbs, a third-category climb which preceded a shallow descent before a second-category summit stage finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7\nAfter several unsuccessful breakaway efforts, Jos\u00e9 Joaquin Rojas, Marcus Burghardt, and Gerald Ciolek succeeded in their escape attempt. Damien Gaudin joined them after a lengthy solo chase, and the four were together as a group for much of the stage, gaining a maximum advantage of six minutes by the 130\u00a0km mark. The yellow jersey peloton caught them on the ascent of the third-category climb before the finish. The yellow jersey group stayed together through the first cliumb and the intermediate sprint that came right after it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7\nOn the ascend to the stage finish, beginning 3\u00a0km from the finish, Roman Kreuziger and Michael Albasini both tried to escape for the stage win, but Kreuziger was fresher, as only he was able to stay away for any length of time. He built an advantage of 17 seconds and appeared poised for the stage win. Maxime Monfort drove the yellow jersey group to a pace that allowed Kim Kirchen to attack next and catch Kreuziger in the stage's final meters for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 8\n20 June 2009 - Le Sentier to Crans-Montana, 182\u00a0km (113\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 8\nThis stage started at 1000 m and descended to a valley at 400 m about 50\u00a0km later. For the next 90\u00a0km, the course was perfectly flat. There was then an uncategorized \"wall\" of about 200 m in height before a third- and a first-category climb just before the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 8\nThis stage saw another four-man escape group, Marcel Wyss, Pavel Brutt, Lars Boom, and Herv\u00e9 Duclos-Lassalle. Their maximum advantage was five and a half minutes, after 132\u00a0km. By the beginning of the third-category climb of Botyre, their advantage was just thirty seconds. They were easily caught on that ascent. Team Saxo Bank drove the peloton, to protect Fabian Cancellara from attacks, chiefly from the Liquigas duo of Roman Kreuziger and Oliver Zaugg. In the final kilometer, mountains classification leader Tony Martin and Damiano Cunego attacked and got a small gap over the yellow jersey group, with Martin holding off Cunego in the sprint to give Team Columbia-High Road its sixth stage win in this Tour de Suisse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 761]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 9\n21 June 2009 - Bern, 39\u00a0km (24\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 77]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 9\nThe course for the final individual time trial was gently undulating, without any categorized climbs. The finish came on a perfectly flat stretch about 3\u00a0km in length; there was a similar perfectly flat stretch about 6\u00a0km long earlier in the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 9\nThe early time to beat was set by Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker. His time held up against most of the top riders on GC, as he finished the stage third. The first man to beat him was mountains classification winner Tony Martin, winner of the previous day's stage. His ride was good enough to propel him from fourth overall onto the event's final podium, in second. The second-to-last man to take the course was the stage winner. Time trial specialist Fabian Cancellara dominated the field, with no rider finishing inside a minute of his winning time. Race leader Tadej Valjavec finished 59th on the stage, almost four minutes back of Cancellara, to drop from the race lead to seventh in the final standings. Cancellara wound up as Tour de Suisse champion by over two minutes, after trailing coming into the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 857]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nIn the 2009 Tour de Suisse, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass start stages, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Tour de Suisse, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Tour de Suisse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 499]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nAdditionally, there was also a points classification, indicated with a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top 12 in a stage. The stage win awarded 15 points, second place awarded 12 points, third 10, and one point less per place down the line, to a single point for twelfth. In addition, some points could be won in intermediate sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nThere was also a mountains classification, indicated with a pink jersey. In the mountains classifications, points are won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. All climbs were categorized, with most either first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. There was also an outside categorization climb at the beginning of Stage 4, which awarded even more points than the first-category climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nThe fourth classification was the sprint classification. Riders earned points based on their placings in intermediate sprints (which also awarded points toward the green jersey). Points were awarded to the top three in each sprint, six for first, three for second, and one for third - same as for the green jersey. The leader of the sprint classification received a blue jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nThere was also classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage are added, and the team with the lowest time is leading team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205332-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Suisse, Riders' jersey progress table\nIf a cyclist leads two or more competitions at the end of a stage, he receives all those jerseys. The next stage, he can only wear one jersey, and he wears the jersey representing leadership in the most important competition (yellow first, then pink, then green, then blue). The other jerseys that the cyclist holds are worn in the next stage by the second-placed rider (or, if needed, third- or fourth-placed rider) of that classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205333-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de Wallonie\nThe 2009 Tour de Wallonie was the 36th edition of the Tour de Wallonie cycle race and was held on 25\u201329 July 2009. The race started in Waremme and finished in Tournai. The race was won by Julien El Fares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205334-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas\nThe 2009 Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas season consisted of 14 golf tournaments, hosted in eight countries across Latin America. Four events were played in both Argentina and Colombia, two in Chile and Venezuela and one in Mexico and Paraguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205334-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas\nThe Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas continued its close association with the PGA European Tour, with one event, the Club Colombia Masters being co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour, Europe's official development tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205334-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas\nThe Order of Merit was won by Sweden's Peter Gustafsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 82]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205334-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour de las Am\u00e9ricas, Tournament results\nIn 2009 the prize funds ranged from US$30,000 to US$200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205335-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour du Grand Montr\u00e9al\nThe 2009 Tour du Grand Montr\u00e9al was the 8th and last edition of the Tour du Grand Montr\u00e9al, a women's cycling stage race in Canada. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and was held between 1 and 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205336-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour du Haut Var\nThe 2009 Tour du Haut Var was the 41st edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 21\u201322 February 2009. The race started in Saint-Rapha\u00ebl and finished in Callian. The race was won by Thomas Voeckler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205337-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)\nTour of Azerbaijan 2009 is the 24th round of Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), which took between 15 May and 21 May 2009 in Iranian Azerbaijan and in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichivan. The tour had 6 stages in which Ahad Kazemi from Iran won in first place in over all classification of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205338-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Britain\nThe 2009 Tour of Britain was a UCI 2.1 category race of eight stages from 12 September till 19 September 2009. The race was the sixth edition of the latest version of the Tour of Britain and the seventieth British tour in total. It formed part of the 2008\u20132009 UCI Europe Tour. The race begun in Scunthorpe and ended with a circuit stage in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205338-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 1\nThe first stage win was taken by Christopher Sutton (Garmin\u2013Slipstream) after the peloton caught a long breakaway by Martin Mortensen (Vacansoleil) and Thomas De Gendt (Topsport Vlaanderen).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California\nThe 2009 Amgen Tour of California was the 4th running of an annual cycling race contained within the state of California. The event was staged February 14\u201322 and began with a prologue in the state capital of Sacramento. The event was held as part of the schedule of both the UCI America Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour. The race was won by Levi Leipheimer for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nThe Fourth Tour of California covered nine days and 780.44 miles (1,256.00\u00a0km), starting with a flat 2.4 miles (3.9\u00a0km) prologue near the California State Capitol in Sacramento on February 14, 2009. Drawing many of the top cyclists from around the world, the Tour of California generated an estimated revenue of $100 million for the state of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nThe Astana team included two-time returning champion Levi Leipheimer, and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. The 2006 champion, Floyd Landis returned, riding for OUCH\u2013Maxxis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nTour organizers have switched the route from year to year, hoping to reach out to fans in different parts of the state and maintain the challenge of the race. Santa Cruz, one of the cities added for the 2009 running, expected added costs of $100,000 to cover public services and accommodations for lodging and meals for the cycling teams, and was expecting 250,000 fans to attend the end of Stage 2. The sales and hotel taxes generated by drawing tourists at a traditionally slow time of the year were expected to help recover the costs of hosting the event. Stage 2 also took the peloton across the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time in the tour's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 698]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nIn another first, Stage 4 includes an excursion through the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada foothills, starting in Merced, then passing through the foothill towns of Mariposa and Oakhurst, and finishing in Clovis (adjacent to Fresno).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nThe tour organizers tried to integrate climbing into nearly every day's stage; only the prologue, time trial and Stage 5 \u2014 the tour's longest at 134.3 miles (216.1\u00a0km) \u2014 had no climbs. The 2009 Tour features at least one King of the Mountain summit on each other stage, with the Tour's technical director proclaiming that the difficult climbs in the course they designed having the potential to have the leader change on a daily basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Race details\nThe eighth stage alone, the last of the tour, stretching nearly 100 miles (160\u00a0km) from Rancho Bernardo to Escondido featured four King of the Mountain summits including a climb of Palomar Mountain, home of the Palomar Observatory, which runs for 7 miles (11\u00a0km), climbing 4,200 feet (1,300\u00a0m) at an average grade of 7%, with 21 switchbacks on the mountain that reaches an elevation of 5,123 feet (1,561\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages\nFor the first time, the 2009 tour had an additional 8th stage meant to increase the competitiveness of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Prologue\nSaturday, February 14SacramentoStart Time: 1:30 PMMiles: 2.4KM: 3.9End ETA: 4:00 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 1\nSunday, February 15Davis to Santa RosaStart Time: 12:00 noonMiles: 107.6KM: 173.2End ETA: 3:56\u20135:01 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 1\nFrancisco Mancebo of Rock Racing broke away after 5 miles of racing, and stayed away almost all day. He was briefly joined by Tim Johnson and David Kemp in his breakaway effort, but he later broke away from them as well, and they were reabsorbed by the peloton. A 23-man chase group formed as Mancebo neared Santa Rosa, which included four members of Astana, working for two-time defending race champion Levi Leipheimer, as well as some other overall favorites such as Ivan Basso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 1\nRace officials decided to extend the \"crash zone\", the area in which riders would be granted the same finishing time as the group they were in on crashing (should they crash) from the final lap of the Santa Rosa circuit to the first, since the road was saturated by a steady downpour of rain. The chase group started out 12 minutes behind Mancebo and closed the time gap to 1'07\" at the beginning of the first lap of the Santa Rosa circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 1\nThey subsequently slowed at the end of the first circuit (since the only thing left to gain was the stage win - the group that was together at the beginning of the first circuit were all given the same finishing time, relative to Mancebo) and allowed some riders to attack, chief among them Vincenzo Nibali and Jurgen Van de Walle, who joined Mancebo at the beginning of the last lap. Mancebo managed to outsprint Nibali and Van de Walle to the line. Stage placings were taken on the first time the riders crossed the finish line, but Van de Walle and Nibali were awarded identical sprint classification points for finishing second and third as the riders credited with finishing second and third, Leipheimer and Michael Rogers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 2\nMonday, February 16Sausalito to Santa CruzStart Time: 8:30 AMMiles: 115.9KM: 186.6End ETA: 12:52\u20132:03 PMNote: For the first time, the peloton rode across the Golden Gate Bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 2\nAfter a few unsuccessful breakaway attempts immediately following the neutral zone, Rabobank's Grischa Niermann was the first rider to break free of the peloton. He was quickly joined by Garmin-Slipstream's Steven Cozza and eight other riders, to form a ten-man break that held a four- to five-minute advantage over the peloton for most of the stage. The best placed rider in the break was Ben Jacques-Maynes of Bissell, 5'05\" behind race leader Francisco Mancebo, whose Rock Racing team paced the peloton calmly, content to let the breakaway get a lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 2\nWhen the peloton reached the beginning of the climb of Bonny Doon road, Astana took over the pace, and the time gap to the breakaway fell precipitously. On their respective ways up the climb, Carlos Barredo attacked from the leading group of ten and Levi Leipheimer from the peloton, each coming free. Leipheimer gradually overtook members of the day's breakaway as they faltered on the climb, eventually reaching Barredo, Tom Peterson, and Jason McCartney (Peterson and McCartney had themselves caught Barredo only moments earlier) to take first position on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 2\nLeipheimer was the first to the top of the climb, and he and Peterson stayed together on the descent. A 17-man chase group paced by Lance Armstrong reabsorbed all the other members of the morning breakaway. Peterson took the stage win uncontested, with Leipheimer just behind him, and the Armstrong group having closed to 20 seconds behind them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 3\nTuesday, February 17San Jose to ModestoStart Time: 12:00 noonMiles: 104.2KM: 167.7End ETA: 3:53\u20134:55 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 3\nA 4-man breakaway formed immediately after the stage's neutral zone, comprising Bauke Mollema of Rabobank, Jeff Louder of BMC, Bradley White of OUCH, and Brian Vandborg of Liquigas. The best-placed among them was Mollema, two minutes behind race leader Levi Leipheimer (the rest were nearly 24 minutes behind Leipheimer). King of the Mountains leader Francisco Mancebo joined them shortly thereafter and topped the climb up Sierra Road in first position, padding his lead. He then rejoined the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 3\nThe breakaway's lead extended to nearly six minutes, which was increased partially because Leipheimer crashed at the front of the peloton at about the 30 mile mark causing the Astana-paced bunch to slow to allow him to rejoin them. The time gap held steady at between four and five minutes for most of the stage, until Team Columbia-High Road, Quick Step, and Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam came forward after the descent of the second climb of the day to take the pace, working to get the field together so their respective strong sprinters would have a chance at the stage win. Louder attacked from the leading group on the way into Modesto, and only Mollema could answer. They were subsequently caught in the middle of the Modesto circuit, and a classic bunched sprint saw the stage win go to Thor Hushovd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 836]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 4\nWednesday, February 18Merced to ClovisStart Time: 11:00 AMMiles: 115.4KM: 185.7End ETA: 3:19\u20134:29 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 4\nSeveral unsuccessful breakaway attempts occurred in the first hour of racing. The breakaway that got away involved Francisco Mancebo, Jason McCartney, Serge Pauwels, and Tyler Hamilton. Mancebo took maximum points in the climbs and intermediate sprints available to him. After topping the fourth climb of the day, Mancebo dropped and rejoined the peloton. The breakaway's biggest advantage was close to six minutes before the peloton, paced chiefly by Team Columbia-High Road, began to chase in earnest, on the descent from the fifth and last climb. The catch occurred with about two miles left to race. A Rabobank rider attacked with the last half mile but was caught by Mark Cavendish, who launched his sprint early but held on in a photo finish for the stage win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 807]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 5\nThursday, February 19Visalia to Paso RoblesStart Time: 10:00 AMMiles: 134.3KM: 216.1End ETA: 3:00\u20134:22 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 5\nThis was a rather straightforward day of racing, on a course without even a single categorized climb. After five miles, a six-man breakaway formed, that was eventually whittled to four: Matthew Crane, Glen Chadwick, Pieter Weening, and Cameron Evans. Racing under clear blue skies for the first time in the Tour, the four were caught with about three miles to left to race, as the teams of the prominent sprinters ratcheted up the pace in the peloton to bring them back. The finish was contested in another mass sprint, won for the second day in a row by Mark Cavendish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 6\nFriday, February 20Solvang - Time TrialStart Time: 12:00 noonMiles: 15KM: 24End ETA: 2:50 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 6\nEarly times to beat were set by Saxo Bank riders Jens Voigt and Gustav Larsson, with Larsson 13 seconds better of the two (though Voigt's ride was enough to propel him into fourth place in the General Classification). They stood for almost the whole stage, with noted time trial specialists such as George Hincapie and Stef Clement failing to top them. Even former world time trial champion Michael Rogers could not beat Larsson's time. The reigning American national champion David Zabriskie was the first to beat Larsson, by nine seconds. Yellow jersey wearer and two-time defending Tour of California and Solvang time trial champion Levi Leipheimer was the last man to take the course. He was two seconds better than Zabriskie at the intermediate time check and had eight seconds on him at the line, winning the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 7\nSaturday, February 21Santa Clarita to PasadenaStart Time: 12:00 noonMiles: 88.9KM: 143End ETA: 3:17\u20133:50 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 7\nA very aggressive first hour of racing saw many attempted attacks reeled in by the race leader's Astana team. It wasn't until nearly the half the stage, about 40 miles, had been covered that a successful breakaway group of ten formed. They attained a maximum advantage of four minutes, but for the better part of the stage the time gap held steady between two and three minutes, as Astana was content to let them get that lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 7\nOn the descent of the one climb of the day, King of the Mountains leader Francisco Mancebo clipped a small rock and tumbled off his bike, suffering a concussion and elbow and hand fractures, which forced him to abandon the race and surrender the KOM lead to Jason McCartney. The riders took five laps on a finishing circuit in the city of Pasadena. On the second lap, an even split in the breakaway formed, with five riders coming 20 seconds clear of the others, but by the end of the third, the group was one again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 7\nOn the fourth lap, Fr\u00e4nk Schleck attacked from the back of the group and got clear for several minutes, but was eventually caught. The last split saw Rinaldo Nocentini, Hayden Roulston, and Pieter Weening come free on the sprint toward the finish, with Nocentini winning the stage. The other members of the breakaway finished 7 seconds back, and the peloton was 2' 19\" behind the stage winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 8\nSunday, February 22Rancho Bernardo to EscondidoStart Time: 12:00 noonMiles: 96.8KM: 155.8End ETA: 3:34\u20134:43 PM", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 8\nWhat was called the Tour of California's queen stage again saw very early attacking. Jason McCartney joined a three-man break that came free of the peloton almost immediately and topped the first two of four categorized climbs on the course in first position, assuring his victory in the King of the Mountains classification. Numerous splits occurred going up the mammoth Mount Palomar climb, with race leader Levi Leipheimer isolated from his teammates at one point, for the first and only time in the Tour, as he had to answer attacks from David Zabriskie and Michael Rogers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Stages, Stage 8\nA group of GC leaders, along with most of team Astana, consolidated on the descent. Four riders came clear and were in the lead approaching the last climb of the day - Vincenzo Nibali, Fr\u00e4nk Schleck, Bauke Mollema, and Glen Chadwick. Nibali, 2' 21\" behind Leipheimer, was a small threat to the race lead, but the Astana-paced leading group kept the time gap at around one minute. After numerous attacks, only Nibali and Schleck remained out front. The chase from the Astana-led group proved too slow to catch Nibali and Schleck, and they were able to survive to finish and contest the stage win between themselves. Schleck opened up a small gap on the Italian in the final straightaway and won the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nIn the 2009 Tour of California, five different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Tour of California, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Tour of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nAdditionally, there was also a sprints classification, akin to what is called the points classification in other races, which awarded a green jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage. The winner got 15 points, second place 12, third 10, fourth 7, and one point less per place down the line, to a single point for tenth. In addition, some points could be won in intermediate sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nThere was also a mountains classification, which awarded a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized, either first, second, third, or fourth category, with more points available for the harder climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nThere was also a youth classification. This classification is calculated the same way as the general classification, but only young cyclists (under 23) are in. The leader of the young rider classification received a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nThe fifth jersey was not awarded on the basis of a time or points-based classification. It was for each stage's \"Most Courageous\" rider, akin to the combativity award in the Tour de France. The rider who received this award wore a blue jersey in the next stage. Unlike the Tour de France's combativity award, there was no overall award given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nThere was also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage were added, and the team with the lowest time was leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nJersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205339-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of California, Classification leadership\nIf a cyclist leads two or more competitions at the end of a stage, he receives all those jerseys. The next stage, he can only wear one jersey, and he wears the jersey representing leadership in the most important competition (yellow first, then green, then red, then white). The other jerseys that the cyclists holds are worn in the next stage by the second-placed rider (or, if needed, third- or fourth-placed rider) of that classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205340-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Eritrea\nThe 2009 Tour of Eritrea was the 10th edition of the Tour of Eritrea. It started on 16 December ended on December 20. This latest Tour of Eritrea 2009 edition invited 6 national teams in recognition of its acceptance by International Cycling Union (UCI) as one Africa\u2019s internationally recognized tours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders\nThe 2009 Tour of Flanders cycle race is the 93rd edition of the monument classic and took place on 5 April. The course is 259.7\u00a0km long and goes from Bruges to Meerbeke. The weather during the race was sunny and warm at 12\u00a0\u00b0C. The race was the fifth event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders\nPre -race favorites included Filippo Pozzato (winner of the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen and a stage in the Three Days of De Panne), Tom Boonen (winner in 2005 and 2006), Stijn Devolder (winner in 2008), Nick Nuyens (2nd in 2008) and Heinrich Haussler (2nd in Milan \u2013 San Remo, 4th in Dwars door Vlaanderen, several other impressive results in 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders\nIn a victory highly similar to the 2008 Tour of Flanders, Stijn Devolder powered away late to the win. With what pundits called the strongest team in the race behind him, the QuickStep rider was able to ride away, while other teams marked teammates Tom Boonen and Sylvain Chavanel. With riders such as favorite Pozzato watching Boonen, Devolder found the strength to solo to victory. Haussler, who was riding in support of Thor Hushovd planned not to contest the victory but said he was told by Hushovd to challenge Devolder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders\n[The race] was brought to life with 50km remaining when Italian Manuel Quinziato, Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel and three-time runner-up Leif Hoste led a six-rider breakaway. However, they were gradually caught by race favorites Devolder, compatriot and dual winner Tom Boonen and Italian Filippo Pozzato. Devolder made his decisive move over the crest of the penultimate climb, the Muur-Kapelmuur, and by the time he had reached the final climb, the Bosberg, he had an unassailable advantage. The rest of the breakaway riders were eventually caught by the peloton and German Haussler won the sprint for second place which was marred by a nasty crash on the final straight into Meerbeke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders, General standings\nAlmost exactly one minute after Devolder crossed the line 29 other riders arrived, and all were awarded the same time. Beyond the top ten, these included: 11 Alexandre Pichot, 12 Johnny Hoogerland, 13 Roger Hammond, 14 Karsten Kroon, 15 Nick Nuyens, 16 Roy Sentjens, 17 Kevin Van Impe, 18 Frederik Willems, 19 Bert Scheirlinckx, 20 Tom Boonen, 21 Gerben L\u00f6wik, 22 Staf Scheirlinckx, 23 Serguei Ivanov, 24 Andreas Klier, 25 Preben Van Hecke, 26 Assan Bazayev, 27 Leif Hoste, 28 Paolo Longo Borghini, 29 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guesdon, 30 Juan Antonio Flecha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205341-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders, General standings\nA crash during the group sprint for second place marred the finish of some riders in this group, including Thor Hushovd, George Hincapie, Bernhard Eisel, and Gregory Rast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205342-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders for Women\nThe sixth edition of the Tour of Flanders for Women cycling race was held on 5 April 2009. The race started in Oudenaarde and finished in Meerbeke, containing 11 climbs and two flat cobbled sections, covering a total distance of 130 km. It was the second leg of the 2009 UCI Women's Road World Cup. The race was won by German rider Ina-Yoko Teutenberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205342-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Flanders for Women, Race Summary\nThe race was animated by a break from Alona Andruk who gained up to three minutes but was caught before the Muur van Geraardsbergen. On the Muur, Marianne Vos, Emma Johansson, Noemi Cantele and Nicole Cooke broke clear. On the Bosberg, the quartet was joined by six other riders, when Marianne Vos attacked again. Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam led the chase and caught Vos at 4 km from the finish. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg won the sprint ahead of Kirsten Wild and Emma Johansson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland\nThe 2009 Tour of Ireland was the 35th running of the Tour of Ireland stage race. The event was held from 21\u201323 August. It consisted of three stages, and was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 1\nThis stage began at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Enniskerry and immediately the peloton set to climbing, with a third-category climb coming after 7\u00a0km. The course continued to be hilly after that, marked by the first-category Mount Leinster climb coming about halfway into the stage. There were two more categorized climbs and a few smaller rises later on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 1\nMany ultimately unsuccessful breakaway attempts occurred in the stage's first hour, including defending mountains champion Matt Wilson topping the first category three climb in first position. The first escapee to stay away for any amount of time was MTN's Jay Thomson, who was the first over Mount Leinster and Coppanagh, putting him second in the King of the Mountains standings at the end of the day (as Wilson took maximum points from the peloton on those climbs). Thomson badly bonked on the day's last climb, and wound up being passed by escapees from the main peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 1\nFirst to pass him by was Philip Lavery of the Irish National Team, and then came the rest of the 23-man group, one that included numerous big names such as Lance Armstrong, Stuart O'Grady, and defending Tour of Ireland champion Marco Pinotti. With Mark Cavendish stuck in the peloton 2' 12\" behind the leaders, the stage win was wide open. After numerous attacks and counterattacks Russell Downing was the man to time his sprint just right, getting to the line a second ahead of seven other riders. Armstrong, O'Grady, and twelve others finished 16 seconds back. Time bonuses won at the finish line and in intermediate sprints meant the first General Classification was not the same as the Stage 1 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nThe first An Post sprint of the day was at Ardfinnan after 9km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nThe climbing again began early on this stage, with a second-category climb occurring after 27.5\u00a0km. After the descent and one short uncategorized hill, the course was flat until another second-category climb, Musheramore, at the 135\u00a0km mark. Immediately after the descent from Musheramore was Curragh, a climb that was shorter, but steeper, and was categorized higher at first-category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nMark Cassidy of An Post\u2013Sean Kelly sprinted out of the bunch immediately after the neutralized section of this stage. He was joined by Rabobank's Dennis Van Winden, and they were together through the three sprints and the first two climbs on the stage. The peloton was quite willing to let these two get a huge advantage, and their time gap over the main field ballooned to over ten minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nIt was between the third sprint and the last climb that Van Winden attacked and shed Cassidy, who hit the wall and wound up finishing over nine minutes back of the peloton at the finish. Van Winden was caught shortly after the descent from Curragh, but he managed to finish with the peloton, despite having been in a breakaway for 174 of the stage's 196 kilometers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0005-0002", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nVan Winden won each of the day's climbs and in so doing poised to challenge Matt Wilson for the King of the Mountains championship, but Wilson took maximum points from the peloton on each climb and finished the day with a 4-point lead. The mass sprint finish took place, with Mark Cavendish easily outclassing the other sprinters in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 2\nEach of the 23 riders who made the selective break in Stage 1 finished with the peloton, meaning race leader Russell Downing had 22 riders within 26 seconds of him going into the decisive third stage. It was on a stage much like this in the 2008 Tour of Ireland that Downing lost his race lead, but he expressed confidence after the stage that he would be able to keep it this year, as the finishing circuit in Cork for the 2009 race is shorter than it was in 2008. Team Columbia-HTC made it clear that their focus for Stage 3 would not be Cavendish, who freely admitted the circuit was probably too tough for him, but for defending Tour of Ireland champion Marco Pinotti, 11 seconds back of Downing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 3\nThis course defines undulation, with more than a dozen rises in elevation, though only three are categorized. The peloton will take three laps of a finishing circuit in Cork, taking three passes over the first-category St. Patrick's Hill. Uniquely, only the second and third passes over the climb will count toward the climbers' prize, while the first pass is an intermediate sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 3\nAs was expected, the third stage broke the field up more than either of the first two had. The largest group to cross the line together was the eight riders classified third through tenth, those with the same time as Matti Breschel. Many riders crossed the line alone, and two members of Team Joker Bianchi finished almost 21 minutes behind the stage winner. 57 riders also withdrew during the stage (one did not start), including the two the event had most used to promote itself, Lance Armstrong and Mark Cavendish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 3\nThere was no significant breakaway on the day. Rather, the exact opposite seemed to take place, as riders little by little dropped off the pace of the leading group and either abandoned the race or finished many minutes behind the leaders. The last two together were Lars Petter Nordhaug and race leader Russell Downing. Since Downing had the event overall sewn up, Nordhaug took the stage. Downing's performance on this stage marked a significant improvement over the Cork stage from the 2008 Tour, where he, as race leader, was dropped and conceded the final yellow jersey to Marco Pinotti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205343-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Tour of Ireland, Stages, Stage 3\nOn this day, it was Pinotti who was dropped before the finish, finding himself in the first chase group 33 seconds behind Nordhaug and Downing. The climbs were taken by riders who had not yet scored any significant points in that classification, so Matt Wilson was able to come away with his second consecutive King of the Mountains win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri\nThe 2009 Tour of Missouri was the third annual edition of a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Missouri. It began on September 7, 2009 with seven days of racing. The Tour of Missouri is considered the second highest profile domestic race in the United States this year, bettered only by the Tour of California. Television coverage of the race will be limited to daily 30 minute recorded highlights on Versus, and some local TV station coverage. Live streaming of the race will be available for all stages online via the Official Tour of Missouri web site Tour Tracker and the Universal Sports web site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri, Stages, Stage 1\nSeptember 7, St. Louis Circuit Race - 75\u00a0mi (121\u00a0km)Numerous attacks were launched on the 7.5 mile circuit, but only the trio of Tomas Vaitkus, Chris Anker S\u00f8rensen, and Mois\u00e9s Aldape were able to stay away for any significant amount of time, picking up the majority of bonus seconds for the stage. Team Columbia\u2013HTC kept close tabs on the break, keen to lead out sprinter Mark Cavendish. Thor Hushovd launched the sprint with a broken wheel, sustained just before the sprint, but was passed by Cavendish and Juan Jos\u00e9 Haedo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri, Stages, Stage 2\nSeptember 8, Ste. Genevieve - Cape Girardeau, 112.4\u00a0mi (180.9\u00a0km)Timmy Duggan, Kiel Reijnen and Fran\u00e7ois Parisien were able to form the day's main breakaway at 57 kilometers, but Team Columbia\u2013HTC and Team Saxo Bank reeled them in on behalf of their sprinters. Mark Cavendish was once again able to get on Thor Hushovd's wheel, and took his second win in as many days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri, Stages, Stage 4\nSeptember 10, St. James - Jefferson City, 109.2\u00a0mi (175.7\u00a0km)Mark Cavendish, the winner of the first two stages, did not start stage 4 due to respiratory illness. Another day-long breakaway was formed containing Bernard Van Ulden, Jeff Louder, Bradley White and Michael Creed. The Cerv\u00e9lo TestTeam and Garmin\u2013Slipstream led peloton never let them get much more than three minutes advantage. They were finally caught just before the finishing circuit, a three lap circuit containing the \"Capital wall\". Multiple attacks were launched on the steep hill, but none succeeded. There was a large crash in the back of the field, claiming George Hincapie and the stage winner's brother, Lucas Sebastian Haedo. Juan Jos\u00e9 Haedo was able to outsprint yellow and green jersey holder Thor Hushovd to take the stage win and the yellow jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 867]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri, Stages, Stage 6\nSeptember 12, Chillicothe - Saint Joseph 110.3\u00a0mi (177.5\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205344-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Missouri, Stages, Stage 7\nSeptember 13, Kansas City circuit race - 72.3\u00a0mi (116.4\u00a0km)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205345-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Qatar\nThe 2009 Tour of Qatar was held from 1 February to 6 February 2009 in Qatar. It was a multiple stage road cycling race that took part over six stages with a total of 685 kilometres (426\u00a0mi) and was part of the 2008-2009 UCI Asia Tour. The Race was won by Tom Boonen of the Quick Step team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 308]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205345-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Qatar\nDuring the night after stage 4 Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf of the Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator team died in his sleep  of a suspected heart attack. The organisers cancelled stage 5 and held a 'cycling procession' instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205346-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of Turkey\nThe 2009 Tour of Turkey is the 45th edition of professional road bicycle racing Tour of Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 2009 Tour of the Basque Country, the 66th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country stage cycling race, started on 6 April and ended on 11 April 2009. The race was won by Alberto Contador, making this his second Tour of the Basque Country victory in a row. The race was the sixth event in the inaugural UCI World Ranking series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2\n7 April 2009 - Ataun to Villatuerta, 169\u00a0km (105\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3\n8 April 2009 - Villatuerta to \u00c9ibar, 163\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4\n9 April 2009 - \u00c9ibar to G\u00fce\u00f1es, 152\u00a0km (94\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5\n10 April 2009 - G\u00fce\u00f1es to Zalla, 162\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205347-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6\n11 April 2009 - Zalla, 24\u00a0km (15\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205348-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Towson Tigers football team\nThe 2009 Towson Tigers football team represented Towson University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Rob Ambrose and played their home games at Johnny Unitas Stadium. They are a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 2\u20139, 1\u20137 in CAA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205349-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach\nThe 2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the second round of the 2009 IndyCar Series season, held on April 19, 2009. The race was contested over 85 laps of the 1.968-mile (3.167\u00a0km) street course in Long Beach, California. Dario Franchitti recorded his first win since his 2007 championship win, after benefitting from an early full-course caution, having made a pitstop the lap before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205350-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350\nThe 2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event held on June 21, 2009 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Kasey Kahne picked up his first-ever win on a road course after leading 37 laps, giving car owner Richard Petty his first win as an owner in 10 years. All of Petty's cars finished in the top 10, except for Reed Sorenson, who finished a distant 40th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205350-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race results\nFailed to Qualify: Scott Speed (#82), Tom Hubert (#27), Chris Cook (#37), Brian Simo (#36)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205350-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race results\n* Scott Speed's team paid Joe Nemechek to let Speed drive his car in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205351-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trail Appliances Curling Classic\nThe 2009 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held October 9\u201312 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2009-10 Women's World Curling Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205351-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trail Appliances Curling Classic\nThe total purse of the event is $56,000 and the winning team received $14,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205351-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trail Appliances Curling Classic\nJennifer Jones and her Winnipeg, Manitoba rink won their second title, and fifth Grand Slam title. They defeated the Chinese national team in the final. The Chinese team was the first non-Canadian team to make it to a Grand Slam final in any event, men'ts or women's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205352-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trampoline World Championships\nThe 26th Trampoline World Championships were held at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia from 11  to 14 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205353-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trani Cup\nThe 2009 Trani Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Trani, Italy between 17 and 23 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205353-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trani Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205353-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trani Cup, Champions, Doubles\nJamie Delgado /  Jamie Murray def. Simon Greul /  Alessandro Motti, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [12\u201310]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205354-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trani Cup \u2013 Doubles\nJamie Delgado and Jamie Murray defeated Simon Greul and Alessandro Motti 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [12\u201310] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205355-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trani Cup \u2013 Singles\nDaniel K\u00f6llerer won this tournament, after defeating Filippo Volandri 6\u20133, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205356-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trans-Am Series\nThe 2009 Trans-Am Series was the 41st running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. It was also the first official season since 2005. (Although the series held two races at Heartland Park Topeka in 2006, the races were considered after the fact to be exhibition events and no championship is officially counted.). Tomy Drissi won the series championship over the seven rounds contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series\nThe 2009 Tri Nations Series was the fourteenth annual Tri Nations rugby union series between the national rugby union teams of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, respectively nicknamed the All Blacks, Wallabies, and Springboks. The Springboks secured the season crown in their final match on 12 September, defeating the defending series champion All Blacks 32\u201329 in Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Background\nNew Zealand, South Africa and Australia were ranked first, second, and third in the world respectively by the International Rugby Board (IRB) immediately before the start of the Tri Nations on 30 June 2009. For South Africa, the tournament comes on the back of the British & Irish Lions tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Tri-Nations 2009\nOn 18 July, the All Blacks drew first blood in the series, coming from behind to defeat the Wallabies 22\u201316 at Eden Park. The All Blacks then departed for a two-test series against the Springboks in South Africa (Bloemfontein and Durban). The Boks won the first test 28\u201319, a result that not only gave them the series lead but also put them ahead of the All Blacks for first place in the IRB World Rankings. The following week, they defeated the All Blacks again, with Morn\u00e9 Steyn scoring all of their points in a 31\u201319 win. Steyn's performance broke the previous mark of New Zealand's Andrew Mehrtens for individual points in a Tri Nations match. The Boks completed their home leg with a 29\u201317 win over the Wallabies in Cape Town, with Steyn scoring 24 of their points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Tri-Nations 2009\nThe series then travelled to Australia for the Wallabies' three home matches. It opened with the second Bledisloe Cup match with the All Blacks, won by the All Blacks 19\u201318. The Springboks then picked up a 32\u201325 bonus-point win over the Wallabies in Perth. The Wallabies then defeated the Springboks 21\u20136, at Brisbane. The Springboks had to wait another week to try grasp the Tri-Nations title, but had to face the All Blacks at home in Hamilton. The Boks claimed the Tri Nations crown for the first time since 2004 with a 32\u201329 win. In the final match of the series on 19 September, the All Blacks thumped the Wallabies 33\u20136 in Wellington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 682]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Tri-Nations 2009\nThe final match of the Bledisloe Cup series between Australia and New Zealand took place after the Tri-Nations, on 11 October (the first 3 matches of the series were part of the Tri-Nations).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, South Africa vs. New Zealand\nTouch judges: Nigel Owens Tim HayesTelevision match official: Johann Meuwesen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, South Africa vs. New Zealand II\nTouch judges: Alain Rolland Tim HayesTelevision match official: Shaun Veldsman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, Australia vs. New Zealand\nTouch judges: Craig Joubert Cobus WesselsTelevision match official: George Ayoub", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, Australia vs. South Africa\nTouch judges: Chris Pollock Vinny MunroTelevision match official: Keith Brown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, New Zealand vs. South Africa\nTouch judges: Wayne Barnes Stuart DickinsonTelevision match official: George Ayoub", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205357-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tri Nations Series, Fixtures, New Zealand vs. Australia\nTouch judges: Wayne Barnes Cobus WesselsTelevision match official: Shaun Veldsman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205358-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Triglav Trophy\nThe 2009 Triglav Trophy was held between April 1 and 4, 2009. It was an international figure skating competition held annually in Jesenice, Slovenia. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles across the levels of senior, junior, and novice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic\nThe 2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic was the fifth season of the TOYOTA Classic, which is a knockout tournament competition for teams in the TT Pro League and the National Super League. The tournament took place at the conclusion of the 2009 season. San Juan Jabloteh entered as the tournament's defending champion. The tournament commenced on 30 October, with 16 teams competing in single elimination matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Qualification\nEvery club from the TT Pro League automatically qualified for the competition except for Tobago United who did not enter. In addition, following the conclusion of the National Super League season, the top six teams ranked according to the league table qualified. All teams entered the competition at the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Qualification\nThe draw for the first round for the fifth edition of the tournament was conducted by Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene on 28 October 2009, at the TOYOTA Trinidad and Tobago Limited Barataria showroom. The 16 teams in the competition, valued at TT$50,000 in total sponsorship, were drawn into four groups. All clubs were seeded based on their positions in their respective leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Qualification\nSt. Ann's Rangers, San Juan Jabloteh, Defence Force, and Joe Public were drawn as the top seeds in Groups A, B, C, and D, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Qualification\nThe following clubs have qualified for this year's edition of the TOYOTA Classic:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2009 TOYOTA Classic, as announced by the TT Pro League and National Super League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Results\nAll matches were played over two 45 minutes halves, and in the process if the match were drawn at the end of regulation time, penalty kicks determined the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Results, First round\nOn the competition's opening night, W Connection dumped Caledonia AIA out of the tournament with a 3\u20130 victory on penalty kicks after each team scored a goal in regulation. There were no other surprises as Joe Public easily defeated Police, Ma Pau claimed a 2\u20131 victory over Joe Public (SL), and St. Ann's Rangers used a late Jahvon Morris goal to advance past fellow Pro League side FC South End. On the following day, Defence Force defeated T&TEC by a score 3\u20130, whereas San Juan Jabloteh mauled Defence Force (SL) 5\u20130 to advance to the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Results, Quarterfinals\nSan Juan Jabloteh survived a scoreless match after regulation to defeat Petrotrin on penalties 3\u20132 and advanced to the semifinals. Likewise, St. Ann's Rangers needed eight penalty kicks to defeat the lone National Super League team left in the tournament, 1976 FC Phoenix. Ma Pau and Joe Public continued their run to the semifinals with wins over Pro League sides W Connection and Defence Force respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Results, Semifinals\nJabloteh held off St. Ann's Rangers 4\u20133 following two late goals from Rangers to advance to the final on 13 November. In the other semifinal match, Joe Public edged Ma Pau on penalties to meet Jabloteh in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205359-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Classic, Results, Final\nJoe Public claimed the title on 13 November with a 4\u20130 mauling of Jabloteh at Marvin Lee Stadium. Although Jabloteh lost in the final, teammates Marvin Oliver and Noel Williams walked away as the tournament's top goal scorers with four goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy\nThe 2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy was the 80th season of the FA Trophy, which is the oldest football competition for teams in Trinidad and Tobago. The tournament took place at the conclusion of the 2009 TT Pro League season. Caledonia AIA entered as the tournament's defending champion. The tournament commenced on 15 November, with 32 teams competing in single elimination matches and concluded on 9 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Qualification\nThe tournament featured teams from the top three levels of the football pyramid. These three levels and 8 leagues, namely the TT Pro League, National Super League, Central FA's Premier Division, Eastern FA's Premier Division, Eastern Counties' Football Union, Northern FA's Premier Division, Southern FA's Premier Division, and Tobago FA's Premier Division, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final team delegations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Qualification\nThe top eight finishers in the Pro League for the 2009 season all qualified for the competition. In addition, the top seven finishers from the Super League also qualified. However, only three clubs from 5 of the 6 regional football associations were awarded qualification into this year's edition, with the Tobago FA as the exception as they only received two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Qualification\nThe following clubs qualified for the 80th edition of the FA Trophy:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2009 FA Trophy, as announced by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results\nAll matches were played over two 45 minute halves, and in the process if the match were drawn at the end of regulation time, then two additional 15-minute halves were used, and if necessary, penalty kicks if still drawn after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, First round\nThe draw for the most prestigious knockout tournament held by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association was made on 2 November 2009 at its head office in Port of Spain, Trinidad with ties played in the week beginning 15 November 2009. The only Pro League match-up featured W Connection against FC South End. As a result, seven Pro League clubs advanced to the next round with little difficulty. The lone upset of the round occurred when Joe Public from the Eastern FA Premier Division defeated Club Sando of the National Super League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Second round\nThe draw for the second round took place on 16 November 2009 and involved the 16 winning teams from the first round. These were from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Second round\nMatches in the second round were played in the week commencing 23 November 2009. The main match-up in the round featured rivals San Juan Jabloteh and W Connection. In the end, Jabloteh were defeated 3\u20131 and finished their 2009 season without a trophy for the first time in five years. In the other all-Pro League fixture, Keyon Edwards scored two late goals to guarantee Caledonia AIA a place in the quarterfinals after a 2\u20130 victory over Defence Force (PL). Valtrin United stunned Defence Force (SL) 2\u20131 with a penalty converted by Matthew Ramirez in the 90th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 626]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe draw for the quarterfinals took place on 25 November 2009 and involved the 8 winning teams from the second round. These were from the following levels:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Quarterfinals\nMatches in the quarterfinals were played on 30 November 2009. Hughton Hector scored a hat-trick to lead W Connection to a 5\u20131 win over Valtrin United. In the only all-Pro League encounter, Caledonia AIA and Ma Pau ended 1\u20131 after regulation time following a late equaliser from Stallions' Kerry Daniel in the 90th minute. Caledonia AIA won the match 6\u20135 on penalties. In the other two quarterfinal matches at Marvin Lee Stadium, Joe Public (PL) won the battle of Tunapuna by defeating Joe Public (EFA) by a score of 6 to 0. United Petrotrin avoided giant-killers Siparia Spurs by a 3\u20131 scoreline to make it an all-Pro League semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 695]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Semifinals\nThe draw for the semifinals took place on 1 December 2009. It consisted of Caledonia AIA, Joe Public (PL), United Petrotrin, and W Connection from the Pro League (1). The semifinal matches took place at Marvin Lee Stadium on 7 December 2009. W Connection defeated United Petrotrin 1\u20130 to reach the final of the competition. The lone goal in the match came from Jonathan Fa\u00f1a, who netted the winner in the 82nd minute. In the other semifinal, Joe Public (PL) defeated Caledonia AIA 3\u20131 to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205360-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy, Results, Final\nThe final was played at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad on 9 December 2009. The match was contested by Joe Public (PL), who defeated Caledonia AIA 3\u20131 in their semifinal, and W Connection who beat United Petrotrin 1\u20130. Joe Public (PL) used an own goal by Eder Gilmer Arias in the 90th minute to force extra time after the match ended 2\u20132. The Eastern Lions then capitalized in the 117th minute when, the tournament's leading scorer with eight goals, Conrad Smith slotted home the winner. The win marked Joe Public's fourth title of the year. Whereas, W Connection's suffered their second consecutive loss in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield\nThe 2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield was the inaugural season of the Lucozade Sport Goal Shield, which is a knockout tournament competition for teams in the TT Pro League. The structure of the competition not only allowed the winners and runners-up healthy purses at the end of the tournament, but more so give an added incentive for more goals to be scored throughout the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield\nIn particular, the winner of the competition was awarded TT$20,000 plus an additional TT$3,000 for every goal scored in the final, TT$2,000 for every goal in the semifinals, and TT$1,000 for each goal scored in the quarterfinals. Whereas, the runner-up was awarded TT$10,000 plus TT$1,500 for every goal scored in the final, TT$1,000 for every goal in the semifinals, and TT$500 for each goal scored in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Qualification\nSeeding was determined from the league standings after the fourth match day of the 2009 season. However, the teams which played four matches, their goals and points from Match Day 4 were not entered into the qualifying table to ensure that all teams start evenly. Thus, only points from three matches were considered for the draw and the clubs were drawn based on their positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Qualification\nThe bottom two teams were placed in a penalty shootout to determine which team would advance to the qualifying round. Teams ranked seventh to ninth were then placed directly into the qualifying round which will determine the seventh and eight spots in the quarterfinals. Finally, the teams ranked from first to sixth automatically qualified for the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Qualification\nThe automatic quarterfinal qualifiers in order of league position were: San Juan Jabloteh, United Petrotrin, Joe Public, Caledonia AIA, W Connection, and Defence Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2009 Lucozade Sport Goal Shield, as announced by the TT Pro League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Results\nAll matches except the Penalty shootout were played for 90 minutes duration, at the end of which if the match was still tied, penalty-kicks were used to determine the match winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Results, Penalty shootout\nOn 29 May, Tobago United became the first club to win two penalty shootouts on one night, when they first defeated FC South End in the penalty shootout by a score of 4\u20132 to advance to the qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Results, Qualifying round\nThirty minutes after their penalty shootout win, Tobago United faced Police in the qualifying round. The Tobago Boys picked up the unusual achievement by outscoring Police 5\u20133 on penalties after the match ended 0\u20130 in regular time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205361-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield, Results, Final\nThe competition culminated with the inaugural final, held at Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella on 26 June. The match was contested by W Connection and Defence Force, with W Connection taking the title 3\u20130. Jonathan Fa\u00f1a, of Dominican Republic, scored five goals to lead the tournament and W Connection to the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup\nThe 2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup was the tenth season of the First Citizens Cup, which is the league cup competition for Trinidad and Tobago teams competing in the TT Pro League. Continuing from previous seasons, the slogan for the year's league cup was No Room for Losers and was sponsored by First Citizens Bank for the ninth consecutive year. To keep with the tag-line, this year's edition will only reward prizes to the cup winners and runner-up. The Savonetta Boys of W Connection entered as the five-time defending cup holders by winning the 2008 league cup over Joe Public 6\u20135 in a penalty shootout after the match ended 2\u20132 in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Qualification\nSeeding for the competition was determined from the league standings following the twentieth league match day. The bottom two teams, Tobago United and Police, were placed in the 10th place playoff to determine who would advance to face Defence Force in one of two qualifying round matches, with the other game matching St. Ann's Rangers up with FC South End.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Qualification\nThe two teams that win their respective quarterfinal matches will meet up with the top six teams in the Pro League. The automatic quarterfinal qualifiers in order of league position are: Joe Public, Caledonia AIA, Ma Pau, San Juan Jabloteh, United Petrotrin, and W Connection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2009 First Citizens Cup, as announced by the TT Pro League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results\nAll matches were played for 90 minutes duration, at the end of which if the match was still tied, penalty-kicks were used to determine the match winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results, 10th place playoff\nThe knockout cup began with the 10th place playoff between the bottom two clubs in the 2009 season following Match Day 20, Tobago United and Police, on 1 September at Plymouth Recreation Grounds. The Tobago Boys came out on top by a score of 3\u20131 following goals from Collie Hercules, Benjamin Bottino, and Dwayne Jack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results, Qualifying round\nSt. Ann's Rangers used three saves from Haitian Fortunato Valcourt from penalty kicks to defeat FC South End and advanced to face top-seed Joe Public. In the earlier match, Defence Force scored two first half goals on its way past Tobago United by a 2\u20131 score into the quarterfinals to face Caledonia AIA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results, Quarterfinals\nThe biggest surprise of the tournament came in the quarterfinals, when Ma Pau upset the defending champions W Connection at Manny Ramjohn Stadium by a 3\u20131 score. Joining the Casino Boys were Joe Public, San Juan Jabloteh, and Defence Force into the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results, Semifinals\nOn 25 September, Joe Public used goals from Trent Noel and Seon Power to defeat San Juan Jabloteh and book their place in the final. In the other semifinal, Defence Force shutout Ma Pau 2\u20130 with goals from Richard Roy and Devorn Jorsling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205362-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago League Cup, Results, Final\nThe tournament was concluded on 2 October when Defence Force upset Joe Public 1\u20130 in Marvin Lee Stadium to claim their second First Citizens Cup title and end their six-year trophy drought. On the other hand, Joe Public suffered their second consecutive defeat in the league cup final having lost to W Connection on penalty kicks in last year's edition. Teammates Devorn Jorsling and Richard Roy finished as the tournament's top goal scorers with 3 goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl\nThe 2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl was the sixth season of the Digicel Pro Bowl, which is a knockout tournament competition for teams in the TT Pro League. The tournament took place at the conclusion of the 2009 season. Caledonia AIA entered as the tournament's defending champion. The tournament commenced on 17 November 2009 with 10 teams competing in single elimination matches and concluded with the final on 11 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Qualification\nEvery team based on the island of Trinidad took part in the tournament, with Tobago United as the lone Pro League representative that did not participate. Seeding for this year's competition was determined by each team's league position following the 2009 season. The bottom four teams in the table, United Petrotrin, FC South End, St. Ann's Rangers, and Police entered the tournament in the qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Qualification\nThe two winning teams from the qualifying round will take on the top two seeds Joe Public and Caledonia AIA, respectively. The other four clubs that qualified for the Pro League Big Six also entered the Pro Bowl directly in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Schedule\nThe schedule for the 2009 Digicel Pro Bowl, as announced by the TT Pro League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Results\nAll matches were played for 90 minutes duration, at the end of which if the match was still tied, penalty-kicks were used to determine the match winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Results, Qualifying round\nOn 17 November, St. Ann's Rangers pulled an upset over FC South End 1\u20130 with Josimar Belgrave providing the lone goal. In the other qualifying round match, Police also stunned United Petrotrin 2\u20131 to complete the teams in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Results, Quarterfinals\nIn the quarterfinals on 20 November, Joe Public used four goals from 2009 Golden Boot winner, Kerry Baptiste, to a 9\u20131 win against Police. Ma Pau joined the Eastern Lions in the semifinals, with a win over W Connection at Manny Ramjohn Stadium. On the other side of the bracket, Caledonia AIA defeated St. Ann's Rangers by a score 5\u20130 following a hat-trick from Kendall Velox, while Defence Force provided the closest match in the round with their win over San Juan Jabloteh 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Results, Semifinals\nOn 4 December, Joe Public and Caledonia AIA both registered 1\u20130 victories in the semifinals to advance to the final. The Eastern Lions used a Hayden Tinto goal in the thirteenth minute to upend Ma Pau. However, Caledonia AIA needed an 81st minute free kick from winger Kareem Joseph to defeat Defence Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205363-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl, Results, Final\nIn the final, Joe Public came from behind to earn a draw 1\u20131 in regulation time before Colombian goalkeeper Alejandro Figueroa saved a Caledonia AIA's Keon Daniel penalty kick to give Joe Public a 5\u20133 win from the penalty spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205364-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Triton Oil Scandal\nThe 2009 Triton Oil scandal involved the unauthorized release of oil by Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) without informing financiers. This oil scandal became public in January 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205364-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Triton Oil Scandal\nThe release of the oil occurred in 2008 when Triton Oil Company was allowed by KPC to withdraw oil amounting to Kshs 7.6 billion or (US$98.7 million). The company collapsed shortly afterward, withdrawing the oil and selling it to the market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205364-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Triton Oil Scandal\nTriton Oil was owned by Yagnesh Devani. Kenya has issued a warrant to arrest him, but as of January 2010 he was at large and believed to be in hiding abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205365-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on\nThe 2009 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on was the 26th edition of the Tro-Bro L\u00e9on cycle race and was held on 19 April 2009. The race was won by Sa\u00efd Haddou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205366-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia\nThe 2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orbetello, Italy between 20 July and 26 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205366-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205366-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received a special exempt into the main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205366-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia, Champions, Doubles\nPaolo Lorenzi /  Giancarlo Petrazzuolo def. Alessio di Mauro /  Manuel Jorquera, 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, [10\u20136]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205367-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia \u2013 Doubles\nPaolo Lorenzi and Giancarlo Petrazzuolo won in the final 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, [10\u20136], against Alessio di Mauro and Manuel Jorquera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205368-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Bellaveglia \u2013 Singles\nOleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., who received a special exempt into the main draw, became the first champion of this tournament. He defeated 3rd-seeded Pablo And\u00fajar 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205369-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Federale\nThe 2009 Trofeo Federale is the twenty-fourth edition of the San Marino four-club supercup competition. The competition will begin on 23 September 2009. The clubs involved are the league champions Tre Fiori, cup winners Juvenes/Dogana and cup runners-up Domagnano. Because Juvenes/Dogana were also the league runners-up, the league semi-finalist Murata are also admitted into the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205370-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi\nThe 2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cremona, Italy between May 18 and May 24, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205370-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205370-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205370-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi, Champions, Doubles\nColin Fleming /  Ken Skupski def. Daniele Bracciali /  Alessandro Motti, 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205371-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi \u2013 Doubles\nEduardo Schwank and Du\u0161an Vemi\u0107 were the champions in 2009, but he chose to not defend their title. Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20131, against Daniele Bracciali and Alessandro Motti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205372-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Trofeo Paolo Corazzi \u2013 Singles\nEduardo Schwank was the defending champion, but he chose not to play this year. Benjamin Becker won in the final 7\u20136(3), 6\u20131, against Izak van der Merwe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205373-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles\nThe 2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence, France between 7 and 13 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205373-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205373-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles, Champions, Doubles\nJi\u0159\u00ed Krko\u0161ka /  Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko def. Ruben Bemelmans /  Niels Desein, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, [10\u20133]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205374-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles \u2013 Doubles\nJi\u0159\u00ed Krko\u0161ka and Luk\u00e1\u0161 Lacko won in the final 6\u20131, 3\u20136, [10\u20133], against Ruben Bemelmans and Niels Desein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205374-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nAll seed pairs received a bye to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205375-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Alpilles \u2013 Singles\n3rd-seeded Marcos Baghdatis became the first champion of this event, after winning against unseeded Xavier Malisse 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205376-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nThe 2009 Troph\u00e9e des Champions Final was a football match that was played on 25 July 2009. The match was contested between the winners of 2008\u201309 Coupe de France, En Avant Guingamp, and the 2008\u201309 Ligue 1 champions, FC Girondins de Bordeaux. The match was played, for the first time, on international soil at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada with the objective being to promote French professional football abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205376-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e des Champions\nBordeaux captured their 3rd Troph\u00e9e des Champions overall and their second straight after defeating Guingamp 2\u20130 with goals from the Argentine Fernando Cavenaghi in the 39th minute and the Brazilian Fernando Menegazzo in the 90th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205377-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e \u00c9ric Bompard\nThe 2009 Troph\u00e9e \u00c9ric Bompard was the first event of six in the 2009\u201310 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris on October 15\u201318. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009\u201310 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205377-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Troph\u00e9e \u00c9ric Bompard, Results, Ladies\nKim Yuna set a new free skating world record of 133.95 and a new combined total world record of 210.03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205378-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Troy Trojans football team\nThe 2009 Troy Trojans football team represented Troy University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Movie Gallery Stadium in Troy, Alabama and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. The Trojans won their fourth straight Sun Belt championship going undefeated in conference play (8\u20130) with a regular season record of 9\u20133. They were invited to the GMAC Bowl, where they played Mid-American Conference champion Central Michigan and were defeated, 44\u201341, in two overtimes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205379-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulane Green Wave football team\nThe 2009 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Green Wave's third year under head coach Bob Toledo. The Green Wave finished the season 3\u20139 and 1\u20137 in CUSA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205379-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulane Green Wave football team, Preseason\nThe Green Wave came off a 2\u201310 season in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Hurricane, led by third-year head coach Todd Graham, played their home games at Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium. Tulsa finished the season 5\u20137, 3\u20135 in C-USA play and failed to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nTulsa opened the season with a trip to the Superdome to take on division rival Tulane, whom they had defeated 56\u20137 in 2008. Tulsa scored on their first three possessions to build up a 17\u20130 lead as Tulane's offense struggled in the first quarter. Tulane managed cut the deficit to 13 points late in the third quarter, but Damaris Johnson's 66-yard punt return for a score with twelve minutes to play ended their hopes of a comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nSophomore quarterback G.J. Kinne went 15 of 20 for 211 yards in his debut with the Golden Hurricane, throwing for one touchdown and running for another. Johnson also had a big night with 252 all-purpose yards including the punt-return touchdown. With the win, Tulsa improved to 5\u20131 overall against the Green Wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nFor their second game of the season, Tulsa traveled to Albuquerque for the second leg of a home-and-away series against New Mexico. The Lobos fared little better at home than they had in Tulsa the previous season, when they suffered a 56\u201314 defeat and lost starting quarterback Donovan Porterie to a season-ending knee injury. Tulsa was forced to punt on their first possession but regained the ball on the Lobos' 16 after a fumble by UNM punt returner Frankie Solomon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nCharles Clay scored four plays later on a 1-yard run over the middle, giving the Golden Hurricane a lead they never relinquished. The Lobos responded with a field goal to make it 7-3 at the end of the first, but Tulsa scored 23 unanswered points in the second and third quarters to put the game out of reach. Kinne threw for 310 yards and four touchdowns and the Golden Hurricane racked up 489 yards of offense in the blowout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nIn week 3, the Golden Hurricane made the drive to Norman for their 24th meeting with the Sooners, whom they had beaten only once since 1979. Tulsa appeared to be off to a good start, intercepting Landry Jones on the first play of the game and taking 25 of their first 27 snaps in Oklahoma territory, but two costly red-zone turnovers and a missed 50-yard field goal kept them scoreless in the first half while the Sooners built an insurmountable 31-0 lead. The Golden Hurricane offense failed to threaten at all in the second half and Tulsa was shut out for the first time since 2004, falling to 7\u201316\u20131 overall against Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 696]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Sam Houston State\nFor their home opener, the Golden Hurricane took on FCS opponent Sam Houston State in the first ever meeting of the two schools. The Bearkats moved the ball effectively in the first quarter but came away with only a field goal and were held to just 71 yards in the remainder of the game. Meanwhile, Tulsa scored on five of its first six possessions to put the game away by halftime. G.J. Kinne completed 12 of 15 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns and Damaris Johnson accumulated 103 yards receiving in the rout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Golden Hurricane traveled to Houston in week 5 to play their second conference opponent, a winless Rice team. Tulsa marched 80 yards on their first possession and Jamad Williams scored on a 6-yard run for the only points of the first quarter. Rice responded with a touchdown and a field goal in the second to take the lead, but Kevin Fitzpatrick kicked a 29-yard field goal just before halftime to tie the game at 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Rice\nIn the second half, Kinne ran for one touchdown and threw for another as the Golden Hurricane scored 17 unanswered points to clinch the game. Kinne completed 21 of his 32 passes for 251 yards and Williams led the team in rushing with 72 yards on 14 carries. With the win, Tulsa tied the all-time series with Rice at 7\u20137\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Boise State\nAfter a bye week, Tulsa returned home for a Wednesday-night matchup against Boise State, their highest-ranked opponent of the season. After recovering a muffed punt at their own 47, the Golden Hurricane got on the board first when Kinne pitched the ball to A.J. Whitmore, who completed a 53-yard trick pass to Damaris Johnson for the score. The Broncos responded with a touchdown and successful two-point conversion on their next drive, but Tulsa took the lead again when Kinne hit Trae Johnson from 15 yards at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Boise State\nBoise State scored 20 straight in the second and third quarters, but Tulsa threatened again in the fourth when Kinne completed two consecutive passes to Slick Shelley for 91 yards and a touchdown. After stopping Boise State twice, the Golden Hurricane got the ball back with just under two minutes to play for a final chance to tie the game. Three plays later, Kinne missed a wide-open Charles Clay on 4th and 6 and the Broncos were able to run out the clock. Boise State remained undefeated and improved to 5\u20130 against Tulsa with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nTulsa played their second straight Wednesday game on October 21, traveling to the Sun Bowl to take on a team they had defeated in a 77\u201335 shootout the previous season. This time, the Miners were better prepared, building up a 13-0 lead in the first quarter. However, the momentum appeared to shift in the second after Tulsa got on the board with a 19-yard run from A.J. Whitmore and two long UTEP drives were ended by interceptions. The Golden Hurricane continued to roll after halftime, scoring 17 straight to take an 11-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, UTEP\nTulsa appeared set to cruise to another easy win, but the tide of the game turned again in the middle of the fourth quarter when UTEP finally got their offense back in gear and cut the deficit to 3 with a touchdown and two-point conversion. After Tulsa went three-and-out on their next possession, the Miners drove down the field again to score the game-winning touchdown with 29 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, SMU\nThe Golden Hurricane followed up their loss to UTEP with a poor homecoming performance against SMU on October 31. The first three drives of the game ended in turnovers and neither offense was able to do anything in the first quarter. Backup quarterback Jacob Bower came on in the second to replace a struggling Kinne, who went 2 of 10 for 10 yards and two interceptions. Bower completed a pair of 28-yard passes on his first drive, enabling a 13-yard touchdown run by Charles Opeseyitan with nine minutes to go in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, SMU\nSMU answered with a touchdown of its own, and the teams entered the locker room tied at 7. After the break, the Mustangs scored 13 straight to take a 20\u20137 lead. Tulsa managed to reduce the deficit to 7 when Bower hit Jacob Collums from 13 yards out, but the extra point was blocked. The Golden Hurricane's next drive ended after Kinne reentered the game for a questionable 4th-and-18 pass attempt which was broken up. SMU was able to turn the mistake into a go-ahead touchdown with under two minutes remaining to seal the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Houston\nOn November 7, Houston's fourth field goal of the game came as time expired giving the 13th-ranked Cougars a 46-45 victory over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in front of 20,243 fans at H.A. Chapman Stadium during a televised Saturday night game. Four turnovers, including two interceptions and two fumbles, and a 98-yard Houston kickoff return doomed the Hurricane. Tulsa's Charles Clay capped a 73-yard, 10 play touchdown drive with a one-yard run with 3:28 remaining in the game to put the Hurricane ahead 45\u201337.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Houston\nBut the nation's top-ranked offense marched 61 yards in 13 plays in just 3:02 to close the gap to 45\u201343. The Cougars two-point conversion failed with just 0:21 on the clock, presumably giving the Hurricane a 45\u201343 victory. But, the Cougars recovered the subsequent onside kick at the Houston 39-yard line. Three plays later, Houston traveled to the Tulsa 34-yard line setting up the winning field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0009-0002", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Houston\nTulsa's G.J. Kinne became the first quarterback in school history to pass for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game, as he finished with 334 passing yards and three TDs, and 100 rushing yards and one touchdown. Charles Clay scored four touchdowns, two rushing and two receiving for the Hurricane, while Damaris Johnson totaled a career-best 324 all-purpose yards. Houston totaled 695 total yards on a new Tulsa opponent record of 100 plays, while the Hurricane gained a season-best 534 total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nIn a rematch of the previous season's C-USA championship game, the Pirates (6\u20134, 5\u20131) dominated on offense in the first half and then sealed the game with three defensive touchdowns in the fourth quarter during a rare Sunday night game at Chapman Stadium on November 15. Damaris Johnson, the nation's leader in all-purpose yardage, got the Golden Hurricane back in the game after the Pirates had built a 20-point lead in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nHe returned a kickoff 57 yards and then had catches on back-to-back plays, the second going for 9 yards and a touchdown that brought Tulsa to 23\u201317 with 4 minutes left in the third quarter. East Carolina couldn't get its offense going again after amassing 401 yards in the first half, but G.J. Kinne's pass to Johnson was intercepted and returned for a touchdown to provide some extra cushion. Tulsa got the ball to the 7 on its ensuing possession, but Kinne's pass on fourth-and-6 bounced off of nose guard Linval Joseph's helmet and fell incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nAn ECU defender then picked off another Kinne pass and brought it back 57 yards to put the game away with 2:23 remaining. The Pirates added a 49-yard return of a Kinne fumble 46 seconds later. Kinne finished with 236 yards on 23-for-46 passing with two touchdowns and the two interceptions. Johnson had 14 catches for 135 yards. Ryan Fitzpatrick also connected on a career-long 51-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nIn week 12, the 4\u20136 Golden Hurricane traveled to Hattiesburg to play a must-win game for bowl eligibility. Charles Clay had a career-best 142 yards receiving with two touchdown catches and two rushing touchdowns, but the Golden Eagles prevailed to keep Tulsa out of the postseason for the first time since 2004. Southern Miss scored on their first play from scrimmage and did not let up, racking up 28 more points in the second quarter including a 42-yard fumble return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nMeanwhile, Clay ran for two touchdowns and caught a 3-yard touchdown pass from G.J. Kinne, who also ran for a touchdown. After several lead changes, the halftime score was 34-28 in favor of Southern Miss. In the third quarter, the Golden Hurricane offense fell flat while Southern Miss scored 10 unanswered points to seal the win. Tulsa managed another touchdown drive near the end of the fourth quarter but the two-point conversion attempt failed, giving the Golden Eagles a 10-point margin of victory. Kinne completed 32 of 46 passes for a career-high 396 yards with two touchdowns and one interception while Damaris Johnson had 17 catches for 196 yards, also a career-high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 72], "content_span": [73, 749]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205380-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nTulsa closed out the season with a home game against the 2-9 Memphis Tigers. The game was close throughout and the teams were tied at 30 at the end of regulation after Kinne completed a 2-yard TD pass to Trae Johnson with 32 seconds remaining. In overtime, James Lockett intercepted a pass from Tigers quarterback Arkelon Hall to set up Kevin Fitzpatrick's game-winning field goal. Kinne went 27 of 40 for 268 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. He was also Tulsa's leading rusher with 57 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205381-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral election\nThe 2009 Tulsa mayoral election took place on November 10, 2009, and resulted in the election of Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., the Republican candidate, as Tulsa's 39th mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205381-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral election\nThe stage for the 2009 election was set when incumbent Democratic mayor Kathy Taylor opted not to seek reelection. The primary election, held on September 8, 2009, resulted in the selection of state senator Tom Adelson as the Democratic nominee and Bartlett, a former councilman, as the Republican. This led to a rematch of the 2004 state senate election in which Adelson defeated Bartlett. Two independents were also on the ballot. Polling conducted a week before the primary gave Bartlett about a 10-point head-to-head lead over Adelson; and polling the week before the general election, which also included the independent candidates, showed an 8-point lead for Bartlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205381-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral election\nIn the November 10 general election, Bartlett received about 45% of the vote to Adelson's 36% and 18% for independent Mark Perkins. Adelson conceded early in the evening as the results became apparent. Bartlett took office on December 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205382-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunis Open\nThe 2009 Tunis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tunis, Tunisia between April 27 and March 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205382-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunis Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205382-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunis Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nBrian Dabul /  Leonardo Mayer def. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205383-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunis Open \u2013 Doubles\nThomaz Bellucci and Bruno Soares were the defending champions; however, they didn't play this year. Brian Dabul and Leonardo Mayer defeated 6\u20134, 7\u20136(6) Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205384-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunis Open \u2013 Singles\nThomaz Bellucci was the defender of championship title, but he chose to not participate this year. Gast\u00f3n Gaudio won in the final 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, against Frederico Gil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205385-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunisian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Tunisia on 25 October 2009. Results released on 26 October 2009 indicated a substantial victory for incumbent President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who won the reelection for a fifth five-year term, and the governing Constitutional Democratic Rally. It was the last election contested under the Ben Ali regime, prior to the Tunisian Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205385-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunisian general election, Observers\nThe African Union sent a team of election observers to cover the election. The delegation was led by Benjamin Bounkoulou who described the election as \"free and fair\". However, a spokesperson from the United States State Department indicated that Tunisia did not allow international monitoring of elections, but the U.S. was still committed to working with the president of Tunisia and its government. There also were reports of mistreatment of an opposition candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205385-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunisian general election, Results, President\nThe Interior Ministry released the official results for the election on Monday 26 October 2009. Voter turnout was recorded at 89.40% with 4,447,388 of Tunisia's 5.3 million registered voters participating. In the presidential race, incumbent president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali won 89.62% of the vote. His nearest rivals were Mohamed Bouchiha with 5.01% of the vote and Ahmed Inoubli with 3.80%, and Ahmed Brahum with 1.57%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205385-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Tunisian general election, Results, Parliament\nIn the Chamber of Deputies election, the Democratic Constitutional Rally, which had governed continuously from Tunisia's independence from France in 1956 until the Tunisian Revolution, won 84.59% of the vote and 161 seats. The Movement of Socialist Democrats won 16 seats with 4.63% of the vote, the Popular Unity Party won 12 seats and 3.39% of votes, The Unionist Democratic Union won 9 seats with 2.56%. The remaining 16 seats were divided between the Social Liberal Party, who won eight seats, the Green Party for Progress, who won six and the Movement Ettajdid who won two seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205386-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Cup Final\nThe 2009 Turkish Cup Final was played between Be\u015fikta\u015f, and Fenerbah\u00e7e on 13 May 2009 in Izmir. Be\u015fikta\u015f won 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205386-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Cup Final, Be\u015fikta\u015f J.K.\nBe\u015fikta\u015f was put in group A, along with Antalyaspor, Gaziantepspor, Trabzonspor and Gaziantep BB. Be\u015fikta\u015f won all 4 group matches and preceded to the quarter-finals against Antalyaspor. Be\u015fikta\u015f won at away 2\u20130 and at home 3\u20131. In the semi-finals, Be\u015fikta\u015f beat Ankaraspor 3\u20131 away and lost 2\u20131 at home, putting Be\u015fikta\u015f in their 13th Turkish Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205386-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Cup Final, Fenerbah\u00e7e S.K.\nFenerbah\u00e7e was put in Group C with Bursaspor, Eski\u015fehirspor, Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc and Tokatspor. Fenerbah\u00e7e won all 4 group matches to put them in the quarter-finals. Fenerbah\u00e7e beat Bursaspor 1\u20130 away and 3\u20131 at home. In the semi-finals, Fenerbah\u00e7e beat Sivasspor 3\u20131 at home and a 0\u20130 tie away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205386-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Cup Final, Final\nYusuf \u015eim\u015fek put Be\u015fikta\u015f in the lead with an early goal against Fenerbah\u00e7e (1\u20130). Both teams missed scoring chances until the 26th minute, when Daniel G\u00fciza scored the equalizer (1\u20131). Bob\u00f4 scored Be\u015fikta\u015f' second goal in the 56th minute  (2\u20131), then scored another in the 73rd minute (3\u20131). Filip Holo\u0161ko delivered the final blow with a goal in the 80th minute (4\u20131). A goal scored by Alex on a penalty kick made the score 4\u20132 in the 90th minute. Be\u015fikta\u015f won their eighth Turkish Cup, their third in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205386-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Cup Final, Match details\nMan of the match: Bob\u00f4 (Be\u015fikta\u015f) Referee:  B\u00fcnyamin Gezer Assistant referees: Tar\u0131k Ongun As\u0131m Yusuf \u00d6zFourth referee: Mustafa Kamil Abito\u011flu", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Turkish Grand Prix (officially the 2009 Formula 1 ING Turkish Grand Prix) was the seventh motor race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was held on 7 June 2009 at Istanbul Park, Tuzla, Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix\nJenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by 16 points from his teammate at Brawn, Rubens Barrichello going into the race, while Brawn GP led the Constructors' Championship by 43.5 points from Red Bull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Jenson Button, with Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing completing the podium. Vettel had qualified on pole but a mistake on the first lap scuppered his chances of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nIn Friday practice 1, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren performed well, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Jarno Trulli posting the top 3 times. Brawn, Toyota, Red Bull and Renault ran mid field during the session with BMW and STR backmarking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nIn Friday practice 2, Williams, Renault and Red Bull were the most consistent performers, Heikki Kovalainen, Fernando Alonso and Robert Kubica posted the top 3 times. Ferrari, Brawn and Toyota ran mid field during the session with Force India and STR backmarking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Practice\nAfter both Friday practice sessions, individual performances were quite mixed, the only consistent constructor was Williams as BMW and McLaren saw mixed results, while top running teams Brawn and Red Bull ran upper mid field for both sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nSebastian Vettel dominated the qualifying session on Saturday 6 June 2009, setting the fastest time in all three parts of qualifying to claim his second pole position of the season, and third of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe first knockout session, to eliminate the five slowest cars, claimed the scalp of reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton \u2013 only the second time the Englishman had failed to progress from the first session. Also eliminated were Nelson Piquet Jr., S\u00e9bastien Buemi, Giancarlo Fisichella and S\u00e9bastien Bourdais. They all produced times in the 1:28's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nIn the second knockout session, the top 10, who progressed to the final shoot-out for pole, were separated by just 0.4 seconds, with Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg just sneaking through. Nick Heidfeld, Kazuki Nakajima, Timo Glock, Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil were knocked out, Heidfeld qualifying 11th for the second race in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe third session to determine pole position was a tense battle with numerous drivers thinking they had claimed pole only for their time to be bettered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nVettel was on provisional pole with a time of 1:28.801, with just a few minutes of the session remaining. Vettel's team mate Mark Webber then posted a 1:28.6, only for Button to go two-tenths of a second quicker after the chequered flag fell. Vettel, however, still had one lap left in him and went quicker again, reclaiming pole with a 1:28.316. Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello also improved on his final lap, moving up to third position, ahead of Webber, with a 1:28.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHistory would favour Vettel, the previous four Turkish Grands Prix having been won from pole position. Button however had two more laps of fuel in qualifying, meaning he would have been on pole fuel-corrected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nVettel initially made a strong start from pole, beating Button into the first corner. Vettel then ran wide at the tenth turn, gifting Button the lead. Button's Brawn team-mate had a less fortunate start, a clutch problem dropping him from third on the grid to thirteenth by the end of the first lap. Webber was running third, having initially been passed by Jarno Trulli before the Australian regained his position. Felipe Massa had moved up to fifth position, ahead of Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen and Fernando Alonso. Reigning world champion Hamilton had lost a place on the first lap, meaning he was running in 17th position out of 20 runners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAt the front Button began to open up a lead over Vettel but the action was in the midfield, Nico Rosberg getting past both Ferraris to move up to fifth by lap six. On lap eight, Barrichello spun trying to pass Heikki Kovalainen after a wheel-to-wheel battle from Turns 9 to 16. The Brazilian dropped to seventeenth but quickly regained two places before losing part of his front wing in a clash with Adrian Sutil on lap eleven. Barrichello pitted on lap thirteen, conversely teammate Button had serenely opened up a 5.6 second lead at the front of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe leaders began pitting for their first stops on lap 15, with Vettel the first to stop, followed by Button two laps later and Webber and Rosberg on lap 18. Significantly, Vettel was fuelled lighter on a three-stop strategy, in contrast to the other leaders two-stop strategy. Vettel was therefore able to close the gap on Button after the first stops with his lighter car, but was unable to make the pass he needed before his second stop on lap 29. Vettel exited the pits behind Webber, with all the leaders due to make one more pit stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nOn lap 37, Hamilton was lapped by championship leader Button, who made his second stop along with Webber on lap 43. Vettel briefly ran second but had to make his third pit stop on lap 48, demoting him back to third position. Trulli emerged from the pit stops in fourth, narrowly ahead of Rosberg, while Robert Kubica and Timo Glock had moved into the final points paying positions as Raikkonen struggled and Kazuki Nakajima was delayed by a left front wheel covering failing to attach in his final stop. Meanwhile, Barrichello's miserable race finally ended as he retired with a gearbox problem while running near the back of the field. This was the first time that a Brawn GP car was not running at the finish of a race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 759]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nAlthough Vettel closed the gap to Webber to just 0.7 seconds as the chequered flag fell, there were no significant positional changes in the final laps as Button cruised to his sixth win from the first seven races, a feat only matched by Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark and Michael Schumacher \u2013 who all won the World Championship after achieving this feat. Button also became the first Englishman to score record four consecutive victories since Nigel Mansell in 1992, who too went on to win the title that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205387-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe race attendance was reported as a meager 36,000, with the venue capable of holding 150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205388-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Open darts\n2009 Turkish Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Turkey on October 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205389-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Super Cup\nTFF S\u00fcper Kupa 2009 (English: TFF Super Cup) was the 37th edition the Turkish Super Cup since its establishment. This was the first time, Turkish Super Cup was held in Istanbul. The match was the first official football encounter in Turkey before the 2009\u201310 season, held on 2 August 2009, in Atat\u00fcrk Olympic Stadium. The previous versions were organized in German cities of Frankfurt, K\u00f6ln, and Duisburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205389-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Super Cup\nBe\u015fikta\u015f, the defending champions of both S\u00fcper Lig and Turkish Cup and Fenerbah\u00e7e, the finalist of Turkish Cup, were the competing sides for the triumphant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205389-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Super Cup\nThe two teams had their first meeting for the cup in 2007, in which Fenerbah\u00e7e had won 2\u20131. Additionally, Istanbul rivals had faced each other in Atat\u00fcrk Olympic Stadium for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205389-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish Super Cup\nThere were injured players who missing the match of both sides; Delgado, \u00dcz\u00fclmez and Da\u011f for Be\u015fikta\u015f and, Roberto Carlos and Hurmac\u0131 for Fenerbah\u00e7e. Statistically, this encounter was the 324th one since of 85-year-long rivalry, in which Fenerbah\u00e7e lead in having the most wins, 120 to 119 that far, scoring 438 goals in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205390-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish flash floods\nThe 2009 Turkish flash floods were a series of flash floods that occurred on 9 September 2009 in and around Istanbul, Tekirda\u011f, and the rest of the Marmara Region of Turkey. The floods led to the death of at least 31 people and the cost of damage has been estimated as being in excess of $70 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205390-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish flash floods, Background\nThe floods followed a two-day period of heavy rainfall, the worst the country had seen for 80 years, which had begun on 7 September. During the evening and night of 8 September the rain became increasingly strong leading to flash floods across the city early on the morning of 9 September, with low-lying areas to the west of the city being the worst affected. Turkey's Minister of Environment and Forests, Veysel Ero\u011flu, described the rain as the \"worst in 500 years\". The floods were created by the Marmara sea, an inlet of the Mediterranean sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205390-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish flash floods, Impacts\nAt least 31 people were killed across the region and dozens were stranded in cars or on rooftops and an unknown number remain missing. Three of the deaths occurred in western suburbs of Istanbul on 8 September, 21 people lost their lives in Istanbul on 9 September and seven more in neighboring Tekirda\u011f Province, where two further people are missing. Muammer G\u00fcler, governor of Istanbul, said 20 people were injured by the floods. Officials and experts have blamed the high death toll on unplanned urbanization in Istanbul, which has seen buildings constructed in river beds, and an inadequate infrastructure system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 652]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205390-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish flash floods, Impacts\nIn some places the water reached a metre (3 ft) in height, cutting access to Istanbul's main airport and the highway running to Bulgaria and Greece. According to state-run news agency Anatolia Agency, one building collapsed, although there were no reported casualties. Police were deployed to prevent looting from abandoned shops and factories, although the press has recorded instances of looting from vehicles. In north-west Turkey two bridges on the Bah\u00e7ek\u00f6y\u2013Saray highway were also destroyed by floods at the same time. More than 200 cars have been washed into the Marmara Sea and dozens of trucks damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205390-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish flash floods, Impacts, Emergency response\nSince the floods began on Tuesday, more than 1,000 people have been rescued by emergency services. Turkish officials have also stated that more than 900 firefighters and rescuers are working in the affected areas, backed up by a fleet of more than 200 vehicles and 30 dinghies. Interior Minister Be\u015fir Atalay has pledged to compensate residents of Istanbul affected by the floods. The Red Crescent Society has dispatched tents, blankets, food and personnel to the area to help survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205391-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish local elections\nTurkey held local elections on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the SP, DTP and BBP, whose party leader Muhsin Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu had died in a helicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205391-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Turkish local elections\nThe AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbak\u0131r, \u0130zmir and Urfa, and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote. There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205391-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish local elections, Provincial elections\nThe provisional results for provincial councils (Turkish: il genel meclisi) are given below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205391-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish local elections, District elections\nElections were also held for district mayors (il\u00e7e ba\u015fkan\u0131) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205391-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkish local elections, Results by province\nMetropolitan provinces are in bold. AKP denotes provinces won by the Justice & Development Party, CHP denotes provinces won by the Republican People's Party, MHP denotes provinces won by the Nationalist Movement Party, DTP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Society Party, BBP denotes provinces won by the Great Union Party, DSP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Left Party and DP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205392-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan Cup\nThe Turkmenistan Cup 2009 is 17th since independence of the Turkmen national football cup. The competition will start on August 9, 2009 and finish with the Final played on a date to be announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205392-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan Cup, First round\nThe first round involved 16 teams. The matches were played on August 9 (first legs) and August 12, 2009 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205392-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinal matches were played on August 19 (first legs) and August 22, 2009 (second legs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205392-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan Cup, Semifinals\nThe first legs were played on August 26 and second on August 29, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nThe 15th edition of the Turkmenistan President's Cup was played from February 20 to 28 with the participation of eight clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nThree of the eight teams participating in the 15th edition of the tournament competed for the Cup for the first time \u2013 the runners-up of Kyrgyzstan League, a participant of \u2018the golden match\u2019 in the national championships FC Abdysh-Ata, FC Hemmat from Iran and the youth team from Bahrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nThe bronze-medal winner of Virsliga, the 1996 Turkmenistan President's Cup finalist Skonto R\u012bga and the bronze-medal winner of the championships of Armenia FC Gandzasar Kapan competed in the tournament for the second time. The defending Turkmenistan President's Cup winner HTTU A\u015fgabat\u2013 for the fourth time, a finalist of the 2007 and 2008 international tournaments FC A\u015fgabat made the third attempt to win the prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nThe teams were split in two groups: Group A \u2013 Defending champions Turkmenistan's HTTU A\u015fgabat was pooled with Kyrgyzstan runners-up Abdysh-Ata, Latvian giants Skonto and Iranian outfit Hemmat Golestan; Group B \u2013 Tajikistan runners-up Parvoz, Gandzasar from Armenia, Bahrain youth team and Turkmenistan champions A\u015fgabat were in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nTwo best teams in each group qualified to the final stage and competed for the main prize, the runners-up competed for the third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nThe winning team was awarded with US$20,000 while the runners-up team was given US$10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205393-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup\nHTTU beat A\u015fgabat 2\u20131 in the final of previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 86]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205394-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck\nThe 2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck was the loss of a motorless boat carrying Haitian migrants near the British Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern West Indies, late on the night of 26 July 2009. Sixty-five persons went missing; earlier figures of 79 missing migrants were reduced as bodies were recovered. After 2 days at least fifteen corpses had been located.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205394-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck\nThe boat had spent three days at sea before it capsized. One survivor said the craft ended up on a reef while attempting to escape a patrolling police vessel. A Turks and Caicos police sergeant confirmed that the boat hit Molasses Reef near West Caicos. Of the 124 people who were rescued, 102 were male; 22 were female. Several severely injured migrants were helicoptered to a hospital in Providenciales. Many were brought ashore aboard small boats, whilst five migrants were located alive and well after seemingly having swum to safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205394-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck\nThe incident was reported to the United States Coast Guard by authorities from Turks and Caicos. A spokesperson for the Coast Guard said they rescued 113 migrants and were assisting in the search for those who were still missing. He said they were \"hopeful\" of finding more missing migrants alive but that \"it has been a night and we have not located any additional people\". A helicopter and a cutter were also sent by the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205394-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck\nAn investigation was started to determine the cause. The boat had no motor. Hubert Hughes, Turks and Caicos Deputy Police Commissioner, claimed police had not been chasing the boat and only assisted when it became apparent that it had gotten into trouble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205394-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck\nHaitians were immediately repatriated. The incident followed the interception of 124 Haitian migrants from what was described as a \"grossly overloaded\" boat travelling southwest of this shipwreck. Those migrants were quickly returned to Haiti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205395-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Turner Prize\nThe four nominees for the Tate gallery's 2009 Turner Prize were Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright . The award went to Richard Wright on 7 December 2009 winning him the \u00a325,000 prize ($41,000, 28,000 EUR). The Turner jury said in a statement that they \"admired the profound originality and beauty of Wright's work.\" The other shortlisted nominees each won \u00a35,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205395-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Turner Prize\nThe chairman of the jury was Tate Britain director, Stephen Deuchar. The judges were Jonathan Jones (art critic for The Guardian), Charles Esche (director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Doctor Andrea Schlieker (Curator ) and Mariella Frostrup (broadcaster).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205395-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Turner Prize, Exhibition\nAn exhibition of work by the nominees was shown at Tate Britain from 6 October 2009 to 3 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205395-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Turner Prize, Exhibition\nThe Turner Prize is awarded for a show by the artist in the previous year. When nominees are told of their nomination they then prepare exhibits for the Turner Prize exhibition, often at short notice. As such, the Turner Prize exhibition may not feature the works for which the artist was initially nominated by the judges. However the Turner Prize exhibition tends to be the basis on which public and press judge the artist's worthiness for nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205395-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Turner Prize, Nominees\nThere were four nominees for the prize (chosen from a long-list of 19 artists), announced on Tuesday 28 April 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205396-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Tuvalu A-Division\nThe 2009 Tuvalu A-Division was the ninth season of association football competition. The league was won by Nauti FC for the third consecutive time and the fourth time overall. The league was renamed for the fourth consecutive season, this time being called the Funafuti League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205397-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup\nThe 2009 Twenty20 Cup was the seventh Twenty20 Cup competition for English and Welsh county clubs. The finals day took place on 15 August at Edgbaston, and was won by the Sussex Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final\nThe 2009 Twenty20 Cup Final was a cricket match between Somerset County Cricket Club and Sussex County Cricket Club played on 15 August 2009 at Edgbaston in Birmingham. It was the seventh final of the Twenty20 Cup, which was the first domestic Twenty20 competition between first-class sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final\nSomerset were making their second appearance in a Twenty 20 final, having won the competition in 2005. In contrast, the furthest that Sussex had previously progressed was the semi-finals in 2007. Somerset won the toss and elected to bowl first, and despite claiming the early wicket of Murray Goodwin, Sussex scored quickly, mainly due to the 59 runs scored from 26 deliveries by Dwayne Smith. Sussex completed their batting innings with 172 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final\nIn Somerset's response, Marcus Trescothick scored quickly at the start of the innings, but after his dismissal in the fourth over, Somerset regularly lost wickets, and seven of their eleven batsmen did not reach double figures. The country were eventually bowled out for 109 runs, meaning that Sussex won the match by 63 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary\nPlayed on the same day as both the semi-finals, the match was played as a day/night game. Somerset captain Justin Langer won the toss and decided to let Sussex bat first. Murray Goodwin was dismissed early for the Sharks, caught by Somerset's wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter off the bowling of Charl Willoughby. Despite that, by the end of the six-over powerplay, Sussex were well placed on 47 for one. However, the run out of Luke Wright was soon followed by two more wickets, and left Sussex on 80 for four. Dwayne Smith then scored rapidly to push the total up to 122, before he was stumped by Kieswetter, giving Max Waller his second wicket. Chris Nash and Yasir Arafat batted well together at the end of the innings to take Sussex's score to 172 for seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary\nMarcus Trescothick opened the batting strongly for Somerset, quickly taking the score onto 43, but when he was caught by Rory Hamilton-Brown off the bowling of James Kirtley, Somerset never recovered. Langer, Zander de Bruyn and Peter Trego all made starts for Somerset, each reaching double figures, but none could sustain an innings to propel their team towards the target. Sussex's bowling, particularly that of Michael Yardy and Will Beer prevented Somerset from scoring quickly, and forced them to attempt \"desperate shots\". Somerset were eventually bowled out for 109 runs. Sussex won the match, and the Twenty20 Cup for the first time, by 63 runs, with Smith being named as man of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205398-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Aftermath\nSussex's Smith was awarded the man of the match award, and the Sussex team were given \u00a380,000 prize money. Both teams qualified for the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 competition, which had a combined prize fund of $6 million. In that competition, Sussex were eliminated in the first group stage, while Somerset progressed to the second group stage, but did not qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205399-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup Midlands/Wales/West Division\nThe Midlands/Wales/West Division of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup determined which counties would qualify for the knockout stage of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. Northamptonshire and Warwickshire qualified automatically, while Somerset qualified as the best of the third-place finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205400-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup North Division\nThe North Division of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup determined which counties would qualify for the knockout stage of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. Lancashire and Durham qualified as the top two sides in the Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205401-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Twenty20 Cup South Division\nThe South Division of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup determined which counties would qualify for the knockout stage of the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. Kent and Sussex qualified automatically, while Hampshire qualified as the second-best of the third-placed finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205402-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup\nThe 2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in \u0130zmir, Turkey between May 11 and May 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205402-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205402-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup, Champions, Doubles\nJonathan Erlich /  Harel Levy def. Prakash Amritraj /  Rajeev Ram, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205403-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup \u2013 Doubles\nJesse Levine and Kei Nishikori were the defending champions. Levine chose to not play and Nishikori was injured. Jonathan Erlich and Harel Levy became the new champions, after their won against Prakash Amritraj and Rajeev Ram in the final (6\u20133, 6\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205404-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 T\u00fcrk Telecom \u0130zmir Cup \u2013 Singles\nGilles M\u00fcller was the champion in 2008 but did not play this year. Andrea Stoppini became the new champion, defeating Marsel \u0130lhan in the final 7\u20136(5), 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205405-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U-League\n2009 U-League is second season for university football teams. The participated team is expanded to 22 university football teams in South Korea. The season began on 9 April 2009, and ended on 26 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205406-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place from January 18 to 25th 2009 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Skaters competed in four disciplines \u2013 men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing \u2013 and across three levels: senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205406-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nThe event was used to determine the U.S. teams for the 2009 World Championships, 2009 Four Continents Championships, and 2009 World Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205406-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualifying\nQualification for the U.S. Championships began at one of nine regional competitions. The regions are New England, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Upper Great Lakes, Eastern Great Lakes, Southwestern, Northwest Pacific, Central Pacific, and Southwest Pacific. The top four finishers in each regional advance to one of three sectional competitions (Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast). Skaters who placed in the top four at sectionals advanced to the U.S. Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205406-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualifying\nThe top five finishers in each discipline from the previous year were given byes to the U.S. Championships, as were any skaters who qualify for the Junior or the Senior Grand Prix Final. Skaters were also given byes through a qualifying competition if they are assigned to an international event during the time that qualifying event was to take place. For example, if a skater competed at an event at the same time as his or her regional competition, that skater would receive a bye to sectionals. If a skater competed at an event at the same time as his or her sectional competition, that skater would qualify for the national event without having had to compete at a sectional championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205407-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships\nThe 2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships is a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is the 41st edition of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, and is an ATP World Tour 250 event. It takes place at River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, United States, from April 6 through April 12, 2009. Unseeded Lleyton Hewitt won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205407-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles\nBob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Jesse Levine /  Ryan Sweeting 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205408-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Doubles\nErnests Gulbis and Rainer Sch\u00fcttler were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205409-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships \u2013 Singles\nLleyton Hewitt beat Wayne Odesnik in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 2009 United States Open Championship was the 109th U.S. Open, held June 18\u201322 on the Black Course of Bethpage State Park on Long Island, in Farmingdale, New York. Lucas Glover won his only major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Ricky Barnes, David Duval, and Phil Mickelson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf)\nThis was the second U.S. Open at Bethpage Black; the first in 2002 was won by Tiger Woods, also the defending champion. The 2009 edition was hit heavily by continuous rain throughout the tournament, and resulted in multiple suspensions of play. Mickelson announced that this would be his last tournament for a while, before he took time off to tend to his ailing wife, Amy, who had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nAbout half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. Below is the list of the 74 players who were fully exempt for the 2009 U.S. Open. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. Also listed are the 81 players who qualified through sectional qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\n\u00c1ngel Cabrera (3,14,17), Michael Campbell, Jim Furyk (9,10,17), Retief Goosen (8,11,17), Geoff Ogilvy (8,9,12,13,14,17), Tiger Woods (3,4,5,8,9,12,13,17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nEric Axley, Stewart Cink (9,10,17), Ernie Els (9,10,17), Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez (11,17), Rocco Mediate, John Merrick, Rod Pampling (16), Carl Pettersson (9,10), Heath Slocum, Brandt Snedeker, D. J. Trahan (9,10), Camilo Villegas (9,10,13,17), Lee Westwood (11,17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nRobert Allenby (10,17), Stephen Ames (17), Stuart Appleby (10), Chad Campbell (10,17), K. J. Choi (10,17), Ben Curtis (10,17), Ken Duke (10), Sergio Garc\u00eda (10,11,17), Ryuji Imada (10), Anthony Kim (10,17), Justin Leonard (10,17), Hunter Mahan (10,17), Kenny Perry (10,12,13,17), Steve Stricker (10,17), Kevin Sutherland (10), Boo Weekley, Mike Weir (10,17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nBriny Baird, Tim Clark (17), Billy Mayfair, Andr\u00e9s Romero, Bubba Watson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 100]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nDarren Clarke, Ross Fisher (14,17), S\u00f8ren Hansen, Martin Kaymer (17), Graeme McDowell (17), Jeev Milkha Singh (17), Oliver Wilson (17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nPaul Casey (14,17), Dustin Johnson (13,17), Sean O'Hair (17), Rory Sabbatini (17), Nick Watney (17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Field\nLuke Donald, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o, Ian Poulter, \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s, Justin Rose, Adam Scott, David Toms", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round\nPlay began in the rain on Thursday morning, until play was suspended at 10:15 am, as several of the greens became unplayable with excessive water. Play was not restarted on Thursday, with the majority of players yet to tee off. Jeff Brehaut, through 10 holes, was one of four leading at 1-under par heading into Friday. Play was restarted on Friday morning and Mike Weir shot 64 (\u22126) to lead by two strokes at the end of the first round. Woods shot 74 (+4) with two double bogeys and three bogeys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round\nThe round began at 5:00 pm on Friday afternoon and finished on Saturday afternoon. Because of the soft conditions caused by the heavy rain, many low scores were made during the second round. Ricky Barnes shot 65, and had a 36-hole record of 8-under par 132. Lucas Glover and Azuma Yano were also amongst the ones that shot very low scores. Woods shot 69 for 143 (+3), and Mickelson shot even par 70 to remain 1 under par at 139. The cut was at 144 (+4), the lowest at the U.S. Open since 2003, and was missed by major champions David Toms and Justin Leonard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Taylor (-2), Weaver (+1), Stanley (+4), Fowler (+6), Tringale (+7), Alexander (+8), Klaasen (+10), Martin (+10), Erdy (+12), Burgoon (+13), Kittleson (+13), Snyder (+14), Nagy (+16), Peterman (+16), Lewis (+21), Brock (+22).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round\nMore heavy rain halted play at 6:55 pm on Saturday. The third round was resumed on Sunday at noon and completed in the late afternoon. Barnes and Glover both shot even par 70 to remain at the top of the leaderboard, while David Duval and Ross Fisher were five strokes back in a tie for third place. Weir struggled and fell back with a 74, Mickelson shot 69 to stay in contention, and Woods a 68 for 211 (+1), nine shots behind Barnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nThe final round began Sunday evening until play was suspended due to darkness, with leaders Barnes and Glover on the second hole. Play resumed Monday morning. Barnes, who had held the lead through the second and third rounds, faltered on the front nine on Monday morning, and bogeyed five of the first nine holes. He shot one over par on the back nine, but was never able to catch up with Glover, his playing partner for the final two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nDuval had a triple-bogey at the par-3 3rd, but rallied on the back nine with three straight birdies before bogeying 17 and missing a birdie putt at 18 to finish at 2 under par. Woods made a charge on the back nine with birdies on 13 and 14, but then bogeyed 15 and parred the rest to finish even par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205410-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nMickelson tied Glover for the lead after making an eagle at 13 after hitting a perfect second shot on the par 5, but proceeded to miss a short birdie putt on 14, three-putt for bogey on 15, miss another putt on 16, and made another bogey on 17 on his way to finishing two strokes behind Glover and tied for second place with Barnes and Duval. It was Mickelson's fifth runner-up finish at the U.S. Open, breaking the record of four by Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus. (His sixth came four years later in 2013 at Merion.) Glover birdied 16 and parred the final two holes to seal the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup\nThe 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup was the 96th edition of the USSF's annual national soccer championship, running from June through early September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup\nThe tournament proper features teams from the top five levels of the American Soccer Pyramid. These five levels, namely Major League Soccer, the United Soccer Leagues (First Division, Second Division, and Premier Development League), and the United States Adult Soccer Association, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final eight team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper. The eight MLS clubs receive byes into the third round, while the remaining 32 teams play in the first two round with brackets influenced by geography.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup\nSeattle Sounders FC defeated defending-champion D.C. United 2\u20131 in the final at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. Both clubs had started in the MLS qualification tourney, and ended up playing 6 matches each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup, Teams\nAs in the previous tournament, forty teams qualified to the tournament. The qualifying process for MLS took the form of an eight-team play-off tournament. The top six finishers, regardless of conference, in 2008 were given six of the berths into the Third Round. The eight remaining U.S.-based clubs competed for the final two berths via a playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup, Teams\nContinuing the format of recent seasons, no qualification process was needed for USL-1 and USL-2 as each level has exactly eight U.S.-based clubs for the 2009 season. The PDL announced that four selected early season games will again double as qualifying matches, as they had in recent years. Each division received a berth, since there are eight divisions instead of the ten that existed in 2008. The qualifying process for the USASA took the form of four regional tournaments, with the two finalists in each region being awarded berths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup, Open Cup bracket\nSecond Round winners advance to play one of 8 clubs in 16-team knockout tournamentHome teams listed on top of bracket", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205411-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup, Schedule\nNote: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final\nThe 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 2, 2009, at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. The match determined the winner of the 2009 U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 96th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. The match was won by Seattle Sounders FC, who defeated D.C. United 2\u20131. Clyde Simms scored D.C. United's only goal. Fredy Montero and Roger Levesque scored Seattle's two goals as the club became the second expansion team in Major League Soccer (MLS) history to win the tournament in their inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final\nD.C. United entered the tournament as the competition's defending champions. They had previously won the tournament in 1996 as well. Both Sounders FC and D.C. United had to play through two qualification rounds for MLS teams before entering the official tournament. Prior to the final, there was a public dispute between the owners of the two clubs regarding the selection of D.C. United to host it at their home field, RFK Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final\nAs the tournament champions, Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2010\u201311 CONCACAF Champions League. The club also received a $100,000 cash prize, while D.C. United received $50,000 as the runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final\nThe U.S. Open Cup is an annual American soccer competition open to all United States Soccer Federation affiliated teams, from amateur adult club teams to the professional clubs of Major League Soccer (MLS), which has teams in the United States and Canada. In 2009, Major League Soccer was allowed to enter eight of its U.S.-based teams in the tournament. The top six MLS teams from the previous season qualified automatically, while the remaining two spots were determined by preliminary qualification matches. The eight MLS entries began play in the third round of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final\nIn 2009, MLS expanded into the Seattle market adding a new team to the league, Seattle Sounders FC. As an expansion team, they had to play through the qualification matches before entering the tournament. Likewise, D.C. United did not finish among the top six 2008 MLS teams, and therefore had to play through qualification rounds before entering the official tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Sounders FC\nPrior to their first qualification match against Real Salt Lake, Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid asserted that the U.S. Open Cup was important to the club and that they were playing to win. Sounders FC played U.S. Open Cup home games at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Washington. The facility is smaller than the club's home stadium for league matches, Qwest Field, but Sounders FC representatives preferred the atmosphere at Starfire for smaller cup matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Sounders FC\nOn April 28, 2009, Sounders FC defeated Real Salt Lake 4\u20131 in their first qualification match. Sebastian Le Toux scored two goals, and Roger Levesque had three assists in front of a sold-out crowd at Starfire. Sounders FC hosted their second qualification match on May 26, 2009, also at Starfire, this time against the Colorado Rapids. Reserve player Kevin Forrest scored the only goal in the match as Seattle defeated the Rapids 1\u20130, securing their entry into the third round of the official cup competition as one of the eight teams representing MLS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Sounders FC\nOn July 1, 2009, Sounders FC traveled to Portland and defeated the Timbers of the USL First Division, the team's historic rival, 2\u20131 in front of a sold-out crowd. Roger Levesque and Stephen King both scored for Seattle. The following week, in a quarterfinal match at Starfire, Sounders FC defeated visiting Kansas City 1\u20130 on a penalty kick in the 89th minute scored by Sebastien Le Toux. Three weeks later, on July 21, Sounders FC won their semifinal match 2\u20131 over the Houston Dynamo at Starfire. Seattle took the lead for good when Stephen King scored a goal five minutes into extra time, sending Sounders FC to the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 686]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, D.C. United\nMLS clubs were first included in the U.S. Open Cup tournament in 1996. D.C. United won the tournament that year, and repeated their success in 2008. In 2009, the club began its title defense in the MLS qualification rounds. This meant that they had to win six games instead of the four needed to obtain the cup in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, D.C. United\nIn their first qualifying match on March 28, 2009, they hosted FC Dallas at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. They defeated Dallas 2\u20130, with Fred and Brandon Barklage scoring in the 21st and 66th minutes, respectively. D.C. United's second qualification match was also played at RFK Stadium, on May 20, 2009. In a high-scoring match against the New York Red Bulls, D.C. won 5\u20133. Chris Pontius scored two of United's five goals, qualifying D.C. for the third round of the official tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, D.C. United\nOn June 30, 2009, D.C. United began official cup competition against the Ocean City Barons of the USL Premier Development League. The match, hosted by United at Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyds, Maryland, ended with D.C. on top 2\u20130. As a fourth-tier club, the Barons lineup had featured amateur players while United's included only three regular starters. The match remained scoreless for 74\u00a0minutes before D.C. took the lead on a penalty kick by late substitution Christian Gomez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, D.C. United\nOne week later, on July 7, D.C. United hosted their quarterfinal match at the SoccerPlex again and defeated the Harrisburg City Islanders of the USL Second Division 2\u20131. On July 21, 2009, D.C. United hosted another lower tier team in their semifinal match at the SoccerPlex. This time they defeated the Rochester Rhinos of the USL First Division 2\u20131. The match was tied 1\u20131 until the 82nd minute when Boyzzz Khumalo's goal propelled D.C. into the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection\nBoth Seattle Sounders FC and D.C. United submitted bids to U.S. Soccer to host the final. D.C. United's bid included a proposal to host the match at RFK Stadium, their home stadium in Washington, D.C. with a capacity of 45,596. Sounders FC's bid proposed to host the match at Qwest Field, their home stadium in Seattle, with a capacity of 32,400 for soccer matches. The procedure for selecting the winning bid was kept private. When D.C. United's bid was chosen, Sounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer expressed skepticism that it had been better than the Seattle bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection\nHe further noted that if Seattle had hosted the match, it likely would have sold out. This prompted a reply from D.C. United president Kevin Payne, who argued that D.C. United had won the bidding process fairly, and said that he was offended by Hanauer's comments. Following this public disagreement, D.C. United launched a marketing campaign to sell more match tickets, which included a new web site, WeWinTrophies.com, which chronicled the club's history of titles as an original MLS franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection\nThe campaign also included an open letter in local newspapers stating that Sounders FC and its fans did not think D.C. deserved to host the match and declared D.C. fans as \"the standard\" for support in the league. Videos from local celebrities were posted on the team's official blog urging fans to attend the final. Ticket discounts and special pricing on concessions for the match were also announced as part of the special marketing effort for the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nPrior to meeting in the U.S. Open Cup final, Sounders FC and D.C. United had met only once, on June 17 at Qwest Field in Seattle. In that meeting, Sounders FC squandered a 3\u20131 second half lead by allowing D.C. United to score two goals late in the match. It ended in a 3\u20133 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nSince 1996, when MLS teams were first included in the tournament, the home team had won nine times and lost only twice in the final match. Commenting on what his team brings to the game, Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid stated, \"We bring a clean slate. We haven't had any negative experiences in championship games, so we want to just build up a positive legacy for our team and we know we have a chance to make some history for our team. Every player knows that and that's something we want to try and do.\" D.C. United had previously won the U.S. Open Cup twice in 1996 and 2008 and this was their fourth appearance ever in the tournament final. D.C. United president Kevin Payne simply stated, \"We want to win anything we enter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis\nSounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer commented on his club's desire to win the cup and a berth into the CONCACAF Champions League, \"That's one step towards our stated goal of competing in the world club championships, because the winner of the CONCACAF Champions League wins a spot in the World Club Championships.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match\nThe 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 2 at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. A total of 17,329 fans attended the match, well below the stadium's available capacity. Approximately 200 Sounders FC fans sat together in the upper deck. Both the travel distance and the mid-week scheduling made it difficult for Seattle fans to attend. Live television coverage was provided nationally by Fox Soccer Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half\nBoth clubs had used a mix of reserve players and starting (first choice) players in previous tournament matches, but for the final neither team used reserve players in their starting lineups. Seattle took the field in a 4-4-2 formation while D.C United was in a 3-4-3 formation. The match kicked off at 7:37\u00a0pm local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half\nFive minutes into the match, D.C. United first-year player Chris Pontius had the first chance of the evening as he pushed past Sounders FC defender Leonardo Gonz\u00e1lez to receive a diagonal pass from Clyde Simms. However, due to the difficult shooting angle, Pontius' shot was wide of the far post. In the 10th minute, Sounders FC forward Fredy Montero had a close range shot on goal, but D.C. goalkeeper Josh Wicks parried the shot away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half\nSeven minutes later, Christian Gomez had a goal scoring opportunity with a direct free kick from 28 yards (26\u00a0m), but his low kick curled just wide of the target. In the 18th minute, Seattle midfielder Sebastian Le Toux played a ball in to teammate Freddie Ljungberg, whose shot on goal was barely saved by Wicks, who kicked out a foot to block the shot. Just before halftime, Le Toux crossed to an unmarked Montero, whose direct header on goal was just in reach of Wicks, who again made the save to keep the score level, 0\u20130. Seattle outshot D.C. 9\u20136 in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half\nAs the players took the field for the second half, D.C. coach Tom Soehn decided to replace Fred, who had been a non-factor in the first half, with Santino Quaranta. In the 60th minute, Gomez, Pontius and Luciano Emilio combined inside Seattle's 18-yard box for a United opportunity, but Pontius mishit the shot, which resulted in an easy save for Seattle's goalkeeper, Kasey Keller. Seven minutes later, another failed D.C. United opportunity resulted in a Sounders FC counterattack, where Freddie Ljungberg's shot was saved by Wicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half\nThe rebound rolled in front of Fredy Montero, who dove feet first and kicked the ball into the goal, giving Sounders FC a 1\u20130 lead. Following the goal, frustrated D.C. United goalkeeper Josh Wicks stomped on Montero's leg while he was still on the ground. After consulting with the fourth official, referee Alex Prus showed Wicks a red card for his behavior, dismissing him from the match. United's backup goalkeeper, Milos Kocic, was substituted for Christian Gomez after the incident, and D.C. played with 10 men for the remainder of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half\nDespite being down a man, D.C. United controlled possession of the ball as the match progressed towards full-time. Just four minutes before full-time, Seattle's Sebastian Le Toux pushed D.C. defender Dejan Jakovic off the ball, dribbled in towards goal, and then provided a centering pass to teammate Roger Levesque who scored, extending the Seattle lead to 2\u20130. With time ticking away, United desperately threw every man forward and managed to narrow the scoring difference to one in the 89th minute when Simms kicked home a loose ball after a Quaranta free kick. During the five minutes of  stoppage time, D.C. continued with repeated crosses and shots attempting to get an equalizer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 731]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half\nIn the end, Sounders FC was able to withstand D.C.'s late push for a 2\u20131 victory, becoming the second MLS expansion team in league history (Chicago Fire was the first) to win the U.S. Open Cup in their inaugural season. Players and coaches ran onto the field after the final whistle, jumped up and down together and hurried to a corner of the field to acknowledge the Sounders FC fans cheering in the upper deck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post match\nIn the post-game press conference, Josh Wicks discussed his ejection, saying: \"It was a mistake on my part and I've got to learn my lesson. The fourth official made a call and the ref made the final decision. That was it. I've got no excuses for it. Tremendously, very, very disappointing.\" One month after the stomping incident, U.S. Soccer announced that Wicks would be suspended from the U.S. Open Cup tournament for five matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post match\nAfter the victory, many Sounders FC fans gathered at King County International Airport to greet the team as they returned to Seattle. The trophy was put on display at several events around Seattle in the weeks following Sounders FC's victory. On September 19, the cup was presented to Sounders FC fans to carry in the March to the Match prior to a Sounders FC league game at Qwest Field against Chivas USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post match\nBy winning the U.S. Open Cup tournament, Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2010\u201311 CONCACAF Champions League. Seattle also received the winner's $100,000 cash prize, while D.C. United received $50,000 as the tournament runner-up. Kevin Forrest, whose game-winning goal against Colorado allowed Sounders FC to qualify for the tournament, received a share of the prize money and a medal, despite being released by the team before the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post match\nIn January 2010, the club's success in the U.S. Open Cup tournament was listed among the many reasons the Washington State Senate passed a resolution honoring Sounders FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205412-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post match\nOn October 5, 2010, Seattle returned to the final and defeated the Columbus Crew 2\u20131 to repeat as U.S. Open Cup champion. This time Sounders FC hosted the final at Qwest Field, drawing an attendance of 31,311 which broke the 81-year-old record for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThis page details the qualification process for the 2009 U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe tournament proper features teams from the top five levels of the American Soccer Pyramid. These five levels, namely Major League Soccer, the United Soccer Leagues (First Division, Second Division, and Premier Development League), and the United States Adult Soccer Association, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final eight team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper. It is expected that eight teams from each level will compete in the tournament proper, with the eight clubs from MLS receiving byes into the Third Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 646]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe qualifying process for MLS will take the form of an eight-team play-off tournament. The top six finishers, regardless of conference, in 2008 were given six of the berths into the Third Round. The eight remaining U.S.-based clubs will compete for the final two berths via a playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nContinuing the format of recent seasons, no qualification process will be needed for USL-1 and USL-2 as each level has exactly eight U.S.-based clubs for the 2009 season. The PDL has announced that selected early season games will again double as qualifying matches, as they had in recent years. Each conference will be given two berths that will be awarded to the best team in each division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification\nThe qualifying process for the USASA will take the form of four regional tournaments. Assuming the continuation of recent seasons' format, the two finalists in each region will be awarded berths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 1: Major League Soccer (MLS), Schedule\nNote: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 2: USL-1 and Tier 3: USL-2\nNo qualification is necessary for USL-1 and USL-2 since each level has eight U.S.-based clubs for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 4: USL Premier Development League (PDL)\nWinners in each division advance to tournamentAll teams play 4 designated games doubled as regular season games Green indicates U.S. Open Cup berth clinched", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region I\nNine teams will compete for the two Region I berths in the U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 98], "content_span": [99, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region II\nSeven teams have qualified from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 99], "content_span": [100, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region III\nThe following teams have qualified for the regional finals to be held in St. Johns, Florida from May 22 to 25, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region III\n*Greenwood Wanderers failed to show, so all games were 3\u20130 forfeits", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region III\n*Dynamo New Tampa failed to show, so all games were 3\u20130 forfeits", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 100], "content_span": [101, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region IV\nThe following teams participated in the regional finals to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona from May 15 to 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 99], "content_span": [100, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205413-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region IV\n*Miran F.C. was disqualified for using illegitimate players, so the group runner up (Arizona Sahuaros) will participate in the U.S. Open Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 99], "content_span": [100, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205414-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 2009 U.S. Women's Open was the 64th U.S. Women's Open. Held July 9\u201312, it was the first U.S. Women's Open to be played at the Old Course of the Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Eun-Hee Ji won her only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Candie Kung. The event was televised by ESPN and NBC Sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205414-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Women's Open\nNa Yeon Choi shot a 68 (\u22123) in the first round to take a one-shot lead. Cristie Kerr led the way after the second round after shooting a one-under par 70 for 139 (\u22123). Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa struggled to a second round 79 (+8) and was nine strokes back at 148 (+6). The 36-hole cut was at 151 (+9) or better, which included seven amateurs among the 72 players who advanced to the weekend. In the third round, Kerr shot 72 (+1) for 211 (\u22122) and kept the lead, two strokes up on the field after 54 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205414-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. Women's Open\nJi won the championship after sinking a 20-foot (6\u00a0m) birdie putt on the 72nd hole to finish with an even-par 71 and 284, one stroke ahead of runner-up Kung. Ji held off the challenge of playing partner and third-round leader Cristie Kerr, who was chasing a second Open title but carded a 75 (+4) and finished two strokes back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches\nOn November 24, 2009, Michaele (/m\u026a\u02c8k\u025bl/) and Tareq Salahi (/\u02c8t\u0251\u02d0r\u025bk s\u0251\u02d0\u02c8l\u0251\u02d0hi/), a married couple from Virginia, and Carlos Allen (from the District of Columbia), attended a White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as uninvited guests. The Salahis and Allen arrived separately and did not appear to have colluded in their efforts. They were able to pass through two security checkpoints (including one requiring positive photo identification), enter the White House complex, and meet President Barack Obama. The incident resulted in security investigations and legal inquiries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Motivation\nAt the time of the incident, Michaele Salahi was being filmed for Bravo's The Real Housewives of D.C. Camera crews for the show filmed the Salahis' preparation for the dinner, including Michaele's hair being done at a salon and her dress being properly styled, before and going to the White House in a limousine with her husband Tareq. Cameras captured the couple being questioned at the gate by a person with a clipboard, who instructed them to proceed to the next gate when she could not verify them on her list. Sky News reported: \"The Salahis hope to build a public profile in the US after appearing in the filming for the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C., though their contribution was never aired.\" The series began airing on Bravo in August 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Preparation\nTim Burke, director of the gatecrashing reality show MTV Blaggers!, said that Tareq Salahi contacted him about a week before the White House incident for advice on tricking one's way into a black-tie event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Preparation\nMichaele Salahi spent seven hours in the Erwin Gomez Salon in Georgetown to prepare for the state dinner, accompanied by a film crew from The Real Housewives. In contrast to the more sedate black or navy blue evening gowns worn by most female guests, Salahi wore a gold embroidered red ensemble, to which the press widely referred as a sari (more precisely, a lehenga-style sari and choli).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Preparation\nMichaele was recorded on film saying that she had conferred with White House social secretary Desir\u00e9e Rogers as to whether wearing this attire would be appropriate, and that \"they thought the sari was a great idea.\" Aparajita Mukherjee of the Times of India later implied that Salahi probably bought the ensemble in the Janpath market of New Delhi during a July 2009 visit to invite the Indian polo team to participate in the 2010 America's Polo Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Preparation\nMichaele Salahi also wore expensive David Yurman jewelry to the event; reportedly, a Washington-area store lent her the bracelets and rings, in total worth $30,000, and needed three attempts to retrieve them. In February 2010, Salahi told an Australian television interviewer that her attire would be auctioned to raise funds for Haitian earthquake relief. It was sold at auction on October 2, 2010, for US$7,000 (equivalent to $8,307 in 2020).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nThe Salahis entered the state dinner in honor of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh without an invitation, although their film crew was unable to follow them. They passed through two security checkpoints, one of which checked them for photo identification. Robin Givhan of The Washington Post surmised that the Salahis were allowed to enter because they \"looked the part\" and, in her words, stepped through a \"cultural blind spot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nThe Washington Post also quoted an anonymous official as having said that \"the Salahis were allowed inside in violation of agency policies by an officer outside the front gate who apparently was persuaded by the couple's manner and insistence as well as the pressure of keeping lines moving on a rainy evening.\" The White House social secretary, Desir\u00e9e Rogers, later told media that a member of her staff was at the main entrance to handle arriving guests not on the guest list, but that the Secret Service did not alert her staff to either the Salahis or Carlos Allen. The New York Times subsequently reported that Rogers had posted an employee of her office only at the East Portico checkpoint, but not at the first, outer checkpoint, a departure from past practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 847]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nThe Washington Post's Roxanne Roberts recognized the Salahis and subsequently wrote,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nThe minute I realized they were not on the list, I asked a White House staffer to verify their names and explain why they were not on the list. I told the same thing to another staffer a few minutes later. This was before the Salahis went through the receiving with the president, and they could have been pulled aside and quietly questioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nRoberts's suspicions were apparently not acted upon; according to media reports, \"the first the White House security detail knew of their blunder in allowing the Salahis into Tuesday's event was when the couple posted photographs from the dinner on their Facebook page.\" The White House on November 27 released its own photographs of the couple posing with President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nInvited guest Brian Williams, anchor of the NBC Nightly News who was there, observed the Salahis' sport utility vehicle being turned down from the East Gate entrance of the White House that evening, after which the Salahis and crew left their vehicle and walked toward the White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, The incident, Breach and attendance\nAfter returning from the White House, the Salahis posted their photographs from the dinner on Michaele's Facebook page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nOn December 1, 2009, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service found e-mail exchanges between the Salahis and Michele S. Jones, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon-based liaison to the White House; Jones specifically told the Salahis not to come because she had no authority to grant admittance. That morning, the Salahis appeared on the Today show on NBC, interviewed by Matt Lauer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nWhen Lauer asked the couple whether they were invited to the dinner, Michaele stated, \"we were invited, not crashers and there isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that.\" Michaele also claimed victimization: \"Everything we worked for, Matt\u2014for me 44 years just destroyed.\" The Salahis also asserted that they had received no payment in return for granting the interview.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nThe Salahis were requested by the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee to appear at a hearing on December 3, 2009, but they refused to attend. Following this, Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the Committee, defeated Republican efforts to subpoena White House social secretary Desir\u00e9e Rogers and to hold the Secret Service officially responsible for the Salahis' unauthorized entry. He also began a formal process to subpoena the Salahis. On December 9, 2009, the Committee on Homeland Security voted 26 to 3 to subpoena Tareq Salahi, and 27 to 2 to subpoena Michaele, for a hearing on the gatecrash that was scheduled for January 20, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nThe Salahis' attorney advised that the Salahis would invoke the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and they did so at the hearing, declining to answer questions 32 times. Despite this invocation of the Fifth Amendment, Tareq Salahi had informed the Las Vegas Sun that he and his wife \"want the story of The White House cover-up about their invitation to be told.\" Tareq also told the Loudoun Times-Mirror prior to the hearings, \"It will truly be a historic moment\u00a0... Not since the 1950s has Congress held hearings of such a historic nature.\" However, the Salahis' attorney, Stephen Best, described the Congressional inquest as \"not a hearing looking for information. This was an opportunity for a public flogging.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nWhite House Principal Deputy Counsel Daniel J. Meltzer stated in a letter on 23 December 2009 to the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nWe have found no evidence the Salahis were included on any White House access list or guest list. The Salahis were not on the lists for the State Dinner, the Arrival Ceremony, or any other event scheduled for November 24. Indeed there is no record of the Salahis in the White House visitor access system since the beginning of the Obama Administration. Moreover, we have found no evidence that the Salahis called the White House and asked about the proper dress code for the State Dinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nOn January 8, 2010, media reported that a federal grand jury had been convened to investigate the apparent security breach by the Salahis. Erwin Gomez and Peggy Ioakim of the Erwin Gomez Salon and Spa were subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury. Politico reported that the subpoena does not mention the Salahis, but \"says that the grand jury is investigating a possible violation of , a federal statute that covers lying to a government official.\" In addition, White House Usher Rear Admiral Stephen Rochon testified voluntarily to the grand jury, the first White House official to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 667]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Formal investigation\nIn an interview by Robin Roberts on ABC's Good Morning America television program broadcast January 10, 2010, Carlos Allen's attorney called Allen a \"cooperating witness\" and stated that Allen is not a subject of the grand jury investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nIndian security officials expressed shock at the apparent breach of security. An anonymous Indian official told The Economic Times, part of the Times of India media group,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nWe are glad that it happened in the US. If such a security breach had happened out here in Hyderabad House, or even Vigyan Bhavan, we would have never heard the end of it and heads would have rolled. How such a breach in the most important official residence in the world happened is something all of us are very keen to know.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nSecret Service Director Mark Sullivan issued a statement on November 27 saying that the Secret Service was \"deeply concerned and embarrassed by the circumstances surrounding the State Dinner\". Sullivan's statement also pointed out that \"the preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list.\" Newsweek magazine further reported, \"The White House staff member whose job was to supervise the guest list for state dinners and clear invitees into the events says she was stripped of most of her responsibilities earlier this year, prompting her to resign last June.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 762]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nRepresentative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, wrote a letter to the House Committee on Homeland Security requesting an investigation into this incident. The Secret Service also considered criminal charges against the Salahis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nSecret Service Director Sullivan put three identified employees on administrative leave. Sullivan testified at the December 3 hearing that the White House and Secret Service collaboratively planned security protocols for the state dinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nIn a televised interview on the CBS program 60 Minutes that aired December 13, 2009, President Obama termed the gatecrash a \"screw-up\", expressed anger that it had taken place, and vowed that such incidents would not occur again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nThe incident also resulted in criticism of the White House for an alleged lack of transparency due to the Administration's unwillingness to allow the White House social secretary to testify before Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nSecurity was tightened both at the White House and at outside events involving the President, with one commentator referring to the new White House security regime as \"so tight it operated like a beast on steroids.\" Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) complained in March 2010 about members of Congress having to walk a block in the rain to enter the White House:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nThe member of Congress, like today in the rain, has to go down a block and then go through security there with double the number of guards and then come up and go through security again and go through guards again\u00a0... not because Secret Service messed up or the armed guards that are now doubled in number, but because somebody in the White House staff screwed up\u00a0... Now they\u2019re deciding to punish members of Congress and law-abiding citizens that normally just get in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nAt the state of the union address in the Capitol January 27, 2010, security was reportedly more stringent than before, with multiple checks of identification. An anonymous U.S. Senate official was quoted in The New York Times as saying,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nNobody, the Secret Service, the Capitol Police, wants another one of those\u00a0... They don\u2019t want some chucklehead out on the House floor with a camera, then putting it on YouTube that he snuck in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Reactions\nSecurity was also tightened for the May 19, 2010, state dinner in honor of Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n, to the extent that the wife of the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs was turned away for lack of proper identification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Repercussions for the Salahis\nThe widely publicized incident created a huge wave of interest in the personal lives and business dealings of Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Within days, their family winery was deluged with angry phone calls condemning their actions. Within a week of the incident, Tareq Salahi resigned from the Virginia Tourism Board at the request of Governor Tim Kaine, an Obama ally, and other state officials. Multiple sponsors withdrew support from the Salahis' \"America's Polo Cup\" event, although those withdrawals were not always acknowledged in the event's publicity materials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Repercussions for the Salahis\nBy the end of December 2009, the Washington Post alone had assigned more than a dozen reporters to investigate them. By the end of June 2010, according to the Washington Post's ombudsman, the paper had extended its coverage of the couple to a new total of 110 articles by more than thirty reporters and contributors, ascribing its readers' interest to \"the unique audaciousness and astonishing self-absorption of the Salahis.\" Tareq Salahi remarked in an interview that the White House should apologize for ruining his reputation and for the way he has been treated by the public and members of the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Repercussions for the Salahis, Loss of prestige\nA USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted December 11\u201313, 2009, of 1,025 adults in the United States, revealed that 70% of respondents considered the Salahis \"losers\" politically as a result of their White House breach, versus 16% who considered them \"winners\". Of the 13 choices offered in the poll, the Salahis yielded the lowest score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Repercussions for the Salahis, Loss of prestige\nAt a January 20, 2010, congressional hearing on the gatecrash, the Salahis were subjected to what The Washington Post called a \"blistering bipartisan tongue-lashing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\nEllis Henican, a columnist for Newsday, called the Salahis \"low-class, high-gloss wannabes\", and said the matter amounted to \"a new low\" for reality television and the depths people will resort to for fame. The New York Daily News criticized Bravo for \"settling for [the] bottom of [the] social ladder\" in its casting policy for the Real Housewives program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\nThe New York Times characterized the gatecrash as a gross breach of social protocol in the nation's capital, thus:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\n... when Ms. Salahi strutted onto the South Lawn in that bright red lehenga, she and her husband breached far more than a secure perimeter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\nThey also trampled countless protocols that are the social, business and networking bedrock of official Washington. Essentially, the couple used the mixed martial arts approach to upward mobility in a town that still cherishes the Marquess of Queensberry rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\nHowever, Maureen Dowd, a The New York Times columnist, used the incident to cast aspersions on Washington society, writing,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Social criticism\n... even the outrage over the fakers is fake. The capital has turned up its nose at the tacky trompe-l'\u0153il Virginia horse-country socialites: a faux Redskins cheerleader and a faux successful businessman auditioning for a \u201creality\u201d show by feigning a White House invitation\u00a0... Yet Washington has always been a town full of poseurs, arrivistes, fame-seekers, cheaters and camera hogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nAn episode of Law & Order, titled \"Crashers\", was partially inspired by the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nThe phrase \"Salahi route\" has additionally been used to refer to refusal to pay for services rendered or goods delivered, as in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nSome go the Salahi route, stiffing working folks on their bills (tradesmen, lawyers, beauty salon operators, purveyors of services), crashing parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nIn the opening segment of the December 5, 2009, episode of Saturday Night Live, Tareq was portrayed by Bobby Moynihan and Michaele by Kristen Wiig as interlopers who got on stage at a Barack Obama speech in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and posed for various pictures behind the President with Secret Service special agents and Vice-President Joe Biden. At one point in the skit they ask the President to stop his speech and snap a group shot of all of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nThe monologue segment of the Late Show with David Letterman parodied the Salahis. NBC's Washington, D.C., affiliate posted on its website parody photographs of well-known American events into which images of the Salahis had been edited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nTV Squad listed this incident as one of the top four \"reality scandals\" of 2009. The Huffington Post ranked the incident fourth on its list of \"Rubbernecking's Top Ten Pop Culture Moments of 2009\". Addicting Games, a subsidiary of MTV Networks, created an online computer game, White House Party Crashers, in which the gamer is challenged, \"Use your most devious skills to get past White House security.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nPolitical satirist Dave Barry included the following mention of the incident in his summary of major \"lowlights\" of 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\n... a Washington couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, penetrate heavy security and enter the White House, a feat that Joe Biden has yet to manage. As details of the incident emerge, an embarrassed Secret Service is forced to admit that not only did the couple crash a state dinner, but they also met and shook hands with the president, and they \"may have served briefly in the Cabinet.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\nThe Washington Post's \"Reliable Source\" gossip column chose Tareq and Michaele Salahi as its Persons of the Year for 2009, saying,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205415-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches, Aftermath, Cultural references\n... the Salahis took what could have been an enjoyably seedy little horse-country melodrama and catapulted it into the gossip stratosphere with one fateful night at the White House that exposed the dark secrets of our decade's major growth industries: national security and reality television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team\nThe 2009 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama and competed in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The Blazers finished the season 5\u20137 and 4\u20134 in C-USA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team, Game summaries, Rice\nTo open the 2009 season, UAB quarterback Joe Webb would have a record setting day in leading the Blazers to this 44\u201324 victory over the Owls. For the game, Webb would set both a school and Conference USA record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a single game with 194. For the game, Webb would also complete 12 of 15 passes for another 221 yards and a pair of touchdowns in gaining 415 yards of total offense on the afternoon. For his efforts, Webb was named Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team, Game summaries, SMU\nFollowing an opening week win, the Blazers would fall by a final score of 33\u201335 to the Mustangs of SMU. After falling behind by a score of 28\u20137 at the half, the Blazers would rally to within a point of SMU by the end of the third quarter. The Blazers would fall late in the fourth following a failed two-point conversion that would have tied the game at 35 with 00:13 remaining in the game. For the game Webb would rush for 97 yards and a single touchdown in addition to throwing for 226 yards and a pair of touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team, Game summaries, Troy\nFor the second week in a row, the Blazers would fall, and this time it was by a final score of 14\u201327 on the road to the Trojans of Troy. For the game, UAB only scored on a pair of Josh Zahn field goals and a single, 17-yard Joe Webb touchdown pass in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nTraveling to College Station to face the Aggies in the evening, the Blazers would fall by a final score of 56\u201319. For the game, UAB scored on a pair of Josh Zahn field goals, a 10-yard Joe Webb touchdown run in the third and on a 60-yard David Isabelle run in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205416-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UAB Blazers football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nFollowing three consecutive losses in addition to coming off a short week, the Blazers would defeat Southern Miss for the first time in school history on a Thursday night by a final score of 30\u201317. UAB would open the scoring with a 27-yard Josh Zahn field goal and a 31-yard Joe Webb touchdown run in the first, only to have the Golden Eagles score 10 in the second to tie the game at the half. In the third, Webb would hit Anderson for a 21-yard touchdown in the third to take a 17\u201310 lead into the fourth. Zahn would hit a pair of field goals (51 & 32 yards) and Hiram Atwater would seal the game late following a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205417-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UAE International Cup\nThe 2009 UAE International Cup was held in Al Ain City with the participation of four teams. They were UAE, Czech Republic, Iraq and Azerbaijan. The first games were on 15 November 2009. On that day, Iraq played Azerbaijan, and that game was followed by the match between UAE and Czech Republic. The final was played on 18 November 2009 between Iraq and UAE. The third-placed match was also played on that day featuring Azerbaijan and Czech Republic. Iraq were the only team not to concede a goal in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205418-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 2009 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They competed in the Great West Conference (GWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205418-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 2009 Aggies were led by head coach Bob Biggs in his seventeenth year and played home games at Aggie Stadium. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the GWC, with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 3\u20131 GWC). The Aggies were outscored by their opponents 272\u2013300 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205418-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft\nNo UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205419-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team\nThe 2009 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team represents the University of California, Irvine in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2009. The team plays home games at Anteater Ballpark in Irvine, California. The team is coached by Mike Gillespie in his second season at Irvine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205419-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team, Pre-Season\nThe Anteaters concluded the 2008 season with a 42-18 mark, and made their second consecutive trip to the Super Regionals. They are a veteran-filled team, with 17 upperclassmen returning for the 2009 season. On January 20, 2009, the coaches in the Big West picked UC Irvine to finish second in the Big West behind Cal State Fullerton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205419-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team, Rankings\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team\nThe 2009 UCF Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach was George O'Leary, in his sixth season with the team. Coaching changes included new offensive coordinator Charlie Taaffe. For the third season, the UCF Knights played all of their home games at Bright House Networks Stadium on the school's main campus in Orlando, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team\nAll games were broadcast live on the UCF-ISP Sports radio network. The flagship was WYGM \"740 The Game\" in Orlando, which had returned to a sports talk format after a year's absence but retained UCF's rights throughout. The games were called by Marc Daniels (play-by-play) and Gary Parris (color commentary), with Scott Adams and Jerry O'Neill as field reporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team\nFor the season, the Knights had an 8\u20135 record, 6\u20132 in Conference USA, and placed second in the Eastern Division. The Knights finished the season with a six-game conference winning streak, after starting conference play 0\u20132. The season included a 37\u201332 Homecoming win over the Houston Cougars, who were ranked #12 in the Coaches' Poll, marking the first time in program history that the Knights had defeated a ranked opponent. For the third time in five years, the Knights became bowl eligible and lost to Rutgers in the St. Petersburg Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Personnel, Coaching staff\nOn January 5, 2009, UCF hired Charlie Taaffe to be the team's new Offensive Coordinator. The change occurred amid a staff shake-up by Head Coach George O'Leary after a disappointing 2008 season. Tim Salem, whom Taaffe replaced, will transition to being the tight-ends coach and special-teams coordinator, 2008 quarterbacks coach George Godsey will move to be the running-backs coach, and Brent Key will move from being the tight-ends coach and special-teams coordinator to offensive-line coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Samford\nUCF and Samford last met for a Homecoming game in the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nUCF and Southern Miss last met in Orlando on November 8, 2008. UCF lost the game 17-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nUCF and East Carolina last met in Orlando on November 2, 2008. East Carolina won the game in overtime 13\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nUCF and Memphis last met in Memphis on November 22, 2008. UCF won the game 28\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Miami\nUCF and Miami met for the first time on October 11, 2008 in Miami. Miami won the game 20\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Miami\nThere were 48,453 fans on hand to watch the game, which was the largest crowd to watch a football game at Bright House Networks Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nUCF and Marshall last met on November 15, 2008 in Huntington. UCF won the game 30\u201314. UCF is 5\u20133 all time versus Marshall. Marshall was leading 20-7 with less than 8 minutes to go in the game, but UCF staged a comeback to win the game 21-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Texas\nUCF and Texas last met on September 15, 2007 for the inaugural game at Bright House Networks Stadium in Orlando. #8 Texas won the game 35\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Houston\nUCF and Houston last met on October 28, 2006 in Houston. The Cougars won the game 51\u201331. This was the first time in the program's history that the Knights proved victorious over a ranked opponent. UCF is now 20\u201310 all time on Homecoming weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nUCF and Tulane last met in 2006 in New Orleans. The Green Wave won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, UAB\nUCF and UAB last met on November 29, 2008 in Orlando. The Blazers won the game 15\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205420-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, St. Petersburg Bowl\nUCF had been bowl eligible for three of the past five seasons. UCF was 0\u20133 in bowl games until this point. This game marked the first meeting between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205421-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI BMX World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI BMX World Championships took place at the Adelaide Showgrounds in Adelaide in Australia and crowned world champions in the cycling discipline of BMX.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205422-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships took place in Hoogerheide, Netherlands on the weekend of January 31 and February 1, 2009. As in 2008, four events were scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205423-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships \u2013 Men's elite race\nThis event was held on Sunday February 1, 2009 as part of the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. It was Niels Albert's first appearance in the Men's Elite World Championship and he immediately managed to get the most out of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205424-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships \u2013 Men's junior race\nThis event was held on Saturday 31 January 2009 as part of the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205425-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships \u2013 Men's under-23 race\nThis event was held on Saturday January 31, 2009 as part of the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205426-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships \u2013 Women's elite race\nThis event is a part of the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands and was held on Sunday February 1, 2009. It was Marianne Vos' second victory in the Women's Elite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205427-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Juniors Track World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Moscow, Russia from 11 to 15 August 2009. Nineteen events were scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205428-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships were held in Canberra, Australia from 1 to 6 September 2009. The disciplines included were cross-country, downhill, four-cross, and trials. The event was the 20th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the 24th edition of the UCI Trials World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205428-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships\nThe event was the second UCI Mountain Bike World Championships to be held in Australia, following the 1996 World Championships in Cairns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205429-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup\nThe 2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup includes three disciplines: cross-country, downhill and four-cross. It is sponsored by Nissan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205430-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI ProTour\nThe 2009 UCI ProTour was the fifth series of the UCI ProTour. Two new teams, the American Garmin\u2013Slipstream and the Russian Team Katusha, joined the ProTour, effectively taking over the licenses of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole and Gerolsteiner. Two existing teams changed title sponsors: Team CSC from Denmark became Team Saxo Bank, and Saunier Duval\u2013Scott changed name to Fuji\u2013Servetto. As in 2008, the races organized by the three Grand Tour organizers were not part of the ProTour. Rather than a ranking based only on the ProTour, the UCI designed a World Calendar, on which the Monument events and Grand Tours were included, with a corresponding 2009 UCI World Ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205430-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI ProTour\nThe first race was the 2009 Tour Down Under in January, and the series ended with the 2009 GP Ouest-France in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205431-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI Road World Championships were held in Mendrisio, Switzerland, between September 23 and September 27, 2009. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205431-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships, Participating nations\nCyclists from 60 national federations participated. The number of cyclists per nation that competed is shown in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205432-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe Men's Individual Road Race of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 27 September in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The course of 262\u00a0km consisted of nineteen laps around an undulating circuit. The pre-race favourites came from the strong Italian and Spanish national squads, with Damiano Cunego and Alejandro Valverde both considered possible contenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205432-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe race was won by Australian Cadel Evans, the first Australian victory in the World road race. Evans, who took his third victory of the season, moved clear from a group of nine riders on the final lap to win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205433-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's time trial\nThe Men's time trial of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 24 September in Mendrisio, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification\nThis page is an overview of the qualification criteria for the 2009 UCI Road World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification, Elite events, Elite men's road race\nQualification was based on performances on the UCI run tours during 2009. Results from January to the middle of August would count towards the qualification criteria on both the 2009 UCI ProTour and the UCI Continental Circuits across the world, with the rankings being determined upon the release of the numerous tour rankings on 15 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 86], "content_span": [87, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification, Elite events, Elite women's road race\nQualification will be based mainly on the 2009 UCI Nation Ranking as of 15 August 2009. The first five nations in this classification qualified 7 riders to start, the next ten nations qualified 6 riders to start and the next 5 nations qualified 5 riders to start. Other nations and non ranked nations had the possibility to send 3 riders to start. Moreover, the outgoing World Champion and continental champions are qualified to take part in the race on top of the nation numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 88], "content_span": [89, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification, Elite events, Elite men's time trial\nAll National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions may take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 87], "content_span": [88, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification, Elite events, Elite women's time trial\nAll National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 89], "content_span": [90, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205434-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Qualification, Under-23 events, Men's under-23 time trial\nAll National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions may take part", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 93], "content_span": [94, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205435-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's road race\nThe women's road race of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 26 September in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The race was won by Italy's Tatiana Guderzo, followed by Marianne Vos (Netherlands) and Noemi Cantele (Italy).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205436-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial\nThe Women's time trial of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 23 September 2011 in Mendrisio, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205436-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Women's time trial, Qualification\nAll National Federations were allowed to register four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 307]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205437-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the World Championship for track cycling. They took place at the BG\u017b Arena in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland from 25 to 29 March 2009. Nineteen events were on the programme, with the women's omnium being added to the eighteen events contested at the 2008 championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205437-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nAustralia topped the medal table with four gold medals, with France on second and Great Britain on third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205437-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nIn the Men's events, Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v and Alex Rasmussen, both of Denmark, and Gr\u00e9gory Baug\u00e9 of France took home two gold medals while Australian Cameron Meyer took home a gold and two silver medals. For the women, Simona Krupeckait\u0117 of Lithuania won three medals; a gold and two bronzes. Victoria Pendleton and Elizabeth Armitstead of Great Britain won three medals each; a gold, a silver, and a bronze with.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205438-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's 1 km time trial\nThe Men's 1\u00a0km time trial event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 27 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205439-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's individual pursuit\nThe Men's individual pursuit event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205440-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's keirin\nThe Men's keirin event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205441-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's madison\nThe Men's madison event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205442-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's omnium\nThe Men's omnium event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 29\u201330 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205443-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's points race\nThe Men's points race event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 25 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205444-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's scratch\nThe Men's scratch event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205445-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's sprint\nThe Men's sprint event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 and 29 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205446-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team pursuit\nThe Men's team pursuit event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 27 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205447-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Men's team sprint\nThe Men's team sprint event of the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 25 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205448-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m time trial\nThe Women's 500m Time Trial is one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205448-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's 500 m time trial\n23 Cyclists from 20 countries participated in the contest. The Final was held on 25 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205449-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe Women's Individual Pursuit was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland on 25 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205449-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\n21 Cyclists from 19 countries participated in the contest. After the qualification, the fastest 2 riders advanced to the Final and the 3rd and 4th best riders raced for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205449-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's individual pursuit\nThe qualification took place on 25 March and the Finals later the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205450-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin\nThe Women's Keirin is one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205450-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's keirin\n20 Cyclists from 16 countries participated in the contest, which was held on 29 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205451-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's omnium\nThe Women's Omnium was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205451-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's omnium\nThis was the first time a women's omnium event had ever been included in the World Championships. 16 cyclists from 16 countries participated in the contest. The omnium consisted of five events, which were all contested on 28 March: a sprint 200 m time trial with a flying start, scratch race, 2\u00a0km individual pursuit, points race and a 500 m time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205452-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race\nThe Women's Points Race was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205452-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race\n22 Cyclists from 22 countries participated in the contest. Because of the number of entries, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline. Consequently, the event was run direct to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205452-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race, Final\nThe Final and only race was run on 29 March. The competition consisted on 100 laps, making a total of 25\u00a0km with 10 sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205452-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race, Final\nFour riders crashed when Belinda Goss of Australia moved up the banking, Aksana Papko of Belarus veered to avoid hitting her rear wheel but high-sided her bicycle, bringing down two other riders in the process, Pascale Jeuland of France and Olga Slyusareva of Russia who had three points and was placed fifth at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 71], "content_span": [72, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205452-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's points race, Final\nThe American rider Shelley Olds was lucky not to come down also as she was struck by one of the falling riders but managed to keep her balance, although she later crashed when she was moving down the track at speed, clipping the rear wheel of the British rider Elizabeth Armitstead, Armitstead luckily stayed upright to take the bronze medal behind Yumari Gonz\u00e1lez of Cuba. Giorgia Bronzini of Italy won the gold medal, having ridden consistently and featured in all but two of the sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 71], "content_span": [72, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205453-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's scratch\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by DannyS712 (talk | contribs) at 15:54, 20 June 2020 (Disambiguating links to Lauren Ellis). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205453-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's scratch\nThe Women's Scratch was one of the 8 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205453-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's scratch\n20 Cyclists from 20 different countries participated in the race. Because of the number of entries, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline. The competition consisted on 40 laps, making a total of 10\u00a0km and was run on 27 March 2009. Ellen van Dijk could not cement her reputation as the 2008 World champion and it was the 2007 World champion and 2008 silver medalist Yumari Gonz\u00e1lez from Cuba who won the scratch race with Elizabeth Armitstead and Belinda Goss finishing in second and third position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe Women's Sprint was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\n26 cyclists from 18 countries were due to participate in the contest, but two riders did not start. After the qualifying heats, the fastest 24 riders were to advance to the 1/16 finals, therefore all riders who contested the qualification advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe first rider in each of the 12 heats advanced to the second round. There was no repechage for this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe first rider from each of the six Second Round heats advanced to the Quarterfinals and the second placed riders from a repechage to determine the other two riders that competed the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe first rider in each quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals and the 4 losing athletes faced a race for 5th-8th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205454-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's sprint\nThe qualifying, first round, second round, second round repechages and quarterfinals took place on 27 March. The Semifinals and Finals took place on 28 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205455-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe Women's Team Pursuit was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland on 26 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205455-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\n42 cyclists from 14 countries participated in the contest. After the qualification, the fastest two teams advanced to the final and the 3rd and 4th fastest raced for the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205455-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team pursuit\nThe qualification took place on 26 March and the finals were held later the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205456-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nThe Women's Team Sprint is one of the 7 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszk\u00f3w, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205456-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nTen teams of 2 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205456-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships \u2013 Women's team sprint\nThe Qualifying and the Finals were held on the evening session on 26 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205457-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Women's Road World Cup\nThe 2009 UCI Women's Road World Cup was the 12th edition of the UCI Women's Road World Cup. The calendar contained the same races as the 2008 event with the exception of the Geelong World Cup, meaning that the campaign began instead in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205458-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Women's Road World Rankings\nThe 2009 UCI Women's Road Rankings is an overview of the UCI Women's Road Rankings, based upon the results in all UCI-sanctioned races of the 2009 women's road cycling season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205458-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI Women's Road World Rankings, UCI Teams Ranking\nThis is the ranking of the UCI women's teams from 2009.Final result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking\nThe 2009 UCI World Ranking was the first edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), replacing the rankings previously part of the UCI ProTour, with which it would be merged in 2011 to form the UCI World Tour. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 20 January, and consists of 13 stage races and 11 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 17 October. All events except the Tour Down Under took place in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking\nThe individual ranking was topped by Alberto Contador, who took the lead after his win in the Tour de France and was assured of winning the classification when second-placed Alejandro Valverde was absent from the final race of the series. Contador's Astana team took the team title, with Valverde again second as leader of Caisse d'Epargne, and with a third Spaniard, Samuel S\u00e1nchez, completing the top three in the individual classification, Spain won the national rankings by a wide margin over second placed Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking, Events\nAll 24 events of the 2009 UCI ProTour were included in the series calendar, along with the three Grand Tours, two early season stage races, and five one-day classics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking, Final standings, Team\nTeam rankings are calculated by adding the ranking points of the top five riders of a team in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking, Final standings, Nation\nFinal standing. National rankings are calculated by adding the ranking points of the top five riders registered in a nation in the table. The top 10 nations after the 2009 Tour de Pologne became eligible to enter 9 riders to the 2009 UCI Road World Championships, and any nation with at least one rider in the top 100 eligible to enter a team of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205459-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UCI World Ranking, Final standings, Nation\n\u2020 The names of six riders under suspension for drug test failures, including Astarloza, Colom and Rebellin, were removed from the individual rankings, but the points earned before suspension are still credited to their teams and nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205460-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins baseball team\nThe 2009 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bruins played their home games in Jackie Robinson Stadium, and finished the season with a 27\u201329 overall record. With a 15\u201312 record in conference play, UCLA tied Oregon State as the #3 team in the Pacific-10 Conference, behind #1 Arizona State and #2 Washington State. Even though UCLA won the three-game season series 2\u20131, Oregon State was invited to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament instead of UCLA due to their better overall record (37\u201319).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205460-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins baseball team, Previous season\nThe Bruins completed the 2008 season with a 33\u201327 overall record, and finished third in the Pac-10 Conference behind #1 Arizona State and #2 Stanford. The 2008 season ended at the Fullerton Regionals when the Bruins lost two games in a row to Cal State Fullerton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205460-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins baseball team, UCLA Bruins in the 2009 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the UCLA Bruins baseball program were drafted in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 2009 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Under second-year head coach Rick Neuheisel, they opened the season at the Rose Bowl on September 5 against San Diego State. The last game of the season, against USC was moved from the \"Championship Saturday\" weekend of December. Instead, the UCLA\u2013USC rivalry game was played on Saturday, November 28 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team\nFollowing the regular season, which they finished with six wins and six losses, the Bruins were invited to play in the 2009 EagleBank Bowl, thanks to the normal tie-in Army not being bowl eligible at 5\u20137. UCLA defeated Temple 30\u201321 to finish the season with a winning record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team\nAll regular season UCLA football games were broadcast on the UCLA ISP Sports Network (AM 570 KLAC in Southern California) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Recruitment\nOn Wednesday, February 4, 2009, UCLA announced 22 letter-of-intent signings from high school football players, including Richard Brehaut, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Randall Carroll, Los Angeles, CA; Todd Golper, Arcadia, CA; Stanley Hasiak, Kapolei, HI; Dalton Hilliard, Honolulu, HI; Jared Koster, Norco, CA;  Taniela Maka, Long Beach, CA; Stan McKay, Long Beach, CA; Marlon Pollard, San Bernardino, CA; Morrell Presley, Carson, CA; Sheldon Price, La Puente, CA; Xavier Su'a-Filo, Provo, UT; Iuta Tepa, Long Beach, CA; Damien Thigpen, Manassas, VA. Two junior college signees, Ryan Taylor of Denison, TX and Eddie Williams of Walnut, CA picked the Bruins. With these signings, Scout.com's national recruiting rankings has placed the Bruins at No. 4 (tie), surpassing USC, which is rated #7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 830]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Spring practice\nAt spring practice, quarterback Kevin Craft battled with Kevin Prince and freshman Richard Brehaut for quarterback in 2009. Prince was selected by Coach Neuheisel as the starter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nThis was the season-opening game for both teams. Both San Diego State Offensive Coordinator Al Borges and Defensive Coordinator Rocky Long are former UCLA coaches, and Tony White, Aztecs cornerbacks coach, played and coached at UCLA. Free game tickets were given to firefighters and their families for fighting the \"Station wildfire\" at nearby Angeles National Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nBehind Rahim Moore\u2019s three record-tying interceptions, UCLA Bruins defeated San Diego State 33\u201314. The Aztecs scored first on a 4-yard pass from Ryan Lindley to Matthe Kawulok. The Bruins\u2019 Kai Forbath kicked a 49-yard field goal, but Lindley threw a 78-yard touchdown pass to Vincent Brown to give San Diego State a 14\u20133 lead in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nThose were the final points for the Aztecs. Then the Bruins scored 30 unanswered points on Johnathan Franklin's 12-yard run in the first quarter, Derrick Coleman's 29-yard run and a 6-yard pass from Kevin Prince to Terrence Austin in the second quarter. In the third quarter, Kai Forbath kicked a 50-yard field goal and Alterraun Verner returned a blocked field goal for a 70-yard touchtown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nLane Kiffin replaced Phillip Fulmer as the head coach of the Vols on December 1, 2008. The 33-year-old Kiffin was an assistant coach at USC with Coach Norm Chow for number of years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nKai Forbath kicked four field goals to help the Bruins bring home a 19\u201315 victory at Tennessee. Rahim Moore again played an outstanding game with two interceptions. Chane Moline caught a 12-yard pass from Kevin Prince for the only UCLA touchdown. The Bruin defense kept the Tennessee team from the end zone for much of the game, allowing the Vols 208 total yards. Prince completed 11 of 23 passes for 101\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nScoring for the Vols was Montario Hardesty (11-yard run), Daniel Lincoln (31, 28-yard field goals) and Dennis Rogan (safety), which was aided by two UCLA third-and-long penalties and a UCLA fumble. During the final minutes of the game, Prince had his right jaw broken. He was projected to be out for three to four weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nThis was the first meeting between the two teams. Kansas State had a 1\u20131 record going into the game, having lost to the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns 17\u201315 the previous week. Bill Snyder came out of retirement to coach the Wildcats. Former wide receiver Mike Sherrard, who played for 10 years with the NFL, was the honorary game captain. Kevin Craft, last year's starter, took over at quarterback in relief of Kevin Prince, who fractured his jaw the previous week against Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nCraft passed for 186\u00a0yards and a touchdown to lead the Bruins to a 23\u20139 victory over the Wildcats. Freshman Johnathan Franklin rushed for a career-best 119\u00a0yards on 23 carries and Kai Forbath kicked three field goals in the victory. Craft completed 13 of 24 passes with one interception including a game-clinching 51-yard scoring pass to Terrence Austin with 6:18 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nJosh Cherry kicked a 26-yard field goal in the first quarter and Daniel Thomas had a 7-yard run in the third quarter for the Wildcats (Ryan Doerr's PAT pass failed). UCLA's one lost fumble and eight penalties for 80\u00a0yards were the ugly part of the victory. The Wildcats had two fumbles and four penalties for 50\u00a0yards. Alterraun Verner had two interceptions and returned them for 47\u00a0yards for the Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nEntering the game, the Bruins were the only undefeated team in the Pac-10 Conference. Toby Gerhart, the Cardinal's 237-pound tailback who had 138\u00a0yards against UCLA last year, was averaging 129\u00a0yards a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nKai Forbath kicked a 29-yard field goal after a fumble recovery to give the Bruins the early lead. Then Gerhart rushed for 5\u00a0yards for a touchdown for Stanford in the first quarter. Aided by a UCLA personal foul in the second quarter, Gerhart scored his second touchdown. A partially blocked punt allowed the Bruins to kick a field goal just before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nUsing a 46-yard trick play in the third quarter to put Stanford in the red zone, Gerhart scored his third touchdown from the five-yard line. Unable to contain Gerhart, UCLA allowed Nate Whitaker to kick a 29-yard field goal for a 24-6 Stanford lead. The Bruins began the fourth quarter with a Johnathan Franklin 1-yard touchdown run. Forbath's 35-yard field goal reduced the Cardinal lead to 8 with about four minutes left. With Stanford failing to move the ball, UCLA took over with 3\u00a0minutes left but were unable to make a comeback win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nAfter losing their first game to then #14 Boise State, the Ducks had won four straight games, over Purdue, Utah, California and Washington State. At game time, UCLA was leading the series, 39\u201323, since 1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nWith a solid performance in the first half and taking a field goal lead into the locker room, the Bruins gave up three quick touchdowns within few minutes of the third quarter to give the Ducks their fifth win of the season. The Ducks scored on Kenjon Barner's 100-yard kickoff return, on Talmadge Jackson's 31-yard interception, and on Nate Costa's 20-yard pass to Jeff Maehl that was aided by a UCLA fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Bruins scored their only touchdown when Akeem Ayers intercepted a Costa pass in the back of the Rose Bowl north end zone by keeping his feet in bounds. Kai Forbath kicked a 52-yard field goal to give UCLA the early lead. Oregon's Rob Beard attempted a 51-yard field goal, which was blocked by Jerzy Siewierski. Mogan Flint kicked a 33-yard field goal for the Ducks in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nBoth teams were looking for their first conference win, after losing the first two. Cal head coach Jeff Tedford was looking for his first road victory in Southern California, having lost all seven games to the Los Angeles schools as Cal's coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Bears took advantage of the Bruins' mistakes and poor defensive performance to beat UCLA 45-26 for Tedford's first win in the Rose Bowl. Shane Vereen's 42\u00a0yard run and Marvin Jones' 43\u00a0yard pass from Kevin Riley were all the touchdowns the Bears needed in the first quarter. The scoring continued in the second quarter with Jahvid Best catching a 51-yard touchdown pass from Riley and running for a 93-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nShane Vereen finished with 154\u00a0yards in 17 carries and Marvin Jones caught two TD passes from Kevin Riley in his four receptions for a total of 89\u00a0yards. Giorgio Tavecchio kicked a 24-yard field goal in the third quarter and Mychal Kendricks returned a 68-yard touchdown interception for Cal in the fourth quarter with 5\u00a0minutes remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nJohnathan Franklin scored for UCLA with a 7-yard touchdown and a 74-yard touchdown, UCLA's longest scoring run in six years. As one of the best in the nation, Kai Forbath kicked four field goals, 24, 39, 46, and 35\u00a0yards. Quarterback Kevin Prince finished the game with 311 passing yards and that one interception in the fourth quarter. The Bruins had now lost three games in a row after starting the season with three victories, making it very difficult to have a winning season for Coach Rick Neuheisel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nTo save $100,000 in transportation cost, Cal took a bus from Berkeley on Thursday for the Southland. The long bus ride didn't have any ill effect on the Golden Bears during the hot 3-hour 24-minute game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, California\nEntertainment was provided by both schools' bands and high school bands from Southern California and one from Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nIn the first quarter, Arizona's first drive ended when Rahim Moore intercepted a Nick Foles pass. But in their second drive, Nick Foles passed to Juron Criner for a 41-yard touchdown to give the Wildcats a lead. After Arizona recovered a Bruin fumble, Grigsby rushed into the end zone for a 6-yard touchdown, extra point blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nBoth Moore and Jerzy Siewierski intercepted a Wildcats pass in the second quarter. Kai Forbath kicked a 53-yard field goal to put UCLA on the board before the half. UCLA's Datone Jones recovered a Foles fumble and Forbath kicked a field goal to begin the third quarter. Kevin Craft came in to replace Kevin Prince in UCLA's second possession, but Christian Ramirez fumbled the ball to Arizona, which led to the Wildcats' third touchdown, a Nick Foles 25-yard pass to Juron Criner. Tony Dye recovered a Wildcats fumble and ran in for a 28-yard UCLA touchdown. Late in the third quarter, Nick Booth rushed for 6\u00a0yards for a score to give Arizona a 27\u201313 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nIn the fourth quarter, the Bruins were unable to do anything and lost their fourth game in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nJustin Kahut kicked two field goals, 48\u00a0yards and 42\u00a0yards, to give the Beavers a 6-point lead. Oregon State increased its lead to 13 when Jacquizz Rodgers passed to Brady Camp for a 14-yard touchdown. Kahut kicked another field goal to give the Beavers a 16\u20130 lead at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nUCLA got on the board on Kai Forbath's 24-yard field goal in the third quarter. Kahut's fourth field goal attempt was short. Kahut kicked his fourth field goal (31\u00a0yards) in the fourth quarter to give the Beavers a 19\u20133 lead. A 58-yard pass to Nelson Rosario from Kevin Prince, combined with a 2-point conversion to Rosario, put UCLA back in the game, behind by only 8 points. Then Taylor Embree caught a touchdown pass from Prince and Johnathan Franklin caught a conversion pass to tie the game for the Bruins with 2\u00a0minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nBut James Rodgers ran into the end zone for an Oregon State touchdown on a drive of 7 plays and 70\u00a0yards. UCLA took over the ball with 44\u00a0seconds remaining in the game and failed to make a complete comeback. The Bruins lost their fifth game in a row after winning their first three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Washington\nFor this Homecoming game, the Bruins donned throwback jerseys, the 1967-style jerseys worn by honorary captain Gary Beban's team. The game was also the UCLA Veterans and Armed Forces Appreciation Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThough they had five turnovers in the game, the Bruins did not lose their sixth conference game in a row. Kai Forbath kicked a 27-yard field goal early in the final period to win the game for the Bruins. Kevin Prince completed 13 of 17 passes for 212\u00a0yards and Kevin Craft had 10 of 14 completions for 159\u00a0yards. Both threw an interception. Wide receiver Nelson Rosario had seven receptions for 111\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Washington\nWith the Huskies down by a point, Erik Folk missed a 38-yard field goal attempt in the fourth quarter. Folk kicked three field goals, two in the second quarter, and Jermaine Kearse scored two pass-touchdowns in the game. Jake Locker completed 23 of 40 passes for 235\u00a0yards for Washington. Coach Rick Neuheisel still has not lost to his former teams, Colorado and Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nAfter an interception, the Bruins scored on a pass touchdown from Kevin Prince to Taylor Embree on their first offensive play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nAndy Meyers, former offensive guard on UCLA's Pac-10 championship teams of 1997 and 1998, was the honorary captain for this Senior Day game. Eighteen seniors were playing in their last home game: DL Chinonso Anyanwu, WR Terrence Austin, DL Korey Bosworth, LB Kyle Bosworth, LB Reggie Carter, QB Kevin Craft, OL Nick Ekbatani, WR Gavin Ketchum, RB Chane Moline, TE Ryan Moya, TE Logan Paulsen, QB Osaar Rasshan, RB Craig Sheppard, DL Jerzy Siewierski, FB Trevor Theriot, CB Alterraun Verner, DL Jess Ward, DB Aaron Ware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, USC\nThis was the UCLA\u2013USC rivalry game for the Victory Bell. Both teams wore home jerseys, in a tradition that had been restarted the previous year. The Bruins wore their 1966 throwback powder blue jerseys. The Trojans defeated the Bruins 28-7. With the Trojans leading 21-7 after a touchdown with 1:30 in the fourth quarter, and having possession of the ball after UCLA turned it over on downs, Coach Neuheisel called a timeout to stop the clock. The Trojans immediately connected on a 48-yard pass play for the fourth touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, EagleBank Bowl\nUCLA played Temple at the 2009 EagleBank Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The bowl game was scheduled to start at 4:30\u00a0PM US EST on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Navy defeated Army, allowing UCLA to play in its first bowl game since the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, EagleBank Bowl\nThe Temple Owls were making their first bowl game in 30 years, but it was ruined by the UCLA Bruins. The game time temperature started at freezing, with significant windchill, and only decreased from there. This led notable Temple alum Bill Cosby to flaunt his Owls' distinct weather advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205461-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, EagleBank Bowl\nThe teams traded touchdowns early, but Temple built a big lead early, thanks to the play of the running back tandem of Bernard Price and Matt Brown. After trailing 21\u201310 at the half, UCLA converted a 4th and 1 pass to Terrence Austin into a touchdown to pull within 4. The game was won in the 4th quarter with a field goal by Kai Forbath, a 2-yard interception touchdown by Akeem Ayers, a two-point PAT catch by Nelson Rosario from Kevin Prince, and a safety from a bad snap on a Temple punt. Akeem Ayers was the MVP with several key tackles and the game-winning score, in which he fell attempting a pass rush, and was able to get up just in time to intercept the pass at the line of scrimmage and score easily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205462-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships\nThe 2009 European Track Championships were the European Championship for track cycling, for junior and under 23 riders. They took place in Minsk, Belarus from 15 July to 19 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205462-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships\n2009 was the final year this event was held for junior and under-23 riders. Following a widescale redesign of European track cycling by the UEC, an event under the same name, but for elite cyclists, was held from 2010. In addition, a new competition, explicitly named the European Track Championships for under-23 and Juniors, was held from 2010 in a separate event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205462-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships, 2009 European Track Championships in Belgium\nThe men's and women's omnium took place at 17 and 18 October in Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205463-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 points race\nThe U23 Women's points race was one of the 8 women's under-23 events at the 2009 European Track Championships, held in Minsk, Belarus. It took place on 18 July 2009. 22 participated in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205463-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 points race\nEllen van Dijk, who won the European title in 2008 and was still under-23, did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205464-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 scratch\nThe U23 Women's scratch was one of the 8 women's under-23 events at the 2009 European Track Championships, held in Minsk, Belarus. It took place on 19 July 2009. 22 participated in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205464-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 scratch\nEllen van Dijk, who won the European title in 2008 and was still under-23, did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205464-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEC European Track Championships \u2013 Women's under-23 scratch, Competition format\nA scratch race is a race in which all riders start together and the object is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps. There are no intermediate points or sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 84], "content_span": [85, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final\nThe 2009 UEFA Champions League Final was played on 27 May 2009 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. The match determined the winners of the 2008\u201309 season of the UEFA Champions League, a tournament for the top football clubs in Europe. The match was won by Barcelona of Spain, who beat England's Manchester United 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final\nSamuel Eto'o opened the scoring in the 10th minute, and Lionel Messi added another goal 20\u00a0minutes from the end to earn Barcelona a historic treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, a feat never before achieved by a Spanish club. The match was refereed by Swiss referee Massimo Busacca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final\nThis was Barcelona's third victory in the competition, 17 years after they first won the European Cup in 1992. Manchester United went into the match as the competition's defending champions, the first defending champions to reach the final since Juventus in 1997. Manchester United also sought to be the first team to retain the European Cup since A.C. Milan in 1990. It was the fifth year in a row in which the final involved at least one English team. The Stadio Olimpico had hosted three previous Champions League finals, in 1977, 1984 and 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final\nAs winners of the 2008\u201309 Champions League, Barcelona later played against 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2009 UEFA Super Cup, and they represented UEFA at the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup. For winning the final, Barcelona won \u20ac7\u00a0million in prize money, and Manchester United received \u20ac4\u00a0million as runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBarcelona and Manchester United had previously faced each other nine times in European competitions: three times in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and six times in the UEFA Champions League. Of those nine matches, Manchester United had recorded three wins to Barcelona's two, with the remaining four matches finishing in draws. The only time that the two teams met in a final came in 1991, when they contested the 1991 Cup Winners' Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nThe first meeting between the two sides came in the third round of the 1983\u201384 Cup Winners' Cup; Barcelona won the first leg at the Camp Nou 2\u20130, but Manchester United won the return leg 3\u20130 at Old Trafford to reach the semi-finals. That result marked Manchester United's biggest win over Barcelona; Barcelona's biggest win was a 4\u20130 home victory in the group stage of the 1994\u201395 Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nThe most recent meeting between the teams came in the semi-finals of the 2007\u201308 Champions League, when United held Barcelona to a 0\u20130 draw at the Camp Nou before beating them 1\u20130 at Old Trafford. Despite their record against Manchester United, Barcelona had an overall winning record against English clubs, having won 20 and lost 15 of their 52 matches against English opposition. Manchester United, on the other hand, had a losing record against Spanish teams; they had lost 11 and won 10 of their 37 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBoth teams had won the UEFA Champions League before; Manchester United had three titles, while Barcelona had two. The most recent of these had come only the season before, when Manchester United beat Chelsea on penalties in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. They won the first of their European Cups in 1968, beating Benfica 4\u20131 at Wembley Stadium, while their second was achieved in 1999 via a last-gasp 2\u20131 win over Bayern Munich at Barcelona's home ground, the Camp Nou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBarcelona's first European Cup was won as recently as 1992, when they beat Sampdoria 1\u20130 after extra time at Wembley; their only other title came in 2006 with a 2\u20131 win over another English side, Arsenal. Prior to 2009, unlike Barcelona, Manchester United had never lost a European Cup final; Barcelona had lost three \u2013 in 1961, 1986 and 1994, to Benfica, Steaua Bucure\u0219ti and A.C. Milan respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBoth teams went into the match as the champions of their respective countries \u2013 the first time that the final had been contested by domestic champions since 1999, when Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 2\u20131 at Barcelona's home, the Camp Nou \u2013 both winning with games to spare. Manchester United won their 11th Premier League title with a 0\u20130 draw at home to Arsenal on 16 May, while Barcelona were confirmed as La Liga champions for the first time in three years when Real Madrid lost to Villarreal on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Background\nBoth Manchester United and Barcelona were also looking for another Champions League title to cap a season in which they had won multiple trophies: Manchester United had already won four out of a possible seven trophies in 2008\u201309 and were playing for the possibility of becoming the third team to retain the European double (the domestic league and the European Cup), while Barcelona were aiming to become the first Spanish club to win a treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nBy virtue of their third-place finish in the 2007\u201308 La Liga, Barcelona entered the 2008\u201309 Champions League at the third qualifying round. Based on their UEFA coefficient, Barcelona were seeded for the third qualifying round draw, and drawn against Polish champions Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w. A 4\u20130 win in the first leg at the Camp Nou made defeat in the second leg immaterial and Barcelona were entered into the group stage draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nBarcelona's UEFA coefficient placed them in the top eight seeds for the draw, meaning that they would avoid having to play against Inter Milan, Liverpool, Chelsea or holders and their semi-final opponents from 2007\u201308, Manchester United. However, they could still draw Bayern Munich, Roma or Juventus. In the end, Barcelona were drawn into Group C against Sporting CP, Basel and Shakhtar Donetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 454]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nFour wins and a draw at home to Basel placed Barcelona on top of their group with a game to spare, and despite defeat to Shakhtar Donetsk on Matchday 6, they still had the third-best record amongst the qualifiers for the first knockout round. As group winners, Barcelona would avoid being drawn with other group winners, including Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus and Bayern Munich, but they could still be drawn against runners-up such as Chelsea, Inter and Arsenal. The draw eventually paired them with Lyon and, as group winners, they would play the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 636]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nIn the first leg in Lyon, Barcelona fell behind to a seventh-minute free kick from Juninho, only for Thierry Henry to equalise halfway through the second half, giving Barcelona an away goal to take back to the Camp Nou. They needed a win or a no-score draw to guarantee passage, but a 4\u20131 half-time lead set the stage for a convincing 5\u20132 win. Two first-half goals from Henry and one each from Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o were followed by goals from Jean Makoun and Juninho either side of the interval to reduce Lyon's deficit. However, a goal from Seydou Keita in the fifth\u00a0minute of injury time secured a 6\u20133 aggregate win and passage to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nIn the quarter-finals, Barcelona were drawn against their fellow leading-scorers in the competition, Bayern Munich, who had beaten Barcelona's group stage opposition, Sporting CP, 12\u20131 on aggregate in the previous round. However, despite Bayern's impressive scoring record, goals from Messi and Eto'o gave Barcelona a 2\u20130 lead within the first 12\u00a0minutes. Messi and Henry also scored to seal a 4\u20130 home victory before half-time. The lack of an away goal meant Bayern Munich would have to win by five clear goals to qualify for the semi-finals. After a goalless first half, they took the lead through Franck Rib\u00e9ry in the 47th minute, but it was not enough for Bayern as Keita equalised in the 73rd minute to clinch a 5\u20131 aggregate win for the Spanish side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 814]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nThe quarter-final draw also determined the teams' routes to the final, with Barcelona facing the prospect of meeting either Chelsea or Liverpool in the semi-finals. After a 3\u20131 win at Anfield, Chelsea qualified for the semi-finals with a 4\u20134 draw at Stamford Bridge. The semi-final first leg was played at the Camp Nou; although Barcelona enjoyed the majority of the possession, Chelsea's defence was resolute and they became the first side to keep a clean sheet in Barcelona in this season's competition, coming away with a goalless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nBarcelona needed to avoid defeat to reach the final, but they found themselves a goal down within 10 minutes; after they failed to clear Frank Lampard's pass into the penalty area, Michael Essien fired a left-footed volley past V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s into the roof of the net. The rest of the match continued much the same as the first leg, with Barcelona retaining most of the possession. Despite this, they found themselves guilty of several fouls, while Chelsea made four unsuccessful penalty appeals during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nMeanwhile, Dani Alves received his third yellow card of the knockout phase, ruling him out of Barcelona's next match, and Eric Abidal was given a straight red card for a foul on Nicolas Anelka as the French forward was through on goal. However, television replays after the incident showed that there was little contact between Abidal and Anelka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Barcelona\nNorwegian referee Tom Henning \u00d8vreb\u00f8 allowed a minimum of four\u00a0minutes of injury time at the end of the second half; in the third of those four\u00a0minutes \u2013 just when it looked like Chelsea were about to secure a repeat of the 2008 final \u2013 Messi played the ball across the edge of the penalty area to Andr\u00e9s Iniesta, who shot just past Petr \u010cech's outstretched hand for the away goal that would send Barcelona to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nAs the reigning champions of the UEFA Champions League, Manchester United began their title defence at the group stage, for which they were given the top seed. This position amongst the top eight European clubs meant that they would avoid drawing former European champions Barcelona, Inter and Real Madrid until at least the first knockout round, although they were faced with the prospect of drawing Bayern Munich or Roma. Nevertheless, United ended up being drawn into Group E with two teams they had played against before: Villarreal (whom they had drawn in 2005\u201306) and Celtic (2006\u201307); and one they had not: Aalborg BK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 691]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nTwo victories \u2013 away to Aalborg and at home to Celtic \u2013 and four draws were enough to secure passage to the knockout phase of the competition. Following a Celtic victory over Villarreal in the final group match, United went through as group winners. This meant that they would avoid Roma, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Porto and Juventus in the first knockout round; however, their potential opposition still included Inter, Lyon and Real Madrid. The draw paired Manchester United with Jos\u00e9 Mourinho's Inter, but since United had won their group, they were rewarded by having the second leg at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nUnited started the first leg the better of the two sides, and although Inter improved in the second half, neither side was able to find the net during the match, and United took a 0\u20130 draw back to Old Trafford. The draw was also United's 20th match since their last defeat in the UEFA Champions League, breaking Ajax's 19-match record that had stood for 13 years. The lack of an away goal at the San Siro meant that United could not afford to concede a goal in the event of a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nA fourth-minute headed goal from Nemanja Vidi\u0107, however, got the home side off to a good start, and Cristiano Ronaldo doubled United's lead four\u00a0minutes into the second half. Shots from both Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 and Adriano hit the frame of the Manchester United goal in either half of the match, but they were unable to find the back of the net, and the 2\u20130 result sent the English champions through to the next stage of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nThe draw for the quarter-finals paired United with Porto, against whom they had played in the first knockout round of the 2003\u201304 competition. The draw also determined the semi-final pairings, with United or Porto drawn to play against Arsenal or Villarreal. The first leg of the quarter-final was played at Old Trafford, giving Porto the chance to put the pressure on Manchester United with an away goal. That away goal came in the fourth minute of the game, but Wayne Rooney equalised 10\u00a0minutes later and Carlos Tevez gave United the lead in the 85th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nHowever, with only one\u00a0minute left in the game, United suffered a defensive lapse, allowing Mariano Gonz\u00e1lez to score Porto's second away goal. Those away goals meant that United travelled to the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o in Porto needing a win or a score-draw of 2\u20132 or higher to remain in the competition. A 40-yard goal from Ronaldo in the sixth\u00a0minute put United into the lead, and although both sides pressed for another goal, it proved to be the only one of the game, making Manchester United the first English side to win in Porto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nMeanwhile, a 1\u20131 draw in Villarreal and a 3\u20130 win at the Emirates Stadium secured Arsenal's status as United's semi-final opponents. The draw had determined that United would play the first leg at home, and after Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo had early chances, John O'Shea opened the scoring, firing home a Michael Carrick cross after Arsenal had failed to clear a corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nUnited continued to make chances throughout the game, but despite Arsenal making a couple of chances themselves, the match finished at 1\u20130 and United travelled to the Emirates Stadium a week later needing only to avoid defeat to become the first defending champions to reach the final since Juventus in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0016-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nAlthough Arsenal only needed to overturn a one-goal deficit, their chances of victory were drastically reduced within the first 11\u00a0minutes of the match; Park Ji-sung took advantage of a slip by Kieran Gibbs to double United's aggregate lead in the eighth\u00a0minute, before Ronaldo fired home a 41-yard free kick in the 11th minute. With two away goals on the United scoreboard, Arsenal now had to score four goals to reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0016-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to Rome, Manchester United\nHowever, it was United who scored the next goal, as they hit Arsenal on the break and Ronaldo scored within 15 seconds of Arsenal losing the ball at the other end of the pitch. 15\u00a0minutes from time, Arsenal were awarded a penalty kick after Darren Fletcher brought Cesc F\u00e0bregas down in the penalty area, a foul for which Fletcher was sent off \u2013 although replays showed that Fletcher knocked the ball away from F\u00e0bregas immediately before bringing him down, resulting in some controversy as to whether Fletcher deserved a red card for the foul. Robin van Persie scored the penalty to make the score 3\u20131, but it was not enough to prevent United from reaching the final unbeaten for the third time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Venue\nThe Stadio Olimpico in Rome was selected as the venue for the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 4 October 2006. The committee \u2013 who decided the venue for the 2008 final and the 2008 and 2009 UEFA Cup Finals at the same meeting \u2013 based their decision on a number of factors, including stadium capacity, safety and security facilities, and accessibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Venue\nThe Stadio Olimpico had hosted three European Cup finals before 2009: the 1977 and 1984 finals, both of which were won by Liverpool \u2013 Liverpool beat Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach 3\u20131 in 1977 before beating home side Roma 4\u20132 on penalties after the match finished 1\u20131 after extra time; the most recent final to be held at the Stadio Olimpico was the 1996 final, which Juventus also won 4\u20132 on penalties after a 1\u20131 draw with Ajax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Venue\nThe construction of the stadium was commissioned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the mid-1930s as the centrepiece of a new sports complex in the city, to be named Foro Mussolini. After World War II, the complex was renamed Foro Italico and the stadium was radically redesigned as a 54,000-capacity arena for the 1960 Summer Olympics. After hosting the 1987 World Athletics Championships, the stadium was redeveloped in time for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, at which West Germany's 1\u20130 win over Argentina in the final was played there. The stadium's most recent renovation, in 2008, brought the capacity to 72,689.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Venue\nSince 1999, the UEFA Champions League final has been given a unique visual identity in order to increase the marketing appeal of the event. Designed by London-based design and branding agency Radiant, the theme for the 2009 final was revealed on 25 October 2008, and it incorporated several typically Roman images; the logo was centred around an outline of the European Champion Clubs' Cup, upon which was written \"MMIX\" \u2013 \"2009\" in Roman numerals; around the base of the trophy was a stylised laurel wreath, and in the background was a simplified image of the interior of the Colosseum. An alternative logo consisting of the UEFA Champions League logo surrounded by a laurel wreath was also released. The entire theme was based on a colour scheme of deep red and silver-white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 828]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Venue\nA trophy handover ceremony was held in Rome on 21 April 2009, at which Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, representing Manchester United as the previous season's champions, returned the trophy to UEFA president Michel Platini. Platini then presented the trophy to Gianni Alemanno, the Mayor of Rome, that it might be put on display in and around the city until the day of the final. Also present at the ceremony were the president and vice-president of the Italian Football Federation, Giancarlo Abete and Demetrio Albertini, the ambassador for the final, Bruno Conti, and Emilio Di Toro on behalf of the Italian National Olympic Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nAlthough the usual capacity of the Stadio Olimpico is over 72,000, this was reduced to approximately 67,000 for the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final. Approximately 10,000 tickets were made available to the general public, with recipients determined by a random ballot following an application period that ran from 2 to 16 March 2009. Each club was also allocated approximately 20,000 tickets for distribution to fans. Manchester United chose to limit ticket applications to season ticket holders, with preference given to those who had attended more of the club's Champions League away fixtures that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nBarcelona, meanwhile, allotted 80% of their ticket allocation to fans, with the remaining 20% going to the club's corporate sponsors. Unlike United, however, Barcelona opened ticket applications to all 150,000 of their members. The remaining 17,000 tickets were retained by UEFA for the \"European football family\", which comprises UEFA itself, the local organising committee, UEFA's member associations and its commercial partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nTickets for the 2009 final were similar to ATM cards, with an integrated chip storing the ticket holder's personal information in order to ensure that the ticket is being presented by its legitimate owner. As further security, tickets also had to be presented with an adequate form of photographic identification. However, despite these security measures, counterfeit tickets were still produced, forcing UEFA to issue a statement warning people against buying tickets from touts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nDespite only receiving 20,000 tickets for fans, it was expected that around 30,000 Manchester United fans would be travelling to Rome for the final, leading to police warning ticketless fans not to travel amidst fears of potential hooligans making the trip. Fans were also warned to avoid certain areas of the city that are known to be frequented by members of Rome's Ultra fan groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nDespite Rome's reputation as a hotbed for knife-related crime, dubbed \"Stab City\" by some, UEFA was confident that the 2009 final would pass without incident, but on the morning of the final, there were reports that a Manchester United fan had been stabbed in the leg the previous evening. It was also expected that a similar number of Barcelona fans would be arriving in Rome in the lead-up to the match. After the match, UEFA president Michel Platini praised the Rome police for their arrangement of security for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing\nMore than 3,000 Manchester United fans congregated just outside the city in a field that came to be known as \"Fergie's Field\". The venue provided ticketless fans with the opportunity to watch the match on a giant screen, and kept them away from the streets of Rome's city centre, although the alcohol ban that came into effect in the city at 17:00 (Central European Summer Time) on 26 May was still in force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Match ball\nThe official match ball for the 2009 Champions League final was the adidas Finale Rome. Based on the \"Starball\" design that has been used for the Champions League final since 2001 and become synonymous with the UEFA Champions League, the Finale Rome was unveiled on 16 March 2009. The colour scheme was a traditional Roman burgundy with a gold border around the stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Match ball\nThe ball used the same panel configuration as the Adidas Europass and the Adidas Teamgeist before it, and the same thermal bonding process was used to adhere the panels to each other, while the surface of the ball featured the same \"PSC-Texture\" as was debuted with the Europass; the surface of the ball was covered with thousands of tiny pimples, which was designed to improve the grip between boot and ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Officials\nThe referee for the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final was Massimo Busacca, representing the Swiss Football Association. Having been on FIFA's list of internationally accredited referees since 1999, Busacca had experience of officiating 32 UEFA Champions League matches, six of them during the 2008\u201309 season, and most recently the second leg of Manchester United's quarter-final against Porto on 15 April 2009. He also took charge of the first leg of the semi-final between Manchester United and Barcelona in the 2007\u201308 competition. Busacca also refereed at both the 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2008, and took charge of the 2007 UEFA Cup Final between Espanyol and Sevilla at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on 16 May 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Officials\nAs usual, the referee was supported by assistant referees and a fourth official from the same country; in the 2009 final, Massimo Busacca was assisted by Matthias Arnet and Francesco Buragina, with Claudio Circhetta as the fourth official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Kits\nHaving been designated as the official \"home\" team, Barcelona were given the first choice of kits for the final and opted to wear their traditional red and blue shirts in a halved design. Since the Barcelona home kit clashed with both Manchester United's home and European away kits, the Red Devils wore their white domestic away kit for the first time in a European Cup final. They wore blue for their first European Cup final against Benfica in 1968, but wore red for both of their most recent finals in 1999 and 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Kits\nManchester United had previously worn white against Barcelona in five matches, losing just one of them \u2013 a 2\u20130 defeat in 1984 \u2013 while the only win in white came in the 1991 Cup Winners' Cup Final. The other three matches finished in draws: two 3\u20133 and one 0\u20130. Barcelona, on the other hand, had won two of their five European Cup finals \u2013 they wore orange for their win over Sampdoria in 1992 but wore their usual blue and red stripes for their most recent win in 2006 against Arsenal. However, two of their European Cup final defeats came against teams wearing white \u2013 against Steaua Bucure\u0219ti in 1986 and against A.C. Milan in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nThe 2009 UEFA Champions League Final officially opened with the opening of the UEFA Champions Festival at Rome's Arco di Constantino and the Parco di Colle Oppio above the Colosseum. The Champions Festival was opened by former Italy international goalkeeper Luca Marchegiani on 23 May 2009 and ran until the afternoon on the day of the final, culminating with a football match between a European side coached by former Netherlands international Ruud Gullit and an all-Italian team featuring Milan one-club man Alessandro Costacurta and final ambassador Bruno Conti. Other attractions at the Champions Festival included appearances by representatives from both clubs (Bryan Robson and Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r for Manchester United and Hristo Stoichkov for Barcelona), exhibitions featuring memorabilia from past UEFA Champions League tournaments and the European Champion Clubs' Cup on display.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 951]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nImmediately prior to the match itself came the opening ceremony for the final. The ceremony began with 64 members of the Rustavi Ensemble dance group performing a choreographed routine to a variation of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. At the culmination of the routine, the players emerged from the tunnel, accompanied by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli singing Il Gladiatore \u2013 a song based on Earth from the soundtrack to the film Gladiator \u2013 before Bocelli sang supporting vocals to the UEFA Champions League Anthem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 579]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0031-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony\nBefore they emerged from their dressing room, manager Pep Guardiola played the Barcelona team a specially commissioned seven-minute film showing their best moments from the season interspersed with clips from the film Gladiator. The film culminated with the late Luciano Pavarotti's version of Nessun Dorma, and it left several of the players in tears. With his players motivated for the game, Guardiola said nothing as they emerged into the tunnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nTwo Barcelona players missed the final through suspension: right back Dani Alves, who picked up his third yellow card of the tournament in Barcelona's semi-final second leg against Chelsea on 6 May 2009; and left back Eric Abidal, who was sent off in the same game for a professional foul on Nicolas Anelka. Defender Rafael M\u00e1rquez also missed the match after he picked up a knee injury in the first leg of the semi-final, ruling him out for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nForward Thierry Henry and semi-final-winning midfielder Andr\u00e9s Iniesta were also doubts for the final; Henry damaged his right posterior cruciate ligament in Barcelona's 6\u20132 league win over Real Madrid on 2 May 2009, while Iniesta was discovered to have suffered a tear in his right thigh following Bar\u00e7a's 3\u20133 draw with Villarreal on 10 May. Both Henry and Iniesta returned to light training on 22 May, but they had not yet resumed training with the main squad and remained doubts for the final. Carles Puyol, however, was available for selection after he served a one-match suspension in the semi-final second leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 672]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nManchester United's starting right-winger from the 2008 final, Owen Hargreaves, missed the match as he was still in rehabilitation after a double knee operation to cure his tendinitis problems that had seen him play little part in the 2008\u201309 Champions League campaign. It had been expected that defender Wes Brown would also miss the match after suffering a recurrence of a foot injury, but he returned to training quicker than expected and was involved in United's match against Hull City on 24 May, although he picked up a slight knock during the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0033-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nRio Ferdinand was also a doubt following a calf injury that has kept him out of the United side since the semi-final second leg against Arsenal; Alex Ferguson had said that Ferdinand might not start in Rome if he was not fit to play against Hull, but he later admitted that Ferdinand was on course to recover in time to play in the match. Second-choice goalkeeper Ben Foster also missed the match after requiring surgery to repair a ruptured ligament in his right thumb in May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0033-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nOn the other hand, following John O'Shea's winning goal in Manchester United's semi-final first leg victory over Arsenal, United manager Alex Ferguson suggested that the Irish utility player would be guaranteed a place in the starting line-up were United to reach the final. O'Shea's place in the team was confirmed at Manchester United's media day the week before the final. South Korean midfielder Park Ji-sung was also promised a place in the team after he missed the 2008 final, finally making him the first Asian to appear in a European Cup final. Cristiano Ronaldo suffered a slight injury scare in training the night before the final, requiring a bandage on his lower right leg, but he was eventually fit enough to play in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 796]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nMeanwhile, midfielder Darren Fletcher was forced to miss the final after picking up a red card in the second leg of the semi-final. While replays showed that Fletcher played the ball before felling Cesc F\u00e0bregas in the penalty area, the UEFA appeals process only allows for cards to be rescinded in the case of mistaken identity. Despite this, an appeal was submitted by Manchester United on \"compassionate\" grounds. Barcelona decided to appeal against the suspensions of Abidal and Alves after United lodged an appeal against Fletcher's red card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 603]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Team selection\nBarcelona manager Pep Guardiola came out in support of overturning all three players' suspensions. The appeals were declared unsuccessful on 11 May, with UEFA saying in a statement that the appeals were not submitted within the required 24-hour deadline of the matches and that even if they had been submitted on time then \"they would have been rejected as unfounded as there were no grounds for contesting the referees' original decisions.\" By upholding the suspensions, UEFA made Abidal, Alves and Fletcher the first players to miss a Champions League final through suspension since Juventus' Pavel Nedv\u011bd sat out the 2003 final at Old Trafford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nBarcelona kicked the match off, but Manchester United showed their intent from the outset, forcing goalkeeper V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s to concede a throw-in after just 10 seconds. Further pressure on the attack resulted in Yaya Tour\u00e9 fouling Anderson within Cristiano Ronaldo's shooting range. Ronaldo fired the free kick directly at Vald\u00e9s, but the Spanish goalkeeper could only parry the ball and Gerard Piqu\u00e9 did well to divert Park Ji-sung's follow-up effort over the bar. The resulting corner was cleared, but only as far as Wayne Rooney, whose snap-shot was wayward and went out for a goal kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nBoth teams struggled to put a flowing move together in the opening exchanges, but it was United who had the better chances, both falling to Ronaldo. The first came in the seventh\u00a0minute: having been played the ball by Michael Carrick, Ronaldo turned away from Piqu\u00e9 on the edge of the centre circle, before hitting a shot just wide from almost 40\u00a0yards; the second saw the ball break to Ronaldo after Anderson and Patrice Evra had linked up well down the left flank. The Portuguese winger controlled the ball on the chest before hitting the ball just past the far post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nDespite United's early pressure, it was Barcelona who scored the first goal of the match. Edwin van der Sar cleared the ball downfield for Manchester United, but it was headed away by Barcelona's midfield anchor Sergio Busquets. Carrick was first to the ball for Manchester United, but he could only head it as far as Xavi, who passed to Andr\u00e9s Iniesta. The Manchester United defence backed away from the Spaniard, who \u2013 after exchanging passes with Lionel Messi \u2013 played the ball into the path of Samuel Eto'o in the Manchester United penalty area. Nemanja Vidi\u0107 attempted to shepherd the Cameroonian striker towards the goal line, but Eto'o easily stepped inside him and toe-poked the ball past Van der Sar to make it 1\u20130 to Barcelona inside 10\u00a0minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nThe goal shifted the balance of the game in Barcelona's favour, as United had been on top in terms of shots and possession up to that point. Almost immediately after the restart, Vidi\u0107 gave away an unnecessary corner. In a rehearsed corner move, Xavi played the ball back to the edge of the penalty area towards Messi, but the tournament's top scorer was unable to make a proper connection. Nevertheless, Bar\u00e7a retained possession through some sharp inter-passing involving Xavi and Iniesta. When United did manage to regain the ball, however, it was quickly given away by a poor pass from Carrick, while Anderson mis-timed a kick and completely missed the ball. It was now Barcelona's turn to pressurise the United players, forcing them into backward passes or long, hopeful balls forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 851]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nThe quality of the teams' passing remained the main difference between them; however, in the 16th minute, Barcelona lost the ball and Ryan Giggs sent a long ball forward to Ronaldo. Ronaldo's first touch took him inside Piqu\u00e9 before going back outside the former Manchester United defender, who cynically blocked Ronaldo's run, earning himself the first yellow card of the match. Ronaldo shaped to take the free kick himself, but it was Giggs who shot for goal, only to curl the ball just over the bar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nBarcelona responded quickly, as Carles Puyol found Eto'o with a long throw-in down the right wing. The Cameroonian then found Messi, who cut inside and hit a curling 25-yard shot that just shaved the top of the crossbar. A quick-passing move from United followed, culminating with a through-ball to Park in the inside right channel, only for Vald\u00e9s to cut out the pass, taking out the South Korean in the process. The resulting throw-in eventually broke to Ronaldo, whose 30-yard shot went just wide. Vald\u00e9s' clash with Park, however, left him requiring treatment, and although the injury was not sufficient to necessitate a substitution, Vald\u00e9s chose to leave his next few goal kicks to Piqu\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 755]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nIn the 22nd minute, a lofted through-pass from Carrick found Rooney on the left wing, but the Liverpudlian's cross was blocked by Tour\u00e9 and went out for a corner kick. The corner, taken by Giggs, found Ronaldo, but the Portuguese got too far under the ball and headed over. Precise passing from the Barcelona midfield got the Catalans moving upfield until a shoulder charge from Anderson sent Iniesta stumbling to the ground in the inside-left channel 30\u00a0yards from goal. The consequent free kick was taken by Xavi, who sent the ball just wide of the near post. Another free kick followed, as Messi was bundled over by a double-challenge from Vidi\u0107 and Carrick, but it came to nothing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nWith ten\u00a0minutes left until half-time, the Manchester United defence effectively switched off and allowed Tour\u00e9 to dribble unopposed to within 15\u00a0yards of their penalty area before slipping the ball out wide to Puyol, whose low cross was diverted behind by Vidi\u0107. The corner kick was taken short and the eventual cross was headed behind for another corner on the opposite side by Evra. The second corner was crossed in towards Piqu\u00e9, but he was unable to make contact with the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, First half\nWith half-time fast approaching, Barcelona's confidence began to show: first, Messi attempted to flick a pass over the top of the United defence to Thierry Henry, which Rio Ferdinand intercepted; Iniesta then tried an ambitious back-heel that Van der Sar collected; and finally Messi sped through three Manchester United defenders towards the by-line, only for his cut-back cross to be pounced upon by Van der Sar and then cleared by Vidi\u0107. On the stroke of half-time, Iniesta himself then attempted to flick the ball through to Henry, but it was just too high for the French striker, and referee Massimo Busacca took that cue to blow the whistle for the interval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nAfter bringing on Carlos Tevez in place of Anderson at half time, Manchester United kicked off the second half in a different formation, with Tevez joining Ronaldo up front in a familiar 4\u20134\u20132. Both teams attempted to settle into their customary passing rhythms, but \u2013 unlike the first half \u2013 it was Barcelona who settled first; Manchester United's passes in their attacking third of the field failed to find their targets, and Iniesta eventually came away with the ball before flicking a pass through to Xavi, who played a through-ball to Henry on the left wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nThe French forward turned Ferdinand inside-out, but his shot from a narrow angle was straight at Van der Sar and ended up going out for a throw-in. Xavi then again passed the ball out to the left flank, where Henry nonchalantly left it for the on-rushing Sylvinho; the Brazilian full-back whipped in a cross for Eto'o, but it was caught on the edge of the six-yard box by Van der Sar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nPressure high up the pitch from Barcelona kept Manchester United in their own half, forcing them into attempting long balls downfield. A scrappy few moments in and around the centre circle followed, but Manchester United eventually came away with the ball. However, a lapse in communication between Giggs and Evra on the left wing allowed Eto'o to steal in and advance on the Manchester United goal. He cut in from the right wing and played a through-ball just out of reach of Messi, who went to ground after O'Shea had put his hand on Messi's shoulder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nA period of sustained pressure from Barcelona followed, culminating with a run from Iniesta, who could only be stopped by a foul from Tevez on the edge of the Manchester United penalty area. The consequent free kick was taken by Xavi, who curled the ball around the defensive wall and onto the post with Van der Sar beaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nUnited responded with their first extended period of possession of the half, working the ball into wide areas to be crossed into the middle, but Rooney's first couple of attempted centres were well cleared by Piqu\u00e9. At the third attempt, though, Rooney's cross evaded the Barcelona defence as Tour\u00e9 kicked at thin air; however, it also failed to find a Manchester United player in the penalty area, both Ronaldo and Park going close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0046-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nAfter Ronaldo was called offside in the 59th minute \u2013 despite appearing to be level with the last defender \u2013 Giggs stole the ball mid-way inside the Barcelona half before playing the ball to Ronaldo on the left wing. The Portuguese forward stepped over the ball several times in an attempt to wrong-foot Puyol, before cutting inside and playing the ball across the edge of the area towards Carrick. A sliding challenge from Busquets prevented a shot, only for the English midfielder to slide the ball out for a Barcelona goal kick while attempting to play Rooney through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0046-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nRooney was again played down the right wing a few moments later, but his low cross was diverted behind by Piqu\u00e9, and the resulting corner came to nothing. A left-wing attack from Ronaldo followed, but after cutting inside, he gave the ball away cheaply. Barcelona immediately went on the attack down the other end, but Henry was unable to get past O'Shea and his shot was well saved by Van der Sar low at the near post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nIn the 66th minute, Alex Ferguson completed his attacking quartet by bringing Dimitar Berbatov on in place of Park. Ronaldo was penalised for a high elbow when challenging for a header with Puyol a minute later, before Rooney forced another corner off Piqu\u00e9 in the 69th minute. However, United's numbers up front in search of another goal left them wanting in defence; a weak clearance from Van der Sar was cut out by Puyol who played the ball to Eto'o on the right side of the penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nThe ball broke to Xavi on the edge of the area, who crossed for Messi to send a looping header over the United goalkeeper and into the far side of the goal for a two-goal lead. Immediately after the goal, Henry was replaced by Seydou Keita, allowing Barcelona to adopt a more defensive stance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nUnited responded to the goal immediately, as Giggs made a surging run through the Barcelona defence before playing the ball to Berbatov in the inside-right channel. The Bulgarian forward's low cross found Giggs in the centre, and the United captain's shot was deflected to Ronaldo on the far side of the goal, only for the Portuguese's shot to be blocked by Vald\u00e9s. The resulting corner reached Berbatov on the far side of the goal, but it was deemed to have crossed the goal line first and Barcelona were awarded a goal kick, from which they launched another attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0048-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nMessi played a through-ball to Puyol on the right flank, but as the Barcelona captain reached the goal line, he was fouled by Ronaldo, who \u2013 despite going in two-footed \u2013 escaped the referee's book. Puyol himself rose to head Xavi's free kick towards goal, but it was directly at Van der Sar, who claimed the ball easily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nManchester United used their third and final substitute in the 75th minute, replacing Giggs with Paul Scholes, who took over as team captain. Ronaldo and Scholes each received yellow cards in the 78th and 80th minutes, respectively; Ronaldo's yellow card was awarded for a robust shoulder-charge on Puyol as the Barcelona right back shepherded the ball out for a goal kick, while Scholes was booked for a late challenge on Busquets. While the referee played advantage after Scholes' foul, Iniesta cut inside from the left wing and hit a shot that was saved above the head of Van der Sar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0049-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nAn extended spell of Barcelona possession followed, as they strung a series of around 20 passes together, culminating with Puyol attempting to clip the ball over the onrushing Van der Sar, who blocked the shot. Both players went for the follow-up, but the Dutch goalkeeper was first to the ball and sent Puyol sprawling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nIn the 85th minute, Scholes clipped the ball over the top of the Barcelona defensive line to Rooney, who chested the ball down for Tevez, only to be given offside. Scholes then found Rooney again on the left wing with a raking ball from deep inside his own half, but Rooney's first touch was heavy, allowing Puyol to get back and put the ball out for a corner. Rooney took the corner short to Tevez, whose cross was just beyond the reach of Berbatov and diverted behind again by Puyol. Rooney also took the second corner, which was met by Berbatov, but he put the ball high over the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nAs the match entered its closing stages, the referee allotted a minimum of three\u00a0minutes of injury time. The first of these saw Van der Sar make a poor pass after the ball was played back to him by Ferdinand, allowing Iniesta to steal in and play the ball towards Messi in the United penalty area, only for Vidi\u0107 to get there ahead of the Argentine and knock the ball out for a corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Second half\nBarcelona manager Pep Guardiola brought Pedro on for Iniesta in the second\u00a0minute of added time, before Vidi\u0107 was immediately shown a yellow card for a clash of heads with Messi when going for a header. That was to be the final act of the match, as referee Massimo Busacca blew for full-time as soon as Xavi took the free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Trophy presentation\nAt the final whistle, Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola offered his commiserations to each of Manchester United's players, while former Manchester United defender Gerard Piqu\u00e9 talked with his erstwhile teammates. Both teams then retreated to either end of the stadium to applaud their fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Trophy presentation\nWhile match referee Massimo Busacca and his assistants collected their mementoes of the final, the Barcelona team formed a guard of honour for the Manchester United players, just as the English side had done for Chelsea in 2008. Led by their manager, Alex Ferguson, and team captain, Ryan Giggs, the Manchester United team then ascended the specially constructed rostrum to collect their runners-up medals from UEFA president Michel Platini and secretary David Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0053-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Trophy presentation\nOther dignitaries present included Manchester United chief executive David Gill; The Football Association's president Prince William, and chairman Lord Triesman; Barcelona president Joan Laporta; Juan Carlos I of Spain; Royal Spanish Football Federation president \u00c1ngel Mar\u00eda Villar; and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Ferguson also collected a commemorative plaque from Platini, but immediately handed it to Giggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary, Trophy presentation\nAfter offering his commiserations to Manchester United's players, Joan Laporta then joined the Barcelona team to lead them up the podium, closely followed by manager Guardiola. Laporta himself collected Barcelona's commemorative plaque before accepting a medal from Platini. Once the entire Barcelona team had collected their medals, Platini made his way to the front of the podium to present Carles Puyol with the European Champion Clubs' Cup. The Barcelona captain promptly held the trophy aloft with accompaniment from the UEFA Champions League Anthem and explosions of golden confetti, before leading his team on a lap of honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details\nUEFA Man of the Match: XaviFans' Man of the Match: Lionel Messi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nWe're not the best team in Bar\u00e7a history but we've had the best season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nDuring the match, UEFA.com users were able to vote for their man of the match; the public vote went to the scorer of Barcelona's second goal, Lionel Messi. The UEFA Technical Study Group, however, chose the man who provided the cross for Messi's goal, Xavi, as their man of the match, citing his control of the tempo of the match as the reason for their decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0057-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nBarcelona manager Pep Guardiola took the time to give special praise to Messi, whom he said he moved back into the midfield in order to increase the team's effectiveness when in possession of the ball. Messi had been withdrawn from his usual right-wing role into a more central position, while Samuel Eto'o, who had started the match as Barcelona's lone centre-forward, was moved out to the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0057-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nGuardiola also lauded the bravery of his entire team, stating that he believed that his team's victory hinged on their hard work and propensity for taking risks in attack, but he admitted that although his side had had the best season in the history of the club, they were not yet the best Barcelona team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nIn the Manchester United camp, manager Alex Ferguson admitted that his team had been beaten by the better side and that the game was all but lost after the first goal. United forward Cristiano Ronaldo, however, criticised his team's tactics, saying that \"everything went wrong\". Ferguson paid tribute to Messi and the midfield partnership of Xavi and Iniesta, while Wayne Rooney lauded Iniesta as \"the best player in the world\". Ferguson also expressed his regret at the unavailability of midfielder Darren Fletcher, who was suspended for the match, and lamented at his side's \"shoddy\" defending and ineffectiveness when in possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0058-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nNevertheless, Ferguson paid tribute to Guardiola's achievement of winning the treble in his first season of management. Barcelona's victory also made Guardiola only the sixth man to win the competition as both a player and a manager, following in the footsteps of Miguel Mu\u00f1oz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti and, most recently, Frank Rijkaard, who also won the Champions League as Barcelona manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nYou have to give credit to a very good Barcelona team \u2013 the better team won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nThe match turned out to be the last for Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez as Manchester United players, as Ronaldo completed a world record \u00a380\u00a0million transfer to Real Madrid on 1 July, while Tevez chose not to make his loan spell with the club permanent and joined their local rivals, Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nAfter announcing his intention to leave Manchester United, Tevez criticised Ferguson's team selection for the 2009 Champions League final, saying that Ferguson should have included him in the starting line-up, with the rationale that the match was the only final that Manchester United had lost in his time at the club. Ronaldo later returned to Manchester United in August 2021, following a three-year spell at Juventus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nTelevision audiences for the final reached more than 10\u00a0million in both Spain and the United Kingdom. 11.3\u00a0million people watched the match on Spain's Antena 3 network \u2013 the largest viewing figures for that station in the past year \u2013 while another 600,000 watched on Canal+ Spain. In the United Kingdom, however, although the match received the highest ratings of any programme that evening, viewing figures were down by 1.5\u00a0million on the previous year's final, with just 9.6\u00a0million watching on ITV1, although an additional 1.79\u00a0million watched on Sky Sports 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 606]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0061-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nDespite there being no Italian or French representative in the final, the figures were much the same in those two countries as they were in Spain and the United Kingdom, with Italy's Rai Uno garnering an average viewership of 9.63\u00a0million and France's TF1 receiving 8.25\u00a0million. Only 6.55\u00a0million people watched the match on Germany's Sat.1 channel. According to a survey, global viewing figures for the match averaged 109\u00a0million; this put the UEFA Champions League final above the Super Bowl (106\u00a0million viewers in 2009) as the most-watched annual sporting event in the world. Total figures, which included viewers who watched only part of the match, put the Champions League final even further ahead of the Super Bowl, with 206\u00a0million viewers compared to 162\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 816]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Reaction\nIn the United Kingdom, bookmakers made a profit from bets on a Manchester United victory. William Hill reported two bets of around \u00a320,000 placed on Manchester United, while Paddy Power received one of \u00a35,500 and Ladbrokes one of \u00a33,000. Ladbrokes also took a bet of \u00a310,000 on a Barcelona win, but bookmakers reported that most of the money was put on Manchester United. Extrabet.com paid out \u00a312,000 to a \u00a33,000 bet on Samuel Eto'o to score the first goal at odds of 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Rewards\nBoth teams received significant financial rewards; for winning the final, Barcelona won \u20ac7\u00a0million in prize money, and Manchester United received \u20ac4\u00a0million as runners-up. Despite losing the match, Manchester United earned the most money overall from their 2008\u201309 Champions League campaign, receiving \u20ac38.281\u00a0million compared to Barcelona's \u20ac30.968\u00a0million, due to their share of the market pool, based on the value of the television market in their home countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205465-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Rewards\nAs winners of the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona competed in the 2009 UEFA Super Cup, in which they beat 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk 1\u20130 at Stade Louis II in Monaco on 28 August 2009, and in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, where they beat Estudiantes of Argentina in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final\nThe 2009 UEFA Cup Final was the final match of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup, the 38th season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier club football tournament. It was also the last final to be held under the UEFA Cup name, as the competition was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League from the 2009\u201310 season. The final was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen, with Shakhtar winning the match 2\u20131 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final\nAll three goalscorers in the game were Brazilians; lone striker Luiz Adriano opened the scoring for Shakhtar midway through the first half, before Naldo equalised from a free kick ten minutes later. The second half was goalless and the match went to extra time; after only seven minutes, J\u00e1dson scored for Shakhtar to secure the club's first major European trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final\nThe match was played at the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium \u2013 home ground of Fenerbah\u00e7e \u2013 in Istanbul, Turkey, on 20 May 2009. It was the second European football final to be held in Turkey, after the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, which was held in another Istanbul venue, the Atat\u00fcrk Olympic Stadium. It was also the first European football final to be held outside the geographical Europe, as \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium lies across the Bosphorus from the city centre, and hence, in geographical Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final\nFormer Fenerbah\u00e7e player Can Bartu was appointed as ambassador of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Background\nThe 2009 UEFA Cup final marked the first meeting between Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen, although Shakhtar had previously played nine matches against German sides (won 4, lost 3), while Werder had played just four matches against Ukrainian teams (won 2, lost 1). Both teams were playing in their first UEFA Cup final, and Shakhtar were playing in their first final in any of the three major UEFA competitions; Werder Bremen beat Monaco 2\u20130 in the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Background\nIn another first, the 2009 UEFA Cup final also marked the first time that the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu Stadium had hosted a major European final, as well as being the first time that the UEFA Cup final had been held in Turkey; the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final was held at the Atat\u00fcrk Olympic Stadium across the Bosporus from the \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Saraco\u011flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 372]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nAs champions of the 2007\u201308 Vyshcha Liha, Shakhtar were awarded a spot in the third qualifying round of the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League. Here they were drawn against Croatian league winners Dinamo Zagreb. Shakhtar easily progressed over the two-legged tie with two victories and an aggregate score of 5\u20131. Shakhtar thus qualified for the Champions League group stage for the third season in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nShakhtar were drawn in Group C with Barcelona, Sporting CP, and Basel. The group stage campaign started brightly for the Ukrainians, with a 2\u20131 over Basel in the Swiss city. In the second game, Shakhtar hosted Barcelona and the two sides were set to share the points at 1\u20131 until Lionel Messi scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time in the second half and the Catalan giants won 2\u20131. Two successive 1\u20130 defeats to Sporting CP, home and away, saw Shakhtar's hopes of progressing to the knockout rounds of the Champions League dashed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nShakhtar, however, were well positioned to claim third place, above Basel, and secure passage to the UEFA Cup knockout rounds if they took points from their last two games in the group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nShakhtar dismantled Basel 5\u20130 in Donetsk and famously defeated a youthful Barcelona side 3\u20132 at the Camp Nou, (Barcelona had already secured first place in the group before the final match was played and were resting players ahead of an El Cl\u00e1sico league game against Real Madrid), thus Shakhtar finished the group stage with nine points in third place, eight points clear of Basel and just three points behind second placed Sporting CP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nIn the Round of 32 in the UEFA Cup, Shakhtar were paired with English side Tottenham Hotspur. With the first leg at the RSK Olimpiyskyi Stadium, Shakhtar were frustrated by their inability to turn their dominance over Tottenham into goals, until substitute Yevhen Seleznyov scored on his first touch, with a header in the 79th minute. J\u00e1dson doubled Shakhtar's lead just two minutes later, after playing a one-two with Willian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nTaking with them a 2\u20130 aggregate lead to London, Shakhtar were favoured to progress to the Round of 16, but a goal from Tottenham's Giovani dos Santos in the 55th minute gave the English side a glimmer of hope. Fernandinho answered with a goal, however, in the 86th minute for Shakhtar, which put Shakhtar into the next round with a 3\u20131 aggregate victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nThe Round of 16 saw old Soviet League rivals CSKA Moscow and Shakhtar matched against each other, with the first leg in Moscow. V\u00e1gner Love scored a penalty and CSKA won the first leg 1\u20130. In the return leg in Donetsk, Fernandinho converted a penalty in the 54th minute and evened the aggregate scoreline to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nIn the 70th minute, 2004\u201305 UEFA Cup winners CSKA were left stunned when goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, under pressure from Oleksandr Kucher, could only clear a looping cross from Fernandinho just a few meters ahead of him, where Luiz Adriano was perfectly positioned to hit it first time and score. Shakhtar won the match 2\u20130, and on aggregate 2\u20131, progressing to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nShakhtar were drawn against French club Marseille in the quarter-finals. Goals from Tom\u00e1\u0161 H\u00fcbschman and J\u00e1dson gave Shakhtar a 2\u20130 win in the RSK Olimpiyskyi Stadium. In the return leg in Marseille, Shakhtar got an important away goal in the 30th minute through a close-range Fernandinho strike, where he blasted it past the Marseille goalkeeper from a very tight angle, after Ilsinho had played him through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nAlthough Hatem Ben Arfa levelled the score at 1\u20131 in the 43rd minute, Marseille never looked liked getting the three goals that was required of them in order to progress, and in the 90th minute, adding to Marseille's wounds, Luiz Adriano scored to make it 2\u20131 and thus 4\u20131 on aggregate. Shakhtar had progressed to a European cup competition semi-final for the first time in their history with this victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nIn the semi-finals, Shakhtar could have been drawn against German clubs Hamburg or Werder Bremen, but instead a German\u2013Ukrainian final was guaranteed when Hamburg and Werder Bremen were paired with each other, while Shakhtar were drawn with fellow Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. Dynamo and Shakhtar have been fierce rivals since the Ukrainian Premier League's formation in 1991 as they have often battled each other for 1st place in the league. The draw of Dynamo-Shakhtar was met with great excitement by the Ukrainian public, who eagerly anticipated the showdown. Both stadiums were easily sold out for this fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nDynamo hosted the first leg in Kiev, and it got off to a bad start for Shakhtar when Dmytro Chygrynskiy scored an own goal to give Dynamo the lead 1\u20130. The match was tense and thus not many clear cut chances to score were made, but Dynamo were clearly on top and a Shakhtar equaliser was looking unlikely until the 68th minute when substitute Willian crossed and Fernandinho bundled it into the goal to level the score at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0010-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nDynamo's Olexandr Aliyev had a chance to give the Kiev side the lead again in the 78th minute, but Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov saved well and the game ended 1\u20131. Shakhtar took their crucial away goal to Donetsk and things were looking very rosy when Jadson scored in the 17th minute in the return leg to put the aggregate scoreline at 2\u20131. In the 37th minute, Dynamo correctly had a goal ruled offsides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0010-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Shakhtar Donetsk\nShortly after the start of the second half, Isma\u00ebl Bangoura equalised after a defensive mix-up allowed for Bangoura to have a clear shot on goal, which he finished well. With the aggregate at 2\u20132 and heading for extra time and potentially a penalty shootout, a moment of brilliance in the 89th minute from Ilsinho sent Shakhtar to Istanbul. After collecting a long pass on the right-wing, Ilsinho cut in towards goal, shifted his way past three Dynamo defenders and coolly placed the ball where the Dynamo keeper had no chance. The match finished 2\u20131 and Shakhtar won 3\u20132 on aggregate and thus became the first ever Ukrainian side to reach a UEFA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nWerder finished the 2007\u201308 Bundesliga in second place and received a spot in the 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League group stage as a result. They were matched up against Inter Milan, Panathinaikos, and Anorthosis Famagusta in Group B. The Champions League campaign got off to a poor start for Werder when the first tie of the round against heavy underdog Cypriot side Anorthosis ended in a 0\u20130 draw in Bremen. Werder rebounded in the second match with a 1\u20131 draw in Milan against Internazionale, thanks to a Claudio Pizarro equaliser in the 62nd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nAn entertaining 2\u20132 draw in Athens against Panathinaikos followed, before disaster struck in the return leg in Bremen, where Panathinaikos defeated their German hosts by a score of 3\u20130. Werder looked as though they were heading for a fourth-place finish in the group when in the next game in Nicosia, Anorthosis were leading 2\u20130 after 72 minutes, but a trip on Aaron Hunt in the penalty area allowed for Diego to score a penalty kick to make the score 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0011-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nHugo Almeida rescued a point for Werder in the 87th minute, when he scored after a cross from Mesut \u00d6zil was helped on by Du\u0161ko To\u0161i\u0107. Needing a win at home against the group favourites Internazionale and an Anorthosis loss to Panathinaikos in order to secure third place and thus progression to the UEFA Cup knockout rounds, Werder were staring elimination from European cup competition in the face. Werder dominated the match against the Italians and were rewarded for their determination to score in the 63rd minute when Pizarro scored on the rebound from a spilled shot by \u00d6zil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0011-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nAfter Werder established their lead, further good news made its way to the Weserstadion, where news of a Panathinaikos goal against Anorthosis lifted spirits. Markus Rosenberg extended Werder's lead in the 81st minute, and although Internazionale pulled a goal back through an 88th minute Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 strike, Werder came out deserved winners 2\u20131. Panathinaikos held on to their 1\u20130 lead against Anorthosis and after both games had finished, Werder secured third place and a spot in the UEFA Cup knockout rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nJust when Werder thought things would ease for them once they parachuted into the UEFA Cup, Werder were told that they faced another trip to the San Siro, except this time it would be against Milan, the favourites to win the UEFA Cup. In the home leg in Bremen, Milan went ahead in the 36th minute thanks to a Filippo Inzaghi goal. The Germans did not give up however, and after creating a host of chances, Diego finally finished one off in the 84th minute to level the score at 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nHeading to the San Siro with the aggregate scoreline all even, Milan jumped ahead in the first half with two goals from Andrea Pirlo and Alexandre Pato respectively. The task was daunting, but Werder were up to it, and in the 68th minute Pizarro scored a header from a Diego free-kick. Werder got the decisive goal ten minutes later after yet another Pizarro headed goal, this time from a cross from Sebastian Boenisch. The match finished 2\u20132 and Werder won the round with an aggregate score of 3\u20133, through the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 583]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nIn the Round of 16, Werder were paired with French side Saint-\u00c9tienne. Naldo put Werder ahead in the 20th minute, but Werder were left frustrated in the Weserstadion as they could not convert their dominance into more goals. In the return leg at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Werder got off to the best of starts, with Sebastian Pr\u00f6dl scoring in the fourth minute and Pizarro adding a second goal in the 27th minute. Saint-\u00c9tienne then needed three goals to win the tie. A goal in the 64th minute by Yohan Benalouane rejuvenated the match, but by the time the French got their second goal in the 90th minute, the fixture was all but over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 692]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nWerder were once again facing an Italian side; this time in the quarter-finals, and with their new Italian opponents being Udinese. It looked as though the job was done for the Bremen club when they had a 3\u20130 lead over Udinese after just 69 minutes at the Weserstadion, through two goals from Diego and a solitary strike from Almeida. But in the 87th minute, Fabio Quagliarella breathed new life into Udinese's hopes, when he got a goal back from close range. One of the most entertaining matches of the entire tournament followed in the return leg at the Stadio Friuli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nG\u00f6khan Inler opened the scoring for the hosts with a fantastic 30-metre goal that left Werder keeper Tim Wiese with no chance of saving. Diego equalised in the 28th minute, before Quagliarella restored the Udinese lead just two minutes later by lobbing the ball over Wiese. Quagliarella scored his second and Udinese's third only eight minutes later and the aggregate was even at 4\u20134 and the match heading to extra time if the score stayed at 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0014-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nThe match restarted in the second half with the same frantic pace it had in the first half, and after Quagliarella barely missed an opportunity to score a hat-trick, Diego headed in from an Almeida shot which bounced off the bar to bring the score to 3\u20132. Udinese now needed two more goals to go through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0014-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nFelipe and Kwadwo Asamoah had the best scoring opportunities for Udinese, but it wasn't meant to be, and after Udinese keeper Samir Handanovi\u0107 saved a Diego penalty kick, on the resulting corner, Pizarro turned in Per Mertesacker's header in the 73rd minute to wrap up the tie at 3\u20133 and 6\u20134 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nIn the semi-finals, Werder were drawn against their local rivals Hamburg. Werder defeated Hamburg in a penalty shootout in a German Cup semi-final just a week before the first leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final. With animosity running high between the two clubs and their respective supporters, this promised to be a fascinating clash for German football fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nThe first leg was once again hosted by Werder, but this time Werder got off to a poor start, with Hamburg having the better chances to score in the opening, before they finally converted one of their chances in the 28th minute with Piotr Trochowski heading in. The Hamburg goal woke up Werder, but Pizarro, Almeida, and substitute Rosenborg all squandered their chances to equalise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0015-0002", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nTaking a 1\u20130 lead with them to the HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg were confident of progressing to the Istanbul final, while it looked as though Werder would fail in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup for the fourth time. It looked all over in the second leg when Ivica Oli\u0107 finished well in the 13th minute. But sixteen minutes later Diego and Pizarro played a one-two, and Diego put it past Hamburg 'keeper Frank Rost to level the score at 1\u20131 and pull the aggregate to 1\u20132. Shortly afterwards, Diego's shot from 25 metres rattled the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 595]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0015-0003", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nIn the 41st minute, Diego received a yellow card for shoving fellow Brazilian Alex Silva, which ruled him out of the final. After a host of chances for both sides, in the 66th minute, Pizarro got the ball in the middle of the pitch, made a short run, and his curling shot from about 30 metres made its way past Rost to give Werder the lead 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0015-0004", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Werder Bremen\nThings got even better for Werder in the 83rd minute when Frank Baumann headed in to make it 3\u20132 on aggregate; Hamburg then needed two goals in the last seven minutes plus stoppage time to progress. Oli\u0107 responded in the 87th minute with another goal to even the aggregate score at 3\u20133, however Werder would still go through on the away goals rule. As Hamburg searched for that last goal, the game fizzled out and Werder had punched their ticket to Istanbul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 513]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205466-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Cup Final, Match, Details\nAssistant referees:Jes\u00fas Calvo Guadamuro (Spain)Roberto D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez del Palomar (Spain)Fourth official:Alfonso P\u00e9rez Burrull (Spain)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205467-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship\nThe 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the eighth edition of UEFA's European Under-17 Football Championship since it was renamed from the original under-16 event, in 2001. Germany hosted the championship, during 6 to 18 May 2009, in thirteen venues, and the final took place at the Stadion Magdeburg, in Magdeburg. Spain was the current title holder, having successfully defended its 2007 title. The top 6 teams qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205467-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification\nThe final tournament of the 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and an Elite round. During these rounds, 52 national teams competed to determine the seven teams to join the already qualified host nation Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205467-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Team of the Tournament\nDennis Appiah Bienvenue Basala-Mazana Stefan de Vrij Janick Kamber Marc Muniesa Furkan \u015eeker", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205467-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Team of the Tournament\nStephan El Shaarawy \u00c1lex Fern\u00e1ndez Marco Fossati Shabir Isoufi Jack Wilshere Reinhold Yabo Matthias Zimmermann", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205467-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Team of the Tournament\nNassim Ben Khalifa Giacomo Beretta Luc Castaignos Simone Dell'Agnello Mario G\u00f6tze Lennart Thy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205468-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round\nUEFA U-17 Championship 2009 (Elite Round) is the second round of qualifications for the final tournament of UEFA U-17 Championship 2009. The winners of each group join hosts \u00a0Germany at the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205468-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round\nThe Elite round has been played during March 1\u201331, 2009. The 28 teams advancing from the qualifying round have been distributed into seven groups of four teams, with each group being contested in the same format as in the previous round. The seven group-winning teams will qualify for the final tournament in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205468-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round\nThe draw was conducted on December 4, 2008, at UEFA's headquarters, in Nyon, Switzerland. Each team was previously allocated to one of four drawing pots, according to their qualifying round results. The seven sides with the best record were present in Pot A, and so forth until Pot D, which contained the seven teams with the weakest record. During the draw, each group was filled with one team from every pot, meaning that no team from the same pot could be drawn together. In the same way, teams having faced in the previous round could not be drawn together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205468-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round\nThe hosts of the seven one-venue mini-tournament groups are indicated below in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205469-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round\n2009 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship (qualifying round) is the first round of qualifications for the Final Tournament of UEFA U-17 Championship 2009. The qualifying round was played between September 15 and October 28, 2008. The 52 teams were divided into 13 groups of four teams, with each group being contested as a mini-tournament, hosted by one of the group's teams. After all matches have been played, the 13 group winners and 13 group runners-up will advance to the Elite round. If two or more teams are tied in points, a tie-break will apply according to the following criteria:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205469-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round\nAlongside the 26 winner and runner-up teams, the two best third-placed teams also qualify. These are determined after considering only their results against their group's top two teams, and applying the following criteria in this order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205469-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round\nThe host team of each group's mini-tournament are indicated in italics in the tables below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205469-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, Group stage, Third-placed teams\nKazakhstan and Georgia advanced for the elite round as the two best third-placed teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 90], "content_span": [91, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205470-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads\nBelow are the squads for the 2009 UEFA U-17 Championship tournament in Germany. Players whose names are marked in bold went on to earn full international caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205470-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads\nPlayers' ages as of the tournament's opening day (6 May 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205471-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship\nThe UEFA European Under-19 Championship 2009 Final Tournament was held in Ukraine in the cities of Donetsk and Mariupol. Players born after 1 January 1990 were eligible to participate in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205471-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification\nQualification for the final tournament was played over two stages:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205472-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite qualification\nThe Elite Round of the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship is the second round of qualification. The winners of each group join hosts Ukraine at the Final Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205473-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification\n2009 UEFA U-19 Championship (Qualifying Round) was the first round of qualifications for the Final Tournament of 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. The final tournament of the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship is preceded by two qualification stages: a qualifying round and an Elite round. During these rounds, 52 national teams are competing to determine the seven teams that will join the already qualified host nation Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205473-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification\nThe first qualifying round was played between 2 October and 27 November 2008. The 52 teams were divided into 13 groups of four teams, with each group being contested as a mini-tournament, hosted by one of the group's teams. After all matches have been played, the 13 group winners and 13 group runners-up advanced to the Elite round. Alongside the 26 winner and runner-up teams, the two best third-placed teams also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 481]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205473-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification\nThe host team of each group's mini-tournament are indicated in italics in the tables below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205473-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Ranking of 3rd placed teams\nRanking includes all matches in the group. Top two, Slovakia and Belarus, advanced to the Elite Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 83], "content_span": [84, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205474-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads\nPlayers born on or after 1 January 1990 were eligible to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 21 July 2009 \u2013 the tournament's opening day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship\nThe 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship began on 15 June 2009, and was the 17th UEFA European Under-21 Championship. This was the first tournament after the competition reverted to a two-year format, following the single-year 2006\u201307 competition, which allowed the change to odd-numbered years. Sweden hosted the final tournament in June 2009; therefore, their under-21 team qualified automatically. Players born on or after 1 January 1986 were eligible to play in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Qualification\nThe qualifying draw split the nations onto 10 groups of 5 or 6 teams. The seeding pots are formed on the basis of former performance in the tournament. Ten group winners along with four best-ranked runners-up advanced to the play-offs. Seven winners of the play-off pairs qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams\nThe finals' tournament draw took place on 3 December 2008 at the Svenska M\u00e4ssan exhibition centre, Gothenburg. Prior to the final draw, Sweden had been seeded first in Group A as hosts of the tournament, while Spain were seeded first in Group B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Final draw\nThe first pot contained the top seeds, these would have been host nation Sweden and the reigning champions, The Netherlands. However, The Netherlands did not qualify meaning that the team with the best qualifying record, Spain, took their place. Sweden and Spain were then automatically assigned to A1 and B1 respectively. The second pot contained the teams with the next two best records in qualifying: these were England and Italy. England were drawn into position B3 and Italy into A3. The final pot contained the other four qualified teams: Serbia, Finland, Germany and Belarus. Belarus were drawn first into position A2, Germany went into B2, Serbia into A4 and Finland into B4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 736]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Venues\nThe following venues were chosen to hold the final tournament matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Venues, Sponsorship issues\nFollowing the refusal of the Swedish hamburger chain Max to close their restaurant at Bor\u00e5s Arena during the tournament (as they are not an official UEFA sponsor), UEFA disqualified Bor\u00e5s Arena from hosting games during the tournament. There is a contract between UEFA and the city and between UEFA and its sponsors saying that the UEFA sponsors shall have monopoly around the arena. A city cannot force Max to close down even if it happened to sign a contract with someone saying so, as Max have a tenancy agreement with the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Venues, Sponsorship issues\nOn 2 September 2008, the Swedish Football Association nominated \u00d6rjans Vall in Halmstad as a replacement venue for Bor\u00e5s Arena, and they officially became the fourth host city a few days later. They were awarded the three group stage games that were to be hosted by Bor\u00e5s Arena, while the second semi-final was moved from Bor\u00e5s to Helsingborg and Olympia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Venues, Sponsorship issues\nSwedbank Stadion was referred to as Malm\u00f6 New Stadium during the tournament, as Swedbank \u2013 which owned the naming rights to the stadium at the time \u2013 were not official UEFA sponsors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Matches, Knockout stage, Final\nAssistant referees:Jo\u00ebl De Bruyn (Belgium)Gy\u00f6rgy Ring (Hungary)Fourth official:Pedro Proen\u00e7a (Portugal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205475-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Match ball\nThe match ball for the competition is called the Adidas Terrapass, which was unveiled at the tournament draw in Gothenburg on 3 December. The ball is bright blue and yellow, the colours of the Swedish flag. It features 12 watermarks including one containing a map of Europe and one of the tournament logo. It is composed of 14 thermally bonded panels, which are claimed to improve the ball's accuracy and swerve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205476-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification\nThe 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship started on 31 May 2007 with a qualifying competition and finishes on 15 October 2008, before the final tournament on 15\u201323 June 2009. 51 of the 52 other nations in UEFA's jurisdiction, including Montenegro and Serbia who competed separately for the first time, went through a series of qualifiers to decide the seven other teams to join Sweden at the finals. Andorra did not take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205476-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification\nThe first stage of the qualifying competition is a group stage followed by play-offs. Each group winner, as well as the four highest ranked second place teams, will advance to the play-off. The play-off will determine which seven nations join Sweden in the final tournament. Sweden, as hosts, qualify automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205476-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification, Groups, Summary\nTeams that have secured a place in the play-offs are highlighted in green, in their respective qualifying groups. The teams are ordered by final group position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 71], "content_span": [72, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205476-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification, Play-offs\nThe play-off first legs were played on 10\u201311 October, while the second legs were played on 14\u201315 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205477-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1\nThe teams competing in Group 1 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championships qualifying competition are Albania, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Greece and Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205477-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 1, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205478-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 10\nThe teams competing in Group 10 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition are Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Malta, Romania and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205478-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 10, Standings\nKey: Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 74], "content_span": [75, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205479-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 2\nThe teams competing in Group 2 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championships qualifying competition are Armenia, Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, Turkey and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205479-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 2, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205480-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 3\nThe teams competing in Group 3 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championships qualifying competition are Bulgaria, England, Montenegro, Portugal, and Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205480-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 3, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205481-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 4\nThe teams competing in Group 4 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championships qualifying competition are Georgia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia and Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205481-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 4, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205482-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5\nThe teams competing in Group 5 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championships qualifying competition are Estonia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205482-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 5, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205483-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 6\nThe teams competing in Group 6 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition are Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Scotland and Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205483-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 6, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205483-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 6, Goalscorers\nDenmark: Jonas Damborg, Lasse Sch\u00f8ne, Bo Storm\u00a0Finland: Kasper H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen, Ville Jalasto, Jarno Parikka, Berat Sadik\u00a0Lithuania: Dominykas Galkevicius, Evaldas Grigaitis\u00a0Scotland: Jamie Hamill, Kevin McDonald\u00a0Slovenia: Anej Lovre\u010di\u010d, Rene Miheli\u010d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 75], "content_span": [76, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205484-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 7\nThe teams competing in Group 7 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Iceland, and Slovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205484-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 7, Standings\nKey:Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205485-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 8\nThe teams competing in Group 8 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition are Belarus, Hungary, Latvia, San Marino and Serbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205486-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 9\nThe teams competing in Group 9 of the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition are Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Moldova and Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205486-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 9, Standings\nKey: Pts Points, Pld Matches played, W Won, D Drawn, L Lost, GF Goals for, GA Goals against, GD Goal Difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 73], "content_span": [74, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205487-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs\nThe qualification play-offs for the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship took place from 10 October to 15 October 2008. The ten group winners and four best runners-up from the qualifying group stage were drawn together in pairs in order to determine the seven teams that joined hosts Sweden at the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205488-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\nOnly players born on or after 1 January 1986 were eligible to play. Players in bold have made their senior international debuts prior to the competition or afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205488-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads, Group B, England\nNote: All information accurate at start of tournament, on 15 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup\nThe 2009 UEFA Regions' Cup was the sixth UEFA Regions' Cup. It was held in Croatia and won by the Castile and Le\u00f3n team from Spain, which beat Romania's Oltenia 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Preliminary round\nThe eleven teams in the preliminary round were drawn into two groups of four and one group of three, with the following countries hosting each group's matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Preliminary round\nThe winners of each group advanced to the intermediary round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Intermediary round\nThe 29 teams which went straight through to the intermediary round were joined by San Marino, Malta and Turkey's Marmara. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the following countries hosting each group's matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Intermediary round\nThe winners of each group qualified for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Final tournament\nCroatia was chosen to host the final tournament, with matches being played 15 June to 22 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205489-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Regions' Cup, Final tournament, Group stage\nThe eight intermediary group winners were drawn into two groups of four, with the two group winners advancing to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205490-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Super Cup\nThe 2009 UEFA Super Cup was the 34th UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match between the winners of the previous season's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup competitions. The match was contested by 2008\u201309 UEFA Champions League winners, Barcelona, and 2008\u201309 UEFA Cup winners, Shakhtar Donetsk at the Stade Louis II in Monaco on 28 August 2009, following the UEFA Champions League and Europa League draws at the Grimaldi Forum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205490-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Super Cup\nThis was the first meeting between the two sides since they met in Group C of the previous season's Champions League competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205490-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Super Cup, Venue\nThe Stade Louis II in Monaco has been the venue for the UEFA Super Cup every year since 1998. Built in 1985, the stadium is also the home of AS Monaco, who play in the French league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205491-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Cup Final\nThe 2009 UEFA Women's Cup Final was played on 16 May and 22 May 2009 between Duisburg of Germany and Zvezda Perm of Russia. Duisburg won 7\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205491-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Cup Final\nThe 2nd-leg attendance of 28,112 was claimed by UEFA as a European record for women's club football, ignoring the existence of earlier  reported women's club match attendances of 53,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205492-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship\nThe 2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was the second edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. Germany won the trophy for the second time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205492-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification\nThere were two qualifying rounds, and four teams qualified for the final round, played in Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205492-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, First qualifying round\nThe ten group winners and best six runners-up advanced to the second qualifying round. The host nations of the ten one-venue mini-tournament groups are indicated in the tables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205492-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, First qualifying round, Ranking of second-placed teams\nTo determine the best six runner-up teams from the first qualifying round, only the results against the first and the third teams in each group were taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205492-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Second qualifying round\nThe sixteen qualified teams from the first qualifying round were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The group winners advanced to the final tournament. The host nations of the four one-venue mini-tournament groups are indicated in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205493-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship\nThe UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship 2009 Final Tournament was held in Belarus from 13 to 25 July 2009. Players born on or after 1 January 1990 were eligible to participate in this competition. The tournament served as a qualifier for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205493-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification\n11 groups of 4 teams, hosted by one nation, seeded into four pots by UEFA coefficient", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205493-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification\n6 groups of 4 teams, hosted by one nation, seeded into four pots by UEFA coefficient", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205493-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Ranking of third-placed teams\nMatches against the fourth-placed team in each of the groups are not included in this ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205493-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Ranking of third-placed teams, Second qualifying round, Ranking of second-placed teams\nMatches against the fourth-placed team in each of the groups are not included in this ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 127], "content_span": [128, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205494-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFS Futsal Women's Championship\nThe 2009 UEFS Futsal Women's Championship was the 4th women's UEFS futsal championship, held in Paczk\u00f3w (Poland).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205494-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEFS Futsal Women's Championship\nBelgium withdrew meaning that only seven teams were in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205495-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEM 500cc Sidecar Final\nThe 2009 UEM 500cc Sidecar Final was a grasstrack sidecar racing event held in Wimborne Minster, Dorset. The meeting took place in Pilford Farm, Uddens on Sunday 13 September 2009. It also incorporated The 2009 Wimborne Whoppa, which was the 40th anniversary of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205496-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UEMOA Tournament\nThis will be the third UEMOA Tournament contest. It is a competition for domestic-league football players from the eight UEMOA member countries: Mali, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Benin, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205496-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UEMOA Tournament\nThe Togolese Football Federation announced their intention to host the tournament at Lom\u00e9 but the tournament was hosted in Benin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game\nThe 2009 UFL Championship Game was the concluding game of the United Football League's inaugural season. The game was staged at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada on Friday, November 27, 2009 (one day after Thanksgiving), and was won by the Las Vegas Locomotives, who defeated the previously unbeaten Florida Tuskers 20\u201317 on a 33-yard field goal in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Background\nThe United Football League originally intended to begin play in 2008, and in March of that year selected Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada to host its championship game on the day after that year's Thanksgiving holiday. (The league intended to bill the game as \"The United Bowl,\" but was unable to gain rights from the United Indoor Football or its successor, the Indoor Football League, to use the name; the IFL continues to use the United Bowl name.) When the UFL delayed its start until 2009, the game was moved to the corresponding date in 2009 and kept in Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 612]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Background\nThe Tuskers were the top team in the UFL's premiere season, finishing the regular season with a perfect 6\u20130 record. Coached by Jim Haslett, the Tuskers led the league in scoring, putting up 217 points behind an offense featuring quarterback Brooks Bollinger (the league leader in completion percentage, passing yards, and TD throws), running back Tatum Bell, and receiver Taye Biddle (the league leader in receiving yards). The Tuskers' defense included such players as Dexter Jackson, a former Super Bowl MVP with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Tuskers secured a spot in the championship game with an October 30 win over the Locos at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Background\nThe Locomotives, victors of the first game in UFL history (30\u201317 over the California Redwoods on October 8, 2009), sported a roster including quarterback J. P. Losman, running back DeDe Dorsey (the league's 2nd leading rusher), linebacker Teddy Lehman (the league leader in tackles), and lineman Eric Henderson (who shared the regular season lead in sacks with Tuskers lineman Patrick Chukwurah).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Background\nCoached by Jim Fassel, the Locos finished with a 4\u20132 record after starting the season 1\u20132 (both losses were to the Tuskers\u2014a 29\u201315 home loss on October 14 and the above-mentioned loss in St. Petersburg); they secured their berth in the title game with a 16\u201310 win at California on November 14. The game was held in Florida", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, First half\nFlorida (the designated home team by virtue of their 1st place regular season finish) took the ball first after winning the opening coin toss, but they and Las Vegas traded punts on their opening possessions. The Tuskers' second possession saw Brooks Bollinger connect with long throws to Taye Biddle for 32 yards, and Jayson Foster for 15 yards, and ended with Bollinger connecting up the middle with Marcus Maxwell on an 8-yard touchdown throw with 5:13 left in the first quarter. After scoring, Maxwell celebrated by slam dunking the ball over the crossbar, noticeably budging the goal post out of alignment and causing a minor delay for repairs before the extra point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 723]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, First half\nLas Vegas moved the ball into Tuskers territory on the ensuing drive; after changing ends during the quarter break, they moved the ball to the Florida 2-yard line where, on 2nd and Goal, Tuskers linebacker Odell Thurman forced a fumble by Locos running back Marcel Shipp that was recovered by defensive end Patrick Chukwurah. After a 3-and-out by the Tuskers' offense, the ensuing Locos drive nearly ended with a Darius Vinnett interception, but the pick was called back due to an offsides penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, First half\nOn the next play, Losman connected with Samie Parker on a 16-yard completion for a 1st down before having to depart with an injury. Tim Rattay finished the drive at QB, moving the Locos to the Florida 35, where Graham Gano missed wide on a 53-yard field goal attempt. The ensuing Tuskers drive also ended on a missed field goal, as Matt Bryant hooked a 51-yard try to the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, First half\nLosman returned at QB for the Locos on the next drive, connecting with John Madsen on its second play. Madsen appeared to fumble the ball away to the Tuskers, but a replay challenge determined that Madsen fumbled while his foot was on the boundary line, making him out of bounds and ending the play. The Locos drive ended two plays later in a punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, First half\nIn fact, the next two drives ended in punts, the second of which featured what appeared to be a serious injury to the Locos' Josh Scobey, who leaned in with his head when tackling Tuskers return man Willie Andrews. Though Scobey left under his own power, he would not return due to back spasms. The Tuskers' next drive ended in an interception, which the Locos turned into a 45-yard field goal by Gano to end the half and make the score 7\u20133 in favor of the Tuskers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nEnding a Locomotives' drive that carried over from a scoreless 3rd quarter (when both teams had 3 possessions that ended in punts), DeDe Dorsey sprinted down the right sideline for a 38-yard TD run, giving the Locos their first lead at 10\u20137 with 12:53 left. Unbowed, the Tuskers responded in quick fashion; starting from his own 20, Bollinger connected with Taye Biddle on a 15-yard pass play, immediately followed by a 10-yard Tatum Bell run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nOn 2nd and 5 from the 50-yard line, Bollinger went deep and connected with Marcus Maxwell on a 40-yard throw, the longest offensive play of the game. The Tuskers regained the lead on the next play, as Bollinger threw up the middle to Frank Murphy on a 10-yard TD catch. The five-play, 80-yard drive gave Florida a 14-10 lead with 10:27 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nAfter a 3-and-out drive by Las Vegas that featured the Tuskers' fourth sack of the day on Losman, the Tuskers got the ball back on their 35-yard line with 8:19 remaining. One play after Bollinger connected on a 14-yard pass to Bobby Sippio, Locos defensive end Josh Mallard forced a Tatum Bell fumble that was quickly recovered by Bollinger. On the next play, Bollinger was hit just before the throw by Adrian Awasom and fumbled the ball, which was recovered and returned by Locos lineman Ross Kolodziej.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nThe play was ruled a touchdown (Kolodziej fumbled and another Locos player recovered in the end zone), but Florida immediately challenged the call. After a replay review, Bollinger's fumble remained as called, but the ball was ruled down at the Tuskers' 2-yard line, which was moved ahead to the 1-yard line after the Tuskers' Michael Pittman was penalized for a Horse-collar tackle that led to Kolodziej's fumble. Three plays later, Dorsey snuck into the end zone up the middle for his second touchdown of the quarter, giving Las Vegas a 17-14 lead with 5:58 left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nMuch in the same way as they responded after the first Locos' touchdown, Florida quickly moved the ball down the field on the next drive. Bollinger started with 2 quick completions to Biddle (18 yards) and Maxwell (15 yards). Two plays later, on 2nd and 6 from the Locos 41, Bollinger found Jayson Foster, who broke a tackle and sprinted 41-yards down the left sideline to the end zone. Fassel and the Locos immediately challenged the call, and after review it was determined that Foster was down by contact at the Las Vegas 35-yard line. After the reversal, the Locos' defense clamped down, despite allowing a 22-yard throw to Pittman to the Las Vegas 11-yard line. The Tuskers would settle for a 27-yard field goal by Bryant, which tied the game at 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Second half\nFlorida regained possession after a Locos 3-and-out. On the 3rd play of the drive (after a Locos pass interference penalty gave the Tuskers a first down), Bollinger connected with Pittman for a 22-yard play to the Vegas 49 (Pittman was injured on the play). After three incomplete passes (the first being a Marcus Maxwell attempt at a spectacular one-handed 30-yard catch), Florida punted away to Las Vegas. Though he initially called a pass play in an attempt to drive up the field for a game-winning field goal, Las Vegas coach Jim Fassel decided on a kneel down play to run out the clock and send the Championship Game into overtime, the first OT game in UFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Game recap, Overtime\nWinning the coin toss, Florida elected to receive the ball. Micheal Spurlock's kickoff return was pushed back to the Tuskers' own 9-yard line after a holding penalty. Two plays later, on 3rd and 7, Bollinger escaped a sack but his pass was intercepted by Locos' defensive back Isaiah Trufant. Trufant fumbled but the ball was immediately recovered by Locos' cornerback Trey Young. After one running play to center the ball for a field goal attempt, Graham Gano hit a 33-yard field goal, sneaking the ball just inside the right upright to give the Locomotives the first UFL title, and denying the Tuskers a perfect season, with a final score of 20-17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205497-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL Championship Game, Most Valuable Player\nLas Vegas running back DeDe Dorsey was awarded the game's Most Valuable Player award thanks to his 98 all-purpose yards (32 receiving, 66 rushing) and two 4th-quarter touchdowns that gave the Locomotives the lead on both occasions. The MVP award was chosen through a text message vote, the options of which were presented to fans in attendance and to viewers on Versus during the 4th quarter; voting was then open until the conclusion of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season\nThe 2009 United Football League season -- referred to by the professional American football league as the UFL Premiere Season\u2014was the inaugural season of the United Football League. The regular season featured 4 teams playing 6 games each (twice against each of the other teams), and both began and ended at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Sam Boyd Stadium was the site of the 2009 UFL Championship Game on November 27, a game that saw the Locomotives defeat the previously unbeaten Florida Tuskers 20\u201317 in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Pre-season and off-field preparations\nPreparations for the UFL Premiere Season kicked off in the summer with player signings and a draft. Training camps for the players began on September 9 in Casa Grande, Arizona for the Western teams and September 10 in Orlando, Florida for the Eastern teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Pre-season and off-field preparations\nThe league announced its game schedule in the first week of August, a schedule that features games in teams' primary cities as well as secondary sites (a few of which are potential future UFL homes). Certain game sites were not finalized, however, and changes were made both before the schedule's release and after play had begun:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Pre-season and off-field preparations\nDuring the week of August 10, the four team names and their uniform jerseys were revealed. Each of the uniforms (and the team logos and helmets that were unveiled on October 2) incorporated the UFL's signature color scheme into their designs, including silver (primary color for the Las Vegas Locomotives), blue (Florida Tuskers), black (New York Sentinels), and lime green and white (California Redwoods). Each of the team jerseys had the same design template, complete with a horizontal arc across the top front that resembles the arc on the UFL's logo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Regular season\nThe UFL launched play on October 8, 2009, with the Las Vegas Locomotives defeating the California Redwoods 30\u201317 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Locos' kicker Graham Gano's 33-yard field goal with 3:20 remaining in the 1st quarter were the first points in league history, while a 5-yard run by Redwoods' quarterback Shane Boyd was the league's first touchdown. The Locos, who trailed 14\u20133 at one point in the 2nd quarter, rallied for the win via 2 touchdown passes by quarterback J. P. Losman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 527]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Regular season\nThe top team during the regular season was the Florida Tuskers; with a roster of players including quarterback Brooks Bollinger and receiver Taye Biddle, the Tuskers finished the season with a perfect 6\u20130 record, officially securing a berth in the UFL Championship Game with an October 30 win over Las Vegas. The Locomotives clinched 2nd place and the other title game spot with a November 14 win over California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Regular season, Attendance\nSparsely attended games were a noticeable part of the UFL's regular season, with announced crowds ranging from as low as 4,312 for California's November 14 home game in San Jose to as high as 18,187 for the October 8 inaugural game in Las Vegas, (though media observers at the game suggested the actual in-house attendance for that first game was considerably less). The twelve regular-season contests drew a total of 116,132 fans, or an average of 9,678 a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Regular season, Attendance\nFlorida led the league in average attendance (13,225), while California (5,836) and New York (6,637), hampered in part by shifts in game sites and competing in major markets with an NFL presence, brought up the rear in attendance average. Further, two New York home games were held the same nights as Games 2 and 6 of the 2009 World Series, featuring the New York Yankees. Other factors\u2014including the lack of a season ticket package, large-scale college football in Florida, the death of UConn football player Jasper Howard and Tim Lincecum's Cy Young Award press conference just prior to a Redwoods home game\u2014hampered attendance severely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Regular season, Attendance\nThough Florida Tuskers' coach Jim Haslett was among those expressing some disappointment in the league's marketing approach for the season (a possible cause of low attendance), league commissioner Michael Huyghue was among league and team executives who countered that rather than heavily marketing the UFL, the league's premiere season was meant to be a \"dress rehearsal\" -- start small, promote modestly, emphasize quality of product, and take the results and lessons learned from the season in determining the league's plans for 2010 and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 592]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Championship game\nThe UFL's Premiere Season concluded on November 27, 2009 (one day after Thanksgiving) with the championship game at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. The matchup between the Florida Tuskers and Las Vegas Locomotives was dominated by defense until the 4th quarter, when a total of 24 points were scored, highlighted by 2 touchdown runs by Locos running back DeDe Dorsey. A 33-yard field goal by Graham Gano in overtime (the first overtime game in UFL history) gave Las Vegas the championship (and denied Florida an undefeated season) by a 20\u201317 score. The final score of the game was set up by a Locos takeaway deep in Tusker territory on Florida's first overtime possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 706]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205498-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UFL season, Statistics and awards, Statistical leaders\nNote: Statistical numbers cover both the regular season and Championship Game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 84th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe British Greyhound Racing Board and the National Greyhound Racing Club merged to form a new organisation called the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (G.B.G.B). The remit was the same in regard to rules and regulations and the promotion of the sport but there were significant changes in regard to the welfare of the greyhounds. One of the new rules brought in was the requirement for every greyhound to be microchipped and drug tested before it was even allowed to set foot on any track for a qualifying trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe merger allowed the governing body to track every greyhound registered to race on licensed tracks and would help combat the small minority that abused welfare rules. The new Chief Executive of the G.B.G.B would be former Olympic field hockey gold medallist Ian Taylor, well known as the goalkeeper in the famous 1988 Seoul Games. He would only stay in the position for a relatively short time however and saw the bookmakers levy decreasing; it dropped \u00a32 million to \u00a310 million in total, a very worrying statistic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe industry in Ireland hit a brick wall with the Sports Minister Martin Cullen announcing a 13% funding reduction on Irish racing. Paddy Power subsequently announced they are withdrawing their Derby sponsorship. Attendances were down 12% and tote betting down 8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe two leading prizes of the English Greyhound Derby and Irish Greyhound Derby went to Kinda Ready and College Causeway respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nFear Zafonic went on to win the greyhound of the year after securing the East Anglian Derby and Mark Wallis topped off a superb year with the most open races points and the trainers title for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Tracks\nTwo tracks closed; on 17 June it was announced that the Boulevard in Hull would close to greyhound racing once again after less than two years trading. After going to once a week racing, promoter Dave Marshall pulled the plug on funding for the stadium and the last meeting was on 27 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 346]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Tracks\nCoventry closed after Boxing Day with the company going into liquidation. It closed on a sour note with the Racing Manager Russ Watkin fined \u00a35,000 for allowing 67 races to go off before their official race time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Tracks\nBallyskeagh in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland reopened under a new name and would be known as Drumbo Park. It is known as the New Grosvenor Stadium during the daytime football matches and then changes to Drumbo Park for the Greyhounds in the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Competitions\nThe GRA made more cuts including trimming their major race fixtures. The last Gold Collar and Gorton Cup were held at Belle Vue Stadium. The Scurry Gold Cup had been switched from Perry Barr Stadium earlier in the year to Belle Vue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Competitions\nThe Scottish Greyhound Derby featured five Irish hounds in the final and the event was won by Cabra Cool. On the same night as the final Greenwell River set a new track record of 28.66 in the invitation race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, News\nGeoff De Mulder, one of the all-time great trainers, died aged 79. The 'Wizard of Meriden' who had been ill for some time sent out two English Greyhound Derby winners, a Scottish Greyhound Derby, the Welsh Greyhound Derby and four consolation Derby events. He sent out 14 Derby finalists and won a whole host of other major races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205499-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, News\nTrack bookmaker Tony Morris stood for the last time at Wimbledon and top greyhounds Lenson Joker, Horseshoe Ping and Flying Winner were all retired, the latter had broken eight track records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205500-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Championship\nThe 2009 Pukka Pies UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 5\u201313 December 2009 at the Telford International Centre in Telford, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205500-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Championship\nThis was the first time that the UK Championship was sponsored by Pukka Pies. Shaun Murphy was the defending champion but he lost 3\u20139 to Ding Junhui in the Last 16. Ding won the tournament for his second UK title, beating John Higgins 10\u20138 in the final  .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 276]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205500-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Championship, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205500-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Championship, Prize fund\nWinner: \u00a3100,000Runner-up: \u00a346,000Semi-final: \u00a323,250Quarter-final: \u00a316,450Last 16: \u00a312,050Last 32: \u00a38,750Last 48: \u00a35,500Last 64: \u00a32,300", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205500-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Championship, Qualifying\nThese matches were held between 23 and 30 November 2009 at the Pontin's Centre, Prestatyn, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election\nThe UK Independence Party (UKIP) held a leadership election in 2009, with ballots closing on 26 November. The election was won by Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election\nThe Eurosceptic party had been led by Nigel Farage since he won the 2006 leadership election. He announced his resignation from the post in September 2009, stating that he wanted to devote more time to his campaign for a seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Candidates\nGerard Batten was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and stood unsuccessfully in the 2008 London mayoral election. His main policies were to broaden the party's policies beyond Euroscepticism, and to focus on winning representation at Westminster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Candidates\nMike Nattrass was also an MEP. His main policies were to focus on the upcoming general election, opposition to the Conservative Party, and to reject a merger with similar parties elsewhere in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Candidates\nLord Pearson was a member of the House of Lords. Originally appointed as a Conservative Party peer, he joined UKIP in 2007. His main policies included a focus on direct democracy and on opposition to Islamism. He had the support of Farage, who declared that Pearson was the only \"serious, credible\" candidate. He also had the support of the party's deputy leader, David Campbell-Bannerman, who had been expected to stand in the election. The Daily Telegraph declared in September that Pearson was the favourite to win the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Candidates\nNikki Sinclaire was another MEP. Her main policies were to professionalise the party, introducing a shadow cabinet, and to focus on communication through the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Candidates\nAlan Wood was UKIP's nominating officer and a district councillor. His main policy was to focus on an alliance with other Eurosceptic parties, although not with the British National Party. He was also opposed to Pearson's policy of prioritising anti-Islamism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205501-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Independence Party leadership election, Result\nPearson was elected, taking almost half of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205502-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Music Video Awards\nThe 2009 UK Music Video Awards were held on 13 October 2009 at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square, London to recognise the best in music videos and music film making from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominations were announced on 28 September 2009. British rock band Coldplay won Video of the Year for \"Strawberry Swing\", directed by Shynola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205502-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Music Video Awards, Video Genre Categories\nDepartment of Eagles \u2013 \"No One Does It Like You\"  (Directors: Patrick Daughters, Marcel Dzama)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205502-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Music Video Awards, Video Genre Categories\nThe Presets \u2013 \"If I Know You\"  (Director: Eva Husson)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205502-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and Technical Categories\nFlorence and The Machine \u2013 \"Drumming Song\"  (Stylist: Aldene Johnson)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205502-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and Technical Categories\nGlasvegas \u2013 \"Flowers and Football Tops\"  (VFX: Johan Drehn, Martin de Thurah)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open\nThe 2009 Blue Square UK Open was the seventh year of the PDC darts tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, England, between 4\u20137 June 2009 and has the nickname, \"the FA Cup of darts\" as a random draw is staged after each round until the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open\nPhil Taylor won the title for the third time by defeating Colin Osborne 11\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, 2009 UK Open Regional Finals\nThere were eight regional final events staged between January and May 2009 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Format and qualifiers\nThe tournament features 129 players. As in previous years, eight regional UK Open events were staged across the UK where players winning are collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 96 players and ties in the list, who played a minimum of three events received a place at the final stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Format and qualifiers\nThe Holsten qualifiers and the players outside the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit began the tournament on the Thursday night. They played down to 32 players, and they were joined by the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit the following night, to provide the competition's last 64. A random draw was made after each subsequent round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Format and qualifiers\n32 players were due to have qualified from four Holsten Pils qualifiers held in Aylesbury, Batley, Birmingham and Salford. However, Peter Green had to withdraw for unknown reasons, thus meaning there were only 31 qualifiers present in Bolton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 35], "content_span": [36, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Prize money\nIn addition, Holsten offered a \u00a33,000 bonus to the Pub Qualifier to get the furthest into the tournament (shared by Ken Mather and Andy Roberts).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Draw\nThe draw for the preliminary, first and second rounds was made on 25 May, ahead of the 2009 Premier League Darts Play-Offs by Sid Waddell and Keith Deller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Draw, Preliminary round\nThis match was the best of eleven legs, and was played on 4 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Draw, Second round\n\u2020 Mark Lawrence was given a bye into round three, as Paul Cook was disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205503-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UK Open, Draw, Final stages\nThere was a draw after each round; this bracket has been compiled retrospectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205504-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UMass Minutemen football team\nThe 2009 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. The team was coached by Kevin Morris and played its home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 2009 season was Morris's first as head coach of the Minutemen, as Don Brown left the position in the offseason to become the defensive coordinator at Maryland. It was also the first year UMass finished with a losing record since joining the CAA, both overall (5\u20136) and in-conference (3\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 639]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul\nThe 2009 UN guest house attack happened in the early hours of October 28, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Three Taliban attackers stormed a guest house used by the United Nations, killing five UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Background\nThe Bakhtar guest house is a privately owned, 42-room guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan that catered to foreign aid workers. According to a statement made by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 25 UN staff members were there, including 17 men and women of the United Nations Development Programme election team (UNDP/ELECT). The attack was part of the Taliban's plans to disrupt the Presidential election runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nAccording to survivors, three attackers, dressed as policemen, arrived at the compound around 3:30\u00a0a.m. and shot and killed two Afghan security guards at the compound's front entrance. Two of the attackers then climbed a wall and began firing rifle grenades at the guest house while the third fired a machine-gun to repel counterattacks by other security guards and police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nTwo UN security guards responded and fired pistols at the attackers, while 25 of the guests escaped out the back of the house. One UN security guard, an American from Miami named Louis Maxwell, climbed to the roof of the building to fire at the attackers. Maxwell and the other security guard, Laurance Mefful from Ghana, were able to prevent the attackers from entering the building for almost one hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nMaxwell and Mefful were then reportedly killed by the attackers, although later reports suggest Maxwell was wounded but survived the confrontation, only to be executed by Afghan policemen responding to the attack. The attackers then apparently approached the building. Two of the attackers were killed by gunfire from unknown sources and the third detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and at least two guests who had not evacuated the building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nNearly simultaneous with the guest house attack, rockets were fired at the Afghan Presidential Palace and the Serena Hotel, though there were no injuries in either incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nThe attackers wore explosive suicide vests. Even after the Afghan security forces arrived, they moved slowly into the compound which allowed the event to go on for over 6 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\nAfter the attack, the UN questioned why it took Afghan police and NATO forces more than an hour to respond and come to the UN's aid. Afghan authorities denied that the police response was slow and NATO stated that no one called it to ask for help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Attack\n'The Sentimental Terrorist' a novel of Afghanistan is partially based on this incident, with jihadists preparing to attack a Kabul guest house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Casualties\nFive UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilian were killed in the attack. Nine additional UN staffers were also injured. The dead UN staff members were from Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, the Philippines and the United States. The civilian was the brother-in-law of Provincial governor Gul Agha Sherzai, who had been watching the attack and was killed by a stray bullet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Casualties\nTwo of the three other UN staffers killed in the attack, Lydia Wonwene of Liberia and Jossie Esto of the Philippines, were election workers. The third staffer killed worked for UNICEF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Responsibility\nZabiullah Mujahid, a regular Taliban spokesman, confirmed that the Taliban was responsible for the attacks and that it was part of a plan to disrupt the Presidential election runoff. Zabiullah asserted that the Taliban had warned those working on the election that if they continued they were to be the targets of an attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Responsibility\nAn Afghan government intelligence official, Amrullah Saleh, stated that the attacks were planned and carried out by the Haqqani network with help from Al Qaeda in Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205505-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul, Responsibility\nThe report of the United Nations Board of Inquiry confirmed the political connotation of the attack and details the findings on whether UN staff members were killed by friendly fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205506-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF U-17 Tournament (Morocco)\nThe second 2009 edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament took place in December 2009, with Morocco as the host of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205507-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF U-17 Tournament (Tunisia)\nThe 2009 UNAF U-17 Tournament was an association football tournament that took place on 12-20 August 2009 in Ain Draham, Tunisia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205508-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF U-20 Tournament\nThe 2009 UNAF U-20 Tournament was the 5th edition of the UNAF U-20 Tournament. The tournament took place in Libya, from 5 to 9 August 2009. Tunisia won the tournament for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205509-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF Women's Club Tournament\nThe 2009 UNAF Women's Club Tournament is the 3rd edition of the UNAF Women's Club Tournament. The clubs from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia faced off for the title. The tunisian team ASF Sahel wins the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205509-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF Women's Club Tournament, Tournament\nThe competition played in a round-robin tournament determined the final standings. It's hosted in Suez, Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205510-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNAF Women's Tournament\nThe 2009 UNAF Women's Tournament is the 1st edition of the UNAF Women's Tournament, an association football tournament open to the women's national teams of UNAF member countries. The tournament took place in Tunisia. Of the five UNAF member countries, Libya and Morocco chose not to participate in the competition. Tunisia won the competition after winning their two games against Algeria and Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205511-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup\nThe UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The event was going to take place in Panama City, Panama between January 22 and February 1, 2009, but the Panamanian FA announced that they would not host the event due to not having an adequate stadium available for the time period of the tournament. The alternative hosts were Honduras and Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205511-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup\nHonduras submitted an official replacement bid on November 12, and after some consideration it was moved to Honduras. All games were played in Estadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino in Tegucigalpa. The tournament was sponsored by Digicel. On 1 February 2009 Panama won the tournament, the first UNCAF Nations Cup win in the country's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205511-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup, First round\nThe group stage draw took place on December 9, 2008 in Guatemala City. The reigning champions, Costa Rica, and the hosts, Honduras, were automatically drawn as top seed in their respective groups. Costa Rica was paired with Panama and Guatemala, the first two runners-up from the UNCAF Nations Cup 2007. The remaining teams \u2013 El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Belize \u2013 were drawn into the same group as Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205511-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup, Final round, Fifth place\nThe winner of the fifth place match qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup as the fifth and final entrant from Central America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205511-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup, Final round, Semifinals\nAll four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205512-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF Nations Cup squads\nBelow are the rosters for the UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 tournament in Honduras, from January 22 to February 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205513-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF U-16 Tournament\nThe 2009 UNCAF U-16 Tournament was the 3rd UNCAF U-16 Tournament, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-16 national teams. Organized by UNCAF, the tournament took place in Costa Rica between 4 and 8 August 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205513-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UNCAF U-16 Tournament\nThe matches were played at Estadio Ebal Rodr\u00edguez. Five Central American teams took part of the tournament, playing each other in a round-robin format. Honduras and Belize did not send a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205514-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNGL Draft\nThe 2009 UNGL Draft was the inaugural draft for the United National Gridiron League. The draft was held on January 8\u20139, 2009. What made this draft unique was the fact that the league chose to skip having a rookie combine and held the draft online, in order to start the league in the spring of 2009. The first overall selection of the draft was UAB running back Dan Burks by the Alabama Blackbirds. The following is an incomplete list of players selected in the 2009 UNGL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205514-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UNGL Draft, Players included in the draft\nIncluded in the draft where players from other leagues, such as the All-American Football League (AAFL), Arena Football League (AFL), American Indoor Football Association (AIFA), Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL), arenafootball2 (af2), Indoor Football League (IFL), and some from practice squads of National Football League (NFL) franchises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205515-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNIFFAC Cup\nThe 2009 UNIFFAC Cup was the second UNIFFAC Cup competition to take place. All games were hosted in Limbe, Cameroon. It was contested by players under 17 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 2009 UNLV Rebels football team was the 42nd varsity football team to represent the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Rebels play in the Mountain West Conference and compete each season against the remaining eight members of the conference and one permanent interstate rival: Nevada. In 2009, UNLV also played non-conference games at home against Sacramento State, Oregon State and Hawaii. Mike Sanford entered his fifth and final season as UNLV's head coach and the Rebels played their home games at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team\nIn November, head coach Mike Sanford was fired after five losing seasons, a 16-43 record and no bowl appearances. He won his last game as head coach against San Diego State on November 28, 2009, 28-24, with a fourth quarter comeback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Pre-season\nAt the 2009 Mountain West Conference Media Day in Las Vegas, the Rebels were picked to finish fifth in the conference, the highest preseason ranking since the Rebels were picked to finish tied for fifth with BYU in 2004. ESPN NFL analyst Mel Kiper, Jr. named the Rebels, along with Miami (FL), California and SMU, as one of his sleepers that could make \"national noise\" in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Pre-season\nKiper stated: \"If Omar Clayton, their quarterback, can stay healthy and get the ball to Ryan Wolfe, UNLV, I think, can go bowling for the first time in a long time and be a factor in the Mountain West Conference.\" Paul Myerberg of The New York Times ranked UNLV in the 84th position in their preseason Quad Countdown, in front of Ball State and behind UTEP. The ranking was an improvement of 27 spots from their 2008 preseason ranking of 111th. Myerberg predicted that the Rebels would go 6-6 and earn their first bowl berth since their 2000 Las Vegas Bowl victory against Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Pre-season\nJunior quarterback Omar Clayton received much praise during the preseason including that from The New York Times and Mel Kiper, Jr. and was named as one of the favorites to be named the conference's Offensive Player of the Year by Bleacher Report's Mountain West Conference writer. Senior wide receiver Ryan Wolfe was named as one of the best non-BCS receivers in the country by The New York Times and was named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list during the preseason. Wolfe enters the season only 50 receptions and 900 yards away from breaking the conference's career receptions and receiving yards records. Wolfe and senior linebacker Jason Beauchamp were both named to the All-MWC preseason team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 743]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Pre-season\nOn July 3, 2009, sophomore linebacker Bryce Saldi suffered severe injuries following a skateboarding accident while in southern California. Saldi was placed in the intensive care unit at Loma Linda University Medical Center. There has been no word on a timetable for Saldi's return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Pre-season, Key Losses\nThe following are some of the key players who will be no longer eligible to play in the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Game summaries, Sacramento State\nUNLV opened their season as a 22-point favorite against FCS squad Sacramento State from the Big Sky Conference. Both teams' passing games were hampered by the 32\u00a0mph wind gusts that were recorded around the stadium. UNLV took a 10\u20133 lead into halftime after a one-yard touchdown run by junior runningback Channing Trotter and a 39-yard field goal by senior kicker Kyle Watson gave UNLV the 10\u20130 lead after the first quarter. Sacramento State would get their only points of the game on a 44-yard field goal by Hornets' kicker Chris Diniz", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205516-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UNLV Rebels football team, Game summaries, Sacramento State\nIn the second half, the Rebels would explode on offense, starting with another 1 yard touchdown run by Trotter late in the third quarter. Trotter would score his third one-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter to push the Rebels lead to 24\u20133. The Rebels increased their lead midway through the fourth on a 55-yard strike from senior quarterback Omar Clayton to senior wide receiver Rodelin Anthony. Clayton's backup, sophomore Mike Clausen, played the final minutes of the game and sealed the Rebels victory with a 4-yard touchdown run. The win against Sacramento State was their fourth straight opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205517-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (darts)\nThe 2009 US Open Players Championship was the third edition of the US Open tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205517-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (darts)\nDennis Priestley won the tournament, beating Andy Hamilton in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 93]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis)\nThe 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September 14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States. Originally, it was scheduled to end with the men's singles final match on Sunday, September 13, but due to rain the tournament was extended by one day. Like the Australian Open, the tournament featured night matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis)\nFormer World No. 1 and 2005 US Open women's singles champion, Kim Clijsters, competed in the 2009 US Open after being granted a wild card entry, returning to professional tennis after more than two years of retirement. She made it to the women's singles semi-finals, where she knocked out the defending champion Serena Williams in controversial circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis)\nIn the final, Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki, the first Dane, man or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open Era, in straight sets: 7\u20135, 6\u20133. Clijsters thus became the first mother to win a Grand Slam since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980. In the process, she also became the first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 369]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis)\nIn the men's singles final, five-time defending champion Roger Federer lost to Argentina's Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro in a match lasting over four hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Arthur Ashe Kids' Day\nThe Arthur Ashe Kids' Day was held on August 29, 2009, prior to the start of the tournament. It featured an exhibition tennis match involving American player Andy Roddick and Great Britain's Andy Murray, who were joined by actor and comedian Will Ferrell. American Idol winner Jordin Sparks performed her hit single \"Battlefield\", along with rising stars Honor Society and Justin Bieber. There were also tennis matches and contests featuring Serena Williams, Ana Ivanovic Andy Roddick, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters, and James Blake. The popular tennis and music festival, which included interactive games, musical entertainment and tennis clinics, was hosted by television personalities Susie Castillo and Quddus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 775]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (August 31)\nThe first day of the tournaments saw many seeds get through pretty easily in straight sets: Roger Federer, James Blake, Lleyton Hewitt, Nikolay Davydenko and Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek. The day also produced a couple of upsets, when Mikhail Youzhny continued 26th seeded Paul-Henri Mathieu's horrible US Open record by beating him in four. While, tall American John Isner did the same to 28th seeded Victor H\u0103nescu by ending the Romanian's 2009 bid in three with the second set going to a tie-break 16\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (August 31)\nThe exciting day continued with a couple of five-set marathons, with Simon Greul defeating Giovanni Lapentti, Guillermo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez out-lasting Peter Polansky, and Jan Hernych surviving against Rainer Sch\u00fcttler. The days last match featured America's hope Andy Roddick prevailing over Bj\u00f6rn Phau in straight sets in a match that started at 11:00 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (August 31)\nOn the women's side, former world no. 1 Kim Clijsters opened the play, winning over Viktoriya Kutuzova losing only two games. Joining her were defending 2009 Wimbledon and Australian Open champion Serena Williams, Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, Victoria Azarenka, Flavia Pennetta, Elena Vesnina, Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, Li Na and Marion Bartoli who all won in two sets. Australian Samantha Stosur was pushed by veteran player Ai Sugiyama in three sets, Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 got past American Meghann Shaughnessy in three as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (August 31)\nIn the first night match, Venus Williams was able to claw her way to avoid an upset to win against Russian Vera Dushevina in a very close three-setter. Venus committed four foot faults in the match. With Venus and Serena getting past the first round, a few American players saw success on the women's side with Vania King, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and Jill Craybas getting to the second round. Austrian and 28th seeded Sybille Bammer, who defeated Serena Williams in Cincinnati, and 25th seeded Kaia Kanepi were the only casualties of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (September 1)\nOn the men's side, many seeded players got through in straight sets: 2008 US Open runner-up Andy Murray, 2008 Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez, and Fernando Verdasco. No. 30 seed Victor Troicki survived a five-set scare, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 2\u20136, 6\u20131. However, some seeds failed to be as lucky and fell in the first round with Ivo Karlovi\u0107 falling to Iv\u00e1n Navarro and Igor Andreev falling to American Jesse Witten, both in straight sets, while Stan Wawrinka fell in five. American players were once again successful, with 5 out of the 11 getting past the first round: Sam Querrey, Kevin Kim, Jesse Witten, Jesse Levine, and Taylor Dent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 756]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (September 1)\nOn the women's side, the first major upset of the tournament occurred with Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko upsetting 11th seed and former world no. 1 Ana Ivanovic. Ivanovic committed 50 unforced errors. In the second round, her sister Alona Bondarenko, 2009 French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, Nadia Petrova and Tathiana Garbin all advanced. Other seeded players that were eliminated in the first round were 32nd seed \u00c1gnes Sz\u00e1vay, losing to Israeli Shahar Pe'er in straight sets, Alisa Kleybanova, losing to Petra Kvitov\u00e1 in three and Virginie Razzano losing to Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets. Day 2 was a good day for women American players with three out of five getting through: Melanie Oudin, Shenay Perry, and Christina McHale. However, world no. 1 Dinara Safina struggled in her match against Olivia Rogowska but manage to survive, winning in three sets", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 967]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (September 1)\nOn the doubles side, the day was led by 2nd seeded Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107, who won in straight sets, and the only seeds that were eliminated were No. 15 seed Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (September 2)\nThe men's side saw Rafael Nadal playing his first match at the 2009 US Open and winning against his friend Richard Gasquet. He was joined by no. 1 seed Roger Federer, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Ga\u00ebl Monfils, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Gilles Simon, who all won in straight sets, while David Ferrer, Nicol\u00e1s Almagro and American Robby Ginepri won in 4. Joining them was Austrian J\u00fcrgen Melzer, who defeated Marat Safin in Safin's last Grand Slam match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (September 2)\nOn the women's side, upsets continued with Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo falling to Aleksandra Wozniak, Anabel Medina Garrigues losing to Kirsten Flipkens, and dark horse favorite Australian Samantha Stosur losing to American Vania King, all in straight sets, while Marion Bartoli and Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska both fell to resurging players Kim Clijsters and Maria Kirilenko in three. However, the day also saw half of the seeds getting through easily and was led by former champion Venus Williams and Flavia Pennetta, who won in double bagel, Victoria Azarenka, Francesca Schiavone, Elena Vesnina, and Li Na. The day ended for the first time in over 30 years in the US Open history by a women's match, which saw Serena Williams dispatching Melinda Czink in just 53 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 3 (September 2)\nOn the doubles side, there were a couple of major upsets: sixth seeded Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, fell in their opening round, as well as unseeded world no. 8 in doubles Lisa Raymond and her partner Shenay Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (September 3)\nDay 4 continued the success of the top men's seeds, with no. 4 seed Novak Djokovic dispatching Carsten Ball 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. He was joined by 2009 French Open runner-up Robin S\u00f6derling, 2009 French Open semifinalist Tommy Haas, 2009 Hamburg Open Champion Nikolay Davydenko, Philipp Kohlschreiber, and Tommy Robredo. The Americans once again took advantage of their home court, with four of them winning their matches: James Blake surviving against Olivier Rochus in four, with Blake committing 53 unforced errors, John Isner, Jesse Witten, and Sam Querrey. Andy Roddick once again got through easily against Marc Gicquel 6\u20131, 6\u20134, 6\u20134. He produced 33 winners and only 10 unforced errors in the last match of the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 781]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (September 3)\nThe women's side received a lot of buzz, with 17-year-old American Melanie Oudin upsetting hot favorite and US Open Series champion Elena Dementieva in the second round. Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan upset last year's runner-up Jelena Jankovi\u0107 in three sets. Seeded players who joined Dementieva and Jankovi\u0107 were Alona Bondarenko, who lost to Gisela Dulko, and Patty Schnyder, who lost in straight sets, while Sabine Lisicki lost in three to the last Australian and qualifier on the draw Anastasia Rodionova. No. 1 seed Dinara Safina once again survived a scare from Kristina Barrois, winning 6(5)\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20133. However, a few seeded players got through quite easily, led by Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova, Nadia Petrova, and Danish player Caroline Wozniacki. Unseeded players who got through in straight sets were Kateryna Bondarenko, who eliminated Ivanovic, Shahar Pe'er, Sara Errani, and Petra Kvitov\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 989]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 4 (September 3)\nOn the doubles side, it was the opposite, with all of the women's doubles seeds getting through. However, on the men's side, the highest seeded players who fell were no. 9 seeded \u0141ukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach, losing to veteran doubles players Leo\u0161 Friedl and Jaroslav Levinsk\u00fd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (September 4)\nThe fifth day of the US Open saw many seeds struggle on the men's side, with no. 30 seed Viktor Troicki losing to Julien Benneteau in four sets, and no. 18 seed David Ferrer losing to Jos\u00e9 Acasuso in five sets. This day also saw Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray struggle with their matches, with both of them being pushed to four sets. A couple of seeds were also pushed to four: Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez. No . 24 seed Juan Carlos Ferrero and no. 16 seed Marin \u010cili\u0107 both survived their matches, despite losing the first two sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (September 4)\nMany victors were pushed to five sets: Nicol\u00e1s Almagro, a returning Taylor Dent, and Denis Istomin. Although many seeds struggled, French seeds got through easily with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Ga\u00ebl Monfils, and Gilles Simon winning their matches on straight sets. They were joined by Argentine Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, who also won in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (September 4)\nOn the women's side, Victoria Azarenka lost to Italian Francesca Schiavone in three sets after Azarenka double-faulted on a match point. The rest of the matches were all won in straight sets, led by Serena Williams, who defeated Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, who had a controversial match at the 2009 French Open. She was joined by Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1, who crushed American Vania King, Li Na, Kim Clijsters, Flavia Pennetta, and Venus Williams. Elena Vesnina lost to 7th seed Vera Zvonareva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 5 (September 4)\nOn the women's side, seventh seeded Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai were ousted by the American team of Alexa Glatch and Carly Gullickson. They were followed by no. 14 seed Sania Mirza and Francesca Schiavone, who lost to Shahar Pe'er and Gisela Dulko in a tight three-setter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (September 5)\nFive-time defending champion Swiss Roger Federer took out the 2001 Champion Lleyton Hewitt in four sets after losing the first to set up a match-up with Spaniard Tommy Robredo in the fourth round, who beat American James Blake in three sets. Swede Robin S\u00f6derling took out the young American Sam Querrey in four sets in order to advance to face Russian Nikolay Davydenko in the fourth round, who won his match against Swiss qualifier Marco Chiudinelli in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 534]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (September 5)\nOne-time slam champion Novak Djokovic won in a four-set match after losing the first set against American qualifier Jesse Witten in order to advance to the fourth round against Czech Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, who won in a match against German Philipp Kohlschreiber in four sets after losing the first. Spaniard Fernando Verdasco sent German Tommy Haas packing in a brutal five-set match, Verdasco met American John Isner in the next round because Isner eliminated the 2003 champion Andy Roddick from the tournament in another five-set battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (September 5)\nAmerican Melanie Oudin defeated three-time slam champion and 2006 US Open Champion Russian Maria Sharapova in three sets, losing the first and winning the next two to advance into the fourth round. Russian Nadia Petrova defeated Chinese Zheng Jie 6\u20134, 6\u20131 to set up a match with Melanie Oudin in the fourth round. Danish Caroline Wozniacki took out doubles partner Romanian Sorana C\u00eerstea in the third round in 6\u20133, 6\u20132, which allowed her to set up a match with Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round, after Kuznetsova beat Israeli Shahar Pe'er 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 6 (September 5)\nUkrainian Kateryna Bondarenko bested Australian qualifier Anastasia Rodionova in the third round 7-6(7\u20134), 6\u20134, which allowed her to meet Argentine Gisela Dulko, who beat Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 6\u20133, 6\u20134. Czech Petra Kvitov\u00e1 took down top-seeded world no. 1 Russian Dinara Safina in three up-and-down sets 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 7-6(7\u20135). This set up a fourth-round match with Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, who took down Italian Sara Errani with a score of 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (September 6)\nSpaniards Rafael Nadal and Nicol\u00e1s Almagro played in a third-round match which was won in straight sets by Rafael Nadal, who would face Frenchman Ga\u00ebl Monfils in the fourth round. Monfils beat Argentine Jos\u00e9 Acasuso in straight sets. Chilean Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez won in straight sets against Czech Tom\u00e1\u0161 Berdych and would face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat fellow Frenchman Julien Benneteau in straight sets. Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero won over higher-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon. Ferrero advanced to play Argentine Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, who won in four sets over Austrian Daniel K\u00f6llerer. Croatian Marin \u010cili\u0107 won in three easy sets over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan to face Briton Andy Murray, who beat American Taylor Dent in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 7 (September 6)\nAmerican Serena Williams beat Slovakian Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 in two sets that totaled 64 minutes of action to face in the quarterfinals Italian Flavia Pennetta, who beat Russian Vera Zvonareva. Zvonareva had six match points in the second set, but had a meltdown and lost the third set 6\u20130. Chinese Li Na won in two sets over Italian Francesca Schiavone. Na advanced to play wild-card Belgian Kim Clijsters, who took down third-seeded Venus Williams in three sets after two love games, 6-0 for Clijsters and 0-6 for Venus Williams. The third set went to Clijsters in one break of Venus's serve 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (September 7)\nSwede Robin S\u00f6derling advanced to the quarterfinals with a retirement of Russian Nikolay Davydenko to face the Swiss Roger Federer, who beat Spaniard Tommy Robredo in straight sets. This would mark the third time the duo of Federer and S\u00f6derling has met in a Grand Slam in 2009, including the 2009 French Open final and the 2009 Wimbledon Championships fourth round, which were both won by Federer. Spaniard Fernando Verdasco beat American John Isner to advance into the quarterfinals, which means for the first time in US Open history no American male advanced into the quarterfinals of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 668]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (September 7)\nVerdasco would face Serbian Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals because Djokovic took down Czech Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek in straight sets. After defeating \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, Djokovic provided a light-hearted moment for the crowd along with former tennis great and current commentator John McEnroe. Djokovic began by impersonating McEnroe, who grew up in the nearby Queens neighborhood of Douglaston. He then motioned for McEnroe to come down from the press box; McEnroe obliged, mimicking some of Djokovic's mannerisms before the two played a few points. The two then embraced at the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (September 7)\nThe first match featured Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko making quick work of Argentine Gisela Dulko in double-bagel sets in 47 minutes. Dulko had beaten Bondarenko's sister, Alona Bondarenko, in the second round. with Dulko making 20 unforced errors compared to Bondarenko's 6, while Bondarenko made 17 winners to Dulko's 7. Melanie Oudin advanced to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 1\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20133 win over No. 13 seed Nadia Petrova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 8 (September 7)\nBelgian Yanina Wickmayer won in a three-set match against Czech Petra Kvitov\u00e1 to advance into the quarterfinals, making two Belgians who have advanced to the quarterfinalss for the first time since the 2003 US Open tournament. Wickmayer took advantage of the Czech's unforced errors and won the match 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135. Caroline Wozniacki defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 2\u20136, 7\u20136, 7\u20136 in an absorbing contest that kicked off Monday's night session on Arthur Ashe Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (September 8)\nIn the fourth round of men's singles, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro won in straight sets over 2003 finalist Juan Carlos Ferrero 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20133. This set up a quarterfinal clash with Marin \u010cili\u0107, who upset second-seeded Andy Murray in straight sets as well. In a closely contested match Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez prevailed over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets. The 11th-seeded Gonzalez advanced to his second US Open quarterfinal, having reached this stage seven years ago. This set up a meeting with Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals who outlasted the last Frenchman Ga\u00ebl Monfils in four sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 9 (September 8)\nBelgian wild-card Kim Clijsters won over Chinese Li Na in two sets 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to make it to the semifinals. The next match featured American Serena Williams who defeated a gritty competitor in Italian Flavia Pennetta in the quarterfinals in two hard-fought sets. This set up a meeting in the semifinals with Clijsters, who defeated Serena's sister Venus in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (September 9)\nThe first quarterfinals match in the Men's side featured no. 4 seed Novak Djokovic taking on no. 10 seed Fernando Verdasco, with Novak Djokovic prevailing over Fernando Verdasco 7\u20136, 1\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20132 to reach his third straight semi-finals in the US Open. The next match saw Robin S\u00f6derling against Roger Federer. Federer defeated S\u00f6derling in four sets: 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 10 (September 9)\nThe third quarterfinals match and the first of the day for the Women's side featured Belgian Yanina Wickmayer beating Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine in two sets, joining Belgian Kim Clijsters in the semi-finals. This set up a semifinal match with Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark, who defeated American Melanie Oudin in two sets 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 65], "content_span": [66, 403]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (September 10)\nArgentinie Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated Croatian Marin \u010cili\u0107 in four sets and became the third of his country to qualify for the semifinals (after Vilas and Nalbandian). The other quarterfinal match between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez was suspended due to bad weather and would be resumed on Friday. Rafael Nadal was leading 7-6(4), 6-6(3-2) when play was stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 11 (September 10)\nThe Williams sisters defeated Russians Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova in three sets and qualified for the final. The mixed doubles final saw Americans Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott claim the title in straight sets over Zimbabwe's Cara Black and Indian Leander Paes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 12 (September 11)\nAll the matches that should have been played this day were postponed due to the continued rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (September 12)\nRafael Nadal needed 34 minutes to finish off Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez in their rain-interrupted quarterfinal, advancing 7\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20130 at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Nadal led 7-6 and 3\u20132 in a second-set tiebreak when play was called off late Thursday evening. Precipitation throughout a gloomy Friday rendered play impossible, throwing the schedule into chaos and prompting a resumption on Saturday at noon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (September 12)\nKim Clijsters won an entry into the women's singles final after a dramatic ending to her semifinal against Serena Williams. After losing the first set 4\u20136, Williams smashed her racquet into the ground, giving her a code violation warning for racquet abuse from the chair umpire. In the second set, down 5\u20136 (15\u201330), Williams had a foot fault called on her second serve, giving Clijsters two match points at 15\u201340. Williams started yelling at the line umpire, who reported to the chair umpire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (September 12)\nAs a result, she was penalized for another code violation, for unsportsmanlike conduct, meaning a point penalty for Williams, which meant that Clijsters was awarded the match 6\u20134 7\u20135 without playing the match point. Williams later admitted that she was \"pretty sure\" she did foot fault. After securing her thirteenth straight win at the US Open, Clijsters went on to play Danish youngster Caroline Wozniacki in the final, who beat her unseeded opponent Yanina Wickmayer 6\u20133 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (September 13)\nIn the first match, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated third-ranked Rafael Nadal easily, winning 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6-2 and became the first finalist of the men's singles tournament. Del Potro's convincing victory, which echoed Caroline Wozniacki's takedown of crowd favorite Melanie Oudin in the quarterfinals, set the twenty-year-old Argentine up for his first Grand Slam final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (September 13)\nIn the second semifinal of the women's doubles championship Cara Black and Liezel Huber defeated Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs in three sets and they became finalist of the championship to defend which they got in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (September 13)\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes won the men's doubles defeating Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles also in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (September 13)\nDel Potro's opponent in the men's championship match was decided in a contest between world number one Roger Federer and fourth-ranked Novak Djokovic, who lost to Federer in the final of the 2007 U.S. Open. Federer dispatched his opponent in straight sets, winning 7-6(3), 7\u20135, 7\u20135, to round out the final two players remaining from an original draw of 128 men's professional tennis players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 14 (September 13)\nIn the women's final, unranked Kim Clijsters capped off an impressive return to professional tennis with a win over ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, winning 7\u20135, 6\u20133, for her second Grand Slam title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 15 (September 14)\nThe Williams sisters beat Cara Black and Liezel Huber in straight sets to win the women's doubles championship, 6-2 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 15 (September 14)\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated Roger Federer in five sets. In so doing he became the third Argentine to win the US Open title, and the first South American to win a men's Grand Slam event on a hard court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Day-by-day summaries, Day 15 (September 14)\nThere was some controversy during the presentation ceremony when the Master of Ceremonies initially refused to allow del Potro the time to speak in Spanish as he was under pressure from his American television network, CBS, to get the ceremony over with so that it could return to its regularly scheduled programming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated  Roger Federer, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's Doubles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd /  Leander Paes defeated  Mahesh Bhupathi /  Mark Knowles, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's Doubles\nSerena Williams /  Venus Williams defeated  Cara Black /  Liezel Huber, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nCarly Gullickson /  Travis Parrott defeated  Cara Black /  Leander Paes, 6\u20132, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Boys' Doubles\nM\u00e1rton Fucsovics /  Hsieh Cheng-peng defeated  Julien Obry /  Adrien Puget, 7\u20136(5), 5\u20137, [10\u20131]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Girls' Doubles\nValeria Solovieva /  Maryna Zanevska defeated  Elena Bogdan /  Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, 1\u20136, 6\u20133, [10\u20137]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Wheelchair, Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet /  Stefan Olsson defeated  Maikel Scheffers /  Ronald Vink, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Wheelchair, Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nKorie Homan /  Esther Vergeer defeated  Daniela DiToro /  Florence Gravellier, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Wheelchair, Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nNick Taylor /  David Wagner defeated  Johan Andersson /  Peter Norfolk, 6\u20131, 6\u20137(5), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Wildcard entries\nBelow are the lists of the wildcard awardees entering in the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Qualifiers\nBelow are the lists of the qualifiers entering the main draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205518-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open (tennis), Protected ranking\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series\nIn tennis, the sixth edition of the US Open Series (known as Olympus US Open Series for sponsorship reasons), included ten hard court tournaments started on July 20 in Indianapolis and ended in New Haven, Connecticut on August 29. This edition has scheduled five separate men's tournaments, four women's tournaments, and the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament hosted both a men's and women's event. The series included two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and two WTA Premier 5 events to headline the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 516]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series, Point distribution for series events\nTo be included in the standings and subsequently the bonus prize money, a player had to have countable results from two different tournaments. Players finishing in the top three in the series can earn up to $1 million in extra prize money at the US Open. Roger Federer received the largest US Open pay day of $2.4 million in 2007 after capturing the title in both the US Open Series and the US Open championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series, US Open Series standings, ATP\nOlympus US Open Series standings as of August 30, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series, US Open Series standings, WTA\nOlympus US Open Series standings as of August 24, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series, Week 1, ATP - Indianapolis Tennis Championships\nAndy Roddick was scheduled to receive the number one seeding in this event, but pulled out due to a right hip flexor injury before the main draw was held. Instead 24th ranked Dmitry Tursunov, headlined the event. In the second round Sam Querrey avenged his final round loss at Newport with a straight sets win over fellow American Rajeev Ram. Canadian Frank Dancevic upset number one seeded Dmitry Tursunov to reach the semifinals where he was ousted by Sam Querrey in the semifinal in straight sets. Robby Ginepri neutralized the fast-serving 6'10\" American John Isner to set up an All-American final on championship Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205519-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open Series, Week 2, ATP - LA Tennis Open\nOn the day one all seeded players advanced, save Lu Yen-Hsun who lost in straight sets to Latvian Ernests Gulbis. After winning the first US Open Series title of the season, Robby Ginepri lost to former world No.1 Marat Safin in three sets. Indianapolis semifinalist John Isner and finalist Sam Querrey advanced to the second round after defeating Benjamin Becker and Denis Istomin, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205520-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nNiki Moser and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe were the defending champions, but they did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205520-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nM\u00e1rton Fucsovics and Hsieh Cheng-peng won in the finals 7\u20136(7\u20135), 5\u20137, [10\u20131] against Julien Obry and Adrien Puget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205521-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nGrigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205521-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Boys' Singles\nBernard Tomic won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20133 against Chase Buchanan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205522-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nNoppawan Lertcheewakarn and Sandra Roma were the defending champions, but Roma chose not to participate in the Juniors that year. Lertcheewakarn partnered with Elena Bogdan, but Valeria Solovieva and Maryna Zanevska defeated them in the final 1\u20136, 6\u20133 [10\u20137].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205523-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nThe United States Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually at Flushing Meadows, starting on the last Monday in August and lasting for two weeks. The tournament consists of five main championship events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for seniors, juniors, and wheelchair players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205523-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Girls' Singles\nIn 2009, the girls' singles event was won by Heather Watson of the United Kingdom who beat Yana Buchina of Russia, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205524-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals against Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205524-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nLuk\u00e1\u0161 Dlouh\u00fd and Leander Paes won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 against Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 131]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nJuan Mart\u00edn del Potro defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 4\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20132 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2009 US Open. Del Potro became the first Argentine man to win the title since Guillermo Vilas in 1977. This was del Potro's first and so far only major title, although he would reach a second final in 2018. This was also the first final since 1999 to contain 5 sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nFederer was two championship points away from winning the title in the fourth set, as he was attempting to become the first man to win a sixth consecutive US Open title in the Open Era, the first since Bill Tilden in 1925. He was also vying to become the first man to win Grand Slams on clay, grass and hard court in the same calendar year after he won the French Open and Wimbledon earlier that year, and the first player to win the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in the same calendar year since Rod Laver in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nHe was on a 41-match winning streak at Flushing Meadows prior to defeat to del Potro. It was the only major not won by the Big Four between the 2005 Australian Open and the 2014 Australian Open, a span of 35 events. This was also where former champion Marat Safin made his final grand slam appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nFor the first time in US Open history, none of the American players reached the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThis is the only Grand Slam where Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal made it to the semi-finals, but none of them won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205525-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205526-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nCara Black and Leander Paes were the defending champions, but were defeated by Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott in the final 2\u20136, 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205527-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet and Stefan Olsson won in the final 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 against Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205528-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Singles\nShingo Kunieda won in the final 6\u20130, 6\u20130 against Maikel Scheffers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205529-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Doubles\nNicholas Taylor and David Wagner won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20137(5), 6\u20133 against Johan Andersson and Peter Norfolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205530-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles\nPeter Norfolk won in the final 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 against David Wagner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205530-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Quad Singles, Draw, Round Robin\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205531-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nThe United States Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually at Flushing Meadows, starting on the last Monday in August and lasting for two weeks. The tournament consists of five main championship events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for seniors, juniors, and wheelchair players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205531-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nIn 2009, the wheelchair women's doubles event was won by Korie Homan and Esther Vergeer, both of the Netherlands, who beat Daniela DiToro of Australia and Florence Gravellier of France, 6-2, 6-2 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205532-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Singles\nEsther Vergeer was the defending champion in 2007 and successfully defended her title beating Korie Homan with a score of 6\u20130, 6\u20130. The event was not held in 2008 due to a schedule conflict with the 2008 Summer Paralympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205533-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions, but Serena Williams and Venus Williams defeated them  in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20132. In their Runner-Up acceptance speech, Black/Huber commented, \"We're the number one doubles team in the world but that's clearly not the case when these two are in the draw.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205534-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nKim Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2009 US Open. It was her second US Open title and her second Major singles title overall. She became the first unseeded player and wild card to win the US Open, and the first mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong in 1980 Wimbledon Championships. Following her win, she appeared at 19th in the rankings. This was the first time since the 2007 Australian Open where Clijsters participated in a major, as she was just returning to the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205534-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSerena Williams was the defending champion, but was defeated in the semifinals by Clijsters after Williams was given a point penalty for a foot fault, which set up two match points for Clijsters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205534-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nClijsters became the second player to beat both Williams sisters in a major, after Justine Henin two years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205534-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis was the final major appearance for two-time major champion Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo, who lost to Aleksandra Wozniak in the second round. This was also the final major singles appearance of Ai Sugiyama, who was on a record-breaking 62nd consecutive Grand Slam women\u2019s singles appearance, losing in the first round to Samantha Stosur. Sugiyama's record remains standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205534-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205535-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam (women)\nThe tenth annual 2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam is a women's basketball tournament that took place on November 26\u201328, 2009. Eight teams from the NCAA were invited to participate in the tournament. The teams were separated into two brackets, the Reef Division and the Island Division. The Reef Division consisted of Mississippi State, Rutgers, Southern California and Texas. The Island Division consisted of Notre Dame, Oklahoma, San Diego State and South Carolina", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205535-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam (women), Island Division, Final standings\n\u2020\u00a0 Indicates team advanced directly to the championship game\u00a0*\u00a0 Indicates team advanced to the semifinal game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 77], "content_span": [78, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205536-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour\nThe 2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour is the third year of this elite men's professional road bicycle racing series organized by USA Cycling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205536-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour\nChristian Vande Velde (272 points) and the Garmin/Chipotle Pro Cycling Team (711 points) are the defending champion of the overall individual and team titles, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205536-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour, Events\nThe 2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour consists of the following 13 one-day races and stage races:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205537-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 25\u201328 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. The competition acted as a way of selecting the United States team for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin later that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205538-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Sevens\nThe 2009 USA Sevens competition took place on February 14 and 15 at Petco Park in San Diego, California. It was the fourth Cup trophy in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series. The USA Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens. Argentina won the 2009 USA Sevens, defeating England 19\u201314 in the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205538-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Sevens\nThis was the last edition of the USA Sevens to be held in San Diego. Starting with the 2010 edition, the event was moved to Sam Boyd Stadium near Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205539-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Team Handball College Nationals\nThe 2009 College Nationals was the 14th Men's and Women's College Nationals. The College Nationals was a team handball tournament to determined the College National Champion from 2009 from the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205540-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA Team Handball Nationals\nThe 2009 Nationals was the 39th Men's Elite and Women's Nationals. The Nationals was a team handball tournament to determined the National Champion from 2019 from the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205541-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USA-Brazil Challenge\nThe 2009 USA-Brazil Challenge was a curling challenge held from January 30 to February 1, 2009 at the Bismarck Capital Curling Club in Bismarck, North Dakota. This was the first Americas Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205541-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USA-Brazil Challenge\nThe challenge featured the Brazilian national men's curling team against an American team in a best-of-five series. The winner would get to represent the second team from the Americas at the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. Canada automatically qualifies as both hosts and defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205541-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USA-Brazil Challenge\nUntil 2009, the United States (and Canada) have always automatically qualified on account of no other country in the Americas fielding curling teams. However, in 2008 the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation felt that their men's curling team had a high enough calibre that they were ready to  face off with the Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205541-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 USA-Brazil Challenge\nThe American team was represented by Todd Birr, whose team was highest on the U.S. Order of Merit as of December 31, 2008 and who qualified for the 2009 United States Olympic Curling Trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205541-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 USA-Brazil Challenge\nThe Brazilians were represented by their national team, which trained at the Lennoxville Curling Club in Lennoxville, Quebec. They are all students at the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team\nThe 2009 USC Trojans football team (variously \"Trojans\" or \"USC\") represented the University of Southern California during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and was coached by Pete Carroll, who was in his ninth and final season at USC. They finished the season 9\u20134, 5\u20134 in Pac-10 play and won the Emerald Bowl over Boston College 24\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, San Jose State\nThe #4 Trojans opened their season against the lightly regarded San Jose Spartans. Though the Spartans outscored USC 3-0 in the 1st quarter of play, the Trojans quickly recovered, scoring 56 consecutive points for a 53-point victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Ohio State\nA crowd of 106,033, the largest in Ohio Stadium history, were in attendance as the #3 USC Trojans came to Columbus, Ohio to face the #8 Ohio State Buckeyes. Both teams showed great defense with the game close at the half tied 10\u201310. After a safety and a field goal, Ohio State led 15\u201310 with less than five minutes to go. However, Matt Barkley and the Trojans drove down the field to score a touchdown and a two-point conversion to end the game. The final score was USC 18, Ohio State 15, with the Buckeyes losing to the Trojans for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Washington\nThe Huskies became the latest Pac-10 team to upset the Trojans, only two Pacific-10 Conference teams have failed to beat USC during the Pete Carroll era: Arizona and Arizona State. Other Pac-10 teams have defeated USC at least once during this period; Oregon State did it twice, 2006 and again in 2008, as did Stanford in 2001 and 2007 (and would do so again in 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Trojans dominated the Bears, scoring the most points since their season opener against San Jose State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nThe Trojans marched into South Bend ranked #6 in the nation after a 30-3 beating of #24 Cal. The Fighting Irish lived up to their name, staying with highly ranked USC through two quarters, only trailing by 6 points, 13-7. In the third quarter, the Trojans started to run away with the game, outscoring Notre Dame 14-7. Going into the fourth quarter, USC had a commanding lead, 27-14. USC scored another touchdown early in the fourth quarter to go ahead, 34-14. It looked like Notre Dame would get beat badly by their rivals once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nBut, it wasn't to be for the Fighting Irish. Instead of losing by double digits to the Trojans again, they rallied and found themselves down 34-27 with 1 second left at the USC 1-yard-line. Jimmy Clauson fired an incomplete pass and USC extended their winning streak over Notre Dame to 8. The freshman Matt Barkley attempted 29 passes, completing 19, on his way to 380 yards and 2 touchdowns. Clauson went 24-43 with  a mere 260 yards and 2 touchdowns. Anthony McCoy led the Trojans (5-1) in receiving yards with 5 catches for 153 yards. Notre Dame's (4-2) leading receiver was Golden Tate with 8 catches for 117 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nLast year the #1 Trojans went to Corvallis and were upset 27\u201321. It was the second straight trip to Corvallis for USC that resulted in defeat. Jacquizz Rodgers ran for 187 yards on 37 carries and two touchdowns in the win last year. Oregon State was the second Pac-10 Conference school to have beaten USC twice during the Pete Carroll era in 2006 and 2008 (Stanford was first with victories in 2001 and 2007 (and would do so again in 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nThe last time Oregon State won against USC in the Coliseum was when Dwight D. Eisenhower was the President of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nUSC scored first when quarterback Matt Barkley passed to Anthony McCoy for an 8-yard touchdown. The Beavers got on the scoreboard with two field goal kicks from Justin Kahut (both 48 yards). In the second quarter, Matt Barkley completed a pass to Ronald Johnson for a 22 yards touchdown. On second and goal, Barkley rushed for a 1-yard touchdown for the Trojans. Kahut kicked a 33-yard field goal for Oregon State just before the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nIn the third quarter, Sean Canfield passed to Jacquizz Rodgers for a 6-yard touchdown for the Beavers on a 3:06-drive that took 8 plays for 61 yards. The Trojans countered with a 7-play drive for 70 yards with Allen Bradford rushing for 2 yards for a touchdown. Canfield narrowed Oregon State's gap by completing a 15-yard scoring pass to Damola Adeniji. USC answered with Allen Bradford scoring a 43-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon State\nOregon State became the first team to score more than 10 points on the Trojans in their last ten home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nPrior to the game, USC had lost three in a row in the state of Oregon, but had won four of the last five against the Ducks. The Trojans lost the game 47\u201320, which was the worst defeat suffered by USC since 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nStanford's 55\u201321 victory was the highest number of points any team had scored against a USC Trojans football team in the 121-year history of Trojan football. The 34-point loss was the worst defeat USC had suffered since 1966. This was Stanford's third victory against USC in their last five games against each other at the Coliseum (Stanford winning 2001, 2007, and 2009, with USC winning in 2003 and 2005), with USC having defeated every non-Stanford opponent in the Coliseum since 2001, going 47\u20132 since Stanford's September 29, 2001 victory in the Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nIt was the first defeat in a November game for the Trojans under Coach Pete Carroll's nine-season tenure. For the first time in since Carroll's first season, USC lost more than two games in one season. For the second time in three weekends, Carroll suffered the worst loss of his USC tenure (the other being the Oregon game). This was the largest margin of victory for Stanford in a Stanford-USC game since the two teams' rivalry began in 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0012-0002", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nHarbaugh became the only coach in college football with a winning record against Carroll, going 2\u20131 in the three times the two coaches have faced each other. Stanford would eclipse the all-time point spread record it set from the 2007 Stanford vs. Southern California football game, as USC was a 41-point favorite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nUCLA\u2013USC rivalry game for the Victory Bell, which the Trojans retained by defeating the Bruins 28\u20137. Both teams wore home jerseys, in a tradition that was restarted the previous year, with the Bruins wearing their 1966 throwback powder blue jerseys. The final two minutes of the game proved to be interesting. With the Trojans leading 21\u20137 after a touchdown with 1:30 in the fourth quarter, and having possession of the ball after UCLA turned it over on downs, Carroll instructed his quarterback to take a knee. Rick Neuheisel then called a timeout to stop the clock. On second down, the Trojans immediately connected on a 48-yard pass play for their fourth touchdown of the game. USC beat UCLA for the 10th time in 11 years, but the late touchdown pass stirred passions in the crosstown rivalry and lead to a benches-clearing incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 889]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Arizona\nArizona's defeat of the Trojans gave the Wildcats their first win over USC during the Pete Carroll era. Arizona was also the first non-Stanford team in the Pac-10 to defeat the Trojans in the Coliseum under Carroll (Stanford had defeated Carroll's teams in the Coliseum in 2001, 2007, and 2009). Arizona State is the only Pac-10 team to never beat the Trojans during Carroll's tenure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nThis marked the first time USC played in the Emerald Bowl. On December 26, 2009 at AT&T Park in San Francisco California, attended by 40,121; the Trojans squared off against the Boston College Eagles from the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nThis also marked the first time that the Trojans had played in a non-BCS bowl game in seven years. Boston College was making its 11th straight bowl appearance. The Eagles became the first team to play in the Emerald Bowl twice, beating Colorado State 35\u201321 in the 2003 San Francisco Bowl (the former name of the Emerald Bowl). This was the third meeting between the two schools and the first in a bowl game. USC had won both games in the series, a 23\u201317 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34\u20137 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Boston College\nUSC freshman quarterback Matt Barkley threw touchdown passes to Stanley Havili on the Trojans first two possessions and added a touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Barkley finished the game with a total of 350 yards passing. Of his 350 yards, Damian Williams accounted for 189 of them on 12 catches. Williams was named the game's MVP for his efforts. Boston College was led by tailback Montel Harris, who rushed for 102 yards and also added a touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205542-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 USC Trojans football team, After the season\nOn January 10, 2010, coach Carroll told his players that he will resign his position with the Trojans and become the new head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Lane Kiffin, formerly with the Trojans, Oakland Raiders, and Tennessee Volunteers, was hired as the new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season\nThe 2009 W-League Season was the league's 15th. The regular season began on May 8 with the Hampton Roads Piranhas defeating the Charlotte Lady Eagles 2\u20131 in Charlotte. The season ended with 10 games on July 19. The playoffs began on July 22 and ended on August 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season\nPali Blues repeated as W-League champions, defeating the Washington Freedom Reserves in come-from-behind fashion 2\u20131, which was also how they had won their previous title. Iris Mora was named the Playoffs MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season\nFC Indiana's Laura del R\u00edo finished with the most points (40) and goals (18), while her teammate Monica Ocampo led the league in assists (11). Shannon Lynn, also of FC Indiana, led the league in GAA (0.116) and shutouts (10), and only allowed 2 goals the entire regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Changes from 2008 season, Teams Leaving\nJersey Sky Blue and Washington Freedom both have expansion teams in Women's Professional Soccer. Washington have chosen to keep their reserve squad in the W-League, while Jersey has sold the rights to their W-League team to New York-based Quickstrike FC, which became Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Standings\nOrange indicates W-League title and bye into W-League semifinals. Purple indicates division title clinchedGreen indicates playoff berth clinched", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Playoffs, Format\nThe Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues earned a bye directly to the W-League Semifinals. The Washington Freedom Reserves were moved into the top spot in the Northeast Division, and the Charlotte Lady Eagles received the division's second playoff spot (the Boston Renegades were the original holders of the second spot, but declined to enter).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Playoffs, Format\nThe Central Conference will have 5 playoff spots. The second and third place teams from the Great Lakes Division will play each other. The winner will play the Midwest Division champions, while the Great Lakes Division champion will play the second place team of the Midwest Division. The winners of those games will play to determine the conference champion. The Eastern Conference division champions will play the second place team of the opposite division, the winners facing off to determine who goes to the W-League Semifinals. The Western Conference will have their top two teams facing off to determine their conference champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Playoffs, Format\nThe W-League Semifinals will put the regular season champion against the lowest seeded conference champion, and the higher-ranked conference champions against each other. The winners of these games will play in the championship, while the losers will play in the Third Place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, Awards\nThe finalists for W-League MVP, U19 Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Defender of the Year were announced on August 3, 2009, with the winners to be announced on August 5. The Goalkeeper of the Year was announced on August 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Central Conference\nF: Laura del R\u00edo*, IND; Amber Hearn*, OTT; Caroline Smith, MINM: Gemma Davison*, CHI; Jennifer Hance, OTT; Fatima Leyva, IND; Rosa Tantillo*, BUFD: Jenny Jeffers, CHI; Ria Percival*, OTT; Clare Rustad, TORG: Shannon Lynn, INDHonorable Mention: Margaret Allgeier, D, FW; Haley Ford, D, CLE; Christina Julien, F, LAV; Melissa Lesage, F, QC; Heather MacDougall, M, HAM; Courtney Nash, M, WMi; Anna Stinson, M, KAL; Jenn Wolbert, G, LON; Casey Zimney, D, ROC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Eastern Conference\nF: Angelika Johansson*, HV; Jen Parsons, WAS; Brittany Tegeler, WASM: Lindsay Ozimek, CHA; Christina Rife, CHA; Megan Tomlinson, ATLD: Casey Brown, BOS; Ashleigh Gunning*, HV; Philisha Lewis, TB; Brittany Taylor*, HVG: Michelle Betos*, ATLHonorable Mention: Mary Casey, G, NV; Brooke DeRosa, M, LI; Shaneka Gordon, F, HR; Robyn Jones, G, NJ; Courtney McMahon, M, NY; Rachel Richards, M, WMa; Fortuna Velaj, F, & Lindsay Vera, F, CON; Jennifer Woodie, D, RIC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205543-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 USL W-League season, All-League and All-Conference Teams, Western Conference\nF: Iris Mora, PAL; Jodi Ann Robinson, VANM: Michelle French*, SEA; Tobin Heath, PAL; Nikki Marshall, COL; Carmelina Moscato, VAN; Nikki Washington*, PALD: Jenea Gibbons, LA; Kelli Smith, SEA; Leah Tapscott, PALG: Katie Hultin, SEAHonorable Mention: Kay Hawke, G, VEN, Taryn Hemmings, M, RC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 81], "content_span": [82, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding\nThe 2009 USS Port Royal grounding was a ship grounding by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal off Oahu, Hawaii on 5 February 2009. The ship ran aground on a coral reef, damaging both the ship and the reef. The incident received wide press coverage in Hawaii, in part because of the damage caused to a sensitive coral environment, and also because the stranded ship was within sight of Honolulu off the airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding\nNavy investigation found that the grounding was caused by a combination of a misread navigation system, a sleep-deprived commanding officer, broken equipment, and an inexperienced and dysfunctional bridge team. Commanding officer Captain John Carroll was relieved of duty and disciplined. Three other officers and one enlisted sailor were also disciplined. The Navy reattached 5,400 coral colonies in an attempt to repair damage to the reef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Grounding\nPort Royal spent time in the Pearl Harbor shipyard for $18 million in scheduled repairs, then departed for the open ocean off Oahu for sea trials at 08:15 on 5 February 2009. The ship's fathometer was broken. At 12:01, the automated navigation system's primary input was shifted from a forward Global Positioning System to forward Ring Laser Gyro Navigation, an inertial navigator. Three times the Voyage Management System dead-reckoned the ship's location, mistakenly reporting the ship's location as 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) from its actual position. The error was not noticed by watch-standers. The ship was undergoing her first sea trials following the repairs, including full power, steering, and helicopter flight operation checks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 772]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Grounding\nThe grounding occurred at 8 p.m. about 0.5 miles (800\u00a0m) south of the Honolulu International Airport's Reef Runway. No one was injured and no fuel spilled. The grounding was in full view of commercial aircraft landing and departing from the nearby airport, causing embarrassment to the Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Grounding\nThe cruiser has a draft of 33 feet (10\u00a0m) and ran hard aground on a sand and rock ledge in an estimated 14 to 22 feet (5\u20137\u00a0m) of water. The salvage ship USNS\u00a0Salvor made three unsuccessful efforts to pull Port Royal off the sandbar on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (6\u20138 February), despite full-moon high tides and offloading 200 short tons (180\u00a0t) of fuel and water, 7,000 US gallons (26,000\u00a0L) of raw sewage, and 15 short tons (14\u00a0t) of crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Grounding\nAccording to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the ship ran aground while moving very slowly as she transferred shore-based aviation assessment officials to a smaller boat to take them to shore. The oil recovery ship Clean Islands was behind the ship to clean up oil spills. Rear Admiral Dixon R. Smith, the commander of Navy Region Hawaii and the Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, served as the on-scene commander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Recovery\nOn 9 February 2009, Port Royal was pulled off the rock and sand shoal at around 2 a.m. after crews removed another 500\u00a0tons of water and 100\u00a0tons of anchors and other equipment to lighten the vessel. The removal by a salvage ship and seven tug boats took about 40\u00a0minutes. No one was injured during the recovery effort, according to Rear Admiral Joe Walsh, the U.S. Pacific Fleet deputy commander. Smith relieved commanding officer Captain John Carroll of his duties pending investigation. Carroll had been commanding officer of Port Royal since October 2008. Captain John Lauer, an official in Smith's Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, temporarily assumed command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Recovery\nThe ship had suffered heavy damage to the underwater bow sonar dome and to its propellers and propeller shafts in the incident, and it was drydocked for repairs. Captain Neil Parrott presided over the investigation into the grounding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Damage assessment and repair\nOnce the raw sewage dumped by the ship had dissipated, divers from the Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources examined the site and discovered that the grounding had damaged the coral reef. The Hawaiian divers, with help from Navy divers, began mapping the damage to ascertain the extent of work required to repair the coral. As of 12 February 2009, several of the cruiser's propeller blade tips had yet to be recovered from the ocean floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 511]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Damage assessment and repair\nLaura Thielen, chairwoman of the Hawaii state Board of Land and Natural Resources, told the United States Navy in a letter in April 2009 that the grounding had damaged between six and 10 acres (4.0\u00a0ha) of the reef and that the \"main injury scar\" covered about 9,600 square feet (890\u00a0m2). She added that the grounding may have damaged the habitat of green turtles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Damage assessment and repair\nOn 18 February 2009, the ship entered Dry Dock Number 4 at Pearl Harbor for repair to the ship's shafting, running gear, propellers, painting of the underwater hull, replacement of the bow sonar dome and its internal elements, and repairs to damaged tanks and superstructure cracks. The Navy estimated that repairs would cost between $25 and $40\u00a0million and would be completed by September 2009. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that a shipyard worker had said that no work had been done to repair the warship as of 12 April 2009. The newspaper reported that its attempts to obtain information on the status of the warship had received short shrift or had not been answered by the Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 746]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Damage assessment and repair\nAs of the end of July 2009, most of the repairs to the ship had been completed. Structural problems occurred in rebuilding the sonar dome, the area of the ship most heavily damaged in the grounding. Also, the struts that support the propulsion shafts were found to be out of alignment by a small but critical amount. The repairs were expected to be completed in September and the ship was expected to return to operation in October. The ship deployed for the first time since the grounding in June 2011. The cruiser departed on an eight-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle-East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Damage assessment and repair\nActing on a request from the state of Hawaii to repair the damage to the coral habitat, the Navy hired divers from AECOM, Sea Engineering and CSA International, Inc.  Work to repair the damaged reef began the last week of April 2009. At a cost of $7\u00a0million, by 27 June 2009 the divers had collected 5,400 loose coral colonies and reattached them to the reef using cement and plaster of Paris. The divers also removed 250 cubic yards (200\u00a0m3) of rubble. The Navy planned to conduct further repair work on the reef between October and December 2009 but this work was later suspended. The Navy reports that environmental experts have advised them that reattaching further coral to the reef would do more harm than good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 777]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nOn 2 June 2009, the Navy disciplined four Port Royal officers for the grounding. In a hearing presided over by Vice Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, commander of the United States Third Fleet, Captain John Carroll was given non-judicial punishment for \"dereliction of duty and improper hazarding of a vessel.\" Port Royal Executive Officer Commander Steve Okun was also given non-judicial punishment for dereliction of duty at the same hearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nIn a separate hearing, Rear Admiral Dixon Smith, commander of Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, imposed non-judicial punishment on two other, unnamed Port Royal officers and an enlisted seaman for dereliction of duty and improper hazarding of a vessel. The Navy refused to provide further details of the punishments the sailors received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe U.S. Navy safety investigation into the accident, not intended for public release but which was obtained by the Honolulu Advertiser in July 2009, listed several contributing factors for the grounding. The factors included a misinterpreted navigation system, a sleep-deprived commanding officer, faulty equipment and an inexperienced and dysfunctional bridge team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe report stated that Carroll had only 4\u00bd hours of sleep in the 24 hours prior to the grounding, and only 15 hours of sleep during the previous three days. Also, he was at sea after a five-year break in sea command duty. Carroll had directed that the aviation assessment personnel aboard the cruiser be returned to shore in a small boat just before the grounding occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 452]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe report found that the ship's fathometer, which measures water depth, was broken, as well as both radar repeaters on the cruiser's bridge. Some time before the grounding, the ship switched navigation systems from a Global Positioning System, called the Voyage Management System, to a gyroscope. The switch caused a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) discrepancy in the ship's reported position. Audible alarm bells triggered by the discrepancy were disregarded by the ship's crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nDuring the small-boat transfer, the cruiser's operations officer took a binocular bearing to the harbor landing from the boat deck and noted the position discrepancy, but was unable to correct the ship's course in time. Shortly thereafter, the ship ran soft aground, but then quickly was forced hard aground by the force of the waves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe report concluded that in spite of the equipment and navigation systems failures, there were enough working sensors and visual clues to prevent the grounding. The report found that the ship's navigation evaluator lost situational awareness and that the \"Bridge watch team, navigation, and (Combat Information Center) team did not work together to assess situation and keep the ship from standing into danger.\" Qualified lookouts were on board for watch duty the night of the grounding, but they were working in the mess as food service attendants and were not allowed to assume the watch. Furthermore, set and drift were not calculated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 718]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe report stated that the cruiser had been rushed out of dry dock, with some work scaffolding removed from the ship only 30 minutes before the cruiser departed for the ocean trials. Also, the quartermaster of the watch was inexperienced and lacked training, having stood three months of watch on a deployment a year earlier, but could not plot fixes in near-shore waters. The report recommended a supervisory-level navigation course, as well as an \"operational pause\" of at least 96 hours between shipyard availabilities and sea trials to ensure crews were adequately rested and prepared for underway operations. Captain W. Scott Gureck, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, declined to comment on the investigation's findings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 806]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Disciplinary actions and investigation findings\nThe report was created by the Naval Safety Investigation Board but has been classified by the Navy Judge Advocate General as a \"Dual Purpose Investigation\". The Navy will therefore not release the report under the Freedom of Information Act. Reportedly, the Navy does not want to publicly discuss what caused the grounding because of threatened legal action by the state of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nPort Royal left dry dock at Pearl Harbor on 24 September 2009 for final repairs and assessment before being returned to duty. While in dry dock, technicians from BAE Systems and the Navy replaced the cruiser's sonar dome, reinstalled rudders, and made structural repairs to the ship's tanks, superstructure, and underwater hull. In addition, four sections of shafting were replaced, struts that support the propulsion shafts were realigned, and the underwater hull was repainted with blue antifouling paint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 548]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nIn February 2011, the Navy and the state of Hawaii announced that they had reached a settlement on the damage caused by the grounding. The Navy agreed to pay Hawaii $8.5\u00a0million. The amount was in addition to the $6.5\u00a0million already spent by the Navy in efforts to repair the reef. \"This settlement agreement recognizes the State of Hawaii's loss of a natural resource and takes into account the U.S. Navy's unprecedented efforts to restore the reef where USS Port Royal ran aground,\" said Rear Admiral Timothy Giardina, U.S. Pacific Fleet deputy commander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nIn response, William J. Aila, State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources interim chairperson, stated, \"We believe the Navy has done the right thing by acknowledging its responsibility, working cooperatively with the state to restore the reef, and completing a settlement that will provide funding for protection of the state's marine resources.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nAfter $40\u00a0million in repairs, the cruiser deployed for the first time since the grounding in June 2011. The cruiser departed Pearl Harbor on a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East. Said Smith, commander of Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, of the grounding incident upon the departure of the ship, \"I've put it behind me. We've moved forward. The ship has moved forward. It was an unfortunate incident that we all learned from.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nNavy command was said to have lost confidence that the vessel had been restored to seaworthiness, and, because of that, the ship was included on a list of seven cruisers slated for early retirement. Decommissioning in anticipation of eventual dismantlement was set for 31 March 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205544-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 USS Port Royal grounding, Aftermath\nHowever, in answer to queries by Congress, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), in a report sent to Congress in May 2013, reported that the condition of the ship was comparable to certain other cruisers in the same class and that the effects of the grounding might not have been as severe as had been previously thought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Santo Tomas in the 72nd season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2009-10 began on July 11, 2009 and the host school for the season was Far Eastern University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nUST finished fourth at the end of the double-round eliminations. They won six games against eight losses. The Growling Tigers were on back-to-back losses going into their final match of the eliminations. The De La Salle Green Archers who were a game behind them on a 5\u20138 win-loss record could end up in a tie and eliminate the Tigers on a superior +13 quotient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nUST ended up losing to the UE Red Warriors, but the NU Bulldogs had indirectly helped them qualify for the playoffs by beating La Salle who eventually finished the eliminations with a 5\u20139 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThe Tigers made it back to the final four after missing out on the playoffs in Season 71 but lost to first-seed Ateneo, who had a twice-to-beat advantage over them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThey had an average winning margin of 9.3 points and an average losing margin of 12.9 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nThey experienced a 27-point blowout loss to the FEU Tamaraws and had a double-overtime loss to La Salle, both in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team\nTeam captain Dylan Ababou was named Most valuable player and scoring leader of the season, while Jeric Teng won the Rookie of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nAll but two of the players of the Season 69 champion team have graduated. Season 70 MVP Jervy Cruz, point guard Japs Cuan, former team captain Francis Allera, Mel Gile, and centers Badong Canlas and Chester Taylor have all used up their playing years and the only members remaining from the team are Dylan Ababou, who is set to lead the team as this year's captain and returning forward AC Marquez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Roster changes\nAbabou will be joined by veterans Khasim Mirza, Chris Camus, and Allein Maliksi who has recovered from an ACL injury the previous year. The team will have eight new players composed of rookies and members of the Team B training pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching staff\nRhuel \"Beaujing\" Acot, the Growling Tigers' assistant coach for defense has resigned from his post. He had informed head coach Pido Jarencio of his decision through a text message a month before the UAAP tournament began. He had coached the Tigers during their preseason games in the summer but had stopped showing up to practices after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching staff\nAssistant coach Rabbi Tomacruz has also left the coaching staff to concentrate on his studies. The former UST Glowing Goldie who was in charge of liaisons and training of the Tigers' Team B has decided to pursue a career in nursing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, Coaching staff\nAcot's tasks will be divided between Jarencio and Senen Due\u00f1as, the team's assistant coach for offense. Gina Francisco, former captain of the UST senior women's basketball team will assume Tomacruz's duties in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 282]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205545-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UST Growling Tigers men's basketball team, UAAP Season 72 games results\nElimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on Studio 23 & Balls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205546-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma\nThe 2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tulsa, United States between 14 and 20 September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205546-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 76], "content_span": [77, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205546-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma, Champions, Doubles\nDavid Martin /  Rajeev Ram def. Phillip Stephens /  Ashley Watling, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205547-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma \u2013 Doubles\nDavid Martin and Rajeev Ram won this tournament, by defeating Phillip Stephens and Ashley Watling 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205548-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA Challenger of Oklahoma \u2013 Singles\nTaylor Dent won the title by the score of 7\u20136(9), 7\u20136(4) in the final over Wayne Odesnik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205549-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA LA Tennis Open\nThe 2009 USTA LA Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Carson, United States between May 23\u201331, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205549-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA LA Tennis Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205549-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA LA Tennis Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nHarsh Mankad /  Frederik Nielsen def. Carsten Ball /  Travis Rettenmaier, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205550-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA LA Tennis Open \u2013 Doubles\nScott Lipsky and David Martin won the doubles competition in January 2009 and were the defending champions, but chose not to participate. Harsh Mankad and Frederik Nielsen defeated 6\u20134, 6\u20134 Carsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205551-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 USTA LA Tennis Open \u2013 Singles\nWayne Odesnik won the singles competition in January 2009 and he was the defending champion, but did not take part in these championships this time. Michael Russell won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20131, against Michael Yani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 2009 UTEP Miners football team represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Mike Price. The Miners played their home games at the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas. The Miners finished the season 4\u20138 and 3\u20135 in Conference USA play. UTEP averaged 29,010 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Recruiting\nUTEP's class of 20 players includes 14 who are graduating from Texas high schools in 2009. The most notable of these players is Darren Mickens, the nephew of NFL cornerback Ray Mickens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nSophomore quarterback Zach Maynard threw for 159 yards in his first career start, leading Buffalo to a 23\u201317 win over UTEP in the season opener for both schools on Saturday in the Sun Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nMaynard's 42-yard pass to Naaman Roosevelt with 12:13 remaining in the third quarter gave the Bulls a 23\u20137 lead that the Miners couldn't overcome \u2013 although they did come close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nUTEP chipped away, cutting the deficit to 23\u201314 on a 17-yard scoring run by James Thomas with 7:37 remaining in the third period, then 23\u201317 on a 31-yard field goal by Logan Barrett with 5:45 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nThe Miners got the ball back following a defensive stop and drove 60 yards to the Buffalo 20-yard line with under a half\u2013minute remaining. Trevor Vittatoe hooked up with Thomas for the apparent tying score with 14 seconds left, but the play was nullified due to a holding penalty on offensive lineman Rod Huntley. Making matters worse, offensive lineman Lance Evbuomwan was charged with unsportsmanlike conduct for celebrating the touchdown, backing up the Miners to the 42-yard line. Vittatoe's final two pass attempts \u2013 both intended for Kris Adams \u2013 fell incomplete and the Bulls escaped El Paso with a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nIn a twist of fate, UTEP's defense \u2013 much maligned over the last three seasons \u2013 kept the Miners in the game on a night when the offense struggled. The Bulls were held to only 309 yards on 61 plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nBut the Miners weren't sharp offensively \u2013 particularly in the first half \u2013 and were whistled for 12 penalties totaling 101 yards. Dropped balls, bad exchanges and a botched catch on a kickoff were among the culprits that did in the Miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Buffalo\nTrevor Vittatoe completed 27 of 45 passes for 233 yards for the Miners, but did not throw a touchdown pass for just the third time in his college career. Adams fell two yards shy of 100 receiving, and Donald Buckram gained a career\u2013high 108 yards on 14 rushes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nJake Sharp ran for 104 yards and three touchdowns while No. 24 Kansas got two big punt returns from Daymond Patterson to beat Texas-El Paso 34\u20137 on Saturday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nTodd Reesing completed 25 of 41 attempts for 260 yards with one interception. He threw a 5-yard TD to Sharp and worked again with Dezmon Briscoe, who returned from a one-game suspension for violating team rules and had eight catches for 154 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Jayhawks (2\u20130) finished with 576 total yards and their defense racking up five sacks while holding UTEP (0\u20132) to negative rushing yards until the closing minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Miners, who finished with 4 yards rushing, avoided the shutout when Trevor Vittatoe found Donavon Kemp for a 75-yard catch-and-run with 12:39 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nOther than a Mariachi band performance at halftime, UTEP fans didn't spend much time cheering anything.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nOne week after committing 12 penalties for 101 yards in an opening loss to Buffalo, UTEP was flagged 13 times for 137 yards. Vittatoe was 14-of-25 for 187 yards with one interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Jayhawks weren't perfect. Reesing got off to a slow start, kicker Jacob Branstetter was 2 for 4 on field goal attempts and Kansas struggled early to convert third downs, going 3 of 9 in the first half before rebounding to finish 9 of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nPatterson set up a field goal with a 19-yard punt return in the second period and took another punt back 49 yards in the third just before Sharp's final TD. Sharp ran through big holes all night, and his 3-yard burst put Kansas up 27\u20130 midway through the third period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe Jayhawks got rolling with a big second quarter, scoring 17 points to lead 20\u20130 at the break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nSharp, who rushed for 123 yards in last week's win over Northern Colorado, scored on a 1-yard plunge, then Branstetter made a 24-yard field goal for a 13\u20130 lead. Reesing placed a perfect pass over Sharp's shoulder for a 5-yard TD play. That gave Reesing at least one touchdown pass in 20 straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nKansas missed a chance to build the lead when Branstetter missed a 38-yard field goal attempt as the half closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State\nDonald Buckram ran for a career-high 113 yards as UTEP scored all five of its touchdowns on the ground in a 38\u201312 dismantling of NM State on Saturday night in Las Cruces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State\nA rain and lightning delay of nearly three hours couldn't stop the Miners from posting their 50th win in the long-running I-10 series. UTEP (1\u20132) secured its first victory over the Aggies (1\u20132) since 2006 while posting its first win of the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State\n\"It was an unusual start to the game,\" UTEP coach Mike Price said. \"I thought we were more fired up and ready to play the second time than the first time (referring to the lightning delay). I was glad to see us be able to run the ball a little bit. I was a little apprehensive about playing the mud. I thought it could be an equalizer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State\nBuckram and Vernon Frazier both scored two rushing touchdowns for the Miners, who forced a turnover on NM State's opening possession, converted it into a TD, then withstood the long delay to score the game's next 24 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, New Mexico State\nUTEP forced three turnovers in the game, and held the Aggies to 284 yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nColt McCoy and No. 2 Texas got the fast start they had been missing in recent weeks, rolling to a 40-point lead by halftime before cruising to a 64\u20137 win Saturday over Texas-El Paso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nMcCoy passed for 286 yards and three touchdowns, two to Dan Buckner. The Longhorns (4\u20130) also pressured UTEP quarterback Trevor Vittatoe into five turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 211]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nFreshman D.J. Monroe's first-quarter 91-yard kickoff return made him the first player in Texas history to return two kickoffs for touchdowns in a career. He also had one in Texas' opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThis one came seconds after UTEP's Melvin Stephenson II returned an interception 49 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nMcCoy was sharp after the interception with TD passes of 36 and 15 yards to Buckner and 16 yards to Jordan Shipley, as Texas built a 47\u20137 halftime lead. McCoy left the game after Texas' first possession of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nVittatoe was 7 of 21 for 38 yards with four interceptions and a fumble for UTEP (1\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nTexas held UTEP to seven first downs and 53 total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe defense did its part, pounding UTEP Quarterback Trevor Vittatoe with pass rush that forced him into several bad throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nSergio Kindle sacked Vittatoe on the fifth play of the game, causing a fumble that set up the Longhorns' first touchdown on a 3-yard run by Tre' Newton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nMcCoy and Buckner have connected for touchdowns in three straight games and their first against UTEP made it 23\u20137. His scoring pass to Shipley made it 33\u20137 before tailback Vondrell McGee, who had lost his starting position to Newton, took a pitch from McCoy and scrambled 23 yards for a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nMcCoy drove Texas to a 21-yard field goal by Hunter Lawrence that made it 50\u20137 before he was relieved by freshman Garrett Gilbert on Texas' second possession of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nDonald Buckram and Texas-El Paso knocked off the 12th-ranked Cougars in a 58\u201341 shootout Saturday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nKeenum completed 51 of 76 passes for 536 yards and five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nDonald Buckram ran for 262 yards and four scores, helping the Miners upset the previously unbeaten Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nThe Miners had scored 62 points combined in their previous four games but managed 58 on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nUTEP was ranked 109th in scoring offense and averaged just under 243 yards per game before racking up 58 points and 581 yards of offense (305 rush, 276 pass) against Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nCase Keenum led the way for Houston, throwing for 536 yards and five touchdowns. He also finished with 76 pass attempts, seven shy of the FBS record set by Drew Brees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 223]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nWith the game tied at halftime, the Miners outscored Houston 20\u20133 in the third quarter and then hung on while Keenum tried to deliver another comeback as he did the week before to knock off the Red Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nEven though Keenum threw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, the Miners got three of their own: two on 8- and 27-yard runs by Buckram, and another on Roddray Walker's 70-yard fumble return with 3:25 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHouston outgained UTEP 664\u2013581, but lost two fumbles and twice settled for field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nThe Cougars got out to a quick 10\u20130 lead, but after the Miners kicked a field goal, they stopped Houston's potent offense on fourth down at the UTEP 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nThe Miners tied it when they recovered a fumble near midfield and scored on a 4-yard pass from Trevor Vittatoe to Tufick Shadrawy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nVittatoe was 19 of 30 for 276 yards and two touchdowns. He threw his other scoring pass in the third quarter, a 74-yarder to Jeff Moturi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Houston\nHouston's James Cleveland had 14 catches for 147 yards and two touchdowns in a game that featured more than 1,200 yards of total offense and 99 total points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nCurtis Steele rushed for 240 yards as Memphis spoiled UTEP\u2019s bid for a fourth straight 2\u20130 start in Conference USA play with a 35\u201320 win over the Miners on Saturday in the Liberty Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nThe Tigers (2\u20134, 1\u20132 C-USA) broke out of a season-long offensive funk with their tailback healthy for the first time in 2009. Memphis had scored 16 points or less in four of its first five games, the exception a 41\u201314 rout of UT-Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nUTEP left at least three touchdowns on the field due to dropped balls and penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nThe Miners (2\u20134, 1\u20131 C-USA) took a 3\u20130 lead on a 38-yard field goal by Logan Barrett three minutes into the game. But Memphis put together two touchdown drives before the first quarter was over and UTEP was playing catch-up the rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nDespite their struggles in the first half, the Miners trailed only 21\u201313 at the break. And they were still within a touchdown after Trevor Vittatoe hooked up with Kris Adams for a 21-yard score with 9:06 to play. But Memphis answered with a six-play, 53-yard drive over two minutes and 47 seconds, capped by a nine-yard scoring run by Steele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Memphis\nVittatoe finished with 319 passing yards after completing 21-of-40 tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nDonald Buckram ran for 165 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 29 seconds left in the game, to help UTEP beat Conference USA rival Tulsa 28\u201324 on Wednesday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nBuckram's two touchdowns were the final scores of the game, one coming with 6:25 left to play and the other a 3-yard run with less than 30 seconds left. Junior quarterback Trevor Vittatoe threw for 271 yards, including one touchdown\u2014an 80-yard pass to Donovan Kemp in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nBut the Miners managed to hold Tulsa quarterback G.J. Kinne to just 192 yards passing and sacked him five times. Kinne scored one touchdown on a one-yard run early in the fourth quarter. Charles Clay and A.J. Whitmore also each scored touchdowns for the Golden Hurricane (4\u20133, 2\u20131 C-USA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nUTEP (3\u20134, 2\u20131) came out strong, leading 13\u20130 after the first quarter, thanks to Vittatoe's touchdown and field goals from Logan Barrett. But the Miners didn't score again until Buckram's TDs in the fourth quarter, watching as Tulsa scored 24 straight points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nWhitmore had a 19-yard TD run early in the second quarter, leaving the Miners with a 13\u20137 lead at halftime. The Golden Hurricane also had one-yard TD runs from Clay and Kinne and a 24-yard field goal from Kevin Fitzpatrick, and took a 24\u201313 lead with 12:37 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 321]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nBuckram then scored on a 3-yard run, and UTEP scored a two-point conversion to make it 24\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulsa\nTulsa was coming off a close loss at home to No. 5 Boise State and piled up 791 yards of offense in last year's meeting with the Miners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nSenior quarterback Joe Webb threw for two touchdowns, ran one and caught a pass for another as Alabama at Birmingham snapped a two-game losing streak and defeated Texas at El Paso 38\u201333 on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nUAB moved to 3\u20135 overall and 3\u20132 in Conference USA play, while UTEP slipped to 3\u20135 and 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nWebb scored the first of his TDs with a 53-yard run in the second quarter. A few minutes later he connected with Roddell Carter for a 34-yard scoring pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nNext, Webb was on the receiving end of a 14-yard TD pass by David Isabelle, also in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nFinally, Webb found Mario Wright four a 6-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nOverall, he finished 313 total yards\u2014172 on 20 rushes, 127 on eight pass completions, and 14 on one reception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, UAB\nUTEP's Donald Buckram came up with a few ways to score too. He had touchdown runs of 26 and 2 yards, and he caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Trevor Vittatoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nTulane's Andre Anderson scored the tying touchdown with one second left in regulation, then rushed for the winning score in overtime as Tulane defeated Texas-El Paso 45\u201338 on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nAnderson scored on an 11-yard pass from Ryan Griffin to conclude a nine-play, 86-yard drive and force the extra period, then scored on a 7-yard touchdown run on the first possession of overtime. He finished with 105 yards on 29 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nThe Miners reached the Green Wave 2-yard line on the ensuing possession, but on fourth down from the 5, Alex Wacha sacked Trevor Vittatoe for a 21-yard loss that ended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nTulane (3\u20136, 1\u20134 Conference USA) snapped a four-game losing streak with three road games remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nDonald Buckram led the Miners (3\u20136, 2\u20133) with four touchdowns. He rushed 34 times for 234 yards and three scores and caught three passes for 109 yards, including a 72-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, SMU\nKyle Padron completed 17 of 24 passes for 244 yards and two touchdowns and added a pair of TD runs to lead the SMU Mustangs to a 35\u201331 win over the UTEP Miners on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, SMU\nSMU (6\u20134, 5\u20131 Conference USA) gained sole possession of first place in the conference's West Division after Houston lost 37\u201332 to Central Florida earlier in the day. The Miners (3\u20137, 2\u20134) have lost three straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, SMU\nUTEP took a 31\u201328 lead after running back Donald Buckram scored on a 30-yard screen pass from Trevor Vittatoe with 8:57 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, SMU\nBut Padron threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Emmanuel Sanders with 4:34 left in the game to give SMU the lead. UTEP drove to the Mustangs' 14-yard line but Vittatoe was sacked by SMU's Taylor Thompson on fourth-and-6 with 26 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, SMU\nVittatoe finished 23-of-40 for 396 yards, one interception and two touchdowns. Buckram also rushed for 241 yards and one score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Miners came out flying, bolting to leads of 13\u20130 and 20\u201310, but the Owls scored 10 points off two turnovers to join in the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nDonald Buckram had three touchdowns, 132 rushing yards and 44 receiving yards heading into the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Miner defense opened with three consecutive three-and-outs, while the offense went 66 and 48 yards for scores and a quick 13\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nRice got back in the game, going 72 yards for a score to cut its deficit to 13\u20137, then recovering a fumble at the Miner 19 on the ensuing kickoff. The Owls earned a first down on the 5, but the defense stood and forced a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nUTEP came out flying against Rice Saturday, bolting to a 20\u201310 halftime lead. Donald Buckram had three touchdowns, 115 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Miner defense opened with three consecutive three-and-outs, while the offense went 66 and 48 yards for scores and a quick 13\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nRice briefly got back in the game, going 72 yards for a score to cut its deficit to 13\u20137, then recovering a fumble at the Miner 19 on the ensuing kickoff. The Owls earned a first down on the 5, but the defense stood and forced a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nTrevor Vittatoe and Buckram then took UTEP 60 yards in 10 plays to reestablish control. Vittatoe was 9\u201312 passing in the first half with two drops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nUTEP came out flying against Rice Saturday, bolting to a 13\u20130 lead. Donald Buckram had two touchdowns, 68 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Rice\nThe Miner defense opened with three consecutive three-and-outs, while the offense went 66 and 48 yards for scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nTrevor Vittatoe passed for 517 yards and five touchdowns as UTEP routed Marshall 52\u201321 on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nJeff Moturi led receivers with 179 yards, including an 80-yard scoring pass from Vittatoe, who also connected for TDs with Tufick Shadrawy, Kris Adams, Jonny Moore and Donavon Kemp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nJames Thomas and Donald Buckram also scored for UTEP on runs of 4 and 12 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nBrian Anderson threw for 347 yards and three touchdowns for the Thundering Herd. Anderson found Aaron Dobson, Chuck Walker and Antavio Wilson for scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0093-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nAfter leading 20\u201314 at the break, the Miners exploded in the second half, adding four touchdowns and a field goal while holding the Thundering Herd to just one touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0094-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nWith the victory, the Miners finished the season 4\u20138 while the Thundering Herd fell to 6\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205552-0095-0000", "contents": "2009 UTEP Miners football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nThe Miners finished the season ranked #102 according to the CBS Sportsline College Football Rankings Website as of December 7, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205553-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Amateur Cup\nThe 2009 Ukrainian Amateur Cup was the fourteenth annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams. The competition started on 12 August 2009 and concluded on 25 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205553-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Amateur Cup, Competition schedule, First round (1/8)\nThe matches were played August 26 and September 2, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205554-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Cup Final\nThe 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Dnipro Stadium on May 31, 2009. The match was the 18th Ukrainian Cup final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Vorskla Poltava. The 2009 final was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Dnipropetrovsk. Vorskla Poltava, as Ukrainian Cup winners, qualified for the UEFA Europa League play-off round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205554-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Cup Final, Road to Dnipropetrovsk\nAll sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Vorskla and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205554-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Cup Final, Previous encounters\nPrior to the final, Vorskla and Shakhtar had met six times in previous Ukrainian Cup competitions. Vorskla had never defeated Shakhtar, with its best performance being a 1\u20131 draw in the second leg of the quarter-finals in the 2007\u201308 edition. Shakhtar's best performance against Vorskla was in a second round encounter in the 1994\u201395 edition, an 8\u20130 drubbing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205555-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships\nThe 2009 Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships took place between 16 and 19 December 2008 in Kiev. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results of the national championships were used to choose the teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205556-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Football Amateur League\nFollowing are the results of the Ukrainian Football Amateur League 2009 season. Participation is restricted to the regional (Oblast) champions and/or the most regarded team by the respective regional association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 251]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205556-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Football Amateur League, Second stage\nThe games in the group took place on September 11 through 15th in Mykolaiv and Ochakiv.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205556-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Football Amateur League, Second stage, Group 2\nThe games in the group took place on September 17 through 20 in Slovyansk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205557-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Super Cup\nThe 2009 Ukrainian Super Cup became the sixth edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, which is an annual football exhibition game contested by the winners of the previous season's Ukrainian Top League and Ukrainian Cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205557-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Super Cup\nThe match was played on 11 July 2009 in Sumy at Yuvileiny Stadium which recently lost its main tenant FC Spartak Sumy that dissolved earlier. Dynamo were protesting to play in Sumy. On 17 June 2009 it was picked as a nominal host. On 30 June 2009 the television channel \"Inter\" made a press-release announcing that it signed a contract with the Ukrainian Premier League about exclusive rights on broadcasting of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205557-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Super Cup\nThis year the Super Cup was contested by league winner Dynamo Kyiv and cup winner Vorskla Poltava. Dynamo won it 4\u20132 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205557-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Super Cup, Post-game commentaries\nThe Vorskla's head coack Mykola Pavlov stated that his team lost due to mistakes of his players who in penalty shoot out did not perform well, as well as wonderful play of the Dynamo's keeper Oleksandr Shovkovskyi. Shovkovskyi deflected one of last kicks, while another a player of Vorskla sent over a goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205557-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ukrainian Super Cup, Post-game commentaries\nFive of eight players who participated in penalty shootout were from the Balkans and only two were from Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Ulster Grand Prix incorporating the Dundrod 150 National Road Races will take place between Wednesday 12 August and Saturday 15 August 2009 on the 7.401 mile Dundrod Circuit, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Six races were held with Ian Hutchinson, Ryan Farquhar, Guy Martin, William Dunlop (two wins) and Conor Cummins sharing the victories. Farquhar also took a class win in the Supertwins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 424]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix, Race results, Race 1; 2009 1000cc Superstock race final standings\nSaturday 18 August 2009 6 laps \u2013 44.406\u00a0miles Dundrod Circuit", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 89], "content_span": [90, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix, Race results, Race 1; 2009 1000cc Superstock race final standings\nFastest Lap and new lap record: Ian Hutchinson, 3' 24.770 130.117\u00a0mph on lap 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 89], "content_span": [90, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix, Race results, Race 2; 2009 600cc Supersport race final standings\nSaturday 18 August 2009 7 laps \u2013 51.807\u00a0miles Dundrod Circuit", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 88], "content_span": [89, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix, Race results, Race 2; 2009 600cc Supersport race final standings\nFastest Lap: Ian Lougher, 3' 29.949 126.907\u00a0mph on lap 6", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 88], "content_span": [89, 145]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00205558-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Grand Prix, Race results, Race 6; 2009 UGP Supporters Club Superbike race final standings\nFastest Lap: Gary Johnson, 3' 21.181 132.438\u00a0mph on lap 5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 101], "content_span": [102, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205559-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship was the 42nd staging of the annual Ulster Senior Club Football Championship which is administered by Ulster GAA. Nine GAA county boards compete for the title. The winners were awarded the S\u00e9amus McFerran Cup and went on to compete in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The championship started on 18 October 2009 and concluded with the final on 29 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205559-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship\nCrossmaglen were the current holders - beating Ballinderry in the 2008 final at Brewster Park in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205559-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, Competing teams\nEach county in Ulster holds its own County Championship. The winner of the nine championships qualify for the Ulster Club Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205559-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, Draw\nThe draw for the (whole) competition took place in August 2009, along with the draws for the Ulster Senior Hurling, Intermediate Football and Junior Football championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205559-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter-finals were originally schedules to take place on 1 November, but they were all postponed for a week due to adverse weather conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205560-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 121st installment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. It was won by Tyrone who defeated Antrim in the final. Antrim were appearing in their first final since 1970. The winning Tyrone team received the Anglo-Celt Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205560-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nTeams who lost at the preliminary round, quarter-final or semi-final stages entered Round 1 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers. The beaten Ulster finalists entered at Round 3. Successfully advancing through the Qualifiers allowed a team to reach the All-Ireland quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205560-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship\nThe draw for the 2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship was made along with the other three provincial draws on 8 October 2008 at Croke Park in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship was the 64th installment of the annual Ulster Senior Hurling Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. Antrim were the defending champions and successfully claimed their ninth consecutive title, beating finalists Down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe draw for the Ulster championship was seeded, and took place in a staggered single elimination format. Antrim received a bye to the final, Down and Derry to the quarter-final and London to the second round. All six other teams entered in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFor the first time, there was no entry from the Ulster Championship to the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship proper. Antrim instead entered that competition through the preliminary round of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. This marked the culmination of a process by which the winners of the Ulster championship had been held further and further back from the semi-final stage of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The Ulster championship continued as a stand-alone tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe other Ulster teams were not eligible for the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, and took part in lower tier competitions, such as the 2009 Christy Ring Cup, the second tier All-Ireland hurling championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nThe entry for 2009, ten, matched the 2008 record, and for many marked a second foray back into senior championship hurling. All nine historic counties of Ulster took part, in addition to London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205561-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nIn order to avoid mismatches, and to allow Antrim to take part in the 2009 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship the draw was set so that the weaker counties were not faced with the prospect of facing regional powers Antrim at an early stage; instead all the other counties took part in a series of elimination matches for the right to meet Antrim in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 408]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier\nThe 2009 ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier was an international cricket tournament played in Canada from 1 to 13 September 2009. All matches were held in Toronto. The tournament served as the final state of the qualification process for the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. Ten teams participated in the event, with the top six teams progressing to the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Round-robin, Points table\nThe top six teams of the tournament qualified for the 2010 U-19 Cricket World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Round-robin, Fixtures\nAll the matches of the tournament were played in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Round-robin, Fixtures\nSierra Leone were unable to participate in this tournament due to visa problems; their matches were scratched and their opponents were awarded two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205562-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205563-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open\nThe 2009 UniCredit Czech Open was a tennis clay-court tournament included in the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. Agust\u00edn Calleri was the defending singles champion, but could not get past the first round. Jan H\u00e1jek, world no. 288, came from the qualifying round and took the title in front of his home crowd by beating the top-100 player Steve Darcis in the final. Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205563-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205563-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205563-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open, Champions, Doubles\nJohan Brunstr\u00f6m /  Jean-Julien Rojer def. Pablo Cuevas /  Dominik Hrbat\u00fd, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205564-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open \u2013 Doubles\nRik de Voest and \u0141ukasz Kubot were the defending champions but did not participate this year. In the final, 2nd-seeded pair Johan Brunstr\u00f6m and Jean-Julien Rojer defeated Pablo Cuevas and Dominik Hrbat\u00fd in two sets, by 6\u20132, 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205565-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 UniCredit Czech Open \u2013 Singles\nThe defending champion Agust\u00edn Calleri was eliminated in the first round. Jan H\u00e1jek, the 2006 singles champion, came from the qualifying round to beat in the final Belgian player Steve Darcis by 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India\nThe 2009 Union budget of India was presented by the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, on 6 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Background\nDuring 2008\u201309, the growth rate of GDP of India fell from an average of over 9% in the previous three fiscal years to 6.7%. The wholesale price index of India also witnessed large fluctuations between 13% in August 2008 to 0% in March 2009. The fiscal deficit of Indian government had gone up to 6.1% in March 2009. The budget was preceded by an interim budget by Pranab Mukherjee on 16 Feb 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Budget Estimates\nThe total estimated expenditure for 2009\u201310 was \u20b910,20,838 crore, of which \u20b96,95,689 crore was towards Non Plan and \u20b93,25,149 crore towards Plan expenditure. Total estimated revenue was \u20b96,19,842 crore, including revenue receipts of \u20b96,14,497 and capital receipts of \u20b95345 crores, excluding borrowings. The resulting fiscal deficit was \u20b94,00,996 crore while revenue deficit was \u20b92,82,735 crore. The gross tax receipts were budgeted at \u20b96,41,079 crore and non-tax revenue receipts at \u20b91,40,279.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 538]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Taxation\nThe tax proposals on direct taxes were claimed to be revenue neutral while those on indirect taxes were claimed to yield a net gain of \u20b92,000 crore in a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Reactions, Political parties\nBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh criticised the budget, claiming that the government failed to fulfil the people's expectations. BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu described the Budget as \"escapist\" and alleged that no steps were taken to attract investment or to provide relief for farmers. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) leader Brinda Karat termed the Budget as s pro-rich and claimed that there were no major allocations in health, education and food subsidy. Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Gurudas Dasgupta criticised the projected economic growth as 'utopian'. RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav  described the Budget as balanced but criticised it for not providing funds for reconstruction of Bihar following the floods in Kosi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 812]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Reactions, Industry\nThe Confederation of Indian Industry welcomed the budget, claiming that many of their recommendations were implemented. NASSCOM also welcomed the initiatives like modernisation of employment exchanges, the UIAD project, and smart cards for healthcare services. Sudip Nandy, CEO of Aricent lauded the one-year extension granted to the tax holiday scheme and the abolition of Fringe Benefit Tax and double taxation on the packaged software. D Sucheth Rao of Neuland Laboratories claimed that the government has largely ignored the demands of the Pharma segment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205566-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Union budget of India, Reactions, Share market\nSensex, the benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, reacted adversely to the budget, falling over 869 points, a loss of 6.53%, the biggest fall on any budget day. And the CNX Nifty index of the National Stock Exchange fell by 258 points. The biggest impact was on banking stocks, with the sectoral index losing 8.17%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205567-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Bowl\nThe 2009 United Bowl was the inaugural title game of the Indoor Football League (IFL). It was played on August 15, 2009, at the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, Montana. The top seed in the Intense Conference (Billings Outlaws) defeated the six-seed RiverCity Rage of the United Conference by a score of 71\u201362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205567-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Bowl, Road to the United Bowl, Intense Conference\nz=clinched top seed in conference, x=clinched division, y=clinched wild card spot", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205567-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Bowl, Game summary\nThe 2009 United Bowl was a highly anticipated event in both Billings and the Greater St. Louis area, as the Billings Outlaws hosted the RiverCity Rage in what would end up being the franchise's final game. RiverCity fell behind Billings quickly, as the score was 20-7 heading into the second quarter and was 34-20 at halftime. The pace stayed pretty much the same throughout the rest of the game as the Outlaws beat the Rage, 71-62, for their third franchise title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205568-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom E. coli outbreak\nThe 2009 E. coli outbreak in the United Kingdom was an outbreak of E. coli in visitors to a farm in Surrey from August to September 2009. 93 people were affected, most of whom were under 10 years of age. Of those affected, 27 were hospitalized and 17 developed hemolytic uremic syndrome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205568-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom E. coli outbreak\nInvestigations by the Health Protection Agency implicated a petting barn at Godstone Farm as a possible source of the outbreak. Fecal samples from several animals in the barn later tested positive for the strain of E. coli in the patients, again indicating that the barn may have been the source of the outbreak. Godstone Farm voluntarily closed the barn in September 2009, after which there were no further cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 451]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package\nA second bank rescue package totalling at least \u00a350 billion was announced by the British government on 12 January 2009, as a response to the ongoing global financial crisis. The package was designed to increase the amount of money that banks could lend to businesses and private individuals. This aid comes in two parts: an initial \u00a350 billion being made available to big corporate borrowers, and a second undisclosed amount that forms a form of insurance against banks suffering big losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Bailout\nAfter the October 2008 bailouts of RBS, HBOS and Lloyds TSB together with Lloyds TSB's January 2009 merger with HBOS, the Government was holding a 43% stake in Lloyds Banking Group, but then on 6 March 2009, after it became apparent that the HBOS merger had been bad for Lloyds since HBOS had made losses of \u00a311bn, the Government announced it would increase its stake in Lloyds to 65% (77% if including non-voting preference shares). The investment was maintained at 43% after a rights issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 541]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Bailout\nRBS had received \u00a35bn in preference shares purchased by the Government who also underwrote a \u00a315bn rights issue, which failed to attract investors, leaving the Government with an investment of \u00a320bn for a 58% stake. The Government, on what became Blue Monday Crash, realising that RBS could not afford the 12% coupon payment on the preference shares, RBS having released financial results showing a loss of \u00a328bn, converted those shares to ordinary shares, increasing its stake to 70%. The investment in RBS has increased to \u00a345bn with a 72% stake held by the British Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Recovery of bailout funds\nThe investment in Lloyds had cost \u00a320.3bn which the British Government began to recover by selling its 43% investment in 2013. Sales continued until the final tranche of 0.5% in May 2017, the Government making a small profit on the sales, realising \u00a321.2bn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Recovery of bailout funds\nAn investment of \u00a345.977bn was made across three tranches in December 2008 (\u00a314.969bn), April 2009 (\u00a35.508bn) and December 2009 (\u00a325.500bn) at an average investment per share of 502p and represented an 84.4% stake in the company. Since these investments, the bank has paid back the government \u00a3305m in underwriting fees, \u00a32.504bn to exit the Asset Protection Scheme, \u00a31.280bn in Contingent Capital Facility fees as well as retiring the special Dividend Access Share for \u00a31.513bn in March 2016. Therefore, the total investment net of all fees and dividends is \u00a340.375bn and represents an investment per share of 440p.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Recovery of bailout funds\nIn August 2015, a first tranche of 5.4% of the total issued share capital in the company was sold to institutional investors for \u00a32,079m or \u00a33.30 per share. As at 31 March 2017, this takes the governments overall stake to 71.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Recovery of bailout funds\nThe Government has been making large provisions for losses in their public accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205569-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package, Recovery of bailout funds\nIn 2018 RBS paid its first dividend since the bailout, the government picking up around \u00a3150m on its 62% holding. The government planned to sell \u00a33bn of shares per annum until 2023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205570-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom budget\nThe 2009 United Kingdom Budget, officially known as Budget 2009: Building Britain's Future, was formally delivered by Alistair Darling in the House of Commons on 22 April 2009. It introduced new tax, spending and debt rises in a financial environment of rising unemployment and recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205570-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom budget, Details\nTo stimulate the motor industry, a \u00a32,000 scrappage allowance was announced for a car more than 10 years old, if it is traded in for a new car and if it has been in the car buyer's ownership for the previous 12 months. \u00a31,000 of this is to be provided by the government, and \u00a31,000 by a motor manufacturer. The scheme started about mid-May 2009 and was planned to finish at the end of February 2010; however, before it was due to end, it was extended by one month, to the end of March 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205570-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom budget, Details\nFor high earners, a 50% tax band was announced for earners of over \u00a3150,000 per year to start in April 2010, and tax relief on pension contributions was reduced progressively from 40% to 20% for annual incomes between \u00a3150,000 and \u00a3180,000 and to 20% above \u00a3180,000 commencing April 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 324]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205570-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom budget, Details\nStarting in April 2010, those with annual incomes over \u00a3100,000 would see their Personal allowance reduced by \u00a31 for every \u00a32 earned over \u00a3100,000, until the Personal allowance was reduced to zero, which (in 2010) would occur at an income of \u00a3112,950. This had the effect of creating an anomalous effective 60% marginal tax rate in the income band between \u00a3100,000 and \u00a3112,950, with the marginal tax rate returning to 40% above \u00a3112,950. As the Personal allowance has grown over the years, this has resulted in a corresponding increase in the size of the anomalous effective 60% tax band. As of 2018, the effective 60% marginal tax rate now arises for incomes between \u00a3100,000 and \u00a3123,700.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 727]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205570-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom budget, Details\nFor savers, limits in Individual Savings Account (ISA) accounts were increased in two phases to a total of \u00a310,200, including an additional \u00a31,500 to the previous upper limit of \u00a33,600 in a cash ISA. The first phase is for those over age 50 years, who can contribute additional amounts from 6 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections\nThe 2009 United Kingdom local elections were elections held to all 27 County Councils, three existing Unitary Authorities and five new Unitary Authorities, all in England, on 4 June 2009. The elections were due to be held on 7 May 2009, but were delayed in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections\nThe elections produced a political landscape on the map of England that was a sea of Conservative blue. The party snatched Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Lancashire from Labour, as well as Devon and Somerset from the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats did however win a majority in Bristol. Despite the optimism for the Conservatives in seat and council gains, their share of the vote at 38% was 6% down on 2008. That said, they had a clear 10% lead over the Liberal Democrats who achieved a respectable second place on 28%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections\nLabour, taking the blame in government from a worsening economic climate, soaring unemployment and the expenses scandal, lost all of its councils, with some authorities being swept clear of any Labour councillors at all. Its showing in the same day's European elections was similarly dismal, and although four years had passed since the last general election, there would be no general election in 2009; opinion polls all pointed at a heavy Labour defeat at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections, Summary of results\nSource: Isles of Scilly Council not included in the above figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections, County councils\nAll 27 English County Councils were up for election. All seats on the councils were contested at this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections, Unitary authorities, New authorities\nElections were held for five new unitary authorities. All councillors were elected at this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205571-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United Kingdom local elections, Mayoral elections\nA mayoral election was also due to be held in Stoke-on-Trent, however voters in the city voted to abolish the directly elected mayor system in a referendum held in October 2008. The referendum decided to replace the mayor and executive system with a council leader and cabinet system of local government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205572-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Malays National Organisation leadership election\nA leadership election was held by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party on 26 March 2009. It was won by then Deputy Prime Minister and then Deputy President of UMNO, Najib Razak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference\nThe 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 5) to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference\nOn Friday 18 December, the final day of the conference, international media reported that the climate talks were \"in disarray\". Media also reported that in lieu of a summit collapse, only a \"weak political statement\" was anticipated at the conclusion of the conference. The Copenhagen Accord was drafted by the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa on 18 December, and judged a \"meaningful agreement\" by the United States government. It was \"taken note of\", but not \"adopted\", in a debate of all the participating countries the next day, and it was not passed unanimously. The document recognised that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases to below 2\u00a0\u00b0C. The document is not legally binding and does not contain any legally binding commitments for reducing CO2 emissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 929]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Background and lead-up\nThe conference was preceded by the Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions scientific conference, which took place in March 2009 and was also held at the Bella Center. The negotiations began to take a new format when in May 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, organised by the Copenhagen Climate Council (COC), where he requested that COC councillors attend New York's Climate Week at the Summit on Climate Change on 22 September and engage with heads of government on the topic of the climate problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Negotiating position of the European Union\nOn 28 January 2009, the European Commission released a position paper, \"Towards a comprehensive climate agreement in Copenhagen.\" The position paper \"addresses three key challenges: targets and actions; financing [of \"low-carbon development and adaptation\"]; and building an effective global carbon market\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Negotiating position of the European Union\nLeading by example, the European Union had committed to implementing binding legislation, even without a satisfactory deal in Copenhagen. Last December, the European Union revised its carbon allowances system called the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) designed for the post-Kyoto period (after 2013). This new stage of the system aims at further reducing greenhouse gases emitted in Europe in a binding way and at showing the commitments the EU had already done before the Copenhagen meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Negotiating position of the European Union\nTo avoid carbon leakage\u2014relocation of companies in other regions not complying with similar legislation\u2014the EU Commission will foresee that sectors exposed to international competition, should be granted some free allocations of CO2 emissions provided that they are at least at the same level of a benchmark. Other sectors should buy such credits on an international market. Energy intensive industries in Europe have advocated for this benchmark system in order to keep funds in investment capacities for low carbon products rather than for speculations. The European chemical industry claims here the need to be closer to the needs of citizens in a sustainable way. To comply with such commitments for a low-carbon economy, this requires competitiveness and innovations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Negotiating position of the European Union\nThe French Minister for Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo pushes the creation of the \"Global Environment Organisation\" as France's main institutional contribution, to offer a powerful alternative to the UNEP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 89], "content_span": [90, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings\nA draft negotiating text for finalisation at Copenhagen was publicly released. It was discussed at a series of meetings before Copenhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Bonn \u2013 second negotiating meeting\nDelegates from 183 countries met in Bonn from 1 to 12 June 2009. The purpose was to discuss key negotiating texts. These served as the basis for the international climate change agreement at Copenhagen. At the conclusion the Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) negotiating group was still far away from the emission reduction range that has been set out by science to avoid the worst ravages of climate change: a minus 25% to minus 40% reduction below 1990 levels by 2020. The AWG-KP still needs to decide on the aggregate emission reduction target for industrialised countries, along with individual targets for each country. Progress was made in gaining clarification of the issues of concern to parties and including these concerns in the updated draft of the negotiating text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 126], "content_span": [127, 926]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Seventh session, Bangkok\nThe first part of the seventh session of the AWG-LCA was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from Monday, 28 September until 9 October, at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 117], "content_span": [118, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Seventh session, Barcelona\nThe resumed session was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 2 to 6 November 2009. Thereafter, the AWG-LCA met to conclude its work at its eighth session, concurrently with the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties which opened in Copenhagen on 7 December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 119], "content_span": [120, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions\nDuring the conference some countries stated what actions they were proposing to take if a binding agreement was achieved. In the end, no such agreement was reached and the actions will instead be debated in 2010. Listing by country or political union. Sections in alphabetic order, table according to higher objectives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 120], "content_span": [121, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Australia\nTo cut carbon emissions by 25% below 2000 levels by 2020 if the world agrees to an ambitious global deal to stabilise levels of CO2e to 450\u00a0ppm or lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Australia\nTo cut carbon emissions by 15% below 2000 levels by 2020 if there is an agreement where major developing economies commit to substantially restrain emissions and advanced economies take on commitments comparable to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Australia\nTo cut carbon emissions by 5% below 2000 levels by 2020 unconditionally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Australia\nIt is clearly stated in proceedings from the Australian Senate and policy statements from the government that the Australian emission reductions include land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) with the form of inclusion remaining undecided and whilst acknowledging that they are subject to the forming of accounting guidelines from this Copenhagen conference. In contention is the Australian Government's preference for the removal of non-human induced LULUCF emissions \u2013 and perhaps their abatement \u2013 from the account, such as from lightning induced bushfires and the subsequent natural carbon sequestering regrowth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Australia\nUsing Kyoto accounting guidelines, these proposals are equivalent to an emissions cut of 24%, 14% and 4% below 1990 levels by 2020 respectively. Raw use of UNFCCC CO2e data including LULUCF as defined during the conference by the UNFCCC for the years 2000 (404.392 Tg CO2e) and 1990 (453.794 Tg CO2e) leads to apparent emissions cuts of 33% (303.294 Tg CO2e), 25% (343.733 Tg CO2e) and 15% (384.172 Tg CO2e) respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Brazil\nTo cut emissions by 38\u201342% below projected 2020 levels (if no action was taken) by the year 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Brazil\nThis is equivalent to a change to emissions to between 5% above and 1.8% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Canada\nIn 2009 the goal was to cut carbon emissions by 20% below 2006 levels by 2020; an equivalent of 3% below 1990 levels by 2020. The goal was later changed in early 2010 to 17% of 2005 levels by 2020; an equivalent of 2.5% above 1990 levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 367]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Canada\nThe three most populous provinces disagree with the federal government goal and announced more ambitious targets on their jurisdictions. Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia announced respectively 20%, 15% and 14% reduction target below their 1990 levels while Alberta is expecting a 58% increase in emissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, People's Republic of China\nTo cut CO2 emissions intensity by 40\u201345% below 2005 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 148], "content_span": [149, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, European Union\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% (including LULUCF) below 1990 levels by 2020 if an international agreement is reached committing other developed countries and the more advanced developing nations to comparable emission reductions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, European Union\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% (excluding LULUCF) below 1990 levels by 2020 unconditionally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, European Union\nMember country Germany has offered to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 136], "content_span": [137, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Iceland\nTo cut carbon emissions by 15% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 129], "content_span": [130, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, India\nTo cut carbon emissions intensity by 20\u201325% below 2005 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 127], "content_span": [128, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Indonesia\nTo reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2020, based on business-as-usual levels. With enhanced international assistance, President of Indonesia Dr. Yudhoyono offered an increased reduction of 41% by 2020, based on business-as-usual levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Japan\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 127], "content_span": [128, 193]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Kazakhstan\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15% below 1992 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 132], "content_span": [133, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Liechtenstein\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20\u201330% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 135], "content_span": [136, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Monaco\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, New Zealand\nTo reduce emissions between 10% to 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 if a global agreement is secured that limits carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) to 450\u00a0ppm and temperature increases to 2\u00a0\u00b0C, effective rules on forestry, and New Zealand having access to international carbon markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 133], "content_span": [134, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Norway\nTo reduce carbon emissions by 30% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Norway\nDuring his speech at the conference, Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg offered a 40% cut in emissions below 1990 levels by 2020 if it could contribute to an agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Russia\nPrior to the meeting, Russia pledged to reduce emissions between 20% to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 if a global agreement is reached committing other countries to comparable emission reductions. This target had not been announced to the UNFCCC Secretariat before the COP 15 meeting. In the COP 15 negotiations, Russia only pledged to make a 10% to 15% reduction below 1990 levels by 2020 as part of a commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, but said that it would reduce emissions by 20% to 25% as part of an agreement on long-term cooperative action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 128], "content_span": [129, 676]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Singapore\nTo reduce emissions by 16% by 2020, based on business-as-usual levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 131], "content_span": [132, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, South Africa\nTo cut emissions by 34% below current expected levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 134], "content_span": [135, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, South Africa\nThis is equivalent to an absolute emissions cut of about 18% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 134], "content_span": [135, 222]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, South Korea\nTo reduce emissions unilaterally by 4% below 2005 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 133], "content_span": [134, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Switzerland\nTo reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20\u201330% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 133], "content_span": [134, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, Ukraine\nTo reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 129], "content_span": [130, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, United States\nTo cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% by 2030 and 83% by 2050.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 135], "content_span": [136, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Listing of proposed actions, United States\nRaw use of UNFCCC CO2e data excluding LULUCF as defined during the conference by the UNFCCC for the years 2005 (7802.213 Tg CO2e) and 1990 (6084.490 Tg CO2e) leads to apparent emissions cuts of about 4% (5878.24 Tg CO2e), 33% (4107.68 Tg CO2e) and 80% (1203.98 Tg CO2e) respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 135], "content_span": [136, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Technology measures, UNEP\nAt the fifth Magdeburg Environmental Forum held from 3 to 4 July 2008, in Magdeburg, Germany, United Nations Environment Programme called for the establishment of infrastructure for electric vehicles. At this international conference, 250 high-ranking representatives from industry, science, politics and non-government organizations discussed solutions for future road transportation under the motto of \"Sustainable Mobility\u2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009|the Post-2012 CO2 Agenda\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 118], "content_span": [119, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Technology measures, Technology Action Programs\nTechnology Action Programs (TAPs) have been proposed as a means for organizing future technology efforts under the UNFCCC. By creating programs for a set of adaptation and mitigation technologies, the UNFCCC would send clear signals to the private and finance sector, governments, research institutions as well as citizens of the world looking for solutions to the climate problem. Potential focus areas for TAPs include early warning systems, expansion of salinity-tolerant crops, electric vehicles, wind and solar energy, efficient energy grid systems, and other technologies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 140], "content_span": [141, 719]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Technology measures, Technology Action Programs\nTechnology roadmaps will address barriers to technology transfer, cooperative actions on technologies and key economic sectors, and support implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 140], "content_span": [141, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Technology measures, Side Event on Technology Transfer\nThe United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) have been assigned the task of co-convening a process to support UN system-wide coherence and international cooperation on climate change-related technology development and transfer. This COP15 Side Event will feature statements and input from the heads of UNDESA, UNDP, GEF, WIPO, UNIDO, UNEP, IRENA as well as the UN Foundation. Relevant topics such as the following will be among the many issues discussed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 147], "content_span": [148, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Related public actions\nThe Danish government and key industrial organizations have entered a public-private partnership to promote Danish cleantech solutions. The partnership, Climate Consortium Denmark, is an integrated part of the official portfolio of activities before, during and after the COP15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 115], "content_span": [116, 394]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Related public actions\nThere is also a European Conference for the Promotion of Local Actions to Combat Climate Change. The entire morning session on 25 September was devoted to the Covenant of Mayors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 115], "content_span": [116, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Official pre-Copenhagen negotiation meetings, Related public actions\nThe Local Government Climate Lounge will be an advocacy and meeting space located directly in the COP 15 building, at the heart of the negotiations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 115], "content_span": [116, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference\nConnie Hedegaard was president of the conference until 16 December 2009, handing over the chair to Danish Prime Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen in the final stretch of the conference, during negotiations between heads of state and government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Activism\nSome small protests occurred during the first week of the conference. A much larger march was held in Copenhagen on 12 December calling for a global agreement on climate. Between 40,000 and 100,000 people attended. 968 protesters were detained at the event, including 19 who were arrested for carrying pocket knives and wearing masks during the demonstration. Of these all but 13 were released without charge. One police officer was injured by a rock and a protester was injured by fireworks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0051-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Activism\nSome protestors were kettled by police and detained for several hours without access to food, water or toilets, before being arrested and taken to a holding facility on coaches. Protestors were said to be angry at the use of what they considered \"heavy-handed\" police tactics. Activists claimed that the police used wire-taps, undercover officers and pepper spray on people who had been detained. The police said the measures were necessary to deal with organisations such as Never Trust A COP which stated on its website that it would \"consciously attack the structures supporting the COP15\". Per Larsen, the chief coordinating officer for the Copenhagen police force told The New York Times that it was \"surely the biggest police action we have ever had in Danish history.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 843]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Activism\nThe Climate Justice Action network organised several mass direct actions during the conference, including the 'Reclaim Power' action on 16 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Activism\nThe Yes Men made a false statement purporting to be from the Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice, which pledged to cut carbon emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. The statement was followed by another faked statement from the Ugandan delegation, praising the original pledge and The Yes Men also released a spoof press conference on a fake form of the official website. The statement was written about by The Wall Street Journal before being revealed as a hoax. Jim Prentice described the hoax as \"undesirable\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Activism\nFour Greenpeace activists gatecrashed a dinner that heads of states were attending on 18 December. They unfurled banners saying \"Politicians talk, leaders act\" before being arrested. They were held without charge for almost three weeks and were not questioned by police until two weeks after their arrest. Eventually Greenpeace Nordic was fined 75,000 DKK and activists that participated, including those that planned it, received a suspended sentence (14 days in prison if convicted of a crime again) for falsely representing themselves as police and representatives of state, forging documents and violating the domestic peace. They were acquitted of charges of L\u00e8se-majest\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 745]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, International activism\nAn estimated 20,000 people took part in a march held in London, one week before the conference started. They called on British leaders to force developed nations to cut their emissions by 40% by 2020 and to provide $150 billion a year by 2020 to assist the world's poorest countries in adapting to climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, International activism\nAs many as 50,000 people took part in a number of marches in Australia, during the conference, calling for world leaders to create a strong and binding agreement. The largest march took place in Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Klimaforum09 \u2013 People's Climate Summit\nAn alternative conference, Klimaforum09, was attended by about 50,000 people during the conference. Environmental activists from regions of the world most affected by climate change convened at Klimaforum09 with leaders such as Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya, and author Naomi Klein. A People's Declaration was formulated before and during the People's Climate Summit calling for \"System change \u2013 not climate change\" and handed over to the 15th Conference of the Parties at 18 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Klimaforum09 \u2013 People's Climate Summit\nSevenMeters, a series of art installations made by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot, was displayed during the COP15 summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 97], "content_span": [98, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Danish Text\nA leaked document known as \"The Danish Text\" has started an argument between developed and developing nations. The document was subtitled as \"The Copenhagen Agreement\" and proposes measures to keep average global temperature rises to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Developing countries reacted to the document by saying that the developed countries had worked behind closed doors and made an agreement according to their wish without the consent of the developing nations. Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, chairman of the G77, said, \"It's an incredibly imbalanced text intended to subvert, absolutely and completely, two years of negotiations. It does not recognize the proposals and the voice of developing countries\". A confidential analysis of the text by developing countries showed deep unease over details of the text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 909]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, \"Tuvalu Protocol\"\nThe Tuvaluan delegation, led by Ian Fry, played an active role in the Conference, attracting media attention. The country submitted a proposed protocol which would have imposed deeper, legally binding emissions cuts, including on developing nations. The proposal -dubbed by the media and by NGOs as the \"Tuvalu Protocol\"- was \"immediately supported by other small island states, including Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and several African states\", but opposed by countries including China, India and Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0060-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, \"Tuvalu Protocol\"\nThe disagreement caused a suspension in negotiations, and prompted supportive campaign groups to \"demonstrate[...] outside the meeting in favour of Tuvalu, chanting: 'Tuvalu is the new deal.'\" Tuvalu's position was supported by, among others, East Timor, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Vanuatu, and by Papua New Guinean chief negotiator Kevin Conrad. Tuvalu and its representative Ian Fry \"were the toast of the thousands of environmentalists at the conference, who held a noisy demonstration in support of the island state's position\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0060-0002", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, \"Tuvalu Protocol\"\nIn an article entitled \"You caused it, you fix it: Tuvalu takes off the gloves\", The Sydney Morning Herald noted that, by asking for a protocol that would legally bind developing countries, Tuvalu had \"cracked a diplomatic axiom that has prevailed since the UN climate convention came into being in 1992: rich countries caused global warming, and it was their responsibility to fix it\". The Economic Times in India noted that the Tuvaluan proposal had \" take[n] centre stage\", holding up proceedings for two consecutives days until it was rejected due to opposition from larger nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 663]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0060-0003", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, \"Tuvalu Protocol\"\nAustralian Senator Christine Milne described Tuvalu as \"the mouse that roared\" at the Conference. Fry refused to support the final agreement reached by the Conference, describing it as \"30 pieces of silver to betray our future and our people\", after delivering a final plea in a speech with tears in his eyes, concluding \"The fate of my country rests in your hands\". His \"tear-jerking performance [...] prompted wild applause among the crowded Copenhagen conference floor\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Indigenous rights\nIndigenous rights organization Survival International has raised concerns that some measures to mitigate the problem of climate change affect the survival of tribal people as much as climate change. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has expressed similar concerns. Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, explains that \"projects that victimise the people and harm the environment cannot be promoted or marketed as green projects\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0061-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Indigenous rights\nSurvival International calls attention to the fact that these people, who least contribute to the problem of climate change, are already the most affected by it; and that we must seek solutions that involve indigenous people. Andrew E. Miller, human rights campaigner at Amazon Watch, said, \"Many indigenous peoples, understandably, are skeptical that the latest silver bullet is really in their interest. In fact, serious concerns have arisen that implementation of REDD [ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] could counteract fundamental indigenous rights, in the same way that countless conservation schemes have limited local subsistence activities and led to displacement around the world.\" Similar criticism came out of the climate justice network Climate Justice Now!.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 877]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Indigenous rights\nIn March 2010, Executive Secretary, Estebancio Castro, of the International Alliance of Indigenous Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests suggested that \"indigenous people need recognition of their rights at the local and national level, to be reflected in the negotiating process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Negotiating problems\nOn 16 December, The Guardian reported that the summit in Copenhagen was in jeopardy. \"We have made no progress\" said a source close to the talks. \"What people don't realise is that we are now not really ready for the leaders. These talks are now 17 hours late.\" Negotiators were openly talking of the best possible outcome being a \"weak political agreement that would leave no clear way forward to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions\". This would mean that negotiations would continue into 2010 increasing the damage done by emissions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Negotiating problems\nOn 18 December, the head of the United Nations Environmental Program told the BBC that \"the summit as of this morning is a summit in crisis\" and that only the arrival of heads of state could bring the summit to a successful conclusion. Head of climate change for WWF in Britain, said that the proposals made so far, especially those from industrialised countries \"all far short of what the world needs\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 79], "content_span": [80, 483]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Conference, Hopenhagen\nHopenhagen is a climate change campaign organized by the United Nations and the International Advertising Association to support COP15, \u2013 the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009. The creative council was chaired by Bob Isherwood and the ad agencies that created the campaign included Ogilvy & Mather, Euro RSCG, McCann Worldgroup, Draftfcb, Saatchi & Saatchi, Interbrand, Tribal DDB and Digitas. The campaign ran from the web site  where users could sign a petition. Together with The Huffington Post it also included sponsoring of a \"Hopenhagen Ambassador\", \u2013 a citizen journalist selected in a contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0066-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nOn 18 December after a day of frantic negotiations between heads of state, it was announced that a \"meaningful agreement\" had been reached between on one hand the United States and on the other, in a united position as the BASIC countries (China, South Africa, India, and Brazil). An unnamed US government official was reported as saying that the deal was a \"historic step forward\" but was not enough to prevent dangerous climate change in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0066-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nHowever, the BBC's environment correspondent said: \"While the White House was announcing the agreement, many other \u2013 perhaps most other \u2013 delegations had not even seen it. A comment from a UK official suggested the text was not yet final and the Bolivian delegation has already complained about the way it was reached \u2013 'anti-democratic, anti-transparent and unacceptable'. With no firm target for limiting the global temperature rise, no commitment to a legal treaty and no target year for peaking emissions, countries most vulnerable to climate impacts have not got the deal they wanted.\" The use of \"meaningful\" in the announcement was viewed as being political spin by an editorial in The Guardian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0067-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nEarly on Saturday 19 December, delegates approved a motion to \"take note of the Copenhagen Accord of 18 December 2009\". This was due to the opposition of countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela, Sudan and Tuvalu who registered their opposition to both the targets and process by which the Copenhagen Accord was reached. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the US-backed climate deal as an \"essential beginning\" however debate has remained as to the exact legal nature of the Accord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 544]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0067-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nThe Copenhagen Accord recognises the scientific case for keeping temperature rises below 2\u00a0\u00b0C, but does not contain a baseline for this target, nor commitments for reduced emissions that would be necessary to achieve the target. One part of the agreement pledges US$30\u00a0billion to the developing world over the next three years, rising to US$100\u00a0billion per year by 2020, to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Earlier proposals, that would have aimed to limit temperature rises to 1.5\u00a0\u00b0C and cut CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 were dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0067-0002", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nThe Accord also favors developed countries' paying developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation, known as \"REDD\". The agreement made was non-binding but US President Obama said that countries could show the world their achievements. He said that if they had waited for a binding agreement, no progress would have been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0068-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Outcome\nMany countries and non-governmental organisations were opposed to this agreement, but, throughout 2010, 138 countries had either formally signed on to agreement or signaled they would. Tony Tujan of the IBON Foundation suggests the perceived failure of Copenhagen may prove useful, if it allows people to unravel some of the underlying misconceptions and work towards a new, more holistic view of things. This could help gain the support of developing countries. Malta's Ambassador for Climate Change, Michael Zammit Cutajar, extends this to suggest \"the shock has made people more open to dialogue\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0069-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Governments\nUS President Barack Obama said that the agreement would need to be built on in the future and that \"We've come a long way but we have much further to go.\" Gregg Easterbrook noted that Obama's speech was exactly what George H W Bush had said after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. However, there had been no progress in regulating greenhouse gases since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0070-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Governments\nPrime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain said \"We have made a start\" but that the agreement needed to become legally binding quickly. He accused a small number of nations of holding the Copenhagen talks to ransom. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said \"I will not hide my disappointment regarding the non-binding nature of the agreement here.\" French President Nicolas Sarkozy commented \"The text we have is not perfect\" however \"If we had no deal, that would mean that two countries as important as India and China would be freed from any type of contract.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0071-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Governments\nThe head of China's delegation said that \"The meeting has had a positive result, everyone should be happy.\" Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister said that the weak agreement was because of distrust between nations: \"To meet the climate change challenge, the international community must strengthen confidence, build consensus, make vigorous efforts and enhance co-operation.\" India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, has been reported as saying, \"We can be satisfied that we were able to get our way\" and that India had \"come out quite well in Copenhagen\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 628]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0072-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Governments\nBrazil's climate change ambassador called the agreement \"disappointing\". The head of the G77 group of countries, which actually represents 130 nations, said that the draft text asked African countries to sign a \"suicide pact\" and that it would \"maintain the economic dominance of a few countries\". The values the solution was based on were \"the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces\". Representatives of the Venezuela, and Tuvalu were unhappy with the outcome. Bolivian president, Evo Morales said that, \"The meeting has failed. It's unfortunate for the planet. The fault is with the lack of political will by a small group of countries led by the US.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 774]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0073-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Governments\nJohn Ashe, the chair of the talks that led to the Kyoto protocol, was also disappointed with the agreement made, stating: \"Given where we started and the expectations for this conference, anything less than a legally binding and agreed outcome falls far short of the mark.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0074-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Non-governmental organizations\nRajendra K. Pachauri stated the Copenhagen Accord is \"good but not adequate.\" John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK stated that \"The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight ... It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen.\" According to him \"there are too few politicians in this world capable of looking beyond the horizon of their own narrow self-interest\". Nnimmo Bassey, of Friends of the Earth international called the conference \"an abject failure\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0074-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Non-governmental organizations\nLydia Baker of Save the Children said that world leaders had \"effectively signed a death warrant for many of the world's poorest children. Up to 250,000 children from poor communities could die before the next major meeting in Mexico at the end of next year.\" Tim Jones, climate policy officer from the World Development Movement said that leaders had \"refused to lead and instead sought to bribe and bully developing nations to sign up to the equivalent of a death warrant.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0074-0002", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Non-governmental organizations\n\"The United Nation\u2019s Environment Programme\u2019s (UNEP) Fifth Emissions Gap report shows there is an urgent need for governments to ramp up their 2020 commitments to cut greenhouse gases if the world is to stay within the global carbon budget needed to keep climate disrupting temperature increases below 20C\u2026 \"Canada needs to seize these opportunities by committing to ramping up investments in renewable energy to power our homes, buildings and vehicles\", said John Bennett, Sierra Club of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0074-0003", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Non-governmental organizations\nKim Carstensen of the World Wide Fund for Nature stated: \"Well-meant but half-hearted pledges to protect our planet from dangerous climate change are simply not sufficient to address a crisis that calls for completely new ways of collaboration across rich and poor countries\u00a0... We needed a treaty now and at best, we will be working on one in half a year's time. What we have after two years of negotiation is a half-baked text of unclear substance.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0074-0004", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Reactions, Non-governmental organizations\nRobert Bailey, of Oxfam International, said: \"It is too late to save the summit, but it's not too late to save the planet and its people. We have no choice but to forge forward towards a legally binding deal in 2010. This must be a rapid, decisive and ambitious movement, not business as usual.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 88], "content_span": [89, 384]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0075-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath\nDespite widely held expectations that the Copenhagen summit would produce a legally binding treaty, the conference was plagued by negotiating deadlock and the resulting \"Copenhagen Accord\" which is not legally enforceable. BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin attributed the failure of the summit to live up to expectations to a number of factors including the recent global recession and conservative domestic pressure in the US and China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0076-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath\nGregg Easterbrook described the Copenhagen Accord as \"vague, nonbinding comments about how other people should use less fossil fuel\". According to Easterbrook, international climate change negotiations are \"complex, expensive and goin' nowhere\" and are prone to creating the appearance of action while distracting attention from the lack of real change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0077-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath\nIn the week following the end of the Copenhagen summit, carbon prices in the EU dropped to a six-month low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0078-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath\nThe Copenhagen Accord asked countries to submit emissions targets by the end of January 2010, and paves the way for further discussions to occur at the 2010 UN climate change conference in Mexico and the mid-year session in Bonn. By early February, 67 countries had registered their targets. Countries such as India and Association of Island States made clear that they believed that Copenhagen Accord could not replace negotiations within the UNFCCC. Other commentators consider that \"the future of the UN's role in international climate deals is now in doubt.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 632]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0079-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developed countries\nGeorge Monbiot blamed the failure of the conference to achieve a binding deal on the United States Senate and Barack Obama. By negotiating the Copenhagen Accord with only a select group of nations, most of the UN member states were excluded. If poorer nations did not sign the Accord then they would be unable to access funds from richer nations to help them adapt to climate change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 108], "content_span": [109, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0079-0001", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developed countries\nHe noted how the British and American governments have both blamed China for the failure of the talks but said that Obama placed China in \"an impossible position\" \u2013 \"He demanded concessions while offering nothing.\" Martin Khor blamed Denmark for convening a meeting of only 26 nations in the final two days of the conference. He says that it undermined the UN's multilateral and democratic process of climate negotiations. It was in these meetings that China vetoed long-term emission-reduction goals for global emissions to decrease by 50%, and developed countries emissions to fall by 80% by 2050 compared to 1990. Khor states that this is when other countries began to blame the failures on China. If China had accepted this, by 2050 their emissions per capita would have had to be around one half to one fifth per capita of those of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 108], "content_span": [109, 964]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0080-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developed countries\nAccording to Kishore Mahbubani, President Obama interrupted a negotiating session to which he had not been invited and began yelling at members of the Chinese delegation, including Premier Wen Jiabao, eliciting an angry response from Xie Zhenhua. White House staffer Alyssa Mastromonaco describes the US delegation including Obama and Clinton, breaking into a \"secret\" BASIC negotiating session, and the prior confusion over whether the Indian delegation had abandoned the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 108], "content_span": [109, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0081-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developing countries\nThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reported that India, China and other emerging nations cooperated at Copenhagen to thwart attempts at establishing legally binding targets for carbon emissions, in order to protect their economic growth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0082-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developing countries\nUK Climate Change secretary Ed Miliband accused China specifically of sinking an agreement, provoking a counter response from China that British politicians were engaging in a political scheme. Mark Lynas, who was attached to the Maldives delegation, accused China of \"sabotaging\" the talks and ensuring that Barack Obama would publicly shoulder the blame. The New York Times has quoted Lynas as further commenting:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0083-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developing countries\nChina's Xinhua news agency responded to these allegations by asserting that Premier Wen Jiabao played a sincere, determined and constructive role at the last minute talks in Copenhagen and credited him with playing a key role in the \"success\" of the conference. However, Wen did not take part in critical closed-door discussions at the end of the conference. According to Wen himself, the Chinese delegation was not informed about the critical discussion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0084-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developing countries\nThe editorial of The Australian newspaper, blamed African countries for turning Copenhagen into \"a platform for demands that the world improve the continent's standard of living\" and claimed that \"Copenhagen was about old-fashioned anti-Americanism, not the environment\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0085-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Failure blamed on developing countries\nIndian journalist Praful Bidwai puts the blame on both developed and a few developing countries such as India, arguing that the \"Copenhagen Accord is an illegitimate, ill-conceived, collusive deal between a handful of countries that are some of the world's greatest present and future emitters.\" He argues that India's policy is driven by elites determined to maintain high-consumer lifestyles which will have devastating effects for the vast majority of India's poor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 109], "content_span": [110, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0086-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Media\nAn article by Gerald Traufetter for Spiegel Online described the Copenhagen summit as a \"political disaster,\" and asserted that the US and China \"joined forces to stymie every attempt by European nations to reach agreement.\" Traufetter's assertion was based on his analysis of \"leaked diplomatic cables.\" An article by Damian Carrington for guardian.co.uk also included an analysis of WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables. According to Carrington, \"America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for [the] Copenhagen accord.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 613]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0087-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Academics\nBenito M\u00fcller commented on criticisms of the UNFCCC process. M\u00fcller is a programme director at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In his view, the failure to get a better result at Copenhagen was due to a lack of political will in the months preceding the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0088-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Academics\nWalter Russell Mead argues that the conference failed because environmentalists have changed from \"Bambi to Godzilla.\" According to Mead, environmentalist used to represent the skeptical few who made valid arguments against big government programs which tried to impose simple but massive solutions on complex situations. Environmentalists' more recent advocacy for big economic and social intervention against global warming, according to Mead, has made them, \"the voice of the establishment, of the tenured, of the technocrats\" and thus has lost them the support of a public which is increasingly skeptical of global warming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 80], "content_span": [81, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0089-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Analysis and aftermath, Emissions reductions\nA preliminary assessment published in November 2010 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests a possible \"emissions gap\" between the voluntary pledges made in the Copenhagen Accord and the emissions cuts necessary to have a \"likely\" (greater than 66% probability) chance of meeting the 2\u00a0\u00b0C objective. The UNEP assessment takes the 2\u00a0\u00b0C objective as being measured against the pre-industrial global mean temperature level. To having a likely chance of meeting the 2\u00a0\u00b0C objective, assessed studies generally indicated the need for global emissions to peak before 2020, with substantial declines in emissions thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0090-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, US government spying\nIn January 2014, it was revealed that the US government negotiators were in receipt of information during the conference that was being obtained by eavesdropping on meetings and other subterfuge against other conference delegations. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and published by the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information, showed how the US National Security Agency (NSA) had monitored communications between countries before and during the conference, in order to provide the US negotiators with advance information about the positions of other parties at the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0091-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, US government spying\nRepresentatives of other nations involved have reacted angrily. The leaked documents show that the NSA provided US delegates with advance details of the Danish plan to \"rescue\" the talks should they flounder, and also about China's efforts before the conference to coordinate its position with that of India. Members of the Danish negotiating team said that the US delegation was \"peculiarly well-informed\" about closed-door discussions that had taken place. \"They simply sat back, just as we had feared they would if they knew about our document,\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 616]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205573-0092-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, US government spying\n\"The UN climate talks are supposed to be about building trust \u2013 that's been under threat for years because of the US backward position on climate action \u2013 these revelations will only crack that trust further,\" said Meena Raman, of Third World Network. \"Fighting climate change is a global struggle, and these revelations clearly show that the US government is more interested in crassly protecting a few vested interests,\" said Brandon Wu of ActionAid. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, called the spying by the US \"insane and disgusting\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 608]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 2009 United Nations Security Council election was held on 15 October 2009 during the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The election was for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council to serve two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nIn accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules, whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats were allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 336]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nNigeria was expected to run unopposed for a 2010\u201311 seat, but unexpectedly faced competition from Sierra Leone. Nigeria has already served thrice in the UNSC, while Sierra Leone served only once. Sierra Leone did not contest the seat, however. Instead, Gabon ran for the second seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nBosnia and Herzegovina was the only candidate country for the Eastern European group seat, as Poland withdrew its candidacy in order to give a strong support to the new Bosnian statehood. Poland then gave its support to Bosnia and Herzegovina and invited \"all the countries which have already given their support to Polish candidacy, to back-up Bosnia and Herzegovina becoming a member of the UN Security Council.\" Serbia announced its plans to run for the Eastern Europe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nAs Libya's term was ending, the new Arab representative would come from the Asian Group. One of the eleven Arab League member states in Asia would therefore succeed to Vietnam's seat in this election. Lebanon announced its intention to obtain this seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 299]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election\nThis year, Bosnia and Herzegovina was elected to the Council for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205574-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United Nations Security Council election, Results\nAll the candidates ran unopposed, so the election was expected to be a non-event. Nigeria got 186 votes, Gabon 184, Bosnia 183, Brazil 182 and Lebanon 180.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues\nThe 2009 season is the 23rd season played by the United Soccer Leagues. Season titles will be contested by 20 professional men's clubs in the USL First Division and USL Second Division, as well as 37 professional and amateur women's clubs in the W-League and 68 professional and amateur men's teams in the USL Premier Development League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues\nThe First Division season kicked off on April 11 with the US Open Cup finalist Charleston Battery and host defending champions Vancouver Whitecaps FC playing to a scoreless tie, while the Carolina RailHawks defeated the visiting Minnesota Thunder 2\u20131. The season ended on September 20 with the Charleston Battery defeating hosts Minnesota Thunder 3\u20132. As a change for this season, the Finals will follow the rest of the playoffs in being two legs. The playoffs started on September 24, and ended on October 17 with the Montreal Impact defeating Vancouver Whitecaps FC on a 6\u20133 aggregate score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 620]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues\nThe Second Division season started on April 17 with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and host Crystal Palace Baltimore playing to a scoreless tie. The regular season ended on August 15 with three games. The Richmond Kickers captured the title in the playoffs with a 3\u20131 win over the Charlotte Eagles on August 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues, First Division, Awards and All-League Teams\nFirst TeamF: Charles Gbeke (Vancouver Whitecaps) (Leading Goalscorer); Keita Mandjou (Portland Timbers); Johnny Menyongar (Rochester Rhinos)M: Daniel Paladini (Carolina RailHawks); Ryan Pore (Portland Timbers); Ricardo S\u00e1nchez (Minnesota Thunder)D: Nelson Akwari (Charleston Battery); Cristian Arrieta (Puerto Rico Islanders) (MVP & Defender of the Year); Matt Bobo  (Charleston Battery); David Hayes (Portland Timbers)G: Steve Cronin (Portland Timbers) (Goalkeeper of the Year)Coach: Gavin Wilkinson (Portland Timbers) (Coach of the Year)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues, First Division, Awards and All-League Teams\nSecond TeamF: Marlon James (Vancouver Whitecaps); Eddie Johnson (Austin Aztex)M: Martin Nash (Vancouver Whitecaps); Lawrence Olum (Minnesota Thunder); Jonathan Steele (Puerto Rico Islanders); David Testo (Montreal Impact)D: Stephen DeRoux (Montreal Impact); Cameron Knowles (Portland Timbers); John Krause (Puerto Rico Islanders); Mark Schulte (Carolina RailHawks)G: Bill Gaudette (Puerto Rico Islanders)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues, Second Division, Awards and All-League team\nFirst TeamF: Matthew Delic\u00e2te (Richmond Kickers), Jamie Watson (WIL) (MVP)M: Ty Shipalane (HAR), Kenny Bundy (WIL), Mike Burke (RIC), Jorge Herrera (CHA)D: Dustin Bixler (HAR), John Borrajo (RMD), Shintaro Harada (CPB), Yomby William (RIC) (Defender of the Year)G: Ronnie Pascale (RIC) (Goalkeeper of the Year)Coach: David Irving (WIL)Rookie of the Year: Ty Shipalane, HAR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205575-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United Soccer Leagues, Second Division, Awards and All-League team\nSecond TeamF: Almir Barbosa (WMA), Damico Coddington (BER), Chad Severs (HAR)M: Justin Evans (PIT), Jamie Franks (WIL), Amaury Nunes (CHA), Val Teixeira (CPB)D: Colin Falvey (WIL), Sascha Gorres (RIC), Andrew Marshall (CPB)G: Chase Harrison (HAR)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were five special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 2009 during the 111th United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections\nOne seat has switched parties, from Republican to Democratic, as the result of a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections, New York's 20th congressional district\nOn January 26, 2009, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand resigned when appointed to fill Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate seat. Scott Murphy, a fellow Democrat, won the election held March 31, 2009, defeating Republican Jim Tedisco by fewer than 700 votes. Because of the slim margin, Tedisco did not concede the race until more than three weeks later, when overseas ballots had been counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections, Illinois's 5th congressional district\nOn January 2, 2009, Democrat Rahm Emanuel resigned one day before the end of the previous Congress after being named White House Chief of Staff. Democrat Michael Quigley won the election April 7, 2009 election to replace him, handily defeating Republican Rosanna Pulido with better than a two-to-one share of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 92], "content_span": [93, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections, California's 32nd congressional district\nOn February 24, 2009, Democrat Hilda Solis resigned to become United States Secretary of Labor. Judy Chu, also a Democrat, won the election, defeating Republican Betty Chu by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections, California's 10th congressional district\nOn June 26, 2009, Democrat Ellen Tauscher resigned to become Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Democrat John Garamendi held the seat for the Democrats on November 3, 2009, defeating Republican David Harmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205576-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United States House of Representatives elections, New York's 23rd congressional district\nOn September 21, 2009, Republican John M. McHugh resigned to become United States Secretary of the Army. On November 3, 2009, Democrat Bill Owens defeated Conservative Doug Hoffman and Republican Dede Scozzafava in a race that garnered considerable press attention. Days before the election, Scozzafava dropped out of the race, then endorsed Owens, the Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205577-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\nThe 2009 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from December 4-7, 2008 at the Two Harbors Curling Club in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Husband and wife Brady Clark and Cristin Clark won the tournament, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205577-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Round robin, Standings\nThe 16 teams were split into two pools; each pool played a round robin and at the end the top two teams advanced to the playoffs. The standings at the end of the round robin phase were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205578-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States Olympic Curling Trials\nThe 2009 United States Olympic Curling Team Trials were held from February 21 to 28, 2009 at the Broomfield Event Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Trials have been held ever since curling returned to the Olympics as a demonstration sport in 1988. The trials also constituted the 2009 United States National Curling Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205578-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States Olympic Curling Trials\nThe winning men's and women's teams represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2009 men's and women's World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections\n2009 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3. During this off-year election, the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. In total, only the seat representing New York's 23rd congressional district changed party hands, increasing the Democratic Party's majority over the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives, 258\u2013177.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections\nHowever, there were also several gubernatorial races and state legislative elections, and numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races in several major cities, and several types of local offices on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections\nAlthough the number of elections was relatively small considering it was an off-year election, Republicans dominated. Winning all statewide races including a senate race in Massachusetts, one of the most solidly Democratic states in the nation. These results represented the first in a pattern of Republican dominance in non-general election years during the Obama Presidency. Just one year later in 2010 Republicans gained 63 seats in the House of Representatives, six Senate seats, and 12 Governor's Mansions (net +6 gain). The pattern was repeated in 2014 when Republicans won unified control of Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 637]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections, United States Congress\nIn total, there were five special elections to the United States House of Representatives during 2009. The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections, United States Congress\nAlso, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections, Governors\nNew Jersey and Virginia, along with the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, held gubernatorial elections in 2009. Both governorships in New Jersey and Virginia changed party hands from Democrat to Republican. Meanwhile, the local Covenant Party maintained control of the governorship of the Marianas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections, State legislatures\nLegislative elections were held for the New Jersey General Assembly, the Virginia House of Delegates and the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205579-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 United States elections, Municipalities\nCities, counties, school boards, special districts and others elect members in 2009. Several large cities held mayoral elections in 2009, including: New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Antonio, and Detroit. Memphis, Tennessee also had a special election to replace former mayor Willie Herenton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205580-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States federal budget\nThe United States federal budget for fiscal year 2009 began as a spending request submitted by President George W. Bush to the 110th Congress. The final resolution written and submitted by the 110th Congress to be forwarded to the President was approved by the House on June 5, 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205580-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States federal budget\nThe government was initially funded through three temporary continuing resolutions. Final funding for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs was enacted on September 30, 2008 as part of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009, while the remaining departments and agencies were funded as part of an omnibus spending bill, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, on March 10, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205580-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United States federal budget, Total spending\nThe 110th Congress' budget for 2009 totaled $3.1 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2008. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205580-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United States federal budget, Total spending\nThe financial cost of the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan are not part of the defense budget; they were appropriations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205580-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United States federal budget, Deficit\nDecreased tax revenue and high spending resulted in an unusually large budget deficit of about $1.4 trillion, well above the $407 billion projected in the FY 2009 budget. A 2009 CBO report indicated that $245 billion, about half of the excess spending, was a result of the 2008 TARP bailouts. Spending increases and tax credits resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 accounted for another $200 billion of the budget deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections\nThe 2009 United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 2009, in the states of New Jersey and Virginia, as well as in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on November 7, 2009. Both state governorships were previously held by Democrats elected in 2005, and both were won by Republicans in 2009; the local Covenant Party maintained control of the governorship of the Marianas. These elections formed part of the 2009 United States elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections\nDue to the passage of Senate Legislative Initiative 16-11, this was the last year in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in which a gubernatorial election occurred on a pre-midterm, off-year election year. The next CNMI gubernatorial election would be in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Background\nThe Democrats held 28 governorships, while the Republicans held 22. In this election, both U.S. governorships up for election were held by Democrats, while the governorship of the Northern Mariana Islands was held by the Covenant Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Closest races\nRed denotes states won by Republicans. Green denotes states won by Covenants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, New Jersey\nDemocratic Governor Jon Corzine was eligible to run for a second term and did so. He was considered vulnerable given a number of recent scandals and low approval ratings. Former Glen Ridge Mayor Carl Bergmanson, failed 2008 congressional candidate Roger Bacon, and failed 2008 Senate candidate Jeff Boss also sought the Democratic nomination. Corzine won the Democratic primary on June 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, New Jersey\nU.S. Attorney Chris Christie was the Republican gubernatorial nominee. Christie defeated former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan and veteran General Assemblyman Rick Merkt in the Republican primary on June 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, New Jersey\nChris Daggett, who was Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection under Governor Thomas Kean, Sr. and regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Ronald W. Reagan, ran as an independent. Daggett raised enough money to file for public funds and appear in both debates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, New Jersey\nOn November 3, 2009, Republican Christie unseated Democratic incumbent Governor Corzine. His margin of victory was 49% to 45%. Daggett's role as a \"spoiler candidate\" (some polls had him taking 10 percent of the vote) never materialized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Northern Mariana Islands\nGovernor Benigno R. Fitial, a member of the local Covenant Party, was eligible to run for a second term and did so. Rep. Heinz Hofschneider won the Republican nomination in June, defeating former Republican Governor Juan N. Babauta, who was defeated in his 2005 re-election by Fitial. Ramon \"Kumoi\" Guerrero and Juan \"Pan\" Guerrero, two former members of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate, both ran as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Northern Mariana Islands\nThe CNMI election was held on Saturday, November 7, 2009. No candidate received a majority, so Governor Fital and Rep. Hofschneider advanced to a runoff election on November 23. Fital won with a 370-vote margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Virginia\nVirginia's term limits law allows governors to run for more than one term; however, the terms cannot be consecutive. Thus, incumbent Governor Tim Kaine could not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Virginia\nCandidates for the Democratic nomination included Terry McAuliffe, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager; State Senator Creigh Deeds; and State Delegate Brian Moran. Deeds won the Democratic primary on June 9, 2009 with approximately 49% of the vote, beating out Terry McAliffe with 26% and Brian Moran with 23%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Virginia\nThe Republican nominee was Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell. This was the sixth consecutive Virginian gubernatorial election where an elected Attorney General has run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205581-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 United States gubernatorial elections, Virginia\nOn November 3, 2009, Bob McDonnell defeated Creigh Deeds to become Governor-elect of Virginia. His margin of victory was a landslide 59% to 41%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205582-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 United States motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 United States motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of July 3\u20135, 2009 at Laguna Seca. As usual, only the MotoGP class was permitted to race at Laguna Seca due to the Californian air pollution law prohibiting two-stroke engines in the state. Spain's Dani Pedrosa took his first win for a year, holding off a last-lap surge from championship leader Valentino Rossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205582-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 United States motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eight has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205583-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Universitario de Deportes season\nThe 2009 season is Universitario de Deportes' 81st season in the Peruvian Primera Divisi\u00f3n and 44th in the Campeonato Descentralizado. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club played during the 2009 season. The season's biggest highlight was the signing of Nolberto Solano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205583-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Universitario de Deportes season, Players, Players in/out, Out\nLast updated: 2009-09-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205583-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Universitario de Deportes season, Players, Players in/out, Out\n04EU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 771]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205583-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Universitario de Deportes season, Matches, Friendly\nLast updated: September 4, 2009Source: 1Universitario goals come first.Country's flag depict country of foreign team to that of Universitario.Ground: H = Home; A = Away; N = Neutral; HR = Home replacement; AR = Away replacement; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 306]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election\nThe 2009 Upper Austrian state election was held on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Upper Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election\nThe Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) made gains but fell just short of an overall majority. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) suffered major losses, falling to just under a quarter of the vote, while the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) recovered some of the losses they had taken in the 2003 election. The \u00d6VP under Governor Josef P\u00fchringer subsequently renewed its working agreement with the Greens which had been signed after the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election, Background\nThe Upper Austrian constitution mandates that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, German: Landesr\u00e4ten) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government is a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualify for at least one state councillor. Despite this, parties still establish formal coalitions to organise cabinet positions and ensure a Landtag majority for legislative purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election, Background\nIn the 2003 state election, the \u00d6VP maintained a small lead over the SP\u00d6, which achieved a strong swing in its favour while the FP\u00d6's support collapsed. The Greens achieved a respectable result of 9%, and crucially achieved balance of power in the state government. The \u00d6VP and SP\u00d6 each won four councillors, while the Greens won one; the FP\u00d6 failed to win any. The \u00d6VP signed a working coalition with the Greens, giving rise to the first \u00d6VP\u2013Green government in Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election, Electoral system\nThe 56 seats of the Landtag of Upper Austria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between five multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205584-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Upper Austrian state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, three parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot\nThe 2009 Upton Park riot occurred in and around West Ham United's Boleyn Ground, in Upton Park before, during and after a Football League Cup second round match between West Ham and Millwall on 25 August 2009. The match was won by the home side 3\u20131 after extra time, but the game was marred by pitch invasions and disorder in the streets outside the ground, where a Millwall supporter was stabbed. The disturbances were met with condemnation by the Football Association, the British government and the two clubs involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 542]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot\nThe incident led to fears of a return of the hooliganism that had tarnished the reputation of English football in the 1970s and 80s. There were also concerns that it could have a negative effect on England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup - which was rejected in favour of the bid from Russia more than a year later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Background\nMillwall and West Ham United have a long-standing rivalry that dates back to the clubs' first meeting, a friendly on 23 September 1897. The rivalry stems from the two clubs geographical proximity to one another\u00a0\u2013 their home grounds at the time (The Den and the Boleyn Ground) are 6.8 miles (10.9\u00a0km) apart\u00a0\u2013 and over the years, there have been several instances of violence between some fans of the two clubs. However, these occurrences had subsided in recent years as the clubs have played in different divisions for most of the time since the 1950s. West Ham, for instance, have been members of the top flight for all but a few seasons since 1958, whereas Millwall only played in the top flight for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 and have at times competed in the third and even fourth tiers of the English league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Background\nPrior to the match, there had been 96 encounters between Millwall and West Ham, of which Millwall had won 38, West Ham 32, and 26 were drawn. The previous tie was a Football League Championship game played on 16 April 2005 at the Boleyn Ground, which ended 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Background\nHooliganism was rife at most English football grounds in the 1970s and 80s, and many clubs were forced into installing fencing around the perimeter of the pitch. Millwall's hooligan firm, the Millwall Bushwackers, was perceived as one of the most violent, so much so that a common weapon used in such occurrences became known as a Millwall brick. In March 1985, a large section of the club's hooligans were involved in a riot with Luton Town's firm the MIGs; of the 31 men arrested, many were found to be supporters of other London clubs such as West Ham and Chelsea. West Ham United have also been in receipt of bad publicity for their Inter City Firm, which received international notoriety after the release of the 1989 film The Firm and the 2005 film Green Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 801]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Background\nThe draw for the second round of the 2009\u201310 Football League Cup took place on 12 August 2009, and paired West Ham and Millwall together for their first ever League Cup meeting. The police cut the number of tickets given to travelling Millwall fans from 3,000 to 1,500, sparking anger among supporters; Millwall warned police of a higher probability of trouble because of this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Match, Summary\nBeset by injuries, Millwall could only name four substitutes for the game. They took the lead through long-serving striker Neil Harris in the 26th minute of the match, firing past goalkeeper Robert Green after the West Ham defenders had failed to clear a long throw-in from Scott Barron. The Lions held the lead until three minutes from full-time, when Junior Stanislas equalised for West Ham. Stanislas' goal sparked a pitch invasion, and although players pleaded with the home fans to return to the stands, the resumption of the match was still delayed by several minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 611]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Match, Summary\nWith the score at 1\u20131, the match went into extra time. In the eighth minute of extra time, Millwall defender Andy Frampton was adjudged to have handled the ball in the penalty area and referee Paul Taylor awarded West Ham a penalty kick. Stanislas converted the penalty, and home fans invaded the pitch again, prompting the Millwall players to retreat to the dressing room. They eventually returned to complete the match, with Zavon Hines adding a third, making the final score 3\u20131 to West Ham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Reaction and aftermath\nThe violence was met by surprise and outrage from the footballing authorities and other bodies. The government's sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe commented, \"We have made great progress in tackling hooliganism in this country and will not return to the dark days of the 80s.\" He called the incidents \"a disgrace to football\" and also said that any culprits should be banned from football for life. Justice secretary Jack Straw said that \"strong measures\" needed to be taken to prevent a repeat of the disorder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Reaction and aftermath\nHome secretary Alan Johnson added, \"Anyone who thinks thuggery has a place in modern-day football is living in the dark ages, and will bring only shame upon the teams they support.\" The shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt commented that \"Wider questions need to be answered as to how the situation was allowed to get out of hand in the first place.\" One West Ham fan was seen carrying a young child on their shoulders as they joined the pitch invasion. A youth worker called this \"sickening... The message it is sending is very disturbing\" and added that \"Running onto the pitch with a young child on your shoulders is not an example to set to young people.\" The Football Association said that the fan should receive a lifetime ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 778]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Reaction and aftermath\nHarry Redknapp, a former West Ham manager, advised the football authorities never to allow West Ham United and Millwall to play each other in a Cup game again. The Metropolitan Police Service said evidence suggested that the violence was planned, but that it was an isolated incident and not a signal that the football violence seen in the 1980s was returning. On 28 September 2009, both West Ham and Millwall were charged by the FA with offences related to the match. Both clubs were charged with failing to ensure that their fans refrained from violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behaviour, racist behaviour and throwing missiles, harmful or dangerous objects onto the pitch. West Ham were also charged with failing to ensure that their supporters did not enter the field of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 838]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Reaction and aftermath\nIn January 2010 West Ham were fined \u00a3115,000 after being found guilty of violent, threatening, obscene and provocative behaviour and of failing to prevent their fans entering the field of play. Millwall were cleared of all charges. In response to the violence and public order offences the Metropolitan Police launched Operation Balconi to investigate the disorder surrounding the game. Eighty people suspected of violence before and after the match were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205585-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Upton Park riot, Reaction and aftermath\nAs a result, Inner London Crown Court convicted several West Ham fans of violent disorder, passing prison sentences, including one of 20 months, along with many football banning orders\u00a0\u2014 barring individuals from all football grounds\u00a0\u2014 being imposed. West Ham banned at least 54 people for life from Upton Park including 11 season ticket holders. Since the riot, the two teams have played two Football League Championship games against other in the 2011\u201312 season. The Metropolitan Police implemented London-wide operations to ensure that the games passed by without any incident, and no further trouble was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Uruguay on 25 October 2009 alongside a two-part referendum. As no candidate for president received more than 50% of the vote, a second round was held on 29 November between the top two candidates, Jos\u00e9 Mujica of the ruling Broad Front (who received 48% of the vote) and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party (29%). Mujica won the run-off with 55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election\nIn the parliamentary elections, the Broad Front retained its majorities in both chambers, winning 16 of the 30 seats in the senators and 50 of the 99 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The National Party finished second with 9 senators and 30 deputies, the Colorado Party third with 5 Senators and 17 Deputies, and the Independent Party fourth with 2 deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election, Presidential candidates\nPresidential primaries were held on 28 June to select the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election, Results\nAnalysts indicated that Mujica won largely because of the popularity of the Broad Front and incumbent President Tabar\u00e9 V\u00e1zquez's pro-business policies that had strengthened the country's economy. After taking office in 2005, Vazquez cut the unemployment rate from 12.3 to 7.3 percent, encouraged trade and foreign investment, increased wages and social spending, and boosted the central bank reserves and the country's credit rating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election, Results\nThe Broad Front retained a majority in parliament with 15 senators (plus Danilo Astori, later elected vice-president and thus president of the General Assembly) out of a total of 30 and 50 deputies out of a total of 99. The National Party came in second with 9 senators and 30 deputies. Both parties lost votes and legislative seats in comparison with 2004. The historically dominant Colorado made gains and increased its representation to 5 senators and 17 deputies. Finally, the Independent Party did not achieve its main goal of winning a seat in the Senate, but obtained 2 seats in the lower chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205586-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan general election, Results\nPedro Bordaberry led the Colorado Party to a notable electoral recovery, practically doubling its votes cast in 2004. The Independent Party, with candidates Pablo Mieres and Iv\u00e1n Posada, gained an additional seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Popular Assembly, a small, new extreme left party, did not win much support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205587-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan presidential primaries\nPresidential primary elections were held in Uruguay on 28 June 2009 in order to nominate the presidential candidate for every political party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205588-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uruguayan referendum\nA double referendum was held in Uruguay on 25 October 2009 alongside general elections. Voters voted on two proposals: one to abolish the Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State, which had granted amnesty for human rights abuses under the 1973\u201385 dictatorship during the presidencies of Juan Mar\u00eda Bordaberry, Alberto Demicheli, Aparicio M\u00e9ndez, and Gregorio \u00c1lvarez, and one to enable overseas postal voting. Both proposals were rejected by voters, with 52% rejecting the revocation of the amnesty law and 62% rejecting overseas postal voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205589-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels was the fourth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Miller Motorsports Park, Utah on May 17, 2009. The race featured the debut of a new category of vehicles for the American Le Mans Series known as the ALMS Challenge, featuring Porsche 997 GT3 Cup cars from the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 442]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205589-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying, Qualifying result\nPole position winners in each class are marked in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 59], "content_span": [60, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205589-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe team of de Ferran Motorsport won their second straight ALMS race at the track where the team made their debut in 2008. Lowe's Fern\u00e1ndez Racing continued their sweep of the LMP2 category with another victory, but led the #20 Dyson Racing entry across the finish line by less than six tenths of a second. Flying Lizard Motorsports also continued their winning ways with their third straight victory on the season, leading the fellow Porsche of Farnbacher-Loles. The partnership of Martin and Melanie Snow won the inaugural ALMS Challenge race, thanks in part to the disqualification of the two Orbit Racing entries for an illegal ride height.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 679]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205589-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Grand Prix, Report, Race, Race result\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205590-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 2009 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by first-year head coach Gary Andersen and played their home games at Romney Stadium. Utah State finished the season with a record of 4\u20138 overall and 3\u20135 in WAC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team\nThe 2009 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team, coached by 5th year head football coach Kyle Whittingham, played its home games in Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team\nThe Utes finished the season 10\u20133, 6\u20132 in Mountain West play and won the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl 37\u201327 over California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Preseason\nThe Utes were picked to finish third in the Mountain West Conference by media members covering the league. TCU was picked to finish first and BYU was picked second. Utah garnered three first\u2013place votes out twenty-four total ballots. In the preseason AP Poll, Utah was ranked #19, and in the preseason Coaches' Poll they were ranked #18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nShortly after the 2009 Sugar Bowl, Utah lost both coordinators to other programs. Defensive coordinator Gary Andersen accepted a job as head coach of Utah State. Kalani Sitake, who had been the coach of the linebackers, replaced Andersen as defensive coordinator; Sitake continued his duties as linebacker coach. Offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig accepted the same position with Kansas State (and then less than two months later accepted the same position with California. Dave Schramm, the former running back coach, was promoted to offensive coordinator. Aaron Alford, who had been coaching cornerbacks, replaced Schramm as running back coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Preseason, Coaching changes\nJ.D. Williams was hired to replace Alford as coach of the cornerbacks. Utah also lost offensive line coach Charlie Dickey to Kansas State. He was replaced by Blake Miller. John Pease was hired to coach the defensive line, a position which previously did not have a position coach. Finally, safeties coach Morgan Scalley took over Schramm's duties as recruiting coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 431]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nUtah Leads Series: 77 \u2013 28 \u2013 4The Utes won their home opener, beating rival Utah State for the 12th consecutive time, extending their winning streak to a best-in-the-nation 15 games including games from the 2008 and 2007 seasons. This was the first game for former Utah defensive coordinator, and new Utah State head coach, Gary Andersen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nJunior college transfer Terrance Cain won in his debut at quarterback for the Utes, completing 20 of 30 attempts for 286 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception, while running back Matt Asiata ran for a career-best 156 yards and two touchdowns and David Reed caught 10 passes for 172 yards. Utah State managed to force three turnovers, and running back Robert Turbin set a school record with a 96-yard touchdown run that accounted for nearly a third of the Aggies' offensive total for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 555]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, San Jose State\nThe Utah Utes extended their winning streak to sixteen games\u2014the longest winning streak in the nation\u2014with their 24\u201314 victory over the Spartans. Utah missed three field goals and lost two fumbles, which kept the game close despite outgaining San Jose State 499 yards to 264 yards. Receiver John Peel had Utah's first fumble and running back Matt Asiata had the second. The two teams entered the fourth quarter tied at 7\u20137. Utah took the lead when quarterback Terrance Cain completed a 51-yard pass to Jereme Brooks to take a 14\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, San Jose State\nOn the Utes' next drive, it took a 21\u20137 lead after running back Eddie Wide had consecutive 15-yard runs. San Jose State responded with a touchdown drive on their next possession. Utah's backup place kicker, Joe Phillips, capped a 56-yard drive with a successful field goal for the final score of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOregon Leads Series: 18 \u2013 8 \u2013 0Oregon beat Utah at Autzen Stadium and snapped Utah's sixteen-game winning streak. The game improved Oregon's record to 2\u20131 (0\u20130 Pac-10) and dropped Utah's record to 2\u20131 (0\u20130 MWC). Both teams struggled with turnovers\u2014Utah had two and Oregon had four for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nUtah trailed by 18 points midway through the third quarter, but managed to cut the deficit to 4 points with two consecutive touchdowns. The first came when quarterback Terrance Cain completed 22-yard pass to receiver Jereme Brooks. The next touchdown came less than a minute later when safety Robert Johnson picked up an Oregon fumble and returned it 28-yards for a touchdown. That would be the last score for the Utes. Oregon added a final field goal for the final 31\u201324 score when place kicker Morgan Flint connected on a 31 yard attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nUtah Leads Series: 4 \u2013 0 \u2013 0The Utes were able to return to their winning ways with their victory over Louisville, but they lost starting senior running back Matt Asiata for the season when he tore the ACL on his right knee during a 24-yard touchdown run with 6:04 remaining in the first quarter. Entering the game, Asiata had been the season-leader in the Mountain West Conference for rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nRunning back Eddie Wide made the most of his opportunity and had a career-high 129 yards rushing in the game. Overall Utah outgained Louisville on the ground 214 yards to 80 yards. The Utes also were able to force Louisville to make three turnovers while only having one turnover themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nThe win improved Utah's record to 3\u20131 (0\u20130 MWC) while dropping Louisville to 1\u20132 (0\u20130 Big East). The win was the fortieth career win for Utah's coach Kyle Whittingham. He is the fifth Utah coach to have forty victories with the Utes. He joins Ike Armstrong, Jack Curtice, Ray Nagel, and Ron McBride.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Louisville\nAfter the season ended, the NCAA granted Asiata a one-year extension of eligibility. Because of his injuries, he was granted a \"medical hardship\" or a medical redshirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Colorado State\nUtah Leads Series: 54 \u2013 22 \u2013 2Safety Robert Johnson intercepted three passes from Colorado State quarterback Grant Stucker and helped the Utes secure a victory in Utah's Mountain West Conference (MWC) season opener. The victory improved Utah's record to 4\u20131 (1\u20130 MWC) and dropped Colorado State's record to 3\u20133 (0\u20132 MWC). Colorado State took a 17\u20133 lead with 4:53 remaining in the third quarter with a seven-play, 79\u2013yard drive when Grant Zucker completed a 36-yard pass to Dion Morton for a touchdown. Utah responded 36 seconds later with a two-play, 57-yard drive when Terrance Cain completed 47-yard pass to David Reed to make the score 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Colorado State\nRobert Johnson made his first interception on Colorado State's next possession. Utah took advantage of the turnover with a seventeen play, 73\u2013yard touchdown drive when running back Eddie Wide scored on a 1-yard run. The Utes converted on third down four times during the drive. With the score tied, Colorado State was driving and had moved the ball to the 50-yard line when Johnson made his second interception. Utah again took advantage of the turnover and scored a touchdown off an 8-yard reception by Eddie Wide. Johnson ended a third consecutive Colorado State drive with his third interception and ensured the victory for Utah. Following the game, the MWC named Robert Johnson its defensive player of the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, UNLV\nUtah Leads Series: 13 \u2013 2 \u2013 0Utah capitalized on two UNLV turnovers in the first half and jumped to a 28\u20136 halftime lead on the way to a 35\u201315 victory at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. The win improved Utah's record to 5\u20131 (2\u20130 MWC) and dropped UNLV's record to 2\u20135 (0\u20133 MWC). The first UNLV turnover occurred during the second quarter when Robert Johnson intercepted a pass from Omar Clayton and returned it to the UNLV 8\u2013yard line. Two plays later, Utah scored on a touchdown run by quarterback Terrance Cain. On UNLV's next drive, Robert Johnson scored again when his teammate Christian Cox intercepted a pass and then fumbled the ball into Johnson's hands who returned the ball 64 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 766]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, UNLV\nUNLV narrowed Utah's lead to 14 points by scoring 9 points during the third quarter. UNLV scored a touchdown on a 20-yard pass from backup quarterback Mike Clausen to Phillip Payne, but the Rebels failed on a two-point conversion attempt. The Rebels next drive was capped by a 37-yard field goal by Kyle Watson. Utah would score the final points in the game during the fourth quarter when Eddie Wide scored a touchdown on a 37-yards run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 488]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nAir Force Leads Series: 14 \u2013 12 \u2013 0Utah defeated Air Force in overtime despite gaining fewer yards and having two turnovers to Air Force's one. Air Force also had the ball on offense for over 38 minutes while Utah only had the ball for 21 minutes. The win improved Utah's record to  6\u20131 (3\u20130 MWC) and dropped Air Force's record to 4\u20134 (3\u20132 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nRunning back Eddie Wide scored two of Utah's touchdowns. The first touchdown came during the first quarter after he recovered a Terrance Cain fumble and advanced the ball 44 yards. His second touchdown game during overtime on a 1-yard run. He finished the game with 121 yards rushing. Utah's other touchdown came on a 90-yard pass from Cain to David Reed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nAfter the game, punter Ryan Sellwood was named the Mountain West Conference Special Teams Player of the Week. He averaged 48.1 yards on his eight punts. He also placed three punts inside the twenty-yard line, including one on the 3-yard line with 3:44 left in regulation and another at the 7-yard line with :20 left in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nUtah Leads Series: 50 \u2013 31 \u2013 1Wyoming led most of the game, but Utah managed to outscore the Cowboys in the fourth quarter and get the win. The game dropped Wyoming's record to 4\u20134 (2\u20132 MWC) and improved Utah's record to 7\u20131 (4\u20130 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nWyoming took a 10\u20133 lead with 4:56 to play in the second quarter when quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels scored on a 30-yard pass-and-catch play from backup quarterback Robert Benjamin. That would remain the score going into halftime. Coach Kyle Whittingham decided the team needed a \"spark\" so when the Ute offense took the field during the second half, freshman backup Jordan Wynn replaced Terrance Cain as quarterback. The move seemed to work as Utah scored two field goals on its first two possessions of the second half to cut Wyoming's lead to 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nUtah had its first lead of the game at the 7:35 mark in the fourth quarter when Wynn completed a 22-yard pass to receiver Jereme Brooks. Utah scored its final touchdown after Wyoming failed to convert on fourth down and turned the ball over on its own 9-yard line. Two plays later, Eddie Wide scored a touchdown on a 5-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Wyoming\nAfter the game, the Mountain West Conference honored two Utah players as players of the week: Eddie Wide as Offensive Player of the Week and Defensive End Koa Misi as Defensive Player of the Week. Wide rushed for a career-high 135 yards and also had a touchdown. He averaged 5.6 yards per carry and had his fifth consecutive game with 100 or more yards. Misi led the Utes with eight tackles (seven solo). He had two sacks in the second half, during which the Utes prevented the Cowboys from scoring and held them to 74 yards of offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nUtah Leads Series: 32 \u2013 17 \u2013 2Utah put up over 550 yards of offense in the first start by quarterback Jordan Wynn. Wynn was a true freshman and became the third true freshman quarterback to start for Utah since 1972 when the NCAA reinstated eligibility for freshman. He passed for 297 yards and two touchdowns, but had one interception. The win improved Utah's record to 8\u20131 (5\u20130 MWC) and dropped New Mexico to 0\u20139 (0\u20135 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nEddie Wide rushed for 145 yards, a new personal best, in his sixth consecutive 100-yard rushing game, which is a new Utah record. Sausan Shakerin also added 100 yards rushing. Receiver Jereme Brooks had six catches for 135 yards and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, TCU\nI have been a head coach for five years, and that is the best team I've faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, TCU\nESPN held its two-hour College GameDay show from outside TCU's Amon G. Carter Stadium to promote the day's college games\u2014including the TCU\u2013Utah game. The program aired live starting at 8:00 AM MT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, TCU\nWith the 55\u201328 win over the Utes, the Horned Frogs took sole position of first place in the Mountain West Conference, improved their record to 10\u20130 (6\u20130 MWC), and dropped Utah to 8\u20132 (5\u20131 MWC). The Utah defense struggled against TCU and allowed them to amass 549 yards of total offense and 32 first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, TCU\nUtah fell behind for good late in the first quarter. After Utah tied the game at 7\u20137, TCU scored 28 straight points to take a 35\u20137 lead with 11:40 remaining in the second quarter. TCU took advantage of Utah mistakes during their scoring run. TCU took a 14\u20137 lead and then on the ensuing Utah possession, Greg Burks for TCU blocked Sean Sellwood's punt. Six plays later, TCU took a 21\u20137 lead. TCU also intercepted quarterback Jordan Wynn and returned the ball 15 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, the teams traded scores with Utah scoring 21 more points and TCU scoring 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, TCU\nAfter the game, the MWC named TCU sophomore linebacker Tank Carder as its Defensive Player of the Week. Carder had nine tackles during the game, including one for a loss, and an interception that he returned for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 274]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nUtah Leads Series: 16 \u2013 12 \u2013 1The Utes scored a touchdown on four of their first five possessions on their way to a 38\u20130 halftime lead. Utah did not score the rest of the game, but still had a 31 point victory over the Aztecs, who got on the board late in the 4th quarter. The victory improved Utah's record to 9\u20132 (6\u20131 MWC) and dropped San Diego State to 4\u20137 (2\u20135 MWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nReceiver Jereme Brooks had seven catches for 100 yards and a touchdown, and David Reed added six catches for 89 yards. Running back Eddie Wide led the Utes in rushing with sixteen carries for 84 yards and two touchdowns. Safety Joe Dale also had a touchdown when he intercepted Aztec quarterback Ryan Lindley's pass and returned it 30 yards to the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 419]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, San Diego State\nThe MWC named Dale its Defensive Player of the Week. In addition to his defensive touchdown, he also recorded five tackles, including one for a loss, and a pass breakup. Three of his tackles were solo tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nUtah Leads Series: 53 \u2013 34 \u2013 4In the second overtime game in series history, BYU defeated Utah 26\u201323. The game improved BYU's record to 10\u20132 (7\u20131 MWC) and dropped Utah's record to 9\u20133 (6\u20132 MWC). The game was the final regular season game for both teams. BYU finished second in the MWC and Utah finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 359]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nBYU held a 20\u20136 lead entering the fourth quarter. Utah scored 14 fourth quarter points to force overtime, but their comeback fell short. After Utah managed a field goal in overtime to take a 23\u201320 lead, BYU was given possession of the ball. BYU took advantage, and quarterback Max Hall connected to tight end Andrew George for a 25-yard touchdown reception and the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 423]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nUtah scored five field goals during the game, which proved costly as they were unable to score more points from their forays into scoring position. Kicker Joe Phillips made all five of his field goal attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nAfter the game, BYU quarterback Max Hall criticized Utah and its fans. He said, \"I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything. It felt really good to send those guys home.\" When asked for a clarification and if he really hated Utah, he continued, \"I think the whole university and their fans and the organization is  [sic] classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year and did a whole bunch of nasty things. I don't respect them and they deserved to lose.\" During the game, Hall had 12 completions out of 32 pass attempts for 134 yards. He had two touchdown passes and no interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 728]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, BYU\nThe MWC named Joe Phillips its Special Teams Player of the Week. His five field goals were 39, 21, 31, 40 and 29 yards long, respectively. His 40-yard kick came with 29 seconds left in the fourth quarter and sent the game into overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California\nCal Leads Series: 4 \u2013 3 \u2013 0Utah defeated California 37\u201327 in the Poinsettia Bowl for their ninth consecutive bowl victory. The win improved Utah's record to 10\u20133 (6\u20132 MWC) and dropped California to 8\u20135 (5\u20133 Pac-10). Utah has the longest bowl winning streak in the country and is tied for the second longest streak of all time. Florida State holds the record with eleven consecutive bowl victories from 1985 to 1996. The win improved Utah's bowl record to 12\u20133 (.800).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 550]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California\nCalifornia built a 14\u20130 lead about midway through the first quarter, but Utah was able to recover with 27 straight points. Running back Shane Vereen scored the first touchdown of the game off of a 36-yard rush. The next play from scrimmage, Eddie Young intercepted a Jordan Wynn pass and returned it for a touchdown. Utah responded with an eight-play, 30-yard touchdown drive when Wynn completed a 6-yard pass to tight end Kendrick Moeai. The drive got started when Shaky Smithson returned the kickoff 61 yards to the 30-yard line. Utah scored 17 points in the second quarter to take a 24\u201314 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California\nThe second half started as a defensive struggle until Utah sacked Kevin Riley and Riley fumbled the ball on the California 14-yard line. California held Utah to a field goal attempt; Joe Phillips connected on the 29-yard field goal. California responded on the next possession with a six-play, 77-yard touchdown drive. Vereen scored his second touchdown of the night on a 1-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California\nUtah scored its final points on the night when linebacker Stevenson Sylvester returned an interception 27-yards for a touchdown. The pass had been tipped by Sylvester's teammate, safety Robert Johnson. The Bears scored one more touchdown, but failed to score the two-point conversion for the final 37\u201327 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, Game summaries, Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California\nWynn was named the Offensive MVP for the game. He completed 26 of his 36 pass attempts for 338 yards. He had three touchdown passes, but also one interception. Sylvester was named the Defensive MVP. In addition to his defensive touchdown, Sylvester finished with eight tackles, five of which were solo tackles. He also assisted in a tackle for a loss and had a pass breakup. With a 39-yard catch in the fourth quarter, receiver David Reed broke school records for catches in a season (81) and receiving yards in a season (1,188). Reed had six catches for 103 yards during the Poinsettia Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 82], "content_span": [83, 675]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, After the season, Awards\nSix Utah players were named to the 2009 MWC Football All-Conference Team first team: wide receiver David Reed, running back Eddie Wide, offensive lineman Zane Beadles, defensive lineman Koa Misi, linebacker Stevenson Sylvester, and defensive back Robert Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, After the season, Awards\nTwo players were named to the second team: Caleb Schlauderaff and Zane Taylor, both on the offensive line. Four players were given Honorable Mention: placekicker Joe Phillips, punter Sean Sellwood, defensive lineman Sealver Siliga, and linebacker Mike Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, After the season, Awards\nBeadles was named to several All-American teams recognized by the NCAA to determine \"consensus All-Americans\". The Football Writers Association of America named him to its first team All-American team. The Walter Camp Football Foundation named him to its second team. Sporting News named him to its third team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 365]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205591-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 Utah Utes football team, After the season, NFL Draft\nUtah had six players taken in the 2010 NFL Draft \u2014 setting a school record. The players taken were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205592-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbek League\nThe 2009 Uzbek League season was the 18th edition of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence in 1992", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205592-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbek League\nPakhtakor hold the most titles with 8 Uzbek League crowns to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205593-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbekistan First League\nThe 2009 Uzbekistan First League  was the 18th season of 2nd level football in Uzbekistan since 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205593-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbekistan First League, Competition format\nLeague consists of 14 teams which play on regular home-and-away schedule: each team plays the other teams twice. The top two teams of the promote to Uzbek top league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205594-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbekistan Second League\nUzbekistan Second League is the third highest football league in Uzbekistan. The league  is headed by UFF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205594-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbekistan Second League, League format\nIn the second phase the league split into two groups each featuring five teams. The winner and runner-up of each group promote to First League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205594-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Uzbekistan Second League, Second phase, season 2009\nFK Khiva, Lokomotiv BFK Tashkent, FK Guliston and FK Kosonsoy are promoted to First Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205595-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 V-League\nV-League 2009 was the 53rd season of Vietnam's professional football league. The league was held from February 7, 2009 to August 23, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205595-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 V-League\nThe league winners qualify for the AFC Champions League qualifying round in 2010. The cup winners enter the AFC Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205595-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 V-League\nThe bottom two sides at the end of the season get relegated. The side that finishes 3rd from bottom enters an end of season play-off match against the 2nd Division's 3rd placed side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205595-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 V-League, Dream Team\nNguy\u1ec5n Minh \u0110\u1ee9c (Xi M\u0103ng H\u1ea3i Ph\u00f2ng) Tr\u1ea7n H\u1ea3i L\u00e2m (SHB \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng) Hu\u1ef3nh Quang Thanh (Becamex B\u00ecnh D\u01b0\u01a1ng)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205595-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 V-League, Dream Team\nL\u00ea C\u00f4ng Vinh (T&T H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i) Leandro (Xi M\u0103ng H\u1ea3i Ph\u00f2ng) Datsakorn Thonglao (Ho\u00e0ng Anh Gia Lai) Lee Nguy\u1ec5n (Ho\u00e0ng Anh Gia Lai) Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0169 Phong (Becamex B\u00ecnh D\u01b0\u01a1ng)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge\nThe 2009 V8 Supercar Challenge was the eleventh event of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of the October 22 to 25 at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in Queensland. After the cancellation of the A1 Grand Prix event the same weekend, the V8 Supercars became the main event on the program for the Nikon SuperGP carnival. The winner of the event was Mark Winterbottom, winning two of the weekend's four races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Format change\nThe V8 Supercar Challenge consists of the 19th and 20th races of the season. After the collapse of A1 Grand Prix's involvement in the Nikon SuperGP, V8 Supercar expanded its involvement in the event. The original program planned for a 44 lap, 200 kilometres (120\u00a0mi) race to be held on each of Saturday (Race 19) and Sunday (Race 20). The expanded program saw those two races split into a total of four 34 lap, 150 kilometres (93\u00a0mi) races, consisting of Races 19a, 19b, 20a and 20b in the 2009 V8 Supercar series. Winner of Race 19 will be decided via points accumulation between races 19a and 19b, with Race 20 calculated in identical manner. Grid positions for Races 19a and 20a to be decided by separate qualifying sessions, with 19b and 20b to be decided by finishing order of the preceding races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 844]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Format change\nThis format changed for the Gold Coast 600 which became a two-driver endurance with two 300\u00a0km races one on saturday and one on sunday starting in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 19\nRaces 19a and 19b were held on Saturday October 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 87]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20\nRaces 20a and 20b were held on Sunday October 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 85]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20, Race 20a\nFabian Coulthard and Cameron McConville wrecked against the wall before the first corner. Coulthard's car was heavily damaged and would take no further part in the weekend. Steven Richards spun Greg Murphy around further back. Richards was subsequently issued a black flag for a driving infringement. Up front Lowndes out-launched the front row pair of Jason Bargwanna and Rick Kelly to jump into the race lead before the Safety car appeared to clean up the mess left by the opening lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20, Race 20a\nRick Kelly caught and passed Bargwanna at the restart. Bargwanna quickly lost further positions as the car misfired on seven cylinder. A quick pitstop to fix a plug lead got Bargwanna back up to pace, but well back in the pack, a cruel result after his first pole position in ten years. Will Davison dropped to the tail of the field with damage to the front right corner of the car after clipping a dislodged tyre bundle at one of the many chicanes. The car pitted and the HRT crew began to replace the damaged right side steering arm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20, Race 20a\nMichael Patrizi stopped at the top of the course, safety car sent out to control the field once more. The Safety car was sent out the lap after pitstops began, vaulting the few cars who pitted early to the top of track position. At the subsequent restart Shane van Gisbergen overtook Jamie Whincup prior to passing the start/finish line, incurring an instruction from race control to let Whincup past again. Whincup had slowed approaching to line as he prevented himself from overtaking a pitbound Will Davison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20, Race 20a\nLowndes settled into a lead over Rick Kelly, although Kelly was later given a black flag as his Commodore was venting fuel from the back of the car. Kelly eventually pitted on lap 20. The following lap Michael Caruso had a major engine failure, dumping fluid over Seek Turn Three. Lee Holdsworth and Greg Murphy spun at the Beach Esses on lap 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205596-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Challenge, Race 20, Race 20a\nLowndes raced on to take a two-second lead over Winterbottom, Garth Tander, Russell Ingall and the Dick Johnson Racing pair of James Courtney leading Steven Johnson. The sting was the second to last lap retirement of Jamie Whincup, bouncing off the walls exiting Falken Tyres Turn at the top of the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series\nThe 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series was the eleventh V8 Supercar Championship Series and the thirteenth series in which V8 Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. It began on 19 March at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide and ended on 6 December at the Homebush Street Circuit and consisted of 26 races over 14 events which were held in all states and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as New Zealand. The 50th Australian Touring Car Championship title was awarded to the winner of the series by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series\nTriple Eight Race Engineering Ford driver Jamie Whincup won the Championship from Holden drivers Will Davison and Garth Tander. Championship races were also won by Craig Lowndes, Michael Caruso, James Courtney and Mark Winterbottom. The two-driver endurance races, held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, were both won by Tander and Davison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Race calendar\nThe Desert 400 originally scheduled to take place on 5\u20137 November was moved into the 2010 season. A replacement event, The Island 300, was announced in late September at Phillip Island. The Nikon SuperGP altered its format at late notice after the cancellation of the A1 Grand Prix event which was due to be held at the same event. The two by 200 kilometre races were altered to two races each split into two 150 kilometre legs. Race winners were declared on the basis of accumulated points over the two legs held each day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers contested the 2009 series. This list is based in part on", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nFord announced that from 2009, it would only offer financial support for Ford Performance Racing and Stone Brothers Racing, having previously provided funding for Triple Eight Race Engineering, Dick Johnson Racing, Britek Motorsport, Paul Cruickshank Racing and Ford Rising Stars Racing. The remaining Ford backed teams retained levels of parts and in-kind support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nSimilarly Holden announced several teams would be cut from their financial support budget, with Garry Rogers Motorsport, Perkins Motorsport, Sprint Gas Racing and Rod Nash Racing  losing their direct funding, although like the Ford counterparts they still received technical and parts assistance. The new Kelly Racing Team received the funding previously given to HSV Dealer Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 461]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nThe works Toll Holden Racing Team remained at two cars, but a secondary two-car team was set up under the Walkinshaw Performance banner. Racing Entitlements Contracts were purchased from Paul Weel Racing, which had closed at the end of 2008, and the 30th franchise from the former Walden Motorsport team. Will Davison replaced the retiring Mark Skaife alongside Garth Tander at Toll HRT while Paul Dumbrell was signed to drive the Autobarn-backed number 10 Walkinshaw Performance entry, with David Reynolds rounding up the line-up in a Bundaberg Red-backed entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 644]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nStone Brothers Racing expanded to three cars with Jason Bright folding his own Britek Motorsport operation to utilise one of his team franchises for SBR's expansion. Bright started the season in a BF Falcon, before switching mid-season to a new FG Falcon. Shane van Gisbergen continued in the lead SP Tools-sponsored car in an FG Falcon alongside Alex Davison who replaced the departing James Courtney in an Irwin Tools sponsored car. Courtney joined Steven Johnson at Dick Johnson Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nThe second Paul Weel Racing, (ex-Ford Rising Stars Racing) franchise was used to start a new race team, Team IntaRacing, based in Southport. It utilised a Triple Eight Race Engineering sourced BF Falcon and equipment and was centred around former Britek driver, Marcus Marshall with funding coming from new V8 Supercar sponsor Intabill. The Intabill Access Card sponsorship was pulled from the car shortly before the Hamilton 400 but Marshall vowed the sponsorless team would continue. The team subsequently collapsed and the Racing Entitlement Contract was absorbed by V8 Supercar Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 673]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nAnother new team in 2009 was Kelly Racing, formed by John and Margaret Kelly utilising the franchises from the defunct HSV Dealer Team running Holden Commodores for their sons, Todd and Rick Kelly. A four-car superteam was established, with the second pair of franchises being sourced from Perkins Motorsport. The third and fourth drivers were announced as Todd Kelly's 2008 teammate Jack Perkins (supported by Dodo Internet) and Dale Wood. Wood was replaced after the Hidden Valley weekend with Mark McNally taking over the #16 Commodore for the Townsville 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nJason Bargwanna returned to a full-time drive joining Greg Murphy at Sprint Gas Racing taking the place of Jason Richards. Bargwanna spent a season on the sidelines after WPS Racing folded prior to the 2008 V8 Supercar season. Jason Richards was confirmed as Andrew Jones' replacement at Team BOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nMichael Patrizi joined Fabian Coulthard as the drivers of a revamped Wilson Security Racing (PCR) in 2009. PCR expanded from a one-car team by leasing a franchise from Jason Bright's team for Patrizi to run the #333 BF Falcon alongside Coulthard in a Triple Eight Race Engineering-built FG Falcon, backed by Wilson Security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nSupercheap Auto Racing announced the identity of their new driver as graduation Fujitsu Series driver Tim Slade. Slade replaced Paul Morris, who retired at the end of the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nTeam Kiwi Racing finalised a deal for the 2009 season to run a Paul Morris Motorsport Holden Commodore. Bankruptcy proceedings involving Team Kiwi Racing team principal, David John, meant for an uncertain future and the team was unable to prepare adequately for the 2009 season. The franchise was run as a satellite entry of Paul Morris Motorsport on Team Kiwi Racing's behalf for the first two events of the year while the situation was clarified, thus avoiding approximately $150,000 fines for each race meeting they might have been absent, with former Carrera Cup racer Dean Fiore in the driving seat. V8 Supercar Australia subsequently seized TKR's Racing Entitlement Contract in order that it be sold or leased. It was sold to Fiore, who completed the season under the Triple F Racing banner. The racing number was changed for Triple F's second outing from #021 to #12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 955]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nV8 Supercar Australia announced four wildcards entries into the two 'enduro' events (L&H 500 and Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000). The four teams selected from those who made submissions were all competitors in the second-tier Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series,  namely: Greg Murphy Racing, MW Motorsport, Sieders Racing Team and Sonic Motor Racing Services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nGreg Murphy Racing ran a VE Commodore built by their sister-team Tasman Motorsport with Fujitsu series regular Sam Walter named as one of the drivers. Taz Douglas was later named as the second driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nThe family-run Sieders Racing Team used the 2006 Bathurst 1000 winning Triple Eight BF Falcon for brothers Colin and David Sieders. Subsequently, Colin Sieders withdrew citing imminent surgery and was replaced with V8 Ute Series racer Andrew Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nMW Motorsport were represented by their young up-and-coming drivers Damien Assaillit and Brad Lowe, to give them experience ahead of a possible promotion to a main game full-time or co-driver role in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers, Driver and team changes\nSonic Motor Racing Services ultimately withdrew their entry and V8 Supercar Australia decided not to allow them to be replaced with another team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Points system\nPoints are awarded to any driver that completes 75% of race distance and is running on the completion of the final lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Points system\nStd denotes all races except the L&H 500, Bathurst 1000, and Surfers Paradise. These three races have unique rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Points system\nL&H 500:   Phillip Island races are split into qualifying races and 500\u00a0km feature race. The two drivers per team will be grouped into separate qualifying races that will count towards drivers' individual point totals and towards the starting grid for the feature race. The two drivers will then race one car for the 500\u00a0km endurance race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205597-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Points system\nBathurst:  Both drivers will share one car for entire race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season\nThe 2009 V8 Supercar season was the thirteenth season in which V8 Supercars contested the premier Australian motor racing series for touring cars. It was the 50th season of touring car racing in Australia from the first Australian Touring Car Championship, latter to become the V8 Supercar Championship Series, and the first Armstrong 500, which would evolve into the Bathurst 1000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season\nThe season featured the thirteenth V8 Supercar Championship Series which began on 21 March at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide and finished on 6 December at the Homebush Street Circuit. The championship comprised 26 races held at 14 events, visiting all states and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as New Zealand. A non-championship event supported the 2009 Australian Grand Prix. The season also included the tenth second tier Development Series, promoted as the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, with all seven rounds held as support races for the V8 Supercar Championship Series. For the second year, a third tier series was run, as the Shannons V8 Touring Car National Series. Its five rounds were held at rounds of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 809]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season, Review\nThe 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series was dominated by the season long rivalry between the leading Ford team, Triple Eight Race Engineering and its drivers Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes and the leading Holden team, the Holden Racing Team and its drivers, Will Davison and Garth Tander. Between them they won 22 of the seasons 26-point scoring races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season, Review\nHRT won the most of the seasons prizes, winning the teams prize, leading the charge to Holden regaining the manufacturers prize, the drivers combining to win the Bathurst 1000 and the Phillip Island 500, but Triple Eight won the biggest prize with Jamie Whincup retaining the drivers' championship. Whincup personally won half of the 22 races the two teams won together, the backbone of his title retention with his season beginning Adelaide 500 as his centrepiece and Lowndes chipped in by dominating Winton and winning the non-championship event held on the Australian Grand Prix support program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 630]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0002-0002", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season, Review\nLowndes was fourth in the championship behind Tander, but Davison was the revelation of the season, stepping up to HRT after a strong season with Dick Johnson Racing in 2008, Davison pushed Whincup almost all the way to the title until Davison faded over the final two events at Barbagallo and the new Sydney 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season, Review\nBest of the rest was a battle between two Ford teams. Mark Winterbottom won at Surfers Paradise and finished fifth in the drivers championship for Ford Performance Racing while at Dick Johnson Racing, Steven Johnson finished sixth and his teammate James Courtney took two street circuit victories at the Townsville 400 and Sydney 500. The only upset win was Michael Caruso's debut win at Hidden Valley Raceway. Caruso's win for Garry Rogers Motorsport was also the only Holden race win not scored by the Holden Racing Team as the three top Ford team shared honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 597]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205598-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 V8 Supercar season, Review\nFord also had success in the second tier series with MW Motorsport driver Jonathon Webb charging to the series crown, utterly dominant in the second half of the series as Ford drivers swamped the top seven positions in the development series. James Moffat was series runner up from David Russell with TV personality racer Grant Denyer putting his best ever season to finish a strong fourth position. The emerging third tier series was won strongly by Adam Wallis in his self-run Holden Commodore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 528]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205599-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 VA\n2009 VA is an asteroid that came within 14,000 kilometres (8,700\u00a0mi) of Earth on 6 November 2009 making it the third closest non-impacting approach of a cataloged asteroid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205599-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 VA\nWith a diameter of only 7 metres (23\u00a0ft), scientists think that even if it had been on a direct collision course with Earth, it would have likely burned up in the atmosphere. The space rock made its pass by Earth just fifteen hours after its discovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205599-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 VA\nThe asteroid was first discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona. It was determined that the object would make a pass well within the orbit of the Moon, but would not strike Earth. The object passed so close to Earth that its orbit was modified by Earth's gravity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205600-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 VFF Bred Cup\nThe 2009 VFF Bred Cup was the qualifying competition for the 2009\u201310 OFC Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205600-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 VFF Bred Cup\nThe club who advanced to this tournament was Tafea FC, Vanuatu's sole representative at the competition. The competition was played in two separate championships, north and south, with each winner facing off in the overall final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205601-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 VFL season\nThe 2009 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the 128th season of the Australian Rules Football competition. The premiership was won by the North Ballarat Football Club, which defeated the Northern Bullants by 23 points in the Grand Final on 25 September. It was North Ballarat's second consecutive premiership, and the second in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205601-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 VFL season, League membership and affiliations\nAt the end of the 2008 season, the Tasmanian Devils Football Club withdrew from the VFL and disbanded. AFL Tasmania, which operated the club, was focussed on re-establishing the Tasmanian Football League as a statewide competition in 2009, after an eight-year hiatus since the original statewide league's collapse at the end of 2000, and having the Tasmanian VFL club competing for attention and players did not fit with this vision. As a result, the VFL was reduced to thirteen clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205601-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 VFL season, League membership and affiliations\nAs a result, the size of the VFL was reduced to thirteen teams: nine VFL-AFL affiliates, two AFL reserves team, and two stand-alone VFL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205602-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 2009 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was VMI's 119th all-time football season which started in 1891. They competed in the Big South Conference, and they were led by 2nd year head coach Sparky Woods, who was appointed VMI's 30th head coach in 2008. VMI played its home games at Alumni Memorial Field, as they still do ever since 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205602-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 VMI Keydets football team\nThe Keydets kicked off the year by just defeating Robert Morris 14\u201313. Two losses followed to then-#6 James Madison and then-#1 Richmond, 44\u201316 and 38\u201328, respectively. Three more losses followed to conference opponents Gardner-Webb, Coastal Carolina, and Stony Brook. The next week, VMI held off Presbyterian for a 31\u201320 win. It would be their final win of the year, as the Keydets lost to Charleston Southern, Liberty, Army, and Old Dominion. VMI finished 2\u20139 overall and 1\u20135 in the Big South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205603-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vaahteraliiga season\nThe 2009 Vaahteraliiga season was the 30th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between May 30 and August 15, 2009. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXX the Porvoo Butchers won the Helsinki Roosters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 341]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205604-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valais Grand Council election\nThe 2009 election to the Grand Council was held in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, on 1 March 2009. All 130 members of the Grand Council were elected for four-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205604-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Valais Grand Council election\nThe centre-right maintained its control on the canton, with the Christian Democratic People's Party remaining by far the largest party, with 54 seats: down four from 2005. The classical liberal Free Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party each lost two seats, leaving them on 28 and 17 respectively. The Christian Social Party gained one seat, tying them with the Social Democrats on 17 overall. The main winners were the national conservative Swiss People's Party, who doubled their number of seats to twelve. The Green Party added one seat, winning two overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205604-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Valais Grand Council election\nAfter the election, the two overtly Christian parties, the centre-right Christian Democratic People's Party and centre-left Christian Social Party, formed a bloc in the Grand Council together, which gives them an outright majority. However, the three members of the Christian Social Party from French-speaking Lower Valais, rejected the alliance, and joined the Social Democrats and Greens in the 'Alliance of the Left' (French: Alliance de Gauche).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205605-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Formula Two round\nThe 2009 Valencia Formula Two round was the first round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 30 and 31 May 2009 at Circuit de Valencia at Valencia, Spain. The first race was won by Robert Wickens, with Carlos Iaconelli and Kazim Vasiliauskas also on the podium. The second race was again won by Robert Wickens, with Mirko Bortolotti and Philipp Eng also on the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205606-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia GP2 Series round\nThe 2009 Valencian GP2 round was the seventh round of the 2009 GP2 Series season. It was held on August 22 and 23, 2009 at Valencia Street Circuit at Valencia, Spain. The race was used as a support race to the 2009 European Grand Prix. Last year's race was quite eventful, with championship frontrunners Giorgio Pantano and Bruno Senna retiring on the last lap, with Senna retiring just before the finish line. Past Winners include last year's Campos duo Vitaly Petrov and Lucas di Grassi, who both competed this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205606-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Valencia GP2 Series round\nThis race saw a driver reshuffle with Davide Valsecchi moving to Barwa Addax Team in place of Romain Grosjean who now races in F1. Formula Three Euroseries Race Winner Stefano Coletti replaces Valsecchi at Durango. The round also saw the departure of FMS, who sold their stake back to Scuderia Coloni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205607-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Open 500\nThe 2009 Valencia Open 500 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana, and was part of the 500 Series of the 2009 ATP Tour. It was held at the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ci\u00e8ncies in Valencia, Spain, from November 2 through November 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205607-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Open 500, Players, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205607-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Open 500, Finals, Doubles\nFranti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k /  Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k defeated  Marcel Granollers /  Tommy Robredo, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205608-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Open 500 \u2013 Doubles\nM\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez and Juan M\u00f3naco were the defending champions, but Gonz\u00e1lez chose not to participate this year. M\u00f3naco partnered with Pablo Cuevas, but they lost in the second round against Victor H\u0103nescu and Horia Tec\u0103u. Franti\u0161ek \u010cerm\u00e1k and Michal Merti\u0148\u00e1k won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20133, against Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205609-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Open 500 \u2013 Singles\nDavid Ferrer was the defending champion, but withdrew from his second round match due to a hamstring injury. Andy Murray won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132, against Mikhail Youzhny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205610-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencia Superbike World Championship round\nThe 2009 Valencia Superbike World Championship round was the third round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of April 3\u20135, 2009 at the Circuit de Valencia in Valencia, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205611-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 6\u20138 November 2009 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. It was the final race of the 250cc two-stroke class, as Moto2 (600cc four-stroke) replaced it from 2010 onwards. The MotoGP race was won by Dani Pedrosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205611-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, 250 cc classification\nAlex Deb\u00f3n was due to start on pole position, but due to injuries sustained in qualifying practice he did not take part in the race. Therefore, everyone else was moved up one place on the final starting grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205611-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)\nBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 94], "content_span": [95, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season\nThe 2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season was the club's 24th year of existence (or 34th if counting the NASL Whitecaps), as well as their 17th and 2nd last year as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. Vancouver was officially named an MLS expansion city on March 18, 2009. Following the end of the 2010 season, the Whitecaps FC joined MLS, becoming the second Canadian club and 19th overall (counting contracted franchises) to enter the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 503]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season\nThe 2009 season started in an up and down fashion including three game winning and losing streaks before ending the season with only one loss in their last ten games. The USL-1 league was a closely contested affair with the Whitecaps a member of an intermediate trifecta in the standings separated by less than three points. The Whitecaps overcame the Railhawks and Timbers in tight, hard won playoff series before finishing as runners-up to the Montreal Impact in a dramatic playoff final series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season\nThe Whitecaps also finished second in the 2009 Voyaguers Cup in a controversial fashion after Montreal rested important players for their following USL-1 league match against the Whitecaps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Schedule and results, Tables\nCommissioner's Cup, bye to semifinal round of playoffs\u00a0\u00a0Quarterfinal round of playoffs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Schedule and results, Tables\n\u2020 Austin deducted two points for fielding an ineligible player on July 25, 2009", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Schedule and results, Tables, Results summary\nLast updated: April 26, 2010Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 262]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Schedule and results, Voyaguers Cup, Standings\nToronto FC qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Current roster\nBoth Jay Nolly and Marcus Haber played all thirty regular season games with Jay Nolly playing every minute of every game. Charles Gbeke was tied for second among the USL-1\u00a0point leaders including the league golden boot with 12 goals while Marcus Haber was 7th (with 8 goals) and Marlon James 8th. Wes Knight had eight assists in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Current roster\nAfter the 2008 season, the Whitecaps and coach Teitur Thordarson changed the roster much more than in the previous seven years. Some of this was due to a ten-month contract versus the previous norm of an eight-month contract. Look at the preseason above starting in February with presumably a training camp before hand versus previous years of training camp starting in late March. For some players with other part-time or off season employment and/or families the extra commitment was too much.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Current roster\nMany long time stalwart veteran Whitecap players such as Jeff Clarke, Jason Jordan, Steve Kindel and Alfredo Valente were not on the 2009 roster. Additionally, several other players earning significant playing time over a number of years moved elsewhere. Eduardo Sebrango and back-up goalkeeper Serge Djekanovic started the 2009 season with Canadian rival Montreal while Nicholas Addlery went all the way to Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205612-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season, Current roster\nTwo players who remained to serve as the backbone of the side for 2009 were Martin Nash, the captain, and striker Charles Gbeke for offense. The club added Marco Reda from Charleston, Justin Thompson from Portland, and Ansu Toure from Miami. Foreign players signings included Caribbean internationals Kenold Versailles (Haiti) and Tyrell Burgess (Bermuda), who spent 2008 with the USL PDL's Reading Rage. Another signing for the portion of the season he was with the Whitecaps was former New York Red Bulls defender Jeff Parke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war\nIn early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Alleged participants include the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Group, the Buttar Gang, the Bacon Brothers, the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions, and the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Background\nThe escalation of gang violence in Vancouver, beginning in January 2009, is alleged to have been caused by disruptions to the supply of illegal drugs resulting from the crackdown by the Mexican government against the drug cartels there, who supplied cocaine to British Columbia in return for marijuana. This reduced the profits of the Independent Soldiers (IS) and their sometime allies the United Nations gang. The IS are primarily an Indo-Canadian gang while the United Nations gang is made of a multitude of different ethnic groups. More recently,  Chinese and Guatemalans and other various nationalities have been recruited. Both of these gangs' main modus operandi is gun running and smuggling marijuana known as BC Bud to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Background\nThe cocaine trade became very profitable due to the ongoing Mexican Drug War. The Mexican Army has severely curtailed the ability of the Mexican drug cartels to move cocaine inside the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. government says the amount of cocaine seized on U.S. soil dropped by 41 percent between early 2007 and mid-2008 and claims this is due to this pressure. The price in Vancouver has increased from $23,300 to almost $39,000 a kilo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Background\nThe cocaine trade has been the domain of the IS and UN's rival Red Scorpion street gang and the Hells Angels biker gang. As the IS and UN gangs moved in, the Red Scorpions hit back leading to an all out gang war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Progress and escalation\nBy the end of the first quarter of 2009, more than 20 people had been killed and 40 wounded. The Hells Angels had primarily stayed out of the fighting up to this point while the IS gang was busy trying to protect its turf from the resurgent Buttar Gang after police in April 2009 functionally dismantled the rival Sanghera Crime Group after a series of arrests which created a vacuum allowing the Buttar gang to expand its operations and encroaching on the IS for its marijuana monopoly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Progress and escalation\nBut most of the wounded and killed had been members of the Red Scorpions and UN gangs who were engaged in a brutal tit-for-tat turf war. The carnage between the UN and the Red Scorpions was believed to stem from the fatal shooting of Gurmit Dhak at Metro town parking lot in Burnaby B.C. Dozens of other slayings followed, many of them retribution killings and commercial disputes between the UN and the associated members of the Red Scorpions, the Bacon brothers who used to be members of the UN gang. But the conflict between these gangs escalated dramatically after the UN gang along with the IS gang decided to move into the cocaine trade, a long domain of the Red Scorpion gang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Progress and escalation\nAfter initially failing to announce that they had a gang war on their hands, on March 6, 2009, the Vancouver police announced there is a gang war after making several arrests. In particular they have gone after the leadership of the UN and Red Scorpion gangs and closely monitoring the Bacon Brothers after they survived a rash of hits against them. In May, police arrested eight senior U.N. members, including the leader, Iraqi immigrant Barzan Tilli-Choli, on charges of conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers, while Dennis Karbovanec a member of the Red Scorpions pleaded guilty to previous crimes. Since the arrest of the leadership, there has been a drop in violence but occasional violence does continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 758]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205613-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vancouver gang war, Gang-related homicides and shootings\nGang shootings were the subject of intense media coverage in Vancouver in 2009. These events include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205614-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 2009 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2009\u201310 college football season. The team's head coach was Bobby Johnson, who served his eighth season as the Commodores' head coach. Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in that conference's Eastern Division since its formation in 1992. The Commodores played their six home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922. The Commodores finished the season 2\u201310 and 0\u20138 in SEC play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 685]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205615-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu Census\nThe 2009 Census of Vanuatu was conducted on 16 November 2009. The census revealed growth by an average of 2.3 percent a year since the previous census in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205615-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu Census\nThe 2009 census was \"the first time the Vanuatu National Statistics Office (VNSO) extensively used geographic information system (GIS) technology for a household survey with the exact location of every household in Vanuatu captured through Global Positioning System (GPS) handsets\" and \"the first time the VNSO used scanning technology to capture the information from the questionnaires into the computer database.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes\nThe 2009 Vanuatu earthquakes were three earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7, 7.8 and 7.4, constituting some of the largest earthquakes in Vanuatu's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Tectonic Setting\nThe Vanuatu earthquakes of October 7, 2009: M 7.7, Vanuatu, 22:03:14; M 7.8 Santa Cruz Islands, 22:18:51 UTC; and M 7.4, Vanuatu, 23:13:48; all occurred as a result of shallow reverse faulting on or near the plate boundary interface between the Indo-Australian Plate and Pacific Plates. In the region of these earthquakes, the Indo-Australian plate moves to the east-northeast with respect to the Pacific plate at a velocity of about 91 mm/yr. The Indo-Australian plate thrusts under the Pacific plate at the New Hebrides Trench and dips to the east-northeast. The locations, depths, and focal mechanism solutions for the October 7th events are all consistent with them resulting from reverse faulting associated with subduction along the Australia-Pacific plate boundary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 815]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Tectonic Setting\nThe 7.8 Mw\u202f earthquake of October 7, 2009 (22:18 UTC), occurred about 60 km north, and 15 minutes after, a slightly smaller earthquake with a 7.7 Mw\u202f of the same date Occurred (22:03 UTC). A third, smaller event at 7.4 Mw\u202f occurred at 23:13 UTC, 15 km to the southeast of the first event. All three events are likely related; while the first two similarly sized events may be considered a doublet earthquake, preliminary analysis suggests that the 7.4 Mw\u202f earthquake is likely a large aftershock of one of the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Earthquake\nMore than a dozen earthquakes above 5.0 magnitude shook the country within two days of the earthquake sequence, The largest earthquake of the sequence (7.8 Mw) struck 294\u00a0km (183\u00a0mi) northwest of the island of Santo, and is the second largest earthquake of 2009, behind the 8.1 Mw 2009 Samoa earthquake Which occurred 8 days earlier nearby. None of these tremors caused any casualties, but the largest event did trigger tsunami waves as high as 62\u00a0cm (2.03\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Earthquake, Aftershocks and other events\nAbout 15 Minutes prior, a 7.7 Mw earthquake struck the same area, because of their magnitudes being too similar to be considered aftershocks, both events are considered a doublet event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 66], "content_span": [67, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Earthquake, Aftershocks and other events\nAbout an Hour after that event, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the same area, it is considered an aftershock to one of the events, At least 9 aftershocks of magnitude 6 or higher were recorded by the USGS, With some located in the Solomon Islands, such as a 6.1 Mw about 3 days after the Mainshock, the largest earthquake of the aftershock sequence behind the 7.4 event was a 6.8 Mw on October 8, on June 3 2009, an unrelated Mw 6.3 earthquake Struck 38 km west of the capital of Port-Vila, injuring 4, damaging a few buildings and triggering landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 66], "content_span": [67, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205616-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatu earthquakes, Tsunami\nA tsunami was observed all over the Pacific Ocean, generating waves as high as 62\u00a0cm (2.03\u00a0ft) in Port-Vila, Vanuatu, 30\u00a0cm (0.98\u00a0ft) in Santa Monica, California, and 16\u00a0cm (0.52\u00a0ft) in Atka, Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in Vanuatu on 1 September and 2 September 2009. The electors are the 52 MPs and the six heads of provincial governments; ten signatures of support are required for nomination. Outgoing president Kalkot Mataskelekele was renominated for a second term, but Iolu Abil ultimately succeeded in winning a five-year term after three rounds of voting by the electoral college.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election background\nKalkot Mataskelekele's five-year term as President of Vanuatu ended on August 16, 2009. The Speaker of Parliament Maxime Carlot Korman was sworn in as acting President until Mataskelekele's successor could be elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election background\nUnder the Constitution, the President of Vanuatu is elected by the 58 member electoral college, which is composed of the 52 members of Parliament as well as the six heads of each of the provincial governments of Vanuatu (Malampa, Penama, Sanma, Shefa, Tafea and Torba). A presidential candidate must win two-thirds of the electoral college in order to be elected president. According to the Constitution, the presidential election must be held within three weeks after the previous office holder's term expires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election background\nThe government of Vanuatu allocated approximately US$70,000 to cover the costs of the 2009 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election background, Candidates\nFifteen candidates seeking the presidency submitted their names to the electoral office \u2013 two women and thirteen men. However, only eleven candidates were ultimately found to be eligible to stand for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election\nEleven candidates, including two women, stood in the first round of the election on 1 September 2009 (fifteen had filed, but four of them were not eligible to stand). Vincent Boulekone won 16 votes, Mataskelekele won 14 votes and Iolu Abil won 11 votes. Kalo Nial and female candidate Yvette Sam both won seven votes. As 39 votes were required to be elected, a second round was set for 2 September 2009. The government claimed that its votes had been split between various candidates as the government had decided to allow individual MPs to decide whom to vote for in the first round, so that respect could be shown to previous leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205617-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vanuatuan presidential election, Election\nThe second round was also inconclusive, but in the third round (also on 2 September), Iolu Abil was elected with 41 votes. There were only six other candidates remaining in the third round. Abil was supported by the government (he was the PM's preference, while the deputy Prime Minister Ham Lini would have preferred to reelect Mataskelekele).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup\nThe 2009 Varsity Cup was contested from 2 February to 30 March 2009. The tournament (also known as the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of the Varsity Cup, an annual inter-university rugby union competition featuring eight South African universities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup\nThe tournament was won by  Maties for the second consecutive season; they beat  NWU Pukke 11-6 in the final played on 30 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup, Competition Rules\nThere were eight participating universities in the 2009 Varsity Cup. These teams played each other once over the course of the season, either home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup, Competition Rules\nTeams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by log points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup, Competition Rules\nThe top four teams qualified for the Title Play-Offs. In the Semi-Finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals will play each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205618-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Varsity Cup, Teams\nThe following teams took part in the 2009 Varsity Cup competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 90]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205619-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vattenfall Cyclassics\nThe 2009 Vattenfall Cyclassics is a one-day road race, which is part of the 2009 UCI ProTour, took place on 16 August 2009. The race covered a total of 225 kilometres (140\u00a0mi) and took place in Hamburg, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205620-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Veikkausliiga\nThe 2009 Veikkausliiga was the seventy-ninth season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 18 April 2009 and ended on 17 October 2009. Inter Turku were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205620-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Veikkausliiga\nThe championship was won by HJK Helsinki, who came out on top of a three-team race which also involved Honka Espoo and TPS Turku. On the bottom end of the table, RoPS were relegated to the Ykk\u00f6nen while JJK will have to compete in a two-legged relegation play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205620-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Veikkausliiga, Promotion and relegation\nKooTeePee finished at the bottom of the 2008 season and were relegated to Ykk\u00f6nen. Their place was taken by Ykk\u00f6nen champions JJK. 13th placed Veikkausliiga team KuPS and Ykk\u00f6nen runners-up competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in 2009 Veikkausliiga. KuPS won 2\u20131 on aggregate and thereby retained their league position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 44], "content_span": [45, 386]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205620-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Veikkausliiga, League table, Relegation play-offs\nJJK as 13th placed team of 2009 Veikkausliiga and KPV as runners-up of the 2009 Ykk\u00f6nen competed in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in the 2010 Veikkausliiga. JJK won the play-offs by 5\u20133 and remained in Veikkausliiga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum\nThe 2009 referendum was a vote in which the citizens of Venezuela approved Amendment No. 1 (Enmienda No. 1) of the Constitution of Venezuela; this abolished term limits for the offices of President, state governors, mayors and National Assembly deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum\nThe current constitution, enacted in 1999 by referendum, previously established a three-term limit for deputies and a two-term limit for the other offices. The proposed amendment was put to a referendum on 15 February 2009 and endorsed by 54% of the electorate, with approximately 70% of registered voters participating. Upon having his term limits removed, Ch\u00e1vez promised to supporters that he would lead Venezuela until 2030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Background\nA proposal for an important change in the main structure of the Constitution, that included abolishing presidential term limits among major social, economical and political changes was rejected in 2007 when university students led protests and played a critical role in the result; President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez had said the reform was needed to implement his socialist program. Ch\u00e1vez conceded defeat by saying \"for now, we couldn't\" (\"por ahora no pudimos\"), echoing the phrase he used after the failure of his February 1992 attempted coup d'\u00e9tat against the Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 638]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Background\nOn 30 November 2008, six days after broadening support in regional elections, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez decided that it was the opportunity to seek continuous presidential terms, announcing on television that he would be open to a new wave of discussion on the proposal for allowing the postulation without limits to presidential candidature. A National Electoral Council supportive of Ch\u00e1vez quickly accepted elections, scheduling the referendum a little over a month after the regional elections for February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Background\nThe following day, his supporters started working towards a constitutional amendment for this goal. Ch\u00e1vez utilized successful managers from PDVSA to lead his referendum campaign. He also offered the abolition of term limits to governors and other officials who supported his removal of term limits. The Ch\u00e1vez administration then distributed many free kitchen and household appliances to his supporters beside flyers stating \"Ch\u00e1vez loves us and love is repaid with love\" and \"Ch\u00e1vez is incapable of doing us harm\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nThe full title of the law was Amendment No. 1 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Enmienda No. 1 de la Constitucion de Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela). It was approved by a majority of the members of the National Assembly. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Ch\u00e1vez's political party) states that the initiative was backed by more than six million people. The amendment affects Articles 160, 162, 174, 192 and 230 of the constitution. They are amended as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 160: The governor shall be elected for a four-year term by the majority of the votes cast. The governor may be re-elected immediately and only once for one more term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 160: The governor shall be elected for a four-year term by the majority of the votes cast. The governor may be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 162: The regional legislators shall be elected for a maximum of two terms in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 174: The mayor shall be elected for a four-year term by the majority of the votes cast and may be re-elected immediately and only once for one more term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 174: The mayor shall be elected for a four-year term by the majority of the votes cast and may be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 192: The deputies for the National Assembly are elected for a five-year term with the possibility of re-election for a maximum of two terms in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 192: The deputies for the National Assembly are elected for a five-year term with the possibility of re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 230: The presidential term of office lasts six years. The President of the Republic may be re-elected immediately and only once for one more term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 230: The presidential term of office lasts six years. The President of the Republic may be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Provisions of the amendment\nArticle 341 of the constitution, which governs amendments, states that \"amendments shall be numbered consecutively and shall be published beneath the Constitution without altering the text of the latter\". Therefore, the 2009 amendment has not altered the original text of the constitution. Rather, Amendment No.1 (including new texts for each of the five amended articles) is published below the original text as a codicil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Referendum question\nDo you approve the amendment of articles 160, 162, 174, 192 and 230 of the Constitution of the Republic, as processed by the National Assembly, which increases the political rights of the people, with the purpose of allowing any citizen incumbent in an elected office, to be nominated as candidate for the same office, for the period of time established constitutionally, his or her possible re-election depending exclusively on popular vote?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Results\nOpinion polls conducted on the measure in December 2008 varied widely, with results ranging from 32% approval (with 61% disapproval) to 51% approval (with 39% disapproval). The final results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Results\nThese figures were given in the second partial official bulletin, issued when canvassing reached a 98.81% of the votes. The trends are deemed to be irreversible. Final results are awaited in the following days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nThe initial reaction of the opposition to the referendum proposal was that it was illegal. Henry Ramos Allup, secretary general of the opposition party Acci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica called the proposal \"'illegal and unconstitutional' because Article 345 says that 'A revised constitutional reform initiative may not be submitted during the same constitutional term of office of the National Assembly.'\" Ch\u00e1vez avoided this issue by declaring that the change to the constitution would be in the form of an amendment, instead of a constitutional reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nIn addition, the constitutional amendment was re-defined to apply to all popular elected positions, not just to the president. Elenis Rodr\u00edguez Mart\u00ednez, a leader of the opposition party Primero Justicia, stated that the proposed change constitutes a fundamental change to the constitution, and therefore cannot be voted as an amendment. She stated that, \"Under Article 340, 'the purpose of an amendment is to add to or modify one or more articles of the Constitution, without altering the fundamental structure of the same.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0019-0002", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nWhen the president says that he wants to delete some words from Article 230 of the Constitution, he is lying, because he really wants to remove an essential part of the text and in doing so he is altering its structure, as well as part of the provisions of Article 6, which reads that 'the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is ... alternating' (...) This is a camouflaged reform.\" However, the Constitutional Court ruled that such a change was within the scope of a constitutional amendment, and that such an amendment could be re-attempted each year. The editors of Venezuelan publishing house Veneconomy argue that the 15 February date is too soon to comply with time-frames set forth by the suffrage law and related laws for the registration of voters newly turned-18 and for the organization of polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 897]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nStudents again took a leading role in protests, as they did in the campaign against the 2007 referendum. On 16 January students blocked a Caracas highway, burned trees and taunted the police. After viewing video of the protests, Ch\u00e1vez gave the order: \"Throw lots of (tear) gas at them, and take them prisoner for me. If you don't, I'm going to go after the authorities responsible.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nTensions rose in advance of the referendum, with a group of 40 armed men taking over the Caracas city hall, to which an opposition mayor had been elected in November, and declaring the building \"recovered for the revolution\". Tear gas was also thrown at the compound of the papal nuncio, who had granted asylum to an anti-Ch\u00e1vez student leader accused of sexual assault; and an anti-Ch\u00e1vez student leader's car was burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, Opposition\nOpposition figures have accused Ch\u00e1vez of using all the resources of the government to support the Yes campaign, ranging from near-total support for the Yes campaign on state radio and television to placement of Yes campaign ads on official ministry websites. According to opposition figure Leopoldo L\u00f3pez, \"we aren\u2019t competing against a political party, we\u2019re competing against an entire state and all of the power it can wield\". The opposition also says that No campaign ads have had their approval delayed and scheduling manipulated by the National Electoral Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, International\nFollowing claims that US officials had met with Venezuelan opposition leaders in Puerto Rico (which the US denied), Ch\u00e1vez accused U.S. President Barack Obama of meddling in the referendum, adding that \"He's said I'm an obstacle for progress in Latin America... Therefore it must be removed, this obstacle, right?\" Ch\u00e1vez also added that Obama was under pressure from the Pentagon to be tough on Venezuela by quoting: \"He [Obama] knows that if he doesn't obey the orders of the empire, they'll probably kill him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, International\nPresident of Brazil Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva backed Hugo Ch\u00e1vez's proposal of a possible re-election and asked why nobody criticized Colombian President \u00c1lvaro Uribe, who was also proposing the removal of Colombia's current two-term limit, having already removed the previous one-term limit, a move that made possible his re-election in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 410]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, International, International observers\nAround 100 international observers were accredited to observe the vote, but neither the Organization of American States nor the European Union had official observers in Venezuela. Observers from Latin American nations, European Parliament members, and European academics said that the ballot had been free and fair. The United States Department of State spokesman Noel Clay praised the \"civic spirit\" of the referendum. He added that it was important that elected officials in Venezuela focused on \"governing democratically\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 617]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, International, International observers\nOn 13 February 2009, the Venezuelan government expelled Luis Herrero, a Spanish member of the European Parliament (and member of the European People's Party), after he called Ch\u00e1vez a dictator and criticized Ch\u00e1vez's handling of the constitutional referendum. One of the parties in the opposition to Ch\u00e1vez had asked Herrero to observe the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205621-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum, Reaction, International, International observers\nIn April 2009, NACLA reported that its observers had found that \"the voting in Venezuela\u2019s 2009 referendum was, overall, fair, transparent, and clean.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 91], "content_span": [92, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205623-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Verizon Festival of Speed\nThe 2009 Verizon Festival of Speed was the fourth round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 17, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205624-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Verizon Wireless 250\nThe 2009 Verizon Wireless 250 was the third round of the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season. It took place at New Jersey Motorsports Park on May 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205625-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victoria Cup\nThe 2009 Victoria Cup was the second edition of the Victoria Cup challenge, played on September 29, 2009 between the 2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League winner ZSC Lions and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). The ZSC Lions won the game 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205625-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Victoria Cup, ZSC Lions\nThe ZSC Lions qualified to play for the 2009 Victoria Cup by winning the 2008\u201309 Champions Hockey League competition. The ZSC Lions from Switzerland won the competition by beating Russia's Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the finals. Metallurg Magnitogorsk played in the inaugural 2008 Victoria Cup game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205625-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Victoria Cup, Chicago Blackhawks\nThe Chicago Blackhawks were named on May 10, 2009 to represent the NHL. The Blackhawks made it to the Western Conference Finals in 2008, eventually losing to the Detroit Red Wings. They would go on in the 2009 season to clinch the 2nd seed in the Western Conference and win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1961. The Chicago Blackhawks were founded in 1926 and are one of the \"Original Six\" teams of the NHL. This was the Blackhawks' first game against a European club in Europe. The Blackhawks have played in Europe before, having played two exhibition games in 1992 in London, England against the NHL Montreal Canadiens. The Blackhawks played an exhibition game at Hallenstadion on September 28 against HC Davos, which they won 9 - 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 782]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission\nThe 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission is an Australian Royal Commission that concluded on 31 July 2010. It investigated the nature of circumstances surrounding the Black Saturday bushfires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, Preceding events\nPremier John Brumby announced a Royal Commission into the fires to examine \"all aspects of the government's bushfire strategy\",including whether climate change contributed to the severity of the fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, Preceding events\nOn 13 February 2009 Brumby announced that Justice Bernard Teague, former judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, would chair the Commission, to be assisted by two other Commissioners. On 16 February, the assistant Commissioners were appointed: Ron McLeod, former Commonwealth Ombudsman and the head of an inquiry concerning the 2003 Canberra bushfires; and Susan Pascoe, the Commissioner of the State Services Authority. The Commission was given very broad terms of reference, with Premier Brumby saying that the Commission would be \"[t]he most open inquiry that is possible. No stone unturned. Every bit of information on the table. And if that means calling ministers or premiers, or whoever it is, we will be happy to assist.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nIn the preliminary hearing on 20 April, commission counsel Jack Rush delivered in his opening address that an interim report assessing the inadequately short notice warnings would be delivered by the commission to the government by August. The report would evaluate the current \"stay or go policy\" for bushfire evacuation, and during the commission various bureaucrats' performance and judgment was scrutinized, including Commissioner of Emergency Services Bruce Esplin, and CFA Operations Officer Jason Lawrence but most significantly CFA Chief Officer Russel Rees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nRees's knowledge and the rapidity of his actions (mainly lack of) were questioned, and his defense included: that 7 February was the first day the Integrated Emergency Coordination Centre (IECC) had been tested and it worked well; that intelligence was unclear during the day; that the IECC were very busy; the fires were being fought from the inside and not the outside; and that he couldn't focus on one fire because it would narrow his statewide perspective. The commission's questioning explicitly revealed that Rees had not kept close contact with the progress of the Kilmore East fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nAt 4pm, ten minutes before the Strathewen fires had consumed the area, Rees had accepted a state situation report claiming the fire remained in Mount Disappointment's forest and wouldn't reach Whittlesea for five hours, 30 minutes later the Kilmore East fire reached Kinglake West and swarmed Kinglake less than three hours later. News of deaths reached the Kangaroo Ground CFA office at 5pm and Rees said he'd first been informed of these deaths between 7 and 8pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 523]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0003-0003", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nRees was also unaware: of the aircraft line-scan taken after the fire erupted, chief fire behavior expert Dr Kevin Tolhurst's presence and predictive map he and his team produced. Rees's evidence explained that warnings weren't issued from the centre but from the periphery, the local incident-control centers (ICCs), the IECC's only responsibility was to place such warnings on the CFA website, but nor Rees or any IECC members saw the warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nThe working bushfire 'stay or go' (evacuate or protect your home) policy was scrutinized and severely questioned. The policy was founded on the empirical claim, researched by Dr Katherine Haynes, that concluded that survival was more likely for people to be actively fighting the fire at home than passively shelter or evacuate to be stuck on the roads. The policy was defended by Esplin, who argued against the proposal of compulsory mass evacuation insisting that people intending to leave their homes should have been gone long before specific fires were imminent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nHe clarified that threat messages weren't a signal to evacuate but exclusive prompts to assist people who planned to defend their property. Robert Manne adds \"In the philosophy of Bruce Esplin \u2026 the kind of mid-afternoon warnings the citizens north of Melbourne so desperately needed on 7 February simply had no place\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission\nIn its final week, the commission looked at the fuel-reduction burns in Bendigo and Gippsland. As it turned out, none of the 51 recommendations the commission handed down dealt with fuel reduction, but there was significant public concern that something more should have been done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission, Criticism of the stay or go policy\nManne drew his own conclusions based on the evidence heard at the Royal Commission:\"From the evidence collected at the royal commission, the cumbersome new bureaucratic machine, the IECC, seems to have operated like an army without a general, where no one thought it their responsibility to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 93], "content_span": [94, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission, Criticism of the stay or go policy\n\"Because of the false empirical assumptions of the stay-or-go policy, many of those at the IECC seem to have convinced themselves that if last-minute warnings triggered flight, this would pose a deadlier threat than staying put.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 93], "content_span": [94, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission, Criticism of the stay or go policy\n\"Far too few inside the firefighting bureaucracies were willing on 7 February to break the rules, to disobey authority or to act spontaneously at time of crisis\". The interim report was released to the public on 17 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 93], "content_span": [94, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205626-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, The commission, Criticism of the fuel-reduction burns\nIn a guest editorial for Australian Forestry, Michael Ryan, one of the victims who lost houses in Bendigo and who works in forestry, said that Victorian authorities need to \"manage fuels appropriately in diverse forest types, and residents at the rural-urban interface need to be properly prepared\u2014and on 7 February the reality is that many were not.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 96], "content_span": [97, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205627-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Premier League\nThe 2009 Victorian Premier League season was held between February and September 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205627-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Premier League, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nTeams promoted from Division 1:(After the end of the 2008 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205627-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Premier League, Teams, Promotion and relegation\nTeams relegated to Division 1:(After the end of the 2008 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205627-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Premier League, Victoria Men's Team 2009\nA Victoria Men's Team consisting of Victorian Premier League players formed to compete against Melbourne Victory for two Victorian bushfire charity appeals matches. The games were scheduled for 12 May and 20 May. Victoria coach Chris Taylor stated that the players were selected \"on the basis that some...may go on to play in the national competition in the future.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205627-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorian Premier League, Victoria Men's Team 2009\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205628-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victorino Cunha Cup\nThe Victorino Cunha Cup is an annual Angolan basketball tournament held in honour of former Angolan basketball coach Victorino Cunha. The 1st edition (2009), ran from October 16 to 23, and was contested by four teams in a round robin system. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 301]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl\nThe 2009 Victory Bowl was a college football post-season bowl game. The game was played on November 21, 2009 at Francis Field in Greenville, Illinois. The Geneva College Golden Tornadoes, a provisional member of NCAA D-III Presidents' Athletic Conference played against the Greenville College of NCAA D-III Upper Mid-West Athletic Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl\nGeneva College won their fifth Victory Bowl in its sixth appearance (both NCCAA Victory Bowl records).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl, Game summary\nGeneva claimed a hard-fought victory over Greenville 29-28, with the issue being decided in the game's final seconds. Greenville took an early lead on a 1-yard touchdown run by Ambers. Gerard Muschette put Geneva on the board with a 5-yard touchdown run during the second quarter to tie the game at 7-7. The Panthers extended their lead on a 39-yard touchdown run by Ambers. The failed extra point gave Greenville a 13-7 lead going into the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl, Game summary\nAmbers scored his third of three touchdowns for Greenville with a 14-yard run. Friedrich caught a two-point conversion attempt from Lira to extend Greenville's lead over Geneva to 21-7. The Golden Tornadoes answered back with Muschette's second touchdown run. The 1\u00a0yard run and the extra point cut the Panther's lead to 21-14. Greenville's final points of the game came in the third quarter when Fred scored on a pass of 33\u00a0yards from Lira. Ackerman's extra point put the score at 28-14 Greenville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl, Game summary\nOffensive MVP Gerard Muschette scored his third touchdown of the day late in the 3rd quarter on a five-yard run, but a failed extra point resulted in a scored of 28-20. Senior Matt Barge scored for the Golden Tornadoes with 4:54 left in the 4th quarter to cut the Panther's lead over the Golden Tornadoes to 28-26. A failed two-point conversion attempt by the Golden Tornadoes left Greenville ahead. A successful stand by the Golden Tornado Defense, led by Brian Wilson, gave the ball back to Geneva with 2:12 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl, Game summary, The Drive\nThe Golden Tornadoes' final possession of the 2009 season began on their own 3\u00a0yard line, with 2:12 remaining in the game. Junior quarterback David Girardi completed a first down pass to Barge for a ten-yard gain. Three incomplete passes resulted in a 4th and 10 for Geneva from their own 13\u00a0yard line. Heavy pass rush caused Girardi to scramble from the pocket who then completed a pass to Barge for a gain of 10 and a first down. Another pass to Barge, this time for 14\u00a0yards moved the ball out to Geneva's 37\u00a0yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205629-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Victory Bowl, Game summary, The Drive\nA short gain on a pass by Girardi to Thurston moved the ball out to Geneva's 41\u00a0yard line. The Golden Tornadoes then relied \"900 Saint Vincent\" for a 47-yard gain down to Greenville's 12\u00a0yard line. The play called for Girardi to take a few steps towards Geneva's bench, asking for a new play. The ball was then directly snapped to running back Matt Barge who then lateralled the ball back to Girardi. Girardi then completed a deep post to Nuetzel for a huge gain. Geneva gained 8 more yards on two short passes to Dean and Thurston. A final incomplete pass led to a 4-2 at Greenville's 3\u00a0yard line when Nick Dipietro kicked the game-winning field goal with :19\u00a0seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 729]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205630-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Victory Shield\nThe Victory Shield 2009 is the 64th edition of the Victory Shield, an annual football tournament that began in 1925 and is competed for by the Under 16 level teams of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It was held from 1 October to 26 November 2009 and was won by England for the 9th time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205631-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese Cup\nThe 2009 Vietnamese National Cup (known as the Bamboo Airways National Cup for sponsorship reasons) season is the 17th edition of the Vietnamese Cup, the football knockout competition of Vietnam organized by the Vietnam Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205631-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese Cup\nFive teams (Viettel Football Club (The Cong, in season), Becamex Binh Duong FC, Nam Dinh Football Club, Khanh Hoa FC and Ha Noi ACB F.C.) will not compete in the first round, and are automatically qualified for the round of 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205631-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese Cup, Finalist players, Viettel FC (The Cong) Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205631-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese Cup, Finalist players, SHB Da Nang FC Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205632-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese National Football First League\nVietnamese National Football First League (V.League 2) is the second highest league in Vietnamese football after the V.League 1 with 14 teams competing in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205633-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese National Football Second League\nThe 2009 Vietnamese National Football Second League has 16 teams, both professional and semi-professional, is divided into 3 groups, 2 groups with 5 teams and 1 group with 6 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205633-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese National Football Second League\nTeams play in a round robin format. the 3 top teams as well as the best 2nd team with most points qualifies for promotion playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205633-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vietnamese National Football Second League\nThe 2 winners are promoted to the Vietnam First Division. No teams are relegated and no foreign players are permitted to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205634-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania. They were co-champions of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and advanced to the National Championship game where they defeated Montana, 23\u201321. It was Villanova's first national championship in football, marking them as the only team to have both an NCAA Division I Football and Men's Basketball championship (the FCS is the only official NCAA Division I Football Championship). They finished with a record of 14\u20131, 7\u20131 in CAA play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 677]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 25 November 2009. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution which would have replaced the constitution in force since independence in 1979. The proposal was supported by only 43.13% of voters in the referendum, well short of the required two-thirds threshold. If approved, the proposed constitution would have abolished the monarchy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, headed by Queen Elizabeth II, and would have given more power to the opposition. The referendum was the first of its kind to be held by a member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Campaign\nPrime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and his Unity Labour Party (ULP) campaigned heavily for the \"Yes\" vote, Gonsalves advocating that, though he had nothing personally against Queen Elizabeth II, he believed it was time for Saint Vincent to stop having a monarch as its head of state; he offered the opinion: \"I find it a bit of a Nancy story that the Queen of England  [sic] can really be the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Campaign\nThough he had earlier shown affinity towards executive presidents Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and Fidel Castro, Gonsalves asserted that the proposed constitution for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would not have created such a presidential post; the Prime Minister argued that an executive presidency would give the office holder too much power in the small country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 404]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Campaign\nIn an interview with the Trinidad and Tobago Express, he stated that type of presidency \"may well make perfect sense\" for the neighbouring country of Trinidad and Tobago, but such a government would not work in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, saying further: \"it is our assessment that to conjoin the power of a prime minister with the power of a head of state, head of government, or head of state in our circumstances, that is a matter which will end up making that office holder more powerful than the current situation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Campaign\nOpposition to the constitutional changes was led by the New Democratic Party (NDP), which held the position that the proposed constitution would neither reduce the power of the prime minister nor strengthen the country's democracy. The NDP's leader, Arnhim Eustace, opined that the Gonsalves government and opposition parties had not come to an agreement on a number of fundamental issues, including the Integrity Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman, and the Electoral and Boundaries Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Campaign\nThe CARICOM Secretariat announced that it would, at the request of the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, officially observe the referendum, with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), an agency of the government of Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205635-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum, Conduct\nVoting took place in heavy rain, with 52,262 of the 97,724 eligible Vincentiens casting ballots at 225 polling stations. The Supervisor of Elections opined that this was a good turn-out given the inclement weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205636-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team\n2009 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team represented the University of Virginia in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cavaliers played their home games at Davenport Field. The team was coached by Brian O'Connor, leading his sixth season at Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 295]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205636-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team\nThe Cavaliers won the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, then advanced to the 2009 College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205636-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team, Ranking movements\n^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. \u2020 NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205637-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 2009 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Cavaliers were led by ninth-year head coach Al Groh. The previous season, Groh fired his offensive coordinator, his son Mike Groh, and replaced him with Gregg Brandon, who had himself been fired as the head coach at Bowling Green. Brandon installed the spread offense at Virginia. The Cavaliers finished the season 3\u20139, 2\u20136 in conference play and failed to qualify for a bowl game. Following the conclusion of the season Virginia dismissed Al Groh as head coach and hired Mike London as his replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 750]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205638-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team\nThe 2009 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team represented the University of Virginia during the 2009 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the Cavaliers' 69th season fielding a men's varsity soccer program, and the program's 56th season playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205638-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team\nThe Cavaliers had one of their most successful seasons in program history, winning both the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, and the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The Cavs won their first ACC Tournament title since 2004, and their first NCAA Tournament title since 1994. It was head coach George Gelnovatch's first year winning the NCAA title. Altogether, it was the Cavs' sixth national championship season. Additionally, the Cavs won the minor early season Portland/Nike Invitational. The Cavaliers also finish first in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings for the first time since 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 661]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205638-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Background\nThe Cavaliers came off a season where they finished 11\u20139\u20131 across all competitions and 4\u20134 in ACC play. The Cavaliers finished fourth in the ACC and earned an berth into the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. Virginia reached the ACC Championship where they lost to eventual NCAA champions, Maryland, 1\u20130. Their run in the ACC Tournament secured an at-large bid into the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament seeded 10th, ensuring a second round bye. Virginia lost in the Second Round of the tournament to Connecticut, 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205638-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205639-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia House of Delegates election\n2009 Elections to the Virginia House of Delegates were held on November 3, 2009. Prior to the election, Republicans held 53 seats, Democrats held 43 seats, and Independents held 2 seats (both of whom caucus with the Republicans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205639-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia House of Delegates election\nThere were 2 seats previously held by Democrats that were vacant on election day: the 69th (Frank Hall resigned April 14, 2009) and the 80th (Ken Melvin resigned May 1, 2009). Eight incumbent Democrats were defeated, one incumbent Republican was defeated, and one open Republican seat was won by a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205639-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia House of Delegates election\nThe composition of the House of Delegates in 2010 was 59 Republicans, 2 Independents who caucus with the Republicans, and 39 Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205639-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia House of Delegates election, Results, By House of Delegates district\nParty abbreviations: D - Democratic, R - Republican, C - Constitution Party, I - Independent, IG - Independent Green, L - Libertarian", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205640-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship\nThe 2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA between 2 and 8 November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205640-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 80], "content_span": [81, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205640-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205640-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, Champions, Doubles\nMartin Emmrich /  Andreas Siljestr\u00f6m def. Dominic Inglot /  Rylan Rizza, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205641-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship \u2013 Doubles\nMartin Emmrich and Andreas Siljestr\u00f6m became the first champions of this tournament, by defeating Dominic Inglot and Rylan Rizza 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [11\u20139] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205642-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship \u2013 Singles\nKevin Kim defeated Somdev Devvarman 6\u20134, 6\u20137(8\u201310), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205643-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Tech Hokies football team\nThe 2009 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Frank Beamer. The Hokies finished the season 10\u20133 (6\u20132 ACC) and won the Chick-fil-A Bowl, 37\u201314, over Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205643-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Flyovers\nVirginia Tech home games have featured flyovers by military aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections\nThe following offices were up for election in the United States Commonwealth of Virginia in the November 2009 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, Schedule of election related events\nThe Virginia State Board of Elections set the following calendar of events for the November 2009 election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, Schedule of election related events\nIn addition, candidates must file campaign finance reports with the state or local election boards at certain specified intervals during the campaign year. The three incumbent statewide officeholders and members of the General Assembly are barred by law from fundraising during the annual session of the General Assembly, from mid-January through roughly the end of February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 436]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, Schedule of election related events\nSufficiently large political parties (in practice, the Democratic and Republican parties) have the option of nominating candidates in primary elections. Nominees not chosen in primaries are selected in a caucus or convention process. Incumbent members of Congress and the General Assembly have the option of choosing their party's nominating method for their office; otherwise, the decision is made by a committee of party officials from the jurisdiction involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, Schedule of election related events\nPersons 18 years old or older on the general election date (born on or before November 3, 1991) may register and vote in both the primary and general elections. Voters in Virginia do not register by party; they have the option of voting in any one party's primary, and may switch at will from one election to the next.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, Issues, Reapportionment\nIn 2011 the General Assembly will redraw district boundaries for seats in the United States House of Representatives, the Senate of Virginia, and the House of Delegates, based on results of the 2010 United States Census. This is a highly partisan process, which can determine the balance of power in those bodies for up to ten years. There are three major players in the process:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, House of Delegates, Retirements\nAs of July\u00a017,  2009, ten House members had announced they would not run for re-election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205644-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia elections, House of Delegates, Retirements\nIn addition, Bob Hull (D-Fairfax) was defeated for renomination by Kaye Kory in the June 9 primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election took place in Virginia on November 3, 2009. The incumbent Governor, Democrat Tim Kaine, was not eligible to run due to term limits established by the Virginia Constitution, though others in the state's executive branch were not restricted. (Virginia is the only state that prohibits a Governor from serving consecutive terms.) Republican Bob McDonnell was elected as Governor as part of a Republican sweep. Republican Bill Bolling was reelected as lieutenant governor, and Republican Ken Cuccinelli was elected as attorney general. The winners were inaugurated on January 16, 2010, and served until January 11, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 694]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election\nState Senator Creigh Deeds was selected as the Democratic nominee, having defeated former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former state Delegate Brian Moran in the Democratic primary election. This was the first contested Democratic primary in two decades. McDonnell, a former state Attorney General, was selected at his party's nominating convention. He defeated Deeds in the general election by a margin of 59%\u201341%. As of 2021, this is the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Virginia, and the last time a Republican won any statewide race. This is also the last time any of the following counties have voted Republican in a statewide race: Albemarle, Fairfax, Prince William, Henrico, Prince Edward, Sussex, Brunswick, and the independent city of Suffolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 832]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe Democratic primary campaign for governor unofficially began on December 13, 2007 when State Senator Creigh Deeds, who ran for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005, announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination. State Delegate Brian Moran, brother of Congressman Jim Moran, joined Deeds on January 4, 2008, when he established a political action committee. For the following year (before McAuliffe indicated his intentions to run), Deeds and Moran squared off picking up endorsements, and raising money. On January 3, 2009, McLean resident Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign announced that he was also running. The Democratic primary, which took place on June 9, 2009, was the first contested in over twenty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 892]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nMoran received many endorsements from members of the State Democratic Party as well as the mayors of the Hampton Roads area. Deeds picked up support from Northern and Western Virginia, such as the endorsement from U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher. The area of strength for Deeds was concentrated in Western and Southern Virginia, and the area of strength for Moran consisted mostly of Eastern Virginia with both reaching out to Northern Virginian voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 518]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe race was close from the beginning, with McAuliffe considered to be a semi \"front-runner\" due to his lead in the polls and big campaign war chest. However, in the last few weeks of the race, Deeds began to surge up in the polls. By election night, June 9, Deeds swept to victory. Creigh Deeds spent $14.49 for each vote on the Democratic primary election. Terry McAuliffe spent $68.25 for each vote on the Democratic primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, Republican candidate\nAttorney General Bob McDonnell first announced his intention to run at American Legion's Boys State of Virginia 2007. This was the sixth consecutive Virginian gubernatorial election in which an Attorney General ran. McDonnell was the only Republican candidate to file with the election board before the November 2008 deadline. As a result, there was no Republican Party primary. McDonnell accepted the Republican nomination at a state convention on May 30, 2009, in Richmond. Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele had said that the election for governor of Virginia is one of the most important elections for the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nDeeds and McDonnell both ran for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005. McDonnell won by just over 300 votes, in the same election in which Tim Kaine was elected Governor with 52% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nThe main themes of the election were the economy, transportation, and jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nThe first debate was in Hot Springs, Virginia on July 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nVice President Joe Biden campaigned for Deeds in Henrico County, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia on July 16. Also attending were Richmond Mayor Dwight Clinton Jones, state Senator A. Donald McEachin (D-Henrico), and Virginia first lady Anne Holton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nOn August 6, President Barack Obama and Governor Tim Kaine campaigned for Deeds in McLean, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205645-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, General election\nDeeds is from Bath County, Virginia, a rural area of fewer than 5,000 people, where John McCain received over 55% of the vote. McDonnell is from Virginia Beach, which McCain won with 49.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205646-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vitonen - Finnish League Division 5\nLeague tables for teams participating in Vitonen, the sixth highest league in the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup\nThe 2009 VIVA World Cup was the third VIVA World Cup, an international tournament for football open to non-FIFA-affiliated teams, played in Padania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup\nThree venues were bidding to host the tournament in 2010\u00a0:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 78]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup\nAt the NF-Board general meeting in Milan (Italy), on 13 December 2008, it was decided to hold the Viva World Cup annually. The 2010 edition will be played in Gozo and priority was given to Iraqi Kurdistan to host the 2011 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup\nOccitania originally finished 5th, but having made one more substitution than allowed, the result was overturned, leaving Gozo as the winners of the 5th place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup\nThe defending champions from the previous tournament were Padania, who went on to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205647-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Viva World Cup, Squads\nFor a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 2009 VIVA World Cup squads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205648-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros\nThe 2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, formerly known as the Seve Trophy, was played 24\u201327 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bret\u00e8che in France. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley, with the captain for Continental Europe being Thomas Bj\u00f8rn. Great Britain and Ireland won the Trophy for the fifth consecutive time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 393]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205648-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, Format\nThe format remained the same for the fourth successive time. The teams competed over four days with five fourball matches on both Thursday and Friday, four greensomes matches on Saturday morning, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon and ten singles matches on Sunday. It means a total of 28 points are available with 14\u00bd points required for victory. If the score finished at 14\u201314, then two players from each team would play the 18th using the greensomes format to find the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205648-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, Format\nThere was a big reduction in the prize money for the 2009 event. Each member of the winner team received \u20ac65,000, the losing team \u20ac55,000 each, giving a total prize fund of \u20ac1,150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205648-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, Teams\nThe teams were made up of five players from the World Rankings list and five players from the European points list following the conclusion of the Mercedes-Benz Championship on 14 September 2009. There were a number of players who qualified for the trophy, but pulled out. These include P\u00e1draig Harrington, Sergio Garc\u00eda, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and Paul Casey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 48], "content_span": [49, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205648-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, Day four, Singles\nAnthony Wall injured his shoulder on Friday afternoon. He did not play on the Saturday and was still unfit to play in the singles on Sunday. Under the rules of the event a half was agreed with a player chosen by Thomas Bj\u00f8rn to sit out the singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205649-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vi\u00f1a del Mar International Song Festival\nThe 2009 Vi\u00f1a del Mar International Song Festival was held from Monday 23 February until Saturday 28 February. This festival was the number 50, and had a special award for the 50 years, the \"Gold Song\", elected between the winner songs from 2001 to 2008 versions of Festival. Finally, \"Gold song\" in the folk contest was \"Cuecas Al Sol\" (2005 winner), and in the international contest was \"Ayer te vi\" (2001 winner).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205649-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vi\u00f1a del Mar International Song Festival\nThe television channels from the festival this year is \"Canal 13\" and \"TVN\", and was held in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chile", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge\nThe Vodacom Challenge celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009 with the English Premier League side Manchester City touring South Africa and playing against two local PSL clubs, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. Kaizer Chiefs defeated star-studded Manchester City in the final to lift the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge\nThis was the first time that Manchester City had taken part in the Vodacom Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nOriginally known as the Vodacom African Challenge the competition was conceptualised and first played in 1999 as communications giant Vodacom sought to leverage their sponsorship of Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nThe first year of the competition saw two of the giants of the African continent invited to the pre-season tournament. Asec Mimosa, the reigning African champions were joined by Tunisia's Esp\u00e9rance. Orlando Pirates walked away with the trophy after an emphatic 4-1 win over Esp\u00e9rance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nThe 2000 tournament started on a sour note when Morocco's Raja Casablanca, the new African champions, withdrew as it was felt that their participation was in conflict with Morocco and South Africa's battle to win the right to host the 2006 World Cup. Power Dynamos of Zambia were added as a late replacement, joining Ivorians Africa Sport who held the African Cup Winner\u2019s Cup. The final between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs failed to live up to pre-match expectations, although it did provide a fascinating battle in midfield. Kaizer Chiefs walked away 1-0 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nThe 2001 Vodacom Challenge held special meaning for supporters from both Ghana and South Africa. Ghanaian clubs Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak were invited to play. The organizers dedicated the tournament to the 43 fans who had died at Ellis Park just a few months before, as well as the 126 people who perished at the Accra Sports Stadium during a match between Hearts and Kotoko just weeks before the Ellis Park tragedy. It was a sobering occasion for all, and a reminder that much was still to be done to ensure the safety of spectators across the continent. The final produced no goals and the match went to penalties with Kaizer Chiefs managing to retain the trophy they won the year before with a 3-2 win on penalties against Asante Kotoko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 790]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nAsante Kotoko returned for the 2002 event, where they were joined by DRC outfit St Eloi Lupopo. The final was settled by a single spectacular goal from Musasa and Asante Kotoko became the first foreign side to lift the Vodacom Challenge trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nSt Eloi Lupopo returned to defend their title in 2003 and were joined by compatriots TP Mazembe. Kaizer Chiefs claimed their third title in the final after winning 3-2 on penalties after a goalless match. It was after this tournament that TP Mazembe's Felix Musasa joined Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nAs had been the growing trend over the years, the 2004 Vodacom Challenge was dominated by shoot outs. TP Mazembe were back, this time joined by newcomers AS Vita. The final that pitted Kaizer Chiefs against AS Vita Club was disappointing until the dying minutes of the game when a goal from each side saw the match go to penalties. AS Vita went on to win the shoot-out 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nDefending champions AS Vita and Green Buffaloes of Zambia were invited the next year and both fell at the first hurdle setting up a dream final between Pirates and Chiefs. The final in Durban was a cracking match that provided great entertainment for the expectant crowd. Pirates held on to claim their second trophy after a long six-year wait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\n2006 saw a change in format with Chiefs and Pirates now taking on a European giant. Manchester United was named as the competition. Chiefs and Pirates each took on Man United in an exhibition match followed by a derby clash to determine who would play the visiting team in the final. Kaizer Chiefs represented South Africa in the final and after a nail-biting penalty shoot out, Kaizer Chiefs raised the new-look trophy in glory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 472]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nTottenham Hotspur, hoping to emulate Manchester United by visiting South Africa and winning the Premier League the next season were the international team in 2007. Spurs played Pirates in the Final and walked away with the Vodacom Challenge Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Tournament history\nManchester United returned in 2008 to avenge their loss to Kaizer Chiefs in 2006. In a hard fought final, the Manchester United team with big names like Rooney, Ferdinand and Tevez lifted the trophy and once again the Vodacom Challenge trophy travelled to distant shores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Vodacom Challenge 2010\nThe 2010 Vodacom Challenge was skipped, due to the World Cup being organised in South Africa, during the months of June and July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Venues\nFour cities served as the venues for the 2009 Vodacom Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Manchester City Squad for 2009 Vodacom Challenge\nPremier League team Manchester City announced on the 15 July 2009 that they will be bringing a full-strength squad to South Africa for the 10th anniversary of the Vodacom Challenge where they will tackle Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 72], "content_span": [73, 325]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205650-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Challenge, Manchester City Squad for 2009 Vodacom Challenge\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205651-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Cup\nThe 2009 Vodacom Cup was the 12th edition of this annual domestic cup competition. The Vodacom Cup is played between provincial rugby union teams in South Africa from the Currie Cup Premier and First Divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205651-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Cup, Competition\nThere were 14 teams participating in the 2009 Vodacom Cup competition. These teams were geographically divided into two sections - the Northern Section and the Southern Section, each with seven teams. Teams would play all the teams in their section once over the course of the season, either at home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205651-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Cup, Competition\nTeams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that score four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams losing a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205651-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Cup, Competition\nThe top four teams in each section qualified for the play-offs. In the quarter finals, the teams that finished first in each section had home advantage against the teams that finished fourth in the other section and the teams that finished second in each section had home advantage against the teams that finished third in the other section. The winners of these quarter finals then played each other in the semi-finals, with the higher placed team having home advantage. The two semi-final winners then met in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205651-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vodacom Cup, Teams, Team Listing\nThe following teams took part in the 2009 Vodacom Cup competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205652-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vojko Herksel Cup\nThe 2009 Vojko Herksel Cup was the 4th Vojko Herksel Cup. Hold of Final tournament is Gospi\u0107. Winner of the four edition of the \u0160ibenik Jolly who won Gospi\u0107 Croatia Osiguranje. Vojko Herksel Cup was also the traditional Gospi\u0107 Cup, which was the sixth time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205653-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger\nThe 2009 Volkswagen Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was part of the 2009 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Wolfsburg, Germany between 23 and 29 February 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205653-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205653-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger, Champions, Men's Doubles\nTravis Rettenmaier /  Ken Skupski def. Sergei Bubka /  Alexandre Kudryavtsev, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205654-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nCarsten Ball and Izak van der Merwe were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205654-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger \u2013 Doubles\nTravis Rettenmaier and Ken Skupski won the title after defeating Sergei Bubka and Alexander Kudryavtsev 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205655-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Challenger \u2013 Singles\nLouk Sorensen was the defending champion. He received the wild card, but he lost in the first round to future champion, Ruben Bemelmans. Bemelmans won in the final 7\u20136(5), 3\u20136, 6\u20133, against Stefano Galvani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205656-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup\nThe 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup was the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup's second season. In 2009 10 races were set to take place on eight circuits. Both Virginia International Raceway and New Jersey Motorsports Park were doubleheader events hosting two rounds each. There are also four new tracks for the 2009 season, Miller Motorsports Park, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Autobahn Country Club, and Road America. Gone for the season are Iowa Speedway and Lime Rock Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205656-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup\nAlso new for this season is a new fuel from Hyperfuels, the official supplier for the TDI Cup. This year all the race cars, as well as all the vehicle/equipment transporters and generators used by the series, will run SynDiesel B5 Biodiesel. Late in the 2008 season, Pirelli announced that they would be the official tire supplier for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205656-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup, Race result links\nRace #1 Race #2 Race #3 Race #4 Race #5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 88]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205657-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volleyball Copa Latina\nThe 2009 Copa Latina was first edition of the annual Women's Volleyball Tournament, organized by the Peruvian Volleyball Federation, played by four countries from May 14-18, 2009 in Lima, Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina\n2009 Voloshina, provisional designation 1968 UL, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 27 kilometers in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 176]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina\nIt was discovered on 22 October 1968, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was named for WWII partisan Vera Voloshina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Classification and orbit\nVoloshina orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7\u20133.6\u00a0AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,009 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 3\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Classification and orbit\nIn March 1926, Voloshina was first observed as 1926 FF at Yerkes Observatory and one day later at Heidelberg Observatory. Its observation arc begins at Heidelberg, 62 years prior to its official discovery observation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics\nVoloshina has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric survey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics, Lightcurves\nIn May 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Voloshina was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory (E09) in Australia. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 5.896 hours with a brightness variation of 0.40 magnitude (U=3-).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics, Lightcurves\nIn January and February 2014, astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory found a period of 2.94 and 5.907 hours with an amplitude of 0.32 and 0.27 magnitude, respectively (U=2/2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nAccording to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Voloshina measures between 21.19 and 34.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.0698 and 0.120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nThe Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0487 and calculates a diameter of 34.67 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nAn occultation of a star by 2009 Voloshina was observed in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205658-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Voloshina, Naming\nThis minor planet was named in honor of Vera Danilovna Voloshina (1919\u20131941), a partisan of the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941\u20131945), also known as the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 (M.P.C. 4481).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 320]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 2009 Volta a Catalunya was the 89th edition of the Volta. It took place between 18 May and 24 May, and was part of both the ProTour and the inaugural World Calendar. It began with a short individual time trial in Lloret de Mar and ended in Montmel\u00f3 at the Circuit de Catalunya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Teams\nAs the Volta a Catalunya is a UCI ProTour event, all 18 ProTour teams were invited automatically. They were joined by three Professional Continental teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 1\n18 May 2009 \u2013 Lloret de Mar, 3.6\u00a0km (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 1\nThe course for the brief individual time trial is perfectly flat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 105]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 1\nDespite clocking in ten seconds slower than he had on the identical course in the 2008 Volta, Thor Hushovd was the winner of the short individual time trial for the second year in a row, narrowly edging out Alejandro Valverde to don the first white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 2\nThis course was hilly, with three categorized climbs, including one about 15 kilometers from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 2\nA four-man breakaway was away for much of the stage. They claimed the intermediate sprints and the first two climbs, putting Samuel Dumoulin and Lloyd Mondory, respectively, in the leading jerseys for those classifications. They were caught on the last climb of the day, the Alt de San Pere De Rodes, during which race leader Thor Hushovd was dropped and his Cerv\u00e9lo team decided to work for Xavier Florencio. A group of 54 riders was together at the finish for a final sprint, won by Matti Breschel. The race lead transferred to Alejandro Valverde, who was surprised to get it, since he did not contest the sprint and did not get any time bonuses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 688]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3\n20 May 2009 \u2013 Roses to La Pobla de Lillet, 182.8\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 91]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3\nThis was a mountainous stage, and it was thought to see a definitive split between those riders who aimed for the final podium and those who didn't. The stage started at sea level, but climbed to 1,031 meters after about 80 kilometers on the road. There were two other categorized climbs on the course, including a steep climb to 1,200 meters right before the end of the stage, which came on the descent from that climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3\nThis stage saw race leader Alejandro Valverde extend his lead with a stage win. After the peloton, paced by his team Caisse d'Epargne, caught the morning's breakaway, Valverde himself attacked at the foot of the day's last climb, and the group of nine GC contenders who were able to hold his wheel contested the finish together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4\n21 May 2009 \u2013 La Pobla de Lillet to Vallnord Sector Pal (Andorra),  175.7\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4\nThis stage was undulating at first, and then became mountainous. The Coll del Port (a pass in Catalonia, not to be confused with the pass in France with a very similar name) was visited, and the finish into Andorra was an outside categorization climb, which began 10 kilometers from the finish line. It has been called the 2009 Volta's queen stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4\nThis stage was conquered by a member of the morning's breakaway, Juli\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez. S\u00e1nchez and seven others who came clear of the peloton early on in the stage. While the others were absorbed before the Vallnord climb, S\u00e1nchez still had a 90-second lead at its foot and managed to stay away just long enough, giving victory in the queen stage of this UCI ProTour event to a non-ProTour team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4\nThe GC favorites who had otherwise dominated on the climb were within a kilometer of S\u00e1nchez at the finish, with Dan Martin coming the closest to catching him, for second on the stage and a slight time again against race leader Alejandro Valverde. Martin moved from sixth to second in the GC after the stage. As the stages that follow this one are all seen as potentially sprinters' stages, Valverde's team made it clear after this stage that they would work with the teams of the sprinters to ensure mass finishes the rest of the way and protect his 15-second lead over Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 618]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5\n22 May 2009 \u2013 La Seu d'Urgell to Torredembarra, 201.3\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5\nA fair amount of descending faced the riders in this stage, being that it began at 670 meters in elevation and ended near sea level. Most of the descending took place right before the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5\nA four-man breakaway came clear of the peloton within the first 10\u00a0km of the stage. Their maximum advantage was 4' 30\", with Steven Cozza attacking and staying out front for a short while as the peloton absorbed his three breakaway mates. Cozza was also eventually caught, and the finish was contested in a mass sprint, won by Katusha's Nikolay Trusov. Team Katusha came to the Volta thinking that Alexei Markov would be their primary sprinter, but Markov was not with the peloton at the finish. They therefore worked for Trusov in the sprint, as he narrowly edged out accomplished sprinter Thor Hushovd at the line. The top ten in the GC were unchanged by the day's results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 715]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 6\nThis stage was expected to end in a mass sprint, in spite of the three categorized climbs the course featured. In the last 40 kilometers, there was only a very short climb and a lengthy flat stretch to the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 6\nThe sprint indeed took place, with the man who was pipped at the line the day before, Thor Hushovd, coming across the line first to claim his second stage win of the Volta. The lead in the mountains classification transferred to Juli\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez, who was tied with Xavier Tond\u00f3 by points, but got the jersey because of his victory on the outside categorization climb in Stage 4. The top ten in the GC were again unchanged, and with only a very short, very flat stage remaining, it was believed that they would be unchanged again for the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7\n24 May 2009 \u2013 Centre d'Alt Rendiment to Circuit de Catalunya Montmel\u00f3, 110.8\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7\nThis course climbed to just over 600 meters. The climb was originally uncategorized, but with Xavier Tond\u00f3 and Juli\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez tied by points for the King of the Mountains jersey, race officials decided to offer points for the climb to have a definitive winner in that classification. The descent from that height took about 50 kilometers, with 10 flat kilometers to race before the finish at the race track in Montmel\u00f3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7\nThe short distance and relatively flat profile of the stage kept any breakaways from staying clear. S\u00e1nchez managed to outsprint Tond\u00f3 to the summit of the climb to clinch the red jersey victory for the Contentpolis rider. The majority of the peloton was together for the finish, a sprint which was won by Columbia-High Road's Greg Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Riders' jersey progress table\nIn the 2009 Volta a Catalunya, three different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass start stages, the leader received a white jersey with green stripes on the sleeves. This classification is considered the most important of the Volta a Catalunya, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Volta a Catalunya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Riders' jersey progress table\nAdditionally, there was also a sprint classification, indicated with a blue jersey. In the sprint classification, cyclists got points for being one of the first three in intermediate sprints, with six points awarded for first place, four for second, and two for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205659-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta a Catalunya, Riders' jersey progress table\nThere was also a mountains classification, indicated with a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points are won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. All climbs were categorized, with most either first, second, third, or fourth-category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. There was also an outside categorization climb at the end of Stage 4, which awarded even more points than the first-category climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo\nThe 2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo (Portuguese for International Cycling Tour of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo) is the 6th edition of a multi-day road cycling stage race held in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. This edition features 9 stages over 1289\u00a0km, disputed from August 22 to 30, 2009. The race is a 2.2 event in the 2008-2009 UCI America Tour. In this edition, the race has been nicknamed Tour of Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Classification and bonuses\nIn this edition of the race, time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds are awarded to the top 3 riders in each stage. Time bonuses of 3, 2 and 1 seconds are awarded to the first 3 riders at each intermediary sprint point. For the points classification, the top 5 riders in each stage are awarded 10, 7, 5, 3 and 2 points, respectively. The first 3 riders at each intermediary sprint receive 5, 3 and 2 points. Climbs are classified among 4 categories. The first 3 riders at each summit are awarded points in the mountains classification according to the category:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 645]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Classification and bonuses\nThe team classification accounts the times of the first 3 riders of each team in each stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 87], "content_span": [88, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Stages and Results, Stage 1: S\u00e3o Paulo\nHeld Saturday, August 22, 2009, on the Ponte Estaiada, in S\u00e3o Paulo. This prologue stage was a team time trial, for a total distance of 6.0\u00a0km. The stage was won by team Scott-Marcondes Cesar-S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos with a time of 7'44.831\". Teams Padaria Real-Sorocaba and FAPI-Pindamonhangaba took second and third place, with times of 7'56.404\" and 7'58.427\", respectively. Curiously, bicycles aren't allowed in the Ponte Estaiada", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 99], "content_span": [100, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Stages and Results, Stage 2: S\u00e3o Paulo to S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos\nHeld Sunday, August 23, 2009. This stage was 91.1\u00a0km long. A field of 122 riders finished with the same time of the stage winner, Hector Figueiras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 122], "content_span": [123, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Stages and Results, Stage 3: S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos to Atibaia\nHeld Monday, August 24, 2009. This stage was 103.0\u00a0km long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 120], "content_span": [121, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Stages and Results, Stage 4: Atibaia to S\u00e3o Carlos\nHeld Tuesday, August 25, 2009. This stage was 239\u00a0km long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 111], "content_span": [112, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205660-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Stages and Results, Stage 5: S\u00e3o Carlos to Ribeir\u00e3o Preto\nHeld Wednesday, August 26, 2009. This stage was 95.8\u00a0km long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 118], "content_span": [119, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205661-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship\nThe 2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship was the 45th Volvo World Match Play Championship played, the first for two years and the first time at Finca Cortes\u00edn Golf Club. It was held from 29 October to 1 November, with the champion receiving \u20ac750,000. A new format was introduced, with the sixteen players split into four groups of four, with the winner of each group progressing to the semi-finals. Once again it was an official money event on the European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205661-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship, Qualification\n3. The leading player, based upon their nationality, listed on the Official World Golf Ranking, from each of the following regions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205661-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship, Qualification\n4. The leading four players (not otherwise qualified) from the Official World Golf Rankings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205661-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship, Qualification\n5. The leading four players (not otherwise qualified) from the Race to Dubai", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205661-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship, Format\nThe sixteen players were split into four groups of four, seeded by their World Ranking. Within each group, every player played each other in a round robin format over full 18-hole matches. Each match completed the full 18 holes. Points were awarded based upon win (2), tie (1) or loss (0). The leading player from each group qualified for the semi-final knockout stage. In case of ties, aggregate number of holes won were used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election\nThe 2009 Vorarlberg state election was held on 20 September 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Vorarlberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election\nThe governing Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP) retained their majority with losses, while the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) recovered nearly all the losses it had suffered in 2004. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) lost much of their support and fell to fourth place behind The Greens, who stayed essentially level with the strong result they achieved in 2004. Governor Herbert Sausgruber was re-elected by the Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 459]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election, Background\nIn the 2004 election, the \u00d6VP achieved a strong result which allowed them to regain a comfortable majority. This was matched by major losses for the FP\u00d6, who fell from second to third place. Both the SP\u00d6 and Greens also benefited. In addition, turnout fell catastrophically from 88% to just 60%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election, Electoral system\nThe 36 seats of the Landtag of Vorarlberg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the districts of Vorarlberg. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota, with any remaining seats allocated at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 684]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties\nThe table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205662-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties\nIn addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, four parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205663-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda was the 55th edition of the Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda cycle race and was held on 15 February to 19 February 2009. The race started in Ja\u00e9n and finished in Antequera. The race was won by Joost Posthuma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205664-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Asturias\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Asturias was the 53rd edition of the Vuelta a Asturias road cycling stage race, which was held from 28 April to 2 May 2009. The race started and finished in Oviedo. The race was won by Francisco Mancebo of the Rock Racing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205665-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Burgos\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Burgos was the 31st edition of the Vuelta a Burgos road cycling stage race, which was held from 5 August to 9 August 2009. The race started in O\u00f1a and finished at Lagunas de Neila. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d'Epargne team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 288]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n was the 24th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n road cycling stage race, started on 23 March in Paredes de Nava, and concluded on 27 March in Valladolid. The race was won by Levi Leipheimer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Teams\nSeventeen teams of up to eight riders started the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Stages, Stage 1\n23 March 2009 - Paredes de Nava to Baltan\u00e1s, 168.3\u00a0km (104.6\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Stages, Stage 2\n24 March 2009 - Palencia (ITT), 28.2\u00a0km (17.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Stages, Stage 3\n25 March 2009 - Sahag\u00fan to Estaci\u00f3n Inv. De San Isiro, 156.9\u00a0km (97.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Stages, Stage 4\n26 March 2009 - Santa Mar\u00eda Del P\u00e1ramo to Galende-Laguna De Los Peces, 145.4\u00a0km (90.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205666-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Stages, Stage 5\n27 March 2009 - Benavente to Valladolid, 152.5\u00a0km (94.8\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 106]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205667-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Colombia\nThe 59th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia was held from June 6 to June 21, 2009. Stage nine was cancelled due to a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a was the 64th Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. The event took place from 29 August to 20 September 2009. For only the second time in the race's history, it began away from Spanish soil, with the race not in fact reaching Spain until Stage 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 270]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 2009 Vuelta has been described as having an easy start and a hard finish. This is because of the short individual time trial and three perfectly flat stages in the Netherlands (along with another in Spain in the race's first week), and eight of the final fourteen stages being mountain stages, with four mountaintop finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe race was won by Spain's Alejandro Valverde who claimed his first grand tour victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Teams\n29 teams sought places in the race, of which 21 were initially invited to compete. Fuji\u2013Servetto, one of two UCI ProTour teams omitted from the list of invited teams, appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and were subsequently granted the right to enter. Team Katusha are thus the only ProTour team absent from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stages\nFor details see 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11 and 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nIn the 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, four different jerseys are awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist after deduction of time bonuses for high placings in stage finishes and at intermediate sprints, the leader receives a golden jersey. This classification is considered the most important of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Vuelta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 507]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nAdditionally, there is also a points classification, which awards a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists receive points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. The winner gets 25 points, second place 20, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10, and one point per place less down the line, to a single point for fifteenth. In addition, some points can be won in intermediate sprints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThere is also a mountains classification, which awards a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb is categorized, with most of the climbs being either first, second, third, or fourth category. There are also three \"special category\" climbs (equivalent to Hors Categorie in the Tour de France); these are the stage finishes on the Alto de Aitana, the Alto de Sierra Nevada, and the Sierra de La Pandera. These climbs award even more points than a first-category climb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nFinally, there is the combination classification. This is calculated by adding the rankings in the general, points and mountains classifications; the cyclist with the lowest combined ranking is the leader in the combination classification, and receives a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThere is also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage are added, and the team with the lowest time is the leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nIf a cyclist leads two or more competitions at the end of a stage, he receives all those jerseys. In the next stage, he can only wear one jersey, and he wears the jersey representing leadership in the most important competition (golden first, then green, then granate, then white). The other jerseys that the cyclists owns are worn in the next stage by the second-place (or, if needed, third or fourth-place) rider in that classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 486]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205668-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, World Rankings points\nThe Vuelta was the penultimate event in the 2009 UCI World Ranking. The rankings leader, Alberto Contador, did not compete in the event, but five of the top ten did, including the race winner, Valverde, who earned enough points to ensure that the title was not yet decided. Valverde, however, remained banned from riding in Italy, and so did not take part in the final ranking event, the 2009 Giro di Lombardia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 455]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThese are the individual stages of the 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, with Stage 1 on 29 August and Stage 11 on 9 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1\nThe course for the first individual time trial was as flat as it gets; there were no rises in elevation whatsoever. The stage was one lap through TT Circuit Assen, a noted motorcycle course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 249]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1\nThe early time to beat was put up by Euskaltel\u2013Euskadi rider Markel Irizar, who stopped the clock at 5' 43\". His time was beaten by a trio of Liquigas riders who came about an hour after him. For a time, the Italian team held the top three positions, with Daniele Bennati, Roman Kreuziger, and Polish national champion Maciej Bodnar, and they took the lead in the teams' classification after the stage thanks to these results. Around the time the Liquigas trio finished their rides, rain began to fall, making the course more difficult for the riders to follow. It also caused Carlos Barredo to slip and nearly fall, losing several seconds, as he left the starthouse; subsequently, turf was put down over the ramp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1\nAfter Tom Boonen and Tyler Farrar in turn posted provisional best times, Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara took the course and stopped the clock in 5' 20\" to win the stage and gain the first golden jersey. Cancellara expressed surprise at his win after the stage, saying he had come to the Vuelta mainly thinking of it as preparation for the world championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 433]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2\n30 August 2009 \u2014 Assen (Netherlands) to Emmen (Netherlands), 202\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2\nThe first mass-start stage was also very flat. A fourth-category climb to all of 30 meters in elevation was the race's first. It did not afford any points for the mountains classification, though the first rider past the climb point got the first red jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2\nA five-rider group was away for much of this stage. This breakaway comprised Francisco Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez, Tom Leezer, Dominik Roels, David Garc\u00eda, and Lieuwe Westra. Westra had tried to make the breakaway to honor his recently deceased father, and his teammates with Vacansoleil wore black armbands in memorial as well. It was Leezer who was the first across the Relus climb to get the first mountains jersey, one that he was assured to hold through the next day, as the Stage 3 course had no categorized climbs on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 573]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2\nAll but Westra were caught with 20 kilometers left to race. Westra fought on, but was caught 9 kilometers later, leading to the widely expected field sprint finish. Team Columbia\u2013HTC did most of the work going into the finish, with everyone on that team but sprinter Andr\u00e9 Greipel pulling at the front of the peloton in the stage's final 5 kilometers. In the end, Milram's Gerald Ciolek was the winner, at the head of a sprint so close Ciolek himself was unsure he had won. A selection was made in the final 2 kilometers of the stage, with Alexander Vinokourov and Samuel S\u00e1nchez notably losing 18 seconds, and other groups who had been with the peloton losing up to and over a minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\n31 August 2009 \u2014 Zutphen (Netherlands) to Venlo (Netherlands), 185\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\nThe string of Dutch flat stages continued. This course did not have a categorized climb, though it had an uncategorized hill about two-thirds of the way into the stage. The stage briefly visited Germany, and included some cobbled passages, which could have been skipped if the weather was inclement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 358]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\nThe breakaway for this stage comprised Lars Boom, Johnny Hoogerland, and Jes\u00fas Rosendo. Though the two Dutch riders were decidedly more familiar with the weather conditions and the roads the course offered, it was Rosendo who stayed out front the longest. The breakaway's maximum advantage neared ten minutes, but the peloton had no trouble catching them, with Rosendo reeled in 20 kilometers from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3\nTeam Columbia\u2013HTC set up the sprint in the stage's final kilometers, just as they had all season, but it was not their main sprinter Andr\u00e9 Greipel who took the win, but rather leadout man Greg Henderson. Henderson was intending to lead Greipel in, but when he did not see the German in the stage's final 150 meters, he sprinted for the win himself, and edged out Borut Bo\u017ei\u010d at the line. It was Team Columbia\u2013HTC's 72nd win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\n1 September 2009 \u2014  Venlo (Netherlands) to Li\u00e8ge (Belgium), 224\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nThis was another flat stage, though it had three fourth-category climbs. It visited some of the same roads used yearly by the Amstel Gold Race and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge. With this stage finish, Li\u00e8ge is the only city that can boast having hosted stages of the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, and now the Vuelta. After this stage, the riders traveled by plane to Catalonia for the continuation of the Vuelta on Spanish soil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nWith the three fourth-category climbs on course offering the Vuelta's first mountains points, this was an important stage in which to make the breakaway. Not only would the mountains classification red jersey go to a member of this breakaway, but so too would the combination classification white jersey, as qualification for it would be restricted to riders who had scored points in the mountains classification. The four who made the breakaway were Javier Ramirez, Lars Boom, Dominik Roels, and Sergey Lagutin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 571]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nBoom topped two of the three climbs in first position to gain the red jersey, while Roels wound up in white. The breakaway's maximum advantage over the peloton was over 14 minutes, but still the peloton easily caught them long before the finish, with some 30 kilometers to go. After several attempted escapes, the end of this stage was again a field sprint, won this time by the man who was denied by a teammate the day before, Andr\u00e9 Greipel. A big crash caused majority of the field to fall or jam behind, which caused the top seven to be of riders from only two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4\nThe day was marked by consistent rainfall, which made the stage's final few kilometers perilous. Many riders crashed, including Jakob Fuglsang, who lost control of his bike and ran into a parked truck. While Fuglsang was able to continue, Charly Wegelius, Chris Horner, and Robert Ki\u0161erlovski would all put out before the race reached Spain. Many other riders sustained minor injuries, and the coming rest day, uncharacteristically early coming after four flat stages, was welcomed by much of the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5\nThe first stage in the Tour of Spain to actually take place in Spain, this course offered the first real climb for the riders, the second-category Alto de Fatxas soon after the stage begun. A breakaway had already gained a lead of 4:30 before reaching the climb. The breakaway consisted of Juli\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez, Aitor Hernandez, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Lopez Gil, Julien El Fares, Matth\u00e9 Pronk and Serafin Martinez. The group collected the set of climber's points for the day, with Aitor Hern\u00e1ndez collecting the maximum to take the red jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0015-0001", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5\nOn behalf of the sprinters, Stijn Devolder of Quick-Step lead the charge the catch the breakaway group. They were caught with 30\u00a0km to go. David de la Fuente and Philippe Gilbert both tried to make a late move at 7\u00a0km to go, but the Liquigas led peloton gave them no more than a 20-second advantage. Once the sprinters launched their assault, Tom Boonen looked to have the advantage, but Andr\u00e9 Greipel overtook him in the last few meters to take his second consecutive win and acquire both the green and yellow jerseys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 6\nThis out-and-back stage in X\u00e0tiva includes two third-category climbs never before visited in the Vuelta. The course concludes with the Vuelta's first finishing circuit, two laps which end at X\u00e0tiva's Castle National Monument.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7\nThe first race of any substance against the clock takes place on a Formula One urban racing circuit. It is almost perfectly flat, with only the gentlest of rises in elevation coming halfway into the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\n6 September 2009 \u2014 Alzira to Alto de Aitana, 206\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8\nThis is a difficult stage, with seven categorized climbs on course (three second-category and four third-category) serving as a warm-up for the special-category Alto de Aitana at the finish. The course is also longer than most typical mountain stages in a Grand Tour, at 206\u00a0km, and figures to be the Vuelta's first truly selective stage. This stage produced one of the biggest shocks of the race so far with the retirement of Andy Schleck, a pre-race favourite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9\n7 September 2009 \u2014 Alcoy to Xorret del Cati, 188\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9\nThe ninth stage of the Vuelta takes place between Alcoi and Xorret del Cat\u00ed. The stage has a similar layout to that of the previous day: many mountain climbs and a mountain finish. However, this time the climb is not as long and steep as Aitana: Xorret del Cat\u00ed is a short, explosive climb that requires sprockets of 25 and even 27 teeth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 10\nThis stage started high in elevation and undulated a little before a drastic descent about two-thirds of the way into the course. The Alto de la Cresta del Gallo just before the finish kept the sprinters' teams from having anything to say on this day. A breakaway of 19 riders formed early in the race, but consecutive attacks on the Alto de la Cresta del Gallo produced a group of four that held on until the finish. Alexander Vinokourov, Ryder Hesjedal, Simon Gerrans and Jakob Fuglsang worked together until the finish was in sight. They then came close to a standstill as the leading riders began to jockey for a drafting position for the start of the sprint. Vinokourov was the first to jump, as Gerrans waited patiently behind and was able to hold off Hesjedal and Fuglsang to take the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 856]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 11\n9 September 2009 \u2014 Murcia to Caravaca de la Cruz, 191\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205669-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 11\nThis stage sees the Vuelta leave Murcia. The course has three categorized climbs, one each in the first, second, and third categories, and none of which have been visited in the Vuelta previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 256]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21\nThese are the individual stages of the 2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, with Stage 12 on 11 September and Stage 21 on 20 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\n11 September 2009 \u2014 Almer\u00eda to Alto de Velefique, 174\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12\nComing out of the second rest day, the peloton gets a course with over 3,500 meters in total climbing. It includes two visits to the Alto de Velefique, one coming after 55\u00a0km and the other at the finish line. There is another first and a third-category climb on the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\n12 September 2009 \u2014 Berja to Sierra Nevada, 175\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13\nThis is undoubtedly the queen stage of the 2009 Vuelta. The special-category Alto de Sierra Nevada at the finish is, at 2,520 metres, the highest point reached in the race. But it is far from all this course has to offer - the deceptively difficult and steep third-category Alto de Berja comes almost immediately and is followed by the first-category Puerto de la Ragua. The Vuelta has never before gone over the Puerto de la Ragua from this side, and it is more difficult than climbing it from the opposite side. Another first-category climb, the Alto de Monachil, occurs near the end of the stage, though it is essentially just the halfway point to the Alto de Sierra Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\n13 September 2009 \u2014 Granada to La Pandera, 157\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14\nThe riders have one more high mountain stage to go through before making it back to flat lands. Two third-category climbs and several uncategorized rises precede another special-category summit stage finish at the Sierra de La Pandera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 296]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15\nThis stage is branded as flat, though it begins at about 600 meters in elevation before descending to the valley below. It also includes the second-category Alto del Catorce por Ciento (which, despite its name, does not feature 14% gradients) 20\u00a0km from the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16\nThis is the easiest stage the peloton will have seen since Catalonia, with only two early third-category climbs to disrupt an otherwise flat overall profile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 218]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\n16 September 2009 \u2014 Ciudad Real to Talavera de la Reina, 175\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17\nThis stage was thought to be a hard-fought reward for whichever sprinters fought their way through the heights wrought by the Vuelta's second week - it did not feature a single categorized climb. It was expected to see a mass sprint finish. Contrary to expectations, Fran\u00e7aise des Jeux's Anthony Roux was able to hold off the chasing peloton to take the win by just a few meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\n17 September 2009 \u2014 Talavera de la Reina to \u00c1vila, 175\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18\nThis course has four categorized climbs, three of which are new to the Vuelta. The selection should take place on the first-category Puerto de Mijares, which comes at the halfway point of the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 19\n18 September 2009 \u2014 \u00c1vila to La Granja de San Ildefonso, 175\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 19\nThis is the Vuelta's last mountain stage. It includes two passes over the first-category Puerto de Navacerrada, the second of which crests 17\u00a0km from the finish. There is also quite a lot of descending to do on this stage, as the four categorized climbs all begin and end at roughly the same elevation. The finish comes on the descent from the last pass over the Puerto de Navacerrada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20\nThe course for the final time trial is flat, with very gentle undulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205670-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 21\nThe Vuelta ended, by tradition, much like the Tour de France does, with a flat and largely ceremonial road stage. It ended in downtown Madrid at the Plaza de Cibeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205671-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Murcia\nThe 2009 Vuelta a Murcia was the 25th edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 4 March to 8 March 2009. The race started in San Pedro del Pinatar and finished in Murcia. The race was won by Denis Menchov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205672-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta a Venezuela\nThe 46th edition of the annual Vuelta a Venezuela was held from Wednesday June 24 to Sunday July 5, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205673-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Vuelta al T\u00e1chira\nThe 2009 Vuelta al T\u00e1chira is the 44th of the annual Vuelta al T\u00e1chira cycling competition. The race was held in San Crist\u00f3bal, T\u00e1chira from January 6 to January 17, 2009 on a 1,400-kilometre (870\u00a0mi) course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack\nThe  V\u00edtkov arson attack occurred during the night of 18 / 19 April 2009. Three Molotov cocktails were thrown through the windows of a house inhabited by a Roma family. Three people were injured. The most seriously injured was a three-year-old girl named Nat\u00e1lie, who suffered life-threatening burns on 80% of her body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Investigation\nBefore the attack, one of the perpetrators called a friend, who was at a discoth\u00e8que. Asked about the call by her companion, the girl answered, \"He said they are going on gypsies.\" A volunteer fireman, who was near the two young women in the discoth\u00e8que overheard the conversation. On the next day he made the connection between the conversation and the arson attack, and contacted the police. The discoth\u00e8que witness later faced death threats from right-wing extremists, as a result of which he refused to testify in court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Investigation\nHowever the lead was crucial, because investigators were able to identify and tap suspects' telephones, and so start uncovering the background to the attack. The police made no public reference to this lead. Officially they maintained that they had no direct leads, but were following up on the suspicion that the attack might be part of wider campaign of violence orchestrated by leaders of the Czech extreme right, and not an isolated incident. The fireman's contribution would be revealed only after the end of the investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0001-0002", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Investigation\nThe Internal Security Agency provided the police investigators with relevant information very quickly after the attack; as the investigation continued this unusual level of cooperation was maintained. The Agency's annual reports had routinely been flagging up  right wing extremist groups as a danger to national security, which explained its long-term close interest in them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Investigation\nWhile interviewing one of the suspects (without revealing any exceptional interest in him), police installed a listening device in his car. Later, as the evident lack of police progress caused the suspects to relax, the tapping of this car would prove vital in solving the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, David Vacul\u00edk\nDavid Vacul\u00edk was the only member of the gang who remained silent both through the whole investigation and during the court trial, where he also waived his right to a final speech. According to the prosecution his silence followed the protocol of Combat 18. The media nicknamed him as The Lonely Wolf. Vacul\u00edk was the only member of the group who refused psychiatric evaluation designed to identify evidence of pyromania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, David Vacul\u00edk\nVacul\u00edk suffered a minor burn wound on his hand when throwing the Molotov cocktail. Despite being in pain, he avoided visiting a pharmacy, instead asking a friend to buy him a cooling salve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, David Vacul\u00edk\nVacul\u00edk was a supporter of the far-right. He had sent money to the right wing Czech Workers' Party in 2007 and 2008. He was a frequent participant in events and demonstrations organised by far-right groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, David Vacul\u00edk\nAccording to the prosecution, the gang used Vacul\u00edk's car during the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, David Vacul\u00edk\nVacul\u00edk's attorney Petr Kausta claimed that the evidence in the case was obtained illegally, and highlighted some alleged defects in the prosecution case. According to Kausta, the testimonies of other members of the group were mutually contradictory, as were the testimonies of the attacked family members, whose unreliability as witnesses was exacerbated by their own extensive criminal histories. After alleging that prosecution evidence had been unlawfully obtained, Kausta claimed that there remained no reliable untainted evidence that could convict his client. Kausta requested a full acquittal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 655]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nJarom\u00edr Luke\u0161 was long-term supporter of ultra-right wing politics in the Czech Republic, with ties to the neo-Nazi organisations \"National Resistance\" and \"Autonomous Nationalists\". He participated actively in the activities of the far-right Workers' Party which, having been effectively dissolved in February 2010, remains the only political party to have been banned in the Czechoslovak/Czech Republic since the fall of communism in 1989. Luke\u0161 also sponsored some of the party's demonstrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 552]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nLuke\u0161 was described in his indictment as a \"reckless selfish fellow\". When living with Ms. \u0160anovsk\u00e1, the mother to one of his children, he \"used to spend most of his time in pubs with friends\". In the summer of 2008 he left his job and continued to live on welfare, while his partner was receiving maternity benefits. Later, after Luke\u0161 lost the right to receive welfare, he lived off his partner, who in turn was wholly dependent on welfare and maternity benefits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nMs. Martikanov\u00e1, the mother of his other child, described him as a jobless homeless person, who had never taken care of his daughter. It was a third girlfriend, Zuzana Osadn\u00edkov\u00e1, who called him on the night of the attack, and whose reply \"they are going on gypsies\" was overheard by a volunteer fireman. This had led the investigators to target Luke\u0161' group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nAccording to the prosecution it was Luke\u0161 who had selected the target of attack. He lived in the municipality of Radkov, only eight kilometers (5 miles) from V\u00edtkov, and was also a trainee cook/waiter, enrolled in a course at a V\u00edtkov college. According to one of his extremist friends, Luke\u0161 was a simple man, \"the executor who would do anything he is told to do in order to gain admiration\". Luke\u0161 confessed to being present during the attack. However he denied attempting to kill anyone and he also denied being an extremist. According to suspect M\u00fcller, Luke\u0161 was the one who brought the whole idea of the attack to the members of the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 699]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nThe public outcry which followed the attack had been accompanied by public condemnation from the President and Prime Minister, both of whom called for the perpetrators to be sought and convicted:  this was totally unexpected by Luke\u0161. Luke\u0161 became very frightened and nervous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nLuke\u0161, who suffers from a slight speech disorder, remained silent for the most of the trial. In his final speech, he said that he felt himself to be a victim of a political trial. He has never shown regret for the arson attack, nor apologized to the victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Jarom\u00edr Luke\u0161\nLuke\u0161' attorney Pavel P\u011bnkava asserted that his client was neither a neo-Nazi nor a co-author of the attack. He asked, without success, that Luke\u0161' actions to be tried not as a racially motivated attempted multiple murder, but as an offence under the bodily harm provision of the Criminal Code. This, following a conviction, would have reduced the available punishments to a prison term of 3\u201310 years of imprisonment. That would have been a much milder range of sentences than that available for the crimes alleged by the prosecution, and under which the court did convict Luke\u0161.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Ivo M\u00fcller\nIvo M\u00fcller was another frequent participant in events and demonstrations by Czech far-right groups, despite having a name that is not Czech but German. Some years before the attack he had sponsored a demonstration of National Resistance in Brunt\u00e1l. He had known Vacul\u00edk and Cojocaru since grammar school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 355]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Ivo M\u00fcller\nM\u00fcller's former teacher testified that neither M\u00fcller nor Vacul\u00edk had any issues with Roma schoolmates, but on the contrary: they were friendly towards them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Ivo M\u00fcller\nM\u00fcller cooperated with the investigation and pleaded guilty to throwing the Molotov cocktail. However, he claimed that he was told by Luke\u0161 that the targeted house was not inhabited, and that it was merely a storehouse of stolen goods. In his final speech, M\u00fcller said: \"I did not expect (the attack) to have such a catastrophic outcome. I want to apologize to the families of Siv\u00e1k and Mal\u00fds. I regret that such a little child was injured.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, Ivo M\u00fcller\nM\u00fcller's attorney Mark\u00e9ta Pol\u00ed\u0161ensk\u00e1 claimed that racially motivated attempted multiple murder charges were unfounded. She submitted that her client's act should be judged either as \"endangering the public\" or as \"causing bodily harm\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, V\u00e1clav Cojocaru\nV\u00e1clav Cojocaru, age 21, was the youngest of the group members. He also had a record of taking part in events organized by Czech far-right groups despite having a non-Czech surname. (Cojocaru is a common Romanian surname.) He claimed that he has joined the neo-Nazi scene \"because he liked the clothes they wear\". He was also a collector of WWII memorabilia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, V\u00e1clav Cojocaru\nWhen younger, Cojocaru had been a member of the Scouts. A Scout leader described him as a \"nice boy\", who never had any issues with other children, including the Roma ones. When Cojocaru became a Scout leader, he had Romani children in his group and was perfectly friendly towards them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, V\u00e1clav Cojocaru\nCojocaru confessed to throwing one of the bottles, and to having provided fuel, a lighter and one of the glass bottles. However, he claimed that he had no idea what the group was up to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, V\u00e1clav Cojocaru\nCojocaru apologized for the act, but the prosecutor described his regret as insincere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Perpetrators, V\u00e1clav Cojocaru\nCojocaru's attorney Ladislav My\u0161\u00e1k claimed that there was no evidence supporting the prosecution's charge of racially motivated attempted multiple homicide. According to him the attempted homicide charges were based merely on speculation, and he therefore requested \"just punishment\" for Cojocaru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, The house\nMost of the family had been squatting in the house since 1983: Pavel Kudrik joined the rest of them in 1999. Ownership of the house had become unclear following the ethnic expulsions of 1945 and the subsequent departure of Russian troops 45 years later. Only days before the arson attack six different people, all of them living in Germany, officially inherited the house. The attacked family supposedly had no idea about the inheritance proceedings, which had lasted for seven years. The new owners had indicated no particular interest in owning the property. They wanted it to be transferred directly to the ownership of a church, but this was impossible under Czech law. First the title needed to be transferred to them: only then they would be able to donate it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, The house\nThe attacked family supposedly believed that the house had been purchased by their great-grandmother 40 years earlier for a price of 2000 crowns (less than US$100), but no such valid transfer could be evidenced. The ruin of the house rendered it unstable, and its remains had therefore to be torn down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nThe most severely injured of the victims was Nat\u00e1lie Kudrikov\u00e1, aged 3, who suffered second- and third-degree burns over 80% of her body, and lost two of her fingers at the time of the attack. Later a third finger had to be surgically removed. She will probably never be able to grasp objects with her right hand, which was burned more severely than the left. According to expert witness Igor Dvo\u0159\u00e1\u010dek, the many long-lasting anaesthesia doses necessary for her treatment have also caused minor mental retardation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nThe head of Vinohrady Hospital in Prague Burn Trauma Centre, Ludom\u00edr Bro\u017e, testified that burns sixteen times less extensive than those suffered by Nat\u00e1lie can threaten a child's life. She spent three months in an induced coma and a further five months in the hospital, during which time she underwent numerous plastic surgery operations, 20 of them being major ones. During the treatment she almost died three times, surviving only thanks to medical apparatus. She is the first child with such extensive burn wounds to have survived in the Czech Republic. In 2009 alone, the insurance company paid over 6 million CZK (about US$340,000) for Nat\u00e1lie's treatment. The insurance company will recover the debt from the convicted perpetrators if they have the money, but their ability to pay such an amount is currently next to null.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 862]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nNat\u00e1lie's mother, Anna Siv\u00e1kov\u00e1, aged 27, suffered burns on 30% of her body. She spent 10 days at the intensive-care unit of the University Faculty Hospital in Ostrava, and was released from hospital after three weeks. The defense challenged her testimony because when she testified in court she was heavily under the influence of psychoactive drugs (prescribed by her psychiatrist after the attack). The attackers' lawyers also made much of her own extensive criminal history. She had been convicted eight times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nSiv\u00e1kov\u00e1's partner, Pavel Kudrik, aged 33, suffered burns on his hands and back. He was released from hospital after 11 days. Initially treated in Opava, he was transferred to a different hospital after police found out that Kudrik was himself \"on the run\" and should have been behind bars at the time of the attack. His most recent conviction was for driving without a license. Mr Kudrik's criminal history included 14 convictions. After spending three days in prison, Kudrik was released on the President's order, later receiving a full Presidential pardon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nSiv\u00e1kov\u00e1's mother, Vlasta Mal\u00e1, was also living in the house. She did not suffer any injuries. After the attack she claimed that she had heard shouts of \"Burn gypsies!\" The defense challenged her testimony, citing differences between what she had told the investigators and what she testified at the court. Mal\u00e1 reacted by saying \"Why should such details matter? They burned us!\" However, Mal\u00e1's own record included four criminal convictions, one of them for an assault on a public official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 525]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nV\u00e1clav Mal\u00fd, Mal\u00e1's husband, was also living in the house. Mal\u00fd was not injured, but he claimed damages for a very wide variety of consumer electronics he had stored in the house. The defense challenged this and asserted that the house was being used to store stolen goods, which Mal\u00fd denied. Mal\u00fd had been convicted 12 times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Victims\nVlasta and V\u00e1clav Mal\u00fd helped three children, who were living in the house with Siv\u00e1kov\u00e1, to escape the fire. Neither the Mal\u00fds nor the three children were hurt in the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Response\nThe attack became one of the main issues discussed by the Czech media. The first reaction and the trial sentences were covered as headline news and closely observed. Many prominent figures, not only ones actively involved in the area of racism or with ethnic minorities, were expressing their opinions and comments on internet or the press outlets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Response\nPavel Smolka, mayor of V\u00edtkov, stated the family were sociable, had lived in the house for 27 years, and that the attack was incomprehensible for him. He also said the town hadn't had any extremist attacks against Roma until this one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Response\nCzech President, V\u00e1clav Klaus, called the attack raw and repulsive crime and demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators. Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topol\u00e1nek, expressed his concern over the rising extremism and stressed the importance of fighting it. The minister of finance, Miroslav Kalousek, and the minister for human rights and minorities, Michael Koc\u00e1b, considered the attack to be a terrorist act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 448]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205674-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 V\u00edtkov arson attack, Response\nThe attack was sharply condemned by the Czech Roma organizations like D\u017eeno, ROMEA, Slovo 21 and the Association of Roma in the Northern Moravia as a hideous and cowardly act. Also, these organizations organized watch patrols in order to protect other families, they criticized the sluggishness of both the Czech state organs and politicians, stating that these lead to the surge of extremist movements in the country, called the public for active opposition to Neo-Nazism and extremism in the Czech Republic and implored the Roma community not to get drawn into any provocations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 615]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205675-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League (Australia)\nThe 2009 W-League season was the second season of the W-League, the Australian national women's football (soccer) competition. The season was played over 10 rounds followed by a finals series. Sydney FC were both the champions and premiers after finishing the regular season at the top of the table and defeating Brisbane Roar 3\u20132 in the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205675-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League (Australia), Regular season, Home and away season\nThe 2009 W-League season was played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series involving the four highest placed teams, starting in October and completing in December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 237]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205675-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League (Australia), Regular season, Home and away season, Round 4\nNote (1): Jacqui Melksham was substituted off with the fourth official Airlie Keen, due to aggravating an ankle injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 72], "content_span": [73, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205675-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League (Australia), Referees\nThe W-League features Women Referees and Assistant Referees from Australia. Referees include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205676-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League Grand Final (December)\nThe 2009 W-League Grand Final was the grand final of the second season of the Australian W-League football (soccer) competition. It was contested between premiers Sydney FC and third-placed Brisbane Roar at Toyota Stadium in Sydney on Saturday, 19 December 2009. Sydney FC became the second W-League champions after defeating the Brisbane Roar 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 385]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205677-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 W-League Grand Final (January)\nThe 2008\u201309  W-League Grand Final was the grand final of the inaugural season of the W-League, the premier league of football (soccer) in Australia. Top of the table in the regular season Queensland Roar hosted home-and-away third-placed Canberra United FC at Ballymore Stadium in Herston, Brisbane in the Saturday 17 January 2009 season decider. In a closely contested match, the Roar defeated United 2\u20130. Both the Roar's goals were scored in the first half of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup\nWestern Australian soccer clubs from the top three State-Based Divisions competed in 2009 for the WA State Challenge Cup, known that year as the Soccer Pools State Cup. This knockout competition was won by Floreat Athena, their fifth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup, First round\nAll matches were completed by 29 March 2009. A total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All 12 Clubs from the State League Premier Division and Football West State League Division 1, and 8 clubs from the Sunday League Premier Division (the top 8 out of 12 from the previous year's league table) entered into the competition at this stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup, Second round\nA total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches were completed by 31 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup, Quarter finals\nA total of 8 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed on 4 July 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup, Semi finals\nA total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed by 15 August 2009. The draw was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205678-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Challenge Cup, Final\nThe 2009 State League Cup Final was held at the neutral venue of Dorrien Gardens on 4 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205679-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WA State Premier League\nThe Football WA 2009 season was the 113th year of the football in Western Australia before the new banner of National Premier Leagues in 2014. The competition consisted of 12 teams, each playing a total of 22 games in the season with the premier team being Western Knights, marking their third premiership of the competition. The team to be relegated would be Canning City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205680-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WABA Champions Cup\nThe WABA Champions Cup 2009 was the 12th staging of the WABA Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of West Asia Basketball Association. The tournament was held in Amman, Jordan between March 13 and March 21. The top three teams from different countries qualify for the 2009 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 330]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205681-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, was held March 10\u201314 at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205681-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nRegular season champion Utah State Aggies won the tournament, defeating host Nevada by ten points in the title game. The Aggies received the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament; they were seeded eleventh in the West region and lost by a point in the first round to Marquette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 343]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205681-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament\nNo other WAC teams were invited to the NCAA or National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Nevada and Boise Statelost in the first round of the CBI, and Idaho advanced to the second round of the CIT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205682-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFF Futsal Championship\nThe 2009 West Asian Futsal Federation Championship was held from to in Amman, Jordan. Iraq won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final\nThe 2009 West Australian Football League (WAFL) Grand Final was the culmination of the 115th season of the premier Australian rules football league in Western Australia. It was played at Subiaco Oval on 20 September 2009 and won by the South Fremantle Football Club who defeated the Subiaco Football Club by 18 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Build up\nMuch curiosity from football fans preceded the contest. South Fremantle had finished on top of the ladder in season 2009, two games clear of Subiaco who had finished in second place. However Subiaco had won the previous three Premierships and this would be their fourth consecutive Grand Final appearance (and their sixth in seven years). Between them the two combatants had won every WAFL Premiership since 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Match summary\nEarly on South Fremantle had the bulk of the scoring opportunities, however of all these were not executed in effective manner, despite this the Bulldogs held a firm eleven point lead at the end of the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Match summary\nSubiaco opened the second term in much better fashion and at one stage even looked like snatching the lead, South Fremantle steadied though to win the quarter and open a three-goal lead by the main break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Match summary\nWhatever chances the Lions had of getting back into the contest were quickly dashed in the third quarter as South Fremantle ran rampant and opened up a match winning lead by the last change, with a resounding seven goal to two quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Match summary\nThe match was effectively over early in the final term, when the Bulldogs opened up a 53-point margin, save for a strong last ten minutes from Subiaco, South Fremantle had controlled virtually the entire match and deservedly went on to claim the flag. Ashton Hams was judged the best player and won the Simpson Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Other grand finals\nEarlier in the day, South Fremantle also won the reserves grand final, defeating West Perth. South Fremantle's Hayden North, who was surprisingly left out of the league team, won the Merv McIntosh Medal as the best player. The previous evening saw Claremont win the colts premiership, defeating Peel Thunder Football Club, with Lewis Broome from Claremont winning the Mel Whinnen Medal as the best player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205683-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL Grand Final, Aftermath\nThe win ensured South Fremantle's thirteenth WAFL Premiership and ended Subiaco's Premiership winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season\nThe 2009 WAFL season was the 125th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. It saw South Fremantle break Subiaco\u2019s dynasty that had seen the Lions a kick shy of a perfect season in 2008, winning their last ten games after the early part of the season was the most evenly contested since the nine-club competition began in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season\nIn the end, however, the top four was the same as in 2008. Peel Thunder, with Dean Buszan back, at one point looked like they might achieve their first season with more wins than losses, but returned to their old ways, losing their last ten games by an average of sixty-two points, whilst East Fremantle did not build upon their excellent finish to 2008. 2008 wooden spooners East Perth turned out the biggest threat to the top four with seven wins from eight matches but failed in their last match against Subiaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 532]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13\nSwan Districts record their biggest with fewer scoring shots, and the biggest in the WAFL since 1994", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 21\nThe Bassendean Oval draw produced the first season since 1969 with multiple drawn games; indeed the first time since 1970 when consecutive WANFL/WAFL/WASFL/Westar Rules draws had ever been closer apart than one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season, Finals, Preliminary final\nA wasteful 1.7 (13) in the last quarter kicks Swan Districts out of a second straight Grand Final berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 43], "content_span": [44, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205684-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nSubiaco fail to farewell retiring stars Stenglein, Fletcher, Smith, Maplestone and Pickett with a fourth successive flag, owing to the power of the Bulldogs\u2019 \u201cengine room\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205685-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFU Club Championship\nThe 2009 Wafu Club Championship is an association football competition that is contested between club sides in the WAFU/UFOA region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205685-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFU Club Championship\nIt is sometimes referred to as the Eyadema Unity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 81]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205685-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WAFU Club Championship, Matches, Second Round\nFirst leg were played August 21 to August 28 . Second leg were played September 17 to 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205686-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was an American college ice hockey tournament in 2009 played between March 13 and March 21, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota-Duluth won their third WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205686-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205686-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205686-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205687-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WDF World Cup\nThe 2009 WDF World Cup was the 17th edition of the WDF World Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA from September 23 to 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205688-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship\nThe 2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was a golf tournament that was played from February 25 to March 1, 2009, at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona. It was the eleventh WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the first of four World Golf Championships held in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205688-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship\nThe tournament marked the return of Tiger Woods to the PGA Tour, following eight months out of the sport after undergoing knee surgery shortly after his victory in the 2008 U.S. Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205688-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship\nGeoff Ogilvy continued his success at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship defeating Paul Casey, who had not trailed in any of his first five matches, 4 and 3 in the final. It was Ogilvy's second win in the event, in which reached the final for the third time in four years. The victory also improved his already impressive match record in the event to 17 wins and 2 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205688-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets\nThe Championship was a single elimination match play event. The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings as of the February 16 ranking, seeded according to the rankings. All of the top 64 players in the February 16 ranking participated in the event, the first time in the tournament's history that had happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 409]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational\nThe 2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament held August 6\u20139 over the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the eleventh WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of four World Golf Championships events held in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational\nWorld number 1 Tiger Woods won his 16th World Golf Championships title, which was his seventh Invitational title. This was his fourth Invitational title in as many starts, as he won three consecutive (2005, 2006, 2007) and missed the 2008 edition due to recuperation after leg surgery. He shot 268 (\u221212), four strokes ahead of runners-up Robert Allenby and P\u00e1draig Harrington. This was Woods' 10th Invitational appearance and had yet to finish out of the top five; he was second in 2004 and fourth twice (2002, 2003).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 551]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n1. Playing members of the 2008 United States and European Ryder Cup teamsChad Campbell, Paul Casey (3,4,5), Stewart Cink (2,3,4,5), Ben Curtis (3,4), Jim Furyk (2,3,4), Sergio Garc\u00eda (3,4,5), S\u00f8ren Hansen (3,4), P\u00e1draig Harrington (3,4,5), J. B. Holmes, Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez (3,4), Anthony Kim (3,4), Justin Leonard (3,4), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Graeme McDowell (3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5), Kenny Perry (3,4,5), Ian Poulter (3,4), Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson (3,4,5), Steve Stricker (2,3,4,5), Boo Weekley, Lee Westwood (3,4), Oliver Wilson (3,4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 590]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n2. Playing members of the 2007 United States and International Presidents Cup teamsStuart Appleby, Woody Austin, \u00c1ngel Cabrera (3,4,5), K. J. Choi, Ernie Els (3,4), Lucas Glover (3,4,5), Retief Goosen (3,4,5), Charles Howell III, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (3,4,5), Geoff Ogilvy (3,4,5), Nick O'Hern, Rory Sabbatini (3,4,5), Adam Scott (3,4), Vijay Singh (3,4,5), David Toms (3,4), Scott Verplank, Mike Weir (3,4), Tiger Woods (3,4,5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 478]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n3. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings two weeks prior to eventRobert Allenby (4), Tim Clark (4,5), Luke Donald (4), Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o (4,5), Ross Fisher (4), Brian Gay (4,5), Mathew Goggin (4), Dustin Johnson (5), Shingo Katayama (4), Martin Kaymer (4,5), S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen (4,5), Davis Love III (4,5), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Sean O'Hair (4,5), \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s (4,5), Jeev Milkha Singh (4,5), Camilo Villegas (4,5), Nick Watney (4,5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 492]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n4. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings one week prior to eventThongchai Jaidee (5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n5. Winners of Federation tournaments since the prior year's tournament with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or moreCameron Beckman, Christian C\u00e9va\u00ebr, Darren Clarke, Nick Dougherty, Nathan Green, Gr\u00e9gory Havret, Anthony Kang, Jerry Kelly, Danny Lee, Shane Lowry, Prayad Marksaeng, Pat Perez, Carl Pettersson, Richard Sterne, Marc Turnesa, Yang Yong-eun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205689-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field\n6. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship\nThe 2009 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from March 12\u201315 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida. It was the tenth WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of four World Golf Championships events staged in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship\nPhil Mickelson won the tournament to capture his first World Golf Championships title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 111]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n1. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings two weeks prior to eventRobert Allenby (2,3), Stephen Ames (2), Stuart Appleby (3), Aaron Baddeley (2), Paul Casey (2,7), K. J. Choi (2,3), Stewart Cink (2,3), Tim Clark (2,3), Ben Curtis (2,3), Luke Donald (2), Ernie Els (2,3), Ross Fisher (2,6,7), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio Garc\u00eda (2,3,6,7), Retief Goosen (2,6), P\u00e1draig Harrington (2,6), Trevor Immelman (2,3), Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez (2,6), Dustin Johnson (2,4,5), Zach Johnson (2,4,5), Robert Karlsson (2,6), Shingo Katayama (2,9), Martin Kaymer (2,6), Anthony Kim (2,3), Justin Leonard (2,3), Hunter Mahan (2,3), Graeme McDowell (2,6), Rory McIlroy (2,7), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5), Geoff Ogilvy (2,4,5,7,10), Sean O'Hair (2), Louis Oosthuizen (2,7), Kenny Perry (2,3,4,5), Ian Poulter (2,6), \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s (2,7), Andr\u00e9s Romero (2,3), Justin Rose (2), Rory Sabbatini (2), Adam Scott (2), Jeev Milkha Singh (2,6,8), Vijay Singh (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,6,7), Richard Sterne (2,7,11), Steve Stricker (2,3,4,5), Camilo Villegas (2,3), Boo Weekley, Mike Weir (2,3,4), Lee Westwood (2,6), Oliver Wilson (2,6,7), Tiger Woods (2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 1160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n2. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings one week prior to eventPeter Hanson (6), Davis Love III", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n3. Top 30 from the final 2008 PGA Tour FedEx Cup points listBriny Baird, Chad Campbell, Ken Duke, Dudley Hart, Ryuji Imada, Billy Mayfair, Carl Pettersson, Kevin Sutherland, D. J. Trahan, Bubba Watson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n4. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list two weeks prior to eventCharley Hoffman, Pat Perez (5), Nick Watney (5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n5. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list one week prior to eventJohn Rollins, Yang Yong-eun", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n6. Top 20 from the final 2008 European Tour Order of MeritDarren Clarke, Richard Finch, S\u00f8ren Hansen, James Kingston, S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen, Pablo Larraz\u00e1bal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n7. Top 10 from the European Tour Race to Dubai two weeks prior to event", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n8. Top 3 from the final 2008 Asian Tour Order of MeritMark Brown (10), Lin Wen-tang", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n9. Top 3 from the final 2008 Japan Golf Tour Order of MeritPrayad Marksaeng, Azuma Yano", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n10. Top 3 from the final 2008 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of MeritRod Pampling", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205690-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-CA Championship, Field\n11. Top 3 from the final 2008 Sunshine Tour Order of MeritThomas Aiken, Garth Mulroy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions\nThe 2009 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament that was contested from 5\u20138 November 2009 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the first WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions\nPhil Mickelson won the tournament, and claimed his second World Golf Championships title of the year and for his career. He won over Ernie Els by one stroke, and Mickelson shot a 17-under-par 271.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nThe following is a list of players for the 2009 WGC-HSBC Champions tournament. Winners of events are those between the 2008 HSBC Champions and the 2009 WGC-HSBC Champions. The 2008 HSBC-Champions was considered to be an Asian Tour event. However, in determining which were the top rated events, the strength of field for the previous year's event was used (i.e. the event between the 2007 and 2008 HSBC-Champions). Only those events with a strength of field of 40 or more were considered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nPaul Casey (5), Brian Gay, Retief Goosen, Jerry Kelly, Sean O'Hair, Rory Sabbatini, Nick Watney", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nJason Dufner, Ernie Els, P\u00e1draig Harrington, Steve Marino, Ian Poulter", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nChristian C\u00e9va\u00ebr, Nick Dougherty, Simon Dyson, Ross Fisher, Ricardo Gonz\u00e1lez, Peter Hedblom, Jeppe Huldahl, Michael Jonzon, Martin Kaymer, James Kingston, S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen, Thomas Levet, Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy, Alex Nor\u00e9n, \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s, Scott Strange (10), Daniel Vancsik, Lee Westwood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nGonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o, Sergio Garc\u00eda (7), Peter Hanson, Francesco Molinari, Oliver Wilson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nGaganjeet Bhullar (OoM), Chapchai Nirat (OoM), Anthony Kang, Lin Wen-tang, Lam Chih Bing, Daisuke Maruyama (OoM, 8), Chinnaswamy Muniyappa (OoM), Jyoti Randhawa (OoM), Thongchai Jaidee", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nYuta Ikeda (OoM), Ryo Ishikawa, Shingo Katayama, Prayad Marksaeng, Jeev Milkha Singh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nThomas Aiken (OoM), Jean Hugo (OoM), Garth Mulroy (OoM), Mark Murless (OoM), Richard Sterne", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nRobert Allenby (OoM), Mark Brown (OoM), Greg Chalmers (OoM), Danny Lee, Rod Pampling", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205691-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field\nPlayers in bold were added to the field through this category. Players listed in \"()\" already qualified in a previous category. Players listed with their name stricken did not play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205692-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WK-League\nThe 2009 WK League was the inaugural season of the WK League, the South Korean women's football league. It began on 20 April 2009 with the first matches of the regular season and ended on 16 November 2009 with the return leg of the Championship Final. The slogan of the 2009 season was \"Beautiful Football\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205692-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WK-League\nA total of six teams competed in the 2009 season, playing each other four times during the regular season for a total of twenty matches per team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205692-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WK-League, All-Star Game\nThe six teams were split into two regions: Hyundai Steel Redangels, Seoul Amazones, and Suwon Facilities Management Corporation comprised the Central region, while the Southern region consisted of Busan Sangmu, Chungnam Ilhwa Chunma, and Daekyo Kangaroos. Both regions sent their best players for the All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205692-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WK-League, All-Star Game\nKim Joo-hee of the Hyundai Steel Redangels was named player of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 29], "content_span": [30, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205693-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WKU Hilltoppers football team\nThe 2009 WKU Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky University (WKU) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was David Elson. WKU was an NCAA Division I FBS independent team in 2008, this year was their first year as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Hilltoppers played their home games at Houchens Industries\u2013L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205693-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WKU Hilltoppers football team, Coaching change\nOn November 9, 2009, David Elson was officially released as WKU's head coach. He remained as head coach until the end of the 2009 season. He was replaced by Stanford's running backs coach Willie Taggart, a Western Kentucky University alumnus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205694-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA All-Star Game\nThe 2009 WNBA All-Star Game was played on July 25, 2009 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, home of the Connecticut Sun. The game was the 9th annual WNBA All-Star Game. This was the second time Connecticut had hosted the basketball showcase, after previously hosting the 2005 game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 318]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205694-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA All-Star Game, The All-Star Game, Coaches\nThe coach for the Western Conference all-stars was San Antonio Silver Stars coach Dan Hughes. The coach for the Eastern Conference was Indiana Fever coach Lin Dunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals\nThe 2009 WNBA Finals was the championship series of the 2009 WNBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Indiana Fever, top-seeded champions of the Eastern Conference, faced the Phoenix Mercury, top-seeded champions of the Western Conference. The Phoenix Mercury defeated the Indiana Fever 3 games to 2 to win their second WNBA Finals title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals\nThe Fever made their first ever appearance in the Finals. The Mercury made their third appearance in the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals\nThe Mercury's 23\u201311 record gave them home court advantage over Indiana (22\u201312).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Road to the finals, Regular season series\nThe Fever and the Mercury split the regular season series:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nCappie Pondexter missed a game-winning tip-in at the fourth-quarter buzzer then scored seven of her 23 points in overtime Tuesday night to help the Mercury beat the visiting Fever 120\u2013116 in the highest-scoring game in WNBA history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\n\"Well, if you didn't like women's basketball,\" Phoenix coach Corey Gaines said, \"I think you do now.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nPondexter, frustrated and in foul trouble in the first half, scored the final five points to close out Game 1 of the best-of-five series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nPenny Taylor scored 23 points and newly crowned league MVP Diana Taurasi had 22 for Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nKatie Douglas tied it with a 3-pointer for Indiana with 7.1 seconds left in regulation, then scored eight in overtime for the Fever to reach a career playoff high 30 points. Ebony Hoffman had a career-high 27 on 12 of 14 shooting as the Fever set a franchise scoring record in just the second 100-point game in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Mercury and Fever each scored more points than any team previously in league history. The old mark was 115, of course by Phoenix, in an overtime victory over Sacramento on June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\n\"It was fun,\" Taurasi said, \"kind of showing a different side of women's basketball - how high a level it is. It's fun to be in the game and I'm sure it was fun to watch.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nIndiana's Tamika Catchings had just eight points before fouling out with 2:42 left in overtime but harassed Taurasi into a 5 of 17 shooting night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nRookie DeWanna Bonner's two free throws put Phoenix ahead 105-102 with 14.2 seconds left in regulation, then after a timeout, the Fever got the ball to the open Douglas, who sank the 3 that tied it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe lead changed hands six times in overtime. Douglas' 15-footer gave Indiana its final lead at 116-115 with 1:40 left. Pondexter scored on a drive to put the Mercury ahead 117\u2013116 with 1:27 to go, then sank a 16-footer with 20.2 seconds to go to make it 119\u2013116. She finally finished off the Fever by making one of two free throws with 3 seconds to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1\nRatings and viewership for Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on ESPN2 were up 39 percent (.43 rating vs. .31 rating for Game 1 of the '08 WNBA Finals) and 59 percent respectively (555,000 viewers vs. 348,000 viewers), making Game 1 the most viewed WNBA game on cable since Game 4 of the '07 WNBA Finals (Shock vs. Mercury) on ESPN2 (669,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nTamika Catchings fell one rebound shy of the first triple-double in WNBA finals history and the Indiana Fever beat the Phoenix Mercury 93\u201384 to square the best-of-five series 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nAfter scoring just eight points and fouling out in Game 1, Catchings had 19 points, 11 assists (tying a finals record) and nine rebounds to help the Fever steal home-court advantage in the series with the next two games in Indianapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\n\"Series can swing either way really quick,\" Diana Taurasi said, \"and it's swung in their favor pretty quick now.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe WNBA defensive player of the year for the third time, Catchings also harassed the league MVP Taurasi into a 7-for-22 shooting night. Taurasi finished with 20 points, going 2 of 10 on 3-pointers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nThere has not been a triple-double in any WNBA game since 2005 and it has happened only once in the playoffs. When Catchings, runner-up to Taurasi in the MVP voting, needed only two rebounds in the final six-plus minutes, it looked as if she would get there. But her ninth didn't come until there was just 28 seconds to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe cold-shooting Mercury were without supersub Penny Taylor most of the second half. The Aussie, who scored all 14 of her points in the first half, took an elbow from Indiana rookie Briann January and left with a cut lip with 3:33 to play in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nJanuary, a standout at nearby Arizona State, finished with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting, 3 of 4 on 3-pointers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Mercury struggled on offense two nights after a 120\u2013116 overtime victory in Game 1, the highest-scoring contest in WNBA history. Phoenix shot 39.7 percent for the game and was just 5 of 20 in the third quarter, when the Fever built a 17-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nIndiana's biggest lead was 77\u201360 on Ebony Hoffman's 7-footer with 5.6 seconds left in the third. Temeka Johnson's 3-pointer at the buzzer made it 77\u201363 entering the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nA late 14-5 run cut the Fever's lead to 85\u201380 on Taurasi's layup with 1:23 to play. But Tammy Sutton-Brown responded with a basket inside, then January and Katie Douglas put the game away with free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 246]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2\nEntering Game 3, ESPN2 was averaging a 0.36 U.S. rating (0.4 cable) and 531,000 viewers for the Fever/Mercury series, up 50% in ratings and 55% in viewers compared to the first two games of 2008's Shock/Silver Stars series (0.24 U.S., 0.3 cable, 331,000 viewers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 304]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nEbony Hoffman hit the jumper that gave her team a one-point lead with 57 seconds left, then blocked Tangela Smith's shot with a second remaining to help Indiana defeat Phoenix 86\u201385 in Game 3 of the finals Sunday. The Fever took a 2\u20131 lead in the series and can clinch the championship with a win at home Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 356]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nIndiana forward Tamika Catchings said Hoffman has been a force since going through a slump at the end of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\n\"In the playoffs, she's stepped up her game and done such big things, especially in the Phoenix series, playing unbelievable, out of her mind,\" Catchings said. \"That's awesome to see that, especially with the hard work she's put in over the years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nHoffman, who led Indiana with 18 points, did it all with a sprained right shoulder. She left the game with 7:21 left and returned with 3:40 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nCatchings had 14 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists, Briann January scored 17 points, and Katie Douglas had 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nCappie Pondexter led Phoenix with 23 points and Le'coe Willingham added 17. Diana Taurasi, the league's MVP, scored 18 points but shot 6-for-16 from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nHoffman's long shot from the left corner put Indiana ahead in the final minute. Pondexter rushed downcourt and missed a layup, and Catchings rebounded. Then Indiana missed twice in close, but got the offensive rebound. January dribbled the ball out of bounds with 22 seconds left, though, to give Phoenix a final chance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nPondexter missed a short jumper, and Catchings went for the rebound. She tried to call timeout, but Willingham tied her up and a jump ball was called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nPhoenix got the ball into Smith but her shot was blocked by Hoffman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe final margin irked Phoenix because the Fever got a free throw when Taurasi was called for a technical foul that she didn't agree with.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nTaurasi had just made a tying layup with 5:14 to play, then took the ball and put it on the baseline for Indiana to inbound. As Taurasi turned around, she ran into Douglas, who fell and briefly held her stomach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nTaurasi said the officials told her she had thrown an elbow. Taurasi disagreed, saying her head hit Douglas and the play actually messed up her bun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nCatchings made the technical free throw to take a 76\u201375 lead, then January was fouled on the possession Indiana gained after the technical, and she made two free throws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3\nThrough Game 3, ESPN2's telecasts are averaging 476,000 viewers (P2+), an increase of 51 percent when compared to last year's 316,000 viewers. In addition, the corresponding household impressions are up 50 percent (386,000 vs. 258,000) and the 0.4 rating is an increase of 33 percent over last year's 0.3 rating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Indiana Fever led the WNBA finals series 2\u20131 and had a chance to clinch their first title in front of an active sellout crowd that included local celebrities such as Indianapolis Colts players Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne. None of that mattered as the Mercury beat the Fever 90\u201377 on Wednesday night to tie the series and force Game 5 Friday in Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nIndiana shot 2-for 13 in the fourth quarter, stifling any chance it had of overcoming the 72\u201365 deficit it faced going into the period. The Fever scored 12 points in the quarter, the third-lowest total in a fourth quarter in finals history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nTamika Catchings, who led Indiana with 24 points and 12 rebounds, agreed that her teammates became hesitant. She said this is the wrong time for that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nCatchings shot 11-for-17 and Ebony Hoffman scored 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting. The rest of the team shot 11-for-44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nPhoenix's offense was in tune as usual. Cappie Pondexter scored 22 points, Penny Taylor added 17 points and Diana Taurasi and Tangela Smith each scored 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Mercury shot 10-for-24 from 3-point range. Phoenix felt Indiana controlled the tempo and slowed it down the past two games, but the Mercury felt they regained control on Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\n\"Our strength all year has been in our confidence in our attack, and I felt we got that back,\" Taylor said. \"We were playing with confidence and attacking every single time down floor, and that's hard to defend for 40 minutes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nPhoenix shot 72 percent from the field in the first quarter to jump out to a 33\u201322 lead. The Fever held the Mercury to 16 points in the second quarter and cut their deficit to 49\u201347 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nIndiana tied the score at 59 on a layup by Catchings with 4:30 left in the third quarter, but Phoenix went on a quick 6\u20130 run to force a timeout and put the fans, who had been standing in anticipation of a Fever lead, back in their seats. The Mercury extended their lead to 72\u201365 at the end of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nIndiana trimmed its deficit to 72\u201368 on a steal and layup by Catchings, but the Fever went cold and the Mercury pulled away with a 12\u20132 spurt. A 3-pointer by Taylor made it 84\u201370 with 2:33 to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nFever coach Lin Dunn was disappointed to lose at home, but focused on the fact that her team still could win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 4\nThrough four games, the WNBA Finals averaged 521,000 viewers, up 65% from the 316,000 average for the Detroit Shock's three-game series sweep of the San Antonio Silver Stars, according to Nielsen data. Game 4, in which the Mercury evened matters, drew 670,231 watchers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe core of the dynamic Phoenix Mercury is a trio as talented as any in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nDiana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter and Penny Taylor - who led the team to its 2007 title - did it again in 2009, when the Mercury held off a late rally by the tenacious Indiana Fever for a 94\u201386 victory in the deciding Game 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0054-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nLeague and finals MVP Taurasi scored 26 points, Pondexter had 24, and Taylor made two crucial free throws with 37.7 seconds left for the Mercury, who won the last two games to take the intense series 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0055-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nWhen it was over, the three hugged in elation, and Taylor - the Australian who joined the team Aug. 1 after reconstructive ankle surgery - broke down in tears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0056-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nTammy Sutton-Brown scored 22 points, and Jessica Davenport had a career-high 18 for Indiana in its first finals appearance. Tamika Catchings added 16 points and nine rebounds for the Fever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0057-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nSutton-Brown pointed to the crucial home loss in Game 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 97]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0058-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\n\"We had an opportunity to close it out at home, and we let that one slip away,\" she said, \"but I think we came out and fought hard tonight. Phoenix is a great team. I think it was a great series. It was great for the WNBA.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0059-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nIndiana rallied from 10 down in the second half to tie it at 80 on Sutton-Brown's layup with 4:29 to play, then Tangela Smith made two 3-pointers, her only field goals of the night, to put the Mercury ahead for good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0060-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nPondexter's 9-footer made it 88\u201382 with 2:22 left, but the Fever - who had led the series 2\u20131 - weren't finished. Davenport's inside basket cut it to 88\u201384, then Catchings' rebound basket made it 88\u201386 with 2:07 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0061-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nOn the Mercury's next possession, Taylor took the ball and drove the lane into a crowd of defenders. Davenport was called for the foul, and Taylor's two free throws made it 90-86. Two free throws apiece DeWanna Bonner and Taurasi provided the final margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0062-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nTaylor added 14 points and Bonner 13 for Phoenix. Katie Douglas had her second straight rough shooting night. The Indiana star was 4 of 14 for 13 points after going 2 of 14 in Game 4. The Mercury made 10 of 17 3s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0063-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nPhoenix won it with the super-speed style that then-coach Paul Westhead used in 2007 and Corey Gaines adopted when he took over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0064-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\n\"When I first started coaching in the WNBA coach Westhead, who is my mentor - who we owe this championship to as much as him being here right now - he told me, `We're going to coach the players as players, not women, ball players'\" Gaines said. \"And it's funny how they embraced it because they enjoyed being treated that way. Instead of being treated as women basketball players, we treat them as ball players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205695-0065-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe five-game WNBA Finals series averaged 548,000 viewers (P2+), up 73 percent vs. last season (316,000). The series averaged 434,000 households, up 68 percent, and delivered a 33 percent ratings increase (0.4) from last year (0.3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205696-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Playoffs\nThe 2009 WNBA Playoffs is the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205696-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Playoffs, Playoff qualifying\nThe following teams clinched a playoff berth in the East:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205696-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Playoffs, Playoff qualifying\nThe following teams clinched a playoff berth in the West:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205696-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA Playoffs, Bracket\nThis is the outlook for the 2009 WNBA playoffs. Teams in italics had home court advantage. Teams in bold advanced to the next round. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoffs seeding in their respective conferences. Numbers to the right of each team indicate the number of games the team won in that round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 363]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205697-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA draft\nThe 2009 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 9, 2009. The first round was shown on ESPN2 (in HD for the first time ever) at 3:00pm ET, while the second and third rounds were shown on ESPNU and NBA TV at 4:00pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205697-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA draft\nA lottery was held on December 9, 2008. The Atlanta Dream received the first overall selection of upcoming 2009 draft. The Washington Mystics received the number two selection. The Chicago Sky came up with the third overall selection, followed by the Minnesota Lynx at four, the Phoenix Mercury at number five. For the first time in WNBA history, the lottery balls were chosen exactly according to odds. Some of the top draftees were Angel McCoughtry, Marissa Coleman, Kristi Toliver, and Renee Montgomery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205697-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA draft, Dispersal draft\nOn December 1, 2008, the league announced that the Houston Comets would no longer operate. On December 8, a dispersal draft was held with teams being allowed to pick based on reverse order of 2008 records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season\nThe 2009 WNBA Season was the 13th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is the first WNBA season without a Houston franchise, the Comets having folded in December 2008. The season ended with the Phoenix Mercury winning their second championship in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 297]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season\nThe regular season began with a televised (ABC) meeting between the defending champion Detroit Shock and the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles on June 6. The Connecticut Sun hosted the 9th Annual All-Star Game which was broadcast live on ABC (HD) on July 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 275]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, Houston Comets dispersal draft\nOn December 8, 2008, the Houston Comets dispersal draft was held. Five former Comets players, Latasha Byears, Mwadi Mabika, Hamchetou Maiga-Ba, Michelle Snow and Tina Thompson were free agents and therefore not eligible for this draft. Teams selected based inversely on their 2008 regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, Houston Comets dispersal draft\nSix of the thirteen teams making selections waived their picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, 2009 WNBA Draft\nThe WNBA Draft lottery was held on December 9, 2008. The Atlanta Dream received the first overall selection. The Washington Mystics received the number two selection. The Chicago Sky came up with the third overall selection, followed by the Minnesota Lynx at four and the Phoenix Mercury at number five. For the first time in WNBA history, the lottery balls were chosen exactly according to odds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 430]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, 2009 WNBA Draft\nThe 2009 WNBA Draft was held on April 9 in Secaucus, New Jersey. Coverage of the first round was shown on ESPN2 (in HD for the first time ever) at 3:00pm. Second and third round coverage was shown on ESPNU and NBA TV at 4:00pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, Regular season, All-Star Game\nThe 2009 WNBA All-Star Game was hosted by the Connecticut Sun on July 25 at Mohegan Sun Arena. Coverage of the game began at 3:30pm on ABC. This marked the second time the Sun had hosted the annual event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205698-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBA season, Regular season, Statistic leaders\nThe following shows the leaders for each statistic during the 2009 regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 51], "content_span": [52, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205699-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WNBL Finals\nThe 2009 WNBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the WNBL's 2008\u201309 season. The Adelaide Lightning were the defending champions but were defeated by Townsville in the Semi Finals. The Canberra Capitals won their sixth WNBL championship with a 61\u201358 win over the Bulleen Boomers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205700-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPA World Ten-ball Championship\nThe WPA 10-Ball World Championship 2009 was the second edition of the WPA World 10-ball Championship, the world championship for the discipline of 10-ball pool. The event took place from November 25 to 30, 2009. The qualification phase was hosted at the Star Billiards Center, in Quezon City while the final tournament which started from May 10, 2011 was hosted at the World Trade Center Manila in Pasay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 441]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205700-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WPA World Ten-ball Championship\nThe event was won by Finland's Mika Immonen, defeating Filipino Lee Van Corteza in the final 11\u20136. British Darren Appleton was the defending champion, having won the 2008 event, but was defeated by David Alcaide in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205700-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WPA World Ten-ball Championship, Format\nThe 128 participating players were divided into 16 groups, in which they competed in a double elimination tournament against each other. The remaining 64 players in each group qualified for the final round played in the knockout system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 281]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game\nThe 2009 Women's Professional Soccer All-Star Game was the first WPS All-Star Game. In a format similar to that of recent all-star games in Major League Soccer, the WPS All-Stars played Swedish club powerhouse Ume\u00e5 IK on August 30, 2009, eight days after the league's championship game. The WPS All-Stars defeated their guests 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, Saint Louis Athletica named host\nWPS awarded the 2009 All-Star Game to St. Louis, Missouri in a press release on June 25, 2009. The venue was Anheuser-Busch Center in the suburb of Fenton, home of Saint Louis Athletica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, Ume\u00e5 IK\nFounded in 1917, Ume\u00e5 IK is currently one of the premier women's clubs in Europe. They have won six Damallsvenskan titles, and won the UEFA Women's Champions League twice, appearing in the finals five times in the eight years since the competition's founding. Ume\u00e5 was also the club that Marta played for before moving to the Los Angeles Sol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, Voting\nEleven of the eighteen WPS All-Stars were chosen by vote. 25% of the total vote came from fans voting online, 25% from media, 25% from coaches (who were prohibited from voting for their team's players), and 25% from players. The results of the voting were released on August 4 at 5PM ET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 333]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, Voting\nOver 25,000 fan votes were cast, with the top three fan picks being Hope Solo, Lori Chalupny, and Shannon Boxx. Despite leading the fan voting, Solo did not make the Starting XI. Marta was the overall top vote-getter, being named on the ballots of all eligible coaches, collecting 94% of the media vote, and finishing second in the player vote and fourth in the fan vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, Voting\nMultiple players who were selected to the Starting XI were playing for their national teams in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 at the time of the All-Star game. As such, their spots on the field were taken by the next runners-up in the voting for their respective positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, At-Large Selections\nThe remaining seven players on the All-Star team were selected by Abner Rogers (head coach for the Los Angeles Sol), who was chosen by a vote of all WPS players to be the WPS All-Star coach, and Commissioner Tonya Antonucci.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 283]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, 2009 All-Star Rosters, Women's Professional Soccer\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, 2009 All-Star Rosters, Women's Professional Soccer\nBold indicates Starting XI from * Indicates Starting XI players who were on national team duty in Europe at gametimeItalic indicates runners-up  Starting XI players on European national team duty - Tiffeny Milbrett replaced FormigaRegular typeface indicates \"At Large\" player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 350]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, 2009 All-Star Rosters, Ume\u00e5 IK\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, 2009 All-Star Rosters, Ume\u00e5 IK\n* Due to Ume\u00e5 also missing players for the European championships, these WPS players played for their former club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205701-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS All-Star Game, Match details\nWoman of the Match:Christie RamponeAssistant referees:Teresa MiguelStephanie TothFourth official:Dallas Malhiwsky", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205702-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour\nThe 2009 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for Group 3E Series Production Cars. It was the seventh running of the Bathurst 12 Hour, and the third since the races 2007 revival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205702-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour\nThe race was won by defending champions, Rod Salmon's TMR Australia car driven by Salmon, Damien White and new team member, Tony Longhurst in an upgraded Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205702-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour, Class structure\nThe event was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 22 February 2009 with cars competing in the following classes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205703-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS Draft\nThe 2009 WPS Draft took place on January 16, 2009. It was the first draft held by Women's Professional Soccer to assign the WPS rights of college players to the American-based teams, though other players not previously assigned could be drafted as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205704-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS Expansion Draft\nThe 2009 WPS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Women's Professional Soccer teams Atlanta Beat and Philadelphia Independence, taking place on September 15, 2009. Each expansion team made 9 selections from the existing seven WPS teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205705-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPS International Draft\nThe 2009 WPS International Draft was a special draft for the Women's Professional Soccer teams Atlanta Beat and Philadelphia Independence taking place on September 22, 2009. Each expansion team picked up to five international players, to be roughly even with the seven existing WPS teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205706-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WPSL season\nThe 2009 Women's Premier Soccer League season is the 13th season of the WPSL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205706-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WPSL season, Changes From 2008, Folding\nSeven teams left the league prior to the beginning of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205706-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WPSL season, Standings, Pacific Conference, North Division\n* California and Walnut Creek game postponed, not rescheduled since it would not affect standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205707-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WSBL season\nThe 2009 WSBL season was the 21st season of the Women's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 13 March and ended on Saturday 18 July. The finals began on Friday 24 July and ended on Friday 21 August, when the Willetton Tigers defeated the Mandurah Magic in the WSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 323]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205707-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WSBL season, Regular season\nThe regular season began on Friday 13 March and ended on Saturday 18 July after 19 rounds of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205707-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WSBL season, Finals\nThe finals began on Friday 24 July and ended on Friday 21 August with the WSBL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205708-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Premier tournaments\nThe 2009 WTA Premier tournaments were 19 of the tennis tournaments on the 2009 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments all rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Dubai, Roma, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo), and Premier (10 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour\nThe 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 37th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2009, and concluded on November 8, 2009 after 56 events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour\nSerena Williams and Dinara Safina engaged in a battle for the year-end No. 1 ranking, with Williams eventually coming out on top after winning the WTA Tour Championships. She won two Grand Slam titles during the year. Safina ascended to No. 1 in April and held it for much of the rest of the season. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Caroline Wozniacki and Elena Dementieva also enjoyed successful years in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 also battled with inconsistent results, falling from No. 1 in January to No. 8 by November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour\nKim Clijsters returned to competitive tennis in August after giving birth to her daughter, and won the US Open title. Maria Sharapova made her comeback in May, having missed all tournaments since the summer of 2008, and rose back into the top 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour\nFormer world No. 1 Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo announced her retirement at the end of the season, while Ai Sugiyama and Nathalie Dechy were among other notable players who retired during the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nThe 2009 season saw the Women's Tennis Association undergo what was described as \"its most sweeping reforms in history\", with the aim of creating a more fan friendly structure to the Tour, to reduce player withdrawals, and increase player commitment in the biggest tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 305]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nThe main features of the new \"Roadmap\" calendar saw the abolition of the previous Tier system, which were replaced by Premier and International tournaments. 20 Premier events were to be held throughout the season, down from the 26 Tier I and Tier II events that were held in 2008. Of those 20, four\u2014the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open in Madrid, and the China Open in Beijing\u2014would be mandatory, offering $4.5 million in prize money. Along with that were five other tournaments, the Premier 5s, which offered $2 million in prize money. Ten other Premier tournaments were also held throughout the season. These would all lead up to the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, which boasted a $4.5 million total prize fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 820]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nIn addition, 30 International events were created to replace the previous Tier III and IV categories. The top performers in the Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships who won an International title during the season were to be eligible to compete in the season-ending Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, which was held the week after the Sony Ericsson Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nThe Roadmap calendar also saw a 30% increase in the length off the off-season, from 7 to 9 weeks, with the season ending in October, as well as more breaks between the bigger tournaments throughout the season, an increase in back-to-back events, a decrease in player commitment, a limitation on top player participation in International tournaments and stronger penalties for top players who miss Premier tournament commitments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 456]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nThe WTA Tour also moved more closely to a combined Tour with the ATP, with 31% of events being combined men and women events, and equal prize money being offered at ten of the biggest events throughout the season. Total prize money increased to $86 million, which was once again a record high, up from $67 million the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 360]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nWith the changes came a new ranking system, which now included the player's best-performing 16 events (down from 17), including the four Grand Slam tournaments and the four mandatory events for all players who qualified by ranking, and the awarding of \"zero pointers\" for top players missing commitments at the biggest events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Tour reforms\nLastly, the Women's Tennis Association also announced that On Court Coaching would be included in all events on the Roadmap calendar. Having been tested in many events since 2006, the decision to approve the move was made to increase the relationship between the viewer and the sport, with viewers being able to listen in on conversations between players and their coaches, who are required to wear a microphone during the exchange. Players were allowed to request their coach once per set, at a changeover or at the end of the set, or when the opposing player was taking a medical timeout or toilet break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nElena Dementieva started the season on a hot streak, taking the title in Sydney, beating Dinara Safina in the final, as well as winning a smaller tournament in Auckland the week before, putting her as a firm contender at the season's opening Grand Slam, the Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nDuring the Australian Open fortnight, Venus Williams became the first big casualty when she lost in the second round to Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro. Jelena Doki\u0107 made a fairytale run to the quarterfinals, the furthest she'd been in a Grand Slam event since 2002, and world No. 1 Jelena Jankovi\u0107 lost in the fourth round to Marion Bartoli. In the quarterfinals, Doki\u0107's run was ended by Safina, with Vera Zvonareva, Dementieva and Serena Williams also moving through. Williams eventually beat Safina in a match that saw the No. 1 ranking on the line, to win her tenth Grand Slam title, and fourth at the Australian Open, and sealing her return to the No. 1 spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 693]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nFebruary saw Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo overcome her struggling form in the previous two seasons to win the Premier event in Paris. Venus Williams also won the Roadmap's first Premier 5 event in Dubai, beating surprise finalist Virginie Razzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nAt the mandatory Indian Wells, Zvonareva won her biggest career title thus far with a win over Ivanovic in the final. Safina had another chance to reach No. 1 after this tournament, but lost to Victoria Azarenka. Azarenka won the event in Miami, stopping Serena Williams achieving a record-breaking sixth title there. Jankovi\u0107 continued her struggles with her second straight loss, with Safina, Zvonareva and Ivanovic also losing early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 475]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nSafina ascended to the No. 1 ranking on April 20 despite not playing the previous week, due to Williams not defending her title. Playing in her first tournament as the No. 1, Safina lost in the final of Stuttgart to Kuznetsova, before avenging the loss by beating Kuznetsova in the Rome final. In the final major warm-up event, Safina beat Caroline Wozniacki to win Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nAfter a strong clay season, Safina was the favourite to win her first Grand Slam at the French Open, and she eventually moved through to the finals in the top half. On the bottom half, Kuznetsova came through, beating Serena Williams in the quarterfinals, to set up the third meeting between the two during the clay season. With Safina heavily favoured, Kuznetsova won the title for her second Grand Slam title in singles, and first since the US Open in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 498]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nElsewhere, in a fortnight of surprises, Dominika Cibulkov\u00e1 reached her first Grand Slam semifinal, beating Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals, who was returning from a lengthy lay-off from shoulder surgery recovery. Samantha Stosur also reached her first Grand Slam semifinal, taking down Elena Dementieva in the second round. Defending champion Ana Ivanovic lost to Azarenka in the fourth round, a loss which dropped her out of the top 10 in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nThe top four seeds all reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, the first time it had happened since 2006. The first week did, however, see French Open champion Kuznetsova upset by Sabine Lisicki on her way to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, and Jankovi\u0107 lose to American teenager Melanie Oudin. The semifinals were direct contrasts to each other, with Venus Williams thrashing Safina in the top half semifinal, and Serena Williams beating Dementieva in an epic 8\u20136 in the third encounter. The final was the fourth all-Williams Wimbledon final, and the second in a row. Serena avenged her loss to Venus in last year's final to win her third Wimbledon title, first since 2003, and eleventh Grand Slam title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 752]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nThe US Open Series turned out to be an open race, with five different champions being crowned at the tournaments. Eventually, it went to Toronto champion Elena Dementieva, who also reached the semifinals in Cincinnati and Stanford. Flavia Pennetta finished second after winning Los Angeles and reaching the semifinals in Cincinnati and New Haven, results which saw her break into the top 10. Cincinnati champion Jelena Jankovi\u0107 came third. Also during the summer hardcourt season, Kim Clijsters made her return to competitive tennis in Cincinnati after giving birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nAt the US Open, Caroline Wozniacki reached her first Grand Slam final after a half of upsets which saw Safina, Jankovi\u0107 and Dementieva all lose in the first week. Melanie Oudin reached her first major quarterfinal by defeating Dementieva, Sharapova and Petrova back-to-back, while Yanina Wickmayer reached her first semifinal at this level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nIn the bottom half, Clijsters came through after defeating Venus Williams in the fourth round, and later her sister Serena in the semifinals, in a match that ended with Williams receiving a point penalty, and later a fine, for unsportsmanlike conduct after reacting to a foot fault called by the linesperson. In the final, Clijsters beat Wozniacki to win her second Grand Slam title in only her third tournament back, and become the first mother to win a Grand Slam title since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Season summary, Singles\nThe fall season saw Maria Sharapova win her first title since returning from her shoulder surgery in Tokyo. Kimiko Date-Krumm provided a notable story, becoming the second oldest player to ever win a title in the Open Era in Seoul. Svetlana Kuznetsova won the event in Beijing, beating Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska in the final. Following that tournament, Safina surrendered her No. 1 ranking to Serena Williams, before regaining it the week prior to the WTA Tour Championships. This meant that the year-end No. 1 would be decided in Doha, with whoever performed better in the tournament achieving the position. Safina retired in her first match, while Williams went on to win the title to become the year-end No. 1 for only the second time, after 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 783]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Schedule\nThis is the complete schedule of events on the 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2009 WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships, the WTA Premier tournaments and the WTA International tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 399]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Statistical information\n1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 437]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Rankings, Singles\nThe following is the 2009 top 20 in the Race To The Championships. Premier Mandatory Events are counted even if the player did not compete, if there is no injury excuse, it is counted as one of their events, when you are in the top 10. Players in gold are players who competed in the 2009 WTA Tour Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 32], "content_span": [33, 345]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, WTA Prize Money Leaders\nSerena Williams topped the money list for the 2nd consecutive season and for the 3rd time overall. In doing so, she also became the first woman to win $6,000,000 in a single season. The top-12 players earned over $1,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, WTA Prize Money Leaders\n1 Only for 2008 year-end top 10, Certain players receive fines for skipping events", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Retirements\nFollowing are notable players who announced their retirement from the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour during the 2009 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205709-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour, Awards\nThe winners of the 2009 WTA Awards were announced on 24 March 2010, during a special ceremony at the Sony Ericsson Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships\nThe 2009 WTA Tour Championships (also known as Sony Ericsson Championships \u2013 Doha 2009) was held in Doha, Qatar from October 27 to November 1. It was the second time the Khalifa International Tennis Complex hosted the WTA Tour Year-End Singles and Doubles Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships\nWomen's Tennis Association(WTA) rank No. 2 Serena Williams won her second year-end championships title, defeating sister, Venus Williams in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20136(4). The Spanish duo of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez won the doubles event on their debut 7\u20136(0), 5\u20137, [10-7]. They defeated the World No. 1s in doubles and defending champions, Cara Black and Liezel Huber, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nOn August 5, the first qualifier for the year-end championship was announced in Dinara Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nDinara Safina enjoyed a good start to the year reaching the finals of ASB Classic losing to Elena Dementieva 6\u20133 2\u20136 6\u20131, followed by her second Grand Slam final, her first on a hardcourt in the Australian Open but was thrashed by Serena Williams 6\u20130 6\u20133. Safina then became the world no. 1 after Serena's Charleston points dropped off. She then made her 3rd final in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix but once again ended up on the losing side to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6\u20134 6\u20133. She then claimed two titles back-to-back in the Internazionali BNL d'Italia defeating Kuznetsova winning 6\u20133 6\u20132; and in the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open defeating Caroline Wozniacki 6\u20132 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nShe then competed in her 4th straight finals and her 6th of the year at the French Open but once again lost to Kuznetsova 6\u20134 6\u20132. She then reached the Semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships but was once again questioned for her credibility as the world no. 1 as Venus Williams crushed her in the most dominating scoreline that a current world no. 1 has ever lost 6\u20131 6\u20130. - However she bounce back from that loss by winning the Slovenia Open defeating Sara Errani 6-7(5) 6-1 7-5 in the final. She reached her 8th final in Cincinnati but lost to Jelena Jankovi\u0107 6\u20134 6\u20132. Safina struggled in the US Open being pushed in the first and second rounds by much lower ranked players. She ended up losing to Petra Kvitov\u00e1 in the third round 6\u20134 2\u20136 7\u20136(5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 800]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nThis is Safina's 2nd appearance and is trying to win her first match as she went 0-3 last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nOn August 19 - The second qualifier was announced as Serena Williams following her semifinal appearance at the Rogers Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nSerena Williams Began the year by winning the Australian Open. She then reached the final of the Sony Ericsson Open after defeating Venus in the semifinals to keep her no.1 ranking. Playing injured she lost to Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-1. From there she went on a four match losing streak, the longest of her career and lost World No. 1 ranking to Safina on April 20 to Dinara Safina when she pulled out of Family Circle Cup. Despite a lack of preparation, Williams reached the quarterfinals of the French Open before losing to the eventual champion Kuznetsova 7\u20136(4), 5\u20137, 7\u20135, which ended her 18-match Grand Slam winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nHowever she rebounded at Wimbledon defeating Elena Dementieva 6\u20137(4) 7\u20135 8\u20136. The match was named by many as the best match of the year, she then claimed her third title by defeating Venus 7\u20136(3) 6\u20132. In the US Open, she reached the semifinals. She reclaimed the no. 1 spot for two weeks from Safina after outperforming Safina in the China Open. This is Serena's sixth appearance and is trying to reclaim the world no. 1 from Dinara Safina. Serena won the event in 2001 and was the runner-up in 2002 and 2004. Serena has a 10-5 record in the year-end championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nOn the 4th of September, Caroline Wozniacki and Elena Dementieva were the third and fourth to qualify, respectively", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nElena Dementieva has enjoyed a remarkable season that was begun by winning 15 consecutive matches including titles in ASB Classic and Medibank International Sydney where she defeated the top two seeds Serena Williams and Dinara Safina, she then reached the semifinals of the Australian Open losing to eventual champion Serena 6\u20133 6\u20134. She then reached the finals of Open GDF Suez losing to Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo 7\u20136(7) 2\u20136 6\u20134. At the French Open she was upset by Samantha Stosur after winning her match against Jelena Doki\u0107 due to Doki\u0107's retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nDementieva played one of the most memorable matches on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in 2009 when she was defeated by Serena Williams in the semifinals of Wimbledon (6\u20137(4) 7\u20135 8\u20136) in a marathon that lasted nearly three hours. Dementieva's successful hard court season was highlighted by winning the Rogers Cup in Toronto defeating Maria Sharapova 6\u20134 6\u20133 in the finals  and clinching the title of US Open Series winner. However she was upset by Melanie Oudin in the second round of the US Open. Dementieva also claimed her career high this year of no. 3 for 7 weeks. This is Dementieva's 9th appearance with her best showing coming from 2000 and 2008 reaching the semifinals. She has 5-16 record in the championship coming to this year's event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nCaroline Wozniacki season was highlighted by 3 titles on 3 different surfaces in MPS Group Championships a green clay event defeating Aleksandra Wozniak 6\u20131 6\u20132, In Aegon International a grass event defeating Virginie Razzano 7\u20136(5) 7\u20135 and in Pilot Pen Tennis a hardcourt event defeating Elena Vesnina 6\u20132 6\u20134. Wozniacki also reached 5 other finals in the Cellular South Cup losing to Azarenka 6\u20131 6\u20133, the Family Circle Cup losing to Sabine Lisicki 6\u20132 6\u20134, the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open losing to Safina 6\u20132 6\u20134, the Swedish Open losing to Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez 7\u20135 6\u20134 and her biggest achievement so reaching the finals of the US Open her first time to reach a spot greater than the fourth round, losing to Kim Clijsters 7\u20135, 6\u20133 and reaching world no. 5. She will be competing in her 1st year-end championship. She will be making her debut at the year-end championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 931]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nSvetlana Kuznetsova began the year with a Quarterfinal appearance at the Australian Open where she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams 5\u20137 7\u20135 6\u20131 throwing of a lead in the second set. In the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Kuznetsova won her first title in two years defeating Safina 6\u20134 6\u20133, the following week she once again faced Safina in the final of Internazionali BNL d'Italia however this time she lost 6\u20133 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 469]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nAt the French Open Kuznetsova made easy work on Safina in the final 6\u20134 6\u20132 in just 74 minutes despite struggling against Serena and Samantha Stosur the previous rounds. The 2009 French Open is her 2nd Major, her first being the 2004 US Open. She then had a patch of bad run then on including a third round lost at Wimbledon losing to Lisicki 6\u20132 7\u20135 and 4th round lost to Caroline Wozniacki 2\u20136 7\u20136(5) 7\u20136(3) at the US Open. She then won the 2009 China Open over Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska 6\u20132 6\u20134 this helped her regain the no. 3 ranking. This is Kuznetsova's 5th appearance and trying to rub off an 8 match losing streak at the championship. Kuznetsova has a 1-10 record in the tournament's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 744]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nOn October 9 Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka qualified together as sixth and seventh qualifiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nVenus Williams is the defending champion. Venus won back-to-back titles in the Dubai Tennis Championships defeating Virginie Razzano 6\u20134 6\u20132. En route, she defeated Dementieva and Serena and a title in the Abierto Mexicano Telcel defeating Flavia Pennetta 6\u20131 6\u20132 and her first clay title since May 2005. She then went to Wimbledon as the defending champion, losing in the finals to her sister Serena 7\u20136(3), 6\u20132 after crushing world no. 1 Dinara Safina 6\u20131 6\u20130 the biggest win against a reigning world no. 1. She also reached the final in Stanford losing to Marion Bartoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 623]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nIn the Grand Slams Venus' performance was not good losing in the 2nd round of Australian Open, 3rd round of the French Open and 4th round of US Open. This is Venus' 4th appearance and she has never lost before the semifinals. Venus has an impressive record of 9-2 in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nThis is Venus' 4th appearance and she has never lost before the semifinals. Venus has an impressive record of 9-2 in the event, and is the defending champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nVictoria Azarenka is enjoying her best season so far by reaching a career high no. 6. She began the year with her first career title in Brisbane International defeating Marion Bartoli 6\u20133 6\u20131, then followed it up with titles in Cellular South Cup defeating Wozniacki 6\u20131 6\u20133 and Sony Ericsson Open, defeating five-time Miami champion Serena Williams. She also managed to reach the quarterfinals of the French Open losing to Safina 1\u20136 6\u20134 6\u20132 and Wimbledon losing to eventual champion Serena 6\u20132 6\u20133. She will be competing in her 1st year-end championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nOn October 22 Jelena Jankovi\u0107 claimed the last spot as Radwa\u0144ska and Zvonareva fell early at the Kremlin Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nJelena Jankovi\u0107 who is having a not so satisfying year, still managed to win the red clay tournament in Andalucia Tennis Experience defeating Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro 6\u20133 3\u20136 6\u20133  and Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open defeating Safina 6\u20134 6\u20132. She also became the runner up at Tokyo, retiring in the final against Maria Sharapova due to wrist injury. In Grand Slams Jankovi\u0107 the furthest she has reached in a slam was a fourth round. Jankovi\u0107 failed to make it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam in 2009. This Jankovi\u0107's 3rd appearance having her best result last year finishing in the semifinals with a 2-5 record coming to the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nThe two alternate spots were taken by Vera Zvonareva, who had a fascinating first half of the year by reaching the semifinal of Australian Open losing to Safina 6-3 7-6(4) and winning two titles in Pattaya Women's Open defeating Sania Mirza 7\u20135 6\u20131, an international tournament, and Indian Wells defeating Ana Ivanovic 7\u20136(5) 6\u20132 also defeating Wozniacki 6-4 6-2 and Azarenka 6-3 6-3 en route, a Premier Mandatory tournament. She withdrew from Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open and Roland Garros with a right ankle injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Singles\nIn the US Open she lost to Flavia Pennetta in the Fourth Round when she lost 6-0 in the third when she started whipping on court. This will be her 3rd appearance if one of the players withdraw, she has a 4-4 record at the event. The other alternate is Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, who had consistent results throughout the year, reaching at least the quarterfinals in twelve tournaments, including a runner-up finish at the China Open losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2 6-4, She scored 2 top 10 wins in the year over Ana Ivanovic and Elena Dementieva. This will be Radwa\u0144ska's second appearance if a second player withdraws she has a 1-0 record at the event", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 697]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nOn September 9 - Cara Black and Liezel Huber, the defending champions, were the first to qualify for the championships after their runner-up finish at Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 210]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber have been the no. 1 doubles team since 2007. Performing consistently during the slams, they had a quarterfinal finish at the Australian Open losing to eventual runners-up Hantuchov\u00e1 and Sugiyama. They then made a semifinal appearance at the French Open losing to eventual champions Medina Garrigues and Ruano Pascual and Wimbledon losing to eventual champions the Williams sisters, and reached their first major final of the year in the US Open losing again to the Williams Sisters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 559]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0021-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nOutside the majors, they won back-to-back titles at the Open GDF Suez defeating Peschke and Raymond and Dubai Tennis Championships defeating Kirilenko and Radwa\u0144ska. They also won Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open once again outlasting Raymond and Peschke, Aegon Classic defeating the American team of Kops-Jones and Spears, and Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open over Llagostera Vives and Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. They were the only team to win at least a title on all 3 different surfaces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nOn September 29 the second team to qualify was the Williams Sisters, Serena Williams and Venus Williams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nSerena Williams and Venus Williams are competing in their first year-end championships, who were considered to be the biggest threat in the doubles even though they had a low ranking at the beginning of the year. They had an impressive record of 24-1 through the year, with their only lost at the French Open to Petrova and Mattek-Sands. They won three of the four Grand Slams with victories at the Australian Open defeating Hantuchov\u00e1 and Sugiyama, Wimbledon defeating Stosur and Stubbs, and at the US Open defeating Black and Huber, all in straight sets. To maintain their record for never losing in any grandslam doubles finals. They also won the Bank of the West Classic defeating Chan and Niculescu, their first non-Slam title since 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nOn October 5, The third team to qualify was Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, even though they did not have a good run at the slams with a first round exit at the French Open and three quarterfinal exits at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, they won the most doubles titles of the year with six titles. They had back-to-back titles at Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas defeating Pennetta and Dulko and Abierto Mexicano Telcel in an all Spanish final prevailing over compatriots Dom\u00ednguez Lino and Parra Santonja.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nAs well as back-to-back titles at the Rogers Cup prevailing over Stosur and Stubbs and the Pilot Pen event defeating the Czezh team of Bene\u0161ov\u00e1 and Hradeck\u00e1. They also won the Barcelona Ladies Open outlasting C\u00eerstea and Klepa\u010d and Internazionali Femminili di Palermo prevailing over Koryttseva and Kustova. They also reached the finals of the Swedish Open losing Pennetta and Dulko, and the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open losing to Black and Huber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nOn October 12, the final qualifiers were Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Qualifying, Doubles\nSamantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs were the only qualifying team not to ever win a title in 2009. However their runner-up finishes at the Aegon International losing to Sugiyama and Amanmuradova, Rogers Cup losing to Llagostera Vives and Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, and Wimbledon losing to Serena and Venus helped them to qualify. They also reached the semifinals of US Open and the third rounds of Australian Open and French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nThe stellar eight-woman line-up includes four players who have been No.1, three Grand Slam champions, and four who've been to at least one major final. Two of the field made their Top 10 debuts this season and are at the championships for the first time. Between them, they pocketed 21 of the 53 titles that were on offer during this landmark 'Roadmap' season. As last year, the competitors have been divided into two groups named for the colors of the Qatari flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 504]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0028-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nThe White group comprises No.1 seed Dinara Safina, No.4 seed Caroline Wozniacki, No.6 seed Victoria Azarenka and No.8 seed Jelena Jankovi\u0107. The Maroon Group is made up of No.2 seed Serena Williams, No.3 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, No.5 seed Elena Dementieva and No.7 seed Venus Williams. Last year's runner-up, Vera Zvonareva, and Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska wait in the wings as alternates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nAt the White Group featured more fresh-faced players than the other group with none of them having won a Grand Slam. Each player's respective head to head records against one another is as follows: Dinara Safina is 8-4, Caroline Wozniacki is 1-5, Victoria Azarenka is 4-8 and Jelena Jankovi\u0107 is 8-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0029-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nWith Dinara Safina leading the group, she has a decent head-to-head with each player she is 1-0 against Wozniacki, with their only meeting coming from the Mutua Madrile\u00f1a Madrid Open finals with Safina winning 6-2 6-4, She also has a very good record against Azarenka leading 4-1 with her only loss to Azarenka coming from this year's Indian Wells Open. They have also played 3 setters in their last 3 meetings. However Safina's record against Jankovi\u0107 is 3-3 an even record with Jankovi\u0107 winning their last meeting in the finals of Cincinnati 6-4 6-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0029-0002", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nThe next head-to-head features the two newcomers Azarenka and Wozniacki, which Azarenka has a slight lead of 2-1, with, winning their last two meetings. Like Safina, Jankovi\u0107 has a good record against Wozniacki and Azarenka, she is 2-0 against Wozniacki, both matches having an interesting scoreline due to fact that Jankovi\u0107 lost the first set in both meetings but eventually won the match. Jankovi\u0107 is also 3-1 against Azarenka with Jankovi\u0107 winning their last three matches and Azarenka's win dating back to 2006 in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 564]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nThe Maroon Group features more accomplished and veteran players with all of them reaching a Grand Slam final and 3 of them, aside from Dementieva, have won a Grand Slam at least twice. In their respective records reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Serena Williams is 22-16, French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova is 12-12, Elena Dementieva is 10-21 and Venus Williams is 22-17. As their head-to-heads are broken down the leader of the Maroon Group, Serena, is the only one that has a winning record against each of her group mates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nShe is 5-2 against Kuznetsova, this year they met twice at the Australian Open which eventual champion Serena won and in the French Open which eventual champion Kuznetsova won. Serena is 6-4 against Dementieva and 2-2 this year with Dementieva's wins coming from Medibank International Sydney and Rogers, and Serena's victories coming from the Australian Open and their stellar match in the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. Serena is 11-10 against her sister Venus and 2-1 in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nVenus won their first encounter of the year at the Dubai Tennis Championships with Serena winning their last two meetings in Miami and Wimbledon. Unlike Serena, Dementieva is on the losing side with her head-to-heads besides being 4-6 against Serena, she is also 4-6 against Kuznetsova, with Kuznetsova winning their only meeting this year in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and winning 4 of their last 5 meetings. Dementieva is also down against Venus 2-9 with Venus getting the upper hand 2-0 this year against Dementieva with wins in Dubai and Stanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0030-0003", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Groupings\nAdding to that Venus is in a 6 match winning streak against Dementieva with Dementieva's win dating back to 2004 in Miami. On the head-to-head between Kuznetsova and Venus, Kuznetsova leads it 4-3 with them splitting their last two meetings and with their last meeting dating back to March 2008 in Miami with Kuznetsova prevailing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Prize money & Points\nThe total prize money for the 2009 Sony Ericsson Championships is 4.5million United States dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 1\nThe action in the 2009 Year-end championship started in the White Group between debutant Victoria Azarenka and last year's semifinalist Jelena Jankovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 1\nAzarenka broke in the opening game. Jankovi\u0107 finally got on the scoreboard in the third game. Azerenka broke for a second time in the seventh game and had no trouble serving out the set at 5-2. The early stages of the second set followed much the same path as the first as Azarenka broke in the third game. This time though the Serb did muster some kind of a fight and she broke back two games later. Azarenka immediately restored her second set advantage, before going on to save break points in the eighth game. Azarenka broke again to claim the set and match 6-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 614]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 1\nThey were followed on court by the opening match in the Maroon Group. Where defending champion Venus Williams faced Elena Dementieva. The American grabbed the advantage by breaking in the second game. The rest of the set went with serve as Venus won it 6-3. The opening game of the 2nd set saw Dementiva save 3 break points, before being broken at the 4th opportunity. A battling hold in the third game, when she saved another break point. Dementieva then reeled off three games in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 1\nVenus recovered to  break again in the 11th game, with Dementieva once again producing a double fault. But the Russian broke straight back. Dementieva sealed the set with a 4th break point when Venus produced double fault. The Russian broke in the first and third games of the final set. In the 6th game Venus had break points only for Dementieva to hold. The Russian clinched the match 2 games later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 1\nThe final match of the night was between the Wimbledon and Australian Open champion, Serena Williams. And the French Open champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova. Kuznetsova grabbed an early break, in the third game. But 3 games later and Serena was back on serve. The two players then traded breaks as Kutznetsova served for it. But the first set was to be decided on a tie-break. Serena saved two set points before sealing the set. The second set followed much the same pattern with Kuznetsova snatching the early break only to be pegged back by Serena once again. The Russian once again the broke in the fourth game before being broken straight back. Eventually it was Williams who lifted her level breaking for the lead in the 11th game before serving out the match taking the set 7-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 827]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 2\nThe first match featured debutants Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki. Azarenka, the No.6 seed at the season-ending event, lost the opening game of the match but won the next six straight. The 80-minute second set saw Azarenka fended off seven break points to hold serve after 20 minutes for a 3-2 lead. Wozniacki finally broke in the ninth game. Despite Azarenka holding break back points in the very next game, Wozniacki held her nerve to force a deciding set, albeit after a 10-minute break due to the heat rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 2\nThe break seemed to have benefited Azarenka as she broke in the second game. Azerenka promptly dropped her own serve and exchanging another two breaks of serve with Wozniacki before a seventh break of serve of the set left Azerenka serving for the match. Wozniacki broke back and broke again as Azerenka lost her cool. She receiving a warning for hitting a ball out of the stadium between points and then had a point deducted on break point for smashing her racquet. Wozniacki held her nerve to serve it out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 556]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 2\nIn the second match of the day, top seed Dinara Safina had to withdraw 1-1 and 30-15 in the first set with Jelena Jankovi\u0107. After a lower back injury flared up, she was forced to quit in tears. She withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Vera Zvonareva. Her withdrawal ensures that Serena Williams will be the year-end no. 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 2\nThe main match featured a sister act as Serena Williams and Venus Williams went toe to toe in a tight 3 sets, lasting 160 minutes. Venus broke in the second game of the match. Venus, though, gave her younger sister the break back, with three double faults in the one game. But re-established the break in the fourth game. Serena broke back for a second time before the two players went on to exchange solid service holds. But it was only a temporary respite for Serena as Venus broke once again in the 12th game, sealing the set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 577]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0038-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 2\nVenus fell apart in the second, handing Serena a break in the opening game. Serena further extended her lead in the seventh game of the set when she broke again. Despite being broken back in the very next game, Serena won the set 6-4. The decider saw five out of the first six games going against serve. But despite Venus trailing for much of the set, and even serving to stay in it at 5-3 down it was she who first held a match point. Serena saved it with some ferocious hitting, before forcing the decisive tie-break. Serena took control, racing out to a 4-2 lead at the change of ends before sealing it with her first match point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 681]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 3\nThe first on court featured a marathon between Caroline Wozniacki and Safina's replacement Vera Zvonareva. Wozniacki, the No. 4 seed, won 11 of the first 13 games against Zvonareva. But the Russian summoned the form that took her to the final of the season finale a year ago, leveling up at a set all. And saving two match points at 5-6 in that set. After a 10-minute break due to the heat rule Wozniacki came out strong again, building a 3-1 lead in the third. Zvonareva then won three of the next four games to level at 4-4. But the Dane wasn't done, holding then breaking for 5-4 and fighting off severe cramps - and the subsequent tears - to serve it out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 707]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 3\nThe second match saw Serena Williams pitting against Elena Dementieva. Dementieva, broke in the second game. But the American, who played with heavy strapping on her left thigh, broke back immediately, Serena then ran away with the first set, breaking again in the sixth and eighth games. Serena appeared to be running away with it early in the second set, breaking in the second game. The Russian, though, did manage to find some fight and broke back at the fifth attempt in the third game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0040-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 3\nThe rest of the set went with serve, until Dementieva sent down her 10th double fault in the 10th game of the set to hand Serena three match points. The Russian saved the first two, before the American wrapped up the win at the third attempt 6-2 6-4. As a result, Serena booked her place in the Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 3\nThe final match saw defending champion Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova trying to win their first match of the tournament. The American grabbed the first break, in the fourth game, which is all she needed for the set, 6-2. The second set was much more competitive and this time it was the Russian who grabbed the early break. Despite holding break points Venus was forced to wait until the 10th game to break back. The set went to a tie-break. Kuznetsova won the tie-break ensuring a decisive third set. They traded early breaks. The American re-established her break lead in the ninth game and Kuznetsova saved two match points as Venus served for it. But Venus finally converted on the third time around after 2 hours and 28 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 789]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nThe 1st match of the last day of the Round Robin Stage featured Jelena Jankovi\u0107 and Caroline Wozniacki. The result had several implications on the outcome of the group. A Jankovi\u0107 win and she topped it with Wozniacki in 2nd with Azerenka having a chance to leap frog the pair of them later. This would squeeze Wozniacki out of the tournament. However a Wozniacki win would see her top with Azerenka going through, without having to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 485]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nThe first set saw Jankovi\u0107 only lose 5 points on serve, and broke Wozniacki twice to take the set 6-2. The second set was much the same with Jankovi\u0107 breaking 3 times. Wozniacki did offer some resistance breaking once, but could not prevent herself losing the set, 6-2. For a 6-2, 6-2 win for Jankovi\u0107 and top place in the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 377]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0044-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nThe next match featured Russians Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Dementieva needed to win the match to clinch a berth or Venus Williams and Kuznetsova would end up level with her. With the American going through on the tie break situation, unless Dementieva won in straight sets. Kutznetsova was looking to end her 8 match losing streak at the Championships. With nothing left to play for but pride, Kuznetsova re-discovered the kind of form that took her to the Beijing title at the beginning of October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 563]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0044-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nDementieva, looked tense from the start and was forced to save a break point in the second game. It didn't take long for another opportunity to go Kutznetsova's way when in the sixth game when her opponent double faulted twice. Dementieva saved two set points in the eighth game but Kuznetsova made no mistake behind her own serve, sealing the set 6-2. The second set followed much the same pattern, with Kuznetsova breaking in the opening game. The French Open champion secured a second break of serve in the fifth game when Dementieva went wide, before serving the match out. This win ended Kuznetsova's 10 match-losing streak, since her first win at the 2006 championship. Venus advanced to the semifinals following this result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0045-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nThe last match in the round robin stage featured Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska who replaced co-alternate Vera Zvonareva and Victoria Azarenka. Azarenka needed to win to clinch the last semifinal place or it would go to Wozniacki. Azarenka appeared to be cruising to the straight sets win that would have seen her top the white group when she took a 6-4 5-2 lead over Radwa\u0144ska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0045-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nAfter Azarenka broke in the opening game and although Radwa\u0144ska broke back in the second game, the opening game set the tone as the Belarusian broke again in the 5th and 6th games to race out to a 5-2 lead. Azarenka did suffer a minor blip in concentration towards the end of the first set as she allowed Radwa\u0144ska one of the breaks back, it was only a temporary lapse as the Belarusian served it out at the second attempt. Azarenka ran away with match in the early stages of the second set, breaking in the first and third games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0045-0002", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nBut the Pole, refused to give up and was rewarded for her patience when she broke back in the sixth game. Azarenka recovered her composure by immediately breaking back and setting up a chance to serve out the match. But the Belarusian undid all her good work with consecutive double faults to hand momentum back to Radwa\u0144ska. The Pole raced through the next five games to seal the second set and level the match. The match was just one game into the third set when Azarenka was forced to take a medical timeout to have her left thigh heavily strapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 599]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0045-0003", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Round robin, Day 4\nThree games later Azarenka was break points down and in tears after trying to race up the court to a drop shot. The Belarusian saved the first break point, but again she was left sobbing and kneeling on the ground next before going on to double fault and hand her opponent the break. One more medical timeout and one and a half games later and Azarenka decided she could not continue. Radwa\u0144ska won 4-6 7-5 4-1, Azarenka retired due to cramp. The result meant that Jankovi\u0107 topped the group with Wozniacki the runner up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0046-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Semifinals, Day 5\nThe day was started with the first doubles semifinal. Pairing Cara Black & Liezel Huber and Samantha Stosur & Rennae Stubbs against each other. The first set saw Stosur and Stubbs in take an earlybreak and with it the set 6-3. The second looked liked it was going away of Black and Huber when they were 5-2 up and had two set points. However Stosur and Stubbs held on and won the next 3 games to push it to a tie-break. Which Black and Huber won 7-3. The match was decided by a champions tie-break. Black and Huber cruised into an 8-3 lead. Only for Stosur and Stubbs to fight back, in vain as they lost the tie break 10-8. This win meant that Black and Huber had secured the year-end no. 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 738]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0047-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Semifinals, Day 5\nThe second match featured the first singles semifinal, meeting the champion of white group, Jelena Jankovi\u0107 and the runner up of maroon group, Venus Williams. Jankovi\u0107 broke early, however Venus broke back to level the set 3-3, it was not until the 11th game of the 1st set that Jankovi\u0107 broke the Venus serve again and eventually closed the set 7-5. The second set saw Venus facing three break points in the 5th game, wherein Venus delivered 2 double faults, but held on as Jankovi\u0107 faltered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0047-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Semifinals, Day 5\nThe Serb then saved two break points in the next game but Venus seized her chance when the a third opportunity arose breaking the Jankovi\u0107 serve, pounding away a forehand. It was enough for Venus to level the match. The third set saw Jankovi\u0107 take an early lead as she rallied to a 2-0 lead only for Venus to take the next 3 games. Jankovi\u0107 then fought back and broke to level it at 3-3, only for Venus to reestablish the break. Venus served at 5-4 for the match. After 2 hours 34 minutes, Venus clinched it 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to make her second consecutive final in the tournament. This win continues Venus success in the championship as she has never lost before the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0048-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Semifinals, Day 5\nFollowing, the second singles semifinal took place, meeting the champion of maroon group and undefeated, Serena Williams and the runner up of white group, Caroline Wozniacki. The first set saw 7 break of serve with Serena breaking serve 4 times to Wozniacki's 3. Serena eventually closed the set 6-4. In the second set, Wozniacki broke in the opening game. Wozniacki's body finally gave up though at the end of the game, the Dane retired from the match citing abdominal injury. Serena advanced to the final where she will meet her sister, Venus, for the second time in the week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 625]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0049-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Semifinals, Day 5\nThe last doubles semifinal was then played between the Williams sister's Serena and Venus and the Spanish duo of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. The first set saw both team holding serve up until 2-2 when the Williams sister won the next four games to close the set 6-2. The second set saw the Spanish team breaking Venus' serve early and that was all they needed as they won the set 6-4. In the champions tie-break the Williams sister's trailed 6-3 but gutted out some long points to claw back to 8-8. From there the Spaniards' teamship shone, as Llagostera Vives poached a backhand volley for 9-8 and Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez hit a forehand volley winner to seal the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 737]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0050-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Day 6\nThe last day saw another showdown between Serena Williams and defending champion Venus Williams for the title. Serena progressed to the finals undefeated; beating, Elena Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Venus in the group stage. Before defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals. Venus progressed to the finals after having a bad start, losing close three setters to Serena and Dementieva, whilst defeating Kuznetsova. Venus received a lucky break as Dementieva lost to Kuznetsova, tying all 3 players with Venus winning and progressing to the semifinals. Venus progressed to the final when she defeated Jelena Jankovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0050-0001", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Day 6\nSerena held the lifetime match record at 12-10 against Venus; coming into the final. With Serena winning their last 3 meetings. The first set saw Serena as dominate as she lost only 4 points on serve. Serena took advantage of her sister's poor service game converting two of six break points in the 3rd and 7th game to take the first set 6-2. The 2nd set featured no break point opportunities as it came down to a tie-break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0050-0002", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Day 6\nIn the tie-break Serena got the mini-break on the first point and rallied to a 5-1 lead only to see Venus cut it back to 5-4, but Serena won the tie-break 7-4 and the title. This win meant that Serena was the first player female to surpass the 6 million mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 302]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0051-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Day 6\nThe doubles finals was followed featuring Year-end no. 1's Cara Black and Liezel Huber taking on the Spanish duo of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. Both teams won their semi-final match through a Champions tie-break, 10-8. Black and Huber defeated Stosur and Stubbs while Llagostera Vives and Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated the Williams sisters. The 1st set saw 3 breaks a piece to send it to a tie-break that went to the Spanish duo 7-0. The second set saw the world no. 1's strike back 7-5. As in the semifinals this went to a champions tie-break which the Spanish duo won by 10-7. This ended their 6 match losing streak against the Zimbabwean-American duo; making it seventh time lucky to win their biggest title. Edging the world No.1s, 7-6(0) 5-7 10-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 819]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0052-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Race to the championships, Singles\nThose with a gold background have enough points to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205710-0053-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Doubles\nNuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez defeated  Cara Black /  Liezel Huber, 7-6(7-0), 5-7, [10-7].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205711-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships \u2013 Doubles\nCara Black and Liezel Huber are the defending champions, but they lost in the final against Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205712-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships \u2013 Singles\nVenus Williams was the defending champion, but lost to her sister Serena Williams in the final, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20134). With the victory, Serena claimed the year-end No. 1 ranking for the second time in her career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205712-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships \u2013 Singles, Draw, White Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205712-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WTA Tour Championships \u2013 Singles, Draw, Maroon Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft\nThe 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) draft was the seventh WWE draft, produced by the American professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment. The draft had two parts: the first part was televised live for three hours on April 13; the second part, the \"supplemental draft\", was held the same day immediately following the televised portion. The first part was broadcast on WWE's program Raw on the USA Network in the United States, and the supplemental draft was available on the Internet, at WWE's official website. The televised portion was held in Atlanta, Georgia at Philips Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 WWE draft\nThe 2009 WWE draft marked the third time that the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands were featured in the draft; wrestlers, general managers and commentators were all eligible to be drafted from the company's roster. For the televised half, matches determined which brand received a random draft selection. During the supplemental draft, brand and employee selections were made at random. Due to draft regulations, drafted champions took their titles to their new brands, and tag teams were not exempt from being selected. As a result, the draft impacted championships and split tag teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 600]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft\nOverall, 36 draft selections were made, the most since the original draft in 2002 (which featured 57 selections). Twelve selections were made on television; six were made by Raw, five by SmackDown, and one by ECW. All of the draftees were wrestlers: 28 males (10 drafted on television) and 8 females (2 drafted on television). Raw obtained the first overall pick in the draft by winning the first match, which resulted in the acquisition of United States Champion Montel Vontavious Porter from SmackDown. Women's Champion Melina from Raw was SmackDown's first selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 WWE draft\nECW's sole televised draft pick was Vladimir Kozlov from SmackDown. Additionally, SmackDown's WWE Champion Triple H was drafted by Raw, resulting in SmackDown's loss of its prime championship. At the end of the televised portion, the final draft choices were Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio of Raw by SmackDown, replacing the loss of the U.S. Champion, and SmackDown's Divas Champion Maryse by Raw, replacing the loss of the Women's Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 464]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft\nIn the supplemental draft, Mr. Kennedy, who was sidelined with a non-scripted shoulder injury, was drafted from SmackDown to Raw as the first (13th overall) supplemental pick. SmackDown obtained Shad Gaspard from Raw as their first (14th overall) supplemental selection. Ezekiel Jackson was ECW's first supplemental pick. Unified WWE Tag Team Champions The Col\u00f3ns (Carlito and Primo) were drafted from SmackDown to Raw; this left SmackDown without a tag team championship (although the tag team champions can appear on all 3 brands). Brie Bella (from SmackDown to Raw), Charlie Haas (from Raw to SmackDown), and Hurricane Helms (from SmackDown to ECW) were the final supplemental picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 701]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Background\nIn March 2002, the Brand Extension storyline was initiated. WWE's Raw and SmackDown! television programs were made into brands that employees were assigned to work; the ECW brand was later added in 2006. With the exception of 2003, WWE has held the draft annually since its inception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Background\nVia its website on February 11, WWE announced that the 2009 Draft was to take place on April 13 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. All wrestlers, general managers, and commentators were eligible to be drafted. A supplemental draft was announced for April 15. It was announced on the day of the televised draft that for the third consecutive year, matches would determine which brand received a draft pick, and that 12 wrestlers were to switch brands. As in previous drafts, the purpose of the 2009 WWE draft was to increase television ratings of WWE programming and to refresh the roster with new storylines for each brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 653]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Roster selections, Televised draft\nDuring Raw, 10 matches were held among representatives of the three brands to determine which would receive a draft pick; two of the matches were for two selections. Each match featured a wrestler representing their brand; if a wrestler was drafted earlier in the program, they would represent their new brand. After the matches, a computerized system, which appeared on the Raw stage TitanTron, randomly selected a member from the two opposing  brands' rosters for the winning brand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nAfter the televised draft, Joey Styles, the Director of Digital Media Content for WWE's official website, interviewed the draftees on their reactions. The drafted wrestlers generally expressed approval of the draft and described what they hoped their experiences would be with their new brand. Seven of the wrestlers were champions with their original brand, and as outlined in the draft regulations, they carried their titles over to their new brand; this affected seven of nine championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 520]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nChampion draft selections included: Unified Tag Team Champions The Col\u00f3ns (Carlito and Primo), United States Champion Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Champion Triple H, and Divas Champion Maryse from SmackDown to Raw; Women's Champion Melina and Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio from Raw to SmackDown. Since Triple H was drafted to Raw, it left SmackDown without a world championship, as Raw now featured two of the three primary championships in WWE, the WWE and World Heavyweight Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 526]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0006-0002", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nEdge would bring the World Heavyweight Championship back to SmackDown two weeks later at Backlash when he defeated John Cena in a Last Man Standing Match. When MVP and Mysterio switched brands, the two secondary championships switched brands for the first time in WWE's history. Similarly, after Maryse and Melina switched brands, WWE's two female championships also switched brands for the first time. Though the Unified Tag Team Champions were both drafted to Raw from SmackDown, the titles were able to be defended on all three brands due to being unified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nNumerous tag teams were affected by the Draft overall. During the televised portion of the draft, ECW tag team John Morrison and The Miz was split up. The Miz was drafted to Raw and Morrison to SmackDown (during the supplemental draft). The Bella Twins (Brie and Nikki), Cryme Tyme (Shad Gaspard and JTG), and The Col\u00f3ns were split up during the supplemental draft, although the duos went to the same brands afterward. SmackDown tag teams Jesse and Festus and Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder were also split up, with Festus drafted to Raw and Ryder to ECW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nThe draft had little effect on the television ratings for WWE's programming. Generally, the ratings of the three shows during the week of the draft were consistent with the ratings of each from the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 238]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nThe ratings for WWE programming the week before the draft were the following: the April 6 episode of Raw was watched by 5.7 million viewers in its first hour and by 6.1 million viewers in its second hour for an average 3.9 rating, the April 7 episode of ECW on Sci Fi earned a 1.3 television rating, and Friday Night SmackDown earned a 2.0 television rating. The draft episode of Raw was watched by 4.7 million viewers in its first hour, 5.7 in its second hour, and 6.1 in the final hour for an average 3.7 television rating. Later that week, ECW on Sci Fi earned a 1.2 television rating, while Friday Night SmackDown earned a 2.0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205713-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 WWE draft, Aftermath\nAs stated by WWE commentator Jim Ross, the draft would not come into effect until after Backlash, when the final inter-brand matches took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 170]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205714-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wagner Seahawks football team\nThe 2009 Wagner Seahawks football team represented Wagner College in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). The Seahawks were led by 29th-year head coach Walt Hameline and played their home games at Wagner College Stadium. They finished the season 6\u20135 overall and 5\u20133 in NEC play to tie for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team represented Wake Forest University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Jim Grobe during his ninth season at the school and played its home games at BB&T Field. Wake Forest competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference, as they have since the league's inception in 1953. The Deacons finished the season with a record of 5\u20137 and 3\u20135 in ACC play. The Deacons missed out on a bowl game for the first time since the 2005 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nOn National Signing Day, the Demon Deacons received letters of intent from 21 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Before the season, Recruiting\nPreferred Walk-Ons:Spencer Bishop TE/LB 6-2 200 FR (HS) Pinehurst, NC (Pinecrest)Roger Khouri Fullback 6-1 230 FR (HS) Key Biscayne, FL (Ransom Everglades)Zach Massey TE/FB/LS 6-1 195 FR (HS) Kannapolis, NC (A.L. Brown)Gray Mazzone Wide Receiver 5-9 170 FR (HS) Cary, NC (Panther Creek)Josh Strickland Wide Receiver 6-2 185 FR (HS) Winston-Salem, NC (Forsyth Country Day)Alex Wulfeck Punter 5-9 170 FR (HS) Orange Park, FL (Bolles School)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 514]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, Baylor\n5 all-time meetings:  Baylor 4\u20131Last meeting:  2008 at Baylor (Wake Forest 41, Baylor 13)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, Elon\n9 all-time meetings:  Wake Forest 8\u20130\u20131Last meeting:  1939 in Greensboro (Wake Forest 34, Elon 0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, @ Boston College\n16 all-time meetings: Boston College 8\u20136\u20132Last meeting:  2008 at Wake Forest (Boston College 24, Wake Forest 21)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, North Carolina State\n102 all-time meetings: NC State 61\u201335\u20136Last meeting:  2008 at NC State (NC State 21, Wake Forest 17)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, Maryland\n57 all-time meetings: Maryland 41\u201315\u20131Last meeting:  2008 at Maryland (Maryland 26, Wake Forest 0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 169]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, @ Clemson\n74 all-time meetings: Clemson 56\u201317\u20131Last meeting:  2008 at Wake Forest (Wake Forest 12, Clemson 7)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, @ Navy\n10 all-time meetings: Wake Forest 7\u20133Last meeting:  2008 in Washington DC (Wake Forest 29, Navy 19)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, Miami\n9 all-time meetings: Miami 6\u20133Last meeting:  2008 at Miami (Miami 16, Wake Forest 10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, @ Georgia Tech\n28 all-time meetings: Georgia Tech 20\u20138Last meeting:  2006 in Jacksonville (Wake Forest 9, Georgia Tech 6)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, Florida State\n27 all-time meetings: Florida State 21\u20135\u20131Last meeting:  2008 at Florida State (Wake Forest 12, Florida State 3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205715-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team, Game summaries, @ Duke\n88 all-time meetings: Duke 53\u201334\u20132Last meeting:  2008 at Wake Forest (Wake Forest 33, Duke 30 OT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season\nThe Wakefield Trinity Wildcats' 137th season saw them enter their eleventh Super League campaign, as well as the 2009 Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season, Death of Leon Walker\nOn 22 March 2009, Leon Walker, a reserve player, collapsed in the 63rd minute of a game against Crusaders Reserves at Maesteg rugby union ground. He was airlifted to Morriston Hospital, Swansea where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. He was 20 years old at the time of his death. An inquest subsequently found that his death was the result of a rare undiagnosed heart defect, and the coroner ruled that he died of natural causes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season, Death of Leon Walker\nWalker started playing rugby league for the amateur side, the Churwell Chiefs. Walker joined the Salford City Reds in 2006 and played for the club for three years. After his rookie season he was named the Salford Reds Junior Academy Player of the Year. In 2007 Walker represented both the Yorkshire and England U18 sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season, Death of Leon Walker\nHe joined the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in November 2008, joining their senior academy side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 154]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205716-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats season, Death of Leon Walker\nWalker attended Morley High School and was a scaffolder by trade, and was the cousin and team mate of Luke Blake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205717-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Walker Cup\nThe 42nd Walker Cup Match was played on September 12 and 13, 2009 at the Merion Golf Club (East course) in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Team United States won 16\u00bd to 9\u00bd for its third consecutive win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 224]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205717-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Walker Cup, Format\nOn Saturday, there are four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. On Sunday, there are again four matches of foursomes in the morning, followed by ten singles matches (involving every player) in the afternoon. This was a change from previous years (and the first format change in 46 years) when there were only eight singles matches on Sunday. In all, 26 matches are played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 440]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205717-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Walker Cup, Format\nEach of the 26 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 293]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205717-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Walker Cup, The course\nThe Merion Golf Club (East course) in Ardmore, Pennsylvania is a par 70 course. Hugh Irvine Wilson is credited with designing it, and it opened for play in 1912. It has hosted various USGA events including six U.S. Amateurs, four U.S. Women's Amateurs, and four U.S. Opens. It has also hosted the Curtis Cup and Eisenhower Trophy team events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205717-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Walker Cup, Teams\nTen players for the USA and Great Britain & Ireland participate in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 143]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205718-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Walsh Cup\nThe 2009 Walsh Cup was a hurling competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA, a team from Connacht GAA and a team from Ulster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship as it also features further education colleges and the winning team does not progress to another tournament at All-Ireland level. The first four losers of the competition entered the Walsh Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 416]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205718-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Walsh Cup, Walsh Cup, Quarter finals\nThe quarter finals saw Kilkenny, Antrim, Galway and Wexford proceed to the next round, while Dublin, Laois, Wexford and Offaly were left to contest the Walsh Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 207]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205718-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Walsh Cup, Walsh Cup, Semi Finals\nThe semi finals saw Kilkenny playing the previous year's winners, Antrim, while Galway faced Wexford. Both Kilkenny and Galway progressed to meet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205718-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Walsh Cup, Walsh Shield\nThe Walsh Shield was created in 2008 and was contested for the second time in 2009. It consisted of the losing quarter finalists of the Walsh Cup, with Dublin coming through to win for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205719-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Warrington Wolves season\nThe 2009 Warrington Wolves season was the 131st in the club's history. They competed in Super League XIV as well the 2009 Challenge Cup. They reached the Challenge Cup final in which they defeated Huddersfield Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205719-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Warrington Wolves season, Super League, Table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205719-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Warrington Wolves season, Notes\nNote A: Warrington won 24-25 via the golden point rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205720-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Warsaw Open\nThe 2009 Warsaw Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the Warsaw Open, part of the Premier-level tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It took place at the Legia Tennis Centre in Warsaw, Poland, from 18 May until 23 May 2009. Unseeded Alexandra Dulgheru, who entered the main draw as a qualifier, won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 389]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205720-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Warsaw Open, Finals, Doubles\nRaquel Kops-Jones /  Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated  Yan Zi /  Zheng Jie, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205721-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Warwickshire County Council election\nElections to Warwickshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season\nThe 2009 season is Washington Freedom's first season competing in the Women's Professional Soccer league, the top division of women's soccer in the United States, and seventh competitive season. The team was coached by  Jim Gabarra who has led the team since its founding in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 311]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Review\nIn January 2008, Washington was selected as one of the seven cities to launch Women\u2019s Professional Soccer in spring 2009. The WPS would be the next iteration of a women\u2019s professional league since the WUSA folded in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Review\nThe Washington Freedom had been competing in the W-League since 2006, would begin the Washington franchise to field a WSP team. Still led by head coach Jim Gabarra, the coaching staff stayed intact transitioning to the new league. The initial player allocation aimed to keep players in preferred locations and best marketing potential, with the Freedom getting Abby Wambach, Cat Whitehill, and Ali Krieger (on loan from FFC Frankfurt).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Review\nThe Freedom played in the league\u2019s inaugural match on March 29, 2009, against Los Angeles Sol before a crowd of 14,382. They lost the match, 2\u20130, and struggled for the first three weeks. The Freedom picked up their first win of the WPS era back in California, beating FC Gold Pride, 3-4, thanks to a 90th-minute goal from Abby Wambach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Review\nThe season continued to be an up and down one with a strong run through June (going undefeated through 8 matches) followed by three consecutive losses. Winning four of their last five, the Freedom finished their first WPS regular season in 3rd place, earning their first playoff appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 329]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Review\nThe first round playoff match was a rematch of the last week of the season, where the Freedom defeated Sky Blue FC at home 3-1. Sky Blue would get revenge winning 2-1 at the Maryland SoccerPlex, thanks to an 85th minute goal from Francielle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Club, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}}
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{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Competition, WPS playoffs\nThe Freedom finished 3rd in the table earning a place in the WPS Playoffs in a First Round match up versus 4th place Sky Blue FC. Despite having defeated Sky Blue on the final day of the regular season, the Freedom dropped the First Round match at home after conceding a late goal to Francielle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205722-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Freedom season, Transfers\nAs part of the inaugural season, each of the league\u2019s seven teams went through several mechanisms for player acquisitions to fill out their rosters. These included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 2009 Washington Huskies football team represented the University of Washington in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Steve Sarkisian, who replaced Tyrone Willingham following a winless 2008 season. The Huskies played their home games at Husky Stadium in Seattle, Washington. The Huskies finished the season 5\u20137 and 4\u20135 in Pac-10 play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, LSU\nLSU came into the game ranked #11 in the nation, but the Washington Huskies earned their respect after they gave up 478 total yards to Washington. The Washington Huskies had 13:44 time of possession edge and ran 83 offensive plays to LSU's 48, but lost the game due to a couple untimely turnovers and blown defensive plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Idaho\nWashington ended the nation's longest losing streak at 15 games and gave new coach Steve Sarkisian his first victory, beating Idaho 42-23. Sarkisian's first win as a head coach came as the Huskies scored touchdowns on its first five possessions\u2014minus a fumble on the opening kickoff of the second half\u2014making up for a defense that showed weakness against the pass. Locker tossed touchdowns of 24, 31 and 4 yards and added a 3-yard TD run of his own as Washington picked up its first victory since Nov. 17, 2007 when it beat California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 596]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Idaho\nDespite the offensive performance, the Huskies defense showed it still has a long way to go in defending the pass. Quarterback Nathan Enderle threw for 279 yards\u2014part of the 349 total passing yards by the Vandals. But Idaho had to settle for three field goals on three trips inside the Washington 20 in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Idaho\nEnderle then made his one crucial mistake on the first possession of the second half. After Washington's Curtis Shaw fumbled the second half kickoff and Idaho recovered, Enderle faced a third-and-4 at the Washington 25. Throwing toward the near sideline, Enderle's pass found the hands of linebacker Mason Foster, who returned the turnover 56 yards to the Idaho 21. Four plays later, and after Locker hit D'Andre Goodwin for 20 yards to the 1 on third down, Chris Polk plowed in for his first touchdown of the season. The Vandals ended up out-gaining Washington 412 to 374, but were hampered by eight penalties and an inability to get Washington off the field", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 720]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe underdog Washington Huskies upset the USC Trojans on a last second field goal for a 16-13 win. The game snapped a 7-game winning streak for the Trojans over the Huskies, the last victory coming in 2001. For USC, Aaron Corp started for the injured Matt Barkley at quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 338]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe Huskies became the latest Pac-10 team to upset the Trojans, only two Pacific-10 Conference teams have failed to beat USC during the Pete Carroll era: Arizona and Arizona State. Other Pac-10 teams have defeated USC at least once during this period, Oregon State did it twice, 2006 and again in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 361]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nNotre Dame defeats the Washington Huskies 37\u201330 at Notre Dame Stadium to give Notre Dame its 4th win of the season. Notre Dame stayed alive with 3 goal line stands resulting in only 3 Washington Husky points. Golden Tate was able to scorch Washington's defense for 244 yards receiving, 31 yards rushing and one touchdown. Notre Dame finally wins in OT and extends their record to 8\u20130 against the Huskies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 470]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nWith the appearance the game would be heading into overtime, ASU quarterback Danny Sullivan threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to receiver Chris McGaha in the last five seconds of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nAfter Erik Folk's 33-yard field goal in the first quarter for Washington, Nate Costa rushed for 3 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter to give the Ducks their first lead. Then Javes Lewis intercepted Jake Locker's pass in the end zone to give Oregon the ball back, which resulted in Jeremiah Masoli scoring from the 1-yard line for their second touchdown. With a second left, Folk kicked a 48-yard field goal to end the half, which was aided by a personal foul on Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nUnable to move, the Huskies turned the ball over to Oregon and the Ducks scored their third touchdown on Masoli's 3-yard run in the top of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 219]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nThe Huskies failed to capitalize on UCLA's five turnovers and lost to the Bruins by a point at the Rose Bowl. Down by a point, Erik Folk's 38-yard field goal kick in the fourth quarter was no good. Folk kicked three field goals, two in the second quarter, and Jermaine Kearse scored two pass-touchdowns for the Huskies. Jake Locker completed 23 of 40 passes for 235 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nKai Forbath kicked a 27-yard field goal earlier in the final period to win the game for the Bruins. Kevin Prince completed 13 of 17 passes for 212 yards and Kevin Craft had 10 of 14 completions for 159 yards. Both gave up an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, California\nWashington's upsets of #19 California becomes the eleventh FBS team since 1946 to follow a winless 2008 season with five victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Game Starters\n% - started as second tight end ^ - started as third wide receiver", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Players in the NFL\nThe following UW Huskies were selected in the 2010 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Award winners, Academics\nWashington placed seven players on the 2009 Pac-10 All-Academic Team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205723-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Huskies football team, Award winners, Athletics\nWashington placed ten players on the 2009 Pac-10 All-Conference Team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205724-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Mystics season\nThe 2009 WNBA season is the 12th season for the Washington Mystics franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Mystics reached the playoffs for the first time in three years. They lost to the Indiana Fever in the first round in a sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205724-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Mystics season, Offseason, Dispersal Draft\nBased on the Mystics' 2008 record, they would pick 2nd in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Mystics picked Matee Ajavon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205724-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Mystics season, Offseason, WNBA Draft\nThe following are the Mystics' selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season\nThe Washington Nationals' 2009 season was the fifth season for the American baseball franchise of Major League Baseball in the District of Columbia, and the 41st since the original team was started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It involved the Nationals attempting to win the National League East Division after a disappointing 59\u2013102 season the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season\nOn July 12, manager Manny Acta was fired and replaced with bench coach Jim Riggleman, though only as an interim manager. Under Acta, the Nationals compiled an MLB worst 26\u201361 record in 2009 through the All-Star break and a 158\u2013252 record in Acta's three seasons with the Nationals. Riggleman would be named full-time manager in November 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season\nThe Nationals finished the year with a 59\u2013103 record, worse than the year before by one loss. For the second straight season, they finished with the worst record in Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season\nNationals' third baseman Ryan Zimmerman won a Gold Glove Award as the best defensive third baseman in the National League and a Silver Slugger Award as the best offensive third baseman in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Offseason\nOn November 3, 2008, the Nationals traded minor-leaguer Ryan Buchter to the Chicago Cubs for minor-leaguer Matt Avery. On November 10, 2008, they traded Emilio Bonifacio and minor-leaguers Jake Smolinski and P. J. Dean to the Florida Marlins for Scott Olsen and Josh Willingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Changed uniforms\nFor the 2009 season, the Nationals altered their uniforms. The interlocking \"DC\" was removed from the star-spangled circle and moved to the left sleeve of both the home and away uniforms. It also has removed from the alternate red jersey and replaced with the \"curly W\" from the team's cap. A new navy alternate jersey with the interlocked \"DC\" on the left chest in a \"stars and stripes\" flag pattern, which has also been emulated on the alternate navy cap, which was worn several times in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 546]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Changed uniforms\nFinally, in a tribute to the former baseball teams in the District of Columbia, a script writing of the city name replaced the block lettering, emulating the Senators' script of the 1950s and 1960s \u2013 though as those teams used \"Senators\" on both their home and away uniforms, this marks the first time the \"curly W\" has actually appeared as part of the word \"Washington\" on an MLB jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Changed uniforms\nThe uniforms gained notoriety when on April 17 in a game against the Florida Marlins, the jerseys of Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn read \"Natinals\" on the front of the jersey instead of \"Nationals\" for the first three innings of the game. The Nationals did not catch the error as they only checked the back of the shirts, not the front, but were able to assign to Dunn and Zimmerman the correct jerseys later in the game. The company who manufactured the jerseys, Majestic Athletic, apologized for the error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 557]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Advertising and marketing\nThe Nationals\u2032 marketing and advertising theme for the 2009 season was \"Natstown,\" capturing the idea that all Nationals fans at the ballpark, in the community, and in their everyday lives were participating in a single community centered around the team. The marketing campaign urged fans to \"Get Your Red On,\" a reference to wearing the team's colors to show one\u2032s team spirit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Mascot\nIn March 2009, the Nationals introduced a new version of Screech, their bald eagle mascot who wears the home cap and jersey of the team. The original Screech who \"hatched\" at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in 2005 during the third home game in Nationals history and had appeared at the team's home games during its first four seasons in Washington, was chubby, but the new Screech was slim. The Nationals explained that they had redesigned Screech because he had \"grown up\" and become a \"teenager.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Spring training\nThe Nationals held their 2009 spring training in Viera, Florida, with home games played at Space Coast Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 161]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Draft\nThe 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft took place from June 9 to June 11. With their first pick \u2013 the first pick overall \u2013 the Nationals selected pitcher Stephen Strasburg. Other notable players the Nationals selected were pitcher Drew Storen (10th overall, a first-round supplemental pick they received for failing to sign Aaron Crow in 2008), second baseman Jeff Kobernus (second round, 50th overall), shortstop Michael A. Taylor (sixth round, 172nd overall), pitcher Taylor Jordan (ninth round, 262nd overall), pitcher Nate Karns (12th round, 352nd overall), and pitcher Marcus Stroman (18th round, 532nd overall). Stroman opted not to sign with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 730]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Regular season, Attendance\nFinishing with the worst record in Major League Baseball for the second consecutive year, the Nationals drew only 1,817,226 fans at Nationals Park in 2009, placing them 13th in attendance among the 16 National League teams for the second year in a row. It was the lowest attendance total in their short history in Washington. Their highest attendance at a home game was on April 5, when they drew 41,290 for a game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Opening Day, while their lowest was 10,999 for a game against the Houston Astros on September 20. Their average home attendance was 22,716 per game, their lowest since arriving in Washington in 2005, but slightly higher than their average the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 773]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: Pos = Position; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205725-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Nationals season, Minor League System\nThe future for the Nationals seemed to show promise in 2009 with their Gulf Coast League affiliate qualifying for the playoffs. The significance of this to the 2009 Major League team was that it demonstrated that the team was attempting to improve on its performance and had the prospects to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season\nThe 2009 season was the Washington Redskins' 78th in the National Football League and their second and final under head coach Jim Zorn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season\nThey failed to improve upon their 8\u20138 record from 2008 and finished with a 4\u201312 record, their worst record since 2003, which resulted in Jim Zorn being fired after two seasons. He would be replaced by Mike Shanahan the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Transactions\nThe Redskins released linebacker Marcus Washington on February 20, 2009. On February 27, the first day of 2009 free agency, the Redskins made four personnel moves. Five hours into the new free agency period, the team signed a seven-year, $100 million contract with unrestricted free agent, Albert Haynesworth, who spent the first seven seasons of his career playing defensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans. The deal included $41 million guaranteed and could have reached as much as $115 million, based on performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Transactions\nThe Titans requested for the NFL to look into claims that Redskins management tampered with Haynesworth by beginning negotiations with him prior to the start of the free agent period. The Redskins also released cornerback Shawn Springs; agreed to terms with former Buffalo guard (and previous Redskin) Derrick Dockery on a five-year, $26 million contract with $8.2 million in guaranteed money; and agreed with unrestricted free agent DeAngelo Hall on a new six-year, $54 million contract. Hall's new deal contained $23 million in guaranteed money and had a maximum value of $55 million. Hall and Dockery formally signed their contracts on March 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 708]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Transactions\nOn March 2, 2009, the Redskins released defensive end Jason Taylor after he refused to add a clause to his contract that would have required him to participate in the team's off-season workout program. In the wake of Taylor's release the Redskins re-signed defensive end Phillip Daniels, who had started at left end before a 2008 ACL tear on the first day of training camp led to Taylor's acquisition, and brought back Renaldo Wynn, who had played defensive end for the Redskins between 2002 and 2006. Wynn and Daniels signed one-year, minimum deals on March 24 and April 2, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 643]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Transactions\nIn late March and early April 2009, Redskins officials attempted to include starting quarterback Jason Campbell in a trade to acquire Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler; they also attempted to trade Campbell to at least one other team for a second-round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. After Cutler was traded to the Chicago Bears on April 2, Redskins head coach Jim Zorn publicly re-asserted his commitment to Campbell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 474]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Transactions\nOn Dec. 16 the team announced the selection of Bruce Allen as Executive Vice President of Operations and General Manager, replacing Vinny Cerrato. Allen is the son of former Redskins head coach (1971\u201377) George Allen and brother of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 342]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Players, Free agents in 2009\nRFA: Restricted free-agent, UFA: Unrestricted free-agent, ERFA: Exclusive rights free agent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 153]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Schedule, Regular season\nIn addition to their regular games with NFC East rivals, the Redskins played teams from the NFC South and AFC West as per the schedule rotation, and also played intraconference games against the Lions and the Rams based on their common divisional position vis-\u00e0-vis the Redskins from 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 347]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New York Giants\nThe Redskins began their season at Giants Stadium for a Week 1 divisional duel with their NFC East rival, the New York Giants. In the first quarter, Washington trailed early as Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes got a 28-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Redskins' deficit increased as quarterback Eli Manning completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mario Manningham, along with defensive end Osi Umenyiora stripping quarterback Jason Campbell of the ball and returning the fumble 37 yards for a touchdown. Washington would close out the half with punter Hunter Smith getting an 8-yard touchdown run off of a fake field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 725]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New York Giants\nThe Redskins scored in the third quarter as kicker Shaun Suisham got a 27-yard field goal. However, in the fourth quarter, New York answered with Tynes nailing a 45-yard and a 28-yard field goal. Washington tried to rally as Campbell completed a 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chris Cooley, but the Giants' defense proved to be too much to overcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 438]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 1: at New York Giants\nWith the loss, the Redskins began their season at 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. St. Louis Rams\nThe Redskins played their home opener against the St. Louis Rams. Washington scored on a 21-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 28-yard field goal in the second quarter by Shaun Suisham. The Rams would score when quarterback Marc Bulger completed a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Laurent Robinson. In the third quarter, the Redskins regained their lead when Suisham completed a 23-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 496]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. St. Louis Rams\nWith the win, the Redskins improved their record to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nThe Redskins played the Lions in Detroit. Washington trailed early when Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford completed a 21-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Bryant Johnson. Detroit increased their lead when kicker Jason Hanson completed 39-yard and 26-yard field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 353]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nThe Redskins scored in the third quarter as quarterback Jason Campbell completed a 57-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Santana Moss. In the fourth quarter Lions' running back Maurice Morris got a 2-yard touchdown run. Subsequently, the Lions failed a 2-point conversion attempt. Campbell completed a 4-yard touchdown pass to running back Rock Cartwright late in the game, although the Redskins would ultimately lose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Detroit Lions\nThe Lions snapped a 19-game regular season losing streak with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nThe Redskins played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their fourth regular season game of the year. Washington fumbled early in the game, giving the Buccaneers possession of the ball at the Redskins' 10-yard line. Tampa Bay scored on quarterback Josh Johnson's 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Antonio Bryant in the first quarter. Mike Nugent's 37-yard field goal in the second quarter gave the Buccaneers a 10-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 512]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nIn the third quarter, the Redskins kicker Shaun Suisham made a 42-yard field goal. Afterwards, Jason Campbell completed a 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chris Cooley. The point after was blocked. The Redskins also scored when Campbell threw a 59-yard pass to wide receiver Santana Moss. Nugent successfully kicked a 22-yard field goal in the fourth quarter; setting the final score of Washington 16 to Tampa Bay 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers\nJosh Johnson saw his first NFL start. Jason Campbell finished the day with three interceptions and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 89], "content_span": [90, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Carolina Panthers\nThe Redskins traveled to Bank of America Stadium to face the Carolina Panthers. Washington scored with quarterback Jason Campbell completing a 10-yard touchdown pass to running back Clinton Portis. The Panthers gained a safety in the second quarter as linebacker Thomas Davis and defensive end Julius Peppers tackled Portis in his end zone for a safety. Afterwards, the Redskins closed out the half with a 38-yard field goal by kicker Shaun Suisham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 535]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Carolina Panthers\nBoth Washington and Carolina scored touchdowns in the third quarter. The Panthers later scored on a 43-yard field goal from kicker John Kasay and an 8-yard touchdown run from running back Jonathan Stewart (along with Delhomme's 2-point conversion pass to wide receiver Steve Smith).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Carolina Panthers\nWith the loss, the Redskins fell to 2\u20133. The Panthers got their first win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Redskins returned to Washington to face another winless team, this time the 0\u20135 Kansas City Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 191]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the first quarter, both offenses did not find the end zone; the first quarter ended with no score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 189]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the second quarter, Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop kicked a 39-yard field goal for the only score of the half. The Redskins drove down the field with two minutes left in the half, but on the last play of the second quarter, quarterback Jason Campbell was intercepted by Chiefs cornerback Brandon Flowers at the Kansas City 3-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nAt the start of the second half, Washington coach Jim Zorn elected to go with backup quarterback Todd Collins over Campbell. Collins tossed a 42-yard completion on his first throw of the game. The drive ended with a 40-yard field goal by Shaun Suisham. The Redskins would take the lead with a 28-yard Suisham kick, but Kansas City tied it up with a 46-yard Succop field goal at the end of the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 495]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nIn the final period, Ryan Succop put the Chiefs up 12\u20136 with field goals of 46 and 24 yards, but it was the Chiefs defense that closed the game out for Kansas City, as defensive end Tamba Hali sacked Todd Collins in his own end zone for a safety with under a minute to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 362]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 6: vs. Kansas City Chiefs\nWashington fell to 2\u20134, while the Kansas City Chiefs gained their first victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nThe Redskins stayed at home for an NFC East game with the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night. Washington trailed early in the first quarter as Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson got a 67-yard touchdown run, followed by linebacker Will Witherspoon returning an interception 9 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, Philadelphia increased their lead with kicker David Akers completed a 47-yard field goal. Washington scored with quarterback Jason Campbell completing a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devin Thomas, but the Eagles countered with a 44-yard field goal and a Jackson 57-yard touchdown pass reception. The Redskins would then end the half with kicker Shaun Suisham making a 47-yard field goal. Washington scored on Campbell's 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Fred Davis in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 909]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. Philadelphia Eagles\nWith the loss, the Redskins went into their bye week at 2\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 149]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Atlanta Falcons\nThe Redskins traveled to the Georgia Dome to play the Atlanta Falcons. Washington trailed in the first quarter as Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan found tight end Tony Gonzalez on a 2-yard touchdown pass, followed by cornerback Tye Hill returning an interception 62 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, the Redskins scored on a 48-yard field goal from Shaun Suisham. However, Atlanta would respond with running back Michael Turner gaining a touchdown and kicker Jason Elam completing a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Atlanta Falcons\nWashington scored in the third quarter when running back Ladell Betts completed a 1-yard touchdown run. The Redskins also scored in the fourth quarter as quarterback Jason Campbell completed a 3-yard touchdown pass to tight end Todd Yoder. The Falcons ended the game with a 58-yard touchdown run by Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Denver Broncos\nTrying to snap a four-game losing streak, the Redskins went home for a Week 10 interconference duel with the Denver Broncos. Washington would trail early in the first quarter as Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton completed a 40-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Marshall. The Redskins would answer with quarterback Jason Campbell's 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Todd Yoder, but Denver came right back with Orton hooking up with Marshall again on a 75-yard touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0032-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 10: vs. Denver Broncos\nIn the second quarter, Washington would tie the game with a trick play, as punter Hunter Smith threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to fullback Mike Sellers. The Broncos would close out the half with kicker Matt Prater getting a 24-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, the 'Skins would take command in the fourth quarter with running back Ladell Betts getting a 1-yard touchdown run and kicker Shaun Suisham booting a 35-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 529]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 11: at Dallas Cowboys\nComing off their win over the Broncos, the Redskins flew to Cowboys Stadium for their Week 11 NFC East rivalry match against the Dallas Cowboys. After a scoreless first quarter, Washington would strike in the second quarter as kicker Shaun Suisham nailed a 45-yard field goal. The Redskins would add onto their lead in the third quarter with Suisham booting a 31-yard field goal. However, in the fourth quarter, the Cowboys rallied as quarterback Tony Romo completing a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Patrick Crayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Philadelphia Eagles\nComing off their Road Loss to the Cowboys. The Washington Redskins flew to Lincoln Financial Field for Week 12 to take on their NFC East Rival the Philadelphia Eagles. In the First Quarter After an Onside Kick Recovery by Washington. The Redskins strike first with QB Jason Campbell running a 2-yard Touchdown. While David Akers connected a 29-yard Field Goal, Later The Eagles took the lead with a 35-yard pass from Donovan McNabb to WR DeSean Jackson. In the 2nd Quarter The Redskins retake the Lead with Jason Campbell completing a 4-yard Touchdown pass to Santana Moss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 662]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0034-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Philadelphia Eagles\nThen Akers kicked a 24 and a 41-yard Field goal before the half. In the 3rd quarter the Redskins got the lead again completing another Touchdown pass to TE Fred Davis for 10 yards. In the 4th quarter after Shaun Suisham kick a 25-yard Field goal, The Eagles come right back with a 1-yard Touchdown by RB Eldra Buckley (with a 2-point conversion attempt by LeSean McCoy) to tie the game. Later, David Akers kick a 32-yard Field Goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. New Orleans Saints\nTrying to rebound after their close heartbreaking road loss against The Philadelphia Eagles. The Redskins traveled home for a week 13 matchup against the Saints. In the first quarter, Washington drew first blood with Jason Campbell throwing an 8-yard touchdown pass to Fred Davis. Later, Shaun Suisham kicked a 32-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Saints got on the board with Garrett Hartley making a 34-yard field goal, while Drew Brees on the Saints next possession struck a 40-yard touchdown pass to Marques Colston to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 635]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. New Orleans Saints\nThe Redskins then retook the lead with Campbell completing another touchdown pass to Devin Thomas for 10 yards. Along with Robert Meachem returning a 44-yard fumble for a touchdown (which Kareem Moore had an interception). In the 3rd quarter, the Redskins kicker Suisham made a 28-yard field goal. On their next possession, the Redskins extended their lead when Devin Thomas caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Campbell. Then Garrett Hartley kicked a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0035-0002", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. New Orleans Saints\nIn the 4th quarter, both Shaun Suisham & Garrett Hartley traded field goals, but then the Saints tied the game late when Drew Brees launched a 53-yard touchdown pass to Robert Meachem sending the game into Overtime. The Redskins won the coin toss, but Mike Sellers fumbled the ball and the Saints gained possession in Redskins territory. After a few plays, Hartley gave the Saints the overtime victory by kicking an 18-yard field goal to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 540]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. New Orleans Saints\nWith the loss, the Redskins fell to 3\u20139 and were officially eliminated from postseason contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nWashington entered the Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum seeking to beat the Raiders and finally earn their first road win of 2009. In the 1st quarter the Raiders scored first when K Sebastian Janikowski hit a 34-yard Field Goal. The Redskins took the lead when QB Jason Campbell found TE Fred Davis for a 6-yard Touchdown Pass. In the 2nd quarter the Raiders took the lead with RB Justin Fargas getting a 1-yard TD run. After Redskins K Graham Gano kicked a 46-yard Field Goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 561]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0037-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nthe Redskins took the lead before halftime when Campbell completed his second TD pass to Davis, this time from 17 yards out. Meanwhile, in the 3rd quarter when the Raiders Only Score was Sebastian Janikowski kicking a 54-yard field goal. In the 4th quarter the Redskins extended the Lead with Quinton Ganther scoring back to back possessions on two 1-yard TD runs. While Gano nailed a 41-yard field goal to seal the win for the Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 522]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0038-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 14: at Oakland Raiders\nWith the win, Washington not only improved to 4\u20139, but also won their first road game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 185]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0039-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. New York Giants\nLooking to muster their first winning streak of the season, the Washington Redskins took on the rival New York Giants on Monday Night Football. To add to the fanfare, Redskins owner Daniel Snyder hired Bruce Allen to be the new General Manager. However, the Redskins came out flat, and trailed 24\u20130 by halftime. With a chance to kick a field goal as the half ended to cut it to a 24\u20133 deficit, the Redskins tried one of the most ill-advised and ill-fated fake field goal attempts of all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0039-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. New York Giants\nRedskins P Hunter Smith sent the entire offensive line in motion, along with K Graham Gano. The first attempt was foiled by a Giants time-out. The second attempt was intercepted and almost taken back for a 31\u20130 lead. In the 2nd half, the Redskins finally got on the board, scoring on a touchdown pass to Fred Davis. However, it was too little, too late, as K Graham Gano missed the extra point. The Redskins would not score again until it was 38\u20136 Giants. RB Quinton Ganther scored on a 2-yard scamper, but the Redskins came up a foot short on the 2-point conversion, which sealed any slim chance there was of a comeback. When all was said and done, the Giants won 45\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 757]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0040-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 15: vs. New York Giants\nWith the crushing loss, Washington fell to 4\u201310, losing ten games or more for the third time in six seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0041-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nTrying to win an NFC East game this season. The Washington Redskins stayed home for a Week 16 Showdown against the Dallas Cowboys. In the First Quarter the Cowboys Strike first with Tony Romo throwing a 4-yard Touchdown Pass to Roy Williams. In the Second Quarter Dallas Struck again with Marion Barber running a 3-yard Touchdown. While in the 4th quarter  Shaun Suisham made a 23-yard Field Goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 482]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0042-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 16: vs. Dallas Cowboys\nWith the loss, Washington not only fell to 4\u201311, but failed to win a single game within their division (0\u20136), failed to win consecutive games in a season for the first time since 2004, and had their first shutout loss since October 30, 2005 to the Giants 0\u201336, and their first home shutout loss since December 14, 2003, also to the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0043-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 17: at San Diego Chargers\nComing off their shutout loss against the Cowboys, the Washington Redskins traveled to Qualcomm Stadium for a week-17 match-up against The San Diego Chargers. In the first quarter, The Chargers scored first with Nate Kaeding kicking a 47-yard field goal. Following the Chargers Next possession extended their Lead with Antonio Gates catching a 12-yard pass from Philip Rivers for a 10\u20130 lead. In the 2nd quarter the Chargers Continue to Roll with Nate Keading kicking a 24-yard Field Goal but The Redskins get on the Board with Jason Campbell throwing a 2-yard touchdown pass to Todd Yoder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205726-0043-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Redskins season, Regular season results, Week 17: at San Diego Chargers\nMeanwhile, Before halftime after a long pass from Jason Campbell to WR Malcolm Kelly which would've been his first TD as a Redskin this season. the Redskins take the Lead with Jason Campbell completing a 3-yard touchdown to Mike Sellers. In the 3rd and fourth quarter Both Graham Gano and Nate Keading traded Field Goals apiece. While the Chargers set up a 2-yard game-winning touchdown from Billy Volek to Mike Tolbert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 87], "content_span": [88, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71\nThe 2009 Washington Referendum 71 (R-71) legalized domestic partnership in Washington state, the first statewide referendum in the United States that extended to LGBT people the rights and responsibility of domestic partnership. The bill had passed State Legislature, and it was signed into law by the Governor in May 2009, but opponents gathered enough signatures to put the measure before the voters, who returned ballots by mail over three weeks ending on November 3, 2009, approving the measure 53% to 47%. The new law went into effect 30 days later, on December 3, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71\nPrior to this Washington state vote, a ban on same-sex marriages and civil unions, Arizona Proposition 107, was rejected by voters in that state in 2006, who two years later passed the civil-unions-neutral Arizona Proposition 102.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nSenate Bill 5688 was signed by Governor Christine Gregoire on May 18, 2009. On July 25, 2009, the organization Protect Marriage Washington submitted petitions containing 137,881 signatures to the Washington Secretary of State's office. State law requires at least 120,577 valid signatures to qualify for the October\u2013November 2009 ballot. The Secretary of State officially verified 122,007 of the signatures on September 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nUnder the State Constitution, laws passed by the legislature do not take effect until ninety days after the close of the legislative session, unless the Legislature declares an emergency, which would put the law in effect immediately. During this ninety-day period citizens can attempt to force a referendum by gathering enough verified signatures, at least four percent of the number of voters in the previous gubernatorial election. A successful petition places the law on hold, pending a referendum in the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nEnactment of the Washington Legislature-approved law was initially halted pending signature-verification; having received sufficient valid signatures to require voter re-confirmation, the state extended the hold until the results of the 2009 general election were made official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nSeveral lawsuits were filed to block R-71 from appearing on the ballot, but none was successful in court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nA second challenge to the ballot certification brought in Thurston County by Arthur West was dismissed upon the Secretary of State's misrepresentation of the scope of the federal injunction. A third challenge brought by WFST was dismissed by agreement without review of the signature sheets. There was an active lawsuit to be heard by the Supreme Court to decide if and when signatories to ballot measures are to be revealed publicly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 473]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, History\nFollowing the dissolution of the injunction on November 17, 2011, the Secretary of State first released some copies of the R-71 signatures, but then halted such releases pending a motion for a further injunction to be heard on November 24, 2011 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Provisions of the law\nThe full title of the proposal approved in the referendum was Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688. It was intended to make domestic partnership in Washington state equivalent to marriage, without being called by that name. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as the \"everything but marriage bill\". The law made many changes to the Revised Code. Its overall purpose is stated in Section 1:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Provisions of the law\nIt is the intent of the legislature that for all purposes under state law, state registered domestic partners shall be treated the same as married spouses ... The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to achieve equal treatment, to the extent not in conflict with federal law, of state registered domestic partners and married spouses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 402]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Text of referendum\nLegislation challenged by petition is put on the ballot with wording that asks voters to choose Approved or Rejected to either enact or strike down the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Text of referendum\nStatement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Text of referendum\nConcise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Text of referendum\nSame-sex couples, or any couple that includes one person age sixty-two or older, may register as a domestic partnership with the state. Registered domestic partnerships are not marriages, and marriage is prohibited except between one man and one woman. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of registered domestic partners and their families to include all rights, responsibilities, and obligations granted by or imposed by state law on married couples and their families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Background\nThe proposal to overturn the bill was filed by Larry Stickney, president of the Washington Values Alliance, a group that opposes recognition of same-sex relationships. Organizations favoring the original legislation and opposing putting the issue up for referendum, such as Equal Rights Washington and Washington Families Standing Together, led the 'Decline to Sign' campaign, urging voters not to sign the petitions to put the referendum on the November 2009 ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Reaction to petition\nEd Murray, who sponsored the initial domestic partnership legislation in 2007 (Senate Bill 5336), stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 157]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Reaction to petition\nWhile it's regrettable that a referendum is being filed to undo the progress we made this session to treat gay and lesbian families the same as married families, I don't believe that voters will decide in November to take away rights from anyone\u2026", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Reaction to petition\nI respect the peoples' right to place a referendum on the ballot following legislative action. However, I am obviously very disappointed that this message will be debated once again. I signed the original bill and believe it should be and will be the law of our great state. Washington state has a history of fighting to ensure everyone \u2013 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters \u2013 enjoys equal rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 466]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Reaction to petition\nProtect Marriage Washington argued, however, that the \"consent of the governed\" as per the Declaration of Independence has been withheld from same sex marriage in every state where the issue has been put to a vote of the people. It has been noted that Referendum 71 is about Domestic Partnerships and does not grant marriage equality to same sex couples.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Polls\nA 2007 University of Washington poll found 73% of Washington voters support some legal recognition of same-sex relationships (civil union/domestic partnership or marriage). The same group in October 2009 conducted a poll (N = 754 registered voters) and found that 56% of respondents planned to vote 'approve', and 39% planned to vote 'reject.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 380]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Polls\nA 2009 Elway Poll commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Network, an organization opposed to gay marriage, asked \"Should homosexuals be allowed to legally marry?\" The Elway Poll (N = 405 registered voters) reported 43% saying yes and 50% saying no.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 284]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Polls\nA September 2009 poll (N = 569 likely voters) commissioned by the Approve 71 campaign and conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (GQR) found that, when presented with the actual Referendum's language, 51% of likely voters chose to approve and 44% to reject the legislation. A later GQR poll (N = 500 likely voters) released on October 26, 2009 found that the 53% approved the legislation, while 36% rejected it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Polls\nAn October 2009 poll by Survey USA, funded by KING-TV in Seattle showed that 50% of the 561 likely voters polled would vote for the measure while 43% would reject it, 7% unsure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Signature release controversy\nThe Washington State Constitution establishes the required number of signatures for ballot measures. Referendum sponsors must submit a number of signatures at least equal to 4% of the votes cast for the office of governor in the most recent gubernatorial election in the state. The state contends that the papers on which these submitted signatures are collected are typically a matter of public record, claims that signing a petition for a referendum or initiative that qualifies for a ballot is a legislative act, and thus argues that voters are entitled to know who is behind such measures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 654]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Signature release controversy\nSome individuals and a group called  requested these signatures for the Referendum 71 ballot application. Protect Marriage Washington filed to block the release of these signatures, arguing that, \"due to the highly charged nature of the topic of Referendum 71, (domestic partnerships, gay rights, the traditional definition of marriage, etc.) that the personal information on the petitions for Referendum 71 warrant particular protection.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 500]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Signature release controversy\nThe issue escalated to the U.S. Supreme Court where on October 19, 2009 Justice Kennedy issued a temporary block to the release of the names and then the following day the Court voted 8-1 (with John Paul Stevens being the lone dissenter) to withhold the signatures until the issue could receive a full hearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Signature release controversy\nThe Supreme Court heard full arguments in the case, Doe v. Reed, on April 28, 2010. The Supreme Court decision would likely set a precedent for public disclosure rules for all referendum and initiative petitions within all states which use those citizen procedures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 326]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Signature release controversy\nOn June 24, 2010, the US Supreme Court rejected Protect Marriage Washington's claims in an 8-1 decision, with only Thomas dissenting. The court upheld the constitutionality of the Public Records Act under which the petition was requested. The question of whether to block release of the petition on narrower grounds was decided before the district court. Washington State's Office on Monday began making public the names of 137,500 people who signed Referendum 71 petitions two years ago to bring a domestic-partnership law to a public vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205727-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington Referendum 71, Advertisements in popular culture\nSatirist Stephen Colbert made light of one advertisement created by Protect Marriage Washington on The Colbert Report's October 26, 2009, show. The ad asserts that in May 2004, gay marriage was legalized in Scandinavia and coincided with a suicide rate doubling and an illegal drug use increasing nineteen-fold. Colbert went on to say the ad was \"terrifying,\" adding, \"and that ad is no less terrifying just because there is no country called Scandinavia, none of the countries in Scandinavia passed gay marriage laws in 2004, and the statistics on suicide and drug use are made up.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 2009 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Head coach Paul Wulff was in his second season, and the team played its home games on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. The Cougars finished the season with a record of 1\u201311 (0\u20139 Pac-10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team, Game summaries, Stanford\nToby Gerhart rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns, and redshirt freshman quarterback Andrew Luck made his collegiate debut by throwing for 193 yards and a touchdown pass to Chris Owusu as Stanford defeated Washington State in Pullman. The Cardinal dominated the first half, but as the second half began, the Cougars took the early momentum, driving 80 yards and scoring on a 5-yard pass from Kevin Lopina to Jared Karstetter. However, Owusu answered immediately for the Cardinal with an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to keep the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 629]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team, Game summaries, California\nIn the first quarter, passes from Kevin Riley to Jahvid Best and Marvin Jones gave Cal a 14-point lead. Jeremy Ross returned Washington State punter Reid Forrest's 42-yard punt for a 76-yard touchdown. After Nico Grasu kicked a 24-yard field goal to put the Cougars on the scoreboard, Riley completed another pass for Cal for another touchdown, this time to Shane Vereen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 443]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team, Game summaries, California\nJahvid Best rushed for 61 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter to give the Bears a 32-point lead and again in the third quarter with a 2-yard run. The final Cal score came in the fourth quarter when Vereen rushed for a 7-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nNick Tausch kicked a 29-yard field goal to put Dotre Dame on the scoreboard. Then Jimmy Clausen passed to Duval Kamara for a 7-yard touchdown in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Golden Tate scored on a 16-yard run for a touchdown and Robert Hughes rushed for a 1-yard for another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 371]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205728-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Washington State Cougars football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nThe Bruins scored on their first offensive play after an interception, a Kevin Prince to Taylor Embree touchdown pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205729-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wasit governorate election\nThe Wasit governorate election of 2009 was held on 31 January 2009 alongside elections for all other governorates outside Iraqi Kurdistan and Kirkuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205729-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wasit governorate election, Results\nIn March, the State of Law Coalition was rumoured to have allied with the Independent Free Movement List and the Iraqi National List.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205730-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford City Council election\nAn election to Waterford City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205731-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford County Council election\nAn election to Waterford County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205732-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford Senior Football Championship\nThe 2009 Waterford Senior Football Championship, the most recent championship of the Waterford Senior Football Championship, the premier Gaelic Football competition in County Waterford, commenced on 16 May 2009 and concluded on 1 November 2009. The thirteen teams in the championship were structured into two groups of four teams and one group of five teams. From these groups, quarter finals and semi-finals were played with the county final being played in Fraher Field. The championship was won by Stradbally, which defeated The Nire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205733-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 2009 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship commenced on 25 April and concluded on 17 October 2009. De La Salle were the defending champions, having beaten Abbeyside in the 2008 final. Ballygunner defeated Lismore in the 2009 final following a replay. Due to complications with the former structure of the championship in 2008, it had been decided that the 12 teams would be structured into two groups of six. The top four teams from each group advanced to the quarter final stage, from which the semi-finals and the final were played. The final and replay were played in Walsh Park in October 2009. The teams which finished last in each group played in a relegation playoff match. The losing team, Rinn \u00d3 gCuanach, have been demoted to Intermediate for 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205734-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford county hurling team season\nThe 2009 season was the Waterford county hurling team's 122nd consecutive season appearing in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, and their 78th season appearing in the National Hurling League. Waterford's season commenced on 4 January 2009 beating University College Cork by a point in the Waterford Crystal Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205734-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford county hurling team season, Waterford Crystal Cup\nWaterford got drawn against UCC in the first round of the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup. After a close game, Waterford triumphed by the closest of margins. Waterford progressed to play Tipperary in the quarter-final. In a poor game, Tipperary triumphed over an experimental Waterford side on a scoreline of Tipperary 0-14 - 1-09 Waterford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 401]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205734-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford county hurling team season, National Hurling League\nUnlike in 2008, when the National Hurling League was composed of two groups of 6 teams, the 2009 took the shape of a single group with 8 teams, with each team playing all other teams once. Waterford began their league campaign with an away fixture against Tipperary on 14 February 2009. Waterford had a disappointing league, winning three of seven games and losing the remaining four, leaving them finishing fifth in the table. The highlight of the league came with a win over reigning All-Ireland Hurling Champions, Kilkenny by four points. Kilkenny would later go on to beat Tipperary in the league final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205734-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Waterford county hurling team season, National Hurling League\nWhile the results may have been disappointing, a lot of new players were blooded throughout the league. The likes of Noel Connors, Maurice Shanahan, Shane Casey and brothers John and Podge Hurney got their first taste of competitive inter-county action. Further experimentation took place with Ken McGrath being played at centre-forward and Michael Walsh being played at centre-back throughout the league. Declan Prendergast notably got a 2-month ban after a strike to the face of Eddie Brennan during the league game against Kilkenny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205735-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Webby Awards\nThe 13th annual 2009 Webby Awards were held in New York City on June 8, 2009. They were hosted by SNL head writer Seth Meyers, and the lifetime achievement award was given to Jimmy Fallon. The awards were judged by the 650-person International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and winners were selected from among nearly 10,000 entries from 60 countries and all 50 United States. Voting by the public was available prior to April 30, and over 500,000 votes were cast. The awards ceremony was made available for viewers via the official Webby YouTube channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 581]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205735-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Webby Awards, Notes\nWinners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 569]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205736-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Weber State Wildcats football team\nThe 2009 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University for the 2009 season under head coach Ron McBride. The Wildcats finished the regular season with a record of 7\u20134 (6\u20132 Big Sky) and were invited to participate in the FCS Playoffs, where they fell in the first round to William & Mary by a final score of 0\u201338 to finish 7\u20135. The Wildcats played two FBS teams, and although they lost both games they lost each game by one touchdown (7 points) or less. Quarterback Cameron Higgins and wide receiver Tim Toone were both selected as FCS All-Americans (Toone on first team and Higgins on second team). 2009 also marked the first time in school history that Weber State qualified for the playoffs two consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 779]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205737-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wellington Sevens\nThe NZI Wellington Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2009 competition, which takes place on 6 and 7 February is the third Cup trophy in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 300]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election\nThe 2009 Welsh Labour leadership election was held following the resignation of Rhodri Morgan, who stepped down after nine years as First Minister of Wales. Morgan had made clear his intent to resign in 2009 as far back as 2005. As Morgan had been elected unopposed in 2000, this was the first contested election for the Welsh Labour leadership for more than a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election\nThe contest concluded on 1 December 2009 and was won on the first round by Carwyn Jones who won in all three sections of the ballot. As Welsh Labour was the senior partner in a Labour/Plaid Cymru coalition government, Jones was confirmed as First Minister the following week assumed office as First Minister on 10 December 2009. Both Edwina Hart and Huw Lewis served in Jones' governments until their retirement in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 458]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election\nUnder Jones, Labour would go on to take office alone as a minority government following the 2011 Assembly election, and retain office following the 2016 Assembly election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election\nJones stood down in late 2018, triggering a new election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 95]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election, Voting system\nThe election was conducted under an Electoral College system in which Labour Party members, affiliated trade union members and Welsh Labour elected officials all held an equal share of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election, Candidates\nTo stand, candidates needed the support of a minimum of six (out of a possible 24) including themselves of Labour's Assembly Members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 183]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election, Candidates\nThree candidates - Counsel General Carwyn Jones, Health Minister Edwina Hart and Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney AM Huw Lewis - entered the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205738-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Labour leadership election, Candidates\nThe following were reported as endorsements by the BBC at the close on nominations on 22 October 2009:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205739-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Open (snooker)\nThe 2009 Welsh Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 February 2009 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205739-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Open (snooker)\nThe defending champion was Mark Selby, but he lost in the quarter-finals against Anthony Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 124]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205739-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Open (snooker)\nAli Carter won his first ranking tournament by defeating Joe Swail 9\u20135 in the final, having come back from 2\u20135 down. This was the first ranking final refereed by Colin Humphries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205739-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Open (snooker), Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 96]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205739-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Welsh Open (snooker), Qualifying\nThese matches took place between 3 and 6 February 2009 at the Pontins Centre in Prestatyn, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods\nThe 2009 West Africa floods are a natural disaster that began in June 2009 as a consequence of exceptionally heavy seasonal rainfall in large areas of West Africa. Several rivers, including the Pendjari, Niger, Volta and Senegal rivers, broke their banks, causing destruction of houses, bridges, roads and crops. The floods are reported to have affected 940,000 people across 12 countries, including Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, and caused the deaths of at least 193 people. In Burkina Faso, one of the most affected countries, 150,000 people fled their homes, mostly in the capital Ouagadougou where rainfall in one day was equal to 25% of normal annual rainfall for the whole country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 733]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Seasonal rainfall\nCountries in West Africa and the southern Sahel get most of their annual rainfall during the boreal summer months from June to September. This rainy season, also known as the West African monsoon, is associated with a seasonal reversal of prevailing winds in the lower atmosphere, where moist air is blown in from the Atlantic Ocean and released over the continent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Seasonal rainfall\nThe exceptionally heavy rainfall experienced in West Africa during the 2009 monsoon season is associated with the periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Ni\u00f1o, which affects weather worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Benin\n220,000 people  have been affected, mostly in coastal areas, and 7 people are reported to have died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Burkina Faso\n150,000 persons displaced and 8 were killed following the heaviest rainfall seen in the country's capital Ouagadougou in 90 years. An estimated 110,000 people were displaced after a dam break of the Loumbila reservoir located in the center of Ouagadougou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Burkina Faso\nIn the south of the country, the Bagr\u00e9 dam had to open its main gate as water reached maximum safety levels on 4 September. The resulting increase in water flow is threatening large areas along the shores of the Volta river in southern Burkina Faso and northern Ghana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Ghana\n139,790 have been affected, and at least 24 killed. 139,709 have been affected  by flood", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Guinea\n40,000 people have been affected in the capital Conakry and the towns of Kindia and Siguiri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 145]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Ivory Coast\nTorrential rains, causing mudslides and floods, killed at least 19 people in the capital Abidjan and affected around 2000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 187]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Liberia\nIn Liberia 584 people were affected by floods, leaving 2 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Mauritania\n3,000 persons were left homeless due to floods in the city of Rosso, located on the banks of the Senegal river. An estimated total of 9000 people were affected in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 232]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Niger\nFlash floods, following 4 days of intense rainfall in Niger's northern A\u00efr Mountains affected 3,500 homes in Agadez and surrounding areas, causing 2 deaths, and losses in livestock and crops. The total number of affected people has mounted to 79,129 and 3 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Senegal\n30,000 households have been affected by floods in the capital Dakar and other parts of the country, with an estimated 264,000 affected and 6 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205740-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 West Africa floods, Damages and victims, Sierra Leone\nFloods caused by two weeks of heavy rainfall in August, left 15 deaths and 425 displaced in Freetown. Crops were washed away in six villages in the Kambia District. The total number of affected people in the country is reported to be 1,455 with 103 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 315]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205741-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Coast Conference Baseball Championship Series\nThe 2009 West Coast Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 22 and 23, 2009 at San Diego's home stadium, Patterson Baseball Complex in Spokane, Washington, and pitted the top two finishers from the WCC regular season. The event determined the champion of the West Coast Conference for the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. Gonzaga won the series two games to none over Loyola Marymount and earned the league's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This would be the final postseason conference championship for the WCC until a four-team tournament was launched in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 670]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205742-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 2009 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 6\u20139, 2009 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas. This was the first WCC tournament to have been held at a neutral site; it previously rotated between various campus sites. The semifinals were televised by ESPN2, and the championship game was televised by ESPN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 414]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205742-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nGonzaga capped off a perfect season in conference play by winning the tournament. The Bulldogs' trip to the 2009 NCAA Tournament was their 11th in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 208]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake\nThe 2009 West Java earthquake occurred on September 2 at 14:55:01 local time in West Java, Indonesia. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 79 people, injured over 1,250, and displaced over 210,000 (including more than 140,000 in Tasikmalaya regency). The quake was felt in the capital Jakarta, although damage there was minimal, and it was Indonesia's deadliest earthquake since the 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Cause\nThe earthquake's focus lies close to the major fault plane where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate. However, the focal mechanisms determined for this event shows reverse faulting at a high angle to the trend of the subduction zone and it has been suggested that the cause was deformation within the descending slab. Analysis of GPS data, tsunami run-ups and the effect of stress transfer compared to aftershock distribution supports a west-dipping reverse fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Cause\nAnother earthquake in the same subduction zone occurred only 5 days later in the ocean south of Yogyakarta. This newer quake (magnitude 6.2) is considered to be related to the West Java earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Damage\nBuildings in Bandung and Tasikmalaya, the town closest to the epicenter, were damaged, and hundreds of people were injured. An estimated 18,300 homes and offices were earlier thought to have been damaged. This figure later rose to 87,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Damage\nThe quake was felt in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital; causing evacuation in many office buildings and hotels. Several office buildings along major thoroughfares in Central Jakarta suffered damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Damage\nAt least 11 houses were covered by a landslide in Cianjur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Damage\nAround 37 inhabitants, including 13 children, of Cikangkareng were affected by a landslide caused by the quake and are thought to have been buried beneath rubble. The area has become a breeding ground for voyeurs who are flocking to the area to take photographs of the destruction and victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Victims\nConfirmed death tolls by area were issued by The Jakarta Post on 4 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Victims\nThe Bandung Health Agency says nearby victims of the quake will be eligible for free medical treatment for at least a month. Rescuers have been equipped with machinery but are struggling. 34 doctors and 52 paramedics were sent to at least 12 districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Victims\nMore than 25,000 affected people were housed in makeshift tents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205743-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 West Java earthquake, Victims\nA group of 30 volunteers comprising Malaysian medical students from several universities in Indonesia, headed by Malaysian Students Department director in Indonesia Dr Junaidi Abu Bakar were deployed to provide assistance. They provided food and clothing as well as meals for the breaking of fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205744-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Sussex County Council election\nThe West Sussex County Council election, 2009 were elections to West Sussex County Council which took place on 4 June 2009, having been delayed from 7 May, in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205744-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 West Sussex County Council election\nThe elections saw the Conservative Party retain overall control, having done so since 1997. On this occasion they gained two seats and saw their vote share increase by just over 5%. The Liberal Democrats strengthened their position as the main opposition party, gaining a net total of four seats, despite their own share of the vote falling by nearly 4%. The Labour Party lost five of the seven seats they had held before the election, and saw their vote fall by nearly 10%, broadly in line with their national decline. This decline saw the party fall to fourth place in the county in terms of the popular vote, being replaced in third by the UK Independence Party, who are likely to have benefited by voting being held alongside the European Parliament elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 805]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205744-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 West Sussex County Council election, Results by division\nThe elections were the first to be fought on new electoral divisions as recommended by the Boundary Committee for England following a review, carried out at the request of West Sussex County Council. The new arrangement of 71 single-member divisions replaced the 70 seats that were contested across 62 divisions in 2005. The recommendations were accepted by the Electoral Commission in February 2009, who implemented the  authorising the change and allowing the new divisions to be used in these elections on 6 March 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 584]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 2009 West Virginia Mountaineer football team represented West Virginia University in the college football season of 2009. The Mountaineers were led by head coach Bill Stewart and played their home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers finished the season 9\u20134 (5\u20132 Big East) and lost in the Gator Bowl 33-21 to Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Liberty\nJarrett Brown completed 19 of 26 passes for 243 yards and ran for a 22-yard touchdown, and redshirt freshman Tyler Bitancurt kicked four field goals to lead West Virginia to a 33\u201320 season-opening victory over Liberty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 289]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, East Carolina\nWest Virginia was able to overcome a mistake filled day to gain some payback on the East Carolina Pirates. Quarterback Jarrett Brown had a career day completing 24 of 31 passes for 334 yards and 4 touchdowns, including a 58-yard bomb to freshman Tavon Austin. Brown also picked up 73 yards on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThis was the second meeting between West Virginia and Auburn, with the Mountaineers winning the first game 34\u201317 during the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 69], "content_span": [70, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nThis was the second meeting between West Virginia and Colorado, with the Buffaloes winning the first game 17\u201314 in overtime during the 2008 season. The game was designated a Gold Rush, meaning that fans attended the game wearing all gold. West Virginia scored early with a Noel Devine 77 yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage. Colorado responded with a 36-yard run from tailback Rodney Stewart. They then took the lead by making a 39-yard field goal. (He had missed 2 field goals earlier in the game. )", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 589]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nWest Virginia responded with a 6-yard touchdown pass from Jarrett Brown to Jock Sanders. Despite 4 fumbles lost in the first half for West Virginia, they still led 14\u201310 at halftime. The second half started with a 48-yard touchdown pass to receiver Bradley Starks to put the Mountaineers up 21\u201310, Colorado responded by converting on 4th and 10 for a 26-yard touchdown to trim the lead to 4. In the 4th quarter, freshmen fullback Ryan Clarke rumbled for a 1-yard touchdown run, and later ran for an 8-yard run putting the Mountaineers up 35\u201317 with 2 minutes to play. Colorado scored the final touchdown of the night with 3 seconds left, but it was too late for any sort of comeback as the Mountaineers won 35\u201324. Noel Devine had a career-high 220 yards rushing with an average of 10 yards per carry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 872]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Syracuse\nWVU jumped out to a 27\u20130 halftime lead en route to beating the Orange for an 8th straight time. Jarrett Brown completed 22\u201330 passing for 244 yards and a touchdown pass to Noel Devine, who also had 97 yards on the ground with a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Marshall\nStarting QB Jarrett Brown was knocked out of the game on the Mountaineer's opening drive, forcing true freshman Geno Smith to step in. The emotional punch of having Brown out of the game showed as Marshall was able to head into the half with a 7\u20133 lead. WVU responded by scoring on its first possession of the second half, on the way to 21 second half points. Smith finished 15\u201321 passing for 147 yards and a touchdown, Noel Devine added 103 yards on the ground scoring 2 touchdowns", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh\nWest Virginia's Tyler Bitancurt kicked a 43-yard field goal as time expired to give WVU a win in the 102nd Backyard Brawl. The 2009 Backyard Brawl, broadcast by ESPN2, was the most watched college football game in the history of ESPN2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 309]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205745-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Florida State\n2010 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl marked the final game for legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who also spent six seasons as head coach at West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 236]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open\nThe 2009 Cincinnati Masters (also known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 108th edition of the Cincinnati Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 453]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open\nBoth the men's and the women's events were held at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, with the men playing from August 17 through August 23, 2009, and the women from August 10 through August 16, 2009. It was the third women's event and the fifth men's event on the 2009 US Open Series. Former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters made her return to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 490]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, WTA entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 94], "content_span": [95, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants\nThe following players received wildcards into the singles main draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 94], "content_span": [95, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132), [15\u201313].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 87], "content_span": [88, 178]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205746-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nCara Black /  Liezel Huber defeated  Nuria Llagostera Vives /  Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez, 6\u20133, 0\u20136, [10\u20132].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 89], "content_span": [90, 199]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205747-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters \u2013 Doubles\nBob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20132), [15\u201313].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 195]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205747-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 120]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205748-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters \u2013 Singles\nRoger Federer defeated Novak Djokovic in the final, 6\u20131, 7\u20135, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2009 Cincinnati Masters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205748-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters \u2013 Singles\nAndy Murray was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Federer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 136]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205748-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205749-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open \u2013 Doubles\nMaria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova were the defending champions. Both were present that year, but chose to compete with different players. Kirilenko partnered with Elena Vesnina, but lost in the second round to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez. Petrova partnered with Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but lost in the quarterfinals to Cara Black and Liezel Huber. Cara Black and Liezel Huber won in the final 6\u20133, 0\u20136, 10\u20132 against Nuria Llagostera Vives and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez S\u00e1nchez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205749-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205750-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nNadia Petrova was the defending champion of tournament's last edition, but lost in the first round to Alyona Bondarenko. Jelena Jankovi\u0107 won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against World No. 1 Dinara Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205750-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open \u2013 Singles\nThis tournament marked the return of Kim Clijsters from the sport after her first retirement, having not played a match since May 2007. She advanced to the quarterfinals, where she was beaten by Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205750-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nThe top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season\nThe 2009 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) football season was an NCAA football season played from September 3, 2009, to January 4, 2010. The Western Athletic Conference consists of 9 members: Boise State, Fresno State, Hawai'i, Idaho, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, San Jose State, and Utah State. Boise State won the 2009 WAC title going 13\u20130, 8\u20130 in conference and were invited to play in the Fiesta Bowl, in which they defeated previously unbeaten TCU. Nevada, Fresno State, and Idaho also played in bowl games, the Hawai\u02bbi Bowl, New Mexico Bowl, and Humanitarian Bowl, respectively. Nevada lost to SMU and Fresno State lost to Wyoming, while Idaho beat Bowling Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 732]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Previous season\nThe Boise State Broncos went 12\u20130 during the regular season to win the conference championship and rise to #9 in the final BCS standings. With Utah of the Mountain West Conference being ranked ahead of them in the BCS, the Broncos missed out on the big money bowls and were selected to play #11 TCU in the San Diego Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl where they would ultimately lose 17\u201316 to bring their undefeated season to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 493]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Previous season\nOther bowl-eligible teams in 2008 were Louisiana Tech (7\u20135), Fresno State (7\u20135), Hawai\u02bbi (7\u20136), Nevada (7\u20135) and San Jose State (6\u20136). La Tech was invited to play in the Independence Bowl, where they won 17\u201310 over Northern Illinois. Fresno State was invited to play in the New Mexico Bowl where they lost to Colorado State 35\u201330. Hawai\u02bbi was invited to play in the Sheraton Hawai\u02bbi Bowl in its home stadium, where it lost to Notre Dame 49\u201321. Nevada was invited to the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl where they lost to Maryland 42\u201335. San Jose State was not invited to a bowl game. Overall, the WAC went 1\u20134 in their bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 690]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll\nThe 2009 WAC Preseason Poll was announced at the league's football preview in Salt Lake City on July 29. Boise State was overwhelmingly selected as the favorite to win the conference by both the league's coaches and media that cover the WAC. Although the Broncos did not receive all first-place votes in the coaches' poll, their selection was effectively unanimous; league rules prohibit coaches from casting first-place votes for their own teams. Accordingly, Broncos head coach Chris Petersen voted for Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 588]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason poll, Media poll\nColin Kaepernick of Nevada was voted the preseason Offensive Player of the Year and Kyle Wilson of Boise State was voted the preseason Defensive player of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 87], "content_span": [88, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, Award watch lists\nMike Iupati of Idaho was one of three finalists named for the Outland Trophy, won by Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 190]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, Award watch lists\nKellen Moore of Boise State was named one of the ten finalists for the Manning Award, won by Colt McCoy of Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 192]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Regular season\nThe WAC has teams in 4 different time zones. Times reflect start time in respective time zone of each team (Central-Louisiana Tech, Mountain-New Mexico State, Boise State, Utah State, Pacific-Idaho, Fresno State, San Jose State, Nevada, Hawaiian-Hawai'i). Conference games start times are that of the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Regular season\nRankings reflect that of the USA Today Coaches poll for that week until week eight when the BCS poll will be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 179]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205751-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Athletic Conference football season, Rankings\nDuring the 2009 season the only WAC team to be ranked was Boise State, who would finish the season ranked #4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum\nThe 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum was held on 16 May 2009 in the Australian state of Western Australia to decide if daylight saving time should be adopted. It was the fourth such proposal which had been put to Western Australian voters and followed a three-year trial period. The referendum resulted in the proposal being rejected, with 54.56% voting against the proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 444]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Background\nVarious states and territories in Australia adopted daylight saving time between 1968 and 1971, but Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia did not do so. In Western Australia, three referendums were held in 1975, 1984 and 1992 on the issue, with daylight saving being rejected each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 368]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Background\nOn 25 October 2006, two members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, former Labor minister turned independent member John D'Orazio and Liberal leader Matt Birney, introduced a private members' bill for a three-year trial of daylight saving to begin in December 2006. The Labor government of Western Australia backed the trial and both main parties agreed to hold a free vote on the issue. Farming groups quickly came out against the move, along with the mining lobby, but the move was backed by business groups. The bill was approved by the lower house 37-14 and then by the upper house 21-10, enabling the trial to start from 3 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 712]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Background\nDuring 2007 there was growing opposition to daylight saving time with some in the National Party calling for people to ignore the trial. In October 2007 the Liberal Party proposed a bill to bring the referendum forward to early 2008 because of the backlash against daylight saving, and a petition was signed by 66,000 people supporting holding the referendum in 2008. However this was not successful and the referendum was called for 16 May 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Question\nAre you in favour of daylight saving being introduced in Western Australia by standard time in the State being advanced one hour from the last Sunday in October 2009 until the last Sunday in March 2010 and in similar fashion for each following year?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Campaign\nBusiness groups were among the main supporters of daylight saving time and financed the 'yes' campaign. The 'yes' campaign argued that it would make dealing with businesses from the east of Australia easier during the summer as it would reduce the time difference. They also put the case that with daylight saving time, families would be able to spend more time together outdoors after work while it was still light.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Campaign\nOpposition was strongest in rural areas of Western Australia with farmers arguing that it caused problems for them. Opponents argued that daylight saving led to more deaths on the roads and that it was inconvenient for families. With daylight saving they also said that electricity consumption was increased, damaging the environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 395]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Campaign\nCampaigning was intense during the week before the poll. On 11 May, the WA Farmers Federation claimed the Electoral Commission was biased as, while voters were instructed to write the words \"Yes\" or \"No\" in the box, a tick would be accepted as a yes, while a cross would be marked as an invalid vote. On 13 May, Kalgoorlie independent MP John Bowler, who was a daylight saving supporter, pledged that if the referendum was passed, he would move a private member's bill to exclude March from the period. However, supporters labelled this a stunt, as there was no guarantee the bill would pass Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 664]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Campaign\nOpinion polls gave no clear indication as to the eventual result. While The West Australian tipped a 53% 'no' vote, The Sunday Times, which conducted an online poll via its PerthNow portal, tipped a 53% 'yes' vote. The Premier of Western Australia Colin Barnett did not declare which way he would vote until the day of the referendum, when he said that he had voted yes, but that a no vote was the most likely outcome of the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Results\nThe referendum proposition was rejected, with 54.56% voting no, as against 45.44% who voted yes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Results\nIt was compulsory to vote at the referendum, and 1,148,851 voters, representing 85.64% of enrolled voters, turned out to cast a vote. Non -voters faced a fine of $20 to $50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Results\nThe 'no' vote was strongest in regional and rural areas as well as the outer suburbs of Perth. The 'no' vote had a majority in 35 of the state's 59 electorates, including all of the non-metropolitan electorates ranging from 85.36% in Wagin to 55.91% in Birney's former electorate of Kalgoorlie, but also including 18 of metropolitan Perth's 42 electorates. The 'yes' vote achieved a majority in 24 electorates, all but two of which were in the North Metropolitan and South Metropolitan regions. The electorates of Ocean Reef (63.01%), Perth (59.96%), Joondalup (59.20%), Hillarys (58.33%) and Kingsley (56.66%) recorded the highest 'yes' votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205752-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum, Results\nFollowing the fourth rejection of daylight saving time in a referendum the issue was described as being dead for a generation, with Premier Colin Barnett saying that \"it should not be considered for another 20 years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205753-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Bulldogs season\nThe 2009 Western Bulldogs season was the club's 84th since their introduction to the AFL in 1925.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 126]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205753-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Bulldogs season, Season summary\nThe Western Bulldogs were coming off their most successful season in 10 years by making the preliminary final in 2008 and this year finished 3rd overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205753-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Bulldogs season, Season summary\nThe club's only first round pick in the 2009 AFL Draft was at 15, and with it the Bulldogs selected Glenelg midfielder Christian Howard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205753-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Bulldogs season, Fixtures\nThe bulldogs would make two trips to Western Australia in the first four rounds, and would play three games at the MCG, they would also play a home game in Canberra against Sydney and a home game in Darwin against Port Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 267]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205754-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Cape provincial election\nThe 2009 Western Cape provincial election was held on 22 April 2009 alongside the 2009 general elections to elect the 42 members of the 4th Western Cape Provincial Parliament. It was the third time in provincial history that saw a change of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205754-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Cape provincial election\nThe African National Congress (ANC) held a majority at the end of the outgoing provincial parliament. As a result of the election, the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) were elected to a majority government under premier candidate Helen Zille. The DA formed the provincial government for the first time in its history, displacing the ANC, who came in second and consequently assumed the title of the official opposition in the province. The ANC had won a plurality of seats in the 2004 election and became the governing party. The Independent Democrats (ID) were replaced as the third-largest party by the ANC breakaway party, the Congress of the People (COPE).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 710]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205754-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Cape provincial election\nThe politics of the Western Cape are more complex than the rest of South Africa, as the province is more hotly-contested each election cycle compared to other provinces and voters had elected hung provincial parliaments since the 1994 elections. This election marked the first time since the end of apartheid that a party achieved a majority of seats in the provincial parliament. Analysts suggest that the ANC-COPE split made it easier for the DA to win the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205754-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Cape provincial election\nIn the run-up to the election, analysts suggested that the DA would perform strongly in the province, with some expecting the party to dislodge the ANC from government. On 25 April, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) project that the party would win the province with an overall majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 334]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205754-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Cape provincial election\nDA leader and premier candidate, Helen Zille, was elected and sworn into office on 6 May 2009. Former premier Lynne Brown assumed the post of leader of the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205755-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Carolina Catamounts football team\nThe 2009 Western Carolina Catamounts team represented Western Carolina University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Catamounts were led by second year head coach Dennis Wagner and played their home games at Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium. They are a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 1\u20137 in SoCon play to finish in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 435]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205756-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team\nThe 2009 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by co-head coaches Mark Hendrickson and Don Patterson, who left the team late in the 2008 season due to health problems. The 2009 season was Patterson's last with Western Illinois. He coached the first three games before stepping down, ceding the head coaching duties to Hendrickson. They played their home games at Hanson Field. The team finished the regular season with a 1\u201310 overall record and a 0\u20138 record in Missouri Valley Football Conference play. The Leathernecks finished the season with the worst record in the Missouri Conference and did not win a single conference game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 791]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the 2009 NCAA football season. The WMU football team was coached by Bill Cubit and played their home games in Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. WMU finished the season 5\u20137, defeating fellow Mid-American Conference (MAC) members Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Miami and Toledo, Football Championship Subdivision team Hofstra and losing to rival Central Michigan, Kent State, Northern Illinois, Ball State, Big Ten Conference members Indiana, Michigan and Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 604]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nSenior running back Brandon West set NCAA and MAC records for career all-purpose yards and career kick return yards during the week-four game against Hofstra. West passed Miami running back Travis Prentice for all-purpose yards (6,111) and Eastern Michigan's Trumaine Riley for kick return yards (2,541). West also currently holds the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for active career record holder for all-purpose yards, kick return yards and kick returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 517]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team, 2008 summary\nWestern Michigan finished the 2008 season 9\u20134 overall and 6\u20132 in the Mid-American Conference. WMU finished tied for second in the West Division, defeating Big Ten Conference member Illinois and Western Athletic Conference member Idaho in the non-conference portion of the schedule. WMU participated in the Texas Bowl, losing to Rice 38\u201314. Over the course of the season, the Broncos received votes in both the AP Poll and the USA Today Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nMichigan, 13 point favorites, scored 14 points in the first quarter and 17 in the second to lead 31\u20130 at halftime. WMU scored in the fourth quarter on a 73-yard touchdown pass from Tim Hiller to Juan Nunez to avoid the shutout. WMU outpassed Michigan 263 yards to 197, but only gained 38 yards on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 378]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nHiller finished the game 22 of 38 for 259 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. WMU turned the ball over three times on the day, leading to seven Michigan points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 242]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205757-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn defense, linebacker Austin Pritchard led the team with 13 tackles and a forced fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205758-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Westmeath County Council election\nAn election to Westmeath County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season\nThe 2009 Wests Tigers season was the tenth in the joint-venture club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the season 9th (out of 16), only just missing out on a place in the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season\nThe major signing for the 2009 season was Great Britain international, Gareth Ellis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Season summary\nIn late 2008, hooker Robbie Farah was offered a contract with the Gold Coast Titans commencing from the 2010 season. On 13 January 2009, it was announced that Farah had chosen to re-sign with the Wests Tigers for a further four years, until the end of the 2013 season. At the same time, the club appointed Farah as team captain, succeeding Brett Hodgson who had moved on to the Huddersfield Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Season summary\nOnly days before the commencement of the 2009 season, Wests Tigers secured Benji Marshall for a further two years, through to the end of the 2011 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Season summary\nIn November 2008, CEO Scott Longmuir announced the Wests Tigers will move from ANZ Stadium at Homebush to the Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park for the 2009 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 209]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n26 Raiders (Tries: Carney 2, Purtell, Milne; Goals: Campese 5/5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n14 Wests Tigers (Tries: Tuiaki, Morris, Moltzen; Goals: Marshall: 1/3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n24 Roosters (Tries: M Aubusson 2, Kenny-Dowall, Anasta; Goals: Fitzgibbon 4/4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n22 Wests Tigers (Tries: Hanbury 2, Galloway, Tuiaki; Goals: Marshall 3/5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n24 Knights (Tries: Hilder, Houston, Wicks, Mullen; Goals: Gidley 4/4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 103]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n20 Wests Tigers (Tries: Ryan 2, Moltzen, Payten; Goals: Gallant 2/5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 102]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n22 Wests Tigers (Tries:Tuiaki 2, Farah, Moltzen; Tries: Marshall 3/4; MoM: Farah)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n18 Wests Tigers (Tries: Tagive, Tuiaki, Marshall, Ayshford; Goals: Marshall 1/4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n18 Sea Eagles (Tries: Watmough 2, T Williams; Goals: Orford 3/3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n18 Wests Tigers (Tries: Ryan 2, Ayshford, Morris; Goals: Marshall 1/4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, Results\n24 Wests Tigers (Tries: Farah 2, Hanbury 2, Marshall; Goals: Marshall 2/5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, 2009 Pre-season trials\n26 South Sydney (Tries: Tyrell, McQueen, Lowe, Corrigan, Sayegh; Goals: Capewell 1/2, Reynolds 2/3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205759-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Wests Tigers season, 2009 Season Ladder\n* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205760-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wexford County Council election\nAn election to Wexford County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205761-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wheelchair Tennis Masters\nThe 2009 Wheelchair Tennis Masters (Also known as the 2009 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters for sponsor reasons). It was held on hard courts between the 18 and 22 November 2009. The tournament was held in Amsterdam and was part of the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour, under the Masters Series category of events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205761-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Qualification\nThe top eight in men's and women's competition of the year qualified for the Wheelchair tennis masters. The top four from the Quad category also qualified for this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 216]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205762-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Whitehaven R.L.F.C. season, Table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205763-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team\nThe 2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team represented Wichita State University in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Shockers played their home games at Eck Stadium under 32nd year coach Gene Stephenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205763-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team, Previous Season\nThe Shockers entered the year ranked in the top 25. They started off strong winning their first three games, but were swept in their next series against top 10 ranked Long Beach State. After losing those three games the Shockers would win their next 17 games. Through the season the Shockers were ranked as high as fifth. In the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament they would beat both their opponents and would receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in the Tallahassee Super Regional. Wichita State started in the Stillwater Regional and beat ranked TCU and Oklahoma State. They reached the Super Regional and played against the Florida State Seminoles winning the first, but lost the next two eliminating them from the Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 802]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205763-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team, Previous Season, 2008 MLB Draft\nThe Shockers had ten players drafted in the 2008 MLB draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 134]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205763-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams\nThe Shockers had one player selected to the preseason all-Valley team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 77], "content_span": [78, 148]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205763-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wichita State Shockers baseball team, Preseason, Alumni Game\nThe Alumni Game was played on February 15th between the 2009 team and the Alumni players; such as Derek Schermerhorn (Graduated in 2007) and Anthony Capra (Drafted in 2008). The 2009 players won 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 65], "content_span": [66, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205764-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wicklow County Council election\nAn election to Wicklow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205765-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Widnes Vikings season\nThe Widnes Vikings competed in the Co-operative Championship in 2009. This was their first season under their new head coachPaul Cullen who replaced the outgoing Steve McCormack. Under Cullen's stewardship, Widnes managed to advance to the final of the Northern Rail Cup and ultimately won the cup, ensuring the club could apply for Super League membership in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 392]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205765-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Widnes Vikings season, Table\nSource: Note (a): Toulouse were exempt from relegation. Note: (b): Doncaster lost 9 competition points for entering administration. Classification: 1st on league points; 2nd on match points difference. League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; BP = Bonus Points; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season\nThis article is about the 2009 season of the Wigan Warriors in the Super League XIV and Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Background\nFollowing Brian Noble's move from the Bradford Bulls to the Wigan Warriors in 2006, his third full season at the club took place in 2009. The season was also the first in which the Super League operated under a franchise system, after the Wigan Warriors were granted a 'B' license. The salary cap, which the club broke in 2007, was still in effect for this season, and the limit remained at GBP\u00a31.7 million; the cap was maintained 'live', in continuation of an operational change by the Rugby Football League in 2008. As an ever-present club in the Super League format, this season was the Wigan Warriors' fourteenth year in the competition. This year also marked the tenth anniversary of rugby league at the JJB Stadium, after the club moved there upon the stadium's completion in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 826]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Background\nIn contrast to the club's historical success, Wigan Warriors had not won a major trophy since 2002, when they defeated St Helens R.F.C. 12\u201321 in the Challenge Cup final. They had only won the Super League title once, in 1998. In the previous season the Wigan Warriors finished fourth in the league table meaning they qualified for the play-offs, and after defeating Bradford Bulls and Catalans Dragons, the club fell short of the 2008 Super League Grand Final after losing to Leeds Rhinos at Headingley for the second year running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nFollowing their knock-out at the hands of Leeds, the task of acquiring new players began. 2008 was influential stand-off Trent Barrett's last season for the Warriors, after he signed for the Cronulla Sharks for the 2009 National Rugby League (NRL) season; Barrett himself insisted that Tim Smith could replace him, after Smith was released by Parramatta Eels following an episode of bipolar disorder. It was also to be the last season for Liam Colbon and Mark Calderwood, who both transferred away from the club. An attempt to sign the Canberra Raiders' Todd Carney ended after Huddersfield Giants signed him instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nThe club prevented a possible cross-code transfer with George Carmont to rugby union by extending his contract. Wigan eventually signed their first new player with former Sydney Roosters player Amos Roberts, who was released from his contract a year prematurely, but lost another player to the Warrington Wolves in Mickey Higham. Joel Tomkins, a Wigan Warriors Youth Development product, also extended his contract until the end of the 2011 season. Rumours about a move for Ryan McGoldrick ended after he publicly ruled out any possible transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0003-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nThe question over Barrett's successor in the stand-off position was again raised when Tim Smith, who was on holiday in his native Australia at the time, approached the Cronulla Sharks seeking a return to the NRL, although the club did not pursue any deal with Smith and he therefore stayed at Wigan for the 2009 season. Greg Bird, who had been suspended by Cronulla Sharks for an alleged assault on his girlfriend was also cited by The Independent as a target for the Warriors, but any plans of a transfer were initially denied by the club's chairman, Ian Lenagan. On 30 January 2009, Lenagan confirmed it was unlikely there would be any more signings for the new season, having acquired two new players (Amos Roberts and Mark Riddell), after attempts to sign Richard Moore from Wakefield Trinity Wildcats failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nThe 2008 Rugby League World Cup was held in Australia during the off-season, and several Wigan players from the 2008 season were involved in matches concerning their own international teams. Pat Richards, Eamon O'Carroll and Michael McIlorum were called by the Irish team, with Paul Prescott missing out due to a back injury. Carmont and Harrison Hansen were selected for the Samoan national team. Stuart Fielden was omitted from the England squad but Calderwood, Higham and Gareth Hock all received places. Thomas Leuluai became the only Super League player from the 2008 season to win the World Cup when the New Zealand team he played hooker for defeated the Australian team 20\u201334 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 735]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nWigan played three friendly matches after the World Cup, the first being a 4\u201344 victory over Warrington Wolves at the Halliwell Jones Stadium during the traditional festive season, in which Riddell and Karl Pryce both made their first-team debuts. The Warriors played in a changed pink and black-hooped jersey in support of a local hospice, as Sam Tomkins completed a twenty-minute hat-trick, Richard Mathers and Pryce scored a double each, and Shaun Ainscough and Joel Tomkins also picked up one try apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 547]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Pre-season\nThe next match against Huddersfield Giants proved to be more difficult, as Carmont scored a last-minute try to hand Wigan a narrow victory at the Galpharm Stadium, with Riddell scoring two tries and Fielden being sin-binned in the first half. On the official opening on the new Leigh Sports Village and a week before the new Super League season began, the Warriors whitewashed their local rivals Leigh Centurions by 0\u201332 with a squad in which both new signings, Roberts and Riddell, were left out of.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 539]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nWigan's season began on 8 February with a home defeat to a depleted Wakefield Trinity Wildcats side which only had seventeen players to fill their squad with due to injuries, and the death of Adam Watene during the off-season. Head coach Brian Noble blamed the result on a poor completion rate of 40%. Wakefield took an early lead after Dave Halley crossed the line in the first minute, before scoring again via the same player in the fourteenth minute to make a 0\u201312 initiative, following two successful conversions by Tony Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 586]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nJoel Tomkins was introduced into the game in the second half as he scored a try which was converted by Pat Richards, but Wigan failed to score again. Richard Mathers, who was sent-off twice in 2008, was put into the sin-bin by the referee, Richard Silverwood, for the deliberate obstruction of Halley, and match ended in the first defeat for Wigan in their 2009 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 425]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nPrior to their next match, the Warriors announced a partnership with the University of Central Lancashire, as part of an effort to promote rugby league in the Preston area, in exchange for the student team at the university displaying the Wigan Warriors logo. This news was announced on the same day Mathers learned he would miss the next two matches for tripping Halley, including the club's next match against Hull F.C. which they lost at the KC Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0007-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nHull FC started strongly, but Wigan scored first off a Tim Smith kick to Goulding and Phelps which eventually resulted in a try for Bailey. Richard Horne scored for Hull to level the scores at 6\u20136 before a last resort intervention from Kirk Yeaman denied Goulding a try. The scores were therefore level at half-time, and a kick from Smith resulted in another try for Richards who bettered his opposite winger, Mark Calderwood in the air. With four key players missing\u2014Riddell, Phelps, Bailey and Richards\u2014due to injury, Wigan tired in the final quarter allowing Chris Thorman and Peter Cusack to score late in the game to put the tie beyond the visiting team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 713]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nWith Mathers suspended and Cameron Phelps injured with a hamstring injury and two other injury concerns, Karl Pryce and Shaun Ainscough were given places in the initial 19-man squad to take on Castleford Tigers. A third defeat out of three matches came as Castleford won a ten try game 22\u201328, a result which meant Wigan's worst start to a season in twenty-four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 421]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nWith Richards still missing due to injury, conversions proved to be the difference as both teams scored five tries apiece, but kickers Roberts and Riddell could only manage one successful kick whilst the Tigers' kicker Kirk Dixon managed four. Two disallowed Castleford tries in the first ten minutes were followed by two penalty goals by Dixon to give Castleford a 0\u20134 lead. Thomas Leuluai's effort gave Wigan a try before Joe Westerman put the Tigers ahead again after 34 minutes. Castleford scored again through Brett Ferres, with Dixon converting to give Castleford a 6\u201316 lead at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 649]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0008-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nWigan scored first after the break thanks to a try from Karl Pryce, but this was unconverted and Castleford replied with two more of their own with Dixon and Ferres scoring his second try. Wigan started a fight back, initially through a Goulding try, and then again through Joel Tomkins. Ainscough marked his debut with a fifty-yard try to reduce the deficit to two points, but Michael Shenton's try sealed the victory for Castleford. Michael McIlorum was also cited and suspended by the Rugby Football League after the game for a dangerous throw on Mitchell Sargent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0008-0003", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nAfter failing to gain a point from the first three matches in the season, Noble's position as head coach was strengthened when Ian Lenagan publicly supported him, stating, \"Brian is a very experienced coach and I'm sure we'll get this right. He has had bad starts to the season before, and he has good starts.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nWigan recorded their first win of the season with an 18\u201324 victory over Harlequins RL at the Twickenham Stoop in London. Ainscough scored his first of two tries after a break from Roberts down the wing, and it was converted by Richards who was playing at fullback as a replacement for Mathers who was omitted from the squad. Chad Randall punished Joel Tomkins' handling error for Harlequins' first try before Matt Gafa scored another try for the home side to make the half-time score 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0009-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, February\nOn his Super League debut, Sam Tomkins\u2014Joel's younger brother\u2014was involved in the build-up to Carmont's try after the second half had begun, and Bailey scored another try to put Wigan 10\u201314 ahead following two missed conversion attempts. A disallowed try for a knock-on by Will Sharp was followed by a knock-on from Carmont, before a 40-20 gave Louis McCarthy-Scarsbrook a chance to score a try in the 64th minute. Chris Melling restored a four-point lead for the home side with ten minutes left in the game after Harrison Hansen knocked-on. In the 75th minute, Randall's pass was intercepted by Roberts for an easy intercept try which Richards converted to give a two-point lead, which was increased to six as Ainscough scored the final try of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 808]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nThe start of March was also the start of the reserve team's season, which begin with a comfortable win against Bradford Bulls. Richards scored twenty points including eight goals and a try as the first team earned their first home victory of the season, winning by a margin of thirty-four points. Richards scored the first of seven Wigan tries after nine minutes, before Hock broke the defensive line to put Wigan 12\u20130 ahead. Another line break from Hock provided an offload to Carmont who scored a third try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0010-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nA twenty-point gap emerged as Richards kicked a penalty conceded by Paul Sykes, before Bradford scored their first of two tries through Rikki Sheriffe after 48 minutes. Hock replied by scoring his second try, before a line break by Riddell handed a try to Harrison Hansen. Wayne Godwin broke his leg after stopping an Iafeta Palea'aesina run, before Palea'aesina himself scored Wigan's final try. Steve Menzies scored his first Bradford try before the match ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nWigan's run of victories was short-lived as they lost the away tie to Leeds Rhinos immediately after. An unchanged Wigan side from the tie against Bradford could only score two tries, conceding six the other way. The victory was the Rhinos' fifth out of five matches, and they were ahead after three minutes thanks to a 40\u201320 which was converted into a try by Kylie Leuluai. An error from Ainscough proved costly as Scott Donald scored from the resulting turnover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 515]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nUpon the half-hour mark, Leeds were 22\u20130 ahead after Rob Burrow touched down under the sticks and another 40\u201320 provided a try, this time for Ryan Hall. Ainscough scored Wigan's first try following a pass from Thomas Leuluai, before Wigan were disallowed another try after the video referee Phil Bentham ruled Sean O'Loughlin had obstructed Burrow. Hall scored his second, besting Roberts in the air, after fifty minutes. Peacock scored Leeds' sixth try, bursting through the defensive line, whilst Hock scored the last try of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 587]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nAn away tie to Salford City Reds was more favourable for Wigan as they eased to victory at The Willows. Salford had the first major chance of the game as a kick from the 18-year-old Richie Myler was knocked-on by Jeremy Smith. Carmont replied, catching an offload from former-Salford player Andy Coley, to hand a try to Ainscough. Myler again created an opportunity, but Karl Fitzpatrick was pushed into touch. A break via Ainscough and Riddell gave Leuluai a try, before Myler scored Salford's first try following a kick from Jeremy Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nSam Tomkins saw a hole in the defensive line and ran through it, scoring Wigan's third try, before Richards scored a fourth to make the half-time score 22\u20136. Wigan scored first again in the second half as Sam Tomkins scored from the half-way line, before Ainscough scored his second. Myler and Jeremy Smith again combined for the former's second try, this time from a pass, but Richards sealed the game for Wigan after offloading to Leuluai for his second and Wigan's seventh try. The win was dampened by the injury of Ireland international Eamon O'Carroll, who fractured his metatarsal bone during the reserve game against Salford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 683]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nIn a game that was 8\u201310 going into the final ten minutes, and had three players sent to the sin-bin, Wigan lost their third home game. Amos Roberts returned after being dropped to the reserves the week before, whilst the visiting Huddersfield team contained five former Wigan players. Brett Hodgson gave Huddersfield the initiative by kicking a penalty for a 0\u20132 lead, and Hock almost responded but knocked-on in the act of scoring a try. Bailey eventually scored a try for Wigan, but Richards failed to convert, and the score was made level after another kicked penalty from Brett Hodgson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 641]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0013-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, March\nScott Moore gave Huddersfield the lead again after a run from dummy half to give a 4\u201310 lead, despite a take-out on Leuluai just before half-time which went unpenalised. Luke Robinson was sin-binned for delaying play and Roberts almost made the advantage count, but grounded the ball in touch and the try was disallowed. Darrell Griffin and Hansen were then sin-binned for a fight, before passing along the backs lead to a Roberts try, but Richards again failed to convert. Ainscough then fumbled a kick from Robinson, and Michael Lawrence punished the mistake by scoring a try for Huddersfield. Brown scored minutes later to put the game beyond Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 703]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nThe fourth round of the 2009 Challenge Cup occupied the first weekend of April, and for all Super League clubs this meant their first Challenge Cup ties. In March, Wigan learned that they would face an away tie to the Barrow Raiders, and it was expected this match would be held in front of the first sell-out crowd at Barrow's Craven Park for twenty-five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 413]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0014-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nThe game itself was still in the balance fifteen minutes from time, with Barrow trailing Wigan by four points at 20\u201324, following a match which had seen a Shaun Ainscough hat-trick and Wigan's defensive frailties exploited again. The result pivoted on a forward pass decision which ruled out another Barrow try, minutes before Pryce scored a controversial try for Wigan in which he appeared to have knocked-on, with twelve minutes left to play. A try from Tomkins eventually sealed the win for Wigan to advance them into the fifth round of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nOn the day after, it was confirmed Martin Gleeson would transfer to Wigan from the Warrington Wolves, on a three and a half-year contract. The signing came after Warrington had left Gleeson out of the squad which defeated York City Knights in their fourth round Cup tie, meaning Gleeson would be eligible to play for Wigan in future Cup games. Wigan were reported by the Wigan Evening Post to have spent GB\u00a3110,000 and given Richie Mathers in return for Gleeson. On the day after Gleeson's signing was announced, the draw for the Challenge Cup's fifth round took place. Wigan received an away tie to Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 678]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nGleeson featured in the first derby match of the year against St Helens RLFC. Ainscough put the home Wigan side ahead after nine minutes with a try on the wing, following a kick from Leuluai. Richards missed the conversion, and so Wigan only went four points ahead before St Helens replied with a try of their own through Keiron Cunningham, with Paul Wellens making the conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 432]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0016-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nHock had a try disallowed for a double movement, and later on a high tackle on Paleaaesina gave Roberts an opportunity to level the scores, with which he succeeded to draw the score at 6\u20136 at half time. Ainscough again carved out a lead for Wigan in the second half, and Roberts converted from the sideline. Two quick St Helens tries through Matt Gidley and Leon Pryce gave the visitors a 12\u201318 lead, and a Kyle Eastmond drop goal sealed the match for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 508]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nPrior to their next match, Barrow Raiders confirmed that they had signed Lee Mossop on a month-long loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nDespite providing a close fight against St Helens, the club's visit to Perpignan for their away tie against Catalans Dragons ended in its third consecutive loss. The Dragons scored first through Dimitri Pelo's try in the second minute. Wigan scored fourteen points in return, with three tries from Roberts, Ainscough and Gleeson and one conversion for a 4\u201314 lead. A ten-point lead proved precarious as Catalans ran in thirty-six unanswered points, the first of them coming through a Greg Bird try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0018-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nGr\u00e9gory Mounis scored next, and Thomas Bosc kicked the conversion to give the home side the lead, and Jason Ryles gained another try before half-time. The Catalans fullback Clint Greenshields scored first after the break and also scored the next try. Ryles also scored a second try of his own to open a twenty-six-point deficit. Tomkins and Richards gave Wigan two late tries, but the match by then was all but finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nSimilarly to Mossop, Darrell Goulding completed a transfer to Salford City Reds on a month-long loan deal. After an extension to this deal in May, Goulding was to be eventually recalled on 7 July to cope with an injury crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nThe club's next match was against newly promoted Crusaders, who had not won a match yet in the Super League season coming into this fixture. Celtic led after two minutes, when Luke Dyer pounced for a try after Phelps mistakenly let the ball bounce into the in-goal area. Richards replied with a try on the wing, before O'Loughlin gathered his own kick for a solo try to present a lead to the home Wigan side. Two more tries came for Wigan before half-time with Riddell and Roberts both scoring one each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 554]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0020-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nSam Tomkins scored not long after the break thanks to a run from Palea'asesina. Carmont stretched the lead further with a try of his own, and O'Loughlin scored his second try of the match. Damien Quinn was sin-binned in his 100th competitive appearance for the Crusaders\u2014Marshall Chalk was also sin-binned later on. Richards claimed his second try almost instantly after Quinn's dismissal. Mark Dalle Cort scored a late Celtic try and captain Jace Van Dijk successfully converted, but Wigan had another try before the game ended, with Sam Tomkins grounding his second try of the match\u2014his team's ninth\u2014to complete a convincing victory for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 704]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nTransfer news occupied the break between this win and the Warriors' second league match against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. The Wigan Evening Post reported that the club, as well as Leeds Rhinos, were interested in signing Richie Myler from Salford City Reds, although neither club were successful in their approaches to the player. Warrington Wolves would eventually sign Myler later in the year. Meanwhile, Thomas Leuluai extended his contract with the club for a further three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 537]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nGeorge Carmont had to be replaced at short notice prior to kick-off against the club's next opponents, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. Shaun Ainscough was recalled to take his place in the team, and scored four tries to give his side a second consecutive win. Wakefield, like Celtic, put the first points on the scoreboard after Damien Blanch received a kick from Danny Brough for a try on the wing, with Brough converting for a 6\u20130 lead. Tim Smith linked with Cameron Phelps, who was switched from fullback to center in Carmont's absence, for Wigan's first try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 609]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0022-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nPhelps turned provider as his work gave Ainscough two tries in nine minutes for a 6\u201316 lead, before Wigan's indiscipline gave Brough a penalty and a try following a handling error from the stand-in fullback, Pat Richards. Ainscough scored again on the wing to complete his hat-trick, but Wakefield replied after Brough intercepted a pass from Martin Gleeson and returned 45 metres for his second try to make the scores 20\u201322 at half time. Wakefield took the lead shortly after the break as Blanch took advantage of Ainscough's weak defence for his second try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 610]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0022-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, April\nThis was Wakefield's last try of the match, as Phelps gathered a kick from Smith to score a try next to the posts which Richards converted successfully. Riddell was injured with a hamstring, and despite Wakefield pressure, Wigan scored again as a run from Sam Tomkins led to another try for Ainscough\u2014his sixteenth in ten matches. Gleeson scored in the final ten minutes to put the game beyond the home side's reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 467]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nAhead of their 2009 Magic Weekend fixture against St Helens RLFC, Thomas Leuluai learned that he would not be called up to play in the 2009 ANZAC Test, news which was welcomed by Brian Noble, who stated that New Zealand had, \"enough southern hemisphere-based Kiwis to cope.\" Leuluai instead took membership of a Wigan side which recorded its third successive league win at Murrayfield Stadium over a St Helens RLFC side including James Graham, who had complained earlier in the week about the event's location being too far away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 578]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0023-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nWigan had lost to St Helens at the Magic Weekend event in 2007 and 2008, 34\u201318 and 57\u201316 respectively, but it was Wigan's captain Sean O'Loughlin who scored the game's first try after seven minutes. Pat Richards scored the match's second try following a kick from O'Loughlin, and added both conversions to give Wigan a 12\u20130 lead. This was further extended after Gareth Hock scored after 29 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0023-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nSean Long gained a try back for St Helens as his grubber kick rebounded off Leuluai, before a break from Sam Tomkins fed his older brother Joel for a try just before half time. Two minutes after the break, Wigan kicked a penalty to stretch the lead to 26\u20136, and Wigan ended any hope of a St Helens comeback as Leuluai scored following a break down the wing from Richards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 420]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0023-0003", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nSt Helens scored the next two tries through Leon Pryce and Paul Wellens, with Long kicking both conversions, but Richards scored his second try and kicked the conversion to take his personal haul to twenty-two, and end the match 38\u201318. With Noble's contract due to expire at the end of the season, Ian Lenagan praised him for Wigan's biggest derby win in six years over St Helens, but refused to offer any assurances about Noble's future at the club, after Bradford Bulls refuted a claim that they wanted to replace Steve McNamara with Noble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nFor the next match, the players again returned to Belle Vue, two weeks after their league win. The Wakefield Trinity Wildcats were coached by John Kear, twice a winner of the Cup as a head coach, most recently in 2005 with Hull FC, and in 1998 when his Sheffield Eagles side defeated Wigan 17\u20138 in the final, three years after Wigan's last of a record eight consecutive Challenge Cup final victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0024-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nThe match did not start in Wigan's favour, as Danny Brough provided passes to Jason Demetriou and Tevita Leo-Latu, and kicked a conversion to give the Wildcats a 10\u20130 lead. Wigan went in ahead at half time though. Wigan got their first points with a try on the wing from Richards, and then another try from Michael McIlorum following a Gareth Hock pass. Brough kicked a drop-goal to give Wakefield a point lead, but Cameron Phelps scored a third Wigan try after Sean O'Loughlin broke the line from his own half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 560]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0024-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nWakefield went ahead for the third time twelve minutes after the break, with a grubber kick from Brough being gathered by Tony Martin. Stuart Fielden then scored his first try in two years before Sam Tomkins finished the game with a try of his own making. The fourth goal of the match meant the final scores were 17\u201328; a win for Wigan which advanced them to the quarter-finals. The day after, the draw for the next round to be played three weeks later was made, with Wigan receiving a home tie against Salford City Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 570]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nFollowing a run of four games, the club's next match was against Hull Kingston Rovers. Their preparations were boosted by news that Sam Tomkins would not receive a match ban for his conduct against Wakefield in the Challenge Cup tie. Goulding extended his loan spell at Salford City Reds, but with a condition that Wigan could recall him with 24 hours notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 408]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0025-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nThe match seemed to be heading towards a 6\u20130 lead for Wigan at half-time, after Sean O'Loughlin scored a try and Richards kicked a goal, but a controversial try scored by Michael Dobson after the hooter had sounded was awarded by the referee, Richard Silverwood. Incensed, Wigan started the second half with another converted try from the captain, O'Loughlin, but this was to be their final score of the match. Paul Cooke collected his own kick for a solo try, and Jake Webster put Hull KR into the lead, with Dobson kicking both goals for a six-point advantage. A late penalty was kicked by Dobson for another two ponts, concluding the match in favour of Hull KR. The match ended Wigan's run of four victories, and placed Hull KR temporarily at the top of the Super League XIV table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 833]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nFollowing his loan spell at Barrow, Lee Mossop transferred to Huddersfield Giants on a month-long loan. Prior to Wigan's next match against Warrington Wolves, Noble, whose contract at Wigan was due to expire at the end of 2009, publicly admitted that he was becoming impatient with the lack of an offer from the club to extend his contract, after reports in the Sydney Morning Herald linked him to a coaching role at Sydney Roosters. Wigan had not won a game in Warrington since 2003, and despite leading for over half the match, failed to break this record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 607]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0026-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nWarrington successfully charged down two kicks, before a kick from Thomas Leuluai on the third set of six tackles lead to Cameron Phelps scoring the match's opening try. Poor discipline from Ben Westwood gave a penalty, and Wigan almost took advantage when Joel Tomkins was held up over the try-line in the act of scoring by former Wigan full-back, Richie Mathers. Wigan again launched the next attack after forcing a goal line drop out, but a try from Amos Roberts was disallowed because of a knock-on by Pat Richards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0026-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nWarrington then applied a sustained twenty minute period of pressure, but errors from Westwood and Briers kept them off the scoresheet. Briers weighted his next kick better, with Matt King out-jumping Shaun Ainscough to score Warrington's first try. Bridge's missed conversion meant that Wigan lead 6\u20134 at half-time, and a penalty kicked by Richards early in the second half meant that this lead was increased by two points. Warrington gained the lead after 55 minutes after Chris Riley punished Stuart Fielden and Andy Coley for giving away successive penalties with a try in the corner. Michael Monaghan shimmied past three Wigan defenders to finish the game off with another Warrington try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 742]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nTim Smith had been left out of the tie against Warrington owing to a family illness, and did not return from his home country, Australia, in time for Wigan's Challenge Cup tie against Salford City Reds, but George Carmont returned from injury. Fielden was also forced to miss the game, after receiving a one-match ban for raising a knee in a tackle during the defeat to Warrington. Without Smith and Fielden, Wigan comprehensively beat Salford City Reds 28\u20136 to advance to the semi-finals stage of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nGareth Hock gave the home side the lead, before Salford equalised with a try from Luke Adamson. Wigan replied by taking the lead with a George Carmont try, and could have scored again after Hock broke the line, but Sam Tomkins knocked-on. Another knock-on, this time from Richards, denied Wigan another try. Salford launched repeated attacks on the Wigan line early in the second half, through Mark Henry and Stefan Ratchford, before Willie Talau was pushed into touch by Sam Tomkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 533]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0027-0002", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, Season overview, May\nA penalty from Richards added two more points to Wigan's total, and he soon scored his second try, followed by his third on 70 minutes for his second hat-trick in a Wigan jersey. Hock scored the final try, his second, after Tomkins had come close, to finish the game in favour of the Warriors. Wigan therefore entered their first Challenge Cup semi-final since 2007, when they were defeated by Catalans Dragons at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, and it was Warrington Wolves who were drawn as their 2009 semi-final opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 585]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205766-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Wigan Warriors season, League table\nSource: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election\nThe 2009 leadership election for the Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta began on June 6, 2009, when leader Paul Hinman officially announced his resignation as leader of the party. This was the third leadership convention for the party under its banners since 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Announcement\nIn April 2009, Hinman announced his intention to resign at the party's annual general meeting, held June 6. Hinman remained as interim leader of the party until the selection of the next leader in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 268]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Announcement\nThree candidates declared their candidacy for the position: Danielle Smith, Jeff Willerton and Mark Dyrholm. Smith was chosen as leader on October 17, in Edmonton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 62], "content_span": [63, 226]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Candidates, Mark Dyrholm\nMark Dyrholm is the National Vice President for the Progressive Group for Independent Business (PGIB). He is also a chiropractor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 204]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Candidates, Danielle Smith\nDanielle Smith is an Alberta journalist, broadcaster, business lobbyist and property rights advocate. Until recently she was the Alberta Director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. In May 2009 Smith announced her intention to seek the party's leadership. She was named one of Calgary's \"Top 40 Under 40\" in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 407]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Candidates that Withdrew, Jeff Willerton\nJeff Willerton is an author and entrepreneur, worked for three years with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, author of the book, FIX CANADA or Lose It. A  five time provincial election candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 286]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Candidates that Withdrew, Jeff Willerton\nAt a leadership forum in Calgary on September 16, Willerton announced that he is stepping out of the leadership race and will be supporting Mark Dyrholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 90], "content_span": [91, 244]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205767-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election, Results\nOn October 17, 2009 Danielle Smith was chosen as the leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 160]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205768-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season\nThe 2009 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season was the team's eighth season of arena football. The Pioneers made another attempt to return to the ArenaCup after falling out of the playoff race for ArenaCup IX. The team signed many key players from the 2008 campaign, including quarterback Ryan Vena and defensive lineman Alan Barnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 376]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205768-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season\nThe Pioneers returned to the ArenaCup, but lost to the Spokane Shock 74\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election\nThe 2009 Willagee state by-election was held for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Willagee on 28 November 2009. It was triggered as a result of the resignation of former Premier of Western Australia Alan Carpenter. The election was won by Labor candidate Peter Tinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Candidates\nFour candidates stood at the by-election. They were as follows in ballot paper order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Candidates\nChristian Democratic Party \u2013 Henri Chew. Chew stood previously as the Christian Democrats candidate for the district of Carine at the 2008 state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Candidates\nLabor Party \u2013 Peter Tinley. Tinley is a former SAS major who stood unsuccessfully as the endorsed Labor candidate for the marginal seat of Stirling at the 2007 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Candidates\nGreens \u2013 Hsien Harper. Harper is a union organiser who stood twice previously as a Greens candidate: most recently for the seat of Maylands at the 2008 state election and before that at the 2008 Murdoch state by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Candidates\nIndependent \u2013 Gerry Georgatos. Georgatos was originally preselected as the Greens candidate in anticipation of a potential by-election in Willagee earlier in the year. However, when the by-election materialised, preselection was re-opened and Georgatos lost to Harper. He subsequently ran as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205769-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Willagee state by-election, Results\nThe Liberal Party, who received 30.93 percent of the vote at the previous election in Willagee, did not contest the election. All candidates received a lift in their respective primary vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team\nThe 2009 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. William & Mary competed as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) under head football coach Jimmye Laycock and played their home games at Zable Stadium. The 2009 campaign came on the heels of a 7\u20134 record in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 405]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team\nThe 2009 Tribe football team finished the season ranked No. 4 in The Sports Network's final poll, which was the second highest final ranking William & Mary had ever earned; they finished No. 3 in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nOn September 5, William & Mary opened their season against their academic rivals, the Virginia Cavaliers (UVa) in Charlottesville. UVa, an FBS team, was expected to win handily. However, the Tribe forced a UVa school record-tying seven turnovers and won the game 26\u201314. It was William & Mary's first win over Virginia since 1986 and their first over an FBS school since 1998 (a 45\u201338 win over Temple). Tribe redshirt freshman cornerback B.W. Webb intercepted three passes, including a 50-yard pick six late in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 621]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0002-0001", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nWebb was named the College Football National Defensive Player of the Week by the press. This selection marked the first time since the award's inception in 2001 that any player from an FCS school earned the distinction. Webb's game-sealing third interception was also chosen as SportsCenter's #5 play of the day on its daily Top 10 Plays segment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 418]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe October 3rd match-up pitted the #5 Tribe against the #2 Villanova Wildcats. Both teams headed into the contest with 4\u20130 (1\u20130 CAA) records. The 3:30\u00a0p.m. game was broadcast live on the Versus network, making it the first-ever nationally televised CAA football game. Villanova won the game 28\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 370]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nAfter defeating the #8 New Hampshire Wildcats on November 14, the Tribe tied their program's best record through 10 games since the 1947 season. The victory improved William & Mary's record to 5\u20130 at home on the season, marking the first time since 2004 that they had posted an undefeated regular season mark at Zable Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 398]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe I-64 Trophy, given to the winner of the annual rivalry game with Richmond (dubbed the I-64 Bowl), was replaced in 2009 with the Capital Cup, which honors the entire 118-game history of the rivalry (through 2008) between the schools and the status of the two cities as the last two capitals of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Both the trophy and game's names were changed to be called the Capital Cup. The 2009 edition turned out to be the most anticipated match-up in the long series' history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 567]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0005-0001", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nBoth teams headed into the regular season finale with 9\u20131 (6\u20131 CAA) records, and each of the teams' single losses came to Villanova. The #5\u00a0Tribe had matched their best record through 10 games since the 1947 season, while the #4\u00a0Spiders were also looking for their first 10-win regular season in school history. The game contained not only playoff seeding ramifications, but a minimum share of the conference title was also on the line (the winner of the UR\u2013W&M game would be the CAA's outright winner if #2\u00a0Villanova were to be upset by #25\u00a0Delaware).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 624]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nThe game was a defensive struggle as most possessions resulted in three-and-outs or, at most, one or two first downs. Tied at 10 apiece with less than 20 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter, William & Mary attempted one last play in Richmond territory to move close enough for a game-winning field goal. However, Tribe quarterback R. J. Archer threw an interception  with 14 seconds left, giving the Spiders one last possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 501]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0006-0001", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Regular season\nAfter two pass completions covering close to 30 yards, Spiders kicker Andrew Howard converted a 48-yard field goal as time expired to give Richmond the win and a share of the conference title (Villanova would go on to win their game later that afternoon). Howard had only been 1-for-3 in field goal attempts prior to his game-winning kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 411]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Playoffs\nWith the loss, William & Mary finished the regular season 9\u20132 (6\u20132 CAA). When the FCS playoff bracket was announced, the #6\u00a0Tribe found out that they would be hosting the #15\u00a0Weber State Wildcats on November 28. In the first-ever meeting between the schools, William & Mary utilized a season-high four interceptions (two returned for touchdowns) to easily handle the Wildcats 38\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 447]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Playoffs\nIn the second round, William & Mary traveled to Carbondale, Illinois to take on the #1\u00a0ranked Southern Illinois Salukis. The Salukis boasted an offense that averaged more than 400\u00a0yards per game and over 34\u00a0points per game. After trailing 3\u20130 at the end of the first quarter, William & Mary's defense (#1 in the nation for rushing, #3 overall) stymied Southern Illinois for the remainder of the game and the Tribe stunned the host\u00a024\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 502]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0008-0001", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Playoffs\nThe victory marked head coach Jimmye Laycock's 200th career victory (all at W&M), and also made him just the 13th FCS head coach to ever earn that many wins. It also helped the Tribe tie a single season school record of 11 wins which had been set back in 2004, the first and last time that they had reached the national semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 397]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205770-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 William & Mary Tribe football team, Season summary, Playoffs\nOn December 11 at 8:00\u00a0p.m., #6\u00a0William & Mary versus #2\u00a0Villanova met once again at Villanova Stadium for a national semifinal face-off. The game was broadcast live on ESPN2, and either winner of this match-up was going to make their first-ever national championship appearance in football. The Wildcats (12\u20131\u20130) came back from a 10\u20130\u00a0halftime deficit to defeat the Tribe for the second time in that season,\u00a014\u201313. Villanova would then move on to defeat the Montana Grizzlies, 23\u201321, in the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 580]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205771-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 William Jones Cup\nThe 2009 William Jones Cup was the 31st tournament of the William Jones Cup that took place in Taipei from 12 July\u201326 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 146]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205772-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wiltshire Council election\nElections to Wiltshire Council, a new unitary authority, were held on 4 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205772-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wiltshire Council election\nThe whole council of ninety-eight members was up for election, with each member to be elected in a single-member electoral division. None of the new electoral divisions was identical to any of the divisions or wards of the council's predecessors, Wiltshire County Council and the four district councils within its area, Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 406]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205772-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wiltshire Council election\nAs with other county elections in England, these local elections in Wiltshire took place on the same day as the European elections of 2009. The 2005 Wiltshire County Council election, the last to the old county council, coincided with the general election of 2005, and the county elections of 1997 and 2001 had also coincided with general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 381]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205772-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wiltshire Council election, Reorganization\nWiltshire's \"two tier\" system of local government until 2009 was typical of English shire counties, with the county, excluding the pre-existing unitary authority of Swindon, being sub-divided into four local government districts. However, the Department for Communities and Local Government announced on 25 July 2007 that with effect from 1 April 2009 Wiltshire was to be served by a new unitary authority, replacing Wiltshire County Council and the four district councils within its area, with Swindon continuing as a separate unitary authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 594]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205772-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wiltshire Council election, Reorganization\nAlthough the new authority came into being on 1 April 2009, the date on which the four district councils ceased to exist, the first elections to the new council were not held until 4 June. For some two months, the role of elected members of the new authority was carried out by the 48 outgoing Wiltshire county councillors and by an \"Implementation Executive\" consisting of eight members appointed from the outgoing county council and two members from each of the outgoing districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 2009 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from 22 June to 5 July 2009. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 352]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships\nRafael Nadal did not defend his title as he withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendonitis. Roger Federer won his 6th Wimbledon title defeating rival Andy Roddick in the final in five sets. Federer's victory marked his fifteenth Grand Slam title, establishing the men's all-time record. Venus Williams was unsuccessful in the title's defence, having been defeated in the final match by her sister Serena, who won her first Wimbledon title since 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 484]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Point distribution\nBelow are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Prize distribution\nThe total prize money for 2009 championships was \u00a312,550,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned \u00a3850,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 213]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles\nRoger Federer def. Andy Roddick, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 3\u20136, 16\u201314", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 132]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\nDaniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonji\u0107 def. Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, 7\u20136(9\u20137), 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nSerena Williams /  Venus Williams def. Samantha Stosur /  Rennae Stubbs, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nMark Knowles /  Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld def. Leander Paes /  Cara Black, 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 141]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Boys' Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert /  Kevin Krawietz def. Julien Obry /  Adrien Puget, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20132, 12\u201310", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 158]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Girls' Doubles\nNoppawan Lertcheewakarn /  Sally Peers def. Kristina Mladenovic /  Silvia Njiri\u0107, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Invitation, Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJacco Eltingh /  Paul Haarhuis def. Donald Johnson /  Jared Palmer, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 83], "content_span": [84, 165]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Invitation, Ladies' Invitation Doubles\nMartina Navratilova /  Helena Sukov\u00e1 def. Ilana Kloss /  Rosalyn Nideffer, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 79], "content_span": [80, 163]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Invitation, Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJeremy Bates /  Anders J\u00e4rryd def. Mansour Bahrami /  Henri Leconte, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 90], "content_span": [91, 173]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Wheelchair events, Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet /  Micha\u00ebl Jeremiasz def. Robin Ammerlaan /  Shingo Kunieda, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 84], "content_span": [85, 180]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Wheelchair events, Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nKorie Homan /  Esther Vergeer def. Daniela Di Toro /  Lucy Shuker, 6\u20131, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 86], "content_span": [87, 162]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Records\nSwiss Roger Federer established a number of records at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. By defeating Ivo Karlovi\u0107 in the quarter-finals, Federer reached his 21st consecutive Grand Slam semi-final, having started the streak at Wimbledon in 2004. He then defeated Tommy Haas in the semi-final to reach his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final and his twentieth Grand Slam final, both of these all-time records. Finally, by defeating Andy Roddick in the final, Federer won his fifteenth Grand Slam title, breaking the record of fourteen titles previously set by Pete Sampras. Federer also became the fourth man to complete the rare French Open / Wimbledon double in the Open Era, joining Rod Laver, Bj\u00f6rn Borg, and Rafael Nadal (who had completed the feat the previous year and would do so again in 2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 852]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Records\nAmong other records set, the men's final between Federer and Roddick had the highest number of viewers in the UK of any Wimbledon final since 2001, peaking at 11.1\u00a0million viewers during the last stretch of the match. The 30-game fifth set in the men's final was the longest set in Wimbledon finals history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 357]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Centre Court roof\nThe 2009 Championships took place during an extended period of hot, dry weather in southeast England, meaning that it was not until day seven of the tournament (29 June) that the newly constructed Centre Court roof was closed for the first time due to rain, delaying a fourth round match between Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo and Dinara Safina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0017-0001", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Centre Court roof\nThe following match between Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka was the first full match to be played under the new roof; owing to the new floodlights, the match continued until 22:38, the latest ever finish in Wimbledon history (this record was broken in 2012 in a third round match between Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis, which ended at 23:02). These were the only two matches in which the Centre Court roof was used during the entire 2009 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 509]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Tennis Integrity Unit\nThe Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) planned to observe matches played by up to 12 players (some of whom were inside the ATP top 50) throughout the tournament. The TIU has existed since January 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Highlights, Tennis Integrity Unit\nThe ATP claimed to have identified Russian and Italian Mafia-related groups behind suspicious betting at other tournaments, although the organisers of the Wimbledon Championships declared that there are no current proceedings against any players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 310]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds\nThe following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009. Rankings and points before are as of 22 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Men's Singles\nThe Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 225]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Men's Singles\nThe following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Women's Singles\nThe seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009, with an exception for Maria Sharapova (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 22 June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 252]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Women's Singles\n\u2020 Maria Sharapova was ranked 59th on the day seeds were announced, because she had missed the most of 12-month period due to injury. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and was seeded 24th by organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Wild card entries, Main draw wild card entries\nThe following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Main draw qualifier entries\nBelow are the lists of the qualifiers entering in the main draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205773-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships, Protected ranking\nThe following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 138]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205774-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nHsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua were the defending champions but Yang did not compete. Hsieh partnered with Huang Liang-chi but they lost in the third round to Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas and Andrei Vasilevski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 265]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205774-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Doubles\nPierre-Hugues Herbert and Kevin Krawietz defeated Julien Obry and Adrien Puget in the final, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20132, 12\u201310 to win the Boys' Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205775-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nGrigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but did not complete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205775-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nAndrey Kuznetsov defeated Jordan Cox in the final, 4\u20146, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205775-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries\nThe 2009 Wimbledon Championships are described below in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (22 June)\nThe first day of Wimbledon 2009 saw the early withdrawal of defending champion and number 1 seed Rafael Nadal due to injury. Instead, 2008 Men's Singles runner-up and five-time Wimbledon Champion Roger Federer opened on Centre Court, winning his first round match in straight sets. Amongst the first day's winners were 2008 Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic, 2009 French Open finalist Robin S\u00f6derling, Fernando Verdasco, Marin \u010cili\u0107, Ivo Karlovi\u0107, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Mardy Fish and former French Open champion Guillermo Ca\u00f1as.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 602]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0001-0001", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (22 June)\nSpanish player Nicol\u00e1s Almagro survived a five set match against Juan M\u00f3naco despite losing the first two sets, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 6\u20137(7\u20139), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20134, 8\u20136. Two matches were suspended on the first day: the match between Micha\u00ebl Llodra and Josh Goodall, and the match between Tommy Haas and Alexander Peya. However, the first major upset of the tournament came when Italy's Andreas Seppi defeated Queen's Club finalist James Blake in straight sets, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 531]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 1 (22 June)\nIn the women's side of the draw, last year's finalist and two-time Wimbledon Champion Serena Williams easily won in straight sets; she was joined by Shahar Pe'er, Jill Craybas, Urszula Radwa\u0144ska, Russian players Elena Dementieva, Alisa Kleybanova, Elena Vesnina, Nadia Petrova, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 2004 Wimbledon Champion Maria Sharapova, and 2008 semi-finalist Jie Zheng. Slovakian player Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 won a three set thriller against last year's Girls Singles Champion and Britain's young prodigy Laura Robson, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, while former finalist Marion Bartoli scored the first double bagel of the tournament against Taipei's Chan Yung-jan. The 2009 Ordina Open Champion Tamarine Tanasugarn lost to Arantxa Parra Santonja in straight sets, but the major upset was when Ai Sugiyama defeated Patty Schnyder in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 911]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (23 June)\nIn the men's singles 2008 US Open finalist Andy Murray advanced to the second round, and he was joined by two-time Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick, 2003 French Open Champion Juan Carlos Ferrero, Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, Gilles Simon, Tommy Haas, 2002 Wimbledon Champion Lleyton Hewitt, Nikolay Davydenko, David Ferrer, and Stan Wawrinka. \"The Magician\" Fabrice Santoro, who was competing in his last Wimbledon, scored a straight set victory over Nicolas Kiefer, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0003-0001", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (23 June)\nThree retirements were recorded on the men's side, with Denis Istomin retiring against Fabio Fognini, Grigor Dimitrov retiring against Igor Kunitsyn, and Dmitry Tursunov retiring against Mischa Zverev. Nicolas Devilder fought off a five set thriller against Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20135. Marat Safin was upset by Jesse Levine in four sets, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 446]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (23 June)\nIn the women's side five-time Wimbledon Champion Venus Williams got through in straight sets against Stefanie V\u00f6gele 6\u20133 6\u20132. She was joined in the second round by World No. 1 Dinara Safina, 2009 French Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, former World No. 1 Jelena Jankovi\u0107, Vera Zvonareva, Caroline Wozniacki, Li Na, Shuai Peng, Agnieszka Radwa\u0144ska, Flavia Pennetta, Carla Su\u00e1rez Navarro, Samantha Stosur, Maria Kirilenko, and Sabine Lisicki. Two former World No. 1 and Grand Slam champions were pushed to their limit, with Ana Ivanovic prevailing over Lucie Hradeck\u00e1, 5\u20137, 6\u20132, 8\u20136, and 2006 Champion Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo triumphed against Melinda Czink, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 734]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 2 (23 June)\nIn the Men's Doubles, second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 won their first round, while sixth seed Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski were upset by Americans Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky in straight sets, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20133. The Women's Doubles sixth seeds Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 and Ai Sugiyama got through the first round, and were joined by Shahar Pe'er and Gisela Dulko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 450]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Middle Sunday (28 June)\nMiddle Sunday in Wimbledon is traditionally a rest day, without any play, and this was the case in 2009. The seventh day of the competition, consequently, fell on Monday 29 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 76], "content_span": [77, 255]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205776-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Day-by-day summaries, Day 13 (5 July)\nRoger Federer won his sixth Wimbledon title defeated Andy Roddick in five sets, Federer surpassed Pete Sampras as the all-time Grand Slam record of 15 titles and reclaimed the ATP world no. 1 from Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 272]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205777-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis defeated the defending champions Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20134, to win the Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205777-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205777-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 291]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205778-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nPolona Hercog and Jessica Moore were the defending champions but did not compete in the Juniors this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205778-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Doubles\nNoppawan Lertcheewakarn and Sally Peers defeated Kristina Mladenovic and Silvia Njiri\u0107 in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20131 to win the Girls' Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205778-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Doubles, Seeds\nLaura Robson and Sloane Stephens withdrew due to a back injury for Robson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205779-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nLaura Robson was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Quirine Lemoine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205779-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nNoppawan Lertcheewakarn defeated Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205779-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 118]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205780-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Invitation Doubles\nJana Novotn\u00e1 and Kathy Rinaldi were the defending champions but did not compete together. Novotn\u00e1 competed with Andrea Temesv\u00e1ri and Rinaldi competed with Tracy Austin, but both paired were eliminated in the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205780-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Invitation Doubles\nMartina Navratilova and Helena Sukov\u00e1 defeated Ilana Kloss and Rosalyn Nideffer in the final, 6-3, 6-2 to win the Ladies' Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205780-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205780-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 287]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205781-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nDaniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonji\u0107 successfully defended their title, defeating Bob and Mike Bryan in the final, 7\u20136(9\u20137), 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20133, to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205781-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205782-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoger Federer defeated Andy Roddick in the final, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 3\u20136, 16\u201314 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. It was his sixth Wimbledon title and record-breaking 15th major title overall, passing Pete Sampras' all-time record. It was the longest men's singles major final (in terms of games played) in history with 77 games, breaking the record of 71 games set at the 1927 Australian Open. The match also had the longest fifth set (16\u201314) in a major men's singles final, surpassing the 11\u20139 fifth set in the 1927 French Open final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 634]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0000-0001", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe match took 4 hours and 17 minutes to complete, and the fifth set alone lasted 95 minutes. It was a repeat of the 2004 and 2005 finals, where Federer also beat Roddick to win the title. This was Federer's 11th grass-court title, surpassing the previous record held by Sampras (10). Notably, Roddick lost despite only having his serve broken once, in the last game of the match. By winning the title, Federer regained the world No. 1 singles ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 497]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRafael Nadal was the defending champion, but withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendinitis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRoddick's run to the final would be the last time where an American male player reached the semifinals of a major until Sam Querrey reached the semifinals of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships eight years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThis was the first major appearance of future ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov, who retired in the first round against Igor Kunitsyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205783-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205784-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 241]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final\nThe 2009 Wimbledon Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. A significant part of the Federer\u2013Roddick rivalry, it pitted five-time champion Roger Federer against American Andy Roddick for the third time in a Wimbledon final and the fourth time in a Grand Slam final. After 4 hours and 17 minutes, Federer won 5\u20137, 7\u20136(8\u20136), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 3\u20136, 16\u201314. This match was historic as it saw Federer capture his fifteenth major title, breaking the all-time Grand Slam record held by Pete Sampras. The victory also caused Federer to reclaim the world number 1 ranking from his rival Rafael Nadal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 716]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final\nThe championship set a record for longest match played in Grand Slam final history (in terms of games), due particularly to the unprecedented thirty games contested in the ultimate set. At 77 games, this record can only be beaten in the French Open, due to rule changes of Wimbledon limiting the final set to 25 games, or 77 games in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 391]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nRoger Federer had tied Sampras with fourteen major singles titles a month earlier at the 2009 French Open and was seeking to set a new standard of excellence in the men's game by capturing an unprecedented fifteenth championship. Former world number 1 Andy Roddick was looking to capture his first Wimbledon title and second Grand Slam, having won the 2003 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 428]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nThe 2009 Wimbledon Men's Singles final was the fourth Grand Slam final that Federer and Roddick had contested and by far the most competitive. Federer had won all of the previous finals at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships, the 2005 Wimbledon Championships and the 2006 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 340]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Background\nFederer had cruised through the bottom half of the draw only dropping a single set en route to his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final. Roddick, however, had survived a grueling five set quarterfinal against former Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt where he won 6\u20133, 6\u20137(10\u201312), 7\u20136(7\u20131), 4\u20136, 6\u20134. Roddick then defeated British hope Andy Murray, the world number 3, in the semifinals 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(9\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20135) to book a spot in his third Wimbledon final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 521]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nThe chair umpire was Lars Graff of Sweden. Both players began the match strongly, with the first eleven games of the first set going with serve. However, with Federer serving at 5\u20136, Roddick broke to take the first set. Perhaps the most critical moment of the match was in the second-set tiebreaker, when Roddick led 6\u20132 with four set points to take a commanding lead. Federer subsequently reeled off six consecutive points to even the match at one set apiece. The most memorable moment of the tiebreaker was when Roddick served at 6\u20135 set point and botched a back-hand volley wide to even up the tiebreaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 674]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nThe third set was a tight affair without any breaks of serve for the second consecutive set. The tiebreaker went to Federer who was now only one set away from breaking Pete Sampras' all-time Grand Slam record. Roddick, however, surprised many by breaking Federer in the fourth set to even the match and take the Wimbledon final to a decisive fifth set for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 449]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Match details\nThe fifth set would turn out to be a historic battle. Both players were dominant on serve throughout the first sixteen games without a single break point opportunity to be had. A moment of crisis arrived for Federer with him serving at 8-8 down 15-40, but he rallied to deny Roddick the opportunity to serve for the match. There was not another break opportunity until Roddick served at 14-15 and Federer broke him, for the first time in the entire match, to win a record-breaking fifteenth Grand Slam championship. This set remains the longest fifth set in a Grand Slam final. It is the only time in Grand Slam final history where a player has lost despite only having their serve broken once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThis match was the culmination of Federer's historic summer of 2009. After winning Roland Garros a month earlier to complete the career grand slam, Federer's win gave him his standalone record 15th major title and led many to proclaim him as the greatest player of all time. Due to the historic nature of Federer's accomplishment, Pete Sampras flew to London from California to witness Federer set the all-time Grand Slam record. It was the first time that he had returned to the All England Club for The Championships since 2002. Other tennis legends Bj\u00f6rn Borg and Rod Laver also attended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 656]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nThe match set the record of most games played in a Grand Slam final (77) and most games played in the fifth set of any Grand Slam final (30). The previous record for most games played in a Grand Slam final was the 1927 Australian Championships final (71) and the previous record for most games in a fifth set was the 1927 French Championships final (20). Roddick's 39 winning games in the final was the most won by any player, not to have also won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 530]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205785-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's singles final, Significance\nIn the United States the match was the most watched Wimbledon final in a decade, since the all American contest of Sampras-Agassi in 1999. It pulled in 5.71 million viewers, which constituted a 9% increase over the Federer\u2013Nadal final of 2008. In the United Kingdom the final averaged 7.1 million viewers, with a peak of 11.1 million when Federer clinched victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 429]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205786-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nBob Bryan and Samantha Stosur were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Mark Knowles and Anna-Lena Gr\u00f6nefeld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205786-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nKnowles and Gr\u00f6nefeld defeated Leander Paes and Cara Black in the final, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205786-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205787-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nKen Flach and Robert Seguso were the defending champions but Seguso did not participate. Flach partnered with Danie Visser but were eliminated in the round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205787-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles\nJeremy Bates and Anders J\u00e4rryd defeated Mansour Bahrami and Henri Leconte in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134) to win the Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 269]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205787-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205787-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 298]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205788-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nRobin Ammerlaan and Ronald Vink were the defending champions but did not compete together. Vink partnered with Maikel Scheffers but they in the semifinal against Ammerlaan and Shingo Kunieda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 247]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205788-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Men's Doubles\nSt\u00e9phane Houdet and Micha\u00ebl Jeremiasz defeated Ammerlaan and Kunieda in the final, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20133) to win the Wheelchair Men's Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205789-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Wheelchair Women's Doubles\nKorie Homan and Esther Vergeer defeated Daniela Di Toro and Lucy Shuker in the final, 6\u20131, 6\u20133 to win the inaugural Wheelchair Women's Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205790-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nSerena and Venus Williams successfully defended their title, defeating Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20134 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. As with the previous year, the Williams sisters won the title without dropping a set the entire tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 364]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205790-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205791-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205792-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nSerena Williams defeated her sister, the two-time defending champion Venus Williams, in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20132 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. This was Serena's third Wimbledon singles title and eleventh Grand Slam singles title overall. It was also the third time she had won a Grand Slam title after saving a match point against her, which she did in her semifinal match against Elena Dementieva. Serena dropped only one set the entire tournament, to Dementieva in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 576]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205792-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nVenus Williams was attempting to become the first player to win the women's singles tournament three consecutive times since Steffi Graf was champion in 1991, 1992 and 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205792-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis edition of the tournament saw the top four seeds all reach the semifinals, for the second time in four years after 2006. As of 2020, this remains the last Grand Slam event to feature the top four seeds on the women's side in the semifinals. The match between Serena Williams and Dementieva was the longest women's semifinal at Wimbledon in the Open Era, lasting two hours and 49 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205792-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205793-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season\nThe 2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season was the 52nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 77th overall. The Blue Bombers were in the playoff hunt until the last game of the season, at home, against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, but lost the game and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2005, finishing the season with a disappointing 7\u201311 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 422]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Off-season\nOn February 18, Milt Stegall announced his retirement from the Blue Bombers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Off-season\nNew coach Mike Kelly made many roster moves to re-shape the team that lost the 95th Grey Cup in 2007 and slid to an 8 win and 10 loss record in the 2008 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 206]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Off-season, CFL Draft\nThe 2009 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2009. Due to trades, the Blue Bombers did not have a selection until the third round, when they chose lineman Mike Morris from UBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 228]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Regular season, Roster\nItalics indicate Import player updated 2009-10-08 \u2022 46 Active, 8 Inactive, 8 PR", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205794-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Playoffs\nThe Blue Bombers finished third in the East Division with a record of 7 wins and 11 losses. The BC Lions, who finished fourth in the West, had a better record of 8 wins and 10 losses, and under the cross-over rule eliminated Winnipeg from the playoffs. The Lions went on to play the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East semi-final at Ivor Wynne Stadium, winning 34-27 in overtime before losing to the Montreal Alouettes in Montreal in the East Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 489]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205795-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Winston-Salem mayoral election\nThe 2009 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009 to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of Allen Joines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205796-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Winter Universiade\nThe 2009 Winter Universiade, the XXIV Winter Universiade took place in Harbin, China. Student athletes from 44 countries took part in the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 168]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205796-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Winter Universiade, Selection\nHarbin was selected by FISU on January 10, 2005 over future 2011 Winter Universiade host city Erzurum. They were the only two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205796-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Winter Universiade, Venues\nHarbin now has four stadiums for international ice games and five training stadiums. Among the venues, the following are mentioned in the official web site:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205796-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Winter Universiade, Venues\nThese venues were used for the Asian Games and were part of Harbin's unsuccessful application for the 2010 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205796-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Winter Universiade, Venues\nThere will be two athlete's villages, the main one in Harbin and the second one in Yabuli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205797-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Winton V8 Supercar Event\nThe 2009 Winton V8 Supercar Event was the third race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Races 5 and 6 of the series and was held on the weekend of May 1\u20133 at Winton Motor Raceway, near Benalla, in rural Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 273]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205797-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Winton V8 Supercar Event, Rule change\nThe new race formats for 2009 saw two races to be held over the weekend, with a 100 kilometre race held as Race 5 on Saturday, with a 200 kilometre race held on Sunday as Race 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team competed on behalf of the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were coached by Bret Bielema and played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. The Badgers finished the season 10\u20133, 5\u20133 in Big Ten play and beat Miami (FL) 20\u201314 in the Champs Sports Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 415]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Northern Illinois\nWisconsin opened the 2009 season at home against Northern Illinois. Both teams had gone through disappointing seasons the year before, Wisconsin finishing 7-6 overall and 3\u20135 in the Big Ten with a blowout loss in the 2008 Champs Sports Bowl, and Northern Illinois finishing 6-7 overall with a loss in the 2008 Independence Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 400]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Northern Illinois\nOn Wisconsin's first play from scrimmage, QB Scott Tolzien, a surprise winner of the quarterback competition in spring practice, threw an 80-yard touchdown strike to WR Isaac Anderson. 11 seconds into the game, the Badgers led 7\u20130. Northern Illinois responded with a 40-yard field goal by Mike Salerno late in the 1st quarter. In the 2nd quarter, after the Wisconsin offense brought the Badgers within striking range, Isaac Anderson ran 23 yards for a touchdown to extend Wisconsin's lead to 14\u20133. NIU kept themselves in the game with another Salerno field goal, and the Badgers led 14\u20136 at the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 689]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Northern Illinois\nIn the 3rd quarter, Wisconsin running back John Clay scored a pair of 1-yard touchdowns to give the Badgers a commanding 28\u20136 lead going into the 4th quarter. However, Northern Illinois would not go away, as RB Chad Spann tacked on a 1-yard touchdown to cut Wisconsin's lead to 28\u201312. However, the ensuing 2-point conversion failed and the Huskies trailed 28\u201312. Spann would add a 2-yard touchdown run to cut NIU's deficit to 28\u201318, and QB Chandler Harnish converted the 2 point try to make the score 28\u201320. Northern Illinois recovered the onside kick, but their final drive stalled on the Wisconsin 36 and the Huskies turned the ball over on downs, allowing Wisconsin to come up with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 769]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Fresno State\nFresno State entered the game having won their last trip to Madison, back in the 2001 season. They appeared to be well on their way to another win after Fresno QB Ryan Colburn connected with Chestin West for a 13-yard touchdown pass to give Fresno a 7\u20130 lead over Wisconsin in the 1st quarter. On Fresno's next drive, Colburn found WR Devon Wylie on a 70-yard touchdown strike to put the Bulldogs up 14\u20130 in the 2nd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 491]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0004-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Fresno State\nHowever, Wisconsin fought back; running back Zach Brown ran 11 yards for a touchdown to cap off a long Wisconsin drive, cutting Wisconsin's deficit to 14\u20137. Fresno attempted to pull away again; Colburn found WR Seyi Ajirotutu on a 14-yard TD strike to extend Fresno State's lead to 21\u20137. Wisconsin responded swiftly, with an 8-yard touchdown run off an end-around by WR David Gilreath to bring the game within a single score at 21\u201314. Wisconsin K Philip Welch connected on the longest field goal in school history, a 57-yard try that cut Fresno State's lead to 21\u201317 at the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 657]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Fresno State\nA scoreless 3rd quarter saw the Badgers needing a big play in the 4th quarter. Wisconsin defensive backs intercepted Colburn twice in the 3rd, but the Badgers didn't get any points off those turnovers. After a Fresno State punt, Wisconsin got the big play they needed; RB John Clay broke several tackles and ran 72 yards for a touchdown to give Wisconsin a 24\u201321 lead. Fresno, stunned but not yet beaten, rallied and drove late in the 4th quarter for the tying field goal by Kevin Goessling. Wisconsin ran out the remaining clock and the game went to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 627]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Fresno State\nFresno State elected to play defense first in overtime, but Wisconsin scored on their first possession, as QB Scott Tolzien connected with WR Nick Toon for a 6-yard touchdown pass to give Wisconsin a 30\u201324 lead. Philip Welch converted the PAT to give Wisconsin a 31\u201324 lead. Fresno State too scored a touchdown on their first overtime possession, Colburn finding Ajirotutu for a 7-yard touchdown strike and his fourth touchdown pass of the game. Goessling made the PAT, and the game headed into a second overtime. Colburn would not be so fortunate though, as he was intercepted in the end zone by S Chris Maragos. Philip Welch kicked a 22-yard field goal to win the game for the Badgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 754]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0007-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Fresno State\nWith the win, Wisconsin improved to 2\u20130 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 121]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0008-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Wofford\nWisconsin played extremely well in all phases of the game, as they defeated FCS foe Wofford 44\u201314. The Badgers improved to 3\u20130 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 203]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0009-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nBoth Wisconsin and MSU looked to win their first Big Ten Conference game of the year. Michigan State entered the game on a 2-game losing streak, having lost to Notre Dame and Central Michigan in consecutive weeks. Wisconsin entered the game at 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 317]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0010-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nAfter Wisconsin LB Mike Taylor intercepted Michigan State QB Kirk Cousins in the 1st quarter, Wisconsin QB Scott Tolzien connected with TE Garrett Graham for a 15-yard touchdown pass to give Wisconsin a 7\u20130 lead. In the 2nd quarter, Michigan State responded, as Cousins found WR Mark Dell on a 14-yard touchdown pass to tie the game 7-7. Wisconsin struck back with a long touchdown drive of their own, Tolzien finding Graham on a 6-yard touchdown pass to take the lead back, 14\u20137. After another Michigan State interception, Tolzien drove the Badgers down the field, and RB John Clay ran for a 1-yard touchdown to give Wisconsin a 21\u20137 lead. Both teams traded punts, and the score remained 21\u20137 at the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 792]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0011-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nIn the 3rd quarter, Wisconsin RB Zach Brown lost a fumble and Michigan State recovered. MSU drove deep into Wisconsin territory, but the Badger defense stopped MSU in the red zone and the Spartans were forced to try a field goal. MSU K Brett Swenson converted the 28 yard attempt, and cut Wisconsin's lead to 21\u201310. Wisconsin drove the field on the next drive, but MSU's defense held the Badgers out of the redzone and forced a field goal. Philip Welch converted to give the Badgers a 24\u201310 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0011-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nMichigan State would not go away so easily, and drove the field for a touchdown, this time from Cousins to B.J. Cunningham. Swenson converted the PAT and Wisconsin led 24\u201317 at the end of the 3rd quarter. In the 4th quarter, Tolzien found Nick Toon for a 19-yard touchdown pass to extend Wisconsin's lead to 31\u201317. After a penalty backed the Spartans up, MSU RB Glenn Winston fumbled the ball and Wisconsin DE J. J. Watt recovered, setting up the Badgers with excellent field position. On 3rd and 1 from the Michigan State 23, Tolzien found Garrett Graham on a 23-yard touchdown pass, his 4th touchdown pass of the game to give Wisconsin a 38\u201317 lead with 12:14 remaining in the 4th Quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 760]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0012-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nMichigan State, now desperate, drove into Wisconsin territory again, but Kirk Cousins was sacked on a 4th and 10 from the Wisconsin 32 by LB Chris Borland and the Spartans turned the ball over on downs. Wisconsin drove right back into Michigan State territory, but John Clay was stopped short of the first down on a 4th and inches from the MSU 20 by LB Greg Jones. Michigan State again drove into Wisconsin territory, but Keith Nichol threw an ill-advised pass into coverage and was intercepted by Wisconsin S Chris Maragos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0012-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nWisconsin was forced to punt, however, and Michigan State made the most of it, as Nichol found WR Keshawn Martin for a 15-yard touchdown. MSU head coach Mark Dantonio elected to try for two, but Nichol's pass fell incomplete. Wisconsin punted on their next drive, and Dantonio earned the ire of the Camp Randall crowd after Nichol threw a 91-yard touchdown pass to Martin with the game hopelessly out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 479]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0013-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan State\nDespite the garbage-time score from Michigan State, Wisconsin rather handily won this game and improved to 4\u20130 on the season. Michigan State's 3rd straight defeat dropped them to 1\u20133, matching their regular season loss total from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 319]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0014-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nWisconsin looked to improve to 5\u20130 on the season, and win a 6th consecutive game over the rival Golden Gophers. Minnesota entered the game at 3\u20131, having defeated Northwestern the week before but having been blown out in a home loss to California the week before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 327]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0015-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nIn the first quarter, Wisconsin led 7-0 after a 2-yard touchdown run by John Clay. Minnesota fired back with a pair of 1st quarter scoring drives; a 28-yard FG by kicker Eric Ellestad and an 11-yard touchdown pass from QB Adam Weber to WR Eric Decker. Minnesota led 10\u20137 at the end of the first quarter. Wisconsin answered with a 39-yard FG by Philip Welch to tie the game at 10-10, but Minnesota would lead the game at the end of the first half 13-10 after another FG by Ellestad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 545]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0016-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nIn the 3rd quarter, John Clay found the end zone from a yard out to give Wisconsin a 17\u201313 lead, and the only score of the touchdown by either team. In the 4th quarter, Scott Tolzien found TE Lance Kendricks for a 5-yard touchdown pass to give Wisconsin a 24\u201313 lead. Wisconsin looked to ice the game on their next offensive possession, but RB Zach Brown fumbled the ball and Minnesota S Marcus Sherels returned the fumble 88 yards for a touchdown to keep Minnesota in the game at 24\u201319. Minnesota tried for 2 and succeeded as Weber found WR Dajon McKnight in the endzone, cutting Wisconsin's lead to 24\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 671]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0017-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nWisconsin refused to let the Gophers back into the game, and after a long drive, John Clay ran into the end zone for his 3rd touchdown of the day and Wisconsin led 31\u201321. Minnesota responded swiftly, coming within 3 points of Wisconsin after RB Duane Bennett scored on a 1-yard touchdown carry to make the score 31\u201328. The onside kick attempt failed, however, and Minnesota had to use its remaining timeouts to stall Wisconsin on the Minnesota 39. Brad Nortman's punt was partially blocked and downed at the Minnesota 5-yard line, giving the Gophers one final chance at snapping Wisconsin's win streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 666]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0018-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Minnesota\nAfter a short drive by the Gophers, Weber was sacked on 1st and 10 from the Minnesota 34 by O'Brien Schofield. Weber fumbled the ball as he was sacked, and Wisconsin LB Chris Borland recovered. Wisconsin ran out the remaining 30 seconds and secured Paul Bunyan's Axe for the 6th year in a row, and their first win (in their first appearance) at TCF Bank Stadium. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema is now 4\u20130 against the rival Gophers. The Badgers travel to Ohio State to take on the Buckeyes in Ohio Stadium next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 582]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0019-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Ohio State\nWisconsin entered the game with a 5\u20130 record. Ohio State entered 4\u20131 with a 2\u20130 record in Big Ten play; their only loss a heartrending defeat at the hands of USC. Wisconsin's defense completely shut down Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor, holding him to a dismal 5 of 13 passing for 89 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Pryor was harried all game long and sacked repeatedly by the surprisingly effective Wisconsin defense. However, Wisconsin's offense was unable to capitalize on several trips into Ohio State territory, some of which got Wisconsin into the Ohio State red zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 648]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0019-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Ohio State\nBadger QB Scott Tolzien threw an interception to Kurt Coleman that Coleman would return for a touchdown, and on a later series, a tipped pass was intercepted by Ohio State's Jermale Hines and returned for another touchdown. Ohio State's final boost came from special teams, as KR Ray Small had a 96-yard kick return for a touchdown after a Wisconsin FG by Philip Welch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 434]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0020-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Ohio State\nWisconsin dominated Ohio State offensively (with over 368 yards of total offense) and defensively (holding Ohio State to 184 yards of total offense), but failed repeatedly to capitalize on the opportunities Ohio State offered; as Philip Welch missed a pair of field goals and Scott Tolzien failed to complete a pair of passes on 4th and long situations in the 4th quarter of the game. Wisconsin's missed opportunities, combined with the opportunistic Buckeye defense, saw the Badgers drop their first game of the year, 31\u201313. The loss dropped Bret Bielema to 0\u20133 against Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 647]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0021-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Iowa\nIowa turned a 10-0 Wisconsin lead into a 20-10 Hawkeye advantage in the 4th quarter. While Wisconsin RB Montee Ball recorded his first career rushing touchdown at Wisconsin in the first quarter, Wisconsin wouldn't score another touchdown for the entirety of the game. RB John Clay was held in check by the Iowa defense, which stymied Wisconsin from the 1st quarter on. Iowa intercepted Wisconsin QB Scott Tolzien 3 times in the game to help turn their deficit into an eventual lead and win in Camp Randall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0022-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Iowa\nThe loss extended Iowa's winning streak over Wisconsin to two games (from the 2008 contest) and kept Iowa undefeated at 7\u20130. Wisconsin fell to 5-2 overall and 2\u20132 in the Big Ten, having lost both games to ranked conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 292]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0023-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Purdue\nPurdue entered the game at 3-5 overall, with a 2\u20132 record in Big Ten play. Having upset Ohio State and defeated Illinois in back to back weeks, Purdue looked for their first win over Wisconsin since the 2003 season. Wisconsin entered after a bye week, having lost two games in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 344]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0024-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Purdue\nHowever, Wisconsin had perhaps its finest game of the season as the Badgers used a pair of touchdown runs by John Clay, a FG by Philip Welch, and a blocked punt returned for a touchdown by Aaron Henry to race off to a 24\u20130 lead at the half. Purdue QB Joey Elliott, who had played extremely well against Ohio State, was shaky in the pocket and completed just 5 of his 23 pass attempts to Purdue receivers; he also threw an interception and was sacked twice. In the 2nd half, the Badgers protected their big lead with a pair of Philip Welch field goals and another touchdown run by John Clay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 651]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0025-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Purdue\nWith the 37\u20130 win, Wisconsin moved above .500 in Big Ten conference play at 3\u20132. The Badgers's 6th win of the year clinched a bowl bid for the 9th consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 227]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0026-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Indiana\nAfter a 37\u20130 defeat of the Purdue Boilermakers, Wisconsin was ranked for the first time since their loss to Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 181]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0027-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Indiana\nPoor secondary play by Wisconsin kept the Hoosiers in the game, missed opportunities for the Badgers once again hurt their offensive production, as the Badgers recorded just a touchdown off of two interceptions thrown by Indiana QB Ben Chappell. Indiana scored the first points of the game on a touchdown pass by Chappell to WR Tandon Doss. The Badgers answered with a touchdown drive of their own, as QB Scott Tolzien found receiver Isaac Anderson for an 18-yard touchdown pass. The next scoring drive of the game came in the 2nd quarter on a 26-yard FG by Philip Welch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 633]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0027-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Indiana\nA 1-yard TD run by RB Montee Ball gave the Badgers a run of 17 unanswered points, which Indiana snapped with a 46-yard touchdown pass from Chappell to Doss. Wisconsin countered with a 14-yard touchdown run by John Clay, and the Badgers led 24\u201314 at the end of the 1st half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 335]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0028-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Indiana\nA scoreless 3rd quarter followed, but in the 4th quarter, Indiana brought the game within 3 points on a 6-yard pass from Ben Chappell to WR Terrance Turner, making the score 24\u201321 in favor of Wisconsin. The Badgers once again answered with a touchdown drive, and Montee Ball found the endzone from 3 yards out to give Wisconsin a 31\u201321 lead. Not quite finished, Indiana scored another touchdown with just about 4 minutes remaining in the game. After a touchback on the ensuing kickoff, Wisconsin ran out the remaining 4:01 despite Indiana using all 3 of their timeouts. With the 31\u201328 win, Wisconsin moved to 7\u20132 on the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 687]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0029-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nMichigan entered the game having lost 5 consecutive Big Ten games after a narrow 38\u201331 win over Indiana in their conference opener. The Wolverines thus needed a win over Wisconsin or Ohio State to make the required 6 wins for postseason play. Wisconsin, at 7\u20132, was hardly going to let Michigan walk into the postseason, especially in light of the previous year's disastrous second half collapse in Ann Arbor and looked to continue Michigan's struggles against Big Ten opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0030-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nIn the first quarter, Scott Tolzien found TE Garrett Graham for a 22-yard touchdown pass to give Wisconsin a 7\u20130 lead. Michigan countered with a 21-yard touchdown pass from QB Tate Forcier to RB Vincent Smith. After a field goal attempt by Jason Olesnavage was blocked by J. J. Watt, the score was tied 7\u20137 at the end of the first quarter. Michigan intercepted Tolzien on the next series, however, and converted on their next FG attempt, making the score 10\u20137 in Michigan's favor in the 2nd quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 562]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0030-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nWisconsin drove down the field on the next drive and scored on a touchdown pass from Tolzien to WR Nick Toon, and Wisconsin took the lead 14\u201310. On Wisconsin's next offensive series, however, Tolzien was sacked by DE Brandon Graham, and fumbled. Michigan DE Ryan Van Bergen returned the fumble 14 yards for a touchdown to give Michigan a 17\u201314 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 412]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0030-0002", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nBut the Badgers refused to go away, using a 9-play, 75-yard drive capped off by a 1-yard touchdown run by John Clay to take the lead right back to Wisconsin, 21\u201317. Wisconsin stopped Michigan QB Denard Robinson on a 4th and 6 from the Michigan 46 with 1 second remaining and led 21\u201317 at the end of the 1st half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 375]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0031-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nIn the 2nd half, Wisconsin marched down the field and scored on their first possession. Scott Tolzien completed a touchdown pass to Nick Toon, who made a highlight reel catch in the endzone despite defensive pass interference. Philip Welch converted the PAT and Wisconsin led 28\u201317. Forcier led the Wolverines right back down the field and completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to WR Roy Roundtree, making the score 28\u201324. However, that would be the last points Michigan would score in the game. Wisconsin answered Michigan's long drive with one of their own, and Tolzien capped off the drive by finding TE Lance Kendricks on a 7-yard touchdown pass to give Wisconsin a 35\u201324 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 741]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0032-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nIn the 4th quarter, Forcier was intercepted by Wisconsin CB Niles Brinkley and Wisconsin capitalized on a 10-play, 60-yard drive topped off by a 1-yard touchdown run by Scott Tolzien, making the score 42\u201324. Wisconsin forced a Zoltan Mesko punt on the next series, and used a 15-play, 60-yard drive that lasted 8:08. Philip Welch converted a 28-yard attempt, and Wisconsin led 45\u201324. On Michigan's final drive of the game, Denard Robinson drove the Wolverines into Wisconsin territory, but again failed to convert a 4th down and the Wolverines turned the ball over with 1 second remaining in the game. Wisconsin ran it out, and won their 8th game of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 722]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0033-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Regular season, Michigan\nWisconsin's 21-point win over Michigan was the biggest in series history by the Badgers, who have won 3 consecutive home games against the Wolverines for the first time in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 250]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0034-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nAfter a disastrous 7-6 campaign in 2008, Bret Bielema would need significant improvements from his team if he was going to remain secure in his position as head coach. For the second time in Bielema's tenure as head coach, the Badgers were unranked entering the season (they were also not ranked before the 2006 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 373]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0035-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nWisconsin once again had an unsettled quarterback situation, as only Dustin Sherer had seen significant playing time the previous season. It would be Redshirt Junior QB Scott Tolzien who surprisingly won the starting job from Sherer. Tolzien led Wisconsin to a 5\u20130 start with wins over Northern Illinois, Fresno State, Wofford, Michigan State, and Minnesota. With their fast start, the Badgers then traveled to Ohio State, and the Wisconsin defense made Ohio State's offense miserable for 4 quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0035-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nHowever, miscues on offense and special teams allowed the Buckeyes to return both of Tolzien's interceptions for touchdowns and return a kick for a touchdown. Wisconsin fell to 5\u20131 with their first loss, but the impressive defensive performance was cause for optimism. The very next week, the Badgers returned home and suffered a baffling 20\u201310 loss to the rival Iowa Hawkeyes in the confines of Camp Randall Stadium, which dropped them to 5-2 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 505]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0036-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nAfter back-to-back losses to Ohio State and Iowa, both of which would go to and win BCS bowls in 2009, the Badgers faced Purdue, who they squashed 37-0 for their first shut-out in Big Ten play under Bret Bielema. Wisconsin won a very close game against Indiana (31-28), and went on to hand Michigan their worst loss in the series between Wisconsin and Michigan, 45\u201324. With the win over Michigan, Wisconsin improved to 8\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0036-0001", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nBut in their final game in Big Ten play, the Badgers suffered a stunning 33\u201331 loss at the hands of the Northwestern Wildcats, dropping them behind Northwestern in the conference standings (both teams finished 5\u20133 in Big Ten play). In the final regular season game of the season, Wisconsin smashed Hawaii 51\u201310 to improve to 9\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 382]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205798-0037-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary\nIn their final game of 2009, the Badgers were matched up against a higher-ranked and favored Miami Hurricanes football team. The Badgers defeated Miami 20-14 for their 10th win of 2009, and their first bowl win since the 2006 season. The Badgers finished with the 5th best rushing defense in FBS, and the best run defense in the Big Ten. Wisconsin running back John Clay finished with 1,517 yards rushing and 18 touchdowns, winning Big Ten Player of the Year Honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 519]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205799-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Wolfpack season\nThe 2009 Wisconsin Wolfpack season was the first season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. Prior to the Wolfpack franchise's 2008 outdoor campaign, the Milwaukee Bonecrushers of the Continental Indoor Football League approached the Wolfpack coaches and staff and asked them to assist with the completion of their 2008 season following Gilbert Brown's decision to resign as head coach and the resulting resignation of most of the Bonecrushers' staff. Kopac assumed the role of general manager for the Bonecrushers, and brought with him the core coaches of the Wolfpack outdoor team that would later become the core of the Wolfpack indoor team. Kopac led the team to its only win, a 51-46 victory of the Muskegon Thunder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 776]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205799-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Wolfpack season\nWith infrastructure already in place from the outdoor team, and following the previous year's experience with the Bonecrushers, Wolfpack management announced in early 2009 it would field both indoor and outdoor teams that year. To start the indoor team, Kopac coordinated with Lowe Entertainment, owners of the Rock River Raptors, also in the CIFL, to have Lowe run the indoor franchise while retaining Kopac as head coach. The Wolfpack were Madison's second indoor football franchise and the first to call Madison home since the Madison Mad Dogs folded in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 593]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205799-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Wolfpack season\nThe Wolfpack played its inaugural season's home games at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the campus of the Alliant Energy Center and used AstroTurf previously belonging to the Pensacola Barracudas of AF2. In its inaugural season, the team finished 7-5 and qualified for the CIFL Playoffs, The team started 5-1 but struggled late in the season after former All-American UW-Platteville quarterback Tom Stetzer was lost to injury. The Wolfpack would fall to the eventual undefeated CIFL champion Chicago Slaughter in the 2009 CIFL Western Conference Championship Game, 63-19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 605]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205799-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Wisconsin Wolfpack season, Roster\nThe Wolfpack started pre-season training camp with 40 players. The 25 man Roster was announced on March 1, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 151]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205800-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's African Volleyball Championship\nThe 2009 Women's African Volleyball Championship was held in Blida, Algeria, from October 3 to October 8, 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0000-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League\nThe 2009 Women's Australian Hockey League was the 17th edition women's field hockey tournament. The tournament was held between 27 February \u2013 5 April 2009 at various venues, before culminating in Melbourne for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 259]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0001-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League\nNSW Arrows won the tournament for the eighth time after defeating QLD Scorchers 5\u20133 in the final. WA Diamonds finished in third place after defeating Canberra Strikers 2\u20130 in the third and fourth place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0002-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nThe 2008 Women's Australian Hockey League consisted of a single round robin format, followed by classification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 177]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0003-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format\nTeams from all 8 states and territories competed against one another throughout the pool stage. At the conclusion of the pool stage, the top four ranked teams progressed to the semi-finals, while the bottom four teams continued to the classification stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 314]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0004-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format, Point Allocation\nAll matches had an outright result, meaning drawn matches were be decided in either golden goal extra time, or a penalty shoot-out. Match points were be as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 240]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0005-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format, Point Allocation\n\u00b7 3 points for a win\u00b7 1 points to each team in the event of a draw\u00b7 1 point will be awarded to the winner of the shoot-out\u00b7 0 points to the loser of the match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 234]}}
{"id": "enwiki-00205801-0006-0000", "contents": "2009 Women's Australian Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 220 goals scored in 52 matches, for an average of 4.23 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}}